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Graber : RAPID DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 
Graber & Graber : GYNECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY 
Graupe, H. M.: THE RISE OF MODERN JUDAISM An Intellectual History of German Jewry 1650-1942 
Green , N. M.: PHYSIOLOGY OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA - 2nd ed . 
Gregory , R. T. & Karney , 0 . L. : A COLLECTION OF MATRICES FOR TESTING COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS 
Guillemin , E. A.: SYNTHESIS OF PASSIVE NETWORKS 
Guze : MICROBIAL PROTOPLASTS. SPHEROPLASTS AND L FORMS 
Hacker, L. : THE COURSE OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 
Hackett, L. & Williamson, R.: ANATOMY OF READING 
Hall , J. : FORGING THE AMERICAN CHARACTER 
Hall : ELEMENTARY TOPOLOGY 
Hanafee, et al : SELECTIVE ANGIOGRAPHY (GO LDEN 'S DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY SECTION 18) 
Heald : ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY 
Henrici, P. : ERROR PROPAGATION FOR DIFFERENCE METHODS 
Hiebert , R. E. & Spitzer, C. E.: THE VOICE OF GOVERNMENT 
Hill . J., Popp , H .. & Grove, A.: BOTANY : A TEXTBOOK FOR COLLEGES 
Himwich : BIOCHEMISTRY, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND AFFECTIVE ILLNESSES 
Hirsch , Jerry : BEHAVIO A-GENETIC ANALYSIS 
Hoffman . E. J.: AZEOTROPIC & EXTRACTIVE DISTILLATION 
Hollander: UL TRASOFT X-RAYS 
Hove, J. & Riley , W.: MODERN CERAMICS 
Howell, B.: INTRODUCTION TO GEOPHYSICS 
Hudenburgh, R.; PLANNING THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL 
Hudson: CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY Vol . 3 
Huelsman , L. P.: CIRCUITS , MATRICES, AND LINEAR VECTOR SPACES 
Hughes, R. V.: OIL PROPERTY VALUATION 
Jackson & Messick : PROBLEMS IN HUMAN ASSESSMENT 
Jacobs. M. B.: JACOBS' DICTIONARY OF MICROBIOLOGY 
Jolly, W.: PREPARATIVE INORGANIC REACTIONS Vol . 1 

Vol. 2 
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Vol. 4 

Jordan, D.: CHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT Part 1 
Part 2 

Jury, E.: SAMPLED -DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS 
Kashgarian& Burrow: THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS 
Kasriel, R. H.: UNDERGRADUATE TOPOLQG.Y 
Keller, M.: THE NEW DEAL 
Keys, Thomas : THE HISTORY OF SURGICAL ANESTHESIA 
Klemm, W. R.: DISCOVERY PROCESS IN MODERN BIOLOGY People & Process in Biological Discovery 
Knowles. M.S .: THE ADULT EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 
Kobe, K. & McKetta, J. : ADVANCES IN PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY AND REFINING Vol. I 

Vol. IV 
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Vol. X 

Komendant, A.: CONTEMPORARY CONCRETE STRUCTURES 
Koun in. J. : DISCIPLINE IN GROUP MANAGEMENT IN CLASSROOMS 
Kunii , D. & Levenspiel , 0. : FLUIDIZATION ENGINEERING 
Kyburg, H. E. : STUDIES IN SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY 
LaDu : IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY {N.Y. HEART ASSN . SYMPOSIUM) 
Lang, L. : ABSORPTION SPECTRA IN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND VISIBLE REGION - Vol. 21 

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Laning, J. & Batt in , R.: RANDOM PROCESSES IN AUTOMATIC CONTROL 
Lee, J. A.: COMPUTER SEMANTICS 
LeVine . R. & LeV ine, B. : NYANSONGO : A GUSII COMMUNITY 
Liboff, R.: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF KINETIC EQUATIONS 
Lindmayer , J. & Wrigley , C. Y. : FUNDAMENTALS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 
Long: ENERGY BANOS IN SEMICONDUCTORS 
Louisell , W.: RADIATION AND NOISE IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS 
Lowenfels : THE ALCOHOLIC PATIENT IN SURGERY 
Mackey , G.: LECTURES ON TH E THEORY OF FUNCTIONS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE 
Malloy, J. & Turner . W.: THERMAL INSULATION Rev. ed . 
Malvino , A.: CALCULUS FOR ELECTRONICS 
Marcus & Marcus : ADVANCES IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 
Margeneau . H. & Murphy, G. M.: THE MATHEMATICS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY 
Marris, A. W. & Stoneking, C. E.: ADVANCED DYNAMICS 
McCausland , 1. : INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL CONTROL 
McGill: THE GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS 
Mclean , 0 .: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS 
Martin. J. K. & Stubaus. K. R. : AMERICAN REVOLUTION : WHOSE REVOLUTION? 
Medlin , V.: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (EPS) 
Meindl . J. 0 .: MICROPDWER CIRCUITS 
Me ier. G. H.: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THEORY , HISTORY , POLICY 
Meites: HYPDPHYSIDTRDPIC HORMONES OF HYPOTHALAMUS 
Milch, H.: OSTEOTOMY AT THE UPPER END OF FEMUR 
Miller, K.: HYPOTHESIS TESTING WITH COMPLEX DISTRIBUTIONS 
Miller, K. S. & Walsh , J. B.: ADVANCED TRIGONOMETRY 
Mills, E.: PLANNING : BUILDINGS FOR HABITATION , COMMERCE . AND INDUSTRY 9th ed . 
Mills, E.: PLANNING : ARCHITECTS ' TECHNICAL REFERENCE 
Nat ional Foundat ion - Ed ited by Bergsma : BILIRUBIN METABOLISM IN THE NEWBORN 

• CONGENITAL CARDIAC DEFECTS 
ENZYME THERAPY IN GENETIC DISEASE 
HUMAN GENETICS 
INTRAUTERINE INFECTIONS 
THE MUSCLE ( PART VII) 
PART I - SPECIAL LECTURES 

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Letters 
Inventory "By Computer" 

Editor's Note: We include below an ex-
change of letters between Gordon E. 
Randall, Research Division Librarian, 
Thomas ]. Watson Research Center, In-
ternational Business Machines Corpora-
tion, . Yorktown Heights, New York; and 
Catherine V. von Schon, English Bib-
liographer, State University of New 
York at Stony Brook, and author of the 
article, "Inventory 'By Computer,'" 
which appeared in our March 1977 issue 
(p.147-52) 

Dear Ms. von Schon: 
I appreciated, as would any author, 

being cited in your article "Inventory 
'by Computer'," but I am sorry I did 
not make it clear in my article that our 
triennial inventories since 1962 have 
been "punched card" inventories. Be-
cause I was writing a general article for 
industrial librarians on inventories 
rather than specifically describing how 
we conducted our inventory, you may 
not have realized that we, too, used the 
"punched card" approach. 

In your article you doubted that our 
"laborious procedure" would work for 
a large university library. Our library 
is one-tenth the size of Stony Brook. We 
were able with the team method to in-
ventory the books on the shelves in 4~ 
days. Using these procedures, we could 
have inventoried the books on your 
shelves in 45 working days using only 
three teams at a time. It might have 
taken a trifle longer because I would as-
sume you have a smaller portion of 
your 300,000 volumes out on loan than 
we do. Our loans run about 20 percent 
of our collection at any one time.-Very 
truly yours, Gordon E. Randall. 

Dear Mr. Randall: 

COLLEGE 
& RESEARCH 

LIBRARIES 

Thank you for your letter. It is in-
deed gratifying to find my article being 
read with so much interest by knowl-
edgeable colleagues. 

I, too, am sorry that I failed to spot 
the hints in your article about com-
puter-generated punchcards. I see that 
you started from the same point we did 
-generating new punchcards for each 
stack book and matching them to the 
books in the stacks. 

My reference to "laborious proce-
dure," however, was intended to apply 
to a step which you inserted ;:tnd we 
skipped: placing the stack books on 
trucks and trucking them to the inven-
tory team. You give a figure of 2,500 
books processed per day per team, which 
means four team/ days for 10,000 books 
or twelve team/ days for 30,000 books; 
divided by three teams, four days for 
the project. 

Stony Brook, which I would not call 
a large university library, has 850,000 
books, according to the American Li-
brary Directory. At 2,500 books per day, 
it would take 340 team/ days or 15~ 
team/months to complete the project; 
with three teams, a little over five 
months. 

The University of Michigan, a fairly 
typical large library, has 3,900,000 
books. There it would require 1,560 
team/ days, 71 team/months, or w.ith 
three teams 23~3 months, or two years. 

I still believe that the administrators 
of most large university libraries would 
hesitate to tie up nine staff members in 
an inventory project of such length. 
Operations permissible on the basis of 
an investment of days become prohibi-
tive when an investment of years is in-
volved.-Sincerely, Catherine V. von 
Schon. 

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426 I College & Research Libraries • September 1977 

Quasi-Departmental Libraries 

To the Editor: 
Genaway and Stanford in "Quasi-De-

partmental Libraries" ( C&RL, May 
1977 ) fail to mention, I think, the 
greatest attraction of the departmental 
reading room (as they are called on the 
University of British Columbia cam-
pus). That attraction is having one's 
own materials gathered and around one. 
The current materials used in many sub-
jects if not scattered in the classification 
are scattered among less used and older 
materials in the stacks . This, after all, 
is what led to undergraduate collections. 
The departmental reading room is sim-
ply the same service for upperclassmen I 
women and graduates. 

At the University of British Colum-
bia a new relationship has evolved be-
tween the departmental reading room 
and the library system. Materials ac-
quired by the reading room ( and the li-
brary's acquisitions system may be used) 

are processed in the library's cataloguing 
divisions and, most importantly, listed 
in the library's central catalogue. Qua:r-
ters, furniture, and staff on site remain 
the responsibility of the department. 
The basic collections were developed 
from nonlibrary sources. Current acqui-
sitions are a mixture of gifts and ma-
terials purchased with nonlibrary and 
library funds. The experience of cata-
loguing the over thirty collections in 
reading rooms supports the finding of 
Genaway and Stanford that about a 
quarter of the material is unique to the 
system, and much of the rest duplicates 
heavily used material. Having these col-
lections centrally listed has certainly 
been worth the cataloguing effort ex-
pended. To be acceptable to the reading 
room, however, centralized cataloguing 
must be prompt.:-]. McRee Elrod, 
Head of the Catalogue Divisions, The 
Library, University of British Colum-
bia, Vancouver. 

L[]r:lPUTEA-BflSElJ 
L~ALUlflT~[]~ SYSTEr:lS 

Library Technology Reports has published an update of its July/Sep-
tember, 1975 report on automated circulation control systems. The new 
report by William Scholz describes and evaluates the following systems: 

LIBS 100 (CL Systems Inc.) I SCION (Systems Control, Inc.) 
(ULISYS Universal Library Systems, Ltd.) 
Gaylord's Circulation Control System 
3M's Inventory Control System. 

The 92 page report is contained in the May, 1977 issue of L TR now 
available to non-subscribers as a single issue for $40. 

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