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ACQUISITIONS

United States Senator Carl Hayden, who has served in the United States Congress longer than any other man, has designated the Arizona State University library in Tempe, Ariz. the repository for all of his official documents and correspondence. To date, the university library has received over one hundred and fifty thousand items which cover the Senator’s tenure from 1912 to 1959.

The University of Maryland has been named the recipient of Pulitzer-prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter’s library, manuscripts and other papers including letters, lecture notes, and photographs.

Washington University, St. Louis, has processed the papers of Robert Creeley, 1926- American poet, short storyist and novelist; of Mona Van Duyn, poet, author; and the correspondence, drafts and proofs of Where Is Vietnam?, anthology of poems concerning the Vietnam war, edited by Walter Lowenfels and published in 1966 by Doubleday.

An extensive collection of the writings of English poet Algernon C. Swinburne has been presented to the University of Michigan by Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Kerr of Brooklyn, N.Y. The collection, the first part of which was given to the university in 1935, comprises first editions of Swinburne works, manuscripts and autograph letters, letters to Swinburne, and a few vital works about the poet. It will be housed in the rare book room of the general library.

The Social Welfare History Archives Center of the University of Minnesota libraries recently acquired the archival papers of the Veterans Administration Social Work Service, American Social Health Association, Big Brothers, Florence Crittenton Association of America, National Health Council, National Recreation Association, National Social Work Council, United Defense Fund, and the personal papers of Fred Hoehler, Leonard W. Mayo, and Harry Lurie. Approximately eight hundred feet of manuscript and ephemeral material are deposited at the Minnesota center.

The University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees library has received a collection of approximately seven thousand historical manuscripts, documents and related material pertaining to land development in western and central New York. To be known as the George J. Skivington collection, it was given to the library as a memorial to the late Mr. Skivington, a prominent Rochester attorney. Donors are the late Mr. Skivington’s son and daughters.

A semi-official research library of French colonial history—twenty-five thousand volumes dating back to 1830 and covering the administration and emergence of Vietnam, Algeria, Madagascar, and other former Asian and African colonies—has been purchased by State University College, New Paltz, N.Y. Until last winter, the French collection was the property of the “Comite Central Francais pour l’Outre Mer,” a colonial history society which perforins as a non-profit government agency.

The private collection of Reginald Norman Calbeck of Bornemouth, England, will be available soon in the University of British Columbia. By 1968, Mr. Calbeck will join the UBC library to develop and catalog his own collection. Some fifty thousand volumes in nineteenthand twentieth-century literature by about five hundred authors will be donated, after five years, to the library.

AWARDS, GRANTS

A gift of $200,000 from the Mandeville Foundation to the University of California, San Diego library makes possible the purchase of the Don Cameron Allen book collection dealing with the period of the Renaissance in the fields of literature, history and philosophy. The collection contains about five thousand volumes, a fourth of them printed between 1500-1700.

A grant to the University of Illinois graduate school of library science, in the amount of $7,500, for use in connection with an International Conference on Education for Librarianship, has been made by the Council on Library Resources. The conference will be held on the Urbana campus during the week of June 12-16 and will be a feature of the 1967/68 centennial observance of the university. General subjects to be covered include: History and Present Status of Education for Librarianship, Organization and Operation of Library Schools, Curriculum Principles and Practices, Teaching Methods, and Research and Advanced Study.

“Experimental Dissemination of Biomedical Literature” is the subject of a study by Don R. Swanson, University of Chicago. The study is funded by a grant of $118,479 from U.S. Public Health Service.

Further development of a previously projected manual on library furniture to be issued under the auspices of the ALA Library Technology Program, will be made with the assistance of a new grant of $13,976 from the Council on Library Resources. Plans for the manual call for treatment of a wider range of equipment and furniture for libraries than did the original plans and for the inclusion of other features. The manual is expected to be published sometime in 1969.

The Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C., has awarded a grant of $5,668 to the University of Chicago graduate library school to study book losses through theft in academic libraries. The principal investigator will be Mrs. Maxine H. Reneker, a student in the graduate library school.

A comprehensive study directed toward identifying ways in which medical scientists seek information in their own working environments for which the National Library of Medicine has made a grant of $38,653 to Northwestern University, is entitled “Experiments on Information Environments of Researchers.”

Wichita State University library received $10,000 for the purchase of Shakespeare books, through a bequest from the Lenora N. McGregor estate. The collection of books is known as the Lenora N. McGregor Shakesperian library.

The National Institutes of Health library is offering a fourth medical librarian internship program in 1967/68. A concentrated systematic training program provides the interns with an overview of all aspects of the library program in a biomedical research institution. Applicants for the internship program should be recent graduates with the Master of Library Science degree from an accredited school. A good reading knowledge of at least one foreign language is a selective requirement and undergraduate study in a scientific field is desirable. All candidates must meet the current qualification standards of the U.S. Civil Service Commission for the position. The program will begin on August 27. Completed applications must be received by April 1. Inquiries concerning the internship program should be addressed to Mr. Jess A. Martin, Chief, Library Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 5N118, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.

Vern M. Pings at Wayne State University will investigate the relationship of biomedical information services under terms of a grant of $22,782 from the U.S. Public Health Service.

The Washington University school of medicine library has been awarded a grant to train three librarians each year in the use of computers in libraries. The program runs for a calendar year, usually September 1 to August 31. The stipend allowed is $5,500 per year, the first $3,600 of which is tax free. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college, preferably with a major in the biomedical sciences, psychology, linguistics, or mathematics, and a master’s in librarianship or information science. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter about future plans to: Estelle Brodman, Ph.D., Librarian and Professor of Medical History, Washington University School of Medicine, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. Applications will be considered through May 1 for appointment in September.

The first of a series of enlarged grants-in-aid to scholars, in the amount of 87,500, was awarded by the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs, to Professor Richard S. Kirkendall, of the University of Missouri. Professor Kirkendall is working on an extended study of the career and administration of former President Truman. Three smaller grants were awarded to Earl D. Bragdon, University of South Dakota, working on a study of President Truman and the Federal Power Commission; Thomas G. Paterson, University of California at Berkeley, American businessmen and Truman foreign policy, 1945- 50; and Edwin W. Tucker, University of Connecticut, relations of government and business.

A grant of $37,533 to Rutgers—The State University (NJ.) will fund a study of automatic indexing of drug information, by Susan Artandi.

University of New Mexico, with Robert T. Divert as principal investigator, will use a grant of $57,033 from U.S. Public Health Service to study the total system computer program for medical libraries.

The Council on Library Resources has made a grant in the amount of $4,470 to Edward A. Chapman, director of libraries at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Paul L. St. Pierre, assistant director for library operations, to assist them in preparing a monograph, “Systems Analysis and Design as Related to Library Operations.” The book is intended to be a guide to the theory of systems analysis and design, and to provide a working knowledge of standard methods, procedures and tools which librarians can use in analyzing and evaluating operating problems. The monograph is intended for publication in 1967 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Edward G. Holley, director of libraries. University of Houston, and Donald D. Hendrieks, director of libraries, Sam Houston State College, will conduct a statewide study of library resources under a grant from the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. In addition to identifying current resources, the surveyors will make recommendations concerning the future development of academic libraries. The survey is expected to become a part of the new master plan for higher education in Texas and should be completed by December 1967.

The University of British Columbia has received a $50,000 grant to establish the first system of computer analysis of how students, faculty and researchers use a large research library in an academic setting. The grant is the first made to UBC by the Donner Canadian Foundation, a recently established body related to the Donner Foundation in the United States.

BUILDINGS

Arizona State University’s new four million dollar library building was dedicated on Nov. 22. Named for Charles Trumbull Hayden, the new building had been occupied since the beginning of the 1966 fall term. It contains two hundred and five thousand square feet of enclosed space and will eventually house one million three hundred thousand volumes. It provides seating for 2,946 readers, nearly onehalf of which is individual carrels. The building’s five levels are subject oriented and the collection from the old Matthews library includes six hundred thousand recorded items.

Construction of a new central library for Illinois Wesleyan University, large enough to serve twenty-five hundred students, is scheduled for completion in the spring of 1968.

Eastern Kentucky University dedicated its reconstructed library on Jan. 6.

Montana State University library, Bozeman, has just completed and opened the second and third floors of its building. The present building, erected in 1960/61 was only partially completed at that time.

Hofstra University library and footbridge, designed by Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde won the fifth annual award of the Concrete Industries Board on November 16. The ten-story library is connected with the student centerdormitories area by a 360-foot bridge that spans Hempstead Turnpike.

Joint University Libraries, Nashville, has started construction of the H. Fort Flowers $2.5 million graduate wing of the general library building. Capacity of the addition will be three hundred and fifty thousand volumes and carrels for six hundred readers.

Construction of a new $3.2 million dollar library is underway at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville, Tex., with the aid of a federal grant. The new facility, a four-story structure, will have a capacity of six hundred thousand volumes and twelve hundred readers in 132,851 square feet. Organized on the divisional plan, the library will house a listening room, forty-five faculty and graduate student carrels, and provide stations for student access to computer-based instruction. A special collections room, housing ten thousand volumes, has been designed to contain the library’s Thomason, Shettles, and Joseph Clark collections. The facility will be occupied in mid- 1968.

MEETINGS

Mar. 11; Fifth Annual Church Library Conference. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Joyce White, University of Pennsylvania library.

Apr. 12-14; The University of Pittsburgh will hold its second national conference on Electronic Information Handling. The conference will be co-sponsored by the university, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Western Michigan University, the Office of Naval Research, and the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval—Association for Computing Machinery. Further information regarding the conference may be obtained from Professor Allen Kent, Director, Knowledge Availability Systems Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213.

Apr. 28-29; A conference on The Developing Junior College Library will be held at DeKalb, Illinois, under the joint sponsorship of the Illinois Library Association and Northern Illinois University. Sessions will be held on the general topics of Library Administration, Collections, Services, Buildings, and Curriculum for Training Library Clerks. For further program information, write to; Sherman Zelinsky, Librarian, Danville Junior College, 2000 East Main Street, Danville, Illinois 61832. For conference reservations, write to; Mr. James B. Dodd, Faraday Library, Northern Illinois University, De- Kalb, Illinois 60115.

May 5-6; Midwest Academic Librarians Conference, Chicago Circle Campus, University of Illinois.

May 21-26; Seminar in Public Library Administration. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Edwin Castagna, Enoch Pratt free library, Baltimore.

June 11-16; The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Americana in Miami, Fla. Approximately six hundred members of the association are expected to attend. Mrs. Mildred C. Langner, University of Miami, school of medicine library, is chairman of the convention committee. Mrs. Helen Brown Schmidt, executive secretary, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. 60611, is exhibits coordinator.

June 12-16; Distinguished figures in librarianship from three continents will speak at an International Conference on Education for Librarianship at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The conference is being conducted by the graduate school of library science through the U. of I. division of university extension.

June 13-16; Technical Information Center Administration IV. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Arthur W. Elias, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia.

June 14-17; International Federation for Information Processing and Federation Internationale de la Documentation meeting on Mechanized Information Storage, Retrieval, and Dissemination, Rome.

June 25-July 1; Annual conference, ALA, San Francisco.

July 1-8; Following the ALA conference in San Francisco June 25-July 1, the Hawaii Library Association will sponsor the Mid-Pacific Library Conference in Honolulu. Headquarters will be at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel in Waikiki.

Plans are underway for trips to the Polynesian Cultural Center, Sea Life Park, the state Centralized Processing Center, the University of Hawaii, the East-West Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange, and various libraries on Oahu. An optional extension trip to the islands of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii will be offered.

Travel arrangements are being handled by Bel-Air Travel, Inc., 600 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles 90049. Further information may be obtained from them or from Katherine Knight, Hawaii State Library, 478 South King Street, Honolulu 96813.

July 9-30: Fourth Annual European Library Study Tour. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Emerson Greenaway, Free Library of Philadelphia.

July 17-28: Seventh Annual School Librarianship Workshop. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Beatrice Downin, Abington Township, Pa.

July 17-29: Senior administrative personnel of large public, research and academic libraries will participate in a two-week University of Maryland seminar to study library organizations. Sponsored by the university’s school of library and informational services. Brochure and application materials are available from the Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740.

Sept. 12-22: International Federation for Documentation (FID), thirty-third conference and International Congress on Documentation, in Tokyo, Japan.

Sept. 17-20: Data Processing in University Libraries Conference. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Ralph Parker, director of libraries and dean, graduate library school. University of Missouri.

MISCELLANY

The library of the Council on Foreign Relations has been incorporated separately as the Foreign Relations library, and will henceforth operate as an affiliate of the council. The policies and staff of the Foreign Relations library will remain the same and the library will continue to be housed in the Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68 Street, New York, New York 10021.

PUBLICATIONS

One of five titles recently added to the Illini Books paperback series is “How to Do Library Research,” by Robert B. Downs. Dr. Downs is dean of library administration at University of Illinois. His work provides a guide for students, teachers, or anyone seeking information and sources on almost any subject. A comprehensive guide to research in school, public and special libraries, his book also describes the research facilities and services of libraries and explains how to exploit them.

A detailed plan for the compilation of a selection list of seventy-five thousand books and periodical titles for Latin Ameriean university libraries was prepared recently at a meeting held in San Jose Purua, Mexico, under the sponsorship of the Pan Ameriean Union, general secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), with a grant from the Council on Library Resources. Based on the “new campuses lists” of California, the selection will give greater emphasis to books in Spanish and Portuguese and original works by Latin American authors. An indication will be made of first, second, and third priority of importance, about twenty-five thousand volumes in each group, to facilitate procurement of the most significant works. The Union of Latin American Universities has accepted responsibility for the project and for appointing a full-time staff to carry it out over a period of three years. The project is to be carried out as a joint effort under the general sponsorship and guidance of the Pan American Union. The University of Texas will serve in an advisory capacity in selection and in automated compilation. Physical quarters, certain working facilities, and bibliographic assistance will be provided by the National University of Mexico which has also agreed to publish the quarterly selection journals. Selection of titles from preliminary subject lists will be made by experts in the hemisphere and the compilation of bibliographic information will be handled by automated means. The list will be kept up-to-date by a quarterly selection journal and by fiveyear revisions.

The first World Guide to Libraries, recently published in Germany and now available from R. R. Bowker Company, lists some twenty-five thousand libraries. This new two-volume directory covers special, university and public libraries in 157 different countries. A subject index, subdivided by country and containing over fifty thousand entries, is included in Volume II, to help users of the guide locate libraries of any country holding collections on particular subjects.

The Colorado Chapter of Special Libraries Association has published a directory. Specialized Library Resources of Colorado—1966. The directory was compiled and edited by Lawrence E. Leonard, chief librarian, Boulder Laboratories library. Environmental Science Services Administration, and Carolyn M. Leonard, serials librarian. University of Colorado, and lists information regarding 169 special libraries and specialized collections in Colorado. Copies may be obtained by sending check or money order for $3.25 each, payable to Colorado Chapter, Special Libraries Association, to Mrs. Frances M. Busch, Treasurer, Colorado Chapter, SLA, 2770 South Monroe, Denver, Colorado 80210.

In January R. R. Bowker Company will introduce Subject Guide to Forthcoming Books, a bimonthly, subject-arranged index of U.S. books to be published over a five-month period. The new periodical will cover all types of books—general and technical, hardbound and paperbound, adult and juvenile—and classify them under some two hundred subject headings.

The Drexel Press has just published the report of a conference on the Library-College method of learning, held in December 1965 at Jamestown College, Jamestown, N.D. where a small group of prominent educators and librarians discussed a new concept in higher education. The report was compiled and edited by Louis Shores, dean, Florida State University library school; Robert Jordan, senior specialist. Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C.; and John Harvey, dean, graduate school of library science, Drexel. The Library-College, 276 pages, hardcover, may be ordered from the Bookstore, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, postpaid for $7 per copy. It is Number 16 in the “Drexel Library School Series,” for which a standing order may be placed with the Drexel Bookstore.

Drexel Institute of Technology’s graduate school of library science has published Library Service for the Undereducated, a report of a conference held in June 1965. The conference was directed by Dorothy Bendix, associate professor, who also edited the proceedings. The conference was presented in cooperation with the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Adult Services Committee of the Pennsylvania Library Association. The 50-page publication is number 15 in the “Drexel Library School Series” for which a standing order may be placed. Copies of this publication can be obtained from the Drexel Bookstore, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, postpaid for $2.75.

Drexel Institute of Technology’s graduate school of library science and the Spartan Press have just published No. 3 in the “Drexel Information Science Series,” a combined report of two library conferences on data processing. The first conference was held June 24-26, 1965 under the direction of Ralph Parker, University of Missouri library, on data processing in university libraries. The second conference was held October 22-23, 1965 and was led by Joseph Becker, documentation consultant, on data processing in public libraries. Data Processing in Public and University Libraries, 150 pages, hardcover, may be ordered from the Spartan Press, 1106 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036, postpaid for $6.75.

The Educational Resources Center in India (D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi-3) and the Foreign Area Materials Center, State Education Department, University of the State of New York (33 West 42nd Street, New York City) are cooperating with the University of Wisconsin in a program of assisting college libraries in the United States in securing basic works for the study of Indian history, society, and culture published in India. Several months ago an initial list of books, based on recommendations in the University of Wisconsin Civilization of India Syllabus was offered to college libraries through the Department of Indian Studies at the university and the Foreign Area Materials Center. A second set of titles, selected from recommended readings in the Syllabus, is now available; a list may be secured from the Foreign Area Materials Center. This set of about twenty-five titles is available at rupee prices, delivered in the United States. The sets are assembled in Madras and shipped directly from there. All titles will be bound in India before shipment. For the set—$50 (or about $2. per title)—each set must be ordered complete, and no substitutions are permissible.