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ACQUISITIONS

•Simon Fraser University libraries has acquired a collection of Ezra Pound letters and other related items spanning the years 1952 through 1957. In addition to forty-six letters from Pound to Denis Goacher, his literary agent in London, the collection includes two letters from Dorothy Pound to Goacher, a manuscript poem, and twenty-seven other items.

• Twenty-three letters and manuscripts sent by Carl Sandburg to historian James G. Randall have been given to the University of Illinois library’s Sandburg Collection by Randall’s widow. The gift includes copies of 26 letters, covering the years 1931–53, written to Sandburg by Professor Randall.

Mrs. Ruth Painter Randall also presented the library with a book entitled “Praise for Carl Sandburg,” issued in 1953 in a limited edition of 15 copies in honor of the late poet’s 75th birthday. The book consists of tributes from Adlai E. Stevenson, Allan Nevins, Robert E. Sherwood, Prof. Randall and others, along with a photograph and autograph of each.

Additional items in Mrs. Randall’s gift are three folders of materials relating to Sandburg, a number of miniature books on Lincoln and the Civil War, and several presentation copies of Sandburg’s works.

• Washington University libraries has augmented its collections with the addition of a new group of the papers of Alexander Trocchi, comprising a part of his Sigma project, conceived in 1963 as an international union of artists and writers, and files on similar artistic and political organizations during the early 1960’s. Other additions include correspondence between Ivy Compton-Burnett and Kay Dick; worksheets of Mona Van Duyn’s forthcoming collection of poems; drafts of Donald Finkel’s two most recent books; correspondence between Robert Sword, Robert David Cohen and other young poets, and single and small groups of the papers of Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, A. E. Hotchner and Robert Creeley.

• The final working manuscript of James Gould Cozzens’ Morning Noon and Night has been given to the Princeton University library by the author, together with a copy of the first edition of the new novel. Cozzens has made Princeton a principal depository for his papers and the majority of his manuscripts. The author’s gifts, the first of which he made in 1958, have been designated the James Gould Cozzens Papers with the understanding that the collection is closed to access for an indefinite period.

• Heidelberg College library has received a gift of English and American letters and correspondence from Ralph M. Besse. The collection consists of some 4,000 volumes and a few manuscripts. A special room has been provided for this collection in the new Beeghly library at Heidelberg.

• During the past summer York University libraries acquired most of the stock of Starr’s book store in Boston and Ducharme’s in Montreal. Starr’s book store was noted for its collections in American literature, history, political science, economics and sociology. Ducharme’s was outstanding for its stock of out of print French-Canadian material.

• The Ellen Clarke Bertrand library of Bucknell University has recently acquired a collection of letters, documents and books of Oliver St. John Gogarty. The collection was donated by the poet’s son, Oliver D. Gogarty of Dublin.

• During the past year the Pennsylvania State University library has acquired a significant collection of papers documenting the labor movement in the United States. In September, 1967, the United Steelworkers of America named Penn State as “provisional repository” for their papers and records. This valuable research material consists of all records which are of sufficient historical importance to justify permanent retention. The collection, when completed, will include records from the USWA International headquarters in Pittsburgh and from 29 District offices.

A comprehensive oral history project has been undertaken to coincide with the acquisition of the USWA papers. This project entails interviews with individuals, both officials and rank-and-filers, who were active in the development of the USWA. To date, 65 interviews have been conducted; tapes and transcripts have been placed in the Labor History Collection.

Among other personal papers added to the collection are those of William B. Dickson, Pennsylvania industrialist of the late nineteenth century; the personal papers of Monsignor Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh’s “labor priest”; the Harold J. Ruttenberg papers concerning the trade union organization of basic American industry from 1934 to 1946 and the Kathryn Poliak Ellickson Papers, 1935–1937.

The unionization of the coal industry, a topic of special interest in Pennsylvania, is the subject of two other collections, the Mitch Papers and the Kosik Papers. The Mitch Papers document the struggle to organize American miners from 1908 to 1936. Michael Kosik’s Papers concern industry-union relations in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region.

During the past year a total of about 70 collections have been added to the Labor History Collection. In addition to those already mentioned are collections from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Boot and Shoemakers Union, Cigarmakers Union, Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, and the Federated Trades Council of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

• The University of Tennessee Library at Knoxville is the recipient of what has been called the finest private Congreve collection in existence, bequeathed to the University by the late John C. Hodges, Congreve scholar, UT professor emeritus, and Coordinator for Li-brary Development. The collection compares favorably with the collections in the Harvard and Bodleian libraries and in the British Museum, consisting of about 150 original editions of Congreve’s works and a large collection of books about Congreve, English drama and the theatre of the 16th and 17th centuries, and material by and about other dramatists of this period. A bibliography of the Congreve titles is now in preparation.

• Two important collections on Austro- Hungarian history and contemporary literature have been purchased for the Rice University library. The additions are the 3,600-item Stephen K. Swift collection of Austro-Hungarian history, purchased with a gift from the William Stamps Farish Fund, and the 13,000 volume Frederich J. Hoffman collection of 20th century American and European literature. The Swift collection includes such outstanding items as the complete British Intelligence Service reports on Austria from 1945 to 1955; the original charter from the Austrian Empire to the Hungarian government, circa 1527, with the signature and seal of Charles V, and a 360-volume history of the city of Vienna. In addition to a large number of first editions of novels from 1940 to 1967, the Hoffman collec-tion includes 2,000 copies of the so-called “little” literary magazines.

FELLOWSHIPS

• The Indiana University Libraries announce the continuation of their program designed to give intensive instruction to prospective rare book librarians. The facilities and collections of the Lilly Library will be used as a training center. Two Fellows will be selected for a study program intended to familiarize them with bibliographical methods, the antiquarian book trade, and the organization and management of rare books and special collection departments or libraries. Any graduate of an accredited library school, or person otherwise qualified by experience in the rare book field, and under 45 years of age, who desires to specialize in rare book librarianship may apply for a fellowship. Fellows are required to remain in residence in Bloomington, Indiana, from July 1, 1969, through June 30, 1970, engaged in study programs assigned by members of the Lilly Library staff. Each Fellow will receive a salary of $5,300 for the twelvemonth period, subject to withholding tax. At the conclusion of the year, Fellows are expected to find employment in rare book divisions of college, university, and public libraries or in the rare book trade. Fellows will be notified of appointment on or before May 1, 1969. Applications must be received in Bloomington on or before March 15, 1969. Requests for application forms or inquiries may be directed to William R. Cagle, Assistant Librarian, Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

GRANTS

• The National Science Foundation has provided a grant of $44,600 to support a one year trial operation of a six-member cooperative book processing center at the University of Colorado. The institutions involved are the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Adams State College, the Colorado School of Mines and Metropolitan State College. The processing center will order and catalog books for all members, while the members retain the right of individual book selection.

• Syracuse University’s School of Library Science has received a grant of $104,480 from the U.S. Office of Education to support a project to establish an experimental laboratory in which library science students, aided by computer programs, will be able to search and retrieve catalog records for current literature, to process their own cataloging assignments, and to examine the characteristics of Library of Congress cataloging, all of which will help them face some of the problems associated with library automation while they are still in library school. After experimental operation for one year (through Oct. 1969), the laboratory experiences will be evaluated, and if found successful, the program data bases and user manuals will be made available to other library schools. An institute for faculty of American and Canadian library schools is planned for some time in 1969 as part of the project.

THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

Saad El Hagrassy (PhD Rutgers) is now associate professor of library science, Cairo University, Cairo, U.A.R.

André Nitecki, assistant professor in the Syracuse University school of library science, is now senior lecturer at the University of Ghana in Accra.

Mahmoud El Sheniti (PhD Chicago) has been named undersecretary for libraries and archives, national library, Cairo, U.A.R.

MEETINGS

Dec. 2–7: (AIBDA) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists in Bogotá, Colombia.

Dec. 12–13: Institute in Atlanta, Ga., jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Georgia Institute of Technology library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

Jan. 8–10: International Conference of administrators of colleges, universities, junior colleges, and independent schools at the Americana Hotel in New York City. The theme of this conference is “Challenging a New Future” and its goal is to promote an interchange of ideas and experiences among the leaders of the higher and independent educational systems of the United States, Canada, and other nations of the world.

Jan. 27–June 5: Institute in information science, University of Southern California. Participants will be admitted on a highly selective basis. Each person will be paid $75 per week, with $15 per week for each dependent. Persons who are admissable and who wish credit may earn from nine to twelve units of course credit during the semester. Further information about this institute may be obtained by writing to: The Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007, Telephone: (213) 746-2548.

February: Institute in Cleveland jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Case Western Reserve University school of library science to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611.

Mar. 24-25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

April 14–15: Institute in Houston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the Rice University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St, Chicago, Ill. 60611.

May 5–9: A general call has been issued for “free communications,” or unsolicited papers, for the Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship 1969, in Amsterdam. Papers should be 2,000 to 2,500 words long and may be submitted in one of the five Congress languages—English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. Each paper should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than fifty words in English. October 15, 1968 is the final date for submission of papers. They should be addressed to the Office of the Secretary-General, Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship, c/o Excerpta Medica Foundation, 119 Herengracht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The theme of the Congress is “World Progress in Medical Librarianship.” The subject areas include the contribution of medical libraries toward an increase of biomedical knowledge; the functions of medical libraries in the transmission of biomedical knowledge; the functions of the organization of medical knowledge: indexing and classification; modern information systems in medicine; technical developments in the medical library field; and problems of medical information systems and centers in developing countries. There will be invited lecturer’s, as well as contributed, papers. Registration fee is $50 if paid before January 1; $60 thereafter. Registration forms are available from the office of the Secretary-General. Information about special transportation to Amsterdam from the United States will be available from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University

Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June 17–20, 1969: Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 17–20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other sessions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publications, official publications, photoduplication of Latin American materials, and archives. Meetings of the Seminar Committees will take place on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first general session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meetings of the Executive Board of the newly incorporated SALALM will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednesday, June 18. Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will be distributed at the time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institution registering is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequently published by the Pan American Union. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. 20006.

June 20–21: Preconference Building Institute. Plans are in progress for the college and university library sessions of the preconference institute on library buildings at Atlantic City, June 20–21, 1969. The major part of the program will be devoted to presentations and critiques of college, university, and junior college library buildings still in the planning process. Librarians who are planning new buildings and are interested in participating in this program are asked to notify the Chairman of the Building Committee for College and University Libraries, Bernard Kreissman, once you use them you’ll agree:

Chief Librarian, The City College, City University of New York, New York, N.Y. 10031.

MISCELLANY

• College of Our Lady of Mercy has been reorganized as Russell College, 2500 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, California 94010.

• The Nova University library has removed from its former location in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to the institution’s new campus in Davie, Florida.

• On September 9, the Louisiana State University inaugurated an automated circulation system utilizing an IBM 357 data collection system in the library and an IBM 360/30 computer in the University data processing center.

• Harold Lancour and Allen Kent of the University of Pittsburgh are the joint editors of the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. The work is expected to run to eighteen volumes and will combine articles of both theory and practice in the fields of library and information science. Seventy-three contributors, from the United States and abroad, provided the articles for volume I. An international advisory board of 32 members is assisting the editors and the publisher, Marcel Dekker, Inc. of New York, in producing the work.

• In honor of the dedication of the addition to the M. D. Anderson Memorial library, University of Houston, Mrs. Alice Evans Pratt donated a court martial order dated April 6, 1778 at Valley Forge and signed by George Washington.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University has been published in a second edition, enlarged, by G. K. Hall & Co., Boston. In addition to materials in the Avery library building, this new edition also lists some 30,000 volumes which are housed in other departments of the Columbia University library system. It is thus a union catalog of all art and architecture books held by Columbia University. The catalog is available in nineteen volumes at the price of $1040.00 in the U.S., $1144.00 outside the U.S. Descriptive material on this publication is available on request. Inquiries and orders may be sent to the G. K. Hall & Co., 70 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02111.

• Engineering Index, Inc. is pleased to announce that the 1967 Engineering Index Annual is complete and off the press. The Annual appears in two clothbound volumes and contains over 3,100 pages of abstracts of the world’s engineering literature. Arranged alphabetically by subject heading, the Annual includes 56,000 abstracts from 2,000 sources with 78,000 authors and 10,000 headings. An author index appears in back of the second volume and a list of publications covered appears in front of the first volume. For the first time, Engineering Index, Inc. is offering this two-volume edition on a 30-day trial basis. Price is $150 for industry, business and government and $125 for educational institutions and public libraries. To take advantage of the free offer, write to: Leonard Ennis, Manager, Marketing and Business Services Division, Engineering Index, Inc,, 345 East 47th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.

• A List of Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in the United States is a continuation of Tung-li Yuan’s Guide to Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in America. Compiled by Dr. Tze-chung Li, the work lists 843 dissertations by Chinese students accepted by more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States during years 1961–1964. The publication is sold at $3.00. For copies, write to Chinese-American Educational Foundation, 2204 S. Wentworth, Chicago, Illinois 60616.

• The New England Library Association’s president, Lawrence E. Wikander of the Williams College Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts, has announced plans for publication of a bimonthly NELA Newsletter, the first issue to appear in January 1969. The purpose of the Newsletter will be to inform a growing membership about the work of the Association, to provide a forum for reporting and discussion of interstate regional library functions, to report on States’ major library activities, and especially to encourage a regional cohesiveness among New England’s thousands of libraries of all types. Lee Ash, Library Consultant, will add to his other activities the editing of the Newsletter, and NELA requests that he be put on the mailing lists of libraries, State associations, State Libraries, regional publishers, and others, in order to receive pertinent information and publications. Address editorial matter to him at 31 Alden Road, New Haven, Connecticut 06515 (telephone: 203-389-1678); exchanges with regional publications only will be considered. The NELA Newsletter will be sent free to NELA members, and inquiries about subscriptions should be directed to Mrs. Nan Berg, Executive Secretary, 3 Rita Road, West Peabody, Massachusetts 01960.

• The graduate school of library and information science at the University of Pittsburgh has begun publication of a series of occasional papers to be issued under the title: The Pittsburgh Series in Library and Informa- tion Science, edited by Jay Daily. The first paper is “A Concept Paper—The Regional Library Center in the Mid 1970’s,” by Thomas Minder, executive director of the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, Inc. It is available from the University of Pittsburgh Book Center at $2.00 a copy.

• Volume II, No. 1, of Program; News of Computers in British Libraries appeared in April. This quarterly journal of short papers and news brief on all aspects of computer use in British libraries is edited by Richard T. Kimber in the school of library studies, Queen’s University at Belfast, 2 College Gardens, Belfast; it is available on subscription for 25s. per year (10s. to students). Some back numbers of Volume I are still available and may be had gratis upon application.

• The University of Maryland’s school of library and information services has issued in book form the proceedings of the reclassification conference held last spring. Edited by conference chairman Jean M. Perrault and entitled Reclassification—Rationale and Problems, the book contains moderator’s comments along with summations of the discussions. The conference covered administrative problems and arrangements, automation and basic problems with classification systems, especially applicability to content and facilitation of retrieval. Copies may be obtained at the University’s student supply store at $5.00 a copy.

• The Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, has published Resources in Texas Libraries by Edward G. Holley and Donald Hendricks. This survey is no. 3 in the System’s new Study Paper series.

• Scarecrow Press, Inc., announces publication of Sample Cataloging Forms by Robert B. Slocum and Lois Hacker, a second revised edition of Sample Cataloging Cards. For this edition, an index has been provided for quick reference. It is in two parts: (1) an index to the major portion of the volume, and (2) an index to the Comparison of AACR and ALA Cataloging Rules. Price per copy for the 8 1/2 X 11, 205-page work is $7.50.

• Gale Research Company has made an extra run of the Song of the Library Staff which it first reproduced for this year’s ALA conference. The booklet, illustrated by Merle Johnson, includes five poems about librarians taken from Songs of the Average Man, composed by Sam Foss in 1906. Upon request, copies may be obtained gratis from Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, Michigan 48226.