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FOR SALE

FINE & APPLIED ARTS REFERENCE COLLECTION,ca 500 titles. Checklist and particulars sent to institutions upon application. C. Verbeke, North Salem, N.H. 03073. Tel. (603) 893-0601.

BOOKS

IRREGULAR SERIALSis one of our specialties. Foreign books and periodicals, current and out of print. Albert J. Phiebig, Box 532, White Plains, N.Y.

OUT OF PRINT

COLONIAL BOOK SERVICE—Specialists in supplying the out-of-print books as listed in all library indices. (Granger poetry: Essay and General Literature; Shaw; Standard; Fiction; Biography; Lamont; Speech; etc.) Catalogues on request. Want lists invited. 23 East 4th St., New York 3, N.Y.

WANT LISTSget prompt attention, wide search, reasonable prices from International Bookfinders, Box 3003-CRL, Beverly Hills, California.

PERIODICALS

PERIODICALS—sets, files, numbers—bought, sold, exchanged. Microcard reprints of rare files. J. S. Canner Inc., Dept. ACRL, Boston 20, Mass.

POSITIONS OPEN

ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIANfor January 1969. M.S.L.S. with at least one year’s experience, preferably in college library. Current book budget $134,000. Salary commensurate with experience. Faculty status, usual fringe benefits. New library opening January 1969. Apply to: Mr. Joseph H. Doherty, Director, Providence College Library, River Avenue at Eaton Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02918.

Automation

LIBRARY AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS SPECIALISTto coordinate the automation developmental activities at the University of Colorado Libraries. Projects presently underway are circulation and reserve, accounting, and other technical services activities. Experience: Library systems work two (2) years, familiarity with computer systems necessary; programming experience desirable but not absolutely essential. Benefits: Salary range $13,000 to $16,000 depending on experience; faculty status, TIAA-CREF retirement program, sick leave, one month’s vacation, eligibility for faculty fellowships, transportation paid to one professional meeting each year. Contact Mr. Richard M. Dougherty, Associate Director of Libraries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80302.

CATALOGER,$9000 a year. University Library in midwest. One month vacation, retirement, health insurance, congenial community and staff. Some relevant cataloging experience is desired, but adaptability to change is essential. If interested, please write Box 740, CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611.

CATALOGING POSITIONS,$7600. And up, depending on qualifications, for materials in (1) near eastern languages; (2) Spanish and Portuguese. Good fringe benefits on campus with 28,000 students. Apply to Miss Jane Flener, Asst. Director, Indiana University, Library, Bloomington, IN 47401.

Cataloging

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEseeks additional CATALOGERS needed in library actively automating technical processes. Position includes participation in planning, some supervision of clerks in reclassification from Dewey to LC. MLS from accredited school. $7,500–$7,700, H-month year, usual employee benefits. Edward A. Chapman, Director of Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. 12181.

CATALOG LIBRARIAN. Immediate opening. University Library 40 minutes from New York City. MLS degree or equivalent required. Faculty status including tenure and sabbatical leaves. TIAA-CREF, Social Security, other benefits. Salary $7,200 up depending on qualifications and experience. Apply to Miss D. Nora Gallagher, Director, Adelphi University Library, Garden City, New York 11530.

CATALOG LIBRARIANwanted for small liberal arts college. M.L.S. from an accredited A. L.A. library school. Experience preferred but not mandatory. Will consider applicants with B. A.L.S., B.S.L.S. Beginning salary dependent on qualifications and experience. Send resumes to: Miss Carolyn Eaves, Librarian, Howard Payne College, Brownwood, Texas 76801.

ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIAN, HEAD CATA- LOGER, CATALOGERS (2), MUSIC LIBRARIAN, needed for new arts institute in Southern California, a professional school embracing and interrelating the disciplines of art, design, music, theatre, and film as well as offering a general studies program. While the development of the professional artist will be emphasized, a degree program will be offered leading to the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Arts. Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, National Association of Schools of Music and National Association of Schools of Art. Outstanding faculty. New, extremely modern campus opening fall of 1970. Beginning collection to be planned, selected and processed for new library. Extensive automation projected. Great emphasis upon audio-visual materials. Music librarian to administer small existing music library and assist with selection of new materials. Salaries open, subject to experience. M. L. S. required. Usual benefits. Send résumés to Box 741, CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WINDSORinvites qualified applicants to apply for the following vacant positions: PRINCIPAL SCIENCE LIBRARIAN (Grade III) to assume responsibility for directing book selection and for coordinating reference and bibliographic services in the pure and applied sciences. SENIOR SCIENCE LIBRARIANS (Grade II) to assist in collection development, and to provide reference and bibliographic services in designated areas of the pure and applied sciences. Substantial background in the physical or life sciences and a minimum of four years (Grade III), or two years (Grade II) of working experience in a science library, or science information center is essential. Expanding mediumsize university situated across international boundary from Detroit; air-conditioned build-ing. Addition tripling present building capacity in the final planning stage. Salary range for Grade III position is Can. $9,000-$12,500; for Grade II Can. $7,800–$ 10,800. Fringe benefits include one month’s vacation, sick leave, medical, hospital, disability and group insurance, pension plan. Applications, including curriculum vitae, should be directed to: William F. Dollar, University Librarian, UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA.

Readers Services

A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGEfor women in the beautiful southeast has an immediate opening for Readers Services Librarian. Qualifications: master’s degree in librarianship, administrative ability, five years successful experience. TIAA, major medical, Blue Cross-Blue Shield. Salary open. Write Box 739, CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611.

PACIFIC NORTHWESTacademic librarian seeks EXCHANGE agreement with a Reference Librarian located in/or between Boston and Washington, D.C. September 1969 to be ensuing February. Home institution must agree to forward salary of away librarian. Inquire prior to December 25, 1968. Box 742, CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611.

Resources

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN FOR RESOURCES AND TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIANI: Salary range $7,164–$7,908 per annum. Duties: Ássist in preorder and precatalog bibliographic searching, maintain out-of-print desiderata files, contact faculty in direct planning of library collections for curriculum support, assist in collaboration with circulation department in on-going inventory and collection building. For this position, some reading knowledge of foreign languages is necessary. (Russian especially desirable, though not necessary.) An active interest in the book trade and the application of computer techniques to the acquisitions process, combined with an aggressive personality, are especially important as qualifications for this position. Academic status. Annual leave, 24 working days. Liberal retirement plan, sick leave and health insurance plans. Write: Donald G. Wilson, Acting University Librarian, University of California Library, P.O. Box 5900, Riverside, California 92507. WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Subject Specialists

BIBLIOGRAPHER.New position, combining reference, cataloging, and some selection as specialist within functional organization. Academic status, good fringe benefits. Require graduate library degree and graduate study in Humanities or Social Sciences. Salary range $7,100–$9,000 depending on qualifications and experience. Box 738, CñL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611.

LAW LIBRARIANfor joint appointment as faculty member and librarian. Both law and library degrees necessary. College of Law has faculty of 20 and student body of 450, housed in new building with new library. Library of 93,000 volumes, staff of seven. Faculty status, TIAA/CREF, usual fringe benefits, salary open. An excellent opportunity for a strong person boxed in by circumstances or a head man who will never retire. An equal opportunity employer. For details, write Stuart Forth, Vice President and Director of Libraries, 207 Administration Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEseeks SCIENCE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN for collection development and evaluation, liaison with faculty and students, reference duty: opportunities for research and for participation in development of library automation. Undergraduate background in science, MLS from accredited school. $7,500+, 11-month year, usual employee benefits. Edward A. Chapman, Director of Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. 12181.

CHEMICAL,librarian. The Shell Companies have an opening in the San Francisco Bay Area, and another in New York, for a chemical librarian. San Francisco Bay Area: Library serving major industrial research laboratory seeks individual to take charge of all public services, including scientific and bibliographic reference, and to assist in planning and implementing utilization of new methods of handling scientific and technical information. New York: Cataloging, reference, and literature searching on behalf of management and technical personnel engaged in research and development, engineering, sales, and market research. Requirements: BS in Chemistry, MLS preferred. 0 to 5 years experience. Shell’s employee benefits include a liberal education assistance program. If interested in these positions, please send a complete resume to Q. C. Stanberry, Recruitment Representative, Dept. RL, The Shell Companies, Box 2099, Houston 77001. An equal opportunity employer.

Technical Services

HEAD, TECHNICAL PROCESSINGneeded to direct order, serial, and cataloging activities of small, highly specialized library. Degree from ALA accredited school, and professional experience at supervisory level essential. Salary range, $8,500–12,000, dependent upon qualifications. We are an equal opportunity employer. Send resume to: Miss Natelle Isley, Manager, Information Services Division, Mississippi Research and Development Center, P. O. Drawer 2470, Tackson, Mississippi 39205.

To Provide Today’s Researcher in the Humanities, Social Science, and Religion with the Basic Researches of the Past

The first eighteen titles in Gale’s LITERARY AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY SERIES included the incomparable and highly-acclaimed Dictionary of English Literature; Dictionary of Names, Nicknames, and Surnames; 5000 Facts and Fancies; and Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities.

Now, a group of equally distinguished titles is being republished as Part II of the series. Each makes a special contribution to the fund of hard-to-find information that can augment full comprehension of a fact of history, a reference in literature, a social custom, an obscure phrase, or a nickname—the subject range is virtually limitless.

THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY SERIES PART II

Bombaugh, Charles CarrollGLEANINGS FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE

Hartford, Conn., 1890. 864 p.

A miscellany of eccentric information, verbal novelties, and word origins. $19.50

FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE Philadelphia, 1905. 647 p.

Covers thirty-five subjects that include Americana, historic characters, legendary lore, famous beauties, and mottoes. $14.75

Edwards, Eliezer

WORDS, FACTS, AND PHRASES Philadelphia, 1884. 631 p.

A dictionary of curious slang terms, English dialectical phrases, and Americanisms. $14.75

Goff, John

A BOOK OF NICKNAMES

Louisville, Ky., 1892. 75 p.

Interprets nicknames indigenous to the United States. $6.50

Harbottle, Thomas BenfieldDICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS London, 1925. 376 p.

A definitive key to details of history generally omitted from other sources. $7.50

Hargrave, Basil

ORIGINS AND MEANINGS OF POPULAR

PHRASES AND NAMES London, 1925. 376 p.

Primarily covers phrases and names that came into use during World War I. $11.50

Johnson, Trench H.

PHRASES AND NAMES, THEIR ORIGINS AND MEANINGS London, 1906. 384 p.

A dictionary of Americanisms, phrases, and slang. $13.50

Killikelly, Sarah HutchinsCURIOUS QUESTIONS IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, ART, AND SOCIAL LIFE Philadelphia, 1886-1900. 3 vol. 1,240 p. Questions and answers that relate to oddities in literature and history. $37.50

Montgomery, Hugh

A DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL PHRASES AND ALLUSIONS London, 1906. 406 p.

Historical definitions of British political terms. $14.50

Reddall, HenryFACT, FANCY, AND FABLE Chicago, 1889. 536 p.

A handbook of sobriquets, phrases, pseudonyms, mythological characters, slang, foreign words, Americanisms, etc. $13.50

Southwick, Albert PlvmptonQUIZZISM: AND ITS KEY New York, 1892. 212 p.

Questions in literature, science, history, biography, mythology, geography, etc., with their answers. $7.50

Stauffer, Francis HenrvTHE QUEER, THE QUAINT, AND THE QUIZZICAL

A potpourri of 650 unusual facts, legends, and lore. $9.50

Wagner. LeopoldMANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND OBSERVANCES; THEIR ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICATION London, 1895. 318 p.

Examines customs evolving around the crown, the religions, the military, marriage, death, etc. $8 75

NAMES: AND THEIR MEANING London, 1893. 287 p.

Reveals the etymology and significance of personal names, place names, and names of familiar objects. $12.75

Walsh, William ShepardHANDYBOOK OF CURIOUS INFORMATION Philadelphia, 1913. 942 p.

Deals with extraordinary phenomena in the lives of men and animals, odd statistics, and curious facts. $24.50

Timbs, John

THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN New York, 1890. 432 p.

A popular handbook of facts not readily accessible in literature, history, and science. $13.50

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