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ACQU ISITI ONS

Recent acquisitions of Stanford University Libraries include a complete facsimile edition, consisting of 488 plates in twenty portfolios, of the drawings in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This collection consists of mostly Italian drawings and the periods represented range from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The importance of the Stanford copy is enhanced by the fact that a number of the original drawings failed to survive the recent Florence flood.

The papers of the late J. Arthur Younger (1893-1967), U.S. Congressman from California’s 11th District (San Mateo County), were donated to the Library in April by his widow, Mrs. Norma Younger, and his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Robinson, Jr. Including most of the Representative’s office files, the papers are of special interest because of Mr. Younger’s role as one of the first proponents of an executive department for urban affairs.

Additions in the past few months to the Special Collection of Modern Literature, Washington University Libraries, are representative of the lines of research interest in this four-year-old Collection.. Poet James Merrill has given the worksheets of more than 250 poems, drafts of two plays and nine notebooks, dating from 1948 to 1963, containing drafts of poems, diary entries and notes on his own and others’ work. Novelist George P. Elliott has added the drafts of a group of short stories, an unpublished play, and 25 critical essays, a number of them autobiographical. The 2,000 pages of early drafts and notes by William Gass of his first novel, Omensetter s Luck, as well as 1,700 manuscript and typescript pages which later comprised the book, are now part of the Special Collection. The letters of Tom Clark, poetry editor of Paris Review and a participant in numerous small press ventures in England, to his colleague Andrew Crozier are a useful view of that poet’s literary and personal affairs in Rritain from 1964 to 1967. Robert Sward also writes from and about Britain in the addition of 325 letters to his papers. Students of the history of contemporary publishing will find much useful comment on the workings of the private press in new collections from Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Paul Blackburn, Howard Nemerov and Denise Levertov. Individual manuscripts of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Jocelyn Brooke have also been acquired, together with typescripts of an interview with Vladimir Nabokov, revised by him.

Small collections of letters from Conrad Aiken, C. Day-Lewis and Kenneth Rexroth and Marianne Moore are also new in the Collection, as is a taped interview with Thomas Merton.

• The Columbia University Librarieshave received recently several notable gift collections.

Dr. Corliss Lamont (Ph.D., 1932) has established a collection of manuscripts and printed materials relating to the English poet, John Masefield, a friend of the Lamont family over many years. The nucleus of the collection is a group of 99 autograph letters written by Masefield, many of which contain critical commentary on his fellow poets, among them A. E. Housman, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, and Stephen Vincent Benét. Also included are two autograph manuscripts of poems by Masefield, three letters from Judith Masefield, and several printed items pertaining to the poet’s death.

W. W. Norton and Company, book publishers, have presented their files of correspondence and papers covering the early years of the company, 1923-1945. Its roster of authors has included Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Edith Hamilton, Henry Handel Richardson, John Dewey, José Ortega y Gasset, Aaron Copland, Douglas Moore, Carlos Chavez, Irwin Edman, Paul Henry Lang, Maria Rainer Rilke, and Sigmund Freud, and the collection contains significant files of correspondence by, or relating to, each of them.

Mrs. Nina Ferrero Raditsa has added another installment of the papers and correspondence of her distinguished father Guglielmo Ferrero. The present gift, numbering more than 6,000 pieces, comprises the incoming correspondence from the early part of this century to the 1930’s, and contains important letters from Romain Rolland, Paul Valéry, King Albert of the Belgians, Albert Einstein, and Count Sforza.

The papers of Lillian D. Wald, relating to the founding and administration of the Henry Street Settlement, have recently been presented by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York through the good offices of its executive director, Mrs. Eva M. Reese. The papers cover Miss Wald’s participation not only in the Settlement, but also in numerous philanthropic and liberal causes, including those in the fields of child welfare, unemployment, immigration, civil liberties, and the Socialist Party. The correspondence files contain letters from public figures and writers, among them Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, Van Wyck Brooks, Henry Ford, Zona Gale, John Galsworthy, Samuel Gompers, William D. Howells, Charles Evans

Hughes, Frances Perkins, Dorothy Thompson, Norman Thomas, Ida Tarbell, Margaret Sanger, and Jacob Riis.

Through purchase and gift, Kent State University has acquired the entire stock of Gilman’s, a well-known bookseller in Crompond, New York. Gilman’s has been run since 1920 by two brothers, Clarence and David Gilman, in a suburb of Peekskill. The 250,000 volume collection includes many out-of-print and rare books covering all areas with emphasis on literature and history. The collection will be placed in storage until completion of a new library in the spring of 1970.

AWARDS

The New York State Education Department, Division of Library Development, has awarded the New York Metropolitàn Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) a special project grant of $48,- 000.00 to institute a Cooperative Acquisition and Storage Center (CASC). The CASC project is designed to facilitate access to materials which are not now available in the area or cannot, for reasons of space, staff, or funds, be made accessible beyond the individual library’s primary audience. It will also obviate the duplication of infrequently used materials in libraries in the area.

BUILDINGS

With the installation of the shelving in June 1968, the new Learning Resources Center of Monroe County Community College, Monroe, Michigan, was completed. Construction of the 52,300 sq. ft. LRC building began in 1966 as one of the initial four permanent buildings on campus. Cost of the LRC, including site development, was $1,446,021.00. Furniture and equipment in the Library and Audiovisual areas only of the building totaled $118,492.38. Currently the LRC contains the library on the main floor; audiovisual areas, instructional lab, lecture room, and five classrooms in the basement. On the second floor the library maintains a 3,120 sq. ft. reading room; also on the second floor are faculty offices around two walls and nine classrooms.

The University of Pittsburgh dedicated on September 6 its new Hillman Library, named in honor of John Hartwell Hillman, Jr. The building was funded largely through a donation of more than $3,000,000.00 from the Hillman Foundation and an appropriation from the General State Authority of $8,235,- 000.00. The five-story structure, which can house some 1.2 million volumes, contains 255,- 000 square feet of floor space. The first and second floors are primarily for undergraduate services.

MEETINGS

Nov. 13-15: The Washington University school of medicine will present its fifth Symposium on Machine Methods in Libraries on November 13-15. One session will be devoted to a review of the developments of the past five years and a look into the future of machine methods in libraries. Other topics to be discussed will include automation at the libraries of the UN, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Upstate Medical Center’s Biomedical Network, The New York Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Biomedical Library, as well as the work of the Washington University school of medicine library. The registration fee is $50.00 and requests for registration may be addressed to Mrs. Betty Kulifay, Washington University School of Medicine Library, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

Nov.: Institute in Boston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Harvard University 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, 111. 60611.

Nov. 25-29: 19th meeting of FID/C3, Social Sciences, at Utrecht, Netherlands.

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, 111. 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-June5: 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.

Jan.,1969: A business meeting will be scheduled for the newly established ALA Research Round Table at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Washington next January. All ALA members who are interested in library research are invited to make themselves known for placement on the Round Table’s mailing list by writing to Mrs. Barbara Slanker, Library Research Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

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, 111. 60611.

April14-15: 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, 111. 60611.

May5-9: 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.

June17-20, 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.

MISCELLANY

•Another telefacsimile transmission project has been inaugurated by four South Georgia libraries. The system will utilize new model Xerox Telecopiers in the project which is supported under Title III of LSCA. The four participating libraries are the Albany Public Library, Albany State College, Albany Junior College, and South Georgia College. All are members of an eleven-institution consortium, South Georgia Academic Libraries (SGAL), organized in 1966 and devoted to the improvement of library services through voluntary cooperative efforts.

•Canton Community College, Canton, Illinois, has been reorganized as Spoon River College, District 534, Canton, Illinois.

•Stanley West joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Studies, University of Hawaii in December, 1967, after more than 20 years as professor and department chairman of library science and as director of libraries at the University of Florida.

PUBLICATIONS

•The H. W. Wilson Company has just published the third title of its 1968 Reference

Shelf (Volume 40, number 3), The Consuming Public. Edited by Grant S. McClellan, it is designed to answer questions on the more complex consumption needs and even more complex market of today. Composed of articles reprinted from leading newspapers and magazines, it includes contributions by Lawrence A. Mayer, Ralph Nader, John D. Morris, Betty Furness and New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. An extensive bibliography is included for further research. Cost is $3.50 per copy.

•The new Directory of Computerized Information in Science & Technology, edited by Leonard Cohan, Director of Libraries at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, is available from the publisher, Science Associates/Intemational, Inc., 23 East 26 Street, New York, N.Y. 10010. It describes computerized information collections and data banks in operation in all sectors of the international scientific and technical community. The purchase price of $175.00 includes periodic supplements through December, 1969.

•Publication of the Second Edition, revised, of the Library Telecommunications Directory: Canada-United States has been announced. The Directory has been updated through July, 1968, and contains 416 listings of libraries in the United States and Canada using TWX or TELEX for interlibrary communications. A joint production of the Systems and Communications Division of the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Library Mechanization Committee of the Canadian Library Association, the Directory is available at a price of $2.00, which includes updates to be issued before the publication of the Third Edition. Orders from libraries in the United States may be sent to: Mr. Warren Bird, Associate Director, Duke University Medical Center Library, Durham, North Carolina 27706, with payment directed to the Duke University Medical Center Library. Libraries in Canada may order from: Mr. David Skene Melvin, Associate Director, Lake Erie Regional Library System, 305 Queens Avenue, London, Ontario, with payment directed to the Library Mechanization Committee. Automatic distribution to all libraries listed in the Directory will be on an “On Approval” basis.

•Braziller’s facsimile reproduction of the long-lost Caxton translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is now available for $290 for the boxed set of two volumes. Books 1-9 of this important manuscript were lost some three centuries ago but turned up in 1964 in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased at Sotheby’s by an American collector for £90,000,the work was scheduled to be exported to the United States when it was rescued by the New York publisher, George Braziller, who engaged to publish a facsimile edition to raise funds for its retention in England, and Eugene Power of Ann Arbor, who agreed to finance the project with an interest-free loan of $200,000.

As a result of these efforts, the manuscript of Books 1-9 of the Caxton Ovid are now ensconced in Magdalene College, Cambridge, beside Books 10-15 of the work which had been placed there 250 years ago by the celebrated diarist Samuel Pepys. The 1,200 handnumbered facsimile copies of the entire work are now heavily subscribed, but some copies are still available for purchase by libraries and collectors.

•New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) has published Dr. Russell Shank’s report, “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information: A Program for Action in the New York Metropolitan Area.” A basic distribution of the report has been made as METRO Miscellaneous Publication No. 1. Additional copies are available on interlibrary loan from METRO Clearinghouse, 11 West 40 Street, New York, N.Y. 10018.

•Selected Materials in Classification, an updated expansion of the fifth edition of the Guide to the SLA Loan Collection, has been published by the Special Libraries Association. Compiled by Barbara Denison, it lists almost 1,500 titles in the Bibliographic Systems Center (BSC) collection at the School of Library Science, Case Western Reserve University. The publication is available from SLA, 235 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10003, at $10.75 per copy.

•Reprints of the London Times Literary Supplement are now available from the R. R. Bowker Company in annual bound volumes spanning the period 1912-43. The full 63- volume set will include all issues of the Supplement from its inception in 1902 through 1964. Volumes for 1902-1906 will be published later this year. Volumes for 1907-1911 and 1944-1964 will follow in 1969. Each annual volume is indexed by author and title and is approximately 1000 pages long. The reprints may be acquired at the postpaid price of $33.60 net per volume in the U.S. and Canada ($37.00 elsewhere) or $600.00 net postpaid for each of three 21-volume segments ($660.00 outside the U.S. and Canada), from the R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036.