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ACQUISITIONS

• Lewis W. Douglas of Tucson, Ariz., has recently presented to the University of Arizona library his voluminous files of personal papers, with which are included those of his father, James Stuart Douglas and grandfather, James Douglas. This is one of the largest manuscript collections to be acquired by the University of Arizona library to date, and comprises eighty-six containers estimated to fill two hundred linear feet of manuscript boxes. The papers will be a major research source on Arizona history from 1870 to the present. It is estimated that the processing of the collection for the use of scholars will require two to three years.

• Author Howard Pease has presented the University of the Pacific with his complete writing collection including manuscripts, first editions, translations in eight European languages, notes, personal letters and other memorabilia. Pease is a noted author of children’s literature.

• Among recent acquisitions of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress are the papers of Joseph Galloway (1731- 1803), his wife Grace Growden Galloway, and their daughter Elizabeth (Betsey). Galloway, a native of Maryland, a prominent and respected citizen of colonial Pennsylvania, and a member of the first Continental Congress, remained loyal to the King. When independence was declared, he fled Philadelphia and in 1778 went to England.

Additions to the papers of James Madison have included a letter from Madison to his father, April 29, 1781, written from Philadelphia while he was serving in the Congress, the youngest of the delegates. Another Madison letter is addressed to Dolly Madison, July 11, 1827, written from the University of Virginia, where he had gone in his capacity as a member of the Board of Visitors. A Madison item of particular significance is a draft copy of his first speech before the Virginia convention called to revise the state constitution, delivered Dec. 2, 1829.

An addition to the Monroe papers is a draft of a letter from Monroe, Secretary of State, to Joel Barlow, U.S. Minister to France, June 16, 1812, informing Barlow that Congress would pass an act declaring war on Great Britain either on that day or the following.

The personal papers of physicist Alan T. Waterman (1892-1967), totaling thirty-five thousand items, also have been recently acquired by the library.

Thirteen items have been added to the papers of Return Jonathan Meigs (1764-1824), Ohio pioneer, jurist, and politician, dated between 1804 and 1813.

The library’s growing literary collections have been augmented by the papers of Eliot Janeway, economist, author, and editor, and of his wife, novelist Elizabeth Janeway.

• A letter signed by pioneering French chemist Antoine Lavoisier two weeks after the fall of the Bastille, and promising munitions supplies to a government military post, is one of two historic treasures given to Tufts University recently. The other is a complete set of first editions of the works of Henry David Thoreau.

• Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and Undersecretary of the Treasury during the Eisenhower presidency, has donated his papers to the University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees library.

• The library of the State University College at Fredonia, New York has recently acquired a collection of correspondence between Stefan Zweig and his wife, Friderike M. Zweig. The correspondence consists of about five hundred letters of which three hundred are Stefan Zweig’s and the balance those of Friderike Zweig. Various other “Zweigiana” writings are included in the collection.

• The Kent State University libraries has recently added three collections of letters. There are a group of letters from Theodore Dreiser to Bernard G. Ulizio, a second group are eleven letters from the author Richard Wright to his friend Joseph Brown, and thirtyone letters from noted poets Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg and Denise Levertov to the poet Carol Berg•. A gift of over eighty volumes of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson was given to the library by Harrison Hayford of Evanston, 111. The collection includes several autographed limited editions. Arrangements have been made with the poet and editor Cid Corman to have the archives of the magazine Origin including all the correspondence, manuscripts, and proofs, added to the library.

• The Bertrand library of Bucknell University has recently acquired from William

D. Chase, founder of the Shaw Society of

America, his collection of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, documents, newspaper clippings, recordings, and ephemera pertaining to G.B.S.

• The Joint University Libraries, Nashville, have acquired the papers of the noted Southern poet-scholar, Donald Davidson. They consist primarily of outgoing correspondence of 661 letters written between 1917 and 1967; incoming correspondence of 4,250 letters from such notable literary figures as Allen Tate, Jesse Stuart, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and John Gould Fletcher; approximately one hundred manuscript poems by Davidson and one hundred sixty poems by others; sixty-five manuscript articles in typescript and holograph, largely dealing with the Southern Renaissance in literature, and the Agrarian political, social, and economic movement.

• The Martin Luther King Collection on Non-Violence, a private collection of several hundred volumes, has been donated to Beloit College by H. Vail Deale, director of libraries at the college. The collection deals with non-violence, conscientious objection, and world peace. It contains books by and about Henry David Thoreau, Mahatmi Gandhi, Jane Addams, and A. J. Muste. Included is a twentyfive year bound file of “Fellowship Magazine,” the official publication of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The volumes will be kept together forming an extensive resource for research on non-violence and the collection may be enlarged by additional books purchased through the library’s general book funds.

• McMaster University has just obtained the papers of Bertrand Russell. This collection is enormous, filling fifty or more filing cabinets, and comprising about one hundred fifty thousand documents and manuscripts. McMaster is fortunate in having an archival and rare book area under active reconstruction so that they will be well housed and available for scholars everywhere by the beginning of the academic year. A catalog of the collection was prepared by Continuum 1 Ltd. of London, England, and the remaining forty copies of this at $50 a copy is available from McMaster University Book Store. Preference will be given to those universities that are far from any center that obtains this catalog. Inquiries should be directed to the office of the librarian.

BUILDINGS

• Named after the 12th century philosopher and theologian, St. Albertus Magnus, and in memory of Brother Albert Plotz, late college president, St. Albert Hall library of Saint Mary’s College of California is designed to hold 105,000 volumes. Currently, the collection stands at 80,000 volumes.

• A half-million-dollar gift for a new library has been received by Lincoln College; the anonymous gift, property valued at $500,000, assures construction of a new building.

« The U.S. Office of Education has awarded $2 million in Title II funds for the construction of a new library at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The remainder of the $14.8 million required for the building has been authorized by the Massachusetts Legislature. The building includes a 26-story tower, 110' x 110', set on a podium of two much larger floors. The tower floors will be arranged in groups of three, with a study level between each pair of stack levels. Six hundred faculty members and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences will have individual studies adjacent to books in their fields. The study levels will also provide departmental seminar rooms in appropriate subject locations. Stack floors, holding 125,000 volumes each, will contain a total of about seven hundred carrels in their peripheries. Technical services and most public services (all centralized) will be on the two large podium floors; reserve collections and intensively used study areas will be located in the first three levels of the tower, for access by stairs. After the present library building undergoes extensive remodeling into an undergraduate library, the book capacity of the tower library will be 2% million volumes. The new building is expected to open during the 1970/71 academic year.

• The State University Board of Governors has approved the awarding of contracts totaling $1,024,621 for the construction of a threestory addition which will more than double the size of the library at the Rutgers campus in Camden. The library addition will be constructed with a $433,333 federal grant through the Higher Education Facilities Act, and university funds.

• Ernest Stevenson (Steve) Bird of Austin, Texas, has given Syracuse University $3 million to help build its new library. The $3 million includes $150,000 from the donor’s wife, Mrs. Marie L. Bird. Construction contracts for the $11.4 million library are scheduled to be awarded in November, with completion planned for the spring of 1971. The seven-story building will be called the

E. S. Bird library.

• The James P. Magill library was dedicated at Haverford College on May 11. The structure was named in honor of a retired Philadelphia investment banker and prominent civic figure who is vice chairman of Haverford’s Board of Managers. Magill, a 1907 graduate of Haverford, served from 1964 to 1967 as chairman of the board’s Committee on the

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Library—the group which guided the project and raised the funds. The Magill library, one of two connected library buildings at Haverford, was completed this year.

• Ground breaking ceremonies for the $3 million library/information center of PMC Colleges (Pennsylvania Military College and Penn Morton College) were held April 16.

• A 2.5 million dollar library building at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a five story, 69,610 gross square foot building, will include rooms for the history of medicine and rare book collections, study carrels for students, a publications office, a book bindery, microfilm viewing and listening carrels, and an audio-visual resource learning center.

• University of Utah in Salt Lake City dedicated its library on May 17.

• Durick library at St. Michael’s College was dedicated on May 3 on the Winooski college’s campus. The circular structure, built at the cost of $1.34 million, opened in February.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS

• A limited number of U.S. Office of Education fellowships for persons pursuing the master’s or PhD degrees in library science will be o•iered next fall by the University of Southern California. Doctoral fellowships provide a $5,000 stipend for the academic year, $600 for each dependent, remission of all tuition and a travel allowance to the university from distances of more than 100 miles. Doctoral fellows will receive a $1,020 stipend for the summer session and $120 for each dependent. Master’s fellowships provide a $2,200 stipend for the academic year and $450 for the summer session, $600 for each dependent, remission of all tuition and the same travel allowance. Beginning in the 1968-69 academic year, the fellowships are available for fulltime study only and require continuous residence for the academic year. Further information and application forms can be obtained by contacting the dean, school of library scence, USC, University Park, Los Angeles 90007.

• University of Illinois graduate school of library science at Urbana has received a $184,960 grant from the U.S. Office of Education for twenty-one fellowships—sixteen doctoral and five master’s degrees—for the 1968- 69 academic year. Authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965, the fellowships provide a basic stipend of $5,000 at the doctoral level and $2,200 at the master’s level, both for nine months, with an additional $1,020 and $450 available, respectively, for the summer session.

The fellowships also provide a travel allowance, waiver of tuition and fees and an allowance of $600 per dependent for an academic year and an additional $120 per dependent for the summer session. The doctoral fellowships are renewable.

• The Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-291) authorizes programs of financial support to assist in meeting the nation’s need for adequate medical library services and facilities. The Act established grant programs for construction, resources, training programs, traineeships, post-doctoral fellowships, research projects, special scientific projects, publications, and regional medical library programs.

Research Grants support the conduct of research and investigation in medical library science and related activities, and the development of new techniques, systems, and equipment for processing, storing, retrieving, and distributing information in the health sciences. Grants may be awarded for scholarly projects in the history of the life sciences.

Publications Grants assist in the preparation and/or publication of single or serial secondary publications which pertain to scientific works of importance for health research, education, and service.

• The University of Oregon school of librarianship announces availability of HEA fellowships for fulltime study, $2,650 plus dependency and travel allowances; one-third time position as research assistant, $1,800; Elma L. Hendricks Scholarship of $500 awarded by Oregon Development Fund; Elementary School Library Internship, $3,600 while working on MLS degree; half-time position in elementary school library, $2,500 while working on MLS degree. Information may be obtained from the dean of school.

• Twenty-one fellowships for advanced study in the graduate school of library and information sciences have been awarded to the University of Pittsburgh by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, ten doctoral fellowships, five post-master’s and six master’s fellowships will provide a total of $181,590 in funds for twenty-one recipients to begin graduate work in the fall of 1968. A travel grant is included for those living more than one hundred miles away. The graduate school of library and information sciences is now accepting applications for these fellowships.

THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

• The Fourth United States-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange was held in Washington, D.C. on April 3-8. Of interest to librarians was the recognition given by this international conference of distinguished educators to problems of library development and exchange of publications. Special attention was given to the ALA Mission to Japan in November and December

1967 which was reported in the April issue of the CRL News (p. 111). In progress reports of both the American and Japanese sister committees on educational and cultural cooperation, the findings of the ALA mission were extensively reported, and in his general review for the U.S. delegation, James W. Morley, special assistant to the American Ambassador in Tokyo, devoted considerable time to question of library development and interchange.

In its final communique, the conference singled out certain specific needs for priority consideration in future efforts at binational cooperation, among them the following:

“In the field of library development and the exchange of published materials, the desirability in each country to work toward the establishment of one or more comprehensive libraries of materials published in the other country, to enrich a number of smaller collections primarily for undergraduate study, to establish an effective clearinghouse to assist libraries in both countries with bibliographical information and with acquisitions problems, particularly of official publications and other materials not available in regular commercial channels, to advance cooperative cataloging, to exchange library consultants and in-service trainees.”

MEETINGS

June20-22: The Thirteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials will be held at the University of Kansas. The principal topic for discussion will be the Collection of Retrospective Materials from Latin America, considered from the points of view of libraries of varying sizes for study and research purposes. Progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publications, official publications, and photoduplication of Latin American materials will be discussed.

Meetings of Seminar Committees will take place on Thursday morning, June 20. The first general session to be held Thursday afternoon will initiate the committee and progress reports which will continue at the Friday morning session. Institutional membership in the Thirteenth Seminar is $15 payable to the “University of Kansas: Thirteenth SALALM,” and checks should be sent to: L. E. James Helyar, Assistant Director of Libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66044.

Preprint working papers are included in the membership fee, and are available only through payment of the institutional membership. They will be distributed at the time of the meeting and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the member institution is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will subsequently be published by the Pan American Union. Further information on participation in and local arrangements for the thirteenth seminar can be procured from Mr. Helyar at the University of Kansas; and on the program and working papers from Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Associate Librarian, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. 20006.

June23-26: The Association of Jewish Libraries will hold its 1968 convention in Cincinnati. Convention headquarters will be at the Sheraton Gibson Hotel, with sessions at the Hebrew Union College, the Isaac M. Wise Temple, and the Adatli Israel Congregation.

June23-29: ALA Conference, Kansas City, Mo. Those planning to attend are urged to register in advance. For their convenience, an advance registration form has been included in the April issue of the ALA Bulletin.

It should be filled out completely and then returned, with check or money order payable to the American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. This form must be mailed no later than May 31.

Those who pre-register will pick up their complete annual conference kits and programs at a special preregistration desk in Kansas City. The desk will be located in the foyer of the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium —13th Street entrance.

June24-Aug. 2: Junior and Community College Librarianship Institute under Title IIB of the Higher Education Act of 1965, sponsored by the department of library science of the University of Michigan. Stipends are provided under the law at the rate of $75 per week plus $15 per week for each dependent. There are no tuition fees, but each participant must pay his own travel costs and living expenses and must purchase certain textbooks. Application blanks may be secured by writing to: Thomas P. Slavens, Director, Junior and Community College Librarianship Institute, Department of Library Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.

June 30-July 13: The New York State Historical Association seminars on American Culture. Two courses presented the first week are of particular interest to librarians and archivists: The Administration of Historical Manuscripts, and Archives and Conservation of Library and Archival Materials. In the Manuscript course, Philip P. Mason, Wayne State University, will focus attention on the problems of operating a small historical collection or archives, covering such subjects as organizing and processing historical records; literary property rights and copyright laws; appraisal of manuscripts for insurance and income tax purposes; and the recruitment of manuscript curators. Paul N. Banks, conservator of The Newberry Library in Chicago, will head the Conservation course. He will discuss environment in which books or documents live; guidelines for identifying problems and maintaining standards for work including simple and fine binding; restoration, and treatment and repair of paper. Mrs. Carolyn Horton, author of Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials, will give a special guest lecture, as well as an evening talk on a related subject. For further information write Seminars on American Culture, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326.

July8-26: University of Oklahoma school of library science Institute for Training in Librarianship on Problems in Administration and Organization of Multi-Media Resources, on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Request application forms from Mrs. Evelyn Clement, Director, Institute on

Administration and Organization of Multi- Media Resources, University of Oklahoma, School of Library Science, Norman, Oklahoma 73069. Forms should be completed and returned to the Director by May 1.

July23-25: 2d session ICSU/UNESCO Central Committee to Study Feasibility of World Science Information System.

Aug.5-30: The Georgia Department of Archives and History in cooperation with the Emory University Division of Librarianship will hold its second Archives Institute. The institute is designed for those presently employed or preparing for employment in the fields of archives, manuscripts, records management, or special libraries; or advanced students in history or related disciplines. Applicants should hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. Enrollment will be limited to ten. The Institute will be under the direction of Carroll Hart, state archivist and director of the Georgia department of archives and history, and will be held in the new Archives and Records Building, Atlanta.

Participants may register on a non-credit basis or receive six quarter hours academic credit. For non-credit registrants the fee is $50; for credit awarded by the Emory University graduate school, the fee is $275. Dormitory housing will be available on the Emory University campus. For further information contact Miss Carroll Hart, Director and State Archivist, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Aug.5-10: 4th Congress of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Edinburgh.

Aug.11-16: Institute for New Higher Educational Administrators to be held at Brevard College near Asheville, North Carolina. Sponsored by Higher Education Executive Associates. Sections will be arranged for the following groups: (1) academic deans, (2) departmental chairmen, (3) deans of students and men, (4) deans of women, (5) directors of institutional research, (6) assistants to the president, public relations and development officers, (7) chief business officers, and (8) residence program and campus activities and center directors.

Aug.11-23: Second Annual University of Maryland Library Administrators Development Program. Senior administrative personnel of large public, research, academic libraries and school library systems will study organization and administration under the direction of management consultants, professors of business and public administration and library scholars. The program will be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit

(Md.), and will be directed by John Rizzo of the school of government and business administration, George Washington University.

Aug.18-25: 34th Conference of IFLA, Frankfurt/Main.

Aug.19-23: University of Pittsburgh’s graduate school of library and information sciences summer institute to train teachers in the use of modem equipment in libraries. Director of the institute will be Jay E. Daily, assisted by George Sinkankas.

Sept. 2-6: FID Advanced Instruction course on Mechanized UDC Retrieval, Copenhagen.

Sept. 2-7: Third IATUL Seminar on the Application of International Library Methods and Techniques at the Delft Technological University library under the direction of L. J. van der Wolk. Number of participants is limited to 25. Fee will be 400 guilders. Please direct all correspondence to Miss T. Hall, c/o Library Technological University, 101 Doelenstraat, DELFT, The Netherlands.

Sept. 9-18: 34th FID Conference and International Congress on Scientific Information, Moscow.

Sept. 19-24: Frankfort Book Fair.

Sept. 22-26: 42nd Annual Conference of Aslib, Canterbury.

Oct. 4-5: Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Purdue University libraries two-day meeting at Purdue University on “Automation in the Library.” Mrs. Theodora Andrews, pharmacy librarian at Purdue University, is chairman in charge of meeting plans.

Oct. 20-24: American Society for Information Science, formerly American Documentation Institute, 31st annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Papers are invited on all facets of methods and mechanisms to improve the operations of information systems. The technical sessions chairman, David M. Leston, Jr., Battelle Memorial Institute, should be notified of intent to submit papers, by March 1.

Nov. 1968: The Washington University school of medicine is planning to present its fifth Symposium on Machine Methods in Libraries in November, 1968, if enough people are interested. It will be a 3-day meeting and registration will be $35. Speakers will discuss automation at the libraries of the UN, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Upstate Medical Center’s Biomedical Network, The New York Medical Center, The University of Louisville medical school, and other institutions, as well as the work of the Washington University school of medicine library. Those who might be interested in attending the Symposium should communicate with Dr. Estelle Brodman, Librarian and Professor of Medical History, School of Medicine Library, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

December : (AIBDA) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists in Bogot•, Colombia.

MISCELLANY

• A collection of source material in Negro history, designated as a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been established at San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo. This collection will bring together the library’s considerable holdings in the pre-Civil War abolition movement and the current civil rights movement. The collection comprises original pamphlet literature dealing with the anti-slavery issue, sociological studies, and publications of modern civil rights groups.

• On July 1, the Association of Research Libraries office will move to its new quarters on the fourth floor of the American Political Science Association Building at 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. This building is located just off Dupont Circle.

• Louis E. Martin, associate director of libraries at the University of Rochester, has accepted the position of associate executive director of Association of Research Libraries effective July 1. At the ARL, Mr. Martin will have administrative responsibilities, will work closely with committee chairmen on existing programs and will participate in developing and carrying out new programs.

• Mrs. Ella V. Aldrich Schwing, a former member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors has donated the royalties of her textbook, “Using Books and Libraries” to the LSU Foundation for the Friends of the LSU Library excellence program. Royalties amounting to some $3,000 a year will be used to build an endowment fund for the purchase of books and special collections not now possible in the library budget.

• Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, former Fellow of the Yale University Corporation, and former chairman of the Yale Library Associates, was honored May 24 by Princeton University, as the second recipient of the Donald F. Hyde Award in recognition of his “distinction in book collecting and service to the community of scholars,” at the annual dinner of the Friends of the Princeton University library.

• A reference library service has been established by Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). George L. Aguirre, former head of Esso Standard eastern’s information center, has been appointed administrator of the service.

The service will be responsible for developing and implementing an up-to-date method of handling published information, including gathering, organizing, and retrieving data. The new unit consists of three reference libraries: two special libraries dealing with certain operating disciplines; and a technical services section. Present plans call for all library facilities to be centralized. New members of the staff include Camille Forma and Mrs. Jennifer Sim, reference librarians; Sung Chen Lee, technical services librarian; Mary K. Blair, senior reference librarian; Matthew J. Vellucci, reference librarian, and Mary McPardand, librarian.

• The eighteenth Distinguished Service Award, presented annually by the Library Associates of Brooklyn College, goes this year to Professor Oscar Handlin, director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. The citation presented to Dr. Handlin at a dinner to be held in the Brooklyn College Student Center on May 18, reads:

“In recognition of your own sense of awareness of the United States of America as a Nation of Immigrants, and your brilliant success in opening the eyes of others to this phenomenon, The Library Associates of Brooklyn College, mindful of your record as scholar, author, and warm human being, are proud to present to you their Distinguished Service Award for 1968.”

• The American Jewish Historical Society has issued a preliminary survey of its manuscript holdings containing a detailed enumeration of sixty-eight of its major collections. Copies of the catalog are available free of charge from the Society’s offices at 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011.

• Maurice L. Tainter, vice president of Sterling Drug Inc. and vice-chairman of th• Sterling Research Board, was elected president of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) at the April meeting of the agency’s Board of Trustees.

• The equivalent of a major university library in the field of biology is being created through the joint efforts of ten small colleges in central Pennsylvania. Members of the Area College Library Cooperative Program are pooling their resources in biology to demonstrate the possibility of creating a univers’tysize library distributed among the member colleges. At a meeting of the Area College Library group at Gettysburg College on May 10, the organization discussed the development of cooperative buying as one of the major items of the agenda. Featured speaker in the afternoon session was Katherine Stokes, U.S. Office of Education. The project is being spearheaded by Robert Barnes of Gettysburg College.

• A new international publishing company has been established to help meet the ever-increasing demand for the availability of the major sources of learning—the printed records of knowledge in many fields published throughout the world over the last two centuries. The company will be known as Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd., and will have its principal operations, including large warehouses, in Liechtenstein, where the Kraus interests have been established for many years. It has come into being as a result of the acquisition by Lord Thomson of Fleet, through his Thomson International Corporation, Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, of a controlling interest in the Kraus reprint and periodicals organization operating in Liechtenstein and New York.

PUBLICATIONS

“Academic Librarianship in the International Milieu” is the title of the seventy-nine-page proceedings of a conference for academic librarians held at Kansas State University on October 14, 1967. Copies of the proceedings may be obtained from the KSU library for $2 each.

American Book Publishing Record Five Year Cumulative 1960-64has been issued in four volumes by the R. R. Bowker Co. Arranged by Dewey Classification, the 5,682-page work sells at $79.95 net postpaid in the United States and Canada ($87.95 elsewhere). It contains the bibliographic information listed originally during the five-year period in the monthly issues of the American Book Publishing Record.

On April 10, 1968 the Oberlin College Conservatory library published a catalog of the C. W. Best Collection of Autographs, a collection of autographs and holographs related to the field of music. The collection was given to the Conservatory by C. W. Best, an 1890 alumnus. The 55-page, 6- x 9-inch, paperback catalog includes 110 entries, ten black and white reproductions of letters (with portraits) from the collection, and portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Best. The catalog entries include a brief physical description of each item, a note on the contents of each letter, and a translation of those in a language other than English. Copies of the catalog are available for $1.50 from the Conservatory Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

The Bro-Dart Foundation has published a selected list of 20,000 books for junior and community colleges. The collection was prepared by Frank J. Bertalan, director of the school of library science of the University of Oklahoma and ten associate editors, with the assistance of the librarians, department heads and faculty members of eighty-eight junior colleges, and with the cooperation of their presidents. The collection will be continuously updated. The Library of Congress arrangement is being utilized. The work includes a section of complete bibliographic information and is conveniently indexed by author, title and subject. For further information write to Bro-Dart Foundation, Department PR-112, 113 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07114.

Guide to American Directories,seventh ed. (edited by Bernard Klein. 608 pages including index. 7 x 10 hardbound; B. Klein & Co., $25), is designed to aid business and industry in locating new markets and to assist organizations, associations and individuals in finding sources of information, and in locating new sources of supply of products and services. The seventh edition of the Guide includes over twelve hundred directories not previously listed and describes in detail more than forty-five hundred directories in over three hundred major categories.

The meaning and development of Library of Congress classification is the subject of A Guide to Library oj Congress Classification, by John Phillip Immroth, assistant professor of library science, State University College at Geneseo. The book is published by Libraries Unlimited, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., and is intended to fill a gap in available library literature. As a part of the Library Science Text Series this work is designed as both a textbook and a reference work.

Dean H. Keller, associate librarian for readers’ services and special collections in Kent State University is the author of An Index to The Colophon, New Series, The Colophon, New Graphic Series and The New Colophon. The book was begun while Keller was on a Lilly Fellowship at Indiana University in 1967. Publisher is Scarecrow Press.

Richard M. Dougherty and James G. Stephens of the University of Colorado libraries have produced a sixty-page report on an “Investigation Concerning the Modification of the University of Illinois Computerized Serials Book Catalog to Achieve an Operative System” in their base library. The purpose of the NSF-funded study was to determine the feasibility of adapting part or all of one library’s machine program to the needs of another. Conclusions reached are that such systems can be adapted but not, at the present time, without difficulty. Problems arise from the lack of consensus and standardization among institutions as to best formats, computer languages, choice of entry, punctuation, and filing practices.

Library historians will welcome a new reprint which has been issued as number seven in the Monograph Series of the University of Illinois graduate school of library science. William J. Rree’s Manual of Public Libraries‚ Institutions, and Societies in the United States and British Provinces of North America, originally published in 1859, is newly available from the school at $4 in paper or $5 hardbound. The well known but long unavailable manual is a veritable mine of data and information on American libraries and related agencies at mid-century.

A survey of academic and research libraries in Canada has been completed by Robert B. Downs, University of Illinois dean of library administration. His work, Resources of Canadian Academic and Research Libraries, has been published in both English and French by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in Ottawa, Ont. Downs covered four major areas in his study of Canadian libraries. They are resources, techniques, service and administration, and finance. The proposal for a comprehensive investigation originated with the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, and was funded by the Canada Council and the Council on Library Resources.

“The Search for Meriwether Lewis: From Tillamook to Grinder’s Stand,” by Richard Dillon, was the second annual C. C. Williamson Memorial Lecture at the Peabody library school. The address was published, and while they last copies may be had upon application to Edwin S. Gleaves, director of the school.

A Subject Index to New Serial Titles, 1950- 1965, has been issued by The Pierian Press, P.O. Box 1808, Ann Arbor, Mich. Divided into four parts, the new Index presents: (1) a classified table of contents; (2) a subject index of 217,000 entries; (3) a comparative subject index with 44,500 entries; and (4) an index to the 1,800 subject headings under which the entries are grouped. It provides an approach to approximately six times more serials and lists them under approximately seven times more subject headings than does any other reference book on serials.

The University of Utah libraries have recently published the first of a series of Middle East book catalogs showing their holdings in Middle East materials. The first volume includes all of their processed Arabic collection. It contains over eight thousand entries on 841 pages. The entries are a photograph of the shelf list arranged alphabetically within broad subject classifications. The catalog, which is bound in buckrum, sells for $20 a volume. Orders may be placed with the interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Utah libraries.