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ACQUISITIONS

Dr. Leon Kolb, clinical associate professor emeritus of pharmacology in the Stanford University school of medicine, now a collector and philanthropist in San Francisco, is giving one of his print collections to the Stanford University libraries. This collection comprises some fifteen hundred historical portraits: woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, dating from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Dr. Kolb will transfer the collection in installments of about one hundred pieces each.

Three examples of early Hawaiian printing have been given to the University of Illinois library by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Frazer of Aurora, former residents of Hawaii. All three volumes, two law books and a magazine, were published in Honolulu more than one hundred years ago.

Sixty-five cartons of play manuscripts, programs, playbills, radio transcriptions, tapes, recordings, screenplays, photographs, correspondence, notes, and other source materials representing twenty-five years of collaboration by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, have been presented to the theatre collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts in New York.

A collection of Lord Byron’s letters, first editions, manuscripts and memorabilia has been given to the University of Pennsylvania by Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Davis of New York City.

The letters, records and papers of Martin Dies Sr.’s activities as first chairman of the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee will be presented to Texas A&M. The papers will be kept in the special collections section of A&M’s new $3.6 million library under construction.

AWARDS, GIFTS, GRANTS

A grant has been made to J. Periam Danton, professor of librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, to enable him to complete a bio-bibliographical index to Festschriften in the field of librarianship, by the Council on Library Resources. The grant is in the amount of $6,375.

Arrangements intended to promote access to the resources for historical research contained in the world’s archives are being actively developed by two committees of the International Council on Archives with the assistance of a grant from the Council on Library Resources. The grant is in the amount of $17,200.

The Library of Congress has been given a grant of $2,000 by the Council on Library Resources to support editorial work in preparing a descriptive report for the library community about the MARC (MAchine Readable Catalog) pilot project. This continuing experiment is the operation in which the library’s information systems office is distributing machinereadable cataloging data for current Englishlanguage monographs to sixteen cooperating libraries.

A grant to the Society of American Archivists, to assist Ernst Posner, to prepare his manuscript on the development of archival practices in the ancient world for publication, has been made by the Council on Library Resources. The grant is in the amount of $3,050.

With the $4.1 million gift of Frank C. Engelhart, a Chicago industrialist, the accumulated building fund for Northwest University’s new library, made up of gifts and other anticipated resources, will top building costs, estimated at $11.6 million. The Engelhart gift will provide, in addition, a $1.6 million maintenance fund. Invested at four per cent, this endowment fund would make available year after year the sum of $64,000.

Lessing J. Rosenwald of Jenkintown, Pa., whose gifts of rare books and works of art have enriched the collections of the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, on May 5 received the Donald F. Hyde award of Princeton University. Mr. Rosenwald is the first recipient of the Hyde award, established this year by the trustees of Princeton in honor of the late Donald F. Hyde.

Alfred J. Coco, law librarian at the University of Houston, has been given a research grant from the Faculty Research Support Program to develop a card catalog for Texas Supreme Court briefs. His catalog will include the seventeen thousand briefs filed with the court, whether reflected in the opinion of the court or not, as well as the unreported cases. The University of Houston law library has about sixteen thousand briefs and a catalog in its infancy stage. Professor Coco will develop a catalog to enable the researcher to have access to much research material not now readily available. Eventually this catalog can be expanded to include all thirteen Texas Courts of Civil Appeals as well as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He will have the cooperation of the Texas Supreme Court library in his research.

Washington State University library has received a one year grant of $69,300 from the National Science Foundation, for the analysis and design of an online computer-based technical services system, book catalog cost study, and for the development of specifications for an online library terminal. The library will utilize the facilities of the university’s IBM 360/67 computer.

BUILDINGS

Dedication of an addition to Drake University’s Cowles library coincided with Founder’s Day which commemorates the founding of the university on May 7. Expansion of the library was made possible through a $1,250,000 gift from the Gardner Cowles Foundation.

Architect Victor F. Christ–Janer was presented with an award of $25,000 for his design of the James F. Lincoln library of Lake Erie College, by Reynolds Metals Company, sponsor of the award.

Construction of a $42 million research library complex for the humanities and social sciences at the University of Toronto begins this year. The three-building complex will have a capacity of 4,627,000 items, and will provide working space for four thousand students and professors at any one time. Special facilities will be provided to extend bibliographic services to all Ontario provincial universities.

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Margaret Mann scholarships, established in 1938 by the University of Michigan Library Science Alumni Association, have been awarded to Carol Benton of Des Moines, Iowa, and to Glenn Zimmerman of Sioux City, Iowa. The scholarships are awarded to students at Michigan who have demonstrated ability and promise of professional development.

Michele Marie Floersch of Omaha has been selected by the Scholarship Committee of the Catholic Library Association to receive the CLA $1,000 scholarship for 1967. Miss Floersch will graduate from Creighton University in Omaha in June and plans to attend the library school at either Rosary College or the University of Denver.

MEETINGS

June 11-16: The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Americana in Miami, Fla.

June 11-16: Staff members and administrators in nine types of medical libraries are arranging special luncheon or dinner meetings during the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association in Miami. Time and place of the meeting in which you are interested may be obtained from the group chairman (listed in May CRL News).

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

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

June 14-17: The Fédération Internationale de la Documentation and the International Federation for Information Processing are organizing a joint conference to bring together information specialists and experts in the development and operation of mechanized equipment suitable for storage and retrieval of data. Emphasis of the conference will be laid on practical and economically feasible aspects of systems based on experience gained in operation in order to permit extrapolation of this experience for the creation of future systems. The conference will have seven sessions. The first one is to introduce into the present state of the art with three invited papers given on Methods and Principles, Computer Languages, and Hardware. Two sessions are devoted to the topic “File Organisation and Search Strategy, Automatic Indexing, Classification and Retrieval,” covering the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of this subject. Further sessions deal with “Economics and Comparison of Documentation Systems,” “Computer-aided Production of Publications and Indexes,” and “Information Networks and On- Line Systems.” All in all about fifty papers will be given. The final session is to permit a summary and conclusions.

The conference will be held in the Palazzo dei Congressi in Roma-EUR. All papers will be given in English. Simultaneous translation in French, Italian, German and, possibly, Russian, will permit use of these languages during the discussions.

All attendants of the FID/IFIP Conference 1967 will have access to the XIVth International Scientific Congress on Electronics which is displayed in the same building.

The “Proceedings of the FID/IFIP Conference 1967” will be published in early 1968 by the North Holland Publishing Company.

The preliminary programme, registration forms and detailed information is available at the Secretariat General of the FID, 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands, and with the Secretary General of IFIP, Mr. Mackarness, c/o British Computer Society, 23 Dorset Square, London NW 1, Great Britain, and at the Conference Committee of the FID/IFIP Conference, Dr. Evandro Benvenuti, c/o Rassegna Internazionale Elettronica, N e T, Via Crescenzio 9, Rome, Italy.

June 22-24: 12th Seminar on the acquisition of Latin American library material. Principal topic for discussion will be development of Latin American collections, considered from points of view of libraries of varying sizes for study and research purposes. Institutional membership is $15, payable to the “University of California at Los Angeles: Twelfth SALALM,” and checks should be sent to William R. Woods, Latin American Bibliographer in the University Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024. Preprint working papers are included in the membership fee, and are available only through payment of the institutional membership. 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 $5.00 each.

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

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

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

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

July 3-28: Archives Institute sponsored by the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the Emory University Division of Librarianship at the Georgia Archives and Records building, Atlanta. Enrollment is limited to ten persons.

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

July 10-28: Edward McLean will direct a workshop on the care, binding and repair of books and the basic principles of preserving historical documents, at the University of Denver graduate school of librarianship. The workshop will be limited to twenty participants, with preference given to those working with special collections. Advance registration is required. Application forms and further information may be obtained from the co-director, H. W. Axford, Director of Libraries, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210.

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

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

Aug. 13-19: International Congress of Orientalists meeting, University of Michigan, cosponsored by the American Oriental Society. A grant from the Council of Library Resources will make it possible for the Congress to defray traveling expenses of thirteen librarians from overseas, to attend a panel on library resources for Oriental Studies, basically in charge of Yukihisa Suzuki of the University of Michigan Asia library. About two thousand scholars are expected to attend.

Sept. 4-9. IATUL seminar on application of international library methods and techniques, at Delft Technological University library. Intended for directors or coworkers from libraries at research level. Official language is English. Number of participants will be limited to twentyfive. Fee is 400 guilders. Address all correspondence to Miss C. D. Wilson, c/o Library Technological University, 101 Doelenstraat, Delft, Netherlands.

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

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

MISCELLANY

A cooperative project of several small colleges in Florida has resulted in production of a union list of periodicals. The list reflects shared resources in specialized area studies which together cover East Asia, India, Latin America, Russia, and American and African Negro studies. The associated mid-Florida colleges include Bethune–Cookman, Stetson, Rollins, Florida Southern, and Florida Presbyterian. Unit record equipment on four of the five campuses was utilized and the first printout programmed on a borrowed IBM 1401. The project has also resulted in classified and alphabetic lists of periodicals for faculty distribution, binding lists, and dealer information.

Since 1931, the school of divinity of Saint Louis University has been operating as a theology school exclusively for Jesuits at St. Mary’s College, St. Marys, Kans. At the end of June, the school will move back to the Saint Louis University campus. Next fall, it will open as an integrated graduate and professional school of the University. The new address of the school of divinity library will be Room 0616, 3655 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63108.

Herbert S. White, vice president of Documentation Incorporated and director of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility, has been elected national vice president and president-elect of the Special Libraries Association.

First recipient of the Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., literary award, established in the fall of 1966 as a prize for distinguished service to American letters, was Henry Steele Commager, historian at Amherst College, in a program sponsored by the Associates of the St. Louis University libraries in the Pius XII memorial library on April 30.

Dr. Commager received the $1200 prize and citation, and addressed the Associates and their guests on “The University in the Restoration of the Community of Learning.”

A joint-use library collection of significant proportions appears to be nearing reality for the Greater Kansas City area. It has been in preparation for several years under the leadership of Harold Smith, chairman of the Librarians Committee, KCRCHE, and his collections subcommittee. To carry out the new program, a new combination, including all accredited institutions in the area, is developing three kinds of collections of library materials, the most significant being a microfilm program, funding for which has been undertaken by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City. Microfilm copies of all commonly indexed journals and other serials published from 1950 to date will be acquired and made available to member institutions through loan or readerprinter services. The Women’s Chamber is also responsible for a collection of thirteen thousand volumes on the shelves of the Kansas City public library, which will serve as a storage and reference depository. The third element of the joint resource will consist of special collections and reference material located on particular campuses of area institutions. All materials will be catalogued and available to all participating institutions; purchases will be coordinated by a Collections Committee; and the KCPL will house the central microfilm and book collection. Combining the resources of the public library, and other institutions in the area not now members of the Regional Council has resulted in the evolvement of a total pattern for the community. This entire combination joined in the effort of submitting a proposal for the joint central collection of microfilm and the development of mutual access to holdings on individual campuses.

The New York state library is sponsoring a pilot program to strengthen its services to the research community of New York state. This program is the facsimile transmission experiment, known as FACTS. It has as its aim the speedy reproduction of material not available in local libraries, library systems or even in the state library. A second and allied experimental program offered to members of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, but not directly related to FACTS, is designed to extend the present resources of the statewide Interlibrary Loan network. This expanded program, known as NYSILL, includes contractual arrangements with a number of major public and special libraries to provide New York state with one of the largest research collections in the nation. Mid-Hudson libraries at 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie 12601, and the Ramapo–Catskill library system, P.O. Box 607, 619 North Street, Middletown 10940, have offered to accept and transmit requests, within the limits of their capability, via teletype to the New York state library. Requests not filled there will be automatically passed along to the large contracting libraries.

Leonard Cohan, director of libraries at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, invites research centers, libraries, laboratories and computer firms to participate in a landmark effort to centralize science and engineering information and data available in computerized form. The “Directory of Computerized Information in Science & Technology” has been designed to serve as a vitally needed instrument for the announcement, description, indexing, and dissemination of computerized information collections and data banks. Prof. Cohan urges all holders of scientific and technical data and information in computerized form (from largescale interdisciplinary efforts to small-scale highly-specialized ones) to contact him immediately for specifications and input forms for entries in this unique project. The Directory is the first volume in a new series entitled The International Information Network Series which will include as its second volume a directory of computer programs in science & technology, already in preparation. All inquiries should be addressed to Prof. Leonard Cohan, in care of the publisher of the series, Science Associates/International, Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

A one-year program in continuing education for medical librarians is being initiated on June 1 at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, under the direction of Alan M. Rees and Robert Cheshier with the assistance of Betty Mawardi. This program is supported by a research grant of $20,142 from the U.S. Public Health Service through the Extramural Program of the National Library of Medicine. The objective of the research project will be to explore alternate means of upgrading the quality of existing medical and hospital library practice.

Twelve Philadelphia area college librarians conferred on April 22 at LaSalle College to consider the initiation of a college library cooperative for the Southeastern Pennsylvania- Southern New Jersey-Delaware area. Tentatively naming their group the Tri-state College Library Cooperative (TCLC), the attending librarians formulated the outline of a provisional code of operation. Stated objectives of the cooperative include: (1) to begin a cooperative, even without financial support beyond regular budgets, by exchanging more information and a greater sharing of existing resources; (.2) to strengthen library resources and services of the area by making joint applications for private and government funds; and (3) to increase research potential by a mutually supporting acquisition program.

Colleges represented at the meeting were: Alvernia (Reading, Pa.), Blessed Sacrament Junior (Cornwells Heights, Pa.), Cabrini (Radnor, Pa.), Gwynedd-Mercy (Gwynedd Valley, Pa.), Holy Family (Torresdale, Philadelphia), Immaculata (Pa.), LaSalle (Philadelphia), Our Lady of Angels (Glen Riddle, Pa.), Rosemont (Pa.), Sacred Heart Junior (Philadelphia), St. Joseph’s College and the St. Joseph’s College Academy of Food Marketing (Philadelphia). Members of the cooperative invite inquiries, and plan to extend an invitation to a later meeting to those who express interest. The current series of meetings, culminating with the one on April 22, have been chaired by Mother Mary Dennis, librarian at Rosemont College.

A scholarly edition of the papers of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) is being prepared under the sponsorship of the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Because many of John Marshall’s papers have been destroyed or scattered it is imperative that meticulous care be exercised in attempting to recover all that remains of the manuscript and printed record. Information concerning documents written by or addressed to John Marshall, or other records bearing directly upon his life will be gratefully received and permission to edit and publish them acknowledged in the printed volumes. The publisher of the Papers of John Marshall will be the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

The Council of National Library Associations has taken a first step toward developing better coordination of library work in the United States. For the past year the Program Committee of the Council has been reviewing the Council’s function and structure and reported its conclusions to CNLA at its meeting in New York on December 9. It recommended that CNLA should establish an Ad Hoc Committee on a Proposed Council of Library and Information Services, to be composed of leaders in specific fields of librarianship and related work. The committee would take steps to fund and staff a study looking to the establishment of the proposed Council. CNLA approved the recommendation unanimously, with the proviso that it not be implemented until after expression of opinion by each of the member associations.

The National Library Week Program, which has just concluded its tenth anniversary year, has announced its calendar of annual observances through 1970. Dates designated for the next three years are:

April 21-27, 1968

April 20-26, 1969

April 12-18, 1970

The National University Extension Association, at an Executive Board session on April 25, passed a resolution endorsing the “Guidelines for Library Services to Extension Students.”

PUBLICATIONS

Librarians holding files of Arizona newspapers will be interested to learn of the publication of The Researcher’s Guide to Arizona News in the Arizona Republic. It is an index to the most comprehensive newspaper in Arizona, and therefore serves as a rough index to major Arizona news appearing in all newspapers. The index is a joint venture of the Arizona State University library in Tempe and the Arizona Republic. Volume I, part I covering the period of January to June 1966 is now available at no cost from the Arizona State University library, Tempe. Address requests to University Librarian, Dr. Alan D. Covey.

Louisiana State University libraries has published the first volume of its new series of Library Lectures, comprising numbers one through four, March 1965-May 1966. The forty-six page publication contains: “Continuing Education in the Library Profession,” by David Kaser; “Automation—Prospects and Implications for Libraries,” by Joseph Becker; “Libraries Are More than Books,” by Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr.; and “The Trend to LC— Thoughts on Changing Library Classification Schemes,” by Edward G. Holley.

Three publications—covering library applications of data processing, federal legislation for libraries, and a bibliographical essay on understanding the peoples of Southern Asia— have been published by the University of Illinois graduate school of library science.

Case studies are provided in Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, edited by Herbert Goldhor. It includes progress reports from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, University of California at Los Angeles, Texas A&M, and Chemical Abstracts Service. Donald L. Bitzer, Elisabeth R. Lyman and John A. Easley, Jr. discuss “The Uses of PLATO: A Computer Controlled Teaching System.” James Krikelas, a U of I doctoral student, compiled a bibliography of case reports of library applications of data processing which was published as part of the proceedings.

Federal Legislation for Libraries,edited by Winifred Ladley, consists of papers presented at the thirteenth annual Allerton Park Institute, Nov. 6-9. They cover the impact of federal legislation on school, public, academic, governmental and special libraries, and on library education. The publication also includes a paper on “The Federal Government as a Partner” by Dean Orville G. Bentley, U of I College of Agriculture.

Number 81 in the library school’s Occasional Paper series is Understanding the Peoples of Southern Asia: A Bibliographical Essay by Cecil Hobbs, head of the South Asia section of the Library of Congress. It costs $1 and can be ordered from the library school publications office, 435 Library, Urbana.

Both proceedings publications are distributed by the Illini Union Bookstore, Champaign, for $3 in cloth and $2 in paperback.

The Franklin Institute library announces publication of Current Periodicals 1966, a list of 3,148 serial titles in the physical sciences and technology currently received by the library. Two thirds of the publications are foreign periodicals, including the principal journals from Russia, China, and Japan. Current Periodicals 1966, is the result of the library’s Serials Computer Project. The list includes journals, annuals, continuations, and government publications received by the library as of January 1967. Current Periodicals 1966, may be obtained through the library’s Photoduplication Service at a price of $9 per copy. The full address is: The Franklin Institute Library, Photoduplication Service, 20th and The Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

A semi-annual journal of experimentation in librarianship, entitled Progressive Librarian, is intended to “provide a medium for analytical discussions of newer ideas and practices in librarianship and related fields,” according to an announcement by its managing editor, Sushil K. Jain, Regina Campus library, University of Saskatchewan. To be published twice a year, in July and December, the new journal “envisages a newer and active role of the librarian in public and academic communities.”

The National Library of Nigeria is pleased to announce the National Library Publication Series. Numbers 1-3 have been issued. (1) Special Libraries in Nigeria; (2) The Arts in Nigeria—a selected bibliography; and (3) 18th ir 19th Century Africana in the National Library. These publications are six-page folded pamphlets; others in the series may be more extensive. They are available from the National Library on a prepaid subscription basis of £ 1 10s, or $5.00. It is expected that about six a year will be produced. ■ ■