ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

Records of the seventy-three-year-old International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers have been given to the University of Colorado libraries. Presentation of the union records to the Western History collection was completed this summer when the international union merged with the United Steelworkers of America. The collection consists of the equivalent of one hundred four-drawer file cabinets. More than 90 per cent of the material consists of union records since 1937.

University of Illinois library at Urbana has received a gift of two thousand volumes, mostly Russian, German, French, and English publications in the field of economics. The collection is the personal library of Simon Litman, U of I professor of economics, emeritus, who retired in 1942.

Margaret Symonds of White Plains, N.Y., has given the University of Connecticut library a collection of 248 books on landscape architecture and architectural details. The gift formerly belonged to Miss Symonds and Anne Baker, noted landscape architects for a number of years prior to Miss Baker’s death in 1949.

University of Illinois library has purchased the personal library of Shakespearean scholar T. W. Baldwin, a collection of approximately 5,806 volumes of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century texts of classical authors with commentaries, Bibles and prayer books, rhetorics, and histories. The entire collection is housed in the U of I library’s rare book room at Urbana.

The Newberry library has purchased the Frank Cutter Deering collection of Americana, a private library of rare books and manuscripts dealing especially with the colonial and Revolutionary eras of this country. The collection comprises more than two thousand one hundred items gathered by Mr. Deering, Maine lumberman and banker who died in 1939. The Deering collection contains several hundred books and manuscripts.

Important additions have been made by Washington University, St. Louis, to its collection of the papers of Elizabeth Jennings, contemporary English poet. Comprising about one hundred items, the Jennings additions now include five notebooks, a number of autobiographical sketches, drafts of essays and poems, notes on visits to Rome, and about eighty loose ms. drafts of poems. Two archives of contemporary book publishing have been augmented: the first, papers emanating from Walter Lowenfels’ edition of Where Is Vietnam? includes additional correspondence between Lowenfels and young, often unpublished poets on the book’s content, many unpublished manuscripts, and editorial matter. A new group of papers concerning publication of Robert Duncan’s A Book of Resemblances enlarges a previous Duncan collection. George P. Elliott, author of In the World, has added to the sizeable group of his papers held by this university, editorial matter and typescript of Parktilden Village, published in 1958.

A gift of 1,267 volumes has been given to the Rhodes R. Stabley library, Indiana University (Pennsylvania), by George Swetnam, staff writer of the Pittsburgh Press. Mr. Swetnam, a resident of Glenshaw, Pa., has gathered together a significant library which pertains specifically to the fields of literature, economic and social history for the State of Pennsylvania.

AWARDS, GRANTS, GIFTS

The American Council of Learned Societies announces a study of the operations of the foreign library acquisitions programs under the Dingell Amendment to Public Law 83-480. Funds for the study in the amount of $9,500, are provided by the Council on Library Resources and the work will be conducted by Mortimer Graves, executive director emeritus of the ACLS. The Council’s study is concerned with how best to exploit this valuable source in the national interest.

United States Office of Education has provided the University of Illinois library research center with $7,711 in additional funds to complete a project entitled “Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Libraries.” Mrs. Anita R. Schiller, research associate, is chief investigator of the project which was originally funded with a $22,445 grant.

St. Mary’s College library in Winona, Minnesota has received a grant of $52,900 from The Louis W. and Maud Hill Foundation in St. Paul, Minn, in support of a Winona Colleges Union Catalog Project. The grant will enable St. Mary’s, College of Saint Teresa, and Winona State College plus the Winona public library to cooperate in publishing a list of their combined holdings. At the present time, the four libraries have two hundred seventy-five thousand volumes on their shelves, which will involve punching 1.4 million cards, during the next two years, to produce a subject catalog directed toward undergraduate usage. The work will be under the supervision of J. Van der Veer Judd, data processing librarian.

The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant of $15,000 to Eugene V. Muench, New York University medical center library, to produce a computerized English/Spanish correlation index to biomedical library classification schemes. The index will be accomplished by supplying appropriate classification numbers of five classification schemes (National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, Cunningham and Boston Medical Library) to the subject headings of the National Library of Medicine (MESH) and a Spanish translation of MESH by Alcira Mejia Andrión of Panama, presently librarian at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Canal Zone. The data will be keypunched, merged on magnetic tape, and sorted in the computer alphabetically by English and Spanish subject headings and sequentially by classification numbers. Other classification schemes, such as the Universal Decimal Classification, and translations of MESH into other languages can be added.

The 1967 Doctoral Dissertation Award of The Kosciuszko Foundation has heen made to Jerzy Maciuszko, Chairman, Slavic East European Subsection of the Subject Specialists Section of ACRL, for his work on The Polish Short Story in English Translation, prepared at Western Reserve University. The work will be published towards the end of this year by Wayne State University Press. The Doctoral Dissertation Award is made each year by The Kosciuszko Foundation to encourage the publication of outstanding doctoral dissertations on Polish subjects, to any interested publisher who is willing to publish that doctoral dissertation which the Foundation considers the best work brought to its attention in any given year.

BUILDINGS

University of Florida has announced the opening of its new six-floor research library with a capacity of 600,000 volumes, 590 seats, plus various conference and seminar rooms, and a total area of 116,000 square feet.

Construction of Michigan State University’s five-story graduate research library is part of a $4.3 million library expansion program that will double floor space, seating capacity, and volume of business in the university’s library. What is now the main library will become, after remodelling is completed Dec. 1, the undergraduate library. Seating space for four thousand and one hundred thousand volume collection of heavily circulated undergraduate materials will be contained there. The new wing will house most of the university’s 1.3 million volume collection and provide private study rooms for faculty and 600 individual study carrels for graduate students. These study booths will be strategically located around the perimeter of the second, third and fourth floors near the major research collections.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS

Norman Peter Cummins, Brooklyn; Laura Nell Gasaway, Denison, Tex.; Joan Marie Mann, Baltimore; Frieda Ann Noell, Laramie, Wyoming; Janet Scott Reed, Rochester, N.Y.; and Libby Potter Soifer, Gorham, Maine, have been awarded $1,500 scholarships by the Special Libraries Association for graduate study at accredited library schools during the 1967- 68 academic year. The scholarship winners were announced by Elizabeth Burrows, 1966-67 Chairman of the Association’s Scholarship and Loan Fund Committee. Miss Burrows is librarian at Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cleveland. The six scholarship winners were selected from ninety-five applicants from twenty-eight states and eight foreign countries.

The Winterthur program in early American culture is a two-year graduate course of study leading to the master of arts degree, planned as preparation for careers in curatorship, teaching, research, writing, and librarianship with museums, colleges and universities, historical societies, restoration projects and historical sites. A minimum of seven Fellowships with stipend will be awarded under the program each year. Five of the Fellowships include grants that carry a base stipend of $2500 in addition to payment of tuition fees ($315 for residents, $750 for nonresidents). Depending upon need, the Winterthur Fellowship Committee may award allowances of up to $500 for a spouse and $150 per child for a maximum of two children. A Winterthur Fellowship may therefore total a maximum of $4050 annually or $8100 for the two years. Only Fellows are admitted to the program. Preference is given to college seniors or graduates who have shown marked ability and exceptional interest in Early American studies, particularly art history, history, and literature. Applications should be filed by February 1. For application blanks and further information write; The Coordinator, Winterthur Program, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711.

Graduate Record Examination scores must be submitted with application.

MEETINGS

Oct. 14; Kansas State University one day conference for academic librarians at Manhattan, Kansas. This conference has been organized to portray some of the roles of the United States librarian in the international scene. By analyzing the relationship of the United States librarian-consultant to his foreign assignment, it is planned to note not only the nature of such assignments but also the nature of librarianship in these countries. Papers will be delivered by: Neva L. White, former A. I. D. consultant in Afghanistan; Thomas R. Buckman, former ALA consultant on international programs; Wayne R. Collings, former A. I. D. consultant in Turkey and in Egypt; and G. A. Rudolph, former Fulbright consultant in Peru. Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan-American Union, will deliver the evening banquet address.

Oct. 23-25: American University’s Center for Technology and Information Institute on Transfer of Technical Information. Gramercy Inn, Washington, D.C.

Nov. 5-8: Division of university extension of University of Illinois announces the 14th annual Allerton Institute, on Trends in American Publishing sponsored by the graduate school of library science, at Allerton Park.

Apr. 29-May 2, 1968: The department of library science of Indiana State University plans a junior college libraries conference during the period April 29-May 2, 1968. Although emphasis will be on library programming for the community junior college, the conference should be of interest to professional librarians, other junior college faculty, and administrators of all types of post-high school, two-year institutions. Ample accommodations are available near campus in Terre Haute through the university. Meetings and other events will be held in the Student Union. Suggestions and requests for program scheduling and consideration of topics, as well as for further information, should be directed to Helen Wheeler, Associate Professor, Department of Library Science, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Ind. 47809. (Telephone 612 area code: 232-6311.) All public junior colleges listed in the 1967 Junior College Directory will automatically receive an announcement by mail.

MISCELLANY

University of Arizona library began classifying currently received books according to the Library of Congress classification in July. A decision on reclassification will be made at some future time.

Two long-missing manuscript pages of an Algernon Swinburne novel were returned to Great Britain by Syracuse University library in a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington on Sept. 29. The blue 8 x 13 inch pages were accepted for the British Museum, which has the rest of the handwritten manuscript of “Lesbia Brandon,” written by Swinburne in the 1860s.

THE TIME IS NOW

Have you returned the “College and University Library Resources and Facilities, 1966-67” form for the collection of academic library statistics? If not, you have missed the deadline. You are urged to immediately return your form, as instructed, to the U.S. Office of Education. Your cooperation is urgently needed if the publication of college and university library statistics for 1966-67 is to include a large percentage of academic institutions in order to be issued early in 1968. May I remind you to check with the proper office on your campus on completion of the library-related data on finance and personnel (employees) forms. Be sure these are returned by the designated deadline.

Roger Williams Junior College has been authorized to offer a four-year program and confer baccalaureate degrees. The college is changing its name to Roger Williams College.

A new International and Comparative Librarianship Group is to be formed within the (British) Library Association. The formation of the group, which will operate from next January, was approved by the Council of the Association, following a request by about one hundred and fifty members, and it already has the interest of a number of overseas members.

PUBLICATIONS

Over four thousand eight hundred rare imprints in the collection of the U.S. Public Health Service’s National Library of Medicine are listed in A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, 698-page casebound volume, on sale at $5.25 (from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402). It was prepared by the library’s history of medicine division, and lists over forty-eight hundred imprints in the collection.

The Directory of Library Periodicals,just published by the Drexel Press, was compiled by Mary Adele Springman and Betty Martin Brown, and lists library science, information science and publishing periodicals from all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Data on the periodicals includes sponsoring organization, title, editor, publication frequency, first date of publication, content, price and other subscription information. Many staff and faculty newsletters, library association bulletins, as well as leading national journals are included. One thousand copies of the Directory, number 23 of the Drexel Library School Series, are available for $4 each or by standing order for the Series from the Bookstore, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

Drexel Information Science Research Studies,edited by Barbara Flood, instructor of information science (Number 19 in the Drexel Library School Series), is available from the Drexel Bookstore, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, and costs $7.50 postpaid. It contains the theses of three of the first four graduates of the School’s information science curriculum, “A Computer- Oriented Graph Theoretic Analysis of Citation Index Structures,” by Ralph Garner; “The Development of a Machine-Searchable Index- Abstract and Its Application to Bio-Medical Literature,” by Lois Lunin; and “A Technique to Discern Patterns of Alkaloid Research in Soviet Block Countries,” by Lois Baker.

Guide to Selected Legal Sources of Mainland China: A Listing of Laws and Regulations and Periodical Legal Literature with a Brief Survey of the Administration of Justice,may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 at $2 a copy.

The Identification of Data Elements in Bibliographic Records,the final report of the Special Project on Data Elements for the Subcommittee on Machine Input Records (SC-2) of the Sectional Committee on Library Work and Documentation (Z-39) of the United States of America Standards Institute, was prepared by Ann T. Curran, formerly of the Harvard medical library, and the project director, Mrs. Henriette D. Avram, Assistant Coordinator in the Information Systems Office at the Library of Congress. The work was assisted by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Council on Library Resources. Inquiries about the 62-page, processed report, of which only a limited number of copies were prepared, should be directed to Dr. Jerrold Ome, University of North Carolina Librarian and chairman of the Sectional Committee on Library Work and Documentation at the University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515.

TPI, 1967

The Title page and index for volume 28 of CRL (including CRL News issues) will appear in the Dec. 1967 CRL News.

A bibliography just published by the Library of Congress lists relatively inexpensive paperback books on Latin America and is particularly useful for teachers and students in colleges and universities. Latin America: An Annotated Bibliography of Paperback Books is a 77-page publication which may be purchased by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, at 35 cents a copy. It is a revision of a 1964 edition entitled Latin America: A Bibliography of Paperback Books, which listed 240 titles. The new edition lists more than six hundred titles in the humanities and the social sciences. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and include full bibliographic information, the price of the publication, and a brief descriptive comment. Compiled in the Hispanic Foundation of the library’s reference department by Mrs. Georgette M. Dorn, the bibliography is No. 11 in the Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series.

The three volume Lista de encabezamientos de materia para bibliotecas is a Spanish language list of subject headings for the subject analysis of library books. It contains over ten thousand different terms in all fields of knowledge, with many subdivisions, and indicates related subjects. The Lista was compiled by Carmen Rovira and Jorge Aguayo, with the assistance of a grant from the Council on Library Resources. Copies at $12.50 for the 3 volumes, may be purchased from Sales and Promotion, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. 20006, or from the OAS Offices in the member states.

Trattati di Scrittura del Cinque Cento Italiano(Milan: Catiera Ventura, 1967) has been completed by Emanuele Casamassima, director of the National Library in Florence, Italy. Dr. Casamassima was reading proof of the work when the flood struck Florence last November. Price is 25,000 lire.

WILLING’S EUROPEAN PRESS GUIDE recently published by Hutchinson Willing Ltd., is being distributed exclusively in the United States by R. R. Bowker Company. This new volume is patterned after Willing’s famous British PRESS GUIDE which is also distributed in the U.S. by Bowker. Countries included in the EUROPEAN PRESS GUIDE are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. Entries are fisted under 183 subject categories. The foreword, indexes and subject headings appear in English, French, German, and Italian. Information under each entry includes name and address of publication, name of publisher, frequency of publication, and price per issue or per annum. Available at $15 net postpaid, from R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036.