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College & Research Libraries News

News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

•The library of the University of California at Davis has recently purchased some twenty-five hundred volumes of eighteenth and nineteenth century German books, the collections of two Viennese scholars. The collection offers a cross-section of the reading of the period 1780-1890. This ranges from Goethe’s works in the last edition he corrected himself, to the “Trivialliteratur” of the nineteenth century.

• Sonoma State College,Rohnert Park (Cal.), recently received a collection of 650 volumes of Celtic literature donated by W. W. Lyman, of St. Helena. The collection consists of Irish, Scotch and Welsh fiction, poetry and plays. Mr. Lyman is a professor emeritus of English, Los Angeles City College.

•The Theodore Debs collection of letters, pamphlets and papers written to and about Eugene V. Debs during his lifetime have been presented to Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library by Theodore’s daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Debs Cooper. The more than 2,000 letters in the collection cover the American labor movement from 1875 to the 1940’s and among the writers are Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Sanger and many others.

•The Korean Section of East Asian library in MIT has purchased works collected by Yi Song-ui, Seoul, Korea, for which intensive and somewhat complex purchase negotiations have been carried on over the past year and half. The collection consists exclusively of Korean movable-type editions of classics. It comprises 2,041 volumes in 583 titles, printed between the latter part of the seventeenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries.

• Washington University,St. Louis, has recently added some two hundred letters, worksheets and typescripts and editorial matter from Poems: 1957-1967 to its collection of the papers of James Dickey.

•The Kent State University libraries have received a gift of over seventy volumes by and about Robert Frost from Harrison Hayford of Evanston, 111.

Kent State Universitylibraries has recently acquired the complete stock of the former Charles S. Boesen Bookstore in Detroit. The collection comprises some fifteen to twenty thousand items.

• North Texas State Universitylibrary has acquired the library of Dr. Isaac Lloyd Hibberd, professor of musicology at NTSU from 1945 until his death in 1965. The collection, comprising approximately nine thousand volumes is especially rich in music and books about music. This part of the collection —about 5000 volumes—has been placed in the Music Library of NTSU and has been given temporary limited cataloging in order to make it more immediately available to musical scholars.

North Texas Statelibrary also has recently purchased a collection of the early manuscripts and letters of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. The Viennese-born composer was the originator of the 12-tone system of musical composition. The collection has been cataloged and, although the originals are kept in a vault, microfilm copies will be available for consultation.

•The personal library of Pitirim A. Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist, was bought in 1967 by the library of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. The books, numbering about eleven hundred, include a virtually complete collection of Dr. Sorokin’s own writings, notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence, as well as numerous clippings and reprints and extensive journal files.

GRANTS

•Wendell W. Simons, assistant university librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Mrs. Luraine C. Tansey, slide librarian, have been named principal investigators in an $18,841 grant made by the Council on Library Resources.

The grant is being used in the development of a classification and cataloging scheme for slide collections. The UCSC project seeks to create a system that will help libraries organize and service slides. As proposed such a system would have a universal classification scheme, accommodating visual materials for all disciplines; cataloging would be computerized to produce numerous indexes and crossindexes.

•Irene Zimmerman, Latin American librarian in the department of reference and bibliography of University of Florida libraries and J. Ray Jones, Jr., assistant librarian, department of reference and bibliography, have each received a faculty development grant for part of 1969.

On the campuswide distribution of these grants, the Libraries were allowed to submit two proposals out of a total of 52 from the entire university. Dr. Zimmerman, the author of A Guide to Current Latin American Periodicals, Humanities and Social Sciences (1961), plans a “state of the art” study of Latin American bibliography, analyzing present bibliographic resources. Mr. Jones anticipates research at the University of London, surveying its great research collections in the social sciences, and examining particularly the area collections concerning the Far East and Africa.

• Columbia Universitylibraries’ program of research and development in the area of systems and automation, initiated in 1965, will he substantially accelerated through a grant of $200,000 recently received from the National Science Foundation. A combination of university and grant funds will enable the Columbia libraries to enlarge their systems staff to the equivalent of ten full-time staff positions. In addition, the systems staff will be augmented by utilizing the staff time of a number of library personnel from various technical and reader service units.

The primary focus of the libraries’ approach to the project will be to develop and test generalized computer-based library processing systems. During the next eighteen months, the libraries’ system staff will concentrate on designing and testing a computer-based system for monograph acquisitions. The work to be done during this project will be interrelated as practicable with similar research and development activities in other research libraries. The project has three major objectives: (1) more efficient and timely acquisition and processing of materials within the Columbia University library system; (2) increased capacity to process material at Columbia; and (3) the development of systems and subsystems that will have maximum applicability in other institutions of comparable size and scope.

BUILDINGS

•Plans for the construction of a new library to serve the students and faculties of Loyola College and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland has been announced by the recently formed Loyola-Notre Dame Library Corporation. The new educational building, which is expected to cost approximately $3,000,000.00, will be designed to provide for future expansion and have the capacity to house approximately two hundred and thirty-six thousand volumes and accommodate about one thousand readers.

• Wayne State University Medical Schoolin Detroit will build a new medical library supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Public Health Service. The $1,432,246 award is the first construction grant to be awarded under the Medical Library Assistance Act (P.L. 89-291).

•A new million dollar library building, the W. B Roberts Memorial, will open this summer at Delta State College in Cleveland, Miss. Containing 54,800 square feet of floor space, the structure will house capacity for two hundred thousand volumes and some three hundred readers.

• Ohio Northern University,Ada, will dedicate its $1,700,000 Heterick memorial library on October 5. The two-story, modem library “opened for business” on Feb. 15. The air-conditioned facility provides for one hundred sixty thousand volumes of books, seating capacity for six hundred and twenty-five students with 75 per cent placed in carrels. Construction of the library permits the addition of third and fourth floors as they are needed.

• Southern Oregon Collegeopened a new library building during the winter term. The 65,000 square-foot building presently houses some one hundred ten thousand volumes, which is expected to increase at the rate of fifteen thousand volumes per year.

• Millersville State College(Pa.) will dedicate its new ten-level Helen Ganser library on May 4.

THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

• Rudolf Fiedler,Oberstaatsbibliothekar of the Vienna National Library, has been appointed by Franz Jonas, president of the Austrian Federation, to succeed Dr. Stummvoll as director general of the Austrian National Library, effective Feb. 1. He is known among American librarians, especially in the Library of Congress, from his study trip in the United States in the fall of 1967, and he has participated in a number of international meetings and conferences.

•On Dec. 31 Josef Stummvoll, director general of the Austrian National Library in Vienna since October 1949, left active government service. Dr. Stummvoll helped to establish the library of the Ankara Agricultural College in Turkey, and he helped to plan the new United Nations Library building in New York City and the extension of the National Library into the “Neue Hofburg” in Vienna in 1966. His first study trip through the United States took place in 1948-49 and won him a number of friends, and his stay in this country as a director of the United National Dag Hammarskjold library strengthened these ties.

Of major importance is Dr. Stummvoll’s early interest and participation in the Shared Cataloging Program of the Library of Congress. His chairmanship at the Conference of the East European National Librarians in Vienna in 1966, which prepared for the extension of this program to Eastern Europe, has enormously contributed to the program, and the operation of Shared Cataloging in Vienna has become a model for similar operations elsewhere.

Two Festschriften (1952 and 1967) in his honor contain contributions from librarians all over the world and testify to the international significance of Dr. Stummvoll’s work.

• Marking the adoption of a new concept in American exchanges with Eastern Europe, the Institute of History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences has accepted the invitation of Indiana University to exchange Czech books for American fellowships. The university and the academy concluded an agreement on Jan. 1. The agreement provides for the annual exchange of four thousand Czechoslovak books, journals and newspapers pertaining to history, the social sciences, and Czechoslovak culture and art for one full graduate fellowship of $3500 and one full research fellowship of $5000 in the social sciences or humanities at Indiana University. In addition, Indiana will send to the Institute five hundred books published in the United States relating to history and the social sciences. The agreement runs for one year after which time it may be renewed. The librarians responsible for the technical side of the book exchange are Andrew Turchyn at Indiana University and Miloslay Kudelasek at the Institute of History.

• Sir Frank Francis, director and principal librarian of the British Museum, will serve as consultant on foreign library developments to the Council on Library Resources. Sir Frank, who is continuing his duties at the British Museum, will advise the Council of developments, current and potential, in both advanced and underdeveloped nations which may come within the scope of the Council’s interests.

• Three members of the American Library Association’s Subcommittee (of the International Relations Committee) for Liaison with Japanese Libraries visited Japan during the month of November 1967 for the purpose of promoting international library cooperation. They were: Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries, University of Kansas and immediate past director of the International Relations Office of ALA; Yukihisa Suzuki, head, Asia library, University of Michigan, and chairman, International Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies; and Warren Tsuneishi, chief, Orientalia division, Library of Congress, and chairman, ARL Subcommittee on the Far East.

The three attended the All Japan Library Conference sponsored by the Japan Library Association in Kanazawa, November 8-10. Mr. Buckman read a letter of greeting from Foster M. Mohrhardt, president of ALA, at the opening session.

Members of the mission, individually or as a team, visited and conferred with over thirty library, faculty, government and business groups at university libraries, regional library associations, the National Diet library, the Ministry of Education, and American Cultural Centers (two members of the team were sponsored by the State Department’s American Specialists Program).

At the National Diet library, the three joined Donald Jay, coordinator, overseas programs office, Library of Congress, in talks leading to an N.D.L.-L.C. agreement on a shared cataloging program to commence in 1968.

The mission also met with the Council of Seven National University Library Directors and others in planning for a proposed binational conference on library cooperation. It was agree that a conference should be held in Japan, possibly in the fall of 1968, to discuss concrete problems—such as the acquisition of government documents—as well as generalized questions—such as the application of computers to automation of library operations in the United States and Japan. The Directors Council and the ALA Subcommittee for Liaison with Japanese Libraries constituted themselves as the planning groups for the conference.

MEETINGS

Apr.18: Library Association of the City University of New York conference “New Directions for City University Libraries,” Brooklyn College Student Center. The conference is open to all professional librarians and to others who are interested in the development of library cooperation. Those interested in attending should contact Miss Betty-Carol Sellen, LACUNY Conference Co-chairman, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York 11210.

Apr.25: The first New England Church and Synagogue Library Conference will be held in Providence, R.I. from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 P.M. at the Central Congregational Church. This one-day meeting will be sponsored by the graduate library school of the University of Rhode Island, The Rhode Island Council of Churches, the Catholic Library Association of Rhode Island, and the Association of Jewish Libraries. The program will include speakers, workshops, and exhibits. All associated with or interested in starting church libraries are cordially invited to attend. For particulars, write to Miss Helen T. Geer, Associate Professor, Graduate Library School, University of Rhode Island, Promenade and Gaspee Streets, Providence, Rhode Island 02908.

Apr.27: Spring seminar on information science co-sponsored by the San Francisco chapters of the American Society for Information Science and the Special Libraries Association. The seminar will be an all-day meeting at the facilities of the Ampex Corporation in Redwood City, Cal. Lunch will be included in the registration fee of $10.

Apr. 28-May10: Interlibrary Cooperation institute to be conducted by the department of library science at Wayne State University April 28 to May 10, 1968 in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education, at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center of the Division of Urban Extension, to acquaint participants with plans being made by the states for interlibrary cooperation, with the kinds of studies and surveys necessary for wise planning with present state, regional and national patterns, with information networks, and electronic communications systems. The institute will be limited to fifty state, public and academic library administrators with priority given to state library personnel responsible for administering Title III, Library Service & Construction Act. Stipends and dependency allowances will be paid to participants.

May3-4: The Midwest Academic Librarians’ Conference, at Winona, Minnesota, will be concerned with cooperative projects and automation in small college libraries during the Friday meetings. Participants will have an opportunity to visit the new library buildings at St. Mary’s, St. Theresa’s, and Winona State College. For the Friday evening meeting, the program committee hopes to secure an outstanding speaker. On Saturday morning, discussion groups will consider statistics for government reports, problems of changing classification systems, library-college concepts, North Central visitations, curriculum librarians, teaching materials centers, and grants.

May3-4: Fifth Annual National Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Philadelphia.

May3-4: The Chemical Literature Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Chemistry Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) joint meeting, Columbus, Ohio. The technical sessions of the meeting will be devoted to acquisition, processing and dissemination of chemical information.

May17-18: Annual spring meeting of Tri State Chapter of ACRL, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Location of meetings and housing arrangements will be announced at a later date, June2-7: Special Libraries Association Conference in Los Angeles. Theme will be Special Libraries, Partners in Research for Tomorrow’s World.

June3-14: Department of library science of Wayne State University, in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education institute on “Program Planning and Budgeting for Libraries,” at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center of the Division of Urban Extension.

Instruction will be offered through lecturedemonstrations and in workshops at which participants will learn by working on problems of their own institution’s budget. Registration will be limited to forty participants from state libraries, large public libraries and academic libraries, all being either administrators or business managers and all having experience in and responsibility for budgeting.

June10-21: School of library and information services, University of Maryland, Institute on the Automation of Bibliographical Services, funded by the U.S. Office of Education under the Higher Education Act Title II-B. The Institute, for a limited number of participants already involved in or planning for automation, will be offered with the cooperation of the Library of Congress Project MARC, the University of Maryland, and the Computer Science Center. Director of the Institute will be David Batty, head of the department of information retrieval studies in the College of Librarianship, Wales.

June17-21: Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., Seventh Institute of Genealogy. Registration and tuition is $30 for the week (plus $15 additional if academic credit is desired). Housing will be available on campus for $2 per night.

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.

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.11-23: 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 modern equipment in libraries, Director of the institute will be Jay E, Daily, assisted by George Sinkankas.

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.23-26: 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.

MISCELLANY

•A nineteen-member Library Advisory Council has been formed at George Washington University to consider programs and activities aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the GW Libraries and to stimulate support for the libraries’ continued growth and development. The council, while aiding in the interpretation of library programs to the community, will also study the role of an urban university library in Washington, D.C.

• Beta Phi Mu,national library science scholastic honorary, inaugurated a new chapter on Feb. 9 at the University of Hawaii graduate school of library studies. Xi Chapter, newest of fifteen Beta Phi Mu chapters, was installed along with officers and members by Dr. Maurice F. Tauber, current national president of Beta Phi Mu and Melville Dewey Professor of Librarianship at Columbia University in New York.

•Medical and bio-medical librarians will be trained in the University of Illinois graduate school of library science at Urbana, Supported by a two year, $112,945 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service, administered by the National Library of Medicine.

The grant provides funds for ten traineeships each year. The intensive training program leading to an M.S. degree will take fourteen months—an academic year and two summer sessions. The last summer session will be split between a five-week medical literature and reference service course at the U. of I. Chicago Medical Center and a three-week seminar in computer-based systems for libraries at Urbana.

Another unique feature of the training program will be a one-semester assignment for each trainee as a bibliographic assistant with a scientific research project in the medical or related fields. The practicum is scheduled for about ten hours a week.

Other courses include development and operation of libraries, reference, book selection, cataloging, the literature of science and technology, library administration, advanced cataloging, science reference service, government documents, bibliography of the biological sciences, and information storage and retrieval.

The proposed three-year program will start in June, 1968. Application forms and additional information may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, 322 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

•Reclassifying of approximately fifty-four thousand volumes in the Library of Congress system has been completed by Barat College library. Since 1961, nearly 30,000 books were converted from the Dewey decimal system of classification while an average of 2,371 new books were acquired each year. Both the new acquisitions and 9,100 periodical volumes were classified according to the Library of Congress system at the same time existing volumes were being converted. Approximately 88,000 man-hours were spent on the project.

•Norman D. Stevens, acting university librarian at Rutgers University has been elected chairman of the recently organized Council of New Jersey State College and University Librarians. The Council was formed to establish closer cooperation between the state-supported educational institutions and to consider those mutual problems arising from their relations with the state. Felix E. Hirsch, librarian at Trenton State College, is vicechairman and Juliette A. Trainor, Paterson State College librarian, is its secretary.

•The City University of New York adopts a new faculty salary schedule effective October 1 of this year. Since CUNY librarians hold professorial rank, this schedule applies to them as well as to teaching personnel. These new salary ranges are: instructor, $10,050- $13,900; assistant professor, $ll,000-$17,000; associate professor, $14,000-$21,000; professor, $18,000-326,000.

• York(Pa.) Junior College has announced that approval to award baccalaureate degrees has been granted by the Department of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. The new name of the college will be York College of Pennsylvania.

•Expansion of library services in Texas is evidenced by the agreement of Dec. 6 designed to strengthen and preserve the library operations in the Texas Medical Center between the trustees of the the Houston Academy of Medicine and Baylor University college of medicine. This will change the name of the Texas Medical Center library, housed in the Jesse H. Jones library building, to the Houston Academy of Medicine library for The Texas Medical Center. The operating responsibilities are now shared by Baylor University college of medicine, the Houston Academy of Medicine, the University of Texas, Texas Woman’s University, and the Texas Medical Center.

•On March 7 the Board of Regents of Victoria University, Toronto, conferred upon the Victoria College library the name of “The E. J. Pratt Library” in honour of Edwin John Pratt (1882-1964), poet and a member of the teaching staff of Victoria College from 1920 until 1953.

PUBLICATIONS

• Index Translationum,just issued, in its 19th volume, by Unesco, lists 39,267 translations published in seventy countries during 1966 plus a few earlier publications hitherto not listed. The national bibliographies are arranged in alphabetical order of authors under the ten major headings of the Universal Decimal Classification.

•The dramatic story of the concept, founding and operation of Library/USA, the famed library exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, is told in Library/USA, A Bibliographic and Descriptive Report, just published by ALA.

The book can be order at $5 per copy from Library/USA, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

• Medical Reference Works, 1679-1966,a selected bibliography of more than twentyseven hundred titles has just been published by the Medical Library Association, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. 60611. This international list, which was compiled by Dr. John B. Blake and Mr. Charles Roos of the National Library of Medicine, has annotated entries, is arranged by over 50 medical specialities and related fields, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, etc., and is indexed in detail. Titles for the small library are starred. The price is $10 net.

• Several ideas generally believed to explain the condition of nineteenth century publications in American libraries may be modified as a result of a new report from the W. J. Barrow Research Laboratory, prepared for the Council on Library Resources. Specifically, data presented in the report show that the major blame for the deterioration of book paper after the mid-point of the nineteenth century which has been laid at the door of wood pulp (at that time replacing rag fiber as the principal constituent of book papers) should be assigned to the use of alum-rosin size. The report in which these findings is presented is Strength and Other Characteristics of Book Papers 1800-1899.

LIBRARIANS OF SMALL COLLEGES OF BOSTON

In the Spring of 1966, a group of librarians of small fourand two-year colleges decided to meet together informally to discuss mutual problems and to seek areas for mutual cooperation.

As the Librarians of Small Colleges of Boston, the group has been meeting twice a year, fall and winter. Although its meetings follow a prepared agenda and it is directing its activities toward specific programs, it has elected to remain informal without officers. Each of the members volunteers to be host for a meeting in order that the group may visit each others’ libraries and meet other staff members. The first meeting was held at Garland Junior College; the second was hosted by Wentworth Institute; the third by Bentley College; and the most recent was held at Wheelock College. The spring meeting is to be held at Pine Manor Junior College and the subject will be a discussion of possible cooperative acquisitions programs for some of the small academic libraries.

Between the middle of January and the middle of February, the group held a Cataloging Workshop Institute for its members which was a series of four meetings held at Garland Junior College for head librarians and/or their catalogers. The workshop was set up as a dialogue between the twenty members from the group attending and the panel of cataloging experts: Ruth Leonard, associate professor, school of library science, Simmons College; Susan M. Haskins, associate librarian and cataloged Harvard College library; and Mrs. Dorothy P. Ladd, chief of the catalog division, Boston University library.

Topics discussed were based on Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Materials used and referred to were:

New Rules for an Old Game,proceedings of a workshop on the 1967 Anglo-American cataloging code held by the school of librarianship cat: the University of British Columbia, April 13 and 14, 1967, edited by Thelma E. Allen. (Vancouver, The University of British Columbia Publications Centre, 1967. $6 [Can.]).

F. Berniece Field, “New Catalog Code,” Library Resources & Technical Services, X (Fall 1966), 421-436 (reprints available from ALA).

C. Sumner Spalding, “Main entry: principles and counter-principles,” LRTS, XI (Fall 1967) 389-96.

ALA Cataloging Rules Correlated with Anglo-American Cataloging Rules,prepared at the University of Washington [Library], by Jean Hoodless (Seattle, University of Washington Library [1967]).

Other programs being planned are (1) a compilation of a union list of periodicals, films, and filmstrips and (2) a listing for the members of the area of the strengths of their collections as a preliminary step toward possible interinstitutional borrowing.

Anyone interested in knowing more about the programs and forthcoming activities may inquire from Arline Willar, librarian, Garland Junior College; Irene Christopher, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston (formerly director of Emerson College library), and Marie Cotter, librarian, Wheelock College.