ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Three sets of manuscript military orders and seven letter-press pamphlets, all of the Revolutionary War period, have recently been acquired by the U.S. Military Academy library. In chronological order, the Hudson Valley orderly books are: a one volume 1778- 1779 record of a Massachusetts company, a two volume set of orders for a company in General Howe’s Division of Washington’s Army, and a nine volume record of a regiment raised in New York State which fought on the side of the Crown.

• Two rare early American publications have been given to the Nils Yngve Wessell library at Tufts University, including one of five copies of the 1777 version of The New England Primer. They are the gifts of Mrs. Dorothy B. Penniman Hubbard of Walpole, N.H., and her sister, Mrs. Ruth E. Penniman Ware.

• W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Robert Graves and Julian Huxley are among the fifty correspondents of the Progressive League, a London literary and political forum, a group of whose papers have been acquired by the special collection of modem literature in the rare book department, Washington University, St. Louis. Writing between 1949 and 1963, the authors address the League secretaries, Alex Craig and Ashton Burrall, about fees, dates, content of readings they’ve been asked to give, their colleagues.

• The University of New Mexico has received the library of the late C. V. Wicker as memorial gift from Mrs. Wicker. The collection of eighteen hundred and fifty volumes is composed largely of works on English literature.

• H. Bacon Collamore of Hartford, Connecticut, long-time fire insurance executive and presently chairman of the board of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, has presented to the Free Library of Philadelphia his collection of the English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. Of particular importance in the collection is a group of one hundred water colors, pencil sketches, and pen and ink drawings from Miss Potter’s own portfolio which show her work as an artist over a thirty year period.

• Author Jan De Hartog has donated materials used during preparation of his book The Hospital to the M. D. Anderson memorial library at the University of Houston. The collection contains De Hartog’s notes and diary compiled during the time he was working as an orderly at Jefferson Davis hospital emergency room, and his worksheet for the book, the corrected and final manuscripts and uncorrected proofs.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS

• University of California, Berkeley, school of librarianship and Institute of Library Research announce ten fellowships and research assistantships for 1968/69, for study leading to the PhD or DLS degree: two fellowships, at $3,000 and eight research assistantships at $2,390 and $3,348. For study leading to the MLS degree, Higher Education Act fellowships of $2,200; one scholarship of $600 and nine research assistantships at $2,390 and $3,348. Further information may be obtained from the Dean, School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720.

• The UCLA school of library service announces fellowships, scholarships and traineeships with stipends from $1,000 to more than $5,000. Application should be made in conjunction with the application to the UCLA graduate division for admission to graduate status. Deadline for awards made by the school of library service is March 15. For further information write to Graduate School of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024.

• The National Institutes of Health library is offering a fifth medical librarian internship program in 1968/69. A concentrated systematic training program provides the interns with an overview of all aspects of the library program in a biomedical research institution. A forty-week rotating work assignment in the sections of the library is followed by twelve weeks in a regular position in a specific area of the library. Applicants for the Internship Program should be recent graduates with the Master of Library Science degree from an accredited school. A good reading knowledge of at least one foreign language is a selective requirement and undergraduate study in a scientific field is desirable. All candidates must meet the current qualification standards of the U.S. Civil Service Commission for the position (Opportunities for Librarians in the Federal Service, Announcement No. WA-7-04, issued January 10, 1967). Program participants are appointed as grade GS-7 librarians. The program will begin on August 25, 1968. Completed applications must be received by March 15, 1968. Inquiries concerning the Internship Program should be addressed to Jess A. Martin, Chief, Library Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.

MEETINGS

Feb.15-16: Institute on Cooperative Library Systems: A New Look, at the School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Mar.:General Assembly of the European Association for the Exchange of Technical Literature in the Field of Metallurgy, Luxemburg.

Mar.29-30: Third Annual Conference on Junior College Libraries Multi-Media Centers, sponsored by the Illinois Library Association, Illinois Association of Junior College Presidents, and Northern Illinois University, at University Center, NIU, DeKalb, I11.

May 3-4:Fifth Annual National Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Philadelphia.

May 3-4: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.

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.

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

Sept.23-26: 42nd Annual Conference of Aslib, Canterbury.

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

• Florida State University announced today the selection of Strozier library as a depository of United Nations publications. Depository status will enable the library to obtain free all generally distributed printed and mimeographed publications of the United Nations.

• “Rare Book Librarianship” is a new course to be offered this summer in the Newberry library, Chicago. Newberry associate director James M. Wells will be the instructor, and the course will be offered by the University of Illinois division of university extension and the graduate school of library science. Information on registration may be had from Richard Casper in the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (312) 663-8560.

• Porter library of Kansas State College at Pittsburg has joined the South East Kansas regional system of cooperating public libraries as a cooperating resource library. By use of teletypewriter communication, the college library is making available book, periodical and microtext resources which include public documents and publications of the state of Kansas, and federal deposit items.

• In gratitude for the dedication, devotedness and magnificent care provided to a disabled World War II Jewish war veteran, by two Filipino nurses at Temple University hospital in Philadelphia a little more than a year ago, the Rizal Memorial College library in Davao City, the Philippines, has thus far been enriched by some ninety-seven thousand books collected and shipped by the Department of New Jersey of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA.

• Although informal cooperative agreements have been in effect since 1959, not until the Fall of 1967 was an official agreement signed by chief administrative officers, approving the formation of the Academic Libraries of Brooklyn (ALB). The nine participating institutions are: Brooklyn College of Pharmacy; Long Island University (Brooklyn Center); Medical Research Library of Brooklyn (State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center); New York Community College; Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; Pratt Institute; St. Francis College; St. John’s University (Brooklyn Center); and St. Joseph’s College for Women. The group is composed of library administrators from the member institutions. The organization of ALB has been completed and the following officers have been elected for a two-year term of office: President—Elliot S. M. Gatner, Long Island

University (Brooklyn Center); Vice President (President-Elect)—Helen Kovacs, Medical Research Library of Brooklyn; and Secretary- Treasurer—Julius Lemansky, Brooklyn College of Pharmacy.

ALB represents collections consisting of over one million volumes and more than twelve thousand current serial titles. It serves thirtyfive thousand students, and the faculties and research units at the various institutions. The purpose of the group is to engage in various cooperative studies and undertakings which will improve library resources and services to faculty and students of the member institutions, and to permit scholarly access to library holdings which complement and reinforce collections available in the scholar’s library.

• Mrs. Marian M. Orgain, curator of special collections, University of Houston libraries, gave the John Cotton Dana Lecture at Atlanta University on Dec. 1.

• The University of Houston sponsored a seminar on Non-Government Sources of Information as the second of its continuing education programs on Nov. 16.

PUBLICATIONS

• The CLW Reprint Series has been established by the College of Librarianship Wales, for the purpose of returning to print selected o. p. desiderata in the field of librarianship and bibliography. The new series aspires to bring out one title per month. Suggestions of titles to be reprinted, or queries and comments concerning the project, should be directed to Philip R. D. Corrigan, College of Librarianship Wales, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth.

• Bibliography of the History of Medicine, No. 2, 1966, is the second of a series of annual bibliographies of the history of medicine. Within its scope are medicine and related sciences, professions, and institutions. All periods and geographical areas are represented. No. 2 (219 p.) is sold by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents at $1.25 per copy. The bibliographies will be cumulated every five years.

• Coden for Periodical Titles—(DS 23A) is a two-volume publication superseding all previous editions of the ASTM Coden for Periodical Titles and contains 38,993 titles. It is a directory of unique, five-letter codes, or CODEN, for the titles of periodicals and serials. The first four letters of each CODEN have some mnemonic relation to the title; the fifth letter is arbitrary and will assist in maintaining as many mnemonic relationships as possible for similar periodical titles. All codes in this book have a fifth letter “A” added to the CODEN, including those codes previously appearing in the earlier editions of ASTM CODEN listings. Future ASTM CODEN will include mnemonic codes with other different fifth letters. These CODEN are immediately useful in electronic computer memories of scientific retrieval systems since they effectively reduce periodical titles, however long, to five letters.

The CODEN system provides a standard code for maximum flexibility between periodical retrieval systems throughout the world by permitting the same code to be used in different collections for the same request. Hard cover, 1110 pages. Price is $85.

• InterDok Corporation has broadened the distribution of its annual cumulative volume of the Directory of Published Proceedings, originally available only to regular monthly subscribers at an optional cost. The annual Cumulative Volumes will now be available without a prior or current subscription to the monthly Directory. The cost of the annual cumulative volume to regular monthly subscribers is $19.50; $37.50 to non-subscribers.

• The Directory of Published Proceedings Series SSH will include published proceedings literature in the fields of education, economics, business administration, law, management, labor relations, social welfare, psychology and other areas of research in the social sciences and humanities; the new Series SSH will provide conference, congress, and symposium proceedings literature on a complete national and international basis. To be published quarterly, it will include an annual index with the last issue of each publication year. The annual subscription rate will be $45.00 for United States and Canadian subscribers; $50.00 for all others. Published is InterDok Corporation.

• A Summary of Library Orientation Programmes in Eight Canadian University Libraries has been prepared by Canadian Association of College and University Libraries Orientation Programmes Committee (CACUL).

• The Engineering, Mathematics and Science Library of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has announced the publication of fourteen computerized subject reference lists. These bibliographical lists, prepared by the reference staff mainly for their senior and graduate students and produced by IBM/360-75, include representative titles on each subject selected from reference sources available in that library. The attractive lists, in a reduced format —51/2 x 81/2, are to be up-dated at least semiannually. Limited number of complimentary copies are available and the set of fourteen lists can also be purchased at the cost of $3.50 from the E.M.S. library of the University. For further information on the project, please write to Mrs. C. C. Chen, head of the E.M.S. library.