ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

•The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., recently acquired the only known copy of the first novel published in America, Samuel Richardson’s PAMELA, printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1742 and 1743. The first English edition was published in 1740. Simmons College in Boston, the former owner; Goodspeed’s Book Shop, which handled the transaction; and generous friends of the Society, made this acquisition possible.

•The most extensive known collection of editions of the works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713 has been given to the Miami University library by William E. Alderman, dean emeritus of the college of arts and sciences. Represented among the Shaftesbury titles are sixteen of the seventeen authenticated editions of the Characteristics. The contemporary tooled leather bindings of the 17th and 18th century volumes have been restored. Critical and biographical studies, and photocopies of materials from other collections round out the gift.

AWARDS, GRANTS

•The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $60,723 for eighteen months to three university libraries for the purpose of initiating a cooperative project in the area of library systems development. The three university libraries are Columbia University, The University of Chicago, and Stanford University. Each of the libraries is at present engaged in major library systems analyses and in the application of computer technology to the improvement of essential library operations and services under grants from the federal government. Grants to Chicago and Columbia are from the National Science Foundation and Stanford’s from the U.S. Office of Education. The primary objectives of the NSF grant are: (1) to facilitate exchange of working data, information and ideas among the participating institutions; (2) to provide the means for developing systems of general applicability; (3) to provide more systematic liaison with agencies working on the national level; (4) to improve communications of research results between participants of this cooperative program and the library community generally.

•The Council on Library Resources has made a grant of $33,537 to the Library of Congress for a pilot project to develop procedures for automated controls for single sheet maps in the collections of the geography and map division.

The procedures to be developed will utilize computer technology by recording such descriptive information as the full map title, call number, and dimensions of the map sheet, on magnetic tape. The structure of the format to be used will be the library’s MARC II format. Initially, the project for machine-readable cataloging data for single-sheet maps will be concerned with current acquisitions only—some thirty-five to forty thousand maps a year. In developing automated procedures, the geography and map division will coordinate its efforts with governmental, public and research libraries which have map collections, so that the system and techniques may be useful to other map libraries as well as to the Library of Congress. The project will be administered in the geography and map division’s processing section, headed by J. Douglas Hill, in cooperation with the library’s information systems office. David K. Carrington, formerly librarian for the office of geography at the Department of the Interior, has joined the geography and map division staff at the Library of Congress to serve as coordinator for the project. Mrs. Viola Scandrett, computer systems analyst in the information systems office, is providing technical assistance.

BUILDINGS

•Construction of a five-story, $1.6 million annex to the library of the University of California began in Irvine early in April. The structure will be in a twin, east wing of the existing library and will more than double its book capacity.

Luther Evans delivered the address in site dedication ceremonies on April 5. During the ceremonies, Adolph A. Kroch presented a first edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s “Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale,” published in 1766. The volume is the library’s 200,000th. Friends of the UCI library sponsored the ceremonies.

•The dedication of the $3.3 million addition to the M. D. Anderson memorial library at the University of Houston took place on April 9-10. A symposium entitled “The History of Scholarship and Learning” included as speakers Leslie W. Dunlap, director of libraries at the University of Iowa—“Transmission of the Classics to the Modern World”; Frederick R. Goff, chief of the rare book division of the Library of Congress—“The Legacy of Gutenberg”; and Richard D. Altick, professor of English at Ohio State University— “The Emergence of Popular Reading and

Scholarly Activity in the 18th and 19th Centuries.”

A symposium entitled “The International Nature of Scholarship” presented German Arciniegas, Columbian Ambassador to Venezuela, speaking on “The Development of Scholarship in Latin America”; and Luther H. Evans, director of legal and international collections for Columbia University, speaking on “International Scholarship in Current Perspective.”

Dedicatory ceremonies began at 2 p.m. Douglas M. Knight, president of Duke University, gave the dedicatory address. Tours of the library and a reception in the special collections room followed the dedicatory ceremony. The evening was concluded with a dinner honoring major donors to library collections.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS

•The school of library science, Syracuse University, had been awarded nine Title II-B fellowships by the U.S. Office of Education. The grant of $56,160 will cover tuition, stipends, dependency and travel allowances for fellows studying for the Master of Science in library science degree at Syracuse University.

Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis. Fellows will receive a stipend of $2,200 for the academic year, September through June, 1969, and an additional $450 for the six week summer session. Travel and dependency allowances will be provided where applicable.

•Fellowships and research assistantships in the school of library science, State University College at Geneseo (N.Y.) will be supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education on the basis of the Higher Education Act, Title II-B. Fellowships will provide to successful applicants sums of $5,000 to cover tuition, living allowance, travel and institutional support for the 1968-69 academic year.

•Under a grant for education in librarianship made by the Office of Education, U.S. Office of Education on the basis of the Higher Education Act of 1965, Title II, Part B (P.L. 89-329), fifteen fellowships will be awarded by Case Western Reserve University for the academic year 1968-69 to qualified applicants who intend to pursue a course of study leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with major concentration in the field of library education. Each fellowship carries free tuition, a stipend of $5,000 for the academic year, and an additional $1,020 for the 1969 summer session, reimbursement for related travel expenses, and a $600 allowance for each dependent for the academic year, with an additional $120 for the summer session. The fellowships are available for full-time study only and require residence for the academic year.

Applicants for admission to the program must be professional librarians with appropriate undergraduate preparation; the MS in LS degree from an accredited library school; significant professional experience. Applicants must fulfill all other admission requirements of the university, must have demonstrated excellence in academic studies and show exceptional professional promise. Inquiries concerning the fellowship program may be addressed directly to the Office of the Dean, School of Library Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Application papers must be filed by June 1.

• The department of library education at Oklahoma State University announces the establishment of the Robert T. Motter library science scholarship in the amount of $1,000. The scholarship was created by the Motter Rookbinding Company in memory of its founder, Robert T. Motter. Candidacy for the scholarship is open to men and women who have at least junior standing; graduate students are encouraged to apply. The award will be made for study in the library education program at Oklahoma State University, and the recipient will be chosen on the basis of “proven scholastic ability plus aptitude and potential for growth in the profession of librarianship.” The deadline for applications is July 1. Application forms will be sent to those who request them although a personal interview in Stillwater is required. Inquiries may be addressed to Dr. Roscoe Rouse, Head, Department of Library Education, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074.

MEETINGS

List in these columns meetings, seminars, conferences, institutes, workshops and the like which may be of interest to academic research or special librarians. Copy as submitted may be edited, and should be informational in character. Direct copy to CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, I11. 60611, to arrive at least seven weeks in advance of the month in which reservations close.

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.

May23-25: The University of Maryland School of Library and Information Services High John Project announces a conference/ workshop to be held at the University’s Center of Adult Education on the College Park campus. In concentrating on Library Service to the Unserved: Influencing Change in Education and Practice, the discussion will center upon “Librariapathy” and confront the issues relating to the “non-user,” the “disadvantaged,” the “culturally different” and upon both pragmatic and educational/research dimensions. The Institute fee for the two and one half day session is $75 exclusive of hotel and meal charges. Registration for the sessions will be limited. Inquiries may be addressed to High John Project Conference, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, Tel. 301-454-3016.

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.

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

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

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

June23-29: 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.

June 30-July13: The New York State Historical Association seminars on American Culture. Two courses presented the first week are of particular interest to librarians and archivists: The Administration of Historical

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

July8-26: University of Oklahoma school of library science Institute for Training in Librarianship on Problems in Administration and Organization of Multi-Media Resources, on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Request application forms from Mrs. Evelyn Clement, Director, Institute on Administration and Organization of Multi- Media Resources, University of Oklahoma, School of Library Science, Norman, Oklahoma 73069. Forms should be completed and returned to the Director by May 1.

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

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

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

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

Aug.11-23: 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.22-25: 42nd Annual Conference of Aslib, Canterbury.

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

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

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

MISCELLANY

•The Committee to Investigate Copyright Problems, 2233 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007, has just completed the first factual report on the amount of and the kinds of copyrighted materials copied by U.S. libraries. The study was supported by the U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research.

Copyright law gives the author the exclusive right “to print, reprint, publish, copy and sell” his copyrighted work. The court-developed exception to this exclusive right is “fair use.” Current library copying practices are based on the belief that these practices are sanctioned under law. The study examines what the courts have actually decided.

The study is timely and of particular significance because of pending copyright legislation—HR 2412/S 597 passed by the House of Representatives April 12, 1967, and S 2216, the Senate-passed bill which proposes a National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works.

The report is available at a cost of $10.00 per copy. Remittance should accompany purchase order.

•The first planning conference on automated indexing for archives and manuscripts was held under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration on March 25. The conference was supported by funds granted by the Council on Library Resources and was attended by representatives of nine repositories of archives or personal papers—Cornell University, the Library of Congress, Minnesota

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Historical Society, Ohio Historical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, Syracuse University, Wayne State University, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the host institution, the National Archives. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the computer programs and information formats that will be required by each of the institutions to implement a common computerized system for indexing or creating finding aids to historical source materials. The program, dubbed SPINDEX for Selective Permutation Indexing, is being written in the National Archives by a staff supported by the grant from the Council. It is designated to meet the requirements of the major manuscript repositories in the country. The ten co-operating institutions (the University of Alaska representative could not attend the meeting) have agreed to advise the National Archives staff on a desired format. When the National Archives staff has devised a draft program, the cooperating institutions will test it in order to assess its applicability to local procedures. When the program has been written, tested and proven feasible, it will be described in a publication about the project. The program will then be available to any archives or manuscript repository that wishes to use it.

•Six members have been appointed to the first Advisory Committee for the Library Techician Program at the Wilson Campus of Chicago City College. They are: Sister Mary Chrysantha, librarian, Felician College library; Alex Ladenson, acting librarian, Chicago public library; Miriam Peterson, director, division of libraries, Chicago Board of Education; Anne C. Roess, supervisor, library services, Institute of Gas Technology; Fritz Veit, director of libraries, Wilson Campus and Chicago State College; and Helen Yast, librarian, American Hospital Association.

•The British National Bibliography has awarded a contract to Indata Limited to set up a computer system to produce regularly on magnetic tape full bibliographic records of the current output of British publishers. The system design will be compatible with the U.S. Library of Congress Project MARC. The BNB MARC Record will follow the agreed U.S. MARC II file structure with appropriate additions for British usage. Local institutions could take this tape, add local data and use it in their own systems. The BNB MARC project was made possible by a grant from the Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the Department of Education and Science. The OSTI grant covers a period of one year and Indata systems analysis and programming are expected to be completed in about six months, followed by a running-in period to test the acceptability of the system. All British publications will be recorded by the BNB on paper tape and forwarded to Indata for validation and creation of a weekly MARC catalog. In addition to the magnetic tape record, Indata will provide diagnostic listings of errors, amendments, and deletions affecting the weekly input or the permanent BNB catalog. The system will also be designed to print a BNB index, in coded standard booknumber sequence, and a title index, in alphabetical sequence, of all BNB records added to the catalog each week.

PUBLICATIONS

•A supplement to Continuing Education for Librarians, a listing for 1968-69 of workshops, conferences, seminars and short courses in librarianship has been compiled and produced by the Office for Library Education of ALA. Twenty institutes are listed in the supplement. As in the original listing, information is arranged by place, by subject, and by date. Each entry includes the title of the meeting, the place, sponsoring agency, director or instructors, tuition and registration charges, deadline for registration, and the source for further information. The supplement, like the original listing, is intended for use by librarians, teachers, information scientists and personnel officers. It is available without charge from Continuing Education for Librarians, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

•The University of North Carolina library at Chapel Hill has issued a computerproduced record of its serial and periodical holdings. Published in the form of a six-hundred-page volume, with double-column offset printing, the record lists and indicates holdings for approximately thirty-four thousand periodicals and other serials held by the main library and departmental libraries at UNC. Copies have been distributed to libraries in North Carolina and to selected libraries elsewhere. Other libraries may purchase copies ($10) from the Accounting Department, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514.

•A new section of the first English Full Edition of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) has just been published—UDC77: Photography. It covers the classification of all documents in the photographic field from the scientific, technical, and artistic points of view. The English version of UDC is being prepared and published as BS 1000 by the British Standards Institution at the original joint request of the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) and the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (ASLIB), both now amalgamated under Aslib. The priority program now in hand is designed to complete the publication of the entire English Full Edition by the end of 1969. Copies of BS 1000 (77) may be obtained from the BSI Sales Office, 101/113 Pentonville Road, London, N.l. Price 20/-each (postage 1/-extra to non-subscribers ).

• Sample Catalog Cardscontinues a tradition of publishing which dates from 1937. The 4th edition has been prepared to illustrate the changes in form and content of catalog cards which result from the publication of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. Copies may be obtained from the School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 for $3 each, postpaid. Orders aggregating less than $10 must be accompanied by payment with checks or money orders made payable to Columbia University.

LED CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Training Library Technical Assistants will be the theme of the program meeting of the Library Education Division on June 26 in Kansas City. It will be preceded by the LED business meeting, which will begin a 10 a.m. Both meetings will be held in the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium during the ALA 1968 Annual Conference.

Rose L. Vormelker of the school of library science, Kent State University (Ohio), and president of LED, will preside at the business meeting. Dorothy F. Deininger, of the graduate school of library service, Rutgers— the State University, New Brunswick, N.J., will preside at the program meeting.

“Emerging Patterns of Technician Employment With Implications for Libraries” will be discussed by Walter J. Brooking, program specialist, technical education, U.S. Office of Education.

“Canadian Training Programs for Library Technicians” will be the topic of a talk by John M. Marshall, assistant professor, school of library science, University of Toronto.

John Sherrod, director of the National Agricultural Library, will speak on “Library Technicians in the U.S. Civil Service.”

“Junior College Programs for Library Technicians,” will be the subject of Mrs. Mayrelee F. Newman, director, instructional resources, El Centro College, Dallas.

Joseph F. Schubert, librarian, Ohio State Library, Columbus, will discuss “Guidelines for Technical Assistant Training Programs—The LED Interdivisional Committee on Training Programs for Supportive Library Staff.”