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ACQUISITIONS

• The J. M. Peace library, Southern State College, Magnolia, Ark., has received in the same academic year gift collections from the personal libraries of four of its faculty. J, Wesley Childers and Karl D. Reyer were visiting scholars for 1967-68 under a federal grant for developing institutions, and gave generously from their own libraries including copies of some of their own publications, Dr. Childers in foreign languages and Dr. Reyer in marketing and management. A third collection was donated by Bert A. Lincoln of the chemistry department. In addition to approximately two hundred books and pamphlets in the field of chemistry the collection includes a copy of the 113 patents of which he is the inventor or co-inventor. Mrs. E. A. Flemig gave as a memorial gift a collection of material on Russia and the Far East from the library of her late husband, Lt. Col. E. A. Flemig.

• The library of the University of California, San Diego, recently obtained the Miranda book collection, a private collection of the late Professor Jose Miranda, a Spanishborn Mexican scholar, and his wife, the late Maria Teresa Fernandez de Miranda.

The Miranda collection, consisting of three parts, totals about five thousand volumes. The more extensive and important part deals with Mexican history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Another part of the collection consists of books on the history of Spain, mainly of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The third part is formed by books on anthropology, archaeology and linguistics of Mesoamerica. The collection also includes books on the history of Venezuela, America and Europe, historical maps and Spanish and French literary works in the original languages.

• An extensive manuscript collection relating largely to literary and social activities in Paraguay during the first quarter of this century has been acquired by the University of California library, Riverside. The collection consists of some one hundred twenty carpetas plus an unpublished ten-volume diary of Juansilvano Godoi, director of the Biblioteca Americana and Museo de Bellas Artes, covering the period Jan. 13, 1897, through Jan. 19, 1921, with parts of 1903-1905 missing.

• Approximately one hundred ten original C. S. Lewis letters and a set of lecture notes from one of his classes at Oxford have recently been added to the Wheaton College (Ill.) C. S. Lewis collection. The collection includes associated writers Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, George MacDonald, and Dorothy Sayers. Included are most first editions of all six authors, books about them, photocopies of printed reviews and articles about or by the authors, and various unpublished theses and dissertations. Other collected items are original letters, notebooks, and diaries of the authors, particularly Lewis, and foreign translations of Lewis’ books.

• Wichita State University is the recipient of a collection of the letters and papers of William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and editor of The Liberator. The collection was the gift of Walter M. Merrill, head of the department of English, in honor of his mother, Eunice McIntosh Merrill.

• Nash library of the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha has recently received some papers of Hugh D. Corwin of Lawton, Oklahoma, a writer of Indian life and history. These include the manuscript of his latest book and folders of notes of his conversations with very elderly Kiowa Indians.

• The Hofstra University library has been given a collection of first editions of Joseph Conrad, including three important full-page inscriptions, six important letters written during World War I, and signed photographs.

• A gift of more than five thousand letters addressed or otherwise directed to Alma Mahler Werfel or to Franz Werfel has been presented to the University of Pennsylvania libraries by Anna Mahler, daughter of Gustav Mahler and Mrs. Werfel. The collection of letters follows an earlier gift of the library of Franz Werfel. Many of the volumes were dedicated to either Franz Werfel or his wife.

GRANTS

• Elizabeth Casellas, head of the business, science and technology department, Orlando public library and J. Ray Jones, Jr., social science research librarian, University of Florida, graduate research library, have been named prime investigators for a $25,000 federal grant to establish a facsimile reproduction service between the business, science and technology department of the Orlando public library and the technical information division of the University of Florida. This service will provide businessmen, engineers and technicians in Orlando with copies of requested materials from the university library in Gainesville and will provide the university with Orlando doc-uments for a university urban development study, and other needed materials, by instantly reproducing the pages by microwave relay. This Data-Fax Service has been used in statewide networks in New York and Hawaii. It is also used by various industrial firms in Florida, but this is the first time for the service in a Florida library.

MEETINGS

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.11-16: Institute for New Higher Educational Administrators to be held at Brevard College near Asheville, North Carolina. Sponsored by Higher Education Executive Associates. Sections will be arranged for the following groups: (1) academic deans, (2) departmental chairmen, (3) deans of students and men, (4) deans of women, (5) directors of institutional research, (6) assistants to the president, public relations and development officers, (7) chief business officers, and (8) residence program and campus activities and center directors.

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.12-13; Institute at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the medical center to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100; registration fee is $35.00. Send name, address, and a check made out to the American Library Association for the registration fee to; ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron So., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

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 modem equipment in libraries. Director of the institute will be Jay E, Daily, assisted by George Sinkankas.

Sept.Institute in New York City jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Columbia University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to; ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611.

Sept.2-6; FID Advanced Instruction course on Mechanized UDC Retrieval, Copenhagen.

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.22-26; 42nd Annual Conference of Aslib, Canterbury.

Sept. 24-Dec.10; The department of library science at Rosary College, River Forest, will conduct an HEA Institute in systems analysis, as applied to libraries. This part-time institute for special librarians in the Chicago area is being conducted under a grant from the United States Office of Education through the Higher Education Act of 1965 and participants may request three semester hours of graduate credit. Criteria for eligibility include the BALS or MALS, experience in a library, and the same standards required of all who enter the department of library science at Rosary College. The exception, however, would be the applicant who does not have a BALS or MALS, but where professional experience and qualifications would be considered for enrollment. Purpose of the threehour sessions, which will meet on twelve consecutive Tuesday evenings, is to orientate librarians and administrators of special libraries to improve service, increase effectiveness, and coordinate all operations in their libraries through systems analysis. Application forms can be obtained by writing to: Sr. Marie Norbert Webner, HEA Institute in System Analysis, Rosary College, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest, Illinois 60305.

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.17-18: Institute in Chicago jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and University of Chicago libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St, Chicago, 111. 60611.

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.

Nov.: Institute in Boston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Harvard University library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

December: (AIBDA) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists in Bogotá, Colombia.

Dec.12-13: Institute in Atlanta, Ga., jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Georgia Institute of Technology library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611.

Jan.8-10: International Conference of administrators of colleges, universities, junior colleges, and independent schools at the Americana Hotel in New York City. The theme of this conference is “Challenging a New Future” and its goal is to promote an interchange of ideas and experiences among the leaders of the higher and independent educational systems of the United States, Canada, and other nations of the world.

Jan. 27-June5: Institute in information science. University of Southern California. Participants will be admitted on a highly selective basis. Each person will be paid $75 per week, with $15 per week for each dependent. Persons who are admissable and who wish credit may earn from nine to twelve units of course credit during the semester. Further information about this institute may be obtained by writing to: The Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007, Telephone: (213) 746-2548.

February:Institute in Cleveland jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Case Western Reserve University school of library science to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

Mar.24-25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

April14-15: Institute in Houston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the Rice University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which will be available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611.

MISCELLANY

• The goal of a multi-million-volume library is closer to reality for the University of California, San Diego, now that the library has reached the 500,000-volume step. The halfmillionth book, The Vision of Pierce Plowman, was purchased by the Friends of the Library, and was presented to Chancellor John S. Galbraith and University Librarian Melvin J. Voigt by Elliott L. Cushman, president of the Friends, and Francis M. Smith, chairman of the Friends’ Acquisitions Committee, at a special ceremony on June 3 in the central Library.

• The 1968 edition of the Perma-Bound catalog, listing five thousand titles of educational paperback books in a special durable binding, is now available for schools and libraries from Hertzberg-New Method, Inc., Jacksonville, Ill. Included in the 96-page catalog are paperbacks from 125 publishers carefully selected for use as texts, supplementary reading, and leisure reading in grades from kindergarten through fourth year college.

• Washburn University’s main library has computerized its list of periodical holdings.

• The Institute for Scientific Information, publishers of Current Contents in the life, physical, and chemical sciences, is now planning a similar service in the social and behavioral sciences (as called for in the paper by Diana Amsden entitled “Information Problems of Anthropologists,” CRL, March 1968, pp. 117-31). Persons interested in this new service should contract Morton V. Malin at the Institute, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, in Bethesda, Maryland, for further details.

• MEDLARS, the National Library of Medicine’s computer-based medical literature analysis and retrieval system, will undergo a major expansion and upgrading, and a $2 million contract has been awarded to the Computer Sciences Corporation of Los Angeles. MEDLARS II will provide for an integrated, automated system for the performance of all major functions of the library. Automated support and control will be provided from the time material is ordered from a publisher, through cataloging and indexing, to its appearance in a library publication or in response to a search request from an individual practitioner, scientist, or educator. The Computer Sciences Corporation contract covers the design, development, and program support for MEDLARS II but does not include the computer equipment. The Library (through the General Services Administration) will procure an IBM 360- 50 computer. An initial version of the expanded system will be operational by the middle of 1969 and an on-line version by mid-1970. Progressive improvements will be made under the contract through 1971.

• An Office of Urban Library Research at Wayne State University within the Center for Urban Studies has been announced. Headed by Robert E. Booth, chairman of Wayne State’s department of library science, the office will conduct research on the problems of all types of urban libraries—public, academic, school, and special.

• The Dulles Oral History Collection, a series of personal memoirs concerning John Foster Dulles transcribed from tape-recorded interviews with 283 men and women who knew and worked with the late Secretary of State, has been completed and an 80-page descriptive catalogue of the collection has just been published, by the Princeton University library. The Rockefeller Foundation and some sixty-eight other individuals and foundations backed the project, which commenced in April 1964 and was concluded last June.

• Like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle, a group of Hebrew scholars at the Jewish Theological Seminary have been assembling thousands of fragments of yellowed, withering paper for the past two years. The fragments, uncovered in a secret hiding place in an ancient synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, trace the trade and cultural history of the Near East for more than one thousand years, from 836 A.D. virtually to the present. Microfilming soon will make them available to scholars and librarians throughout the world.

• McGraw-Hill Book Company has instituted a policy of having all books intended for library, reference, and scholarly use printed on permanent paper.

• Eleven Ohio state universities now have five and one-half million volumes of research materials available to faculty members thanks to a new interlibrary loan policy. The policy was agreed upon by the Inter-University Library Council (IULC), an informal organization made up of state university librarians. H. P. Schrank, Jr., head librarian at the University of Akron, is the current chairman of IULC.

• NELINET is the name which has been given to the New England Library Information Network. Member libraries may query, via teletype over direct telephone fines, the computer at Inforonics, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., which is working under contract to the New England Board of Higher Education. The computer searches its memory banks of LC cataloging information for information about the book-subject of the query, and automatically prepares sets of catalog cards, books labels, and book pocket labels for mailing the next day to the inquiring library. The project is supported by the Council on Library Resources. The Universities of New Hampshire and Rhode Island are at present connected to NELINET, and four others will be connected within the next few months. Eventually it is hoped to provide full service to thirty or more New England libraries.

• Negro Universities Press announces its formation as a complete, professional publishing organization. As such, its main purpose is to develop, acquire, and publish original books written by scholars and specialists affiliated with the more than one hundred American colleges and universities that are predominantly Negro in enrollment. In addition, NUP will publish a wide range of facsimile reprints of highly significant books and periodicals related to Negro history and culture. This reprint program is entitled “The Black Experience in America.” Negro Universities Press is not exclusively associated with any single academic institution.

• The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, an international association grouping together the National Associations of Antiquarian Booksellers, awards every three years a prize worth, as a rule, $750.00 to the author of the best work published or unpublished, of learned bibliography or of research into the history of the book or of typography, and books of general interest on the subject.

The competition is without restriction, but only entries submitted in accordance with certain conditions will be considered.

Three copies of each work whether published or unpublished must be deposited at the office of the Secretary of the Triennial Prize (Monsieur G.A. Deny, 5, rue du Chêne, Brussels 1, Belgium) at the very latest sixteen months before date of award. Next award: Spring of 1970. Last date for submitting entries: 31st December 1968. Further information can be obtained from the Prize secretary.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Foreign Area Materials Center has just published a new title in its Occasional Publications Series, Asian Resources in American Libraries: Essays and Bibliographies (No. 9), edited and compiled by Winston L. Y. Yang and Teresa S. Yang. It contains a comprehensive bibliographical guide to American library resources on Asia, an introductory essay by the editors and three articles on East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian resources by John T. Ma, Louis A. Jacob, and Donald Clay Johnson respectively. A directory of library resources and area studies centers prepared by Yukihisa Suzuki is also included. The publication is available for $3.00 per copy prepaid from the Foreign Area Materials Center, University of the State of New York, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036.

• Biological and Biomedical Resource Literature by Ann E. Kerker and Henry T. Murphy is a selected list of literature resources useful in biological and biomedical research and study, compiled in response to the many requests for Literature Sources in the Biological Sciences, which was compiled by the senior author and Esther M. Schlundt and published by Purdue University libraries in 1961. This publication has been out of print for several years. The present work is based in part on the former bibliography. The compilation of Biological and Biomedical Resource Literature has been supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine.

The bibliography will be distributed by the authors, gratis to libraries in universities, colleges, and research institutes. A limited number of copies will be available for free distribution to individuals concerned with the research literature of the biomedical sciences, as well as to the above mentioned libraries. The publication will not be available through book dealers.

• British Technology Index, the (British) Library Association’s monthly subject guide to articles in British technical journals, has already gained a reputation for promptness in recording very recent information. With the object of improving the reliability of its currency performance the Index has adopted computer processing of the clerical support activities needed in compiling the publication. By the transfer to the computer of all possible processes not needing intellectual effort, the small staff of technical indexers have more time available for indexing itself. No attempt is being made to automate the indexing process. The necessary programs have been developed for the KDF9 computer by the University of Newcastle Computing Laboratory, under the direction of E. S. Page, and with the support of the Office for Scientific and Technical Information. The headings for BTI entries are being punched to paper tape at the BTI editorial office. Tapes are sent to Newcastle where the University’s KDF9 computer generates all necessary cross references, either by manipulating the terms in the input headings or by matching the input terms against a magnetic tape store of relational cross references. From this data, the Newcastle University computer also produces updated copies of an authority file required by the indexers to maintain consistency. The manual authority file which is gradually being superseded, contains about a quarter of a million records and its maintenance has been an increasingly difficult problem.

For the time being the print-out received from Newcastle is not being utilised for computer aided typesetting, but further development in this direction is in hand.

• The Franklin Institute announces publication of the second edition of Horological Books and Pamphlets in The Franklin Institute Li- brary—a checklist of over fourteen hundred titles on time and time telling. The first edition of “Horological Books and Pamphlets,” published in 1956, indexed some one thousand words from the horological library. In the intervening years, the collection has grown nearly 50 per cent and ranks as one of the finest of its kind in the United States. The present list covers 109 pages in an 8 x 11? format and is available in two editions. The hardbound library edition sells for $8 plus 50¢ for shipping and handling. The soft cover edition sells for $4 plus 30¢ for shipping and handling. Orders should be sent care of The Franklin Institute Library, 20th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103.

• The Maryland Historical Society announces publication of The Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society, the first analytical list of the society’s more than seventeen hundred collections (375p). The publication is available in July, and is priced at $15. Orders should be addressed to P. William Filby, librarian of the society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore 21201 but payment should NOT be sent until requested.

• Mansell Information/Publishing Limited is establishing a print run for The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints that, according to present plans, will be maintained throughout the ten-year publishing period for the 610 estimated volumes. Many librarians all over the world know that the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books was sold out before publication was completed. It is hoped that librarians will now make known their needs for this catalog so that they will not be disappointed after publication has begun. Mansell has reserved for each research library a copy of it ninety-six-page Prospectus which contains a full history and description of the catalog, particulars of its publication, and a representative sequence of specimen pages. A copy will be sent on receipt of the library’s order or a request for the Prospectus. Terms and conditions of subscription can be obtained from Mansell, 360 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 60601, or in London from 3 Bloomsbury Place, WC1.

• The Purdue University libraries systems development unit has announced the completion of the Purdue libraries’ computer-produced serials book catalog. The twelve hundred page computer-printout catalog will replace Purdue’s 60-drawer serials card catalog of sixty thousand 3 × 5 cards. Copies of the catalog are being distributed to various locations on the Purdue campus. Published in book form, it will be available for off-campus sale. The catalog can be updated by the frequent production of supplements or by the replacement of the entire printout. At present, it contains thirty thousand serial titles and ten thousand cross references.

• Reference, a Programmed Instruction, published by the Ohio Library Foundation on July 1, was written by Donald J. Sager for para-professional workshops conducted in 1967 by the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Library Association. 1-10 copies are $4.50 each; other scheduled prices and further information should be requested from the foundation, Suite 400, 40 South Third St., Columbus, Ohio 43215.

• The second annual report of the North Riding Record Office, Yorkshire, England, has just been published. This illustrated booklet contains lists of archives deposited during the year 1967, and articles on poor law administration in Guisborough, the Guisborough Grammar School Archive, the Wyvill of Constable Burton Archive, and sources of railway and canal history in the record office. It is obtainable from the County Archivist, North Riding Record Office, County Hall, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Price $1, including postage. The first report of this record office is still available and contains similar lists for 1966 and articles on ironstone mining at Kirkleatham, the Beresford-Peirse Archive, and the records of the Richmond Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Price 50 cents, including postage.

DOWNS AWARD ANNOUNCED

An award for the outstanding contribution to intellectual freedom in libraries has been established in honor of Robert B. Downs, University of Illinois dean of library administration. Announcement of the award was made on May 24 at a dinner honoring Dean and Mrs. Downs for his twenty-five years of service to the university, given by the graduate school of library science faculty and their spouses. Lyle H. Lanier, U. of I. executive vice president and provost, paid tribute to Downs. Prof. Herbert Goldhor, director of the library school, announced the award.

The award will consist of $500 and a citation. Nominations will be sought and accepted from any source. The basis of the award may be any type of action, such as a publication, successful or unsuccessful opposition to censorship, or a research study—whether at one time or over a period of time. It will not be given more often than once a year.