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ACQUISITIONS

• A large and important collection of Brazilian materials has been purchased recently by the University of Arizona library. The greatest strength of this collection is in long backruns of periodicals. One of the most significant is the Colecao da Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro, 325 volumes. Included in the collection are 1,000 volumes on Brazilian folklore as well as strong holdings in history, literature, and language. Additionally, a gift of books concerned with legal problems of Brazil from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro adds materially to the strength of this acquisition. These have been divided between the university’s main library and the law library.

• The Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Maine, has recently received two gifts which are of great importance to the study of the literary history of early-day America. The first of these gifts consists of a three-page letter of Longfellow’s (1807-1882) written from Bowdoin in 1823, and a pocket notebook kept by Longfellow on his triumphal European tour of 1868-69. These were acquired for the college from Warren Howell by Sumner Pike, an alumnus from Lubec, Maine.

The second gift is a collection of fifty-four letters by Charles Brockden Brown (1771- 1810), America’s first professional author, presented by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hargraves of Somes Sound, Maine, and Wilmington, Delaware. The letters were written to Joseph Bringhurst, a figure long a mystery to Brown’s biographers but evidently Brown’s closest friend. Also presented were one hundred and five letters from the Bringhurst-Deborah Ferris courtship of 1795. Among related manuscripts is a twenty-three page love poem of Brown to Miss Ferris, who was also courted by Brown until her marriage to Bringhurst. The collection had always been in the possession of the family of Mrs. Hargraves, a descendant of Bringhurst.

• The author’s working copy of a rare sixteenth-century treatise on mathematics has been the latest addition to the Peter Ramus Collection at the Pius XII Memorial Library of Saint Louis University. The acquisition, entitled P. Rami Arithmetical libri dυo; Geometriae septem et viginti, was made possible through a special fund drive conducted by a group of members of the Associates of the Saint Louis University Libraries. The recently discovered volume, which deals with arithmetic and geometry, is by the French philosopher and educational reformer Peter Ramus, and was published in Basel, Switzerland, in 1569. It contains handwritten revisions by the author and is bound with Ramus’ Latin lectures on mathematics. The library contains a sizable collection of Ramist material. Most of the author’s works were published in Latin, but a few were published in French. Several members of the faculty at the University are conducting research on Ramist material.

• The Milne Library, State University College of Arts and Science at Geneseo, has acquired a collection of 195 of the published works of Aldous Huxley. The collection, purchased from the estate of a Toronto industrialist, includes first editions, hoth English and American, of most of Huxley’s novels, essays, and poems, works for which he wrote prefaces or introductions, copies of articles appearing in popular magazines, as well as works about Huxley and files of literary periodicals to which he contributed. More than fifty first editions are included in Geneseo’s new Huxley collection, ranging from his first book, The Burning Wheel (1916), to his last, Literature and Science (1963). At least forty-five of the major entries are mint copies. A number of the works are of a very limited edition, and some are inscribed and signed by Huxley. The collection contains complete runs of The Chapbook, The Coterie, and The Golden Hind, important periodicals in which Huxley appears. Included also are increasingly scarce publications by Huxley, such as Holy Face and Other Essays, The Most Agreeable Vice, and, What Are You Going to Do About It?—together with C. Day Lewis’ reply, We’re Not Going to Do Nothing. Geneseo’s new holdings comprise a significant gathering of materials by and about one of the most notable writers of our times.

• Nineteen letters from Ezra Pound to a young writer, Helene Magaret, advising her on metrics and poetry, have been acquired by The New York Public Library. Dating from about 1928, Ezra Pound advises the poet before she published her first volume of poetry. He offers to read the poems “and cross out the dead nonfunctioning words.” He recommends her work to an anthologist; comments on poets from Ovid to Masefield; advises her to study Greek—“ridiculous to talk about study of technique of poetry sans Greek”—and puts her in touch with other poets in New York. The letters are written from Rapallo in Pound’s best conversational style. The correspondence is unpublished and was acquired from Dr. Magaret, who is now professor of English at Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York. Since the thirties she has published several volumes of poetry and a number of biographies.

• King’s College library, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, has acquired the entire collection of tapes, manuscripts, books, and letters of the late George Korson the eminent folklorist. Mr. Korson is known as a pioneer in the collecting of industrial folk music. His books Minstrels of the Mine Patch and Coal Dust on the Fiddle and others are now being reprinted. Mrs. Rae Korson, his widow, who has recently retired as Head of the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress is assisting in the organization and classification of the material. Inquiries should be addressed to Mary Barrett, Librarian, King’s College Library, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18702 or to Mrs. Rae Korson in care of the Library.

• Two atlases recently received at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.), the Geographia (Strassburg, 1513) of Claudius Ptolemaeus, and the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the Theatre of the Whole World (London, 1601) of Abraham Ortelius, were the library’s most significant purchases of 1969.

The 1513 Ptolemy may be considered to be the first modern atlas, and the most important of the early printed editions. It adds twenty new maps to the earlier corpus of twenty-seven maps. Prepared by the German cartographer Waldsemüller and others, it contains the famous “Admiral’s Map.” This world map takes into account the discoveries in the New World and shows an outline of the South American coast, as well as the two islands touched by Columbus, Isabella (Cuba), and Spagnuola (Haiti). Southeast of Greenland appears a faint territorial outline which suggests the Cabot discoveries in North America.

The Theatrum is the only edition of the famous series of atlases by tire renowned Flemish cartographer Ortelius, with an English translation of the text. In fact, it is the first world atlas to be published in English. The 196 maps retain the nomenclature of the continental editions.

Maps in both atlases were colored by contemporary hands. The Ptolemy also contains a map of Lorraine that was an experimental attempt at printing maps in color. A comparison of the two atlases shows the great advance made in cartography during the century of the great explorations.

• The library of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, has recently acquired one of the finest collections of jazz materials in the Midwest. The collection includes more than 500—78rpm recordings, 100 radio transcription shows, 275—10" LP discs, and 450—12" LP discs. Also included are several limited edition sets, almost fifty historical reissue LP’s and other special sets. In addition, some 350 books and special issues of periodicals were acquired as part of the collection. Among the most valuable recordings are all the Original Jazz Band of 1917 discs, early Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington selections. The more valuable and irreplaceable discs will be taped for general use. The originals will be housed in the university’s special collections area for the use of scholars.

FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS

• The following schools have announced the availability of fellowships and scholarships for graduate work in library science.

1. Graduate Department of Library Science, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois. Title II, Part B, and a Wilson Scholarship are available. For further information contact Janise G. Meyer, Assistant to the Director, Graduate Department of Library Science.

2. School of Library Science, University of Michigan. Title II, Part B fellowships are available for master’s degree and Ph.D. work. Information and application forms are available from the School of Library Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.

3. School of Library Science, University of Southern California. Master’s and Ph.D. fellowships under Title II, Part B, are available. Information and application forms can be obtained from the office of the Dean, School of Library Science, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, California 90007.

GRANTS

• Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles (California), has received $10,000 from the Mayer Foundation for special education library holdings. These books are needed for the new Master of Science in Special Education— a degree resulting from the recent affiliation of tlie college with the Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy. Mrs. Lawrence O. Mackel, the former Suzanne Mayer and daughter of film magnate Louis B. Mayer, is an alumna and regent of Mount St. Mary’s. Mount St. Mary’s is proposing a master’s degree that takes two years, double the usual program time.

• A limited number of awards for partial support of travel to the FID Conference and International Congress on Documentation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be awarded by the U.S. National Committee for the International Federation for Documentation. Requests for such support should be addressed to the USNCFID before 1 June 1970.Requests should be accompanied by copies of papers submitted to the Congress, together with any supplementary information of relevance to the Committee.

Requests for travel support, and other information on the FID meetings should be addressed to: U.S. National Committee for FID, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418.

• A $90,135 grant has been awarded to the Ohio College Library Center, Columbus, Ohio, for tlie development of a computerized regional shared-cataloging system.

Located in Ohio State’s Research Center at 1314 Kinnear Road, Columbus, the Ohio College Library Center on-line shared cataloging system will be based on a central computerized catalog that will also form the data base of four other subsystems. Shared cataloging will speed the cataloging process and reduce cataloging costs in member libraries by taking advantage of cataloging performed elsewhere and thereby eliminating duplicate effort, and by employment of labor-saving machines.

The grant, which has been awarded by the U.S. Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will enable professors and students to locate library materials throughout the fifty-one-member group of Ohio colleges and universities which hold a total of about 12,000,000 volumes.

Kilgour said that the initial project for the production of catalog cards for libraries has progressed to the card development stage and will continue with the new grant.

• The library at the University of California, San Diego, has received a grant of $11,258 from the U.S. Office of Education to conduct an Institute on Training for Service in Undergraduate Libraries under Title II-B of the Higher Education Act. The institute will be held for one week, August 17 through August 21, 1970, at UCSD, located thirteen miles north of downtown San Diego. Thirty participants will be chosen from librarians involved in either planning or operation of undergraduate libraries in institutions which also have significant graduate programs. The basic objectives of the institute are to increase the competency of librarians serving undergraduate libraries by providing specialized training, to stimulate fresh approaches to library service for undergraduates, and to encourage further development of a specialty by presenting it as a fertile field for study and by fostering a working relationship between its practitioners.

Melvin Voigt, University Librarian at UCSD, will direct the institute with John R. Haak, Undergraduate Librarian at UCSD, as assistant director. Instructors for the institute will also include: Irene Braden Hoadley, Librarian for

General Administration and Research, Ohio State University Library; Patricia Knapp, Associate Professor, Department of Library Science, Wayne State University; Warren Kuhn, Director of the Library, Iowa State University; and Billy R. Wilkinson, Doctoral Candidate, School of Library Service, Columbia University. Six papers will be presented, one by each of the institute staff members. In addition, there will be five less-formal presentations on subsidiary topics by the members of the staff. A brochure describing the institute in more detail is available from Melvin J. Voigt, University Librarian, University of California, San Diego, P.O. Box 109, La Jolla, California 92037.

• Grants totaling over $2.1 million have been given the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, to build a new library. Principal donors were the Brown Foundation, $500,- 000; Houston Endowment, $500,000; M. D. Anderson Foundation, $250,000; Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Lyons, $50,000; Strake Foundation, $50,000; Scanlan Foundation, $25,000; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pace Doherty, Jr., $25,000.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare granted UST $688,000 for the project, a major step in the expansion and development of the university.

The library will be the largest building on the campus of UST and will be entirely debt free. It will be constructed on the south end of the academic mall and will encompass an estimated 50,000 sq. ft. and accommodate 800 students at a time. It will house approximately 100,000 volumes. Father William Sheehan, CSB, is librarian.

MEETINGS

May 21-22: “Transferring School Building Systems Experience” will be the subject of a special national conference to be held at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 21-22, it was announced today by Benjamin H. Evans, AIA, Executive Secretary of the Building Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences. Sponsored by the Building Research Institute and supported by a grant of $10,500 from the Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., of New York City, the conference will provide a forum for factual presentations by nationally known individuals with direct experience in school building systems and will be open to the public, as well as to facility planners, architects, educators, engineers, manufacturers, developers, and others interested in systems building. Attendance will be limited to 400. The conference will focus on developmental programs supported by the Educational Facilities Laboratories, a nonprofit corporation established by the Ford Foundation to help schools and colleges with their physical facility problems; for example, School Construction Systems Development (SCSD), University Residential Building System (URBS), Study of Educational Facilities (SEF), and other programs. Knowledge derived from efforts to systematize educational facilities will have application to other facilities, such as hospital, government, and commercial facilities. Additional information is available from the Building Research Institute, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418.

June 1-12: The American University Department of History presents its twenty-fourth institute: Introduction to Modern Archives Administration in cooperation with the National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, The Library of Congress and The Maryland Hall of Records. To enroll or to request further information, write Department of History—Summer Archives Institute, The American University, Washington, D.C. 20016.

June 22-July 3: The School of Librarianship at Ealing Technical College, London, England, is offering a summer school for librarians from the United States and Canada. The course will cover the “Scene in British Librarianship.” There will be lectures and seminars in the mornings followed by visits to selected libraries in the afternoons. Some fullday visits to Oxford and Cambridge to see the university libraries and particular college libraries will be arranged, and the library of the British Museum will be seen. The course fee will be $100.00. Further information and application forms can be secured from the office of L. C. Guy, F.L.A., Course Secretary, School of Librarianship, Ealing Technical College, Ealing, London, W.5, England.

June 22-July 31: A six-week institute on the “Development and Administration of Slavic and East European Library Resources” will be held at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science from June 22 to July 31, 1970. The institute, which is funded by the U.S. Office of Education, is the first opportunity for library training in this vital and growing area. Additional information as well as application forms for admission and fellowship support may be obtained from Laurence H. Miller, Director, Slavic Library Institute, 225 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

June 26-27: The Equivalencies and Reciprocity Committee of the Library Education Division, American Library Association, in cooperation with Pratt Institute and Wayne State University, will present a preconference institute on “International Library Manpower: Education and Placement in North America,” at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, on June 26 and 27, 1970, immediately preceding the 1970 Annual Conference of the American Library Association. The institute will discuss problems inherent in the evaluation of professional qualifications of persons trained in other countries who apply for positions in North American libraries and the evaluation of the academic qualifications of foreign students applying for admission to North American library schools. Participants will be invited from library education programs and large and medium-sized public and academic libraries. Other interested individuals are also welcome to participate if facilities permit. Anyone wishing additional information may contact Dr. Nasser Sharify, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205.

June 28-July 1: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C.

June 28-July 4: American Library Association Annual Conference to be held in Detroit, Michigan.

July 19-31: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fourth annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 19 to July 31, 1970. Dr. John Rizzo, Associate Professor of Management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past three summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, and school —from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Leadership, motivation, communication, personnel policy, decision-making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susquehanna River and offering a variety of recreational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to the Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

July 27-Aug. 21: The University of Denver Department of History and the Graduate School for Librarianship in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado will conduct its Ninth Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 27-August 21, 1970, under the direction of Dolores C. Renze, State Archivist of Colorado and adjunct professor, Department of History, University of Denver. Designed for those employed in archival, library, or related professions and also for advanced students of history or related subjects. Presents theory, principles, and methodology of archives administration, resources, and related manuscript source materials, with lectures and discussions by specialists in the profession. Field trips to archival agencies, departments or institutions nearby, and historical places in the area. For those especially interested in manuscript administration, arrangement, and methodology, specific assignments will be made. Credit: up to five quarter-hours, with University Institute Certificate upon completion. It is also possible to coordinate a combined certificate with the M.A. program for American Studies in the Department of History or cognate with the M.A. or M.S. program in the Graduate School for Librarianship in accordance with conditions established by these departmental graduate programs. Graduate credit for institute work transferable to another university will require approval of the Dean of Admissions; for those who do not desire credit but certificate only, the institute will be designated as “continuing education.” Tuition: $190; living accommodations available in the Centennial Conference Center at additional cost. Apply to Prof. D. C. Renze, Institute of Archival Studies, 1530 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203.

Aug. 4-14: The School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will sponsor an Institute on the History of Library Education. It is to be conducted by Dr. Paul A. Winckler, visiting professor of library science. Enrollment will be limited to thirty students. Complete details can be secured from Miss Shelagh Keene, Administrative Assistant, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sept. 14-24: The 1970 Conference and Congress of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 14-24, 1970. Participation in the Congress is open to all those who are interested in the problems of documentation and scientific information. The general theme of the Congress is: “Documentation from the Viewpoint of Users.” The Congress will consist of invited lectures and the presentation of contributed papers in the following areas:

A. Communicating information to users

1. improving efficiency

2. user studies

3. building user profiles

B. Training of users

C. Tools for users

1. conventional tools

2. non-conventional tools

Meetings of the FID General Assembly and of FID Study Committees will take place before the Congress, and will constitute the 35th Conference of FID. A regional conference on problems in information of particular interest to Latin American countries, and technical visits and tours are also included in the program. The preliminary schedule of events is as follows:

Sept. 14-18—Meetings of the FID General Assembly, the FID Council, FID Study Committees and the FID Regional Commission on Latin America

Sept. 19-20—Technical and Sightseeing Excursions

Sept. 21-24—International Congress (invited and contributed papers), Regional Conference

Additional information and preliminary registration forms are available from: U.S. National Committee for FID, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C, 20418.

Oct. 11-15: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Sheraton Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Biosciences Information Services of Biological Abstracts, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oct. 21-24: The 1970 annual conference of the Pennsylvania Library Association, Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, will be a unique convention. Headlined “A New School for Librarians,” the conference will be under the direction of a management firm and will seek to reorient librarians, trustees, and interested individuals to the library technology of the 1970s. Under the premise that many librarians have been away from the classroom for several years, the college within a conference is meant to update the individual’s professionalism, provide insight into the new directions of libraries, and, finally, to develop through group discussions a set of recommendations for library development in the seventies. More information is available from the Pennsylvania Library Association, 200 South Craig Street, Room 506, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15113.

OCT. 30: The Department of History of Notre Dame University, the Society of American Archivists, and the National Archives and Records Service (Region 5) are cooperating in the presentation of a symposium on using the resources of the Presidential Libraries. It will be held Friday, October 30, 1970, in the Continuing Education Center on the Notre Dame campus. An informal gathering of participants and those arriving the afternoon of October 29 is also being planned.

The program will consist of an address by Dr. Herbert Angel, Deputy Archivist of the United States, on the development of the system of Presidential Libraries, its current status, and plans for the future. Representatives from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Herbert Hoover Library will present papers on the holdings and operation of their institutions and a panel of scholars who have conducted research projects at a Presidential Library will discuss their experiences. Time will be available for general discussion.

Registration is $6.00 and includes coffee breaks and lunch. Rooms are available at the Morris Inn on campus at $12.00 single and $17.00 double. Motel accommodations are within a two-mile radius and rates vary from $11.00 single to $19.00 double. A printed program is to be prepared in September 1970 and will be mailed to members of the Society of American Archivists, Society of Ohio Archivists, Michigan Archivists Association, and departments of history at colleges and universities in the states comprising Region 5 of NARS (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin). Others desiring to receive a program should send their request to the following address: Regional Archives Branch, Federal Records Center, 7201 South Leamington Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60638.

Jan. 6 12, 1971: Following on the XXVIIth International Congress of Orientalists Library Panel at Ann Arbor in 1967, Library Seminars will be held during the 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, 6-12 January, 1971. These may be regarded as the first major activities of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians set up at the Ann Arbor meetings.

MISCELLANY

• The University of Hawaii dedicated its graduate research library building which was completed in 1968 in conjunction with the inauguration of the new university president, Harlan Cleveland, former ambassador to NATO. The dedication took place at 3:00 p.m. on March 16, beginning a week of festivities highlighted by the inaugural ceremony.

The library has been named the Thomas Hale Hamilton Library in honor of the man who was president of the university during its planning and construction. Dr. Hamilton spoke at the dedication, as well as Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce. Mrs. Luce has recently made a significant gift of over 1,800 volumes to the library. Included in the gift are valuable first editions such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and a very rare edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. A display of some of these titles was made in the lobby of the library.

The Thomas Hale Hamilton Library was designed by Jones & Emmons of Los Angeles, California, in association with Hogan & Chapman of Honolulu. The building provides approximately 106,000 square feet of space over four floors. This includes almost 1,000 individual carrel reader stations and open-stack bookshelves for a maximum of 800,000 volumes. The total cost was $3,451,000, $1,088,000 of which was granted under Title II of the Library Development Act.

The building program was brought to fruition under the leadership of Dr. Ralph R. Shaw who relinquished his duties as Dean of Library Activities at the time of the occupancy of the new building due to ill health. Present university librarian is Dr. Stanley L. West, formerly of the University of Florida.

• An invitational symposium concerned with the flow of agricultural information to landgrant researchers, teachers and U.S. Department of Agriculture field personnel was held in Washington, D.C., February 10-12, 1970. The 120 registrants included deans of colleges of agriculture, directors of state agricultural experiment stations, librarians from the land-grant institutions and the National Agricultural Library. The symposium was conducted by the Interuniversity Communications Council (EDUCOM) on a continuing grant from the National Agricultural Library and was called to provide a forum for the discussion and consideration of the concepts and recommendations in the Agricultural Sciences Information Network Development Plan prepared by EDUCOM. The report served as the basis for the two and one-half days’ deliberations which included presentations on the information needs of the agricultural researcher and administrator, the current status of information networks and their potential for meeting this need, agricultural research networks which might serve as analogous models, and a detailed examination and discussion of the three basic components recommended to provide the responses and coordination desired: a landgrant libraries component; an information analysis centers component; and a telecommunications component.

Two direct actions came from the final Plenary Session at the close of the symposium. One was a unanimously passed resolution calling for action by the Secretary of Agriculture and the President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges to establish a task force within tire Agricultural Research Policy Advisory Committee to implement the report and to help develop extensions of it. A council of librarians within the NASU and L-G was also recommended. Five working sessions brought forth many recommendations for immediate, long-range and specific actions. The basic concept and philosophy of the network were strongly supported. There was concern about the necessity to expand the subject scope from agriculture to a broader base such as science and technology. The symposium participants noted an attitude of impatience with the current state of affairs, called for immediate implementation of functions wherever possible, and expressed the need for more forceful leadership and a stronger commitment by the National Agricultural Library and USDA. The symposium was the first major national meeting with such a large attendance and mixture of land-grant agricultural administrators and librarians, professionals from closely related subject fields, and USDA information people.

• The American Library Association receives many inquiries about “Library Technicians.” This job title is used most often to refer to persons who work on a subprofessional level and who have had some college education (but less than a bachelor’s degree) including some formal library technical courses. Some libraries use the position title “library technician” when employing persons who have completed library technician training in junior colleges; other libraries use job titles such as “library assistant,” “cataloging aide,” or “audiovisual assistant” for similar subprofessional or paraprofessional positions.

The Library Administration Division will appreciate your assistance in providing information about such positions in your library. Job descriptions and titles, the library technician’s salary and its relation to salaries paid to your beginning professional librarians and clerical staff, as well as your qualifications for such library technician positions, are needed. All related information will be appreciated. Please send to: Mrs. Ruth R. Frame, Executive Secretary, Library Administration Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

• The 1969 George Freedley Memorial Award will be presented on Wednesday, 6 May 1970, at a cocktail reception at The Players in New York City. The award was established by the Theatre Library Association in 1968 to honor the late founder of the association, theatre historian, critic, author, and first curator of the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library. Winner of the 1968 Award was Louis Sheaffer for his O’Neill, Son and Playwright (New York: Little, Brown). The presentation will be made at 6:00 p.m. in The Walter Hampden Memorial Library at The Players. For information regarding reservations write or call Miss Dorothy L. Swerdlove, Theatre Collection, Research Library of the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10023.

• The Library of Congress has announced that it will establish a Preservation Research Office, or laboratory, to undertake basic research in the preservation of library materials. A grant from the Council on Library Resources will meet the expense of scientific equipment for the new laboratory, which is to be established in the Annex of the Library of Congress. Space for the new laboratory, which will be equipped for a broad-scale research program, is now undergoing renovation.

Pioneer investigations in this field were conducted for many years by the late William J. Barrow, whose laboratory in Richmond, Virginia, is financed by the Council on Library Resources. Barrow’s studies, and those of other investigators, have provided significant insights into the causes of paper deterioration and some knowledge of the remedies, but there remain many problems for which there are no answers, or at best only partial solutions. The research program of the Library of Congress will be aimed primarily at solving problems related to the preservation of paper, but problems in other fields will also be investigated. Among these are problems relating to adhesives, bookbindings, microfilm, magnetic tape, and motion picture film.

While the basic thrust of the program will be research, the laboratory will also assume responsibility for testing and evaluating materials, equipment, and methods used in preservation. It is intended that the new program will be national in scope by providing a laboratory which will seek to develop solutions to preservation problems for libraries and archives throughout the United States. It will possess a viability it could not otherwise have because of its association with the Library’s Preservation Office, a major restoration shop where the scientist and the craftsman can discuss and explore preservation problems together.

PUBLICATIONS

• The American National Standards Institute Standards Committee Z39 on Standardization in the Field of Library Work, Documentation, and Related Publishing Practices announces the recent publication of the American National Standard for the Abbreviation of Titles of Periodicals. This standard was prepared by Subcommittee 3 of Committee Z39 under the chairmanship of James L. Wood, Librarian at Chemical Abstracts Service; the development of the standard was made possible by support received from the Council on Library Resources and the National Science Foundation. The publication of this standard, a revision of the 1963 standard entitled Periodical Title Abbreviations, culminates a successful two-year joint American National Standards Institute- British Standards Institution effort to develop an Anglo-American standard for the abbreviation of periodical titles, and the rules contained in this standard are fully compatible with those in the British Standard 4148:1969, Recommendations for the Abbreviation of Titles of Periodicals. In addition, the standard has been recommended by a special ad hoc committee of International Standards Organization Technical Committee 46 on Documentation for adoption by ISO as the revision of ISO Recommendation R4-1953.

The recommendations of the standard are applicable to serial publications of all types and to many non-serial publications, including monographs and proceedings of meetings. They are intended to guide and assist authors, editors, librarians, and others working in various areas of information transfer activity in preparing unique, unambiguous abbreviations within a specific frame of reference for the titles of publications cited in footnotes, references, and bibliographies. To facilitate the effective use of this standard, a list of standard abbreviations for words found in serial and non-serial titles has been prepared by Z39’s National Clearinghouse for Periodical Title Word Abbreviations and is available from Chemical Abstracts at a nominal cost. Copies of the standard, designated Z39.5-1969, are available from the American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018, at $2.75 per copy.

• The Friends of Florida State University Library has just published a Catalog of the Negro Collections in the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Library and the Florida State University Library. It is available from the Friends of Florida State University Library, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, at $12.50 per copy plus postage. The Negro Collection at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University had its beginning in the early 1920s. Florida State University library’s emphasis in this area began in 1966 with the gift of Dr. David Sellers’ Negro Collection. In recent years both institutions have made a special effort to avoid duplication of volumes already in each other’s collection except in cases where it seemed necessary to have a copy on each campus. This cooperative effort made it possible to build a more extensive Negro Collection in Tallahassee and now it seems advisable to make the holdings of these two collections better known to scholars everywhere. Reproduced in this volume are author cards from the main catalogs, for the books by and about Negroes in the Collections of both universities as of July 1969.

• The Franklin Institute Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announces publication of Serial Titles in The Franklin Institute Library, 1969, a comprehensive fisting of all periodicals maintained in the library as of December 1969. This new edition not only updates the 1963 and 1966 versions, but provides for periodicals which have ceased publication. The 1969 compilation also features for the first time crossreferences and changes in title. The complete title, city of publication, and exact holdings information are supplied for each periodicalcited. The Franklin Institute Library dates from 1824 and houses one of the major collections of literature in the physical sciences and technology in the United States. Included are many titles essential to the study of the history of science and technology. The new list will serve not only as a convenient guide to the library’s periodical holdings but also as a checklist for many obscure and hard-to-find periodicals. The list contains about 8,000 entries on 377 pages and may be purchased for $15.20, postage included. All orders must be prepaid and should be addressed to: The Franklin Institute Library, Photoduplication Unit, 20th and

The Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

• The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council has published number one in their series of Studies in Interlibrary Relations. Entitled Library Service for Commuting Students; a preliminary study of problems in four southeastern New York counties, the report focuses on the burden imposed on public libraries by students who attend college in one community but use the library facilities in another community. The report is available from the Council, 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601, price $2.45.