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• Ann F. Harter and Stephen P. Harter are the authors of Your Rights to Your Records. This twenty-five-page booklet discusses the three major federal privacy acts: the Privacy Act of 1974, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (The Buckley Amendment ) ‚ and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The booklet is a useful handbook for citizens interested in gaining access to and amending their personal records in federal, educational, or credit files. Citizen rights provided by each piece of federal legislation are outlined in detail. Names and addresses of relevant credit agencies, federal files, and federal agencies are listed. Suggested procedures and aids also are presented, including model letters and other forms.

Copies of the booklet can be ordered from S. Harter, Box 17222, Tampa, FL 33682. The price is $3.

• A quarterly newsletter, The Information Report, published by Washington Researchers, identifies little-known sources of information which are available for free or for very little cost. Subscriptions to the information report are available at $5 per year. For a free sample copy contact: Washington Researchers, 910 17th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20006.

• The Information Industry Association (IIA) announces availability of Information Sources: The 1977 Membership Directory, a guide concerned with the products, services, and people that comprise the information industry.

It is the result of a conscientious effort to collect, organize, and publish in one volume a comprehensive, indexed listing of hundreds of the most important and varied information products and services available today.

It contains a products-and-services index as well as a separate names-and-numbers section and consists of descriptive material on the 103 member companies of IIA.

The 1977 edition is softbound and has been converted to an annual publication. Price: $10, 224p. Mail orders with check for $10 should be sent to Information Industry Association, 4720 Montgomery Lane,. Bethesda, MD 20014.

• The National Library of Canada has just published National Conference on the State of Canadian Bibliography: Vancouver, Canada, May 22-24, 1974: Proceedings, edited by Anne B. Piternick and others.

Copies may be ordered from Publishing Centre, Printing and Publishing, Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OS9. All orders must be accompanied by a check or money order made payable to the Receiver General for Canada. Price: Canada, $7.50; other countries, $9.00.

• What to Do About the Subject Catalog Until the Librarian Comes is a fifteen-minute slide/tape show explaining the use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings List, 8th edition, and the U.C. Berkeley Main Library Subject Catalog.

Although some of the material is aimed specifically at problems with the U.C. Berkeley catalog, the show should be useful for library schools elsewhere not only for classes but also as an aid for developing similar presentations for local situations.

It consists of fifty-three slides and a fifteen- minute cassette designed to be played on any synchronized slide/tape equipment. The script is included so that the show may be viewed on nonsynchronized equipment.

It currently is being shown on a Caramate slide/tape viewer in the reference room at the U.C. Berkeley Main Library and is used in library school and bibliography I classes.

The show was made by librarians in General Reference Service and the Catalog Department and is for sale for $35 from Jean Hudson, General Reference Service, Main Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Make checks payable to Regents of the University of California.

• The preliminary edition of Toward a National Library and Information Service Network: The Library Bibliographic Component, prepared by the Library of Congress Network Advisory Group and edited by Henriette D. Avram and Lenore S. Maruyama of the Network Development Office, was recently issued and was given wide distribution at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Detroit in June. The fifty-four-page report represents the initial planning document for a national library bibliographic network. An earlier version, entitled The Library Bibliographic Component of the National Library and Information Service Network, was distributed for review and comments last March.

The latest edition contains some revisions and minor editorial changes that had been submitted to the Network Advisory Group and a group of initial reviewers. It is being given wide dissemination in the library and information communities before it is published as a final edition.

Toward a National Library and Information Service Networkis available upon request to the Subscriber Accounts Unit, Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20541.

• Locating Information By and About Afro- Americans, compiled by Rita Sparks and DeWitt S. Sykes, has been published by Oakland University Libraries. Order from Rita Sparks, Reference Department, Library, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48063. The cost is $1 prepaid.

• The Library of Congress recently issued the first comprehensive bibliography to be published on the timely and controversial subject of the Panama Canal Treaty— The Controversy Over a New Canal Treaty Between the United States and Panama: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of United States, Panamanian, Colombian, French, and International Organization Sources, by Wayne D. Bray. Bray’s research was conducted under the direction and supervision of the Hispanic Law Division of the Law Library.

The bibliography is designed to aid researchers, primarily in the Congress and the academic community, in an in-depth examination of all facets of the treaty relationship between the United States and Panama governing control of the Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Zone. The centerpiece of that relationship is the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty, negotiated in 1903 and still in force with some modifications, under which Panama receives annual payments from the United States in return for a grant to the latter of exclusive perpetual control of a zone extending five miles on each side of the waterway.

The compiler is also the author of a book on the legal history and current legal status of the Panama Canal Zone, The Common Law Zone in Panama, released this year, which was awarded a prize as an “excellent historical legal book” at the 1977 biennial convention of the Inter-American Bar Association.

The Controversy Over a New Canal Treaty Between the United States and Panamais available by mail for $5 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock No. 030- 001-00074-5), or in person from the Information Counter, Library of Congress Building.

• The University of Colorado’s Western Historical Collections has published A Guide to Manuscript Collections, compiled by Ellen Arguimbau and edited by John A. Brennan, curator. This book lists 480 holdings and includes a comprehensive twenty-six-page index. It measures nine-by-six inches and has a perma- bound soft cover with attractive front and back illustrations. It is available for $5 (plus 50¢ postage and handling) from the University Bookstore, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.

• The Library of Congress has reprinted Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, a guide to its extensive collections of photographic negatives of views and portraits made by the nine- teenth-century American photographer Mathew B. Brady. The volume originally was printed in 1961 and was compiled by Library staff members Donald H. Mugridge and the late Hirst D. Milhollen.

The 1,047 copy negatives listed have been carefully chosen to include the best and most interesting photographs of the categories into which the collection may be organized. The first theee parts of the catalog arrange the photographs according to the progress of the war in three different areas of the United States. But because the Brady camera was most at home in recording matériel—officers, men, and horses posed as if in a studio—there are only four views of the 723 in these three parts that can be described as scenes of battle.

Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865is available in person from the Information Counter on the ground floor of the Library of Congress Building, or by mail from the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, Dept. C-33, Washington, DC 20540, for $1.50. Payment must accompany all mail orders.

• Acquisitions librarians, reference staff, undergraduate students, and advanced researchers will find valuable information about expensive research materials in a new supplement published by the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO). The thirty-nine-page Cooperative Acquisitions Program Purchases 1975/76 gives authoritative cataloging entries for fifty-eight research titles, many on microform, which were purchased cooperatively by METRO’S eighty- eight member libraries in 1975-76. All entries for items within each series are included. Descriptive notes written by METRO librarians identify the value of each series for libraries and researchers.

The supplement updates the 150-page METRO CAP Catalog, which contains entries for the 1,800 research items purchased through the Cooperative Acquisitions Program from 1972 to 1975. The authoritative cataloging is in the form in which it appears in The New York Public Library’s computer catalog.

A copy of the supplement will be included without charge with all new purchases of the METRO CAP Catalog. (The latter is priced at $25 when a check accompanies the order and $30 if an invoice is required.) Each previous purchaser of the METRO CAP Catalog will receive a free copy of the supplement on request. Others may order the supplement alone for $3; payment should accompany the order. Send orders to: METRO, 11 West 40th St., New York, NY 10018.

RECEIVED

(Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College & Research Libraries.)

American library development, 1600-1899/ Elizabeth W. Stone. — New York : H. W. Wilson Co., 1977. 367p. $30.00. (LC 77- 7881) (ISBN 0-8242-0418-2)

Approval plans and academic libraries : an interpretive survey/ by Kathleen McCullough, Edwin D. Posey, Doyle C. Pickett. — Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1977. 154p. $12.50. (LC 77-8514) (ISBN 0- 912700-05-X)

A bibliographical guide to the history of Indian-white relations in the United States / Francis Paul Prucha. — Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1976. 454p. $20.00. (LC 76-16045) (ISBN 0-226-68476-8)

Bibliography on Cardinal Mindszenty (1892- 1975) /compiled by Joseph Szeplaki. — Youngstown, Ohio : Catholic Hungarians’ Sunday, 1977. 31p. $1.75 postpaid. (LC 77- 80152)

(Order from Catholic Hungarians’ Sunday, 1739 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, OH 44509.)

Charles Ammi Cutter, library systematizer /edited by Francis L. Miksa. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1977. 344p. $17.50. (LC 76-58870) (ISBN 0-87287- 112-6)

“The Heritage of librarianship series ; no.3”

College learning resources programs : a book of readings.— Washington : Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1977. 80p. $4.50. (member) $5.50. (nonmember) (ISBN 0-89240-005-6)

Conference on the future of computerised information services at the University of London : proceedings.— London : Library Resources Co-ordinating Committee, University of London, 1977. 116p. £5. (ISBN 7187- 0437-1)

(Order from Central Information Services, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.)

Criteria for planning the college and university learning resources center/ Irving R. Merrill, Harold A. Drob. — Washington : Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1977. 117p. $4.95. (member) $5.95. (nonmember) (LC 77-2612) (ISBN 0-89240-003-X)

(Edition for 1974 published under title: Criteria for planning the university learning resources center.)

Educational technology : definition and glossary of terms/ AECT Task Force on Definition and Terminology. — Washington : Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1977. 365p. $21.95. (member) $24.95. (nonmember) (LC 77-2618) ISBN 0-89240-002-1)

Expanding media/ edited by Deirdre Boyle.

— Phoenix, Ariz : Oryx, 1977. 343p. $13.95 (LC 77-23335) (ISBN 0-912700-03-3)

First printings of American authors : contributions toward descriptive checklists/ Matthew J. Bruccoli, series ed. — 1st ed. — Detroit : Gale Research, 1977. 432p. (vol. 1) $140.00 (4 vols.) (LC 74-11756) (ISBN 0-8103-0933-5)

The generic book : what it is and how it works /by Louis Shores. — Norman, Okla. : Li- brary-College Associates, 1977. 164p. $5.00. (LC 77-22891)

Guide to library research in public administration/ by Antony E. Simpson. — New York : Center for Productive Public Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 1976. 210p. $5.95. (LC 76-358507)

An intellectual freedom primer / Charles H. Busha. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1977. 221p. $17.50. (LC 77-7887) (ISBN 0-87287-172-X)

Libraries and the life of the mind in America : addresses delivered at the centennial celebration of the American Library Association.— Chicago : American Library Association, 1977. 130p. (LC 77-3288) (ISBN 0-8389- 0238-3)

Libraries in post-industrial society/ edited by Leich Estabrook. — Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1977. 337p. $11.95. (LC 77- 8928) (ISBN 0-912700-00-9)

Library acquisition policies and procedures/ edited by Elizabeth Futas. — Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1977. 406p. $14.50. (LC 77-7275) (ISBN 0-912700-02-5)

On-line bibliographic services : where we are, where we’re going : proceedings of an allday meeting at the Centennial Conference of the American Library Association, Chi- cago, 18 July 1976 . . . /edited by Peter G. Watson. — Chicago : American Library Association, Reference and Adult Services Division, 1977. 91 leaves. $3.00. (ISBN 0- 8389-6342-0)

Oral history : from tape to type/ Cullom Davis, Kathyrn Back, Kay MacLean. — Chicago : American Library Association, 1977. 141p. $7.50. (LC 77-4403) (ISBN 0- 8389-0230-8)

The PRECIS index system : principles, applications, and prospects : proceedings of the International PRECIS Workshop, October 15-17, 1976/ edited by Hans H. Wellisch. — New York : Wilson, 1977. 21 lp. $12.50. (LC 77-1932) (ISBN 0-8242-0611-8)

Personnel development in libraries : proceedings of the thirteenth annual symposium sponsored by the alumni and the faculty of the Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Science/ edited by R. Kay Maloney. — New Brunswick, N.J. : Bureau of Library and Information Science Research, Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Science, 1976. 115p. $6.00 (LC 77- 5025) (ISBN 0-8135-0843-6) “Issues in the library and information sciences ; no.3”

Photocopying in libraries : the librarians speak /by Patricia Whitestone. — White Plains, N.Y. : Knowledge Industry Publications, 1977. 112p. $24.50. (LC 77-8924) (ISBN 0-914236-08-3)

Public knowledge, private ignorance : toward a library and information policy/ Patrick Wilson. — Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977. 156p. $13.50. (LC 76-52327) (ISBN 0-8371-9485-7)

“Contributions in librarianship and information science ; no. 10”

The responsibility of the university library collection in meeting the needs of its campus and local community : a symposium in honor of Melvin J. Voight upon his retirement as University Librarian of the University of California, San Diego, Friday, September 17, 1976.— La Jolla, Calif. : Friends of the UCSD Library, 1976. 52p.

Transcribing and editing oral history /by Willa K. Baum. — Nashville : American Association for State and Local History, 1977. 128p. $4.50. (member) $6.75. (nonmember) (LC 77-3340) (ISBN 0-910050- 26-0)