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• Input, a newsletter on government publications, is published ten times a year by the Government Publications Department of the University of Waterloo Library, Waterloo, Ontario. It supersedes the newsletter of the Ontario Cooperative Documents Project (CODOC).

Inputseeks to provide document librarians with information on publications, people, and programs in government documents. The annual subscription price is $15. Information intended for publication should be sent to Judith A. Boettger, Editor, Input, Government Publications Department, The Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.

• New Horizons for Academic Libraries, papers presented at the ACRL 1978 national conference in Boston (April 1979, ca. 460p. ISBN 0-89664-093-0, $25), is available from K. G. Saur Publishing.

Focusing on the future of college, university, and research libraries in North America, the volume contains the theme addresses delivered by nationally known speakers in higher education and academic librarianship.

It also includes contributed papers covering such areas as management and governance of libraries; the role of the academic librarian— faculty status, staff development, research interests; economic support and budgeting for libraries; library automation; and cooperative programs among libraries, etc.

For more information on New Horizons for Academic Libraries‚ contact: Mrs. Mary P. George, General Manager, K. G. Saur Publishing Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010; (212) 477-2500.

RECEIVED

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

• The 1978 University of Illinois Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing had as its subject Problems and Failures in Library Automation. Papers from the conference edited by F. W. Lancaster have recently been published by the library school and are available from the Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, Champaign, IL 61820. Price: $9.

• As the third in its series of Tape/Slides in Library Science, the Leeds Polytechnic School of Librarianship has recently issued an introduction to the British Library Bibliographic Services Division. The kit is composed of seventy-six slides accompanied by a commentary on an audiocassette as well as publicity and descriptive brochures issued by the division. Price: £35. Available from School of Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic, 28 Park PI., Leeds LSI 2SY, England.

• A new volume in Knowledge Industry Publications’ (KIP) Professional Librarian Series is Audrey N. Grosch’s Minicomputers in Libraries, 1979-80. Like other titles issued by KIP, this may be the first in an annual series of developments in that rapidly expanding field. A special feature is a directory of installed systems as of June 1978.

• The newest volume (no.40) in the ACRL Publications in Librarianship series includes papers presented in 1977 at the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section preconference in Toronto. Edited by Richard G. Landon, the volume is entitled Book Selling and Book Buying: Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade. Price: $10 paper.

• The first issue, Spring 1979, of Library Research, the new quarterly journal edited by Melvin J. Voigt and published by Ablex Publishing Corp., has recently appeared. As stated in the opening editorial, “the Editors believe that much of the significant research currently being done is not adequately disseminated to the profession.” The new journal is to provide “carefully refereed reports of completed research.” The first issue presents five articles on resource sharing, book publishing in Denmark and the United States, use of the Delphi technique, leader behavior, and libraries in Israel. An additional feature of each issue “will be a review of an important research-oriented topic,” and the first issue includes Michael E. Roloffs review of communication in libraries. The journal also features book reviews. Subscription price: $35; $18.50 for personal subscription.

• Factors Affecting Administration in United States Academic Libraries during the Period 1971-75, by Anne Marie Allison (Occasional Paper 138, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1979, $2 prepaid), presents the results of an ALA survey of 1,032 college and university libraries conducted in 1976.

• Funding Alternatives for Libraries is a new publication from ALA. Edited by Patricia Senn Breivik and E. Burr Gibson, this volume is an outgrowth of an institute held at Pratt Institute in 1976. The various papers offer ideas and methods for obtaining financial support by libraries and include fund-raising programs, special events, direct mail solicitation, foundation support, government funding. Experiences in public, special, and academic libraries are reported. Price: $9.

• Eric J. Hunter’s AACR 2 (Linnet Books, 1979, $12.50) provides programmed instruction “designed to teach the principles underlying AACR 2, rather than a detailed knowledge of the rules themselves.”

• William Kaufmann Inc., Los Altos, California, has issued Vol. 1 of Victor Bonham-Carter’s Authors by Profession ($11.95). This new book gives an account of professional authorship from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century and demonstrates “how authors and dramatists have practised their profession; their contractual and personal relations with patrons, publishers and promoters; their situation under the law of copyright; their standing with the public; their part in the trade of books and periodicals and presentation of stage plays; their professional organisations.”

• ALA has recently published the third edition of its Book Bait: Detailed Notes on Adult Books Popular with Young People ($4 paper). Included are 100 titles, only 20 of which have been retained from the previous edition.

• Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach is a new publication from Barron’s ($3.95 paper). Authors Gordon B. Davis and Clyde A. Parker state their purpose is “to assist doctoral candidates in completing a better quality dissertation in a shorter time.” Subjects included are choice of an adviser and a dissertation committee; predissertation development activities; selection of a topic; preparation of the proposal; time schedules and budgets; working with the adviser; defense; and eventual publication.

• Barbara Hanson Pierce’s Junior Year in Britain (Peterson’s Guides, 1979, $7.95 paper plus $1.75 postage and handling) gives information on programs available at fifty-three university units in England, Scotland, and Wales and is designed to assist American college sophomores in planning for a junior year abroad.

• The National College Databank‚ Karen G. Hegener, editor, is a new reference work from Peterson’s Guides ($7.95 paper plus $1.25 postage and handling). This guide is an “academic book of lists,” presenting information in tabular form about undergraduate programs of more than 2,500 U.S. colleges and universities—e.g., admissions facts, entrance difficulty, expenses, financial aids, special programs, unusual majors.

• J. B. Post, map librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, is the author of An Atlas of Fantasy, a revised edition of which has recently been published by Ballantine Books ($8.95 paper). Maps included range from More’s Utopia and Bunyan’s Pilgrim s Progress to such recent creations as A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh country, Al Capp’s Slobbovia, Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, and Austin Wright’s Islandia.

• Martha Jane Soltow and Jo Ann Stehberger are the authors of a new bibliography of reference works on employer-employee relations, Industrial Relations and Personnel Management: Selected Information Sources (Scarecrow, 1979, $11). ■■