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ACQUISITIONS

• The outstanding gift of a large collection of manuscript material by the great American author John Dos Passos has recently been made to the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library. Presented by Dos Passos’ widow, the collection augments similar gifts made to the library by the author himself before his death in 1970.

The manuscript collection is now one of the most complete in existence for a single writer, covering the entire span of his writing career from his early days at Choate and Harvard to his late years on his Westmoreland County, Virginia farm. The newly acquired material includes notebooks, drafts, typescripts, drawings, and proofs for his books Prospects of a Golden Age, The Head and the Heart of Thomas Jefferson, A Tour of Duty, and The Great Days.

Also of significance are Dos Passos’ 1918 diaries, kept while he was on Red Cross ambulance duty in Italy, and the typescript for an unpublished novel, “Seven Times around the Walls of Jericho,” which he wrote with Robert Hillyer in 1917.

Among the fifty-six printed volumes included in the gift are editions of Dos Passos’ work in Spanish, French, German, Polish, Japanese, and other languages.

• The University of Maryland has accepted the official vice-presidential papers of Mr. Spiro T. Agnew. The gift includes papers from Mr. Agnew’s tenure as Baltimore County executive as well as governor of Maryland. There are 600 letter–size boxes which, in addition to papers, contain tapes, photographs, invitations, and other memorabilia.

In accepting the gift, the university has agreed that Mr. Agnew’s papers will not be available to researchers until January 1977.

The official vice-presidential papers of Mr. Agnew will be of tremendous value to future historians and researchers. For many years, the University of Maryland libraries have been gathering the archives of prominent Marylanders, and Mr. Agnew’s gift to the university constitutes a major contribution.

• An extraordinary and hitherto unknown collection of letters from author John Steinbeck has been presented to Stanford University by the Associates of the Stanford Libraries.

The collection consists of the author’s letters to brothers Jack and Max Wagner, his close friends, and members of the Hollywood film industry just before and just after World War II.

The Steinbeck letters focus on the Hollywood world and Steinbeck’s remarkable success in adapting his writings to the screen, and range over a wide variety of subjects touching both his private and professional life. By happy accident the correspondence tends to cluster around two periods, just before (1939–41) and just after (1945–47) World War II. By 1939, when The Grapes of Wrath appeared, he had become recognized as a major American author, the quintessential Californian, and was at the height of his creative powers. In the correspondence of the latter period he becomes, very self-consciously and even assertively, the New Yorker, and struggles to broaden and build on his reputation as a novelist, stage and film writer, and social critic.

Steinbeck attended Stanford in the thirties but did not graduate.

• American Christian College, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has recently acquired a major college library.

The like-new library consists of 38,000 hardbound volumes, 20,000 bound periodicals, approximately 800 reels of microfilm of major city newspapers, and one microfilm reader.

The new-copy price of the volumes is estimated to have been around $600,000. They have been acquired from the now defunct College of Emporia in Kansas, which closed its doors amidst financial difficulties in January, after ninety-two years of continuous operation. Purchase price of the material is reported to be $60,000.

American Christian has a present library of 12,000 volumes, and needed more depth in its ten established major study areas. The acquisition will boost its library to the level of many larger and older colleges in Oklahoma, with approximately 50,000 books.

The newly acquired books are in the areas of business administration, psychology and counseling, education, English and communications, history, political science, biblical studies, Christian education, and music—all current majors at ACC. Also included were volumes sufficient to support majors in biology, chemistry, mathematics, social welfare, and sociology, plus books in five preprofessional subjects of dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. ACC is considering adding some of these additional majors in the near future and may also add the preprofessional programs to its liberal arts curriculum.

GRANTS

• New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, Inc. (METRO) has granted an award of $1,000 to Teachers College of Columbia University to facilitate a program of cooperative use of an on-line computer terminal providing access through the Lockheed/Dialog system to ERIC and other machine-readable files dealing with education, psychology, and related fields.

The grant is to be used for the benefit of the METRO member libraries and will fund, on a prorated basis, capital costs and equipment rental charges incurred by the Teachers College Library in support of the cooperative program. Teachers College will furnish overhead costs, and the staff expects to aid research workers is using the terminal in the most expeditious and economical manner. Institutions or individual users will be required to pay for terminal time and printout bibliographies following procedural details which will be established in the near future.

• The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $117,000 to the Graduate Library School of Indiana University to conduct a year’s study of the present critical situation facing publishers and libraries in the production and use of scholarly and research journals.

Growing economic pressures upon both publishers of scholarly and research journals and research libraries which acquire and make them available have intensified in recent years, placing this entire communication system in jeopardy.

The study team includes Dean Bernard Fry of the Graduate Library School as principal investigator, with Dean W. Carl Jackson of the University Libraries as associate investigator of the research project. An Advisory Committee to the project study team includes national representatives from all major components of the communications system including concerned learned associations, university presses, professional society publishers, commercial publishers, large academic and public libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Federal Library Committee. Under a subcontract Becker and Hayes, Inc. is assisting the study team in gathering and analyzing data on the economics of journals published by commercial publishers.

The focus of the proposed study will be on the “Economics and Interaction of the Publisher–Library Relationship in the Production and Use of Scholarly Journals.” Recent trends in large-scale library cooperation, specifically the lending of journals as a means of reducing pressures on library budgets, could have quite serious side effects on the unstable economic mechanism which has allowed the publishers of limited circulation scholarly and research journals to maintain a narrow margin of economic viability.

Although journal publishers are beginning to experiment with new approaches and alternatives, the traditional journal remains the most widely used tool offered by the present system for the storage and communication of scholarly and research information. Whether or not such journals are obsolescent, it is important that they survive until satisfactory replacements are available.

On the basis of data gathered from all sectors of the publishing and library communities, a primary study objective is to propose joint actions aimed at achieving cooperative and reasonable results agreeable to all involved communities. In addition to identification of both practical and legal problems, the study team is also charged to recommend changes of an institutional, organizational, and philosophic nature that must be brought about in order to create the kind of environment necessary for a direct attack on the broad systems–planning problems that lie at the heart of the matter.

MEETINGS

July 28-Aug. 9: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the eighth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for further information.

August 5–6: Media. “Differentiating the Media: A Focus on Library Selection and Use of Communication Content” will be the topic of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. The aim of the conference is to go beyond the current pro and con arguments about the “new media” and to stress, instead, the characteristics of each medium which influence its effectiveness as a carrier of different kinds of communication to serve different kinds of needs for different kinds of audiences.

The conference will be held at the Center for Continuing Education on the University of Chicago campus. For further details about registration, housing, etc., write to either of the conference directors, Lester Asheim or Sara I. Fenwick, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. See the April News for more information.

September 12-15: Oral History Colloquium. The Oral History Association is holding its ninth National Colloquium at Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Lake Lodge, Jackson, Wyoming.

The workshop will begin at midafternoon on Thursday, September 12, and continue through a noon luncheon on Friday. The colloquium will begin at Friday noon, September 13, and continue through a noon luncheon on Sunday.

One may register for either the workshop or colloquium or both.

Registrations for the workshop and/or colloquium must be submitted by August 15, 1974. Forms can be obtained by writing George Ellsworth, Editor, Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84321.

September 29—October 2: Public RelaTions—A Library Toolwill be the theme of the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference to be held at Host Farm Resort, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Information may be requested from Stephen D. Wood, Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St., Lancaster, PA 17602.

October 15: A Nonprint Media Institute will be held in Galveston, Texas on the Southwestern Library Association’s annual conference registration day. The one day institute, sponsored by SWLA, will feature morning speakers including Pearce Grove discussing progress in resolving differences among three cataloging standards for nonprint media, and Vivian Schrader, head of the AV section of Library of Congress, reporting on the progress of LC’s nonprint cataloging standards. Afternoon informal discussion forums will focus on technical service handling of art prints, microforms, films, kits, phonorecords, and audiotape.

The Nonprint Media Institute is open to members and nonmembers of SWLA, but is limited to 150 registrants. Registration fee is $20.00. For registration, hotel reservations, and transportation information, write: Ann Adams,

Head Cataloger, Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney, Houston, TX 77002.

October 18-19: International Standards for Cataloging: An Institute on ISBD, ISSN, NSDP, and Chapter 6, AACR. The seventh annual institute of the Library Institutes Planning Committee will be held at Rickey’s Hyatt House Hotel, Palo Alto, California.

Paul W. Winkler, principal descriptive cataloger, Library of Congress, will speak on the application of the International Standard Bibliographic Description to monographs and on related topics. The establishment of bibliographic control of serials through International Standard Serial Numbers, Chapter 6 of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, and the National Serials Data Program will be presented by a knowledgeable serials librarian (to be announced later). The program is designed to be of particular interest to technical service librarians, serials librarians, bibliographers, and administrators.

Registration for the two-day meeting is limited; the fee is $20.00 and includes two luncheons. Further information, including a list of hotel accommodations, will be mailed to applicants.

Registrants of the 1972 and 1973 institutes will automatically receive registration forms. Others may obtain forms by writing Joseph E. Ryus, 2858 Oxford Ave., Richmond, CA 94806, or by telephoning him during weekday hours at the University of California, Berkeley: (415) 642-4144. All registration forms will be mailed early in September.

October 22: The Connecticut Library Association, College and University Section will hold its meeting October 22, 1974 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

October 23-25: The Illinois Library Association Conference will be held in Springfield at the new Ramada Inn Forum XXX. The three days of sessions will explore “The Compleat Library—Real or Imagined?” More than 1,200 librarians are expected to attend.

All conferees will attend four general sessions for presentation of four different topics concerned with “The Compleat Library.” After the general presentation, the conferees will break into small groups to discuss the topics. Group reports of the discussions will be published as part of the proceedings of the conference.

The topics of the discussions, not necessarily in this order, will be: sensitivity of the needs of the public; personnel confidence and competence; library resources, significant and comprehensive; and cooperation.

Meal meetings are the opening luncheon on Wednesday, section luncheons on Friday, and the banquet Friday evening when Senator Charles Percy will be the speaker. A reception for members of the General Assembly will be held Wednesday night after dinner.

The ILA business meeting will be held Thursday from 4-6 p.m. Committee meetings will be scheduled for Wednesday morning, late Wednesday afternoon, Thursday after dinner, and Friday afternoon. Small committees may schedule meetings at lunch or dinner time when there are no general meals.

For further information contact Sella Morrison, Chairperson, Publicity Committee for Illinois Library Association Conference, Lincoln Library, Springfield, IL 62701.

November 3-6: The 1974 Mountain Plains Library Association’s Annual Convention will be held at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “A New Direction” will be the theme. Those interested in receiving further information concerning the convention should contact Mr. Joseph Edelen, I. D. Weeks Library, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, in order to be placed on the mailing list. All of those interested in exhibiting at the convention should contact the local arrangements chairman, Dr. Larry W. Crandall, Learning Resources Center, Western Nevada Community College, 813 North Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701.

November 10-13: Collective Bargaining in Libraries will be the topic of the twentieth annual Allerton Park Institute of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The institute will be held at Allerton House, the university’s conference center at Robert Allerton Park, near Urbana. The conference will include papers and discussions both by librarians and by experts from the field of industrial relations, including arbitrators, union representatives, lawyers, etc. The trend toward unionization and collective bargaining has been pronounced in American libraries in the last few years, and the institute topic is therefore of particular current interest to librarians.

The institute is co-sponsored by the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The institute chairman is Frederick A. Schlipf, assistant professor of Library Science. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor (OP-003), University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

November 14-16: The Virginia Library Association Annual Conference will be held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia. For further information contact: Sylvia E. Dawson, Local Arrangements Committee, Charles Pinckney Jones Memorial Library, Inc., 406 West Riverside St., Covington, VA 24426.

November 16-23: National and International Library Planning is the theme for the first IFLA General Council Meeting to be held in the United States. The meeting will be the 40th General Council Meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). The theme is related to the UNESCO International Conference on Planning of National Overall Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures to be scheduled for Paris in late September 1974.

The IFLA 1974 Conference will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Overall conference chairman is Robert Vosper, vice-president of IFLA and professor of library service at the University of California at Los Angeles. Speakers at the plenary sessions will include Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and Dr. Harry T. Hookway, executive director, the British Library, London.

For further information, contact: IFLA 1974 Conference Secretariat, c/o Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 232-2434.

MISCELLANY

• Seven nineteenth-century posters selected from the collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress are now for sale at the Information Counter, Ground Floor, Main Building, or by mail from the Information Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

Among LC’s extensive poster collection are advertisements for: beer, wine, whiskey, clothing, shoes, fashions, foods, horses, cattle, circus, and theater, to mention a few. Many of these posters were acquired through copyright and have become rare or unique.

“Dr. C. Y. Girard’s Ginger Brandy, For Sale Here” (1860), “Harper’s March” (1897) by Edward Penfield, “The Modern Poster” (1895) (this is No. 416 of the 1,000 copies originally printed by Will H. Bradley), and “S. D. Sollers & Co. Manufacturers of Children’s Fine Shoes” (1874), are priced at $3.50. Posters available for $4.00 are “Payn’s Sure- Raising Flour Sold Here” (1873) by H. C. Dart, “Harrison’s Handkerchief Extracts” (1854) by A. D. Harrison, and “Dr. Roback’s Unrivaled Stomach Bitters” (1866) by Gibson & Co.

Posters can be purchased at the library’s Information Counter. Mail orders should be accompanied by check or money order.

• Dr. Morris H. Saffron has received the Columbia University Presidential Citation for Distinction for his service to the university and its libraries.

Dr. Saffron, who earned his Columbia Ph.D. six years ago at the age of 63, was cited in part for “his contributions to the academic world as an authority in the field of the history of medicine.” His doctoral dissertation dealt with the life and works of a physician who lived in the twelfth century.

The presidential citation recognized Dr. Saffron’s “noteworthy tenure” as chairman of the Council of the Friends of the Columbia Libraries, a post he held from 1967 to 1972. It also noted his gifts to the libraries and his encouragement of gifts by others.

• A concurrent Law/Librarianship Degree program leading to the J.D. and M.L.S. degrees has now been approved at the University of California, Berkeley. Designed primarily for those wishing to become law librarians, the program requires separate admission to the School of Law (Boalt Hall) and the School of Librarianship. Students admitted to the program would normally acquire both degrees in approximately three–and-one-half years. Normally, the first year would be devoted completely to work in the School of Law. Thereafter, work would be divided between the two schools. Ten units of credit in librarianship course work will be counted toward fulfillment of J.D. unit requirements, and nine units of credit in law course work will be counted toward fulfillment of M.L.S. unit requirements. Normally an internship in a law library would be required as part of the program, though in some cases work in a law firm will suffice.

It is generally considered desirable—though perhaps not essential—that law librarians have legal training as well as training in librarianship. The concurrent program represents the natural conjunction of the two separate professional programs.

• A training program in medical librarianship and communications in the health sciences has been initiated by the University of Texas Health Science Center Library in Dallas.

Each student’s program is custom designed to suit individual interests and to allow a variety of educational avenues. The student may elect to work on some project within the library itself; to investigate an area involving library/ instructional communications relationships or library/computer interaction; or to work as a bibliographic or research assistant to a faculty member engaged in writing. The library will have new quarters for its medical history collection, and the intern may wish to work in that area. When the area has been selected, the student will be assigned to a library staff member who will help coordinate the project. There will be opportunities to visit and use other libraries in the Dallas area and attend professional meetings. Courses that the student feels will help with the project may be taken at any of the institutions in the community.

Students accepted into the program must have a master’s degree in library science from an accredited library school. They should also have a science background and some language competency. The application should be supported by three letters of reference and a complete transcript of grades; however, no work experience is required. Students start the program during June and will spend the summer receiving an orientation to the library by rotating their work through the various departments. By the beginning of the fall term, it is expected that the student will have identified some area or project of special interest. The student will then continue to work half-time in the library in this chosen specialty while independently pursuing the project during the rest of the time.

Upon completion of the courses and the internship, the trainee should be eligible for certification by the Medical Library Association. The student will complete the program on June 1 of the following year. A stipend of $4,800 is paid for the period. Four internships are granted each year. Applications are also invited from those who have finished their preliminary work on the doctorate at an accredited library school, and who have identified a topic in medical librarianship that they wish to pursue for their dissertation. In such cases, the stipends will be extended each year until the thesis is completed, up to three years.

Persons interested in the program should request an application form from the program director: Donald D. Hendricks, Director of the Library, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235.

Applicants should also be prepared to submit transcripts of their undergraduate record as well as graduate work completed. In addition, the names of three persons from whom letters of reference may be requested should be submitted.

PUBLICATIONS

• A Directory of Information Resources in the United States: Social Sciences (Revised Edition, 1973) is the eighth in a series compiled by the National Referral Center, Library of Congress. This volume updates and extends the coverage of a directory with the same subtitle published in 1965. These revisions are being supported by the National Science Foundation.

At last, one source of subject access to 20th Century U.S. Government Publications

CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX TO THE MONTHLY CATALOG OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1900–1971

This new fourteen volume single-alphabet subject index set

… is offered by itself — for libraries holding complete runs of the Monthly Catalog — or, in a

COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION

which contains a complete MICROFILM collection of the Monthly Catalog from 1895 through 1971 for convenient reference use with the index volumes.

The complete backfile of the Monthly Catalog was microfilmed by the Photoduplication Division of the Library of Congress especially for use with our Cumulative Subject Index. The 53 reel set contains the full text of all 867 indexed issues of the Monthly Catalog and its 3 World War II supplements, plus the two Decennial Indexes, and some 60 pre-1900 issues which were not indexed.

Monthly Catalogentries contain complete bibliographical data for almost every U.S. Government publication; including title, personal author, collation, LC number, Su- Docs classification number, price, ordering information, and a symbol indicating if the publication was sent to depository libraries.

All Subject Index entries before September 1947 show year–and-page numbers whereas later entries give year-and–entry numbers. Each two digit year number (’00 through ’71) serves as the reel number in the microfilm collection. Page and entry numbers appear in numerical sequence on the film; and as all entries for any given year of Monthly Catalog are on the same reel, the numerical sequences are never broken and it is never necessary to look on more than one reel for any single year.

Because of the lack of standardization in the microfilm industry, we offer our sets with a variety of film options; including a choice between silver halide film or Diazo, roll or cartridge, and 16mm or 35mm film size.

“In this ambitious new library tool, cumulative access is brought for the first time to the overwhelming majority of United States Government publications issued during the period 1900-1971. In this, it is an accomplishment unrivaled in size and scope. Documents librarians will find it a new and convenient time–saver and one which should offer them an additional means of providing an expanded and improved Government publications service to their patrons.”

From the Foreword by Carper W. Buckley,

United States Superintendent of Documents, 1952-1970

The 2,480 entries in the directory are based on a register of information resources maintained by the center since it was established in 1962. Listed in the entries are the address, telephone, areas of interest, holdings, publications, and information services of a wide variety of organizations capable of meeting specific information needs, including libraries, information centers, professional societies, universities, industrial firms willing to extend their information services beyond their own organization, and federal, state, and local government offices. A subject index is included.

To ensure textual accuracy, each entry was submitted for review to the organization covered. As in the center’s previous directories, some significant resources could not be included because they did not respond to requests for descriptions of their activities.

This directory is available by mail for $6.90 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3000-00065). Foreign orders should include 25 percent addition for mailing.

• A two-volume reference work, India and Indians: A Bibliography, has been published by the Colgate University library.

Prepared by Ravindra N. Sharma, reference librarian at Case Library, the bibliography is being released in conjunction with the India Institute which will be a part of Colgate’s undergraduate summer term.

The complete holdings on India in Case Library are contained in the two volumes, including dictionary style listings of all the books under the various subject headings.

Librarians, students, and Indian scholars may order copies from the Reference Department, Case Library, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346.

• A third survey of salaries in academic libraries by Donald F. Cameron, former head of the Rutgers University Library, and economist Peggy Heim for the Council on Library Resources shows the same “pronounced pyramidal structure” noted in the earlier two (1969-70 and 1970-71), a structure “with a handful of more or less well-paid librarians at the top and a wide base of very low-paid positions at the bottom.”

Librarians in Higher Education: Their Compensation Structures for the Academic Year 1972-73,just issued by CLR, observes that “fewer than 10 percent of the professional librarians are in positions in which the average compensation exceeds that of assistant professor in similar institutions.”

In completing the comparison with faculty, Cameron and Heim write: “On the other hand, among faculty receiving tenure, probably 80 percent or more ultimately achieve the rank of associate professor and salaries commensurate with the rank.”

The average compensation of university library directors in 1972-73 was $29,410, ranging from an average $32,370 in private institutions to an average $22,900 in church-related universities. Library directors in four-year colleges averaged $17,510 in public institutions, $17,190 in the private, and $15,380 in the church-related colleges. Library directors constitute only 5 percent of professional librarians in colleges and universities.

The question is raised “whether it is more appropriate to compare academic librarians with faculty or with general institutional administrators. … To an increasing extent both general institutional administration and academic libraries will have to solve many of the same problems. The problems relate specifically to basic occupational structures, to compensation levels, to career paths, and to psychological satisfaction derived from the job.”

The twenty-four-page report, which includes fifteen statistical tables of compensation structures, is available at no charge from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., 1 DuPont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036.

• Open admissions at the City University of New York has been praised and disputed, its students dissected and analyzed, and the social implications of its policy argued across the nation. Each author, whether for or against, has contributed to a growing public debate on what has become one of the central issues in American higher education. Kingsborough Community College associate professor Sharad Karkankis has successfully brought together the various authors. He has compiled a complete bibliography of open admissions literature including scholarly papers, books, conferences, proceedings, plus journal and newspaper articles. There is a broad range of opinion among the authors cited on the subject of open admissions, ranging from Clark Kerr and Daniel P. Moynihan to Spiro T. Agnew.

Copies of the bibliography are available, free of charge, from: The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 535 East 80th St., New York, NY 10021.

• The Bibliography of Alaskana, October, 1969-December, 1973 has been published by the University of Alaska. This computerized bibliography is a KWOC index to periodical articles found in the periodical collection of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library that concern themselves with Alaska and Alaska-oriented subjects. It is a two-volume, 615-page work and costs $15.00. Monthly updates to this work are also available and will cost $15.00 per year. Inquiries should be sent to the Director’s Office, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701.

• The third edition of the Union List of Serials of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area has been published. The list reports more than 27,000 titles and 47,000 holdings statements from American, Catholic, George Washington, Georgetown, and Howard universities. Law, medical, departmental, and special library holdings are included. The publication was photocomposed. Publication price is $27.50 plus postage. Orders should be sent to Darrell Lemke, Consortium of Universities, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• Public Housing in the United States; A Technology Society Seminar Research Report, produced at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, is now available. Subjects covered, as shown by the table of contents, are: “History of Public Housing in the United States”; “Existing Situations and the State of Today’s Housing Programs”; “Newark, New Jersey: A Case Study of Public Low-Income Housing”; “Political, Social and Economic Impact of New Planning Concepts and Technologies on Public Housing”; and “What Kind of Organization, Economic, Planning, and Political Requirements are Necessary to Satisfy the Low Moderate Income Housing Needs in the United States, Now and in the Immediate Future.”

For copies of this report send $3.50 to: Prof. Steve M. Slaby, Director, Technology and Society Seminars, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.

• A new guide to the emerging information industry, an enlarged, international second edition of the Encyclopedia of Information Systems and Services, has been announced. The new edition of this directory and guide features detailed descriptions of more than 1,750 organizations involved in applications of new methods and media for information storage and retrieval. Among the organizations represented are data base publishers, computer time-sharing and software companies, micrographic firms, special libraries, government agencies, data banks, information centers, and clearinghouses in science and technology, medicine, social sciences, education, and business and finance. The 1, 750 entries in the new compilation represent a more than 100 percent increase over the first edition. Included in this total are 225 foreign services representing thirty-one countries.

Among other features, detailed indexes provide access to information on 475 data base publishers, 350 commercially available data bases (both on magnetic tape and on-line), 135 networks and cooperative programs, 425 libraries and information centers which provide selective dissemination of information (SDI) services, and 450 data collection and analysis centers. Altogether, the 1,285-page book contains thirteen indexes. Copies may be ordered from Edwards Brothers, 2500 South State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Price is $77.50.

• The proceedings of the Conference on Interlibrary Cooperation at Peaceful Valley Lodge and Guest Ranch, Lyons, Colorado, May 23-25, 1973, are now available. At the cost of $5.20, the proceedings contain information on such topics as the following: “Thinking Toward a Working Library Network,” by Mr. Charles H. Stevens; “Cohesive and Divisive Forces in the Mountain Plains Library Association,” by Dr. Dwight Blood; “Multi-State Regional Networking,” by Ms. Maryann Duggan; “Motivation for Mountain Plains Interlibrary Cooperation,” by Dr. Robert Kemper; “Human Resources to the Mountain Plains Library Association,” by Mr. John Eastlick; “MPLA: What of Its Future?” by Mr. Ralph Ellsworth; as well as further information. Copies may be secured from: Mr. Daniel Seager, Executive Secretary, Mountain Plains Library Association, Assistant Director of Libraries, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639.

• The Energy Directory, a comprehensive guide to U.S. energy organizations, decision makers, and information sources, has been published by Environment Information Center, Inc. (EIC) of New York.

On the federal level, the Energy Directory covers both executive and congressional activities, including energy offices, special committees, regulatory commissions, and the energy divisions of all federal departments. On the state level, the directory locates and profiles key energy personnel, programs, and departments in both executive and legislative branches.

In the private sector, the directory provides profiles of energy related trade and professional organizations, citizen action groups, a roster of energy companies, utilities, and energy coordinators of leading industrial companies. All profiles include name, address, and telephone number.

An annotated directory of energy periodicals, newsletters, information centers and systems describes the scope, coverage, price, and frequency of each, and provides complete ordering information.

The directory is completely indexed by organization, personnel, and subject, and is cross-referenced for easy use. It is available for $45 from: Environment Information Center, Inc., Energy Research Div., 124 East 39th St., New York, NY 10016.

• A Directory of Information Resources in the United States: Federal Government (1974) is the ninth in a series compiled by the National Referral Center, Library of Congress. The last of four currently scheduled revisions of earlier volumes in the series, this edition, produced with support from the National Science Foundation, updates a directory published in 1967 with the subtitle Federal Government, With a Supplement of Government-Sponsored Information Resources.

Unlike the other directories in the series, which are subject oriented, Federal Government covers all subjects. All federal organizations were eligible for inclusion, regardless of their areas of interest. Entries in the directory are based on a register of information resources that has been continuously expanded and updated since the center was established in 1962. To ensure textual accuracy, each entry was submitted for review to the organization covered.

The supplement (bound with the present directory) differs significantly from the supplement to the 1967 Federal Government volume, as reflected in the different subtitles. The 1967 directory supplement listed any information resource sponsored in whole or in part by the federal government; the more limited supplement to this directory lists only those government-sponsored organizations that are considered to be “information analysis centers,” as defined by the former Panel on Information Analysis and Data Centers (Panel 6) of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI).

This directory is available by mail for $4.25 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3000-00067).