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• In order to make the Department of Commerce annual U.S. Industrial Outlook more accessible and useful, Penton/IPC Research has developed an SIC Order Index.

The index is available in the form of a sixteen- page booklet. The price is $2 from Penton/IPC Research, 614 Superior Ave. West, Cleveland, OH 44113.

• A new exposition of Universal Serials & Book Exchange (USBE) processes and operations in the form of a coordinated cassette tape- photographic slide presentation has been announced. Contact: USBE, 335 V St., NE, Washington, DC 20018; (202) 529-2555.

• The Winter 1978 issue of University Publishing‚ a new quarterly devoted to the publications of the nearly 100 university presses in America, has been published. The themes of this issue, under the guest editorship of Leonard Michaels, are “The Body” and “Music.”

University Publishing‚ a quarterly, is distributed by subscription and through bookstores. Single copies are $1. Subscriptions: Individuals, $4 a year, $10 three years (Foreign, $5 a year, $12 three years); Institutions, $6 a year, $15 three years (Foreign, $7 a year, $17 three years).

For more information concerning editorial policies, consult Leonard Michaels, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or William McClung, Sponsoring Editor, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720.

• The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc., has announced the publication of Plant Bibliography. Issue no. 1, January 1978, consists of an annotated bibliography on desert gardening—desert plants and their cultivation.

A second issue in publication is on vegetable cookery, and two more are being completed on the gesneriads (African violets and their relatives) and orchids. The council hopes that each Plant Bibliography will be an invaluable aid to librarians, researchers, and others needing specialized bibliographic information in the fields of botany and horticulture.

It is priced at $2.50, which includes postage and handling, and may be ordered from the council in care of the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL 60532.

• The Colorado Council of Medical Librarians, has announced the publication of the second edition of the CCML Union List of Serials. There are approximately 125 new titles added to the 1977 list of some 1,700 health science titles. The holdings included are from twenty-eight Colorado health sciences libraries (excluding the University of Colorado Medical Center and Colorado State University Libraries). The cost is $27 and the publication may be ordered from Joel Greenblat, Treasurer, Colorado Council of Medical Librarians, UCMC Denison Library, 4200 E. 9th Ave., Denver, CO 80262. Checks may be made out to the Colorado Council Medical Librarians.

• The newly published Collection Analysis in Research Libraries: An Interim Report on a Self-Study Process contains five papers on the status of the Collection Analysis Project (CAP) of the Association of Research Libraries, Office of University Library Management Studies. The papers, first presented at the ARL membership meeting on October 1977, were brought together in this publication to provide an overall view of the CAP procedure, which university research libraries can use to analyze collection, acqusition, retention, resource sharing, and preservation practices. CAP is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The papers discuss major issues confronting research libraries in developing and maintaining collections, the operation of the CAP procedure, and the status of pilot tests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Collection Analysis in Research Libraries(twenty-seven pages) is available for $5, prepayment required, from Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• Some 100,000 on-line reference searches per year are performed in California libraries and information agencies, as reported in the Study of Online Bibliographic Data Base Services in California‚ by Gretchen S. Savage. The report is available from the California Library Authority for Systems and Services (CLASS).

The author interviewed 61 of the over 200 users, vendors, and brokers engaged in on-line services in California and from the collected data prepared recommendations for on-line reference support services CLASS might provide to libraries.

The report includes general information on services and detailed information on number of searches performed, data bases and vendors used, search characteristics, equipment, end users, funding, and training.

Price of the report is $8 to CLASS members, $10 to nonmembers. Please include sales tax where applicable. Payment must accompany order. Mail to: CLASS, 1415 Koll Circle, #101, San Jose, CA 95112.

• Ward Ritchie—book designer, topographer, and poet—has a new book published by the Santa Susana Press of California State University, Northridge Libraries, entitled A Bowl of Quince. This new limited edition (199 copies) is illustrated by Irving Block. Signed copies may be obtained by forwarding a check for $30 to “Library Publications” c/o Norman E. Tanis, California State University, Northridge Libraries, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330.

• The Library of Congress announces the publication of the first two volumes of Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789‚ a comprehensive documentary project designed to fill a conspicuous gap in the knowledge of the American Revolution. Volumes 1 and 2 are the first of some twenty-five volumes expected to appear during the next fifteen years as the project, made possible by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, continues. The new work will supersede the eight-volume edition of Letters of Members of the Continental Congress prepared by Edmund C. Burnett more than forty years ago.

In announcing the Ford Foundation grant for support late in 1970, foundation president McGeorge Bundy said, “By making more widely available basic research materials on a crucial chapter in American history, this project will facilitate humanistic scholarship.”

Letters of Delegates to Congress‚ 1774-1789is available by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock nos. 030-000- 00076-5 and 030-000-00077-3), or in person from the Information Counter, ground floor, Library of Congress Building. Volume 1, August 1774- August 1775, is 751 pages and sells for $8.50. Volume 2, September-December 1775, is 585 pages and sells for $9.00. Future volumes will be announced as they are published.

• Marian Clarke’s David Watkinsons Library is about the Watkinson Librarv, which was transferred to the Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1952. The original collection comprised approximately 130,000 volumes, which has been augmented by over 18,000 since the transfer. The endowment for the collection has also increased since that time by $300,000. A few copies of the book remain at $15, postage paid, from Ralph S. Emerick, Librarian, Trinity College Library, Hartford, CT 06106. Also available on request is One Hundred Gifts to The Watkinson Library, 1952-1977.

• Selected books, articles, bibliographies, and other research tools relevant to research on an array of women studies topics are compiled in WOMENSTUDY: Guides for Research. This series of twelve guides provides initial access to the pertinent social science and humanities literature. Guides to the following topics are included: black women, crime and prison, family, film, health and sexualities, language, marriage, prostitution, radicalism and revolution, rape, sex roles, and working class women. Books listed are annotated, every entry bears its Library of Congress call number, and appropriate card catalog subject headings appear on each guide. Subject, author, and title indexes provide easy access to the entries.

It is available for $2 (to defray printing and mailing costs) from Donnelley Library, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045.

• A steering committee appointed by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1975 to undertake a study of the problems of East Asian libraries has issued its report and recommendations in East Asian Libraries: Problems and Prospects (1977). According to the report, the study—which was accomplished with funding from the Ford Foundation—revealed that “institutional autonomy and duplication of acquisitions [among East Asian libraries] must be replaced by coordination of purchases and sharing of resources to a far greater degree than in the past.”

The report calls for “development of a national East Asian library system consistent with and geared to the general American research library network which is gradually evolving.” The three imperatives for success in such a system, the report submits, are (1) maintenance and continued growth of the East Asian library collections of major research universities; (2) creation of more regional consortia and national pools, with incorporation of East Asian materials into those already in existence; and (3) development of a comprehensive bibliographic data base. The report concludes by recommending establishment of a committee of scholars and librarians to oversee implementation of these objectives.—HUL Notes.

RECEIVED

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

Book theft and library security systems, 1978-79/ by Alice Bahr. — White Plains, N.Y. : Knowledge Industry Publications, 1977. 128p. $24.50. (LC 77-25284) (ISBN 0-914236-14-8) Copyright handbook / DONALD F. JOHNSTON. — New York : R. R. Bowker Co., 1978. 309p. $14.95. (LC 77-27449) (ISBN 0-8352-0951-2) Dictionary of American library biography / editorial board, George S. Bobinski, Jesse Hauk Shera, Bohdan S. Wynar ; edited by BOHDAN S. Wynar. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 596p. $65.00 (LC 77-28791) (ISBN 0-87287-180-0)

Libraries and the arts and humanities/ by Charles G. Bolte. — Syracuse, N.Y. : Gaylord Professional Publications, 1978. 239p. (LC 77-12926) (ISBN 0-91579-413-6)

Microform librarianship/ S. J. TEAGUE. — London ; Boston : Butterworths, 1977. 117p. $8.50. (LC 76-44504) (ISBN 0-408-70799-2) National library and information services : a handbook for planners / edited by C. V. Penna, D. J. Foskett, P. H. Sewell. — London ; Boston : Butterworths, 1977. 231p. $16.95. (LC 76-54296) (ISBN 0-408-70818-2)

The new managerial grid : strategic insights into a proven system for increasing organization productivity and individual effectiveness— plus a revealing examination of how your managerial style can affect your mental and physical health / RORERT R. BLAKE, JANE SRYGLEY Mouton. — (2d ed.) — Houston : Gulf Pub. Co., cl978. 329p. $12.95. (LC 77-84465) (ISBN 0-87201-473-8)

On-line information retrieval : an introductory manual to principles and practice/ BERNARD Houghton and John Convey. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. ; Linnet Books, 1977. 160p. $10.00. (LC 77-21858) (ISBN 0-208-01660-0)

The Oxford University Press and the spread of learning, 1478-1978: an illustrated history / by Nicolas Barker : with a preface by Charles Ryskamp. — Oxford (Eng.) : Clarendon Press, 1978. $25.00. (LC 77-30541)

The search for a scientific profession: library science education in the U.S. and Canada / by L. Houser and Alvin M. Schrader. — Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1977, cl978. 180p. (LC 77-17563) (ISBN 0-8108- 1062-X)

Use of social science literature/ editor, N. RORERTS. / London ; Boston : Butterworths, 1977. 326p. $19.95. (LC 76-16548) (ISBN 0-408-10602-6)