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•The ALA Library Clip Art Book (December 1983) offers specially-designed illustrations and headline type for library newsletters, annual reports, bookmarks, flyers, announcements, ads, signs, or other material requiring library-related graphics. The instructional material, written by Peggy Barber, explains how to use the artwork and offers suggestions for designing simple publications, doing paste-ups, and how to find and work with graphic artists and printers. This loose-leaf bound book may be ordered for $30 (plus $3.50 shipping and handling) from the ALA Public Information Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

•Australasian College Libraries(vol. 1, no. 1, May 1983- ) is a new quarterly journal published by the Footscray Institute of Technology Library in Melbourne. The premier issue includes articles on library service to rural health workers, external degree programs in librarianship, and education in the use of online information retrieval in Australia. Also of interest are notices of recent publications, book reviews, new products and services, and abstracts of items from the Australian Clearing House for Library and Information Science (Achlis). The journal plans to cover librarianship in New Zealand and other areas of the Southwest Pacific as well as Australia. Overseas institutional and personal subscriptions are AUS$19 and may be ordered from ACL Publications, FIT Library, P.O. Box 64, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia.

•Careers in Research Libraries,a pamphlet issued by the Association of Research Libraries, will be helpful to undergraduates who may be considering the MLS. A limited number of free copies are available from ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

•Clifford Library and Learning Resources Collection Development Policies 1983-84(42 pages, 1983) , developed by the University of Evansville Library, Indiana, may be useful to librarians who are developing policies for an institution of similar size and curriculum. Copies are available for $5 (prepaid) from Clifford Memorial Library, University of Evansville, P.O. Box 329, Evansville, IN 47702.

•Earthquakes, Tides, Unidentified Sounds and Related Phenomena,compiled by William R. Corliss (214 pages, November 1983), is the third catalog and bibliography in a series on geophysical anomalies that are often left out of standard textbooks. Included are description, background, data evaluation, anomaly evaluation, and possible explanations for 80 different events, such as coldwater geysers, earthquake magnetic effects, sea seiches, auroral sounds, and underwater musical sounds. The author provides subject, time-ofevent, place-of-event, author, and source indexes. Copies may beordered for $12.95 from The Sourcebook Project, P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057.

• Editing the Maximus Poems: Supplementary Notes,by George F. Butterick (132 pages, August 1983) , has been published as a companion to the University of California Press edition of Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems. The book features an appendix of previously unpublished writings by Olson, notes to the text that offer insight into the poet’s creative process and intentions, and an introductory essay that discusses the problems of editing the work. Copies are available for $10 from Business Services, Box U-5B0, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs, CT 06268.

•Independent Scholarship: Promise, Problems, and Prospects,by Ronald and Beatrice Gross (68 pages, 1983), is the final report of a two-year project supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The recommendations of the National Conference on Independent Scholarship are given in full and include recommendations to libraries that were touched upon in Michael Kathman’s C&RL News report, March 1983, pp. 75-77. Copies may be ordered for $7.95 from College Board Publications, Box 886, New York, NY 10101.

•The Michigan Library Automation Directory (180 pages, 1983) contains profiles and indexed information on automation activities, hardware, software, products, and contacts in over 300 Michigan libraries. Published by the Michigan Library Consortium, the directory costs $22.95 to MLC members and $27.95 to non-members (add $2 more if not prepaid). Contact the Michigan Library Consortium, 6810 S. Cedar Street, Suite 8, Lansing, MI 48910.

•The final reports on the Task Force on Library and Information Service to Cultural Minorities and the Task Force on Community Information and Referral Services have been released by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS). The former, chaired by E.J. Josey of the New York State Education Department, was established to explore the current status of library and information service programs in support of the needs and desires of minority groups. The latter report includes 13 recommendations for providing community information and referral services through education, policy and legislation, promotion, and experimentation and study. Single copies of each report are available free from NCLIS, Suite 3122, 7th & D St., S.W., Washington, DC 20024. Multiple copies are available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office.

•Telecommunications in ARL Libraries,SPEC Kit #98 (October 1983, 129 pages), contains two documents on networks, seven on interconnection among libraries, one on gateways/links, and two on standards, plus a short list of references. The flyer discusses local systems, interconnection, standards, and trends. Single copies may be purchased for $15, with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies, from the SPEC Center, ARL/OMS, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

•Two new Topics in Personnel kits have been issued by ALA’s Office for Library Personnel Services. Kit #4, Humanizing the Workplace: Quality of Work Life in Libraries, deals with such topics as part-time employment, alternative work schedules, and job enrichment. Kit #5, Administering Staff Cutbacks: Planning and Implementing a Reduction in Force, offers suggestions on dealing with outplacement and retrenchment. Both kits include reprints of relevant articles and specially prepared bibliographies. They may be ordered for $10 each (prepaid) from ALA/OLPR, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■

BI POSTER SESSIONS NEEDED

The national LOEX Clearinghouse on Library Instruction has issued a call for abstracts for BI- related poster sessions, to be held in conjunction with the 13th National LOEX Library Instruction Conference on May 3-4, 1984.

The theme of the Conference is “Marketing Instructional Services: Applying Private Sector Techniques to Plan and Promote Bibliographic Instruction.” Poster session presentations will include graphs, pictures, diagrams and narrative text and will allow presenters to expand informally and answer questions relating to marketing BI services on their own campuses. Sessions can also report research findings and describe innovative marketing techniques. Each session will be scheduled for an hour.

Guidelines for the submission of abstracts and forms can be obtained by writing to the LOEX Clearinghouse, Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; (313) 487-0168. The deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration is March 1, 1984. ■■