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ACQUISITIONS

• A 1,435-item collection of manuscripts, papyri fragments, and scrolls has been donated to the Middle East Collection at the University of Utah Marriott Library.

The contribution was made by Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, distinguished professor of history and professor of languages at the University of Utah. A native Egyptian who is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Arabic studies, Dr. Atiya was the original director of the university’s Middle East Center and has been instrumental in establishing the library’s Arabic collection as one of the most significant in the country.

The donated items from Dr. Atiya’s private collection include four papyrus fragments of ancient scrolls, 180 ragpaper and old paper scrolls from the tenth century, 1,185 manuscript folios from the eleventh to the nineteenth century, and 66 tracts and treatises in Arabic manuscript from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.

The collection was valued at nearly $5,000 by George Makdisi, professor of Arabic and Islamic languages at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Atiya said the original owner of one of the manuscripts had placed pound notes between the pages as a sort of savings account. After the owner’s death, the pages were torn out when the money was recovered, but Dr. Atiya—realizing the value of the material— obtained the manuscript. In another instance, the Utah scholar made a significant purchase when he discovered a crate of books with valuable manuscripts serving as packing paper.

Dr. Atiya has been a Utah faculty member since 1959 and last year received the highest honor that can be accorded a scholar—a Festschrift or collection of essays written by his most distinguished peers.

• The Burrow Library of Southwestern at Memphis announces the receipt of the third consignment of rare books from the extensive collection of Walter P. Armstrong, Jr. Armstrong is a Memphis attorney and Southwestern trustee who has been a private collector of books for more than forty years.

Included in the latest shipment are about 200 English and American first editions and special editions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, valued at more than $8,000. The books, along with those given earlier by Armstrong, are housed in the Walter P. Armstrong, Jr. Rare Book Room. The college’s

Board of Trustees named the room in honor of Armstrong last January, soon after he had announced that his entire personal library, consisting of some 5,000 volumes, would be given to Southwestern.

Among the books in the consignment are three volumes of which the collector is especially proud. One is a signed first edition of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, one of fifty copies originally published in Paris in 1930. Another signed first edition is James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. The third is a signed first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929.

The shipment also includes such rarities as three works by Charles Dickens in their original form (published in parts), a signed first edition of Oscar Wilde’s poems, a first edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun and first editions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Hound of the Baskerυilles.

• The Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, has deposited the following oral history interviews in the Bancroft Library and the Special Collections Library at the University of California at Los Angeles.

“Cutter Laboratories, 1897-1972: A Dual Trust,” interviews with two generations of the Cutter family and several long-term members of the pharmaceutical corporation staff. In two volumes, 525p.

Clara Shirpser, “One Woman’s Role in Democratic Party Politics: National, California, and Local, 1950-1970.” In two volumes, 671p.

Paul Schuster Taylor, “California Social Scientist: Volume I, Education, Field Research, and Family; Volumes II and III, California Water and Agricultural Labor,” 861p.

• Recent acquisitions of the Urban Archives Center of Temple University Libraries include the records of the United Fund of the Philadelphia Area and its predecessors (1920-1972); the Philadelphia Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (1922-1974); the Octavia Hill Association, Inc. (1888-1941); the S.E. Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission (1952-1956) and Germantown Settlement (1943-1972); and the papers of Kirk Petshek, Urban Development and Economic Coordinator, 1954-1962. Significant additions were made to the collections of the Nationalities Service Center (1940-1964), the S.W.-Belmont YWCA (1923-1967), and the American Civil Liberties

Union (1950-1971). The archives also received 111 series of annual reports of social service and civic agencies mainly in the period 1860-1940, from the Free Library of Philadelphia.

• In July the Board of Trustees of Emory University voted unanimously to purchase the book collections of the Hartford Seminary Foundation of Hartford, Connecticut, for $1,750,000. The sale of a specialized research collection of this size and quality is without precedent in the history of American higher education. The Hartford collections occupy 23.000 linear feet of shelf space and number approximately 220,000 volumes. This represents an immediate 200 percent increase in the total size of the book collections of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, from 110.000 volumes to something in excess of 300.000 volumes. “The combined Candler-Hartford collection,” wrote Dr. Raymond P. Morris, librarian emeritus of the Yale Divinity School in 1973, “would constitute one of the strongest theological collections on this Continent. For practical purposes, one could affirm that such a collection could never be brought together again.”

The Hartford collections are both comprehensive in coverage and rich in research materials. A profile of the collections by number of titles includes the following: anthropology, 1,700; geography, 2,900; linguistics, 3,450; literature, 10,000; archaeology, 1,200; fine arts, 3,275; education, 4,000; sociology, 3,725; history, 10,500; psychology, 2,775; philosophy, 4,200; biography, 7,000; missions, 4,150; Asian religions, 1,350; Judaism, 1,025; liturgies, 13,- 550; biblical studies, 14,500; church history, 19,000; theology, 13,550; church education, 7,550; church, 3,250; bibliography, encyclopedias, etc., 5,550. In addition, the Warrington-Paine-Pratt Hymnology Collection numbers over 8,500 volumes with special strength in English and American imprints, including a 1594 edition of Sternhold and Hopkins and a first edition of Tate and Brady, 1696. Until recently Hartford has subscribed to 1,100 periodicals and maintains retrospective holdings for 3,100 periodical titles. The Richardson Collection contains about 18,000 volumes printed between 1450 and 1750. The works of the early printers are well represented among more than 80 volumes printed between 1450 and 1500. The collection of early Reformation tracts includes 1,239 separately published items by Martin Luther printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Plans for the renovation and expansion of the present library facilities are now complete. Paul Rudolph of New York City is the architect, and the Atlanta firm of Ira Hardin and Company is the contractor. The renovation is expected to be finished by early spring and to cost $1.25 million.

• The Houghton Mifflin Company has presented to Georgetown University the vast body of language information used as the basis for The American Heritage School Dictionary published in 1972. This massive collection of data will be located in the university library’s Special Collections Division for use by scholars, educators, and researchers concerned with the English language, the American dialect, and general and applied linguistics.

The material constitutes the most extensive analysis ever undertaken of the words actually read by American children in elementary and junior high school classrooms. The cost of the research and analytical work in preparation of the dictionary amounted to more than one million dollars.

Ownership of the collection was conveyed to Rev. R. J. Henle, S.J., president of Georgetown University, by Harold T. Miller, president of the Boston firm which publishes The American Heritage Dictionary and its related publications.

• An outstanding collection of Korean literature has been donated to the Wheaton College library as a last request of an alumnus of the school. The late Olivet R. Swallen, St. Petersburg, Florida, and her parents assembled the more than 350 titles during their service as missionaries to Korea. Included are both English and Korean materials covering aspects of religious, social, and cultural life there.

Among the periodicals, novels, and many books are some titles from the nineteenth century, a rarity in Korea where most printing began in the present century, Paul Snezek, special collections librarian, points out. He adds that it will provide an opportunity for students interested in missionary work in Korea to do some first-hand study of the area and its literature.

Much of the material is autographed, and many of the pieces are first editions. It wall be housed in the special collections room of the Nicholas Library upon completion of remodeling there. Ms. Swallen, a member of Wheaton’s class of 1929, left the collection in memory of her parents, Dr. William L. and Sally W. Swallen, missionaries to Korea for forty-eight years under the United Presbyterian Church, United States.

FELLOWSHIP

• The Special Libraries Association has announced that it will award three $2,500 scholarships for the academic year 1976-77 toward graduate study leading to a master’s degree at a recognized school of library or information science in the United States or Canada. Applicants pursuing careers as special librarians, those trained in the theory and practice of library science, as well as in the fundamentals of a particular field, will be preferred. The deadline for applications is January 15, 1976. Forms may be requested from: Special Libraries Association, Scholarship Committee, 235 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10003.

GRANTS

• The Lucy Hampton Bostick Trust has made an $11,750 matching grant to the University of South Carolina for a study of the continuing education needs of library personnel in the state. The one-year study will be conducted by the USC College of Librarianship to identify the needs for continuing education of library personnel and to develop a plan for meeting those needs where they exist.

The Bostick Trust was created by the will of the late Lucy Hampton Bostick, philanthropist, publisher, civic leader, and a long-time director of the Richland County Library.

The plan resulting from the study will take into account the use of new educational technology such as television and videotape, and it will also coordinate resources of the College of Librarianship with state agencies concerned with continuing library education.

Katherine Armitage, an assistant professor and continuing education consultant with the USC College of Librarianship, will be directly responsible for carrying out the study. As part of her effort, she will be traveling around the state talking with librarians to learn what the continuing education needs of librarians are and where those needs exist. Ms. Armitage, who holds a master’s degree in librarianship, will also be conducting an inventory of existing resources for continuing education.

The continuing education plan resulting from the study will be designed for library personnel who had had no formal library education, for librarians with professional education who want to stay abreast of new developments in the field, and for librarians who want to develop specialized skills.

“There has never been a comprehensive, in-depth study of the continuing education needs of librarians in South Carolina,” said Wayne S. Yenawine, dean of the USC College of Librarianship. “We need to know what the continuing education needs of librarians are, where those needs exist and just what the dimensions of the needs are.”

It will be up to the College of Librarianship to implement the continuing education plan once it is prepared.

• The Graduate School of Librarianship of the University of Denver recently announced that it has received a grant from the Organization of American States to extend its Multi-National Educational Program to include an intensive two month’s Pro-Seminar on National Planning for the assessment of information needs of developing countries in Latin America, and the development of infrastructural models.

The participants of the seminar will be nine Latin American librarians, engineers, and computer specialists who have completed a special twelve-month program at the Graduate School of Librarianship, studying the information needs of their countries. The goal of the proseminar is to complete their preparation so that upon returning to their countries they will assume roles of leadership in planning and implementing national information systems in Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

The proseminar is planned and directed by Professor John T. Eastlick of the Graduate School of Librarianship and Mrs. Jessica Perry, presently of the Graduate Library School of the University of Arizona and formerly of the School of Library Science of Case Western Reserve University.

Professor Eastlick, former city librarian of the Denver Public Library, has been on the faculty of the GSL since 1969. He has specialized in library administration and has presented numerous special continuing education programs for professional librarians. In addition to serving as a management and building consultant to many libraries in the United States, he has served as a consultant to the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Mexico and the Metropolitan Autonomus University of Mexico City.

Ms. Perry has had extensive experience in information science, both in the classroom and in developing and operating systems. She has taught courses in information science at the Universidad Autonomo de Mexico; the Institueo Brasiliero de Bibliografia e Documentacoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and at the Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotechologia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia. As associate director of the Center for Documentation of the Case Western Reserve library school, she participated in the development of and was responsible for the administration of the metals documentation service for the American Society for Metals. This service was the first automated information retrieval system for a professional society in the country.

• The University of Southern California Library School has received a grant of $86,000 from the U.S. Office of Education for a special program, “A Library School Educational Program without Walls.” The Library School will provide a group of independent, self-paced courses to persons unable to attend classes in traditional, scheduled, regular format. Courses offered in the 1975 fall semester under this plan include: L.S. 401, Introduction to Librarianship; L.S. 492, Reference Sources and Services; L.S. 506, Information Sources: Humanities; L.S. 509, Selection and Acquisition of Library Materials; L.S. 510, Information Sources: Sciences; L.S. 563, Information Systems for Library Service.

For more information call or write to: Dean Martha Boaz, School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007; (213) 746-2548.

• Case Western Reserve University Libraries are well on the way to becoming the major center for research materials in Urban and Environmental Science in Northeast Ohio, thanks to recent grants from the Cleveland and Gund foundations.

A grant of $28,000 from the Cleveland Foundation will enable the libraries to catalog the 50,000 volume Ernest J. Bohn Housing and Planning Library, which is second in size only to Harvard’s housing and planning collection.

An additional $37,400 from the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation will be used to bolster the Environmental Science Collection. The Cleveland Foundation provided the initial funding for this collection in 1971.

“The Bohn and Environmental Science collections represent a resource of unsurpassed quality for urban planners, environmentalists, and other researchers in Greater Cleveland,” observed James V. Jones, director of university libraries.

While only Case Reserve students may withdraw books from university libraries, the collections are open to everyone in greater Cleveland, Jones added. A portion of the grant money will be used to produce guides to both the Bohn Library and the Environmental Science Collection.

The Bohn Library was formed and donated by Ernest J. Bohn, former head of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and a nationally recognized pioneer in public housing and planning. “The Bohn Library will be an invaluable aid to professionals in the fields of housing, planning, development, public administration and problems of the aged,” said Wesley Williams, curator of special collections.

The Environmental Science Collection is currently providing support for approximately $500,000 worth of environmental research on the Case Reserve campus. “Supporting such research is the Libraries’ way of helping solve many of today’s most pressing problems,” observed Marcia Parsons, head librarian at CWRU’s Sears Library, where the collection is housed.

The Cleveland Foundation grants were provided by the A. E. Convers Fund, and the John C. and Elizabeth F. Sparrow Fund.

• The Society of American Archivists has begun a comprehensive archival security program. Major facets of the project will be supported by a $99,690 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ann Morgan Campbell, executive director of the SAA, will direct the project, and Timothy G. Walch has joined the society’s Chicago staff as associate director of the program. He will assume primary responsibility for implementation of various phases of the work plan. Kathryn M. Nelson will be program assistant for the project.

The staff is now involved in a large-scale investigation of the nature and extent of the archival security problem and of possible solutions. Legal and technical experts, manuscript dealers, as well as archivists and manuscript curators, will be consulted.

The agenda for the program is as follows. A registry of missing manuscripts will be established by spring 1976. A format will be devised within the next few months and solicitation of listings will begin by the end of this year. A special section of the SAA Newsletter will be devoted to security developments. Eventually, distribution of security news will be broadened to include nonmember, interested parties. By fall 1976, a consultant service will make competent experts available to archival institutions to advise them in the areas of security systems, internal archival procedures, legal problems, and other aspects of archival security. The project will culminate in 1977 with the publication of an archival security manual.

For further information please write to the Associate Director, SAA Archival Security Program, Society of American Archivists, Box 8198, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL 60680.

MEETINGS

January 9-10: Federal Documents Workshop. A regional workshop (Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana) on federal documents will be held at the University of Houston. The workshop is sponsored by the Texas Library Association Documents Round Table and endorsed by the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association.

Program highlights include: reference materials available from GPO and commercial agencies; automated retrieval of documents; collection development, maintenance, and management; the depository program; and speakers from NTIS and GPO. Registration fee of $40.00 will include three meals.

For further information, please contact Barbara Kile, Documents Division, Fondren Library, Rice University, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001.

January 14-16: A U.N. Training Session for U.N. Documents will be held in New York City at U.N. Headquarters under the auspices of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and the Dag Hammarskjold Library. For further information contact Mina Pease, Chairperson, IDTF Working Group on Workshops, 551 Warren Blvd., Garden City South, NY 11530.

January 23-24: The Continuing Library Education and Network Exchange will hold its first assembly meeting in Chicago at the Palmer House. The primary purpose of the assembly will be to provide a forum for discussing major issues in continuing education and to focus on two of CLENE’s program goals: experimentation and innovation in the design, context, techniques, and technology used in continuing education and ways in which CLENE can assist groups and individuals in continuing education programs.

The two-day program will open with a presentation of the current problems and future requirements for continuing education in the library profession with a candid commentary on present efforts in relation to demand. Implications of self-assessment for future development will be highlighted by a sequence of presentations by well-known specialists in continuing education.

Small group discussion of major issues in continuing education in which CLENE will take a leadership role will investigate development and use of testing and self-assessment instruments; organization, governance, products, and services of continuing education; criteria for evaluation; and professional benefits and financing of continuing education programs.

The attendees will form the nucleus of the first CLENE assembly, and the closing session will be devoted to the organizational and procedural issues relating to CLENE. In conjunction to the first CLENE assembly meeting, a continuing education materials fair will offer pertinent and relevant materials for examination and distribution. For further information, contact: Dr. Elizabeth Stone, CLENE, 620 Michigan Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20064.

February 16-20: OCLC Workshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five-day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to librarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers, via the university’s telelecture capabilities.

Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possibilities, limitations, printing attachments); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others).

For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consideration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent.

For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

March 8-12: The Library Binding Institute Conservation Workshop will be held at the New England Document Conservation Center, located at Merrimack Textile Museum, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. George M. Cunha is director/conserva- tor of the center, a nonprofit organization, and Robert C. Morrison, Jr., is director of education.

The technical aspects of the seminar will be dependent upon the technical background of the participants as to which information is requested. The program will consist of both lectures and workshop.

Arrangements have been made for lodging and lectures with Boston University at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, a nonprofit entity, which is located in North Andover. The cost of the seminar workshop is $275, which includes tuition, room and board (four nights, three meals a day) at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, and the text.

The course is limited to twenty-five. To participate send your reservation form with deposit of $50.00 to Library Binding Institute (deposit returned if reservation cancelled prior to February 1, 1976), balance to be paid on or before March 1, 1976. For further information contact Library Binding Institute, 50 Congress St., Suite 630, Boston, MA 02109; (617) 227-9614.

March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI International Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England.

April 8-11: An International Conference on Art Periodicals, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the University of Sussex. An exhibition of art periodicals will be on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians.

For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England.

April 25-28: The thirteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Ulini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Library Automation.”

In an era of double-digit inflation and reduced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved service? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of specific library applications.

J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The complete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975.

May 9-21: The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields.

Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Leadership, motivation, communication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar.

The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susquehanna River and offering a variety of recreational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. 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.

May 10-11: Symposium on the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherryburn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (Anvil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermaking, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design.

May 10-28: Typographic Workshop, a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of Library Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486.

June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further information may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5.

MISCELLANY

• Rockefeller University has announced the opening of the Rockefeller Archive Center at Hillcrest, Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, New York. The center will be the depository for the archives of the Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Rockefeller family.

The Rockefeller University Archives include the records of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which was established in 1901. There are also papers of individual scientists who were associated with the institute.

The Rockefeller Foundation Archives for the years prior to 1942 were opened to scholars in 1973 when they were located at 333 West 52d Street, New York City. They document the foundation’s worldwide programs in education, research, public health, medicine, arts, humanities, social sciences, and agricultural development from 1913 on. Also included are the records of the Bureau of Social Hygiene (1911—40), the China Medical Board (1913-29), the General Education Board (1902-54), the International Education Board (1923Í-41), the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918-41), the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (1909-15), and the Spelman Fund of New York (1928-49). There are also papers of a few individuals who were associated with the foundation. A booklet briefly describing these collections, which was published in 1973, is now available from the Archive Center.

The Rockefeller Family Archives include some of the papers of John D. Rockefeller (1939-1960), the office of the Messrs. Rockefeller (1895-1961), the American International Association for Economic and Social Development (1946-1969), and the Davison Fund (1930-1942).

Scholars interested in these research materials should address the Rockefeller Archive Center, Hillcrest, Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591, or call (914) 631-4505.

The Rockefeller Archive Center also announces that the records of the General Education Board, previously opened for research for the years prior to 1942, have now been opened through 1954.

PUBLICATIONS

• An experimental ten-minute color and professionally produced training film, Reference —More Than an Answer, depicts typical reference situations designed to stimulate discussion on: importance of interpersonal relations, conflicting verbal and nonverbal messages, value of privacy in conducting the interview, priority of personal versus telephone inquiry, librarian attitudes, open and closed questions, total reference service.

The film is available on loan from the Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee for a fee of $10.00 per showing. A taped critique of the film, presented by Dr. Charles Bunge, director of the University of Wisconsin Library School, is available for use in conjunction with the film.

Reprints of the training film are available for purchase at the following costs: 16mm color print, $115; videotape cassette color, $37.50; cassette recording—critique, $4.00. A preview charge of $10.00 (prepaid) will be applied to the price of a print upon receipt of a purchase order.

Orders and further information are available from: Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, 814 West Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53233.

• The staff of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Information Resources has prepared a publication geared for educational library/media specialists who wish to use ERIC in their professional capacities and who wish to teach others to use ERIC. The twenty-two-page paper, ERIC: What It Can Do for You/How to Use It, was originally designed as part of a training package for professional education classes. It now has been made useful to anyone wishing to learn about ERIC.

Sections cover: ERIC: what it can do for you; directory of ERIC clearinghouses and related units; ERIC searching tools; doing a manual search of ERIC; access to ERIC resources; developing an ERIC computer search; adding materials to ERIC; and additional materials and agencies in the field.

ERIC: What It Can Do for Youis available for $3.75 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E” must be included with orders. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service when its ED number is announced.

• A rare book in a limited first edition of 1,000 copies will be published before the end of 1975, International Women’s Year, by the United States Committee for the Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia Tercentenary, with a generous grant from the Hunt Foundation of Pittsburgh.

The year 1978 will be the three hundredth anniversary of the graduation of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia from the University of Padua in 1678, “Prima Donna Laureata nel Mondo,” the first woman university graduate of the world.

This beautiful volume cannot be ordered through any commercial outlet; however, a copy may be obtained for rare book or reference libraries in return for a contribution of twenty-five dollars to the Cornaro Restoration Fund as the gift of a donor. The donor may be an individual, organization, group, or any special endowment fund available for such a contribution in memory of an individual whose name would be inscribed on the special bookplate.

Of the 1,000 copies to be published, 500 have already been assigned. There is still time to add this exciting source book, the only one in English, to library collections in anticipation of the Cornaro Tercentenary in 1978. Orders may be sent with a check for twenty-five dollars made payable to the Cornaro Restoration Fund to: The Cornaro Restoration Fund, 1102 Bruce Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

• The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Studies has issued a new SPEC Kit.

The SPEC Kit and Flyer on specialists consists of thirty-nine documents describing various types of specialist positions such as: personnel, budget and computer specialists, accountants, and systems analysts. Other documents relevant to effective utilization of specialists are also included.

Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW,

Washington, DC 20036. The cost to SPEC members and subscribers is $7.50 for each kit, and $15.00 to others.

• Librarians who serve engineers, scientists, and educators in these fields will find eighteen recommendations for cooperative library services in Russell Shank’s report “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information.” The 218-page report was originally published in 1968 after Shank had completed a two-year study for METRO (New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency). METRO has republished the report as a working tool to guide further actions of its member libraries. A limited number of copies are available for sale at $22.75 each if a check accompanies the order and $25.00 if an invoice is required. Checks should be made payable to METRO and orders sent to: METRO, 11 West 40th St., New York, NY 10018.

• The Louisiana Library Association announces the publication of the Louisiana Union Catalog on microfiche. The Louisiana Union Catalog, first published in 1959, is a union catalog of all Louisiana materials in Louisiana libraries, with location symbols. It is a main entry catalog, in National Union Catalog format. All of the entries contained in the 1959 volume and its three supplements, and new entries through 1973, are arranged in one alphabet in the microfiche edition. Additional holding locations have been added to the older cards as well as a few more added entries.

Also, an index to the whole catalog through 1973 has been compiled and put on microfiche. The index is very comprehensive in that authors, titles, subjects, and added entries are listed, and each entry contains author, title, imprint, date, and up to ten holding locations. The fiche for the catalog is 40X reduction, negative, and the fiche for the index is 42X COM negative.

The Louisiana Union Catalog Committee was fortunate to receive a grant through the Louisiana State Library in order to undertake the project. The committee has assembled an up-to-date “package”; including bimonthly advance sheets through June 1978, which is available for $85.00. For information on other plans and placement of orders, please write: Norma Durand, Dupre Library, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70501.

• UPDATA Publications, Inc., of Santa Monica, California, has announced the forthcoming publication of all the relevant research material published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines between 1910 and 1969, on microfiche.

The collection consists of more than 13,000 documents, or close to a half-million pages of bulletins, reports of investigations, technical papers, annual reports, information circulars, mineral yearbooks, mineral resources, and other publications.

The U.S. Bureau of Mines Collection 1910-1969contains some of the most important material available today on research and development of better methods of extracting and processing minerals and mineral fuels. It provides a basic continuing reference source for underground construction, safety and health, metallurgy, rock mechanics, pressures, temperatures, coal research, statistics on mineral resources and fuels, oil shale conversion technology, recovery operations after mining fires and explosions, and the recovery of low-grade ores—a basis for important research on tomorrow’s problems.

Each document will be reproduced with all illustrations, photographs, and maps. The entire collection will consist of more than 6,000 4x6 24X NMA-standard microfiche, produced on negative diazo film of heavy quality. The use of a new polyester-based diazo film will eliminate the need for envelopes.

The “U.S. Bureau of Mines Collection 1910-1969” is scheduled for publication in 1976. Inquiries may be addressed to UPDATA, 1508 Harvard St., Santa Monica, CA 90404. Interested parties located on the U.S. mainland may call UPDATA President, Herbert Sclar, collect, at (213) 829-5090.

• The Drexel Library Quarterly, volume 11, no. 3, examines “Current Issues in Serials Librarianship.”

Serials librarians often have difficulty identifying up-to-date sources of information directly related to their work. The upcoming issue deals with these difficulties which are affecting on-the-job librarians.

The articles, selected for their timeliness, often emphasize the manner in which serials librarians can have impact upon the issues under discussion.

Benita M. Weber, serials librarian of Montgomery County (Pa.) Community College, and Toni Carbo Bearman, executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, are guest editors for the issue.

Articles included in the issue are: “The Serials Librarian as Activist” by David C. Taylor; “Main Entry for Serials” by Joseph J. Howard; “ISBD(S) and Title Main Entry for Serials” by C. Sumner Spalding; “International Cooperation in Serials” by Joseph W. Price; “National Serials Data Program” by Mary Sauer; “The CONSER Project” by Paul Vassallo; “CONSER Inter-Relationships” by Lawrence G. Livingston; “Serials: Costs and Budget Projections” by F. F. Clasquin; and “Education of Serials Librarians” by Benita M. Weber.

Copies of vol. 11, no.3, “Current Issues in Serials Librarianship,” are available for $4.00 each ($5.00 outside the U.S. and Canada) from the Drexel Library Quarterly, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; telephone (215) 895- 2483.

• The Emerging University Library: Lessons from the Sixties, by ALA Past-President Edward G. Holley, has been published by the libraries of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Holley publication is the first number in a series of occasional papers to be issued by Stony Brook. The series is planned to address a wide variety of issues in librarianship and related fields.

In his paper, Dr. Holley reviews those circumstances during the sixties which influenced the rapid development of new universities and their libraries in such places as Illinois, California, New York, and Texas. That phenomenal period of development now at an end, Dr. Holley comments upon the opportunities and challenges remaining to these “instant” research universities and their libraries. The landscape which Dr. Holley outlines is not bleak, only somewhat changed. He sees a need for reexamination of directions and priorities. In general, he feels that the libraries of young institutions will continue to be vital and interesting places.

Copies of the seventeen-page paper are available from the Office of Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794. The cost is $1.00. ■■