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• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces the publication of the AAAS Science Book List Supplement. This all new Supplement extends the coverage of the AAAS Science Book List (third edition) from 1969 through 1977.

The Supplement, with more than 500 pages, includes citations and annotations of some 2,600 trade and text books in mathematics and the pure and applied sciences. These titles are recommended selections by qualified, independent reviewers from the more than 30,000 science and technical books published since 1969 for junior and senior high school students, college undergraduates, teachers, and the general reader. Among the many fields for which books are listed are psychology, sociology, medicine, data analysis and computer science, engineering and astronautics, mathematics and astronomy, photography, geography, agriculture, archeology, anthropology, science ethics, public policy, and the physical, biological, and environmental sciences.

Individual copies list for $16.50 and may be ordered directly from AAAS, Sales Department, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005.

• Directory of Financial Aids for Women identifies and describes more than 500 sources of scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships, grants, awards, and prizes for women; women’s credit unions; and sources of state educational benefits.

Each entry offers information on the sponsoring organization, purpose of the program, eligibility requirements, financial remuneration, special features, limitations, number awarded, application date and address, etc. Also included is a detailed and critically annotated bibliography of 100 general financial aids directories. All entries are indexed by sponsoring organization, geographic coverage, and subject.

The directory has been compiled by Gail Schlachter, assistant university librarian at the University of California-Davis. The 200-page hardcover publication is available from Reference Service Press, 9023 Alcott St., Suite 201, Los Angeles, CA 90035 for $15.95.

• The Texas A&M University Libraries has published as its Miscellaneous Publication 16 The Future of Organizing Knowledge: Papers Presented at the Texas A&M University Libraries Centennial Academic Assembly, September 24‚ 1976.

Irene B. Hoadley, director of libraries, noted that the libraries’ assembly was one of many arranged by the academic units of Texas A&M to help mark the university’s centennial of teaching, research, and public service.

The papers presented by three specialists, each concerned with a different aspect of knowledge and information of the future, are: “The Communications Revolution: America’s Third Century Challenge” by Lee G. Burchinal, National Science Foundation; “The Future of Organizing Knowledge: A Matter of Access” by Ralph E. O’Dette, Chemical Abstracts Service; and “The Many Facets of MARC” by Lenore S. Maruyama, Library of Congress.

The fifty-page publication is available for $5, prepaid, from the Friends of the Texas A&M University Library, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX 77843.

• Clarification of the copyright laws to assure protection for computer-readable works is recommended in a special publication of the Commerce Department’s National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Based on research initiated in October 1974 under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Information, the book-length NBS publication closely examines policy questions now before the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU).

“Without copyright for computer-readable works, increased secrecy, cutthroat competition, and lowered opportunity for recognition of creative talents will result,” says Roy Saltman, manager of the NBS copyright study project. “We are recommending changes to help resolve current uncertainties about ownership rights in computer-readable works.” The NBS findings and recommendations have been presented to CONTU, established to advise Congress on the use of copyrighted materials in conjunction with computers.

Programs written in a source language and computer-readable data bases deserve copyright protection, according to the study. Another conclusion is that programs written in machine code should not be copyrighted as original works but should be protected under the copyright for the source language program. As Saltman states the principle: “The transformation of a copyrighted computer program into object code from source language should be considered to be the making of a copy.”

Underlying the NBS recommendations for changes in the copyright law is an analysis of the legal, economic, and technical issues involved. The study examines historical foundations of copyright and traces changes and interpretations that have extended protection to new technological works over the past 200 years. It specifies a set of basic principles supporting the recommendations. Key principles include the concept of John Locke, the seventeenth-century British philosopher, that every person has the right to the fruits of his creation and the concept of the social contract that provides protection of law in return for full disclosure of original works.

The NBS findings, recommendations, and conclusions on copyright have been published as NBS Special Publication 500-17, Copyright in Computer-Readable Works: Policy Impacts of Technological Change by Roy G. Saltman. The book is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, at $4 a copy. Order by stock number 003-003-01843-1.

• Close to half of the members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are using remote storage of little-used materials as one answer to space limitations, according to the latest SPEC Flyer and Kit from the Office of University Library Management Studies (OMS) of the ARL. Remote Storage in ARL Libraries‚ Kit and Flyer #39 (December 1977), provides documentation and discussion concerning remote and compact storage policies, based on a 1977 survey of ARL members conducted by Cornell University’s Olin Library.

Although national or regional storage and deposit facilities offer some hope for retention of selected materials, it appears that, for the most part, individual research and academic libraries have had to develop their own storage facilities. Remote storage usually is considered only part of the solution to the space crunch, in addition to microfilming, increased use of interlibrary loan, and weeding.

Two factors of greatest concern are (1) the limitations to user service and access to materials in remote storage, and (2) the time and expense of selecting materials for storage and altering bibliographic records.

Accompanying the two-page informational SPEC Flyer is a 112-page Kit, which contains preliminary results from the Cornell survey, sample survey responses, and library documentation on planning and procedures.

SPEC Flyer and Kit #39, Remote Storage in ARL Libraries, is available for $7.50 to ARL members and SPEC subscribers, and for $15 to all others, with prepayment required. Orders, with checks made payable to “OMS, Association of Research Libraries,” can be sent to: Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• Computer Output Microfilm (COM): An Alternative to Card Catalogs for SOL1NET Members is now available in either hardcopy or microfiche through ERIC. The ERIC number assigned to the report is ED 139 437. To receive a copy of the COM report, send either an authorized purchase order or a check for 83¢ plus 13¢ postage (for microfiche) or $4.67 plus 41¢ postage (for hardcopy) to: ERIC Document Reproduction Service, P.O. Box 190, Arlington, VA 22210.

• Guide to Alternative Periodicals (GAP) is a comprehensive resource guidebook that covers more than 675 unique magazines, journals, and tabloids. Such little-known journals as Simple Living, Earth Journal, Human Dimensions, Planet Drum, Ecology Action, Radical Teacher, Herbalist, Creative Simplicity, Interracial Books for Children, Living Wilderness, Solar Age, Handcrafters News, Country Women, Kundalini Quarterly, Feminist Art Journal, Vegetarian Voice, Self-Reliance, and Yoga Journal are indexed.

It is available for $3 ($4 if billed) from Sunspark Press, Box 91, Greenleaf, OR 97445.

• Preservation of Paper and Textiles of Historical and Artistic Value by John C. Williams considers the preservation and restoration of paper and textiles. This has become a monumental task for conservators and librarians. While paper and textile production has increased in volume and variety in the past 200 years, the permanent quality of these materials has declined. This interdisciplinary collection discusses three major themes: the care and preservation of books and manuscripts, the care and preservation of textiles, and the estimation of permanence.

The publication price is $38. Order from the American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS), has announced the publication of Part I of its twelve-part CIS U.S. Serial Set Index, 1789- 1969 and companion CIS U.S. Serial Set on Microfiche.

Begun in 1975, this major reference project will ultimately span the first 180 years of America’s oldest documents series, a massive collection of congressional reports and documents, as well as executive agency and departmental reports and certain nongovernmental publications.

Part I of the CIS project covers the American State Papers and Serial Set publications from earliest issuance through 1857. Parts IX through XII, 1925—69, were previously issued, and Parts II through VIII, for the intervening period, 1857- 1925, are in preparation. (Since 1970, the CIS/ Index and companion microfiche service have provided monthly, updated coverage of Serial Set publications, plus congressional committee hearings and prints.)

Scheduled for completion in 1979, the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index aims to serve as the only comprehensive, modern finding aid to the entire pre-1970 collection. Approximately eleven million pages of information, originally issued in 330,000 titles bound into 14,000 volumes, are being published concurrently in the CIS U.S. Serial Set on Microfiche.

Each of the twelve index parts, cumulated for its respective time period, is composed of three clothbound volumes. Two volumes contain an “Index of Subjects and Keywords, ” with extensive cross-referencing. A third volume of supplementary indexes includes an alphabetical list of proposed recipients of private relief or related actions, a numerical list of reports and documents, and a shelflist. Index entries provide full bibliographic data for retrieving source publications from within either a hardcopy collection or the CIS full-text microfiche file, which is being filmed from a variety of sources to assure inclusiveness.

The twelve parts of the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index may be purchased on standing order for $360 each ($400 per part if purchased separately.) Complete corresponding groups of the CIS U.S. Serial Set on Microfiche average $8,950 each on standing order. Collections may also be acquired in smaller segments, such as a specified period of time or an individual Congress.

Sample materials and details on the CIS project may be obtained by contacting: Congressional Information Service, Inc., 7101 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 900, Washington, DC 20014; (301) 654- 1550.

• Instruction in how to research congressional publications is provided by the new CIS/Index User Handbook available free to librarians from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Dealing specifically with congressional "working papers”—hearings, committee prints, documents, reports, and special publications—the thirty-two-page illustrated guide introduces a simple, four-step approach to identifying and evaluating likely information sources using the CIS/lndex and Abstracts. It also explains how and where to obtain source materials in either their original hardcopy form or on microfiche.

Other features include several sample information searches, a list of House, Senate, and joint committees, and a review of the various types of congressional publications.

Designed for classroom, workshop, and selfinstructional use, the handbook may be obtained by writing to: Education Coordinator, CIS, 7101 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 900, Washington, DC 20014. Quantity requests should be accompanied by a description of intended use.

• Capital Systems Group has compiled a Directory of On-line Bibliographic Data Bases that are publicly available from various suppliers. More than ninety data bases are listed and described, and vendors are indicated. The directory also contains a subject index and a list of suppliers’ addresses and phone numbers.

The publication, which is available from Capital Systems Group, lists data bases accessible as of January 1, 1978. The price per copy is $5.50, prepaid, postage and handling included.

The directory may be ordered from: Publications Dept., Capital Systems Group, 6110 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852; (301) 881-9400.

• The students of the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona have compiled a manual on abstracts and abstracting for students. This brief guide is designed to help students understand the principles of abstracting and aid in the writing and evaluation of abstracts.

Copies of Abstracts and Abstracting: A Manual for Students are available for $2.50 plus 250 postage and handling from: Bureau of Educational Services, College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

RECEIVED

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

A candid critique of book publishing/ by CURTIS G. Benjamin. — New York : R. R. Bowker, 1977. 187p. $15. (LC 77-21286) (ISBN 0-8352-1033-2)

Current research on scientific and technical information transfer : abstracts and full text of papers delivered at three 1976 seminars sponsored by National Science Foundation, Division of Science Information.— New York : Jeffrey Norton Pub. (1976?). 24p., 7 microfiche in pocket. $12.95. (LC 77-9216) (ISBN 0-88432- 007-3)

Design for diversity : library services for higher education and research in Australia/ edited by Harrison Bryan and Gordon Greenwood. — St. Lucia (Aus.) : University of Queensland Press, 1977. 790p. $39.95. (ISBN 0-7022-1314-4)

Guide to basic information sources in the visual arts/ by GERD MUEHSAM. — Santa Barbara, Calif. : J. Norton Pub./ABC Clio, 1977. 266p. $14.95 (LC 77-17430) (ISBN 0-87436-278-4) Librarians and online services / by PAULINE Atherton and Roger W. Christian. — White Plains, N.Y. : Knowledge Industry Publications, 1977. 124p. $24.50. (LC 77-25275) (ISBN 0-914236-13-X)

Librarians of Congress, 1802-1974.— Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. 273p. $7.75 (LC 77-608073) (ISBN 0-8444-0238-9)

(A collection of articles that first appeared in the quarterly journal of the Library of Congress.)

Library & media : marriage or divorce/ Dwight F. Burlingame, editor. — Evansville, Ind. : University of Evansville Press, 1977. 78p. $4.95. (LC 77-91273) (ISBN 0-930982-00-2)

“Critical issues in higher education.”

The organization and retrieval of economic knowledge : proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association at Kiel‚ West Germany/ edited by Mark Perlman. — Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1977. 520p. $38.50. (LC 76-30513) (ISBN 0-89158-721-7)

Scientific and technical translation/ ISADORE PlNCHUCK. — Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1977. 269p. $16.50. (LC 77-4933) (ISBN 0-89158-737-3)

“(The language library)”

Spezialbestände in deutschen Bibliotheken. Bundesrepublik Deutschland einschl. Berlin (West) = Special collections in German libraries : Federal Republic of Germany incl. Berlin (West) / im Auftrag der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, bearb. von WALTHER Gebhardt. — Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 1977. 739p. $67.30. (LC 77-22288) (ISBN 3-11-005839-1)

The subject approach to information/ by A. C. FOSKETT. — 3d ed. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, 1977. 476p. $12. (ISBN 0-208-01546-9)