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College & Research Libraries News

News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Radcliffe College’sSchlesinger Libranon the History of Women in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has acquired a collection of the papers of Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist, lecturer, and agitator for free speech and radical causes. Central to the collection are approximately 450 letters and notes from Goldman to Leon Maimed, a long-time anarchist associate. The correspondence spans the period from 1906 to 1939 and was acquired from Daniel Maimed, son of Leon.

•The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, has received the personal library of Cleanth Brooks, eminent critic of American literature. Along with Robert Penn Warren, Brooks was one of the significant factors in shaping the reading habits and critical judgments of students for the past fifty years. The 2,500-volume library ranges from the seventeenth century to the present. Among the highlights are 1,300 volumes of belles lettres consisting of books by and about major twentieth-century English and American authors, and 350 rare volumes on Southern history and literature by such authors as William Osler, Reynolds Price, Kate Chopin, and J.C. Harris.

NEWS NOTES

•The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, has established a category of Research Associates for scholars who wish to do research in the society’s collections for an extended period of time and who hold sabbatical leaves or fellowships underwritten by private or public funding agencies. The Research Associates will be granted the privileges of the visiting fellows funded directly by the society. Scholars interested in applying for the designation of Research Associate should send the details of their research to John B. Hench, Research and Publication Officer, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609.

•The American National Standards Committee Z39 announced the election of new officers at its annual meeting at the Library of Congress on April 30. Chairperson, 2-year term: Patricia W. Berger, chief, National Bureau of Standards, Library and Information Services Division. Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson-Elect, 2-year term: Margaret K. Park, manager, University of Georgia Information Services Computer Center. Members of the Executive Council representing libraries: Linda K. Bartley, head, National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress (3-year term); and Larry X. Besant, assistant director, Ohio State University Libraries (1-year term).

•The Center for Research Lirraries, Chicago, will begin Phase I construction of a fourphase building project late this summer. The new facility, designed by architectural firm Shaw & Associates of Chicago, will triple the center’s current storage capabilities of infrequently used and rare materials. Groundbreaking will occur on land acquired from the University of Chicago on its South Campus. Once complete, the nearly 200,000 square feet of space will be utilized to house up to 5.5 million volumes. The new structure is expected to meet the collection, staff and user needs of the center through the year 2000.

•The Center for Research Libraries also approved the appointment of four new directors and officers to its board at its annual council meeting. Board member J. Charles Morrow of the University of North Carolina is the board's new chair. Vice chairman/chair-elect is Charles Churchwell of Washington University. Newly elected directors to the board are: Richard Talbot, University of Massachusetts; Maurice Clicksman, Brown University; Alison Casarett, Cornell University; and Joseph Dagnese, Purdue University. The board’s previous chairman, Beverly P. Lynch, University of Illinois-Chicago Circle, remains as a director of the board.

•The State University of New York has honored librarians on five of its campuses for excellence of performance. Receiving the honors (the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Librarianship) were: Nancy Fabrizio, SUNY-Buffalo; Martha Chambers, State University College at Oneonta; Mignon Adams, State University College at Oswego; Catherine R. Seeley, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse; and Joyce T. Morris, director of the Hultquist Library Learning Center at Jamestown Community College.

NOW…

The Concise AACR2

MICHAEL GORMAN

While the original AA CR2, published in 1979, is a formidable work—covering as it does all the bibliographic situations cataloged are likely to encounter— its very thoroughness limits its usefulness where the material to be cataloged is less com plicated or where only the operative principles of the code must be grasped. The latter is the case in teaching, for example.

Without disregarding the importance of properly cataloging the more difficult material, catalogers will recognize that most of their questions can be answered by a simpler version of the Rules. The Concise AACR2 was designed for that purpose. It emphasizes essential principles, dropping separate treatment by medium and the less frequently used rules. In many cases it simplifies the wording of the rules while often giving additional explanation. The Concise AACR2 should be consulted first when problems occur; it follows the rule numbers of AACR2 so that if it cannot provide the answer the complete version may be used.

176 pages Paper ISBN 0-8389-0325-8 (1981) $6.50

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules,2nd ed. Cloth ISBN 0-8389-3210-X (1979) $15.00 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.

Paper ISBN 0-8389-3211-8 (1979) $12.00 j

Sample entries shown in typewriter type to guide users in the exact preparation of their own original copy.

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A Preview of ACRL’s Second National Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota October 1-4, 1981

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