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ACQUISITIONS

• The University Library of the University of California, Irvine, has purchased the extensive collection of Californiana of the prominent Orange County historian, Don Meadows. The Meadows Collection, assembled over many decades, is especially rich in material on the history of Orange County, Southern California and Baja, California. It includes more than 3,500 volumes, many thousands of pieces of printed ephemera, over 10,000 manuscript items (primarily of Orange County interest), significant runs of California historical periodicals and of rare early Orange County newspapers, maps, and several hundred local historical photographs.

Inquiries about the collection may be directed to its curator, Mr. Roger B. Berry, University Library, University of California, Irvine, CA 92664.

• The papers and library of John Dewey have been presented to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale by the John Dewey Foundation. The foundation, headed by Professor Sidney Hook of New York, purchased the collection from the estate of the late Roberta Dewey, second wife of the philosopher.

The collection consists of some eighty cartons of books, letters, manuscripts, notes, and photographs, some items dating to the early 1880s. Included is correspondence with William James, William Rainey Harper, James M. Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, and Adelbert Ames. The collection was presented to Southern Illinois University in recognition of the work of the Center for Dewey Studies which is editing the complete works of Dewey for publication by the University Press.

The University also received the library of George S. Counts, a colleague of Dewey and an authority on Russian education. After retiring from the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University, Counts spent ten years at Southern Illinois University, retiring for a second time last year. Included in the Counts collection is his extensive correspondence with Charles and Mary Beard.

• A collection of theoretical works by the late Julian Carrillo, one of Mexico’s foremost composers and conductors, has been presented to the University of California, San Diego Central University library by the composer’s daughter, Ms. Dolores Carrillo, Mexican cultural attache to the United States.

The presentation of the books to the library was due primarily to the interest of Ms. Patricia Smith, a University of California, San Diego graduate student in music who is writing her master’s thesis on Carrillo and became acquainted with Ms. Carrillo while doing her studies. The collection, which not only involves the discipline of music, but mathematics, physics, and history as well, was accepted by UCSD librarian Melvin J. Voigt, Dr. John Silber, chairman of the UCSD Department of Music and Ms. Smith’s graduate advisor, Dr. Roy Harvey Pearce, acting dean of Graduate Studies and Research, and Dr. Ramon E. Ruiz, chairman of the UCSD Department of History.

Carrillo was the creator of the “13th sound” musical system which led to new perspectives in the development of musical systems and instruments. The “13th sound” is a symbolic name given to Carrillo’s system of microtones, musical intervals smaller than the halftone upon which the normal system of music is based. In 1895 after an acoustics class in production of sounds, Carrillo discovered ninety-six different musical intervals rather than the normal twelve in the traditional octave and was sure that there were probably more to be discovered. The “13” symbolizes the possibilities that were opened by the discovery of the smaller intervals.

• A collection of thirty rare books estimated at a value exceeding $100,000 and containing a perfect page from the Gutenberg Bible, a book from George Washington’s library, and a first edition of Tom Paine’s Common Sense, has been given to the libraries of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the widely known New York book collector, I. Austin Kelly, III. The collection was given to MIT as a tribute to William N. Locke, who retired this spring as director of libraries after sixteen years. The announcement of the gift and its estimated value was made by Kelly himself at a reception given in Professor Locke’s honor. Kelly, who is a member of the MIT Class of 1926, and Professor Locke are old friends.

The most valuable of the books just presented to MIT is the first edition of Paine’s Common Sense, which has been appraised at more than $30,000, and which took Kelly thirty-nine years of searching to acquire. It is a first issue, in perfect condition, of the famous tract issued in January 1776 by the small printing shop of Robert Bell in Philadelphia. “This little pamphlet was partly instrumental in altering the course of United States history,” Kelly said. “It isn’t too much to say that the Declaration of Independence owes more to Tom Paine’s Common Sense than to any other single piece of writing. Over 300,000 copies of the forty-seven-page, two shilling pamphlet were sold in a period of three months—the equivalent today of a book’s selling six to seven million copies—and within six months the Declaration of Independence was signed.”

“I know of no better way to express my admiration for Professor Locke, and for MIT, than to have this important work as a permanent part of the Institute Library,” Kelly said.

• The distinguished collection of the works of Edgar Allan Poe formed by Colonel Richard Gimbel has been presented to the Free Library of Philadelphia by the Richard Gimbel Foundation for Literary Research, together with the house on North Seventh Street where Poe lived in 1843 and 1844.

Gathered together over a period of fifty years prior to Colonel Gimbel’s death in 1970, the collection is given special distinction by its manuscripts. The manuscript of The Murders in the Rue Morgue towers above all others. Next to it in importance, and as well known, is the manuscript of “The Raven.” The manuscript of “For Annie” completes this important trio. It is one of two known, but the other is incomplete. In addition to these there is a manuscript of “Annabel Lee,” manuscripts of six shorter pieces, eleven autograph letters, five autograph receipts for contributions to Graham’s Magazine, and the original agreement for the publication of Eureka, signed by Poe. With the manuscript material is a collection of more than fifty pieces, including letters of Rosalie Poe, Maria Clemm, and Sarah Helen Whitman which touch Poe intimately, and letters to Poe or about him from Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Baudelaire, Ingram, and others.

Poe’s literary output during his short life consisted of eleven books and numerous contributions to periodicals. All of his books are present in the collection in first editions, including the great rarities Tamerlane, Al Aaraaf, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the excessively rare publication of “X–ing a Paragrab” (sic) in The Spanish Galleon (Boston, 1849), one of three copies located. The 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is present in two copies of the first issue of the first edition, one with an autograph presentation inscription by Poe to his cousin Euphemia Hurst.

First appearances of Poe in periodicals and newspapers are included, together with the ornate gift books and annuals to which he contributed, and a wide range of editions of his works published to the present. More than 500 volumes of the works of his contemporaries round out this portion of the collection.

• The John Willard Brister Library of Memphis State University has recently acquired a collection of 580 volumes of nineteenth century children’s literature from Dr. Ruth M. Baldwin, professor of Library Science at Louisiana State University, and a noted collector of children’s literature. The titles in the collection are duplicates of those in Dr. Baldwin’s personal collection of some 35,000 different titles and editions and will strengthen substantially Memphis State’s Library Service program of coursework in Children’s Literature and in the History of Children’s Literature.

GRANTS

• The Committee on Institutional Cooperation—the consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago—has been awarded a grant of $53,000 to fund Phase 1 of a four-year program to train eighteen students from minority or disadvantaged groups in library science at the doctoral level. The program was designed and will be administered by the CIC Panel of Graduate Library School Deans chaired by Professor Russell E. Bidlack of the University of Michigan.

Phase 1 of the program, which will extend for one year from September 1, 1972, will be devoted to planning, recruitment, and participant training sessions. Phases 2 through 4 will be an Institute of three years fulltime, self-contained advanced study and research. Program activities will take place simultaneously on the campuses of the six CIC universities with Library Science doctoral programs: Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Director of the CIC program will be Hiram L. Davis, who is now completing his own doctoral work at the University of Michigan. Davis, who holds degrees from Missouri Valley College and Kansas State Teachers College, will assume his new duties on September 1. He will conduct a unique recruitment program in order to identify as potential participants black, Chicano, Indian, Puerto Rican, and Appalachian white librarians who, by virtue of their social and economic circumstances, have been unable to take advantage of advanced programs which would prepare them for accepting positions of greater responsibility and leadership.

Interested persons should write Mr. Davis at the University of Michigan’s School of Library Science, Ann Arbor.

• A grant of almost £30,000 has been made by the Commonwealth Foundation for the first three years of work in the foundation and running of a Commonwealth Library Association.

Last September, a meeting called in London by the Library Association of the United Kingdom was attended by representatives of over twenty library associations in the Commonwealth. They agreed to the principle of forming a Commonwealth Association and drew up a constitution, which has since been ratified by all twenty-one countries concerned.

The Commonwealth Foundation has now announced a grant of £29,500, spread over three years, with an additional grant of £1,000 to the British Association for the initial work involved in bringing the new body into being.

A council and honorary officers will have to be elected and it is hoped to hold the first meeting of the council in November, possibly in Nigeria. One of its first tasks will be to decide where the headquarters of the new association shall be set up.

The Commonwealth Association is intended to help to improve libraries in the Commonwealth; maintain and strengthen links between librarians of the various countries; support and encourage library associations in the individual countries; and concern itself with education for librarianship and common, reciprocal standards of qualification.

• The University or Southern California has received a National Science Foundation Grant to conduct a two year study of library cooperation with the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Los Angeles. This grant is part of a larger one that involves the study of cooperation among the three academic institutions in the areas of academic planning and computer resources. Some of the cooperative projects that may be developed and researched include: consolidated serial listing, rapid access inter- library loan services, and other methods of library resource listing and sharing. In addition to the above, an organizational model for academic library cooperation will be investigated. A project director and support staff will be hired to conduct the study which began in July.

MEETINGS

Sept.11-22: The National Archives and Records Service (General Services Administration) has announced that its Twenty-Seventh Institute: Introduction to the Administration of Modern Archives, has been scheduled for September 11-22, 1972. The Institute, offered in cooperation with and accredited by the Department of History of The American University, and cosponsored by the Library of Congress and the Maryland Hall of Records, provides an introduction to archives administration for persons holding or preparing for positions of responsibility in the fields of archives, manuscripts, records management, and the administration of special collections. Featuring a faculty of outstanding specialists, the Institute presents theory, principles, and techniques of archives administration for modern documentary material of both public and private origin. Because of over subscription of the Institute during each of the past several years, two institutes were scheduled for the current year. The Twenty-Sixth Institute was held March 6-17, 1972, and the Twenty-Seventh has been scheduled for September 11-22, 1972. The Institute is directed by Dr. Frank B. Evans, Special Assistant to the Archivist for Academic Liaison and Adjunct Professor of History at The American University. For further information write the Department of History, Twenty-Seventh Archives Institute, The American University, Washington, DC 20016 and consult the July/ August News.

Sept.17-20: The Graduate School of Library Science at Drexel University will sponsor a three-day “Institute on Cable Television for Librarians” from Sept. 17-20, 1972 at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. The institute, which will cover the status and potential of cable television, will be geared to the needs of state library personnel and librarians from large urban systems. Its goals will be to provide an overview of cable TV, furnish information on ordinances and franchises, review current federal regulations, develop practical skills in programming, and outline the role of cable communications in information networks. The institute format will provide lectures, seminar-type sessions, and small group discussions. Consultants will also be available for formal presentations and informal discussions. The institute is being funded through a $12,516 grant from the U.S. Office of Education’s Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology, Training, and Resources Branch.

Additional information concerning the institute may be obtained from the Director, Brigitte L. Kenny, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Sept.21-23: The only major Antiquarian Book Fair to take place in the U.S. this year will be held in San Francisco Sept. 21-23, it has been announced. The three-day event is expected to attract some sixty-five dealers from the U.S. and abroad, who will display and offer for sale rare books, prints, maps, manuscripts, autographs, and similar wares sought by collectors.

Cosponsoring the Antiquarian Book Fair, eighth in California history, are the Northern and Southern California chapters of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.

According to Everett V. Cunningham, Book Fair committee chairman, total value of the works to be displayed will exceed $1 million. Exhibits will be shown in the Grand Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel in downtown San Francisco, and the public will be able to attend, he said.

Oct.9-10: The Minnesota Library Association conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, 9 and 10 October, at Madden’s Lodge in Brainerd. Chairman of exhibits for the conference is: Stephen W. Plumb, Legislative Reference Library, Room 111, State Capitol, Saint Paul, MN 55155.

Oct.23–26: Innovation has been stressed in planning the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) to be held in Washington, D.C., October 23-26, 1972, at the Shoreham Hotel. The technical program will explore the theme, “A World of Information,” in seven technical sessions.

Further information on the conference, including registration and housing forms, may be obtained from the American Society for Information Science, 1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 804, Washington, DC 20036. (Telephone: 202/659-3644.) Consult the July/Au- gust News also.

Oct.27-28: “Acquisitions Explored” will be the subject of the Library Institutes Planning Committee’s fifth annual institute, to be held October 27 and 28, 1972 at Rickey’s Hyatt House Hotel, Palo Alto, California. Registration for the two-day meeting is $20.00 and includes two luncheons. Details may be obtained by writing to Joseph E. Ryus, 2858 Oxford Ave., Richmond, CA 94806. The July/August News also contains further details.

Nov. 1: The Rutgers Graduate School of Library Service holds its second annual Richard H. Shoemaker Lecture on Bibliography on Nov. 1, 1972 at 8 p.m. at Hickman Hall, Room 138 (New Brunswick, Douglass Campus). Richard D. Altick will lecture on Librarianship and the Pursuit of Truth.

Nov. 9-10: A conference on the Use of Audiovisual Archives as Original Source Materials, to be sponsored by the National Archives in cooperation with the history department of the University of Delaware, will be held Nov. 9-10 of this year at the Conference Center of the University at Newark. This will be the eleventh National Archives conference relating to source materials for historical investigation and the first to be held outside the Archives Building in Washington. Director of the conference will be James W. Moore, director of the Audiovisual Archives Division, and Professor James Curtis will act as coordinator with the Department of History of the University. Members of the advisory committee for the conference are Dr. J. Joseph Huth- macher, Richards Professor of American History, University of Delaware; Jay Leyda, faculty of Fine Arts, Programme in Film, York University, Toronto; Dr. David L. Lewis, Professor of Business History, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan; and Dr. J. Smith Holliday, executive director, California Historical Society.

For further information write or phone: James W. Moore, Director, Audiovisual Archives Division, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, DC 20408. Phone (202) 962-2513.

Nov. 12-15: The 1972 Allerton Library Institute will focus on “Information Resources in the Environmental Sciences.” It will be held at Allerton House, Robert Allerton Park, University of Illinois Conference Center, Monticello, Illinois. Additional information may be obtained from Leonard E. Sigler, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

Nov. 30-Dec. 2: Virginia Library Association annual conference, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1972, in Norfolk, Virginia, Scope Cultural and Convention Center.

March18-21, 1973: The Alaska Library Association annual meeting will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska. The theme is “Communications.” Exhibits chairman is Ms. Patsy Willey, North Star Borough Library, 901 First Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701; and program chairman is Ms. Kay Shelton, Juneau-Douglas Community College, Library, Box 135, Auke Bay, AK 99821.

MISCELLANY

• Following a recommendation of its consultant, Allen B. Veaner, the board of directors of the Colorado Academic Libraries Book Processing Center has decided to reorient the center towards more limited objectives. CALBPC was established as a purchasing and processing agency for books for academic libraries in Colorado. The Veaner recommendation is to discontinue the purchasing and processing of books and continue as a center supplying catalog cards and specialized cataloging services. A committee of technical librarians appointed by the board is currently at work on a proposal for the new services. A limited number of copies of the Veaner report are available at $4.00 per copy. Requests for copies may be sent to: CALBPC, Room 42, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80302.

• The Eastern Michigan University library is pleased to announce the establishment of Project LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange). Project LOEX is being developed to meet the needs for a library orientation-instruction exchange which have been expressed by librarians in the field.

The major objectives of Project LOEX are: (1) to collect and organize information and materials pertaining to orientation-instruction in academic libraries, and (2) during its initial phase, to act as a referral agency when information is requested by participating libraries.

The LOEX data bank will consist of the information and instructional materials deposited by cooperating libraries. All participants in Project LOEX will have access to these files either through written requests or personal visits. Those libraries just beginning orientation programs may also have access to the files with the understanding that they will participate fully when able to do so. To participate in Project LOEX, request a questionnaire from: Mary Butterfield, Project LOEX, University Library, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

• Theodora Andrews, Purdue University Pharmacy librarian and Professor of Library Science, has received the John H. Moriarty award from the Indiana Chapter of Special Libraries Association, She was honored for leadership and contributions to the association. The Moriarty award is named for the late director of Purdue Libraries.

• A one-day seminar on guidelines/stan- dards for academic libraries sponsored by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association was held on April 27 at the Pennsylvania State University. One hundred and twenty-nine academic librarians attended. Group discussions were centered on the draft of a document on guidelines for academic libraries prepared by ACRL in 1970. The summary reports were incorporated into a statement of recommendations which is being forwarded to the ACRL Standards and Accreditation Committee for consideration in any future revision of the present document. Group discussion leaders were: Elizabeth Ellis, chief undergraduate librarian, Pennsylvania State University; Kenneth Fagerhaugh, director of libraries, Carnegie-Mellon University; Saul Weinstein, director of libraries, Edinboro State College; William La Franchi, director of libraries, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chairman of the Seminar was Charles H. Ness, Pennsylvania State University libraries who is also chairman of the College and Research Division of PL A.

• Entries are invited for the award of the Robinson Medal, 1972.

The medal is awarded every two years to reward the originality and inventive ability of librarians and other interested persons or firms in connection with devising new and improved methods in library technology and any aspect of library administration.

Methods, inventions, and so on submitted must be designed or adapted primarily for use in the field of library technology or library administration and must be shown to be effective in performance, and to be of wide application or of national significance.

Full particulars, and forms of application, may be obtained from the Secretary, The Library Association, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. The closing date for receipt of entries is November 30, 1972.

PUBLICATIONS

• To help meet the growing demand for information on movement publications, the Ohio State University libraries Publications Committee has just produced the second edition of Alternatives in Print.

Compiled by the American Library Association Task Force on Alternatives in Print, this larger (almost twice as many pages) and better (international this time) edition will continue to fill the gap in a prolific area nearly untouched by traditional library tools.

Because the first edition of AIP, published only a year ago, was so well received, the Task Force immediately made plans for an updated and expanded edition to more adequately fill the existing void. Additional groups, both here and abroad, were gleaned from reviews and notices in movement publications.

To facilitate usage, names of issuing groups rather than publication titles are indexed under subject headings only slightly modified from those developed for the Alternative Press Index. Another section of AIP includes addresses of all groups whose publications were analyzed, plus price listings of their publications when available.

Copies of this now international edition of Alternatives in Print are available from The Ohio State University Libraries, PC, Room 322A, 1858 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, for $4.00 apiece.

• The Monroe C. Gutman Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Education has prepared a complete list of its journals holdings as of June 1972. The compilation contains 1,200 titles, including some 600 journals in education and the related social sciences to which the library currently subscribes. Interested libraries may obtain copies of the fifty- five-page list for the cost of copying and mailing ($3.00). Please make checks payable to “Harvard University,” and send requests to Wes Daniels, Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138.

• Ms. Judith Stonehill, student at the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, with cooperation from the University City Science Center Computer Facility, has written a program to translate MARC tapes from extended ASCII into EBCDIC. The program is written in IBM OS/360 Assembler and will run on any pre-RELEASE 20 OS/360 system. The program is available, with documentation, free of charge, to anyone who requests a copy. Please specify if you wish a card deck, a tape, or program listing. If you wish a tape copy, please send a blank 9-track tape. The program utilizes an extended translate table to include special characters and diacritical marks. Contact: Ms. Judith Stone- hill, or Ms. Brigitte L. Kenney, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas Law School has published the second revised and enlarged edition of the Union List of Foreign Legal Periodicals of the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. Compiled by Guido F. Olivera, the Union List consists of 800 titles, representing the holdings of twenty participating libraries. Arranged in alphabetical order by title, this edition adds 217 new and additional titles in comparative and foreign law to those listed in the first edition of 1970. This ninety-two-page work can be purchased for $10.00 by writing to Don Zedler, Tarlton Law Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, Texas 78705. Checks should be made out to the University of Texas Law School Foundation. ■ ■