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

• A report by Kendon Stubbs for the Committee on ARL Statistics, The ARL Library Index and Quantitative Relationships in the ARL (Association of Research Libraries, November, 1980), explains the derivation and implications of the ARL Library Index in detail.

• In Power, Politics and Print: The Publication of the British Museum Catalog, 1181-1900 (Linnet Books, 1981, $17.50), Barbara MeCrimmon recounts for the first time the struggles of Edward Augustus Bond and Richard Garnett, the librarians responsible for this catalog—the first national library catalog to be published and therefore made available to other libraries.

• The purpose of Progress in Communication Sciences (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1980, $32.50), the second in an annual series, is to “provide the reader with high quality state of the art reviews of thought and research.” Each review focuses on one or more of the following: 1) information, information transfer, and information systems; 2) the uses and effects of communications; and 3) the control and regulation of communications and information.

• “Most” of the online search facilities available have been described in a general fashion “so that readers may acquire an overall view of the range available to them” in Online Searching: An Introduction (Butterworth & Co., 1980, $31.95) by W. M. Henry, J. A. Leigh, L. A. Tedd and P. W. Williams. A general overview of online searching, including the scope of services and databases and equipment required; a detailed description of search facilities and techniques, including information about database structure; a discussion of the role of the intermediary; details of management aspects; and a description of aids and methods for education and training.

• Management of Library Networks: Policy Analysis, Implementation and Control, by William R. Rouse and Sandra H. Rouse (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980, $25.95), presents a methodology for the analysis of resource-sharing library networks and illustrates how this methodology has been applied in several case studies.

• An Overview of Videodisc Technology and Some Potential Applications in the Library, Information, and Instructional Sciences, by R. Kent Wood and Robert D. Woolley (ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980), is based upon the Utah State University Videodisc Innovation Projects and includes descriptions of major marketed videodisc systems and those soon to be marketed.

• Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials: A Manual Based on AACR 2 by Nancy B. Olsen (Minnesota Scholarly Press, 1981, $17.50 softcover) presents photographs of a variety of audiovisual items typically ordered by libraries. Each photograph is accompanied by a comprehensive explanation for correct cataloging.

• A collection of 14 essays written by Raynard Coe Swank between 1944 and 1974 have been edited by David W. Heron under the title A Unifying Influence: Essays of Raynard Coe Swank (The Scarecrow Press, 1981, $13.50). Swank was director of libraries at Stanford University and the University of Oregon and a professor and dean at the University of California School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley.

• The proceedings of the August 1980 Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services (AACOBS) in Sydney have been published as Networks Study no. 16 in the Development of Resource Sharing Networks Series of the National Library of Australia (1980). Bibliographical Services to the Nation: The Next Decade, edited by D. H. Borchardt and John Thawley for the AACOBS Working Party on Bibliography, is available at $9.75 from the Sales and Subscriptions Unit, National Library of Australia.

• Defending Intellectual Freedom: The Library and the Censor (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, No. 32) is a collection of previously published essays by Eli M. Oboler, available at $22.95 through Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut (1980). Oboler, former university librarian at Idaho State University in Pocatello, examines political and “moral” censorship and attempts to “explain the ways librarians and those interested in libraries can combat the censor and fulfill their responsibility to the reading public.”

• The proceedings of the 1980 joint Aslib/IIS/ LA Conference at Sheffield have been compiled by The Library Association, London, in The Nationwide Provision and Use of Information, available at $31.25 from the Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona (1981).

• Rudolf Engelbarts’ bibliography, Librarian Authors (McFarland & Company, 1981, $21.95), lists names and works of 108 men and women who were (or are) authors as well as outstanding librarians. The book is divided into three sections: the first lists six men who lived during the period of 1600 to 1800; the second covers the 19th century and the first half of the 20th; and the third discusses the contemporary scene.

• A “library survival kit” for graduate students titled Keys to Library Research on the Graduate Level: A Guide to Guides by Harvey R. Gover of Tarleton State University (University Press of America, 1981, $5.25) is intended to enable students to fully utilize campus library resources and to give them a sense of independence in their library work.

• A task force of the Bibliographic Service Development Program of the Council on Library Resources has published Requirements Statement for the Name Authority File Service (April 1981). This document “describes the background and rationale for a name authority file service for the nation’s libraries, and the steps being taken to make that service a reality.”

• The City University of New York Report of the Task Force on Libraries (December 1980) is the result of 16 months of intermittent study and discussion. While some important revisions have been made that take account of comments and criticisms from those who read the preliminary draft of March 3, 1980, the basic findings and recommendations of that report are now reaffirmed here. The report recommends “a phased, five-year development program to organize and develop a unified library system in which the college libraries will retain local autonomy and the (city) University will provide funds and leadership for University-wide programs.”

• Viewdata and Videotext, 1980-81: A Worldwide Report (Knowledge Industry Publications, 1980, $75), is the transcript of Viewdata ’80, the first world conference on viewdata, videotex and teletex held in London in March 1980.

• Theory and Practice in Library Education: The Teaching-Learning Process, by Joe Moorhead of the School of Library and Information Science, State University of New York, Albany (Libraries Unlimited, 1980, $17.50 U.S., $21 elsewhere), is “an exploration of a perennial issue in professional education generally and library education specifically: the problem of theory and practice in the instructional process.” The study addresses the problem of theory and practice in selected professions such as medicine, engineering, law, social work; examines library education specifically; looks at modes of instruction in library education and the merits of library-centered library education.

• Grant Money and How to Get It: A Handbook for Librarians, by Richard W. Boss, senior consultant at Information Systems, Inc., Maryland (R. R. Bowker & Co., 1980, $19.95), attempts to assist librarians and library staff in competing for grant funds.

• Building Library Collections: Policies and Practices in Academic Libraries, by Hugh F. Cline and Loraine T. Sinnott (D. C. Heath and Company, 1981) analyzes collection development policies and practices in seven academic libraries, drawing on two theoretical perspectives: analyses of the structure and function of complex organizations and analyses of resource allocation.

• The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and Development (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, $25) by Arthur Hamlin, professor and director of libraries, emeritus, at Temple University, is written for the academician outside the library profession who is a user of libraries and interested in them.

• In The Sources of Western Literacy: The Middle Eastern Civilizations (Greenwood Press, 1980, $25), author Felix Reichmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University, presents the Middle Eastern influences on European culture. Antiquity is represented by Mesopotamia and Egypt; the Middle Ages are covered by Byzantium and the Arab Empire.

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Catalogue of British Official Publications

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1981 Six Bi-monthly Issues and Annual Cumulation $260

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2nd ANNUAL PRESERVATION & CONSERVATION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS CONFERENCE

February 22*23, 1982

Westpark Hotel, Arlington, Virginia

Chairperson: Nina Root,

American Museum of Natural History

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Before January 21,: $125.00 after January 21: $150.00

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2nd ANNUAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS & INFORMATION CONFERENCE

March 26-27, 1982

Westpark Hotel, Arlington, Virginia

Chairperson: Peter Hernon, Simmons Graduate School of Library Science

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LITA AWARD

Nominations are sought for the Library and Information Technology Association’s Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology. The award is intended to recognize distinguished leadership, notable development or application of technology, superior accomplishments in research or education, or original contributions to the literature of the field.

The award may be given to an individual or to a small group of individuals working in collaboration. Organized institutions or parts of organized institutions are not eligible.

Nominations for the award may be made by any member of the American Library Association and should be submitted by January 15, 1982, to Hank Epstein, LITA Awards Committee Chairperson, 1992 Lemnos Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

*** LATE NEWS RELEASE ***

Richard D. Johnson has been appointed acting editor of Choice magazine and will be on leave from his permanent position as director of libraries at the State University College, Oneonta, New York. He was editor of C&RL, 1974-80, and program chair for the First National ACRL Conference, Boston, 1978.