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ACQUISITIONS

•Georgetown University was recently given a gift of 169 books and 145 volumes of German and international law journals. The presentation was made by the Cultural Attache of the German Embassy, Dr. Juergen Kalkbrenner, to the^z director of the Georgetown University Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law, Professor Don Wallace, Jr.

The gift begins the Heinrich Kronstein Memorial Collection in honor of the founder and first director of the Georgetown Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law. Ms. Kronstein has donated books from her late husband’s library to expand the Kronstein Memorial Collection. The collection is located in the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library at Georgetown University and is available to students, faculty, lawyers, and others interested in international law.

•The Director of Libraries at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has announced that Congressman Robert E. Jones, Fifth Congressional District of Alabama, has donated his congressional papers and other related materials to the university library.

This will be a highly unique and invaluable addition to the library as it represents thirty years of service in Congress. During those thirty years, the congressman has asserted a leadership role that has changed the district from rural to one of the most important centers of high technology in the nation. The congressman has been a constant supporter of TVA and other important projects and currently is the chairman of the Public Works and Transportation Committee.

This collection of over 200,000 individual items will be the nucleus around which an increasingly important collection of political sciences will continue to develop.

•The papers of Arthur H. Steinhaus (1897- 1974) have been given to the University of Tennessee library. Steinhaus was an eminent physiologist, teacher, and dean of George Williams College. The collection of about 60,000 pieces of correspondence, personal records, manuscripts, and other material covering his life during the period 1914-66 is available to researchers. His importance to the field of exercise physiology and to the physical education field is well known. As a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, president of the American Academy of Physical Education, and author of numerous books and articles, this collection will be valuable for future research. NASSH member, Andrew Kozar of the University of Tennessee, was instrumental in obtaining the collection for the Tennessee library.

•The University of Tulsa recently acquired the Robert Graves-Laura Riding Collection from Dr. Ellsworth Mason, who has been a Graves scholar and collector for over twenty- five years. The collection contains over 800 books and includes at least one first edition of each of Graves works; also, there are approximately 500 periodical issues with articles by or about Graves. There are 266 letters by Graves, Laura Riding, Sir William Nicholson and Len Lye, along with corrected typescripts by Graves and Riding; also, there are numerous photographs, recordings, and ephemera. The Laura Riding Jackson portion of the collection includes a first edition of most of her works. Dr. Mason’s central aim in collecting was “to lay the base for the production of a variorum edition of the works by Graves.” To commemorate the acquisition a reception-symposium was held at which time Dr. Mason, using the title “The Golden Fleece-Voyages with Robert Graves,” spoke about his experiences as a collector.

Another collection of great significance that has been acquired is the library of Cyril Connolly, British literary critic, author, and editor. The collection contains over 8,000 volumes and over 1,100 periodical issues; many of the books are inscribed presentation copies. The collection is primarily a representation of modem literature, particularly the contemporaries of Connolly, but, also, it reflects the prejudices of Connolly through obvious omissions of works by those with whom he argued or did not like. Since Connolly was known as a “glutton for civilized pleasure,” there are numerous volumes about foods, drink, travel, art, and animals. A significant portion of his library is French literature, with many rare first editions of authors such as Proust, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Maupassant, de Sade, and Valéry. Many volumes contain annotations, comments, and verse by Connolly. There are letters from Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh, W. H. Auden, Osbert Sitwell, Christopher Isherwood and numerous other authors; since many of the letters were placed in books, the exact number is not known. The collection was obtained from Connolly’s widow.

•The University of Arizona has acquired, as a gift of Dr. and Mrs. Nathan S. Kolins of Tucson, the entire personal collection of biblical archaeology of the late Professor G. Ernest Wright. The collection, amounting to approximately 700 volumes, was put together by Dr. Wright beginning in the 1930s and continuing for nearly forty years into the early 1970s. At the time of his death in 1974, Dr. Wright’s collection was virtually complete for all works in biblical archaeology in English, French, and' German. Dr. Wright was Parkman professor of divinity of Harvard University and a leading biblical scholar as well as this country’s foremost Syro-Palestinian and biblical archaeologist. This is the most important single gift collection received by the University of Arizona Library in recent years.

•An important and comprehensive collection of John Masefield books and manuscripts has been given to Bryn Mawr College by Mr. and Mrs. David Mills. The collection, assembled by Mills’ father, Wilson W. Mills, covers the full range of Masefield’s published work in first editions. Most are signed by the author, and many have additional drawings and holograph verse.

The printed material includes an impressive collection of Reynard the Fox imprints. Among them is the 1931 Heinemann edition of twenty- five copies with several pages of verse and a watercolor drawing in the author’s hand. Also noteworthy are the advance English proof sheets of Reynard the Fox with marginal annotations by the author, an advance issue of the 1910 The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, the pamphlet My Faith in Woman Suffrage, and the 1917 first edition of The Old Front Line with the author’s notations. The first edition of Salt Water Rallads is among the most remarkable volumes in the collection. Beneath most of the poems are notes by Masefield describing the circumstances under which the verses were written. One entry reads “This book was named Salt Water Ballads after other names had been tried. A lithograph, called Salt Water, by Mr. Charles Shannon, suggested the title.”

Masefield manuscripts include the autograph manuscripts of Jim Davis; drafts of The Port of Holy Peter; and the typed manuscripts of Reynard the Fox, Son of Adam, and Minnie May low’s Story (published as Emily the Fair). All but the latter have extensive corrections in the author’s hand. The original music and lyrics for the special music number of The Chapbook, December 1920, together with correspondence relating to its publication, make up part of this collection. There are also autograph letters by Masefield to a number of correspondents. The collection is housed in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room at Bryn Mawr College’s Canaday Library.

•A 1778 atlas that guided the strategies of French military leaders during the American Revolution has been purchased for the University of Illinois Library by the Friends of the Library and other benefactors. The acquisition honors the nation’s Bicentennial. The large folio edition of “Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional” was published in Paris by G. L. LeRouge shortly after France’s entry into the war as an ally of the U.S.

The atlas is a compilation of the best maps of North America available at the time and was issued to acquaint French military commanders with the land and sea areas of combat. Admiral Francois-Joseph-Paul de Grasse and Marshal Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau used LeRouge’s atlas to plan their campaigns. French aid was instrumental in the ultimate defeat of the British forces. The atlas originally was published with twenty-one maps; the library’s edition contains nine extra maps not called for on the title page. The most interesting of these extra maps is the earliest known version of Benjamin Franklin’s map of the Gulf Stream.

Other areas delineated include North America, with notes about disputed border claims, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware Bay, New York and New England, and Canada. The outlines of waterways and lakes are hand- colored. The three other known copies of the atlas in the U.S. contain fewer maps.

The volume has an eighteenth century mar- bleized paper board cover and includes a French engraving of the famous Benjamin West painting of William Penn’s treaty with the Indians.

Also in the library’s collection is a complementary volume, the “Holster Atlas,” a pocket atlas of the British colonies published in London in 1776 and intended to be carried into the field by British officers during the Revolution. It contains “an approved collection of correct maps … of the British colonies, especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war . . . employed in his Majesty’s fleets and armies.”

Such atlases are invaluable source material for scholarly research by historians and geographers, according to N. Frederick Nash, rare book librarian at UIUC. The UIUC library is known for its outstanding collection of historical maps and atlases.

AWARDS

• Eli M. Oboler, director of the Idaho State University Library at Pocatello, has been named recipient of the 1976 Robert B. Downs Award for outstanding contributions to the cause of intellectual freedom in libraries.

Oboler was selected for the honor by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. He will receive a citation and $500. “For many years, he has been an articulate and forceful exponent of human rights in general and of intellectual freedom in particular,” said Professor Herbert Goldhor, director of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Science.

Oboler has written and spoken widely on intellectual freedom. His most recent book, Fear of the Word: Censorship and Sex, was published in 1974. A new work on “Ideas and the State University” is scheduled for publication this year.

Robert B. Downs is dean emeritus of library administration at UIUC. The award was created by the faculty in his honor upon his retirement in 1971 after nearly thirty years with the library.

• Ronald Burt DeWaal has won the 1975 John H. Jenkins Award for bibliography. DeWaal’s work, “The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” was selected for its comprehensiveness and for being a “fine piece of bookmaking,” according to Carl Nie- meyer, chairperson of the award committee and professor emeritus of English at Union College.

The annual award was established by John H. Jenkins, the rare book dealer of Austin,

Texas, after he had been instrumental in finding and returning to Union College the plates from the first volume of J. J. Audubon’s original double folio “Birds of America” stolen from the college library in 1971. Jenkins returned the reward money to the college to establish a fund for the prize. The award is $500.

DeWaal is humanities librarian at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, Colorado. He is also a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a worldwide society of Holmes’ followers, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

DeWaal has catalogued in the book the original writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in their various editions and translations. Furthermore, he has listed virtually everything related to Doyle’s famous sleuth, including films, musicals, criticisms, radio and television programs, phonograph records, parodies and pastiches, and even figurines and Christmas cards. DeWaal spent five years preparing the book. A native of Salt Lake City, DeWaal holds degrees from the University of Utah and the University of Denver.

The selection committee comprises, in addition to Dr. Niemeyer, of Walker Cowen, director of the University Press of Virginia; Ann Massie Case, editor of the Bibliographic Index of the H. W. Wilson Co.; Ernest C. Mossner, professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas; William B. Todd, editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; and W. Loretta Walker, senior reference librarian, Schaffer Library, Union College.

GRANTS

• Twelve college and university libraries have been selected to receive grants for the 1976-77 academic year under the Council on Library Resources’ new Library Service Enhancement Program. The successful libraries, which serve student populations ranging from 842 to over 20,000, are located at Cornell University (N.Y.), DePauw University (Ind.), Earlham College (Ind.), Lawrence University (Wis.), Lewis and Clark College (Oreg.), University of New Hampshire, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, Oregon State University, Presbyterian College (S.C.), University of South Carolina, State University College at Potsdam (N.Y.), and West Georgia College.

In view of the response to the announcement of the new program last fall (nearly 600 requests for applications were received and more than 200 completed), the council plans to continue the program for four-year, accredited institutions for the academic year 1977-78.

Each of the award-winning libraries has designated a project librarian to explore with faculty, students, and administrators ways of integrating the library more fully into the teaching/ learning process of its institution, and to design and implement creative programs that, in a faculty-library partnership, will expand the library’s role in the academic life of the college or university. Several of the successful applicants will be building on programs already in operation; others will be initiating steps that represent a departure from their traditional library services.

The council grant will pay the salary and benefits of the designated librarian, who will be relieved of normal duties for the academic year in order to spend full time on the project. Library funds thus released are to be used to appoint for the year a beginning professional librarian and to pay for necessary travel and related project expenses.

Library directors and project librarians at the award-winning institutions are: Cornell University, J. Gormly Miller and Jean Ormond- royd; DePauw University, James Martindale and Larry Hardesty; Earlham College, Evan Farber; Lawrence University, Dennis Ribbens and Richard Werking; Lewis and Clark College, James Pirie and Louise Gerity; University of New Hampshire, Donald Vincent and Hugh Pritchard; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, Tommie Young and Alene Young; Oregon State University, Rodney Waldron and Laurel Smith Maughan; Presbyterian College, Lennart Pearson and Jane Pres- sau; University of South Carolina, Kenneth Toombs and Betty Nelson; State University College at Potsdam, William Moffett and Jeanne Dittmar; West Georgia College, Robert Simmons and Virginia Ruskell.

In order to ensure that applicants would be competing with peer institutions, the proposals were divided into groups based on the size and general characteristics of the parent institution. The council asked a team of highly qualified professional librarians to evaluate the applications and select finalists in each category. Team members then visited those institutions for further evaluation prior to selection of the winners. Chaired by CLR consultant William S. Dix, librarian emeritus of the Princeton University Library, the team was composed of Patricia Battin, director of the Library Services Group, Columbia University; Beverly P. Lynch, executive secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries; Ernestine A. Lipscomb, director, Jackson State University Library; A. P. Marshall, dean of academic services, Eastern Michigan University; Fred Roper, professor, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Foster Mohrhardt, retired CLR senior program officer.

The Library Service Enhancement Program complements the joint Council on Library Resources/National Endowment for the Humanities College Library Program, which thus far has provided more than $1 million to twenty- four institutions, each of which has matched the funds provided for its five-year project. The programs promote an increased sharing of responsibility between faculty and librarians in the teaching/earning process.

Applications for the 1977-78 Library Service Enhancement Program may be obtained by sending a self-addressed #10 envelope and mailing label to the program, care of the Council on Library Resources, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036.

• The Council on Library Resources has awarded a grant of $31,509 to Pennsylvania State University faculty members Edward R. Johnson, associate librarian and assistant dean of libraries, and Stuart H. Mann, associate professor of operations research, in support of a study of the effectiveness of the Association of Research Libraries’ Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP), which thus far has been conducted at twenty-two university and research libraries. Developed by the ARL Office of University Library Management Studies (OMS), the MRAP program is essentially an internal review by library staff of management practices in the areas of budget, policies, planning, goals and objectives, communication, personnel, organization, leadership, supervision, staff development, and general management. Since the MRAP program is relatively new (it began in 1972), no systematic objective attempt has been made to evaluate its impact.

The first step will be to analyze the goals and objectives identified by each institution as it began the MRAP study. Data will then be collected by means of a survey, aimed at evaluating whether the MRAP study has caused changes in the climate, overall performance, and effectiveness of each library and its management. These changes may be behavioral, at- titudinal, or organizational. Roth questionnaires and personal interviews will be used.

Project directors Johnson and Mann hope, through the study, to produce an evaluative tool that will be useful to the Association of Research Libraries, to MRAP participants, and to other libraries wishing to evaluate organizational development programs. It is anticipated that the study will require twelve months for completion.

MEETINGS

September 16-18: The University of Arizona Graduate Library School is sponsoring a followup to the highly successful 1975 workshop on Management by Objectives. It will be held in Tucson at the Arizona Inn. The workshop leaders will include Joseph F. Shubert, Ohio state librarian, and David Tansik, associate professor in the Department of Management at the University of Arizona. The workshop is intended for participants with a basic knowledge of management by objectives.

For further information and registration materials, write or call: Ruth Risebrow, University of Arizona Graduate Library School, 1515 E. First St., Tucson, AZ 85719; (602) 884-3565.

September 21: Personnel: The Human Resource in Libraries is the topic of a one-day conference to be sponsored by the School of Library Science of the University of Iowa. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union.

Drawing on speakers from outside as well as within the library field, the conference is designed for librarians who are involved in supervisory and leadership roles. Morning sessions will be devoted to general considerations of supervision: motivating employees, the supervisor as group leader, and performance evaluation. Afternoon sessions will cover specific applications to library situations in the areas of staff development, nondiscriminatory interviewing, and collective bargaining.

For a program brochure and registration form write to Ethel Rloesch, School of Library Science, The University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242.

September 26-29: The Pennsylvania Library Association annual conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The association will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary at the conference banquet on Tuesday, September 28. Featured speaker will be Richard Adams, author of the bestsellers Watership Down and Shardik.

For further information contact the conference chairperson, Mary Elizabeth Colombo, B. F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Ave., Aliquippa, PA 15001.

September 29-October 1: The Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh will sponsor a three-day national conference on Resource Sharing in Libraries at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Designed to provide a critical assessment of the present state of the art and a systematic consideration of future strategies in those areas of librarianship where resource sharing has become a critical concern, the conference will be concerned with such major topics as the characteristics of an ideal resource-sharing network, current progress toward realization of resource-sharing and networking goals, obstacles that must be overcome, the economics of networking, and new modes in network evaluation and design. The object of the conference will be to assist library administrators in evaluating current and anticipated future progress in resource sharing as a basis for budget planning and decision making in such priority areas as staffing, collection development, monograph and serials acquisition, and participation in consortia.

Extensive critical state-of-the-art review papers will be provided in advance to all conference registrants and will serve as a focus for the working sessions. Principal speakers will include Alphonse J. Trezza, executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; William J. Welsh, deputy Librarian of Congress; Allen B. Veaner, assistant director, Stanford University Libraries; Connie R. Dunlap, director of libraries, Duke University; Henry G. Shearouse, director, Denver Public Library; H. William Axford, director of libraries, University of Oregon; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, Washington State Library; John P. McDonald, director of libraries, University of Connecticut; James E. Rush, associate director, Ohio College Library Center; Donald W. King, vice-president, Market Facts, Inc.; Eleanor A. Montague, director of the Western Network Project, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Participating members of the University of Pittsburgh faculty will include Dean Thomas J. Galvin, Professor Allen Kent, K. Leon Montgomery, Jacob Cohen, and James Williams.

Conference registration is limited. For information and registration forms, contact John Fetterman, LIS Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

October 2: The American Printing History Association (APHA) announces its first annual conference devoted to Typographic America, to be held in the Harkness Theatre, Butler Library, Columbia University.

The speakers will include; Hellmut E. Lehmann-Haupt, who will review his long career as bibliophile and historian of American printing; John Tebbel on “Highlights of American Publishing History”; Edwin Wolf, II on "Highlights of American Book Collecting”; Joseph R. Dunlap on “The Private Press in America”; Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern on The Role of the Bookseller.” The program will conclude with a forward look at “The Future of Printing in America” by Paul D. Doebler, well-known editor and consultant on book production. Also featured will be an exhibition of American printing selected from the Special Collections Department of Columbia University Library and an open house in the Book Arts Press of the Columbia University School of Library Service.

The registration fee for this all-day program will be $5.00 for members of APHA; $10.00 for nonmembers. The deadline for registration is September 15. For further information and application forms, write to: Robert A. Colby, Conference Planning Committee, APHA, 33-24 86th St., Jackson Heights, NY 11372.

October 7-8; No-Growth Budget: Implications for Academic Libraries. The Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, presents a conference on issues and problems in the management of a no-growth budget for academic libraries. The program will feature speakers with varied experience and expertise in academic library budgeting process. The conference will provide a forum for stimulating discussion and exploring these current problems. Librarians, faculty, administrators, and fiscal officers are invited to participate. Registration will close on September 6, 1976, and is limited to 100 persons. For further information please contact: Sul H. Lee, Dean of Library Services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809.

October 11-13: The annual fall meeting of the West Virginia Library Association will be held in Huntington, West Virginia. Headquarters will be the downtown Holiday Inn.

Local arrangements chairperson is James Nelson, Cabell County librarian. Exhibits chairperson is Walter Felty, department chairperson, Educational Media, Marshall University.

October 24-29: 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 library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Source people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers. 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, Assistant Professor, Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

October 28 29: The second annual Library Microform Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.

November 8-9: A major event in the University of Chicago Graduate Library School’s celebration of its fiftieth anniversary year will be the school’s thirty-eighth annual conference: “Prospects for Change in Bibliographic Control.” Abraham Bookstein, Herman Fussier, and Helen Schmierer are codirectors. The conference will be held at the Center for Continuing Education on the University of Chicago campus.

Problems of bibliographic control have long been a central concern of the school and have been the focus of three earlier conferences. Economic pressures on libraries, rapidly changing technologies, and organizational changes affecting bibliographic control make another such conference timely and appropriate. The purpose of this conference is to define clearly the state of bibliographic control today, identify the variables that will most strongly influence the evolution of bibliographic control in the future, relate current capabilities to fundamental principles, and consider the available alternatives and their consequences.

For further details about registration, housing, etc., write: Abraham Bookstein, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.

November 10-13: The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) will hold its fifth annual meeting and program at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. MELA will cosponsor a MESA conference panel on Islamic printing and publishing chaired by Richard S. Cooper (Islamica librarian—UC Berkeley) with Fawzi Khoury (Near East bibliographer—Univ. of Washington) as commentator. Participants are Anthony Welch (Univ. of Victoria), “Islamic Calligraphy”; Miroslav Krek (Brandeis Univ.), “The Enigma of Printing the First Arabic Book”; Muhammad B. Alwan (Georgetown Univ.), “History of al-Jawã’ib Press”; and Pierre MacKay (Univ. of Washington), “KATIB System: A Revolutionary Advancement in Arabic Script Typesetting by Means of the Computer.” Committee reports and bylaws changes will be discussed at MELA’s business meeting, at a place and time to be announced. Further details are available from Janet Heineck, Secretary-Treasurer of MELA, Room 560, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL 60637. For more information about the MESA meeting please write to MESA Headquarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003.

November 14-17: The 1976 annual Allerton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Times: Changing Libraries,” and will consider likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the university campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute.

The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write Edward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

MISCELLANY

• The directors of eight academic libraries in the Chicago area, after meeting regularly for over a year discussing cooperative ways of improving library service have formed the Chicago Academic Library Council. Libraries represented on the council are those at: Chicago State University, DePaul University, Governors State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northeastern Illinois State University, Roosevelt University, and the University of Illinois at the Chicago Circle.

The council and its subcommittees composed of corresponding staff in each library have been meeting to explore cooperative programs. The first such program to be put into effect on an experimental basis started on May 1, 1976, when six member libraries agreed to participate in a direct borrowing trial. The experiment has been developed to help students, faculty, and staff at the cooperating institutions obtain material which might not be in their own university libraries. The six member libraries are those at: Chicago State University, DePaul University (but not its law library), Governors State University, Illinois Institute of Technology (but not the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Library), Northeastern Illinois State University, and Roosevelt University. The libraries at Loyola University and the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, felt that they could not at this time take part in the program.

The program means that students, faculty, and staff at the six cooperating universities have access to nearly 2,000,000 volumes held in their combined institutional libraries. Borrowers with currently valid ID cards from any one of these schools may now borrow library materials from any of the six named libraries.

All visiting borrowers are expected to observe the rules and regulations in each library they visit. If they borrow materials, they are encouraged to return them to the same point. With few exceptions, all materials in the general collections may be borrowed by those eligible. Special collections will customarily be available for use within each library. More information about this program is available in each participating library.

Further information about the Chicago Academic Library Council can be had from the director of any member library, or from the current chairperson of the Council: Mr. Adrian Jones, Director of Libraries, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60605.

•The UCLA Biomedical Library recently received $100,000 from the Ahmanson Foundation to establish an endowment for the acquisition of resources in nineteenth-century medicine, with primary emphasis on German and Austrian contributions. The endowment is a memorial to Franklin E. Murphy, M.D., father of former UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. It recognizes a lifelong interest of the senior Dr. Murphy who had studied in Goettingen, Berlin, and Vienna at a time when the spirit of the great German medical scientists of the last century was the guiding force in medical education and research.

•The twenty-first annual meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Lihrary Materials (SALALM) was held at Indiana University, May 2-6, 1976. At the meeting, the Executive Board of SALALM voted to accept the offer of the University of Texas at Austin to house the SALALM secretariat for the next three years.

SALALM was organized in 1956 to serve as a clearinghouse for information relating to the acquisition of library materials from Latin American countries. It continues to broaden the scope of its activities and provides a unique service in gathering and disseminating information on a wide variety of subjects of interests to librarians and scholars concerned with Latin American studies. For many years the secretariat was located at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., under the leadership of Marietta D. Shepard. In 1973, the secretariat was moved to the University of Massachusetts, where Dr. Pauline Collins assumed the post of executive secretary.

The Secretariat will be housed in the Benson Latin American Collection. Lou Wetherbee, Latin American bibliographic control librarian of the General Libraries, began a three-year term as executive secretary. The address of the secretariat, effective July 1, 1976, is: SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection,

The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

• The race between faculty compensation and inflation was won by inflation for the third consecutive year, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession.

Average faculty compensation for the 1975- 76 academic year increased only 6.4 percent while the average compensation of wage and salary workers in the country as a whole increased two full percentage points more. At the same time, the increase in the consumer price index for the academic year was 7 percent. “Thus,” according to the report, “on the average the purchasing power of faculty compensation fell again this year, but very much less than last year, while simultaneously other wage and salary workers about held their own in terms of purchasing power.” In the 1974-75 academic year the average college or university professor had 4.2 percent less buying power as compared with the previous year because of spiraling inflation. It was the largest decrease in faculty purchasing power in the eighteen- year history of AAUP’s survey. This year the average compensation (salary plus fringe benefits) for faculty members, excluding medical school faculties, is $19,910.

The report noted that since new faculty recruitment is slowing down, the average years of service of faculty members is increasing. Thus, the increase in average compensation needs to be larger than that of the consumer price index in order to prevent lifetime compensation from shrinking. And yet for the last three years the average increase in faculty compensation has been below that of the consumer price index. This year’s report indicates that only about one-sixth of all faculty members taught at institutions where average salaries kept up with inflation plus a reasonable provision for in-service increases. The report cautioned: “These trends are ominous for the maintenance of the economic status of the profession. It was quite understandable for faculty compensation to suffer when prices began a sharp unexpected climb and simultaneously the resources of colleges and universities were impaired by the general economic slump, but this year those conditions no longer obtain. The slump is ended and everyone is on notice that the prices will continue to rise by amounts within the range of 5 to 7 percent per year for the indefinite future. Educational institutions will have to give high priority to increasing rates of compensation in the neighborhood of 8.5 to 9 percent in nominal terms merely to maintain the living standards of their faculties and to offer acceptable careers to new graduates.”

According to the report: “The importance of the normal in-service increases is emphasized by a trend that has been creeping along steadily for the last six years at least: faculty members are growing older collectively as well as individually. Six years ago 49 percent of the faculty were professors or associate professors. The percentage has increased just a bit every year since but most rapidly in the last two years till it now stands at 57 percent. The cause of course is the slow-down in the rate of recruitment since the middle 60’s.”

The report found that the average salary of continuing faculty members (those on the staff for both years) increased by 7.8 percent, slightly above the increase in the cost of living but with virtually no provision for normal in- service increases in compensation. Approximately 60 percent of faculty members teach at institutions where the increase in salary of continuing faculty kept up with inflation.

This year for the first time it was possible to obtain from the survey an indication of any progress being made in equalization of the salaries of men and women faculty members. The report found little progress. “Last year 34 percent of women were professors or associate professors; this year the proportion in the upper ranks is slightly less. One might hope to attribute this stability to the accelerated recruitment of women as assistant professors and instructors but this does not appear to be the case. Last year 32.8 percent of assistant professors and instructors were women; this year the proportion is the same.” The report found that overall the percentage of faculty members who are women fell by nearly a percentage point from 22.5 to 21.7 percent. The proportion of women in two- year institutions with rank fell by more than 4 percentage points.

This year for the first time also, salary data for full-time professional librarians are provided by institution in the annual report. These data were obtained from the National Center for Educational Statistics, Library Branch.

Additionally, the report pointed out that:

The highest paid faculty members continue to be at private universities, where the average compensation for faculty members is about 13 percent higher than in the public universities.

By geographic area institutions in the Pacific area were the highest paying while those in the East South Central regions paid the least.

The report was released June 26, at the AAUP’s sixty-second annual meeting at the University of California at Santa Barbara by Donald C. Cell, Professor of Economics at Cornell College. Dr. Cell is the vice-chairman of AAUP’s Committee Z on the Economic Status of the Profession. He presented the report on behalf of Dr. Robert Dorfman (Economics), Harvard University, chairman of Committee Z.

PUBLICATIONS

• El Miami Herald,a Spanish-language daily newspaper is being offered on microfilm by Microfilming Corporation of America. Created by the parent newspaper, the Miami Herald, to serve the needs of Spanish subscribers in metropolitan Miami, the twenty-four-page El Miami Herald began daily publication in March. It includes national, international, and local news and editorial comment, with an emphasis on Spanish-speaking areas of the world, especially Cuba and the rest of Latin America. It also contains local news and human interest and service features. The specially selected staff for the paper is experienced in reporting the news for Spanish audiences in this country, Puerto Rico, and Latin America.

El Miami Heraldis being made available at no additional cost as part of the regular microfilm subscription to the Miami Herald. It is also sold separately at $60 a year. For more information, contact Jean S. Reid, Director, Information Research, Microfilming Corporation of America, 21 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452; (201) 447-3000.

•Researchers will appreciate having easy access to the contents of 100 little magazines through the Comprehensive Index to English- Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970, which Kraus-Thomson has recently published in eight volumes ($590.00). Series one (this set), culmination of a three-year project, will be followed by another series of 100 little magazines also chosen by Charles Allen and Felix Poliak.

The set is arranged in one alphabet by name (author, artist, editor, translator, etc.) under which are listed “works by” and “works about.” Names have been standardized according to the National Union Catalog with cross-references from variant forms and pseudonyms. Names are in all caps, type of article in italics, magazine in boldface. All information is complete and supported by a list of the magazines indexed, with complete bibliographic history and a list of abbreviations.

•The Office of University Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries has issued ARL Management Supplement, volume four, number one, entitled "Professional Specialists in Academic Libraries.” The author is Keith M. Cottam, assistant director of libraries for the Undergraduate Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Supplement is based on a Council on Library Resources, Inc. Fellowship and describes and analyzes the issues involved in the utilization of nonlibrarian professional staff including personnel, automation, administrative, and facilities specialists.

The Supplement is available from the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each copy is $2.00, prepaid.

•Foundation grants for international purposes exceeded $75 million in 1975. In a new 223-page spiral-bound printout “International Grants: 1975 Foundation Grants Index Data Bank,” the Foundation Center lists over 870 such grants awarded by U.S. foundations to recipients both here and abroad.

The book is divided into three sections. Section one, containing the individual grant listings, comprises the bulk of the text. Each grant listing includes foundation name and state location, recipient name and location, amount awarded, date authorized, and a description of the grant. Section two contains computer-generated statistics on the number of grants awarded and the total dollar amounts. Access to individual grants is provided in section three by five indexes which include approaches by foundation name, recipient country and region, broad subject categories, and key terms.

All information contained in this new volume was derived from the center’s foundation grants data bank. This is a computerized file containing information on over 30,000 grants of $5,000 and over awarded by private foundations since 1973 in all subject areas.

The compiler, Jean Ann Martinson, has been systems coordinator at the center for two years. The nonprofit Foundation Center is the country’s leading research and publishing agency in the field of philanthropic foundations.

Copies of “International Grants” can be ordered for $35.00 each from: The Foundation Center, 888 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Prepayment is required.

•The Office of University Library Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries has issued Occasional Paper, number four, entitled “A Handbook for the Introduction of On-Line Bibliographic Search Services into Academic Libraries.” The author is David M. Wax, until June 30, 1976, the director of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC). The paper provides recommendations to facilitate the initiation of computer search services and discusses areas such as staffing, organization, training, user fees, and equipment.

The Occasional Paper is available from the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each copy is $5.00, prepaid.

•The New York Library Instruction Clearinghouse has published a directory of library instruction programs in New York. New York Library Instruction Programs: A Directory was distributed to contributors in late April. The directory is arranged alphabetically by contributing institutions. This section has a succinct description of each reported instruction program in the state. There is also a comprehensive index which allows access by specific types of programs.

There are 161 libraries listed in the directory. Libraries which responded to the questionnaire received a free copy of the directory. Additional copies are available from NYLIC. New York libraries will be charged $2.00 per copy, and all others will be charged $3.00. There is a limited number of copies, and orders are currently being accepted. Checks should be made out to the SUNY Research Foundation and sent to New York Library Instruction Clearinghouse at Franklin Moon Library, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210; (315) 473-8615.

•Government publications, once a small and well-tended plot, have grown into a tangled growth of directories, regulations, reports, technical studies, and handbooks. With the publication of Government Publications: A Guide to Bibliographic Tools, the Library of Congress provides a path through the government literature thicket for both professional librarians and the general public.

Scholars and researchers will especially welcome this new edition of James B. Child’s pioneering effort in the field, Government Document Bibliography in the United States and Elsewhere, third edition, published by the library in 1942. The new edition, prepared hy Vladimir M. Palic of the Serials Division, represents an eight-fold enlargement of Dr. Child’s earlier work.

Five major geographic area designations— the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa, Near East, and Asia and the Pacific area—provide the framework for the materials cited. U.S. federal, state, and local government publications are listed separately as are those of international organizations. Introductory comments to each section evaluate and analyze the level of bibliographic activity. To fill the gap when current national bibliographies or lists of official publications are lacking, the guide offers general and specialized bibliographies, annual reports of government offices, catalogs, checklists, price lists, indexes, and accession lists as alternative sources. Most of the bibliographic material included in the guide is found in the collections of the Library of Congress. Annotations are kept as brief as possible, outlining the scope and period covered. When available, the Library of Congress catalog entries and call numbers are furnished throughout the guide.

The forty-page index contains selected personal and corporate authors, titles of works, names of geographic areas, names of international government organizations, and references from acronyms and initialisms to the expanded form of name.

Government Publications:A Guide to Bibliographic Tools, fourth edition, is available for $6.70 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

•The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress houses one of the largest general reference collections in the world. A subject guide to this impressive, 44,000-volume collection is now available in a 638-page bound publication, The Library of Congress Main Reading Room Reference Collection Subject Catalog. Arranged alphabetically by Library of

Congress subject headings, the new catalog contains multiple entries for the 11,000 monographs and 3,000 serials which were in the reference collection on January 1, 1975. A special characteristic of the catalog is the application of numerous additional subject headings to provide greater depth and consistency in subject indexing.

The Main Reading Room reference collection is particularly strong in the humanities, social sciences, and bibliography; it also contains over 900 Library of Congress publications. Libraries throughout the world may find this catalog helpful in reviewing and building their own reference collections.

The first Library of Congress computer-produced catalog to list both monographs and serials, the publication is a joint product of the General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Department (the former Reference Department), and the MARC Development Office, Processing Department. It was compiled by Katherine Ann Gardner, Public Reference Section, General Reference and Bibliography Division. A classified catalog arranged by call number is planned for 1977.

The subject catalog is available for $13 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (stock No. 030-001-00067-2). Copies may be obtained in person at the Information Counter in the Library of Congress Building.

•The Serials Librarian is a new quarterly journal to be published fall 1976 by the Haworth Press. Edited by Peter Gellatly, head of the Serials Division, University of Washington Libraries, the new journal is devoted mainly to practical aspects of serials acquisitions, management, and control.

Articles in the charter issue include: “Joining Art and Technics at the Serials Desk” by Bill Katz; “The Subscription Agency and Lower Serials Budgets” by Frank Clasquin; “Entry of Serials” by Mary Ellen Cooper; “Microform Serials Collections: A Systems Analysis” by R. J. Coffman; an annotated bibliography on unique identifiers for serials, and abstracts of journal articles relating to serials librarianship published elsewhere.

Subscriptions to The Serials Librarian cost $18.00 (price includes index), and may be ordered from: The Haworth Press, 174 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Canadian orders require $2.00 additional for postage and handling; other foreign orders $5.00 additional.

•The University Library of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, announces the publication of its 170-page A Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections in the University of Arkansas Library. The guide contains 211 descriptive entries for that number of large and small historical and literary collections, most of which pertain to Arkansas and Arkansans, and a forty- five-page index. Compiler of the guide is Sam Sizer, Curator of Special Collections. Copies may be ordered, at $3.00 each, from Special Collections, University Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701; checks should be made payable to “University of Arkansas Library.”

•A current annotated listing of the most useful and informative publications about library cooperation can be found in a new ERIC at Stanford paper, A Selected Bibliography on Multitype Library Service, 1970-1975.

The twenty-one-page bibliography was compiled by Jean L. Connor of the Public Library Association Interlibrary Cooperation Committee, with the cooperation and assistance of several other committees of the American Library Association. Although prepared especially for distribution at the ALA’s summer 1976 conference, the paper is considered useful for all librarians interested in this subject.

Its annotated entries cover; bibliographies and directories of library cooperation, national level planning and programs, state and interstate level planning and programs, and varied approaches to multitype library cooperation. All entries include complete ordering information on both ERIC and non-ERIC materials. A five-page introduction discusses state and interstate level planning and the ALA and multitype library cooperation.

A Selected Bibliography on Multitype Library Service is available for $1.50 from; Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks must be included with orders and made payable to “Box E.” Purchase orders cannot be filled. A 15 percent discount is given to orders of ten or more copies. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service when its ED number is announced.

•A Guide to Local Historical Material in the Libraries of South Central New York State has just been published. This 188-page book is an up-to-date listing of historical materials dealing with the history and development of the south central region of New York State. Included in the listing are such items as atlases, gazetteers, biographies, church and school histories, cookbooks, diaries, directories, material on folklore of the area, genealogies, guidebooks, highway reports, materials about Indians of the area, military histories, and school district reports. The guide includes a subject index.

All items are located in the 122 public libraries in the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Yates. Included also are the holdings of the largest academic library in the area—the Cornell University Libraries. The information was compiled by a committee of librarians working through the South Central Research Library Council, a consortium of public and private research libraries. Final publication was made possible by a grant from the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation.

The guide is being sold at the price of $3.00. Orders may be placed by writing to the South Central Research Library Council, Sheldon Court-College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850—Attn; Order Dept. Make checks payable to: South Central Research Library Council.

•The Caribbean Research Institute has announced its latest publication, A Selected, Annotated Bibliography of Caribbean Bibliographies in English, compiled and edited by Dr. Henry C. Chang, director of the Bureau of Libraries, Archives, and Museums, of the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This publication is the first guide to Caribbean bibliographies in English, consisting of books, pamphlets, and documents. The fifty- four-page bibliography is designed as a reference tool for the student, scholar, and researcher in the culture, history, geography, literature, sociology, economics, and science of the islands in the Caribbean. Each of the 100 bibliographies included is annotated and indexed.

A limited supply of this publication is available for sale at $1.00 per copy. To obtain copies, please contact Dr. Norwell Harrigan, Director, Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Vi 00801. Please make checks payable to Caribbean Research Institute.

• Retrenchment in Higher Education: Implications for Libraries,a fifty-minute black- and-white videotape, is now available from the State University of New York at Albany. The featured speakers, G. Richard Wynn of Cedar Crest College, Millicent D. Abell of SUNY Buffalo, and C. James Schmidt of SUNY Albany, address questions that face libraries in a time of shrinking budgets. The videotape was filmed at the first Eastern New York chapter of ACRL Conference held at Albany on November 14, 1975.

A one-half-inch videotape (EIAJ) may be borrowed from the Film Library, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. A fee of $3.00 is charged to help defray the cost of mailing.

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