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ACQUISITIONS

• Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound has been named recipient of two extremely rare books from the estate of Lionel Pries. According to Desmond Taylor, director of the library, the two-volume Holin- shed Chronicles, published in 1577, are valued at over $7,700 and have come to the university through the generosity of Robert W. Winskill, a 1947 UPS graduate.

Taylor said the manuscripts are particularly celebrated because Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed’s pages, and nearly all Shakespeare’s historical plays, as well as “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” and part of “Cym- beline,” are based on the Chronicles. The volumes received by the university are in especially fine condition, he added.

Also given to the school by Winskill are ten vellum manuscript leaves ranging from 1150 to the sixteenth century a.d. which, along with the Chronicles, will be housed in the library’s new rare books and manuscripts area, designed for the longtime preservation of such documents.

• The University of Missouri at St. Louis Archives and Manuscripts Division has recently received the papers of Margaret Hickey, which have been arranged for use. The collection includes scrapbooks and correspondence dating from the 1940s, a photograph collection, and a series of taped interviews with Margaret Hickey. Margaret Hickey, a lawyer by profession and prominent in national and international organizations, is currently senior editor (public affairs) of the Ladies Home Journal. Her career of public service dates from the 1940s when she served as chairman of the important Women’s Advisory Committee of the War Manpower Commission during World War II. She was also president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. More recently, Margaret Hickey chaired several presidential commissions on the Status of Women and is currently chairman of the Voluntary Foreign Aid Commission of the Agency for International Development. Internationally, Margaret Hickey is a member of the executive committee of the International Council on Social Welfare and has served on the Board of Governors of the League of the Red Cross Societies. Additionally, she has been a consultant and adviser to a number of foundations and trustee for Tuskegee University and Brandeis University.

• An outstanding collection of books by and about T. E. Lawrence was recently presented by George Fullerton to the Honnold Library, Claremont Colleges. Mr. Fullerton, a California native whose primary collecting interest is Western Americana, has amassed a substantial library during his sixty years as a collector of rare books.

Distinguished by copies of limited editions, association copies, and specially bound items, the Lawrence collection includes books by this complex, legendary man, his translations and introductory material to other authors, the major biographies, all controversial and none definitive, and significant books providing background on Arabia.

Lawrence’s major works are represented by first editions of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, on the Arab revolt, and The Mint, chronicling his life as an airman under the name J. H. Ross, accounts of archaeological expeditions as an Oxford scholar including the 1936 Golden Cockeral Press edition of Crusader Castles and The Diary, printed by the Corvinus Press in 1937. The Golden Cockerel Press’ Secret Despatches from Arabia is included.

Notable among the translations are first editions of Lawrence’s version of The Odyssey under the name T. E. Shaw and the printed but unpublished “Letters” and “More Letters from T. E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers,” written in connection with the translation of The Odyssey. The authorized biographies by Robert Graves and Lidell Hart contrast with the later de- mythicizing Lawrence of Arabia by Richard Aldington.

In all, this notable gift consists of forty-one printed volumes and a miscellany of letters, articles, and ephemera concerning Lawrence.

GRANTS

• The Immigration History Research Center will again offer grants–in–aid and research assistantships during 1976-1977.

Grants–in–aid up to $3,000 for travel and living expenses are available to doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, and established scholars. Deadline for 1976 applications is November 15, 1975.

Research assistantships for graduate students enrolled at the University of Minnesota and engaged in studies relating to American immigration and ethnic history are available for the academic year 1976-1977. Candidates should be proficient in one or more languages of Eastern, Central or Southern Europe, or the Middle East. Deadline for 1976-1977 applications is February 15, 1976.

For more information, please contact the Immigration History Research Center, 826 Berry St., St. Paul, MN 55114.

• A Council on Library Resources (CLR) grant of $210,000 to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will enable the five- year-old Office of University Library Management Studies (OMS) to continue and broaden its operations through September 1978.

Originally funded by CLR in 1970-72, with continuing support provided for the period of 1972-75, OMS has played a significant role in the library management field with its practical research and development, information exchange, and organizational training programs.

In the research and development area, operation of its Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP)—a self-study technique assisted by the OMS–designed Manual, training sessions, and consultation—has been and will continue to be a priority interest of OMS. To date, twenty-one research libraries have participated in this intensive evaluation of management practices.

Heart of the OMS information exchange program is the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC). Information collected on library practices and management techniques is summarized in SPEC Flyers and made available to ARL members and nonmembers alike in the form of SPEC kits. Other OMS publications are the OMS Occasional Papers and the ARL Management Supplement.

In the training area, OMS sponsors special- focus workshops, management skills institutes, and a training film program in addition to providing direct assistance to member libraries in designing training courses for their staffs.

These activities will be continued under terms of the new CLR grant. In addition, several new programs are under consideration by OMS and its advisory group, the ARL Management Commission. They are: a study of the public services function in research libraries; design of a performance audit technique; and development of specialized training packages for application in research libraries.

• The Council on Library Resources (CLR) has announced an Advanced Study Program for Librarians for 1976-77. The new program will complement the council’s ongoing Fellowship and Academic Library Management programs, presently seeking their eighth and third classes of fellows and interns respectively.

The new program is designed to further the development of subject specialists for the nation’s research and academic libraries. It will enable up to five librarians to pursue a year of full-time graduate course work in a scholarly discipline—one traditionally considered within the “liberal arts and sciences”—at a graduate school of distinction in the chosen field of study. The program is not intended to support work in “professional” areas such as library science, business administration, or management, nor may the funds be used to travel or for writing a dissertation.

The awards cover graduate study for one academic year (1976-77), with successful candidates receiving stipends of up to $15,000— based on salary and normal benefits received from the home institution for a comparable period during 1975-76—plus graduate tuition and fees for two semesters or three quarters and some assistance for necessary moving costs. Although a candidate need not have been accepted by a graduate school at the time of filing the application, receipt of the award is dependent upon such acceptance by an approved institution.

Applicants must meet the following requirements: age 50 or under; master’s degree in library science from an accredited school; five years of professional library experience; citizen of the U.S. or Canada or with resident status in either country; a demonstrated interest and competence in the scholarly discipline of choice as indicated by work already done; qualities that will facilitate work with persons of high scholarly attainment; and a leave of absence to cover the period of study.

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than November 8, 1975. Awards will be announced in April 1976 for study to begin within the 1976-77 academic year.

Interested librarians may receive application forms by sending a self-addressed #10 envelope or mailing label to: Advanced Study Program for Librarians, Council on Library Resources, Suite 620, 1 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036.

• The Council on Library Resources (CLR) is accepting applications from and nominations of mid-career librarians of outstanding leadership potential for its 1976-77 class of up to five academic library management interns.

Aimed at the development of future managers for the nation’s large research and academic libraries, the CLR program has thus far provided opportunities for two groups of five interns to spend a full academic year working closely with the directors and top administrative staff of several of the country’s great academic libraries.

The librarians selected in 1974 are at present completing their internships at Princeton and Columbia universities and the universities of Michigan, California at Los Angeles, and Tennessee at Knoxville. Those recently chosen for the academic year starting September 1975 will intern at Yale, Rutgers, and Columbia universities and the universities of Pennsylvania and California at Los Angeles.

The internship covers a full year, with ten months spent at the host institution and one month in preparation of a report to the council. The remaining month is considered annual leave. The council pays the interns the basic salary and benefits (up to $20,000) they received during the year the application was made and also provides some assistance for costs of moving and for certain travel expenses.

Applicants must be individuals with at least five years of library experience at a professional level, under forty-five years of age, and citizens of the U.S. or Canada or with resident status in either country.

Those interested in receiving an application form should send a self-addressed #10 envelope or mailing label to: Management Intern Committee, Council on Library Resources, 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. To qualify for the 1976-77 internships, completed applications must be postmarked no later than January 1, 1976.

MEETINGS

October9-10: The First Annual Library Microform Conference, sponsored by Microform Review and the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division Resources Section Micropublishing Projects Committee and Book- dealer-Library Relations Committee, will be held at the Biltmore Hotel, New York, New York. The program will consist of seminars on “The Microform Reading Room; Preservation and Storage”; “Bibliographic Control of Microforms”; and “Micrographics Equipment and Maintenance.” Registration forms and information are available from Alan M. Meckler, Microform Review, P.O. Box 1297, Weston, CT 06880.

October12-17: The fifteenth Audio-Visual Institute for Effective Communications will be held on the campus of Indiana University, it was announced by Robert P. Abrams, chairman of the Industry and Business Council of the National Audio-Visual Association, cosponsors of the semiannual event along with the Audio-Visual Center of the university.

An intensive five-day course, the institute is conducted by some of the nation’s foremost training and audiovisual experts, according to Abrams. “The Program can only be described as unique,” Abrams said. “It covers the art and technology of audio-visual communications. And it is designed especially for training directors and educational media specialists in business, industry, education, government, and the health sciences.”

The institute provides a comprehensive and practical overview of a variety of innovative audiovisual techniques, all aimed at helping the training communicator to communicate more effectively. Tuition is $350 for the entire course and includes registration costs, textbooks, manuals, and social events. Registration is limited to 130 people.

Additional information on the fifteenth A-V Institute is available from the National Audio- Visual Association, 3150 Spring St., Fairfax, VA 22030; (703) 273-7200.

October17-18: The New England Regional Group of the Medical Library Association will hold its annual meeting at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

October17-18: The eighth annual institute of the Library Institutes Planning Committee will be held at Rickey’s Hyatt House Hotel, Palo Alto, California.

Paul W. Winkler, principal descriptive cata- loger (on leave), Library of Congress, at present editor of the forthcoming second edition of AACR, will be the main speaker on a program entitled “The Catalog as a Reference Tool.” Mrs. Mildred Nilon, head, Reference Department, University of Colorado Libraries, will present a reference librarian’s view of the catalog. Speaking for the subject cataloger will be Edward J. Blume, Jr., chief, Subject Cataloging Division, Library of Congress. The institute is designed to encourage a dialogue between reference librarians and subject/descriptive cataloged.

Registration for the two-day meeting is limited; the fee is $27.50 and includes two luncheons. Further information, including a list of hotel accommodations, will be mailed to applicants.

Registrants of the 1973 and 1974 institutes will automatically receive registration forms. Others may obtain forms by writing Joseph E. Ryus, 2858 Oxford Ave., Richmond, CA 94806, or by telephoning him during weekday hours at the University of California, Berkeley; (415) 642-4144.

October19-22: The Colorado Library Association and Mountain-Plains Library Association will sponsor a joint convention at the Executive Towers Inn, Denver, the theme being; “Continuing Education—Continuing Excellence.” Keynote speaker will be Elizabeth W. Stone from the Catholic University of America, project director of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE).

Preconference workshops on “Networking” and “Documents” will take place October 19. Miniworkshops will also be conducted on such topics as “Blind and the Physically Handicapped,” “ERIC,” “Grant Writing,” and “Telecommunications.”

For more information, contact Mrs. Ann Kimbrough, CLA Executive Secretary, 2341 S. Josephine, Denver, CO 80210.

October23-26: The Oral History Association will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Colloquium on Oral History.”

The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is Waddy Moore, State College of Arkansas.

For further information about the Oral History Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Secretary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203.

November9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classification Systems.”

A brochure describing the program in detail is available. Individuals interested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. See the June C&RL News for further details.

November12-14: Media and Messages, a workshop planned to acquaint academic orientation/instruction librarians with techniques used in the design and production of instruction of materials: slide/tape, transparencies, and videotape, will be held at the Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan. For registration materials and program information contact: Department of Conferences and Institutes, Extension Service, University of Michigan, 350 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

November20: The Middle East Librarians’ Association (MELA) will hold its fourth annual meeting at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. The program, coordinated by Vice-President Richard S. Cooper (Univ. of California—Berkeley), will be devoted to discussion and implementation of the proposals resulting from the first two sessions of the Workshop on Cooperation among Middle East Libraries in North America, which were held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 1974, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, in May 1975. Further details and the proceedings of the first two sessions are available from Martha Dukas, Secretary-Treasurer of MELA, Middle Eastern Department, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. For information about the MESA meeting please write to the MESA Headquarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003.

February16-20: 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 librarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers, via the university’s telelecture capabilities.

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, Ass’t. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

March23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI International Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England.

June21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further information may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5.

MISCELLANY

• The General Library of the University of California at Riverside has fully analyzed, in accordance with AACR, the microform editions of the following multivolume monographic collections and, as a service to libraries, can provide copies of their catalog cards for the monographs and their analytics on a cost basis.

Dibdin, Thomas John, 1771-1841.

The London theatre.London, Printed for Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 [1814— 25] 12 v. 13 cm.

Total of 104 individual titles analyzed.

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, comp.

A select collection of old English plays.4th ed. London, Reeves and Turner, 1874-76. 15 v. 22 cm.

Total of 85 individual titles analyzed.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed.

Early western travels 1748-1846.Cleveland, A. H. Clark, 1904-07. 32 v. 25 cm.

Total of 37 individual titles analyzed.

These cards are offered without call numbers in the following options. All orders must be for complete collections.

1. One main entry for the collection and one main entry for each analytic. Dibdin $7.50; Dodsley $6.00; Thwaites $5.00.

2. Complete sets of cards for both the collection and all analytics including a main entry card, a shelflist card, and a card for each subject or added entry in the tracings. Dibdin $35.00; Dodsley $21.00; Thwaites $40.00.

We can offer complete sets of cards at the same prices for the following hard copy editions of:

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, comp.

A select collection of old English plays.4th ed. New York, B. Blom [1964] 15 v. in 7. 18 cm.

Reprint of the 1874-76 ed. of the work first published in 1744.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed.

Early western travels, 1748-1846.New

York, AMS Press, 1966. 32 v. fronts, (v.l, 3, 19-20, 27, 29) illus., plates (2 fold) ports., maps (part fold) fold plan, facsims. 24 cm.

Reprint of the work first published 1904-07.

We are presently working on the following collections and will probably be able to offer copy by the time this note is published. Please inquire as to prices:

Eighteenth century sources for the study of English literature.

American culture I.

Three centuries of English and American plays 1500-1800. The segments Three centuries of drama; American 1714-1830, and Three centuries of drama; English 1737-1800. Larpent. (Work will be begun on the other segments of this collection later.)

Send orders, requests for sample cards, or inquiries to: Microforms Cataloging Project, Monographs Department, General Library, University of California, Riverside, CA 92507.

• The Library of Congress has mounted an exhibit in honor of Fritz Kreisler’s 100th birthday. Fritz Kreisler—born in Vienna on February 2, 1875, died in New York on January 29, 1962—was one of the great personalities of the twentieth century. He impressed millions of music lovers with his highly individual interpretations and his infinitely charming compositions. As a violinist he was unique, and as a man he was loved by all who knew him and heard him.

The library’s association with the artist began in 1949 when he presented two rare manuscripts to the Music Division: Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra. These scores may be seen in the display. Then, in 1952, Mr. Kreisler donated to the Library of Congress his Guameri del Gesù violin. Made in 1733, it is considered to be one of the finest instruments in existence. This is now on permanent display in the Whittall Pavilion. Three years later he gave the library a large collection of his own manuscripts of original compositions and arrangements. Varying from his classical string quartet to his lighter and ever popular Viennese melodies, these autographs vividly reflect an artist and a man whose career spanned the world.

• Old Dominion University of Norfolk, Virginia, has received the final payment of $35,846.58 from the estate of Miss Alice R. Burke, one of the first faculty members at the institution when it was the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. With the payment, the total bequest of $185,846.58 is complete.

According to Robert Granville Burke, friend and executor of her will, the bequest was made to establish a section in ODU’s library which will be devoted to government and political science. This will be done as soon as possible, in accordance with the wishes of Miss Burke, and the section will be known as the “Alice R. Burke Collection.”

Dr. John W. Ramsey, professor of political science at the university, has been appointed chairperson of a faculty committee established to develop guidelines for the purchase of books and other library materials to be included in the collection. Concerning the importance of the bequest, Ramsey said, “The Alice R. Burke bequest comes at a propitious time in the life of political science at ODU. We are involved in two master of arts degree programs and have several new undergraduate and graduate programs planned for the next five years. While a great deal of attention has been paid to building our holdings, with considerable success, the very [small] budgets of past years have precluded the expansion of our resources in every area of a very eclectic discipline.”

Miss Burke, who died May 10, 1973, joined the faculty of what is now ODU in 1931, the second year the school was open. During her eleven years at the institution, she taught courses in government, political science, and English, and was registrar from 1937 to 1942.

• The first volumes of the Woodstock Theological Library have arrived at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., director of the Woodstock Theological Center, said that the Woodstock Library, which contains 150,000 volumes, is among the country’s largest and most important theological libraries. It will be housed in the university’s Lauinger Library on the main campus. The Woodstock Theological Library was formerly part of Woodstock College, a school of theology for Jesuit students and seminarians in New York.

• The National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), and the Council on Library Resources (CLR) have announced the establishment of an Advisory Group on National Bibliographic Control. The mission of the jointly sponsored group is to advise the three sponsoring agencies on how best to coordinate their programs and to recommend priorities for action.

When requirements for specific projects to enhance national bibliographic control are agreed upon, the sponsors will be asked to set up working groups for each task. The members of these working groups will be drawn from the functional areas of principal interest to the three sponsoring agencies: libraries, abstracting and indexing services, publishing, and information delivery services. Activities of the working groups will be supported by the three sponsoring agencies; the advisory group will monitor their activities and recommend further action as appropriate.

Although the members of the advisory group come from the functional areas of interest, they are not primarily representatives of their parent organizations. Instead, each was chosen for his background, maturity, judgment, and reputation for getting things done.

Their names and their respective terms of appointment are: W. T. Brandhorst, director, ERIC Processing and Reference Facility—two years; James L. Carmon, assistant vice chancellor for computing systems, University of Georgia–two years; Dan Lacy, senior vice-president, McGraw-Hill, Inc.—three years; Jerrold Orne, professor of library science, University of North Carolina—four years; William Welsh, director, Processing Department, Library of Congress—four years; Ronald L. Wigington, director, Research and Development, Chemical Abstracts—three years. Lawrence G. Livingston, of the CLR staff, serves as chairperson.

The concept for the advisory group was developed at an NSF–CLR-sponsored meeting on “National Bibliographic Control” which was held April 17 through April 20, 1974, in Ross- lyn, Virginia. Representing libraries, abstracting and indexing services, publishers, and vendors, participants at the meeting joined together in urging the establishment of an ongoing body of the type described.

In operation, the advisory group will draw upon expertise from all segments of the information community for the solution of specific, common problems, attempting thereby to enhance cooperation among those who publish, process, and store information in all its forms. The end goal is better national bibliographic control for the benefit of those who use information.

Staff support and files of the advisory group are located in the offices of the Council on Library Resources. Requests for information on the project should be directed to the Advisory Group on National Bibliographic Control, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036, or telephone (202) 296-4757.

• “To Set a Country Free,” the major Library of Congress exhibition on the Bicentennial of American Independence, opened in the Great Hall of the library on Thursday, April 24, a date which coincided with the 175th anniversary of the creation of the library. It will remain on view through 1976. Borrowing its title from Thomas Paine’s American Crisis—“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in”—the exhibit draws heavily from the library’s rich and varied resources in U.S. history, displaying rare books, manuscripts, prints and engravings, broadsides, maps, and newspapers of the Revolutionary War era.

Of special interest in the exhibit are three documents of major significance in the Revolution. Taken from the library’s collection of Jefferson papers, Thomas Jefferson’s famous “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence—a holograph manuscript containing suggested alterations penned by the hands of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and the changes made by the Congress—is on view in the center of the library’s Great Hall in a case designed especially for this showing. The other items of major interest are the “Olive Branch” petition, sent to King George III by members of the First Continental Congress in 1775, which is on loan to the library for this exhibition from the Public Records Office, London, and the exchange copy of the 1778 Treaty of Conditional and Defensive Alliance Between France and the United States, signed by King Louis XVI and his foreign minister, the Count de Vergennes, on loan to the library from the National Archives. The “Olive Branch” petition and Treaty of Alliance are also displayed in special eases in the Great Hall.

Other notable items in the exhibit include the first edition of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense, printed in Philadelphia in January 1776; Pierre L’Enfant’s panoramic drawing of West Point; a view of Savannah, from the Oz- anne Collection, at the time of the unsuccessful American attempt to recapture that city from the British; and The Sentiments of an American Woman, an anonymous, undated broadside in which the author recounts the deeds of famed heroines of the past. On view are some of the letters written by Grace Grow- den Galloway to her Loyalist husband, Joseph, after he had escaped from Philadelphia; they were tightly folded up, hidden in buttons and other wearing apparel, and smuggled through the American lines. During the Revolution, scenes, maps, and figures were drawn on pow- derhorns. Two of these powderhorns are included, one belonging to Robert Kelmns, dated 1778, in “Bed Ford” [Pennsylvania?], and the other belonging to James Downie, designed by E. Crosby in 1781, depicting the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. A poignant human note is provided by a manuscript letter from British army officer John André to George Washington following Major André’s capture as a spy, in which he pleaded unsuccessfully for execution by a firing squad rather than by hanging. The first printing of the Declaration of Independence is also displayed; published in Philadelphia by John Dunlap, this broadside was probably prepared on the night of July 4-5, 1776.

The exhibit is presented in several sections tracing the history of the American Revolution from the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, when Great Britain began to reconsider her unarticulated policy of “salutary neglect” toward her North American colonies, to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, when Great Britain acknowledged the sovereign independence of the United States.

Accompanying the exhibit is a profusely illustrated account of the story of the American Revolution, also entitled To Set a Country Free, which is available for $4.50. It is for sale at the library’s Information Counter in the ground floor west lobby of the Main Building, or by mail from the Information Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540; all mail orders must be prepaid. The booklet was produced through the Vemer W. Clapp Publication Fund.

The library’s exhibition halls are open from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays and holidays.

PUBLICATIONS

• A book of more than 200 prints and photographs–a sampling of one of the world’s largest pictorial collections—has been published by the Library of Congress. Viewpoints, A Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress presents for the first time a broad survey of the library’s extensive holdings in prints and photographs by American and foreign artists. Publication of the 223-page book coincides with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the formal organization of the visual arts collections at the library. Most of the photographs reproduced in the book were part of the exhibit “Viewpoints” held at the library in 1962 to suggest the various approaches and wide range of subjects found in the work of photographers and printmakers.

The publication was prepared by Alan Fern, chief of the library’s Prints and Photographs Division; Milton Kaplan, recently retired curator of historical prints; and other library staff members.

Viewpointsis divided into seven general categories–World History, Transportation, United States History, The American Scene, Architecture in the United States, The Lively Arts, and Artists’ Prints. Within each section, the photographs and prints are arranged in chronological order. Annotations that accompany each picture briefly explain its technical or historical significance. The reproductions are in black and white.

The library’s pictorial collections provide extensive coverage not only of the United States but of foreign countries. Among the items included in the new publication are two Crimean War photographs (1855) by the English photographer Roger Fenton which are some of the first examples of war reporting; a lithograph depicting the first landing of Americans in Japan under Commodore M. C. Perry in 1853; and a 1936 drawing of Stalin by German cartoonist Josef (Sepp) Plank Indicating early signs of antagonism and distrust between Germany and Russia.

The earliest known photographic image of the U.S. Capitol (ca. 1846), attributed to John Plumbe, Jr., is included in a selection of prints and photographs of early American architecture. A sampling of stock posters, lithographs, and photographs depict the theater and the lively arts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reproductions of prints by prominent American and foreign artists—a sampling of the library’s rieh collections of works of art—among them Edgar Degas, James A. McNeill Whistler, and Albrecht Dürer, comprise the final section of Viewpoints.

The items in the publication are representative selections from the library’s holdings of more than 10 million prints and photographs, which have previously been described in part in Guide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1955, now out of print), compiled by Paul Vanderbilt, and in American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Catalog of the Collection, compiled by Karen F. Beall and the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division (Johns Hopkins Pr., 1970), and in various exhibition catalogs published by the library. Viewpoints, however, is the first illustrated publication to present a broad overview of the collections.

Viewpoints, A Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congressis available for $7.75 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government' Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3014- 00001), or in person from the Information Counter, ground floor, Library of Congress Main Building.

• The Commission on Librarianship at Stanford was created in May 1972 by the director of university libraries to examine the role and status of librarians at the university including; professional relationships within the university; means of facilitating the effective use of librarians; suitable recognition of the services of librarians to the community; aspects of appointment, promotion, and perquisites; and involvement of librarians in formal and informal teaching, and other aspects of their working environment. The 140-page final report, encompassing twenty-three major recommendations, has now been completed and will be made available to interested parties at a cost of $10.00. Send orders to Financial Office, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305.

• Single copies of A Researcher s Guide to African Materials at Memphis State University are available upon receipt of a self-addressed, 10 x 15 envelope bearing 210 postage. The guide is a bibliography of some 3,600 monographs held by the MSU Libraries. It is indexed by subject and includes additional, brief information about the African Area Studies Program at MSU. Requests should be sent to: Lester J. Pourciau, Jr., Director of Libraries, Memphis State University Libraries, Memphis, TN 38152.

• Copies of the East Asian Bibliographic Group’s Recommended East Asian Core Collections for Childrens, High School, Public, Community College, and Undergraduate College Libraries are available for $7.50 each, prepaid, from Karl Lo, Head, Asiatic Collection, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA 98195. Please make check payable to University of Washington.

Edited for the group in 1974 by Wm. H. O. Scott, documents librarian, Western Washington State College, the bibliography is a volunteer effort of predominantly northwest-coast librarians and East Asian scholars, and is being presented in order to foster the development and use of library resources in the area of East Asian studies and to promote better understanding about the countries and peoples of East Asia. Intended to serve as a basic buying list for libraries seeking to develop the East Asian section of their holdings, it consists of books, periodicals, films, filmstrips, tapes, and phonorecords, primarily in English, pertaining to East Asia—i.e., China, Formosa, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. It records a total of 1,782 items for all types of libraries (741 for college; 389, high school; 831, public; 1,356, university; and 175 for juvenile collections). Closing date of publication for the selections is 1973.

• The first edition of Libraries and Information Centers in Southeastern Wisconsin is now available from the Tri-County Library Council. This new reference work represents a first step toward an overall inventory of knowledge resources in the seven-county southeastern Wisconsin region. The directory represents the combined efforts of the Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee and the Tri-County Library Council.

Entries in the 332-page, 81/2-by–ll–inch paperback include detailed descriptions of 188 library and information centers and 54 school districts, including information regarding collections, staff, hours, services, and borrowing privileges. Also included are a geographical index, a map of southeastern Wisconsin, a guide to subject strengths and special collections, and informative sketches of professional associations in library and information science.

The cost of the directory to non-members is $10.00. Checks and purchase orders should be sent to: Tri-County Library Council, c/o UW —Parkside Library, D-115D, Kenosha, WI 53140.

• The Texas A&M University Library has issued its Miscellaneous Publication No. 13, The Discovery of the Future: The Ways Science Fiction Developed. The publication consists of the lecture delivered by Professor James Gunn of the University of Kansas English Department and is available for $2.00 from the Texas A&M University Library Administrative Offices, College Station, TX 77843.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently published the Proceedings of the 1974 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Applications of Minicomputers to Library and Related Problems, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster.

The volume is available for $6.00 from: Publications Office—249 Armory Building, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, Champaign, IL 61820.

• Despite the economic decline, or perhaps because of it, opening fall enrollments in community, junior, and technical colleges for the academic year 1974-75 took a jump of 12.1 percent over 1973-74, according to data released by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. The data is contained in the 1975 edition of the Community, Junior, and Technical College Directory, just published by the association. Data was gathered from 1,203 nonprofit two-year institutions.

The Community, Junior, and Technical College Directory, edited by Sandra Drake, contains various enrollment summaries by states and types of institutions, lists names of colleges, and their chief executive officers, and addresses, shows tuition costs, and has listings of junior college organizations and state offices. The publication is available for $7.00. Orders can be sent to AACJC Publications, 621 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314.

• The Agricultural History Center in the University of California at Davis has added two new titles to its list of bibliographies on American agricultural history: A List of References for the History of Agriculture in California, compiled by Richard Orsi, and A List of References for the History of the United States Department of Agriculture, compiled by Mary- anna S. Smith. The bibliographies may be obtained by librarians upon request, without charge, while they last.

Address requests to: Publications Office, Periodicals Department, University of California Press, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, CA 94720.

• Free for the asking are copies of Select List of Serial Sources of Information on International and Comparative Librarianship Held by the Library Science Library, University of Michigan. Compiled by Edmund F. Santa Vic- ca, a doctoral student, the list presents over 300 serial titles arranged by geographic area. Please enclose a stamped (20¢) self-addressed envelope with request to: Library Science Library, 320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

• The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Studies has issued a new SPEC Kit.

ESSAYS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, TEXT, AND EDITING

By Fredson Bowers. 580 pp. (approx.), bibliog., index. (Bibliographical Society)

$30.00

This thorough survey of textual theory and methods considerably extends and supplements Fredson Bowers’ earlier studies in bibliography. The twenty-six articles selected by Bowers, ranging from 1949 to 1975, cover the major fields of bibliography and textual criticism in four main groupings: “The Bibliographical Way,” “Descriptive Bibliography,” “Analytical Bibliography,” and “Textual Criticism and Editing.” The collection contains Bowers’ latest statements on the difficult problems most often faced in editing. Manuscript examples range from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

CARL SANDBURG AND THE ASGARD PRESS, 1900–1910

A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Manuscripts, and Letters in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library

Compiled by Joan St.C. Crane, with a Foreword by Margaret Sandburg. 160 pp. (approx.) ollus., bibliog., index. (Associates of the University of Virginia. Library) $15.00

Complete bibliographical descriptions of Carl Sandburg’s little-known earliest books, those of his friend and publisher Philip Green Wright (two with Sandburg prefaces), and other Asgard publications are presented here. Also provided are detailed descriptions and transcriptions of a number of unpublished Sandburg manuscripts of the period between 1903 and 1910.

THE LIVING ALPHABET

By Warren Chappell. 64 pp. (approx.), illus. $10.00

Written, designed, and illustrated by Warren Chappell, this handsome volume is a concise recapitulation of the nature of letter forms and their survival over the past 1,200 years. Addressing himself to concepts rather than models, Chappell captures the spirit of carved, written, and printed words with the simplicity and clarity of a master artisan. The author’s own typography and design, which features many illustrations, beautifully document this discussion.

THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA

By Isaiah Thomas

Edited by MarcusA. McCorison. xxi, 650 pp., frontis., index. (American Antiquarian Society) $5.95

Isaiah Thomas, an avid book collector and founder of the American Antiquarian Society, was the leading American printer and publisher of his day. His History of Printing in America, first published in 1810, is still the beginning point for most investigations into the history of American printing. This reprint of the 1970 Imprint Society edition makes the work available inexpensively and to a wider readership than ever before.

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The SPEC Kit and Flyer on library instruction, the result of an inquiry into the administrative patterns, formats, content, and innovations occurring in ARL libraries’ library instruction programs, documents committee reports, course content descriptions, job positions, and proposals relating to library instruction.

Requests for copies of the kit should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• America’s 2,533 largest philanthropic foundations have assets of more than $20 billion and make annual grants totaling $1.5 billion (an average of more than $400 million a day), according to the new fifth edition of The Foundation Directory. For librarians the directory is the major source of reference information in the field and also an important guide when they seek foundation grants for libraries.

The directory, prepared and published by the Foundation Center, describes major foundations in detail and summarizes their giving. Each of the foundations has assets of $1 million or more or has made grants totaling $500,000 annually. All states except Alaska and North Dakota are represented.

Included in the $30.00 price of the directory are four new semiannual supplements. Two will list the names of about 26,000 foundations in the country for which the center can provide recent information. The alternate issues will list the names of those foundations in the directory for which updated information is available.

Marianna O. Lewis is editor for The Foundation Directory. The distributor is Columbia University Press, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533.

• The Oregon Regional Union List of Serials has produced its first microfiche edition of the OSSHE–OSL Union List of Serials. The list includes holdings for all libraries in the Oregon State System of Higher Education and the Oregon State Library, Salem. The microfiche edition contains 34,000 titles and 9,000 cross- references, for a total of 43,000 entries. The reduction ratio is 24x. The May 1975 edition consists of thirty-nine fiche.

Copies are available through prepaid orders. Prices are $15.00/fiche set and $20.00/fiche set with binder. Orders may be sent to: Oregon Regional Union List of Serials, Portland State University Library, P.O. Box 1151, Portland, OR 97207.

• The Scientific Manpower Commission, a private nonprofit corporation, has published a comprehensive manpower data study on the availability of women and minorities for professional positions. The 320-page report, Professional Women and Minorities—A Manpower Data Resource Service, brings together available data on manpower at professional levels, with special emphasis on women and minorities in the natural and social sciences, engineering, arts, humanities, education, and the professions. The publication, prepared by Betty M. Vetter and Eleanor L. Babco of the commission staff, is published in loose-leaf format with subject divider tabs to allow insertion of semiannual additions and updates. The Ford Foundation provided partial support for preparation and publication of the study. Copies are $40.00 each from the Scientific Manpower Commission, 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• The Library of Congress has published a new research aid for the study of the American Revolution. The 327–page guide, Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution was compiled by members of the library’s American Revolution Bicentennial Office and describes the original documents and photocopies in the library’s various divisions.

The 1,617 entries in the guide are arranged alphabetically in two basic divisions, domestic collections, and foreign reproductions. The library noted that a substantial amount of its collections was purchased with a $100,000 appropriation by Congress in 1867 which enabled it to obtain the material amassed by Peter Force, compiler of the nine volumes of American Archives, 1774-1776. A gift in 1927 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., made possible the photographic reproduction of millions of pages of manuscripts in foreign libraries and archives.

The guide is $8.70 (Stock No. 3003-0011) from Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

• A bibliography of all doctoral research done in the field of educational media from 1969 to 1972, with short annotations, has just been made available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources.

The 100-page Doctoral Research in Educational Media divides the citations into eight categories—audio, audiovisual, computers in instruction, library, programmed instruction, projected materials: motion, projected materials: stills, and television.

Sources for titles were Dissertation Abstracts and American Doctoral Dissertations, published by University Microfilms. According to authors Charlene Kirschner, Joseph Mapes, and Ray Anderton (all of the University of Colorado at Boulder), this publication was produced “to assist those people who are engaged in educational media research, and those who need to know the results of this doctoral research.…Dissertations were selected … if they used some form of educational media as the subject of their research or as the methodology of their research.” In addition to short annotations, volume and page citations to Dissertation Abstracts are included to aid the reader in locating the full abstract.

Doctoral Research in Educational Mediais available for $5.00 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks must be included with orders and made payable to “Box E.” The paper is available for the same price from the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Annual updates to this publication are planned.

• Women in a Woman’s Profession: Strategies: Proceedings of the 1974 ALA–SRRT Women’s Conference—the proceedings are 96 pages long and include a bibliography and photographs. The price is $3.50 and is available, prepaid, from Betty-Carol Sellen, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210. ■ ■