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• Collection Development Strategies for Academic and Research Libraries(34 pages, 1981), edited by Hannelore B. Rader, has been published by the Michigan Library Association. The booklet is an edited version of papers presented at a workshop on collection development sponsored by the Michigan Library Association, the Michigan ACRL Chapter, and the University of Michigan School of Library Science on November 13, 1979. Copies may be ordered for $3.50 from the Michigan Library Association, 226 W. Washtenaw Street, Lansing, MI 48933.

• Computer-Based Education: The Best of ERIC, June 1976-August 1980by Keith A. Hall lists over 200 selected reports, reviews, conference papers, and proceedings from the ERIC files, as well as journal articles indexed in CIJE. for $3 from the Illinois Library Association, 425 N. Michigan Ave., 13th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611.

CLIP Notes #2 Published

Following on the heels of the popular CLIP Notes #1-80, Performance Appraisal, the new CLIP Notes #2-81, Collection Development Policies, collected by the Continuing Education Committee of ACRL s College Libraries Section, is now available from the ACRL office. The cost is $8.75 for ACRL members, $11.50 for non-members. Prepayment is required. Please enclose a mailing label and 30¢ in postage. Copies may be ordered from ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

This compilation updates the previous Best of ERIC 1973-May 1976 by Marian Beard. Both publications may be ordered from Syracuse University Printing Services, 125 College Place, Syracuse, NY 13210. Order the Hall publication as IR-48 for $6.50 and the Beard publication as IR-3 for $3 (prepayment required).

• A Directory of College and Research Libraries in Illinois, 1981 edition, has been published by the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, an ACRL chapter. The directory contains the names, addresses, titles, and telephone numbers of 1,188 librarians in 138 academic libraries in Illinois. A personal name index is included. The directory may be ordered

• Executive Review in ARL Libraries,SPEC Kit #72 (94 pages, March 1981), presents the results of discussions among directors at the May 1980 meeting of ARL concerning the current practices of their institutions in evaluating executives in higher education, including university and college presidents and other top administrators. The kit contains fourteen examples of review procedures and forms and two background information documents. It is available to ARL members and SPEC subscribers for $7.50 and to all others for $15 (plus $2 handling charge per order), prepayment required, from SPEC, OMS/ ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• External User Services,SPEC Kit #73 (112 pages, April 1981) examines the policies of several ARL libraries with regard to collection access by the outside community. The kit contains six examples of general access policies, three documents on reference service, five examples of circulation policies, and four cooperative agreements. It is available to ARL members and SPEC subscribers for $7.50 and to others for $15 (plus $2 handling charge), prepayment required, from SPEC, OMS/ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• Incunabula in the Dartmouth College Library,compiled by Dick Hoefnagel (44 pages, 1980), may be ordered for $10, prepayment preferred, from the Office of the College Librarian, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH 03755.

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• SHARE (Sisters Have Resources Everywhere): A Directory of Feminist Library Workers in Illinois (1981) contains 65 names of library workers throughout the state, including addresses, library specialty, interests, skills, and resources. The directory costs $2 and is available from Women Library Workers, Katharine Phenix, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 410 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801.

• Special Collections in the Library of Congress, compiled by Anne Melville under the direction of the Collections Development Office (464 pages, 1981), describes special collections that have been singled out by LC’s reference staff for their rarity or potential interest to scholars. Organized as a series of essays, the book contains 269 separate entries about special collections ranging from music manuscripts to incunabula. Send $12 to the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock No. 030-001-0092-2).

• The second edition of the Union List of Serials in the Fenway Library Consortium lists the 7,000 titles held by the eleven small academic and special libraries in Metropolitan Boston belonging to the consortium. Both current and retrospective holdings are listed. Microfiche copies may be ordered for $10 (pre-paid) from Ted Hamann, College Library, Suffolk University, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA 02114.

RECEIVED

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

• The provision and use of information was the theme of the 1980 joint ASLIB/IIS/LA Conference in Sheffield (England). The Nationwide Provision and Use of Information: Proceedings of Joint ASLIB, IIS, LA Conference, 1980 compiled by the Library Association, London, is available from Oryx Press for $31.25.

• Scientific and Technical Libraries in the Seventies: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1981, $34) is an annotated bibliography of more than 500 articles on the operation, management, and collections of sci-tech libraries and information centers.

• British university library administration is the topic of An Introduction to University Library Administration, Third Edition by James Thompson (Clive Bingley Ltd., K. G. Saur, 1979) now available from Shoe String Press for $18.75.

•A manual designed to introduce the library technical assistant, students, office managers and secretaries to a variety of practical filing methods is available from Libraries Unlimited. File Management and Information Retrieval Systems: A Manual for Managers and Technicians by Suzanne Gill (1981) sells for $16.50 U.S.; $20 elsewhere.

•The Library Association, London, has published a softcover guide to librarianship. The Basics of Librarianship by Colin Harrison and Rosemary Oats (1980, $12.50) contains ten chapters which briefly address the function, organization and management of libraries. The Basics is distributed in the U.S. by Oryx Press.

•Charles H. Busha is the editor of A Library Science Research Reader and Bibliographic Guide (Libraries Unlimited, 1981, $18.50 U.S.; $22 elsewhere) which contains six original essays about library and information science research and a selected bibliography of library science research, 1931-1979. Contributors are Busha, Laurel Grotzinger (Western Michigan University), Jeffrey Katzer (Syracuse University), Carol McCombs, Stephen B. Walter and Carolyn Graddick Teal (Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC).

•An examination of the role of library school internship programs is now available from Queens College Press. Classroom and Field: The Internship in American Library Education; an Inquiry into its Development and Evaluation (1981, $7.50) was undertaken by its author, Louis Coburn, “to provide impetus to a reappraisal of the internship process in the belief that improvements can be achieved in the area of evaluation of the work of interns.”

•A new volume of collected essays focuses on the relationship between conventional printing and the many new electronic communication systems being developed. The Future of the Printed Word: The Impact and Implications of the New Communications Technology, edited by Phillip Hills (Greenwood Press, 1981, $25), with 13 articles by European and American communications experts, also examines the social and economic implications of these new systems on printing, publishing, education, libraries and the printed media.

•Australian library education is examined in External Studies in Librarianship: An Investigation into the Potential Efficacy of External Studies in Librarianship in Australia at the Base Professional Level with Recommendations on Possible Patterns of External Studies Provision and the Identification of Minimum Requirements for Their Implementation Having Regard to Educational and Economic Viability; Vol. 1—Report; Vol. 2—Appendices (1979). Inquiries about ordering and price should be directed to the Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, Eton Road, Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia. Also available from Kuring-gai College is Changes and Exchanges: Australian Viewpoints (edited by Peter White, 1980) a collection of essays which address important questions in librarianship and information science.

•Gale Research has revised and enlarged the second edition of Statistics—America: Sources for Social, Economic, and Market Research (1980, $160). The principal live and print sources of statistical information for North, South, and Central America and adjacent islands are described in 1,592 numbered entries.

•CLAIM Report No. 3, The Relegation and Storage of Material in Academic Libraries: A Literature Review, by L. Gilder, et al. (1980, £5.00) is available from the Centre for Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, England. Relegation and Storage is a critical review of the literature on this topic published in Britain, the U.S., and Europe since 1970.

• The University Library in the United States: Its Origin and Development(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, $25) by Arthur Hamlin, professor and director of libraries at Temple University, “documents the essential role of the university library in the growth of American scholarship.”

•Microform Review, Inc., has announced the publication of a new journal Software Review (SR) devoted to reviewing computer programs and data for library and educational applications. SR will be published every October and May. Subscriptions are $38 U.S., $43 Canada and Mexico, $53 elsewhere. SR is edited by William Saffady, Pratt Institute.

•Congressional Information Service has issued a five-volume CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Prints Index, and a companion microfiche file, providing “comprehensive coverage of committee prints from 1830-1969. Coverage includes: monographic studies; investigative reports; analyses of bills and comparative drafts of bills; confidential staff reports and memoranda; directories, bibliographies, and other reference materials; reports on committee activities and drafts of legislative reports; and hearings excerpts, digests, and revised or unrevised full hearings texts. The CIS Congressional Committee Prints on Microfiche Collection includes full-text reproductions of some 15,000 committee prints. The Index is available from CIS for $1,475. The microfiche collection is $28,150, or Part 1—$10,325; Part 2—$2,525; and Part 3—$15,300. Items may be purchased separately.

• Using AACR2: A Diagrammatic Approachby Malcolm Shaw, et al., Leeds Polytechnic School of Librarianship (England), is available from Oryx Press for $18.50. The authors’ algorithmic approach “provides a quickly comprehended introduction to the task of author cataloging in general and to the application of Part II of the Second Edition of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules in particular.”

•The 1981 edition of Index to Standard Interest Profiles in Science and Technology is now available from the Chemical Information Center, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. The price is $15.

•Volume 10 in the Foundations in Library and Information Science series has been published by JAI Press. Collection Development in Libraries: A Treatise, Part A and B ($30 per volume) is edited by Robert D. Stueart and George B. Miller. Part A covers collection management and the collection development process. Part B addresses citation and use studies, collection development by format, and new directions in collection development.

•Another volume on the same topic is Building Library Collections: Policies and Practices In Academic Libraries (Lexington Books, 1981) by Hugh F. Cline and Loraine T. Sinnott. Building Library Collections employs a social science methodologies to analyze collection development policies and practices in seven academic libraries.

• Public, School, and Academic Media Centers: A Guide to Information Sources(Gale Research, 1981, $34), edited by Esther R. Dyer and Pam Berger, is an annotated bibliography of about 400 items published subsequent to 1970.

•The 7th edition of the Directory of Online Information Resources (CSG Press, 1981, $18.50) covers over 280 bibliographic and nonbibliographic online data bases available in the U.S. The Directory is updated semi-annually (each March and September).

• Bibliometrics: A Bibliography and Index, Volume 1: 1874-1959(ALLM Books, 1981, $12) by Alan Pritchard and Glenn R. Writtig is the first of three volumes on this topic. Volume 2 will cover the period 1960-69, and Volume 3 will cover 1970-79. (Available from: ALLM Books, 4 Knutsford Avenue, Watford, Herts WD2 4EL, England.)

•In The Politics of Federal Grants George E. Hale and Marian Lief Palley examine the intergovernmental grants system by tracing it through the policymaking process. Politics of Federal Grants is published by Congressional Quarterly (1981, $7.50).

• U.S. Copyright Documents:An Annotated Collection for Use by Educators and Librarians by Jerome K. Miller (1981) is available from Libraries Unlimited. The price is $25 U.S.; $30 elsewhere.