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GRANTS

• Stanford University’s building fund for a new Main Library is being given a $1 million boost by the James Irvine Foundation of San Francisco, President Richard W. Lyman of Stanford announced recently. The grant is designated for construction or equipping of the new library, estimated to cost $20 million or more.

“In every great university of the world, the library is at the heart,” Lyman said. “There is no building project more important to the future strength of Stanford than the new Main Library. We are very grateful to the Irvine Foundation for its gift to help achieve one of the top goals in the Campaign for Stanford.”

The new Main Library will be connected to Stanford’s central library complex, including the research and undergraduate libraries. Nearby are the libraries of business, food research, law, and the Hoover Institution.

Construction, it is hoped, can begin in mid- 1976, if sufficient funds are in hand. In addition to the $1 million Irvine Foundation gift, an anonymous donor has pledged $5 million to match major gifts from individuals.

The Campaign for Stanford, begun in 1972 with a goal of $300 million, is the largest fund raising program in the university’s history. Of the total, $125 million is sought for endowment, $92 million for current support, and $83 million for buildings.

MEETINGS

April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.”

Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, University of Illinois, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

April 28-30: The 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals, cosponsored by the Association for Scientific Journals, will be held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Further information is available from the general chairman, James Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, MN 55408.

May 5-7: Slide Collections. An institute for librarians who work with slide collections dealing with art history will be held in New York City. The institute will be sponsored by the School of Library Service, Columbia University with the cooperation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Libraries Society/North America. Open to museum, gallery, academic, and public library personnel, particularly those east of the Mississippi, the institute will provide a survey of contemporary slide librarianship and laboratory experience for each participant. A fee will be charged which will include the cost of speakers, bus transportation, laboratory materials, and two cocktail receptions.

For more information contact John C. Larsen, Assistant Professor of Library Service, Columbia University, 516 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027.

May 14-17: Technical Communications. Sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication, the twenty-second International Technical Communications Conference will be held in Disneyland. The theme of this year’s conference will be “The Challenge of Professional Development.” Registration information may be obtained from H. Small, 1630 S. Barranca, Sp. 170, Glendora, CA 91740.

May 15-17: Library Orientation. The Eastern Michigan University Center of Educational Resources is planning the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

May 18-30: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director.

Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for more information.

May 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and registration materials.

May 27-31: The Middle East Librarian’s Association will be holding a workshop on Options in Cooperative Middle East Librarian- ship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop is being sponsored by the ACRL/SSRC Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East.

Representatives of the twenty largest collections in North America on the Middle East have been invited to attend. The workshop will assess the status quo and map out the goals for Middle East libraries to meet the needs of American scholars and the American public.

For further information contact: John A. Eilts, President, Middle East Librarian’s Association, Near Eastern Division, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials will convene in Bogota, Colombia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, director of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura.

Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massachusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Membership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. See the January News for more information.

June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual Institute on the Library and the Governmental Process. The institute offers participants an opportunity to study and observe, at first hand, the governmental processes and forces affecting libraries and information centers. The techniques of library legislation will be analyzed on the federal, state, and local levels.

Conducting the sessions will be Robert E. Frase, consulting economist and author of Library Funding and Public Support, and Alphonse F. Trezza, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Participants in the library science institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library science. For more information write: Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635- 5085.

June 22-25: Law Librarians. The American Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604.

June 23-27: Manpower Planning. The theme of the 1975 annual management course organized by the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association will be “Library Manpower Planning in the ’70s and ’80s.” The course will be held at Woburn, Bedfordshire. Inclusive residential course fee is $95.00.

Techniques and experiences relating to staff utilization, work measurement, and manpower requirement projection in public and academic libraries will be described and critically assessed by senior librarians. Full details are available from David Baynes, 61, Crossways, Crawley, Sussex, U.K.

June 25-28: “Eighteenth-Century English Books Considered by Librarians and Booksellers, Bibliographers and Collectors” is the theme of the 1975 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference to be held in San Francisco.

John W. Jolliffe, the keeper of catalogues, Bodleian Library, Oxford University and director of Project LOC, and William Cameron, dean, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario and director of the HPB project, will discuss the short- title catalog. G. Thomas Tanselle, professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present problems of bibliographical description. Problems of editing manuscript ledgers will be discussed by Patricia Hernlund, professor of English, Wayne State University.

Keynoting the conference will be William B. Todd, professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Herman W. Liebert, librarian emeritus, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, will provide the conference summary.

The preconference is sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Donald D. Eddy, associate professor of English and librarian of the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University, is chairman of the Program Planning Committee. Peter E. Hanff, coordinator III of technical services, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, is chairman of local arrangements. The chairman of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is Hendrik Edelman, assistant director for development of collections, Cornell University Libraries.

Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780.

June 26-28; Collective Bargaining. “Collective Bargaining in Higher Education; Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a preconference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues.

Further information and registration forms are available from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England.

The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full details of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England.

August 4-15: The Catholic University’s library science department’s third annual Institute on Federal Library Resources will be directed by Frank Kurt Cylke, chief of the Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress.

The institute will offer an opportunity to study the collections and specialized services of major federal libraries and information centers, including the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agriculture Library.

The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library science. Participants in the institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00.

For more information write to the Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202 ) 635-5085.

August 10-16: Library Administration. An executive development program for library administrators will be offered at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, by Miami’s School of Business Administration. The program is designed to assist library administrators in improving their managerial effectiveness. To accomplish this purpose the program will be presented by a team of internationally known management experts—business consultants and executives and management academicians. All of these management authorities have participated in past library conferences at Miami, are familiar with library situations, and are able to relate sound management principles to the library environment. Case analysis, group discussion, problem-solving techniques, role-playing, a wide variety of audiovisual presentations—all are used to present management concepts as effectively as possible.

This will be the twenty-first executive development program presented by Miami University for library administrators within the last seven years. Because of its emphasis on general management principles and techniques, the program is of value to all kinds of library administrators—public, university, special, technical, corporation, etc..

The fee of $295.00 includes all program expenses: tuition, instructional fees, cost of all reading materials and other handouts, personalized notebooks, plus room and board. Anyone interested in attending should contact the program director: Dr. Robert H. Myers, School of Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056.

August 24-28: The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The theme will be “The Role of Information Systems Technology in Community Management.”

October 23-26: 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.

November 9-12: 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.”

With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of classification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Albany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will concern itself not only with Dewey but with other major classification systems being used in English-speaking countries.

A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals interested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

MISCELLANY

• An exhibit commemorating the centenary of the birth of D. W. Griffith, pioneer developer of the American cinema and one of the most influential motion picture directors in the brief history of this dynamic art form of the twentieth century, opened at the Library of Congress on January 22, 1975.

The library’s exhibit displays material on Griffith’s greatest triumphs, including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, as well as many of his later films. Included in the display are the program from the New York premiere of The Birth of a Nation at the Liberty Theatre, and invitations to special screenings at the White House and in honor of the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. These latter programs are autographed to actress Mae Marsh by Thomas Dixon, author of The Clansman, one of the literary sources of The Birth of a Nation. These are displayed through the courtesy of the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

The Library of Congress is also fortunate to have a large number of Griffith’s Biograph Co. films in its collection. The original copyright deposit for The Adventures of Dolly (the first film directed by Griffith) is on display along with photographic reproductions from several other Biograph films which demonstrate some of the cinematic techniques Griffith perfected during his career.

The Library of Congress, the George Eastman International House of Photography, and the Museum of Modern Art together hold copies of most of the films made by D. W. Griffith, providing scholars with a unique opportunity to study the work of the American pioneer whose work influenced filmmakers in the United States and in almost every country of the world.

“D. W. Griffith: A Centenary of His Birth” will be on exhibit through April 30. For further information, please call the Information Office, Library of Congress; (202) 426-5108.

• A substantial portion of the outstanding collection of Ernest Hemingway papers which Mrs. Mary Hemingway has deposited in the John F. Kennedy Library has been opened for research use at the library in Waltham, Massachusetts. The materials, which may be studied with Mrs. Hemingway’s permission, include over 15,000 pages of manuscripts for Hemingway’s published novels and collections of short stories, and over 3,000 photographs.

Besides holograph and typescript drafts, setting copies, and galleys of many of the books, the collection includes the original opening of The Sun Also Rises, one unpublished section and an early draft for the Bimini section of Islands in the Stream, several unpublished chapters from A Moveable Feast, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comments on A Farewell to Arms. The photograph collection covers Hemingway’s life and family from the late 1890s through 1961.

Interested researchers should contact the library for further information.

PUBLICATIONS

• Three new titles of the University of Michigan Graduate Library Guide Series are available: Special Microform Collections; A Descriptive Guide (22p.), American Politics and Government; Selected Basic Beference Works. Annotated. (17p.), and English Literature; Selected Basic Reference Works. Annotated. (35p.).

These and other guides in the series are available for $1.50 each. Payment must accompany orders. Send orders to Mrs. Connie R. Dunlap, 818 Hatcher Library South, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.

• After a long hiatus, the microfiche series of library literature known as Kentucky Microforms: Library Series has been resumed. Originally published by the University of Kentucky Press, the series will be published on 4 x 6 microfiche in the future by the General Microfilm Company, 100 Inman St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Libraries which had standing orders for the old series should notify General Microfilms of their interest in receiving future titles.

In the future the series will include important unpublished or out-of-print monographs in the general field of librarianship and bibliography. In addition, it will include titles in these fields selected from General Microfilm’s continuing series of state documents. A list of titles in print is available upon application to General Microfilm.

• The University of New Mexico General Library announces the publication of two new bibliographies in its Sources series:

A Navajo Reading Bibliography,compiled by James M. Kari. (Sources, no.2) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico General Library, July 1974. 40p. $1.50 prepaid.

A Current Bibliography on Chicanos, 1960- 1973, Selected and Annotated, compiled by Helena Quintana. (Sources, no.3) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico General Library, June 1974. 44p. $1.50 prepaid.

Orders should be sent to: UNM Bookstore, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.

• The Case Memorial Library announced recently that a directory to the archives of the foundation titled The Archives of the Case Memorial Library has just been printed by the library and is available for $2.00 a copy. It can be ordered from the Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 55 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105. It contains a brief history of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; describes the Alumni Alcove and papers relating to church and mission fields here and abroad; lists sermons of eminent ministers (1705- ), letters of prominent ministers and American authors (1739- ), diaries, journals, and tape recordings; describes the nature of seventeen important manuscript collections; and explains the arrangement, the policy for use, and the availability of the materials.

• The Sciences-Engineering Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently announced its publication of: Chemistry Literature Guide by Arthur Antony. Price $3.00; and General Biological Sciences Including Biochemistry and Biophysics by Virginia R. Weiser. Price $2.00. Both publications may be ordered from The Librarian’s Office, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. ■ ■