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ACQUISITIONS

• The Sun Oil Company has officially designated the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library as the depository for its business archives. The first segment of Sun’s historical records to be processed covers the period 1889-1963, and has been delivered to the library in ninety-two file drawers.

The Library specializes in American business, economic, industrial, and technological history, with emphasis on the middle-Atlantic states, and is administered by the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation.

Mr. du Pont, president of the Foundation’s board of trustees, stated that the Sun Oil Company records will “help … carry on the long- range goals of the Foundation to preserve materials for the study of the American free enterprise system.…”

Among those at the ceremony were Joseph R. Layton, vice-president for finance, Sun Oil Company; William W. Weston, director of corporate public relations, Sun Oil Company; R. Anderson Pew, secretary-treasurer, Sun Oil Company of Pennsylvania; Dr. Walter J. Hea- cock, general director of the Eleutherian Mills- Hagley Foundation; and Dr. Richmond D. Williams, library director.

Commenting on the research value of the Sun Oil Company collection, Dr. Richmond D. Williams, library director, said, “This first segment of archives covers all the important events, developments and innovations of the company through 1947. Included are documents relative to the Peoples Natural Gas Company of Pittsburgh prior to 1903; the use of tankers to bring oil to Marcus Hook from Texas; improvements in lubricants and motor fuels; the development of pipelines; the Houdry catalytic process; innovations in marketing; and exploration for new sources of crude oil. The relationship between the development of the company and the management skills of the Pew family is evident throughout this segment of deposited records. Represented in the collection are the activities of such Sun Oil Company executives as J. N. Pew (d. 1912), Arthur E. Pew, Sr. (d. 1916), Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (d. 1963), J. Howard Pew (d. 1971), J. Edgar Pew (d. 1946), Arthur E. Pew, Jr. (d. 1965).

• Northwestern University has announced in Vienna, Austria that final arrangements have been made in its efforts to acquire one of the world’s most important music collections—the Moldenhauer Archive.

The announcement came on the first day of the weeklong Fifth International Webern Festival and Congress held in Vienna and was made by Northwestern’s music librarian Donald Roberts, who was invited to give a paper at the congress. Along with the archive announcement Northwestern also extended an invitation to the Webern Society to hold its Sixth International Webern Festival and Congress at Northwestern University’s Evanston campus, in celebration of acquiring the Mol- denhauer Archive.

Described as “the most valuable and comprehensive private collection of original music autograph manuscripts and source material in the world,” it contains virtually the complete works of Austrian composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945), including notes, letters, original manuscripts, sketches, notebooks, books, personal belongings, portraits, and other memorabilia.

As a result of his long association with Webern’s family, Hans Moldenhauer, the greatest living authority on the Austrian composer, was able to acquire much of the surviving manuscript material left by Webern. It is this material that forms the nucleus of the Molden- hauer Archive. Many of Webern’s precursors, contemporaries, and followers, such as Debussy, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Berg, Bartók, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, among others are represented in the Archive.

The complete Moldenhauer Archive consists of two main sections; (1) the autograph music manuscripts, letters, and documents of composers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and (2) the twentieth century collection. As a systematic collection of twentieth century autograph music material, the Moldenhauer Archive has no rival among the private collections of Europe and America.

Moldenhauer, attending the Webern Congress in Vienna, said that he was “extremely elated” at the announcement because “it fulfills my life-long dream of having these works properly housed at a prestigious university. The governing philosophy of my collecting activity has been that of building a research collection—music history from primary sources. Collecting these materials has given me much satisfaction but my joy is now complete knowing that the music world will be greatly enriched with the scholarship that can now take place to make this collection truly come alive.”

• The literary estate of the German-American writer Oskar Maria Graf, 1894-1967, has been acquired by the University of New Hampshire library. Graf participated in the Bavarian revolution of 1918/19 and lived in Munich until 1933 when he publicly protested against the Nazi regime. For the remainder of his life he lived in exile, first in Austria, then in Czechoslovakia, and from 1938 until his death in the United States completed a successful career as a poet and writer.

Graf wrote over forty books including novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and criticism. A number of manuscripts, especially short stories, longer essays, fragments of novels, aphorisms, and correspondence are still unpublished. Among the manuscripts of Graf’s published works is also that of his famous autobiographical novel, Wir sind Gefangene (1927; English Prisoners All, 1928 and 1943). Graf’s correspondents include such figures as Heinrich Boell, Herman Broch, Alfred Doeblin, Albert Einstein, Bill Edgerton, Hanns Eisler, Lion Feuchtwanger, Varian M. Fry, Hermann Hesse, Theodor Heuss, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Nelly Sachs, Dorothy Thompson, and Sergej Tretjakow.

Besides the author’s own works, the New Hampshire collection contains many diverse materials ranging from personal documents to a huge amount of literature on the author. Among the latter there are more than 1,000 newspaper clippings with reviews and articles and much longer critical writings on Graf including theses and dissertations. In addition, one finds photographs, records, and tapes of the poet’s own voice and a television movie in which the author appears. Graf’s personal library of a few thousand books reflecting his interest in modern European literature and politics is also part of the collection.

A more detailed description of Graf’s literary estate was published by the Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch XI (Berlin, 1971, p.369- 86), and a comprehensive bibliography on the author based on the New Hampshire University library collection is presently being prepared.

• The Oklahoma State University library recently celebrated the addition of the millionth volume to its collection. The book so honored was a bound collection of original manuscripts of the late Will Rogers, donated by his son, Will Rogers, Jr., in a ceremony on February 24. The manuscripts, none of which have ever been published before, were bound in a leather volume embossed in gold. The donor spoke at the presentation ceremony on the subject, “My Father As a Literary Figure.” He told of the vast collection of writings which his father left, including his “Daily Telegram,” “The Weekly Article,” and scripts he wrote for radio, stage, and speeches that he delivered. It is not commonly known that Will Rogers was a prolific writer, but the Oklahoma State University Press will issue a collection of the writings of the humorist in a set of fourteen volumes, the first volume to appear in the near future.

• Fisk University library special collections and archives, Nashville, Tennessee, has acquired the papers (1947-1964) of Dr. Robert Burgette Johnson, sociologist and son of the late Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, eminent sociologist and first black president of Fisk University. The collection consists of correspondence, interviews, writings, lectures, and organizational materials of such groups as the National Conference on Christians and Jews and the Institute on Ethics.

The papers were presented to the university in a formal ceremony by Dr. Alex Rosen, a lifelong friend of Dr. Johnson. Also on hand for the presentation were Patricia Johnson Clifford and Charles S. Johnson, Jr., sister and brother of the late Dr. Robert B. Johnson.

FELLOWSHIPS/ SCHOLARSHIPS

• The Council on Library Resources is again offering a limited number of fellowships and internships to mid-career librarians of the United States and Canada who have demonstrated a strong potential for leadership in the profession. The purpose of the grants is to enable successful candidates to improve their competence in the substantive, administrative, and/or technical aspects of their profession. A few candidates may find an internship experience in a particular institution the most profitable use of the fellowship opportunity.

The awards are intended to cover costs during a period of continuous leave, which may range in time from a minimum of three months up to nine months. They do not cover salaries but are for such items as travel, per -diem for living expenses while in travel status, supplies, and equipment incident to a fellow’s program. It is expected that his salary while on leave of absence will be paid by his parent institution.

In reviewing applications the committee will place emphasis on the thought and care given to the development of the proposed program of study, investigation, training, or internship as well as on the candidate’s professional qualifications. The fellowships are not intended to support work toward an advanced degree in librarianship, although course work which complements a candidate’s program and is outside the normal professional curriculum may be considered.

Interested librarians may receive an application form by writing to The Fellowship Committee, Council on Library Resources, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036.

Completed applications must be received no later than November 1, 1972. The awards will be announced on or about April 1, 1973. Successful candidates must complete their fellowships prior to October 1, 1974.

• The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, has received a grant of $8,000 from the Office of Education, Leadership Training Institute. With support from this grant, the University of Maryland Library Administrators Development Program is inviting applications for full fellowships to cover the costs of attendance at the sixth annual program from July 16-28, 1972.

Under the terms of the grant, up to sixteen individuals will be selected as recipients of full fellowships. The grants will be restricted to individuals who meet the following criteria: members of such minority groups as Negroes, American Indians, Spanish-surnamed Americans and Orientals (or such other minority group members as are identified in the formal application).

Applicants are to be selected on the basis of their promise for assuming leadership roles in librarianship in the several types of library— public, academic, special, and school. A primary purpose is to offer advanced training so as to stimulate further development in leadership training through the application of skills and ideas gained by the participants in educationally extending these concepts to other minority group members in librarianship.

The sixth annual Library Administrators Development Program will be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Dr. John Rizzo, Professor of Management at Western Michigan University, serves as the director. As in the past five summers, participants are drawn from senior administrative personnel in libraries of large size. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields.

Seminar sessions concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Leadership, motivation, communication, personnel policy, decision-making, problem-solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar.

Those interested in further information and applications under the terms of this grant program are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

• The University of Oregon, School of Librarianship, in cooperation with Lane Community College is offering a 1972-73 fellowship program for training beginning librarians to work in community colleges.

The fellowships are funded by the U.S. Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of librarians who have specific training for the vocational, general, and remedial efforts of community colleges.

Beginning with the 1972 summer quarter, the five fellowship awardees will pursue a course of study in the University of Oregon School of Librarianship and College of Education in the fundamentals of librarianship, community college programs, and education of the disadvantaged. Their studies will include a 120-hour internship at LCC, which has facilities for serving the needs of the disadvantaged through its technical-vocational and basic education curriculum and through its new multi- media Learning Resources Center.

To be eligible for the fellowships, candidates must be accepted in the program leading to the master of library science degree at the university’s School of Librarianship. Each fellowship carries full tuition and fees and a twelve- month stipend of $2,400 with allowances for dependents.

Further information and application blanks may be obtained from Perry Morrison, Dean of the School of Librarianship, University of Oregon, Eugene.

GRANTS

• A grant of $71,000 has been made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in continued support of the Model Library program. The grant is from the Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C., and is in addition to the original $150,000 grant for the program made by the Council in October 1969. The Model Library program is a part of MIT’s Project Intrex, an experimental computer-based catalog and text access system under the direction of Professor Carl F. J. Overhage of the School of Engineering. It serves both as a traditional engineering library and as the experimental model library for Project Intrex.

Since October 1969 the Model Library has worked to develop new library services for “transitional libraries,” in which services based on the new technology are provided concurrently with traditional ones. These new services include Library Pathfinders, single-sheet guides to published information in specific subject areas, which were developed by the Model Library to lead library users through complex traditional information systems. Although originally designed for use in the Barker Engineering library, they have proven to be an effective tool in other institutions and are now used in research libraries in the United States and abroad.

The Model Library’s new audiovisual programs, developed to instruct library users in a variety of reference sources, are now in use in research libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe as well as in the Barker Engineering library. Since libraries of the future will depend increasingly on text in microform, the Model Library program has also been measuring users’ preferences between hard copy and microfiche copy of various library materials.

The new grant will permit the Model Library to advance these existing programs while beginning new ones.

New programs planned for completion this year include a study of electronic calculators within a research engineering library. Electronic calculators will be installed in the Barker Engineering library and user reaction monitored to define the need for such equipment. Besults will be reported to the library community.

The Model Library also hopes to develop means of providing increased user access to nonprint media by designing a special area to house easy-to-use, individualized projection and listening equipment. Substantial research information in the form of sound-films, cartridge loop film, and videotapes will form the nucleus of this area’s collection.

Traditional library orientation methods— classroom lectures and library tours—require large amounts of staff time and have often failed to provide information to library users at the time they actually need it. A new program designed for on-demand use will respond to these problems, as an adjunct to Pathfinders and audiovisual point-of-use programs, by providing a good generalized introduction to research libraries.

• Award of a $28,000 grant to North Texas State University at Denton to plan a research and demonstration information services project has been announced by Burton E. Lamkin, Associate Commissioner for Libraries and Educational Technology in HEW’s Office of Education.

The study is designated to develop a new concept of providing community information services in Olney, Texas. First phase of the proposed three-year project is covered under the initial grant. During the first two years, emphasis would be placed on the description and documentation of present facilities and library programs, community structure and attitudes, and the planning and policy development of a community learning center. The third year would be used to evaluate the new center, including an assessment of service patterns and effectiveness within the community.

Principal investigator for the study is Dr. James A. Kitchens, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Texas State University.

MEETINGS

April 30-May3: The annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, from Sunday, April 30, to Wednesday, May 3, 1972: The theme of the Clinic will be “On-Line Systems Applied to Library Automation.” Further information may be obtained from Mr. Leonard Sigler, Division of University Extension, 111 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

May 4:The ninth Annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium will be held in Philadelphia on May 4, 1972, at the Penn Center Holiday Inn. The $25.00 registration fee includes luncheon. Additional information and registration forms may be obtained from Susan Nickleach, Research for Better Schools, 1700 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19103. Further details are in the March News.

May4-5: Exploring problems and current practices of library orientation and instruction will be the central theme of the Second Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held May 4-5, 1972, at Eastern Michigan University. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students who are concerned with these vital and challenging problems are invited to participate. Registration will be limited to seventy-five persons.

For further information please contact Sul H. Lee, Associate Director of the Library, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

May4-6: The Council on Library Technology will hold its sixth annual conference May 4-6, 1972, at the Hotel Radisson, Denver, Colorado. The theme of this year’s conference will be “The LTA and Employment— How to Fulfill the Promise.”

A fee of $30.00 will be charged for the entire conference. A preregistration fee of $25.00 will be accepted until April 10. Hotel accommodations should be made directly to Hotel Radisson, 1790 Grant St., Denver, CO 80203. For registration and further information write Mrs. Noel R. Grego, Program Chairman, COLT, Chicago State University Library, Rm. 311 C, 6800 S. Stewart Ave., Chicago, IL 60621. More information can be found in the February issue of the News.

May5-6: The New England College Librarians, the New England Technical Services Librarians, and the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science will join in cosponsoring a “Conference on the Role and Function of the Library in an Era of Expanding Educational Technology.” The conference will be held in Amherst, Massachusetts on May 5 and 6, 1972, and will be cohosted by Robert Taylor, director of the Library Center at Hampshire College and Merle Boylan, university librarian at the University of Massachusetts.

For information regarding accommodations, write to Mrs. Pat Graves, University Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002 and see the March News.

May6: St. John’s University will celebrate International Book Year 1972 with a one-day conference which will be held at the university’s Jamaica Campus on Saturday, May 6, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in St. Albert Hall.

An $8.00 registration fee includes the conference and luncheon, and reservations can be made by making checks payable to St. John’s University and mailing them to Public Relations, St. John’s University, Grand Central and Utopia Parkways, Jamaica, NY 11432. Other information is in the March News.

May6: The Academic Section of the Minnesota Library Association will hold its Spring Conference at the Student Center of Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota on Saturday, May 6.

May12-14: On May 12, 13, and 14, 1972, the Library Association of Alberta and the Alberta School Library Council will hold a joint annual conference at the MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton. The Library Association of Alberta will hold a workshop on May 12, 1972, to which all school librarians are cordially invited.

The general theme for the Saturday conference is “changing social patterns and the role of libraries in the future.” The two distinguished speakers are Dr. B. Y. Card, University of Alberta, and Dr. John Corey, Assistant Director of New York Public Libraries. Kildare Dobbs, noted Canadian author, will be the banquet speaker. Other activities proposed for Saturday are a television presentation, a panel discussion, and small group sessions. The annual meetings of both organizations will be held on Sunday, May 14, 1972.

This is the first time that the Library Association of Alberta and the School Library Council have held a joint conference and it should provide an excellent opportunity for librarians from all areas to meet and share ideas.

May18-20: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference will meet May 18, 19, 20, 1972, at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Included is a visit to the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Convention chairman is Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College Library, Crawfordsville, IN 47933.

May19-21: The First Mid-year Regional Conference of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), to be held May 19- 21, 1972, at the Kennedy Memorial Union on the University of Dayton campus, Dayton, Ohio will focus on the theme of “Cost Reduction in Information Systems.” Conference chairman Harold B. Thompson (U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) expects several hundred information science specialists and users of information systems to attend the meeting.

According to Technical Program Chairman Frank Slater (University of Pittsburgh), the program will consist of contributed papers and discussion periods divided into three broad areas: input cost reduction; cost reduction in systems; and general cost effectiveness and benefits. Papers submitted cover the spectrum of cost elements in information systems, ranging from specific subjects such as computerbased photocomposition to general topics such as consumer research and capital investment. There will be some “devil’s advocate” papers questioning the feasibility of reducing costs at the input end of the system.

A highlight of the conference will be a three-hour “mini-tutorial” entitled “Building Block Analysis of Real Costs,” to be offered on Sunday morning, May 21, by Douglas S. Price, deputy director of the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility, Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Price is the author of Collecting and Reporting Real Costs of Information Systems, prepared for a tutorial session sponsored by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Costs, Budgeting, and Economics at the 1971 ASIS Annual Meeting in Denver.

A full schedule of papers is planned for the two-day conference which begins at noon Friday, May 19, and ends at noon Sunday, May 21. To supplement the papers and discussion periods, social hours are also planned at which “rap sessions” can be held between program participants and attendees.

In keeping with the cost-reduction theme, the official total conference fees (including room, meals, registration, and transportation to and from the airport if needed) have been kept to a minimum, as follows:

Cost per Person

ASIS Member in single room $47.00

ASIS Member sharing double room 43.50

Local ASIS Member (without room) 33.50

ASIS Student Member (as above, less $10)

Nonmember (as above, plus $5)

The Mid-Year Regional Conference, although national in scope, is sponsored by a group of seven Midwest ASIS chapters. It is designed to complement, rather than compete with, the 1972 Annual Meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., October 23-26. Further information on the conference, including registration forms, may be obtained by contacting Robert McAfee, Jr., ASIS, 1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (Phone: 202/659-3644).

June11-14: The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will be the site of the Seventeenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 11-14, 1972. Special attention will be given at the conference to the education and training of librarians for work in Latin American collections. In addition a series of workshops will take up matters relating to gifts and exchanges, government publications, the book trade, acquiring current serials from Latin America, a Latin American acquisitions clearinghouse, library service to Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking minorities in the United States, financial support for library service to area studies programs, and the problems associated with selection and acquisition of Latin American, and Spanish and Portuguese language materials in libraries that lack the services of an area specialist.

The Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials have been sponsored since 1956 by the Organization of American States as an activity of its Inter-American Program of Library and Bibliographic Development and carried on informally by libraries and institutions interested in the procurement of Latin American materials. In order to give the program of SALALM a firmer basis for existence and for carrying out its desired activities, SALALM was incorporated as a professional association in January 1968.

The 1972 seminar will be the first to be convened in New England. Recent conferences were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1969), at the University of Toronto (1970), and in Puebla, Mexico (1971).

Registration in the seventeenth seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. Preprint working papers are included in the registration fee, and are available only by registering in advance. Librarians and professors from Latin America and the Caribbean may attend the seminar without paying the registration fee and will receive the working papers. Students from all countries will be admitted as observers without charge but must register and pay a fee of $7.50 if they wish sets of the working papers. Complete details and registration forms for the seventeenth SALALM will be distributed soon. The conference coordinator is Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Latin American Librarian, The Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002. Information on the content of the program and working papers may be procured from Mr. Glenn Read, Jr., Latin American Librarian, 110 Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850.

For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, DC 20006.

June19-23: The American Theological Library Association will hold its 26th annual conference, June 19-23, 1972, on the campus of Waterloo Lutheran University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Host librarian, to whom inquiries about the conference may be directed, is Erich R. W. Schultz of Waterloo Lutheran University. Details may be found in the January News.

July16-28: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the sixth annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 16-28, 1972. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director.

The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susquehanna River and offering a variety of recreational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. More complete details are also to be found in the February News.

July 16-Aug.11: The University of Denver, Department of History and the Graduate School of Librarianship, in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado, will conduct its Eleventh Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 16-August 11, 1972.

Contact Prof. D. C. Renze, Attn. Department of History, Institute of Archival Studies, 1530 Sherman St., Denver, CO 80203 for further information and application forms. Also see the March News for complete information.

July17: “The Media Development Chain” will be the theme of this years conference of the Audio-Visual Education Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, July 17, according to conference chairman W. Daniel Cogan, Audiovisual Services, Central Missouri State College.

The A-V Education Forum, a one-day program for educators, media specialists, and others interested in instructional technology, is designed to stimulate thinking about the expanded use of modern communications media in providing quality education.

Registration for the A-V Education Forum, which includes a luncheon and access to exhibits during the three days, is $12.50 if paid in advance, or $17.50 at the door. Additional details on the conference program, including advance registration forms and hotel reservations forms may be obtained by writing to A-V Education Forum, National Audio-Visual Association, 3150 Spring St., Fairfax, VA 22030.

The April News contains further details.

July24-26: Keynoting the 7th Annual Educational Media and Technology Conference sponsored by the University of Wisconsin— Stout at Menomonie, will be Dr. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, and Dr. Robert N. Hurst, Department of Biological Science, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Dreyfus is chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Cable Television and has been involved in the development of educational television on a national basis. Hurst has been deeply involved in the Postlethwait Auto-Tutorial Approach to Individualizing Instruction at Purdue.

Contact Dr. David P. Barnard, Dean of Learning Resources, University of Wisconsin— Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751, for additional information concerning the conference and registration. Jack I. Morehouse, administrative assistant, is in charge of reservations for exhibit space.

MISCELLANY

• An American Library Association committee that investigated the resignation of a director of a county library in Missouri last year has stated in its report just issued that the library board “acted unethically,” “followed unfair employment procedures,” “acted capriciously and not in the best interests of the county,” and “presented to the public incomplete and thereby misleading information” about the librarian and her work.

The case was the resignation of Ann Webb, director of the St. Charles County Library, who resigned at the demand of the County Library Board. The American Library Association’s Staff Committee on Mediation, Arbitration and Inquiry presented its report to the ALA Executive Board, following several months of inquiry by an ALA fact-finding team and the committee.

The seven summary conclusions of the ALA Staff Committee on Mediation, Arbitration and Inquiry are:

1. Miss Ann Webb was compelled to resign as the director of the St. Charles County Library; and she was not provided with notice, written statement of reasons for dismissal, nor an opportunity for any hearing or appeal.

2. The St. Charles County Library Board acted unethically in demanding Miss Webb’s resignation without giving Miss Webb concrete, written information regarding their reasons for considering her to be unsatisfactory to them, and an adequate opportunity to respond.

3. The board acted unethically in threatening Miss Webb with unsatisfactory references if she did not resign immediately and promising her satisfactory references if she resigned immediately. This action was grossly unfair to Miss Webb and to other libraries.

4. The board followed unfair employment procedures in not honoring the contract which had been made in good faith by Miss Webb and the previous county library board.

5. The board acted capriciously and not in the best interests of the county in demanding the immediate resignation of its director (at its first meeting) without careful review of the policies of the previous library board and the administration and records of the library, and without orienting themselves on the operations, problems, and programs of the library. This precipitate action of demanding the librarian’s immediate resignation gave the board and the staff grave difficulties in planning future operations and in retaining the public’s confidence in the library.

6. The library board’s public inferences, that Miss Webb was terminated for fiscal mismanagement and administrative incompetence, were misleading and represent poor practices on the part of the board in meeting its responsibilities to the public. The board’s repudiation of Miss Webb was largely a repudiation of the policies established by the previous library board and followed by the library director. In forcing the director to bear the brunt of their dissatisfaction with the previously established library policies (and with some inadequate state and county reporting arid record-keeping mechanisms) the new library board presented to the public incomplete and thereby misleading information about Miss Webb, her ability, and her work.

7. The phrase (in the Missouri County library law 182.060)—“The librarian serves at the pleasure of the board”—should not be used to indicate that the position of library director is one of political patronage. The board’s statement to Miss Webb that she was “politically unacceptable” and her forced resignation constitute an application of the law which cannot be construed as being in the best public interest.

The report also includes six general recommendations which the ALA committee believes will assist all Missouri county libraries. These six general recommendations are:

1. That all public libraries have annual audits.

2. That standardized procedures for county library fiscal records and reporting be developed.

3. That guidelines for (library equipment and furnishings) bidding, procurement, and inventory be developed.

4. That the Missouri State Library request clarification from the state attorney general regarding the legality of a county library board’s agreement to the setting of a lower tax rate than that which has been voted, and the legality of the use of library operational tax funds for library building purchase or construction.

5. That consideration be given to changing the Missouri library laws (Sec. 182,050) to having election by the county of the fifth county library board trustee rather than having the appointment of the county school superintendent or a school superintendent to this position. The election of one trustee by the county voters would assure a five-member board, and would assure the membership of a fifth trustee who chose to serve in that capacity.

6. That guidelines for employment agreements and procedures re county library directors be prepared and adopted, and that they be included in library policy manuals.

The ALA committee gathered documents, publications, and records regarding the case. The fact-finding team came to St. Charles in late October 1971 and interviewed and conferred with persons and groups concerned with the library’s operations and services and with Miss Webb’s termination. The full report is published in the March 1972 issue of American Libraries, the journal of the ALA. The report has been received by Miss Webb, the St. Charles County Library Board, the St. Charles County Friends of Libraries, the Missouri Library Association, and the Missouri State Library.

• The Commissioner of the U.S. Court of Claims rendered his opinion in the case of Williams & Wilkins Co. v. the United States (the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health) on February 16, 1972. That opinion contained a recommended conclusion of law to the effect that the plaintiff (Williams & Wilkins Co.) is “entitled to recover reasonable and entire compensation for infringement of copyright.…”

The opinion of the Commissioner is being analyzed in depth by counsel for the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and by counsel for the American Library Association. Association counsel advised that exception will be taken to the opinion and that every effort will be made to dissuade the Court of Claims from accepting the Commissioner’s recommended conclusion of law.

The American Library Association is currently evaluating the implications of the decision for the library and educational communities. Steps are being taken to determine its impact on interlibrary loan, photocopying in libraries, consortia, and technological uses and applications of copyrighted materials.

The decision is also being evaluated to determine its effect on the position of the Association in respect to copyright revision.

As these studies and analyses are completed, findings and conclusions will be disseminated through American Libraries, the ALA Washington Newsletter, and other Association media.

• The EAA Air Museum Foundation is readying a new aviation research library for service to various organizations in the aviation community, according to executive director Paul H. Poberezny.

The Foundation library will function both as an aviation historical research facility for the Experimental Aircraft Association and other aviation organizations, and as a project agency available to government and private organizations for funded research. Librarianship tasks of benefit to other libraries, such as subject indexing of many aviation periodicals not previously indexed, will also be performed.

Although the present library collection consists mainly of donated periodicals, books, and engineering reports, a sound core of valuable source materials exists. A comprehensive and unique collection will be acquired.

Library director Philip F. Peterson, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science, expressed the hope that other libraries and organizations will contribute relevant materials to the new library. He also indicated that comments and suggestions for the new library will be welcomed.

• At its meeting at the Library of Congress February 17 and 18, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science passed three resolutions dealing with library funding, priority in planning, and the need for financial support of information resources in government programs.

One resolution approved by the Commission said that “If, as is possible under various legal challenges to the (funding) system, the current method of funding public schools is changed, library funding must change, too.”

This resolution referred to various state supreme court decisions, especially in California and Minnesota, which said that the “local property tax is not the proper base for public school funding.”

In a strongly worded statement, the Commission called upon public libraries and publicly supported information facilities to watch the development in funding public schools and “to be sure that the target of national equality of access to information to all citizens is a priority, not an afterthought.” In addition, a resolution was passed stating that the Commission will give “first priority in its planning effort to providing new and improved services that will be helpful to all libraries in the country and their users, at every level of society.”

In the third resolution, the Commission called upon government agencies to recognize the “need for appropriate documentation, bibliographical, and other information resources” in federal programs. The statement went on to say that “provision for the financial support of these functions be included in executive orders and other implementing directives.”

• The Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association is searching for a permanent home for its archives. The SRRT Action Council has authorized its Clearinghouse Secretary to publicize its interest in finding a depository able to provide space and occasional reference service in the records deposited. Full access would need to be assured to SRRT members who may occasionally wish to research these older records.

Organized in 1969, at the Atlantic City conference of ALA, SRRT has accumulated almost four file drawers of correspondence and documents. They reflect its efforts to democratize the parent organization, and to develop action programs on the major social issues of concern to librarians.

Clearinghouse Secretary Miriam Crawford, university archivist at the Samuel Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, reports that Action Council would be particularly receptive to a library school with archival facilities that was favorably disposed to social change.

PUBLICATIONS

• As the number of states enacting legislation covering public employee negotiation rights nears thirty, the reality of the unionized educator approaches. Contracts are now enforced at the university, college, and community college levels as the result of collective bargaining. The AAUP, NEA, and AFT are in agreement that faculties should be organized and have the right to strike. At the same time, these organizations are contesting one another for the privilege of representing the faculty. Whether you are on the “management” or “labor” side of the bargaining table it is time to prepare yourself.

Iowa State University library offers as the first number in a bibliographic series a bibliography covering collective bargaining in higher education. The references have been chosen to provide information on the collective bargaining process as it affects the faculty. Collective bargaining as used in this bibliography includes the formalized bargaining process and less highly structured situations such as “meet and confer” meetings and salary and merit negotiations.

This bibliography fills a gap in the literature of labor negotiations. Collective bargaining and its relation to the public sector and the public employee have had their bibliographies, but higher education and its academic employees have not been adequately covered until now. This important compilation should be of value not only to administrators and faculty, but to all interested observers of the higher education scene.

Checks or money orders for $3.00 should be made payable to Iowa State University, The Library, Attn: Photoduplication Center, Ames, IA 50010.

• The following publications are now available from the Council on Library Technology:

1971 Directory of Institutions Offering or Planning Programs for the Training of Library Technical Assistants. Ed. by Noel R. Grego. Council on Library Technology, 1971. $4.75 ($6.00 outside U.S.A.)—Directory lists 134 institutions with LTA programs with addresses, program directors, course offerings. Other information includes faculty, distribution of students, salaries, graduation.

LTAs—Their Training, Their Teachers: Proceedings of the Second Annual Central Region Workshop of the Council on Library Technology, February 1971. Ed. by Richard L. Taylor. Council on Library Technology, 1971. $3.50 ($4.75 outside U.S.A.)—Proceedings of the second annual Central Region of COLT considers the preparation of library technical assistants, approaches to teaching, LTAs appraisal of their training. Bibliographies are included.

Publications may be obtained from Council on Library Technology, Felician College Library, 3800 Peterson Ave., Chicago, IL 60659.

• The need to share increasing amounts of information of every sort has become a fundamental aspect of our culture. To help meet this need, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new standard entitled Directories of Libraries, Information and Documentation Centres.

Available from the American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, at $2.80 a copy, ISO International Standard 2146-1972 (E) is designed to assist in compiling directories of libraries as well as various types of information and documentation centers. The standard outlines the most practical format for reference works that give information as to the name and address, size of collections, subjects covered, staff services, and other pertinent data relating to such facilities.

• The Indiana University library staff in cooperation with the Program in Afro-American Studies has completed a supplement to their publication, Focus: Black American Bibliography Series. It covers 140 typewritten pages, with an alphabetical listing by last name of author, first name, title, city, publisher, and date, pages 1-123; from 123-26 we list Microforms; from 127-37 Xeroxed University Microfilms items; and Recent Additions, p. 137-40. Call numbers are included in all cases.

The Indiana University Bookstore, Mail Order Department, Indiana Memorial Union Building, Bloomington, IN 47401, has again offered to handle the sale of the Supplement, which will be priced at $2.50, and which covers our acquisitions in Black Afro-American for 1969-Nov. 1971.

• The problems and developments in American university library administration are considered by Dean Edward G. Holley of the University of North Carolina graduate library school in a newly released publication of the Texas A & M University library. Dean Holley, then director of libraries at the University of Houston, opened the Texas A & M University Library Lectures for 1971-72 with a paper presented at Texas A & M October 15, 1971. This paper is newly published as the Texas A & M University Library Miscellaneous Publication Number 3 ($1.00 from the University Library at College Station, TX 77843).

Tribute to Dr. Holley’s leadership in Texas library circles is paid by director of libraries John B. Smith in a brief introduction to the fifteen-page publication.

Dr. Holley’s study of problems and developments in American university libraries, particularly the public, urban universities, was made possible by a Council on Library Resources fellowship held in the spring of 1971. He visited campuses across the nation during this time.

Dean Holley’s examination of the problems faced by university libraries with particular attention given to their governance concludes on a note of optimism “about the future of academic libraries and the academic librarian.”

• The School of Library and Information Science, SUNY, Geneseo, New York has announced the availability of the Proceedings of the “Conference on the Recruitment of Minorities,” held in Dallas, Texas during the preconference period of ALA. The publication. Parity Now! Recruitment of Minorities, sells for $4.50 plus postage, and includes papers by Armando Rodriguez, Assistant Commissioner, Officer of Education; Burton Lamkin, Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Libraries and Educational technology. Office of Education, and Arthur A. Fletcher, former Assistant Secretary of Labor. Also, there is a summary of the panel discussion on “How Are Other ‘Professions’ Recruiting Minorities?” The summary of the conference is by Miles M. Jackson of the State University of New York at Geneseo and Bob Clayton, Coordinator, College Placement Services of Atlanta, Georgia.

Copies for late March shipment may be purchased by writing to College Bookstore, State University College of Arts and Science, Geneseo, NY 14454.

• A bibliography of pre-1950 Quaker books in the Scattergood School Library of West Branch, Iowa is now available. Their collection consists of a fairly significant collection of nineteenth-century publications with a few eighteenth-century imprints. A copy can be obtained for $1.00 from Nancy Patton Van Zant, Scattergood School Library, West Branch, lA 52358.

• The Scholar and the Book Collector, an address given by James D. Hart to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Albert M. Bender Collection of the Mills College library, has been published by the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press. Copies are for sale ($5.00) from the Mills College Library, Oakland, GA 94613.

• What to Do Before the Censor Comes— and After has been revised and reissued as a special supplement to the March 1972 issue of the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. The eight-page primer on handling intellectual freedom controversies in the library contains the 1972 revision of How Libraries Can Resist Censorship, the Library Bill of Rights, the School Library Bill of Rights, the Statement on Labeling, and the Resolution on Challenged Materials. Also included is the new What the American Library Association Can Do for You to Help Combat Censorship, and the Association’s Program of Action for Mediation, Arbitration, and Inquiry. Reprints are available for 100 per copy, $2.00 per 25, $3.00 per 50, and $5.00 per 100, from the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Prepayment for all orders of $2.00 or less is requested. ■ ■

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“Because The Congressional Record and its predecessors contain so much information about the activities of Congress, including the votes and near-verbatim reporting of debates, it is an essential resource for all courses relating to American government and should, therefore, be available in every academic library. On the other hand, its very comprehensiveness not only creates a space problem for most libraries, but also results in disproportionately high acquisitions costs for new libraries attempting to acquire complete backfile runs.

Microfilm offers a partial solution in that it is less expensive initially and saves valuable shelf space. One of the major obstacles to its acceptance however, has been the fact that students and other researchers find that searching for references in microform indexes is inconvenient, time consuming, and ultimately discouraging to effective research.

“Having the Proceedings of Congress available then, in the Dual-Media Edition, with the proceedings and appendices on microfilm and the Sessional Indexes and Histories of Bills and Resolutions in printed form (the Record is almost useless without its Indexes), means that libraries can now offer the wealth of this resource plus the convenience of the Indexes in book format, yet use a minimum of space and money.”

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