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• Available Pay Survey Reports:An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Stephen Langer (3 volumes, 1980), is an exhaustive listing of reports on professional and non-professional salaries in every conceivable employment situation. Indexes to survey sources, geographic areas, types of employers, and job titles make the set very useful in locating source material. Volume 1 ($95) deals with U.S. pay surveys; Volume 2 ($40) with U.S. Federal government surveys; and Volume 3 ($45) with non-U.S. surveys. The set is available for $150 from Abbott, Langer & Associates, P.O. Box 275, Park Forest, IL 60466; (312) 756-3990.

• Basic Preservation Procedures, SPEC Kit #70 (116 pages, January 1981), provides many examples of programs and procedures for the care and protection of library materials that can be implemented by libraries without specially-trained staff. This is the third ARL SPEC Kit to result from the March 1980 SPEC survey on preservation. The kit 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.

• Career Patterns of Women Librarians with Doctorates, by Doris C. Dale (28 pages, December 1980), has been published as Occasional Paper No. 147 of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The paper may be ordered for $3, prepayment required, from the Graduate School of Library Science, Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, 505 E. Armory St., Champaign, IL 61820.

• A Checklist and Union Catalog of Holdings of Major Published Library Catalogs in METRO Libraries, by George Thompson (65 pages, 1980), has been published as METRO Miscellaneous Publication No. 27. The checklist includes entries for 351 catalogs of major United States libraries published in the last 20 years. A copy may be ordered for $10 ($15 if invoice is required) from the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, 33 W. 42d St., New York, NY 10036.

• A Key to Abbreviations of Bibliographic Terms in Foreign Languages Used in AACR2, by Hans H. Wellisch (1981), serves as an explanation and translation of the list of bibliographic terms in Appendix B9-12 of AACR2 which may be abbreviated under certain conditions. The guide is available for $1.50 (plus 75¢ postage and handling) from the University Book Center, Student Union Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

• Members of Congress: A Checklist of Their Papers (217 pages, 1981) has been compiled by John J. McDonough and Marilyn K. Parr. This list provides ready access to the collections of papers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division which deal with members of Congress, whether a single signature or 214 containers of papers. The document may be obtained for $9 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

• A catalog of the 25th anniversary exhibition of the founding of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, entitled Twenty-Five Tears (28 pages, November 1980), can be ordered for $3 from the Fisher Library, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5.

AUDIOVISUAL NOTICES

• The Chicago Union Catalog of Religion and Theology has been completed by the member libraries of the Chicago Cluster of Theological Schools and the University of Chicago Library. The catalog’s format is 24x negative microfiche. The main body consists of nearly 460,000 entries representing the holdings of the Cluster Libraries, and the religion holdings of the University of Chicago and Newberry Libraries. For further information, contact Hedda Durnbaugh, Cluster Library Program Director, 1100E. 55thSt, Chicago, IL60615;(312)667-3500, Ext. 266.

• Welt im Film 1945-1950 has been published as a microfiche catalog of the Imperial War Museum’s holdings of material from the Anglo-American newsreel screened in occupied Germany after the Second World War. The catalog covers almost 300 films and is provided on a single 42x reduction computeroutput microfiche. The first issue of the newsreel was screened ten days after VE Day; screening was compulsory in every theater in the British and American Zones of occupied Germany until the creation of the German Federal Republic in September, 1949. Copies are available from the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Rd., London, England SEI 6HZ.

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• In honor of the centennial year of the first Cutter author number table, ALA has published Book Numbers: History, Principles, and Applications (1980, $7.50 paper) by Donald J. Léhus. The book is divided into two parts: a history of the evolution of author numbers in the nineteenth century, and a manual for assigning book numbers.

• ALA has also issued a new edition of Fundamental Reference Sources (1980, $12.50) by Frances Neel Cheney and Wiley J. Williams. Fundamental Reference Sources is designed as a textbook for a basic reference course.

• Another view of reference books is offered by Pierian Press’ Reference Sources, 1980 (Volume 4, $65), a bibliographic record of the year’s reference book production. Reference Sources indexes the reviews of reference materials from nearly 600 library and non-library related journals.

• A distinguished group of international experts address the concerns, issues, and practices of Cataloging and Classification of Non-Western Material (Oryx Press, 1980, $18.50), edited by Mohammed M. Aman, Dean of the School of Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Forest Press, the publishers of the Dewey Decimal Classification, have issued the Proposed Revision of 780 Music Based on Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, (1980) as a separate for testing by music librarians. The publishers will authorize its inclusion in a future unabridged edition only after the library profession has had the opportunity to study and react to it.

• A new title in the McGraw-Hill Series in Library Education is Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction (1981, $18.95) by Lois Mai Chan. Chan is also the author of the recently issued third edition of Immroth’s Guide to the Library of Congress Classification.

• Online Searching: An Introduction (Butterworths, 1980, $31.95) by W. H. Henry et ah, which evolved from a seminar in Britain on online bibliographic searching, is designed for both managers and searchers. The authors all have wide experience in online searching, and were active in its development in the United Kingdom.

• The third edition of Science and Engineering Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources, by H. Robert Malinowsky and Jeanne M. Richardson, is now available from Libraries Unlimited ($22.50 cloth; $14.50 paper). This 1980 edition has been completely rewritten and updated to include publications and new editions that appeared since 1976.

• Volume 3 in the Foundations in Library and Information Science series is The Microform Revolution in Libraries (Jai Press Inc., 1980, $26.50) by Michael R. Gabriel and Dorothy P. Ladd. The Microform Revolution surveys the development of microphotography and early applications in libraries, microformats, computer output microfilm, library materials in microform, library acquisition of microforms, performance, and establishment of a microform facility.

• Video Discs: The Technology, the Applications and the Future (Knowledge Industry Pubs., 1980, $29.95), by Efrem Sigel et ah, “presents an informative account of what video discs can do, their relationship to other information/communications technologies, and the economic forces that may help or hinder acceptance of discs in the institutional and consumer markets.”

• Supervisory and Middle Managers in Libraries (Scarecrow Press, 1981, $12) by Martha J. Bailey utilizes the author’s own studies and material selected from the literature of business and library management to examine the roles of middle and supervisory managers in a library setting.

• Knowledge Industry Publications extols The Cable/Broadband Communications Book, Volume 2, 1980-1981 as “a complete reference work and source book on all aspects of the complex cable industry.” The book is arranged in four parts: ownership and regulatory framework; local needs and services; impact of the satellite on pay, non-pay, and public service programming; and the cable/computer connection. The Cable/Broadband Communications Book is available for $29.95.

• “The development of larger networking activities from local library automation and the importance of technical compatibility and standards to assure effective networking” are discussed by Susan K. Martin in her edition of Library Networks, 1981- 82, published in January by Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc. Library Networks is available for $29.50; $24.50 softcover.

• Progress in Communication Science, Volume II(1980) brings together state-of-the-art reviews “each focusing on one or more of the following areas: information, information transfer, and information systems; the uses and effects of communications; and the control and regulating of communications and information.” Progress in Communication Science, the second in an annual series, is available from Abelex Pub. Corp, for $32.50.