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ACQUISITIONS

• A portion of the private library of noted Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Allan Nevins has been donated to the California State University, Northridge Libraries.

Approximately fourteen linear feet of unbound material are included in the collection, which consists of several hundred pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals. Many are annotated by Nevins. The papers, some also with marginalia by colleagues of Nevins, will be available to students, faculty, and other researchers.

Nevins began his career as a journalist, joining the New York Evening Post as an editorial writer in 1913. He was literary editor of the New York Sun from 1923 to 1923 and then wrote editorials for the New York World. He was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirty years, where he founded the noted oral history research project. Nevins was a prolific historian and biographer, twice winning the Pulitzer Prize. The first time, in 1933, was for a study of Grover Cleveland; the second, in 1937, for a biography of Hamilton Fish. His major historical work was his prize-winning eight-volume history, Ordeal of the Union, which covered the United States from 1850 through the Civil War.

GRANTS

• A Council on Library Resources (CLR) grant of $4,300 will provide partial support to Portland State University Director of Libraries Frank Rodgers in his preparation of a “Manual of British Government Publications.”

Such a manual, patterned in part after United States Government Publications, is not presently available to the library community or to researchers in the field of British government and related areas. It will be divided into three parts:

1. General, covering the organization of British government, the evolution of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, types of government publications, and a survey of general catalogs and indexes to those publications.

2. Parliamentary publications.

3. Publications of executive agencies, a survey by agency with the emphasis on current material, although significant older publications will be covered.

Mr. Rodgers’ long-standing interest in British government publications dates back at least to 1964 when he assisted in the preparation of a thirty-five-page monograph at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science: A Guide to British Parliamentary Papers (by Rose B. Phelps and Frank Rodgers, 1967). In 1971, the American Library Association published his Serial Publications in the British Parliamentary Papers, 1900-1968: A Bibliography.

Mr. Rodgers will devote a major portion of his 1975-76 sabbatical leave, which will be spent in England, to the manual. Interest in printing the “Manual of British Government Publications” upon its completion, has been expressed by U.S. publishers.

• The Council on Library Resources (CLR) has made a $15,000 Officer’s Grant to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in support of a survey of medieval Arabic manuscript collections in the United States.

The survey was unanimously recommended by the ACLS Arabic Studies Group as a project of “fundamental importance to the future of Arabic scholarship” in addition to four other related projects with which ACLS is proceeding.

In stressing the need for the survey, ACLS President R. M. Lumiansky observed: “Traditionally Medieval and Renaissance scholars in our country have been trained with materials originating in the Latin West; they are more or less competent in the Latin and various Western vernacular languages of those periods. Arabic, however, has not been a part of their training. Yet we all know that learning of all sorts came to the West by means of Latin translations of Arabic documents; the Western scholars need to study those Arabic documents. We are having some success in establishing recognition of this need, and the manuscript survey would give full access for the concerned scholars to the resources already available in the United States.”

Thomas J. Martin, recent recipient of the Ph.D. in Arabic Studies at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), is carrying out the survey. Mr. Martin is at preserit a research associate at the Department of Near East Languages and Literature, New York University.

• Applications are now being accepted for grants-in-aid of research in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, The grants, to be announced in January 1976, will be awarded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, which supports special activities of the library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Grant applications will be considered by a committee appointed by the president of the University of Texas at Austin.

Persons interested in applying should write Mike Naeve, Associate Director, The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 2313 Red River, Austin, TX 78705.

• The American Antiquarian Society will award to qualified scholars a number of short-term, visiting fellowships during the year June 1, 1976-May 31, 1977. The funds for these grants are derived from the income of the society’s Fred Harris Daniels Fund. The deadline for submitting completed applications is March 1, 1976.

Competition for the awards is open to persons engaged in scholarly research and writing, including those at work on doctoral dissertations. Fellowships will be awarded not only on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications and the general interest of the project, but also on the appropriateness of the inquiry to the society’s holdings. Recipients will be expected to be in regular residence at the society’s library during the period of the grant.

The fellowships may vary in duration from one to three months, depending on the fellow’s requirements. Stipends may vary in amount, according to a fellow’s needs, to a maximum of $2,500. The society’s staff will attempt to locate suitable housing in the vicinity of the society for those who request such assistance.

Further information and application forms may be obtained by writing The Director, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609. It is the applicant’s responsibility to see that the application form and three letters of reference are submitted before the deadline. The announcement of the grants will be made by April 30, 1976.

MEETINGS

November 24-25: The Consortium for Library Automation in Mississippi (CLAM) announces its second annual conference. This conference, which will be held at the newly constructed Holiday Inn Downtown in Jackson, Mississippi, will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. on November 24, 1975, and will end at 3:00 p.m. on November 25, 1975.

Keynote speakers for this library automationnetworking conference will be Alphonse Trez- za, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; Ronald Miller, director of the New England Library Information Network; and Barbara Mark- uson, executive director of the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority. Mr. Trezza will speak on national considerations and implications of network planning at the state level. Mr. Miller will present a general overview of networking and the implications of library automation-networking activities at national,

regional, state, and local levels, Ms. Markuson will discuss what can and should be done to develop networking capabilities at the state level.

In addition to these presentations, the keynote speakers will be involved in a “rap session” and will be available for informal conversation during the conference. A central part of the second annual CLAM conference will be networking demonstrations, which will include OCLC, BALLOTS, and several commercial networking concerns.

The fee for the second annual CLAM conference is $50.00. This fee will cover registration, coffee, and three meals. Conference registration and fees may be sent to the following address: Miss Natelle Isley, Manager, Information Services Division, Mississippi Research and Development Center, P.O. Drawer 2470, Jack- son, MS 39205. Hotel reservations may be sent to: Jackson Holiday Inn Downtown, P.O. Box 22677, Jackson, MS 39205; Telephone l-(601) 969-5100.

November 29-30: “Automated Serials Control: National and International Considerations” is the title of a preconference institute cosponsored by the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association and the California Library Association. The institute will be held in the San Francisco Hilton Hotel. The program chairman is Michael Malinconico of the New York Public Library. The CLA Annual Conference will be held on November 30 to December 5, 1975.

The program will be concerned with the rapidly changing world of serials and the impact of those changes on the current situation. Both national and international considerations will be described and discussed by well-known experts in the field. Among other subjects, the Library of Congress MARC/S format will be reviewed, existing automated serials systems will be described, and such controversial movements as the AACR proposed changes, CONSER, superimposition, and ISBD will receive their share of attention. Additional subjects will include the role of OCLC, activities in Canada including the National Library of Canada, serials data bases, and NSDP.

Registration will be $85.00 for personal members of ALA and CLA, $100.00 for non- members, and $15.00 for full-time library school students. For hotel reservation information and registration blanks, contact Donald P. Hammer, ISAD, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780.

January 14-16: A U.N. Training Session for U.N. Documents will be held in New York City at U.N. Headquarters under the aus- pices of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. For further information contact Mina Pease, Chairperson, IDTF Working Group on Workshops, 551 Warren Blvd., Garden City South, NY 11530.

February 16-20: OCLC Workshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to librarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

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

Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possibilities, limitations, printing attachments); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others).

For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consideration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent.

For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI International Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England.

April 8-11: An International Conference on Art Periodicals, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the University of Sussex. An exhibition of art periodicals will be on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians.

For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts.. England.

April 25-28: The thirteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Illini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Library Automation.”

In an era of double-digit inflation and reduced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved service? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of specific library applications.

J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The complete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975.

May 9-21: The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields.

Seminar sessions will 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.

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, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

May 10-11: Symposium on the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherry- burn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (Anvil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermaking, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design.

May 10-28: Typographic Workshop, a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of Library Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486.

June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further information may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5.

MISCELLANY

• A large new social science and humanities library under construction at the University of Texas at Austin has been named in memory of two distinguished black and Mexican- American faculty members of UT Austin.

The UT system Board of Regents approved a recommendation that the library be named the Perry-Castaneda Library for the late Dr. Ervin S. Perry, an outstanding young civil engineer, and Dr. Carlos E. Castaneda, a noted professor of Latin American history who helped build UT’s Latin American collection.

Dr. Lorene L. Rogers, UT Austin president ad interim, and the UT system administration recommended the library’s name as an expression of the university’s commitment to educational opportunities for all Texans.

The Perry-Castaneda Library, due for completion in 1977, is designed to accommodate 3.5 million volumes and provide seating for between 2,500 to 3,000 students. It will house the major library materials for several of the colleges at UT Austin.

• The American woman, captured in the camera lens of thirty women photographers from the 1890s to the present, is the focus of an exhibit of over 150 photographs organized from the collections of the Library of Congress and on view in the library beginning October 1.

The exhibit, “Women Look at Women,” which will be on display through December 3l, reflects not only society’s changing perception of women during these years, but provides insight into the craft, showing both rudimentary technique and artistic expression.

The period 1890-1920 is exemplified by the work of Emma Farnsworth and others and by the romantic portraiture of Gertrude Käsebier and Doris Ulmann. Poignant social commentaries by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, selected from the library’s files of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, reveal rural life during the Great Depression years of the 1930s. Esther Bubley and Marjory Collins present a feminine perspective of the 1940s in photographs acquired by the library from the U.S. Office of War Information, organized to foster public acceptance of the emergency at hand.

Much of the photography of the postwar years centered on fashion and society portraiture, giving currency to the work of Toni Frissell and Roberta Booth. More recent news coverage by Margaret Thomas and Linda Wheeler of the Washington Post and the intensity of personal expression by experimental photographers such as Diane Arbus and Judy Dater illustrate a medium with diverse possibilities. Selections from other prolific photographers such as Imogen Cunningham, Laura Gilpin, and Frances Benjamin Johnston are also included.

“Women Look at Women” can be seen in the library’s ground floor exhibition halls from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Other photographs from the period can be seen in the library’s extensive collections in the Prints and Photographs Division, Annex Building.

Beginning in February, selections from the “Women Look at Women” exhibit will circulate as a traveling exhibit throughout the United States.

• The Duplicates Exchange Union, or DEU as it is commonly Called, is a voluntary, nonprofit network of libraries for the exchange of periodicals, books, and documents, or other library material. Begun in 1942, the DEU is sponsored by the Serials Section/Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association. The procedure is quite simple. Each of the DEU’s members prepares a list of books and periodicals available for exchange at least once a year, and sends this list to each of the other members. Other members may request items from the offering library and the items are distributed on a first come, first served basis. Items are shipped at “library rate” and the only cost is postage, which must be refunded if the amount exceeds 500. The DEU is open to all types and sizes of libraries; one of its strengths is diversity of membership. Libraries interested can receive a descriptive brochure from; Duplicates Exchange Union, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

• The American agents for the Voltaibe Foundation have suffered a financial failure. Many North American libraries, as a result, have not received copies of works published as of July 1, 1975. These are the Complete Works of Voltaire, volumes 2, 7, 53-55, 59, 81-82, 85, 125; the Correspondence Complete de Jean Jacques Rousseau, volumes 1-22; and the Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, volumes 30-37, 41-139. (The above volumes only are currently in print.)

All university staff concerned with eighteenth-century studies are urged to ask their librarians to confirm in writing to the foundation if their libraries are subscribed to the above important sets. If so, it would be most desirable to find out if the volumes listed have been received and to contact the Voltaire Foundation, Thorpe-Mandeville House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, stating which is the last volume they hold of each series. Should your library not possess some or all volumes of these sets, please request your librarian to subscribe to them as soon as possible. In case of any problems, kindly notify Professor Giles Barber at the foundation.

• The Board of Directors of the Women’s History Research Center announces the availability for purchase of the remainder of its original collections. Interested institutions and individuals may buy; Women’s Studies Department (bibliographies and course outlines); poetry; recent books; posters; and reference collections on women’s music, art, film; and women’s serials (duplicates).

Due to lack of operating funds, the center has already dispersed its 2,000 Topical Files to the Archive of Contemporary History at the University of Wyoming, its Women’s Serials Collection to Northwestern University at Evanston, and its pamphlet collection to Princeton University, although parts of all of these collections are available on microfilm. For more information contact Women’s History Research Center, Inc., 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 94708; (415) 548-1770.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Harvard University Archives has prepared a guide to its collections, which has been printed in a limited quantity and is available for purchase. A Descriptive Guide to the Harvard University Archives, compiled by Clark A. Elliott, is available from the Harvard University Archives, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. Price: $15.00, soft cover binding.

• The papers given at the 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in April 1975 have been published in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication in September, as

Joint Message to ACRL Newsletter from Japanese Librarians

We, the members of the Junior College Library Section of the Japan Library Association are grateful to ALA for inviting us to the 1975 San Francisco Conference. In 1973, at the Kochi Conference of the Japan Library Association, we invited Dr. Stone from the Los Angeles City College as a guest speaker. His talk about functions and professional roles of American college and research libraries inspired us very much and as the result, a movement to send a delegation to ALA arose among participants. In the last year, because of Mrs. Giles’ enthusiastic assistance, the Junior College Library Section of the Japan Library Association was able to send its first delegation to the 1974 New York Conference. At present among Japanese librarians, professional status and standards for library education are the crucial problems. We perceive them as internationally common problems. Dr. Axford’s speech at the ACRL membership meeting contained vital issues on librarians’ professional identities. This assured us that U.S. and Japanese librarians share common problems. We feel the need for communication and cooperation in pursuit of truly professional goals. The Japan Library Association is willing to take a step toward international cooperation. It is our earnest desire that librarians of different countries will have opportunities to study together and learn from each other. Thank you again for warm hospitality.

Signed by Mr. Toshimi Abe, Tokyo Women’s Christian Junior College; Ms. Mariko Urata, Tokyo Women’s Christian Junior College; Ms. Sachiko Shibata, St. Paul Women’s Junior College. (Translated by Ryoko Toyama, University of Oregon.) vol. PC18, no. 3. The conference record is available to IEEE members at $10.00 and to all others at $15.00. Orders should be sent, with payment, to: Alice LeClair, IEEE Services Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscattaway, NJ 08854.

Editor’s note:Additional copies of the 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals program are available for the asking or phoning from Jim Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, MN 55408; (612) 870-2705. The thirty-six-page conference program contains abstracts of the forty papers given at the meeting as well as bio-résumés and photos of the speakers.

• An easy-to-understand guide to preparing for computer searches of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) has just been made available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources at Stanford University.

How to Prepare for a Computer Search of ERIC: A Non-Technical Approachwas written by Judith Yarborough, assistant director of the clearinghouse, to explain to educators the process of computerized retrieval and the ERIC data base in order to improve the relevance and scope of searches.

The paper also is geared for “information brokers”—that is, librarians or school administrators who channel search requests from educators to search services.

The paper includes sections on: initiating a search—choice of data base, computerized or manual search; search negotiation—type of search, defining the problem, Boolean search strategy, and ERIC indexing; and a glossary and bibliography.

How to Prepare for a Computer Searchis available at cost for $1.00 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E” must be included with orders. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service in microfiche and hard copy when its ED number is announced.

• Conservation Administration, the proceedings of the Boston Athenaeum/New England Document Conservation Center 1973 Seminar on the theoretical aspects of the conservation of library and archival materials and the establishment of conservation programs, is available in spiral binding for $12.00 per copy from the New England Document Conservation Center, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. Unbound, unpunched copies of this volume are available for those who wish to hard- bind this conservation reference volume. A few copies of Library and Archives Conservation, the proceedings of the 1971 conservation seminar, are still available at $10.00 per copy.

• Evaluating Microfiche Readers: A Handbook for Librarians, by William R. Hawken, has recently been published by the Council on Library Resources. While this publication is in the form of a book which incorporates a set of four microfiche, it is actually a kit by means of which a nontechnically trained person can evaluate microfiche readers and reader-printers intended for use in libraries. Copies of the handbook are being distributed by the American Library Association to subscribers to the Library Technology Reports. The handbook is also being distributed free to libraries by the Council on Library Resources. Any request for a copy should be written on the library’s letterhead and addressed to the Council on Library Resources, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. A self-addressed mailing label should be included. Because the supply of copies is not large, only one copy can be provided to a library.

• The National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services has announced the availability of a chart entitled, On-Line Commands; A Quick Users Guide for Bibliographic Search Systems, This chart was compiled by Barbara Lawrence (Exxon Research and Engineering, Linden, New Jersey) and Barbara G. Prewitt (Rohm and Haas Company, Spring House, Pennsylvania). On-line commands are provided in a compact, easy-to-read format for using the ORBIT, ELHILL, DIALOG, RECON, and TYMFACT computer searching systems. Copies of the chart on Sîí-by-ll-inch heavy stock are available from NFAIS for $1.00 prepaid. Special rates for multiple copies are available. For further information contact NFAIS, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.

• Applications of Minicomputers to Library and Related Problems, proceedings of the 1974 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, has been published by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Library automation is most likely to be economically feasible either through the sharing of computer resources by a number of libraries, or by the use of the less expensive minicomputers within a single library, according to F. Wilfrid Lancaster, professor of library science at UIUC and editor of the proceedings.

Speakers at the clinic discussed a wide range of applications of minicomputers to such library problems as circulation control, cataloging, education and training, information retrieval, acquisitions, serials control, and other technical problems.

Single copies of Applications of Minicomputers to Library and Related Problems are available from the Library Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The price is $6.00 a copy.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law announces the publication of the ninth and tenth in its Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series. No. 9 is entitled English for Lawyers; A Bibliography of Style Manuals and Writing Guides, compiled by Adrienne deVergie with an introduction by Harry S. Martin, III. 1975. (50p.) $10.00.

Legal writing is both technical and unique. From the vocabulary of pleadings through the format of briefs, to the citation form in law review articles, legal writing follows a variety of rules. Many manuals have been produced with the purpose of helping lawyers write more professionally. To many laymen, the results have left something lacking: clear English. While most lawyers are familiar with the variety of guides to better legal writing, they are less familiar with the many books on English style, grammar, and usage. This bibliography encompasses the entire spectrum of better writing by lawyers and includes such titles as: Effective Revenue Writing; Strunk and White, The Elements of Style; and Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

The introduction to the bibliography at tempts to pinpoint some of those titles which could be of great utility to the average lawyer but for their unfamiliarity.

The tenth publication in the Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series is entitled The Grand Jury; A Selected Bibliography with Exhibit Notes, compiled by Harry S. Martin, III, Xavier Medina, and Twyla Tranfaglia. 1975. (35p.) $12.00.

This extensive bibliography lists most of the publications relating to the grand jury in America that have been published in the last twenty-five years, together with selected references to older, classic works. A unique feature of this publication is the textual material which has developed for a law school exhibit and provides a background to the history and origins of the grand jury, surveys the debate that has accompanied the actions of the grand jury over the years, and presents both sides of the current debate over the value, function, and proper role of the grand jury today. Textual materials were arranged so that they can be divided into sections and used in a display. Accompanying the textual introduction is a list of sources which because of their colorful format or historical interest should be used as exhibit items in a display. This publication thus offers law librarians a ready-made educational exhibit on the grand jury, as well as an extensive bibliography for research purposes. ■ ■