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MINITER NAMED FOR GOOD TEACHING AWARD

The Good Teaching Award Committee of Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society announces that John J. Miniter has been named Library School Teacher of the Year for 1971. Miniter is a member of the faculty of the School of Library Science of Texas Woman’s University, Denton. His teaching interests include special library administration, library automation, and information storage and retrieval. Recipients of the award are elected by students of library schools accredited by the American Library Association from among those professors whose courses they attended. Miniter is the tenth teacher to be named for this honor since it was first given to Frances Neel Cheney of Peabody Library School in 1959. ■■

LET US REPLACE YOUR CARD CATALOG WITH AN INEXPENSIVE PAPERBACK.

If you’ve wanted to convert to a book catalog but haven’t because of economic considerations, we’d like to talk to you about your economics.

It does cost something initially to change over. But the statistics indicate that you get it all back.

Based on 1970 contracts, the average cost per title for all our book catalog customers came to under $1.25.

But for libraries still using card catalogs—even if they actually catalog only 20% of their acquisitions— the cost comes out to something like $2.60 per title. If you have 7,000 new acquisitions a year, for example, you save $9,450. (A book catalog will require periodic cumulations, of course. But even with this expense, most libraries come out ahead.)

Besides saving you money, a book catalog lets you do things you couldn't do with a card catalog at any price. Such as making a virtually limitless number of copies. And sending copies out of the library to interested teachers, students, and other librarians.

For complete facts and figures, write to Xerox Bibliographies, 2500 Schuster Drive, Cheverly, Md. 20781.

We're not suggesting that a book catalog will make your library rich. But the way costs are going up, it could be the only thing in your library keeping it from growing poor.

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