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LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SUBSECTION

As part of the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago, the Law and Political Science Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries will hold a panel discussion on “The U.S. Census from 1790-1970: a Multi-Media Approach.” Scheduled for Monday, July 26, 1972, at 8:30 p.m., the discussion will focus on the availability and use of census material.

Panel participants are:

Judith S. Rowe, Manager, Princeton-Rutgers Census Data Project, Princeton University, who will discuss the development of social science data archives, the relation of these archives to the traditional library and the problem of bibliographic documentation and control of machine readable data files.

Jerome Clubb, Director of the Historical Archive, Inter-University Consortium for Pofitical Research, University of Michigan, who will discuss the availability of census materials, from 1790 to the present, in machine readable form as well as the availabihty of related materials such as election statistics and congressional roll call data.

Theodore Hershberg, Director of the Philadelphia Social History Project, University of Pennsylvania, who will describe his project which includes the collection of, and conversion into machine readable form, great quantities of census records relating to population characteristics for nineteenth century Philadelphia.

John C. Beresford, President, National Data Use and Access Laboratories, Inc. (DUALabs), Arlington, Virginia, who will discuss the newly organized Census Laboratory and Clearinghouse project, the goals of which are to provide training and instruction on the use of the census data base, and to provide a clearinghouse service on all aspects of the data base use. 'This project is being developed by DUALabs under contract to the Center for Research Libraries in accordance with the NSF grant the Center has just received for this project.

The formal presentations will be brief. They will be designed to provide orientation to librarians, many of whom will be familiar only with the printed products of the Bureau of the Census, but who, in order to provide a more complete reference service, would like to learn more about a whole new resource available to them. After their presentations the panelists will attempt to answer questions from the audience.

ART SUBSECTION

Mrs. Florence S. DaLuiso, program chairman of the Art Subsection of ACRL announces the program for the Chicago conference in June. For those arriving on Sunday, June 25, there will be a walking tour of the Chicago Loop. The tour will begin at the Chicago Public Library, Randolph Street steps, at 2:00 p.m. The fee for this tour is one dollar, paid to the tour guide. Reservations are optional. Special provisions can be made to have sufficient guides for this tour since groups are kept to a maximum of twelve persons per guide.

On Monday, June 26, the Art Librarians will meet at Glessner House for a guided tour and luncheon. The Glessner House is the last surviving Chicago work of Henry Hobson Richardson. The speaker will be Lloyd Engel- brecht. Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. He will speak on The Bauhaus in Chicago. Fee for the luncheon will be $4.00.

On Thursday, June 29, there will be a daylong program beginning at 10 a.m. at the Fullerton Auditorium of the Chicago Art Institute. The program will be Film as an educational media in Art Libraries for the teaching of art. The Moderator will be Celia Marriott, Department of Museum Education, Art Institute of Chicago. Luncheon will be served at the Chicago Art Institute. In the afternoon there will be a bus tour of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the Oak Park/River Forest area, including Unity Temple and thirty-two Wright houses. The tour will be froni 2:00-6:00. Fee for the luncheon and tour of the Wright homes will be $10.00. Send check to: Mrs. Florence S. DaLuiso, Art Librarian, Harriman Building, SUNYAB, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214. ■ ■