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ACQUISITIONS

• What has been described as “the world’s largest collection of John Muir papers” has been presented on permanent loan to the Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, located at the Stuart Library, University OF THE Pacific. The presentation was made by Mrs, Noel A. Clark (Jean Hanna Clark), one of five surviving grandchildren of John Muir, at the 23rd annual California History Institute held at the University of the Pacific in April 1970. Part of the institute involved talks by Mrs. Clark on “The Muir Papers and the Writings of John Muir” and William Kimes, a collector of Muiriana, on “Remarks on the Muir Papers.”

Included in the collection are correspondence, manuscripts of essays and books, clippings, pamphlets, drawings, photographs and other historical materials that were the personal property of John Muir. The material, to be housed in the Stuart Library, was used by Mrs. Linni Marsh Wolfe as a basis for her Pulitzer-prize-winning biography of John Muir, “Son of the Wilderness.”

Known as the father of the national park system, Muir is credited as the first American ecologist who recognized the importance of man’s dependence on nature. He was extremely active from 1890 until his death in 1914 in the area of conserving natural resources. Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892 and is the person most responsible for Yosemite becoming part of the national park system. Several monuments have been erected in his honor, including Muir Woods redwood area near San Francisco,

• Morris Library of Southern Illinois University has acquired the papers and correspondence of the late Theodore A. Schroeder, constitutional lawyer and founder with Lincoln Steffens of the Free Speech League, a forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Schroeder archives, which include the Free Speech League files, contain extensive correspondence with such figures as Anthony Comstock, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, Clarence Darrow, H. L. Mencken, Arthur Garfield Hays, G. Stanley Hall, Emma Goldman, W. E. B. Dubois, Maynard Shipley, and many others associated with social and political movements of the first half of this century. The collection has great value for research in modern intellectual history.

Schroeder, who was bom in 1864 and died in Cos Cobb, Connecticut at the age of eightyseven, was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. He practiced law for a number of years in Salt Lake City and, subsequently, moved to New York. For more than a half century he conducted a crusade for free speech, particularly in the areas of sex and religion, defending in the courts or through articles in legal, medical, and philosophical journals, such persons as anarchist Emma Goldman, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, Episcopal Bishop William Brown accused of heresy, and publisher Bernarr MacFadden, whose scantily clad muscle-men subjected his magazine, Physical Culture, to obscenity charges. Many of Schroeder’s libertarian views, long the subject of controversy, have since been adopted by the American courts.

In addition to thousands of letters, the acquisition contains notes and manuscripts of Schroeder’s prolific writings and records of legal cases in which he was involved. There are also extensive files relating to the early history of psychiatry, in which Schroeder had a considerable interest.

The archives were acquired from Schroeder’s long-time friend and protege, Arnold Maddaloni of Stamford, Connecticut, who got them from the Schroeder estate. During his lifetime Mr. Schroeder presented his library of books on freedom of the press and on Mormonism to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The Theodore A. Schroeder collection is now in the University Archives and is being put in order for use by scholars. Doctoral candidates in two universities are currently writing dissertations on Schroeder. The Schroeder papers relate to two other SIU collections —the Open Court Archives of Philosophy (Schroeder wrote for Open Court) and the Drs. William Josephus and Victor Robinson papers (Schroeder corresponded with the doctors on sex education and birth control).

• One of the largest Walt Whitman collections in the country has been given to Boston University by Alice and Rollo Silver. Recipient of a master’s degree in English from Boston University, Silver was professor of library science at Simmons College until his recent retirement. He describes his collection as a “research collection, not really a collector’s collection.”

The works, now on exhibit in the Special Collections Division, fifth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library, include early editions of “Leaves of Grass,” many of which are signed by Whitman. One that was published in New York in 1956 carries an endorsement by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who helped Whitman when “Leaves,” considered obscene by many, was threatened with oblivion through censorship. Letters written by and to Whitman during his life (1819-1892) are in the collection, including correspondence exchanged at the time Whitman was fired by the Attorney General for writing on office time. A signed check to his brother, and a letter he sent a young man he nursed while a medic during the Civil War, are two rare items in the collection. Photos and drawings in the exhibit include a photo of Marilyn Monroe reading “Leaves of Grass”; the first advertisement for a Whitman book— “a great Christmas gift”; a photo of his now restored home in Camden, New Jersey; and a photo of the tomb he designed for himself.

• Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer prize winning novelist and author of the recently published Inland Island, has given her professional correspondence and literary manuscripts to the Washington University libraries, St. Louis, Missouri. The Johnson papers complement the libraries’ extensive collections of the papers of twentieth century American and English writers. The Johnson correspondence, more than 600 letters written from 1929 to 1966, includes many letters from editors Clifton Fadiman, Ellery Sedgwick, and Quincy Howe. Other correspondents include Theodore Morrison, Bernard DeVoto, Granville Hicks, Edward Weeks, and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Drafts of Now in November, Miss Johnson’s prize novel, are among the literary manuscripts in the collection, as well as drafts of four other books published between 1937 and 1963, and numerous short stories. Interspersed is material concerning Miss Johnson’s work during the 1930s with rural victims of the Depression.

Other recent additions to the libraries’ collections include correspondence and literary manuscripts of David Meitzer, contemporary San Francisco poet and musician, and groups or single items representing the work of Babette Deutsch, Kenneth Burke, Robert Sward, Ted Hughes, Philip Whalen, Edward Lucie- Smith, and Philip Larkin. Tapes of readings, lectures, or interviews made by the libraries for the collections include those of authors Mona Van Duyn, William Gass, John Barth, Elie Wiesel, and Howard Nemerov, and choreographer Alwin Nikolais.

• The papers of Congressman Frank Thompson, Jr. (D., N.J.), spanning his House of Representatives files from 1955 to 1966, have been given to the library of Princeton University.

The gift of some seventy-seven archive storage boxes and larger cartons, twelve filled transfer filing drawers, and three folio albums was termed “a remarkably complete record of ten years of Congressional activity, especially useful to the Princeton University library because the interest centers on the district of which Mercer County is a part.” “Congressman Thompson’s activities in the fields of general education, library support, exchange scholarships, and cultural activities of all types set the archive apart from the general run of contemporary political papers,” Dr. Dix, president of the American Library Association, observed. “Moreover, this collection contains fewer government publications and a higher percent of correspondence than most similar files and thus contains more material actually suited for research in public affairs.” Dr. Dix added that the papers should be “of great scholarly use” at Princeton. He termed the material “a working file, not a collector’s accumulation.” More than 113,250 items are included in the gift, in addition to speech files and clipping collections.

While covering a broad spectrum of subject matter, there is emphasis in such areas as education, music and the arts, international relations, New Jersey, and various Congressional committees. Included are thousands of letters, carbons of replies, official printed and mimeographed reports, records of bills introduced, government publications in special fields, and similar matter. The collection is not yet ready for research use.

• The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History of the New York Public Library has acquired the original typescript of Richard Wright’s Native Son together with other important Richard Wright materials. The typescript of Native Son runs over 500 pages long with numerous corrections and changes in Wright’s handwriting. Included with Native Son in the purchase were the original manuscript of an unpublished novel entitled Monument to Memory, the second draft of the novel Long Dream published in 1958, the original typescript of Richard Wright’s biography by Constance Webb published in 1968, a mimeographed copy of the screenplay of Native Son written by Wright and Pierre Channel, produced in Argentina in 1950, photographs that once belonged to Wright, and photostated copies of many of Wright’s personal papers.

In a display case with the original manuscript lies a first edition copy of Native Son which the Schomburg Collection has long owned. It was donated by Wright himself with an inscription dedicated to the Collection. It seems totally fitting that this important manuscript should now reside at Schomburg. Richard Wright knew Arnold Schomburg and frequently spoke at the library at the time he was writing Native Son and immediately after it was published. At that time he was working in Harlem on a magazine entitled The New Challenge, designed to appeal to black intellectuals. It was Wright’s intention during those years to develop black pride and nationalism and channel its force into the cause of revolution.

• A major gift to the University of Rochester library—including sixty-six letters from John Masefield, poet laureate of England from 1930 until his death in 1967, and eleven letters from Samuel F. R. Morse, inventor of the telegraph—has been presented to the library by ninety-one-year-old Mrs. Joseph Roby of Rochester and her family.

The Roby gift to the University of Rochester’s Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives is in two parts—the Helen Rochester Rogers collection, which contains letters from Masefield and other eminent British and American figures of his day, and an addition to the

Breese-Stevens-Roby papers, which contains the Morse letters.

The Masefield letters were written to Mrs. Roby’s sister, the late Helen Rochester Rogers, a prominent Rochesterian who became acquainted with the poet when she volunteered for service in England during World War I. In the spring of 1918, Miss Rogers helped Masefield arrange a speaking tour of the United States, and he subsequently visited her in Rochester and at the Rogers family summer home on Lake Ontario in Webster, The two remained friends until Miss Rogers’ death in 1964.

A number of sketches by Masefield, photographs, and other memorabilia are in the collection. There are also letters from novelists Hugh Walpole and Paul Horgan; pianist Dame Myra Hess; Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky; British journalist Sir John C. Squire; and the noted architect and stage designer Claude Bragdon, who lived in Rochester for many years.

The eleven letters from Samuel Morse were written to his cousin Margaret Breese, who was the grandmother of Mrs. Roby’s husband. A number of them were written during the period when Morse, who was well-known as a talented portraitist before he invented the telegraph, was traveling and studying art in Europe. Also included in the gift to the university are letters from Daniel Webster and from physician and social reformer Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

• Fraser Bragg Drew of Kenmore, New York, a leading authority on John Masefield, has presented his collection of works by and about Masefield to the Guy W. Bailey Library of the University of Vermont. The collection includes nearly all first English and American editions of the Laureate’s works and seventysix (76) letters from Masefield to poetess Louise Townsend Nicholl, Fraser B. Drew, and others.

The Guy W. Bailey Library has also received from Alfred Bosch of Cleveland, Ohio, his collection of books and pamphlets on Socialism and Communism covering the period from 1880 through the 1940s. The collection consists of about 300 books and 1,200 pamphlets.

• The University of Virginia has been given all of the manuscripts, typescripts, books, and other materials owned by the William Faulkner Foundation. In announcing the gift during Founder’s Day ceremonies, University- President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., said the gift “will make our William Faulkner collection a unique archive—the most extensive collection in existence on the work of a single author.” Although conservative estimates value the gift at half a million dollars, President Shannon said it is “priceless beyond monetary calculation.”

Faulkner, noted Southern novelist and Nobel Prize winner, was writer-in-residence at the university from 1957 to 1959 and was Balch Lecturer in American Literature at the time of his death, in 1962. The gift includes all of Faulkner’s personal literary papers deposited in the university’s Alderman Library following his death. More than 100 manuscripts of his novels, both published and unpublished, short stories and poetry—many of them early handwritten or typed drafts—are contained in the collection. Among them are manuscripts for “The Sound and the Fury,” “Sartoris,” “Sanctuary,” “Light in August,” and “The Hamlet.”

The collection joins Alderman Library’s own holdings of Faulkner material, the gift of Linton R. Massey of Keswick, president of the Faulkner Foundation. Included in this earlier collection are Faulkner books in innumerable editions and printings, including foreign editions, books in galley proofs at various stages, correspondence, scenarios written by Faulkner for motion pictures based on his works, and a comprehensive collection of Faulkner criticism.

AWARDS/GIFTS

• One Honor Award and five Awards of Merit will be presented to winners in the 1970 Library Building Awards Program sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Architects, the American Library Association, and the National Book Committee.

Bancroft School Library in Andover, Massachusetts, designed by William D. Warner, AIA, Providence, Rhode Island, was the single entry to receive an Honor Award.

The Awards of Merit will go to; Henry B. Dupont Library, Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut, designed by Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Hutchings Goddard Library, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, designed by John M. Johansen, FAIA, New York City; Adlai E. Stevenson College Library, University of California at Santa Cruz, designed by Joseph Esherick and Associates, San Francisco; Anna E. Waden Branch Library, San Francisco, designed by John S. Bolles Associates, San Francisco; and Madden Hills Branch Library, Dayton, Ohio, designed by Richard Levin Associates, Architects, Dayton.

Jurors for the fifth biannual awards program were: John G. Dinkeloo, AIA, chairman, Hamden, Connecticut; Jordan L. Gruzen, AIA, New York City; Norman C. Rice, FAIA, Philadelphia; Richard H. Perrine, Assistant Librarian for Planning, Rice University; Raymond Holt, City Librarian, Pomona Public Library, Pomona, California; Cora Bomar, Department of Library Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and Charles E. Reid, National Book Committee, Paramus, New Jersey.

• By the will of Beatrice Clayton Robbins, whose home for nearly seventy years was in Suisun Valley, approximately $10 million has been provided for the law library of the school of law (Boalt Hall) of the University of California at Berkeley. The funds, the largest single bequest in University of California history, were left to purchase and to maintain library material primarily in the field of canon law and in related areas of medieval law and civil law.

Canon law is described, by reference to the terms of her late husband’s earlier gift to the Law School, as “the general subject-matter of ecclesiastical law, whether of the Christian or other faiths.” It can be considered to include the laws of the different Christian churches, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and of all religions which have expressed their beliefs in part through law.

The magnificent gift provides an important new university resource and a unique opportunity to create in California an international center for the comparative investigation of law and for the exploration of religious rules and church governmental structures. At this center, the contemporary relevance of these rules and structures can be assessed and their relation to the laws of secular society examined.

“The opportunity to create this international legal center is an outstanding example of how private gifts can initiate major, long-range academic projects,” said Roger W. Heyns, Chancellor of the Berkeley campus. “Planning, innovation, and execution of bold educational programs are often possible only because of such generous private support.”

Stephan Kuttner, internationally renowned canon law scholar, has been appointed to the law school faculty, effective July 1 of the current year, and will assume responsibilities in developing the canonical collection. Kuttner, who founded the Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law, serves as its president and is now T. Lawrason Riggs Professor at Yale University.

Beatrice Clayton Robbins was the widow of Lloyd McCullough Robbins, prominent San Francisco lawyer and businessman who was chancellor of the Episcopal diocese of Northern California. During Dr. Robbins’ lifetime, he established the Reuel Drinkwater and Saditha McCullough Robbins Law Library Fund,now in excess of $1,000,000, to which Mrs. Robbins’ gift is to be added. He also gave the library his own collection in canon law, developed by him over a period of forty years. The fund already has contributed significantly to making the McEnerney Library at Boalt Hall a notable center of research in canon and comparative law.

It was Dr. Robbins’ conviction that a true understanding of law presupposed knowledge of the whole of man’s social structure, of which religion was an essential part. His wife’s generous bequest makes it possible to extend her husband’s creative vision.

MEETINGS

June 22-26: Engineering School Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Nonmembers are invited to attend.

June 22-July 3: The School of Librarianship at Ealing Technical College, London, England, is offering a summer school for librarians from the United States and Canada. The course will cover the “Scene in British Librarianship.” There will be lectures and seminars in the mornings followed by visits to selected libraries in the afternoons. Some fullday visits to Oxford and Cambridge to see the university libraries and particular college libraries will be arranged, and the library of the British Museum will be seen. The course fee will be $100.00. Further information and application forms can be secured from the office of L. C. Guy, F.L.A., Course Secretary, School of Librarianship, Ealing Technical College, Ealing, London, W.5, England.

June 22-July 31: A six-week institute on the “Development and Administration of Slavic and East European Library Resources” will be held at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science from June 22 to July 31, 1970. The institute, which is funded by the U.S. Office of Education, is the first opportunity for library training in this vital and growing area. Additional information as well as application forms for admission and fellowship support may be obtained from Laurence H. Miller, Director, Slavic Library Institute, 225 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

June 22–July 31: The Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will conduct a Slavic Library Institute June 22-July 31. The institute was made possible through a $24,166 grant from the U.S. Office of Education. The program is designed to train librarians to develop and administer comprehensive Slavic and East European library collections.

Fifteen participants will be chosen from among the applicants. Candidates should have significant academic training in Slavic studies, a library degree and experience, a good reading knowledge of Russian, and preferably a working knowledge of other Slavic and East European languages. As the program is designed to develop future leaders in the field, persons who are experienced Slavic studies librarians probably will not be selected to participate.

Miss Eleanor Buist, an outstanding leader in Slavic bibliography and library affairs, will be responsible for the major part of the instructional program, for which academic credit will be available. Nine distinguished visiting lecturers will appear, and faculty members from the University of Illinois Russian and East European Center, Library School, and Library also will lecture and act as consultants. Application forms may be obtained from Prof. Laurence H. Miller, director, Slavic Library Institute, 225 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

June 26–27: The Equivalencies and Reciprocity Committee of the Library Education Division, American Library Association, in cooperation with Pratt Institute and Wayne State University, will present a preconference institute on “International Library Manpower: Education and Placement in North America,” at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, on June 26 and 27, 1970, immediately preceding the 1970 Annual Conference of the American Library Association. The institute will discuss problems inherent in the evaluation of professional qualifications of persons trained in other countries who apply for positions in North American libraries and the evaluation of the academic qualifications of foreign students applying for admission to North American library schools. Participants will be invited from library education programs and large and medium-sized public and academic libraries. Other interested individuals are also welcome to participate if facilities permit. Anyone wishing additional information may contact Dr. Nasser Sharify, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205.

June 28–July 1: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C.

June 28–July 4: American Library Association Annual Conference to be held in Detroit, Michigan.

July 1: “Cataloging-in-Source” will he the subject of two program meetings of the Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, Wednesday, July 1, during the 1970 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Detroit. It is felt that this subject will be of interest to many persons besides those directly involved in the activities of the division, according to Carol Raney, executive secretary of RTSD.

Details of the program are the following:

Morning session: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon, presiding: W. Carl Jackson, RTSD President; speakers: Joseph Wheeler, retired librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library—“Background of the First Try,” Verner Clapp, Council on Library Resources—“Report on 1970 Survey,” to be announced—“Cataloging-in-Source in the Soviet Union.”

Evening session: 8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., presiding: W. Carl Jackson, RTSD President; speaker: William Welsh, Library of Congress —“Cataloging-in-Source at the Library of Congress”; panel (of speakers to be announced, one each from the following groups: publishers, book jobbers, centralized processing center personnel, librarians); audience reaction.

July 13–14: The School of Librarianship at the University of California at Berkeley will sponsor a two-day conference and workshop on “Instruction in the Use of the College and University Library.” For further information and an application form contact: Continuing Education in Arts and Humanities, University Extension, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720; phone (415) 642-4141. Exclusive of housing and meals, attendance will cost $25.00.

July 18-21: P. Ray Swank, President of the National Audio-Visual Association, announced that “Media ’70: Education Through Communication,” will be the theme of the 31st Annual National Audio-Visual Convention and Exhibit. The Convention will be held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. July 18–21, 1970. Preregistration fee for the NAVA Convention and Exhibit is $12.50. Special fees are applicable for those registering for special meetings. For further information about the convention or the special meetings, and for hotel reservation and convention registration forms, write to: NAVA Convention Registrations, National Audio-Visual Association, Inc., 3150 Spring Street, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.

July 19-31: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fourth annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 19 to July 31, 1970. Dr. John Rizzo, Associate Professor of Management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past three summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, 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 the Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

July 27-Aug. 21; The University of Denver Department of History and the Graduate School for Librarianship in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado will conduct its Ninth Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 27-August 21, 1970, under the direction of Dolores C. Renze, State Archivist of Colorado and adjunct professor, Department of History, University of Denver. Designed for those employed in archival, library, or related professions and also for advanced students of history or related subjects. Presents theory, principles, and methodology of archives administration, resources, and related manuscript source materials, with lectures and discussions by specialists in the profession. Field trips to archival agencies, departments or institutions nearby, and historical places in the area. For those especially interested in manuscript administration, arrangement, and methodology, specific assignments will be made. Credit: up to five quarter-hours, with University Institute Certificate upon completion. It is also possible to coordinate a combined certificate with the M.A. program for American Studies in the Department of History or cognate with the M.A. or M.S. program in the Graduate School for Librarianship in accordance with conditions established by these departmental graduate programs. Graduate credit for institute work transferable to another university will require approval of the Dean of Admissions; for those who do not desire credit but certificate only, the institute will be designated as “continuing education.” Tuition; $190; living accommodations available in the Centennial Conference Center at additional cost. Apply to Prof. D. C. Renze, Institute of Archival Studies, 1530 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203.

Aug. 3–28; The fourth annual Archives Institute, sponsored by the Georgia Department of Archives and History and by the Emory University Division of Librarianship, will be held August 3-28 at the Georgia Archives and Records Building, Atlanta. Miss Carroll Hart, director of the Department of Archives is director of the institute. The staff of the Archives participates in the institute, as well as Georgia specialists in the field and prominent archivists and historians from other parts of the country. Study is offered in archival procedures and records management. The course includes lectures, formal and informal seminars, theory and practical training in all phases of archival administration and techniques, and supervised laboratory work on special archival projects. Field trips will be made to a federal records center, county courthouse, a company archives, computer center, and the Georgia Historical Society headquarters in Savannah.

Participants may register on a noncredit basis or for six quarter hours graduate credit. For noncredit registrants the fee is $75.00; for credit awarded by the Emory University Graduate School the fee is $330.00. Dormitory housing will be available on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. The institute is designed to aid those presently employed or preparing for employment as archivists, manuscripts curators, records managers or special librarians; and advanced students in history or related disciplines. Applicants should hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. Enrollment will be limited to ten. Further information about the program may be obtained by writing the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Aug. 4–14: The School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will sponsor an Institute on the History of Library Education. It is to be conducted by Dr. Paul A. Winckler, visiting professor of library science. Enrollment will be limited to thirty students. Complete details can be secured from Miss Shelagh Keene, Administrative Assistant, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Aug. 17-21: The university library of the University of California, San Diego, is offering an institute on “Training for Service in Undergraduate Libraries.” The basic objectives of the Institute are to increase the competency of librarians serving undergraduate libraries by providing specialized training, to stimulate fresh approaches to library service for undergraduates, and to encourage further development of this specialty area. Six papers will be presented, one by each of the institute staff members. These will be distributed to participants in advance of their arrival in La Jolla, so as to allow time for detailed studies. In addition, there will be five less formal presentations on subsidiary topics by the members of the staff. Each participant will receive a stipend of $75.00 for the one-week period, plus an additional $15.00 for each dependent. Address requests for application forms to: Melvin J. Voigt, University Librarian, University of California, San Diego, Box 109, La Jolla, California 92037.

Sept. 14–24; The 1970 Conference and Congress of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 14–24, 1970. Participation in the Congress is open to all those who are interested in the problems of documentation and scientific information. The general theme of the Congress is: “Documentation from the Viewpoint of Users.” The Congress will consist of invited lectures and the presentation of contributed papers in the following areas:

A. Communicating information to users

1. improving efficiency

2. user studies

3. building user profiles

B. Training of users

C. Tools for users

1. conventional tools

2. non-conventional tools

Meetings of the FID General Assembly and of FID Study Committees will take place before the Congress, and will constitute the 35th Conference of FID. A regional conference on problems in information of particular interest to Latin American countries, and technical visits and tours are also included in the program. The preliminary schedule of events is as follows:

Sept. 14–18—Meetings of the FID General Assembly, the FID Council, FID Study Committees and the FID Regional Commission on Latin America

Sept. 19–20—Technical and Sightseeing Excursions

Sept. 21–24—International Congress (invited and contributed papers), Regional Conference

Additional information and preliminary registration forms are available from: U.S. National Committee for FID, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418.

Oct. 11–15: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Sheraton Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Biosciences Information Services of Biological Abstracts, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oct. 21–24: The 1970 annual conference of the Pennsylvania Library Association, Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, will be a unique convention. Headlined “A New School for Librarians,” the conference will be under the direction of a management firm and will seek to reorient librarians, trustees, and interested individuals to the library technology of the 1970s. Under the premise that many librarians have been away from the classroom for several years, the college within a conference is meant to update the individual’s professionalism, provide insight into the new directions of libraries, and, finally, to develop through group discussions a set of recommendations for library development in the seventies. More information is available from the Pennsylvania Library Association, 200 South Craig Street, Room 506, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15113.

Oct. 30: The Department of History of Notre Dame University, the Society of American Archivists, and the National Archives and Records Service (Region 5) are cooperating in the presentation of a symposium on using the resources of the Presidential Libraries. It will be held Friday, October 30, 1970, in the Continuing Education Center on the Notre Dame campus. An informal gathering of participants and those arriving the afternoon of October 29 is also being planned.

The program will consist of an address by Dr. Herbert Angel, Deputy Archivist of the United States, on the development of the system of Presidential Libraries, its current status, and plans for the future. Representatives from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Herbert Hoover Library will present papers on the holdings and operation of their institutions and a panel of scholars who have conducted research projects at a Presidential Library will discuss their experiences. Time will be available for general discussion.

Registration is $6.00 and includes coffee breaks and lunch. Rooms are available at the Morris Inn on campus at $12.00 single and $17.00 double. Motel accommodations are within a two-mile radius and rates vary from $11.00 single to $19.00 double. A printed program is to be prepared in September 1970 and will be mailed to members of the Society of American Archivists, Society of Ohio Archivists, Michigan Archivists Association, and departments of history at colleges and universities in the states comprising Region 5 of NARS (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin). Others desiring to receive a program should send their request to the following address: Regional Archives Branch, Federal Records Center, 7201 South Leamington Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60638.

Jan. 6–12. 1971: Following on the XXVIIth International Congress of Orientalists Library Panel at Ann Arbor in 1967, Library Seminars will be held during the 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, 6–12 January, 1971. These may be regarded as the first major activities of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians set up at the Ann Arbor meetings.

May 30–June 3, 1971: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30– June 3, 1971. The General Session on Thursday, June 3, will be devoted to a group of Contributed Papers. No special theme for this session is planned. The Program Committee wishes to select the best possible papers dealing with new ideas and methodologies as well as informative reports of activities and programs of general interest to all medical librarians.

A letter of intent to submit a formal paper for consideration, accompanied by a short abstract, should be sent by September 1, 1970, to: Alfred N, Brandon, Librarian, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Fifth Avenue and 100th Street, New York, New York 10029. The deadline for submission of completed papers is February 1, 1971.

MISCELLANY

• The ACRL Committee on Community Use of Academic Libraries requests copies of policy statements of all academic libraries as they relate to use of collections and services by persons of the immediate or greater community who are unaffiliated with the institution. Policy statements on community use should be sent to the chairman of the committee, Richard C. Quick, Director of Libraries, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York 14454.

Policy statements received will be compared by the committee, and then forwarded to the ALA Headquarters Library to supplement a collection of statements deposited there by the committee in 1967.

The Committee on Community Use of Academic Libraries will also welcome suggestions for further research and new committee investigations in problem areas of community use of academic libraries. Earlier committee studies have included a national survey of community use of college and university libraries (E. J. Josey et at, “Community Use of Academic Libraries: A Symposium,” College & Research Libraries, 28:184-202, May 1967), a similar study of junior college libraries (to be published), and an in-depth, regional study (in preparation). Suggestions may be forwarded to the committee chairman.

• Librarians attending the Annual Conference exhibits in Detroit, June 28–July 2, will see more than 700 exhibit booths of books, equipment, furniture, and news of services for libraries. Among the exhibitors there will be over forty exhibits of foreign books in the 15th USA International Book Exhibition which is held annually in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference exhibits. It is believed that this is the largest exhibit of foreign books in this country.

Also of very great interest to librarians is the large exhibit of government publications in the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents booths numbers 1412– 14. Although the Superintendent has branches throughout the United States many librarians appreciate the fact that this exhibit is tailored to their interests and desires. Librarians wishing to see certain publications available through the Superintendent’s office are invited to make suggestions for the exhibit contents to G. Marvin Jaeger, Sales Planning Coordinator, P.O. Box 1533, Washington, D.C. 20013. An effort is being made to have the Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, prepare an exhibit of Canadian Government publications for this meeting, but arrangements have not been completed as yet.

• Bryn Mawr College’s new Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, one of seven buildings cited for architectural excellence at the 1970 International College and University Conference and Exposition, had its official opening Saturday afternoon, April 4. Mrs. Ward M. Canaday, for whom the library is named, cut the ribbon opening the library doors. The Canaday Library is the largest single building project Bryn Mawr has ever attempted. The chief characteristic distinguishing this building from older libraries is its integration of study space and stacks—changing entirely the century-old division between the reading room and the place where books are stored.

Ward M. Canaday, an Ohio industrialist, made the largest contribution for the library in honor of his wife, a member of the Class of 1906. The first matching gift to the building fund was made by the Humanist Trust to stimulate other large contributions. The Kresge Foundation and the Esso Education Foundation were also responsible for large grants.

The main floor reference, bibliography, and work areas were presented in memory of John D. Gordan, who was curator of the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The gift was made by his wife, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, of the Class of 1935 and a director of the college, and family and friends. The periodical room was made possible by funds from the estate of Leslie Clark of Washington, D.C., a member of the Class of 1904.

Many study rooms, reading bays and carrels have been established through reunion class gifts, and some to honor individuals. The first carrel was given by an alumna in honor of her great-aunt who as a girl watched the construction of Taylor Hall, the central class and administration building of the campus. A reading bay has been named for Marianne Moore, the poet, a member of the Class of 1909.

Other study rooms serving specific departments were also realized through generous gifts. The room for students in classics is provided as a Tenney Frank Memorial, in honor of the Latin scholar. A large study room in history is named for Helen Taft Manning, Professor Emeritus of History.

At full capacity the new library will provide study space for 700 readers—faculty, student, and guest. The special study areas are designed to meet the needs of both graduate and undergraduate students.

The new library is planned for 655,000 volumes. The number will permit doubling over a period of time the present collections in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The sciences will retain their present libraries in the Science Center, and art and archaeology will expand their present resources in the M. Carey Thomas Library.

The firm of Kilham Beder & Chu of New York, with Philip M. Chu partner in charge, were the architects for the Canaday Library, and received the citation of excellence at the International College and University Conference and Exposition March 16–18 in Atlantic City. Fund-raising for the $4.1 million building was completed in October 1969.

• Florida State University has announced its plans to establish an American Theater Library and Museum using the most recent techniques of theater documentation to supplement traditional materials and methods. In creating a center for research in the American theater, Richard Fallon, chairman of the theater department, and N. Orwin Rush, director of libraries, plan to use the existing drama collection in the Strozier Library as a nucleus, adding materials which will make it a “living, growing chronicle of theater from its beginnings in Colonial days to the latest developments in technique and style.” In order to achieve this goal, the support and contributions of many people and organizations will be needed.

This support has already begun in the form of a gift of twenty-two cartons of materials sent to the Florida State University library by New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Scrapbooks covering the years 1893- 1914, playbills from 1890–1950, and photographs, all duplicates of the Lincoln Center collection, form the bulk of these materials. Paul Myers, curator of the theater collection of the New York Public Library in Lincoln Center, indicates this is just the beginning of an exchange program between the two libraries.

With the help of such interested friends, annual premier performances and a continuing alliance with the Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida, the American Theater Library and Museum at Florida State University is started on its way to acquiring primary source material for research.

• A conference “In Search of Soul” sponsored by the Social Responsibilities for Libraries Round Table will be held June 26 and 27 in Detroit. The conference “is designed to give white librarians serving primarily white patrons opportunities for discussion and interchange with representatives of Detroit’s black community and with a group of black librarians,” according to Mrs. Fay M. Blake, Associate in Academic and Research Libraries, Division of Library Development, New York State Education Department, Albany, and chairman of the Planning Committee for the preconference. Films, a cultural program, sensitivity training sessions, question periods, and exhibits will be used. Registration will be limited. Hotel reservations are available at the Monterey Motel, 12100 Woodward Avenue, and the Cavalier Motel, 12300 Woodward Avenue, both in Highland Park, Michigan. Information on registration can be obtained from Avram Rosenthal, Henry Ford Community College Library, 5101 Evergreen, Detroit, Michigan.

• Library science students from the State University of New York at Albany, Geneseo, AND Buffalo and from Syracuse University want to consider organizing a national student group when they attend the American Library Association Conference in Detroit in June.

Students from the four campuses gathered at Syracuse recently for the Upstate New York Library School Conference. Peter Geiger, a Syracuse representative, said the meeting had three purposes: to open lines of communication among library school students; to discuss the means of implementing change in library school education; and to be an example for other library school students interested in forming their own conferences. Geiger said the group discussed various aspects of library education including school curricula, student organizations and activities, core courses, comprehensive examinations, flexibility of programs, participation of minority groups, and recruitment of students. After the conference Geiger said: “Our hope is to have all library schools represented by their students at the American Library Association Conference in Detroit. At that time we intend to discuss the feasibility of organizing a National Student Organization for Library School Students.”

• Forty-six participants attended a national seminar for library science faculty at the UnivERSiTY OF Michigan on March 14. The meeting was part of a $68,045 research project directed by Prof. Thomas Slavens of the school of library science and Prof. David Starks of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at Michigan and funded by the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The project is designed to make available a type of education in which library situations are simulated. Situations have been set up, for example, in which the computer acts as a patron of a library and the student as a reference librarian. The technique has been used on an experimental basis with eighty-four students at Michigan this year, and the seminar was designed to introduce this method of teaching to professors in other institutions. The day was spent in demonstrations and reports by members of the project staff. Prof. Rose Vainstein of the school of library science and Prof. Clemens Johnson of the school of education concluded the conference with presentations of future directions for individualized instruction, including the use of computers, in library education.

• A survey of university extension libraries is being conducted cooperatively by the National University Extension Association (NUEA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries through a joint committee. Purposes of the survey are to compile a directory containing detailed information concerning extension libraries at NUEA member institutions and to obtain data which may be used for research and evaluation by both associations. The project is under the supervision of the Joint Ad Hoe Committee on University Extension Library Service. Two free copies of the directory will be sent to each

NUEA member institution. Additional copies will be sold at a price to be determined later, and may be ordered from the committee chairman, Frank C. MacDougall, Librarian, Continuing Education Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823.

• A Phyllis Reinhardt Memorial Book Fund has been established at Smith College. Miss Reinhardt was the Art Librarian at the Hillyer Art Library from 1959 until October of last year when she passed away. She was chairman of the Art Subsection of College and Research Libraries in 1959–1960, a member of its Executive Board (1960–1961) and its Nominating Committee (1965–1966).

Friends and colleagues who wish to contribute to the fund, which will be used to purchase books for the Hillyer Art Library, should make their checks payable to the Phyllis Reinhardt Memorial Book Fund and mail them to Richard Harwell, College Librarian, Smith College Library, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060.

• Following a recommendation of the State University of New York (SUNY) Faculty Senate, the SUNY Board of Trustees has modified its policies so as to give full academic standing to librarians. Since 1968–69, full-time members of the professional library staff have been on academic appointments. Being eligible for academic tenure, they are now more explicitly identified with the rest of the faculty. In the spirit of the new policy, the Stony Brook faculty has moved forward by admitting librarians to senate membership. At SUNY there are four ranks for most academic departments (Instructor through Professor) and three ranks for librarians (Assistant Librarian, Associate Librarian and Librarian). The two sets of ranks have no direct relation to each other; they simply continue an old scheme. State University has been just about as liberal as one can be without having to spend money.

If librarians still feel at a professional disadvantage, one obvious reason lies in their salary scale. The librarians at Stony Brook are looking forward to the publication of Stony Brook’s median faculty salaries, which will make their position perfectly plain.

On top of this, their salaries apply to a 12- month contract, not to the usual academic year. One month’s vacation does not leave much room for professional development or research, neither does the 37.5 work week. Simply in terms of their professional growth and wider usefulness, librarians must look for further progress on this front.

• The Texas A&M University library became, effective April 1, a member of the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago. Acting Director John B. Smith, in announcing the membership, noted that Texas A&M is reported to be the first member accepted from the Southwest by the expanding Center for Research Libraries which acquires, maintains, and provides to researchers of member institutions materials of varied form.

• The fifth edition of the biographical directory formerly entitled Who’s Who in Library Service* is in production and will be published by the American Library Association this summer. Both the former publisher, The Shoe String Press, and the new publisher, the American Library Association, wish to inform librarians of the change in the title and in the imprint.

As most librarians will realize, the history of the publication has been varied. The first three editions were published by C. C. Williamson, the Columbia Library School, and Grolier, respectively. When John Ottemiller acquired the rights for The Shoe String Press to publish a fourth edition, it was his desire that the directory be updated at regular intervals. Upon his death, The Shoe String Press concluded that for the maximum use of this volume, it would need to have special handling and be placed with an organization preferably nonprofit, which had the interest of librarians as its primary concern. An agreement was subsequently reached with the American Library Association for the future publication of the biographical directory.

The Shoe String Press had continued, during negotiations, with the editorial procedures preliminary to the appearance of the fifth edition and The Shoe String Press is responsible for the completion of the editorial work and production of this edition which will be published with the American Library Association’s imprint and distributed by the Association. Lee Ash, editor of the fourth edition, has continued his work for the fifth. Future editions will be completely the work of ALA, with the continued cooperation of the Council of National Library Associations.

In the preparation of the fifth edition, information contained in the fourth was converted to tape, and printouts were mailed out to the biographees for correction and updating to addresses available as of 1966. New questionnaires were mailed not only to the May 1968 membership lists of the American Library Association, Special Library Association, and the Canadian Library Association, but also to individuals who wrote and asked for them. The eligibility requirements were the same as for the fourth edition but were interpreted a little less stringently.

* A Biographical Directory of Librarians in

the United States and Canada,Fifth Edition. Lee Ash, Editor. Sponsored by the Council of National Library Associations, Cloth, ISBN 0-8389-0084-4 (1970), $45.00.

PUBLICATIONS

• Daniel and Marilyn Lester, librarians at Mankato State College, Mankato, Minnesota, have completed the first step of a project that will make the job of every documents librarian much easier. When completed next year, an automated list will be available for about 2,500,000 printed pieces produced by the U.S. Government since 1789. The Lesters’ project will involve collection and verification of data from government and private sources, keying the data in machine-processable form, and development of the necessary computer programs to sort, edit, produce, and update the alphabetical list.

The alphabetical list will include the title of a serial and its Documents Office Classification call numbers. However, the format is expandable to allow the addition of other information such as beginning and ending dates for each serial, complete title change, cross-references, and other bibliographic notes.

• A Directory of Iranian Newspapers has just been published in Tehran. This is the second volume in the reference book series published by the Iranian Documentation Centre, part of the Institute for Research and Planning in Science and Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The directory lists all licensed newspapers currently published in Iran and describes their founding date, frequency, language, officers, price, address, and telephone number. One hundred twelve newspapers are included, making it the most complete such directory in existence. It is published in both Persian and English versions. The compiler of this compendium, Parvin Aboozia, a Master of Science graduate of the Department of Library Science, Faculty of Education, Tehran University, is now assistant catalog librarian, Tehran Book Processing Centre. Librarians and individuals wishing to obtain copies of this directory should indicate which language is preferred and write to the Irandoc Publication Department, P.O. Box 11-1387, Tehran, Iran. ($2.00 per copy.)

• The long-awaited study by Mortimer Graves on the effectiveness of the PL-480 Program has recently been published as a special supplement, dated September 1969, to the American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter. Graves has found the program largely successful in terms of the type and extent of publications distributed to research libraries,but expresses concern about limited use outside of “area-studies” programs, noting two principal handicaps: (1) few Americans have the requisite language skills, and (2) most of the publications “are not recorded in the generally used bibliographies and indexes and are not reviewed in our scientific and scholarly journals.” The study makes three recommendations with respect to use:“… We must make the Program and its problems better known; we must continue to revaluate it and to consider its extension in terms of its relative (in comparison with other accession programs) contribution to our total library problem; and we must find ways to furnish the supplementary tools for use earlier considered.”

• Plans are in process to revive the Special Libraries Association, Biological Sciences Division’s official publication—The Reminder. It is circulated free of charge to over 700 division members, and approximately fifty subscribers. Subscriptions are $2.00. The Reminder is published quarterly (Spring—March 15, Summer—June 15, Fall—October 15, and Winter—December 15). The format will be 81/2″ x 11″ and it will be produced by photo-offset. All correspondence concerning advertising, articles, and other materials should be submitted to: Mrs. Coni Uzelac, Editor, 1129 Iliff Street, Pacific Palisades, California 90272. Subscription orders should be sent to: SLA, Biological Sciences Division, c/o, Verners J. Vitins, St. Paul Campus Libraries, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101.

• The George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University has published a catalog of its science fiction collections—an A to Z listing of authors, editors, and publishers. The nineteen collections are those of Forrest J. Ackerman, Piers Anthony, Hal Clement, James B. Cullum, Jr., Galaxy Publishing Corp., Hugo Gernsback, Will F. Jenkins (Murray Leinster), Damon Knight, David A. Kyle, Keith Laumer, Anne McCaffrey, Mercury Press, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim and Roger Zelazny. The combined collections fill more than 500 archival boxes.

Syracuse University began collecting science fiction books, manuscripts and other papers in 1965. Philip F. Mooney, associate curator for acquisitions, who compiled the new listing, said the library published it “with the hope that it will encourage research into this unique type of literature.”

Copies of the compilation have been distributed to other libraries and to the 378 members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), which has its archives at Syracuse University. Several writers and editors in the

Syracuse collections have won science fiction’s top honors, the Hugo and Nebula awards. The Hugo is named for the late Hugo Gernsback, who published America’s first science fiction magazine. Amazing Stories, in 1926. The Nebula is awarded by SFWA.

• The Texas A&M University library has issued a 953-page “Serials Holdings List” as the library’s Miscellaneous Publication No. 1 with a limited number of copies of the List available for purchase at $5.00 each. Annual revision of the multilithed volume printed from the computer-generated publication is planned. The List includes 18,530 entries with holdings for individual titles being shown in a few cases. It is expected that many more holdings will be shown in the next printing. Copies of the publication may be ordered through the Library Director’s Office, Library, College Station, Texas 77843, with checks made payable to Texas A&M University Library.

• The School of Library and Information Services announces the publication of The Study of Subject Bibliography with Special Reference to the Social Sciences, edited by Christopher D. Needham assisted by Esther Herman. This is the third monograph of the Student Contribution Series of the school, designed to present the perspectives of faculty and students through the product of their intellectual effort. The Study of Subject Bibliography with Special Reference to the Social Sciences contains the essays and bibliographies developed by students during an experimental course on research and bibliography in the social sciences conducted during the spring semester of 1968.

The subjects covered in the essays are political science, sociology, psychology, education, and geography; the bibliographies are of highly specialized topics within the broad theoretical areas of the essays. While the studies are devoted to the social sciences, the pattern may readily serve for courses in science and technology and in the arts and humanities. Indeed, this approach gives the student (or practicing librarian) a framework that can be usefully applied to any subject in which he might be doing bibliographic work during his professional career. The Study of Subject Bibliography with Special Reference to the Social Sciences, edited by Christopher D. Needham with Esther Herman—University of Maryland, School of Library and Information Services, 1970, SBN 91108-05-1, 221 pages—is distributed by the Student Supply Store (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742) at $5.00 a copy.

• The SUNY Biomedical Communication Network announces the publication and availability of the third edition of the SUNY Union List of Serials. The 1,000-page volume contains entries for more than 25,000 periodical titles which are held by the libraries of the State University of New York, Titles held by the five university centers of SUNY, plus the Upstate Medical Center, College of Ceramics at Alfred, and the College of Forestry at Syracuse University have been omitted from this volume due to the impending publication of the New York State Union List of Serials in which they are included. The SUNY Union List of Serials will now serve as a companion volume to the New York State Union List of Serials which will be available in 1970.

Entries are in corporate form and the information given includes holdings statements, appropriate cross-references and information tracing the history of a title which has changed its name. Holdings are given under the most current titles with cross-references from all previous titles. The 25,000 titles cover all subjects with the exception of law. The computer-produced volume is in two-column format, photoreduced to fit an 8)2″ x 11″ page. The volume is bound in buckram for permanence and ease of handling. Copies are available at a cost of $25.00 each and orders should be sent to the SUNY Biomedical Communication Network, Union List Office, Upstate Medical Center, 766 Irving Avenue, Syracuse, New York 13210.

• A cooperative project of fifteen major libraries in the greater area of San Antonio, Texas, has recently resulted in the production of a computerized Union List of Periodicals. Designed to serve the members of CORAL (Council of Research and Academic Libraries), it is available at a price of $25.00 to interested parties. Among the libraries involved in this sharing of resources are the Aeromedical Library at Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine, Southwest Research Institute, and San Antonio Public Library, as well as both private and state college libraries. According to Brother Paul Novosal, S.M., Director of Libraries at St. Mary’s University of San Antonio, who supervised the programming of the 550-page list, plans are to revise on an annual basis.

• The Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Education Division, Adult Education Section has published Part II of its Survey of Libraries covering academic libraries. It is available through the Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for 75 cents.

• The Catholic University of America Press has published its Theses and Dissertations; a Bibliographical Listing, Keyword Index, and Author Index; Cumulation 1961–1967. The publication is distributed by the Press and is available at a price of $20.00,

• The Journal of the American Society for Information Science has commenced publication as a bimonthly with the January/February 1970 issue. This represents a retitling and a change in the frequency of publishing the official journal of the American Society for Information Science, which was previously published quarterly and was entitled American Documentation. Arthur W. Elias, who has served as editor of American Documentation, will continue as editor of JASIS. JASIS will continue the AD numbering scheme, the current issue being Volume 21, number 1. The subscription rate will remain at $27.50 per year domestic, and $28.00 foreign. Information about subscriptions and other aspects of JASIS should be sent to the American Society for Information Science, 2011 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.

• A 36-page booklet entitled Manuscripts for Research has been published by the Five Associated University Libraries (FAUL) of New York State. The publication lists the 737 manuscript collection held by the State Universities at Buffalo and Binghamton, and at Cornell, Rochester, and Syracuse Universities. Collections are alphabetized under such broad subject classifications as agriculture, French history, mass communications, publishing, and transportation. Inclusive dates, linear feet of material, National Union Catalog for Manuscripts collections number (if known), and location are given for each collection. About 21,500 linear feet of material is itemized in the booklet, copies of which may be obtained free from the Five Associated University Libraries, 106 Roney Lane, Syracuse, New York 13210. Mrs. Shonnie Finnegan, University at Buffalo archivist, can be contacted for additional information regarding the UB holdings.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas at Austin has just issued its 1970 edition of Periodical Collection of the Tarlton Law Library; Legal and Non-Legal—Anglo- American and Foreign. The 49-page publication lists 304 periodicals which are indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals and 84 titles indexed in the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. Also listed are 279 legal and 271 nonlegal English language periodicals which are not indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals. Also listed are 72 legal and 30 nonlegal periodicals in foreign languages which are not indexed in the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. The stack location is given for each periodical. A limited number of copies are available at $2.00 each. Purchase requests should be sent to: The Tarlton Law Library, School of

Law, University of Texas, 2500 Red River Street, Austin, Texas 78705. Checks should be made payable to University of Texas Law School Foundation—Library. ■■