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• During 1976-77, the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division, sponsored four seminars on career development for academic librarians.

The speakers and their topics were as follows: Archie Kleingartner, vice-president for academic and staff personnel relations, University of California, “The Professional in the Institutional Setting"; William F. McCoy, assistant university librarian for personnel, University of California, Davis, “Career Expectations for Librarians in the University of California”; Page Ackerman, then university librarian, UCLA, “The Responsibility of the Individual and the Obligation of the Institution in Developing a Professional Library Career”; and Gail Ann Schlachter, assistant university librarian for public services, University of California, Davis, “Research and the Inquiring Librarian.”

The remarks of the four speakers, along with questions and answers that followed their presentations, have been brought together and edited, with an introduction by Richard S. Cooper, 1977 chair of the Berkeley Division. Some of the presentations were brief and addressed to specific circumstances at the University of California, but several of the issues raised are relevant to the profession in general.

LAUC Seminars on Career Development for Academic Librarians is available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Syracuse University School of Education, Syracuse, NY 13210; (315) 423-3640.

• A Bibliography of Colorado State University Imprints in the Colorado State University Libraries, Supplement One has recently been issued as the Libraries’ Publication No. 21.

Compiled by Andrew Kolesar, gift and exchange librarian, this first supplement continues the bibliography in listing an additional 170 imprint titles to the original 1,059 listed in the first edition of the bibliography. An author, title, and subject index accompany the bibliography.

A limited number of copies are available on exchange by writing Colorado State University Libraries, Gift and Exchange Section, Fort Collins, CO 80523.

• A new index was published in April by the University of California, Los Angeles Latin American Center. Known as the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), the new reference work is an exhaustive index of some 250 scholarly journals of Latin American interest.

The publication of HAPI is a major contribution to the study of Latin America, center officials believe, since HAPI brings together vital facts formerly buried in periodical literature on three continents.

HAPIcovers all major disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It indexes not only articles but songs; poems; bibliographies; book, drama, and film reviews; archeological site reports; and more. It also includes journals published in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, in seven major languages.

Most index headings are in English; exceptions include proper names and concepts, such as “machismo,” for which no commonly accepted translation has been established. The index is produced with the latest data-based computer technology.

The first volume of HAPI, now available, covers journals published in 1975, although some bear earlier dates because of delayed or irregular publication schedules. The second volume of HAPI, which covers 1976, will be published in the fall. A third volume, covering 1977, will be issued in the spring of 1979.

Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the index is expected to become self-supporting, editor Barbara G. Cox said.

The new Hispanic American Periodicals Index may be ordered through the UCLA Latin American Center, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has just released No. 131 in its series of Occasional Papers: Inter-Indexer Consistency Studies, 1954-1975: A Review of the Literature and Summary of Study Results. Authored by Lawrence E. Leonard, library services program officer for the U.S. Office of Education, Region IX, this paper discusses studies that measure the level of consistency of index term assignment by two or more indexers and by one indexer upon reindexing a document.

This paper will be of particular interest to any professional librarian as a guide to evaluating current cataloging systems in either large or small libraries. The administrator will find a complete overview of the various approaches to consistency study in Lawrence’s discussion of the criteria and results of studies performed by eminent researchers. The appendix is a concise analysis and comparison of thirty-four studies conducted in the last 25 years.

Numbers in the Occasional Papers series are available from: Publications Office, Graduate School of Library Science, 249 Armory Building, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. Single copies are $2 each; subscriptions are available on an annual basis for $7 per year and will cover a minimum of five issues per year.

• In a novel arrangement, the State University of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) and the Research Foundation of State University of New York are cooperating in distributing copies of a taped presentation on funding for libraries.

Part of last year’s SUNYLA meeting, the tape comes from a panel presentation with three “veterans” from the funding world. They are Patricia S. Breivik, dean of library services at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois; John W. Kalas, deputy director of SUNY’s Washington Office; and Sherry Goldstein, service coordinator at the Foundation Center.

The panel was conceived and arranged by librarian Joseph Petraitis, SUC at Old Westbury, and Jean W. Farrington, SUNY at Albany. It was filmed by the Educational Communication Center, SUNY at Albany.

The tape, available both on half-inch reel-to- reel video tape and on audiocassettes, is available from the Audio-Video Section of the Research Foundation, P.O. Box 9, Albany, NY 12201. It lasts approximately forty-five minutes and provides an excellent briefing for librarians interested in this area.

• The General Library of the University of California at Riverside has fully analyzed, in accordance with AACR, the microform editions of such multivolume monographic collections as:

Dibdin, Thomas John, 1771-1841. The London Theatre. London. 402 titles.

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764, comp. A Select Collection of Old English Plays.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853—1913, ed. Early Western Travels, 1738-1846.

Three Centuries of English and American Plays 1500-1800.631 titles.

As a service to libraries it can provide, on a cost basis, copies of the catalog cards for the individual titles. These cards are offered without call numbers in two options: (1) one main entry; (2) complete sets of cards based on the formula of one main entry, one shelflist, one each added entry.

All orders must be for the complete collections. Send inquiries to: Microforms Cataloging Project, Monographs Department, General Library, University of California, Riverside, CA 92507.

• The Texas A&M University Library has published its Miscellaneous Publication 16, The Future of Organizing Knowledge: Papers Presented at the Texas A&M University Libraries Centennial Academic Assembly, September 24, 1976.

Irene B. Hoadley, director of libraries, noted that the libraries’ assembly was one of several arranged by the academic units of Texas A&M University that marked the university’s centennial of teaching, research, and public service.

The papers, presented by three specialists, each concerned with a different aspect of knowledge and information of the future, are: “The Communications Revolution: America’s Third Century Challenge," by Lee G. Burchinal, National Science Foundation; “The Future of Organizing Knowledge: A Matter of Access,” by Ralph E. O’Dette, Chemical Abstracts Service; and “The Many Facets of MARC,” by Lenore S. Maruyama, Library of Congress.

The fifty-page publication is available for $5, prepaid, from the Friends of the Texas A&M University Library, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.

• The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) has distributed to persons on its mailing list who have indicated a special interest in the photocopying aspects of the commission’s work copies of its limited supply of Library Photocopying in the United States: With Implications for the Development of a Copyright Royalty Payment Mechanism, October 1977.

This study was prepared by D. W. King, R. B. Ladd, D. D. McDonald, P. M. Dowd-Reisin, and N. K. Roderer of King Research, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, under a contract with the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, with additional financial contributions from the National Science Foundation and CONTU. All three agencies have distributed copies to persons on their mailing lists, but every effort has been made to avoid duplicate mailings.

Copies of the report are available from the Superintendent of Documents at $4.50 (Stock Number 052-003-00443-7) or the National Technical Information Service (P.B. Number 278 300/AS); current price is $10.75 for full-size copies and $3.00 for microfiche.

• The Library of Congress has recently published the second supplement to its 1966 guide to writings about children’s books. Entitled Children's Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources, Second Supplement (1977), this illustrated bibliographical listing was compiled by the Children’s Literature Center of the Library of Congress under the direction of Virginia Haviland, head of the center.

The new selective annotated list contains 929 titles issued from 1970 through 1974 and a few older items not available to the compilers of Children’s Literature, the first supplement, published in 1972, which listed materials published through 1969. The new listing describes books, articles, pamphlets, and a few cassette tapes related to the creation, reading, or study of children’s books, citing both domestic and foreign publications.

The Library of Congress plans further regular supplements to the first volume at five-year intervals.

The 413-page reference publication may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, or in person only from the Information Counter, Main Building, Library of Congress, for $7.75 a copy (plus 25 percent of the quoted price for foreign mailing). The stock number is 030-001-00075-3.

• Carpatho-Ruthenica at Harvard; A Catalog of Holdings, compiled by Paul R. Magocsi assisted by Olga K. Mayo, and published by Transworld Publishers of Englewood, New Jersey, features photoreproductions of 1,030 cards from the catalogs of Widener and other Harvard libraries, arranged under 19 subject headings.

The 149-page volume includes an introduction describing problems peculiar to the classification of Carpatho-Ruthenica and recounting the development of the collection at Harvard, as well as a comprehensive index. The catalog demonstrates the breadth of the university’s Slavic collection, especially the recent proliferation within it of Ukrainian and related materials, 60 percent of which have been acquired in the last ten years.

Copies of the catalog may be purchased at a price of $6 from the publisher at 355 Delano Place, Fairview, NJ 07022.

• The two latest volumes in the Northridge Facsimile Series have been published by the Santa Susana Press. Formerly known as the American Classics Facsimile Series, the series features documents that are of special value to scholars of American history.

The seventh publication in the series is a report by special U.S. commissioner Charles A. Wetmore on the Mission Indians of Southern California. Originally published in Washington, D C., by the Government Printing Office in 1875, Wetmore’s report told of the “condition and necessities” of the mission Indians. Wetmore investigated the Indians’ “present mode of life as compared with the past” and found there were many conditions needing correction. He suggested solutions that included education and determination of the rights of Indians to public lands.

Volume eight of the Northridge Facsimile Series concerns the rights of another group of Americans. Francis Parkman, the historian most noted for his book on the Oregon Trail, wrote a treatise entitled Some of the Reasons against Woman Suffrage. The treatise was printed, the cover states, "at the request of an association of women.” Writing with the certainty that only a nineteenth-century man could have, Parkman states firmly that women “must always be subject to restrictions unknown to the other sex” but does not explain the basis of his opinion. His final, irrefutable argument against women taking part in government is that “everybody knows that the physical and mental constitution of woman is more delicate than in the other sex." His assertion that “most women are averse” to women s suffrage is an argument that is still being given by antifeminists today.

• McMaster University Library has prepared a working paper on a project to convert retrospective cataloging records into machine-readable form, which is to become part of a report for the UNICAT/TELECAT consortium.

It has, however, the indefinable quality of a working paper that could be of interest to those libraries that are undergoing thoughts of, or have started, terminating their card catalogs and changing over to microform and computerized catalogs.

Copies of this are available in its rough form, wherein lies some of its value. The order should be accompanied by a cheque or postal money order for $5, payable to McMaster University Library Press, Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton L8S 4L6, Ontario, Canada.

RECEIVED

(Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College and Research Libraries.) Acquisitions : where, what and how : a guide to orientation and procedure for students in librarianship, librarians, and academic faculty / Ted Grieder. — Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, cl978. 277p. $18.95. (LC 77- 84762) (ISBN 0-8371-9890-9) “Contributions in librarianship and information science; no. 22"

Advances in librarianship, v. 8 /edited by Michael H. Harms. — New York : Academic Press, 1978. 342p. $19.50. (LC 79-88675) (ISBN 0-12-785008-2)

Art research methods and resources: a guide to finding art information / Lois Swan Jones. — Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., cl978. 243p. (LC 77-93281) (ISBN 0-8403- 1846-4)

Book design—systematic aspects / Stanley Rice.

— New York : R. R. Bowker, cl978 . 274p. $17.50. (LC 77-28186) (ISBN 0-8352-1044-8)

Book design• text format models / Stanley Rice.

— New York : R. R. Bowker Co., 1978. 215p. $17.50. (LC 77-26908) (ISBN 0-8352-1045-6)

Budgetary control in academic libraries/ by Murray S. Martin. — Greenwich, Conn. : Jai Press, 1977. 219p. $21. (LC 76-5648) (ISBN 0-89232-010-9)

“Foundations in library and information sciences : v. 5”

Changing times, changing libraries/ [edited by] George S. Bonn, Sylvia Faibisoff. — Urbana : University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science [1978]. 166p. $8. (LC 78-1283) (ISBN 0-87845-047-5)

Classification and indexing practice/ K. G. B. Bake WELL. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, 1978. 216p."$12.50. (LC 77-16467) (ISBN 0-208-01671-6)

Collection building— [s. 1. ] : Gaylord Professional Publications in association with Neal- Schuman Publishers, v.l- ; 1978- triannual. $55. (ISSN 0160-4953)

Education for librarianship: decisions in organising a system of professional education / P. G. New, with specialist contributions from D. W. Langridge, C. D. Needham, B. L. Redfern. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, cl978. 174p. $10. (LC 77-19198) (ISBN 0-208-01548-5)

Factors affecting the renewal of periodical subscriptions : a study of decision-makingin libraries with special reference to economics and inter-library lending / A. M. Woodward. — London : Aslib, 1978. 114p. (ISBN 0-85142- 108-3)

Guide to humanities resources in the Southwest/ Southwestern Library Association; Sandra Warne, research editor; Kathleen H. Brown, editorial assistant. — New York : Neal- Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1978. 237p. $24.50. (LC 78-55030) (ISBN 0-918212-04-9)

Information work with unpublished reports— Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press [1977]. 302p. $15. (LC 76-43306) (ISBN 0-89158-717-9) "Monograph series — Institute of Information Scientists”

Introduction to library researchin French literature / Robert K. Baker. — Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1978. 137p. $15. (LC 77- 18074) (ISBN 0-89158-060-3)

“A Westview special study”

Introduction to reference work IWilliam A. Katz. — 3d ed. — New York : McGraw-Hill, cl978. 2v. v.l $13.95; v.2 $12.95. (LC 77- 12539) v.l (ISBN 0-07-033331-9) v.2 (ISBN 0-07-033332-7)

“McGraw-Hill series in library education”

The Library of Congress in perspective : a volume based on the reports of the 1976 librarian's task force and advisory groups/ edited by John Y. Cole. — New York : Bowker, 1978. 281p. $21.95. (LC 78-5000) (ISBN 0-8352-1055-3)

Library searching : resources and strategies with examples from the environmental sciences/ by Jacquelyn M. Morris and Elizabeth A. Elkins ; foreword by Marta Dosa. — New York : J. Norton Publishers [1977], 129p. $8.95. (LC 77-9214) (ISBN 0-88432-004-9)

Literature and bibliometrics/ David Nicholas and Maureen Ritchie. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, 1978. 183p. $9.50. (LC 77-20135) (ISBN 0-208-01541-8)

The management of the information department/ Denis V. Arnold. — Boulder, Colo. Westview Press, in association with the Institute of Information Scientists [1977]. 143p. $11.50.

“Monograph series — Institute of Information Scientists”

Manuscript solicitation for libraries, special collections, museums, and archives/ Edward C. Kemp. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 204p. $18.50. (LC 77-29015) (ISBN 0-87287-183-5)

The many faces of information science/ edited by Edward C. Weiss. — Boulder, Colo. : Published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977. 128p. $12.50. (LC 77-12103) (ISBN 0-89158-430-7)

“AAS selected symposium ; 3”

Map librarianship : an introduction/ Mary Larsgaard. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 330p. $17.50. (LC 77-28821) (ISBN 0-87287-182-7)

"Library science text series"

Microforms and library catalogs : a reader/ edited by Albert J. Diaz. — Westport, Conn.

: Microform Review [1977]. 282p. $17.50. (LC 77-10457) (ISBN 0-913672-16-5)

“Library micrographics management series” Micrographics / Wiluam Saffady. — Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1978. 238p. $15. (LC 78-1309) (ISBN 0-87287-175-4)

“Library science text series”

Milestones to the present: papers from Library History Seminar V / edited by Harold Goldstein. — Syracuse, N. Y. : Gaylord Professional Publications, 1978. 306p. $15. (LC 77-18992) (ISBN 0-915794-21-7)

Organising music in libraries/ by Brian RedFERN. — 2d ed. — London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, 1978. 105p. $9.50. (LC 78-819) (ISBN 0-208-01544-2)

The Oxford University Press : an informal history/ by P. H. Sutcliffe. — Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1978. 303p. $14.95. (LC 77- 30690) (ISBN 0-19-951084-9)

Reference and information services : a reader/ edited by Bill Katz and Andrea Tarr. — Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1978. 456p. $12.50. (LC 77-20698) (ISBN 0-8108-1091-3) Running out of space—what are the alternatives? : Proceedings of the preconference, June 1975, San Francisco 1 sponsored by the Buildings for College and University Libraries Committee, Buildings and Equipment Section of the Library Administration Division, American Library Association ; Gloria Novak, editor. — Chicago : American Library Association, cl978. 160p. $14. (LC 78-1796) (ISBN 0-8389-3215-0) Thomas Frognall Dibdin : selections / compiled and introduced by Victor E. Neuburc. — Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1977. 245p. $10. (LC 77-18012) (ISBN 0-8108-1077-8)

“The Great bibliographies series ; no. 3”

To know a library: essays and annual reports, 1970-1976/ Daniel Gore. — Westport, Conn.

: Greenwood Press, 1978. 379p. $18.95. (LC 77-84769) (ISBN 0-8371-9881-X)

“New directions in librarianship ; no. 1”

Use of slide tape presentations in academic libraries : a survey of current resources and practices/ Larry Hardesty ; with a special section, “Sound/slide presentations : six faults” by John Murphy. — New York : J. Norton Publishers, cl977. 222p. $8.95. (LC 77-9215) (ISBN 0-88432-006-5)

The waves of change : a techno-economic analysis of the data processing industry/ by Charles P. Lecht. — New York: Advanced Computer Technique Corp., 1977. 186p. $39.75. (LC 77-94890) (ISBN 0-931336-00-7)