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News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• The SUNY-Binghamton Library has acquired a manuscript of two works by Petrarch which was transcribed by two German monks around 1420. It is the oldest work in the library’s collection.

Of particular note is the fact that half the funds for the manuscript were raised by Broome County residents. Their contribution was matched by the library.

Aldo S. Bernardo, co-director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and professor of Italian and Comparative Literature formally presented the manuscript to the library Sunday, November 12, at a reception for donors and others. Willis Bridegam, director of libraries, and C. Peter Magrath, president of the university, accepted the gift on behalf of the university.

• The papers of Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s military aide in the years before and during World War II, have been donated to the University of Virginia. The papers, encompassing some 16,000 documents and other articles, reflect both the full scope of Watson’s duties as an aide to Roosevelt and his personal associations with the president and other national leaders during his years of service. Watson, known affectionately in the administration as “Pa” Watson, served as Roosevelt’s military aide and secretary from 1933 until his death in 1945 on the return trip from the Yalta conference, several months before Roosevelt’s own death. The papers were bequeathed to the university’s Alderman Library by Mrs. Watson, who died this year.

The bulk of the collection consists of White House memoranda on the president’s schedule and the granting of patronage to southern politicians, according to Miss Vesta Gordon, an assistant curator at the Library. There are also letters to Watson from members of Congress and the departments of war and navy.

In addition, the papers include memoranda made by Watson for his own use during 1939- 45 and memos to the president on military affairs beginning in 1935. Another group consists of personal notes to Watson from FDR covering the same period. While most of the collection reflects the general’s career, some of the letters to Watson came from illustrious friends such as Generals George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, James Farley, Bernard Baruch, and J. Edgar Hoover.

GRANTS

• The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science has announced its first four research contracts totaling $52,000 in awards for fiscal 1972. One of these studies, “A Feasibility Study of Centralized and Regionalized Interlibrary Loan Centers,” has been awarded to the Association of Research Libraries.

Dr. Rolland E. Stevens, professor of library science, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, will direct the study for ARL, and he will be assisted by Dr. Terry L. Weech, visiting lecturer, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science.

Dr. Stevens and Dr. Weech expect to complete the study by April 1973. They welcome any suggestions, contributions, and notices of related articles which might not be discovered in a literature search.

• Beloit College has received a $35,000 grant from the Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust, Chicago, to support the college libraries, Dr. Miller Upton, president of the college, announced. The grant was received just at the time of the tenth anniversary celebration of the Col. Robert H. Morse Library on the Beloit campus.

Money from the grant will be used, Dr. Upton said, to assist in providing new book and periodical funds for the next three years, to increase audiovisual equipment, and for other capital needs.

• The George Washington University library has received a gift of $100,000 from William Gregg White, George Washington trustee and alumnus. The funds will be used to buy new books and other printed materials (through the University Library Gift Book Fund) for the new library now under construction at the southeast corner of 22nd and H Streets, N.W.

“This is a timely and significant gift since the new library will provide the additional space necessary to service the new acquistions,” President Elliott said, adding, “This gift will have lasting value to the University community.”

White, president and chairman of the board of Consolidated Freightways, Inc., holds the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1936) from George Washington. He is an alumnus of the University of California and a graduate of the Harvard University Advanced Management Program.

• A half-million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation has just been received by the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens as a first major step in the new program to expand the educational facilities of the world-famous institution in San Marino.

The expansion program, launched recently by the Board of Trustees under the chairmanship of R. Stanton Avery, will make the treasures of the Huntington available to a greater number of people by enlarging buildings, strengthening the acquisition programs, and introducing new educational programs.

The Mellon grant which will be used to provide research fellowships means, according to Dr. Thorpe, that “more scholars who have need of the Huntington’s vast resources in the fields of Anglo-American culture will be able to pursue their advanced research problems here in California.”

MEETINGS

Feb. 7-9: A three-day Indexing in Perspective Seminar to be held February 7-9, 1973, has been announced by the American Library Association and the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. The seminar will be sponsored by the Subject Analysis and Organization of Library Materials Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division. It will be hosted by Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences in its Manhattan Center at 46 Park Ave., New York City.

The seminar will cover the vocabularies used in indexing; indexing systems and formats; and the effects of indexing on the retrieval process. Emphasis will be placed on relating indexing developments of the past twenty years to the entire field of information science and library science; against this background lecture specific case histories will be presented and discussed.

The principal lecturer for the course is E. H. Brenner (American Petroleum Institute) with the following guest lecturers: Marguerite C. Soroka (Engineering Societies Libraries); Davis

B. McCarn (National Library of Medicine); Robert G. Kinkade (American Psychological Association); and Stella Keenan (National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services).

The course is designed to serve as an introduction for the person with little or no experience and to provide a perspective review to the more experienced. Each day there will be a special session at the basic level and an opportunity for an in-depth examination and discussion of the specific case history presented.

The following questions will be covered; What is the relationship between classification and indexing? What differences and similarities exist between classification decimal entries, subject headings, terms, descriptors, etc.? What are the characteristics of a classification scheme, a subject heading list, and a thesaurus? What effect has the computer had on indexing vocabularies and the manual card file? What are the characteristics of serial and inverted (horizontal and vertical) files? How do subject indexes differ from coordinate indexes?

The cost of the three-day seminar is $80.00. The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; or from Mrs. Carol Kelm, Executive Secretary, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

April 9-10: Information retrieval systems and libraries are faced with the problems of the increasing cost of covering the literature of interest to their users. As the literature proliferates, many organizations face the lack of professionals to cope with its organization for use (especially in a machine-readable form). One partial solution is to utilize available services which provide already processed machine-readable input covering some subject literature for subsequent individual utilization by information retrieval systems and libraries. The problems of selection, utilization, and especially integration of the available machine-readable services into individual systems and libraries are to be explored in this seminar.

The two-day seminar is organized by the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services and the host is the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The seminar will be held at Drexel Activities Center on April 9 and 10, 1973. The seminar will focus on the utilization of machine readable abstracting and indexing services based on actual operating experience and the integration of these services into individual information systems. Topics to be covered include a survey of available services; user requirements in terms of case histories of actual use in a variety of environments, together with a consideration of cost factors involved. A summary session will discuss the impact of these services on existing systems.

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Speakers in the seminar will include Philip R. Bagley (Information Engineering); Kay Durkin (BIOSIS); Bart E. Holm (DuPont Company); and Stella Keenan (National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services).

The seminar is intended for people concerned with the problems posed by information systems that are being developed in the 1970s and who have to make value judgments on acquiring machine-readable services for their organizations.

The cost of the two-day seminar is $100 ($75 for Federation member service staffs). The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; and from Dr. Barbara Flood, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Rush Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

April 16-17: Pressure groups and would-be censors who try to tell libraries what books and other library materials are fit for public consumption will be put in the spotlight at a national meeting in Chicago, April 16 and 17, 1973.

A representative group of librarians and resource persons will participate in a national prototype workshop on intellectual freedom sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. The workshop is funded by the annual J. Morris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award, of which the International Freedom Committee was a winner this year.

Participation will be limited—the IFC will sponsor the attendance of one representative from each state Intellectual Freedom Committee (hopefully, the committee chairman). In addition, each state library association has been asked to send one representative—preferably another committee member or perhaps a library trustee. The goal of the workshop is to prepare each participant to plan and carry out a similar workshop on the state or regional level. To this end, a total educational program is planned.

Among the specific topics to be covered will be: 1. The history, development, and rationale for the Library Bill of Rights, its interpretations and supporting documents; 2. A description of the pressure groups and would-be censors that try to influence libraries, and the various tactics they employ; 3. A description of the many local, state, and national resources available when censorship problems arise; 4. The most effective strategies to use in countering an attack on intellectual freedom; 5. How public relations techniques and the media can be used effectively to influence favorable community opinion; 6. How to plan a workshop program, gather the necessary re- sources, and conduct an evaluation and follow-up.

Through a variety of conference methods involving role-playing, audiovisuals, small group discussions, and group meetings, librarians will be meeting the censor before he comes.

April 29-May 3, 1973: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies will be the site of the Eighteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, April 29-May 3, 1973. The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will be cohosts for the seminar.

Registration in the Eighteenth Seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. The conference coordinator is Ms. Irma Hannays, Librarian, Industrial Development Corporation, Salvatori Building, P.O. Box 949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Information on the content of the program and working papers may be procured from Donald F. Wisdom, Serial Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Ms. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, DC 20006. Consult the November News for further details.

May 3-4, 1973: Changing Patterns in Information Retrieval will be the theme of the tenth annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held May 3 and 4, 1973, at the Independence Mall Holiday Inn, 400 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Chairwoman of the tenth NIRC is Carol Fe- nichel, Auerbach Associates. For program and registration information, contact Susan Nick- leach, P.O. Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 561-4100. The December News contains further details.

May 10-12: The fourth annual seminar on “Management Concepts for Librarians,” sponsored by the graduate School of Business Administration and Washington University libraries will be held May 10, 11, 12, 1973, at Bromwoods, the residential conference center of Washington University, located sixty miles southwest of the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

The purpose of this seminar is to provide professional librarians managerial instruction applicable for use in their organizations, an opportunity to improve their backgrounds for work in supervisory or managerial positions and to discuss mutual problems with colleagues. To accomplish this purpose, a basic over-view of management concepts will be presented, with particular emphasis upon how those concepts are applicable to the unique problem of library organizations. In addition to the development of a general understanding of the basic functions and activities of management, the special problems of directing and motivating library personnel will be stressed. Both theoretical concepts of management and the practical applications of these concepts will be discussed.

Seminar sessions will include lectures, discussions, and case studies in which participants will actively analyze and discuss organizational problems and their managerial solutions. Group exercises will be used to supplement the ideas presented in lecture and discussion sessions. Material covered will include functions of management: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. Other topics will be considered including such important aspects of management as: decision-making, communications, motivation, and financial management. These will be related to the basic problems of management of creative and professional personnel.

Registration is limited to thirty-five on a first-come first-served basis. The $145 fee covers all instructional costs, materials, meals, and lodging while at Bromwoods. For further information please telephone William H. Kurth, Washington University Librarian, 314-863- 0100, extension 4523 or Mrs. Marilyn Pryor, The School of Continuing Education, Washington University, extension 4261.

May 18-19, 1973: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference (MALC) will hold its eighteenth annual meeting on May 18 and 19 at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. The theme for the conference is, “The Library’s Role in the Teaching Process,” and will include discussion meetings on the college and university settings for AV materials, archives, museums, coopera- tional activities, etc.

MALC is a nonstructured and informal gathering of professional academic librarians who meet annually on the site of a newly constructed building without dues or membership fees. All librarians are welcome.

Conference local arrangements chairman is Mr. Oivind Hovde, Librarian, Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101.

July 15-27, 1973: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the seventh annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 15-27, 1973. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Consult the December News for more complete information.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Library Staff and the Afro-American Studies Department, Indiana University, have cooperated to produce a new publication titled The Black Family and The Black Woman, a bibliography, dated September 1972, with a total of 107 pages. Library call numbers are included.

The Black Familypart includes slave narratives and related works: nineteenth century; selected references for historical background to the twentieth century black family; and the twentieth century (book length studies, sections from books, journal articles and government publications).

The Black Womanpart covers general background/history; identity and liberation; autobiography/biography; literary works (anthologies with black women as editors, other anthologies with writings by black women, works by individual authors, and bio/critieism); fine arts; performing arts (theater and music); the professions (medicine/nursing/the sciences, education, law, politics/govemment/armed services, journalism/business/engineering); general labor force; sports; children’s literature; records/tapes; and government publications. Copies are available from the Indiana University Bookstore, Mail Order Department, Bloomington, IN 47401, for $1.75 each.

• THE GREAT DEBATE ON PAN1ZZI’S RULES IN 1847-1849: the issues discussed. (89 p., soft cover, $3.00), by Nancy Brault, will be published this month by the Graduate School of Library Service and the University Library of UCLA.

The commissioners appointed to inquire into the Constitution and Government of the British Museum conducted this inquiry during the years 1847 to 1849. During this time the commissioners heard testimony from no less than four trustees and eight officers of the museum, and twenty distinguished members of the public, concerning the catalog and the “famous 91 rules.” Evidence was forthcoming from some of the leading scholars of the day—including Carlyle, Payne Collier, De Morgan, Frederick Madden, Henry Ellis, Viscount Mahon, Henry Hallam, and Edward Edwards. Criticism of the new catalog—termed by one witness “a magnificent mistake”—and the rules was severe and much concerned with minutiae. Nevertheless, the commissioners, in their Report, supported Panizzi’s position and approved what he had done with respect to the catalog.

Mrs. Brault, a former student at the Graduate School and now at the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, has analyzed the debate, illustrated it with representative portions of testimony, and presents her own conclusions on such vital issues as the need for cataloging rules; the choice of classed or alphabetical catalogs; the provision of full or brief entries; the treatment of author entry; the problems of recording anonymous works; and, the use of form headings.

Copies of the publications, $3.00 each, may be ordered from: The Graduate School of Library Service, University of California, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Billing and instructions for payment will follow shipment of orders.

At last, one source of subject access to 20th Century U.S. Government Publications

CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX TO THE MONTHLY CATALOG OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1900-1971

This new fourteen volume

single-alphabet subject index set

… is offered by itself — for libraries holding complete runs of the Monthly Catalog — or, in a

COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION

which contains a complete MICROFILM collection of the Monthly Catalog from 1895 through 1971 for convenient reference use with the index volumes.

The complete backfile of the Monthly Catalog was microfilmed by the Photoduplication Division of the Library of Congress especially for use with our Cumulative Subject Index. The 53 reel set contains the full text of all 867 indexed issues of the Monthly Catalog and its 3 World War II supplements, plus the two Decennial Indexes, and some 60 pre-1900 issues which were not indexed.

Monthly Catalogentries contain complete bibliographical data for almost every U.S. Government publication; including title, personal author, collation, LC number, Su- Docs classification number, price, ordering information, and a symbol indicating if the publication was sent to depository libraries.

All Subject Index entries before September 1947 show year-and-page numbers whereas later entries give year- and-entry numbers. Each two digit year number (’00 through ’71) serves as the reel number in the microfilm collection. Page and entry numbers appear in numerical sequence on the film; and as all entries for any given year of Monthly Catalog are on the same reel, the numerical sequences are never broken and it is never necessary to look on more than one reel for any single year.

Because of the lack of standardization in the microfilm industry, we offer our sets with a variety of film options; including a choice between silver halide film or Diazo, roll or cartridge, and 16mm or 35mm film size.

UPDATING PROGRAM: In response to many inquiries as to whether or not we plan to continue cumulative coverage after 1972, it is our current plan to merge future Monthly Catalog indexes and publish them as annual accumulating supplements until such time as it appears beneficial to integrate the resulting five-or-ten-year cumulative into the main 72-year subject index. We would then repeat the cycle. With this approach, there would never be more than two separate sources for subject access to 20th Century U.S. Government publications.

Subject Accesshas long been the missing key to the wider research use of U.S. Government publications.

Now, for the first time,librarians and scholars can unlock the massive reference potential of the more than one million congressional and departmental publications listed in 72 years of the Monthly Catalog and its supplements.

The unique new CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX will eliminate 34 search steps which were formerly necessary to trace subjects through these indexes to 20th Century U.S. Government publications:

—21 Biennial Document Catalogs (1900-1940),

— 2 Decennial Indexes (1941-60), and —11 Annual Indexes (1961-1971).

All subject entries in the fourteen volume cumulative index were accumulated from 81 separate sources in the Monthly Catalog series and merged into one reference set. These sources include: 48 Annual Indexes to the Monthly Catalog,

2 Decennial Indexes, (1941-1950; 1951-1960), 1 Six-month Index, and 30 Monthly Catalogs for which no annual indexes were made.

Delivery: The complete microfilm segment is now ready for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY, with Index Volume I and the remaining volumes scheduled to follow at decreasing intervals until the projected completion date of June 30th, 1973. Meanwhile, all Monthly Catalog indexes and the 2 Decennial Indexes will be shipped with the microfilm segment for temporary use.

USE THIS COUPON TO RESERVE YOUR SETS AT PRE-PUBLICATION PRICES

• Proceedings of the Institute on Cable Television for Librarians, attended by more than 100 professionals from thirty-five states held last September at Drexel University may now be ordered in printed form or, appropriately, on videotape.

Printed proceedings will be published in the January, 1972 Drexel Library Quarterly, and the cost is $3 per copy. They are available through Brigitte L. Kenney, the Institute’s director, at the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Videotapes may be ordered through William G. McFadden, Spectra-Vision Corp., 719-25 N. 24th St., Philadelphia, PA 19130. A list of the subject matter, videotape size, and prices can be obtained from Spectra-Vision.

• A recently issued catalog compiled by Tetsumaro Hayashi and Donald L. Siefker, The Special Steinbeck Collection of the Ball State University Library: A Bibliographical Handbook‚ lists and briefly describes the Steinbeck materials held in this library’s collections. This collection was announced in CRL News, February 1972 in the “News From the Field—Acquisitions” section. The handbook is published by The John Steinbeck Society of America, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306.

• Staff members of the Institute of Library Research (ILR) at the University of California, Berkeley have announced the completion of the U.C. Union Catalog Supplement. This is the first of a planned series of five-year supplements to the 1963 catalogs which contain book holdings of the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, respectively. The supplement represents the monographic records of all nine U.C. campuses cataloged during the period from 1963-67.

The Union Catalog Supplement fills multiple needs previously felt within the U.C. library community. First, it will not only facilitate, but will increase the use of the university’s own library collections. This increased use will come from both the nine U.C. campuses and from libraries outside U.C. A user will be able by reference to the supplement, to determine whether or not any library in the university has a particular work available for lending and, if so, its location. An increase in intercampus loans among U.C. libraries will serve to restrain some amount of duplicate book purchasing expenditures for added copies.

A second objective of the supplement is to support library operations through its use as an alternate source of cataloging information. To enhance accessibility of records, the Author- Title section of the catalog contains over 1.6 million entries under all headings in one alphabetic arrangement. A user can thus make a rapid search even if he is unsure of the proper choice of the main entry.

The forty-eight-volume catalog is divided into two parts: the Author-Title section in thirty-two volumes and the Subject section, sixteen volumes. All of the subject entries are in the subject section, including names as subjects; all other types of entries (author, title, series, conferences, etc.) are in the Author- Title section.

The development of the computer-based bibliographic processing system was an important subsidiary objective of the project which produced the supplement. Techniques were developed which resulted in significant operational economies. In the conversion of bibliographic records to magnetic tape form, for example, a reorganization of the production process resulted in a high capacity input system which operated at a conversion rate in excess of 80,000 records per month. Because of the modularity of the production function and the consequent reduction of education and training requirements, even higher conversion rates than this could conceivably be obtained.

The majority of the computer programs used in the supplement project for file maintenance, automatic field recognition, file improvement, and composition.

The Institute of Library Research is presently making the Catalog Supplement available for purchase in both book form and magnetic tape form. In addition, the computer programs and auxiliary data bases developed by the Institute during the course of the supplement project will be available for purchase or a form of lease arrangement. For further information about the supplement project and its products, contact: Director, Institute of Library Research, South Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

• For the first time, the field of art librarianship now has a monthly periodical devoted to its interests. All major art librarian organizations such as the ALA/ACRL/Art Section, the CAA/Art Libraries Session, and the SLA/Museums, Arts and Humanities Division have immediately welcomed the establishment of the new Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter and will be using its pages to convey news and views of their respective organizations.

The Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter will be published monthly during the academic year (9 issues/year). The first issue, that for September 1972, carries accounts of the history and aims of the ALA, CAA, and SLA art and museum librarian sections, each prepared by the present or past Chairman of these groups.

Future issues of the Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter will carry preconvention announcements and postconvention reports by the ALA, CAA, and SLA art library sections; articles by leading librarians and art teachers on various aspects of art librarianship; surveys of art libraries, standards, and salaries; announcements of research projects of special interest to art libraries; news of art publishing; a classified “Positions Open—Positions Wanted” section for art library placements, and an open letters column.

The Worldiwide Art and Library Newsletter will supplement existing divisional bulletins. An important aspect of the monthly Newsletter is that it will carry its news and feature articles across divisional boundaries of existing art library organizations, thereby making all members aware of what is happening in the entire field. The articles published will also be of interest to acquisition librarians and library directors, as well as to art chairmen and others involved in building library support for their academic or public service art programs.

Editor of the Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter is Judith C. Joy. Linda Martin is associate editor. Subscription rates are $5.00/ year in U.S.A. and Canada, and $6.00/year in all other countries. However, subscription is free to voting members of the ALA, CAA, and SLA art library. Advertisements are sought and the publishers offer a circulation guarantee of over 5,000 copies to art librarians and other librarians and art faculty members known to be involved in art library acquisitions. An advertising rate card is available.

The Worldwide Art and Library Newsletter is published by Worldwide Books, Inc., known for its pioneering services to the art and library field. The Newsletter is the first fruit of the new independence of Worldwide Books, the firm having been purchased this summer from Learning Resources, Inc. by Richard Carlton of New York City. Worldwide Books also publishes the Worldwide Art Catalogue Bulletin and its Annual Index, the Worldwide Art Book Bibliography, and Art for Schools and Libraries. Worldwide’s several former offices have been consolidated at 1075 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215. For further information, please contact: Mr. Stewart Marks, Vice Pres. & Gen’l Mgr., Worldwide Books, Inc., 1075 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, tel.: (617) 787-9100.

• Serial Publications in The University of Iowa Libraries is now available. It contains some 48,148 entries representing most of the serial holdings in the University of Iowa libraries as of April 1972, and includes all types of serial publications: magazines, newspapers, yearbooks, conferences, and monographic studies within a series. This two-volume listing is in the MARC format as published by the Library of Congress in 1969 and sells for $10.00.

MISCELLANY

• The Kentucky Library Association in conference at Louisville, Kentucky on October 6, 1972 passed the following resolution:

WHEREAS: the free interchange of scholarly research and information is dependent upon access to and fair use of published materials;

WHEREAS; librarians have been cognizant of and responsive to the traditional “fair use” concept relating to published materials;

WHEREAS: certain publishers, acting on the opinion of a commissioner of the United States Court of Claims and while the case pertinent to the above use is still in adjudication, are attempting to impose a “licensing fee” upon libraries to permit the production of a photocopy for internal library use only and prohibiting interlibrary use of such photocopy without further fees, thus inhibiting cooperation among libraries and free interchange of ideas;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED 1. that the Kentucky Library Association deplores this impediment to education and research at all levels;

2. that it urges its members to refuse to pay these “licensing fees” unless the court of the land ultimately sustains the publishers;

3. that copies of this resolution be sent to the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, the Special Library Association, the American Law Library Association, the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, the Association of Southeast Research Libraries, the Southeast Library Association, and the Kentucky Department of Libraries.

• Seven individuals prominent in information creation and dissemination have been appointed to a National Advisory Committee to the National Serials Data Program, Paul Vassallo, NSDP Director, announced today. Attending the first meeting of the Committee at the Library of Congress on November 14 were: Milton Byam, Director, District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C. (public libraries) ; William S. Budington, Executive Director and Librarian, John Crear Library, Chicago, Illinois (research libraries); John Callahan, Vice President, Editorial Services, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York, New York (publishing industry); Frank F. Clasquin, Vice President, F. W. Faxon; Inc., Westwood, Massachusetts (subscription agents); Mrs. Mary Huffer, Director of Libraries, Office of Library Services, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. (Federal and special libraries); Vern Pings, Director of Libraries, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (university libraries); and James L. Wood, Director, Bibliographie Support Division, Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio (abstracting and indexing services). The committee, broadly representative of the various interests in the national user community, will provide the program with a means of communication with these interests, enabling NSDP to take their needs and views into consideration.

Policy direction for the program will continue to come from the heads of the three national libraries, the Librarian of Congress and the Directors of the National Agricultural Library and the National Library of Medicine.

• The Gift and Exchange Department of the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library has donated 2,695 duplicate books and periodicals to the Library of Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to help replenish those lost in the recent flooding.

• Nominations for the Bobert B. Downs Award for outstanding contribution to intellectual freedom in libraries are being accepted by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana-Champaign. The award was created in 1968 to honor Downs, dean of library administration at Illinois, and to mark his twenty-five years with the university.

The award of $500 will be presented during a meeting of the Library School alumni at the annual convention of the American Library Association. The convention will be held June 24-30, 1973, in Las Vegas.

The first award in June 1969 was to LeBoy Charles Merritt, dean of the School of Librarianship at the University of Oregon. Orrin Dow, librarian with the Farmingdale, New York, Public Library, received the second award in June 1970 at the convention in Detroit. In 1971, the award went to the President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, and in 1972 to John T. Carey, former librarian of Groton, Connecticut, Public Library.

The award may be given for such things as research study, a publication or successful or unsuccessful opposition to censorship. It may be made to an individual or a group.

“The one main stipulation,” Herbert Goldhor, director of the school, said, “is that the contribution for which the award is given be directly related to the furtherance of intellectual freedom in any type of library.”

The award may go to a library board member, a nonprofessional staff member, a professional librarian or another person. Preference will be given to such contributions in the United States, but candidates from other countries will be considered. The award may or may not be made every year.

Dean Downs has taken numerous stands against censorship of articles and publications. He edited The First Freedom‚ the ALA’s anthology of articles and tracts defending the basic freedoms, and was instrumental in establishing the ALA’s Liberty and Justice in Books Award, which consists of a citation and a $5,000 award.

Nominations will be considered from any source up to April 15, 1973, and should be sent to Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

Final decision will be made by vote of the school faculty.

• The Donohue Boom at the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library was officially dedicated October 8. The room will house one of the distinguished rare book collections in the United States.

Given in memory of the late Papal Countess Bemardine Murphy Donohue, the facility is a splendid oak-panelled room on the third floor of the library where the priceless collections will repose in the utmost of safety from fire and aberrant climatic conditions. Installed by Cahill Construction Company, the Donohue Boom quadruples previous facilities and is actually several areas in one. It contains an office for special collections librarian Florian J. Shasky, a lounge reading area, stack rooms for the precious volumes, and a conference “room” at one end of its 3,000 square feet total area. The conference area will not have solid walls but will be screened by free-standing shelving.

The USF special collections are noted for unusual resources in history, English literature, and graphic arts. They include one of the finest collections outside England of books by and about Sir Thomas More. Among them is the first edition of the statesman-martyr’s famed “Utopia.”

• It has been recommended to the U.S. Office of Education that an appropriate plaque be placed on each building for which financial assistance was provided under Title VII, Higher Education Act, as amended (redesignation of the Higher Education Facilities Act). Accordingly, each institution of higher education that received grants and/or loans under Title VII, HEA (HEFA), is requested to have a plaque placed on each building for which aid was provided. Although the federal government cannot pay for the costs of such plaques, the cost will be considered as eligible for those projects not yet closed.

Plaques should have the following citation: “Constructed with the financial assistance of the American people through (use statutory designation of institution’s choice).” The citation may be separate or included with other designations. ■ ■