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g•Asian/Pacific American Librarians: A Cross-CulturalPerspectiveCultural Perspective, edited by Lourdes Y. Collantes (30 pages, 1985), has been published by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association as the proceedings of their 1984 program in Dallas. Papers by Henry C. Chang, Jane Katayama, Minja Lee, and Bernard Kreissman are included. Copies may be ordered for $6 (payable to APALA) from Lourdes Y. Collantes, SUNY College at Old Westbury Library, Box 229, Old Westbury, NY 11568.

• A Bibliography of Latin American and Carib-

bean Bibliographies 1984-1985, by Lionel V. Loroña (128 pages, 1986), lists 613 monographic and serial sources arranged by topic. Most items were published in 1984-1985, but there are also sources of earlier vintage that were not included in previous editions of this bibliography. Copies are $8 (plus $2 postage and handling) from the SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI53706. Checks should be payable to the SALALM Secretariat. ISBN 0-917617-07-X.

• Collectors and Collections of Slavica at Stanford University, by Wojciech Zalewski (114 pages, 1985), is a history of the development of Slavic collections and academic programs at Stanford and in the United States. The volume describes the early relationships between the Stanford libraries and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, tracing the collection policy from the early 1920s through the 1980s. Appendix B is a comprehensive bibliography of Stanford Faculty Publications and Student Theses in the Russian and East European field. Copies may be ordered for $16.50 from the Publication Sales Office, Room 323B Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. ISBN 0-911221-02-6.

•Directory of Vendors of Latin American Library Materials, by David Block and Howard L. Karno (46 pages, 2d ed., February 1986), includes information on 137 vendors. New in this edition is an Index of Geographic Coverages which highlights the best sources for books from particular countries. The book costs $10 (plus $2 postage and handling) and may be ordered from the SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. ISBN 0-917617-09-6.

• Energies for Transition: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, edited by Danuta A. Nitecki (266 pages, April 1986), contains 60 contributed papers from the Baltimore ACRL Conference in April 1986 covering such areas as automation and bibliographic control, bibliographic instruction, collection management, networking, public services, and research. Abstracts of the contributed papers will be found in the January 1986 issue of C&RL News. The proceedings are being sold for $22 to ACRL members, $30 to nonmembers, and may be ordered from ALA Publishing Services, Order Department, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-6976-3.

•Exhibits in ARE Libraries, SPEC Kit #120 (110pages, January 1986), contains the results of a survey conducted to analyze procedures and policies developed specifically for research libraries, and to gather information on the staffing, administration, and local issues of mounting library exhibits. The kit contains 20 examples of exhibit policies, job descriptions from six institutions, six proposals to exhibit, three procedures checklists, four exhibit schedules, five loan agreements, and five illustrations of publicity materials. Individual SPEC kits cost $20, prepayment required. Send check payable to ARL Office of Management Studies to: SPEC, ARL/OMS, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• A Guide to the Modern Literary Manuscripts

Collection of the Washington University Libraries (115 pages, December 1985) represents the culmination of a two-year acquisition and cataloging project funded under HE A Title II-C. The guide is intended both as a general overview and a detailed index to the extensive modern literary manuscript holdings at Washington University. Some of the authors included are Samuel Beckett, Anthony Burgess, James Dickey, and Marianne Moore. Copies may be requested from Timothy D. Murray, Curator of Manuscripts, Washington University, Campus Box 1061, St. Louis, MO 63130.

• Guide to the Publications of Interstate Agencies

and Authorities, by Jack Sulzer and Roberta Palen (48 pages, February 1986), provides a list of the principal publications, their availability, and the principal depositories in which they may be found for 63 interstate agencies. The types of agency include navigation and port authorities, parks and recreation, area planning and development, transportation, water pollution control, and water resources. The name of a staff contact is provided for each agency. The booklet costs $7.95 and is available from ALA Publishing Services, Order Department, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0444-0.

• The Holocaust: An Annotated Bibliography, by

Harry James Cargas (184 pages, 2d ed., January 1986), encompasses all aspects of Holocaust scholarship from the rise of Nazism to studies of survivors’ offspring, and is designed both as a collection development tool and a researcher’s guide. Oral histories, photo collections and films are included in addition to printed materials. Only books available in English from U.S. publishers are listed. Copies are $27.50 from ALA Publishing, Order Department, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0433-5.

•The new Library Binding Institute Standard

for Library Binding (8th edition, February 1986) covers all aspects of library binding including methods of leaf attachment, mending procedures, and collation policy. All terms and procedures are clearly defined and explained. Copies are available for $5 from the Library Binding Institute, 150 Allens Creek Road, Rochester, NY 14618; (716) 461-4380.

•A series of Library Systems Evaluation Guides (8 vols. planned) may help in the evaluation and selection of automated library systems, either for individual applications or for a fully integrated system. Volumes 1-7 (serials control, circulation control, public service, acquisitions, management services, interlibrary loan, and cataloging) are available now; an eighth volume on system integration will be published soon. The cataloging volume is arranged into sections on functional requirements for automated cataloging systems, methodology for systems evaluation, a huge table of functions and features of an automated cataloging system, a checklist of data elements required, data element definitions, and an inventory of available cataloging systems. Single volumes in the series are $59.50 prepaid ($64.50 invoiced); three or more volumes are $54.50 prepaid ($57.00 invoiced); and the entire set costs $395 prepaid ($410 invoiced). Order from James E. Rush Associates, Inc., 2223 Carriage Road, Powell, OH 43065-9703. ISBN 0-912803-00-2 (series).

•National Avocational Organizations, edited by

Regina Germain (6th annual edition, 1986), lists over 2,500 hobby, sport, literary, patriotic, and cultural organizations with national memberships. This year’s directory adds over 300 civic and cultural organizations and computer user groups. Organizations range from the A-Four Hundred Group (owners of the 1931 Ford Model A convertible sedan) to the Zugzwang! Postal Chess Association. Subject, geographic, and budget indexes provide access. Copies are $30 from Columbia Books, 1350 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20008. ISBN 0-910416-58-3.

•A new Overview of Endowment Programs (31 pages, January 1986) is available from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brief descriptions of funding opportunities, 42 separate programs in all, are given with application deadlines and a telephone directory for each program. A revision is planned for July 1986. Free copies may be requested from NEH Overview, Room 409, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20506; (202) 786-0438.

•Sci-Tech Libraries In Museums and Aquariums, edited by Ellis Mount (204 pages, November 1985), focuses on some outstanding museum and aquarium libraries. Contributors explain in detail the history and function of their facilities, their collections and user services, cataloging and classification procedures, and special programs. Included are the American Museum of Natural History Library, the Field Museum of Natural History Library, the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Library, the National Air and Space Museum Library, and the Deutsches Museum Library in Munich, Germany. Copies are $29.95 from Haworth Press. ISBN 0-86656-484-5. ■■