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ACQUISITIONS

• S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Bern Dibner, founder of the Burndy Corporation and the Burndy Library of Norwalk, Connecticut, have jointly announced the gift of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology to the Smithsonian Institution. This collection contains more than 25,000 rare books, plus more than 300 incunabula (books printed before 1501) and historic manuscripts, and letters of scientists, as well as numerous portraits, prints, science medals, scientific instruments, and apparatus. “The breadth and quality of the collection are extraordinary,” remarked Smithsonian Secretary Ripley. “The rare books and artifacts form a virtual history of major developments in science and technology.”

The Dibner Library will be housed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C. Mr. Dibner will serve as adviser to the Dibner Library.

The Dibner Library represents the major holdings of the Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, established by Mr. Dibner in 1936. The Burndy Library at Norwalk will continue to function as a resource for study in the history of science and technology for the Connecticut-New York area with a full collection of research materials, consisting of duplicates presently in the library and copies to be made of the more important materials being transferred to the Smithsonian Institution.

At the core of the Burndy Library, to become part of the Dibner Library gift, are 200 books and pamphlets which were epochal in the history of the physical and biological sciences. These works proclaimed new truths or hypotheses which redirected scientific thought, brought understanding of natural laws, and at times introduced industrial change. All are listed and described in the Burndy Library’s 1955 publication, Heralds of Science, which has become a standard reference in this field.

• The Princeton University Library is the recent recipient of two gifts of material. One of the gifts substantially increased the library’s collections of Ernest Hemingway and John Keats. The donor, Archibald S. Alexander, a graduate in Princeton’s class of 1928, is a former assistant secretary and undersecretary of the army and onetime state treasurer of New Jersey.

Included in the Keats collection are two of his letters to Fanny Brawner, the manuscripts which formed The John Keats Memorial Volume (1921), pristine copies of the poet’s first editions, notably Poems (1817), and a sampling of biographical and critical works. Important items in the Hemingway presentation are the manuscript of “A Day’s Wait,” typescripts of “Bull Fighting, Sport and Industry” and “Cracking the Siegfried Line,” galley proofs of Death in the Afternoon, several letters by the author, and a virtually complete set of his first editions.

The other acquisition was a gift of the manuscripts of ten sermons by the Rev. William Ten- nent, Jr., who received an A.M. degree from Princeton University in 1761. The autograph manuscripts, letters, clippings, portraits, an elaborately tooled old leather wallet and other items were the gift to the university of Judge Tennent L. Griffin, of Mobile, Alabama, a prominent real estate broker and appraiser.

Tennent (1705-1777), who was a Presbyterian minister in Freehold, New Jersey, was one of the original trustees of Princeton University. His father had established a theological training school at Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, which was known as the Log College, and to which some of the material given to Princeton relates.

The younger Tennent’s preaching was described as having “more power than grace of form,” but Princeton students in the years from 1767 to 1773 were said to have walked twenty or so miles to hear him in his own pulpit. “With these manuscripts now available, later students can judge that power from the original texts,” noted Princeton university librarian William S. Dix.

• The manuscript of a play written and illustrated by William Faulkner was recently purchased by the University of Virginia as a memorial to the late Linton Massey.

Massey, who died last year, was a major force in establishing at the university the world’s most complete collection of Faulkner rare books, manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia.

Through contributions from friends of Massey and of the Alderman Library, the university was able to purchase at auction for $34,000 an unpublished manuscript of “The Marionettes.”

In 1920, Faulkner, then a member of a student dramatic group at the University of Mississippi, hand-lettered, illustrated, and hand- bound six copies of the play for friends. The fifty-five-page manuscript includes nine pen and ink drawings in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. Aside from the university’s copy, the locations of only three other copies are known—at Tulane University and at the universities of Texas and Mississippi.

Massey donated his extensive collection of first editions of Faulkner’s books to the university in 1960 and continued to supplement the collection until his death. He was influential in persuading Faulkner to bring his own manuscripts and working papers to the university library. After Faulkner’s death, the author’s priceless collection, which includes the manuscripts of most of his major works, was officially deposited at the university by Faulkner’s daughter, Mrs. Paul D. Summers, through the Faulkner Foundation.

• Dr. William J. Wiswesser, developer of the internationally accepted system for encoding all possible chemical compounds in simple linear sequence, has turned over to his alma mater, Lehigh University, a collection of manuscripts, papers, and articles about his system.

A repository, containing some 200 such articles by users of the system from all over the world, has been established in Lehigh’s Mart Science and Engineering Library on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the development, by Dr. Wiswesser, of what has become known internationally as the Wiswesser line notation.

Ms. Berry Richards, associate librarian at Lehigh, notes that “researchers publishing material on the use of this line notation are encouraged to forward reprints to the repository.”

• The University of Illinois Archives has acquired the Avery Brundage Collection of correspondence, manuscripts, official papers, decorations, awards, and trophies. Amounting to 173 boxes, the collection includes archival files, publications and artifacts. The archives include material on the Olympic games, amateur athletics and international sports competition dating from the 1920s to 1974. The files are especially complete for the Amateur Athletic Union, the International Olympic Committee and national Olympic committees. Inquiries should be addressed to Maynard Brichford, University Archivist, 19 Library, University of Illinois at Ur- bana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

• The manuscripts department is pleased to note the acquisition for the McGregor Library of an important archive of the headquarters papers of Brigadier General John Forbes, concerning the planning and execution of his successful operations in North America against the French at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in 1758. Dating between 1757 and 1759, the papers consist of 530 items of correspondence, reports, memoranda, journals, instructions, and accounts compiled during the course of the great campaign undertaken by the

British in cooperation with the colonies to destroy the power of France on the Ohio and in the Middle West. Acquired at auction in November 1974, the archive appears to be previously unstudied. A guide is in preparation and publication is contemplated. Inquiries should be directed to the Curator of the McGregor Library, Rare Book Department, University of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

• The Hon. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr., prominent as the ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee until his retirement this January as congressman from New Jersey’s fifth district, has given his papers while a member of the House of Representatives to Princeton University.

The gift to the university’s library includes correspondence, memoranda, drafts and copies of reports, clippings, and numerous other items pertaining to his twenty-two years (1953-1975) as the Republican congressman serving, mainly, the Morris and Somerset county areas of New Jersey. A library spokesman said the material, now contained in 240 cartons, is not restricted but will not be available to scholars until it has been cataloged.

FELLOWSHIPS

• The Council on Library Resources (CLR) has announced continuation of its fellowship program for U.S. and Canadian librarians for the 1976-77 academic year and has set an October 15, 1975, deadline for receipt of applications. The CLR Fellowship Program, begun in 1969, annually provides research and self-developed study opportunities to approximately twenty-five mid-career professionals during sabbaticals/leaves of absence of from three to nine months.

The fellowships cover expenses incurred by the recipients in connection with their approved programs. They are not intended to support work toward an advanced degree in librarian- ship, although course work which complements a candidate’s program and is outside the normal professional curriculum may be considered.

Applicants must be librarians or other professionals working directly with libraries and citizens of the U.S. or Canada, or with permanent resident status in either country. Their em- ployérs must be willing to provide them with a period of continuous leave of from three to nine months in which to carry out their proposed programs.

Fellows are required to submit a final report to CLR upon completion of their projects; however, they retain full rights to the results of their programs and are encouraged to write articles and make professional presentations based on their findings.

Interested librarians may receive an application form for the 1976-77 CLR Fellowship Program by sending a self-addressed #10 envelope or mailing label to: Fellowship Committee, Council on Library Resources, Suite 620, 1 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036.

GIFT

• A bequest totaling $174,567 to the University of Miami from the estate of the late Olive V. Levin of Miami Beach will be used to establish a student loan fund and a library endowment fund in her name. In recognition of her bequest, the sixth floor of the Otto G. Richter Library will be named the Olive Levin Graduate Study Area. It houses the university’s collection in the social sciences and human relations.

Books purchased from the income produced by the library endowment fund will be selected in the fields of anthropology and sociology with emphasis on human relations, community organizations, and related areas.

Ms. Levin, a onetime Ziegfield Follies and Earl Carroll’s Vanities girl, was an active civic leader in the Miami area before her death in 1971.

GRANTS

• The viable but informally manned Library Orientation-Instruction Exchange (LOEX) at Eastern Michigan University will expand its services under terms of a three-year grant of $42,771 from the Council on Library Resources (CLR).

Project LOEX, established at Eastern Michigan University in May 1972 as a result of the university’s Library Outreach Orientation Program, is a clearinghouse for information and materials relating to academic library orientation and instruction at Eastern Michigan and at nearly 200 other cooperating institutions. Its objectives are threefold: (1) to facilitate communication among academic libraries with orientation and instruction programs, (2) to assist libraries in developing such programs, and (3) to aid librarians in their research endeavors and in furthering their education in orientation on an informal basis.

Project LOEX will be under the direction of Mary Bolner, a faculty member of the university’s Center of Educational Resources.

• The Library Development Program of the Boston Theological Institute, a consortium of eight theological libraries in the greater Boston area, has been awarded a $1,000 grant by the Council on Library Resources for a project to encourage publishers to imprint the International Standard Serials Number on their publications. American serials currently received in

BTI libraries will be examined for the presence of ISSNs. The publishers of serials not showing the number will be contacted directly regarding the significance of and procedure for acquiring and displaying the ISSN. This project will be conducted in concert with the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress, which will make new assignments and verify already assigned ISSNs.

The ISSN will assume increasing importance as it becomes integral to the functioning and use of library processing systems, bibliographic data bases, and abstracting and indexing services. The primary goal of this project is to ensure that the number is displayed on the piece it represents so that the benefits of the ISSN can be realized fully in all its possible applications. For further information, contact: Linda Lewkowicz, BTI Library Development Office, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 495-5780.

MEETINGS

July 2: An ad hoc discussion group of University Extension Librarians will meet from 4:30-6:00 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, to discuss problems and issues of mutual concern. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the National University Extension Association/ACRL Joint Committee on University Extension Library Services, chaired by Osborne L. Gomez, Extension Librarian, State University System of Florida. The meeting will be open to anyone who has registered for the ALA conference for that day.

July 16-18: The Office of University Library Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries is sponsoring a Library Management Skills Institute at the Hilton Hotel of Philadelphia. The institute is designed for key supervisory and managerial staff in academic libraries and will focus on skills presented at the institute. The discussion and application process will include consideration of performance standards for professional and nonprofessional staff, motivational forces in the library context, problem-solving techniques, and group leadership requirements.

The members of the institute staff are: David M. Callahan, owner of Communications Dynamics of Washington, D.C.; Duane E. Webster, director; and Jeffrey J. Gardner, management research specialist, from the Office of UniversityLibrary Management Studies. The institute fee is $150.00. Enrollment information is available from: Duane Webster or Jeffrey Gardner, Association of Research Libraries, Office of University Library Management Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036; (202 ) 232-8656.

July 21-23: A futurist principal of a middle school, Almon G. Hoye, Anwatin Learning Center, Minneapolis, and an innovative college dean, Robert J. Toft, Grand Valley State Colleges, Allendale, Michigan, will keynote the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s tenth annual Educational Media and Technology Conference to be held in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Hoye’s topic “Let’s Do More With What We Have!” is appropriately aimed at media specialists in a downtrend economy. Ten years ago Hoye made a number of predictions concerning what education would be like in 1984. Most of his predictions have become a reality during the first ten years.

Toft administers College “IV,” part of a four- year, undergraduate, liberal arts, state-supported college which does not possess a schedule of classes, a time base, a grading system, or a course structure. His topic “Individualized Instruction: Implementation Strategies For An Entire College” is based upon his experience of utilizing a curriculum matrix of auto-instructional learning packages which are entirely self- paced.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Dr. David P. Barnard, Dean of Learning Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751.

July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England.

The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full details of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England.

August 4-15: The Catholic University’s library science department’s third annual Institute on Federal Library Resources will be directed by Frank Kurt Cylke, chief of the Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress.

The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library science. Participants in the institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00.

For more information contact the Department of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202 ) 635-5085. See the April C & RL News for further details.

August 10-16: Library Administration. An executive development program for library administrators will be offered at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, by Miami’s School of Business Administration. The program is designed to assist library administrators in improving their managerial effectiveness.

This will be the twenty-first executive development program presented by Miami University for library administrators within the last seven years. Because of its emphasis on general management principles and techniques, the program is of value to all kinds of library administrators—public, university, special, technical, corporation, etc.

The fee of $295.00 includes all program expenses: tuition, instructional fees, cost of all reading materials and other handouts, personalized notebooks, plus room and board. Anyone interested in attending should contact the program director: Dr. Robert H. Myers, School of Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. See the April C&RL News for further details.

August 24-28: The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The theme will be “The Role of Information Systems Technology in Community Management.”

October 17-18: The New England Regional Group of the Medical Library Association will hold its annual meeting at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.

October 19-22: The Colorado Library Association and Mountain-Plains Library Association will sponsor a joint convention at the Executive Towers Inn, Denver, the theme being: “Continuing Education—Continuing Excellence.” Keynote speaker will be Elizabeth W. Stone from the Catholic University of America, project director of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE).

Preconference workshops on “Networking” and “Documents” will take place October 19. Miniworkshops will also be conducted on such topics as “Blind and the Physically Handicapped,” “ERIC,” “Grant Writing,” and “Telecommunications.”

For more information, contact Mrs. Ann Kimbrough, CLA Executive Secretary, 2341 S. Josephine, Denver, CO 80210.

October 23-26: The Oral History Association will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Colloquium on Oral History.”

The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is Waddy Moore, State College of Arkansas.

For further information about the Oral History Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Secretary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203.

November 9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classification Systems.”

With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of classification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Albany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will concern itself not only with Dewey but with other major classification systems being used in English-speaking countries.

A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals interested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

MISCELLANY

• The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress is observing the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Library of Congress with an exhibit of the papers of the eleven librarians who have held the office of the Librarian of Congress during the past 175 years. The display also commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the institution’s most distinguished librarians, Ainsworth R. Spofford, who served from 1864-1897.

The earliest manuscript shown is a letter written on February 17, 1802, by the first Librarian of Congress, John James Beckley, to a Philadelphia importing firm concerning the library’s first purchase of books—152 works in 740 volumes.

Should the library have wished a mascot during its formative years, it might well have chosen the legendary phoenix which arose from its ashes more resplendent than before. Three disastrous fires consumed the Library of Congress over the years 1814 through 1851, the last of which is described in librarian John S. Meehan’s letter to the chairman of the Joint Library Committee of Congress. “The Guard who was on duty at the time, told me … it might have been extinguished by a few buckets of water, which unfortunately were not near at hand. The fire soon extended to the roof . . . and left the late beautiful room, with its invaluable contents, a smouldering mass of ruins.” Ainsworth R. Spofford brought about profound changes in the nature and services of the library. By urging enforceable deposit requirements as a condition for copyright registration of books, he insured the immediate and constant growth of the library’s holdings of American publications. He then extended the scope of the library’s acquisitions by expanding the exchange of publications with foreign institutions. It was through his efforts that the magnificent collection of Americana assembled by Peter Force came to the library; and as a final triumph, he secured the library’s splendid Main Building to house these treasures. Among the Spofford items shown is a letter written to his wife when he was trying to decide whether to accept the job as assistant to then Librarian of Congress John G. Stephenson. “You had better urge me to accept the appointment of assistant librarian of Congress where there is ‘little to do, & lots of money for doing it.’ ” He then listed arguments pro and con on the merits of the position; fortunately for the library and the nation, the pros outweighed the cons by seventeen to nine.

“I wish I were a monk in a monastery.” Thus did Librarian of Congress John Russell Young conclude his diary entry for August 25, 1898, reflecting his frustration at being constantly badgered by applicants for newly created jobs following the library’s exodus from the Capitol to the recently completed Congressional Library. Young served as librarian from mid-1897 until his death in early 1899.

The exhibit also includes a letter written by one of the library’s most illustrious twentiethcentury librarians, Herbert Putnam, on the most cogent reason for the library’s existence—service to the public. “I think students with a purpose should receive at the hands of the librarians not merely advice as to consulting the catalogues; but counsel as to the authoritative works on special subjects; and guidance as to unexpected sources of information. … I think that students . . . should receive the utmost assistance; and the cost of such assistance is very properly a ‘charge on the public,’ particularly is this of force in municipal and government libraries.”

• President Charles Hitch recently announced that the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) has been recognized as an official unit of the university.

LAUC has had the authority since 1971 to use the name of the university as a noncommercial professional association. At the request of LAUC, and after consultation with the General Counsel of the Regents and with campus administrators, the president approved formal recognition as an official university unit.

The action opens official channels of communication with university officials, including the president’s office, by recognizing LAUC as an organization comparable to the local and statewide faculty senates. In the words of the recognition statement, the association will provide a “structure for utilization of the professional interests and skills of librarians in advising the University administration and in improving intra- and inter-campus communications on matters of concern in relation to libraries and librarians.” The association advises campus chancellors and library administrators through its local divisions, and advises the university president through its statewide officers and Executive Board. The action will also result in university financial support for the association.

Among other activities, the LAUC local divisions are responsible for the peer review process on each campus. Much of the statewide work is done through several standing committees; for example, one such committee is currently charged with recommending standards for bibliographic and physical access to collections housed away from campus service points.

All librarians in the U.C. system, including directors and other administrators, are members of the association. Current statewide officers are Norah Jones, UCLA, president; Allan Dyson, UC Berkeley, vice-president/president- elect; and William Maina, UC San Diego, secretary.

• The University of Tulsa has celebrated its “500,000th volume.” The volume was a rare bilingual text Elementary Arithmetic in Cherokee and English, by John B. Jones, published in 1870 by the Cherokee National Press, Tahlequah. Professor Rennard Strickland—noted author and editor of numerous Indian histories, a leading Indian law authority, and a member of the University of Tulsa College of Law—donated the volume. Dr. Angie Debo, internationally recognized Indian and Oklahoma historian, delivered the presentation speech.

• A second public relations “Swap ’n Shop” day, similar to last year’s highly successful event at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New York City, is being planned for the San Francisco Conference in July.

Jointly sponsored by the Public Relations Services to Libraries Committee, the John Cotton Dana Awards Committee, the National Library Week Committee, and the Public Relations Council, the “day,” Tuesday, July 1, 1975, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., will repeat 1974’s successful format and feature examples of superior public relations materials, teams of experts to assist with various public relations projects, and be capped off by the John Cotton Dana Awards themselves.

Professional public relations people will critique representative items, and there will be tables staffed by experts to offer advice and suggestions on such things as “Passing Bond Issues,” “Serving the Unserved,” “Friends of the Library,” “Newsletters and Press Releases,” and “Bicentennial Happenings.”

• Comments on the American Library Association’s Manpower Policy are being sought by the Office for Library Personnel Resources (OLPR). At 1975 Midwinter, the OLPR Advisory Committee was directed by the ALA Council to address itself to the Library Education and Manpower policy statement adopted by the Council (June 30, 1970) and to other pertinent ALA personnel policies in order to recommend any modifications, expansions, or implementation steps which may be deemed appropriate in promoting the effective utilization of library personnel at all levels.

As a beginning step in this consideration, the OLPR Advisory Committee would like to receive comments from individuals who are interested in the Library Education and Manpower policy statement. Of particular interest to the committee are accounts from libraries that have tried to adopt the recommendations of the policy.

A meeting of the OLPR Advisory Committee will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 2, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. Individuals are urged to present their views in writing prior to the conference; these will be summarized at the meeting, followed by further presentations of viewpoints from the individuals attending the forum. This will not be a program meeting but instead provide opportunity for informal discussion and expressions of concern from interested persons.

Copies of the policy statement may be obtained from the Office for Library Personnel Resources, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Please address written comments on the policy to Margaret Myers, Director, Office for Library Personnel Resources at the American Library Association; David C. Weber, Chairperson of the OLPR Advisory Committee, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305; or Grace Slocum, Cecil County Public Library, 135 E. Main St., Elkton, MD 21921.

• The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anclo-American Cataloging Rules held its first plenary meetings with the editors of the proposed second edition of the 1967 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, in Chicago, January 23-24, 1975.

In these meetings, the committee determined the detailed program of work which it aims to complete by the end of 1976 and developed guidelines for the editors and for the national committees of the United States, British and Canadian organizations, and institutions participating in the revision. They included the following four policy statements:

1. The Joint Steering Committee resolves that the second edition of the Anglo- American Cataloging Rules will maintain general conformity with the Paris Principles on which the 1967 rules are based.

2. The Joint Steering Committee resolves that the second edition will take particular account of developments in the machine processing of bibliographic records.

3. The Joint Steering Committee affirms its commitment to conformity with the International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographs (ISBD(M)) as the basis for bibliographic description of monographs, and to the principle of standardization in the bibliographic description of all categories of materials.

4. The Joint Steering Committee accepts the commitment entered into by the predecesNow Being Published sors to base the revision of relevant chapters of Part 3 of AACR primarily on the following four sources: Draft Revisions of Chapter 12 and 14 of the AACR (U.S.); Non-Book Materials Cataloguing Rules (U.K.); Nonbook Materials: the Organization of Integrated Collection (Canada); and Standards for Cataloging Nonprint Materials (U.S.).

• As part of its continuing effort to make available to libraries and other users machine- readable data created at the library, the Library of Congress is offering for sale the Format Recognition computer program. This program accepts bibliographic records in untagged form and converts those records to the MARC internal format, which differs in some respects from the MARC communications format. Although Format Recognition was developed specifically for the Library of Congress MARC processing system and is not intended as general use software, this program may be of assistance to others who wish to develop similar software. The program is written in assembler language coding for an IBM 370 computer functioning under the operating system.

This program will require modifications in order to process it on other systems. The purchaser must make the required modifications. Provided with the program will be the documentation in the form in which it now exists, but the library is not in a position to provide additional documentation, maintenance, or support. Current priorities for work in progress make it impossible for the MARC Development Office or the Cataloging Distribution Service Division to respond to inquiries with respect to the content or operation of the program.

The available package consists of (1) a tape containing approximately 70,000 source statements, (2) operating instructions, and (3) existing documentation. The price for this package is $175.00 and orders may be directed to the Cataloging Distribution Service Division, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, DC 20541.

• A selection of current legal instruments from Latin America designed to preserve and protect that region's cultural heritage and archaeological and historical treasures will be displayed in an exhibit to open in the Law Library foyer of the Library of Congress on April 1.

The exhibit, entitled “The Law and Cultural Treasures in Latin America,” will feature bilateral and multilateral treaties and individual statutes enforced by Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru. The principal objective of this legislation is to prevent further pillaging of Latin America’s many magnificent pre-Colombian ruins, artifacts, and Spanish and Portuguese colonial structures, and the smuggling of these items to foreign art markets.

The legislation adopted by the Latin nations ranges in scope from mild control over exportation of cultural treasures to more stringent restrictions. To further deter vandalism of cultural treasures, the legislation establishes criminal sanctions against violators of the statutes. Much of the legislation on display is a response to a 1970 convention adopted by UNESCO which establishes means for prevention and prohibition of the unlawful import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property.

Among the more significant texts on display are the Pan American Treaty of April 15, 1935, signed by nine Latin American nations and the United States, which is one of the first international instruments aimed at protecting artistic and scientific institutions and historic monuments; the Treaty of July 17, 1970, between the United States and Mexico which provides for the mutual recovery and return of stolen archaeological, historical, and cultural properties; Mexico’s Law of April 28, 1972, which promotes, among other measures, the formation of peasant and community groups to help prevent archaeological pillage; and Argentina’s Law 19943 of November 13, 1972, which approves the 1970 UNESCO convention.

This exhibit is located in the foyer of the Law Library Reading Room, second floor, Main Building. It will remain on view until June 30.

PUBLICATIONS

• Proceedings of a conference, Every Librarian a Manager, which was held at Purdue University September 27-28, 1974, are now available. The meeting was sponsored by the Indiana Chapter, Special Libraries Association and the Purdue University Libraries and Audio- Visual Center.

Included in the publication are papers by: Charles W. King, Krannert School of Industrial Administration, Purdue University and University of Toronto, “What Kind of a Manager Are You?”; David L. Ford, Jr., Krannert School of Industrial Administration, Purdue University, “Applied Group Problem Solving: The Nominal Group”; Marcia Byrum, director of personnel, Jefferson National Life Insurance Company, “Women in Management”; and Paul J. Gordon, Graduate School of Business, Indiana University, “Management from a Structural Viewpoint.” A participant evaluation of the conference is included in the proceedings.

The cost of the publication is $7.00. Please make checks payable to Indiana Chapter, Special Libraries Association and send to Miriam Drake, Conference Coordinator, Library Offices, 363 Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has released its January 1975 issue of Library Trends (vol. 23, no. 3) entitled “Music and Fine Arts in the General Library,” edited by Guy A. Marco, dean, School of Library Science, Kent State University, and Wolfgang M. Freitag, lecturer on the fine arts and librarian of the Fine Arts Library in the Harvard College Library, Harvard University. This issue is devoted to the problems surrounding music and fine arts in general libraries. Its purpose is to give music and fine arts librarians access to information in fields related to their own and to bring information concerning music and art library matters to the nonspecialist. Contributors to this issue include: William J. Dane, “Organizational Patterns in Public Libraries”; Hester M. Miller and Kurtz Myers, “Building a Nonspecialized Collection”; Walter Allen, “Services”; Y. T. Feng, “The Boston Public Library”; Ira J. Peskind, “The Junior College Library”; Elizabeth H. Rebman, “The Undergraduate Library”; Betty Jo Irvine, “Organization and Management of Art Slide Collections”; Luraine Tansey, “Classification of Research Photographs and Slides”; Olga Buth, “Scores and Recordings”; William B. Walter, “Art Books and Periodicals: Dewey and LC”; Virginia Carlson Smith and William R. Treese,

“A Computerized Approach to Art Exhibition Catalogs”; Judith A. Hoffberg, “Ephemera in the Art Collection”; Wolfgang M. Freitag, “Slides for Individual Use in the College Library”; Jacqueline D. Sisson, “Cooperation Among Art Libraries”; Dominique-Rene De Lerma, “Black Music: A Bibliographic Essay”; John C. Larsen, “Education of Fine Arts/ Music Librarians”; and Guy A. Marco and Wolfgang M. Freitag, “Training the Librarian for Rapport with the Collection.”

Library Trendsis available for $3.00 from: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Annual subscriptions may be placed at the same address (four issues, $10.00).

• The Oklahoma Union List of Serials, a computer printout list, in preparation for about five years, is now available in a five-volume hard copy or a microfiche edition.

Produced at the Oklahoma State University Library, the work is a listing of more than 30,0 titles of journals, newspapers, annuals, and other serial publications received in twenty-four Oklahoma libraries. Codes are used to specify the volumes held by individual libraries.

The Union Listwas originally a 1967 joint effort of the University of Oklahoma Library at Norman and the Oklahoma State University Library in Stillwater. At one time it received a grant of $6,000 from the State Regents for

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–Government Documents Librarian of the McKeldin Library of the University of Maryland.

– Author of the 52-page report “Regional Libraries and the Depository Library Act of 1962”.

– Secretary of the Federal Documents Task Force of GODORT.

– Author of “The Monthly Catalog and Bibliographical Control of U. S. Government Publications” {Drexel Library Quarterly, Jan.-Apr. 1974, pp. 79-105).

“GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS UNITED STATES

“ 102. Buchanan, William W., and Edna M. Kanely, comps. Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900-1971. Washington, Carrollton Press, 1973 (in preparation). 15v. $900.00. LC 4-18088. ISBN 0-8408-0001-0.

“A landmark publication in federal documents bibliography. Private enterprise has again come to the rescue of the harried documents librarian to fill a serious void left by official government indexes and catalogs. Disregarding the inadequate bibliographic control over the full range of federal documents, particularly “non-GPO” publications, and the inadequate depth of indexing and subject analysis, the most serious drawback to using the Monthly Catalog and official indexes and catalogs published by the Government Printing Office has been the lack of timely cumulations of the indexes or catalogs. The Document Catalog, which most documents librarians have used to search for documents published between 1895 and 1940, was actually a two-year cumulation of subject entries as well as entries for issuing agency and publication series. The Monthly Catalog has, since 1900, provided an annual index of the entries in the monthly issues (except for a 30-month period, January 1906 to June 1908). Two decennial indexes to the Monthly Catalog have been published by GPO: the 1941-1950 cumulation, and the 1951-1960 cumulation issued in 1968. A planned quinquennial cumulation for the years 1961-1965 is still in preparation.

“The lack of comprehensive cumulative indexes is a problem familiar to users of periodical indexes. In order to use the Monthly Catalog for exhaustive research of a topic, or to find a work whose date of publication is unknown, one has to search month by month during the current year, then year by year to 1961, and through the two decennial issues to 1941. For earlier materials, most documents librarians prefer to use the biennial Document Catalog.

“As the title indicates, this is primarily a cumulative “subject” index to the Monthly Catalog. It does not contain the following entries included in the source indexes: names of persons who were beneficiaries of individual “relief” measures, and “personal authors.” The latter entries have been cumulated by Edward Przebienda in two decennial and two quinquennial volumes covering the years 1940-1970 (published by Pierian Press as Cumulative Personal Author Indexes to the Monthly Catalog). However, the following types of entries contained in the source indexes have been cumulated: government agency “author” entries, and title entries.

“This cumulation represents a massive merging of entries in all previously published official cumulative indexes to the Monthly Catalog: 49 annual indexes (calendar years 1900-1905, 1935-1940, and 1961-1971; and fiscal years 1908/09-1933/34); the two decennial indexes; and one six-month index (July-December 1934). Original indexing was done for the 30 monthly issues that were not indexed, and the entries were merged. The compilers did not include the years 1895-1899, since the Monthly Catalog was not indexed lication in federal documents bibliography” the CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX TO THE MONTHLY CATALOG OF U.S. IONS, 1900-1971 in the 1975 American Reference Books Annual. this comprehensive review which appears on pages 47 and 48 of the 1975, Sixth Edition ding “General Reference Works, Government Publications, United States.” during this early period. In view of their commendable effort to close the 30-month gap mentioned, their failure to do original indexing for this earlier five-year period is a regrettable, but not serious, oversight.

“Although this compilation will increase the use of the Monthly Catalog for the period 1900-1940 and will make searches more convenient and complete, it will not eliminate the need for the Document Catalog. This catalog was more comprehensive and includes many additional documents. The indexing was generally better and in greater depth. The Document Catalog is also a combined catalog-index. Arranged by subject, the entries provide complete bibliographic information, and the user must look only in one place and need not consult both index and catalog listings. In those cases in which the user can narrow the search to a short time frame, the Document Catalog might still be preferred. However, most documents reference work concerns more recent publications, and this cumulative index is warmly welcomed since it fills a serious gap for the period 1961-1971.

“ Due to variations in terminology and indexing rules that have occurred over this span of 72 years, the The complete 15-volume set is available for immediate delivery. Use this coupon to order today. compilers have been forced to make certain arbitrary, but eminently reasonable and practical, editorial decisions. Subject headings appear intact under their original spellings. However, this problem has been alleviated by merging many see and see also references that had disappeared over the years. The problem of subject headings in both singular and plural form, often widely separated, has been solved by combining them under either one or the other heading. In the case of series and certain types of reports, chronological and numerical listings are used rather than straight alphabetical listings.

“ The complete set is being published in attractive, folio-size, case-bound volumes. By the end of 1974, Volumes 1 through 11 (covering “A” through “Pub”) have been published. The price may appear to be prohibitive, but when judged by its value in practical use, in time saved for librarians and other users of federal documents, and in the more exhaustive searches which it allows and encourages, the set is quite inexpensive and is considered to be an outstanding bargain.”

LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf

Higher Education but has subsequently been supported in the library at Oklahoma State University and published there.

Libraries wishing to purchase the List in hard copy form, which is sold at cost for $87.00 or in microfiche format at $5.00, may correspond with Norman L. Nelson, Administrative Assistant, University Library, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074.

• A comprehensive, classified international directory of periodicals that publish literary scholarship has been published. Scholar’s Market by Gary L. Harmon and Susanna M. Harmon contains information on 848 periodicals, all potential markets for publishing the works of literary scholars. The directory costs $14.50 per copy and is available from: The Ohio State University Libraries Publications Committee, Room 322A, 1858 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.

• A Lithuanian Bibliography by Adam and Filomena Kantautas. A checklist of books and articles held by the major libraries of Canada and the United States, this valuable reference work contains 10,168 numbered entries of works written by 3,587 different authors in nearly every European language. This work includes an analytic table of contents, the symbols for libraries, an author and title index, and a list of serials consulted, with locations and holdings.

Fully bound, this 725-page volume is available for $10.00 from L. E. S. Gutteridge Cameron Library, The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton T6G 2J8 Canada.

• Cornell University Libraries has published a new edition of its Serials Currently Received. Edited by A. Elizabeth Crosby, the new edition is kept up to date by a 1974 supplement.

This edition records the holdings of approximately 33,000 serial publications currently received by the libraries on the Ithaca campus. The list is alphabetically arranged by title or corporate entry. Each entry includes place of publication, beginning volume number, beginning date of publication (when available), the location symbol of the libraries in which the publication can be located, classification numbers, and holdings. U.S. and foreign newspapers currently received are listed in the Appendix.

Annual supplements will combine, in a single alphabetical list, all titles added as well as the following information: cross-references for changes in entries, additional locations, changes in holdings and call numbers, withdrawals, and titles which have ceased publication or are not currently received.

Price of the main volume is $25.00; price of the 1974 supplement is $5.00. Copies may be ordered from: Budget and Accounting Office, Cornell University Libraries, 234 John M. Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853.

• Josephine Jacobsen, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971-1973, was the first woman to hold that position since Elizabeth Bishop had been appointed in 1949. Traditionally, at the end of each year’s literary season, the poetry consultant delivers a lecture under the auspices of the library’s Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Ms. Jacobsen’s first lecture, presented in May 1972, was entitled “From Anne to Marianne: Some Women in American Poetry” and was subsequently issued by the Superintendent of Documents under the title, Two Lectures. In The Instant of Knowing, the lecture Ms. Jacobsen delivered in May 1973 that the library recently published, the author describes the process of poetic creation.

The lecture concludes with three of Ms. Jacobsen’s poems that she read for the occasion to illustrate her theme: “When the Five Prominent Poets,” “The Poem Itself,” and “Poet, When You Rhyme.”

The Instant of Knowingis available for $.35 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3016-00021; LC 1.14: J15), or in person from the information counter, ground floor of the Library of Congress Main Building.

• The University of Colorado’s Western Historical Collections has begun publishing a series of guides to individual manuscript collections. They are letter-press printed on good paper stock and saddle stitch bound with an attractive cover design. Each guide includes a description of the content and scope, a biography and chronology as well as an inventory containing a name index. The titles presently available are:

Guide to the Edward Keating Papers 1900- 1964 (Colorado newspaperman, congressman 1913-1919, and editor of Labor);

Guide to the Arthur C. Johnson Papers 1887- 1937 (Colorado journalist, aid to U.S. Senator Patterson, attorney, and publisher of the Colorado Record Stockman);

Guide to the Henry Moore Teller Papers 1862-1908 (Colorado lawyer, congressman, U.S. senator, and secretary of interior);

Guide to the Harper M. Orahood Papers 1861-1880 (Colorado pioneer, businessman, lawyer, and civic leader);

Guide to the Darley Family Papers 1875- 1970 (Colorado pioneers, clergymen, and educators);

Guide to the Edward C. Weatherly Papers 1890-1936 (Colorado mine owner, promoter, and mining authority).

Copies may be obtained by writing to John A. Brennan, Curator of the Western Historical Collections, University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder, CO 80302. A prepayment of $2.00 each is requested.

• The Barker Engineering Library of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the publication of Serials and Journals Currently Received in the Barker Engineering Library, 1st edition, 1974, compiled and edited by Susan K. Nutter, associate engineering librarian. Listings are included for the approximately 3,600 serials and journals in the areas of biomedical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, energy resources and utilization, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and transportation, to which the library currently subscribes. The title is available in paper edition for $15.00 and in microfiche edition for $2.50.

Orders, which must be prepaid, should be sent directly to: Susan K. Nutter, Room 10-500, M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. Make checks payable to: Barker Engineering Library.

• Harold Smith’s The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—1826-1846 has been issued by Dalhousie University Library and Dalhousie University School of Library Service as its Occasional Paper, no. 8, at $2.00. Copies of this and other titles in the Occasional Papers Series can be ordered from Dr. Norman Horrocks, Director, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H8.

• The Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, a division of the Wisconsin Library Association, has recently compiled and published a Directory of Wisconsin Academic Librarians (Feb. 1975), listing all librarians in post-high school educational institutions in the state. It includes indexes by name, institution, and type-of-work. Cost is $1.00 to WLA members or $2.00 to nonmembers for hard copy; $.50 for microfiche. Order, with payment, from Mrs. Elizabeth Bohmrich, WLA Executive Secretary, 201 W. Mifflin, Madison, WI 53703.

• The University of Alberta Library recently announced the publication of two items:

—Reference Materials in Slavic and East European Studies, compiled by C. N. Suchowersky. Edmonton, 1974. xix, 117p. $3.25. The aim of this annotated, indexed bibliography “. . . is to aid students and library staff with the special difficulties which arise in Slavic and East European Studies.” Dr. Suchowersky, in his introduction, mentions all Slavic groups and

gives their characterizations and historical backgrounds. He discusses the difficulties and complications that arise, not only for the student, but even for librarians, in understanding the arrangement and classification of East European and Slavic publications and studies.

—Statistical Sources in the Library; A Selected Bibliography. Compiled by Wasyl Hyrak. Edmonton, 1974. vii, 140p. $3.50. This bibliography “introduces library users to various statistical materials” in the University of Alberta Library. It is subdivided by type of statistical source, e.g., “Bibliographies and Guides,” and then further divided by geographic area.

These publications are available from the University Bookstore, Edmonton. ■ ■