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He was a principal developer of the pneumatic bicycle tire, manufactured trucks during World War I, and, in his retirement, devoted himself to extensive projects in the interests of bicycle riders.

Correspondence with such prominent figures as Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey DePew, Lyman Gage, Charles Duryea, Hamilton Fish, Mark Hanna, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, and T. C. Platt is included. Other material refers to such leading figures as J. P. Morgan, John J. Astor, G. J. Gould, and F. W. Vanderbilt.

The collection consists of 300 papers, including manuscripts written by Bidwell about the bicycle field, letters to and from him, and miscellaneous papers. The collection was purchased from the library of Lucille Bartlett and Constance Whitten, Hempstead, New York, and is available for scholars to use.

Also acquired by the library recently was the historically significant Visscher map. The Vis- scher map was produced in the Netherlands around 1655 and was the map used by the English to colonize New York State in 1665.

The map is said to be an exact duplicate of the one by which the Privy Council in 1685 settled the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania and which was in the hands of William Penn’s son, Thomas, in 1768. It was notarized by David Ewart, London, March 25, 1768, for Robert Charles, agent for the colony of New York, and docketed by John Jay. John Jay, later to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was secretary of the commission to negotiate the 1783 peace treaty which liberated New York, and used the Visscher map to decide the boundary line between New Jersey and New York states. The map was in John Jay’s hands in 1769 and passed down through his family for several generations.

The map was purchased with money accumulated through the James MacLean American Legion Long Island and New York State History Fund. It is framed and on exhibit daily in the university’s Special Collections Department.

• Gaylord Music Library of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, has acquired an outstanding collection of vocal music, insonn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossinm, and wagner. The facsimiles are of manuscripts of Bach, Beethoven, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Wagner. When cataloged, the collection will be housed in the special collections of the Gaylord Music Library.

• Aaron M. Orange has given the library of the City College, City University of New York, his valuable collection of books and memorabilia related to the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Morgan was born in 1818 in upper New York State. Following his graduation from Union College in 1840, he read law and began a career that combined a successful law practice with political activity, culminating in a decade’s service in the New York State Assembly and Senate.

Morgan is best known as an ethnologist. His interest in the Iroquois Confederacy led him to undertake extensive research in American Indian society. Basing his conclusion on the Seneca- Ojibwa method of family designation, he theorized that the American Indian had migrated from Asia. Morgan was also a pioneer in the study of Australian ethnology. It should be noted that his interest in the American Indian was more than academic: he was an early protester against the oppression to which the Indian was subjected.

One of the results of Morgan’s research was Ancient Society (1877), the first scientific discussion of the evolution of civilization. Morgan’s inclusion of property as a factor in cultural evolution and his assumption of the revolutionary nature of social change drew Marx’s attention to the book and influenced Engels in writing his Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

Among the approximately 100 items now in the archives are first editions of all Morgan’s works, his contributions to the New York State Museum Reports, lectures, biographical material, newspaper articles, and pamphlets. Of special importance are first editions of Ancient Society, The League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, and The American Beaver and His Work. Much of this material would be difficult to obtain today. The completeness of the collection promises to make Orange’s gift a treasure for scholars.

• The Urban Archives Center of Temple University Libraries has acquired the records of the Citizen’s Crime Commission of Philadelphia (1949-73), the Legal Aid Society (1933- 76), the YMCA of Germantown (1874-1971), the Citizen’s Charter Committee (1949-63), the Citizen’s Budget Committee (1950-57), and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (1965-72).

• The archives/special collections of the City College, City University of New York, has received the Phonographic Library of Contemporary Poets, taped at the college between 1938 and 1941. Included are readings by Edgar Lee Masters, Richard Aldington, Marianne Moore, Robinson Jeffers, Allen Tate, John Peale Bishop, and W. H. Auden; in some cases, these were the first recordings made by the poets reading from their own works. In addition to the recordings, the collection comprises some seventy-five volumes of poetry from the period, many of them signed first editions.

The recordings are being transcribed onto cassette tapes by the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. When the project is completed in the fall, both the Lincoln Center Library and the City College will have cassette copies available for public use.

GRANTS

• The library of the City College, City University of New York, has received a $5,000 grant from the Japan Foundation, Tokyo, for the microfilming and preservation of the Townsend Harris papers.

Townsend Harris, who founded City College as the Free Academy in 1847, served as the first American minister to Japan. The journals and correspondence that make up the collection are primarily concerned with Harris’ diplomatic career in Japan.

The papers span the years 1855-58 and include correspondence with Secretary of State William L. Marcy, with the king of Siam, and with representatives of the emperor of Japan. The collection also includes ceremonial presentation letters from the Japanese government and Townsend Harris’ official credentials, signed by President Franklin Pierce.

When the preservation project is completed, microfilm copies of the Townsend Harris papers will be available for public use at the City College Archives, located in City College’s Cohen Library, 135th Street and Convent Avenue. In addition, positive copies will be presented to the Japan Foundation for deposit in Japanese scholarly archives. The project, which will take about a year to complete, is under the direction of Professor Virginia N. Cesario, chief librarian at City College, assisted by Samuel A. Streit, the college’s archivist.

The Harris papers were given to City College in 1903 by Bessie A. Harris, grandniece of Townsend Harris.

• President Matina Horner has announced that Radcliffe College has received a two- year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in the amount of $98,700 to support a biographical oral history project on the lives of black women. The grant will be administered by the Schlesinger Library.

In the course of the project, developed under the guidance of the late Letitia W. Brown, professor of American history and civilization at the George Washington University and member of the Advisory Board of the Schlesinger Library, interviews will be conducted with women educators, businesswomen, entertainers, writers, artists, social workers, community organizers, religious leaders, and women in politics, government, and the health professions. Interviewees will be older black women, most of whom began their involvement in civic and professional activities prior to the 1930s and whose contributions and achievements have resulted in the improvement of the quality of life for black people.

The project will be under the direction of an advisory committee whose members include: Professor Margaret Walker Alexander, Jackson State College; the Honorable Yvonne Brath- waite Burke, U.S. House of Representatives; Marcia Greenlee, graduate student, George Washington University; Professor Elsie Lewis, Hunter College, City University of New York; Dr. Dorothy Porter, retired director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard

University; Professor Margaret Rowley, head of the History Department, Atlanta University; Muriel Snowden, co-director, Freedom House, Boston; and Professor Merze Tate, Howard University.

The interviews will be conducted by graduate students at different colleges and universities, under the supervision of members of the advisory committee. The interviews will be transcribed at the Schlesinger Library, where the manuscripts and other supporting documentation will be housed for research use. Copies of the transcripts will also be deposited at a selected number of black colleges and universities throughout the country.

The final selection of the women to be interviewed will be made by the advisory committee, whose members welcome suggestions of possible interviewees as well as information on other oral history projects in similar areas. Suggestions can be sent to Patricia M. King, Director of the Schlesinger Library, or Betty S. Leonard, Coordinator of the Black Women Oral History Project, The Schlesinger Library, 3 James St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

• Cornell University is one of twelve colleges and universities to receive a Library Service Enhancement Program grant from the Council on Library Resources (CLR). The one- year grant of $20,000 provides funds to improve services and increase use of campus libraries.

The CLR grant will pay the salary and benefits of a librarian to spend full time developing a program to expand and improve library services. J. Gormly Miller, director of the Cornell University Library system, has selected Joan Ormondroyd, associate librarian, to develop such a program. She will be working closely with faculty, students, and staff to improve library instruction for undergraduates, to provide instruction and guidance in bibliography, documentation, and library research methods for upperclassmen and graduates, to review the course reserve system, and, with Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education June Fessenden- Raden, to create an Academic Resources Center for the dissemination of information about learning and instruction materials, equipment, and expertise.

Attention Florida Searchers

If you are an on-line searcher in Florida and are interested in attending a users meeting, contact Mrs. Lois Burdick, Science-Technology Division, Strozier Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

Ormondroyd has been at Cornell since 1971, working as a reference and reserve librarian. She came to Cornell from California, where she worked as an outreach librarian in the Contra Costa County public library system after receiving a master’s degree in library science in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her undergraduate work included a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the University of the Americas in Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in history and English from UC, Berkeley. She also holds a master’s degree in teaching arts from UC, Davis, and taught for a number of years in both public and private schools in California and Canada.

• Simmons College, Boston, has received a grant from the Kellogg Foundation for the purchase and installation of an Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) terminal. The terminal will be used on a cooperative basis by the School of Library Science and the College Library for instructional purposes as well as for on-line access to the OCLC cataloging data base. According to Robert Stueart, dean of the school, and Dorothy Senghas, director of the College Library, the cooperation and support of NELINET and the New England Board of Higher Education helped make the joint venture possible.

MEETINGS

November 10-13: The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) will hold its fifth annual meeting and program at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. MELA will cosponsor a MESA conference panel on Islamic printing and publishing chaired by Richard S. Cooper (Islamica librarian—UC Berkeley) with Fawzi Khoury (Near East bibliographer—Univ. of Washington ) as commentator.

Further details are available from Janet Heineck, Secretary-Treasurer of MELA, Room 560, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL 60637. For more information about the MESA meeting please write to MESA Headquarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003.

November 11-13: The Southwestern Library Associationand the Mountain Plains Library Association will hold a joint conference at the Albuquerque Convention Center. An outstanding program of speakers, workshops, and preconference institutes is being planned around the theme “The-Net Worth of Networking.” John F. Anderson, director of the Tucson Public Library, and Vern West, head of technical services, Jefferson County Public Library, Golden, Colorado, are in charge of program planning. Featured speakers will include Clara Jones, president of ALA, and Roderick Swartz, Washington State Librarian.

For further information, contact: Allene Kleweno, 3700 San Mateo N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87110.

November 12: OCLC Update Workshop. An OCLC update will be the topic of a workshop sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany. Program director is Glyn T. Evans, director of library services, SUNY Central Administration.

The cost of the workshop is $10 (free to SUNY/OCLC network member library staffs). For further information, contact: Dr. Lucille Whalen, Coordinator of Continuing Education, SUNYA School of Library and Information Science, Albany, NY 12222, or call (518) 457- 8575.

November 14-17: The 1976 annual Allerton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Times: Changing Libraries,” and will consider likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the university campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute.

The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write Edward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

November 16-17: Copyright Conference. The Indiana University Graduate Library School will sponsor a conference on the topic “The Copyright Dilemma; A Rational Outcome.” The conference, to be held on the Indiana University campus at Bloomington, Indiana, will bring together spokesmen for the fields significantly affected by alternative proposed changes in copyright legislation, and will allow interaction between speakers and with the conference attendees.

Those interested in further information should contact: Herbert S. White, Professor at the Graduate Library School and Director, Research Center for Library and Information Science, Library 005, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401.

November 19-20: The School of Library Science, Simmons College, announces the Institute on Quantitative Measurement and Dynamic Library Service, to be directed by Professor Ching-chih Chèn. It will consist of two two-day units:

Unit 1—Statistical Applications and System Approaches in Library Management (November 19-20, 1976). Faculty: Professor Morris Hamburg, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ferdinand Leimkuhler, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University; and Professor Ching-chih Chen, School of Library Science, Simmons College.

Unit 2-—Critical Evaluation of Quantitative Methods for Library Management (March 27- 28, 1977). Faculty: Professor F. Wilfrid Lancaster, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois; and Professor Ching-chih Chen, School of Library Science, Simmons College.

Although participants can register for a single unit, registration for both units is strongly recommended since participants will be encouraged to conduct a quantitative and/or systems study in their own environments during the interval between units one and two.

For further information, contact: Coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115; (617) 738-2222.

December 29: “The Literary Research Scholar, Libraries, and Librarians” is the title of a program which will be held at the Modern Language Association in New York from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Conrad Hilton Hotel.

Three papers will be presented: “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Teaching of Literary Research Methods,” by Margaret Patterson, Gainesville, Florida; “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and Bibliographical Systems,” by Robert Colby, Queens College, City University of New York; and “Literary Scholars, Librarians, and the Utilization of Library Collections,” by Mary Ann O’Donnell, Manhattan College. The respondent for the program will be Mary George, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the discussion leader will be Eric Carpenter, State University of New York, Buffalo.

For further information or advance copies of the papers please contact: Eric J. Carpenter,

Reference Department, Lockwood Library, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214.

January 28-30: “The New Information Professional” will be the topic of the Association of American Library Schools (AALS) annual program meeting, to be held in Washington, D.C., immediately preceding the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association. Presentations and discussions will focus on alternative programs for professional education, content of curricula, recruitment, markets for the new information professional, and other aspects of planning educational programs.

Ronald G. Havelock, Center for Research in the Utilization of Knowledge, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, will deliver the keynote address, “Information Professionals as Change Agents.” Responding to the address, Robert S. Taylor will discuss academic aspects of the education of new information professionals, and Robin D. Crickman will address the need for training in interpersonal and communications skills. Taylor is dean, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, and Crick- man is with the Mental Health Institute, University of Michigan.

A luncheon meeting will feature Elaine Svenonius, University of Western Ontario, and Diana Thomas, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA. They will discuss the integration of the information-science component in their respective curricula: Western Ontario in a five-quarter program and UCLA in a two-year program.

The closing program session will explore four topics of current curriculum interest: “Changes in School Media Certification,” “Joint Degree Programs,” “Sixth-Year Programs,” and “Off- Campus Education.” In addition, AALS will join with the Government Documents Roundtable of ALA to offer a program on teaching government documents.

Guy Garrison, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, is president of the Association of American Library Schools. Program chairperson for the January conference is Brigitte L. Kenney, also of Drexel University-

January 28-February 2: The Fifth Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held in Los Angeles at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Included in the program are visits to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, architectural highlights of Los Angeles, etc. For more information, contact: Judith A. Hofīberg, Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201.

March 7-9: Dr. William O. Baker, president, Bell Laboratories, will present the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture at the 1977 Annual Conference of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. The conference will be held at Stouffers National Center Hotel, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.

Dr. Baker has long been active in scientific and technical information matters at a national level. He chaired the panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee which authored the landmark study “Improving the Availability of Scientific and Technical Information in the United States” (the Baker Report) in 1958. He also served as chairman of the Science Information Council of the National Science Foundation from 1959 through 1961 and was a member of the Weinberg Panel which produced the report “Science, Government, and Information” in 1963. He currently is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, a director of Annual Reviews, Inc., a member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and a participant in many other important national committees and commissions.

Dr. Baker’s accomplishments as scientist and research executive have brought him many honors and awards, including the American Chemical Society’s Priestley and Perkin medals, the Honor Scroll of the American Institute of Chemists, and the Industrial Research Institute Medal.

April 13-16: The Texas Library Association and the New Mexico Library Association will hold a joint conference at the El Paso Civic Center in El Paso, Texas. The theme for the joint conference will be “In Search of Learning.” For further information, contact: Margaret Mathis, Publicity Chairman, TLA ’77 Conference, 9901 Cork Dr., El Paso, TX 79925.

June 20-24: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirty-first annual conference at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Further information may be secured from: Dr. John B. Trotti, Librarian, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 3401 Brook Rd., Richmond, V A 23227.

MISCELLANY

• The Board of Trustees of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) is pleased to announce that thirteen individuals from librarianship, science, and business have accepted invitations to serve on an advisory council which will recommend to the Board of Trustees and the Ohio membership a plan for extending membership outside Ohio and for a reorganization of OCLC.

At the first meeting of the advisory council at OCLC in Columbus on July 9, the council members agreed to guide and direct a consulting firm in suggesting what a computerized, nationwide library network might look like in the future and what OCLC’s functions might be among the various elements in such a network. The advisory council also will review and revise the consultant’s recommendations for functions and structure of OCLC. The Ohio membership of OCLC will vote on the report of the council.

Formation of the advisory council came about because of a resolution passed by the Ohio membership of OCLC at its last annual meeting, in November 1975, directing the Board of Trustees to investigate extension of membership in OCLC outside the state of Ohio.

Individuals on the advisory council are: Thomas H. Anderson, partner, the Andersons, Maumee, Ohio; Dr. Frederick H. Burkhardt, chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; William Chait, director, Dayton and Montgomery County (Ohio) Public Library; Richard DeGennaro, director of libraries, University of Pennsylvania; Dan M. Lacy, senior vice-president, McGraw-Hill, Inc.;

Barbara Evans Markuson, executive director, Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA); Dr. Charles B. Maurer, director of the library, Denison University, Granville, Ohio; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, Washington State Library; R. L. Wagner, executive director, Data and Mobile Communications Division, Bell Laboratories; David C. Weber, director, Stanford University Libraries; Robert Wedgeworth, executive director, American Library Association; William Welsh, Deputy Librarian of Congress; and Dr. Ronald L. Wigington, director of research and development, Chemical Abstracts Service.

PUBLICATIONS

• In association with the London School of Economics, Bowker has recently published A Manual of European Languages for Librarians, by C. G. Allen ($56.50; LC 73-6062; ISBN 0-85935-028-2). In this 803-page volume, Allen, former superintendent of readers’ services at the British Library of Political and Economic Science, has provided an introduction to thirty- six languages, grouped according to the following families; Germanic; Latin and Romance; Celtic, Greek, and Albanian; Slavonic; Baltic; Finno-Ugrian; and with separate consideration for such individual national tongues as Basque, Maltese, and Turkish.

A chapter is devoted to each language, providing an analytical, concise study based on examination of relevant books and periodicals. Each chapter begins with a specimen passage and general remarks on the language. The linguistic aspects of the title page, colophon, and preface are then considered, with reference to authorship, title, translators, sponsoring bodies, edition, imprint, and series. A short systematic grammar, a glossary of about 100 librarian- oriented words, and grammatical indexes of words and word endings complete each language section.

• The Center for Business Information, Paris, has begun publication of a new loose-leaf service providing a continuously updated reference guide and source catalog on both eastern and western European business and economic information sources. Entitled The European Directory of Business Information Sources and Services, the new publication is to give a detailed critical analysis of each new European information source or service as it appears.

A six-month trial subscription is being made available to initial subscribers at the special rate of $75.00. A loose-leaf binder with preprinted divider tabs, plus a “core” or starter collection of fifty reports on the standard, essential European sources and services for each geographical area will be mailed to the subscriber. Sample reports may be obtained from the publisher, Center for Business Information, 7 Rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France.

• The Art Libraries Society of North America has recently published a series of essays, Library Classification Systems and the Visual Arts, edited by David J. Patten. Among the problems discussed are theoretical questions, a general survey of library classification in the arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library classification system, the Photograph and Slide Library of the Metropolitan, the National Gallery of Art Library artist classification scheme, the Crafts and Dewey decimal systems, and classification at the Archives of American Art.

A limited number of copies are available for $1.00 (prepaid) from ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201. The cost is $2.00 if an invoice is required.

• The 1976 edition of the Council on Library Technical-Assistants’ (COLT) Directory of Institutions Offering or Planning Programs for the Training of Library Technical Assistants, edited by Richard L. Taylor, has been published. This edition resembles its predecessors in format, but contains more information. It includes data from 157 schools in the United States and Canada; only 134 schools were represented in the last edition. This is an invaluable aid for directors of library training programs, students of librarianship, employers of library paraprofessionals, and, most of all, potential library technology students and their advisors. As with all COLT publications, complimentary copies of this Directory are being sent to all institutional members of COLT. Other schools and libraries may purchase copies for $7.00 per copy. Orders may be placed with library book wholesalers, or may be sent directly to: COLT Publications, c/o School Management Institute, 750 Brooksedge Blvd., Westerville, OH 43081.

• Computer-generated listings of foundation grants in forty-three broad subject fields are now available for 1975. Designed to provide low-cost information on recent foundation grants, the microfiche listings are produced by the nonprofit Foundation Center, the country’s leading research and publishing agency in the field of philanthropic foundations.

A foundation’s grant-making history is the best information for determining which foundations are interested in funding projects in particular subject areas. These microfiche subject listings provide an easy means of identifying major foundations interested in the subject categories most frequently requested by grant seekers.

Each microfiche subject card is arranged by state location of the foundation and, within each state, alphabetically by foundation name. All of a foundation’s grants for a particular subject category are listed under the foundation name. Grant records include the grant amount, name and location of the recipient organization, and a description of the activity funded, where available. Each category includes its own alphabetical index to foundations which have made grants in that field.

The microfiche can be ordered from the Foundation Center, 888 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019.

• The year 1876 was an important one for libraries in the United States. It marked the founding of the American Library Association, the origin of Library Journal, and the publication of three important works—Dewey’s decimal classification, Cutter’s rules for a dictionary catalog, and the report on libraries by the U.S. Bureau of Education.

On the one-hundredth anniversary of these events, the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has published a special issue of Library Trends on “American Library History: 1876-1976.”

Issue editor is UIUC alumnus Howard W. Winger, dean of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago.

The first section of the volume includes papers on the writing of library history, the spread of libraries, the growth of collections, statistical reporting, and the development of library buildings.

Part two examines the library profession, including education, associations, the library press, generalized characteristics of librarians, and some points of contact between librarians in the U.S. and abroad.

The third section includes papers on bibliographic organization, and the final chapters deal with developments in library service to children and young people, college students, adults, and specialized users in nonacademic settings.

This special issue of Library Trends is available for $5.00 from the Subscription Department, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 61801. A few hardbound copies are available for $8.00 each.

• Video and Cable Communications, Guidelines for Librarians is a new publication of the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association. It was written by Brigitte L. Kenney and Roberto Esteves and is the only source book of information on video specifically designed for librarians and library staff members.

The publication is intended for those who are interested in gaining an overall look at the use of video in libraries, for those who would like to understand the technology, for those who need to know how to establish and administer a video unit, or seeking information about the legal and regulatory aspects of the field. It can also be used as a study-guide for staff development.

Some of the chapters include video for library services, video for patron use, programming for special groups, financing, hardware, sources for programming, software, regulations and franchising, and community organization and resources. The book includes checklists of things to do, sources for information, and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Copies are available (prepaid only) at $3.50 each from the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Please make checks payable to the American Library Association. Payment must be included with the order.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently released a 159- page publication of interest to librarians considering or involved with library automation projects. Papers presented at the twelfth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois, April 27- 30, 1975, have been pubhshed under the title The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. These papers provide an analysis of the evolution, current status, and future applications of computer processing and machine-readable files in information retrieval.

Copies are available for $8.00 from: Publications Office, Graduate School of Library Science, 249 Armory Bldg., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has released no. 123 in its series of Occasional Papers: OCLC in Retrospect: A Review of the Impact of the OCLC System on the Administration of a Large University Technical Services Operations. Authored by Joseph Z. Nitecki, associate director for technical services at Temple University Libraries, this paper analyzes Temple University’s membership in the Ohio College Library Center network, and outlines the emergence of the trend to a regional approach to the system.

Library administrators will be interested in the discussion of the impact of recent developments on the OCLC system, the statistics presented to clarify Temple University’s experience with OCLC participation, and with what Nitecki refers to as the “pros and cons of shared cataloging.” This latter section is subdivided for discussion in terms of searching activities, editing activities, original cataloging, catalog card production and reproduction, and processing problems.

Numbers in the Occasional Papers series are available from: Publications Office, Graduate School of Library Science, 249 Armory Bldg., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. Single copies are $2.00 each; subscriptions are available on an annual basis for $7.00 per year and will cover a minimum of five issues per year.

• The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Studies has issued a new SPEC Kit.

SPEC Kit no. 28, on Gifts and Exchange Functions in ARL Libraries, contains twenty- seven documents totaling 129 pages. The kit includes: a summary of data resulting from the University of California at Los Angeles survey on the organization, staffing, and operation of gifts and exchange functions; annual reports; policies and procedures for gifts and exchange functions; and gifts and exchange position descriptions.

Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost to ARL members and SPEC subscribers is $7.50 for each kit; the cost to others is $15.00.

• The MIT Barker Engineering Library has produced a new series of audio and audiovisual point-of-use bibliographical instruction aids to introduce various science and technology abstracting and indexing services and other library tools. The series updates and extends the one developed by the Project INTREX Model Library Program, 1970-72.

The new materials are available from the Barker Library at a nominal charge, on a prepaid sale basis only. For a list of titles and prices, please write: Katharine G. Cipolla, Media Services Librarian, Barker Engineering Library, MIT, Room 10-500, Cambridge, MA 02139.

• A new magazine, ONLINE, aimed exclusively at providing practical, “how-to” information to users of on-line bibliographic information systems, has been announced by Jeffery K. Pemberton, president and publisher of Online, Inc., a new company formed expressly for the purpose of providing products and services for the growing on-line market.

ONLINEwill begin as a quarterly, with each issue containing 64-96 pages of feature articles, data base reviews, equipment and communications news, and special columns, plus advertisements by data base suppliers, on-line systems operators, equipment manufacturers, microform publishers, and information brokers.

The editorial focus of ONLINE will be almost entirely on articles that can be put to immediate use in the everyday use of on-line systems. Among the major articles in the first issue will be a guide to choosing a terminal; an article on how to promote on-line systems to management and to end users; a user’s report on the best way to use the New York Times Information Bank; a special study on using BIOSIS and MEDLINE as a team for biomedical searches; an article on where to obtain free online searches; plus data base and equipment reviews.

Jeff Pemberton, the publisher of ONLINE, is a veteran of both on-line and off-line information systems for the past ten years. He has been associated with Aspen Systems Corp., the New York Times Information Bank, and Lockheed Information Systems. He has also done work for data base and microform publishers such as the Environment Information Center, INSPEC, and Greenwood Press. Pemberton is also a for- mer newspaper reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

For further information, call J. K. Pemberton at (203) 227-0949.

• Government Organization Manuals: A Bibliography,published by the Library of Con- gress, is a virtual “road map” of guides to the organization of over 140 national governments. The compiler of this bibliography is Vladimir M. Palic of the Library of Congress Serial Di- vision.

The first part of the bibliography includes basic works on public administration and gov- ernmental organization in general. The second part lists individual countries and their publi- cations in alphabetical order. Selected retro- spective sources which provide information on past changes within individual governments are also included.

Materials in this bibliography have been se- lected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Entries and call numbers, generally, are those used in the Library of Congress card catalog. An index covers personal and corporate authors, selected titles of works, and names of geographic areas and countries.

Government Organization Manuals:A Bibliography is available for $1.40 by mail from the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. ■■