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•The newly-revised ALA Federal Legislative Policy (31 pages, January 1983) adopted by ALA Council at the Midwinter Meeting in 1983 is now available from the Washington Office. Single copies may be ordered by sending a stamped (37¢) selfaddressed envelope to the ALA Washington Office, Box 54, 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC 20002.

•The Catholic Library Association: The First Sixty Years, 1921-1981, by Jane F. Hindman (1983), details the history and publications of that organization since its founding. Copies may be ordered for $10 (CLA members) or $14 (nonmembers), plus $1.50 postage and handling, from the Catholic Library Association, 461 West Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041.

•The Child Abuse and Neglect Thesaurus (149 pages, March 1983), intended for use with the Child Abuse and Neglect database, is now available for $7 (prepaid) from the Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, Herner and Company, 1700 N. Moore St., Arlington, VA 22209. Checks should be payable to “Child Abuse and Neglect Clearinghouse.”

•The Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories at Harvard University and Radcliffe College (45 pages, 1983) provides basic information on the location, facilities, and holdings of 53 departments at Harvard and Radcliffe that hold unpublished research materials. Each entry features a description of holdings, and most also include a list of published guides and references to the repository’s collections. Copies are available for $5 (prepaid) from Harvard University Library, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

•The Directory of Library Instruction Programs in California, prepared by Kathleen Coleman and Esther Grassian (3d ed., 1983), provides detailed information about the instructional programs of 170 libraries. Based on a 1982 survey, the new edition features information on how each program is administered and staffed and on the participation of teaching faculty in library instruction. The directory is available for $10 (checks payable to the California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction) from Terry Jacobsen, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 120 Powell Library Building, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

•A Directory of Member Libraries (64 pages, 1983) of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries has been compiled by Bernadette G. Callery, Enola Jane Teeter, and Mary Lou Wolfe. The directory includes information on over 90 member libraries of this largely North American society. Entries include subject strengths, notes on public services and special collections, names and phone numbers of staff, and lists of publications describing the collections. Copies are free upon request from the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, Attn: CBHL Directory.

•The Guide to the Roebling Collections at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rutgers University, edited by Elizabeth C. Stewart (1983), describes the manuscripts, photographs, designs, plans, and library of civil engineers John and Washington Roebling. The guide is heavily illustrated with items from the Rensselaer collection.

Published by the Friends of the Folsom Library at Rensselaer, the book is available (prepaid only) for $15 from the Institute Archives, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12181.

•Journal Holdings in the Washington-Baltimore Area (375 pages, 1983 ed.) has been published by the Interlibrary Users Association. This union list is a valuable information source on 11,000 scientific and technical journals held by 70 special, public, and academic libraries. Subjects include aerospace technology, computer science, health sciences, and transportation. Copies may be ordered for $160 from the Metropolitan Washington Library Council, 1875 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006. Make checks payable to MWCOG.

•A Librarian’s Directory of Exchange Programs, Study Tours, Funding Sources, and Job Opportunities Outside of the United States, by Diane Stine (15 pages, 1982), is an annotated list of organizations that provide an opportunity for librarians to visit or work in another country. Copies may be ordered for $1.50 (prepaid) and a mailing label from the ALA Office for Library Personnel Resources, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

•Ralph Nader: A Bibliography, 1960-1982, compiled by Rienzi Crusz (2d ed., 1983), has been published as Number 8 in the University of Waterloo Library’s Bibliography Series. Coverage includes all monographs and periodical articles by and about Nader and his study groups, select reviews, and a section listing Nader’s testimony before Congress from 1966-1981. There are approximately 795 entries. Order a copy for $10 from Jorn Jorgensen, Library Business Administrator, Dana Porter Arts Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.

•Science and Technology Education for Civic and Professional Life: The Undergraduate Years (32 pages, 1983) is the report of a conference jointly sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and the American Association for the Advancement of Science held June 1-3, 1982, at the Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin. The conference was called to confront growing scientific and technological illiteracy in American society. It brought together leaders in education, business, government, and other professions to formulate a set of actions that individual colleges and universities can use to raise the level and quality of science and technology education for undergraduate students, especially those not majoring in those fields. Copies are available for $2.50 from the Association of American Colleges, 1818 R Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.

• User Instructions for Online Catalogs in ARL Libraries‚ SPEC Kit #93 (109 pages, April 1983), reflects a variety of approaches in designing instruction materials for online catalogs. The kit includes one set of library user materials for a common online circulation system (enhanced instructions), three sets of materials for individual library automated systems, one example of materials for public access to OCLC, and one set for public access to an online union catalog. Single copies may be purchased for $15, with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies, from the SPEC Center, ARL/OMS, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

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(Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College & Research Libraries.)

•The availability of microprocessor computer systems has stimulated the development of many software packages which are particularly suitable for use by small libraries and information units in the United Kingdom. Aslib Biological and Agricultural Sciences Group recognized that there were many small library and information units in Great Britain which were under-informed about current thinking and developments relating to these new systems. The conference proceedings contained in Computerised Systems in Library and Information Services (Aslib, 1982, £8.00) highlights the experiences of established users of mainframe and microcomputer technology.

•The founding of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago was a watershed in the history of professional education for librarianship. Despite the central role it has played, there is a remarkable lack of understanding regarding the school's contribution. The Spirit of Inquiry: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-51, by John Richardson, Jr. (American Library Association, 1982, $35), published as Number 42 in the series ACRL Publications in Librarianship, evaluates the history of the GLS.

•Since the end of World War II, librarianship has progressively developed into an international profession. World Librarianship: A Comparative Study (Marcel Dekker, 1983, $38.50) reports on developments around the globe. Based on the work of researchers well versed in regional affairs, this volume analyzes the current state of librarianship and predicts the future course of development, providing valuable insight into this important field.

•Communicating Public Access to Government Information(Meekler, 1982, $35) contains eight original papers which were presented at the Second Annual Government Documents and Information Conference held March 26-27, 1982, in Arlington, Virginia. Edited and introduced by conference chair Peter Hernon, the volume includes writers Bernardine E. Abbott Hoduski, Joseph F. Caponio, R. Brain Land, Kathleen M. Heim, Charles A. Seavey, Michael L. Tate, Peter Hernon and Charles McClure, John V. Richardson, Jr., and Gary R. Purcell.

•Financial Planning for Libraries(Haworth, 1983, $20) provides practical information on major budgetary and financing problems of academic and public libraries, including new approaches to salary planning, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, and collection management.

•Teaching Library Use Competence: Bridging the Gap from High School to College(Pierian, 1983, $16.95) consists of papers presented at the Eleventh Annual Library Instruction Conference held at Eastern Michigan University in May, 1981. The papers presented at this conference and collected in this volume include: a discussion of whether or not the entering college student is prepared to use libraries and what could be done to establish a link in the library instruction chain; the state of library user instruction in United Kingdom schools; a media center testing specialist and two academic librarians sharing their expertise on testing as a method for assessing library skills at three different educational levels.

•The long-awaited third edition of Introduction to United States Public Documents (Libraries Unlimited, 1983, $28.50 cloth) has been extensively revised to include many of the changes that have occurred in the production and distribution of government information. Like previous editions, this work offers an introduction to the basic sources of information that comprise the bibliographic structure of federal government publications. New or expanded material includes the continual growth and evolution of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, the significant changes in the format and distribution of the Congressional Serial Set, a detailed account of the legislative process, including private legislation, the 1980 census, and the proliferation of online databases and microform collections covering federal documentation. ■ ■