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• Archives and Manuscripts on Microfilm in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collectionis a checklist (with 400 entries) that provides a guide to more than 6,300 reels of microfilm of unique Latin American materials. The checklist may be ordered for $10 (plus 5 percent tax for Texas residents) from the General Libraries Office, University of Texas, Perry-Castaneda Library, Austin, TX 78712.

• Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, edited by I. Minis Hays (5v., Philadelphia, 1908), is available free to libraries upon written request by the librarian from the American Philosophical Society Library, 105 S. Fifth St., Philadelphia, PA 19106. The society still has several sets of the Calendar.

• The Library of Congress is making available copies of the entire CONSER (CONversion of SERials) Project File. The CONSER File contains 259,054 records contributed by fifteen institutions from 1975 through December 1979. The file was copied from the on-line CONSER data base at OCLC as of December 1979 and converted to the MARC Communication Format. It is available on 9-track, 800, or 1600 BPI tape with undefined variable length records for $1,000 from the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20541.

• Cumulative Index of Philosophical Books (a journal published by Leicester University) has been prepared for the first fifteen volumes (1960- 74). Copies may be ordered for $3 ($4 from Europe) from Julius F. Ariail, Box 8074, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460.

• Directory of Planning and Urban Affairs Libraries in the United States and Canada (112p., January 1980) is available for $15 from the Council of Planning Librarians, 1313 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637; (312) 947-2007.

• The Future of Scholarly Communication: The Minutes of the Ninety-fifth Meeting is an edited transcript of the program and business sessions of the membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Copies are available (prepaid) for $7.50 to non-ARL members from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036.

• Guide to Besearch by Katherine Jordan and Barbara Wyles is a self-instructional workbook that leads the student through the research process. Copies may be purchased for $3.20 (includes postage and handling) from the Annandale Campus Bookstore, Northern Virginia Community College, 8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003. Money order, institutional check, or purchase order is required.

• Illinois Health Science Libraries Serials Holdings List, seventh edition, James Parrish, editor (Chicago, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, 1980) is available to Illinois libraries for $10 and out-of-state libraries for $35. Copies may be ordered from the Office of the University Librarian, Library of Health Sciences, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, P.O. Box 7509, Chicago, IL 60680. Checks should be made out to the University of Illinois.

• Information Learning Packages are self- instructional materials describing information sources in a particular subject. Each package contains a student handbook and a teacher’s kit. Currently packages are available for British history, 1760-1960; biology; social welfare; and mechanical engineering. For further information contact Travelling Workshops Experiment, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Library, Ellison Building, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, United Kingdom.

• Information Searching: A Handbook for Designing and Creating Instructional Programs, has now been reprinted to meet the requests of library/media specialists who were unable to obtain the manual when copies paid for by an LSCA Title III Grant were distributed. The handbook is available for $6.50 from Dr. Harold Bantly, Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970.

• Library Management without Bias is the title of the published proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in May 1979. The proceedings, edited by Ching-chih Chen, include papers by Clara Jones, E. J. Josey, Patricia Batten, Connie Dunlap, Margaret Myers, Mary Hall, Barbara Conroy, Margaret Chisolm, Estelle Jussim, and A. J. Anderson. The proceedings will be published in the fall of 1980 by JAI Press.

• The Log of the Carla Mia, Being an Account of a Single-Handed Passage across the Atlantic Ocean in a 30-Foot Auxiliary Ketch by W. Carl Jackson, dean of libraries at Indiana University, will be published in a limited edition of 300. It may be obtained, only by subscription, for $35. For a prospectus and order form write to Ms. Sue Wilson, Office of the Dean, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, IN 47401.

• Online Bibliographic Search Services, SPEC Kit and Flyer #62 (107p., March 1980), examines the current state of on-line services based upon the experiences of a select number of ARL members. It is available to non-ARL members for $15,

prepayment required, from SPEC, Office of Management Studies, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• Report on the Installation of an Automated Circulation System describes the installation at the University of Waterloo Library of an automated circulation system supplied by GEAC Computer Corporation Limited. It may be ordered for $10 from Jorn Jorgensen, Library Business Administrator, Dana Porter Arts Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L3G1.

• The Status of Librarians in ARL Libraries,SPEC Kit and Flyer #61 (105p., February 1980), contains the results of a survey of ARL libraries on the status of librarians. It is available to non- ARL members for $15 from SPEC, Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• The Use of General Collections at the University of California: A Study of Unrecorded Use, At-the-Shelf Discovery, and Immediacy of Need for Materials at the Davis and Santa Cruz Campus Libraries is a report by Gary S. Lawrence and Anne R. Oja of the Office of the Assistant Vice President—Library Plans and Policies, University of California. Copies of the report (120 pages) are available at a cost of $5, prepaid, from Kay Sakalay, Office of the Assistant Vice President—Library Plans and Policies, 7 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

AUDIOVISUAL NOTICES

• “Authority Control—The Key to Tomorrow’s Catalog” was the title of an institute sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association of ALA on May 22-23, 1979, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and on September 17-18, 1979, in Los Angeles. Unedited cassette recordings of the papers presented at the Los Angeles institute may be ordered from Information Yield, 311 Stonecrest Dr., Syracuse, NY 13214. The full set of eleven tapes is $40; individual cassettes are $4.

• An Online Searching Tape-Slide Package,produced by the College of Librarianship Wales, is designed to give a general introduction to online searching. It consists of seventy-six slides and an audiocassette. Inquiries about purchasing the package should be addressed to Drake Educational Associates, 212 Whitchurch Rd., Cardiff, United Kingdom.

• A self-instruction program on the use of ERIC is now available from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The program consists of a slide- tape (eleven minutes, forty seconds) giving an overview of ERIC, self-instruction packets covering the ERIC Thesaurus, RIE and CIJE, and a culminating activity designed to apply the skills learned from the slide-tape and learning packets.

The cost of the entire program is $55. Previews may be arranged by contacting: Cynthia Welch, ILL/Film Rental, Media Retrieval Services, Pierce Library, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751; (715) 232-1112.

RECEIVED

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

• The Library of Congress has issued the Final Report of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CON- TU). The report, dated July 31, 1978, may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Price: $4.75 (Stock No. 030-002-00143-8). The report includes the commission's “recommendations based on three years of data collection, hearings, analysis, and deliberations,” with major sections addressing “Computers and Copyright” and “Machine Reproduction—Photocopying. ”

• The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies of the American Library Association (ALA) has issued Standards of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Available from ALA. Price: $4.50.

• The Association of Research Libraries has recently published its 1978-79 Annual Salary Survey. Compiled by Gordon Fretwell, the report is available from ARL for $5.

• The January/February 1980 issue of Library Technology Reports (ALA. $40 for single issue) contains laboratory test reports on one reader for opaque microforms and twelve photocopiers.

• John Mark Tucker provides a historical approach to the bibliography of library instruction in his newly published Articles on Library Instruction in Colleges and Universities, 1876— 1932. This 121-item annotated bibliography is issued as number 143 in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Papers (February 1980, $2). Readers of the series will note a new size for the series with this publication.

• In her Bibliographic Instruction in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature and Selected Bibliography, Jacquelyn M. Morris not only presents a literature review and a bibliography but also proposes an indexing language “based on the terminology of bibliographic instruction, which will make possible more precise searches on specific aspects of the field than the languages currently used can provide.” Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources and available from the Syracuse University Printing Services, 125 College Ph, Syracuse, NY 13210. Price: $4.75.

• William S. Pierce's Furnishing the Library Interior (Marcel Dekker, 1980, $39.75) deals

Faxon Acquires Stechert Macmillan- Expands Internationally

This acquisition enables Faxon to expand its scope of international publications, enhancing Faxon’s position as a world leader among library serials subscription agencies.

We welcome Stechert’s clients to join the over 18,000 libraries who already use our comprehensive services. At Faxon we combine the most advanced automation with 99 years of experience, giving clients the most personal and efficient service possible.

“with all aspects of selection, evaluation, and purchasing of library furniture and equipment.

• What Else You Can Do with a Library Degree, edited by Betty-Carol Sellen (Gaylord, 1980, paper, $14.95), presents brief essays by some sixty professionally trained librarians who have found careers outside of formal libraries—as free-lancers, in information management and research, in the book industry, and in communications, the arts, education, and government.

• The proceedings of a three-day conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in March 1978 have been recently published by ALA in the volume The Role of the Humanities in the Public Library. Price: $20.

• Alfred H. Lane, in charge of gifts and exchanges at the Columbia University Libraries, has prepared “a practical guide to the pitfalls and possibilities of gifts and exchanges” in his Gifts and Exchange Manual (Greenwood Press, 1980, $15).

• Cornell University Libraries has issued a second edition of its Manual of General Searching Procedures. This loose-leaf volume (price: $8), prepared to train staff in the acquisitions department and elsewhere in the Cornell system in preorder and precatalog searching, may be obtained from the Budget & Accounting Office, 234 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853.

• A 1978 report prepared for French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, L’informatisation de la société, by Simon Nora and Alain Mine, has been translated into English and published by MIT Press under the title The Computerization of Society. Daniel Bell has prepared an introduction for the English-language edition. Price: $12.50.

• Papers from the 1979 University of Illinois Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing have recently been published in the volume The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society,edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. Available from the Publications Office, 249 Armory Bldg., Champaign, IL 61820. Price: $9.

• Gale Research has recently issued in two volumes a reprint of Bulletins 1-125 (1945-78) of the Library of Congress Cataloging Service. The bulletins, which “serve as a medium of occasional communication between the Library of Congress and the libraries, agencies, firms, and individuals purchasing Library of Congress catalog cards,” offer information about LC cataloging and classification practices as well as addressing problems related to LC card distribution. This reprint also includes a subject index to the bulletins. Price of the two-volume set: $78.

• Jack Burkett’s Library and Information Networks in the United Kingdom (Aslib, 1979, $36 in North America) presents information on the important organizations included in British networks and especially details of their research and development activities and staff involvement in external affairs.

• The first two volumes in Aslib’s Reader Series are: (1) National Libraries, edited by Maurice B. Line and Joyce Line, which brings together a number of previously published articles on the nature and aims and special functions and aspects of national libraries as well as articles on national libraries in individual countries, and (2) The Scientific Journal, edited by A. J. Meadows, which includes also a selection of previously published articles treating the development of the scientific journal, economics and problems of journal publication, refereeing of scientific journals, characteristics and interrelationships of journals, alternative viewpoints, and the future of the scientific journal. Price in North America for each volume: $27.

• Christine Oldman and Gordon Wills’ A

Reappraisal of Academic Librarianship (MCB Publications, 1979, $27) is a thirty-five-page publication based on the Cranfield School of Management’s “Beneficial Library” study. Contending that traditional approaches to the solution of library problems are inadequate, the study proposes a group of newer methodologies from which a different philosophy of academic librarianship emerges. “It describes the potential available to the library manager to market his services to his audience, and it proposes how the educator and the information professional would work together in an activity called Joint Information Planning.” Available from MCB Publications, 198/200 & 210 Keighley Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England BD9 4JQ. ■■

ACRL EXHIBIT BOOTH

Visit the ACRL Exhibit Booth at the ALA Annual Conference in New York and learn more about ACRL services and membership activities. Pictured below are Philip Wei and Judith Blight, two of the people who staffed the ACRL Booth in Dallas. ■■