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ACQUISITIONS

• The papers of the late Louis Fischer, and much of the library of the news correspondent and famed authority on the Soviet Union, have been given to the Library of Princeton University. Fischer, who had been a resident of Princeton at the time of his death in 1970, authored more thap twenty books, including the prize-winning volume on The Life of Lenin. He was a research associate and visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AfFairs for almost a decade.

The papers are contained in eighty-six archival boxes and include more than 6,500 letters to and from public figures, writings (articles, speeches, diary notes, proofs, interviews), background material for his books, articles about Fischer himself, and such personal records as address and appointment books, diplomas, tax returns, and family photographs. There are also records and tapes of speeches and other memorabilia. The library, given to the university earlier, contains more than 1,000 volumes, including some 200 of Fischer’s own works, both in the original and in translation.

Fischer’s library and papers were donated to Princeton by his sons, George, of High Falls, New York, a faculty member at the City University of New York, and Victor, of Fairbanks, Alaska, a professor at the University of Alaska.

Princeton has also announced the acquisition of a major portion of the files of the Development and Resources Corporation, New York. The firm, headed by David E. Lilienthal, a former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and later the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has for the last nineteen years been engaged in formulating and executing programs of economic and social development in many countries. Much of the firm’s emphasis, however, has been concentrated in Iran, where, as a consultant to that nation’s government, D & R prepared, and for a number of years administered, a plan for the unified development of the Khuzestan region of Iran and other development undertakings. More than half the files given to the Princeton University Library covering the period from 1956 to 1970 concern Iran, according to Thomas Mead, an executive with the firm from 1957 until his retirement this spring. Mead will spend about a year at Princeton reviewing the files and assessing their particular value to scholars in a broad range of disciplines.

• During the first half of 1974 the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress acquired a number of significant manuscript collections, made available to readers a long- awaited body of Harold Ickes papers, anc published an index to President James A Garfield’s papers.

The descendants of the Joseph E. Willard and Kermit Roosevelt families have donated about 45,000 items which have been added to the papers of the two families already among the division holdings. These records afford additional primary sources for treatments of the American social scene, of World Wars I and II, and of social and political life abroad in Spain, England, and France—especially Paris. In addition, they contain materials for more personal studies of Ambassador Willard and Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt as well as a wide variety of correspondence addressed to them or their families by prominent individuals.

The papers of Joseph Pulitzer II (1885- 1955), successor to his father as editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have come to the library as the gift of Pulitzer’s widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Pulitzer. The collection of 60,000 items will be useful both for studies in political history (especially for the period between the Coolidge and Eisenhower administrations) and for the role of the press in the development of public policy. Moreover, the papers will provide essential biographical data on one of the nation’s foremost journalists, express the philosophy upon which the evolving policies of a leading national newspaper were based, and provide additional background on Pulitzer Prize awards. The library also has a collection of papers of Joseph Pulitzer (1847- 1911).

The Agnes Meyer Papers constitute the beginning of another family collection. Approximately 30,000 items, dating from 1860 to 1970, treat the family background, childhood, education, and the multifaceted career of Mrs. Meyer as wife and mother, social critic, authority on Chinese art, literary critic, linguist, and author. There is extensive correspondence with Charles L. Freer, noted collector and donor of the Freer Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., with whom Mrs. Meyer shared an interest in Oriental art and culture.

The papers of Kathleen (Katie) S. Louch- heim (Mrs. Walter C. Louchheim, Jr.), an active politician as well as an author, are also now available to readers. The approximately 19,000-item collection spans the period from 1937 to the present. A major portion concerns Mrs. Louchheim’s work in the higher councils of the Democratic Party (1948-60), and in the State Department (1961-69), both as deputy assistant secretary for cultural affairs (later community affairs) and ambassador to UNESCO (1968-69). Mrs. Louchheim’s special interest in women’s fuller participation in public affairs is evident throughout.

A comprehensive source of modern American cultural history now among division holdings is the archives of the Bollingen Foundation, formally established in 1945 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and deactivated in 1969. The papers show foundation support of research, writing, and publication in the humanities through fellowships and grants, subventions, and other forms of aid to scholars and authors. A file of its own publications, the Bollingen Series, will be maintained in the library’s Rare Book Division. The bulk of the Bollingen material consists of extensive subject/correspondence files on applications, publications, contributions to institutions, and special projects.

All the papers of Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior from 1933 to 1946, are now available for reader use, including the “secret diaries” (1933-41). An extensive card index will facilitate use of the latter; together, all of them will provide an unusually intimate and detailed record of the administrations of presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Among the additions to the scientific collections in the division are the Draper Family and Merle Tuve Papers. The first consignment of the Draper Papers, about 9,000 items, chiefly concerns the eminent nineteenth-century American scientist John William Draper (1811-82) and his third son, Daniel (1841-1931), an important meteorologist. The papers include John William Draper’s holograph account of his reading of the paper at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a presentation which furnished the opportunity for the celebrated exchange between Bishop William Wilberforce and T. H. Huxley on Darwinism. The papers of Daniel Draper include correspondence, scientific and other notebooks, and miscellaneous materials— the latter concerning the New York Meteorological Observatory.

The papers of physicist Merle Tuve (1901- ), approximately 145,000 items covering the period 1916-72, are now available. His scientific correspondence (1924-72) documents virtually all of his contributions from his radar- ionosphere experiment through work in nuclear physics, seismic wave studies, and various radio telescope projects. Correspondence for the late 1920s and 1930s is especially rich in information about his work in atomic physics. Among well-known scientists represented in the correspondence during this period are Gregory Breit, J. A. Fleming, Robert J. Van de Graaff, J. D. Cockcroft, George Gamow, and

E. O. Lawrence. The bulk of the Tuve papers concerns his activities after World War II (approximately 300 boxes).

Many of the collections identified above are more fully described in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress (October 1974). The library has also published the Index to the James A. Garfield papers and released the microfilm edition (177 reels). Garfield is the twenty-second president whose papers have been indexed and microfilmed in the Presidential Papers Program of the library.

• The Cinema Library at the University of Southern California has added two important collections of movie memorabilia to its archives. The Ronald Reagan Collection was made possible through the cooperation of J. Neil Reagan, the governor’s brother. Included are fifty-six volumes of Death Valley Days radio scripts from the period 1931-1944. Of special interest to historians and those involved in political science is extensive material on film and videotape covering the former actor’s political campaign for the California governorship. Also received during the summer was early silent film material from noted film historian Anthony Slide, author of Early American Cinema and The Griffith Actresses. This remarkable gift includes taped interviews with pioneer film personalities Lillian Gish, Anita Loos, Blanche Sweet, and Ruth Waterbury. There also are files of correspondence and stills covering such personalities as Marion Davies, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, and Charles “Buddy” Rogers. An annotated copy of the manuscript of Mr. Slide’s latest book is also a part of the Anthony Slide Collection.

• The major portion of bibliographer Charles Beecher Hogan’s collection of Edwin Arlington Robinson has been added to the Dimond Library, University of New Hampshire, through the generosity of the university UNH Fund. The collection consists primarily of printed books and pamphlets by and about Robinson, but also includes forty-five original letters, seventeen by Robinson. There are twenty-eight Robinson inscribed or presentation copies.

• Among recent acquisitions in the Special Collections Division of the Northern Arizona University Library are 381 boxes of correspondence and other records of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, including the Ayer and Greenlaw Lumber Mills, all of Flagstaff, Arizona. The collection spans the years 1886 through 1927. The records, donated by Robert Chambers to the Northern Arizona Pioneer’s Historical Society Collection housed in Special Collections, is a major addition to the library’s already mammoth holdings of AL&T records. This company was one of the largest and oldest business firms in the Southwest.

Special Collections has also acquired the Lloyd C. Henning Collection from the Holbrook, Arizona, Masonic Lodge. It consists of 650 bibliographic items printed by Elbert Hubbard and his son, Elbert Hubbard II, at their Roycroft Press between 1893 and 1937. Hubbard was the founder of the Roy crofters, a group of utopian artisans who banded together at East Aurora, New York. He was a philosopher, lecturer, printer, and writer, and his most famous work was A Message to Garcia. Among other items included in the collection are complete runs of Hubbard’s avant-garde periodical The Philistine, as well as the Fra, the Roycroft, and the Roycrofter. Many of these editions are limited, signed, and hand illuminated.

FELLOWSHIPS

• The American Antiquarian Society has announced the availability of short-term visiting fellowships (to Worcester, Massachusetts) for the period June 1, 1975-May 31, 1976. Deadline for applications is March 1, 1975. Competition for the awards is open to persons engaged in scholarly research and writing, including those at work on doctoral dissertations. Fellowships will be awarded not only on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications and the general interest of the project but also on the appropriateness of the inquiry to the society’s holdings. Duration: one to three months. Stipends: varying, up to $2,500. For further information and application forms, write The Director, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609.

• The Association of College and Research Libraries is now accepting applications for the second year of its internship program for administrators of predominantly black college and university libraries. The program is intended to accelerate the development of the management ability of librarians in black colleges and universities by providing them with experience in the administration of strong and progressive academic libraries. The internships are designed for librarians in black colleges who have potential as administrators, based upon experience and/or performance as a student in the library school.

Ten internships, ranging from three to nine months, will be funded for the academic year 1975/76 under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Deadline for submission of applications from interns and host institutions is December 1, 1974. For application forms and further information contact the project director, Casper L. Jordan, Associate Professor, School of Library Service, Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314.

GRANTS

• The Princeton Theological Seminary received a grant of $74,730 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to support four programs to be administered through the seminary’s Robert E. Speer Library. Two programs are concerned with the development of theological libraries and librarianship; the others are for cooperative programs involving the Princeton University Library.

An in-depth study of four major theological research libraries, under the direction of the newly formed Committee for Theological Library Development, is designed to explore the potential for extensive interaction among these and related collections. The study may lead, for example, to the development of comprehensive bibliographical resources and the inauguration of cooperative services among these libraries. The second program provides for three continuing education workshops for theological librarians in the areas of microform applications and equipment, acquisitions, and archival management.

The third and fourth programs enable Speer Library to exploit complementary relationships with the Princeton University Library in two areas: computer applications to libraries, and Latin American literature. In each the long- range purpose is to seek patterns whereby the large general resources of a major university- library and the more specialized functions of a theological research collection may be effectively harnessed.

• As a first step in developing a superior Mexican-American studies library collection at the University of Texas, President Stephen H. Spurr has authorized a $50,000 budget for that purpose for 1974-75. That sum includes $15,000 set aside in the university library budget for acquisition of Chicano materials and a special grant of $4,235 awarded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Title IIA. The Mexican-American Collection will be established and housed within the Latin American Collection under the general supervision of Merle N. Boylan, director of general libraries. Staff appointments will include a professional librarian and a senior library assistant.

MEETINGS

April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.”

Over the last decade we have witnessed a very rapid growth in the availability of machine-readable data bases and of information retrieval systems for the exploitation of such data bases. The rapid developments in this area have put machine literature searching capabilities within the reach of many libraries. Many data bases can already be accessed online by individual libraries. Service from other data bases can be obtained from the producer of the data base or from one of the scientific information dissemination centers.

We are now beginning to see the development of regional information centers, designed to make a wide range of machine-read- able files accessible to all the libraries in a designated geographic region. In addition, the minicomputer has put data processing capabilities within the reach of even quite small libraries, allowing such libraries to develop their own special data bases and to exploit these on behalf of a particular user group. One result of these activities has been the emergence of the “information services librarian,” a professional librarian who specializes in the exploitation of machine-readable files. It is these activities, and their impact on the reference functions of libraries of all types, that will be discussed at the 1975 clinic.

F. W. Lancaster, professor of library science, is chairman of the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, University of Illinois₅ 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials will convene in Bogota, Colombia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, director of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura.

Mr. Luis Eduardo Acosta Hoyos, Jefe de la Biblioteca, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Bogota, and Mr. J. Noe Herrera, manager, Libros de Colombia, Bogota, are assisting the SALALM planning committee with local arrangements for the meeting.

The program, being planned by Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, president of SALALM, will be concerned with the new writers of Latin America. Among the topics to be discussed will be the publications of new writers, bibliography of new writers, and criticism of new writers. Full details of the program and information concerning other arrangements for the seminar will be distributed in the fall of 1974.

Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massachusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Membership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat.

June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a preconference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues.

Program participants will include persons who have studied and practiced collective bargaining in higher education and who can address the following subtopics: nature of collective bargaining and its influence on governance in higher education; objectives of various collective bargaining agents; and academic library experiences with collective bargaining.

Further information and registration forms will be available after March 15, 1975, from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

MISCELLANY

• A $5,000 grant in 1975 to aid junior members’ participation in American Library Association activities has been announced by the Detection Systems unit of 3M Company. The grant will fund transportation, lodging, and related costs for several members of the American Library Association’s Junior Memrers Round Tarle (JMRT) to attend the ALA Annual Conference, since few of them can regularly afford to participate.

To be eligible for a 3M professional development grant, applicants must be members of both the American Library Association and its Junior Members Round Table. Application forms are available from (and should be returned to) 3M—JMRT Professional Development Grant Committee, c/o Illinois Library Association, 716 N. Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611. All applications must be postmarked no later than January 1, 1975. Each applicant will be notified of the action taken on his or her application immediately after the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 1975.

Final selection of applicants rests with the Grant Committee: Ms. Arlene Schwartz, Illinois State Library, Springfield, coordinator; James A. Harvey, Illinois Library Association, Chicago, Illinois, chairperson, JMRT; Ms. Nancy Doyle, Meadville, Pennsylvania, chairperson-elect, JMRT; David Warren, Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, North Carolina, JMRT publicity coordinator; Ms. Marilyn Hinshaw, El Paso Public Library, Texas, committee member at large; Ms. Jeri Baker, Dallas Public Library, Texas, former student to Dallas; and William T. Stone, Detection Systems, 3M Company, nonvoting ex- officio committee member.

• The staff of the British National Bibliography have joined the British Library and are now members of its Bibliographic Services Division. Mr. A. J. Wells, BNB’s director, has been appointed as interim director general of the division.

The incorporation of the Council of the British National Bibliography Ltd. into the British Library marks an important stage in establishing a national library with comprehensive reference, lending, and bibliographic services, envisaged in the British Library Act 1972.

BNB was built up over a period of twenty- five years under the leadership of Mr. Wells. Its principal functions have been to produce and publish a current listing of all British publications, and the development in the UK of a computer-based system for storing and handling bibliographic information for the use of libraries, publishers, and booksellers. These functions have been carried over with BNB to the British Library’s Bibliographic Services Division, whose role is to process the acquisitions of the British Library and to provide its catalogs and similar bibliographic services. Libraries generally will benefit because the services formerly rendered to them by BNB will be considerably enlarged and enhanced.

The division’s address from October will be The British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, Store St., London WC1E 7DG, although the offices of the department responsible for the publications of the former BNB will remain, for the time being, at 7 Rathbone St., London W1P 2AL.

• Columbia University’s Avery Library and Graduate School of Architecture and Planning will be enlarged in a $5.4 million building project. Avery is the foremost architectural library in the nation and one of the two most renowned in the world. Construction began in September on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City. A two-level structure will be built beneath the quadrangle behind Avery Hall, home of the library and the school since 1912. Completion is expected by the fall of 1976.

The Avery research collection now numbers 105,000 volumes and is growing by 3,500 every year. Its 10,000 rare books include the first published book on architecture, L. B. Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria of 1485, and works of Palladio and Vitruvius. The library has the world’s most complete set of editions of all books on architecture printed during the Renaissance. A prized collection of some 12,000 original drawings includes those of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the famed eighteenth-century Italian engraver and architect; Louis Sullivan, the American pioneer in architectural ornament and skyscraper design; and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Costs of the expansion project, which will include renovation of the upper floors of Avery Hall, will be met partly by an endowment gift made sixty-one years ago by Columbia benefactor Samuel Putnam Avery, Jr. He gave the university $250,000 in 1913, asking that the fund be allowed to grow until it reached sufficient size to support a building project. The fund has grown to $4,567,000 today.

• The American Library Association Archives is seeking photographs relating to the history of ALA and the development of li- brarianship and libraries. Among the photographs in the archives collections recently transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign were many photographs of annual conferences and excursions, library services in World War I, American and European library buildings, and prominent librarians. The archives is especially interested in photographs of groups and individuals identified by name, date, and location, and in negatives for reproduction of prints. Photographs of library buildings and extension activities are useful in documenting professional development. If you have photographs of libraries and librarians, please write to ALA Archives, c/o University Archives, 19 Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.

• Librarians are invited to honor excellence in reference services by submitting nominations for the 1975 Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation. This annual award is presented by the Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association in honor of Miss Mudge, who died May 16, 1957, in recognition of her contributions to the development of reference services. It is given to a person who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. This contribution may take the form of an imaginative and constructive program in a particular library; the writing of a significant book or articles in the reference field; creative or inspirational teaching of reference services; active participation in professional associations devoted to reference services; or in other noteworthy activities which stimulate reference librarians to more distinguished performance. Recommendations of persons for the award should be sent to the Mudge Citation Committee Chairman, Charles A. Bunge, The Library School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Helen White Hall, Madison, WI 53706. Nominations must be submitted before March 15, 1975.

PUBLICATIONS

• Two new publications from the Kansas State University Library Bibliography Series, Cavalry Journal/Armor Cumulative Indices, 1888-1968 ($12.50) and The Detective Short Short Story; A Bibliography and Index (paper bound $12.50, hard bound $15.00), are available from Library Publications, Kansas State University Library, Manhattan, KS 66506.

• Xerox University Microfilms has published the first issue of Monograph Abstracts, a review medium for monographs and research papers which have been accepted into this specialized publishing program. Similar in function to Dissertation Abstracts International, this new journal serves as an awareness tool that abstracts those monographs available for distribution from Xerox University Microfilms.

Research topics in this initial issue cover bibliography, business, administration, economics, education, language and literature, library science, mathematics and physics, physiology, psychology, and sociology. A 300-word abstract written by the author, the author’s credentials, and an order number for copies are provided for each of the thirteen entries.

In order to have a master copy available at Xerox University Microfilms for demand publication, an author may submit a monograph to the editor for a $35.00 fee which includes all handling and publication costs. There are no limitations on subject matter published or length of the monograph. In addition to the publishing and abstract service, Xerox University Microfilms will file the necessary copyright application and deposit two positive microform copies of the monograph in the U.S. Copyright Office.

Uniform charges for single copies from the master are $5.00 for microform and $11.00 for xerographic reproductions, regardless of length. Authors may purchase multiples of fifty copies printed on both sides of twenty-four-pound book paper and bound in buckram cloth.

Please write to Xerox University Microfilms, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106, for a sample copy of Monograph Abstracts.

• The Tehran Book Processing Centre announces the publication of its reference monograph, The Directory of Iranian Periodicals, 1973-74, the most complete of its kind. This directory provides full bibliographic description for 318 periodicals and has been published in both a Persian and an English version. The periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title, according to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules for main entry, and the full address, telephone number, founding date, subject matter, frequency, affiliation, name of editor and publisher, price, and language of publication are given. In addition, there are four indexes: index of publications by provinces; index of presidents, directors, editors, and corporate bodies; subject index; and in the Persian edition, index of bilingual or foreign-language periodicals, or in the English edition, index of periodical titles in Persian. Furthermore, beginning with this edition, a chapter on cessations has been added. The compiler is Poori Soltani, chairman of the Library Research Group, Tehran Book Processing Centre. TEBROC is a national bibliographic center offering technical service to Iranian libraries and carrying out research in Iranian librarianship. The directory is one of several TEBROC publication projects. A complete list of publications (free) and copies of the directory (softbound only, $4.00 U.S.) are available from the Tehran Book Processing Centre, P.O. Box 11-1126, Tehran, Iran.

• Locating Information about Companies (Library Guide #12), compiled by Rita Sparks and Jon Scheer, ten pages, annotated, is available from Rita Sparks, Reference Department, Oakland University Library, Rochester, MI 48063.

• The more than 60,000 engineers, scientists, and educators in these fields in the New York City metropolitan area are not getting the information they need and it would cost $2⅛ million annually (at 1968 prices) to meet their needs. Dr. Russell Shank documented these conclusions in his 1968 report, Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information, after conducting a two-year study for METRO, New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.

METRO has reprinted the 218-page paperback report for a committee restudy of Dr. Shank’s eighteen recommendations. Copies of the report may be purchased for $22.75 each if a check accompanies the order and $25.00 each if an invoice is required. Checks should be made out to METRO and orders sent to: METRO, 11 W. 40th St., New York, NY 10018.

• The ARL Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) Flyer Number 10 on leave policies in academic libraries has been published and distributed to ARL directors and to SPEC liaisons. The Flyer describes current patterns of leave policy within ARL libraries and indicates recent changes in maternity leave and sabbatical leave. The SPEC kit on leave includes sample vacation and sick leave policies, sabbatical leave policies, and maternity leave policies. It is available to ARL members for $7.50, and to nonmembers for $15.00, from Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• The American National Standard Criteria for Price Indexes for Library Materials was recently published by the American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018. Copies are available from ANSI at $3.00 each.

• The second volume in the University of Utah Marriott Library Bibliographic Series, Black Bibliography, is available for distribution. The 850-page volume has been compiled over a period of two years by the library’s general reference staff and represents the bulk of the Marriott Library’s holdings in black materials. Materials included are monographs, journals, journal articles, government documents, ERIC materials, films, and other nonprint sources. The bibliography has been arranged by subject with an author index, and only materials published since 1954 are cited in the bibliography. The library’s extensive holdings in black history have been omitted, but will be published later in a supplementary volume.

Black Bibliographywill be sold for approximately $12.00 per volume. Inquiries should be addressed to Gifts & Exchanges Librarian, Marriott Library, Room 242, Uniyersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

• A free sample of Library Security Newsletter is available to librarians who request one on their letterhead.

This new technical newsletter is devoted exclusively to problems involving theft and theft prevention in the library, fire hazards, vandalism and willful mutilation, library insurance, and prevention of natural deterioration.

To receive a free sample, write to: Library Security Newsletter, Haworth Press, 130 W. 72nd St., New York, NY 10023.

• The Sourdough, the official publication of the Alaska Library Association, is now accepting articles from “outside” librarians about Alaskan libraries, effects of the Trans-Alaska pipeline and Native Claims Settlement Act on their resources, their use of Alaskan library resources, books on Alaska, or any theme relating to library service and Alaska. For more information please contact Alan Edward Schorr, Editor, Sourdough, c/o Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701.

• The Biomedical Library at UCLA announces the publication of its Subject Heading Authority List, a massive listing of subject headings for the life sciences and the health sciences. The authority list includes terms from Medical Subject Headings, issued by the National Library of Medicine, appropriate headings used by the Library of Congress and the National Agricultural Library, and taxonomic terms developed at the Biomedical Library.

The authority file at UCLA had been put in a machine-readable form, permitting the merging of terms from other major files. The list includes main headings, subheadings, and cross- references, as currently employed in the library. The list is reproduced from a computer printout of the merged lists in a single alphabet, with the source for each term being designated as from Biomed, LC, NAL, or MeSH (Medical Subject Headings of NLM).

The resulting book, on 399 pages with three columns of headings on each page, has been issued in a limited edition of 250 copies only. The volume is 81/2 by 11 inches in size, in a paper binding. Its price is $12.50 net, postpaid; checks should be made payable to the Regents of the University of California. Requests should be directed to the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas School of Law announces the publication of the eighth in its Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series, A Bibliography of Legal Tapes and Cassettes, compiled by Ann Beardsley (68p., $10.00). This extensive bibliography of over 350 entries was compiled both from the holdings of the Tarlton Law Library and from many other sources. Some of them are the unique products of the conferences, institutes, and lectures sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law during the past decade. Most, however, have been created by continuing legal education institutions all over the United States. Included are author, title, date when known, length of tape (in terms of hours), price, speed, and descriptive annotations, when available. Addresses of publishers are supplied for the convenience of those wishing to order items.

If you are interested in acquiring this publication, please write to Adrienne deVergie, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. You may make your check payable to University of Texas Law School Foundation.

• A new publication, Directory of Special Library Resources in the Hudson Valley Chapter Area, first edition, edited by Martha Spiegel, is available for $10.00 a copy from the Special Libraries Association. The directory includes special library resources and special collections in the Hudson Valley Area, including Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, and Westchester counties, and western Connecticut. Orders with checks payable to Hudson Valley Chapter, SLA, should be sent to Ms. Olive Chypre, SLA, IBM, Building 705 Branch Library, Box 390, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602.

• Now available is a unique publication, Hard-to-Locate Sources of Information, ranging from “conservative” to libertarian anarchist. The list consists of more than 130 entries, with thumbnail characterizations. It includes periodicals ranging from newsletters to scholarly journals. It includes little-known book publishers and distributors, plus a few periodicals that also distribute books—obviously outside the normal channels of the trade. And it includes educational organizations in ten different areas of special interest in current affairs and public policy. Some of these offer special services ranging from seminars and study materials to films and tape-recordings.

The criteria for listing are (1) informative, and (2) hard-to-locate. It is not as comprehensive as Bowker’s forthcoming Dictionary of the American Right, but it has double the entries of Ferdinand Solara’s latest work in the same field.

Copies of this list are available postpaid at $1.00 each from Bayliss Corbett, 762 Avenue N, SE, Winter Haven, FL 33880. A business-size (91/2-inch) envelope would be a big help.