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ACQUISITIONS

• A new collection of over 19,000 pages of documents on Vietnam has been established at the Pickier Memorial Library of Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville, Missouri, and at the Quincy College library in Quincy, Illinois, through the cooperation of the staff and faculty of both colleges. The documents were provided by R. E. Flaspohler and W. R. Andrews, both of whom taught at Northeast Missouri State as well as serving as members of the United States Mission in Vietnam. The staff of the Quincy College library reduced the documents to 350 microfiche cards and assisted in the cataloging of the material. As members of the Mississippi Valley Cooperative Library Service, both colleges will maintain complete copies of the collection.

The collection itself offers a unique trilateral view of the social, political, and military aspects of the war in Vietnam from I960 to 1971, for it consists of material generated by the Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnamese Communist party, and the United States government. From the South Vietnamese, documents have been gathered which provide a picture of the war from the viewpoint of various regional officials as well as South Vietnamese plans regarding the “pacification” of areas held by the Communist insurgents.

On the Communist side, the collection contains an extensive number of ver batim interrogations of prisoners and defectors who were responsible for carrying out Communist party policies in the rural villages of the Mekong Delta, the most populous area of South Vietnam. Another section is comprised of literal English translations of the broadcasts of Radio Hanoi and Liberation Radio from 1969 to 1971. Captured Communist documents which describe the aims and tactics of the party in the Cambodian sanctuaries are also included.

Most of the American documents deal with the American appraisal of the war effort in Vietnam and analyses of the activities of the Communist revolutionary movement in that country. Many of these documents are field reports which deal quite objectively with the situation in various parts of rural South Vietnam.

Generally, the collection contains documents which were born, not in Saigon, Hanoi, or Washington, but at the cutting edge of the war in Vietnam’s rice-paddies, jungle, and mountains—documents written by men on both sides whose task it was to implement the instructions of their respective political leaders. The insights which may be gained from research in this collection are unlimited and, as yet, virtually unexplored. For details regarding the collection of Vietnamese documents, address queries to George N. Hartje, Director of Libraries, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO 63501.

• The Montrose J. Moses collection of books and papers has been given to the Perkins Library of Duke University. Presented by the widow, Mrs. Montrose J. Moses, and her two sons, Dr. Montrose J. Moses, Jr. and Lawrence Moses, the collection of the distinguished author and drama critic, contains more than three thousand volumes and twenty thousand manuscripts. Mr. Moses, who died in 1934, was well acquainted with most of the distinguished men and women of the theater and with the creative writers of the first third of this century.

While the principal strength of his collection is on the theater, it contains first editions and correspondence of such contemporary writers as Eugene O’Neill, Edna Ferber, Louis Bromfield, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, Thornton Wilder, Christopher Morley, Stark Young, Gertrude Stein, and Maxwell Anderson. The theater personalities represented in the collection include Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Charles and Daniel Frohman, David Belasco, and others. In addition to Moses’ own books and correspondence, the collection contains numerous notebooks of clippings and research notes used by Moses in preparing his books, scrap books, theater programs, and similar material which document the history of the American stage during this period. Letters with his publishers, with newspaper editors, and with editors of magazines and periodicals for which Moses wrote depict the history of several publishing houses and periodicals. The collection further illustrates changes in theatrical and literary taste brought about by World War I, the Depression, and the social revolution of the Twenties.

• Temple University libraries has announced two recent gifts of science fiction and the establishment of the David Charles Paskow Science Fiction Collection as a separate unit of the Special Collections Department for the housing, acquisition, and reference and research guidance of science fiction.

The collection is named for the late Temple alumnus whose library was received as a gift in October 1972 and forms the core of the holdings. Close to 5,000 hardback and paperback novels and anthologies, science fiction magazines, records, fanzines, and reference works, including related fantasy, comprised the Paskow library with particular strength between 1950 and 1970. Mr. Paskow (with Mr. John Osborne) will have a posthumous anthology of science fiction for high school students published in 1973 by Addison-Wesley.

In November Temple was offered and accepted the papers of Ben Bova, Temple ’54, current editor of Analog; Science Fiction, Science Fact one of the leading science fiction periodicals. In addition to his short stories and science articles, Mr. Bova has published at the least nineteen books since 1959 including his nonfiction The Fourth State of Matter which was one of the top 100 science books of the year 1971 as selected by the American Library Association. His papers will be maintained as part of Paskow Science Fiction Collection.

Science fiction has for years either been ignored or the object of criticism by academicians; in more recent years there has been growing recognition of the subject on academic institutions. Science fiction has been found being discussed in the English classes (Temple has two science fiction courses); professors in various fields have been writing and publishing science fiction, openly or under pseudonyms; and many other major institutions libraries have in the last decade been developing their book and manuscript science fiction collections.

AWARDS AND GIFTS

• Nominations for the 1973 Robert B. Downs Award for an outstanding contribution to intellectual freedom in libraries are now being accepted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

The award was established in 1968 to honor Downs, dean of library administration at Illinois, on the anniversary of his twenty-five years with the university.

The $500 award will be presented at a meeting of UIUC library school alumni during the annual convention of the American Library Association. The convention will be held June 24-30 in Las Vegas.

Herbert Goldhor, director of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Science, said the award may go to a library board member, a nonprofessional staff member, a professional librarian, a government official, or anyone who has worked to further intellectual freedom and the cause of truth in any type of library.

Past award winners have included LeRoy Charles Merritt, dean of the School of Librarianship, University of Oregon, 1969; Orrin Dow, librarian with the Farmingdale, New York, Public Library, 1970; The President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, 1971; and John T. Carey, media librarian, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, 1972.

Faculty of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Science will select the winner or may decide no one qualifies, Goldhor said. The award need not be made every year, he said.

Letters of nomination will be considered from any source from now until April 15, 1973, and should be sent to Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

GRANTS

• The Office of University Library Studies within the Association of Research Libraries has received a new three-year grant of $210,505 from the Council on Library Resources to carry forward its program of strengthening and enhancing the management capability of research and large academic libraries.

Originally funded by CLR in 1970 following a council-financed study by Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., Problems in University Library Management, the office and the study were jointly sponsored by the American Council on Education and ARL. Duane Webster has served as director of the office from the outset.

The continuing need for sound management of university research libraries’ increasingly valuable and expensive-to-operate resources is verified statistically in ARL’s recently published Academic Library Statistics 1971-72. ARL’s seventy-eight member libraries listed spent $260,515,355 last year, ranging from a high of $9,965,900 to a low of $1,210,604.

Major accomplishments of the Office of University Library Studies during its first two years included the development of a management review and analysis program for interested libraries, participation in a major study of the organization and staffing of the Columbia University libraries, and the creation of a plan for the further development of the office itself.

The Management Review and Analysis program is still in the developmental stage but offers a unique opportunity to individual libraries to appraise their own programs. Refinement of this activity is one of four major goals of the office during the next three years. Others are: the collection and dissemination of information which can be helpful to a large number of libraries; the development of management expertise among future librarians; and consultation services to individual and groups of libraries.

Chief advisory group to the Office of University Library Management Studies is the ARL Commission on Management comprised of Warren J. Haas, vice-president and university librarian, Columbia University; Ben Bowman, director, University of Rochester libraries; and Richard DeGennaro, director, University of Pennsylvania libraries.

• A grant of $28,661 to study the knowledge and information needs of the disadvantaged has been awarded Drexel University’s Graduate School of Library Science. The project will review existing studies on the subject as related to the elderly, poor, physically handicapped, undereducated, unemployed, and otherwise deprived groups. The final product will consist of a series of bibliographies and a “state of the art” essay synthesizing the topic. Participating in the study will be Dr. Thomas Childers, project director, Dean Guy Garrison, project advisor; Ms. Joyce Post, bibliographic associate; and several graduate students. The United States Office of Education awarded the grant.

• A study to determine the need, acceptability, and potential services of a Cooperative Bibliographic Center for Indiana libraries has been initiated by the Indiana State Library under a Library Services and Construction Act grant from the United States Office of Education, according to an announcement made by Marcelle Foote, director of the Indiana State Library. Barbara Evans Markuson will serve as project director.

The decision to develop a Cooperative Bibliographic Center would have enormous impact on the future of library service in the state. The in-depth study to be undertaken will consider functions to be performed, types of service desired, potential users, volume of activity (initial and projected), equipment and physical requirements, administration and staffing requirements, funding requirements (initial and operating costs), cost/benefit analysis, and relationship to other bibliographic systems.

If established, the computer-based service center would provide more economical and efficient use of state-wide library resources, reduce rising library costs, and be capable of expansion to serve a wide-range of functions such as cataloging, interlibrary loan, search services, acquisitions, and serials controls. It would also be designed to allow for compatibility with other existing or planned state, regional, and national library networks.

Initial planning for the project was done by a committee of representatives from the four state universities and the state library. In contrast to many studies in other states, the Indiana study will include all types of libraries and will be conducted by a fourteen-member Task Force composed of representatives from school, special, public, and academic libraries.

• The computer-based Criminal Justice Reference Library at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin has received a ten- month continuation grant of $67,285 from the Texas Criminal Justice Council. Funding will continue through June 1973.

A Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program developed during the past year has greatly increased the library’s reference capabilities. All material received in the library is abstracted and indexed to reflect topical content. The computerized data base can be used to provide periodic notification of acquisitions to users on the basis of previously stored user profiles, answers to specific reference questions in a matter of seconds, and bibliographies on any specified topic in minutes.

To supply the information needs of Texas law enforcement officials, correctional agency personnel, district attorneys, public defender offices, and any individual wanting information in the area of criminal justice, the library adds approximately 300 titles a month to the existing collection of over 6,000 monographs and 1,000 periodical titles.

Designed to supplement and enhance the basic working collection of criminal law materials currently available, the collection is composed of both trade books and journals and “fugitive” materials not available through regular publishing channels. According to supervising librarian Donald Dunn, these latter materials include annual reports, statistical studies, police training manuals, research monographs, instructional course materials for criminal justice training, probation office reports, departmental rules and regulations, state and local criminal justice plans, proposed criminal codes, law enforcement and criminal justice periodicals, crime commission studies, and individual research and unpublished papers.

Further information can be obtained by contacting Donald J. Dunn, Supervising Librarian, Criminal Justice Reference Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. (512 ) 471-3238.

MEETINGS

March 26-27: Florida Atlantic University will host the International Conference on Management Problems in Serial Work on March 26-27, 1973. Among the topics explored will be: subscription agency services, periodical banks, computer applications, copyright problems, the future of scholarly journals, and many others. The speakers represent experts from major trend-setting institutions. Major subscription agencies and dealers will be represented from the United States and abroad. Early reservations are suggested. For brochure and registration form write to: Mr. Peter Spyers-Duran, Director of Libraries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33432. (305)' 395-5100, ext. 2448.

April 9-10: Information retrieval systems and libraries are faced with the problems of the increasing cost of covering the literature of interest to their users. As the literature proliferates, many organizations face the lack of professionals to cope with its organization for use (especially in a machine-readable form). One partial solution is to utilize available services which provide already processed machine-readable input covering some subject literature for subsequent individual utilization by information retrieval systems and libraries. The problems of selection, utilization, and especially integration of the available machine-readable services into individual systems and libraries are to be explored in this seminar.

The two-day seminar is organized by the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services and the host is the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The seminar will be held at Drexel Activities Center on April 9 and 10, 1973.

The cost of the two-day seminar is $100 ($75 for Federation member service staffs). The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; and from Dr. Barbara Flood, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Rush Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Further details are in the January News.

April 9-10: The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago will hold its Thirty-sixth Annual Conference at the Center for Continuing Education (1307 E. 60th St., Chicago, Illinois). The topic will be Management Education: Implications for Libraries and Library Schools.

Speakers at the conference will include leaders in various aspects of management education.

The co-directors of the conference are Herman H. Fussier, professor, Graduate Library School, the University of Chicago; John E. Jeuck, Robert Law Professor, Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago; and Don R. Swanson, professor, Graduate Library School, the University of Chicago.

Registration will be held April 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Center for Continuing Education, 1307 E. 60th St., Chicago.

April 16-17: Pressure groups and would-be censors who try to tell libraries what books and other library materials are fit for public consumption will be put in the spotlight at a national meeting in Chicago, April 16 and 17, 1973.

A representative group of librarians and resource persons will participate in a national prototype workshop on intellectual freedom sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. The workshop is funded by the annual J. Morris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award, of which the International Freedom Committee was a winner this year.

Participation will be limited—the IFC will sponsor the attendance of one representative from each state Intellectual Freedom Committee (hopefully, the committee chairman). In addition, each state library association has been asked to send one representative—preferably another committee member or perhaps a library trustee. The goal of the workshop is to prepare each participant to plan and carry out a similar workshop on the state or regional level. To this end, a total educational program is planned.

More complete information is to be found in the January News.

April 18: A Legal Bibliography Institute, sponsored by the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 1973, at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Southwestern Chapter covers the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The 1972 institute on the Library of Congress Classification Scheme drew participants from the nine member states, California, the District of Columbia, Iowa, and Kentucky.

The 1973 institute has two aims: to act as a refresher course for experienced practicing librarians and as an introduction to the standard information tools and their use for either librarians beginning in the legal field or those in the legal field wanting to improve their information and research skills, for example, legal researchers and legal secretaries. The institute includes both federal and state materials.

For registration or further information contact: Mrs. Isabella Hopkins, Criminal Justice Reference Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. (512 ) 471-3238.

April 19: “Media Integration in Academic Libraries” is the subject of the 1973 Institute of the Library Association of the City University of New York. To be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City on April 19, the Institute, open to librarians, interested students, faculty, and administrators, will feature presentations by James F. Holly, dean of library services, the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; Dr. Estelle Jussim, assistant professor of library services, Simmons College, School of Library Science; Mrs. Shirley Lewis, director of library services, Cooperative Book Centre of Canada, Ltd., Toronto, Canada; and Richard L. Ducote, dean of learning resources, Learning Resources Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

For further information, please get in touch with Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031. Phone: (212) 621-2268.

April 26-27: The Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Libraries Association will sponsor a regional workshop on the subject of dealing with translations in libraries. The workshop will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 26-27, 1973. Topics to be covered will include the use of bibliographic tools in locating existing translations, ordering procedures for both translated material and foreign language source material, and procedures for having original translations performed. Emphasis will be on the subject areas of science and technology. Additional information may be obtained from: Mrs. Ann H. Beyer, Reference Librarian, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544. (505 ) 667-4175.

April 29-May 3, 1973: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies will be the site of the Eighteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, April 29-May 3, 1973. The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will be cohosts for the seminar.

Registration in the Eighteenth Seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. The conference coordinator is Ms. Irma Hannays, Librarian, Industrial Development Corporation, Salvatori Building, P.O. Box 949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Information on the content of the program and working papers may be procured from Donald F. Wisdom, Serial Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Ms. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, DC 20006. Consult the November News for further details.

May 3-4: A practical approach to implementing library orientation will be the central theme for the Third Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, 1973, at Eastern Michigan University. The program will have a workshop format with group discussions of topics such as: beginning a new program, developing faculty cooperation, designing new methods and materials, and evaluating library instruction.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students are encouraged to attend. Registration will close on April 13 and will be limited to seventy-five persons. For further information, please contact: Sul H. Lee, Acting Director of the Library, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsi- lanti, MI 48197.

May 3-4, 1973: Changing Patterns in Information Retrieval will be the theme of the tenth annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held May 3 and 4, 1973, at the Independence Mall Holiday Inn, 400 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Chairwoman of the tenth NIRC is Carol Fe- nichel, Auerbach Associates. For program and registration information, contact Susan Nick- leach, P.O. Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 561-4100. The December News contains further details.

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May 4-5: The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Service Librarians will hold their annual meeting May 4 and 5, 1973, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

May 10-12: The fourth annual seminar on “Management Concepts for Librarians,” sponsored by the graduate School of Business Administration and Washington University libraries will be held May 10, 11, 12, 1973, at Bromwoods, the residential conference center of Washington University, located sixty miles southwest of the St. Louis Metropolitan area.

Registration is limited to thirty-five on a first-come first-served basis. The $145 fee covers all instructional costs, materials, meals, and lodging while at Bromwoods. For further information please telephone William H. Kurth, Washington University Librarian, 314-863- 0100, extension 4523 or Mrs. Marilyn Pryor, The School of Continuing Education, Washington University, extension 4261. The January News offers more information.

May 18-19, 1973: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference (MALC) will hold its eighteenth annual meeting on May 18 and 19 at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. The theme for the conference is, “The Library’s Role in the Teaching Process,” and will include discussion meetings on the college and university settings for AV materials, archives, museums, cooperational activities, etc.

MALC is a nonstructured and informal gathering of professional academic librarians who meet annually on the site of a newly constructed building without dues or membership fees. All librarians are welcome.

Conference local arrangements chairman is Mr. Oivind Hovde, Librarian, Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101.

July 15-27, 1973: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the seventh annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 15-27, 1973. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Consult the December News for more complete information.

MISCELLANY

• The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) has announced that the National Auxiliary Publications Service (NAPS) will now be operated for ASIS by Microfiche Publications, a division of Microfiche Systems Corporation, of New York. MSC replaces CCM Information Corporation in this role.

Founded in 1937, NAPS provides a repository for, and furnishes on-demand copies of materials which are adjuncts to papers published in scholarly or technical journals, but which would require too many journal pages to publish in extenso.

The editor or publisher supplies NAPS with a copy of the auxiliary material, which is then converted to microfiche. Copies of the microfiche or hard copy paper prints may be ordered by the public from NAPS at modest cost. Each published article for which auxiliary tables, photos, graphs, charts, computer printouts, bibliographies, etc., have been deposited in NAPS carries a footnote indicating the NAPS number and the availability of that material through the service. Most important, authors and/or editors have certain knowledge that such material will be available to scholars and others having a need for it in the future.

Requests for copies need only reference the NAPS number, and the form of output (hard copy or fiche) required and should be accompanied by payment for the copies requested.

A modest deposit fee covers the cost of assigning a NAPS identification number, preparation of the microfiche master and complimentary microfiche copies of the material sent to the contributing editor. Deposits may be made by editors or directors of participating journals or associations. At the present time, approximately 200 domestic and 30 foreign journals contribute to this repository. They represent a wide array of scholarly publications in the life sciences, physical sciences, and behavioral sciences.

Although NAPS is designed to be a repository primarily for supplementary materials to published journal articles, other types of deposits are possible. For example, full-length works could be deposited with NAPS, provided that the depositor publishes an abstract of each deposited work or in some other way publishes the availability of the deposited materials.

Requests for copies and details on making deposits should be directed to: ASIS/NAPS, c/o Microfiche Publications, 305 E. 46th St., New York, NY 10017.

• The Contemporary Culture Center of Samuel Paley Library of Temple University has one of the leading collections of alternative press ephemera in the country. The collection includes small press materials from publishers outside of the dominant cultural mainstream, and contains roughly 10,000 pamphlets, broadsides and flyers, 800 small press monographs (mostly poetry) ‚ underground comics, and 1,400 periodicals and newspapers. The concentration of the materials is from the mid-sixties to the present, but some of the materials date as early as the 1950s. One of the few collections of its kind, the center is part of an information and duplicates exchange network of fifteen libraries which are seriously collecting such fugitive materials in a special collection.

The collection covers a broad range of subject areas, ranging from fringe politics, oppressed group publications, ecology, communal living, alternative life styles, prison reform, radical approaches to health care, education, and other professions, to film and music. Some groups specifically represented are the black, Puerto Rican, Chicano, and native American movements, and gay, women’s, and men’s liberation. Fringe political materials are collected in the general areas of old and new left publications, pacifist publications, general “underground” newspapers, patriotic, anti-Communist, and Racist-Nationalistic publications, and libertarian and anarchist publications.

Particular areas of strength are left-wing underground newspapers, including large and unusual holdings of GI and high school underground newspapers. Women’s liberation is also a major subject area, and the collection includes the complete Bell and Howell microfilm collection of Herstory. Various peripheral materials that are also of special interest include a near-complete run of the Flying Saucer Review (an English periodical chronicling and investigating extraterrestrial sightings), rock-and-roll fanzines, publications of religious groups, taped interviews with neo-Nazi leaders, D. A. Levy’s mimeographed press, Ted Berrigan’s communiqués when hiding from the FBI, and the Women in Film periodical, a news and criticism journal from the women’s liberation movement.

The Contemporary Culture Center is presently microfilming selected parts of the periodical collection, and is working on a computergenerated multisubject list for the pamphlet collection. In addition, the center has compiled a periodicals holdings list which is arranged by subject and gives titles and the addresses of the publishing organizations. Although the primary intent of the center is archival, it is open to the general public. Photocopies are available through interlibrary loan, but people intending to visit the collection are advised to make arrangements in advance. Any queries may be addressed to the curator of the collection, Robert A. Sosin, Temple University, Samuel Paley Library, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

• The Library of Congress received its 10,000th title on October 24 for cataloging under the Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP). The book, Wilfred T. Neill’s Twentieth Century Indonesia, will be published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 1973. The galleys took four days to pass through the cataloging process, in line with a current average of three to six working days turnaround time and well within a ten-working-day maximum.

During November and December an additional 2,000 titles were processed. This figure reflects the increased number of titles being received as new publishers join the program and gear up for full participation. Current weekly receipts of new CIP titles, projected at an annual rate, show that the program is operating at the rate of between 14,000 to 15,000 titles per year, or approximately 50 percent of the American trade output.

In the Cataloging in Publication Program, the first two years of which is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Council on Library Resources, Inc., the Library of Congress provides cataloging information to be printed in the book itself. Procedures have been established that enable library catalogers, working from galley proofs, to give the publishers for incorporation in the printed book those elements of cataloging that require professional decisions, such as the main entry, a short title, series statements, bibliographical notes, the LC call number, the Dewey Decimal Classification number, the LC card number, and the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). A library receiving a book with this information can make its own cards or establish preliminary controls, in either case making it possible to get the book into circulation without delay. Private purchasers of books, booksellers, and offices, and institutions without librarians can also arrange their holdings for easy and efficient use.

Of the more than 12,000 titles processed since the program began on July 1, 1971, less than half have actually appeared on the book market. Librarians should notice an increased number of CIP books in their spring deliveries, as more publishers have had between 90 and 100 percent of their spring titles processed through CIP.

The Library of Congress hopes by June 30, 1973 to be providing data for the majority of titles published annually by the American book trade.

PUBLICATIONS

• Duke University libraries announce the publication of African Serials in the Duke University Libraries as of April 30, 1972. This computer-based list includes titles concerning Africa or published about Africa. It also includes certain classes of publications that are not primarily devoted to Africa, but that do contain information that otherwise might not be easily obtainable, such as British Commonwealth publications, archaeological and scientific journals, Islamic and other materials of the Middle East, Far East, and Orient. African Serials is now available from the assistant librarian for technical services, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706, at $7.50 for each paperbound copy.

• A pilot study to develop a feasible multi- media index to regional material has just been completed. Its primary objective is to develop a tool for general user access to information in various formats by combining old and new methods and techniques of information retrieval. Simple computer programs manipulate the information on 106 sample items to produce a register of the items and the access indexes: issuing body/main entry, title and series, and subject/descriptor. Indexing terms were assembled from headings assigned by Library of Congress, Sears, and Readers’ Guide, as well as from thesauri such as Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms and Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. It is probable that both indexer and library cataloger will be alternately amused and abashed by the results.

The report seeks to avoid undefined jargon of both the library and the computer in the seventy-two pages of discussion and the appendixes. It includes a study of the indexes sampled for regional material and an estimate of the quantity of material and the cost of developing the multimedia index it hopes to pilot. It includes an additional twenty-seven pages of computer printout for the 106 items handled.

The study was made possible by support from the Alaska State Library and sabbatical leave from the Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska at Fairbanks. It is entitled A Contribution to Regional Bibliography: Alaska; A Pilot Study in Indexing. A limited number of copies is available from Margaret Harris at P.O. Box 3102, Fairbanks, AK 99701 for $3.00. Any discussion of the feasibility of the multi- media approach to indexing is most welcome by the author, Mrs. Harris, at the address given.

• Number 17 in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science’s Allerton Park Institute series, Libraries and Neighborhood Information Centers, has recently been published. The 140-page, indexed volume was edited and introduced by Carol L. Kronus, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, and Linda Crowe, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library Science at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.

It has been suggested by many concerned with inner-city library service that the library serve as an informational link between community residents and social agencies. This institute was conceived to explore the concept and ramifications of library-based neighborhood information and referral centers. Both library- and nonlibrary-related projects are discussed.

A broad picture of the urban scene presenting some of its problems and services was presented in the papers by Nicholas Long, “Information and Referral Services: A Short History and Some Recommendations”; Norbert Wiley, “Overview of the American City”; and Carl E. Block, “Communicating with the Poor.’’ William Garvey and Frank J. Kopecky respectively describe the nonlibrary information projects of the Steelworkers and the O.E.O. Community Centers. Information referral services allied with the library were reviewed and analyzed by Dorothy Sinclair and Henry T. Drennan. James Welbourne discussed “Training Urban Information Specialists” as he experienced it in an experimental project at the University of Maryland. A panel whose members were all involved in information referral projects reported on activities in Elyria, Ohio; Philadelphia; Chicago; Detroit; and Syracuse, New York. The volume also contains a forty-two-item bibliography on libraries and neighborhood information centers.

This book is available for $4.00 from the Illini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820. Standing orders for the Allerton Park Institute series can be placed at the same address. LC Card Number is 78-81002 and the ISBN is 0-87845-034-3.

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