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• The Library of the Woman $ College, Duke University, 1930-1972 by Betty Irene Young has just been published.

The 140-page paperback edition tells not only the history of what is now the East Campus Library but also something of the history of Duke University as it evolved from Trinity College.

Young, who has been with the library since September of 1970, is head of circulation. The idea for such a book, she said, came “through my own inability to answer the frequent questions posed by library patrons about various art objects in the library or why the library has the particular type of books that make up the collection.”

A second incentive was the phasing out of the Woman’s College in 1972, when the Duke Board of Trustees approved the merger of the men’s and women’s undergraduate college.

In her work Young traces the movement at Trinity College in the late nineteenth century to provide facilities for the education of women. In 1896, Washington Duke gave $100,000 to the college with the stipulation that women would be admitted to all departments on an equal basis with men.

The book is dedicated to Evelyn Harrison, the present librarian of the East Campus Library, who will retire this summer and who was librarian of the Woman’s College Library from 1949 to 1972. Miss Harrison was connected with the Woman’s College Library during the forty-two years of its existence.

Order from the Regulator Book Shop, 720 Ninth St., Durham, NC 27701, for $8 prepaid.

• Memphis State University Theses and Dissertations, 1951-1976 has been compiled by Rosanne Moore and published as J. W. Brister Library Monograph Series no. 6. The theses are arranged by author, subject, and date of acceptance. A limited number of copies are available for $5 each from Rosanne Moore, Reference Department, MSU Libraries, Memphis, TN 38152. Please make checks payable to Memphis State University.

• More than 750 titles not previously recorded in bibliographies of Canadian drama have now been recorded in Canadian Plays—a Supplementary Checklist to 1945 by Patrick B. O’Neill.

Records contained in the Copyright Office, Ottawa; the Copyright Office of the United States, Washington, D.C.; and the Catalogue of Peter L. Morris & Company of London, Ontario, together with O’Neill’s own collection of tides, form the basis of this present work. It supplements the

Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Stage Plays in English, 1900-1972,Dorothy Sedgewick’s A Bibliography of English-Language Theatre and Drama in Canada, 1800-1914, and the studies that appeared in Canadian Drama/ L’Art dramatique canadien under the direction of Rota Lister.

The compilation is arranged alphabetically by author, with a title index. Locations are given for those titles found in libraries in Canada and the United States.

It is available for $3 from Occasional Papers, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H8. Please add 50 cents handling charge to each order.

• The Tarlton Law Library is pleased to announce the fifteenth in its series of Legal Bibliographies, The Freedom of Information Act: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Law Related Materials. Sifting through the incredible mountain of commentary, reports, and hearings regarding the act, which have emerged in the last ten years, has heretofore been a Herculean task. This bibliography, with its extensive table of contents, will serve as a guide through the many items discussing the act. It is an indispensable tool for the individual who must deal with problems relating to freedom of information issues.

This venture marks the initiation of a new method of formatting and typography for the series, as new and more advanced equipment has been installed. The book is far more attractive than the older items in the series and easier to use. It is paperbound and priced at $15. Orders should be sent to: The Tarlton Law Library, Legal Bibliography Series, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705.

• A report entitled Disaster Prevention and Disaster Preparedness has been released to all nine campuses of the University of California and is also available for distribution outside the UC system.

The report, prepared by Hilda Bohem for the UC Systemwide Task Group on the Preservation of Library Materials, contains a comprehensive listing of factors and options in disaster planning and is designed as a model that can be used by other libraries to formulate individual disaster plans. The report covers the formation and constitution of disaster prevention and disaster action teams, disaster prevention planning, procedures for recovery from disaster, and postdisaster assessment. A detailed list of equipment needed to minimize the damage associated with a disaster and to salvage damaged materials and a list of nationwide sources of expert conservation assistance are also included.

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Copies of the report may be obtained from Ms. Catherine Sakalay, Office of the Assistant Vice- President—Library Plans and Policies, 635 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. A check in the amount of $2, payable to the Regents of the University of California, should accompany the request.

• The automation of acquisitions functions has helped standardize processes and has resulted in more efficient use of staff, but few libraries report reduced costs for processing as a result of automation, according to the most recent SPEC Kit and Flyer Automated Acquisitions in ARL Libraries (May 1978, #44).

The two-page flyer and ninety-five-page kit report on the results of a recent SPEC survey, which was answered by seventy-seven ARL Libraries. Of that number, thirty-six have instituted some kind of automated acquisitions activities. Most libraries use campuswide computers and a batch or combination batch-on-line mode of operation. Of libraries without automated acquisitions, most cite lack of funds as the main prohibitive factor. The most often reported applications of automation are for order generation, claiming, and record keeping.

Kit #44 contains analysis of SPEC survey responses, two planning documents, three descriptions of system use, and four, evaluation documents. It is available to SPEC subscribers and ARL members for $7.50, and to all others for $15.00, prepayment required, from: Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• Acquisitions and reference librarians in public and academic libraries will gain help in selecting medical materials from three new bibliographies. Medical Library Materials for Nonmedical Libraries is a thirty-page annotated guide. Included are selection aids, a selected list of medical publishers with addresses, recommended primary reference sources (dictionaries, handbooks, and textbooks), and sample pages from medical indexes and related tools. Librarians can build a reference file by ordering free single copies of items listed in the bibliography’s 6Vι- page reprint of the Keyword Index to National Library of Medicine management sources (from “abuse, child’’ to “water fluoridation”).

Sources of Free or Low Cost Health Education Materials for Consumersis a twelve-page list of agencies, organizations, societies, and companies. Included are each agency’s name and address, the subject of the material offered, and symbols that indicate if the agency has a catalog and whether the information is in the form of print, audiovisual, or both. A three-page annotated list of Available Catalogs of Listings of Sources for Health Education Materials helps identify the hundreds of organizations that produce health education materials for the general public.

METRO (New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency) will mail copies of all three bibliographies for $5 if a check accompanies the order and $10 if an invoice is required. Checks should be made out to METRO and sent to: METRO, 11 W. 40th St., New York, NY 10018.

• The Relationship of the Library to Instructional Systems is a collection of four papers presented at the 1977 Catholic Library Association preconvention institute of that name held in San Francisco, California.

This institute was designed to examine the role of the media center in an instructional system that emphasizes learning rather than teaching. In particular, the papers focus on the role of the media center as an integral part of the educational program of the school; the librarian’s role in planning activities and opportunities that will enable students to assume an increasing amount of responsibility for planning, undertaking, and assessing their own learning; how the librarian can analyze learner characteristics, such as various abilities, interests, needs, and learning styles; the librarian’s role in the evaluation and modification of library instruction programs; the media center’s function in various alternative learning environments.

This book is the second in a series entitled CLA Studies in Librarianship. It is available from the Catholic Library Association, 461 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041 at $3 per copy.

• Capital Systems Group has revised its publication entitled Directory of On-Line Bibliographic Services, originally published in January of 1978. The new edition covers an additional twenty-five data bases that have become available and incorporates numerous changes to the data base descriptions included in the first edition. Overall, the second edition describes more than 120 data bases available from 11 different organizations as of August 1, 1978. As before, subject and source indexes are included to facilitate the location and accessing of appropriate data bases.

The Directory is designed to be a handy working tool for individuals and organizations interested in using commercially available information sources via on-line access. The second edition has been renamed The Directory of On-Line Information Resources to reflect the inclusion of data bases that provide primary information as well as those that provide purely bibliographic information.

The second edition is available at $10 per copy, $8 if payment accompanies the order. Orders should be sent to: Publications Department, Capital Systems Group, Inc., 6110 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852.

The Directory, which CSG will continue to update semiannually, is also available on a two- year subscription basis for $30.