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ACQUISITIONS

• The Library of the University of California, Irvine, has recently acquired an extensive collection of Ecuadorian government documents as well as important monographs dealing with primarily political and social history topics.

A particularly valuable portion of this acquisition consists of the principal historical publications of the cities of Quito and Guayaquil. In the former are included, under the general heading of “Publicaciones del Archivo Munci- pal,” their documentary collections (such as the transcript series of the Libros de Cabildo), their series, Documentos para la Historia de la Audiencia, and their journal Museo Histórico. In the latter, under the general heading of “Publicaciones del Archivo Histórico del Guyas” are included their documentary series (such as the Actas del Cabildo Colonial de Guayaquil), their series of monographs, and the Reυista del Archivo Histórico del Guyas. Irvine now has a basic corpus of source material for the study of colonial Ecuador. Some of this material is unique in the country.

For the national period, Irvine has acquired important collections of government documents with a concentration in the period from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. These documents include the records of congressional debates, collections of laws for the period, and Informes of the Ecuadorian president as well as of various government ministries such as “Guerra,” “Interior,” “Prevision Social,” and “Relaciones Exteriores.”

Included among the monographs are the complete fifteen volumes of the Colección Rocafuerte, the fifteen volumes of the complete works of José Velasco Ibarra, and the Historia de la Republica del Ecuador by José LeGouhir y Rhodas. This last work, together with those of Pedro Fermin Ceballos and Federico Gonzalez Suarez which are already in the UCI collection, give the Irvine campus the classic general histories for the study of Ecuador.

• The University of Arizona Library has received the personal library of the late G. Ernest Wright, a Harvard University professor and a foremost American biblical scholar and archaeologist. Dr. and Mrs. Nathan S. Kolins, of Tucson, donated the collection of some 700 volumes. Wright’s collection covers most aspects of the study of the Hebrew Bible, especially biblical theology.

Dr. William G. Dever, a UA Oriental studies professor and a biblical historian and archaeologist, said Wright’s collection contains virtually all theological commentaries on the Hebrew Bible that were published in English, French, German, and other languages between 1930 and 1974.

• Dr. James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer prize-winning author and president of the American Political Science Association (APS A), lectured and participated in the presentation ceremony of the APSA archives to the Georgetown University Library on April 23. Joseph Jeffs, university librarian, accepted the association’s archives, amounting to more than 200,- 000 items covering over sixty years. The archives have been moved to Georgetown and are now available for study and research.

• The United States Volleyball Association has chosen the University of Texas as one of ten centers in the U.S. to be an official repository of USVA archives on microfiche.

John P. Koch of Dallas, who is a member of the USVA board of directors, recently presented the material to Helen Smith, Battle Hall librarian and bibliographer for health, physical education, and recreation, who accepted the archives on behalf of the UT General Libraries.

The 9,000-page collection of historical material was amassed and filmed during a five- year project by USVA. The resulting microfiche copies were presented to the repositories as a Bicentennial observance by the organization.

The archives constitute an important reference source on the history of sports in this country and supplement the volleyball materials already in the UT libraries, according to Ms. Smith.

• Letters describing an underground railroad station for fugitive slaves and correspondence related to Susan B. Anthony’s participation in the women’s suffrage movement are among important collections recently acquired by the University of Rochester Library. The acquisitions make the library a rich national resource for the study of the suffrage and other reform movements in the U.S. during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Most recently acquired were nearly 2,000 autograph letters and other manuscripts from the personal family records of Isaac Post (1798-1872) and his wife, Amy. The Posts were among the leading antislavery and reform advocates of western New York in the mid- nineteenth-century period.

The papers, a gift of Mrs. Rüden W. Post of Rochester, New York, tell of the close friendship the Posts enjoyed with Frederick Douglass and other free black leaders and of their maintenance of an underground railroad station in Rochester. Among their frequent correspondents were Douglass; Samuel May, Jr., and Lydia Maria Child, white abolitionists; Sojourner Truth, famous black woman lecturer; Susan B. Anthony; and the Fox sisters, Kate and Margaret, the famous spiritualists.

Six other collections related to the suffrage and reform movements are included in the library’s holdings. The Anthony-Avery Papers contain 161 letters from Susan B. Anthony to Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and thirty-six copies of letters from Rachel Foster Avery to her. The correspondence, which discusses the suffrage movement, includes letters of May Wright Sewall and Anna Howard Shaw. The efforts of Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of NAWSA, to obtain congressional support for the cause of women’s suffrage are examined in forty-three letters from Susan B. Anthony to Harriet Upton.

A collection loaned permanently to the University of Rochester Library by the board of directors of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc., custodians of her Rochester residence, contains numerous papers relating to the suffrage movement. Another group of papers, given by the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, includes letters from church members active in the suffrage movement in Susan B. Anthony’s era. The library’s Anthony collection includes twenty-eight Anthony letters in the papers of Emma B. Sweet, secretary to her from 1895 to 1906. The Sweet papers also contain forty letters from Carrie Chapman Catt, once president of NAWSA.

Complementing those collections are the letters of Kate Gannett Wells, antisuffragist, author, and lecturer, to her brother, William Channing Gannett, minister of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester. These letters are part of the collection of William Channing Gannett papers, which includes some twenty-five letters to Gannett from Susan B. Anthony.

• The Ryan Library of Point Loma College, San Diego, dedicated the Nicholas A. Hull Arminian-Wesleyan Theological Library on April 1, 1976. Approximately 2,000 volumes were purchased bv special collections’ librarian, Esther Schandorff, on a recent book-buying trip in the U.S., Holland, and the United Kingdom. The library is the nucleus for a resource center of primary materials for the study of the Wesleyan Arminian tradition in a historical perspective. The books acquired include: first editions of Arminius, Grotius, Limborch, Ueten- bogart, and Triglandius as well as English Arminian and anti-Arminian writers of the seventeenth century. A checklist of the collection is being prepared and will be available at cost to anyone interested. Write to: Esther Schandorff, Ryan Library, Point Loma College, 3900 Lomaland Dr., San Diego, CA 92106.

• The Goucheb College Library, Towson, Maryland, has recently received a gift of unparalleled distinction as a result of a bequest by the late Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, class of 1928. Ms. Burke’s gift of approximately 1,000 volumes by and relating to Jane Austen and her times constitutes not only the largest single gift to the rare book room, it also is believed to be one of the largest collections of Austen memorabilia in the U.S.

AWARDS

• The Eunice Rockwell Oberly Memorial Prize, now more commonly referred to as the Oberly Award, honors American citizens whose bibliographic contributions to agricultural and related fields have been judged superior in the eyes of their colleagues. The award is made biennially in odd-numbered years and consists of cash and a certificate.

The award recognizes Ms. Oberly, who was born in 1878 and died unexpectedly on November 5, 1921. At the time of her death she was librarian of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry. Library colleagues and scientists with whom she worked responded generously with cash contributions that would serve as “a permanent memorial which would not only perpetuate her memory but also help in carrying forward the work in which she was so deeply interested.” Ms. Oberly made a number of contributions to bibliography, particularly in the field of phytopathology. These contributions to systematic bibliography began as early as 1914 and were continued until her death. One of these publications was Bibliographical Contributions no. 1 of the Department of Agriculture Library.

It was decided at the outset that the memorial fund would be turned over to the American Library Association for purposes of administration, with the first prize to be awarded in 1925. In time, the Oberly Award became the responsibility of the Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of ALA, which still administers it. ACRL administers no other awards for ALA.

A number of librarians have received the awards through the years; included among them are J. Richard Blanchard, Harald Ostvold, Olga Lendvay, Ann E. Kerker, and Henry T. Murphy. The next award will be presented in 1977 for the best bibliography produced in 1975/76. Librarians, scientists, and others are encouraged to nominate authors and compilers. Nominations should be sent to David K. Oyler, Chairperson, Oberly Awards Committee, Steenbock Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, 550 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706.

• Five outstanding librarians have been chosen as the first scholarship recipients under the Council on Library Resources’ new Advanced Study Program for Librarians. The successful candidates, who will begin a year’s graduate work in the fall of 1976, are Ellen H. Brow, Latin-American bibliographer, University of Kansas Libraries; Jill R. Cogen, former associate music librarian, University of California, Los Angeles; Barbara Halporn, librarian for philosophy, classics, history, and philosophy of science, Indiana University Libraries; Gloria Hubbard, reference librarian, Humboldt State University Libraries; and Nancy W. Zinn, librarian and university archivist, University of California, San Francisco.

Each of the recipients has demonstrated an interest and competence in a scholarly discipline within the liberal arts and sciences. All five have master’s degrees in both library science and a subject field; four of the five are enrolled in programs leading to the Ph.D. Their fields range from Iberian history to classical studies and the history of the health sciences.

The Advanced Study scholars will receive stipends of up to $15,000, based on salary and normal benefits. The Council will also pay graduate school tuition and fees and will provide some assistance for appropriate moving costs.

Nearly 500 requests for applications were received at the CLR offices, with over sixty-five candidates actually completing the application process. All applications were carefully reviewed and evaluated by two panels of eminent scholars and librarians. Ten finalists were brought to Washington for interviews prior to selection of the winners.

Serving on the initial CLR screening committee were: William W. Pusey III, professor of German, Washington and Lee University; Robert Lystad, professor, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies; Roger Rosenblatt, literary editor, New Republic; Blanche Henry Weaver, retired professor of history, Vanderbilt University; Robert Lumiansky, president, American Council of Learned Societies; Stephen McCarthy, retired executive director, Association of Research Libraries, and CLR consultant; and Foster Mohrhardt, retired CLR senior program officer.

The final selection committee was composed of Logan Wilson, retired president of the University of Texas and the American Council on Education; Louis B. Wright, director emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library; John Roger Porter, professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa; and William S. Dix, director emeritus of the Princeton University Library, who served as chairperson for the program.

Assisting the committees were Fred C. Cole, president; Edith M. Lesser, secretary and treasurer; Leone I. Newkirk, program associate; and Nancy E. Gwinn, information and publications officer, all of the CLR staff.

The five recipients of the Council on Library Resources Advanced Study Program for Librarians scholarships and their plans for the academic year 1976-77 follow:

Ellen Hodges Brow,Latin American bibliographer, University of Kansas Libraries, plans to spend her year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, pursuing studies in Iberian history. Currently a doctoral candidate at that institution, Ms. Brow holds master’s degrees in librarianship (San Jose State University, 1966) and Ibero-American area studies (University of Wisconsin, 1969). Ms. Brow’s work experience began in 1961 when she taught English as a foreign language in Quito, Ecuador. Since then she has held several positions involving cataloging and acquisition of Hispanic materials, culminating in her current appointment. As part of her responsibility for collection building at the University of Kansas, Ms. Brow carried out a book-buying trip to Guatemala, Costa Rica. Colombia, and Venezuela in early 1975.

Jill R. Cogenplans to pursue her study of British imperial history, specializing in South and Southeast Asian history, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She received master’s degrees in library science and history from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966 and 1973, respectively. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the same institution. Although her most recent professional position was as associate music librarian in UCLA’s Music Library, Ms. Cogen hopes to continue her career as a subject area bibliographer.

Barbara Crawford Halpornreceived a master’s degree in library science from Indiana University in 1966 and one in classics from the same institution in 1975. Since 1969 she has been the librarian for philosophy, classics, history and philosophy of science, and psychology at the Indiana University Library, following experiences as both a rare books cataloger and gifts librarian. Currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in classics at Indiana, Ms. Halporn plans to continue a study of the Greek language, history of science, and the classics at Harvard University during her scholarship year.

Gloria Jean Hubbardis currently reference librarian at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. She received a B.A. in Slavic languages from UCLA in 1963 and continued as a graduate student both there and at the University of Zagreb. In 1968 she was awarded a master’s degree in library science from UCLA and will complete an M.A. in English this spring. Ms. Hubbard plans to pursue courses in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning this fall. In addition to her duties as reference librarian at Humboldt State, Ms. Hubbard has been responsible for cataloging microforms and has acted as subject bibliographer for the foreign language and literature, mathematics, and linguistics departments.

Nancy Whitten Zinnhas spent nearly ten years in charge of a major collection in the history of health sciences (dentistry, nursing, medicine, pharmacy), in addition to being the university archivist at the University of California, San Francisco. She was granted an M.A. in history by Bryn Mawr College (1959) and an M.S. in library science by Drexel University (1962). The next year she completed an internship in medical librarianship at Emory University. Ms. Zinn now plans to undertake a course of studies in the Department of History of the Health Sciences at her home institution with related courses on the Berkeley campus. Before moving to San Francisco, she worked as head of reference and circulation at the library of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia.

GRANTS

• Scott Bruntjen, Madelyn Valunas, and Signe Kelker, all on the library faculty at Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) State College, have been awarded a National Science Foundation Institutional grant to develop a pilot program for the searching of on-line data bases. The primary purpose of the project is to increase the literature-searching capabilities of the college’s faculty and graduate students so that they will have the same library opportunities as their colleagues at larger, research institutions. In addition, the program includes local workshops on search techniques for interested faculty, students, and members of the library staff. The grant provides for the participants’ educational expenses and for subsidized literature searches for faculty members. The three librarians received the grant after a campus-wide competition for the available National Science Foundation funds.

• The Association of American Library Schools (AALS) announces the establishment of a program of small grants to support research in education for library and information science. The amount of money available each year will be determined by the board of directors of the association. For 1976, the first year of the program, $1,500 will be available.

Proposals will be received until October 1 of each year by the AALS executive secretary and forwarded to the Research Committee for review and recommendations. The board of directors will make the final selection. Awards will be made at the annual meeting of the association each January. Those submitting proposals must be personal members of AALS. Grants will not be given in support of work leading toward a degree or certificate. Proposals will be judged on the appropriateness of the project to the goals and objectives of AALS, on methodology and research design, on the qualifications of the researcher, and on evidence that other possible sources of funding were explored but were not available.

Full details on the Research Grant Program are available from: Janet Phillips, Executive Secretary, Association of American Library Schools, 471 Park Lane, State College, PA 16801.

• The Wheaton College Library (Norton, Massachusetts) recently received a $4,200 grant from the Japan Foundation Library Support Program. The library has acquired over 300 English-language books published in Japan relating to Japanese history, culture, and politics. Also acquired were complete back files of two Japanese newspapers, Japan Advertiser (1916-38) and Japan Mail (1886-1916) plus the Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (1926-67) on microfiche.

These materials will further enhance the college’s Asian studies program, which consists of thirty-nine courses offered by ten faculty from seven departments. The Japan Foundation, which is based in Tokyo, was established in 1972 under the Japan Foundation Law to enhance international cultural exchange activities between Japan and other countries.

MEETINGS

July 26-August 20: The tenth annual Archives Institute at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experience in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives—records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised laboratory work. Instructors are experienced archivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, arrangement, description, reference services, records control and scheduling, preservation techniques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational services, among others. Fee: $480 for those wishing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $175 for noncredit participants. A certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the institute course. Housing is available at a modest rate. For further information write to: Archives Institute, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA 30334.

August 16-21: “Creative Problem-Solving for Media Specialists—In Times of Financial Adversity” is the theme of a workshop to be held on the University of Michigan campus by the School of Library Science in cooperation with the UM Extension Service with a follow-up weekend October 22-23, 1976. Sessions in August will be held from 9:00- 12:00, 1:30-4:00 weekdays and 9:00-12:00 on Saturday. October sessions will be 7:00-9:00 p.m. Friday and 9:00-4:00 on Saturday. Participants will learn the process of creative problem solving and will have the opportunity to define, explore, and find solutions for problems relating to their own school media programs. Two hours of graduate credit is optional. Fees are: for participants desiring graduate credit— $122.00; for participants not desiring credit— $40.00. Enrollment will be limited. Preference will be given to media specialists currently employed in schools and on the basis of date application is received.

Helen D. Lloyd, associate professor, and Kenneth E. Vance, professor and assistant dean, School of Library Science, will direct the workshop. Consultants will include specialists in: creative problem-solving techniques, school media programing, and school administration.

For an application and further information, please write to: Helen D. Lloyd, School of Library Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

September 9-12: The Oral History Association will hold its eleventh National Workshop and Colloquium. The workshop will be held at the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa from September 9-10; the colloquium will meet at Le Chateau Montebello, Montebello, Quebec, Canada from September 10-12.

For further information, write: Ronald E. Marcello, Secretary-Treasurer, P.O. Box 13734, N. T. Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203.

September 21: Personnel: The Human Resource in Libraries is the topic of a one-day conference to be sponsored by the School of Library Science of the University of Iowa. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union.

Drawing on speakers from outside as well as within the library field, the conference is designed for librarians who are involved in supervisory and leadership roles. Morning sessions will be devoted to general considerations of supervision: motivating employees, the supervisor as group leader, and performance evaluation. Afternoon sessions will cover specific applications to library situations in the areas of staff development, nondiscriminatory interviewing, and collective bargaining.

For a program brochure and registration form write to Ethel Bloesch, School of Library Science, The University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242.

September 26-29: The Pennsylvania Library Association annual conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The association will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary at the conference banquet on Tuesday, September 28. Featured speaker will be Richard Adams, author of the bestsellers Watership Down and Shardik.

For further information contact the conference chairperson, Mary Elizabeth Colombo, B. F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Ave., Aliquippa, PA 15001.

September 29-October 1: The Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh will sponsor a three-day national conference on Resource Sharing in Libraries at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Designed to provide a critical assessment of the present state of the art and a systematic consideration of future strategies in those areas of librarianship where resource sharing has become a critical concern, the conference will be concerned with such major topics as the characteristics of an ideal re- source-sharing network, current progress toward realization of resource-sharing and networking goals, obstacles that must be overcome, the economics of networking, and new modes in network evaluation and design. The object of the conference will be to assist library administrators in evaluating current and anticipated future progress in resource sharing as a basis for budget planning and decision making in such priority areas as staffing, collection development, monograph and serials acquisition, and participation in consortia.

Extensive critical state-of-the-art review papers will be provided in advance to all conference registrants and will serve as a focus for the working sessions. Principal speakers will include Alphonse J. Trezza, executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; William J. Welsh, deputy Librarian of Congress; Allen B. Veaner, assistant director, Stanford University Libraries; Connie R. Dunlap, director of libraries, Duke University; Henry G. Shearouse, director, Denver Public Library; H. William Axford, director of libraries, University of Oregon; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, Washington State Library; John P. McDonald, director of libraries, University of Connecticut; James E. Rush, associate director, Ohio College Library Center; Donald W. King, vice-president, Market Facts, Inc.; Eleanor A. Montague, director of the Western Network Project, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Participating members of the University of Pittsburgh faculty will include Dean Thomas J. Galvin, Professor Allen Kent, K. Leon Montgomery, Jacob Cohen, and James Williams.

Conference registration is limited. For information and registration forms, contact John Fetterman, LIS Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

October 7-8: No-Growth Budget: Implications for Academic Libraries. The Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, presents a conference on issues and problems in the management of a no-growth budget for academic libraries. The program will feature speakers with varied experience and expertise in academic library budgeting process. The conference will provide a forum for stimulating discussion and exploring these current problems. Librarians, faculty, administrators, and fiscal officers are invited to participate. Registration will close on September 6, 1976, and is limited to 100 persons. For further information please contact: Sul H. Lee, Dean of Library Services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809.

October 24-29: OCLC Workshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Source people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possibilities, limitations, printing attachments); “In- House Procedures” (work-flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others).

For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consideration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Assistant Professor, Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

October 28-29: The second annual Library Microform Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.

November 14-17: The 1976 annual Allerton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Times: Changing Libraries,” and will consider likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the university campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute.

The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write Edward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

MISCELLANY

• At the suggestion of the Joint Committee on the Union List of Serials, and with the unanimous concurrence of the American Library As- sociation/Resources and Technical Services Division Serials Section Executive Committee, libraries and other information communities are encouraged to incorporate the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) in their serials data bases whenever the existence of these numbers is known. The ISSN serves as a nationally and internationally accepted identification code, suitable for use in both manual and machine-readable files—and will provide a common link between the CONSER data base and other serials data files.

An ISSN is an eight-digit number consisting of seven digits plus a check digit (which is regarded as an essential part of the number) and is written in the form: ISSN 1234-5679. In those instances in which the check digit is ten, the roman numeral “X” is recorded instead of the Arabic numeral.

As the U.S. representative to the International Serials Data System (ISDS), the National Serials Data Program (NSDP) at the Library of Congress is responsible for the assignment of ISSN to serials published in this country and is also charged with making these numbers accessible to interested communities. ISSN assigned or validated by NSDP and other ISDS centers are available through a number of published sources. The Library of Congress includes these ISSN on its printed catalog cards, in the MARC Serials Distribution Service, and in New Serial Titles. Preparation is under way for publication of an “ISSN/Key Title Register” by the end of the year, which will contain ISSN and bibliographic information on all titles processed by NSDP through February 1975. Titles registered after that date, in addition to being in the above, are being input by NSDP into the OCLC system as a CONSER participant and are therefore available via that vehicle to anyone who has access to an OCLC terminal.

In addition to these sources of ISSN information, the International Centre of ISDS publishes a quarterly ISDS Bulletin, which includes ISSN and essential bibliographic information for titles registered by ISDS centers.

Several years ago the R. R. Bowker Company was allocated blocks of ISSN to be used in association with titles listed in the Bowker serials bibliography (Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the Irregular Serials and Annuals) as well as the 1950-1970 cumulation of New Serials Titles. A great deal of technical and editorial work on the part of the Bowker Company was involved in these operations, and their efforts have produced valuable sources of bibliographic information on serials. However, since the ISSN registered for titles included in these publications were assigned to entries based upon various cataloging codes or conventions which were not always compatible with the bibliographic specifications of ISDS, some erroneous assignments were inevitable. This does not unduly jeopardize the validity of these numbers, however, and their use is both advocated and encouraged. In those instances where a title was inadvertently numbered twice, the lower number is generally considered to be the valid ISSN, and the higher one(s) are canceled by the appropriate ISDS center.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Joseph H. Howard, Library of Congress (202) 426-5333.

• The National Library of Australia has installed an IBM System/3-15 computer system, the largest of its kind in Australia. The computer is already being used to print references output from a number of information-retrieval services and will soon be used for copying Australian MARC (machine-readable cataloging) tapes each week for exchange and distribution throughout the world. It will also be used to produce catalog cards from selected MARC records to be distributed to subscribing libraries.

The National Library has for some years been creating MARC records for Australian books and pooling them with similar records from the U.S. Library of Congress and the British Library. In 1974 it became the first to offer a selective distribution service based on a file of all available MARC records. It will be transferring this successful application from current commercial-bureau operation to the System/3 later this year. The computer has a Model 15 CPU with 128k bytes of main storage divided into two partitions in which job streams can be run concurrently.

Peripheral equipment includes three 3411 tape units (nine-track, 800/1600 bpi), for 3340 disc units providing a total of 200M bytes of direct-access storage, a 1403-N1 line printer fitted with a special 120-character-set library print train, and a 3741 data station as the system input/output device in place of the more common card reader/punch.

The library’s systems development director, R. A. Simmons, said today that the 3741 would shortly be upgraded to enhance its usefulness as a stand-alone data-entry unit. A 3751-2 matrix printer would be added, together with such special features as an extended character set capability, dual disc units, check-digit verification, and record insertion.

• Beginning September 1, Rosary College will offer a Certificate of Advanced Study in the college’s Graduate School of Library Science, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, Illinois. The new program consists of thirty semester hours of study beyond the Master’s of Arts in Library Science. Individual programs will be provided for school, public, academic, and special librarians.

The course work will be taken at Rosary College and also in one of the following cooperating graduate or professional schools: Concordia Teachers College, DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University.

For further information, phone or write to: Director, Program for Certificate of Advanced Study, Graduate School of Library Science, Rosary College, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305; (312 ) 369-6320, ext. 326.

• An endowment has been established in memory of Virginia Gearhart Gray (Mrs. Irving E. Gray), who was for many years a member of the staff of the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library at Duke University. As the cataloging and reference specialist for the Socialist Party of America papers in the department, Ms. Gray prepared these papers for use and assisted the many scholars who came to Duke to consult this important collection. Wishing to honor her in a manner that would be appropriate and permanent, her colleagues in the department recommended that royalties received from the Microfilming Corporation of America on sales of a microfilm edition of the Socialist Party Papers be used to establish an endowment fund. The first royalty payment received by the university has therefore been combined with donations that have been made to the library by friends of Ms. Gray since her death in 1971 to constitute the Virginia Gearhart Gray Endowment Fund. The fund now stands at over $13,500. Income from the endowment will be expended for the purchase of manuscripts and related materials pertaining to the history and culture of the U.S.

The Socialist Party papers at Duke comprise the most nearly complete archives of any American political party. The Microfilming Corporation of America in New Jersey was permitted by the Social Democrats, U.S.A., the present successor to the Socialist Party of America, and the Duke University Library to film the collection for commercial distribution. Since the supervision of the filming and of the compilation of the guide and index to the microfilm was handled by the staff of the Manuscript Department, it was agreed that the department would receive the royalties from the sale of the film. Whatever subsequent royalties may come from additional sales of this film will also go into the Gray fund, as will further contributions given to the library in memory of Ms. Gray.

PUBLICATIONS

• Printed monthly indexes to the Detroit News and the Milwaukee Journal are now available from Hell & Howell’s Micro Photo Division, beginning with the January 1976 edition.

Extensively cross-referenced, each monthly index contains a subject index and a name index for fast location of national, international, state, regional, and local news coverage. Editorials, letters to the editor, editorial cartoons, syndicated columns, reviews, and selected advertising are included in the listings. Subscribers receive a cumulated annual edition in addition to the twelve monthly issues.

A calendar-year subscription to either index is priced at $225. However, the two new indexes are grouped, for multiple-title discount purposes, with four other newspaper indexes published by Bell & Howell: The Washington Post Index, Chicago Tribune Index, Los Angeles Times Index, and The New Orleans Times-Picayune Index. The price of each index drops to $210 per year if two titles are ordered; to $195 per year if three titles are ordered; and to $170 per year if four or more index titles are ordered for the same calendar year.

All six of the indexes are prepared from the same editions which Micro Photo Division records on 35mm microfilm. Backfiles of the indexes to the Post, Tribune, Times and Times- Picayune are available from 1972, and a retrospective 1971 edition of The Washington Post Index is scheduled for publication in the fourth quarter of this year.

Further information may be obtained by writing to Ms. Lathrop in care of Bell & Howell, Micro Photo Division, Old Mansfield Road, Wooster, OH 44691.

• The University of Southern California Norris Medical Library has issued its 1976 Media Resources Catalog Supplement. Arranged by subject with a title index, 450 items are fully described. The supplement includes Norris’ acquisitions for 1975/76 and the complete holdings of the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center Libraries (General Hospital, Nursing and Women’s Hospital). Copies of the 1975 Catalog of Norris’ media collection are also available. While the items listed are not available for loan, sale, or rent to other institutions at this time, the catalog and supplement may be useful reference or selection tools. Prices are as follows: Media Resources Catalog 1975, $3.00; 1976 Supplement, $2.00; and both catalogs, $4.00.

Payment should be by check payable to the Norris Medical Library and sent to: Media Resources Center, Norris Medical Library, USC Health Sciences Campus, 2025 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033.

• The Register of Indexers, 1975-1976, listing members of the American Society of Indexers who are willing to accept free-lance index assignments, has iust been published. This nationwide list contains the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and special subiect and language capabilities of more than 150 indexers. It also contains “Guidelines for Publishers and Editors on Index Evaluation” and “Guidelines on Employment Terms for Freelance Indexers.”

To obtain a copy of The Register of Indexers, 1975-1976, send a $3.00 check made out to the American Society of Indexers to Peter Rooney, Executive Secretary, American Society of Indexers, 30 Charles St., New York, NY 10014.

• “Microimagery in the Library,” vol. 11, no. 4, of the Drexel Library Quarterly examines the world of microforms applied to library problems: historical development of microforms, major issues of the day (such as, micropublishing, bibliographic control, and copyright), and the changing state of the technology and its effect on future use of microforms.

Edited by Dr. Charles T. Meadow of Drexel University’s Graduate School of Library Science, the issue includes: “Microfilm and the Library: A Retrospective” by Allen B. Veaner; “Microforms and the User” by Susan K. Nutter; “Bibliographic Control of Microforms” by Marcia Jebb; “Micropublishing” by Robert Asleson; “Current Status of Copyright Law and Its Relation to Library Photocopying” by L. Clark Hamilton; “A Technological Review: The Future of Microimagery in the Library” by Thomas C. Bagg; “The Effect of Transmission Technology on the Future of Microforms” by George W. Tressel and W. David Penniman; and “Microfilm and the Library: A Prospective” by Dr. Charles T. Meadow.

Copies of volume 11, no. 4 (October 1975) are available for $4.00 each ($5.00 outside the U.S. and Canada) from the Drexel Library

Quarterly,Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 895-2483.

• The January 1976 issue of Library Trends is on “Community Analysis and Libraries.” It was edited by Larry Earl Bone, director of the Burrow Library, Southwestern University at Memphis; until the fall of 1975, Bone was assistant director of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center.

“Community Analysis and Libraries” consists of thirteen articles and an annotated bibliography of about forty items published in the last five years. The authors consider the “why” of community analysis, but they emphasize the “how.” Three authors work in υublic libraries, one in an academic library, five are library school instructors, and four are social scientists. Among the articles in this issue are “A History of Community Analysis in American Librarian- ship” by Charles Evans, “The Use of Data Gathering Instruments in Library Planning” by Arthur H. Kunze, and “Market Analysis and Audience Research for Libraries” by Morris E. Massey.

Lowell A. Martin writes on “User Studies and Library Planning,” Margaret E. Monroe on “Community Development as a Mode of Community Analysis,” and Ernest R. DeProspo on “The Use of Community Analysis in the Measurement Process.” The other authors include Allie Beth Martin, Robert Croneburger and Carolyn Luck, Muriel C. Javelin, James F. Govan, Kenneth E. Beasley, William R. Monat, and Rose Vainstein.

This issue of Library Trends consists of 214 pages; it is available for $4.00 in soft covers from the University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 61801. A subscription for the volume year may also be placed with the University of Illinois Press for $15.00.

• An index to forty-seven years of Research Studies, a Washington State University scholarly quarterly, has just been readied by Joseph Drazan and Paula Scott. Full author-subject indexing in fifty pages suitable for binding covers the journal from volume one (1929) through volume 43 (1975). Your $4.00 check made payable to Penrose Memorial Library, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, will secure a copy for you.

• The Reference Service Manual of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Library is now available as ERIC document number ED 116-701. It was announced in the May 1976 issue of Resources in Education. Copies are available from ERIC Document Reproduction Service, P.O. Box 190, Arlington, VA 22210, at a cost of $0.76 for a microfiche copy and $1.75 for a hard copy.

The manual is the result of work on a policy statement begun by the Reference Department at the University of Massachusetts Library in 1971. A draft outline of the manual appeared in an article by Mary Jo Lynch which was published in RQ, spring 1972.

• The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of University Library Management Studies has issued a new SPEC Kit. The SPEC Kit and Flyer on bibliographic access in ARL libraries consists of twenty-two documents describing developments in catalog automation and automated literature search services in ARL member libraries. The kit also includes figures summarizing “New, Eliminated and Planned Services in ARL Libraries,” and ways which libraries are “Dealing with Common Obstacles to Ribliographic Access in Research Libraries.” The Kit and Flyer resulted from the SPEC User Services Survey conducted in November 1975.

SPEC Kitsare packages of documentation which are organized around management topics of wide interest. They may contain policy statements, planning documents, forms, committee reports, guidelines, statistics, and other documents. Each kit is accompanied by a SPEC Flyer, which analyzes recent trends in that area of library management, presents the results of relevant SPEC surveys, and describes the kit.

Requests for copies of these kits should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.

The cost to ARL members and SPEC subscribers is $7.50 for each kit, and $15.00 to others. Information about SPEC purchases, subscriptions, and standing orders is available from Nancy Zeidner, SPEC Coordinator, at the above address, (202) 232-8656.

• The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in an effort to improve accessibility to education data, is participating in a consortium with federal agencies interested in the collection and use of education statistics, as authorized by the Education Amendments of 1974 (Public Law 93-380). More than thirty federal agencies participate in the Federal Interagency Consortium of Users of Education Statistics.

Consortium members agreed that the availability and accessibility of education data obtainable from federal agencies were first priorities and cooperated in the compilation of a Directory of Federal Agency Education Data. Tapes to identify and describe education data bases available on magnetic computer tape from agencies of the federal government. Information available in the directory describes tapes pertaining to elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education; demographic, vital, health, and welfare data; manpower supply and demand, libraries and media centers, and federal outlays for education. Future areas for consortium planning include user needs and priorities, standardization problems, and utilization of data for cross-agency analysis.

Single copies of the Directory of Federal Agency Education Data Tapes may be obtained by writing to Barbara Feller, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Center for. Education Statistics, Room 3061, 400

Maryland Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20202. Multiple copies may be purchased from the Public Documents Section, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

• The Bibliography of the Publications of the Librarians of the State University of New York, 1975, a comprehensive forty-five-page listing of monographs, articles, and other publishing activities of librarians at the seventy-two SUNY campuses, is available free from Mr. Terry Hubbard, University Library, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794.