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• AACR 2 Implementation Studies in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit #68 (117 pages, October, 1980), focuses on methodologies developed to examine the effects of the new code on catalog management practices and workload. The kit is available to ARL members and SPEC subscribers for $7.50 and to others for $15 (plus $2 handling charge), prepayment required, from SPEC, OMS/ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• Affirmative Action Programs, SPEC Kit #67 (87 pages, September 1980), contains affirmative action plan documents from Association of Research Libraries member institutions and policy statements on affirmative action and equal employment opportunity from several universities. It replaces ARL Kit #4 (January 1974) on affirmative action. See the above entry for price and ordering information.

• A Ribliography for Medieval and Renaissance Musical Manuscript Research, by Peter Jefferey (68 pages, August 1980), is a list of secondarv materials at the Alcuin Librarv and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John’s Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. The bibliography is not annotated, but it contains a helpful index. This booklet is available for $3 from the Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN 56321.

• The Canadian MARC Communication Format: Authorities is the latest in a series of standard formats for machine-readable cataloging data. Published by the National Library of Canada, the CAN/MARC Authorities format has a unique capability to handle bilingual information. It is available in an updatable binder format from the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec, K1A OS9, Canada. The price is $17.50 in Canada, $21 elsewhere. Subscriptions to the supplementation service are $6 in Canada, $7.20 elsewhere.

• A Collector s Choice: The John J. Walsdorf Collection of William Morris in Private Press and Limited Edition (62 pages, 1980) has been published by the George Washington University Library. It is a catalog of the exhibition held in the Special Collections Division at GWU Library in winter 1979-80. The library plans to bring the collection back for exhibit in February, 1981, to coincide with the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Washington. Copies of the catalog may be obtained for $5 from David S. Zeidberg, Curator, Special Collections Division, George Washington University Library, Washington, DC 20052.

• Declining Enrolment, by Marita Moll (34 pages, July 1980), has appeared as the Canadian Teachers’ Federation Bibliographies in Education Series number 72. This annotated bibliography covers two years of Canadian and American literature dealing with the topic. Copies are available from the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, 110 Argyle Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1B4, Canada.

• The Directory of Michigan Academic Libraries, 1980-1981, published by the Michigan Chapter of ACRL (27 pages, 1980), supersedes the first edition published in 1977. Its primary arrangement is by academic institution, which is followed by a name index keyed to appropriate institution entry numbers. Copies may be obtained from Joy Pastucha, Michigan Library Association, 226 W. Washtenaw, Lansing, MI 48933.

• Financial Aspects of Library and Information Services: A Ribliography, by Alan Cooper (117 pages, 1980), has been published by the Centre for Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University, England. Cost: £10. The Centre has also recently published The Relegation and Storage of Materials in Academic Libraries: A Literature Review, by L. Gilder, et al., (78 pages, 1980). Cost £5. To order, contact CLAIM Publications, Loughborough University, Leies LEU 3TU, United Kingdom.

• The First Annual Ribliography of Articles and Monographs on Serials (25 pages, August 1980) has been completed by the Library School Education Committee of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, Serials Section. The bibliography is fully annotated and arranged by thirteen major topics. Copies may be obtained for $3 (if prepaid, $2.50) from RTSD/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

• Foundation Fundamentals: A Guide for Grantseekers, by Carol M. Kurzig (148 pages, 1980), has been published by the Foundation Center. It explains the “most effective process for identifying, researching and applying to foundations for grants.” Copies are available for $4.95 from the Foundation Center, 888 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10106.

• A Guide to Current Catholic Diocesan Newspapers in Microform, compiled by Harry M. Culkin (23 pages, 1979), is a directory of locations and availability of microform editions of 140 Catholic newspapers currently published in Ue United States. The cost is $3 prepaid from Harry M. Culkin, Cathedral College, 7225 Douglaston Parkway, Douglaston, NY 11362.

• The Library of Congress Filing Rules (1980 edition) will be adopted simultaneously this year with AACR 2. The rules will be applied in the add-on card catalogs that are begun in 1981, as well as in the printed book catalogs containing AACR 2 catalog records. Copies may be obtained For $5 from the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20541.

• Library Resources for College Scholars: Transactions of a Conference Held at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, February 14-15, 1980, edited by Robert E. Danford (55 pages, 1980), documents the conference which was held to discuss research in liberal arts colleges, collection development policies and practices, and their relationship to information retrieval systems. Copies may be obtained at no charge from the Cataloging Department, University Library, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450, by sending a self-addressed mailing label and 19¢ postage for each request.

• Music in Harvard Libraries: A Catalogue of Early Printed Music and Books on Music in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, by David A. Wood (306 pages, 1980), has been published by the Houghton Library and Harvard’s Department of Music. The illustrated volume lists 1,626 music works published before 1801, including scores, part-books, theoretical and historical writings, periodical publications, and dance manuals. Price: $50. Orders may be sent to Harvard University Press, 79 Carden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

• Three new selected bibliographies are available from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Correctional Staff Development and Training, White-Collar Crime, and Volunteers in Criminal Justice. All three publications are free from NCJRS, an information center sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, a research center within the U.S. Department of Justice. Write: NCJRS, Department F, Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20850.

• Readings in Planning Theory: Results of a Reading List Survey, by Richard E. Klosterman (15 pages, October 1980), has been published as Council of Planning Librarians Bibliography, number 34. For those interested in planning theory and plannning education this booklet provides an accurate reflection of the field’s current perceptions of the appropriate material for graduate courses in planning theory. It is available for $6 from CPL Bibliographies, 1313 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637.

• Religious Archives: An Introduction, by August R. Suelflow (1980), is a manual designed to provide practical information on administering a religious archives. It is available from the Society of American Archivists, 330 S. Wells, Suite 810, Chicago, IL 60606. The price is $5 to SAA members, $7 to others. A postage and handling charge will be added to non-prepaid orders.

• Research about Nineteenth-Century Children and Books, edited by Selma Richardson (142 pages, 1980), has been published as Monograph 17 of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. The volume makes available the papers presented at a 1979 symposium on research in children’s literature held at the University of Illinois. The price is $8. Send orders to the Graduate School of Library Science, Publications Office, 249 Armory Bldg., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

• Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature, 1660-1740: A Selected Bibliography of Resource Materials, compiled by Roger D. Lund (42 pages, 1980), has appeared as the first in a series of Selected Bibliographies in Language and Literature published by the Modern Language Association of America. The booklet lists current periodicals, bibliographies, concordances, and other materials under fourteen separate headings as well as individual authors. Copies are available for $3.75 from MLA, 62 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011.

• Russian/Soviet Literature: Selected Resources at UC-B, compiled by Rudolf Lednicky and Veronica Wakeman (111 pages, 1980), has been published by the General Library at the University of California-Berkeley. It is a selective list of 833 titles under 25 subject headings concerned primarily with Russian language materials. Copies may be obtained from the Reference and Collection Development Department, General Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

• Simple Repair and Preservation Techniques for Collection Curators, Librarians and Archivists, by Jean Gunner (12 pages, 1980), is available for $2 from the Hunt Institute for Biological Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. The institute has also recently published A Selection of Late 18th and Early 19th Century Indian Botanical Paintings (1980), which may be ordered from the same address for $8.

• The proceedings of the two-day symposium on The Supreme Court Davis Decision: Implications for Higher Education and Physically Disabled Students, edited by Betsy Schrauder and Jeannine Villing (153 pages, 1980), has been published by Wayne State University. The symposium, held on the WSU campus in November, 1979, dealt with the rights of the handicapped under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Copies may be ordered for $4, prepaid, from Educational Resources for Students with Disabilities, 450 Mackenzie Hall, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.

• A Users Guide to the Library of Congress Shelflist Reference System, by Nancy Olson (25 pages, 1980), is available for $5 from the Historical Documents Institute, 1911 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209.

AUDIOVISUAL NOTICE

• How to Use the ERIC System, a program of fifty-nine 2x2 inch slides in 35mm format, with a 12½ minute narrative on cassette, script, and slide index, has been produced by the UCLA Education and Psychology Library in conjunction with the UCLA Office of Instructional Services. It has been designed as a self-help program for users unfamiliar with the ERIC system. The program may be purchased for $35 from the UCLA Library Accounting Office, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

RECEIVED

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

• A major survey of Parliamentary Librarianship in the English-Speaking, World is now available from Oryx Press (1980, $21.95). Philip Laundy describes and compares the libraries serving the legislatures of the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the national and state legislatures of Australia and Canada. Part II of this study is an examination of the specialized research function required of these libraries.

• King Research has published Alternatives for Future Library Catalogs (June 1980), the final report of the Library Catalog Cost Project that King conducted for the Association of Research Libraries. This report is available from King Research, Inc., 6000 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852.

• The American Bibiographical Center has published a comprehensive bibliography on indexing and abstracting. Indexing and Abstracting: An International Bibliography by Hans Wellisch (ABC-Clio Press, 1980, $22.75), encompassing more than 100 years of publications on this subject, was published in cooperation with the American Society of Indexers and the Society of Indexers in England.

• The inaugural volume in R. R. Bowker s Information Management Series is Fee-Based Information Services: A Study of a Growing Industry by Lorig Maranjian and Richard Boss (1980, $24.95). Topics include: results of a 1979 survey of various information services; an overview of fee-based services; marketing of fee-based services; information-gathering techniques; profiles of major fee-based information services; economics; and an analysis of the future of this field.

• Video in the 80s: Emerging Uses for Television in Business, Education, Medicine, and Government by Paula Dranov, et al. (Knowledge Industries Publications, 1980, $34.95) analyses the various trends affecting the non-broadcast video market. Video in the 80s presents the results of a market study of over 5,000 organizations.

• The second editon of a Bibliographic Guide to Educational Research by Dorothea M. Berry, published by Scarecrow Press (1980, $11), “contains 772 entries describing materials essential or useful for research in the field of education. Emphasis is on basic sources and on recently published works representative of various aspects of the field.

• Special Librarianship: A New Reader by Eugene B. Jackson (Scarecrow, 1980, $27.50) is an anthology of seventy readings directed at the new professional in special librarianship. This volume is a revision and expansion of Harold Sharp’s Readings in Special Librarianship (Scarecrow, 1963).

• “The effects of shrinking energy resources, changing patterns of energy consumption, and new developments in communications technology on the structure and operations of research libraries” is the theme of 1980: Prologue to the Future: the Minutes of the Ninety-Sixth Meeting, an edited transcript of the 96th ARL Membership Meeting, held May 15-16, 1980, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Copies are available (prepaid) for $5 to ARL members and $7.50 to non-members from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

• Archivists and Machine-Readable Records (Society of American Archivists, 1980, $7 for SAA members, $10 for non-members) presents the papers prepared for the Conference on Archival Management of Machine-Readable Records held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during February 7-10, 1979. SAA is also making available a 42-page guide to the W.P.A. Historical Records Survey materials for each state. The WPA Historical Records Survey: A Guide to the Unpublished Inventories, Indexes, and Transcripts was compiled by Loretta L. Hefner and is available from the Society ($4 for SAA members; $6 for non-members).

• The first issue of Haworth Press’ quarterly Journal of Library Administration (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1980) contains articles on job satisfaction, marketing the library, staff development, and managing not-for-profit enterprises. A subscription to Journal of Library Administration is $42.

• Comparable Worth: Issues and Alternatives offers an analysis of the concept of equal pay for jobs of comparable worth, a theory now being advocated as a means of enforcing equal employment opportunity laws. The book includes discussions of the theory, the practical impact of its adoption in this country, a detailed review of its legal basis, and the approach other nations have taken to this issue. Comparable Worth, edited by Robert E. Livernash, was published by the Equal Employment Advisory Council in November, 1980, in conjunction with a one-day symposium in Washington, D.C., featuring a panel discussion on the basic issues of this topic.

• Essays in Public Finance and Financial Management: State and Local Perspectives, edited by John E. Peterson and Catherine L. Spain (Chatham House, 1980, $8.95), “cuts across the entire spectrum of state-local finance topics. ”

• Publication No. 11 in Pierian Press’ Library Orientation Series is Library Instruction and Faculty Development: Growth Opportunities in the Academic Community (1980, $10), a series of essays which grew out of the Twenty-Third Midwest Academic Librarians’ Conference held in May, 1978, at Ball State University. The goal of the conference was “to bring together the most authoritative and the most representative opinions in the faculty development and library instruction movements for the purpose of establishing a much-needed dialog between librarians and professors.”

• The Library and Information Technology Association sponsored two Closing the Catalog Institutes in November, 1978, and February, 1979. The purpose of the institutes was to examine the nature of the influences causing libraries to consider the closing of their catalogs and the desirability of the alternatives. D. Kaye Gapen and Bonnie Juergens have compiled and edited the proceedings of these institutes. Closing the Catalog: Proceedings of the 1978 and 1979 Library & Information Technology Association Institutes is available from Oryx Press (1980, $18.50).