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News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• A new archive in music is now available at the Library of the University of California, Riverside. The Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection holds the musicological manuscripts, letters, biographical materials, and notebooks of Heinrich Schenker and also the papers of the late Oswald Jonas, musicologist and leading authority on the life and work of Schenker.

The archive includes Schenker s voluminous diary of approximately 4,000 pages; his correspondence with Anthony van Hoboken, Reinhard Oppel, Moriz Violin, Eugen d’Albert, and Oswald Jonas; the proofs and manuscripts of his published works; printed editions from his library with notes, marginalia, and critical annotations; Urlinie tables; and miscellanea.

The Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection complements the library’s holdings of first and early editions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music.

• The History of Science Collections in the University of Oklahoma Libraries now hold more than 46,000 volumes. The collections include the first printed editions of most major scientific works, all the editions of some works; several thousand volumes of early scientific journals; biographies of scientists; histories of science and of the sciences; encyclopedias and dictionaries; and, in general, all the scholarly resources needed for the study of the history of science.

Among the early scientific journals that have been acquired for the collection are the Journal des Şcavans (both Paris and Amsterdam editions), the Acta erudicorum, the Histoire et mémoires of the French Academy of Sciences, and the Philosophical Transactions.

The Catalogue of the History of Science Collections University of Oklahoma Libraries, published in 1976 by Mansell, describes some 40,000 printed volumes and 10,000 volumes in microprint. It is the most extensive bibliography ever published in the history of science.

• The national archives of the United Methodist Church will be transferred to Drew University. Plans for the transfer have been approved by the Church’s Council on Finance and Administration. The transfer to Drew is expected to take place in 1981, following completion of a new $8 million university library and refurbishing of the present library structure to house the archives.

• A collection of rare atlases and maps has been bequeathed to the Fenwick Library, George Mason University, by C. Harrison Mann, Jr. An additional collection of rare books and Civil War era newspapers has been donated by his widow.

The first collection consists of eighteen rare editions of atlases and seventy-six rare maps of early Virginia and Maryland and several foreign regions of the world. There are also maps showing the eastern area of Virginia; a map of 1585 depicting the harbor of Cadiz, Spain; a Hondius edition of the John Smith map of Virginia, published in 1620, showing many of the Indian place-names; a hand-drawn map on parchment of the Gulf of Darian; and a map of a Scottish colony between Columbia and Panama drawn in 1698 by a seaman. There is also a Ganson edition of Atlas Antiquus (c.1700).

GRANTS

• An Urban Archives Project grant of. $45,825 from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, a division of the National Archives, will permit the University Libraries at California State University, Northridge, to establish an Urban Archives Center. Under the terms of the planning grant, the project staff will begin to survey historical materials pertaining to Los Angeles.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded for one year a preservation project that the Yale University Library will initiate in July 1979. The purpose of the project will be to investigate the extent to which library and archival materials in the Yale collection have deteriorated and to develop remedial and preventive measures to cope with the problem. Yale will employ interns to assist in the project.

• The Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE) has been awarded a planning grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a home study course on program development in the humanities.

• Carnegie-Mellon University has received a $210,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the application of computers and other technology to library management. The purpose of the study will be to determine the feasibility of adapting for smaller libraries the technology currently used in large libraries.

• Academic libraries have been among the beneficiaries of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant Program.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has received a challenge grant to restore the John Dewey Papers and begin a comprehensive conservation program for the library.

The University Library of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has been awarded $145,000 as part of a larger grant awarded to UCLA by NEH.

At Harvard University, the Harvard-Yenching Library of the College Library, the Francis Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design, and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America will benefit from a grant of $1,025,000 received by the university.

The purpose of the NEH Challenge Grant Program is to build a private base of support for the humanities. Under the terms of the grant, recipient institutions must raise three dollars from private donations for every dollar provided by NEH.

• Grant awards from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act have strengthened the resources of academic and research libraries in a variety of areas.

North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a grant of $250,000 for the purpose of strengthening research collections through cooperative collection development.

The Boston Public Library has received $238,000 to begin the editing, publication, and DISTRIBUTION OF ITS RESEARCH LIBRARY CATALOG.

A grant of $200,000 to the Missouri Botanical Garden and the New York Botanical Garden will permit the libraries of these two institutions to complete conversion to the Library of Congress classification system by sharing data.

MEETINGS

March 26-28: The theme of the 14th Annual Community College Learning Resources Conference will be “Realities for Learning Resources: Societal, Economic, Political.”

Sponsored by the North Carolina Learning Resources Association, the conference will be held at the Sheraton Center-Inn, Charlotte, North Carolina. The program will focus both on the political and social realities that affect learning resources personnel and on ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning resources operations.

Preregistration rates: $15 for entire conference; $7.50 for one day. Registration rates: $20 for conference; $10 for one day. For more information, contact: Ernie Tompkins, 203 Groveland Ave., Raleigh, NC 27607; (919) 737-^3396 or (919) 834- 4684.

March 29-31: The Academic Libraries Section of the Kentucky Library Association will hold its spring preconference and conference at the Hyatt Regency, Lexington, Kentucky.

The preconference seminar on March 29, entitled “The Evaluation and Measurement of Library Services: Past, Present, and Future,” will be conducted by F. Wilfred Lancaster.

The theme of the conference on March 30 and 31 is “Academic Libraries in Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?” Charles Stevens, executive director of SOLINET, will be the featured speaker. Papers fifteen to twenty minutes in length are invited.

For more information, contact: Dr. David C. Genaway, Associate Dean of Libraries, John Grant Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475.

March 31: The School of Library Service Alumni Association, Columbia University, will hold its annual Alumni-Student Day. The topic is “Libraries in the Coming Decade—Issues in the Eighties.” The keynote speaker is John Berry, editor-in-chief of Library Journal.

Following luncheon and Berry s talk, there will be discussion groups on the major issues confronting librarians in the next ten years. School librarians will focus on school/public library cooperation, special librarians on survival in a declining economy, public librarians on public libraries and Proposition 13, academic librarians on the problems of changing curricula and declining enrollments, and technical services librarians on AACR II. The day’s activities, taking place on the Columbia University campus, will end with a reception.

For further information and registration forms contact: Dean Carol Learmont, School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; (212) 280-2293.

April 4-6: The International Conference on the History and Collections in Natural History will be held in London at the British Museum (Natural History).

Sponsored by the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, the Biology Curators Group, and Geological Curators Group, the conference will consist of four sessions of papers. The topics will be: the history of museums; zoos and botanical gardens, lives and activities of specimen collectors; studies of natural history libraries and collections; and the growth of museums and studies on the collections resulting from expeditions and explorations.

The fee for the conference is £12 (£10 for members of the sponsoring organizations). For further information, contact: Mrs. J. A. Diment, Paleontology Library, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Rd., London, SW7 5BD.

April 19-20: The Archives-Libraries Committee (African Studies Association) will hold its spring meeting at Northwestern University. Contact: Daniel Britz, African Studies Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201; (312) 492-7684.

May 12-15: The Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) will hold its seventh annual conference at the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta.

The theme of the conference is “Sharing Resources, Sharing Costs.’’ Information specialists (computer scientists, librarians, documentalists, etc.) will gather to share experiences and present ideas on dealing with budget restraints and expanding needs.

The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Conference, sponsored by WESCAN ASIS, will be held in Banff immediately following the CAIS conference.

For further information, please contact: Ronald F. Peters, Publicity and Publications Chairman, c/o Environmental Design Unit, University of Calgary Library, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4; (403) 284-6828.

June 11-15: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirty-third annual conference at Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Information on arrangements may be secured from Dr. Norris Magnuson, Librarian, Bethel Theological Seminary, 3949 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN 55112.

Program information may be secured from Dr. G. Paul Hamm, Librarian, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Strawberry Point, Mill Valley, CA 94941.

June 14-20: The Thirty-fourth Annual Conference of the Canadian Library Association will be held in Ottawa. The theme of the conference is “The Librarian/Publisher Interface: Towards a Better Understanding.” At the three plenary sessions speakers will relate this theme to issues affecting librarians employed in various types of libraries—public, school, government, college, university, industry, and special.

Arrangements are being made for visits to various federal government and special libraries in the nation’s capital before the conference opening. Delegates will have an opportunity to indicate which libraries they wish to visit during the advance registration period. During the conference there will also be an opportunity for delegates to attend a workshop at Statistics Canada and to visit the National Library.

For further information, contact: The Canadian Library Association, 151 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ontario, KIP 5E3; (613) 232-9625.

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MISCELLANY

• The New England Library Network (NELINET) on December 29, 1978, became a separate organization. NELINET, Inc., and the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) signed a separation agreement turning over to NELINET the activities of and responsibilities for continuing the library automation network operated and administered by NEBHE since 1964. This agreement is the result of eight months of effort to spin the network off to become an independent, not-for-profit corporation.

• The National Commission on Library and Information Science (NCLIS) voted unanimously on January 6 not to accept the proffered resignation of its executive director, Alphonse F. Trezza.

At an executive session in Washington, D.C., NCLIS also voted to accept a recommendation by Trezza to seek a full-time director for the White House Conference on Library and Information Services to be held October 28 to November 1, 1979, in Washington, D.C. Trezza has been serving as both NCLIS executive director and White House conference director since the summer of 1977.

• The Alternative Acquisitions Project, directed by Elliot Shore at Temple University, is studying ways to help and encourage libraries to acquire the publications of small and alternative presses.

The project staff has sent questionnaires to selected libraries to survey practices employed in acquiring alternative press materials and plans to catalog samples of such materials for distribution to selected libraries.

The staff wishes to contact persons who have done research on the alternative press and would like to discuss the issue of alternative press acquisitions with those responsible for library collection development.

Those interested may write to Elliot Shore, Project Director, or to Daniel Tsang, Research Librarian, Samuel Paley Library, Temple University Library, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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HERE IS SUBJECT-AND-AUTHOR ACCESS TO MORE THAN 400,000 ARTICLES IN THE BACKFILES OF 531 JOURNALS IN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY.

CRIS —history, 1838-1974, in eleven hardcover volumes.

More than 180,000 articles from the backfiles of 234 History journals in the English language have been indexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes. Articles were assigned to one or more of 336 hierarchical subject categories, and then computer sorted by keyword under each category to give in-depth specificity.

CRIS —political science, 1886-1974, in eight hardcover volumes.

This set contains 6 cumulative subject volumes and 2 cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Administration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. Articles were assigned to one or more of 95 hierarchical subject categories.

CRIS — SOCIOLOGY, 1895-1974, in six hardcover volumes.

From the retrospective collections of 118 English Language Sociology journals, some 110,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumulative author volume. Articles were assigned to one or more of 87 hierarchical subject categories.

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more than 1 million BOOK REVIEWS which appeared in 472 of these same journals have been indexed by author and title in a separate fifteen-volume CRIS Index Set,

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• The Library of Congress and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will open their jointly sponsored Performing Arts Library at the Kennedy Center in early 1979. The Library of Congress has appointed Peter J. Fay head librarian. The John F. Kennedy Center has appointed Geraldine M. Otremba to coordinate all activities on behalf of the center for the new library.

The Performing Arts Library will serve as a reference center and introduction to the collections of music, theater, dance, and film materials in the Library of Congress and will provide service for the Kennedy Center archival materials.

The library’s collection has been designed to serve the general informational needs of audience members, visitors, and Kennedy Center staff; and the library and its staff will seek to provide more specialized bibliographic and research assistance for artists and scholars. Frequent exhibits of performing arts materials will complement the library’s service.

The Performing Arts Library is located on the roof terrace level of the Kennedy Center, sharing the building’s North Gallery with the new Terrace Theatre, which opened January 28. Both facilities were designed by Johnson/Burgee.

The Kennedy Center, with generous assistance from its corporate fund and a gift from Lew R. Wasserman, former center trustee and president of the Music Corporation of America, is providing the construction and capital costs for the library and its furnishings.

Occupying some 4,000 square feet, the library will house a reference collection of approximately 4,000 volumes and 300 periodical titles, a video display computer link-up with the Library of Congress, and equipment for listening to recordings on disc and cassette and for viewing videotaped and filmed materials.

A grant from the National Home Library Foundation will be used to supplement the initial collection with important library materials, and a gift from the Recording Industry Association of America will enrich the disc recording collection available at the library.

• The University of Southern California is establishing a Distinguished Professorship in the name of Martha Boaz who is retiring as dean of the School of Library Science. More than $320,000 has already been raised for this endowed professorship. The goal is to surpass $500,000. The endowment will be used by the Library School to bring a different internationally known visiting scholar to the USC campus each year. ■■