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• The Adelphi University Press has published a major new resource book for anyone seeking funding for programs in the field of aging. A National Guide to Government and Foundation Funding Sources in the Field of Aging was published on January 15. The 175- page guide is a cooperative effort of the Adelphi University Programs on Aging Office and the Nassau County Department of Senior Citizen Affairs.

Comprehensive information is given for more than 85 federal funding programs in the following categories: funding under the Older Americans Act, employment, volunteerism, economic self-sufficiency, community development, housing and construction, health, mental health, nutrition, transportation, education and training, arts and humanities, social and behavioral research, and supportive and protective services.

Listed and described are 125 foundations that have awarded 500 grants within the field of the aging from 1972 to 1976. Extensive bibliographies and appendices include definitions of federal assistance available, commonly used abbreviations, information contacts, a directory of state agencies on aging, etc.

A National Guide to Government and Foundation Funding Sources in the Field of Aging costs $13.50. It is available from: Adelphi University Press, Room 103L, Garden City, NY 11530.

• A new book on collection development has been published by the General Libraries at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.

Entitled Collection Development Policy, the publication is a working guide, relating the General Libraries’ acquisitions policy to specific UT teaching and research needs.

“One thing we have attempted to demonstrate is the interlocking nature of research interests,” says Carolyn Bucknall, assistant director for collection development. “Old departmental boundary lines have simply vanished and it is no longer valid, if indeed it ever was, to assume hegemony over a particular subject. For that reason, our ‘Collection Development Policy’ is based on a subject rather than departmental approach.”

A total of 48 subjects of collecting interests are identified, and collecting levels that support those subjects are assigned. Additional policies related to dissertations, duplication, newspapers and reference collections, as well as a topical index, are included. The publication was prepared by the General Libraries Collection Development Committee.

“The ‘Policy’ is specific enough to guide daily book selection, to help frame parameters of blanket-order arrangements, and to assist in gift acceptance,” Ms. Bucknall says. “We expect that it will be revised many times as university needs and objectives continue to evolve.”

Cost of the book is $10. Remittances should be made payable to The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries and mailed to The General Libraries Office, The University of Texas at Austin, Main Building 2100, Austin, TX 78712.

• The National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEMMH) announces the availability of its newest catalog of special education instructional materials. The twenty-page catalog lists nearly thirty items placed into distribution by NCEMMH. The instructional media and materials deal with a variety of handicapping conditions, including hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, speech impairment, retardation, and others. Both print and nonprint items are listed, such as books, films, audiotape cassettes, transparencies, filmstrips, and mixed media kits.

To obtain a free catalog, send a self-addressed, business-size envelope with your request to: Catalog, Information Services, National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

• The Proceedings of the Symposium on the National Health Planning Act, published by the Columbia University Health Sciences Library and edited by C. Lee Jones, is now available.

Included is an examination of the act itself by Florence Fiori, director of the Division of Resource Development, Public Health Service Region Two. Dr. Lowell E. Beilin, commissioner of health of the City of New York, examines the implications of the act for health providers and health consumers. Dr. Donald Hendricks, director of the South Central Regional Medical Library Program—Dallas, considers what the impact of this legislation may be for health science libraries and librarians.

Responding to these three major papers are three members of the academic community: Dr. Harold M. Schoolman, assistant director of the National Library of Medicine, responds from NLM’s point of view; Erich Meyerhoff, librarian, Cornell University Medical Center, concentrates on the librarian’s response; and Dr. Bruce Vladeck, assistant professor of public health in health administration at Columbia University, zeroes in on the political implications of the three major papers and the act itself. Dr. Lucie Young Kelly, also of Columbia’s School of Public Health, as the moderator of the symposium, places the act in its historical perspective and throughout the proceedings asks penetrating and revealing questions of the participants.

Appended to the Proceedings is a “Selective Bibliography on the National Health Planning Act” prepared by Ellen Nagle, data base services librarian at Columbia’s Health Sciences Library. It is available for $6.00 from C. Lee Jones, Health Sciences Librarian, Columbia University Health Sciences Library, 701 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10032.

• The first issue of On-Line Review—the international journal of on-line information systems—was published in March. The journal was launched with a companion bibliography compiled by Donald Hawkins of Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. The bibliography covers the on-line information retrieval literature from the late 1960s to the present.

On-Line Reviewis edited by Martha Williams, director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory and research professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, and Alex Tomberg, head of Methods Division at Shell Central Offices, in The Hague, Netherlands.

On-Line Reviewis issued quarterly, and the annual subscription price is $45 for institutions and $25 for individual subscribers. Further information may be obtained from the publishers: Learned Information, 200 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

• The National Library of Canada has now published volume 4 in its series, Research Collections in Canadian Libraries, II Special Studies, 4: Slavic and East European Resources in Canadian Academic and Research Libraries, by Bohdan Budurowycz. (ISSN 0316-0319)

Copies of this report may be ordered by mail from Publishing Centre, Printing and Publishing, Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa K1A 0S9, Canada. All orders must be accompanied by a cheque or money order made payable to the Receiver General for Canada. Price: Canada, $5.00; other countries, $6.00.

• A Selective Guide to Materials for Mental Health and Family Life Education, 3d. ed. ($65.00), fully describes 500 of the best educational publications and audiovisuals needed by mental health professionals and others engaged in mental health and family life education. The items were evaluated by the editorial staff of the nonprofit Mental Health Materials Center and by dozens of nationally recognized subject specialists for this new edition. It is now available to libraries from Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226.

• The National Science Foundation has published Federal Scientific and Technical Communication Activities: 1975 Progress Report. It contains brief program descriptions and highlights of 1975 activities prepared by each contributing agency. More than sixty federal scientific and technical information programs in fifteen executive departments and independent agencies are represented. An introductory chapter summarizes significant developments and trends in federal information programs; a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations and an index are appended.

Additional copies of the 1975 Progress Report may be obtained from: National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22151. (Order No. PB 253-975; domestic, $5.00 paper copy, $2.25 microfiche; foreign, $7.50 paper copy, $3.75 microfiche.)

• The Serials Librarian, a new quarterly journal, has just begun circulation. The first periodical devoted exclusively to serials management since ALA’s old Serials Slants in the 1960s, this new journal is edited by Peter Gel- latly, head of the Serials Division at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

The premier issue provides a mixture of articles dealing with the art and science of serials librarianship. Bill Katz discusses the frustrations of “Joining Art and Technics at the Serials Desk” in times of shrinking budgets; Mary Ellen Soper provides a comprehensive review of the literature dealing with the “Entry of Serials”; and Frank Clasquin discusses how subscription agencies can be useful in planning final periodical subscriptions (and cancellations ) in terms of subject coverage.

A systems analysis of microform serials collections is dealt with by R. J. Coffman, and a colloquy on copyright is presented by a law librarian and an attorney. Elizabeth Groot provides an annotated bibliography on unique identifiers for serials, covering the development of the ISSN and CODEN.

Rounding out the issue are a news section edited by Gary Pitkin, serials librarian, Bierce Library, University of Akron, Ohio, and a “Current Abstracts” service, which covers articles on serials published elsewhere from a computerized file data base.

Subscriptions to The Serials Librarian cost $18.00 a year and may be ordered from The Haworth Press, 174 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Canadian orders must add $2.00; other foreign orders, $5.00.

• The Hennepin County Library (HCL) Authority File has been issued in microfiche format (42x). Quarterly recumulations for an at-cost, annual fee are $30. Single copies or partial subscriptions will also be available at $7.50 per cumulative list.

The Authority File reflects the changing terminology, user-oriented data, and other innovations developed at HCL under the leadership of head cataloger Sandy Berman.

Based on the New York Public Library’s computer-generated authority control system, the 139,000-term Authority File contains in one alphabet personal and corporate authors, subject headings, cross-references, and the names of traced individuals, groups, and producers. It features HCL-generated “public notes,” which provide the user with background or explanatory data, and “catalogers’ notes,” which furnish distinguishing information for similar name or subject forms.

HCL’s authority records are being offered in the hope that libraries will find them a good alternative or supplemental authority-term source, according to Liz Dickinson, head book catalog editor. Order a year’s subscription ($30) or single cumulation ($7.50) from the Secretary, Technical Services Division, Hennepin County Library, 7001 York Ave. S., Edina, MN 55435. Checks should be payable to “Hennepin County Library.” For more information or a sample fiche, contact Ms. Dickinson at the above address.

• The second edition of the bibliography, American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World, 1883-1974, has been issued by the Library of Congress. The publication lists 1,825 dissertations related to the Arab world accepted mainly during the academic years 1968 through 1974 by universities in the United States and Canada. The first edition, published in 1970, covered dissertations issued between 1883 and 1968.

Like its predecessor, the second edition includes dissertations dealing with science and technology, as well as with the humanities and the social sciences. Geographically, it covers all the Arabic-speaking countries of the Near East and North Africa and all communities where Arabic is spoken. Minorities living in Arabicspeaking countries are included. Titles related to Islam as a religion, regardless of the part of the world involved, are also listed. The period of time covered extends from the rise of Islam (about A.D. 610) to the present.

The publication was compiled by George D. Selim of LC’s Orientalia Division. Titles were taken from Dissertation Abstracts, other authoritative bibliographies, and unpublished sources, such as university records.

The 173-page clothbound publication is available for $4.60 by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 030-000-00074-9) or in person from the Information Counter, Ground Floor, Library of Congress Building.

• Kent State University has just released a new set of OCLC videotapes. Two are public services programs—Finding Information in the OCLC System Part I and Part II. These were oriented for the library user to help explain what OCLC is and how it helps with library work. The tapes can also be used to teach users how to use an OCLC terminal placed in the public services part of a library.

In addition, one program aimed at librarians and library science students has been produced, On-Line Cataloging, which includes a detailed explanation of the terminal and its special capabilities for cataloging.

Two more will be produced by spring 1977. The Check-In Record introduces special problems encountered in searching for a check-in record and compares it with the bibliographic or “cataloging” record. The Automated Check- In features procedures and techniques for manipulation of on-line check-in records. The tapes cost $50 each for 1/2-inch EIAJ and $55 each for 3/4-inch U-matic. Both are in color.

Order from Jack W. Scott, University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240.

• The Tarlton Law Library of the School of Law of the University of Texas at Austin announces the publication of numbers twelve and thirteen of its Legal Bibliography series. Selected Bibliography on Child Abuse and Neglect, compiled by Karen L. Kretschman (1976, 26p. $10.00), and Legal Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Karen L. Kretschman (1976, 27p. $10.00). Copies may be ordered from: Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705.

• New for those interested in computer output microfilm (COM) is the National Micrographics Association’s (NMA) latest publication, COM and Its Applications.

This 192-page compendium of thirty-two articles about COM represents the most outstanding COM articles that have appeared in NMA’s Journal of Micrographics over the last three years. The compendium also represents the first in a series of collections of articles on subjects of interest to particular segments of the micrographic field.

COM and Its Applications(RS19-1976) is available for $4.50 for NMA members and $6 for nonmembers from: NMA Publication Sales, 8728 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910. Payment or purchase order must accompany all orders.

• The American Library Association’s Office for Library Service to the Disadvantaged (OLSD) is offering two ethnic studies directories—Directory of Ethnic Studies Librarians and Directory of Ethnic Publishers and Re- source Organizations. Both are spiral-bound, approximately 100-page directories, compiled by Beth J. Shapiro, urban affairs librarian at the Michigan State University Libraries. For each directory ordered, send $1.50 plus 50 cents postage to OLSD, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

The Directory of Ethnic Studies Librarians is designed as a tool to facilitate communication among librarians and others involved in ethnic studies. Information includes the librarian’s name, home/business address, position, and area of responsibility or interest. Indexes list librarians by type of library, state, institution, and ethnic or subject specialty.

The Directory of Ethnic Publishers and Resource Organizations is a guide to organizations and small presses that publish ethnic-related materials. The emphasis is on third-world ethnic groups (Afro-Americans, native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans).

Each entry includes the company or organization’s address, telephone number, major purpose or emphasis, and publications (with subscription and ordering information ).

Appendices include lists of archival and research collections and distributors. There is also a complete subject index.

RECEIVED

Access to Canadian government publications in Canadian academic and public libraries I Edith Jahvi.— Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1976. 116p. $12.00. (ISBN 0- 88802-113-5)

A bibliography of dissertations in classical studies : American, 1964-1972; British, 1950- 1972, with a cumulative index, 1861-1972 /compiled by Lawrence S. Thompson. — Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press, 1976. 296p. $22.50. (LC 76-41178) (ISBN 0-208- 01457-8)

Books and undergraduates : proceedings of a conference held at Royal Holloway College, University of London, 4th-6th, July 1975 /edited by Peter H. Mann. — London : National Book League, 1976. 132p. £.3.35. (ISBN 8535-3245-1)

Books in other languages : how to select and where to order them /compiled by Leonard Wertheimer. — 1976 ed. — Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, 1976. 129p. $15.00. (ISBN 0-888-02-115-1)

Books that changed the South /Robert B. Downs. — Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1977. 291p. $10.95. (LC 76-13181) (ISBN 0-8078-1286-2)

Catalog of the Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archive / Mary Elizabeth Murdock.— 2d ed. — Northhampton, Mass. : Smith College, 1976. 78p. $3.00.

Citizen groups in local politics : a bibliographical review / John D. Hutcheson, Jr.and Jann Shevin. — Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Books, 1976. 275p. $19.75. (LC 76-23441) (ISBN 0-87436-231-8)

Collective bargaining and the academic librarian I John W. Weatherford.— Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976. 147p. $6.00. (LC 76-45424) (ISBN 0-8108-0983- 4)

East Central and Southeast Europe : a handbook of library and archival resources in North America /edited by Paul L. Horec- ky and David H. Kraus. — Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, 1976. 466p. $35.75 (LC 76-28392) (ISBN 0-87436-214-8)

Faculty involvement in library instruction : their views on participation in and support of academic library use instruction : papers and summaries from the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries, held at Eastern Michigan University, May 15-17, 1975 /edited by Hannelore B. Rader. — Ann Arbor : Published for the Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, by Pierian Press, 1976. 115p. $8.50. (LC 76-21914) (ISBN 0- 87650-070-X)

Federal policy and library support / Redmond Kathleen Molz,— Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1976. 118p. $12.50. (LC 76- 17102) (ISBN 0-262-13120-X)

International bibliography of the book trade and librarianship. —11th ed. 1973-1975. — New York : Bowker ; München : Verlag Dokumentation, 1976. 704p. $49.50. (LC 73-700) (ISBN 3-7940-1247-X)

Major libraries of the world : a selective guide/ Colin Steele. — London ; New York : Bowker, 1976. 479p. $18.50. (ISBN 0- 85935-012-6)

Social responsibilities and libraries: a Library Journal/School Library Journal selection /compiled and edited by Patricia Glass Schuman. — New York : Bowker, 1976. 402p. $12.95. (LC 76-27894) (ISBN 0- 8352-0952-0)

Terminology of documentation /compiled by Gernot Wersig and Ulrich Neveling. — Paris : Unesco Press, 1976. 273p. $21.45. (LC 76-355220) (ISBN 92-3-001232-7)

Toshokan : libraries in Japanese society / Theodore F. Welch.— Chicago : American Library Association, 1976. 306p. $15.00. (ISBN 0-85157-220-0)

World list of social science periodicals / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.— 4th ed. — Paris : Unesco Press, 1976. 382p. $24.00. (ISBN 92-3-001293-9) ■■