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•The 18th Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Humanities contains brief descriptions of NEH programs and policies, and a complete list of all NEH grants, entered by the division and program in which they were funded, for fiscal year 1983. Single copies are available from the NEH Public Affairs Office, Room 409, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506.

• The Assistant/Associate Director Position in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit #103 (100 pages, April 1984), reports on the varying responsibilities, qualifications, and management styles of the senior manager position. The kit contains survey results, documents concerning the position from eight libraries, and a short list of readings. Single copies may be purchased for $15, prepaid only, from the SPEC Center, Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

• The Comet Halley Handbook: An Observer’s Guide will undoubtedly be in demand as the famous comet becomes visible to the naked eye in 1985-1986. The handbook provides a current orbit of the comet that includes observations through January 1983; the expected behavior of the comet in terms of brightness, coma diameter, and tail lengths; observing conditions for the comet; historical, physical, orbital, and ephemeris data from 1982 to 1987. It may be ordered for $4.75 from Dept. 36-EN, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, DC 20402 (033-000-00892-9).

•The Directory of Public Domain (and User-Supported) Software for the IBM Personal Computer(109 pages, January 1984) catalogs hundreds of public domain programs already available for the IBM PC. Other user-supported programs, those which the authors distribute with a request for a donation, are also listed. Programs are listed for word processing, communications, DOS and BASIC utilities, games using color graphics, Pascal, spreadsheet templates, RAM disks, and others. Copies are $4.95 from the PC Software Interest Group, 1556 Halford Ave., Suite 130, Santa Clara, CA 95051. ISBN 0-915835-01-0.

• “Documenting America”: Assessing the Condi- tion of Historical Records in the States, edited by Lisa B. Weber (72 pages, 1984), summarizes the findings and recommendations of historical records assessment and reporting projects completed in nearly two dozen states in 1982-1983 with grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These projects, carried out by State Historical Records Advisory Boards, analyzed the condition of historical records programming in four areas: state government records, local government records, historical records repositories, and statewide functions and needs. The National Association of State Archives and Records Administrators secured a grant from the NHPRC to hold a conference of project managers in Atlanta in June 1983 and to engage four consultants to summarize the state reports. The consultants’ summaries, together with the recommendations for action delivered at that conference, make up “Documenting America'. To request a copy, contact Bruce W. Dearstyne, NASARA Executive Director, New York State Archives, Room 10A75, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230.

• Leaders in American Academic Librarianship, 1925-1975, edited by Wayne A. Wiegand (419 pages, 1983), has been published by ALA as Beta Phi Mu’s sixteenth chapbook. It contains 15 essays on prominent academic library leaders written by 15 different historians under a grant from the Council on Library Resources. The librarians covered are: Robert B. Downs, Charles Harvey Brown, Blanche P. McCrum, Keyes Metcalf, Louis Round Wilson, Ralph Ellsworth, Ralph Shaw, Robert Vosper, William S. Dix, Maurice Tauber, Guy Lyle, Lawrence Clark Powell, Stephen McCarthy, Lillian Baker Griggs, and Jerrold Orne. Six of these individuals have been presidents of ACRL. Copies are $50 from ALA Publishing Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0- 910230-16-X.

• Linking: Today’s Libraries, Tomorrow’s Tech- nologies (63 pages, March 1984) is the report of the Canadian Bibliographic and Communications Network Pilot Project (Canadian Network Papers, number 7). It marks the completion of a four-year effort undertaken by the National Library of Canada to investigate options for building a nationwide, decentralized, and voluntary library and information network as a vehicle to facilitate resource sharing. Copies may be requested from the Publications Section of the Public Relations Office, National Library of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0N4. ISSN 0226- 8760.

• Managing Information As a Resource: The Key to Productivity in the Information Economy is a pamphlet written by Donald A. Marchand, director of the Institute of Information Management, Technology and Policy at the University of South Carolina, for the Special Libraries Association. It persuasively describes the role of information specialists and librarians in U.S. businesses. Multiple copies may be requested from SLA, 235 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003; (212) 477-9250.

• Music Cataloging Policy in the General Li- hraries, by Judy Winslow (1984), has been published as the University of Texas Contribútions to Librarianship, number 8. It contains guidelines for cataloging music scores and sound recordings and pulls together rule interpretations and changes reported in the Music Cataloging Bulletin. Copies may be ordered for $15 (payable to the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries) from Publications, The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box P, Austin, TX 78712.

•Nucleotide Sequences 1984, the first international compendium of nucleic acid sequences, has been published as a supplement to the May 1984 issue of Nucleic Acids Research. The compendium, which represents the databases of GenBank, the Genetic Sequence Data Bank, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Nucleotide Sequence Data Library, contains nearly 3 million base pairs representing over 4,000 sequences. This includes virtually all sequences reported between 1967 and 1983. Sequences are categorized into mammalian, other vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, organelle, bacterial, structural RNA, viral, bacteriophage, and synthetic and recombinant sequences. This 2-volume set may be ordered for $75 from IRL Press, Suite 907, 1911 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202.

•Part-Time Employment in America (83 pages, 1984) contains highlights of the first National Conference on Part-Time Employment. Experts from business, congressional, union, academic, and non-profit association sectors describe the place of part-time workers in today’s labor force; the needs of older workers, women, and families for more work opportunities; and practical details on the cost of employee benefits for part-time workers. Copies may be ordered for $21.95 from the Association of Part-Time Professionals, P.O. Box 3419, Alexandria, VA 22302.

•Photographs at Harvard and Radcliffe: A Directory, compiled by the Harvard Photo Curators Group (83 pages, 1984), lists 50 repositories throughout the university—including academic departments, research facilities, museums, libraries, administrative offices, and archives—and briefly describes the photographic holdings of each. It records the existence of approximately 4.5 million photographs at the two institutions. Copies may be purchased for $7.50 from the Harvard University Library, Wadsworth House, Cambridge, MA 02138.

• The SCOLMA Directory of Libraries and Special Collections on Africa in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, edited by Harry Hannam (184 pages, 4th ed., 1983) and sponsored by the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa, spotlights 275 Africana collections in 16 countries. Entries in the directory are arranged by country, then by city within each country section. An index lists libraries, associated organizations, subjects, countries, regions, types of material, and named collections. Originally published by Hans Zell Publishers, an imprint of K.G. Saur, the directory may be ordered for $42 from Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226.

•The Third International Conference on User Education, Proceedings, edited by Peter Fox and Ian Malley (174 pages, 1983), reprints 18 papers read at the Conference, held at the University of Edinburgh on July 19-22, 1983. The three papers by North American speakers are: “Management Involvement in Library User Education: Inspiration, Toleration, or Participation?” by Mary W. George, Sharon A. Hogan, and Anne K. Beaubien; “Computer-Assisted Instruction in Academic Libraries,” by Elizabeth Walker and Patricia Culkin; and “Videotex: A New Approach to Library Instruction,” by Gerry Meek. Copies may be ordered for £12 from INFUSE Publications, Loughborough University of Technology Library, Loughborough, Leicestershire LEU 3TU, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-946084-15-7.

• Toward a Usable Past: Historical Records in the Empire State (74 pages, January 1984) is the first comprehensive assessment of historical records programs in New York. It was part of the NASARA project mentioned above under “Documenting America, ” and consists of the New York State Historical Records Advisory Board’s report to the governor and citizens of New York. A copy may be requested from Larry J. Hackman, State Archivist and Historical Records Coordinator, New York State Archives, Room 10A46, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230.