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ACQUISITIONS

• The University of Tulsa recently received the American Indian collection of John W. Shleppey, who at the time of his death in September was a Seattle collector and rare- book dealer. The Shleppey material was amassed through forty years of collecting and was considered to be one of the finest Indian collections in private hands. Shleppey was a native Tulsan who specialized in imprints from Indian Territory, particularly Cherokee and Choctaw imprints. He moved to Seattle approximately twenty years ago and requested that the collection be returned to Tulsa at the time of his death. The collection includes photographs, manuscripts, documents, and books; it is estimated that there are 6,000 bibliographic items exclusive of the manuscripts and photos. Items that pertain to Indian law are numerous, and, when combined with existing Indian collections at The University of Tulsa, they represent a major resource for Indian law as well as Indian history. While living in Tulsa, Shleppey was in the outdoor advertising business; his business papers and outdoor advertising art work that date to the 1920s were included. They comprise a major business archival collection. In all, it is the most significant gift to be received by the university in recent years.

The University of Tulsa has also acquired the

D. H. Lawrence Collection of John Martin, owner and publisher of Black Sparrow Press. It was reputed to be one of the best privately owned Lawrence collections in the world. It includes letters and manuscripts, virtually all editions of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, a mint-signed edition of Women in Love, The Rainbow with the dust jacket, “Men Bathing” which is a Lawrence painting, letters from Lawrence, over 200 periodical articles, approximately 130 translations, numerous biographies and critical works, movie scripts, and other material. The Lawrence Collection became the twenty-ninth author in the University’s Modern Authors Special Collection. To commemorate the opening of the Lawrence Room, a D. H. Lawrence Symposium was held on December 8. Speakers were Dr. James Cowan, University of Arkansas, an internationally known Lawrence scholar and editor of the D. H. Lawrence Review, and Dr. Warren Roberts, professor of English and director of the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas and internationally known Lawrence bibliographer.

Another collection recently acquired is all foreign translations of the works of Graham Greene, 888 volumes in all. It was the personal collection of the author and was obtained from him.

• The New York Botanical Garden has acquired two rare manuscripts believed to be the oldest copies in existence of a manuscript called the Circa instans, written in the Middle Ages and of special interest today to historians of botany, pharmacology, and medicine. The title comes from the first two Latin words of the documents.

One of the manuscripts transcribed by hand in medieval Latin by a European scribe is thought to have been completed about the end of the twelfth century, while the other apparently dates back to the beginning of the thirteenth century. Both are on vellum, one with 258 chapters and the other 260.

Both are from the library of the late Dr. Emil Starkenstein, a former professor of pharmacology and pharmacognosy—the science of drugs—at the German University in Prague. His collection was viewed as one of the finest in Europe pertaining to the history of botany and pharmacology from the Middle Ages onward. A large part of his medico-botanical books were acquired by the Garden several years ago.

The Circa instans was written by Matthaeus Platearius, an outstanding teacher at the School of Salerno, the first school of medicine established in Europe. The time of its preparation is put at a.D. 1140-1150. It is considered as fundamental to the development of modern botany as Dioscorides’ De Materio Medica and Pliny’s Historia Naturalis, both written in the First Century a.d.

Salerno, the leading medical center of its time, taught doctors how to prescribe drugs and to perform surgery at a time when most drugs were derived directly from plants. What later became “botany,” “medicine,” and “pharmacology” was then one area of thought.

Through the Circa instans, obsolete names were removed from the nomenclature of sources of medicine, the names were sharply reduced in number and standardized, and descriptions were provided of numerous drugs, with instructions for their preparation. This helped to clear up some of the confusion surrounding medicine in the early Middle Ages.

Copies of the Circa instans did not come into print until 1497.

Despite its influence and power as a source of departure from the ancient past and as one of the basic books of western botany, the Circa instans, technically, lacks a title. It received none from its Middle-Ages author and is called the Circa instans (“about the present”) simply because those are the first two words.

The acquisition by the New York Botanical Garden was made possible through numerous private donations. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation was a major contributor.

FELLOWSHIPS

• More than 500 awards for university lecturing and postdoctoral research in over seventy-five countries will be made to Americans for the academic year 1977-78, the thirtieth year of the senior Fulbright-Hays pbogbam. Further information is available from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) ‚ a nongovernmental organization cooperating with the U.S. Department of State in the administration of the program. The CIES new address is Eleven Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036.

An American citizen who has a doctorate or college teaching experience may request announcement of openings in his field of specialization; the request should indicate preferred countries or geographic areas and probable dates of availability. Those who wish to indicate a continuing interest in Fulbright-Hays and other educational programs may complete a two-page form for the council’s Register of Scholars. In April 1976, each registrant will be sent an announcement of opportunities under the 1977-78 program.

Applications for 1976-77 are at present under review, but some awards remain open to application. Inquiries about remaining openings are welcomed by CIES.

The CIES also administers a program for foreign senior scholars who receive Fulbright- Hays grants through application to agencies in their home countries. Each year approximately 500 foreign scholars are awarded grants to come to the United States after arrangements are made for lecturing or research assignments at American institutions. Colleges or universities interested in having a foreign Fulbright-Hays scholar on campus during 1976-77 should write to the council as soon as possible. For the 1975- 76 academic year, a directory of foreign Fulbright lecturers and research scholars in the United States is available on request. These scholars are specialists in a wide range of disciplines; most are available to give guest lectures or to participate in special conferences.

GRANTS

• A Council on Library Resources grant of $11,000 to the Library of Congress enables it to join with the national libraries of Australia, Canada, France, and Great Britain in funding an international bibliographic network study.

The study was recommended and approved at an October 27-28 meeting in Paris of national librarians called by the IFLA National Libraries Group. Under discussion were problems associated with the international exchange of magnetic tapes.

The network study will consist of a brief state-of-the-art report (based on national submissions), a general narrative concerned with technical and bibliographic development, an examination of the levels of information and organization required by the system, and recommendations.

Richard Coward of the British Library was named chairman of a steering committee to consider the final report and make recommendations. The steering committee is composed of representatives from the National Library of Canada, British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliotheque National (France), Bibliotheque Royale (Belgium), Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfort), Bibliotheque Royale (Netherlands), Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark) ‚ the IFLA Office of Universal Bibliographic Control, and UNESCO. The financial management of the study will be handled by the UBC office.

• A CLR grant of $1,080 will enable the University of Illinois College of Law library to program and evaluate a computer on-line reference service for library users, particularly when professional help is not available in the library.

Carol Boast, the university’s assistant law librarian, will use the CLR funds for computer programming assistance in connection with a pilot project that concentrates on the library’s collection of state and federal documents.

The university’s on-line computer system— PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automation Teaching Operation)—will be utilized to provide “ready-reference any time the library is open.”

The PLATO terminal is on a campus system that is, in effect, a computer-assisted learning laboratory. The library has three PLATO terminals now in use in the evening for other purposes.

A program that results in greater accessibility to reference guides to the state and federal documents could justify a more comprehensive follow-up effort by the library.

• The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) will undertake an expanded “professional activities” program in 1976 with the support of a new three-year grant of $174,000 from the Council on Library Resources.

Reporting a 153 percent growth in membership and a new dues structure that makes the IFLA general secretariat self-supporting, President Preben Kirkegaard (rector, Denmark’s Royal School of Librarianship) suggested the need to “reconcile quantity with quality” in the years ahead. Under a new plan discussed at IFLA’s Forty-first General Council Meeting in Oslo, the organization will begin an aggressive program of substantive work, supervised by a professional board. The CLR grant will enable IFLA to hire a deputy secretary general to head a new planning unit responsible to the professional board for the coordination of program services and regional development. It will serve also as a clearinghouse on library activities and related international offices.

Located in IFLA’s headquarters in the Hague, the professional unit will augment the existing secretariat, which could not assume the added responsibilities required by the creation of new professional divisions, sections, roundtables, and working groups.

In the proposed new structure of IFLA, members and affiliates would have to register for participation in section work. Preliminary planning calls for eight coordinating divisions— three for types of libraries, four for types of library functions, and one for regional activities —from which will be created perhaps twenty- five sections to carry out the actual programs. Membership dues would allow free participation in a certain number of sections; a charge would be levied for membership in additional units.

This new organizational approach was reviewed at length at IFLA’s Oslo meeting and will be voted upon officially at the August 1976 IFLA General Council Meeting in Lausanne, France.

Membership in IFLA has grown to 135 member library associations and 502 member libraries in ninety-eight countries, including fifty-nine developing countries. The United States is represented in IFLA by five member associations: American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, and the Special Library Association. In addition, approximately 100 U.S. libraries are IFLA member libraries.

• A Council on Library Resources (CLR) grant of $165,800 has been made to the Library or Congress (LC) to support the systems design and programming required to integrate the functions of the Conversion of Serials Project (CONSER) with other technical processing activities making up the library’s projected national bibliographic service. The library plans to assume responsibility for the management and permanent maintenance of the national serials data base and for the distribution of resulting products. The library’s target date for absorbing the functions of CONSER is November 1977.

Begun as a cooperative effort to build a centralized machine-readable data base of records representing serial publications, the CONSER project is managed currently by staff of the

Council on Library Resources. Initial systems support for assembling the basic data base, composed of the existing serials files of the Library of Congress, National Library of Canada, and the Minnesota Union List of Serials, has been provided by the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) since December 1974, when a contract was signed with CLR. New records are added to the file by twelve CONSER participants, who also upgrade and correct records in the basic file on line. The participants are the Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, National Agricultural Library, National Library of Canada, University of Minnesota, University of Florida (Gainesville), Boston Theological Institute, Yale, State University of New York, Cornell, University of California, and the New York State Library. The Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada act as the final bibliographic authorities.

As a first step under the terms of the grant, senior-level LC staff who have experience in serials processing, CONSER, and the present LC MARC (machine-readable cataloging) system, will undertake an in-depth analysis to determine the software and additional hardware requirements for LC’s assumption of CONSER functions. Upon completion of the analysis, design specifications will be written and the actual programming will begin.

MEETINGS

March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI International Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England.

April 2: The semiannual meeting of the Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) will take place at Columbia University. For details contact Elizabeth A. Widenmann, African Bibliographer, Herbert Lehman Library, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St., New York, NY 10027.

April 2 and May 7: “Measurement of Library Services or How Well Are We Really Doing What We Do?” is the topic of a workshop to be sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany. Ann Prentice, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science, SUNYA, is director of the workshop.

Librarians increasingly must answer such questions as who uses the library, why is more money needed, why does a library need more reference staff, etc. One way of answering these and similar questions is to use existing library measures or develop new measures to determine just how well a library is doing its job. The workshop will cover two sessions:

Session 1: Participants will consider their own library problems and develop a measure to apply to one or more of these problems;

Session 2: After actually using the measure, participants will share the results and their implications.

Registration is limited to thirty. Cost: $20.00. For further information contact Lucille Whalen, Coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library and Information Science, SUNY at Albany, NY 12222.

April 8-11: An International Conference on Art Periodicals, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the University of Sussex. An exhibition of art periodicals will be on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians.

For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England.

April 23: The NELINET Government Documents Task Force will hold its third regional conference at the Murray D. Lincoln Conference Center at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. This year the conference will be a workshop on state publications and will include a general session on guidelines for the minimum servicing of state documents. A series of workshops on acquisition and organization of state documents, local publications, availability of documents within each of the New England states, depository systems for state documents, and state documents exchanges will be scheduled. The conference will be limited to 200 participants and there will be a registration fee. For additional information, please contact Ms. Elizabeth But- kus, Curry College Library, 1071 Blue Hill Ave., Milton, MA 02186.

April 25-28: The thirteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Illini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Library Automation.”

In an era of double-digit inflation and reduced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved service? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of specific library applications.

J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

April 29-30: The Maryland Library Association will hold its annual conference in Pikesville, Maryland, at the Baltimore Hilton Inn.

Prior to the conference, the Academic and Research Libraries Division of the Maryland Library Association will hold a preconference on Networking. The Academic and Research Libraries session will take place at the Baltimore Hilton Inn on April 28, 1976.

For information on program details, contact: Ms. Jean Barry Molz, Program Committee Chairman, Maryland Library Association, c/o Baltimore County Public Library, Administrative Offices, 320 York Rd., Towson, MD; (301) 296-8500. For information on exhibits, contact: Mr. Charles Powers, Queen Anne’s County Free Library, Centerville, MD 21617; (301) 758- 0980.

April 30: The School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany, New York, is conducting a workshop on the topic “Legal Reference.” Coordinator of the workshop is Joe Morehead, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science, SUNYA; director of the workshop is Mary Farrington, a practicing attorney, and a former law librarian and instructor in law.

The program will include a survey of the various legal reference tools which are currently used in public and academic libraries. Various research techniques such as key numbering and Shepardizing (tracing the judicial history of a case and verifying its current status as effective law) will also be discussed, with special emphasis on materials published by law book companies for lawyers. The workshop will focus on federal and New York legal reference. In addition, Professor Morehead will discuss federal administrative law. There will be an opportunity to examine the books and discuss individual problems.

Registration will be limited to fifty. Cost: $10. For further information, contact Lucille Whalen, coordinator of Continuing Education, School of Library and Information Science, SUNY at Albany, NY 12222.

April 30-May 1: The Library and the

Young Adult (Conference). Featured speakers: Margaret Edwards and Lillian Gerhardt. $17.50 registration fee. For further information, contact: Joan Atkinson, Graduate School of Library Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486.

May 5-7: The annual meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists will be held in San Antonio, Texas. For further information, contact Mr. Sam Sizer, Curator, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

May 6-8: Midwestern Academic Librarians Conference (MALC) Twenty-first Annual Meeting, University of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Contact person: Douglas Hieber, Head of Circulation, University of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.

May 9-21: The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields.

The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. See the January News for more information.

May 10-11: Symposium on the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherryburn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (Anvil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermaking, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design.

May 10-28: Typographic Workshop, a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of Library Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486.

May 12-14: Library Management Seminar. An administrative development program for library administrators will be offered at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, by the School of Business. The seminar will cover in depth the basic fundamentals of administration and is designed to assist library administrators in improving their managerial effectiveness. This concentration on fundamentals of management will make the seminar valuable to all kinds of library administrators—public, academic, special, etc.

The method of instruction includes lecture, case analysis, and experiential exercises. The program will be structured to utilize the background and experiences of seminar registrants through participation in a problem-solving atmosphere.

The fee is $125.00 which includes instructional costs, reading materials and other handouts, transportation from and to airlines, and room and board. Anyone interested in attending should contact the program director, Dr. C. N. Kaufman, School of Business, Vermillion, SD 57069; (605) 677-5232.

May 13-15: Eastern Michigan University’s Center of Educational Resources has scheduled the sixth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The theme of the conference will be “Library Instruction in the ’70s: A State of the Art.” The program will feature speakers, panels, discussions, and an exhibit of library instruction materials sponsored by Project LOEX. The registration fee is $55.00.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to: Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librarian, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

May 14-15: Simmons School of Library Science and the Committee on National Planning of Special Collections, Children’s Services Division, American Library Association are cosponsors of a Symposium on Children’s Literature as a scholarly resource. Scholars from various disciplines, special collections librarians, and specialists in children’s literature will engage in a two-day exchange on the diversity of research making use of children’s literature and on the implications of this research for collection development and organization. Children’s literature here is defined in its broad sense, encompassing its many forms and formats, i.e., book, periodical, boxed game, comics, phono- recording, motion pictures, etc.

Researchers who will present an overview of their studies and findings include: Dr. R. Gordon Kelly on values and class structure in nineteenth-century American children’s periodicals; Dr. Fred Erisman on regionalism in nineteenth- century American children’s books; Dr. Anne Scott McLeod on children’s literature and American culture in the early nineteenth century; and Dr. Walter Savage on lost innocence in the American comic strip. Several specialists who will consider aspects of children’s literature collecting which influence and support scholarly

Symposium participants will address the growing need for dialogue on and understanding of the researcher’s need for all types of children’s literature directed to many audiences.

For further information contact: Dr. Timothy W. Sineath, School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115.

May 16-21: The Kent State University Library announces a second 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 librarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with inter-institutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers, via the university’s telelecture capabilities.

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 Administration, University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

May 17-19: CUMREC, the College and University Machine Records Conference, will hold its twenty-first annual meeting at the Netherland Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati.

Host organization will be SWORCC, the Southwestern Ohio Regional Computer Center operated by the University of Cincinnati and Miami University at Oxford as a consortium to provide computer services support to the academic and administrative functions of both universities and a number of other nonprofit organizations.

CUMREC ’76 theme will be “Sharing-Key to the Future.” Papers by delegates will explore primarily three interest areas: data processing, admissions and records, and business or financial affairs. The conference is expected to attract about 900 participants from 300 member institutions, public and private, varying widely in size.

Information may be obtained from Robert R. Caster, SWORCC, Medical Services Building, 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267, telephone (513) 475-5069, or Jack Southard, Administrative Data Processing, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, telephone (513 ) 529- 5322.

May 17-21: In conjunction with the Advanced Management Centre of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University, the School of Library Service is sponsoring a weeklong Seminar for Librarians in Middle- Management Positions at Dalhousie University. Registration will be limited to a maximum of twenty, and it is expected that those enrolling for the seminar will be in middle management positions in their libraries or information centres.

The two main themes of the seminar will focus on “The Art of Communications” and “Leadership and Motivation.” A manager’s ability to communicate is a critical factor in his or her effectiveness. The aim of the seminar will be to sharpen that ability and improve interpersonal skills by providing solid theory and a series of practical problem-solving exercises. Leadership ability is the most sought after skill by management. The seminar will be an intensive, practical, “how to” program for improving leadership skills, to identify each individual’s own style of leadership, and to learn how to get more productive results from subordinates.

The seminar leader will be Professor John Dougall, director of the Advanced Management Centre, who will be assisted by other members of his staff. Professor Dougall directed the school’s very successful one-day workshop for alumni in December 1973.

The cost for this seminar will be $75.00. This price will include lunch each day at the Dalhousie Faculty Club and an opening reception there on the evening of Monday, May 17. Accommodations have been reserved for delegates at Shirreff Hall on the Dalhousie Campus. The rates are single room $8 and double $10 per night.

Any inquiries concerning the seminar please contact: Bernadette Coyle, Assistant to the Director for Continuing Education, c/o School of Library Service, Killam Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8.

May 20-22: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) will hold its Fifth Mid-Year Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, at Vanderbilt University. The theme of the meeting is “Information Interaction.” Arthur Miller will be the keynote speaker. For additional information, contact: James Cretsos, Merrell-National Laboratories, 110 East Amity Rd„ Cincinnati, OH 45215; (513) 948-9111.

June 1-4: The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science announces an On-Line Retrieval Workshop, to be offered at the Urbana campus Illini Union. The instructor in charge will be Martha E. Williams, professor of library administration and research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois. Professor Williams was formerly manager of the Computer Search Center at IIT Research Institute, and is the new editor of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. In addition to Professor Williams there will be speakers from Lockheed and SDC.

The workshop will consist of formal lectures, training sessions, and extensive hands-on experience with currently available computer- based data files. Enrollment will be limited to no more than forty persons, and preference will be given to those who have had a course on library automation or on information storage and retrieval.

The intent of the workshop is to familiarize librarians with the content and coverage of currently available machine readable data bases as well as with techniques for processing and searching data bases. After completing the workshop, a person should be able to compare and contrast data bases and services in order to relate such services effectively to the user clientele.

The tuition for the workshop is $100.00 per person, and includes the cost of two manuals. Housing is available in the Illini Union and in nearby hotels. For further information and application forms, write Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

June 3-4: The New York State Government Documents Task Force is sponsoring a documents program at the State University of New York at Albany, New York. The program topic is “New York Documents—State and Local: Problems of Acquisition, Distribution, Control, and Use.” For further information, contact Janet Gregor Schaffer Library, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308.

June 9-12: The Christian Librarians’ Fellowship will hold its twentieth annual conference at the Washington Bible College in Lanham, Maryland. Further information may be secured from: William F. Abernathy, Columbia Bible College, P.O. Box 3122, Columbia, SC 29203.

June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further information may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5.

July 12-August 6: The Graduate School of Librarianship at the University of Denver will be conducting a seminar entitled “Western Seminar in Publishing and Editing Workshop.” Some of the leading publishers who will serve as lecturers are: Samuel S. Vaughan, president, Doubleday Publishing Company; Margaret McElderry, director, Children’s Books, Athenaeum Publishers; John P. Dessauer, author, Book Publishing, What it is, What it Does; Arnold Erhlich, editor-in-chief, Publishers’ Weekly; Peter Mayer, president, Avon Books; Andrew Nielly, president, John Wiley Publishers; and Mr. and Mrs. Bichard Noyes, owners, Chinook Book Store.

Address further inquiries or applications to: Dean, Graduate School of Librarianship, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80210.

July 14-17: “Maps and Atlases: A New World in Rare Book and Manuscript Collections” will be the theme of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Pre-Conference to be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, designed for librarians, antiquarian bookmen, and collectors by program chairman Kenneth Nebenzahl, will focus on maps and atlases from the viewpoint of librarians, geographers, cartographers, historians, archivists, and conservators. Starting with the recognition that special collections librarians, however lacking they may be in cartographic expertise, all have maps in their collections, the speakers will endeavor to show the way to discovery, exploration, and scholarly exploitation of these cartographic treasures. The program will provide not only vital background knowledge and discussion of the potential value of maps as important research tools, but also will provide help in such practical matters as the care and cataloging of maps, cooperative programs, and microfilming standards.

For further information, contact Dr. Ann Bowden, Chairman, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, Box 2287, Austin, TX 78767.

July 15-23: “Library Services and Their Users” will be the theme of the fourth European Library Summer Seminar sponsored by the Department of Library and Information Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic. The keynote address will be given by Mr. M. B. Line, director general, British Library Lending Division. Speakers from five European countries will join those from the United Kingdom to ensure another fruitful opportunity to consider and discuss worldwide library and education problems in the European context.

The program will include the following topics: “User Needs,” “Library Resources,” “Library Management,” “Information Retrieval,” and “Library Education.”

The seminar will be fully residential and will be held at the I. M. Marsh College of Physical Education, which occupies an elevated twentyfive-acre site on the southeast of the city of Liverpool. Accommodation will be in single study bedrooms, and ample recreational facilities for swimming, tennis, etc., are available.

Cost of the seminar is & 100 ($202.50). A daily rate can be quoted for delegates not able to attend the whole seminar. For further details contact: W. H. Snape, Course Director, Fourth European Library Summer Seminar, Department of Library and Information Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool L2 2ER, England.

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.

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

MISCELLANY

• The New York Library Instruction Clearinghouse has been established at the F. Franklin Moon Library, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.

NYLIC acts as a clearinghouse for academic library orientation and instruction information and materials. It aims to facilitate communication among libraries with instructional programs, to assist libraries in developing such programs, and to aid librarians in their research on such programs. The center should enable academic libraries to eliminate much costly duplication of effort through the sharing of information and experience.

NYLIC has the following objectives: (1) to identify the variety of programs in progress and preparation in New York universities, colleges, and junior colleges; (2) to publish a directory of library instruction programs to facilitate communication among libraries and librarians; (3) to act as a clearinghouse for materials and information for all levels of instruction in library use, from basic orientation to advanced bibliographic instruction—the clearinghouse services would include the following: (a) information and materials deposited by libraries with instructional programs would be on display for visiting persons, and (b) in response to requests, referral would be made to member libraries that can provide the detailed information or assistance required; (4) to publish regular articles in the various New York library newsletters; (5) to sponsor (and/or cosponsor) workshops throughout the state. These workshops would be teaching and working sessions to increase library instruction skills.

Since its establishment in the spring of 1975, the clearinghouse has received grants from the State University of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) and the College and University Library Section (CULS) of the New York Library Association. To help finance its activities, further funding is being sought.

A mailing list for New York State academic libraries has been compiled and a questionnaire sent to gather information for a directory. A preliminary report based on this questionnaire has been completed and will be distributed.

Materials are now actively being collected and organized in NYLIC’s office in the Moon Library. Any material sent to the clearinghouse should be clearly stamped with the library’s name and address. While NYLIC’s primary concern is academic programs, it would welcome input from public and special libraries. Libraries having materials to submit are urged to send them in duplicate if possible to: New York Library Instruction Clearinghouse,

F. Franklin Moon Library, SUNY College of Environmental Sciehce and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210; (315) 473-8615.

• Three faculty members from Liverpool Polytechnic’s School of Library and Information Studies in England will teach at Drexel University’s Graduate School of Library Science as visiting lecturers during the 1976 academic year.

The three professors, Joan Bibby, Eric Hunter, and Kenneth Bakewell, will spend successive academic terms teaching courses on the organization of materials. They are replacing Dr. Ann Painter, professor of library science at Drexel, who is spending the year at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Joan Bibby is treasurer of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group of the Library Association and recently completed her master’s dissertation at Loughborough University in England on the formation and activities of this group.

Eric Hunter, who was a visiting professor at Kent State University last year, is the author of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: A Programmed Text (Bingley, 1972) and Cataloguing: A Guidebook (Bingley, 1974).

Kenneth Bakewell, senior lecturer in charge of cataloguing and classification at Liverpool, is the author of a number of texts and reference manuals, including How to Find Out: Management and Productivity (Pergamon, 1970, 2d ed.) and A Manual of Cataloguing Practice (Pergamon 1972).

PUBLICATIONS

• The Yugoslav Centre for Technical and Scientific Documentation has published the second edition of the Proceedings of the International Symposium: UDC in Relation to Other Indexing Languages. This publication has been issued in the original languages of the authors.

Cost of the volume is $40.00. Orders should be sent to: Jugoslovenski Centar za Tehnicku i Nauchnu Dokumentaciju, P.O.B. 724, 11000 Beograd, SI. Penezica-Krcuna br. 29/Yugoslavia.

• The American Association of Law Libraries has announced that its new publication, Directory of Law Librarian Consultants to Correctional Institutions is available.

Orders should be sent to American Assocition of Law Libraries, 53 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. Publications are free to prison law libraries. Orders from individuals must be accompanied by payment.

• Hostos Community College of the City University of New York has recently made available its Catalog of Audiovisual Materials. The catalog, a listing of some of the audiovisual materials that are available in the Instructional Resources Division at Hostos, should be of value to other academic institutions serving a bilingual-bicultural clientele.

Orders, or requests for further information, should be directed to Professor Daniel Davila, Director, Instructional Resources Division, Hostos Community College, 475 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451. Payment of $1.00 per copy should accompany all orders.

• Ezra Pound’s Pennsylvania by Noel Stock has been published by the Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries. The book is an illustrated account of Ezra Pound’s life in Jenkintown and Wyncote, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, from 1889 until he left America for Venice and London in 1908. It includes many previously unpublished details about his parents, teachers, and friends, the schools and churches he attended, and his activities at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College. The book also includes numerous quotations from unpublished letters and poems by Ezra Pound and many references to Pound and his family from the local press. It details his connection with Wyncote during his many years abroad and gives first-hand accounts of his return visit to Philadelphia in 1958 and 1969. It contains more than fifty photographs and illustrations—many of them published for the first time.

Noel Stock, professor of English at the University of Toledo, was associated with Ezra Pound during the last twenty years of Pound’s life. His books include: Love Poems of Ancient Egypt, translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock (1962), Poet in Exile (1964), The Life of Ezra Pound (1970; enlarged paperback 1974).

Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. 110 pages, paperbound with wrap-around cover. Price $10.00 per copy postpaid. Send orders to Miss Lucille B. Emch, Executive Secretary, The Friends of The University of Toledo Libraries, Toledo, OH 43606.

• A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers’ Ornaments and Illustrations, by Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, reproduces in actual size the more than 2,000 relief-cut ornaments and illustrations used by American printers from 1640 to 1776. Each ornament and illustration is accompanied by a listing of the names and locations of the printers who used it. Bibliographical references drawn primarily from Charles Evans’s American Bibliography and Roger P. Bristol’s Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography note the imprint containing the first appearance of each ornament or illustration in each year of its use. The American Antiquarian Society-Readex Microprint Early American Imprint Series has reproduced most of the imprints in those bibliographies.

This graphic dictionary contains valuable material for the study of colonial America from both bibliographical and historical perspectives. The designs and the accompanying annotation can aid librarians, dealers, and collectors in identifying colonial books, pamphlets, and broadsides which lack imprints or colophons. The dictionary’s Index of Printers is, in effect, an inventory of much of the ornament and illustration stock of each colonial printing house. The Index of Dates, which follows the Printers’ Index, is a chronological listing of the ornaments and illustrations, which enables one to trace the importation practices of colonial printers.

The Dictionary is available for $45.00 from The University Press of Virginia, Box 3608, University Station, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

• Congressional Information Service, Inc., publisher of the American Statistics Index (ASI), is making available to librarians at no charge a recently published checklist, “Periodicals and Sources: A List of Federal Statistical Publications.” Librarians can use this reference tool to help evaluate the inclusiveness of their library’s reference-documents collection as well as current acquisition efforts.

The alphabetical list includes the tides of 798 currently issued government periodicals which contain statistics on an extremely wide variety of subjects. Additional details on each publication include periodicity, availability, and depository status, and where appropriate, depository item number and hardcopy price. A list of 140 federal sources (e.g., executive agencies, congressional committees and offices, and other statistics-producers) which issue these periodicals is also provided.

CIS estimates that in 1976 these periodicals will account for nearly 7,600 individual issuances. Many of these are not depository items and not available for purchase from the Government Printing Office, although some may be acquired directly from an individual issuing agency.

To obtain the free checklist, write to: Congressional Information Service, Dept. L, 7101 Wisconsin Ave., Washington, DC 20014.

• The latest section of the English full edition of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) to be published by BSI is BS 1000 (72), containing UDC 72 Architecture. It provides a systematic schedule for the classification of information about the aesthetic, stylistic, and historical aspects of buildings and buildings according to function. An alphabetic subject index is included.

The UDC is used internationally as an aid to information retrieval and provides a numeric decimal code for the systematic arrangement by subject of material in the form of books, pamphlets, maps, films, etc. It is particularly useful for the arrangement of entries representing this material -in catalogues and bibliographies. The classification is published in many different languages, and this volume is another stage in the programme to provide an English full edition.

Copies of BS 1000 (72) are available from BSI Sales Department, 101 Pentonville Road, London NI 9ND. Price: £5.00 ($10.10) including postage.

• Micrographics Equipment Review has been developed to provide the decision maker with all of the information needed for intelligent micrographics equipment purchasing decisions. For the first time, a steady flow of critical reviews of equipment manufactured in the U.S. and around the world is available to the user community, whether librarian, purchasing agent, or other responsible equipment selector.

The editor and primary reviewer for Micrographics Equipment Review is William R. Hawken. Mr. Hawken has for many years been a micrographics consultant to Library Technology Reports, a service publication of the American Library Association. He is the author of the American Library Association’s Copying Methods Manual (1966). Mr. Hawken is also a consultant to the Council on Library Resources, Inc., and the author of their recently published book, Evaluating Microfiche Readers (1975). For price information write: Microform Review, P.O. Box 1297, Weston, CT 06880.

• The comprehensive collection of alternative or underground press literature of Temple University has in large part been microfilmed for preservation and ease of consultation. There are seventy-two reels. Within the limitation of copyright restriction, single copies of portions of the film will be made available, on application, for scholarly use. A revised list of all titles filmed has been prepared. To this list of titles has been added a brief description of other protest literature of the sixties and seventies, which is actively collected in Temple’s Contemporary Culture Collection.

The filmed material covers eight of the twenty-seven subject categories into which the collection is organized. These are: “Gay Liberation,” “Military Underground,” “Ecology/ Communes/Alternatives,” “High School Underground,” “Radical Health,” “Radical Education,” “Radical Religious Groups/Occult Extraterrestrial,” and “Libertarian.”

Altogether the seventy-two reels include more than four hundred titles. As might be expected, many of the titles are represented by only one or two issues. This is particularly true of high school and military underground papers, where disciplinary action was unusually effective in curbing further activity.

Requests for the list and inquiries regarding films for research use should be addressed to the Contemporary Culture Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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