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ACQUISITIONS

• Five thousand volumes of Russian works were presented to Sir George Williams University by Mr. Raymond A. Davies as a memorial to his wife. The Lillian Davies Memorial Collection covers a wide range of time and subject matter, from an extremely rare 1739 publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences to recently published literary works. It is valued at over $20,000. University librarian Mrs. Helen Howard emphasizes the Collection’s value to further scholarship, calling it “one of the most significant Russian-language collections in Canada.”

Some 3000 volumes are now being integrated into the general collection of the University’s Norris Building library. Strongly represented are historical works published since 1945; also included are volumes on modern Soviet economics, collected works of classic Russian literary figures, a number of important bibliographies, technical dictionaries, and art books. The remaining books will be selected over two years by SGWU librarians and faculty. Disciplines covered will be mainly the humanities and social sciences; science and technology will also be included. Among the rare books included in the Davies’ family donation are Description Ethnographique des Peuples de la Russie by T. de Pauly, published in St. Petersburg in 1862—believed to be the only copy of its kind in Canada, a richly illustrated work which includes Eskimos and West Coast Indians; Vues de Moscou after Gerard de la Barthe, St. Petersburg, 1799—an elephant folio of extremely rare engravings of people in the reign of Catherine the Great; and Catherine the Great’s Laws for the Establishment of the Russian State, St. Petersburg, 1776.

• The University of Western Ontario has recently purchased for $190,000 an outstanding collection of 450 rare books by and about John Milton from Mr. G. William Stuart, Jr. of California. Negotiations for the purchase began nearly a year ago as a result of the friendship of Professor William Cameron, Associate Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, and Mr. Stuart. Professor Cameron learned of Mr. Stuart’s intent to sell and requested that Western be given first chance to purchase. President D. C. Williams, in making the announcement, said Western had had a once in a lifetime opportunity. “Had we not exercised our option to purchase, these rare volumes would not have come to Canada.”

Dr. Andrew D. Osborn, Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, said the Stuart Collection now ranks as the sixth most outstanding collection of Milton’s works in the world. As a result of the acquisition. Dr. Williams said, “Western students and Faculty now have at their disposal the most complete collection of Milton’s works in Canada.” Western already has one of the world’s most renowned Milton scholars on its Faculty in the person of Professor B. Rajan, Department of English. Dr. James J. Talman, chief librarian, said the collection will be made available to accredited scholars and recommended graduate students. He said the benefit of having originals in the library is that they are unchallenged as authentic sources of information for scholars doing research. A speck of dust might add a comma to a photocopy, he said, and change the meaning of the original. The permanent home of the Stuart Collection will be the D. B. Weldon Library scheduled for completion in 1971. It will be fully air-conditioned and humidity controlled. Half of the new library’s largest stack floor will be devoted to rare books and manuscripts. During construction special arrangements are being made to house Western’s Milton collection.

• The library of the University of California, Davis has acquired a eollection of about 1400 pieces from the library of the late Armando de Maria y Campos (1897-1967), Mexican scholar and journalist. The collection was received in the library in March 1969 and is now being sorted and processed for cataloging. Included in the collection is material on Mexican history, especially the Revolution of 1910- 25, and the history of the Hispanic stage.

On the historical and political side, the collection includes several runs of serials, such as Documentos ineditos ò muy raros para la historia de Mexico, Figures episodios de la historia de Mexico, and the Archive del General Porfirio Diaz. General monographs on Mexican history include lives of Juarez, Diaz, etc.; Iturbide’s correspondence; Guzman’s bibliografia de la independencia de Mexico; and studies of particular regions of Mexico, such as Perez Verdia’s Historic particular del Estado de Jalisco. Special serials on the history of the Mexican Revolution include; the Publications of the Institute Nacional de Estudios Historicos de la Revolucion Mexiana; Historic grdfica de la Revolucion; and Diarios de las debates del Congreso Constituyente 1916-17, the congress which rewrote the constitution in accordance with the new way of life in Mexico.

The part of the collection concerned with literature and the theatre includes useful bibliographies such as Iguiniz’s Bibliografia de novelistas Mexicanas and Valle y Romero’s Bibliografia Cervantina en la America Espanola, as well as Monterde’s Bibliografia del teatro en Mexico (1933). There are many histories of the theatre in Mexico from the 17th century onward, and studies of individual theatres of various countries and cities in Latin America. Three long runs of Spanish serials concerned with the theatre are included in the collection. The periodicals are: La Farsa, 18 Oct. 1927-8 July 1936; El Teatro Moderno, 3 Oct. 1925-26 Mar. 1932; and Comedias, 2 Oct. 1926-14 Jan. 1928. Each play gives the date and place of performance and the cast so that the sets have historical value; in some cases photographs are added. Other sets include Teatro Mexicano contemporaneo and Collection del teatro mexicano. There are a large number of individual plays in Spanish ranging from interludes in pamphlet form to collected sets of an author’s works for the stage. Dramatists such as Usigli, Gamboa, Vasconcelos are included as well as lesser-known authors. Twenty original playscripts, in typewritten or handwritten form, by various authors are also part of the collection.

• The library of Sonoma State College (California) has received four personal letters by Ernest Hemingway donated by screen writer Denne Petitclerc. They range from matters of personal interest—deep sea fishing off Cuba and bull fighting in Spain—to criticism of contemporary writers. Mr. Petitclerc, author of Rage of Honor, was a newspaper reporter in Florida when he met Hemingway and a correspondence ensued.

• The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, recently acquired several important military collections including the papers of Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Chief of Staff to Fleet Admiral Ernest King, 1942-1945, Commander of the Seventh Fleet, Western Pacific 1946- 1948, unofficial adviser to Chiang Kai-shek 1950-1951; Alajor General Robert T. Frederick, Commander of the First Special Service Force, “Devil’s Brigade” and later Commander of the 45th Infantry Division First Airborne Task Force; General Robert C. Richardson, Jr., Military Governor of Territory and Commanding General Hawaiian Department, Commanding General Pacific Ocean Areas; Colonel M. Preston Goodfellow, Deputy Director Office of Strategic Services 1941-1946, Economic and political adviser to President Syngman Rhee of Korea; Vice Admiral Milton E. Miles, Commander of the United States Naval Group, China, 1942-1946 and later Chief of Naval Affairs for Latin America; Colonel Lee V. Harris, Chairman of the Truce Team with the Marshall Mission to China at Kalgan and Shan Hei-Kwan and in 1950-1952 was Senior Military Attache to the State of Viet Nam; Brigadier General L. R. Boyd, Commander of the 93rd Division, a Negro unit, serving in the Pacific.

• The James Thurber Collection in the Ohio State University libraries has been very significantly enriched by a gift recently received from Mrs. Helen Thurber, widow of the world famous humorist. It is a collection of about 3500 pages of manuscripts for one of his later books. The Thurber Album (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952). The many stages of text represented include holograph drafts, manuscript transcripts in the hand of Thurber’s secretary (to whom he dictated much material), typescripts of intermediate versions, and the final complete typescript which served as printer’s copy for the published book. Most of the chapters in this book were rewritten from a series of pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker as “Photograph Album,” and tear sheets of these early versions are also included. Frequently the rewritten text is made up of sections of New Yorker copy corrected and interspersed with added material.

The extensive correspondence which lies behind the text itself attests to the care with which Thurber collected information and verified facts for his sketches. For The Thurber Album, a collection of reminiscences about people and incidents from his family, friends, colleagues, teachers and other colorful individuals from Columbus, he exchanged many letters with his mother and brother, who were then living in the Southern Hotel. Also many items were checked with people at the Ohio State University (or those who had been here in the days of Joseph R. Taylor, William L. Graves and Joseph V. Denney—each of whom is the subject of a chapter in the book). Similarly, for information about Norman Kuehner and Billy Ireland, city editor and cartoonist respectively for the Columbus Dispatch, Thurber checked with friends and associates on that paper. Completing the collection is a large group of reviews and letters written to Thurber by readers from all parts of this country and from abroad.

• The University of Pittsburgh libraries recently acquired a 500 volume Rumanian collection, which deals with the country’s history; racial, ethnic and religious minorities; folklore; art; literature; customs; agriculture; and politics. Included in the collection is a bound, typewritten, 20 volume Review of the Rumanian Press (1944-1949). The work summarizes and reproduces lead articles and items of interest printed in the daily Bucharest newspapers at the time of Rumania’s transformation from a monarchy to a communist state. The accounts, published in English, French, Italian and Rumanian, span a 200 year period (1749-1949). Humanities bibliographer, John Halmaghi, a native of Rumania, pointed out that the newspapers are rare and not available in Rumania. Also included in the collection are: the complete Enciclopedia Romaniei, which Mr. Halmaghi believes may be the only copy in the United States; an autographed copy of Masks, a novel by Rumanian Queen Marie, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; a number of works by Nicolae lorga, prime minister and former tutor to King Carol, including Histoire des Roumains et de la Romanite Orientale, My American Lectures and Casandra, Piesa in 5 Acte; a sociological review, Arhiva pentru Stiinta si Reforms Sociala; and Histoire des Roumains de la Dade Trajane by A. D. Xenopol.

The university has also recently purchased the entire contents of the oldest used book shop in Pittsburgh, the John C. Daub Book Store. The materials, many of which are rare, were sold to Pitt for $32,000. The shop, established in 1886, had an inventory of 10,000 books. The collection deals mainly in the areas of military and local history. Included are: 3500 works dealing with the Civil War, the World Wars and other military topics; 2000 books of local history; 160 county histories; 250 city, state or regional histories; 150 military works containing colored plates; a large group of Americana; and approximately 150 framed, colored prints on military subjects.

• Texas A&I University in Kingsville has received the Robert Runyon Botany Collection as a gift from the family of the late Mr. Runyon. The personal library of the nationally known botanist consists of approximately 1000 volumes, includes a number of rare works, and is particularly strong on the flora of the Southwest. Mr. Runyon lived in Brownsville for sixty years and was a mayor and city manager of that city.

BUILDINGS

• South Carolina State College dedicated its $l-million Miller F. Whittaker Library April 20. Open house was held immediately following services in front of the building. The library is an impressive structure that dominates the college campus with a clock tower emerging from a reflective pool at its entrance. Its exterior is constructed of brick with concrete spandrel and full window walls. The interior is exposed brick, plaster, walnut wood paneling and vinyl wall covering. Floors are carpet and resilient tile.

There is comfortable seating for 500 and the stacks are capable of housing 168,000 volumes. Carrels constitute 70 percent of the seating and study rooms provide for both individual and group study. Listening booths. seminars, typing quarters and informal seating areas are other attractive and accommodating facilities. The building is fully air-conditioned for maximum comfort and has evenly distributed glare-free lighting.

• Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. was the principal speaker April 14 when Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia dedicated its new library. The library was named in honor of the late John Cook Wyllie, director of libraries for the University at the time of his death in April, 1968. Mr. Wyllie was responsible for the entire system of libraries in all University-affiliated institutions and helped develop programs to bring higher education to all areas of the state. Designed by Oliver and Smith of Norfolk and Charles B. McElroy of Wise, the library building has been recognized nationally as the recipient of the National Designer’s Award. The $750,000 building, with space for 70,000 volumes, houses the archives of the Southwest Virginia Historical Society, an extensive collection of regional history.

FELLOWSHIPS

• The UCLA school of library service has announced Title II–B Fellowships for 1969- 70. Fellowships are available for candidates for the degree of Master of Library Science, providing a basic stipend of $2200, and for one year of study in specialized fields of librarianship, carrying a basic stipend of $5000. Both MLS and Post–MLS fellowships provide additional allowances for fourth quarter stipends, tuition and fees, support of dependents, and travel. For details on qualifications for award, application procedure, criteria of selection, etc., write to; Graduate School of Library Service, University of Galifornia, Los Angeles, Galifornia 90024.

• The library school of the University of Minnesota will introduce a PhD program with a major in library science in Fall, 1969. This research degree is intended to prepare candidates for library science teaching, for library specialization or administration, and for library research. The school will continue to cooperate with other departments of the university in offering a PhD with a major in a subject field and a minor in library science for librarians interested in subject specialization.

Two fellowships are available for doctoral candidates planning careers as teachers of library science. These fellowships, open to experienced professional librarians who hold a Master’s degree from an accredited library school, are supported by funds from the U.S. Office of Education under Title II–B of the Higher Education Act, and provide a stipend of $6020 for a calendar year of study plus $600 for each dependent and exemption from tuition and fees. Immediate application for these fellowships is recommended.

Ten traineeships for the biomedical librarian training program at the Library School will be available for 1969-1970. The traineeships are supported by a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service administered by the National Library of Medicine. They carry a stipend of $3000, plus a dependency allowance and exemption from tuition and fees, for a fifteen-month period of study which includes a three-month practicum. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in biology or other fields of science including mathematics. The deadline for application for these fellowships is May 1 for June admission; August 1 for September admission.

Further information on the PhD program and on the fellowships may be obtained from the Library School, Room 3, Walter Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455.

GRANTS

• The Council on Library Resources has made a grant to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Bethesda, Md., to develop criteria for quality control of input in science information systems. Raymond L. Zwemer in the Federation Office of Biomedical Studies will conduct the project. The first part of the study will be devoted to the collection and analysis of criteria currently used in journal selection for library collections, journal selection by abstracting and indexing organizations, and journal selection for purchase by large, medium-sized and small libraries. Other criteria to be studied will be those used for selection of articles for publication, for translation or for synthesis into reviews, handbooks and data compendia. Following this will be the integration of the various types of criteria by the staff for examination by scientific and documentation consultants. The resultant recommendations would be reviewed by appropriate committees of national organizations. Their comments are to be included in the final report. Selection criteria and quality identification experience in the biological sciences will be used for the most part in this study. It is expected, however, that the recommendations will be useful to librarians and information specialists in other scientific disciplines and perhaps to those in other fields of knowledge. Publication of the report will be in a journal of wide distribution.

• The New England Board of Higher Education has received a grant of $151,000 from the Council on Library Resources of Washington, D.C. for further development of the New England Library Information Network (NELINET), it was announced by Alan D. Ferguson, Director of the Board. The grant is the fifth in a series given to the Board by the Council to assist in the creation of a computer-based regional center operated to provide technical services to the libraries in New England.

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

• Al–Hikma University, Baghdad, Iraq, is no longer under the administrative control of the American Jesuits who founded the institution in 1956. The Iraq government has assumed control of the university and replaced all American personnel. The former librarian of the university. Rev. Robert J. Cote, S.J., may be reached at 126 Newbury St., Boston, Mass. 02115.

• A far-reaching program to microfilm in black and white all Italian works of art inside the country and those abroad owned by the Italian government was announced in Rome by the Italian Ministry of Education. The project is a sizable one, encompassing not only hundreds of thousands of paintings and pieces of sculpture produced over a period of twenty centuries, but also archaeological sites, historical centers, and buildings of artistic interest.

In making the announcement, Professor- Bruno Molajoli, head of the Direzione Generale Antichita e Belle Arti, the government agency charged with overseeing the country’s artistic and cultural treasures, said that it would take at least twenty years to complete the work but that “the advantages of the system will be extraordinary.” Professor Molajoli pointed out that this is the first instance in which a nation has undertaken an exhaustive inventory of its cultural heritage and established an automatically retrievable listing of its works of art. “The ability to duplicate the microfilmed files easily means that universities, foundations, and museums throughout the world will be able to maintain their own microfilm files of any portion of the vast Italian cultural heritage,” stated Professor Molajoli. “This will be an invaluable assist to artistic research.”

The microfilm system being utilized for the project is one developed by the 3M Company and consists of a processor camera that microfilms the reproduction of the work of art together with pertinent historical information, producing a small “aperture card.” This card can then be automatically retrieved in minutes and a full-size copy can be reproduced on a reader-printer in seconds. Duplicate cards can be reproduced rapidly, each one itself capable of reproducing a full-size copy. The first three microfilm centers are being installed this year in Rome, Florence, and Bologna. In 1970, six other cities will receive the necessary equipment to begin microfilming the works of art existing in their areas. When completed, the microfilmed files will enable accurate restorations to be made of works of art that have, in the course of time, begun to deteriorate or that are damaged by floods and fire. It will also provide a permanent identification in case of loss or theft.

MEETINGS

June;The American University has announced an Institute on Document Identification Systems to be held in Washington, D.C. in June 1969. Suggestions for system proposals, relevant topics which should be treated or other program matters are invited. They should be addressed to Professor Lowell H. Hattery, The American University, 1901 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.

June8-14: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, will conduct an Institute on Middle Management in Librarianship. The Institute is planned as a response to the clearly expressed need for appropriate training of the increasing number of librarians who are functioning in middle-level administrative roles. The Institute is being organized with the view that some of these needs can be met through an intensive program utilizing a number of small group and discovery techniques stressing maximum participant involvement. The Director of the Institute will be Dr. James Liesener, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Services with Mr. Edward S. Warner, Assistant Professor, serving as Associate Director. Faculty members from the School of Library and Information Services representing both library science and other subject disciplines as well as outside management consultants will complete the staff. Forty participants will be chosen from eligible applicants. All practicing librarians will be eligible with special preference given to those in middlelevel managerial roles in libraries and information centers. The program will be funded by the Office of Education under the Higher Education Act, Title II–B program and each participant will receive a per diem stipend.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING OFFICER

for a Bibliographic Centre, Ontario University Libraries

Applications are invited for this position. Candidate should be a professional librarian of considerable background and experience in a position of responsibility in a university or other research library.

The position requires an ability to organize and conduct research, and the candidate needs to possess qualities of imagination, initiative, clarity of thought and expression, and an awareness of current techniques of library service.

The duties of the successful candidate will be to organize and conduct the research needed to establish a factual base for the further planning of the Ontario universities' Bibliographic Centre and to assist in that planning. He will be expected to make himself aware of the work that has already been accomplished and the progress already made in various forms of co-operation among Ontario universities in their libraries, graduate studies and other academic programs, and research.

Applications for the position may be sent to the Chairman of the Advisory Joint Council (Ontario Council of University Librarians and Ontario Council on Graduate Studies) Dean Ernest Sirluck, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto 5, Ontario.

June16-20; There will be an Art Institute entitled “Art Libraries: Their Comprehensive Role in Preserving Contemporary Visual Resources” at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It will be funded by the Higher Education Act of 1965, Public Law 89-329, Title H, Part B. Participants will be art librarians, catalogers of art books, and slide librarians working in art collections of academic institutions or museums. Registration is limited to 25. Information and applications may be requested from Mrs. Florence S. DaLuiso, Art Librarian, Harriman Art Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214.

June16-20: Eighth Institute of Genealogy, Samford University. Registration and tuition will cost $35 for the week (plus $10 additional if academic credit is desired). Housing will be available on campus for $3.00 per night. Meals will be a la carte in the university dining room. Your application should be promptly returned to; Mr. F. W. Helmbold, Samford University Library, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35209. If you wish to receive one semester hour of academic credit in history, please contact the Registrar’s Office immediately. All applicants who wish to receive credit must be approved by the Registrar’s Office. Address your request for registration materials to the following; Samford University, Registrar’s Office, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35209.

June17-20: Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 17-20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other sessions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibfiography, exchange of publications, official publications, photoduplication of Latin American materials, and archives. Meetings of the Seminar Committees will take place on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first general session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meetings of the Executive Board of the newly incorporated SALALM will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednesday, June 18. Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will be distributed at the time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institution registering is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequently published by the Pan American Union. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. 20006.

June23-24; Meeting of the Engineering School Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Tentative topics are: Teaching the engineering student to use the library; Environmental Science Information; Magnetic Tape Services in the Engineering Library; Microfiche in the Engineering Library, and a business meeting.

June27-28: Engineering Sehool Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education Institute. To be held in the United Engineering Building, New York, New York. Additional information about this institute which will be of interest to all those engaged in the engineering/information interface may be obtained by writing to Miss Karen Takle, Dept. 505, Building–014, IBM Corporation, Monterey and Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95114.

June 29-July2: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Houston, Tex.

June 30-Aug.8: The Columbia University Summer Session announces an Institute for College Librarians on Acquisition of non- Western Library Materials for College Libraries, to be held on the Morningside campus from June 30 to August 8, 1969. This program will be sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Education. The institute is designed to accomplish two objectives: (1) to help college librarians to become more familiar with areas and cultures of the non-Western world and Latin America; and (2) to enable them to cope more effectively with the bibliographical problems which arise as they build collections in these fields for their college communities. The number of participants will be fifteen. They will meet in seminar and make field trips in the New York metropolitan area, hear guest lecturers, and work on individual projects. Each participant will audit two semester courses in non–Western areas offered by the Summer Session during the six week period. Areas represented in the 1969 program are Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. The institute is under the general direction of Dean Jack Dalton of Columbia’s School of Library Service. Mr. Evan Ira Farber, Librarian at Earlham College, will direct the program and seminar.

Colleges are invited to nominate librarians to the program. The nominee should have a bachelor’s degree, a degree in library science, a satisfactory record of appropriate experience, and recommendations from officials of his own institution. He should have a record of three or more years of experience and serve in a college—not a large university. The nominee should not be “over-qualified”—that is, already doing highly specialized work or having already had extensive specialized training. Application should be made by the academic dean and/or the head librarian of the college on behalf of the nominee. The letter should include a curriculum vita of the nominee and a brief statement about how his participation in the institute will advance his institution’s interest in foreign area studies. Applications should be addressed to The Director of the Summer Session, Institute for College Librarians, 102 Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027.

July 20-Aug.1: Third annual Library Administrators Development Program at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Director of the program will be John Rizzo, associate professor. School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to the Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, Gollege Park, Maryland 20742.

July28–Aug. 8; A two-weeks’ institute, to be conducted under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, will be held at the State University of New York at Buffalo, July 28-August 8, 1969, on the subject of interpersonal and group communications for librarians and information specialists. Designed to educate top and intermediate level management of major academic libraries and school libraries in the skills of group dynamics and conflict management, and set against the background of our new media, the institute’s program will center about an integrated series of laboratory and workshop learning experiences. Information concerning the institute may be obtained from the institute director. Dr. Mary B. Cassata, Reference Department, State University of New York at Buffalo Libraries, Buffalo, New York 14214.

Aug.4-6: “The Deterioration and Preservation of Library Materials” is the topic for the 34th Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, to be held August 4-6, 1969, in the Center for Continuing Education on the University campus. The general director of the program is Professor Howard W. Winger of the Graduate Library School, and the speakers have been selected from the fields of conservation, industry, paper chemistry, photography, publishing, and librarianship. The printed program, including application blanks for registration and lodging, will be sent on request to: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1116 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637.

Aug.9-29: The Division of University Extension and the Graduate School of Library Science, of the University of Illinois, announce a three week non-credit seminar on PL–I Library Programming. The Seminar will be held from Saturday, August 9, through and including Friday, August 29, 1969, on the Urbana campus of the University. The course to be offered is for the preparation of library systems programmers.

The seminar is expressly directed toward the needs and interests of university and research libraries. Candidates for the seminar should possess the following qualifications: fifth year degree in librarianship; minimum of two years of varied experience in technical processing activities of the library (i.e., acquisitions, serials, cataloging) and a familiarity with the fundamentals of data processing and computers and with the operation of the keypunch. The seminar is specifically not for administrators, but is directed instead toward library systems programmers who will be expected to return to their libraries and work in the implementation of library computer programs.

The seminar will deal expressly with the design and development of computer programs for library computer-based data systems in such areas as acquisitions, serial work, catalog production and circulation. It will not deal with information retrieval or SDI programs. The instruction will be at a practical level with the objective of imparting the techniques and practices which characterize computer applications in the library. The language which will be used is Programming Language One (PL–I) which is a powerful, general purpose language available on most models of the IBM System 360 computer series. Candidates for the course should have either the PL-I compiler or a PL–I–like compiler available to them if the course is to have any value to them.

The seminar aims to present a maximum amount of information and instruction in a minimum amount of time. Experience indicates that participants should not plan to bring their families to Urbana for the period of the seminar, but should be prepared, rather, to devote their full energies to the program. Previous experience also indicates that participants without a native command of the English language find themselves at a considerable disadvantage in absorbing a new and technical vocabulary in such a short period of time, and should anticipate considerable difficulty in keeping pace with the class.

The tuition fee for the seminar is $400.00 and should be remitted only after notification of acceptance to the seminar. Applications will be considered in the order of their receipt, and no more than 15 applicants will be accepted for the seminar. Housing in the airconditioned Illini Union will be available at $6.70 per person (double occupancy) or $9.27 (single occupancy) per day. Registrants should plan to arrive in Champaign the day preceding the first day of the seminar. Reasonably priced meal service is also available in the Illini Union, where the seminar will meet. The seminar will be cancelled if less than 15 eligible persons apply by July 1, 1969. Those interested in applying for the course should apply to Mr. Hillis Griffin, Information Systems Librarian, Library Services Department, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (312-739- 7711, Ext. 4701). The seminar will be directed by Mr. Griffiin.

Aug.10-15: “Change Frontiers; Implications for Librarianship,” is the subject of an Institute to be offered at the University of Maryland August 10 to August 15, 1969. The insights of guest lecturers and panelists will provide stimulus for interaction among the participants as they seek to comprehend, assess, and synthesize diverse facets of the library role in a changing world. The shared framework of the participant group will be one of attitude rather than area of expertise. Discussion will incorporate consideration of the library environment and current developments in the business, technological and organizational aspects of the library’s commodity, information. The Culture, Establishment Responses, The Information Industry, and The Political Behavior of Librarians are major components for the sessions. The Institute will be held at the Adult Education Center at the University of Maryland. Participation will be limited to 20 applicants, each of whom will receive a $75 stipend, plus $15 for each dependent. Gilda Nimer is Director of the Institute, and direction and continuity for the sessions will be provided by Dean Paul Wasserman and Professor Mary Lee Bundy of the School of Library and Information Services. The Institute is sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education under Title H–B of the Higher Education Act of 1965. All practicing librarians will be eligible to apply, with special preference given to those who indicate a concern with change and an institutional role which allows for experiment. For more information, write to Gilda Nimer, Director, “Change Frontiers,” School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Aug. 25-Sept.5: The library at the University of California, San Diego, will conduct an Institute on Book Selection and Acquisition in Academic Libraries under Title II–B of the Higher Education Act. The Institute will be held for two weeks, from August 25 to September 5, 1969, with partieipants housed in UCSD residence halls. The 30 participants will be chosen from professional librarians involved in collection development in colleges and universities in the United States. Melvin Voigt, UCSD University Librarian, will direct the Institute with Dr. Carl White, UCSD Library Specialist, and David Lane, Assistant University Librarian, as assistant directors. Instructors for the Institute will also include; Johnnie E. Givens, Head Librarian, Austin Peay State College, Tennessee; Gustave A. Harrer, Director of Libraries, University of Florida; Frederick G. Kilgour, Director, Ohio College Library Center; Rolland C. Stewart, Associate Director of Libraries, University of Michigan; and Helen Welch Tuttle, Assistant University Librarian, Princeton University.

The Institute will include papers, discussions and case studies concerning the selection of books for college and university libraries. A brochure describing the Institute in more detail is available from Melvin J. Voigt, University Librarian, University of California, San Diego, Post Office Box 109, La Jolla, California 92037.

Sept.1-6: Fourth IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) Seminar will be held at the Library of the Technological University Delft, The Netherlands, under the direction of Dr. L. J. van der Wolk. This annual international course is open to all directors or their co-workers from libraries affiliated to universities, institutes or organizations of research level. The Seminar teaches practical daily international library cooperation. Teachers—experts from various countries—will introduce the situation and possibilities of each international method and technique. There will be approximately 15 lectures, each theme is allocated 11/2 hours. The first half hour is used for a concise survey of the present day situation or possibilities in the international field to be discussed. This introduction is followed by a discussion of at least 45 minutes in which participants and the lecturer contribute from their own experience. The number of participants is limited to 25 in order to establish good contact and opportunity for efficient discussions. The official language of the Seminar is English. The fee for the Seminar is Dfl. 400.-; hotel and travel expenses are not included in this amount. Due to the restriction in the number of participants it is advisable to contact the secretariat as soon as possible: Miss B. G. Sinnema, c/o Library of the Technological University, 101 Doelenstraat, DELFT, The Netherlands.

Sept.2-5: The Second Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held from September 2 to September 5, 1969. The Conference will be sponsored jointly by The College of Aeronautics and “Information Storage and Retrieval.” Details concerning presentation of papers or attendance can be obtained from the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, Bedford, England.

Sept.10-12, 15-17: A three-day seminar on the evaluation of information retrieval systems is to be presented by Westat Surveys, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland.

The seminar will cover the following areas: criteria for measuring performance of retrieval systems; factors affecting performance; components and characteristics of indexing languages; design and conduct of an evaluation program; analysis and interpretation of evaluation results; application of results to improve system performance; evaluation of economic efficiency; continuous quality control.

Instructors will be F. W. Lancaster and D. W. King. Mr. Lancaster, who is the author of Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation (Wiley, 1968), recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of MEDLARS at the National Library of Medicine. He will be the author of the chapter on evaluation in the 1970 volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

Mr. King, a specialist in statistics and operations research, is the author of the 1968 Annual Review chapter on evaluation and coauthor of the Procedural Guide for the Evaluation of Document Retrieval Systems prepared by Westat for the National Science Foundation.

Tuition for the three-day seminar, including course materials, is $200.00. A limited number of registrants will be accepted for each session. Reservations may be made through Westat Surveys, Inc., 7979 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Telephone: (301) 652-8223.

Sept.21-24: 43d Annual Conference of Aslib, Coventry, United Kingdom, seer; 3 Belgrave Square, London S.W. 1.

Oct.1-3: The Missouri Library Association 1969 convention will be in Jefferson City, Mo.

Oct.1-5: 32nd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the San Francisco Hilton; San Francisco, California. The Convention Chairman for the 1969 meeting is Mr. Charles P. Bourne; Director, Programming Services, Inc.; 999 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303.

Oct.13-17: University of Colorado Campus. An Institute for Training in Librarianship: Service for Public Patrons Between Libraries, sponsored by the Bureau of Continuation Education and the University of Colorado libraries, in cooperation with the Bibliographical Center for Research, Rocky Mountain Region, Inc., Denver, Colorado, and the graduate school of librarianship. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. This one week institute using consultants, lecturers, practice sessions, and small group discussions is planned for sixty interlibrary service librarians from the academic, public, and special libraries in the mountain-plains region. The objectives are to improve methods of communication between interlibrary service personnel, to upgrade the competencies of librarians engaged in the cooperative use of resources, to explore the impact of modern technology and methods upon interlibrary service and to encourage the involvement of interlibrary service personnel in wide-spread planning for future service.

More information about the faculty, eligibility criteria, stipends and other matters will be presented in a brochure to be mailed soon. For a copy of the brochure or other information contact the director of the institute: Mrs. Virginia Boucher, Head, Interlibrary Loan Service, University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder, Colorado 80302.

Oct.26-30: 68th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss Joan Titley, director of the Komhauser Memorial Medical library. University of Louisville, is convention chairman. The advance program and registration forms will be a part of the May, 1969 issue of MLA News.

Nov. 5-8: The Library-College Associates will hold an interdisciplinary conference entitled, “A Library Dimension for the Higher Learning,” at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-8,1969. Participants who will be featured at this conference include: Henry S. Commager, Historian, Amherst College; Woodburn O. Ross, Dean of Instruction, Wayne State University; Louis Shores, Dean Emeritus, Florida State University; Sister Helen Sheehan, Librarian, Trinity College; and Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University. To obtain reservations and further information on this conference, address inquiries to Mrs. Dorcas Scalet, Library-College Associates, Box 956, Norman, Oklahoma 73069.

Dec.6-11: 1969 Galaxy Conference of Adult Education Organizations, sponsored by the Committee of Adult Education Organizations. Location of the conference will be the Shoreham and Sheraton Park Hotels, Washington, D.C. The conference theme is Learning to Change: A Social Imperative. Its purposes are:

To provide individual members of adult education organizations with greater opportunity for professional growth;

To strengthen the work of all adult education organizations through joint consideration of matters of common concern;

To provide organizations of adult education with a platform from which to speak with one voice on matters of great national concern.

More than 4000 leaders in adult and continuing education organizations will participate. Galaxy Conference is a concurrent meeting of those associations with a major concern for adult and continuing education. Full membership meetings will be held by the following:

Adult Education Association of the USA Adult Student Personnel Association Association of Field Services in Teacher Education

Association of University Evening Colleges Council of National Organizations for Adult Education

National Association of Public School Adult Educators

National University Extension Association United States Association of Evening Students

Divisional, sectional, board and special group meetings will be held by:

American Association of Junior Colleges American Library Association, Adult Services Division

Extension Committee on Organization and Policy of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

International Congress of University Adult Education

National Education Television

University Council on Education for Public Responsibility

Observers from national and international agencies will also be on hand.

At least two Galaxy General Sessions will be held on Sunday afternoon and Monday afternoon. A reception is also scheduled for early Sunday evening. Participating organizations will develop their own programs for times other than during the General Sessions. The programs will be based on the general theme of the conference. A statement of “Imperatives for Action” will be the basis for a major address by a leading educator to be delivered at one of the General Sessions of the Gonference. In turn, these “Imperatives for Action” will serve as a basis for discussions in the separate programs of participating organizations.

Jan.16-18, 1970: The Association of American Library Schools, annual meeting. Graduate Library School, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,

Jan.19-21, 1970: A three-day seminar on the evaluation of information retrieval systems is to be presented by Westat Surveys, Inc., in Ghicago.

The seminar will cover the following areas: criteria for measuring performance of retrieval systems; factors affecting performance; components and characteristics of indexing languages; design and conduct of an evaluation program; analysis and interpretation of evaluation results; application of results to improve system performance; evaluation of economic efficiency; continuous quality control.

Instructors will be F. W. Lancaster and D. W. King. Mr. Lancaster, who is the author of Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation (Wiley, 1968), recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of MEDLARS at the National Library of Medicine. He will be the author of the chapter on evaluation in the 1970 volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and T echnology.

Mr. King, a specialist in statistics and operations research, is the author of the 1968 Annual Review chapter on evaluation and coauthor of the Procedural Guide for the Evaluation of Document Retrieval Systems prepared by Westat for the National Science Foundation.

Tuition for the three-day seminar, including course materials, is $200.00. A limited number of registrants will be accepted for each session. Reservations may be made through Westat Surveys, Inc., 7979 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Telephone; (301) 652-8223.

Jan.26-28, 1970: A three-day seminar on the evaluation of information retrieval systems is to be presented by Westat Surveys, Inc., in San Diego.

The seminar will cover the following areas: criteria for measuring performance of retrieval systems; factors affecting performance; components and characteristics of indexing languages; design and conduct of an evaluation program; analysis and interpretation of evaluation results; application of results to improve system performance; evaluation of economic efficiency; continuous quality control.

Instructors will be F. W. Lancaster and D. W. King. Mr. Lancaster, who is the author of Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation (Wiley, 1968), recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of MEDLARS at the National Library of Medicine. He will be the author of the chapter on evaluation in the 1970 volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

Mr. King, a specialist in statistics and operations research, is the author of the 1968 Annual Review chapter on evaluation and coauthor of the Procedural Guide for the Evaluation of Document Retrieval Systems prepared by Westat for the National Science Foundation.

Tuition for the three-day seminar, including course materials, is $200.00. A limited number of registrants will be accepted for each session. Reservations may be made through Westat Surveys, Inc., 7979 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Telephone: (301) 652-8223.

Mar.16-18, 1970; Space age requirements of colleges and universities, in areas of administrative structure, physical environment and financing of new programs, will be the focal points of the 1970 International Gollege & University Conference & Exposition to be held March 16-18, 1970, at the Atlantic City, N.J., Convention Hall, according to Georgette N. Mania, ICUCE program director and editor of American School & University, sponsoring publication.

As in 1969, the conference format will include morning plenary sessions, afternoon workshops and an exposition of the latest and most interesting developments in equipment, office machines, furnishings, maintenance items, food service systems and other products and services for educational institutions.

June 28-July1, 1970: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Sept.14-24, 1970: 35th FID Conference, Buenos Aires. The Conference will be organized by the FID National Member in Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnieas, Rivadavia 1917—R. 25, Buenos Aires, Argentina, attn: Mr. R. A. Gietz.

Oct.4-9, 1970: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Information Services of Biological Abstracts; 2100 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MISCELLANY

• Three of the four authors who won Nebula Awards for the best science fiction of 1968 are represented in manuscript collections at Syracuse University. The Nebulas are presented each year by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), whose archives are also at the University. A Nebula for the best novel went to Alexei Panshin, of Brooklyn, N.Y., author of “Rite of Passage.” The award for the best novella went to Anne McCaffrey, of Sea Cliff, N.Y., secretary-treasurer of SFWA, for “Dragonrider.” The best novelet was “Mother to the World,” by Richard Wilson, director of the News Bureau of Syracuse University. The best short story was “The Planners,” by Kate Wilhelm of Madeira Beach, Fla. All but Panshin have donated manuscripts and other papers to Syracuse University.

AT OUR NEW IMAGE

Here’s the closest thing yet to the actual printed LC card. Clear. Legible. Complete. It should be.

This replica is reproduced from a Microfiche of the printed LC card itself.

With our new Depository Card Service, you now get LC card replicas like this in less than two minutes. Including search time! No need to order and then wait weeks for printed cards. No need to type cards out.

Depository Card Service extends the advantages of IDC’s Micrographic Catalog Retrieval System to libraries where card quality has always been scrupulously observed. It can help any library solve the increasingly serious problem of time-consuming search work involved in acquiring books, cataloging, and getting new books promptly into circulation.

Here is how the M-C-R System — and the new Depository Card Service — work:

The M–C–R System —You receive a starter set of Microfiche cards containing LC and National Union Catalog entries dating from 1963. (Over a half-million entries fit in a desk-top 20" Microfiche file!) Thereafter, you receive weekly Microfiche issues containing approximately 3000 advance-release LC entries. You also receive a quick-find Index. To search out an LC entry — and make a full-size copy — you simply (1) refer to the Index, (2) select the proper Microfiche card, (3) insert the card in a Printer-Reader, and (4) push a button for your LC copy, delivered in 6 seconds, ready for over-typing and Xeroxing.

New Depository Card Service —Directly from the Library of Congress, we are now able to bring you Microfiche copies of the printed LC cards (rather than copies made from proof slips). You receive crisp, clean, legible Microfiche negatives of the printed card itself. This service includes all new advance-release cards issued by the Library of Congress.

New Retrospective Collection —This new offering to M–C–R subscribers now makes it possible to extend your Microfiche file to include all LC and National Union Catalog entries back to 1953 — ten years earlier than previously available. Especially valuable for new libraries, or those expanding their services.

Everything for LC searching and full-size card copies at a single desk.

The award is a rectangular block of lucite on a black base, enclosing a golden spiral nebula suspended over the crystal surface of an alien world. The Nebulas were presented at SFWA’s banquet March 15 at Les Champs restaurant in New York. The stories by Miss Wilhelm and Wilson were in Orbit 3, an anthology of new science fiction published by Putnam. Miss McCaffrey’s story appeared as a two-part serial in Analog. Panshin’s novel was published by Ace Books.

PUBLICATIONS

• A Basic Library List for the Biological Sciences is now available as CUEBS Publication No. 22. The publication which was prepared by the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences includes the titles of approximately 800 books published between 1945 and 1967, and is considered as a minimal list of biology books for undergraduate college libraries. Recommendations concerning serials and periodicals are also included. Interested persons may receive a copy free of charge by writing to CUEBS, Suite 403, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

• The Current Periodicals List of Morris Library, Southern Illinois University and published by Central Publications, was recorded on an IBM Magnetic Type/Selectric Typewriter and set on an IBM Composer, is a list of periodical holdings in the University library. The 112-page double column List contains over 7200 periodicals, newspaper, and membership showing location in the library. Copies of the List may be purchased for $4.00 from Central Publication, Southern Illinois University, 113 East Grand Street, Carbondale, Illinois 62901.

• The American Library Association, in cooperation with the Library of Congress, has published a volume entitled MARC Manuals Used by the Library of Congress to aid librarians and computer programmer who will be using or creating catalog records on magnetic tape in the MARC II format. The 4-part volume of more than 300 pages contains three handbooks and one special study. The first handbook, “Subscriber’s Guide to the MARC Distribution Service” (76 p.), provides specifications for magnetic tapes in the MARC II format. It is designed for programmers who will be implementing systems using MARC records. The “Data Preparation Manual: MARC Editors” (219 p.) is a detailed guide to procedures followed by the MARC editors at the Library of Congress in preparing bibliographic records for conversion to machine-readable form. The “Transcription Manual” (22 p.), provides similar information for the operators of the paper-tape typewriters used in the MARC system. The special study, “Computer Magnetic Tape Usability Study” (18 p.), provides a list of data processing equipment which can handle MARC tapes. The publication of the MARC Manuals is a cooperative venture of the ala’s Information Science and Automation Division and the Library of Congress’ Information Systems Office. In order to make this information available in as current a form as possible, typescript versions of the manuals now in use at the Library of Congress were reproduced by a photographic process. The volume can be purchased at $7.50 a copy from the American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

• The 1969 revision of the Serial Holdings List of the Georgia Institute Technology Library is now available for distribution. The list now contains holdings for 11,000 serial publications. Copies are available at $25.00 each from: Mrs. Helen Citron, Serial Sales, Price Gilbert Memorial Library, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.

• The USA Standard for Compiling Book Publishing Statistics has just been published by the United States of America Standards Institute’s Sectional Committee Z39 in the Field of Library Work, Documentation, and Related Published Practices. This standard was originally prepared by Subcommittee 7 under the Procedures of the USA Standards Institute and sponsored by the Council on National Library Associations. The original draft, which was circulated in December 1966, was approved in general, but several important suggestions were made by dissenting members of the Z39 Committee. The responsibility for producing a revised draft was assigned in October 1967 to Subcommittee 18 on Book Publishing Statistics. The standard, based in general on the Recommendations Concerning the International Standardization of Statistics Relating to Book Production and Periodicals promulgated at the 13th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in Paris in 1964, has both incorporated advice received and adhered to current U.S. practice.

• The school of library and information services. University of Maryland, announces the publication of the second monograph in the Student Contribution Series, edited by Derek Langridge assisted by Esther Herman, The Universe of Knowledge is a collection of essays submitted by the students who participated in an experimental seminar concerning the structure and organization of knowledge and its re-