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ACQUISITIONS

• Cooperation between two archival collections has resulted in the increased availability of manuscript materials in criminology to scholars on opposite sides of the continent. The Conwellana-Templana Collection in the Samuel Paley Library of Temple University in Philadelphia and the Archive of Contemporary History at the University of Wyoming in Laramie have exchanged copies of their separate correspondence between Harry Elmer Barnes and Negley King Teeters.

The Barnes Collection at the University of Wyoming Library, the major portion of which was deposited by Barnes prior to his death in 1968, extends to nearly 200 document boxes, almost half consisting of his wide-ranging correspondence. On various college and university faculties during his lifetime, Barnes was well known to generations of college students for his many works in sociology and history.

Teeters, whose teaching career at Temple began in 1927, was a recognized writer in the field of criminology, and before his retirement from the Temple faculty in 1963, he presented copies of his publications to the Conwellana- Templana Collection. The largest deposit of his papers, however, was made in the late 1960s, after his move to Oneonta, New York, where he was a member of the faculty at Hartwick College until his death in 1971.

Collaborating on a text in criminology in 1943 titled New Horizons in Criminology, Barnes and Teeters began an extensive correspondence that spanned many years and totaled approximately 200 letters apiece. Of greatest interest to criminologists will be Barnes and Teeters’ correspondence, articles, and reports concerning several highly publicized defendants in criminal cases of mid-twentieth century— notably Caryl Chessman in California and Robert Stroud, the “birdman of Alcatraz.”

• The Folger Library has acquired a copy of the rare first edition of Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Library of Unlicenc’d Printing. . . . Printed in London in 1644, Areopagitica is Milton’s plea against government censorship and by far the best known of his many prose works. It was written as a protest against an ordinance of Parliament passed in June 1644, that required books to be licensed—and thus approved by government officials—before being published.

The book has been on public exhibit since Milton’s birthday, December 9, and is presently part of the Folger’s current show, “The Age of

Milton,” mounted for the 300th anniversary of his death in 1674. The earliest copy of Areopagitica previously owned by the library was an 1890 reprint published by the Grolier Club. The 1644 edition is the only one printed during Milton’s lifetime.

The book derives its title from the Areopagus, the Athenian parliament. It is considered the finest defense in English of the assertion that “when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. . . .” In another famous passage, Mil- ton declares: “As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a man kills reason itself, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a Man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good Booke is the pretious life—blood of a master spirit, im’balm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

The Folger acquired the Areopagitica at the recent Sotheby Parke Bernet sale of the William E. Stockhausen Collection of English and American Literature. Acquisition of this volume fills the most serious gap in the Folger’s outstanding collection of Milton’s prose and poetry in first editions and editions of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

• Deeds of gift have been signed for two new major acquisitions of the Archives of American Art, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, it was announced recently by William E. Woolfenden, director.

The papers and records of Joseph Cornell and Moses Soyer have been given to the archives by the families of the late artists. Both collections contain thousands of items now being microfilmed for distribution to the five regional centers of the archives in Washington, New York, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco.

Voluminous notes written on loose pieces of paper, each one carefully dated, filled dozens of boxes of the Cornell gift. Photographs and memorabilia of movie stars and ballerinas, postcards, and masses of material for use in collages are still being processed. The Soyer gift includes portrait photographs of Soyer and his family by Arnold Newman, letters, sketches, doodles, family snapshots, reviews of early shows, and a typed manuscript entitled “Three Brothers.” Dates covered extend from 1920 to Soyer’s death in 1974.

Scholars wishing to research the Cornell papers must direct written requests to the director for approval. The Soyer papers are available to qualified researchers as are the majority of papers in the archives.

• The graduate school and library at Drew University, Madison, N.J. have been selected by the government of West Germany to receive a continuing gift of books about Germany and the Federal Republic. Consisting of newly published works in the area of German politics and culture over the past century, this gift from the Federal Republic’s Research Council was arranged and presented by Dr. Phillip Schmidt- Schlegel, West German consul general in New York City. Dr. Schmidt-Schlegel has been a lecturer in the graduate school at Drew for the past two years.

Some of the books already received include the new biography of Willy Brandt by Terrence Prittie of the Manchester Guardian, several volumes by Brandt himself, A. J. Ryder’s Twentieth Century Germany from Bismarck to Brandt, and The Balance of Power, a book by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, written when he was defense minister. According to Professor Arthur E. Jones, Jr., director of the University Library, the books will add depth to Drew’s existing collection in German cultural and political history.

GRANTS

• The University of Kentucky and Mills College (Calif.) are recipients of matching grants of $50,000 and $48,608 respectively under the joint College Library Program of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

The two grants bring to nineteen the number made jointly by CLR and NEH under their five-year-old program designed to enhance the college library’s role in the humanities education of undergraduates.

At Kentucky the CRL-NEH funds—together with $50,000 of the university’s own funds— will be used over the next five years to provide liaison between the library and the General Studies Division of the university, particularly in the areas of literature, the classics, social sciences, and philosophy. A library services coordinator—-a new position—will be responsible for this activity.

In addition, the coordinator will teach certain segments of courses where library experience is needed. He will also be available for instructing and advising individual students about term papers and research projects.

At Mills a five-year, $97,216 program, aimed at exposing students from all academic disciplines to direct contact with the great books and rare manuscripts in its library’s rich collection, will be launched with the CLR-NEH grant and the college’s matching commitment.

A research librarian is being added to the library staff to serve as curator of the Bender

Room (rare book) collection and to do bibliographic work for the program, which, if successful, will make it possible for the outstanding rare books and manuscripts in the Mills College Library to become a basic element in the college’s instructional program.

• The viable but informally manned Library Orientation-Instruction Exchange (LOEX) at Eastern Michigan University will expand its services aimed at improving training in use of college libraries under terms of a three-year grant of $42,771 from the Council on Library Resources (CLR).

Project LOEX was established at Eastern Michigan—recipient of the grant—in May 1972 as a result of the university’s Library Outreach Orientation Program supported by a matching grant under the joint College Library Program of CLR and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

LOEX is a clearinghouse for information and materials relating to academic library orientation and instruction not only at Eastern Michigan but also at almost 200 cooperating institutions.

Its objectives are threefold: (1) to facilitate communication among academic libraries with orientation and instruction programs, (2) to assist libraries in developing such programs, and (3) to aid librarians in their research endeavors and in furthering their education in orientation on an informal basis.

Project LOEX, now manned informally, will broaden its services under the direction of a member of the university’s Center of Educational Resources faculty assigned half time toward furthering its objectives.

The director’s responsibilities will include expanding membership, planning and conducting LOEX meetings, supervising the collection, preparing the LOEX News and other written materials, and evaluating services and procedures.

Eastern Michigan University’s Center of Educational Resources is providing the project with office space, and the library is assisting with personnel and books as needed. The university is hopeful that Project LOEX will prove largely self-supporting by the end of the CLR grant but is committed to carrying on the work as a continuing part of its service program in any event. Mary Bolner will be in charge of Project LOEX, according to Center of Educational Resources director Fred Blum.

• The Iowa State University Library has recently received a matching grant of $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the restoration of its famed Grant Wood murals. A similar $5,000 amount to match the grant was provided by the Iowa State alumni Class of 1959.

The nine mural panels which adorn the lobby and stairwell of the Iowa State University Library depict the first breaking of Iowa’s virgin soil in the 1840s as well as panoramas of the activities of Iowa State’s colleges. These works of art, reproduced in national publications and films, were painted under the direction of the late Grant Wood, world-renowned Iowa artist, during the 1930s. The series is based upon the theme that agriculture stimulates the pursuit of all the other arts and sciences.

Details in each mural are exacting, great care having been made to provide complete authenticity. Illustrations of chemical experiments in progress, the breeds of livestock, harness, ropes and equipment, Iowa wildflowers, and even the blueprints shown are exactingly reproduced. Restoration required several months of careful cleaning, surface coating, and in-painting by Iowa conservator Margaret Ash and her assistants.

MEETINGS

March 26: Beverly P. Lynch, executive secretary, ACRL, will be the luncheon speaker at the Stony Brook Spring Conference to be held at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dr. Lynch will speak on the arbitration, mediation, and inquiry program of ALA.

Dr. Lynch will also participate in the afternoon panel discussion, “Librarians in Unions.” Other panelists will include Anne Commerton (director, SUNY Oswego); I. Vera Jerwick (documents, Nassau Community College); Jackie K. Eubanks (reference, CUNY Brooklyn & Social Responsibilities Round Table); C. James Schmidt (director, SUNY Albany and chairman of ACRL Academic Status Committee); and Marilyn Sternberg (reference, Adelphi University and president of Adelphi AAUP Bargaining Unit).

The morning program will offer workshops on the status and implementation of the CONSER project, OCLC cataloging developments, and the present design for acquisitions processing through OCLC.

The conference is being cosponsored by the State University of New York Librarians Association. For further information phone (516) 246-3615. The cost of registration is $10.00 (includes lunch). Send payment to SUNYLA, c/o Mr. Terry E. Hubbard, Reference Dept., Library, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794.

April 4: “The Library as Consumer”is the subject of the 1975 Institute of the Library Association of the City University of New York. To be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, the institute, open to librarians, interested students, faculty, and administrators, will be concerned with the problems and prospects for libraries as institutional consumers. Among the topics to be considered are: consumer problems involved in acquiring library books and equipment; use of review media and evaluative reports; and new and intensified efforts toward improving library consumer information and protection.

Speakers will be: Thomas J. Galvin, dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; May Virginia Valencik, director, and Doris Allebach, interior design consultant, White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library; and Ellsworth G. Mason, director, University of Colorado Libraries.

There will be a reactor panel following the presentations. For further information, please contact: Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031; (212 ) 690-4188.

April 4: The Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter will hold a Conference on Writing and Publishing for Librarians at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Registration information is available from Phyllis L. Cutler, Science Librarian, Gerstenzang Science Library, Bran- deis University, Waltham, MA 02154.

April 4-5: Documents Workshop. A regional federal documents workshop for documents librarians and others responsible for documents collections and documents reference in the following states: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming will be held at the College Inn (University of Colorado Conference Center), Boulder, Colorado.

Organized by the Special Libraries Association, Colorado Chapter, the two-day program will consist of seminars and discussion groups on: basic reference, acquisitions, and new aids; regional and selective depositories and regional resources; publishers (government and commercial ); microforms and microform equipment; promotion of documents use; and technical reports, patents, standards, and specifications.

Registration will be limited to 120 persons. The conference fee will be $50.00, which will include cost of registration, room and board, and all conference materials. Without a room, the fee will be $25.00. Complete program information and preregistration forms are available from Jean McIntyre, Head, Documents Division, Denver Public Library, 1357 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203; (303) 573-5152 Ext. 208.

April 11-13: Science Fiction. The Regional Conference on Science Fiction, to be held in Denver, is being sponsored by the Science Fiction Research Association and the University of Colorado at Denver. The conference will focus on the study and teaching of science fiction.

In addition to the presentation of papers, workshops dealing with problems, methods, and resources in teaching SF and with the development of SF collections will be offered. One of the aims of the workshops will be to produce bibliographies for public, college, and school libraries. Papers and bibliographers in this area are also invited. Please send all inquiries regarding papers to Dr. Peter Alterman, Dr. Richard Dillon, cochairmen, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado at Denver, 1100 14th St., Denver, CO 80202; (303) 892-1117 Ext. 217. Please send all inquiries regarding the conference to Bureau of Conferences and Institutes, University of Colorado, Academy 217, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder, CO 80302; (303 ) 492-6485.

April 16-19: The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. Nonmembers are invited to attend. Registration information is available from the Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan, Bloomington, IN 47401.

April 17-18: The ACM Conference on Space, Growth and Performance Problems of College and University Lirraries, sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, will be held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago.

Can the growth rate of academic libraries be sharply curtailed without detriment to the educational and research missions of colleges and universities? This vital question will be answered by some of the most distinguished authorities in librarianship and operations research.

Their papers will survey the current space problems of academic libraries and present breakthrough strategies to reduce collection size, curb collection growth, improve delivery of wanted publications, and eliminate the need for new construction.

The program is designed to help college and university deans, fiscal officers, and head librarians find practical solutions to the economic and academic problems caused by the unexamined and unproductive growth of library collections.

A reactor panel will respond to the new departures proposed by the speakers. Chaired by Dan Martin, president of ACM, the panel will reflect the views of accrediting agencies, academic administration, state boards of higher education, and the teaching faculty. For registration information, write: ACM, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610.

April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.”

Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Office of Continuing Education and Public Service, University of Illinois, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

April 28-30: The 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals, cosponsored by the Association for Scientific Journals, will be held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Further information is available from the general chairman, James Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, MN 55408.

May 14-17: Technical Communications. Sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication, the twenty-second International Technical Communications Conference will be held in Disneyland. The cheme of this year’s conference will be “The Challenge of Professional Development.” Registration information may be obtained from H. Small, 1630 S. Barranca, Sp. 170, Glendora, CA 91740.

May 15-17: Lihrary Orientation. The Eastern Michigan University Center of Educational Resources is planning the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions.

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

May 18-30: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director.

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 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and registration materials.

June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials will convene in Bogota, Colombia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, director of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura.

Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massachusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Membership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. See the January News for more information.

June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual Institute on the Library and the Governmental Process. The institute offers participants an opportunity to study and observe, at first hand, the governmental processes and forces affecting libraries and information centers. The techniques of library legislation will be analyzed on the federal, state, and local levels.

Conducting the sessions will be Robert E. Frase, consulting economist and author of Library Funding, and Public Support, and Alphonse F. Trezza, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Participants in the library science institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library science. For more information write: Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635- 5085.

June 22-25: Law Librarians. The American Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604.

June 23-27: Manpower Planning. The theme of the 1975 annual management course organized by the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association will be “Library Manpower Planning in the ’70s and ’80s.” The course will be held at Woburn, Bedfordshire. Inclusive residential course fee is $95.00.

Techniques and experiences relating to staíf utilization, work measurement, and manpower requirement projection in public and academic libraries will be described and critically assessed by senior librarians. Full details are available from David Baynes, 61, Crossways, Crawley, Sussex, U.K.

June 23-27: A short, one-week course in Information Retrieval and Dynamic Lirrary Processingwill be taught by Professor Gerard Salton at Cornell University under the auspices of the Continuing Education Office at Cornell.

The course is intended for information scientists, librarians, and library science educators who may be interested in the application of novel techniques and technologies to information retrieval and automatic library processing. The course covers new techniques for automatic indexing and document content analysis, automatic term classification and optimum thesaurus construction, automatic document classification and file organization, interactive search and retrieval techniques, automatic file growth and document retirement methodology, and dynamic collection control.

For further information, contact: Director of Continuing Education, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607) 256-5088.

June 25-28: “Eighteenth-Century English Books Considered by Librarians and Booksellers, Bibliographers and Collectors” is the theme of the 1975 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference to be held in San Francisco.

John W. Jolliffe, the keeper of catalogues, Bodleian Library, Oxford University and director of Project LOC, and William Cameron, dean, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario and director of the HPB project, will discuss the short- title catalog. G. Thomas Tanselle, professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present problems of bibliographical description. Problems of editing manuscript ledgers will be discussed by Patricia Hernlund, professor of English, Wayne State University.

Keynoting the conference will be William B. Todd, professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Herman W. Liebert, librarian emeritus, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, will provide the conference summary.

The preconference is sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Donald D. Eddy, associate professor of English and librarian of the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University, is chairman of the Program Planning Committee. Peter E. Hanff, coordinator of technical services, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, is chairman of local arrangements. The chairman of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section is Hendrik Edelman, assistant director for development of collections, Cornell University Libraries.

Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312 ) 944-6780.

June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a preconference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues.

Further information and registration forms are available from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive

Secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

July 7-25: “Ethnicity and Librarianship,” an institute funded by the U.S. Office of Education for school, public, and college librarians, will take place at Queens College of the City University of New York. The leaders of the institute will be Professor David Cohen, director, Queens College Library Science Department, and Miss Lillian Lopez, coordinator of special services, New York Public Library.

With the goals of the institute being the improvement in the ability of librarians, publishers, writers, editors, and teachers to meet more effectively the recognized information needs of the minority population, the institute will deal with the selection and evaluation of library materials and services for all minority groups. Emphasis will be on the concept of ethnicity and the responsibility of librarians for developing library collections which clearly reflect the multiethnic composition of our society.

The institute is designed to contribute to the improvement of library service to children, young adults, and adults with minority/ethnic orientation. It will attempt to identify materials which present a more positive view of minority groups and will invite authors, editors, and publishers to discuss criteria for evaluation of available materials and goals for the production of better materials in this field.

This institute is a followup of an institute held in 1972 at Queens College which concentrated on such groups as Asian-Americans, Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans. In addition to these groups, the institute will include Polish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, and Irish Americans.

Applications should be addressed to Professor David Cohen, Queens College Library Science Department, Flushing, NY 11367. Those librarians who themselves come from minority/ ethnic groups and who have had some experience in working with minorities are urged to apply. Those completing the program satisfactorily will receive a certificate showing completion of nine graduate credits. All students or participants will be paid stipends of $75.00 per week plus a dependency allowance. The deadline for applications is April 15, 1975.

July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England.

The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full details of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon,

Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England.

August 24-28: The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The theme will be “The Role of Information Systems Technology in Community Management.”

October 23-26: The Oral History Association will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Colloquium on Oral History.”

The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is Waddy Moore, State College of Arkansas.

For further information about the Oral History Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Secretary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203.

November 9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classification Systems.”

With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of classification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Albany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will concern itself not only with Dewey but with other major classification systems being used in English-speaking countries.

A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals interested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

MISCELLANY

• Inflation and other economic pressures underscore the need for improved business communications among publishers, wholesalers, and their library customers. Task forces appointed by committees of the Association of American Publishers and the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association are conducting a major investigation of book marketing and selection procedures of all concerned groups. The goal: to collect and report current data and expert opinions for the mutual benefit of all engaged in the marketing and selection of adult books. Through questionnaires mailed to 300 academic, research, and public libraries, one task force, led by William Bunnell (County College of Morris, New Jersey) will survey library acquisition budgets, policies, and procedures—what tools are employed in book selection, which departments or individuals in various kinds of libraries have most direct influence on purchasing decisions, and how books are ordered. Another group, directed by Shirley Sarris (Franklin Watts), will determine how 100 publishers market new titles to libraries through catalogs, bibliographies, promotion and advertising, etc. What methods work to the benefit of publisher and library, What fail? A third task force chaired by Laura Dudley (Hofstra) will gain similar insights into the wholesaling sector of the trade by querying 100 wholesalers and jobbers. Jean Boyer (Temple University) is responsible for the fourth task force which will critically evaluate existing bibliographic and other alerting services. Overall coordination of the task force efforts is in the hands of Sandra Paul (Random House).

Responses to questionnaires will be analyzed and the findings discussed at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago. From discussions at Midwinter, a full-day seminar, “Book Marketing and Selection: A Publishing/Library Forum," will be developed for presentation on July 1, 1975, at the ALA Conference in San Francisco.

• As a result of the “literature explosion” and its subsequent advances in scientific instrumentation and ready availability of computer storage and retrieval capabilities, there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of scientific and technical data banks today. Some of the well- known ones include the National Oceanographic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Office of Standard Reference Data of the National Bureau of Standards, the entomological data service of the Agricultural Research Service (Department of Agriculture), the Arkansas Archeological Survey, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (ocean sediment data), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (nuclear data), and the Thermodynamic Properties Research Center of Purdue University. Although results contained in these data banks are generally accessible to qualified users, many other data banks that operate within the walls of a given research institution remain virtually inaccessible to the broader scientific and technical community. Therefore, large bodies of data, often generated and stored at great cost, remain underutilized. Science, technology, and society do not derive full benefit from the efforts represented by the contents of these “private,” but often publicly- funded, data banks. This situation of underutilization can be changed, but significant improvements will come only if a number of organizations work together. Thus, the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation (OSIS) is seeking involvement with appropriate organizations to carry out its goal “to promote the banking of factual data.” OSIS does not intend to support the operation of data banks. Rather, it proposes to fund strategic and experimental activities that will stimulate effective development and use of data banks. Hence, several approaches are being pursued.

By encouraging the abstracting and indexing services to extend their coverage to data banks and by supporting development of inventories and guides to data banks, OSIS hopes to increase awareness, access, use, and the economic viability of data services. In addition, OSIS is sponsoring research into the data management policies of selected federal agencies. The purpose is to identify effective ways of providing access to data and to illuminate options available to those who compile and distribute data.

Other activities will include studies to encourage compatibility among data banks; testing ways to reduce the costs of capturing data in machine-readable form, strengthen quality control, and to convert English to metric units; and projects to link data banks in resource sharing networks. Still another approach to strengthening data bank operations consists of efforts to educate and motivate potential users to buy and use such advanced information capabilities.

In these ways, OSIS hopes to contribute to the orderly growth in the development and use of scientific and technical data banks. Individuals interested in discussing OSIS’s activities in this area are invited to contact Dr. Harold E. Bamford, OSIS Program Director; (202) 632-5824.

• “The Centennial of the Japanese Collection in the Library of Congress,” an exhibit mounted by the Japanese Division of the Orientalia Division commemorating the first 100 years of the library’s Japanese Collection, will be on view in the Fifth Floor Foyer of the Library Annex Building from January 1 through April 30.

To be exhibited are photocopies of the essential documents of an agreement made in November 1875 with the government of Japan establishing an exchange of government publications, as well as several books and a miniature scroll which illustrates the development of the Japanese Collection over the past 100 years.

Included are Heiyō Nihon chiri shoshi, an 1875 publication on the military geography of Japan, one of the documents received in the first exchange; an original and rare album of water- color drawings by Hiroshige (1797-1858) from the Noyes Collection; a volume of the first Tripitaka printed in Japanese and acquired by Kan-ichi Asakawa of Yale University for the library during 1906-7; a miniature scroll printed in 770 A.D., the oldest extant printed work from Japan and possibly the earliest specimen of printing in the library’s collections; a volume of Shigure, a Nara picture book (seventeenth century); a volume from the 1852 Dutch-Japanese dictionary, Oranda jii, acquired during the 1930s; Nasu no shokubutsu, a botanical work by Emperor Hirohito; a volume of selected poems by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako; and the first book printed on plastic paper.

Also shown in the exhibit are two books predating the 1875 agreement. One is The Narrative of a Japanese, the autobiography of Joseph Heco, who was the first Japanese ever to visit Washington (in 1853) and who was also the first Japanese to work in the Capitol, as an aide to Senator William M. Gwin of California from October 1857 to February 1858. The second work is P. Joâo Rodriguez’s Grammaire japo- naise (1825), one of the books exhibited by the Library of Congress for the visit of the first Japanese Embassy in 1860.

• The Pennsylvania Area Library Network (PALINET) has recently established administrative offices in Philadelphia and has appointed Robert C. Stewart as its executive director.

PALINET, organized in December 1972 under the auspices of the Union Library Catalogue of Pennsylvania, serves as an administrative center for OCLC services and related cooperative activities of libraries in the region. With the receipt of an LSCA grant from the State Library of Pennsylvania, PALINET has expanded its membership to nearly fifty libraries and has established headquarters in the Union Catalogue offices in Philadelphia. The present membership includes libraries in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey.

Mr. Stewart, formerly with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries where he implemented use of the OCLC system, has also worked with PALINET since its inception, serving as secretary-treasurer of its Operations Committee. A graduate of Columbia University School of Library Service, Mr. Stewart was also formerly government publications librarian at the State Library of Pennsylvania and has been active in the Pennsylvania Library Association as a member of the Board of Directors.

• “Love Letters in American History,” an exhibit drawn from numerous manuscript collections, will be on display in the Reading Room of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress from January 2 through March 31.

The letters of two of America’s most distinguished jurists, James Kent and Felix Frankfurter, indicate that while the style of expression may alter dramatically over the years, the message remains essentially the same. In stately phrases addressed to his wife Elizabeth in 1804, Kent wrote, “. . . I do love my wife most warmly, & look forward to her Society as yielding the most solid & lively Happiness of my Being.” One century later, Felix Frankfurter concluded a whimsical note to his wife with the observation, “. . . such as is I is yours.”

Among the earliest manuscripts to be shown is Alexander Hamilton’s letter of September 6, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler, written two months before their marriage. In the midst of a discussion devoted to the perils confronting America’s Revolutionary army, he suddenly interrupts, “Pardon me my love for talking politics to you. What have we to do with anything but love? … If America were lost we should be happy in some other clime. . . . What think you of Geneva as a retreat?”

Hamilton’s contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, is represented in the exhibit by one of the most extraordinary love letters in the English language—a twelve-page letter to Maria Cosway, written entirely with his left hand, after having dislocated his right wrist when attempting to jump over a fence. Jefferson assured Mrs. Cosway that though her letters to him might be “as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. only let them brim full of affection.” Love letters exchanged by James and Lucretia Garfield, a quarter of a century before his assassination, are overcast with somber allusions to death. James speaks of the possibility that the “Silent Angel [mightJ claim your loving James ere the year is done,” while Lucretia implores him to “go not before me. Leave me not one hour, one moment to the terrible consciousness that I live without you.”

Also to be shown are manuscripts of Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, as well as Whitelaw Reid, Josephus Daniels, Belle Case La Follette, Lucy Stone, and Henry B. Blackwell. In addition, the exhibit will include a letter whose lack of literary sophistication is more than compensated for by its passionate intensity. In her letter to Andrew Jackson, who in 1814 was engaged in combat with the Creek Indians in the Mississippi Territory, Rachel Jackson wrote, “my prayers my tears is for yoúr safety daye and night.”

PUBLICATIONS

• A grant provided by the Devonian Group of Charitable Foundations and the support and encouragement of many Canadian libraries, have made it possible for the National Library of Canada to undertake the task of reproducing on microfiche all of the items listed in Bruce Peel’s Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces. First published by the University of Toronto Press in 1953, followed by a supplement in 1963, and now published in a new enlarged edition (University of Toronto Press, 1973), this extensive bibliography is the result of twenty-six years of research in Canada and the United States, and, more recently, in seventeen European countries. The new edition lists 4,500 items relating to the history of Canada’s prairie provinces, arranged in chronological order, and indexed by subject and author.

The microreproduction will be done by the Central Microfilming Unit of the National Library and Public Archives. The Devonian Group’s grant will cover the cost of this filming, and thus the microfiche collection can be sold on a nonprofit basis to subscribers. Over thirty libraries in Canada and the U.S. have agreed to buy the collection.

The project staff will make every effort to locate the items described by Mr. Peel and to procure them for filming. In addition, efforts will be made to contact the owners of copyright material in order to request permission to reproduce such works for the microfiche collection.

The success of a project of this magnitude will depend on the cooperation of many individuals (librarians, authors, collectors, publishers) in Canada and abroad. Information about material listed in Peel’s Bibliography, and questions or information concerning copyright should be addressed to the project head, Miss Linda Hoad, Room 478A, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A ON4; (613) 992-1273.

• The Robert B. Downs Publication Fund Series is devoted to describing the many special collections at the University of Illinois Library. Collections Acquired by the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 1897-1974 is the second in the series. This fifty-nine-page catalog, compiled by Jean A. Major, describes private collections which have been acquired as units by the University of Illinois Library, both by purchase and as gifts. Each of the nearly 200 entries includes identification of the collector, indication of the collection’s size, and narrative description of the contents. The collections are indexed by subject and name.

Ex Libris F. S. Ferguson, A Checklist of the F. S. Ferguson Collection of Scottish Imprints and Scotica at the University of Illinois was the first number in the Robert B. Downs Publication Fund Series, and is still available. This catalog, compiled by James L. Hamer, describes a collection of boks, many unique, printed in Scotland from 1640-1700.

These publications may be ordered for $1.00 each from Publications Office, 249 Armory Bldg., Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. All orders must be prepaid.

• Starting with the January 1975 issue, the Oryx Press of Scottsdale, Arizona will be the new publisher of the Bibliography of Agriculture. The monthly publication, which is produced from data provided by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been published by Macmillan since 1970 but has been dropped from the Macmillan list in its recent cutback. Renewal forms for 1975 were mailed to subscribers, along with notification of the change in publishers, in early December. There will be no interruption of service to subscribers.

Orders for the 1974 Bibliography of Agriculture Annual Cumulation will be filled by Macmillan as planned; starting with the 1975 edition, however, Oryx Press will be the publisher of the cumulations as well. The Bibliography of Agriculture Thesaurus, previously announced by Macmillan, will be published by Oryx Press.

Subscribers are asked to write directly to the Bibliography of Agriculture, c/o The Oryx Press, 7632 East Edgemont Ave., Scottsdale, AZ 85257 for complete information and instructions.

• The Library Association and Learned Information announce the forthcoming publication of a Cumulative Index to Library and Information Science Abstracts, 1969-1973.

The Cumulative Index is designed to be an essential companion piece to all collections of LISA, providing a key to the information contained in the more than 14,000 abstracts of periodical articles, conference papers, books, and pamphlets presented in the thirty issues of LISA published during its period of coverage.

Its subject index, containing over 40,000 entries, does not merely cumulate the five annual subject indexes to LISA. Each of the more than 14,000 abstracts has been reindexed to generate one modern and consistent sequence which does not suffer from the changes in terminology and emphasis which always occur over a five- year period. The chain-indexing method has been used in the compilation of the cumulative subject index and for each entry a string of terms has been generated which expresses, in summary form, the subject of a document. See and see also references are used extensively.

In addition to merging the five annual author indexes to LISA into one alphabetical sequence, the cumulative author index presents full article titles after each author entry—thus enabling the user to go directly to the abstract of interest, no matter how prolific the author. The cumulative author index will contain over 20,000 entries.

This work will be published in the spring of 1975. A prepublication discount is available. Full details can be obtained from the following address: Learned Information, Penthouse 1, 15 West 55th St., New York, NY 10019.

• A free sample of a new bimonthly newsletter, The De-Acquisitions Librarian, will be available to librarians who request one on their letterhead.

Tentatively scheduled for March 1975 publication, this newsletter will be devoted specifically to the identification and relegation of less- used books and periodicals in libraries of most types. The emphasis will be on research in deacquisitions policies, and practical strategies of storage, weeding, and discarding.

To be placed on the mailing list for a free sample, write to: The De-Acquisitions Librarian, c/o Haworth Press, 130 West 72nd St., New York, NY 10023.

• Measuring reference work—should you? —can you? is the subject of the sixty-six-page Proceedings of the Symposium on Measurement of Reference held at the ALA Annual Conference in New York City on July 8, 1974. The editor is Katherine T. Emerson, chairwoman of the Committee on Statistics for Reference Services of the ALA Library Administration Division, Library Organization and Management Section. The Proceedings are now available from the Library Administration Division of the American Library Association.

The purpose of the symposium was to provide a forum for librarians in administrative or reference positions, to examine the needs for measurement and to find a common ground on which both quantitative and qualitative measurement can be utilized. This purpose was carried out through speakers’ papers, audience participation, and discussion groups. Some of the papers were published in the fall, 1974 issue of RQ, but the complete transcripts of ten papers are included in this paperback publication, along with the complete audience participation discussions and reports on the discussion groups.

The Proceedings present arguments on both sides of the question of whether or not reference services should be measured. Additionally, discussions are included on standards for reference service, on the need for measurement, on how to allocate personnel costs, on the measurement of the worthiness or value of reference questions, and on the use of reference service.

Copies are available at $2.50 fropa the Library Administration Division of ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Payment must be included with your order.

• The third edition of the Bermuda Triangle Bibliography, revised and updated through January 1975, is now available for $2.00 prepaid. Make check out to Larry Kusche. Include stamped, self-addressed business envelope or a check for $2.25. Address: Larry Kusche or Deborah Blouin, University Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281.

• Ogan Chubaryan’s English language Libraries in the Soviet Union has been reprinted in facsimile by the Memphis State University Libraries. Dr. Chubaryan is the deputy chief librarian of the Lenin Library in Moscow. His brief book offers a view of Soviet libraries and librarianship from a Soviet perspective. Single copies are available upon receipt of a stamped, 61/2by-91/2-inch mailing envelope. Address requests to Lester J. Pourciau, Jr., Director of Libraries, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152.

• A Guide to Research Collections in Microform, by Iqbal Wagle, describes the subject coverage, location, and bibliographic access of approximately 100 microform collections available at the University of Toronto Library. The aim is to provide better access to these valuable sources of rare, out-of-print material and government documents. Although the guide is aimed primarily at users of the University of Toronto, it should be useful to researchers and librarians at other institutions who may obtain the material through interlibrary loan. The microform collections cover all subject fields. Copies can be ordered from the Reference Department, John P. Robarts Research Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M5S 1A5.