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ACQUISITIONS

• The Holmes Book Company has presented a collection of fine California printing to the Cosumnes River College library, Sacramento, California. The printing collection, consisting of books and ephemeral materials, is considered to be a rare and unique example of the graphic arts. Represented in the collection are such distinguished California printing establishments as the Grabhorn Press, John Henry Nash, Ward Ritchie, The Book Club of California, and the Eucalyptus Press. The collection includes such scarce works as excerpts from the Great Polyglot Bible printed in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, which includes pages from the Complutensian of Acala (1514— 1517).

• The Purdue University libraries have received the books and papers of Llewellyn M. K. Boelter which were presented to the university by Mrs. Boelter on April 21, 1971. Dean Boelter was well known for his research in heat transfer. First recognition came in the 1920s with the development of the Dittus- Boelter equations. Later in his career he came to Purdue University as a visiting professor in the School of Engineering and in 1957 he received an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Purdue University.

Dean Boelter’s publications make up an impressive list. Included in the gift collection are fifty-four of his reports and one hundred four of his publications and articles, some of which were authored with collaborators. The collection contains approximately five hundred eighty volumes from his personal library of technically oriented books, thirty-six proceedings from various symposia, two file boxes of progress reports on research projects, four file boxes of lecture notes, and other papers from Dean Boelter’s files. A catalog of the Llewellyn M. K. Boelter Collection has been prepared; a copy is available by sending a request to Helen Q. Schroyer, Archives Assistant, Purdue University Libraries, Lafayette, IN 47907.

• On his retirement in June 1970, after twenty-two years of teaching Spanish literature at Kansas University, Professor Domingo Ricart presented to the University of Kansas libraries a collection of some five hundred books. These were largely concerned with Catalan language and literature, a subject with which Professor Ricart was intimately associated.

Among the antiquarian items of note are the 1546 Lyons edition of Adversos omnes Haereses by Alfonso de Castro, Obras de don Francisco de Quevedo, Brussels 1660, and a copy of Michael Verino’s Modo para vivir etemamente …, published in Madrid in 1710. However, the bulk of the collection consists of nineteenthand twentieth-century imprints, and includes works of such important figures as Ramon Llull, thirteenth-century philosopher, moralist, and poet; Joanot Martorell, fifteenth century, author of Tirant Lo Blanc, a famous novel of chivalry; Ausias March, fifteenth century, greatest Catalan poet, influenced by Dante and Petrarch; Jacint Verdaguer (1845- 1902) and Joan Maragall (1860-1911), poets, major figures of the nineteenth-century renaissance; and Josep Pla (1895– ), probably the most important contemporary prose writer.

• The personal library of the late Howard M. Lebow has been given to the University of Massachusetts through the generosity of his mother, Mrs. Carlton Lebow of West New York, New Jersey. Lebow was an assistant professor of music at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst when his outstanding career as a concert pianist was ended by a fatal automobile accident in January of 1968. The collection, numbering over 5,000 items, is primarily of keyboard music and includes many unusual early editions, a reflection of Lebow’s taste and discrimination as a musician and enthusiastic collector. The collection will be established as the Howard Lebow Memorial Collection in the new Fine and Performing Arts Center, currently under construction at the university.

• Some 2,500 autograph letters and manuscripts and over 750 books relating to the Rossetti family (particularly poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti) and the Pre-Raphaelite circle, representing the literary holdings of what has been termed “the outstanding private Pre-Raphaelite collection,” are now available to scholars in the Princeton University library.

The collection has been purchased from Mrs. Janet Camp Troxell, of New Haven, Connecticut, considered one of the leading contemporary authorities on the Rossettis. This notable acquisition has been made possible by six major benefactors of the library: three members of the Council of the Friends of The Princeton University Library together with the Eberhard L. Faber Foundation; the John E. Annan Fund of the University’s Department of English; and the late Christian A. Zabriskie of New York City. The three members of the Library Friends, well-known collectors who over the years have helped strengthen the resources of the Princeton library, are Robert H. Taylor (Princeton 1930), a resident of Princeton, chairman of the Friends; Levering Cartwright (Princeton 1926) of Chicago, Illinois; and Daniel Maggin of New York City.

The Rossetti Collection of Janet Camp Troxell features letters from and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; many of his autograph manuscripts; manuscripts of two biographies about him by Sir Hall Caine and by Henry Treffry Dunn; copies of virtually every important edition of his poems; manuscripts by and letters from Christina Rossetti; and letters to and from William Rossetti. Also included are numerous letters from and/or to Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Coventry Patmore, William Bell Scott, Algernon Charles Swinburne, the bookselling firm of F. S. Ellis, Jane Morris, Robert Browning, and others related to Pre-Raphaelitism. Rossetti’s art work is not included.

GRANTS

• New research is starting in Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, England on speeding up the way scientists can find information about their subjects. The Office for Scientific and Technical Information has made a grant to the university of £39,319, spread over three years, to investigate the automated retrieval of information. The project involves experimentation with the merging of information, particularly that covering several subjects, using magnetic tapes, computer programs, and a wide variety of information sources. Developments could be very rapid availability of up-to-date statements of knowledge in a particular subject, as well as the possibility of delving deeply but quickly into past records.

One of the models to be used is the successful Particle Science and Technology Information Service run by the Chemical Engineering Department of the university, established in the last two years, which now feeds information to subscribers at home and abroad. The project will experiment on how computer programs can extend the flow of information to the service from such areas as the medical and industrial fields. Further work will also continue on the automation of library administrative processes.

The project will be led by Dr. A. J. Evans, university librarian and president of the International Association of Technological University Libraries. The research team will include both computer and information scientists.

• The Ohio College Library Center, located at Ohio State University, has received a grant of $125,000 to continue developing a computerized regional library system. The grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare covers an eighteenmonth period. Three services are to be supported by the grant: the system for loaning books, a regional catalog system of journals and other periodicals, and a record system of the progress of new acquisitions through the cataloging system.

The regional system will also be available through telephone line to users from the Cooperative College Library Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The OCLC will catalog the Atlanta center’s listings for eighteen black colleges.

• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas will study the feasibility of centralized book processing involving the medical components of the UT system. Dr. Donald Hendricks, UTS Medical School library director, said a $27,368 grant from the National Library of Medicine would enable researchers to study purchasing, cataloging, and processing of books in a cooperative venture. The library at UTS Medical School, with approximately 100,000 volumes, and the other existing or developing collections in the system will be used as a basis for a mathematical model which will test the proposal’s potential. Graduate students from the UT Library School at Austin will participate in the research.

• The University of Kansas libraries have received a grant of $10,000 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from funds appropriated under the Higher Education Act of 1965, Title II, Part A (P.L. 89-329, as amended), Special Purpose Type B. This mouth-filling, eye-bewildering officialese expresses the government’s way of helping bolster college and university library holdings in strategic areas. The funds will be used at KU to buy library materials to support programs of current interest to the Office of Education, including African Studies, with an emphasis on recent Afro-American history.

MEETINGS

Oct. 6-9: The Pennsylvania Library Association will meet at the Marriott Motor Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Speakers include Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp, author Elizabeth Janeway, and Dr. Lawrence A. Allen, College of Library Science, University of Kentucky.

Sessions are concerned with all library consumers’ needs. Academic librarians will discuss the results of their Task Force sessions on Academic Status in addition to an “Action Planning” session with Dr. Allen. Trustees will have an in-service training day during the conference and both ends of the spectrum of public relations will be pursued at another session. The final session is entitled “Should the Public Library Be Saved?”

Oct. 7-9: The South Carolina Library Association will hold its 1971 convention in Columbia, October 7-9, at the Sheraton-Columbia Inn.

Oct. 22-23: The fourth annual institute presented by LIPC (Library Institutes Planning Committee) and cosponsored by the Technical Services Division and the College, University, and Research Libraries Division of the California Library Association and the Northern California Technical Processes Group. It will be held Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23, 1971, at San Leandro Community Center, San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro, California. The June issue of the CRL News carries further details.

Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library Association will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel.

Oct. 24-27: The Division of University Extension and the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois has announced the Seventeenth Annual Allerton Institute: Libraries and Neighborhood Information Centers, to be held October 24-27, 1971, at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois. Participation is open, but is limited to ninety registrants. Registrations will be accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis.

For further information write to Graduate School of Library Science, Division of Extension, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, Illinois 61820, and consult the June News.

Oct. 28-30: The Georgia Library Association will meet at The Aquarama, Jekyll Island, Georgia. Further information can be obtained from David E. Estes, President, Georgia Library Association, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.

Nov. 7-11: The 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) will be held November 7-11, 1971, at the Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado.

Jack M. McCormick (Chief, Special Management Services, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration), General Chairman for the 1971 ASIS Conference, has announced that the theme of the conference will be “Communication for Decision-Makers.”

Further information on the ASIS Annual Meeting may be obtained by contacting Miss Sheryl Wormley, ASIS, 1140 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 804, Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: (202 ) 659-3644. Further information can be found in the September 1971 News, Meetings section.

Nov. 11-13: “Directions in Education in Information Science,” a symposium cosponsored by the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association, the American Society for Information Science, and the University of Denver Graduate School of Library Science, will be held on November 11-13, 1971, immediately following the ASIS annual meeting in Denver.

Curricula and curriculum development will be the focus of the discussions, which will bring together educators in library science, information science, and computer science. Attendance will be limited. The registration fee is $35.00 for the two and one-half-day symposium. Inquiries and application should be made to Mr. Don S. Culbertson, Executive Secretary, Information Science and Automation Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Illinois 60611.

Nov. 15: The General Services Administration will offer their Ninth Archival Symposia Monday, November 15, at the University of Chicago, School of Law. The general topic will be “Research Use of Federal Court Records; What, Where and How?” Topics and speakers will include “The Origin, Development and Operation of the Federal Courts Records Program of NARS,” by Mrs. Dorothy Gersack, Records Appraisal Division, NARS, Washington, D.C.; “Research Opportunities at the Region 5 Archives Branch,” by Bruce C. Harding, Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Records Center, Chicago; “Locating, Selecting, and Reproducing Federal Court Records on Microfilm,” with Irwin S. Rhodes, Attorney and Legal Historian, Cincinnati; and “Researching and Writing on Federal Courts in Kentucky,” by Mary K. Tachau, Department of History, University of Louisville.

Comments on the program and the future of legal history will be offered by Dr. Stanley Katz, University of Chicago, School of Law. For further information contact Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Record Center, GSA-NARS, 7201 S. Leamington Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60638. (Tele.: 312-353-5720)

PUBLICATIONS

• Libraries, subscriptions agencies, and other organizations concerned with information handling will benefit from the new American National Standard Identification Number for Serial Publications, Z39.9-1971. The new standard, just published by ANSI, sets up a concise, unique, and unambiguous code for identifying serials—periodicals, newspapers, reports, yearbooks, journals, proceedings, transactions, etc.

The standard specifies that one eight-digit code number be assigned permanently to each serial. It also recognizes that the assignment of code numbers should be administered by a central authority. The Library of Congress has agreed to undertake this responsibility, subject to the availability of the necessary funds.

American National Standard Z39.9-1971defines a serial, specifies the code’s format and characteristics, and stipulates how it should be applied. It is available from ANSI at $2.25 per copy.

• The Black Experience in the United States, a bibliography published by the San Fernando Valley State College Foundation, has been recommended to college libraries in the spring 1971 issue of College Library Notes for the College President.

The book, compiled by Dennis C. Bakewell, social sciences bibliographer in the San Fernando Valley State College Library, is one of eleven titles suggested as book selection tools for libraries interested in building black studies collections in an article, “Establishing Black Collections for Black Studies,” by Ann Allen Shockley, associate librarian at Fisk University.

The Black Experience in the United States,which began as a project by the library as a service to the students and faculty of San Fernando Valley State College, grew to the point where it was felt that we should not limit its distribution to San Fernando Valley State College. Consequently, we are making it available to others.

It contains approximately 3,175 entries; arrangement is by subject (Library of Congress classification); author index; price is $12.00; printed by Anderson, Ritchie, and Simon (The Ward Ritchie Press); distributed by Richard Abel & Company, 1506 Gardena St., Glendale, California 91204; LC 74-136287.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently published monograph no.11, Education for Librarianship: The Design of the Curriculum of Library Schools. This volume, edited and introduced by Herbert Goldhor, Director, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, results from the university’s fourth conference on education for librarianship which was held in the fall of 1970.

The formulation of a curriculum for a professional school with preparation for changes of the future is a difficult problem. Several of the papers in this volume give help to those who face this general problem; the balance of the papers deal with the curriculum for specific areas of library education. Contributors are from all areas of library education and are of varying ages.

This 195-page indexed volume is available from the Illini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St., Champaign, Illinois 61820, at a cost of $4.00 (hardback only). Back issues of the monograph series may be ordered and standing orders placed through the above address. LC: 78-633332 (volume); ISBN: 0-87845-033-5.

• A new film titled, The Library of the Future, and recently previewed at the American Library Association convention in Dallas, is now available on free loan from the Remington Rand Library Bureau Division of Sperry Rand Corporation. The 16mm color film includes a soundtrack and runs ten minutes.

This interesting film touches on some common problems in today’s library and how, through the use of new systems, these problems can readily be solved. The four systems featured are a book-theft detection system, a system for conserving valuable library floor space, an automatic book-retrieval system, and a unique system for storing and retrieving microfilmed reference material.

For more information about the film and where a copy may be obtained, write to Remington Rand Library Bureau Division, 801 Park Ave., Herkimer, New York 13350, or contact the nearest Remington Rand Library Bureau office.

• The Long Room, the Bulletin of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, has resumed publication. The first series of the Bulletin appeared yearly between 1946 and 1958. Published in the spring and autumn, the Bulletin is available from the library at an annual subscription rate of one pound per year.

• Twin City area daily newspapers are now being indexed as a result of a study on newspaper indexing in Minnesota. The study was made possible by LSCA grand funds via the MEtropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA).

The Minneapolis Public Library is indexing the Star and Tribune and the St. Paul Public Library the Dispatch and Pioneer Press. Both of the indexes are distributed monthly with cumulations twice a year. Samples and subscription rates may be obtained on request from these libraries.

• The National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Watson Boston Spa, Yorkshire, England, has begun publishing the NLL Review. The periodical will contain information about the NLL’s activities and the ideas behind them. It is intended to be of value both to those who are relying increasingly on the NLL’s services and to those who are considering whether similar services should be created elsewhere. The Review is published quarterly by H. M. Stationery Office, price 50p (net) per issue, annual subscription £2.18. It can be obtained from Government Bookshops or ordered through booksellers.

• The 1971 edition of the UCLA Biomedical Library Serials Holdings List has been published and is now available at a cost of $4.50. The SHL is a computer-generated list containing the complete holdings of the over 12,000 journals in the collection of the Bio-medical Library. The price includes charges for postage and sales tax. Orders, accompanied by checks made payable to the Regents of the University of California, should be sent to Serials Holdings List, Biomedical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.

• The Union List of Scientific and Technical Serials in the University of Michigan Library, 6th edition, is now available. It includes more than 24,000 titles drawn from the holdings of twenty-four of the libraries in the University of Michigan library system. Each title entry gives the official main entry, library location, holdings, and call number. Some 6,700 cross-references have also been provided to assist users. All new entries and corrections submitted to the editorial staff through March 15, 1971, have been included. The sixth edition may be purchased for $10.00 from Current Expense Section, Administrative Services Department, University Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. ■■