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ACQUISITIONS

• The library of the University of Texas at Dallas has acquired an outstanding collection of research materials on Central and South American culture. The 30,000 volume collection was developed by Edwin M. Shook, the noted archeologist whose work has centered on the exploration and opening of the “lost ’ Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala. Through his knowledge of Central American bibliography and sources of materials, Dr. Shook selected the basic books and journals required for research and some of the high spots of the literature. The fields of anthropology, archeology, geography, and history are represented strongly. Fine arts, literature, geology, economics, political science, native languages, natural sciences, and government documents are represented to a lesser extent. In addition to the comprehensiveness of subject coverage, the collection contains materials printed as early as 1598 and on to the present.

This acquisition to the library was made possible by a challenge grant of $100,000 by Cecil and Ida Green of Dallas.

• George McWhorter, rare book librarian at the University of Louisville, has presented his collection of illustrations by Arthur Rack- ham to the University of Louisville libraries. The collection consists of 412 items. It contains many examples of fine bindings in deluxe editions, as well as original paintings, manuscripts, and rare first editions dating back as far as 1884. The current value of the collection is $20,000. “Antiquarian book dealers are asking as much as $500 apiece for deluxe editions of Rackham—a sure sign of success,” notes Mr. McWhorter.

Arthur Rackham, born in 1867, was perhaps the best known and best loved Rritish illustrator of children’s books in the early part of the present century. He was considered by many to have been a major influence on the American artist, Walt Disney. He was extraordinarily prolific, leaving behind him approximately 500 separate series of drawings for books and magazines, covering a wide range of subjects from Milton and Shakespeare to Ibsen and Poe. His most enduring successes are the illustrations for Rip Van Winkle and Peter Pan. His justly famous illustrations for Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows were completed shortly before the artist’s death in 1939.

• The University Archives in the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas has received a collection of letters, scrapbooks, photograph albums, manuscripts, and other memorabilia from the late columnist Doris Flee- son Kimball. Mrs. Kimball died in 1970 just two days after the death of her husband, Dan Kimball, former Secretary of the Navy. The collection comes to the university as the gift of the writer’s daughter, Doris O’Donnell, of New York City.

Doris Fleeson, as she was known to journalists, politicians, and millions of readers, was one of the most astute and influential political columnists of her time. A native of Sterling, Kansas, she was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1923, and worked on newspapers in Pittsburg, Kansas, and Evanston, Illinois, before heading East and becoming a staffer on the New fork Daily News. With her first husband, John O’Donnell, she wrote the Washington- based column Capitol Stuff, and in 1942 she joined United Features Syndicate as a columnist. During her long and active career she received many awards, including the coveted Raymond Clapper Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Mrs. Kimball was an ardent champion of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a personal friend of the Roosevelt family. The letters given the university include correspondence from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry and Bess Truman, Joseph Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, H. L. Mencken, Dwight Eisenhower, William Allen White, and many others. The sizable collection of Mencken letters is a nice supplement to the Mencken collection recently given to the university by Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder.

• Marquette University’s recently established Foundation Center Reference Collection has now added to its holdings the 1971 Internal Revenue Service information returns of U.S. Foundations.

The return forms are of use to foundations as well as to fund raisers. Included on the forms are a list of grants that the foundation has made during that year, and the names of the organizations which received the grants.

The Marquette Foundation Collection, housed in the Memorial Library, has received returns for foundations in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; and will soon receive those for Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. There are also plans to obtain the IRS returns for the private foundations closely affiliated with large American corporations, and for selected foundations in New York, Florida, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania which have philanthropic impact on the Midwest. The Marquette Foundation Collection also receives The Foundation Center publications, has information on the computer searches available from The Foundation Center, and maintains a small reference collection of books, periodicals, and pamphlets related to foundations and fund raising.

The Marquette Foundation Collection facilities are available to anyone who has need of them. For further information on the collection, contact Marc K. Fortune, Coordinator of Urban Affairs for the Marquette Library, 1415 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53233, 414- 224-7214.

GRANTS

• The precarious financial position of many of England’s valuable private research libraries is behind a recent Council on Library Resources commitment of $10,000 for a survey of these institutions.

The CLR-administered study will be conducted by Mrs. Valerie Bloomfield on a part- time basis over the next two years under the general direction of Sir Frank Francis, CLR consultant and director-emeritus of the British Museum.

The need for such a study has been discussed in England for a dozen years, but until now no organized effort has been made to collect full particulars on the priceless library collections of England’s—particularly London’s—learned societies and private foundations.

• The University of Wisconsin-Stout- Pierce Library has been informed by Dr. Dallas O. Peterson, associate vice-president for academic affairs of the University of Wisconsin System, that Pierce Library’s proposal for an “Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Program” has been approved. An award for funding in the amount of $10,940 will be allocated for purposes of developing self-paced instructional packages on utilizing library resources. Mrs. Beulah C. Howison, coordinator of public services in Pierce Library, will act as coordinator of this project. Grant funding will allow the Pierce Library to develop and produce a series of individualized instruction packages in various print and nonprint formats for teaching the use of more than thirty basic library resources to incoming freshmen and transfer students. The package design will attempt to allow use in any other UW-system library owning the same resources with a minimum of change to allow for local physical layout.

• The Council on Library Resources, Inc., has extended its twelve-year operational support of the Barrow Research Laboratory of Richmond, Virginia, with a grant of $113,633 for the period August 1, 1973 through June 30, 1974.

Since 1961 when it was established by the late William J. Barrow with the council’s assistance, the laboratory has investigated problems related to the preservation of books and other library materials. Upon Mr. Barrow’s death in 1967, Dr. Robert N. DuPuis became laboratory director, and in 1971 he was succeeded by Dr. Forrestier Walker, present director. Dr. DuPuis has continued to assist the council as its technical representative to the Barrow Laboratory.

While its most significant achievement has been the development of a permanent/durable book paper capable of being manufactured from chemical wood pulp within the normal price range of book papers, the laboratory’s more recent accomplishments include an improved gaseous diffusion process to deacidify paper—an economical process by which several books can be treated at the same time.

Under investigation at the laboratory at the present time are:

1. Morpholine gaseous deacidification—refinement of this technology and coordination with Research Corporation, equipment manufacturers, and licensees in their efforts to apply it.
2. Maximum safe pH—continuation of work to establish: (a) the highest pH which deacidification solutions may have without causing short or long term loss of desirable properties, and (b) the highest cold extraction pH which papers may have without ill effect over the long term.
3. Groundwood content papers—evaluation of the permanence and durability of modern groundwood-content papers.
4. True nature of paper aging—determination of the nature of chemical and physical differences between moist and dry accelerated aging.
5. Accelerated aging—investigation of differential scanning calorimetry as a method for permanence evaluation.
6. Temperature and deterioration rate— continuation of the investigation of the effect of temperature upon the rate at which paper loses its permanence and durability.
7. Strengthening paper—initial investigation of the possibility that weak paper can be simultaneously deacidified and strengthened.
8. TAPPI collaborative program—continuation of participation in TAPPI’s (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry) fold, tear, and pH testing program.

The W. J. Barrow Research Laboratory, Inc., is located in the Virginia Historical Society Building, 428 North Blvd., Richmond, VA 23221.

• A $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to increase library resources suþporting East Asian studies at the University of California in Berkeley has been announced by U.C. Chancellor Albert H. Bowker.

The money will help acquire, catalog, and make available additional East Asian library materials during the next three years.

Books and other materials to be purchased with this grant will serve scholars in various fields with both historical and contemporary interests.

Similar awards have been made to nine other United States institutions plus two in Canada.

“Our aim is essentially to help to advance East Asian studies at a select few universities which have already exhibited significant strength in this area,’’ according to Nathan M. Pusey, president of the Mellon Foundation.

Other recipients of Mellon Foundation grants for East Asian studies are the Hoover Library at Stanford, Harvard-Yenching Library, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, University of Washington, University of British Columbia, and University of Toronto.

• The Ford Foundation has awarded the Project on the Status of Women of the Association of American Colleges a grant of $24,968 to develop training materials for a series of regional affirmative action conferences for academic administrators.

The Project on Academic Affirmative Action Training, which will be jointly conducted by AAC’s Project on Women and the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA), will hold the conferences to help college and university officials to identify, eliminate, and avoid employment discrimination on the nation’s campuses.

The first of the regional conferences will be held in March 1974. As many as a dozen conferences may be held in the following twelve months.

The Project on Academic Affirmative Action Training is located at 1625 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20202, in the offices of the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, 202-347-3687.

• A statistical study of Ohio State University libraries’ automated circulation system is expected to be of value to library administrators in determining priorities for acquisition and access.

Supported by a CLR grant of $7,126 to the Ohio State University Research Foundation, the study’s objective is to provide basic statistical data from a large data base to the library community for further analysis and study.

Prior to the advent of automation, statistical data of this nature had been based on limited studies using small sample techniques. The Ohio State study is using an archive file of 1.6 million circulation transactions for the calendar year 1972 and a bibliographic file of over a million titles. Five statistical reports will be generated.

With library administrators facing problems of increasing activity and decreasing budgets, it is thought that this study, illustrating patterns of circulation in a large research library, will assist librarians with their goals.

MEETINGS

April 10: Publishing. “Publishing: Alternatives and Economics” is the subject of the 1974 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 feature presentations by:

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John P. Dessauer, consultant and author of the forthcoming Book Publishing: What It Is, What It Does (Bowker, Dec. 1974) as the first speaker will present the current state of the economics of the large press industry.

Douglas Mount, marketing consultant to small presses in the western United States will discuss the economic picture of the small press industry. Mr. Mount was former vice-president and marketing director for Straight Arrow Books in San Francisco.

Richard Higgins, author and founder of The Something Else Press, will speak on the history, development, and. scope of the small press in- dustry.

Celeste West, editor of Booklegger Magazine and co-author of Revolting Librarians (Book- legger, 1972), San Francisco, will present the reasons for the need for small press materials in libraries and the ways in which librarians can approach the handling of these materials.

For registration ($15.00) including morning coffee and luncheon contact Robb McKenzie, John Jay College Library, 445 W. 59 St., New York, NY 10019, 212-489-5175.

April 18: Federal Documents Regional

Workshopwill be held in Boston at the Shera- ton-Boston. The program, a series of seminars on various aspects of government publications with emphasis on practical problem-solving and exchange of ideas and methods, is designed to serve public, school, college and university, and special librarians in the New England states. There will be a registration fee, and enrollment will be limited to 200. For further information contact Mrs. Virginia Vocelli, Planning Committee Chairman, Nelinet Task Force on Government Documents, Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT 06115.

April 28-May 1: Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, the theme of this eleventh annual clinic will be “The Application of Mini- computers to Library and Related Problems.” The clinic will include a tutorial on minicom- puters, demonstrations, and papers describing specific applications. Mr. F. W. Lancaster, pro- fessor of library science, is chairman of the clinic. Further information may be obtained from: Mr. Leonard E. Sigler, Clinic Supervisor OS-97, Conferences and Institutes, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

May 2-3: Managing Data Effectively will be the theme of the tenth annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held at the Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets, Philadelphia.

The National Information Retrieval Colloquium (NIRC) is an annual two-day conference sponsored by fourteen regional societies and organizations with interests in the information storage and retrieval sciences. The colloquium brings practitioners and academicians together to discuss and interpret new trends and technologies, current applications, and theoretical approaches to old problems.

Content of this year’s colloquium will be structured into three broad areas—the management or handling of data, the technical requirements of data management, and the application of data management. Each of the three areas will be divided into sessions on the state of the art or a survey of the field, its impact, and applications or examples.

For additional information contact: Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Inc., P.O. Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

May 3-4: Change. The New England Technical Services Librarians and New England College Librarians will sponsor a meeting at the University of Massachusetts library, Amherst, Massachusetts, on changing aspects of the library profession. For further information, contact Mrs. Pat Graves, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002.

May 9-11: Library Orientation. The Fourth Annual Conference on Library Orientation, to be held at Eastern Michigan University, will include speakers, panels, and small group discussions.

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 24-25: Midwest Academic Librarians Conference, to be held on the campus of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Details: William C. Roselle, Director, UWM Library, Milwaukee, WI 53201.

July 4-6: Juvenilia as a Scholarly Resource. A preconference sponsored by the National Planning of Special Collections Committee, Children’s Services Division, American Library Association, will be held prior to the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York.

This symposium, to be held at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, will consider such themes as: forms of juvenilia being utilized in research now; forms neglected by research collections; prototypes of collecting programs on state, regional, national and international levels in public, academic, special, and national libraries. Speakers will include researchers, curators, teachers, librarians, from institutions abroad as well as from this country.

Registration will be limited to 200, and will close May 15, 1974. Application blanks will be available from the Children’s Services Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, after February 15, 1974. Registration fees, including room and meals, are $75 for ALA members; $85 for nonmembers. Special registration fees, without room and meals are, $45 for ALA members; $50 for nonmembers. Accommodations will be in Dorm Village with meals at the Student Center.

July 5-6: Serials Workshop. The Serials Section of RTSD and the Library of Congress are sponsoring two workshops on serials procedures at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The workshops are intended primarily for serials librarians involved in daily serials processing and are designed to acquaint the serials librarian with the processing activities, with an emphasis on cataloging, of the Serial Record Division of the Library of Congress. The first workshop on Friday-Saturday, 5-6, July 1974, is intended for librarians who reside outside of the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area and is scheduled immediately preceding the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New York City. The second workshop on Tuesday-Wednesday, 1-2 October 1974, will be a repeat of the first workshop and is intended for those librarians in the Washington, D.C. area.

Recause of space limitations, preference will be given to those applications bearing the earliest postmark. Preregistration (by 1 July for the July workshop and by 1 September for the October workshop) and confirmation are required. Application forms may be obtained from Herbert Linville, Chairperson, Serials Section, RTSD, University of California Library, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (telephone 805-961-2854), or Joseph Howard, Chief, Serial Record Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 (telephone 202-426- 5302).

July 7-8: Census Data. The Education and Behavioral Science Section will sponsor the Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Census Data (operated by Data Use and Access Laboratories of Rosslyn, Virginia) in a day and a half seminar/workshop on access and use of 1970 Census of Population and Housing data during the 1974 ALA Annual Conference in New York. For further information see the January News.

July 7-13: Library Automation.A workshop on the latest techniques in library automation, sponsored by Richard Abel & Company, will precede the 1974 American Library Association conference in New York City. Further information on the exact time and place of the workshop will be available at the 1974 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago.

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July 28-Aug. 9: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the eighth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. Participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. 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 further information.

MISCELLANY

• The Organization of American Historians, a professional society of scholars who specialize in the history of the United States, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to finance a feasibility study that may lead to a revision of Winifred Gregory’s American Newspapers, 1821-1936.

The purposes of the study are:

______ to determine the need for an updated union listing of newspapers available in the United States and Canada;

______ to explore possible procedures and organizational arrangements for compiling the information that would be included in a new directory;

______ to develop “best possible” estimates of how much the project would cost; and,

______ to evaluate possible changes in content and format that would improve the usefulness of the compilation.

Inquiries and comments are welcome and should be directed to the principal investigator of the Gregory Directory Project, Dr. Gale E. Peterson, Organization of American Historians, Indiana University, 112 N. Bryan, Bloomington, IN 47401.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is now considering a request to provide a major portion of the funds that would be needed for carrying out the actual revision.

• The Trustees of the University of Southern California have authorized the establishment of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute as a center for study and research in the contributions of the great composer who lived and worked in Los Angeles for seventeen years until his death in 1951. The institute was made possible through the great generosity of the heirs of Arnold Schoenberg who will provide their father’s extensive library and archives to USC pending the construction of an appropriate structure and appointment of requisite professional staff.

A consortium of educational institutions has been created to underwrite a portion of the operating expenses of the Schoenberg Institute. Joining USC in the consortium is the California State University, Los Angeles which through its officials—President J. A. Greenlee, Academic Dean John L. Houk and Librarian Morris Polan—has assigned a CSULA librarian-archivist position at the Schoenberg Institute.

Discussions with the University of California at Los Angeles where Arnold Schoenberg taught for several years, are continuing concerning their participation in the consortium. Other educational institutions in this area and elsewhere in the United States and abroad will be asked to join in the consortium so that the institute can become an international research and performance center.

The principal effort in the next several months will be devoted to completing the fund raising program for the institute building and its endowment so that ground may be broken and construction under way in time for Schoenberg’s 100th birthday on September 13, 1974.

Concurrently, planning is under way for the design of the institute building on the site of the USC Center for Performing Arts. Adrian Wilson Associates has agreed to serve as architect for the project. As soon as arrangements have been completed, an archivist-librarian will be engaged to begin the extensive organization and cataloging of the Schoenberg Library and Archives.

When established, the Schoenberg Institute will contain virtually all the original writings of Schoenberg: sketches, short scores, finished manuscripts, editions, essays, books, articles, etc., as well as hundreds of annotated and analyzed scores and books of other composers and writers. While the Schoenberg letters are not yet included in the proposed gift, it is minimally expected that all of Schoenberg’s correspondence will be a part of the legacy in duplicate form. The furnishings, piano, and other objects in his studio will also be a part of the gift. Schoenberg’s paintings, in the possession of his heirs, will be loaned to USC from time to time for study and exhibit.

• The Third McMaster University Library Tour is now being planned with the College of Librarianship Wales for June or early July 1974. Duration: about three weeks. Itinerary: Newcastle, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, North Germany, Holland, and London. Cost: about $600 (accommodations, tour travel expenses, most meals). This does not include fare to and from Britain.

In order to make the tour possible, at least twenty participants must be enrolled by March 31. For details of the exact dates and further information regarding the tour write to: Miss Dorothy I. Davidson, McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4L6.

• Since its inception in 1968 the Periodical Bank of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest has rapidly expanded. The number of libraries served has risen from ten (the ten original ACM member colleges) in the Midwest to forty-four ranging from Oregon to Virginia. No longer are all member libraries academic; community libraries and library systems are now included among the bank’s users. Several of these associate (non-ACM) members have taken advantage of the bank’s trial membership offer which permits libraries to use the bank’s services before making a membership commitment.

The number of periodicals to which members have access through the bank has increased even more spectacularly than the membership; from the 2,000 titles in the bank’s own files to the more than 50,000 in the periodical collections of six major Chicago libraries (The John Crerar, The Newberry, The University of Chicago, The University of Illinois—Chicago Circle, and the Central Serials Service of the North Suburban Library System). A daily courier makes the rounds from Periodical Bank headquarters in the Newberry to the cooperating libraries, thus ensuring that the bank’s emphasis on speed of service is maintained.

All photocopies are sent by first-class mail. Articles available in the bank’s own collection are mailed within twenty-four hours after a request is received by teletype, mail, or telephone (the bank has recently installed a twenty-four- hour message recorder); those obtained by the courier may take slightly longer.

The bank takes pride in its service record; of the 20,750 requests received in 1972-73, 90 percent were filled. If these factors—and the general satisfaction of users—are valid indicators, the Periodical Bank must be regarded as a successful experiment in interlibrary cooperation.

For further information, please contact Irma M. Lucht, Director, ACM Periodical Bank, 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL 60610.

• Stanford University’s School of Education has been awarded a one-year contract by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to operate the newly-formed ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources under the direction of Dr. Richard Clark. The new Clearinghouse will be part of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching.

The Clearinghouse on Information Resources is the result of a merger of two previous Clearinghouses—the one on Media and Technology formerly located at the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching, and the one on Library and Information Sciences formerly located at the American Society for Information Science in Washington, D.C. The new Clearinghouse is responsible for collecting information concerning print and nonprint learning resources, including those traditionally provided by school and community libraries and those provided by the growing number of technology-based media centers. The Clearinghouse collects and processes noncopyright documents on the management, operation, and use of libraries, the technology to improve their operation, and the education, training, and professional activities of librarians and information specialists. It also collects material on educational media such as television, computers, films, radio, and microforms, as well as techniques which are an outgrowth of technology— systems analysis, individualized instruction, and micro teaching.

Persons interested in submitting noncopyright material for nationwide distribution are urged to mail two legible copies to: Director of Acquisitions, ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Further information on the new Clearinghouse can be obtained from the same address.

CANADIAN

Buildings of Parliament— Ottawa, 1876

The narrative of Canadian self government is a vital part of the legislative history of Western democracies.

As such, it should be available in all libraries serving serious academic programs in History and Government. Not only is it a basic resource for studying the Canadian past, it also offers unique perspectives on the concurrent histories of England, and the United States.

All 778 Microfilm Reels and Most Major Indexes are Now Available for Immediate Shipment!

Set I Parliamentary Proceedings of the United Province of Canada

(1841-1866)64 reels, 15 index volumes

A. Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the United Province of Canada plus 73 appendices (1841-1866) — Records the daily transactions of the Assembly with appendices including reports of committees, commissions, departments, and institutions. Two cumulative indexes cover this period. 42 reels, 2 index volumes

B. Journals of the Legislative Council of the United Province of Canada plus appendices (1841-1866) — A record of the daily transactions of the Council followed by appendices that include reports of committees and other matters. Sessional Indexes were extracted for reprinting. 10 reels, 13 index volumes

C. Sessional Papers of the United Province of Canada (1860-1866) — Superceded appendices to the above Journals. Published jointly by the Assembly and the Council, the Papers record reports of commissions, departments and institutions. Indexed in same volumes with Journals. 12 reels, 13 index volumes (same volumes in IB)

Set II Parliamentary Proceedings of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1970)

397 reels, 93 index volumes

A. Hansard Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1875-1970) — Reports the debates, messages of the Governor-General and lists of the members and committees of the House. Sessional Indexes were reprinted. 230 reels, 52 index volumes

B. Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1970) — A record of the daily transactions of the House, proclamations, Speeches from the Throne and reports of committees. Five cumulative index volumes cover the entire period. 79 reels, 5 index volumes

C. Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada (1871-1970) — Senate debates are reported and the Speeches from the Throne and the replies are included. Sessional Indexes were extracted for reprinting. 47 reels, 18 index volumes

D. Journals of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1970) — Includes the daily transactions of the Senate, a list of the standing committees since 1902 and a list of the bills to be assented to for the session. Sessional Indexes were reprinted. 41 reels, 18 index volumes

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS & SESSIONAL PAPERS 1841-1970

Now in cooperation with the Library of Parliament, the Historical Documents Institute offers the complete chronicle of 130 years of Canadian Legislative History.

… all in one convenient dual-media reference set.

ON MICROFILM

The full text of the Journals, Debates, and Sessional Papers of both houses of Parliament on 778 reels of 35mm microfilm.

IN BOUND VOLUMES

The original cumulative and sessional indexes to the Proceedings and the Sessional Papers, reprinted for the first time in 133 hardcover volumes.

- and, they can still be purchased at the pre-publication prices shown below.

Set III Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada

(1867-1925) 318 reels, 25 index volumes

Continues the Sessional Papers pre- vious to Confederation and includes reports of commissions, depart- ments, and institutions. General Indexes to the Papers are included with those of the Journals of the House of Commons. Other lists and reference tools have been extracted and reprinted.

Publications of the Canadian Parliament,by Pamela Hardisty

The final printing of this historical survey and guide to Parliamentary publications has been held up pending completion of our microfilming of the entire series. This was necessary in order that the detailed listings which appear in the book will show the exact contents of each microfilm reel. Final editorial work has now been completed and the actual production of the volumes is underway. Delivery is now scheduled for May, 1974.

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• The University of New Mexico General Library has announced the appointment of five honorary consultants to the library. These consultants will make their expert services available on a part-time basis to assist the library’s departments in carrying out their responsibilities. Each one spends part of each month at the library and is assigned a desk and a specific project on which to work. Most of these projects relate to the selection of material for the library’s collections, but other projects require advice on administrative problems or work to organize and prepare special material for use. The consultants’ work is closely coordinated with the work of other library staff members.

Professor Grace Edmister, retired chairman, Music Department, University of New Mexico, and retired conductor, Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra, has been elected honorary consultant in Music History. She will organize and prepare for use the archives of the Music Department and the symphony.

Dr. Hugh Miller, former chairman, Music Department, University of New Mexico, and music historian, has been made honorary consultant in Music Bibliography. Dr. Miller will devote his time to music book and periodical selection.

Katherine Simons, professor emeritus of English Literature, and a popular lecturer, has been made honorary library consultant in Elizabethan Studies. She will carry out an evaluation of the library’s collection of Elizabethan material and will select material to improve the collection.

Professor T. Lynn Smith of the University of Florida, Tallahassee, a prolific author and well-known consultant and professor of Latin American sociology, has been made honorary library consultant in Latin American Studies. Dr. Smith will consult on the enlargement of the library’s Latin American collection.

George Dalphan, reference librarian, Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, and former map librarian, Dartmouth College, has been made honorary consultant in Map Librarianship. Dalphan will advise on all aspects of the development and use of the map collection.

• At its 1974 Midwinter meetings the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task Force reviewed behavioral objectives for academic bibliographic instruction of undergraduates. These objectives are presently being revised and when completed (by April 1) will be available to interested librarians. A copy will be sent to all persons who send a stamped (30¢) self-addressed envelope (which will hold unfolded 81/2" x 11" sheets) to Objectives, Thomas Kirk, Box E-72, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. The committee would appreciate receiving comments on these objectives. All comments will be reviewed by the committee at its meetings at the ALA’s Annual Conference. In addition to these objectives, the mailing will include a review of recent developments in the area of academic bibliographic instruction. At the annual conference the Task Force will also discuss other matters related to academic bibliographic instruction: clearinghouse for information on bibliographic instruction, meeting program planning, and a statement to ACRL Standards Committees.

PUBLICATIONS

• Since 1949 the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has been issuing its Occasional Papers series. Pricing has varied, and many numbers have been issued free. Unfortunately, free papers are no longer possible, and all single copies, including back numbers, will now be priced, starting January 1, 1974. Prepaid orders for a single paper will be $1.00; a billed single paper will be $2.00; and orders for more than ten copies will be $0.50 per paper.

The subscription to Occasional Papers is now being put on an annual basis, with at least five issues guaranteed per year. The 1974 subscription is $5.00.

The 1974 subscription year will begin with number 112 by John S. Clouston on CILA: A New Approach to the Acquisition of Latin

American Library Materials.Orders or questions should be directed to: Publications Office —249 Armory, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

• The College Art Association’s revised Slide Buyer’s Guide was published early in January 1974. The price is $2.00 to college art or art history departments and to museums (who comprise the membership of the College Art Association) and $3.00 to all other institutions and individuals. The catalog of art slide sources has more than doubled in size and includes other major improvements over the first edition. Orders may be sent to the editor and publisher: Nancy DeLaurier, Department of Art & Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110. Payment may be made in cash or check payable to “College Art Association.”

• The Newsletter on Library Research, a recently established publication of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, announced that after number 6, the December 1973 issue, it will no longer be able to distribute free copies or establish free subscriptions. Budgetary problems and a larger number of subscribers than anticipated forced an annual charge for future issues. The annual subscription for the four numbers to be issued in 1974 is $2.00.

Upcoming numbers will have an expanded format. In addition to current sections on “News of Organized Research,” “Reports of Unpublished Research,” “Meetings, Conferences,” “Awards, Honors, Grants,” “Notes on Research Methodology,” “Suggestions for Research,” “Education for Research,” “Requests for Information,” and “Bibliography,” starting in March 1974 the Newsletter on Library Research will add a four-page critical review of the research methodology of some one piece of recently published research in librarianship.

Former or new subscribers wishing to receive four issues of the Newsletter on Library Research in 1974 are asked to send $2.00 to: Newsletter on Library Research, Publications Office—249 Armory Bldg., Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.

• The Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan is issuing a series of pamphlets intended to instruct graduate students on the use of special services or collections and to provide annotated bibliographies of important works in each area of graduate study in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Pamphlets issued to date in the Guide Series are Documents Handbook: Guide to the Publications of Governments and International Organizations; American Literature: Selected Basic Reference Works; and French Language and Literature: A Selected Annotated Bibliography.

Anyone wishing to order any of these pamphlets should send $1.00 for each title in check, money order, or stamps with the order to: Connie R. Dunlap, 818 Hatcher Library South, The University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

• The Third Annual Report of the Management Studies Office, ARL, has just been released for distribution.

This report discusses the status of the ARL libraries involved in the Management Review and Analysis Program; the establishment of the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center as a device for collecting, organizing, and disseminating management documents produced by ARL member libraries; the publication of the full report of the Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. case study of the organization and staffing of the libraries of Columbia University; the initiation of the ARL Management Supplement series, which reviews current activities of academic libraries in specific management areas; discussion of various Planning/Budget Officers’ workshops participated in and/or co-sponsored by the Office; and the initiation of various other office projects. For a copy write to Management Studies Office, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has released its tenth Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. This volume on networks, edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster, contains the proceedings of the 1973 Clinic held from April 29-May 2, 1973 on the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana campus. Twelve articles covering all aspects of networking, an index, and a list of acronyms are included.

Article titles include: Netwok—Or All Hang Separately; Backing Into Network Operations; Utilization of the MARC II Format for Serials in an Inter-University Environment; U.S. National Library Task Force: A Review of Data Processing Interests; Prospectus for a Federal Library Cooperative Center; An Ontario Libraries’ Network, or Cooperative Entanglement; Project LOC: Centralized Processing of Local Collections; Interlibrary Cooperation in an Industrial Environment; The Massachusetts Central Library Processing Service; Bibliographic Data Center for New York State; OCLC: From Concept to Functioning Network; and Library Networks: The Beacon Lights.

This 190-page volume is $6.00 and is available from: Mini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820.

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Concise information about computer services available to outside customers from commercial, educational, and research establishments throughout the world. Listed are the names, addresses, phone numbers, and officers’ names, fields of experience, the types of services offered, and the type of computer installation. About 700 pages. $27.00 (Ready April, 1974)

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