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ACQUISITIONS

• The library at Eastern New Mexico University has recently acquired several valuable collections of science fiction materials. The first of these to be processed are the papers of Edmond Hamilton and his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton. Both of the Hamiltons are successful and prolific free-lance writers, largely in the field of science fiction. Their papers, which they donated to ENMU as a gift, span a period of forty-four years and include approximately 3,000 items.

Augmenting these materials will be the Jack Williamson Collection, which has been given to the university but not yet processed, and duplicates of Piers Anthony Jacob manuscripts. In addition, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) recently designated ENMU as a regional depository for the Southwest. As such, the university will receive, on a regular basis through SFWA, copies of publisher donated science fiction novels and anthologies. These, plus the archival materials, will be available to students and scholars in the field of science fiction.

• Georgetown University has acquired a complete collection of materials dealing with former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s 1968 bid for the Presidency. It is the largest archive dealing with a presidential primary ever assembled, according to Robert Metzdorf, an appraiser of books and manuscripts and the evaluator of the collection. The materials have been deposited in the Gunlocke Special Collections Department of the university’s Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library.

Georgetown received the collection from the McCarthy Historical Project, a group of friends and supporters of the former Minnesota senator who raised the funds required to assemble the materials. A staff of about ten persons spent more than a year collecting and arranging the collection before it was given to Georgetown.

The assemblage occupies more than 200 file drawers, not counting 40,000 newspaper clippings, and more than 200 reels of videotape and motion picture film. It also has a file of posters and original artwork related to the campaign.

The materials detail McCarthy’s campaign from its inception in 1967 when his candidacy was not taken too seriously, through the New Hampshire primary, President Johnson’s withdrawal in March 1968, the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the stormy Democratic national convention in Chicago.

The collection is broken down into four primary categories: national files, state files, oral history tapes and transcripts, and files of manuscripts and taped materials relating directly to McCarthy.

• An unusually fine collection of rare and first editions of the writings of August Strindberg has been given to the New York University Fales Library by Arvid Paulson, Swedishborn actor-writer-translator. The Paulson collection is noteworthy, not only because of its rare volumes, but also because of the wide range of its subject matter. Although Strindberg is known in this country primarily as a dramatist, he in fact wrote in many different literary forms, revealing an amazing erudition in diverse fields.

The books show him as an essayist, historian, poet, novelist, scientist, dramatist, and author of social treatises which resulted in important legislative reforms in Sweden. One of the books in the collection, a first edition of studies by Strindberg, China and Japan (Stockholm, 1911), reveals the author as an accomplished amateur Sinologist as well. A surprising facet of Strindberg—for Americans particularly—is disclosed in a volume of his translations of American humorists Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemas Ward, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

• The aeronautical collection of the late Colonel Richard Gimbel (USAF, Ret.) has been accepted for the Air Force Academy by Secretary of the Air Force, Robert C. Seamans. Containing an estimated 20,000 items, the collection will be displayed and maintained by the Air Force Academy library. It has been called one of the most significant private collections on aeronautical history. When added to the present academy collection, it will make the school’s library one of the most important research centers for the history of aeronautics. The entire collection was willed to the academy by Col. Gimbel, who died in May 1970 while traveling in Germany.

• The university library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has recently received an “exceptionally large and valuable collection of periodicals and books on anthropology,” the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth McCown, Berkeley, California. The collection, which includes 570 volumes of periodicals, 254 technical reports, and 25 monographs, is from the library of Mrs. McCown’s late husband, Theodore D. McCown, who was a professor of anthropology, director of the Archaeological Research Facility, and associate dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

“A collection such as this, from a scholar’s own library, is an invaluable asset to any campus,” said Rexford S. Beckham, the university library’s anthropology bibliographer. “It is a particular honor for a fledgling university library, such as ours, to receive it. Its usefulness to faculty and students alike is immeasurable. The mark made by Professor McCown in his field and his truly remarkable reputation as a scholar will remain a viable force at UCSC.”

A well-known physical anthropologist noted for his work on human evolution, Professor McCown received his A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1929. The following year (1930) he joined the Joint Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the American School of Prehistoric Research. Three years later (1933) he discovered the fossil human remains of what is now known as “Mount Carmel Man,” a group of cave dwellers who lived in Palestine from about 7,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. and bridged the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras. Their culture is the earliest discovered evidence of the domestication of plants.

• The Special Collections Department of the University of Pittsburgh Hillman Library has received on indefinite loan the largest private collection of The Compleat Angler written by Isaak Walton originally in 1653. The late Bernard S. Home, grandson of the founder of the Pittsburgh Department Store, collected the 231 separate editions and issues over a lifetime and just completed a definitive bibliography, The Compleat Angler 1653-1967, before his death on January 4, 1970. Dr. George Lawrence, former director of the Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University, was instrumental in having Mrs. Horne place the collection in Hillman Library as a memorial to her husband. Written by the author in his sixtieth year and revised in four more editions between 1653 and 1676, The Compleat Angler, an English pastoral, was published ten times in the eighteenth century, 164 times in the nineteenth century, and is still alive in our times as a solace for the care of too practical lives. The library has also established the Bernard S. Horne Memorial Fund to supplement the collection.

MEETINGS

May 6-7: The 8th Annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium (ANIRC) will be held in Philadelphia, May 6-7. For details see March CRL News.

The 8th annual meeting will be held at the new Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Additional information may be obtained from program chairman Don King, Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Inquiries and registration material requests should be addressed to Miss A. Berten, MDS-COP, 19 South 22d Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

May 7: Exploring a number of practical solutions to the problems of how to motivate students to use the library, how to teach the proper methods of research, and how to assist teaching faculty in the maximum usage of library resources for curriculum planning will be the central theme for the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on May 7, 1971, at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students who are concerned with this vital and challenging problem are invited to participate. Registration will close on April 15 and registrants will be limited to 75 persons. For further information please contact Sul H. Lee, Associate Librarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197.

May 7-8: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians will hold its annual meeting at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, May 7-8. The topic will be “The Challenge of Reprints.”

May 13-15: A workshop in Library Automation: Administration and Management sponsored by ISAD will be held May 13-15 at M.I.T. Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts. A fee of $135 per person will include housing, meals, registration fee, and materials. Information and application forms may be obtained from Don S. Culbertson, Information Science and Automation Division, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

May 20-22: A three-day institute entitled "Library Management: Man-Material-Service” will be held at Indiana State University, Terre

Haute, Ind. May 20-22. For additional information, interested persons may write Department of Library Science, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809.

May 21-22: Sixteenth annual Midwest Academic Librarians Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington. For information contact Dr. Jane G. Flener, Assistant Director, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

May 30-June 3: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30-June 3.

June 7-18: The American University Department of History presents its twenty-fifth institute: Introduction to Modern Archives Administration in cooperation with the National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, The Library of Congress and The Maryland Hall of Records. To enroll or to request further information, write Department of History—Summer Archives Institute, The American University, Washington, D.C. 20016.

June 14-17: The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, will be the site of the Sixteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 14-17. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Dr. Nettie Lee Benson, Latin American Collections, The University of Texas Library, Austin, Texas 78704. For details on the program and arrangements see the March CRL News. For other information refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 20006.

June 17-19: The Library Organization and Management Section of ALA’s Library Administration Division is sponsoring a preconference institute Junè 17—19 at the Holiday Inn in downtown Dallas. Called “Dollar Decisions,” the institute will cover several types of program and performance budgeting systems and will feature Dr. Selma Mushkin, Director of the State and Local Finances Division, Georgetown University, and leading authority in the budgeting field. The registration fee is $35.00, and the group is limited to 150 persons. For further information write Dollar Decisions, Library Administration Division, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago 60611. See also April CRL News.

July 11-13: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fifth annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 11- 23. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. The January News contains complete details.

July 11-Aug. 13: The University of Denver, Department of History and the Graduate School of Librarianship, in cooperation with the State Archives of Colorado, will conduct its Tenth Annual Institute for Archival Studies and Related Fields, July 11-August 13, under the direction of Dolores C. Renze, State Archivist of Colorado and adjunct professor, Department of History, University of Denver. The institute is designed for those employed in archival, library, or related professions, and also advanced students of history or related subjects. It will present theory, principles, and methodology of archives administration, resources, and related manuscript source materials, with lectures and discussions by specialists in the profession. Field trips to archival agencies, departments, institutions, and historical places in the area are planned. For those especially interested in manuscript administration, arrangement, and methodology, specific assignments will be made. Credit of up to five quarter hours plus a University Institute Certificate will be awarded upon completion. It is also possible to coordinate a combined certificate with the M.A. program for American Studiesin the Department of History or cognate with the M.A. or M.S. program in the Graduate School for Librarianship in accordance with conditions established by these departmental graduate programs.

If graduate credit for institute work transferable to another university is desired, it will require approval of the dean of admissions. Those who do not desire credit transfer but only a certificate, will be recognized as “continuing education” by the institute.

July 20-23: The third Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held July 20- July 23 in Bedford, England.

See the December News, Meetings section, for complete details on the topics to be covered and general theme outline.

Enquiries or offers to present papers should be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England.

Aug. 2-27: The Georgia Department of Archives and History will host its Fifth Annual Archives Institute August 2-27. The institute, which is cosponsored by Emory University Division of Librarianship, will be held at the Archives and Records Building in Atlanta. The institute is designed to aid those presently employed or preparing for employment as archivists, manuscript curators, records managers, or special librarians; also those advanced students in history or related disciplines.

Emphasis in the course will be placed on the basic principles of archival administration and records management. In addition to lectures and seminars, the course includes field trips and a laboratory project to give the students practical training as well as theory. Field trips will be made to the Federal Records Center, a county courthouse, a company archives, and the Georgia Historical Society Headquarters in Savannah.

The archives staff as well as prominent archivisits and records managers from Georgia and other states will speak to the class. Chief of the Florida Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Ed Johnson, will be the special guest speaker who will assist Miss Carroll Hart, institute director, in introducing the course to the students. Other guest speakers are Herman Friis, director of the Center for Polar Archives, National Archives; Wilbur Kurtz, Jr., archivist, Coca-Cola Company; and Miss Mattie Russell, curator of Manuscripts, Duke University library.

Enrollment is limited to ten, since students move progressively as a group through the twelve departments, learning through application. Participants may register as noncredit students or for six quarter hours of credit offered through Emory University. Fees for the course are $100 noncredit and $360 credit. Dormitory housing will be available in Emory University Graduate Dormitory. Prerequisite for the course is a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. To apply, write Miss Carroll Hart, Director, Georgia Department of Archives and History, 330 Capitol Ave. S.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Aug. 29-Sept. 3: The International Conference on Information Science in Tel Aviv originally announced for August 23-28, has been changed to the week following the IFIP Conference in Yugoslavia, from August 29 to September 3. Group flights at reduced rates will be available from various points including Yugoslavia. Titles and abstracts are due no later than January 1971. Registration fee ($50) includes a ladies’ program and a tour of Jerusalem. For further information contact: The Organizing Committee, P.O. Box 16271, Tel Aviv, Israel. See also September News, page 249.

Sept. 30-Oct. 2: The Indiana Library Association will meet at Stouffer’s Inn, Indianapolis, Indiana. Further information can be obtained from Jane G. Flener, President, Indiana Library Association, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

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 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. 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.

MISCELLANY

• After fifty-six annual meetings, the Conference of Eastern College Librarians is suspending activities, at least temporarily. Traditionally, these convocations have been held at Columbia University each Thanksgiving weekend. Attendance has been falling over the past several years and costs of sponsoring the conference have risen. With tightened budgets and, perhaps also, the feeling on the part of many that the purposes of this ad hoc organization were being met in other ways, the end result of the last meeting was insufficient income to cover expenses. There has been no formal or permanent organization of the conference, and its dissolution stems simply from a decision of the last program committee.

• The Vincentian Fathers, priests of the Congregation of the Mission who sponsor St. John’s University, have bestowed upon William A. Gillard, St. John’s director of libraries, their highest honor by constituting him an affiliate member of their order. Mr. Gillard received the honor on February 12 at a concelebrated Eucharistic Liturgy which was held in St. Vincent Hall, the Vincentian Fathers’ residence at the University’s Jamaica campus.

Mr. Gillard, a resident of Bellaire, New York, began his long career at St. John’s University in 1929 when he joined the faculty as an instructor of French. In 1930 he became assistant librarian, and in 1942 he was named acting director of libraries. He became director of libraries in 1945, the position which he presently holds.

• A recent issue of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Newsletter mentioned that Slavic departments of colleges and universities which lack the publication Noυy Mir for the years 1925-1934 can obtain a set of Xerox facsimiles as a gift from the Xerox Corporation, The original price was $750. Departments should make a formal request to Bruce L. Crisman, Manager, Xerox Fund, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn. 06904.

• The graduate program of library education offered by the Palmer Graduate Library School of Long Island University, Brookville, New York (John T. Gillespie, dean), has been officially accredited by the American Library Association. This brings the number of library schools offering programs accredited by the ALA to fifty-three.

• Small institutions and organizations now have a chance to get federal help for shortterm educational research projects through a new program called Regional Project Research. Public and nonprofit agencies may apply for grants (profit-making groups may receive contracts) provided the project is to be completed within eighteen months, and will not cost the U.S. Office of Education more than $10,000. The research must be of general (not purely local) applicability and show reasonable promise of obtaining results for improving education which can be disseminated to the education profession. Basic research in the learning process and certain types of curriculum development are two eligible areas for funding. (The money may not be used principally for producing textbooks, films, etc.) For further information and application forms contact the Regional Research Program at the appropriate regional office of the U.S. Office of Education.

• The reference staff of the St. Louis University Pius XII Memorial Library, in cooperation with the Texas Southern University libraries, is surveying colleges and universities in the U.S. to collect information on all publications on the black experience in America. The survey is gathering information of a bibliographic nature on all published and unpublished materials produced by colleges and university libraries or other agencies within the institutions. Much of this data has not appeared in established reporting services and because of this there has been much duplication of effort on the part of the individual institutions. The data are being compiled and organized by the reference staff of Pius XII Memorial Library and will eventually be forwarded for deposit to Texas Southern University and made available to all interested organizations and individuals.

• John W. Weatherford, director of libraries at Central Michigan University, has been named to a six-man negotiating team representing the administration in collective bargaining with the faculty. Central Michigan was the first autonomous university in the country at which a faculty association was recognized as the sole bargaining agent for the faculty. The librarians, as faculty members, are an integral part of the faculty association.

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PUBLICATIONS

• A first in library communications has been created by the staff of American Libraries, the monthly bulletin of the American Library Association. A special ninety-minute tape cassette, “Sound of American Libraries: Midwinter Meeting, 1971,” has been edited from nearly ten hours of material recorded at the special meeting of the ALA membership at the Los Angeles Midwinter Meeting, January 18- 23. The tape, narrated by Gerald R. Shields, covers the actions and reactions to the Activities Committee on New Directions for ALA (ACONDA) recommendations for change in the structure and governance of the Association. The cassette features additional resolutions introduced on the floor of the membership meeting concerning such issues as “open” meetings, nondestruction of libraries, equal opportunity for women, and residency requirements for employment.

Copies of the tape cassette are available at $5.95 each from the Order Department, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, 111. 60611.

• An Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, compiled by John L. Sayre and Roberta Hamburger of the Phillips University Graduate Seminary Library, is now available. Although it was prepared for use in a theological library, it should prove useful in other libraries as well. The rules are arranged in the same order as found in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and are stated briefly at the right side of the page. To the left are placed one or more Library of Congress cards which illustrate that rule. A total of 573 individual rules or parts of rules are illustrated with 648 examples. A complete index to the rules is also provided. This guide should be especially helpful to catalogers of books in the field of religion, and could be a valuable asset in training new staff members in the applications of the AACR rules.

The price is $6.30, postage and handling included, and it can be ordered from the Graduate Seminary Library, Box 2218, University Station, Enid, Oklahoma 73701.

• The U.S. National Section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History has issued the third bibliography in a series of special publications on Latin American geography and history. The publication, A Bibliography of the Tourist Industry in Latin America, was compiled by Robert C. Mings of the University of Miami. The bibliography should serve as a valuable guide for both faculty and graduate students concerned with investigations and analyses of this industry in Latin America. The publication consists of a preface and a thirtyfive-page bibliography available at $1.50. The 515 bibliographic entries are arranged on an individual country basis. Those interested in receiving this publication should make their checks or money orders payable to Dr. Arthur L. Burt, Chairman, U.S. National Section, PAIGH, Department of State (Room 8847), Washington, D.C. 20520.

• In response to the growing interest in the American Revolution stimulated by the approaching bicentennial, the Library of Congress, has published a ninety-three page bibliography entitled Periodical Literature on the American Revolution: Historical Research and Changing Interpretations, 1895-1970, a Selective Bibliography. The bibliography was compiled by Ronald M. Gephart, a member of the staff of the American Revolution Bicentennial program, who is at present assigned to the General Reference and Bibliography Division. Copies are for sale at $1.00 a copy by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.

For historians, the periodical provides a much needed medium in which to test new hypotheses or to announce in brief form the fruits of extended research. As a result, historical journals have served a unique function in the twentieth century as the chief marketplace for the exchange of information, ideas, interpretations, and criticism. This selective bibliography, with 1,122 entries arranged by subject and period, is designed to give students, teachers, scholars, and librarians a convenient and representative guide to essays and periodical literature on the Revolutionary era that have appeared during the past seventy-five years in historical journals, festschriften, and collections of lectures or essays. Annotations are provided only where clarification seemed necessary or where additional information, such as reprint numbers, increases the usefulness of the citations. A section entitled “Anthologies and Collections” is included to acquaint the reader with currently available paperbacks that reprint some of the more important articles and essays. There is a separate list of titles and Library of Congress call numbers of all periodicals represented in the bibliography, as well as an author and a brief subject index.

• The new edition of the University of Colorado Libraries: Programmed Textbook is now available for purchase. The thirty-nine-page booklet is designed for library personnel and for students who wish to instruct themselves in use of the library. Although it was written specifically for the University of Colorado libraries and covers some material that is applicable only to that university, it also contains much information that is general enough to be useful for any library user. Topics discussed in the book include the public catalog, subject headings, the catalog card, periodical literature, reference books, and government documents. The chapters are divided into separate frames, each containing information on some aspect of library usage; the frames are followed by a reinforcement in which at least one active response is required of the reader, and the correct answer is then given in the right-hand margin of the page. Mary Louise Lyda, Joseph M. Mapes, Nancy Mildred Nilon, and Ruth Carol Cushman wrote the text, and the dramatic new cover is the work of William H. Webb. The book costs $1.00 and may be ordered from The University Book Center “On the Campus,” University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80302. Either check or cash is acceptable. Checks should be made out to the University of Colorado Book Center.

• Duke University libraries announce the publication of a two-volume set, Periodicals and Other Serials in the Libraries of Duke University. This computer-based list contains over 50,000 entries for titles held in the Duke University libraries (excluding the Medical Center library) as of January 31, 1971. Entry includes almost full bibliographic information in addition to holdings. Periodicals and Other Serials will be available in April from the Assistant Librarian for Technical Services, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706, at $35.00 for the two-volume, paperbound set. Libraries interested in acquiring a microfiche set (at 42 X reduction ratio) with comprehensive index should inquire at the above address.

• The Louisiana Library Association has announced the publication of the 1968-70 Supplement to the Louisiana Union Catalog. This third Supplement to the main catalog published in 1959 brings the list of holdings of Louisiana material up to date. Like its predecessors, the volume is similar in format to the National Union Catalog. Each entry is a complete catalog card with location symbols.

The complete list of publications is as follows; Louisiana Union Catalog (1959) 912p. $50; 1959-62 Supplement (1963) 175p. $15; 1963-67 Supplement (1968) 443p. $15; pre- 1968 Index to the Catalog and to the first and second Supplements (1968) 497p. $20; 1968- 70 Supplement and Index (1971) approx. 600p. $30.

All five volumes are hardback, uniform in height, and form an attractive set. Used together, they provide a comprehensive and upto-date guide to Louisiana material owned by the libraries in the state and certain out-ofstate libraries. The set is indexed by subject, title, and added entry. Orders for all or individual volumes may be placed through Norma Durand, Dupre Library, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501.

NOTE: A publication notice regarding J. Periam Danton’s monograph, Between M.L.S. and Ph.D.: A Study of Sixth-Year Specialist Programs in Accredited Library Schools, was published in the February issue of CRL News. The publication can be obtained through ALA for $3.75. It is not available through Professor Danton’s office. ■ ■