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The following continuing education activities and meetings have been listed with ACRL’s Continuing Education Clearinghouse. If your organization is sponsoring an activity that you think may be of interest to ACRL members, please send the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

May

20—Online Searching:Introduction to Non-

Bibliographic Online Database Services, seminar, Cuadra Associates; Los Angeles, California. Other seminars will be held May 27 in Washington, D.C.; May 29 in Ottawa, Ontario; June 13 in Washington, D.C.; June 16 in Chicago, IL; and June 19 in San Francisco, CA. Fee; $115 if paid in advance, $135 if invoiced. Contact: Cuadra Associates, Inc., 1523 Sixth St., Suite 12, Santa Monica, CA 90401; (213) 451-0644.

28— Microforms:Microforms in Libraries, basic course, AJ Seminars; Prince George Hotel, New York City. Fee: $75. Contact: A. J. Seminars, 11205 Farmland Drive, Rockville, MD 20852; (301) 881-4996.

29- 30—AACR 2:AACR 2 for Librarians (one-day session, May 29); AACR 2 for catalogers (one day session. May 30), College of Library Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Contact: Nancy S. Little, director, Office of Continuing Education, College of Library Science, 465 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506; (606) 258-8876.

June

2-13—Libraries and Politics:Institute on Libraries and the Political Process—Federal, State, and Local Levels, workshop, Graduate Department of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America; Washington, D C. Workshop leaders: John G. Lorenz and Alphonse F. Trezza. Contact: Graduate Department of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635-5085.

5-6—Online Searching:“Update 80,” Seventh Annual DIALOG Users Conference, Lockheed Information Systems, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. A second “Update ’80” will be held November 10-11 in San Francisco. Fee: $110 (includes $20 of online search time to be used before the conference). Contact: UPDATE ’80, Lockheed, 5020/580, 3460 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

12-15—History: Association for the Bibliography of History, workshop on bibliographic tools, the teaching of bibliography, and the processing of and retrieval of information; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Contact: Warren F. Kuehl, Department of History, the University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325; (216) 375-7008.

16-20—Audiovisual:Cataloging Audiovisual Materials Using AACR 2, workshop, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota. Two credits. Contact: Nancy B. Olson, Instructional Media & Technology, Box 20, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN 56001; (507) 389- 1965.

16-20—Bookbinding:Calligraphy/Bookbinding Workshop, Capricornus School of Bookbinding & Restoration; Berkeley, California. Prerequisite: at least one course in calligraphy. Fee: $125. Contact: Capricornus, P.O. Box 98, Berkeley, CA 94701; (415) 658-7930 or 843- 7860.

16-July 18—Archives:Nineteenth Summer Institute for Advanced Archival Studies, Department of History and Graduate School of Libra- rianship and Information Management, University of Denver. Fee: $535. Contact: Dolores C. Renze, Institute for Archival Studies, Department of History, 424 MRB, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208.

19-July 5—Management:“Decision Making in Library Management,” short course. School of Library Science Continuing Education Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Fee: $270. Contact: Alan M. Rees, School of Library Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106; (216) 368-3500.

23-24—Audiovisual:Cataloging Audiovisual Materials using OCLC, workshop, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota. Contact: see first June 16-20 entry above.

23-July 4—Bookbinding:Basic Bookbinding, course, Capricornus School of Bookbinding & Restoration; Berkeley, California. Fee: $300. Contact: See second June 16-20 entry above.

26-27—Online Searching:The DIALOG Sampler, on-line seminars and demonstrations, Lockheed Information Systems, Doral Inn, New York City. Contact: DIALOG Sampler, Lockheed, 50-20/201, 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

30— Chinese-American Librarians:Eighth Annual Conference of the Chinese-American Librarians Association; Confucius Plaza, 40 Division Street, New York City. Theme: “Current Issues in Descriptive Cataloging.” Fee: $5 ($3 for CALA members). Contact: John Lai, Har- vard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. ■■

New Research Assistants from G. K. Hall Reference Books

Guide to Hindu Religion

David J. Dell, with Thomas Hopkins, Robert McDermott, Suzanne Hanchett, Gary Michael Tartakov, et al.

ISBN 0-8161-7903-4 $39.75

Listings in the guide are arranged alphabetically by author and include Hindu history, religious thought and practice, sacred scriptures and rituals, popular practices, arts, mythology, Hinduism in social and political life, and research aids. Available in July

Guide to Buddhist Religion

Frank E. Reynolds, with the assistance of John Strong and John Hall; Section on the arts by Bardwell Smith ISBN 0-8161-7900-X $50.00

Listings are arranged alphabetically by author and include historical development; religious thought; authoritative texts; popular beliefs; literature; the arts; social, economic, and political aspects; religious practices and rituals; ideal beings, hagiography, and biography; mythology; cosmology and basic symbols; sacred places; soteriological experiences and processes: path and goal; and research aids. Available in July

Modern Chinese Fiction:

A Guide to Its History and Aooreciation

Edited by Winston L. Y. Yang and Nathan K. Mao, with six contributing authors.

ISBN 0-8161-8113-6 $45.00

The first section of this volume contains essays on pre- and post-communist Chinese fiction from 1917 to the present and Taiwanese fiction from 1949 to the present. An annotated guide to 450 English-language translations of books, dissertations, and articles completes this comprehensive guide. Available in August

The first two volumes in a five-volume series:

Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817-1871

Edited by John W. Blassingame and Mae G. Henderson The approximately 40,000 annotated letters and journals in these volumes record the views of both prominent and every- day correspondents on the subject of slavery. The 15 to 30-word abstracts are arranged chronologically and give precise retrieval information.

Volume I: 1817-1845

Annotated Index of Letters in the Philanthropist, Emancipa- tor, Genius of Universal Emancipation, Abolition Intelligen- cer, African Observer, and the Liberator.

ISBN 0-8161-8163-2 $60.00 Available in May

Volume II: 1835-1865

Annotated Index of Letters in the Liberator, Anti-Slavery Record, Human Rights, and the Observer.

ISBN 0-8161 -8434-8 $60.00 A vailable in June

Henry Fielding: A Reference Guide

LeRoy J. Morrissey

ISBN 0-8161 -8139-X Price to be announced The first reference work to compile, annotate, and index more than two centuries of scholarly materials on Fielding. Cross-references trace major critical and scholarly controversies. Available in July

John Fowles: A Reference Guide

Barry N. Olshen and Toni Olshen

ISBN 0-8161-8187-X $12.00

This comprehensive guide lists and annotates every book and article ever written about Fowles and his work, as well as interviews, reviews, miscellaneous pieces, and passing references. 11 also supplies an inventory of all editions of his books. Available in June

William Gilmore Simms: A Reference Guide

Keen Butterworth and James E. Kibler, Jr.

ISBN 0-8161 -1059-X Price to be announced

A novelist and poet, Simms was the most important figure of the antebellum South. This book, the first ever to provide an exhaustive guide to his writings,cites more than 1000 critical books, articles, and dissertations from Simms' own time up to the present. Available in July

I Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: A Reference Guide

Clyde W. Jentoft

ISBN 0-8161-8176-4 Price to be announced Sixteenth-century poets Wyatt and Howard were the first to bring to English verse the sensibility and style of continental humanism. This is a comprehensive guide to books, articles, reviews, and dissertations about these two literary innovators. Available in July

Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretationò/nceH 7325 of British and American Poems Past and PresenfH

Nancy 0. Martinez and Joseph M. Kuntz

ISBN 0-8161-8313-9 $35.00

A comprehensive index to poetry analyses published from 1925 to 1977, with selective material published in 1978. The Checklist includes interpretations by phenomenologists, new literary historians, dialectical and psychological critics, linguists, stylistic experts, rhetoricians, and prosodists, as well as by formalists and self-avowed "new critics." Available in June

The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors

Edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David

The first bibliographic effort of its kind in the history of Canadian literature. At its completion, this ten-volume series will provide comprehensive, annotated coverage of all works by and about 50 of Canada's major 19th- and 20th-century authors — both English and French.

VolumeI: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, Mordecai Richler, and Gabrielle Roy ISBN 0-8161-8491-7 $19.95 Available in June

Free shipping and handling on orders accompanied by payment. Individuals must include payment on all orders. Prices outside the U.S. are 15% higher. For more information, call toll-free 1-800-343-2806, or write:

G. K. Hall Reference Books

70 Lincoln Street • Boston, MA 02111