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ACQUISITIONS

• McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, announces the acquisition of the Bertrand Russell Papers. Comprising hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, books, periodicals, films, and tapes, this collection was purchased by McMaster with funds “from purses public and private, from foundations and from individuals, alumni and friends.” As part of the contract, Earl Russell will also deposit all of his subsequent papers in the Canadian institution, together with his private library of some four thousand volumes.

• The University of Colorado libraries have received as a gift a Persian manuscript of the late sixteenth century. The donor is Dr. Mehdi Nakosteen, Professor, History and Philosophy of Education, University of Colorado. The manuscript contains the works of Katibi of Nishapur, died 1435, a poet of the later Timurid period. The volume has the two major works of the poet, Book of the Divine, and The Observer and the Observed, together with five of his other writings. The manuscript is on paper, in nasta’liq script, 315 leaves, two columns, nineteen lines, with ruled margins of seven lines in color. There are two full doublepage decorated pages, several single-page decorated pages, and most of the pages have ornamental geometric designs dividing the text. The calligraphy and decoration are of a high quality. The manuscript measures 21.5 X 13.5 cm. with a text page size of 15 X 8 cm. The binding is of worn green morocco, with blind tooling, and with decorative cloth doublures. Katibi manuscripts are by no means common. It is probable that the one described above is the only Katibi manuscript in the country. A search has not revealed an English translation of the works of this poet.

• The Olin Library of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, has purchased the library of H. L. Beales of London, social historian who for many years taught at the London School of Economics. Built up over a span of nearly sixty years, the Beales collection illustrates every phase of the British movements for social, political and economic reform in the past two hundred years. Among its many treasures are a magnificent first edition in original boards of Sir Frederick Morton Eden’s State of the Poor (three volumes, qto., 1797), a considerable number of bound volumes of early radical and Chartist periodicals, and numerous scarce books and pamphlets by Robert Owen and his followers. Mr. Beales, now approaching eighty and still active as a lecturer and publisher’s consultant, combines a collector’s nose with a scholar’s eye. Many of his best finds were made in the open air book market in London’s Faringdon Road, now, alas, almost defunct.

• Recently acquired by the Library of Congress on exchange from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence is the 39-volume Catalogo Cumulativo, the first all-inclusive Italian national bibliography. This work is published by the Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd. and was edited and prepared under the directorship of Luigia Risoldi, librarian of the University of Bologna; Aldo Ferrabino, President of the Centro Nazionale per il Catalogo Unico in Rome; and Emanuele Casamassima, Director of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence. The Catalogo Cumulativo lists printed works published in Italy between 1886 and 1957 and contains 639,590 entries. This great bibliographical undertaking was completed in the winter of 1967 after seventeen years of work. Actual work began in 1950 With the creation of the Centro for the specific purpose of establishing procedural policies, methods of recording, and bibliographic control. After several proposed plans for the publication of the catalog were rejected, it was finally decided to feed into a computer all entries in the Bollettino delle Pubblicazioni Italiane, a monthly published since 1886, which lists the copyright deposits at the library in Florence. Beginning with the 1958 issue of the Catalogo, Kraus-Thomson will publish and distribute continuations in monthly issues and in annual cumulations. The price of the 39-volume catalog, clothbound, is $1,980.

• The archives of Dr. Paul Carus and the Open Court Publishing Company of LaSalle, Illinois, have been deposited in the Morris Library of Southern Illinois University by the Carus family. The Carus papers, consisting of some 60,000 pages, the largest body of manuscripts thus far acquired by the SIU library, constitute one of the major archives of modern philosophy. The Open Court Publishing Company was founded in 1887 by Edward C. Hegeler, a LaSalle manufacturer, who brought Dr. Paul Carus to LaSalle the following year as editor of the Open Court, a new journal of the philosophy of science and comparative religion. Through the Open Court and The Monist, which was established later, and through his work as director of the editorial policies of the Open Court Publishing Company, Dr. Carus made LaSalle the most important publishing center for philosophy in America for a period of more than thirty years. After Dr. Carus’s death in 1919 the Cams family carried on the work and the Open Court is still one of the nation’s major publishers in the fields of philosophy and religion.

• Authoress Natalia Maree Belting has become a donor to the special collection of manuscripts and illustrations of children’s literature at the University of Southern Mississippi. The collection which now ranks as the largest of its type in the world is valued at approximately one-half million dollars. Its administrator and creator, Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, estimates that the assemblage now contains the works of more than 700 authors and illustrators. Materials contributed to the collection by the Urbana, 111., authoress include galley proofs and manuscripts from her published works as well as unpublished typescripts. The writer’s contributions to the USM collection will be displayed along with those of other donors at a special Children’s Book Festival slated for March 17-18 at the university. The event will include a conference on the writing, editing, and illustrating of children’s literature.

• Recent accessions of the Harry S. Truman library included papers of Edwin G. Arnold, longtime Federal Government official including service as an official in the Farm Security Administration, the Department of the Interior and the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1933-56; James P. Aylward, Missouri State Democratic Committee Chairman, and Missouri State Democratic National Committeeman, 1932-36; and of Willa Mae Roberts, Democratic National Committeewoman from Missouri, 1934-56.

• Washington University has recently added to its special collection of modern literature a group of single items, including correspondence, worksheets and editorial matter, complementing its larger collections of the primary material of modern British and American authors. Included is material representing W. S. Merwin, American poet, John Updike, John Barth, Richard Eberhart, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, Robert Nathan, Marianne Moore and John Gould Fletcher. Now available to users are unpublished descriptions of the Samuel Beckett worksheets, comprised of manuscripts, typescripts and notebooks of titles written by Beckett during the past six years; the worksheets and notebooks of Elizabeth Jennings, English poet; the correspondence of Babette Deutsch; letters and manuscripts of Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan; manuscripts of the recent work of George P. Elliott and Stanley Elkin; and two groups of the papers of Alexander Trocchi, British novelist and editor.

• The papers of the late Edwin W. Kemmerer, whose work in guiding the reconstruction of the monetary systems of a dozen nations earned him the appellation of “money doctor,” have been given to the Princeton University library by his son, Dr. Donald L. Kemmerer, also a distinguished economist.

Professor Kemmerer, who died in 1945 at age 70, was the organizer and first director of the International Finance Section at Princeton and was the University’s first Walker Professor of International Finance.

Included in the gift of some 67,000 items, now housed with the manuscript division of the Princeton library, are papers spanning nearly a half-century dating from student days in 1897 —letters, diaries, drafts of articles, speech texts, financial records, offprints, clippings, academic notes, photographs, and personal copies of numerous reports. There are scrapbooks, diplomas, maps and charts, books from his own library, and a wealth of memoranda and mementos.

The use of the Kemmerer Papers is currently restricted. This means that access to the collection can only be granted by the library with the permission of the donor.

BUILDINGS

• Dr. Vera Micheles Dean, of the graduate school of public administration at New York University delivered an address entitled “West and Non-West: New Perspectives” to those in attendance at the library dedication program at Shippensburg State College, Shippensburg, Pa., on October 24, 1968. The Shippensburg library contains 72,416 square feet, has a seating capacity of 1,200 with individual seating for 909 including 747 carrels. It is fully air conditioned and humidity controlled, carpeted throughout, and has a capacity of 250,000 volumes plus. It is of modular construction and built for future expansion to the rear. The cost of the building, including carpeting, steel stacks with wood end panels, wall carrels, air conditioning and humidity control, is $23.42 per square foot. A Dial Access Information Retrieval System is being installed with remote stations throughout campus.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS

• Three tuition and partial travel grants are available to participants in the University of Hawaii—East West Center Summer Asian Librarianship Program, June 16-July 25, 1969. Applicants must be currently employed librarians working with materials published in or about Asia or assured of such an assignment following the summer’s work. Librarians employed in undergraduate colleges as well as those employed in specialized collections of Asian materials are eligible for the program. Participants in the program register in at least one course in Asian librarianship and one other course in the graduate school of library studies which may be individualized study designed to meet specific needs of the participant’s home institution. Housing is available in East West Center dormitories at nominal cost. Application deadline is April 15, 1969. For further information and application blanks write to: Dr. Robert D. Stevens, Dean, Graduate School of Library Studies, University of Hawaii, 2425 Campus Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.

• For the third consecutive year the Welch Medical Library, one of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, has accepted a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service to offer postgraduate training in biomedical librarianship in 1969-70. One intensified year-long program will be offered in each of the four following areas: public services, technical services, medical library administration, and history of medicine. Training includes tuition-free academic courses, semimonthly informal seminars, and work experience. Also included is a research project, selected by the trainee and his advisor, which may lead to a publishable paper. Each candidate must be a United States citizen and hold a master’s degree from an accredited library school. Librarians who are now in the field will also be considered. Though a bioscience background is preferred, educational requirements will differ according to the area in which the candidate wishes to specialize. Competence in at least one foreign language is expected. Trainees will be accepted to begin the program on July 1 or September 1, 1969. The stipend will be $5,500. Applications will be accepted until May 1 from those wishing to begin the program in July, 1969, and until July 1 from those wishing to begin in September. Completion of this one-year program may lead to Grade II Certification by the Medical Library Association. For application forms and/or additional information write to: Mr. Alfred N. Brandon, Director and Librarian, Welch Medical Library, 1900 E. Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.

• The Medical Library Association has named its $1,500 scholarship for the academic year 1969-70 in memory of Ralph T. Esterquest, the late librarian of the Francis A. Countway Library, Boston, who died in August 1968. Mr. Esterquest had served the association as a member of the Board of Directors, as chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations, and as the MLA representative to the Council of the American Library Association.

The scholarship will be granted to a qualified student who will enter library school in the summer or fall of 1969. Applications are available from any ALA accredited library school or from the MLA Scholarship Committee Chairman, Jean Foulke, National Institutes of Health, Division of Research Services, Building 10, Room 5N118, Bethesda, Md. 20014.

MEETINGS

Mar.7: The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library will host a conference on western history. The speakers at the one day conference are Dr. John Hawgood of the University of Birmingham, England; Dr. Joe B. Frantz, Chairman of the History Department, University of Texas; and Dr. William E. Unrau, Professor of History, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Coinciding with the conference is an art show entitled “The West in Art.” This exhibit will open a newly decorated exhibit gallery and will be open to the public for two weeks. The paintings exhibited are select works from General Eisenhower’s private collections.

Mar.24-25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47.

Mar.27-29: Fourth Annual Conference on Junior College libraries, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois. The main conference theme will be “The Multi-Media Centers in Action.” Main speakers scheduled to date are Louis Shores and Peter Kim. Programs and registration information are available from: Mr. George A. Fox, Dean of Learning Services, Prairie State College, 10th Street and Dixie Highway, Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411.

April14-15: Institute in Houston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and the Rice University libraries, to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, heads of these departments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47.

May2-3: Fourteenth annual Midwest Academic Librarians Conference at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

May5-9: Third International Congress of Medical Librarianship 1969, in Amsterdam. The theme of the Congress is “World Progress in Medical Librarianship.” The subject areas include the contribution of medical libraries toward an increase of biomedical knowledge; the functions of medical libraries in the transmission of biomedical knowledge; the functions of the organization of medical knowledge: indexing and classification; modern information systems in medicine; technical developments in the medical library field; and problems of medical information systems and centers in developing countries. There will be invited lecturer’s, as well as contributed, papers. Registration fee is $60. Registration forms are available from the office of the Secretary-General. Information about special transportation to Amsterdam from the United States will be available from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June17-20: Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 17-20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other sessions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publications, official publications, photoduplication of Latin American materials, and archives. Meetings of the Seminar Committees will take place on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first general session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meetings of the Executive Board of the newly incorporated SALALM will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednesday, June 18. Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will be distributed at the time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institution registering is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequently published by the Pan American Union. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. 20006.

June 29-July2: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Houston, Tex.

July 20-Aug.1: Third annual Library Administrators Development Program at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Director of the program will be John Rizzo, associate professor, School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to the Library Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Oct.1-5: 32nd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the San Francisco Hilton; San Francisco, California. The Convention Chairman for the 1969 meeting is Mr. Charles P. Bourne; Director, Programming Services, Inc.; 999 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303.

Oct.26-30: 68th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss Joan Titley, director of the Kornhauser Memorial Medical library, University of Louisville, is convention chairman. The advance program and registration forms will be a part of the May, 1969 issue of MLA News.

June 28-July1, 1970: Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Oct.4-9, 1970: 33rd annual meeting of ASIS will be held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Convention Chairman for the 1970 meeting is Mr. Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr.; Biosciences Information Services of Biological Abstracts; 2100 Arch Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MISCELLANY

• Richard W. Boss was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Bibliographic Center for Research, Rocky Mountain Region, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, for a four-year term at the organization’s annual meeting on November 15.

• A librarian is compiling a bibliography entitled, Books in All Fields Written or Edited by U.S., British, Canadian and Australian Librarians, arranged by author, title, subject. If you are a librarian and have written or edited a book in any field, please send a full citation and give the subject according to the LC List of Subject Headings to Christopher Kendris, Associate Librarian, University Library, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12203.

• Elizabeth Homer Morton, former executive director of the Canadian Library Association/ Association canadienne des bibliothéques, who retired from that position 30 April 1968, has been appointed to membership in the Order of Canada by The Right Honourable Roland Michener, C.C., C.D., Chancellor of the Order, it was announced on 20 December 1968. An investiture is planned when Miss Morton will be decorated with the Medal of Service of the Order. Miss Morton is entitled to use the initials “S.M.” after her name.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Dewey Decimal Classification is the name of the proceedings of a Workshop on the Teaching of Classification held at Columbia University on December 8-10, 1966. Edited by Maurice F. Tauber, Carlyle J. Frarey, and Nathalie C. Batts, the 121-page book may be obtained for so long as the edition lasts from the School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, for $3.50 each, postpaid. Orders aggregating less than $10.00 must be accompanied by payment with checks or money orders made payable to Columbia University.

• A limited number of copies of a 120-page Evaluation of the Serial Holdings of 24 Biomedical Libraries in Texas may be had upon application to its author, C. Lee Jones. Mr. Jones is director of the library at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The study, which was funded by the Regional Medical Program of Texas through the Texas Council of Health Sciences Libraries, is designed primarily to facilitate cooperative acquisitions programs and to aid in the strengthening of biomedical literature collections in Texas.

• In the series UNESCO Manuals for Libraries, a new work has just been published entitled International Distribution of Catalogue Cards: Report and Prospects. Written by R. S. Giljarevskij, editor of the news bulletin published by the State Library of foreign literature at Moscow, it contains the results of a study carried out in 1965-66 under a UNESCO contract with the International Federation of Library Associations. This study is based on replies to a questionnaire sent to 120 library associations, national libraries, and agencies and firms distributing catalog cards in thirty-twc countries. It describes the activities of card distribution centers and considers the desirability of the international distribution of printed catalog cards. It also discusses the international standardization of cataloging rules and the experiments with cataloging at source carried out in the United States and the USSR. Annexes contain the text of the questionnaire, a list of countries to which it was sent, the names and addresses of institutions which replied, a summary table of replies received, and some thirty sample catalog cards. The 94-page publication is available at $1.50 a copy from UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris Vile, France.

• Libraries Unlimited, Inc., P.O. Box 9842, Rochester, New York 14623, has begun publication of a new series in East European Area Studies under the editorship of Bohdan S. Wynar. The first volume is entitled Junior Slavica: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Books in English on Russia and Eastern Europe, by Stephan M. Horak, 244 p. $7.85. This bibliography of 611 titles is designed to emphasize material most useful in teaching courses in East European Area Studies on the undergraduate level and is a helpful selection guide for college libraries that support instructional offerings in this rapidly developing area studies field. Teachers and librarians will find suggestions for choosing the most valuable and purposeful titles to form the nucleus of a worthwhile slavic collection. Junior Slavica is especially useful as a student guide to selected readings in the social sciences. A notable part of the annotation for each book is the citation of published reviews of the work.

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1967. 1968. (xxv, 525 p.) For sale by the Card Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, D.C. 20541, at $15 a copy. An additional 2,244 collections of manuscript sources in American history are reported in the sixth volume of this series—which now describes 20,661 manuscript collections permanently housed in American repositories that are regularly open to researchers.

Covering subjects as diverse as abstract art, civil rights, football, theater, Vietnam, and elections, the collections listed in the new volume were reported by 89 repositories. Forty-four repositories are new to the series and bring the total number of cooperating repositories to 660, located in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone, and Puerto Rico. Bound with the new volume is a general index for 1967 entries intended as a base for a third cumulated index to the series; it provides some 32,340 references to an estimated 17,040 subjects and places, 11,400 personal names, and 3,900 corporate bodies. (The 1966 volume contained a cumulated general index for reports compiled in 1963-66.) Also in the 525-page 1967 volume is an index to repositories holding the collections of 1967, and two special lists begun in the 1965 volume: the first showing holders of copies of manuscripts whose originals have been reported by other institutions, and the second showing holders of original manuscripts for which copies have been reported by others.

The first volume of the series, covering entries prepared in 1959-61, appeared in 1962 from the press of J. W. Edwards, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., where it may be purchased for $9.75. A second volume, accompanied by an index volume for entries in the first two volumes, appeared in 1964 from the Shoe String Press, Hamden, Conn., which sells the second volume and the index at $13.50 for both. The last four volumes, produced by the Government Printing Office, are sold by the Library’s Card Division. The third volume is priced at $10 a copy, and the fourth, fifth, and present volumes are $15.

Suggestions regarding the compilation of the catalog and inquiries about taking part in the program should be addressed to Mrs. Arline Custer, Editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections in the Library’s Descriptive Cataloging Division. Queries about the manuscript collections described in the catalog should be sent to the repositories holding the materials.

• The Library of Congress has published, as a reference guide for preliminary research on nuclear science in Mainland China, an annotated listing of 615 research reports, studies, articles, and related materials in the Library collections. The 70-page paperback, entitled Nuclear Science in Mainland China: A Selected Bibliography, is for sale by Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 at 70 cents a copy. Part I of the bibliography contains 345 items in the Chinese language, mostly published between 1958 and 1966; Part II cites 270 items in other languages, mainly English, issued between 1964 and 1966, with a few 1967 publications. References in Part I are primarily writings of scientists and engineers of mainland China reporting original research and are technically oriented. Since most of the Chinese authors are not known in the West, the author’s affiliation, education, and reputation have been indicated whenever this information was available. References in Part II are mostly to journal and news articles published in the West—mainly in the United States—relating to the development and potential of mainland China’s nuclear program. An author index, a subject index, and a list of Chinese journals cited, with Chinese characters, are provided. Chi Wang, currently of the Library’s orientalia division, compiled this reference guide while a staff member of the science and technology division.

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• The first edition of UCMP/II, a book-form catalog produced from the computer tapes of the Union Catalog of Medical Periodicals, New York, N.Y., was published on 1 January 1969. The 515 page volume includes in one alphabetical list selected periodicals and serials pubfished prior to 1950 with holdings of eightythree libraries in the New York Metropolitan Area. The 5,500 entries—-titles and cross references—-reflect the rich retrospective research collections of the major medical libraries in New York City. Annuals and numbered monographic series are fisted. The buckram bound volume is priced at $11.50. Orders should be sent to the Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 102 Street, New York, N.Y. 10029.

• A new publication, United States of America National Bibliographical Services and Related Activities in 1965-67, has been issued by the reference services division of the American Library Association. This bibliographic essay was compiled by Mrs. Helen Dudenbostel Jones, head, bibliography and reference correspondence section, The Library of Congress. The 56-page booklet selling for $1.50 (10 or more copies, $1.25 each) describes bibliographies of books, theses, maps, audio-visual materials, and special subjects published and in production. Directories, union fists, and bibliographies of periodicals make up one chapter. Interlibrary cooperation activities and publications about them are described. The compilation can be an invaluable aid as a survey of the field, a book selection tool, and a reference book.

RQreprints of National Bibliographical Services and Related Activities in 1961-62 and National Bibliographical Services and Related Activities in 1963-64, both by Mrs. Jones, are available. The earlier one costs: 2-24 copies, 25 cents each; 25 copies, $5.00; 100 copies, $18.00. Prices of the other reprint are: 2-9 copies, 50 cents each; 10-24 copies, 45 cents each; 25 copies, $10.00. Single copies of these reprints are free. Orders with self addressed mailing labels and payment enclosed should be sent to Reference Services Division, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

Western Australian Institute of Technology

LIBRARY STUDIES

The Institute plans to commence teaching in 1970 for a three year undergraduate course in Library Science. A course for graduate entrants is also planned for 1971.

Details of establishment have not yet been finalised but as the Principal Librarian will be travelling in North America during April and May, he would be glad to meet persons interested in taking part in this significant new development. They should be interested in the design of curricula and in the introduction of recent technical developments in librarianship and library practice.

Current salaries which are under review are: Heads of

Departments $8,200 $8,600 or $9,000

Senior Lecturers $7,000 x 200 $7,600 $7,900 Lecturers $4,800 x 200 $6,800

Statements in duplicate giving full personal data and professional and teaching experience should be submitted to:

Mr. G. G. Allen, c/o The appropriate following addresses:

Australian Consulate General, 350 Post St.,

Union Sq., San Francisco (before 18th April)

Australian High Commission, 90 Sparks Street,

Ottawa 4, (before 25th April).

Australian Consulate General, 636 Fifth Ave.,

N.Y. 20, New York (before 6th May).

Anyone interested in future teaching positions in this field at the Institute should also contact Mr. Allen as above.

Further information may be had from, and applications after May 6 sent to:

Personnel Officer,

Western Australian Institute of Technology,

Hayman Road,

BENTLEY, W.A. 6102.