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COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES

News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• The Department of Special Collections of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas has recently acquired two large collections of English manuscripts: a collection in English local history and the North papers. The 4,000 local history manuscripts range from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth century, with the bulk of the documents from' the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and include significant groups from some twelve counties. The papers of the North family, around 3,750 items largely from Kittling Tower, the principal family seat, comprise several fine lots of deeds, other estate papers, and a substantial collection of eighteenth century political manuscripts. The material dates mostly from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries except for some earlier deeds. Included are subgroups concerning subsidies during the reign of James I, the Russia Company of the 1690’s, the Royal Fishery Company (ca. 1694-1720), and various government offices.

• Washington University libraries, St. Louis, has added to its Special Collection of Modern Literature a large group of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Howard Nemerov, poet, novelist, and former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The correspondence, dating from 1951 to the present, includes that of Reed Whittemore, Kenneth Burke, Kay Boyle, Bernard Malamud, Archibald MacLeish, John Crowe Ransom, and other colleagues of Nemerov and comprises about 750 items. In addition to drafts of individual poems and collections of poems, the group of worksheets includes variant drafts of the novel, Journal of the Fictive Life, and a sizable body of Nemerov’s essays and addresses. The collection is open for use.

• The widow of former Cornell University trustee Francis H. Scheetz has presented her late husband’s personal library of some 1,200 volumes to the university. The books, described by Mrs. Scheetz as “a gentleman’s library,” will form the core of a student library in the commons building of the new $12.7 million dormitory complex under construction at Cornell. Scheetz collected the 1,200 novels, short stories, and nonfiction books over a 50- year period, dating back to his student days at Cornell, where he was a member of the class of 1916. Mrs. Scheetz also presented four maps of the world prepared in 1740 and 1741 for King Louis XV of France to the University Libraries’ Collection of Regional History and the University Archives.

Two volumes described by bookmen as “very rare” have been presented as gifts to Cornell University. The books, first editions of the King James Version of the Bible and Les Chroniques de France, were presented by Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean. Dean said the gifts were given in behalf of the Cornell University Library Associates, a group which helps obtain important books and manuscripts for the university. Dean, a Cornell trustee, is president of Library Associates. The King James Bible is an exceptionally tall folio in an early, full-leather binding. This version of the Bible is traditionally said to be the greatest work in the English language. Les Chroniques de France is classified as an incunabulum, a term used to describe any book produced before 1500 from movable type. The four-volume work by Jean Froissart, the greatest historian of his age, is considered a principal source for the history of Western Europe in the fourteenth century. Despite its age, the paper is virtually unblemished since the pages are of pure rag stock.

• The Kent State University libraries announce the acquisition of four important groups of books and manuscripts for its collections. The first of these collections was presented by Kent State University trustee Robert L. Baumgardner as a memorial to his son, and it consists of over two hundred books, periodicals, and manuscripts of William Carlos Williams. The collection includes a number of presentation copies, Henry Miller’s annotated copy of A Novelette and Other Prose, and an uncorrected proof of the Autobiography. Among the manuscripts are twenty-six letters, typescripts of Paterson, Book I and Paterson, Book III, notes for a speech delivered by Williams at Dartmouth College in 1940, and the typescript of the first chapter of The Build-Up.

The university libraries recently purchased Hart Crane’s letters to his friend Charles Harris. The small but important collection consists of four holograph letters, four typewritten letters, and one postcard. Also included are four copies of poems by Crane, some of which vary from published versions, a broadside announcing the publication of the little magazine Secession which is annotated and signed by Crane, and obituaries on Crane from Cleveland, Ohio, newspapers.

Congressman Charles A. Mosher of Oberlin, Ohio, has presented his public papers, some forty cartons of them, to the Kent State University libraries. A member of Congress since 1960, Congressman Mosher is a member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics and its subcommittee on space science, and he also serves on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and on its subcommittee on oceanography. His papers concentrate on the formation of public policy in the fields of science and technology. Congressman Mosher plans to add to this collection on a yearly basis.

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THE PLAINS AND THE ROCKIES

LOSTCause Press has published, on Microcard, every item we have been able to find from the Wagner-Camp bibliography Plains and Rockies. We continue to search.

The first edition of H. R. Wagner’s bibliography came out in 1920 after some 27 years’ work of compilation. In 1937 a second edition was printed. From 1922 C. L. Camp shared the work with Mr. Wagner and revised the third edition. Included in this bibliography are books, magazine articles, Federal documents, some compilations and newspaper items of personal experience written between 1800 and 1865. Geographical scope includes the region lying between the Missouri River and the Sierra Nevada Cascades, from Mexico to the Arctic (with omission of Texas and what is now Western Louisiana — and in Canada everything East of the Red River).

The historical material we have assembled here on Microcard is essential to the student of pioneer history.

Approximately 537 volumes, postpaid $5,280.00*

On orders placed after December 30, 1969, the price will be $7,920.

A set of catalog cards will be included with this shipment, at no additional charge.

*Duplicates of items already in library collections may be returned for credit within six months after receipt of shipment.

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CRITIQUE: STUDIES IN MODERN FICTION, 1963-68 $ 14.00

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MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Volumes 1-30 (1877-93)………………..$ 150.00

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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS. Volumes 1-50 (1857-1927) $ 125.00

YALE LAW REVIEW. Volumes 1-25 (1891-1916) $ 170.00

The university libraries have acquired, by gift and purchase and the generous cooperation of the Kent State University Foundation, the B. George Ulizio collection of English and American literature. This great collection of over 1,500 volumes is remarkable for its scope, its depth in certain authors, the fine condition of all the volumes, and the unique association value of many of the books. It adds a dimension to the university libraries’ ability to support significant research and teaching programs, and no doubt these books will be of continuing value for future generations of students and faculty. Authors represented in some depth in the American section of the collection include Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and John Steinbeck. The English section contains good collections of Lewis Carroll, W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. Upon the completion of the new Kent State University library building in 1970, the B. George Ulizio collection of English and American literature will become a prominent feature of the Department of Special Collections, adding great strength to the libraries’ growing American poetry collection and strengthening its literature collections generally.

• Philip Roth, noted novelist, has recently given his papers to the Library of Congress. Included in the first installments are manuscripts of all four of his books, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959, winner of the National Book Award), Letting Go (1962), When She Was Good (1967), and Portnoy’s Complaint (1968) and manuscripts of many articles, stories, and plays, both published and unpublished. His entire writing career is fully documented, from his days as editor and writer for the student literary magazine at Bucknell University through his latest book.

AWARDS AND GIFTS

• Syracuse University’s new doctoral program in information transfer will benefit from a trust fund established two years ago by the late H. J. Gaylord of Gaylord Brothers, Inc., a Syracuse library supply house, according to Roger C. Greer, dean of the university’s School of Library Science. The Gaylord Doctoral Fellowships provide full tuition and fees, a $3,000 stipend for the academic year and an additional account for expenditures for study materials and travel to professional meetings. Three students in the first information transfer group have been selected as Gaylord Fellows, with more expected to be named next year, Greer said.

The new program is an attempt to extend the role of the librarian so that he will have some of the skills needed to analyze the information needs of organizations, individuals, and populations and to supervise appropriate information collection, storage, and dissemination procedures, according to Greer. “The program brings the content areas of the behavioral sciences, information systems and research methodology to bear upon specific topics and problems in information transfer,” Greer said. “It will use University resources, offer team teaching in doctoral seminars and require active student participation in research projects.”

• A $5,000 gift from the parents of one of its student “pioneers,” a four-year graduate in the Class of ’69, has been received by the University of California, Santa Cruz to establish the “Kerr-McHenry Fund for the Adlai E. Stevenson College Library.”

Named in joint honor of Dr. Clark Kerr, the “father of the University of California, Santa Cruz,” and University of California, Santa Cruz, Chancellor Dean E. McHenry, who has transformed the University of California, Santa Cruz concept into one of the nation’s leading exponents of innovation in higher education, the Fund will be used for the purchase of books and library materials for the Stevenson College Library on the University of California, Santa Cruz, campus. At the request of the donors, who wish to remain anonymous, arrangements have been made “so that others, if they cared to, might contribute to the ‘Kerr- MeHenry Fund.’ ”

Opened last spring (1969), the Adlai E. Stevenson College Library was constructed from private gift monies. The funds were given by a number of individual donors, nineteen of whom made contributions ranging from $250 to $50,000.

• Some 12,000 books and nearly 6,000 issues of journals have been collected by the University of Oregon library for shipment to Asia during the past fourteen years, according to university librarian, Carl Hintz. The university library has participated in the Asia Foundation’s program “Books for Asian Students,” since its inception in 1955, he said. The library maintains a collection bin in the Circulation Lobby on a continuing basis. Once the books are collected they are given a preliminary screening and forwarded to San Francisco at the foundation’s expense. In San Francisco, the books are screened a second time and distributed to seventeen Asian countries ranging alphabetically from Afghanistan to Vietnam.

Virtually all categories of scholarly, scientific, and technical books and journals are needed in recent editions, Hintz said. Also in demand are secondary school level books of recent date in literature, science, world history, world geography, and industrial arts. Such books are needed in Asia because of the use of English as an international language, Hintz said. Without books in English, Asian educators, scholars, businessmen, and government officials cannot keep up with the latest trends in their fields. “Unfortunately,” he noted, “in most Asian countries the publishing industry is hard pressed to produce the number of books needed in the local languages, let alone fulfill the need for books in English. To date, more than 750 American colleges and universities, as well as numerous publishers, booksellers, civic and service organizations, librarians, and private citizens have donated more than seven million books and journals.

GRANTS

• Dakota State Collegehas recently received a $12,210 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop guidelines for the planning, development, and organization of the archival collection of Senator Karl E. Mundt. The organization of the archival library, which contains the personal papers of the Senator, government documents, memorabilia, and other archival materials housed in the lower level of the Karl E. Mundt library, will serve as a model for libraries and librarians faced with the handling of similar archival collections. David C. Genaway, newly appointed director of the Karl E. Mundt library, will coordinate the work of a clerical assistant and four consultants. In addition, he will visit several presidential libraries to gain insight as to how to make the material most accessible. The consultants will represent four different aspects of librarianship. An archivist will help develop a system of arranging the materials and providing an index to the collection. The government documents librarian will assist in the processing and arrangement of government publications. A media specialist will aid in obtaining filmstrips, recorded speeches, and original correspondence of the Senator. He will also give advice on how to disseminate information about the collection through the Instructional Media Center of the college and the news media in general. A historian, specializing in the twentieth century, will establish criteria for evaluation procedures for each item and for special terms used to provide a topical approach to the collection. The systematic planning and development of an accurate system will insure easier access to Senator Mundt’s materials by scholars, researchers, and other interested parties. Since the collection will not circulate, the materials must be used on the premises. South Dakota community members and students from other South Dakota colleges, in addition, will have indirect access through interlibrary loan of photocopies. A listing of materials in the collection has been requested by the South Dakota State Library Commission in Pierre, the Rocky Mountain Bibliographic Center in Denver, and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C.

• The Library of Congress has received an Officer’s Grant of $25,000 from the Council on Library Resources, Inc. to implement the first phase of a Retrospective Conversion (RECON) Pilot Project for the conversion of retrospective cataloging records to the MARC II format. The RECON Pilot Project is the result of a feasibility study supported by CLR and conducted by a working task force under the direction of Mrs. Henriette D. Avram, assistant coordinator of Information Systems.

• The Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a grant of $230,000 to the National Council of Churches for a Cooperative Library Center for joint purchasing and technical processing. The Center is for Miles College (CME), Oakland College (Seventh-Day Adventist), Stillman College (Presbyterian, U.S.), Talladega College (AMA and United Church of Christ), Tuskegee Institute (Independent) —all in Alabama—and Tougaloo College (AMA and Disciples of Christ) in Mississippi. The Center will be in Atlanta, Georgia. Officers of the Center are Dr. Luther H. Foster of Tuskegee Institute, president; Dr. Lucius H. Pitts of Miles College, secretary; and Dr. Herman H. Long of Talladega College, treasurer. The director of the Center is Hillis D. Davis.

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

• Two important representatives of Polish Standards Bodies have just completed a twoday visit to the British Standards Institution as part of an agreement signed between BSI and the Polish Standards Organization PKN in 1967, for cooperation in the field of standardization.

Professor S. Janicki, Director of the Polish Research Centre for Standardization, and W. Moser, Director of PKN, held discussions with BSI officials on electronic data processing and mechanized information retrieval, the reliability of electronic equipment, modular coordination in building, and general work in information science. In Warsaw Professor Janicki has done considerable work on common factors affecting reliability (especially of electrical and electronic equipment), on classification, and on the standardization of terminology (particularly internationally acceptable definitions and terms for use with mechanized data processing techniques). These latest talks have produced a measure of agreement between the British and Polish organizations on the translation of terminology. The Polish representatives have shown interest in the BSI method of modular coordination in building based on controlling dimensions, as modular coordination is required by law in Poland.

Commenting on the exchanges, Professor Janicki said that they had been extremely useful. Standardization concepts had, in the past, been based on general experience. He stated that they should be based solely on scientific and technical conclusions. He believed that the discussions which had taken place had been with this aim and that they would lead to mutual cooperation in experience and standardization technology between the United Kingdom and Polish standards organizations, enabling the maximum profit to be made from technological advances and leading to the freer interchange of trade between the two countries.

• The Chemical Society (London) has announced formation of a United Kingdom Chemical Information Service (UKCIS) to provide computer-based information services to scientists in the United Kingdom and Ireland from data supplied by the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstracts Service. Dr. W. E. Batten, manager of the central information unit at Imperial Chemical Industries, will become director of the new agency, which will be located at Nottingham. The Chemical Society’s research unit at the University of Nottingham, which has been processing CAS computer tape services on an experimental basis since 1967, will be expanded to play a major role in the UKCIS.

The Chemical Society, which recently acquired exclusive rights to distribute CAS publications and computer-based information services in the United Kingdom under an agreement with the American Chemical Society, plans to expand the application of CAS computer systems and services in the United Kingdom and develop a system for processing information from British chemical journals and patents into the CAS computer data store. The Chemical Society is acting on behalf of a consortium of ten British scientific and professional societies. The Chemical Society–ACS agreement, which was approved by the governing bodies of the two societies last April, is the first step in an effort to bring about broader international participation in the computer-based chemical information system that Chemical Abstracts Service has been developing for most of the last decade. Some 70 per cent of the information processed by CAS originates outside of the United States, and most of the chemists in the western world depend upon CAS as their principal source of digested and indexed information. CAS is seeking to share the burden of preparing and disseminating this information with qualified organizations overseas. CAS expects the British agreement to serve as a model for future agreements with organizations in other nations. Experimental computer information centers patterned after the one at Nottingham are now operating at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the Danmarks Tekniske Bibliotek in Copenhagen, and The National Science Library in Ottawa. Since early 1968, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes the western European nations, Canada, Turkey, Japan, and the United States, has been encouraging cooperation between CAS and analogous organizations in its member nations, and eleven nations are now involved in some degree of activity under this program.

• The University of Warwick (Coventry, England) library has been awarded a grant of ţ.9,000 over three years by the Nuffield Foundation to assist in the creation of a statistical reference center. As a result of extensive deposits from the Statistics and Market Intelligence Library of the Board of Trade, the university is now in a position to begin organizing a collection of statistics which will be the largest of its kind in the country outside London. The collection will be international in scope and will be devoted to economic statistics of all kinds although demographic statistics and others will be included. The library is still searching for and collecting statistical reports of all kinds from every source. Within a matter of two or three years the collection is likely to develop into an exceedingly valuable resource of raw material for planning in financial development and in marketing by the research divisions of industry and commerce. The collection will also be put to special use by the university’s School of Economics, which has a special interest in econometrics, and the School of Industrial and Business Studies is expected to make increasing use of the collection as it develops. The Nuffield grant will provide staff to assist in classifying and organizing the vast quantities of material involved. The handling of information by users is already being helped by the installation of a calculating machine and future planning will take into account the possibility of a direct link with the university’s computer.

MEETINGS

Nov. 5-8: The Library-College Associates will hold an interdisciplinary conference entitled, “A Library Dimension for the Higher Learning,” at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-8,1969. Participants who will be featured at this conference include: Henry S. Commager, Historian, Amherst College; Woodburn O. Ross, Dean of Instruction, Wayne State University; Louis Shores, Dean Emeritus, Florida State University; Sister Helen Sheehan, Librarian, Trinity College; and Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University. To obtain reservations and further information on this conference, address inquiries to Mrs. Dorcas Scalet, Library-College Associates, Box 956, Norman, Oklahoma 73069.

Nov. 7-10: The Fourth Annual Colloquium on Oral History will be held at Airlie House near Warrenton, Virginia, according to Dr. Gould P. Colman, of Cornell University, president of the Oral History Association. The George C. Marshall Research Library of Lexington, Virginia, will act as co-host for the Airlie meeting.

Among the fcereatured speakers will be Mrs. Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August; former Ambassador Lucius D. Battle; Saul Benison, of Brandeis University, on the critical evaluation of oral history products; David W. Cohen, The Johns Hopkins University, on field studies of traditional African history; and Nathan Reingold, Editor of the Joseph Henry papers, on a critic’s impressions of oral history. Other topics include legal problems affecting oral history programs, a review of studies on the accuracy of oral interviews, and the use of film supplements to complement oral interviews. There will also be demonstrations and exhibits of the latest in tape recording equipment suitable for the needs of the oral historian. The program has been developed under the chairmanship of Dr. Peter Olch of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Offis of the Oral History Association for 1969 are: President, Dr. Colman; Vice-President, Dr. Oscar Winther of Indiana University; Secretary, Mrs. Alice M. Hoffman, Pennsylvania State University; Treasurer, Knox Mellon, Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles. Council members are: Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, director of the George C. Marshall Research Library; Mrs. Willa Baum, director of the University of California at Berkeley Oral History project, and Dr. Olch.

Participants at the four-day Airlie meeting will be charged an inclusive fee of $100 to cover administrative costs, meals, and lodging (a double room). A single room is $12 extra. Daily rates will be available proportional to the registration fee. For further information or reservations, write: Royster Lyle, Jr., colloquium coordinator, The George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia 24450.

Nov. 9-14: A five-day course designed to give business and industrial training directors and training specialists an intensive indoctrination into the use of audiovisuals to assist in their regular training duties will be held November 9-14, on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. The event, the Sixth Annual Audio-Visual Institute for Effective Communications, is jointly sponsored by the Industry and Business Council of the National Audio-Visual Association and the Audio-Visual Center of Indiana University. Tuition for the Institute is $250 and enrollment is limited to 110 persons. A descriptive brochure is available from NAVA/IU Institute, 3150 Spring Street, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.

Nov. 10-14: James L. Mayfield, director of libraries at Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas, has announced plans for the Second Conference on Library Automation for the Small and Medium-Size Library. Presented in cooperation with the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association, the conference, limited to twenty participants, will meet in Moffett Library November 10-14, 1969. A registration fee of $30 will be charged. Interested persons are invited to write for further information to James L. Mayfield, Director of Libraries, Midwestern University, 3400 Taft Boulevard, Wichita Falls, Texas 76308.

Nov. 29: “Libraries and Learning” will be the subject of the 55th annual Eastern College Librarians Conference to be held at Columbia University. The conference will explore methods by which students acquire knowledge in academic institutions and how librarians can assist. Speakers will cover current trends in education, new concepts of learning, and the involvement of faculty, librarians, and students as a working consortium. Registration fee $5.00.

Dec.6-11: 1969 Galaxy Conference of Adult Education Organizations, sponsored by the Committee of Adult Education Organizations. Location of the conference will be the Shoreham and Sheraton Park Hotels, Washington, D.C. The conference theme is Learning to Change: A Social Imperative. Its purposes are:

To provide individual members of adult education organizations with greater opportunity for professional growth;

To strengthen the work of all adult education organizations through joint consideration of matters of common concern;

To provide organizations of adult education with a platform from which to speak with one voice on matters of great national concern.

More than 4000 leaders in adult and continuing education organizations will participate. Galaxy Conference is a concurrent meeting of those associations with a major concern for adult and continuing education. Full membership meetings will be held by the following:

Adult Education Association of the USA Adult Student Personnel Association Association of Field Services in Teacher Education

Association of University Evening Colleges Council of National Organizations for Adult Education

National Association of Public School Adult Educators

National University Extension Association United States Association of Evening Students

Divisional, sectional, board and special group meetings will be held by:

American Association of Junior Colleges American Library Association, Adult Services Division

Extension Committee on Organization and Policy of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

International Congress of University Adult Education

National Education Television

University Council on Education for Public

Responsibility.

Observers from national and international agencies will also be on hand.

At least two Galaxy General Sessions will be held on Sunday afternoon and Monday afternoon. A reception is also scheduled for early Sunday evening. Participating organizations will develop their own programs for times other than during the General Sessions. The programs will be based on the general theme of the conference. A statement of “Imperatives for Action” will be the basis for a major address by a leading educator to be delivered at one of the General Sessions of the Conference. In turn, these “Imperatives for Action” will serve as a basis for discussions in the separate programs of participating organizations.

Jan.16-18, 1970: The Association of American Library Schools, annual meeting, Graduate Library School, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Jan.19-21, 1970: A three-day seminar on the evaluation of information retrieval systems is to be presented by Westat Surveys, Inc., in Chicago.

The seminar will cover the following areas: criteria for measuring performance of retrieval systems; factors affecting performance; components and characteristics of indexing languages; design and conduct of an evaluation program; analysis and interpretation of evaluation results; application of results to improve system performance; evaluation of economic efficiency; continuous quality control.

Instructors will be F. W. Lancaster and D. W. King. Mr. Lancaster, who is the author of Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation (Wiley, 1968), recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of MEDLARS at the National Library of Medicine. He will be the author of the chapter on evaluation in the 1970 volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and T echnology.

Mr. King, a specialist in statistics and operations research, is the author of the 1968 Annual Review chapter on evaluation and coauthor of the Procedural Guide for the Evaluation of Document Retrieval Systems prepared by Westat for the National Science Foundation.

Tuition for the three-day seminar, including course materials, is $200.00. A limited number of registrants will be accepted for each session. Reservations may be made through Westat Surveys, Inc., 7979 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Telephone: (301) 652-8223.

Jan.26-28, 1970: A three-day seminar on the evaluation of information retrieval systems is to be presented by Westat Surveys, Inc., in San Diego. For details see entry above.

Mar.16-18, 1970: Space age requirements of colleges and universities, in areas of administrative structure, physical environment and financing of new programs, will be the focal points of the 1970 International College & University Conference & Exposition to be held March 16-18, 1970, at the Atlantic City, N.J., Convention Hall, according to Georgette N. Mania, ICUCE program director and editor of American School & University, sponsoring publication.

As in 1969, the conference format will include morning plenary sessions, afternoon workshops and an exposition of the latest and most interesting developments in equipment, office machines, furnishings, maintenance items, food service systems and other products and services for educational institutions.

May8-9, 1970: Fifteenth annual Midwest Academic Librarians Conference at Drake University and Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa.

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

Sept.14-24, 1970: 35th FID Conference, Buenos Aires. The Conference will be organized by the FID National Member in Argentina: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Rivadavia 1917—R. 25, Buenos Aires, Argentina, attn: Mr. R. A. Gietz.

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.

PUBLICATIONS

• American Drama Bibliography: A Checklist of Publications in English has been published by the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Public Library. It was compiled by Dr. Pat M. Ryan, professor of English at the State University College at Brockport, New York. The 247- page volume contains English language listings of biography, criticism, and history. The bibliography is divided into three major sections; reference, general background, and individual authors.

• Astronomical Literature in the Ernst Ztn- ner Collection, a Checklist, compiled by Gerald Johns has been published by the Friends of the Library of San Diego State College. The 67-page bibliography, containing nearly a thousand entries, includes books on the history of astronomy published between 1485 and the present. Interested persons may receive a free copy by writing to the Director of Libraries, San Diego State College, San Diego, California 92115.

• The alphabetical arrangement of simple entries in bibliographies, catalogues, directories, indexes, and lists of all kinds is the primary concern of the revised BS 1749 Alphabetical Arrangement and the Filing Order of Numerals and Symbols. It also gives guidance on the arrangement—not solely alphabetical —of complex entries, and on the filing of numerals and symbols. Since 1951, when the first edition of this standard appeared, there have been many new developments in librarianship, publishing, and allied fields, and information retrieval systems have become increasingly dependent upon the computer. The present edition takes account of these changes.

The main differences between the first edition and the present edition are to be found in the rules for dealing with numerals and symbols, hyphens and apostrophes, groups of initials, and complex entries. Whereas the first edition recommended that all numerals and symbols should be arranged as if spelled out (and thus interfiled alphabetically with other entries), the present edition allows for the alternative of separate filing orders. The previous edition distinguished between hyphens used to join together true words and those used to join a prefix to a word, and prescribed different treatment for them. This is virtually impossible to achieve with automatic filing by computer, and has thus been omitted from the present standard. Moreover, the use of hyphens with prefixes is gradually dying out, and the few cases where the retention of the hyphen is essential do not seem to justify any longer the complication and intellectual effort involved in perpetuating the dual rule. It is further recommended that apostrophes, as well as hyphens, should be treated as spaces for filing purposes. The proliferation of groups of initials, and the diversity of their presentation in writing (e.g., N.A.T.O., NATO, Nato), have made it almost impossible to prescribe rules governing when to treat the initials of a group as separate words, and when to treat the group as a whole—pronounceability alone is a very treacherous guide, and reliance on typography will almost certainly in most cases separate similar entries. This standard therefore recommends the already common practice of treating groups of initials and abbreviations as whole words unless they are deliberately set out with spaces between the components to indicate that they are to be regarded as separate words. The filing of complex entries often necessitates a departure from strict alphabetical order, and, as individual requirements vary, only general guidance can be given. Nevertheless, the approach of the original standard to complex entries has been considerably revised in an attempt to clarify this question. Copies of BS 1749: 1969 may be obtained from the British Standards Institution Sales Branch at 101/113 Pentonville Road, London N.l. Price 8s each (10s including postage to nonsubscribers).

• C/I/L Patent Abstractsis a new bimonthly journal consisting of the official abstracts and graphics describing newly granted United States patents relative to the computer, information and library sciences. Edited by Leonard Cohan, director of libraries, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, this selective current-awareness tool permits rapid scanning of pertinent items otherwise scattered throughout the many irrelevant thousands appearing monthly in the U.S. Patent Office’s Official Gazette. Abstracts appear in their entirety and are arranged sequentially according to patent number. Patent titles have been permuted and indexed by key words (KWIC Index) to accelerate retrieval of items of specific interest. Each bimonthly issue contains approximately two hundred patents selected as applicable from those appearing in the Gazette during the previous two-month period. Publication commenced with the July-August 1969 issue and a subscription for 1969 (3 issues) is priced at $17.50; for 1970 (6 issues), $35.00. A special introductory subscription covering both 1969 and 1970 is offered at only $45.00. Subscriptions and requests for sample copies should be sent to the publisher, Science Associates/International, Inc., 23 East 26th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010.

• The Ohio State University Libraries announces the publication of Cooperative System of Ohio Art Libraries by Jacqueline D. Sisson. The results of this study outline the plans for the establishment of a cooperative network of Ohio Art Libraries. Academic, Special, and Public Libraries are included. The study reveals that these several libraries jointly possess a major art research resource. In addition to sharing, it was decided that a clearly defined program outlining areas of responsibility of each library would result in better use of funds for purchase of retrospective materials. It recommends joint requests for additional financial assistance and the establishment of a cooperative buying program. The research for this project was supported by the State Library of Ohio under the Library Services and Construction Act, Title III. Copies can be obtained from the Personnel and Budget Office, The Ohio State University Libraries, 1858 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, price $2.00.

• Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the publication of The Counseling Psychologist, a publication of critical review and evaluation of important professional issues in the area of counseling psychology. The format consists of a lead article concerned with a crucial issue in the area of counseling and psychotherapy, written by a distinguished contributor in the field, followed by a series of reviews and critiques by other well-known authors in the same field. The author of the lead article then has the opportunity for a rejoinder. A forum for discussion of the issues, in addition to other relevant matters to the field, will be included in each issue. The Counseling Psychologist is designed to be of interest to psychologists and counselors in schools, colleges, universities, public and private agencies, business and industry. All members of Division 17, the Counseling Psychology section of the American Psychological Association, will receive this journal as part of their membership. Other interested persons or institutions may subscribe. The Counseling Psychologist will be published four times a year. Back issues are currently available at $2.50 each.

• Digital Storage of an Academic Library Book Collection—N on-Technological Information To Aid Consideration,by Wallace C. Olsen, Research Associate of EDUCOM, The Interuniversity Communications Council. The Staff Paper dated April 1969 contains 350 pages including 20 figures and 95 tables. The multilithed document is available for $8.00 from EDUCOM, 100 Charles River Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.

This report provides summary, largely quantitative, profiles of academic institutions and their libraries. The needs and uses of information by people in academia are identified and analyzed; the academic library’s role in serving those people is drawn and the more traditional relationships and services discussed. Some new characterizations and tabular displays of obsolescence, language concentrations, and related parameters are provided. A brief chapter furnishes data on world and U.S. publication rates and their relationship to academic libraries. Extensive statistical data with some narrative analyses is reported from a study conducted by EDUCOM of the graphics represented in the books of a university library. This study provides extensive quantification of types of illustrations, their numbers and relative placement, all questions essential to consideration of the digital storage concept. Only those factors closely related, considered tremendously influential or not apt to be readily known by technologists were considered. Likewise the technological and equipment knowledge which the technologist has are not considered. This report was written in response to needs expressed by conferees at an EDUCOM meeting in 1967 at which they agreed that detailed investigation and experimentation should be directed toward textual digital storage of portions of an academic library’s book collection. Detailed data to aid industrial and other technologists in matching equipment and economics with the academic setting and needs were considered essential but lacking.

• An information Brochure about the Educational Media Selection Centers Project, administered by the National Book Committee, is being distributed nationally to a wide range of specialists and agencies in the education and library fields. It provides a brief description of each of the four phases of the seven and onehalf year survey/demonstration which has been designed to help develop effective selection centers for use by educators and other adults. Phase I, now in progress, was funded by the Bureau of Research of the U.S. Office of Education and launched in September, 1968. Also identified in the Brochure are Project staff and Executive Advisory Council members. Imprinted in two colors on yellow stock, the fourfold Brochure is sized to fit a # 10 envelope and is available free of charge in single or multiple copies. Address requests to: Brochure, Educational Media Selection Centers Project, One Park Avenue, New York City 10016. When requesting bulk quantities for redistribution, please identify groups or meetings for which they are intended.

• A research report sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, entitled “An Investigation of Personality Characteristics Among Library Students at One Midwestern University,” is available for free distribution. The report is an outcome of Project No. 7-8373 directed by Howard Clayton during the 1967-68 academic year. Much of the data for this study was gathered by means of the California Psychological Inventory and substantial help in analyzation came from the author of the CPI, Dr. Harrison Gough, University of California-Berkeley. Anyone wishing to procure a copy of the report may do so by writing to the School of Library Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73069.

• The Society for Nutrition Education has announced the publication of the Journal of Nutrition Education. The Journal will emphasize the scientific, cultural, and social aspects of nutrition with respect to the development of food habits. The subscription rate is $5.00 per year. Subscriptions may be placed through Helen D. Ullrich, Editor, Journal of Nutrition Education, 119 Morgan Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720.

• Miss Ruth C. Main, a Reference Department staff member, recently completed an indepth study entitled Newspapers in Kent State University Libraries. The study is rather enlightening in regard to the library’s “hidden wealth.” The total number of newspapers in the Kent State University libraries as of June 1969 is 1,163, including Evans (758 titles) and Negro newspapers (209 titles). The titles are variously arranged: alphabetically, foreign language, country, Negro newspapers, special discipline, currently received; plus newspaper indexes, bibliography, and an Addendum: “Retention Period of Newspapers Currently Received.” A copy may be requested through the Reference Department, Kent State University Libraries, Kent, Ohio 44240.

• A&A Paperback Distributors, Inc. has published a new catalog covering material of use in “black studies” programs and Negro history. Entitled 1,158 Black Studies, the catalog classifies by subject 1,158 current paperback editions of books appropriate for such programs. The A&A list includes not only books on Negro America, but studies of a variety of African topics, and of general world concern with racial matters. The catalog may be obtained free by writing on school, library, or store letterhead to Aaron Rabinovitz, A&A Paperback Distributors, Inc., Mear Road, Holbrook, Massachusetts 02343.

• The Ohio State University Libraries announces the publication of the 1969 edition of Periodicals and Newspapers Currently Received in the Ohio State University Libraries. This publication is an alphabetical listing of the more than 8,000 periodical titles received in the Ohio State University libraries. Information includes title, call number, and location. The periodicals listed represent about half of the serial publications currently received by the libraries. In order to qualify for inclusion in this listing the periodical must be regularly issued at least twice a year and must be currently received. Other serials, such as annuals, and irregularly issued publications are not included here. Also, those retrospective periodical holdings for which the university does not have a current subscription are omitted. Copies may be obtained from the Personnel and Budget Office, The Ohio State University Libraries, 1858 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Price $5.50.

• Recommended Practice for the Protection of Library Collections from Fire (NFPA No. 910) has just been published in its final form by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Adopted at the 1969 NFPA Annual Meeting, this new 32-page text will prove to be an invaluable guide to library administrators and trustees in determining fire protection needs of existing facilities as well as of new ones. Sections of NFPA No. 910 concern library construction, equipment, operation and maintenance; building alterations and renovations; and fire protection equipment, organization, and training. There are case histories illustrating many ways in which recent library fires began and spread, and an especially useful appendix on salvage of wet books. Chairman of the NFPA Committee on Libraries, Museums and Historic Buildings which has developed this new manual is Deputy Chief Elliott W. Jayne of the Alexandria (Va.) Fire Department. The same committee is responsible for another new standard, NFPA No. 911, on protection of museum collections. Copies of the 1969 edition of Recommended Practice for the Protection of Library Collections from Fire (NFPA No. 910) (32 pages, 75 cents) are available from the National Fire Protection Association, 60 Batterymarch Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.

• A new bibliography on resources of American research libraries, Resources of Research Libraries, by William V. Jackson, has recently been published. The bibliography is available from the University of Pittsburgh Book Center, 4000 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. Price $3.00.

• Serials: A MARC Format, 1969. This is a working document (72 p.) prepared by the Information Systems Office. A limited number of copies are available upon request to the Office of the Secretary, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540. As one of a series of MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) formats, the serials format describes the data elements pertaining to bibliographic and control information that would apply to a serial regardless of where it is held. Whenever possible, the descriptions for the data elements are identical to those found in the MARC format for monographs to aid libraries who wish to process monographs and serials in the same way. The format has been designed to provide several products, such as a machine-readable record, a printed card, or bibliographic listings.

• The Ohio State University Libraries announces publication of two indexes—United Nations Security Council Index, 1946-1964 and United Nations Economic and Social Council Index, 1946-1963—compiled by John Deardorff. These indexes are a seriatim listing of the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council document numbers located in the Official Records of the Councils. The indexes include the document numbers of those documents actually presented in the Official Records, plus those numbers given in the various checklists of the Official Records. However, the source for locating the document is given. Most of the numbers, listing material not found in the Official Records, are mimeographed items. The United Nations Microcard Collection contains the full text of many of the mimeographed items from the year 1954 to the present. The preliminary material includes a chronology correlating sessions with the calendar year, a list containing the document numbers of items missing from The Ohio State University collection and a list of abbreviations and the more common symbols. The indexes are arranged in columns including such information as the documents number, the session number, the number of the supplement in which the document is found, and other sources. The user of the index scans the fist until he locates the number desired and reads across to its location. Copies may be purchased from the Personnel and Budget Office, The Ohio State University Libraries, 1858 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Price $6.00 each, or $12.00 for the set.