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ACQUISITIONS

• California State University, Fresno, has acquired the archives of Albert Kimsey Owen, founder of the utopian colony at Topolo- bampo, Sinaloa, Mexico. These archives were given to the University Library, Department of Special Collections, by Mr. Ray Reynolds of San Diego, who obtained them from the Owen family. These archives will be added to a smaller collection of materials on the colony and the Credit Foncier Company of Sinaloa. The smaller collection was given to the university in 1955 by Mrs. Viola Gabriel, of Fresno, who was born in the colony.

The Reynolds collection consists of over ten thousand letters, maps, documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and plans relating to the colony and the Credit Foncier Company. The Gabriel collection contains about eight hundred items of a similar nature, as well as an outstanding collection of nearly 100 photographs.

The combined collection constitutes the largest and most complete collection of materials on any American utopian venture of the late nineteenth century.

• The Special Collections of Ganser Library of Millersville State College, Millersville, Pennsylvania has received the papers of Richard Gehman. Given by his widow, Marianne, the collection includes scrapbooks relating to the publications of his works; original manuscripts of his novels, nonfiction works, and magazine articles, both published and unpublished; correspondence concerning his works; personal diaries; taped interviews with subjects of books and articles; photographs of Gehman during various phases of his life; leather bound copies of his longer books inscribed to Gehman by other authors. A native of Lancaster, Gehman became known as the “King of Freelance Writers,publishing 2,000 to 3,000 magazine articles; biographies of show business personalities; nonfiction works including Murder in Paradise, How to Write and Sell Magazine Articles, and Let My Heart Be Broken; and several novels, two of which are Driven and The Had.

• The library of Ohio State University has recently purchased a collection of rare books on the history of geology from Professor George W. White, a distinguished geologist and alumnus of the university. This acquisition constitutes a major addition to the library’s holdings in this field and will greatly facilitate studies on the early development of geology here, both by students and faculty.

• Mr. and Mrs. Barry Moyerman and Mrs. Samuel Moyerman of Philadelphia have given to the Hugh M. Morris Library of the University of Delaware one of the largest gifts in its history. Over a period of three years the library has added to its collections over 25,000 volumes. The books and pamphlets are particularly rich in local, state, and county histories of the Delaware Valley, directories, almanacs, eighteenth and nineteenth century travel, eighteenth century legal material, American theology, and materials reflecting American economic, political, and social conditions. In addition to the books and other printed and pictorial materials there are approximately 250,000 manuscripts. These papers primarily reflect the economic, social, and artistic life of eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania and particularly Philadelphia. There are also circa 65,000 items from the Philadelphia Customs House from 1790-1840. Included also are vast numbers of diaries, daybooks, ledgers, recipe books, and receipt books. Besides the books and manuscripts there are large numbers of political and theological broadsides and other ephemeral types of material reflecting all aspects of nineteenth century America.

The Morris Library has also been given a collection of over 600 volumes of eighteenth and nineteenth century Americana and illustrated books by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Y. Jeanes, Jr. of Wilmington, Delaware. Included in this collection are Audubon’s Birds of America (1840- 1844), seven volumes, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1853), six volumes, and Wilson’s American Ornithology (1808-1814), nine volumes. In addition to these are books relating to travel, politics, economics, and society in general during the early years of the republic. There is a large group of books on George Washington and many of the orations published shortly after Washington’s death. All of the books in this collection are in superb condition.

• The Air Force Academy library has received a collection of Air Letter Sheets, officially valued at more than $26,000. The collection was presented to Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., on behalf of the Academy by Mrs. Elizabeth T. Allen of Greenwich, Connecticut. In this collection are the Air Letter Sheets used by all of the countries throughout the world including those issued by the United Nations from 1941 through the present. Unique among the collection are the sheets used by Germany and given to the prisoners of war during their captivity in World War II.

• Books and correspondence relating to authors Stefan and Friderike Zweig have been donated to Reed Library at the State University College, Fredonia, New York. The materials, given by Mrs. Susanne Hoeller and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stoerk of Stamford, Connecticut, complement the extensive collection of materials relating to the Zweigs already held by Reed Library. Stefan Zweig, a noted Austrian man of letters, died in Brazil in 1942. His first wife, Friderike, was also active as a writer and had her own career as an essayist and biographer. She died in 1971. Mrs. Hoeller and Mrs. Stoerk are daughters of Friderike Zweig and the books donated by and about the two authors are from Friderike’s personal library. Also included in the gift are photographic copies of Stefan Zweig’s correspondence. The originals are held by the state library in Vienna, Austria.

• The Sir Isaac Newton Collection at Barson College in Massachusetts has recently acquired an annotated copy of the 1687 edition of Newton's Principia with corrections and alterations by both Newton and Edmond Halley. This copy was formerly in the possession of Miss Margaret Norman of Cremorne, Australia, having come to her from the library of her great-grandfather, James Sprent, a Scottish astronomer.

• The University of New Mexico Fine Arts Library has been given the archives of the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra.

The collection includes dozens of scrapbooks and several office file drawers, newspaper clippings, programs, letters to soloists and visiting conductors, and other mementos.

This collection will be kept in the Fine Arts Library for the use of faculty members, graduate students, and symphony orchestra staff members and officials, all of whom will have full access to it.

FELLOWSHIPS

• The Department of Health Education and Welfare has awarded the School of Library Science, Atlanta University, five fellowships to prepare library science students to work with various disadvantaged or minority groups in higher education. Fellows selected to participate receive a stipend of $3,000 a year with an allowance of $500 for each dependent. In addition, an allowance of $3,000 per fellow is paid to the institution to cover the cost of tuition and nonrefundable fees. Those interested in the program should contact the university.

GRANTS

• The Women’s History Library has received a grant of $50,457 from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The grant is for the first year (July 1973-June 1974) of an Intern and Consultation Program designed to train students, teachers, librarians, and women’s center organizers for three month periods in the collection procedures and internal organization techniques of the Women’s History Library.

The goal of the program is to enable interns to acquire the skills needed to create or augment their own women’s resource centers. The proposal does not provide stipends for the interns, but it is hoped that interested institutions will cooperate by offering academic credit to students and sabbaticals to teachers and librarians who would benefit from this program. Staff members of the library will also be available as consultants to those institutions who cannot send interns to the library.

For further information about the program, contact Connie Maske, Project Coordinator, Women's History Library, 2325 Oak Street, Berkeley, CA 94708 ( 415-524-7772).

MEETINGS

Sept.21: Scientific and Technological Lirrary Literature (SATELLITE) will be the subject of a one-day conference sponsored by the School of Library Science of the University of Iowa. The meetings of SATELLITE ’73 will proceed through four stages: stage 1, a lecture by H. Robert Malinowsky, science and engineering librarian at the University of Kansas, on recent developments in scientific and technological literature; stage 2, rotating minidemonstrations on bibliographical tools and retrieval techniques, led by representatives of major abstracting services; stage 3, lunch with guest speaker James A. Van Allen, Carver Professor of Physics at the University of Iowa and discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts; and stage 4, special interest group discussions for discipline areas and one for the small library.

Director of the conference is Jeanne Osborn, professor of library science at Iowa. A $10 fee includes registration, coffee, and lunch. To register, send your check payable to the University of Iowa, to the School of Library Science, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242.

Sept.21-22: Seminars on Systems Analysis. The first of a series of continuing education seminars on systems analysis will be sponsored jointly by the Northern Ohio and Pittsburgh chapters of the American Society for Information Science. This two-day session will be held at the Webster Hall Hotel adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh campus.

The seminar will consist of several workshop sessions oriented towards those who wish to acquire a working, practical knowledge of systems analysis as it applies to everyday library and information center operations. Workbooks will be provided and used throughout the seminar in conjunction with audio tapes, slide presentations, personal instruction, and interactive rap sessions.

Further information can be obtained from Ms. Brown, 901 Timberline Drive, Akron, OH 44313 or Dr. Montgomery, Information Science, 408 LIS Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Oct. 12: Libraries, Information and the Environmentwill be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel. The conference is being sponsored by the New York Chapters of the American Society for Information Science and the Special Libraries Association. Members will receive reservation forms in the mail. Others may obtain additional information from Carmela Carbone, Engineering Societies Library, 345 East 47th St., New York, NY 10017.

Oct.15-26: Archives Administration. The Twenty-Ninth Institute, Introduction to Modern Archives Administration, will be held at the National Archives Building. The institute will be directed by Dr. Frank B. Evans, assistant to the archivist, with Dr. Edward L. Weldon, of the Records Appraisal Division and editor of The American Archivist, serving as assistant director. While emphasizing public records and archives, the institute will feature a faculty experienced in all phases of work with archives and manuscripts, and is offered by the National Archives and Records Service as a professional service. It is accredited by the Department of History of the American University, and is cosponsored by the Library of Congress and the Maryland Hall of Records. Inquiries should be addressed to: Department of History; Twenty-Ninth Archives Institute; The American University; Washington, DC 20016, or telephone (202) 686-2401.

Oct. 20: The Hawaii Library Association will hold its fall conference at the Sheraton- Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. October 21 will be devoted to a state reading fair.

For information write Arlene D. C. Luster, 3501 Kepuhi St., Honolulu, HI 96815.

Oct.21-25: ASIS. The thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) will be held at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. For further information see the June News.

Oct.25-27: The Virginia Library Association annual conference will be held at the John Marshall Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

Oct.30-Nov. 2: Illinois Library Association.The seventy-seventh annual convention of the Illinois Library Association will be held at a Chicago location—the Sheraton O’Hare Hotel. The proposed theme for the conference is designed to reflect ILA’s goals: Initiative, Leadership, Action. Contact Illinois Library Association, Executive Offices, 716 Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611 for further information.

Nov. 7-10: The LiBrary-College Associates will present a four-day conference at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will be devoted to the theme Learning Without Walls, and will feature two noontime seminars that will enable every participant to make a personal contribution to the program. Interested persons may secure registration forms and additional information by writing to the Library-College Associates, Box 956, Norman, OK 73069.

Nov. 11-14: CATV and Its Implications for LiBraries. To be held at Allerton House, Robert Allerton Park, University of Illinois Conference Center, Monticello, Illinois. Co-sponsored by Illinois State Library and The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, and The Division of University Extension. Additional information may be obtained from: Leonard E. Sigler, Institute Supervisor (OS-89), 116 Ulini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820.

Dec.13-14: Library Instruction. The University of Denver will be sponsoring a conference on the evaluation of library instruction. Persons wishing conference information should contact Richard J. Beeler, reference department of Penrose Library, University of Denver, University Park, Denver, CO 80210.

MISCELLANY

• The National Agricultural Library announced recently the award of a contract for $27,392 to Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc. to provide on-line interactive bibliographic search and retrieval service for the CAIN (CAtaloging-INdexing) data base. This system is intended to serve primarily the bibliographic information needs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the library. Service will also be available to anyone in the agricultural community at a modest cost.

The bibliographic data for this system will be provided by NAL. A contractor is to provide for the conversion of the data base as required, computer storage and processing, search and retrieval capability, on-line access, and leased terminals to be installed at two NAL locations.

Further information is available from Lockheed representatives, Dr. Roger K. Summit, Department 52-08, Building 201, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303, and Mr. Robert Donati, 405 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017.

• Forty San Diego libraries have organized as the San Diego Greater Metropolitan Area Lirrary Council (SD Library Metro) to further cooperation and coordination of library services and collections in the county and to insure that the area’s libraries have resources necessary to meet the informational needs of all individuals and organizations. Current membership of SD Library Metro included most of the public libraries in San Diego city and county plus a good number of the special and military libraries and those located on the campuses of the state and private universities and community colleges. Also included are several private libraries such as the Sierra Museum, the Fine Arts Museum, the Jewish Community Center, and the County Law Library.

Only through a high level of cooperation among the libraries of San Diego have the informational needs of the area been met. Programs such as the Associated Science Library organization, the publication of the San Diego Area Library Directory, and the joint work of the San Diego Chapters of the California Library Association and Special Libraries Association have helped.

According to Thorne, the first effort of SD Library Metro has been the appointment of two working committees. The first is a committee to work on the development of an annotated directory of the member libraries which will include a description of each library collection listing such things as the strengths of each collection, how they can be further developed, and how they can be utilized by the public. The second committee will deal with the accessibility of the various collections through the development of a workable interlibrary loan system. In addition, SD Library Metro will soon start publication of a newsletter which will carry news of the various members including recent acquisitions, staff changes, and up-to- date descriptions of each collection.

• Approximately forty professionals and support staff members from Case Western Reserve University libraries in Cleveland recently attended a three and a half-day workshop led by John W. Demidovich, a faculty member at the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute at the State University at Buffalo.

Attendees participated in small group workshops in communication, group dynamics, and job enrichment. Additionally, the program included a “trust walk” in which participants played roles of “leader” and “follower” relating the experience to a boss-subordinate dependency situation.

Exercises in effective listening, cooperation, creative thinking, and specific suggestions to enrich library jobs were enthusiastically tackled by participants. An exercise in presenting an idea to the boss as well as role playing the boss was evaluated by peers at the workshop.

The program was concluded with a Saturday morning presentation by Michael Buckland, who was chairman of the ARL Management Review and Analysis Program at Purdue University where he is assistant director for technical services.

• The Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the nation’s oldest library school in continuous existence, announces a new postmaster (sixth year) program in urban librarianship and information science leading to an advanced certificate in Library and Information Studies. The program, approved by the New York State Education Department, will commence in the fall term.

In response to the increasing need for professional leadership and the high degree of manpower specialization now required by many libraries and information centers, GSLIS developed the program over the past two years through meetings with its alumni and students and with experts from the fields of urban librarianship and information science.

The program will be especially attractive to practitioners who, because of particular demands of their present positions, or who wish to advance professionally, therefore seek further training.

For further information interested persons should write Dr. Nasser Sharify, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 11205.

• The library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is cooperating with the University’s Educational Psychology department in a research study intended to investigate student use of instructional materials. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and utilizing eight PLATO IV terminals housed in the Undergraduate Library, the study hopes to evaluate and improve the quality of student study time.

The computer will maintain progress and retention records on each student participating in the experimental group; these will be compared with similar records of a control group. From the data generated by the experiment, a systems management manual will be produced by the project originators, Professors Richard C. Anderson, Thomas H. Anderson and H. Richard Smock, all of the University of Illinois Department of Educational Psychology. The project is expected to commence during the fall semester, 1973.

• A working organization calling itself the East Asian Bibliographic Group was established recently at a conference on East Asian Core Collections, at the Fairhaven campus of Western Washington State College, Bellingham.

The purposes of the group are the exchange of information and views on, and the promotion of, East Asian library development, particularly in the Pacific Northwest; the undertaking of various bibliographic activities, beginning with the preparation of core collection bibliographies of library materials recommended for high school, public, community college, and undergraduate college libraries; and the organization of fund-raising activities leading to the acquisition of core collections for these libraries throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Requirements for membership are limited to a willingness to participate. Any individual—librarian, teacher, administrator, student, friend —interested in fostering the development of East Asian library resources is invited to take part.

Conference coordinator William H. O. Scott, documents librarian, W.W.S.C., was appointed to continue serving as editor of the first edition of Recommended East Asian Core Collections, and to correlate the work now going forward on preliminary bibliographies of recommended vernacular materials.

PUBLICATIONS

• The Directory of Library Reprographic Services, 5th edition has been compiled and edited by Joseph Z. Nitecki, assistant director for technical services, Temple University and published for the Reproduction of Library Materials Section, RTSD by Microform Review Inc. The directory provides detailed information about the reprographic services of over 200 different photoduplication departments in the United States and abroad. In addition, the directory includes: a glossary of terms used in the directory, rules for requesting reprographic services, a sample library photoduplication order form, and United States Microfilm Rate Index, prepared by Robert C. Sullivan, Chief, Order Department, Library of Congress.

The directory costs $4.00 and may be ordered from Microform Review Inc., Rogues Ridge, Weston, CT 06880.

• French Reference Aids in the University of Toronto Library is number 16 of the Reference Series published by the University of Toronto Library. Compiled by Margaret Allan, it is a revision of the first edition published in 1963.

Close to 150 annotated entries are grouped according to type of publication—library catalogs, bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, theses lists, quotation sources, etc. An author and title index is provided. The publication is intended for students of French language and literature at all levels at the University of Toronto, but will be useful to anyone studying or teaching French.

It can be purchased for $3.00 from the Reference Department, University of Toronto Library, M5S 1A5.

• The Subject Cataloging Division of the Processing Department in the Library of Congress has published the 6th edition of Classification, Class Q, Science. It is available for $9 a copy from the Card Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, DC 20541.

• The LARC Association announces a new publication series entitled Computerized Serials Systems. Each volume in the series will consist of six issues published at bimonthly intervals in both paperback and hardbound editions. Each issue will be authored and edited by a person directly affiliated with the project reported, and each issue will be devoted to papers relating to an automated serials project undertaken by a specific library. The format of the new series is designed to promote understanding through clear narrative description and extensive illustrative materials.

Volume 1, number 1 (August 1973) is devoted to the computerized serials system at Clarion State College. Volume 1, number 2 (October 1973) will describe the development and operation of the University of Kansas UKASE serials record system.

For details concerning the purchase of individual issues of a subscription to the complete volume contact LARC Press, Ltd., 105-117 West Fourth Ave., Peoria, IL 61602.

• A recent publication of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science should be of interest to any library, agency, or group concerned with obtaining materials or building a collection relating to the environment. The volume, edited by George S. Bonn, containing the eighteenth Allerton Park Institute, Information Resources in the Environmental Sciences, included fifteen articles, a foreword, a summary by Herbert Goldhor, several indexes, a number of relevant appendixes, and a list of acronyms, all relating to the production, development, and use of environmental information resources.

This 240-page volume is available for $6 from the Illini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820.

• The Office of University Library Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries has issued volume 1, number 3, of the ARL Management Supplement. Entitled, Review of Collective Bargaining Activities in Academic and Research Libraries, this issue was edited by Dr. Joan Gotwals, assistant director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, and discusses the effect unionization has on library management. The Supplement also indicates specific institutions which have had experience with unionization and cites individuals at each institution who may be contacted for additional information.

Request for copies of this Supplement should be sent to the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each Supplement is $1.00 prepaid.

• King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has recently issued A Description of the George Korson Folklore Archive. Korson (1899- 1967) was a pioneer in the collection and study of the folklore and folk song of the American coal miner. The publication describes Korson’s life and work and the papers and books which make up the George Korson Folklore Archive. Copies are available for $3.00 from Judith Tierney, D. Leonard Corgan Library, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711.

• Maxine Johnston, formerly reference librarian and now associate director of libraries at Lamar University, has authored A Reference Librarian Reflects on Resources, Finance, and Networks. The eighteen-page paper, presented originally as a University Library Lecture on February 23, 1973, now has been issued as Texas A&M University Library Miscellaneous Publication 7. Priced at $1.00 a copy, orders may be placed with the Administrative Offices, University Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.