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ACQUISITIONS

• A rare first edition of Friar Ambrosius Calepinus’ Dictionarium, published in 1502, has been added to the Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at the Indiana State University Cunningham Memorial Library in commemoration of the inauguration of Dr. Richard G. Landini as ISU’s eighth president. The work was acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., rare book dealer.

Friar Calepinus of Bergamo, Italy, based this landmark Dictionarium on the pioneer work “Suidas,” which was reportedly compiled by 1,000 or more authors. The Suidas Lexicon Graecum, first edition published in 1499, is a work held in the ISU Cordell Collection of rare dictionaries.

Friar Calepinus’ work, known as the “Calepine,” is one of the most influential dictionaries of all times because of its direct influence upon the development of the English language dictionary through Thomas Elyot’s Dictionary, 1538 in Latin-English. During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the influence of Calepine.

The Dictionaríum, which went through some 200 editions, continued to be printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was gradually augmented to include such languages as Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and English.

• On October 24, 1975, the University of Texas System Regents took a major step toward establishing UT Austin as the leading institution for the study of Texas and southwestern history and one of the three or four leading institutions for the study of western history.

Acquisition of about 11,000 manuscripts, maps, rare books and pamphlets from the Eberstadt Collection was begun with the appropriation of $500,000 from the Available University Fund as a down payment. Additional payments are to be made in 1976 and 1977 to complete the $1.4 million purchase.

Among the treasures in the collection is the manuscript memorial demanding separate statehood for Texas, drawn up by the Texas colonists in 1833 and carried to Mexico City by Stephen F. Austin, which resulted in Austin’s imprisonment. It is considered second only to the Texas Declaration of Independence in its importance for Texas history. Bibliophiles say it could easily bring as much as $300,000 at auction.

The other 1,200 manuscripts are considered unique, and many are of surpassing importance, including eighteenth-century census reports for Texas and Coahuila and a lengthy report on Texas missions by Father Margil de Jesus. Manuscripts of Sam Houston, William B. Travis, James Bowie, and Stephen F. Austin are included.

Among the printed items, many of which exist in unique copies, are such rarities as the extended set of Mexican laws by Dublan y Lonzano and the fifty-eight-volume extended set of Gammel’s “Laws of Texas,” of which no other copy is known.

The collection purchased by the university from the Jenkins Company of Austin includes Texana; materials relating to Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mexico, and the Mexican War; and the Confederacy.

The section on the Southwest covers the westward movement of the American people in the nineteenth century, for which the settlement of Texas and the resulting expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific was the critical motivation. The items in that section include material on every aspect of the western movement related to Texas: the western states from Oklahoma to California; the old Southwest, Arkansas, and Missouri; Louisiana and the southern states; overland narratives; Indians; military operations; railroads.

John H. Jenkins, Austin rare book dealer and publisher, bought the entire rare book and manuscript collection of Edward Eberstadt & Sons, formerly of 888 Madison Ave., New York, last summer. At that time, Mr. Jenkins said that since the 1920s, Edward Eberstadt had set aside the best rare books he could find. After his death and that of his elder son (in 1974), the stock was moved to New Jersey and the firm went into semi-retirement.

• Recent additions to the University of California, Davis library’s dramatic arts holdings include unusual items acquired from the now disbanded Firehouse Theatre and from the still internationally famous Living Theatre. The latter company is one of the three U.S. theatrical groups to be invited to perform at this year’s Venice Biennale.

To the Firehouse Theatre archives the library has added several short silent films by Marlow Hotchkiss, an avant-garde filmmaker who has recently lectured in the San Francisco Bay Area. During his association with the Firehouse, there were multimedia experiments with film projected on the walls of the auditorium while a play took place onstage. Another view of the Firehouse activities is given in a filmed television interview with Syd Walter, director and actor, whose voluminous notebooks are already in the collection.

There are also numerous photographs by the Living Theatre’s former photographer, Gianfrancesco Mantegna, illustrating productions of Genet’s The Maids, Brown’s Brig, and Paradise Now, Frankenstein, and an adaptation of Brecht’s Antigone.

Also in this major acquisition are original typescript notebooks for Paradise Now, one of the Living Theatre’s renowned spectacles. Of interest are the handwritten changes. Scholars may want to compare this typescript with the book which has since been published. The genesis of this production is strange in that the company performed without script, nothing being written down until months later.

Other valuable scripts purchased are the several versions of Judith Malina’s development of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story into a political concept. This became a sensational Living Theatre production. The original small, fine pen-and-ink sketches by Malina are a part of the purchase.

The Living Theatre trove even contains materials relating to very recent work, such as parts of the vast cycle projected as The Legacy of Cain. Judith Malina, coleader with her husband Julian Beck, has been quoted as saying she will live to produce 150 plays in this cycle even if it kills her. The library now has several versions, manuscript and typescript, of various plays in the cycle, two of which were written for performance in the notorious slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A related collection was obtained from an old friend of the Becks, Karl Bissinger. He was a society photographer and cafe owner who turned anarchist and pacifist, along with many members of the Living Theatre. His archives contain much pertaining to the antiwar activities of that group, including letters from Julian Beck in jail.

The recent acquisitions join earlier purchases from the Universal Theatre Movement Repertory, from Ron Davis (founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe) and from the Mime Troupe itself, making, altogether, a huge assemblage of material for research in the activist and experimental theatre of the last two decades.

• A special collection of books of Scottish influence and significance was dedicated at a meeting of the Friends of the Florida State University Library on October 9, 1975. The books, dealing chiefly with history, biography, genealogy, and travel, have been gathered from a number of sources, including a gift of 200 volumes from the private library of John Mackay Shaw. According to a new pictorial bookplate provided by the donors, the collection is designed “to honor the Scottish folk who conquered the wilderness of Northwest Florida” in the early 1800s. Present at the meeting were many people of Scottish ancestry, including descendants of these original settlers. One of these, Mr. Angus Laird, is currently president of the Friends of the FSU Library. Mr. Shaw is the donor and, since 1960, has been the curator of the 20,000-volume poetry collection which bears his name. The new collection will also be under his care.

A checklist of the books in the collection is available upon request from Dr. John M. Shaw, Florida State University, Robert Manning Strozier Library, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

• One of the first samples of printing in the Pacific Northwest has been donated to the University of Idaho Library. It is a palmsized book of Nez Perce hymns, transliterated from that language and printed by missionary Henry Spalding (1803-1874) in 1942. Rev. Spalding and his wife, the first missionaries to come to Idaho, settled at Lapwai, among the Nez Perce, in 1836.

The hymnal is from the first press in this part of the country and the third in the entire West. Only three other copies are known to exist. Spalding intended these hymnals for distribution among the Indians who were learning to read their language in the roman alphabet. The press itself was brought to the wilderness following Spalding’s request of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for a press to aid his Indian instruction. It was brought by ship from Honolulu to Ft. Vancouver, Washington. From there it was loaded into a canoe, sent by the Columbia River to Fort Walla Walla, and then shipped up the Snake River to the Lapwai Mission, arriving in May 1839.

Two manuscript notebooks, believed to be in Spalding’s handwriting, were also donated by Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Brock. Mr. Brock is an accountant and long-time member of the Library Associates, University of Idaho.

• One of two known copies of an important revolutionary Virginia broadside has been presented to the University of Virginia by Mrs. Rea E. Hopper of Los Angeles. This rare broadside contains the association agreed upon by delegates of the counties at the Virginia Convention of August 1-6, 1774, which was held in Williamsburg.

The August Association broadside joins two other important revolutionary Virginia issues from the Williamsburg press, in 1774, the Virginia Association of May 27 in the McGregor Library, and Jefferson’s summary view of the rights of British Americans, which was acquired by the library a few years ago. These three items will be included in an exhibition concerning the American Revolution which will open next July.

• The James A. Rogers Library at Francis Marion College, Florence, South Carolina, has been designated to receive more than 1,200 volumes of South Caroliniana, Americana, English history, wildlife, and hunting books from the library of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Quattlebaum. The volumes, many of which are old and rare, are currently housed at Arundel, the Quattlebaum’s eighteenth-century Georgetown rice plantation, and will soon be located in the Arundel Room of the James A. Rogers Library at Francis Marion College.

Included are 290 titles of South Caroliniana, of which 134 are listed in J. H. Easterby’s Guide to the Study and Reading of South Carolina History, Part 2, A General Classified Bibliography (1953). Also, 80 of the titles appear in Sabin, including Adair’s History of the American Indians (1775), Botta’s History of the War of the Independence (1840), Carroll’s Historical Collections of South Carolina (1836), Cooper’s History of North America (1795), Elliott’s Carolina Sports (1867), Galloway’s Letters to a Nobelman (1780), Hewatt’s Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia (1779), Marshall’s Life of Washington (1805), Ramsay’s History of the Revolution of South Carolina (1785), Russell’s History of the War (1815), Rycaut’s History of the Turkish Empire (1680), Cooper and McCord’s Statutes at Large of S.C. (1836), Public Laws of the State of S.C. (1790) and Stedman’s History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War (1794).

The Arundel Library has been described as one of the most significant private collections in the state. Its acquisition by the college gives great impetus to the development of the library collection of the new college, now in its sixth year of operation.

• Scholars and others interested in the interrelationships of business, government, and the press have a new set of papers to explore. The papers of Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, have been turned over to the Library of Congress by the Meyer family of Mt. Kisco, New York.

Among the material are some 55,000 items including correspondence, government service files, speeches, a World War II diary of his son, Eugene Meyer, III, and an incomplete copy of Mr. Meyer’s oral history transcript made for Columbia University.

Eugene Meyer had three careers—investment banker, national public servant, and Washington Post publisher. These are well documented in the papers. There are memoranda on basic principles of management, efforts to regulate the New York stock exchange, and the effect of war on foreign trade in 1914. Because of Meyer’s prominent role as managing director of the World War I War Finance Corporation, his files are particularly significant. Also significant are correspondence from his days as director of the Federal Reserve Board from 1929-33.

Correspondence for the years when Meyer was Washington Post publisher cover politics from the New Deal through the Eisenhower administration. They include commentary of Joseph E. Davies, John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, John J. McCloy, Henry A. Wallace, and Sumner Welles.

The collection also includes letters from poets Archibald MacLeish and Carl Sandburg, photographer Edward Steichen, and the Freer Gallery’s Charles Freer.

The Eugene Meyer papers join those of Agnes Meyer, his wife, already in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress.

• An extensive collection of Irish literature has been given to the Stanford University Libraries by the late James A. Healy of New York. The gift includes over 1,000 books and periodicals, plus approximately 3,200 original letters and manuscripts by James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Ernest A. Boyd, James B. Connolly, Oliver St. John Gogarty, George W. Russell (A.E.), and other contemporaries of the Irish literary movement. Many titles are printed in limited editions by the Cuala and Dun Emer presses, the enterprise of W. B. Yeats’ sisters, Elizabeth and Lily. Nearly all copies are inscribed to James Healy, and several contain long inscriptions by William B. Yeats.

During his years of collecting Irish art and literature, Healy corresponded with some of the writers represented in the collection. He also encouraged them to travel to the U.S. and participated in organizing lecture tours for them. Healy’s interest in the Cuala Press extended beyond their printed books and included an appreciation of the hand-colored broadsides and cards which are also in the collection at Stanford. While engaged in European relief work in 1914 Healy met Herbert Hoover and collaborated with him in relief activities. A collection of Healy’s acquisitions on Irish history was presented to the Hoover Institution several years ago.

The significance of the Healy collection of Irish literature lies in the hundreds of unpublished letters and notes in first editions. Correspondence of George W. Russell is especially important and is embellished with sketches made by the poet. These materials, together with the printed books, broadsides, photographs, and ephemera will provide students and scholars with a major resource for research.

MEETINGS

January 28-February 1: The fourth annual ARLIS/NA Conference will be held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. The first phase of the Standards Committee report will be presented at the General Session. The conference will be centered on workshops dealing with problems of special interest groups (visual resources, architecture, and cataloging and indexing systems), as well as those of type of library groups (academic, public, and museum). An open workshop will be held on Thursday morning, January 29, on “Professionalism and the Second Degree.” For further information, contact: Judith A. Hoffberg, ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box .3692, Glendale, CA 91201.

February 16-20: OCLC Workshop. The Kent State University Library announces a fiveday intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to librarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control.

Each participant will be guaranteed individualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be available as consultants and lecturers, via the university’s telelecture capabilities.

Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possibilities, limitations, printing attachments); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others).

For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consideration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent.

For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.

March 8-12: The Library Binding Institute Conservation Workshop will be held at the New England Document Conservation Center, located at Merrimack Textile Museum, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. George M. Cunha is director/conservator of the center, a nonprofit organization, and Robert C. Morrison, Jr., is director of education.

The technical aspects of the seminar will be dependent upon the technical background of the participants as to which information is requested. The program will consist of both lectures and workshop.

Arrangements have been made for lodging and lectures with Boston University at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, a nonprofit entity, which is located in North Andover. The cost of the seminar workshop is $275, which includes tuition, room and board (four nights, three meals a day) at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, and the text.

The course is limited to twenty-five. To participate send your reservation form with deposit of $50.00 to Library Binding Institute (deposit returned if reservation cancelled prior to February 1, 1976), balance to be paid on or before March 1, 1976. For further information contact Library Binding Institute, 50 Congress St., Suite 630, Boston, MA 02109; (617) 227-9614.

March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI International Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England.

April 8-11: An International Conference on Art Periodicals, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the University of Sussex. An exhibition of art periodicals will be on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians.

For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England.

April 25-28: The thirteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Mini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Library Automation.”

In an era of double-digit inflation and reduced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved service? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of specific library applications.

J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Mini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The complete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975.

May 5-7: The annual meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists will be held in San Antonio, Texas. For further information, contact Mr. Sam Sizer, Curator, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

May 6-8: Midwestern Academic Librarians Conference (MALC) Twenty-first Annual Meeting, University of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Contact person: Douglas Hieber, Head of Circulation, University of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.

May 9-21: The College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and consulting fields.

Seminar sessions will concentrate on the principal administrative issues which senior managers encounter. Leadership, motivation, communication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technology, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar.

The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Susquehanna River and offering a variety of recreational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

May 10-11: Symposium on the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherryburn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (Anvil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky,; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermaking, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design.

May 10-28: Typographic Workshop, a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of Library Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486.

May 13-15: Eastern Michigan University’s Center of Educational Resources has scheduled the sixth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The theme of the conference will be “Library Instruction in the ’70s: A State of the Art.” The program will feature speakers, panels, discussions, and an exhibit of library instruction materials sponsored by Project LOEX. The registration fee is $55.00.

Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to: Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librarian, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

May 17-19: CUMREC, the College and University Machine Records Conference, will hold its twenty-first annual meeting at the Netherland Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati.

Host organization will be SWORCC, the Southwestern Ohio Regional Computer Center operated by the University of Cincinnati and Miami University at Oxford as a consortium to provide computer services support to the academic and administrative functions of both universities and a number of other nonprofit organizations.

CUMREC ’76 theme will be “Sharing-Key to the Future.” Papers by delegates will explore primarily three interest areas: data processing, admissions and records, and business or financial affairs. The conference is expected to attract about 900 participants from 300 member institutions, public and private, varying widely in size.

Information may be obtained from Robert

R. Caster, SWORCC, Medical Services Building, 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267, telephone (513) 475-5069, or Jack Southard, Administrative Data Processing, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, telephone (513 ) 529- 5322.

May 17-21: In conjunction with the Advanced Management Centre of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University, the School of Library Service is sponsoring a week- long Seminar for Librarians in Middle-Management Positions at Dalhousie University. Registration will be limited to a maximum of twenty, and it is expected that those enrolling for the seminar will be in middle management positions in their libraries or information centres.

The two main themes of the seminar will focus on “The Art of Communications” and “Leadership and Motivation.” A manager’s ability to communicate is a critical factor in his or her effectiveness. The aim of the seminar will be to sharpen that ability and improve interpersonal skills by providing solid theory and a series of practical problem-solving exercises. Leadership ability is the most sought after skill by management. The seminar will be an intensive, practical, “how to” program for improving leadership skills, to identify each individual’s own style of leadership, and to learn how to get more productive results from subordinates.

The seminar leader will be Professor John Dougall, director of the Advanced Management Centre, who will be assisted by other members of his staff. Professor Dougall directed the school’s very successful one-day workshop for alumni in December 1973.

The cost for this seminar will be $75.00. This price will include lunch each day at the Dalhousie Faculty Club and an opening reception there on the evening of Monday, May 17. Accommodations have been reserved for delegates at Shirreff Hall on the Dalhousie Campus. The rates are single room $8 and double $10 per night.

Any inquiries concerning the seminar please contact: Bernadette Coyle, Assistant to the Director for Continuing Education, c/o School of Library Service, Killam Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8.

June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth annual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further information may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5.

July 26-August 20: The tenth annual Archives Institute at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experience in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives—records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised laboratory work. Instructors are experienced archivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, arrangement, description, reference services, records control and scheduling, preservation techniques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational services, among others. Fee: $480 for those wishing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $175 for noncredit participants. A certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the institute course. Housing is available at a modest rate. For further information write to: Archives Institute, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA 30334.

MISCELLANY

• College and university librarians in fouryear accredited institutions will have an opportunity to develop innovative projects designed to improve the services and increase the use of their libraries under a new program approved by the Council on Library Resources.

The Library Service Enhancement Procram proposes to stimulate a variety of activities which, it is hoped, will result in the more imaginative, effective involvement of the academic library in the teaching/learning process and will strengthen its educational role as an active participant with classroom faculty, rather than as simply a service adjunct.

Under the program a staff member who has a broad knowledge of the library and its clientele, as well as a strong interest in improving library services, will be relieved of normal duties for the academic year 1976-77. Designated “project librarian,” the staff member will devote full time, on campus and off, to exploring with faculty, students, and administration ways in which the library can more fully satisfy their needs, and to developing programs which enhance the library’s position in the academic life of the university.

The council will provide an amount equivalent to the salary and normal benefits of the project librarian up to $20,000, in each of approximately ten institutions.

The budgeted funds thus released are to be used to bring a beginning professional into the library to help fill the gap caused by the absence of the project librarian from normal duties. The balance will be used for travel and incidental expenses connected with the enhancement project.

The Library Service Enhancement Program complements the joint Council on Library Resources/National Endowment for the Humanities College Library Program, which thus far has provided more than $1 million to twenty- three institutions, each of which has contributed an equal amount for its five-year project. Most of these institutions have developed successful library orientation programs. Others have discovered methods of involving the library in the undergraduate classroom.

The new Library Service Enhancement Program provides an opportunity for libraries to take full advantage of highly qualified, imaginative, service-oriented librarians already on their staffs. The program is another expression of the council’s continuing interest in the professional development of individual librarians. It is believed that their release from routine duties for a year, with the opportunity to develop and project their own ideas, will stimulate their professional growth.

Details regarding application procedures may be obtained by writing to the Library Service Enhancement Program, Council on Library Resources, 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. The deadline for applications for the 1976-77 academic year will be February 15, 1976.

The Council on Library Resources, Inc. is a private, operating foundation which, through directly administered programs as well as grants to and contracts with other organizations, seeks to aid in the solution of problems of libraries generally and of academic and research libraries in particular. The council was established in 1956 with support from the Ford Foundation, from which it continues to derive its funding.

• A systematic effort to preserve the major sources for study of Carpatho-Ruthenian life in the United States has been announced by the Byzantine Rite Ruthenian Bishops of America and the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota. The joint program will microfilm the press of the Carpatho-Ruthenian people and make this resource available for use by scholars investigating the ethnic factor in American history. The Byzantine Rite Province, led by Archbishop Stephen Kocisko and Bishops Michael Dudick and Emil Mihalik, will support the project with a grant of $12,500. This sum will be doubled under a gifts-and-matching grant to the Immigration History Research Center from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The center will administer the project.

A committee of six scholars has been appointed to advise the project. They are Dr.

Paul Magocsi, the Harvard Society of Fellows; the Very Rev. Raymond Misulich, chancellor of the Diocese of Passaic; Edward Kasinec, librarian of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Rev. Athanasius Pekar, OSBM, of the faculty of SS, Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Pittsburgh; Rev. Stepehen Veselenak, OSB, Holy Trinity Monastery in Butler, Pennsylvania; and Dr. Frank Renkiewicz of the Immigration History Research Center, who will also serve as chairman and project administrator. The committee has identified over forty-five newspapers wholly or heavily Carpatho- Ruthenian in content and recommended a schedule for microfilming based on the significance and physical condition of the files. Anyone who knows the location of Carpatho-Ruthenian files is invited to contact a committee member or write directly to the Immigration History Research Center, 826 Berry St., St. Paul, MN 55114.

• The Society of American Archivists has begun a comprehensive archival security program. Major facets of the project will be supported by a $99,690 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Ann Morgan Campbell, executive director of the SAA, will direct the project, and Timothy G. Walch has joined the society’s Chicago staff as associate director of the program. He will assume primary responsibility for implementation of various phases of the work plan. Kathryn M. Nelson will be program assistant for the project.

The staff is now involved in a large-scale investigation of the nature and extent of the archival security problem and of possible solutions. Legal and technical experts, manuscript dealers, as well as archivists and manuscript curators, will be consulted.

The agenda for the program is as follows. A registry of missing manuscripts will be established by spring 1976. A format will be devised within the next few months and solicitation of listings will begin by the end of this year. A special section of the SAA Newsletter will be devoted to security developments. Eventually, distribution of security news will be broadened to include nonmember, interested parties. By fall 1976, a consultant service will make competent experts available to archival institutions to advise them in the areas of security systems, internal archival procedures, legal problems, and other aspects of archival security. The project will culminate in 1977 with the publication of an archival security manual.

For further information please write to the Associate Director, SAA Archival Security Program, Society of American Archivists, Box 8198, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL 60680.

• With support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges is establishing a Center for Community Education in its national headquarters office in Washington, D.C.

Primary purpose of the center, according to AACJC president, Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., will be to develop greater awareness and understanding of community education among the personnel of two-year institutions across the country. Additionally, he said, the center will facilitate closer working relationships between community and junior colleges and community schools.

The AACJC center will jointly sponsor with other Mott-supported centers for community education workshops for personnel of community colleges and community schools. It is also planned that four six-month internships in community education will be offered to individuals working on advanced degrees in community or higher education, with details to be worked out as the project gets under way. Informational materials will be developed and widely distributed.

A three-day national symposium on community education will be held to explore relationships between the community school and community college movements—followed by regional meetings to examine models of cooperation. These and other meetings and workshops will be open to both faculty and administrators.

Gleazer pointed out that the community school and community college movements are contributing in a variety of ways to the expansion of lifelong educational opportunities for all citizens. Establishment of the Mott-sponsored AACJC center is calculated to bring faculty and staff of the schools and colleges closer together in fulfilling their goals.

The AACJC center is the first to be established within and operated by a national association under the Mott Foundation program for information and training in community education. Funding, in the amount of $103,000 will be for one year—with extension of the program to be reviewed at the end of the year.

• The Association of Research Libraries formally endorses the report of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science entitled Toward a National Program for Library and Information Services. The Association congratulates the Commission for its leadership in providing for the first time in our country’s history a plan for coordinating library and information resources and services on a national basis. It recognizes the extent to which the Commission has gone in securing the views not only of librarians, but of all segments of the information community in both the public and private sectors. ARL sees the resulting document as a dynamic and flexible instrument of national policy in the library and information field, now representing the consensus of many groups but open to modification in the future as changing needs may require.

Although the program document identifies many goals for action, it does not attempt to place these in any priority order. Implementing the entire national program will obviously take time, therefore the Association urges prompt action on certain of the goals identified by the Commission. In particular the ARL supports:

(1) establishment of a national center or centers for resource sharing and interlibrary lending; (2) the designation of the Library of Congress as the national bibliographic center; (3) provision of federal support for the major research libraries of the country to assist them in their efforts toward improved access, management, organization and development of their collections as national resources.

The Association of Research Libraries has appreciated the opportunity of assisting the National Commission in the formulation of its National Program, and desires to lend it assistance, as appropriate, as the plan is further developed and implemented in the future.— Adopted by the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries October 16, 1975.

• The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana-Champaign is seeking applicants for its master’s degree program from members of minority groups in the population which are underrepresented in the student body of the school.

Up to ten persons will be selected to begin graduate work next June. They will be offered one-half time assistantships requiring twenty hours of work each week and paying $4,340 a year plus exemption from tuition. This will be the seventh year for the program which has been supported in part by grants from the U.S. Office of Education and the Carnegie Corporation.

Members of minority groups who expect to receive a bachelor’s degree next June are eligible, as well as those who already have completed their undergraduate education. Students are allowed up to two years to earn the M.S. degree in a course of study planned individually with a faculty advisor.

Further information is available from the Scholarship Program, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

• The world-famous Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin henceforth will bear the name of its equally renowned former director, Dr. Nettie Lee Benson.

Regents of the UT System, acting on a recommendation of President Lorene Rogers of UT Austin, officially designated the collection the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. “I think that this is an appropriate honor to the woman who for many years has been the single guiding influence in the establishment and development of this preeminent collection,” Dr. Rogers wrote in her letter proposing the name change.

Dr. Benson became head librarian of the Latin American Collection in March 1942 and held that post until her retirement on August 31. She continues to teach in the history department, where she is a professor. She also has been a professor in the Graduate School of Library Science.

Concurring in Dr. Rogers’ recommendation, the UT System administration noted that Dr. Benson is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books and articles on Mexican history and Latin American librarianship, adding:

“In her position as head librarian of the Latin American Collection and as one of the prime movers in the Latin American Cooperative Acquisitions Program and the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Dr. Benson has made additional impact on national and international Latin American librarianship.”

PUBLICATIONS

• Two Denver, Colorado, librarians are the compilers of a new history directory. Carol M. Joy and Terry Ann Mood, librarians at Metropolitan State College Library (part of the developing Auraria Higher Education Complex) in Denver, have compiled Colorado Local History: A Directory. This directory lists by county collections of local history to be found in libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and private collections in Colorado. The entry for each collection gives information on subject areas covered by the collection, forms of material included, hours, use policy, and size. The directory was published through a grant from the Colorado Centennial-Bicentennial Commission. The grant provides for free distribution, through the Colorado Library Association, to public, academic, and high school libraries in the state. Others may purchase copies for $3.00 from the Colorado Library Association. Contact Susan Kaufmann, Executive Secretary, 1151 East Costilla Ave., Littleton, CO 80122.

• AMACOM, the publishing arm of American Management Associations, has just published an unusual reference work of value to all concerned with the planning function. Through the AMA Center for Planning and Implementation in Hamilton, New York, it has brought out the 1975 issue of W. W. Simmons’ Exploratory Planning Briefs (75p,, available in hardcover for $15.00), which provides self-descriptions of the goals and methods of the future’s planning processes used by 203 organizations: corporations, services, agencies and institutions, eight foreign governments, segments of the U.S. federal government, and thirty-two state governments. An unusual feature is the inclusion of the name, title, address, and phone number of each planning officer who reported.

• Norwegian-American Newspapers in Luther College Library lists the library’s holdings on microfilm of the largest collection of Norwegian language newspapers published from 1847 to date.

Entries are arranged alphabetically and include all available information regarding places and dates of publication, editors, frequency, and changes in title. Copies may be ordered from Luther College Library, Decorah, IA 52101; cost $7.50 postpaid.

• Carnegie Corporation of New York is offering without charge to university and other research libraries in the United States and Canada nine volumes of the Writings of Andrew Carnegie. This is the “uniform edition” published by Doubleday, Doran in 1933, with the exception of the autobiography. The number of sets is limited and requests will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Requests, including a mailing label, should be sent by the chief librarian to Ms. Gloria Brown, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 437 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022.

• The library of the University of California at Davis is actively publishing a Chapbook series, available, upon request, to other institutions on an exchange basis. Chapbook no. 2, Our Multi-Ethnic Origins and American Literary

Studies,by Brom Weber, is a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, held in conjunction with the Modern Language Association of America, December 28, 1974. Chapbook no. 3, Heresy in Linguistics, by D. L. Olmsted, is a lecture given as the thirty-third annual Faculty Research Lecture on April 8, 1975, on the Davis campus. These two numbers are currently available; publications from the series are to appear approximately five times per year.

To obtain copies, please send address information and information (or a sample) of the publications offered on exchange to Gift & Exchange Section, University of California Library, Davis, CA 95616.

• “Academic Librarians and Their Professional Organizations,” a color videocassette produced by California State University, Northridge Libraries on behalf of the ACRL Committee on Chapters is now available to libraries, library schools, and interested groups of librarians.

According to Norman E. Tanis, chairman of the ACRL Committee on Chapters, the 36:55 minute program features a free-wheeling, no holds barred debate by members of the panel.

Members of the panel are: Page Ackerman, university librarian, University of California at Los Angeles; Mary Walters, technical services head, California State University, Los Angeles; Peter Watson, reference librarian, University of California at Los Angeles; Karin Nupoll, reference librarian, California State University, Northridge; George Bailey, associate library director, Claremont Colleges; and Linda Crismond, technical services head, University of Southern California. Panel moderator is Norman E. Tanis, director of University Libraries at CSUN. Television director is Mark Schaubert.

The panel members address themselves to the pros and cons of development of local ACRL chapters, the education of librarians after the terminal degree, and the accessibility and conflicts among the various professional organizations.

The videocassettes can be shown on any 3/4-inch videocassette U-Matic player. Requests for borrowing the tape should be made to Norman Tanis, Director of University Libraries, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91324.

• The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library of the University of Utah announces the publication of MEDOC. This is a computerized index to U.S. government documents in medicine and other health-related areas. Compiled under a government grant, MEDOC fills a gap in serving as a complete catalog for depositories for health science material, a bibliographic reference tool, or a current list for selecting and purchasing individual documents. There are about 4,000 items listed in the basic volume. Already over 200 libraries are subscribers.

The arrangement is in four parts: (1) by Superintendent of Documents number, with complete bibliographic and purchasing data;

(2) alphabetically by title; (3) by MeSH subject headings, and (4) by series numbers.

The basic cumulative volume covers 1968- 74. Subsequent years will be published in quarterly supplements and an annual cumulative volume. Volume two, number 1-2 (Jan.-June 1975) has also been published. The cost of Volume 1 (1968-74) is $25.00; Annual Subscription is $10.00.

Orders for Volume 1 and/or a current subscription, accompanied by checks, may be sent to MEDOC, Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

• Microfilming Corporation of America announces the forthcoming publication of a major microform resource: The Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries. This micropublication constitutes the largest and most comprehensive collection of twentieth- century American right wing publications ever offered, thereby closing a significant gap in the availability of scholarly materials for the study of this constant and increasingly important strain in American political life.

Thousands of titles—chiefly serials, pamphlets, and other ephemera—will be drawn from the University of Iowa Libraries’ “Social Documents” collection. This collection, begun by Ralph Ellsworth, the university’s director of libraries for many years and a student of the American right wing, represents probably the longest-standing attempt to compile a comprehensive library of publications issued by the American right. In addition to more recent materials, the collection also includes many items which date back through the McCarthy period and even into the 1930s.

Accompanying the microform collection will be an annotated bibliography that identifies the publications and provides subject and geographical information. The right wing has always been diverse in its manifestations and the annotated bibliography will aid scholars greatly in using this material for research.

The American right has always maintained that it is the rightful heir to the basic principles on which the country was founded almost 200 years ago. This contention is loudly proclaimed throughout the University of Iowa collection, and the ready accessibility of significant portions will enable scholars to assess this claim in the light of the Right Wing’s own arguments.

For more information on the Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, contact Jean Reid, Director of Information Research, Microfilming Corporation of America, 21 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452; (201) 447-3000.

• A completely up-to-date listing of useful sources for educators, librarians, and information specialists has just been made available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources. The thirty-three page Guide to Educational Resources, 1975-76 is designed to lead readers to standard sources of information for preliminary searches and to keep them abreast of the major current activities, products, sources, and innovations in educational resource tools.

Chapters within the publication include: Locating information; organizing information; general and social science reference; education reference (general and statistics, directories); guides to current literature and research; guide to funding; professional associations; human resources; information and resource centers; and selection tools for books, curriculum, multi- media, and periodicals. Each entry is annotated in a concise, readable style, with prices and sources of materials given in nearly all cases.

The 1975-76 Guide is based on earlier guides published by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development and the Stanford Clearinghouse.

Guide to Educational Resources, 1975-76is available for $3.50 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E” must be included with orders. Quantity discounts are available. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service when its ED number is announced.

• The results of a Survey of Library Instruction Programs in sixty-seven Pennsylvania academic libraries and an indexed directory of the programs is available for $2.00 from the Pennsylvania Library Association, 100 Woodland Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15232. The twentyfive-page booklet was compiled by Sara Lou Whildin of Pennsylvania State University Libraries and was sponsored by the College & Research Libraries Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association. ■■