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•Ancient Burials of Metallic Foundation Documents in Stone Boxes‚ by H. Curtis Wright (42 pages, December 1982), describes the Mesopotamian custom of burying special documents carefully placed in building foundations and other secret places as an ancient form of time capsule. This monograph, published as Number 157 of the University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science Occasional Papers, is available for $3 (prepaid) from the Publications Office, GSLIS, University of Illinois, 249 Armory Building, 505 E. Armory Street, Champaign, IL 61820.

•The ARL Annual Salary Survey displays data on beginning and median professional salaries, as well as numbers and average salaries for positions in ARL university libraries and the distribution of these positions by sex and minority group membership, location, size, and type of institution. Copies are available for $10 (ARL members, $8), from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, DC 20036.

•The ARL Statistics for 1981-82 describes the collections, staffing levels, expenditures, and interlibrary loan volume of ARL member libraries, and numerically ranks the 101 libraries in 14 statistical categories. Copies are available for $10 (ARL members, $8) from the Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, DC 20036.

•Catalog of the Bernard Becker, M.D., Collection in Opthalmology,compiled by Christopher Hoolihan and Mark F. Weimer (112 pages, 2d edition, 1983), has been published by the Rare Book Division of the Washington University School of Medicine Library. This edition contains 160 new entries, including works in the collection published between 1851 and 1900 and the sixty new titles purchased for the collection since 1979. Copies may be ordered for $30 from the Rare Book Division, Washington University School of Medicine Library, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110.

•A Catalogue of the Lady Aberdeen Library on the History of Women, compiled by Jane Britton (237 pages, 1982), has been published as Number 7 of the University of Waterloo Library’s Bibliography Series. The catalog contains entries for over 1,400 items which form the Lady Aberdeen Library donated to the University Library by the National Council of Women of Canada in 1967 as part of their centennial project. The Library was named in honor of Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, founder of the National Council. The monograph is available for S10 from Jorn Jorgensen, Library Business Administrator, Dana Porter Arts Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.

•The Census ’80 Product Primer series developed by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Census Bureau is an instructional aid designed to help students learn how to use the 1980 census statistics. Primer No. 1 (4 pages, January 1983) deals with the first series of final 1980 state population reports entitled “Number of Inhabitants.” It is for sale at $1 per copy from Customer Services (Publications), Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233. Free review copies of each Product Primer may be obtained by contacting CCSP Mailing List, User Training Branch, Data User Services Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233; (301) 763-2370.

•The Deckleis the title of the new Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries newsletter to be published three times a year. David J. Martz, director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Research and Use of Rare Books and Special Collections, is the editor and will report news of general interest about collections in the library, the library faculty, and special events. Direct inquiries to The Deckle‚ The Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, Toledo, OH 43606.

•DePauw University has completed its five-year College Library Program sponsored by CLR and NEH. A limited number of copies of the final report are available for distribution. The report is approximately 200 pages long and contains copies of bibliographic guides, evaluations, reports, studies, and symposia related to the project. Send a selfaddressed mailing label to Larry Hardesty. Head of the Reference Department, Roy O. West Library, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135.

•The 10th edition of the Directory of Online Information Resources (130 pages, September 1982) covers more than 500 of the most popular and useful databases available to North American searchers. Single copies are available for $18.50 plus $1.50 postage and handling (prepaid) from CSG Press, 11301 Rockville Pike, Kensington, MD 20895.

•The Fiftieth Anniversary School of Library Science (173 pages. 1982) has been published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a special issue of The Bookmark. It contains the major papers of participants in two symposia. “Research in Librarianship” and “Developments in Library Education,” which were part of the UNC Library School’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Copies have been distributed to the 340 registrants for the celebration. Friends of the Library, and all accredited library schools. Others may purchase a copy for $10 (prepaid), from the School of Library Science, 100 Manning Hall 026-A, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

•Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections‚ compiled by Elisabeth W. Betz (1982), was written as a supplement to AACR2 in an attempt to reconcile library cataloging methods with the principles of archives and museum documentation, to facilitate the cataloging of graphic materials, and to link graphics records with related records in a system used for books and serials. Copies are available for $12 (checks made payable to the Chief, Cataloging Distribution Service) from the Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, Customer Services Section, Washinton, DC 20541.

•Integrated Library Information Systems in ARL Libraries‚ SPEC Kit #90 (January 1983, 88 pages) investigates the trends in ARL member libraries to centralize various library functions into one computerized system, rather than building single purpose systems. The kit includes survey results, a short bibliography, planning documents, general system descriptions and reviews, and examples of specifications. Single copies may be purchased for $15, with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies, from the SPEC Center, ARL/OMS, 152? New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

•The third annual edition of the Library Education Statistical Report (1982) is now available from the Association of American Library Schools. Data are presented for 81 graduate programs of institutions which are members of AASL. The time period covered by this edition is the 1981-82 academic year. Copies of all three editions of the report are available at $15 per copy from Executive Headquarters, Association of American Library Schools, 471 Park Lane, State College, PA 16801.

•The Reader’s Road Atlas‚ by Catherine Suyak Alloway (8 pages, 1982), is a helpful guide for library users who are looking for leisure reading. The pamphlet gives a short description of 41 reference works that serve as literature guides for books, plays, and other materials. A single copy costs $1.50, but since libraries may wish to order in quantity for patron use, a graduated discount for 10 or more copies applies. The pamphlet was sponsored by the RASD Adult Library Materials Committee and may be ordered from the American Library Association Order Department, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

•Science, Engineering and Humanities Doctorates in the United States: 1981 Profile(118 pages, 1982) is based on the results of the fifth biennial survey of doctorate recipients, a longitudinal survey which includes Ph.D.’s who earned their degrees between 1930 and the present. The survey was conducted by the National Research Council, with partial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copies may be obtained from the Evaluation and Assessment Studies Branch, Office of Planning and Policy Assessment. Mail Stop 303,

National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC 20506.

•Subject Access: Report of a Meeting Sponsored by the Council on Library Resources(80 pages, 1982) is the final report of a meeting sponsored by CLR’s Bibliographic Service Development Program held in Dublin, Ohio, on June 7-9, 1982. Twenty-three invited specialists met with Council staff to discuss current knowledge about access to subject information in bibliographic databases and to make recommendations for improvements. The document is available for $10 (prepaid only) from the Council on Library Resources, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

•The Union List of Legal Periodicals (1983) identifies the holdings of 185 significant academic, government, and private law libraries in the metropolitan Washington area, including the Library of Congress. The list is an up-to-date compilation of 1 ‚ 700 English and foreign language periodicals and their locations. It is available for $125 (checks made payable to the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C.) from Catherine R. Romano, Baker & McKenzie, 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20006. ■■