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ACQUISITIONS scholar in his own right, has made several sub­ stantial gifts of dictionaries to Indiana State • The papers of Virginia (Spencer) Carr University to promote the study of lexicogra­ have been acquired by Duke University and phy. The Cordell Collection, which includes added to the holdings of the Manuscript De­ more than five thousand rare dictionaries, is partment of the Perkins Library. Relating prin­ recognized throughout the scholarly world as cipally to Mrs. Carr’s recent biography of one of the finest and richest resources of its Carson McCullers, the papers include her cor­ kind. respondence with a number of prominent actors In accepting Mr. Nielsen’s generous gift on and playwrights who assisted her in her re­ behalf of the university, Dr. Richard G. Lan- search on McCullers. The letters, written pri­ dini, president of Indiana State University, marily by people associated with McCullers, commented that the Calliergis will strengthen contain personal insights into McCullers’ com­ the Cordell Collection and enhance the scholar­ plex life and literary career. The collection is ly reputation of the university. Sul H. Lee, available for use and comprises a rich source dean of library services, expressed similar senti­ for the study of literature and the theater in the ments and indicated that a special brochure United States as well as of an important figure will be printed to commemorate this gift. in recent American literature. According to Dr. Robert K. O’Neill, head of the Department of Rare Books and Special Col­ • Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., Northbrook, Illi­ lections, the Etymologicum will be on perma­ nois, has donated to the Cunningham Memorial nent display in the department. Library at Indiana State University an ex­ ceptionally fine, fresh copy of the very famous • The University of Virginia has acquired and very rare first edition of the Etymologicum the complete manuscript of Ernest Heming­ Magnum Graecum, edited by Zacharias Callier- way’s first important novel, The Sun Also Rises, gis. This Greek lexicon was published in Venice reuniting two segments that had been separated by N. Vlastos in 1499. Not only is it one of the for fifty years. most important dictionaries ever published, but The literary match came about recently when it is also a superb example of the art of early the university library purchased a fifteen-page printing. It contains twenty-two ornamental typescript fragment at a New York auction and, headpieces printed in white and red, in the in turn, was given the novel’s larger portion by Byzantine style, and many large woodcut ini­ Marguerite A. Cohn, proprietor of New York’s tials printed in red. It is printed in Greek in House of Books Ltd., considered by many book two columns on 224 leaves and measures 41- collectors to be the world’s foremost modern by-27.4-cm. This copy was once part of the rare book shop. Drury Collection. Mrs. Cohn presented the gift to the univer­ Zacharias Calliergis, c.l473-after 1524, a na­ sity in memory of her late husband, Capt. Louis tive of Crete, was the foremost Greek calligra­ Henry Cohn, a legendary bibliophile, rare book pher and printer of the time. This is his first dealer, and Hemingway’s first bibliographer. book, a kind of combination dictionary and en­ The complete manuscript, typewritten with cyclopedia compiled by a tenth-century Byzan­ corrections penciled in Hemingway’s hand, will tine, itself based on earlier works. Some have be available for scholars to use in mid-April at believed that Musurus was the editor, but prob­ Alderman Library, according to Joan St. C. ably his contribution lay mainly in the advice Crane, the American literature curator who he gave to Calliergis, who was the actual ed­ represented the university at Sotheby Parke itor. Musurus, however, is certainly the author Bernet gallery’s auction. of the preface, in which he praises the role of “This conjoining of The Sun Also Rises man­ the Cretan technicians, scholars, and patrons uscript with the Hemingway holdings of books in the establishment and early development of and manuscripts already in the University of the Greek press. Virginia Library makes this one of the most im­ The gift will be added to the Warren N. and portant Hemingway collections in the world,” Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries Miss Crane said. in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Indiana State University. The • The National Lihrary of Canada has Cordell Collection was established some seven received what is believed to be its largest single years ago through the generosity of Warren gift—the $2 million collection of Hebraica Cordell, an alumnus of Indiana State Universi­ books and manuscripts, many of them very ty and a resident of Highland Park, Illinois. Mr. rare, belonging to Jacob M. Lowy of Montreal. Cordell, a distinguished lexicographer and The collection includes 1,560 titles, consist­ 163 ing of Hebrew incunabula, Latin incunabula, The formal deed with the National Library Talmud editions and codes, a Flavius Josephus has made provisions for the donation of other collection, and very rare Bibles and liturgy and books by Lowy in the near future. Hebrew books from the sixteenth to the nine­ Microfilms and reproductions of the Lowy teenth centuries. These include rabbinic books, Collection will be made available to institutes books on philosophy and Cabala, and Bible of higher learning, research centers, and other commentaries. libraries at cost, the deed stipulates. Professor Chimen Abramsky, Goldsmid pro­ Saul Hayes, former national executive direc­ fessor of Jewish history and head of the depart­ tor of the Canadian Jewish Congress, acted in ment of Hebrew and Jewish studies at the an advisory capacity in the arrangements for University of London, described the collection the Lowy Collection. as one of the three most important private The Judaica section of the National Library Hebraica libraries in North America. Lowy was initiated by The Canadian Jewish Congress compiled his library over a period of forty in 1959 with the presentation of a collection of years. Judaica books in many languages as a gift of Czech-born Lowy was the first president of the Canadian Jewish community on its 200th the United Israel Appeal, a past president of anniversary in Canada.—Janice Arnold/Ca- Allied Jewish Community Services, the Miz- nadian Jewish News rachi Organization of Canada, and the Young Israel Synagogue. He was also a member of the • The Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Canadian Jewish Congress for many years. A Louis has presented the Max A. Goldstein Col­ prominent land-developer, Lowy came to Can­ lection of Rare Books in Otology and the Edu­ ada from England after World War II. cation of the Deaf to the Washington Univer­ The collection will be kept intact as a single sity School of Medicine Library. About 700 collection under the name of the “Jacob M. volumes are included, among them an incuna- Lowy Collection” and housed in the main bulum on language by Guarinus Veronensis building of the National Library. Its quarters printed in Venice in 1496; about a dozen six­ will allow space for scholars to do research, as teenth-century works; many early anatomical well as office space for a curator to be appoint­ volumes; and a fine collection on sign language. ed and a separate room for Lowy. The books are being processed now. Dr. Max A. Goldstein (1870-1942) was one of the first Americans to travel to Europe to study medical specialities under the masters of RTSD Seeks Assistance the Viennese and German schools. He was a student of Adam Politzer, the first “dozent” in The Resources and Technical Services otology at the University of Vienna in 1861, Division of the American Library Asso­ who in 1873 founded the first aural clinic. More ciation is seeking assistance in identify­ than 7,000 foreign doctors attended his clinic ing areas in need of improvement in for instruction—it is said that Politzer could African and Asian subject analysis. To teach with equal fluency in German, English, obtain a variety of opinions, a brief ques­ French, and Italian. Goldstein returned to St. tionnaire is available to be answered by Louis to become professor of otology at the area subject specialists and catalogers. Beaumont Medical College, later absorbed into The questionnaire was prepared by the the St. Louis Medical College, which in turn new Subcommittee on Subject Analysis became part of the Washington University of African and Asian Materials, Subject School of Medicine. Analysis Committee, Cataloging and In 1914 Dr. Goldstein founded the Central Classification Section, RTSD. The sub­ Institute for the Deaf, with two teachers and committee is charged with identifying four students; this has developed into an inter­ areas in greatest need of revision or ex­ nationally known center for the training of the pansion in major library subject systems, deaf and mute. It now has hundreds of pupils such as the Library of Congress Subject from all over the world, a training college for Headings; assigning priorities; and trans­ teachers of the deaf, research laboratories, and mitting the findings to the appropriate clinics and auditory hearing centers closely al­ organization. lied to the medical school and hospitals. Anyone interested in receiving a ques­ Among the works in the Goldstein collection tionnaire or otherwise participating are such special treatises as John Bulwer’s should contact the chairperson: Arline Chiromania, or the Art of Manual Rhetorique Zuckerman, Technical Services Depart­ (1644); the writings of l’Abbé de l’Eppée, ment, University Research Library, Uni­ founder of the first school for the deaf; Daniel versity of California, Los Angeles, Los Defoe’s Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Angeles, CA 90024. Campbell, a deaf and dumb Gentleman (1720); John Wallis’ Grammatic linguae anglicanae 164 (1652); the Swiss physician Amman’s De lo- Graduate Department of Library and Informa­ quela (1700); Diderot’s Lettre sur les sourds tion Science at The Catholic University of et muets ( 1751); and Alexander Graham Bell’s America, Washington, D.C. work, among others. Helmholtz’s Tonempfindun- Richard W. Stephenson of the Library of gen . . . is also present. Congress will teach the course, focusing on the In the field of anatomy, the collection con­ operation of a map library: administration, tains works by Vesalius, Vieussens, Valsalva, equipment, acquisitions, processing, preserva­ Willis, Sir Charles Bell, Eustachius, Fallopius, tion, reference service, and bibliographical pro­ du Laurens, and Morgagni; in surgery there is cedure. He will also include a brief overview a Tagliocozi volume; in the practice of medi­ of the development of cartography and map cine, works by Galen, Celsus, Mead, Paracelsus, collections from the earliest times to the present Boerhaave, and Malpighi are present; while and a review of the literature of cartography, Cuvier’s comparative anatomy appears in sev­ cartobibliography, and map librarianship. eral editions. There is even a Pasteur item— Mr. Stephenson is head of the Reference and his work on fermentation in beer (1876). Bibliography Section of the Geography and Sometime in the fall, when the collection has Map Division of the Library of Congress. He been cataloged and processed, the Washington is the author of several bibliographies published University School of Medicine Library hopes by LC and has written articles for numerous to hold an open house to exhibit the books. It professional journals. is expected that Dr. Goldstein’s daughter and For further information, contact the Grad­ grandson will be present at that time. uate Department of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, • Lotte Lenya, world-famous star of theater, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635-5085. films, and the concert stage and widow of the great German-American composer Kurt Weill, August 15-26: The Washington Summer has donated the autograph orchestral score of Institute on Federal Library Resources Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins to the Music Di­ will be sponsored by The Catholic University vision of The New York Public Library’s of America. The Institute, directed by Frank Performing Arts Research Center at Lin­ Kurt Cylke, has as its objectives to: identify the coln Center. The score is for a ballet with songs role of the federal libraries, information centers, composed with Berthold Brecht in Paris in 1933 and data banks in the federal library communi­ and first performed in America in 1958, with ty; discuss the implication of the National Com­ choreography by George Balanchine and Lotte mission on Libraries and Information Science’s Lenya and Allegra Kent performing the lead posture as related to federal libraries; identify roles. resources, publications, and specialized services The presentation was made at a reception provided by federal libraries; identify resources held in the library’s Amsterdam Gallery, sur­ available through major government clearing­ rounded by the current exhibition of the works houses, such as NTIS and ERIC; compare the of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. Among the in-operation or the in-process development of close friends of Miss Lenya attending the event the major federal library and information ser­ were Harold Clurman, Joel Grey, Rex Reed, vices; discuss the implications for libraries of Alexandra Danilova, Reuben Ter-Arutunian, the existing satellite technology; and identi­ Joseph Papp, Gene Shalit, and Stanley Silver- fy and articulate the functions performed by man. Also present was sculptor Margo Harris, the Federal Library Committee and United a close friend and colleague of Miss Lenya, States National Libraries Task Force. who has done extensive research on the exhibi­ Three graduate credits may be earned, or tion of stage sets, manuscripts, photographs, and participants may matriculate on a noncredit ba­ drawings and on the publication of a catalog sis. For further information contact: Dr. John of the show that includes a complete chronol­ J. Gilheany, Director of Summer Sessions and ogy of Lenya-Weill works. Continuing Education, The Catholic University The Music Division of The New York Public of America, Washington, DC 20064. Library administers hundreds of thousands of musical scores and books on music, including Fall 1977: Beginning fall 1977, the Pratt several thousand pieces of music written in Institute Graduate School of Library and Infor­ America before 1800 and an excellent collection mation Science will offer a post-master’s pro­ of popular music since 1890. Kurt Weill’s music gram in Health Sciences Librarianship. The will occupy a very important place in this col­ course of study consists of a total of thirty lection. credits and leads to an Advanced Certificate in Library and Information Studies with a special­ COURSES ty in health sciences librarianship. The health sciences courses will be offered June 27-August 12; A special course in at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. map librarianship will be offered by the Practicing health sciences librarians, informa­ 165 tion scientists who wish to upgrade their skills, university libraries that will receive awards for and graduates of master’s programs in library the 1977-78 academic year under the council’s and information science who wish to pursue Library Service Enhancement Program. They careers in health sciences libraries and informa­ are: Beloit College (Wisconsin); Colorado Col­ tion centers are welcome to apply. Require­ lege; Georgia Southern College; Georgia State ments for admission to the program leading to University; Glenville State College (West Vir­ an Advanced Certificate are a master’s degree ginia); Guilford College (North Carolina); in library science or in a field closely related to Hampton Institute (Virginia); Joint University the applicant’s present area of study. Libraries (Tennessee); Lake Forest College (Il­ Professor Kenneth Moody, director of librar­ linois); Tusculum College (Tennessee); Uni­ ies, Downstate Medical Center; Dr. Charles versity of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Uni­ King, head of reference at the Medical Re­ versity of Missouri at Kansas City; and Wayne search Library at Downstate; and Robert J. State University (Michigan). Lord and June G. Rosenberg, also from Down- Serving student populations ranging from state, constitute the health sciences librarian- 488 to nearly 35,000, the LSEP award-winners ship faculty. Drs. Laurence L. Sherrill and have designated project librarians from among Anindya Bose will provide the instruction for their senior staff to explore with faculty, stu­ the other courses. dents, and administrators ways of integrating For further information write or call Rhoda the library more fully into the educational pro­ Garoogian, Assistant Dean, Pratt Institute cess on campus. Several of the programs call Graduate School of Library and Information for developing research components as part of Science, Information Science Center, Brooklyn, established courses, conducting workshops or NY 11205; (212) 636-3704. seminars for faculty, or experimenting with the potential of audiovisual techniques in library orientation and instruction. The library of one EXHIBIT institution is entering into a full-scale curricu­ • Twenty-five rare and beautiful books are lum development program with the science being displayed at the Rosenbach Foundation faculty. Museum in an exhibition of “Printing on Vel­ The council grant will in each case provide lum, from the Fifteenth Century to Modem an amount not to exceed the salary and benefits Times,” which opened to the public on March of the designated project librarian who will be 23 and will continue until July 31. relieved of normal duties for the academic year Vellum, a fine parchment made from the in order to spend full time on the project. Each skins of calf, lamb, and kid, is an extremely institution is required to appoint for the year difficult substance on which to print and was a beginning professional librarian; the balance used by printers for only the deluxe versions of of the funds is for necessary travel and related a few, very special books. Usually twelve project expenses. copies or less were produced, and they are, to­ Library directors and project librarians at the day, extremely rare. Since vellum adds a award-winning institutions are: Beloit College: luminous quality to the appearance, many were H. Vail Deale and Wayne H. Meyer; Colorado also beautifully illustrated. Included in the ex­ College: George V. Fagan and Susan L. Myers; hibition are the New Testament of Erasmus, Georgia Southern College: Kenneth G. Walter with illustrations by Holbein; William Morris’ and James O. Harrison, Jr.; Georgia State Uni­ publication of Sir Degrevant, with illustration versity: Ralph E. Russell and Pamela Cravey; by Edward Burne-Jones; the first printing of Glenville State College: David M. Gillespie and the Pentateuch in Hebrew, 1482; the first vel­ John W. Collins, III; Guilford College: Herbert lum book printed in the United States (in Phil­ Poole and Rose Anne Simon; Hampton Insti­ adelphia, one of two copies); the Bensley edi­ tute: Jason C. Grant, III, and Elois A. Morgan; tion of Shakespeare’s works (only one copy is­ Joint University Libraries: Frank P. Grisham sued); and other outstanding examples of the and Paula A. Covington; Lake Forest College: art of printing at its highest level of technical Arthur H. Miller and Joann J. Lee; Tusculum achievement. College: Cleo Treadway; University of Colo­ The Rosenbach collections of decorative arts, rado, Colorado Springs: Michael R. Herbison rare books and manuscripts, and book illustra­ and Elizabeth Frick; University of Missouri, tion are open to the public Tuesday through Kansas City: Kenneth J. LaBudde and Shirley Sunday, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. The museum is lo­ Michelson; Wayne State University: Vern M. cated at 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, Pings and George Masterton. PA 19103. In order to ensure that applicants would be competing with peer institutions, the proposals GRANTS were divided into groups based on the classifi­ cation established by the Carnegie Commission • The Council on Library Resources has on Higher Education in A Classification of In­ announced the names of thirteen college and stitutions of Higher Education (Berkeley, Cali- 166 Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics by the Mathematical “The American Mathe­ This monumental Society of Japan matical Society wel­ work covers in con­ edited by Shôkichi comes the publication cise, thorough fashion lyanagaand of the Encyclopedic the entire mathemati­ Yukiyosi Kawada Dictionary of Mathe­ cal realm from Abel translated by the matics. For many and Abelian Groups to Mathematical Society years we have been Zeta Functions. It of Japan with the fascinated by the pub­ includes recent de­ cooperation of the lication in Japanese velopments in the The editors descri be American ... because we saw most active fields, the work as “ an en­ Mathematical that this was an ency­ articles on mathemat­ cyclopedic dictionary Society clopedia that con­ ical programming and with articles of medi­ tained effective and theoretical physics, translation reviewed um length aimed at penetrating informa­ by Kenneth 0. May and historical per­ presenting the whole tion about all the fields spectives. It is the of mathematics in a two volumes of advanced mathe­ most highly concen­ lucid system, giving 7 x11¼ inches each matical research” - trated distillation of exact definitions of 840 pages each Saunders MacLane, mathematical knowl­ important terms in 436articles- Past President, edge ever prepared. both pure and applied appendices American Mathemat­ The Encyclopedic mathematics, and -27,000 index entries ical Society Dictionary of Mathe­ describing the pres­ ISBN 0 262 090163 matics will be con­ ent state of research $100.00 through sulted-a n d consulted in each field, together August 31,1977 often - by mathemati­ with some historical $125.00 thereafter cians and students as background and some varied in their special­ perspectives for the ties and interests as future." the articles are in their subject matter; more than a few will one day The MIT Press ask how they ever Massachusetts Institute managed without of Technology the EDM! Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 fornia, 1973). The council again drew on the The Guide of 1947 now includes descriptions expertise of a group of highly qualified librari­ of only one-fifth of the cataloged holdings of ans to evaluate the applications and select the the Manuscript Department that exceed winners. William S. Dix, university librarian 4,500,000 items and 15,200 volumes. These col­ emeritus, Princeton University Library, chaired lections are a major national resource for the the group, composed of Patricia Battin, direc­ study of the social, political, economic, literary, tor, Library Services Group, Columbia Univer­ religious, and military history of the United sity; Beverly P. Lynch, director, University of States. Material about many foreign countries, Illinois at Chicago Circle library; Ernestine A. especially Great Britain, is included. Lipscomb, retired director, Jackson State Uni­ The supplement to the Guide will make versity library; A. P. Marshall, social sciences available information about these historical re­ librarian, Eastern Michigan University; Fred sources to researchers throughout this country Roper, professor, School of Library Science, and abroad. Recently, mail requests to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Manuscript Department have originated 85 Foster Mohrhardt, retired CLR senior program percent from outside North Carolina, 47 per­ officer. cent from outside the South, and 9 percent from foreign countries. The larger collections • Marcus A. McCorison, director of the have been regularly reported to the Library of American Antiquarian Society, has an­ Congress, and listings are available in the suc­ nounced a $282,000 grant to the society from cessive volumes of its publication, The Nation­ the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant al Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. was made to support two projects. One hun­ Countless small, but valuable, collections, how­ dred and eighty-two thousand dollars will be ever, are not in any catalog. The supplement used toward the costs of completing the editing will describe all new collections, as well as pro­ and supervising the publication of the micro­ vide a catalog that will be within the price form series Early American Imprints, and range of individuals as well as institutions. $100,000 will go toward the costs of a five-year This grant from the National Endowment for project to develop an educational program to the Humanities will finance the hiring for one increase scholarly use of the society’s library. year during 1977-78 of an editor and two edi­ The purpose of the Early American Imprint torial assistants who will prepare the supple­ Series is to make available by means of a micro­ ment to the Guide. Mrs. Erma Whittington of form printing process the texts of books, the Manuscript Department will compile the pamphlets, and broadsides printed in what is index. William R. Erwin, Jr., an assistant cura­ now the United States from the year 1639 tor, has general supervision of the project. through the year 1819. This project was ini­ tiated in 1954 by the late Clifford K. Shipton, MEETINGS ANO WORKSHOPS former AAS director, and by the Readex Micro­ print Corporation of New York. June 20-24: The Annual Conference of Filming and editing are now being done on the American Theological Library Associa­ printed material from the year 1816. Filming tion will be held at the Vancouver School of is done in the Readex Microprint Room at the Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. American Antiquarian Society, and John B. There will be major presentations on archives, Hench, editor of publications for AAS, is di­ microforms, library networks and automation, recting this project, assisted by Mrs. Margaret and book conservation. In addition to this, A. Donoghue. there will be small work units and business ses­ Because AAS holds more than 60 percent of sions. For program details contact Dr. John B. all items printed in this country through 1820, Trotti, Vice-President, American Theological much of the material being filmed comes from Library Association, Union Theological Semi­ the society’s own collections. The film is pro­ nary, 3401 Brook Rd., Richmond, VA 23227. cessed in Chester, Vermont, and sets of micro­ form cards are mailed to subscribing libraries July 10-16: The American Film Institute throughout the world. Work on the project is (AFI) and University of California at Los expected to be completed in 1982. Angeles Extension are offering a Film and Televison Documentation Workshop. The • The National Endowment for the Human­ workshop will be held at the AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills, Cali­ ities has awarded a grant of $37,000 to Perkins fornia. The week-long program will include lec­ Library at Duke University, Durham, North tures and laboratory exercises plus visits to film Carolina. This fund will be used by the Manu­ and television libraries in the Los Angeles film script Department for the preparation of a sup­ community. plement to its Guide to the Manuscript Collec­ Sessions scheduled for the week include ac­ tions in the Duke University Library published quisition sources for books, periodicals, and in 1947. films, classification schemes, cataloging of manu- 168 script and special collections, organization of The congress will provide a forum for the clipping flies, oral history materials, and a look exchange of views and experiences in many at new technology and future trends in educa­ areas of information processing technology. The tion. program will concentrate on applications in in­ Faculty for the workshop will include Dr. formation processing and the current state of Sam Grogg, Jr., director of AFI national edu­ the art in various related fields. cation services; Anne G. Schlosser, head of the The congress will hear some 300 speakers AFI Charles K. Feldman Library; James Pow­ and panelists from 40 countries and is expected ers, director of center publications, AFI-West, to attract some 5,000 visitors to the conference and director of the AFI oral history program; and an additional 20,000 to the IFIP exhibition. Win Sharpies, Jr., administrator, preservation About 140 technical papers and more than 30 and documentation, at AFI. panel sessions will be presented at this triennial In addition, four leading California film li­ event, which was last held in North America brarians and archivists will conduct workshop in 1965. sessions: Mildred Simpson of the Academy of For further information contact: Dick Mason, Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Audree Mal­ Canadian Information Processing Society, 212 kin of UCLA Theater Arts Library; David R. King St. W., Suite 214, Toronto, Ontario, Can­ Smith of Walt Disney Archives; Robert Knut­ ada M5H 1K5; (416) 366-4586. son of the University of Southern California De­ partment of Special Collections and Cinema August 15-16: The University of Washing­ Library. ton School of Librarianship will offer a work­ Tuition for the workshop is $250, with hous­ shop, Cataloging of Audio-Visual Materi­ ing available on the UCLA campus starting at als, in Spokane. $13 per day and including two meals. Informa­ Instructor for this two-day workshop will be tion about the AFI Film/TV Documentation Vivian L. Schrader, head of the audio visual Workshop is available from the Department of cataloging section at the Library of Congress, the Arts, UCLA Extension, P.O. Box 24902, Washington, D.C., and a leading national au­ Los Angeles, CA 90024. thority on the cataloging of audiovisual ma­ terials. July 25-August 5: The Inter-university With recent revisions in the Anglo-American Consortium for Political and Social Research Cataloging Rules, Chapters 12 and 14, more is offering a workshop on Management, Li­ thought is being given to audiovisual catalog­ brary Control and the Use of Non-biblio- ing in libraries and learning resources centers. graphic Machine-Readable Data Files. The This workshop is designed to improve li­ workshop is designed to meet the needs of in­ brarians’ knowledge of the revised Chapters 12 dividuals whose responsibilities may include and 14 of AACR and to provide basic princi­ providing data services or information about ples of cataloging AV materials based on exist­ machine-readable data files to users. For fur­ ing rules. It will also provide an opportunity for ther information see the May issue of CćrRL librarians to obtain advice on AV cataloging News. problems. Registration fee for the two days is $50, July 25-August 19: The eleventh annual which includes two luncheons and materials. Archives Institute at the Georgia Depart­ For further information, contact the Office of ment of Archives and History, Atlanta, will in­ Short Courses and Conferences, University of clude general instruction in basic concepts and Washington DW-50, Seattle, WA 98195; (202) practices of archival administration, experience 543-9233. in research use, and management of traditional and modern documentary materials. The pro­ September 27-29: The joint midyear meet­ gram will focus upon an integrated archives/ ing of the National Micrographics Associa­ records management approach to records keep­ tion and the International Micrographic ing and will feature lectures, seminars, and su­ Congress will be held in Washington, D.C., at pervised laboratory work. Fee: $528 for those the Hilton Hotel. “Micrographics: A Partner in wishing six quarter-hours graduate credit from Emerging Technologies” is the theme of the Emory University; $175 for noncredit partici­ meeting. For further information contact: Na­ pants. For further information see the April is­ tional Micrographics Assn., Conference Depart­ sue of C&RL News. ment, 8728 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910; (301) 587-8444. August 8-12: Leading authorities in the field of information processing and computer October 14-15: The School of Librarian- science will discuss emerging trends and sig­ ship of Western Michigan University, Kalama­ nificant current issues at the International zoo, and the State Library Services, Michigan Federation for Information Processing Department of Education, Lansing, will be co­ (IFIP) Congress 77 in Toronto, Canada. sponsors of a Workshop on Public Relations 169 You can offer a remarkably effective SDI service without putting a strain on your budget... or your staff ISI’s multidisciplinary alerting service— ASCATOPICS®— can keep your library’s users up to date 52 weeks a year on the new journal literature in any of over 400 scientific subjects. If a limited budget and an already busy important articles they find. 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Q1977ISI fob Library and Information Services at and authors discussed will include Dickens, Kalamazoo Valley Community College near Thackeray, Hardy, Melville, Crane, and Zola. Kalamazoo. Alice Norton of Alice Norton Pub­ The main speakers will be Sylvere Monod, lic Relations, Ridgefield, Connecticut, will be Peter Shillingsburg, Michael Millgate, Hershel the instructor for the workshop, which will be Parker, and Clive Thomson. open to practicing librarians in academic, Further information about the program and school, public, and special libraries and to grad­ the conference arrangements may be obtained uate students in library science programs who by writing to: Conference on Editorial Prob­ have completed nine or more hours of basic lems, c/o Professor J. R. de J. Jackson, Vic­ course requirements. No academic credit will toria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, be given for the workshop, but participants will Ontario, Canada M5S IK7. receive a certificate of completion. This workshop will introduce participants to November 13-16: The fall 1977 Allerton the principles and procedures of public rela­ Institute of the University of Illinois Grad­ tions as practiced by corporate and nonprofit uate School of Library Science will be on chil­ organizations. The sessions will include discus­ dren’s services in public libraries. The institute sions of planning and evaluating public rela­ will be held at Allerton House, the University tions programs; conference calls to library of Illinois conference center. leaders; presentation of films and radio and TV The planning committee for the institute con­ spot announcements; displays of library publi­ sists of Walter C. Allen, Cora E. Thomassen, cations, posters and other public relations ma­ and Selma K. Richardson, chairperson. The terials; and case studies. complete program of the institute will be avail­ The workshop fee of $48 includes registra­ able by late spring. Persons who wish to re­ tion, three meals, coffee breaks, advance read­ ceive a copy of the program and of the applica­ ing list, and workshop kit of useful books and tion for the institute should write to: Edward brochures. Contact Ardith H. Embs, Public Re­ C. Kalb, Office of Continuing Education, Uni­ lations Workshop Coordinator, School of Li- versity of Illinois, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, brarianship, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, for further IL 61820; (217 ) 333-2884. details. December 13-15: The 1st International October 20-23: The Oral History Asso­ On-Line Information Meeting will be held ciation will hold its twelfth National Work­ at the Tara Hotel in London, England. The shop and Colloquium at the Hotel del Coro­ meeting is organized and sponsored by On- nado, Coronado, California. The workshop Line-Review: the International Journal of On- chairperson is Charles Schultz, Texas A & M Line Information Systems. The meeting reflects University; the colloquium chairperson is Ber­ the increased use of on-line information re­ nard Galm, University of California at Los trieval, a method which allows a user to inter­ Angeles; the local arrangements chairperson is rogate, via a terminal and a telephone, data James Moss, San Diego Historical Society. bases centrally stored in a computer. The con­ For further information and registration ma­ ference will offer a varied program of presenta­ terials write: Ronald E. Marcello, Executive tions addressing current problems and oppor­ Secretary, Oral History Association, Box 13734, tunities facing all those involved with providing N.T. Station, North Texas State University, information in business, industry, government, Denton, TX 76203. and the academic world. Further details are available from the Or­ October 27-29: The Ohio Educational ganizing Secretary, 1st International On-Line Library Media Association (OELMA) and Information Meeting, On-Line Review, Wood- the Ohio Library Association (OLA) will side, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OXI 5BP, England; hold a concurrent conference at the Dayton telephone Oxford 730275. Convention Center, Dayton, Ohio. The confer­ ence theme will be “Getting to Know the Ohio MISCELLANY Library Media Community; Its People, Pro­ grams and Potential through Communication • After a long period of attempting to ob­ and Cooperation.” The Ohio Library Trustees tain the automated control system for govern­ Association and the Academic Library Associa­ ment documents (CODOC) developed orig­ tion of Ohio will also participate in the confer­ inally by the University of Guelph and now ence. available through the Council of Ontario Uni­ For further information contact Norman V. versities, Stockton State College Library, Plair, 215 E. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402. Pomona, New Jersey, is now entering its gov­ ernment documents into the system. During the November 4-5: The topic of the annual summer and fall, all of Stockton’s New Jersey, Toronto Conference on Editorial Prob­ Atlantic County, and corporate documents were lems is “Editing Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” coded. Initial experience indicates that the use 171 of documents is increasing because of the speed estimated 6,000 journal titles and 400 books at which new items can be entered into the enter the library yearly. data base and the ease of access through at A recently-opened Rare Book and Manu­ least seven different categories or listings. script Room, located near the main library, Because computer programs are available to includes some 3,000 distinctive books, manu­ convert the CODOC system into MARC-com- scripts, letters, journals, diaries, maps, draw­ patible format, Raymond A. Frankie, Stockton’s ings, and other memorabilia. The collection library director, feels that the CODOC pro­ includes works that are four and five hundred grams offer immediate benefit to small institu­ years old, providing some of the earliest refer­ tions, enhancing the usefulness of their ences on which taxonomic and historic scientific documents collections. Stockton, the first state studies may be based. college in New Jersey to join the Pennsylvania Area Library Network (PALINET) to obtain • Science Book & Serial Exchange, a OCLC cataloging, hopes, through the conver­ cooperative exchange service, has been estab­ sion programs, to be able to enter its holdings lished by librarians in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to into a uniform machine-readable data base. promote the movement of duplicate and un­ Mr. Frankie is so pleased with the results to needed materials between libraries at low cost. date that the library is now planning expanded Emphasizing the exchange of scientific and use of the program. He announced that Stock- technical publications in all subject areas and ton is, on an experimental basis, entering its formats (serials, monographs, government doc­ phonorecord collection in the CODOC system. uments, audiovisuals), SBSE provides an eco­ Each discrete work on every phonorecord will nomical way to add to, expand, or fill in a be placed into the system and treated individ­ collection, or alternatively to weed a collec­ ually in the listing with full bibliographic de­ tion selectively. A subscription/membership ser­ scription, thereby making the record collection vice, SBSE serves all libraries with science and more useful. technical holdings, ranging from small public Preliminary staff discussions are also under­ and junior college libraries to specialized cor­ way to assess the feasibility of using the porate and government libraries to large univer­ CODOC system for media and vertical file ma­ sity systems. Emphasis is on library-to-library terial. The library, which is already capable of cooperation and low cost. For more informa­ producing on microfiche a list of its book hold­ tion, interested librarians should write to Sci­ ings by title and classification number, hopes ence Book & Serial Exchange, 523 Fourth St., to consolidate into one machine-readable listing Ann Arbor, MI 48103. all library materials. The next step, according to the director, will be to include materials oth­ • The Center for Bioethics Library at er than books into the library’s automated cir­ Georgetown University’s Kennedy Insti­ culation system, thereby giving the library tute is the largest reference library of its kind greater managerial control over its resources. with more than 3,000 books, 7,000 article- length documents, and a large collection of • The Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Anti­ specialized bibliographies. Selected newsletters quarian Booksellers Association of America do­ and journals from the fields of philosophy, nated the net admission proceeds of its 13th medicine, law, sociology, and science, as well International Antiquarian Book Fair to the li­ as journals devoted specifically to medical eth­ brary of the American Museum of Natural ics or bioethics are also available in the library. History. The Book Fair, which was held Anne Kiger, acting librarian, says, “We at­ March 31-April 3 at New York City’s Plaza tempt to collect all the information being pub­ Hotel, brought together international dealers lished in the field of bioethics including journal and collectors of rare books, fine bindings, articles, books, pamphlets, government docu­ manuscripts, and graphics. Traditionally, the ments, and special issues of journals. Along proceeds from admission to the fair are donated with the institute’s Information Retrieval Proj­ to a nonprofit cultural institution devoted to ect, we scan all relevant bibliographies and the scholarly preservation and the public en­ indexes so that the library is complete and joyment of rare and beautiful volumes. up-to-date. We then provide catalogs to all The library of the American Museum of these materials so that both special subjects Natural History is approximately 100 years old and specific citations may be found.” and contains some 325,000 volumes. It is con­ In surveying all the material in this field, the sidered to be one of the finest natural science library offers a monthly listing of new acquisi­ collections in the United States and one of the tions, “New Titles in Bioethics.” A big time- five best in the world. Subject areas represented saver, this listing is available at cost to in the library include anthropology, entomol­ subscribing libraries, organizations, or individ­ ogy, herpetology, ichthyology, living inverte­ uals. brates, mammalogy, micropaleontology, min­ Supplying research materials for the Ken­ eralogy, ornithology, and paleontology. An nedy Institute scholars since May 1972, the 172 library is also open to the public from 9 a.m. These are subdivided to narrower fields like to 5 p.m. weekdays. The library is located on personal property and real property, then fur­ the third floor of the D.C. Transit Building, ther subdivided by the type of material—cases 3600 M. St., N.W., Washington, D.C. or statutes, for example. “The new system makes it easier to acquire • The Law Library at the University of new materials, to see where your holes are, than Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—the largest when it’s haphazard like this,” Hess said. “And of its kind in downstate Illinois—is in the midst it will allow us to take inventory. of a major overhaul. “Also, patrons will be able to use the library The library’s classification system is being without the professional staff being present. As changed from a dilapidated and diflîcult-to-use it is, people find their way around the collection system to the new Library of Congress system only by familiarity,” he said. “You ought to be devised especially for law libraries. able to go to the card catalog, use the visual The three-year project involves ten full-time guides, and locate what you’re looking for.” staff members and some $300,000 or about a Although there is some resistance to the dollar per volume. The process is akin to going change among users who already know where into a huge parking lot where the cars are in to find what they need, the new system ulti­ a random pattern and arranging them by color, mately will benefit everyone, Hess said. make, and year, one librarian said. It will be three years before the reclassifica­ “Years and years ago, legal scholars debated tion is complete. Only then will the volumes be about whether law could be classified at all,” moved. “We’ll continue to live in the old way said Edward F. Hess, Jr., law librarian at until the reclassification job is finished,” Hess UIUC. “Many people felt that the Dewey sys­ said. “Then we’ll hire shelvers, close down the tem and other classification systems available library, and do the whole works at once.” at that time were simply not adequate, that law was too universal to be classified along • After extensive consultation with the Unit­ those lines.” ed Kingdom library community, the British Under the Dewey system, subject areas with­ Library is to adopt the Library of Congress in the entire range of knowledge were identi­ system of transliteration using Cyrillic alpha­ fied, then books were brought together within bets. those areas. While this is a good means of The LC system is already used for the vast handling a general collection, it is of little use majority of machine-readable records available in classifying a large research collection devot­ in the British Library data base and henceforth ed entirely to law, Hess said. it will be implemented generally. The system The system which had been in use in the is also universally used in Canadian libraries UIUC Law Library was difficult to administer and many Australian libraries, so that, in the and difficult to teach the staff to use, he said. absence of an agreed international system, at “Gradually the whole system kind of eroded least the bulk of the English-speaking world until it became really a mess,” Hess said. “It will be acting together. Before making the final was like twenty individual libraries. Each pro­ decision, the British Library examined all the fessor had his own little collection, each with best-known alternative systems of translitera­ its own internal structure and reason for being. tion, including the ISO and British Standard Yet nobody had any concern for the overall systems. collection except some of us librarians.” The library community is moving into an era Law libraries pose a special problem. While in which interchange and consultation of ma­ new material in the field is generated continu­ chine-readable bibliographic records will take ously, all the old information must be kept as place on an increasing scale, accelerated by the well. implementation of British Library Automated “Currency is a critical problem in law librar­ Information Service (BLAISE), which will ies,” Hess said. “The courts in fifty states are make the British Library data base immediate­ grinding out material day after day, and if ly accessible to many libraries. A decision on you’re operating with a law that has been transliteration is therefore timely. superseded, you defeat your own purpose.” Virtually all libraries in the United Kingdom In science libraries, when books are out­ are affected to some extent because of English dated, they can be removed, Hess said. “But translations of East European literature, but it law is based on precedent. We are like pack is the large research libraries with foreign hold­ rats—we hold on to everything,” he said. “Our ings for which British Library transliteration efforts are often rewarded, when we can come policy will have special significance. Such li­ up with an obscure case or volume.” braries will in future be consulting records in The Library of Congress system is particular­ the British Library data base for many pur­ ly attractive because it is updated regularly, poses, such as local catalog creation, location Hess said. Volumes are arranged by vast cate­ of copies, acquisitions, and bibliographic ref­ gories, such as contract law and property law. erence. While it is envisaged that Machine 173 THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE BULLETIN

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DELIVERY: Volumes One, Two and Three have now been shipped. Volumes Four and Five are now at the printer and will be delivered soon. The remaining volumes w ill also be shipped in two-volume packages. Please note, how­ ever, that our PRE-PUBLICATION PRICES ARE STILL IN EFFECT. Readable Library Information (MERLIN) will contribution to the University of Arizona in eventually develop the facility to handle 1941. Over several subsequent decades, Hanley Cyrillic and other nonroman alphabets, the donated approximately 40,000 books to UA, British Library expects that most libraries will with significant contributions to the art collec­ want to use the roman alphabet for biblio­ tion. The UA presented Hanley with the Merit graphic communication in order to cut down Medallion in 1960 for his contributions to the costs and keep administrative procedures as university. simple as possible. In the last several years, Barton said, the UA The Library of Congress is committed to con­ Library’s art holdings have been increased by tinue indefinitely with its own system and is more than 12,000 volumes. He said that UA’s bound to be the major source of machine-read­ holdings are significantly ahead of the art col­ able bibliographic data for the foreseeable fu­ lections at several other well-known universi­ ture. LC transliteration is already being applied ties. He said the art collection of the University to records in the British Library data base of of Texas numbers 20,800 volumes, while the East European books acquired by the Depart­ collection of the University of Southern Cali­ ment of Printed Books, British Library Refer­ fornia numbers 21,400 volumes. ence Division; these and other records of The UA art collection also surpasses the col­ acquisitions will be available through the lections of the University of New Mexico and BLAISE system. the University of Colorado, he said. The Science Reference Library (another de­ • The International Archival Affairs Com­ partment of the Reference Division) is also mittee of the Society of American Archivists adopting LC transliteration for its new records has announced its fifth Archives Study Tour, and will be converting its existing machine- Archives in Northwest Europe, for August 1- readable records shortly. 22. The program will feature visits to public The British National Bibliography has used and private archival agencies, manuscript re­ a simplified version of LC transliteration from positories, and libraries in Dublin, Edinburgh, the beginning, but from 1978 the Bibliographic Oslo, Amsterdam, Brussels, and London. In Services Division will begin to use full LC each city there will also be historical orienta­ transliteration in its machine-readable records tion tours and opportunities for individual visits for English language books. to museums and related cultural institutions. The study tour is available to members of the • A University of Arizona (UA) Library Society of American Archivists, their families, survey indicates that it has the Southwest’s lead­ and other persons interested in archives, manu­ ing collection of art history research material, scripts, libraries, and records management ac­ according to Paul Barton, head of the central tivities. For further information contact; reference section. Archives Study Tour, Society of American Barton said that, with the exception of the Archivist, P.O. Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680. Universities of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley and Stanford University, the nearest • The Joint Steering Committee for Revi­ schools with art collections larger than UA’s are sion of AACR (JSCAACR) has decided that the universities in the upper Midwest. the text of the second edition of the Anglo- The UA library’s holdings number 33,000 American Cataloging Rules should be reviewed volumes, excluding such items as indexed 18th- by those who have contributed to this exten­ and 19th-century newspaper holdings from sive revision. Review copies of the text are London, Paris, and New York. Other collections being distributed in Britain, Canada, and the include holdings in archaeology, landscape U.S. architecture, and photography. The library’s Library-related organizations in the U.S. and collections are also augmented by exhibition units of the American Library Association have catalogs received from galleries throughout the been contacted. About a dozen have agreed to United States and Europe and the material participate in the review. The final draft of the housed in the Architecture Library, the Arizona rules was circulated to these bodies in February State Museum Library, and slide materials in 1977. the Art Department. The review will focus on the comprehensive­ Barton said the collection includes more than ness and adequacy with which the principles 7,000 monographs on painters, more than 6,000 and policies laid down by and for the titles on various movements in art, 2,500 titles JSCAACR have been carried out. It will not be on the history of sculpture, 4,000 titles on concerned with specific proposals for rule re­ architecture, and almost 1,000 art serials. The vision, since these have already been fully con­ library currently subscribes to 200 art journals. sidered by the committee during the AACR The library’s art holdings are due in large revision activities in 1974-76. The results of part to the contributions of the late T. Edward the review, which will take three months, will Hanley, a brick manufacturer and oilman from be considered by the editors and by the Bradford, Pennsylvania. Hanley made his first JSCAACR at its final meeting in mid-1977. 176 In the U.S., distribution of review copies will • Unpublished poetry and fiction by Robert be handled by the ALA’s Resources and Tech­ Hillyer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who nical Services Division (RTSD). Members of died in 1961, are among collected papers avail­ and representatives to the ALA RTSD Catalog able for scholarly research at Syracuse Uni­ Code Revision Committee and selected staff versity. members of the Library of Congress will also Hillyer, who was born in 1895, taught at receive review drafts for consideration. No Harvard University, his alma mater, for twenty- copies of the final review draft will be distrib­ five years, as well as at Kenyon College and the uted to other persons or organizations in the University of Delaware. He was also a novelist, U.S. short story writer, and critic. His volumes of poetry include Hills Give Promise, Collected • The ALA Library Administration Divi­ Verse (1933)—which won the Pulitzer Prize sion’s (LAD) Buildings and Equipment Section in 1934—Pattern of a Day, The Death of Cap­ maintains a collection of library building pro­ tain Nemo, and Collected Poems. gram statements on design and construction of The Robert Hillyer Collection at Syracuse new or renovated library buildings. The pro­ University consists of 1,429 items, including grams are available on interlibrary loan from correspondence with Conrad Aiken, Ray Brad­ the ALA Headquarters Library. bury, John Dos Passos, Gene Fowler, Robert The collection consists of about 300 state­ Frost, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Arthur Machen, ments and includes all types of libraries—col­ and Howard Nemerov, and 143 manuscripts lege, university, junior college, community and notebooks. college, public, county, regional, branch, and a few state, school, special, hospital, and insti­ Among the manuscripts are drafts of poems and articles, complete and incomplete, an un­ tutional libraries. titled story, and copies of songs whose words In order to bring the collection up-to-date he had written. Hillyer believed poetry and and to increase the number of programs in the file, LAD is requesting that librarians and music to be inseparable and was an amateur composer. Many of his poems were set to music architects who have been involved (within the last three or four years) with new buildings, by composers such as Vernon Duke, Herman Luri, Daniel Pinkham, Gordon Sherwood, and renovations, and additions send a copy of their building program to LAD, American Library Ned Rorem. ■ ■ Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. In addition to maintaining a current file, LAD would like to increase the number of pro­ grams for state, school, special, hospital, and institutional libraries. • Interinstitutional cooperation took another step forward with the recent initiation of a li­ brary bus service between Indiana State Uni­ versity in Terre Haute and Indiana Univer­ sity at Bloomington. Under the plan, announced by Library Deans W. Carl Jackson, I.U., and Sul H. Lee, I.S.U., students and faculty from I.S.U. are transported to Bloomington each Saturday to use the collections in the I.U. libraries. An evaluation will be made this summer to deter­ mine the feasibility of continuing the bus ser­ vice, which is one of a variety of cooperative efforts existing among the state’s university li­ braries. In 1969, the Interinstitutional Library Ser­ vices Agreement was launched, creating a lend­ ing pact among the libraries at Ball State, Indiana State, Purdue, and Indiana universities. Under the arrangement, students, faculty, and staff at any of the four institutions have bor­ rower privileges for books, periodicals, and oth­ er library holdings at any of the other schools. This service, explained Dean Jackson, vastly extends the resources available to persons on the four campuses. 177