LIBRARY STAFF BULLETIN T the UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS LIBRARY STAFF ASSOCIATION

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V STAFF ASSOCIATION TRIP TO COLOUMBUS The Library Staff Association sponsored a tour to Columbus, Ohio on April 20-21, 1977. Twenty-nine of the library staff, both academics and non-academics, took part in the tour. Arriving late in the afternoon on the 20th, people were then free to explore the university and the city of Columbus. Some; visited departmental libraries on the campus of Ohio State or went to the main library to get a preview of things to come and try out the LCS terminals at leisure. Others went to visit the State Capitol Building or wander through German Village, a restored area of Colum bus with many shops and restaurants.

Thursday, the 21st, was a very full day which began early in the morning with a tour of the OCLC operation, a short distance from the Ohio State campus. There the group was given a rather detailed slide presentation about OCLC and then a tour of the various buildings.

The group then returned to campus where they were again free to explore for a few hours. The afternoon began with a tour of the OSU main library. The first stop was at the circulation desk where the group heard a very detailed description of "the automated circulation system. They then went on to the Quick-Editing Unit (QUE) where they were divided into smaller groups while QUE staff explained their use of OCLC and LCS in cataloging materials. The Illinois staff were then guests at a reception given by the Ohio State Library Staff Association and were able to meet many of the Ohio State staff and discuss and compare their libraries.

Late in the afternoon the group visited the Fine Arts Library and spoke with Mrs. Jean Sisson, the librarian there. Mrs. Sisson pointed out some of the difficulties they have encountered in working with LCS, and some of the adjustments which had to be made.

The tour ended with a visit to the Health Sciences Library where the group was able to see the Randtriever in operation. This is the automation retrieval system which allows for very compact shelving of book materials.

From the Health Sciences Library the group boarded the waiting bus and began the return trip to Champaign, tired but pleased with the trip. -2-

SUCCESSFUL BOOK- The Library Staff Association held a plant, book and bake PLANT-BAKE SALE sale on Tuesday, April 26, 1977. The total amount of money made from the sale is as follows:

Book Sale $270.70 Plant Sale 106.60 Bake Sale 117.90

This total does not include the bid for the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica which has not yet been finalized. Books which were not sold have been donated to the Champaign Public Library for their upcoming used book sale. The Staff Association and the Sale Committee would like to thank all those who gave their time and money to help make the sale a success.

VISIT TO STATE Earlier this year the Library Staff Association announced LIBRARY PLANNED plans for a trip to visit the State Library in Springfield. (and executed!) The large number of people interested in taking the tour made it necessary to schedule two trips: one on Thursday, April 28th; the other on Wednesday, May 4th. As announced, the trip will be on released time, and each person will pay for his/her own travel and lunch expenses. The bus fare will be about $5.50. Lunch will be at the cafeteria in the State Office Building. On the return trip there will be an addit ional stop at the new Lincoln Public Library in Springfield, a library noted for its innovative energy saving engineering. Anyone interested in the trip should contact Joyce Wajenberg in the Acquisitions Department, 220A Library (3-6519).

ALA MIDWINTER The second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules DISCUSSION OF is in the final stages of preparation and is scheduled for AACR publication sometime in 1978. The authors of the new edition are the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Canada and the (British) Library Asso ciation. Each of these organizations is represented on the Joint Steering Committee (JSC), which will determine the final shape of the rules and provide guidelines to the editors (Paul Winkler of LC and Michael Gorman of the British Library) in the actual writing of the code. First drafts of many parts of the new code have been issued and are currently in the ^ process of being discussed, criticized and rewritten; copies will be circulated to certain libraries for their comments and suggestions. Even though publication of the new edition is expected in 1978, it will probably be 1980 at the earliest before the Library of Congress and the other national cataloging agencies of English speaking countries implement the new rules in their cataloging practices. -3-

The first edition of the AACR was issued in 1967, with two different texts: North American (for U.S. and Canadian li braries) and British. The reason for two different versions was that the representatives of the respective North American and British library associations could not agree on certain rules (for example, the rule for choice of main entry for serials, and the rules dealing with the form of heading for certain corporate bodies). The result of this disagreement was two codes, similar in structure and in many details of rules, but differing in many important aspects. However, since the publication of the NA text in 1967, a number of changes have already been made and put into practice at LC, so that AACR as revised since 1967 is very similar to the British text of 1967. One of the major goals of the entire revision process (begun in 1974) has been to produce a unified code which will be acceptable on both sides of the Atlantic and which might form the basis for an international cataloging code acceptable to non-English speaking library traditions.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the new code will be its arrangement. The 1967 edition provided rules of entry and description separately for each medium: serials, monographs, manuscripts, sound recordings, etc. The new code will pro vide "general" rules for choice of main and added entry and "general" rules for description of library materials; rules peculiar to the description of individual media will be given separately. Thus, the new code will presumably have no separate rules of entry for, say, serials; all media will be covered by the general provisions for choice of entry. Likewise, to give proper discriptive cataloging or, say, a manuscript, one must refer both to the general descriptive rules and to those specifically relating to manuscripts.

H. LEICH (based on meetings and discussions at ALA Midwinter, January 1977)

The Gutenberg Galaxy and the University of Illinois Library Friends sponsored a reception on Tuesday, April 5, 1977 to introduce the new book written by Robert B. Downs, BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE SOUTH. Refreshments were served preceding Mr. Downs' interesting speech. Mr. Downs, Dean of Library Administration Emeritus, gave both a history and an analysis of his new work. "Books That Changed The South" was limited to twenty-five titles, with the publication dates ranging from 1624 to 1951. The principal criterion for selection was the extent to which each book influenced the social milieu of the South. Dean Downs reflected that neither the literary merit of the work nor the birhplace or residence of its author was regarded as a criterion for inclusion in the book. The books, -4-

arranged chronologically by date of publication include selected essays aw well as works of fiction. Titles sel ected appear below.

THE FIRST AMERICAN: Captian John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New^England, and the Summer Isles

AN AMERICAN PEPYS: Williams Byrd's History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina

AMERICAN STATESMAN: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

TERRESTRIAL PARADISE: William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida

HISTORY VERSUS LEGEND: Mason Locke Weems' s Life of Washington the Great

FOLK HERO: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

YARNS OF FRONTIER LIFE: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes

SLAVE PLANTATION: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Written by Him self

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER: John Caldwell Calhoun's A Disquitsition on Government

HATED HELPER: Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

SOUTHERN TRAVELER: Frederick Law Olmsted's The Cotton Kingdom

SOUTHERN PANORAMA: Edward King's The Great South

ROMANTIC NEW ORLEANS: George W. Cable's Old Creole Days

BLACK FOLKTALES: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

FATHER' OF WATERS: Mark Twains Life on the Mississippi -5-

MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIA: Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia

THE GREAT COMPOMISER: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up From Slavery

BLACK PROTESTANT: William Edward Burghardt du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk

HYMN OF HATE: Thomas Dixon's The Clansman" An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

ANTEBELLUM SOUTH: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's Life and Labor in the Old South

NOSTALGIA FOR NEVER-NEVER LAND: I'll Take My Stand, by Twelve Southerners

REGIONAL INVENTORY: Howard W. Odum's Southern Regions of the United States

NATION WITHIN A NATION: W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South

RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW FREEDOM: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

Publishers Weekly (14 February 1977) has listed the following books as the best sellers of 1976:

FICTION

!• Trinity by Leon Uris 2. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Chrisite 3. Dolores by Jacqueline Susann 4. Storm Warning by Jack Higgins 5* The Deep by Peter Benchley 6. 1876 by Gore Vidal 7. Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut 8. The Lonely Lady by Harold Robbins 9. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart 10. A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon

NONFICTION

1. The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 2« Roots by Alex Haley 3. Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 4. Passages: The Predictable Crises of Adult Life t>y Gail Sheehy 5* Born Again by Charles W. Colson 6. The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck -6-

7. Angels: God's Secret Agents by Billy Graham 8. Blind Ambition: The White House Years by John Dean 9. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality by Shere Hite 10. The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate by Leon Jaworski

SPOTLIIGHT ON CAMPUS The English Library in room 321 continues to change with the LIBRARIES—ENGLISH times. As the primary campus resource for the U of I English LIBRARY faculty and graduate students, the library originally aspired to house in one location a collection to meet totally the needs of the clientele. This goal has long since been made impossible by the publication explosion, the library's physical size, and budget deficiencies. The library today contains a core collec tion of reference and critical material and aims increasingly for bibiliographic access to materials needed by its users. Reference service and readers' guidance is provided as well as a current awareness service to members of the English faculty.

The library is undergoing a gradual physical reorganization. Materials organized into special collections as an aid to grad uate students in preparing for comprehensive examinations are being reshelved by Dewey classification as the examinations that led to the special arrangements are no longer given Little used rare materials are being transferred to protected storage to make space for materials in greater demand.

The library orders and retains for a limited time some new primary materials. These include works of quality fiction, poetry, drama and magazines not available elsewhere in the library system. Only the most current of the serial publications are kept in the library with back issues being sent to bookstacks. Monographs are usually kept for a six month period.

All new material received by the library is separately shelved for the first several months. It is in the collection to bring it to attention of the researcher and casual browser. A separate shelving area is provided for works of poetry, and use: response indicates interest in the discipline is far from dead. l

TO WHOM IT MAY Law bibiographer and cataloger Fred Mansfield calls attention BE OF INTEREST to the following: -7-

MICROFICHE The Nixon administration: Watergate, impeachment 364.13 proceedings, resignation, pardon, past and present N6545 judicial proceedings, and the United Press Inter national new coverage: a comprehensive microfiche library with analytic indexes/ Stephen A. Weinstein, editor-in-chief. Hyattsville, Md.: National Educa tional Consultants, 1975- sheets. 10.5x14.7 cm. and q364.13 The Nixon administration: Watergate, impeachment N6545 proceedings, resignation, pardon, past and present index judicial proceedings, and United Press Internaional news coverage; a comprehensive microfiche library with analytical indexes/ Stephen A. Weinstein, ed itor in chief. Hyattsville, Md., National Educa tion Consultants, 1975- v. 30 cm.

The Slavic and East European Division of the Library has recently announced a new expanded reference service to aid those in the field of Slavic studies with any interlibrary loan and reference problems they might have. The service has been in operation for over a year on a limited basis, and now a large selection of college and research libraries have been notified of the service.

Extensive efforts have been made to share the University of Illinois Library's Slavic collection of over 400,00 volumes through a scholars-to-books program called the Illinois Summer Research Laboratory on Russian and Eastern Europe (funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities). During the first four years of this continuing program some 315 visiting scholars have received free lodging and faculty library priveleges for periods of from one to eight weeks in order to use the Slavic library resources. These scholars were the first to know about and use the reference service.

Thanks to U. S. Office of Education support for the university's Russian and East European Center, the Slavic Division has now installed a teletype (TWX 910-245-0782) which is used exclusively for handling Slavic requests. In addition to requests which come in by teletype, many come in through personal letters and telephone calls. Requests have been received from most of the states, including Alaska and Hawaii, anu there have also been requests from Canada and Mexico. If the requests cannot be filled from the library's collection, they are searched for other location, and the NUC reference unit will be queried. This is especially valuable because the NUC unit has access -8-

to files on Slavic materials which have not been systematically included in the Mansell, Pre-1956 catalog.

If a book title is within the library's collection profile and not available anywhere in the United States, the librarians will usually attempt to obtain a microfilm copy from Europe or the Soviet Union.

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COMARC The catalog records of the University of Illinois Library have PARTICIPATION been accepted for inclusion in the Library of Congress's COMARC project. As a result, Illinois cataloging records which have been based on LC cataloging data not distributed through the MARC Distribution service, are added to the Marc data base. These Illinois records are sent to LC in machine readable form by OCLC. They include for the most part foreign language ma terials which were cataged at LC, but which were not added to the MARC data base at the time they were cataloged.

During the first years of the MARC project, only English language materials were added to the data base. LC began to add foreign language materials to MARC just a few years ago, so there are many older records which are not in the data base today. Through COMARC, any of these foreign language materials which are cataloged at Illinois using LC cataloging information, and are input to OCLC, will then be added to the current MARC data base. Besides foreign language materials, English language materials cataloged by LC prior to the beginning of the MARC program, and so not in the data base, are added to MARC from the Illinois' records.

Other libraries participating in this program include: University of Chicago, Cornell, Boston Theological Institute, Northwestern, 3-M Company-Library Systems, Boston Public, Washington State, Yale, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. So far, approximately 15,000 new records have been added to the MARC data base through the COMARC program. The majority of the new foreign language records added to the data base include some rare book items, but most records are from the 1960s and 70s.

LIBRARY STUDENTS A reception was held on Tuesday, April 12, 1977, from 2:00 to EXHIBIT IN RARE 4:00 p.m., to open a new exhibit in the Rare Book Room. The ( BOOK ROOM exhibit was a project by Ms. Selma Richardson's Library Science 441 class. lfBits and Pieces, BEING AN ELEGANT EXHIBIT CONSIS TING OF A GREAT VARIETY OF THE MOST DELIGHTFUL LITTLE STORIESf! was the name of the exhibit. It will be on display from April 12 to April 30th during the regular hours of the Rare Book Room. Camomile tea and gingerbread was served by the students.

Titles found in the odiibit were listed as frequently rare, often -9-

unusual and sometimes unique; their devastating little owners having secured that eminence for them. Titles carefully selected and arranged by the students include the following:

1. A Flight through Two Centuries, Laura K. Bergeron 2. Variations on Themes of Cinderella, Cherie Bussert 3. A Child's Literary Corner, 1864-1869, Linda Feldman 4. There was an old woman..., Amy Jane Kaspar 5. Hark! Hark! The dog doth bark throughout the ages, Angela George Plagge 6. Lucy Fitch Perkins: Twins in the Melting Pot, Ina N. Robertson 7. A Garden of Verse with Roots in Antiquity, Agnes Stahlschmidt

Bob Delzell, Director of Personnel, was in Birmingham, Alabama, the first week in March were he was the keynote speaker for a statewide seminar on PARAPROFESSIONALS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES. The seminar, held at the Conference Center of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, was co-sponsored by the Alabama Library Association and the Mervyn H. Sterne Library on the Bir mingham campus. Over 80 paraprofessionals from college and university libraries in Alabama were registered for the seminar.

The third week in March, Bob was in New York City, working with members of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Office and Committee and the producer of the IFC film. The group saw the final rough interlock of the film and it is anticipated that the final print will be ready in mid-April. The film, titled THE SPEAKER... A FILM ABOUT FREEDOM, has the brilliant American actress, Mil dred Dunnock, in the leading role. The film will be premiered during the first General Session of ALA during the Detroit conference and Mildred Dunnock has promised to be there for the showing.

The home of Mary Vance, City Planning and Landscape Archi tecture Librarian,was recently destroyed by fire. Although she and her family escaped without harm, all of their possessions and the family pets were lost. The Library Staff Association gave Mrs. V'ance a gift of linens and a check for fifty dollars. Mrs. Vance expressed her gratitude in the following letter.

Dear Colleagues in the Library Association: I will never be able to express the warm feelings your notes and gifts brought the three Vances. We know that our possessions were trivial; the family is safe and we are surrounded by good friends. The towels have been put to good use and I shall use the \ check to replace books on plants and quilts - my two hoi \ We do thank each and every one of you. \ Mary Vance 1

LIBRARY On Tuesday, April 26, Professor Earl Reitan, of the Department i FORUM of History and the Instructional Resources Center, Illinois \ State University, Normal, spoke at the final Library Forum 1 luncheon for 1976/77. Professor Reitan discussed his involve- | ment in a project at Illinois State, the purpose of which was I to seek methods by which the faculty at the University could % perform more effectively in undergraduate and advanced program \ instruction. ]

The project began in Fall, 1976, and was funded by a matching grant from the Kellogg Foundation. It was administered through the Illinois State University Teaching-Learning Center. Three goals were described: to develop baseline data on teaching, to sponsor workshops informing the faculty of the various resources available to them at the University, and to develop faculty in terest in improving and strengthening undergraduate instruction.

Professor Reitan felt that the faculty needed an opportunity to become familiar with the new library at Illinois State, and to learn about its expanded services to them and how these services could improve their teaching. Traditionally, the faculty had used the library for their own research, and were familiar with library resources in very limited areas, but had not integrated library use into their undergraduate courses. Consequently, students were afraid of using the library, and preferred their home town libraries to the complexities of a large university library. Professor Reitan saw this as a problem of instruction to be dealt with primarily by the fac ulty, aided by the professional library staff. He felt that the faculty needed to understand the goals' of courses more thoroughly, and to realize how class assignments could be made to help foster competency and interest in library use by under graduates. These goals presupposed an understanding of library procedures and resources on a broader scale then the faculty then had.

Initially, Professor Reitan sent questionnaires on library use, to all teaching faculty, and requested professional librarians^ to prepare composite reports describing the extent of materials and services offered by their departments. He then orgainzed four workshops for the faculty in four subject areas: Human ities, Natural Sciences, Business, and Education. The workshops attracted 25 faculty members from the Humanities, eight from the sciences, and several from Education. The workshop for busi ness was cancelled due to lack of interest. -11-

Each workshop was divided into three stages: 1) the oper ation stage, in which professional librarians described how the library system basically functioned, oriented the faculty to the new library building, and answered general "nuts and bolts11 questions about the working of the library; 2) the instructional process stage, in which librarians informed fac ulty of the range of services available in particular subject areas, how those services could be integrated into class assignments, and how faculty could follow up on assignments and provide more direction to students in choosing topics, etc. The emphasis here was on helping faculty members to re-think their roles as teachers, and take the time to go beyond tradi tional limitations of teaching. The third stage, the instruc tional goal stage, sought to get the faculty both to think about new ways to encourage use of the library, and to develop a spirit of inquiry in students in conjunction with libr^y use.

The workshops were a success with the faculty members who atten ded, though the number was small. Librarians felt that they had received valuable feedback regarding the perspectives and needs of other faculty members. The major question which Pro fessor Reitan rased was: Are librarians the best people to deal with the problem of library instruction? He seemed to believe that the problem should be handled primarily by the faculty teaching courses, and that these faculty members needed to take the time to learn about library resources in more than their own limited research areas, so as to integrate library use with courses. Professional librarians would then primarily direct students to resources and teach them to use catalogs and ref erence tools, rather than take a more active part in defining topics, interpreting class assignments, etc. Professor Reitan feels that these functions should be performed by course instruc tors.

A LOOK INTO The editorial staff was looking over past issues of the Library THE PAST Staff Bulletin amd thought readers might be interested in re calling events of 10 and 15 years ago.

BOOKS IN Books in the News, by Robert Oram, Circulation Librarian is THE NEWS broadcast for five minutes each Wednesday over station WILL-AM Nov. 1962 at 3:30 P.M. and again at 8:55 P.M. on WILL-FM. Mr. Oram recent ly reviewed the following: The Scandalous Mr. Bennett by Rich ard O'Connor; My Land and My People by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet; Morte dfUrban by J. F. Powers; on November 7 he will review Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

At present 40 NAEB Network stations subscribe to this program. -12-

NEW HEAD OF Betty M. E. Croft, Catalog Reviser, will become the head of the CATALOG DEPARTMENT Catalog Department on September 1, replacing Marian Harman. June 1962 Miss Harman has been asking for several years to be relieved of administrative duties. She will continue as a full-time cataloger.

JEAN LOKKE Jean Lokke, Assistant Circulation Librarian, returned from a Nov. 1962 vacation in England, Scotland and Wales. She and Mary Jane MacDonald, former Commerce Librarian, met in London; together they rented a car and toured for several weeks. Highlights of the trip included several plays in London, a visit with friends in Anglesey, Wales and several days on the Isle of Skye, during which they was the Skye Highland Games.

SALARIES OF Mr. Herbert Goldhor has compiled the following figures on the GRADUATES salaries of graduates of the Graduate School of Library Science Dec. 1962 in 1962. The figures are based upon the responses received from 60 of the 75 graduates of that period.

Arithmetic average salary for students with the 5th-year Master's degree: $5893. Median salary: $5500. Range: $4500 to $9120. Thirty-one of the 60 had no previous experience. Of this group the arithmetic average salary was $5520. Of the 29 in the group who had library experience of some type the arithmetic average was $6295. The figures above may be compared with sim ilar figures for 1961, in which year the average, salary for the 5th year Master's graduates was $5385, the median salary $5300, and the range $4500-$7500. In 1961, the average salary for those without experience was $5223, for those with experience $5635.

LIBRARY ACQUIRES A book of extraordinary interest and value has been designated ITS FOUR MILLIONTH^ as the four-millionth volume to be added to the University of BOOK Illinois Library. The Library reached this major landmark in Feb.-March 1966 its growth on March 1, 1966.

"FIRST WE HAVE IT" The book which was chosen to be numbered 4,000,000 was once owned by John Milton. It is a work by the classical Greek writer Lycophron, entitled Alexandra. Milton's copy was pur chased by him in 1634, when he was a young man of 26, and was liberally annotated by the poet.

A book associated with Milton is a particularly appropriate one with which to celebrate this important occasion. The University of Illinois Library's collection of works by and about John Milton is one of the most complete in the world, including first editions of all Milton's writings printed in his own life time. -13-

The rapid development of the University Library at Illi nois has occurred mainly in the last 60 years. Its first million volumes were acquired from the founding in 1868 to 1929y more than 60 years. The second million came in 17 years, early in 1946,' while the third million took a little over a decade, 1946-1956. The fourth million shows that the rate of growth is accelerating, for it has required only nine years and five months. The total included the University's two Chicago campuses.

BOOK CHOSEN TO The book selected to be the Library's four millionth was BE LIBRARY'S FOUR stolen during the noon hour Monday, March 29. Lycophron's MILLIONTH STOLEN Alexandra, originally purchased by John Milton in 1634, was stolen along with two other books by a thedf who broke "THEN WE DON'T" windows in two doors to gain entry to the Rare Book Room, 346 Library. The two other books were Heraclides Lembus' Allegories on the Stories of Homer About the Gods 1544, pur chased by the Library in 1947, and Matteo Maria Bojardo's Orlando Innamorato 1608, purchased by the Library in 1938. The three books were valued at $75,000 though this total is larger than the original purchase prices paid by the library. The latter two books have grown in value since their purchases in 1947 and 1938, respectively. However, Alexandra was purchased recently for $27,500.

RECOVERY OF One June 8, 1966, Dean Downs announced the return of three STOLEN RARE rare books valued at $75,000 which were stolen from the BOOKS Rare Book Room on March 28. The three volumes, all once belonging to John Milton are: Lycophron's Alexandra, published "THEN WE HAVE in 1601 in Geneva; Orlando Innamorato, by Matteo Maria IT AGAIN" Bojardo, published in Venice in 1608; and Herelides Lembus' Allegoria in Homeri Fabulas de Dijs, published in Basel in 1544. Miltonfe annotation appear in all three volumes. Alexandra was designated the library's four millionth vol ume shortly before the theft. Mr. Downs indicates that the investigation of the theft and return of the volumes is continuing.

UNDERGRADUATE Interest in, and curiosity about, the underground Undergrad LIBRARY - URBANA uate Library now being "dug" on the Urbana campus continues March 1967 to run high. The "hole" has reached mammoth size, to the amazement of sidewalk superintendents and the chagrin of drivers and pedestrians on Gregory Drive whereon mud is often deposited liberally. Lately the Chicago Tribune led off an article on the needs of Illinois colleges and univer sities with the following reference: "From underground libraries to highrise dormitories, Illinois1 eight majo. state-supported colleges and universities are entering a billion-dollar boom."

Continued ALA interest is currently being expressed through an invitation to present the new library at the ALA Building Institute to be held in conjunction with the annual conven tion in San Francisco. At the Institute the University will be represented by a spokesman for the Library and a member of the architectural firm of Richardson, Severns, Scheeler and Associates of Champaign. The usual procedure at the Institute includes presentation by the library rep resentative of !,...the background of the institution, the library setting, and the library philosophy,11 followed by the architect who discusses the design concept, its bases and the problems encountered. A critic from another in stitution comments upon the plans and audience discussion concludes the presentation.

VANDALISM AT During the weekend of February 15-16, vandals removed approx- UNIVERSITY LIBRARY imately 15,000 cards valued at some $25,000-$50,000 from the March 1969 main catalog of the University Library. According to Dean Downs, the subject areas hardest hit were: Civil Service, Communications Research, Communism, Concrete Construction, English Language, European War, Farms, Philippine Islands, and Political Science. Smaller groups of cards were also taken from the Education, Undergraduate, and Modern Languages Libraries.

The vandalism was first discovered on the afternoon of the 16th by a couselor in a men's residence hall who found two wastepaper baskets... full of burned cards. Other cards were later found in both the men's and women's restrooms of the main Library. By the end of the week some 50 percent of the cards had been recovered.

The University Foundation has posted a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the van dals.

The task of reconstructing the catalog will require months, but Dean Downs reports that a complete restoration is vir tually impossible since the Library has no duplicate records. He adds that it will be necessary to hire professional cat- alogers for the project.

In an attempt to prevent future acts of vandalism, the University has placed guards at the catalog during hours when the regular library staff is not present. In addition, -15-

the Library's Photographic Laboratory is in the process of microfilming the shelflist.

BATS IN To Mrs. Mardelle Austin, Photographic Clerk, "bats in the THE BELFRY belfry11 has become more than a saying. The morning of Jan February 1964 uary 16, Mrs. Austin raised the shades in 436, the library photo reproduction lab, only to be startled by some "crea ture" clinging to the window. Wary scrutiny convinced her that she had uncovered a sleeping bat in her office.

Frantic calls to 222 Library ("Have you gone bats?") brought a promise of men to the rescue...eventually. All morning long she stood by her post, buzzing and clanking the machines, yet keeping one eye on the sleeping bat in the window.

The janitors arrived close to noon with a pole and a paper bag in hand. They had a wild chase, but finally emerged with a bagged bat.

To Mrs. Mardelle Austin, Photographic Clerk, belongs a staff's merit citation for her bravery in the line of duty.

DEAN'S ORDER OF To Virginia Sinclitico, third floor administrative offices, MERIT CITATION who is responsible to three bosses for work relating to December 1964 personnel, public services, and technical processes and with praise from all three. Her varied duties are performed with patience, tact and good humor, and she maintains excellent relations with visitors, staff and demanding student appli cants.

A VOTE OF THANKS A vote of thanks is in order for Mary Lois Bull and Esther November 1963 Clausen who spent a Saturday morning in the Patio pruning trees, trimming bushes, painting trash receptacles and ash trays and other activities of a janitorial nature.

CATALOG To the Tune of "White Christmas" (Dedicated to Miss Croft) CAROLS January 1968 I'm dreaming of an empty bookshelf, just like I'm sure there used to me. Though I've never seen one, there's sure to be one that's way beyond the mess I see! "1

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Ifm dreaming of an empty bookshelf with every copy slip I write- May my days be merry and bright, when there's just ONE empty shelf in sight!

"LUCKY LIBRARY" The Library Bowling Team captured first place in the "B" BOWLING TEAM division of the Faculty Bowling League by winning 2 to 1 April 1968 "scratch11 in a "cliff-hanger" of the League Tournament on April 3.

Frequently dubbed "Lucky Library", team regulars are Lucien White, Robert Talmadge, Bill Huff, Kenneth Clegg and J.K. Aikin. Team substitutes this season have been Jack Simon, Ken Carlson, Bob Kozlow and Fred Nash.

The Faculty Bowling League, which is a member of the American Bowling Congress, consists of three divisions (A, B, and C) of 12 teams each. The schedule calls for two rounds within each division on the Illini Union Lanes with each round fol lowed by a position night. A tournament is then held into which is incorporated interleague competition.

In the 1966-67 season the Library team ranked sixth in the "B" division. All bowling is on a handicap basis. Final averages were as follows: 1966-67 1967-68 White 160.28 159 Aikin 159.52 153 Talmadge 150.89 153 Huff 149.88 144 Clegg 143.81 152

The Faculty Bowling League End-of-the-Season Event at which tournament awards and league trophies will be presented will be on April 17.

BANNED BOOKS A selection of books banned in the United States is on dis April 1963 play in the first floor corridors of the University Library. Titled "Banned Books" the exhibition will continue through 1 May.

Books shown in the exhibit have been banned for moral, po litical, or religious reasons. Some of the authors have distinguished themselves by being banned for two or even all three reasons. The books are a part of the Ewing C. Baskette Collection of Freedom of Expression which the Library purchased recently. -17-

Greeks, Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, and Americans are represented in the banned books. Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, II Dacamerone, by Baccaccio, and Pantagruel and Gargantua, by Rabelais are included. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was banned because minority groups felt that the characterization of Shylock fostered intolerance. On the origin of species, by Charles Darwin, was banned in 1925 after the Scopes trial in Tennessee. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, was banned in 1881 by the action of the Society for the Suppression of Vice.

In more recent times the case of James Joyce's Ulysses is notable for the decision made by Judge John. M. Woolsey. Many of the novels by D. H. Lawrence have been banned, as have those of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Three of Faulkner's novels, Sanctuary, Pylon, and Soldier's Pay remained on the disapproved list of the National Organization of Decent Literature even after Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Annotations for the exhibit were prepared by Robert. W. Kidder, Circulation Department.

LIBRARY'S AUDUBON A first edition of Audubon's four-volume work, The Birds of INCREASING IN VALUE America, like the one belonging to the Library and currently December 1969 on display outside the Reference Room on the second floor, was sold in London on November 24, 1969 for $216,000. It was believed to be the highest auction price ever paid for a printed work.

Ten years ago Sotheby's, where the auction was held, sold an identical first edition for $36,400. The extremely rare set, which contains 435 plates engraved in aquatint and colored by hand, was bought by a Chicago rare book dealer who said he "would have paid a lot more,11 noting that some of the prints in the work have fetched $5,000.

The volumes were published by John James Audubon in Edinburgh, Scotland between 1827 and 1838. They measure about 40 inches by 26, and contain copies of the original drawings the Frenchborn artist-ornithologist made while living in the United States for 25 years.

The Library was given its set in 1949 by the University Foun dation and it was appraised at $10,500 at that time. In view of its current value, it has been decided to move the set into the Rare Book Room. -18-

LOUNGE Irene Phillippe, Chairman, reported the difficulties encoun June, 1965 tered during the year by the Lounge Committee. Charles Gifford, who had made the coffee for the past seven years, resigned his duties as of December 31, and it was not poss ible to find a replacement. As a result it was decided to install a coffee vending machine. Due to the installation of the air conditioning equipment in the original Staff Lounge quarters, it was necessary to find a new location, and the Lounge was moved in January to Room 127, the former location of the Documents Division. The new location is proving satisfactory although users of the Lounge have had to contend with dust, deafening noises, and unexpected hazards from the construction activities. No projects were attempted during the year.

DEAN'S ORDER To Laurence Miller, Native Kansas Slav, who, as Acting OF MERIT CITATION Head of the Slavic Section during the Head's two exten October 1963 sive stays in the Soviet Union, has led the hard-working staff of the Section in a startling increase in the Library's Slavic language collection. Beginning two years ago with a collection of approximately 30,000 volumes, the Library now has more than twice that number.

WALT WHITMANST HAIR With such a great volume of material purchased by the AND KENTUCKY BOURBON University of Illinois Library it is inevitable that a FOUND IN LIBRARY'S few surprises come to light from time to time. Among COLLECTION the items which have been discovered in collections May-June 1963 acquired by the Library have been a bottle of bourbon whiskey and a lock of hair from Walt Whitman.

The bottle of Kentucky bourbon was among the Sandburg collection purchased several years ago. This "volume" bears the label "Kentucky History Old Forester Ed. Vol 1" stamped on the spine and identified as the 1870 work of an "author" named Goerge Garwin Brown. Behind the false front was the unopened bottle and a set of glasses. This "book" has been removed from the collection.

The lock of Walt Whitman't hair "cut from his head at 1309 Fifth Ave. July 1878" was discovered in the Baskette collection. A letter from the Swann Auction Galleries New York indicated the lock of hair was as much a surprise to Mr. Baskette as it was to the University Library. The letter, which offers credit upon return of the hair, begins: I am afraid that considerable confusion was caused by a typographical error in our Whitman catalogue. The descrip tion of lot 462 should have read "five locks or strands of hair"; our printer mis-set this to read five books." -19-

BURDICK PLAYS A swinging group of University of Illinois faculty members WITH GROUP and Champaign-Urbana businessmen was one of the main April 1965 attractions at the Town and Gown Ball which was held in the Illini Union Ballroom. The Dixieland style group in cluded Kenneth H. Palmer, Champaign businessman with Continental Loan Company on drums; Charles A. Burdick, of the Library staff on trumpet; hydraulic engineering professor Murray Burns McPherson on the string bass, Andrew Morris Carter, assistant to the director of the School of Music, on trombone; Mrs. Lorene Kornia, assistant to the director of housing, on clarinet, Dr. Charles Johnson, associate pro fessor in elementary education, on tenor sax; Arthur Proteau, extension specialist with the Extension Divison, on banjo; and Gene Wilder, advertising manager of Grubb's Advertising, Inc., on guitar. Most of the these non-professional artists have played with a dance band at some time or other. Musicians Johnson, Wilder and Burdick even financed their college ed ucations by playing in bands on the weekends.

NOTABLE The University Library recently acquired the Sir Winston ACQUISITIONS Spencer Churchill Collection as offered by the London firm of Harold Morlake and Co. Included in the collection of The Sir Winston some 1580 items are many works by Churchill himself as well Churchill Collection as many biographical works about Churchill. In addition to the books, the collection has many items such as postage March, 1970 stamps, coins, medallions, portraits, postal cards, cigarette and trade cards, caricatures, newpapers, journals, and a potpourri referred to in the sale catalogue as "Ephemera." The collection will be maintained as a distinctive collec tion in the Rare Book Room. N. Frederick Nash, Rare Book Librarian, notes that there are copies of the sale catalogue available in the Rare Book Room (Room 346) "for the asking."

Davy Crockett in Recent additions to the Rare Book Room's collection include Meine Collection four issues of Davy Crockettfs Almanac for the years 1835, 1836, 1839 and 1840. They were purchased at auction in New York at the seventh and final sale of the collection of the late Tomas Winthrop Streeter, a famous collector of Americana. The pamphlets, with their amusing woodcut car toons and vignettes of frontier scenes and of animals, are now in the Meine Collection of American Humor and Folklore. It is interesting to note that an exhibition of Mr. Meinefs books at the Newberry Library in 1939, copies of this famous annual were on display. Between that year and the time the Library purchased his collection, Mr. Meine sold the copies.

DEAN'S ORDER OF To Irene Phillippe, for her outstanding pleasant and effec MERIT CITATION tive supervision of the Serial Records Divison, and in rec December 1966 ognition of her many years of conscientious service as a student, nonacademic, and academic member of the Library staff. -20-

ACADEMIC LIBRARY The academic library statistics of the Association of Research STATISTICS Libraries shows the University of Illinois is maintaining its place amoung the nation's libraries in the total number October 1968 of its collection. It is first among state-supported in stitutions, and ranks fifth among all libraries of the country. Illinois1 collections, which include the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Medical Center campuses as reported to ARL, num ber 4,269,438 volumes.

Six libraries reporting to the Association have more than three million volumes each. They are: Harvard, Yale, University of California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, the Unversity of Michigan, and the University of Illinois. Approximately fifty academic libraries report more than one million volumes.

When ranked by annual expenditures for books, the University of Texas is first with $2,214,000 followed in order by the University of Toronto, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan.

ILLINOIS LIBRARY The January 11 UCLA Librarian tells of the departure of a PRAISED BY UCLA young faculty member to the University of Illinois, com menting that he was attracted to Illinois for several rea sons, including the fact that Illinois has an excellent library.11

The writer continues, "We hear this frequently. Illinois with 3h million volumes, is the largest state univer sity library in the country, the only one that for decades has forthrightly undertaken to compete with Harvard in the kind of massive and persistently expanding support that is essential to library excellence.

"Both Phineas L. Windsor, who headed the Illinois Library for thirty-one years, and Robert B. Downs, who has been its director since 1943 were ambitious librarians, both of them leaders in national professional affairs. Consistently for decades, the University has funded its library generously. These are key factors. But another and compelling factor in the Illinois Library success has intrigued me ever since it was disclosed to me in a conversation with the chairman of one of the Illinois science departments, himself a dis criminating collector of books in the history of science. He was struck, he said, by the uncommonly consistent belief, supported in direct action throughout the Illinois faculty, that nothing could be too good for the Library and that the Library's needs should have priority over other University needs." -21-

DEAN'S ORDER OF To Robert Delzell who is best described by the Spanish work MERIT CITATION simpatico; a versatile and effective hand at keeping the gears of library administration smoothly meshed, and on whom April 1964 everyone unloads his or her troubles, knowing that they will receive sympathetic and understanding attention.

WEDDING GRUBB, Patti, Acquisition Department, married Brooks BURR on March 5, 1977.

GRADUATE ASSISTANT BERNARD, Debra G., Catalog, Graduate Assistant, 50%. APPOINTMENTS January 21, 1977.

LOWREY, James R., Undergraduate, Graduate Assistant, 50%, January 6, 1977.

HUMPHREY, Leann, Circulation, Graduate Assistant, 50%, February 13, 1977.

LEVITT, Carole A., Serials, Graduate Assistant, 50%, January 21, 1977.

MEINHEIT, Suzanne M., Serials, Graduate Assistant, 50%, January 21, 1977.

O'BRIEN, Nancy P., Serials, Graduate Assistant, 50%, January 21, 1977.

TATE, Vicki, Undergraduate, Graduate Assistant, 50%, January 6, 1977

NONACADEMIC ACKELSON, Nancy E., Law, Library Clerk II, APPOINTMENTS March 14, 1977.

ANDERSON, Sandy E., Chemistry, Library Clerk II, February 16, 1977

BAKOS, Karen K., Cataloging, Clerk Typist II, January 27, 1977.

BANKS, Hilda, Library Office, Clerk Typist II, Illini Girl, January 17, 1977.

BELLE, Sheila A., Serials, Library Clerk I Learner, March 28, 1977. -22-

BERGER, Barbara J., Physics, Library Technical Assistant I, February 3, 1977.

BLACK, Barbara J., Engineering Library, Library Clerk II, March 8, 1977.

CHENAIL, Mark, Undergraduate, Library Clerk II, January 24, 1977.

CORCORAN, Maureen C., Cataloging, Library Clerk III, February 1, 1977.

DRENNAN, Virginia D., Catalog—Card Division, January 17, 1977.

EILERING, Susan M., ARchitecture, Library Clerk II, March 22, 1977.

GAULT, Lora V., Catalog, Library Clerk II, January 25, 1977.

GOULD, Linda A., Catalog, Library Clerk II, January 25, 1977.

HANKES, Kae E., Health Science, Clerk Typist II, January 24, 1977.

HARTMAN, Kim L., Shipping, Distribution Clerk II, January 17, 1977.

HAWCO, John, Rare Book Room, Clerk Typist II, Illini Person, January 25, 1977.

HEITMAN, Paul A., City Planning and Landscape Architecture, Library Clerk II, January 28, 1977.

HROBSKY, Sally McNeal, Applied Life Studies, Library Clerk II, January 26, 1977.

HUDSON, Debra L., Music Library, Clerk Typist II, January 7, 1977.

KATAHIRA, Russell, Undergrad, Library Attendant, January 21, 1977.

LOVE, Marsha A., Serials, Library Clerk II, February 2, 1977.

McGRATH, William D., Illinois Research and Reference, Library Clerk II, January 13, 1977. -23-

MILLAN, Jytte M. , Library Office, Clerk Typist II, January 24, 1977.

MOHR, Joan, Library Office, Clerk Typist II, Illini Girl, December 23, 1976.

MURPHY, Daniel C., Labor and Industrial Relations, Library Clerk II, January 25, 1977.

NOVICKAS, Ada A., Engineering Library, Library Clerk II, February 24, 1977.

RICH, Antoinette, Serials-Binding, Library Clerk II, February 4, 1977.

SAPP, Laurel A., Catalog £ard Division, Clerk Typist II, February 8, 1977.

SHARPE, Linda E., Serials-Binding, Library Clerk II, January 26, 1977.

SHUAMRD, Sandra Lee, Photographic Services, Clerk II, April 18, 1977.

WALKER, Catherine E., Library Office, Clerk Typist III, April 25, 1977.

WEIR, Eric E., Illinois Research and Reference, Library Clerk II, January 26, 1977.

WILLIAMS, Gwenetta, Circulation, Library Clerk I—Learner, January 17, 1977.

WRAIGHT, Mary C., Education, Library Clerk II, March 21, 1977

WURSTEN, Martha L., Acquisitions, Library Technical Assistant I, January 17, 1977.

ZUFAN, Donna J., Music, Library Clerk II, December 15, 1976.

NONACADEMIC GAITHER, Mary L., Transfered from Catalog to Health Services, PROMOTIONS AND Promoted from Library Clerk II to Library Technical Assistant I, TRANSFERS January 3, 1977.

HUDSON, Donna, Promoted from Library Clerk II to Library Clerk III, English Library, March 6, 1977. -24-

NICHOLAS, Debra J., Transferred from Illinois Research and Reference to Music Library, Changed from Clerk Typist II to Library Technical Assistant I, April 4, 1977.

ROBERSON, Dianna, Acquisitions, Promoted from Clerk Typist I Learner to Clerk Typist I, January 10, 1077.

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