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ACQUISITIONS Paris, 1562; and the Paduan physician Abano’s Conciliator philosophorum et medicorum, pub­ • The W h i t m a n C o l l e g e (Walla Walla, lished in 1476. Washington) Penrose Memorial Library rare In his collection Dr. Martin has attempted book collection, which is housed in the library’s to include as much as possible of the history of Morgan Room, is the recent recipient of a val­ medicine. Among the volumes he has donated uable book collection totaling 130 volumes. In­ are rare editions of such ancient classics as Hip­ cluded in the collection are The Nuremberg pocrates, Galen, and Avicenna; medieval texts; Chronicle, published 1493; the three-volume Harvey’s De motu cordis; and landmark works Sanson Atlas, 1696; Montanus’ America, 1671; by Laennec, Florence Nightingale, Leeuwen­ De Bry’s Florida, 1591; and one-volume Field hoek, Pasteur, and Freud. Two recent acquisi­ Bible, 1659-60. The collection is a gift to tions are the first Italian edition of Dürer’s Whitman College from Dr. Vernon H. McFar- work on the symmetry of the human body and lane of Walla Walla, a 1927 graduate who the first edition of Swammerdam’s classic dis­ spent forty-five years collecting the books. sertation on respiration, published in 1667. This collection in the history of medicine will be • A copy of the first Bible printed in the housed in the John Martin Rare Book Room, New World is the five millionth volume added located on the fourth floor of the new Health to the collections of the library, U n i v e r s it y Sciences Library. o f I l l in o is at Urbana-Champaign. “The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the GRANTS New, Translated into the Indian Language” was printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke • The National Endowment for the Human­ Johnson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1663. ities (NEH) has offered to support the N a ­ Only 30 copies of the original edition of 1,500 t i o n a l U n io n C a t a l o g P r o j e c t of the Amer­ are known to exist. ican Library Association (A LA) by matching The Bible was translated into an Algonquin up to $900,000 in gifts made to NEH on be­ dialect, the language of the Narragansett Indi­ half of the undertaking, for a potential total of ans of eastern Massachusetts. The first verse, $1,800,000. first chapter of Genesis, “In the beginning, The National Union Catalog is a record of God created heaven and earth,” reads “Weike holdings reported by more than 800 libraries kutchissik a-ayum God kesuk kah Ohke.” The throughout North America over the past seven­ translation was made by the Rev. John Eliot, ty years. In order to improve resources for who came to the New World in 1631 and was study and research in all fields, and especially one of the three compilers of the first book pub­ in the humanities, the American Library Asso­ lished in the American colonies, the Bay Psalm ciation has undertaken to make the catalog Book of 1640. widely available by publishing it in book form. Eliot’s Bible has been called a key to the The NEH grant will support the editing for American conscience and the most important publication of the final 240 volumes of the 600- production of the early press in the U.S. The volume catalog. The editorial work required to purchase of the Bible was made through funds eliminate errors, duplications, and other irregu­ from the University of Illinois Library Friends, larities inevitable to such a list will be done by the University of Illinois Research Board, and a special editorial staff at the Library of Con­ other donors. The Bible will be kept in the Rare gress under the direction of the ALA’s National Book Room of the library. Union Catalog Committee, which is chaired by Gordon Williams, director of the Center for Re­ • A collection of rare books on the history search Libraries in Chicago. of medicine, some dating back to the fifteenth The endowment’s grant therefore will assist century, represents the jewel of the U n iv e r s it y in the production of the catalog at a time when o f I o w a ’ s modernistic new Health Sciences Li­ inflation and other economic factors have made brary. Virtually the entire collection of 800 rare it increasingly difficult for libraries to support medical books has been donated to the new li­ its completion without other assistance. NEH’s brary by Dr. John Martin of Clarinda. The col­ offer to match gifts will, it is hoped, serve as a lection is concentrated on medical and surgical challenge to other foundations and sources of history, with special emphasis on anatomy. support to join with the endowment in ensuring Among the books Dr. Martin has given are the successful completion of the National Union the first four folio editions of Vesalius’ De hu­ Catalog, which is a major national resource vi­ mani corporis †abrica, published between 1543 tal to educational and research purposes. The and 1604; Fallopius’ Observationes anatomicae, first 314 volumes of the projected 600-volume 275 catalog have already been printed and distrib­ designated geographic region. In addition, the uted, and the remaining volumes are being minicomputer has put data processing capa­ published at a rate of five per month. bilities within the reach of even quite small libraries, allowing such libraries to develop • D r e x e l U n i v e r s i t y ’ s Graduate School of their own special data bases and to exploit Library Science has been awarded a $37,000 these on behalf of a particular user group. grant to study the information needs of blue One result of these activities has been the collar adults. Principal investigator for the emergence of the “information services libra­ project will be Dr. Thomas A. Childers, associ­ rian,” a professional librarian who specializes ate professor, library science. The granting in the exploitation of machine-readable files. It agency is the Division of Library Programs, is these activities, and their impact on the United States Office of Education. reference functions of libraries of all types, The project will review and synthesize exist­ that will be discussed at the 1975 clinic. ing studies relating to the blue collar adult’s in­ F. W. Lancaster, professor of library science, formation needs, information-seeking behavior, is chairman of the clinic. Further information and information use. The final product will be may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Of­ a review essay which will consolidate present fice of Continuing Education and Public Ser­ knowledge on these topics and suggest direc­ vice, University of Illinois, 116 Illini Hall, tions for future research and development. A Champaign, IL 61820. comprehensive bibliography will be included in the final report, which is scheduled for com­ M a y 18-30: A dministrators . The College pletion by October 1975. of Library and Information Services, Univer­ Associated with Childers in the project will sity of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual be Dr. Arthur Shostak, associate professor, so­ Library Administrators Development Program. ciology, and a leading authority on the blue Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, collar worker, and Ms. Joyce Post, bibliograph­ Western Michigan University, will serve as the ic associate, both of Drexel University. director. As in the past eight summers, partici­ Childers was principal investigator in 1972- pants will include senior administrative person­ 73 for a project related to the one in which he nel of large library systems— public, research, will now be engaged. That was on knowledge academic, special, governmental, and school— and information needs of the disadvantaged from the United States and Canada. The facul­ adult, also sponsored by the United States Of­ ty is made up of well-known scholars, educat- fice of Education. A monograph reporting his tors, management consultants, and lecturers findings, The Information Poor in America, will drawn from universities, government, and con­ be published this winter by Scarecrow Press. sulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ MEETINGS cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ A p r i l 27-30: C o m p u t e r s a n d R e f e r e n c e . munication, personnel policy, decision making, The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Appli­ problem solving, financial planning and control, cations of Data Processing will be conducted performance appraisal, the impact of technol­ by the Graduate School of Library Science, ogy, and the planning of change are among the University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic issues considered in lecture, case analysis, will be “The Use of Computers in Literature group discussion, and seminar. Searching and Related Reference Activities Those interested in further information are in Libraries.” invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Over the last decade we have witnessed a Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ very rapid growth in the availability of ma- ministrators Development Program, College of chine-readable data bases and of information Library and Information Services, University retrieval systems for the exploitation of such of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. data bases. The rapid developments in this

area have put machine literature searching J u n e 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ capabilities within the reach of many libraries. nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ Many data bases can already be accessed on­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ line by individual libraries. Service from other bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ data bases can be obtained from the producer tor of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura. of the data base or from one of the scientific Mr. Luis Eduardo Acosta Hoyos, Jefe de la information dissemination centers. Biblioteca, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, W e are now beginning to see the devel­ Bogota, and Mr. J. Noe Herrera, manager, opment of regional information centers, de­ Libros de Colombia, Bogota, are assisting the signed to make a wide range of machine-read­ SALALM planning committee with local ar­ able files accessible to all the libraries in a rangements for the meeting. 276 The program, being planned by Mrs. Emma tional $15.00 each. Students and nonsalaried C. Simonson, president of SALALM, will be or retired librarians pay $10.00 basic dues plus concerned with the new writers of Latin Amer­ $15.00 for each division selected. Foreign li­ ica. Among the topics to be discussed will be brarians (not employed in the U.S.) pay $20.00 the publications of new writers, bibliography of basic dues plus $15.00 per division. new writers, and criticism of new writers. Full Along with a brand new personal dues sched­ details of the program and information con­ ule, ALA is also offering two special introduc­ cerning other arrangements for the seminar will tory rates for persons joining ALA for the first be distributed in the fall of 1974. time in 1975. With payment of the basic dues Address inquiries concerning the program to of $35.00 new members will receive their Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­ choice of one division membership at no addi­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN tional charge. 47401. Other questions may be directed to During the New York Annual Conference, Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of the ALA Executive Board also approved a spe­ SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ cial introductory offer for the American Library chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Mem­ Trustee Association. New members of ALA and bership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal ALTA will be eligible for a dues rate of $25.00 members ($7.00 for members from Latin which includes both basic ALA dues and ALTA America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for division dues. institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the For applications and/or further information Secretariat. please contact the ALA Public Information Of­ fice, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. J u n e 22-25: L a w L i b r a r i a n s . The Amer­ ican Association of Law Libraries will meet in • X e r o x U n i v e r s i t y M i c r o f i l m s is in the the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Califor­ process of placing dissertation information cen­ nia. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack­ ters in several libraries in the Midwest area. son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. These centers will consist of a display exhibit­ ing brochures depicting the many and various Ju n e 2 6 - 2 8 : C o l l e c t i v e B a r g a i n i n g . “ Col­ functions of the firm in connection with the mi­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its crofilming and publication program. Implications for Governance and Faculty Status The display will include an overall brochure for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ describing all parts of the dissertation program, ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored including manuscript publishing. Information by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the concerning Dissertation Abstracts International program is part of the continuing effort of the (monthly), Comprehensive Dissertation Index committee to provide information which will (thirty-seven volumes in 1973 with succeeding help librarians in understanding and evaluating annual supplements), American Doctoral Dis­ status and governance issues. sertations (annual), Masters Abstracts (quar­ Program participants will include persons terly), and Monograph Abstracts (irregular) who have studied and practiced collective bar­ will always be available. gaining in higher education and who can ad­ Dissertation bibliographies on special sub­ dress the following subtopics: nature of col­ jects will be on display consistently, with new lective bargaining and its influence on gov­ material added as it is prepared. Currently, ernance in higher education; objectives of these special bibliographies consist of (1 ) Unit­ various collective bargaining agents; and aca­ ed States Foreign Relations, (2 ) Africa, (3 ) demic library experiences with collective bar­ Sex in Contemporary Society, (4 ) Israel and gaining. Palestine in Modern Times, (5 ) Latin America, Further information and registration forms (6 ) Urban Problems, and (7 ) Civil War and will be available after March 15, 1975, from: Reconstruction. Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Asso­ DATRIX II brochures for those who wish to ciation of College and Research Libraries, 50 use computerized information retrieval service E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. will also be on hand. This display center should serve as a refer­ MISCELLANY ence aid for students interested in dissertation

• A reminder: the A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y As­ research, and it should prove to be of some as­ s o c i a t i o n is introducing a new dues schedule sistance to librarians with too little time to han­ for personal members beginning with the 1975 dle the multitudinous reference questions con­ membership (calendar) year. The dues sched­ cerning dissertations that arise in a typical work ule features a simple flat rate $35.00 ALA mem­ day. bership for librarians, trustees, and friends of Requests for any of the brochures mentioned libraries. Division memberships are an addi­ above and inquiries concerning the disserta­ 277 tion information center displays should be ad­ locations. Currently, more than 7,000 books are dressed to Mr. William Sannwald, Senior Prod­ cataloged on the system daily. Computer-print- uct Manager, Xerox University Microfilms, 300 ed library catalog cards are turned out at the N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. rate of approximately a half-million a week.

• The N e w H a m p s h i r e H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e ­ • D ic k in s o n C o l l e g e (Carlisle, Pennsyl­ t y is currently sponsoring a project to edit the vania) librarians have been granted full faculty papers of Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), with status, “giving us all the responsibilities, benefits Frank C. Mevers as editor. Supported by the and privileges of our colleagues,” according to New Hampshire American Revolution Bicen­ Yates M. Forbis, head librarian. tennial Commission and the National Historical “Our unique position as teachers has been Publications Commission, the project will re­ recognized and identified,” Forbis declared af­ sult in a comprehensive microfilm edition fol­ ter recent administrative action bestowing long- lowed by a letterpress edition of selected docu­ sought recognition on the eight members of the ments. Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declara­ college library staff. tion of Independence, was a prominent physi­ Forbis noted that Dickinson librarians are in­ cian in New England and the founder of the volved in teaching and research as well as their New Hampshire Medical Society. In addition, regular duties. Bartlett served as a justice of the peace, a dele­ “ The academic community benefits when li­ gate to the Continental Congress, a militia brarians participate in the development of the colonel during the Revolution, a justice on the instructional program,” Forbis said. “ The li­ state superior court, and the last president and brary in reality is an extension of the class­ first governor of New Hampshire. Persons hav­ room.” ing knowledge of the existence of correspon­ Dickinson College librarians gained faculty dence to or from Bartlett or of other papers rank in 1946. Additional benefits just granted written or signed by him are requested to con­ include equal salary and academic calendar. tact the Historical Society at 30 Park St., Con­ The staff already was able to take advantage cord, NH 03301. of sabbatical research and study programs, pro­ motions, and tenure. • The O h io C o l l e g e L i b r a r y C e n t e r ’s ( OCLC) data base of bibliographic records hit • The U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s Graduate the one million mark on September 6, 1974. School of Library Science at Urbana-Cham- Northeastern University Library, Boston, Mas­ paign is seeking applicants for its master’s de­ sachusetts, cataloged the millionth record via gree program for members of any disadvan­ CRT terminal. The millionth record is Collier s taged minority group. World Atlas and Book of Facts. Up to ten will be selected to begin graduate OCLC’s on-line shared cataloging system be­ work next June. They will be offered half-time came operational in August 1971. At that time assistantships requiring twenty hours of work Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, became the each week and paying $4,000 a year plus ex­ first of 50 academic libraries in Ohio to use the emption from tuition. system. Presently over 300 libraries in twenty- This will be the sixth year for the program two states and the District of Columbia use the which has been supported in part by grants on-line system to catalog books. MARC tapes from the U.S. Office of Education and the Car­ from the Library of Congress accounted for the negie Corporation. majority of the records in the data base during Members of minority groups who expect to the first two years of operation of the on-line receive a bachelor’s degree next June are eligi­ system. Librarians at OCLC now estimate that ble, as well as those who already have complet­ more than 50 percent of the records in the sys­ ed their undergraduate education. tem were input by participating libraries. Students are allowed up to two years to earn OCLC’s computer system is designed to in­ the MS degree in a course of study planned in­ crease the availability of library resources while dividually with a faculty adviser. at the same time lowering the rate of increase of Further information is available from the per-unit costs in libraries. Scholarship Program, Graduate School of Li­ A nonprofit corporation, OCLC uses a Xerox brary Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Sigma 5 computer as the central processing IL 61801. unit. Via leased telephone lines the computer is in direct communication with over 300 spe­ • Persons living in Canada and Canadians cially designed CRT terminals located in librar­ working outside the country who have experi­ ies across the country. Hospitals and govern­ ence in library and information science service ment agencies as well as public and university outside Canada and the United States are libraries use the system to catalog books and being sought for inclusion in a new index. The maintain an inventory of library holdings and work is being sponsored by the I nternational 278 D e v e l o p m e n t R e s e a r c h C e n t r e in Ottawa sizeable collections in the field of education. to develop a basic information file of those Copies may be purchased by prepayment of whose expertise might be useful to Canada. $5.00 to Malcolm Hamilton, Monroe Gutman First publication, on microfiche, is scheduled Library, Harvard Graduate School of Educa­ for 1975 and the deadline for inclusion in the tion, Cambridge, MA 02138. Please enclose a first index is April 1975. The compilation of shipping label. Make checks payable to Har­ this index is being undertaken by Dr. Fred vard University. Matthews and Miss Doreen Fraser of the School of Library Service, Dalhousie Universi­ • Now available is a twenty-six-page revised ty, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4H8, edition of Anne Woodsworth’s Women: A from whom entry forms can be obtained. Guide to Bibliographic Sources (rev. by Jane Clark). This popular bibliographic guide, first • B e t h l e h e m U n i v e r s i t y is a new school, compiled in 1972, has been updated and ex­ located in the West Bank area, administered panded to triple its original size. The new edi­ by the Christian Brothers. The undergraduate tion includes approximately 100 annotated en­ college needs English, French, and Spanish tries and an author and title index. Although books and journals, college textbooks, general the guide is aimed primarily at users of the college reading and research materials, litera­ University of Toronto, it should be useful for ture, and current affairs materials. For further students, teachers, and researchers at other in­ information, contact Brother Brendan Fitz­ stitutions in any field of women’s studies. gerald, FSC, Acting President, Bethlehem Uni­ Copies can be ordered for $1.00 from the Ref­ versity, P.O.B. 9, Bethlehem, Israel. erence Department, John P. Robarts Research Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, On­ tario, Canada M5S 1A5. PUBLICATIONS

• The second comprehensive survey of • A comprehensive report on the Mankato health sciences libraries has been completed by State College Media System is being published the American Medical Association in coopera­ as volume 1, issue 5 of the LARC series on tion with the Medical Library Association Com­ computerized serials systems. mittee on Surveys and Statistics. Findings have The first periodicals holdings list and the been published in the Directory of Health Sci­ first accounting system were done in 1969/70, ences Libraries, 1973, the result of a massive using unit record equipment which was located survey of around 10,000 health-related institu­ in the library. These went on the computer in tions. Identification, address, telephone number, 1971/72 when the college acquired a type of sponsoring organization, size of collec­ UNIVAC 1106 computer and the library got tion and staff are given for around 3,000 med­ a UNIVAC DCT remote-job-entry terminal. ical school, hospital, medical society, and other This was later upgraded to a UNIVAC 1104. libraries. During 1972/73, attempts were made to re­ The 1973 survey provides a longitudinal per­ cord more information about periodicals and spective on health sciences libraries. There are to add serials, especially standing orders. The now hard data which, like the national census system was card based until January of 1974 data, provide a baseline against which a multi­ when it went to tape. It remains a batch pro­ tude of internal and external variables can be cessing system, however, and there are no plans compared. There are comparable data, at least to change that. The saga of development from for two surveys in two different formats— 1969 to present is presented in detail in this is­ published and machine-readable. The Directory sue. reviews sources of statistics and compares se­ A subscription to the complete six-issue vol­ lected data over a five-year period. ume of Computerized Serials Systems may be The Directory is available from the American purchased for the sum of $55.00 (LARC mem­ Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn St., bers, $44.00). The complete volume includes Chicago, IL 60610, for $15.00 prepaid. reports on automated serials activities at Clarion State College, University of San Diego, • Education Periodicals, A Union List con­ University of Louisville, and Purdue Universi­ tains the educational journal holdings of thirty- ty. Individual issues are available in paperback five Boston area libraries, including the Monroe at $9.20 per issue. Order from The LARC Asso­ Gutman Library of the Harvard Graduate ciation, P.O. Box 27235, Tempe, AZ 85282. School of Education. The union list, edited by Malcolm Hamilton, was a joint effort of librari­ • The University of Southern California has ans belonging to LEARN, Librarians in Edu­ a limited number of its Union List of Serials cation and Research in the Northeast, an or­ available for distribution. The list, which in­ ganization of professional librarians from col­ cludes 18,000 titles and 2,000 see references, lege, university, and special libraries with covers the current subscriptions in the univer- 279 sity library system as well as the holdings of the tries; and Harold M. Schoolman looks at future Norris Medical Library, the Call Law Library, user services in health sciences libraries. and the Hancock Library of Biology and This issue of Library Trends, volume 23, Oceanography. Selected ceased publications are number 1, may be ordered from: University of also included. The 518-page volume is avail­ Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 61801, for $3.00. An­ able for $15.00. Please send inquiries or orders nual subscriptions to Library Trends may be to Linda Crismond, University of Southern Cal­ placed at the same address for $10.00. ifornia, Doheny Library, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90007. • The New York Chapter of the Special Li­ braries Association has published a new edition • The Social Sciences Group of the Wash­ of its union list, Serials— Advertising, Business, ington D.C. Chapter of the Special Libraries Finance, Marketing, Social Science—in the Association announces a new publication, New York Area. Access to the serials holdings Union List of Selected Microforms in Washing­ of 153 cooperating libraries— 2,000 titles— is ton D.C. Area Libraries. This list, which aims presented, along with complete address and to identify microform holdings in the social sci­ telephone number for each library and a con­ ences and humanities, includes the following cise statement of their interlibrary loan and information on the microform holdings of thirty- photoduplication policy. All the information seven cooperating libraries in the metropolitan needed to locate serials and expedite interli­ Washington, D.C., area: listings of over 600 brary loans is included. The price is $35.00 periodical and newspaper titles with data on ($25.00 for contributing libraries). Mail to: microformat and span of holdings; listings of Mrs. Muriel Regan, Rockefeller Foundation Li­ privately produced, “one of a kind” microform brary, 111 W. 50th St., New York, NY 10020. collections of such materials as speeches, in­ ternal memoranda, clippings, and maps; micro­ • The Municipal Reference and Research form lending policies of participating libraries; Center Notes, a unique source of information and facilities for viewing and reproducing about the city of New York and its communi­ microforms in participating libraries. The list ties, will resume publication after a three-year is available at a cost of $3.50 per copy, prepaid, absence. from Social Sciences Group, Washington D.C. The Notes, published by the Municipal Ref­ Chapter SLA, c /o E. S. KnaufF, 2326 19th St. erence and Research Center of the Municipal NW, Washington, DC 20009. Service Administration, was established in 1914 to record the center’s acquisition of city docu­ • Delivery of new and more sophisticated ments and scholarly or journalistic studies about health services to an ever-expanding popula­ municipal affairs. Fifty-seven years of continu­ tion has put the nation’s health professions un­ ous publication were interrupted in 1971, when der considerable pressure to remodel and up­ production of the Notes and other city period­ date their educational processes and institu­ icals was suspended as an economy measure. tions. The July 1974 issue of Library Trends As in the past, the Notes will list key city looks at how the libraries serving these profes­ documents deposited with the center as re­ sions are dealing with the increased demand for quired by law, as well as private studies and services put upon them. relevant documents from other levels of govern­ Mildred C. Langner gives a historical review ment. Other returning features provide infor­ of “ User and User Services in Health Science mation about the city’s history and geography Libraries: 1945-1965” ; Louise Darling pre­ and answer commonly asked questions about sents an overview of changes in information de­ New York City. Past issues of Notes, for exam­ livery since 1960, including a discussion of the Medical Library Assistance Act. Estelle Brod- ple, provided a listing— complete with histories man describes users of health sciences libraries — of the dozens of islands within the city lim­ by profession, geographic location, and need. its. Frank B. Rogers describes the impact on users The reappearance of the Notes is being ac­ of “ Computerized Bibliographic Retrieval Ser­ complished within the bounds of the center’s vices” ; and Vern M. Pings indicates the impact current budget. The estimated $6,000 cost for of improved document delivery services, includ­ the next six bimonthly issues will be covered ing regional medical library programs. Nancy by reallocating funds already budgeted for sup­ M. Lorenzi and K. Penny Young discuss “ New plies and other materials. Information Transfer Therapies” ; and William Subscriptions to the Notes are available for K. Beatty and Virginia L. Beatty present “Im­ $5.00 annually from the Municipal Reference provements in Recordkeeping and Use,” includ­ and Research Center, Room 2230, Municipal ing new programs and nonprint collections. Building, New York, NY 10007. It is distri­ Scott Adams describes the impact of U.S. bib­ buted free of charge to all interested New York liographic data bases on users in foreign coun­ City officials and employees. 280