News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. • The Milne Library of the STATE UNIVER­ • The Elmo Neale Pickerill Collection has SIT Y o f N e w Y o r k C o l l e g e a t G e n e s e o been given to the BROADCAST PIONEERS L l­ has received a valuable addition to its collection RRARY by Pickerill’s cousin, Eugene M. Baker. of Wadsworth family papers through a gift from Pickerill studied radio with Guglielmo Marconi the Honorable James T. Wadsworth of Geneseo, and learned to fly from the Wright brothers. In New York, former U.S. ambassador to the United 1905, he helped build a ten-station wireless tele­ Nations. graphy network in Colorado for American inven­ Wadsworth has presented to the library approx­ tor Lee De Forest, and three years later, he con­ imately 3,500 papers relating to the land office structed a radio station atop New York’s and other business and personal activities of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. “Pick” was the first man General James S. Wadsworth (1807-64) and his to pioneer in air-to-ground communication (1910); descendants, dating from the 1830s through the to perpetuate a sea rescue via radio (1910); to early decades of this century (1952). This group­ present professional talent on radio (Geraldine ing of papers complements the large collection Farrar, 1907); to receive a first-class radio license (C&RL News, December, 1976) donated in 1976 from the U.S. government (1911); and he was by William P. Wadsworth, also of Geneseo. chief radio operator aboard the first toll paying The Wadsworth estate was divided between ship (S.S. K roonland) to pass through the Panama General Wadsworth and his brother William Canal (February 2, 1915). Wolcott Wadsworth (1810-52) in the 1840s after After World War I duty in the Army Air Serv­ the death of their father James (1768-1844), an ice, Pick joined RCA, where in 1929, he became original settler and land agent in western New head of its aeronautical department. One of the York’s Genesee Valley. The receipt of these rec­ many experiments he conducted there was test­ ords brings back together the accounts for lands ing the use of television as a pilot aid. He retired in western New York, Ohio, and Michigan that in 1950 and died, at age 82, in 1968. were divided between the two sons at that time. The gift to the Broadcast Pioneers Library For over 100 years they have been housed sepa­ documents Pickerill’s career through his corre­ rately in the land offices at the Homestead and at spondence with De Forest, Marconi, Sarnoff, Number 1, Main Street, Geneseo. Clarence D. Tuska, and others. It contains books, Of particular importance to future research in catalogs, photos, and memorabilia that represent the geography and history of western New York a cross-section of electronic advancements made will be the reunited collection of manuscript during this century. maps of the towns and settlements in the Phelps The Broadcast Pioneers Library is located in and Gorham s Purchase and the Pulteney estates the NAB Building, 1771 W Street, N.W., Wash­ west of the Genesee River. The maps show in ington, DC 20036. great detail early landmarks and the names of • The Gloria Grace Griffen Western American early landowners from the 1790s through the Collection was dedicated November 10, 1977, at 1850s. Although some duplicates and fragments of the U n i v e r s i t y o f N e v a d a -R e n o Library. these maps are to be found in other collections The collection—one of the largest ever donated such as the Ontario County Historical Society in to the university—contains more than 3,600 Canandaigua, this is probably the most complete books dealing with the trans-Mississippi West and collection for the area in one repository. 180 Indian artifacts that are good examples of • The U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a American Indian culture and craftsmanship. AT C h a p e l H i l l (UNC-CH) has received a col­ The artifacts, representative primarily of the lection of books, photographs, recordings, and Plains Indians, include clothing, tack equipment, manuscripts from noted folklorist Annabel Morris baskets, pottery, toys, and weapons. Buchanan of Paducah, Kentucky. The collection was a gift from Robert and The collection, assembled during Buchanan’s Grace Griffen of Reno in honor of their daughter, long career as a writer, performer, music teacher, Gloria, a distinguished history professor and re­ composer, and student of the American folksong, searcher of the West. The Griffens have actively was a gift from her and her children— Eleanor supported the library for many years; Robert was Crounse, Annabel Stainback, John P. Buchanan, the first president of the Friends of the Univer­ and Patrick C. Buchanan. The family chose sity of Nevada library when the group was UNC-CH to house her collection because of the founded in the 1950s. reputation and interests of Daniel Patterson, Griffen was an adopted son of the Blackfoot UNC-CH folklorist and professor of English, with tribe of Montana, and many of the artifacts were whom she had corresponded. gifts to his family from the tribe. The pieces date The collection’s disc and tape recordings and

40 tunebooks will be housed in the music depart­ materials relating to the life and writings of ment library and the manuscripts and photo­ Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, who was a member of graphs in the Southern Historical Collection of the 1871—72 expedition down the Colorado River, Wilson Library. directed by John Wesley Powell. Dellenbaugh Buchanan, bom in Groesbeck, Texas, and wife was the expedition’s artist and cartographer. In of John Preston Buchanan of Marion, Virginia, addition, he assisted the expedition’s photog­ was active in artistic circles in Virginia in the rapher, Jack Hillers. He subsequently became 1920s and 1930s. She published stories and verse nationally and internationally known for his in magazines such as The Southern Literary Mes­ books, such as A Canyon Voyage and Romance o f senger and The Lyric and wrote articles on gar­ the Colorado River, recalling the trip. He also dening for national magazines. published historical, biographical, and ethnologi­ The Annabel Morris Buchanan Collection in­ cal books, such as North Americans o f Yesterday, cludes forty-four nineteenth-century American re­ Breaking the Wilderness, Fremont and '49, and, ligious tunebooks, some of which are rare South­ finally, The Life of General George Armstrong ern shape-note songsters. The manuscripts in­ Custer. clude scores of her own choral compositions Altogether, the collection contains more than (many of which were never published), unpub­ 3,000 pages of original letters and manuscript lished transcriptions of folksongs she collected, notes, twenty original Dellenbaugh drawings of and three unpublished book-length studies of Southwestern subjects, copies of his books with folksong. his own manuscript notes, and nearly 11,500 Also in the collection are papers and photo­ pages of his personal diaries covering nearly graphs relating to the White Top Fold Festival; thirty years of his life. manuscripts relating to her work with the Na­ GRANTS tional Federation of Music Clubs; and corre­ spondence with publishers, musicians, and • Two libraries are among the beneficiaries of folklorists. a $1,025,000 grant recently awarded HARVARD Other major folklore collections housed at UNIVERSITY by the National Endowment for the UNC-CH include the Arthur Palmer Hudson Humanities (NEH) under its Challenge Grant Collection, Maude Minish Sutton Collection, Program. They are the Harvard-Yenching Library Lamar Stringfield Collection, and John C. of the College Library, Faculty of Arts and Sci­ Campbell Collection. ences, which has received $235,477, and the • The B a r n a r d C o l l e g e Library has ac­ Frances Loeb Library of the Graduate School of quired the personal library of Gabriela Mistral, Design, which has received $120,355. For their who received the Nobel Prize for literature in part, in accordance with the rules of the program, 1945 and was the first Latin American so hon­ the two libraries must match their respective al­ ored. At present, the collection includes about lotments at a ratio of three to one with nonfederal 1,000 books, most of which are annotated by the funding over the next three years. poet or inscribed by literary friends. Barnard re­ The Harvard-Yenching Library will use its ceived the collection as a gift from Doris Dana, grant money for general library support and to at­ literary executrix for Mistral and alumna of Bar­ tract additional funds for the maintenance and nard College, where Mistral taught in 1930. Mis­ expansion of its role as an international resource tral’s first book, Desolació n (1922), was published for East Asian studies. Funds already raised by by the Hispanic Institute of Columbia University the library toward its three-to-one matching mark through the initiative of Federico de Onís. include $200,000 from the Japan Institute at Har­ Gabriela Mistral was not only an important vard, $175,000 from the Harvard Club of the Re­ poet but also an educator in Chile and Mexico. public of China, $50,000 from the Andrew Mel­ She served as consul for Chile in European posts lon Foundation, and $5,000 from the Chinn Ho as well as New York City, and as Chilean repre­ Foundation of Honolulu. This is the final year, sentative to the U N. Commission on the Status too, of an earlier NEH grant awarded the of Women. Her lifelong interest in and work for Harvard-Yenching Library to support the catalog­ children and their welfare made her a “god­ ing of Chinese rare books and the preservation mother” of UNICEF. microfilming of fragile East Asian materials. A book catalog of this collection will be pub­ The Frances Loeb Library plans on using its lished in early April by Barnard College Library. share to meet growing demands for current ac­ The catalog will cost $3.50 and will be available quisitions, applying donations from the public from Amy Brodt, Barnard College Library, sector toward a permanent endowment for acqui­ Broadway at 117th St., New York, NY 10027. sitions. The major part of matching funds thus far Books from the collection, manuscripts, and raised has been in the form of large private gifts memorabilia will be displayed during the Gab­ from a small group of donors, as well as an riela Mistral symposium at Barnard April 7-8. increase— both in size and in number— of con­ • The U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a Library has tributions by Friends of the library. acquired a large collection of manuscript and published Harvard’s award of $1,025,000 represents the

41 sum approved from a total university grant re­ These collections (ts’ung shu) have been cataloged quest of $3,264,650. Other departments of the item by item, thus presenting an almost unique university to draw on the Harvard grant are the bibliographical record of more than 6,000 indi­ Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger vidual titles. Museum, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology Another aspect of interest in the collection is and Ethnology, the East Asian Research Center, the good representation of materials by and about the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Chinese in other parts of the world. There is also Center for the Study of Oral Literature. a significant number of Japanese books and peri­ • C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y has received a odicals dealing with China in the collection. $34,000 grant from the National Endowment for The collection at Cornell was started from a the Humanities (NEH) to prepare the publication private library of 9,000 volumes donated by of an eight-volume listing of its library’s holdings Charles William Wason to Cornell in 1918. The on China. Wason Collection has grown into a library of Cornell has the most extensively cataloged col­ more than 360,000 volumes, with about 260,000 lection in the world of books in Western lan­ volumes related to China in Chinese, Japanese, guages on China and on the Chinese in other and Western languages. Support for much of the parts of the world. In addition, the collection, growth in Chinese material since 1961 has come known as the Wason Collection, includes large from money provided by the Ford and Mellon holdings in the Chinese language, the fifth largest foundations. in the country. MEETING SUMMARIES The collection at Cornell is unique in that its books in Western languages, Chinese, and other • The New England Chapter of the Association Asian languages on the subject of China are in a of College and Research Libraries held a work­ single integrated catalog. This characteristic shop on G r a p h i c s IN L i r r a r i e s at the Monroe makes the collection of particular value to C. Gutman Library, Harvard University, on Oc­ scholars, according to Paul Cheng, East Asia li­ tober 28, 1977. The meeting focused on ways in brarian and head of the project to publish the which librarians can develop more sophisticated catalog. approaches to all forms of graphic design. The catalog is expected to be prepared for pub­ James Robison, director of media for the New­ lication within a year and a half. It will be pub­ ton (Mass.) Public Schools, delivered the keynote lished by the Center for Chinese Research Mate­ address on “Principles of Good Graphics.” Robi­ rial of the Association of Research Libraries. son used slides to demonstrate such basic ele­ Copies of the eight-volume set will be available at ments as linear relations, placement of space, and all the leading libraries in the world and through organization of symbols. He noted that signs tend the center. to be overloaded with print. Discipline is needed The collection contains vast resources of West­ in filling space. Using the principles of contrast, ern knowledge of China as well as the documen­ repetition, and harmony, one can achieve a bal­ tation of the relations between China and the ance between letters and graphic symbols. West. There are more than 38,000 volumes, Katherine Selfridge, head of the printing and especially in the humanities and social sciences. graphics department at the Architects Collabora­ The serials collection numbers 2,400 titles, 600 of tive, discussed “Signage: Planning and Producing which are received currently. In addition to ar­ Effective Signs and Signage Systems.” Sign sys­ chival and newspaper collections in microform, tems should embody graphic and functional rela­ the collection includes a number of copies of tionships. They require planning and cohesive manuscripts from other important collections. implementation. A good system should explain Integrated with the Western language collec­ the organization s functioning clearly and attrac­ tion is the Chinese collection, which has more tively. Sign information must be organized into than 200,000 volumes. This collection is the fifth priorities with the importance given a piece of in­ largest in the country and both complements and formation reflected in the size of the sign. Large supplements the other collections. There is a bal­ signs identify major services and departments ance between humanities, natural sciences, and while medium-sized signs indicate specific areas social sciences; and, although there is an em­ within departments. Signs giving procedures and phasis on modem China, there are substantial rules should be smaller and pleasantly stated. All holdings supporting classical Chinese studies. The sign systems need clarity of message, noticeabil­ collection contains more than 4,200 serial titles, ity, maintainability, consistency of format, and representing the learned journals of the early Re­ adaptability for future needs. publican period as well as the literary journals, In a session on “Practical Newslettering,” newspapers, and major periodicals of modern Norm Sperling, assistant editor of Sky and Tele­ China. scope magazine, stressed the importance of eye­ A special strength of the Chinese collections is catching and timely formats to convey the neces­ the completeness of the many series of Chinese sary information to readers. Illustrating his pre­ classics that were reprinted after World War II. sentation with the worst newsletters available, he

42 outlined the basic features of newsletters and the Sharon Hammer, librarian at the Washington effective arrangement of type and blank space to Regional Library for the Blind and Physically create an attractive layout. Handicapped, described outreach services in In the afternoon a “Graphic Aids Seminar” was Seattle, Washington. Network services supporting conducted by Steve Banis, regional manager of such programs were described by Ellen Hahn, Letraset USA, Inc., to show the wide variety of assistant chief for network development, Division commercial media available to aid libraries in de­ for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the signing and producing their own graphics. Library of Congress. The program concluded with a series of dem­ One session was devoted to information sys­ onstrations: (1) “Home-grown Graphics,” by Janet tems, clearinghouses, and data bases, with a Freedman, Salem State College, and David Kel­ demonstration of appropriate on-line retrieval sys­ ley and Al Lee, Fitchburg State College; (2) “Let­ tems. In another session, Keith Wright described tering and Sign-Making Devices,” by Arline and demonstrated various aids and equipment Willar and George Robinson, Northeastern Uni­ designed for the handicapped. Some of the versity; and (3) “Visuals to be Photographed,” by equipment had been seen by the participants the Chris Bowman, Harvard University. previous day during field trips to facilities for the Malcolm C. Hamilton, the program chairman, handicapped in the area, such as the New York and his committee—Helen Aiello, Sherrie State Regional Division for the Blind and Physi­ Bergman, Janet Freedman, Eva Jonas, David cally Handicapped and the O. D. Heck De­ Kelley, Ellen Levin, Adeline Oakley, Guest velopmental Center. A panel on Thursday after­ Perry, and Arline Willar—successfully produced a noon presented ongoing programs in public and workshop that instructed the 165 participants in academic libraries. graphics through excellent professional presenta­ The final session was devoted to two spe­ tions and through the sophisticated use of cialized topics: bibliotherapy, presented by Grace graphics in the program materials themselves.— Lyons, chief of special services at the D. C. Pub­ Kathleen Gunning, Reference Librarian, Brown lic Library; and the role of the governor’s confer­ University Library. ences in serving the handicapped by Bettina • During the week of October 9-14, 1977, Wolff, administrative officer at the New York forty librarians from twenty-six states and the State Library. District of Columbia met on the campus of the Each participant is expected to go back to his State University of New York at Albany to learn or her own library or system and present a simi­ about and discuss problems of L i b r a r y SE R V ­ lar institute or workshop on the same topic. The ICE t o t h e A d u l t H a n d i c a p p e d in P u b l i c fact that over twice as many applied for the insti­ a n d Ac a d e m i c L i r r a r i e s . tute as could be accepted attests to the fact that Funded under Title IIB of the Higher Educa­ there is great need for further information on im­ tion Act as a library training institute, the pro­ proving services to the handicapped. The pro­ gram was planned and directed by Lucille Wha­ ceedings for this institute are being prepared and len, associate dean of the School of Library and should be available within a few months. For fur­ Information Science at Albany, and Joan Miller, ther information, contact: Dr. Lucille Whalen, associate, Resources for the Handicapped, New School of Library and Information Science, State York State Education Department. University of New York, Albany, NY 12222; (518) The keynote speech, “The Handicapped in To­ 457-8575! day’s Society,” was given by Keith Wright, dean • One of the largest gatherings of librarians of the College of Library and Information Serv­ and media and information specialists ever held ices at the University of Maryland. During the in Virginia met at the first joint conference of the week the historical and attitudinal aspects of the Virginia Library Association and the Virginia topic were covered by Genevieve Casey, profes­ Educational Media Association. sor of library science at Wayne State University; With a theme of TECHNOLOGY, INFORMA­ Ruth Velleman, director of the Human Resources TION, AND SOCIETY, the joint conference com­ Center at Albertson, New York; and Dr. Maxine bining the annual meetings of both organizations Mays of the Ohio Department of Mental Health. took place November 17-19, 1977, at the Architecture and problems of physical access mountaintop resort, the Homestead, a national were presented by June Shapiro, assistant direc­ historic landmark in Hot Springs. tor of the Division of Library Development in Keynote speaker Donald P. Ely told the 750 Connecticut, and Stanley Tigerman, Chicago ar­ conferees that media services in education have chitect who designed the Chicago Regional Li­ reached a peak of technological development and brary for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. that what is needed now is not new methods but Two handicapped nonlibrarians represented the better quality. Ely said the decline of scholastic library users’ point of view: Hannan Selvin, a aptitude scores has stimulated a back-to-basics at­ blind sociology professor from SUNY Stony titude toward education, but he warned that an Brook, and Sally Donnan, principal personnel ex­ either/or attitude toward educational TV and aminer for New York State Civil Service. reading and writing skills is a trap.

43 "We must become pioneers in the technologi­ songs, sermons, and imitations punctuated by cal jungle of media, and with boldness and origi­ sound effects. Speaking on American library be­ nality educate people how to use TV, film, and havior, Plotnik said librarians have a “schizoid computers rightly,” he said. Television has in­ compulsion” to form special interest groups and finite potential for education, according to Ely, consequently the profession is “in danger of los­ but information specialists must master use of TV ing all coherence." He also said librarians argue and other modem communications techniques. minor questions too seriously and “count Ely is professor of communications at Syracuse everything—except what counts.” University and director of the Center for Study of Other prominent speakers included Daniel Information and Education. Gore, library director at Macalester College; Eric Moon, president of the American Library Johnnie Givens, executive director of the South­ Association, told the conferees that librarians eastern Library Association; Carol C. Henderson, have done little to influence formulation of a na­ assistant director of the ALA Washington office; tional information policy. He urged action before Frank Norwood, executive director of the Joint business and industry “exploit this energy source Council on Educational Telecommunications; and as they have coal and oil,” with little concern for Howard Hitchens, executive director of the As­ the public good. Moon is also president of Scare­ sociation for Educational Technology. crow Press and former Library Journal editor. • Q u a n t i f y i n g Q u a l i t y — a workshop on Alphonse F. Trezza, executive director of the performance measures in libraries and networks, National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ was sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of the tion Science, also addressed the question of na­ American Society for Information Science Sep­ tional information policy. He told convention del­ tember 8—9, 1977. egates to prepare now for the first White House The theme was provocative, although some of Conference on Libraries and Information Science the speakers seemed to stray from paying strict to be held in 1979. Trezza said the conference is attention to the apparent paradox of the title. designed to produce action, but librarians must Kjell Samuelson, chairman of the informatics pro­ first determine at local and state levels what gram of the Royal Institute of Technology and Americans want included in a national informa­ University of Stockholm, keynote speaker of the tion policy. workshop, described vast celestial spaces filled American Libraries editor Art Plotnik startled with satellites that are going 90 percent unused, and entertained the conventioneers with satiric hanging there idle when they could be available for the transmission of digital information if we could reach an international technological com­ mitment to such a project. James Dolby, a mathematician from San Jose State University, described performance mea­ surement as first trying to find out what the sys­ tem does and how people use it, and he cautioned that change should come very carefully and only after listening to the user. He suggested going to the reference desk before trying to rede­ sign the library. Another mathematician, Howard Resnikoff of the University of California, Irvine, Department of Mathematics, discussed the need to measure performance to be able to quantify quality. If the data base is very small, he said, there is probably no need to measure its quality. But large-scale systems need to have quantifiable measures to test their usefulness. The link between badly de­ signed archive systems and the measurement of their usefulness has not been clearly recognized. Libraries are the largest organized structures in civilization. The desire to attempt to provide coherent access to library collections suggests that we are indeed very interested in their organiza­ tion, but, when discussing other forms of han­ dling, storing, and accessing these materials, we should realize that nothing we have compares in complexity with our large archives. Therefore, we cannot look to others for guidelines, because no one has attempted anything like this before.

44 He gave some rather stunning figures on the Registration will be limited to 1 5 0 persons. number of characters in an article, a book, the For further information, contact Cerise UCI Library, and the Library of Congress, relat­ Oberman-Soroka, Robert Scott Small Library, ing these to the various storage capacities of exist­ College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 2 9 4 0 1 . ing types of hardware and pointing out that mass M a r c h 2 0 : C u r r e n t D evelopments in storage systems, as they increase in capacity, are G o v e r n m e n t D o c u m e n t s is the theme of a also decreasing in cost. One video disc, for exam­ workshop to be sponsored by the New England ple, could store the equivalent of 1,600 books. Library Network (NELINET) Government Annual world production could be stored on Documents Task Group. It will be held at twenty discs per year in digitally coded form. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. One concluded, after the various remarks, that For further information, contact Mrs. Jan Swan­ quantifying quality is not a contradiction in terms beck, Baptist Library, Boston College, Chestnut or a paradox but a very difficult series of jobs that Hill, MA 0 2 1 6 7 . must be done to insure that our information MARCH 30-APRIL 2: Illinois State University needs are met—and met in a useful, productive (ISU), in cooperation with the Illinois State Li­ manner.—University of California, Irvine, Li­ brary, will conduct a PERSONNEL EVALUATION brary Items. In s t i t u t e f o r L i b r a r i a n s with a grant of MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 from the Library Services and Construc­ tion Act. F e b r u a r y 22-23: Online: Phase II is the Cosponsors of the institute are the Department name of a seminar-workshop to be held in Aus­ of Information Sciences and the College of Con­ tin, Texas. The program, sponsored by the Texas tinuing Education and Public Service at ISU. chapters of the Special Libraries Association and The institute will focus on information and the American Society for Information Science, is skills needed to evaluate the performance of li­ aimed at users of on-line systems who have had a brary staff. The format will include large-group year or more experience. Although the emphasis sessions, small-group workshops and one-to-one is to be on the practical aspects of on-line use, conversation. some theoretical issues will also be discussed. A Participation is limited to 105 public, academic, special feature will be a two-hour session on on­ special, and school librarians. Those who at­ line cataloging. tended the first such institute two years ago in Registration fee: $20 for members who pre­ Charleston will be given preference to attend the register; $30 for nonmembers and for members one at ISU. registering at the meeting, and $10 for students. To register, contact Nancy Tissing, Texas Medical Association Library, 1810 North Lamar, Austin, TX 78701; (512) 477-6074. M a r c h 10: O n -L i n e L i t e r a t u r e S e a r c h ­ in g is the theme of a workshop to be presented by the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University. For further information, con­ tact Director, Continuing Professional Education, Drexel University, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104. M a r c h 1 6 -1 7 : T h e S outheastern C o n ­ f e r e n c e o n A p p r o a c h e s t o B i b l i o ­ g r a p h i c I n s t r u c t i o n will be hosted by the Robert Scott Small Library, Col­ lege of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. The conference, intended for academic librarians presently involved in instructional programs as well as those who are initiating such programs, will address itself to several areas of concern in bibliographic instruction: objectives for biblio­ graphic instruction; instructional evaluation; faculty-librarian communication techniques; bib­ liographic instruction in the Southeast; grants available for bibliographic instruction programs; and a panel on “Reaching the Student through Bibliographic Instruction: Which Method Works?,” which will feature presentations focus­ ing on different approaches in the philosophy and application of bibliographic instruction programs.

45 Forrest G. Wisely, assistant professor of infor­ general instruction in basic concepts and mation sciences at ISU, is the institute coor­ practices of archival administration, experience in dinator. More information is available from him research use, and management of traditional and at ISU. modem documentary materials. The program fo­ A PRIL 7: The School of Library and Informa­ cuses upon an integrated archives/records man­ tion Science, State University of New York at A l­ agement approach to records keeping and fea­ bany, will offer a workshop entitled ANGLO- tures lectures, seminars, and supervised labora­ A m e r i c a n C a t a l o g i n g R u l e s , S e c o n d tory work. Instructors are experienced archivists EDITION: A P r e v i e w . For further information, and records managers from a variety of institu­ see the December issue of C&RL News. tions. Emphasis is on appraisal, arrangement, and A PRIL 20-21: The Archives-Libraries Commit­ description of both governmental and private rec­ tee of the A f r i c a n S t u d i e s A s s o c i a t i o n will ords. Other topics include records control and hold its Spring 1978 meeting at the University of scheduling, reference services, preservation tech­ Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition the niques, and archival administration. Enrollment Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) is limited to eighteen participants. Fee: $225 for will meet April 21. Meetings are always open to noncredit participants; $576 for six quarter hours’ interested colleagues. For more information, con­ graduate credit from Emory University. A cer­ tact Ms. Yvette Scheven, Chairperson, tificate is awarded to those who successfully com­ Archives-Libraries Committee, 220A University plete the institute course. Housing is available at Library, University of Illinois at Urbana- a modest rate. Application deadline: May 15, Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, or see Africana 1978. For further information, write to Training Libraries Newsletter, no. 16 (March 1978). Officer, Archives Institute, Georgia Department M a y 4 - 5 : Project LOEX (Library Orientation/ of Archives and History, 330 Capitol Ave., At­ Instructional Exchange), the national clearing­ lanta, GA 30334. house for academic library instruction located on the campus of Eastern Michigan University, is MISCELLANY planning the E IG H T H An n u a l CONFERENCE O n L i b r a r y O r i e n t a t i o n /In s t r u c t i o n F o r • The University Libraries at the UNIVERSITY Ac a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s . The conference will be o f So u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a have reported sig­ held on the Eastern Michigan University campus, nificant increases in the library budget for 1977- Ypsilanti, Michigan. 78. The library was recognized as first priority in For further information, see the January issue the university budget. of C&RL News. The prime emphasis was given to the books M a y 7 -1 9 : The College of Library and Infor­ and serials budget, which was increased by 53.4 mation Services, University of Maryland, is plan­ percent in a combination of regular and supple­ ning the T w e l t h An n u a l L i b r a r y Ad m i n i s ­ mental funds. Increased allocations were given to t r a t o r s D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m . For fur­ the funds so that the library will spend the same ther information, see the January issue of C&RL amount on monographs as it does for serials. News. A salary pool was created for the library faculty May 22-24: The 1978 M i d -Y e a r M e e t i n g to be applied, based on merit. It was recognized o f t h e A m e r i c a n S o c i e t y f o r I n f o r m a ­ that the librarians’ salaries were lower than their t i o n S c i e n c e (ASIS) will be held at Rice Uni­ peers in comparable institutions. The subsequent versity, Houston, Texas. The conference theme is salary increases for all professional ranks averaged “Management of Information Systems.” 12.3 percent. In addition, the budget for student The program includes: (1) sessions planned by wages support has been increased by 16.4 per­ several ASIS Special Interest Groups: (2) a panel cent. session on user education for on-line systems; (3) USC began the year with the installation of a a session on sociological aspects of information security system in its Doheny Research Library, handling in bureaucratic institutions; (4) an in- OCLC in the catalog department, a six-month depth workshop on decision-making/problem­ evaluation of Bro-Dart’s automated Instant Re­ solving; and (5) a preconference workshop on sponse Order System in the acquisitions depart­ forecasting, modeling, and simulation. ment, and, in cooperation with the library school, For further information on the seventh ASIS a conversion of the library science library shelflist Mid-Year Meeting, contact Stephanie Normann, to create a COM catalog in the fall. Outside fund­ School of Public Health Library, University of ing is being sought for an automated circulation Texas at Houston, Box 20186, Houston, TX system, with the goal of installation in 1978. 77025. For registration details, contact ASIS • S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y has announced the Headquarters, 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W., Wash­ appointment of associate provost Edward E. ington, DC 20036. Shaw as interim director of the BALLOTS Center J u l y 2 4 -A u g u s t 18. The T w e l f t h An n u a l (BALLOTS = Bibliographic Automation of Li­ Ar c h i v e s I n s t i t u t e of the Georgia Depart­ brary Operations using the Time-sharing System). ment of Archives and History, Atlanta, will include Shaw replaces Hank Epstein, who is forming In­

46 formation Transform Industries, a consulting Urbana-Champaign will take a big step into the company in the area of library automation and electronic age late this summer with a com­ computer systems. puterized circulation system. The appointment of Shaw, a senior university Students will know something has changed officer, to the interim directorship reflects Stan­ when they find typewriter-size computer termi­ ford’s basic commitment for the development of nals placed throughout the library and in all BALLOTS. Hereafter, BALLOTS will report di­ thirty-five departmental libraries. Gone will be rectly to the provost’s office rather than the Stan­ the yellow, notched cards they had to fill out— ford Center for Information Processing (SCIP). one for each book. This transfer reflects the importance BALLOTS Instead, library users will turn to the keyboard has to the university and the university’s com­ in search of a book. They—or a librarian—will mitment to guide the BALLOTS Center to inde­ type out only the first five letters of a book’s title pendent, nonprofit status. and the first four letters of the author's name, or The university’s goals are two-fold. First, the the book’s call number. university desires that BALLOTS evolve into a The terminal screen will answer immediately, national library automation network focusing telling if the book is in, at which library or librar­ upon the unique needs of academic and research ies it is located, or, if it is out, when it is due libraries and their universities more generally. back and if anyone has reserved it. If it is in, a Second, because Stanford has close ties with li­ punch of the proper buttons will bring it to the braries in the western United States, BALLOTS checkout desk. should be made available to all types of libraries “Just not having to fill out those cards ought to in California and adjacent states. make everybody happy,” said Hugh Atkinson, Additionally, Stanford announces the appoint­ university librarian. A student will have to pro­ ment of John Schroeder as associate director for vide only his or her ID number and the book technical services for BALLOTS. Schroeder has number to check out a text. been manager of Interactive and Database Sys­ • Increased student enrollments in the nation’s tems of SCIP and brings a strong technical and colleges are placing added strains on hard-pressed managerial complement to BALLOTS. public libraries. In recent years, the number of • At the request of the Library of Congress, enrollees in publicly supported four-year colleges the C o u n c i l o n L i b r a r y R e s o u r c e s , I n c . has tripled, while those in two-year institutions (CLR), has undertaken the preparation of a de­ jumped five times. The bulk of these students tailed implementation plan for a national peri­ regularly utilize public libraries to do their odicals center. The plan will contain the technical homework and research projects. requirements necessary to operate such a center, According to a fact sheet on library users re­ including location and design of a facility, equip­ leased by the N a t i o n a l C i t i z e n s E m e r ­ ment, personnel, services, collection, manage­ g e n c y C o m m i t t e e t o S a v e O u r P u b l i c ment, data processing support systems, L i b r a r i e s , part of the reason for heavy student schedules, prices, and costs. The study will re­ use of public libraries is that many academic li­ quire approximately eight months to complete. braries are understaffed, lack adequate collec­ Creation of a national periodicals center was tions, and operate on short hours. Students are the central recommendation of a report commis­ forced to go where they can find the books they sioned and, earlier this year, endorsed by the Na­ need when they need them, usually their public tional Commission on Libraries and Information library. Science. The report proposes that the Library of The phenomenal recent growth of commuting Congress (LC) be the responsible agent in the colleges, where students live at home and travel implementation of the center, which would con­ to classes, has made community public libraries tain a comprehensive, dedicated collection of pe­ more convenient places for students to work, par­ riodicals to supplement local resources. ticularly in urban areas, thereby adding to LC will form an advisory group to consider the budgetary pressures. implications of the technical plan and other mat­ In addition to traditional college-age student li­ ters related to a national periodicals center. If the brary users, the U.S. has a growing number of Library of Congress and the committee confirm part-time adult learners enrolled in higher educa­ the recommendation that an LC-administered tion. For the first time in U.S. history, a majority center is the most appropriate route to effective of students above the high school level today are sharing of periodicals and if the necessary funds adults who are getting their education on a part- are available, LC will undertake to establish and time basis. This growing number of older, work­ operate the proposed lending facility. It is antici­ ing students is adding to the pressures on public pated that the technical plan resulting from the library resources. study will be usable by another agency should • Nine years after it officially began and fifteen LC find it infeasible to assume management re­ years after Earl Warren gave his approval and the sponsibility. search for funding began, the Regional Oral His­ • The library of the University of Illinois at tory Office (ROHO) of the U n i v e r s i t y o f

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C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , announces the com­ for formats and data elements. Copies pletion of the Earl Warren Era Oral History may be ordered from the National Center for Project. Higher Education Management Systems Focusing on the years 1925-53, 146 persons (NCHEMS), P.O. Drawer P, Boulder, CO prominent in the areas of politics, governmental 80302. Apply for price. administration, and criminal justice were inter­ • As the general economy looks forward to viewed about their experiences during the War­ solid, if not spectacular, growth during the next ren era in California. The resulting fifty-three five years, book price inflation is expected to bound volumes of single-spaced transcriptions are abate to rates averaging from 5½ to 9 percent, now available for deposit in manuscript libraries according to a comprehensive new study of pub­ for research. lishing industry trends and prospects. Funding for the extensive project, indicates As a result, the study predicts, publishers’ unit Willa Baum, Regional Oral History Office direc­ sales will recover somewhat, with a projected 4.2 tor, was a first for ROHO in variety of sources. A percent increase between 1976 and 1981, al­ matching grant offer from National Endowment though they will still be running well behind dol­ for the Humanities, renewed several times, was lar sales, which are expected to increase by an the impetus for donations from friends and col­ additional 44.2 percent during this period. leagues of the chief justice or specific inter­ These are among numerous conclusions drawn viewees, historical groups, the Friends of the by B o o k In d u s t r y T r e n d s — 1977 ($275; $150 Bancroft Library, Law Clerks of Earl Warren, to libraries), a research report which for the first and several California foundations. The last year time provides economic analyses and marketing of the project was funded by the California Heri­ forecasts for the entire book field. Written by tage Preservation Commission. John P. Dessauer, Paul D. Doebler, and E. Warren Project Director Amelia Fry and her Wayne Nordberg, the volume was published on staff of four interviewers have now moved on to November 1 by the Book Industry Study Group, the next political period in California, the Good­ Inc., a not-for-profit organization devoted to ob­ win Knight-Pat Brown era. The project will take jective research into basic book industry situa­ three years to complete. tions and problems. • Development of a structural framework and The first section of the report, written by Paul definitions for collecting and reporting library D. Doebler, industry consultant and contributing statistics has progressed rapidly with the assis­ editor of Publishers Weekly, reviews major indus­ tance of representatives of the AMERICAN try trends, their history and likely future course. L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n , A s s o c i a t i o n o f Certain industry segments, Doebler notes, such R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s , and the N a t i o n a l as book manufacturing, have passed through cy­ C e n t e r f o r E d u c a t i o n a l S t a t i s t i c s . cles well ahead of other sectors, such as publish­ Measurement categories have been established ing and retailing— providing significant clues re­ for organizational characteristics, revenues, per­ garding the future course of these sectors. sonnel, facilities, assets, activity levels, user In retailing, Doebler foresees the formation of groups, and performance. These categories can smaller chains of stores but predicts the likeli­ be allocated over the programmatic functions of hood of business failures by firms that have tried administrative services, user services, technical/ to grow too rapidly. He forecasts the growing collection services, instructional services, and focus of marketing efforts around subject themes support services. Three levels of detail have been in books, leading to ultimate specialization among described to provide options for the “fineness” of bookstores, which will emphasize unique areas in data to be collected by an individual library, de­ which they can provide superior service over pending upon its size and complexity. The struc­ their competitors. ture and definitions were pilot-tested by five vol­ In the library area, Doebler suggests that the unteer institutions in the Pennsylvania State Col­ primary need will be, not so much technology or lege System. new services, but, as in other industry segments, Outcome measures, as expected, have proved better-quality professional management to cope to be the most difficult statistics to establish. with the financial challenges facing these institu­ While various measures of activity can be em­ tions. ployed, it would be useful to be able to evaluate Hardbound and paperback books—but in par­ the impact of the activity on a library’s effective­ ticular paperbacks—will continue to gain favor ness. A spring meeting of several researchers and with general consumers, according to Dessauer. practicing library managers concerned with Dollar sales of retailers and direct mail marketers measuring library effectiveness was most helpful will continue to rise at annual rates ranging be­ in bringing the state of the art to bear on this as­ tween 8 and 12 percent. pect of the statistical data base. Declining school and college enrollments and a The project ended this summer with the publi­ fiscally conservative national mood will continue cation of a description of the recommended to affect the hard-hit educational and library mar­ library statistical data base structure and definitions kets, Dessauer observes, with little hope for sufficient

50 federal largesse to bail them out. for the National Endowment for the The Book Industry Study Group, Inc., was Humanities. founded in December 1975 as a not-for-profit “We used a sample of nineteen libraries, large corporation supported by its members who are and small, scattered over the U .S.,” Goldhor publishers, book manufacturers, paper manufac­ said. “One of our major conclusions is that books turers, retailers, wholesalers, librarians, and in the humanities constitute about 11 percent of others associated with the book industry. The all books in these libraries, 15 percent of all adult group has thus far published three studies: on books, and 22 percent of all adult nonfiction. book industry information needs, on paper “We also attempted to evaluate the quality of availability, and on future library acquisitions. these holdings by checking a sample of 6,400 ti­ Two major research projects are currently in tles against seven different lists of recommended progress: on consumer demographics and at­ books. Fifty-two percent of all the books ap­ titudes and on the relationship of manufacturing peared in three or more of these lists, 32 percent capacity to publishers’ demands for printing. in one or two, and only 16 percent in none. This For further information, contact: John P. is a better record in terms of quality than we Dessauer, Book Industry Study Group, P.O. Box have found in any other subject area we’ve 1174, Darien, CT 06820. looked at,” he said. • Public libraries in the U.S.—both large and “We looked at four size groups, ranging from small— have extensive and high quality holdings small libraries serving less than 25,000 to large in the humanities. The finding was reported by libraries over 500,000. The most surprising thing Herbert Goldhor, director of the Graduate School to me is that the very small libraries have propor­ of Library Science, University of Illinois at tionately as many books in the humanities as Urbana-Champaign, at the conclusion of a study larger libraries and their quality is at least as conducted by the school’s Library Research Center good, maybe a little better,” Goldhor said. ■■

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PROFILES As director of General Libraries at the Univer­ sity of Texas, Boylan was responsible for the • G l e n n H. JOHNSON JR., has been named Main Library, Undergraduate Library, Latin director of the John D. Churchill Memorial Li­ American Collection, Barker Texas History Col­ brary at Western New England College, accord­ lection, Asian Collection, Middle East Collection, ing to an announcement made by academic vice- and sixteen branch libraries. The General Librar­ president Allan W. Bosch. ies has a staff of 420 and a collection in excess of Johnson previously directed libraries at the 4 million volumes. A major activity was the plan­ University of Colorado, Colorado Springs center, ning and construction of a new main library and St. Mary’s College in Maryland. He began building, the Perry-Castaneda Library, and four his career as library director at the Colorado branch libraries. During his tenure both the 3 State Historical Society in Denver and also millionth and 4 millionth volumes were added to served in several capacities at the Boulder cam­ the collections. In 1975, the University of Texas pus library of the University of Colorado. Library moved into the top ten largest academic Johnson earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in libraries in the United States. Boylan was active English from the University of Colorado and a in the implementation of automation in the librar­ master’s degree in library science from the Uni­ ies and served on the board that founded the versity of Denver. AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. He is a member of the Special Libraries As­ At Washington, he has assumed responsibility sociation, the Society of American Archivists, and for the Main Library, Health Sciences Library, a life member of the American Library Associa­ Undergraduate Library, East Asia Collection, and tion. sixteen branch libraries, with a staff of 430 and a Johnson, his wife Connie, and their son Samuel collection of 3,236,944. reside in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Boylan has served as director of libraries at the • M E R L E N. B O Y L AN , former director of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, library General Libraries at the University of Texas at manager for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Austin, has been named director of libraries at of the University of California, and chief librarian the University of Washington, Seattle. He suc­ for the National Aeronautics and Space ceeds Marion A. Milczewski, who is retiring after Administration-Ames Research Center. In addi­ seventeen years as head librarian. tion, he has held library positions at the General

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