SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER SPECIAL L,BRAR,ES ASSOCIATION Volume 4 Number 3 November 1976 PARTY WI T H A PU R POSE! RESERVE DECEMBER 3 SLA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM The pleasure of your company is requested Four $2,500 scholarships will be awarded for the evening of December 3rd from 8 in May 1977 for the academic year 1977/ p.m. until 12 midnight. Fun and games - 78. Applications must be completed and shopping and "games of chance" will returned by January 15, 1977; to SLA provide an unforgettable evening. Raffles Scholarship Committee; 235 Park Avenue will be held - prizes awarded. Objets South; New York, New York 10003. Awards d'art will be available for your holiday are for graduate study leading to a gift giving. You may browse through books masters degree in a recognized, U.S. or and discover hidden treasures. Of course Canadian school of library or information food and drink will be available to sus- science. Qualifications are: a definite tain you. interest in special library work, good ~cademic record, and financial need. The purpose of this gathering is to raise money for the scholarship fund and for local needs. If you can contribute time, **** goodies, handicrafts or castoffs; contact one of the following people: WANTED Joe Ann Clifton 887-2678 Jan Krcmar 889-2211 Your "used" paperback books-! We will appre- Jean Miller 691-0841 x3358 ciate all donations to be sold at the SLA Myra Grenier 966-1013 Christmas Bazaar. This year no hard bound Location: National Association of Letter books will be handled. To drop off your Carriers 774 Valencia, L.A. paperbacks please contact any of the Time: December 3, 8-12 p.m. following people. Bring your friends and family. Pasadena HOLIDAY GREETING INSERT Joan Swan (JPL) 354-2883 West Covina More about our special December feature! Linda McLaughlin (Honeywell) 331-0011 Send h~liday greetings the easy way. x264 San Fernando Valley For $5 you may send your message, with Norm Crum (Lockheed) 847-2444 drawings if you wish, to your hundreds of West L.A. library associates. (Think of the sav- Valerie Sugar (Rand Corp) 393-0411 x344 ings:). Here's a sample: Downtown L.A. f Ann Wiedel (Security Pacific Bank \ 613-8623 Ii May Your Holidays Downey ~ , Barbara White (Rockwell International) rrr ~: Be Happy Days 922-4648 Orange County Jackie George Judy Sindel (Rockwell International) (714) 632-3621 Be clever but brief (or double your space South Bay for $10) and send your message to Jan Karen Olds (Aerospace Corp) 648-5286 Krcmar, Bunker Ramo Corp., Main Library, 31717 La Trenda Drive, Westlake Village, If you are interested in working in the booth CA 91359. Make checks payable to So. during the bazaar or if none of these loca- Calif. Chapter SLA. Deadline November 19th. tions,is convenient, please call Karen Olds. -1- - """" - --- ~ ,. ~ ~ - - " & AREA LUNCHEON COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS DowNTOWN: Sharon McNeil "A Union List of Specifications and Standards Security Pacific 613-5388 in California Libraries" is now available SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: Norman Crum from Information Unlimited. The list in- Lockheed-Calif. 847-6887 cludes the holdings of 53 libraries. As SAN GABRIEL VALLEY: Jeanne Tatro well as the 300 different U.S. association Cal Tech 795~681l x24l3 and government specs and standaras listed, ORANGE: Dave Everett an appendix lists sources of foreign pub- UCI (714) 835-5225 lications. Order for $11 each (includes tax SOUTH BAY: Virginia Crabtree and postage) from Information Unlimited; Northrop 970-4146 P.O. Box 4185; 2510 Channing Way; Berkeley, VENTURA/SANTA BARBARA: Barbara Horn California 94704. 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PEOPLE IN MEMORIAM John Theophil Milek, 1915-1976 ALICE MEDINA of JPL Library is the ~ John Mitek, who died of a heart attack ~ proud mother of a new baby girl named Lesley Ann. Alice is a student October 2, was a good friend of-thirty years' member of our chapter. standing. I got to know him when he first came to Southern California as the librarian of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Later he was t.':\ KEN BROWN, former Southern 'T/ Californian, visited friends recently a mainstay of the Electronic Properties Information Center at Hughes. Just before while passing through town from the the fall of South Vietnam he spent some time FID meeting in Mexico City enroute there setting up an official government to the AS IS meeting in San Francisco. standards and testing laboratory. As of November 1, Ken is the Acting Secretariat General of the FID in the By training he was a chemist and metal- Hague. lurgist, but he spent six years as an engi- neering librarian. At one time, he was the NEW MEMBERS chairman of the Science Technology Group of Linda P. Elliott our Chapter. He was fascinated by and in- Rebecca J. Jensen - Darling Paterson & volved in the compilation of bibliographies, Salzer technical data and the problems and usefulness of information science. NUC shows a total of Linda Mc Sweeney - Tosco Cornelia Moore - Price Waterhouse IBM 23 entries for him for 1958 - 1974, and he is Project the author of numerous articles and technical reports. In the course I taught at UCLA on Margaret O'Drobinak - Naval Weapons Cen te r the bibliography of science, engineering and Peter J. Rosenwald technology, I referred students to some of Elizabeth A. Williams - CA Savings & his compilations. Besides his work at Hughes, Loan League he also taught courses in materials engineer- ing, technical writing, standards and spec- ification engineering and microelectronics ENERGY DELTA, SUPPLY VS, DEMAND technology. (Vol. 35 Scie:1ce & Tech:1o1ogy) 60-1p. Second Printing. '$-10 As a friend I knew him as a performer-on "- the accordian (he once had his own German SPACE TECH"OLOGY TRANSFER TO CO}.!MUKlTY A:C,D INDUSTRY (Vol. 29 band), as a German Schup1attler dancer (with Science & Tech'1Olo~y) 196p, Now his mother as a twirling partner), as a available ag2.in in limited quantities. $20 superb photographer, as an avid stamp collec- WIIVELT, INC.. P.O. 80x 28130, tor, and as a fine family man. After suffer- ing a stroke a few years ago he went into San V~~go. CA 92128 enforced retirement, but with no let-up in Note our new address. activities. He combined his stamp, music and photography hobbies into entertaining and educational lectures to young people. He had a wonderful sense of humor. His many friends SO. CALIF. CHAPTER MEMBERS in Southern California will miss him. SERVING IN ASSOCIATION POSITIONS Johanna E. Tallman Vivian Arterberry Networking Committee 1975/78 John Connor Research Committee , 1976-79 Rita Gurnee Education Committee 1976-79 Scott Kennedy Standards Committee RAMESH C. TANEJA [!J ECUCATIONAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE 1976-78 Leroy Linder Standards Committee PHONE (213) 248-9654 1976-78 (213) 385-5021 Cecily Surace Govt. Information Comm. 1975-77 ENCYCLOPAEDIA' BRITANNICA, INC. ;;"3- -~ ~ ---- - -- IFLA INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY Units, Round Tables, and working groups." ASSOCIATIONS 42nd GENERAL COUNCIL The attendance of four hundred forty-four August 23-28, 1976 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND was less than that of previous conferences. The hope is that the 43rd conference in It was a pleasant conference in a beautiful Brussels, Belgium, will attract three setting, unhurried and thoughtful. The neat thousand. It is to be an open conference hedges and the apparently prosperous populace so that all librarians may attend. gave one a sense that all was well. Mr. Laval, the Librarian of the University of Lausanne, and his co-workers obviously gave Dr. McKenna called for a meeting of SLA much time and thought in making arrangements librarians the Saturray before the con- for our comfort. Passes were provided so ference to discuss a European SLA chapter. that we could use the public transportation It seems that one was started with a news- system but often we walked to the Swiss letter and several meetings but faded when Institute of Technology in order to enjoy the there was a division'between the military gardens and landscape. post librarians and those in civilian em- ploy. The military wanted the meetings It was good, too, to meet librarians attend- held at army posts to reduce the cost to ing their first IFLA session and to renew them but were uncertain if civilians acquaintance with those who had been a part would be allowed to attend.