ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

The University of California, Davis li­
brary, has dedicated a collection of books of 
Irish literature and history to the memory of 
William Van O’Connor, of the English depart­
ment. The greater part of the collection con­
sists of books purchased by the university li­
brarian during his recent trip to the British 
Isles.

A gift of more than two hundred volumes 
has been given to the Francis Bacon library of 
Claremont, Calif, by Douglass Adair, professor 
of American history at the Claremont graduate 
school. The volumes constitute a significant 
part of the “statesman’s library” that James 
Madison and Thomas Jefferson listed in 1783 
and urged the Continental Congress to buy. 
The collection will be known as the Lee- 
Bernard collection in American political theory.

San Diego State College library has ac­
quired the Ernst Zinner collection on the 
history of astronomy consisting of 4,192 items 
including 2,700 volumes, two of them incu­
nabula; autographs of scientists; portraits of 
scientists; pictures of sundials; a manuscript 
book, Leovitius, 1560; 31 manuscript letters of 
Schlüter, and 240 pamphlets on the history of 
medicine.

A group of the papers of Alexander Trocchi, 
1925-, British born novelist and editor, has 
been acquired by Washington University, 
St. Louis. The collection, covering the years 
1944-1966, contains both published and un­
published Trocchi writings.

The Bernstein collection of materials con­
cerned principally with the development of 
the Russian revolution has been acquired from 
the Newberry library by Hunter College of 
the City University of New York. Numbering 
about eight thousand volumes, the collection 
is rich in political pamphlets published both 
within and outside Russia. Including many 
scarce titles, the collection also includes works 
in literature, art, economics, and religion.

An eleven thousand-volume collection of 
Brazilian Books and periodicals has been 
acquired by the New York State University 
at Stony Brook. The Brasiliana Collection, as 
it is known, was purchased in two sections 
from private sources in Rio de Janeiro, and pro­
vides students of Brazilian literature and all 
fields of the social sciences with a wide variety 
of research materials.

Syracuse University has announced the acqui­
sition of nineteen additional collections to the

manuscripts department of Carnegie library. 
These are the collections of Louis Bachrach, 
photographer, 1950-1963; Frank J. Becker, 
Congressman, 1924-1964; Gertrude Berg, 
authoress and actress, 1959-1962; Frederick 
William Betts, Unitarian clergyman, 1885- 
1932; Marcel Breuer, architect, 1934-1953; 
the Brockway family, 1805-1923; Edmund B. 
Chaffee, Presbyterian clergyman, 1912-1935; 
Ashley Cole, Commissioner of Railroads in 
New York State, 1889-1916; Eugene Keogh, 
Congressman, 1934-1966; Leo Lerner, pub­
lisher, 1929-1966; Fulton Lewis, journalist, 
1938-1966; Alexandre MacDonald, Napoleon’s 
Marshall, 1807-1840; Levi P. Morton, Governor 
of New York, 1860-1912; William Van O’Con­
nor, author and critic, 1947-1966; Dutton S. 
Peterson, Methodist clergyman and legislator, 
1894-1964; Lawrence M. Rulison, legislator, 
1962-1964; Richard Templeton, lawyer, 1899- 
1952; Dorothy Thompson, journalist, 1917- 
1961; William F. Sheehan, Lieut. Governor of 
New York, 1891-1919.

The papers of Stoddard King, of Spokane, 
Washington, newspaper columnist, and creator 
of light verse, have been given to the Uni­
versity of Oregon library by his daughter, 
Mrs. Arthur T. Walton. Stoddard King was a 
close friend of the poet, Vachel Lindsay, and 
the papers include a number of Lindsay letters, 
as well as Lindsay broadsides and other printed 
pieces.

M E E T IN G S

Aug. 13-19: International Congress of Orien­
talists meeting, University of Michigan, cospon­
sored by the American Oriental Society. A 
grant from the Council of Library Resources 
will make it possible for the Congress to 
defray traveling expenses of thirteen librarians 
from overseas, to attend a panel on library re­
sources for Oriental Studies, basically in charge 
of Yukihisa Suzuki of the University of Michi­
gan Asia library. About two thousand scholars 
are expected to attend.

Sept. 4-9. IATUL seminar on application of 
international library methods and techniques, at 
Delft Technological University library. Intended 
for directors or coworkers from libraries at re­
search level. Official language is English. Num­
ber of participants will be limited to twenty- 
five. Fee is 400 guilders. Address all correspond­
ence to Miss C. D. Wilson, c/o  Library Tech­
nological University, 101 Doelenstraat, Delft, 
Netherlands.

Sept. 10-13: University of Illinois division



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of university extension conference on measure­
ment and evaluation in library research, spon­
sored by the graduate school of library science, 
at Mini Union, Urbana,

Sept. 12-22: International Federation for 
Documentation (F ID ), thirty-third conference 
and International Congress on Documentation, 
in Tokyo, Japan.

Sept. 17-20: Data Processing in University 
Libraries Conference. Drexel Institute of Tech­
nology. Led by Ralph Parker, director of li­
braries and dean, graduate library school, Uni­
versity of Missouri.

Nov. 5-8: Division of university extension of 
University of Illinois announces the 14th an­
nual Allerton Institute, on Trends in American 
Publishing sponsored by the graduate school of 
library science, at Allerton Park.

Apr. 29-May 2, 1968: The department of 
library science of Indiana State University 
plans a junior college libraries conference dur­
ing the period April 29-May 2, 1968. Although 
emphasis will be on library programming for 
the community junior college, the conference 
should be of interest to professional librarians, 
other junior college faculty, and administrators 
of all types of post-high school, two-year insti­
tutions. Ample accommodations are available 
near campus in Terre Haute through the uni­
versity. Meetings and other events will be held 
in the Student Union. Suggestions and requests 
for program scheduling and consideration of 
topics, as well as for further information, 
should be directed to Helen Wheeler, Associate 
Professor, Department of Library Science, In­
diana State University, Terre Haute, Ind. 
47809. (Telephone 612 area code: 232-6311.)

Details will be announced in a future issue. 
All public junior colleges listed in the 1967 
Junior College Directory will automatically re­
ceive an announcement by mail.

M IS C E L L A N Y

William Bernbach, president of Doyle Dane 
Bernbach, Inc. has been named chairman of 
the Steering Committee for the National Li­
brary W eek Program, to hold its annual ob­
servance from April 21 to 27 in 1968. The 
formal appointment to the 1968 NLW plan­
ning-body of Don Wright, associate state li­
brarian of Illinois, who is chairman of the 
new ALA-NLW Committee, has also been 
announced. Made up of seven leaders from 
the library profession, the committee was cre­
ated by ALA in response to recommendations 
embodied in the Association’s recent evalua­
tion of the Library Week program.

The Surgeon General of the U.S. Public 
Health Service has authorized the organizational 
transfer on Tuly 1 of the Public Health Service

Audiovisual Facility to the National Library 
of Medicine. The PHS Audiovisual Facility 
in Atlanta, Georgia, plans, directs, conducts, 
and coordinates a national program in bio­
medical audiovisuals and will be renamed the 
National Medical Audiovisual Center.

On May 12, Edmon Low received a Doctor 
of Letters degree from Eastern Michigan Uni­
versity. The following citation was read by 
Mrs. Roberta Keniston, assistant librarian at 
the ceremony dedicating the Eastern Michigan 
University library.
“Mr. Edmon Low: Respected librarian, 
scholar and author; your counsel is sought 
throughout the nation in the development 
of your professional associations, the im­
provement of library service, the planning 
of library buildings and the enrichment of 
library education; Eastern Michigan University 
honors itself and you by granting to you the 
degree of Doctor of Letters with all the rights, 
privileges and responsibilities pertaining thereto. 
In token thereof I cause you to be invested 
with the hood appropriate to this degree and 
present to you this diploma.”

A survey to streamline library circulation 
procedures at the New York Academy of 
Medicine is now being made by Henry Birn­
baum, director of libraries of Pace College’s 
two campuses: New York City and Pleasant­
ville, N.Y. The academy’s librarian, Gertrude L. 
Annan, points out that the library is faced with 
the dual problem of supplying large numbers of 
interlibrary loans as well as as serving special 
borrowing needs of members and subscribers. 
Mr. Birnbaum has been asked to establish an 
improved circulation system to gain better 
control over loans made by the library.

A new approach to circulation charging pro­
cedures is being tested at the Frankford 
branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 
A field trial started in May and will continue 
for a six-month period. The “Checkpoint” sys­
tem, pioneered for the Free Library by Metal 
Edge Industries is designed to prevent un­
authorized removal of books from the library 
and to reduce staff time normally lost in search­
ing for missing books. It consists of special 
electronic sensing equipment located at the 
loan desk. Planning for the project began in 
December, 1965. To evaluate the program, a 
pretrial inventory of all books in the Frankfort 
test branch and in a control branch was con­
ducted in May, and similar inventory checks 
will be made at the end of the program.

P U B L IC A T IO N S

Beginning with Volume II (1967), domestic 
subscriptions to Documentation Abstracts ab­
stracting journal will be sold for $25 per year.



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The Board of Directors of Documentation Ab­
stracts, Inc., however, has decided that indi­
vidual ( non-institutional) members of the 
sponsoring organizations are eligible for a re­
duced subscription price of $15 per year. Back 
issues of Volume I will be available at $7.50, 
or $22.50 for the entire volume. The program 
of sending free copies to selected members of 
the sponsoring associations will be discontinued, 
with the publication of Volume II.

In late 1966, Ben-Ami Lipetz, head, research 
department, Yale University library, was ap­
pointed editor of the periodical. All of the edi­
torial work on Documentation Abstracts is 
contributed by unpaid volunteers from the 
United States and abroad. Persons interested 
in abstracting, literature scanning, indexing, 
bibliographic verification, copy typing, proof­
reading, editing, and programing are invited 
to write directly to the Editor at Yale Universi­
ty Library, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.

Orders for the publication should be ad­
dressed to: Documentation Abstracts, P.O. Box 
9018, Southeast Station, Washington, D.C.

20003. To receive the reduced subscription rate, 
a declaration of membership in any of the 
sponsoring organizations should be submitted 
with the order.

The Library in the University is a neat 304- 
page volume brought out by the Shoe String 
Press for $7.50. It comprises the first eighteen 
University of Tennessee Library Lectures 
(1949-1966), and is No. 7 in the Contributions 
to Library Literature Series being edited by 
John David Marshall. The volume contains 
an informative and gracious introduction by 
William Jesse.

The Area College Library Cooperative Pro­
gram of South Central Pennsylvania announces 
the availability gratis of the revised copy of its 
Code; a Union List of Current Periodicals in 
its member institutions for $4.00; and a Union 
List of Musical Scores and a Selected List of 
Monographs Pertaining to the Study of Early 
Music for $1.50. Orders should be addressed to 
the Clearing House Committee, ACLCP, Ship­
pensburg State College, Shippensburg, Pen- 
sylvania 17257. ■ ■

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