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News From the Field

 

 
 

A C Q U IS IT IO N S

•  A book published nearly five hundred 
years ago is the most recent rare acquisition of 
the Humanities Library Rare Book Room, Mas­
sachusetts Institute of T echnology. Sam­
uel Glaser, ’25, has given the library a copy of 
the Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the 
world published in 1493. M IT’s copy is one of 
about thirty in this country.

The Nuremberg Chronicle was published 
with movable type only thirty-seven years after 
the G utenberg Bible. The book is noted for its 
illustrations which are integrated with the 
text. Altogether there are 645 blocks, done by 
Michel W olgemut and his stepson, Wilhelm 
Fleydenwurff . W olgemut was th e leading paint­
er of his time and the master of Albrecht 
Durer.

The book is nearly th e size of a newspaper 
and about five inches thick. It is remarkably 
well preserved for its 478 years. The binding 
has split over the centuries and will b e re­
paired by a New York expert who specializes 
in the care of rare books. Other signs of age 
are minor and the ornate L atin text and wood- 
cut illustrations are still very clear.

•  A collection of correspondence and miscel­
laneous materials of the poet E zra Pound has 
been acquired by Syracuse University. The 
collection consists of sixty-six letters, fifty-eight 
of them written by Pound to poets, editors, 
and friends, as well as advertisements for 
Pound’s work and enclosures related to it. The 
correspondence dates from 1909 through 1965. 
The letters discuss the writings of others more 
than the poet’s own work, b u t they are indica­
tive of his influence on twentieth-century lit­
erature. Letters to T. S. Holmes in the years 
before World W ar I record Pound’s criticism of 
U.S. and British monetary systems. Included 
are letters written while Pound was in St. Eliza­
beth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Of interest 
are letters to poets William Carlos Williams 
and Richard Johns, and Pound’s correspondence 
with th e poet Centrobus in 1909.

•  Nearly two years have been spent read­
ing, sorting, and labeling the 296,352 items 
which comprise the official records of Senator 
Thruston B. Morton now housed in the Special 
Collections Department of the University of
Kentucky, Margaret I. King Library. The sev­
enty-seven crates of material began to arrive 
on the UK-Lexington campus following the No­
vember 1968 election, with th e bulk of the
items received in April 1969. The collection
contains the records and other materials ac­
cumulated by the Kentucky senator while serv­
ing in the U.S. Senate (1956-68) and the

files representing his term as chairman of the 
National Republican Committee (1959-61).

A W A R D S /G IF T S

•  J. Periam Danton, professor of librarian- 
ship at the University of California, Berkeley, 
has been awarded a Guggenheim F oundation 
F ellowship for study abroad during th e 1971- 
72 academic year. Professor D anton will be 
gathering material for a comprehensive treatise 
on comparative librarianship, one of his long­
time research interests. His itinerary includes 
such academic centers as Berlin, Cologne, Lon­
don, Munich, and Prague. Professor Danton 
describes his undertaking as “primarily an in­
formation gathering and ‘thinking’ project, 
which involves—in advance of the actual w rit­
ing—the acquisition of as much information 
from as many different sources as possible; the 
adoption, adaptation, a n d /o r reconciliation of 
ideas, concepts, and conclusions; and the 
creation of a logical and defensible statement 
for comparative librarianship.”

•  The University of California Library 
Schools Alumni Association has presented a 
substantial sum, to be augmented in the future, 
to the regents of the University of California 
for th e purpose of establishing the Lawrence 
Clark Powell Scholarship F und. Income 
from the gift will be used for the scholarship, 
to be awarded annually to a student in the 
UCLA School of Library Service. The Powell 
Scholarship parallels a similar one, also pre­
sented by the Alumni Association, in honor of 
the founding dean of th e School of Librarian- 
ship on th e Berkeley campus, Sydney B. Mitch­
ell, who was Powell’s mentor and close friend.

•  The University of Chicago Library has 
been awarded a grant of $400,000 from the 
Council on Library Resources, Inc., with a 
matching grant from the National Endowment 
for the Humanities, in partial support of a five- 
year program for th e continuing investigation 
and development of computerized library data 
systems. These grants, totaling $800,000, pro­
vide funds for the five-year program’s major 
objective—the development of an efficient com­
puterized system to handle large bibliographic 
data files. The five-year program calls for de­
veloping such a system and applying it to 
various library services. One application—the 
control of book circulation—is directly sup­
ported by the grants.

Among the remaining and unfunded tasks 
of the basic five-year program are (1 ) the de­
velopment of a system for the control of serial 
publications; (2 ) establishment of a system 
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various library operations; and (3 ) the exten­
sion of system capabilities to use externally- 
generated data bases such as the National Li­
brary of Medicine MEDLARS, the Chemical 
Abstract Service, and other discipline-based 
information stores.

M E E T IN G S

July 11-13: The School of Library and In­
formation Services, University of Maryland, is 
planning the fifth annual Library Administra­
tors Development Program to  be held July 11- 
23. Those interested in further information are 
invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. 
Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­
ministrators Development Program, School of 
Library and Information Services, University 
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. 
The January News contains complete details.

July 11-14: The Section of Librarians of 
the American Association of Colleges of Phar­
macy will hold its meeting-workshop July 11- 
14, 1971, at the University of Nebraska, Lin­
coln. Entertainment, meals, and other events 
will be shared with the Teachers Seminar on 
Pharmacology and Toxicology, meeting at the 
same time. For further information or regis­
tration forms contact Mrs. Elizabeth C. Jack- 
son, Program Chairman, Mercer School of Phar­
macy, 223 Walton Street, N.W., Atlanta, Geor­
gia 30303. More details are Included in the 
June CRL News.

July 11-Aug. 13: The University of Den­
ver, Department of History and the Graduate 
School of Librarianship, in cooperation with the 
State Archives of Colorado, will conduct its 
Tenth Annual Institute for Archival Studies 
and Related Fields. For complete details see 
May CRL News.

July 20-23: The third Cranfield Internation­
al Conference on Mechanised Information 
Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held 
July 20-23 in Bedford, England.

See the December News, Meetings section, 
for complete details on the topics to be covered 
and general theme outline.

Enquiries or offers to present papers should 
be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril 
Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, 
Cranfield, Bedford, England.

Aug. 2-4: August 2 -4, 1971 the University 
of Chicago Graduate Library School will hold 
its 35th annual conference a t the Center for 
Continuing Education, 1307 East 60th Street, 
Chicago, Illinois. The topic will be “Opera­
tions Research: Implications for Libraries.”

The conference is expected to be of particu­
lar interest to those concerned with the 
planning of library services, problems of op­
erational decisions in library management, and 
library education. For further information, con­
tact the Graduate Library School, University

of Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, Il­
linois 60637.

Aug. 2-27: The Georgia Department of Ar­
chives and History will host its Fifth Annual 
Archives Institute August 2-27. To apply, write 
Miss Carroll Hart, Director, Georgia D epart­
ment of Archives and History, 330 Capitol 
Ave. S.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30334. For further 
details see May CRL News.

Aug. 20-21: University of California Exten­
sion, Santa Cruz, and the San Francisco Chap­
ter, American Society for Information Science: 
Workshop on Mechanization of Library Tech­
nical Processes. For information contact Don­
ald Hummel, University of California Exten­
sion, Santa Cruz, California 95060 (Tel.: (408) 
429-2761).

Aug. 27-28: University of California Exten­
sion, Santa Cruz, and th e San Francisco Chap­
ter, American Society for Information Science: 
Workshop on Cost Analysis of Library Opera­
tions. For information contact Donald Hummel, 
University of California, Extension, Santa Cruz, 
California 95060 (Tel.: (408 ) 429-2761;.

Aug. 29-Se p t . 3: The International Confer­
ence on Information Science in Tel Aviv orig­
inally announced for August 23-28, has been 
changed to the week following the IFIP Con­
ference in Yugoslavia, from August 29 to Sep­
tember 3. Group flights at reduced rates will 
be available from various points including Yu­
goslavia. Titles and abstracts are due no later 
than January 1971. Registration fee ($50) in­
cludes a ladies’ program and a tour of Jerusa­
lem. For further information contact: The Or­
ganizing Committee, International Conférence 
on Information Science, ISLIC, P.O. Box 16271, 
Tel Aviv, Israel. See also September News, 
page 249.

Sep t. 23-24: The South Dakota Library 
Association will hold its annual convention in 
the State Game Lodge near Custer, South Da­
kota. Further information can be found in the 
June CRL News.

Sept. 30-O ct. 2: The Indiana Library As­
sociation will meet a t Stoufīer’s Inn, Indianapo­
lis, Indiana. Further information can be ob­
tained from Jane G. Flener, President, Indiana 
Library Association, Indiana University Li­
brary, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

Se p t . 30-O ct. 2: The Missouri Library As­
sociation’s 1971 convention will be September 
30-October 1, 2, in St. Louis, Missouri, at 
Stouffer’s Riverfront Inn.

Oct. 7-9: The South Carolina Library As­
sociation will hold its 1971 convention in Co­
lumbia, October 7-9, at the Sheraton-Columbia 
Inn.

Oct. 22-23: The fourth annual institute pre­
sented by LIPC (Library Institutes Planning 
Committee) and cosponsored by the Tech­



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nical Services Division and the College, Uni­
versity, and Research Libraries Division of the 
California Library Association and the North­
ern California Technical Processes Group. It 
will be held Friday and Saturday, October 22 
and 23, 1971, at San Leandro Community Cen­
ter, San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro, 
California. The June issue of the CRL News 
carries further details.

Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library As­
sociation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo 
on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. 
Headquarters will be the Town House Motel.

Oct. 24-27: The Division of University Ex­
tension and the Graduate School of Library 
Science of the University of Illinois has an­
nounced the Seventeenth Annual Allerton In­
stitute: Libraries and Neighborhood Informa­
tion Centers, to be held October 24-27, 1971, 
at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois. Partici­
pation is open, but is limited to ninety regis­
trants. Registrations will be accepted on a first- 
come, first-served basis.

The program includes: (1 ) Reports of li­
brary-based information centers such as Proj­
ect Aurora, in Elyria, Ohio, and Model Cities 
Community Information Center, Philadelphia, 
Pa.; (2 ) interdisciplinary projects in such areas 
as health care, trade unions, and legal aid; 
(3 ) multimedia information—radio; and (4)

lectures, panel discussions, and problem-solv­
ing sessions. For further information write to 
Graduate School of Library Science, Division of 
Extension, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, Illinois 
61820.

Oct. 28-30: The Georgia Library Associa­
tion will meet at The Aquarama, Jekyll Is­
land, Georgia. Further information can be ob­
tained from David E. Estes, President, Georgia 
Library Association, Robert W. Woodruff Li­
brary, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 
30322.

M IS C E L L A N Y

•  The Archives of American Art, former­
ly located in Detroit, has completed its first 
year in Washington, D.C., as part of The 
Smithsonian Institution. Situated in the build­
ing housing the National Portrait Gallery and 
the National Collection of Fine Arts since 
May 1970, the Washington office now serves 
as the chief center for archives processing and 
microfilming, as well as a research center. 
Field offices in New York, Detroit, and the re­
cently opened Boston office will continue to ac­
quire material for the documentation of the 
history of art in America, and serve as loca­
tions for the use of microfilm.

Although the archives holds material from the 
late eighteenth century, it is understandably 
strongest in papers of American artists of the 
late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The 
papers of Rockwell Kent, painter, illustrator, 
writer, and political activist, have been recently 
acquired by the archives, and comprise a col­
lection of special significance for art and social 
historians. Kent’s correspondents, writing from 
1903 well into the 1960s, include a formidable 
number of artists: Philip Evergood, Stuart Da­
vis, Arthur B. Davies, Marsden Hartley, Ken­
neth Hayes Miller, Alfred Stieglitz, and nu­
merous others, as well as union organizers, 
writers, explorers, and political figures. Kent’s 
papers relate to a continuing archives project, 
the documentation of New Deal art activity. 
As one part of this project, the personal papers 
of Edward Rowan and Edward Bruce, both 
administrators of the Public Buildings Adminis­
tration Section of Fine Arts from 1934-1943, 
have been supplemented by the correspon­
dence, diaries, transcripts, and reminiscences 
of artists involved in federal art projects: Ver­
non Smith, Elizabeth Nottingham Day, Adele 
Clark, Robert Bruce Inverarity, Cesare Stea, 
and George Constant among them.

Records of a half dozen galleries specializing 
in modern American painting and sculpture 
have been filmed or received by the archives 
within the past eighteen months, among them 
those of the Ruth White Gallery, New York. 
Typical of the variety in such a collection, the 
Ruth White records comprise correspondence 
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gallery activity from 1956, consignment and 
sale records, photographs of artists associated 
with th e  gallery and their work, and exhibi­
tion catalogs. Institutional records include pa­
pers of the Society of American Graphic Ar­
tists, American Abstract Artists, the Federation 
of Modern Painters and Sculptors, th e  Society 
of Arts and Crafts, Boston, and the Skowhegan 
School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, 
Maine.

P U B L IC A T IO N S

•  The U.S. National Section of the Pan 
American Institute of Geography and History 
has issued the fourth in a series of special p ub­
lications on Latin American geography and 
history. The publication, Manaus, Amazonas— 
A Focal Point for Development in Amazonia, 
was written by Jerry R. Williams of Chico State 
College. The article traces the process of 
change th a t has occurred in Western Ama­
zonia through a case study of the transforma­
tion of Manaus and its role in Amazonia. The 
author surveys the effects th a t industrialization, 
a rapid increase in urban population, and the 
creation of a Zona Franca has had in trans­
forming the traditional function of Manaus as 
an extrepôt to that of a modem metropolitan 
center resting on a developing industrial base. 
The article consists of thirty-eight pages, in­
cluding maps, tables, graphs, and bibliography; 
measures 8½ by 11 inches; and costs $2.00.

Individuals interested in receiving this p u b ­
lication should make their check or money or­
der payable to Dr. Arthur L. Burt, Chairman, 
U.S. National Section, PAIGH, Department of 
State (Room 8847), Washington, D.C. 20520.

•  During 1971 about 4,000 rolls of the 
microfilm publications produced by th e Na­
tional Archives and Records Service (General 
Services Administration) are being sent to each 
of eleven archives branches located in the 
Federal Records Centers in Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, 
Fort Worth, Denver, Los Angeles, San Fran­
cisco, and Seattle. I t is anticipated th a t over 
the next several years most of the 94,000 rolls 
of master negative film now available at the 
National Archives in Washington will be du­
plicated and deposited in each archives branch. 
The film will not only be available for use 
there, bu t will also be sent to most research 
libraries through normal interlibrary loan pro­
cedures. This use of microfilm duplication is 
thus making a major historical research source 
much more convenient to use at a reduced cost 
to the researcher.

Information on w hat records are now avail­
able and how to obtain them is available by 
writing or calling the nearest archives branch 
as fisted below.

Regional Archives Branch, Region 1 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
380 Trapelo Road 
Waltham, Massachusetts 12154 
Tele: 617-223-2657
Regional Archives Branch, Region 2 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
641 Washington Street 
New York, New York 10014 
Tele: 212-620-5755
Regional Archives Branch, Region 2 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
5000 Wissahickon Avenue 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144 
Tele: 215-GE 8-5588
Regional Archives Branch, Region 4 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
1557 St. Joseph Avenue 
East Point, Georgia 30044 
Tele: 404-526-7477
Regional Archives Branch, Region 5 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
7201 S. Leamington Avenue 
Chicago, Illinois 60638 
Tele: 312-353-5720 or 1123

Regional Archives Branch, Region 6 
Federal Records Center, GSA 
2306 E. Bannister Road 
Kansas City, Missouri 64131 
Tele: 816-361-7271

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Federal Records Center, GSA 
4900 Hemphill Street 
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Fort Worth, Texas 76115 
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•  Number 99 in the University of Illinois 
Graduate School of Library Science’s Occasion­
al Paper series, The North Carolina Union Cata­
log: An Examination and Evaluation, written 
by Eugene Trahin Neely, has recently been pub­
lished. The forty-two-page pamphlet contains in­
formation and statistics gathered up to August 
1968 about the single most important biblio­
graphical guide to the library resources of 
the state of North Carolina. In both purpose 
and scope, as well as in use, the North Caro­
lina Union Catalog is perhaps unique among 
union catalogs. It is impressive in size, in the 
type and number of libraries it attempts to 
represent, and in its inclusion of all subject 
areas. Its uses are many and varied, in terms 
both of the geographical distribution and the 
types of libraries served. Neely gives a brief his­
tory of the “Union Catalog” as well as a 
physical description of the “Union Catalog” and 
its uses. He examines the extent of the cata­
log’s coverage and its weaknesses, and offers 
proposals for improvement.

Occasional Papers are issued irregularly but 
not more often than monthly, and are free un­
less a price is given. Priced numbers are p ub­
lished once or twice yearly; Occasional Paper 
no. 99, however, is a free number. All orders 
or requests for standing orders for the Oc­
casional Paper series should be sent to Oc­
casional Papers, Publications Office—215 Ar­
mory Bldg., University of Illinois Graduate 
School of Library Science, Champaign, Illinois 
61820.

•  The Ford Foundation has begun sponsor­
ship of a new publication, Select. Based on 
CHOICE, it will consist of long review articles 
about a specific area of Philippine academic 
study covering material which has appeared 
within the last twenty years and is still of cur­
rent interest. The remainder of the magazine 
will consist of annotated bibliographies of se­
lected materials suitable for undergraduate 
teaching or for inclusion in a general pro­
vincial liberal arts library. The annual price 
will be P 50 per year, and it can be ordered 
by contacting Select, Xavier University Li­
brary, Cagayan de Oro City, L-305, Philippines.

•  Science and Technology: A Purchase 
Guide for Branch and Public Libraries contains 
468 titles which have been selected for the 
student and nonspecialist adult from books re­
ceived in the Science and Technology D epart­
ment of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 
during the year 1970. The entries carry the 
name of the first author only, title and biblio­
graphic information, and include the paging and 
price when readily available. To facilitate or­
dering catalog cards the Library of Congress 
number is given. Copies may be obtained from 
the Director’s Office, Carnegie Library of Pitts­
burgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penn­
sylvania 15213. Payment of $3.00 must ac­
company order. Prices include all costs and 
handling.

•  A Union List of Serials containing the 
holdings of three special and nineteen aca­
demic libraries in South Central New York 
State has been issued by the South Central 
Research Library Council. The list, contain­
ing 12,895 unique titles and 14,556 records, is 
computer-produced for the Council by the Bio­
medical Communications Network Computer 
Center. There are 1,751 cross-references.

Serials holdings for Corning Glass Works, 
Corning Museum of Glass, IBM Electronic 
Systems Center, the New York State Univer­
sities at Alfred, Binghamton, Cortland, Delhi, 
and Oneonta, the College of Ceramics a t Al­
fred, Alfred University, Auburn Community 
College, Broome Technical Community College, 
College Center of the Finger Lakes, Cornell 
Veterinary Library, Corning Community Col­
lege, Eisenhower College, Elmira College, 
Hartwick College, Ithaca College, Keuka Col­
lege, Tompkins-Cortland Community College, 
and Wells College are given. Later editions 
will be expanded to include holdings for ad­
ditional institutions such as New York State 
Historical Association, Houghton College, Cor­
nell University, and Westinghouse Corpora­
tion.

Copies of this reference tool may be pur­
chased from the South Central Research Li­
brary Council, 331 Sheldon Court, College 
Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850 for $15.00 
each. ■ ■