ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 324 News From th e Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A portion of the private library of noted Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Allan Nevins has been donated to the California State University, Northridge Libraries. Approximately fourteen linear feet of un­ bound material are included in the collection, which consists of several hundred pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals. Many are annotated by Nevins. The papers, some also with marginalia by colleagues of Nevins, will be available to students, faculty, and other researchers. Nevins began his career as a journalist, join­ ing the New York Evening Post as an editorial writer in 1913. He was literary editor of the New York Sun from 1923 to 1925 and then wrote editorials for the New York World. He was a professor of history at Columbia Univer­ sity for thirty years, where he founded the noted oral history research project. Nevins was a prolific historian and biographer, twice win­ ning the Pulitzer Prize. The first time, in 1933, was for a study of Grover Cleveland; the sec­ ond, in 1937, for a biography of Hamilton Fish. His major historical work was his prize-winning eight-volume history, Ordeal of the Union, which covered the United States from 1850 through the Civil War. G R A N T S • A Council on Library Resources (CLR) grant of $4,300 will provide partial support to Portland State University Director of Li­ braries Frank Rodgers in his preparation of a “Manual of British Government Publications.” Such a manual, patterned in part after Unit­ ed States Government Publications, is not pres­ ently available to the library community or to researchers in the field of British government and related areas. It will be divided into three parts: 1. General, covering the organization of Brit­ ish government, the evolution of Her Maj­ esty’s Stationery Office, types of govern­ ment publications, and a survey of general catalogs and indexes to those publications. 2. Parliamentary publications. 3. Publications of executive agencies, a sur­ vey by agency with the emphasis on cur­ rent material, although significant older publications will be covered. Mr. Rodgers’ long-standing interest in Brit­ ish government publications dates back at least to 1964 when he assisted in the preparation of a thirty-five-page monograph at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science: A Guide to British Parliamentary Papers (by Rose B. Phelps and Frank Rodgers, 1967). In 1971, the American Library Association pub­ lished his Serial Publications in the British Parliamentary Papers, 1900-1968: A Bibli­ ography. Mr. Rodgers will devote a major portion of his 1975-76 sabbatical leave, which will be spent in England, to the manual. Interest in printing the “Manual of British Government Publications” upon its completion, has been ex­ pressed by U.S. publishers. • The Council on Library Resources ( C L R ) has made a $15,000 Officer’s Grant to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in support of a survey of medieval Arabic manuscript collections in the United States. The survey was unanimously recommended by the ACLS Arabic Studies Group as a project of “fundamental importance to the future of Arabic scholarship” in addition to four other re­ lated projects with which ACLS is proceeding. In stressing the need for the survey, ACLS President R. M. Lumiansky observed: “Tradi­ tionally Medieval and Renaissance scholars in our country have been trained with materials originating in the Latin West; they are more or less competent in the Latin and various West­ ern vernacular languages of those periods. Ara­ bic, however, has not been a part of their train­ ing. Yet we all know that learning of all sorts came to the West by means of Latin transla­ tions of Arabic documents; the Western schol­ ars need to study those Arabic documents. We are having some success in establishing recogni­ tion of this need, and the manuscript survey would give full access for the concerned schol­ ars to the resources already available in the United States.” Thomas J. Martin, recent recipient of the Ph.D. in Arabic Studies at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), is carrying out the survey. Mr. Martin is at preserit a research associate at the Department of Near East Languages and Literature, New York University. • Applications are now being accepted for grants–in–aid of research in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, The grants, to be announced in January 1976, will be awarded by the L yndon Baines J ohnson F oundation, which supports special activities of the library and the LBJ School of Public Af­ fairs. Grant applications will be considered by a committee appointed by the president of the University of Texas at Austin. LASER AND ELECTRO-OPTIC REVIEWS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS S cience Research A bstracts Part B: C A M B R ID G E S C IE N T IF IC A B S T R A C T S , IN C . Scien Abstr Laser and Electro Quantum Electro Science Research Abstracts, Part B is a publicati in Lasersand Quantum Electronics. Materials are Solid State, Liquid and Chemical Lasersand Maser Optical Device Applications and Effects; Quantu Sources include thousands of international period dissertations and patents. The abstracts are extensi source. Each volume contains more than 20,000 c GENERAL THEORY OF LASERS & MASERS POWER & INTENSITY MODE CHARACTERISTICS BEAM CHARACTERISTICS PUMPING LASER DESIGN MATERIALS; FABRICATION PROCESS MEASUREMENTS SIGNAL PROCESSING BEAM DEFLECTORS; BEAM SPLITTERS; MIRRORS POLARIZERS; FILTERS PUMPING SYSTEMS ELECTRO-OPTICAL MATERIALS A U X IL IA R Y DEVICES & SYSTEMS c a - ni on pres s; E m El ica vel om RIVERD ALE, M AR YLAN D 20840, U.S.A. e Research ts. Part B: ptic Reviews; voted to complete coverage of the world literature ed under the main headings of Gas, Semiconductor, tro-Optical Theory and Devices; Lasersand Electro- ronics. overnment reports, conference proceedings, books, ross referenced and indexed by subject, author, and tely indexed and classified abstracts. PHYSICS HOLOGRAPHY CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING M ETALLURGY & CRYSTALLOGRAPHY GEOSCIENCE & ASTRONOMY ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS EDUCATION INSTRUMENTATION MEDICINE & BIOLOGY QUANTUM OPTICS ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY SPACE OPTICS HOLOGRAPHY INTEGRATED OPTICS LENS DESIGN THIN FILMS COHERENT OPTICS STATISTICAL OPTICS c O cs de nt ec ct s, g c le 329 Persons interested in applying should writ Mike Naeve, Associate Director, The Lyndo Baines Johnson Foundation, 2313 Red River Austin, TX 78705. • The American Antiquarian Societ will aw ard to qualified scholars a number o short-term, visiting fellowships during th e yea June 1, 1976-May 31, 1977. T he funds fo these grants are derived from the income o the society’s F red Harris Daniels Fund. The deadline for submitting completed applications is March 1, 1976. Competition for the awards is open to per­ sons engaged in scholarly research and writing, including those at work on doctoral disserta­ tions. Fellowships will be awarded not only on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifica­ tions and the general interest of the project, bu t also on the appropriateness of the inquiry to the society’s holdings. Recipients will be expected to be in regular residence at the society’s li­ brary during the period of the grant. The fellowships may vary in duration from one to three months, depending on the fellow’s requirements. Stipends may vary in amount, ac­ cording to a fellow’s needs, to a maximum of $2,500. The society’s staif will attem pt to locate suitable housing in the vicinity of the society for those who request such assistance. F urther information and application forms may be obtained by w riting The Director, American A ntiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609. I t is the applicant’s responsibility to see th at the application form and three letters of reference are subm itted before the deadline. T he announcement of the grants will be made by April 30, 1976. M E E T I N G S November 24-25: The Consortium for L i­ brary Automation in Mississippi (CLAM ) announces its second annual conference. This conference, which will be held at the newly constructed Holiday Inn Downtown in Jackson, Mississippi, will begin w ith registration at 8:30 a.m. on November 24, 1975, and will end at 3:00 p.m. on November 25, 1975. Keynote speakers for this library automation­ networking conference will be Alphonse Trez- za, executive director of the N ational Commis­ sion on Libraries and Information Science; Ron­ ald Miller, director of the New England Li­ brary Information Network; and Barbara Mark- uson, executive director of the Indiana Coop­ erative Library Services Authority. Mr. Trezza will speak on national considerations and im­ plications of network planning at the state lev­ el. Mr. Miller will present a general overview of networking and the implications of library automation-networking activities at national, e n , y f r r f regional, state, and local levels. Ms. Markuson will discuss w hat can and should be done to de­ velop networking capabilities at the state level. In addition to these presentations, the key­ note speakers will be involved in a “rap session” and will be available for informal conversation during the conference. A central p art of the second annual CLAM conference will be net­ working demonstrations, w hich will include OCLC, BALLOTS, and several commercial net­ working concerns. The fee for the second annual CLAM con­ ference is $50.00. This fee will cover registra­ tion, coffee, and three meals. Conference regis­ tration and fees m ay be sent to the following address: Miss Natelle Isley, Manager, Informa­ tion Services Division, Mississippi Research and Development Center, P.O. D raw er 2470, Jack- son, MS 39205. Hotel reservations may be sent to: Jackson Holiday Inn Downtown, P.O. Box 22677, Jackson, MS 39205; Telephone l- ( 601) 969-5100. November 29-30: “Automated Serials Control: National and I nternational Con­ siderations” is the title of a preconference in­ stitute cosponsored by the Information Science and Automation Division of the American Li­ brary Association and the California Library Association. The institute will be held in the San Francisco H ilton Hotel. The program chair­ man is Michael Malinconico of the New York Public Library. The CLA Annual Conference will be held on November 30 to December 5, 1975. The program will be concerned w ith th e rap­ idly changing world of serials and the impact of those changes on the current situation. Both national and international considerations will be described and discussed by well-known ex­ perts in the field. Among other subjects, the Li­ brary of Congress M ARC/S format will be re­ viewed, existing autom ated serials systems will be described, and such controversial move­ ments as the A A C R proposed changes, CONSER, superimposition, and ISBD will re­ ceive their share of attention. Additional sub­ jects will include the role of OCLC, activities in Canada including the National Library of Canada, serials data bases, and NSDP. Registration will be $85.00 for personal members of ALA and CLA, $100.00 for non­ members, and $15.00 for full-time library school students. For hotel reservation informa­ tion and registration blanks, contact D onald P. Hammer, ISAD, American Library Association, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. January 14-16: A U.N. T raining Session for U.N. D ocuments will be held in New York City at U.N. H eadquarters under the aus- 330 pices of the United Nations Institute for Train­ ing and Research and the Dag Hammarskjold Library. For further information contact Mina Pease, Chairperson, IDTF Working Group on Workshops, 551 Warren Blvd., Garden City South, NY 11530. February 16-20: OCLC Workshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li­ brarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bib­ liographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ­ ualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be avail­ able as consultants and lecturers, via the uni­ versity’s telelecture capabilities. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s biblio­ graphic medium); “The OCLC Terminal” (op­ eration, possibilities, limitations, printing at­ tachments); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others). For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. March 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EURIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI Inter­ national Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Nether­ lands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England. April 8-11: An I nternational Confer­ ence on Art Periodicals, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Uni­ versity of Sussex. An exhibition of art period­ icals will be on display at the Victoria and Al­ bert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians. For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England. April 25-28: The thirteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Process­ ing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Illini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Li­ brary Automation.” In an era of double-digit inflation and re­ duced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved ser­ vice? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of spe­ cific library applications. J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Illini Hall, Univer­ sity of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The com­ plete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975. May 9-21: The College of Library and Infor­ mation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual Library Adminis­ trators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school—from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, manage­ ment consultants, and lecturers drawn from uni­ versities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ munication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technol­ ogy, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don­ aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Sus­ quehanna River and offering a variety of rec­ reational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. 331 May 10–11: Symposium on the Book Arts at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherry- burn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (An­ vil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermak­ ing, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design. May 10-28: Typographic W orkshop, a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of Li­ brary Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486. June 21-25: The American Theological Library Association will hold its thirtieth an­ nual conference at the Calvin Theological Sem­ inary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further in­ formation may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, Wil­ frid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5. M I S C E L L A N Y • A large new social science and humanities library under construction at the University of T exas at Austin has been named in mem­ ory of two distinguished black and Mexican- American faculty members of UT Austin. The UT system Board of Regents approved a recommendation that the library be named the Perry-Castaneda Library for the late Dr. Ervin S. Perry, an outstanding young civil engineer, and Dr. Carlos E. Castaneda, a noted professor of Latin American history who helped build UT’s Latin American collection. Dr. Lorene L. Rogers, UT Austin president ad interim, and the UT system administration recommended the library’s name as an expres­ sion of the university’s commitment to educa­ tional opportunities for all Texans. The Perry-Castaneda Library, due for com­ pletion in 1977, is designed to accommodate 3.5 million volumes and provide seating for be­ tween 2,500 to 3,000 students. It will house the major library materials for several of the col­ leges at UT Austin. • The American woman, captured in the camera lens of thirty women photographers from the 1890s to the present, is the focus of an exhibit of over 150 photographs organized 334 from the collections of the Library of Congress and on view in the library beginning October 1. The exhibit, “W omen L ook at W omen,” which will be on display through December 3 l, reflects not only society’s changing perception of women during these years, but provides in­ sight into the craft, showing both rudimentary technique and artistic expression. T he period 1890–1920 is exemplified by the work of Emma Farnsworth and others and by the romantic portraiture of Gertrude Käsebier and Doris Ulmann. Poignant social commen­ taries by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, selected from the library’s files of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, reveal rural life during the Great Depression years of the 1930s. Esther Bubley and Marjory Collins pre­ sent a feminine perspective of the 1940s in pho­ tographs acquired by the library from the U.S. Office of W ar Information, organized to foster public acceptance of the emergency at hand. Much of the photography of the postwar years centered on fashion and society por­ traiture, giving currency to the work of Toni Frissell and Roberta Booth. More recent news coverage by Margaret Thomas and Linda Wheeler of the Washington Post and the in­ tensity of personal expression by experimental photographers such as Diane Arbus and Judy Dater illustrate a medium with diverse possi­ bilities. Selections from other prolific photogra­ phers such as Imogen Cunningham, Laura Gil­ pin, and Frances Benjamin Johnston are also included. “Women Look at Women” can be seen in the library’s ground floor exhibition halls from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday and Sun­ day. Other photographs from the period can be seen in the library’s extensive collections in the Prints and Photographs Division, Annex Build­ ing. Beginning in February, selections from the “Women Look at Women” exhibit will circulate as a traveling exhibit throughout the United States. • The D uplicates E xchange Union, or D EU as it is commonly Called, is a voluntary, nonprofit network of libraries for the exchange of periodicals, books, and documents, or other library material. Begun in 1942, the DEU is sponsored by the Serials Section/Resources and Technical Services Division of the Ameri­ can Library Association. The procedure is quite simple. Each of the D EU ’s members prepares a list of books and periodicals available for ex­ change at least once a year, and sends this list to each of the other members. Other members may request items from the offering library and the items are distributed on a first come, first served basis. Items are shipped at “library rate” 335 and the only cost is postage, which must be re­ funded if the amount exceeds 500. The DEU is open to all types and sizes of libraries; one of its strengths is diversity of membership. Li­ braries interested can receive a descriptive bro­ chure from; Duplicates Exchange Union, Re­ sources and Technical Services Division, Amer­ ican Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, IL 60611. • The American agents for the Voltaibe F oundation have suffered a financial failure. Many North American libraries, as a result, have not received copies of works published as of July 1, 1975. These are the Complete Works of Voltaire, volumes 2, 7, 53-55, 59, 81-82, 85, 125; the Correspondence Complete de Jean Jacques Rousseau, volumes 1-22; and the Stud­ ies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, volumes 30-37, 41-139. (The above volumes only are currently in print.) All university staff concerned with eigh­ teenth-century studies are urged to ask their librarians to confirm in writing to the founda­ tion if their libraries are subscribed to the above important sets. If so, it would be most desirable to find out if the volumes listed have been received and to contact the Voltaire Foun­ dation, Thorpe-Mandeville House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, stating which is the last volume they hold of each series. Should your library not possess some or all volumes of these sets, please request your librarian to subscribe to them as soon as possible. In case of any problems, kindly notify Professor Giles Barber at the foundation. • The Board of Directors of the W omen’s H istory Research Center announces the avail­ ability for purchase of the remainder of its original collections. Interested institutions and individuals may buy; Women’s Studies Depart­ ment (bibliographies and course outlines); po­ etry; recent books; posters; and reference col­ lections on women’s music, art, film; and wom­ en’s serials (duplicates). Due to lack of operating funds, the center has already dispersed its 2,000 Topical Files to the Archive of Contemporary History at the University of Wyoming, its Women’s Serials Collection to Northwestern University at Evanston, and its pamphlet collection to Prince­ ton University, although parts of all of these collections are available on microfilm. For more information contact Women’s History Research Center, Inc., 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 94708; (415) 548-1770. P U B L IC A T IO N S • The Harvard University Archives has pre­ pared a guide to its collections, which has been printed in a limited quantity and is available for purchase. A Descriptive Guide to the Har­ vard University Archives, compiled by Clark A. Elliott, is available from the Harvard Uni­ versity Archives, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. Price: $15.00, soft cov­ er binding. • The papers given at the 1975 IEEE Con­ ference on Scientific Journals at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in April 1975 have been published in a special issue of the IE E E Transactions on Professional Communication in September, as Joint Message to ACRL Newsletter from Japanese Librarians We, the members of the Junior College Library Section of the Japan Library As­ sociation are grateful to ALA for inviting us to the 1975 San Francisco Conference. In 1973, at the Kochi Conference of the Japan Library Association, we invited Dr. Stone from the Los Angeles City Col­ lege as a guest speaker. His talk about functions and professional roles of Amer­ ican college and research libraries in­ spired us very much and as the result, a movement to send a delegation to ALA arose among participants. In the last year, because of Mrs. Giles’ enthusiastic assistance, the Junior College Library Section of the Japan Library Association was able to send its first delegation to the 1974 New York Conference. At present among Japanese librarians, professional status and standards for library educa­ tion are the crucial problems. We per­ ceive them as internationally common problems. Dr. Axford’s speech at the ACRL membership meeting contained vital issues on librarians’ professional identities. This assured us that U.S. and Japanese librarians share common prob­ lems. We feel the need for communica­ tion and cooperation in pursuit of truly professional goals. The Japan Library As­ sociation is willing to take a step toward international cooperation. It is our ear­ nest desire that librarians of different countries will have opportunities to study together and learn from each other. Thank you again for warm hospitality. Signed by Mr. Toshimi Abe, Tokyo Women’s Christian Junior College; Ms. Mariko Urata, Tokyo Women’s Christian Junior College; Ms. Sachiko Shibata, St. Paul Women’s Junior College. (Trans­ lated by Ryoko Toyama, University of Oregon.) 336 vol. PC18, no. 3. The conference record is available to IEEE members at $10.00 and to all others at $15.00. Orders should be sent, with payment, to: Alice LeClair, IEEE Services Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscattaway, NJ 08854. Editor’s note: Additional copies of the 1975 IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals pro­ gram are available for the asking or phoning from Jim Lufkin, G2118 Honeywell Plaza, Min­ neapolis, MN 55408; (612) 870-2705. The thirty-six-page conference program contains ab­ stracts of the forty papers given at the meeting as well as bio-resumes and photos of the speak­ ers. • An easy–to–understand guide to preparing for computer searches of the Educational Re­ sources Information Center (ER IC ) has just been made available from the ERIC Clearing­ house on Information Resources at Stanford University. How to Prepare for a Computer Search of ERIC: A Non-Technical Approach was written by Judith Yarborough, assistant director of the clearinghouse, to explain to educators the pro­ cess of computerized retrieval and the ERIC data base in order to improve the relevance and scope of searches. The paper also is geared for “information brokers”— that is, librarians or school adminis­ trators who channel search requests from edu­ cators to search services. The paper includes sections on: initiating a search—choice of data base, computerized or manual search; search negotiation—type of search, defining the problem, Boolean search strategy, and ERIC indexing; and a glossary and bibliography. How to Prepare for a Computer Search is available at cost for $1.00 from: Box E, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E ” must be included with orders. It also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduc­ tion Service in microfiche and hard copy when its ED number is announced. • Conservation Administration, the proceed­ ings of the Boston Athenaeum/New England Document Conservation Center 1973 Seminar on the theoretical aspects of the conservation of library and archival materials and the estab­ lishment of conservation programs, is available in spiral binding for $12.00 per copy from the New England Document Conservation Center, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. Unbound, unpunched copies of this vol­ ume are available for those who wish to hard- bind this conservation reference volume. A few copies of Library and Archives Conservation, the proceedings of the 1971 conservation sem­ inar, are still available at $10.00 per copy. • Evaluating Microfiche Readers: A Hand­ book for Librarians, by William R. Hawken, has recently been published by the Council on Library Resources. While this publication is in the form of a book which incorporates a set of four microfiche, it is actually a kit by means of which a nontechnically trained person can eval­ uate microfiche readers and reader-printers in­ tended for use in libraries. Copies of the hand­ book are being distributed by the American Li­ brary Association to subscribers to the Library Technology Reports. The handbook is also being distributed free to libraries by the Coun­ cil on Library Resources. Any request for a copy should be written on the library’s letter­ head and addressed to the Council on Library Resources, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. A self-addressed mail­ ing label should be included. Because the sup­ ply of copies is not large, only one copy can be provided to a library. • The National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services has announced the avail­ ability of a chart entitled, On-Line Commands; A Quick Users Guide for Bibliographic Search Systems, This chart was compiled by Barbara Lawrence (Exxon Research and Engineering, Linden, New Jersey) and Barbara G. Prewitt ( Rohm and Haas Company, Spring House, Pennsylvania). On-line commands are provided in a compact, easy-to-read format for using the ORBIT, ELHILL, DIALOG, RECON, and TYMFACT computer searching systems. Copies of the chart on 8½-by–ll-in ch heavy stock are available from NFAIS for $1.00 prepaid. Spe­ cial rates for multiple copies are available. For further information contact NFAIS, 3401 Mar­ ket St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. • Applications of Minicomputers to Library and Related Problems, proceedings of the 1974 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Process­ ing, has been published by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Ur­ bana-Champaign. Library automation is most likely to be eco­ nomically feasible either through the sharing of computer resources by a number of libraries, or by the use of the less expensive minicom­ puters within a single library, according to F. Wilfrid Lancaster, professor of library sci­ ence at UIUC and editor of the proceedings. Speakers at the clinic discussed a wide range of applications of minicomputers to such library problems as circulation control, cataloging, edu­ cation and training, information retrieval, ac­ quisitions, serials control, and other technical problems. Single copies of Applications of Minicom­ puters to Library and Related Problems are available from the Library Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, University of Illinois, 337 Champaign, IL 61820. The price is $6.00 a copy. • The Tarlton Law Library of the Univer­ sity of Texas School of Law announces the pub­ lication of the ninth and tenth in its Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series. No. 9 is entitled English for Lawyers; A Bibliography of Style Manuals and W riting Guides, com­ piled by Adrienne deVergie w ith an introduc­ tion by Harry S. Martin, III. 1975. (5 0 p .) $10.00. Legal writing is both technical and unique. From the vocabulary of pleadings through the format of briefs, to the citation form in law re­ view articles, legal writing follows a variety of rules. Many manuals have been produced with the purpose of helping lawyers write more pro­ fessionally. To many laymen, the results have left something lacking: clear English. While most lawyers are familiar w ith the variety of guides to better legal writing, they are less fa­ miliar w ith the many books on English style, grammar, and usage. This bibliography encom­ passes the entire spectrum of better writing by lawyers and includes such titles as: Effective Revenue Writing; Strunk and W hite, The Ele­ ments of Style; and Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Disserta­ tions. The introduction to the bibliography at­ tempts to pinpoint some of those titles which could be of great utility to the average lawyer but for their unfamiliarity. The tenth publication in the Tarlton Law L i­ brary Legal Bibliography Series is entitled The Grand Jury; A Selected Bibliography w ith Ex­ hibit Notes, compiled by Harry S. Martin, III, Xavier Medina, and Twyla Tranfaglia. 1975. (3 5 p .) $12.00. This extensive bibliography lists most of the publications relating to the grand jury in Amer­ ica that have been published in the last tw en­ ty-five years, together w ith selected references to older, classic works. A unique feature of this publication is the textual m aterial which has developed for a law school exhibit and provides a background to the history and origins of the grand jury, surveys the debate th at has accom­ panied the actions of the grand jury over the years, and presents both sides of the current de­ bate over the value, function, and proper role of the grand jury today. Textual materials were arranged so that they can be divided into sec­ tions and used in a display. Accompanying the textual introduction is a list of sources which because of their colorful format or historical in­ terest should be used as exhibit items in a dis­ play. This publication thus offers law librarians a ready-made educational exhibit on the grand jury, as well as an extensive bibliography for research purposes. ■ ■