ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 74 News from the Field A CQ U ISITIO N S • A new archive in music is now available at the Library o f the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , R i v e r s i d e . The Oswald Jonas Memorial Collec­ tion holds the musicological manuscripts, letters, biographical materials, and notebooks of Heinrich Schenker and also the papers of the late Oswald Jonas, musicologist and leading authority on the life and work o f Schenker. T he archive includes Schenker s voluminous diary o f approximately 4 ,0 0 0 pages; his co rre­ spondence with Anthony van Hoboken, Reinhard Oppel, Moriz Violin, Eugen d’Albert, and Os­ wald Jonas; the proofs and manuscripts of his published works; printed editions from his library with notes, marginalia, and critical annotations; Urlinie tables; and miscellanea. The Oswald Jo nas Memorial Collection com­ plements the library’s holdings of first and early editions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music. • The History of Science Collections in the U n i v e r s i t y o f O k l a h o m a L ib raries now hold more than 4 6 ,0 0 0 volumes. T he collections in­ clude the first printed editions of most major sci­ entific works, all the editions of some works; sev­ eral thousand volumes of early scientific journals; biographies of scientists; histories of science and of the sciences; encyclopedias and dictionaries; and, in g e n e r a l, all th e sch olarly reso u rces needed for the study of the history of science. Among the early scientific journals that have been acquired for the collection are the J o u r n a l d es Şcavan s (both Paris and Amsterdam editions), the A cta eru d icoru m , the H istoire et m ém oires of th e F re n c h Academ y o f S c ie n c e s , and th e P hilosop h ical Transactions. Library Track Team Library staff members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have organized a track team. The team consists of 5,000- and 10,000-meter distance runners. Two have re­ cently completed marathons. The first team effort o f th e staff runners was in the All- Comer Cross Country Meet sponsored by the University of Illinois Athletic Association on September 30, 1978. The University of Illinois group wants to know w hether any other academic libraries have track teams. Any library team that would like to compete informally with the Illinois runners please contact: Fred Mansfield, Track Manager, The Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. The C a talog u e o f th e H istory o f Scien ce C o llec­ tio n s U n iversity o f O k la h o m a L ib r a r i e s , pub­ lished in 1976 by Mansell, describes some 40,000 p rin ted volum es and 1 0 ,0 0 0 volum es in m i­ croprint. It is the most extensive bibliography ever published in the history of science. • The national archives of the United M eth­ odist Church will be transferred to D r e w U n i ­ v e r s i t y . Plans for the transfer have b e en ap­ proved by the Church’s Council on Finance and Administration. The transfer to Drew is expected to take place in 1981, following completion of a new $8 million university library and refurbishing of the present library structure to house the ar­ chives. • A collection of rare atlases and maps has b e en b e q u eath ed to th e Fenw ick L ib rary , G e o r g e M a s o n U n i v e r s i t y , by C . H arrison Mann, Jr. An additional collection of rare books and Civil War era newspapers has been donated by his widow. T he first collection consists o f eighteen rare editions of atlases and seventy-six rare maps of early Virginia and Maryland and several foreign regions of the world. There are also maps show­ ing the eastern area of Virginia; a map of 1585 depicting the harbor of Cadiz, Spain; a Hondius edition of the John Smith map of Virginia, pub­ lished in 1620, show ing many o f the Indian place-names; a hand-drawn map on parchment of the Gulf of Darian; and a map of a Scottish col­ ony betw een Columbia and Panama drawn in 1698 by a seaman. There is also a Ganson edition of Atlas Antiquus (c.1700). GRANTS • An Urban Archives Project grant of. $45,825 from the National Historic Publications and Rec­ ords Commission, a division of the National Ar­ chives, will permit the University Libraries at California State University, Northridge, to estab­ lish an U r b a n A r c h i v e s C e n t e r . U nd er the terms of the planning grant, the project staff will begin to survey historical materials pertaining to Los Angeles. • T h e N ational E nd ow m en t for the Humanities has funded for one year a p r e s e r v a ­ t i o n p r o j e c t that the Yale University Library will initiate in July 1979. The purpose of the project will be to investigate the extent to which library and archival materials in the Yale collection have deteriorated and to develop remedial and preven­ tive measures to cope with the problem. Yale will employ interns to assist in the project. • The Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (C L E N E ) has be en awarded a planning grant by the National Endowment for 75 the Humanities to develop a h o m e s t u d y c o u r s e o n p r o g r a m d e v e l o p m e n t in the humanities. • Carnegie-Mellon University has received a $ 2 1 0 ,0 0 0 grant from the Andrew W. M ellon Foundation to study the a p p l i c a t i o n o f c o m ­ p u t e r s a n d o t h e r t e c h n o l o g y t o l i b r a r y m a n ­ a g e m e n t . The purpose of the study will be to determine the feasibility of adapting for smaller libraries the technology currently used in large libraries. • Academic libraries have been among the beneficiaries of the N a t i o n a l E n d o w m e n t f o r t h e H u m a n i t i e s ( N E H ) C h a l l e n g e G r a n t P r o ­ g r a m . Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has received a challenge grant to restore the John Dewey Papers and begin a comprehensive con­ servation program for the library. The University Library of the University of C aliforn ia at Los Angeles (U CLA ) has be en awarded $ 1 4 5 ,0 0 0 as part of a larger grant awarded to UCLA by NEH. At Harvard University, the Harvard-Yenching Library of the College Library, the Francis Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design, and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America will benefit from a grant of $1,025,000 received by the university. The purpose of the NEH Challenge Grant Pro­ gram is to build a private base of support for the humanities. Under the terms of the grant, reci­ pient institutions must raise three dollars from private donations for every dollar provided by NEH. • G ran t awards from the D ep artm en t of Health, Education, and Welfare under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act have strengthened the resources of academic and research libraries in a variety of areas. North Carolina State University, Duke Univer­ sity, and the U niversity of North Carolina at C hapel H ill have be en awarded a grant of $250,000 for the purpose of s t r e n g t h e n i n g r e ­ s e a r c h c o l l e c t i o n s through cooperative collec­ tion development. T h e Boston P u b lic L ib rary has receiv ed $238,000 to begin the e d i t i n g , p u b l i c a t i o n , a n d DISTRIBUTION OF ITS RESEA R CH LIBRARY CATALOG. A grant of $200,000 to the Missouri Botanical Garden and the New York Botanical Garden will permit the libraries of these two institutions to complete c o n v e r s i o n t o t h e L i b r a r y o f C o n ­ g r e s s c l a s s i f i c a t i o n s y s t e m by sharing data. MEETINGS M a r c h 26-28: The theme of the 1 4 t h A n n u a l C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e L e a r n i n g R e s o u r c e s C o n ­ f e r e n c e will be “ R ea litie s for L earnin g R e ­ sources: Societal, Economic, Political.” Sponsored by the North Carolina Learning Re­ sources Association, the conference will be held at the Sheraton C en ter-Inn , Charlotte, North Carolina. The program will focus both on the political and social realities that affect learning re­ sources personnel and on ways to improve the ef­ fectiveness and efficiency of learning resources operations. Preregistration rates: $15 for entire conference; $7.50 for one day. Registration rates: $20 for con­ ference; $10 for one day. For more information, contact: Ernie Tompkins, 203 Groveland Ave., Raleigh, NC 27607; (919) 737-^3396 or (919) 8 3 4 - 4684. M a r c h 29 -3 1 : The A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s S e c ­ t i o n o f t h e K e n t u c k y L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its spring preconference and conference at the Hyatt Regency, Lexington, Kentucky. The preconference seminar on March 29, enti­ tled “The Evaluation and Measurement of L i­ brary Services: Past, Present, and Future,” will be conducted by F . Wilfred Lancaster. The theme of the conference on March 30 and 31 is “Academic Libraries in Transition: Crisis or Opportunity?” Charles Stevens, executive direc­ tor of SO LIN ET, will be the featured speaker. Papers fifteen to twenty minutes in length are in­ vited. For more information, contact: Dr. David C. Genaway, Associate Dean of L ib ra ries, John Grant Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky Univer­ sity, Richmond, KY 40475. M a r c h 31: The S c h o o l o f L i b r a r y S e r v i c e A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n , C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y , will hold its annual Alumni-Student Day. The topic is “Libraries in the Coming Decade— Issues in the Eighties.” The keynote speaker is John Berry, editor-in-chief of L ib ra ry Jou rn al. Change at C&RL News We record with thanks the two years of service to ACRL that John Crowley, Ellen Huyler, and Bill Weiss have given through their editorship of C & RL News. With this issue, preparation of C & RL News will reside in the ACRL office in Chicago, and Jeffrey T. Schwedes, program assistant, has been named news editor. Schwedes is a graduate of Princeton Uni­ versity and received his master s and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Minnesota. He is currently completing his studies in the Graduate Library School, Uni­ versity of Chicago, and has been in his pre­ sent post at ACRL since November 1978. Please address all communications and re­ leases intended for C & RL News to his atten­ tion at ACRL headquarters, American Library Association, 50 E . Huron S t., Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 944-6780; after 4:30 p.m central time (312) 944-6787.— R.D .J. 76 Following luncheon and Berry s talk, there will be discussion groups on the major issues con­ fronting librarians in the next ten years. School librarians will focus on school/public library coop­ eration, special librarians on survival in a declin­ ing economy, public librarians on public libraries and Proposition 13, academic librarians on the problems of changing curricula and declining en­ rollments, and technical services librarians on AACR II. The day’s activities, taking place on the Columbia University campus, will end with a reception. For further information and registration forms contact: Dean Carol Learmont, School of Library Service, 516 Butler Library, Columbia Univer­ sity, New York, NY 10027; (212) 280-2293. A p r i l 4 -6 : The I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o n t h e H i s t o r y a n d C o l l e c t i o n s in N a t u r a l H i s ­ t o r y w ill b e held in London at the B ritish Museum (Natural History). Sponsored by the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, the Biology Curators Group, and Geological Curators Group, the conference will consist of four sessions o f papers. The topics will be: the history of museums; zoos and botani­ cal gardens, lives and activities of specimen col­ lectors; studies of natural history libraries and col­ lections; and the growth of museums and studies on the collections resulting from expeditions and explorations. T he fe e for the co n feren ce is £ 1 2 (£10 for members of the sponsoring organizations). For further information, contact: Mrs. J. A. Diment, Paleontology Library, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Rd., London, SW 7 5BD . A p r i l 19-20: The A r c h i v e s - L i b r a r i e s C o m m i t ­ t e e ( 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 hold its spring meeting at Northwestern University. Con­ ta ct: D a n ie l B ritz , A frican S tu d ie s L ib ra ry , Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201; (312) 492-7684. M a y 12-15: The C a n a d ia n A s s o c i a t i o n f o r I n ­ f o r m a t i o n S c i e n c e (CAIS) will hold its seventh annual conference at the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta. The theme of the conference is “Sharing Re­ sources, Sharing Costs.’’ Information specialists (computer scientists, librarians, documentalists, etc.) will gather to share experiences and present ideas on dealing with budget restraints and ex­ panding needs. The American Society for Information Science (A SIS) C o n fe re n c e , sp on sored by W E SC A N ASIS, will be held in Banff immediately following the CAIS conference. For further information, please contact: Ronald F. Peters, Publicity and Publications Chairman, c/o Environm ental Design Unit, University of Calgary L ibrary, Calgary, A lberta, T2N 1N4; (403) 284-6828. J u n e 11-15: The A m e r i c a n T h e o l o g i c a l L i ­ b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its thirty-third an­ nual conference at Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Information on arrangements may be secured from Dr. Norris Magnuson, Librarian, B eth el Theological Seminary, 3949 Bethel D r., St. Paul, MN 55112. Program information may be secured from Dr. G. Paul Hamm, Librarian, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Strawberry Point, Mill Val­ ley, CA 94941. J u n e 14-20: The T h i r t y -f o u r t h A n n u a l C o n ­ f e r e n c e o f t h e C a n a d ia n L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will be held in Ottawa. The theme of the confer­ ence is “The Librarian/Publisher Interface: T o­ wards a B e tte r U nd erstan ding.” At the three plenary sessions speakers will relate this theme to issues affecting librarians employed in various types o f libraries— public, school, government, college, university, industry, and special. Arrangements are being made for visits to vari­ ous federal government and special libraries in the nation’s capital before the conference open­ ing. Delegates will have an opportunity to indi­ cate which libraries they wish to visit during the advance registration period. During the confer­ ence there will also be an opportunity for dele­ gates to attend a workshop at Statistics Canada and to visit the National Library. For further information, contact: The Canadian Library Association, 151 Sparks St., Ottawa, On­ tario, K IP 5E 3; (613) 232-9625. N ow for the first time, you can search the journal literature of all the major arts and humanities disciplines with one, easy-to-use reference tool: ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX Multidisciplinary The new Arts & H um anities C itation Index covers over 1,000 o f th e w o rld 's im p o rta n t jo u rn a ls in literature, history, languages, religion, philosophy, dram a/theater, art, m usic and o th e r related fields. Each jo u rn a l is indexed fro m cover to cover, so th a t you can locate in th e A&H C I™ items like fiction, poetry, c o rre sp o nd e n ce and book reviews as well as articles. Current T h e /Arts & H um anities C itation Index cuts to a m in im u m the lag tim e between an item 's p u b lic a tio n and its coverage by an indexing service. You can locate new articles w ith in a few m onths o f their appearance in the literature. Easy to Use W ith th e A&HCI, you get in-depth indexing w ith o u t the co m p lica tio n s of special vocabularies o r classification schemes. Instead yo u 'll search the journal literature th ro u g h an a u th o r index, an enriched title -w o rd index and — fo r the first tim e in th e arts and h u m a n itie s — a cita tio n index. The cita tio n index lets you start a search w ith an earlier w o rk central to yo u r to p ic and fin d new er item s that have cited (or referenced) it and are thus likely to be on the same subject. W hen a w o rk o f art (a painting, m usical com position, film , etc.) is the basic su b je ct o f an article it too appears as an indexing term in the A&H C I's C itation Index. Find O ut M ore The various indexing te chniques offered by the A rts & H um anities C itation Index make it an extrem ely versatile tool. W hether you kn o w a lot o r a little a b out a s u b je c t... an im p o rta n t a u th o r w ho has w ritte n on it o r a few w ords likely to appear in a relevant title ... you can use the A rts & H um anities C itation Index to fin d the in fo rm a tio n you want. To learn m ore a b o u t it send in the coupon below. Please send me more inform ation on your new A rts & H um anities Citation In d e x ™ 78 Continuing Education Opportunities The following continuing education activi­ the Library in an Electronic ties have been listed with ACRL’s Continuing Society Education Clearinghouse. I f your organization DATE: April 2 2 -2 5 is sponsoring an activity that you think may LOCATION: Urbana, Illinois be o f interest to ACRL members, please send SPONSOR: University of Illinois Graduate the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50 School o f L ib rary S c ie n c e E . Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. and the Office of Continuing Education and P ublic S e r ­ M a r c h vice, Conferences and Insti­ tutes T IT L E : Proposed National Periodicals COST: $115 C enter CONTACT: Edward K alb, C lin ic Su p er­ DATE: March 28 visor 03-650, 116 Illini Hall, LOCATION: Kansas City, Missouri 725 S. Wright, Champaign, SPONSOR: University of Missouri-Kansas IL 61820 City Libraries COST: No Cost T IT L E : U ses and A p p lication s o f CONTACT: Philip Tompkins, Conference Statistics for Librarians and C h airm an , U n iv ersity o f Library Administrators M iss o u ri-K a n s a s C ity L i­ DATE: April 2 3 -2 5 braries, 5100 Rockhill Rd., LOCATION: Davis, California K ansas C ity , MO 6 4 1 1 0 ; SPONSOR: University of California, Davis. (816) 276-1531 COST: $100 A p r i l CONTACT: University Extension, Univer­ sity o f California, Davis, CA T IT L E : The Information Industry and 95616; (916) 752-0880 the Library— Competition or Cooperation? T IT L E : BRS; Files: M ED LA RS, D IS ­ DATE: April 16 SERTATION ABS, E R IC LOCATION: New York City DATE: April 2 3 -2 6 SPONSOR: Library Association o f the City LOCATION: Pittsburgh University of New York in SPONSOR: University o f Pittsburgh On- a ffiliation w ith New York Line Training Center L ib ra ry A ssociatio n and COST: $150 Sp ecial L ib ra rie s A ssocia­ CONTACT: D r. Elizabeth E . Duncan or tion, New York Chapter Professor Allen K ent, On- COST: $ 2 0 for m em b e rs; $22 for Line Training Center, Room nonmembers 8 0 7 , L .I .S . Building, Uni­ CONTACT: Colette Wagner, LACUNY In­ v e rs ity o f P ittsb u rg h , stitute Publicity, LaGuardia Pittsburgh, PA 15260; (412) C om m u n ity C o lle g e L i­ 6 24-5218 brary, 3 1 -1 0 Thomson Av­ enue, Long Island City, NY T IT L E : Time Management11101; (212) 626-5518 DATE: April 28 LOCATION: New York City T IT L E : Effective Communication SPONSOR: Columbia University School of DATE: April 21 Library Service LOCATION: New York City COST: No information SPONSOR: Columbia University School of CONTACT: School of Library Service, 516 Library Service B u tle r L ib ra ry , C olu m bia COST: No information U niversity, New York, NY CONTACT: School o f Library Service, 516 10027; (212) 2 80-2292 B u tle r L ib ra ry , C o lu m bia University, New York, NY M ay 10027; (212) 280-2292 T IT L E : L ib rary O rien tatio n and In ­ T IT L E : Clinic on Library Applications struction Conference of Data Processing: Role of DATE: May 3, 4 79 LOCATION: Ypsilanti, Michigan DATE: May 11 SPONSOR: N ational A cadem ic L ib rary LOCATION: Philadelphia C learin gh ou se at E a ste rn SPONSOR: Benjamin Franklin Colloquium Michigan University’s C en­ on Information Science ter of Educational Resources COST: $50 COST: No information CONTACT: Dr. David Lefkovitz, Moore CONTACT: Carolyn Kirkendall, Director, School o f E le c tric a l E n g i­ P ro je c t L O E X , C e n te r o f n e e rin g , U n iv ersity of E d u catio n al R eso u rces, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, E astern M ichigan U niver­ PA 19104; (215) 243-8958 sity, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 T IT L E : B R S ; F ile s : N T IS , AG­ T IT L E : C o n fe re n ce on R esearch in RICOLA, ABI/INFORM Contemporary Latin Ameri­ DATE: May 21-24 can Law LOCATION: Pittsburgh DATE: May 6-11 SPONSOR: University of Pittsburgh On- LOCATION: Quito, Ecuador Line Training Center SPONSOR: In te rn a tio n a l A ssociation of COST: $150 Law Libraries (IALL) CONTACT: Dr. Elizabeth E . Duncan or COST: $75 Professor Allen Kent, On- CONTACT: IA LL Headquarters, Vander­ Line Training Center, Room bilt Law Library, Nashville, 8 07, L .I .S . Building, Uni­ TN 37203 v ersity of P ittsb u rg h , Pittsburgh, PA 15260; (412) T IT L E : Indexing in Perspective 624-5218 DATE: May 9-11 LOCATION: San Francisco T IT L E : 4th Annual USD Library Man­ SPONSOR: N ational F e d e ra tio n o f Ab­ agement Seminar stracting and Indexing Ser­ DATE: May 2 3-25 vices (NFAIS) LOCATION: Vermillion, South Dakota COST: $195 for nonmembers SPONSOR: U niv ersity o f South Dakota CONTACT: N F A IS , 112 S. 16th S t ., Business School Philadelphia, PA 19102 COST: $175 CONTACT: Dr. C. N. Kaufman, Program T IT L E : In fo rm ation System D esign D ire c to r, School o f B u si­ M ethodology: Colloquium ness, Vermillion, SD 57069; on Information Science (605) 677-5232 MISCELLANY • T h e N e w E n g l a n d L i b r a r y N e t w o r k (N ELIN ET) on Decem ber 29, 1978, became a separate organization. N ELIN ET, Inc., and the New England Board o f H igher E ducation (NEBHE) signed a separation agreement turning over to N E LIN ET the activities of and respon­ sibilities for continuing the library automation network operated and administered by N EBH E since 1964. This agreement is the result of eight months of effort to spin the network off to be­ come an independent, not-for-profit corporation. • The N a t i o n a l C o m m i s s i o n o n L i b r a r y a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S c i e n c e (N C L IS) voted unani­ mously on January 6 not to accept the proffered resignation of its executive director, Alphonse F. Trezza. At an executive session in Washington, D .C ., N CLIS also voted to accept a recommendation by Trezza to seek a full-time director for the White House Conference on Library and Information Services to be held October 28 to November 1, 1979, in Washington, D .C . Trezza has been serv­ ing as both NCLIS executive director and White House conference director since the summer of 1977. • The A l t e r n a t i v e A c q u i s i t i o n s P r o j e c t , di­ rected by Elliot Shore at Temple University, is studying ways to help and encourage libraries to acquire the publications of small and alternative presses. The project staff has sent questionnaires to selected libraries to survey practices employed in acquiring alternative press materials and plans to catalog samples of such materials for distribution to selected libraries. The staff wishes to contact persons who have done research on the alternative press and would like to discuss the issue of alternative press acqui­ sitions with those responsible for library collec­ tion development. Those interested may write to Elliot Shore, Project Director, or to Daniel Tsang, Research All 25 Volumes Are Available For Immediate Delivery HERE IS SUBJECT-AND-AUTHOR ACCESS TO MORE THAN 400,000 ARTICLES IN THE BACKFILES OF 531 JOURNALS IN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY. CRIS — h i s t o r y , 1838-1974, in eleven hardcover volumes. More than 180,000 articles from the backfiles of 234 History journals in the English language have been indexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes. Articles were assigned to one or more of 336 hierarchical subject categories, and then computer sorted by keyword under each category to give in-depth specificity. CRIS — p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e , 1886-1974, in eight hardcover volumes. This set contains 6 cumulative subject volumes and 2 cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Administration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. Articles were assigned to one or more of 95 hierarchical subject categories. CRIS — SOCIOLOGY, 1895-1974, in six hardcover volumes. From the retrospective collections of 118 English Language Sociology journals, some 110,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumulative author volume. Articles were assigned to one or more of 87 hierarchical subject categories. Each Volume Contains an “Introduction & User’s Guide” By Evan Farber AND N O W ... more than 1 million BOOK REVIEWS which appeared in 472 of these same journals have been indexed by author and title in a separate fifteen-volume CRIS Index Set, COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, 1886-1974 Evan Farber, Librarian of Earlham College and author of the standard reference work. Classified List of Periodicals for the College Library, is the chief com piler of this new set. As he points out, "O ur set will complement existing indexes of book reviews because the majority of its entries have never been indexed anywhere but in their own journals. "Book Review Digest, for instance, is retrospective to 1905 but quite weak in its coverage of scholarly journals. “ Meanwhile, the new indexes which recently began to cover large numbers of scholarly journals are not retrospective. "Therefore, this substantial gap in coverage can only be filled by an index which is both retrospective and more thorough in its coverage o f scholarly journals — namely, our Combined Retrospective Index.” USE THE COUPON ON THE RIGHT TO ORDER THIS SET AND THE OTHER CRIS INDEXES SEND FOR FREE BROCHURES LISTING THE JOURNAL COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS CRIS, THE REFERENCE PREFERENCE OF THE RESEARCH MAJORITY, … is now complete and at work in hundreds o f undergraduate libraries in the United States and overseas. By sheer weight of numbers, undergraduates constitute the “ research majority" in academic libraries. By eliminating hundreds of unproductive searches in short-term or single-title indexes, CRIS sets have become the favorite reference tools of those students who want to build bibliographies fast. “extremely popular with both students and faculty members” Typical of comments from library users is this quote from Roy S. Barnard, Serials Librarian, Kearney State College Library, Kearney, Nebraska. In a letter dated January 30,1979, he wrote “ While at JUL (Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tennessee) I became familiar with your CRIS-History and found it very helpful in my work with their History Department. Because it was so convenient and easy-to-use, it was extremely popular with both students and faculty members.” THE GREAT LEAP BACKWARD IN RETROSPECTIVE INDEXING TITLES COVERED IN ALL FOUR CRIS INDEX SETS 82 Librarian, Samuel Paley Library, Temple Univer­ sity Library, Philadelphia, PA 19122. • The Library of Congress and the John F. Kennedy C enter for the Performing Arts will open their jointly sponsored P e r f o r m i n g A r t s L i b r a r y at the Kennedy Center in early 1979. The Library of Congress has appointed Peter J. Fay head librarian. The John F. Kennedy Center has appointed Geraldine M. Otremba to coordi­ nate all activities on behalf of the center for the new library. The Performing Arts Library will serve as a reference center and introduction to the collec­ tions of music, theater, dance, and film materials in the Library of Congress and will provide ser­ vice for the Kennedy Center archival materials. The library’s collection has been designed to serve the general informational needs of audience members, visitors, and Kennedy Center staff; and the library and its staff will seek to provide more specialized bibliographic and research assistance for artists and scholars. Frequent exhibits of per­ forming arts materials will complement the li­ brary’s service. The Performing Arts Library is located on the roof terrace level of the Kennedy Center, sharing the building’s North Gallery with the new Ter­ race Theatre, which opened January 28. Both facilities were designed by Johnson/Burgee. The Kennedy Center, with generous assistance from its corporate fund and a gift from Lew R. Wasserman, former center trustee and president of the Music Corporation of America, is providing the construction and capital costs for the library and its furnishings. Occupying some 4,000 square feet, the library will house a reference collection of approximately 4,000 volumes and 300 periodical titles, a video display computer link-up with the Library of Congress, and equipment for listening to record­ ings on disc and ca ss e tte and for viewing videotaped and filmed materials. A grant from the National Home Library Foundation will be used to supplement the initial collection with important library materials, and a gift from the Recording Industry Association of America will enrich the disc recording collection available at the library. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a is establishing a Distinguished Professorship in the name of Martha Boaz who is retiring as dean of the School of L ibrary S c ie n ce . M ore than $320,000 has already been raised for this en­ dowed professorship. The goal is to surpass $500,000. The endowment will be used by the Library School to bring a different internationally known visiting scholar to the USC campus each year. ■■ M idw est Library S e rv ic e ’s University P ress S electio n Plan O ffers a Big E xtra! It’s a Pre-Publication Catalog This catalog is th e only one of its kind in our industry and by using it a librarian c an MONITOR University P ress Publishing. T h e catalog is pro­ d uced tw ice a y ear in a revised , updated form. It’s still an oth er exam ple of how w e a tte m p t to a n t i c i p a t e a l ib r a r y ’s n e e d s a n d to o f f e r s e r ­ v ices accordingly. 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