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.rS. r *' ,= Y" ~1' "-l:: -- ": ""' ^ . ', '. JI .1 '^ .., .' i ,. . *<._*_*.*** .. ..^ .. v.-r'*-.: *:--^ *-JO ^, ae a Sa ^ e s -. : ... .. "' < 1 "- .-...^ V*! ^ ^ ^ i'I : .. -, _-_ ,- . ,' ,: . : ." i ,' June 2, 1972 EXHIBIT OF 130 CHILDREN'S BOOKS FROM 38 COUNTRIES TO HONOR IBY A collection of 130 children's books from 38 coun- tries will go on exhibit at the Library of Congress on June 2 in honor of International Book Year, desig- nated for 1972 by Unesco. The display, "The Wide World of Children's Books," will be on view in the Library's north and south galleries, First Floor, Main Building, for an indefinite period. The volumes on display, a small portion of the Li- brary's growing collection of foreign children's litera- ture, were selected by Virginia Haviland, Head of the Library's Children's Book Section and President of the 1972 Hans Christian Andersen Jury which annu- ally presents awards for children's book writing and illustration. The books on exhibit were chosen not only for their attractiveness for display, a factor which accounts for the large number of picture books, but also for their intrinsic excellence and for their relative importance as books within a national body of literature. The winning of awards and the inclusion of books on national "best lists" also served as guides to ratings of distinction. The exhibition features contemporary writing and illustration and includes recent editions of folklore and literary classics noted for their continuing impor- tance and new illustration by contemporary artists. All the books, with the exception of three, are shown in their original languages. Among the recent books of realism and fantasy from around the globe are Charles Keeping's Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary (London, 1967), a brilliantly-illustrated book depicting life in the London slums; Odette de Barros Mott's Justino, the Refugee (Sao Paulo, 1970), a work of realistic fiction set in the underdeveloped northeast of Brazil; Nunny Flies (Helskinki, 1969), a fantasy adventure of four imaginary flying creatures as told and illustrated by Oili Tanninen; Colin Thiele's Blue Fin (Adelaide, 1969); illustrated by Roger Haldane, a boy's tale of high adventure at sea; and Otsuka Yiiz6s Sifho and the White Horse (Tokyo, 1968), a legend of a Mongolian shepherd youth. Collections of folk tales from Puerto Rico, Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics, Israel, India, Korea, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Tan- zania are included in the exhibit. Among new editions or adaptions of children's classics shown are Chil- dren's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Munich, 1967), a new German text prepared by Dr. Anneliese Kocialek and embellished by the work of an East German artist; The Silver Skaies (Amsterdam, 1965), an adaptation of Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker; or, The Silher Skates, by Margreet Bruijn; and The Tomte Children, by Elsa M. Beskow (Stock- holm, 1967), a recent edition of the perennial favor- ite first produced in 1912. The United States is repre- sented by a selection of books by Elizabeth J. Coatsworth, Meindert DeJong, Scott O'Dell, and Maurice Sendak, among others. A catalog of the exhibition, with a selective bibliog- raphy compiled by Miss Haviland and reproductions Vol. 31, No. 22 i t: i' 1,7 : '*I @1 "1 LC Information Bulletin ALA/SAA Joint Committee Will Meet June 26 in Chicago . ...... 251 ARBC Holds Meeting in Boston ......... 251-252 Exhibit of 130 Children's Books from 38 Countries to Honor IBY ....... 241-242 LC Acquires Dreikurs Papers ... 242-243 Library) of Congress Publications ... 250-251 ISSN Experts Meet in Vienna ... 244-245 Regional Librarians Set Attendance Records at 1972 Biennial Conference 243-244 Staff News. . . 246-250 Visitors to LC . . 245-246 of illustrations from the books, is being published and will be available later this year from the Superin- tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. LC ACQUIRES DREIKURS PAPERS The Papers of Rudolf Dreikurs have recently been added to the Library's collections in the behavioral sciences. A psychiatrist and former student and col- league of Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Dreikurs has been a major force in bringing about the transfor- mation of Adlerian psychology from an academic subject to an actively-practiced therapeutic technique of increasing significance and influence on the Ameri- can scene. Adler's "individual psychology," long re- garded as one of the three main pillars of modern psychology along with the theories of Freud and Jung, has in recent years shown a remarkable resur- gence in activity, and is increasingly recognized as having anticipated such vigorous contemporary de- velopments as neo-Freudianism, client-centered ther- apy, and existential psychology. Born in Vienna in 1897, Dreikurs received his medi- cal degree in 1923 from the University of Vienna. During his student years, he was a close friend of 0)0 N4, CONTENTS Wilhelm Reich, and knew Adler and Wilhelm Stekel. Interested in what today would be called "com- munity psychiatry," he joined Adler's group and con- ducted several child guidance centers in Vienna along the lines pioneered by Adler. In 1929, during his early career in Vienna, he also introduced group psychotherapy in private practice. In 1937, Dreikurs emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago where, two years later-after overcoming a language barrier and the open hostility toward Adlerian psychology then prevailing in the Freudian-dominated profession-he opened his first child guidance center. Modeled on the centers first created in Vienna, with emphasis on counseling a family before a group of parents and teachers, the center spawned a group of highly dedicated therapists and counselors who are now conducting similar cen- ters and training programs around the nation. Dreikurs was the prime mover in creating the Alfred Adler Institute in Chicago in 1951, serving as its Di- rector until his retirement in 1971. From 1942 until recent years, he also served as Professor of Psychiatry at the Chicago Medical School. Dreikurs' career has centered on understanding the psychological dynamics of normal human behavior and on developing techniques for preventing and cor- recting disturbed and problem behavior in children and youth. He has also been concerned, as a social psychiatrist, with the changing nature of human transactions in an increasingly democratic society and its implications in child-rearing, education, and race and sex relations. As a result, since 1946, he has focused much of his efforts on the training of educa- tors, school psychologists, and lay community leaders and in recent years, he has been actively engaged in training programs conducted around the nation, in Europe, and in Israel, and has produced four educa- tional television series. His major contributions in psychology include the technique of multiple psycho- therapy and his pioneer work in group psychother- apy. Building on the theories of Adler, he systematized their application, particularly by detailing the goals of misbehavior in children, the dynamics of the family constellation, and the tech- niques of family counseling, and by further sharpen- ing diagnostic techniques for elucidating a client's life style. The author of more than 200 publications, includ- ing 11 books (the latest published in 1972), scholarly and popular articles, monographs, and reviews, Dreikurs has also functioned as an editor, launching the Individual Psychology Bulletin (which later 242 June 2, 1972 evolved into the present-day Journal of Individual Psychology) and serving on the editorial boards of the Humanist, Humanitas, the Individual Psychologist, the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, and the Journal of Existentialism. The Dreikurs Papers comprise approximately 1,840 items. Included in the collection are drafts and type- scripts of published books, monographs, articles, and speeches; manuscripts of several unpublished books and monographs; transcripts of his television series; transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions; case studies from classroom situations and clients; old notebooks and correspondence in German from his early career; lecture notes; extensive correspondence detailing his conceptual thinking, the development of Adlerian psychology in the United States, and his work in Europe and Israel; foreign-language editions of his books (German, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and Hebrew); and miscellaneous notes, clippings, photo- graphs, and memorabilia. The collection reflects the breadth of his interests, ranging from group psycho- therapy, neurosis, frigidity, impotence, childhood schizophrenia, juvenile delinquency, and the role of women in society, to preschool learning, religion, and humanistic education. When processed, the papers will be available for scholarly use in the Manuscript Division Reading Room. Mr. Dreikurs died Friday, May 26, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago. [Janet R. Terner] REGIONAL LIBRARIANS SET ATTENDANCE RECORDS AT 1972 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE Regional librarians set an all-time high record of attendance for biennial conferences sponsored by the Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Eighth Biennial Conference of Regional Librari- ans held May 15-17 in Louisville, Ky. Forty-five of the 51 regional libraries and 13 subregional libraries were represented at the three-day meeting. An additional 34 registrants from State and local libraries, a contingent of 12 from the Library of Con- gress, and several guest observers brought the total registration to 110. The largest State delegation at- tending the entire conference was an 11-member dele- gation from West Virginia; part of a larger group, the 16-member delegation from nearby Indiana, attended only some of the sessions; the host State of Kentucky was represented by five registrants. As chairman of the day, Robert S. Bray, DBPH Chief, conducted the Monday sessions; James M. Hahn, DBPH Assistant Chief for Reader Services con- ducted the Tuesday sessions; and Charles Gallozzi, DBPH Assistant Chief, who planned the conference and served as conference chairman, led the Wednes- day sessions. The overall theme was "Coping With Growth." Following greetings and introductions by Mr. Bray, Paul L. Berry, Director of the Reference Department, Library of Congress, delivered the keynote address, "It Is the Frost That Kills," a reference to a thought of the Spanish philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno, that " we die of cold, and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost." The speaker drew an analogy between Unamuno's thought and the signif- icance of the service of regional libraries for those who might otherwise be cut off from the "warmth" of others' thoughts in writing. In tracing the develop- ment of regional libraries, Mr. Berry emphasized that growth is not new to the National free library service for the blind and physically handicapped unable to read conventional print. He reiterated the need for continued innovation in order to cope with future growth of now unknown proportions, and expressed the appreciation and thanks of the Library of Con- gress for the important service rendered daily by the regional libraries. Other highlights of the first session were a presenta- tion on accreditation of regional and subregional li- braries by Huesten Collingwood, Staff Associate of the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serv- ing the Blind and Visually Handicapped in New York City; a description of automated circulation systems in regional libraries, by Donald K. Bailey, regional librarian of Austin, Tex., Katherine Prescott, regional librarian of Cleveland, Ohio, and Catherine Englund, librarian of the Braille Institute of America, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.; and a five-year projection of the Na- tional program by Mr. Bray. DBPH staff members who gave reports on current activities were Lucy T. Vash, Acting Head of the Selection Section; Ralph Garretson, Head, Technical Section; Robert T. Ennis, D.C. Regional Librarian; Mr. Gallozzi; Mr. Hahn; Eliz- abeth Stroup, Head, National Collections; Mrs. Max- ine B. Dorf, Head, Volunteer Services Section; and Hylda Kamisar, Head, Reference and Information Section. Demonstrations of mechanical and electronic aids were given at several intervals during the conference, and included the Optacon, which rapidly converts conventional print into tactile images for blind people who can read the alphabet and related symbols; a 243 LC Information Bulletin model of a cassette electronic duplicator; the Apollo Laser, a closed-circuit TV magnifier for those with low vision; a version of a projected book; and a vari- able speech compressor. On Tuesday morning, three DBPH staff members made formal presentations of many new aids for regional librarians. A working draft manual of DBPH procedures was presented by Miss Stroup; a draft stu- dent manual by Mr. Ennis; and a phototype of a computer-produced union catalog by Miss Stroup and Miss Vash. The computer-produced catalog proto- type, which includes talking books numbered 1 through 3374, and which is described as a "building block," provoked the greatest comment and discus- sion. Regional librarians unanimously recommended that DBPH give first priority to the development and maintenance of a national center or source of infor- mation about the location of reading materials for the blind and physically handicapped. A series of presentations on Tuesday afternoon were given by staff members of the American Printing House (APH) for the Blind with an introduction by Finis Davis, APH Director. Carl Lappin described the Central Catalog of Volunteer-Produced Texts for the Blind, one of the most comprehensive catalogs extant of the type needed by regional librarians for better, faster service to readers. A two-hour tour of the American Printing House followed the presentations. On Tuesday evening, DBPH was host at a reception and dinner honoring narrators of talking books from the Louisville area. Frances Coleman, Kentucky regional librarian, was mistress of ceremonies at the dinner, also attended by several readers from the local area. She introduced Tina Lou Wallace, APH's talking book program director who, in turn, introduced George Patterson, "dean" of the 24 narrators present. He described the backgrounds of the narrators before introducing them to the audience. Most are active in Louisville radio and television. On Wednesday morning regional librarians took part in concurrent workshops on the reading needs of children and the elderly and made recommendations for selections to DBPH. Next, they took part in con- current "rap" sessions and developed a list of 37 sepa- rate recommendations to DBPH, including an expression of thanks for a well-planned conference. In a concluding brief session on Wednesday after- noon, Mr. Bray summarized comments and recom- mendations made during the conference. Included was a recommendation that regional libraries hold off-year multi-State conferences, initiated in 1971, every year instead of every other year. ISSN EXPERTS MEET IN VIENNA Paul Vassallo, Director of the National Serials Data Program (NSDP), attended the International Organi- zation for Standardization Technical Committee 46 (ISO/TC46) meeting of Experts on ISSN held in the Bundeskammer der gewerblichen Wirtschaft, Vienna, Austria, April 24-26. Mr. Vassallo represented NSDP in its capacity as the US. National Center for the International Serials Data Systems (ISDS). In addi- tion to Laurence Livingston, Council on Library Re- sources, and James L. Wood, Chemical Abstracts, from the United States, there were participants from Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Unesco, the ISO Secretariat, and the International Center for the ISDS. Helmut Felber convened the meeting by welcoming the participants to Vienna on behalf of the Austrian Standards Institute. M. D. Martin, Manager, Informa- tion Systems, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, England, was selected Chairman. Messrs. Jack Wells, British National Bibliography, London; Laurence Livingston, CLR; and A. L. van Wesemal, University Library, Utrecht, The Netherlands, were selected for the Editing Committee for the ISSN stan- dard and manual. The major item on the agenda was the discussion of various drafts of the standard International Standard Serial Numbering (ISSN). After nearly two days of point-by-point discussion a consensus was reached on a final draft of the ISSN which after formal reactions from the participants will be presented for ratifica- tion to the ISO/TC46 Plenary Session in The Hague in late September. The International Center of the ISDS, with head- quarters in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, is responsible for the administration of the assigning of the ISSN to the national or regional centers. The International Center, under the direction of Madame M. Rosenbaum, also serves as the international regis- try for the ISSN and is responsible for coordination of efforts of the national and regional centers to develop and maintain a uniform international system of control over serial publications. As the U.S. National Center, the NSDP is the sole agency responsible for the control and assignment of ISSN in the United States. The principle has been established that a national center is authorized the use of ISSN from the International Center solely for those publications originating in the country the center serves. An exception has been made in granting limited authorization for the R. R. Bowker Company 244 June 2, 1972 to provide coverage of all titles in the Bowker Serial Bibliography, i.e. Volumes I and II, Ulrich's Inter- national Periodicals Directory, and Volume III,Irreg- ular Serials and Annuals: An International Directory. Volume III contains a combined alpha index with ISSN for every entry in the three volumes. The USNC is currently negotiating with the International Center to acquire a block of ISSN to permit the numbering of the Cumulation of New Serial Titles 1950-70, in preparation by the Bowker Company. This was dis- cussed at the Vienna meeting but no final conclusions were reached. VISITORS TO LC Librarians From Abroad Jack Dove, Borough Librarian, Hove, England, visited LC on April 26. Mr. Dove, who is also Curator of the Hove Museum, is winner of the Senior Librar- ians' Scholarship for travel in the United States. Two librarians from Taipei visited the Chinese and Korean Section of the Orientalia Division on March 31 and met with the Deputy Librarian. They were I. T. P. Pao, Director of the National Central Library, and Chi Hung Liu, President of National Chengchi University. Another Oriental visitor was Yukiko Ohno, Librar- ian of the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, who visited the Library of Congress on March 28. A staff member of the National Diet Library was at LC on March 20. Tsuyoshi Nakamori has been serving for a year as Japanese Bibliographer at Yale Univer- sity Library, but has now returned to Japan following his visit to Washington. He is Assistant Section Head, Division for Interlibrary Services, NDL. K. P. Barr, Deputy Director of the National Lend- ing Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, England, spent Tuesday, March 7 at the Library of Congress. The newly appointed Liaison Officer for the National Library of Australia at the New York Con- sulate, Richard T. Stone, visited the Library on April 13. Steven Horn, Assistant Chief Cataloger of Carleton University Library, Ottawa, spent April 12 and 13 at LC, primarily in the Processing Department. Mrs. Anne Woodsworth, Head of the Reference Department, University of Toronto Library, toured the Reference Department on May 10. Peter Alward from the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada, spent April 5 and 6 at LC. His pri- mary interest was in the operations of the Congressio- nal Research Service. Gillian Bull, a British librarian on a year's appoint- ment to the Yale Law School Library, visited LC on April 5. Miss Bull, a specialist in African legal publica- tions, toured the Law Library and the African Sec- tion of the Reference Department. Mrs. Caroline Simon, an Israeli librarian from Tel Aviv, toured LC on May 5. A librarian from Chile who works for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Santiago visited LC on May 4. Mrs. Maria Teresa Aguirre is in Washington for a year and working as a cataloger at the Pan-American Health Organization. Professor and Mrs. Louis Sabourin of the Institute for International Cooperation, University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the Library on April 28. Mrs. Sabou- rin is librarian for the Institute and her husband is director. Another Institute staff member, Jocelyn Bolduc, also visited LC on May 9, with special inter- est in the African Section. Other European Librarians Eric Clough, City Librarian of Southampton, England, visited LC on May 1. Mr. Clough is also Honorary Treasurer of the United Kingdom Library Association. The Director of the Public Library of Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, Miep Edelman, toured the Library on May 8. She has been visiting her nephew, Hendrik Edelman, Assistant Director of Cornell University Li- braries, Ithaca, N.Y. A French automation specialist, Roland Beyssac, Keeper of the Library of Les Halles, part of the Bib- liotheque Nationale, Paris, spent May 5 at LC, primar- ily in the MARC Development Office. Mrs. Elfriede Hoffer, representative of the Library of Congress NPAC Program in Vienna, Austria, spent May 4 and 5 touring the Library and conferring with staff in the Processing Department. A visitor from the Royal Library of Sweden, in Stockholm, Marta Forssner, toured the Library of Congress on April 17. She was particularly interested in the care of rare books. Visiting American Librarians Mrs. Agnes Grady, a cataloger at Oregon State Uni- versity, Corvallis, Oreg., visited LC on the afternoon of April 27. On April 6, Mrs. Carol D. Billings, a specialist in microfilm at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, visited the Microfilm Reading Room. LC Information Bulletin Mrs. Margaret H. Webb, a serials cataloger at the University of Illinois in Urbana, toured LC on April 13. Mrs. Wendy Onouye, a library intern from the Uni- versity of Washington in Seattle, spent April 6 at the Library, visiting many different offices. Botanical Librarians Sixty-five participants in the meetings of the Coun- cil on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries visited the Library of Congress on April 20. They first toured the reference areas of the Library where they saw exhibits specially prepared for them in the Rare Book Room and in the Science and Technology Division. Later they assembled in the Whittall Pavilion to hear a discussion of technical services by Mrs. Gloria Hsia, Mrs. Constance Stevens, and Myrl Powell. Special guides for the visitors were Constance Carter, Diana Niskern, Dana Ellingen, Tom Burney, and Brian Will- son. Arrangements for the visit were made by Mrs. Ruth Schallert, Head of the Botany Branch Library of the Smithsonian Institution. STAFF NEWS DEATH OF FORMER STAFF MEMBER Arch C. Gerlach, Chief Geographer of the US. Geo- logical Survey and former Chief of the Library's Geography and Map Division, died Saturday, May 20, following a long illness. Dr. Gerlach served at the Li- brary of Congress from 1950 to 1967 (see LC Infor- mation Bulletin, May 19, pp. 217-219). An international authority on geography and car- tography, Dr. Gerlach's earlier professional career included a four-year tour of duty as a Naval Reserve Officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services as a geographer and cartographer during World War II and service as Chief of the Geography and Map Divi- sion in the Department of State in 1946. Before coming to the Library, he was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. At the Geological Survey, Dr. Gerlach was the editor of the National Atlas of the United States, a cartographic volume of the physical, historical, eco- nomic, and social characteristics of this country (see LC Information Bulletin, January 28, 1971, pp. 57-58). He also served as coordinator of the Survey's geographic applications program for remote sensor data from aircarft and spacecraft. In 1971, he received the Department of the Interior's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award, for his work in geography and thematic mapping. A native of Takoma, Wash., Dr. Gerlach held degrees from San Diego State College, the University of California, and from the University of Washington. At the time of his death, he was president of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and earlier this year he had received the American Society of Photogrammetry's Luis Struck Award for his lead- ership in Pan American cooperation. He was past president of the Association of American Geog- raphers. Funeral services were held at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Md., on May 23. Mr. Gerlach is survived by his wife, Arlene, of the home, 5615 New- ington Rd., Bethesda, Md. The Association of Ameri- can Geographers, 1148 16th St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036, is receiving contributions for the Arch C. Gerlach Memorial Fund. Mr. Sharp receiving his 50-year pin from the Librarn. Freeman Sharp Receives -Year Pin Freeman W. Shmp, Senior Legislative Attorney in American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service, recently celebrated 50 years of Federal serv- ice. Mr. Sharp's long period of Government service began in November 1921, and his initial appointment to the staff of the Library of Congress dates from February 1922. Mr. Sharp received his 50-year Fed- eral Service Award from the Librarian in ceremonies in the Librarian's office on May 16. 246 June 2, 1972 Born in the District of Columbia, Mr. Sharp at- tended local schools and received a bachelor of arts and a law degree from George Washington University in 1931 and 1934, respectively. Pursuring what was to become a life-long devotion to the study of law, Mr. Sharp continued his education at the former Na- tional University Law School-now incorporated into the George Washington University Law School- attaining the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science in 1937. Except for a brief stint with the Department of the Navy and lengthy military service, Mr. Sharp's entire working career has been in the Library. After service as a Hat Checker in the Buildings and Grounds Divi- sion, he was appointed to the staff of the Reading Room in 1923 and performed in several capacities there before being transferred to the Periodical Divi- sion in 1926. In 1935, following graduation from law school, he became a member of the Bill Digesting staff in what was then the Legislative Reference Serv- ice. In 1940, he was called to active duty with the U.S. Army and served in the European Theatre. Beginning his military duties as a 2nd Lieutenant, Mr. Sharp had attained the rank of Major at the time of his discharge in 1947. He received the Army Com- mendation Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster, and his campaign ribbons bear two Battle Stars. Returning to the Library as a Legal Digester in the old Federal Law Section of the American Law Divi- sion in 1947, Mr. Sharp was promoted in 1949 to Legal Analyst. Over the years, he has been promoted to successively more responsible positions, and was appointed to his present position in 1956. He has served as Acting Chief of the division on several occa- sions in recent years. Mr. Sharp is the author of numerous studies and reports that have appeared in a variety of congres- sional publications and is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, the District of Columbia, and the State of Maryland. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association and served in that group's National Council for about six years beginning in 1962. In addition to his many professional activities, Mr. Sharp has served as Director of the Prince Georges County Association for Retarded Children and Vice President of the Maryland Society for Mentally Retarded Chil- dren. AWARD Grover C. Batts, Manuscript Librarian in the Manu- script Division, was presented a 20-year Federal Serv- ice Award pin on April 7 by Roy P. Basler, Chief of the division. Mr. Batts joined the Library of Congress in April 1957 as Exchange Accessioner in the Exchange and Gift Division and was promoted to the position of Manuscripts Assistant-Trainee in the Manuscript Division later that year and to the posi- tion of Manuscript Assistant in July 1958. Since Sep- tember 1964, he has been Manuscript Librarian. Before coming to the Library, he served with the United States Army from 1942 to 1945, and was an examiner in the Public Housing Administration in 1952-1953. One of Mr. Batts' responsibilities is the planning and mounting of exhibits of manuscripts in the divi- sion reading room. He is known to readers of the LC Information Bulletin as the contributor of interesting and informative notes announcing and describing manuscript materials currently on exhibit. Many exhibits are embellished with medallions from his own collection. RETIREMENT George L. Powell, an LC employee for over 26 years, retired on May 31. A Steward in the Buildings Management Office of the Administrative Depart- ment, Mr. Powell has well known for the excellent coffee he prepared for receptions and meetings held at the Library. This special recipe remains a mystery to his LC admirers. Mr. Powell's duties have included the supervision of physical arrangements for all special meetings, presen- tations, and other public events in the Library. The Whittall Pavilion, where he could most often be found, and its collections of silver and other treasures were entrusted to his care. A native of Garland, N.C., Mr. Powell came to Washington, D.C., in 1941 and was first employed by F. J. Kane as a houseman and chauffeur and then by the Quartermasters Depot in Alexandria, Va. On December 16, 1942, Mr. Powell joined the Labor Force at the Library of Congress and remained there until 1943 when he began his military service with the US. Army. While in the Army, Mr. Powell had a nine-month tour of duty in Northern Ireland, and served in Cambridge, England, and in France. In Janu- ary 1946, upon completion of military service, Mr. Powell returned to the Labor Force at the Library. Since that time he has held progressively responsible positions in the Buildings Management Office. In 1950, he was promoted to Labor Supervisor. he assumed his present position in November 1958. On Wednesday, May 24, Mr. Powell was honored at a reception in the Whittall Pavilion. William J. Wel h. LC Information Bulletin Director of the Processing Department, presided over a presentation ceremony held at the reception. The Librarian presented Mr. Powell with a gift from the Librarian's Conference and a Meritorious Service Award which cited Mr. Powell for "the dignity with which you have carried out your duties and the unfailing courtesy you have shown to members of the Library staff and the Library's visitors. Your initia- tive, proficiency, and good nature, on which the Library could always rely, have earned the respect and affection of your colleagues, especially of the Librarian of Congress and of the Librarian's Confer- ence." F. E. Croxton, Director of the Administrative Department, presented Mr. Powell with a gift book and a purse. He commented that all his life he had been told to "let George do it" and he had finally found a George who could do it. Gerald T. Garvey, Chief of the Buildings Management Office, gave Mr. Powell a framed copy of his retirement certificate. Others who expressed their appreciation to Mr. Powell during the presentation ceremony were Edward N. Waters, Chief of the Music Division, Roy P. Basler, Chief of the Manuscript Division, Mrs. Nancy Galbraith, Special Assistant in Poetry, and Mrs. Gladys O. Fields, Special Assistant to the Librar- ian. Mrs. Ann Clavelli made the arrangements for the reception and, with assistance of the LC Cooking Club, prepared the refreshments. Mr. Powell and his wife, Effie, display an engraved silver tray he received at the reception. STAFF ACTIVITIES Constance Carter, Head of the Science and Tech- nology Division's Reference Section, gave an informal talk on American trail and outdoor recreation litera- ture in the collections of the Library of Congress to a group of students and faculty members at the Fox- croft School, Middleburg, Va., on May 17. Miss Carter, who is also archivist of the Appalachian Trail Conference, presented the Foxcroft Library with a signed copy of Edward B. Garvey's Appalachian Hiker (Oakton, Va., Applachian Books, 1971. 397 p. F106.G29) and showed the group a color film on the Appalachian Trail. At the invitation of the US. Mission, Mrs. Eilene Galloway, Senior Specialist in International Rela- tions, Foreign Affairs Division, Congressional Research Service, attended meetings of the Legal Sub- committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 2-4. The Committee discussions were con- cerned with proposals for drafting a Treaty on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies as well as a Conven- tion on the Registration of Space Vehicles. Following the United Nations meetings, Mrs. Galloway attended sessions in Paris on May 5-8 of the International Insti- tute of Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation, of which she is Vice President and U.S. Member on the Board of Directors. Mrs. Marlene C. McGuirl, Chief of the American- British Law Division, and Armando Gonzilez, Senior Legal Specialist in the Hispanic Law Division, are members of the Legal Services to Prisoners Com- mittee of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. The committee has met with officials at the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, and members have visited the D.C. Jail and Lorton Cor- rectional Complex to review law library services. They found in both places that the available books were old, unusable, and not pertinent to the pris- oners' needs. A checklist of the items needed at Lorton and the D.C. Jail has been drawn up by the committee, and donations requested from the Society's membership. The Committee plans to attempt to obtain sufficient funds to purchase what- ever volumes have not been donated so that both loca- tions will eventually have complete collections. In addition, the Law Librarians' Society hopes to provide a reference librarian for a few hours each Saturday afternoon to assist inmates, starting in Sep- tember. Earlier articles on work performed by LC staff members to improve library services and facilities at Lorton appeared in the LC Information Bulletin on October 1, 1970, p. 518, and February 4, 1971, pp. 71-72. June 2, 1972 PERSONNEL CHANGES Appointments: Mrs. Barbara J. Barnes, clerical assistant, GS-4, ISO, 2679; William L. Boletta, descriptive cataloger, GS-9, Desc Cat, 2601; Robert F. DeMeter, bill digester and reference assistant, GS-7, CRS A, 2737; Stephen Joseph Gray, copyright examiner, GS-7, Cop Exam, 2686; James T. Harley, reading room assistant, GS-2, S&R, 5-600; Serow F. James, engineering draftsman, GS-5, BPO, 2765; Vernon Nathaniel Lattimore, mail & file clerk, GS-3, Desc Cat, 2794; Charles L. Lemley, special policeman (private), Bldgs, 2598, Juan R. Marrero, descriptive cataloger, GS-11, Desc Cat, 2601; Carol Migdalovitz, research analyst, GS-7, FRD, 2620; Mrs. Donna J. Noonan, telephone operator, GS-4, CS, 100-13; Mrs. Dorothy L. Pollet, librarian, GS-9, DBPH, 2615; Linda M. Torockio, accessioner, GS-5, Ser Rec, 2645. Temporary Appointments: Alexander M. Dolgun, expert, FRD, NP; Arnold D. Solomon, file clerk, GS-4, Cop Serv, 2687. Promotions: Patricia A. Benson, to cataloger, GS-7, Cop Cat, 2761; Haskell P. Caldwell, to foreman, special projects, WS-2, Bldgs, 2716; Bruce J. Fairchild, to searcher, GS-6, LL Eur, 2706; Jeannine L. Goodwin, Ov Op, to editor, GS-7, Cop Cat, 2702; Willie L. A. Jones, to power collator opera- tor, WP-14, CS, 2795; Mrs. Maude I. Leftwich, to offset pressman, WP-11, CS, 2793; Chester L. Turner, III, Cop Serv, to payroll, time and leave clerk, GS-4, FMO, 2752. Temporary Promotions: Geraldine Albritton, to filer, GT-5, Cat Publ, 2634; Mrs. Maria Bodnaruk, to library tech- nician, GS-5, Share Cat, NP; Renee A. Dinkins, to filer, GT-5, Cat Publ, 2634; Mrs. Lillie M. Towns, to filer, GT-5, Cat Publ, 2634; Mrs. Charlene R. Warren, to filer, GT-5, Cat Publ, 2634. Transfers: Harry T. Bowling, Cop Serv, to copyright techni- cian, GS-6, Cop Exam, 2776; Charles E. Davis, S&R, to machine operator, GS-3, FRD, 2688; Takeo Nichioka, Share Cat, to processing & reference assistant, GS-7, LL FE, 2802. Resignations: Colleen M. Baumgartner, Photodup; Mrs. Karen L. Berube, FMO; Emanuel J. Bobo, S&R; Eugene R. Boswell, Photodup; James H. Conway, Bldgs; Gregory L. Davis, S&R; Mrs. Saundra F. Dockery, Am Rev; James H. Duckworth, Cop Serv; Mrs. Dawn Dybas, Desc Cat; Mrs. Barbara W. Harnish, CRS; Rodney J. Hutton, Ser Rec; Mrs. Cheryl J. Kelly, Cat Publ; David J. McElroy, S&R; Mrs. Evelyn M. McGowan, Card; Kathleen A. Murphy, CRS C; Mrs. Elizabeth G. Patterson, Photodup; Mario Selo, Share Cat; Donald R. Simpson, CS; Sharon Sites, CRS D; Margaret M. Thomas, CRS D; Mary K. Wengeler, Cop Exam; Linda E. Varekamp, CRS C; Mrs. Arzula T. Zapata, CRS E. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library's Welfare and Recreation Association Letters to Vietnam Club is sponsoring a rummage sale for the benefit of blinded veterans. Proceeds from the sale, which will be held on Saturday, June 3, from noon until 4 p.m. at the Glendale Baptist Church, 4505 Gault PI., N.E., Washington, D.C., will provide transportation for blinded veterans to attend Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., San Rafael, Calif., a seeing eye school founded in 1942 which provides free train- ing in the use of guide dogs to blinded Americans. The student's only expense is transportation to the school. The Letters to Vietnam Club began shifting the emphasis of its efforts last fall from services to Ameri- can servicemen in Vietnam to those who have returned to the United States. The success of the project has led to plans for another rummange sale in the fall, probably September, according to Mrs. Yvonne Horner, who conceived the project. The Club will continue to collect donations for rummage sales in a box located on the second floor north, Third Street side, of the Annex Building, or will make pick-ups from donors when possible. Persons desiring further information on the project or the sales should contact Mrs. Horner, Descriptive Cataloging Division, ext. 5313. Other Club members who have provided enthusiastic assistance to Mrs. Homer in this project are Bob McCoy, Copyright Office; Ernestine Lyon, Serial Record Division, and Mrs. Laura Evans and Mrs. Mary Logan, Descriptive Cataloging Division. The Library of Congress Professional Association will conduct a book sale on Friday, June 16, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Deck 11 North in the Annex Building. Persons who wish to donate books for the sale should bring them to the Library during the week of June 5; an LCPA member will be stationed at the front doors of the Main and Annex buildings from 7:30 to 8:30 each morning to receive the books as they are brought into the building. During the day, Kim Dobbs Law Library, MB 238D, ext. 5068, and Jack Womeldorf Descriptive Cataloging Division, A 2029, ext. 5230, will accept book donations from the staff if it is more convenient. In the Library's other locations, the following per- sons will collect books to be transported to the Main Building: Division for the Blind and Physically Handi- capped, Evelyn Shapiro; Geography and Map Division, Janet Hill; Navy Yard Annex, Eleanor Cut- trell; Massachusetts Avenue Annex, Imre Jarmy; and Copyright Office, Warren McKay. All members of the Library staff, whether they are LCPA members or not, are invited to donate books to 249 LC Information Bulletin and to participate in the sale. Money from the sale will be divided among several worthy projects within the Library, like the WRA Welfare Fund. The American Red Cross Bloodmobile Unit will visit the Library, Main Building, Room G-147, on Thursday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Staff members wishing to donate blood should register with keyworkers in their respective divisions. In accordance with LCR 2015-17.4, all blood donors may be granted, if approved by their super- visors, a maximum of four hours excused absence, which includes the actual time spent giving blood and a rest and recuperative period immediately following. Questions concerning the program should be directed to Miss Brothers, ext. 6053. The Library of Congress Professional Association invites employees to view Reflections in Space" in the Whittall Pavilion at noon on Thursday, June 8. The subject of the color film is the influence of space flight on the arts. The comments and work of Edward Villella, Archibald MacLeish, and several painters, including James Wyeth, are presented briefly. Eileen Agard and Jonathan A. Glickstein, were married on May 5 in St. Paul's Chapel of Columbia University, New York City. Mrs. Glickstein is a Cata- loger in the Documents Unit of the English Language Section, Descriptive Cataloging Division. Mr. Glickstein is a candidate for his doctorate at Yale University. The couple will reside in Washington, D.C. Bruce Fairchild and Donna L. Shives were married on May 19 at the home of the groom's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Jay A. Fairchild, in Hagerstown, Md. Mr. Fairchild is a Library Technician in the European Law Division of the Law Library, where he was con- gratulated at a coffee hour and presented with a gift from the Law Library by the Chief of the European Law Division, Edmund C. Jann. The couple will reside in Forestville, Md. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATIONS Accessions List: India. Vol. 11, No. 4. April 1972. (pp. 141-198.) Continuing subscriptions free to librar- ies upon request to the Field Director, Library of Congress Office, American Embassy, New Delhi, India. Accessions List: Israel. Vol. 9, No. 4. April 1972. (pp. 61-82.) Continuing subscriptions free to libraries upon request to the Field Director, Library of Con- gress Office, American Embassy, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Decisions of the United States Courts Involving Copyright, 1969-1970. Copyright Office Bulletin No. 37. Compiled and edited by Benjamin W. Rudd, Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1972. (xii, 678 p.) For sale by the Superintendent of Docu- ments, US. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for $4.25 a copy (LC 3.3:37). Digest of Public General Bills and Resolutions. 92nd Congress, 2nd Session. Supplement No. 2 to Cumulative issue No. 1, 1972. (Various pagings.) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents for 75 cents this issue or $50 a session, domestic, and $62.50 a session, foreign (LC 14.6:92-2/l-2Supp. 2). The Federal Republic of Germany: A Selected Bib- liography of English-Language Publications With Emphasis on the Social Sciences. Compiled by Arnold H. Price, Slavic and Central European Division, Refer- ence Department, Library of Congress. 1972. (ix, 63 p.) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents for 70 cents a copy, domestic, and 88 cents, foreign (LC 35.2:G31/3). Just published, this highly selective bibliography of approximately 700 entries reflects the keen and per- sistent interest that the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 generated in the United States, particularly in the American scholarly community. This list, therefore, contains not only translations from the German and standard informa- tional materials, but also includes a large body of original American studies, mostly in the social sci- ences. The work is directed to the general reader as well as to the specialist and the librarian, and it encompasses monographs, articles, dissertations, reference works, and serials, providing titles of German-language edi- tions whenever applicable. The entries are organized by subject under such headings as politics and govern- ment, the economy, the society, religious life, and culture. Berlin is covered by a special chapter. All entries have Library of Congress call numbers or National Union Catalog locations, when available. An author index is also supplied. The Federal Republic of Germany was made possible by a generous gift from the National Carl Schurz Association and the active support and en- couragement of the Conference Group on German Politics. The selection, compilation, and annotation were undertaken by Mr. Price, Area Specialist for Central Europe. Monthly Checklist of State Publications. Vol. 63, No. 5. May 1972. (pp. 305-376.) For sale by the June 2, 1972 Superintendent of Documents for 45 cents this issue or $6.50 a year, domestic, and $8.25 a year, foreign (LC 30.9:63/5). Newspapers Received Currently in the Library of Congress. Third edition. Compiled by the Serial Divi- sion, Reference Department. 1972. (vii, 22 p.) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents at 35 cents a copy (LC 6.7:972). This revision of the 1970 edition, which appeared under the title Newspapers Currently Received and Permanently Retained in the Library of Congresss, was prepared by William Laing of the Serial Division under the supervision of Bernard A. Bernier, Jr., Head of the Reference Section, and with the cooperation of the staff of the Orientalia Division and Slavic and Central European Division who listed the titles in their custody. The 1972 edition lists 286 U.S. and 951 foreign newspapers received and retained on a permanent basis, and an additional 350 US. and 65 foreign newspapers retained on a current basis only. Library of Congress Regulations: No. 2011-3 (May 23) restated requirements for preparing the Library's Personnel Action Recommendation form LW 9/54 (rev. 4/72); no. 2018-2.2 (May 24) concerned the Library's program on alco- holism. Special Announcements: No. 479 (May 24) called atten- tion to the semiannual review of the assignments of reserved street parking for Library staff carpools; no. 480 (May 25) announced the Bloodmobile visit to the Library on June 8. ALA/SAA Joint Committee Will Meet June 26 in Chicago "The Place of Archival Training in Library Educa- tion," a program session sponsored by the special Joint American Library Association/Society of American Archivists Committee on Library-Archives Relationships, will be held on Monday, June 26, during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago from June 25 to July 1. James B. Rhoads, Archivist of the United States, will preside at the June 26 meeting at the Palmer House. John C. Colson of the University of Maryland's School of Library and Information Services will speak on "Library School Curriculum Modification," and Frank B. Evans, Special Assistant to the Archivist for Academic Liaison at the National Archives and Records Service, will discuss "Educational Needs for Work in Archival and Manuscript Depositories." Martha T. Boaz, Dean of the School of Library Sci- ence, University of Southern California, will be the commentator. Special invitations are being issued to library school administrators throughout this country and Canada and to others especially concerned with the subject of this session. The Joint ALA/SAA Committee was established two years ago to further cooperation between the two organizations on matters of mutual interest, among them automation, legislation, microforms, pre- servation, cataloging and other types of description of informational materials, and the establishment of standards and education. The committee was orga- nized following the 1970 ALA Annual Conference in Detroit, where a meeting between officers of the two organizations and an initial joint program session were held. Last fall a joint program was presented at the SAA Conference in San Francisco, and this year, in addition to the Chicago program, there will be a committee-sponsored session on legislative liaison at the Columbus, Ohio meeting of the SAA on October 31-November 3. The present members of the joint committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hamer, Assis- tant Librarian of Congress, are Mary Louise Cobb of Swem Library, College of William and Mary; Robert L. Clark, Jr., Archivist of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries; Howard L. Applegate, Director of the Balch Institute in Philadelphia; and Gerald Ham, Sec- retary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. ARBC Holds Meeting in Boston A meeting of the American Revolution Bicenten- nial Commission (ARBC) was held in Boston May 15-16. Chairman David J. Mahoney presided at most of the sessions. The first day was devoted to committee meetings, including the Committee on Heritage '76, of which the Library of Congress is a member, and to the pre- sentation of the State plans of Connecticut, Maine, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont, as well as to the New England Regional Council's plans on transportation. The day closed with a reception for ARBC members and staff, given by the Boston group. The festivities were muted by the shocking news of the shooting of Governor George Wallace. Senator Edward W. Brooke, a mem- ber of ARBC who was in Boston for the afternoon meeting, spoke sorrowfully and eloquently of the state of the country that could lead to such violence UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 11 1262 08493 0063ll 3 1262 08493 0063 LC Information Bulletin 252 and called for understanding among all races and groups. The very full schedule of the meeting was revised so that Tuesday morning could be devoted to the main issue of the conference: should an International Ex- position be held in Philadelphia in 1976? A persuasive argument, with maps and other graphics illustrating Philadelphia's newest plans, was preented by William L. Rafsky of the Philadelphia Bicentennial Corpora- tion. J. William Nelson presented the Commerce De- partment's detailed analysis of the advantages of that plan as well as the challenges, including the time element (with necessary completion by 1976) and the cost. Chairman Mahoney read messages from some members who could not be present, US. Representa- tive Lawrence G. Williams brought out many perti- nent points, and others presented pro's and con's before a roll call vote was taken to determine what the Commission should recommend to President Nixon. An International Exposition (that is, a one- year world's fair that would have the sanction of the Bureau of International Expositions) in Philadelphia, or elsewhere in the United States, was over- whelmingly defeated. This was consistent with the strong feeling within the Commission from its begin- ning that the commemoration of the Bicentennial should be truly national, that it should take place all over the United States, and that a one-year world's fair would lead the citizens of this and of other coun- tries to regard the Exposition as the observance. The vote, of course, does not preclude locally-sponsored fairs on a variety of other Bicentennial events. The Commission then adjourned to Faneuil Hall, where in those historic surroundings with busts and portraits of John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Han- cock, and other patriots looking on, Boston's mayor Kevin White greeted the group and, with others, showed how Boston's Bicentennial plans are develop- ing. A reception and luncheon given by the city was then held in nearby new City Hall. The Tuesday afternoon session was devoted chiefly to committee reports, in the course of which LC's first Bicentennial Symposium was favorably men- tioned. James Biddle, Chairman of the Heritage '76 Committee, with Richard P. McCormick, and ARBC member and Professor at Rutgers University, Thomas Cochrane, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and President of the American Historical Association, and Charles Lee, Director of the South Carolina De- partment of Archives and History and President of the Society of American Archivists, presented Heri- tage '76 plans, emphasizing the committee's proposal for a National Historic Records Program. This pro- posal, which has the active support of the leading archival and historical associations calls for a National Historic Records Commissions and the making of matching grants for locating, preserving, and making accessible the Nation's public and private historic records. Regarding the Program, the full Commission passed the following Resolution: That the ARBC recommends to the President and to the Congress of the United States the National Historic Records Program as a meritorious contribution to the national Bicen- tennial effort. This program will result in saving, preserving, and making available to scholars, historians and the public a priceless and irreplaceable part of American heritage: and The ARBC recommends that necessary administrative and legislative actions be taken to implement and fund the pro- gram; and The ARBC awards use of the official symbol to be used in accordance with the ARBC Graphics Manual. Other reports dealt with appropriations; Bicenten- nial parks; "Festival USA" (formerly "Open House USA"), which is concerned with cultural and travel aspects of the Bicentennial; "Call for Achievement," a new nationwide but local program of goal-setting; internal ARBC procedures; and, instead of "Festival of Freedom," a new national theme: "A Past to Remember-A Future to Mold." Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hamer, who represents the Library on the Commission, attended the Boston meeting. The next meeting of the ARBC will be held in Atlanta, September 7-8. |
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