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1 — I — ' I THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY STAFF ASSOCIATION

Vol . 29 No* 1| URBANA, ILLINOIS tW { 2 4 197£ FEBRUARY, 1971

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LIBRARY FORUM For a number of years, the Library Forum has provided staff members with an opportunity to meet six or more times annually at informal luncheons* featuring speakers on topics of general intellectual interest to the staff# The after-dinner talks have varied to cover a wide range of topics representative of the many personal and disciplinary interests present on this campus• Speakers, who are usually drawn from the faculty, have been exceedingly generous and cooperative in presenting talks to the group* Thus, the Forum has provided for a congenial atmosphere in which informative and entertaining speakers could be hosted*

From one year to the next, the Committee1s choice of speakers may vary from securing persons whose interests reflect their specific research, to selecting speakers whose topics are directly oriented toward books and libraries. During the present year, the Forum Committee, composed of Jean Armour, Eleanor Blum, Carl Deal, Harriet Smith and Lucille Wert, is concentrating on talks dealing specifically with books and libraries. Also, as in past years, the Committee hopes to devote at least one meeting to the discussion of a current activity or issue affecting library staff members.

One problem the Committee wishes to solve is to determine just what staff members expect most from the Forum. In an effort to reduce the cost of the luncheon, we have decided not to hold each luncheon in the Union. Further, we have decided that more staff members feel the choice of speakers should relate specifically to books and libraries, rather than concentrate on other fields.

Any comments you might have on the price of the luncheon and the kinds of programs you would support are welcomed by the Committee. The next Forum will take place at the University YMCA on February 16. Professor Albert CaroBzi will address us on "Fiction and Reality in 18th Century Geological Literature.11

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LINCOLN The following University Report was presented on Will radio ROOM by Robert ¥. Oram,

The University of Illinois Library honors Illinois1 most famous and revered native son Abraham Lincoln with an extensive collection. Housed in its own room on the fourth floor of the Main Library building, the only special collection in the Library given a separate room, our collection of Lincolniana is an impressive one. While it is not so big as thi collections at the State Historical Library in Springfield or at the Lincoln Life in Ft. Wayne, it is designed for direct use by the student and the scholar and is not a collection of rarities. There are, of course, rarities in it such as the four items in the hand of Lincoln.

The Library started its collection of Lincoln material rather early, and the people concerned with the building of the collection through the years are the late James G. Randall and his wife, Ruth Painter Randall, and of course, Carl Sandburg. It is the late Dr. and Mrs. Harlan Hoyt Horner, however, who are the most directly connected with making the collection what it is today.

As a memorial to the class of 1901, Mr. and Mrs. Horner gave their own priceless collection to the Library. They had been collecting materials relating to Lincoln for well over a quarter of a century, attempting to get every known book and pamphlet on Lincoln. When they presented this unusual collection to the University, there were about 3,000 pieces in it} the Library has almost doubled the collection since. When they first started to collect, the Horners are reported to have questioned whether they could afford a particular piece, for even then prices were high. They later forgot expense and came to wonder if they could permit a rare item to escape. At the time of their gift, Mrs. Horner had cataloged the collection and wrapped each piece for shipment to Urbana from their Albany, New York home. The correspondence the Horners had with Dean Robert Downs was an affectionate one, and through it the reader comes to understand the genuine loss they felt as their collect­ion left the house in one corner of a huge van. "We feel today," she writes to Downs, "a good deal as we imagine parents may feel who yield up a child to be adopted."

Both of the Horners axe now dead, but the room is a rich memorial to them. Of the original manuscripts in the room, at iast two have research value, one a legal document involving Lincoln participation in a trial held in Champaign County in 18£6# The second is a recently acquired and little known document which dates from Springfield I838. The core of the collection itself are the speeches, the writings and the commentaries on them, and the enormous collection of books about ncoln published during his lifetime and in the years immediately following the assasin-ation. It is particularly complete in the material that eulo­gized him after his death. We have more than one hundred of

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the sermons which were preached on that Black Baster Sunday and later printeds in the best 19th century tradition5 a tradition that has all but died out (unless we except the Kennedy eulogistic literature)®

Unique to the collection are 2lt volumes of indexed scrapbooks which contain clippings frora magazines and newspapers collected by Mrs* Horner during a period of 25 years* A booklet written on the collection by Dr* Leslie Dunlap indicates that these scrapbooks contain ample material for at least one more good book on Lincoln. The correspondence in the Library files reveals another aspect of the collection* materials which have not been collected* In 1932 a Springfield lawyer offered to sell us for $5*000 the Supreme Court Reports of Illinois which had been used by Lincoln and Herndon from I81i5~l865* The then librarian Mr* Windsor wrote him politely ffin view of the financial condition of the State Treasury it is quite impossible for us to consider a purchase of this magnitude .rr And he gave the reason that the Library did not collect material just because it was associated with Lincoln. Windsor had shown the offer to the curator of the Illinois Historical Society who dashed back a note "Not worth $50 to us.ff

Because it is a working^ not an association collection* there are very few artifacts here? a bronze bust* a life mask of Stephen Douglas* and two copies of the well-known Volk life-* mask and hands* one copy of which is in the display case on the first floor of the Library along with the wooden ox yoke which Lincoln is said to have made in New Salem. It is these artifacts which students who use the corridors of the Library see® The working collecticnis in the Lincoln Room on the fourth floor of the Library and is a valuable resource*

The Illinois Historical Survey has recently acquired on loan from a local Urbana family a collection of nineteenth century letters and papers® The materials9 known now as the Corrie Papers^ will be microfilmed and added to the manuscript collection of the Survey*

In 1828 five Corrie brothers from Scotland and England settled in Wabash County* Illinois* Various members of the family who remained in England sent letters to the Corrie brothers! an extant collection of about 175 letters now indicates that this correspondence continued from I8II4 to 1897* although the letters from the latter years are all from within the Midwest to other members of the family. In addition to the letters* the collect­ion includes about twenty documents relating to private family affairs *•- land deeds* indenture papers* and will extracts. Taken together^ the Corrie Papers give an insight into the collective affairs of an emigrating family* highlight contemp­orary events^ and chronicle nineteenth century conditions.

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AUDIO CENTER IN The Audio Center in the Undergraduate Library, located in THE UNDERGRAD- the northeast portion of the first level, consists of 106 UAtiS" LIBRARY" student carrels, each with a full audio random-access sta­

tion, and a large control room which holds the sound equip­ment, card catalogues, tape and record holdings, tape supplies, maintenance and repair equipment, and a small library of reference works, scores, concert and recital programs of the University of Illinois for the past twelve years, Schwann catalogs bound and unbound, Library of Congress Music and Phonorecords catalogs, and catalogs of the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library of Stanford University, plus an accumulating file of Stereo Review, Saturday Review, Electronics, Down Beat, and miscellaneous books and periodicals pertinent to the needs of those patronizing the Center*

Students may listen to any stored program at will, without regard to special schedules, ifiach carrel station is pro­vided with a simplified control plate for program selection, and headphones which provide either monaural or stereo listening access. The random access switching system is capable of selecting up to eighty-four monaural programs on tape, with an added turntable and FM Radio dial of access.

The sound equipment in the Audio Control room is located in two separate areas; one is a floor to ceiling metal cabinet area with 20 wall-mounted Crown tape decks, a complete counter system, switching modules, each containing three digit dial mechanisms for six carrels, power supplies and fan ventilating-cooling apparatus. An L-shaped console houses two turntables with three speed variation, a dubbing tape deck, an FM radio facility, two record decks, and a complete dialing monitor system which provides instant access to either A, B or stereo channelling of each of 11 program capabilities, with work space provided on the front ledge and in the junction of the L of the console.

Each of the wall-mounted Crown decks is equipped with a double photocell and sensor device) all tapes are prepared with a clear Deader at both head and tail ends, providing completely automatic rewind and reposition control, A daily maintenance schedule is followed, with weekly demagnetization of all play deckso

So much for the technical equipment. The record and tape holdings are in two main categories, each with several subdivisions. The music records and tapes follow "popular" and "serious11 classifications. The former represented by rock, jazz, blues, folk, musical shows, country-western, soul, and gospel sections. The "serious" music is cataloged into "user" systems of New Music, Orchestral Pieces, Keyboard Recitals, Voice Recitals, Organ, Guitar and Lute, Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber Music, Theatre Music, Dance and special collections. The Spoken Records are in categories of Plays, English prose, English poetry, American prose and American poetry, Speeches and Radio and Television Documentary Sound Tracks, Aural History, and plays, short stories, novel condensations, and

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poetry in most available languages from African through Yiddish* The record library is in constant process of being transcribed onto 1-1/2 mil Polyester tape which is used for strength, fiedelity of reproduction, and print-through prevention. Although the Audio Center has a very limited budget for recordings, approximately five hundred discs were added to the holdings last year, through gifts, acquisition from Radio Station WILL, and in the case of popular music, through students who loaned their private recordings for taping purposes.

The record holdings at this time total approximately 3000, Music and spoken words on tape are slightly in excess of 600#

In general, and not in order of importance, the goals and guiding principles of the Audio Center are these: to provide opportunities for study which duplicate previously held success­ful study habitsj to offer an area of complete privacy, exempt from sound distraction, resulting in the student's setting up of an individualized sound environment and, incidentally, a kind of sound therapy; to make available an interrelation between book, play, poem, score, libretto and recording, with the result of achieving deeper meaning! a vast extension of possibilities for listening experience and the resulting quality of life which comes from the intelligent use of leisure time; to arrange music and spoken work materials programmatically in such away that cross relationships between similar contents and modes of expression are realized.

The card catalogs are available to every individual at all times that staff is in the Audio Control area; each specific item of the holdings is separately carded with informative material concerning the contents included on each listing.

One of the four large windows in the Audio Control room is used to provide space for the display of supplementary material on music, books, plays, performers, and speakers either in way of explanation or information; the materials are clipped from magazines and newspapers and are mounted in appropriate display order.

The cabinet mounted decks and FM radio are in continous op­eration for 16 hours a day, from the time the Library opens in the morning until closing at midnight. The turntable facilities are available continuously while the Center is staffed — approximately eleven hours on weekdays and thirteen hours on Friday and Saturday. The mounting of tapes on the decks and records on the turntable is almost completely on a request basis; varied tastes and listening needs of the patrons provide a wide representation of selections at all times. If tie-in programming is being offered, notice of a prograjnmed sequence is prominently displayed; the designation of tape contents and dial facility are constantly accurate.

The capacity of the Center is strained by the saturation at most hours of the day; when no space is available in the

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AUDIO CHgTgg IN THE UNDERGRAD­UATE LIBRARY (con't*)

carrell listening area, students may come in singly or in groups to listen through the speaker system in the Audio Control rooiru Frequently, entire classes of several hundred students will be assigned to listen to a tape which we have made for our recreational purposes, but which is very relevant to a class discussion; at such time, we schedule twenty or thirty at a time in the Control Room, using the ample floor space for seating. Texts and/or libretti are reprinted from those supplied with the records wherever possiblej in cases where they are not supplied, we collect them from sources within and without the Library and put them into available form for the students to follow.

The staff of the Ausio Center — one full time person, five student-help personnel, and one part t ime technician -- are student oriented, in that we recognize that this is a service function, and every practice is maintained which will provide a maximum of service and information to Hie individual listener.

We are not limited to student usagej many faculty and staff find their way to listening carrels for varying amounts of time. The only limitations we recognize are those of space and the technical vagaries of highly sophisticated sound equipment, and polter geists.

Lorraine W. Weber

EXHIBITS The next library case exhibit is: Underground movements and their media. The exhibit, which will run February 2 through February 29$ includes newspapers, books, record albums and indexes originating from within both the political left and right as well as many of the current liberation movements. The exhibit was prepared by Mr. Robert Jones, Music Acquisitions librarian.

The University Archives exhibit for February will feature the University YMCA which is celebrating its 100th Anni­versary this month.

FRENCH NEWSPAPERS

At the request of Thomas Guback, Assoc. Prof, of Journalism, the Newspaper library has acquired a number of French language newspapers on microfilm, the bulk of which are radical and socialist organs. Most of these papers are not arailable elsewhere in the United States. Included ares 9b newspapers from the period of the French Revolution (1789-1799)} Journal de la Liberte de la Presse (Paris, 179U-1796), edited by Franfois-Jtfoel Babeuf, probably the first Communist journalist) 26 newspapers from the period of the Paris Commune (March-May 1871)I L'Atelier (Paris, 18UQ-1850)} and Le Bien-etre Social (Brussels, 1858-1860)0

STAFF LOUNGE

The Library staff lounge has several needs which our present funds cannot meet. The refrigerator needs replacing and chairs need repair. The Staff Association requests the donation of either a refrigerator in good working order or funds for the

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purchase of a refrigerator* We also need funds for the rewebbing of lounge chairs, and for necessary future upkeep.

Anyone who can offer a refrigerator should phone John Walker at 3~2U08. Anyone wishing- to contribute money should take it to Nancy Bier, 22OA Library.

In order to provide for continuing needs such as receptions, lounge supplies, etc., the Association is planning a book-bake-white elephant sale for late February, More on this later.

Connie Ashmore, John Littlewood, Sandi Meyer, and Kathy Price attended a two day Workshop on State Documents held in Springfield, 111. on January 20-21. The Workshop, which was sponsored by the Illinois State Library,, featured speakers from the Library of Con­gress, the Council of State Governments, the Illinois State Library, and various libraries in Illinois, as well as discussion groups and tours of the Illinois Historical Library and the Illinois State Lib­rary. Sandi Meyer, assistant Law Librarian, presented a paper on the use of state documents in Anglo-American law collection.

MEETINGS Mr. White attended the meeting of the Center for Research Libraries on January 20, the meeting of the Association of Research Libraries on January 22, and the meeting of the Council of Directors of State of Illinois Libraries on January 26, all in Chicago. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries. Professor Don Kemmerer, Chairman of the Senate Library Committee, also attended the CRL meeting.

PERSONNEL Wendell Barbour will be vice-president of Flossie Wiley Elementary School PTA in Urbana for 1972-73•

Becky and Chuck Elston, Librarian in the Newspaper Library, are the parents of a baby girl, born January 27, 1972.

Petro Kolesnyk, librarian in Special Languages, became a citizen of the United States.

Peter and Carol Leong are the parents of a daughter, Eugenie, born December 30, 1971* Carol is a cataloger in the Serial Cataloging Division.

Jim and Nancy Knipe are the parents of a son | born January U|, 1972. Nancy was a serial cataloger.

Duane Taylor, a student assistant in the Circulation Department, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was initiated on January 12.

Jim Rhodes, Librarian in the Documents Division, was married on ( December 11, to Carol Springer.

Nancy Sue Brooks, Libraiy Technical Assistant I, Serials Department, was married to Glenn Polin on January 21, 1972.

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ILLINOIS STATE DOCUMENTS WORKSHOP

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Miss Miriam Swanson, formerly the Graduate Assistant in the University High School Library, and now the Assistant Director of the Keene Memorial Library in Fremont, Nebraska, was recently featured in a story in the Fremont Tribune. She is responsible for the formation of a Vertical File containing pamphlets and newspaper clippings on topics of current interest. Miss / Swanson was in charge of the Vertical File at the University High School, and she finds that she still use£ many of the same topics which are of universal interest*

PUBLICATIONS LeBlanc, Albert* "Index to the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music .Education, numbers 13 through 26" by Albert and Helen LeBlanc* Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin no* 27, Winter,1972, pp. ln6-60.

Marianna Choldin, Librarian in the Special Languages Department, is writing eleven articles on Russian bibliographers for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Four have been completed so far: N,M. Lisowskii, A. V. Meafer, V. I* Mezhov and N. I* Novikov. The remaining seven will be on N. A. Rubakin, E. I. Shamurin, K. P. Simon, V. 3. Sopikov, S. A, Vengerov, I* V. Vladislavlev, and N. V. Zbodnov.

LIBRARY Among the Library School Colloquia scheduled for February: SCHOOL NEWS Feb. 17 - Mr* Hubert E. Davis, Director, Learning Resources

Center, Southwestern College, Chicago, speaking on "The Libraries of the City Colleges of Chicago." (Room 31U)

Feb* 2k - Mr* George Bonn, Prof* of Library Science, UI. speaking on "Libraries and Librarianship in India#" (Room 66)

The U* of I* Library School has been selected by the H. W* Wilson Foundation to receive a $2,000 scholarship in library science. It will be awarded to an outstanding student for 1972-73•

The Library School is seeking applicants for its masterf& degree program for members of any disadvantaged minority group* Up to 15 will be selected to begin graduate work next June. They will be offered one-half time assistantships requiring 20 hours of work each week and paying $>3j!?00 plus tuition each academic year* Those on the committee to select the students are Mr* Brown, chairman, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Garton, Mrs. Caroline and a present student in the program.

The newly formed student chapter of the Special Libraries ( Association met December 17 with Mr. Edward G. Strable, President-elect of the national S.L.A. and Mr. Yttlliam D. Murphy, President of the Illinois Chapter of S.L.A. Strable and Murphy presented "An Introduction to Special Libraries: Organization and Operations*" After a brief discussion the

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group attended a buffet dinner at the Union.

The Library School plans to phase out its 200 level courses in June of 1973• Anyone who would like to take a course in beginning cataloging, reference, book selection, or library organization should check with Mr. Brown in the Library School Office to see about possible openings. Enrollment is often high in these courses.

Publications:

Bonn, George S., "Library Self-Surveys" Library and Information Science (Mita Society) No. 9 (1971) p. 115-121.

Lancaster, F. W. An Evaluation of EARS (Epilepsy Abstracts Retrieval SystemJ and Factors Governing its Effectiveness. Report to the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Strokes. (October 1971)

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Lester, Marilyn A. Federal and State Govenment Publications of Professional Interest to the School Librarian: A Biblio­graphic Essay. (Occasional Papers No. lOOj Nov. 19Tl 31p«)

Lohrer, Alice• "The Impact of Independent Study on School Libraries as Media Centers" Library and Information Science (Mita Society) No. 9 (1971) p. 231~2li3o

Scarich, Kathryn and Margo Trumpeter. "The Community Information Inventory: Dope That Users Can't Find" Wilson Library Bulletin, 1*6:3, (Nov., 1971) p* 256-259*

Mr. Goldhor reports that Library School Occasional Papers can be written by anyone. Authors for this series do not have to be a part of the Library School.

The average salary received by the 92 M.S. graduates of the Library School in 1971 was $8, 839* This was an increase of approximately $200 over last year's average.

During the month of January the Library Research Center re­ceived a gift of books, journals and other materials which belonged to Bill Berner. The back files of journals were a welcome addition to the Center's collection.

Several new staff members ha-ve been added this month. Mrs. Cathleen Palmini joined the Center as a full-time staff member, Mrs. Palmini graduated from the U. of I. Library School in 1970. During the time she ms a student, she was an assistant in the Library Science Library. Upon graduation she became the assistant librarian at the Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Public Library. Miss Mary Ellen Jennings who is finishing work for an M.S. in the library School this month and who has been a graduate assistant at the Center will join the staff full-time February 1* In addition, Mrs. Beatrice Winston and Mr. Terry Weech will become part-time staff members while they continue their studies in the library School•

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TWO NEW LEARNERS JOIN LIBRARY STAFF

NONACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

These people are hired under the Centerfs new contract with the Illinois State Library. Under the agreement with the State Library the Research Center will continue the Audiovisual Study, the Books-by-Mall Evaluation and will initiate a Reciprocal Borrowing Study* Also, Maureen Gilluly of the Center staff has been working on a supplement to Ralph Stenstrom's bibliography on interlibrary cooperation. This is to be published annually in a spring issue °^ Illinois Libraries and eventually cumulated into a bound volume*

Mrs. Wert, the director of the Center, has agreed to serve on an advisory committee for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Illinois* The committee will be concerned with the collection of annual statisticalcfeta for school library programs in Illinois* The committee is to have its first meeting in early February*

During the past month the Annual Report of the Center was distributed. This report covered the period from 1969 to September 1971* The following reviews were published during January.

Wert, Lucille M. review of Perreault, Jean M. Toward a Theory for UDC: Essays Aimed at Structural Understanding and Operational Improvement. College and Research Libraries. 33: 59-60. Jan. 1972.

Leonard, Lawrence E. review of Hendricks, Donald D. Centralized Processing and Regional Library Development: The Midwestern Regional Library System, Kitchener, Ontario. College and Research Libraries. 33: 60-61, Jan. 1972.

The Library welcomes two new staff members who have started their employment under the Clerical Learner Program:

Burney, Maria Elaine, Library Clerk I Learner, Catalog Department, January 19, 1972.

Summitt, Shirley L., Clerk I Learner, Circulation Department, January 2i;, 1972.

Greenwood, Pattie J., Library Clerk II, University High School Library, December 27 , 1971•

Johansen, Stenford K., Clerk-Typist II, Music Library, December 27» 1971*

Joncich, Mary Jane, Library Clerk II, Ceramics Library, Januaiy 21*, 1972.

Maddox, Lenore A., Library Clerk II, Catalog Department, Januaiy 17, 1972./

Reutens, Mary, Library Clerk II, Engineering Library, January 10, 1972•

Rosinia, Pamela, Library Clerk II, Circulation Department, January 26, 1972*

Tindill, Janis, Library Clerk II, Undergraduate Library, December 21, 1971*

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Ting, Lucia L., Library Clerk II, Special Languages Department, Far Eastern Library, January 17, 1972•

Weinstein, Marta, Library Clerk II, Circulation Department, January 31, 1972•

Yerkins, Gary J., Library Attendant, 1/2 time, Undergraduate Library, January 11, 1972o

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