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LIBRARY STAFF BULLETIN

THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY STAFF ASSOCIATION

VOL. 3 1 , NO. 3 URBANA, ILLINOIS MARCH, 1974

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POSSIBLE ALA GROUP FLIGHT

A group flight from Willard Airport to New York City for the American Library Association Conference this summer may be arranged if 10 or more participants can be found. The flight would leave Champaign on the Sunday before the ALA Conference begins. The round trip price would be under $120 and participants need not come back together on the same flight. If interested, please contact Mrs. Draper, Library Science Library, 3-3804.

THANKS A hearty thanks from Chuck Elston to all staff members who have been participating in the recycling program. The quantity of paper being saved within the Library for recycling has increased substantially within the last several months. Keep up the work and encourage your neighbors to do likewise. Again, many thanks for "pitching in!!.

NOTABLE MAP ACQUISITION

An 1818 map of the United States published by the outstanding American cartographer of the day has recently been acquired by the University Library.

The "Map of the United States with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest and Best Authorities11 was first published in 1816 by John Melish, who established the first American firm engaged solely in the publication of maps and geographies.

The map, one of the first to show the full continental span of the United States territories, was published in editions of 100 copies and sold for $10.

The 1818 edition shows Illinois in its statehood year, with some geo­graphical peculiarities. The map shows a "Panhandle" in the northeast connecting the new state to Lake Michigan, which is shown more than a degree and a half too far to the east.

Inaccurate knowledge of this portion of land led to long boundary dis­putes between Michigan and Ohio. Misplacement of Lake Michigan con­tributed to distortion of the headwaters of the Illinois River which reportedly interlocked so closely with Lake Michigan that canoes could pass from one to the other.

The map is approximately 3 feet by 4 feet 9 inches, is colored in out­line, cut, folded and mounted on linen with marbeled covers. It was purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library.

PEOPLE Hiram H. Lesar, new acting president of Southern Illinois University was head of the University of Illinois Stacks while a student in law school back in the 1920s. i

LIBRARIAN SPEAKS

Robert Delzell, Personnel Librarian, will give a colloquim talk for the Graduate Library School at Florida State University in Tallahassee on Thursday, April 18. He will be discussing procedures involved in job hunting in today's much changed market for professional librarians.

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The Far Eastern Library, located in room 227 of the main Library Build­ing, was established in 1965 as a division of the Special Languages Department. With a staff of four full-time professionals, one full-time equivalent technical assistant, one full-time clerk, and two full-time equivalent student help positions (an actual total of 14 persons), the library serves as an acquisitions, cataloging, and reference cen­ter for materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Koreano Particularly strong in history and political science, the library's collection covers all subject areas and includes an outstanding collection of Chinese and Japanese art and of Japanese rare books. Many materials are at least partially bilingual and therefore of potential interest and use even to those having no knowledge of any Asian language. Latest statistics on library holdings show that in June, 1973, the Far East­ern Library had a total of approximately 66,700 volumes, including an estimated backlog of approximatley 1600 uncataloged volumes.

At the time of the founding of the Far Eastern Library, the University of Illinois Library was particularly concerned to develop non-Western language collections, and the Special Languages Department, including Far Eastern, grew out of an attempt to handle most effectively the specific problems of processing such materials. A five-year grant from the Ford Foundation to the Asian Studies Center, established a year earlier in 1964, provided ample funds for early development of the collection, half the grant being designated for library materials0 Since that time, the collection has continued to grow at a steady rate, eventually causing problems in the housing of the collection. Pre­sently, Far Eastern books are kept in three locations. A small refer­ence collection is housed in the reading room adjacent to the office area in 227 Library, half of the circulating collection is located in locked stacks in the main Library basement, and the other half is lo­cated in Law Storage, a stack area in the Law Building where service and access is limited to two hours a day. This scattering of resources creates many inconveniences for both patrons and staff, and it is the hope of the staff that sometime in the future provision can be made for a unified stack arrangement for Far Eastern materials which would also include space for a larger reference area so that many important Western language reference materials now in the general Library book-stacks could be shelved with the Far Eastern reference collection

Aside from its special character as a foreign language collection, several features distinguish the Far Eastern Library from other de­partmental libraries. All materials are classified in the Library of Congress classification, and due to an early Library decision, no cards for Far Eastern materials are kept in the general card catalog or in the central serial record. The Far Eastern Library has a divided cat­alog, with subject cards being filed in one catalog and separate author-title catalogs by language for each of the three languages represented0

The Far Eastern Library is open 8-12 and 1-5 Monday through Friday and 7-10 PoMo Monday through Thursday. We are always ready to serve both Library personnel and patrons in any question relating to the Far East. Please drop in soon.

Bill McCloy Far Eastern Library

SMOKEY BEAR NEWS (AGAIN?)

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Word has reached the editors of the Staff Bulletin that Smokey Bear is "over the hill," according to an official of the Washington National Zoo. "It's just one of those things that has to be facedo Hefs not a cub any more," Smokey, orphaned by a forest fire in 1950, will be 24 years old this spring, a year shy of the average life span of a bear in captivity. Although he has been arthritic for many years, Smokey has "never been a begging bear," according to the zoo Director, Theodore H. Reed. "He's an executive-type bear concerned about forest fires." The editor's best wishes go out to Smokey for continued good health and long lifeD

DATA PROCESSING CLINIC

The Eleventh Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be held April 28 to May 1, 1974 at the Illini Union.

The theme of this clinic will be "The Application of Minicomputers to Library and Related Problems." The clinic will include a tutorial on minicomputers, demonstrations, and papers describing specific appli­cations o A wide range of applications will be discussed, both in terms of the library activity in which it is used (ee g. as a stand-alone unit or as the "front end" to a larger computer configuration). The subject is one of great current interest because minicomputers may offer important economic advantages in library automation and because they provide a means whereby a library may achieve greater control over its data processing activities.

As in previous clinics, the emphasis will be upon intermediate and ad­vanced rather than introductory, levels of computer applications in libraries. Library staff are welcome to attendo Information and brochures are available in the Library School Office, 329 Library.

PEOPLE University Archivist Maynard Brichford has accepted an appointment at the Smithsonian Institution to direct a survey of the documentary col­lections of the National Museum of History and Technology. Over the next four months, he will head a group in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that will inventory archival and manuscript collections in the Department of Science and Technology. The records of the divi­sions of electricity and nuclear energy, physical sciences, medical sciences and mechanical and civil engineering, as well as the collec­tions in mathematics and the Computer History Project will be involvedc Mr. Brichford will report on basic intellectual controls over the col­lections and provide an evaluation of the collection policies and programs.

SPECIAL LANGUAGES Marianna Tax Choldin reports that her article "Three Early Russian DEPARTMENT Bibliographers," appears in the January, 1974, issue of The Library AUTHORESS Quarterly, on pages 1-28. Readers of the Staff Bulletin will recognize

Marianna as the source of some translations that appeared on our pagas' some time agoD

PERSONAL COLUMN Will Vo R., who was last known to be working the "night owl reference service" in Los Angeles, write her friends at her former place of em­ployment?

THE GADFLY: THE NEW LIBRARY FACULTY ORGANIZATION: A MINORITY CRITIQUE GOADING TOWARD EXCELLENCE, BY There is a small, dedicated group of self-seekers in this library LOUISE CLARK who are using organizations, structures, and committees as a means of

trying to gain promotion. They have the impression that the only way to get promoted in this library is through administrative activity0 There are not enough administrative positions to go around, so they set up organizations, structures, committees. One of these politicos, as I shall call them, has even devised an ingenious scheme to carve out an administrative domain for herself where none has existed here­tofore. I shan't describe the scheme here, because others of the po­liticos might try to imitate it. Suffice it to say that if the number of bosses in the department would proliferate, everyone would be in a rigid straitjacket of classification, and everyone would be evaluat­ing everyone else. It reminds me of the Soviet Union, where children inform on their parents. And the politicos remind me of the Soviet governing elite. The purpose of their organization, according to its constitution, is to "create a forum whereby the Library faculty may democratically participate in the formulation of policies.ff But the same persons are on six different committees. They have run around from department to department, saying, "Vote for me, vote for me!" They reason that, if being on one committee will get then an assis­tant-professorship, surely being on six committees will get them an associate-professorship. And the tragedy of this multiple-member­ship on committees is that, when an administrator is required to ap­point people to a committee, the names of these politicos come to his mind because they have served before0 He completely ignores the quiet, hard-working scholar-librarians who are dedicated to the improvement of the library and see no need for all this political activity.

The only legitimate form of participatory management is the brain­storming model, in which everyone sits in a circle and everyone's ideas have a chance to be voiced without being ignored by some com­mittee or watered-down or changedo The whole parliamentary bit be­longs to the nineteenth century. The mode of the behavioral sciences and of business management is the brainstorming model. This is being practised in the Commerce Library, where gripes are aired and corrected, and improvements for the Commerce Library suggested, without any of that obsolete apparatus of Soviet-style government by a self-appointed elite. We did not vote for them in any intelligent, informed manner0 They expressed the desire to run, and we thought, "If they want to be on the committee, let them." A fairer, more democratic form of par­ticipatory management, if the whole academic staff is considered too large to sit in a circle, is the referendumG Some of our legislators use this method to inform themselves of their constituents' views on issues. I consider my views to be every bit as worthy and valid as those of anyone in the bureaucratic organization structure.

The method of the politicos is to steamroller through legislation with the excuse, "We have debated this long enough; you have had ample time to inform youselves." Was the material on which the committees base their reports made available to us? When I asked the chairman of the Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee for copies of the re­ports of the corresponding committees at three other universities which she has said are good, I was told, "Those belong to individuals and have been returned to them. You are welcome to write to those universities and ask for copies." At Harvard, all the reports of the committees, the minutes, and the documents from which they wrote their

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THE GADFLY reports are made available to the whole library staff for inspection. Continued When I asked at our organization meeting on March 14, "How many have

read the Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for Appointment, Promotion, etc. of the ACRL," only one-third of those present raised their hands. They had not even had the curiosity to find out whether the report they were accepting was the best of all possible policies, | but voted withthe herd, stampeded into saying yes out of fear of offending their colleagues on the committees, the administrators, or simply out of apathy0 Is that intelligent, informed voting? Or is it humanitarian to vote that one's colleagues at the Instructor rank should be fired after three years if they cannot be recommended for promotion to Assistant Professor? Where is the money for all these promotion raises to come from? If the Instructor rank in the library is to be converted to a nonacademic position (see Administrative Staff Conference Notes for May, 1973), the majority of us will even­tually be Assistant Professors. This means that the total money a-vailable to a department for merit raises will have to be deflected into promotion raises, thus depriving the rest of the staff of the higher raises they would otherwise receive0 The evil will be com­pounded if those now gunning for Associate Professor on the basis of their membership on six committees are successful» I heard of a li­brary which has organized itself as ours is doing, so that they have a disproportionate number of Assistant Professors0 The dean in charge of the budget said to them, "You have too many Assistant Professors,11

and allotted a riase of $425 to be divided among a staff of twenty-three. I wonder how many of the committee members and officers of the organization would suddenly find themselves too busy to serve, if it were announced that being on the internal committees of a unit was not considered grounds for advancement? Or if they were advanced in rank without the raise in pay which usually accompanies the advancement?

If we would stop the frenetic organization activity for a while, and answer the following questions:

1. What is a library? Is it an academic unit or an administrative unit? Or a hybrid midway between these two?

2. What is a librarian? Does he have to be called a 'professor,1

or should he not be honored to be called simply 'librarian1?

3. What are the goals of the library? Are they to get the highest possible pay for the staff? Or are they to spend the most money possible on books, so that we can overtake Yale and Harvard as the best academic libraries in the country? And eventually surpass them, as the Librarian of Harvard once intimated we might?

I would answer these questions as follows. What is the library? The University of Illinois Library is an academic support service (Library Office Notes, no. 58, September 18, 1973, pQ 2). It is analagous, in { the University structure, to the Health Service and to computing ser­vices. Thus, we are a service unit, in that we serve the teaching faculty in carrying out its academic function. We perform our role through the mechanism of an administrative structureo We are organ­ized for work in the same manner as the Registrar's Office, the Busi­ness Office, or Personnel Services; that is, we work for thirty-nine hours per week at desks, at card catalogs, at counters, and at book­shelves. Our staff is academic, non-academic, and student, all working

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together to carry out our role of service. Once can tell from our titles, assistant professor of library administration, etc., that we are not an academic unit. One can tell this also from the fact that in the Table of Contents of the University Statutes the Library is not listed under Article III, Campuses, Colleges and Similar Campus Units; nor under Article IV, Departments; but by itself, under Article VI, The Campus Library0 We are a unique, hybrid unit.

What is a librarian in an international research library? Librarians with faculty status have trouble establishing their identities, just as blacks do. Until we recognize that rlibrarian1 is a dignified, worthy, honored, scholarly profession in itself, and that there is no need to call oneself by the recherch^ title 'instructor of library administration1 ( whatever that means), we will not be able to fulfill our potential as simply 'librarians.1 Faculty status for librarians at this university began in the mid-1940s. Librarians1 salaries were low in those days, and bestowing pompous titles has always been a means of compensating for low salaries.

I believe in honesty, forthrightness, and avoidance of euphemisms. How would it be if we described ourselves as simply librarians? In­stead of professor, assistant professor, and associate professor, let us call ourselves librarian, assistant librarian, and associate li­brarian o Positions at the instructor level will disappear by attri­tion, being converted as they become vacant to non-academic positions. These will probably be filled by library technical assistants and li­brary assistants. It would be desirable to find some word other than 'assistant1 to describe these, in order to avoid confusion with 'as­sistant librarian.1 Or perhaps the words could be transposed: tech­nical library assistant and graduate library assistant. The adminis­trative titles of those now called 'librarian' would have to be changed in order to avoid ambiguity with the academic rank 'librarian.' Thus, the University Librarian would become Director of the Campus Library, as he is referred to in the Statutes. His academic rank would be Li­brarian o This would bring the administrative titles of the Director and the Associate Director into uniformity with those of the director of technical services, the director of public services, and the direc­tor of personnel services. Wherever 'librarian' appears as the title of the head of a department or division or a departmental library, it would be changed to 'head.' This would bring our administrative titles into uniformity with those of the academic departments, in which the chief administrative officer is called 'heado' Our titles would look like this:

Director of the Campus Library; Librarian Associate Director of the Campus Library; Associate Librarian Director of Personnel; etc. Director of Public Services Director of Technical Services Acquisition Department Head

Catalog Department Head

Binding Division Head

Agriculture Library

Head Biology Library Head

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THE GADFLY Non-administrative personnel would have titles such as: Continued

Bibliographer, Library; Assistant Librarian Cataloger, Library; Assistant Librarian

I think that bringing our administrative titles into uniformity with / the listings in the University Statutes and with those of the academic ̂ departments would strengthen our status as members of the faculty0 Calling ourselves by our true academic titles instead of 'professor' would neutralize the opposition of the vice-chancellor and some of the faculty to our having faculty statusT for we would be in our proper ranking in the academic hierarchy, at the bottom, in our supportive service roleQ You can see our ranking in the academic structure if you look in the staff directory under any of the academic departments. The officers of the department are listed; then, at the very bottom, appears the word 'library0' We would still have faculty status, of course, as stated in the University Statutes, Article VIof. The 'as­sistant' and 'associate' before 'librarian' would show this0 But in one stroke of the pen our identity crisis and our delusions of gran­deur would be cured. No longer would we have to fit ourselves into the ill-fitting mold of the teaching faculty: we would be freed to become the genius of 'librarian,' the very best kind of librarian of which we are capable, A hundred things would leap to mind which we need to be doing to improve our qualifications and the library's service before the COPE evaluators reach usQ In my next article I shall sug­gest some of these things.

ARIZONA FAN The editors are pleased to announce the receipt of a very nice letter SUGGEST TOPIC from Professor Robert K. Johnson, Graduate Library School, University FOR NEW AWARD of Arizona. Professor Johnson, a Ph. Do graduate of the University

of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, was prompted to write after noting our flow chart in the January, 1974, issue of the Staff Bulletin0

Acknowledging the importance of research in areas of librarianship such as those covered in the flow chart, the professor forwarded "an­other important piece of 'librariana*ff with which he was personally acquainted. Along with this worthy document came the suggestion that it be submitted as a candidate for the Harlow Farblast Award for Crea­tive Research in the History of Books and Printing. Professor Johnson also suggested that "with the receipt of this letter the nominations (for the award) be closed."

Finally, in an act of extreme generosity, the professor enclosed an endowment indicative of the importance that he places on this sug­gested awardo The interest from this endowment is to be used "to par­tially subsidize the expense of announcing the awards annually0"

The editors are at this moment conducting a series of meetings with Professor James Divilbiss, holder of the exclusive rights to the Har­low Farblast name and goodwill, to see if the award suggested by Pro­fessor Johnson can be established on a regular basis in the future. If discussions are fruitful, the results will be announced in a future issue of the Staff Bulletin.

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ARIZONA FAN It should be noted that Professor Johnson cites knowledge gained at SUGGESTS TOPIC the University of Illinois as helping him gain insight into the parti-FOR NEW AWARD cularly thorny problems he encountered in this specific piece of li-Continued brary researchc He particularly mentions Dr. Goldhor's course in

Principles of Research Methods, and Miss Houchens1 course in the His­tory of Books and Printing.

Reprinted in its totality, is Professor Johnson's definitive treatise submitted for consideration as the first Harlow Farblast Award for Creative Research in the History of Books and Printing. At the time the article was written Professor Johnson was the University Librarian at the University of Arizona.

LOST ANGLO-SAXON WORD REDISCOVERED

The University of Arizona Library Newsletter of 14 February 1969 car­ried a book review by one of its staff members of Robert Somerlott's The Inquisitorys House (New York, Viking, 1968)„ The final sentence of the review ran in part as follows: "Mexico in the nineteenth cen­tury, its crowded cities and arroyo-filled deserts, is the background for this well-written, starnegly moving novel o . .If

The Library office received a number of calls concerning the word "starnegely11, so the University Librarian, being of a linguistic turn of mind, did a little research on it.

"Starnegely" turns out to be a seldon used word with a strange history (as far as it can be traced); it is one of the few remaining Anglo-Saxon words in English which are more than four letters long. McMurtie1s O.E.Do (Oldest English Dictionary, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1583) indicates that it probably got to England from Norway in a viking raid which was repulsed by Harold not long before the Battle of Hastings. It was in a jeweled manuscript book, the contents of which fell into the surf during this raid.

It was rescued by a German monk by the name of Vogelsamen who had been a member of a French monastic order founded by Columba (when Br. Vogels­amen came to England he Anglicized his name to Byrdeseede). Br0 Byrde-seede was able to take time out from his rescue activities on the beach during the battle and managed to save the cover and a few of the soaked pages; these fragments became known as ByrdeseedeTs Beach Booke. A-mong the words in these fragments were "starnegely" and a few others which also were recorded later in other documents0 The pages have long since disintegrated but the jeweled cover with its brass binding strips may still be seen at Bethwyn Abbey, Burlap-upon-Tweed, on the coast near Land's End. McMurtrie wonders at the fact that the word does not appear anywhere in Chaucer but concludes that its meaning was lost in the mists of history (page 2143, paragraph a., vol.2).*

*The only known (and, it might be added, unrecorded) copy of McMurtie was destroyed in a stack fire in the University of Arizona Library in 1970; and, almost as tragic, the Abbey apparently was too close to Land's End and it was totally demolished in a terrible storm in 1971.

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STREAKING HITS LIBRARY

The Library at the University of South Carolina was invaded recently by a large crowd of naked students chasing a girl streaker into the library reading rooms „ This was part of a mass streak at the campus on the night of March 4, that was claimed as a record by observers, "You have no idea how 500 naked people look all at once," said an amazed librarian0

SALARY NEWS FOR LIBRARY CLERKS

Salaries in the Library Clerk series were made equal to salaries in the Clerk-Typist series several months ago, but funding is not avail­able at the present time to allow the salary upgradingo Funding for the raises of Library Clerks1 pay has been requested in the Fiscal Year 1975 budget and there is every reason to believe that this fund­ing will be looked upon as a high priority item by the University0

PEOPLE Word has reached the editors through Bertha Claure, Library Clerk in the Map and Geography Library, that Bill Woods, former Map and Geo­graphy Librarian, has resigned his position as Executive Director of Engineering Index due to illness0 MrQ Woods was in the Map and Geo­graphy Library from 1949 to 1958. Friends may write to him at 6 Frontier Lane, East Northport, New York 11731.

MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

The University of Illinois was host to the annual midwinter meeting of the Music Library Association from January 30 through February 2, 1974. Over 200 registrants participated in sessions held at the Champaign Hilton Hotel, the New Music Building and the Levis Faculty Center.

Several of the papers and panel discussions presented at the meeting dealt with various facets of research in American Music. To compliment the event, the School of Music's "American Music Festival11 featured concerts that week by the Jazz Band, the Black Chorus, an early Amer­ican dinner and concert entitled "Evening at Monticello," a concert of works by twentieth century American composers and a revival of George Bristow's 1855 opera, "Rip van Winkle."

Music Library Association visitors were treated to a preview of the new quarters for the Unviversity of Illinois Music Library and a tour of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The program chairman was Jack Ralston of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Kansas City; the local arrangements committee was chaired by Jean Geil of the University of Illinois Music Library Staff0 Convention pro­grams were hand-printed in Urbana at the Petrucci Press0

1974 WINDSOR LECTURES

Jean Geil Music Library

< The 1974 Phineas L. Windsor lectures in librarianship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be delivered by two guest speakers May 3 and 4 (Friday-Saturday)0

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1974 WINDSOR LECTURES Continued

Lecturers will be Harold Lancour, dean emeritus, University of Pitts­burgh Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences and former assistant director of the U0 of I. Library School from 1947 to 1961, and Peggy Sullivan, executive secretary of the Library Education Di­vision and director of the Office for Library Personnel Resources of the American Library Association.

The Windsor lectures this year will be given in honor of Alice Lohrer, professor of library science, who will retire from the UIUC faculty in August. Miss Lohrer has been on the faculty since 1941 and is well known for her work in the fields of library materials and media pro­grams for children and young adults, as well as in comparative inter­national librarianship. The lecture topics have been chosen to coin­cide with her professional interests0

DrD Lancour will speak at 3 PoM. and 7:30 P0Mo May 3 in the College Law auditorium. His topics will be "The Role of Americans in Library Education Abroad11 and "Trends in Librarianship in Developing Countries«" Dr. Lancour is noted for his work in library administration, education for librarianship and international librarianship0 Author of several books and articles, he is joint editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.

Miss Sullivan1s lectures will be delivered at 11 A.M. and 2:30 PoM. May 4 in Room 141 Commerce West, on the topics "Desirable Personal Qualities in School Library Personnel" and "The Future as Depicted in Childrenfs Books Today."

Miss Sullivan has been director of the Knapp School Libraries Project of the American Library Association, and assisant professor of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences.

The Windsor lectures given each year in memory of the late Phineas L. Windsor, director of the UIUC Library from 1909 to 19400 At the time of his retirement, a lecture fund was established with contributions from thousands of alumni of the Library School. Members of the library staff are welcome to attend these lectures.

HARLOW FARBLAST AWARD

Terry Pitts, Graduate Assistant in the Circulation Department, is the recipient of the Eighth Quasi-Annual Harlow Farblast Award for Creative Flowcharting. The award is given by Professor James Divilbiss for the outstanding flowchart submitted by a student in his Library Science 415 class on library automation. The subject of Terryfs flowchart was "The Passage of a Bill Through the House of Representatives."

NOTABLE BOOKS COUNCIL CHAIRED BY ASSOCIATE LIBRARIAN

The March 1, 1973, edition of Booklist has a small article that warmly praises the work of the American Library Associations Notable Books Council. Dorothy Parr Snowden, Adult Books Editor, remarks that The Council " . . . restored this editor's eroded idealistic notions con­cerning implementation of noble professional concepts we all proclaim^ Cheerfully chaired by Bob Oram, 12 committee members . . .argued the merit of each book nominated . . . ."

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EXHIBITS An exhibit honoring the 30th anniversary of the Map and Geography Li­brary was on view during February in the first floor display cases of the Library.

Maps have been a part of the Library since the University's founding, but in the past 30 years the collection has increased dramatically. i In 1914, the collection numbered 2,428 items; in 1940, 4,870o In that year, the collection moved to its present location in Room 418 of the Library and in 1944, the first map librarian was hired. The collection now numbers 261,000 maps, 14,000 books, 104,000 aerial photographs, 8 globes and 30 relief models. Its speciality is Americana, particularly early maps of the Northwest Territory and Illinois.

The variety of its holdings was indicated by the displayQ Of partic­ular interst were the early maps, including a 1591 map of the Pacific and a 1613 map of South America by Gerardus Mercator showing Manoa, the legendary "city of gold," one of many places that inspired Spanish exploration of the New World.

Another curiosity was a 1680 map of North America showing California as an island, a common misconception in the 17th century. A 1785 "pocket map11 of London lists hackney coach fares.

Also on view were aerial photographs and thematic maps, showing the distribution of forest and prairie, location of roads and highways and distribution of migrant workers0

The display was chosen and arranged by David Cobb, Map and Geography Librarian.

The exhibit presently in the cases in the first floor corridor illus­trates the enviable record of American Physics over the past two gen­erations. In the 66 year period, 1907-1973, American scientists, both native and foreign born, received or shared in 27 Nobel Awards in Physics. Since a number of awards were shared, 38 individual Ameri­cans have received the prize. These are illustrated by a variety of library materials - books and articles by the laureates, portraits and photographs reproduced in books and magazines, illustrations of the work of the prize winners, notices of the awards in the science press, and two theses written on this campus by two of the laureates, Polycarp Kusch, Ph.D. 1936, Nobel Prize 1955, and Robert Schlieffer, Ph0D0 1957, Nobel Prize 1972. The year, the name of the laureate and the Nobel committee's citation are included on small annotation cards for each year in which there has been an American laureate.

One entire case is devoted to John Bardeen of the University of Illi­nois1 Physics and Engineering Faculties and the only person to receive two Nobel Prizes in the same field. On display are photographs made at the 1956 (for the transistor) and 1972 (for the theory of super- I conductivity) Nobel ceremonies, family snapshots, commemorative medals, Bardeen's diploma received at the 1972 ceremony, and other memorabilia loaned by the Bardeens for this exhibit. The diploma is of special interest, bound in blue leather with gold decorative stamping, it is illuminated by a painting depicting the artists conception of super­conductivity as an example of the unity of all creation. Each of the

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diplomas awarded in 1972 was similarly decorated, each painting tak­ing its theme from the nature of the individual award.

ART AWARD TO ENGINEERING LIBRARY EMPLOYEE

Credits for the exhibit go to Dee Wallace, Webb and Bill Henderson.

Bunny Hulsizer, Margaret

Marjorie So Ingersoll, a recently appointed circulation clerk at the Engineering Library, has been awarded the Hyman Memorial Print Award of $100 for a print entered in the Wabash Valley Art Exhibition. The medium of the print was silkscreen, and was entitled "Colours of Early Morning Misto" Her print is now one of the permanent collection of the Sheldon Swope Art Galery in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the exhi­bition was held. Mrs. Ingersoll is also a part-time student enrolled in the graduate Art Education program of the University of Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at Miami University, Oxford, OhiOo Her husband, Daniel, is a graduate student here, work­ing toward a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering.

BABY NEWS Darinka Craft, Library Technical Assistant in the Special Languages Department, gave birth to a baby boy, Gregory William, on January 28, 1974.

RECIPE This recipe comes from Bob Delzell, Personnel Librarian. It was recent­ly offered for consumption at the Staff Association bake sale and was well received.

FINNISH OATMEAL BREAD

4 cups warm water and 1 tablespoon sugar ^ cup warm water in which you dissolve 3 packages of dry yeast 3 cups oatmeal (uncooked) 2 tablespoons salt 2^ pounds flour

Knead until it doesn't stick to you or the pan. Let rise 1 hour, covered, in a warm place0 Cut into four sections and place into well buttered pans. Let rise 1 hour. Put in oven, NOT preheated, at 400 degrees for 15 minutes Lower heat to 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes.

You should brush the tops with soft butter during baking to get a nice brown top crust.

LIBRARY SCHOOL FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Bonn, George S., "Evaluation of the Collection", p. 256-304 in SQR. Reed, ed., "Evaluation of Library Service", Library Trends 22(Jan. 1974)0

Wilkens, Lea-Ruth, "Mythology and Folklore Collections-Myth or Reality?", Top of the News 30 (JanQ 1974 p0 158-60.)

Wert, Lucille, "Information Center Profile: Library Research Center", Information: Part 1-News: Sources, Profiles 5(Nov.-Dec. 1973) p. 249-520

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LIBRARY SCHOOL FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Continued

Goldhor, Herbert, "The Future of Education for Library and Information Services", ppr 109-21 in Martha Boaz, edo, Toward the Improvement of Library Education (Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1973).

LIBRARY SCHOOL FACULTY NEWS

Mr. Lancaster read a paper entitled "Problems of Communication in the Operation of Information Storage and Retrieval Systems," at a confer­ence on the Relationship of Technical and Colloquial Languages, which was held at Bad Hamburg, West Germany, from January 17 to 20. On Jan­uary 28 Mr. Lancaster participated in~a site visit at Cornell University Department of Computer Science on behalf of the National Library of Medicine . . nMiss Thomassen and Mrs0 Goehner surveyed the IMC of the Scholl of Education of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Feb­ruary 4 - 5 , and wrote a 13 page report of their study0 Miss Thomassen is chairman of the 1974 Nominating Committee and a member of the Long Range Planning Committee of AALSo On December 10 - 13 Miss Thomassen served on a North Central Association accreditation team for West Chicago Community High School „ 0 „ Mrs* Wert and Miss Wilkens have been appointed to the campus Committee on Continuing Education Studies . o .MrD Krummel is serving on a Renaissance Studies Committee of the LAS School of Humanities.

UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES PATHFINDERS

Pathfinders are research guides on specific topics prepared and de­veloped by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of Pro­ject Intrex and published by Addison-Wesley. On each Pathfinder the scope of the subject is defined and the user is told where to find introductions to the topic, what subject headings are relevant, fre­quently mentioned texts, reference books, bibliographies, indexes applicable to the subject, and journals likely to contain information. Along with the Pathfinder, the participating library receives two catalog cardso The library types in the subject headings deemed ap­propriate and files the cards in its catalog. Libraries may add call numbers if they wish, and may reproduce the Pathfinders at will with­in the libraryo

The Undergraduate Library has a standing order for Pathfinders and has received approximately 350 separate subject guides. Subject fields now covered by Pathfinders include: civil and mechanical engineering, e-lectrical engineering including computer science, pollution, philosophy, biology, anthropology, education, history, music, art, religion and sociologyo Upon arrival in Undergrad, the Pathfinders are processed and then duplicated by Photographic Services. A minimum of ten copies is made of each and in the case of a popular topic like "Women's Lib­eration" at least fifty copies are produced at a printing. The master is kept in the Undergrad office and the copies are filed in a cabinet behind the circulation desko When a student discovers the availability of a specific Pathfinder, either through the card catalog or by means ( of displays in the library, he requests a copy at the circulation desk. He is then given a guide and an explanation of its use. When the supply of a particular Pathfinder is exhausted, more copies are produced, filed and distributed. We do not use Pathfinders as substitutes for reference service or instruction in the use of the library„ They

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often require elaboration and actually provide a good beginning in developing a working librarian-client relationship„

At present, Pathfinders are being used in the Engineering, Biology and Education libraries. Other libraries interested in utilizing Pathfinders or who have questions about the service may contact Lynne Blair at 333-3503. Undergrad will duplicate any guides a librarian feels would be useful0 A copy of a typical Pathfinder appears on page J 9,

Lynne Blair Undergraduate Library

NEW BOOK "Jerusalem the Liberated11 by Torquato Tasso, considered one of the ACQUISITIONS most beautifully illustrated books published in the 18th century, is

one of the recent acquisitions of the U of I Library.

Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, the handsome volume was on view in an exhibition of the year's notable acuisitions in the Rare Book Room, 346 Library.

Published in Venice in 1745, the book was illustrated with magnifi­cent copperplate engravings by Piazzetta, one of the foremost 18th century Venetian painters. "Jerusalem the Liberated11 is dedicated to Maria Theresa, queen of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, and contains a dedication portrait of the QueenQ

Other notable acquisitions are two emblem books, books containing a picture, a motto complementing the picture and a prose text elaborating both. These books were much in vogue from the mid-16th to the beginning of the 18th century and were often compiled and produced as intellectual exercises by wealthy persons who wished to show off their cleverness.

The two books are "Civitas Veri" by Bartolommeo del Bene, a work on the Utopian ideal state, and a 1634 volume by Spanish theologian Pedro > Bivero, which is notable for its 70 illustrations of crucified martyrs0 The two works are a substantial addition to the Rare Book Room's col­lection of several hundred emblem books.

Another notable acquisition is an early edition (1495) of a 15th cen­tury "best-seller," "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville," from the incunabula period of printing0 First published in 1483, it went through 15 editions by the year 1500. Though the author's travels were largely imaginary, he asserted confidently that man could sail around the earth and return home safely. The book helped fire the imaginations of explorers who sought routes to China and India0

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant0" (This stopper came to the Staff Bulletin all the way from Detroit.)

UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES PATHFINDERS Continued

CONVERSATION STOPPER FOR COCKTAIL PARTIES

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HOW DOES YOUR CAR RATE FOR GAS MILEAGE? *Yhe Environmental Protection Agency recently

released summaries of exhaust emissions and gas mileage on 1974 model automobiles. The tests, conducted at the EPA's national testing laboratory at Ann Arbor, were set up to simulate

Engine size (cu. in.) & carburetor

venturh

American Motors Corp.

weight class

(pounds)

fuel economy

m.p.g. tram.

Gremlin Hornet Matador Javelin Wagoneer Ambassador

232-1 232-1 304-2 360-2 360-4 360-4

3,000 3,500 4,000 4,000 4.500 4,500

198-1 3,500 16.0 A3

British Leyland Motor Corp. Spitfire 91-1 2,000 Triumph-6 152-2 2,750 88 Land Rover 139-1 3,500

Chrysler Corp. Dodge Comp. Plymouth

Comp. Comp. Inter.

Chrysler Chrysler Dodge FS Plymouth FS Dodge FS Chrysler Plymouth

Inter.

Ford Motor Co.

225-1 360-4 440-4 440-4 400-2 400-2 400-4 400-4 440-4

Pinto Pinto Capri Mustang Mustang Maverick Comet Maverick Torino Bronco Montego

Wagon Torino Torino Wagon Montego Ford Cougar Ranchero Torino Mercury Station

Wagon Ford Station

Wagon Mercury Cougar Lincoln

122-2 140-2 122-2 140-2 170-2 200-1 200-1 250-1 250-1 302-2

302-2 302-2 351-2 351-2 351-2 351-4 351-4 351-2

400-2 460-4 460-4 460-4

General Motors Corp. Vega Hatch­

back 140-1 Ve^a Hatch­

back 140-1 Malibu Classic 350-2 Caprice CLS SP 400-2 Caprice Wagon 400-4 Laguna 454-4 Lemans 350-2 Bonneville 400-2 GTO 350-4 Ventura 350-4

15.9 14.7 11.6 11.6 10.6 10.4

22,3 16^9 17.7

3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000

440-4 4,500

2,750 2,750 2,750 3,000 3,500 3,000 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,000

5,000 4,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 4,500 4,500

400-2 5,500

5,500 5,500 5,000 5,500

16.7 11.8 8.5 9.1 8.7 7.9 7.4 8.2 8.4

22.8 21.0 19.8 16.5 17.3 15.0 15.5 15.6 14.0 10.1

11.4 11.8 8.3 9.1 9.3 9.3 9.0 10.8

9.5 8.1 8.6 7.9

A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3

M4 M4 M4

A3 M3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3

A3

M4 M4 M4 M4 M4 A3 A3 A3 A3 M3

A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 M4 A3

7.9 A3

A3 A3 A3 A3

2,750 19.6 A3

2,750 4,500 5,000 5,500 4,500 4,500 5,000 4,000 4,000

24.6 9.9 8.8 8.8 7.6 9.9 7.8 8.9 9.9

M3 A3 A3 A3 M4 A3 A3 M4 A3

a typical urban driving condition, starting with a cold engine and running through a 7.5 mile stop-and-go trip. Note that transmissions are listed as "A3" meaning Automatic, 3-speed, or M4, mean­ing Manual, 4 speed, etcetera.

Engine size (cu. in.) & weight carburetor class

Venturis (pounds)

fuel economy

m.p.g. trans.

Catalina 4DSED

Grand Safari Delta 88 Royal Cutlass S Vista Cruiser Delta 88 Wagon Toronado Century Lesabre Lesabre Electra 225 Fleetwood 75LI Eldorado

400-4 455-4 350-4 350-4 350-4 455-4 455-4 350-2 350-4 455-2 455-4 472-4 500-4

International Harvester Scout 4WD 258-1 Scout 2WD 258-1 lOOTravelall

2WD 391-4

5,000 5,500 5,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 5,500 4,500 5,000 5,000 5,500 5,500 5,500

4,000 4,000

5,500

9.2 8.4 9.0 9.5 8.7 7.6 8.3

10.1 10.4 8.1 8.3 8.2 8.0

12.3 11.3

Lamborghini Espada

400 GT

Mercedes-Benz MB-114 MB-116

167-4 276-F1

Nissan Motor Co. DatsunB210 78.7-2 Datsun610 119-2 Datsun 260Z 156-1

Opel Manta Opel 1900

Peugeot 504 Sedan

Porsche 911T

Renault

116-2 116-2

3,500 4,500

2,250 2,750 3,000

2,500 2,500

14.1 9.9

17 Sport Coupe 95-F1 12 Sedan

SAAB SAAB 97 SAAB 99 SAAB 99 LE

Toyota Corolla-1 Sedan Corolla-2 Sedan Corona-2D

Sedan Mark II Station

Wagon Land Cruiser

HT

100-2

103-1 121-1 121-F1

71-2 97-2

120-2

156-2

236-2

Volkswagen Deluxe Sedan II 97-1 VW181 97-1 Karmann

Ghia 14 97-1 Roadster 120-F1

2,750 2,500

2,250 2,750 3,000

2,000 2,250

2,500

3,000

4,000

2,250 2,250

2,250 2,500

22.2 19.1

24.8 20.8

16.9

19.4

12.6

A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3

M3 A3

7.2 A3

239-1 4,000 7.2 M5

A4 A3

22.2 A3 20.6 M4 15.6 A3

18.2 M4 18.2 A3

120-2 3,000 17.0 A3

164-F1 2,750 16.1 M5

M5 A3

21.7 M4 18.8 M4 17.0 M4

M4 A2

A3

A3

M3

20.9 M4 21.0 M4

21.7 M4 17.5 M5

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DATA PROCESSING The proceedings of the Tenth Annual Clinic on Library Applications of CLINIC PROCEEDINGS Data Processing, "Library Applications of Data Processing," has been PUBLISHED published by the Graduate School of Library Science. Copies are avail­

able from the Illini Union Bookstore for $6 each.

PERSONNEL Graduate Assistant Appointments

AREAUX, Jacqueline, University Archives, Graduate Archives Assistant, March 4, 1974

Nonacademic Appointments

BASOFIN, Peter, Labor Library, Library Clerk II, January 29, 1974.

FOX, Teresa, Acquisitions Department, Library Clerk III, February 4, 1974.

HUNTER, Katherine, Geology Library, Library Clerk II, January 24, 1974Q

INGERSOLL, Marjorie, Engineering Library, Library Clerk II, January 22, 1974.

KIMBROUGH, Claudette, Photographic Services, Clerk-Typist I, Learner, January 16, 1974.

KING, Jane Lo, Commerce Library, Library Clerk II, January 14, 1974.

MEYER, Annette, Serials Department, Binding Division, Library Clerk II, February 6, 1974.

MORGAN, John, Serials Department, Mail Room, Library Clerk II, January 31, 1974.

OSTENDORF, JoEllen, Music Library, Clerk-Typist II, February 22, 1974.

PASCHEN, Jane, Biology Library (Health Sciences Branch Library) Clerk-Typist II, February 11, 1974

POWDER, Margaret, Circulation Department, Library Clerk II, January 29, 1974.

RAJIC, Mirjana, Special Languages Department, Library Clerk II, January 16, 1974.

RAYMOND, Jana, Circulation Department, Clerk-Typist II, February 14, 1974.

SHIBATA, Kishiko, Special Languages Department (Far Eastern Library), Library Technical Assistant I, January 23, 19740

SHUMARD, John, Shipping Department, Distribution Clerk, March 25, 1974,

SMITH, Celestine, Music Library, Library Clerk I, Learner, January 9, 1974.

WHITE, Karen, Illinois Interlibrary Loan, Clerk-Typist II, March 7, 1974.

WITHERS, Sandra, Serials Department, Clerk-Typist II, January 28, 1974o

YOUNT, Kay, Biology Library, Library Clerk II, January 28, 1974*

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PERSONNEL Nonacademic Promotions and Transfers Continued

CRITELLI, Sandra, Law Library, Clerk-Typist II to Library Technical Assistant I, on January 27, 1974o

GONDER, Gloria, Photographic Services, Clerk-Typist I to Clerk-Typist II, on January 14, 1974o (

NORMAN, Dorothy, Serials Department, Documents Division, Library Clerk I to Library Clerk II, on February 23, 1974.

YOCHES, Diane, Home Economics Library, Library Clerk II, to Acquisi­tions Department, Library Technical Assistant I on March 18, 1974.

CO-EDITORS Bruce Creamer Jean MacLaury

PROOFREADER Mary Joncich

ARTIST Jean MacLaury

TYPIST Laura Ortwerth

PRINTERS Marion Duncan Randy Pherson

Bonnie Morris

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SCOPE: Fascism as a political movement was organized in Italy by Benito Mussolini and remained in effect from 1922-1945. Used generically, fascism refers to any totalitarian system of government, led by a supreme dictator, which controls all means of production and communication, forcibly suppresses all opposition and dissent and emphasizes extreme nationalism.

An introduction to this topic appears in:

Gould, J. and Kolb, W. L., eds. A_ Dictionary of the Social Sciences (1964) pp. 260-262, under the entry "Fascism."

and

Encyclopaedia Britannica, under the entry "Fascism."

BOOKS dealing with fascism are listed in the subject card catalog. Look for the subjects: "Fascism ..." (highly relevant) "Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945"

(also relevant)

Frequently mentioned texts include:

Chabod, Federico A History of Italian Fascism (trans. 1963)

Cohen, Carl, ed. Communism, Fascism and Democracy; the Theoretical Foundations (1962) pp. 264-422.

Finer, Herman Mussolini's Italy (1935, repr. 1965)

Halperin, Samuel W. Mussolini and Italian Fascism (1964)

Mussolini, Benito The Doctrine of Fascism (1935) (reprinted in 1968 as Fascism; Doc-trine and Institutions)

P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E -

F A S C I S M

Nolte, Ernst Three Faces of Fascism; Action Fran-caise, Italian Fascism, National Socialism (trans. 1966) pp. 145-271.

Tasca, Angelo The Rise of Italian Fascism, 1918-1922 (1966, trans. 1938)

Other books including material on fascism are shelved under call numbers:

335.6, 9^5.09

ENCYCLOPEDIAS and DICTIONARIES which contain information on fascism are:

Cranston, M. and Lakoff, S. A., eds. A Glossary of Political Ideas (1969) pp. 47-50, under the entry "Fascism."

Dunner, Joseph, ed. Dictionary of Political Science (1964) pp. 179-180, under the entry "Fascism."

Encyclopedia Americana, under the entry "Fascism."

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, ed. (1967) v. 3, pp. 182-184, under the entry "Fascism."

Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, David L. Sills, ed. (1968) v. 5, pp. 334-341, under the entry "Fascism."

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, E. R. A. Seligman, ed. (1930-1935) v. V (1931) pp. 133-139, under the entry "Fascism."

Laqueur, Waiter. A Dictionary of Politics (1971) pp. 174-178, under the entry "Fascism."

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BIBLI0GRAPH1ES which contain material on fascism include:

American Historical Association. Guide to Historical Literature (1961) pp. 537-539, under the entry "Italy -Fascist Era,'1 and p. 793, under the entry "Recent History - Italy."

Other indexes, listed here, should be used for an exhaustive search. Only a limited return can be expected for the time spent. Directions are generally given in the front of each issue.

British Humanities Index

Dezell, Charles F., ed. Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-1945 (1970) pp. 351-356.

Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A. The Humanities and Social Sciences

International Bibliography of Political Science. See index under "Fascism" and "Italy - Fascism."

London Bibliography of the Social Sciences. See: "Fascism" (highly relevant) "Mussolini, Benito" (related)

Historical Abstracts

Public Affairs Information Service. Bulletin

Readers1 Guide to Periodical Literature

Universal Reference System. Compara­tive Government and Cultures (1969) See: "Fascism."

Sociological Abstracts

JOURNALS that often contain articles relevant to fascism are:

JOURNAL ARTICLES and other literature on fascism are indexed primarily in the guides listed. The quoted subject headings are those in use since 1965 unless other dates are given.

Journal of Contemporary History (1966+)

Journal of Modern History

Essay and General Literature Index (Indexes essays in collections) See: "Fascism" (highly relevant) "Mussolini, Benito" (related)

REVIEWS and CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS con­taining material on fascism include:

Boca, A. del and Giovana, M. Fascism Today; a World Survey (trans. 1969)

Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1965+; formerly International Index) (Covers 200+ popular periodicals) See: "Fascism" (highly relevant) "Fascism - Italy" (also relevant) "Mussolini, Benito" (related)

International Political Science Abstracts (International coverage of 400+ journals in political science)See: "Fascism"

Journal of Contemporary History. Inter­national Fascism, 1920-1945 (1966)

Wiskemann, Elizabeth, "The Origins of Fascism," History Today, v, XVII (December, 1967) pp. 812-816.

Woolf, Stuart J., ed. The Nature of Fascism; Proceedings ... (1968)

This Pathfinder was compiled at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librar-ianship, Denver, Colorado, and edited by Peter Malanchuk, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. All orders should be addressed to the Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts 01867.