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NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS
January 1994, vol. 26, no. 1
ISSN 1195-2326

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Contents

Institute on Canadian Bibliography: A Successful Debut

Speaking from...External Relations

Changes in Multilingual Biblioservice

The Graphic Publishers Limited 1924-1932

The Friends of the National Library: After Two Years

Conferences 1993: The National Library and the Library Community

Another Award for "Passages"

AMICUS and Reporting to the National Library of Canada's Union
Catalogue

Public Programs

AMICUS Newsletter

AMICUS Technical Information

Deselection of Foreign Serials: An Update


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INSTITUTE ON CANADIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY: A SUCCESSFUL DEBUT

>From August 16 to 20, 1993, the Institute on Canadian
Bibliography offered the summer course "Analytical Bibliography
for Canadian Studies". The Institute, founded by the National
Library of Canada and the Bibliographical Society of Canada, was
created as a result of recommendations presented at the Third
National Conference on Canadian Bibliography in Charlottetown in
June 1992.

The course was intended for librarians, literary scholars,
historians, graduate students, and others interested in the
history of the book in Canada. Offered in English only, the
course consisted of lectures, demonstrations and workshops on the
techniques of bibliographical analysis. There were also
descriptions of Canadian printing of the hand- and machine-press
periods. Methods of bibliographical research were presented in
the context of historical and textual applications, and standards
for imprint, the
matic, and author bibliographies were discussed. Topics included
paper, typography, illustration, and binding; the use of
publishers' records; and software for bibliography. There were
also demonstrations and exhibitions at the National Library, the
National Archives of Canada, and the National Museum of Science
and Technology.

The program was directed by Patricia Fleming of the University of
Toronto's Faculty of Library and Information Studies, and
coordinated by Gwynneth Evans, Director of External Relations at
the National Library. Instructors and lecturers came from
institutions in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton and
Fredericton, and those who attended also came from different
parts of Canada. Following are comments from three of them.

>From Dr. Robert E. Brundin, Professor, School of Library and
Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton

The well-organized sessions, efficiently coordinated by Dr.
Patricia Fleming of the Faculty of Library and Information
Science, University of Toronto, presented a wealth of material
useful to the beginning as well as to the experienced
bibliographer. I found a great deal of the information extremely
relevant to two courses which I teach, "Canadian Materials" and
"Special Collections Librarianship".

The sessions on title page transcription, ornamental types, paper
identification, imprint bibliography, collation, typography, book
illustration, and binding description were particularly useful to
me. It was for me a rare opportunity to investigate these areas
under the tutelage of national experts in these fields.

Another highlight of the workshop was the opportunity to visit
the Conservation and Treatment Laboratory of the National Library
of Canada. The tours were conducted in small groups so that all
could observe the various activities taking place, and the staff
of the Laboratory did an excellent job of demonstrating and
explaining the different conservation and restoration treatments
they were performing.

A morning-long visit to the Canadian Museum of Science and
Technology to view the exhibits on printing technology provided a
refreshing break in the routine of classroom attendance. It was a
rare opportunity to see examples of printing equipment used in
Canada over the past two centuries, and to see a master printer
demonstrate how this equipment was and is used.

"Analytical Bibliography for Canadian Studies" proved to be one
of the most interesting and informative workshops I have attended
in my 35 years as a librarian and library educator. It provided
an excellent in-depth study of a subject seldom covered in terms
of in-service opportunities made available in our field. I wish
to thank the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the National
Library of Canada for making it possible.

>From Jennifer J. Connor, Hannah Postdoctoral Fellow, History of
Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton

Having studied analytical bibliography in graduate-level courses,
I was immediately attracted to the course on "Analytical
Bibliography for Canadian Studies" for the unusual opportunity it
afforded of learning about Canadian publications with recognized
Canadian experts at an important Canadian institution, the
National Library. This sounds nationalistic, but is meant
sincerely, for university courses on the topic are usually
sweeping in nature, and often lack much hands-on experience. This
week-long course, sponsored jointly by the Bibliographical
Society of Canada and the National Library, in fact more than
lived up to expectations raised by its announcement.

Professor Fleming led the program very strongly with full-day
lectures on paper, typography, and title-page transcription.
Other speakers included Sandra Alston, Joyce Banks, Jim Burant,
Judy Donnelly, Yvan Lamonde, Eric Swanick, and Bruce Whiteman.
Daytime lectures ranged from book production to preparing a
regional or author bibliography, and evenings provided ample
opportunity for preparing bibliographical descriptions of a
sample collection of books published over three centuries.
Participants visibly
enjoyed discovering their own examples of ornamental types,
watermarks, types of paper and binding, unusual collational
formats, and so on. We were joined every evening by instructors,
including Anne Dondertman and Elaine Hoag, who circulated
informally among us for help with bibliographical analyses.

An unexpected bonus for me was the calibre of the participants
themselves. Many had experience or knowledge of a particular
facet of analytical bibliography and attended to learn more --
either to provide background to their own work in the area, or to
improve on it. Their enthusiasm led to greater interaction, and
they shared ideas, during classes, evening workshops, and breaks.

On the whole, this course -- especially as a first offering --
was highly successful from my view as participant. It refreshed
my memory on points forgotten, introduced me to new people and
bibliographical work, and gave me greater confidence in my own
knowledge of the subject. As a result, I hope it will help in my
work on the history of medical publishing in Canada. I was
especially pleased with the place of meeting, for it confirmed my
initial feeling that the National Library was the ideal venue for
su
ch a course.

Of course, some minor aspects of the course can be improved upon,
but the organizers even allowed for this possibility by seeking
course feedback from participants. I'm sure the next offering
will be even better.

>From Lillian Rider, Reference Department, McLennan Library,
McGill University, Montreal

Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the
National Library, the Institute was billed as "A Summer Course."
Sounds idyllic. It was, for anyone with a genuine interest in,
and commitment to, bibliography. Classes, all day every day, were
followed by practice sessions and discussions in the evenings.

Patricia Fleming, of the Faculty of Library and Information
Science, University of Toronto, and one of Canada's foremost
bibliographers, blazed the trail and carried the instructional
load with presentations on the basics -- title page
transcription, ornamental types; paper making and identification;
format; collation; typography; binding; and editions, impressions
and states. The Canadian aspects of analytical bibliography were
illustrated by regional or topical presentations which
complemented the nitty-
gritty details.... Organized tours were arranged to the Rare Book
Collection at the National Library, the Conservation and
Treatment Laboratory at the National Archives, and the Canadian
Museum of Science and Technology. It was a busy week.

As a course, the Institute was excellent. The timetable was
logical and well designed but also allowed for flexibility. The
sessions were dynamic and well prepared. There was always time
for questions and discussions. As the week progressed, the tours
provided a welcome change of pace. A number of aids were provided
to assist the learning process. One was a collection of all the
items on the reading list. Another was a practice collection, a
sampling of books participants could use to try their hands at ti
tle page transcription, paper analysis, collation, etc. These had
been graded as to difficulty and provided excellent examples of
features that had been discussed in the lectures.

The facilities at the National Library were very good and
comfortable although a little snug for the size of the group. The
souvenir mugs given to all participants were a nice touch, as
well as demonstrating environmental consciousness. Also
appreciated were the variety and quality of "goodies" provided
for the breaks. In all respects, the week was a great success.
The sponsors and organizers are to be heartily congratulated.
Subsequent institutes (surely, they will continue) will have a
hard act to follow
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SPEAKING FROM...EXTERNAL RELATIONS

by Gwynneth Evans, Director, External Relations

As we move towards the end of the twentieth century, there is
consensus on one all-encompassing issue: the predominance of
change in the lives of individuals and organizations. Almost
imperceptibly, we have all reached the same conclusion: the only
constant is change.

If this generalization about change is valid, we can then ask the
interesting and controversial questions: what impact will it have
and how will we be able to shape our collective and individual
futures? How many of our basic assumptions about social
organization will remain tenable? Must we re-examine all our
basic tenets? And if we think it necessary to prepare for
constant and rapid change, how will our institutions and nations
navigate the rough seas between continuity and discontinuity?
What lodestars
 will guide our thinking and our actions? Such questions, and
many others, are the stuff of current discussion, debate and
documents.

During its fortieth year, the National Library and its Friends
inaugurated a lecture series to stimulate discussion on the
questions facing Canadians. By selecting Robert Fulford as the
first lecturer, we welcomed someone who had thought deeply about
the role of the library as the cultural institution responsible
"for organizing memory and exploring its uses". According to
Fulford, "A library embodies...the peculiar needs that mark us as
human: the need to recall experience, the need to organize what
we know, and the need to search for meaning. And I would add a
fourth..., the need to develop a context in which to think about
the future." Fulford warned of the consequences of ignoring
memory -- of turning our backs on the study of the past.

Just a week before the first National Library Lecture, Library
staff members had mounted a booth at "Word on the Street" in
Toronto. This one-day book fair brings together publishers,
booksellers, literacy groups, libraries and members of the public
to promote and celebrate both reading and books. Four staff
members worked from 10:00 a.m. until late in the afternoon,
answering questions, selling posters and promoting this year's
Read Up On It kit, "Bring a Legend to Life". And the comment they
heard most often was "Oh, I didn't know we had a national library
-- where is it and what does it do?"

There are probably many reasons why Canadians do not know about
their National Library. Some of those reasons can probably be
attributed to the decisions of the institution itself; others are
likely to be quite predictable. But one reason, I believe, is
that the national libraries which are best known did not begin
their lives as "national libraries". If proportionately more
Americans know about the Library of Congress and Britons are
familiar with the British Museum (from which the British Library
was formed in 1973), it is because the institutions' large and
varied collections and their stature as historic monuments and
places of scholarship have ensured their places in the cultural
lives of their countries. Moreover, libraries like the Library of
Congress, the British Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale of
France were built for the purposes that Fulford identified: over
many centuries, they have collected varied records and accounts
not only of their own citizens, but also documents on what
individuals
 and groups of every society have done, and why. Currency,
stamps, prints, drawings, films, videos, newspapers, photographs,
manuscripts and more have been preserved to provide evidence for
those who, like Fulford, insist on the importance of memory and
the study of history as a civilizing and humanizing ingredient of
life. National libraries, and others, have assumed an
international responsibility, worldwide in scope, for gathering,
organizing, preserving and making available all sorts of records
as the
basis for reflection, decision, action, creation and enjoyment.

If the National Library of Canada's scope has been more
circumscribed than the range of activities undertaken by other
libraries, the institution nevertheless understands its role
within the same precepts. It attempts to gather, organize,
promote, and make available, for use now and in the future,
Canada's published heritage, as comprehensively as possible. Many
forms of this heritage -- books, pamphlets, newspapers,
magazines, sound recordings and compact disks, videos, sheet
music, materials from every part of Canada and in every language
and format -- are welcomed and given a home. And this scope of
the collections is not limited to commercial products; it extends
to the works and products of educational institutions,
associations and societies, cooperatives and private individuals.


These works are the result of the Canadian memory, and stimulate
the creation of other works that will, in turn, become part of
our nation. Along with the artifacts and records held by our
sister national institutions, the National Library's collections
help us to define who we are and what kind of a society we wish
to become. In organizing, preserving, promoting and sharing these
materials, the Library is acting in the national interest. And in
acting as a catalyst and participant in the production of pub
lications, videos, CDs and other works, the National Library of
Canada is contributing to the nation's development.

The National Library of Canada's particular purview is Canada.
While that fact, along with its relative youth, may make the
institution less well known than other national libraries, it in
no sense diminishes the significance of its role, even when
change is constant. Indeed, some would argue that our emphasis on
Canada strengthens the raison d'être for our development and our
links with other libraries.

With the speed and complexity of technological change, national
institutions face difficult and fascinating challenges. How can
we best use technologies to make information accessible to
citizens, whoever and wherever they are and whenever they need
it? As more and more information and knowledge are created (or
converted into) in machine-readable form, how will we seize and
stabilize the data for future use and interpretation? Is the
inundation of masses of ephemeral information from a myriad of
sources one of the reasons that we seem to be losing our cultural
memory? It is clear, at any rate, that we must consciously work
to prevent collective amnesia, both nationally and
internationally.

While almost all agree that change is constant, and many admit
that the answers of the past will not suffice in addressing the
issues of tomorrow, few would wish to deny citizens access to
their memory and the records and accounts of their experience.
Communication of that experience -- oral, graphic, written -- is
the hallmark of "civilization", and national institutions have a
vital role to play.

Something to contemplate in the New Year, which I hope will be a
very happy one for you all.


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CHANGES IN MULTILINGUAL BIBLIOSERVICE

The National Library has been subject to a number of budget cuts
imposed on federal government departments and agencies over the
past several years which have had a significant cumulative
impact. Until now, the Library has been able to manage the budget
reductions so that they do not seriously affect services. But a
series of additional cuts that will take effect beginning with
the 1994-1995 fiscal year will require the Library to make
changes in a number of services over the next few years. One of
the services that will be significantly affected is the
Multilingual Biblioservice (MBS).

To achieve the required budget reductions, the Library will be
scaling back the amount of material acquired for the Multilingual
Biblioservice. MBS will be re-oriented to serve primarily as a
short-term back-up resource for libraries that are unable to meet
the changing needs of their local communities through their own
collections or through those available within their own province
or region. MBS will also endeavour to act as a clearinghouse for
information on library services to ethnic communities in Ca
nada, and to provide an advisory service to assist regional
centres and local libraries in developing such services.

After reviewing the recommendations from the study of the
Multilingual Biblioservice conducted last year, the Library has
tried to address what seem to be the most critical needs of users
while re-orienting the service to adjust to continuing budget
reductions.

Early in the new year, the Library will call a meeting that will
include representatives from provincial library services and the
public library community to review these tentative plans and to
seek advice and input on how the Library can best meet its
objectives and the needs of users in re-orienting the
Multilingual Biblioservice.


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THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS LIMITED 1924-1932

by Joyce M. Banks, Curator, Rare Book Collection

In 1992, the National Library of Canada was most fortunate to be
the recipient of a gift of 101 books published by the Graphic
Publishers and its associated presses: Ariston Publishers,
Canadian Biographies Limited, Carillon Book Club of Canada,
Laurentian Press Syndicate, Overbrook Press and RU-MI-LOU Books.
Assembled by Kenneth Riseborough of R.R.1, Inglewood, Ont., the
collection was acquired "coast to coast, book by book" over a
period of eighteen years. The collection is in excellent
condition, with many books in original dust jackets.

The gift is being held as an integral collection within the Rare
Book Collection, and we hope that it will attract scholars of
Canadian publishing history, a field in which the donor is
"deeply interested". Individual imprints can, of course, be
consulted in-house.

The Graphic Press was established in Ottawa in 1924 by Henry C.
Miller, who owned a small printing firm. His aim was to publish
good books for Canadians, written by Canadians, printed and bound
with exclusively Canadian materials. The canon is wide-ranging,
and includes fiction, poetry, travel, biography, history, natural
history, children's books and literary criticism. Among the many
writers whose works were published were Madge MacBeth, Arthur S.
Bourinot, William Arthur Deacon, Wilson MacDonald, Freder
ick Philip Grove, Merrill Denison, Watson Kirkconnell, Lawrence
J. Burpee and Will R. Bird. The Graphic Publishers books were
well designed and solidly made. Most of the early art work was
done by Alan B. Beddoe, who established a distinctive style, and
also designed the famous thunderbird logo. The strong nationalism
of the Graphic Publishers' policy is reflected in the following
statement, quoted by David B. Kotin from a promotional leaflet:

"The Thunder Bird is one of the most ancient and honoured of
[the] mystical figures of the Canadian Indian. It stood for the
tremendous energy and power that man felt in thunder and
lightning. It represented a spirit of energy, strength,
efficiency and success. It stood for the finer things of life --
of what we understand today by intellect, advancement and
consciousness.

"The Thunder Bird (Trade Mark of Graphic) to-day [sic] stands for
all that is mentioned above, is used as a mark of Canadian
quality and service and is a staunch guarantee from Graphic
Publishers Limited.

"Are you one of those Canadians, who will sing ("Oh Canada!" with
enthusiasm) -- and then go out and buy a foreign book?"(1)

At least 83 books appeared during the seven years in which the
Graphic Publishers was in operation. Given that they were stormy
years indeed, this output is all the more remarkable. Financial
problems, rooted in underfunding, were exacerbated by a sales
potential limited by the company's nationalistic policy -- that
is, publishing Canadian books for the Canadian market. To make
matters worse, the press was far from the main publishing centre
of Canada, and had a poor distribution system. Injudicious invest
ment in expensive printing and a binding plant put even more
pressure on finances. Finally, all of these problems were faced
within a destructive atmosphere of acrimony and wrangling.

By the end of 1929 Miller, who had borrowed heavily to support
the Graphic Publishers, had left the company. Mrs. M.H.W. Cameron
took charge of financial operations, and invited Frederick Philip
Grove to become editor. But Graphic Publishers was not destined
to prosper, and the company declared bankruptcy in 1932. Erik J.
Spicer explains its demise as follows: "I believe that the
depression was the killer; mismanagement and insufficient working
capital it had already survived for some time."(2)

Even so, the accomplishment of the Graphic Publishers was, and
is, remarkable. Edward Stuart St. John sums it up, with justice:

"The Graphic Publishers have left an indelible mark upon the
publishing scene in Canada. Their significant output will secure
their position on the history of Canadian publishing."(3)

With the addition to the Library's Rare Book Collection of
Kenneth Riseborough's gift, it is hoped that a Canadian
bibliographer will be encouraged to prepare a full descriptive
bibliography of the imprints of the Graphic Publishers and its
associated presses. Such a work is long overdue.

Notes:

1 David B. Kotin, "Graphic Publishers and the Bibliographer: An
Introduction and Checklist", PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOCIETY OF CANADA XVIII (Toronto: Bibliographical Society of
Canada 1980), p. 48.

2 Erik J. Spicer, "The Graphic Publishers Limited, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada, 1924-1932: Special Research for the Department
of Library Science, University of Michigan", submitted August
1959, p. 31.

3 Edward Stuart St. John, "The Graphic Publishers Limited
1925-1932" (a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Arts in Canadian Studies, Ottawa, Carleton University,
January 1974), p. 106.


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THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY: AFTER TWO YEARS

by Friends Georgia Ellis and Liana Van der Bellen

The September 1990 issue of the National Library News reported
that a new organization was about to be created when the National
Library Advisory Board "gave a warm general approval to the
establishment of the Friends of the National Library". The
Friends' mandate would be to promote public interest in and
support for the Library's work in preserving Canada's published
heritage.

The next year was one of planning as the Founding Board, an
enthusiastic and dynamic group of individuals led by well-known
Ottawa businesswoman Grete Hale, set about establishing a
constitution and an administrative structure. A national
membership drive was launched in October 1991 (NATIONAL LIBRARY
NEWS, vol. 23, nos. 10-11, October-November 1991, p. 1) and on
November 4 the long-awaited Friends organization was officially
inaugurated at a gala which featured a reading by its first
honorary member, writer Robertson Davies.

Now that its second annual general meeting, held in June 1993,
has come and gone, a few remarks about the Friends as it is today
and a brief look back over its first two years may be in order.

The Friends of the National Library is managed by an Executive
and Board of Directors comprising sixteen members, chaired by
Grete Hale. The Friends' Directors, who come from a wide range of
backgrounds, represent the many constituencies that the Library
serves. Active in the fields of the arts and music, literature
and the cinema, Directors have been authors, book collectors,
booksellers, publishers, broadcasters, teachers, lawyers and
business people. All have contributed and continue to contribute
their experience and expertise to the success of the
organization.

During the past two years much has been accomplished. Membership
now stands at close to 500, and Friends are found across Canada,
in the United States, and there are even a few in Great Britain
and elsewhere in the world.

One of the principal aims of the Friends is to support the
Library in developing its Canadiana collections. To this end, the
Friends have presented some important gifts during the past two
years. When the National Library purchased A STATEMENT SUBMITTED
BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL DESBARRES FOR CONSIDERATION, [London,
1795?], an extremely rare Canadiana title, the Friends assisted
with the purchase, which also received a grant under the terms of
the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. This was our first
major gift (see "National Library Acquires Important Rare Book"
by Joyce Banks, NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS, vol. 24, no. 1, January
1992, pp. 1-2). Other rare items have also been purchased by
Friends, such as a fine binding by Quebec binder Nicole Billard,
Clément Fortin's limited edition of CENT PEINTURES RENDANT
HOMMAGE A MARIA CHAPDELAINE (1985). Another unique gift was an
"artist's book" bearing the title THE FABLE OF THE BEES. The most
impressive gift, however, and one which ranks with the DesBarres
work in importance, was John Dee's GENERAL AND RARE MEMORIALS
PERTAYNING TO THE PERFECT ARTS OF NAVIGATION (also assisted by a
Cultural Property grant). The book was printed at London in 1577,
and is one of 100 copies of the first edition. "Dealing as it
does with the search for a Northwest Passage, it is of primordial
significance to our national heritage, and no other copy of the
work is held in Canada," says Ronald Cohen, Chair of the Friends'
Acquisitions Committee.

An active group of some thirty volunteers assists the Library in
various capacities and get involved with all Friends' activities
and events. Various parts of the Library -- the Children's
Literature Service, the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services
Branch, the Reference and Information Services Division -- have
benefitted from volunteer assistance. Others have offered
projects to do in the future. Over the summer months a "boutique"
was set up in the front lobby of the Library to raise funds.
Offered for sale were notecards, postcards and posters which
reproduce art works related to the Library and its collections;
CDs and tapes of recordings made by famous Canadian singers of
the past, such as the tenors Edward Johnson and Raoul Jobin and
the soprano Emma Albani, taken from works held in the Library's
Music Division; National Library T-shirts; a new brochure on the
John Hutton glass engravings in the Library; an illustrated
volume, CANADA: A PORTRAIT; and the latest CANADA YEAR BOOK
published by Statistics Canada. Items were for sale from Monday
to Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the volunteers also
offered tours of the public areas of the Library for visitors.
Some 84 tours to a total of 182 visitors were given.

In the summer months of 1992 and 1993 a dedicated group of
volunteers participated in the weekly events sponsored by
Cultures Canada, a cooperative venture in which the Library was a
partner. Friends provided refreshments, sold CDs and maintained a
membership sales desk. Throughout the fall and winter volunteers
also assist at the National Library's cultural events programs
and, of course, at major events sponsored by the Friends.

The past two years have been busy ones for Friends as they worked
with the Public Programs and Cultural Events staff in holding
many exciting cultural events at the Library. Highlights include
the inaugural gala and reading by Robertson Davies on November 4,
1991 which launched the Friends; an evening with Mordecai
Richler, who addressed a capacity crowd and read from his book OH
CANADA! OH QUEBEC! on April 14, 1992; the recent fundraiser
evening with Margaret Atwood on November 9, 1993, which
celebrated the publication of her novel THE ROBBER BRIDE; and the
inaugural National Library Lecture, given to a capacity audience
by Robert Fulford on October 4, 1993, sponsored by the Friends.

Friends have been honoured guests at special previews of major
Library exhibitions such as "Passages: A Treasure Trove of North
American Exploration" and "What's New: Recent Acquisitions at the
National Library".

Friends enjoy many benefits of membership: they are entitled to
reserved seating at many popular National Library cultural events
such as the Governor General Literary Awards Winners Gala
Readings and readings by literary figures like Michael Ondaatje
or P.D. James, and other events such as concerts and the recent
lecture by Stephen Sondheim. An additional benefit appreciated by
many has been the issuing of National Library User Cards, a
benefit granted to the Friends by the National Library this past
year
..

Future plans include a membership drive to attract new Friends.
An expansion of fundraising activities is being planned by Alan
Reid, who chairs the Fundraising and Finance Committee. Gifts of
Canadiana will be encouraged as the Acquisitions Committee, under
Ronald Cohen, launches a major project to seek out and attract
donations of Canadiana as gifts to the Library. A brochure
describing the Library's needs and how to donate is now ready and
will be sent out to Friends in the near future.

A program of exciting events for 1994 is now being developed by
the Program Committee under the leadership of Gail Pike. And,
last but not least, the Volunteer Committee under EdnaWilson,
with the help of Coordinator of Volunteers Helen Elliott, will
continue to oversee the wide variety of activities in which our
volunteers are involved.

None of the successes achieved by the Friends would have been
possible without the support of the National Library. Grete Hale,
in her address to the second annual general meeting, noted, "The
Friends could not succeed without the wonderful support of Dr.
Marianne Scott, our National Librarian!" She closed her remarks
by thanking Miss Scott for her personal support, her staff for
the professional advice and support essential to the ongoing
activities of the organization, the members of the Board, the
committee chairpersons who have served so well over the year,
and, she finished, "all our Friends and donors!"


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COMING ATTRACTION!

ROMULUS -- THE SECOND EDITION!

Sequels are often even more popular than the original, and we're
betting that the second edition of Romulus will be an even bigger
hit than the first! Watch NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS for more
information soon!


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CONFERENCES 1993: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND THE LIBRARY COMMUNITY

by Iris Winston, Staff Writer

Conferences offer opportunities for professional development and
intellectual stimulation. Both through formal presentations and
informal networking, delegates can gain new insights into common
problems and exchange information by showcasing their
organizations' programs, services and products. Though the
current economic situation makes it essential to curtail travel
expenses by carefully selecting and dovetailing events and
limiting representation, the National Library's presence in the
library community, through attendance at conferences in various
regions, remains one of the keys to effective information
exchange and library development. Just as this year's Canadian
Library Association Conference focussed on "the human cause" as
its main theme, so the National Library of Canada, by
participating in conferences at the local, national and
international levels, keeps human beings central to the
information business.

In 1993, the National Library of Canada was present at a number
of major library conferences across Canada and abroad. Each
delegate from the National Library and other participating
organizations at each conference was able to glean information,
gain new ideas and make contacts that will prove useful in the
coming year.

Provincial Conference Participation:

- Atlantic Provinces Library Association Conference, Fredericton,
New Brunswick, May 28-30, 1993
Theme: Library Advocacy

- British Columbia Library Conference, Penticton, British
Columbia, April 22-25
Theme: Bridging the Gap: Building the Bases for Library Marketing
and Lobbying

- Library Association of Alberta Conference, Jasper, Alberta,
April 29-May 1
Theme: Creative Connections

- Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples
Conference, La Ronge, Saskatchewan, October 13-15

- Manitoba Library Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 27-29
Theme: Library Evaluation in the 90s: Everyone's Job # One

- Ontario Association of Library Technicians, Ottawa, Ontario,
May 10-14

- Ontario Library Association Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario,
November 3-4
Theme: The Information Bridge: Access, Education and Empowerment

- Ontario School Library Association, Toronto, Ontario, January
20-22
Theme: Rainbows, Roads and Resources

National Conference Participation:

- Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Hamilton,
Ontario, June 17-20
Theme: In the Human Cause

- Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de
la documentation, Sherbrooke, Quebec, October 13-16
Theme: Information in the Bionic Age

International Conference Participation:

- American Library Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 24-
July 1
Theme: Empowering People Through Libraries

- International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, August 22-28
Theme: The Universal Library: Libraries as Centres for the Global
Availability of Information

- Special Libraries Association Conference, Cincinatti, Ohio,
June 5-10
Theme: Looking to the Year 2000: Information Professionals Chart
the Course

Highlights:

Canadian Library Association (CLA)

More than 850 delegates from all parts of Canada attended this
year's Canadian Library Association (CLA) Conference in Hamilton,
Ontario, June 16-20. In addition, 160 volunteers from the
Hamilton/Burlington area smoothed the way for delegates by
helping with an assortment of conference activities from
sign-making and preparing the daily conference newsletter to
transporting speakers and organizing meeting space.

"The combination of a particularly good program and a strong
marketing effort from the Hamilton committee drew in members of
the public at large as well as attracting a great number of
library delegates," says CLA's Director of Member Services Leacy
O'Brien. "The proximity of a large urban population also helped
to raise attendance and make CLA '93 a success."

This was the first year that CLA introduced a variety of
registration levels aimed at encouraging attendance. A special
student rate boosted student attendance to 60 participants,
almost four times the previous year's rate, and an institution
sampler allowed up to eight staff members from an institution to
attend, one at a time. Many returned at their own expense for
additional sessions, says O'Brien.

The conference theme was "In the Human Cause". This, wrote CLA
Board President Margaret Andrewes, also a member of the National
Library Advisory Board, in the program introduction, encompassed
"our fundamental purpose as key information providers."

"I believe that the 1993 CLA Conference contributed sustantially
to our knowledge and understanding of each other and the people
whom we serve," commented Andrewes after the conference. "As
library and information professionals, we must be steadfast in
shaping our future and providing excellence in service in this
information age. `In the Human Cause' challenged us with the
issues that are prevalent in our society, our community and our
association. The success of CLA 93 will be measured in the months
and years to come as we work to address these issues and move
forward."

Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de
la documentation (ASTED)

This year's ASTED conference, held in Sherbrooke, Quebec, was
attended by more than 300 delegates. In line with the conference
theme of "Information in the Bionic Age," many of the sessions
concentrated on the effects of industrial change and
technological development on transmitting and storing information
and on the future of print versus electronic publishing. Among
the highlights were a follow-up to last year's National Summit on
Information Policy and sessions on the role of government
organizations and private enterprise as creators, protectors and
distributors of information.

"The conference was very interesting and very well organized,"
said the National Library's Public Services Branch Acting
Director Rolande Blair on her return from Sherbrooke. "All
libraries are keenly interested in new technologies, so the theme
was most appropriate."

She added that the National Library's booth was extremely well
attended and that there was a constant flow of questions about
the Library's services.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA)

This year's IFLA conference was held in Barcelona, Spain, a place
with "a long tradition of libraries". Here, in 1915, the first
Escola de Bibliotecaris (School of Librarians) was founded,
explained Eduard Carbonell Esteller, Co-President of the IFLA '93
Organizing Committee and Director General del Patrimoni Cultural
Generalitat de Catalunya, in the conference newsletter.

The library school, he writes, was a national development
project, established to fill a need for well-trained
professionals in the library field. It is, therefore, appropriate
that IFLA, with its objective of promoting worldwide
understanding, cooperation, communication, research and
development in all fields of the library and information
sciences, should meet in a place with such a long tradition of
library development.

This year's conference was attended by close to 2000 delegates
representing most of the 135 member countries. The theme was "The
Universal Library: Libraries as Centres for the Global
Availability of Information".

The National Library of Canada was represented by National
Librarian Marianne Scott; Planning and Policy Director Tom
Delsey; Ralph Manning, Chair, Canadian Cooperative Preservation
Project; Ingrid Parent, Acting Director, Acquisitions and
Bibliographic Services Branch; Leigh Swain, Acting Manager,
Information Analysis and Standards; and Marie Zielinska, Chief,
Multilingual Biblioservice. Through their membership on standing
committees and their involvement in IFLA core programs, they are
instrumental in developing international policies and standards.
Delsey, for instance, has just completed a four-year term on the
Standing Committee on Serial Publications, which is currently
compiling a handbook on basic serials management targeted at the
least-developed countries. In recognition of the diversity of
IFLA membership, the committee this year sponsored an open
program session on serial publications in an electronic
environment, exploring the implications of electronic publishing
in the world of serials.

Parent was appointed to the Standing Committee on Cataloguing,
and Manning is Secretary-Treasurer of the Standing Committee on
Conservation, a member of the Standing Committee on Statistics
and Secretary of the Co-ordinating Board of Management and
Technology Division.

The Standing Committee on Conservation is currently preparing
brochures on disaster planning and permanent paper. This last,
says Manning, "strikes particularly close to home."

"Despite experiences and backgrounds being so different, there
was a great deal of common ground," said Parent. "This was my
first opportunity to attend an IFLA conference. I found the
meetings very exciting, and the conference a wonderful place to
make contacts and complete business."

She also commented on the enthusiasm of participants and the
pride felt by even those with very limited resources in their
role in preserving their country's publications and in
disseminating information.

"We are all striving for better access to information," she says.
"Hearing from other delegates made me think that we're very
fortunate here at the National Library of Canada. At this stage
in our development, I see Canada as being in a teaching and
support position, helping library development around the world."

For Leigh Swain, as the representative of the Universal Dataflow
and Telecommunications (UDT) IFLA Core Programme, administered by
the National Library of Canada, this is particularly true.

"It is during the six or seven days at IFLA that I find out how
effective my work during the rest of the year has been," he
comments, adding with regret that his UDT duties keep him so busy
during the conference that he rarely sees anything of the world
outside the meeting site.

Marie Zielinska, with her expertise and special interest in
multilingual initiatives, chaired the organizing committee of the
satellite meeting on Automated Systems for Access to Multilingual
and Multiscript Library Materials in Madrid where she made
presentations on the National Library's MINISIS and Multilib
systems. She then went on to the main IFLA meeting in Barcelona
as a member of the Standing Committee on Library Services to
Multicultural Populations.

"There is wonderful interaction, dynamic feeling and concern for
others at IFLA conferences," says Marianne Scott, summing up her
reaction to IFLA 93, "though when all the effort comes from
volunteers who are very busy in their own jobs, there is a major
problem in translating much of this wonderful rhetoric into
concrete action. There is so much to be done, and forums for
exchanging ideas are no more than an excellent start for what
must be a continuing effort."

Next year's IFLA conference will be in Cuba.


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ANOTHER AWARD FOR "PASSAGES"

"Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration" has
won another award. The catalogue of the National Library's
exhibition, which ran from April 24 to October 4, 1992 as part of
the Library's Canada 125 celebration, has won an Award of Merit
in the Books category in the awards program of the Information
Services Institute. The "Passages" poster won "Excellence" in the
Posters, Certificates, Decals and Related Items category in the
APEX '92 Fourth Annual Awards Program.

Copies of both the poster and the catalogue are available from:
Marketing and Publishing
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N4
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

The poster is free; the catalogue costs $19.95 (plus GST) per
copy. Please make cheque or money order payable to the Receiver
General for Canada.


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AMICUS AND REPORTING TO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA'S UNION
CATALOGUE

Currently, a number of Canadian libraries report locations and
holdings information to the National Library's Union Catalogue in
several ways. The information may be submitted on catalogue
cards, computer tapes or diskettes.

It is anticipated that the implementation of AMICUS, the National
Library's new automated system, will not change the ways in which
most libraries report their holdings. Several federal government
libraries who subscribe to the DOBIS Search Service are able to
add their locations and holdings information to DOBIS online.
These libraries will be able to add the same information to
AMICUS online. Prior to the implementation of AMICUS, which is
scheduled to take place on April 1, 1994, National Library staff
will contact these federal libraries to discuss any changes and
to make arrangements for any necessary training.

For more information, please contact:
Emilie Lowenberg
Chief, Union Catalogue Division
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
ENVOY 100: LOWENBERG.E
CA*net/Internet:[e-mail]


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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
SPOTLIGHT ON...THE ROBERT FULFORD LECTURE

by Anne McDougall, Ottawa writer and journalist

On October 4, the stage of the National Library's auditorium was
appropriately set for the speaker of the evening, Robert Fulford.
Behind the grand piano (ready for concerts later in the week)
stood potted palms. Gentle background music was being played on
stringed instruments. In contrast were the highly stylized
plastic podium and reading lamp. We felt the past, but saw the
present.

Robert Fulford was chosen by the Friends of the National Library
for the first National Library Lecture, one of the events marking
the 40th anniversary year of the National Library. Fulford is
well known in Canada as a prolific essayist, broadcaster and
critic of the arts, particularly jazz. As writer and editor for
publications like MACLEAN'S and SATURDAY NIGHT, his byline was
familiar long before he took part in radio discussions and
finally hosted his own television show. In spite of competition
from the election debate that evening, his reputation filled the
Library's auditorium.

Fulford spoke on "Structure of Memory and Longing; The Place of
Cultural Institutions in Time of Radical Change". He confessed
his bias early by telling us that one of his favourite people --
his daughter -- is a librarian. He went on to say that the
library is the most important of all the inventions of the
knowledge industry, predating both the university and the museum.
By storing and studying the records of our history, we stand some
chance of at least recognizing a civilized point of view. Fulford
was
 vehement in his condemnation of any society that does not teach
history to its children. From this neglect, he said, comes the
kind of distortion that makes possible the denial of the
Holocaust.

On a more cheerful note, which suits Fulford better, he reflected
on today's rapidly changing times, and reminded us that a much
more dramatic transformation took place when people gave up a
nomadic existence of hunting and settled down to agriculture and
fixed villages. The dislocations recorded from this development
were apparently much more far-reaching than the adjustments
demanded of us. He then looked, however, at turning-points in his
own life. For example, he remembered the big yellow Winton Flyer
car in a Steve McQueen movie: far from being a flash in the pan,
the automobile has entirely changed society. Fulford remembered
his first encounter with the photocopying machine, as a young
copy boy on the GLOBE AND MAIL. He thought of it as something
that might replace carbon paper, not foreseeing that it would
alter the whole world of research, copyright, teaching and
government information.

Developments in his own profession Fulford seemed to take in
stride. He then departed from his prepared text (as I was to
discover later) to consider modern architecture. He described
Mies van der Rohe's determination to create a "past-free"
architecture with no echoes, which led him to use steel and
concrete in building stark new shapes that had no connection with
the past. Fulford said the public rebelled against the results,
which is why the current "post-modern architecture" has arches
and pillars that recall classical traditions.

Fulford seemed to be saying that too abrupt a break with the past
will not be accepted. He made no allowances -- it seemed to me
later -- for the beauty of certain modern buildings, such as
Toronto's City Hall or the Seagram Building in New York.

Robert Fulford is a provocative speaker who tosses out ideas more
generously than most but leaves the audience members to think
about them and come to their own conclusions. He did not depart,
however, from his consideration of the past and the part it plays
in our lives. "Although it cannot provide models for what we are
going through today, it can remind us of the varieties of human
ingenuity and give us an enduring sense of the grandeur of human
possibility," he concluded. As the West looked back to the
 Greeks and Romans for what Fulford calls "the memory-material
that fuelled the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and much of the
Victorian period", we too can study the past to change our
perspective on the present.

There is no point in being frightened of change. It is permanent
and getting even faster, Fulford thinks. There is no way to
prepare for it. So what can we do?

Remember.


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DID YOU KNOW...that the National Library of Canada now accepts
interlibrary loan requests via telefacsimile from libraries that
do not have access to an electronic system such as DOBIS/ILL,
ENVOY 100, GMHS or Internet? A standard interlibrary loan request
form should be used when sending faxed requests. Please include
your library symbol on all requests.

Interlibrary Loan telefacsimile: [phone]


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NATIONAL LIBRARY WOWS VISITORS

by Elizabeth Butler, Communications Officer

A series of dramatized readings, tours of the Library and a gift
booth were three of the successful ventures that were part of
this summer's "WOW -- West on Wellington" campaign. A cooperative
venture of the Library, the National Archives of Canada, the
Currency Museum, the Supreme Court of Canada, and several hotels
and restaurants, WOW was intended to increase awareness of the
four federal institutions as tourist destinations.

The dramatized readings, organized by the National Library and
presented at the National Capital Commission's Visitor
Orientation Centre across the street from Parliament Hill,
focussed on items in the Library's collection. Presented over a
four-week period, the readings included a variety of verses from
Canadian poets, an encounter between the fictional characters
Anne of Green Gables and Florentine Lacasse (THE TIN FLUTE), who
spoke about their authors, and mock interviews with music men
Claude Champagne and Sir Ernest MacMillan.

Between 30 and 50 tourists enjoyed each reading after they saw
the Changing of the Guard. The children who attended seemed
particularly captivated by the Anne of Green Gables/Florentine
performance. The readings were repeated in the sunken lobby at
the National Library early in September. Staff members who
attended said that they found them interesting and entertaining.

The Library tours, organized with the help of the Friends of the
National Library, were very popular. Among the visitors who
joined the tours, offered at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on
weekdays, was a group of 38 Russian-Americans from New York
State. They expressed great interest in the National Library's
mandate and admired the beauty of the building. The Friends also
ran a gift booth, and reported that T-shirts, sweatshirts,
postcards and other souvenirs were extremely popular.

The "West On Wellington" committee will meet soon to review the
summer programming and evaluate the campaign. Watch for an
article on the future of the WOW campaign in an upcoming issue of
the NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS.


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WOW - WINTERLUDE!

The National Library will be celebrating Winterlude, a local
festival, in cooperation with the National Archives of Canada and
the Currency Museum, on Sunday, February 6, from 12 noon to 4:00
p.m.

An activity day for the whole family focussing on the Library's
exhibition "North: Landscape of the Imagination". Come and join
us!


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AMICUS NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 1994

Happy New Year to all! It's hard to believe that 1994 is already
here -- and it's even more difficult to believe that, in three
months, AMICUS will be here too!

This year our Search Service celebrates its 10th anniversary. The
DOBIS Search Service began in 1984 as a limited pilot project,
users being accepted as resources permitted. Our chief aim in
offering the service was, to quote one of my predecesors, Mary
Joan Dunn, "to facilitate and to promote resource sharing in
Canada by allowing libraries access to the holdings information
of the Canadian union catalogue. While the primary use of the
service is anticipated to be support for interlibrary loans, that
is, locations searching and bibliographic verification, the
richness of the database will make it a valuable resource for a
variety of other purposes, such as collection development,
cataloguing support and reference and research" (NATIONAL LIBRARY
NEWS, vol. 16, no. 5, May 1984, p. 1).

Today, the Library's aim in offering the Search Service remains
the same. The predicted uses of the database have been proven
accurate: clients use the system to support library operations
such as locations searching and ILL, as well as cataloguing,
reference and collections development.

In 1984, the database contained close to three million
bibliographic records, and was growing at an annual rate of 400
000 records. Over 500 000 records had been created online, and
1.5 million records contained the holdings of Canadian libraries.

Today, the database contains close to nine million bibliographic
records, and is growing at an annual rate of approximately one
million records. Over 2.2 million records have been created
online since 1984; 4.5 million records include Canadian holdings.
Since 1984, our client base has grown to more than 650
institutions nationwide.

Over the last ten years we have continued to enhance the system.
The enhancements include the introduction of three levels of
record description, the addition of more than half a million
authority records, the establishment of bilingual online help and
news, and the DOBIS-ILL feature, to name but a few. Last year we
made the system available to users over the CA*net. We continue
to offer a client information centre, training, documentation and
a troubleshooting support service.

AMICUS will feature boolean searching and there will be
additional indices from which to search the database.

We are proud of the system and the Search Service. We thank you
for making it a success, and look forward to working with you as
we begin a new era with AMICUS.

For more information on this or related matters, please contact
either:
Client Information Centre
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
CA*net: [e-mail]
ENVOY 100: DOBISSEARCH.C

or

Gisèle DeVillers
Manager, User Support,
Information Technology Services
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
CA*net address: [e-mail]

Till next month!


Gisèle DeVillers


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DESELECTION OF FOREIGN SERIALS: AN UPDATE

by Francine Bedard, Acting Head, Reading Room Division

Following recommendations made in the 1990 report of the National
Library's Collections Management Policy Team (CMPT), a committee
was created in 1991 to review non-Canadian periodicals that did
not meet the criteria set forth in the National Library's
collecting guidelines. (For the CMPT recommendations, please see
"Collections Management Policy Team: Results", NATIONAL LIBRARY
NEWS, vol. 23, no. 12, December 1991, pp. 11-12.)

The committee's main purpose was to tighten up the collection in
the areas identified as being of "special emphasis" in the
Library's holdings -- Canadian literature, Canadian history,
Canadian music and music in Canada -- and in areas needed for
reference and research services, for library development, and, in
special cases, when works are not widely held in Canada.

Procedures for deselection were set up by the committee, which
took into account the Canadian content, the number of Canadian
libraries holding the same title, subject value, etc. (see
"Deselection of Serials at the National Library" by Pat
MacDonald, NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS, vol. 24, no. 5, May 1992, p.
7).

A first list of 232 cancelled titles was offered to the Canadian
Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and federal government
libraries in June 1992 and January 1993. Of these, 12 libraries
took the full holdings of 120 titles. The libraries who received
titles are:

Carleton University Library
Douglas Library, Queen's University
Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick
Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University
Leddy Library, University of Windsor
McGill University Library
McPherson Library, University of Victoria
Scott Library, York University
University of Alberta Library
University of Calgary Library
University of Toronto Library
D.B. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario

As a result of deselection, the National Library was able to
focus its collections activities, saved money that can be used to
purchase other publications covered by our collecting guidelines,
and gained more than 336 feet of valuable shelf space.

The remaining 112 titles on this first list are being offered to
the Canadian library community at large. Libraries that acquire
these backfiles will agree to the following conditions:

1. To take the whole run and to retain backfiles.
2. To send the titles to the National Library's Canadian Book
Exchange Centre if, at a later date, a decision is made to
dispose of them.
3. To make the material available either on interlibrary loan or
photocopies.
4. To report holdings and changes in holdings status to the
National Library's Union Catalogue.
5. To maintain a current subscription to titles received.
6. To pay for the delivery of the serials.

For more information, please contact:
Karen Yates
Chief, Reading Room Division
Public Services Branch
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N4
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


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SERIALS TITLES CANCELLED / ANNULATIONS DE PÉRIODIQUES
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA / BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DU CANADA
1993

Accounting, organizations and society             1976-
Acta archaeologica                                1981-
Acta ethnographica                       [16-34]- 1967-
Activities, adaptation and aging                  1980-
Administration in social work                     1977-
Advertising age                                   1968-
American psychologist                        1947-1992
Archeologia                                       1986-
Architecture d'aujourd'hui                        1947-
Asian theatre journal                             1984-
Barron's national business
and financial weekly                      [33-56]-1953-
Bulletin de l'Afrique noire                       1977-
Bulletin for international fiscal
documentation                                 1957-1991
Casabella                                  [1958-1982]-
Child & youth care quarterly                    1987-90
Children and youth services review                1979-
Clinical social work journal                      1980-
Community mental health journal                   1965-
Comparative education                          1964/65-
Country life (London, England)               [1914-85]-
Daidalos                                          1981-
Developmental psychology                          1969-
Dictionnaire permanent social                 84- 1974-
Direction et gestion des entreprises         [1965-75]-
Directors and boards                              1976-
Du (Zurich)                                  [323-491]-
Economics letters                        1-37,  1978-91
Educational administration abstracts   [4-26],  1969-91
Educational review                       [1-24]-  1949-
Educational studies                           7-  1981-
Energy journal                           1-12,  1980-91
Environment and planning A                        1974-
Environment and planning B                        1977-
Euromoney                                    [1969-83]-
European journal of education                     1980-
Financial times of London world business weekly 1980-81
Futuribles                                        1975-
Glückauf                                          1990-
Higher education                                   1972
Homo (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie)    1975-
Human ecology                                  1972/73-
Images économiques du monde                  20-  1975-
Industrial management + data systems            [1980]-
Industrial marketing management                1973/74-
Instructional science                          1972/73-
Interior design (London)                   [1967-1985]-
Interior design (NY)                              1964-
International journal of educational development  1983-
International journal of industrial ergonomics    1986-
International journal of manpower                 1980-
International journal of sociology                1974-
Japanese economic studies                         1981-
Jinruigaku zasshi                                 1983-
Journal of addictive diseases                     1991-
Journal of applied social psychology     1-21,  1971-91
Journal of archaeological science                 1974-
Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia   1971-78
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology  [33-46]-
Journal of econometrics                           1981-
Journal of educational television                 1982-
Journal of education for teaching                 1981-
Journal of employment counseling                  1970-
Journal of European industrial training   [1-6]-  1977-
Journal of experimental psychology:
   human perception                           1978-1992
Journal of general management                     1973-
Journal of industrial economics              2-,  1953-
Journal of interdisciplinary economics            1985-
Journal of management studies             [1-5]-  1964-
Journal of mathematical sociology             6-  1979-
Journal of pediatric psychology                   1976-
Journal of philosophy of education           14-  1980-
Journal of religion in Africa                 8-  1976-
Journal of social behavior and personality    1-  1986-
Journal of social service research                1977-
Journal of socio-economics                   20-  1991-
Journal of sociology and social welfare 7-18  1980-1991
Lotus international                          29-  1981-
Management bibliographies and reviews        6  - 1980-
Marketing (Institute of Marketing)         [1980-1984]-
Maske und kothurn                                 1955-
Middle East economic digest                       1965-
Multicultural education abstracts                 1982-
New Zealand journal of educational studies        1966-
Nouvel économiste                          [1975-1982]-
Omega                                         1-  1973-
Organizational behavior and human performanc  1968-1984
Oxford review of education                    1975-1991
Peabody journal of education                  1934-1989
Perception (London, England)                  1973-1991
Personality and social psychology bulletin        1975-
Planner                               59, no. 7-  1973-
Problems of economics                    [9-19]-  1966-
Process architecture                              1980-
Psychological bulletin                [1-110],  1904-91
Psychology and aging                          1-  1986-
RAIRO : mathematical modelling and
 numerical analysis                               1985-
Recherches économiques de Louvain                 1961-
Research in higher education                  1-  1973-
Revue archéologique                               1965-
Revue bénédictine                            76-  1966-
Revue biblique                                1-  1904-
Revue de l'art                                    1969-
Revue économique                                  1950-
Revue française du marketing                 22-  1967-
Rivista internazionale di scienze economiche
e commerciali                                     1974-
Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali         1973-
School organisation & management abstracts    1-  1982-
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie   46-  1987-
Sex roles                                     2-  1976-
Social work in health care                    1-  1975-
Soviet education                       [6]-33,  1964-91
Studies in higher education                   4-  1979-
Studies in Soviet thought              1-[42],  1961-91
Technique et science informatiques :  TSI     1-  1982-
Theory and decision                           1-  1970-
Urban studies                                 1-  1964-
Urbanismes et architecture                        1989-
Vita e pensiero                              57-  1974-
Voprosy psikhologii                          [1963-87]-
Western European education                 1-  1969/70-
Work in America                              12-  1987-
Zeitschrift für experimentelle und
angewandte Psychologie                       24-  1977-
 = Accounting, organizations and society          1976-
Acta archaeologica                                1981-