V.4 No. 1 of the U.B.C. LIBRARY STAFF NEWSLETTER OCTOBER I967 Once again, your Ed, has been breathing Burbage-like down the necks of would-be bards, and, while the result isn't all that Bacon would have liked, well, what do you expect for free? Your Ed. has also been picking the brains of Mao Tse-Tung-in cheek and came up with the following thought: A publication should always be written with a particular clientele in mind. Communists see clearly that people tend to like best what they have written themselves. Therefore, the more people contribute to a newsletter, the greater will be its popularity. So anyone who refuses to write for Biblos is a bourgeois running dog of imperialist reactionaries! FEATURES: Front Office Report Staff Changes The Tyas Committee How to Change Horses.., BCLA Fall Meeting International Congress of Orientalists The Music Library FRONT OFFICE REPORTS Woodward Librarian A committee of life sciences deans, other heads and librarians, after advertising widely, has interviewed several candidates for the position of Woodward Bio-medical Librarian and hopes to selec the new head within a month. Student-Library Committee Mr, Mclnnes and Mr. Bell discussed arrangements with Mr, Shawn Sullivan, President of the Alma Mater Society, for the continuatii of this committee. The library representatives will be Mr, Erickson, Mr, Palsson, Mrs, Port and Mr. Mclnnes, who will be Cha man. The student representatives will be appointed by the Studen1 Council after advertising for and interviewing candidates. Vacancies AU non-professional vacancies above Library Assistant i will be advertised for five days on the notice board outside the staff lounge before an applicant is selected. If no applicant is selec ted from within the Library the Personnel Office will be requested to send over applicants. PSAP has met once and will meet frequently in future to discuss ' problems of mutual interest to Public Service and Processing ; Divisions. Notes from the meetings of this informal committee will be distributed to all divisions. Questions arising from these should be referred to Bill Watson or Doug Mclnnes, Infor- • mation about statistics kept in Public Service Divisions is being accumulated by D. Mclnnes. When all Divisions have outlined the ' kinds of statistics kept, an attempt will be made to establish those which are most important and to introduce some degree of uniformity in the way they are kept. Hopefully, the quantity of : statistics needed can be reduced once the significant ones are identified. Norman Colbeck has prepared a list of names of authors, of whose ; works collections are to be found in the Colbeck room in the Lib-' rary. Copies can be obtained from R.M.Hamilton or seen at the ' Humanities desk and elsewhere. The number of authors listed is i close to 500 and they represent a collection not far short of '■ 3 0,000 volumes. It is certain that a list of titles will not be vail able for quite some time, so the list of authors should prove seful on a partial basis for ascertaining probabilities in the olbeck collection. It is expected that Bibliographical Searching ill find the author list most useful, but it should be of interest p the reference divisions and Sedgewick, (incidentally, carrells ave been ordered for the Colbeck room.) ne of the questionnaires in the Downs survey dealt with the book ol lections, their range and quality. The chief librarians of the estern university libraries have suggested that this survey be used s a basis for informing the presidents of the western universities s to the strengths of collections in their libraries so that unnecessary duplication and competition in buying can be minimized. The 1(,B,C. bibliographers are preparing an index to this survey and the inished product should provide a reasonably good key to particulars bout collections here. Copies will be sent to the university libra- ians, A limited number will be made available for reference desk se in the U.B.C. Library, ommunications Circular communications between members of large organizations tend to be some- hing of a major problem. Actions by one person or division may amify so as to affect many others, often in important but unforeseen ays. Failures in communications can lead to difficult and unpleasant onsequences. This library has not been immune to communication down- ime (computer jargon meaning that the system has broken down). d improve communications, especially by providing a reminder of all ghe persons and divisions that make up the library, a "Communications jrcular" has been designed for in-1ibrary use. Titles of the princi- il administrative positions, branches and divisions appear towards ie top of the form beside boxes to be checked for the addressee or Jdressees. ne circular may be used in two ways. When intended for one or two srsons or divisions their titles are checked and they are expected i read the memorandum, initial it, and pass it along as soon as -»ssible to the next person indicated. When directed to more people *e original copy may be xeroxed (before any boxes are checked) and |ch copy marked for the one person or division for whom it is inten- *d. General memoranda should always be directed to all members of the (ministration. STAFF CHANGES. We Welcome - Ladies first Carol Trueman Therese Pascal Bu rg i tta Willemson Linda Lines H i1 da u it den Bosch Rick Crowe Ian Edwards Wi11iam 01dham James Simon LA I LA I LA I' LA I LA I LA I LA I LA I LA I I BMB Catalogu ing Catalogu ing Ci rculat ion C i rcu1 at ion C i rculat ion Ci rculat ion Ci rculat ion Gov. Publi cations Congratulations to - El izabeth Knott LA I to LA Linda Moss LA I to LA on their Promotions. We say Good-Bye to - Jean Jones LA I Burgitta Freybe Clerk I Ellen Gregg LA I Sharon Hutchinson LA I Marguerite Livingstone LA I Gwen Bell LA I I Gracey Jones KPO Robin Cripps LA I I C i rcu1 at ion Woodward BMB Acqu i s i t ions C i rcu1 at ion Ci rculat ion Ci rculat ion Sedgewick Systems Div, Catalogu ing Further Staff Changes. Best wishes to - Jeanette Gravelle (Wdwd.) now Mrs. Jeffrey D. Wal 1 . Sylvia Frazer (Music) now Mrs. Westman. ANYTHING I' CAN DO THEY CAN DO BETTER, (AND FASTER). Everyone is most welcome to visit the key-punch room for fery valid reason — it mercifully interrupts our work. We ie in the penthouse, just ascend to the 8th floor, then "low to where emanates the inevitable noise, Also, it :ords us an opportunity in introducing four most interesting /-comers to our working midst. The Quartet derive from the same family, each weigh 1051bs,, > their minis), are remarkable for their diverse capabilities, jcision, exactitude, reliability and typing skills of 145 wpm, j,-eat amount of re-organization, re-deployment of staff, mental »rgv and grey hairs have been caused to flourish in accommoda- jg such paragons. They are the latest model mods, probably the f, gender (one cannot argue with them), of this modern thnological age. The Flexowriters 2302, Five basic components combine to make the Friden Automatic ting machines -- the reader, code translator, writing machine, ie selector and puncher. The reader mechanically senses codes Khed on tape or cards at the speed of 730 per minute, and iverts each code into a series of electrical impulses which i sent to the code translator, converting the impulses into a Uianical action causing the key-levers to operate, The writing iponent contains the power supply, running on 110-115 volt, i the key-levers. When a key is activated, either manually automatically, the code selector converts this action, sending series of electrical impulses to the punch, which, if on at i time, causes the code assigned to that key-lever to punch an 8-channel 1" wide paper tape. The resultant tape is then jnto for computerized digestion. All this contained in 22-3/4inch by 10 inches. And every (are inch an expensive one, M. Cipolli. Librarian Has Help. Newberg, Ore, When the librarian at the Newberg Library says "Quiet," no one makes a sound. She keeps her German shepherd near her to help with discipline. TH? FYAS COMMITTEE. On Octooer 16th a ?iudy group of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council of Canada visited UBC, This Croup, headed by Mr. J. P, l„ Tyas, is making a study to examine present scientific and technical information services and to assess the future requirements of scientific and technical personnel in industry, universities, and government. The purpose of their visit was to receive and discuss :riefs submitted by "interested parties". Four of these:—• .a Librarians of UBC, U„ of Vie,, SFU., and BCIT — submitted a joint brief which had been prepared by a com- •r: it tee of representat i ves from the four libraries under :'.-,z chairmanship of Rein biongers of the Science Division rt UBC,. In their joint submission the four Librarians outline to what extent their institutions are at present serving the information needs of science, business, and industry; to what extent they hope to be able to serve these needs in the future; and what improvements and changes would be required to provide the best scientific end technical information service nationally and locally. The Tyas Committee is interested in plans and proposals for immediate as well as future improvements "all the way to Cloud Nine ,,,.,,„ „" Mr„ Tyas hopes to have a preliminary report ready next Spring and a final report by the Fall of 1968, Library Shields-Dorothy Mr, H. Burndorfer Vancouver 8, B.C. Canada, FINE ARTS GALLERY. Coming Thursday, November 2nd through Saturday, November 18, (Closed Saturday, November 11, for Remembrance Day) ; Maxwell Bates and Eric Metcalfe, Drawings and watercolours by two Victorian arti sts. An appreciation: Maxwell Bates is one of the few artists of his generation in Western Canada to have maintained the respect and admiration of successive generations of painters. His singlemindedness and ability to grasp and understand "the moment" without allowing it to interfere with his own direction has served as an example to painters like Roy Kiyooka, Ron Bloore, lain Baxter, and myself. The majority of his work has yet to receive the recognition that it deserves. Maxwell Bates has never been part of any establishment; he has never taught in the formal sense, or had the usual gallery affiliations, He is a man who has to be sought out and approached on his own terms, His concerns are private, often literary and highly satirical. They deal almost totally with his own experience and condition. He is a documentor, and keeps extensive note books, photos and sketches which provide amazing detail and authenticity to all his work. There are references in Bates' work to the major trends in twentieth century painting; but it would be an oversimplification to approach his painting as expressionism or surrealism, although he spent over sixteen years in Europe and studied with Max Beckmann in New York, Maxwell Bates has absorbed these influences to create an uncompromising personal mythology, Michael Morris, Three Innocents: Winifred Warters Esther Rogatnick Hugh Calverley (circulated by the Western Canada Art Circuit) An exhibition organized by Professor George Swinton, University of Manitoba, of works by three "sophisticated primitives", whose paintings express the direct, unspoiled, individual, and relatively untutored quality of "naive" painting, yet whose apparent underlying philosophies or background of travel, suggest a broader experience than is usually attributed to such artists. Also coming to the FINE ARTS GALLERY: From Tuesday, November 7th through Tuesday, November l4th„ Persian and Indian Miniatures From the late 11th Century to the 19th Century. Thirty-two works from the collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, of Brookline, Mass. Circulated by the Western Canada Art Ci rcuit. Special Event: 12.30, Tuesday, November 7th, at the Fine Arts Gal lery. Dr. Mary Morehart, of- the Department of Fine Arts, will discuss the Persian and Indian Miniatures, Double cross reference: Pi shpek see Frunze. But, of course! Twinkle, twinkle, Dynamac, Self-propelling power pack. Oh, the energy you burn, Making catalog wheels turn. HOW TO CHANGE HORSES IN MID-STREAM WITHOUT GETTING WET. From the headlines of Canadian newspapers from July 20 to August 2, 1967. President de Gaulle's visit in comparison to Napoleon's journey across France, on his return from Elba, Headlines from March 9 to March 22, 1815, Paris, President de Gaulle, July 20 Patriarch of France, President de Gaulle to pay 5 day visit to Canada, 21 President de Gaulle to receive 21 gun salute on arrival in Canada, 22 Hero of two Wars, President de Gaulle to visit Quebec City, 23 Tumultuous Welcome rocks President de Gaulle, 24 President de Gaulle!s speech shocks Ottawa, 25 Canadian Cabinet in crisis session, 26 De Gaulle rebuked by Pearson S- returns to Paris, 27 Ottawa awaits fallout from de Gaulle blast, 31 De Gaulle won't apologize, Aug, 2 Quebec speech misinterpreted, President de Gaulle in no way intended to interfere with Canadian poli tics. Napoleon. March 9 The Anthropophagus has quitted his den, 10 The Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan, 11 The Tiger has arrived at Cap, 12 The Monster slept at Grenoble, 13 The Tyrant has passed through Lyons, 14 The Usurper is directing his steps toward Dijon, 18 Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital. He has been fortunate enough to escape his pursuers. 19 Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris. 20 Napoleon will tomorrow, be under our ramparts. 21 The Emperor is at Fontainebleau, 22 His Imperial and Royal Majest arrived yesterday evening at Tuileries, amid joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects. Sources: Monthly Review. Ottawa Journal, La Presse, 10 BCLA FALL MEETING, The British Columbia Library Association once again entertained the faithful at its annual fall meeting held at the Bayshore Inn on September 24. Poultry seemed to be the, order of the day, as the chicken luncheon was preceded by at least one address that, in the eyes of most, had "turkey" written all over it. The aridity which marked this stage of the proceedings was compounded by the lack of recourse to any of the hotel's oases, the day being Sunday and the need, naturally, acute. The situation was somewhat alleviated by the luncheon speaker, Maryan Reynolds, who managed, between her first "lousy" and last "bucket of horse manure", to present an interesting review of the work of the Washington State Library, which she heads. The theme of the meeting was "cooperation" and there were three major papers directed toward various aspects of the problem, Gerry Bleiler of B.C. Tel, discussed the potential of a communications network based on TelWX; H.T. Fosbery of the Cooperative Book Center revealed some of the problems associated with centralized cataloguing; and George Piternick analyzed a few conditions which make cooperation more effective. As a change of pace, Margaretta Rice spoke in favour of the establishment of demonstration school libraries in the province. The day's work reiterated the fact that a speaker's usefulness is enhanced if he can be simultaneously informative and amusing, and not render redundant his listeners' abi1i ty to read. 11 Hospital Bed September 29, 67. Biblos UBC Library: Dear Editor: I am a student at UBC., presently in hospital, A friend of mine kindly brought me a copy of September 28 issue of UBSSEY, in which an article appeared referring to the Library Circulation and mini-skirts. I would like to give warning through your publication to all my friends and to those who are able to accept advise from a stranger, be very, very, careful of the length of your skirt. I adopted the new style of thigh high skirts and discovered my nylons were not quite long enough to reach my foundation garments. I tightened my belt and stretched my nylons. By doing this I found that when I lifted my foot the tension of my nylons and belt snapped my knee up. With each step I had to force my weight on my foot to straighten my leg. Consequently I walked with a snap of the knee and a push of the foot. Near the end of the day my legs became tired, my knees hurt and I had pushed my foot through the toes of my nylons. About three o'clock during a class break I was standing near the fountain under a tree in front of the Library. I was so tired. It was hard enough to walk but when I sat down, it was like being squeezed all over ~ f was black and blue. I held my breath every time I stood up from a chair wondering if anything would snap. Standing resting in the shade of the tree I wished the horrible day was over, so that I might rush home and tear off my clothes. Suddenly S dropped a book. I was so tired, I never thought, I reached down to pick it up and SNAP! POWJ The fireman who rescued me from the tree has visited me and all my friends are so sympathetic. The accident seems so hazy now. I can't remember what happened, but Daddy says that's.-for the best. The Doctor told mother I would not be able to wear a bikini next year — but who cares with all these scars. The fireman said that if I had been catapulted much higher I would have gone right over the tree. Yours truly, A Bed Patient. 12 WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? (Try asking Suzanne Dodson), For all those who saw her lurking in a guilty fashion by the side of 4th Avenue, clutching a fist-full of weeds, - or those who may have seen a furtive figure hastily stuffing something into a pack and vanishing around a boulder in one or more of our provincial parks - an explanation. No, she hasn't slipped a cog - at least she certainly doesn't think so. (Being certain about such things is a bad sign, though, isn't it?) She is merely engaged in a great flower hunt and necessity causes her at times to waive observance of the law. Anyway, it's all in a good cause. As you probably already know she is occupied in painting a series of wild flowers of British Columbia. These water- colours will, she hopes, eventually be incorporated into a book. In fact her real ambition is to do an immense 'flora' of B.C. but she'll be in her dotage before that's finished! In the meantime she is also doing something much closer to being used. A new building is being constructed in Victori to house the Provincial Museum and she has been asked to do some paintings of flowers to be used in displays when the new building is in operation. The building is due to open in December and her work must be ready before then so at this season when the flowers are almost over she is still painting as steadily as she was in the summer. Her flower paintings for the museum will consist of eight portraits - all of flowers from the dry Okanagan area. They will include flowers many of you know - mariposa lily, bitter-root, cactus. These portraits will vary in size and shape but the flowers themselves will be done close to life- size. She believes that this is the best way to give the observer an accurate impression of the flower. In addition she has been asked to do a typical landscape of the area complete with ponderosa pine, antelope bush and pink phlox. This will be used as a background for one of the displays and is causing her some moments of anguish since the jump from flowers to panoramic scenes is quite a large one. Basically, however, she thinks the whole project is tremendous fun. Because of it she's had more trips to the Okanagan in a short time than ever before. She has been able to consume vast numbers of her favourite travel foods, (hamburgers and butter-pecan sundaes), and to escape many boring weekend chores with the excuse that "I simply must get that flower now before it's gone, and cooking and cleaning wil 13 have to wait"! Fortunately she possesses an exceedingly indulgent husband (who hates boring weekend chores too) and he will always aid her in her escapes. For that matter the enthusiasm with which certain of her friends have hastened to accompany her on these trips leads her to conclude that dislike of B.W.C.'s is not confined to her immediate family. Indeed, who in his right mind would not choose to pursue the elusive Mertensia longi flora over the pine-y slopes than to track down Spinacia oleracea in the frozen wastes of Woodwa rd' s food-floor?, , vv- NEW MAP OF CANADA. Because of the confusion created by a recent geography examination requiring students to draw a map of Canada, a simplified version will be taught to all school children: Cross-section: im^ouTntaHns the north the prai ries east far east Abbreviated form: m P. e. fe. A map without lettering and drawn in the following manner, will not be acceptable: 14 XXVII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS - LIBRARY PANEL AND MEETINGS. For the first time in its 93 year history, the International Congress of Orientalists convened in the United States, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 13-19. Of the 2,500 delegates who attended, about 150 met to discuss library matters, at the end of which, the organization of an International Association of Orientalist Libraries was proposed and adopted "to serve as a forum for the interchange of information of mutual interest to librarians interested in Asia, and to work towards the improvement of library facilities offered to orientalists in all countries." A panel on "Library Resources in Asian Studies", sponsored by the Committee on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, Inc., received a grant of $17,500 from the Council of Library Resources, Inc., to bring to the Congress librarians from abroad. At its whole-day session, eleven papers, covering four areas — North Africa and the Near East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Esst Asia — were presented, one of which in Arabic, another in French, and the rest in English, They will be published together in book form. Besides describing in brief the history, resources and bibliographical projects of libraries of their own countries, the informative papers also showed their particular problems. In India, for instance, valuable manuscripts were found disintegrating. In Singapore, bilingual Ism was nothing* it was quadri1ingual there, with Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil as its official languages. In general, oriental libraries were experiencing an acute shortage of funds, of properly trained staff and of adequate equipment. Owing to the lack of information and coordination it was also discovered that there was a duplication of effort in solving those problems among librarians of different areas, which urgently called for future international cooperation. The discussants Mr. L.Z, Yamak of Harvard College Library, Mr. Stanley C, Sutton of the India Office Library, London, Miss Joyce Wright of the East-West Center Library, Hawaii, ard Mr, K.B. Gardner of the British Museum, aptly summarized the outstanding points of the papers at the end of their presentation on each of the four areas. As a 15 closing commentary, Mr, James D, Pearson of the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London, highly commended the fine effort made by the authors and suggested "ways and means be found for continuing and making the bibliographical works mentioned in those papers available to all orientalists in the world," In addition to the panel, meetings were also held on international cooperation concerning area materials, such as Chinese, Japanese and South Asian, As regards Chinese materials, the numerous projects for their reproduction were reported and discussed, ending with an approval of establishing a clearing house for the coordination of information. Problems concerning Government publications, information on names and dates of Japanese authors and the compilation of a bibliography of the writings and letters of Americans who had contributed to the modernization of Japan during the Meiji period were discussed regarding Japanese materials. Thanks to the hosts Mr. Frederick H, Wagman, Director of Libraries, Mr, Yukihisa Suzuki, Head of the Asia Library, and others, of the University of Michigan, delegates found their expertly arranged visits and receptions interesting and enjoyable, Sufficient interest was aroused during the various sessions for them to decide not only to organize similar library panels for future meetings of the Congress, but to form also a group to continue the international exchange of information on library matters until the next Congress, which will probably be held in 1970, On a unanimous vote at the last meeting, an International Association of Orientalist Libraries was organized, with Mr. James D, Pearson elected as its first president and Mr, Yukihisa Suzuki, Secretary-Treasurer. The task of drafting a charter, etc., was assigned to the latter. Only two oriental librarians attended the Congress from Canada, Besides your 'reporter', Mr. Raymond Chu, Librarian of the East Asian Library, University of Toronto, was the other one. As rather inactive participants, both of us felt quite self-conscious at the meetings in not having accomplished anything on a national level as far as oriental material in Canada was concerned. Briefly we discussed what we, as heads of the two largest Far Eastern collection in Canada, could do with our very limited facilities, and decided to begin with the compilation of a union list of Canadian holdings of Chinese (l) rare books, (2) gazetteers, and (3) periodical literature in archaeology. It is an ambitious project, but with our perseverance as well as understanding and support from our colleagues, there may yet be a fair chance of success. Tung King Ng. m 16 THE MACKENZIE DELTA. My father's great desire to see what life in the north is like, finally developed into a trip, last August, to Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. We accomplished this by driving from Edmonton to Yellowknife (a distance of almost 1000 iles) and then taking the regular PWA flight to Inuvik, a further 1000 miles. A charter flight a few days later completed the last 80 miles to Tuk, Brilliant is the most appropriate adjective to describe Inuvik. Every colour in the paint box has been used on the buildings, even bright orange and red, and the row houses are each differently coloured. It sounds wild, but against the green of the surrounding hills the bright colours make a pleasant scene, and must certainly cheer up the inhabitants during the long winter. Clumps of birch and spruce help to make up for the complete lack of grass and flowers. The main street is paved and a board sidewalk extends from one end of town to the other. Also -extending the length of town and into every government-owned building, is the utilidor, which is an insulated metal pipeline on stilts, carrying the heat, water and sanitation pipes. This creates a fence between neighboring houses which might have advantages, but crossing from one street to another is awkward when no stairway is in sight. The population is about 3,000, The only resource industries are trapping and a small amount of fishing and reindeer herding. The government and service industries therefore provide most of the employment. There is one hotel, two restaurants, bakeshop, liquor store, barbershop, laundry, bank, Hudson's Bay Store, craft- shop, newspaper, construction supply business, and airplane and water transportation companies. Except for the liquor store, all are privately owned. There are two churches, a 300-bed hospital, movie theatre, curling rink, Legion Hall, a research laboratory, a new Centennial Project library (painted red and yellow), a school, and a high school under construction. An interesting feature of the school is that the Indian and Eskimo children are taught separately. One side of the school is used by the Indian children, most of whom live in the Roman Catholic 17 Hostel, and the other by the Eskimo children, who live in the Anglican Church Hostel, The gym, auditorium and science labs are placed in the centre of the building and jointly used. The highlight of our trip was our visit to Tuk and a look at the Arctic Ocean. Tuk has about 500 residents and the only natives are Eskimo. A Dew Line base lies across the bay to the east, there are Northern Transportation Co, facilities, a Hudson's Bay Store, nursing mission, government administration offices, R.C.M.P., day school, grocery store and restaurant, curling rink, community hall, 3 churches, and a fur shop where beautiful garments and rugs are for sale. It was fun to see what was sold in the stores and prices charged. On the whole, prices were good as many items sold for the same or only slightly more than here. Meat and fresh produce were of course exceptions. We were both thrilled by our trip to the north and I could recommend it to any of you, and perhaps offer useful information, It was interesting to fly over the tundra, to be greeted by friendly people everywhere, to taste Arctic char, and see a pingo! Marilyn Dutton, A book for the long arctic night Blizard, John, 1882- The economic use of coal for steam-raising and house heating, 1919, "Do 1 enjoy Kipling? I don't know, I've never kippledl" 18 THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY IN PETERSBURG, "On entering, visitors have to pass a whole cordon of police soldiers, the attendants on this library, who strip them of cloaks, great-coats, sticks, galoshes, etc,, which they return after strictly searching the owners at their departure; and many a one feels so nettled that he comes no more,.,,„..„.„,On your first visit you can do no more than look at the different rooms and the outsides of the books, attended by a subaltern officer, who tells you wonderful things about these literary treasures. To get a book to read in the library itself is utterly impossible, though you can point out where it stands. You must first write down the title in a large register, and then, if it . is not lent and can be found, you are supplied with it on the next library day. But on the day appointed for reading you may many a time knock in vain, because it may happen to be one of the numberless festivals of the Russian Church..c..... 11 happens sometimes that you may wait for weeks in vain for a single book. The first time, the entry of the book has perhaps been overlooked, and you must write down the title again; the next time you are told it is not to be found, or the librarian, to whose department it belongs, is not in the way. Sometimes you are yourself prevented from attending on a library day, and then you lose your claim to the wished- for book, which has meanwhile been removed from the table; so that you are obliged to go on a fourth or fifth day to enter it again, and at last on a sixth or seventh to read it." Johann G, Kohl, Russia and the Russians in 1842, Philadelphia, 1843, Venus see Japanese Journal of Malacology, * The branch of zoology which deals with mollusks, Webster.] 19 LIBRARY STAFF IN LIBRARY SCHOOL, Three Library Staff Members have given lectures to the Library School Students, Mr, Colbeck, on October 6th, gave a talk on "Some aspects of book collecting"; the following week on October 10th Mr. Hamilton gave the students the low-down on the Acquisitions set-up; and on Monday, 16th, Miss Mercer followed up with an account of the Bibliography Division, 0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0 COMMISSIONAIRES CORNER, While studying: The three of us do try our best To make for you a place to rest And make it easy for you to digest The thoughts you get from the Library chest, While studying. We'd like you to know, its like jam sn tarts To work with such pleasant staff in our knowledge mart; Smoking, lunching and cards must depart, For a chance to become a Master of Arts, While studying. Al, Alf, and Len, o__o--o--o--o--o--o--o—O--O--O-—O--O--O—o 999 998, 999 999.,.-....? Rumour has it that the Millionth Book will be: Wigglesworth, V The life of insects. 20 THE MUSIC LIBRARY, This, the most recent addition to the growing list of branch libraries, is on the 4th Floor of the new Music Building, Hans Burndorfer is the Librarian, abetted by two clerks, Sylvia Westman and Edna Corbin. The Library is very handsomely furnished, with green carpeting, dark wood and black stacks, pleasant diffused lighting, display racks for journals, and a built-in display case for manuscripts and other rarities,. There is seating for about 100 students among the stacks and 20 listening carrels will be equipped when the RCA phonographs arrive. The seminar room, with blackboard and comfortable chairs for graduate courses, also houses some rare editions and older works,. Four listening rooms have been set up for small groups. The collection consists of materials In the LC classification-; M, ML, and MT, that is, music, literature of music, and music .instruction and study, primarily used for courses leading to the degrees of B..M„, B,Ed (Music), B..A„, and M, Music, About 300 students and 50 faculty use the collection of some 14,000 volumes formerly housed in Fine Arts, There are about 500 rolls of microfilm, mostly dissertations of musicology and the complete works of composers. This library also now holds the non-circulation teaching col lection of records, formerly held in the Music Department, Hans aims at developing a good graduate collection and to that end is buying different complete editions of musical works. For example, an edition of Berlioz1 works is available on microfilm, the new edition will also be purchased, in book form, so that comparisons can be made,, A reader-printer and ■-erox machine are available in the library,, There is also an electric piano, for playing scores. The library has a divided catalog and its own shelf list. The Circulation system will eventually become part of the Main Library's automated system. Altogether a very pleasant place to work, with a feeling of restful timeiessness enhanced by the wall clock which stands (permanently?) at ten to four. IN THE GOOD OLE DAYS I867. If your great great grandparents emigrated to Canada in I867, it took them, in good weather, thirty six days to sail from Liverpool to Halifax, Cabin passage with provisions cost, twelve to fifteen pounds. Steerage passage without provisions beyond the legal allowance, three pounds ten shillings. (That's probably the reason for the expression in far Eastern Canada, "some hungry"). To erect a comfortable log-house, the cost was sixteen pounds, (Todays market 30,000 with 3,000 down), A frame house and barn, two to three hundred pounds, A days wages in 1867, would enable a person today to buy a pack of filter tips. Carpenters seven shillings per day, shoe makers four shillings, painters five shillings. No prices on clothing, you either made it to wear, or you didn't make it through the winter, (That's probably the reason for the expression in far Eastern Canada, "some chilly"). 22 THE REPUBLIC OF CHILDHOOD. The School of Librarianship is, gradually, reverting to its* normal state of mild hysteria following sucessful delivery of two; of its brain children. One of these, the proceedings of the Aprij workshop on the new cataloguing code, is not yet back from the r printer, so comment on it will have to await the next issue of Biblos. : The other is here in full flower: shocking pink flower, - yet, which sensitive eyes are avoiding by keeping the dust wrapper on or by buying the paperback format published at the san time. Sheila Egoff, the author, has always felt that children h^ not received due at the hands of Canadians who pretend to write for them - hence the separatist sentiment couched in the title, The Republic of Childhood, t This evaluation of contemporary Canadian children's literature is the result of first-hand examination of the material,t For over two years, Miss Egoff has been demanding rides home from her male colleagues not on the usual pretext of wanting to keep dry in the rain, but because of the 35 children's books t they would have to cart up to her apartment for the evening's reading. Bill Toye, her editor at Oxford University Press in Toronto, is reported to have said the next children's librarian approaching him with a manuscript will be referred to Macmillan': He is at present recuperating at a rest home. Oh, yes; if you find the work a little tedious in its present version, Miss Egoff would be just as happy to wait for the movie, as her contract assigns to her 75% of all proceeds from the sale of motion picture rights. Surveys may come Su rveys may go Regarding collections, statistics or flow; But where the results of each learned brains trust? It's under the counter collecting the dust. PL. 23 LIBRARY LOG -nat - date, originating office, briefed text; consisting of orandums passed to AM Divisions, t, 20 Music Library, Music Library is now operating, te1,3589. t. 25 Librarian's Office. Music Library is located in the new Music Bu iIding, t, 26 Prebindery. "para..1" Binding schedules are not being maintained, ispara, 4" 1966/67 journals are being given priority in the bindery. 2 Technical Services. Modification in binding front covers. 3 Librarian's Office, "para. 2" Accounting requires all necessary invoicing information, ie: account £- sub codes. 4 Librarian's Office, (PSAP?) "para, 1" First informal committee meeting. Four points were discussed, 1. Ordering for Engineer Library. 2. Out of print journals list. 3. White card series. Questions raised, 1. Cataloguing services to branches, 2, Handling of periodical literature, 4 Fire & Safety Officer. Emergency telephone cards are available. 10 Prebindery, Now wide awake during working hours. 16 (back date) Circulation Div, Use of Xerox machines in the Main Library. (Six paragraphs of concise information), A bas Ies defectuosi te's: Mistakes will happen, but must you give them so much help? "This effort was an attempt to find the nature of, or the essenti quality of 'Library'". The new library at Clark University, Mass. The essential quality of 1ibrarians?
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Title | Biblos |
Alternate Title | UBC Library Staff Newsletter |
Publisher | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Date Issued | 1967-10 |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Z671 .B5 Z671_B5_1967_04_01 |
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Date Available | 2015-07-13 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0190822 |
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