December 1978

THE RECORD

No. 57

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR: Marilyn Duncan

PRE-SESSION LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE HELD HERE NOV. 29-DEC. 1

A pre-session conference for members of the 66th Texas Legislature was held November 29-December 1 in the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center.

The event was sponsored by the LBJ School in cooperation with Lt. Governor William P. Hobby, Jr. and Speaker of the House Bill Clayton. The LBJ School has been host for the biennial gathering since 1970.

The conference opened November 29 with a reception for participants, hosted by Lt. Governor Hobby and Speaker Clayton.

The program on November 30 was devoted primarily to orienting new legislators to legislative rules and procedures. Discussants for the orientation included Robert E. Johnson, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council; Robert Kelly, House of Representatives' assistant parliamentarian; and Thomas M. Keel, director, and William W. Wells, assistant director, both of the Legislative Budget Board.

The orientation session was dedicated to two retiring members of the Legislature—Senator A.M. Aikin of Paris and Representative L. DeWitt Hale of Corpus Christi. Senator Aikin is retiring after forty-six years of outstanding service in the Texas Legislature. Representative Hale is retiring after twenty-six years of outstanding service in the Texas House of Representatives.

In the opening general session for all members later that afternoon, participants were welcomed to the LBJ School and to the University by Dean Elspeth Rostow and William C. Hays, UT Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Addressing the conference on major issues to be faced in the upcoming legislative session were Lt. Governor William Hobby, Jr., Speaker Bill Clayton, and Attorney General John Hill.

Lt. Governor Hobby noted that Texas is at the crossroads of government finance after a quarter of a century of growth in services and spending. With the rising demand for tax relief, he said, the upcoming Legislature is faced with the problem of holding down government spending while maintaining the necessary public services for a growing population.

He noted that Texas has experienced a high standard of financial health and stability, and that the maintenance of this favorable position will require responsible effort on the part of the state and local governments. "The Texas Legislature has [resisted] and must continue to resist demands for measures which could wreck the carefully wrought balance of state and local government financing," he said. "We have said and must continue to say with a clear voice that local taxes are the responsibility of local government and not state government. Measures which will severely restrict the power of government to provide revenues for needed services must be defeated."

Speaker Clayton addressed the need for efficiency and accountability in all areas of government, noting that these are the answer to the dilemma mentioned by Lt. Governor Hobby. He urged the legislators to put aside party politics in dealing with the issues at hand, as their responsibilities in such areas as school finance and energy development will have long-range effects. He outlined the issues and decisions facing the group in passing enabling legislation for the Tax Relief Amendment and in developing an appropriate school finance plan.

Attorney General Hill shared with the participants additional ideas on the priorities for the upcoming session. The message of Proposition 13, he feels, is competency, which is at the base of efficient government spending. He noted that Texas differs in many ways from California, with lower surpluses and efficient local governments giving a different tone to taxation issues. He did say, however, that the Tax Relief Amendment must be implemented by the Legislature in the same spirit as it was mandated by the people.

Hill offered a list of major areas of concern, focusing especially on public education, crime prevention, property taxation, and energy conservation. In each of these areas he expressed the opinion that improvements are possible without increased spending. He urged the legislators to keep long-range goals in sight when setting their priorities.

Friday, December 1, was devoted to in-depth examinations of the major legislative issues outlined the day before. In the opening general session, the topic of "Energy and Utility Rates" was discussed by a panel of energy specialists, including Milton L. Holloway, Executive Director of the Texas Energy Advisory Council; Alan R. Erwin, Commissioner, Texas Public Utility Commission; Craig McNeese, Vice-President-Federal Relations, Houston Lighting and Power Company; Jack Hopper, local economic and utility rate consultant; William L. Fisher, UT Professor of Geological Sciences and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology; and Jared E. Hazleton, economist, Professor, and Associate Dean of the LBJ School. The panel was moderated by LBJ School Professor Marian Blissett.

Dr. William Fisher offered an outlook on Texas energy production, specifically oil, natural gas, lignite, and uranium. He noted that tremendous strides have been made in uranium production—Texas is now third in the nation. He warned the legislators that as the state's resource base declines, a major source of revenue will be in jeopardy, and that this gap must be anticipated and dealt with.

Mr. Holloway discussed the role of the Texas Energy Advisory Commission in energy legislation and reviewed the policy positions taken by TEAC on various issues. These included recommendations on the unitization of oil and gas reservoirs, the processing of uranium, the enforcement of air and water quality standards, and nuclear waste disposal. On this last issue, he recommended that the Legislature determine appropriate state charges for any disposal of radroactive waste in Texas, and that the State support reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

Mr. McNeese mentioned issues of mutual interest to the State and investor-owned utility companies, including lifeline rates and fuel adjustment clauses, and briefly discussed the response of these companies to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

Mr. Erwin's comments dealt with utility issues of greatest concern to the Public Utility Commission. He noted that the members of the Commission, as appointed officials, should not hold responsibility for the social aspects of utility regulation; that the accountability and social issues should be in the hands of the Legislature.

Mr. Hopper offered what he called a "Christmas shopping list" of energy legislation for the next session. Among his recommendations were these: that the members of the Public Utility Commission be elected rather than appointed; that a public utility council be created to represent the consumer; that the 125-day rule for decisionmaking in rate cases be extended; and that the Texas Railroad Commission be made subject to all parts of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.

Dr. Hazleton provided concluding comments for the panel, noting some of the current trends in energy policy and resource development.

At noon, Governor-elect William P. Clements, Jr. addressed a luncheon for legislators attending the conference.

Governor-elect Clements stressed the need to put aside party affiliations and work together in addressing the pressing issues confronting the upcoming legislative session. He emphasized the necessity of "communication, cooperation, and coordination" as pivotal in establishing a good working relationship between the executive office, the legislature, and the various state agencies and organizations.

Clements discussed, in general terms, his priorities for the next legislative session: tax relief, quality education, the size of Texas state government, and law enforcement. He stressed his intention to provide strong leadership and invited "help, . . . advice, . . . guidance, and . . . hard work."

A description of the remainder of the conference will appear in the January Record.

JORDEN, HYER APPOINTED 1978-79 ADJUNCT PROFESSORS AT SCHOOL

JORDEN

UT NEWS—The LBJ Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs recently announced the appointment of William J. Jorden, former Ambassador to Panama, as scholar-in-residence at the library and as adjunct professor at the School for 1978-79.

Ambassador Jorden plans to write a book on his diplomatic experiences and to work with students at the LBJ School who have a special interest in foreign policy and international affairs. His appointment, the first of its kind at the LBJ Library, was made possible by a grant from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.

Ambassador Jorden recently retired from government service after a four-and-a-half-year tour of duty as U.S. Ambassador to Panama.

After his departure from Panama in August, he carried out a special mission for President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in connection with the political crisis and threatened civil war in Nicaragua. During that mission, Mr. Jorden traveled to eight countries in Central and South America and met with their chiefs of government and foreign ministers. His mission laid the foundation for the multinational mediation effort that is now under way in Nicaragua.

Mr. Jorden was a veteran foreign correspondent before his entry into government service. He began his newspaper career with the Associated Press in the Far East and joined The New York Times in 1952. He worked successively as correspondent in Japan and Korea, then as chief of The Times bureau in Moscow and finally as diplomatic correspondent in Washington. A former Pulitzer traveling fellow, he is the coauthor of "Japan Between East and West."

He entered the government in 1961, serving initially as a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, then as special assistant to the Under Secretary of State and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

In 1966, Mr. Jorden moved to the White House, where he became a senior member of the National Security Council staff under President Johnson and Walt Rostow, now a UT Austin professor of economics and history. In 1968, Mr. Jorden went to Paris as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Vietnam peace talks.

He also was spokesman for the delegation which was headed by W. Averell Harriman and the present Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

In 1969, Mr. Jorden came to Austin to assist President Johnson in organizing the late President's foreign policy papers for the LBJ Library and in preparing the former President's memoirs. In 1972, he returned to Washington as a senior member of the NSC staff under Henry Kissinger. He was appointed Ambassador to Panama in 1974.

HYER

UT NEWS—Professor June Hyer, an education-public affairs expert from the University of Houston at Clear Lake City, has been appointed an adjunct professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs for 1978-79.

Dr. Hyer's position in the LBJ School will be concurrent with her present assignment as executive director of a special Senate-citizen committee that is making a comprehensive study of the entire human services delivery system in Texas.

The special committee was authorized by Senate Resolution 67, which was passed by the Texas Legislature last summer. The committee has until January 1, 1981, to report its findings, recommendations and, if necessary, proposals for legislation.

LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow says Dr. Hyer will work with second-year LBJ School students whose independent research projects may relate to the studies of the special committee. She said such studies may range broadly from education to welfare.

Dr. Hyer has been on the University of Houston faculty since 1947. She was the founding vice chancellor and provost of UH at Clear Lake City from 1973 to 1975 and has been a professor on the Clear Lake City campus since 1976.

She has gained broad knowledge of state government through experience as the associate director for the Governor's Committee on Education Beyond the High School (1964), executive director of the Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform (1970-71), executive assistant to the Lieutenant Governor and parliamentarian to the Texas Senate (1973), and membership on the Joint Advisory Committee on Efficiency in State Government, the so-called "Hobby Commission" (1975-77).

Dr. Hyer holds three degrees from Texas Woman's University (formerly Texas State College for Women) and the Ph.D. degree from UT Austin.

'ON THE RECORD'

Daniel Reingold and Don Saylor, LBJ School second-year students, are recipients of research grants from UT's Office of Graduate Studies. The grants were awarded on a competitive basis to a limited number of graduate student applicants at the University.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow is among twenty-three new members of the National Academy of Public Administration, which identifies, assesses and conducts research on key public policy issues. Its membership is composed of a select group of persons who have distinguished themselves as professional administrators or scholars.

Among new NAPA members inducted with the UT dean are the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, the Assistant Secretary for Education of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Previously elected NAPA members from the LBJ School are Professors Emmette S. Redford, Alan Campbell, and John Gronouski.

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On November 8, Professor Stephen Spurr gave a lecture at Texas A&M University as part of its 1978-79 University Lecture Series. Dr. Spurr's topic was "Renewable Resources for Energy and Other Industrial Materials."

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The annual LBJ School Christmas party will be held Thursday, December 14, 8:30 p.m.–1:30 a.m., in the Texas Union Quandrangle Room. Additional information will be posted on School bulletin boards.

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Professor James Roach went to New York November 17 to attend a meeting of the American members of the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. Dr. Roach is chairman of the selection committee for the Indo-American Fellowship Program.

During the semester break, Dr. Roach will take part in a seminar at the American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad, India. He has also been invited to participate in the dedication ceremonies for the Center's new building, which was planned and largely completed during his tenure in India as Counselor for Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy.

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Professors Gerard Rohlich, David Eaton, and Lynn Anderson participated in a panel discussion on the Impact of the Safe Drinking Water Act on Texas, as part of "The Next 200 Years," a weekly radio program produced at the University. The program will be aired on KUT-FM during the first week in December.

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Professor Kenneth Tolo has been reappointed to the Faculty Advisory Committee, Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin. The appointment was made by Dr. Charles Holt, Director of the Bureau of Business Research.

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Professor Leigh Boske and his wife Eileen are the parents of twins, Alexandra Christine and Stephen Arthur, born November 26 at St. David's Hospital.

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On November 20 the LBJ topical seminar on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, taught by Visiting Professor David Welborn, met with a group of local, state, and federal officials to discuss aspects of air pollution control programs.

Participating in the discussion were Kenneth MacKenzie, Director of the Air Pollution Control Program, City of Houston; Eli Bell, General Counsel, Texas Air Control Board; Jim Matthews, Office of the Attorney General;

and Richard Hill of the Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas.

Professor Hal Cooper of UT's Department of Civil Engineering was also a participant.

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Professor David Warner has been asked to speak at a Texas A&M University Brown Bag Health Seminar on December 6. His topic will be "Market vs. Bureaucratic Methods of Health Delivery."

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Janet West, LBJ School first-year student, was recently inducted into the University of Texas circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society open to students, faculty, and outstanding members of the community.

Other members of the organization from the LBJ School include Kathy Johnson, second-year student, and John Craddock and Jim Niewald, first-year students.

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Ed Emmette, 1974 graduate of the LBJ School, was-elected a member of the 66th Texas Legislature. Rep. Emmette, a Republican from District 78 in Harris County, was working as a government relations specialist with Exxon U.S.A. prior to the election.

Happy Holidays

GOVERNMENT AND HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM TO BE HELD HERE

A national symposium on government and the humanities will be held December 3–5 in the LBJ Auditorium and the East Campus Lecture Hall.

Sponsored jointly by the LBJ School and the LBJ Library, the symposium will include speeches and panel discussions on such topics as "Humanities and the Public," "Government Support for the Humanities," and "Future Options."

Joan Mondale, wife of Vice President Walter Mondale and honorary chairman of the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, will be the keynote speaker at the opening session on December 3. Her topic will be "A Time for Thinking Things Over."

Other scheduled speakers include Charles Frankel, Director and President of the National Humanities Center; Joseph D. Duffey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Peter N. Kyros, Jr., Deputy Chairman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities; and a variety of others associated with government and academic institutions.

Among the invited panelists are Elizabeth Janeway, writer; Lydia Bronte, of the Rockefeller Foundation; Nikki Giovanni, black poetess; Preston Jones, playwright; Robert Lumiansky, President of the American Council of Learned Societies; and William Whalen, Director of the National Park Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Harry J. Middleton, Director of the LBJ Library, will preside at the opening session. Dean Elspeth Rostow of the LBJ School, who chairs the symposium planning committee, will preside at the second session.

Staff holidays for all UT employees will be December 25–January 1. All LBJ School offices, including the Public Affairs Library, will be closed during that period.

Classes at the LBJ School will be held through December 22. Classes for the spring semester begin January 15, with student evaluations to be held during that week.

The holiday schedule for the Public Affairs Library will be as follows:

Dec. 23–Jan. 2	closed
Jan. 2–5	8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Jan. 6–7 (weekend)	closed
Jan. 8–12	8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Jan. 13	closed
Jan. 14	regular hours

ALUMNI FORUM

Alumni Directory Published

The 1978 Alumni Directory is ready for printing. All contributing alumni should receive their free copies by December 15. If you have not received your directory by that date, contact one of the Board members.

Anyone interested may purchase the directory for $4.00. Contact Malcolm MacDonald at 475-1374 (office) or 443-1799 (home), or write P.O. Box 13241, Austin, TX 78701.

Any alumni who have changed jobs, moved, or whose directory information is simply incorrect, should send corrected details to the Board. A directory update will be printed in the spring.

December 9 Potluck Dinner

A reminder: the annual Alumni Association potluck dinner will be December 9 at Bob Campbell's home, 11200 Santa Cruz in Austin. Please call one of the Board members if you plan to attend. (Austin home phone numbers are: Bill Stotesbery, 477-4379; Malcolm MacDonald, 443-1799; Bob Campbell, 345-1128; Dennis Deegear, 453-1224; and Laura Doll, 451-0096.) This is a very informal social event, and a good opportunity to get together with old and new friends.

BROWN BAG SPEAKERS LOOK AT LEGISLATIVE PROCESS, WORLD TRADE

Several brown bag seminars were held in November at the LBJ School, as part of the Speakers Program.

At a brown bag held November 9, LBJ School students met with Lehman Marks, Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Executive Information Network.

Mr. Marks, editor of Austin's Action newsletter, discussed various aspects of the legislative process in Texas, including the Governor's power in determining legislation, the politics of timing, the effects of personalities, and the role of interest groups.

Mr. Marks told LBJ students they could take part in an "on-site" analysis of the next Legislature, a project to be undertaken by the Executive Information Network during the upcoming session.

On November 21, Mr. John K. Wright, Undersecretary, Ministry of Overseas Development, United Kingdom, spoke with LBJ students and faculty on world trade patterns, which he said have tended to become increasingly parochial and less world-wide. He briefly discussed a number of trade-related issues, including the impact of the world oil price increase on the U.S. and on the developing world, and the implications of the slowdown in the growth of OECD.

SEASON'S GREETINGS

Library "what's" line

STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1977/78 ANNUAL REPORT

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Library experienced a number of innovations during the past year. With the departure of Mr. Kent D. Talbot to serve as Law Librarian at Oklahoma City University, Mrs. Linda Thompson was appointed as Head Librarian on May 1, 1977. Working with the School Administration, she assessed and reorganized the Library in an effort to improve service to library clientele through increased public services and augmented bibliographic control of library materials. The Cataloging Department was reactivated and staffed with a full-time professional librarian, a half-time library assistant, and a half-time clerk typist. The Circulation Services Area was revamped, control procedures revised, and a full-time supervisor of the Circulation Desk appointed. Collection maintenance operations were initiated in all phases of the library collection. And finally, the generous support which the School Administration has continually provided the Library was reaffirmed by Dean Elspeth Rostow, when she arranged for the total acquisitions budget to be increased in May 1978 by an additional 23 percent. These increases, paired with other funds made available to the Library from various faculty accounts, raised the total acqusitions budget to $28,508.66 and permitted stabilization of the serials list, sustenance of reserve reading requirements, and some collection development.

Purchased Acquisitions

Library acquisition encumbrances may be categorized as follows:

$ 3,181.41—Purchase of Reference Annuals

12,895.71—Purchase of Serial Subscriptions

12,431.54—Purchase of Monographs

$28,508.66—Total Library Encumbrances for FY 1977/78

A further examination of the monograph and reference expenditures reveals that a total of 1,086 physical volumes were ordered during the past year, of which 116 were reference annuals. Of the 970 monographs ordered by the Library, 630 titles were purchased for the direct support of School seminars and policy research projects and 340 titles for the purpose of collection development. Of the total volumes ordered, 251 were encumbered against special accounts, with the greatest funding support provided by Professors Sidney Weintraub and David Warner; valuable support was also provided by Professors Stephen Spurr, David Baton, and Lodis Rhodes.

The increase in the Library budget had a marked impact on the serials acquisitions program. The Subscriptions List, which in prior years had undergone frequent review and contraction to accommodate Library purchases to a declining acquisitions budget, was stabilized, and the School Administration made a firm commitment to the serials acquisitions effort. Current subscriptions, totaling 284 purchased titles, include the reinstatement of 38 serials discontinued in previous years and the addition of 26 new serial titles. Of these 26 new subscriptions, 8 were purchased by faculty research and development funds.

Cost analysis indicates that during the 1977/78 fiscal year, the average price for a reference annual related to public affairs was $27.40; the average cost for a monograph was $12.80; and the average serial cost was $45.40. The most significant purchases included either the addition or reinstatement of 12 major indexing tools: (1) The federal Index Annual, (2) Legislative Histories Indexed Guide, (3) U.S. Political Science Documents, (4) Index to Economic Articles, (5) Book Review Digest, (6) Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, (7) Index Medicus, (8) Sage Public Administration Abstracts, (9) GEO Abstracts C: Economic Geography, (10) GEO Abstracts D: Social Geography and Cartography, (11) Pollution Abstracts, and (12) Medical Socio-Economic Resources.

Free and Ephemeral Material

Major efforts to supplement purchased data sources were undertaken during the 1977/78 fiscal year. More than 370 free serials were added to the collection, bringing the total serial collection to 974 titles. Most of the added publications were the results of mailing list requests to various national and international organizations, including 42 working paper series from such diverse groups as the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Trilateral Commission, the U.S. Departments of State and Treasury, and the Vienna Institute for Development. Also included are 54 newsletters and serial reports prepared by 38 foreign embassies, and publications issued by some 30 international economic and commodity organizations, such as the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development. The remainder of the serial titles added during the year are issued by public and private research centers and interest groups.

In addition to requesting mailing list status for serial publications, the Library requested over 2,500 monograph titles from both governmental and private sources, including annual reports from 200 Texas state and local government agencies and fiscal documents from some 80 governmental units.

In March of 1978, the LBJ School Library was designated as a depository for materials issued by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Over 460 AEI publications were added to the collection, including audio cassettes, journals, and monographs.

Gifts

A number of gifts were donated to the Library during the 1977/78 fiscal year. Professors Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, joint holders of the Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace, arranged for the Library to receive a complete collection of all in-print publications issued by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The Graduating Class of 1976 presented a check to the Library, which was used to purchase three new dictionaries; and the Graduating Class of 1978 announced the intent to donate its student property deposits for the purchase of international indexes. Mr. Creekmore Fath, a local attorney and former aide to Senator Ralph Yarborough, presented his complete collection of the Congressional Record, extending the Library's holdings from 1929 to the present date. Several professors donated items from their private collections, and professors with specially funded Policy Research Projects designated portions of their funds for the purchase of library materials. In the spring semester, the LBJ School faculty elected to create a special collection honoring the retirement of Professor Henry David, whose significant contributions to the development of labor and manpower policy were commemorated by the establishment of a Henry David Manpower Policy Collection within the LBJ School Library.

Special Services

The Library coordinated and extended the faculty liaison program during the 1977/78 fiscal year, photocopying and routing both contents sheets from individually selected journals and developmental readings requested by School faculty and staff. Over 5400 pages of such readings were supplied in addition to 174 books borrowed for faculty use from other campus libraries.

The reserve function was enlarged. In addition to previously used reserve readings which occupy some 51 feet of stack space in the Teaching Material File, additional readings exceeding 35,000 pages were required. The Library assumed responsibility for compliance with the 1978 Copyright Act, thus freeing the faculty of this responsibility.

Other special services provided the Library clientele included the developing of a User Education Program, the initiation of a monthly "Library What's Line" column, phone reference service, and an outreach program directed toward the strengthening of ties betweeen the LBJ School Library and the state agencies,

Cataloging, Circulation Services and Government Documents

Accomplishments of the cataloging operation, under the direction of Mrs. Patricia Ramage, included the processing of several collections intrinsic to the School program, portions of which had been virtually inaccessible to library patrons for several years. The most significant of these collections was a composite of school publications, including proceedings of symposia and conferences, occasional papers, and student and policy research project reports. Also cataloged were 110 videotapes consisting primarily of speakers and special events sponsored by the LBJ School during the years 1970 to 1976. Over 4700 items were cataloged in FY 1977/78, the majority of which were original source documents.

A subject analysis of 1600 acquisitions fully cataloged during the year reveals that special emphasis was given to the areas of economics (35 percent), political science (18 percent), technology (7 percent), law (6 percent), education (4 percent), health care (4 percent), and American studies (2 percent).

Circulation statistics indicate that the total circulation of reserve readings was only slightly less than the total circulation of nonreserve material (i.e., 7,639 reserve reading charges as compared to 7,879 routine charges). Turnstile figures for 1977/78 indicate a total of 62,977 entrants, with an average daily reading of 236 entrants for the full year and 287 during the fall and spring semesters when classes were conducted by the LBJ School.

The Library has been a partial depository for federal government documents since 1968, and is currently receiving 1,875 items on deposit, of which 203 were added during 1977/78. In toto, 23,511 government documents were received via the Government Printing Office in hard copy and 2,751 in microfiche. Documents in lesser numbers were received from Texas state and local governments.

Supplies and Maintenance

Total support costs from Library MO&E funds in 1977/78 were in excess of $11,000. In addition, the School and University designated portions of available funds for the purchase of 3 filing cabinets, a microfilm reader printer, 5 pocket calculators, and a heavy duty cassette tape player-recorder.

Transferral of Library

The LBJ School of Public Affairs Library was named a Special Collection of the General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, on September 1, 1978. We are looking forward to this relationship.

TOM SLICK, HEALTH PLANNING VOLUMES PUBLISHED BY SCHOOL

Three volumes were released in November by the LBJ School's Office of Publications, two resulting from major conferences held at the School, and the other a Policy Research Project report.

Conflict, Order, and Peace: Analyses of the Issues is part two of the proceedings of the 1976 conference held here under the auspices of the Distinguished Tom Slick Professorship in World Peace. This volume includes invited papers and commentaries by eight international scholars, each offering alternative perspectives from which conflict and violence in the Americas may be understood, and from which prospects for progress and peace may be evaluated. Essayists include Marina Bandeira, Richard Sinkin, Irving L. Horowitz, James F. Petras with Dale Tomich, and Hugh H. Holley.

The publication was edited by Michael E. Conroy of UT's Department of Economics and Norman V. Walbek, Director of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development in St. Peter, Minnesota. Copies may be obtained through the Office of Publications for $4.50 each.

Also released recently were the proceedings of the health planning conference sponsored last spring by the School as part of the health planning PRP. The volume, entitled Organizing for Health Planning, includes the student briefing papers around which the workshop discussions were centered, summaries of the workshop proceedings, and three keynote addresses representing the congressional, consumer, and regional perspectives on the implementation of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-641). The publication was edited by David Warner, LBJ School Associate Professor and Policy Research Project Director, and Dennis Thomas, a participating faculty member at the School.

The final report resulting from the health planning PRP was also published in November. This volume, entitled Health Planning in Transition, provides an in-depth view of the implementation of P.L. 93-641 in three states—Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—at a point in time. The project participants used case studies of health systems agencies and state health planning and development agencies in these states to identify problems and patterns which have emerged in the early phases of the Act's implementation.

The health planning conference proceedings and PRP report are available from the Office of Publications for $3.50 and $4.00, respectively.

CONTINUING EDUCATION DEGREE PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED

The LBJ School's academic program now includes two alternative degree plans designed for persons with substantial experience in public sector activities or the public service. Each leads to the Master of Public Affairs degree, one on a full-time and one on a part-time basis.

The Year-In-Residence Program, formerly called the Mid-Career Program, is designed for public officials at or near the mid-point in their careers. Under this plan, a student enrolls full time at the LBJ School for one academic year, then returns to the employing agency to work on a professional report of relevance to administrative or policy issues faced by the agency. The report is written under faculty supervision and requires the student to demonstrate capacity for independent policy research and analysis.

The In-Service Program is designed for individuals with public-sector experience who wish to pursue the M.P.A. degree primarily on a part-time basis. Students in this program may register for up to nine credit hours on a part-time basis in a semester, or may alternate between full-time and part-time study.

The expansion of the School's continuing education program was the result of a study funded primarily through a grant from the U.S. Office of Education under Title IX of the Higher Education Act. LBJ School Professor Richard Schott is program director.

Additional information about these programs may be obtained from the School's Office of Admissions, Counseling, Internships, and Placement.