ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Personnel

 

David Wilder, recently appointed director of 
libraries at the University of Manitoba, brings 
to this rapidly growing prairie-country univer­

sity a rich background 
of education and ex­
perience, stretching
from his undergrad­
uate years at Union 
College through two 
post-baccalaureate de­
grees (MA in history 
and BLS from Colum­
bia ) to his most recent 
assignment with the 
Ford Foundation as 
program specialist in 

Mr. Wilder university libraries as­
signed to the Univer­

sity of Baghdad. In between he served succes­
sively and successfully as librarian of Hamilton 
College, the American University of Beirut and 
of Oakland University in Michigan. His six 
years as assistant director of the Ohio State 
University libraries gave him a total educa­
tional and library experience with two colleges 
and six universities.

His ALA and other committee assignments 
have been numerous, including membership 
on the Subcommittee on Library Resources 
of the Joint Committee of the ACLS and SSRC 
on the Near and Middle East Council (was 
there ever a more complicated name?). But 
only a few people know that it was his willing­
ness to field a conference with Mr. Dingell 
following an early meeting of the committee 
(some six or seven years ago) that led to a 
renewed drive for enactment of the Public Law 
480 program. Encouragement from this con­
ference (Dingell, Wagman and Wilder) was 
followed by a strategy meeting at the Mid­
winter conference of ALA and in a matter of 
months later the initial phases of the program 
were financed.

In his present post for only a short time, he 
has already managed, with staff and institution­
al support, to secure agreement on such matters 
as reclassification of the collections to LC and 
a new approach to organization of staff. The 
latter involves ideas which had their concep­
tion earlier at Michigan State University at 
Oakland, wherein all staff services are grouped 
in an administrative division. We will hear 
more on this as he reports their experience.

What Roland Stevens said about him in 
1960 when he accepted the Oakland position is 
equally appropriate today. “In all of his activi­
ties, he exhibits a well developed, native flair 
for administration. People enjoy working for 
him and mature while doing so. At the con­

ference table he shows great energy and in­
ventiveness, while giving full attention to ideas 
other than his own and making use of all 
arguments in arriving at a decision. His ex­
perience and personality ought to insure his 
success at the University of Manitoba.”—Rich­
ard H . Logsdon.

William A. Pease, formerly undergraduate 
librarian at the University of North Carolina 
has been named librarian-designate at Franklin 
and Marshall College, effective September 1966.

A native of Maine, Bill Pease demonstrated 
his intellectual capacity early, leading his class 
and winning scholarships. Immediately follow­
ing his military service he entered Harvard, 
where he took his undergraduate degree in 
philosophy in 1959. During his undergraduate 
years, he earned a part of his school expense 
as an assistant in the Widener library. Enter­
ing Simmons for formal library training in 
1959, he continued his work in Widener as 
a library intern. He thus completed his library 
school period at Simmons in 1961 with ex­
tensive acquisitions and reference experience in 
addition to his academic qualifications. This was 
an excellent basis for taking on the newly 
forming undergraduate library at Carolina. He 
had a short period of six months in our acquisi­
tions area before we gave him the full re­
sponsibility for developing the undergraduate 
library collection. At about the same time we 
began to plan the new library building.

In all of these activities, Bill has won the 
universal approval and affection of all his col­
leagues. He brought, in addition to detailed 
understanding of library practices, a glorious 
humanistic understanding of both books and 
people, and almost incredible natural industry. 
He gathered the disparate views of nearly a 
hundred members of the faculty to assemble 
our own undergraduate library book collection, 
using any useful precedents. He and they re­
viewed thousands of titles in other under­
graduate lists and before moving on, he was 
able to see two thirds of the ultimate collec­
tion on shelves and avidly used. His approach 
to building planning, a totally new field, was 
just as fresh, intelligent, and eager. The suc­
cess of its elements will owe much to him. In 
human relations, his success is equally great. 
Dealing with the hordes of new college stu­
dents at their most trying age, he resolved 
countless personal hassles with an aplomb and 
simplicity far beyond what one normally finds 
in a man as young as he is. He has gained much 
from this experience and turned it to the bene­
fit of his profession. Library literature is en­
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something to say. The professional journals 
will certainly hear more from him.

As if all this activity were not enough, Bill 
Pease has also filled an ample place as a hus­
band and father. He has an adorable pixy for 
a wife and three robust young sons, any one of 
whom would test the energies of one whole 
set of parents. They are bombers, the whole 
lot, and any college that has them has gained 
not only one of the prizes among the young 
men of our field, but a major asset to the 
academic community. Bill Pease has left an in­
delible impress on Carolina; it will be difficult 
to fill the place he left with another of his 
quality.—Jerrold Orne.

On January 1, after two years at Texas A & M 
University as associate director and a third 
year as acting director, Rupert C. Woodward 
became director of li­
b r a r ie s  a t G e o rg e  
Washington U n iv e r ­
sity.

During his stay at 
A & M, Mr. Wood­
ward was actively in­
volved in a number 
of very substantial ac­
complishments which 
include the initiation 
of a program for con­
version of circulation 
to the IBM 357 sys­ Mr. Woodward
tem of data collection 
and the beginning of conversion of serials con­
trol to machine operation; reorganization of main 
library collections and services, especially circu­
lation, interlibrary loan, and reserves; creation 
of Texas and bibliography collections; planning 
the interior design and service concept of the 
new library building under construction; initia­
tion of a program to integrate portions of the 
collection and all of the records of the one 
hundred thousand volume engineering library, 
formerly autonomous, into those of the main 
library; restructuring of the personnel system, 
and position reclassification; and recruitment of 
a number of outstanding young librarians to 
the staff. During the past year he also found 
time to serve as assistant investigator for a 
project sponsored by the Coordinating Board, 
Texas College and University System, that re­
sulted in a report entitled A Survey of Library 
Automation in Texas.

Prior to his work at Texas A & M, he was, 
successively, cataloger and order department 
head at the University of Alabama; librarian, 
USIS, in Guatemala City, Rio de Janeiro, and 
San José, Costa Rica; acting bibliographer, 
serials librarian, and chief acquisitions librarian 
at LSU. In 1951, he served as US delegate to 
the Säo Paulo Conference on the Development

of Public Library Services in Latin America. 
His continuing strong interest in Latin Ameri­
can library development is most recently exem­
plified by a 1966/1967 consultantship to the 
Ford Foundation for the National Engineering 
University Libraries in Lima.

A native of Georgia, Mr. Woodward holds 
a bachelor’s degree in history (1940) and 
the BS in LS (1947) from George Peabody 
College, and the MA in Latin American history 
from Louisiana State University. He also stud­
ied at the University of Puerto Rico, the Uni­
versity of Alabama, Vanderbilt University and 
the University of Texas.

During 1946/1947, Rupert was in my cata­
loging courses and I remember him as one of 
the best students it has been my good fortune 
to know during many years of library school 
teaching. Since then I have followed his prog­
ress with interest, noting with confidence his 
continuing professional growth and the de­
velopment of qualities he demonstrated at Pea­
body. Those who have been most closely as­
sociated with him and his work are quick in 
response and high in their evaluation of these 
qualities; they speak of conscientiousness, dedi­
cation, exactness and precision in thought and 
action; of his even temperment, cordiality and 
friendliness; of ability  and willingness to ac­
cept responsibility; of initiative, resourceful­
ness, and innovative and open-minded ap­
proach to new problems; of good staff relation­
ships, and administrative skill. George Wash­
ington University is indeed to be congratulated 
on its choice.—R. R. Douglass.

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