College and Research Libraries


Personnel 

I N NovE~BER 1894 Justin Winsor hired a young man, just graduated from Harvard, 
as an assistant in the catalog department of 
the Harvard College Library. This marked 
the beginning of a long and outstanding 
career for T. Franklin Currier. He started 
as an assistant in cataloging and classifying, 
and was put in immediate charge of the 
catalog department in May 1902, a position 
which he held until his retirement in I 940. 
In 1913 he was made an assistant librarian, 
and in 1937 he received the appointment of 
associate librarian. 

For many years previous to his retirement, 
he was at work on his bibliography of Whit-
tier which was published in 1937. He then 
turned pis scholarly interests to another 
American poet and in 1939 was granted a 
year's leave af absence to begin work on a 
bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
When he retired the following year, he was 
given the title of Honorary Curatqr of New 
England Literature and Consultant in Ameri-
can Literary Bibliography in the university 
library. The same year he received a grant 
from the Milton Fund to help him continue 
his research. Up until a few months before 
his death in September, at the age of 73, he 
was still at work on the Holmes bibliography, 
attempting to solve, to his own satisfaction, 
the mere handful of bibliographical puzzles 
that remained. lt is ·to be hoped that this 
work will be published in the near future, so 
that Mr. Currier's research will not be lost 
to scholarship. 

During that period of almost half a cen-
tury between 1894 and 1940, Mr. Currier 
worked undeMhe. administration of no fewer 
than six librarians. One regrets that he did 
not live to write his recollections of those 
years which mark an important era in the 
development of the world's largest university 
library. And they . were not easy years. 
There was the move from the crowded quar-
ters of old Gore Hall into the new Widener 
memorial building, a move which resulted 
in a rapid increase in accessions. There was 
the change from small cards to those of 
standard size, and the duplication of records 
in order to create both an official and a 

T. Franklin Currier 

public catalog. On top of all this confusion, 
the decision was made to combine the alpha-
betico-classed catalog with the author catalog, 
thereby producing a modern dictionary cata-
log. Then came the trying years of the First 
World War, followed by those of the depres-
sion. Such difficulties and problems as these 
Mr. Currier had to meet with no appreciable 
increase in his staff. Is it any wonder, then, 
that he felt obliged to work out economical 
methods? There was the need, and necessity 
proved to be the mother of invention. But 
it took a man of Mr. Currier's ability and 
shrewdness, with his gift for organization, to 
create a virtue out of the necessity. 

Mr. Currier was both a capable administra-
tor and a cataloger par excellence as well. 
He was an advocate of simplified rules for 
library cataloging, and his theories in this 
line were strengthened by the fact that he 
was also a bibliographer and a scholar. He 
was a pioneer in his endeavors for simplifica-
tion, a "thoughtful rebel" as someone has so 
aptly called him; and the present tendency 
of libraries toward the adoption of those 
same principles for which he stood is a real 
tribute to him. 

Hand in hand with simplified cataloging 

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went his ideas for what he termed "selective 
cataloging." In his own words this "method 
results in free omission of subject headings 
for books in foreign languages, for out.:of-
date books, for obsolete editions, and for 
technical treatises on abstruse subjects; it 
inclines -towards recording under the correct 
subject headings comprehensive treatises, 
books of general interest, and live material 
on cleariy defined and especially on minute 
topics." 

He was constantly on the alert to improve 
procedures, and some of his greatest con-
tributions to librarianship have been in this 
line. He is well known as the originator 
of th.e process known as preliminary catalog-
ing, which has come to be adopted by several 
large libraries in the country, including the 
Library of Congress. It was part of a larger 
effort by which he strove to separate profes-
sional and clerical duties and is considered 
one of "the most significant contributions to 
the economy of cataloging." Mr. Currier 
himself described the process in the June I 940 
number of College and Research Libraries. 

Mr. Currier by no means limited his pro-
fessional activities to his own institution. He 
served on several library committees, notably 
the A.L.A. committee for the 1908 edition 
of the Catalog Rules and the A.L.A. Co-
operative Cataloging Committee, and he was 
chairman of the Committee on Incunabula for 
the new ·edition of the catalog code. He also 
expressed his views through many articles 
published in the various library periodicals. 

In addition to his Bibliography of 1 ohn 
Greenleaf Whittier, which has been described 
as being "as near perfection as any bibli-
ography is permitted to be," Mr. Currier · 
published in 1939 a volume entitled Elizabeth 
Lloyd and the Whittiers; a Budget of Letters. 
He also compiled and edited the Catalogue 
of Graduates of the Public Latin School in 
Boston, r8r6-1917. This publication is o-f 
more than passing interest because Mr. 
Currier was a graduate of ·the school. 

Nor were his int~rests limited to the li-
brary profession, for we find him a. member 
of such a society as the Friends' Historical_ 
Association. His love for the out-of-doors, 
and for mountain climbing in particular, was 
reflected in his membership in the Appalachian 
Mountain Club. 

For the members of his staff, Mr. Currier's 

JANUARYJ 1947 

energy and enthusiasm were a never-failing 
source of inspiration. They respected and 
loved T.F.C., and, in the words of one of 
his associates, those of us whom he has left 
behind "have good reason to feel that some-
thing we may never experience again has 
passed from the picture in the Harvard Col-
lege Library."-Susan M. Haskins. 

T HE Massachusetts Institute of Technology is most happy that it has been able to 
persuade Vernon D. Tate to leave his im-
portant work as director of the Division of 
Photographic Archives and Research at the 
National Archives to come to us as librarian. 
We hope that in his new task he will prove 
in ·the long run to be even more useful to 
the world of scholarship than he has already 
been. 

Libraries may seek distinction in a num-
ber of ways. The two traditional, and hence 
most obvious, ones are by providing a macro-
collection which by its all-embraciveness in-
sures the scholar of a high probability of com-

. pleteness in his research, or by creating 
smaller and exceptionally distinguished selec-
tive collectio.ns in special fields. Because of 
the regenerative nature of technological liter-
ature, neither of these is a. natural objective 
for the library of an institu-tion which special-
izes irt technological matters, and M.I.T. is 
spared further regional responsibility by the 

Vernon D. Tate 

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existence of its great library neighbors at 
Harvard University and in Boston. 

There are other ways, however, in which 
a library may be distinguished and may render 
useful service or contributions to scholarly 
progress. One of these is surely by advancing 
the art of documentation and 'of getting the 
information in the document from the page 
to the mind of ma.n. It is clear enough that 
the spate of publication in all fi~lds is one 
which, quite aside from the library growth 
problem w.hich has been well enough worried, 
offers potential frustration to future scholars 
or perhaps even to the scholars of today. 
There are a number of tools, technologically 
well along, which have possible application 
to this problem. It is entirely appropriate 
that M.I.T., which does have staff who have 
had a good deal to do with the production 
of the tools and who know a fair amourit 
about their physical capabilities, should con-
cern itself as well with their intellectual 
capabilities. 

Such exploration might be made in any field 
of documentation and is perhaps more vitally 
needed in fields other than science, which 
by its precision has achieved a rather orderly 
treatment of its literature. But no serious 
observer of these matters will venture to 
guess that the scientific literature is in satis-
factory shape. Because of its . relative sim-
plicity, it offers a reasonable place to begin 
experiments which, if successful, should have 
wider and possibly more important implica-
tions in other fields. 

The appointment of Dr. Tate is, then, 
symbolic at least of our intention to make 
some contribution to this field, as well as of 
our intention that the scientific and techno-
logical collections at M.I.T. shall be solid, 
complete, and above all usable. His ex-
perience, moreover, will be applied to our 
interest in audio-visual education. 

Dr. Tate is already so well-known in the 
library world and has achieved such a reputa-
tion that it would seem to me gratuitous to 
make any e,xten.ded comment about his past 
record. w~ ' ~re happy that in addition to 
his technical accomplishments he is a trained 
historian, a man · of broad interests, a man 
whose connections' both here and in Europe 
are first class. We feel that in bringing him 
to M.I.T. ·w~ shalf'not only provide for our 
own needs in the best possible way but shall 

also add a distinguished person to the group 
of librarians of whom Boston already has 
reason to be proud. He arrived at Cambridge 
on January I ., and after a six months' period 
of study and indoctrination will assume his 
new post on July I.-John E. Burchard. _ 

. J. ERROLD ORNE, the new director of libraries " 
of Washington University, St. Louis, 

began his library career at the age of sixteen 
as part-time assistant in the public library 
of St. Paul. After obtaining his B.A. and 
M~A. from the University of Minnesota, he. 
studied at the University of Paris, 1934-35, 
then attended the University of Chicago, 
1936-39, where he obtained his Ph. D. degree 
in Romance linguistics. In 1940 he secured 
his forinal library degree from the University 
of Minnesota and served as a fellow in li-
brary science at the Library of Congress until 
his appointment as librarian of Knox Col-
lege, Galesburg, Ill., in 1941. At the Library 
of Congress Dr. Orne surveyed the collections 
in Romance literatures and directed the re-
moval to safe storage of irreplaceable books 
and manuscripts at the outbreak of the war. 
From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U.S. 
Navy. One of his duties was to organize 
the indexing unit of the Office of Research 
and Inventions, which coordinated the work 
done at over thirty research libraries. The 
Subject Heading List for Naval Libraries, 

Jerrold Orne 

74 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



second edition, 1946, which he compiled in 
collaboration with Lieut. Grace Swift, was 
a cr-editable by-product of his library work in 
the Navy. 

Immediately following his separation from 
the service, Dr. Orne became chief of the 

. Office of the Publication Board (subsequently 
renamed Office of Technical Services), U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 
where he streamlined the complex operations 
involved in acquiring, indexing, abstracting, 
and disseminating all documents from which 
military security restrictions had b'een re-
moved since the end of the war. As an 
administrator, Dr. Orne succeeded in inspir-
ing confidence in his crew of over one hun-
dred technicians and librarians. 

Dr. Orne brings to his new task the educa-
tional background of a scholar, a long-stand-
ing interest· in library work, a .record of di-
versified library training and experience, and · 
proved ~xecutive ability. As a librarian, Dr. 
Orne possesses vision, enthusiasm, and com-
mon sense in an unusually high degree.-
Robert H. Muller. 

R ALPH H. PHELPS was appointed director of the Engineering Societies Library on 
October I 7 to succeed Har.r:ison · W. Craver. 
He had , become assistant director in July 
1945 and acting director in February 1946. 

A chemistry degree , experience as a chemist 

Ralph H. Phelps 

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JANUARY~ 1947 

(with the Bureau of Mines), and long serv-
ice in the technical library field specially 
qualify Mr. Phelps for his key position. He 
served as assistant in the technology depart-
ment of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 
from 1928 to 1939, receiving his library degree 
during this period. From October 1939 
through November 1942 he headed the tech-
nology department of the Birmingham, Ala., 
Public Library. In December 1942 he be-
came librarian of the War Metallurgy Com-
mittee of the National Academy of Sciences, 
National Research Council, in which position 
he supervised· the dissemination of secret and 
confidential research information to metal-
lurgical research laboratories. This work 
also included the indexing and _.editing of N a-
tiona! Defense Research Committee reports 
of the War Metallurgy Committee, which 
many technology librarians will recall having 
seen in the series of Office of Scientific Re-
search and Development reports now being 
distributed by the Library of Congress. 

Mr. Phelps received his education at 
Monmouth College, Carnegie Institute of 
Technology, and the University of Alabama. 
He has been active in library organizations 
and is a member of the American Chemical 
Society. He has written abstracts and 
articles for various engineering and library 
periodicals. 

One of his main and continuing interests 
has been the improvement in quality and 
variety of reference books, especially in the 
scientific and technical field. This interest 
has led to his work in editing the Special Li-
braries · Association's Trade-Names Index 
( 1941) and to. his appointment as a mem-
ber of the Subscription Books Committee of 
the American Library Association. 

Mr. Phelps has launched into his new 
duties with a . vigor that indicates a reas-
sertion of the position of leadership that the 
Engineering Societies Library has always held. 
He has demonstrated a concern for staff 
esprit de corps by timely action in the face 
of inflation. He has undertaken a notably 
successful campaign to publicize the library's 
variety of services in professional engineering 
journals and other publications. He has up 
his rolled-up sleeves many plans that I have 
been privileged to listen to, and I am sor.ry 
I cannot mentio_n some ·of them here.-H arry 
Dewey. 

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Stanley .L. West 

O N Nov. I, 1946, G. Donald Smith suc-ceeded W. W. Foote as librarian of 
the State College of Washington at Pullman. 

Froni the University of Vermont, where · 
Dr. Smith has been director of libraries for 
the past two years, and from Maine, his 
home state, to the West Coast is a long 
jump. The move to a major position which 
needs an outstanding administrator, organizer, 
and builder capable of keeping constantly in 
view the educational aims of a university and 
of its library while dealing with the confused 
minutiae of administration, will be, however, 
just a good, brisk stride forward for him. 
With varied administrative experience behind 
him-at Colby College, Maine, as assistant 
librarian, 1933-36; at Mary Washington Col-
lege, Virginia, as librarian, I939-40; at Herzl 
Junior Co!lege, Chicago, as librarian, I94I-
42; at the University of Chicago . as assistant 
to the director of libraries, I 942-44; and at 
Vermont-there has been a steadily increas-
ing emphasis in everything he has done on 
defining and stating aims, then systematizing, 
pointing up, and building up all library activi-
ties towards the fulfilment of those aims. His 
July Vermont library committee report on 
objectives, functions, and organization, the 
fruit of twenty months of study and prepara-
tion, followed by tearing apart by committees 
and rebuilding, is a chart by which any good 
library navigator could steer. The centraliza-

tion of fourteen separate libraries was just 
one move, but a big one, in getting the Ver-
mont libraries on course. 

Interspersed through his work has . been 
study, at Columbia University and at the 
University of- Chicago, where he received the 
Ph.D. degree in December. Concentrating 
in his dissertation on the content of student 
reading, he has also maintained an active 
interest in communications research during 
the past few years. . 

Dr. Smith brings . to the State College of 
Washington a memory of varied library head-
aches and the diagnosis and cure for each 
and the ability to emerge from long stretches 
of hard work with an undulled sense of humor 
and a complete avoidance of irritableness. 
With years of editorial experience, an un-
canny ability to see the strengths and weak-
nesses of any plan at a glance, and an unfail-
ing vitality, Mrs. Smith will be a tremendous 
help to our Mr. Smith who has come to 
Washington.-Robert H. Wilkins. 

STANLEY L. WEST became director of li-braries of the University of Florida at 
Gainesville on November I8. 

Mr. West received his A.B. at the Univer-
sity of Califorvia in 1933, continuing there 
an additional year as a graduate student in 
political science. Turning to the law, he was 
graduated from · the University of Florida 
Law School in 1938. 

While in law school Mr. West worked in 
the law library, and, liking it, decided as 
so many other librarians have done in similar 
circumstances, to make librarianship his life 
work. Accordingly, in the summer vacation 
of 1937 he entered the Columbia University 
School of Library Service and was graduated 
in 1942. 

Upon his graduation from law school, Mr. 
·West · was made law librarian at the Univer-
sity of Florida, resigning that position in 1940 
to become instructor in law and law librarian 
at the University of Pittsburgh. In October 
1942, following the induction of David H. 
Clift, C. C. Williamson, then director of 
libraries at Columbia, invited Mr. West to 
take over Mr. Clift's post as assistant in 
charge of general administration, and he was 
granted leave of absence for th~t purpose. 

For nearly four months following Dr. 
Williamson's retirement in june 1943 and 

76 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



until the present director began active duty, 
Mr. West was executive head of a staff com-
mittee which administered the routine affairs 
of the Columbia University Libraries. 

In November I943 Mr. West entered the 
United States Naval Reserve, serving as 
communications officer on the U.S.S. Wyandot 
until his separation on Jan. I, I946. During 
this time his ship was active in the taking 
of Okinawa aqd was badly damaged by 
Japanese bombs. 

Mr. West became associate librarian of the 
Columbia University Law Library on Feb. I, 
I946, and continued as exec:utive officer of 
this library of 270,000 volumes until his de-
parture for his new position. In addition to 
duties in the law library, lie served as 
chairman of a personnel policy committee to 
compile a> staff manual and was active in the 
affairs of the American Association of Law 
Libraries and of the Law Library Association 
of Greater New York. He leaves law li-
brarianship with considerable regret and with 
a consistently successful record; however, the 
larger field of general university administra-
tion had an irresistible appeal: 

Perhaps Mr. West's outstanding character-
istic and one which has won for him the 
esteem and respect of faculty, students., and 
sfaff alike, is a perennial and youthful en-
thusiasm, tempered by a judicial mind and a 
realistic approach to administrative problems. 
Law librarians regret losing him, but are glad· 
to present him, as an outstanding exemplar, 
to the wider field of the general university 
library.-Miles 0. Price. 

M ORRIS A. GELFAND, assis.tant librarian at Queens College since its beginning 
in I937, has been named librarian. This well-
earned promotion has come on the occasion 
of his return from Army service and on the 
resignation of Charles F. Gosnell. 

Mr. Gelfand's library career began at the 
Washington Square Library of New York 
University. His previous experience, as a 
member of the registrar's office and as a leader 
in student government, paid rich dividends 
in popularizing the library, and while there 
he put the ground floor reserve book room 
on a big business basis and helped bring out 
an unusually successful library guide. 

When organization of the Queens College 
Library was begun in the summer of 1937, -

JANUARY~ 1947 

Morris A. Gelfand 

his was the first appointment to be recom-
mended to President Klapper. He came to 
a library which had no books, no building, 
and no furniture. But with an amazing 
acumen he helped gather and improvise until 
within a few months the library was ready 
for students. He organized hordes of N .Y.A. 

. and W.P.A. workers into really efficient 
projects that turned out prodigious quantities 
of u~eful work. His relations with faculty 
and students were most cordial, and through 
him the library became a real center of col-
lege life. 

When he entered the Army in 1942 he was 
determined to see real aetiop, but fate put 
him to cataloging in an Army library where 
he did such an outstanding job that he was 
sent off to become a statistical officer. He 
rose to the rank of major and served as 
adjutant of a bomb group in England and 
France. In September 1945 he was trans-
ferred and attached to General MacArthur's 
staff to organize Army libraries in the Pacific. 
With that job well on its way, he was re-
leased to inactive duty, and returned to 
Queens in August 1946. 

He is well-equipped in personality, train-
ing, and experience to carry on the tradition 
of rapid but solid growth at Queens, and 
those who know him look to Queens to 
continue to set the pace for the sister city 
colleges.-Charles F. Gosnell. 

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C LARENCE H. FAUST, dean of the college of the University of Chicago, has been 
appointed dean of the· Graduate Library 
Sch,ool and professor of library science. He 
succeeds Ralph A. Beals, who resigned Octo-
ber I to become director of the New York 
Public Library. D,r. Faust recei~ed his A.M. 
and Ph.D. degrees in English from the Uni-
versity of Chicago and his A.B. from North 
Central College. 

Clarence H. Faust 

"The libraries of the country have great 
possibilities as agencies of .education in a 
critical period of our history," Dr. Faust said, 
commenting on his new appointment. "The 
Graduate Library School is concerned in 
its program of research, publication, and 
training for librarianship with the problems 
which this opportunity and its corresponding 
responsibility present to librarians." Dr. 
Faust has been interested in reading and the 
apprehension of meaning and with the prob-
lem of the broad extension of general educa-
tion through reading. 

As dean of the college, Dr. Faust was 
responsible for implementing the new program 
of undergraduate education which the Uni-

versity of Chicago adopted in 1942. The 
program, administered and in large measure 
established by him, provides a four-year cur-
riculum in liberal education beginning after 
the completion of the sophomore year of high 
school. Dr. Faust will remain acting dean 
of the college until his successor is chosen. 

_ALLEN T. HAZEN, who came to the Uni-
~ versity of Chicago in 1945 as associate 
professor in the department ·of English and 
bibliographer in the field of the humanities 
in the library, has been appointed acting di-
rector of libraries. Dr. Hazen took his 
bachelor's and doctor's degrees at Yale Uni-
versity and his master's degree at Harvard. 
From 1935 ' to 1943 he was instructor in 
English and assistant in the rare book room 
of the Yale University Library, and from 
1942 until his appointment as bibliographer 
at Chicago he was an instructor at Hunter 
College. Dr. Hazen has made a special study 
of Samuei Johnson and his work. Among 
other writings, he is the author of Samuel 
Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications and com-
piler of A Bibliography of the Strawberry 
Hill Press. 

Allen T. Hazen 

78 COLLEG/f. AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Appointments 
Edward A. Chapman, director of publica-

tions for Edwards Brothers at Ann Arbor, 
has been appointed librarian of Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute at Rensselaer, N.Y. 

S~ Hartz Rasmussen, librarian since 1941 
of the Economic, Financial, and Transit De-
partment of the League of Nations mission 
in Princeton, N .]., has been named librarian 

' of the United Nations · Library at Lake 
Success. . 

LeRo:y C. Merritt, formerly librarian of 
the State Teachers College, Farmville, Va., 
is now an associate professor in the School 
of Librarianship of the University of Cali-
fornia. He has recently been associated with 
the committee studying ·college and university 
library buildings. 

Ray 0. Hummel, Jr., of the Folger Shake-
speare Library in Washington, is now chief 
catalog librarian o.f the University of Minne-
sota and assistant professor of the division of 
library instruction. 

James. M. Kingsley, formerly assistant di-
rector of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin 
in Mexico City, is now librarian of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota's Medical and Biological 
Library. 

Eugene . P. Willging, librarian of the Uni-
versity of Scranton, has been appointed as-
sistant librarian of the Catholic University of 
America. 

Beverley Ruffin is librarian of the State 
Teachers College, Farmville, Va. She for-
merly was head cataloger of the Northwestern 
University Libraries at Evanston. 

Abigail F. Hausdorfer, librarian of the 
School of Library Service, Columbia U niver-
sity, is now librarian of Area I, Pennsylvania 
Area College Centers, Philadelphia. 

Marietta Daniels has been appointed li-
brarian for the Inter-American Assembly, 
Library of Congress. Recently she has been 
working for the A.L.A. International Re-
lations Office. · 

Louis H. Bolander, assistant librarian of 
the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, 
since 1925, .has been appointed librarian. 

Edward M. Heiliger, director of the 
Biblioteca Americana de Nicaragua, is now 
director-adviser of the central library and 
instr~ctor in library science of the University 
of Chile at Santiago. 

JANUARY~ 1947 

Evelyn Buckley is now head of the catalog 
department of the College of St. Thomas 
Library in St. Paul. 

Eleanor Burke, after two years of· service 
in the WAVES, has joined the library staff · 
of the University of California in Berkeley 
as head of the loan department. 

Eugene H. Wilson, director of the Uni-
versity of Colorado Libraries, has been ap-
pointed director of the summer session of the 
university. 

Frances Burrage, University of New 
Mexico Library, is now reference librarian 
of Baylor University. 

Mary E. Sparks, of the cataloging staff 
of Northwestern University Libraries, has 
been appointed head cataloger of the State 
Historical Society of Iowa Library at Iowa 
City. 

Ray Jordan has becom~ librarian of the law 
school, John B. Stetson University, De Land, 
Fla. 

Gwendeline Miller is now assistant li-
brarian of the College of St. Teresa, Winona, 
Minn. 

Mrs. Julia P. Pavloff, reference assistant 
in the Municipal Reference Library, Milwau-
kee, has been appointed librarian of Milwau-
kee-Downer College. 

J.\1arjorie Jean Sprake, head of the prepa-
rations division of the Queens College Li-
brary, is now catalog librarian of the U. S. 
Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, 
N.Y. 

Elizabeth Long Porcher, formerly of the 
University of South Carolina Library, is ~ow 
head of circulation for the University of 
Denver Libraries. · . 

R. Malcolm Sills was appointed librarian 
of the Massachusetts State Coliege at Ft. 
Devens, in September. He had been on the 
reference staff of the Harvard College Li-
brary. 

Richard E. Barrows is in char~e of refer-
ence, circulation, and reserves for/ the Massa-
chusetts State College Library at Ft." Devens. 

Anne E. Markley has be.en appointed ussist-
ant professor in the School of Librarianship 
of the University of California. 

Genevieve Porterfield has left the Cleve-
land Public Library to become referenc~ li-
brarian of the University of New Mexico. 

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Elizabeth Simkins has become librarian and 
professor of library science, Western Mary-
land College, Westminster. She was for-
merly reference librarian, Georgia Institute 
of Technology, Atlanta. 

Anna. K. Fossler has retired from the li-
brarianship of the California College of Arts 
and Crafts in Oakland. 

Howard F. McGaw, former librarian of 
Memphis State College, is now director of 
Ohio Wesleyan University Library. 

Harriet R. Peck, librarian of Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute for the past thirty-four 
years, retired on October I. 

Basil Mitchell, of the Reference Depart-
ment of the New York Public Library, has 
been appointed librarian of the Journalism 
Library of Columbia University. 

Eleanor L. Johnson, former head of the 
business library, Carnegie Library of Pitts-
burgh, has been appointed physics librarian at 
Purdue University. 

Maurice D. Leach, Jr., has been appointed 
assistant librarian of the Texas College of 
Arts and Industries at Kingsville. 

Jean Macalister is now associate reference 
librarian of Columbia University. 

Elizabeth A. Quigley has been appointed 
librarian of the University of San Francisco 
Law Library. 

Mabel Schulte is now librarian of Western 
State College at Gunnison, Colo. 

Norbert D. West has gone from Bro~n 
University to be law librarian of Wayne Uni-

versity at Detroit. 
William R. Roalfe, law librarian of Duke 

University, has been appointed librarian of 
the Elbert H. Gary Law Library of North-
western University. 

Mrs. Ruth Lowenthal is riow head of the 
catalog department of the Ft. Hays, Kan., 
State College Library. 

Ruben W eltsch, serials librarian at Am-
herst College, has gone to Kenyon College, 
Gambier, Ohio, as .·reference librarian. ' 

Gladys M. Brownell is now nead cataloger 
of the Colby College Library, Waterville, 
Me. 

Dorothy M. Fenton, formerly librarian of 
Dakota Wesleyan University, is now librarian 
of Arkansas State College, Jonesboro. 

Ruth M. Erlandson is now assistant li-
brarian of Brooklyn in charge of reference. 
She has been reference librarian of the White 
Plains , N.Y., Public Library. 

Esther Eytcheson has left th~ Department 
of Agriculture Library in Washington to be-
come head cataloger of the Linda Hall Sci-
ence Library, Kansas City, Mo. 

Vivian L. Drake is now head of the acqui-
sition department of the University of Cincin-
nati Library. 

Dorothy Charles, formerly on the faculty 
of the Graduate Library School, University 
of Chicago, and Dorothy E. Cole, formerly 
librarian of the Graduate Library School, are 
now on the staff of the H. W. Wilson Com-
pany. 

Recent Personnel Changes 1n Foreign Libraries 
Prior to World War II there was an 

abundance of sources of information on the 
personnel of foreign libraries. The more or 
less frequent revisions of Minerva and the 
Index Generalis provided dependable current 
lists of library officials, and in many instances 
individual countries published directories 
similar to the A.L.A. Handbook. In addition, 
the Zentralblatt fur Bibliotfzekswesen · re-
ported major personnel changes in its monthly 
issues .• 

In the chaos following the end of the war 
in Europe, revision of the great handbooks of 
the academic and learned world is patently 
out · of the question. It is questionable 
whether the Z entralblatt will resume publi-

cation at any early future date. The lists 
of personnel changes in foreign research li-
braries which are included here are presented 
as news items rather than as .a partial 
directory. Subsequent lists will be published 
as the information is received. 

The compiler has received enthusiastic co-
operation from librarians in many countries, 
of whom a few may be mentioned here: Dr. 
Carl Bjorkbom, Tekniska Hogskolans Biblio-
tek, Stockholm; Mr. Peter Kleppa, Univer-
sity Library, Oslo; Dr. R. Edelmann, Royal 
Library, Copenhagen; Dr. L. Brummel, Royal 
Library, The Hague; Dr. Wolf Haenisch, 
Oeffentliche Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek 
(former-ly Preussische Staatsb~bliothek), Ber-

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lin; Dr. Ernst Trenkler, N ationalbibliothek, 
Vienna; Dr. "Albert Predeek, Postfach 2, 
Palais, Rossla, Harz; Dr. 1oh. Melich, Hun-
garian Academy of Sciences (A Magyar 
Tudomanyos Akademia Konyvtara), Buda-
pest; Dr. Wilhelm Herse, Herzog-August-
Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel; and Mr. Arthur 
E. Gropp, Biblioteca Artigas-Washington, 
MoQtevideo. 

SWEDEN 
Stockholm 

Dr. Carl A. P. Bjorkbom was appointed 
head librarian of the Tekniska Hogskolans 
Bibliotek in August 1946 as the successor of 
Hilda Lindstedt. 

Fredrik Hjelmquist, who had been chief 
librarian of the Stockholm Public Library 
since 1928, was succeeded in 1941 by Knut 
Knutsson, who had served as "first librarian" 
in the Stockholm Public Library from 1929 
to 1940 and then for one year as professor of 
Slavic languages at the University of Lund. 

Henry Olsson resigned in 1945 as director 
of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library 
in order to assume the chair of literary his-
tory at the University of Stockholm formerly 
held by Martin Lamm. Prof. Olsson's ~uc­
cessor is Leonard Dal, who had served under 
him as sublibrarian. 

Uppsala 

Per Hehbe, former librarian of the Agri-
cultural College (Lantbrukshogskolan), was 
killed in 1942 in an accident. He was suc-
ceeded by Lars Frykholm, formerly of the 
Library of Parliament (Riksdagsbibliotek), 
who took office in 1943· 

Dr. Anders Grape, who had been honored 
in 1945 by ~ notable homage volume entitled 
Donum Grapeanum, retired in 1946 as chief 
librarian of the University of U ppsala Li-
brary (Carolina Re.diviva). He was suc-
ceeded by Dr. Tonn s Kleberg. 

DENMARK 
Copenhagen 

.A new position known as "Rigsbibliotekar" 
(chief of all state libraries in Denmark) was 
created in 1943, and Dr. Svend Dahl was 
appointed the first incumbent. Prior to 1943 
the Royal Library had its own director, Dr. 
Carl S. Petersen; and the University of 
Copenhagen Library (consisting of two di-
visions, viz., I. Humanitjes, and II. Natural 

JANUARYJ 1947 

Sciences and Medicine) had its own director, 
Dr. Svend Dahl. On Apr. I, 1943, Dr. 
Petersen retired, and Dr. Dahl succeeded 
him as director of the Royal Library. At the 
same time, however, · Dr. Dahl is "Rigsbib-
liotekar" and continues as director of the 
University of Copenhagen Library. . Dr. 
Lauritz Nielsen, formerly of the Royal Li-
brary, became assistant director of the uni-
versity library in charge of Division I ; and 
Dr. 1 ean Anker, of the university library, 
became assistant director in charge of Di-
vision II. 

' Soon after the Germans occupied Den-
mark, Dr. Victo·r Madsen of the Royal Li-
brary died. Dr. Madsen had been "first 
librarian" for many years and enjoyed an 
international reputation as an incunabulist 
and co-editor of the N ordisk tidskrifl for 
bok- och biblioteksvasen. Along with Dr. Isak 
Collijn, emeritus librarian of the Swedish 
Royal Library, Dr. Madsen had served as a 
fo{eign member of the Kommission fur den 
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. 

On Aug. I, I94I, Helge Holst retired as 
librarian of the Polyteknisk Laereanstalt and 
was succeeded by Arne ]. M~ller, librarian of 
Danmarks Industriforenings Biblio~ek. On 
Apr. 1, 1942, the libraries of the Polyteknisk 
Laereanstalt , and the Industriforening were 
combined as Danmarks tekniske Bibliotek, 
and Mr. M~ller was appointed as the chief 
librarian. 

NORWAY 
Bergen 

Anton Mohr Wiesener retired on Aug. 30, 
1946, as librarian of Bergens Museums 
Bibliotek and was succeeded by Hallvard 
Sand Bakken, who had bee~ a librarian at 
the University of Oslo Library between 1935 
and 1946. 

Oslo 

Hanna Lund retired as head of the catalog 
department of the University of Oslo Library 
on 1 an. 15, 1942, and was succeeded by 
Harald Ludvig Tveteras. Miss Lund made 
important contributions to the classified cata-
logs of the university library. 

Olaf Selmer-Anderssen retired in 1946 as 
librarian of the Nobel Institute for the Pro-
motion of Peace (Nobel Instituttet). In Sep-
tember 1946 he was succeeded by Susanne 
Elisabeth H~~kenberg Mellbye, who had been 

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an assistant in the library of the Norwegian 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1937 
and 1946. 

NETHERLANDS 
Amsterdam 

Dr. ]. Berg resigned as librarian of the 
University of Amsterdam during the early 
part of the war and was succeeded by Dr. 
H. de la Fontaine Verwey. 

Rotterdam 

Dr. W. Leendertz resigned after the liber-
ation of Holland from his office as librarian 
of the College of Commerce in order to 
accept a new appointment as professor in the 
University of Amsterdam. He was succeeded 
by Dr. T. S. Jansma. 

Utrecht 

Dr. A. Hulsof, director of the University 
of Utrecht Library, was suspended from his 
post immediately after the liberation and was 
imprisoned for more than half a year• on 
charges of collaboration with the Nazis. He 
was subsequently discharged from his office 
and retired because of age. His successor 
is Dr. J. H. Kernkamp, previously a sub-
librarian of the Royal Library in The Hague. 

HUNGARY 
Budapest 

Dr. Joseph Szinnyei, formerly chief li-
brarian of the Academy of Sciences (A 
·Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Konyvtara), 
died on Apr. 14, 1943. On May 24, 1943, 
Dr. J oh. Melich was elected to his office by 
the academy. 

Dr. I van Pasteiner has resigned as director 
of the University of Budapest Library and 
has been succeeded by Dr. Ladislaus Matrai. 

Dr. Joseph Fitz has resigned as head li-
brarian of the H~ngarian National Museum 
but continues in the service of the library. 
His successor as head librarian is Dr. Joseph 
Gyorke. · 

Debrecen 

Dr. Stephan Nyireo has resigned as director 
of the University of Debrecen Library to as-
sume a post in the Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences. 

· AUSTRIA 
Graz 

Dr. F. Gosch has been succeeded as director 

of the University of Graz Library by Dr. W. 
Benndorf, who was dismissed from ·the gov-
ernment rolls during the Nazi occupation 
of Austria. 

Vienna 

Dr. Paul Heigl, director of the National-
bibliothek from 1938 to 1945, has disappeared, 
and his whereabouts are unknown. Dr. 
Johann Josef Bick, director from 1923 to 
1938, has returned to his former position. 

Dr. Emil Wallner, former director of the 
Division of Manuscripts of the National-
bibliothek, died in 1940 and was succeeded 
by Dr. Otto Brechler. 

Dr. Robert Teichl, former vice director, 
and Dr. Robert Haas, former director of the 
Division of Music of the N ationalbibliothek, 
were retired on pension in 1945. Prof. 
Nowak of the U ~iversity of Vienna suc-
ceeded Dr. Haas. 

Dr. Johann Gans, who was replaced in 
1938 by Dr. Alois J esinger as director of the 
University of Vienna Library, has been re-
stored to his former position. 

Dr. Franz Heinrich Tippmann, former 
director of the Wiener Technische Hoch-
schule, .died in 1945. The office is now occu-
pied by Dr. 0. Lazar, who has returned from 
Stockholm. 

GERMANY 
The whole library situation in Germany 

is extremely confused. Aside from the loss 
of nearly ten million volumes (estimate of 
Dr. Albert Predeek) by the research libraries, 
the great state libraries in Munich and Ber-
lin are shattered, little news is forthcoming 
from libraries in the Polish "and Russian 
zones, and the great university libraries in 

· Konigsberg and Breslau had to be surrendered 
to the Russians and Poles respectively. 
Wholesale upheavals in personnel have oc-

. curred as the results of the catastrophes of 
war and the denazification processes. Dr. 
Haenisch has compiled a list of the present 
directors of German research libraries which 
is reproduced here in toto in order to indi-
cate which librarians have remained in office 
and which have been replaced. 

Aachen 
Dr. Werner Schmitz, formerly of the 

Preussische Staatsbibliothek, has succeeded 

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Dr. Albert Huyskens as director of the Tech- the Technische Hochschule. Dr. Carl Rau 
nische Hochschu1e Library. is tem~orarily in charge. 

Bamberg 

Dr. Curt Hofner, formerly of the 
Bayerische · Staatsbibliothek, has succeeded 
Dr. Max Muller as director of the Staatliche 
Bibliothek. 

Berlin 

The Preussische Staatsbibliothek and the 
remnants of the library of the T echnische 
Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg have 
been combined as the Oeffentliche Wissen-
schaftliche Bibliothek under · the directorship 
of Dr. Rudolf Hoecker, formerly of the Tech-
nische Hochschule Library. Dr. Huge A. 
Kriiss, former director of the Preussische 
Staatsbibliothek, died on Apr. 27, 1945; and 
Dr. Albert Predeek, former director of the 
Technische Hochschule Library, was evacu-
ated with the remains of his library to the 
Harz after it was largely destroyed by direct 
hits from aerial bombers. 

Dr. Gustav Abb, former director of the 
University of Berlin Library, died in April 
1945. His successor is Dr. Wieland Schmidt, 
formerly on the staff of the Preussische 
Staatsbibliothek by virtue of his position on 
the Kommission fiir den Gesamtkatalog der 
Wiegend'rucke. 

Bonn 

Dr. Erich von Rath retired as director of 
the University of Bonn Library in 1942 and 
was succeeded by one of his assistants, Dr. 
Karl Lelbach. 

Braunschweig 

Dr. Werner Spi~ss continues as director of 
the Stadtbibliothek. 

Breslau 

Dr. Josef Deutsch is no longer director of 
the University of Breslau Library. He is said 
to be working in the Landesbibliothek in 
Fulda, but this report has not been verified. 

Cologne 

Dr. Hermann Corsten continues as director 
of the university library. 

Darmstadt 

Walter Sbrzesny is no longer librarian of 

JANUARY~ 1947 

Dresden 

Dr. Er~st Koch has been succeeded as li-
brarian of the Technische Hochschule by Dr. 
Christian J anentzky, formerly professor of 
literary history. 

Dr. Hermann Neubert has been succeeded 
as director of , the Landesbibliothek by Dr. 
Karl Assmann, previously a member of Dr. 
Neubert's staff. 

Dusseldorf 

Dr. Hermann Reuter continues as director 
of the Landesbibliothek. 

Erlangen 

Dr. Eugen Stollreither continues as director 
of the university library. 

Frankfurt a/ M 

Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Eppelsheimer, author of 
the H andbuch der W eltliteratur~ has suc-
ceeded Dr. Richard O~hler as director of 
the Stadt- und U niversitatsbibliothek ( includ-
ing the Stadtbibliothek, Senckenberg-Biblio-
thek, and the Rothschild-Bibliothek). 

I 

Freiburg i/B 

Dr. Josef Rest continues as director of 
the university library. 

Giessen 

Dr. Heinrich Clarius has been succeeded 
as librarian of the University of Giessen by 
Dr. Hugo Hepding, previously a member of 
his staff. 

Gottingen 
Dr. ·Karl Julius Hartmann continues as 

director of the university library. 

Greifswald 
Dr. Wilhelm Braun, formerly of the Stadt-

bibliothek in Stettin, has succeeded Dr. Wal-
ther Menn as director : of the university 
library. 

Halle 
Dr. Richard Sander has been succeeded as 

librarian of the University of Halle by Dr. 
Franz Zimmermann, previously a member of 
his staff. 

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Hamburg 

Dr. Gustav Wahl has been succeeded as 
librarian of the Staats- und Universit~tsbib­
liothek by Dr. Hermann Tiemann, previously 
a member of his staff. 

Hannover 

Dr. Otto Leunenschloss continues as 
director of the library of the Technische 
Hochschule, but his collections have been 
evacuated to Norten-Hardenberg, Hannover. 

Heidelberg 

Dr. Karl Pi-eisendanz has been succeeded 
as director of the university library ·by Dr. 
Hermann Finke, previously a member of his 
staff. 

lena 

Dr. Theodor Lockemann, formerly director 
of the university library, died in 1944. His 
successor is Dr. Viktor Burr. 

Kassel 

Dr. Hans Peter des Coudres has been 
succeeded as director of the Landesbibliothek 
by Dr. Wilhelm . Hopf. Dr. des Coudres was 
listed in the 1938 J ahrbuch der deutschen 
Bibliotheken as director of the library of the 
Schutzstaffeln of the NSDAP m Burg 
W ewelsburg, Westphalia. 

Dr. Thilo Schnurre continues as director 
of the Murhard-Bibliothek. 

Kiel 

Dr. Herbert Oberlander is no longer 
director of' the university library. Dr. Hein-
rich Grothues, previously a member of Dr. 
Oberlander's staff, is the vice director in 
charge. 

Konigsberg 

Dr. Carl Hermann Diesch, well-known as 
the compiler of the Bibliographie der ger-
manistischen Zeitschriften, is no longer 
director of the university library. Uncon-
firmed reports have stated that he is in Hol-
stein. 

Leipzig 

Dr. Heinrich Uhlendahl continues as di-
rector of the Deutsche Biicherei. Persistent 
reports that Dr. Uhlendahl was dead have 
prayed to be without foundation. 

,( 

Dr. Kielmeyer has replaced Dr. Fritz 
Prinzhorn as director of the university li-
br.ary. 

Mainz 

A new university was founded in Mainz 
in 1946, and Dr. Walter Menn, formerly 
director of the University of Greifswald Li-
brary, is the first librarian. 

Marburg 

Dr. Fritz Rohde continues as director of 
the university library. 

Munich 

Dr. Rudolf Buttmann has been succeeded 
as director of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
by Dr. Franz Wenninger, previously a mem-
ber of his staff. 

Dr. Joachim Kirchner has been succeeded 
as director of the university library by Dr. 
Walter PlObst, previously a member of his 
staff. 

Munster 

Dr. Josef 'Kindervater has been succeeded 
as director of the University Library by Dr. 
Christoph Weber, formerly on the staff of the 
University of Konigsberg Library. 

Rostock 

Dr. Bruno Claussen continues as director 
of the university library. 

Schwerin 

Dr. Carl August Endler has been suc-
ceeded as director of the Mecklenburgische 
Landesbibliothek by Dr. Wilhelm Heess, for-
merly bibliographer for the .Rostock Historical 
Commission. ' 

Stuttgart 

Dr. Theophil Frey has been succeeded as 
director of the Wiirttembergische Landes-
bibliothek by Dr. Wilhelm Hoffmann, previ-
ously a member of his staff. 

Dr. Paul Gehring has been succeeded as 
director of the Technische Hochschule Li-
brary by Dr. Walter Bauhuis, formerly on 
the staff of the University of Berlin Library. 

Tiibingen 

Dr. Georg Leyh continues as director of 
the university library. 

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Weimar 

Dr. Robert Hohlbaum has been succeeded 
as director of the Landesbibliothek by Dr. 
von Philippsborn. ' 

Wiesbaden 

Dr. Gustav Struck has been succeeded as 
director of the · N assauische Landesbibliothek 
by Dr. Franz Gotting, formerly an archi-
vist of the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt 
a/M. 

W olfenbuettel 

Dr. Hermann Herbst, distinguished bibli-
ographer of bookbinding literature, died on 
July 8, I944, when a transport cc1rrying him 
to Greece suffered a direct hit from an aerial 
bomber. 

LATIN AMERICA 
Montevideo 

Arthur E. Gropp, director of the Biblio-

teca Artigas-Washington, was appointed. di-
rector of the Official Library School of the 
University of Montevideo as of Nov. I, I945· 
He is continuing as director of the Biblioteca 
Artigas-Washington. 

Rio de Janeiro • 
Dr. Rubens Borba de Moraes, formerly 

director of the Municipal Library in Sao 
Paulo, was appointed on Jan. I, I946, to 
succeed Dr. Rodolfo Garda as director of 
the National Library. 

Santiago de Chile 

Edward M. Heiliger, formerly director-
librarian of the Biblioteca Americana in 
Managua, Nicaragua, has been appointed 
under a two-year contract by the University 
of Chile to organize its library s~hool. 

-LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON 

• 
Classification and Pay Plan 

THE University of California reports the introduction of a new position classifiFation and 
compensation plan for the library positions on the various campuses of the institution. The 
class titles and compensation schedules are as follows: 

Title 

Librarian I 
Librarian 2 
Librarian 3 
Librarian 4 
Senior Library Assistant 
Principal Library Assistant 

Salary Range in Step Increases 

$2400, $2520, $2640, $i76o, $288o. 
$288o, $3ooo, $3I20, $3240, $3360, $3480, $36oo, $3720, $3840. 
$3900, $42oo, $4500, $48oo. 
$48oo/ $5 Ioo, $5400. 
$I98o, $2040, $2Ioo, $2I6o, $2220, $2280, $2340, $2400. 
$2400, $2520, $2640, $2760, $288o. 

On the basis of satisfactory performance, step increases are considered annually for Senior 
Library Assistant, Principal Library Assistant, Librarian I, and Librarian 2; and are con-
sidered triennially for Librarian 3 and Librarian 4. 

The Personnel Editor welcomes news of other classification and pay plans that are designed to 
cope with present conditions. A summary of such information will appear in the April issue. 

JANUARY~ 1947 85 



Business Education Vis-
Audio-Visual Aids ual Aids, 330 W. 72nd 

St., New York City 23, 
has been formed by Clifford Ettinger, editor 
and former . business teacher. The new 
firm, BEV A

11 
specializes in providing visual 

aids to teachers of business. It offers a 
selected group of films in the fields of account-
ing, consumer education, sales training, dis-
tributive education, duplicating machines, 
guidance, shorthand, and typing among others. 

Pratt Institute Library School 
CommitteesJ announces an elective course in 
ConferencesJ special libraries which will be 
Curricula offered in the spring quarter 

starting Mar. 17, 1947. In-
struction in this course will be given by Rebecca 
B. Rankin, librarian of the Municipal Refer-
ence Library of New York. 

The university administration of North-
western has created a library council. This 
council will be responsible for promoting co-
operation among all the libraries of the 
university in an effort to provide a unified 
library program for Northwestern. William 
R. Roalfe, librarian of the law library, was 
elected secretary for the coming year. The 
council will meet quarterly and at such other 
times as may seem desirable. 

The Reference Librarians' Council of. the 
San Francisco Bay area is preparing a check-
list of local and county histories. Plans are 
in process for making this into a state-wide 
project. 

James T. Babb, Yale 
Gifts and Collections University librarian, 

has an·nounced Yale li-
brary's acquisition of a rare copy of a map 
depicting the siege of Yorktown. The map 
was executed by Maj. Sebastian Bauman, of 
the American forces, and represents the only 
American survey of the siege. Not only is 
the map valuable historically but it also repre-
sents a handsome example of the engraver's 
art in that period of American history. It was 
engraved by Robert Scot in Philadelphia in 
1J82. 

The Sterling Memorial Library at Yale 
recently received 196 incunabula from Louis 
M. Rabinowitz, of New York. This hand-' 
some gift makes .Yale one of the few libraries 

New-s fro·m 
in the nation that owns 1200 or more volumes 
printed before 1501. Scholars will find this 
new collection useful since approximately 
half of the volumes are concerned with re-
ligious problems, some of these showing pre-
Reformation questioning of various church 
practices. Literature and textbooks are also 
represented and a few legal and scientific 
volumes are included. 

Yale library has been presented with printed 
materials andp hotostatic copies of documents 
used by tl1e prosecution in the Nazi war 
trials. This interesting collection was do-
nated by John M. Woolsey, Jr., a graduate 
of Yale and a member of the staff of United 
States chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson. 

The Library of the New York State Col-
lege of Agriculture at Cornell University has 
received a gift which probably makes it the 
most complete library on bee culture in the 
world. This collection donated by E. F. 
Phillips has been designated as the "Everett 
Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Library." It 
totals more than three thousand volumes 
an'd contains foreign as well as domestic 
publications., 

Under the sponsorship of the 
Publications Committee on Bibliography, 

College Section, National 
Council of Teachers of English, Edna Hays 

· has compiled The College Teaching of Eng-
lish , A Bibliography, 1941-1944. 

Secondary Education in the South, edited 
by W. C. Ryan, ]. M. Gwynn, and A. K. 
King and published by University of North 
Carolina Press ( 1946), should be of par- · 
ticular interest to teachers college librarians. 
This book, issued under the direction of Louis 
R. Wilson, contains a wealth of material 
about educational problems in the South. 
Limitation of the libraries serving secondary 
schools and implications for more extensive 
library training are indicated. 

B. Lamar Johnson, dean of instruction and 
librarian at Stephens College, is the author of 
"Patterns of General Education" in the 
Junior College Journal, October 1946. Vari-
ous educational programs are discussed, among 
these being the Great Books program and 

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crl 





the Field 
general survey courses. 

Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni-
versities, Year Ended June 30, 1944, prepared 
by L. E. Blauch and F. G. Cornell, has been 
issued as Bulletin No. 16 - ( 1946) of the 
United States Office of Education. 

The University of California Library at 
Los Angeles has issued Know Your Library 
(University of California Press, 1946). This 
is a small attractively illustrated manual for 
students and provides information to guide 
them in the use of the facilities of the library. 

Northwestern University Library began; 
publication of an informal mimeographed 
bulletin, Northwestern Library News, on 
Sept. 13, 1946. Issued weekly, this publication 
carries news of special interest to North-
western librarians. 

"The Last Canute" by Garrett Hardin, 
assistant professor of bacteriology at Santa 
Barbara College, appears in the September 
1946 i~sue of The Scientific Monthly. College 
and university librarians will want to read 
this cleverly written article which criticizes 
book-collecting and preparational procedures 
in libraries. 

The Oregon State Archives has issued the 
first of a series of six mimeographed inven-
tories of Oregon records in its collections. 

Indian Librarian, published at P.O. For-
ma·n College, Lahore, is a new publication 
devoted to the development of librarianship 
and libraries in India. The first number· was 
issued in June 1946 and contained papers by 
S. R. Ranganathan, M. L. Nagar, and others. 
Of the ten contributing editors of the new 
journal, seven are associated with college or 
research libraries. In a foreword to the first 
number, S. R. Ranganathan, who is president 
of the Indian Library Association and li-
brarian of Hindu University Library 
(Ben ares), writes that the function of the 

JANUARY, 1947 

· ' 

library profession is "to collect, organize, and 
serve ~xactly and expeditiously all recorded · 
thought. To discharge this function effi-
ciently, the profession should develop an ever-
widening human outlook and keep on 
perfecting an ever-sharpening technique. 
This, it has to do on a cooperative basis." 
Sant Ram Bhatia is the editor of Indian 
Librarian. 

The Catholic Book List, 1946, edited under 
the auspices of the Catholic Library Associ-
ation, has been published by the Department 
of Library Science, Rosary College, River 
Forest, Ill. An annotated bibliography, it is 
intended as a guide to contemporary liter-
ature "written in the Catholic tradition." 

The University of Pennsyl-
Scholarships vania is offering five library 

service scholarships to full-
time students: The scholarships will be 
awarded on the basis of the students' aca-
demic ability and financial need. The scholar-
ships carry no cash stipend but offer each 
recipient the opportunity of earning credit 
towards tuition fees not to exceed $400 for. 
tw9 consecutive terms. · An interesting aspect 
of this new plan insures that holders of 
scholarships will be assigned to library projects 
associated with their particular field of study. 
"Ten hours' work per week for thirty .weeks 
per year, or sixteen weeks for either semester, 
are required of a scholarship holder." These 
scholarships may be renewed for not more 
than four academic years. Application forms 
may be procured from the office of the director 
of libraries, Charles W. David. The first 
scholarship was awarded to Wallace Schultz, 
a student in the graduate school of arts and 
sciences. "Mr. Schultz is preparing a doc-
toral dissertation on Theodore Dreiser, and 
will work in the collection of manuscripts 
and letters which Mr. Dreiser presented · to 
the University of Pennsylvania shortly before 
his death last year." 

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