College and Research Libraries


Personnel 
THE retirement of Professor Ernest J. 

Reece of the Columbia University School 
of Library Service brings regret to the hun-
dreds of library school students who have 
profited by his friendly counsel in the three 
schools in wThich he had been connected. P r o b -
ably no other person has had so great a part 
in fitting for service so many of the librarians 
in active service today. 

Professor Reece was born in Cleveland, 
graduated from Western Reserve University, 
and was a member of the first class of the 
Western Reserve University Library School. 
A f t e r a year as reference assistant in the 
Cleveland Public Library, he spent two years 
in the Graduate School of Theology in O b e r -
lin and three years as librarian of the Punahou 
school in Hawaii. 

In 1912 he joined the faculty of the Uni-
versity of Illinois Library School where he 
was instructor f r o m 1912-15 and associate 
professor from 1915-17. In 1917 Edwin H . 
Anderson, who was always so successful in 
building his staff, brought him to N e w Y o r k 
to be principal of the library school of the 
N e w Y o r k Public Library, and he carried 
on ably the work that had been started by 
M a r y Plummer. 

In 1926 the Columbia University School of 
Library Service was established by merging 
the N e w Y o r k State Library School at Albany 
and the N e w Y o r k Public Library Library 
School. Fortunately, D r . Williamson was able 
to persuade Professor Reece to join the faculty 
of the new school as associate professor of 
library administration, 1926-35, professor of 
library service, 1935-38, Melvil Dewey profes-
sor of library service, 1938-48. H e also 
served as associate dean, 1944-47. 

His teaching courses have been mostly in 
the master's level—education f o r librarian-
ship, professional problems in libraries, and 
library building as aspects of library adminis-
tration. H e had much to do with the develop-
ment of library school training. His two 
books, The Curriculum in Library Schools 
in 1936 and Program for Library Schools 
in 1943 have been important contributions in 
his field. 

Professor Reece has always been active in 
the American Library Association and other 
library organizations. H e held innumerable 
positions on important boards and committees. 
For two years he was managing editor of 
College and Research Libraries. But perhaps 
his greatest contribution was his friendly 
counsel to innumerable students and librarians 
during more than thirty-five years. His 
sincerity and unimpeachable honesty, together 
with his soundness of judgment and genuine 
interest in every library problem, have made 
it possible for him to make a most unusual 
contribution. It is to be hoped that his free-
dom f r o m teaching will give him an oppor-
tunity to continue writing along the lines of 
his greatest interest, education for librarian-
ship.—Paul North Rice. 

DR. H E R M A N H . FUSSLER, t h e n e w d i r e c t o r of the University of Chicago Library, 
is well known among American librarians for 
his w o r k in photographic reproduction. As 

Herman H. Fussier 

associate editor of the Journal of Documen-
tary Reproduction (1938-42), as writer of 
numerous articles in the Library Journal and 

OCTOBER, 1948 
35 7 



other professional periodicals, and as author 
of Photographic Reproduction for Libraries 
( U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o Press, 1 9 4 2 ) , he has 
made notable contributions to the literature of 
the field. M a n y of his observations w e r e 
directly obtained f r o m his experimental and 
practical w o r k as head of the library depart-
ment of photographic reproduction at the 
University of Chicago, 1936-46. 

But D r . Fussler's versatility and c o m p e -
tence in other aspects of librarianship have 
not been as w e l l k n o w n . A graduate of the 
University of N o r t h C a r o l i n a and of its li-
brary school, the holder of master's and 
doctoral degrees f r o m the G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y 
School of the University of C h i c a g o , D r . 
Fussier has had experience in a number of 
important library posts. U n t i l he took over 
his position in the department of photographic 
reproduction at C h i c a g o , he served f o r a short 
period as an assistant in the science and tech-
nology division of the N e w Y o r k Public 
Library.- F r o m 1941 to 1946 he w a s science 
librarian of the University of C h i c a g o L i -
brary. F o r the year 1946-47 he w a s assistant 
director, and during the past year he served 
as associate director. F r o m 1941 to 1943 
he w a s an instructor in the G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y 
School, and assistant p r o f e s s o r f o r the period 
1944-48. H i s appointment as director of the 
library carries with it a full professorship. 

D u r i n g the w a r , 1942 through 1945, D r . 
Fussier w a s assistant director of the i n f o r -
mation division, and librarian, M e t a l l u r g i c a l 
P r o j e c t ( A t o m i c E n e r g y ) . A t various times 
he w a s consultant to the M a n h a t t a n District 
on problems relating to the handling of 
scientific i n f o r m a t i o n . 

H e has been called upon to serve as rep-
resentative of A m e r i c a n groups at important 
foreign meetings.* H e w a s head of the d e m -
onstration of microphotography at the Paris 
Inte rnational Exposition, 1937 J delegate to 
the W o r l d D o c u m e n t a t i o n Congress, Paris, 
x 937 5 a n d delegate to the Fourteenth I n t e r -
national C o n f e r e n c e on D o c u m e n t a t i o n , O x -
f o r d and L o n d o n , 1938. In the United States, 
he has been a consultant on problems relating 
to the photographic reproduction of scholarly 
materials at the University of Illinois, L o u -
isiana State University, and the University 
of C a l i f o r n i a ; and on problems relating to 
library buildings at Stanford University and 

other institutions. H e is the editor of the 
recent A . L . A . publication, Library Buildings 
for Library Service. 

In addition to this background of training 
and experience, D r . Fussier brings to his new 
post an understanding of the complex p r o b -
lems of a great research library, a reservoir 
of drive and initiative, and a pleasant person-
ality necessary f o r administrative success.— 
M.F.T. 

DR. LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON, f o r the past t w o years librarian at W e s t e r n M i c h i -
gan C o l l e g e , has been appointed director of 
libraries at the University of Kentucky. H e 
assumed his n e w responsibilities September 1. 

Lawrence S. Thompson 

D r . T h o m p s o n has had an interesting 
career. B o r n in 1916 in Raleigh, N . C . , he 
received his A . B . degree f r o m the University 
of N o r t h C a r o l i n a in 1935. D u r i n g his senior 
year he w a s president of Phi Beta Kappa. 
H i s interest in G e r m a n i c languages and liter-
ature continued, and he completed the M . A . 
degree at the University of C h i c a g o in 1935. 
T r a n s f e r r i n g again to the University of N o r t h 
C a r o l i n a , he w a s a w a r d e d the P h . D . degree in 
1938, at which time he w a s only 21 years old. 
H i s training in library science w a s at the U n i -
versity of M i c h i g a n w h e r e he received the 
A . B . L . S . in 1940. 

T h o m p s o n ' s first library experience w a s 

356 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH. LIBRARIES 



that of assistant to the librarian at Iowa State 
College, 1940-42. H e became a special agent 
with the F.B.I, and served in this capacity in 
N e w Y o r k , Washington, and Latin America 
during the period 1942-45. H e was acting-in-
charge of the acquisitions department of the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1945-46. 
He was appointed chief of the Bibliographical 
Section of the Office of Technical Services 
in Washington and held that position from 
M a r c h to August 1946, at which time he 
was appointed librarian at Western Michigan 
College. 

D r . Thompson has many interests. H e has 
carried his bibliographical curiosity beyond 
the confines of the U.S. H e remains in 
constant touch with librarians and biblio-
graphical problems of Continental Europe and 
Latin America. 

Thompson has been very active in publica-
tions both in the field of librarianship and 
Germanics. His publications and book re-
views already amount to approximately 300 
items. 

Although of scholarly temperament, D r . 
Thompson has a good sense of humor and 
interest in current problems. T h e University 
of Kentucky will soon appreciate the variety 
of qualifications and talents which he possesses 
and he in turn should build at Lexington one 
of the best university libraries in the South.— 
Clyde H. Cantrell. 

IN SELECTING a new librarian, the University of Oregon has reached far from the W e s t 
Coast. Carl W . Hintz, who assumed this 
new position on Sept. 1, 1948, was most 
recently librarian in Chicago at the Natural 
History Museum, a position which he held 
from 1946 through 1948. Prior to this he 
had been on the East Coast as director of 
libraries at the University of Maryland for 
nine years, covering the period from 1937 to 
1946. Continuing the geographical note, it 
should be mentioned here that Oregon's new 
librarian came to the United States from 
England in 1924. 

M r . Hintz's early education was pursued in 
England and Germany before embarking for 
this country. A f t e r completing his high school 
education in the United States, he obtained 
his A . B . degree from D e P a u w University in 
1932. Immediately thereafter, he began his 

Carl W. Hintz 

professional training at the University of 
Michigan where he received an A.B.L.S. in 
1933 and an A . M . L . S . in 1935. His studious 
proclivities are indicated by his advanced work 
in the Graduate Library School at the Uni-
versity of Chicago in the summers of 1937 and 
1945, and in his continuous part-time work 
since 1946. H e now hopes that the final 
Ph.D. requirement, the thesis, will be com-
pleted by January 1949. 

T h e pattern of M r . Hintz's professional 
experience and development has been a defi-
nitely progressive one. Starting as a student 
assistant at D e P a u w , he continued in a similar 
position at the University of Michigan. Upon 
completion of his first library degree, he re-
turned to D e P a u w as head of the circulation 
department, and after two years became as-
sistant librarian of that school. Following 
two years of this administrative work, the 
University of Maryland appointed him as di-
rector of libraries. It was while in this 
position that he began to become widely known 
in academic circles as a librarian with authori-
tative knowledge in various subject fields, 
particularly the natural sciences. It is inter-
esting to note that this competence is the basis 
for his almost completed Ph.D. dissertation. 
His contributions to library literature have 
appeared in various library and museum pub-
lications. 

Closely related to his scholarly interests is 

OCTOBER, 1948 35 7 



his extensive and successful teaching experi-
ence. For four summer sessions and three 
school years he instructed in the library school 
at Catholic University, and during 1947 and 
1948 he has been teaching in the Graduate 
Library School in Chicago. 

A t a time when the library profession needs 
strong representatives of international inter-
ests, it is encouraging to find that M r . Hintz is 
continuing and developing his interests in this 
field.—Foster E. Mohrhardt. 

MARION A . M I L C Z E W S K I h a s b e e n a p -pointed assistant librarian of the Uni-
versity of California Library, Berkeley. M r . 
Milczewski will take over his new position on 
Jan. 1, 1949, and will supervise most of the li-
brary departments formerly reporting to John 

Marion A. Milczewski 

Mackenzie Cory, associate librarian, who left 
in September to become Executive Secretary of 
the A . L . A . 

M r . Milczewski is at present director of 
the Southeastern States Cooperative Library 
Survey, the object of which is to develop a 
comprehensive program for the improvement 
of library service throughout the seven states 
lying within the T . V . A . area, plus Florida 
and South Carolina. 

Born in Saginaw, Mich., in 1912, M r . 
Milczewski is a graduate of the University of 
Michigan, and received a bachelor's and a 

master's degree in library science from the 
University of Illinois in 1938 and 1940. In 
!938-39 he was a library interne in the Wilson 
Dam Library of the T . V . A . , and the following 
year became assistant to Carl H . Milam, 
at A . L . A . Headquarters. In 1942 he went 
to Washington, D . C . , as the executive assist-
ant on A.L.A.'s Books for Latin America 
Project. H e remained in Washington, serving 
first as assistant to the director of A.L.A.'s 
International Relations Office, then as acting 
director and director, until his appointment 
to the Southeastern States Cooperative L i -
brary Survey in April 1947.—Douglas PV. 
Bryant. 

KA T H A R I N E M . STOKES w a s a p p o i n t e d l i -brarian of Western Michigan College 
of Education, effective September 1, to succeed 
D r . Lawrence S. Thompson. 

Since September 1945, she has been circula-
tion librarian and assistant professor of library 

Katharine M. Stokes 

science at the University of Illinois. In this 
position she reorganized the circulation de-
partment completely, made a clear separation 
between professional and clerical duties, in-
stalled the M c B e e Keysort card system, and 
added an annunciator of one hundred numbers 
to circulation desk equipment. 

Miss Stokes has been active in local, state, 
and national library associations during her 

358 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH. LIBRARIES 



stay in Illinois. At the time of her new ap-
pointment she was editor of the Illinois 
Library Association Record and is currently 
serving as a member of the A . L . A . Committee 
on Annuities and Pensions. One of her most 
significant professional contributions has been 
made in adapting Keysort punched cards to 
various circulation situations. H e r experience 
with and knowledge of this device have estab-
lished her as an authority in the field, with a 
number of oral presentations and published 
papers in her name. 

Her training includes undergraduate work 
at Simmons College and a master's degree in 
library science from the University of Michi-
gan, In the summer of 1948 she began work 
on the new D.L.S. program at Illinois. 

She began her professional career at the 
Bryn M a w r Public Library, serving subse-
quently on the library staffs of the Harris-
burg, Pa., Public Library, Swarthmore 
College, and Pennsylvania State College. She 
left the last named institution as assistant 
librarian to go to Illinois. 

Katherine ( K i t t y ) Stokes thus brings to 
the position at Kalamazoo good training, a 
rich background of varied experience, initia-
tive, rare enthusiasm, and a gift for making 
and keeping friends. Such a combination of 
attributes promises well f o r success in her 
new position.—Lewis C. Branscomb. 

ON Sept. 15, 1948, Donald Everett Strout assumed the duties of the position, direc-
tor of libraries and assistant director of the 
library school at the University of Denver. 
D r . Strout brings to this important post 
peculiarly fitting qualifications. A f t e r re-
ceiving the Ph.D. degree from the University 
of Illinois in the field of classics, D r . Strout 
taught Latin, German, and Greek for six 
years following which he received the A . B . in 
L.S. degree from the University of Michigan 
in 1940. There followed two years of experi-
ence at the University of Missouri Library 
after which he became head of the documents 
department at Indiana University Library, 
where he served until January 1944. From 
that day to the present he has been succes-
sively assistant professor and associate pro-
fessor in the Division of Library Instruction, 
University of Minnesota. 

D r . Strout's four and one half years at the 

University of Minnesota have won for him 
the admiration and respect of students, col-
leagues and associates. While his major fields 
of teaching have been reference and adminis-
tration, he has served as adviser and confi-
dante to students in all areas of library study. 
Students have respected him for his under-
standing, benefited from his experience, and 
enjoyed his genial, friendly nature. 

Donald Everett Strout 

D r . Strout's abilities were quickly recog-
nized by his colleagues with the result that in 
1947 he was elected president of the Minne-
sota Library Association. This important 
honor came both because of his enthusiasm 
f o r and interest in all sorts of library prob-
lems as well as because of his genial friendly 
nature which has made him liked and re-
spected by people from all walks of life. H e 
has given himself without reserve to affairs 
of the Minnesota Library Association, activi-
ties of the Association of American Library 
Schools, not to mention his work in the Divi-
sion of Library Instruction, and his special 
contributions toward the social and personal 
welfare of his students. 

D r . Strout brings to his new Denver post 
exceptionally broad knowledge of library 
problems, but perhaps his greatest asset will 
be those personal qualities wThich bring people 
associated with him to regard him as a friend 
as well as a leader.—E. IV. McDiarmid. 

OCTOBER, 1948 
35 7 



Appointments 

Dr. Raynard C. Swank, librarian of the 
University of Oregon, became director of the 
Stanford University Libraries on September 
I. A statement concerning Dr. Swank ap-
peared in the July 1946, number of C. & R.L. 
In 1947 with Louis R. Wilson, he surveyed 
the Stanford University Libraries. 

Dr. Vernon D. Tate, librarian of the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology since I 9 4 7 > 
has been appointed director of the institute's 
libraries. In his new post he succeeds Pro-
fessor John E. Burchard whose appointment 
as dean of humanities at M . I . T . was an-
nounced recently. 

Dr. Howard Crosby Rice., Jr., for the last 
two years head of the United States Informa-
tion Library in Paris, France, has been ap-
pointed to the directorship of the newly-
created department of special collections in 
the Princeton University Library. 

Dr. Allen T . Hazen, director of the Uni-
versity of Chicago Library, has become profes-
sor of English in the School of Library 
Service, Columbia University, effective Sep-
tember 1. 

Ray L. Trautman, wartime organizer and 
director of the Army Library Service, has 
been appointed professor in the School of 
Library Service, Columbia University. M r . 
Trautman has been recently vice president 
and general manager of Omnibook magazine. 

Dr. Harriet D. MacPherson, who has been 
librarian at Smith College since 1943, joined 
the faculty of Drexel Institute of Technology, 
Philadelphia, as professor of library science in 
September. 

Dr. Edward G. Hartmann has been ap-
pointed director of libraries and assistant 
professor of history at Suffolk University in 
Boston. 

Dr. William M . Randall, who has been 
director of the University of Georgia Li-
braries, has been appointed academic dean at 
the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, King's 
Point, N.Y. 

Florence King, for the past four years 
librarian of the William Howard Doane 
Library at Denison University, Granville, 
Ohio, has resigned to become librarian at 
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Her 
successor at Denison University is Lois E. 
Engleman, who has been librarian of Western 

College, Oxford, Ohio, for the past year. 
William Leibowitz, formerly on the library 

staff of New York University, was appointed 
librarian of the newly-created Brandeis Uni-
versity at Waltham, Mass., where he has been 
organizing the library for the university's open-
ing in the fall. 

Tilton M . Barron is now librarian of 
Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. M r . Bar-
ron has been on the staff of the City College 
Library in New York while completing work 
for his M.S. degree at the School of Library 
Service, Columbia University. 

Benjamin B. Richards has been appointed 
librarian of the Knox College Library. He 
has been acting librarian since March 1946. 

Brooks Jenkins, formerly on the staff of 
the Vermont Free Public Library Commis-
sion, became librarian of Vermont Junior Col-
lege at Montpelier in September. 

Dr. Robert H . Deily, who has been head 
of the department of library science of the 
University of Kentucky since 1946, resigned to 
go to the New York State Library, Albany, 
as chief of the processing division in September. 

Rice Estes, assistant professor of the Pratt 
Institute Library School, Brooklyn, has ac-
cepted the position of assistant librarian in 
charge of public services at the University of 
Southern California, Los Angeles. 

Mary D. Herrick, who for the past ac-
ademic year has been assistant professor, 
Pratt Institute Library School, and taught 
in the 1948 summer session of the School of 
Library Service, Columbia University, as-
sumed duties as assistant librarian of Boston 
University on September I. 

Robert Vosper has been appointeu to the 
newly-created post of assistant librarian of 
the University of California at Los Angeles. 
He joined the library staff of U.C.L.A. in 
1944 as head of the acquisitions department. 
Succeeding him in that position is Helen F. 
Shumaker, who has been a member of the 
acquisitions department for the past two years. 

John MacEachern, formerly on the catalog-
ing staff of the Columbia University Libraries, 
is now head cataloger of St. Lawrence Uni-
versity at Canton, N.Y. 

Mary Elizabeth Scott left the cataloging 
staff of the Indiana University Library at 
Bloomington to become head cataloger of 

360 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH. LIBRARIES 



Eastern Illinois State College Library in 
Charleston. 

Paul von Khrum has been appointed acqui-
sition librarian of the Chicago Undergraduate 
Division of the University of Illinois. 

Darthula Wilcox, formerly branch librarian 
in the Montclair, N.J., Public Library, is now 
librarian of the Columbia University School 
of Library Service. 

John Sheldon has been appointed recata-
loger at the Knox College Library. Formerly, 
he was assistant librarian at Westminster 
College, Fulton, M o . 

Alice E. Phelps, of the Cleveland Public 
Library, became head cataloger of the Okla-
homa A. & M . College on September 15. 

Willard O. Youngs, formerly reference li-

brarian at Stanford University, has become 
head of the general reference department, 
Seattle, Wash., Public Library. 

Ruth M . Erlandson, chief reference librar-
ian at the Brooklyn College Library, has been 
granted a King Gustav V fellowship by the 
American-Scandinavian Foundation for study 
in Sweden during the academic year 1948-49. 
She will do independent research at the Uni-
versity of Upsala on educational and informa-
tional services in Sweden. 

Lucy E. Fay, associate professor emeritus 
of the School of Library Service, Columbia 
University, and formerly acting librarian of 
Temple University, was awarded the degree 
of Doctor of Letters at Russell Sage College 
on May 30. 

Retirement 
Willis H. Kerr, professor of bibliography 

and librarian at Claremont College, became 
librarian emeritus and bibliographical con-
sultant on July 1. M r . Kerr has played a 
prominent part in building up the libraries of 
the Associated Colleges, consisting of Pomona 
College, Scripps College, Claremont Men's 
College, and Claremont College. The col-
lections of these libraries now total over 

225,000 volumes. M r . Kerr has also been 
active in A.C.R.L. 

Dr. David W . Davies, who has been 
librarian at Pomona College and associate 
librarian at Claremont College, succeeds M r . 
Kerr. Dr. Davies is librarian at Claremont 
and director of the joint library activities of 
the four colleges, as well as continuing as head 
of the Pomona College library. 

The Position-Classification Plan 
(Continued from page 346) 

tion-classification plan exists. Pressure for 
special pay or pay increases on the part 
of certain individuals or groups confuses 
the salary policy of a library without a pay 
plan based on a position-classification plan. 
This tends to allow salaries to quickly ap-
proach their maximums. During periods 
of increasing cost of living, for example, 
high rate salary increases in the lower pay 
brackets result in a serious squeeze toward 
the maximum salaries. 

Librarians have long been considered 
specialists in the systematic arrangement of 
materials. T h e y know the value of system, 
although they have been slow to apply it to 
personnel management. T h e advantages 
of a classification plan of university library 
positions suggest that it is desirable for an 
efficient personnel policy. It needs only to 
be kept in mind that this is a classification 
of positions, and not of librarians holding 
those jobs. 

OCTOBER, 1948 
35 7 



News from 
T h e Clementine L i -

Acquisitionsj Gifts, brary of the Catholic 
Collections University of America 

is described in the 
April 1948 issue of the John K. Mullen Li-
brary occasional publication titled, "So N o w 
Y o u K n o w . " Originally the private collec-
tion of Pope Clement X I , who reigned from 
1700 to 1721, its 8000 volumes were acquired 
by Catholic University a decade ago from the 
Albani family, of which Pope Clement was a 
member. This almost priceless collection is 
believed to be one of the f e w Papal libraries 
to be found outside the Vatican. Apparently 
most of the volumes were presentation copies 
to the Pope and according to custom many 
were bound in white vellum. Scholars 
interested in the^seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries find the collection a rich field for 
research. W o r k s on theology, philosophy, lit-
urgy, and history predominate, but there are 
other notable items on biography, art, and the 
Greek and Roman classics. T h e original 
edition of the acts of the Leipsic society and a 
copy of the rare Antwerp edition of the Acta 
Sanctorum are represented. T h e collection 
contains a notable section on canon law as 
well as a representative group of grammars 
and dictionaries in the more unusual languages 
of the Near East. During the years of Pope 
Clement's reign, Europe was in the midst of 
political and religious turmoil and a large 
number of the books concerned with theology 
and philosophy relate to the Jansenist heresy. 
During the Jansenist controversy two well-
known collections on the subject were de-
veloped—one by Pope Clement in Rome and 
the other at Louvain. T h e destruction of 
Louvain in W o r l d W a r I gave the collection, 
now owned by Catholic University, a new 
importance. 

T h e Annmary Brown Memorial in Provi-
dence, which houses art treasures and 
fifteenth century books from some of the 
earliest presses, was recently transferred to 
Brown University by a court order. M a r g a r e t 
Bingham Stillwell, widely known bibliogra-
pher and author and curator of the Annmary 
Brown Memorial since 1917, will remain in 
charge of the building. Miss Stillwell has 
been appointed research professor of bibli-

ography at Brown University and will aid 
faculty, students, and other interested persons 
in using the early printed books for research 
in Renaissance and Medieval culture. 

T h e Library of the University of California 
at Los Angeles has established a memorial 
fund in honor of Ernest Dawson (1882-
1947), well-known and highly respected col-
lector and bookseller. M r . Dawson exerted 
a great influence over readers and col-
lectors of books for many years and brought 
hundreds of thousands of books to his home 
state of California. T h e memorial fund will 
be used to continue the efforts of M r . Dawson 
in bringing to California significant books 
about books—bibliographies, books on print-
ing, on bookselling, and on their reading and 
enjoyment. Before his death M r . Dawson 
expressed the desire that eventually his private 
papers and correspondence be deposited in the 
Library of the University of California. T h e 
sponsors of the plan—members of the uni-
versity community—hope that others will join 
in making the memorial collection a significant 
tribute to one of southern California's great 
figures. Checks should be made payable to the 
regents of the University of California, and 
addressed to the Ernest Dawson Memorial 
Fund, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles 24. 

Northwestern University Library reports 
that it has been designated as one of a limited 
number of depositories for materials on radio 
by the U . S. Office of Education and the 
Federal Radio Education Committee in co-
operation with the National Association of 
Broadcasters. Free publications consisting of 
printed and processed materials on manage-
ment and regulation policies, production of 
radio programs, promotional literature, and 
related subjects will be sent to various de-
pository libraries. 

Earlier in the year the Library of Congress 
reported a gift of i l l titles relating to A r -
menian culture. This first gift of Armenian 
material, which will be added to in the future, 
contains works in Armenian and books in 
English about Armenia, and was the gift of the 
Committee for Armenian Collection of L i -
brary of Congress. T h e committee is com-
posed of a group of Americans interested in 
Armenian culture. 

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the Field 
Princeton University Library recently re-

ceived nearly 500 rare books and manuscripts 
from the private library of the late Cyrus H. 
McCormick, prominent industrialist. Dr. 
Julian P. Boyd has described the McCormick 
collection as "'one of the most outstanding 
gifts ever made to the library." It contains 
items of general Americana and is particu-
larly strong in books on the history of Vir-
ginia. Notable among the Virginia items is 
the dedication copy of Captain John Smith's 
General Historic of Virginia, published in 
London in 1624. The collection also contains 
two copies of Thomas Jefferson's privately 
printed Notes on the State of Virginia (Paris, 
1782). English literature is well represented 
by a number of first editions. Noteworthy 
items in this section are Spenser's Fairie 
Queen (London, 1590-96), Shakespeare's 
Poems (London, 1640), Milton's Paradise 
Lost (London, 1667), and one of the eleven 
recorded copies of Robert Browning's first 
publication, Pauline (London, 1833). 

It has been announced that the libraries of 
the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Insti-
tute of Technology, and the Carnegie Library 
of Pittsburgh have developed a cooperative 
program designed to avoid duplicate purchases 
of expensive materials and to make all of the 
collections available to college faculty mem-
bers, graduate students, and qualified research 
workers of the city. 

Under this new arrangement, Tech, Car-
negie Library, and Pitt will exchange file 
cards on books purchased in specialized fields. 
There will also be a division of purchasing in 
various fields. The University of Pittsburgh 
will assume primary responsibility for acquir-
ing research materials in the humanities, social 
studies, and biological sciences. Carnegie 
Tech and Carnegie Library will be responsible 
for materials in the physical sciences, engineer-
ing, and the fine arts. Periodical and serial 
publications will be listed in a union catalog 
which will also record material available in 
other educational, industrial, business, and 
special libraries in the area. 

The Channing Pollock Library at North-
eastern University was described in an earlier 
issue of this column. Originally devoted pri-
marily to the drama, this memorial to the 

late American dramatist is now being ex-
panded to include works in literature, biogra-
phy, and related liberal arts fields. 

Dr. J. T . C. Gernon of Chicago has pre-
sented to Northwestern University Library a 
collection of some sixty books, chiefly first 
editions of American and English writers. 
Included in the gift are early American novels 
by Charles F. Hoffman and J. K. Paulding. 
Hoffman's Grayslaer (1840) and Paulding's 
Tales of a Good Woman (1829) are repre-
sented. Other items are Thomas Nelson 
Page's In Ole Virginia (1887) and Margaret 
Deland's Old Chester Tales (1899). Among 
the books by English authors are William 
Combe's Tour of Doctor Syntax (1813) with 
colored illustrations by Rowlandson; J. M . 
Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy ( 1 8 9 6 ) ; and first 
editions of works by Conan Doyle, Kaye-
Smith, and Somerset Maugham. All of the 
books are reported to be in mint condition. 

The University of Virginia Library has 
received the personal and official papers of the 
late Carter Glass, senator from Virginia. It 
is estimated that the collection contains nearly 
a quarter of a million items. It is rich in 
material relating to the creation of the Fed-
eral Reserve System and on many other 
aspects of state and national affairs in the 
first third of the twentieth century. 

The Law Library at the University of Vir-
ginia has acquired a private collection of 
approximately 5000 volumes on industrial re-
lations formerly the property of William Jett 
Lauck of Washington. 

A department of library 
(jommittees, science has been established in 
Conferences, the College of Arts and 
Curricula Sciences at West Virginia 

University. Hitherto it has 
been a department in name only with the 
librarian acting as head of the department and 
with instructors drawn from the staff of the 
library. Florence K. Reese, Columbia, 1932, 
has been appointed head of the department 
with the title assistant professor of library 
science. 

Robert B. Downs, director, School of Li-
brary Science, University of Illinois, and Ken-
neth R. Shaffer, director, School of Library 

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Science, Simmons College, have been named 
co-chairmen of a national conference on li-
brary education, according to Betty Joy Cole, 
chairman of the Council of National Library 
Associations. The conference will be spon-
sored by the council, and has been made pos-
sible by a recent grant of funds from the 
Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Scheduled for late October or early N o -
vember 1948, the conference on library educa-
tion will employ special techniques developed 
in the Princeton University Conference on 
International, Educational, Scientific, and 
Cultural Exchange, which met in November 
1946, and which was reported in a volume 
recently published by the American Library 
Association. Twelve major issues confronting 
library education will be considered by a 
panel of thirty distinguished specialists, toward 
the end of suggesting policies, and pointing 
out responsibilities in an effort to stabilize the 
training field. A limited number of observers 
may also be invited to attend. 

Williams College recently commemorated 
the twenty-fifth anniversary of its Chapin Li-
brary with a special exhibition titled 
"Shakespeare and His Age." The exhibition 
emphasized the early editions of the plays of 
Shakespeare, the sources from which he drew 
his plots, and the influences which affected the 
form and structure of his comedies, histories, 
and tragedies. Many of the books displayed 
were published during Shakespeare's lifetime 
and illustrated the social and cultural interests 
of the Elizabethans. 

During the spring Yale University Library 
offered an exhibition of famous American 
books. The Jared Eliot Associates, a student 
organization affiliated with the Yale Library, 
arranged this exhibition of the most widely 
circulated American literary pieces from 1640 
to the present. The books were gathered 
from the various collections at Yale, from 
students' libraries, and business and industrial 
groups whose vast amounts of published ma-
terials place them among the leaders in the 
publishing field. The exhibit consisted of a 
majority of the books printed in the United 
States since 1640 whose total sales have been 
equal to one per cent of the population in the 
decade in which they were published. Repre-
sented were James Fenimore Cooper's original 
copy of The Last of the Mohicans; several of 
Mark Twain's first manuscripts, and original 

works of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Present 
also were one of the eleven existing copies of 
the Bay Psalm Book; the first edition of The 
Book of Mormon, now one of America's 
rarest books; the first edition of the Life of 
Joseph Smith and other books on the M o r -
mons. Inclusion of the Boy Scout Manual; 
the McGuffey Reader; the Sears Roebuck 
Catalog; Wendell Willkie's One World; 
Douglas' The Robe; See Here, Private Har-
grove; Earl Stanley Gardner's Case of the 
Lucky Legs and the "Kinsey Report" empha-
sized the diversity of popular taste over the 
years. 

The late Paul Rosenfeld, graduate of Yale, 
author, editor, and critic was honored with a 
memorial exhibit at Yale recently. Among 
the interesting items included in the exhibit 
were the unpublished manuscript of a Rosen-
feld novel; first editions of his published 
works; Jerome Melquist's Paul Rosenfeld, 
Voyager in the Arts, and manuscripts and 
letters of Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, 
John Marin, the painter; Marianne Moore, 
Edna Bryner, Lewis Mumford, and others. 

The Third Annual Confer-
Canadian ence of the Canadian Library 
Conference Association—Association Can-

dienne des Bibliotheques, was 
held in Ottawa at the Chateau Laurier Hotel, 
June 6-10. Registrations numbered 517, in-
cluding delegates from every province of 
Canada and some from the United States. 
General sessions were presided over by the 
president, Dr. W m . Kaye Lamb. Special 
guests and speakers included the Hon. Colin 
Gibson, Secretary of State of Canada; the 
Very Rev. Jean-Charles Laframboise, rector, 
University of Ottawa; the Hon. James H . 
King, Speaker of the Senate; Robert Lester, 
secretary, Carnegie Corporation of New 
Y o r k ; Margaret C. Scoggin, New York 
Public Library; and Angus S. Macdonald of 
Orange, Va. 

The United States Tariff 
Publications Commission has cooperated 

with the Bureau of Customs 
in the preparation of a report showing all im-
port duties of the United States in effect as of 
June 15, 1948. The published document, en-
titled United States Import Duties (1948), 
contains a restatement in tabular form of all of 

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the duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 
with the original language and rates appropri-
ately modified to show the current duties where 
they differ from those in the Tariff Act of 1930. 
Included also in tabular form is a list of prod-
ucts subject to import taxes under the In-
ternal Revenue Code. This publication offers 
the only single source of information regard-
ing the present tariff status of all products 
imported into the United States. Copies may 
be purchased from the Superintendent of 
Documents, Government Printing Office, 
Washington 25, D.C., at $2 a copy. 

The Library of Congress has issued in 
mimeographed form the "Proceedings of the 
Assembly of Librarians of the Americas, 
May 12 to June 6, 1947." The 313-page re-
port includes addresses presented at the gen-
eral and special sessions, reports of committees 
and seminars, and resolutions adopted by the 
assembly. 

Alfred H. Meyer, professor, Valparaiso 
University, is the author of " A Geographic 
Classification of Geography Material as 
Based upon the Dewey Classification System," 
in the Annals of the Association of American 
Geographers, December 1947. 

George M . Gloss, of the faculty of the 
University of Maryland, has prepared "Short 
Cuts to Finding and Organizing Research 
Problems in Health, Physical Education, and 
Recreation through the Use of Library M a -
terials." Copies of this mimeographed publi-
cation may be obtained from the author at $1 
each, 2121 Virginia Ave., N.W., Washington, 
D.C. 

The Bibliographical Society of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, c / o University of Virginia 
Library, Charlottesville, has issued "Norfolk 
Copyright Entries, 1837, 1851-53, 1856-57, 
1858-59, 1864, 1866-71." The materials have 
been transcribed by Barbara Harris, and notes 
have been added by John Cook Wyllie. 

The 1947 Annual Report of the Princeton 
University Library contains, in addition to the 
customary record of the work of the year, 
some general observations on the growth and 
practices of the library during the past two 
centuries and an account of the more im-
portant activities of the library during the 
war years. University librarians will be 
interested in this unusual report by Dr. Julian 
P. Boyd. 

Rose Z. Sellers is the editor of Clue to the 

Resources and Services of the Brooklyn Col-
lege Library, an illustrated booklet issued 
recently. 

ASLIB is the publisher of Catalogue of 
Medical Films, compiled by the Royal Society 
of Medicine and the Scientific Film Associa-
tion. The price of this catalog is 7s. 6d. 
Copies may be obtained by writing to ASLIB, 
52 Bloomsbury St., London, W . C . I. 

The Commission on European Jewish Cul-
tural Reconstruction, affiliated with Confer-
ence on Jewish Relations, New York, has 
issued "Addenda and Corrigenda to Tenta-
tive List of Jewish Cultural Treasures in 
Axis-Occupied Countries," as a supplement to 
Jewish Social Studies, vol. X , no. I, 1948. 

The Northwestern University Library has 
issued a mimeographed "Report on the Sur-
vey of the Rare Book Collection," by William 
A. Jackson. 

Bulletin 1947, no. 12, of the Office of Edu-
cation is Public Library Statistics, IQ44-45. 
The bulletin was prepared by Willard O. 
Mishoff and Emery M . Foster. 

Documentreproductie is the official organ 
of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Docu-
mentreproductie. The editor is C. J. J. G. 
Vosmaer. 

Teachers college librarians will be inter-
ested in Better Teaching through the Use of 
Current Materials. This is a report on an 
eighteen-month study in English, science, and 
social science classes by the California Coun-
cil on Improvement in Instruction, June 1946-
June 1947. The report was prepared by 
Lucien Kinney and Reginald Bell, of the Stan-
ford University School of Education. 

Velma Shaffer is editor of the "South-
eastern Conference on Library Education, 
Feb. 29-Mar. 6, 1948" at Atlanta, Ga. The 
49-page mimeographed report includes ad-
dresses, committee reports, and papers by 
consultants. 

Donald E. Strout is editor of the "Associa-
tion of American Library Schools News-
letter." The first number was issued in June 
1948, and contains " A Summary of Programs 
in Library Education in Accredited American 
Library Schools." Other members of the 
Publications Committee include Cecil J. M c -
Hale, Gladys R. Boughton, and Leon Car-
novsky. 

The Hawaii Library Association is pub-
lishing a union list of serial holdings in 22 

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libraries in Hawaii. Serials of worldwide 
scope are included with special emphasis on 
Hawaiiana, ethnology, and natural history of 
the Pacific area, sugar and pineapple culture, 
and tropical agriculture. The volume will 
contain approximately 255 pages (litho-
printed) and will sell for $6. Advance orders 
may be placed with John B. McClurkin, 
chairman, Union List Committee, P.O. Box 
3916, Honolulu 12, T . H . 

M o r e than 90 references on changes and 
experiments in college and university cur-
riculums are listed in an annotated bibliog-
raphy released during the spring by the Office 
of Education, Federal Security Agency. En-
titled "Innovations in Curriculum Organi-
zation and Instructional Methods in Colleges 
and Universities," it is the first compilation 
of this kind that has been issued since 1932. 
The bibliography (Circular No. 240, April 
1948) was prepared by Elizabeth N. Layton, 
Higher Education Division, Office of Educa-
tion, Federal Security Agency. Copies are 
available from Information and Publications 
Service, Office of Education, Federal Security 
Agency, Washington 25, D.C. 

A union list of scientific and technical pe-
riodicals in the libraries of greater Cincinnati 
was published in May. It lists the holdings of 
58 public and industrial libraries and contains 
3200 titles and more than 10,000 entries. The 
Cincinnati libraries are particularly strong in 
chemistry, medicine, and engineering. This 
guide was issued under the sponsorship of the 
Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical 
Society. It consists of 127 double column 
pages, lithoprinted, and is bound in paper. It 
is being sold at cost. The editor was Bernard 
Gessiness, Department of Chemistry, Univer-
sity of Cincinnati. Address all orders and 
inquiries to Dr. R. E. Oesper, Department of 
Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincin-
nati 21, Ohio. 

A definitive bibliography of American auto-
biographies is being compiled jointly by Daniel 
C. Haskell of the New York Public Library 
and Louis Kaplan of the University of Wis-
consin Library. 

The new edition of The Language of 
World War II, published by H. W . Wilson 
Company, and priced at $3, is a greatly en-

larged version of the first edition wThich ap-
peared in 1944. In addition to defining, it 
traces the origin and cites sources of war-
created words and phrases, slang, nicknames, 
slogans, poster captions, initialed organiza-
tions, etc. It also includes a list of several 
hundred songs. 

The first number of "Cooperative Notes," 
a mimeographed newsletter edited by Willis 
Kerr and issued by the libraries of the Asso-
ciated Colleges at Claremont, Calif., for the 
Committee on Regional Cooperation, South-
ern District of California Library Associa-
tion, appeared on June 10. "Cooperative 
Notes" is intended to serve as "an occasional 
record for libraries of Southern California 
concerning bookbuying, important acquisitions, 
and trends in regional planning of book 
resources." 

"Books at Claremont," the first issue of 
which appeared on June 1, is another mimeo-
graphed newsletter issued by the libraries of 
the Associated Colleges at Claremont. This 
publication will list the more significant recent 
acquisitions of these associated libraries. 

The National Council of Business Schools 
announces the availability of the following 
handbooks for administrators and guidance 
instructors: Technical Handbook—A Direc-
tory of Approved Technical Institutes in the 
U.S.; Directory of Approved Private Business 
Schools; Home Study Blue Book—A Direc-
tory of Approved Correspondence Schools. 
These guidebooks may be acquired by request-
ing them from the National Council, 839 
Seventheenth St., N.W., Washington 6, 
D.C. 

A General Index to First Fifteen Annual 
Reports on Historical Collections, University 
of Virginia Library, 1931-1945 was published 
by the University of Virginia Press in June. 
Edited by Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., curator of 
manuscripts, it runs to 144 pages and con-
tains an appreciation of the archival work of 
Dr. Lester J. Cappon, signed by Harry 
Clemens, librarian. 

" H o w to Use the Library: A Syllabus for 
Six Lessons," has been issued by the library of 
State Teachers College, Farmville, Va. Dr. 
Beverley Ruffin, librarian, and her staff con-
duct classes in the use of the library. 

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