College and Research Libraries


Personnel 

C ECIL JoHN McHALE, professor of library science at the University of Michigan, 
died suddenly on November 2nd from an at-
tack of coronary thrombosis. He was stricken 
while addressing the Ann Arbor Woman's 
Club in the Michigan League, Ann Arbor. 
His passing, at the height of his career, takes 
a valued and· able man from the ranks of li-
brary school teachers. 

Born in Minneapolis in 1899, Professor 
McHale attended the public schools of that 
city, and later the University of Minnesota 
and Carleton College from which he was 
graduated in 1922. Graduate study at Har-
vard led to the degree of Master of Arts in 
1925. He was then appointed to the faculty 
of the University of Arkansas, where he was 
instructor in English from 1925-28. During 
this time he decided to enter the library pro-
fession and in the summer of 1927 began his 
formal study of library science in the newly-
established department at the University of 
Michigan. He completed the first-year courses 
in June 1929, receiving the A.B.L.S. degree. 

His first major professional library appoint-
ment was at the University of North Carolina 
where he was head of the circulation depart-
ment from 1929-193L This was followed by 
seven years in public library work in Wash-
ington, D.C. where he began his first teaching 
of library science on a part-time appointment 
at the Library School of the Catholic Univer-
sity of America in 1937. 

Mr. McHale joined the University of 
Michigan faculty in 1938 as an assistant pro-
fessor of library science, was promoted in 
1941 to the rank of associate professor, and in 
June 1948 to a full professorship. In 1943-44, 
during the ~bsence of Professor Gjelsness in 
Mexico, he served as acting chairman of the 
department. 

He was an effective agent in promoting bet-
ter libraries and developing better librarians. 
He brought to his teaching sound practical 
knowledge of the procedures of public libraries 
coupled with breadth of vision and vigorous 
faith in the public library's significance in 
community life. He was a successful and 
gifted teacher, exerting a strong and helpful 
influence on the careers of his students, many 
of whom returned to him in after years for 

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Cecil John McHale 

the counsel which was so freely given. He 
was keenly interested in all aspects of public 
library service, kept in close touch with de-
velopments in the field and enriched his teach-
ing through the friendly and helpful contacts 
he maintained with the librarians in the state. 
He served as consultant to various public li-
brary boards and made surveys of a number 
of public libraries in Michigan, including that 
of the Lansing Public Library which was 
published in 1943· At the time of his death 
he was directing a survey of the public li-
braries of Bay City.-Rudolph Gjelsness. 

D
ONALD E. THOMPSON, director of li-
braries at Mississippi State College 

since Sept. I, 1948, received his under-
graduate instruction at Iowa State College 
and was recruited for the profession by the 
librarians of that institution. From this 
beginning at a library which has always given 
primary emphasis to high standards of public 
service and has displayed a noteworthy devo-
tion to the needs of research, Mr. Thompson 
has carried forward the concepts learned as 
an apprentice, adjusted them to new situa-
tions in two other scholarly libraries, and 
now carries them to a land-grant college 
which has high ambitions for leadership. 

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Donald E. Thompson 

Mr. Thompson went from Iowa State to 
the University of Illinois Library School, 
where he received his B.S. in L.S. in 1937. 
During service in Temple University's busi-
ness library from 1937 through 1940, he ap-
plied himself to a curriculum leading to a 
master's degree in economics and was 
awarded his diploma in 1942. In 1940 he 
was appointed research bibliographer and 
business librarian at the University of Ala-
bama, and during the war years, 1942-1944, 
he served as acting director. For the last 
four years he has held the post of assistant 
director of libraries at Alabama. 

During 1940-1942 the University of Ala-
bama Libraries conducted an exemplary self-
survey initiated by John Cory when he was 
the director. Mr. Thompson an<llyzed the 
results and published a summary in College 
and Research Libraries in April 1947. 
Special attention was given to the condition 
of book and periodical holdings. The re-
markable surge forward of the University of 
Alabama Libraries to the front rank of re-
search collections in the Deep South is due 
in no small measure to the background data 
available to the library staff as a result of 
this survey. 

Bibliographer as well, Mr. Thompson is 
the compiler of the Bibliography of Louisiana 
Books and Pamphlets in the T. P. Thompson 
Collection (1947), an outstanding library of 
books and pamphlets on the history of Louisi-

ana and now in the University of Alabama 
Library. The accuracy and good judgment 
of the compiler has attracted favorable com-
ment from several reviewers. 

To the Mississippi State College Mr. 
Thompson carries a breadth that will stand 
him in good stead during a critical period in 
the development of that college's library. In 
early 1949 construction will begin on a long 
and sorely needed library building, and to 
satisfy the future needs of a rapidly expand-
ing institution will call for the superior com-
petence that is assured by the new director's 
training and experience. Perhaps most im-
portant of all is the devotion that Donald 
Thompson commands from his fellow work-
ers. In the broad domain of the Deep South 
one must search long to find his equal in fos-
tering the humane tradition of librarianship. 
-Lawrence S. Thompson. 

D. R. GASTON LITTON has recently been appointed archivist of the division of 
manuscripts of the University of Oklahoma 
Library. The objectives of this new division 
are twofold: to preserve the university's own 
records of experience-materials which re-
flect the work of the several colleges and 
schools; to collect materials of regional in-
terest and of enduring historical value. 

Dr. Litton's library career began at the 
University of Oklahoma where he served on 
the staff of the library and secured his li-
brary science and M.A. degrees. Later he 
received the Ph.D. degree from Georgetown 
University. His experience since graduation 
has fitted him for his new job. For about 
a year he was engaged in the collection and 
copying, for the University of Oklahoma's 
Department of History, of significant orig-
inal materials concerning the Five Civilized 
Tribes. Next he was appointed to the staff 
of the newly created National Archives, 
where he served in a number of capacities. 
He was granted leave from the National 
Archives to undertake the reorganization of 
the library of the National University of 
Panama, and the organization of a library 
school there. This assignment led to others 
in Latin America. 

Dr. Litton, Professor William A. Jackson, 
and Dr. Harvie Branscomb were selected by 
the American Library Association, at the 
request of the Brazilian Minister of Educa-

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tion, to develop plans for the reorganization 
of the Brazilian National Library. After 
the completion of this assignment, Dr. Litton 
assumed the directorship of the American 
Library at Managua, Nicaragua, where he 
spent two years. 

Dr. Litton has made occasional contribu-
tions to professional library and historical 
journals and is the co-author, with Dr. Ed-
ward E. Dale, of Cherokee Cavaliers·. 

The program for preservation of materials 
on the past is new and novel in Oklahoma. 
Dr. Litton seems to be the ideal person, both 
by training and experience, for the task.-
]. L. Rader. 

D R. JoHN EwART WALLACE STERLING has been director of the Henry E. Hunting-
ton Library and Art Gallery since July I, 
I948. He is the second such officer in the 
history of that distinguished institution, suc-
ceeding to a post left vacant since June 30, 
I94I, by the retirement of the late Dr. Max 
Farrand. 

At the beginning of the next academic year, 
September I949, Dr. Sterling will leave the 
Huntington Library to assume the presidency 
of Stanford University, where he will succeed 
the late Donald Bertrand Tresidder, who died 
suddenly on Jan. 28, I948. 

Born in Linwood, Ontario, in I906, Dr. 
Sterling completed his naturalization as a 
citizen of the United States in I947· He 
received his Bachelor of Arts degree from 
the University of Toronto in I927 and his 
Master of Arts degree from the University 
of Alberta in I930. He holds his doctorate 
from Stanford University, where from I932 
to I937 he was a member of the Research 
Staff of the Hoover Library on War, Revo-
lution and Peace. Since then he has served 
on the faculty of the California Institute of 
Technology in Pasadena, California, becom-

. ing a full professor in I942 and occupying the 
post of Edward S. Harkness Professor of 
History and Government. 

DR. WILLIAM A. FITZGERALD, formerly li-brarian of the St. Louis University 
School of Medicine, has become director of 
the Peabody Library School. Dr. FitzGerald 
also held the research chair in medical his-
tory at St. Louis University and was a special 
lecturer in the Department of Library 

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]. E. Wallace Sterling 

Science at Washington University. 
A former professor of library science at 

Villanova College, Dr. FitzGerald has had 
a broad experience in teaching and librarian-
ship on secondary school and university 
levels. For a number of years he taught in 
the Brooklyn Preparatory School, later be-
coming librarian of Stuyvesant Evening High 
School. In I942 he was an instructor in 
library science at St. John's University, 
Brooklyn. 

Dr. FitzGerald holds undergraduate and 
master's degrees from Boston College, a B.S. 
degree from the School of Library Service of 
Columbia University, and a Ph.D. degree 
from Fordham University . . He is the author 
of numerous articles and library publications. 

Dr. FitzGerald succeeded Felix C. Robb, 
assistant to the president, who has served as 
acting director of the library school since 
June I947· 

FREDERICK G. KILGOUR, deputy director of the Office of Intelligence Collection and 
Dissemination, Department of State, has been 
appointed librarian of the Yale School of 
Medicine. Mr. Kilgour, who assumed his 
duties on October I, holds the rank of asso-
ciate professor. Both the historical and gen-
eral libraries, which in the past have func- • 
tioned separately, are now under his direction. 

Mr. Kilgour received the B.A. degree from 
Harvard College in 1935 and was a candi-

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date for the B.S. degree in the Columbia 
University School of Library Service during 
the summers 1939 through 1941. Mr. Kil-
gour served at the Harvard University Li-
brary from 1935 until 1942 in the capacities 
of assistant in circulation, reference assistant, 
general assistant and chief of the circulation 
division. 

From 1942 until 1945 he was executive 
secretary of the Interdepartmental Com-
mittee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publica-
tions of the Office of Strategic Services in 
Washington, D.C. 

T HOMAS P. FLEMING has been appointed librarian of the Biological Sciences Li-
braries and professor on the faculty of the 
School of Library Service of Columbia U ni-
versity. In addition to his membership on 
the faculty of the School of Library Service, 
he has a seat on the faculty of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. His teaching will 
be in the field of scientific bibliography. 

On the staff of the libraries he will ad-
minister the library of the College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons, where he will be the 
resident librarian, and the psychology, 
zoology and geology libraries. Mr. Fleming 
has since 1944 been assistant director of li-
braries, in charge of building the collections 
and of promoting service to readers. 

ARTHUR B. BERTHOLD is now chief of the 
~ bibliography branch of the division of 
libraries and reference services, Department 
of State. Mr. Berthold came to the depart-
ment from the University of Chicago Library, 
where for the P.ast three years he held the 
position of chief of the preparations division. 
During the war years he was on the staff of 
the Office of Strategic Services. From 1936 
to 1942 he held the position of associate 
director and bibliographer, Philadelphia 
Bibliographical Center and Union Library 
Catalogue. 

A sketch of Mr. Berthold appeared in the 
January 1946 issue of Colleg e and R esearch 
Libraries. Recently he has been selected 
editor of the forthcoming journal of the 
Division of Cataloging and Classification of 
the A.L.A. 

T HE UNITED NATIONS has announced the appointment of Dr. Rubens Borba de 
Moraes, distinguished Brazilian librarian, as 

chief of the processing section of the Di-
vision of Library Services. He will also 
serve as acting deputy director. 

Dr. Borba was until recently director of 
the National Library at Rio de Janeiro. 
He is the founder of the leading school for 
librarians in South America, at Sa o Paulo, 
and was for several years director of the 
modern public library system in that city. 

Stanley E. Gwynn 

T HE CIRCULATION and reference services of the general and departmental libraries 
of the University of Chicago are under the 
supervision of Stanley E. Gwynn, who was re-
cently appointed chief of the Readers' Serv-
ices Division. 

Mr. Gwynn began his library career as a 
page at the Newberry Library in Chicago. 
He received his B.A. from Northwestern U ni-
versity in 1935 , and , after an additional yeat 
of teaching and graduate work as a tutorial 
fellow in English literature, went to the N a-
tiona! Safety Council as a reference librarian. 
In 1937 he joined the professional staff of 
the Newberry Library, and remained there 
until 1943 as a reference librarian specializing 
in reference work and book selection in Eng-
lish and American literature. During the war, 
Mr. Gwynn maintained a part-time connec-
tion with Newberry, but was primarily en-
gaged in testing bomber engines, in training 
engine test operators, and in the preparation 
of engineering test reports for the Buick Mo-
tors Division o General Motors .. 

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In the fall of 1945 he entered the Graduate 
Library School. Shortly thereafter, he be-
came assistant to the director of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Library and served in that 
capacity until October, 1946 when he was 
appointed college librarian and instructor in 
the humanities in the college. He resigned 
this double appointment to assume his present 
position with the university library. 

Mr. Gwynn is continuing his studies in 
the Graduate Library School, and is currently 
serving as chairman of the College and Re-
search Library Section of the Illinois Library 
Association. He has contributed essays and 
articles to a number of general and profes-
sional publications. 

JOHN M. DAWSON was appointed chief of the Preparations Division, University of 
Chicago Library on July 16, 1948, succeed-

ing Arthur B. Berthold, who has accepted an 
appointment in the State Department in 
Washington, D.C. As chief of the central 
preparations division, Mr. Dawson will have 
the responsibility for directing the library's 
operations in connection with acquisition, cata-
loging, classification and binding for the uni-
versity library system which is composed of 
Harper Library and more than twenty special 
or departmental libraries. · 

Mr. Dawson was born in Scotland, and 
came to this country in 1926. He received 
his B.A. from Tulane University in 1940 and 
his B.S. in L.S. from Louisiana State U ni-
versity in 1941. While at Tulane he was 

John M. Dawson 

elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Beta M u, 
honorary biological fraternity. He was busi-
ness manager of the University of Alabama 
Library, 1941-42, resigning to enter the Army. 
His Army service included two and a half 
years in the Aleutian Islands as an officer in 
the Transportation Corps. Upon his release 
from the army in 1945, he was appointed 
assistant librarian ~f Tulane University. 

Mr. Dawson left Tulane to study at the 
Graduate Library School in 1947-48 as a fel-
low of the General Education Board and of 
the Graduate Library School. J:Ie is continu -
ing his work toward the doctorate. 

Appointments 
Dr. Solon ]. Buck has been appointed 

chief of the division of manuscripts and oc-
cupant of the chair of American history in 
the Library of Congress. He was formerly 
Archivist of the United States. 

Seymour Lubetzky has been confirmed as 
chief of the catalog maintenance division of 
the Library of Congress. He has been acting 
chief of this division since its establishment 
in October 1946. 

Paul B. Kebabian, who left his position as 
supervisor of exchanges of the Yale U ni-
versity Library to complete his professional 
training at Columbia, is now assistant to the 
chief of the preparation division of the Refer-
ence Department of the New York Public 
Library. 

JANUARYJ 1949 

Margaret G. Cook, formerly librarian of 
the New Jersey State Teachers College at 
Montclair, has been appointed associate pro-
fessor at the Drexel Institute School of Li-
brary Science. She succeeds Dr. Jeannette 
H. Foster who is now librarian and bibliog-
rapher of the Institute for Sex Research, 
Indiana University. 

Gerhard B. N aeseth, associate librarian at 
Oklahoma A. and M. College, has been ap-
pointed associate director in charge of tech-
nical services of the University of Wisconsin 
Library. Franklyn F. Bright, formerly 
order librarian at Brown University, is as-
sistant liararian in charge of acquisitions. 
Maurice Leon, formerly of the Wisconsin 
Law Library, has been named foreign docu-

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ments librarian of the university. Mrs. 
Dorothy Randall Skuldt, librarian of the 
Wisconsin State Planning Board, has been 
appointed librarian of the open shelf room of 
the future university library. Gordon C. 
Abrams, reference librarian of Dartmouth 
College, is the new assistant to the order 
librarian. 

Fred B. Oxtoby, cataloger at the Uni-
versity of Illinois Library, has been ap-
pointed head cataloger and classifier in the 
library of Illinois Institute of Technology, 
Chicago. 

Mrs. Madeline Cord Thompso~ has been 
given a year's leave of absence from the Li-
brary of Congress to act as chief reference 
librarian of Brooklyn College during the 
1 ave of Ruth M. Erlandson, who is studying 
in Sweden on a Gustav V Fellowship. 

Vella Jane Burch, recently head of the 
cataloging department of the Georgia Insti-
tute of Technology, has become catalog li-
brarian of the Southwest Baptist Theological 
Seminary, Fort Worth. Rev. Charles P. 
Johnson has been appointed reference li-
brarian of the same institution. 

Ruth M. Cameron has been appointed 
librarian and coordinator of the recently-
established audio-visual bureau of Brooklyn 
College. 

Joseph S. Komidar has been appointed 
reference librarian in Deering Library of 
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 
succeeding Eleanor F. Lewis, who retired in 
August. 

Harald Ostvold has left the staff of the 
Northwestern University Library to become 
chief of the reference department of Wash-
ington University, St. Louis. Grace Swift is 
now chief of the catalog department and 
Frances Saupe, of the Oklahoma A. and M. 
College Library staff, has become assistant 
chief of the department. ·Elizabeth Ringger 
has been named music librarian. 

Hubbard W. Ballou, for the past year in 
charge of the photographic processes at the 
University of Illinois Library, Urbana, has 
become head of the photographic services in 
the Columbia University Libraries . 

Harriette W. Shelton is now chemistry li-
brarian at Cornell University. 

Lemuel L. Tucker is now research li-
brarian for the department of social sciences 
of Fisk University, Nashville. 

Edward F. Ellis, for fifteen years in the 
reference department of the Buffalo Public 
Library, has gone to the Lockwood Mem-
orial Library of the University of Buffalo 
as circulation director and reference librari-
an. 

Charles Rothe, formerly librarian of 
Southwestern University, Georgetown , Tex. , 
has gone to Brooklyn College as education 
librarian. 

Edward Starr is librarian of Crozer Theo-
logical Seminary, Chester, Pa. From 1935 
to 1948 Mr. Starr was curator of the Samuel 
Colgate Baptist Historical Collection at Col-
gate University. 

Ruby Ethel Cundiff left the library school 
of the George Peabody College for Teachers, 
Nashville, where she had been associate pro-
fessor, to go to Madison College , Harrison-
burg, V a., as professor of library science. 

Emil Greenberg left the staff of Brooklyn 
College Library to become director of the 
teaching materials and audio-visual center 
in the teacher education program of the 
Colleges of the City of New York. 

Pauline A. Carleton, formerly cataloger 
at Amherst College Library, is head cataloger 
of the Ohio State University Law Library, 
Columbus. 

Gretchen De Witt, formerly on the ref-
erence staff of the Milwaukee Public Li-
brary, is head of circulation and reference 
at Bryn Mawr College. 

Jed H. Taylor has been appointed associ-
ate librarian of Suffolk University, Boston. 

Nathaniel Stewart is now assistant profes-
sor at the Pratt Institute Library School, 
Brooklyn. 

Ruben W eltsch , formerly reference librari-
an at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, has 
been appointed reference librarian of the 
Rice Institute Library, Houston, Tex. 

Sidney Mattis, who had been librarian of 
the Metropolitan Vocational High School, 
New York, since 1937 , is now education li-
brarian at Queens College, Flushing, N.Y. 

Kathleen Mathews , who has just com-
pleted a year of professional study at Colum-
bia, has been appointed librarian of Victoria 
College, Victoria , British Columbia. 

Joseph Yenish, also in residence at Co-
lumbia this past year, has been named li-
brarian of the Pollock Graduate Library, 

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Ne-w Members 

PERMANENT membership records have been kept only since 1946--so in this listing members joining during the period April 1-]uly 31, 1948, are called "new" if they did not belong 
in either 1946 or 1947. Because of various factors there may be an unusual degree of error 
in the listing of new members this year. We would appreciate your help in making our records 
accurate. So would you please notify N. Orwin Rush, Executive Secretary, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago II, of any corrections which should be made. New institutional members will appear 
in a later listing. 

Adamson, Josephine, U. S. Department of Agriculture 
Afflerbach, Lois Grimes, Columbia University_ 
Aguiar, Maria Teresa de, Casa de Portugal, New York 

City 
Albright, Harriet, Cook County, Wis., Nursing School 
Alldredge, Shirley Alice, University of Denver 
Allred, Lela, U. S. Dept. of , Agriculture, Lincoln, 

Neb. 
Anderson, LeMoyne, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Anderson, Phyllis Jane, Pan American World Airways, 

San Francisco 
Appich, Anna V., George Washington University 
Aronson, Eleanor J., Library of Congress 
Auth, Rev. Charles R., Dominican College 

Baehr, Betty B., University of Maryland 
Ba~~V. Frances N., State Teachers College, Geneseo, 

Ball, Avis Auld, University of 11linois 
Bariani, Geraldine D., Indiana University 
Barnes, Eugene Burdette, Jr., University of Oregon 
Barrett, Mary Ilaine, College of St. Elizabeth 
Barrett, Mrs. Mildred A., New Mexico College of 

Agriculture and Mechanical Arts 
Bartlett, Dorothy Wood, Central Intelligence Agency, 

Washington, D.C. 
Bartlett Hazel, Catholic University of America 
Bates, Margaret M., Syracuse, N.Y., Public Library 
Bauer, Mrs. Edna Storr, San Bernardino Valley College 
Beale, Mary Moore, Columbia University 
Beckwith, Frances Lorene, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

Milwaukee, Wis. 
Bejarano, Luis E., U. S. Merchant Marine Academy 
Benedict, Clara Louise, Rutgers University 
Berg, Lillian G., Portland, Ore., Art Museum 
Berger, Grace, Kansas <;;ity, Mo., Public Library 
Bibik, Frances Eleanor, New Hamp!)hire State Library 
Blackwell Mrs. Kathryn Dorothy, Macalester College 
Bloomfield, Wiiiie K. Tyson, St. Petersburg, Fla., Pub-

lic Library 
Bohlke, Mrs. Ada R., Altoona, Pa., Undergraduate 

Center 
Bonfiglio, Josephine M., New York Public Library 
Bonn, George S., Chicago, Ill. 
Bontemps, Arna, Fisk University 
Borden, Elizabeth C., University of Pennsylvania 
Boyles, Edythe Yvonne, University of Minnesota 
Bradford, Mrs. Anne Mayor, Northern Illinois State 

Teachers College 
Brockman, Wanda, Seattle Public Library 
Bronk, Isabelle, University of Pennsylvania 
Brothers, Ruth Annete, University of California at Los 

Angeles 
Brown, Ella A., Howard University 
Brown, Lee C., Pennsylvania Militar7 College 
Bruno, Catherine A., Junior College o Commerce, New 

Haven, Conn. 
Burdette, Eleanor Mary, Catholic University of America 
Burke, Eleanor, University of California, Berkeley 
Burrage, Frances, Howard Payne College 

Cahill, Alice M., Fort Monmouth, N .J., Post Library 
Camos, Katharine Payne, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. 
Campbell, Flora Thornton, Rutgers University 
Carmichael, Margaret, Dunbarton College 
Carmichael, Nancy Lee, John Muir College 
Carrier, Esther Jane, Pennsylvania State College 
Casey, Virginia Lee, Northw!!stern 1Jnivers'ity . 
Casley, Georgia E. L., Madtson, Wts., Free Ltbrary 
Chaires Grace Strickland, Maryland State Teachers Col-

lege, 'salisbury 
Chambers, Elizabeth, University of Louisville 

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Chance, Homer Roscoe, Ann Arbor Public Library 
Charles, Dorothy, H. W. Wilson Co., New York City 
Cheney, Edith, Temple University 
Chew, Mrs. Catharine T., Little Rock Public Library 
Christenson, Coral, Central National Bank of Cleve-

land 
Church, Isabelle J., Kansas City, Mo., Junior College 
Church, Mark L., Library_ of Congress 
Clark, Catherine, Middle Tennessee State College 
Clark, Elizabeth A., U. S. Merchant Marine Academy 
Clare, Sister Anna, College of St. Rose 
Close, Esther Vivian, New York State Institute of 

Agriculture 
Conbeer, Geraldine C., Pennsylvania State Teachers 

College, West Chester 
Cone, Gertrude E., New York State Teachers College, 

Plattsburgh 
Cooper, Mildred E .. Garden City, Kan., Public Library 
Corbin, Ruth May,' Louisiana State University 
Coughlin John Patrick

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Allegheny College 

Cowles, ''rosephine Mane,. University of Wichita . 
Crachi, Rocco, Tyndall Atr Force Base, Panama Ctty, 

Fla. 
Craig, Mary Brown, Indiana University 
Crenshaw, Frances Purla, University of Denver 
Cronce, Jean Betty, Princeton University 
Crouch, Evelyn Virginia, Southern Seminary and 

Junior College, Buena Vista, Va. 
Crowder, Dorothy Vernon, Berea College, Berea, K::r. 
Cuhel, Lois Mae, St. Paul, Minn. 
Cunkle, Elisabeth C., San Diego Public Library 
Currier Richard S., Bro-okline, Mass. 
Cutler, 'LeVern William, Stanford Research Institute 
Cutter, Fae C., Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Daniel Allen M., Howard University 
Danziger, Natalie, Queens College 
Dargan, Mary A., Br<!okha.ven Nation~! La~oratory 
Darling, Louise, Umverstty of Caltforma at Los 

Angeles . 
Davis, Florence Ruth, Pratt Institut~ 
Deal, Newton Harvey, Pennsylvama State Teachers 

College, Bloomsburg . 
Devlin Eleanor Ruth, University of Pennsylvama 
Dickis~n Raymond R. University of Florida 
Dobbs Vivian Lynn, Texas Technological College 
Dobso~ Elinor Mae. Dickinson College 
Dougla~s, Phyllis Marie; University of New Hamp· 

shire . . . S C 11 
Drain Mrs. Leonead ~<r West Vtrgmta tate o ege 
Duga~, Jane Angela, .Nichols Junior Col~ege . 
Dunn

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James Taylor, New York State Htstoncal As-

soctahon 

Earle, Virginia Build, University of Minne~ota . 
Eastwood, :Margaret Jane, Western Res~rve Ur.P-' erstty 
Eaton Orville University of Kansas Ctty, M ·1 . 
Eckert, Lillia~, Syracuse University . . 
Eden, Margaret Elizabeth, Wheaton ColJet~e Ltbrary, 

EJ!!~~is Naomi L., University of Florida 
Egan Aiice M., St. Peter's College 
Ehle;t Arnold D., Dallas Theological Seminary 
Engelkemeier, Arlene M., Lincoln, Neb., City_ Library 
English, Helen Dorothy, Ellsworth Center, Ptttsburgh 

13, Pa. 
Ernst Hilda Bertha, Mission House College 
Estep: Barbara, Walter Hervt;Y Ju~ior ~ollege . 
Estes, Opal Antoinette, Catholtc Umverstty of -Amenca 
Eury, William L., Appalachian State Teachers CollP.ge, 

Boone, N.C. 

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Farley, M rs. Mary M. Barksdale, Enoch Pratt Free 
Library 

Fawcett, Margaret E lizabeth, University of Colorado 
Fishburn, Frances Janet, Park College Library 
Fisher, Marie E., U. S. Patent Office 
Fleet

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Mary L., Industrial College of Armed Forces 

Floya, Patrice Elizabeth, Coalinga, Calif. 
Ford, Harriette, Central Missouri State College 
Foster, Edith Marjorie, San Jose State College 
Foulk, Mrs. Marian Morris, E. I. du Pont de Nemours 

& Co., Wilmington, Del. 
Frarey, Carlyle James, City College of New York 
Funk, Phyllis L., Fairmont, W.Va., State College 
Futterer, Susan 0., U. S. Office of Education 
Fybert, Carol ' Joyce., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Gaines, Abner J., New Jersey State Library 
Gatner, Elliott S. M.~.TLong Island University 
Gibson, Isabel Edith Houston 4, Tex. 
Gill, Odile C., Soutf1eastern Louisiana College 
Gillespie, Kate Menzies, University of Western Ontario 
Gleicbman, Dorothy C., Hagerstown, Md., Junior Col-

lege 
Gould, Jane, University of Denver 
Gowans, Martha B., Wayne University 
Guernsey, Marjorie Elizabeth, University of South 

Carolina 

Hammond, Dorothy, State Teachers College, Glassboro, 
N.J. 

Hanke, Lewis Ulysses , Library of Congress 
Hansen, Alveda L., Phoenix Public Library 
Hansen, Helen M., North Dakota State Teachers Col-

lege, Valley City 
Hansen, Irene M., Kansas State Teachers College, 

Emporia 
Hanchey, Mrs. Marguerite M ., Louisiana State Uni-

versity 
Hard, Mrs. Eleanor Knight, Colorado A & M College 
Harness, Robert B., University of Illinoi s, Chicago 

Undergraduate Division 
Harris, C. Vivian, Marietta, Ga., High School 
Harris, Mrs. Emma C., Mobile Public Library 
Harris, Virgie, Davis and Elkins College 
Harry, Ruth, Washington University 
Harvey, Kathleen, Teachers College Library, Auckland, 

New Zealand 
Harwell, Richard Barksdale, Emory University 
Hassell, Harold, Providence, R.I. 
Hatzfeld, Mrs. Herta, Catholic University of America 
Haykin, David Jud son, Library of Congress 
Haynes Geraldine, San Diego State College 
Heil, Grant Wallace, Ventura Junior College 
Hennessee, Don A., University of Southern California 
Hepburn, Dollie Booth, Columbia University 
Hepinstall, Frances G., New York State College for 

Teachers, Buffalo · 
Hersey, Rowene Elizabeth, Connecticut College 
Hertel, Robert R. , New York State Teachers College, 

Cortland . 
Hespen, Hugo, Library of Congress 
Hetzner, Bernice M., University of Nebraska College 

of Medicine 
Hilbers, Ida C., Oregon State College, Corvallis 
Hill, Mrs. Eunice R. Jon es, Prairie View A & M Col-

le ge 
Hill, Lawrence A., Howard University 
Hitchcock, Ruth, Harvard University 
Hoak, Maxine R., Oakland, Calif., Public Library 
Hoffman, Ellen Agnes, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

Madison, ' 'Vis. 
Holcombe, Alice Katharine, Taylor University 
Hoover, Mildred E., Grosvenor Library 
Hopper, Hazel W. Indiana State Library 
Horn, Rose Lou, 6ttawa University, Ottawa, Kan. 
Horton, Kathleen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
Howard, Esther Margaret, University of South Dakota 
Hruska, Emily M., Upjohn Pharmaceutical Library, 

Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Hudson, Julie, Princeton University 
Huggins, Minnie Morris, Univers ity of North Carolina 
Hugos, M. Evonne, Virginia State Library 
Hummel, Ray 0., Jr., University of Minnes ot:J. 
Humphrey, Mary Brown, State University of Iowa 
Hutchison, V. Vern, Bureau of Mines, Bartlesville, 

Okla. 

!den, Carroll S., Washington, D.C., Public Library 
Imelda, Sister M. Clare, St. Joseph's College 

Irwin, Mrs. Gertr ude Nash, Wayne University 
Ivins, Elizabeth H., Trenton Free Public Library 

Jaadan, Ruth M., University of Washington 
Jackson, Helen M., Columbia University 
Jackson, Marie H ., Oregon State College, Corvallis 
Jacowitz, Sophia Ruth, New York State Institute of 

Applied Arts & Sciences 
Jamieson, Sally Brewster, Geor ge Washington Uni-

versity 
Johnson, Elizabeth Anne, Library Associati n of Port-

land, Ore. 
Johnson, Kordillia Christeen, Augustana College 
Johnson, Wanda M., U. S. Dept. of Commerce 
Johnston, Laura L., Royal Oak, Mich., Public Library 
Jones, Elizabeth K., Milwaukee, Wis., State Teachers 

College 
Jones, Mrs . Marjorie B., Enoch Pratt Free Library 
Jones, Sarah Ann, National Bureau of Standards 
Jordahl, Anna J., Concordia College 
Jordan, Barbara A., Pennsylvania College for Women, 

Pittsburgh 

Kaiser, Mary Cooper, Seton Hall College 
Kauffman, Bernice, Lincoln, Neb., City Library 
Kaufmann, HelenS., Pan American Union 
Kearney-lrKathleen Ann, New York Public Library 
Keefe, Margaret J ., Kalamazoo Public Library 
Keltner, Mrs. Dorothy M., Iowa State College 
Kientzle, Frances A., Chicago, Ill. 
Kivi, Elsie K., Moorhea~ Minn., State Teachers College 
Kliewer, Mary, Tabor 1.-ollege 
Kniffen, Florence Elizabeth, Wilmington Institute Free 

Library 
Knowles, F. Olivia, George Peabody College for Teach-

ers 
Kristoffersen, Ruth M., Iowa State College 
Kuch, Mildred C., Army Medical Library, Washington, 

D.C. 

Lacy, Dan, Library of Congress 
Lamon, Sara Louise, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. 
Landers, Mrs. Margaret Moser, Louisiana State Uni-

versity 
Lane, Bernard B., Monsanto Chemical Co., 'VI' estern 

Division, Seattle, Wash. 
Large, Sarah E ., New York Public Library 
Lauman, Frances W., Cornell University 
Leach, Henry Goddard1 William Henry Schofield · Li-

brary, New York C1ty 
Lederer, Lenore Charlotte, West Virginia University 
Lemon, Gertrude, Kansas State Teachers College, Em-

poria 
Leonard, May Beach, Morristown, N.J., Library 
Leonard, A. Orin, Alabama Polytechnic Institute 
Leonard, William P., New York State Library 
Leslie, Philip, Brown Univer sity 
Lewin, Birdie M., Austin College 
Libby, Edith Margaret, Smith College 
Librecht, Richard, Library of Congress 
Liddell, Ann B., Louisiana State University 
Ligon, Arvy Freed, Pennsylvania State Teachers Col-

lege, Clarion 
Linder, Mrs. Lorene M., University of Chicago 
Logan, Mrs. Ida M ., Utah State Agric. College 
Lokke, Margaret Jean, University of Illinois 
Long, A. Katharine, Western Union Telegraph Co., 

New York City 
Long, Frank Raymond, Engineering Society Library, 

New York City 
Lopez, Maria R., Facultad Nal. de Minas, Medellin, 

Colombia 
Lundborg, Elsie M ., Pacific University 
Lynn, Clara Nell, F.lorida State University, Tallahassee 

McAfee, Ruth Peck, Lewis and Clark College 
McCarthy, Mrs . Imogene, Wilson Teachers College 
McCluer, Margaret, Medical College of Virginia 
MacCurdy, Helen Christine, Pacific University 
McCurry, Maude, University of New Hampshire 
McCusker, Lauretta G., Iowa State Teachers College, 

Cedar Falls 
McDermott, Francis X., Cathedral College 
McDonald, Marguerita, Montana State College 
McDonough, Catherine Agnes, University of Scranton 
McFarland, Helen M., Kansas State Historical Society 

Library 
Mackay, Dorothy M. E., Dalhousie University 
Mackey, Mrs. Leila, Trevecca College 

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Maddox, Georgia E., Louisiana College, Pineville 
Maddox, Mrs. Virginia S., University of Kansas 
Martin, Lydia Jane, Cleveland Public Library 
Mauseth, Viola I., A.L.A. International Relations Office 
Max, George D., New York Public Library 
Maxfield, Lillian, Campbell College 
Mayer, Gretel, Yale University 
Menefee, Betty Jane, Cincinnati Public Library 
Mercier, Hazel B., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
Mershon, Georgia Anne, University of Nevada 
Meyer, Betty Jane, Ohio State University 
Middleswart, Lilian Ellen, De Paul University 
Miller, Blanche, University of Arkansas 
Mitchell, Janice R., Wilson Coll~e 
Motley, Pearl C., Ferrum, Va., Junior College 
Mowery, Bob Lee, Dickinson College 
Mozley, Dorothy, Mutual Life Insurance Co., Spring-

field, Mass. 
Muse, Frances McDowell, Emory University 

Naille, Virginia Fitz, City College of New York 
Newlin, Lyman W., Minnesota Book Store, Minne-

apolis 
Nielsen, Roy Jas. M., Califoruia State Division of 

Mines San Francisco 
Noble, Leila Ackerman, Kent State University, Ohio 
Nollman, Gladys E., University of Minnesota 
Noon, Paul A. T., Jacksonville, Fla., Free Public 

Library 
Norton, Margaret C., Illinois State Library 
Norwood, Lillian, Texas \Vesleyan College 

O'Donnel_k Kathleen, Catholic University of America 
Olney, (Lora) Dorothy, College of Marin 
Orfanos, Minnie Anne, Northwestern University Dental 

School 
Orr, Jean, Cincinnati Public Library 

Pack, Cecelia, Wayne University 
Parker, Wixie E., Duke University 
Patten, Mrs. Sarah C., Louisburg College 
"!:>atterson, Donald G., Library of Congress 
Paxton, Evelyn, U. S. Dept. of Commerce 
Payne, Lena C .. Holton-Arms School and Junior College 
Peairs, Mary A., Northwestern State College, N atchi-

toches, La. 
Pearson, Ina (Stout), Idaho State College, Pocatello 
Peiss, Reuben, Department of State 
Perkins, M. Elizabeth, Brown University 
Peterson, Breta B., University of Chicago 
Phelps, Geraldine, University of Chicago 
Pickard, Annie A., University of orth Carolina 
Pope, Mrs . Mary Frances, University of Kentucky 
Prince, Mrs. Huberta A., The Army Library 
Profitt, L. Grace, Vassar College 
Putnam, Mrs. Harriet G., State College of Washington, 

Pullman 
Putney, Eleanor M., Library of Congress 

Randall, Augustus C., Wilberforce, Ohio, Carnegie 
Library 

Raymond, Kenneth L., Fenn College 
Redheffer, Adeline, Florida State University, Talla-

hassee 
Reed, Sarah Rebecca, University of Chicago 
Reid, Estell Maud, Wayne University 
Reynolds, Catharine Jane, Allegheny College 
Robinson, Elizabeth, Mississippi State College, State 

College 
Roehrenbeck, William Joseph, Fordham University 
Roof, Geraldine, DuPont Technical Library, Wilming-

ton, Del. 
Rothman, Fred B., Fred B. Rothman & Co., New York 

City 
Roudebush, Mrs. Ralph C., Goodwyn Institute Library 
Roush, Myrtle, Arkansas Polytechnic College 
Rowzee, Mrs. Gertrude, Hinds Junior College 
Rukavina, Katherine M., University Farm, St. Paul, 

Minn. 
Russell, Milton C., Virginia State Library 

Sadler, Floy H., Albertson Public Library, Orlando, 
Fla. 

St. Angela, Sister M., St. Joseph's College for Women 
Salmonsen

4
,Ella M., John Crerar Library, Chicago 

Sammon, lVlargaret, East Carolina Teachers College 
Sauer, Carl A., U. S. Department of State 
Schlinkert, Ray W. J., Library of Congress 
Schoettle, Emily J., Fisk University 

JANUARY, 1949 

Schulman, Sol S., Newspaper PM{ New York City 
Schut, Grace W., St. Peter's Co lege 
Sealander, Ruth B., University of Minnesota 
Seawell, Mary Robert, Woman's College, University 

of North Carolina 
Selland, Mrs. Cynthia, North Dakota Agriculture Col-

lege 
Sellman, Amy C., Baltimore City College 
Sexton, Meta Maria, University of Iliinois 
Shade, Mrs. Camille S., Southern University, Baton 

Rouge, La. 
Shaw, I. Bradford, Cornell University 
Sheffey, Margaret Louise, Enoch Pratt Free Library 
Sheffield, Duncan R. B., City College of New York 
Sherrill, Mrs. Josephine P., Livingstone College 
Shirafuji, Sumiko, Brooklyn College 
Shue, Violet E., University of California, Santa Bar-

bara 
Sillen, Robert Wesley, Andover N&wton Theological 

Library 
Simmons, Mildred, Lexington, Kentucky 
Simon, Fannie, McCall Corp., New York City 
Simpson, Davis Miller, University of South Carolina 
Sittler, Catharine Diener, Muhlenberg Library, Allen-
ww~ PL · 

Skinner, Julia O'Dell, University of South Carolina 
Skrobak, Clement S., City College of San Francisco 
Smallwood, Mrs. Nell Wright, U. S. Dept. of Agri-

culture 
Smith, Annabel L., Kansas State Colle~,~"e. Manhattan 
Smith, Anne Marie, Utah State Agncultural College 
Smith, George Eugene, Library of Congress 
Smith, John E., University of California at Los Angeles 
Smith, Lester W., National Archives Library 
Smith, Marie H., Brooklyn College 
Smith, Mary-Janeth, Bergen Junior College 
Smith, Mirian Sprague, Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 
Smith, Roberta Kathleen, University of Connecticut 
Snively, Mary Stauffer, Moravian College 
Snyder, Phyllis Mai, New York City 
Songe, Alice H., St. Genevieve of the Pines Junior 

College 
Spalding, Mary Louisa, University of Minnesota 
Spencer, Lee Bowe!J... Oklahoma Baptist University 
Spencer, Marjory L., Army Medical Library 
Staniland, Mrs. Julia L., Hall Laboratories, Pittsburgh, 

Pa. 
Stanley, Caroline H., U. S. Marine Corps Air Sta-

tion Library, El Toro, Santa Ana, Calif. 
Starr, Frances Margaret, Racine Public Library 
Stein, Elizabeth A., Bailey Meter Co., Cleveland, Ohio 
Stern, William B., Los Angeles County, Calif., Law 

Library 
Stevens, Dorothy E:.~. U. S. Geological Survey 
Stone, Mrs. Mary canada, Duke University 
Streun, Eleanor D., New York State College fo1· 

Teachers, Albany 
Summar, 1\Irs. Emma Waters, Union University, Jack-

son, Tenn. 
Summerell, Bessie Howard, Converse College 
Sunde, Myron D., Western Educational Supervisor, 

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Los Angeles 
Swan, Arthur E., General Beadle State Teachers Col-

lege, Madison, S.D. 
Swanson, ellie R.) North Dakota State Teachers Col-

lege, Minot 
Sweet, Mary Belle, University of Idaho 
Swenson, Lillian J., New Mexico College of Agricul-

ture 
Swindle, Mrs. Mary, North Texas State College, Den-

ton 
Symons, Dorothy Nellie, University of Kansas City, 

Mo. 

Tallman, Ella, Cleveland Museum of Art 
Tarver, Elizabeth, West Virginia University 
Taylor Willie Lee, Denton, Texas 
Thibodeaux, Dora Mae, McNeese Junior College 
Thorne, Julia Earll, Temple University 
Thurlow, Martha, University of Texas 
Todd, Jean Aston, Denver Public Library 
Tolman, Mason, George Washington University 
Torrance, Mary, Southern Literary Service, Decatur, 

Ga. 
Trimm ell, Thresa Marie (Somerville), Friends U ni-

versity 
Troutt, Virginia Kilgore, University of California, 

Berkeley 

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Tunison, Fay, Long Beach City College 
Tureman, Paulyne Robb, Army Medical Library 
Turnbull, Florence W., Engineering Library, Great 

Neck, N.Y. 

Uhlendorf~,Bernhard A., Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann 
Arbor, 1Vlich. 

Urban, Anna Mary, University of Maryland 

Vail, Robert W. G., New York Historical Society 
VanCamp, Mrs. Eliza, Sam Houston State Teachers 

College, Huntsville, Tex. 
Van Sciver, Ruth Leah, Asbury College 
Vaughan, Catherine 0., Kentucky State College, Frank-

fort 
Velazquez, Gonzalo, University of Puerto Rico 
Veronica, Sister Saint, Notre Dame College, Staten 

Island, N.Y. 
Vogt, Irene I., Dearborn Junior College 
Vormelker, Rose "L., Cleveland Public Library 

Waite, Wilma W., University of California, Berkeley 
Waldron, Mrs. Esther C., Los Angele City College 
Walker, Marella, Emory University 
·Walkley, Raymond L., Tufts College 
Walsh, Alice H. Skidmore College 
Walsh, Dorothy Mae, Temple University 
Walsh, Rev. William R., Fordham University 
Ward, Minnie Marsden, Western Maryland College 
Warner, Lelia Clare, University of Southern California 
Watson, Willard B. University of Arizona 
Webber, Ruth Gardner, Biggs Air Force Library, El 

Paso, Tex. 
Weber, David Carter, Harvard College 

Weber, Esther, Hesston College 
Weber, Kathryn Eileep..' University of Toronto 
Werner, Edward C., l'lew Mexico State Teachers Col- · 

lege, Silver City 
Whetsell, Mrs. Edna R., Indiana State Library 
White, Kate, University of Maryland 
Whitney, Edwinia, University of Connecticut 
Whitworth, Hazel M., Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, 

D.C. 
Wikre, Bertha J., Illinois State Library 
Williams, Dorothy G., New York Public Library 
Williams, Ollie Mae, Asbury Theological Seminary 
Willits, Helen Abbott San Francisco, Calif, 
Winston, Mary Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
Wolanin, Alphonse S., P.R.C.U. Archives and Museum, 

Chica_go 
Wolff, Emily Ann, Brooklyn College 
Wood, Shirley N., Columbia Bible College, S.C. 
Woodard, Mrs. Marie-Louise, Temple University 
Woods, Irma Mary, Iowa State Law Library 
Woodward, Mary Ellen, Carleton College 
Wright, Louis Booker, Folger Shakespeare Library, 

Washington, D.C. 

Yeckel, Kathryn L., Syracuse University 
Yenish, Joseph, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Youngs, Willard Oliver, Seattle Public Library 

Zeil, Elizabeth Theresa, White Plains, N.Y., Public 
Library 

Ziebell, Myrtle E., Pratt, Kan., Junior College 
Zwemer, Susanna P., Union Junior College, Cranford, 

N.J. 

Personnel 
(Continued from page 8o) 

Yeshiva University, New York City. 
Mary A. Sylvester has been appointed li-

brarian of Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth-
town, Pa. 

Charles Morgan is now head of the order 
department of the University of Miami. 

Mabel Bartlett, formerly head cataloger 
of the Osterhout Free Library, Wilkes-Barre 
Pa., resigned to become head of technical 
processes at Long Island University, Brook-
lyn. 

Foster E. Mohrhardt, associate in library 
service for the past year at the School of 
Library Service, Columbia University, went 
to Washington, D.C., as assistant director 
of the Library Service Division of the Vet-
erans Administration. 

Ruth Hammond, librarian of the Wichita, 
(Kan.,) Public Library, has joined the fac-
ulty of Oklahoma A. and M. College as 
assistant professor of library science. 

Eugene Holtman, head of the loan de-
partment of the Oklahoma A. and M. 
College Library, is now librarian of Bir-
mingham-Southern College. 

Margaret Gleason, formerly reference li-
brarian at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., is 
now chief reference librarian of the Wis-
consin Historical Society at Madis~m. Louise 
Smith, formerly cataloger and assistant to 
the librarian of the Beloit College Library, 
is now the acting director of libraries. 

1 oseph S. 1 ackson, formerly librarian of 
Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis., is now a 
member of the history department. Bergliot 
Stephenson is now acting librarian. 

1 oe Walker Kraus, librarian and professor 
of library science at 'Westminster College, 
Fulton, Mo., has been appointed assistant 
librarian of the Howard-Tilton Memorial 
Library at Tulane University. 

Gladys Cavanagh, school library adviser in 
the Madison, Wisconsin, Public Library, has 
accepted a position as instructor of library 
science in the University of Wisconsin Li-
brary School. 

Margaret Lee, former librarian of the 
School of Library Service, Columbia Uni-
versity, is the librarian of the 1 ersey City 
(N.J.) Teachers College. 

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New-s from the Field 
Two new . developments in the 

General field of communications were an-
nounced in the newspaper press 

on Oct. 22-23, 1948. The first was the 
demonstration of the "Ultrafax" at the Li-
brary of Congress, whereby in two minutes 
and twenty-one seconds, the text of Gone 
with the Wind-475,000 words on 1047 pages 
-was flashed page by page across the city of 
Washington by television and reproduced by 
high-speed photographic methods before an 
audience of several hundred persons. 

The second was a revolutionary process of 
inkless printing, known as "Xerography," and 
invented by Chester F. Carlson. Using only 
dry powders, and no wet chemicals or ink in 
the process, this addition to the graphic arts 
reproduces pictures and text at a speed of 
1200 feet a minute, on any kind of surface, 
within forty-five seconds after exposure of 
the photographed subject. It is reported that 
Mr. Carlson discovered the method while 
trying to find an inexpensive way to print his 
own manuscripts. 

Librarians throughout the country who 
have cooperated with the American Book 
Center for War Devastated Libraries, Inc., 
and who have made possible that organiza-
tion's shipment of a million and a quarter 
volumes to libraries overseas, may be inter-
ested to know of the establishment of the 
successor to the center, the United States 
Book Exchange, Inc. 

In addition to ten member associations of 
the Council of National Library Associations, 
the corporation also includes members from 
the American Councii of Learned Societies, 
the American Council on Education, the N a-
tiona! Research Council, the Social Science 
Research Council, the Library of Congress, 
and the Smithsonian Institution. The opera-
tions of the U.S.B.E. began September I 
under the directorship of Alice D. Ball, act-
ing executive director of the A.B.C. from De-
cember 1947 to September 1948. 

Under the operations of the new agency, 
any library in the United States may join, 
send in duplicates or institutional publications 
for credit, and receive foreign and domestic 
materials on exchange. U.S. libraries will 

JANUARY~ 1949 

be charged a nominal handling fee for each 
piece received by them. Shipments will be 
made to participating libraries either by sub-
ject allocation or in answer to their specific 
requests, made by the checking of U.S.B.E. 
lists of holdings. A revolving priority plan 
will assure an equal opportunity for acquisi-
tions to all libraries. 

Participating libraries will be able to use 
the information amassed by U.S.B.E. as an 
aid in locating materials and in re-establish-
ing and strengthening their own direct inter-
library exchanges. U.S.B.E. will cooperate 
with UNESCO and other national book 
centers. The agency has received the promise 
of full-scale cooperation from many libraries 
abroad. 

The American Standards Association, Inc. 
announced in the August issue of Industrial 
Standardization that it had adopted the prac-
tice followed by many of the foreign stand-
ardizing bodies and would classify American 
standards in accordance with the Universal 
Decimal Classification System. By using this 
classification, American standards can be 
more easily incorporated into libraries and 
identified as part of the technical literature 
in all parts of the world. The U.D.C. num-
bers are in Arabic and can be read without 
difficulty regardless of the language of the 
country. These Arabic numbers will appear 
on the front cover of all standards approved 
by the American Standards Association, Inc. 
and distributed through its office. 

Departing from a long-standing policy of 
naming campus buildings after deceased indi-
viduals only, the University of Kentucky has 
designated its modernistic library building as 
the "Margaret King Library" in honor of 
the current librarian. Miss King, who will 
soon assume a change of work in accordance 
with university policy on length of service 
and age, has been head of the library at Ken-
tucky since 1909. During her tenure she has 
developed the collection from one that could 
be housed in a single room to a library that 
now contains more than 400,000 volumes. 

Music librarianship was the subject of an 
institute at the University of California 
School of Librarianship October 29 and 30. 

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Talks and round-table discussions covered the 
selection; acquisition and cataloging of music 
and records, as well as specialized services to 
students and to amateur musicians in the 
community. 

Dr. Stephen A. Me-
Acquisitions, Gifts, Carthy, director of the 
Collections Cornell University Li-

brary, has announced 
the receipt of a $5o,ooo endowment to be 
known as the "Mr. and Mrs. William F. E. 
Gurley Book Fund." The gift was made by 
Mrs. Gurley, of Chicago, in memory of her 
husband, a member of the class of I 87 5 at 
Cornell. Income from the fund will be used 
for the purchase of research volumes and 
material of a permanent nature. 

The library of the New York State School 
of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell 
has acquired the I. M. Rubinow collection of 
books, periodicals, pamphlets, and corre-
spondence relating to social security. Mr. 
Gormley Miller, librarian, states that the 
collection contains nearly four hundred books 
in addition to many pamphlets, special re-
port!), and letters on old-age security, unem-
ployment insurance and health benefits. Mr. 
Rubinow was one of the pioneers in the social 
security field. The library has also acquired 
a microfilm record of collective bargaining 
agreements in the files of the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics for the years I94I-45· Two 
hundred and fifty film rolls containing 25,000 
collective agreements have in this way been 
made available to all management, labor, or 
public agencies interested in information con-
cerning labor contracts. The school is also 
in process of obtaining complete microfilm 
records of all New York contracts from I945 
until the present time. 

During the summer the Library of Con-
gress received a unique manuscript of the 
Thirteenth Amendment from Mr. Arthur A. 
Houghton, Jr. The amendment~which be-
came effective on December I8, I865, de-
clared that "neither slavery nor involuntary 
servitude, except as a punishment for crime 
whereof the party shall have been duly con-
victed, shall exist with the United States, or 
any place subject to their jurisdiction." Mr. 
Houghton, a well-known industrialist and 
collector of rare books, served the Library 
of Congress as curator of its rare books col-
lection in I940-42 and at present is its Fellow 

in English bibliography. 
This is not the official copy of the amend-

ment, which is kept in the National Archives. 
The Library of Congress manuscript was 
evidently prepared as a worthy memorial of a 
great occasion-the passage of the amend-
ment by the House of Representatives on 
January 3I, I865. It is signed not only by 
the four authenticating officers of the Thirty-
eighth Congress-Hannibal Hamlin, vice 
president; J. W. Forney, secretary of the 
Senate; Schuyler Colfax, Speaker; and Ed-
ward McPherson, clerk of the House-but 
also by Abraham Lincoln, and by everyone 
of the thirty-eight senators and one hundred 
and nineteen representatives who voted for 
the passage of the amendment. 

The library's copy is engrossed on a large 
sheet of vellum (2I" x I5!"). It is not 
yet known who undertook to bring this copy 
into being, but the result is a brilliant show-
piece and a memorial of one of the great 
steps forward in human freedom. 

More than a year ago the Deering Library 
at Northwestern University received a gift 
of nine hundred volumes by and about 
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, together 
with some sixteen hundred volumes in other 
fields. The gift came as a bequest from the 
late Elmer A. Smith. The checking and 
cataloging of this collection has now been 
completed. Among the many important items 
are Johnson's first printed composition which 
appeared in Husband's A Miscellany of 
Poems by Several Hands, Oxford, I73 I; the 
Private Papers of lames Boswell from Mala-
hide Castle,· the Plan of a D£ctionary of the 
English Language ... 1747; and the first 
three folio editions of the Dictionary, I755, 
I755-56, and I765. An associated item of 
rare interest is The Principal Corrections 
and Additions to Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. 
Johnson , London, I793· This copy of the 
extremely scarce first edition, bound in full 
polished calf by Riviere, is from Murdock's 
collection and bears his handsome bookplate. 

Mr. David Maxfield, librarian of the Uni-
versity of Illinois Library, Chicago Under-
graduate Division, Navy Pier, announces an 
enlargement in staff and a rapid increase in 
the library's collection. Opened in January 
I947, the Navy Pier library now contains 
over twenty thousand volumes and boasts a 
reading room capable of seating eight 
hundred students. 

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Publications 
Nearly six hundred sources of 
16 mm films for teachers and 
school administrators are listed 

in a 28-page directory issued by the Office of 
Education, Federal Security Agency. 

The listing of film libraries is based on 
answers to inquiries sent to film libraries, 
visual education dealers, and other film 
distributors of 16 mm films. Each distribu-
tor listed has indicated ( 1) that he loans or 
rents films, (2) that he wishes to be listed, 
and ( 3) special restrictions or limitations on 
his distribution of films. 

Copies of the directory, entitled A Partial 
Lis·t of 16 mm Film Libraries, are available 
without cost from the Visual Aids Section 
of the Office of Education, Federal Security 
Agency, Washington 25, D.C. 

Dr. Willard 0. Mishoff, specialist for col-
lege and research libraries, Office of Edu-
cation, is the author of "Professional 
Education for Librarianship: Trends and 
Problems," in the September 15 issue of 
Higher Education. 

Latin American librarians have been con-
cerned with the systematic organization of 
materials in libraries. Three publications 
which have been recently issued are N omes 
Brasileiros: um Problema na Catalogacao, 
by Maria Luisa Monteiro, School of Library 
Economy, Sao Paulo; Encabezamientos de 
Entes Colectivos, by J. Frederic Fino, Museo 
Social Argentino; and Compilacion de Enca-
bezamientos de Materia para Catalogos-
Dictionarios, by Gonzalo Velazquez, as-
sociate librarian, University of Puerto Rico. 

M. M. Chambers is the author of the third 
edition of Youth Serving Organizations, N a-
tiona! Non governmental A ssodations. This 
publication is issued by the American Council 
on Education, Washington, D.C. The mem-
bership, purpose, activities, publications, staff, 
and financial support of each organization are 
given. 

Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., has issueq 
an interesting illustrated booklet of the pro-
posed library building for the institution. Dr. 
Robert H. Muller, librarian, is chairman of 
the faculty building committee. Ground was 
broken for the new building on October 8, 
1948. 

A revised edition of Students' Guide to the 
Use of the Western Michigan College Li-
brary, by Lawrence S. Thompson, former 
librarian, has been issued. 

JANUARY, 1949 

In the 1947 report of Biological Abstracts, 
John E. Flynn, editor-in-chief, writes: "A 
steady expansion of the coverage of biological 
literature in Biological Abstracts character-
ized its activity during the year 1947. By the 
close of the year, 2,500 journals were being 
abstracted, as compared with I,930 in De-
cember 1946." Collaborators increased from 
three thousand to nearly five thousand. 

The Canadian Library Association has is-
sued Newspaper Microfilming Project; Cata-
logue Microfilms de 1 ournaux, 1948. It is 
the hope of the association that this catalog 
will provide information about Canadian 
newspapers of historic interest, and their 
availability on microfilm. Supplements to 
the catalog will be issued annually. Orders 
for microfilm should be addressed to the 
association's office, Room 46, 46 Elgin Street, 
Ottawa, Canada. Additional catalogs may 
be purchased for fifty cents each. 

The United Nations Honor Flag Com-
mittee has published the World Flag En-
cyclopedia. Featured in the work is the 
subject of United Nations flag and symbol 
development. Copies of the work may be 
procured from the committee, 703 Albee 
Building, Washington 5, D.C. at one dollar 
each. 

Teachers college librarians will be inter-
ested in Audio-Visual Techniques, by Anna 
Curtis Chandler and I rene F. Cypher (New 
York: Noble and Noble, I948). An im-
portant feature is the "where to find it" sec-
tion listing sources of information and 
materials. 

The American Council on Education has 
issued Chinese Ideas in the West, by Derk 
Bodde. This publication is number three in 
the Asiatic Studies in American Education 
series. 

Editor Willis Kerr in the Aug. 31, 1948 
issue of Cooperative Notes, issued by the 
Libraries of the Associated Colleges at Clare-
mont, Calif., calls attention to the following 
aids which may be useful in acquiring Russian 
books: American Council on Education, Five 
Hundred Russian Books for College Li-
braries, new ed., 38p., I948, ed. by Sergius 
Yakobson (25¢); Library of Congress, 
Monthly List of Russian Accessions ( v. I, 
no. I, April 1948), Subs. $2.00 per year 
(order from Card Division of Library of 
Congress); Knizhnaia Letopis (standard 
current bibliography of Russian books pub-

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lished in the USSR), now available: 1946 
issues, 13 nos., $5.00 ( 1947 and 1948, 13 nos. 
each, in press, at same price), order from 
Russian Reprint Program, American Council 
of Learned Societies, 1219 16th St., N.W., 
Washington 6, D.C.; also from this source, 
List of Slavic Materials Available in Micro-
film through the Russian Reprint Program, 
(in five sections, mimeographed). 

Prentice-Hall is the publisher of The Re-
search Paper, 64-page monograph by Lucyle 
Hook and Mary Virginia Gaver. This pub-
lication provides detailed information on 
gathering library material and organizing and 
preparing a manuscript. The authors, an 
assistant professor of English at Barnard 
and the librarian of State Teachers College, 
Trenton, N.J., respectively, have done a use-
ful job in correlating library usage with work 
in the classroom from the point of view of 
term-paper wntmg. Students using this 
manual should normally make better use of · 
the library' as well as write better papers. 

E. H. McClelland, of the Carnegie Li-
brary of Pittsburgh, is the author of "Re-
viewing of Technical Books-The Minimum 
Requirements," in the Journal of Chemical 
Education, vol. 25, p. 380-82, July 1948. 

Reference librarians who are interested in 
the development of language will find that 
Donald W. Lee's Functional Change in 
Early English (Menasha, Wis.: Banta, 1948) 
contains the dates of the introduction into 
English of many words of non-English origin. 

The report of the Chicago (I 94 7) meeting 
of the Cooperative Committee on Library 
Building Plans has been available since 
August. Copies at $2.00 may be obtained 
from Louis Kaplan, secretary, Library of the 
University of Wisconsin, Madison. The re-
port includes floor plans. 

Washburn Municipal University Library, 
Topeka, Kansas, is attempting ·to increase 
student and faculty interest in the library 
through various forms of publicity. A news-
letter for faculty members, entitled The 
Llngle, was distributed at the first yearly 
faculty meeting in September. The purpose 
of Th e Llngle is to publicize the library's 
act1v1tles and resources, to introduce new 
members of the staff, and to explain library 
policies. 

The Harvard Library Bulletin (Autumn, 

1948) has an article by Keyes D. Metcalf on 
"The Farmington Plan." Frank N. Jones 
also contributes an article on "The Libraries 
of the Harvard Houses," and Laurence Kipp 
has prepared a brief statement on "Micro-
filming Foreign Newspapers." 

The Philosophical Library has published an 
Encyclopedia of Vocational Guidance (2 
vols., $18.oo), edited by Oscar J. Kaplan. 
Articles are contributed by a group of spe-
cialists in many fields. Anita M. Hostetter, of 
the American Library Association, has pre-
pared a statement regarding "Librarianship," 
and John R. Yale has written on the occupa-
tional library. 

All sections of the United 
Scholarships States are represented by the 

twenty-four high school and 
preparatory school student leaders who be-
gan their studies as National Scholars at 
Columbia College in September as members 
of the Class of 1952. They come from 
seventeen states, Hawaii and Canada. Win-
ners of four-year scholarships valued at from 
$6oo to $1200 annually, these outstanding 
students constitute the first group of national 
scholarship holders to come to the college 
under an expanded scholarship plan. 

Placed in operation after a year of ex-
tensive preparation, the program will even-
tually bring a total of one hundred and 
twenty highly qualified students to Columbia 
College to study under a four-year scholar-
ship plan. When that number has been 
reached, at a cost to the college of more than 
$10o,ooo a year for this particular scholar-
ship program, thirty national scholars will 
thereafter be named annually for admission 
to the freshman class. 

To enable outstanding graduate students 
to study abroad during the coming academic 
year, ·Rotary International, world-wide serv-
ice club organization, awarded thirty-eight 
Rotary fellowships to young men in Argen-
tina, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, 
England, Honduras, Italy, New Zealand, 
Northern Ireland, The Philippines, and the 
U.S.A. Grants for these fellowships ranged 
from $2000 to $4000 and were made from a 
special $450,000 fund established by Rotary 
International for the promotion of inter-
national understanding and world peace. 

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