College and Research Libraries


Brief of Minutes 
Association of Research Libraries 
Feb. 1,-1953, Evanston, Illinois* 

TH E F O R T I E T H M E E T I N G of the Association of Research Libraries was held at North-
western University in Evanston, Illinois, on 
Sunday, February 1, 1953, beginning at 10 
a.m. and continuing through the evening. 

Upon recommendation of the Advisory 
Committee it was voted that the next meeting 
be held in the Clark Memorial Library in 
Los Angeles on Sunday, June 2 1 , 1953. 

Newspapers on Microfilm 

It was reported that the Library of Con-
gress was making good progress with a new 
and revised edition of Newspapers on Micro-
film. It will contain perhaps 3200 entries, 
as compared with 800 in the first edition. It 
is expected that this work will be issued in a 
preliminary "checking edition" in the fairly 
near future, which, after criticism and cor-
rection and further expansion, will be reissued 
in final form. 

Farmington Plan 

On recommendation of the Advisory Com-
mittee it was voted that the association under-
write the publication of a comprehensive 
Farmington Plan Handbook. This work is 
in preparation at the Harvard Library and 
should be ready for publication this spring. It 
will be distributed to cooperating libraries and 
to Farmington Plan agents, but will also be 

* Due to an early departure of the executive secre-
tary on leave of absence abroad, a summary of the 
minutes of the 39th meeting (Princeton, J u n e 29, 
1 9 5 2 ) was not prepared for publication. The list of 
important matters dealt with was somewhat as follows: 
T h e Farmington P l a n , including a limited study of 
its effectiveness, its extension to the Caribbean area 
and its f u r t h e r extension in the N e a r E a s t and in 
South and Southeast A s i a , and the preparation of a 
handbook of the P l a n ; plans f o r the microfilm publica-
tion of doctoral dissertations and their listing and ab-
stracting in Microfilm Abstracts; the continuation of 
the Committee on National N e e d s ; temporary f a i l u r e of 
the effort to get customs simplification with respect to 
the importation of library materials; study and experi-
mentation respecting a possible reproduction of the 
national Union Catalog; the possible microfilm preser-
vation of pulp paper books; the checking of periodicals 
in Chcmical Abstracts; the Union L i s t of S e r i a l s ; the 
proposed A C R L interlibrary loan code. 

for sale to anyone who may be interested. It 
will contain a full record of Farmington Plan 
allocations, arranged both by subject and by 
institution, as well as an account of the Plan's 
history and development. 

M r . Metcalf, speaking for the Farmington 
.Plan Committee, commented on some of the 
difficulties that had been encountered, notably 
in France where it has proved difficult to se-
cure a satisfactory agent; and in the handling 
of newly established periodicals which are 
sent directly to receiving libraries according to 
classification and are often rejected by these 
libraries without this fact being reported, as 
agreed, to the committee; also in the applica-
tion of the Plan to the so-called "critical 
areas" where want of bibliographical and book-
trade organization, combined with linguistic 
difficulties, make it advisable to ignore classifi-
cation and to assign all subjects to one or two 
institutions. 

M r . Metcalf noted that Korea has now 
been assigned as an added responsibility to 
California and that Northwestern has agreed 
to accept responsibility for A f r i c a south of the 
Sahara, except for the Union of South Africa. 

It was noted that the Plan has now been 
extended to all western Europe, outside the 
Iron Curtain, except Iceland, Great Britain, 
Finland, Greece, and Yugoslavia. A f t e r some 
discussion it was voted that Finland should 
now be brought in—publications in Swedish 
being assigned according to classification, those 
in Finnish (because of the language problem) 
to one or two institutions. It was also voted 
that Yugoslavia be brought in, perhaps with 
the aid of the Bibliographical Institute of that 
country acting as agent, and perhaps with the 
allocation made, in the critical area pattern, 
to a single institution. With respect to 
Greece, the Farmington Plan Committee was 
directed to investigate the situation and then 
make decisions in accordance with its best 
judgment. 

There was a brief discussion of. other parts 

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of the world. M r . Evans commented on the 
impossibility of getting anyone into Russia in 
the interest of the Farmington Plan. M r . 
Metcalf noted that all A f r i c a is now covered 
with the exception of the Union of South 
Africa and of French and Spanish northwest 
Africa. Special attention was given to Aus-
tralia where we* have a unique exchange 
arrangement with M r . White of the Com-
monwealth Library. Comments were made 
that the arrangement is working very ineffec-
tively, both with respect to materials received 
by American libraries and materials sent by 
them to Australia. It was agreed that the 
Farmington Plan Committee should ask par-
ticipating libraries for a report on what they 
have received from M r . White and what they 
have sent him. 

With respect to N e w Zealand, Oceania, 
French Canada, and most of Latin America, 
where there is great difficulty in obtaining 
efficient agents, and where national bibliog-
raphies are largely lacking, it was voted that 
the Farmington Plan Committee go forward 
with the expansion of the Plan when and as 
it can find a way to do so. A suggestion was 
made that M r . Metcalf might himself go to 
South America in the interest of the Plan. 
M r . Evans remarked that the new chief of 
the Hispanic Foundation would probably be 
traveling to South America soon and he sug-
gested that it might be possible to get him, 
at little or no cost, to look into the situation. 

Publication and Recording of Dissertations 

M r . Ellsworth, chairman of the committee 
on this subject, reported that 32 universities 
have now joined in the cooperative plan which 
results in dissertations being abstracted in Dis-
sertation Abstracts. If a dissertation is to 
be filmed by University Microfilms, Inc., it 
is commonly returned in three or four weeks to 
the university which sends it, and the abstract 
commonly appears in about two or two and a 
half months. No. 6 of Dissertation Abstracts, 
which carries the index, has already been 
mailed. M r . Ellsworth felt that the plan was 
working pretty well. One improvement he 
has asked for, viz. that the name of the dis-
sertation advisor or supervisor or director 
appear on the title page along with that of the 
author. It would then appear in the entry in 
Dissertation Abstracts. H e felt that this 
information would be helpful to users of the 

dissertation or abstract and the practice of 
supplying it would tend to the elevation of 
standards. 

M r . Ellsworth commented on a proposal put 
forward by M r . Rider to publish dissertations 
on microcards. H e noted that this would be 
an "edition" form of publication which would 
doubtless make its way if it answered a felt 
need, but he felt that it had no direct bearing 
on the cooperative plan that his committee had 
developed, which had as its principal objective 
the development of one single tool which would 
supply abstracts of all dissertations. Beyond 
this, there could be edition publication in any 
form which might be desired. 

N o w that the cooperative plan which the 
Ellsworth committee has developed has been 
put into operation, it was suggested that it 
ought to be further publicized through the 
issue of a full scale statement concerning the 
new procedures for handling dissertations 
which could be put into the hands of appropri-
ate graduate school committees. M r . Ells-
worth undertook to prepare such a statement 
at an early date. 

Doctoral Dissertations Index, First Ten Years 

The report of the committee on this sub-
ject was presented on behalf of Arnold T r o -
tier, chairman, by Ralph Shaw of the U . S. 
Department of Agriculture Library, himself 
an experienced publisher. It is proposed to 
issue an author and subject index of the first 
ten years of Doctoral Dissertations Accepted 
by American Universities, the thought being 
that if this project meets with success it will 
be continued for the later years. Careful 
calculations indicate that, with nothing added 
for the work of planning, directing and super-
vising the editorial operations, the index of the 
first ten years could be produced at a cost 
which the Association could afford to under-
write and which could largely be recovered 
through sales. It was therefore voted that 
the committee be authorized to proceed. 

Committee on National Needs 

T h e work of this committee, which often 
deals with matters that are later brought 
to the whole association, is too varied to be 
reported here in detail. Some items may, how-
ever, be mentioned. 

A t the request of the committee the Library 
of Congress has issued a pamphlet entitled 

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Postwar Foreign Newspapers: A Union List. 
This work is now to be criticized by the 
method of sampling, with a view to improving 
the coverage of foreign newspapers currently 
received by U. S. libraries. As a beginning 
it is proposed to test the coverage of India 
by submitting the Indian section of the List 
to experts in the University of Pennsylvania, 
Harvard, Yale, and the Library of Congress. 
The results of the criticisms will be considered 
at the next meeting of the committee. 

T h e committee has also interested itself in 
the stimulation of the production of national 
bibliographies in countries in which they are 
now lacking. T o this end it has recommended 
that A L A sponsor a plan for the inclusion of 
librarians from such countries in the Depart-
ment of State exchange of persons program. 
The plan has been studied for the committee 
in some detail by Jesse H . Shera and embodied 
in a document which has been referred to the 
A L A Committee on Bibliography and is being 
brought by the latter to the A L A Executive 
Board. 

With respect to the cataloging of Oriental 
books in which the committee has expressed 
a strong interest and which it has referred for 
consideration to the A L A Division of Catalog-
ing and Classification, it was reported that the 
president of the division has carried to the 
Divisional Executive Board a recommendation 
that a committee be set up to prepare a code 
for the cataloging of Chinese and Japanese 
books which might serve as a basis for co-
operative cataloging. 

With respect to the so-called sub-publica-
tions of science (i.e. unpublished declassified 
technical reports) the committee has drawn 
attention to the Brownson study in L C In-
formation Bulletin for June 2, 1952, which 
indicates that most of these reports find early 
publication in regular channels. It would 
seem, therefore, that librarians can afford 
to neglect this "literature" unless they have 
specific need for it in its original form. 
Nevertheless, encouragement was given to M r . 
Metcalf and M r . T a t e to experiment with the 
consolidation of scattered collections of this 
material in the Cambridge-Boston area. 

The committee has suggested to the chair-
man of the A L A Board on Resources, M r . 
Moriarty, that the board accept an important 
responsibility for the planning of large-scale, 
cooperative microfilming projects, particularly 
with respect to foreign manuscript collections. 

Prospects for Customs Simplification 

M r . L . C. Powell reported that the bill 
embodying this reform in which the associa-
tion has long been interested and which failed 
in the last session of Congress, is being 
brought forward again.in practically identical 
language. T h e committee will follow the 
progress of the new measure and inform all 
members of the association if any specific 
action should seem to be needed. 

Licensed Importation of Chinese Books 

This subject was discussed briefly and it 
was noted that participants in the cooperative 
scheme had met with varying degrees of suc-
cess or failure. There was agreement that 
applications ought to be made for renewal of 
licenses for a second year. 

Reproduction of the National Union Catalog 

F o r information the chairman of the sub-
committee of the Board on Resources ( A L A ) 
on the Reproduction of the National Union 
Catalog reported on the work which it had 
carried on during the past year with the co-
operation of the Library of Congress. T h e 
subcommittee holds that a legible printed re-
production of the National Union Catalog, 
after proper editing, would be highly desirable 
and would find a considerable market if the 
project could be completed at a manageable 
cost. But it appears that such a reproduction 
might contain some 9,000,000 entries and might 
cost, for an edition of 1000 copies of 89 vol-
umes each, something in the nature of four 
and one-half million dollars. It also appears 
that a considerable portion of this expense 
would arise from the preliminary, but neces-
sary, work of "completing" the catalog, get-
ting it filed up-to-date, and getting it properly 
edited. Though such preliminary work may 
be thought to be a direct obligation of the 
Congress, nevertheless, until performed, it 
stands as a terrible obstacle. Even if the cost 
to be borne by a private cooperative enterprise 
could be reduced to such a figure as $2,800,000, 
it would still seem to be prohibitive. T h e 
subcommittee therefore plans to ask to be dis-
missed—not with the thought that this desir-
able project must be abandoned permanently, 
but rather that its report may stand as a kind 
of bench mark for the guidance of future 
efforts in some better day. 

It is likely that a history and analysis 

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of the effort to reproduce the National Union 
Catalog will be prepared for publication at an 
early date. 

There was discussion of the failure of the 
Congress to provide adequate support for the 
Union Catalog; and, although with some hesi-
tation, it was voted that a committee be ap-
pointed to prepare for the use of members of 
the association a brief statement which would 
set forth the value of the Union Catalog and 
emphasize the importance of getting it "com-
pleted," filed up-to-date, and properly edited. 
Members would in turn make use of this 
statement in writing to their congressmen to 
urge more adequate support. 

Filming, or other Preservation, of Pulp Paper 
Books 

M r . Pargellis, who had been directed to 
study this problem and make recommenda-
tions looking forward to a study project to be 
submitted to a foundation, reported briefly. 
Without much conviction he expressed the 
view that there might be some hope in the 
development of a chemical preparation (now 
being worked at) which could be applied for 
preservation to pulp paper before disintegra-
tion. In any case he felt it certain that there 
were many important works which could only 
be saved for the future by some form of 
micro-reproduction. M r . Pargellis had had a 
contact with one of the foundations which 
had previously been interested in this problem 
and he thought this interest could conceivably 
be revived, though he was not very hopeful. 
He suggested that someone might profitably 
be employed for a year in checking collections 
and determining what works of paramount im-
portance required preservation through film-
ing. He proposed that the problem be referred 
for further consideration to the Committee 
on National Needs. A f t e r a brief discussion 
it was voted to so refer the problem. 

Newspaper Microfilming (especially Latin 
American) and Charges Made Therefor 

There was an extended discussion of the 
microfilming of foreign newspapers, which 
turned largely around Harvard's long-standing 
Newspaper Microfilm Project and a newer 
Cooperative Program of Microfilming Cur-
rent Latin American Newspapers which is 
being promoted by Nettie L . Benson, librarian 
of the Latin American Collection, University 
of T e x a s . 

It was announced on behalf of Harvard 
that prices would be reduced to a uniform rate 
of 9 cents per foot of film. M r . Metcalf 
had recently circulated a letter to all sub-
scribers and to members of the association in 
which he had proposed, as a possible measure 
of economy, a pool arrangement under which 
one negative and one positive would be made 
of each newspaper being microfilmed—the 
negative to be retained by the producer, the 
positive to be loaned free of charge to con-
tributing libraries and on a fee basis to others. 
He explained that it was the Harvard view 
in this matter that in most cases the number 
of copies of a filmed title ought to be kept 
down (by the expedient of interlibrary lend-
ing) and that the main effort and resources 
ought to be devoted to getting into this country 
and available as many titles of foreign news-
papers as possible. 

T h e scheme presented by Miss Benson, on 
the other hand, had as its declared objective 
the reduction of microfilm prices to the lowest 
possible level by the expedient of getting as 
many libraries as possible to subscribe for the 
film of a particular title. 

T h e Harvard proposal of contributions to a 
pool which would open the way for free inter-
library lending among contributors evidently 
aroused some misgivings upon legal grounds 
among representatives of state institution^, but 
M r . Coney expressed the view that if the 
plan was regarded as sound and desirable a 
way could certainly be found for state institu-
tions to participate in it. Ben Powell sug-
gested that the cooperative plan would cer-
tainly be more palatable if centralization could 
be- avoided and individual libraries be put in 
a position to hold the master negatives of some 
newspapers of their own selection: they would 
thus have something material to show for the 
expenditure of their funds. Others agreed 
that there was no real objection to decentrali-
zation so long as information was centralized 
and the plan was made to work efficiently. 
M r . Metcalf expressed a willingness to have 
Harvard turn over its project to the Midwest 
Inter-Library Center or to the Library of 
Congress. M r . Fussier explained current 
practice with respect to newspaper microfilm-
ing at M I L C . He said that when a title is 
selected for filming the Center makes a nega-
tive and a positive, the former to be held for 
preservation, the latter to be used in lending. 
If a member institution in M I L C holds a 

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newspaper on film which it is willing to lend, 
the Center would duplicate it. 

A s between the Harvard concept and the 
Benson concept, the sense of the meeting 
seemed to favor the former. It was thought 
to be more desirable to have many titles avail-
able on microfilm for lending than it was to 
have a smaller number of titles in numerous 
exemplars in permanent collections, even 
though the cost per exemplar in the latter case 
might be lower. 

A feeling was expressed that all schemes 
now in operation were too limited. There 
was no real need for the concentration of work 
or storage in any one place: efficient decentrali-
zation would be preferable. What was 
needed above everything else, it seemed to be 
felt, was a national plan under which libraries 
could work effectively together and duplica-
tion of effort be avoided. 

M r . Metcalf directed attention to the prob-
lem of fees for lending which he believed 
would have to be faced in any national plan; 
and he asked whether it would be better to 
have a library which wants to participate and 
have the privilege of borrowing pay a flat 
sum, or whether there might be gradation in 
terms of the size of a library and expected use 
of the borrowing privilege. No precise answer 
was given to this inquiry, and it appeared that 
the question of fees had not yet been thought 
through with clarity. 

T h e r e were several suggestions that the 
pressing need of the moment was for a com-
mittee which might study the whole problem 
and make proposals. Upon motion by M r . 
McCarthy it was voted that the executive sec-
retary appoint a committee to study and pro-
pose a national cooperative microfilm plan for 
newspapers and other serials (presumably 
foreign). 

Library Privileges and Fees and a Proposed 
National Conference 

M r . Metcalf drew attention to an article 
by Carleton B. Joeckel which appeared in the 
California University Library News on No-
vember 26, 1952. It had dwelt on the dilemma 
of research libraries which are faced with 
rapidly rising costs and more and more in-
adequate resources, and commented upon pro-
posals which have lately been put forward to 
institute a system of fees f o r library use. 
Finally, it proposed the calling, perhaps by the 
Association of Research Libraries, of a small 
and carefully selected conference of libraries 

and other interested persons to consider some 
plan for the "greater equalization of research 
library facilities throughout the country." 

F o r want of time the discussion of this 
topic was hurried and indecisive. Reconsidera-
tion at a later date would seem to be in order. 

Cornell Microprint Project 

M r . Russell reported that Cornell had re-
ceived a considerable grant from an industrial 
company to experiment with microreproduc-
tion or micropublication over a three year 
period. He asked for suggestions as to 
projects which might well be undertaken. 
T w o suggestions were offered. One was the 
reproduction of early Colonial newspapers and 
of dissertations in the field of music; the other 
was experimentation with microreproduction 
on flat film in large format, say 8i by 1 1 
inches. It was pointed out that readers for 
such flat film would also require attention. 

T h e chair observed that M r . Russell would 
continue to welcome suggestions. 

A Study of Cataloging Production 

Felix Reichmann of Cornell, for the 
past several years deeply concerned with the 
difficult problem of adequate cataloging pro-
duction, has reached the conclusion that since 
the middle of the last century great changes 
have occurred in the very structure of research 
libraries which call for a basic change in 
cataloging philosophy—a change which he 
feels is not yet fully realized and which re-
quires fundamental study. A s a means of 
emphasizing the problem he proposes that sta-
tistics of cataloging production be included 
hereafter in the "Princeton Statistics," and in 
the hope of finding a solution he urges that an 
A R L committee be appointed with the assign-
ment of completely rewriting a catalog code 
for research libraries. 

A f t e r a brief discussion it appeared that 
M r . Reichmann's proposals were of such a 
nature that decisions were not to be thought 
of at the present meeting. He was accord-
ingly requested to submit them in writing for 
inclusion in the minutes and later study. 

Membership Requirements for Subscriptions 
to Journals Published by Professional Asso-
ciations; and Excessive Prices Charged Li-
braries for Some Journals 

M r . Stanford spoke of the numerous mem-
berships which the University of Minnesota 
Library maintains in professional associations 

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in order to obtain their various bulletins, jour-
nals, proceedings, etc. He complained that 
these memberships sometimes involve institu-
tional rates which carry membership privi-
leges for university departments and faculty 
members "substantially in excess of the adver-
tised cost of subscriptions as announced in the 
publications themselves" and that libraries are 
not permitted to subscribe at the advertised 
rates. He felt that the situation was becoming 
intolerable and that libraries might be forced 
to the subterfuge of obtaining such journals 
by having a faculty member enter individual 
subscriptions on behalf of the library—a course 
which he found "morally repugnant." 

In the discussion which followed there were 
divided opinions. Many members evidently 
agreed with M r . Stanford, but others pointed 
out that what appeared to be discriminatory 
charges to libraries were, at least in some 
cases, really "page charges," based on the 
amount of contributions carried in a journal 
from the faculty of a particular institution 
and that they were used in part to defray the 
cost of large numbers of reprints supplied to 
authors. It was noted that journal editors 
and managements have their financial problems 
too and that we were perhaps confronted with 
an inevitable changing pattern of publication 
which ought not to be opposed. M r . Parker 
thought we might find that in some cases 90% 
of the subscriptions to a journal were from 
libraries. In such a case it might transpire 
that the limited number of individual sub-
scribers carried at a special rate were in fact 
doing a favor to the libraries which must in-
evitably carry the principal burden. 

On the whole it appeared that adequate 
information was lacking to reconcile the con-
flicting views which had been expressed. A 
committee to study the matter and report was 
therefore called for. On motion the matter 
was referred to the Committee on Serials in 
Research Fields, of which Charles H . Brown 
is chairman. 

An Index of Pastor's "History of the Popes" 

T h e Association has been asked by the 
director of the library of the Catholic Uni-
versity of America, a former member, to join 
with the American Historical Association and 
the Catholic Library Association in setting up 
a joint committee to work on the project of an 
index of Pastor's History of the Popes. It 
was agreed that M r . David should be asked 
to represent the A R L in this matter. 

Cooperative Committee on Microfilm Projects 

Ben Powell, chairman of the above com-
mittee, which is a subcommittee of the A L A 
Board on Resources, presented for informa-
tion a carefully considered report which it is 
hoped may in considerable part be published 
in College and Research Libraries. It is de-
signed for the guidance of libraries which can 
spare a part of their resources for the support 
of a large-scale cooperative preservation mi-
crofilm program. It is designed to forward 
such a program while saving institutions from 
the waste of inadequately considered individual 
action. 

Book Prices and Justifying the Book Budget 

M r . Coney reported that he has experienced 
increasing difficulty of late in justifying in-
creasing demands which he has had to make 
in the book item in his budget. He illustrated 
the problem with two documents of which 
he has made use recently in presenting budget 
requests to his administration—his thought 
being that others might find them helpful and 
might in turn make helpful suggestions out of 
their own experience to him. 

In discussion M r . Coney noted that the 
rising cost of books was the element in the 
picture which he found it most difficult to 
present successfully, largely because there were 
no adequate factual data on the subject. M r . 
David presented from the head of his Prepara-
tion Division some suggestions concerning pos-
sible sources of information on this subject. 
Miss Putnam, representing the University of 
Washington, offered to supply a summary of 
figures on rising costs which she had gathered 
out of her own acquisitions work. M r . Clapp 
said he thought the Library of Congress would 
be able to supply from its records considerable 
data. M r . Reichmann expressed an interest, 
based on his experience at Cornell. On motion 
it was voted that he be requested, with others 
cooperating in the supplying of information, to 
attempt to make a study of rising costs. 

Election of a New Member of the Advisory 
Committee 

Upon recommendation of the Nominating 
Committee, Vernon T a t e of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology was elected a 
new member of the Advisory Committee to 
succeed the retiring member, James T . Babb 
of Yale.—Charles W. David, Executive Sec-
retary pro tem. 

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I 

Notes from the A C R L Office 
During the spring your secretary took two 

extended trips into 12 eastern and southern 
states. One good reason for this field work is 
the direct order of the Board of Directors to 
do as much of this as practical. Behind 
Board action lies the belief that its secretary 
must keep in touch with libraries in order to 
work effectively, and that personal contacts 
make good public relations. This emphasis 
on travel is very much shared by M r . Clift. 

A good deal of trip time goes to A C R L 
business—an afternoon with our editor, D r . 
Tauber, a morning with M a r y Herrick (both 
a committee chairman and state representa-
tive), a full day with President Severance in 
Washington—but also included are a number 
of brief stops at institutions which have had 
little or no contact with the A C R L office. 

A recent chance stop caused by a bus con-
nection which left me several free hours on a 
Saturday morning was at Roanoke ( V a . ) 
College. Here I ran into a very unusual and 
interesting problem because the college 
planned to acquire a church property bordering 
the campus and to convert the church school 
building into a library. T h e mere mention is 
enough to make any conscientious librarian 
blanch, but in this instance the proposal looked 
fairly practical. T h e president, librarian and 
I went over plans very carefully. I learned a 
good deal and think the visit was not unappre-
ciated by the college. 

The Goucher College Library dedication 
was a grand opportunity to catch a great 
many librarians of eastern institutions and a 
thoroughly enjoyable affair. T h e papers pre-
sented there will probably come out as an 
ACRL Monograph. A chance remark dis-
closed .the fact that the college was looking 
for a publisher of the two day proceedings. 

In Athens, West Virginia, your secretary 
presided over the installation of Zeta chapter 
of Alpha Beta Alpha, the national undergrad-
uate library science fraternity. Those who 
may raise an eyebrow at this sort of thing (as 
I used to do) are urged to see a chapter in 
action. In its short life, A . B . A . has been a 
very potent force in recruiting and gives prom-
ise of great usefulness in other fields as well. 

One day in Birmingham, Alabama, included 

visits to no less than five libraries in or near 
the city. T h e stops were shorter than de-
sirable, but the contacts with librarians were 
enjoyable and the discussions useful in various 
ways. A t Miles College, I found Miss Jen-
kins, fresh from Atlanta University Library 
School, attempting to carry on a positive, 
original program of library service with very 
limited book collection and other facilities. 
T h e new Indian Springs School (private 
boarding school for boys) was operating the 
library as a real laboratory of the mind, and 
the whole student body was streaming out, 
bound for lunch, when we arrived. T h e li-
brary tables held a few typewriters which the 
boys could use at will. 

One librarian commented that he was a 
member of another professional society and 
had never seen its staff members except at 
conferences, when they were busy with the 
arrangements. A L A made the effort to get 
out and around the country to explain its pro-
gram and to learn what was needed. 

At the Louisiana Library Association meet-
ing in New Orleans, I spoke at a general 
session on the need for clear definition of the 
objectives and functions of libraries. T h e 
college sets the institutional objectives and the 
library must then define its proper functions in 
advancing the aims of the college. While most 
institutions have objectives in common, of 
course, considerable variation exists. Every 
library should be continually discussing, re-
vising and publicizing its mission. 

In larger libraries the various departments 
must be precise about their responsibilities 
and functions in advancing the common cause. 
F o r example, just exactly what are the prin-
cipal functions of the catalog and the catalog 
department? Would everyone agree on a de-
tailed analysis of the proper duties of refer-
ence? Can every professional staff member 
justify the emphasis of his daily work in the 
light of the proper functions of the library? 

Even though the library functions are 
clearly stated, and the staff team-work excel-
lent, how about students, alumni, friends of 
the college, or even the president's office? 
Cooperation from these areas is very, very 
important. A r e the functions of the library 

326 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



sufficiently restated, posted and emphasized so 
that these groups never work at cross purposes 
to the library? 

As an example, does your library recognize 
a responsibility to provide students with the 
non-textbook tools needed to supplement class-
room instruction? If so, does it have sure and 
regular contact with all areas of classroom 
instruction so that it is certain about needs? 
Does it leave all this to the faculty or does it 
recognize a measure of human fallibility in 
some people which must be corrected by oc-
casional visits of librarians to the classrooms 
to see for themselves? 

In promoting worthwhile reading on 
campus, is the library emphasizing the ob-
jectives of the institution? Or is the library 
leaving the matter of reading habits entirely 
to faculty initiative? What is the respective 
importance of one function over another, and 
is this reflected in the use of professional time 
and funds? 

No matter how pressed we are with daily 
routines, it is important that we take some 
time for reflection and unhurried discussion of 
objectives and functions. W e should be sure 
we are headed in the right direction and that 
everyone who is interested knows a good deal 
about that direction. A library is too great 
an investment in staff, building, catalog and 
book collection to allow any measure of un-
planned development. 

* * * 

Annual reports and library bulletins bring 
to this office a great deal of incidental intelli-
gence which will be included here on occasion. 

Kenyon College has a regular policy of 
giving book awards for course papers (regard-
less of field) which are distinguished above 
normal expectation. 

T h e work of the A C R L Inter-Library Loan 
Committee was indirectly praised in the fol-
lowing, taken from the annual report of a 
leading eastern college: 

I n t e r l i b r a r y loan p r o c e d u r e s w e r e c h a n g e d to 
adopt use of w h a t w i l l become s t a n d a r d rec-
ord f o r m . A compact f o r m in q u a d r u p l i c a t e , 
it p r o v i d e s in one t y p i n g the w o r k , notice, 
and filing f o r m s f o r all o p e r a t i o n s of both 
l i b r a r i e s i n v o l v e d in a t r a n s a c t i o n . U s e d 

with w i n d o w envelopes, it p r o v e d in a half 
y e a r ' s u s a g e to be e x c e l l e n t — c h a n g i n g inter-
l i b r a r y loan detail f r o m a chore to a p l e a s u r e . 
O u r blanket i n s u r a n c e c o v e r a g e continued to 
a i d in m a k i n g i n t e r l i b r a r y loans e a s i e r to 
h a n d l e m e c h a n i c a l l y , w h i l e the use of book 
b a g s s a v e s enormous amounts of time and 
e n e r g y . 

From Birmingham Southern College came 
the following comment, which should be con-
sidered in the light of articles on the same 
subject in this J u l y issue: 

T o c o n s e r v e space, the l i b r a r y is a c q u i r i n g 
p e r m a n e n t p e r i o d i c a l files on microfilm. P l a n s 
h a v e a l r e a d y been m a d e to p u r c h a s e film f o r 
60 of the 300 titles on the present subscription 
list, 1 9 5 1 - 5 2 . M o r e of our subscription list 
w i l l be p u r c h a s e d on film w h e n a v a i l a b l e 
r a t h e r than continuing the f o r m e r b i n d i n g 
p r o g r a m . U n i v e r s i t y M i c r o f i l m s n o w o f f e r s 
some 700 j o u r n a l s on film and w i l l e x p a n d 
the p r o g r a m as l i b r a r i e s respond to this solu-
tion to the s t o r a g e problem. 

The University of Illinois has studied 
the probem of library fines. About 5 % 
of the material borrowed is kept longer 
than the prescribed period. Of this amount, 
two-thirds come back within a week and 
another 1 2 % within the next week. There-
fore, only one-half to one-percent of the bor-
rowed material gave the staff serious recovery 
trouble. The library, therefore, decided to 
dispense with its regular two-cent a day fine 
and to follow present overdue notice policy. 
If a volume is overdue for more than two 
weeks, a fine of 25^ per day is charged. 

Fines are, or should be, a means to encour-
age compliance with rules or law and not for 
revenue. This is equally true of fines for 
speeding and fines for the return of books. A 
lot of small fines can be a considerable nui-
sance to both payer and payee, and make bad 
public relations for libraries. I know of sev-
eral cases where similar action has been 
planned, and believe there is a trend toward 
the abolishment of petty fines and the strength-
ening of disciplinary action against borrowers 
(faculty or student) who are seriously irre-
sponsible in meeting their obligations to the 
library. 

Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary. 

JULY, 1953 327 



Outstanding 
Technical 

Publications 
W E L D I N G P R A C T I C E , e d i t e d by E. Fuchs, M A . , 

A . M . I . M e c h . E. a n d H . Bradley, M . M e t . Three 
v o l u m e reference work, p r e p a r e d by I m p e r i a l 
C h e m i c a l Industries Ltd., a p r a c t i c a l g u i d e 
profusely illustrated with clear d i a g r a m s and 
p h o t o g r a p h s . set $8.50 

A b r i d g e d list of contents: 

V o l . I — W E L D I N G M E T H O D S A N D T E S T S . W e l d -
ing Processes a n d their A p p l i c a t i o n s , The Metal-
lurgy of W e l d i n g , The Examination a n d Testing 
of W e l d s , W e l d i n g E q u i p m e n t a n d S h o p Layout, 
W e l f a r e a n d S a f e t y in P r a c t i c e of W e l d i n g . 
130 p p . 71/2 x 10 illus. $2.75 

V o l . I I — W E L D I N G O F F E R R O U S M E T A L S . M i l d 
S t e e l by the M e t a l A r c Process, M i l d S t e e l by 
Processes other than the M e t a l A r c , High-Tensile 
Low-Alloy Steels, Chromium-nickel A u s t e n i t i c 
Steels, W e l d Details for Pressure Vessels, Cast 
Iron. 
198 p p . 7'/2 x 10 illus. $3.50 

V o l . I l l — W E L D I N G O F N O N - F E R R O U S M E T A L S . 
C o p p e r , Brasses a n d Bronzes, N i c k e l a n d Nickel-
rich A l l o y s , Silver, A l u m i n u m a n d A l u m i n u m 
A l l o y s , L e a d , Brazing of Ferrous a n d Non-Ferrous 
M e t a l s . 
183 p p . 71/2 x 10 illus. 1 $3.50 

P H Y S I C A L C O N S T A N T S O F S O M E C O M M E R C I A L 
S T E E L S A T E L E V A T E D T E M P E R A T U R E S , e d i t e d 
by the British Iron a n d S t e e l Research Associa-
tion. Foreword by Ezer Griffiths, O . B . E . , D.Sc., 
F.R.S. 

Reference tables, b a s e d on measurements m a d e 
a t the N a t i o n a l Physical L a b o r a t o r y , Teddington, 
from which the constants for a particular steel 
a t a given t e m p e r a t u r e c a n easily b e o b t a i n e d . 
38 p p . 9 x II1/} d i a g r a m s , t a b l e s , charts, 

spiral b i n d i n g . $3.00 

C O O L I N G T O W E R S , by J . J a c k s o n , B.Sc. The 
designing a n d testing of water-cooling towers, 
with s p e c i a l reference to m e c h a n i c a l draught sys-
tems. 
104 p p . 5 % x 9 % photographs, line drawings, 

charts. $3.50 

E L E C T R I C F U S E S , by D i p l . Ing. H . L a p p l e . A 
c r i t i c a l review of published information on 
fuses, a c c e n t i n g the p r a c t i c a l a n d c o m m e r c i a l 
engineering aspects. 
173 p p . 51/2 x 83/4 t a b l e s , charts. $3.75 

LANGE, MAXWELL & SPRINGER, INC. 
122 East 55th Street New York 22 

A C R L State Representatives 
A C R L State R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s h a v e been a p -

pointed in n e a r l y all states f o r the y e a r 1 9 5 3 - 5 4 . 
A r c h i e L . M c N e a l , d i r e c t o r , the U n i v e r s i t y of 
M i a m i L i b r a r i e s ( C o r a l G a b l e s , F l a . ) , is n a -
tional c h a i r m a n of this g r o u p . State r e p r e s e n -
t a t i v e s a r e expected to act as spokesmen f o r 
A C R L in their a r e a s ; they w i l l be kept i n f o r m e d , 
i n s o f a r as possible, of A C R L contacts w i t h li-
b r a r i e s in their a r e a s . It is hoped that they w i l l 
all be a c t i v e in r e p o r t i n g state needs, state atti-
tudes, and personnel recommended f o r committee 
a s s i g n m e n t s . 

A l a . — C l y d e H . C a n t r e l l ( A . P . I . ) 
A r i z . & N . M . — D o n a l d M . P o w e l l ( U n i v . of 

A r i z . ) 
A r k . — G e o r g i a C l a r k ( U n i v . ) 
C a l i f . — N o appointment yet. 
Colo. & W y o . — E u g e n e H . W i l s o n ( U n i v . of 

C o l o . ) 
Conn. & R . I . — F r a n c i s P . A l l e n ( U n i v . of R . I . ) 
D e l . , M d . , & D . C . — D o r o t h y S i n c l a i r ( E n o c h 

P r a t t ) 
F l a . — S t a n l e y L . W e s t ( U n i v . ) 
G a . — W . P . K e l l a m ( U n i v . ) 
H a w a i i — C a r l S t r o v e n ( U n i v . ) 
I d a . & M o n t . — M i s s L e s l e y M . Heathcote ( M o n -

t a n a S t a t e ) 
1 1 1 . — D a v i d J o l l y ( N o r t h w e s t e r n ) 
I n d . — M i s s M a r i o n G r a d y ( B a l l S t a t e ) 
l a . — R o b e r t W . O r r ( I o w a S t a t e ) 
K a n . — N o appointment yet. 
K y . — E v e l y n J . S c h n e i d e r ( U n i v . of L o u i s v i l l e ) 
L a . — E u g e n e P . W a t s o n ( N o r t h w e s t e r n S t a t e ) 
M e . , N . H . , & V t . — S i d n e y B . Smith ( U n i v . of V t . ) . 
M a s s . — M a r y D . H e r r i c k (Boston U n i v . ) 
M i c h . — K a t h a r i n e M . Stokes ( W e s t e r n M i c h . ) 
M i n n . — D a v i d R . W a t k i n s ( U n i v . ) 
M i s s . — D o n a l d E . T h o m p s o n ( M i s s . S t a t e ) 
M o . — S t u a r t B a i l l i e ( W a s h i n g t o n U n i v . ) 
N e b . — F r a n k A . L u n d y ( U n i v . ) 
N e v . & U t a h — L . H . K i r k p a t r i c k ( U n i v . of U t a h ) 
N . J . — M a r y V . G a v e r ( T r e n t o n State T e a c h e r s ) 
N . Y . , m e t r o . — E t h e l M . F e a g l e y ( C o l u m b i a T . C . ) 
N . Y . , u p s t a t e — E i l e e n T h o r t o n ( V a s s a r ) 
N . C . — B . E . P o w e l l ( D u k e U n i v . ) 
N . D . & S . D . — H . D e a n S t a l l i n g ( N . D . A g r i . ) 
O h i o — J o h n B Nicholson, J r . ( K e n t S t a t e ) 
O k l a . — E d m o n L o w ( O k l a . A . M . C o l l . ) 
O r e . — C a r l W . H i n t z ( U n i v . of O r e . ) 
P a . — ( e a s t ) — T i l t o n M . B a r r o n ( U r s i n u s ) 
P a . — ( w e s t ) — R a l p h W . M c C o m b ( P a . S t a t e ) 
S . C . — A l f r e d R a w l i n s o n ( U n i v . ) 
T e n n . — R u t h C . R i n g o ( U n i v . ) 
T e x . — R o b e r t M . T r e n t ( S o u t h e r n M e t h o d i s t U . ) 
V a . — M i s s R o y L a n d ( U n i v . ) 
W . V a . — G i l b e r t G . Fites, J r . ( F a i r m o n t S t a t e ) 
W i s . — G e r h a r d B . N a e s e t h ( U n i v . ) 

328 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



News from the Field 
T h e Oberlin College 

Acquisitions, Gifts, Library reached the 
Collections 500,000 mark in bound 

volumes on March 2 1 , 
when the first volume of the Collected Works 
of Abraham Lincoln was added to its collec-
tion. T h e Lincoln volume was chosen for the 
500,000 stamp from among a number of books 
on hand. It was selected because of Oberlin's 
close association in its early years with the 
anti-slavery movement. The ten volume work 
was published on Lincoln's birthday by the 
Rutgers University Press. 

T h e Dartmouth College Library on Febru-
ary 13 acquired its 700,000th volume with the 
gift of a Shakespeare Second Folio of 1632 
from Donald L . Stone, professor of business 
law at the Amos Tuck School of Business Ad-
ministration at Dartmouth. By this acquisi-
tion, the library now possesses all folio 
editions of Shakespeare except the very rare 
First Folio of 1623. 

Cornell University and the University of 
Virginia, represented by M r s . Edith M . Fox, 
curator of the Cornell Collection of Regional 
History, and D r . Francis L . Berkeley J r . , 
curator of manuscripts at the University of 
Virginia, have effected an interesting exchange. 
By the agreement, the University of Virginia's 
anti-Masonic material which had been gath-
ered on the scene after 1827 by D r . Samuel 
Bradley, a Mason in Monroe County, N . Y . , 
was sent to N e w Y o r k , and Cornell's collec-
tion of petitions and "memorials" to the V i r -
ginia House of Delegates, dated 1776-82 and 
including letters by Thomas Jefferson and 
Patrick Henry, was returned to Virginia. 
T h e original donors of the two collections 
gladly agreed to the swap, because it meant 
that the documents were going home. 

T h e papers of H a r r y A . Slattery, one-time 
Under-Secretary of the Interior and Adminis-
trator of the Rural Electrification Administra-
tion from 1939 until 1944, have been deposited 
by the family in the Duke University Library. 
In addition to the correspondence and files 
relating to M r . Slattery's own career, this col-
lection of approximately 25,000 items is rich 
in materials concerning the development of 
United States conservation policies from the 
days of Theodore Roosevelt until M r . Slat-
tery retired from public life in 1944. 

T h e Duke University Library has also 
acquired the Don Preston Peters Collection 
of manuscripts, a collection of over 15,000 
items bearing on nearly every phase of life 
in the South during the eighteenth and nine-
teenth centuries. Of particular importance 
are several thousand papers concerning the 
early iron industry in Virginia. There is also 
much new material pertaining to the Civil 
W a r written by prominent ex-Confederates. 

A special room in the library of Bethany 
College, Lindsborg, Kansas, has been desig-
nated as the D r . Carl Swensson Room, as a 
memorial tribute to the founder of Bethany 
College. This room will house the Swedish 
collection which numbers some 4000 volumes 
and consists of Swedish history, literature, 
biography, etc. T h e entire collection is being 
re-cataloged to make it available for the use 
of students and researchers. 

A new fine arts reading room was opened 
last fall at the Chicago Undergraduate Divi-
sion of the University of Illinois Library with 
the nucleus of a gift of 2000 volumes from the 
rich architectural library maintained for many 
years by the Chicago firm of Holabird and 
Root. T h e total holdings of this new divi-
sional reading room now number 6000 vol-
umes, 8000 stereopticon slides, and 40 current 
periodicals. 

T h e Library of Congress has acquired the 
personal papers of Jacob A . Riis. T h e col-
lection, comprising some 600 pieces, is in 
addition to a group of some 80 letters from 
Theodore Roosevelt to Riis already in the 
Library. 

T h e Library of Congress recently pur-
chased the Feleky-Telkes Collection or, as it 
is also known, the Hungarian Reference L i -
brary, which comprises approximately 6600 
books and 2600 pamphlets, about one-third of 
which are in the Hungarian language; files 
of newspapers, periodicals, and photographs; 
and some 10,000 articles extracted from 
more than 800 English-language periodicals 
on many phases of the Hungarian and Central 
European economic, political and cultural de-
velopment. 

T h e purchase of 40,000 new American 
books which the United Nations' Korean Re-
construction Agency is sending to nine Korean 
universities through C A R E has been under 

JULY, 1953 329 



way since early spring. Shipments started in 
M a y . T h e recipient institutions include Seoul 
National University, Chun Puk University, 
Chun Nam University, Kyunpuk University, 
Chosun Christian University, Korea Univer-
sity, Pusan University, Ewha Women's Uni-
versity and Pusan Fisheries College. The 
resumption of service means that individual 
contributions can be sent to the Book Fund 
at any C A R E office, or headquarters, 20 
Broad St., N e w Y o r k 5, N . Y . 

T h e Earlham College Library has received 
the papers of Elbert Russell, class of 1894 
and professor of Biblical literature, 1895-1901 
and 1903-1915, and later dean of the Divinity 
School, Duke University. T h e presentation 
was made by his wife Lieuetta Cox Russell and 
his son, Professor Josiah Cox Russell, class 
of 1922. 

T h e contents of these papers are quite 
varied and include the wide scope of the in-
terest and activities of this important Biblical 
scholar and Quaker religious leader and his-
torian. 

A new undergraduate library, 
Buildings and f o r which remodelling is in 
Conferences progress, is incorporating, 

and to some extent, replacing 
the two former reserve rooms at the Univer-
sity of Kansas Library. Undergraduate facili-
ties, complete with new furnishings, will 
occupy a convenient ground floor location, 
and should be ready for opening at the be-
ginning of the fall semester. The plan of 
the undergraduate library is for an open stack 
collection of about 25,000 volumes, with only 
a small number of volumes to be retained 
behind the desk in a "closed reserve." In 
preparation for this important service develop-
ment, an extensive buying program, selectively 
aimed at undergraduate interest and needs, 
has been under way during the past year. 

T h e plans for the construction of the Kelsey 
Memorial Library at Sterling College, Sterl-
ing, Kansas are progressing. T h e Board of 
Trustees approved the plans in March and the 
ground-breaking ceremonies were held in con-
nection with the spring commencement activi-
ties. 

Dedication ceremonies for the new Agri-
culture Library at the University of Minne-
sota took place on January 14. Critical space 
problems that arose during the 1930's and the 
1940's were solved by two legislative appro-

priations, and the building was completed in 
the summer of 1952. 

" T h e College Library in a Changing 
W o r l d " was the theme of the conference at 
Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, on the 
occasion of the dedication of the J u l i a Rogers 
Library on April 1 0 - 1 1 . Among the sessions 
participated in by librarians were discussions 
on the college library in the community and 
on books and freedom. 

The Medical Indexing Project at the Welch 
Medical Library, the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, in cooperation with the Maryland Section 
of the American Chemical Society and the 
American Documentation Institute, sponsored 
a one-day symposium on "Machine Tech-
niques in Scientific Documentation." Held in 
Baltimore on March 3, the conference at-
tracted over 200 persons. 

T h e first program meeting of the A C R L 
Philadelphia Chapter was held on February 
17 at the Free Library of Philadelphia. An-
nouncement of the election of chapter officers 
—this was the first such chapter formed in 
A C R L — w a s followed by a discussion of prob-
lems met in administering the reserve book 
room. 

The Kansas Association of School Librari-
ans and the Department of Library Science 
of the Emporia State Teachers College were 
joint sponsors of a library workshop on the 
Emporia campus from June 8 through 
June 19. 

T h e Kansas Library Association sponsored 
three-day workshops for public librarians in 
April on the campuses of the three state 
schools: Emporia, Hays, and Pittsburg, at 
which the faculty members of the respective 
schools did the teaching. 

A Workshop on Technical Reports was 
held at the Catholic University of America, 
April 1 3 - 1 8 . T h e workshop, attended by 
about 250 persons, was under the joint spon-
sorship of the American Documentation In-
stitute, the Chemical Literature Section of the 
American Chemical Society, the Special L i -
braries Association, and the National Science 
Foundation. It is expected that the papers will 
be published. 

T h e issuance of printed 
ust- 77 cards by the Vatican L i -
Miscellaneous . J . , • , , 

brary terminated with the 
1946 series. In a letter 

dated October 3 to Eugene P. Willging, di-

330 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



rector of the Catholic University Library, the 
Reverend Arnold van Lantschoot, vice prefetto 
of the Vatican Library, reported that the last 
card issued was numbered 46-1275. 

T h e International Library Council has 
announced that the subject for the competition 
for the fourth Sevensma Prize, to be awarded 
in 1955, will be "Union Catalogues—Struc-
ture and Organization of a Union Catalogue 
in Relation to its Utilization." According to 
the announcement, " T h e essay must analyse, 
for a given period, the kind of requests re-
ceived by one or more regional or national 
union catalogues in relation to the character 
of the libraries included and that of the 
users." T h e author is expected to draw con-
clusions concerning the best structure and or-
ganization either of the catalogs studied or of 
union catalogs in general. The deadline for 
submitting entries is December 3 1 , 1954. 
Further details about the competition may be 
obtained from the Secretariat of the Interna-
tional Federation of Library Associations, c/o 
Library of the United Nations, Geneva, 
Switzerland. 

Books and Libraries at the 
t) j j- University of Kansas is a new Publications ... . ; , 

publication, volume 1, num-
ber 1 of which was issued 

last December by Robert Vosper, director of 
libraries. 

An annual Public Lectureship in Books 
and Bibliography was recently established at 
the University of Kansas. T h e first lecture 
was delivered on April 17, by Elmer Adler, 
noted typophile, author, editor and publisher. 

T h e Pennell Collection of Early Kansas 
Photographs has been acquired by the Uni-
versity of Kansas Library. Dating from 
about 1888, this unique collection of some 
30,000 glass negatives records, with unparal-
leled completeness and accuracy, a cross sec-
tion of the mid-western American scene, from 
army life at a cavalry post ( F o r t Riley), to 
the evolution of ladies' hats. At present 4400 
prints have been made. 

T h e University of Arizona Library is com-
piling an index to Arizona news in the Ari-
zona Daily Star of Tucson. T h e index is 
being compiled on a current basis beginning 
with January I, 1953. With the cooperation 
of the Star it is hoped to mimeograph the 
index at the end of the year, and to distribute 

copies to Arizona libraries and to a few other 
institutions. 

The University of Utah Library has been 
microfilming back files of all the weekly news-
papers in the state. Unfortunately, most of 
the papers published in Utah prior to 1900 
have completely disappeared. Libraries may 
secure positive copies from the University of 
Utah Library at i i cents a page. If several 
titles are ordered at once a slightly lower 
rate may be possible. T h e University Library 
is also now receiving films of all the weekly 
newspapers at the end of each year. 

A bibliography of the Widtsoe Collection 
on Mormon and Utah history at the Univer-
sity of Utah is in preparation. It will be 
arranged under subject headings worked out 
at the University, and an expanded decimal 
classification for the Mormons is also in-
cluded. The volume will be available by 
purchase and on exchange. 

The Journal of Discourses, which includes 
the various talks given to Mormon conferences 
in Utah from 1850 to about 1876, is now 
available on microfilm and can be purchased 
from the Deseret Book Company in Salt Lake 
City, Utah. 

Penguin Books Inc., 3300 Clepper Mill 
Road, Baltimore, Maryland, has issued a re-
vised listing of Penguin and Pelican books. 
Copies are available on card or paper. The 
books are inexpensively priced. 

Documentation, Inc., 1830 Jefferson Place, 
N.W., Washington 6, D.C., will issue this 
summer the first volume of a new series, 
Studies in Coordinate Indexing. It will in-
clude the following papers: T h e Theory and 
Practice of Documentation; Functional Ap-
proach to Bibliographic Organization; A 
Critique and a Proposal; Specificity in Sub-
ject Headings and Coordinate Indexing; Unit 
Terms in Coordinate Indexing; T h e Logical 
Structure of Coordinate Indexing; Alphabetic 
Subject Indexes and Coordinate Subject In-
dexes: An Experimental Comparison; The 
Choice of Unit Terms for a Coordinate Index 
of Scientific and Technical Reports; Substi-
tutes for the Card Catalog; Classification and 
Categorization in Information Systems; and 
T h e Evaluation of Information Systems. T h e 
volume is priced at $3.00; prepublication or-
ders are $2.50. 

North Carolina Authors: A Selective Hand-
book is a recent publication of the Library 
Extension Department of the University of 

JULY, 1953 331 



North Carolina Library. (Chapel Hill, 1952. 
xv, I36p. $ 1 . 5 0 paper, $3.00 cloth). Pre-
pared by a Joint Committee of the North 
Carolina English Teachers Association and 
the North Carolina Library Association, the 
handbook is designed to fill a need for a 
reference book about North Carolina writers 
for the use principally of teachers and li-
brarians. Limited to authors whose work 
has been mostly literary, the handbook in-
cludes accounts of more than 160 authors, 
living and dead. Each biographical sketch 
includes an account of the writer and his 
work, a list of his writings, and selected refer-
ences where further information may be 
found. Sketches are signed except for the 
more than 82 autobiographical accounts sub-
mitted by living writers. While not all li-
brarians will agree with the selections included 
or omitted, the handbook provides a ready 
reference source for information on many 
North Carolina authors not easily found in 
other standard sources. 

T h e December, 1952, issue of the Journal 
of Cataloging and Classification contains the 
papers which were presented at the sym-
posium on subject headings, J u l y 1-2, at the 
A L A Division of Cataloging and Classifica-
tion meetings in N e w Y o r k . 

Crete: A Case Study of an Undeveloped 
Area, by Leland G . Allbaugh, has been issued 
by the Princeton University Press (1953, 
572p., maps, $7.50). This is a report of a 
study carried out by the Rockefeller Founda-
tion in an effort to discover what kinds of 
assistance can be usefully given to unde-
veloped areas. 

George Williamson is the author of A 
Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot ( N e w Y o r k , 
Noonday Press, 1953, 240P. $ 3 . 5 0 ) . This is 
a poem-by-poem analysis designed to clarify 
the structure and meaning of Eliot's works. 
T h e volume contains an "Index of Poems." 

Painting, music, theatre, dance, literature, 
sculpture and architecture are all treated in 
7 Arts, an unusual paper-bound anthology of 
articles from leaders in the seven major arts. 
Edited by Fernando Puma, it includes con-
tributions by Thomas Mann, William Carlos 
Williams, Frank Lloyd Wright and others 
( N e w Y o r k , Permabooks, 1953, 2iop. illus., 
$ . 5 0 ) . 

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: A Check 
List, compiled by James Fuller Spoeri, has 
been issued by the Northwestern University 

Library (Evanston, 1953, I9p.). 
Copies of Clue, the student handbook of the 

Brooklyn College Library, may be obtained by 
writing to M r s . Rose Z . Sellers, chief special 
services librarian, Brooklyn College Library, 
Brooklyn 10, N . Y . 

D r . C a r l Bjorkbom, librarian, Royal In-
stitute of Technology, Stockholm, is the com-
piler of a mimeographed " L i s t of Swedish 
Technical Periodicals" (Stockholm 3, T h e 
Swedish Institute, 1953, I5P-)-

Keyes D. Metcalf and Edwin E . Williams 
are the authors of " T h e Administrative Struc-
ture of the Harvard University Library," in 
the Harvard Library Bulletin, Winter 1953. 
Foster R. Palmer has an article on " T h e 
Reference Section in the Harvard College 
L i b r a r y " in this issue. 

Guy R . Lyle, director of Louisiana State 
University Libraries, and H . Tatnall Brown, 
J r . have prepared A Bibliography of Christo-
pher Morley (Washington, D . C., T h e Scare-
crow Press, 1952, I98p., $4.00). T h e volume 
contains the following lists: books and pam-
phlets, ephemeral publications, books contain-
ing contributions by Morley, books containing 
material about Morley, periodical articles by 
Morley, and periodical material about M o r -
ley. Bibliographical description is full for 
first editions and the more important pam-
phlets, and the arrangement is chronological 
by date of publication for all writings except 
the ephemeral publications, which are listed 
alphabetically by title. 

Stillman K . Taylor, G a r y Public Library, 
is the author of " A Survey of the Adult 
Department of the Racine Public Library," 
(Racine, Wis., 1953, 25p., $2.00). 

An Exhibition List of Works Selected from 
the DeGolyer Collection in the History of 
Science and Technology, shown at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma Library, February 2-14, 
1953, has been issued. 

A . Stan Rescoe of the faculty of the library 
school at the George Peabody College for 
Teachers, is the compiler of "Technical Proc-
esses," a mimeographed manual interpreting 
the 1949 rules for cataloging and classification 
according to the A L A and the Library of 
Congress, with card forms to illustrate each 
rule (Nashville, 1952, 175, xxxvp.). 

Paul Bixler is the author of " H e a r t of the 
College," Antioch Notes, Vol. 30, no. 4, 
December 1, 1952. 

Know Your Library is a new guide to re-

332 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



sources and services issued for users of the 
Air University Library, Maxwell Air Force 
Base, Alabama. 

The World Publishing Company, Cleveland 
and New York, has issued its 1953 edition 
of the College Edition of Webster's New 
World Dictionary of the American Language 
(i953> xxxvi, 1724P., $5.00 or $ 6 .00, thumb-
indexed). Based on and including material 
from the Encyclopedic Edition of Webster's 
New World Dictionary, the College Edition 
contains over 140,000 words, including idio-
matic expressions, colloquialisms, and slang. 
Names of places and of notable persons, for-
eign expressions, abbreviations, etc. appear in 
the main body of the book, rather than in ap-
pendixes. T h e volume, which contains over 
1200 illustrations, is in a type and format 
which is both attractive and readable. 

Haynes McMullen is the author of ' A d -
ministration of the University of Chicago 
Libraries, 1910-1928," in the Library Quar-
terly for January, 1953. In the same issue 
Rolland Stevens writes of "The Use of 
Library Materials in Doctoral Research: A 
Study of the Effect of Differences in Research 
Method." 

No. I X of Unesco and Its Programme, a 
series of pamphlets about Unesco, is entitled 
Access to Books (1952, 23p., $.20, order f r o m 
Columbia University Press, New York.) 

Kenneth J . LaBudde, director of libraries, 
University of Kansas City, is the author of 
"Faculty Status of College Librarians in Mis-
souri," Missouri Library Association Quar-
terly, December, 1952. 

T h e Library of Congress has published 
War and Postwar Greece, an analysis of con-
ditions in Greece based on contemporary 
Greek literature, by Floyd A. Spencer, con-
sultant (1952, I75p., $1.15, order from Card 
Division). 

Unesco has issued Theses in the Social 
Sciences: An International Analytical Cata-
logue of Unpublished Doctorate Theses, 1940-
1950 (1952, 236p., $1.25, order from Colum-
bia University Press, New York). 

T h e Yale Daily News has published 
Seventy-Five, A Study of a Generation in 
Transition, in connection with its 75th anni-
versary (New Haven, 1953, 2i2p., $2.00, 
bound, $4.00). T h e volume, which consists 
of separate papers by various individuals, is 
divided into four parts: I, Higher Education 
at Yale; II, T h e Yale M a n ; I I I , T h e Yale 

Man and the Post-War 'Condition'; and IV, 
The Yale Pioneers and Their Challenge. 

T h e major role in international affairs 
which the United States is now playing con-
tinues to be reflected in the work of the Li-
brary of Congress. In the Annual Report of 
the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year 
Ending June 30, 1952 (Superintendent of 
Documents, $2.25), a chapter on "Cooperative 
Bibliographical Projects" appears for the first 
time, summarizing the Library's participation 
in both national and international attempts at 
bibliographic control. A section on "Ex-
ternal Relations," a part of the Report for the 
first time in 1950, reappears and serves to 
underline the importance of this phase of the 
Library's activity, in which it is frequently 
the major representative abroad of the pro-
fession in this country. The Report turns 
also to the internal organization of the Li-
brary and traces the development of the Serial 
Record, the means by which control is sought 
over the 2,000,000 serial items which are re-
ceived annually. The figures given for the 
collections indicate some 31,000,000 items now 
in the library, of which 9,500,000 are volumes 
and pamphlets. 

T h e 19th edition of Doctoral Dissertations 
Accepted by American Universities: I951-
1952, compiled by Arnold H . Trotier and 
Marian Harman, has been published by the 
H . W . Wilson Co. (269P., $5.00). T h e new 
volume lists a total of 7661 theses, a number 
exceeding last year's total by 184 and the pre-
vious year's by 1 1 5 1 . 

The Yale University Library has the fol-
lowing publications available for sale: The 
Journal of John Udell ($4.00) ; The William 
Robertson Coe Collection of Western Ameri-
cana, by E d w a r d Eberstadt ($3.00) ; A Stev-
enson Library, compiled by George L. McKay. 
2v. ($10.00 each) ; and The Scroll of 
Antiochus ($4.00). Available from the Yale 
University Press is the following: A Cata-
logue of Manuscripts in the Collection of 
Western Americana Founded by William 
Robertson Coe. Yale University Library. 
Compiled by Mary C. Withington ($10.00). 

T h e Actes for the 18th session of the Inter-
national Library Committee, held in Copen-
hagen, September 25-27, 1952, have recently 
appeared. In addition to the records of the 
meetings, the volume contains the revised 
statutes of the International Federation of 
Library Associations. One of the changes 

JULY, 1953 333 



made is in the name of the executive body of 
the association, which is now to be known as 
the International Library Council. Included 
in the annexes to the Actes are reports by 
L . Brummel on international library loans 
and on union catalogs, by J . H . P. Pafford on 
visits and exchanges of librarians, and by 
Mme. Suzanne Briet on the education of 
librarians and documentalists. T h e 1953 ses-
sion of the Council was held in Vienna, June 
10-13. 

Henry Schuman, Inc., 20 E. 70th St., New 
Y o r k City 2 1 , is now issuing Schuman's Col-
lege Paper Backs, a series of brief historical 
studies. Priced at $1.00 each, the first five 
titles are: IVhat is History? and Social Evo-
lution (both by V . Gordon Childe), From 
Savagery to Civilization, by Grahame Clark, 
The Decline of the Roman Empire in the 
iVest, by Frank W . Walbank, and Feudal 
Order, by Marion Gibbs. 

T w o new titles in The Life, Literature and 
Thought Library series of Barnes & Noble 
are Elizabethan Lyrics: A Critical Anthology, 
edited by Kenneth Muir, and English Pastoral 
Poetry, from the Beginnings to Marvell, edited 
by Frank Kermode. Each is priced at $2.50. 

T h e tenth in a series of publications planned 
to help fill the gaps in American information 
on Iron-Curtain Europe is Mid-Europe: A 
Selective Bibliography, compiled by D r . Jirina 
Sztachova, issued by the Mid-European 
Studies Center of the National Committee for 
a Free Europe, Inc. 

A C R L Monographs 
Publication is announced of the following: 
# 8 . Bibliographical Style Manuals: a 

Guide to their Use in Documentation and 
Research, by M a r y R. Kinney, assoc. prof, of 
Library Science at Simmons College (price 
60^). This will be of special importance to 
librarians giving instruction in the use of the 
library, doing reference work, and to all people 
doing research work in libraries or scholarly 
writing. It has particular usefulness to special 
librarians and documentalists. 

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Personnel 
R O B E R T W . S E V E R A N C E , president of the 

Association of College and Reference L i -
braries, became deputy director of the Army 

Library in the Penta-
gon at the end of 
March. In so doing 
M a j o r Severance re-
verted to inactive 
status in the Air 
Force, where he had 
been serving for two 
years as information 
services officer at the 
Human Resources 
Research Center, 
Lackland Air Force 
Base, San Antonio, 

Texas. He also resigned his position as 
director of the Baylor University Library, 
which he has held since 1940. 

Born in Florence, South Carolina in 1907, 
President Severance received his B.A. from 
Furman in 1928 and M . A . from the U n i v e r -
sity of Virginia in 1929. A f t e r two years of 
teaching history at Judson College he went 
to George Peabody College for his B.S. in 
L.S. He served on the staffs of the Lawson 
McGhee Library (Knoxville) and North 
Carolina State College Library (Raleigh), 
before he became librarian and professor of 
library science at John B. Stetson University 
DeLand, Florida, in 1936. He left this 
position in 1940 to go to Baylor. He served 
in the Army Air Force during the war and is 
a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts 
(British). 

M r . Severance is a past president of the 
Florida Library Association and the T e x a s 
Library Association and has served in numer-
ous other capacities in these associations as 
well as the American Library Association and 
A C R L . He is a past editor of the Texas 
Library Journal and has been active in the 
American Association of University Profes-
sors. He has three children, all of whom 
are graduating from school this year (one each 
from grammar school, junior high, and high 
school). Also, if you please, M r s . Severance 
will be in cap and gown for a second M . A . 
Consuming personal interests are golf, camp-
ing trips, and a very complete collection of 
editions of Samuel Butler's Hudibras. 

T o his new position M r . Severance brings 
experience in military needs and methods, a 
sound knowledge of research library opera-
tions, and a very unusual background of 
lea'dership in state and national professional 
circles. The Pentagon library has in the past 
ten years become an important part of national 
defense. Those who know Bob only by 
reputation will be pleased that one of his 
professional attainments has accepted this re-
sponsibility; those of us who have in one way 
or another worked with him will feel that the 
Army has done extraordinarily well in filling 
this position. His sound professional judg-
ment, tact, analytical powers, sense of re-
sponsibility, and warm, human heart combine 
to win the respect of all and the devotion of 
those who work under him.—Arthur T. 
Hamlin. 

D R . A N D R E W E A T O N , formerly associate 
director of libraries at Louisiana State Uni-
versity, is now director of libraries, Washing-
ton University, St. Louis. 

Dr. Eaton served six years at L . S. U. as 
associate director of libraries and one year 
as chief reference librarian. Previously he 

held positions in the 
Rochester Public Li-
brary and the L a w -
rence College Library. 
Dr. Eaton is a grad-
uate of the College 
of Wooster (A.B., 
1935), of the Uni-
versity of Michigan 
L i b r a r y S c h o o l 
(A.B.L.S., 1936), and 
of the Graduate L i -
brary School of the 
University of Chicago 

(Ph.D., 1944). In addition to serving as ad-
ministrator of branch libraries and assisting 
the director of libraries in studying library 
research needs, he edited Newspaper Files in 
the Louisiana State University Library (1947) 
and List of Scientific and Technical Serials in 
Louisiana State University Library (1949), 
and has had over-all charge of developing the 
library's program of filming Louisiana news-
papers. This program is described by Dr. 
Eaton in some detail in a recent article en-

Alajor Severance 

Andreiu Eaton 

JULY, 1953 335 



titled " T o w a r d a State-Wide Newspaper 
Microfilming Program" (College and Re-
search Libraries, January, 1 9 5 3 ) . 

During summer sessions D r . Eaton has 
taught in library schools at Columbia Univer-
sity ( 1 9 4 7 ) , at Florida State University 
( 1 9 4 8 ) , Louisiana State University Library 
School (1949), and the University of North 
Carolina ( 1 9 5 2 ) . During the past year, he 
served as chairman of the Louisiana State 
University Press Committee. He has also 
served as a member of the important Board 
on Resources of American Libraries (Ameri-
can Library Association), the executive board 
of the Louisiana Library Association, the 
board of directors of the Association of Col-
lege and Reference Libraries, and the Council 
of the American Library Association. 

D r . Eaton has made a splendid record at 
L . S. U. T h e library staff wishes him and 
his family continued success and happiness in 
his new position.—Guy R. Lyle. 

On April 1, 1953, D r . Hensley C. Wood-
bridge, formerly of the reference department 
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, became 
head librarian of M u r r a y State College at 
M u r r a y , Kentucky. D r . Woodbridge received 
his A . B . at the College of William and M a r y 
in 1943, his Ph.D. in Romance Languages 
from the University of Illinois in 1950, and his 
M . S . in L . S . from the University of Illinois 
in 1 9 5 1 . He brings to M u r r a y a valuable 
background of research in Hispanic philology, 
and he has published several articles, reviews, 
and bibliographies of significance in Italica, 
Hispania, Modern Language Journal, Library 
Quarterly, Books Abroad, Romanic Review, 
and other scholarly journals. D r . Wood-
bridge's new associates at M u r r a y will find 
that he combines a keen sense of humor with 
his competence as a librarian and a scholar, 
and he is a profound believer in the humane 
tradition of librarianship.—Lawrence S. 
Thompson 

Appointments 
Ruth Babcock is serials librarian of the 

University of Washington. 
James G . Baker, formerly assistant director 

and head of the catalog department, Alabama 
Polytechnic Institute Library, is now chief 
of the catalog and order departments of the 
Arnold Engineering Development Center, 
Tullahoma, Tennessee. 

Rose Boots is professorial lecturer at the 
Pratt Institute Library School, where she will 
teach the course in special libraries. 

M r s . Annie Louise Bowman is appointed 
reference librarian of the Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute. 

M r s . Enid Parker Bryan is librarian of 
Shorter College, Rome, Georgia. 

Mildred W . Davis is periodical librarian 
of the University of Mississippi Library. 

Arthur S. Devolder is head of the circula-
tion department of the University of Oregon 
Library. 

Jeanette H . Foster, formerly librarian of 
Indiana University's Institute for Sex Re-
search, is reference librarian at the University 
of Kansas City. 

Ralph H . Hopp is assistant director for ad-
ministration and readers services, University 
of Minnesota Library. 

Wayne K . Howell, formerly head of the 
circulation department, Alabama Polytechnic 

Institute Library, is now with the Audio-
Visual Department of the Western Illinois 
Teachers College, Macomb. 

T h e following staff changes have been 
made in the University of Kansas L i b r a r y : 
K a y E w a r t is head of the undergraduate 
library services; John Glinka is head of the 
newly organized preparations department; 
Joyce M c L e o d is head of the reference de-
partment; Robert M . Mengel is special bibli-
ographer in the Ralph M . Ellis Collection of 
Ornithology and Rare Books; John M . 
Nugent is head of the circulation department; 
and, Robert L . Quinsey is chief of reader 
service. 

James Victor Jones is now assistant di-
rector of libraries, St. Louis University. 

Hilda G . Kolpin is librarian of Susque-
hanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. 

Clayton D . Loughran is librarian of the 
Institute of Languages and Linguistics of 
Georgetown University. 

Samuel Marino, formerly serials librarian 
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is assistant 
director of the University of Mississippi L i -
brary. 

John David Marshall is reference librarian 
at Clemson College. 

J a y Monaghan is consultant for 1953 to the 
endowed Wyles Collection on Lincoln, the 

336 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Civil W a r , and American expansion at Santa 
Barbara College of the University of Cali-
fornia. 

David Lewis Moore is assistant librarian in 
charge of the Carnegie Endowment Collection, 
George Washington University Library. 

Velva Jeanne Osborn is counselor li-
brarian in the Department of Library Instruc-
tion and Advisement at the University of 
Illinois, Chicago Undergraduate Division. 

William Powell is librarian of the Pasadena 
(California) College Library. 

Doris Ransom, formerly of the Copyright 
Cataloging Division of the Library of Con-
gress, is assistant catalog librarian at Oregon 
State College. 

Elizabeth L . Read is reclassification li-
brarian of the University of Mississippi. 

J . Mitchell Reames, formerly reference li-
brarian at Clemson College? is assistant 
librarian in charge of readers' services, 
Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, 
Louisiana. 

Benton F . Scheide, formerly assistant circu-
lation librarian at Oregon State College, is 
head circulation librarian of the Alabama 

Polytechnic Institute. 
Joseph M . Simmons is assistant acquisi-

tions librarian at Oregon State College. 
George Smisor is order librarian of the 

University of California Library, Riverside, 
California. 

Emma C. F . Smith is reference librarian of 
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania. 

Joseph Sprug, head of the catalog depart-
ment of the Mullen Library, Catholic Uni-
versity of America, is on leave to serve as 
editor of the Catholic Periodical Index. 

Alice Tanner is law librarian of the Uni-
versity of Kansas City. 

Warren M . Tsuneishi is curator of the F a r 
Eastern Collection of the Y a l e University 
Librarian. 

David R. Watkins, formerly librarian of the 
College of St. Thomas, is principal librarian, 
reference department, University of Minne-
sota Library. 

David H. Webb is instructor, University of 
Chicago Graduate Library School. 

Joyce Wright is librarian of Reed College, 
Portland, Ore. 

Retirements 
L e N o i r Dimmitt, director of the University of T e x a s Extension Loan 

Library from 1917 to 1 9 5 1 , has recently retired. 

Necrology 
Suda Lorena Bane, archivist of the Herbert 

Hoover archives in the Hoover Institute and 
Library of Stanford University, died on No-
vember 19, 1952 at the age of 66. 

Herbert Eugene Bolton, director of the 
Bancroft Library of the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley from 1916 to 1940, died 
on January 30, 1953 at the age of 83. 

Pierce Butler, professor emeritus in the 
Graduate Library School at the University of 
Chicago, died on March 28, 1953, as the re-
sult of injuries received in an automobile 
accident near Burlington, North Carolina, on 
March 26. Also killed in the same accident 
was George F . Bentley, assistant to the li-
brarian of the University of North Carolina. 
T h e car, driven by M r . Bentley, was involved 
in a collision with a tractor truck. 

A t the time of his death, D r . Butler was 
visiting professor in the University of North 
Carolina School of Library Science for the 
spring quarter. A special issue in his honor of 
the Library Quarterly, including a biographi-
cal sketch by Stanley Pargellis, was published 
in J u l y , 1952. 

Phyllis Carroll, senior reference assistant 
who was on leave from the Columbia College 
Library, died at her home in Hartford, Conn., 
November 13, 1952, after a long illness. 

Henry Fickus, director of research at the 
Peabody Library, Baltimore, died on Decem-
ber 22, 1952. M r . Fickus had been connected 
with the library for thirty-nine years. 

Andrew Keogh, librarian of Y a l e Univer-
sity from 1916 to 1938, died on February 14, 
1953, at the age of 84. 

JULY, 1953 337 



M r s . Josephine Golden Morton, librarian 
of the Howard University Medical School, 
died on October 19, 1952. 

Louise Ophuls, librarian of the Lane 
Medical Library of Stanford University until 

Foreign 
Francesco Barberi, secretary of the Italian 

Association for Libraries and formerly di-
rector of the Biblioteca Angelica, has been 
appointed Inspector of State Libraries in the 
Italian Ministry of Public Instruction. 

Giorgio De Gregori, treasurer of the 
Italian Association for Libraries, was recently 
appointed Soprintendente alle Biblioteche for 
the provinces of Abruzzo and Molise in Pes-
cara. 

On September 1, 1952 Eric Holmberg re-
tired as librarian of Abo Akademi. 

William Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist 

J939, died on January 16, 1953. 
Henry Spaulding Parsons, who retired as 

chief of the Serials Division of the Library of 
Congress in 1947, died on November 2 1 , 1952, 
at the age of 75. 

Libraries 
since 1948, has been appointed National L i -
brarian of Canada. Raymond Tanghe, li-
brarian of the University of Montreal, has 
been appointed assistant librarian. 

Gina Risoldi, formerly assistant director 
of the University of Bologna Library, has 
been appointed Soprintendente alle Biblioteche 
for the provinces of Bologna, Romagna, and 
Marche. 

Anna Saitta, formerly director of the Biblio-
teca Marucelliana in Florence, has been ap-
pointed directftr of the Biblioteca Angelica 
in Rome. 

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