College and Research Libraries


Brief of Minutes 
A C R L Board of Directors 
Meeting, June 21, 1953, in Los Angeles. 

Present were officers, directors, chairmen 
of sections and committees, and A C R L repre-
sentatives on A L A Council. President Sever-
ance presided. An agenda with supporting 
documents had previously been mailed to all 
present, as well as to many large research 
libraries, A L A officers, and others. A very 
few copies are on hand at A C R L headquarters 
and will be loaned to members on request. 

A f t e r calling the meeting to order, Presi-
dent Severance discussed the problem pre-
sented by the lack of a quorum (8 voting 
members present, 1 1 required). It was 
agreed that the group should proceed as 
though a quorum was present. If a quorum 
is present on Wednesday, the actions can be 
formally approved; if not, they should be 
submitted by the Executive Secretary to vot-
ing members of the Board for a mail vote. 
This approval would make all actions legal. 
(Following the conference, all actions taken 
on June 21 and June 24 were submitted to 
the Board by mail, and all were approved). 

T h e first item of business was committee 
reports. Most of these cover essentially the 
same ground as in the annual report, which 
will appear in the January issue of C&RL, 
and are omitted from this brief for that 
reason. M r . Rovelstad reported that the 
Buildings Committee was working with the 
A L A Buildings Committee in planning a meet-
ing at the annual conference in 1954. Another 
institute would also probably be held in the 
fall or winter of 1953. On question, M r . 
Rovelstad reported that they had no "money 
problems." It was observed that this was a 
financially self-sustaining committee. 

Miss MacPherson felt that the Committee 
on Committees had been very useful and 
should be continued. T h e committee had 
made a special effort to avoid duplication of 
membership on committees. 

In connection with the report of the Com-
mittee on Financing C&RL, M r . Hamlin was 
questioned on current advertising income. He 
stated gross income per issue was approaching 
the $2000 mark. M r . L o w commented on the 

fact that advertisers use a slightly different 
address or key for each journal in which they 
advertise. They judge drawing power from 
the use of each variant address or key. 

M r . Maxfield reported that the ACRL 
Monographs at one time were not receiving 
enough manuscripts and now have trouble 
screening all that are sent. Sales were run-
ning as high as. 1200 an issue. Use of ACRL 
Monographs by library school classes and the 
office of a graduate school was noted. 

On question, M r . Maxfield outlined the 
billing procedure whereby a library is invited 
to pay a deposit of $5.00 in advance. This is 
not required. M r . Maxfield felt that by 
February the Monographs should be estab-
lished with their own separate budget; to do 
so in September would be a mistake. M r . 
Hamlin explained the procedure whereby M r . 
Maxfield receives orders and checks at his 
Chicago office and sends them over to the 
nearby A C R L office for processing. 

M r . Severance commented on the role of 
the Monographs in carrying the name of 
A C R L into other professions and other coun-
tries. Monograph # 4 had, for example, 
received considerable attention in architectural 
journals. 

T h e Board discussed at length the proposal 
that annual college library statistics be pub-
lished in the ACRL Monographs. Many felt 
that the statistics would not be as widely 
available and useful outside the journal. 
Monograph publication was desirable only if 
the statistics were to include many more in-
stitutions and perhaps more data on each. 
Chairman Purdy (not present) favored selec-
tion of institutions to be included. Generally 
speaking, almost any institution was invited 
to fill in the form and those which gave the 
fullest information were included. Those 
with better than average figures were ap-
parently favored slightly. M r . L o w com-
mented on the need to know, a year in ad-
vance, what statistics would be requested. 
M r . Maxfield stated that Monograph publica-
tion need not supplant C&RL publication, but 
only supplement it. 

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M r . Severance suggested that board mem-
bers express their opinion directly to Chair-
man Purdy. The group then turned their 
attention to the proposal that statistics on 
junior college libraries be compiled and pub-
lished. Miss MacPherson felt these would 
be very useful in library school work. T h e 
wide variations in types of junior colleges 
were noted. All comment was favorable to 
the proposal, which would be discussed further 
at the Junior College Libraries Section 
meeting. 

Kenneth LaBudde presented a petition that 
the College and University Libraries Division 
of the Missouri Library Association be ad-
mitted as an A C R L chapter. T h e Missouri 
people felt that this would bring the member-
ship closer to A C R L activities at the national 
level. It might facilitate use of individual 
members in committee work. It should, in 
general, help to reduce the great distance and 
barriers between local groups and the national 
headquarters and program. 

On question, M r . Severance noted that 
Illinois and New Jersey had state chapters, 
and Philadelphia an area chapter. M r . Eaton 
observed the requirements of the Bylaws were 
met by the application. It was voted that, 

the petition of the College and University 
Libraries Division, Missouri Library As-
sociation, for ACRL chapter status be 
granted. 

M r . Severance next presented the petition 
for chapter status from the Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania area which would include adjacent 
sections of West Virginia and Ohio. It was 
noted that M r . Nicholson, state representative 
from Ohio, favored the chapter as did M r . 
Fites, representative for West Virginia. 
Miss MacPherson stated that Pittsburgh was 
too f a r west to attend A C R L chapter meet-
ings in the eastern part of the state. There 
was further discussion of possible conflict 
with other library organizations and meetings. 
M r . Severance felt that people in an area 
knew best what was a natural grouping for 
them. They should be encouraged to get 
what seems best to them. It was emphasized 
that initiative in the formation of chapters had 
always come from the field and no "selling" 
had been done by A C R L . It was voted that, 

the petition be granted for a chapter in the 
tri-state area surrounding Pittsburgh, Pa. 

As requested in a communication from M r . 
Clift, it was voted that, 

the ACRL recommend to Mr. Clift the 
appointment of a "rapporteur," in the 
person of Mr. Hamlin, to act as contact 
between ALA and the new Section for 
Academic and Scientific Libraries of the 
International Federation of Library As-
sociations. 

In M a y the A L A Committee on Boards 
and Committees had supplied A C R L with 
various data regarding the need for rare book 
interests to be recognized within the organiza-
tion. It was suggested that the A C R L Board 
consider the matter and make recommenda-
tions to the committee. T h e data dealt with 
the lack of A L A committee, board or other 
unit where rare book problems and interests 
could be handled, and the need for some 
representation of this important area. T h e 
subject had been originally raised in a letter 
from M r . Ottemiller to M r . Clift. It was 
acknowledged that A L A did not cover this 
important field. T h e proposal raised many 
problems and was not entirely consistent. 
A f t e r considerable discussion of needs and 
existing organizations in the rare book field, 
it was agreed that no immediate solution was 
to be found. It was, therefore, voted that, 

an ACRL committee be appointed to study 
the proposals of Mr. Ottemiller concern-
ing the establishment of a group within 
ALA for librarians especially interested in 
rare books, and to ?nake recommendations 
to the ACRL Board of Directors. 

Meeting, IVednesday, June 24, 1953, in Los 
Angeles. 

Present were officers, directors, chairman 
of sections and committees and invited guests. 

T h e treasurer's report for the first nine 
months of the fiscal year was presented by 
M r . Shipman. This showed that $5,000 had 
been placed in a savings account to draw 
interest. M r . Hamlin noted that income of 
College and Research Libraries w a s consider-
ably above estimates and that net cost was 
reduced. Income from memberships looked 
very good. 

M r . Severance said that the budget to be 
adopted would probably be in the red but that 
A C R L funds in August would total approxi-
mately $15,000. 

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At the Midwinter Meeting, the Board of 
Directors had "instructed the Executive Sec-
retary to make a careful survey both of 
A C R L ' s present budget and financial status, 
and . . . to make recommendations . . . con-
cerning a financial cushion for future opera-
tions and the money A C R L might have avail-
able to spend for publications and other proj-
ects." This report had been prepared and 
circulated as a part of the Agenda. The 
report summarizes the growth of the A C R L 
treasury, states the normal requirements for 
working capital during a given year, and 
divides the problem of reserve funds into two 
parts: ( i ) basic reserve or safety factor which 
is a cushion against sharp drops in member-
ship dues or other revenue, a granary as it 
were against a year or two of drought; and 
( 2 ) reserve to finance occasional new ventures 
or special projects such as distribution of 
C&RL to the membership. Policies of A L A 
and S L A in regard to reserve funds are noted 
and the conclusion reached that the basic 
reserve factor required about $5000 (slightly 
less than 20% the current budget) ; the re-
serve for new projects should not normally 
grow above $9000 (roughly 2 5 % current 
budget plus budget for C&RL and Mono-
graphs). T o summarize, at the current level 
of expenditure the A C R L treasury should not 
go below $5000, except for emergency needs, 
nor should it accumulate more than $14,000 
except to finance very specific, special needs. 
For normal operations, it should fluctuate 
between those two levels. Ten percent of 
budgeted funds normally revert at the end of 
any one year. In the light of current income, 
M r . Hamlin estimated the budget for the 
year ahead could be as high as $27,500, but not 
any higher. This would make modest inroads 
on accumulated funds but should be safe and 
proper for a good program. 

Members of the Board reviewed previous 
discussions of financial policy. Would A C R L 
grow more dependent on outside groups if its 
treasury balance shrank? M r . Tauber stated 
that it was a lack of faith to keep a big 
surplus for any such reason. Since the As-
sociation had money and worthy projects that 
needed aid, it should use the money for them. 
A f t e r brief discussion, it was voted that, 

the financial policy as outlined by Mr. 
Hamlin in the Agenda be adopted. 

Attention next turned to the 1953-54 budget, 
which had been prepared by Treasurer Ship-
man and circulated in advance of the meeting 
(for budget as adopted, see page 438). 

In connection with income, there was brief 
speculation as to whether membership would 
decline because of the new reference section 
of the Public Libraries Division. 

Under expenditures, M r . Hamlin noted the 
membership dues of the American Council on 
Education had been increased and the Board 
authorized expenditure of $50.00. At the 
request of Miss Scarborough, the Junior Col-
lege Libraries Section was voted $150. M r . 
Betts reported on the increased cost of the 
Pure and Applied Science Section Newsletter. 
It was felt that newsletters were very useful 
and sectional activity should be encouraged. 
T h e Board voted to increase the P A S S ap-
propriation to $250. 

T h e item of $900 for general administra-
tive (officer) expense was questioned. M r . 
Severance explained that this provided travel 
(principally for the president). T r a v e l of the 
Executive Secretary was a separate item. 
Comparison was made to the travel funds for 
A L A staff. M r . Hamlin stated that much 
A L A travel was charged to project and other 
budgets and was not charged to the individ-
ual's travel account. With few exceptions all 
A C R L travel is paid from these two travel 
budgets. 

T h e budgeted salary for clerk-typist was 
raised from $2800 to $3050 at the request 
of M r . Hamlin. He had every hope of filling 
the position at the lower salary. The increase 
for headquarters office equipment was ex-
plained as principally to provide a desk for 
the new employee and several chairs. On 
question, M r . Shipman reported that at this 
point the Board had approved expenditures of 
$23,910 and the estimated income was $22,360. 

President Severance requested that sub-
vention (subsidy) of College and Research 
Libraries should be considered along with two 
other problems involving the journal. For 
years the division had paid A L A to handle 
production of the journal. This involved the 
work of styling, proof-reading, ad layouts, 
ordering reprints and many other steps which 
must be taken after the editorial work is com-
pleted but before manufacture of an issue. 
A L A wished to be relieved of this work. 
Furthermore, advertising had increased to 

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such an extent that the work involved had 
become a heavy burden on the A C R L office. 
M r . Hamlin, therefore, proposed that a new 
staff member be hired to handle the production 
and advertising work as well as minor but 
growing problems of the ACRL Monographs. 

T h e Executive Secretary also recommended 
that the two part-time college girls now used 
on the Monographs and to process member-
ship records be replaced by a full-time person. 

M r . Hamlin stated that the publication of 
C&RL was a critical matter on which the 
Board must take some action, as production 
of the October issue would begin the first of 
August. H e would find part-time help to get 
that issue out and hoped, with Board approval, 
to have a new staff member to take over the 
work on the January issue. This person 
should be a trained librarian with some pro-
duction or publishing training or experience. 
On question, M r . Hamlin reported the current 
C&RL budget as $ 1 1 , 3 5 0 . Net returns from 
advertising (per issue) was running above 
$1700. He, therefore, estimated that a year 
should bring in about $8000 (4 issues; 20 
pages of ads each) once advertising solicitation 
and management was in the hands of someone 
who would give it more attention than he 
could. Other major income was from sub-
scriptions (currently slightly under $3000) 
and A C R L subsidy ($3750 authorized). T h e 
cost of production (about $1000) would be 
saved if done by an A C R L staff member. 

M r . Tauber commented that advertising 
should not be increased so as to reduce the 
space for content. A limit might be necessary. 
He agreed that M r . Hamlin should not have 
to do all the work with advertising. M r . 
Branscomb stated that the issue was one of 
spending more money in order to free the 
Executive Secretary so that he could do other 
Association work. 

It was obvious that the step would require 
use of reserve funds (deficit budgeting) and 
estimates were carefully considered. M r . 
Hamlin felt that the Association was suffi-
ciently strong to take this risk and was con-
vinced that increased usefulness of head-
quarters, because of additional help, would be 
reflected in Association income. 

Staff tenure was discussed. Retrenchment 
might be necessary after a few years. M r . 
Severance stated that A C R L staff is part of 
A L A and that M r . Clift's approval of the 

new position would be needed. A L A staff 
had tenure but, of course, no staff member 
was retained when the money to pay the salary 
just didn't exist. M r . Hamlin stated that 
the Assistant Editor of the ALA Bulletin was 
Grade 1 1 at A L A (starting salary $4909) 
and so f a r as he could determine the job best 
fitted the same classification. 

M r . McAnally felt that the only course was 
to add the new staff member if publications 
are to remain a principal Association activity. 
M r . Branscomb felt that A C R L might limp 
along without but that it was too strong to 
limp. On query from Miss MacPherson, M r . 
Hamlin stated that he did not think A L A 
would force A C R L to raise the position grade 
higher than 1 1 . M r . Hamlin figured the new 
position would cost about $5800 the first year 
and this includes some new equipment, travel, 
etc. About $3300 of this could be properly 
charged to the separate C&RL budget. T h e 
net cost to the Association was approximately 
$2500. 

Before taking action on the new position, 
President Severance requested that other de-
mands on the treasury be considered. 

M r . Maxfield, who spoke for the Publica-
tions Committee, suggested a small fund to 
assist authors in the preparation of manu-
scripts. Since only a few Publications Com-
mittee members had been present to discuss 
this, the request could not be made officially. 

M r . Severance briefly described new prog-
ress toward a program to reissue out-of-print 
books. Alton Keller had outlined to him 
plans for an office in New Y o r k and regular 
canvass of librarians to determine what o.p. 
titles were most needed. Publishers were 
cooperating. Endorsement of the program 
was sought as well as modest financial sup-
port ($ioo-$5oo suggested). 

M r . Tauber brought up Columbia's need 
for at least $2000 in order to bring out a new 
edition of Who's Who in Library Service. I t 
was voted that, 

the request for an additional professional 
staff member in the ACRL office as made 
in the Agenda be granted. 

M r . Hamlin thanked the Board for its 
action and promised to do his level best to 
keep expenditures down and to advance other 
phases of the work at headquarters. 

T h e Board next considered other requests 

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for funds. Action on Who's Who in Library 
Service could not be deferred. T h e appeal to 
library associations had suggested ten cents 
per member as a contribution ($450-$500 for 
A C R L ) . M r . Tauber considered this a max-
imum figure. Miss Gifford recommended 
support and the amount was discussed. It 
was finally voted to add $200 to the budget 
f o r support of Who's Who in Library Service. 

The Board turned to the out-of-print books 
project. Miss Gifford described the need of 
a central office to do such things as clear 
copyright, contact publishers, etc., as well as 
gather information about titles to be reprinted. 
The committee would take over many prob-
lems now handled by a number of committees 
that duplicate each other. M r . Tauber 
thought that the book publishers ought to take 
care of these needs. Since there was no im-
mediate need for money, the Board felt that 
an expression of interest and encouragement 
was sufficient at this time and financial sup-

port could be considered later on. 
Noted for the record: this activity comes 

under the Board on Acquisition of Library 
Materials, of which Alton Keller is chairman, 
through the Board's sub-committee which 
carries the title of Joint Committee of Librar-
ians and Publishers, Jerome K . Wilcox, sub-
committee chairman. It was voted, 

that ACRL direct the Executive Secretary 
to write a letter to Mr. Keller and his 
group indicating ACRL interest in the 
out-of-print book reprints project. 

In reply to a question, M r . Hamlin said it 
was customary to adopt the A C R L budget at 
this time and to adopt the budget for C&RL 
at Midwinter. It was voted that, 

the 1953-54 budget be adopted (as shown 
in the Agenda) with the amendments 
(noted above). 

Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary 

Linn Collection on Loan at Ohio State 
T h e Ohio State University Libraries have received, as a ten year loan from the Linn Estate, 

the T a l f o u r d P. Linn Collection of Cervantes material. T h e collection, though relatively small 
( 1 1 6 items in 301 volumes), is choice and represents the life-long interest of a discriminating 
collector of Columbus and Zanesville, Ohio. Consisting mainly of editions and translations 
of C e r v a n t e s ' masterpiece, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, the collection, 
with its many beautiful bindings and the outstanding series of illustrations by such noted 
Quixote illustrators as Dore, Vierge, Coypel and Cruikshank, also reflects M r . Linn's interest 
in the physical book as a work of art. T h e eighty editions of the Quixote in the collection 
well depict the bibliographic history of this work, ranging from the third Cuesta printing of 
1605 to an American trade edition of 1927, including such items as the Real Academia Espanola 
Anniversary edition and numerous translations into many languages, including Polish and J a p -
anese. 

Other items of interest are an edition printed on leaves of cork, a copy of the first English 
translation by Shelton, and a first edition of the "False Quixote" by Avellenada. Nor, though 
concentrating on the Quixote, did M r . Linn ignore the other works of Cervantes. Also included 
in the collection are an eighteenth century edition of the pastoral La Galatea, two 18th century 
editions of the Exemplary Novels, and a 1 6 5 2 E n g l i s h t r a n s l a t i o n of Persiles y Sigismunda. 
As Professor Claude E. Anibal noted in his address accepting the collection on behalf of the 
university, it will be of interest not only to students of Spanish Literature and of the novel, 
but is also a valuable source of information on the history of the book, and the art and tech-
niques of translation and illustration, reflecting varying states of mind and points in human 
outlook by the manner in which an incident is handled by a translator or, by which events are 
chosen for reproduction by an illustrator. It is hoped that the T a l f o u r d P. Linn Collection, 
now being housed in the Modern Languages Graduate Library, will become a permanent part 
of the Ohio State University Libraries at the end of the ten year loan period and that it will 
give rise to many interesting studies on the "part of the students and scholars whose examination 
and use are invited. 

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A C R L 
General Session Minutes 

The A C R L General Session was held in 
the Bovard Auditorium, the University of 
Southern California, on Tuesday, June 23. 
President Severance presided. 

The principal address, " A Dean's Inven-
tory," was given by Dr. T r a c y E. Strevey, 
dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sci-
ences, U.S.C. He was introduced by D r . 
Lewis F . Stieg who was in charge of A C R L 
program arrangements for the Annual Con-
ference. 

Sallie J . Farrell of the A L A Federal Rela-
tions Committee reported briefly on the status 
of legislation then before Congress of profes-
sional interest to librarians. Principal items 
were the library services bill, the customs 
simplifications bill, postal rates for audio-
visual materials, and repeal of book rate. She 
noted the importance to libraries of the pro-
posed Commission to Study Federal Grants 
in Aid. 

The General Session was convened into a 
business meeting by President Severance. He 
announced the new officers for next year: 
President, Harriet D. MacPherson; Vice 
President and President-Elect, Guy R. L y l e ; 
Director-at-large, David J o l l y ; A C R L Repre-
sentatives on A L A Council: Lewis C. Bran-
scomb, Arthur M . McAnally, Edward C. 
Heintz, Clifford R. Armstrong, Irene L . 
C r a f t , Felix E. Hirsch, Frances B. Jenkins, 
and David Otis Kelley. ( F o r a full list of 
A C R L officers for the current year, see the 
front of this issue.) 

M r . Shipman made a brief report on the 
treasury. T h e balance on hand June 1 was 
$12,220.46 (not counting allotment credits at 
A L A ) . 

Andrew J . Eaton as chairman of the Com-
mittee on Constitution and Bylaws presented 
two amendments to the constitution. Both 
had been approved by the membership at the 
1952 New Y o r k meeting; they become effec-
tive if passed by two-thirds vote of members 
present. 

A t present the constitution provides that 
changes in it or in the bylaws can be made 
only upon written recommendation of the 

Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. It 
was felt this provision gave too much authority 
to a committee whose function should be 
primarily advisory. M o r e authority for con-
stitutional amendment should be given to the 
membership and the Board of Directors. His 
report continued: 

" T o restrict the authority of the com-
mittee, it has been recommended that the 
phrase 'upon a written recommendation 
of the Committee on Constitution and 
Bylaws appointed by the President' be 
deleted from Article I X and Article X of 
the Constitution. These articles would 
then read as follows: 

A R T I C L E I X . BYLAWS. 

Sec. 1. Adoption, Suspension, and Amend-
ments. Bylaws may be adopted, sus-
pended, and amended by a majority vote 
of the members of the association attend-
ing any general session of any annual 
conference or casting ballots in a vote 
by mail. 

A R T I C L E X . A M E N D M E N T S . 
Sec. I. This constitution may be amended 

by a tivo-thirds vote of members present 
at any general session of two successive 
annual conferences not less than four 
months apart, provided that notice of 
the proposed amendment is published in 
the official publication of the association 
not less than one month before final 
consideration. 

" T h e effective of these amendments will 
be to prevent the Committee on Constitu-
tion and Bylaws from exercising veto 
power over proposed changes in the Con-
stitution and Bylaws. It is understood 
that the committee may express its opinions 
on proposed changes, but that it will act 
upon instructions from the Board of 
Directors." 

M r . Eaton then moved that the phrase, 
"upon a written recommendation of the Com-
mit'tee on Constitution and Bylaws appointed 
by the president," be deleted from Article I X 

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and Article X of the Constitution. The 
motion was duly seconded and carried without 
dissent. 

M r . Eaton reported that the Board of 
Directors had instructed his committee to 
prepare an amendment to the Bylaws, Article 
V , which relates to chapters. In order to 
make possible A C R L chapter affiliation for 
the Southeastern Library Association, the re-
quirement that "at least one meeting shall be 
held each year" would have to be changed to 
permit biennial meeting. The committee 
recommendation was designed to retain the 
requirement of annual meeting for all chap-
ters except those regional or other groups 
which normally meet only once in two years. 
M r . Eaton moved that, 

the phrase "or every two years in the case 
of regional or other groups which normally 
hold biennial meetings" be added to Article 
v, (3). 

The motion was seconded and passed with-
out dissent. 

T h e executive secretary was introduced and 

spoke briefly about two areas of association 
activity. The publications program had 
grown enormously in size and usefulness. 
C&RL is a bigger journal, a better journal, a 
less expensive journal than ever before. M o r e 
than twice as many copies are distributed than 
was the case 15 months ago. T h e ACRL 
Monographs have likewise grown to major 
importance almost overnight. The association 
was doing relatively little in a direct way to 
raise the effectiveness of college library serv-
ice. So far, its work had been largely limited 
to the collection of information, particularly 
statistics, and to advice to institutions that 
presented problems. A C R L must do a great 
deal more in this area. 

In closing the meeting, President Severance 
requested members to express their opinion of 
the experimental " A C R L D a y " at the Annual 
Conference. He noted the fine cooperation of 
Dr. Stieg and his assistants (particularly 
David LeClaire) in making the many plans 
and arrangements. 

Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary 

Joint Dedication of T w o New BuiHings 
The joint dedication of the new library buildings at the University of Georgia and the 

Georgia Institute of Technology will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 
19, 20, and 2 1 , 1953, in Athens and Atlanta. 

The Hah Dunlap Little Memorial Library of the University of Georgia will be dedicated 
on Thursday morning. Dr. O. C. Aderhold, president of the university will preside. Governor 
Herman Talmadge and W . Porter Kellam, director of libraries, will take part in the cere-
monies. Ralph E. Ellsworth, director of libraries at Iowa State University, will give a 
dedicatory address on " T h e University Library, Center of Study and Research." 

Thursday afternoon and evening and Friday afternoon will be devoted to a symposium on 
"Availability and Use of Research Materials." Speakers include William T . Couch, editor, 
Collier's Encyclopedia; Herman Fussier, director of libraries, the University of Chicago; Jack 
Dalton, librarian, the Alderman Library, University of Virginia; Keyes D. Metcalf, director, 
the Harvard University L i b r a r y ; Robert B. Downs, director of libraries, Unive'rsity of Illinois; 
Verner W . Clapp, acting librarian of Congress; and Ralph R. Shaw, librarian, the Department 
of Agriculture. 

The Georgia Institute of Technology will have open house and reception in the Price Gilbert 
Library on Friday afternoon. A t a dinner that evening, Dr. Alan T . Waterman, director, 
National Science Foundation, will speak on "Research and the Scholar." 

The Price Gilbert Library will be dedicated on Saturday, November 2 1 . President Blake 
Ragsdale Van Leer of Georgia Tech will preside. Participants include Governor Talmadge, 
M r s . J . Henley Crosland, director of libraries, and John R. Burchard, dean of faculties at 
M . I . T . , who will deliver the dedicatory address on " T h e Role the Georgia Tech Library Can 
Play in the Industrial Development of the State and the South." 

Architects, librarians, and friends of libraries and higher education are cordially invited to 
the ceremonies at both institutions and to the symposium. 

The papers will be published in the April issue of Library Trends. M r s . Crosland and 
M r . Kellam will serve as joint editors of that issue. 

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A C R L Budget for 1953-54 
A s A D O P T E D BY T H E B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S I N L O S A N G E L E S , J U N E 2 4 , 1 9 5 3 

E S T I M A T E D I N C O M E $ 2 2 , 3 6 0 . 0 0 

A L A allotments to A C R L from dues $21,000.00 
Executive Secretary, T I A A premium dues 360.00 
ACRL Monographs • 1,000.00 

E X P E N D I T U R E S 
C&RL Subvention $ 3,000.00 
Annual Conference Expenses 250.00 
A C R L State Representatives 250.00 
Council of Natl. Library Assocs. dues 10.00 
C N L A American Standards Committee Z 3 9 .5.00 
American Council on Education (Membership) 50.00 
Joint Committee on Library W o r k as a Career 25.00 
Cooperative Committee on Buildings study expense 300.00 
Annual Ballot 150.00 

S E C T I O N E X P E N S E S 

College $ 75-00 
Junior College 150.00 
Pure and Applied Science .' 250.00 
Reference 125.00 
Teacher Training 100.00 
University 75-00 

C O M M I T T E E E X P E N S E S 

Administrative Procedures $ 100.00 
Audio-Visual 75-00 
Buildings 500.00 
Constitution and Bylaws 25.00 
Preparations and Qualifications for Librarianship 25.00 
Committee on Selective Bibliography 50.00 
Statistics 150.00 

O F F I C E R S ' E X P E N S E S 
President $ 25.00 
Treasurer 50.00 
General Admin, including T r a v e l 900.00 
Executive Secretary T . I . A . A 720.00 
Salaries—Executive Secretary • . . . . $ 7,700.00 

Publications Officer 5,000.00 
Secretary 3,250.00 
Clerk-Typist 3,050.00 
Social Security, Group Ins., etc 300.00 

T r a v e l Expenses of Executive Secretary $ 1,250.00 
Addressograph Plates . 125.00 
N e w Office Equipment 300.00 
Communications, Supplies 600.00 

Grand T o t a l $29,010.00 

Please note: T h e salary figures given are not salaries actually paid; they are maximum figures author-
ized. Even with f u l l employment salaries paid will run about $ 1 0 0 0 less than the figures shown. 
Subvention to C&RL should actually be at least $ 1 0 0 0 less than the amount authorized since the new 
professional staff member will do production and perhaps other work formerly contracted for on the 
C & R L budget. These two adjustments alone reduce anticipated expenditures by at least $ 2 0 0 0 and so 
come within the recommended expenditure ceiling of $ 2 7 , 5 0 0 . 

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News from the Field 
Dartmouth College has 

Acquisitions, Gifts, acquired what is prob-
Collections ably the world's great-

est library on the polar 
regions, assembled during 30 years by the 
explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. T h e col-
lection represents a national asset of the 
highest order to be used in the development 
of the world's f a r northern regions. Pur-
chase of the Stefansson Collection, which had 
been on deposit in the Baker Library, Dart-
mouth, since December 1 9 5 1 , was made pos-
sible through the generosity of Albert Bradley 
of Greenwich, Conn., executive vice-president 
of General Motors Corporation. M r . Brad-
ley, a member of the class of 1 9 1 5 at Dart-
mouth, gave to the college the funds to buy 
the collection from D r . Stefansson, who is 
Arctic Consultant for the Dartmouth College 
Museum. This acquisition gives to the col-
lege a vital research tool to be used in con-
nection with its Northern Studies Program, 
now getting under way. 

T h e Stefansson Collection contains 25,000 
volumes, 20,000 pamphlets and many valuable 
manuscripts, dealing with the Arctic, the 
Antarctic and the permafrost areas of the 
world, both geographically and culturally. It 
includes information on the science, music, 
history, linguistics and folklore of these re-
gions. It has been estimated that one out of 
five published items in the collection is not to 
be found in the Library of Congress, and that 
40% of the collection's Russian material on 
the Arctic zone is equally rare. In addition, 
there is a large amount of unpublished ma-
terial dealing with the northern frontier. 
This includes manuscripts containing the re-
search work of students of northern regions 
as well as the extensive correspondence car-
ried on over many years by D r . Stefansson. 

The, University of Kansas Library has re-
cently acquired the general scientific and 
botanical sector of the personal library of the 
late Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, botanist, 
collector, and bibliographer, retired professor 
at the University of Nebraska. Of his library 
of some 80,000 items, the Kansas University 
Library has received extraordinary collections 
in the history of botany, and relating to 
Rafinesque and Linnaeus. 

Fitzpatrick was an authority on Rafinesque, 
and the author of the standard bibliography 
of Rafinesque publications. The materials in 
Fitzpatrick's library forming the basis for this 
bibliography constitute one of the most com-
plete and important collections of its kind. 
T h e Fitzpatrick collection of Linnaeus is 
unusually rich, and is very possibly one of the 
best outside of the British Museum in Lon-
don. 

More than four hundred contributors have 
given to the Hobert Brady Memorial Book 
Fund established this year at Friends Uni-
versity, Wichita. T h e fund totals more than 
$2,000 and will be spent over a considerable 
period of time for books in the field of busi-
ness and economics. 

T h e University of Kansas Library has just 
arranged for the purchase of 30,000 volumes 
of books on economics, particularly the history 
and theory and bibliography of economics and 
related subjects from the John Crerar Library 
in Chicago. 

This transaction is in continuance of the 
Crerar's program to concentrate its services 
in the fields of science and technology and 
thus to dispose of out-of-scope books to other 
institutions. First preference has always 
been given to libraries in the Chicago area. 
The Kansas purchase retains in the middle 
west one of the world's great libraries in 
economics. 

The Crerar economics collection was built 
up diligently and strengthened particularly by 
two large purchases in the early twentieth 
century, one of the private library of M r . C. 
V . Geritsen of Holland, and the other the 
private library of Prof. Richard T . Ely of 
Wisconsin. In subsequent years, Professor 
H. S. Foxwell was advisor to the Crerar in 
continuing its collection. 

These 30,000 volumes will be added to 
about 50,000 already on hand in the Uni-
versity of Kansas Library, which has given 
special attention in recent years to the de-
velopment of its collection in economics. In 
consequence, the University of Kansas L i -
brary will have one of the more important 
economics libraries in this country. 

This transaction may be one of the largest 
acquisitions of economics material in the re-

OCTOBER, 1953 
40 7 



corded history of libraries. A particular ad-
vantage to Kansas in this purchase is that it 
secures a collection that is already cataloged 
and the catalog cards go with the purchase. 
Consequently, Kansas is not faced with a 
major cataloging problem as a result of the 
purchase. 

Y a l e has received a group of important 
early English printed books. T h e collection 
includes more than a dozen extremely rare 
volumes printed in England between 1483 and 
1637—including two by William Caxton, Eng-
land's first printer, whose publications have 
survived only in a small number of copies 
each; four books of equal rarity by Caxton's 
successors, Wynkyn de Worde, William de 
Machlinia, and Richard Pynson; and three 
early quarto editions of William Shakespeare's 
plays, one of Hamlet and two of King Henry 
the Fourth, Part One. These gifts bring to 
100 the number of books printed in England 
before 1640 which have been acquired by the 
Y a l e Library in the last year. T h e Library 
now has about 5,400 such volumes in its 
various collections. 

The University of Illinois Library, by ac-
quiring a first edition copy of John Milton's 
Of Education, one of the eight or nine in 
existence, has the only complete set of M i l -
ton's first editions. T h e University's Milton 
Collection numbers more than 3,000 volumes 
and represents 25 years of research by Profes-
sor Harris F . Fletcher, eminent Milton 
scholar. 

Radcliffe College is building a research 
library relating to the social and historical 
contributions of American women. Estab-
lished in 1944, the Women's Archives is col-
lecting material covering three centuries of 
women's education, occupations, political ac-
tivities, and family lives. T h e fields of medi-
cine, law, social reform, and religion also 
come within its scope. T h e Archives would 
welcome contributions of documents and 
books showing the growth of women's educa-
tion, and personal papers of individuals and 
records of educational progress are of par-
ticular interest. Funds are also welcome. 
F o r further information write to M r s . Rich-
ard Borden, director, Radcliffe Women's 
Archives, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, Mass. 

T h e Library of Florida State University 
has recently acquired the music library of the 
well-known conductor, composer and musi-

cologist, Everett B. Helm, of N e w Y o r k 
City. T h e collection includes the great music 
encyclopedias, standard reference works in 
music and bibliographies in English, French 
and German. There are also a large number 
of volumes of music history in French and 
German, biographies of famous musicians, 
books about music and the theory of music, 
rare scores and librettos. In addition to these 
there are several thousand pieces of music 
for piano, organ, and other instruments as well 
as vocal music, choral music, religious and 
secular, and folksongs in several languages. 

The libraries of the thirteen 
Conferences four year liberal arts col-

leges represented in the Iowa 
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference met for 
their second annual Workshop on M a y 15 
and 16, 1953, at Wartburg College, W a v -
erly. T h e program included discussions of 
the activities carried on by the Association of 
College and Reference Libraries, the College 
Section of the Iowa Library Association, and 
the American Association of Colleges for 
Teacher Education. T h e meeting began with 
a tour of the college campus and library and 
concluded with the conference track meet. 
Perna Lohn of Wartburg College Library 
was hostess, and O. M . Hovde of Luther 
College Library was chairman. 

T h e Ford Motor Company 
Miscellaneous Archives were dedicated at 

special ceremonies in Dear-
born, Michigan, on M a y 7. 

T h e Friends of the University of Pennsyl-
vania Library celebrated their twentieth an-
niversary on M a y 19. T h e celebration began 
in the University Library with a centenary 
exhibition of the publications of the firm of 
Martinus Nijhoff of the Hague. His Excel-
lency, Dr. J . H. van Roijen, Ambassador of 
the Netherlands, was represented by Jonkheer 
H. A . Teixeira de Mattos, First Secretary of 
the Embassy, who opened the exhibit formally 
in the afternoon. 

Following the exhibition opening, the 
Friends of the Library held a dinner meeting. 
M r . Lessing J . Rosenwald, the newly elected 
president of the Friends was introduced, and 
M r . Wilmarth Lewis of Farmington, Con-
necticut, Trustee of Y a l e University, spoke 

440 • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



briefly on " T h e Purpose of a Friends of the 
Library." 

T h e collection of Nijhoff publications has 
since been on exhibit at the Universities of 
North Carolina and Virginia, and will also 
be shown at Harvard University. 

T h e new fine arts building at Kansas Wes-
leyan University, Salina, has a library room 
which will be used mainly to house technical 
books on art and music, along with prints and 
scores. A small listening room opens off this 
room and will have two or three record play-
ers for the use of music students. 

D r . Elmer Belt, noted Los Angeles urologist 
and Leonardo bibliophile and collector, de-
livered the fourth series of Clendening Lec-
tures on the History and Philosophy of 
Medicine on M a y 4, 1953, at the University 
of Kansas campus in Lawrence and at the 
University Medical Center in Kansas City. 
In the first lecture, he discussed "Leonardo 
da Vinci's Technical Innovations and Dis-
coveries in Anatomy"; the second lecture was 
concerned with "Leonardo da Vinci's Studies 
of the Genito-Urinary System." 

Some three years ago, the College of Agri-
culture of the University of Nebraska and the 
U S D A Library engaged in a cooperative pro-
gram to provide general library services to 
the staff of the Department formerly served 
from the Department's Branch Library at 
Lincoln. T h e plan worked successfully and 
has now been extended so that substantially 
all general library services f o r U S D A ' s field 
personnel are provided by cooperative arrange-
ment with Agricultural Colleges and Experi-
ment Stations. » 

T h e University of California College of 
Agriculture at Davis serves the Department 
staff on the West Coast; the Oklahoma A & M 
College at Stillwater serves the staff in the 
southwest; the University of Florida Experi-
ment Station at Gainesville serves the south-
east; the University of Rhode Island at 
Kingston serves the northeast; and the Uni-
versity of Nebraska continues to serve the 
Northern Plain States. The Forest Products 
Laboratory Branch at Madison, Wisconsin, 
will continue to provide general services to 
the Department staff in the North Central 
States. T h e research library branches at 
Beltsville, at the four regional laboratories 
of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial 
Chemistry, and at the Forest Products labora-

tory, continue to be operated as part of the 
research institutions which they serve. 

This new arrangement provides for good 
general library services to the staff of the 
Department at somewhat less than half the 
cost of maintaining separate U S D A branches 
and in return provides some important serv-
ices, such as free photocopying service, to the 
cooperating institutions. 

T h e Detroit Public Library 
Publications has available copies of Labor 

Relations in the Automobile 
Industry: A Bibliography, compiled by R o -
berta McBride (1950, 6op., 25^). 

The Research Association of British Rub-
ber Manufacturers, 105-7 Lansdowne Road, 
Croydon, England, has available free copies 
of a "Systematic Classification of Scientific, 
Technological and Commercial Information 
on Rubber," originally prepared by T . R . 
Dawson. T h e classification, which allows for 
subdividing on a decimal basis, contains aux-
iliary tables which permit almost any material 
to be considered from the point of view of its 
manufacture, type, properties, testing, treat-
ment, or application. 

Charles E. Hamilton, chief cataloger, East 
Asiatic Library, University of California 
(Berkeley), has compiled a "Code for De-
scriptive Cataloging" of Oriental books (1953, 
vii, 2 i p . ) . 

T h e Bibliographical Society of the Uni-
versity of Virginia has issued the following 
p u b l i c a t i o n s : Maryland Imprints, 1801-1810, 
by Roger Pattrell Bristol (1953, 3iop., $7.50, 
$4.00 to members) ; A Preliminary Checklist 
of Tennessee Imprints, 1861-1866, by E l e a n o r 
Drake Mitchell (1953, 98p., $ 2 . 0 0 ) ; Corner-
stones of Confederate Collecting, by R i c h a r d 
Barksdale Harwell, 2d ed., with facsimiles 
and an introduction by Clifford Downey 
( I 9 5 3 > 35P-) $ 2 . 5 0 ) ; Testimony Against Pro-
phane Customs, by Increase Mather (re-
printed from the 1687 ed., 59p., $ 5 . 0 0 ) ; and 
English Prose Fiction, 1661-1700, by C h a r l e s 
C. Mish (1952, 87P., $ 1 . 0 0 ) . 

T h e Ford Motor Company has issued 
Rules Governing the TJse of Ford Motor 
Company Archives (1953, illus.). Henry E . 
Edmunds, archivist, has written of the archi-
val collections at Fair Lane in the American 
Archivist, April, 1952. 

The Library of the Chicago Teachers Col-

OCTOBER, 1953 
40 7 



lege and Chicago City J u n i o r College, W i l -
son Branch, of which F r i t z Veit is director, 
has issued a detailed, 8o-page mimeographed 
"Staff M a n u a l " of operations. T h e manual, 
which includes an index and sample forms, 
should be a useful management tool. 

T w o new Penguin Books (Baltimore 1 1 , 
M d . ) are The Four Gospels, a translation 
from the Greek by E . V . Rieu ( 1 9 5 3 , 25op., 
paper, 65^, cloth, 95^), and A Forgotten 
Kingdom, being a record of the results ob-
tained from the excavation of two mounds, 
Atchana and A1 M i n a , in the T u r k i s h Hatay, 
by Sir Leonard Woolley ( 1 9 5 3 , I9ip., illus., 
paper, 754, cloth, $ 1 . 9 5 ) . 

Volume X I I I , 1 9 5 1 , of Documents on 
American Foreign Relations, edited by R a y -
mond Dennett and Katherine D . Durant, has 
been issued for the W o r l d Peace Foundation 
by the Princeton University Press ( 1 9 5 3 , 
626p., $ 7 . 5 0 ) . T h i s is the final volume to 
appear as a responsibility of the W o r l d Peace 
Foundation. Subsequent volumes of this 
valuable series will be edited and produced 
by the Council on Foreign Relations and will 
appear as a complementary series to the 
Council's regular annual publication, The 
United States in World Affairs. 

T h e L i b r a r y of Congress has issued Edu-
cation in Western Germany, by H a n s W e n k e , 
of the L C Reference Department, European 
A f f a i r s Division ( 1 9 5 3 , I02p., $1.00, order 
from C a r d Division). 

T h o m a s P . Fleming has compiled Guide to 
the Literature of Medical Sciences. ( P r e -
liminary ed., 1953, I 3 i p . , $4.00) School of 
L i b r a r y Service, Columbia University, N e w 
Y o r k , N . Y . 

W a l t e r H a u s d o r f e r , librarian, Temple 
University, has an interesting analysis of 
" T u r n o v e r of Books" in his Annual Report, 
1951-1952. 

Vol. 3, N o . 4, October 1949-December 
1 9 5 2 of the A i r U n i v e r s i t y Periodical Index 
is a cumulative issue which contains a new 
pattern of subject headings. M o s t entries 
under " U . S . and U S A F " have been elimi-
nated and entry is directly under agency. 
Other modifications have been made to meet 
the special approach of researchers in aero-
nautics and related subjects. 

C a r l Bjorkbom is the editor of Bibliogra-
phy of Bibliographical and Library Literature, 
which has been reprinted from Nordisk 

Tidskrift for Bok och Biblioteksvasen, vol. 
3 9 , 1 9 5 2 . 

Robert L . Collison is the author of "Aspects 
of Co-operation in University and Special 
Libraries in the United States of America," 
pp.43-49, in the Proceedings of the Annual 
Conference of The Library Association, L l a n -
dudno, 1953. T h e L i b r a r y Association has 
also issued the 1952 edition of Subject Index 
to Periodicals ( 1 9 5 3 , 671P., £5. 5s.). T h i r t y -
seven new periodicals are included, and 22 are 
eliminated because of cessation of publication 
or f o r some other reason. 

Revista Interamericana de Bibliographia, 
Vol. 2, Nos. 1-2, J a n u a r y - A u g u s t , 1952, is 
dedicated to the memory of J o s e Toribio 
Medina, 1 8 5 2 - 1 9 3 0 , f o r whom the Medina 
Centennial Celebration sponsored by the Pan 
American Union w a s held in Washington, 
November 6-8, 1952. M a u r y A . Bromsen is 
editor. , 

T h e National Archives has issued The 
Archives of the United States Diplomatic and 
Consular Services in Latin America, by J o h n 
P. Harrison (Washington, 1953, l6p., map). 

J . C . M o r r i s , librarian, Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory Library, has issued "Corporate 
Entry Guide f o r Report Literature at Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory L i b r a r y , " pre-
liminary ed., April, 1953. 

T h e International Civil Aviation Organiza-
tion, a specialized agency of the United N a -
tions, has published The Lexicon of Terms 
Used in Connection with International Civil 
Aviation, in English-French-Spanish ( 1 9 5 2 , 
I 9 7 P - ) . 

" A Librarian Looks at General Education," 
by One W h o Knows, is an indictment with 
constructive criticisms appearing in the Jour-
nal of Higher Education, A p r i l , 1 9 5 3 . 

Indexes and Indexing, by Robert L . Colli-
son, is published by John de G r a f f , Inc. ( N e w 
Y o r k , 1953, I55P-, $ 2 . 5 0 ) . T h i s is a detailed 
study of the methods and problems of com-
piling indexes of books and other materials, 
such as music, recordings, films, and periodi-
cals. Economies, checking, layout and style 
are considered. P a r t 3 is a "Reference Sec-
tion" which includes information on proof 
correction marks and other procedures f o r 
indexers. 

P a r t 2 of the third volume of the second 
edition of M i l k a u ' s Handbuch der Biblio-
tekswesen, ed. by G e o r g Leyh, has been 

442 • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



issued by O. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. T h i s 
part, dealing with the history of libraries, is 
concerned with the Greek and Roman, Byzan-
tine, and Islamic cultures. 

Master's Theses in Education, 1951-1952, 
ed. by T . A . Lamke and H . M . Silvey, has 
been issued by the Bureau of Research, I o w a 
State Teachers College, Cedar F a l l s ( 1 9 5 3 , 
I55p., $2.00). T h e classified list includes 
2607 titles reported by 182 institutions. 

Abstracts of Theses Accepted in 1951-1952 
is published by the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology (Cambridge, 1953, 222p., $ 2 . 5 0 ) . 
In addition to 147 theses f o r the P h . D . and 
Sc.D. degrees, there are also included lists by 
title of 18 theses presented f o r professional 
engineering degrees and nearly 400 theses pre-
sented f o r M . S . degrees. 

T h e United Nations L i b r a r y has arranged 
to send L C a daily selection of U N printed 
and processed documents and publications in 
all language versions that are believed to be 
of substantial and lasting interest. These 
include yearbooks, monographs, directories, 
handbooks, significant reports of commissions 
and committees, bibliographies, and similar 
works of reference value. T h e selection will 
comprise approximately 500 items annually. 
L C will catalog the materials promptly and 
will sell the printed cards at the usual card 
prices. Subscriptions may be placed by lan-
guage (English, French, Spanish, or Russian). 

Stephen B. Clough is the author of The 
American Way, The Economic Basis of Our 
Civilization ( N e w Y o r k , Crowell, 1953, 
246p., $4.00). 

Guide to Color Prints, by Milton Brooke 
and Henry J . Dubester, has been published 
by the Scarecrow Press, Washington, D . C . , 
1953? 257p. T h i s is a comprehensive and 
current compilation of color reproductions 
available f o r purchase in the U . S . Basic in-
formation f o r more than 5,000 color repro-
ductions of over 4,000 paintings by more than 
1,000 artists is included. Various reproduc-
tions of the same painting are listed. T h e 
main parts of the volume contain the List of 
Color Prints, List of Portfolios and Sets of 
Color Prints, T i t l e Index, Artist Index, and 
Sources of Foreign Color Prints. 

A Popular Guide to Government Publica-
tions, by W . Philip Leidy (Columbia Uni-
versity Press, 1953, 296P., $3.00), includes 
2,500 titles, arranged under about 100 subject 

headings, which are assumed to have the 
greatest appeal and practical value. T h e 
several best sellers among the government 
publications are included. Technical publi-
cations, legal material, statistical reports, 
annual reports and periodicals are omitted. 
T h e smaller library, with an eye toward 
selection, should find this a useful guide. 

T h e 34th edition of the Porter Sargent 
Handbook of Private Schools ( 1 9 5 3 , H 3 6 p . ) . 
T h e editors indicate that this volume has been 
completely revised, with up-to-date descrip-
tions developed for the 2,000 schools included. 
A valuable source of information for librari-
ans who advise on available private schools, 
the volume also contains a reprint of the first 
edition of the Guide to Private Junior Col-
leges and Specialized Schools, as well as 
supplementary lists of special and local private 
schools, and a section devoted to Latin-
American and other foreign schools f o r U . S . 
boys and girls. 

P. F . Collier & Son (640 F i f t h Ave., N e w 
Y o r k 1 9 ) has issued its new Collier's World 
Atlas and Gazetteer ( 1 9 5 3 , 48op., $ 1 7 . 5 0 , 
discount to schools and libraries). T h i s atlas 
is supplemented by text, pictures, tables, 
charts and a 266-page index-gazetteer which 
together cover the physical and economic 
geography of the world, the U.S., the 48 states 
individually, the U . S . possessions, and Canada. 
Final 1950 census figures are used for the 
U . S . ; 1 9 5 1 , for C a n a d a ; and latest available 
figures f o r other countries. Various features, 
such as population figures, business centers, 
climatic and economic data, etc., as well as 
statistics on railroad, steamship and air dis-
tances are brought up-to-date. Collier's has 
also issued the 1953 Collier's Year Book 
(8oop., $10.00, U.S., $ 1 2 . 0 0 elsewhere). 
Edited by William T . Couch, editor-in-chief 
of Collier's Encyclopedia, the Year Book con-
tains over 640 articles by 335 experts. Illus-
trations, maps, and tabular presentations 
accompany the textual materials. 

T h e Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, 2 E . 
64th St., N e w Y o r k 2 1 , has available at $5.00 
per copy Fifty Years of Flight, A Chronicle 
of the Aviation Industry in America, 1903-
*953> by Welman A . Shrader (Cleveland, 
Eaton Manufacturing Co., 1953, I78p., illus.). 

T h e four principal Scandinavian library 
periodicals are now publishing summaries of 

(Continued on page 452) 

OCTOBER, 1953 
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Personnel 
LUCILE M . MORSCH w a s appointed deputy 

chief assistant librarian of Congress on M a y 
25. F o r this advance, her astonishingly SUCt 
cessful and varied career has prepared her 

well. Unusually suc-
cessful as a cataloger, 
teacher, codifier, ad-
ministrator, consult-^ 
ant, and good-will 
a m b a s s a d o r , M i s s 
Morsch has demon-
strated that intensive 
specialization in one 
aspect of librarian-
ship can provide a 
firm foundation on 
which to build a pro-
fessional life of broad 

utility if one has breadth of mind, and a . 
sense of dedication to one's work. These 
qualities she possesses in abundance. In her 
professional activities, she has demonstrated 
her ability to see beyond the immediate goals 
to the ideal of inter-library cooperation and 
standardization of procedures, and in her 
work she has followed principles which will 
lead, in the hopeful future, toward one 
library world. 

H e r idealism and personality have endeared 
her to countless librarians of both North and 
South America. But her magnanimity is 
tempered by a practical administrative sense. 
T h e projects into which she throws her great 
energy are invariably those that can be ac-
complished and that will lead us a step in 
the right direction. It is characteristic of 
M i s s Morsch that although she has done as 
much as anyone of our generation to improve 
cataloging and has been given the first M a r -
garet M a n n award and the respect of the 
international library community for her work 
on the Rules for Descriptive Cataloging, she 
is prouder of her development of a strong and 
flexible cataloging staff at the L i b r a r y of 
Congress, since the work done by L C in 
cataloging is continuously determinative f o r 
so many other libraries. 

A s deputy chief assistant librarian of Con-
gress, M i s s Morsch will be concerned pri-

marily with L C relationships with other 
libraries and scientific and learned institutions 
here and abroad. H e r experience as second 
vice president of the American L i b r a r y Asso-
ciation in 1 9 5 2 - 1 9 5 3 , as a participant in the 
first Assembly of Librarians of the Americas 
in 1947, and as representative of both L C and 
the State Department on a 10-week tour of 
Latin American libraries in 1949 will stand 
her in good stead. 

Since 1940, M i s s Morsch has served as 
chief of the Descriptive Cataloging Division 
at L C continuously except f o r a term of 
slightly more than a year in 1 9 5 1 and 1952 as 
chief of L C ' s General Reference and Bibli-
ography Division. 

B e f o r e she joined the L i b r a r y of Congress 
staff, M i s s Morsch was head of the Catalog 
Department of the Enoch P r a t t Free Library 
f o r six years and a cataloger in the State Uni-
versity of I o w a Libraries for more than six 
years. She also taught cataloging during sum-
mer sessions at Columbia University and at 
the Louisiana State University and served on 
the staffs of the N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y 
and the T a r r y t o w n ( N . Y . ) Public Library, 
where she organized the cataloging work. 
She edited the Check List of New Jersey Im-
prints, 1784-1800 ( B a l t i m o r e , 1 9 3 9 ) and Li-
brary Literature, 1921-1932 ( C h i c a g o , 1 9 3 4 ) 
and is the author of numerous articles in the 
field of librarianship. She holds the bachelor 
of arts degree with a major in English from 
the State University of Iowa, where she re-
ceived the Lydia C . Roberts Fellowship. She 
received the bachelor and master of science 
degrees in library science from Columbia. 

T h e offices and committees to which she has 
given her energies are too numerous to list 
here in full. Among them should be men-
tioned the A L A T h i r d Activities Committee, 
the A L A Council, J u n i o r Members presi-
dency, the presidency of the Division of C a t a -
loging and Classification, and the presidency 
of the Columbia L i b r a r y School Alumni. 

In private life M i s s Morsch is the w i f e of 
D r . W e r n e r B . Ellinger, a legal specialist in 
the L C Subject Cataloging Division.—Fred-
erick H. Wagman. 

Lucile M. Morsch 

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F R E D E R I C K H . W A G M A N resigned as direc-
tor of administration in the L i b r a r y of Con-
gress on J u l y 24, and on August 10 succeeded 

W a r n e r Rice as D i -
rector of the general 
library at the Univer-
sity of Michigan. 

D r . W a g m a n was 
born 40 years ago 
in Springfield, Mass., 
but w a s brought up 
in nearby Amherst. 
In the principal edu-
cational institution of 
that place he did his 
undergraduate work, 
made Phi Beta Kappa, 

and finished magna cum laude at the top of 
the class of 1933. H e had majored in G e r -
man literature, and, as an undergraduate, had 
entered into the competition for the award 
offered by the C a r l Schurz M e m o r i a l Founda-
tion in connection with the Goethe centenary. 
His w a s the prize essay, bearing a title 
(Goethe's Conception of Personality) revela-
tory of its author. It was published by the 
Foundation in 1933. 

F r o m Amherst D r . W a g m a n pursued G e r -
man studies to Columbia where he gained his 
master's and commenced the work toward his 
doctoral degree (under Professor F i f e , now 
of the faculty of the University of Michigan) 
in 1933-5. Then, furnished with a traveling 
fellowship from N e w Y o r k University, he 
went to Germany f o r a year at the University 
of Gottingen in the oppressive atmosphere of 
the developing N a z i total state by which he 
was driven, before the end of the year, out 
of residence in Gottingen into the freer air of 
Zurich. These researches resulted in Magic 
and Natural Science in German Baroque 
Literature (Columbia University Press, 
1 9 4 1 ) , and—as though to confute those who 
doubt the ability of a scholarly book to reach 
its audience these days—this seemingly un-
punishable title was issued simultaneously in 
no less than three series ( f o r this the author 
has since done penance by having to supervise 
serial processing!) and surprised even its 
begetter by selling out. 

T h e r e followed teaching assignments in 
German language and literature: as a fellow 

at Amherst, 1936-7; and as instructor at the 
University of Minnesota, 1937-42. T h e w a r 
found him applying his linguistic abilities in 
the service of the Office of Censorship where 
he ended "in charge of regulations covering 
censorship of international mails and the 
training of postal censors." Upon the closing 
of the Office at the end of the w a r a librarian 
colleague brought him to the notice of the 
Library of Congress. 

T h e recent background in censorship was a 
little jolting to L C ' s personnel officer, and he 
checked D r . Wagman's references carefully. 
He was agreeably surprised. " I f you succeed 
in attaching M r . W a g m a n to your s t a f f , " 
wrote one, "you will acquire one of the most 
promising men I ever had the pleasure to 
teach or to be associated with." " I t seems to 
me," responded another, "that W a g m a n is 
precisely the type of person who is in a posi-
tion to make a real contribution to such an 
activity as that which a great reference library 
offers." And all his references spoke of his 
intellectual ability, his success in coping with 
the problems presented by a large organiza-
tion, and his w a r m and friendly personality. 
L C hired him. 

H i s role at L C has been, probably more 
than anything else, that of a stabilizer. In 
an institution where multitudes of ideas are in 
competition with each other for attention and 
execution, where the problems are legion and 
the arrearages both of routine work and of 
special tasks are only too numerous, a very 
special value attaches to the kind of adminis-
tration which can quietly assess situations, 
gauge the feasibilities, and provide an atmos-
phere in which, through the available com-
petencies and through team-work, feasibilities 
can become realities. I t is this kind of 
administration especially which D r . Wagman 
has brought to each of his assignments in L C 
—as acting director of personnel from Septem-
ber 24, 1945, assistant director f o r public 
reference from August 26, 1946, director of 
the Processing Department from September 1, 
1946, deputy chief assistant librarian from 
November 20, 1 9 5 1 , and director of Adminis-
tration from October 27, 1952. T h e accom-
plishments of these assignments have been 
numerous, some of major, many of smaller 
importance. In summary, however, the fact is 

Frederick H. IVagman 

OCTOBER, 1953 
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that D r . W a g m a n has had a large share in 
the total work and accomplishments of the 
L i b r a r y of Congress in the last eight years— 
a period closely approximating to the adminis-
tration of D r . Luther H . Evans as Librarian 
of Congress. Possibly the outstanding de-
velopment of this period was the launching 
and the evolution of the LC Catalog in its 
book format, and this publication actually 
made its first appearance under D r . W a g -
man's direction of the Processing Department. 

L C found D r . W a g m a n a winner of con-
fidence, wise in council, and fun to work with. 
H i s colleagues also discovered the reason for 
all this. She has accompanied her husband to 
Ann A r b o r . — V e r n e r IV. Clapp. 

H E L E N M . B R O W N became the ninth li-
brarian of Wellesley College on September 
I. She is excellently equipped by education, 
experience, personal qualities and professional 
bent to administer this distinguished li-

brary. If she had 
set out, as a college 
student, to plan a 
career leading to this 
position, she could 
hardly have laid out 
a more suitable route 
than that which she 
has followed. 

H e r undergraduate 
work at V a s s a r will 
always remind her of 
the students' side of 
library service. H e r 

B.S. from the School of L i b r a r y Service of Co-
lumbia, taken immediately a f t e r graduation 
from college, enabled her to return to V a s s a r 
as a professional staff member, and in that col-
lege she first served as head of circulation, 
then as order librarian and finally as refer-
ence librarian. During these years she 
achieved the master's degree from the School 
of L i b r a r y Service, specializing in college li-
brary work. H e r thesis dealt with the work 
of student assistants in college libraries. 

In 1944 she accepted the librarianship of 
M a c M u r r a y College in Jacksonville, Illinois. 
T h e r e M i s s B r o w n especially concentrated 
on the development of the professional staff, 
the growth and better organization of the col-

lection and the enrichment of services to 
readers. 

M i s s B r o w n became librarian of Skidmore 
College in September, 1947. In her six years 
there she has been unusually successful in de-
veloping a vital and productive "Friends of 
the Skidmore L i b r a r y " group. She has also 
effected the adaptation of a first-unit building 
to meet the need f o r enlarged reference 
quarters and f o r conference-listening room 
facilities. 

In each of these positions, it has been the 
improvement in quality of library service 
which has been M i s s Brown's major concern. 
A t the same time she has been active in civic, 
regional and national organizations, both pro-
fessional and general. She has served 
as chairman of the College Section of A C R L 
and as a member of the Council of A L A . 
A t the present time she is a member of the 
Out-of-Print Book Committee of A L A and, 
until leaving Saratoga Springs, was presi-
dent of the H u d s o n - M o h a w k L i b r a r y Associ-
ation. 

Helen B r o w n takes with her to Wellesley 
relevancy of experience and profound interest 
in the special objectives of Wellesley and of 
Wellesley's sister colleges f o r women. T o 
balance this natural concern f o r a specific in-
stitution, she has a broad interest in higher 
education and librarianship, a sound sense of 
humor, wit and imagination, intellectual drive 
and a beguiling manner. Skidmore's loss is 
Wellesley's gain.—Eileen Thornton. 

Helen M. Brown 
D A L E M . B E N T Z assumed his duties as 

associate director of Libraries at the State 
University of I o w a on J u n e 1. H e succeeds 
Norman Kilpatrick, who goes to Tallahassee 

as librarian of F l o r -
ida State University. 

Since September 
1948, M r . Bentz has 
served as head of 
processing at the 
University of T e n -
nessee. During his 
tenure, the decision 
to reclassify from 
Dewey to L . C . was 
reached. H i s ap-

Dale M. Bentz proach to the prob-

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lems involved demonstrated a high degree of 
administrative and organizational ability, 
along with a willingness to experiment with 
the new ideas providing more efficient use of 
staff and equipment. A high level of staff 
morale in the Processing Department offers 
evidence of his successful personnel relations. 
His own untiring efforts encouraged his staff, 
with whom he shared the problems and re-
sponsibilities. 

A native of Pennsylvania, M r . Bentz is a 
graduate of the University of North Carolina, 
from which he received his A . B . L . S . , and more 
recently of the University of Illinois with an 
M . S . in L . S . H e is a member of A L A , 
Southeastern L i b r a r y Association and the 
Tennessee L i b r a r y Association. H e has been 
active in the affairs of each, and for the past 
two years has been responsible f o r the com-
pilation and editing of A C R L statistics for 
College and University Libraries, Group I. 

M r . Bentz also served as editor f o r the 
first volume of the University of Tennessee 
L i b r a r y Lectures, having been chairman of 
the committee arranging for the lectures from 
their inception in 1949. 

In addition to his regular duties, M r . Bentz 
was called in as consultant by the University 
of Mississippi preparatory to the initiation of 
their reclassification plans and spent two 
weeks in setting up the program there. 

H i s professional experience and personal 
qualities insure I o w a of the services of one of 
the more promising young men in the library 
profession.—Archie L. McNeal. 

R O B E R T L . T A L M A D G E , library administra-
tive assistant in the University of Illinois L i -
brary f o r the past two years, will return on 
September 1 to his A l m a M a t e r , the Univer-
sity of Kansas, as associate director of li-
braries. 

A f t e r graduating from Kansas in 1 9 4 1 , 
Talmadge's career—like those of millions of 
other young men of his generation—was in-
terrupted by w a r service, and he spent the 
next four years, 1941-45, as a naval aviator, 
seeing extensive combat service with T a s k 
Force 58. 

Immediately following his discharge from 
the N a v y , Talmadge entered the University 
of Illinois L i b r a r y School, and during the fol-

lowing five years, combining courses and a 
library position, he completed the B.S. and 

M . S . degrees. Look-
ing toward special-
ization in technical 
services, he held ap-
pointments in both 
the Acquisitions and 
Catalog Departments 
of the University of 
Illinois L i b r a r y . In 
1 9 5 1 came recogni-
tion of his adminis-
trative ability, talent 
for working with peo-
ple, and attractive 

personality through promotion to the position 
of Library Administrative Assistant. These 
qualities were also discerned by Robert Vosper, 
new Director of the University of Kansas L i -
braries, who has now called T a l m a d g e back 
to Lawrence as a key member of the strong 
administrative team being developed there.— 
R. B. Downs. 

D A V I D A . W E B B has been appointed direc-
tor of libraries and of the department of li-
brary service at North T e x a s State College 
as of September 1, 1953. M r . Webb comes to 

North T e x a s State 
College from the 
University of Chi-
cago, where he has 
been instructor in the 
Graduate L i b r a r y 
School. 

Born in Green-
wood, South C a r o -
lina, M r . Webb holds 
the A . B . degree from 
the University of 
South Carolina 
( 1 9 3 9 ) , the A . B . L . S . 

degree from Emory University ( 1 9 4 0 ) , and 
the A . M . L . S . from the University of Michigan 
( 1 9 4 7 ) . H e served as library assistant at 
Georgia Institute of Technology ( 1 9 4 0 - 4 2 ) , 
with the medical department of the Army and 
the A r m y A i r Force during the w a r , as li-
brarian of the Technological Institute at 
Northwestern University from 1947 to 1948, 
and was associate librarian at the Rice In-

Robcrt L. Talmadge 

David A. Webb 

OCTOBER, 1953 
40 7 



stitute in Houston, T e x a s , f r o m September 
1948, to 1 9 5 1 . H e entered G r a d u a t e L i -
brary School at the University of Chicago, 
where he was twice awarded a research fel-
lowship and w a s appointed part-time instx|uc-
tor in 1952 and instructor in M a r c h , 1953., 

M r . Webb has served as chairman of the 
College Division of the T e x a s L i b r a r y A s -
sociation ( 1 9 4 9 - 1 9 5 0 ) , chairman of the Pub-
lications Committee of the T e x a s L i b r a r y 
Association ( 1 9 5 0 - 1 9 5 1 ) , and chairman of 
the Serials Round T a b l e , Southwest Regional 
Meeting of the American L i b r a r y Association 
( 1 9 4 9 ) . 

M r . Webb succeeds D r . A r t h u r M . Samp-
ley, who w a s appointed dean of the College 
of A r t s and Sciences at North T e x a s State 
College on J u n e 1 , 1 9 5 3 . 

P A U L N O R T H R I C E is head librarian at 
Wesleyan University. 

M r . Rice succeeds Fremont A . Rider, who 
retired last J u n e a f t e r heading Wesleyan's 
Olin M e m o r i a l L i b r a r y f o r the past 20 years. 
A prolific author, editor and inventor, M r . 
Rider is best known f o r his pioneer w o r k in 
the field of compact book storage. H e is the 
inventor of Microcards, a system of reproduc-
ing reference books and records on space-
saving cards which are read through a magni-
fying device. 

M r . Rice, a 1 9 1 0 
Wesleyan graduate, 
retired from the staff 
of the N e w Y o r k 
Public L i b r a r y where 
he had been chief of 
the Reference Depart-
ment since 1937. H e 
joined the N e w Y o r k 
Public L i b r a r y in 
1 9 1 4 and l e f t in 1927 
to become librarian of 
the Dayton Public L i -
brary. In 1936 he 

was named director of libraries of N e w Y o r k 
University. 

D A V I D K . B E R N I N G H A U S E N , formerly head 
of the Cooper Union L i b r a r y , N e w Y o r k 
City, is the new director of the L i b r a r y School 

at the University of Minnesota. M r . Berning-
hausen is the first head of the L i b r a r y School, 

which has been re-
organized as a School 
of the University's 
College of Science, 
Literature and the 
A r t s . I t was in the 
past known as the 
Department of L i -
brary Instruction and 
w a s administered by 
the director of li-
braries. 

T h e new director is 
a native of I o w a and 
a graduate of I o w a 

State T e a c h e r s College. H e holds a bachelor 
of library science degree from Columbia Uni-
versity and a master's degree from D r a k e Uni-
versity. In 1 9 5 0 - 5 1 , M r . Berninghausen w a s 
granted a leave of absence by T h e Cooper 
Union to spend a year as a H a r v a r d Education 
Fellow. H e has also studied and taught at 
the University of North Carolina. 

B e f o r e his w o r k at T h e Cooper Union, he 
served as director of libraries at Birmingham-
Southern Colleges f r o m 1944 to 1947. F o r 
the past several years he has been chairman 
and secretary of the Intellectual Freedom 
Committee of A L A and has served on various 
regional library groups. 

N O R M A N L . K I L P A T R I C K is now director of 
libraries, Florida State University, T a l l a -
hassee. H e comes to his new position from 

the State University 
of I o w a , where he 
had been associate di-
rector f o r six years. 
Previously he had 
been on the staff of 
the B r o w n University 
L i b r a r y and head of 
technical processes at 
the U . S . Department 
of Agriculture L i -
brary. H e also had 
a teaching assignment 
in Bulgaria. 

During his service at I o w a , K i l (as he is 
known to his colleagues) accomplished so 

Paul North Rice 

David K. Berning-
hausen 

Norman L. Kilpatrick 

448 • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



much, including the moving of the library into 
its new quarters, that a mere recital of his 
activities sounds exaggerated. His ability to 
work with all kinds of university people, and 
his knowledge of books and bibliographical 
tools constantly astonish everyone. His course 
in cataloging, which he organized, proved to 
be a most popular one. H e worked with the 
public and school librarians throughout the 
state, developed a workshop on small libraries, 
and led the Iowa Library Association as pres-
ident two years ago. 

Kil's energy and genuine liking for people 
enabled him to select for the library a staff 
that was f a r better than the salary scale 
justified. T h e staff held him in high esteem 

and enjoyed working with him. 
His many activities at Iowa left him little 

time for publication, but this was only part 
of the story, since many of his reports and 
special studies prepared for campus use could 
well have appeared as journal articles had 
they been written by one less modest. He 
had a wide acquaintance among the faculty, 
and served on several university committees 
concerned with research and scholarly publica-
tions. 

Those who know of his intense love for the 
West find it hard to believe that he can be 
happy in Florida, but his ability to find fun 
in whatever he does should take care of that. 
—Ralph E. Ellsworth. 

Appointments 
Lee Ash has been named librarian, Carnegie 

Endowment for International Peace. 
J o n R. Ashton, formerly humanities li-

brarian of Washington State College, has been 
appointed assistant professor in the University 
of Wisconsin Library School. 

R. Paul Bartolini, formerly head librarian, 
State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas, 
has been appointed co-ordinator, W o r k with 
Adults, Free Public Library, Philadelphia. 

Albert P. Blaustein has been appointed li-
brarian of the N e w Y o r k University L a w 
Library. 

Gladys R. Boughton has been appointed 
director of the University of Washington 
School of Librarianship. She succeeds Robert 
L . Gitler, who will continue his library work 
in Japan. 

Margaret C. Brown, formerly head, tech-
nical processes, Brookline, Mass., Public L i -
brary, is chief of processing, Free Public 
Library, Philadelphia. 

A series of conferences on major adminis-
trative problems affecting the Libraries and 
the School of Library Service of Columbia 
University has resulted in the following 
changes as of J u l y I, 1 9 5 3 : Carl M . White, 
who has been director of libraries and dean of 
the School of Library Service, has resigned 
as director but will be full-time dean of the 
school; Richard H . Logsdon, who has been 

associate director of libraries, has been ap-
pointed director of libraries. 

Lowell Martin, formerly associate dean of 
the School of Library Service at Columbia Uni-
versity is now dean of the Graduate School of 
Library Service at Rutgers University. 

T h e Dartmouth College Library reports 
the following reorganization: Ellen F . Adams 
is assistant librarian, general services division, 
including the arts, maps, medical, periodical, 
reference and circulation departments; Wil-
liam R. Lansberg is head of the acquisition 
and preparation division, charged with the 
responsibility of ordering, cataloging and bind-
ing books; and Edward C. Lathem is head of 
the special collections division, including the 
departments of archives and rare books. M r . 
Lathem will also be the library's representa-
tive on the executive committee of the Friends 
of the Dartmouth Library. Alexander Laing 
is educational services officer and Gordon H'. 
Gliddon is business officer in the library organ-
ization. 

John Fall, with the N Y P L since 1936, and 
chief of the Acquisition Division since 1944, 
has become chief, economics division, N Y P L . 

Stephen W . Ford has been appointed chief 
of the Serials Division of the Southern Illinois 
University Library. 

Albert C. Gerould, now librarian, Clark 
University Library, is .to be chief, Central 

OCTOBER, 1953 
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Library Reference and Circulation Services, 
Philadelphia Free Library. 

M . Ruth Grierson, librarian of Maryville 
College since 1940, has resigned to accept a 
position on the staff of the Vassar College 
Library. 

Joseph K . Hall, formerly head librarian at 
Indiana State Teachers College, has been ap-
pointed head librarian at West Chester State 
Teachers College. 

Prof. George H . Healey has been named 
honorary curator of Cornell University's W i l -
liam Wordsworth Collection. 

Gladys C. Henle, formerly a cataloger, 
Library Company of Philadelphia, is named 
assistant chief, Processing Division, Free L i -
brary of Philadelphia. 

David A . Jonah, Brown University li-
brarian, has been promoted to the rank of full 
professor with the title of John Hay Professor 
of Bibliography. 

M r s . Dorothy Kesseli has been appointed 
Head of the Serials Department of the Uni-
versity of California Library. 

Douglas G . Lockhead became head librarian 
of Dalhousie University on J u l y 1, 1953. 

Stephen A. McCarthy, director of the 
Cornell University Library will be Fulbright 
lecturer in library science in Egypt in 1953-54. 

Brother Stanley G . Mathews has been 
appointed librarian, M a r i a n Library, Univer-
sity of Dayton, Ohio. 

Wharton H . Miller has been appointed 
head of circulation, St. Lawrence University, 
Canton, N . Y . 

Roland H . Moody, formerly circulation 
librarian, Lamont Library, Harvard Univer-
sity, will become director of the Library, 
Northeastern University. 

G . Marion Ohr has been appointed head of 
the catalog department of the Missouri State 
Historical Society in Columbia. 

Eva Olson is biology librarian, University 
of California, Berkeley. 

Edwin C. Osburn is now librarian, Wake 
Forest Seminary, Wake Forest, N . C . 

Thomas E. Parks has been appointed assis-
tant librarian of the Kent Library at Cape 
Girardeau (Missouri) State College. 

Marion E. Peterson has been appointed 
assistant professor in the University of Wash-
ington School of Librarianship. 

Frazer G . Poole is head of special and 
service departments, Santa Barbara College 
Library, University of California. 

James Ranz has succeeded Robert T a l -
madge as library administrative assistant at 
the University of Illinois. 

Fannie H . Schmitt, formerly with the Ala-
bama State Board of Education, is the head 
of the new department of library sciences in 
Alabama State Teachers College at Florence. 

Stanford University Libraries announce the 
following appointments: Mabel Celeste Ashley 
is now reference librarian, with special super-
vision of the Drama Collection; J . T e r r y 
Bender is special collections librarian; Gilbert 
L . Campbell is chief science and engineering 
librarian; Richard F . Larson is reference 
librarian, and will help in setting up a central 
map collection in the Reference Room, and 
Selma Markowitz is biological sciences li-
brarian. 

Marion Vosburgh, Librarian of Alliance 
College and formerly of the Y a l e University 
Libraries, is now assistant librarian, Bard 
College. 

M . Louise Wall, formerly assistant librar-
ian at the Millersville, Pa., State Teachers 
College, has been appointed senior cataloger 
at the University of Cincinnati Library. 

Marian C. Manley, Newark Public L i -
brary, received the A L A Lippincott A w a r d 
for her leadership in promoting business serv-
ices and information in public libraries. 

M a r y Louise Marshall, librarian of the 
Orleans Parish Medical Society Library, 1920 
to date, and currently also medical librarian 
and professor of bibliography of Tulane Uni-
versity School of Medicine, was presented the 
Medical Library Association Marcia C. Noyes 
A w a r d for outstanding service in the field of 
medical librarianship. 

Ralph R. Shaw, librarian, U.S. Department 
of Agriculture, is the first recipient of the 
American Library Association Melvil Dewey 
Medal for "creative professional achieve-
ment." 

Maurice F . Tauber, School of Library 
Service, Columhia University, was presented 
the M a r g a r e t Mann Citation of the A L A 
Division of Cataloging and Classification for 
his work in connection with the Institute on 
subject analysis. 

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Retirements 
Elsie Andrews has retired after twenty 

years of service as head librarian of Michigan 
State Normal College. 

L a u r a Cooley retired as assistant librarian, 
history department, Los Angeles Public L i -
brary, after nearly 50 years' service. 

Dr. Homer Halvorson has resigned as head 
of Johns Hopkins University Library. 

Margaret Hutchins, for twenty-two years 
a member of the faculty of the Columbia Uni-
versity School of Library Service, has retired. 

Sarah Leavy, reference librarian at Flora 
Stone Mather College Library, Western Re-
serve University, since 1928, has retired. 

On September 1, 1953, M r s . Bertie H. 
Motherhead will retire as librarian of T e x a s 
Christian University. She will be succeeded 
by Claude G . Sparks. 

Clara Newth de Villa-Sainz has retired as 
rare book librarian of the New Y o r k State 
Library. 

Fremont A. Rider retired on June 14, 

r 953, after 20 years as chief librarian at 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 

Rollin A. Sawyer has retired as chief of the 
Economics Division of the New Y o r k Public 
Library after thirty-eight years of service. 

Whitman Davis, librarian, T h e University 
of Mississippi Library, 1928-1953, began his 
library career in 1905 at Mississippi State 
College where he served for twenty years as 
Librarian. During 1926-1933 he was Chair-
man of the Mississippi Library Commission. 
He was one of the organizers and the first 
President of the Mississippi Library Associa-
tion, serving as president at different intervals 
for a total of fifteen years. He attended the 
first regular meeting of the Southeastern L i -
brary Association and was vice-president of 
S E L A during the biennium 1926-1928. Since 
his retirement on J u l y I, 1953, M r . and M r s . 
Davis have been living in their new home in 
Oxford, Mississippi. 

Foreign Libraries 
On November 1, 1952, K a r l Assmann 

became director of the Sachsische Landes-
bibliothek in Dresden. 

On April 1, 1952, K a r l Bulling became 
director of the University of Jena Library. 

M a x Hackelsperger has been appointed 
director of the University of Wiirzburg L i -
brary. 

Ernst Kuhnert, formerly first director of 
the old Preussische Staatsbibliothek, died in 
Gottingen on November 23, 1952, at the age 
of 90. 

A . J . Walford of the British Ministry of 
Defence, London, became editor of the Library 
Association Record, beginning with January, 
1953, taking the place of L . R. McColvin. 

Necrology 
M r s . Ruth Bates Campbell, curator of the 

Louisiana Room of the Louisiana State Uni-
versity Library for the last seventeen years, 
died recently. 

Sidney Mattis, assistant librarian of Queens 
College and a part-time member of the faculty 
of the School of Library Service, Columbia 
University; died on April 19. 

Esther Anne Smith, for many years chief 
cataloger in the General Library of the 
University of Michigan, died suddenly of a 
heart attack on M a y 13 in Ann Arbor at the 
age of 72. 

Miss Smith, a native of Saginaw, attended 
the University of Michigan, and after receiv-
ing her Bachelor of Arts degree then pro-
ceeded to the University of Illinois, where she 
received her training in Library Science. Re-
turning to Ann Arbor, she became a member 
of the Catalog Department. In 1 9 1 0 she was 
appointed head cataloger. This position she 
held until her retirement on June 30, 1947. 

Miss Smith was active in professional circles 
and was widely known by catalogers. As 
chairman of the Council of Regional Groups 
of the Division of Cataloging and Classifica-

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tion of the A L A she was responsible for the 
organization and inspiration of many members 
of her profession. Her services were recog-
nized by the grant of an honorary membership 
in the Division of Cataloging and Classifica-
tion at the Atlantic City Conference of the 
A L A in 1948. 

Miss Smith's influence was communicated 
not only through her direction of a large staff 
and by participation in the activities of pro-
fessional groups, but also, in her earlier years, 
through the teaching of courses in library 
methods in the university. 

Publications 
(Continued from page 443) 

the more important articles in English. T h e 
Nordisk Tidskrift for Bok och Biblioteks-
vasen, quarterly journal for scholarly libraries, 
publishes summaries in French and German 
as well as English, but the general library 
periodicals use only English. These are 
Biblioteksbladet ( S w e d e n ) , Bog og Bibliotek 
( N o r w a y ) , and Bogens Verden (Denmark). 
T h i s new policy will greatly increase the use-

fulness of these important journals, and it 
would be well for other library periodicals 
in minor languages to follow suit. T h e 
German Biicherei und Bildung inserts mimeo-
graphed English summaries with each issue, 
but unfortunately they are not the same size 
as the printed page and cannot be readily in-
cluded in the bound volume. 

Forms in Acquisitions Work 
(Continued from page 401) 

methods. A comprehensive analysis of all the 
"standard brands" of forms for acquisitions 
work, and all their variations and permuta-
tions, would be a wonderful boon—but a 
staggering task to effect, since the forms, to 
be intelligible, must be considered in terms 
of services rendered and methods employed. 
And such a survey would require frequent 
revision. 

Another potential boon would be some sort 
of current, continuous, form-review agency 
—perhaps conducted as a column in a profes-
sional journal—to which sample forms would 
be submitted, and by which descriptive and 
critical comment on new developments would 
be disseminated. T h e potential usefulness of 
such an agency would not, of course, be re-
stricted to acquisitions work, but might extend 
to formal problems of all departments of the 
library. 

T h e two-year "Photo-Clerical Experi-

ment," headed by Ralph Shaw3 and carried on 
in eleven cooperating libraries, promises to 
afford more objective and basic aid to the 
forms-designer in his problems. Even apart 
from the documentation the tests have pro-
duced as to the merits or ineptness of photo-
graphic methods for various routines under 
several sets of management conditions, this 
program has also arrived at some of the facts 
and figures on comparative cost- and per-
formance-data of other, present methods 
which have heretofore been so sadly lacking. 
W e need to know, f a r more clearly than we 
do now, what is the quickest, what is the 
cheapest, what is the most effective, way of 
accomplishing those services which are re-
quired or expected of us, in the circumstances 
under which we have to operate. 

3 Shaw, Ralph R . The Use of Photography for 
Clerical Routines; A Report to the American Council 
of Learned Societies. Washington, D.C., American 
Council of Learned Societies, 1953. 

Evans to U N E S C O 
D r . Luther H . Evans, Librarian of Congress since 1945, was elected Director General of 

U N E S C O as of J u l y 1. A statement concerning D r . Evans appears in the J u l y 6, 1953, issue 
of the LC Information Bulletin. 

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