College and Research Libraries


Brief of Minutes 
A C R L Board of Directors 
Meeting, Tuesday morning, 
February 2, 1954, 
in Chicago 

P r e s e n t w e r e o f f i c e r s , d i r e c t o r s , c h a i r m e n 
of sections and c o m m i t t e e s , and A C R L r e p r e -
s e n t a t i v e s on A L A C o u n c i l . P r e s i d e n t M a c -
P h e r s o n p r e s i d e d . A s u s u a l , an a g e n d a w i t h 
s u p p o r t i n g d o c u m e n t s had p r e v i o u s l y been 
m a i l e d to a l l those p r e s e n t . 

M i s s M a c P h e r s o n w e l c o m e d M r . M u m -
f o r d , incoming A L A p r e s i d e n t ; she i n t r o -
duced M i s s S a i d e l , A C R L ' s n e w p u b l i c a t i o n s 
o f f i c e r , and M i s s M i t c h e l l , s e c r e t a r y to M r . 
H a m l i n . 

D a v i d J o l l y r e p o r t e d f o r the B u i l d i n g s 
C o m m i t t e e t h a t a v e r y s u c c e s s f u l b u i l d i n g s 
i n s t i t u t e h a d been h e l d in M a d i s o n , W i s c o n -
sin the p r e v i o u s S a t u r d a y and S u n d a y . 

I n the absence of a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e of the 
D u p l i c a t e E x c h a n g e U n i o n , a l e t t e r f r o m the 
c h a i r m a n , M r s . D o r s e y L . M a c D o n a l d , w a s 
r e a d . T h i s d e a l t w i t h r e v i s e d r u l e s of p r o -
c e d u r e and c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h the U . S. B o o k 
E x c h a n g e . 

M r . H e i n t z r e p o r t e d f o r the C o m m i t t e e on 
F i n a n c i n g C&RL t h a t i n d i v i d u a l r e s p o n s i b i l i -
ties w e r e being a s s i g n e d to c o m m i t t e e m e m -
b e r s . H e r e a d p o r t i o n s of a l e t t e r f r o m 
W a l t e r H a f n e r w h i c h told of specific r e s u l t s 
a c h i e v e d by S t e c h e r t - H a f n e r a d s in the 
j o u r n a l . 

M r . T h o m p s o n s t a t e d t h a t the P u b l i c a t i o n s 
C o m m i t t e e w a s doing w e l l w i t h the ACRL 
Monographs. The ACRL Microcard Series 
w o u l d h a v e eighteen titles r e a d y f o r p u b l i c a -
tion by the end of F e b r u a r y . P r e c i s e l y the 
s a m e q u a l i t a t i v e s t a n d a r d s s h o u l d be m a i n -
tained for the Microcards as for C&RL and 
the Monographs. T h e U n i v e r s i t y of R o c h -
e s t e r P r e s s , p u b l i s h e r of the s e r i e s , h a n d l e s 
a l l such d e t a i l s as c l a s s i f i c a t i o n , d i s t r i b u t i o n , 
a n d b o o k k e e p i n g . T h e N o r t h e r n P r i n t i n g 
and E n g r a v i n g C o m p a n y of R a c i n e m a n u f a c -
t u r e s the c a r d s . F e l i x R e i c h m a n n , F r e m o n t 
R i d e r a n d M r . T h o m p s o n c o m p r i s e the edi-
t o r i a l b o a r d . A s m a l l s u b s i d y is needed to 
c o v e r p o s t a g e costs of m a n u s c r i p t s . M r . 
M a x f i e l d e m p h a s i z e d the i m p o r t a n c e of k n o w -

ing scope and e d i t o r i a l policy of the ACRL 
Monographs, and r e a d the s t a t e m e n t p r i n t e d 
on the inside c o v e r of recent m o n o g r a p h s . 

M r . M c N e a l r e p o r t e d t h a t the e m p h a s i s of 
the A C R L S t a t e R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s had been on 
m e m b e r s h i p . P r o c e d u r e in appointing s t a t e 
r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s w a s described. I t w a s d e s i r a -
ble f o r these people to s e r v e r e l a t i v e l y long 
t e r m s . P r a c t i c e s and policies w e r e i n f o r m a l l y 
a p p r o v e d . 

T h e R e s e a r c h P l a n n i n g C o m m i t t e e h a d 
r e c o m m e n d e d d i s s o l u t i o n at L o s A n g e l e s . 
M r . F u s s i e r , w h o r e p r e s e n t e d the c o m m i t t e e , 
f e l t t h a t if it w a s to c o n t i n u e its p u r p o s e 
s h o u l d be r e d e f i n e d . R o b e r t H . M u l l e r had 
w r i t t e n in to e x p r e s s belief in the i m p o r t a n c e 
of such a c o m m i t t e e to A C R L . M r . H a m l i n 
c o n c u r r e d but s u g g e s t e d the c o m m i t t e e be dis-
b a n d e d n o w a n d t h a t the o b j e c t i v e s be studied 
and r e d e f i n e d and b r o u g h t b a c k to the B o a r d 
a n o t h e r y e a r . M r . T h o m p s o n and M r . M a x -
f i e l d spoke of the v a l u e of the c o m m i t t e e to 
p u b l i s h i n g . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

the Research Planning Committee be 
abolished. 

G . F l i n t P u r d y , c h a i r m a n of the S t a t i s t i c s 
C o m m i t t e e , s u m m a r i z e d the r e s u l t s of a m e e t -
ing the p r e v i o u s d a y of O f f i c e of E d u c a t i o n 
o f f i c i a l s w i t h o f f i c e r s of A L A and its divisions 
on the c o l l e c t i o n and p u b l i c a t i o n of l i b r a r y 
s t a t i s t i c s . T h i s g r o u p a g r e e d on the need f o r 
a c l e a r i n g h o u s e on s t a t i s t i c a l w o r k . T h e 
A C R L c o m m i t t e e had f u r n i s h e d its f o r m s to 
s e v e r a l s t a t e agencies. T h e r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n 
( b y n e w s l e t t e r ) of the j u n i o r c o l l e g e s t a t i s t i c s 
w a s m e n t i o n e d and M r . M o r i a r t y c o m -
m e n t e d on its v a l u e to him. T h e c o m m i t t e e 
e m p h a s i z e s the collection of f a c t s of i m m e d i -
ate a d m i n i s t r a t i v e use to c o l l e g e l i b r a r i a n s . 
M r . L y l e a s k e d w h e t h e r M r . P u r d y w a n t e d 
an A C R L r e s o l u t i o n u r g i n g O f f i c e of E d u c a -
tion c o o r d i n a t i o n w i t h A C R L in c o l l e c t i n g 
c o l l e g e l i b r a r y s t a t i s t i c s . A c a r e f u l l y d r a f t e d 
r e s o l u t i o n m i g h t be u s e f u l . N o single q u e s -
t i o n n a i r e f o r m c o u l d c o v e r a l l n e e d s ; a c l e a r -
ing h o u s e w a s d e s i r a b l e . T h e A C R L 
S t a t i s t i c s C o m m i t t e e w i l l e x p l o r e these p r o b -

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l e m s f u r t h e r w i t h the O f f i c e of E d u c a t i o n . 
T h e C o m m i t t e e on A u d i o - V i s u a l W o r k 

w a s not r e p r e s e n t e d . M r . M a x f i e l d described 
p l a n s to issue a m o n o g r a p h on a u d i o - v i s u a l 
f a c i l i t i e s in c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s and M r . H a m l i n 
r e a d a p o r t i o n of a l e t t e r f r o m the c h a i r m a n 
on the need f o r an A V n e w s l e t t e r . 

M r . E l l s w o r t h w a s not p r e s e n t to r e p o r t 
f o r the C o m m i t t e e to I m p l e m e n t L i b r a r y of 
C o n g r e s s B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l P r o j e c t s but h a d 
w r i t t e n to r e q u e s t c o n t i n u a n c e of the c o m -
m i t t e e in its p r e s e n t f o r m one m o r e y e a r . 

M r . E a t o n s t a t e d t h a t the C o m m i t t e e on 
C o m m i t t e e A p p o i n t m e n t s w a s m a k i n g good 
p r o g r e s s but t h a t s u g g e s t i o n s f o r people to 
s e r v e w e r e w e l c o m e d . 

T h e P r e s i d e n t r e p o r t e d a p p o i n t m e n t of 
G e r a l d M c D o n a l d to head the ad hoc c o m -
m i t t e e to s t u d y the e s t a b l i s h m e n t of a g r o u p 
w i t h i n A L A f o r l i b r a r i a n s especially i n t e r -
ested in r a r e books. O t h e r m e m b e r s a r e 
C o l t o n S t o r m , H a n n a h D . F r e n c h , T h o m a s 
M . S i m k i n s , L a w r e n c e C . P o w e l l , and C l y d e 
W a l t o n . 

A t the r e q u e s t of M r . E a t o n the E x e c u t i v e 
S e c r e t a r y h a d p r e p a r e d a s h o r t , d r a f t s t a t e -
m e n t of p u r p o s e f o r each A C R L c o m m i t t e e . 
I t w a s a g r e e d t h a t the d i r e c t o r s should define 
the scope of each c o m m i t t e e o p e r a t i o n . A f t e r 
s o m e discussion it w a s v o t e d that, 

(1) the name of the Committee on Com-
mittee Appointments be changed to 
"Committee on Committees." 

( 2 ) the wording of Mr. Eaton's sug-
gested statement of purpose for the 
Committee on Committees be ac-
cepted: "To study ACRL committees 
and to recommend the establishment 
or discontinuance of committees as the 
needs of the Association require; to 
define the duties of committees subject 
to approval of the Board of Directors; 
to solicit recommendations for ap-
pointments to committees, and to 
transmit these recommendations with 
its own advice to the president and the 
president-elect." 

J u l i a B e n n e t t a p p e a r e d b r i e f l y to r e p o r t on 
f e d e r a l l e g i s l a t i o n . 

M r . M o r i a r t y r e p o r t e d on m e e t i n g s of the 
C o m m i t t e e on D i v i s i o n a l R e l a t i o n s h i p s . 
T h e y h a d been u n a b l e to s i m p l i f y the dues 
scale. T h e c o m m i t t e e f a v o r e d a p r o c e d u r e 
w h e r e b y any i n t e r e s t e d division m i g h t a p -

APRIL, 1954 

point one m e m b e r to an A L A b o a r d in w h i c h 
the division should h a v e an i n t e r e s t . P r o -
p o s a l s to r e o r g a n i z e the A L A E x e c u t i v e 
B o a r d w e r e described. 

M e e t i n g , T u e s d a y e v e n i n g , 
F e b r u a r y 2 , i n C h i c a g o 

P r e s e n t w e r e officers and d i r e c t o r s and 
s e v e r a l g u e s t s . 

P r e s i d e n t M a c P h e r s o n w e l c o m e d M r . 
L i n d q u i s t , A L A t r e a s u r e r , as the r e p r e s e n t a -
tive of the E x e c u t i v e B o a r d . S h e r e p o r t e d 
t h a t J a m e s M . K i n g s l e y , J r . had r e s i g n e d as 
c h a i r m a n of the C o m m i t t e e on C o n f e r e n c e 
P r o g r a m s ; he had been r e p l a c e d by R a l p h H . 
H o p p . 

M r . S h i p m a n p r e s e n t e d the f i n a n c i a l s t a t e -
m e n t . B a l a n c e on N o v e m b e r 3 0 w a s 
$ 1 6 , 2 2 6 . 3 0 ; this w a s $ 1 6 , 3 5 5 on F e b r u a r y 2. 
F u n d s had i n c r e a s e d s t e a d i l y in recent y e a r s 
but i m p o r t a n t o b l i g a t i o n s had been a s s u m e d 
r e c e n t l y . T h e A s s o c i a t i o n w a s in g o o d shape 
f i n a n c i a l l y . O n r e q u e s t , M r . H a m l i n de-
scribed the need f o r b u d g e t r e v i s i o n s . N o t a l l 
of the $ 4 , 1 2 0 r e q u e s t e d f o r C&RL s u b v e n t i o n 
should a c t u a l l y be used. C o n f e r e n c e b u d g e t 
should be i n c r e a s e d to c o v e r t r a v e l of the 
i n c r e a s e d h e a d q u a r t e r s s t a f f . N e w office 
equipment w a s needed b e c a u s e f o u r f u l l - t i m e 
staff m e m b e r s w e r e c r o w d e d into an office a p -
p r o x i m a t e l y 1 4 ' x 1 4 ' and he hoped A L A 
w o u l d p r o v i d e A C R L w i t h o t h e r q u a r t e r s ; if 
a m o v e is m a d e , s o m e n e w f u r n i t u r e is abso-
l u t e l y n e c e s s a r y . A d j u s t m e n t s in s a l a r i e s 
w e r e d e s i r a b l e b e c a u s e of c h a n g e s in the A L A 
pay p l a n and v a c a n c i e s in positions. M r . 
S h i p m a n noted t h a t the t o t a l i n c r e a s e r e -
quested w a s only $ 2 4 5 , a f t e r a p p r o p r i a t i o n s to 
discontinued c o m m i t t e e s a r e s u b t r a c t e d . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

the budget be amended as follows: 
C&RL Subvention 

—increased to $ 4 , 1 2 0 . 0 0 
Annual Conference 

—increased to 3 0 0 . 0 0 
Publication Officer salary 

—decreased to 3 , 5 0 0 . 0 0 
New Office Equipment 

—increased to 8 5 0 . 0 0 
Publications Committee 

—increased to 1 2 5 . 0 0 

P r e s i d e n t M a c P h e r s o n p r e s e n t e d a r e q u e s t 
f r o m the U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o G r a d u a t e 

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L i b r a r y S c h o o l f o r a s s i s t a n c e in f i n a n c i n g 
t h e i r c o n f e r e n c e on c o l l e g e l i b r a r i a n s h i p in 
J u n e . T h e r e w a s long discussion. I t w a s 
noted t h a t an e x p e n s e of $ 7 0 0 w a s f o r the 
p u b l i c a t i o n of the p a p e r s . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

ACRL offer to publish the Proceedings of 
the 1954 Chicago University Graduate Li-
brary School Conference as an ACRL 
Monograph. 

A l t o n H . K e l l e r , c h a i r m a n of the A L A 
B o a r d on A c q u i s i t i o n of L i b r a r y M a t e r i a l s , 
s t a t e d t h a t s u p p o r t w a s needed by t h e i r J o i n t 
C o m m i t t e e of L i b r a r i a n s and P u b l i s h e r s on 
R e p r i n t i n g . F u n d s w e r e being solicited f r o m 
A L A , its divisions, and o t h e r o r g a n i z e d bodies 
to d e v e l o p a p r o g r a m of r e p r i n t i n g p u b l i c a -
tions needed by l i b r a r i e s . A " R e p r i n t E x p e -
d i t e r ' s " office in N e w Y o r k w i l l be the c e n t e r 
f o r the w o r k . $ 1 , 0 0 0 is needed f o r the f i r s t 
y e a r and p r o b a b l y f o r the s e c o n d ; a f t e r t h a t 
the office s h o u l d be s e l f - s u p p o r t i n g . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

$355 be appropriated the ALA Board on 
Acquisition of Library Materials for the 
purpose of securing clerical assistance 
toward the effective implementation of 
their reprint project. 

R e f e r r a l w a s m a d e to the m o r n i n g ' s discus-
sion of c o m m i t t e e f u n c t i o n s . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

President MacPherson ask chairmen of 
ACRL committees to comment on state-
ment of their functions as set forth and 
distributed as an appendix to the agenda; 
that on the basis of these comments the 
Executive Secretary be asked to prepare a 
revised statement of committee functions 
and refer it to the Committee on Com-
mittes; and that the Committee on Com-
mittees prepare a statement on the final re-
porting for approval of the Board of Di-
rectors. 

P r e s i d e n t M a c P h e r s o n r e p o r t e d t h a t pay at 
A L A H e a d q u a r t e r s h a d been i n c r e a s e d f o r 
the l o w e r b r a c k e t s ( c l e r i c a l and s e c r e t a r i a l ) , 
and h e r opinion h a d been r e q u e s t e d in r e g a r d 
to i n c r e a s e s f o r the p r o f e s s i o n a l s t a f f . O n 
q u e s t i o n , M r . H a m l i n r e p o r t e d t h a t the 
e l a b o r a t e A L A c l a s s i f i c a t i o n and pay p l a n 
w a s , in his e x p e r i e n c e , a w a s t e of both time 

and m o n e y . H e cited e x a m p l e s of w a s t e in the 
A C R L office. 

T h e B o a r d discussed s a l a r y and c l a s s i f i c a -
tion m a t t e r s in the absence of M i s s S a i d e l and 
M r . H a m l i n . I t w a s the c o n s e n s u s of opinion 
t h a t a c o m p e t e n t and s u i t a b l e e x e c u t i v e s e c r e -
t a r y c o u l d not be f o u n d at the b e g i n n i n g r a t e 
of G r a d e 1 3 . 

I t w a s , t h e r e f o r e v o t e d t h a t , 

the Board recommend to Mr. Clift the 
reclassification of Mr. Hamlin from Grade 
13 to Grade 14. 

T h e q u e s t i o n of s a l a r y f o r the e d i t o r of 
C&RL a s w e l l as f o r the e d i t o r s of the 
Monograph and Microcard s e r i e s w a s d i s -
cussed, and no action w a s t a k e n . 

P r e s i d e n t M a c P h e r s o n p r e s e n t e d p l a n s f o r 
the T w i n C i t i e s C o n f e r e n c e . A C R L w a s to 
h a v e c e r t a i n p r i o r i t y on m e e t i n g r o o m s on 
T u e s d a y , J u n e 2 2 . T h e B o a r d w a s a g r e e a b l e 
to the p l a n s a l r e a d y u n d e r w a y to h a v e a 
s e r i e s of m e e t i n g s on the U n i v e r s i t y of 
M i n n e s o t a c a m p u s on t h a t day. 

T h e a g e n d a f o r the B o a r d m e e t i n g included 
a r e p o r t w i t h s e v e r a l r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s by 
B u r t o n W . A d k i n s o n , c h a i r m a n of the C o m -
m i t t e e f o r the P r o t e c t i o n of C u l t u r a l and 
S c i e n t i f i c R e s o u r c e s . M r . H a m l i n spoke of 
the i m p o r t a n c e of some action in this a r e a . 
A R L w a s said to be s k e p t i c a l of the p r a c t i c a l 
v a l u e of this c a u s e , and t h e r e w a s a g e n e r a l 
r e l u c t a n c e to t a k e any A C R L action o r to en-
c o u r a g e the E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y to spend 
time on this s u b j e c t . 

T h e a g e n d a l i k e w i s e c o n t a i n e d a p r o p o s a l 
by M r . H a m l i n f o r c l o s e r c o o p e r a t i o n be-
t w e e n A C R L and l e a r n e d societies by the u s e 
of l i a i s o n people o r r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s to such 
o r g a n i z a t i o n s as the A m e r i c a n H i s t o r i c a l 
A s s o c i a t i o n , A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y , etc. 
T h e h o u r w a s v e r y l a t e and the p r o p o s a l w a s 
o n l y b r i e f l y c o n s i d e r e d . P r e s i d e n t M a c -
P h e r s o n w a s e m p o w e r e d to appoint a c o m -
m i t t e e to e x p l o r e the m a t t e r . M r . L y l e , M r . 
A d a m s and M r . B r a n s c o m b w e r e a p p o i n t e d . 

I n the a g e n d a M r . H a m l i n h a d p r o p o s e d a 
n e w i n t e r - l i b r a r y l o a n c o m m i t t e e to s t u d y 
possible c h a n g e s in the f o r m s and p r o c e d u r e s 
n o w in use and to i n v e s t i g a t e A m e r i c a n co-
o p e r a t i o n in i n t e r n a t i o n a l i n t e r - l i b r a r y l o a n s . 
T h i s w a s r e f e r r e d to M r . E a t o n ' s c o m m i t t e e . 

T h e A C R L P l a n n i n g C o m m i t t e e , p r o p o s e d 

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Notes from the A C R L Office 
A t v a r i o u s t i m e s t h i s office h a s a p p e a l e d 

t o c o l l e g e a n d r e s e a r c h l i b r a r i e s f o r t h e i r 
a n n u a l r e p o r t s , s t a f f b u l l e t i n s , a n d s u n d r y 
o t h e r ' p u b l i c a t i o n s . A g o o d d e a l of t h i s m a -
t e r i a l is r e c e i v e d e v e r y d a y , s k i m m e d o r r e a d 
f o r i t e m s of i m p o r t a n c e , a n d t u r n e d o v e r t o 
the A L A l i b r a r y f o r p r e s e r v a t i o n a n d o f t e n 
f o r l o a n by m a i l . A f t e r s e v e r a l y e a r s I h a v e 
a c q u i r e d c e r t a i n p r e j u d i c e s f o r a n d a g a i n s t 
p u b l i c a t i o n s o r a u t h o r s . F o r e x a m p l e , i t ' s a 
g o o d g e n e r a l r u l e to r e a d a n y t h i n g w r i t t e n 
b y a W r i g h t . ( W r i g h t , L o u i s B . , W r i g h t , 
W y l l i s E . , W r i g h t , W a l t e r W . , to n a m e o n l y 
t h r e e . ) A n o t h e r is t o r e a d p u b l i c a t i o n s f r o m 
W e s t L i b e r t y , W e s t V i r g i n i a . 

W e s t L i b e r t y S t a t e C o l l e g e is, I u n d e r -
s t a n d , a s m a l l s t a t e i n s t i t u t i o n of l e s s t h a n 
7 0 0 s t u d e n t s a n d h a s a b o o k c o l l e c t i o n of 
u n d e r 3 0 , 0 0 0 v o l u m e s . 

A p r o f e s s i o n a l l i b r a r y s t a f f of o n e f o u n d 
t i m e in 1 9 5 1 to r u n a b r i e f s t u d y of the s t u -
d e n t s w h o don't u s e the l i b r a r y , a n d w a s c o n -
c e r n e d t h a t the l i b r a r y m i g h t n o t be m a k i n g 
c o n t a c t w i t h a l m o s t o n e - f i f t h of the s t u d e n t s . 
T h i s d e f i n i t e r e c o g n i t i o n of r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o 
the l o s t s h e e p of t h e c a m p u s is u n u s u a l . 
T h o s e w h o h a v e l i v e d a n d w o r k e d on l a r g e 
c a m p u s e s k n o w t h a t m a n y s t u d e n t s b o a s t of 
n e v e r h a v i n g e n t e r e d the c h a p e l o r the l i b r a r y 
( w h i c h is w o r s e ? ) . I t is o n l y o c c a s i o n a l l y 
t h a t I see s i g n s t h a t a l i b r a r y s t a f f h a s t a k e n 
p o s i t i v e a c t i o n to r e a c h t h o s e s t u d e n t s w h o 
h a v e b i b l i o t h e c a l a l l e r g i e s . T h i s e x a s p e r a t i n g 
i l l n e s s is o n e w e w i l l n e v e r e r a d i c a t e c o m -
p l e t e l y , b u t d i a g n o s i s s h o u l d be a step t o w a r d 
c u r e , o r c a n it be w e n e e d l i b r a r y e v a n g e l i s t s ? 

M r s . B o u g h t e r , w h o is the p r o f e s s i o n a l 
s t a f f of W e s t L i b e r t y S t a t e C o l l e g e is a m o n g 
t h e first to e x p e r i m e n t w i t h s u s p e n s i o n of fines 
f o r b o o k s a n d p e r i o d i c a l s . E x p e r i e n c e o v e r 
o n e f u l l s e m e s t e r l e d to r e i n s t a t e m e n t of t h e 
fine s y s t e m . W h i l e t h i s e x p e r i m e n t w i t h o u t 
fines i n c r e a s e d o v e r d u e s , M r s . B o u g h t e r c o n -
c l u d e d t h a t e l i m i n a t i o n of fines s h o u l d be 
s t u d i e d f u r t h e r . " W e h a v e been p l e a s e d to 
n o t e . . . t h a t c o m p l a i n t s a b o u t o u r fine s y s -
t e m , f o r m e r l y q u i t e n u m e r o u s , h a v e b e e n c o m -
p l e t e l y e l i m i n a t e d . " 

H e r e is t h e W e s t L i b e r t y r e p o r t on m i c r o -
film: 

" T h e reactions of patrons to microfilm seem 

to v a r y with the age of the patron and with the 
type of material to be used. Students generally 
enjoy using microfilm. Some of our students 
have stated that they never thought reading 
could be fun until they used the microfilm reader. 
On the other hand, a visiting faculty member in 
the higher age bracket decided not to use an arti-
cle in the New York Times when he found it 
was available only on microfilm. M r . John B. 
Nicholson, Jr., of Kent State University w r o t e : 
' T h e r e is a kind of romance about using micro-
film readers which the undergraduate likes. 
W e have no difficulty in selling the idea of 
film use to either the undergraduate or graduates. 
Faculty members at first resisted the use of film 
rather strongly. But today this has been o v e r -
come f o r the most part.' T h e greatest resistance 
to microfilm on the part of faculty members has 
come f r o m the mathematics and physics depart-
ments. 

". . . T h e cost of microfilming one year's issue 
of a magazine is often less than the cost of 
b i n d i n g ; but, f o r a f e w titles, the cost of micro-
film is f a r greater than that of binding." 

F r o m t h e a n n u a l r e p o r t of o n e of t h e 
W r i g h t s ( W a l t e r W . W r i g h t , A s s i s t a n t L i -
b r a r i a n in C h a r g e of the S e r v i c e D i v i s i o n , t h e 
U n i v e r s i t y of P e n n s y l v a n i a ) c o m e s t h i s , 
q u o t e d p r i n c i p a l l y f r o m his R e s e r v e B o o k D e -
p a r t m e n t H e a d , M i s s B e t t y F e e n e y . 

"In August, Miss Feeney and I visited the 
Lamont and Hayden libraries in Cambridge. 
T h i s visit was useful in clarifying the picture 
of our proposed undergraduate library and it 
provoked a piece of thoughtful reporting f r o m 
Miss Feeney. W h i l e she became a convert to 
the cause exemplified by Lamont, she went be-
yond that in a paragraph that bears repeating: 

'On the other hand, I persist in coming out by 
the same door I went in so far as the over-all 
concept of service to the undergraduate is 
concerned. T h e segregation of 60,000 volumes 
or 160,000 volumes, no matter how carefully 
selected and ingeniously shelved and housed, 
does not solve the problem created by an educa-
tional program that is geared to push 13,000 peo-
ple through college via uniform assignments 
and mass production methods. Such a segrega-
tion is, to be sure, the beginning of the solution, 
and H a r v a r d has made this beginning, but it 
must be viewed as only that. If the University 
Library does in reality propose to make a con-
tribution to the undergraduate in terms of 
"teaching with books," then the entire service 
program must be designed to reach him. A 

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vital service to the undergraduate in a university 
this size will have to be at least a " p r o g r a m " 
for the entire Service Division, if not a crusade. 
It must involve a more promotional and dynamic 
approach on the part of the Reference Depart-
ment; it must be a constant awareness of the 
undergraduate and his difficulties on the part 
of the Circulation Department in devising sys-
tems, routines and avenues of approach to the 
main book collection; it must be a practical and 
simple integration between the Reserve Depart-
ment where the undergraduate goes first and 
the Circulation and Reference Departments; 
it must be a Freshman orientation program that 
is alive and thriving and which has the active 
support f r o m the faculty.' " 

A n u n u s u a l i t e m a m o n g the m a n y w h i c h 
e a c h m a i l b r i n g s is a b e a u t i f u l l y p r i n t e d p a m -
p h l e t , " G r e e t i n g s f r o m t h e S t a n f o r d U n i v e r -
s i t y L i b r a r i e s , C h r i s t m a s 1 9 5 3 . " T h i s b e g i n s 
w i t h a p p r o p r i a t e C h r i s t m a s v e r s e , c o n t i n u e s 
w i t h a b r i e f s t a t e m e n t by M r . S w a n k on the 
o u t s t a n d i n g a c q u i s i t i o n s of t h e y e a r , n o t e s 
on t h e s t a f f , l i b r a r y l e c t u r e s o r o t h e r n o t a b l e 
h a p p e n i n g s of t h e y e a r , s p e c i a l s e r v i c e s , etc., 
a n d c o n c l u d e s w i t h a l i s t of a l l d o n o r s . 

A l s o f r o m S t a n f o r d ( " R e p o r t of t h e D i -
r e c t o r of U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s , " 1 9 5 1 / 5 2 ) 
c o m e s t h e f o l l o w i n g : 

"In a material sense . . . resources increased 
but little last y e a r — a f e w more books and 
periodicals, a small print collection, a little more 
equipment, and a slight budget increase sum 
up the gains. T h e emphasis of the year's work 
has therefore rested on increasing the value 
to the University of our present resources. In 
short, our progress has been substantial, even 
though it has not been of the sort which lends 
itself to inventory. It has resulted f r o m the 
ingenuity, the devotion, the esprit de corps of 
the staff. Old activities have been restudied, 
new ones have been instituted in a spirit of 
helpfulness. T h i s conscious and inspiring effort 
to do our work better with the tools at hand 
is the subject of the ensuing report. 

" T h e Library has not recently had a formal 
program of extra-curricular service aimed at 
the stimulation of good voluntary reading, the 
building of private libraries, the appreciation of 
the arts, and other such values which are im-
portant to the cultural development of the stu-
dent. T h r o u g h the years library exhibits have 
helped; so have the seven-day book shelves. 
Certainly the mere exposure of students to the 
library stack must incite many of them to new 
reading experiences. But that is not enough. 
Undergraduates are ordinarily forbidden access 
to the stack, and there is no browsing room any-

where on the campus—no general display of 
best books on open shelves to which students 
can go directly and make their o w n selections. 
A university library can do much, if it will, to 
enrich the lives of the students. W h e n the 
proposed General Education Division becomes 
a reality, much more will be done at Stanford. 
Meanwhile, a beginning has been inspired by 
W i l l i a m B. Ready, w h o joined the staff in July 
1951 as Chief Acquisition Librarian. 

"Experimental dormitory libraries f o r recrea-
tional reading were established at Encina and 
Lagunita with duplicate books set aside over a 
period of time f o r that purpose. T h e collections 
were managed by volunteer student librarians. 
A third collection was loaned to the Newman 
Club until support f o r an independent library 
was obtained, at which time the books were 
returned to the campus. T h e Vestry Library 
in the Memorial Church has been actively de-
veloped with the enthusiastic cooperation of 
the Chaplain and M r . Miller, Lecturer in R e -
ligion. 

"In the spring a colorful display of prints of 
modern painting, hung along the walls of the 
main staircase, attracted considerable interest. 
About a hundred good but inexpensive repro-
ductions were mounted on masonite f o r lending 
to students and faculty, w h o could take them 
home, hang them in their rooms, and exchange 
them later for other paintings of their choice. 
T h e r e was an immediate and appreciative de-
mand f o r this service—a small service indeed, 
but happily conceived. T h e collection is in-
tended to offer something to every taste, and the 
very modest investment of funds has gone f o r 
first-rate reproductions which are inexpensively 
mounted. Mrs. Volkov, art specialist in the 
Reference and Humanities Division advises on 
acquisitions and handles the loans. T h e estab-
lishment of this collection and the administrative 
arrangements f o r its care illustrate what w a s 
previously said about the more effective use of 
existing resources and the ability to extend the 
library's service with little or no additional 
money. 

" T h e n in the lower lobby there appeared an-
nouncements of the first Intermezzo programs, 
a series of talks, films, exhibits, and recitals 
sponsored by the library. T h e lectures were 
held informally in the Bender (rare book) 
Room and featured members of the faculty and 
such outside speakers as Bernard D e Voto and 
Dorothy Baker. T h e talks were f o l l o w e d by 
coffee and discussion. Several book-related films, 
such as Quartet and Of Mice and Men, w e r e 
shown in Cubberley Auditorium to capacity 
crowds. Reading lists and other background 
materials were distributed. T h e r e is no doubt 
that Intermezzo cast the library in a new and 
welcome role in the hearts of the many students 

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and faculty who felt its impact. . . . 
"Another project which brought crowds to 

the library f o r a new experience was the quar-
terly book sale. Thousands of surplus duplicates, 
after being weeded of volumes with market or 
exchange value, were displayed on book trucks 
in the lower lobby and sold to students and 
faculty f o r nominal prices. A f e w students found 
bargains, many (some f o r the first time) bought 
books f o r their private libraries, and everybody 
had fun." 

N o n e of t h e s e m o v e s a t S t a n f o r d is 
u n i q u e , b u t t o g e t h e r t h e y i n d i c a t e a h e a l t h y 
r e c o g n i t i o n of b r o a d e r e d u c a t i o n a l r e s p o n s i -
b i l i t i e s t h a n h a s been c u s t o m a r y in u n i v e r s i t y 
l i b r a r i e s . Q u i t e a f e w l i b r a r i e s t h e s i z e of 
S t a n f o r d h a v e o p e n e d t h e i r s t a c k s t o a l l o r 
m o s t of t h e u n d e r g r a d u a t e b o d y . I n c o m m e n t -
i n g on o p e n s t a c k s f o r u n d e r g r a d u a t e s , The 
Northwestern Library News s t a t e d s o m e t i m e 
a g o , " I n o u r c a s e t h e s y s t e m h a s p r o v e n n o t 
o n l y e d u c a t i o n a l l y s o u n d , b u t a l s o f i n a n c i a l l y 
a d v a n t a g e o u s ; t h a t is, it h a s s a v e d a c o n s i d e r -
a b l e a m o u n t of m o n e y f o r the U n i v e r s i t y . " 

T w o c o l l e g e l i b r a r y b u l l e t i n s r e c e i v e d in 
o n e m o r n i n g ' s m a i l l a s t f a l l c a r r i e d the f o l -
l o w i n g n o t i c e s : 

"Friends of the college, alumni, and neighbors 
of the college community are reminded that our 
library books are available f o r them to borrow, 
provided that student needs have priority." 
( F r o m Lewis and Clark College Library, Port-
land, Oregon.) 

" D o you know that the library at St. T h o m a s 
is for the use of Houstonians in general, as well 
as f o r faculty and student b o d y ? A s the only 
Catholic library available to the public in this 
region, w e think it worthwhile to remind you of 
this. T e l l your friends and acquaintances. . . . 
T h e use of our books could be widely extended. 
. . . Books may be consulted or borrowed M o n d a y 
thru Friday until 9 P.M. . . ." 

H e r e a r e t w o s m a l l c o l l e g e s in l a r g e c i t i e s 
w h i c h n o t o n l y o f f e r the b o r r o w i n g p r i v i l e g e 
to h u n d r e d s of t h o u s a n d s , b u t a d v e r t i s e it. 
M o s t c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s do s e r v e t h e i r c o m m u n i -
t i e s by f r e e l y g r a n t i n g t h e b o r r o w i n g p r i v i l e g e , 
b u t g e n e r a l p r a c t i c e is n o t to g i v e p u b l i c i t y to 
t h i s s e r v i c e . 

T h i s j o u r n a l f r e q u e n t l y c a r r i e s an a d of 
E d w a r d s B r o t h e r s ( A n n A r b o r , M i c h i g a n ) 
for the Library of Congress Author Catalog 
o r f o r t h e t w o f i v e - y e a r s u p p l e m e n t s w h i c h 
c o v e r the p e r i o d f r o m 1 9 4 2 t h r o u g h 1 9 5 2 . 

T h e w h o l e set n u m b e r s s o m e 2 3 3 v o l u m e s and 
c o s t s w e l l o v e r a t h o u s a n d d o l l a r s . 

I h a v e l o n g been c u r i o u s a b o u t s a l e s of 
this t i t l e , b o t h b e c a u s e of the g r e a t c o s t , a n d 
b e c a u s e I see s e t s in s o m e v e r y s m a l l c o l l e g e 
l i b r a r i e s , a n d r e a d in t h e i r a n n u a l r e p o r t s 
a b o u t c a t a l o g i n g e c o n o m i e s w h i c h a r e c r e d i t e d 
to t h i s t o o l . L a s t f a l l the p u b l i s h e r t o l d m e 
t h a t he h a d s o l d a b o u t e i g h t h u n d r e d s e t s of 
the b a s i c c a t a l o g ( 1 6 7 v o l s . ) and h a d a b o u t 
1 2 5 c o p i e s on h a n d f r o m the s e c o n d p r i n t i n g . 
T h e p r i n t i n g o r d e r f o r the f i r s t s u p p l e m e n t 
( 4 2 v o l s . ) h a d b e e n a g r e a t d e a l h i g h e r ; of 
the t h o u s a n d c o p i e s r u n , a l l b u t a b o u t o n e 
h u n d r e d h a d b e e n s o l d . T h e p r i n t i n g o r d e r 
f o r t h e s e c o n d Supplement w a s l i k e w i s e p u t 
a t 1 0 0 0 c o p i e s , of w h i c h a b o u t 6 5 0 c o p i e s h a d 
been s o l d l a s t N o v e m b e r , s h o r t l y a f t e r p u b l i c a -
tion d a t e . C o n t r a s t w i t h t h e s e f i g u r e s the 
J u n e , 1 9 4 2 a n n o u n c e m e n t of the p r o j e c t in 
the Journal of Documentary Reproduction 
( 5 : 1 0 9 - 1 1 0 ) w h i c h s t a t e s : " a t l e a s t 3 0 0 s u b -
s c r i p t i o n s , m o s t of w h i c h h a v e a l r e a d y been 
r e c e i v e d , w i l l be r e q u i r e d . . . . " I f a m o r a l 
m a y be d r a w n , it is t h a t a p r o f e s s i o n a l a s s o -
c i a t i o n s u c h a s A C R L s h o u l d n o t s h r i n k b a c k 
f r o m c o s t l y v e n t u r e s p r o v i d e d t h e y a r e v e r y 
u s e f u l . T h e y c a n be m a d e to p a y t h e i r w a y . 

A n o t h e r " c o s t l y v e n t u r e " w h i c h is j u s t b e -
g i n n i n g to w i n a c c e p t a n c e by c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s 
is the p e r i o d i c a l m i c r o f i l m p r o g r a m of U n i -
v e r s i t y M i c r o f i l m s , I n c . , a l s o of A n n A r b o r . 
A s m o s t l i b r a r i a n s k n o w , this is a s e r v i c e to 
s u p p l y a m i c r o f i l m c o p y of the c o m p l e t e d 
v o l u m e of a p e r i o d i c a l a t a c o s t w h i c h is o f t e n 
e q u i v a l e n t t o the c o s t of b i n d i n g . T h i s s e r v i c e 
is a v a i l a b l e o n l y to l i b r a r i e s w i t h c u r r e n t s u b -
s c r i p t i o n s . 

F r o m m y r e a d i n g of a n n u a l r e p o r t s , it is 
q u i t e a p p a r e n t t h a t this p r o g r a m h a s been 
a g r e a t s u c c e s s in s o m e p r o g r e s s i v e c o l l e g e 
l i b r a r i e s . I t is v e r y b e n e f i c i a l in a l l t y p e s 
of i n s t i t u t i o n s w h e n u s e d w i t h c a r e . N o l i -
b r a r y w i l l w a n t to g i v e up b i n d i n g a l l p e r i o d i -
c a l s in f a v o r of m i c r o f i l m ; the t i t l e w h i c h is 
best on f i l m a t o n e i n s t i t u t i o n s h o u l d be b o u n d 
e l s e w h e r e , b e c a u s e n e e d s v a r y . A c a s e in 
point is College and Research Libraries. If 
the g r a n d t o t a l of p r o f e s s i o n a l l i b r a r i a n s on 
c a m p u s is o n l y t w o o r t h r e e o r f o u r a n d the 
s t a c k s a r e g e t t i n g a l i t t l e t i g h t , s h o u l d y o u 
c o n t i n u e to b i n d ? I t h i n k n o t ( a n d p l e a s e 
s e n d a n y p r e - 1 9 5 0 a n d O c t o b e r 1 9 5 2 - A p r i l 
1 9 5 3 c o p i e s b a c k t o A C R L h e a d q u a r t e r s , as 
m a n y i s s u e s a r e o . p . ) . T h i s m a t t e r of m i c r o -

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f i l m v s . b o u n d v o l u m e s is e s s e n t i a l l y a m a t t e r 
of a n t i c i p a t e d use and a v a i l a b l e shelf space. 
W e a r e inclined to o v e r e s t i m a t e the use ( n o t 
i m p o r t a n c e ) of p e r i o d i c a l v o l u m e s m o r e than 
s e v e r a l y e a r s old, and f e w l i b r a r i a n s can f e e l 
s u r e of p l e n t y of shelf space f o r a n o t h e r 
g e n e r a t i o n . R e a d i n g m a c h i n e s and film w i l l 
n e v e r be p o p u l a r e x c e p t w i t h s m a l l f r y and 
g a d g e t t e e r s , but a r e accepted as a s t a n d a r d 
tool of s c h o l a r s h i p by the y o u n g e r g e n e r a -
tion of f a c u l t y . 

I t is s u r p r i s i n g to v i s i t so m a n y c o l l e g e 
l i b r a r i e s w h i c h do not o w n a m o d e r n m i c r o f i l m 
r e a d e r . O n e p e r f e c t l y g o o d m o d e l r e t a i l s f o r 
$ 3 5 0 , and this cost can be s p r e a d o v e r s e v e r a l 
b u d g e t y e a r s . S i z e a b l e d i s c o u n t s on r e a d e r s 
a r e a v a i l a b l e to l i b r a r i e s w h i c h c o n t r a c t f o r 
c u r r e n t files of p e r i o d i c a l s on m i c r o f i l m . T h e 
m i c r o c a r d and the m i c r o f i l m a r e h e r e to s t a y , 
and s h o u l d be b a s i c e q u i p m e n t f o r even the 
s m a l l e s t c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s . 

A n o t h e r U n i v e r s i t y M i c r o f i l m s s e r v i c e of 
c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s is the p r o g r a m of i s s u i n g 
d o c t o r a l d i s s e r t a t i o n s on m i c r o f i l m . T h e s e a r e 
a b s t r a c t e d in Dissertation Abstracts ( $ 6 . 0 0 
per y e a r ) a n d positive films a r e a v a i l a b l e at 
a cost of i i cents p e r p a g e ( $ i . 0 0 - $ 2 . 5 0 f o r 
m o s t d i s s e r t a t i o n s ) . I n c l u d e d a r e the theses 
of n e a r l y fifty l e a d i n g A m e r i c a n u n i v e r s i t i e s 
a n d m a n y m o r e i n s t i t u t i o n s w i l l be j o i n i n g the 
p r o g r a m . I n m a n y cases the a b s t r a c t is all 
t h a t the r e a d e r needs. N o t so m a n y y e a r s a g o 
I r e m e m b e r p r o c u r i n g ten m a n u s c r i p t theses 
on i n t e r - l i b r a r y l o a n f o r a s t u d e n t w h o h a d 
to m a k e s u r e they held n o t h i n g he could use. 
A l l c a m e , first-class p o s t a g e , of c o u r s e , and 
h e a v i l y i n s u r e d . T h e t r a n s a c t i o n s i n v o l v e d 
a m u l t i t u d e of r e q u e s t s , a c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s , 
and m i s c e l l a n e o u s c o r r e s p o n d e n c e . Disserta-
tion Abstracts w o u l d h a v e been w o r t h its 
w e i g h t in g o l d then, and u n d o u b t e d l y w i l l be 
so to m a n y a f u t u r e r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n . 

T h e a d v e r t i s e m e n t e l s e w h e r e in this issue 
is t a n g i b l e evidence of the u s e f u l n e s s of the 
S h o e S t r i n g P r e s s , w h i c h is the p a r t - t i m e i n t e r -
est of J o h n H . O t t e m i l l e r and R o b e r t F . 
M e t z d o r f , both of the Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y L i -
b r a r y . L i k e R a l p h S h a w ' s S c a r e c r o w P r e s s 
( s e e C&RL f o r J a n u a r y , 1 9 5 4 ) , this e n t e r -
p r i s e m a k e s a v a i l a b l e at m o d e r a t e p r i c e s 
s c h o l a r l y m a t e r i a l w h i c h m i g h t not o t h e r w i s e 
g e t into p r i n t . T o q u o t e M r . O t t e m i l l e r , 
" T h e p u r p o s e of the S h o e S t r i n g P r e s s is to 
p u b l i s h d e s i r a b l e t e x t s and c o m p i l a t i o n s ( b o t h 
old and n e w ) w h i c h a r e not o t h e r w i s e a v a i l -

a b l e ; to b r i d g e the g a p b e t w e e n c o m m e r c i a l 
p u b l i s h e r s and the u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s e s but not 
to c o m p e t e w i t h t h e m ; to p r e s e n t to the a c a -
demic p u b l i c and to l i b r a r i e s ( a n d to the g e n -
e r a l public w h e n p o s s i b l e ) b o o k s of r e a l u s e -
f u l n e s s in e c o n o m i c a l but a t t r a c t i v e f o r m a t s 
p r i n t e d on g o o d q u a l i t y p a p e r and b o u n d in 
b o a r d s ; to c o m b i n e these f a c t o r s w i t h l o w 
o v e r h e a d costs in the p u b l i c a t i o n of editions 
l i m i t e d to 500, 7 5 0 , o r 1 0 0 0 copies p r i c e d at 
c u s t o m a r y c o m m e r c i a l r a t e s ; t o a v o i d sub-
v e n t i o n s o t h e r t h a n the need f o r c a p i t a l to 
l a u n c h a g i v e n title b u t w i t h the intent to r e -
t u r n such r i s k c a p i t a l as r a p i d l y as r e t u r n s 
can be r e a l i z e d f r o m s a l e s ; and finally to p a y 
a r o y a l t y to each a u t h o r on all net s a l e s and 
to m a k e the books so p u b l i s h e d p a y t h e i r o w n 
w a y . " 

B o t h S c a r e c r o w and S h o e S t r i n g h a v e issued 
v e r y u s e f u l w o r k s at m o d e r a t e p r i c e s . S o m e 
of t h e i r titles a p p e a r to be of u n u s u a l i m -
p o r t a n c e to s c h o l a r s h i p . 

I f o t h e r c o l l e g e l i b r a r i a n s a r e of a mind 
to e n t e r the s a m e g e n e r a l field as S c a r e c r o w 
and S h o e S t r i n g , s u g g e s t e d p r e s s n a m e s a r e : 
S e v e s c e n t ( r e p r i n t i n g the c l a s s i c s ) , S a l a -
m a n d e r ( a b l e to s u r v i v e b u r n i n g ) , S c a l a w a g 
(in the l i g h t e r v e i n ) , S e p t e n t r i o n a l ( A m e r i -
c a n a ) , o r p o s s i b l y S e s q u i p e d a l i a n ( l o o k this up 
y o u r s e l f ) . 

A r e l a t e d e n t e r p r i s e is Academic Reprints, 
w h i c h g r e w up and o p e r a t e s a d j a c e n t to the 
S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y C a m p u s in P a l o A l t o . A s 
the n a m e implies, this is l i m i t e d to r e p u b l i c a -
tion of s c h o l a r l y books, an e n t e r p r i s e w h i c h 
c e r t a i n l y d e l i g h t s all c o l l e g e l i b r a r i a n s . A t 
the r e q u e s t of the S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y L i -
b r a r y , this c o n c e r n has i s s u e d s h o r t r u n s of 
o u t - o f - p r i n t i t e m s needed in q u a n t i t y ( p a r t i c u -
l a r l y r e s e r v e book r o o m u s e ) at a cost not f a r 
a b o v e n o r m a l , q u a n t i t y , book t r a d e r a t e s . 
X e r o x e q u i p m e n t is used f o r this. A c a d e m i c 
R e p r i n t s w i l l be able to b r i n g d o w n the cost of 
such s h o r t - r u n w o r k if o t h e r l i b r a r i e s use its 
f a c i l i t i e s and t h e r e b y m a k e possible s o m e pool-
ing of c u r r e n t needs. 

C o o p e r a t i n g in this s a m e g e n e r a l field is o u r 
o w n A s s o c i a t i o n w i t h its ACRL Monographs. 
A t the l a s t m e e t i n g of the B o a r d of D i r e c t o r s 
a s u b s t a n t i a l s u m w a s v o t e d to i m p l e m e n t the 
r e p r i n t p r o g r a m of the A L A B o a r d on the 
A c q u i s i t i o n of L i b r a r y M a t e r i a l s . L i b r a r i a n s 
w i l l w e l c o m e these and s i m i l a r v e n t u r e s w h i c h 
m a k e m o r e s c h o l a r l y m a t e r i a l s a v a i l a b l e . * * * 

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A r o u n d the middle of F e b r u a r y many col-
/ege l i b r a r i e s received bills f o r the estimated 
postal c h a r g e s to pay f o r shipments of g o v e r n -
ment documents f r o m W a s h i n g t o n . T h i s is 
a tangible r e s u l t of a m o v e in the g o v e r n m e n t 
to cut down on f r e e postal services, even w h e n 
these a r e f o r w o r t h y educational purposes. 
O n e of o u r m e m b e r s estimates that this 
U . S. g o v e r n m e n t directive w i l l cost each 
depository l i b r a r y up to five hundred d o l l a r s 
a y e a r ; and it m a y w e l l mean as much as 
$ 3 0 0 , 0 0 0 a y e a r diverted f r o m total income 
of college and r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i e s of this 
c o u n t r y . 

T h i s action stems f r o m g o v e r n m e n t policy, 
not the S u p e r i n t e n d e n t of D o c u m e n t s , and 
comments or complaints w i l l be most e f f e c t i v e 
w h e n sent to m e m b e r s of C o n g r e s s . 

* * * 

A C R L plans f o r the T w i n C i t i e s C o n f e r -
ence a r e all e x t r e m e l y tentative as this is 
w r i t t e n . If a r r a n g e m e n t s can be w o r k e d 
out, college and r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n s w i l l spend 
the f u l l day of T u e s d a y , J u n e 2 2 on the c a m -
pus of the U n i v e r s i t y of M i n n e s o t a . T h e 
m o r n i n g w i l l p r o b a b l y be devoted to C o l l e g e 
Section discussion g r o u p s . T h e a f t e r n o o n w i l l 
p r o b a b l y h a v e p r o g r a m s by the U n i v e r s i t y and 
J u n i o r C o l l e g e sections, and some of the m o r n -
ing discussion g r o u p s m a y l i k e w i s e continue 
t h r o u g h the a f t e r n o o n . S o m e w h e r e , s o m e h o w , 
w e should all find lunch on this campus w h i c h 
n o r m a l l y handles a f a c u l t y and student popu-
lation of about 1 7 , 0 0 0 . O u r r e s o u r c e f u l 
C o m m i t t e e on C o n f e r e n c e P r o g r a m s ( R a l p h 
H o p p , c h a i r m a n ) w i l l undoubtedly find us 
all some diversion or r e c r e a t i o n f o r the l a t e 
a f t e r n o o n period b e f o r e dinner. 

T h e p r o g r a m f o r the P u r e and A p p l i e d 
Science Section w i l l p r o b a b l y come T u e s d a y 
m o r n i n g ; that of the T e a c h e r T r a i n i n g I n s t i -

tutions Section is being requested f o r T h u r s -
day m o r n i n g . R e f e r e n c e w i l l p r o b a b l y meet 
on T h u r s d a y a f t e r n o o n at the M u n i c i p a l 
A u d i t o r i u m . T h u r s d a y is also a good day 
to be present because the evening brings li-
b r a r y school reunion dinners and s q u a r e danc-
ing. 

T h e U n i v e r s i t y campus is a f e w miles f r o m 
the center of t o w n but easily reached by bus. 
T a x i f a r e , as I r e m e m b e r it, is slightly m o r e 
than $ 1 . 5 0 . 

I n t e r e s t in college l i b r a r y building p r o b -
lems r e m a i n s high and A C R L w i l l t a k e p a r t 
in the L i b r a r y B u i l d i n g s P r e - C o n f e r e n c e I n -
stitute in St. P a u l on S a t u r d a y and S u n d a y , 
J u n e 1 9 - 2 0 . T h i s institute is j o i n t l y spon-
sored by the buildings committees of A L A , 
A C R L , A A S L , P L D and D L C Y P . T h e p r o -
g r a m on S a t u r d a y w i l l c o v e r those g e n e r a l 
aspects of planning which a r e applicable to 
all types of l i b r a r y buildings. O n the f o l l o w -
ing days r e g i s t r a n t s w i l l s e p a r a t e into a col-
lege l i b r a r y g r o u p , a school l i b r a r y g r o u p , and 
a public l i b r a r y g r o u p . T h e college l i b r a r i a n s 
w i l l meet in the H i l l R e f e r e n c e L i b r a r y , S t . 
P a u l . 

D e t a i l s of the I n s t i t u t e w i l l be published in 
the ALA Bulletin and e l s e w h e r e . A t t e n d a n c e 
is limited to one hundred and r e s e r v a t i o n s 
m u s t be m a d e b e f o r e J u n e 1 s t w i t h M i s s 
H e l e n G e e r at A L A H e a d q u a r t e r s . T h e 
r e g i s t r a t i o n f e e is $6.00. 

A n o t h e r c o n f e r e n c e of special interest to 
college l i b r a r i a n s is that of the U n i v e r s i t y of 
C h i c a g o on " T h e F u n c t i o n of the L i b r a r y in 
the M o d e r n C o l l e g e . " T h i s r u n s f r o m J u n e 
1 4 t h to 1 8 t h and is t h e r e f o r e conveniently 
scheduled f o r people w h o w i l l be attending the 
A L A C o n f e r e n c e in M i n n e a p o l i s the w e e k 
f o l l o w i n g . D e t a i l s of the G . L . S . C o n f e r e n c e 
a r e given e l s e w h e r e in this i s s u e . — A r t h u r T. 
Hamlin, Executive Secretary. 

s*s ê ^ 

T h e f o l l o w i n g issues of College and Research Libraries a r e out of print. C o p i e s no l o n g e r 
needed by r e a d e r s w i l l be v e r y much appreciated at H e a d q u a r t e r s and w i l l be put to good 
use in completing files in l i b r a r i e s . P l e a s e send any you can s p a r e to the A C R L O f f i c e , 50 E , 
H u r o n St., C h i c a g o 1 1 , I l l i n o i s . 

V o l . 2, N o s . 2 and 4 ( M a r c h and S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 1 ) 
V o l . 6, N o . 2 ( M a r c h 1 9 4 5 ) 
V o l . 7, N o s . I and 2 ( J a n u a r y and A p r i l 1 9 4 6 ) 
V o l . 1 0 , N o s . 1 , 2, and 4 ( J a n u a r y , A p r i l and O c t o b e r 1 9 4 9 ) 

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News from the Field 
T h e J a m e s J o y c e col-

Acquisitions, Gifts, lection of M r . J a m e s 
Collections S p o e r r i , C h i c a g o l a w -

y e r and eminent bibli-
o g r a p h e r of J o y c e , h a s been acquired by the 
U n i v e r s i t y of K a n s a s L i b r a r y . N u m b e r i n g 
some 600 pieces, the S p o e r r i collection r e p r e -
sents t w e l v e y e a r s of c a r e f u l attention to 
J o y c e b i b l i o g r a p h y . I t is p r o b a b l y one of the 
three most complete collections of printed 
J o y c e a n a n o w in institutional hands. A check 
list is n o w in process, and the m a t e r i a l s w i l l 
soon be a v a i l a b l e f o r exhibit and r e s e a r c h . 
T h e entire collection and subsequent addi-
tions w i l l be retained intact in the R a r e B o o k s 
section of the D e p a r t m e n t of Special C o l -
lections. 

T h e U n i v e r s i t y of K a n s a s L i b r a r y has com-
pleted a r r a n g e m e n t s to t a k e o v e r the core 
( 3 0 , 0 0 0 ) v o l u m e s of the distinguished eco-
nomics collection of C h i c a g o ' s J o h n C r e r a r 
L i b r a r y . I n o r d e r to live w i t h i n its building 
and budget C r e r a r has begun to concentrate 
its field of s e r v i c e and collecting. E c o n o m i c s 
is o u t - o f - s c o p e and K a n s a s U n i v e r s i t y takes 
o v e r w h a t m a y be recorded as the l a r g e s t 
single p u r c h a s e in the field of economics. 
R i c h in nineteenth c e n t u r y E n g l i s h m a t e r i a l — 
corn l a w p a m p h l e t s and the l i k e — t h e C r e r a r -
t o - K a n s a s C o l l e c t i o n w a s f o u n d e d by J . 
C h r i s t i a n B a y p r i m a r i l y at the t u r n of the 
c e n t u r y by the p u r c h a s e of at l e a s t t w o g r e a t 
s c h o l a r l y l i b r a r i e s : the C . V . G a r r i t s e n col-
lection f r o m A m s t e r d a m and the p r i v a t e li-
b r a r y of R . T . E l y of W i s c o n s i n . 

A s i m p o r t a n t as the economics collection 
f r o m C r e r a r is the F i t z p a t r i c k p u r c h a s e . A 
f o r m e r p r o f e s s o r of botany, T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n 
F i t z p a t r i c k , assembled his l i b r a r y w h i l e on the 
staff of the U n i v e r s i t y of N e b r a s k a . T h e 
s t r e n g t h of the F i t z p a t r i c k collection is in the 
historical botany and the e a r l y history of the 
science in the U n i t e d S t a t e s . T h e R a f i n e s q u e 
portion alone, books and m a n u s c r i p t s , m a y be 
one of the best in the c o u n t r y . T h e r e w e r e 
o v e r t h i r t y J o h n R a y items on one s h e l f . 
A m o n g the choice items w e r e o v e r 3 0 0 e a r l y 
L i n n e a n items and a rich h o a r d of books, 
pamphlets, and m a n u s c r i p t s of the i m p o r t a n t 
e a r l y A m e r i c a n botanists. A d d i n g to the 
v a l u e of the F i t z p a t r i c k p u r c h a s e is the f a c t 

t h a t it so e f f e c t i v e l y extends and* enriches both 
the E l l i s and C l e n d e n i n g collections, g i v i n g 
the U n i v e r s i t y of K a n s a s in t o t a l a deep r e -
s e a r c h collection in the history of science. 

A collection of m a n u s c r i p t s r e l a t i n g to an 
i m p o r t a n t aspect of medical and a g r i c u l t u r a l 
science h a s been presented to the L i b r a r y of 
C o n g r e s s . T h e collection contains some 900 
personal p a p e r s of the l a t e D r . C o o p e r R . 
C u r t i c e , eminent a g r i c u l t u r a l scientist and 
p a r a s i t o l o g i s t , and w a s given to the L i b r a r y 
by the C u r t i c e f a m i l y of F a i r f a x , V i r g i n i a . 

B y establishing that the cattle tick w a s the 
c a r r i e r of d r e a d " T e x a s f e v e r , " a disease that 
l i t e r a l l y p a r a l y z e d most of the S o u t h e r n 
U n i t e d S t a t e s c a t t l e i n d u s t r y in the 1 8 9 0 ' s , D r . 
C u r t i c e and his colleagues, w h o began their re-
search as e a r l y as 1 8 8 4 , d e m o n s t r a t e d that 
a disease can be t r a n s m i t t e d by an insect. 
T h i s f a c t opened a n e w field of medical re-
s e a r c h ; D r . W i l l i a m C . G o r g a s and D r . 
W a l t e r R e e d applied it in eliminating the 
s c o u r g e of y e l l o w f e v e r and m a l a r i a in the 
tropics. 

M a n y of D r . C u r t i c e ' s p a p e r s — c o r r e s p o n d -
ence, d i a r i e s , p e r s o n a l records, g e n e a l o g i c a l 
and b i o g r a p h i c a l m a t e r i a l s , and m a n u s c r i p t s 
of his a r t i c l e s — r e l a t e to his c r u s a d e to teach 
livestock r a i s e r s h o w to e r a d i c a t e the c a t t l e 
tick. E v e n w h e n his opinion w a s unsupported 
by other scientists or by l e a d e r s in the l i v e -
stock i n d u s t r y , D r . C u r t i c e tirelessly p r o -
moted his theory that " T e x a s f e v e r " could 
be eliminated by d e s t r o y i n g the c a r r i e r of the 
disease. 

C o n t r o v e r s i a l p l a y s about R u s s i a a r e noth-
ing n e w , and neither a r e a f t e r - t h e a t e r t r a f f i c 
s n a r l s and air-conditioned theaters, according 
to p l a y b i l l s in a C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y 
collection. 

T h e thousands of u n a r r a n g e d playbills, d a t -
ing back to 1 7 5 6 , w e r e in a collection of books 
and p a p e r s bequeathed to C o r n e l l by B e n n o 
L o e w y , l a w y e r and bibliophile of N e w Y o r k 
C i t y w h o died in 1 9 3 6 . G r a d u a t e students 
recently completed the task of a r r a n g i n g the 
m a t e r i a l s . N o w the playbills m a k e an easily 
used r e s e a r c h source on the history of the 
A m e r i c a n and B r i t i s h t h e a t e r . T h e e a r l y 
A m e r i c a n p l a y b i l l s g e n e r a l l y presented the 
B r i t i s h p l a y s and s t a r r e d E n g l i s h a c t o r s . B e -

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g i n n i n g in 1 8 3 0 , i n c r e a s i n g i n t e r e s t in " n a t i v e 
A m e r i c a n t a l e n t " a p p e a r e d . 

T h e Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y h a s r e c e i v e d a 
g r o u p of r a r e b o o k s and d o c u m e n t s d e a l i n g 
w i t h W e s t e r n A m e r i c a n a . T h e y a r e the g i f t 
of W i l l i a m R o b e r t s o n C o e , w h o is also the 
d o n o r of Y a l e ' s f a m o u s C o e C o l l e c t i o n of 
W e s t e r n A m e r i c a n a . T h i s n e w g r o u p in-
c l u d e s a 4 2 7 - y e a r - o l d edition of a S p a n i s h 
n o v e l w h i c h is b e l i e v e d to be the w o r l d ' s f i r s t 
book in w h i c h the n a m e C a l i f o r n i a a p p e a r s . 
A l s o a m o n g the b o o k s a r e t w o j o u r n a l s of 
A m b r o s e G . B i e r c e ; the L e t t e r B o o k of 
M a j o r B e n j a m i n O ' F a l l o n , a p i o n e e r I n d i a n 
A g e n t and n e p h e w of G e n e r a l W i l l i a m C l a r k , 
of L e w i s and C l a r k f a m e ; the only k n o w n 
copy of the f i r s t c o n s t i t u t i o n p r o p o s e d f o r 
N e v a d a ; and a g r o u p of n e w s p a p e r s p u b l i s h e d 
in C h e y e n n e , W y o m i n g in 1 8 7 7 and 1 8 7 8 . I n 
addition, t h e r e a r e the l e t t e r s of A n n a M a r i a 
P i t t m a n L e e , k n o w n as the f i r s t w h i t e w o m a n 
to see W i l l a m e t t e F a l l s , O r e g o n . S h e w a s 
also the f i r s t to be w e d in O r e g o n T e r r i t o r y , 
the f i r s t t e a c h e r in the t e r r i t o r y and the f i r s t 
w h i t e w o m a n b u r i e d t h e r e . 

T h e w o r l d ' s f i r s t book to m e n t i o n the 
n a m e C a l i f o r n i a is Las Sergas de Esplandian, 
o r The Adventures of Esplandian, w r i t t e n by 
G a r c i a G u t i e r r e s de M o n t a l v o and p u b l i s h e d 
at S e v i l l e in 1 5 1 0 . T h e one at Y a l e is the 
only k n o w n copy of an edition p u b l i s h e d in 
B u r g o s , S p a i n , in 1 5 2 6 . W h e n the S p a n i s h 
p i o n e e r s r e a c h e d the c o a s t of the a r e a n o w 
c a l l e d C a l i f o r n i a , they g a v e it t h a t n a m e be-
c a u s e they t h o u g h t it closely r e s e m b l e d a 
m y t h i c a l i s l a n d c a l l e d " C a l i f o r n i a " in Las 
Sergas. T h e m y t h i c a l i s l a n d of " C a l i f o r n i a , " 
a s d e s c r i b e d in this m e d i e v a l S p a n i s h r o m a n c e , 
is a p a r a d i s e i n h a b i t e d by h a n d s o m e , A m a z o n -
like w o m e n r u l e d by a Q u e e n C a l a f i a . Las 
Sergas de Esplandian has a l i t e r a r y distinction 
q u i t e a p a r t f r o m its r e p u t a t i o n as the o r i g i -
n a t o r of the n a m e C a l i f o r n i a . I t w a s the 
f i r s t book in D o n Q u i x o t e ' s l i b r a r y to be con-
d e m n e d to the f l a m e s in a v a i n e f f o r t to c u r e 
the r e n o w n e d r o m a n t i c of his d r e a m s . 

A n n a M a r i a P i t t m a n L e e w a s a poetess as 
w e l l as a p r o l i f i c l e t t e r w r i t e r . T h e l e t t e r s 
at Y a l e i n c l u d e s e v e n of h e r o r i g i n a l m a n u -
s c r i p t p o e m s a l o n g w i t h h e r c o r r e s p o n d e n c e 
w i t h h e r f a m i l y . A n a t i v e of N e w Y o r k , she 
l e f t f o r the O r e g o n M i s s i o n , w h i c h h a d been 
e s t a b l i s h e d at the r e q u e s t of the I n d i a n s 
t h e m s e l v e s , in 1 8 3 6 . She w a s p a r t of a g r o u p 
of m e n and w o m e n w h o c o n s t i t u t e d the f i r s t 

r e i n f o r c e m e n t s f o r the mission. A n n a M a r i a 
m a d e this t r i p w i t h the R e v . J a s o n L e e , 
f o u n d e r of the O r e g o n M i s s i o n and the m a n 
w h o w a s to become h e r h u s b a n d . T h i s 
w o m a n , w h o s e poems a r e a m o n g the e a r l i e s t 
k n o w n v e r s e c o m p o s e d in the O r e g o n T e r -
r i t o r y , died w i t h h e r i n f a n t son on J u n e 2 6 , 
1 8 3 8 , less than a y e a r a f t e r h e r m a r r i a g e . 

O n e of the A m b r o s e B i e r c e j o u r n a l s c o n -
t a i n s r o u t e m a p s of a j o u r n e y in 1 8 6 6 f r o m 
F o r t L a r a m i e in the D a k o t a T e r r i t o r y to 
F o r t B e n t o n in the M o n t a n a T e r r i t o r y . 
B i e r c e m a d e this j o u r n e y as an aide to M a j o r 
G e n e r a l H a z e n d u r i n g the R e d C l o u d W a r 
and his m a p s a r e the e a r l i e s t s u r v e y s of this 
r o u t e t h r o u g h w h a t w a s then the h e a r t of 
the w i l d S i o u x t e r r i t o r y . T h e s e v o l u m e s 
a t t e s t to B i e r c e ' s s k i l l as a t o p o g r a p h i c a l 
e n g i n e e r , a skill g e n e r a l l y o b s c u r e d by his 
r e p u t a t i o n a s a w r i t e r . H e s h o w e d the s a m e 
d a r i n g in his F o r t B e n t o n e x p e d i t i o n as in his 
m o r e w i d e l y - k n o w n e x p e r i e n c e s as a U n i o n 
a g e n t behind the C o n f e d e r a t e lines d u r i n g the 
C i v i l W a r . 

D e d i c a t i o n of the n e w J a m e s F o r d B e l l 
r o o m in the U n i v e r s i t y of M i n n e s o t a L i b r a r y 
w a s held on O c t o b e r 3 0 . T h e r o o m , a g i f t 
f r o m M r . B e l l , f o u n d e r of G e n e r a l M i l l s and 
a U n i v e r s i t y R e g e n t , h o u s e s his w o r l d - f a m e d 
collection of r a r e b o o k s r e l a t i n g chiefly to 
events w h i c h led to the d i s c o v e r y of A m e r i c a 
and to the e x p l o r a t i o n and s e t t l e m e n t of the 
N o r t h w e s t . D e d i c a t i o n c e r e m o n i e s i n c l u d e d a 
s y m p o s i u m on " B o o k C o l l e c t i n g and S c h o l a r -
s h i p " and a d i n n e r s p o n s o r e d by F r i e n d s of 
the U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y . P r i n c i p a l s p e a k e r at 
the dinner w a s E d w a r d W e e k s , e d i t o r of The 
Atlantic Monthly, w h o s e topic w a s " A d -
v e n t u r e s in the W o r l d of B o o k s . " S p e a k e r s 
a t the s y m p o s i u m , p r e s i d e d o v e r by T h e o d o r e 
C . B l e g e n , D e a n of the G r a d u a t e S c h o o l at 
the U n i v e r s i t y , w e r e C o l t o n S t o r m , A s s i s t a n t 
D i r e c t o r , W i l l i a m L . C l e m e n t s L i b r a r y , U n i -
v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n ; S t a n l e y P a r g e l l i s , L i -
b r a r i a n , N e w b e r r y L i b r a r y , C h i c a g o ; L o u i s B . 
W r i g h t , D i r e c t o r , F o l g e r S h a k e s p e a r e L i -
b r a r y , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . ; F r a n k P . L e s l i e , 
P r e s i d e n t of the F r i e n d s of the L i b r a r y . 

D e s i g n e d to f i t its contents, the J a m e s F o r d 
B e l l r o o m is of the l a t e E l i z a b e t h a n p e r i o d — 
in k e e p i n g w i t h the e r a of d i s c o v e r y and e x -
p l o r a t i o n a s s o c i a t e d w i t h E n g l i s h people in 
the s i x t e e n t h c e n t u r y . T h r e e of its w a l l s a r e 
p a n e l l e d in l i n e n f o l d - c a r v e d E n g l i s h o a k , w h i l e 
the f o u r t h is f o r m e d by a stained g l a s s w i n d o w 

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set in a deep b a y spanned by t h r e e a r c h e s s u p -
p o r t e d on stone c o l u m n s . A m a s s i v e , c a r v e d 
stone fireplace f r o m a 1 6 t h c e n t u r y E n g l i s h 
m a n o r h o u s e c a r r i e s o u t the E l i z a b e t h a n 
theme. F u r n i t u r e in the r o o m c o n s i s t s a l m o s t 
e n t i r e l y of o r i g i n a l pieces m a d e in t h a t p e r i o d 
o r e a r l i e r . 

T h e B e l l c o l l e c t i o n of r a r e b o o k s is built 
a r o u n d one of the m o s t r o m a n t i c of a l l 
t h e m e s : the d i s c o v e r y a n d e x p l o r a t i o n of the 
N o r t h A m e r i c a n c o n t i n e n t b e g i n n i n g w i t h 
the s e a r c h f o r " a r o a d to C a t h a y . " T h i s 
s e a r c h is r e p o r t e d in one of the c o l l e c t i o n ' s 
v o l u m e s , a 1 4 7 7 edition of Marco Polo's 
Travels p r i n t e d in G e r m a n , a book of such 
r a r i t y t h a t only one o t h e r copy is k n o w n to 
e x i s t in the U n i t e d S t a t e s . 

T h e H e n d e r s o n S t a t e T e a c h e r s C o l l e g e 
L i b r a r y , A r k a d e l p h i a , . A r k a n s a s , h a s b u i l t up 
in the l a s t t h r e e y e a r s a collection of a u d i o -
v i s u a l m a t e r i a l s in the fine a r t s a r e a . T h e 
h o l d i n g s a r e 5 8 2 a r t r e p r o d u c t i o n s f r o m p a i n t -
e r s of all ages, r a n g i n g f r o m s t a n d a r d v e r t i c a l 
file size to 3 x 5 f e e t . T o a c c o m p a n y the 
s t u d y of these p a i n t i n g s , t h e r e a r e 789 slides, 
2 x 4 inches in size. T h e slide collection in-
c l u d e s s c u l p t u r e and a r c h i t e c t u r e f r o m the 
ancient t h r o u g h the m o d e r n p e r i o d . A l t h o u g h 
the r e c o r d collection w a s b e g u n p r i o r to 1 9 5 0 , 
the l i b r a r y h a s a d d e d m o r e t h a n 5 0 0 r e c o r d -
ings in the l a s t t h r e e y e a r s . N o t only a r e 
m u s i c a l r e c o r d i n g s i n c l u d e d , b u t also d r a m a , 
speech, p o e t r y , and h i s t o r i c a l and e d u c a t i o n a l 
r e c o r d i n g s . S e v e n r o o m s equipped w i t h l o n g -
p l a y i n g m a c h i n e s a r e a v a i l a b l e in the l i b r a r y . 
T h e book collection in these s u b j e c t s h a s been 
b u i l t up to p r o v i d e b a c k g r o u n d s t u d y in the 
field of fine a r t s . 

T h e M a r q u e t t e U n i v e r s i t y M e -
Buildings m o r i a l L i b r a r y , M i l w a u k e e , 

c o m p l e t e d at a cost of one and 
one h a l f m i l l i o n d o l l a r s , and u n o f f i c i a l l y opened 
S e p t e m b e r 2 1 , 1 9 5 3 , w a s d e d i c a t e d on D e c e m -
b e r 2 . I t is a m o n u m e n t to the c i v i c c o n s c i o u s -
ness, the g e n e r o s i t y , a n d the p r i d e of a c c o m -
p l i s h m e n t of the b u s i n e s s m e n and i n d u s t r i a l -
ists of M i l w a u k e e and W i s c o n s i n . 

A t h r e e - s t o r y s t r u c t u r e , the M e m o r i a l L i -
b r a r y is c r o s s - s h a p e d in design. T h e r e a r e 
five s t a c k l e v e l s , a n d the b u i l d i n g h a s a shelf 
c a p a c i t y of 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 v o l u m e s . ' N o t e w o r t h y 
is the l i b r a r y ' s flexibility. T h e p r e s e n t open 
s t a c k s y s t e m c a n be e a s i l y c h a n g e d to closed 
s t a c k a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , if d e s i r e d . A d i v i s i o n a l 

r e a d i n g policy can be e s t a b l i s h e d w i t h no 
c h a n g e in the b u i l d i n g . E x t e n s i o n of the 
w i n g s e a s i l y m a k e s possible f u t u r e e x p a n s i o n 
w i t h o u t m o d i f y i n g the e s s e n t i a l a r c h i t e c t u r a l 
design o r the l i b r a r y o p e r a t i o n s . 

O n M a y 2 5 , 1 9 5 3 , B e t h e l C o l l e g e , l o c a t e d 
at N o r t h N e w t o n , K a n s a s , d e d i c a t e d its n e w 
l i b r a r y b u i l d i n g a l t h o u g h it h a d been open f o r 
use since F e b r u a r y 1 , 1 9 5 3 . M i s s L e o n a 
K r e h b i e l r e p o r t s t h a t s t u d e n t s and f a c u l t y a c -
c o m p l i s h e d the m o v e f r o m the old b u i l d i n g 
to the n e w in t w o d a y s , J a n u a r y 2 9 and 3 0 , 
u s i n g w o o d e n t r a y s e s p e c i a l l y b u i l t f o r the 
m o v e . 

J o h n F . H a r v e y , n e w l y appointed l i b r a r i a n 
at K a n s a s S t a t e T e a c h e r s C o l l e g e , P i t t s b u r g , 
r e p o r t s t h a t t h r e e r e a d i n g r o o m s of the C o l -
l e g e L i b r a r y h a v e n o w been a i r - c o n d i t i o n e d . 

T h e p l a n s f o r R u t g e r s U n i v e r s i t y ' s n e w 
l i b r a r y , g r o u n d f o r w h i c h w a s b r o k e n on 
S e p t e m b e r 2 2 , 1 9 5 3 , i n c l u d e s m a l l l o c k e r s as 
p l a c e s f o r s t u d e n t s to l e a v e t h e i r books, t y p e -
w r i t e r s , p o r t a b l e m i c r o f i l m r e a d e r s , etc. T h e 
l i b r a r y a t p r e s e n t o p e r a t e s w i t h o u t fines. I n -
f o r m a t i o n a b o u t the t w o points is s o u g h t by 
h e a d q u a r t e r s . I f y o u r l i b r a r y h a s h a d e x p e r i -
ence w i t h e i t h e r of t h e m , p l e a s e w r i t e to the 
E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y . 

T h e A . S . W . R o s e n b a c h 
Miscellaneous F e l l o w s in B i b l i o g r a p h y 

d u r i n g the n e x t t h r e e y e a r s 
h a v e been a p p o i n t e d . D r . F r e d s o n B o w e r s , 
P r o f e s s o r of E n g l i s h at the U n i v e r s i t y of 
V i r g i n i a , h a s been appointed f e l l o w f o r the 
c u r r e n t y e a r and w i l l o f f e r a s e r i e s of l e c t u r e s 
" O n E d i t i n g S h a k e s p e a r e and o t h e r E l i z a -
b e t h a n D r a m a t i s t s . " M i s s D o r o t h y M i n e r , 
the D i r e c t o r of the W a l t e r s A r t G a l l e r y of 
B a l t i m o r e , the f e l l o w f o r 1 9 5 4 - 5 5 h a s chosen 
as h e r topic " T h e M e d i e v a l I l l u s t r a t e d B o o k , " 
and D r . J o h n H . P o w e l l of P h i l a d e l p h i a , the 
f e l l o w f o r 1 9 5 5 - 5 6 , is to s p e a k on " U n i t e d 
S t a t e s G o v e r n m e n t P u b l i c a t i o n s , 1 7 7 6 - 1 8 1 6 . " 

T h e A . S . W . R o s e n b a c h F e l l o w s h i p in 
B i b l i o g r a p h y w a s e s t a b l i s h e d in 1 9 2 9 by the 
l a t e D r . R o s e n b a c h of P h i l a d e l p h i a , i n t e r n a -
t i o n a l l y k n o w n d e a l e r in r a r e books, to b r i n g 
to the U n i v e r s i t y of P e n n s y l v a n i a distin-
g u i s h e d s c h o l a r s f o r the d e l i v e r y of a s e r i e s 
of p u b l i c l e c t u r e s on s o m e topic in the field of 
b i b l i o g r a p h y . 

D r . B o w e r s w i l l d e l i v e r t h r e e l e c t u r e s a t 
the U n i v e r s i t y on A p r i l 2 1 , 2 8 , and M a y 5 . 

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H e h a s chosen f o r his t o p i c s : " T h e N a t u r e of 
the T e x t s and T h e i r P r o b l e m s , " " T h e F u n c -
tions of T e x t u a l C r i t i c i s m and B i b l i o g r a p h y , " 
and " T h e M e t h o d , F o r m and C o n t e n t of the 
C r i t i c a l E d i t i o n . " T h e lectures a r e to be 
held in A l u m n i A u d i t o r i u m of D i e t r i c h H a l l 
at 4 : 0 0 in the a f t e r n o o n and w i l l be open to 
the public. 

D r . B o w e r s is n a t i o n a l l y k n o w n in this 
c o u n t r y as the l e a d i n g exponent of the sys-
t e m a t i c and s c h o l a r l y t r a d i t i o n of descriptive 
bibliography begun in E n g l a n d by W . W . 
G r e g g and R o n a l d B . M c K e r r o w . H e is 
the a u t h o r of n u m e r o u s articles on biblio-
g r a p h i c a l and t e x t u a l p r o b l e m s and of the 
book Principals of Bibliographical Description 
( P r i n c e t o n , 1 9 4 9 ) . H e is at present at w o r k 
on a bibliography of r e s t o r a t i o n d r a m a . 

B a r d C o l l e g e L i b r a r y , A n n a n d a l e - o n - H u d -
son, N . Y . , celebrated its sixtieth a n n i v e r s a r y 
by a meeting held in the o v e r c r o w d e d H o f f -
m a n M e m o r i a l L i b r a r y . T h e main address 
w a s given by D r . W e r n e r J a e g e r , U n i v e r s i t y 
P r o f e s s o r and D i r e c t o r of the I n s t i t u t e f o r 
C l a s s i c a l S t u d i e s at H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y . T h e 
s p e a k e r , i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y f a m o u s f o r his stand-
ard w o r k Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Cul-
ture, g a v e an i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of " T h e G r e e k s 
and the E d u c a t i o n of M a n . " H i s a d d r e s s h a s 
j u s t been p r i n t e d ; a limited n u m b e r of 
c o m p l i m e n t a r y copies a r e a v a i l a b l e to a c a -
demic l i b r a r i e s f r o m the office of the L i b r a r -
ian, B a r d C o l l e g e . 

Detroit in Its World Set-
Publications ting: A 250-Year Chronol-

ogy, 1701-1951, has been is-
sued by the D e t r o i t P u b l i c L i b r a r y ( 1 9 5 3 , 
3 u p . ) . T h i s v o l u m e , m a d e possible by a 
g r a n t f r o m the M c G r e g o r F u n d , w a s edited 
by R a e E l i z a b e t h R i p s , w i t h the staff as a 
w h o l e p a r t i c i p a t i n g in its compilation. T h e 
f o u r m a j o r c a t e g o r i e s employed in the v o l u m e 
a r e D e t r o i t and M i c h i g a n , W o r l d H i s t o r y , 
C u l t u r a l P r o g r e s s , and Scientific and C o m -
m e r c i a l P r o g r e s s . T h e s e headings a r e used 
a p p r o p r i a t e l y as the chronology u n f o l d s . A n 
item u n d e r " C u l t u r a l P r o g r e s s " f o r 1 9 4 0 , f o r 
e x a m p l e is " Z o o t suit c r a z e b e g a n , " w h i l e 
u n d e r the same heading f o r 1 8 4 0 there is 
noted the " F i r s t recorded b o w l i n g match at 
K n i c k e r b o c k e r A l l e y s , N e w Y o r k . " T h e 
v o l u m e should be a u s e f u l r e f e r e n c e source 
f o r l i b r a r i a n s w h o a r e interested in t r a c i n g 

social, economic, l i t e r a r y , i n d u s t r i a l , educa-
tional, and other events. 

World Literature, Volume I: Greek, 
Roman, Oriental and Medieval, by Buckner 
B . T r a w i c k , h a s been issued by B a r n e s and 
N o b l e ( N e w Y o r k , 28op., $ 1 . 5 0 ) . O n e of 
the C o l l e g e O u t l i n e Series, this v o l u m e con-
tains plot outlines, b i o g r a p h i c a l data, historical 
b a c k g r o u n d s , and e v a l u a t i o n s . 

Writings and Addresses of Luther Harris 
Evans, Librarian of Congress, 1945-1953 is a 
bibliographical compilation published by the 
L i b r a r y of C o n g r e s s ( 1 9 5 3 , 9 2 p . ) . T h i s is 
an impressive listing of D r . E v a n ' s c o n t r i b u -
tions to the l i t e r a t u r e of l i b r a r i a n s h i p and 
other fields. 

The Public Library in American Life, by 
E r n e s t i n e R o s e ( N e w Y o r k , C o l u m b i a U n i -
v e r s i t y P r e s s , 1 9 5 3 , 238p., $ 3 . 2 5 ) is an up-to-
date statement of the services of the public 
l i b r a r y . O f special interest to college and 
r e s e a r c h l i b r a r i a n s a r e C h a p t e r 1 6 , " T h e P u b -
lic L i b r a r y and S c h o l a r s h i p , " C h a p t e r 1 7 , " A 
P e o p l e ' s U n i v e r s i t y , " and C h a p t e r 1 8 , " P r o -
f e s s o r s of B o o k s . " M i s s R o s e is concerned 
w i t h the intellectual processes of people, and 
s u g g e s t s t h a t l i b r a r i a n s as " P r o f e s s o r s of 
B o o k s " can help them w i t h their p r o b l e m s in 
the w o r l d of k n o w l e d g e and ideas. T h e 
v o l u m e is a culmination of m a n y y e a r s of 
experience, and is w r i t t e n on a p r a c t i c a l level. 

M o t i o n pictures, f r o m " F r e d O t t ' s S n e e z e , " 
p r o d u c e d in 1 8 9 4 , t o s u c h films as " S h e W o r e 
a Y e l l o w R i b b o n , " produced in 1 9 4 9 , a r e 
listed in three c a t a l o g s issued by the L i b r a r y 
of C o n g r e s s . T w o of the v o l u m e s — M o t i o n 
Pictures, 1894-1912 and Motion Pictures, 
1940-1949—have j u s t been published and they, 
t o g e t h e r w i t h Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, 
issued in 1 9 5 1 , provide an u n b r o k e n , 5 5 - y e a r 
r e c o r d of the copyright r e g i s t r a t i o n of m o r e 
than 76,000 motion pictures in this c o u n t r y . 
F o r e i g n films r e g i s t e r e d f o r U n i t e d S t a t e s 
copyright a r e also listed. A l l three c a t a l o g s 
a r e printed on good quality, antique p a p e r 
and a r e bound in d u r a b l e b u c k r a m covers, so 
they m a y s e r v e as a p e r m a n e n t source of film 
i n f o r m a t i o n . O r d e r s , accompanied by check 
or money o r d e r , f o r any o r all the v o l u m e s 
should be sent to the C o p y r i g h t O f f i c e , L i -
b r a r y of C o n g r e s s , W a s h i n g t o n 2 5 , D . C . 
T h e 9 2 - p a g e Motion Pictures, 1894-1912 sells 
f o r $ 2 ; the 1 , 2 5 0 - p a g e Motion Pictures, 1912-
1939 is $ 1 8 ; and the 598-page Motion Pic-
tures, 1940-1949 is $ 1 0 . 

APRIL, 1954 223 



T h e l a u n c h i n g of a v a s t , 1 5 - y e a r p r o j e c t 
to g a t h e r , edit, and p u b l i s h a l l of the k n o w n 
p a p e r s of B e n j a m i n F r a n k l i n , w h o s e 2 4 8 t h 
b i r t h d a y a n n i v e r s a r y w a s on J a n u a r y 1 8 , h a s 
been a n n o u n c e d by the A m e r i c a n P h i l o s o p h i -
cal S o c i e t y and Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y , j o i n t s p o n s o r s 
of the v e n t u r e . T h e p r o j e c t h a s been m a d e 
possible by a g r a n t f r o m Life M a g a z i n e on 
behalf of T i m e , I n c . T h e edition w i l l be the 
m o s t i n c l u s i v e e v e r p u b l i s h e d of the w r i t i n g s 
and p a p e r s of F r a n k l i n , scientist, p h i l o s o p h e r 
and s t a t e s m a n . I t w i l l a l s o be one of the 
l a r g e s t e d i t o r i a l v e n t u r e s in the h i s t o r y of 
A m e r i c a n book p u b l i s h i n g . T o be a d m i n i s -
t e r e d by Y a l e and the P h i l o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y 
o u t of g r a n t s f r o m Life M a g a z i n e and the 
S o c i e t y , the v e n t u r e w i l l cost m o r e t h a n 
$ 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 o v e r a 1 5 - y e a r p e r i o d . T h e S o c i e t y 
has a l r e a d y spent $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 in the l a s t 2 0 
y e a r s a s s e m b l i n g F r a n k l i n i t e m s f o r its o w n 
c o l l e c t i o n . T h e e d i t o r i a l w o r k , to be c e n t e r e d 
at Y a l e , w i l l be u n d e r the e d i t o r s h i p of 
L e o n a r d W . L a b a r e e , F a r n a m P r o f e s s o r of 
H i s t o r y at Y a l e . T h e Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s 
w i l l p u b l i s h the edition w h i c h is e x p e c t e d to 
r u n to 2 5 o r 3 0 v o l u m e s . 

T h e I n s t i t u t e of L i f e I n s u r a n c e , 488 M a d i -
son A v e . , N e w Y o r k 2 2 , N . Y . , E l i z a b e t h 
F e r g u s o n , l i b r a r i a n , has a v a i l a b l e Life In-
surance Fact Book 1953 and o t h e r f r e e p a m -
phlets on i n s u r a n c e . 

A r c h i b a l d H a n n a , J r . , l i b r a r i a n of the C o e 
C o l l e c t i o n of W e s t e r n A m e r i c a n a and of 
B e n j a m i n F r a n k l i n C o l l e c t i o n at Y a l e is the 
c o m p i l e r of John Buchan, 187 5-1940: A 
Bibliography ( H a m d e n , C o n n . , T h e S h o e 
S t r i n g P r e s s , 1 9 5 3 , I 3 5 p . , $ 3 . 0 0 ) . T h i s v o l -
u m e lists b o o k s and p a m p h l e t s by B u c h a n , 
his c o n t r i b u t i o n s to b o o k s and p e r i o d i c a l s , and 
w r i t i n g s a b o u t him. I t should be noted t h a t 
this is the second p u b l i c a t i o n of T h e S h o e 
S t r i n g P r e s s , the f i r s t being a r e p r i n t of the 
Epistle in Verse on the Death of James Bos-
well, by the R e v . S a m u e l M a r t i n . 

T h e Report(s) of Meeting(s) and the 
Newsletter of the A s s o c i a t i o n of A m e r i c a n 
L i b r a r y S c h o o l s , both of w h i c h a r e issued in 
F e b r u a r y a n d J u l y , m a y be s e c u r e d a t an 
a n n u a l s u b s c r i p t i o n r a t e of $ 1 . 5 0 each t h r o u g h 
M r s . V i r g i n i a L a c y J o n e s , S e c r e t a r y - T r e a s -
u r e r , S c h o o l of L i b r a r y S e r v i c e , A t l a n t a U n i -
v e r s i t y , A t l a n t a , G e o r g i a . 

T h e t h i r d edition of the D i r e c t o r y of the 
A s s o c i a t i o n of A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y S c h o o l s , 
1 9 5 3 , is a v a i l a b l e at $ 2 . 0 0 f r o m the E d i t o r , 

M r . R a y m o n d H . S h o v e , D i v i s i o n of L i b r a r y 
I n s t r u c t i o n , U n i v e r s i t y of M i n n e s o t a , M i n n e -
apolis, M i n n e s o t a . 

T h e U N E S C O I n t e r n a t i o n a l S o c i a l Science 
B u l l e t i n , v o l . 5, no. 3 , 1 9 5 3 , c o n t a i n s a n u m -
b e r of p a p e r s on " P u b l i c O p i n i o n R e s e a r c h . " 
T h e r e is a l s o a b i b l i o g r a p h y on the s u b j e c t 
f o r 1 9 4 5 - 5 3 . 

T h e S c a r e c r o w P r e s s h a s issued t w o n e w 
titles of i n t e r e s t to r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n s : 
Drury's Guide to Best Plays, by F . K . W . 
D r u r y ( 1 9 5 3 , 3 6 7 P . , $ 6 . 5 0 ) , and State Laws 
on the Employment of IVomen, by E d i t h L . 
F i s c h and M o r t i m e r D . S c h w a r t z ( 1 9 5 3 , 
377P- $ 7 - 5 o ) - M o r e than 1 2 0 0 p l a y s a r e l i s t e d 
by D r u r y . D a t a i n c l u d e d a t e of p r o d u c t i o n 
o r p r i n t i n g , editions and c o l l e c t i o n s in w h i c h 
the p l a y s h a v e been p u b l i s h e d , a n n o t a t i o n s 
w h i c h d e s c r i b e the p l a y s , and i n f o r m a t i o n on 
n u m b e r of acts, types of sets, p e r f o r m e r s , and 
c o s t u m e s . A l s o i n c l u d e d a r e a title i n d e x , a 
s u b j e c t i n d e x , and a g u i d e to a b b r e v i a t i o n s 
citing collections. T h e F i s c h - S c h w a r t z v o l -
u m e i n c l u d e s l e g i s l a t i o n on e q u a l i t y of t r e a t -
m e n t and o p p o r t u n i t y and r e g u l a t i o n of w o r k -
ing conditions f o r w o m e n . T h e l e g i s l a t i o n is 
a r r a n g e d by s t a t e s . 

C o l l e g e and o t h e r l i b r a r i a n s w i l l be i n t e r -
ested in Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship, 
f i r s t series, edited by E m i l y M i l l e r D a n t o n 
( A m e r i c a n L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n , 1 9 5 3 , 2 0 2 p . 

$ 4 . 4 5 ) . T h e eighteen l i b r a r i a n s c o n s i d e r e d 
in this v o l u m e a r e C l e m e n t W . A n d r e w s , 
S a r a h B . A s k e w , A r t h u r E . B o s t w i c k , R . R . 
B o w k e r , M i r i a m E . C a r e y , J e n n i e M . F l e x -
n e r , J a m e s L . G i l l i s , J . C . M . H a n s o n , 
C a r o l i n e M . H e w i n s , J o s e p h u s N . L a r n e d , 
H e n r y E . L e g l e r , E u n i c e R . O b e r l y , E . C . 
R i c h a r d s o n , M i n e r v a S a n d e r s , K a t h a r i n e L . 
S h a r p , E l i z a b e t h P . S o h i e r , M a r y L . T i t -
comb, and A l i c e S. T y l e r . 

T h e O c t o b e r 1 9 5 3 issue of Library Trends, 
issued by the U n i v e r s i t y of I l l i n o i s L i b r a r y 
S c h o o l is " C u r r e n t T r e n d s in C a t a l o g i n g and 
C l a s s i f i c a t i o n , " edited by M a u r i c e F . T a u b e r ; 
the J a n u a r y , 1 9 5 4 , issue is " S c i e n t i f i c M a n -
a g e m e n t in L i b r a r i e s , " edited by R a l p h R . 
S h a w . 

M o r e t h a n 2 , 8 0 0 R u s s i a n p u b l i c a t i o n s con-
t a i n i n g i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t Manufacturing and 
Mechanical Engineering in the Soviet Union 
a r e listed by s u b j e c t in a b i b l i o g r a p h y of t h a t 
title published by the L i b r a r y of C o n g r e s s 
( i 9 5 3 , 2 3 4 p . ) . T h i s is a n o t h e r in the L i -

b r a r y ' s s e r i e s of p u b l i c a t i o n s l i s t i n g s o u r c e s 

224 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



of i n f o r m a t i o n u s e f u l to i n d i v i d u a l s and o r -
g a n i z a t i o n s c o n d u c t i n g r e s e a r c h p r o g r a m s t h a t 
r e q u i r e k n o w l e d g e a b o u t specific aspects of 
the R u s s i a n e c o n o m y ( O r d e r f r o m L C C a r d 
D i v i s i o n , $ 1 . 6 0 ) . 

South Atlantic Studies for Sturgis E. 
Leavitt, edited by T h o m a s B . S t r o u p and 
S t e r l i n g A . S t o u d e m i r e ( W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . , 
T h e S c a r e c r o w P r e s s , 1 9 5 3 , 2 i 5 p . , $ 5 . 5 0 ) 
is a s e r i e s of p a p e r s in h o n o r of P r o f e s s o r 
L e a v i t t . W h i l e m a n y of the p a p e r s e m p h a s i z e 
D r . L e a v i t t ' s m a j o r i n t e r e s t , L a t i n - A m e r i c a n 
l i t e r a t u r e , t h e r e a r e also included a r t i c l e s on 
o t h e r l i t e r a r y topics. L a w r e n c e S. T h o m p s o n 
h a s c o n t r i b u t e d " R e s o u r c e s f o r R e s e a r c h in 
L a t i n - A m e r i c a n L i t e r a t u r e in S o u t h e r n L i -
b r a r i e s . " 

H a r r i e t t G e n u n g , l i b r a r i a n of M t . S t . A n -
tonio C o l l e g e in P o m o n a , C a l i f . , is the a u t h o r 
of " T h e H e a r t of the C o l l e g e " in Junior 
College Journal f o r N o v e m b e r , 1 9 5 3 . 

T h e N a t i o n a l A r c h i v e s has issued a r e v i s e d 
and e n l a r g e d List of National Archives 
Microfilm Publications ( 1 9 5 3 , 9 8 p . ) . T h i s 
p u b l i c a t i o n lists F e d e r a l r e c o r d s of high 
r e s e a r c h v a l u e t h a t a r e n o w a v a i l a b l e on 
m i c r o f i l m to s c h o l a r s , r e s e a r c h institutions, 
and the g e n e r a l public at m o d e r a t e cost 
t h r o u g h the N a t i o n a l A r c h i v e s m i c r o f i l m p u b -

lication p r o g r a m . 
M a n y of the m o s t s i g n i f i c a n t o l d e r r e c o r d s 

of the F e d e r a l d e p a r t m e n t s and a g e n c i e s a r e 
i n c l u d e d in the n e w list. T h e s e v e r a l h u n d r e d 
m i c r o f i l m p u b l i c a t i o n s described p r o v i d e b a s i c 
d o c u m e n t a t i o n f o r r e s e a r c h in U n i t e d S t a t e s , 
E u r o p e a n , F a r E a s t e r n , and L a t i n A m e r i c a n 
h i s t o r y a s w e l l as in l o c a l h i s t o r y and g e n e -
a l o g y . A l s o listed a r e m a t e r i a l s f o r r e s e a r c h 
in economics, public a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , p o l i t i c a l 
science, l a w and e t h n o l o g y . T h e m i c r o f i l m s 
contain e x p l a n a t o r y notes and o t h e r i n f o r m a -
tion intended to f a c i l i t a t e t h e i r use. 

T h e U t e n r i k s d e p a r t e m e n t e t s B i b l i o t e k of 
the N o r w e g i a n g o v e r n m e n t has issued Bok-
stavsignaturer for Internasjonale Organisas-
joner og Foreninger Politiske Partier. I t w a s 
compiled by H e d v i g S c h a a n n i n g and published 
in O s l o in 1 9 5 3 . T h i s is a list of a b b r e v i a t i o n s 
of the n a m e s of h u n d r e d s of o r g a n i z a t i o n s 
in v a r i o u s fields of i n t e r n a t i o n a l r e l a t i o n s in 
all c o u n t r i e s of the w o r l d , both official and 
n o n - o f f i c i a l bodies a r e noted, as w e l l as tech-
nical and n o n - t e c h n i c a l g r o u p s . 

T h e H . W . W i l s o n C o . , 9 5 0 U n i v e r s i t y 
A v e . , N e w Y o r k C i t y , h a s a v a i l a b l e f o r s a l e 
a f e w copies of The British Museum Library, 
by A r u n d e l l E s d a i l e ( L o n d o n , G . A l l e n & 
U n w i n , 1 9 4 6 , $ 3 . 0 0 ) . 

Brief of Minutes 
(Continued from page 214) 

both in M r . H a m l i n ' s a n n u a l r e p o r t and in 
the a g e n d a , w a s postponed u n t i l the M i n n e -
a p o l i s C o n f e r e n c e . 

M r . H a m l i n r e p o r t e d b r i e f l y on a m e e t i n g 
of l i b r a r i a n s and p u b l i s h e r s r e g a r d i n g the e x -
tended u s e of s m a l l b o o k s o r p a p e r b a c k s in 
c o l l e g e l i b r a r i e s . 

I n r e p l y to a c o m m u n i c a t i o n f r o m the 
p r e s i d e n t of the D i v i s i o n of C a t a l o g i n g and 
C l a s s i f i c a t i o n , it w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

ACRL indicate their willingness to co-
operate with the Division of Cataloging 
and Classification in response to their invi-
tation to participate jointly through com-
mittees or other officially designated dele-
gates in studies or projects in the areas of 
our mutual interests. 

T h e A u d i o - V i s u a l W o r k s h o p held p r i o r to 

the L o s A n g e l e s C o n f e r e n c e had r e c o m -
m e n d e d the e m p l o y m e n t of an A - V s p e c i a l i s t 
by the divisions at A L A h e a d q u a r t e r s , o r the 
e s t a b l i s h m e n t of a c l e a r i n g h o u s e t h e r e . T h e 
B o a r d r e f e r r e d these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s to the 
A C R L A u d i o - V i s u a l C o m m i t t e e . 

A t the m o r n i n g m e e t i n g , it h a d been been 
r e p o r t e d t h a t the C o m m i t t e e on S e l e c t i v e 
B i b l i o g r a p h y had c o m e to a s t a n d s t i l l in its 
w o r k . 

I t w a s v o t e d t h a t , 

the Committee on Selective Bibliography 
be abolished. 

Since it h a d been i n a c t i v e f o r t w o y e a r s , it 
w a s also v o t e d that, 

the Committee on Preparation and Quali-
fications for Librarianship be abolished. 
—Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary 

APRIL, 1954 225 



Personnel 
F O U R N E W C H I E F S I N T H E N E W Y O R K P U B L I C L I B R A R Y 

Four of the major positions in The New York Public Library, left vacant by retirement 
or promotion, have recently been filled. Three are in the Reference Department, one is 
Library-wide—and all but one of the appointments were by promotion from within. The 
odd one recalls a former staff member. All of the new Chiefs are well known through 
A L A and other professional activities and therefore the following notes merely summarize 
their careers. 

E D W A R D G . F R E E H A F E R , f o r m e r l y c h i e f o f 

the P e r s o n n e l O f f i c e , b e c a m e chief of the r e f -
e r e n c e D e p a r t m e n t on J a n u a r y I , 1 9 5 4 , the 
f o u r t h m a n t o h o l d the post, the t h i r d to 
h a v e the title. H a r r y M i l l e r L y d e n b e r g w a s 
chief r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n . H i s s u c c e s s o r s , 
K e y e s D . M e t c a l f , P a u l N o r t h R i c e and n o w 
F r e e h a f e r b e c a m e chief of the r e f e r e n c e de-
p a r t m e n t . 

E x c e p t f o r p a r t s of t w o y e a r s , 1 9 4 4 and 
1 9 4 5 , a s a s s i s t a n t l i b r a r i a n a t B r o w n , F r e e -
h a f e r ' s w h o l e l i b r a r y c a r e e r h a s been in T h e 
N e w Y o r k P u b l i c L i b r a r y . H e c a m e t o the 
r e f e r e n c e d e p a r t m e n t a f t e r g r a d u a t i o n f r o m 
C o l u m b i a S c h o o l of L i b r a r y S e r v i c e in 1 9 3 2 , 
b e g a n in the M a i n R e a d i n g R o o m and then 
t o u r e d the b u i l d i n g w i t h stops at the I n f o r -
m a t i o n D e s k , E c o n o m i c s D i v i s i o n and the 
D i r e c t o r ' s O f f i c e . I n 1 9 4 1 he w a s a p p o i n t e d 
chief of the n e w l y o r g a n i z e d A m e r i c a n H i s -
t o r y and G e n e a l o g y D i v i s i o n and in 1 9 4 2 
added the d u t i e s of a c t i n g chief of the A c q u i -
sition d i v i s i o n . I n 1 9 4 4 he l e f t N e w Y o r k 
f o r P r o v i d e n c e . 

I n 1 9 4 5 he w a s b a c k as e x e c u t i v e a s s i s t a n t 
in the R e f e r e n c e D e p a r t m e n t , a r o v i n g a s s i g n -
m e n t l a r g e l y c o n c e r n e d w i t h d e t a i l s of m a n -
a g e m e n t and p r o c e d u r e s . L a t e in 1 9 4 7 he 
o r g a n i z e d a P e r s o n n e l O f f i c e , n e w to the l i -
b r a r y and c o v e r i n g the s t a f f of n e a r l y 1 , 6 0 0 in 
both the R e f e r e n c e and C i r c u l a t i o n D e p a r t -
m e n t s . H e w a s a p p o i n t e d chief and, w i t h a 
s t a f f of e l e v e n , b e g a n o p e r a t i o n s on J a n u a r y 
1 , 1 9 4 8 . I n t h a t y e a r he w o r k e d c l o s e l y w i t h 
P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n S e r v i c e in the d e v e l o p -
m e n t of a C l a s s i f i c a t i o n and P a y P l a n f o r 
the R e f e r e n c e D e p a r t m e n t . W i t h and w i t h -
o u t o u t s i d e a g e n c i e s he h a s m a d e l a t e r e x -
t e n s i v e p e r s o n n e l s u r v e y s c o v e r i n g a l l l i b r a r y 
e m p l o y e e s . 

I n a d d i t i o n to his L i b r a r y d u t i e s , F r e e h a f e r 

h a s s e r v e d on a n u m b e r of A L A a n d N Y L A 
c o m m i t t e e s and on the U n i v e r s i t y of the S t a t e 
of N e w Y o r k ' s E x a m i n i n g C o m m i t t e e f o r 
P u b l i c L i b r a r i a n s ' C e r t i f i c a t e s of w h i c h he 
w a s c h a i r m a n in 1 9 5 2 . H e is a m e m b e r of 
the N e w Y o r k L i b r a r y C l u b , the A r c h o n s of 
C o l o p h o n , and the G r o l i e r C l u b . 

F r e e h a f e r c o m m u t e s f r o m P e l h a m ; h a s a 
w i f e and s o n ; and collects P e n n s y l v a n i a D u t c h 
a n t i q u e s and l i t e r a t u r e . 

R U T H E R F O R D D . R O G E R S b e c a m e c h i e f o f 

the P e r s o n n e l O f f i c e on J a n u a r y 1 , 1 9 5 4 , s u c -
c e e d i n g E d w a r d G . F r e e h a f e r w h o h a d been 
chief since the O f f i c e w a s e s t a b l i s h e d s i x y e a r s 
a g o . 

M r . R o g e r s w a s b o r n and r e c e i v e d his B . A . 
in I o w a , b u t since then h a s l i v e d and w o r k e d 
in N e w Y o r k S t a t e . H e took his M . A . and 
B . S . at C o l u m b i a , w o r k e d f o r t w o s u m m e r s 
in T h e N e w Y o r k P u b l i c L i b r a r y a n d in 1 9 3 8 
b e c a m e r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n in the C o l u m b i a 
C o l l e g e L i b r a r y and l a t e r w a s a c t i n g l i b r a r i a n 
a n d l i b r a r i a n . 

A f t e r f o u r y e a r s ' s e r v i c e w i t h the A i r 
T r a n s p o r t C o m m a n d , e n d i n g w i t h the r a n k 
of C a p t a i n , he spent 1 9 4 6 - 4 8 in W a l l S t r e e t 
w i t h the i n v e s t m e n t b a n k i n g f i r m of S m i t h , 
B a r n e y . & C o . F o r t u n a t e l y f o r l i b r a r i a n s h i p , 
he decided to let the f i n a n c i a l w o r l d t a k e 
c a r e of itself and l e f t it to b e c o m e d i r e c t o r of 
the G r o s v e n o r L i b r a r y in B u f f a l o . T h e r e he 
not o n l y s u c c e s s f u l l y a d m i n i s t e r e d his o w n 
i n s t i t u t i o n b u t a l s o w o r k e d e f f e c t i v e l y t o w a r d 
b e t t e r o r g a n i z a t i o n of a l l l i b r a r y r e s o u r c e s in 
the city and c o u n t y . 

T h e r e w a s a s t a r in the E a s t and in 1 9 5 2 
he b e g a n to f o l l o w it by g o i n g to R o c h e s t e r 
as d i r e c t o r of the R o c h e s t e r P u b l i c L i b r a r y 
a n d d i r e c t o r of the M o n r o e C o u n t y L i b r a r y 
S y s t e m . T h e r e , a c c o r d i n g to the P r e s i d e n t 
of his B o a r d of T r u s t e e s , he " w o n the e n t h u s i -

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astic support of the board of trustees, his 
staff and the general public" and took "the 
Monroe County Library System through its 
earlier stages to a sound foundation." 

For very good reasons the Grand Central 
is called Terminal and Rogers' friends and 
colleagues in New York City are hopeful 
that the eastern journey is ended. 

Rogers has served on various professional 
committees including the University of the 
State bf New York's Examining Committee 
for Public Librarians' Certificates. 

J o h n F a l l succeeded Rollin A. Sawyer, 
retired, as chief of the Economics Division 
on June I, 1953. He had been chief, since 
1944, of the Acquisition Division. In his 
new post he is responsible for the further 
development of the largest special collection 
in the Reference Department with somewhere 
between 900,000 and 1,000,000 volumes. 

In the Acquisition Division he was in touch 
with the world's sources of new and old publi-
cations of all kinds. He was active in estab-
lishing the Farmington Plan and in 1948 
traveled through western Europe for the As-
sociation of Research Libraries to explore 
contract arrangements for the Plan. He is 
probably better known to more booksellers 
and publishers than anyone else on the library's 
staff. 

He is concerned with the management and 
use of large collections of books as well as 
with their accumulation. Under the direction 
of Keyes Metcalf he made a preliminary 
survey and report on the possibility of a 
regional center for the mid-western research 
libraries and more recently prepared one of 
the basic documents for Carl White's Com-
mittee on the Northeastern Regional Library. 

Fall has found or made time for work on 
many ALA committees and has been specially 
concerned with those in the field of procure-
ment. He is a director of the United States 
Book Exchange and is the ALA's representa-
tive to the H. W . Wilson Company. 

Although he has been one of the world's 
largest book buyers he will not admit to any 
personal collecting habits. But none of his 
own bookshelves has any empty space and 
books seem to grow and spread in his apart-
ment by a secret life of their own. 

R o b e r t E . K i n g e r y was appointed chief 
of the Preparation Division, succeeding G. 

William Berquist, on January 1, 1951. On 
August 24, 1953 the Acquisition Division 
was merged with the Preparation Division 
so that now, except for book selection, the 
acquisition and cataloguing procedures for 
the Reference Department are in his care. 

Two days after he became chief of the 
Preparation Division the library authorized 
a survey of it by Cresap, McCormick and 
Paget and for five months thereafter Kingery, 
a staff new to him and the surveyors worked 
cheerfully and intelligently together to find 
out what they did, why they did it, and how 
it could best be done. So far as they can be 
put on paper the results are recorded in the 
surveyors' report, a document now familiar 
to many libraries and library schools. The 
aftermath in terms of staff relationships and 
effective work is a continuing harvest. 

Apart from the usual technical training, 
Kingery's special preparation for leading a 
staff of about 200 came from several years 
as Readers' Adviser, conductor of discussion 
groups and personnel assistant. A tour of 
duty with the U. S. Army in Alaska may have 
helped. He has also been an active member 
of many ALA and NYLA committees. 

As an author, he has published Hoiv-to-Do-
It Books: a Selected Guide, 1950; Oppor-
tunities in Library Careers, 1952; What's in 
It For Mef, 1947; and another is on the way. 
As a collector he gathers first editions and 
original drawings of Clarence Day and books 
about tobacco. 

And when the day's last semi-colon has been 
laid to rest he quietly twists wires into shin-
ing curves which lead to who knows what 
infinite concepts beyond the scope of cards.— 
Deoch Fulton. 

M a u r i c e F. T a u b e r , editor of this journal, 
has been named Melvil Dewey Professor of 
Library Service at Columbia University, 
where he has taught since 1944. 

This appointment is well merited by the 
many contributions of Dr. Tauber to the 
scholarship of the profession. Few living men 
have done so much. The distinction is also 
well merited because of devoted service to pro-
fessional associations, particularly to ALA and 
ACRL. 

The appointment will be popular because 
Dr. Tauber is a teacher, with endless time and 
sympathy and interest in students. A modest 
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human. Columbia has chosen well.—Arthur 
T. Hamlin. 

O l i v e r D u n n began his duties as as-
sistant director of libraries at Purdue Uni-

versity on November 
16, 1953, having held 
the position of asso-
ciate director of li-
braries at the Cali-
fornia Institute of 
T e c h n o l o g y since 
1949. 

Dr. Dunn was 
born in Oxnard, Cali-
fornia, in 1909, com-
pleted his elementary 
and secondary educa-
tion in the Los An-

geles public schools, and received his B.A. 
and M.A. in Philosophy from Stanford Uni-
versity, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from 
Cornell University. He holds the B.L.S. 
degree from the University of California 
(1949). 

For several years Dr. Dunn was Contract 
Administrator and Statistical Analyst in the 
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, and he has 
also held a position as research assistant in 
the University of California in Berkeley. 

Among Dr. Dunn's activities in profes-
sional librarianship have been his presidency 
of the Pasadena Library Club and chairman-
ship of the Regional Resources Coordinating 
Committee of the California Library Asso-
ciation. He is a member of ALA and the 
California Library Association. His impor-
tant contribution to the development of li-
brary cooperation in California is reflected 
in his publication in the California Librarian 
of "A Union Catalog of Bibliographies in 
Southern California Libraries," in December, 
1952, and "Bibliographical Cooperation in 
California: A Survey of Highlights," in June, 
1953.—Everett T. Moore. 

J o h n H. B e r t h e l who has been serving 
as Nicholas Murray Butler librarian at 
Columbia University since 1948 has been 
appointed librarian of The Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore, Maryland. He will 
report to his new post on July 1, 1954. 

Mr. Berthel's association with Columbia 
began in 1934 as a student in Columbia Col-
lege and part time assistant in the University 

Libraries. He received his Bachelor's degree 
in 1938, the Master's degree in 1939, and has 
done advanced graduate work in political 
science. 

Following completion of work for the 
Bachelor's degree in 
Library Service in 
1942, he was promot-
ed to the professional 
staff as reference as-
sistant. Increase in 
responsibilities and 
corresponding ad-
vancement came at 
regular intervals. He 
was appointed college 
librarian in 1946, and 
was appointed to the 
newly created post of 

Butler librarian in 1948. 
He has taught the Contemporary Civiliza-

tion course in Columbia College and Social 
Science Literature in the School of Library 
Service. He is serving currently as a member 
of the Faculty of General Studies. 

His many friends on the staff of the Colum-
bia Libraries and in the various faculties of 
the University wish him every success in the 
new post and know that his contributions will 
be many and lasting as they have been at Co-
lumbia.—Richard H. Logsdon. 

E d w a r d J u d s o n H u m e s t o n , J r . , w a s a p -
pointed professor and head of the Library 

Science Department 
of the University of 
Kentucky in Septem-
ber 1953. Mr. Hum-
eston brings to Lex-
ington an enviable 
record of scholarship 
and teaching experi-
ence, and already dur-
ing his short -tenure 
the department has 
shown distinct ad-
vances. 

Born in Philadel-
phia in 1910, Mr. Humeston received his A.B. 
in 1932 from Hamilton College, his A.M. in 
1934 and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Princeton 
University with a major in modern languages 
He received his B.S. in L.S. from George Pea-
body College in 1946. In addition, he studied 

Oliver Dunn John II. Berthel 

Edward J. 
Humeston, Jr. 

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in Grenoble and Paris in 1934 and 1935 and 
has travelled widely on the continent. 

His teaching experience includes two years 
at the Taft School (1934-1936), the Princeton 
Tutoring School (1936-1937), Hollins Col-
lege (1937-1942), the University of Texas 
(1948-1953, associate professor of library 
science), and the University of Wisconsin 
(visiting lecturer in library science, summer, 
1952). For two years after he received his 
library degree from Peabody he served as 
chief librarian of Kansas State Teachers Col-
lege at Pittsburg. He served for three and 
a half years in the United States Army during 
World War II and held many responsible 
editorial posts in connection with the Army's 
publication program. 

In addition to his membership in library 

associations, including ACRL, he has served 
as a member of the ALA Subscription Books 
Committee (1950-1953), a member of the 
executive board of the Texas Library Associa-
tion (1952-1953), and editor of the Texas 
Library Journal (1952-1953). In November 
1953 he inaugurated the University of Ken-
tucky Library Service Papers, the first num-
ber of which was Laura K. Martin's "Public 
Libraries in Kentucky Today: A Brief Sur->> 
vey. 

Mr. Humeston's standards for education 
for librarianship will mean much to the Ohio 
Valley, and his broad understanding of hu-
manistic scholarship will mean much to li-
brary education in the nation at large.—Law-
rence S. Thompson. 

Appointments 
Mary Edna Anders, formerly assistant pro-

fessor in the library school of Florida State 
University, Tallahassee, Florida, has been 
appointed social science librarian at the Uni-
versity of Florida. 

Martha Bartlett, formerly librarian of the 
Willimantic State Teachers College Library, 
is new head librarian of the Highland Park 
(Illinois) Public Library. 

Sara Yancey Belknap, formerly director 
of Dance and Music Archives in New York 
City, has joined the staff of the University 
of Florida Libraries as librarian in charge of 
Dance and Music Archives. 

Virginia Beatty has been appointed director 
of the Medical Literature Service, College 
of Physicians of Philadelphia. Mrs. Beatty 
was formerly with the Atomic Energy Division 
of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. 

William K. Beatty, former reading room 
assistant, has been named assistant librarian, 
Readers' Service, Library of the College of 
Physicians of Philadelphia. 

Arthur B. Berthold has been appointed 
acting chief of the Division of Library and 
Reference Service of the U. S. Department 
of State. 

Eleanor Blum, formerly reference librarian 
of the University of Illinois Undergraduate 
Library, has been appointed librarian of the 
Journalism Library, University of Illinois. 

Alice P. Bray, formerly of the U. S. State 
Department, has been appointed cataloger of 

the International Relations Collection of 
George Washington University. 

Vito J. Brenni has been appointed refer-
ence librarian of the University of West 
Virginia Library. 

G. S. T. Cavanagh, formerly reference 
assistant in the Brooklyn Public Library, has 
been appointed librarian of the University of 
Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. 

Among recent appointments to the Colum-
bia University Libraries staff are the follow-
ing: Robert G. Bailey is senior documents 
assistant, Acquisitions Department; Harvey 
Bloomquistis is librarian, Zoology-Botany Li-
brary; Mrs. Phyllis Dain, cataloger; James C. 
Dance is librarian, Psychology Library; Ann 
E. Frear is professional interne, Engineering 
Library; Wade Doares is librarian, Journal-
ism Library; Mrs. Rosalie Halperin is senior 
reference assistant, Avery Architectural Li-
brary; Elaine F. Jones is senior circulation 
assistant, Business Library; Kenneth Lohf 
is assistant, Reference Department; Francis 
O'Leary is assistant librarian of the Natural 
Sciences and librarian, Geology Library; Har-
lan Phillips is assistant head, Oral History 
Research Office; Jadwiga Pulaska is cata-
loger; Eugene Sheehy is senior reference as-
sistant, Reference Department; and Leslie A. 
Taylor-Evans, cataloger. 

Jay Elwood Daily is librarian at Wagner 
College, Staten Island, New York. 

Phyllis Bull Dalton has been promoted to 

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principal librarian in charge of all reader 
services at the California State Library, 
Sacramento. 

H. Vaile Deale, formerly librarian of Illi-
nois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, has 
been appointed director of the Beloit College 
Libraries, Beloit, Wisconsin. 

Robert Delzell, formerly chief of the Acqui-
sition Department of the Washington Uni-
versity Library, St. Louis, has been appointed 
documents librarian, Air University Library, 
Maxwell Field, Alabama. 

D. Genevieve Dixon, formerly with the 
library school of the State Teachers College 
in Pittsburg, Kansas, has been appointed 
director of the Library Science Department 
of Texas State College for Women, Denton. 

Mary Virginia Doss has been appointed 
reference librarian in the Education Library 
of the University of Florida. 

Rice Estes has been appointed first assistant 
librarian at George Washington University 
Library, replacing Miller Simpson. 

Evan Farmer has been appointed librarian 
of the Livingston (Alabama) State Teachers 
College. 

Mary L. Goss has been appointed reserve 
and order librarian of the Carleton College 
Library, Northfield, Minnesota. 

John Gribbin is now associate librarian of 
Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. 

Katherine G. Harris is director of Ref-
erence Services, Detroit Public Library. 

John F. Harvey, formerly librarian at 
Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, is now 
librarian at Kansas State Teachers College, 
Pittsburg. 

Muriel Hodge, former cataloger, has been 
appointed assistant librarian, Preparation Di-
vision, Library of the College of Physicians 
of Philadelphia. 

Harriet Howe, who retired as director of 
the University of Denver School of Librarian-
ship in 1950, is acting director of the Gradu-
ate School of Library Science of the Uni-
versity of Southern California for the year 
1953/54. 

Herbert Hucks, Jr., associate librarian of 
Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Caro-
lina, since January 1947, has been named 
librarian of the college. 

Charlotte Kenton, formerly reference li-
brarian of the Armed Forces Medical Li-
brary, has been appointed to the Reference 
Department of the library of the National 

Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. 
Rosemary Mahon has returned as assistant 

librarian, Evansville College Library. 
Anne V. Marinelli, who has been lecturer 

and consultant in Italy on a Fulbright grant 
in 1952/53, has been appointed assistant pro-
fessor in the Library School of Florida State 
University, Tallahassee. 

Ruth Martindale has been appointed li-
brarian of the Eckhart Library (Mathematics 
and Physics) at the University of Chicago. 

Grace E. Middletown is assistant, cata-
loging department, University of Arkansas 
Library. 

Clyde J. Miller is interim humanities li-
brarian at the University of Florida, replac-
ing Annette Liles, who has taken a year's 
leave of absence for further study at North-
western University. 

Robert F. Munn has been appointed assist-
ant librarian of the University of West Vir-
ginia after having served in the same library 
as reference librarian. 

The following staff appointments have been 
made to the Ohio State University Libraries: 
Ruth M. Erlandson is reference librarian and 
assistant professor of library administration; 
Jane W . Gatliff, reference assistant; Celianna 
Grubb, personnel librarian; Ann Sullivan, 
cataloger, Ann Wenger, reference assistant; 
George L. Williams, librarian, History and 
Political Science Graduate Library; and 
Thelma P. Vakura, cataloger. 

Mrs. Grace Osterhus is now periodical li-
brarian at George Washington University. 

Martha Patterson, formerly senior cata-
loger at the University of California Library, 
Davis, is now senior cataloger in the Kansas 
State College Library. 

Raymond A. Piller has been appointed assist-
ant librarian and instructor in library science 
at Southeastern State College, Durant, Okla-
homa. 

Jane L. Pope has become assistant head of 
Acquisitions, University of Chicago Library, 
in charge of the periodical and serial record 
section. 

Diana M. Priestly has been appointed law 
librarian at the University of British Colum-
bia, Vancouver, B.C. 

Maurice F. Rahilly has been appointed 
assistant college librarian in charge of readers' 
services at the State University of New York 
Maritime College Library, Fort Schuyler, 
New York. 

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Ruth Rockwood, recently a Fulbright fel-
low in Thailand, is teaching in the library 
school of Florida State University, Tallahas-
see, Florida. 

Alec Ross, formerly of the Acquisitions 
Department of the University of California 
Library at Los Angeles, has become head of 
Acquisitions at the University of Kansas Li-
brary. 

Bertha M. Rothe, formerly law librarian 
of the U. S. Housing and Home Finance 
Agency, has become law librarian of George 
Washington University. 

Joseph Rubinstein has been appointed super-
vising bibliographer in the new Special Col-
lections Department of the University of 
Kansas Library. 

Elma St. John has been appointed periodi-
cal librarian of the University of Kansas Li-
brary. 

Edith Scott, formerly head of technical serv-
ices at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, 
Indiana, has been appointed head of cataloging 
and acquisitions, University of Oklahoma 
Library. 

Dan A. Seager is librarian, Ouachita Col-
lege, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. 

Alice Jean Tanner has been appointed law 
librarian of Kansas City University. 

James Tydeman is librarian of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Graduate Library School Li-
brary and in charge of the Graduate Library 
School's induction training program at the 
University of Chicago. 

Carol Vassalo has been appointed assistant 
librarian at the Willimantic State Teachers 
College, in charge of the training school library. 

Lynn Walker has been promoted to the 
position of science librarian, University of 
Florida, replacing Edwin Quinn. 

Olive D. Willgrubs has been appointed 
order and reference bibliography librarian of 
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La 
Jolla, California. 

Paul A. Winckler has been appointed li-
brarian in charge of the Downtown Division 
Library of St. John's College, Brooklyn, 
comprising the College of Pharmacy, School 
of Commerce, Nursing Education and Uni-
versity College libraries. 

Mrs. Jane H. Yadon, formerly of the Uni-
versity of Louisville Library, has been ap-
pointed reserve book librarian at George 
Washington University. 

Retirements 
Fremont Rider retired from the librarian-

ship of Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan 
University June 30, 1953. He had attended 
The New York State Library School in 
Albany in 1905-1906, but was not identified 
with any library until he became librarian at 
Wesleyan in 1933. For some of these inter-
vening years, he was managing editor of 
Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, 
and from 1912-1917 was editor of Library 
Annual. He was author of a number of 
books and editor of a remarkable series of 
guide books: indeed, his guide book of New 
York City is far the best that ever was pub-
lished. 

In his twenty years at Wesleyan, he has 
seen the Library grow from less than 200,000 
to more than 400,000 volumes. He has done 
much more than guide the development of 
the Library. His fertile mind suggested one 
invention after another, some of them affect-
ing not only Wesleyan but other research 
libraries. 

Undoubtedly, most important, was his 

invention of microcards. In 1944 he published 
The Scholar and the Future of the Research 
Library. Probably the most exciting book on 
library economy that ever was published, it 
reads like a detective story, and before long 
almost every research librarian was reading 
it. Mr. Rider refused to have his microcard 
idea copyrighted. He became chairman of 
the Microcard Foundation, but quickly set 
up an advisory group of librarians to help him 
in the development of microcards. Other 
organizations were encouraged to produce 
microcards, and now hundreds of thousands 
of cards are printed every year. Microcards, 
with microprint and microfilm apparently 
have a permanent place as a form of micro-
text. 

In 1949 Mr. Rider published Compact 
Storage, which discussed the ingenious method 
he had devised at Wesleyan for shelving less 
used research material. Other innovations 
at Wesleyan, which have been joyfully ac-
cepted by many other libraries, are the Wes-
leyan Library book trucks and the Rider sec-

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tional shelving. His Life of Melvil Dewey 
is one of the most satisfactory volumes in the 
ALA series of American Library Pioneers. 
His The Great Dilemma of World Organiza-
tion offered a possible solution for a great 
problem. It has been rumored that, at some 
time in his busy life, he has written detective 
stories under an unknown nom de plume. 

For many years Fremont Rider has been 
especially interested in genealogy. He was 
editor of The American Genealogical Index 
and The American Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Index and has built, in Middletown, 
The Godfrey Memorial Library, devoted en-
tirely to this field. It is good to know that 
although he has retired from the librarian-

ship of Wesleyan, it merely gives him more 
time to devote to two of his many interests, 
genealogy and microcards.—Paul North Rice. 

Mary S. DuPre, librarian of Wofford Col-
lege, Spartanburg, S.C., since 1905, retired 
in August 1953. 

Miss Gertrude Larsen, cataloger, and Mrs. 
Adelaide Ohlendorf, head of the serial rec-
ord section in Acquisitions, retired from the 
University of Chicago Library Staff last 
summer. 

Helen A. Russell retired on June 1, 1953, 
after twenty-four years as librarian, State 
Teachers College at West Chester, Pennsyl-
vania. 

Foreign Libraries 
Dr. Karol Badecki, custodian of the Jagiel-

lonian Library of the University of Cracow, 
died on January 29, 1953. 

Wilhelm Munthe, chief librarian of the 
University of Oslo, retired soon after October 

20, 1953 when he was 70 years old. He is 
well known in the library world. 

Dr. Thilo Schnurre, director of the Mur-
hardsche Bibliothek in Kassel, Germany, 
retired 011 May 1, 1952. 

Corrections 
A. J. Walford of the British Ministry of 

Defence, London, became editor of the Li-
brary Association Record, beginning January, 

1953. However, he succeeded Mr. W . B. 
Stevenson, who was editor from 1 9 4 6 - I C 5 2 . 
Mr. L. R. McColvin held the post prior to this. 

Necrology 
Archibald Malloch, formerly librarian of 

the New York Academy of Medicine, died 
on September 19, 1953 in White Plains, New 
York. 

1 9 4 9 - 5 0 , she surveyed public library service in 
New Zealand under a Fulbright fellowship. 

Miriam D. Tompkins, associate professor 
of library service at the School of Library 
Service of Columbia University, died on 
March 2, 1954. 

Miss Tompkins began her professional 
career in the public libraries of Milwaukee 
and New York City, and subsequently became 
a member of the library school faculty at 
Emory University. In 1935 she joined the 
staff at Columbia, continuing there until her 
death. Her interests centered primarily 
around adult education through libraries. She 
was a co-author of Helping the Reader To-
ward Self-Education in 1938, and collaborated 
in the preparation of Adult Education Activi-
ties for Public Libraries for Unesco. In 

Willard Potter Lewis, librarian of Pennsyl-
vania State College from 1931 to 1949, who 

passed away at State 
^ ^ ^ College on August 

v j f ^ jam in M. and Jennie 

•I^HBHMBBHHB dletown, Connecticut 
Willard Potter Lewis in 1 9 " , took a M a s -

ter's degree the fol-
lowing year and in 1913 graduated from the 
New York State Library School at Albany 

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with a B.L.S. He served successively as li-
brarian of the Y.M.C.A. at Albany, 1913-14; 
of Baylor University, 1914-19; of Camp Mac-
Arthur at Waco, Texas in 1917; and of the 
University of New Hampshire from 1919 to 
1929. There followed a brief interval as 
librarian of his alma mater at Middletown 
from 1929 to 1931 and then, when President 
Hetzel moved from New Hampshire to Penn. 
State, Mr. Lewis was sent forth, to be librar-
ian of the latter institution, where he served 
until his retirement and death. When Mr. 
Lewis came to State College the book collec-
tion could only boast a total of 130,000 vol-
umes, and these grew, to the time of his re-
tirement, to 309,000. 

In 1941 the first portion of a new library 
building which Mr. Lewis had planned was 
dedicated at State College, with Mr. P. L. 
Windsor, then the distinguished librarian of 
the University of Illinois, as the principal 
speaker. 

Mr. Lewis was a member of the Library 
Section of the Advisory Committee of the 
Land Grant College Survey, 1928-1929, and 
a member of the Connecticut Public Library 
Commission, 1929-1931. He was active in 
the Pennsylvania Library Association, and 
served as its president in 1939-40. Signifi-
cantly, he helped to establish a College and 
Reference Section for the PLA; and he served 
on numerous committees. He had previously 
been President of the New Hampshire Li-
brary Association. 

Throughout most of his career Mr. Lewis 
contributed articles to our professional jour-
nals. He instituted the publication of an 
attractively printed bulletin called Headlight 
on Books at Penn State, and established a 
weekly series of "Wednesday Readings" in 
the library. He also promoted fraternity li-
braries and prepared a "Fraternity Five Foot 
Shelf" which listed effective titles for these 
collections. He reinstated the Summer Li-
brary School in cooperation with the PLA 
and the State Library. 

Mr. Lewis was elected Secretary-Treasurer 
of the College and Reference Section of the 
ALA at Denver in 1935 and the following 
year at Richmond his duties were notably 
expanded. Although the Section had been 
conducting adequate meetings at the annual 
conferences of the Association, it had main-
tained only a small membership on the basis 
of wholly supplementary dues. Reorganiza-

tion plans which were to transform the Sec-
tion into a vigorous and full-fledged division 
of ALA were now projected, under the ag-
gressive leadership of Charles Harvey Brown 
of Iowa State College at Ames, and a dues-
paying membership of hundreds of college 
librarians now began to develop and consti-
tuted one phase of the paper work which fell 
to Mr. Lewis' lot in connection with the new 
secretariat. In 1938, at Kansas City, the As-
sociation of College and Reference Libraries 
came into being. The undersigned had the 
privilege of substituting for Mr. Lewis at 
the San Francisco meeting of ALA held the 
following year, and Mr. Ben Powell, then 
librarian of the University of Missouri, and 
later Mr. Charles V. Park of Central Michi-
gan College were to succeed Mr. Lewis before 
Mr. Orwin Rush, then librarian of Clark 
University, was to become the first full-time, 
paid secretary of ACRL in 1947. During 
all the years that this notable expansion of 
college and university library representation 
in the organization of ALA was being advo-
cated and legislated Mr. Lewis accorded 
every phase of it his staunchest support. 

Those of us who knew Mr. Lewis through 
contacts with him at successive conferences 
of the American Library Association, con-
ferences which he always attended with 
marked relish, remember him vividly as a 
quite definitely home-spun, but genial, con-
scientious, hard-working and devoted member 
of the profession. 

Mr. Lewis' children include three sons, 
Robert, Walter and Donald and one daughter, 
Barbara, whose married name is Mrs. Wil-
liam Heising. Mrs. Lewis was in ill health 
for several years, and died in January, 1954. 

Speaking of the growth of the library at 
Pennsylvania State during the '30's and '40's, 
Mr. Lewis' successor has written: 

"His effectiveness is to be measured 
not only by statistical gains but also by 
the vigor with which he worked for ade-
quate library service for his institution." 
It was the privilege of the undersigned to 

visit Mr. Lewis at State College in the years 
before the new library building was erected, 
and in recollection there comes to mind, as 
the two of us strolled down a pleasantly 
shaded State College street, a passing old 
Ford car filled to the brim with eight or ten 
rather young children. A half-dozen youthful, 
and obviously enthusiastic, voices shouted 

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from the car: "Hello, Mr. Lewis!", where-
upon he paused to comment with a smile: 
"You see, I am WELL known HERE!"— 
Jackson E. Towne. 

Fanny Borden, librarian emeritus of Vassar 
College, died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. January 
31 after an illness of several months. Miss 
Borden was a graduate of Vassar College 
and received her professional training at the 
New York State Library School. She served 
as assistant librarian at Bryn Mawr from 
1901 to 1903 and as associate librarian at 
Smith, 1903 to 1906. Her long period of 
service at Vassar began in 1908 when she 
returned to the college as a library assistant. 
Prior to her appointment as reference librarian 
in 1910, a post which she held until taking 
the librarianship in 1928, she served as classi-
fier and cataloger. During her thirty-seven 
years at Vassar, the library's collection in-
creased five-fold, under Miss Borden's ad-
ministration library endowments were in-
creased, the fine quality of the book collection, 
especially strong in source materials and 
bibliographies, was maintained and the library 
building enlarged by the addition of a new 
wing. A true scholar, she understood the 
needs of faculty and students and worked 
untiringly to make the library an effective 
teaching instrument. In addition to compiling 
two extensive and widely-used bibliographies, 
she prepared a library handbook for students 
and taught classes in bibliography. She not 
only enriched the library's collection in the 
field of fine printing but she imparted her 
love of beautiful books to students and staff. 
After her retirement in 1945, Miss Borden 
continued to devote many hours to library re-
search, indexing archives and material relat-
ing to the early history of the college. Up 
to the time of her illness she was working 
on a history of the library, and while no 
chapters had been written, the source material 
had been organized and arranged. Miss Bor-
den was a member of the American Library 
Association, New York Library Association, 
Bibliographical Society of America and the 
American Institute of Graphic Arts.—Dorothy 
A. Plum. 

Halsey William Wilson, founder of The 
H. W . Wilson Company of New York, died 
on March 1, 1954, at the age of 85 at his 
home in Croton Heights, Westchester County, 

New York, after an illness of several months. 
Internationally renowned as a bibliographer, 

Mr. Wilson was the 
founder and Chair-
man of the Board of 
the world's largest 
reference publishing 
house, the 56-year-old 
H. W. Wilson Com-
pany of New York, 
publishers of more 
than 20 major index-
ing and reference 
services acclaimed as 
indispensable to re-
search and scholar-

ship in libraries the world over. 
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Company's 

founding in 1948, the American Library Asso-
ciation saluted it as "the most important bib-
liographical enterprise ever conceived and 
brought to fruition by any one man." And the 
Saturday Review commented: "The name 
H. W. Wilson is to bibliography what Web-
ster is to dictionaries, Bartlett to quotations." 
A leading educator wrote that it would be 
difficult if not impossible to imagine what 
modern scholarship or librarianship would be 
like without the Wilson publications. 

One of Mr. Wilson's keys to success in pro-
viding library services was his willingness to 
heed the requests and consider the problems of 
the libraries themselves. Every publication 
of The Wilson Company has been the out-
growth of a definite need in libraries, and in 
attempting to meet the need, advice of the 
librarians has been widely sought. In the case 
of periodical indexes, the subscribers them-
selves from time to time vote on the periodicals 
to be indexed. 

Mr. Wilson had been a regular attendant 
at library conferences, in recent years having 
attained the distinction of having attended 
more conferences of the American Library 
Association than any other member. He en-
couraged his staff to participate in library as-
sociation affairs and gave generously of their 
time and abilities to committee work. In still 
another channel of cooperation representatives 
of the American Library Association and the 
Special Libraries Association have been invited 
frequently to sit unofficially with The Wilson 
Company's Board of Directors. 

In addition to his services to research, H. W . 

H. W. Wilson 

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Wilson made several unique contributions to 
the field of publishing. One of the most 
notable is the plan he originated for saving 
and interfiling type for the "cumulative" in-
dexes associated with his name. 

Another unusual contribution is the "service 
basis" method of charge, which not only made 
possible the publications of hundreds of ref-
erence volumes, but made it financially pos-
sible for libraries on six continents to own 
them. 

Mr. Wilson served as president of the pub-
lishing firm bearing his name from its begin-
ning until December 1952, when he requested 
that he be relieved of some of his administra-
tive duties in order to devote more time to a 
study of the company's general policies and 
future plans. He was accordingly named 
Chairman of the Board of Directors and was 
succeeded as president by Howard Haycraft, 
who had been vice-president since 1940. 

As the man who was regarded by many as 
the greatest benefactor of libraries since An-
drew Carnegie, Mr. Wilson received numer-
ous honors from educators and librarians. 

Brown University conferred on him the hon-
orary degree of Doctor of Letters in 1939, 
and in 1948 he received from the University 
of Minnesota its first "Outstanding Achieve-
ment" medal. Both the American Library 
Association and the Special Libraries Associa-
tion paid special honor to him in 1948, on the 
fiftieth anniversary of his firm's first publica-
tion, and in 1950 he received the American 
Library Association's $500 Joseph W . Lippin-
cott Award for Outstanding Achievement in 
Librarianship. In the same year the Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press published an account 
of his achievements, John Lawler's The H. W. 
Wilson Company: Half a Century of Biblio-
graphic Publishing, with a foreword by E. W . 
McDiarmid, a past president of the American 
Library Association, in which he said, "Wilson 
has played a vital . . . part in nearly every 
scholarly activity of the past half-century." 

A tribute is paid to Mr. Wilson by C. Sum-
ner Spalding in the January 1954 issue of 
C & R L for his interest and work in relation 
to the Library of Congress printed catalogs. 

Federal Services to Libraries 
(Continued, from page 178) 

the dragon of arithmetical progression. 
T h e results of the survey are being pub-

lished in book form late this spring by the 
American Library Association under the 
title of Federal Services to Libraries. Part I 
is to be devoted to an exposition of the poli-
cies governing Federal services to libraries, 
and Part II (the main section of the book) 
will consist of an alphabetical listing by sub-
ject of the services available to libraries from 
the government at the time the typescript 
went to press early in 1954. Each service is 
described in sufficient detail to make it mean-
ingful. Finally there is an index in which 
every service, book, document, individual or 
agency mentioned in the text is cited by page 
reference, and under the name of each 
agency are to be found the services it offers. 

Since nothing changes more rapidly than 
the Federal scene in Washington, it is only 

fair to the Federal personnel who cooperated 
in this work to mention that some of the 
services listed may have been modified or 
discontinued in the interim between report-
age and publication, and that all Federal 
services to libraries or to any other organiza-
tions or individuals are dependent upon such 
variables as budget and staff. Conversely, 
some services may well have been inaugu-
rated after the book went to press. Nothing 
less than a looseleaf service could hope to 
achieve current coverage of this field. It is 
nevertheless the hope and belief of the Fed-
eral Relations Committee that librarians 
and others will find in Federal Services to 
Libraries a key to many services offered by 
their government but hitherto not used by 
many libraries which stand to benefit from 
them. 

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