College and Research Libraries ALA Mail Vote on Headquarters Location: A Memo to ACRL Members The question of the location of ALA Headquarters has been referred to the membership of. the Association. This is a very important question. Its decision is important. It is more important that the decision be a real expression of opin- ion from the members. You will find the details of the issue in the September ALA Bulletin-includ- ing a ballot for your use. If you have not already read the information in that issue, please do so now-and then VOTE. You may also wish to go back to the May 1957 ALA Bulletin and give careful thought to the Report of the Executive Board Subcommittee on Headquarters Location. You must have an interest in the lo- cation of the national office of your As- sociation. If you haven't, read all the the background material and develop an interest. I say this because it is the Member who now has the power to make the decision, and it is the M em- ber who should now decide. The ALA Executive Board has given much thought to this. Council has acted upon it. But you, the Member, have the last word- providing you exercise your democrat- ic privilege and vote. This mail vote of the membership is being taken because a group of mem- bers, acting within constitutional provi- sions, has challenged the decision of Council. The ALA Constitution re- quires, however, in an action of this na- ture, that one-fourth of the personal and institutional membership (approxi- mately five thousand) must vote in order for there . to be a membership decision one way or another. I say, in behalf of the Executive Board, that it is greatly to be hoped that there will be full membership par- ticipation in the mail vote. I say in be- half of every mem her of ALA that mem- bership participation is more important than the "yes" or "no" division on any single issue. DAVID H. CLIFT How A CRL Councilors V oted Ten of ACRL's representatives on the ALA Council voted at Kansas City on the report which would move ALA Headquarters to Washington. A tabulation of the roll call of the ACRL Councilors follows: Armstrong, Clifford R. Yes Kelley, David Otis Not voting Bennett, Fleming · Not voting McAnally, Arthur M. Not voting Branscomb, Lewis C. Yes Orr, Robert W. Yes Brubaker, H . S. Not voting Ottemiller, John H . Not voting Craft, Irene L. Yes Pierce, Helen Frances Not voting Crosland, Mrs. Dorothy M. Yes Powell, Donald M. Not voting Daniels, Marietta Yes Stallings, H. Dean Not voting Fayer, Mrs. Margaret Not voting Heintz, Edward C. No Stone, Elizabeth Opal Not voting Hintz, Carl W. Not voting Towne, Jackson E. Yes Hirsch, Felix E. Yes Winchell, Constance M. Not voting Jenkins, Mrs. Frances B. No Wright, Walter W. Not voting SEPTEMBER 1957 403 ACRL Grants for 1957 For the third successive year the ACRL Committee on Foundation Grants is distributing application forms for grants in September. These must be returned to the ACRL office by October 20. Applications will be studied by the Committee in November and December. All applicants will be notified of the re- sults in · January, I958. Funds are to be used for the same general purposes in I957 as in I956. Last year's grant program was described in detail in the September, I956, issue of CRL. Readers who wish details on the 1957 grants are referred to this article ("The ACRL Grants for 1956," by Ar- thur T. Hamlin, CRL~ XVU (I956), 423-27) as the I957 program is simi- lar in practically all details. The grants are designed to aid educa- tion at the undergraduate level, except that some funds may be used for re- search in librarianship. All types of in- stitutions which offer four-year under- graduate studies and are not supported by tax sources are eligible for grants. Two-year institutions which plan to es- tablish four-year programs in the near future are eligible for grants. Application forms are mailed out to practically all non-tax supported, four- year institutions in the United States which are listed in the current Office of Education directory. These are ad- dressed to the library and should be re- ceived before September 25. Institutions which do not receive forms by that date are urged to request them from the ACRL Office (50 East Huron Street, Chicago II, Illinois).-A. T. H. A Note on the New ACRL Constitution The process of having ACRL comply with the new organizational structure of ALA subsequent to the management survey got under way at the Midwinter Meeting in February, 1957. The ACRL Committee on Constitution and Bylaws examined the published Constitution and Bylaws of ACRL appearing in the ACRL Organiza tion Manual (Chicago, 1956) and compared them with the latest revision of the ALA Constitution in order to identify the areas of conflict in the two documents. It soon became apparent to the committee that no simple parallel- text document could be written with clarity. While generous reference was made to the old ACRL Constitution it was considered best to produce a document de nouveau. Following the first draft that was produced ·at Midwinter the committee used the advice and counsel of the former and interim executive secretaries of ACRL and the representative of ACRL on SCOR. After further editing and refinement .the document was submitted to the chairman of the ALA Constitution and By- laws Committee for inspection for possible conflicts with the ALA Constitution and Bylaws. No conflict was found. At the annual conference in Kansas City the ACRL Board of Directors voted to accept a change in the statement of the fields of responsibility as noted in Ar- ticle II, Sec. I of the Constitution. Subs equently, at the ACRL meeting on June 27 the document was presented to the membership and was approved without dis- senting vote. It will be presented for adoption at the San Francisco Conference next June. 404 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL Constitution and Bylaws Constitution ARTICLE I. NAME SEc. 1. The name of this organization shall be the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. ARTICLE II. OBJECT SEc. 1. The Association of College and Research Libraries represents the li- braries of higher education (of those institutions supporting formal education above the secondary-school level), independent research libraries, and specialized libraries. ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP SEc. 1. Members. Any personal or institutional or life member of the American Library Association may designate the Association of College and Research Librar- ies as the type-of-library divisional membership or may become a member upon payment of the additional divisional membership fee as provided in the Amer- ican Library Association Bylaws. SEc. 2. Suspension and Reinstatement. The membership of any individual or in- stitution may be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the Board of Directors. A sus- . pended member may be reinstated by a three-fourths vote of the Board of Di- rectors. ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS SEc. 1. Officers. The officers of the Association shall be a president and a vice- president, who is the president-elect. SEc. 2. Terms. The president and the vice-president shall be elected from the membership of the Association and shall serve for one year or until their succes- sors are elected and qualified. ARTICLE V. BOARD OF DIRECTORS SEc. 1. Duties and Authority. The Board of Directors shall have general over- sight and direction of the affairs of the Association. It shall conduct all business pertaining to the Association, and shall have authority to make decisions for the Association during the periods between meetings. SEc. 2. Members. (a) Voting. The Board shall consist of the president, vice-president, ret1nng president, four directors-at-large, one director elected by each section, and the American Library Association Councilors elected on nomination from the Asso- ciation. SEPTEMBER 1957 405 (b) Non-voting. The executive secretary and the chairman of each section are ex-officio members without vote. SEc. 3. Terms. The directors-at-large and directors representing sections shall be elected from the members of the Association for four-year terms, which terms shall overlap so as to insure continuity of policy. ARTICLE VI. SECTIONS AND CoMMITTEES SEc. 1. Sections of the Association may be organized and committees authorized as provided in the Bylaws. · ARTICLE VII. MEETINGS SEc. I. General Meetings. The Association shall hold an annual meeting at the time and place of the annual conference of the American Library Association. Other meetings may be called at the discretion of the Board of Directors. SEc. 2. Section Meetings. Meetings of the Sections shall be held at the time and place of the annual conference of the American Library Association. Other meet- ings may be called by the chairman or other controlling agency of the section. ·sections may, with the approval of the Board of Directors, hold closed meetings or joint meetings with other sections. ARTICLE VIII. BYLAws SEc. 1. Adoption, Suspension, and Amendments. Bylaws may be adopted, sus- pended and amended by a majority vote of the members of the Association at- tending a general meeting at an annual conference or casting ballots in a vote by mail. ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS SEc. 1. All proposals for amending the Constitution shall be referred to the Board of Directors. The Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a general meeting of the Association at two successive an- nual meetings provided that notice of the proposed amendment has been pub~ lished not less than one month before final consideration. Bylaws ARTICLE I. DuEs SEc. I. General. Dues shall be those provided for in the American Library Association Bylaws. SEc. 2. Additional. A fee of fifty cents per year will be charged for membership in each section in excess of two. 406 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES . ARTICLE II. NoMINATIONS AND ELECTION SEc. 1. Committee. A committee to nominate candidates for elective pos1t1ons to be filled for the Association as a whole shall be appointed by the vice-president (president-elect), with the approval of the president, at such times as to enable the committee to meet during the annual meeting preceding the one at which the results of the election are to be announced. In making its selection the commit- tee shall keep in mind the following objectives: (a) the importance of developing leaders among the younger members of the Association; (b) the desirability of ro- tating important offices among the various sections composing the Association; (c) the necessity of securing a Board of Directors on which all sections will have as equal a number of representatives as is possible at any one time; (d) the repre- sentation of the various interests of the Association and the geographical distribu- tion of its members; (e) that written consent must be secured from each candi- date; (f) that candidates should be presented in blocks of two names each. Can- didates for elective positions for sections shall be chosen as each section deter- mines. SEc. 2. Reporting of Nominees. (a) Elective Officers of the Association as a whole. The Nominating Committee shall report at such time and in such manner as is provided in the American Li- brary Association Constitution and Bylaws, keeping in mind the fact that it is important for the names of the nominees to become known to the members of the Association as early as is practicable. (b) American Library Association Councilors. The executive secretary of the As- sociation shall inform the N aminating Committee of the number of American Library Association Councilors to be nominated to provide for replacements and for reappointment of the number of Councilors as required by the changing num- ber of the members of the Association. This committee shall file its nominations (and the written consent of the nominees that their names may be placed on the ballot) with the executive secretary of the Association and with the chairman of the American Library Association Nominating Committee at such time and in such manner as the chairman of the American Library Association Nominating Com- mittee shall indicate. SEc. 3. Nominations by others for elective offic~rs of the Association as a whole. Nominations other than those of the Nominating Committee signed by no less than twenty members of the Association shall be accepted and placed on the bal- lot if they are filed with the executive secretary of the Association at least three months before the date on which ballots are to be mailed. Written consent of the nominees must accompany such nominations. SEc. 4. Right to vote. All members of the Association shall be eligible to vote on the elective positions of the _ Association. Only members affiliated with a section shall vote for its officers and the director who will represent that section on the Board of Directors. SEc. 5. Elections. (a) Association. Elections to elective positions for the Association as a whole SEPTEMBER 1957 407 shall be by mail vote. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be elected. In case of a tie vote the successful candidate shall be determined by lot. (b) Sections. Elections to elective positions for sections shall be made as each section determines. The election of directors representing sections must be re- ported in writing by a section's retiring chairman to the executive secre~ary of the Association before the adjournment of the annual meeting. Any section failing so to report such election by this time shall lose its right to be represented on the Board for the following elective year. The election of other officers shall be re- ported to the executive secretary in the same way and at the same time. ARTICLE III. QuoRuM SEc. 1. Board of Directors. A majority of the voting members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. (a) Mail votes. In the absence of a quorum the president may authorize a mail vote. An affirmative vote of three-fourths of the voting directors of the Board shall be required to pass a motion. On each mail vote, each voting director of the Board shall have the option of voting for the motion, against the motion, or to hold for discussion. SEc. 2. Association. Fifty members shall constitute a quorum of the Association for the transaction of all business except elections. ARTICLE IV. SECTIONS SEc. 1. Establishment. Any group of twenty-five or 1nore members of the Asso· ciation, representing a field of activity in general distinct from those of the then existing sections, and within the scope of the Association's field of interest, may or· ganize a section upon receiving approval from the Board of Directors. Sections shall be composed only of Association members. SEc. 2. Representation on the Board of Directors. Any section consisting of fifty or more members shall elect from its voting membership one representative on the Board of Directors. ARTICLE V. CoMMITTEES SEc. 1. Authorization. Committees of the Association as a whole shall be author- ized by action of the Association or the Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided in the Constitution and Bylaws. SEc. 2. Appointment of Committee Members. Standing committees shall be es- tablished with clearly defined areas of responsibility and with a specified number of members and specific terms of office not to exceed five years. Committee mem- bership shall be staggered with regularity, in order to provide continuity. The vice-president (president-elect) shall appoint committee members to fill the vacan- cies due to occur during the term of his presidency; he may name the chairman of each committee for the term to correspond with his office as president or he may waive his privilege of appointing the chairman and request the committee to elect its own chairman. Special appointments to fill vacancies on any committee may be made ~y the president for one appointive year only. 408 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES SEc. 3. Discontinuance. A committee may be discontinued only by the agency authorizing it. ARTICLE VI. VACANCIES SEc. I. Elective Positions. Appointments to fill vacancies in elective positions of the Association as a whole (except president and vice-president) shall be made by the Board of Directors until it is possible for the Association to fill the vacancy at the next regular annual election in accordance with the Bylaws. (a) A vacancy in the office of president shall be filled, for the remainder of the term, by the vice-president. This succession shall not prevent a person who suc- ceeds to the presidency because of a vacancy from serving his normal term as pres- ident the next year, as is provided in the Constitution. (b) A vacancy in the office of vice-president can be filled only by election as pro- vided in the Bylaws. (c) If vacancies occur in the offices of president and vice-president within the same term the Board of Directors shall elect as president one of the directors or the directors-at-large for the remainder of the term. When a regular election is next held, a president and a vice-president shall be elected. (d) Vacancies on the Board of Directors shall be filled by election at the next regular election after the vacancy occurs. (e) Appointments to fill vacancies on a committee of the Association as a whole shall be made by the president. ARTICLE VII. YEARS SEc. I. Membership Y ear. The membership year of the Association shall be the calendar year. SEc. 2. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Association shall be the fiscal year of the American Library Association. SEc. 3. Elective and Appointive Year. The term of office for elective and ap- pointive positions of the Association filled annually shall be the period beginning with the adjournment of the annual conference and ending with the adjourn- ment of the next succeeding annual conference. Terms of office for elective posi- tions occupied longer than one year shall be calculated from the adjournment of the annual conference. ARTICLE VIII. RuLES oF ORDER SEc. I. The rules contained in Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the Asso- ciation in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not in- consistent with the Constitution and Bylaws. SEPARATELY PRINTED COPIES OF THE ACRL CONSTITUTION AND BY- LAWS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST TO ACRL AFTER OCTOBER 20. SEPTEMBER 1957 409 Brief of Minutes ACRL Board of Directors A meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the Phillips Hotel, Kansas City, Mis- souri, Jun e 24:· Present were Robert W . Orr, President; Eileen Thornton, Vice-President; Ralph H . . Park,er, Treasurer; Robert Vosper, Past President; Richard H arwell, Executive Secretary; Francis P. Allen , Clifford R. Arm- strong, D ale M. Bentz, J. Richard Blan- chard, Lewis C. Branscomb, William S. Dix, Felix E. Hirsch, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Leonard H. Kirkpatrick, Archie L. McNeal, Giles F. Shepherd, Jr. , Maurice F. Tauber, Angelin E. Tesdell, Lawrence S. Thompson, Katherine Walker, Leo M. Weins, and Wyl- lis E. Wright. Following explanation of the projected work of Joint Advisory Committee on the Union List of Serials by Mr. Wright, it was moved by Mr. Kirkpatrick (seconded by Mrs. Jenkins) that the Board authorize its repre- sentative on the committee to vote for its incorporation. Passed. Mr. McNeal reported to the Board the formation since Midwinter 1957 of a Special Committee on Activities Development, re- quested suggestions concerning the work of the committee, and promised its first reg- ular report at Midwinter 1958. Mr. Allen, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, reported the results of the divi- sion election. Mr. Harwell reported the re- sults of the section elections. (The results are in print in the July CRL.) Miss Thorn- ton commented that committee appoint- ments for 1957-58 were not yet completed and would be announced later. Mr. Weins discussed the ALA budgeting procedures under reorganization. Mr. Har- well remarked that ACRL has received full cooperation from the ALA comptroller in the preparation of its budget and commented that its budgetary position is strong, that the total picture under present procedure is better than under the old method, and that attempts to compare the old and new budgetary p a tterns without thorough study are often mi sleading. Mr. Vosper announced to the Board ALA's impending loss in the departure of Mr. Weins from its staff. There was un animous expression of regret at his leaving and b est wishes for his future. Mr. Parker, in commenting on the Treas- urer's position in ACRL, noted that the of- fice is not necessary with the new budgetary procedures and that it would be abolished b y the absence of any provision for it in the new ACRL Constitution. A discussion con- cerning budgetary requests to PEBCO en - sued. A proposal that a budget committee be established or that the general officers of the division act as such was left without formal action. Mr. Harwell reported on the accomplish- . ments of ALA's Special Committee on Re- organization. He acted as staff-liaison for ACRL's representative on the committee, Robert W. Severance, at its March meeting. To the Board he read the ACRL statement of Fields of Responsibility which had been drawn up at the SCOR meeting and which had been unanimously approved by a mail vote. Discussion brought out a general feel- ing that ACRL's interest in its publishing program was not sufficiently covered in the statement. Its item four was therefore re- vised for presentation to the Kansas City meeting of SCOR to assert that ACRL's re- sponsibility to the profession includes "Rep- resentation and interpretation of college and university libraries, independent research li- braries, and specialized libraries in contacts within and outside the profession through appropriate publications and other activi- ties." The Executive Secretary requested permis- sion to begin the use of the new name of the Association as appropriate in the devel- opment of its activities, prior to its final of- ficial approval which is expected at the San Francisco Conference. On the motion of Mrs. Jenkins (seconded by Mr. Hirsch) approval was gran ted. 410 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Miss Walker reported that the Libraries of Teacher Training Institutions Section had voted to change its name to the Teacher Education Libraries Section and requested Board approval of the change. On the mo- tion of Mr. Vosper (seconded by Mr. Hirsch) the change was authorized and approved. Mr. Shepherd reported the completion of the draft of the new ACRL Constitution for submission to a vote at the membership meeting and the certification of the draft as free from conflict with the ALA Constitu- tion by Ralph Esterquest, Chairman of the ALA Committee on Constitution and By- laws. Mr. Bentz reported that the compilation of college and university library statistics, previously a function of the ACRL Commit- tee on Statistics, would be continued as a function of the Committee on Statistics of the Library Administration Division. He as- sured the Board that the statistics would continue to appear in CRL. jUNE 27, 1957 Present at the ACRL Board of Direc- tors meeting June 27 were: Robert W. Orr, President; Eileen Thornton, Vice-President; Ralph H. Parker, Treasurer; Robert Vosper, Past President; Richard B. Harwell, Exec· utive Secretary; Mary N. Barton, Benja- min B. Richards, Lewis C. Branscomb, Mrs. Frances Neel Cheney, Mrs. Dorothy M. Cros- land, Marietta Daniels, William S. Dix, Ar- thur T. Hamlin, Mrs. Georgia Haugh, Ed- ward C. Heintz, Felix E. Hirsch, Mrs. Fran- ces B. Jenkins, W. Porter Kellam, Leonard H. Kirkpatrick, William Lansberg, Edmon Low, Arthur McAnally, Ralph McCoy, Ruth E. Scarborough, Ruth Schoneman, Robert L. Talmadge, AngelinE. Tesdell, Ralph Thom- son, Lawrence S. Thompson, Jackson E. Towne, and Wayne Yenawine. President Orr welcomed the various com- mittee chairmen and guests to the meeting with the Board. The Board approved the continuation of the appointments of Ralph E. McCoy and John H. Moriarty as ACRL representatives on the AASL-ACRL-DAVI Joint Committee on Mutual Interests in the Audio-Visual Field. Mr. Orr reminded the Board of plans for SEPTEMBER 1957 National Library Week to be carried out in March 1958. Miss Thornton invited sug- gestions for the programming of the San Francisco Conference. Reports of the several committees were ac- cepted by the Board. Mrs. Haugh reported a vote of the Com- mittee on Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Spe- cial Collections requesting a study, with a report at Midwinter, of the possibility of that committee's becoming a section of ACRL. The appointment of such a commit- tee was authorized. The Board authorized the adoption of the following as a statement of purpose for the ACRL Committee on Foundation Grants: "The Committee on Foundation Grants is responsible for handling funds to aid higher education through support of libraries and librarianship. To carry out this program, the committee has an implied responsibility to collect data on college library needs, to pub- licize these needs, and to interpret the func- tions of the library in higher education." A statement by Mr. Thompson, offered as an addendum to the report of the Publica- tions Committee, was approved as an offi- cial expression of policy: "Inasmuch as ACRL has shown remark- able vigor and success in developing its pub- lications program, we should jealously guard its integrity, in respect both to content and to quality. We should scrutinize carefully any move by any outside group to alter the pur- pose, character, or quality of ACRL publi- cations. When actual changes are made, they should be initiated from within ACRL, not from outside." Mr. Harwell reported the approval of ACRL's amended Fields of Responsibility statement. He reported also that SCOR had approved the amalgamation of the Special- ized Libraries Division into ACRL. Miss Schoneman reported that the SLD members were pleased to enter into ACRL and re- quested that the Board appoint a representa- tive to meet with its former organizing com- mittee. On the motion of Mr. Vosper (sec- onded by general accord) Mrs. Crosland was appointed to meet with the SLD representa- tives. Mr. Orr expressed ACRL's pleasure at the opportunity to work with the subject specialist libra:r:ians and assurance that they could find a proper home in ACRL. 411 News from the Field AcQUISITIONS, GIFTS, CoLLECTIONs THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY, Berkeley, has received a collection of mate- rials by and about Norman Douglas as a gift of M. K. Terzian of San Francisco. Included are twenty-one letters exchanged between the two men, thirteen first editions (includ- ing six inscribed copies) and a manuscript notebook dated 1905. The collection will be kept as a unit in the library's Rare Books Department. CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has received a sub- stantial collection of documents by and about the late Otto Rank, psychotherapist. Most of the material was donated by J. Jesse Taft of Flourtown, Pa. Additional papers that fill out the collection were given by Mrs. Pierre Simon of Paris, former wife of Dr. Rank. The psychotherapist was a student and associate of Sigmund Freud and the collection includes three Freud manuscripts. BAKER LIBRARY, Dartmouth College, has purchased a collection, previously thought to be lost, of W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame-Gram. The forty-seven letters were rediscovered by Professor Herbert F. West on a visit to the Gram family home at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. The col- lection was purchased by Professor West for the Friends of the Baker Library with funds given by Eugene J. Schwartz of New York City in memory of his father, Julius. The letters constitute an important addition to the library's Hudson collection. THE MARGARET I. KING LIBRARY of the University of Kentucky recently dedicated its Alben W. Barkley Room in honor of the late Senator and Vice-President. The room contains Mr. Barkley's desk and chair, por- trait, and other memorabilia. In addition, the library has been presented with Mr. Barkley's papers and records, including let- ters from Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and other governmental figures, drafts of speeches given by him, and photographs. THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY has acquired the business records of the T. F. & T. Jewett firm and its successor, the Wil- liam D. Jewett Co., both of South Berwick, Me. The collection consists of thirty-seven volumes of cash books, day books, ledgers, memorandum and letter books covering the period 1822-1896. Theodore Furber Jewett (1787-1860), grandfather of Sarah Orne Jew- ett, was the founder of the firm. NoRTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY now possesses an outstanding collection of books in the fields of gardening and botany, the bequest of the late Langdon Pease of Win- netka, Illinois. Notable for their attractive format and illustrations, the 140 volumes de- scribe the horticulture of many countries and periods. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been given a 180-volume collection of the works of Rai- ner Maria Rilke by Dr. Edgar S. Oppen- heimer of New York. A notable item is Leben und Lieder (1895); only five copies are known to exist. The collection includes eight Rilke letters that will augment the forty-six already owned by the library. INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has acquired the complete file of manuscripts and letters of Upton Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Sinclair. David A. Randall, rare book librar- ian, reports that "the collection comprises a record that in length of time covered, va- riety, and fullness is unsurpassed by that of any figure of American literature and cul- ture of any period." Included in the eight tons of material are the documentation of Sinclair's various crusading books, corre- spondence and documents relating to the famous Lanny Budd series, and family rec- ords extending back to 1813. Sinclair's works, as represented by the collection, have ap- peared in approximately a thousand titles in sixty languages in fifty-five countries. The letters alone number 250,000. LINCOLN CoLLEGE, Lincoln, Illinois, will open October 13 an extensive exhibit of American historical manuscripts from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Sang of River Forest, Illinois. The exhibit will mark the opening of Lincoln's new exhibi- 412 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES tion hall. It will illustrate American history with autographic material from the time of Columbus to the present. In conjunction with this exhibit Lincoln will display in its Museum of the Presidents a complete series of Presidential autographs, also drawn from the Sang Collection. THE LIBRARY OF NEw MEXIco CoLLEGE of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts recently acquired its hundred thousandth volume, thereby becoming the last of the land grant colleges and universities in the continental United States, other than separate institu- tions for Negroes, to reach this point. La Historia del Templo de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, written and printed by Dr. A. Al- cazar de Velasco and Cleofas Calleros was chosen as the hundred thousandth book. It is a contemporary limited edition, presented to the library by Robert E. McKee and his sons, David and Philip. THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA has received nearly four thousand manuscripts of prime historical value in the Keith Read Collec- tion of Georgia Manuscripts. The diary of Peter Gordon, one of General Edward Ogle- thorpe's companions in the first settling of Savannah, is among the outstanding items in the collection. Others include the Sheftall register of Savannah from 1736 until after 1800; the journal of Caleb Davis, privateer of the southeast coast, written while a pris- oner in the Tower of London ; the laws of the Creek Nation in a manuscript written in 1824; the autobiography of William Few, one of Georgia's sign ers of the Declaration of Independence; a nephew's biographical s.ketch of Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins; and Lachlan Mcintosh's journal of the siege of Charleston during the Revolution. The collection was presented to the University of Georgia Libraries by the Wormsloe Foun- dation, Inc., of Savannah. THE COLLEGE OF SAINT CATHERINE, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been given the Char- lotte Hill Slade Collection, a group of 560 items including fine bindings, first editions, autographs, and letters. Among them are first editions of George Cruikshank, the Comic Almanac, 1835-1853, Kate Greenaway's Al- manak dating from 1883, and several exam- ples of German silver bindings. SEPTEMBER 1957 BuiLDINGS THE HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY, Indepen- dence, Missouri, was formally opened with dedication ceremonies led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. He predicted that the library would "become a midwestern center of study and research not only for the period of Mr. Truman's presidency but also for the whole complex picture of events surrounding it." Valued with its contents at 21 million dol- lars, the library was passed into the hands of the United States government. UNION CoLLEGE, Schenectady, N. Y., has received from the Kresge Foundation of De- troit, a conditional pledge of $50,000 toward a new library building. The money will be made available if additional funds needed for the new structure are obtained no later than the end of 1957. Construction was started on the four-mil- lion-dollar Pms XII MEMORIAL LIBRARY at St. Louis University on June 4. Architect- engineer for the building is the Leo A. Daly Co. of St. Louis. Keyes Metcalf is consultant. LIBRARY ScHooLs THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI will offer evening courses in librarianship for the first time this fall. Designed to give basic profes- sional training, the program· meets graduate library school requirements. Arthur T. Ham- lin, university librarian , Ernest I. Miller, director of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, and Miss Else L. Schulze, supervisor of the technical informa- tion service, Procter and Gamble Co. , worked together in evolving the program. The li- brary science department of the University of Kentucky collaborated in the preparation of the courses. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY ScHoOL and the Division of University Ex- tension will hold an institute on "The Li- brary as a Community Information Center," September 29 through October 2 at Allerton House. This is the fourth in an annual series of institutes on current library problems. Discussions will center around the organiza- tion of reference services on an inter-library basis. The institute is designed primarily for librarians of small and m edium-sized special, public, and college libraries. 413 PUBLICATIONS THE LIBRARY OF CoNGRESS has issued a collotype facsimile , Captain john Smith's Map of Virginia , as its first publication from funds of the Verner W. Clapp Publication Fund. Accompanying the map is a brochure on its history and importance. The map and brochure may be ordered from the Card Di- vision of the Library of Congress for $ 1.75. Smith's map was first published in 1612. Engraved by William Hole, the original map went through numerous editions in the next twenty years. The present reproduction is from an engraving at the Library of Con- gress incorporating changes on the original plate believed to have been made in 1624. IN The English Common Reader (Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1957, 430p. $6.00) Pro- fessor Richard D. Altick, Ohio State Univer- sity, tells "the story of how, through num- berless tribulations, and against what some- times appeared to be hopeless odds, there took root and eventually flourished ... a revolutionary social concept: that of the de- mocracy of print ... in short, the story of the common reader, nameless but exceed- ingly numerous-how he came into being, and why; and what his fortunes were in an age of profound social change." Altick finds that "the history of the mass reading audi- ence is, in fact, the history of English de- mocracy seen from a new angle. . . . .Just as the various attitudes and movements of the age fatefully molded the audience for print that eventually emerged, so did that public, in tum , affect the progress of the age itself." THE MAY IssuE of the Temple University Library Bulletin (vol. II, no. 2) is a Conrad bibliography: "A Collection of the Books of Joseph Conrad Presented to Temple Uni- versity by Frederick E. Maser, with Notes by the Donor." The library of CHICAGO TEACHERS CoL- LEGE and Wilson Junior College has pub- lished Index to Invitation to Learning Reader ($.25) THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has published Archibald Henderson's lecture Geot ge Ber- nard Shaw , Man of the Century. MISCELLANEOUS Accreditation was the subject for the meet- ing of the TRI-STATE CHAPTER OF ACRL in May, 1957. Eileen Thornton was the speaker. Allegheny College. at Meadville, Pennsyl- vania, was the host. Lorena A. Garloch, Uni- versity of Pittsburgh librarian, became presi- dent. Mrs. Vivian Boughter, librarian of West Liberty State College, became president- elect. There will be a fall meeting on Oc- tober 26 with the University of Pittsburgh serving as host for luncheon. The spring meeting for 1958 will be held at Westmin- ster College in New Wilmington, Pennsyl- vania. THE HoovER INsTITUTION oN WAR, REv