College and Research Libraries Space Problems of Large (General) Research Libraries: Report of a Meeting 1. Purpose of the MeetingThe meeting had been called to obtain discussion of the space problems of large (general) research libraries by the librarians of a n u m b e r of such institutions which have acute problems resulting from approaching exhaustion of storage space for their collections. I t was hoped that this discussion might result in a pooling of ideas and possibly some agreement as to the kind of studies which may be ex- pected to produce useful results toward the solution of these problems. Among the par- ticipants were several who had developed proposals for studies of this kind. T w o of these (identified as proposals by Universities A and B ) had been reproduced in slightly abridged form and distributed to the par- ticipants in advance. T w o others (identified as proposals of Universities C and D ) were presented orally at the meeting. Synopses of these proposals are presented in the Ap- pendix. I n addition, a working paper, which presented the problem, listed the various approaches to solutions of the problem, and raised a series of questions regarding the solutions, had been distributed in advance of the meeting. 2. Procedure. By a procedure for develop- ing the discussion which had been outlined in advance of the meeting, each participant was given an opportunity to present his pre- ferred project for a study looking to the solution of the space problems of large (general) research libraries. Each proposal was discussed in detail upon presentation. T h i s procedure occupied the entire first day of the meeting and most of the m o r n i n g ses- 1 Held at the Cosmos Club, W a s h i n g t o n , D . C., October 27-28, 1958. P a r t i c i p a n t s were Donald Coney ( U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a ) , V e r n e r W . Clapp (Coun- cil on L i b r a r y Resources, I n c . , serving as C h a i r m a n ) , W i l l i a m S . D i x ( P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y . O c t . 27 o n l y ) , E d w a r d G. F r e e h a f e r ( N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y ) , H e r m a n H . F u s s i e r ( U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o ) , Lorena A. Garloch ( U n i v e r s i t y of P i t t s b u r g h ) , David A. J o n a h ( B r o w n U n i v e r s i t y ) , R i c h a r d H . Logsdon (Columbia U n i v e r s i t y ) , J o h n H . Ottemiller ( Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y ) , R u t h e r f o r d D. Rogers ( L i b r a r y of C o n g r e s s ) . L a u r e n c e B . Heilprin and Melville J . Ruggles ( C o u n c i l on L i - brary Resources, I n c . ) joined the group for lunch on October 2 7 , at which time D r . Heilprin presented a statement on the application of the techniques of operations research to the library space problem. sion of the second day. T h e r e a f t e r , in order to assure that n o i m p o r t a n t topic had been neglected, the meeting reviewed the questions posed by the working paper. 3. Reaction to the Proposals of Universities A, B, C, and D. a) Proposal of University A. I t seemed to be generally agreed that the study embodied in this proposal holds much promise for producing results of significance and po- tential general applicability. b) Proposal of University B. I t appeared to be the general feeling that, because the space problem is created by the less fre- quently used material, and because such material does not, by definition, warrant expensive treatment, it is not to be expected that engineering solutions in terms of mechanical coding and handling systems can be expected to reduce costs. W h i l e it was agreed that engineering talent should be brought to the design and construction of book-storage buildings and of the equipment for book storage, yet it was felt that the development of special mechanisms for par- ticular applications should be conducted only when those applications can be suffi- ciently envisioned as to b e compatible with the economic feasibilities. c) Proposal of University C. T h e orally presented description of the current opera- tion and effects of its compact collection by University C created much interest and re- ceived considerable attention from the par- ticipants. I t appeared to be the consensus that this experiment, and the proposal to improve the rationale underlying it, holds much promise for useful results. d) Proposal of University D. Miniaturiza- tion (through the substitution of microtexts for full-size publications) offers an attractive solution to the space problem, and the group was much interested in this proposal. How- ever, it appeared to be the consensus that the proposal does not offer a clear issue to de- termine the value of miniaturization for space-saving. W h i l e effecting savings of space MAY 1959 217 in o n e library through miniaturizing an im- p o r t a n t segment of the collections, it would create space problems in n i n e other libraries by providing them with material which they would otherwise n o t procure or be unlikely to procure. I n o t h e r words, the proposal mixes issues of space-saving with those of cooperative acquisition. I f a subject field were chosen in which all ten libraries were now collecting extensively, the issue of space- saving could be sharpened. 4. Summary of Discussion. a) I t was agreed that there is n o single perfect solution to the space problems of the large (general) research libraries. I t was further agreed that the space problem and the search-for-comprehensiveness problem are opposite sides of the same c o i n : it is the desire to be comprehensive which produces the space problem; and to the e x t e n t that comprehensiveness can b e provided by methods o t h e r than local acquisition and storage, the storage problem will be solved. B u t , until b e t t e r methods f o r r e a c h i n g com- prehensiveness offer than are presently avail- able, local acquisition and storage will be necessary and the space problem will be pressing. b) Accordingly, as an aid to local solutions of the space problem, it would be extremely valuable to bring together the results of ex- periments and studies toward the solution of the problem, a guide or m a n u a l to what is known on the matter, including valid data for comparison of various alternatives. Such a m a n u a l should include: i) A statement of the criteria developed through various studies for distinguishing a "working c o l l e c t i o n " from a " c o m p a c t " collection, taking into consideration differ- ences between various subjects, various forms of material, and various conditions of use; viewing the possibilities of differ- entiation as to collections of immediate and remote access; and taking into con- sideration the question of the n u m b e r and location of copies of material of little or of merely archival importance. ii) Description of methods which have been used for i m p l e m e n t a t i o n of such criteria; their application at the hands of librarians alone a n d / o r with the assistance of scholars and operations research special- ists; the questions of cataloging and de- cataloging for a " w o r k i n g " and " c o m p a c t " collection, and problems of record-chang- ing generally; best methods of compact storage in terms of building design, book- storage e q u i p m e n t , shelf-arrangement, con- veyor, and call systems, relationship to the " w o r k i n g c o l l e c t i o n , " etc.; what biblio- graphic and o t h e r arrangements are avail- able to compensate for loss of immediacy; what material may be miniaturized under what conditions; how "deferred acquisi- t i o n " (through access to a copy available for purchase if and when needed) can be effected. iii) D a t a on the results of actual dem- onstrations of differentiation of collections into " w o r k i n g " and " c o m p a c t " groups which might indicate effectiveness o f the criteria of selection and of the mechanisms of i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ; records of use; con- sumer r e a c t i o n : efficacy of methods for compensation for loss of browsing; the compensatory value of bibliographies and catalogs; the larger bearing of these find- ings on the question of the o p t i m u m size of a research library having specific re- sponsibilities. c) I t was agreed that it is not necessary to attempt to reach a universal, generally ap- plicable solution immediately. R a t h e r , ex- p e r i m e n t a t i o n in particular institutions can be very instructive. ( " W e have been living on other people's brains for a long t i m e " — Coney.) Consequently, a series of projects is needed. d) It was pointed out that all proposals for solution of the space problem lead to less accessibility for certain portions of the collections. I t was p o i n t e d out in return that, in spite of this fact, all such proposals lead to greater comprehensiveness. e) I n addition to the material suggested for inclusion in the suggested guide or manual, other topics which it would be use- ful to explore would include: i) W h a t collections now exist which, though n o t comprehensive in their sub- jects, are yet able to support 70-90 per cent of the advanced research in those sub- jects efficiently? Are there such collections; would an e x a m i n a t i o n of them provide assistance toward determining the criteria m e n t i o n e d in b) i) above? 218 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - ii) W h a t are the factors affecting the efficiency of large (general) research li- braries? I t is known that for much material of common availability, it is inefficient to seek it in a large library. B u t for less common material, it is much more efficient to find it, albeit laboriously, in a large li- brary at hand than to have to go 5,000 miles for it. iii) Is the "ever-normal-granary" concept supportable for a large (general) research library? f) Certain o t h e r suggestions for investiga- tion were considered but it was felt that their adoption should be deferred, e.g.: i) A proposal for a "weeding authority," which would roam through large research libraries and, endowed with authority de- rived from j o i n t sponsorship, would recom- mend consolidation of collections, trans- fers of materials to central storage ware- houses, etc. ii) T h e development of national re- sponsibilities of a cooperative storage li- brary (such as M I L C , which has already undertaken certain nation-wide responsi- bilities on behalf of the A R L ) . iii) Development of a n a t i o n a l pool of master sources of material to be held available for "deferred acquisition," for example by acquiring in the n a t i o n a l in- terest the stock of certain commercial or- ganizations. iv) A study of the cost and efficiency of the operation of departmental as opposed to central libraries. Appendix Synopses of Proposals for Studies Looking to Solution of Space Problems Submitted by Four Universities A. University A. T h i s study w o u l d — 1. Seek criteria with which to identify, within the university's collections, those books (say 500,000-750,000 in number) which, because of intrinsic importance, subject mat- ter, authorship, recency, frequency of use, or for other reasons, might be expected to serve as a "working c o l l e c t i o n " which might satisfy all of the curricular and a very high proportion of the research needs. I t is as- sumed that this "working c o l l e c t i o n " would b e given space of easy access and would be organized (both as to shelf-arrangement and as to conditions of cataloging) in the m a n n e r which now in general applies to the entire collection. I t is assumed that the remainder of the collection would thereupon be placed in compact storage in space of less acces- sibility. A m o n g the questions which require to be studied for the purpose of establishing and applying the criteria for identifying the "working c o l l e c t i o n " would b e : W h a t differ- ences in criteria would apply to the litera- tures of different subjects? W h a t differences would apply to different forms of material, e.g., monographs, serials, government docu- ments, older books, current books? W h a t em- phases would develop as the result of the university's program of teaching a n d / o r research? W h a t mechanisms would be em- ployed for implementing the criteria cur- rently, viz. toward m a i n t a i n i n g the "working c o l l e c t i o n " at a stable level? W h a t mech- anisms of record keeping (cataloging, shelf- listing, etc.) would permit the most con- venient transfer from the "working col- l e c t i o n " to the remainder collection (and in some cases in a reverse direction)? 2. Study the conditions of storage, or- ganization, and use of the compact collection, so as to derive m a x i m u m advantage from its compactness with a m i n i m u m of loss from its diminished accessibility. T o p i c s which would need to be studied fall u n d e r the following heads: Physical factors: T h e most effective forms of shelf-arrangement, storage-equipment, con- veyors, call-systems, etc.; space-relationships to the "working c o l l e c t i o n " ; potential use of miniaturization (through microfilming, etc.); relationships with cooperative storage-library collections; efficient building size for the compact-storage space. Bibliographical factors: Questions as to the kind of cataloging required both to make the collection serviceable in its new arrange- MAY 1959 219 m e n t and to compensate for the diminished physical accessibility—including questions of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, possible need for a classed catalog, use of bibliographies, etc.; o t h e r methods for com- pensating for diminished physical acces- sibility; the question of record-changing. Factors of administration and interlibrary cooperation: Service requirements; cost of administration; savings in cost over current practice; implications for interlibrary co- operation. B . University B. T h i s study seeks to achieve the objective of housing each item in the university's collections in the cheapest possible space, subject nevertheless to maxi- m u m availability. T h e study would be con- ducted under the direction of a policy group by a project director and staff with the as- sistance of two engineering groups which would have responsibility for studies as fol- lows: 1. A systems engineering group would ex- plore: methods for moving (library) ma- terials; methods of m a c h i n e coding and their applications to storage and movement of li- brary materials; systems of automatic con- trol; feasibility of applications of new meth- ods and structural arrangements to efficient library storage. 2. A design engineering group would: provide designs for the e q u i p m e n t proposed by the systems engineering group, and where feasible construct model or prototype opera- tions; make preliminary designs for and evaluate effectiveness of various new kinds of library storage structures; provide com- parisons in terms of initial cost, m a i n t e n a n c e and operation costs, space utilization and service to users as between various types of conventional and alternative methods of storage and h a n d l i n g for library materials. C. University C, which has nearly ex- hausted the capacity of its three and one-half million-volume library, is meeting the stor- age problem by (a) cutting back on cur- rent acquisitions so as to eliminate items of doubtful value, unneeded duplicates and materials not in scope; (b) working through its collections subject by subject so as to discard materials of less value, replace with microtext those materials for which this may be done effectively, and transfer to a compact storage collection those items which should be retained locally but which may be as- signed to a location of inferior physical ac- cessibility. Since 1952 it has transferred books to this compact collection at the rate which is now 20,000 volumes a year. B u t the Uni- versity is dissatisfied (a) with the rate of transfer, (b) with its knowledge of the basis on which such transfers are made and (c) with its knowledge of the effects of its pro- cedures in terms of both efficiency of opera- tion and of service to users. I t consequently proposes a three-year concentrated program sufficiently well guided and controlled so as to make it possible to secure valid data which would be useful not only to the University but to other libraries also, of the following kinds: D a t a for improving the criteria of selection for compact storage to be applied to various types of material, b o t h old and current, these to be sought in consultation with the faculty; data on frequency of use of various types of material; data with which to test the "ever-normal-granary" assumption which underlies the present o p e r a t i o n ; data with which to estimate the o p t i m u m size of collection for a university of this character; data on the relationship of the cataloging apparatus both to the working a n d to the compact collection; the use of subject-cata- loging, etc.; data, to be collected as a result of questionnaires and interviews from faculty and graduate students, as to use of catalogs, bibliographies, browsing, etc. D. University D. T h i s study proposes to reduce to microtext a significant segment (covering o n e field of study) in the library of one of the professional schools of the Uni- versity in an effort to ascertain the effects in terms of: Savings in cost of storage; costs of microcopying and of the e q u i p m e n t needed to use microcopies; effects on consumers and consumer-reaction; adjustments required in terms of physical arrangements, biblio- graphical arrangements (cataloging, classi- fication, indexing, etc.); comparisons be- tween various forms of microtext and the reading e q u i p m e n t therefor; other factors (e.g., copyright) involved. Because the cost of microcopying would exceed savings in storage costs when per- formed by and for one institution alone, the proposal provides that nine other libraries would be provided with copies of the micro- text involved in the p r o j e c t . 220 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - N e w L.S.U. Library (Continued from page 196) first day of classes. T h e staff members in all areas were alert to the numerous ques- tions of location which would be asked, and, identified by small plastic name tags, they were on hand to give what help was needed. From the vantage point of only a couple of months' experience we think the students and faculty found their way with remarkable ease. Natural- ly this was gratifying to watch. T h e L.S.U. Library is big and bright, convenient and comfortable. It has a floor plan which merits study,2 and it has a plan of operation which may be of in- terest elsewhere. T h e most important thing about it, however, is not its size but the flexible, adaptable quality of its interior, and this characteristic is of use in buildings a tenth the size or three times as big. Such a building does not just happen. It is the result of much thought on the part of many people over many months. University faculty and administration considered various library possibilities for more than a decade. In 1954 the 2 A C R L L i b r a r y Building P l a n s I n s t i t u t e . " P r o c e e d - ings of the Meetings A t . . . Rosement College, J u l y 3, 1 9 5 5 . " Edited by W a l t e r W . W r i g h t . Chicago: A C R L , 1956. ( A C R L Monograph Number 1 5 ) , pp. 146-153. Louisiana legislature appropriated $3,- 500,000 to build it. Even before that con- sultants, Angus Snead Macdonald and Keyes D. Metcalf, had given advice. T h e firm of Bodman and Murrell and Smith, known for some time as outstanding Bat- on Rouge architects were chosen, along with their associates, Post and Harelson, to design the building. Visits were made by architects and library and university personnel to several buildings around the country. Everything possible was done to call on expert advice, and at every stage the library was consulted and was kept informed of all decisions. At all times the library administration was able to make its wishes known—and in al- most all cases its wishes became those of the architects and the university. At least the three essential groups knew each other's viewpoint and differences could be resolved or accepted. While it cannot be assumed that Loui- siana State University has perfected its library service, it is safe to say that its new library is a distinguished one which was planned with care and which by design can be altered as new needs arise or new approaches are suggested. Missouri Medical Library (Continued from page 209) tive and efficient place. T h e effective use of color on walls, ceilings, floors, and furniture is a major factor in creating the comfortable and alive feeling in the library. T h e use of the collection, oral and written comments by staff, faculty, and students, and the day-to-day activities of the library staff, all emphasize the ad- vantages of'the new quarters. It is heart- ening to see the library become such an active part of Missouri's new Medical Center. MAY 1959 221 A C R L Meetin AN I M P R E S S I V E R O S T E R of experts will pre-sent a panel discussion, " T h e Program of the Federal Government in Education and Research" at A C R L ' s membership meeting in Washington on the evening of Tuesday, J u n e 23. Senator J a c o b K. Javits will speak on international aspects of the program. Its national aspects will be discussed from the legislative viewpoint by Congressman Carl Elliott and from the viewpoint of the execu- tive department by Elliot Richardson, assist- ant secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Herry C. Kelley, as- sistant director for scientific personnel and education of the National Science Founda- tion, will talk on "Developments in Science and Technology." Moderator for the panel will be William S. Dix, librarian of Prince- ton University. A C R L ' s College Library Section and Jun- ior College Libraries Section will produce a j o i n t program on the afternoon of Friday, J u n e 26. I t too will be a panel discussion, this one on " T e a c h i n g Students to Use the Library." Participants will be Virginia Clark, assistant librarian, Wright J u n i o r College, Chicago, speaking on "Library Orientation: Whose Responsibility?" William J . Quinly, director of audio-visual service at Florida State University, speaking on "Audio-Visual Aids for Library Instruction"; H . Vail Deale, director of libraries, Beloit College, speaking on "Classroom Instruction in the Use of the Library"; and Morrison C. Haviland, direc- tor of libraries, University of Vermont, speak- ing on " W h y Bother?" Philip Bradshaw, as- sistant professor of English at the University of Florida, will be moderator. T h e J u n i o r College Libraries Section plans a luncheon at 12:30 the same day. O P E N M E E T I N G S A C R L M E M B E R S H I P M E E T I N G : T u e s d a y , J u n e 2 3 , 8 : 3 0 p . m . Section Meetings: C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n a n d J u n i o r C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : j o i n t m e e t i n g , F r i - day, J u n e 26, 4 : 3 0 p . m . J u n i o r C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : l u n c h e o n m e e t i n g , F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 1 2 : 3 0 p . m . R a r e B o o k s S e c t i o n : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 4 : 3 0 p . m . S u b j e c t S p e c i a l i s t s S e c t i o n : T h u r s d a y , J u n e 25, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . A r t L i b r a r i a n s S u b - S e c t i o n : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . ; l u n c h e o n m e e t i n g , 1 2 : 3 0 p . m . T e a c h e r E d u c a t i o n L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 4 : 3 0 p . m . 222 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - Washington Fresh from their three-day pre-conference program in Charlottesville the members of the R a r e Books Section will meet Wednesday afternoon, J u n e 24, for a program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. C. Waller Bar- rett will speak on " T h e Motivations and Di- rections of a Private Collector Assembling Materials for an Institutional Library." T h e meeting will be followed by a cocktail party. George S. Bonn of the Science and Tech- nology Division of the New York Public Li- brary will speak to the Subject Specialists Section at its meeting the morning of Thurs- day, J u n e 25. T h e section's new sub-section of art specialists will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, J u n e 24, at the Freer Gallery with Kyle Morris of Sandak, Inc. as speaker. T h e meeting will be followed by a luncheon at Washington's famed Cosmos Club. Earle T . Hawkins, president of the Mary- land State Teachers College at Towson, will speak to the T e a c h e r Education Libraries Section on " W h a t Is Happening to T e a c h e r Education and Its Implications for Our Libraries." Felix E. Hirsch, chairman of A C R L ' s Committee on Standards, will dis- cuss the standards recently approved by A C R L under the title "Significance of the New College Library Standards." Carl W. Hintz, chairman of the University Libraries Section will preside at a program Wednesday afternoon, J u n e 24, entitled " T h e Professional Association and Sound Management." Frank Lundy, director of li- braries of the University of Nebraska, will speak on "Philosophical Concepts of Profes- sional Organization." R a l p h W . McComb, librarian of Pennsylvania State University, will speak on " T h e Professional Organiza- tion and Management." C L O S E D M E E T I N G S ACRL Committee Meetings: A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e o n C o o p e r a t i o n w i t h E d u c a t i o n a l a n d P r o f e s s i o n a l O r g a n i - z a t i o n s : T h u r s d a y , J u n e 2 5 , 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . C o m m i t t e e to E x p l o r e t h e R e l a t i o n s h i p B e t w e e n t h e L a w L i b r a r y a n d t h e G e n e r a l L i b r a r y o f a U n i v e r s i t y : F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 4 : 3 0 p . m . C o m m i t t e e o n F o u n d a t i o n G r a n t s : T h u r s d a y , J u n e 25, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . N o m i n a t i n g C o m m i t t e e : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . C o m m i t t e e o n O r g a n i z a t i o n : T h u r s d a y , J u n e 25, 8 : 3 0 a . m . ; F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 4 : 3 0 p . m . P u b l i c a t i o n s C o m m i t t e e : F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . C o m m i t t e e o n S t a n d a r d s : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 8 : 3 0 a . m . S t a t e R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 8 : 3 0 a . m . Section Committee Meetings: E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e , S u b j e c t S p e c i a l i s t s S e c t i o n : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 4 : 3 0 p . m . R e s e a r c h C o m m i t t e e , U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : T h u r s d a y , J u n e 25, 8 : 3 0 a . m . S t e e r i n g C o m m i t t e e , U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n : W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 8 : 3 0 a . m . ad hoc C o m m i t t e e o n U r b a n U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s , U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n , W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 2 4 , 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . Board of Directors Meetings: W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 24, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . ; F r i d a y , J u n e 26, 1 0 : 0 0 a . m . MAY 1959 223 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S , G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S T H E A M E R I C A N B I B L E S O C I E T Y has o p e n e d its u n i q u e library of 20,000 volumes on the B i b l e to visitors and tourists in New York City. T h e library has long been accessible to scholars, clergymen, and others interested in the society's publishing and translation proj- ects. I t is located in New York's famed B i b l e House, Park Avenue and 57th Street. Doors are open to the public from 9 : 3 0 a.m. to 4 : 3 0 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, with legal holidays excepted. P A P E R S O F J O H N H A Y ( 1 8 3 8 - 1 9 0 5 ) , poet, historian, and diplomat, have b e e n presented to the J o h n Hay L i b r a r y of Brown Uni- versity by his grandson, the H o n o r a b l e J o h n Hay W h i t n e y . T h e gift comprises about 4 , 5 0 0 items including correspondence with leading political and literary figures, touch- ing all phases of Hay's career. C L A R K U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y , Worcester, Mass., has received a collection, totaling 142 volumes, of writings by J o h n B u c h a n , noted Scottish writer and one-time G o v e r n o r Gen- eral of Canada. T h e d o n o r is Archibald H a n n a , J r . , curator of the W e s t e r n Amer- icana and B e n j a m i n F r a n k l i n Collections at the Yale University Library. M r . H a n n a , a 1939 Clark graduate, has published a bibliog- raphy of B u c h a n ' s works. C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R I E S have b e e n presented with a significant collection of the writings of W i n s t o n Churchill, and related works. T h e collection of more than two hundred items comprises primarily first editions. Many books are autographed by Sir W i n s t o n . O t h e r materials include galley proofs, articles, and books about the English statesman, and o t h e r memorabilia. T h e gift was made by D a n i e l Longwell, of Neosho, Mo., a m e m b e r of the Columbia College Class of 1922. T H E E A S T A S I A T I C L I B R A R Y of C o l u m b i a University has recently benefited by several gifts of materials and money: T o y o n o b u D o m e n and Kensuke M a t a n o of T o k y o , former C o l u m b i a students, have established a fund to buy contemporary J a p a n e s e books. Chikuma Shobo, a J a p a n e s e publisher, has donated a ninety-eight volume set of Gendai Nihon bungaku zenshu, c o n t a i n i n g writings of outstanding J a p a n e s e authors in the n i n e t e e n t h and twentieth centuries. Chinese periodicals, pamphlets and books have been given by Dr. H u Shih, director of the Academia Sinica in Formosa. Mrs. R o b e r t I r r m a n n has donated four rubbings taken from historical monuments in C h i n a and seventeen issues of Ching-pao, a P e k i n g gazette of I m p e r i a l Court events in the 1870's. Professor D o n a l d H . Shively of the Uni- versity of C a l i f o r n i a at Berkeley has given more than three hundred volumes on J a p a - nese language, literature, art, and history. Also included are rare J a p a n e s e books on Sinology published in C h i n a in 1942-43. An anonymous b e n e f a c t o r has created an acquisitions f u n d to purchase rare O r i e n t a l imprints. T H E N U C L E U S of a collection of W a l l a c e Stevens' poetry and letters has been given to D a r t m o u t h College L i b r a r y by D o n a l d B . Hopkins, a New Y o r k advertising executive and alumnus of 1926, and his wife. T h e col- lection establishes a memorial for his late son, N a t h a n i e l R . Hopkins, I I , class of 1954. T H E F I R S T P R I N T E D E D I T I O N in Yiddish of a P e n t a t e u c h ( T h e Five Books of Moses) to- gether with the Five Scrolls (Megilloth) a n d Prophetical R e a d i n g s ( H a p h t a r o t h ) has been donated to the library of the J e w i s h T h e o - logical Seminary of America by Michael M. Zagayski of New York, a collector of rare books and art objects. T r a n s l a t e d by Michael Adam and Paul Fagius, the publisher, the book was printed in 1544 in Constance, Germany. Only four copies are known to exist. T h e new acquisition, well preserved in a leather b i n d i n g dated 1559, is the only copy known in the U n i t e d States. T H E L I B R A R Y of the Nebraska State His- torical Society has received manuscript col- lections of Dr. Louise Pound, J a m e s E. Lawrence, George Harrison Gilmore, the Milldale R a n c h Company, and George a n d W e n d e l l Berge. Dr. J o h n E. Gilmore, d o n o r of his father's collection, gave a $2,000 fel- lowship for its study. A C O L L E C T I O N of A m e r i c a n a has been 224 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - presented to Stanford University Library by Elmer E. Robinson, former mayor of San Francisco. Valued at $9,000, it includes let- ters from nine Presidents and other national political figures as well as material relating to California. A V E R E L L H A R R I M A N , former governor of New York, has given Syracuse University an estimated 500,000 public and private papers of his administration together with $65,000 for a study of his four-year term. T h e library will receive $25,000 of this gift to pay costs of organizing and cataloging the 450 file drawers of material. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F W I S C O N S I N L I B R A R Y h a s acquired the collection of little magazines assembled over the last twenty years by Dr. Marvin Sukov, Minneapolis psychiatrist. Consisting of more than 700 titles and 10,620 issues of English-language periodicals issued in the United States, the British Common- wealth, and elsewhere, the Sukov Collection has been described by Frederick J . Hoffman as being as complete a collection of signifi- cant titles as any in existence and the most important of its kind held by a university library. BUILDINGS P L A N S to expand the building of the University of Missouri Library have been approved. T h e project will be financed by $3,500,000 raised by a state-wide bond issue. T h e addition of modular construction will consist of five floors with a net area of ap- proximately 112,000 square feet. T h e present building, constructed in two stages in 1914 and 1936, has a net area of 63,000 square feet. W h e n remodeled, the library will have open stacks interspersed with reading areas and reference facilities. T h e building will have a capacity of almost 1,300,000 volumes and accommodations for 3,000 readers. It will provide 100 faculty studies, 400 carrels and 35 seminar rooms. T h e entire building will be air-conditioned. At least two years will be required to complete the new construc- tion. T h e reorganized library will continue to house the State Historical Society and its library. M I S S I S S I P P I S T A T E C O L L E G E F O R W O M E N , Columbus, is in the midst of a $225,000 li- brary expansion program. It is designed to double the size of Fant Memorial Library and permit reorganization of departments and services. Pius X I I M E M O R I A L L I B R A R Y was dedi- cated at Saint Francis College, Loretto, Pa., on May 2. It fulfills the institution's desire for a modern, fire-proof building to replace Padua Hall which was destroyed by fire last year. T h e present 35,000-volume col- lection consists almost entirely of volumes donated to replace the 45,000 that were burned. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H L I B R A R Y has created an open stack area for student and faculty browsing in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning. T h e additional space was once occupied by a cafeteria. It has a capacity for 110,000 volumes. W I N G A T E C O L L E G E , Wingate, N. C . , has a new library building. Designed by architect J . Norman Pease, J r . , it can seat 300 readers and shelve 50,000 volumes in a three-tier stack. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S A N F R A N C I S C O h a s offered to construct quarters for the famed Sutro collection if the State of California agrees to its proposal. T h e collection, valued at $2,000,000, has been stored in the base- ment of the San Francisco Public Library for forty years. Lack of adequate facilities has resulted in damage to many valuable books. Under the plan proposed by the university, the 100,000 rare volumes would remain the property of the state library system and would be staffed by state personnel. T h e library, to be constructed above the univer- sity's Gleason Library at a cost of $75,000 to $100,000, would be open to the public at no charge. No rental fee would be charged by the Jesuit college. G R A N T S T H E C O U N C I L ON L I B R A R Y R E S O U R C E S , I N C . , has made $50,000 grant to Yale University to seek a method of controlling space problems of large research libraries. T h e Yale study will be under the general supervision of J o h n H . Ottemiller, associate university li- brarian. T h e report, due in approximately three years, is expected to be of use to other librarians faced with expanding collections and limited space. MAY 1959 225 T h e traditional solution to this problem is construction of ever more and larger library buildings, involving costs that are increasingly difficult to justify. Intermediate methods include weeding of material of little usefulness, space-reduction through micro- filming and other minaturizing methods, re- duction of duplication among libraries by cooperative purchasing, and compact storage in industrial-type warehouses in low rental areas. T h e Yale study is directed to the Selective Book Retirement Program, a variant of the compact-storage type of solution. It is based on the possibility of retiring from existing collections as many volumes each year as are acquired during the same year. T h u s space requirements could be maintained at a fixed point. T h e program is attempting to identify books of lesser usefulness so that they may be stored under the most economical con- ditions. T h e study will attempt to ascertain whether valid criteria, to be developed in consultation with the faculty, can be found for identifying types of books in each sub- ject that can be so treated, and what the effects will be on faculty and graduate student research and on undergraduate student use of the library. Another aspect of the space problems of large research libraries will be investigated by the University of Chicago, which has re- ceived a grant of $84,000 from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., " t o study the scope and characteristics of the library materials required to support a high level of teaching and research." T h e study, which is expected to require about one year, will include collecting data on the frequency of past use of books in perhaps as many as twenty different fields; an analysis of past and current patterns of use; invitations to panels of experts to assess selected lists of titles in their fields as to probable im- portance or desired levels of accessibility; and a scientific check of the habits of brows- ing to give some indication of the patterns of use of research materials by readers con- sulting books directly at the shelves. Herman H. Fussier, director of the University of Chicago Library states that "if valid dis- tinctions of the actual or potential value to teaching and research can be made about books and documents, there may be very important modifications in the space require- ments of research libraries and increased flexibility in the physical or other means by which such materials may be organized for use without impairing the scholar's basic access to research materials." T H E R O L E of the independent historical society in today's world will be studied by Walter Muir Whitehill under a $20,000 grant from the Council on Library Re- sources. T h e study will consider the status, problems, and prospects of privately sup- ported or controlled historical societies, with emphasis on their functions as important re- search institutions. When completed, it is expected to point out the contribution such societies have made to the cultural life of the United States during the past 150 years, and to provide a basis for closer col- laboration among societies as well as a basis for strengthening themselves financially. Mr. Whitehill is director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum. His study is expected to result in a book-length report that will be published. C O R N E L L U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has received from the Rockefeller Foundation a grant of $75,000 for the acquisition of research materials in support of the university's Southeast Asia program, which was estab- lished in 1950 under a five-year Rockefeller Foundation grant. T h e new grant will enable the library to add to its 30,000-volume Southeast Asia collection rare and costly items, extensive sets, and private libraries which could not be purchased with funds normally available. L A F A Y E T T E C O L L E G E , Easton, Pa., has re- ceived a $100,000 grant from the Marquis Foundation, a nonprofit corporation directed by six Lafayette College trustees. T h e in- come will be used to improve library serv- ices in the college. T H E M I D W E S T I N T E R - L I B R A R Y C E N T E R h a s received a grant of $19,160 from the National Science Foundation to support the Scientific Journals Center during 1959. T h e grant will be used to acquire current issues of pub- lications covered by Chemical Abstracts and journals listed in Biological Sciences Serial Publications: A World List, 1950-54 that are not held by any member library of M I L C . 226 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - P U B L I C A T I O N S T H E A M E R I C A N T H E O L O G I C A L L I B R A R Y A S S O C I A T I O N has issued the Index to Re- ligious Periodical Literature, 1957 (1958, 93p., $20). It covers forty-four periodicals, including many foreign journals. T h e index is arranged in dictionary form with subjects and authors in one alphabet. Dr. Lucy W . Markley was editor. College and University Facilities Survey, Part I (Office of Education Circular no. 540) includes among other data the number and costs of academic library buildings completed during 1951-55. These data are arranged by type of institutional control and geographic region. T h i s publication is the first of a five-part survey by the Division of Higher Education. T h e over-all aim is to present comprehensive and comparative data on all aspects of college and university building programs. Since this first report classifies buildings only by their primary function, it does not reveal how much library space may have been provided in buildings de- signed largely for other purposes. Data of this kind will appear in Part I I I of the survey. I R M A J O H N S O N ' S Selected Books and Jour- nals in Science and Engineering (Technology Monograph, Library Series, No. 1), issued by the Technology Press of the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, grew out of a request of the faculty and is intended primarily for undergraduates. T h e list in- cludes reference works, some treatises and journals. Subject areas covered include those from the physical sciences, mathematics, en- gineering, biology, and the history of science. Literary Publishing in America: 1790-1850, by William Charvat, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press early this summer. T h e book comprises the A. S. W . Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Lectures for 1957-58. It will be priced at $4.50. P L A N S for a third edition of the Union List of Serials by the end of 1962 were an- nounced following a meeting of the J o i n t Committee on the Union List of Serials held in Chicago on January 29. It is anticipated that an editorial office will be established at the Library of Congress under the general policy direction of the J o i n t Committee and the administrative direction of the Library of Congress. T h e third edition will in- corporate the titles and holdings in the second edition and its two supplements into one alphabet. T o this more convenient ar- rangement will be added a substantial amount of new material and many cor- rections of present holding records will be made. After editorial work on the third edition has been completed it is con- templated that New Serial Titles will be enlarged to include pre-1950 serials within the scope of the Union List of Serials but not included in the new edition. M I S C E L L A N E O U S I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O O P E R A T I O N in documen- tation will be covered in a special session on J u n e 4, 1959, at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall in Atlantic City following the Special Li- brary Association convention. T h e meeting is jointly sponsored by Science-Technology, Documentation, Military Librarians, and Metals Divisions of SLA. Emphasis will be placed on library materials not routinely available through commercial sources. T h e r e will be no registration fee and advance res- ervations are not required. During the morning session representatives of foreign governments will discuss how these materials are put under bibliographic control, announced to the public, and made available. Invitations have been extended to speakers who can cover the documentation activities of Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America, Turkey, and J a p a n . T h e afternoon session will present representatives of American and international organizations concerned with supplying information serv- ices to non-American organizations. T H E C O L O R A D O L I B R A R Y A S S O C I A T I O N i s offering a half-tuition scholarship to be used at the University of Denver School of Li- brarianship during the academic year 1959- 60. Applicants must be residents of Colorado. Detailed information may be obtained from Virginia Lee Wilcox, librarian, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo. T H E T H I R D A N N U A L Grolier-Americana Scholarships in School Librarianship have been awarded to the Department of Library Science, Montana State College, Bozeman, and Louisiana State University Library School, Baton Rouge. Each of the two $1,000 MAY 1959 227 awards may be used for more than one student. Students interested in applying for a scholarship should write directly to the schools. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I N N E S O T A has named its main library building Walter Library in honor of Frank K. Walter, university li- brarian and director of the library school until his retirement in 1943. T h e ceremony was marked by a dinner followed by a Frank K. Walter Lecture by R o b e r t G. Vosper, director of the University of Kansas Li- braries. His subject was "Building a Scholar- ly Collection." A L E A F L E T entitled "Some Needs of the University of Virginia Library" has been prepared by the librarian at the request of the alumni. Among the items are a central stack for Alderman Library, a science-tech- nology library building, and funds for acquisitions in English and Italian literature, Slavic studies, Spanish-American collections, science books for undergraduates, fine arts and architecture, and recreational reading. In each case, estimated costs are specified. L I B R A R I A N S who can suggest unusual words and phrases used in their work are invited to send them to J o h n B . Nicholson, J r . , li- brarian, Kent State University. He hopes to compile an expanded version of his paper " J a r g o n of Librarianship." T H E L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S will serve as host to the Fourth Seminar on the acqui- sition of Latin American Library Materials on J u n e 18-19, 1959. T h e topic for this ses- sion will be "Library Support to Latin American Area Studies and M a j o r Subject Interests of Universities and other Learned Institutions." Working papers on the sub- ject will be prepared in advance to provide background information for panel and gen- eral discussions. Reports will be made on the progress of various committees estab- lished by the previous seminars such as those on cooperative acquisitions, acquisition through exchange, Mexican, Argentine, and Chilean acquisitions, cooperative indexing, and photoduplication. For general infor- mation concerning the seminars consult Miss Marietta Daniels, Secretary, Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Li- brary Materials, Columbus Memorial Li- brary, Pan American Union, Washington 6, D. C. T H E E N O C H P R A T T F R E E L I B R A R Y in Balti- more is offering two $1,500 scholarships for graduate study in library science. Gift funds from the estate of Mrs. Lucy Stevenson J a n - ney, a resident of Baltimore who died in 1952, will finance the grants. Mrs. J a n n e y be- queathed approximately $94,000 to the Pratt in memory of her son, M a j o r R o b e r t S. Janney, a bomber pilot killed in action in World W a r I I . Applicants for the scholar- ships must hold a degree from an accredited university and recipients must agree to ac- cept employment at the Pratt for at least two years following the successful completion of their training at an ALA-accredited library school. Inquiries should be directed to Miss Mary L . Huber, Personnel Officer, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore 1, Maryland. Application deadline is J u n e 1. T H E S C H O L A R S H I P L O A N F U N D C O M M I T T E E of the North Carolina Library Association has announced a $1,000 scholarship which is being made available to North Carolinians for studies in the area of library science. T h e award, being made by the bookbinding firm of Joseph Ruzicka, Inc., of Greensboro, N.C., and Baltimore, is designed to en- courage college graduates to enter the li- brary profession and to assist librarians in furthering their studies. Loans in the amount of $500 also are available to resi- dents of North Carolina for graduate study in librarianship. Application forms for the scholarship and loans are available from the chairman of the Scholarship Loan Fund of the North Carolina Library Association. Address: Mr. I. T . Littleton, D. H . Hill Library, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C. Applications for both scholar- ship and loans should be submitted by J u l y 1. W E L L O V E R 150 librarians from seven mid- western states met at Crawfordsville and Greencastle, Indiana, April 24 and 25 for the fourth annual sessions of the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference. Donald Thompson and the staff of the Wabash Col- lege library were hosts at the meetings in Crawfordsville. Russell S. Dozer and the staff of the DePauw University library were hosts at Greencastle. Informality is the mark of M A L C meet- ings, and the principal program for this 228 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - conference was carried out in small dis- cussion groups. Topics discussed were " I n - struction in the Use of the Library," " T h e Sixteenth Edition of Dewey versus Older Editions," "Special Services T o B e Offered or Avoided," and "Improvement of Staff Communication." T h e r e were, however, two programmed speeches for the meetings. Harold T r i b o l e t , chief of the extra-bindery department of R . R . Donnelley and Sons, spoke on " M e e t the Vandals: An Introduc- tion to the Problems of Preserving Valuable Books and Documents," and A. W . Crandall, head of the department of History at De- Pauw, spoke on "A New Approach to L i n c o l n . " At a short business session Rus- sell Dozer was elected chairman for a two- year term. He succeeds H. Vail Deale, li- brarian of Beloit College. T h e site of the M A L C conference for 1960 will be an- nounced later. T H I R T Y - F O U R L I B R A R I A N S , publishers, and other book specialists met in Chicago April 20 and 21 to "explore some current and an- ticipated problems in the building of book collections in college libraries." T h e meeting was called and sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. College librarians present included Douglas W . Bryant, associate di- rector, Harvard University Library; Guy R . Lyle, director of libraries, Emory University; Philip J . McNiff, associate librarian, Har- vard College Library; Charles B . Shaw, li- brarian, Swarthmore College; Rolland C. Stewart of the General Library of the Uni- versity of Michigan; Frederick H. Wagman, director, General Library of the University of Michigan; Lee C. Brown, head librarian, Pennsylvania Military College; Wen-Chao Chen, librarian, Kalamazoo College; H . Vail Deale, director of libraries, Beloit College; Mrs. Patricia B. Knapp, executive secretary and librarian, Monteith College of Wayne State University; Newton F. McKeon, J r . , director of the library, Amherst College; William B. Meredith, in charge of ac- quisitions, Dartmouth College; Norman Earl Tanis, librarian, Henry Ford Community College; Eileen T h o r n t o n , librarian, Ober- lin College; Daniel J . Reed, director of li- braries, University of Detroit. Others present included Frank L . Schick, Library Services Branch of the U. S. Office of Education, David H. Clift, executive director of ALA, and Richard B. Harwell, executive secretary of A C R L . Chairman of the meeting was Verner Clapp, president of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Primary topics for consideration were the need for a revised list of basic books for college libraries and the need for a con- tinuing guide to current books useful and desirable for college and university li- brarians. T h e r e was full and lively dis- cussion of the desirability of such publica- tions and of possible means of bringing about their existence. Experts from public libraries, library .schools, the ALA Publishing Department, the R . R . Bowker Company, and the H. W . Wilson Company contributed direct and pertinent background to the dis- cussions. T h e r e was a consensus that a new basic list is desirable and will be highly useful and that a book selection tool for use by college libraries should be provided as a basis of keeping the basic list up-to-date as well as for serving as a guide to current ac- quisitions. Some specific proposals for the accomplishment of segments of the overall project were made, but there was no im- mediate agreement on the efficacy of any single such proposal. T h i s was planned as an exploratory meeting. Further considera- tion of the proposals will be made as soon as an edited copy of the typescript of the meetings is available. ALA R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S at recent collegiate ceremonies were H A Z E L S. J O H N S O N , librarian, Grambling College, at the inauguration of Thomas Winston Cole as president of Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, March 22; RUS- S E L L S. D O Z E R , librarian, DePauw University, at the dedication of the Lilley Library, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, April 1 1 ; L E W I S C. B R A N S C O M B , A C R L Presi- dent and director, Ohio State University Li- braries, at the dedication of the University Library, Colgate University, April 13; F A N T H. T H O R N L E Y , director, Birmingham (Ala- bama) Public Library, at the inauguration of Leslie Stephen Wright as president of How- ard College, Birmingham, Alabama, April 21; and R O B E R T L . E N E Q U I S T , librarian, Wag- ner College, at the inauguration of Mason Welch Gross as president of Rutgers Uni- versity, May 6. MAY 1959 229 Personnel B E N J A M I N B . R I C H A R D S became librarian and professor of library science at Kansas State T e a c h e r s College, E m p o r i a , J a n u a r y 1. H e moved to Em- poria from Gales- burg, Illinois, where he had been librar- ian at K n o x College since 1946. B i l l R i c h a r d s takes to his new j o b an enviable combina- tion of administra- tive ability, technical and humanistic back- ground, and personal drive. H e has a strong conviction of the values of librarianship, of books as its instruments, service as its medium, a n d ideas as its product. T h e strength of his con- victions leads to forcefulness in his per- sonality and effectiveness in his work. H e is a l i b r a r i a n — n o mere b o o k m a n , n o mere administrator, b u t an u n c o m m o n b l e n d i n g of the worth of both. A t K n o x he was nota- bly successful in e x t e n d i n g the program of the library till it permeated all aspects of campus life. A native of D u b u q u e , B i l l is definitely, though hardly typically, a product of the Midwest. His regionalism shines in his de- termination to create b e t t e r libraries and finer librarianship. I t is reflected in his down-to-earth, common-sense, corn-fed per- sonality a n d echoed in his accent. H e will be at home in Kansas, and he will e n j o y its professional opportunities, as wide a n d as promising as its landscape. B i l l has successive degrees (A.B., A . B , L . S . , M.A.) from Iowa State T e a c h e r s College, Western Reserve, and the Claremont Gradu- ate School. After wartime service in the Navy, and during his stay at K n o x , he com- pleted course work for a doctorate in li- brary science at the University of Chicago. H e is a past chairman of A C R L ' s College Libraries Section and is presently a m e m b e r of the A C R L Grants Committee. I n 1957 he was chairman for the Midwest Academic L i b r a r i a n s Conference. W h i l e at K n o x he was the editor of The Stepladder, a n a t i o n a l poetry quarterly. T h e H e n r y E. H u n t i n g t o n L i b r a r y published in 1956 his editing of California Gold Rush Merchant: The Jour- nal of Stephen Chapin Davis. B i l l began his library career, like so many other librarians, as a student assistant. T w e n - ty years later, in his second post as chief li- brarian and with a teen-age daughter of his own, he retains a remarkable understanding of students as the primary patrons of his li- b r a r y . — R i c h a r d B. Harwell. T o the directorship of the Midwest I n t e r L i b r a r y Center, which he will assume on J u l y 15, G O R D O N W I L L I A M S brings numerous native talents which a variety of experi- ence has developed, so that he seems a " n a t u r a l " for this demanding position. B o r n and bred of p i o n e e r O r e g o n r a n c h e r folk, it is n o t u n e x p e c t e d to find W i l l i a m s a mem- b e r of the L i b r a r y 4-H Club, whose af- filiates are equally endowed with heart, head, humor, a n d hands, without all of which a person is n o t a good librarian. W i l l i a m developed his head by study at Stanford, (B.A.), and Chicago's Graduate L i b r a r y School (M.A.). His m i n d has a skeptical cutting edge which has led him to question the old routines. H e works well in team, learned partly during a Navy career in W o r l d W a r I I . W i l l i a m s ' handy feel for books was de- veloped in Paul Elder's a n t i q u a r i a n book- shop in San Francisco, and in B r e n t a n o ' s store in L o s Angeles, which he managed un- til he was persuaded to train for librarian- ship. His first j o b was as an assistant on the periodicals desk in the U C L A Library. After graduate library school he j o i n e d the staff of the J o h n Crerar Library, where his knowl- edge of science and the history of science were particularly valuable, rising to become Benjamin B. Richards Gordon R. Williams 230 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - administrative assistant to the librarian. In 1952 Williams returned to U C L A as assistant librarian, and in the ensuing years he has had primary responsibility for tech- nical processes and building development. During the past two years he has brought a new $12,000,000 research library building to the working-drawings stage, and will con- tinue to serve as a consultant to the archi- tects. Whether it be working a slide-rule or an abacus, building a mobile, or taking photographic portraits (in my book he is Karsh's only rival), or setting type, Williams always demonstrates fine coordination be- tween head and hands. As for heart and humor, here the man is the humanist above all, with an impervious geniality which has endeared him to all who have worked closely with him. His attractive and witty wife J a n e and their pixie daugh- ter Megan are not the least of Williams' assets. T h u s I see Gordon Williams bringing managerial equipment to M I L C and also planning vision to the expansion of its co- operative services. Its twenty members will find their director thoughtful, humane, apt, resilient, and cheerful. He is bookman and administrator. Would there were more like h i m ! — L a w r e n c e Clark Powell. R O B E R T K. J O H N S O N has been appointed director of libraries at Drexel Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson's most recent po- sition was that of chief of the circulation branch at the Air University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He has the bachelor of arts degree from Montana State University; and in the field of library science holds the bachelor's de- gree from the University of Washington, and both the master's and doctorate degree from the University of Illinois. Previous academic employment in which Dr. Johnson has engaged includes the po- sitions of assistant librarian, instructor in library economics, and librarian at Pacific University, Oregon; librarian at Central College, Missouri; and acquisitions depart- ment bibliographer and cataloger at the University of Illinois library. H e saw service as a naval communications officer for three years during World W a r I I . F R A Z E R G. P O O L E became director of ALA's recently inaugurated Library Tech- nology Project on May 1. A native of Mary- land, his previous experience has included work at the University of California, Berke- ley; a year in the quality control department of the H. J . Heinz Company; U. S. Navy experience as an aerological officer; and teaching at Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina. His collegiate degree is from Catawba and his library degree from the University of California. Mr. Poole is on leave from the Santa Barbara College of the University of California, Goleta, where he has served as assistant librarian since 1950. Appointments F R E D E R I C K L . A R N O L D is reference librarian at Princeton University. He was formerly supervisor of the periodicals section. E L A I N E B E R G is reference librarian at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. M R S . R U T H A. B R I S T O L is librarian of the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Charlottesville. F O R R E S T C A R H A R T , formerly chief of the Public Service Division of the U. S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, is senior editorial assistant of the ALA Library Tech- nology Project. E D W A R D C A S E Y , formerly librarian of Stone- hill College, Brockton, Mass., is technical librarian of the Lincoln Laboratories, Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. V I R G I N I A L E E C L O S E is acting librarian, Mount Holyoke College. She is serving for the spring semester of 1959 for Miss Flora B. Ludington, who is on sabbatical leave for research and travel. K A T H L E E N D O O L E Y is librarian in charge of public services at the Niagara University Library, Niagara Falls, N. Y. B E R N A R D F. D O W N E Y , J R . , is librarian of the Institute of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. M R S . M I L D R E D D R A L L E is periodical li- brarian at the Arkansas State Teachers College, Conway. E R N E S T M. E S P E L I E , formerly librarian of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in New MAY 1959 231 London, Conn., is librarian of Augustana College, Rock Island, 111. W I L L I A M R . E S H E L M A N , formerly assistant librarian of Los Angeles State College, is now acting librarian. J O H N L . H A F E N R I C H T E R has been promoted from reference librarian to assistant librarian of Eastern Michigan College, Ypsilanti. H e is serving as acting librarian while Walfred Erickson, librarian, is absent on leave. R U T H A. H A Z E L T O N is librarian of the Maine State Library. L E O N H E R N D O N is assistant cataloger, Col- lege of William and Mary Library, Williams- burg, Virginia. D O R O T H Y C. H I L L is head cataloger at Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham. She was formerly assistant li- brarian of Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky. M Y R L L H O U C K is assistant reference li- brarian in the University of Wichita. C H A R L E S E. J O N E S is librarian of the Naz- arene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo. R I C H A R D H . L O G S D O N , director of the Columbia University Libraries, has been named by the U. S. State Department to serve as advisor to educational and govern- mental officials in Afghanistan. Dr. Logsdon will spend nine weeks in Kabul. During his stay he will be associated with various projects, including the planning of a new university library building; development of a program for staffing this library; rehabili- tation of the library of the Foreign Min- istry; extension of services of the Ministry of Education library; and the planning of a national archives program. En route to Afghanistan, Dr., Logsdon will visit universities and libraries in Japan, T h a i l a n d , and India. H e will return to the United States in late J u l y by way of Europe. A G N E S J O H N S E N L U T Z is bibliographer in the Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, T e x a s . M R S . F R A N C E S H. M O L T E N B E R R Y is reference and circulation librarian in the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. R I C H A R D B . R E I C H is science librarian, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. H e was for- merly head of the science-technology division of the Florida State University Library, Tallahassee. J E A N S T E W A R T is librarian of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, New York. R A Y N A R D C. S W A N K will join the ALA headquarters staff on J u l y 1 and will assume the directorship of the International Re- lations Office on September 1. Mr. Swank will be on leave from Stanford University, where he has been director of libraries since 1948. During the period of Mr. Swank's ab- sence from Stanford, E L M E R M. G R I E D E R , associate director of libraries, will serve as acting director of libraries and, effective September 1, D A V I D W . H E R O N , associate li- brarian of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, will become assistant director of the Stanford University Libraries. K A N A R D Y L . T A Y L O R , who has been li- brarian of the Transportation Center Li- brary, Northwestern University, became chief of reader services at the Air University Library, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, on February 1, 1959. G E O R G E V D O V I N , director of the Tech- nical Information Service at Stanford Uni- versity Libraries and formerly assistant chief of the science division, became chief of the science division on May 1, succeeding the late Frederic M. Falconer. H E L E N W E E K L Y is head of the catalog de- partment of the Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. R I C H A R D E U G E N E W I L L S O N is librarian of the humanities division of Kent State Uni- versity Library, Ohio. Retirements H E N R Y G I N T E R , head of the binding de- partment at Yale University Library, retired on March 31 after more than fifty-four years of service. M R S . I D A G . G L A S S retired from the li- brarianship of the Baltimore City College on February 1, 1959, after having served for twenty-five years in that post. M A L C O L M O. Y O U N G , Princeton Univer- sity's reference librarian for the past thirty- five years and also widely known as a bibliog- rapher, will retire from the library staff 232 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - with the close of the current academic year. In announcing the retirement of Mr. Young, who joined the library staff in 1924, William S. Dix, university librarian, em- phasized Mr. Young's "encyclopedic knowl- edge" and "complete mastery of biblio- graphic techniques" and expressed deep ap- preciation on behalf of "th e generations of undergraduates and graduate students with whom you have worked." " I t is clearly recognized," Dr. Dix went on to say, "that you reach the end of your active career as one of the most distinguished reference librarians in the country, demon- strating over the years your ability to per- ceive what is required and to teach without crippling the student's self-reliance." Prior to going to Princeton, Mr. Young had served from 1920 until 1924 as bibliog- rapher of the Amherst College Library. He had been editor of the Biographical Record of Amherst College, published in 1921, and had also edited Amherstiana, a Bibliography. A member of the Amherst class of 1916, Mr. Young completed his library training at the New York State Library School in Albany, interrupting his post-graduate studies for a period of seventeen months while serving with the U. S. Army in World War I. Mr. Young, bibliographer of Paul Elmer More, philosopher, classicist, and essayist, a member of the Princeton faculty from 1914 until 1934, has been a trustee of the Prince- ton Public Library and a deacon of Prince- ton's First Presbyterian Church. Necrology B E V E R L E Y C A V E R H I L L , librarian of Los Angeles State College since 1950, died on January 27, 1959, at the age of forty-six. H e had formerly been associated with the University of Oregon, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Seattle Public Library, and the University of Redlands. A scholarship has been established in his memory for his son, J o h n . T H O M A S S. D A B A G H , formerly director of the University of California at Los Angeles Law Library and later special assistant to the president of UCLA, died on January 30, 1959. F R E D E R I C M. F A L C O N E R , chief science li- brarian of Stanford University, died on March 7, 1959, at the age of forty-seven. When the biological science division was established at Stanford in 1949, he was ap- pointed chief, and he assumed administrative responsibility for all the science and tech- nological collections in September 1956 when the biological science and engineering di- visions were merged into the science division. M A R Y L O U I S E F R I T C H M A N , art reference librarian at Pratt Institute from 1952 to October 1958, died in Wallingford, Pa., on March 3, 1959. I S A B E L E L Y L O R D , librarian of Pratt In- stitute from 1904 to 1910, died on February 8, 1959. Miss Lord followed her library career by doing research for various New York publishers. She worked with Carl Sandburg on his monumental Abraham Lincoln and was a specialist in home economics and author of Everybody's Cookbook. Foreign Libraries M M E . M . A N T O I N E is director of the Bib- liotheque Nationale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. H A N N S W I L H E L M E P P E L S H E I M E R , the well- known bibliographer of German literature, has retired from the librarianship of the Deutsche Bibliothek and of the Stadt- und Universitatsbibliothek in Frankfurt on the Main. His successor as director of the Deutsche Bibliothek is K U R T K O S T E R , and his successor as director of the Stadt- und Uni- versitatsbibliothek is C L E M E N S K O T T E L W E S C H . S I R T H O M A S K E N D R I C K , director and princi- pal librarian of the British Museum since 1950, retired on January 31, 1959. A N T A L L A D A N Y I became director of the General Library of the T e c h n i c a l University of Budapest on September 1, 1958. A . V A N L U T S E N B U R G M A A S retired from the librarianship of the T e c h n i c a l University of Delft on September 30, 1958. F E L I P E M A S I A N I is director of the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela. L E V V L A D I M I R O V I C H T R O F I M O V , since 1 9 2 5 MAY 1959 233 chief of the division for scientific classifica- tion in the Social Science L i b r a r y of the Academy of Sciences of the U . S . S . R . , died suddenly on O c t o b e r 31, 1958, at the age of seventy-four. T r o f i m o v was distinguished both as a teacher and as a constructive think- er in both descriptive cataloging and classi- fication theory. Carpenter Hall (Continued from page 204) mestic and foreign government technical reports, and a special collection on sani- tary engineering. A corridor from this room leads to a series of faculty studies. These are small offices which are assigned on a temporary basis to staff members of the College and to visitors who wish to make extended use of the library. T h e library has been in operation for several months in its new quarters. A comparison of attendance figures for a similar period in the fall of 1956 shows that use of the library has tripled. Sev- eral innovations that were tried have met with wide approval. T h e individual study desks in the reading room are very popular and are usually filled first. T h e microfilm and typing room which has full acoustical treatment is used not only for these purposes, but also by students who wish to talk together quietly about their work. T h e present collection covers all fields of engineering offered in the curriculm. T h e allied fields of economics, archi- tectural planning, mathematics, chem- istry, and physics, as they are applied to engineering, are also represented. Much material which was scattered in out-of- the-way areas because of the inadequate space in the old library is now brought together in Carpenter Hall. Now with sufficient room for expansion, plans are under way to enlarge this collection and make it one of the outstanding research facilities in the country. Kent State (Continued from page 216) On the second and third floors, special classroom areas may be formed through use of accordion walls. Except for these, there are no walls in any of the main areas. Such areas will be compartmental- ized by arrangement of the stacks. This type of division permits a great deal of flexibility for it is easily changed to meet any needs that might arise. Persons using the library are permitted complete freedom in the stack areas, but as a means of expediting withdrawals, one may merely request a book at the cir- culation desk. T h e order will then be forwarded to the proper division where the book will be located and then dis- patched to the circulation desk by means of a book lift which serves all three floors. At present the library staff consists of fifteen professional librarians, fifteen non-professionals, and fifty students. T h e students provide approximately two thousand hours of assistance per year. T o operate the enlarged library, five profes- sional and five non-professional staff members will be needed. Perhaps the most phenomenal aspect of the entire project, and one that best indicates the emphasis placed on the concept of service, is the fact that during the entire period of construction, despite the ever present noise and dirt, the old library was kept operative, and never at less than 75 per cent efficiency. 234 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S -