College and Research Libraries Sixty Grants Awarded by A C R L Committee G R A N T S T O S I X T Y college and university li- braries were made by the A C R L Grants Committee at a meeting in New York late in the fall. In addition to these awards the committee made seven grants for research by individual scholars. (These research grants are reported in detail elsewhere in this is- sue of CRL.) T h e grants to libraries total $46,010, ranging from $250 to the Central College Library, Pella, la., to $1500 to the Reed College Library, Portland, Ore. Single grants average just over $750, more than two times the average of grants in earlier years of the program. "Although our grants are not still large enough to solve fully the problems of library needs," comments Robert W . Orr, director of the Iowa State University Library and chairman of the committee, "we hope that they will, in every case, encourage library use and infuse into local library activities new vigor and efficiency. W e are especially glad that we have been able to increase the size of the 1960-61 grants and are proud that we had an abundance of applications which promise a maximum of benefit through the grants made in response to them. "In my five years' work with the A C R L Grants Committee," he says, "it has been emphasized again and again by the applica- tions we have received that the first need of every library is books. While we have made other grants to strengthen library programs it has always been, and always will be, with the idea that libraries are for books, the use of books, and the students who use them." Applications in the 1960-61 program were received from over three hundred college and university libraries. Since the grants may be made only to libraries of institutions not supported by taxes, this figure represents a large proportion of those eligible to partic- ipate in the program. Edmon Low, President of A C R L , com- ments: "This year's applications to ACRL's Grants Committee are another demonstra- tion of the definite need of all types and all sizes of college and university libraries for major help in building book collections. While we regret that grants could be made in response to less than 20 per cent of the applications, we are more than ever grate- ful to the United States Steel Foundation for its leadership that has made our grants program possible and to the other corpora- tions and foundations which have con- tributed to its support." This is the sixth year of the A C R L grants program. T h e A C R L Grants Committee has now distributed over $245,000 in approxi- mately four hunderd separate grants. T h e Muskingum College Library received its fourth grant in the history of the pro- gram. Fifteen college or university libraries received grants for a third time, and twenty were awarded their second A C R L grant. Grants were made to twenty-four colleges for the first time for each of them: Bard College, Baylor University, Bennett College, Bryn Mawr College, Colgate University, Domini- can College of San Rafael, Fordham Univer- sity College of Arts and Letters: Loyola Seminary, Franklin and Marshall College, Gettysburg College, Goddard College, Gon- zaga University, Hartford Seminary, In- diana Technical College, King's College, Lehigh University, Livingstone College, Saint John's College, Annapolis, Md.; Swarthmore College, University of Houston, University of Puget Sound, Waynesburg College, Wells College, Westminster College, New Wil- mington, Pa.; and Whitworth College. T h e majority of the 1960-61 grants were made to strengthen book and periodical col- lections. A few, however, will be used for the purchase of audio-visual materials or of equipment for photoreproduction. Donors of the 1960-61 funds are the United States Steeel Foundation (the prin- cipal contributor to the A C R L grants pro- gram since its inception in 1955), the In- ternational Business Machines Corporation, the Koppers Foundation, the Microcard Foundation, Micro Photo, Inc.; the National J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 7 61 Biscuit Company, the Olin Mathieson Chem- ical Corporation, Time, Inc.; and the H. W . Wilson Foundation, Inc. Members of the A C R L Grants Commit- tee for 1960-61 are Chairman Orr, Miss Lois Engleman, librarian, Denison University; Edward C. Heintz, librarian, Kenyon Col- lege; President Low, librarian, Oklahoma State University; Flora B. Ludington, li- brarian, Mount Holyoke College; Richard W. Morin, librarian, Dartmouth College; and Giles F. Shepherd, Jr., assistant director of libraries, Cornell University. Humphrey G. Bousfield, chief librarian, Brooklyn Col- lege, serves with the committee as a consult- ant, and Richard Harwell, executive secre- tary of A C R L is an ex-officio member of it. 1 9 6 0 / 6 1 A C R L G R A N T S A T L A N T A U N I V E R S I T Y , Atlanta, Ga. (William W. Bennett) $500. B A R D C O L L E G E , Annandale-on-Hudson, N . Y . (Marion E. Vosburgh) $500. B A T E S C O L L E G E , Lewiston, Me. (Iva W. Fos- ter) $700. B A Y L O R U N I V E R S I T Y , Waco, T e x . (Roscoe Rouse) $1100. B E N N E T T C O L L E G E , Greensboro, N . C . (Con- stance R. Marteena) $500. B E N N I N G T O N C O L L E G E , Bennington, Vt. (Mary S. Hopkins) $1400. B I R M I N G H A M - S O U T H E R N C O L L E G E , Birming- ham, Ala. (Margaret H. Hughes) $500. B L A C K B U R N C O L L E G E , Carlinville, 111. (Mary Elizabeth Ambler) $1000. B L U F F T O N C O L L E G E , Bluffton, Ohio (Delbert Gratz) $500. B R Y N M A W R C O L L E G E , Bryn Mawr, Pa. (Janet M. Agnew) $500. C A R L E T O N C O L L E G E , Northfield, Minn. (James H. Richards, J r . ) $1000. C E N T E N A R Y C O L L E G E O F L O U I S I A N A , Shreve- port, La. (Mrs. Alice S. Alben) $600. C E N T R A L C O L L E G E , Pella, Iowa (Alice Lam- mers) $250. C O L G A T E U N I V E R S I T Y , Hamilton, N . Y . (Bruce M. Brown) $800. C O L L E G E O F I D A H O , Caldwell, Idaho (Rich- ard G. Elliott) $500. C O N N E C T I C U T C O L L E G E , New London, Conn. (Hazel A. Johnson) $500. C O R N E L L C O L L E G E , Mount Vernon, Iowa (Forrest E. Brown) $1250. D E P A U W U N I V E R S I T Y , Greencastle, Ind. (Rus- sell S. Dozer) $500. D I L L A R D U N I V E R S I T Y , New Orleans, La. (Ern- est C. Wagner) $1200. D O M I N I C A N C O L L E G E O F S A N R A F A E L , S a n Rafael, Calif. (Sister M. Marguerite) $850. E A R L H A M C O L L E G E , Richmond, Ind. (Robert M. Agard) $1000. E A S T E R N M E N N O N I T E C O L L E G E , Harrisonburg, Va. (Sadie A. Hartzler) $500. E L M I R A C O L L E G E , Elmira, N. Y . (William R. Lansberg) $1000. F O R D H A M U N I V E R S I T Y C O L L E G E O F A R T S AND L E T T E R S : L O Y O L A S E M I N A R Y , Shrub Oak, N. Y. (Theodore Cunnion) $500. F R A N K L I N AND M A R S H A L L C O L L E G E , Lancaster, Pa. (Herbert B. Anstaett) $1100. F U R M A N U N I V E R S I T Y , Greenville, S. C. (Rob- ert C. Tucker) $500. G E T T Y S B U R G C O L L E G E , Gettysburg, Pa. (Mrs. Lillian H. Smoke) $1000. G O D D A R D C O L L E G E , Plainfield, Vt. (William E. Osgood) $400. G O N Z A G A U N I V E R S I T Y , Spokane, Wash. (Rev. Clifford Carroll) $1000. G O U C H E R C O L L E G E , Towson, Md. (Sarah D. Jones) $500. G R I N N E L L C O L L E G E , Grinnell, Iowa (Henry Alden) $1000. H A M I L T O N C O L L E G E , Clinton, N. Y . (Walter Pilkington) $1000. H A M P T O N I N S T I T U T E , Hampton, Va. (Miles M. Jackson) $500. H A R T F O R D S E M I N A R Y F O U N D A T I O N , Hartford, Conn. (Dikran Y. Hadidian) $1500. H O B A R T AND W I L L I A M S M I T H C O L L E G E S , G e - neva, N. Y. (Elizabeth Thalman) $900. H O P E C O L L E G E , Holland, Mich. (John R. May) $500. I N D I A N A T E C H N I C A L C O L L E G E , Fort Wayne, Ind. (Wirt Fairman) $500. K I N G ' S C O L L E G E , Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Mary I. Barrett) $400. K N O X C O L L E G E , Galesburg, 111. (Warren Mor- ris) $800. L E H I G H U N I V E R S I T Y , Bethlehem, Pa. (James D. Mack) $1000. L I V I N G S T O N E C O L L E G E , Salisbury, N. C . (Jose- phine P. Sherrill) $700. 62 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S M A R I E T T A C O L L E G E , Marietta, Ohio (Rich- ard K. Gardner) $1200. M U S K I N G U M C O L L E G E , New Concord, Ohio (Robert W . Evans) $1000. N E B R A S K A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y , Lincoln Neb. ( T e d Kneebone) $900. O C C I D E N T A L C O L L E G E , L O S Angeles, Calif. (Tyrus G. Harmsen) $800. P A C I F I C U N I V E R S I T Y , Forest Grove, Ore. (Elsie M. Lundborg) $1000. R E E D C O L L E G E , Portland, Ore. (Luella R . Pollock) $1500. S T . J O H N ' S C O L L E G E , Annapolis, Md. (Char- lotte G. Fletcher) $1000. S I O U X F A L L S C O L L E G E , Sioux Falls; S. D . (Hans O. Zenner) $600. S K I D M O R E C O L L E G E , Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (Gladys M. Brownell) $700. S P R I N G F I E L D C O L L E G E , Springfield, Mass. (Doris M. Fletcher) $700. S W A R T H M O R E C O L L E G E , Swarthmore, Pa. (Charles B. Shaw) $500. U N I V E R S I T Y O F H O U S T O N , Houston, T e x . (Howard F. McGaw) $800. U N I V E R S I T Y O F P U G E T S O U N D , Tacoma, Wash. (Warren L . Perry) $850. I J P S A L A C O L L E G E , East Orange, N. J . (Miriam Grosh) $500. W A S H I N G T O N AND J E F F E R S O N C O L L E G E , Wash- ington, Pa. (Edwin K. T o l a n ) $1000. W A Y N E S B U R G C O L L E G E , Waynesburg, Pa. (Mrs. May P. Clovis) $500. W E L L S C O L L E G E , Aurora, N . Y. (Helen L . Sears) $500. W E S T M I N S T E R C O L L E G E , New Wilmington, Pa. (Mabel C. Kocher) $500. W I I I T W O R T H C O L L E G E , Spokane, Wash. (Fla- val A. Pearson) $500. A C R L Meetings At Midwinter T h e A C R L Board of Directors will meet twice at the Midwinter meeting of ALA, at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, February 2, and 10:00 A.M. Friday, February 3. Steer- ing committees of the University Library Section and Teacher Education Libraries Section will meet at 4:30 P.M. Thursday, February 2. T h e Subject Specialists Sec- tion Steering Committee will meet at 8:30 A.M. Friday, February 3. Scheduled to meet Thursday, February 2, are ACRL's Committee on Appointments and Nom- inations (8:30 P.M.); the Committee on Conference Programs (8:30 P.M.); the Committee on Grants (4:30 P.M.); the Committee on National Library Week (8:30 A.M.); the Committee on Organization (4:30 P.M.); the Publications Committee (4:30 P.M.); the Committee on Standards (4:30 P.M.); the A C R L / A R L Metcalf Proj- ect Advisory Committee (luncheon meeting at (12:30 P.M.); and the University Li- braries Section Committee on Urban University Libraries (4:30 P.M.). T h e Ad- visory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organiza- tions will meet at 8:30 P.M. Thursday, February 2, and for a luncheon meeting Fri- day, February 3, at (12:30 P.M.) T h e Advisory Committee to Administer the Burmese Projects will have a luncheon meeting at (12:30 P.M.) Tuesday, January 31. J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 63 Seven Awarded A C R L Research Grants GRANTS T O E N A B L E the completion of re-search projects in librarianship or bib- liography were awarded seven individuals at the fall meeting of the A C R L Grants Com- mittee. T h e awards go to Floyd M. Cammack, University of Hawaii Library, Honolulu; Donald C. Dickinson, Bemidji State College Library, Bemidji, Minn.; Robert D. Harlan, University of Southern California School of Library Service, Los Angeles; Robert C. Jones, American River Junior College, Sac- ramento, Calif.; Richard H. Rouse, Cornell University Department of History, Ithaca, N. Y.; Jackson E. Towne, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.; and Tung- Li Yuan, Washington, D. C. Edmon Low, President of A C R L , com- mented enthusiastically on these projects. " W e are happy," he says, "to renew once again research grants as a part of the A C R L Grants Program. T h e solid research that re- sulted from our earlier grants is evidence of their value." Robert W. Orr, chairman of the A C R L Grants Committee added: " T h e grants this year effectively demonstrate the continuing interest of librarians in bibliography as a legitimate and fruitful aspect of librarian- ship. Requests for support of bibliographical research far outnumbered those for meth- odological research. Since previous grants by A C R L have been directed primarily toward methodological work in librarianship, it is gratifying to see these grants made for bibli- ographical projects." Both Mr. Low and Mr. Orr reiterated ACRL's thanks to U. S. Steel, the Micro- card Foundation, and other donors to the grants program. Mr. Orr noted that the grants program, with the approval and en- couragement of the U. S. Steel Foundation, had supported research from its inception and that the interest this year of the Micro- card Foundation in establishing at least one generous fellowship to encourage research in a bibliographical project had probably stimulated requests in that area. A summary note of each of the seven re- search grants to individuals appears below: C A M M A C K . $1,000. For preparation for pub- lication of a bibliography of primary re- search materials relating to Oceania now available at the University of Hawaii. D I C K I N S O N . $500. For completion of a thor- ough bibliography of the works of Langs- ton Hughes, including Hughes' separately published works, items published in an- thologies, and contributions to magazines. H A R L A N . $500. For an investigation of the life and work of David Hall, eighteenth- century Philadelphia printer, leading to definitive accounts of his associations in business with Benjamin Franklin and with William Strahan of London, to a bibliog- raphy of items printed by Hall, and, possi- bly, to a full-length book about Hall. JONES. $400. For help in the compilation and production of the 1960 listing of 750 selected titles of books of the year most suitable for junior college library collec- tions as a continuation of Robert T a f t Jordon's earlier compilations for 1958 and 1959 of "750 Desirable Books for the Lower Division Library." ROUSE. $1,000. For work toward the recon- struction and preparation of a new edi- tion of John Boston's Catalogus scrip- torum ecclesiae and, through it, of a study of the development of English libraries of the late fourteenth century with special emphasis on their production and use of a union catalog. TOWNE. $550. For the completion of bibliog- raphies of pioneer printing in California (to 1875) and in T e x a s (to 1876) supple- menting work, as yet unpublished, begun by the late Douglas C. McMurtric and in- corporating new information developed by die research of Mr. Towne and of other bibliographers. YUAN. $650. For a survey of American re- sources concerning Russian works on China to serve, with its record of more than three thousand items, as a supplement to Mr. Yuan's China in Western Literature. 64 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S News from the Field ACQUISITIONS, G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y ' S East Asiatic Li- brary has received 500 Japanese books from the foreign minister of J a p a n . T h e books were presented on behalf of the U. S.- Japa- nese Centennial Goodwill Mission, organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic, cultural and eco- nomic relations between the United States and J a p a n in 1860. T H E F O R D F O U N D A T I O N has given a grant of eight million dollars to the Council on Li- brary Resources, Washington, D. C., for re- search into improved library methods, with emphasis on ways of storing and finding in- formation in the "library of the future." W i t h part of the new grant, the Council will set up a laboratory to study photo- graphic and electronic techniques designed to cope with the deluge of publications re- sulting from the accelerated rate of research. T h e laboratory will also attempt to develop pilot models to improve methods of storing and retrieving information, particularly in large research libraries. T H E L I B R A R Y of the George Pepperdine College, Los Angeles, has received a gift of sixty volumes on the art and architecture of India and Thailand from Mr. and Mrs. Ir- win Eisenberg, and a Geneva Bible dated 1560 from Martin Christensen. K N O X C O L L E G E , Galesburg, 111., has re- ceived more than 1,300 volumes from the li- brary of the late Dr. Clarence H. Haring, professor of Latin American history and eco- nomics at Harvard University for thirty years. An authority on Latin America, Dr. Haring built a valuable personal library in the field of Latin American studies and selected Knox College as a permanent loca- tion for the major part of his collection. B O O K S IN M E D I C A L H I S T O R Y will be pur- chased with funds recently given to the Uni- versity of Minnesota Library. T h e gifts were received through the interest and efforts of Dr. Owen H . Wangensteen, chief of the De- partment of Surgery of the College of Medi- cine. One fund was given by members of the surgical faculty, the second by Dr. George D. Eitel of Minneapolis, the third by family and friends of the late Dr. Edgar T . Herr- mann, and the fourth and largest was do- nated by Mr. and Mrs. J o h n Sargent Pills- bury of Minneapolis. T h e library commit- tee hopes that the establishment of these funds will encourage other donors to join in this effort to build a significant collec- tion of medical history materials at Minne- sota. F O U R H U N D R E D B O O K S of public affairs, biog- raphy, fiction, and literature have been pre- sented to the New Mexico State University by Clarence P. Wilson, a former university editor, and his wife. Another addition to the university library has been the Eugene Manlove Rhodes Collection, purchased from Frank V. Dearing of Santa Fe. It consists of letters, original manuscripts, significant clip- pings, and autographed copies of all the Rhodes books, and augments a collection presented ten years ago by Mrs. May D. Rhodes. A N O U T S T A N D I N G C O L L E C T I O N of music and music literature has been acquired by the University of North Carolina library. T h e books apparently belonged to R . Aloys Mooser, Swiss musicologist, best known for his three-volume study, Annales de la mu- sique et des musiciens en Russie au XVIII' siecle. T h e greater part of the collection con- sists of bibliographies, library catalogs, and studies of national, provincial, or municipal histories of music. It includes valuable and rare works of Albert Gohler, C. Valentin, A. Bertolotti, and G. Caullet. Another gift to the University of North Carolina library consists of 3,000 volumes of Judaica and Hebraica, donated by Dannie Heineman of New York. This collection of books, periodicals, and articles includes books dating back to 1523, with many vol- umes from the 17th and 18th centuries. It deals mainly with the culture, history, and sociology of the Jews. While most of the ma- terials are in English and Hebrew, some are in German, French, and Yiddish. Particu- J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 65 larly good are the books in mediaeval He- brew poetry and modern Hebrew literature. 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 been presented with part of the Curtis Theater Collection, a gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ford E. Curtis of Pittsburgh. T h e rest of the collection will be received at die library from time to time as the books are collected and organized by the donors. T h e entire collec- tion consists of several hundred volumes of plays, histories and critical works on the theater and drama, journals relating to the drama, reference works, programs, reviews, articles, pictures, miscellaneous data on the contemporary theater, and material on re- cent off-Broadway productions. Dr. Curtis, who taught courses in drama many years at the University, will maintain the collection during his lifetime and assure its continua- tion through an endowment. P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y i s c o n - stantly augmenting its collections of litera- ture about the Near East. Four thousand vol- umes purchased from dealers in the Middle East, India, and Pakistan by Dr. Rudolf Mach, lecturer and curator of the university's unique Garrett collection of Arabic manu- scripts, are being cataloged in Firestone Me- morial Library. S A I N T M A R Y ' S C O L L E G E O F C A L I F O R N I A h a s been presented with an Hebraic collection by the San Francisco Lodge of B'nai B'rith. Included are an edition of the Hebrew Bible with modern translation and commentary, the Code of Maimonides, and other volumes covering an extensive range of the literature on Hebraic and Judaic history, law, religion and culture. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A L I B R A R Y has received the library of James Alexander Craig as a gift from his daughter, Mrs. Craig Stonier of Brentwood, California. T h e 1500-item collection is strong in the fields of archaeology, Assyrilogy, Assyro- Babylonian art and civilization, Semitic lan- guages and literature, and the history of Ju- daism. M A N Y I N T E R E S T I N G I T E M S are being ac- quired by Southern Illinois University li- brary. Recently purchased was a collection of unpublished letters of the Irish poet and dramatist, William Butler Yeats, and of Lady Augusta Gregory, prominent in the renais- sance of the Irish theater, written to the late Lennox Robinson of Dublic, fellow dramatist and critic. T h e letters relate to the affairs of the Abbey Theatre. T h e complete library of Dr. Jos£ Mogravejo Carrion of Cuenca, Ecuador, more than 7,000 books and documents dealing with Ecuadorian history, government, anthropology, and literature, also is on its way to the university library. Papers, correspondence, and manuscripts of R. Buckminster Fuller, internationally famous engineer, designer, and research pro- fessor at Southern Illinois University, will soon be given to Morris Library. T h e papers, consisting of thousands of items, in- clude correspondence with leaders not only in the field of engineering and design, but also with prominent business men, world political leaders, philosophers, and men of letters. T U L A N E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has been presented with a complete set of books pub- lished by the Limited Editions Club. T h e gift, to be known as the A. Watson Chap- man Graphic Arts Collection, includes a number of other books and phonograph rec- ords. T h e donor will add to the collection works newly published by the Limited Edi- tions Club. V A N D E R B I L T U N I V E R S I T Y , Nashville, Tenn., has attained more than half its goal to raise $30,000,000 for development. T h e Joint Uni- versity Libraries, serving George Peabody College for Teachers, Scarritt College, and Vanderbilt University, will receive $1,000,000 of the campaign money for its book-fund en- dowment and $750,000 to enlarge the cen- tral division building. In addition, a new wing will be added to the Vanderbilt Uni- versity hospital to house the medical division of the libraries. A G E N E R O U S G I F T of $776,250 more than triples the original library endowment fund of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., bringing its total endowment to about $1,- 000,000. This gift, from a friend of the col- lege, who prefers to remain anonymous, is more than ten times the total annual ex- 66 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S penditures of the library in recent years. In- come from the gift will be used for general library operation, including salaries, wages, and library materials. T w o M A N U S C R I P T C O L L E C T I O N S of impor- tance to students of Pacific Northwest his- tory have been acquired by the University of Washington Library. One is the Alonzo Wardall collection of diaries, account books, letters, clippings, and broadsides document- ing the labor and cooperative movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. T h e other is the Winfield Ebey Scott Papers, 1842- 1910, containing approximately 850 items, mostly correspondence, relating to the pio- neering and development of the Pacific Northwest, particularly in the Whidbey Is- land area of Puget Sound. F O L G E R S H A K E S P E A R E L I B R A R Y has placed on indefinite loan at the University of Brit- ish Columbia in Vancouver a set of four 17th-century collected editions of Shake- speare's plays, including a fine copy of the famous First Folio of 1623. This is the sec- ond loan of this type to be made by the Folger Library, the first having been pre- sented to St. Andrews University in Scotland. Folger Library trustees believe that the in- terests of learning will be served by placing these copies at research institutions in re- gions which do not have easy access to such materials. T h e University of British Colum- bia, chosen because of its growing signifi- cance in the humanistic education of the Pacific Northwest, has recently dedicated a new library building. BUILDINGS F R O M C A L I F O R N I A comes word of expan- sion plans in several university libraries. Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, has ex- panded seating capacity and stack area; Cal- ifornia State Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, has scheduled work on an addi- tion to the library to beajin in March; Santa Monica City College will build additions to the library doubling stack, study and work- ing areas; and the University of California at Riverside will provide additional space for 150,000 volumes, 157,000 documents, and 548 seats. B R I G H A M Y O U N G U N I V E R S I T Y , Provo, Utah, is planning a new library building at a cost of $5,000,000. A M I L L I O N - D O L L A R G I F T has been received from the Leonard C. Hanna, J r . Fund by Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, to- ward the completion of the new library-hu- manities building. T h e gift is the third larg- est in the history of the school. T h e library is expected to be in use by February 1961. A T H R E E - S T O R Y M O D U L A R L I B R A R Y B U I L D I N G is being constructed for the Indiana State College, Indiana, Pa., at a cost of $600,000. T h e building, to be completed in April, will have a capacity of 130,000 volumes and seats for 600 students. T H E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S of the University of Miami in Florida have authorized com- pletion of the $3,000,000 general library on the main campus. T h e first unit of the li- brary, costing $485,000, is in use and houses 200,000 volumes. A $2,000,000 fund to com- plete the library was provided partly from the $6,000,000 bequest of the late Otto G. Richter and through a gift of $500,000 from an anonymous donor. T h e building will be named the Otto G. Richter Library. T H E L I B R A R Y B U I L D I N G at Montana State College will be greatly enlarged when the new addition is completed, probably in Sep- tember 1961. T h e new structure, costing $1,- 122,520, consists of four floors and basement, doubling the size of the present building. A N E W A D D I T I O N to the library of Sacra- mento State College in California more than triples the space of the original building. Thus library facilities are keeping pace with the increase in enrollment, now 7,200 stu- dents as compared with 2,359 in 1952-53. A T N E W H A V E N a site is being cleared for the new Yale R a r e Book and Manuscript Li- brary on which construction will begin in the spring. T h i s library, to be located diag- onally across from Sterling Memorial Li- brary, will be used solely for the university's large collection of rare books and manu- scripts. J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 67 M E E T I N G S T H E S I X T H A N N U A L M E E T I N G o f t h e M i d - west Academic Librarians Conference will be held at the Dwight B. W a l d o Library, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., on Friday and Saturday, April 14-15, 1961. T h e advisory committee of librarians in charge includes Katherine M. Stokes, Western Michigan University, Henry Alden, Grinnell College, and Russell S. Dozer, De- Pauw University. T H E S E V E N T I E T H A N N I V E R S A R Y o f t h e N e w Jersey Library Association was observed with a conference, attended by 230 librarians, at the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel in Asbury Park, N. J. T h e theme of the conference was " T h e Creative F u t u r e . " At the business meeting of the association, a resolution was passed favoring a minimum annual salary of $4800 for beginning professional librarians. T h e spring meeting will be held at the Dennis Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J . , April 26-28, 1961. As part of New Jersey's tercentenary celebra- tion, the association recommended erection of a cultural center near the State House in T r e n t o n to house the Division of the State Library, Archives and History and the State Museum. T H E F O R T Y - S I X T H A N N U A L C O N F E R E N C E o f Eastern college librarians met at Columbia University in November. Maurice F. T a u b e r was moderator of a panel on centralization and decentralization in academic libraries. T h e afternoon topic was " T h e Role of the Council on Library Resources in Solving the Problems of Libraries." A C O N F E R E N C E ON B I B L I O G R A P H Y was held at Pennsylvania State University last No- vember. Papers were heard on " T h e Role of Bibliography," "Internal Evidence in Attri- bution of Authorship, in Dating, and in Source-tracing," "Applications of Modern Data-Processing Machines in Bibliography," and " T h e Function of the Library in Gradu- ate Study in English." Among topics dis- cussed by the conference groups were prob- lems in American bibliography, bibliographi- cal controls, educational policies of libraries, rare books, and historical and critical schol- arship. T H E A N N U A L M E E T I N G of American Docu- mentation Institute was held at Berkeley last fall in cooperation with University Exten- sion, University of California, Berkeley. Topics included implications for documen- tation, governmental and non-governmental documentation research activities, discussion of automatic storage and retrieval systems, and specific applications of mechanization techniques. A N I N S T I T U T E on "Collecting Science Liter- ature for General R e a d i n g " was held at Monticello, 111., in November by the Divi- sion of University Extension and the Gradu- ate School of Library Science of the Univer- sity of Illinois. Among important and timely aspects of the field considered by specialists were classics in science, the present state of scientific progress, dissemination of science information, readers' interest in science at various ages, publishing of science literature, aids to selection for libraries, science fiction, and audio-visual materials. P U B L I C A T I O N S T o D E V E L O P I N F O R M A T I O N C E N T E R S based on qualitative, not quantitative, concepts is the view of Battelle Institute staff members G. S. Simpson, J r . , and J . W . Murdock, writ- ing in the November Battelle Technical Re- view. T h e y consider the most effective way to handle the flood of technical information that threatens to inundate scientists and en- gineers in a sea of words is to deal with it in terms of utility. T h e y reject the idea of use of computers, data-processing machinery, reproduction and transmitting machines as the best way to cope with the information problem. Instead they recommend screening and evaluating the material by scientists and research-engineers so that meaningful and significant information may be easily avail- able. A N A P P R O A C H to automatic indexing and r e t r i e v a l of l i b r a r y - s t o r e d i n f o r m a t i o n through investigating machine search of natural language text is described in an article in the October 21, 1960 issue of Science. Don R . Swanson, author of the report, presents the results of preliminary experimental studies based on that approach. T h e work was carried out by Ramo-Wool- 68 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S dridge Intellectronics Laboratories under the sponsorship of the Council on Library Re- sources. It is the first phase of the study in word correlation and automatic indexing. A L I S T of 750 desirable 1960 books for the lower-division college library has been com- piled by Dr. Bob Jones, American River J u n i o r College, Sacramento, Calif. T h e for- mat and content follow similar lists issued for 1958 and 1959 by Robert T . J o r d a n . Copies are available upon request. E A R L Y in 1 9 6 1 the Microcard Foundation will publish the first inclusive list of micro- form publications. It will be called Guide to Microforms in Print and will be issued once a year. It will list all publications available in microform from commercial publishers and note publications of non-commercial or- ganizations issuing lists or catalogs on a reg- ular basis. L I F E E X P E C T A N C Y of commercial book papers may be increased from approximately 50 years to 400 years or more, according to a 64-page report by Randolph W . Church, Vir- ginia State Librarian. The Manufacture and Testing of Durable Book Papers describes the investigations of W . J . Barrow, document restorer at the Richmond institution, and an expert in various aspects of paper and ink. When commercially manufactured, the paper should come within the medium price range. A R E C O R D of three days of panel discussions held during the ninth annual meeting of the National Microfilm Association in New York last April has been published in book form. Dr. Vernon D. T a t e , executive secre- tary of the association, is the editor of this 250-page report which contains papers pre- sented at the meeting by representatives of industry, government, and libraries. T h e publications may be obtained from National Microfilm Association, P. O. Box 386, An- napolis, Md. I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O O P E R A T I O N , as well as in- ternal administration problems of national libraries, is among the topics considered in National Libraries: Their Problems and Prospects (UNESCO, 1960; order from Co- lumbia University Press; 125 p., $2.00). It contains the papers presented at the Vienna symposium, September 8-27, 1958. Guide to Catholic Library Literature (vol- ume 6, 1956-59) has been issued by the Cath- olic Library Association, 620 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington 17, D. C.; $17.50. Walter Roming edited the 725-page volume. Survey of Information Library Units in Industrial and Commercial Organizations is available from Aslib (3 Belgrave Square, Lon- don SW1). T h e investigator, D. J . Campbell, covered fifty-two British industrial and com- mercial information library units. Price of the 42-page report prepared by C. W . Han- son is 10s. to members of Aslib, and 12s.6d. to non-members. Studies in Bibliography, volume 13, by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, edited by Fredson Bowers, is available from the Society in Charlottesville. T h i s volume (1960, 290 p., $6.00) contains a wide variety of papers of interest to librari- ans as well as the Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney checklist of bibliographical schol- arship. A U B E R T J . C L A R K , O.F.M. C O N V . , is die author of The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth Century America (Washington: T h e Catholic University of America Press, 1960, 215 p., $3.50). This work, presented as a doctoral dissertation, in- cludes various appendices on copyright. M I S C E L L A N E O U S N E W B E R R Y L I B R A R Y at Chicago has found it necessary to require a card of admission to its reading rooms to serve adequately scholars for whom its collections were de- signed. T h e cards are being issued to faculty members, Ph.D. candidates, and M. A. can- didates for the writing of theses. This regula- tion will bar undergraduates from using the library for course assignments. However, un- dergraduates will be admitted if they pre- sent to the admissions secretary a letter from the librarian of their university or college, indicating that they are writing a paper for which material can be found only at New- berry. B E L L AND H O W E L L C O M P A N Y , Photo Pro- ductions Division, has received a $177,000 J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 69 research and development contract from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., for the development, manufacture, and field evalu- ation of a microimage production system for library use. T h e project will involve design and development of a system that will make possible rapid reproduction, on standard li- brary-size cards, of reduced images of pages of books, periodicals and other library refer- ence materials. U N I V E R S I T Y O F I D A H O L I B R A R Y , i n a n a t - tempt to reduce theft and mutilation of books, has urged faculty members not to ac- cept term papers containing pictures, maps, graphs, or illustrations clipped from periodi- cals, newspapers, or books. T h e art depart- ment dramatized the problem by designing posters discrediting book thefts and mutila- tions; these were exhibited in the library and were seen by hundreds of students. D E E R I N G L I B R A R Y at Northwestern Univer- sity has been displaying in the main lobby an exhibit giving information about the Uni- versity library, its branches and departments as well as the Chicago campus libraries. T h e viewer can learn how to obtain books and other publications through the use of the card catalog and the stacks; and which types of materials can be found in the reference room, reserve book room, business, docu- ments, and any of the other departments in the main building. This is an effective way to carry out the slogan: "Know your library." N A T I O N A L S C I E N C E F O U N D A T I O N is encour- aging proposals for additional research proj- ects or studies of a general nature that may produce new insights, knowledge, or tech- niques applicable to scientific information systems and services. Of greatest interest are studies to provide better understanding of scientific communication processes, informa- tion needs for scientists and the extent to which needs are met by existing publica- tions and information services or could be met by proposed new types of publications and services. Another research area of great interest would be studies on information storage and retrieval, including procedures for automatic analysis of texts of documents, automatic indexing and abstracting, and au- tomatic searching of stored materials. In- quiries and proposals should be addressed to Documentation Research Program, Office of Science Information Service, National Sci- ence Foundation, Washington 25, D. C. Now IN O P E R A T I O N at the University of Arizona Library is a conveyor-belt which re- turns books directly into the stack area for discharging. T h e device increases efficiency of this routine circulation operation. I N A U G U R A L C E R E M O N I E S for the opening of the south wing of the library building at the University of British Columbia were held in the fall. At the first session, constituting the fall meeting of the Friends of the University Library, Dr. Louis B. Wright, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, gave an address on research libraries and the advancement of learning. T h e second session, sponsored by the Senate Library Committee and the Brit- ish Columbia Library Association, was a sym- posium on " T h e Library: Revised and En- larged Edition." Sir Frank Francis, director of the British Museum, addressed the final session on "Libraries, the Great Interna- tional Network." T H E W I N N E R of the 1 9 6 0 Library Binding Institute scholarship, Ray L. Carpenter of Chapel Hill, N. C., will use the fund to do research in library administration. He will analyze library literature on administration and have extensive interviews with library leaders throughout North Carolina to deter- mine the standards and problems of admin- istrative behavior. Mr. Carpenter has served as assistant managing editor of Library Re- sources and Technical Services for nearly two years. D R E X E L G R A D U A T E S C H O O L O F L I B R A R Y S C I - E N C E offers four full tuition scholarships to deserving students for the academic year 1961-62. Requirements are: American citizen- ship; matriculation as a full-time student for the master's degree; high academic achieve- ment at an approved college or university; and proof of financial need. Applications and complete credentials should be sent to the Director of Students of the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel Institute of Technology, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia 4, before May 1. 7 0 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Personnel J O H N P R O V O S T W I L K I N S O N was appointed Director of Libraries at Dalhousie University on September first of 1960. This prestigious university is located in far eastern Can- ada, in H a l i f a x , Nova Scotia. Mr. Wilkinson has just completed three years of training for his new responsibili- ties in the position of assistant director of libraries for social studies at the Uni- versity of Nebraska John Provost where he held the Wilkinson r a n k o f assistant pro- fessor. Prior to that he had been for six years the assistant li- brarian in the Ontario College of Education of the University of T o r o n t o and prior to that for one year an assistant reference li- brarian in the T o r o n t o Public Library. A native of Exeter, England, Mr. Wilkin- son is nevertheless a life-long resident of Canada where his father is a distinguished professor of medieval history. T h e close fam- ily affiliation with the University of Toronto made it natural that John Wilkinson should have done his preparatory work there: B.A., B.L.S., and M.L.S. More recently he has been attending the University of Chicago where he has completed his course and language requirements and the preliminary examina- tions for his doctorate in the Graduate Li- brary School. T h a t John Wilkinson should have achieved the directorship of libraries in an important Canadian university at the age of thirty-three is no accident, nor can it be attributed to any factors other than hard work, inherent drive and native intelligence, and clarity of purpose. This ambitious, stubborn, but withal charming young man must inevitably occupy a major position of leadership in higher education on this continent and those of us in Nebraska who counted him a member of our team are proud to have had a hand in his maturing. Not the least of his assets, of course, are an attractive wife and two daughters—Frank A. Lundy. Appointments C H A R L E S D. A B B O T T , formerly director of libraries, University of Buffalo, is now curator of special collections and director of libraries emeritus. R O B E R T V . A L L E N , formerly senior re- search analyst in the reference department, Library of Congress, is now area specialist (USSR) in the Slavic and central European division. B A R B A R A J. A R M S T R O N G is a staff member of die Engineering Library, University of California, Los Angeles. C O R N E L I A O. B A L O G H is a member of the catalog department, University of California, Los Angeles. R E X F O R D S. B E C K H A M , formerly art and anthropology librarian, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, is now assistant director of libraries for science and technology, Uni- versity of Nebraska. E L E A N O R E B L U E , formerly law librarian, Washburn University, is now law librarian and assistant professor of law, University of Kansas City Libraries. M R S . A R L I N E B O C K , formerly librarian, Montebello (California) School District, is now circulation librarian, Occidental Col- lege, Los Angeles. M R S . I R E N E B R A Y , formerly a member of the Santa Monica Public Library, is now a member of the Institute of Industrial Rela- tions Library, University of California, Los Angeles. N I L S B R I S K A is assistant librarian in the J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 71 acquistions division, Mann Library, Cornell University. K E N N E T H R . B R O W N is reference librarian, Occidental College, Los Angeles. N O R M A N J . B U N K E R , formerly librarian, Ingham County Library, Mason, Michigan, is now librarian, Northern Michigan College, Marquette. L U C Y B U T C H E R , formerly natural and ap- plied sciences librarian, Chico (California) State College, is now a member of the seri- als department, University of California, Berkeley. E L E A N O R E J . C A R M I C H A E L , formerly librar- ian, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapo- lis, is now assistant reference-catalog librar- ian, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. M R S . A . J . C H U R C H M A N , formerly catalog librarian, University of San Diego, is now as- sistant librarian. E L E A N O R C O O K , formerly librarian, Greeley 8c Hanson Library, Chicago, is now head of the undergraduate library, University of British Columbia. J E A N D A Y , formerly with the California State Library, Sacramento, is now a member of the acquisitions department, University of California, Berkeley. M R S . C O N S T A N C E C O L L I N D I C K is librarian in the acquisitions department, Alderman Library, University of Virginia. E D W A R D D O R O is curator of rare books, Northwestern University Library. J O H N T . D O R O S H , recently retired as cura- tor of the Slavic room, Library of Congress, joined the staff of the University of Miami Library, Coral Gables, on October 1, 1960 for three months as consultant to assist in the organization and development of Rus- sian materials. M R S . N E L L I E V O N D O R S T E R , formerly a staff member of Swarthmore College Library, is now cataloger, Oberlin College. K E N N E T H M. D U F F , formerly first assistant in the serials department, University of Penn- sylvania, is now head, reserve book depart- ment. M R S . F L O R E N C E D U N C A N , cataloger, Uni- versity of Kansas City Libraries, is now chief of technical services. M R S . A D E L E E M E R Y is acting head of the catalog department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. L U T H E R H . E V A N S , project director of die Brookings Institution survey of libraries in federal departments and agencies, has been appointed editor of American Documenta- tion. E T H E L M. F A I R , formerly director, New Jersey College for Women Library School, New Brunswick, is now visiting professor of library science, University of Kentucky. R O B E R T E. F E S S E N D E N , formerly a staff member of the Public Library of Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon, is now li- brarian of the Oregon Historical Society. R U B Y F O S T E R , formerly on the staff of the U. S. Air Force Academy Library, is now reference librarian, Colorado School of Mines, Golden. J O S E P H F . G A N T N E R is a member of the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles. A L F R E D G E I M E R is law librarian, University of San Diego. R O B E R T L. G I T L E R , formerly executive sec- retary of the Library Education Division and secretary of the Committee on Accreditation of the ALA, is now consultant and visiting professor, Japan Library School, Keio Uni- versity. D O N A L D D. H E N D R I C K S , formerly assistant chief librarian, Decatur Public Library, is now head librarian, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. F R A N C E S G. H E P I N S T A L L , formerly college librarian, State University Teachers College, Buffalo, is now librarian, Alfred (N. Y.) Uni- versity. J O H N H E R B S T , J R . , formerly on the staff of Kansas City Public Library, is now reference librarian, University of Kansas City General Library. T H O M A S D. H I G D O N , formerly head of the technical processing department, Los Angeles County Medical Association Library, is now a member of the Biomedical Library, Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles. G E R T R U D E H I L L , formerly chief librarian, Museum of New Mixico Library, Santa Fe, 72 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S is now special collections librarian, Arizona State University, Tempe. M R S . E L I Z A B E T H C. H I L L E G A S is administra- tive assistant in the director's office, Univer- sity of Michigan Library. F R E D E R I C K W I L L I A M H O L Z B A U E R is techni- cal librarian, International Business Machine Product Development Library, Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. M R S . J O H A N N A E. H O L Z B A U E R is librarian, International Business Machine Manufactur- ing Engineering Library, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. L E O N A R D C. H Y M E N is a member of the acquisitions department, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles. T H O R K E L J E N S E N , formerly associate li- brarian, Rice Institute, Houston, is now tech- nical librarian, Naval Ordnance Test Station Library, Pasadena. J O H N B . K A I S E R , formerly director of the Newark Public Library (1943-1958), is now executive director of the American Docu- mentation Institute with temporary offices in Washington, D. C. B R I D E T T E K E N N E Y is assistant librarian, Transportation Center Library, Northwest- ern University. W A L T I I E R L I E B E N O W is stack supervisor in the circulation department, University of California, Los Angeles. M R S . M A R T H A M . Low, formerly assistant reference librarian, Colorado State College, Greeley, is now circulation librarian, Colo- rado College, Colorado Springs. A S A G U D R U N A N N M A R G R E T M A L M G R E N , formerly assistant librarian in the Stockholm School of Economics, University of Stock- holm, is now visiting geology librarian, Uni- versity of Kentucky. M R S . C A T H E R I N E M A Y B U R Y , formerly librar- ian, Institute of Public Service, Chapel Hill, and teacher of the public documents course in the University of North Carolina Library School, is now head of the documents de- partment, Wilbur Cross Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs. M R S . M A R G E R Y M . M A Y E R is art librarian, Oberlin College. M R S . S A R A H M I L L E R is senior professional assistant, Library School Library, Columbia University. H E R B E R T R . M I T C H E L L , formerly cataloger, Cornell University, is now professional as- sistant, Avery Library, Columbia University. R O B E R T B. M O O R E , formerly catalog-refer- ence librarian, Kansas State College, Pitts- burg, is now catalog librarian, Jacksonville University, Florida. B A R B A R A L. M O R R I S O N is reference and cat- aloging librarian, DuPont Techincal Library, Wilmington, Del. E U G E N E V . M U E N C H , formerly assistant li- brarian in the science division, University of Nebraska, is now cataloger, New York Uni- versity Medical Center. R O B E R T H. M U L L E R , formerly assistant di- rector, University of Michigan Library, is now associate director. M R S . B A R B A R A M Y E R S is special collections librarian, Occidental College, Los Angeles. E D W A R D N A R K I S , formerly assistant refer- ence librarian, University of Chicago, is now librarian, Business and Economics Library. E L I Z A B E T H P. N I C H O L S , formerly program consultant, Association of Junior Leagues, New York, is now director of library services and trade editor, C. S. Hammond & Com- pany, Maplewood, N. J . T A I S T O J . N I E M I , formerly librarian, North- ern Michigan College, Marquette, is now li- brarian, State University of New York Col- lege for Teachers, Buffalo. O. G E N E N O R M A N , is documents and as- sistant reference librarian, DePauw Univer- sity, Greencastle, Ind. M A R G A R E T N O T H E I S E N , formerly assistant librarian in the science division, World Book Encyclopedia, is now librarian, Argonne Na- tional Laboratory, Lemont, 111. M R S . F L O R E N C E M . O H L A N D , formerly a reference librarian, Newark Public Library, is now cataloger, Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University. M A R Y P H O E B E O P L I N G E R is chief engineer- ing librarian, Douglas Aircraft Company, Charlotte, N. C. W A R R E N S, O W E N S , formerly administrative J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 73 assistant, University of Michigan Library, is now chief divisional librarian. J A M E S M. P E R R I N is order librarian, Col- lege of the Pacific, Stockton, California. R O B E R T P F E I F F E R , formerly a member of the order department, Library of Congress, is now art and anthropology librarian, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. W I L L I A M P H O E N I X , formerly circulation li- brarian, Colorado State College, Greeley, is now acquisitions librarian, University of Kan- sas City Libraries. J A C K R A L S T O N is music librarian, Univer- sity of Kansas City Libraries. S A R A H R E B E C C A R E E D , formerly an assist- ant professor, Florida State University Li- brary School, is now executive secretary of the Library Education Division and secre- tary of the Committee on Accreditation of the ALA. P H Y L L I S A. R I C H M O N D , formerly serials cataloger, University of Rochester, is now supervisor of River Campus science libraries. J A M E S R I D D L E S , formerly a member of the San Diego Public Library, is now reference librarian, College of the Pacific, Stockton, California. H E N R Y S C H E R E R , formerly assistant li- brarian, Midland College, Fremont, Ne- braska, is now head librarian, Lutheran The- ological Seminary, Philadelphia. M R S . D O R O T H Y H O L M E S S C H U L T Z is assist- ant reference librarian, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. M R S . D O R O T H E A S C O T T , formerly head li- brarian, University of Hong Kong, is now assistant to director, Columbia University. W I L L I A M H . O. S C O T T , formerly visiting assistant professor, University of Washington School of Librarianship, is now circulation librarian, Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham. O S C A R A. S I L V E R M A N , chairman of the Eng- lish department, University of Buffalo, has been appointed director of libraries. M R S . L I L L I A N H A R B A U G H S M O K E , formerly acting head librarian, Gettysburg (Pa.) Col- lege, is now head librarian. L O R A I N E S N E A T H , formerlv with the St. Vin- cent's College of Nursing Library, is now a member of the serials section of the acquisi- tions department, University of California, Los Angeles. P A U L H. S P E N C E , formerly social studies li- brarian, Notre Dame, is now assistant di- rector of libraries for social studies, Univer- sity of Nebraska. R . C L I F F O R D S T E W A R T , formerly head of the book selection department, University of Michigan, is now assistant director of the library. P A U L A M. S T R A I N , formerly associated with the reference department, Library of Con- gress, is now librarian of the federal systems division, International Business Machine Corporation, Owego, N. Y. M R S . H E L E N S T R I C K L A N D , formerly a mem- ber of the technology department, Seattle Public Library, is now head of the fisheries- oceanography branch of the University of Washington Library. A R T H U R W . S W A N N is director of libraries, College of the Pacific, Stockton, California. K A N A R D Y L. T A Y L O R , formerly a staff mem- ber of the John Crerar Library, is now li- brarian, U. S. Department of Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare. Y I N G J . T I N G , formerly a cartographer in the engineering center, University of South- ern California, is now a cataloger in the En- gineering Library, University of California, Los Angeles. W A L D E M A R F. T O E N S I N G , formerly librar- ian, Brown and Bigelow, St. Paul, Minn., is now head of the acquisitions department, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. M Y R O S L A V A T O M O R U G , formerly Slavic ref- erence librarian, Library of Congress, is now senior cataloger, Columbia University Li- braries. N A N C Y T O W L E , formerly a member of the serials section of the acquisitions department, University of California, Los Angeles, is now head of the periodicals reading room. E R L E N E T R U E T T is technical librarian, Am- cel Propulsion, Inc., Asheville, N. C. R U T H W A R N C K E , formerly head of the Li- brary Community Project, ALA, is now as- 74 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S sistant professor of library science, Western Reserve University. P E T E R W A R S H A W is a member of the refer- ence department, University of California, Los Angeles. G E N E A. W H I C K E R is librarian, Applied Studies Library of the Conservatory of Music Library, Oberlin College. L E O N W H I T I N G E R , formerly head of the reference department and branch libraries, Auburn University, is now director of li- brary service, Eastern Washington College of Education, Cheney. B A R B A R A W I L S O N , is assistant professor of library science, Montana State College, Boze- man. W I L L I A M R . W O O D S is a member of the Business Administration Library, University of California, Los Angeles. M R S . M A R J O R I E H . W R I G H T , formerly ref- erence librarian, National Library of Medi- cine, is now associate librarian, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska. R O S A L E E I. W R I G H T , formerly chief engi- neering librarian, Douglas Aircraft Com- pany, is now a member of the reference sec- tion of the Engineering Library, University of California, Los Angeles. W I L L I S E. W R I G H T , librarian, Williams Col- lege, has been appointed chairman of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Com- mittee for a three year term. Retirements J E A N N E T T E H . F O S T E R has retired as refer- ence librarian, the University of Kansas City Libraries, after a career of academic librar- ianship, and library school teaching. S A M U E L W. M C A L L I S T E R has retired as as- sociate director of the University of Michi- gan Library. M O N R E O P O T T S , for many years associate librarian, College of the Pacific, Stockton, California, has retired after forty-two years of service. A L B E R T R O Y retired J u n e 30, 1960 as li- brarian of Boston University's College of Business Administration. He is now work- ing part-time as curator of the Boston Uni- versity Philatelic Library which he founded in 1951. Necrology M A R G A R E T M A N N , associate professor emeri- tus of library science, University of Michi- gan, died August 22, 1960 in Chula Vista, California. Miss Mann began her professional career as assistant librarian and instructor at the University of Illinois in 1897. In 1903 she be- came head of the catalog department of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, and in 1919 she was cataloger and classifier at the Engi- neering Society Library in New York. In 1924 she served as first vice president of the American Library Association, and in 1926 she became a staff member of the University of Michigan Library where she worked un- til her retirement in 1938. She held membership in the Bibliographi- cal Society of America, the Association des Bibliotecaires Francaise, and the Michigan Library Association. She was the audior of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs of Juvenile Books (1916), and Introduction to Cataloging and Classification of Books (1930). Miss Mann was an outstanding member of the library profession and those who knew her either personally or through her books will remember her with great respect and admiration. R O L L I N A. S A W Y E R , who died on October 24, 1960, after an illness of several months, had gathered a collection of almost a million volumes during the 33 years he was chief of the Economics Division of T h e New York Public Library. His interests were both in contemporary and antiquarian publications, in each he sel- dom missed securing the enduring, interest- ing and promising publications. His collect- ing of national gazettes, running to more than 200,000 volumes, is one of the extra- J A N U A R Y 1 9 6 1 75 ordinary ventures which were every day prac- tice with him. He was an early believer in microcopy and it was in good part his efforts which led to the commercial publication of the microcopy edition of the British Ses- sional Papers, based, in large part, on the superb set he had accumulated for the Li- brary. During the same years, and until his death, he was Chairman of the Board of Public Af- fairs Information Service. In these years, the PAIS Bulletin found its way into every no- table library in the United States and in many overseas. T h e people who were trained by him, many now in eminent positions, remember his meticulous standards, wide-ranging abili- ties, his alertness, dignity and the truth and wit of his lancet-like remarks. T H E R A P. C A V E N D E R , head of the catalog department at the University of Iowa since 1956, died October 14, 1960. S I R A N G U S F L E T C H E R , director of the Brit- ish Library of Information until his retire- ment in 1941, died August 6, 1960 at the age of 77. R O S C O E R . H I L L , chief of the division of State Department archives until his retire- ment in 1946 and a prominent Latin Ameri- canist, died October 26, 1960. A N N A J A C O B S E N , head of the catalog depart- ment, University of Cincinnati, for many years, died in July, 1960. R E V . A . H O M E R M A T T L I N , S.J., director of libraries, University of Detroit, died Septem- ber 19, 1960. V I O L A A N D E R S E N P E R O T T I , curator of the Snyder Collection of Americana at the Uni- versity of Kansas City Libraries since 1946, died September 9, 1960. How Donors and Collectors Contribute T o a Library's Distinction T h e peculiar function of the special collection may go unrecognized by an even well informed individual. He may scoff at the idea that they can have special signifi- cance. But the scholar is aware of their very great value. By consulting them he finds the materials in one place that he may fail to find even in libraries of several mil- lions of volumes. They contain items that can be found, if found at all, at very few places. Rare books and the rare materials in such collections likewise serve the same purpose. A university library can scarcely alford to secure them out of its always limited funds. It must provide adequate fundamental materials for courses and classes. This often means it must limit its purchases to current editions and facsimiles rather than first editions and originals which, in some way, bring the student into rapport with the author, the creator, in the setting and at the moment that he brought the publication into being. One donor of such materials has expressed the hope that a student brought into intimate contact with the source of his cultural heritage may carry away from his educational experience a richer comprehension of the depth and complexity of the world of which he is a part. A single contact with a Babylonian tablet, an ancient Greek manuscript, or an incunabulum, may cause a whole former civilization to flash before the mind of a student hitherto un- inspired. Without such collections and materials a library may be good, but it can- not be great. They are required to give it depth, completeness, and distinction. University of North Carolina, The Bookmark Number 30, September 1960. 7 6 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S