College and Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries Detroit, Michigan July 3, 1965 THE SIXTY-SIXTH MEETING of the Associa- tion of Research Libraries opened at 2 P.M. with a program session at the McGregor Conference Center of Wayne State Univer- sity. Edward G. Freehafer, director of the New York public library and chairman of ARL, presided. He introduced William S. Dix (Princeton) to report on the Shared Cataloging Program, "a vehicle now hap- pily orbiting around Capitol Hill." This program was given top priority over a year ago, because a major problem of re- search libraries is to have more books cata- loged more promptly than is now possible through the Library of Congress, Mr. Dix, chairman of the Shared Cataloging Commit- tee, said. ARL, in a "unilateral decision" and after considering various alternatives, decided that the answer was a Centralized Cataloging Program, which should be sup- ported by the federal government and which should be carried out by LC. In testi- fying on the Higher Education Act of 1965 in both the House and the Senate, ARL rep- resentatives advocated and LC supported an amendment that would authorize an ap- propriation to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare ( $5 million for the first year) for transfer by the Commissioner of Education to LC to finance the acquisi- tion of more materials of research value and to provide for prompt cataloging (with- in three or four weeks, especially in foreign languages, of receipt of the books) . This suggestion was sympathetically received in both houses. It is now embodied in Part C, Section 231, of Title II of H.R. 9S67, which has been reported favorably by the Commit- tee on Education and Labor; Senator Wayne Morse, chairman of the Subcommit- tee on Education, with other members of the subcommittee joining him, introduced a similar amendment to S. 600, the Senate Higher Education Bill, which is now being considered by the subcommittee in execu- tive session. Some forty thousand cards, representing 532 / the cataloging production of nine libraries during March, have been received for use in the study of shared cataloging being made for ARL by John Dawson (Univer- sity of Delaware), Mr. Dix reported. They will provide the basis for an analysis of the types of cataloging provided for vari- ous categories of publications. Benjamin E. Powell (Duke University), chairman of the Committee on the Center for Research Libraries, which was estab- lished at the invitation of the center to consider its program, organizational struc- ture, and funding, reported on its recom- mendations, which had been discussed with the librarian of Congress and the assistant librarian in advance and, insofar as they affected LC, had been approved in prin- ciple. The committee studied the report of the survey of the center made by Stephen A. McCarthy (Cornell University) and Ray- nard C. Swank (California, Berkeley), and the committee's conclusions were "very preliminary" and highly selective, Mr. Powell emphasized. The Center for Research Libraries, which was created in 1949 as the Midwest Inter- Library Center, in recent years has assumed some of the characteristics of a national agency although the bases of its support have remained primarily regional. Its name was therefore changed to reflect this in- creased scope. "The problems associated with acqUisi- tion, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge, which become more complex every year, are completely familiar to ARL members," Mr. Powell said. "These prob- lems have grown out of the increase in knowledge and the expanding rate of pub- lications; the extension of research interests to include geographic and subject areas of little concern to scholarship prior to the twentieth century; the increase in research and in the number of researchers; and the increase in the urgency of access to informa- tion. Included also is the problem of how to preserve the materials that are now de- teriorating in libraries as well as how best to adapt available machinery and electronic equipment to the needs of research libraries. The Association of Research Libraries 1 533 Solution of these and other problems will require our best efforts and the highest possible degree of cooperation among all research libraries. . . . "If the Library of Congress increases sub- stantially its coverage of the world's litera- ture, and catalogs these materials promptly, its own resources will be strengthened and research libraries generally will be greatly assisted. Then, if these research libraries can agree to share use and ownership of the masses of material that are likely to be little used, including documents, newspapers, and serials of developing countries and retrospective printed records of countries not hitherto included in the teaching and research programs of most universities, the average ARL library will be relieved of a heavy burden and the scope of material available to it increased immeasurably. It is the belief of the committee," Mr. Powell said, "that solution of many of the multi- varied problems facing research libraries lies in this direction and that a center, di- rected by the research libraries of the coun- try, that can extend such services ... as are now provided through the Center for Re- search Libraries, offers advantages that should be explored." The committee gave attention to five areas and suggested a division of responsi- bility between the center and LC. First, under "Resources and Bibliographic Con- trol," the committee felt that LC should enlarge the scope of its acquisitions and provide prompt, cel)tralized cataloging (as Part C, Section 231, of Title II of H.R. 9567, described above, envisions). It should also obtain for the center, from countries lacking an organized book trade, a second copy of research materials, which would serve as a loan copy for the scholarly com- munity. The center should develop collec- tions of currently published materials- retrospective collecting is not anticipated- under good control and should provide speedy, low-cost access to them. It could also reprint or reproduce various types of publications, expand its foreign newspaper microfilm program, and possibly take over such projects as NYPL's Foreign Gazettes Microfilm Program. Second, a national preservation program, which should be supported by federal funds, should be undertaken by LC be- cause in its extensive collection are many of the materials that need to be preserved for the research community. The committee felt that this program should be based on the recommendations that ARL' s Committee on Preservation presented at the 1965 mid- winter meeting and that were adopted in principle. The center could give its atten- tion to assuring that current publications are printed on permanent/durable paper and to testing papers used. Third, in regard to automation, there was "no question but that the Library of Con- gress should be responsible for developing the techniques and standards required for the automation of bibliographic informa- tion." The center might test and evaluate. Fourth, the center should administer the Farmington Plan, and it should consider programs to collect social science machine- readable data now being produced by gov- ernment, business, and universities and to provide bibliographic control over these data. Fifth, in regard to funding the center, the committee felt that major financial sup- port "for any broad program" for CRL had to come from the federal government, with LC, HEW, and the National Science Foun- dation and the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities being pos- sible sources. Nongovernment foundation assistance, as well as support either by member libraries or by higher ARL dues to be passed on to the center "as the operating arm of the association," was also envisioned. No definite pattern of funding or organization was recommended. Discussion brought out the fact that the committee did not think of the center as a federal agency or as a "second" national library, but some found it hard to envision continuing and assured federal support without an official link, for example, as a branch of LC. One participant thought that it was rather arrogant to divide up functions between the center and LC when ARL does not even have an official link with the center, but Mr. Powell stressed that the allocations were for discussion purposes only, and others felt that CRL could render a national service, finding its role in rela- tion to LC. The interest of ARL in the de- velopment of such a program was affirmed by vote. 5341 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965 .. Effective Distribution of Non-GPO Pub- lications" was discussed by Clifton Brock (University of North Carolina). Basing his talk on his article "Implementing the De- pository Law," published in LJ, April 15, Mr. Brock held that, despite major im- provements in the depository system ac- complished since the passage of the 1962 act, non-GPO publications are not reaching the depository libraries, and he expressed doubt that they ever will in substantial numbers as the law is presently written. There are 340 .. departmental plants" and 294 "field plants" producing publications, he said, and only a small portion of them reach libraries through a "chaotic variety of time-consuming, expensive, and problem- atical acquisition methods." Much valuable material is thus produced outside the regu- lar channels to depository libraries. The is- suing agencies can declare such materials "for official use only," or for .. strictly ad- ministrative or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational value," or they may be classified for reasons of national security. Another deterrent to distribution is the fact that the issuing agencies, rather than the Superintendent of Documents, have to bear the cost of depository copies of non-GPO publications. As a solution, Mr. Brock proposed that one copy of each non-GPO publication, except for classified and strictly internal admin- istrative documents, be required to be sent to the Superintendent of Documents, who could in turn, if so directed, send to de- pository libraries microfacsimile copies of those centrally determined to have educa- tional and informational value. The Monthly Catalog would list these non-GPO publica- tions at some increase in the size and cost of the Catalog and the microfacsimiles would also increase the cost to the Super- intendent of Documents, but this cost, he held would be small in proportion to the value of having these publications avail- able throughout the country. The afternoon session closed with reports from the three national libraries. Scott Adams (National Library of Medicine) spoke of the Senate hearings on the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 at which Richard Logsdon (Columbia University) presented testimony for ARL; alleged con- flicts between this bill and Title II of the Higher Education Bill are gradually being resolved. He also reported on HEW's study of the effects of drugs on man, in which NLM will have responsibility for the anal- ysis, through MEDLARS, of chemical com- pounds and their effects on man; the 100th anniversary of John Shaw Billings' coming to NLM's predecessor, the Surgeon Gen- eral's Office; work being done on the his- tory of medicine; and NLM's .. aggressive" program to acquire manuscripts and re- cordings-oral history. NLM is now one- and-a-half years deep in programing for cataloging, he said, and expects that sys- tems work and programing will be com- pleted by September, with production to begin by January 1966. It is expected that a biweekly list of current acquisitions will be produced, that it will be cumulated quar- terly and annually, and that it will serve as the basis of the annual catalog now pro- duced by LC by the shingling method. GRACE (Graphic Arts Composing Equip- ment), which produces upper and lower case and can compose a page in one minute, is being used. No decision has been made yet about distributing catalog cards, but they probably will be distributed. The de- centralization of. the MEDLARS system has begun; Brad Rogers, who has Honeywell equipment, is using the output to supply medical subject headings to the U niver- sity of Colorado medical school and a con- tract has been made with UCLA for re- programing for use on IBM equipment. In June, NLM's Board of Regents approved the next regional center-.. in the Midwest" -and 25-30 other universities have applied for mechanized research capability. Foster E. Mohrhardt (National Agricul- tural Library) reported on the publication of ABLE (Agricultural and Biological Lit- erature Exploitation), a systems study of NAL and its users; the Pesticides Docu- mentation Center, which is NAL's respon- sibility; the publication, over a period of three years, of the dictionary catalog of NAL, 1862-1965, in sixty-eight volumes, which will sell for $952; and a study to see how a mechanized system can help the land-grant colleges. The plans for the new NAL building at Beltsville, to cost $7 mil- lion, have been returned by the Fine Arts Commission "with warm approval for great architectural achievement," Mr. Mohrhardt said. Mter summarizing Congressional action The Association of Research Libraries I 535 on appropriations for LC, progress toward a third library building to be named for James Madison, and some of the projects being handled by computer, such as card division accounts, printing the indexes to the Presidential papers, and the automatic typesetting of the seventh edition of the subject headings list, librarian of Congress Mumford reported on automation at LC, characterizing the year as an extremely ac- tive one and one of progress. It took several months to build a talented information systems specialist staff of five professionals and two clerical assistants, he said in de- scribing each member. In addition, a top- level internal committee, which the librarian himself heads, gives attention to program and policy matters; LGs six special recruits have been assigned to ISS to analyze pres- ent LC operations; and a task force of a cataloger and a reference librarian is work- ing with the supervisory programer and and systems analyst on machine-readable catalog records. The ISS staff has concentrated on two tasks: the development of specifications for automating LC's bibliographic operations and of a standardized format for machine- readable catalog records. The picture of an automated LC given in the King survey team report, Automation and the Library of Congress, is still the best picture and will continue to be used as a guide until its premises are proved untenable, Mr. Mum- ford said. Work has been directed toward drawing a more precise picture of what LC wants to do, what an automated library will look like, how we can accomplish transition to it, and what it will cost. The detailed analysis of operations, begun in February, includes flowcharting operations, analyzing files and catalogs, interviewing staff, and the like. Consultant help will ·be required to complete this analysis. In fiscal 1967, a system to meet requirements will be de- signed, and the next step will be to im- plement parts of the system. Of basic significance, especially to li- brarians, are the data that would be han- dled by the system. At the conference on machine-readable catalog copy held at LC on January 11, the feasibility of distributing such copy as punched cards, magnetic tape, and punched paper was discussed. But first agreement must be reached on what the record will be, both as to bibliographic content and machine format. The task force under the direction of the supervisory pro- gramer is designing a format, and a 110- page preliminary report on it for discussion within LC has been completed. It pinpoints many problems that must be solved before further steps can be taken. Mter review in LC, this report-and others to be issued- will be made available to the library com- munity for comment, the librarian said. LC's approach is somewhat different from that of Lawrence F. Buckland of In- foronics, Inc., which was outlined in The Recording of Library of Congress Biblio- graphical Data in Machine Form. His ap- proach was that catalog card data could be input by formatting so that certain kinds of information are always in specified loca- tions. LC believes that bibliographical data are so diverse and complex that almost every item has to be tagged specifically and that this approach will result in more accurate keypunching than the positional approach. LGs proposed record, however, · includes fixed fields to control certain items for quick searching and variable fields for bibliographic data. Thus the catalog infor- mation can be as long or as short as the book warrants. The librarian referred to work being done on the "California List" and to LC' s hope that, with foundation support, it will be able to study problems involved in dis- tributing machine-readable catalog records and to establish in LC an information cen- ter on automation projects of library inter- est. In closing he stressed once again the library's commitment to automation and the hope that both the association and its in- dividual members would give LC support in this area. The program meeting then adjourned for a social hour and dinner. ARL reconvened for its business session at 7: 30 P.M., with Mr. Freehafer again in the chair. The eve- ning was devoted chiefly to committee re- ports. Gordon Williams ( CRL) gave a "non- report" on the Automation Committee, be- cause Mr. Mumford had covered much of the ground. Di:lvid Kaser (Joint U niver- sity Libraries, Nashville) reported for the Committee on the Revision of the Catalog- ing Code, saying, in essence, that no library will be able to adopt the new code in toto. It would be too expensive. Most will prob- 536 I College & Research Libraries • November, 1965 ably use the new rules_ in establishing new headings and will accept LC cards, which will follow the new rules when new head- ings need to be established but will not change established enb·ies. John H. Moriarty (Purdue University) presented an interim report of three pages of text and twenty-eight charts on "Growth In ARL Libraries, 1950-1980." From the figures reported by fifty-eight libraries (not including LC) eight "composite" libraries were represented, and volumes held, vol- umes acquired, and total library expendi- tures were shown and projected to 1980. The average "composite," for example, held just under 900,000 volumes in 1950-51, while in 1963-64 this figure had risen to 1,490,000 volumes, indicating that the fifty- eight libraries held a total of 86.4 million volumes. The projected size of the average , collection in 1980 would be 2,860,000 volumes, but Mr. Moriarty said that a more realistic figure would be 3,750,000 volumes. A full report is expected late in the summer and will be mailed to ARL members. John Lorenz (director of the Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities, HEW) described the reorganization of the Office of Education, especially as it affects library services, into four bureaus corre- sponding to levels of education: elementary and secondary education; higher education; adult and vocational education, including educational TV and the former Library Services Branch; and a bureau of research. In addition, a national center for educa- tional statistics was created. William N. Locke (Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology) reported on Project Intrex and a five-week planning confer- ence; Mr. Logsdon described the status of the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965; Stephen McCarthy discussed the problem of overhead on government research proj- ects and how libraries could get a fair per- centage; and a number of committee chair- men or their representatives filed reports ranging in coverage from the Farmington Plan to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. The Executive Secretary, James E. Skip- per, reported, among other things, on the Systems Development Corporation's study for COSATI of the structuring of a national library information system, on legislation, and on the fact that he will represent ARL at the Helsinki meeting of IFLA. The chair- man reported that the Board of Directors had approved a special fund, not to exceed $1,000, for use of the ALA Washington Office on matters of mutual interest to ARL and ALA. At the Executive Secretary's re- quest, a visiting committee to survey the secretariat has been authorized. The Board also voted ARL' s thanks to Professor Julian Levi (University of Chicago) for his as- sistance to the association; it approved the exchange of information when the ARL and the Association of College and Research Li- braries have counterpart committees; and it recommended a change in the by-laws to establish the officers of ARL as an execu- tive committee empowered to act between meetings of the Board and the membership, authority that is especially important when legislative developments require prompt action. Mter a vote of thanks to Wayne State University for the excellent arrangements for the conference, the sixty-sixth meeting adjourned. ARL will meet next in Chicago, immediately preceding the ALA Midwinter conference.-Elizabeth E. Hamer. • • STUDENT LIBRARY COMMITTEES (Continued from page 494) while or not. The librarian and the stu- dent members of the committee are the deciding factors in this situation. A stu- dent library committee can be very suc- cessful and helpful to the librarian and the library staff one year and fail the fol- lowing year. If there is no continuity of members on the committee, it can turn out to be an abysmal failure. It appears, however, that the trend over a long period of time has been to find out stu- dent opinion and work with students in ways other than through a student li- brary committee. • • IN THE WINTER OF 1965 a Student Library Committee was established at Oakland Uni- versity, Rochester, Mich. This committee would like to know of similar groups in the United States and effect they have in gear- ing university libraries to the needs of stu- dents and faculty. Responses should be sent to George M. Bailey, executive secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago. SUMMARY OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY STATISTICS: AGGREGATE UNITED STATES, 1959/60-1963/64 Prepared by Theodore Samore, College and University Library Specialist Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education 1959-60 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 1963-641 1. Number of libraries . . . . 1,951 1,975 1,985 2,075 2,140 2. Number of students served (enrollment) 3,402,000 3,610,000 3,900,000 4,345,000 4,800,000 Collections: 3. Number of volumes at end of year 176,721 ,000 189,110,000 201,423,000 215,000,000 228,000,000 4. Number of volumes per student . 51.9 52.4 51.6 49.4 47.5 5. Number of volumes added during year 8,415,000 9,396,000 10,900,000 12,300,000 13,000,000 6. Number of volumes added per student 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.7 7. Number of periodi·cals received . . 1,271,000 1,399,000 1,505,000 1,600,000 1,650,000 8. Number of periodicals per student 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 Personnel: 9. Total (in full-time equivalents) 18,000 19,500 21,100 23,300 24,500 10. Professional personnel . . . 9,000 9,700 10,300 11,200 11,500 11. Professional staff as percentage of total staff 0.50 0.50 0.49 0.48 0.47 12. Ratio of professional staff to students . 1:378 1:372 1:378 1:388 1:401 9,000 9,800 10,800 12,100 13,000 13. Nonprofessional staff . . . . . 14. Number of hours of student assistance 12,062,000 13,204,000 14,161,000 14,519,000 15,000,000 Operating Expenditures: 15. Total (excludes capital outlay) $137,245,000 $158,904,000 $183,700,000 $213,000,000 $229,000,000 16. Expenditures per student . . . . . . $40.34 $44.02 $47.13 $50.95 $47.70 17. Expend. as percentage of total edu. and general expend. 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.5 18. Salaries (personnel not on hourly rate) $72,495,000 $83,782,000 $95,900,000 $113,000,000 $116,000,000 19. Salaries as percentage of oper. expend. 52.8 52.7 52.2 53.3 52.0 20. Wages (at hourly rates of pay) . . $11,680,000 $13,889,000 $15,500,000 $17,000,000 $18,000,000 21. Wages as percentage of oper. expend. 8.5 8.7 8.5 8.2 8.0 22. Books and other lib. materials expend. . $40,760,000 $48,301,000 $56,400,000 $65,000,000 $75,000,000 23. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 29.7 30.4 30.7 30.4 31.0 24. Binding expenditures . . . . . . . $4,852,000 $5,000,000 $6,200,000 $7,000,000 $8,000,000 25. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 3.6 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.5 26. Other operating expenditure . . . . $7,458,000 $7,932,000 $9,700,000 $11,000,000 $12,000,000 27. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 5.4 5.0 5.3 4.7 5.2 t Estimated. When completed data for 1963-64 will represent a much more exact picture of academic library resources since definitions of certain key terms was clarified and strengthened. For details see the Introduction to Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 1969-64, Institutional Data. (OE 15023-64) ""-3 ~ ('\) ~ c., c., 0 ~ ~- <"+-c;· ~ 0 "-+. !l:l ('\) c., ~ ~ ""t ~ ~ ~ & ""t ~ ""t ;· c., .......___ CJ1. w -..). University Libraries Section Bylaws Article I. N arne The name of the Section shall be Univer- sity Libraries Section. Article II. Object The primary object of the Section shall be to advance university librarianship, uni- versity library service, and the development of university libraries. A university is de- fined as an institution of higher learning which offers programs leading to the degree of doctor of philosophy or its equivalent. Article III. Membership Any member of the Association of Col- lege and Research Libraries may elect mem- bership in this Sectien. Article IV. Meetings An annual meeting of the Section shall be held at the time and place of the annual conference of the American Library Associa- tion. Article V. Officers The officers of this Section shall be a chairman, a vice-chairman (chairman elect), and a secretary. The chairman shall serve for one year. The chairman elect shall serve for one year as vice-chairman; at its expira- tion, or upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of chairman, he shall succeed to the office of chairman. The secretary shall serve for three years. Article VI. Steering Committee Sec. 1. Composition. There shall be a Steering Committee consisting of the officers of the Section, the last retiring chairman, and six appointed members. The chairman of the Section shall serve as chairman of the Steering Committee. The appointments shall be made by the chairman. Sec. 2. Terms of Office. ·The appointed members serve for three ·years. The initial members of the committee shall be appoint- ed for terms expiring in different years. Sub- 538/ (AS AMENDED JULY 1965) 4 sequently two new members will be ap- pointed each year. Sec. 3. Powers and Duties. The Steering Committee shall aid the chairman in the development of the activities of the Section. Sec. 4. Quorum. A majority of the mem- bers shall constitute a quorum of the Steer- ing Committee. Article VII. Committees Sec. 1. Authorization. Committees of the Section as a whole shall be authorized by action of the chairman after consultation with the Steering Committee, but establish- ment shall not require action by the Steer- ing Committee. Sec. 2. Standing Committees. Standing committees may be established to consider matters of ·the Section that require con- tinuity of attention by the members. When such a committee is established, its func- tion, name, and size shall be determined. Unless otherwise approved by the Steering Committee, members of standing com- mittees shall be appointed for terms of three years, and may be reappointed for a second but not a third consecutive term; in no case shall a person serve on a committee for more than six consecutive years. Appoint- ments shall be made in such a manner as to provide continuity in membership. Sec. 3. Appointment. The vice-chairman (chairman elect) of the Section shall ap- point committee members to fill the vacan- cies due to occur during his term as chair- man; he may name the chairman of each committee or request the committee to elect its own chairman. Special appointments to fill vacancies on committees may be made . by the chairman. Sec. 4. Discontinuance. A committee may be discontinued by the chairman of the Section with the approval of the Steering Committee. Article VIII. Nominations and Elections Candidates for elective office in the Sec- tion shall be presented by the Nominating University Libraries Section Bylaws 1 539 Committee, appointed by the chairman for a one-year term. Other nominations may be submitted in writing by any ten members and shall be filed with the secretary. Any such nominations shall be included in the official ballot. No candidate shall be pre- sented who has not consented in writing to his candidacy. Elections shall be conducted by mail ballot. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be regarded as elected. Article IX. Vacancies Sec. 1. Chairman. If the offices of both chairman and vice-chairman become vacant within the same year, the Steering Com- mittee shall designate one of its members to act as chairman until a chairman is duly elected. At the next election, two candidates shall be elected, one to take the office of the chairman immediately and to serve for one year, the other to serve as vice-chairman (chairman elect) . Sec. 2. Vice-Chairman. If the office of vice-chairman becomes vacant, two candi- dates shall be elected at the next election, one to take the office of chairman immedi- ately and to serve for one year, the other to serve as vice-chairman (chairman elect) . Sec. 3. Steering Committee. If an ap- pointed member of the Steering Committee resigns, the chairman shall appoint a suc- cessor to complete the unexpired term, the appointment being subject to the approval of the rest of the committee. Sec. 4. Secretary. If the office of secretary becomes vacant, a secretary shall be elected at the next election for a three-year term. A member of the Steering Committee shall be appointed by the chairman to serve as interim secretary until the election has taken place. Article X. Amendments Sec. 1. Proposals. Amendments to the By- laws may be proposed by any committee of the Section or by petition signed by ten members of the Section. Proposed amend- ments shall be presented in writing to the chairman. Sec. 2. Voting. The Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the mem- bers present and voting at any given meet- ing of the Section. • • Junior College Book List ]AMES W. Pmm, librarian at the Charles Stewart Mott library in Flint, Mich., has accepted appointment as editor of the Junior College Book List, planned for publi- cation by the American Library Association. The publication, when completed, will include fifteen thousand titles selected for the liberal arts program of junior colleges. ACRL Grants Program AN ADDITIONAL GRANT of $25,000 has been received f~om the U.S. Steel Foundation for the 1965/ 66 program, for distribution to emerging institutions of the Southern states. Eligible institutions have been contacted by the ACRL Committee on Grants. Announcements of institutions receiving grants will be made in CRL, January 1965 (See also CRL, September 1965, p. 443) • • At last. A quality Microfilm Reader for only $100. We've been in a ridiculous position for years. Many librarians are eager to build a microfilm collection. And we're the largest supplier of microfilm copies of everything from doctoral dissertations to rare out-of- print books. 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DoROTHY BENDIX, associate professor of library science at Drexel Institute would appreciate receiving copies of acquisition policies from any academic libraries that have prepared them. The UNIVERSITY OF HousTON has ac- quired a collection of nine hundred Latin American plays from Willis Knapp Jones of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. University of Houston recently acquired the Ballinger Mills collection of about five thousand volumes for its law library, the gift of Mr. Mills. The collection of early American state reports and English law of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was supplemented by the letterpress books for the law firm, dating from 1840 to 1907. AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS INDIANA UNIVERSITY libraries announces the continuation of a program to give in- tensive instruction to prospective rare book librarians. Two fellows will be selected for a study program using the facilities and collections of the Lilly library. Fellows will remain in residence in Bloomington, Ind., from July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1967. Each will receive a stipend of $5,000 for the twelve-month period. Applications must be received in Bloomington on or before March 15, 1966, and appointments will be made on or before May 1. Requests for ap- plication forms may be addressed to Cecil K. Byrd, Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 47405. The FRANCIS A. CoUNTW AY library has been given $5,000 toward the Aesculapian reading room by the Executive Committee of the Harvard Aesculapian Club. Aescula- pian members throughout the United States have contributed nearly $132,000 of a pro- 542 / jected $163,000 needed to endow and equip the room. The BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SociETY (London) has awarded its Gold Medal posthumously to William Alexander Jackson, former li- brarian of Harvard University's Houghton library of rare books and manuscripts. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY school of medi- cine has been granted funds for training biomedical librarians in computer technolo- gy and applications to biomedical litera- ture, contingent upon passage of the budget by Congress. The grant by the National Library of Medicine will start on January 1, 1966, and continues for five years. Three students a year will be enrolled, and will receive a stipend of $5,500 per year. Irwin H. Pizer, during the planning and recruit- ing stage, will be half-time director while he is finishing his course work at the Uni- versity toward the PhD in medical history. Mr. Pizer developed the computer-based serial system at Washington, and is now librarian of the Upstate Medical Center library, State University of New York, Syracuse. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY school of medi- cine has been granted $45,000 by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation for expan- sion of library holdings, which will be used to purchase back issues of scientific journals. The LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY PROJECT · has been granted $15,000 for the detailed planning of a three-volume manual on the preservation and restoration of books and other library materials by the Council on Library Resources. One volume is en- visioned as dealing with the care and re- pair of ordinary volumes, a second volume devoted to rare books, and the third volume to conservation of other types of materials collected by libraries. Planning is expected to require a year. A GRANT OF $7,931 TO ALA to forward completion of its Catalog Code project was made by the Council on Library Resources. The Code is expected to be ready for publi- cation in December. The J. MoRRIS JoNEs-World Book En- cyclopedia-ALA Goals Award for 1966/67 has been announced by the Executive Board of ALA. It is available in support of programs which implement the ALA Goals for Action, to all units of ALA including chapters, for amounts up to the total of $25,000 for the year. Applications are in- vited. SCHOLARSHIPS IN SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP are offered for 1966/ 67 by the Special Li- braries Association, for graduate study at an accredited library school. Application forms may be obtained from the Special Libraries Association, 31 East lOth St., New York 10003, and must be received by the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Committee at the above address by Feb. 1, 1966. The AMERICAN STANDARDS AssociATION has received $2,130 toward support of a meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in November to discuss international standardization of library statistics, from the Council on Library Resources. BUILDINGS OccuPANCY of the new library at South- em Colorado State College is planned for Christmas-vacationtime this year. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY has named an ad hoc committee for planning a new medi- cal library building. The committee will probably continue to exist as a group to provide advice and counsel to the archi- tects; Robert B. Austin, formerly deputy librarian, has agreed to act as consultant for the new building. NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY at Washington Square will break ground for a new $17,- 500,000 library building next year. A test wall, some 30 feet wide by 40 feet high, was erected at the proposed site of the new building this autumn. The new structure will have space for two million volumes and seating for thirty-five hundred students. RoBERTS WESLEYAN CoLLEGE's new li- brary was opened for service on May 13, and dedicated on Oct. 10. The North Chili, N.Y., college library will seat three hundr.ed fifty and accommodates one hundred thou- sand volumes. ADELPHI UNIVERSITY has a new two-story library building to house one hundred seventy-five thousand volumes and seat four hundred fifty readers. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY's new library build- ing will be a ten-story stack tower flanked at its base by interlocking pavillions housing News from the Field I 543 catalog room, circulation desk, reference and periodical rooms, staff and technical processing areas. The library site is a sunken court about five feet below ground level. Stacks will house the present collection of four hundred thousand volumes with ex- pansion space for twice that number; there will be seating provision for twelve hun- dred persons. The new .library on the old (South) campus will be connected with a projected student center on the new (North) campus by a covered double-cantilever foot- bridge spanning Hempstead Turnpike. The RANDOLPH-MACON WoMAN's CoL- LEGE library in Lynchburg, Va., is in proc- ess of a $1,098,000 expansion and renova- tion program. Contracts will be let in De- cember for increasing book capacity to two hundred thousand volumes, and provide seating for half the student body. A NEW EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE CoLLEGE library is expected to cost more than $2,000,000; bids were opened in August by the State Education Department. THE UNIVERSITY OF HousTON began con- struction of an addition to theM. D. Ander- son memorial library in July. The new addi- tion, at a cost of some $3,300,000, is ex- pected to provide space for almost one mil- lion volumes and . two thousand student seats including 404 graduate study carrels. The 126,000 sq. ft. addition is planned for completion by early 1967. MEETINGS, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS A LIBRARY-COLLEGE WORKSHOP at James- town (N.D.) College is being planned for Dec. 18-21. The invitational conference will emphasize preparation of a statement of an ideal design for a library-college, in mod- erate detail. DREXEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'S graduate school of library science is offering a seminar in search strategy during the fall, winter, and spring quarters of this academic year. The course, surveying the field of in.:. formation science, will be directed by Mrs. Claire K. Schultz. The Jewish Library Association in coop- eration with Drexel Institute of Technology graduate school of library science, is spon- soring a seminar on synagogue librarianship starting Oct. 26, and continuing for six consecutive Tuesday evenings. 544 1 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965 A COMPROMISE VERSION of the Higher Ed- ucation Act of 1965 (HR 9567) passed both Houses of Congress on Oct. 20, and is now awaiting President Johnson's signature. However, no funds were appropriated to implement Title II, providing for library programs. Hopefully, funds will be appro- priated early in 1966. For a copy of the con- ference report (House Report 1178) on the Higher Education Act, write to the House Document Room, U.S. Capitol. MISCELLANY HoovER INSTITUTION of Stanford Univer- sity has established a project for cataloging by computer the material garnered from the late Herbert Hoover's files of the American Relief Administration. The project uses key- word classifications and is in charge of Mrs. Rita Campbell; at present it is "holding for funds." The FIRST SIX VOLUMES ( 1958-64) of the Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law have been cumulated and bound and is now available to subscribers for $15; to nonsubscribers or subscribers beginning with volume 8 for $25. The cumulation in- cludes an author index, a subject index and a list of all periodicals indexed. It is avail- able from Stanford University Law Li- brary, Stanford, Calif. 94305. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION SCHEDULES, Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Con- gress, and its supplements, and L.C. Classi- fication-Additions and Changes will be dis- tributed by the Library of Congress' card division beginning Nov. 1. Orders after that date should be addressed to the Card Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, D.C. 20541. Subscriptions currently in effect will con- tinue in force until they expire. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY's library school is making a study of the feasibility of centralized record systems in Florida's junior college libraries. The study will deal with the practicality of preparing junior college records with the aid of data process- ing equipment, and will involve nineteen colleges. A REVISED EDITION of National Inventory of Library Needs is now available from ALA for $2 per copy. A NINETEEN PAGE AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX to the published volumes of Fliigge Handbuch der Physik has been compiled by the Lincoln Laboratory library, M.I.T., Lexington, Mass. 02173. Requests for the index should be sent to Loyd Rathbun at the above address. MoNTANA STATE CoLLEGE, Bozeman, changed its name to Montana State Uni- versity at Bozeman on July 1. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEw YoRK has announced a library cataloging project to correlate resources throughout its fifty-eight member colleges and centers: The Upstate Medical Center library at Syracuse has been awarded $16,000 to finance the first phase of cataloging. Irwin H. Pizer and Terrence J. Hoverter will direct the project, the compilation of a union list of periodicals and other current materials received each year by more than half of the colleges and centers. This will enable the university to determine what new resources are needed, and will clear the way for weeding of in- complete collections and for regrouping holdings. The initial phase is expected to include publication by February of a 350- page checking list of twelve thousand titles. The project looks toward doubling of library holdings by 1970, and a system of inter- library loans. The UNIVERSITY OF HousTON library has released a catalog of its W. B. Bates col- lection of Texana and Western Americana. Copies are available from the library. Abstracting Services in Science, Technol- ogy, Medicine, Agriculture, Social Sciences, and Humanities (The Hague: International Federation for Documentation, 1965) is FID publication 372; viii + 320p. The list was published in August and provides de- tailed information, with particular atten- tion to sub-editions, on abstracts journals and card services. It is available (from the publisher) for 25 Dutch guilders-approx- imately $7. •• ACRL Membership on September 30, 1965 was 9,497. Membership on Octo- ber 30, 1964 was 8,599. Section and Subsection membership information will be published in the January issue. Additional ACRL, Section & Subsection Appointments The ACRL Committee on Appointments ( 1966) and Nominations ( 1967) includes G. Flint Purdy, chairman; Charles M. Ad- ams, University of North Carolina, Greens- boro; Miss Marion B. Grady, Ball State Uni- versity; John F. Harvey, Drexel Institute of Technology; J. Elias Jones, Drake Univer- sity; Samuel F. Lewis, University of Wis- consin Center System; William V. Nash, University of Utah; and Kathryn R. Renfro, University of Nebraska. The Local Arrangements-1966 New York Conference Committee is chaired by Morris A. Gelfand, Queens College; Hum- phrey G. Bousfield, Brooklyn College; Ben C. Bowman, University of Vermont (librar- ian-designate of Hunter College); Mother Mary de Montfort, College of New Ro- chelle; Rice Estes, Pratt Institute; D. Nora Gallagher, Adelphi University; Esther Greene, Bernard College; Joseph T. Hart, Fordham University; Bernard Kreissman, City College of New York; Ellsworth G. Mason, Hofstra University; Roscoe Rouse, State University of New York, Stony Brook; and Brother Alexander F. Thomas, Ion a College, are committee members. Membership Committee's Junior College Libraries Section representative is Betty J. Harrison, Marshalltown (Iowa) Community College. Helen Paragamian is a member of the ACRL National Library Week Commit- tee. Gustave A. Harrer, Boston University; and Archie L. McNeal, University of Mi- ami, are members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Research. Harriett Genung, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, Calif., is a mem- ber of the Standards Committee and E. Wal- fred Erickson was reappointed to the com- mittee. The Program Committee, 1966 New York Conference, will have Helen M. Brown as chairman; Morris A. Gelfand, and Eileen Thornton, Oberlin College, as members. Foster E. Mohrhardt, National Agricul- tural Library, has accepted reappointment as ACRL representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The College Libraries Section Ad Hoc Com- mittee on Community Use of Academic Librar- ies includes Barbara LaMont. The Section's Committee on Non-Western Resources num- bers Evan Ira Farber among its members; Anne C. Edmonds, Mount Holyoke College, is this year's chairman. The Nominating Commit- tee for the section is chaired by Roger C. Greer, State University of New York at Pots- dam; H. Joanne Harrar, Luella R. Pollock, James H. Rogers, and Elizabeth Simkins are committee members. The Junior College Libraries Section Stan- dards and Criteria Committee has as a member Elizabeth A. Martin. The Rare Books Section Committee on Local Arrangements Chairman is J. Melvin Edelstein, New York University; Herbert T. Fuller Cahoon is a committee member. Chairman of the sec- tion Nominating Committee is Newton F. McKeon, Jr., Amherst College; committee mem- bers are Donald B. Engley, and Denton H. Wilcox. The Program Committee Chairman, 1966 New York Conference, is Marcus A. Mc- Corison, American Antiquarian Society, and Edwin Wolf, II, is a committee member. The Nominating Committee for the Subject Specialists Section includes Andrew Turchyn, Indiana University, chairman; Janet Louise Markel and Helen M. Nebenthau as members. The Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sub- section Nominating Committee Chairman is John H. Moriarty, Purdue University; commit- tee members include Robert W. Gerhardt and Mrs. lola R. Stoehlein. Mrs. Kathryn Blackwell was elected vice chairman and chairman-elect of the Art Sub- section; Mrs. Marie D. Peck, St. Paul public library, was elected secretary of the subsection. The Law and Political Science Subsection Nominating Committee this year includes Chair- man Gerritt E. Fieldstra, Anthony P. Grech, and Howard Haycraft. The subsection's Ad Hoc Planning Committee is chaired by Robert C. Miller, Marquette University; members are Janet M. Rigney and Jane Wilson. The Nom- inating Committee of the Slavic and East European Subsection Chairman is Mrs. Eliza- beth Nebehay, United Nations Dag Hammer- skjold library; committee members include S. L. Jackson and Mrs. Helene Reshetar. The University Libraries Section's Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Status has new mem- bers Leslie W. Dunlap, Carl W. Hintz, and W. Porter Kellam; Lewis C. Branscomb, Ohio State University, is again chairman. Nominat- ing Committee for the section includes Mar- jorie E. Karlson, Washington University, St. Louis, as chairman; John P. McDonald and Joseph H. Reason. New members of the ULS Research and Development Committee are Earl Farley, David W. Heron, and George Piternick; Gustave A. Harrer is chairman again this year. Newly appointed members of the Steering Com- mittee are Ben C. Bowman and Basil Stuart- Stubbs. New members of the Urban University Libraries Committee, of which Lorena Gar- loch remains as chairman are Mark M. Gorm- ley, Edward G. Holley, David C. Weber, and William L. Williamson. 545 APPOINTMENTS HARRIETT DYER ADAMS has been ap- pointed assistant librarian of the graduate school of public affairs, State University of New York, Albany. JAMES A. ALLEN is director of Larson li- brary, Little Rock (Ark.) University. MRs. MARLENE ALLISON is an assistant librarian in technical services at State Uni- versity of New York, Albany. IsABELLE T . ANDERSON became librarian of the Barrow Neurological Institute of St. Joseph's hospital, Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 1. SusAN APLIN joined the reference staff of University of California library, Santa Barbara on Sept. 1. MRs. BARBARA ARo is now binding li- brarian, Washington University, St. Louis. MRs. MARTHA AvERY has been appointed to the serials department staff of the Uni- versity of California library, Berkeley. FRANCES BANKO is now a member of the library acquisitions staff at City College, New York. RUDOLF BART has joined the staff of the UCLA library to catalog Near Eastern publications. VICTOR A. BASILE is the new chemistry librarian at Indiana University. RoDMAN BAssEIN is the new serials cata- loger in Rush Rhees library, University of Rochester. MRs. ALICE BAUER assumed the duties of head of the catalog department in the Uni- versity of Cincinnati library on Sept. 1. GLADYS H. BEAN has been appointed hu- manities librarian of University of Arizona, Tucson and joined the staff on Sept. 1. ANN BRISTOW BEL TAN is now assistant documents librarian at Indiana University. GEORGIANE K. BENTZLER is librarian of the Marshfield-Wood County center of the University of Wisconsin in Marshfield. WILLIAM BERGERON has been appointed administrative intern in the UCLA librar- ian's office. MRs. REGINA BERNEIS has joined the staff of Western Michigan University's de- partment of librarianship laboratory library, Kalamazoo. 546 / Personnel MRs. SuE BIELAwsKI is chief bibliog- rapher in the Indiana University libraries order department. NEIL S. BoARDMAN is administrative as- sistant to the directors of libraries, Indiana University. LoRISE BoGER is now chief reference li- brarian of West Virginia University, Mor- gantown. MILLER BooRD has been appointed li- brarian of Randolph-Macon Woman's Col- lege, Lynchburg, Va. DAviD BRIGGS joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, reference staff in August. MRs. JEANNE BRINER has accepted the position of bibliographer in University of Arizona library, Tucson. MRs. MARJORIE FERRIER BRISTER is now serials librarian at Montana State Univer- sity, Bozeman. EDWARD H. BROADHEAD is the new direc- tor of Southern Colorado State College li- braries. MRs. CARLENE BROWN is a new mem- ber of the library acquisitions department staff at University of California, Berkeley. HARRY W. BRUTON is the new head of the catalog department in Southern Colo- rado State College libraries. MRs. BARBARA D. BRYAN has been named assistant director of libraries at Fairfield University (Conn.) . LAURETTA BucK is assistant serials cata- loger in Southern Illinois University library, Carbondale. CYNDA Lou BuxTON became business administration librarian in University of Denver in September. MARGARET CAPRON became a member of the library staff at University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara, in the serials and cataloging departments. KELLEY CARTWRIGHT has joined the staff of the Institute of Library Research, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. TERRENCE W. CASSIDEY is assistant order librarian at Indiana University. MRs. GERALDINE CoHEN became research assistant in machine methods at Washing- ton University school of J;Dedicine library, St. Louis, in September. EDwARD CoLLINS has joined the catalog staff of Western Michigan University, Kala- mazoo. MRs. HELGA CoPE has joined the central serials record division of the City College library, New York. MRs. MINA CRAIS is cataloger at Sibley music library, Eastman school of music, University of Rochester. ALICE CREIGHTON is history of medicine librarian, University of Rochester school of medicine and dentistry. THOMAS L . CRYSTAL, JR., is the new Latin American bibliographer in the re- sources and development program at Stan- ford University libraries. MRs. GERALD F. DINGMAN is now assist- ant librarian of Bates College, Lewiston, Me. SANFORD DoRBIN was named to the ac- quisitions staff of University of California, Santa Barbara library. ELEANORE C. DowLING has been ap- pointed music cataloger, Washington Uni- versity libraries, St. Louis. RAY DROLSOM is now serving as catalog librarian in Joint University libraries, Nash- ville. NoRMAN DUDLEY has been named head of the acquisitions department in UCLA library. KARIN A. EcKELMEYER is a new member of the catalog division, Stanford University libraries. THOMAS EITINGON has become a library cataloger at the City College, New York. JIM R. ELKOUlU has joined the catalog division of Stanford University libraries. C. JoHN EscHELBACH has joined the staff of Foothills College library, Los Altos Hills, Calif. RussEL EvANS is assistant cataloger at Wisconsin State University library, La- crosse. STEPHEN S. A. FAUNCE accepted the position of assistant to the librarian, Wash- ington University school of medicine, St. Louis, and began work on Sept. 20. GILBERT G. FITES became librarian at Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, Okla., on Sept. 21. RICHARD FREDELL has been named as- sistant to the director, Washington Uni- versity libraries, St. Louis. Personnel 1 547 RUDOLPH H. GJELSNESS joined the staff of University of Arizona library, Tucson, as chief special collections librarian. DoROTHY GRAHAM has returned to UCLA library and will be in the catalog depart- ment. ELIZABETH GRAVES became librarian of the Rotch library of architecture and plan- ning on Oct. 25. RoBERT W. GREENWOOD is now assistant director for technical services and head of the acquisitions department of Tulane Uni- versity library, New Orleans. ANTHONY HALL has been named director of library systems analysis and development in UCLA library. FREDERICK A. H. HALL was named bibli- ographer for Latin American and Iberian history and literature in Newberry library, Chicago; he assumed his duties on July 16. AMANDA HARMON has joined the refer- ence department staff of Rush Rhees library, University of Rochester. HELEN HEALY has joined the library staff of the Educational Resources Center, West- em Michigan University, Kalamazoo. MARTIN HELGESON is now a member of the library's catalog division, City College, New York. CAROLYN HEsSELMEYER joined the Uni- versity of South Florida staff on July 1 as assistant reference librarian. MRs. LUTIE HIGLEY is the new chief public services librarian of University of Arizona, Tucson. CARL W. HINTZ, University of Oregon librarian, assumed the additional duties of director of libraries, Oregon State System of Higher Education, on July 1. MRs. MARGARET C. RoUT is a new mem- ber of the technical services library staff at State University of New York at Albany. JosEPH HowARD has been named chief of the catalog department, Washington University libraries, St. Louis. TsAI Hsu has been named reference li- brarian at Montana State University, Boze- man. CHUNG-KAI HuANG is the Asian librarian, Rush Rhees library, University of Rochester. WASYL HucuLAK has accepted the posi- tion of assistant cataloger on the library staff of Southern Illinois University, Car- bondale. 548 1 C allege & Research Libraries • November, 1965 MARGARET E. HuGHES has been named head librarian of the University of Oregon medical school. PmLIP IMROTH became a cataloger in the University of Denver libraries last spring. RICHARD M. JOHNSON is the librarian of the Manitowoc County center, University of Wisconsin. RoBERT D. JoHNSON has joined the staff of Foothill College library, Los Altos Hills, Calif. ELAINE MARIA KEEBLER is mathematics- astronomy-physics librarian of Indiana Uni- versity. J. GoRDON KENEFICK is now associate librarian, Yale University. SHAKE KESHKEKIAN is newly appointed to the catalog division of Stanford Uni- versity libraries. MRs. PRISCILLA KmsHBAUM joined the reference staff of University of Denver li- braries in September. WILLIA¥ H. KNEEDLER has been ap- pointed assistant librarian in charge of ac- quisitions, New York City Community Col- lege. BERTRAM H. KNousE has been named assistant librarian, State University College, Geneseo, N.Y. EvELYN M. KocHER is chief catalog li- brarian of West Virginia University, Mor- gantown. AKE I. KoEL has been appointed head of technical services in Hamilton College li- brary, Clinton, N.Y. ELFRIEDA LANG was appointed curator of manuscripts at Lilly library, Indiana Uni- versity, effective July 1. ANNETTE LEE is now gifts librarian of Indiana University. Jumm LEONDAR has been named to the staff of the newly-established Bureau of Information Sciences Research at Rutgers. SAMUEL F. LEWIS is the new associate director of the University of Wisconsin Center System libraries. THOMPSON M. LITTLE becomes associate director of library services, Hofstra Uni- versity, Hempstead, L.I., N.Y. , on Nov. 1. JoHN B. Lro has been appointed Oriental studies librarian of University of Arizona, Tucson. JOSEPH D. LowE is the new librarian in the Far East library, University of Wash- ington, Seattle. MATr P. LowMAN, II, has been named curator of rare books and assistant head of special collections at Newberry libmry, Chicago. CAMDEN McCoNNELL has been in charge of reserve book service at University of California, Santa Barbara, since July 12. SusAN McEwAN has accepted the posi- tion of assistant cataloger in University of South Florida library, effective Sept. 7. CAROLYN McMILLEN has been named serials librarian at Michigan State Universi- ty, East Lansing. MRs. BERTHA MAKOW has joined the staff of the UCLA biomedical library. MRs. SHERRILL MANN was appointed to the catalog staff of the University of Cali- fornia library, Santa Barbara, on July 11. CARLOS E. MARRERO is assistant in the education-psychology division library, South- ern Illinois University, Carbondale. VIRGINIA LowELL MAUCK has been named assistant curator of manuscripts, Lilly li- brary, Indiana University. RoBERT W. MAUTNER is chief science librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson. MRs. SYLVIA MERRITT is newly appointed to the circulation and reference staffs of UCLA law library. RoY M. MERSKY on Sept. 1 assumed the position of law professor and director of research, which includes responsibility of the law library, at University of Texas, Austin. AGNES METZLER is now administrative assistant to the director, Tulane University library, New Orleans. JAMES T. MICHNA has been named as- sistant to the director, Center System li- braries, University of Wisconsin. PAUL MILES will serve during the coming year as director of a library liaison center in Santiago, Chile; to coordinate many of the functions of the cooperative program of the universities of Chile and California. THEODORA MILLS is now Slavic cataloger in Rush Rhees library, University of Roch- ester. MYRNA JEAN MoRTON has joined the ac- quisitions department staff at Ohio Wes- leyan University library. RoBERT F. M UNN, director of libraries, West Virginia University, Morgantown, has been named assistant provost of the uni- versity. He will continue to serve as li- brary director. DAVID NEVIN is the new chief of the audio-visual department, Washington Uni- versity libraries, St. Louis. ELMER J. O'BRIEN has been named as- sistant librarian, Garrett Theological Sem- inary, Evanston, Ill. LE RoY D. 0RTOPAN has been named chief of cataloging in University of Wiscon- sin library on Sept. 1. WILLIAM OsuGA has been made head of the interlibrary loans section of the UCLA library's reference department. THOMAS F. PARKER has joined the UCLA library's reference department staff. HUlBERT PAUL accepted appointment ef- fective Aug. 16 as acquisition librarian, University of Oregon. MARY Jo PETERSCHMIDT has been ap- pointed to the undergraduate library staff of the University of Washington, Seattle. DAVID PICCA joined the acquisitions staff of University of California, Santa Barbara library, on June 14. DoNALD M. PowELL has been appointed assistant university librarian of University of Arizona, Tucson. DELORES ANN PRITCHARD has returned to the library staff of the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara, and is assigned to the reference department. LoUISE G. PRITCHARD joined the staff of the University of Arizona, Tucson, as inter- library loan librarian, on Aug. 1. MRs. ELLEN PuGH is associate cataloger for foreign monographs in Rush Rhees li- brary, University of Rochester. ARMANDO RE is the new assistant li- brarian for technical services in the State College at Salem (Mass) . ARNE RICHARDS is now documents li- brarian, Kansas State University, Manhat- tan. OLIVE L. RoBERTS is now director of Norton library, Louisiana College, Pineville. KATHERINE RYAN began work in Foothill College library, Los Altos Hills, Calif., in September. Personnel I 549 MRs. LucY SALVIA joined the catalog department of University of California li- brary, Santa Barbara, in August. CATHERINE NICHOLSON SCHLICTING has joined the reference department staff of Ohio Wesleyan University library. JANET F. ScHMIDT has been named li- brarian of the Marathon County center of University of Wisconsin, Wausau. MoNICA M. ScHNEIDER has been appoint- ed librarian of the Fox Valley center, Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Menasha. RoGER E. ScHWENN is now director of the Center System libraries, University of Wisconsin, Madison. ADA M. SELTZER joined the staff of the University of South Florida on Aug. 1, as assistant reference librarian. MRs. JANICE H. SHAwL has been ap- pointed to the staff of the UCLA library's catalog department. RALPH M. SHOFFNER has been named to the staff of the Institute of Library Re- search at University of California, Berkeley. ELIZABETH A. SHOUGHRO has been named assistant director for reader services and science librarian, Tulane University, New Orleans. MRs. MILDRED SIMMONS has been ap- pointed elementary school librarian in the Peabody demonstration school, Nashville. DAVID R. SMITH is a newly-appointed reference librarian at UCLA. JoHN B. SMITH was named assistant law librarian at Columbia University, effective July 1. KLAUS SPEER has joined the staff of Sib- ley music library of ' Eastman school of music, University of Rochester, and will be working with the rare book collection and assisting graduate students. AL SQUILLANTE assumed his duties as law librarian of the University of Denver in September. JANE STEVENS is the new head of the order department, Tulane University li- brary, New Orleans. MRs. TAMARA STRUBEL has joined the catalogin~ staff of Rush Rhees library, Uni- versity of Rochester. GEORGE R. SwANSON has joined the ref- erence staff of Montana State University li- brary, Bozeman. 550 1 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965 JANICE L. THOMPSON is map librarian at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. ANN TuPPER has ·joined the technical services staff of State University of New York at Albany, as assistant librarian. ANTHONY H. VAUGHAN is a new member of the reference staff, University of Cali- fornia library, Santa Barbara. MRs. SALLY S. WACH was appointed on Sept. 1 to the staff. of the biology library, University of California, Berkeley. ELEANOR WEDGE is the new fine arts librarian at Indiana University. JAMES M. WHITEHEAD is the new science librarian, University of Colorado, Boulder. MRs. ALICE WILKINS joined the staff of Joint University libraries, Nashville, this autumn, as catalog librarian. BERNARD WILSON became head of the processing department, Newberry library, Chicago, in July. BETTY RuTH WILSON is the new assistant 8 & T's office and warehouse at Hillside, N.J. THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO. Oldest and Largest Exclusive Book Wholesaler ' HILLSIDE MIDWEST AND SOUTHERN DIVISION NEW JERSEY MOMENCE, ILLINOIS B & T's new Midwest and Southern Division, Momence, 111. cataloger in the libraries of Southern Il- linois University, Carbondale. MRs. EvA B. WINTER has been appointed serials librarian of Pennsylvania Military College, Chester. ALLEN WYNNE became assistant acquisi- tions librarian at Colorado State University on July 1. WENDELL A. YEATTS, JR., has been ap- pointed senior assistant librarian and head of the data processing department of the University of Missouri library. MRs. MARTHA YouNG, formerly of the H. W. Wilson Company, is now a library cataloger at the City College, New York. NECROLOGY MRs. FANNIE HENDRIE, staff member of the library for 36 years at Drexel Institute of Technology, died on Sept. 2. MoRTIMER TAUBE, chairman of the board of Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Md. , died on Sept. 3. RETIREMENTS ANN BINFIELD, after 19 years of service to Pueblo College and its successor South- ern Colorado State College, retired as col- lege librarian at the end of June. WILLIAM H. CARLSON retired as librarian of Oregon State University and director of libraries, Oregon State System of Higher Education, at the end of June. MRs. MABEL J. ERLER retired Aug. 1 as head of the order department, Newberry library, Chicago, after 37 years of service. RuTH GRIERSON retired this past summer as librarian of Lycoming College, Williams- port, Pa. BERTHA HALLAM has become librarian emeritus after heading the library of Uni- versity of Oregon medical school for the past 46 years. MRs. AnELHEID GERTRUD LADEWIG, head of technical services in Hamilton College library, Clinton, N.Y., for the past 19 years, retired this summer. DoRIS REED, curator of manuscripts at Lilly library, Indiana University, retired on June 30. FRANCIS WRIGHT retired on Aug. 31 from her position as assistant director of libraries at Drexel Institute of Technology. They Say About cHOICE: BOOKS FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES • "A study of the first five numbers of CHOICE shows clearly that the annota.- tions are of a high grade-critical, inform.- ative, and authoritative. A special effort has been made, where feasible, to judge a title in relation to the other literature in the same field . This feature alone is valu, able to the librarian, for it enables him to review quickly his own holdings. . . . The first five issues contain a series of informa, tive editorials on the whole problem of current book selection in the college library as well as an excellent discussion of avail, able tools for assessing one's holdings . ... An indispensably useful current book se.- lection guide for college libraries. The more limited the library budget, the more nec.- essary is CHOICE." "A Splendid Choice" by Rev. Francis A. Small, in Catholic Library World, Vol. 36, No.3, November, 1964. "College libraries have desired and antici, pated a publication which · would continu, ally and systematically update the Shaw list. For current publications this purpose has been admirably fulfilled by CHOICE. ... Although many of the titles reviewed in CHOICE are either upper division or graduate level and therefore not generally needed by the average junior college library, the writer has discovered thn;mgh intensive use of this book selection tool • ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER? • • • that many of the titles reviewed are appropriate for junior college libraries. Therefore CHOICE was decided upon as the means by which to secure a sample of book titles to be tested for this study. Although this publication has been in existence less than one year at the time of the study, sixteen libraries indicated that it was either their first or second choice as a selection aid for current books. ... CHOICE received eleven first place votes as compared with nine first place votes for Library journal." "Processing Center for California Junior College Libraries-A Preliminary Study" by Everett L. Moore, in Library Resources & Tech- nical Services, Vol. 9, No. 3, Summer, 1965. "The creation and operation of a college library service center to act as the pur.- chasing and cataloging agent for a number of small colleges in a given region would effect material savings and increase effi .. ciency. Until such a service center is avai[ .. able, every Negro college library should be assured a subscription to CHOICE, a re.- cently established reviewing journal pre.- pared specifically for college librarians and faculty members.'' The Predominantly Negro Colleges and Uni- versities in Transition by Earl J. McGrath. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965 . • Order from ALA's Subscription Department, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611. $20.00 yearly for initial subscription. Additional copies to the same. address $10.00. Single copies $2.00.