College and Research Libraries News from the Field ACQUISITIONS PACIFIC CoLLEGE (Fresno, Calif.) has acquired the library of Upland College (Calif.), which has terminated operations and merged with Messiah College in Grant- ham, Pa. UNIVERSITY OF NomE DAME has re- ceived a collection of five thousand volumes dealing with the Romance languages, from the family of the late Jeremiah S. M. Ford, Cambridge, Mass. HoFSTRA UNIVERSITY library has ac- quired a collection of some twenty thousand volumes in the field of public affairs from the New York public library, and some thirty-eight thousand out-of-print volumes (the entire stock) of the Ira J. Friedman Company, Port Washington, N.Y. , UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA S class of 1925 has purchased for the university library a 430-volume collection of Lewis Carroll. APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED volumes consisting principally of Slavic and Scandinavian literature from the estate of John B. C. Watkins has been received by the University of Toronto library. AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA school of librarianship and institute of library re- search, Berkeley, offers fellowships and teaching and research assistantships up to $3,000 for graduate study in librarians~ip. Two fellowships for $3,000 each, a teachmg assistantship for $2,750, and six research assistantships for $2,435 and $2,922 for study leading to the PhD are included; also, for study leading to the MLS degree, four research assistantships of $97 4 and one scholarship for $600 are offered. Interested applicants should write to the Dean, .sch~ol of Librarianship, University of Cahfom1a, Berkeley, Calif. 94720. A GRANT of $440,000 by the Old Domin- ion Foundation to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., will be used for additional book stacks for more than one hundred thousand volumes, for one hundred study carrels, and for air conditioning the Watkinson library building. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS library research center has received a grant of $12,250 to conduct a survey of library research and reference sources in the North Country area of New York state. The North Country library system, Watertown, and the Cl~ton­ Essex-Franklin library system, Plattsburgh, will sponsor the study on behalf of the North Country Reference and Research Council. The survey will analyze library resources and study potential roles of the area's libraries in the statewide library net- work which has been proposed for New York. MRS. Dorus HARLAN OWEN and RicHARD EIMAS are the 1965/ 66 interns participat- ing in the second medical library internship program of the National Institutes of Health library. The UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA libraries, Gainesville, offer a number of graduate assistantships for 1966/ 67, primarily for practicing librarians interested in study leading to a master's or doctoral degree in a subject field other than library science. S:f:ipends are awarded for a ten-mo~th work- study period; those of $2,250 requrre fifteen hours of library duty each week and those of $3,000 require twenty hours. Awards are conditional on admission to the graduate school of the university; formal applications including graduate record examination scores must be submitted by February 15. Forms may be secured from the Director of Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32603. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO'S graduate li- brary school offers approximately fifteen scholarships and fellowships for 1966/ 67, in amounts up to $4,000. In addition, six predoctoral and two postdoctoral training stipends-$2,400 and $6,500 respec~ively -for medical librarianship will be available soon. Application deadline is February 1. A number of research assistantships are also offered, on a half-time basis (20 hours per week) , and are compensate~ at. an hourly rate depending on the qualifications I 59 ·I I 60 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 of the student. Such applications are con- sidered at any time during the year. In- quiries should be addressed to the Dean, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1116 East 59th St., Chicago, Ill. 60637. WHEATON CoLLEGE's class of 1966 has announced an intended gift of $3,000 to the college library, for completing the C. S. Lewis collection begun last year. The class of 1959 began an eight-year record of as- sistance to the library which so far totals $12,500 when it gave $5,000 to the library for purchase of fifty years of microfilm of the New York Times. The graduating class of 1964 voted to give the library $4,600 to strengthen the collections in all areas. The A. SMITH REYNOLDS LIBRARY of Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, N.C., has ·received an endowment gift of $3,500,- 000 in assets from the Mary Reynolds Bab- cock Foundation. Annual income from the donation-about $140,000-will finance im- provements in the library building, reclassi- fication of the collection, and additions to the book budget. The CATHOLIC LIBRARY AssoCIATION an- nounces a s.cholarship in library science for the academic year 1966, to be awarded for graduate study toward a master's degree. Collegiate record and need for financial help will be considered in making the $600 award. Religious as well as lay people are eligible; the applicant may enter the grad- uate library school of his choice. Applica- tion forms are available from the Scholar- ship Committee, Catholic Library Associa- . tion, 461 West Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Pa. 19041. Applications must be £led at the CLA headquarters by Feb. 14. FouR GRANTS totaling more than $189,- 000 have been awarded by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to Lehigh Uni- versity, to support continuing research and educational programs in the university's center for the information sciences. FoRD FoUNDATION has granted $345,000 for library development of the Haile Selassie · I University of Ethiopia, for purchase of books, periodicals, and other library ma- terials. BUILDINGS AruzoNA STATE CoLLEGE's new library building will be occupied early in February. The three-story, 64,000 sq. ft. structure will house a maximum quarter-million vol- umes, with seating for eight hundred users. The college changes its name in the spring to Northern Arizona University. FoRT LEWIS CoLLEGE has started con- struction of a library-classroom building, to be completed by next autumn. The three- story building will be capable· of housing some one hundred thousand volumes, with future expansion into areas designated origi- nally for faculty offices and classrooms. UNIVERSITY OF CmCAGO will construct a graduate research library on Stagg Field, near 57th Street and Ellis Avenue, as soon as working drawings are completed. A gift of $10,000,000 from the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation provides a large part of the $18,000,000 cost of the projec~ed five-story building, to be named the Joseph Regenstein library. The 575,000 sq. ft. area of the new building will accommodate three million books and periodicals, and provide seating for twenty-four hundred users. The building will also house 260 separate study units for faculty, and provide quarters for the graduate library school. Plans call for five areas for special academic studies: business, economics, geography, maps; languages and literature, history, an- thropology, political science and sociology; education and psychology; Near Eastern studies and philosophy; and Far Eastern studies. The library will include provision for modern electronic systems such as direct input either to the university's main comput- er or a library computer; floor conduits for flexible computer console and display con- nections; future installations of teaching machines, closed circuit television, and other information-handling devices; high- speed book paging services, photocopying and microtext reading devices; and a book- carrying tube to link the new library with future components of the library system. SAINT-MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE (Ind.) dedicated its new quarter-million dollar library building in October. The building contains 64,000 sq. ft., and planned capacity is 146,000 volumes. Read- ing and study areas will seat 425 persons. AMHERST CoLLEGE's Robert Frost library was dedicated in October. The six-story building has a capacity of 850,000 volumes. The LoRENZ G. STRAUB memorial library at the University of Minneapolis was dedi- cated in October. ST. JoHN's UNIVERSITY's new 650,000- volume library is nearly ready for occu- pancy. Seating for 620 students, six seminar rooms, a listening room and an audio-visual auditorium, twenty study rooms, and some one hundred fifty carrels are provided. CoLLEGE OF ST. TERESA, Winona, Minn., broke ground for a new library building to be completed by early 1967. Plans call for accommodation for 450 readers and two hundred thousand volumes. The UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER has re- ceived $1,275,065 for the expansion of Rush Rhees library, which will be used toward construction of a major addition and re- modelling of the present library. MARY BALDWIN CoLLEGE began con- struction in September of a $1,058,000 li- brary building planned for completion and occupancy in 1967. The new building is planned to house up to two hundred thou- sand volumes and provide study space for three hundred students. LATROBE LIBRARY, Melbourne, Australia, is a new four-story-and-basement structure housing the historical materials collected by the state library of Victoria, state and municipal archives, parliamentary papers and research documents, prints, etchings, sketches and ephemera, and a large news- paper collection; and an exhibition hall and a reading room. The present staff of twelve, it is hoped, will soon become twenty-seven. MEETINGS, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS The MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION's sixty-fifth annual meeting will be held in Boston on June 6-10. Ralph T. Esterquest is chairman of the convention committee. The LoUISIANA LIBRARY AssociATION meeting will be held in Baton Rouge, on March 3-5, at the Jack Tar Capitol House. MISCELLANY A REUSABLE SIDPPING CONTAINER for books, developed through the Library Tech- News from the Field I 61 nology Project of ALA, has been patented by ALA. It will be available, in four sizes, through library supply houses in the spring. THE SE-LIN LABELING SYSTEM developed by L TP has been patented in Belgium by ALA. Patents have also been applied for in twenty other countries, including the United States. It is available in this country from Gaylord Brothers, Syracuse, N.Y. The AsiA FouNDATION's Books for Asian Students program continues to seek books in very good condition published in 1950 or after, and runs of professional journals. This program in ten years has sent five mil- lion volumes and one million journals to thousands of institutions in Asia. The need for additional materials remains great. The program will pay all shipping: two hundred pounds or less, Special Fourth Class rate- Books (send postal receipt for reimburse- ment) ; over two hundred pounds, motor freight collect. Donations and questions should be addressed to Books for Asian Students, 451 Sixth St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103. THE INFORMATION CENTER of Monsanto Company, St. Louis, has centralized the company's in-house translations and ar- ranged to have microfilm copies of the en- tire collection sent to the SLA translations center in Chicago. The center's collections now total over one million items, and it is continuing to expand its holdings. Copies of unpublished translations will be gladly received by Mrs. Ildiko Nowak, Chief, SLA Translations Center, The John Crerar Li- brary, 35 W. 33rd Street, Chicago 60616. A SPECIAL FOUNDATION INFORMATION SER- VICE library has been installed at Newberry library in Chicago. The library comprises directories, pamphlets, and other materials relating to philanthropic foundations in the United States, and is maintained by the Foundation Information Service. The re- ports may not be borrowed, but the collec- tion is available for consultation during the usual library hours. The NEWBERRY LIBRARY AssociATES, suc- cessor to the Chicago library's Citizens Committee, was established on October 28; membership is open to those who wish to participate in Newberry library's activities. Career Opportunities in Library Service, a vocational guidance film, has been pro- 62 I College & Research Libraries • january, 1966 duced by the University of Illinois. The Illinois state library provided $5,000 of the production costs of the 133~-minute sound- on-film color movie. Copies are available from the U. of I. visual aids service and from the Illinois state library, Springfield. SoUTHWESTERN OREGON CoMMUNITY CoLLEGE is the new designation of former South Western Oregon College, in Coos Bay. Loms B. WRIGHT, director of the Folger Shakespeare library, has been named Rosen- bach Fellow in Bibliography for 1966. Dr. Wright will deliver two lectures at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania next November. PUBLICATIONS A Guide to the World's Abstracting and Indexing Services in Science and Tech- nology, comprising 1,855 titles from fifty countries and prepared by the science and technology division of the Library of Con- gress under a grant from National Science Foundation, is available to nonprofit and educational institutions in the United States without charge, upon request to the pub- lishers: National Federation of Science Ab- stracting and Indexing Services, 324 East Capitol St., Washington, D.C. 20003. AN INDEX to the poeb·y in St. Nicholas Magazine, compiled by John M. Shaw, curator of the Childhood in Poetry collec- tion in Florida State University's Strozier library, has been published by the compiler. EuGENE P. SHEEHY has accepted appoint- ment as editor-compiler of the first Supple- ment to the eighth edition of Winchell's Guide to Reference Books. The Supplement is scheduled for publication in 1967, fol- lowing publication of the eighth edition of the Guide in 1966. The MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION's Bulletin will be available on microfilm be- ginning with the 1965 volume. Sales will be restricted to subscribers to the paper edi- tion. Inquiries should be addressed to Uni- versity Microfilms, 313 N. First St., Ann Arbor, Mich. English Prose Fiction, 1700-1800, in the University of Illinois Library, a checklist of more than one thousand volumes compiled by William H. McBurney assisted by Charlene M. Taylor, was published in Oc- tober by the U. of I. Press. New Technical Books, published by the New York public library since 1915, has changed its subscription price from $3 to $5. •• Library Orientation Conference THE ACRL Library Services Committee is cosponsoring a one-day pro- gram, as part of the LAD Preconference Equipment I11stitute, on July 9, 1966, at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in New York. The ACRL pro- gram will be concerned with newer methods and media for library orientation, covering films, filmstrips, slides, video and sound tapes, and programmed teaching. Any librarians using such media with remarkable success are invited to forward information immediately to the ACRL Executive Secretary for consideration by the Committee. A complete program will appear in CRL, May 1965. •., ; t WHEN the time was ripe for a second at- tempt at separation between the University Libraries and the Graduate School of Li- brarianship, H. WIL- LIAM AxFoRD was the logical person to receive the appoint- ment as director of libraries of the Uni- versity of Denver. He had served as as- sistant director of the libraries since October 1, 1960 and had carried out his responsibilities with Mr . Axford distinction. In the past two years, 1964 and 1965, he had for all practical purposes, served in fact as the director of libraries. Mr. Axford received his AB degree from Reed College in June of 1950, his MA in librarianship from the University of Denver in June of 1958, and he is cur- rently in the final stages of completing a PhD in Western history, also at the Uni- versity of Denver and plans to complete the degree this year. Librarianship and its intricacies have come naturally to Mr. Axford. His first position upon leaving library school was in the special library of the Denver Post, a position which he held for over two years before coming to the University of Denver. As assistant director at the university he was responsible from the beginning for the administrative operation of a university li- brary system which includes the Mary Reed library, a business library, a law library, and a separate science and engineering library. Only this last year the collections of the University of Denver passed the half million mark and this rapid growth was directed almost entirely by Mr. Axford, who works as well with the book and bibliography as with the librarian behind the book. The University of Denver was one of the few remaining libraries in which the di- rector was shared with an accredited library Personnel school. Because of this, Mr. Axford not only bore very early in his career a heavy ad- ministrative burden, he also served as a skilled teacher in the graduate school of librarianship. At various times he taught courses in the administration of special libraries, the history of the book and a seminar on intellectual history and the book. Here also, he was always competent, skilled, and provocative. The University of Denver is just over one hundred years of age and now stands at a turning point in its growth and de- velopment. It needs to increase its book collections more rapidly, it must add to its professional staff, and an addition to its main library should be in the planning stages. In a personnel market that is un- usually tight, the University of Denver should be thankful that Mr. Axford was on hand to take over the direction of its li- braries at this important stage in their de- velopment.-Stuart Baillie. STUART BAILLIE assumed the duties of col- lege librarian at San Jose State College on December 15. He holds three degrees from Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis; AB, 1935, MA, 1939, and EdD, 1961. He received his BSLS from the Peabody School of Library Service in 1941. It was twelve years ago that he came to the Univer- sity of Denver as di- rector of libraries Dr. Baillie bringing with him eighteen years of ex- perience as a teacher and a librarian at both high school and college and univer- sity level. Two years later, in 1955, he be- came director of the library school as well as director of libraries. The intervening years saw steady prog- I 63 64 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 ress in both the library school and the li- braries. In the library school the budget was tripled and the number of graduates doubled. Of equal importance was the gen- eral upgrading of the quality of the cur- riculum under his leadership, measured by such things as the addition of a language requirement, a course in basic research methods, a research project, courses in doc- umentation and information retrieval, and a general intellectualizing of all courses offered. Summer sessions also doubled during his tenure and featured a wide variety of spe- cial offerings such as elementary and junior and senior high school library workshops and workshops taught by the internationally known £ne-binder, Edward McLean. Under his direction the budget of the university libraries more than tripled and holdings grew from 318,000 volumes to over a half million in 1965. Dr. Baillie's interests and energies were not limited to the institution which paid his salary. His professional activities and in- fluence spread throughout the entire Rocky Mountain region. He served as president of the Mountain Plains Library Association for two years, as a member of the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Biblio- graphical Center for Research for ten, and has been extremely active throughout his entire career in Colorado in the Colorado Library Association. At its recent conven- tion, this organization honored his decade of service by presenting him with a life membership. In addition to his work with professional associations, Dr. Baillie served as a consultant to public libraries in the region. Dr. Baillie will be missed not only by his colleagues, but by the entire profession in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. By the same token, he will be welcomed to California by several hundred alumni of the graduate school of librarianship at the Uni- versity of Denver. Also awaiting him at San Jose State College will be the challenge of planning an eight million dollar library to serve a rapidly expanding campus.-H. Wil- liam Axford. STUART FoRTH, newly appointed director at the University of Kentucky, has been caus- ing a pleasant uproar (and some healthy self- examination) in li- braries since that day when, at an early age, he was thrown out of the children's depart- ment of the Manis- tee (Michigan) pub- lic library, in his home town and birth- place. Unabashed he went upstairs to the grownups' depart- ment, convinced that Dr. Forth he could run the place better himself; gradually learned diplomacy and, latterly, very much indeed about how libraries do and should operate as seen from a variety of points of view. He continues to be a thoughtful, witty, and stimulating critic of library methods which for whatever reason aren't meeting the needs of readers, and, what is more important, he knows how to implement changes for the better. Forth, to swiftly summarize his biography based in part on some jottings of his own in a recently discovered typescript, was born in 1923, exposed to a minimum of learning in the public schools which "did not dam- age me too much," entered the University of Michigan in 1941, but, a year later, was snatched out by an inconsiderate draft board. He served with the Air Force for three years in this country and the Pacific theater. "Education began at that time and is still going strong." He received BA (1949) and MALS (1950) degrees from the Uni- versity of Michigan, and a PhD (1962) in American history from the University of Washington. He worked professionally as an assistant reference librarian, cataloger, and £nally as administrative assistant to the di- rector at Oregon State University, 1950- 1954; and concurrently as an assistant refer- ence librarian, Seattle public library, and as a teaching fellow in the University of Wash- ington department of history while he com- pleted his PhD degree. He came to Kansas in 1959 as head of the undergraduate li- brary, and was appointed associate director in the fall of 1961. During my sabbatical year 1964-1965 he very ably served as act- ing director. Although a confirmed Democrat, Dr. Forth wrote his dissertation on a prominent Republican senator from the state of Wash- ington, Wesley L. Jones. This is a perceptive and sympathetic study of a conservative politician and confidant of Hoover Taft and Coolidge, which historians hope he wili now find time to revise for publication. His lively intellectual and scholarly in- terests won him immediate acceptance by the faculty at the University of Kansas where he was on the governing board of the faculty club, and at the time of his departure for the bluegrass country, president-elect of the K.U. chapter of AAUP, as well as being a vocal and influential member of several university committees. Students at K. U. were delighted by his good humor and straightforwardness. For several years he was faculty advisor to freshmen and sopho- mores, and for a time continued his class- room teaching at K. U. in addition to his library duties. In large measure through his persuasiveness, the K.U. class of 1964 gave its entire class gift to the library for the pur- chase of rare books and manuscripts. There is no barrier between the generations here: Forth is one person over 25 students always want to talk with! Staff members, and col- leagues throughout the state, both in Ore- gon-where we also worked together-and Kansas liked and admired him enormously. He administers effectively, but without tears. Kentucky's new librarian thus combines unusual personal qualities with sound aca- demic training and a variety of solid library experience in university and public libraries, and in serving readers directly as well as behind the scenes. Somewhat like a Kansas desperado he was WANTED-for other senior assignments in libraries-all over the country before he finally decided to go to Lexington, further proof of the fact that already he has become a great ''help and ornament" to the pro- fession, as Bacon put it. We may confidently expect that he will make a strong contribu- tion to Kentucky's library program. His wife is Pearl Brown Forth, also a Uni- versity of Michigan graduate, once a re- Personnel I 65 search chemist, later a public school teacher, and always a charming southern lady from Tennessee.-Thomas R. Buckman ON DECEMBER 1 Carl Jackson became di- rector of libraries at Pennsylvania State University. During the past two years Carl Jackson has been at the University of Colorado as asso- ciate director of li- braries, and he has managed to get more done than I have been able to do in my seven years here. The tremen- dous energy which he applies to his work forces stub- Mr. Jackson born problems to yield. His back- ground in acquisitions work at Minnesota Iowa,. and Tennessee, and his quick under~ standing of other aspects of university li- brary w~rk have all resulted in many im- portant rmprovements in our own library system. During the last year, Carl has served as chairman of a subcommittee of the Asso- ~iation of College and University Librarians m State Institutions in Colorado, established to set up a processing center for all Colo- rado colleges and universities. He has now completed the blueprints for this system; and, as soon as money is found for the first year's operation, the project will be put on a~ ~perating basis. This involves a fairly sophisticated automation system which can be integrated with the technical processes of all the colleges involved. During the years Carl has been here, he ~as been so much involved with the library rmprovements that he has not had time to cultivate his own personal hobbies of book collecting in the field of aviation history or in hunting. Last year, he did go out once, and, of course, shot a deer on the first shot and was home by noon that day. Un- fortunately, the locker plant in which his deer was being stored lost the carcass; and Carl ended up by getting, in exchange, 66 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 the hind quarter of a cornfed Iowa steer. I thought it served him right! Carl has had many offers this last year, and I think he was wise in choosing Penn State as a university that is on the move, with financial resources to back up rapid growth in the library, at a time when tech- nological developments are fascinating, but very expensive. I am sure that his col- leagues in Pennsylvania will enjoy working with Carl and that they will profit greatly from his being there.-Ralph E. Ellsworth. On October 1, 1965, PIULIP J. McNIFF suc- ceeded Milton E. Lord as director and li- brarian of the Boston public library. It seemed to most of his colleagues that no more suitable climax could have been devised for a career which, from its beginnings, has been concentrated in or near Boston. Nor could the trustees of the Boston public library have found a man whose talents Mr. McNiff and achievements more precisely suit- ed their requirements. For while the Bos- ton public library, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest free municipal libraries supported by taxation in any city in the world, it is, like the New York public li- brary, a major research institution as well. Thus, Philip McNiff's extensive experience in both public and academic libraries will be called into play simultaneously. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1912, Mr. McNiff was graduated from Brookline high school and went on to take an AB in philosophy from Boston College. His interest in libraries began early, and he worked as a student assistant for seven years in the Brookline public library while completing his education. Following his graduation from Boston College he joined the staff of the Newton public library where he held posts, first as assistant, then as li- brarian of the West Newton library and, finally as head of the catalog department. In 1940 he received a BS degree from the Columbia University school of library ser- vice, and in 1942, he joined the staff of the Harvard College library as a reference as- sistant. In the course of his twenty-three years at Harvard he came to hold increas- ingly responsible positions: superintendent of the reading room, librarian of Lamont library, and finally, associate librarian for resources and acquisitions in the Harvard College library and Archibald Cary Coo- lidge bibliographer in the Harvard Univer- sity library. As librarian of Lamont he edited the Catalogue of the Lamont Libra'ftj, a major publication when it was issued in 1953. In addition, Mr. McNiff has been gen- erous in lending expert service to the Com- monwealth in many ways, large and small. He held the presidency of the Massachusetts Library Association for two terms; was a member of the Administrative Library Commission appointed by former Governor Christian A. Herter to study the subject of state aid to public libraries, and member of the Massachusetts Library Development Committee. On the broader library scene, he served for five years as a member of the Council of the American Library As- sociation, from 1955 to 1961, and has held several major committee assignments in the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Li- braries. Tall, soft-spoken and deliberate, Phil Me- N iff exudes an easy Irish charm and gaiety that belies his serious and hard working professional self. He is married to the former Mary Stack, a Celticist, and their spacious home in Newton is often the setting for impromptu readings by visiting Irish (or on occasion, other) poets, playwrights and journalists. The McNiffs have one son, Brian, a newspaperman who has recently been chosen to participate in a combined work-study program leading to a master's degree in journalism being offered by the University of Massachusetts. In a pun that Phil McNiff might himself have contrived, the· Boston public library has found in its new director "The Man for All Reasons."-Douglas W. B'ft}ant. RoDNEY K. WALDRON, who became director of libraries at Oregon State University on last September 1, is one of the considerable crop of GI's who came out of World War II and into librarianship to the enrichment I and embellishment of our profession. As with many of us there was little in his ear- lier years and experience to presage the future successful li- brarian. Mr. Waldon is a native Northwestern- er. Born in New- berg, Oregon, he moved in infancy, with his family to Alberta, Canada where his father had a try at farming. Rodney's earliest rec- ollections are, con- Mr. Waldon sequently, of Cana- da and farming. It was in a rural school on the Alberta prairies that his formal education began. When he was eight the prairies were left behind for Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. It was in this mild and pleasant environment that he received his elementary and high school education. There was no thought of college when he graduated from high school. There followed instead a wande11jahr period. He worked, successfully, at various jobs in various places. The Day of Infamy found him em- ployed as an assistant office manager for the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington, D.C. It was from there that he was swept up into the Army in our na- tion's call on its young manhood. His mili- tary service was, as for many of the GI's, a maturing and sobering experience, that was to determine his future career. In the Army Mr. Waldron's easy knack of getting along with all kinds of people and of getting things done was early recog- nized. Assigned to the 77th Infantry Divi- sion, an almost exclusively New York outfit, he advanced quickly to the rank of Techni- cal Sergeant. With the 77th he was des- tined to head straight for the shooting war. The bloody campaigns of Guam, Leyte, Okinawa-Mr. Waldron survived them all, becoming in the process, by "attritiop" he says, a Master Sergeant. As all with Army experience know, the Master Sergeant is the key to every army company. It was in the Army experience, in shooting and being shot at, in living intimately with death and danger, and in countless bull Personnel I 67 sessions in the barracks and in the camara- derie of the fox holes that Mr. Waldron began to note how the men of more ad- vanced education in his command stood out. It was in associating with them arid be- cause of his admiration for some of them that he came to the decision that if he sur- vived he would, by hook or crook, go to college. Obviously not all Army talk, some novelists to the contrary, is of wine, women and vulgarities. When the shooting came to a merciful end, Mr. Waldron had a tour of duty with the occupation forces in Japan, an ex- perience which left him with respect and admiration for that country and those people, so late his mortal enemies. Back in the United States and discharged he was quickly married to Virginia Lay, a girl he had met in Washington, D.C. There followed now, at double quick tempo, in line with the decision arrived at in the Army, and with the assistance of the enlightened GI bill, junior college at Long- view, Washington; a bachelor of arts de- gree from the University of Denver; and then a master's degree in 1950, from the school of librarianship of that university. Mr. Waldron's professional advance has been steady and uninterrupted, marked by the high regard of his colleagues and supe- riors. While pursuing his advanced degree he was for a brief time assistant state archivist of Colorado. Next he served as head cataloger of the State Historical So- ciety_ of Missouri. The native Northwest was, however, call- ing. Mr. Waldron responded in 1951, joined the staff of the University of Idaho library as general assistant and archivist. In 1953 he became assistant librarian in charge of readers' services. In 1954 he moved to Oregon State University as administrative assistant to the librarian. At Oregon State Mr. Waldron has con- tinued his steady growth in professional outlook and in responsibilities accepted and successfully discharged. He advanced quick- ly to the rank of associate professor. In 1960 he became assistant librarian. In 1962 he was promoted to professor and associate li- brarian. Mr. Waldron's contributions to the li- brary program at Oregon State have been signally versatile and highly effective. From 68 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 the beginning he had complete responsibili- ty for and over-all supervision of nonpro- fessional personnel. He has experimented successfully with varied media and method- ologies in teaching use of the library. He has planned and in large part personnally carried a varied and successful series of television and radio programs. He has had the chief responsibility for promoting the work of the Friends of the Library. He was instrumental in extracting the utmost from an aging and overcrowded library building. He gave yeoman services, imaginative, co- operative, and unstinted, in planning a new library building. Mr. Waldron has a greater facility for making friends, at all levels, than anyone I have ever known. Perhaps his army experi- ence contributed to this but mostly it has been his innate friendliness and his ready wit. Seated across his desk for a visit may be a janitor from across campus, a carpenter or a plumber or painter from the physical plant, feeling just as welcome and quite as much at ease as the chairman of the Library Committee, or a director of the Friends of the Library, the dean of science, or others of the academic staff. Mr. Waldron has established an enviable reputation as a man who gets things done. Never was this better illustrated than in moving the library to its new building in the midst of the academic year. It was natural that he should become chairman of the University Archives Committee and that he should be called on for other major campuswide committee service. Currently he is chairman of a committee to arrange appropriate observations, in 1968, of the centennial year of Oregon State University. Mr. Waldron has had numerous state and regional professional assignments. He served as treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Li- brary Association in a singularly difficult time of a changeover, in the midstream, of the dues structure. Currently he is president of the PNLA, again in a period in which the association is in the midst of a reorganiza- tion program. Now at mid-career Mr. Waldron has many years of promise and of further pro- fessional contributions before him. Oregon State, in entrusting its library program to him, has placed it in matured and capable hands.-Wm. H. Carlson. APPOINTMENTS DoROTHY ALEXANDER is now science li- brarian in the University of Oregon li- brary. TETSURO ARAKAWA has been named to the staff of the Far Eastern branch library, University of Washington, Seattle. DAviD R. ARCHER joined the Miami-Dade Junior College library faculty as audio- visual cataloger last May. JEAN ARMoUR is now an assistant cata- loger in the University of Illinois Chicago Circle library. SAMUEL MoNROE BAKER, JR., was ap- pointed head periodicals librarian of Miami- Dade Junior College on Aug. 2. BARBARA BARTON is the new federal documents librarian at Stanford University. THOMAS G. BASLER became assistant reference-circulation librarian in Miami- Dade Junior College in May. JAMES W. BATES joined the reference de- partment staff of University of Florida li- braries, Gainesville, on July 1. RuTH BEACH is acquisitions librarian of Montclair State College (N.J.). JoHN R. BEARD became associate li- brarian of Montclair State College (N.J.) at the beginning of the academic year. MRs. SARAH C. BENHAM has joined the cat~loging department of Van Pelt library, U mversity of Pennsylvania . . MELVIN BENNETT has been appointed en- gineering librarian of Pennsylvania State University. HARRY BITNER has been named law li- brarian and professor of law in Cornell University. DAN T. BLEDSOE became director of the library and teaching resources of Austin College, Sherman, Texas on July 1. GARRETT H. BowLES has joined the cata- log division staff of Stanford University li- braries. MRs. CAROL K. BROEDE has joined the library staff of the Franklin Institute, Phila- delphia. JEANNETTE M. BRUSH is a member of the cataloging staff of Arizona State College li- brary, Flagstaff. MRs. DIANE BUTZIN is assistant librarian for technical services in the Bowman Gray school of medicine library, Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, N.C. } I HARDY CARROLL recently joined the Penn- sylvania State University library staff as as- sistant catalog librarian. KAY ANN CASSELL joined the humanities division of the Brooklyn College library this autumn. DoNALD P. CHVATAL is assistant reference librarian of the University of Montana, Mis- soula. MRs. JoYCE K. DAHL is now in charge of special collections in the Brooklyn Col- lege library. N. HARVEY DEAL has been appointed as- sistant university librarian of the University of Cincinnati, a newly established position. MRs. NATHALIE P. DELOUGAZ is a de- scriptive cataloger in the Library of Con- gress. MRs. JoAN DRAGO joined the Miami-Dade Junior College staff as catalog librarian on June 14. PATRICIA DuANE has joined the staff of the Montclair State College (N.J.) as cata- log librarian. MRs. MARGARET H. EDWARDS has joined the reference staff of the University of Washington libraries. P. WILLIAM FILBY became librarian and assistant to the director of library and archives, Maryland Historical Society, on Oct. 1. MARSHALL H. FISHER was named chief of reader services in Argonne National Labora- tories library this autumn. SYLVIA ALMA FLEMING is newly ap- pointed assistant catalog librarian of the College of William and Mary. }AMES FoLEY is a cataloger in the English language section of the Library of Congress descriptive cataloging division. LoRNA D. FRASER assumed the position of librarian of Victoria University, Toronto, on July 1. WoLFGANG M. FREITAG has been named associate university librarian for resources and acquisitions in Harvard University. CAROLYN GAINES joined the cataloging department of the University of Florida library on July 1. MRs. ANITA GEIGER joined the cataloging department in the University of Florida li- brary in April 1965. JACK GoTLOBE became librarian of the Philadelphia Community College last June. JoHN GRANTIER has been named assistant Personnel I 69 chief of acquisitions, Washington University libraries. WALTER GROSSMAN has been named Archibald Cary Coolidge bibliographer in the Harvard University library. PEARCE S. GROVE became assistant direc- tor for public services, Kansas State Univer- sity, Manhattan, on Aug. 1. STANLEY GUTZMAN joined the reference staff of Kansas State University, Manhattan, on Sept. 1. MIRIAM HAGY is now an assistant catalog librarian in Pennsylvania State University. MRs. BLANCHE HALLER is the new head catalog librarian of Montclair State College (N.J.). MRS. MARCELLE HAMER has joined the staff of the Texas Christian University li- brary. FRANCES HASLETT has been named li- brarian of the new student center reading room at MIT. MRs. DoROTHY WoMACK HEAD is chief bibliographer, Austin College library, Sher- man, Texas. MRs. MARIE HENDERSON became head of the dance-music-theater archive of the University of Florida on June 30. ANNA HARRIET HEYER has joined the staff of Texas Christian University as con- sultant in music library materials. ALFRED HoDINA has been named assistant to the director, library systems analyst, Uni- versity of Houston libraries. MRs. SHARON RoGENE HUBBARD HoLDER has been named documents librarian of the University of Houston. MRs. BESSIE HoLLINGSWORTH joined the staff of the Z. Smith Reynolds library, Wake Forest College, as cataloger and classifier, on Sept. I. MRs. OLIVE S. HoLT has been appointed serials catalog librarian in Pennsylvania State University. MRs. DoRA Lro HuANG is the new head of the serials department in the Drexel In- stitute of Technology library. BENJAMIN JACOBSON on Nov. 1 joined the staff of Northwestern University li- braries transportation center. Miss BILLIE JOHNSON has been named to the reference staff of Southern Oregon Col- lege library, Ashland. }AMES JoNEs has been appointed acquisi- tions librarian of Bemidji State College. 70 I College & Research Libraries • january, 1966 }AMES V. JoNES, director of libraries at St. Louis University, was elected to the Board of Governors of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, in October. JoAN JuRALE has been appointed refer- ence librarian in the Olin library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. FREDERICK C. KILGOUR has been named to the newly created post of associate li- brarian for research and development, Yale University. MRS. GAIL KINGSTON has been named as- sistant undergraduate librarian of Pennsyl- vania State University. MRs. GABRIELE KoPBAUER has been ap- pointed assistant librarian in the catalog section of Moon me~orial library, State University of New York College of Forestry, Syracuse. MICHAEL KowALSKI assumed the position of head of the audio-visual department, Drexel Institute of Technology library. EuGENE KRUCKO has been appointed cataloger in Bemidji State College library. DAVID H. KREH has been appointed as- sistant college librarian in charge of the teaching materials center, State University College, Cortland, N.Y. JoAN LEE recently joined the staff of Pennsylvania State University library as assistant reference librarian. CAROL LEHMAN has assumed the duties of assistant catalog-reference librarian in Pennsylvania State University. MRs. LILLIAN LESTER is now a member of the acquisition division staff, Brooklyn College library. GEORGE I. LEWICKY has been appointed administrative assistant for indexing ser- vices in the H. W. Wilson Company. ERNEST V. LIDDLE is the new librarian of the Rosengarten undergraduate library, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. MRs. MARY LoEw joined the staff of the Z. Smith Reynolds library of Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Sept. 1, as head of the reclassification project. JoHN J. LoRENZ became deputy librarian of Congress in Octo her. W ASYL Luc1w has been appointed Slavic bibliographer in Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. RoBERT McGEE has been appointed an assistant reference librarian in the U niver- sity of Illinois Chicago Circle libraries. MILTON MAYES has joined the reference department staff in the University of Illinois Chicago Circle libraries. MARIAN MERRILL has accepted a position as an assistant reference librarian in the University of Illinois Chicago Circle. AARON I. MICHELSON has been appointed head librarian of Scott, Foresman and Com- pany, Chicago publishers. OscAR J. MILLER has been named li- brarian of the University of Colorado School of law. EVELYN MooRE is now assistant reference librarian in the University of Illinois Chi- cago Circle. KEITH L. MowEN has joined the techni- cal information service staff of the Stanford University libraries. MRs. NoRVA R. MUNFORD is now associ- ate librarian of the State University of New York Agricultural and Technical College at Cobleskill. BEVERLY MUNSON is an assistant catalog librarian in the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity library. J. LARRY MURDOCK has joined the refer- ence staff of the University of Washington libraries. · GLADYS ODEGAARD is an assistant catalog- ing librarian in the University of Illinois Chicago Circle libraries. RoBERT A. OLSEN, , ]R., has been ap- pointed to the newly-created position, the- ology librarian of Brite divinity school, Tex- as Christian University. HELENE OTT was named to the staff of Stanford University libraries in October. MisCHA F. OPPENHEIMER is the newly appointed assistant librarian in charge of the Concord Hall branch of the New York City Community College library. EuLALIA M. PACKARD has been appointed to the cataloging staff of Arizona State Col- lege library, Flagstaff. PAUL P ARHA?v.f is now chief librarian of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. WILLIAM C. p ARISE has joined the cata- log division of the Brooklyn College library. MRs. SUZANNE PETERSON has joined the reference staff in University of Illinois Chi- cago Circle libraries. AsA B. PIERATT was appointed periodi- \ cals librarian of Miami Dade Junior College on July 1. JOHN PuRCELL has been named to the reference staff of the library in Southern Oregon College, Ashland. RoBERTA PURDY has joined the catalog division staff of Stanford University librar- ies. HANs RAuM has been named an assistant reference librarian in Pennsylvania State University. AUDREY RmNE began work on Sept. 27, as general reference and interlibrary loan librarian in the reference department of the Drexel Institute of Technology library. MARY VIRGINIA RicE has joined the cata- log division staff of Stanford University li- braries. MRs. DoROTHY RoBERTSON has been named head of the acquisitions department, York University libraries, Toronto. MRs. DoRIS WEIGEL RoCKMAN became reference librarian of Montclair State Col- lege (N.J.) at the beginning of the aca- demic year. FRANK RoDGERS has been appointed ref- erence librarian of Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. M. LEWIS ScHEFFEL has been named sci- ence librarian of York University, Toronto. MRs. SANDRA ScmELD fills a new posi- tion as assistant humanities and social sci- ences librarian, University of Houston. MARTHENA ScoLLON began her duties as cataloger in the Drexel Institute of Tech- nology library on Oct. 4. JUDITH SEREBNICK has been appointed li- brarian in charge of the development of the core library of Northwestern University, Evanston. RICHARD SHERWOOD has been appointed an assistant reference librarian in the Uni- versity of Illinois Chicago Circle. NANcY K. SMITH is the new head of the Isabelle Bronk library, University of Penn- sylvania. RICHARD A. SoBEL is now a member of the social science-education division of the Brooklyn College library. RoNALD R. SoMMER has joined the engi- neering and physics library staff, University of Florida. FRANCES SPADAFORE has been appointed Personnel I 71 reference and documents librarian of Be- midji State College. WILLIAM SPANGLER is the new docu- ments librarian of the Biddle law library, University of Pennsylvania. MICHAEL J. SPENCER is now an assistant reference librarian, University of Illinois Chicago Circle. MAXINE SPOONHOUR has been named to the reference staff of the Southern Ore- gon College library, Ashland. T. S. SRIKANTAIAH is a cataloger in the South Asian languages section, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. MRs. MARY F. STEPHENSON assumed the duties of librarian of the public communica- tions library of Boston University on Sept. 7. ANN TwiGGINS is the public service li- brarian, Bowman Gray school of medicine library, Wake Forest College. RoNALD VAN DE VooRDE has been ap- pointed curriculum librarian and instructor of library science of Bemidji State College. MARTHANNA E. VEBLEN became director of the library of Seattle Pacific College at the beginning of this acadeinic year. SuzANNE WHALEY WARD is an assistant reference librarian in the University of Montana, Missoula. MARY C. WARKENTIN has been named to the catalog department staff of York Uni- versity libraries, Toronto. PHYLLIS B. WAsHBURN has been ap- pointed cataloger in the Emerson College library, Boston. CHARLES F. WATERMAN, JR., has been appointed to the undergraduate library staff of the University of Washington. JoHN M. WmTTOCK was appointed head of the dental school library of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania as of July 1. MRS. MARGOT JEAN MADISON WILLIAM- SON is assistant catalog librarian, a new position in the University of Houston li- braries. MRs. ALLIENE H. WILLIS has joined the staff of the Biddle law library, University of Pennsylvania. MRs. EvA WINTER joined the staff of the Drexel Institute of Technology library as science librarian on Nov. 15. MRs. 0LETA WITTENMEYER has joined the 72 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1966 staff of the Texas Christian University li- brary as serials librarian. EDWIN RonouLPH WooDMAN, JR., is as- sistant acquisitions librarian, University of Houston. STANLEY WoRDEN became a cataloger in the Drexel Institute of Technology library on Nov. 15. MARY WYLIE is assistant science librarian, University of Houston. SANFORD S. YAGENDORF was appointed assistant acquisitions librarian of Miami- Dade Junior College in June. NECROLOGY MRs. EILEEN R. CuNNINGHAM, librarian of the Vanderbilt University school of medi- cine from 1929 to 1956, died on Sept. 20. BARBARA DuNCAN, music librarian at the University of Rochester Eastman school of music for more than twenty-eight years, died on Nov. 7. Miss Duncan was the first librarian of the school's Sibley library from 1922 to 1950. VIRGINIA SouKUP, readers services li- brarian of Marquette University since 1948, died on Sept. 29. SADIE A. THOMPSON, staff member of Northwestern University libraries for forty- one years and head of the periodical de- partment on her retirement in 1946, died on Oct. 25 in Evanston, Ill. RETIREMENTS MRs. SALLY Y. BELKNAP retired from the University of Florida library staff on June 30. She had been in charge of the dance- music-theater archive there since its for- mation. MRs. BARBARA 0. PERTZOFF, subject cata- loger in the Library of Congress since 1946 and a library staff member for more than thirty years, retired last June. EvELYN J. ScHNEIDER, librarian at the University of Louisville (Ky.) since 1919 and tmiversity librarian since 1927, re- tired in September. • • Corrigenda CLAPP AND joRDAN: QuANTITATIVE CRITERIA FOR ADEQUACY OF AcADEMIC LIBRARY CoLLECTIONS. C&RL 26:371-380, September 1965 Page 371, footnote 2. Read: Association of College and Research Libraries. Com- mittee on Standards: C allege and University Accreditation Standards-1951 (Chi- cago: ACRL, 1958) p. 11. Page 371, footnote 4. Add: Also Op. cit. , ftn. 2, p. 7. Page 373, column 2, lines 21-23. Read: use of textbooks, assigned reading, inde- pendent study, honors work, etc. Page 375, column 1, line 8. Read: TITLES. Page 375, column 2, between lines 7 and 8. Insert column-heading: TITLES INDEXED. Page 375, column 2, line 35. Transfer entire line to follow line 36. Page 376, column 1, line 36. Read: China, modern-. Page 376, column 2, line 36. Read: suggested. Page 378, column 1, line 28. Read: library no. 9. Page 378, column 2, between lines 19 and 20. Insert heading: NoTEs ON TABLE 3. Page 379, column 1, between lines 19 and 20 of text. Insert heading: NoTES ON TABLE 4. Page 379, column 1, between lines 26 and 27 of text. Insert heading: NoTEs ON TABLE 5. Page 379, Table 5, column 8, line 3. Read: 23,800 . • •