College and Research Libraries T h e new Penn- East sylvania State Col- lege Library was dedicated on Saturday, M a r c h 15. Fol- lowing the presentation of the library building by the president of the board of trustees, Fred Lewis Pattee's library of American literature was presented to the college. T h e building and the Pattee li- brary were accepted by W i l l a r d P. Lewis, librarian. D r . Phineas L . Windsor, di- rector emeritus of the University of Illi- nois Library and Library School, delivered the dedicatory address. Friends of the Library of Brown Uni- versity are raising $1000 for books in the field of Latin American studies. Among the recent activities of the friends was the purchase of the rare first edition ( 1 6 8 7 ) of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia. T h e University of N e w Hampshire Li- brary, David Jolly, librarian, has recently completed construction of a new stack wing of five levels, with a capacity of 55,000 volumes. T h e annual summer library institute will be held at the University of N e w Hampshire from J u l y 7-18. Instruction will be given by a faculty of nine. About eighty students are expected to enroll. T h e Yale University Library, Bern- hard Knollenberg, librarian, has recently issued a catalog of the published and un- published writings of G e r t r u d e Stein. T h i s is the fourth in a series of biblio- graphical checklists issued to accompany exhibitions of the writings of contemporary authors of the Yale University Library. Earlier catalogs of T . S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, and William Butler Yeats have been prepared. O n M a r c h 15, the Reference Depart- ment of the N e w York Public Library closed its newspaper room and moved its News from bound files of newspapers to its T w e n t y - fifth Street building, where access will be by card for research purposes only. News- papers on film will remain in the main building at F i f t h Avenue and Forty- second Street. T h e British Library of Information, with its staff of sixty-three persons, is to be moved to larger quarters in the British Empire Building, 620 F i f t h Avenue, the director, Sir Angus Fletcher, announced recently. T h e new addition to the Hav erfo rd College Library, Dean P. Lockwood, li- brarian, was dedicated on April 19. T h r e e floors were added, with space for catalog rooms, staff workrooms, offices, seminar rooms, and carrells. T h e University of M a i n e will begin construction on its new library building during the summer. Louis T . Ibbotson, librarian, estimates that it will have a seating capacity of 700, hold 315,000 cu- books, and will provide space for twenty faculty studies and eighty carrells. T h e H a r v a r d Student Council has es- tablished twelve special w a r libraries in the H a r v a r d houses and in strategically located buildings. Each library contains a selected list of about seventy books which have been purchased by this council and donated to the university. T h e purpose is to encourage discussion and free ex- change of opinion on the w a r . T h e Keuka College Library, Miriam H . Root, librarian, was moved into more commodious quarters on the main floor of Ball Memorial H a l l in June, 1940. A combination of modern equipment, re- decorating, and more space has made the library a more effective unit of the college 280 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field since the move. A gift from O w e n D . Young has made possible the beginning of a special collec- tion on radio broadcasting in the Syra- cuse University Library, W h a r t o n Miller, director. All material in the field of radio broadcasting, except that concerned with the technical aspects of the subject, will be collected. T h e important Adrian Van Sinderen collection of W a l t W h i t m a n has been acquired for the Yale University Library. T h e collection includes 638 items among which are 170 books written wholly or in part by W h i t m a n . T h e r e are, in addition, more than 100 manuscripts from his own pen, fourscore books about him, volumes from his personal library, a group of 58 volumes of his translations into for- eign languages, and other material, such as novels based on his life, histories of litera- ture, proof sheets, portraits, photographs, plaques, newspaper clippings, and per- sonalia. N o t unimportant are the fifty- odd editions of Leaves of Grass which the collection includes. Seven Boston libraries are cooperating in a plan to provide storage space for their least-used books outside their respective library buildings. T h e Boston Public Li- brary, the Commonwealth, Athenaeum, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston College, Boston University, and H a r v a r d University libraries are erecting a new building on the bank of the Charles River, the cost to be met by the several libraries in proportion to the amount of shelf space they need. W h i l e this build- ing will be regarded chiefly as storage space, reading facilities will be provided for the users of the collection. T h r o u g h the Friends of the D a r t m o u t h Library, Nathaniel L . Goodrich, librarian, two noteworthy gifts have recently been made to the library. One was a 72- volume collection containing first editions of all of Joseph Conrad's books in mint condition, given by George M a t t h e w Adams of N e w York. Another collection, presented by Richard H . Mandel of N e w York, contained 100 first editions of books by or about Aldous Huxley. Library needs of South the Negro popula- tion and the equip- ment and service of the Negro librarian was the general theme of a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation and General Education Board held in Atlanta, M a r c h 14-15. Those invited included Negro educators from the south- ern area, as well as authorities in library service from throughout the country. T h e primary purpose of the conference was to call attention to the present status of li- brary training and service for Negroes, and of the needs of the large Negro popu- lation in the Southeast. Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, Neil C . Van Deusen, librarian, is plan- ning to offer for the first time a workshop for teacher-librarians in its 1941 summer session. Students who have completed the twelve points of regular work for the training of teacher-librarians will be en- couraged to attend the workshop which will f u r t h e r their training in library sci- ence with special reference to the specific problems which they face in their schools. T h e General Education Board is sponsor- ing the workshop which will be under the direction of M a e Graham of the Depart- ment of Library Science of the College of William and M a r y . JUNE, 1941 281 T h e H o w a r d - T i l t o n Memorial Li- brary of T u l a n e University was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on Friday, April 4, 1941. A new, steel stor- Middle West age building, which will house 150,000 volumes at a cost of around $20,000, has been constructed at Iowa State College, Charles H . Brown, librarian, for the shelving of seldom-used and exchange volumes which are to be moved there from the main library building. T h r o u g h the wills of M r s . Linda S. H a l l and her husband, H e r b e r t F . H a l l , Kansas City, Mo., is to have a new free public library. A f u n d of more than $2,000,000 has been left in trust, and the board is making plans for the establish- ment of the library. I t will be a public institution, but the will provides specifi- cally that it be open to faculty and students of Kansas City University. T h e r e will be no connection, however, between the new H a l l Library and the university; nor will it be related in any way to the Kansas City Public Library. T h e St. Louis Public Library, Charles H . Compton, librarian, has a new branch library on wheels which started serving patrons on J a n u a r y 6. T h e new library, a converted 27-passenger bus, will carry 1500 books, three librarians, and a chauf- feur ; it will make weekly stops in twenty- four neighborhoods which, at present, do not have easy access to library facilities. T h e University of Missouri Library, Benjamin E . Powell, librarian, has re- cently acquired from the library of H a r r y Snyder of Chicago 900 titles in the field of Western Americana. T h e collection includes several hundred rare editions of early travel narratives, nineteenth century accounts of life in the West, and numerous monumental works on the American In- dian. T h e staff of the Fenn College Library of Cleveland, Roland Mulhauser, libra- rian, has prepared a mimeographed 21- page library guide for the use of students. Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Anne S. Duncan, librarian, will offer, during the coming summer, three courses for teacher-librarians. T h e instruction will be given by members of the library staff, and will extend from J u n e 24 to August I. D u r i n g the school year, 1941-42, one course will be offered each semester. T h e John Crerar Library, J . Christian Bay, librarian, has received from the fam- ily of D r . Ernest Pribram the famous K r a l - L a f a r - P r i b r a m collection of books, pamphlets, slides, and photographs on parasitology, bacteriology, and allied sub- jects. T h i s library of about 5000 pam- phlets, 500 books, and several complete sets of periodicals, was begun in Vienna by Professor Krai. W i t h the aid of the Aus- trian government, D r . Pribram bought it many years ago, and added to it his own collection and that of D r . F r a n z L a f a r , a specialist in bacteria and other fungi. Small libraries of recent interesting books have been established in two new dormitories recently opened at the Univer- sity of Missouri. T h e collections will be held to two or three hundred volumes and, as individual titles are retired, they will be placed in the university library. T h e y are under the direct supervision of the Dean of W o m e n . O n December 9, 1940, a plan of co- operation was agreed upon by the libraries of Akron University, H i r a m College, Kent State University, and M o u n t Union College. T h i s plan is to include the ex- 282 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES change of information relative to their holdings of titles in the Shaw lists, co- operation in avoiding unnecessary dupli- cation in building up bibliographical and other source materials, and in sharing the responsibility of concentrating on desig- nated fields of knowledge. A union list of periodical holdings is now in prepara- tion. T h i s is an extension of a plan of cooperation between Akron University and M o u n t Union College begun about two years ago. T h e valuable medical library of 1700 volumes of the late D r . William Snow Miller, professor emeritus of anatomy at Wisconsin, was recently acquired by the University of Wisconsin. T h e librarians of the college libraries in Colorado have embarked upon a program of cooperation covering fourteen points of mutual concern, among which are the en- deavor to minimize duplication, to reduce processing cost, and to raise the standards of library service. Ralph E. Ellsworth, director of University of Colorado Li- braries, has been elected chairman of the group. T h e Southeastern Southwest State Teachers Col- lege Library at D u - rant, Okla., M r s . M a u d e Cowan, librar- ian, maintains an active traveling library of 3000 volumes which serves rural schools in its district. T h e University of Texas Library, Don- ald Coney, librarian, has acquired a collec- tion of more than 5000 documents relating to the Confederacy, including official gov- ernment documents, letters from officers and soldiers, personal diaries, and files of administrative correspondence and records. T h e University of Texas Library now owns eleven M a r k T w a i n manuscript letters which shed considerable light on the sources of Tom Sawyer. Most of these were written between 1866 and 1889 to W i l l Bowen, a member of M a r k T w a i n ' s gang in Hannibal, M o . T h e University Far West of California at Los Angeles Library has been given the famous Donald R. Dickey collection of vertebrate zoology of more than 50,000 specimens of birds and mam- mals, and the library of vertebrate zoology of approximately 10,000 volumes. T h e collection was given to the library by M r s . Florence Dickey, wife of the big game hunter, naturalist, and photographer. O n J a n u a r y 2, the University of South- ern California, Los Angeles, dedicated the building for the Allan Hancock Founda- tion of Scientific Research. T h i s library, of which Elaine Adams is librarian, will specialize in marine zoology. W . Elmo Reavis of the Pacific Bindery Company recently presented the library of the University of Southern California with a permanent exhibit on " T h e M a k - ing of a Book," a replica of the exhibit, " P r i n t i n g and Bookbinding," located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon- don. T h i s exhibit illustrates the process of printing and bookbinding as practiced by skilled craftsmen. T h e University of Southern California Library has acquired a major portion of the private library of the late Hamlin Garland, which includes a complete file of M r . Garland's own published works, his manuscripts, numerous letters, photo- graphs, and other miscellaneous materials. T h e Seattle Public Library, Judson T . Jennings, librarian, is celebrating its fif- tieth anniversary this year. T h e library was first opened to the public on April 8, 1891. JUNE, 1941 283 Laurence E. T o m - Personnel linson, formerly li- brarian at Phillips University, Enid, Okla., became associate librarian of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., on M a r c h I. William G . Harkins, Michigan '39, is librarian of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. G r a n t D . Hanson is assistant librarian of Augustana College, Rock Island, 111. D r . I. O . Nothstein, for twenty-five years on the staff of the Augustana Li- brary, has been appointed archival li- brarian. Eugene B. Jackson, Illinois '38, form- erly assistant in charge of the newspaper division at the Illinois Library, is docu- ments librarian at the University of Ala- bama Library. Charles E. Rush, formerly associate librarian of Yale and more recently li- brarian of the Cleveland Public Library, assumed his new duties as librarian of the University of N o r t h Carolina in April. F . M a r i e Foster, director of library education, State Teachers College, K u t z - town, Pa., has been appointed librarian of Smith Memorial Library, Chautauqua, N.Y., for the summer season of 1941. Kanardy L . T a y l o r , Illinois '33, refer- ence librarian of the J o h n Crerar Library, has been appointed chief of public service of the same institution. Reginald Gordon, California '32, as- sistant reference librarian, will serve as custodian of rare books and special collec- tions in the John Crerar Library. Constance Strandel, Northwestern '30, assistant reference librarian, will serve as editor of the John Crerar Library's refer- ence lists. Sidney Kramer, University of Chicago, was appointed librarian of Arizona State Teachers College, Tempe, Ariz., effective September, 1940. Xenophon P. Smith, Washington '38, formerly of the Oregon State College Li- brary, has been appointed librarian of the N i n t h Corps Area, San Francisco. O n M a r c h 1, 1941, Carl Dubendorf Ulmer, formerly chief of the technology information section, research department, Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, became chief of the technology division of the N e w York Public Library. H e succeeds the late William B. Gamble who died on February 14. Kathleen R . Campbell, Denver, has been appointed librarian and associate pro- fessor of library economy at the M o n t a n a State University Library, Missoula. Miss Campbell served for five years as executive secretary of the Denver Public Library before going to M o n t a n a to join the staff of the state university library last year. L a u r a M a r t i n of Long Beach, Calif., and the University of Chicago, has been appointed assistant professor of library science at the University of Kentucky Li- brary, Lexington. Rea J . Steele, formerly assistant in edu- cation, philosophy, and religion at the Enoch P r a t t Library, Baltimore, has been appointed librarian of the State Teachers College Library, Mansfield, Pa. Frances E . T u d o r , formerly head of circulation at the W o m e n ' s College Li- brary, Duke University, has been ap- pointed librarian of Hardin-Baylor College at Belton, T e x . Robert H . Wienefeld, professor of his- tory at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, has been appointed acting uni- versity librarian. D r . Wienefeld will continue to teach in addition to his library duties. (Continued on page 287) 284 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES M I N U T E S O F T H E B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S O F T H E A . C . R . L . M E E T I N G , D E C . 28, 1940, C H I C A G O A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association of College and Reference Libraries was called to order at 11:15 P.M., December 28, 1940, at the Drake Hotel, Chicago. The following were present: President R. B. Downs, Treasurer Con- stance M . Winchell, Secretary Willard P. Lewis; general directors—Willis H . Kerr, Winifred Ver Nooy, and Etheldred Abbot; sectional directors—Robert E. Stauffer, chairman and ex-officio director of the Col- lege Libraries section and Director Fina C. O t t ; B. Lamar Johnson, director of the Junior College Libraries section; Sarah H. Griffiths, chairman and ex-officio director of the Reference Librarians section; Louis Shores, director of the Section for Libraries of Teacher Training Institutions; Donald Coney, director of the University Libraries section; Martha Cullipher, chairman and ex-officio director of the Agricultural Li- braries section. The following chairmen of committees were also present: Charles H . Brown, chairman of the A.L.A. Committee on Committee Appointments; Charles M . Mohrhardt, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Com- mittee on National Defense; Carl White, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Committee on Policies; A. F. Kuhlman, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Publications Committee. Also present by invitation were Neil Van Deusen, librarian of Fisk University Library, Nash- ville, Tenn., to present a proposal for periodical exchange; Louis Kaplan, refer- ence librarian, University of Wisconsin Li- brary, to present a proposal for a subject index to reference materials in serials; and H . W . Wilson to comment on M r . Kaplan's proposal. It was Voted to dispense with the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting in view of their publication in College and Research Libraries. The resignation of Secretary Willard P. Lewis owing to illness was presented and accepted. On motion of M r . Coney, sec- onded by M r . Windsor, the directors gave M r . Lewis a rising vote of thanks for his constant devotion to the association's inter- ests and his valuable services in the associa- tion's formative years. It was Voted to appoint for the six months' period until the new elections at the Boston meeting of the A.C.R.L. as sec- retary Benjamin Powell, librarian, Uni- versity of Missouri, the nominee for secretary at the next regular election. Charles H. Brown, president-elect of the A.L.A., was then called on to present the matter of A.C.R.L. representation on appropriate A.L.A. committees. He pointed out that such representation was already in effect with Chairman Shores of the A.C.R.L. Committee on Budget, Compensation, and Schemes of Service as a member of the A.L.A. Board of Salaries, Staff, and Tenure. He also pointed out that the A.L.A. was subsidizing the work of this committee in its present project of drawing up a schedule of standards and pay plans for college and university libraries. It was Voted that the chairman of the A.C.R.L. Committee on Publications, A. F. Kuhlman, be recommended for appointment to the A.L.A. Editorial Committee under this plan; and it was also Voted that President Downs of the A.C.R.L. make other appropriate rec- ommendations to Chairman Brown of the A.L.A. Committee on Committee Appointments. With regard to the life and composition of the A.C.R.L. Publications Committee, it was Voted that the time for the change in the membership of the Publications Committee already authorized by the A.C.R.L. be left to the discretion of the chairman of this committee. Charles M . Mohrhardt, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Committee for National De- fense, presented as a preliminary report a study of activities of college, university, and reference libraries related to national de- JUNE, 1941 285 fense. M r . Mohrhardt said that this com- mittee had been subsidized by a $200 grant from the A.L.A. and that a further grant was promised for further activities of the committee. It was Voted to endorse the report and con- tinue the committee. At this point Louis Kaplan, reference li- brarian, University of Wisconsin Library, was invited to present his proposal for a subject index to reference material in serials. H . W . Wilson was also invited to com- ment on Dr. Kaplan's proposal. It was Voted to refer D r . Kaplan's proposal to the Reference Librarians Section for study in cooperation with D r . Kaplan and M r . Wilson and report to the A.C.R.L. Dr. Van Deusen of Fisk University was then invited to present his proposal for an exchange of periodicals among libraries in the A.C.R.L. After some discussion it was Voted that Dr. Van Deusen be in- vited to send a memorandum concerning his proposal to President Downs for distribution and further consideration by members of the board. Dr. Shores, chairman of the Committee on Budget, Compensation, and Schemes of Service, then presented his report. It was Voted to endorse the report and con- tinue the committee with an expression of appreciation for the A.L.A. coopera- tion. The matter of A.C.R.L. membership was then presented by President Downs who called attention to the fact that A.L.A. membership blanks were very unsatisfac- tory because they provided no space for sections, no information as to what divisions and sections there were, and no space for division on institutional blanks. It was Voted to refer this matter to the presi- dent and secretary. Having already voted to accept $2 A.L.A. members as members without allotment to A.C.R.L., it was further Voted to admit to A.C.R.L. American Library Association life members join- ing prior to 1939 and institutional mem- bers without charge or allotment in 1 9 4 1 . Carl M . White, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Committee on Policies, then presented his report. He called attention to the fact that the College Library Advisory Board had been discontinued by the A.L.A. and their functions referred to the A.C.R.L. They were referred to the Committee on Policies by the A.C.R.L. Dr. White grouped ac- tivities of the College Library Advisory Board under the two headings of broad general purposes and projects. He explained the following projects which had been started by the College Library Advisory Board and were not yet complete: (1) The Peyton H u r t Study of a Self- Survey for College Libraries; (2) The question of a further supple- ment to Shaw's List of Books for College Libraries, and (3) The proposed book by President Robertson of Goucher College on "The President and the College Library." After considerable discussion it was Voted to refer the H u r t Study of a Self-Survey for College Libraries, which was being subsidized by a fel- lowship from the A.L.A., to the Publi- cations Committee of the A.C.R.L. It was Voted to refer the question of a new supplement to the Shaw list and the Robertson book on the "President and the College Library" to the president of the A.C.R.L. Attention was next turned to the 1941 budget of the A.C.R.L. Treasurer Win- chell called attention to the present balance in the treasury of $735 and to the various budget items and actual expenditures of 1940. It was Voted that $250 be appropriated in the 1941 budget as a subsidy from A.C.R.L. to College and Research Libraries with an additional $250 as a contingent item. Voted that $500 be allotted for sec- tional expenses; $100 be allotted for general promotion expenses of the A.C.R.L.; $100 be allotted for secre- tarial expenses; $200 be allotted for treasurer's office expenses. A report was presented at this time from 286 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Wilson M . Ranck, chairman of the A.C.R.L. Joint Committee to Consider the Publica- tion of an Encyclopedia of Sports and Games with a Committee from the American As- sociation for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, requesting that $50 which this Committee had been assigned for 1940 be re-assigned for 1941. It was Voted that $50 be assigned for 1941 to the Joint Committee to Consider the Publication of an Encyclopedia of Sports and Games with a Committee from the American Association for Health, Phys- ical Education, and Recreation. It was also Voted that $75 be appropriated for further activities of Chairman Shores' Committee on Budget, Compensation, and Schemes of Service at the request of M r . Shores. Voted that $75 be a contingent fee for other committee activities. T h e total budget approved for 1941 is as follows: College and Research Libraries Subsidy $250.00 Contingent 250.00 Sectional expenses 500.00 General promotion expenses 100.00 S e c r e t a r i a l expenses 100.00 T r e a s u r e r ' s office expenses 200.00 J o i n t Committee to Consider the Publication of a n Encyclopedia of Sports and Games 50.00 Committee on Budget, Com- pensation, a n d Schemes of Service 75-oo O t h e r committee activities 75.00 Total $1,600.00 It was Voted tentatively to continue alloting sections 50/ per member for their pro- grams and activities without carrying from year to year the sectional bal- ances. Voted to recommend to the treasurer that she apply to the A.L.A. Comp- troller, M r . R. E. Dooley, for quarterly allotments rather than semi- annual. Meeting adjourned. W I L L A R D P . L E W I S Secretary N e w s from the Field (Continued from page 284) Elizabeth D e w of Arkadelphia, Ark., received the first award of the M a r g a r e t M a n n scholarship for students of library science at the University of Michigan. T h i s scholarship was established in 1938 by gifts f r o m the University of Michigan L i b r a r y Science Alumni Association, the A n n A r b o r Library Club, associates, and former students, as a tribute to P r o f . M a r - garet M a n n , a member of the department of library science f r o m 1926 until her re- tirement in 1938. Miss D e w is a gradu- ate of B a r n a r d College. T h e following appointments to the S t a n f o r d University Libraries, N a t h a n van Patten, librarian, were erroneously credited to the University of California in the M a r c h issue of College and Research Libraries: R u t h French, Columbia '29, previously on the staff of the Columbia University Library, has been appointed senior bibli- ographer. Agnes M . Johnson, California '33, formerly at Kern County Library, has been appointed bibliographer. R u t h L . Steinmetz is still assistant chief of the bibliography division. B E N J A M I N E . P O W E L L Note: The editors of College and Research Libraries will be v e r y glad to receive c u r r e n t items r e l a t i n g to college, university, a n d r e f e r e n c e libraries f o r pub- lication in the j o u r n a l . Such items should be sent to B e n j a m i n E. Powell, secretary, Association of Col- lege and R e f e r e n c e L i b r a r i e s , U n i v e r s i t y of Mis- souri L i b r a r y , Columbia, Mo. JUNE, 1941 287 PERIODICAL EXCHANGE UNION The Board of Directors of the Association of College and Reference Libraries have voted unanimously to endorse a plan for a duplicate periodical exchange union which is outlined below. This plan was published in the February 15, 1940, issue of the Li- brary Journal. Since that time seventeen libraries have agreed to try out these sug- gestions, and five other libraries have indi- cated substantial interest in the plan, if it could be put into operation. It is hoped that the plan may be initiated by July 1, 1941, and that before that time many other libraries will indicate that they are willing to give it a trial. The essential points of the plan for a periodical exchange union as approved by the Association of College and Reference Libraries are as follows: 1. Member libraries will agree to the free exchange policy, thus eliminating much record keeping and circumventing money difficulties. 2. Each library will list its duplicates, giving volume, number, and date. 3. These lists will be circulated among the participating libraries in the order of the size of their annual budget for periodi- cals. Libraries putting most money into periodicals will have priority over the others. Presumably most of the material large li- braries will need will be more rare and difficult to obtain than that desired by smaller libraries. The advantage to smaller libraries of access to duplicate material of large libraries offsets this priority of choice. 4. As these lists pass from one library to another, items required by any library will be crossed off the list by that library, and requested from the library owning them. The receiving library will pay carriage charges. Libraries will be asked to keep a record of the number of pieces of bound and unbound material sent to and received from members of the exchange union. 5. Libraries desiring to become members of the exchange union are urged to send their lists of periodical budget figures to Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tenn., Neil C. Van Deusen, librarian, as long as possible before July 1. A routing list will then be prepared by the Fisk University Library staff, and will be submitted to the American Library Association statistical staff, as a neutral agency, for checking against their records of periodical budgets. Fisk Univer- sity Library will undertake to 'mimeograph the routing sheets and to mail them to all participating libraries. Each library will then forward its list of periodical duplicates to the first library on the list, and the plan will be in operation. N E I L C . V A N D E U S E N , Librarian Fisk University Recent Literature on Higher Education (Continued from page 279) " T h i s bulletin contains an analysis of the policies and practices adopted by the individual state with respect to this s u b j e c t . " F o r e w o r d . Monroe, W a l t e r S., ed. Encyclopedia of Educational Research. Prepared under the auspices of the American Educa- tional Research Association. Macmillan [ C 1 9 4 1 ] . I 3 4 4 P - $ 1 0 . A critical synthesis and i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of research in the field of education. T h e articles are signed. Selected bibliographies. Russell, John D., comp. and ed. Student Personnel Services in Colleges and Uni- versities. University of Chicago Press [ C 1 9 4 1 ] . 300p. $ 2 . 5 0 . (Institute for Administrative Officers of Higher Institu- tions. Proceedings. Vol. 12, 1940.) T h e following phases of the subject a r e included: (1) The obligation of the institution to its s t u d e n t s ; (2) Administrative organization f o r student person- nel services; (3) I n s t i t u t i o n a l provisions f o r under- s t a n d i n g s t u d e n t s ; (4) I n t e r p r e t a t i o n and use of data in counselling s t u d e n t s ; and (6) Evaluation of s t u d e n t personnel services. 288 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES