Buildings and Architecture Air Conditioning Dehumidification equipment employing tri- the dehumidifying function, a second feature ethylene glycol [(HOCH2CH2OCH2)2] as —that of sterilizing the air. This results the dehumidifying agent, was announced from the introduction into the air stream of jointly by Research Corporation, New York, minute portions of triethylene glycol which and the Rogers Diesel & Aircraft Corporation, has important antiseptic properties. It is ap- New York, at a meeting held Dec. 17, 1945. plicable to industrial and comfort air condi- The system was developed by the former tioning. company, a nonprofit organization, which has The description of this system is contained licensed Rogers Diesel & Aircraft Corpora- in an article, "Dehumidifying and Air Sterili- tion commercially to exploit the apparatus de- zation with Triethylene Glycol," appearing veloped to carry out the cycle. The system in the January 1946 issue of Heating and which has been named the Rogers-Research Ventilating, p. 78-80. should find system of air conditioning, has, in addition to this article helpful.

T^iotes on Partition Costs

N ORDER to secure the kind of internal partition would pay for itself. Furthermore, I flexibility that librarians consider neces- he said that the partitions used there could be sary to permit them to adapt their to altered without any interference with the changing needs, much attention has been fo- work of the area concerned, which in his cused on movable prefabricated panel parti- judgment was an important factor that could tions. Such partitions made of steel, glass, not be measured in terms of dollars and asbestos, and other materials have long been cents. on the market and have been manufactured Another bit of evidence on this question can by more than a dozen large reliable manu- be found in a chart in Sweet's File—Archi- facturers. tectural 194S in the Hauserman catalog, p. 8. The question of the costs of these parti- This is found in section 19-A. This chart also tions as compared with the standard hollow compares types of partitions in terms of erec- tile and plaster partition is one to which li- tion time in days and tear-down time in days. brarians are seeking an answer. The essential fact shown in this chart is In order to make a fair comparison between that the "master walls" made of steel or these two types of partitions, it is necessary glass are approximately 40 per cent more ex- to take into consideration the following fac- pensive than tile and plaster partitions as a tors: the original cost of installation, the first cost but that at the end of ten years' time, comparative costs of moving and changing, in terms of maintenance alone, the costs are acoustical qualities, appearance, maintenance, equalized. If the partitions are moved once, and accessibility to building services such as the master walls are 30 per cent less expen- electrical and communication outlets. sive than tile and plaster. If they are moved Mr. Long, superintendent of the Bell Tele- twice, they are 60 per cent less expensive, and phone Laboratories, made the statement to a if they are moved three times, they are ap- group of librarians and architects last spring proximately 90 per cent less expensive. that the original cost of the steel partitions These figures are, of course, those of one used in the Bell Laboratories was higher manufacturer and should be interpreted as than tile and plaster partitions, but that if a such. Even so, they provide an interesting partition were moved only once, the steel analysis of partition costs.

260 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES \ Fluorescent Light and Eye Trouble The Pencil Points, Progressive Architec- of a report published elsewhere, discusses the ture, for September 1945, page 98, carries problem in terms of the effects of ultra violet, a brief statement refuting the rumors that infrared, and visible radiant energy. fluorescent lights are harmful to eyes. The Every concerned with the light- basis for the statement lies in the work of ing problem should read this statement and Dr. Matthew Luckiesh and Mr. A. H. Tay- draw his own conclusions. The essence of the lor, light scientists from General Electric's report is, "If fluorescent light itself is bad for lighting research laboratory. your eyes, so are incandescent, electric, gas, The statement, which is merely a summary and candle light—and even natural sky light."

Mold Preventive for Bookbindings

TN WARM CLIMATES following a protracted ous and inflammable and should be used rainy spell, it is not uncommon to find carefully in an open room or outdoors with one's bookbindings supporting a heavy no source of fire near by. It is best applied growth of mold, which if unchecked will with a cotton sponge tied to a suitable appli- disfigure the books. Mere dusting removes cator or held by forceps, so that none of it the superficial growth without disturbing gets upon the fingers. The solution pene- the mold actually growing in the paste of trates the bindings readily and dries rapidly, the bindings. leaving no precipitate. One application is Several years ago, following a wet season, usually sufficient and the books may be re- the Duke Hospital had an epidemic turned at once to their places. It is wise of mold in two stacks of bound journals to test first one corner of the binding before which stood near an underground ventilator using the solution to discover whether the drawing air from an open areaway. The dye may run or change in any way. In our author was called upon for suggestions to experience it has not altered the appearance remedy the situation. The vent was closed of the goods nor affected the letter stamp- and the following solution was wiped over ings. the molded bindings: The solution may, as well, be safely used on record album backs, leather boxes, and Thymol crystals 10 grams Mercuric bichloride 4 grams luggage, but it should never be used on any Ether 200 cc wearing apparel. Benzene 400 cc DUNCAN C. HETHERINGTON Department of Anatomy, The treated volumes have never shown any Duke University School of Medicine, tendency to mold since and any other out- Durham, N.C. breaks of mold have been similarly and Reprinted, with permission from the author, from effectively treated. The solution is poison- Science, vol. 101, no. 2618, p. 223, Mar. 2, 1945.

24 7 JULY, 1946 Personnel

TTO KINKELDEY, librarian and musicolo- Cornell. In 1930 he was recalled to Cornell O gist, has retired from his.posts at Cornell as university librarian and professor of University. Happily, the news comes si- musicology. This was the first appointment to multaneously that he will continue his teaching a chair in this subject in the . in other universities. And so there closes only To those who think of him principally as a part of the career of one of the figures of the librarian of a great university, Dr. Kinkeldey's contribution to musical scholar- ship may to some extent be unknown. He studied in Berlin at a time of great activity in historical and scientific studies in music and in the company of a brilliant generation of German scholars. In that company, even though a foreigner, he won an immediate place with his dissertation Orgel und Klavier in der Musik des 16. Jahrhunderts, which, published in fuller form in 1910, established and main- tained for him an international reputation. It opened up a new area of music history and is still the standard work on its subject. Like all his later writings, it is characterized by meticulous scholarship and artistic sensibility and is grounded in broad learning. Dr. Kinkeldey's career spans the period of the origin and growth of research work in music in this country and its gradual admis- sion to the realm of scholarship. With Oscar Sonneck and one or two others, he was a Otto Kinkeldey leader and a personification of this develop- ment. Uniting in himself the best elements of whom the world of learning in America can be the culture of America and of Europe, he was most proud. able to give the European tradition of musical Born in New York on Nov. 27, 1878, Dr. scholarship a native place in our intellectual Kinkeldey studied at the College of the City life. This achievement is due not only to his of New York (A.B., 1898), New York Uni- profound musical learning but also, and per- versity (A.M., 1900), and at Columbia with haps the more, to his very remarkable knowl- Edward MacDowell. From 1902 until the edge of other fields. outbreak of the First World War he was in Dr. Kinkeldey's professional life has given Germany, first as a student in the University fruitful expression to his two great interests, of Berlin (Ph.D., 1909) and later as profes- music and books. His first achievement in sor of musicology at the University of Breslau this country was the development of the music —an appointment of remarkable and probably collection of the New York to unexampled honor for an Auslander in his one of international importance, with a place early thirties. in this country second only to that of the On his return to this country, Dr. Kinkeldey Library of Congress. In search of materials became chief of the Music Division of the he went twice to Europe, in 1921-22 and again , a post he held in 1928 for the sale of the great Wolffheim until 1930, except for two absences: in 1917- collection in Berlin, at which he was acknowl- 19 as captain of infantry in the United States edged by Europeans to be the most careful Army and in 1923-27 as professor of music at and discriminating buyer.

262 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES It was eminently fitting that the first uni- pains of proving his worth to others. It is versity professorship in musicology in the secure.—Richard S. Angell. United States was offered to Otto Kinkeldey. It was in his Cornell seminar and in his sum- N SEPT. I, 1946, Stephen A. McCarthy mer classes at Harvard that he brought the O moves to where he wealth of his learning to a generation of succeeds Dr. Otto Kinkeldey as director of young American scholars, inspiring them with the library. the knowledge he imparted and furnishing Readers of College and Research Libraries them with a model for the furthering of were acquainted, in the June 1944 issue, with historical scholarship in music throughout the the newly created post Dr. McCarthy now country. Fortunately this work will go on in lectures and classes at Michigan and Harvard in the coming academic year. In professional matters Dr. Kinkeldey has been active in fields of his own choosing. He was a prime mover in the establishment of two organizations and the first president of both —the Music Library Association (1931) and the American Musicological Society (1934). He has been assiduous in attendance at the meetings of the Association of Research Li- braries and the Conference of Eastern Col- lege Librarians and is an active member of the Bibliographical Society of America. He has frequently served the American Council of Learned Societies as a member of its Com- mittee on Musicology. If one seeks the man in his style, Dr. Kinkeldey's writings will be rewarding. He is master of an English prose of precision, flexi- bility, and color. His thought is both precise and expansive, his exposition fluent, his meta- Stephen A. McCarthy phors and allusions of illuminating appropri- ateness. It may be a paper on American higher music education (proceedings of the relinquishes at Columbia University. As one Music Teachers National Association, 1934), of three assistant directors of coordinate rank, an article on Schubert's dances (Musical he has been in charge, under the director of Quarterly, 1928), a paragraph on the new libraries, of certain functions of general ad- wing of the Cornell library (his Report for ministration—personnel, budget preparation I937-38), a chapter on palm-leaf books (Wil- and control, relations with the general public, liam Warner Bishop memorial volume, 1941), management of the library office, and manage- or his definition of musicology (International ment of the physical plant. During Dr. Mc- Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1939) — Carthy's period of service at Columbia the in all of them the learning is profound, the responsibilities of this post have been espe- thought clear, the expression memorable. cially heavy. In the first place, the director In the plane in which scholars and librarians of libraries was on leave in 1944-45. Added move, the circle of fame has a narrow radius. responsibilities fell on all of the assistant Otto Kinkeldey is the kind of man who does directors as a result; but Dr. McCarthy was not seek to extend the length of his. He does the senior assistant director and in that ca- not write in order to get into print. He pacity took final responsibility for decisions does not speak in order to command an audi- made on behalf of the director of libraries. ence. Established in his mind, with the un- In the second place, the shortage of manpower awareness of self that excludes both pride and for libraries from 1944 to 1946 has been acute, undignified modesty, he has been spared the as all whose battle stations were along the 24 7 JULY, 1946 home front well know. Dr. McCarthy is the one who stood in the gap, with department heads at Columbia, and did most to keep readers' and technical services unimpaired in spite of unprecedented turnover in staff. Probably the best brief description which jl can be given of Dr. McCarthy's work at Columbia is to say that he made a new posi- tion. It existed merely on paper when he ac- cepted it. It is a position for which some * j iik Sy s pp is would have been temperamentally unsuited m jflVjCg because it fell too far to one side of the limelight. It is a position comparable in •SEEP* many respects to that of the player in the backfield whose duty is to run interference for his teammates; and in one case, as in the other, those who know the game know how much the score depends upon such unselfish, HI JM dependable performance. Dr. McCarthy is a man of strength and firm resolution. His position, if not spectacu- Benjamin E. Powell lar, has nevertheless been one of re- sponsibility, and, in filling it, he has shown later he entered the Graduate Library School uncommon administrative ability. He has un- at Chicago, where he has completed the resi- snarled tangled problems ranging from strings dence requirements for the Ph.D. tied around prospective gifts to clarifying such After graduation from Columbia Mr. difficult questions as who belongs to the Powell returned to Duke as chief of the ref- clientele of the Columbia University Li- erence and circulation division, a position he braries. He has worked intelligently toward held from 1930 to 1937. In that year he improving personnel management in the li- became librarian of the University of Mis- braries. He has served on important uni- souri. Possibly his most important single con- versity committees. In all of these things, he tribution at Missouri lay in the truly notable has consistently put the welfare of the li- progress which was achieved during these braries and of the university ahead of his seven years in the development of the li- personal interests. In his conversations brary's book collections. Hardly , less con- about the work of the libraries, the first per- spicuous was the growth of staff and staff son personal pronoun never obtruded itself. esprit de corps under Mr. Powell's admin- He will be remembered at Columbia as a istration. man of marked administrative power and Mr. Powell has been active in the Mis- as a colleague who enjoys and who inspires souri Library Association, of which he was good teamwork.—C.M.W. president from 1938-39; the Association of College and Reference Libraries, of which he N APPOINTING BENJAMIN E. POWELL as was secretary from 1941-44; and in the I director of libraries, Duke University American Library Association and the Co- brings back to the campus one of her own lumbia, Mo., Library Club. He has been a graduates and a former member of the li- contributor of articles to School and Society, brary staff. College and Research Libraries, and the Mis- Mr. Powell was graduated from Duke in souri Library Association Quarterly. 1926. Following a year of high school teach- Those who know Mr. Powell as a librarian ing and two years in the circulation depart- only are unfortunate; he was a crack miler ment of the Duke University Library, he in his undergraduate days, and the writer of began work for his library degree, which he these lines can testify that, as late as 1935, received from the School of Library Service he was a nasty opponent on the handball of Columbia University in 1930. Four years court. The editor of these notes has forbidden

264 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES mention of any of Mr. Powell's further and, code for music cataloging. in our opinion, more interesting nonprofes- Although Mr. Angell will continue to be sional activities.—J. Periam Danton. interested in music bibliography, his new ap- pointment represents a departure from music ICHARD S. ANGELL, the new chief of the librarianship. The Copyright Cataloging R. Copyright Cataloging Division of the Division of the Library of Congress includes Library of Congress, was graduated from four departments, of which one processes Princeton in 1927 and studied musicology at music. The division is endeavoring to in- Harvard, where he was awarded his A.M. in crease the usefulness of its catalogs to schol- 1933. After study at the School of Library ars, librarians, and other interested groups; to this end, the division solicits the advice of trade and professional groups. The work of the division and the special problems of its music catalog were discussed at a recent meet- ing of the Music Library Association held in .—Andrew K. Peters.

AYNARD C. SWANK assumed the duties of R, university librarian at the University of Oregon on July I, 1946. In this position he succeeds Matthew Hale Douglass who re- tired in 1942 after thirty-four years of serv- ice at the university. Dr. Swank goes to Oregon from the University of Minnesota,

Richard S. Angell

Service at Columbia, Mr. Angell was made cataloger of Columbia's music library and, in !935> its librarian. In 1942 he became as- sistant professor in the School of Library Service. Mr. Angell has taught courses in music library administration and music bibli- ography in the library school and in the de- partment of music. In 1944-45 he served as acting chief of the music division of the Refer- ence Department of the New York Public Library. Mr. Angell was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1945 to prepare a book on music Raynard C. Swank library administration, which will be pub- lished in 1947. He is a member of the Music Library Association and the American Musi- where he has been chief catalog librarian and cological Society and has served as a member assistant professor of . of the executive committee of the National Dr. Swank is a graduate of the College of Music Council. He was a leader in a move- Wooster and took his first year of library ment to establish professional standards for training at Western Reserve University, and for the adoption of a graduating in 1937. The next four years 24 7 JULY, 1946 were spent at the University of Colorado as after almost four years of service, will assume junior cataloger, then as documents and se- his new duties in July. Much of Dr. Deily's rials librarian, and finally as documents li- Army career was spent with the brarian. In the last capacity he organized Engineering District, commonly known as the the present documents division in Colorado's atom bomb project. He was assigned to the new library building and devised a classi- district as assistant to the district intelligence fication scheme, later published in Special officer, with station at the Los Alamos Ex- Libraries, for state, county, and municipal perimental Laboratory near Santa Fe, N.M. documents. Since December he has been detailed to duty In 1941 Dr. Swank enrolled as a fellow in at the main production plant at Oak Ridge, the Graduate Library School, University of Tenn. Chicago, where he specialized in bibliography Dr. Deily returns to the academic scene and cataloging in the university library field. after residency on several campuses. He at- He was granted the Ph.D. degree in June tended Muhlenberg College as an undergradu- 1944, his dissertation being The Organization ate and received an M.A. in English literature of Library Materials for Research in Eng- from Lehigh University. At Columbia Uni- lish Literature. versity School of Library Service he received After a summer as bibliographer in the Uni- the B.S. and M.S. degrees. In 1939 he was versity of Chicago Libraries, he went to the awarded a University of Chicago fellowship University of Minnesota as visiting lecturer and in 1941 was graduated with the Ph.D. and later as assistant professor in the divi- degree from the Graduate Library School, sion of , where he taught with a major in administration. courses in cataloging and classification. Since His first positions were part-time ones at July 1945, while still teaching part time, he Muhlenberg College and Lehigh University, has been head of the catalog department of and in the Reference Division of the New the University of Minnesota Library. York Public Library. After a year of cata- loging experience and a year in the reference

HE SELECTION of ROBERT H. DEILY as department at Lehigh he became librarian of Thead of the Department of Library Wagner College at Staten Island, N.Y. Science of the University of Kentucky has After three years there he went to the Brook- been announced by President Donovan. Dr. lyn Public Library and secured further Deily, recently discharged from the Army training by working a year in the book order department and a year as a branch librarian in that system. At Kentucky Dr. Deily wishes to experi- ment with the basic first-year library school program as a part of the regular four-year undergraduate course. It is his belief that this method should help fill existing library va- cancies more rapidly, provide earlier earning power, and lower the educational costs to the student.

DWARD B. STANFORD, recently appointed E assistant university librarian and assist- ant professor at the University of Minnesota, now returns to librarianship from service in. the armed forces overseas. A graduate of Dartmouth College, where he majored in biography and comparative literature, Dr. Stanford obtained his first professional ex- perience in the library of his alma mater and later served on the staffs of the Detroit Public Robert H. Deily Library and the library at Williams College.

266 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES teaching in the information-education officer's staff school at Shrivenham, near Oxford; and shortly thereafter he became responsible for establishing unit libraries in the redeployment camps throughout southern England. As a result of his experience with the Army library program overseas, Dr. Stanford feels that publishers and librarians alike would learn much from a thoroughgoing study of the reading and library services provided for military personnel in World War II.

ORMAN L. KILPATRICK has recently been N appointed to the staff of the State Uni- versity of Iowa Libraries as associate direc- tor in charge of technical processes. Mr. Kilpatrick came to the State University of Iowa from the Department of Agriculture

Edward B. Stanford

In 1934-35 Dr. Stanford served at A.L.A. Headquarters as editorial assistant on the A.L.A. Bulletin. Later, as senior assistant at Williams, he developed the freshman orienta- tion program for the college and made a study of college library handbooks while pre- paring one for the use of local undergradu- ates. Also, while at Williams, Dr. Stanford obtained his M.A. degree in English literature. In 1939 Dr. Stanford was awarded an A.L.A. fellowship grant from the Carnegie Corporation to study the effect of honors work and independent study programs on library service in liberal arts colleges, at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. The findings of this study were re- ported in the Library Quarterly in 1942. His Library Extension under the W.P.A.: An Norman L. Kilpatrick Appraisal of an Experiment in Federal Aid (University of Chicago Press, 1944), presents Library in Washington, D.C. At the Depart- an evaluation of the techniques employed in ment of Agriculture he was chief of the ac- conducting area-wide demonstrations of li- quisition section and assisted the librarian to brary service with the assistance of federal develop work standards and simplify pro- work relief funds during the years' of the cedures for performing the various jobs depression. connected with order, exchange, and serial Early in 1943 Dr. Stanford shipped as an checking. Army classification specialist to England, Before becoming a member of the U.S. De- where he was in charge of the reclassification partment of Agriculture staff, Mr. Kilpatrick of combat casualties to "limited assignment" was chief of the preparations division at occupations. Later he was called to Paris to Brown University. In this capacity he ef- help organize the library instruction program fected a reorganization of the catalog depart- for the E.T.O. V-E Day found Dr. Stanford ment and synchronized the work of the 24 7 JULY, 1946 technical processes to meet the needs of the Bulgaria. After two years of teaching and library when it was reorganized on a divi- traveling abroad, he returned to Brown for sional basis. graduate study and was awarded an A.M. in While at Brown he was granted a year's the field of history in 1932. In 1940 he re- leave of absence to organize the survey of ceived his B.S. in Library Service from Co- federal in Rhode Island and Con- lumbia University. necticut. He has held several offices in the Rhode Mr. Kilpatrick received his A.B. from Island Library Association and served as Brown University in 1928 and, upon gradua- president of that association from 1938 to tion, was appointed instructor in English and 1940. He is the author of several professional Latin at the Sofia American College in Sofia, articles.—Ralph E. Ellsworth.

Appointments

OHN VANMALE, librarian of the Univer- appointed university librarian of St. Law- sity of South Carolina, will join the staff rence University, Canton, N.Y. J of the University of Denver on August 10 Catherine Keyes Miller has been appointed as librarian of the Mary Reed Library and music librarian of Columbia University and assistant director of libraries of the university. instructor in library service of the School of Kenneth R. Shaffer, executive director of Library Service, Columbia University. the American Book Center for War Devas- Clara T. Heck has been appointed librarian tated Libraries, has been appointed director of the reference department of the Army of the School of Library Science at Simmons , Washington, D.C. College, Boston. Lydia M. Gooding, acting librarian of Albert C. Gerould, librarian of the Col- Mount Holyoke College since 1944, has been lege of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., has been appointed librarian of Pembroke College, appointed assistant librarian of the United Brown University, Providence. Nations in . Edward C. Heintz has been appointed as- Richard H. Logsdon, recently released from sistant librarian of Bowdoin College, Bruns- the Navy, is now chief librarian of the U.S. wick, Me. Office of Education in Washington. Dr. Mrs. Dorothy Flower Livingston, research Logsdon has been head of the Library Science assistant and reviser in the catalog department Department of the University of Kentucky at of the Yale University Library, has been ap- Lexington. pointed head of the department. James G. Van Derpool, head of the art de- Stanley West, recently released from the partment of the University of Illinois, has Navy, has returned to the Columbia Univer- been appointed librarian of the Avery Li- sity Libraries as assistant law librarian. brary of Architecture at Columbia University Miriam McPherson has been appointed and has been given a seat on the faculties of assistant librarian of the State Teachers Col- architecture and library service. lege at Brockport, N.Y. Wayne S. Yenawine, until recently acting James W. Phillips, recently released from director of libraries of the University of the Army, has been named reference librarian Georgia, is now librarian of the new Air Uni- of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. versity at Maxwell Field, Ala. Naomi J. Rushing is now assistant librarian Luis E. Bejarano, who has been with the of Miner Teachers College, Washington, training division of the United States Naval D.C. Reserve, has been appointed chief librarian of Marion C. Terry has been promoted to as- the United States Merchant Marine Acad- sistant librarian of the State Teachers Col- emy, Kings Point, N.Y. lege at Farmville, Va. Andrew K. Peters, librarian of the Journal- Corinne Bass, formerly on the staff of the ism Library of Columbia University, has been Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tenn., has ac-

268 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES cepted the position of librarian of the school Thomas S. Harding, recently released from of law and instructor in law at the Univer- the Navy, is the new librarian of Missouri sity of Mississippi. Valley College, Marshall. Henrietta Howell has left the Descriptive Helen Baird, former instructor in library Cataloging Division of the Library of Con- science at Our Lady of the Lake College, gress to become head cataloger at the Univer- San Antonio, has been appointed assistant sity of Cincinnati. librarian of the Abbey Library of St. Bene- Kent Underhill Moore, recently released dict's College, Atchison, Kan. from the Army, has been appointed head of A. S. Gaylord, Jr., is now librarian of the the cataloging department at Kenyon College, Texas Technological College at Lubbock. Gambier, Ohio. Martin Schmitt, recently released from the Thomas F. Gardner, until recently super- Army, is now associate librarian of the Uni- vising librarian in circulation of Teachers versity of Idaho. College, Columbia University, is now assist- Mary Elizabeth Bradfield, ex-Navy, is now ant librarian and instructor in library science librarian of the Bancroft Library of the Uni- at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. versity of California at Berkeley. Harry T. Dewey, assistant reference li- Eva Louise Olson, recently released from brarian of the Engineering Societies Library, the WAC, has been appointed librarian of New York City, has been appointed chief the Biology Library, University of California cataloger at John Crerar Library, Chicago. at Berkeley. Wilmer H. Baatz has been appointed assist- Pauline Calendine, former documents li- ant librarian in charge of service and instruc- brarian at the State Library of Washington, tor in library science at Beloit College, Beloit, Olympia, is now documents and periodicals Wis. librarian at Reid College, Portland, Ore. Helen Northup has been named associate Allan R. Laursen, acting librarian of Knox reference librarian and bibliographer of the College, Galesburg, 111., has been appointed University of Wisconsin. R. Webb Noyes has been appointed li- librarian of Pacific University, Forest Grove, brarian of Northland College, Ashland, Wis. Ore. He was formerly librarian of the Maxwell John S. Mehler, ex-Army, has been ap- Graduate School of Citizenship and Public pointed librarian of the University of Alaska Affairs, Syracuse University. at Fairbanks.

Retirements

RS. JOHN A. GOODWIN, the former Mary Torrance, head of the catalog depart- M Fanny A. Coldren, reference librarian ment and assistant librarian of the Emory on the Los Angeles campus of the University University Library, Emory, Ga., has retired of California, has retired after twenty-three after twenty-two years of service with the years with the university library. university.

T is THE POLICY of College and Research Libraries to print personnel items in the college, I university, and field that are of general interest. The major source of supply for such items are the reporters of "News from the Field." As the staff of reporters does not remain constant, we frequently fail to receive news from important areas. The Personnel Editor earnestly solicits information on appointments, retirements, and deaths from administrators and staff members of colleges and universities, deans of library schools, and interested members of the association. Address contributions to the Office of the Editor, Columbia University Libraries, New York City 27.

JULY, 1946 269 The four thousand- r, ,, . , volume private li- Loliections and Gifts , . , . News from brary of important Americana which the odist Board of Education and another of the late David Wheeler Hazen spent nearly forty same denomination from an anonymous friend years acquiring has been donated to the Uni- were also received during the year. versity of Portland Library by his widow. A few years ago, H. J. Thornton, a Included in the collection are approximately member of the history faculty of the State five hundred volumes about Abraham Lincoln. University of Iowa, began collecting corre- The library has received two additional gifts spondence, programs, journals, and other ma- during the year, one of $3000 for a purpose to terial on the Chautauqua movement in the be announced and another of $1300 from Middle West. More than a dozen theses Edgar J. Daly, of Portland, to establish a dealing with local Chautauquas in Iowa and library building fund. neighboring states have since been written by The New York State Library recently re- graduate students using this material. Vari- ceived a copy of the rare Hudson edition of ous persons connected with the Chautauqua Washington's Farewell Address from Mrs. movement have offered to hand over their ma- Mable Hunt, of Indian Lake, N.Y., who was terials if a proper place could be found for prompted to make the gift by the newspaper their safekeeping. With the cooperation of story of the Washington-Lincoln exhibit in Ralph Eugene Ellsworth, director of libraries, the rotunda of the state education building. arrangements have been made whereby the The volume, which is in its original binding, material will be housed in the State University was printed in Hudson by A. Stoddard in of Iowa Library. Among the collections are 1797. It has been added to the exhibit, which those of the late Keith Vawter, director of the includes Washington's original manuscript of Vawter Redpath Bureau of Cedar Rapids; of the Farewell Address. Harry Harrison whose material from the The memorial book fund was initiated at Redpath Bureau of Chicago filled three hun- the Oregon State College Library in 1944-45 dred packing cases; and the small remaining with a gift of $100 from D. W. Porter, of part of Charles Horner's collection from the Palo Alto, for books in memory of his son. Redpath Bureau of Kansas City. Some ma- A group of alumni raised $160 through the terial has also been received from the Inter- Friends of the Library of Oregon State Col- national Lyceum Association of Chicago. lege in honor of R. J. Nichols, librarian from The library of the State University of Iowa 1902 to 1908, and other additions brought the thus becomes headquarters for material on total fund to $750 by April 1946. A special the Chautauqua movement in the Middle bookplate gives the name of the donor and West. the person commemorated, with an addi- Many autographed letters of Theodore tional gold star for the military personnel Dreiser and first editions of his works have who have died in service. been added to the University of Pennsylvania The library of Simpson College, Indianola, Library. This is now the most important col- Iowa, has received most of the lection of Dreiseriana in existence. of a former president, John L. Hillman. It At the Emory University Charter Day ban- is of special value to a Methodist institution. quet on January 25, Sterling G. Brinkley, A gift of five hundred dollars from the Meth- secretary-treasurer of the Class of 1907, pre- Note: Reporters who actually contributed to this sented a check for $150 to the university li- issue of "News from the Field:" Mrs. Lois B. Payson, librarian, Montana State College Library, Bozeman; brarian. Since 1938 the members of this class Alfred D. Lindsay, associate librarian, New York Uni- have made a yearly donation to the library. versity: F. B. Streeter, librarian, Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays; Mrs. Sarah S. Edwards, reference This gift brings their total contribution to librarian. State University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City; Wayne S. Yenawine, librarian, Air University, more than $3000, and 481 volumes now bear Maxwell Field, Ala.; Charlotte Anne Thompson, li- the special 1907 gift plate. brarian, University of Tampa, Tampa, Fla.; Georgia Couch, , Temple University, Phila- The senior medical class at the University delphia; Charles M. Adams, librarian, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; John of Utah raised approximately seven thousand VanMale, librarian, University of South Carolina, Co- dollars during 1945-46 for the university li- lumbia; Miss Christian R. Dick, librarian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. brary. The library also received five thousand

270 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES for the internees. This gift will serve as a the Field memorial to the outstanding work and leader- ship of Miss Lam and will be a permanent dollars for a collection of books to be named memorial to China's culture of which she was in honor of Milton Bennion, dean emeritus so proud. of education, and Esther Nelson, librarian The Templana Room was opened in the emeritus. Sullivan Memorial Library at Temple Uni- Recent gifts to the Library of the Florida versity ort February 12. The Conwellana State College for Women include 1200 vol- and Templana collections, which are the umes in the fields of history, philosophy, and printed sources for the history of Temple science from Mrs. H. E. Bierly in memory University and the biography of its founder, of her husband who was formerly a professor Russell H. Conwell, are housed in the room. at the college; a collection of 24 volumes All friends of the university are urged to presented by the family of the late Mr. and contribute any material they may possess to Mrs. T. E. Byrd of Tallahassee, including make the collections as complete as possible. works of Washington and Franklin, a Bio- A reading and humanities room was opened graphical Souvenir of Georgia and Florida, at the beginning of the spring quarter at and the 1785 Harrison edition of Samuel Oregon State College Library in space which Johnson's Dictionary of the English Lan- had been used for storage during the period guage; and a collection of authoritative works of decreased enrolment. One of the most ac- on Jewish history and religion from the Jew- cessible and attractive rooms in the building, ish Chautauqua Society of Cincinnati. it contains a selected browsing collection on Davidson College Library is building up low shelves, with the balance of the space through gifts a considerable collection of Pe- occupied by the books classified as literature. ter Stewart Ney (d. 1846) manuscripts and Seating capacity is provided for seventy-five relics. Regardless of the identity of this mys- readers. terious Frenchman in North Carolina (be- At the Ursinus College Library a well-fur- lieved by many to have been Napoleon's nished, soundproof room to be used as a Marshal Ney in hiding), he is of interest to combination music and treasure room has been Davidson College because he designed the opened. A collection of phonograph records official seal of the college. of classical music, donated by Henry Charl- Salem College Library has received a gift ton Beck, Jr., and Sarah Hatton Beck in in memory of Mary Duncan McAnally, asso- memory of their father, and the William A. ciate librarian, who was given leave of ab- Grubb collection, a gift of books in especially sence in 1943 to serve as an Army librarian firie bindings which came to the library sev- and who died while serving in this capacity eral years ago, are housed in the room. Miss on the island of Oahu in July 1945. Miss Beck's large personal collection of records has McAnally had been interested in expanding also been placed in the room. Additional gifts the microfilm equipment of the library. The will be made from time to time by Miss Beck gift includes, in addition to a portrait of Miss and her brother, and it is expected that other McAnally, a Recordak reader and a substan- gifts, particularly from interested students, tial fund for use in the acquisition of micro- will follow. film and other needed equipment. The Library of the Woman's College of The first issue of the University of North Carolina has recently Publications the Newsletter of the received one hundred dollars to purchase books Junior College Li- on China in memory of Constance Lam of the braries Section of the Association of College Class of 1933. During the war Miss Lam and Reference Libraries, American Library became director of a camp of two thousand Association, to be published under the recently refugee Chinese girls, in addition to teaching appointed newsletter committee, appeared in classes of children and supervising handwork March. The Newsletter„ which goes to all classes for adults. Later when the city of members of the Junior College Libraries Sec- Hongkong fell to the Japanese, she was per- tion, is edited by Mrs. Eloise Lindstrom, mitted to devise whatever relief was possible Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. Contribu- 24 7 JULY, 1946 tions of news items on activities, publications, ence on Russian Materials, November 17, exhibits, building plans, etc., are welcomed. I94S- The conference is the first coordinated The Library of the Florida State College attempt of special libraries handling Russian for Women, Tallahassee, is again publishing materials to pool their experiences, with the its informative and interesting bulletin, Call- eventual aim of enlarging the resources on ing All Readers. The bulletin contains ma- the subject. Copies of the report are avail- terial on various services and facilities of the able from the institute at $2.50 per copy. library, short reviews of new books, and mis- Jewish Social Studies has issued a special cellaneous data. supplement, vol. 8, no. I, 1946, entitled Tenta- "Dissertations, Theses and Papers of the tive List of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Graduate Library School, University of Chi- Axis-Occupied Countries. The list includes cago, 1930-1945; A Bibliography," compiled only movable treasures, such as books, docu- by Dorothy Charles, is a presentation of the ments, or museum pieces. research work which has been produced dur- A publication of interest to college and ref- ing a fifteen-year-period at the Chicago erence librarians is Research in Public Ad- school. The 132 titles represent investigations ministration by William Anderson and John in which practicing librarians and teachers M. Gaus (Public Administration Service, may find considerable use. The Graduate I945)« The volume considers such aspects as Library School is willing to loan any title on major research projects, capturing and record- proper application; if a microfilm copy is de- ing administrative experiences, case reports in sired the school will obtain the requisite per- public administration, general planning and mission of the author. promotion of research, and other matters Among theses completed at the Graduate connected with the Committee on Public Ad- Library School, University of Chicago, during ministration. Essentially, the book is a report 1945 which are of interest to college li- of this committee to the Social Science Re- brarians are the following: Thelma Andrews, search Council. Insofar as the work of the "Trends in College Library Buildings;" Min- council is made up of the work of its com- nie R. Bowles, "Library Activities for the mittee, it is also a report of the council. Stimulation of Reading among College Stu- The second edition of the Philadelphia dents;" Celia Hauck, "A Study of Low-Cost Regional Catalogers' Group Directory of Books;" Sister Mary Rose Warburton, "The Catalogers of the Philadelphia Area has been Attitude of the Educator towards the College announced. Copies are obtainable for 30 cents Library." from the secretary, Mary A. Crozer, Univer- The North Texas Regional Union List of sity of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia 4. Serials, Supplement, January 15, 1945- Certain publications of the Royal Bank of February IS, 1946, is a mimeographed 133- Canada are available for free distribution to page volume intended to bring up to date the libraries and individuals who wish to com- original list (1943) and the first supplement plete their files. All copies not requested will (1945). The present volume gives evidence be destroyed and the publications will then be of the efforts that are being made to fill the out of print. Inquiries and requests should gaps in the files held in the region. Arthur M. be addressed to Mildred I. Turnbull, li- Sampley, North Texas State Teachers Col- brarian, Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal 1, lege, Benton, is editor. P.Q. Two recent studies of importance to li- The Feb. I, 1946, issue of Higher Education brarians and educators are the Mississippi contains an article by Robert R. Hudelson Study of Higher Education, 1945 by Joseph on the "University of Illinois Future Pro- E. Gibson, director, and others, and Public grams," while the February 15 issue includes Higher Education in South Carolina, A Sur- "Development of the United States Office of vey Report (1946), made by the Division of Education" by John W. Studebaker. # Surveys and Field Services, George Peabody The U.S. Office of Education has published College for Teachers. its annual report for the year ending June The American Russian Institute, 58 Park 30, 1945. In the section devoted to higher Ave., New York City, has issued in mimeo- education the report refers to the emphases graphed form the Special Libraries Confer- on research, curriculum construction, and

272 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES teaching anticipated in assisting colleges to J. W. Edwards, Ann Arbor, Mich., lists ap- repair the effects of the war and in meeting proximately 13,000 principally monographic new problems arising in the postwar years. titles, all now held in Washington libraries. Among other sections one is devoted to the A third volume, listing French imprints, activities of the office in the field of library 1940-1945, will also be published. service. Copies of Annual Report of the Fed- The Final Report of the New York State eral Security Agency, Section Two, U.S. Office Joint Legislative Committee on Legislative of Education, 194.5, are 15 cents each, from Methods, Practices, Procedures and Expendi- the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Gov- tures (1946) contains extensive references to ernment Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. library services. The report is of special in- Proposals Relating to the Statistical Func- terest to librarians in that it sets a new stand- tion of the U.S. Office of Education, a Report ard in legislative research. of the National Conference on the Office of Education Statistical Program (Bulletin University Micro- 1946, No. 2), can be obtained from the Su- Micro films films, Ann Arbor, perintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Mich., released the Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C., for 10 first one hundred thousand pages of its new cents. series in June. The first series was com- Document librarians will be interested in menced in 1941 to make available on microfilm knowing of Documents Office Classification, all known, extant, and available periodi- a compilation of the classification numbers cals published in the United States between used in the Office of the Superintendent of 1741 and 1799. The new series continues the Documents, by Mary Elizabeth Poole, refer- project through the years 1800-25, the first ence and document librarian of North Caro- one hundred thousand pages covering 1800 to lina State College. It is available at $10.40 in 1809. Libraries may purchase any or all of a loose-leaf, lithoprinted edition (notebook the following periods: 1800-09, 1810-19, not included) and includes Superintendent of 1820-25. It is expected that it will take five Documents' numbers through August 1945, years to complete the entire project, but film arranged in shelflist order. The information will be distributed as each title is completed. given in each case is the entire number, the About one hundred thousand pages will be name of the class or particular series, fre- completed each year at an annual cost of quency (if regular and known), format (if $450. A catalog locating each title on each processed), and references to earlier and one hundred-foot reel and catalog cards will later classifications. No dates are given for accompany the set. The film series are de- individual publications, but, where obtain- signed to meet the needs of the scholar and able, the dates and statutory authority are research worker and make it possible for the given for the origin and termination of agen- first time for any library to acquire important cies. In the index, bureaus are listed under early source materials at a lower cost per their own name and under the name of their page than is paid for many current publica- department. tions. The Library of Congress in collaboration During the war the Aslib Microfilm Serv- with two publishers is sponsoring a series, ice made available microfilm and paper European Imprints for the War Years Re- enlargements of scientific and technical pe- ceived in the Library of Congress and Other riodicals from enemy and enemy-occupied Federal Libraries, which is intended to pro- countries which would not otherwise have vide a checklist of wartime titles both as a been generally accessible to research work- finding list for use in research and as a tool ers. The end of the war reduced the demand for ordering work in libraries. The first for this special function but made apparent part of the series, Italian Imprints, 1940- the need for rehabilitation of medical libraries. 1945, has been published by G. E. Stechert, By arrangement with the Royal Society of New York City. It lists approximately 7,500 Medicine, and with the consent of the Rocke- titles, principally monographic, now available feller Foundation and the Royal Society, it in the federal libraries. The second volume, has been agreed that the equipment hitherto German Imprints, 1940-1945, published by used by Aslib should be transferred to the 24 7 JULY, 1946 use of a special medical microfilm service, and which consisted of twenty-five thousand vol- on January I the Aslib Microfilm Service be- umes when the present building was erected came the Central Medical Library Bureau of in 1920, has now reached a total of eighty the Royal Society of Medicine. Aslib will thousand. still be able to arrange for the supply of School of Law has photographic copies of certain types of litera- announced a proposed new building for con- ture. The A.M.S. library of master-films of struction at Washington Square. Preliminary scientific and technical periodicals contains subscriptions have reached nearly $46,000, some fourteen thousand issues of several hun- over 70 per cent paid in. dred titles published during the war years of New York University has announced plans which a cumulative list is available. To save for construction of a $15,000,000 medical cen- time and labor, not less than whole issues of ter, adjoining the area of the present Bellevue the journals in the cumulative list will be Hospital, the latter to be rebuilt by the City supplied in microfilm in the future; orders for of New York at a cost of $12,500,000. The individual papers will be executed in paper combined project will occupy nine city blocks. enlargements. All orders, including requests The university area will include a new college for copies of individual references from varied of medicine building, a university clinic, a literature, should be addressed to Aslib, 52 university hospital, a hall of residence for Bloomsbury St., London WCi. medical students, an auditorium, and an in- stitute of forensic medicine. At the opening A gift of $200,000 campaign dinner, advance contributions of

0ward the eW li $122,000 were reported, and an additional Buildings and Plans f L " ~ $615,000 has been raised toward the $750,000 brary building at goal for the hall of residence. Bucknell University was announced at the midwinter commence- Michigan State ment held March 4. The name of the donor Felloivships College Library of- was not made public. This gift and previ- fers a half-time as- ously announced contributions of $175,000 sistantship for the academic year 1946-47 to bring the university's library fund to $375,000. an experienced librarian with a full year of The new building will cost approximately library training who will work for a master's $500,000. degree. The stipend, fixed by the college for Mrs. J. H. Crosland, librarian of the half-time assistantships, is $800 for twenty Georgia School of Technology, has completed hours of work a week for ten months. The preliminary plans for a new library building to candidate may choose his own field in which be a central wing of a large administration to work for the M.S., M.A., M.Music, and academic building. The library wing, to M.Forestry, or a professional degree in engi- cost approximately $800,000, will greatly in- neering. A curriculum is available for county crease the service areas for students and fac- and rural librarians in rural sociology. A ulty and will provide open shelves and transcript of credits and record of experience bookstacks for five hundred thousand volumes. should be sent with letters of application to The Abbey Library, St. Benedict's College, Jackson E. Towne, librarian, Michigan State Atchison, Kan., has ordered additional steel College, East Lansing. stacks to shelve fifteen thousand volumes and is making plans for a new library building The organization which will cost about $300,000. Western Union College Library, Le Mars, American4 - Bookv l Centern 4 an. d function. „ s , of the Iowa, is making a drive for $125,000 for a American Book Cen- new library building. The present collection ter for War Devas- of fifteen thousand volumes is being aug- tated Libraries were briefly described in the mented rapidly by purchase and gift. April issue of College and Research Libraries. A contract has been let for the building of A further announcement from the center a fourth tier of stacks, to house twenty-five makes clear their present needs. It is prob- thousand volumes, for the library at Luther able that much of the material sent abroad College, Decorah, Iowa. The collection, will go to national, university, and college 274 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES libraries. Scholarly works useful in research Exhibition of Prints, which was opened at the and for rehabilitation of war-ravaged areas Library of Congress on May 1, included en- are wanted. Emphasis is placed on books and gravings, etchings, wood engravings, block periodicals of a scientific and technical nature prints, lithographs, and serigraphs of 296 or which are standard in their fields, and artists. Thirty purchase prizes were awarded particularly those published in the last ten by the Standing Committee for the Purchase years. Light fiction, material of purely local of Prints on the Pennell Fund. interest, most textbooks, and popular maga- During April and May an exhibition of a zines are not needed. Federal, state, and collection of first editions of James Fenimore local documents dealing with such subjects Cooper, a gift of Leonard Kebler, was held in as municipal planning, public health, medi- the Columbia University Library. cine, etc., will be very useful abroad, but it is suggested that a description of the docu- A library institute, ments available should be sent to the office Courses, Curricula, sponsored by Western before the documents are shipped. All ship- Conferences Reserve University ments should be sent prepaid to the American School of Library Book Center, c/o the Library of Congress, Science and the Ohio State Library, will be Washington 25, D.C. The center hopes that held at Western Reserve University, Cleve- donors will assume the costs of transportation land, from July 8 through July 20. Carl but when this is not possible reimbursement Vitz, librarian of the Cincinnati Public Li- will be made upon notification of the amount brary, will open the institute with an address due. on "The Public Library of Today and To- morrow." Both children's library service and The University of adult library activities will be emphasized Exhibits California Library at with sessions devoted to children's literature Los Angeles opened and basic principles in its selection, the li- an exhibition of typography, books, and print- brary as a central information office for the ing by Grant Dahlstrom on Mar. 25, 1946. community, new developments in library- Since 1943 Mr. Dahlstrom has owned the community activity, and trends in adult book Castle Press at Pasadena. publication in 1945-46. The program for An exhibition of unusual importance at the three afternoons will include a practical li- University of Pennsylvania Library is a collec- brary clinic. The fee for the course is $10. tion of Nazi schoolbooks from a village in Registration will be held July 6 and July 8 the Black Forest and typical of the party's in the School of Library Science, Thwing Hall, educational methods. It clearly shows the 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. many devices used to influence the young Ger- The Rock River Community College, an man mind. evening school of the liberal arts, was opened An exhibition of water colors by Stanley as a community service by Beloit College, Be- Corneal was put on display in the Templana loit, Wis., in March. Classes in literature, Room at Temple University when the room government, art, dramatics, music, and other was opened on February 15. subjects met weekly from March 4 to May 9. The Library of the University of North Courses were planned to interest men and Carolina has had on display a large and color- women regardless of their previous formal ful exhibit drawn from the Bowman Gray education and credit was not offered, classes Collection of World War I materials. This being open to all upon payment of a small fee. very extensive collection of books, pamphlets, The "New Plan of Study for the Bachelor posters, maps, photographs, documents, and of Arts Degree at Princeton" is described by periodicals, some of them unique, offers to E. Harris Harbison in the March 1 issue of historians a remarkably complete source for Higher Education. The necessity for both studying the various ways of influencing pub- general and special education, the relation- lic opinion employed by both the Allied and ship of the two, and Princeton's plan for a the Central powers in the years from 1914 to four-year progression from general to spe- 1920. cialized study with requirements to meet these The fourth National J. and E. R. Pennell needs are discussed. 24 7 JULY, 1946 The second short training course in the M. Adams, the Bibliographical Society of preservation and administration of archives America by Charles E. Rush, the Association for custodians of public, institutional, and of College and Reference Libraries by Olan business archives, was offered by the Ameri- V. Cook, the Huntington Library by W. can University in Washington, D.C., with the Dougald MacMillan, the state library com- cooperation of the National Archives and the mission by H. Marjorie Beal, and the North Maryland Hall of Records from June 17 Carolina Library Association by Susan Grey through July 6, 1946. The program pro- Akers. On this occasion a doctor of letters vided lectures on the most important phases was awarded to Joseph Quincy Adams, direc- of archival administration and practical work tor of the Folger Shakespeare Library. in such fields as arrangement and description The Bull's Head Bookshop, in the Univer- of archives, repair and preservation, catalog- sity of North Carolina Library, makes a ing, calendaring, and photoduplication. custom of presenting a local author at a tea The State Teachers Colleges of Pennsyl- each month. Those who have spoken at the vania at Millersville and Kutztown are teas this year are Betty Smith, author of A sponsoring jointly an annual con- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, James Street, of ference for eastern Pennsylvania. This year The Gauntlet, and Noel Houston, of The it was held at Kutztown on April 5 and 6. Great Promise. The final speaker this sea- In 1947 the conference will be held at Millers- son was Thomas Tileston Waterman, whose ville on March 7 and 8. Mansions of Virginia was published by the The World Congress on Air-Age Education University of North Carolina Press on will be held August 21-28 at International April 27. House, in New York City, for the purpose An undergraduate library committee has of considering how aviation may contribute been formed at the University of Pennsyl- to a peaceful and united world. vania to meet with library officials at fre- At the final convocation of the sesquicen- quent intervals. This committee, as well as tennial celebration of the University of North the graduate student library committee, Carolina on Apr. 13, 1946, the Library of brings up matters of importance to the stu- Congress was represented by Lewis Hanke, dent body. It is hoped that close cooperation the American Library Association by Charles will make possible a more effective service.

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