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ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS in 1868, the library reached its first million volumes in 1937-38. At the present rate of THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LIBRARY has growth of 70,000 volumes a year, it will been given a collection of medical works comprise 3,000,000 volumes by 1972-73. ranging in time from 300 B.C. to 1892, from IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE, LOS Angeles, Hippocrates to Krafft-Ebing. The donor was has received the private library of the late Dr. Hugh H. Smith, a co-developer of yel- Mrs. Edward L. Doheny. It is rich in art, low-fever vaccine, now a professor of bac- architecture and fine press books. The col- teriology at the university. lection will be housed in a specially designed BELOIT COLLEGE LIBRARIES have been pre- room. sented with a valuable collection of books, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY pamphlets, and magazines dealing with LIBRARY has been given an original manu- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal script by Sir Isaac Newton. Dr. Sidney M. period. The gift was made by Dr. Joseph C. Edelstein of New York was the donor. The Rheingold, a practicing psychiatrist in Bos- manuscript is a sixty-one-page commentary ton. Appraised at $10,000, the collection and translation of a fourteenth-century book covers almost every detail of the financial, on alchemy by Nicholas Flamel. economic and labor history of the Roosevelt THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA has years. received a $100,000 trust fund in the will THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA of Edwin A. Fleischer for the continuance LIBRARY has acquired one of the great col- and maintenance of music collection he lections of Canadiana from the estate of presented to the library in 1932. It is said Thomas Murray, Montreal manufacturer, to be the largest and most complete collec- collector, and book dealer. The huge group tion of orchestral manuscripts in the world. of materials (300 cases weighing ten tons) THE COLLEGE OF ST. JOSEPH ON THE RIO was purchased with the aid of the Friends GRANDE, Albuquerque, N. M., has been be- of the University Library. queathed more than two thousand volumes COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES have add- by the late Dr. Joaquin Ortega. They are ed several important collections: (1) a manu- primarily on the literature and history of script collection of writings by Don Marquis, Spain and Latin America. including sixty-five letters, presented by SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Doubleday and Company; (2) a collection has acquired the James Joyce collection of of books and pamphlets published by the Dr. H. K. Crossman. One of the outstanding underground of several Western European private collections on Joyce, it includes im- countries during the German occupation in portant editions and translations of the World War II; the gift was made by Mr. author's work, holograph materials, associa- and Mrs. Valerien Lada-Mocarski of New tion items, iconography, as well as critical York; (3) two groups of Oriental materials: and biographical works on Joyce. Outstand- the first consignment of a gift of some one ing among the holographs is all that re- thousand Japanese books from Shigeru Yos- mained, following the 1943 bombing of Ber- hida, former premier of Japan, and more lin, of Joyce's correspondence with his Ger- than fifteen hundred Chinese books pre- man translator, Georg Goyert. The collection sented by Mrs. K. C. Yeung whose late hus- was purchased through the financial assist- band was Presbyterian minister of New ance of the Southern Illinois University York's Chinatown for thirty years. Foundation. A comprehensive catalog is be- CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY acquired its ing prepared for publication. 2,000,000th volume on January 7. The vol- ume singled out for this honor was Animad- BUILDINGS versionum in Athenaei Dipnosophistas writ- CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING of modern de- ten by Isaac Casaubon and printed in Lyon, sign for the Cornell University Library has France, in 1600. Starting with 20,000 volumes been authorized despite criticisms from a

142 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- former dean of architecture that it threatens 150,000 volumes. Construction of the two- to destroy "one of the notable campus quad- story, air-conditioned building will start rangles in the United States." The new this spring; completion is set for the fall library has been designed by Warner, Burns, of 1960. It was designed by Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde of New York in straight, Toan 8c Lunde of New York. The new li- modern lines. The seven-story building will brary will be used primarily for the under- contain about ten times more floor space graduate program. than the present main library. The older THE CHARLES HAYDEN FOUNDATION has building will become an undergraduate li- granted $100,000 for the proposed new li- brary while the new one will be devoted brary at Wagner College, Staten Island, to research facilities primarily for graduate N. Y. students and faculty. A LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT IN- STITUTE will be held in the University of THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of Dartmouth Col- Maryland's new McKeldin Library at College lege has authorized the developing of plans Park, June 18-20. This institute, planned and asking of bids on two additions to Bak- for librarians, architects, and administra- er Library. The work will involve filling tors, will be sponsored by the Section on in portions of two courtyards. Preliminary Buildings and Equipment of LAD. The pro- estimates place the cost at slightly more than gram will include talks and discussions on $100,000. The additions will provide more procedures for planning a library, interior suitable work and storage space for the lay-outs, heating, lighting, equipment, site Stefansson Polar Collection and the college selection, and critiques of plans for new- archives. libraries. Four general sessions and three FORDHAM UNIVERSITY will break ground periods of group meetings are scheduled. and start construction on its $25,500,000 The ALA display of building plans and center in midtown Manhattan this spring. related materials will be available for use. It will occupy seven and a half acres on Included will be photographs of new build- two city blocks bounded by West 60th and ings and equipment, publicity for fund 62nd Streets, Amsterdam, and Columbus raising, building-program statements, and Avenues, adjacent to the New York Coli- documents on site selection. There will be seum and the Lincoln Center of Performing ample opportunity to discuss individual Arts. Among the first Fordham buildings to building problems with experts on library be erected will be the law school and its buildings. library, scheduled for completion by Sep- The registration fee will be $26.00 (pay- tember 1960. A general library will be built able in advance) and will include room and by 1962. The university's schools of law, board. The ALA section fee will be $10.00 business, social service, education and gen- (payable on arrival). All reservations for the eral studies will be moved to the midtown institute must be made in advance. Informa- center. The traditional campus will remain tion about living accommodations, registra- at Rose Hill in the Bronx. tion, transportation from Washington, pro- MARYCREST COLLEGE, Davenport, Iowa, has gram, etc., is available from Director of Insti- a new two-level library building. Built at tutes, University College, University of Mary- a cost of $250,000, it has a potential shelving land, College Park, Md. General inquiries capacity of 120,000 volumes in a three-tier may be addressed to Keith Doms, Assistant stack and a maximum seating seating capac- Librarian, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa. ity of 250. Although constructed along func- Mr. Doms is chairman of the Section on tional lines, the building blends with others Building and Equipment. on campus since its facade employs the same brick. PUBLICATIONS PLANS have been completed for a new $1,000,000 library at Douglass College, the STATISTICS of interest to college and uni- women's division of Rutgers University. Fi- versity librarians appear in three recent nanced by legislative appropriation, the publications of the U. S. Office of Education. building will seat 600 students and hold Higher Education Planning and Manage-

MARCH 1959 143 ment Data, 1957-58, by W. Robert Bokelman college and university libraries and their (Circular no. 517) presents information possible role as district centers in the public about salaries, fringe benefits, tuition and library service of the state. Copies of the fees, and room and board in 1,146 institu- report have been sent to all state library tions of higher education. Chapter 1 reports extension agencies and all library schools. 1957-58 salary data for twenty-four adminis- They are available on interlibrary loan from trative positions, including director of li- these places or from the Pennslyvania State braries. The data are grouped by type of Library. A summary of the report may be institution and by enrollment category, in obtained free from the state library. each case with a distinction between public THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has is- and private institutions. In addition to the sued the first of a new series of bulletins maximum-minimum range, median, mean, that will inventory all significant scientific and first and third quartile salaries are sources and activities within the Federal given. It is interesting to note that, when Government. The primary objective is to all positions are ranked by mean salaries, the make unclassified unpublished scientific re- director of libraries is not among the first search data easily accessible and available ten in either public or private institutions. to all U. S. scientists and engineers, both in Statistics of Higher Education; 1955-56— and out of Government. The first bulletin Faculty, Students and Degrees, by Henry G. is Scientific Information Activities of Feder- Badger and M. Clemens Johnson (Chapter al Agencies: No. 1, U. S. Department of 4, Section I of the Biennial Survey of Educa- Agriculture (NSF-58-27). tion in the United States, 1954-56) includes THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA has data on the professional library staffs of published its 1957 lecture series under the 1,858 institutions. They employed 8,515 li- title Four Talks for Bibliophiles (96 p., brarians, 640 more than were reported by $3.00). The papers are: "Adventures in 1,871 institutions in 1953-54. In each case, Americana," by Michael Walsh; "Sir Edward approximately 30 per cent of them were Coke and the Carson Collection," by Cather- men and 70 per cent women. ine Drinker Bowen; "Old Booksellers of Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni- Philadelphia," by George Allen; and "Hor- versities, Year Ended June 30, 1957 (Circu- ace: Alive for Twenty Centeries," by Dr. lar no. 541) includes library financial data Merle M. Odgers. The library has also re- in several of its tables. In the sixty-nine in- leased Fraktur: the Illuminated Manuscripts stitutions reporting, a total of $22,257,414 of the Pennslyvania Dutch, a talk by Frances was spent from current funds for library Lichten, in a decorative cover designed by services in 1956-57. This was a 7.6 per cent author ($1.00). Orders should be sent to the increase over the previous year's expendi- Rare Book Department of the Free Library, tures. However, the gross amount spent for Logan Square, Philadelphia. libraries constituted only 2.2 per cent of the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY has total current-fund expenditures for educa- authorized G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, to tional and general purposes. When the in- publish its subject heading file. It contains stitutions were classified by amount of cur- more than 100,000 entries for all subject rent-fund expenditures, the highest percent- headings currently in use. It will be pub- age (3.2) spent for libraries was in those lished in five volumes, each with about with budgets of less than $5,000,000. one thousand 10" x 14" pages. The price THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY has for the set will be $140. Inquiries may be issued Library Service in Pennsylvania: addressed to G. K. Hall 8c Co., 97 Oliver Present and Proposed, a two-volume report Street, Boston 10. by a research team headed by Dr. Lowell Technical Translations is a new, semi- A. Martin. It is based on questionaires from monthly periodical being issued by Office 617 public, college, and special libraries, of Technical Services, U. S. Department of visits to 154 libraries, intensive case studies Commerce. It will list and abstract trans- in six geographic areas, and discussions with lations of Russian scientific papers available librarians and officials. Academic librarians from government agencies, the Special Li- will be particularly interested in the data on braries Association, cooperating foreign

144 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- governments, educational institutions and times a year instead of annually. They con- private sources. It is expected to include cita- tain authoritative accounts of research and tions to as many as 10,000 complete trans- learning written for the nonspecialist and lations a year. The annual subscription covering many fields. The annual subscrip- price is $12.00. tion is 215., obtainable from the Royal In- Undergraduate Education; Proceedings of stitution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W. 1. the Minnesota Institute contains papers that WABASH COLLEGE, Crawfordsville, Ind., has clarify the present status of library education published a 496-page history of Montgomery with particular emphasis on standards for County, Indiana entitled Sugar Creek Saga. undergraduate and graduate programs. Edit- The author is Theodore Gregory Gronert. ed by David K. Berninghausen, the multi- Copies may be purchased for $6.00 each lithed publication may be purchased directly from the college library. from Nicholson Bookstore, University of THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA has an- Minnesota, Minneapolis 14. The price is nounced the forthcoming appearance of a $2.00. new quarterly journal of history to be titled ALTHOUGH not directly related to college Arizona and the West. The journal will pub- and university libraries, The Effective Loca- lish "explorations in western history from tion of Public Library Buildings, by Joseph Cibola to contemporary frontiers." L. Wheeler, is an important contribution to THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION librarianship. Published as no. 52 of the BOARD has announced the forthcoming pub- University of Illinois Library School Oc- lication of Southeastern Supplement to the casional Papers, this report represents the Union List of Serials, a list of serial holdings culmination of long study by the former in three dozen university and college li- director of the Enoch Pratt Library in Balti- braries in ten southeastern states. The sup- more, coupled with the findings of a ques- plement, compiled and edited by Edward tionaire sent to libraries in cities with popu- Graham Roberts, library consultant for the lations of 100,000 or more. Copies may be Board, under the sponsorship of the Associa- purchased for $1.00 each from Dr. Harold tion of Southeastern Research Libraries, the Lancour, editor, Occasional Papers, Univer- Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility, sity of Illinois Library School, Urbana. Checks and the Southern Regional Education Board, should be made payable to him. is intended to bridge the gap between the RUSSELL SHANK, engineering and physical Union List of Serials and its supplements sciences librarian at Columbia University, and New Serial Titles and will contain only is the compiler and editor of Bibliography serials which began publication before Jan- of Technical Writing, 1945-57 (New York: uary 1, 1950. Publication is set for April 15. Society of Technical Writers and Editors, THE COMMITTEE ON LONG-TERM PERIOD- 1958. 67 p.). Copies may be purchased from ICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS of the Resources and the society at P. O. Box 3706, Beechwood Technical Services Division of the American Station, Columbus 14, Ohio. Library Association has compiled Periodicals Russian-English Medical Dictionary, by Available on Long-Term Subscription, a list Stanley Jablonski, has been published by of 700 titles published in the United States Academic Press, Inc. Edited by Dr. Ben which are available at cheaper rates when S. Levine, the 423-page volume covers the ordered for longer periods. The list supple- terminology of all principal branches of ments the report edited by James W. Barry medical and paramedical sciences. It is that was published in the Winter issue of priced at $11.00. Detailed information and Library Resources & Technical Services. The sample pages may be obtained from the first consolidation of this type of informa- publisher at 111 Fifth Avenue, New York 3. tion, it may be obtained for 25 cents in ALL VOLUMES of Poole's Index to Periodi- stamps or coins from the Executive Secretary, cal Literature are again in print. They may Resources and Technical Services Division, be obtained from Peter Smith, publisher, American Library Association, 50 East Huron 20 Railroad Avenue, Gloucester, Mass. Street, Chicago 11. The Proceedings of the Royal Institution THE PHILADELPHIA BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CEN- of Great Britain will now be published three TER and Union Library Catalogue Union

MARCH 1959 145 List of English Translations of Russian Jour- cations for interlibrary loans within the state. nals has been compiled in response to ques- During the experimental period, the center tions asked of the Center. The list is avail- will use teletype to request locations from able to libraries included in the Union Cat- the National Union Catalog at the Library alogue free of charge, and to other libraries of Congress for items needed by students and at $2.00 per copy. faculty at the university. Cost analyses will be made to determine the desirability of MISCELLANEOUS continuing this service. THE CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC COMMUNI- RADCLIFFE COLLEGE will offer its sixth CATION was held in Washington, D. C., annual Institute on Historical and Archival December 29-30, 1958. One of the programs Management from June 29-August 7. It will was a symposium on communicating science be co-sponsored by the department of history in specialized libraries. The panelists were: at Harvard University. Lawrence W. Town- Col. Frank Rogers (National Library of er, editor of the William and Mary Quarterly Medicine), John Sherrod (Library of Con- and director of graduate studies in history gress), Foster Mohrhardt (Department of at the College of William and Mary, will be Agriculture), and Burton Adkinson (Nation- in charge of the summer institute. The total al Science Foundation). Verner Clapp staff will include eighteen or more experts in (Council on Library Resources) was modera- this field. The class is limited to fifteen tor. In his remarks, Dr. Adkinson mentioned students. Two full-tuition scholarships of that the National Science Foundation is $200 each are available. Inquiries should be attempting to determine how much money addressed to the institute, 10 Garden Street, the Federal Government spends annually Cambridge 38, Mass. for science information services, including A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL is appearing origi- libraries. Other NSF studies include the in- nally in microform as an experiment by the formation-gathering habits of scientists and American Institute of Biological Sciences, the means of improving U. S. library col- with the assistance of grants from the Coun- lections of scientific literature in foreign cil on Library Resources and the National languages. Science Foundation. Wildlife Disease will be COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has been granted issued quarterly on approximately four 3x5 $95,620 by the Rockefeller Foundation to Microcards, each containing one article with support a four-year training program for up to forty-seven pages of microtext. A full- Indonesian librarians. It provides fellow- size leaflet accompanies each issue, contain- ships for nine candidates recommended by ing abstracts of the articles. As they will be the Indonesian Ministry of Education. After reported to Biological Abstracts; the leaflets a year's study for the master's degree in li- need not be retained indefinitely. brarianship, each student will spend three This experimental publication will test or four months in training at an American application of microtext techniques to re- library chosen for its relevance to the stu- search publication. The feasibility of serving dent's future employment in Indonesia. a small specialist group (the Wildlife Dis- DELAWARE STATE COLLEGE will inaugurate ease Association has only 300 members), the National Library Week by having String- adequacy of scientific communication, sav- fellow Barr as speaker in the Library Cultur- ings in cost of publication as well as practi- al Series, April 12. His topic will be "Fiction cal details of format and use of inexpensive Is Truer Than History." On April 14, the reading devices are some of the variables college library will sponsor an assembly fea- to be evaluated during the three-year proj- turing Effie Lee Morris, children's specialist ect. for the blind at the New York Public Li- THE ENTIRE FILE of New York City tele- brary. phone directories, from 1878 to 1955, is now TELETYPEWRITER SERVICE has been installed available on microfilm at the New York in the North Carolina Interlibrary Center, Public Library. Other copies of the recently the North Carolina State Library, and Pack completed file are at the Library of Con- Memorial Library in Asheville. The services gress and the Brooklyn Public Library which will be used to speed identification of lo- shared the cost of producing the 19,166 feet

146 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- of film with NYPL and the New York Tele- Charles W. David, Director, Longwood Li- phone Company. brary, Kennet Square, Pennsylvania. ROBERT F. METZDORF, Yale University A BIBLIOGRAPHY of the works of Horatio archivist, has been appointed editor of the Alger is being prepared by Ralph D. Gard- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of ner, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, who America. He succeeds Earle F. Walbridge would like to hear from persons knowing and Curt F. Buhler who have jointly edited the titles, dates, and names of publications the journal for the past twelve years. LAW- in which the author's short stories, articles, RENCE S. THOMPSON, director, University of and poems appeared. Kentucky Libraries will be book editor and MRS. FRANCES NEEL CHENEY, associate pro- HERBERT T. F. CAHOON, chief, reference de- fessor of library science at the George Pea- partment, Pierpont Morgan Library, will be body College Library School, became the news-note editor. first recipient of the new Beta Phi Mu Good ECONOMICAL SMALL EDITION PUBLISHING is Teaching Award at the annual meeting of a new service of G. K. Hall 8c Co. Processes the Association of American Library Schools, developed by the firm for printing of large Chicago, January 26. The annual award was library catalogs in small editions are being established by Beta Phi Mu, the interna- used for regular book printing with runs tional library science honor society, and car- of 25 to 500 copies. The company believes ries a citation, honorarium, and honorary its prices will prove attractive, compared membership in the society. Mrs. Cheney's citation read in part: "The expressions of with the normal expense of short-run letter- her former students and her colleagues tes- press. Further information may be obtained tify to her skill in teaching, her understand- from G. K. Hall & Co., 97 Oliver Street, ing of each student as an individual, with Boston 10. deep insight into his capabilities, and to THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER at the 1959 con- her ability to bring out the best in each stu- vention of the Louisiana Library Association, dent, helping him to develop his potential Baton Rouge, March 19-21, will be Dr. to the fullest." Ralph Ellsworth, librarian of the University ALA REPRESENTATIVES at recent collegiate of Colorado. The convention theme, "Now ceremonies were ELEANOR WEIR WELCH, di- That We Have Built," emphasizes the many rector of libraries, Illinois State Normal new library buildings in the state. University, at the inauguration of Lloyd THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LI- Millard Bertholf as president of Illinois BRARIES has announced plans for a meeting Wesleyan University, Bloomington, on Feb- to be held in New York on June 24, 1959 ruary 11; PATRICIA CATLETT, assistant li- for the purpose of determining the advisi- brarian, Southeastern Louisiana College, at bility of establishing an international as- the inauguration of George Thomas Walk- sociation of law libraries. All institutions, er as president of Northeast Louisiana State law firms, and private individuals interested College, Monroe, on February 20-21; and in the promotion of the development of legal KATHERINE G. HARRIS, reference services di- collections on a multi-national basis are in- rector, Detroit Public Library, at the inaugu- vited to communicate their opinions and ration of Dewey F. Barich as president of suggestions to Professor William R. Roalfe, the Detroit Institute of Technology on Feb- Northwestern University Law School, 357 ruary 28. East Chicago Avenue, Chicago 11. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of ACRL has THE LONGWOOD LIBRARY has announced designated the dedication ceremonies for the its sponsorship of a proposed edition of new library at Colgate University on April selected correspondence of Rear-Admiral 13 as the inauguration of National Library Samuel Francis du Pont for the years 1861- Week for college and research libraries. Some 1865 to be prepared by Admiral John D. 150 librarians will be among the dignitaries Hayes, U.S.N. (Ret.). Communications are from academic and public life invited to at- requested from anyone having knowledge tend. Honorary degrees will be given to of pertinent materials, particularly letters Archibald MacLeish and Leslie E. Bliss, for- from du Pont to his fellow officers. Contact mer librarian of the Huntington Library.

MARCH 1959 147 A $15,000 GRANT to the National Microfilm ALA WILL INAUGURATE this spring a serv- Association for extending understanding of ice to provide librarians, retailers, and man- the applications of microfilm to library and ufacturers with accurate qualitative informa- similar uses and to be used in connection tion on library equipment and supplies. This with its annual meeting for 1959 has been new service is made possible for ALA made by the Council on Library Resources, through a grant of $136,395 from the Coun- Inc. The Eighth Annual Meeting of the As- cil on Library Resources, Inc. The grant sociation will be held April 2, 3, and 4 at the will support the project for two years. Hotel Mayflower, Washington. "Library Technology: A Standards Pro- Approximately six hundred librarians, gram on Supplies and Equipment" is the archivists, scientists, technicians, government full title of the new project. It will operate and business executives, manufacturers of informally as the ALA Library Technology equipment and supplies, and others con- Project. ALA will administer it through an cerned with the use of all forms of micro- advisory committee appointed from mem- reproduction are expected to attend the bers of LAD. Miss Katharine Stokes, pres- three-day annual meeting, according to Ver- ident of LAD, has named the following as non D. Tate, executive secretary of the Na- the advisory group: Keith Doms, assistant tional Microfilm Association. director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, A portion of the grant will be used to Chairman; Ralph Blasingame, Jr., state li- defray the costs of perparation, publication, brarian of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg; Donald and distribution of a Guide to Micro-Repro- Coney, librarian of the University of Cali- ducing Equipment, to be edited by Hubbard fornia, Berkeley; John H. Ottemiller, asso- W. Ballou of Columbia University Library. ciate librarian of Yale University, New The Guide will provide for the first time Haven, Conn.; and Miss M. Bernice Wiese, comparable illustrated factual information, supervisor of school libraries, Baltimore De- including prices, about microfilm cameras, partment of Education, Baltimore. The com- printers, processors, reading machines, ac- cessory and other equipment. The Guide mittee held its first meeting in conjunction will be distributed without charge to reg- with the Midwinter Meeting of ALA Coun- istrants at the meeting and to libraries. cil. A second portion of the grant will enable Collection and compilation of existing the display of experimental and other equip- standards for library supplies and equip- ment not commercially available. A third ment will be the first major program of the portion of the grant will be used to defray project. As soon as this work is under way, some of the expenses of selected archival however, the project will establish its free and library technical personnel from distant information service for the answering of parts of the country to attend and participate mail and telephone inquiries. A handbook in the meeting. collecting present standards into a single Theme of the Eighth Annual Meeting handy volume is an early aim of LTP. After will be "A Century of Microfilm Progress, the compilation of such a volume it is ex- 1859-1959," commemorating the centennial pected that a regular department of the ALA of the first microfilm patent, granted in Bulletin will be used to disseminate further Paris, June 21, 1859, to Rene Prudent Pa- similar data. trice Dagron. Dagron is best remembered for Long range plans for LTP envision the his extensive use of microfilm during the establishment of a testing laboratory and siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War full development of research programs to of 1870. More than 300,000 letters and dis- identify equipment needs of libraries and patches were reproduced on microfilm and to develop needed items of equipment. flown by carrier pigeon in to Paris after LTP is the result of a proposal first fully the city had been surrounded and cut off stated by Melville J. Ruggles, Vice President completely from communication with the of the Council on Library Resources, Inc., outside world. The "pigeon post" anticipated in 1957. Mr. Ruggles outlined the need for the V-Mail of World War II. Examples such a program. Its feasibility was tested of the original microfilms will be on display in a six-months study conducted by John at the meeting. Ottemiller in 1958.

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RICHARD E. CHAPIN will be promoted to In all of his positions, Dr. Chapin has the position of director of the Michigan demonstrated unusual ability to analyze and State University Library on July 1, 1959. He to organize, plus exceptional qualities of has been associate personal leadership. He is particularly ef- librarian in charge fective in relationships with faculty and ad- of readers services ministration as well as with the general pub- since 1955. lic, commanding both the respect and the Dr. Chapin brings support of others. For a young and vigor- an interesting back- ous institution such as Michigan State, the ground of academic choice seems a particularly happy one. They preparation and are receiving a vigorous and capable young varied experience to leader who has the vision to plan for major this new assignment. progress, the capacity to secure widespread A native of Illinois, approval and support for the program, and he received his un- the ability to administer the development dergraduate educa- soundly. Library collections may be expected Richard E. Chapin tion at Wabash Col- to continue to grow rapidly in stature, and lege, then went to library services to be expanded imaginatively. the University of Illinois for the M.S. in He also has the potential to contribute L.S. and Ph.D. degrees. The latter was in broadly to the educational program of the the field of communications. Prior to going University. to Michigan State University, he was assist- ant director of the University of Oklahoma Among Dr. Chapin's professional contri- School of Library Science where he was a butions are one book, Mass Communica- popular and successful teacher and an ex- tions, published in 1957, several articles, and cellent recruiter. Earlier experience was in earlier, the editorship of the Southwestern various departments of the University of Library Association's bulletin. He is chair- Illinois Library, plus some time in another man-elect of the University Libraries Section well-managed institution, the Navy, and a of ACRL and chairman of the Copyright brief stint at Florida State. Revision Committee.—Arthur M. McAnally.

Appointments

JOSEFA ABRERA is bibliographer in the library science and co-director of the Cur- Ohio State University Library. riculum Library, College of Education, Uni- BARBARA BAKER, formerly cataloger in the versity of Arizona. Sutro Library, San Francisco, is now librar- WARREN E. BOES, formerly librarian of ian of the Oakland, California, Teachers' the Chemistry Library of the University of Professional Library. Michigan, is librarian of the Polytechnic In- MRS. EVELYN BAKER is cataloger in the stitute of Brooklyn. Ohio State University Library. MERLE N. BOYLAN, JR., formerly with the JOHN BALKEMA is librarian at the New Public Health Library of the University of York State Psychiatric Institute in New York California at Berkeley, is reference librarian City. at the University of Arizona. EDWARD D. BENNETT, formerly librarian of MARY LOUISE CARLL, supervisor of the the Tufts College Medical and Dental Li- Mathematics and Physics Library at Prince- brary, Boston, is librarian of the Technical ton University from 1948 to 1957, is li- Library of Armco Steel Company, Middle- brarian of the Institute of Mathematical town, Ohio. Science, New York University. DONALD N. BENTZ is assistant professor of BERNIECE M. CHRISTIANSEN, formerly as-

MARCH 1959 149 sociated with the University of California CHARLES T. LAUGHER is assistant director at Los Angeles Library is assistant acquisi- of the Western Reserve University Libraries. tions librarian, University of Houston. PHILIP H. LYMAN is curator of creative JAMES P. CLARK, formerly assistant librar- writing in the University of Florida Library. ian of the University of the South, Sewanee, ROBERT MCLEAN is assistant chief, biologi- Tennessee, is librarian of the Martin Branch cal science division, Michigan University of the University of Tennessee. Library. KERMIT G. CUDD is bibliographer in the ROBERT E. MAIZELL has been appointed Ohio State University Library. to the staff of the American Institute of ROSLYN DAVIS has been appointed assistant Physics, New York City, to direct research reference librarian in charge of the Neu- on the problems of publishing and docu- ropsychiatric Library at New York Univer- mentation in the field of physics. sity-Bellevue Medical Center. NORMAN D. MARTIN is reference and peri- EDITH G. DEMOND is reference librarian odical librarian, Wisconsin State College, of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsyl- Whitewater. vania. WILLIAM A. MARTIN, formerly librarian DON W. DER is interim assistant librarian of the University of Kansas Undergraduate in charge of the social sciences reading Library, is head of the circulation depart- room, University of Florida. ment of the University of Missouri Library. RONALD DE WAAL is special collections li- KATHERINE L. MONTAGUE has returned to brarian of the University of New Mexico. the University of Tennessee Library after ELOISE EBERT, assistant state librarian of a three-year leave spent in Bolivia, where Oregon since 1949, is now the state librarian. she served as librarian of a six-member HUGH L. ELSBREE, formerly head of the team of specialists from the University of political science department of Wayne State Tennessee. She is now librarian of the University, Detroit, is director of the Legis- undergraduate library of the University of lative Reference Service, Library of Congress. Tennessee. GEORGE C. ELSER is head librarian of JOHN W. MONTGOMERY has been appointed Chaffey College, Ontario, California. librarian of the Swift Library (divinity and MRS. KATHERINE T. EMERSON is assistant librarian and head cataloger at Lehigh philosophy), and instructor in theological University. bibliography on the federated theological faculty of the University of Chicago, effec- BERNARD J. FORD has been appointed head, circulation department, University of Penn- tive April 1, 1959. Mr. Montgomery has a sylvania Library. master's degree in librarianship from the VIOLA GUSTAFSON will become head of University of California and a B.D. from the cataloging department at the University Hanna Divinity School of Wittenberg Col- of Chicago on May 1, 1959. Since 1952 she lege, where he is now an instructor in New has been assistant librarian at John Crerar Testament Greek. Library for acquisitions, cataloging, and CHARLES D. PATTERSON, formerly head li- binding. brarian of Bemidji State College, is librarian of the Glenville, West Virginia, State Col- PAUL L. HORECKY has been appointed as- sistant chief of the Slavic and Central Euro- lege. pean division at the Library of Congress. VERN M. PINGS, formerly assistant librarian, engineering library, University of Wisconsin, SIDNEY L. JACKSON, formerly at Brooklyn Public Library, is associate professor of li- became librarian, Ohio Northern University, brary science, Kent State University. Ada, on February 1, 1959. Mr. Pings was MICHAEL V. KRENITSKY, assistant librarian awarded the Ph.D. degree in Education at Texas A. & M., is on a three-month as- from the University of Wisconsin in Jan- signment as university libraries consultant uary 1959. to the Indonesian government. The assign- L. MILES RAISIG is supervisor of catalog- ment is under the sponsorship of the Inter- ing, U. S. Military Academy Library, West national Cooperation Administration of the Point, New York. United States State Department. MORTON ROSENSTOCK has been appointed

150 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- librarian and assistant professor of social MARIE P. TEKESKEY is chief of the North studies of the newly established Bronx Com- Carolina Interlibrary Center, Chapel Hill. munity College. MARGARET HYER THOMAS has returned to JOHN SHELDON has been appointed cata- her former position as cataloger in the loger in the Carol M. Newman Library, Southern Methodist University Library, Dal- Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, las, Texas. Virginia. EGON A. WEISS is assistant librarian, U. S. GEORGE L. SKINNER, formerly associate law Military Academy, West Point, New York. librarian of the University of Oaklahoma, THEODOR B. YERKE, formerly librarian of is law librarian of the University of Mis- the California College of Arts and Crafts, souri. is DeGolyer librarian, Southern Methodist JOSEF STUMMVOLL, director of the Aus- University Library, Dallas, Texas. trian National Library since 1948, has been HOWARD K. ZANBERGEN is assistant librar- appointed director of the United Nations ian in charge of the bibliography room, Uni- Headquarters Library, New York. versity of Florida Library.

Retirements

FRANCES AMBUHL, head cataloger at the administrative post in July 1959 in accord- Newberry Library since 1933, retired in ance with the policy of the University. In November 1958 after more than thirty years 1959-60 he will be on retirement furlough, of library service. and he will return to serve two more years HELEN DAWLEY, assistant head of the cata- as professor of bibliography until his official loging department and head of the social retirement from the faculty. science cataloging section at the University A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago, retired on December 31 after of Illinois Library School, Mr. Towne served more than forty-two years of service. in the libraries of Yale, Iowa State Univer- ERNEST S. GRIFFITH has retired as director sity, New York University, and George Pea- of the Legislative Reference Service, Library body College before coming to East Lansing. of Congress, to become dean of the School At this last post he directed the library of International Relations, American Uni- in the period of the University's greatest versity, Washington, D. C. growth. The collections increased to nearly EVIE SHAW, assistant librarian of the Ar- 900,000 volumes, and the handsome new kansas State Teachers College, Conway, has building now occupied by the M.S.U. Li- retired after thirty-seven years of service. brary was constructed. ELEANOR STEPHENS, state librarian of Ore- Mr. Towne's plans for the immediate gon, has retired after forty-five years of pro- future includes a wide range of bibliographi- fessional service. cal research. Fortunately for his many JACKSON E. TOWNE, librarian of Michigan friends, he plans to travel extensively in the State University since 1932, retires from his course of his studies.—L.S.T.

Necrology

BESSIE BOUGHTON, cataloger in the Univer- tance; whether her name is attached to cer- sity of Kentucky Library since 1931, died on tain pieces or not, she often contributed to December 17, 1958. the work of others, at their request, by turn- ing her critical and probing mind to the MARGARET EGAN died on January 26, 1959. matter her colleagues had in hand. Library Her writing in the allied fields of librarian- school students at Chicago and Western Re- ship and documentation is both intensive serve who studied with her constitute an- and extensive. Alone, or often with others, other monument to her gifts; the intellectual she produced documents of lasting impor- time-bombs she set off in them, as in her

MARCH 1959 151 written work, are the epitome of superb Later, events separated us. Her letters, teaching. The discerning student and reader though infrequent, were marvels of com- can evaluate her contribution to the forward munication, and our occasional reunions movement of librarianship and documenta- meant we could pick up where we had tion better than I could hope to do through stopped with an immediate renewal of un- a brief, objective summary of her career and derstanding. Margaret Egan's work and ideas writing. and personal qualities affected hosts of It is of Margaret Egan the friend and in- others. Her effect on the world of scholar- dividual that it is hard to write. The diffi- ship has been and will increasingly be pro- culty lies in the fact that she was a deeply found. Her courage took her into deep moving force in the lives of each of her waters where she has already demonstrated friends, and that she meant something differ- her great value as an explorer, a mover and ent to each one. I can speak only for myself, shaker. Those privileged to work with her, yet our long friendship over rough terrain study under her direction, and share her may enable me to give those who did not special professional interests mourn her know her a glimpse of her integrity, warmth, early death because it is a loss we can ill loyalty, saltiness, and valor. afford. Those of us who knew her as a true Seventeen years ago, she and I, as students friend as well as a colleague know that we in the Graduate Library School, became are diminished in ourselves by her death. friends. We shared many conditions of ex- I can tell you only of one friend's relation istence: never enough money for a square with Margaret Egan; other friends could meal without a day of fasting to follow, tell other stories, but all would have one chronic fatigue from trying to squeeze all central theme, that of a generous and gifted we could out of the exhilarating GLS experi- ence while working at odd—sometimes very woman whose touch on our lives was in- Eileen Thornton. odd—library jobs, and a passion for endless finitely enriching.— talk on any subject whatever. We shared too ALTON H. KELLER, chief of the Exchange a madness for the old bookstores in the and Gift Division of the Library of Con- Loop, and often made forays there with gress and a member of the staff there since market bags and an ill-spared dollar which 1933, died February 8 at the age of forty- brought us infinite pleasure and delight. We six. both had family worries, and we both knew A member of both ALA and the Special we might run out of money or strength to Libraries Association, Mr. Keller served as stay the GLS course. We bolstered each oth- a member of many committees of the former er up, though on looking back I suspect that and was chairman of the program committee I leaned more heavily and often than she planning meetings of ACRL for the 1959 did. Annual Conference of ALA in Washington. She had what I knew I lacked, a brilliant, He was particularly active in the American electric mind coupled with a cosmic sense of Association of State Libraries and worked humor; she threw away lines that profession- tirelessly in its behalf. He was chairman of al philosophers and wits might have built its committee concerned with setting stand- careers on. My last year at Chicago was one ards of service for state libraries. prolonged birth-pang to produce a mere During the last five years, Mr. Keller Master's paper; even then her contribution visited state librarians and other state of- to a colleague was typically thorough and ficials in every state in the Union to im- typically selfless. With one hand she calmed prove arrangements for exchanging federal and encouraged, while with the other she and state publications and to increase the pointed out fallacy after fallacy, weakness coverage of state publications by LC. He after weakness, oversight after oversight. It was in charge of arrangements for the first was no negative performance, but always the Assembly of State Librarians which, at the born teacher's gift of turning me back on my invitation of the Librarian of Congress, met own work to better it, to learn from it. And at LC last fall. The success of this under- all of this, always, with no count of the cost taking was in large part the result of Mr. to herself in time and energy. Keller's energetic and effective planning.

152 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- To his committee activities, as to each of the deanship of Warren P. Laird the faculty the several positions which he occupied at elected her an honorary member in recogni- LC since he entered the Card Department tion of her contribution to the school. there in 1933, Mr. Keller brought a thor- Miss Morris' activities were not confined ough knowledge of library procedures, a to her work in the University. She was one particular skill in organization and control of the founding members of the Special Li- of materials, and a high sense of administra- braries Council of Philadelphia and served tive responsibility. as its chairman from 1923 to 1925. She was DEBORAH MORRIS died in Hammonton, active as a member of the Art Reference New Jersey, on January 30, 1959. Miss Mor- Round Table of ALA and of SLA's Museum ris served as librarian of the Fine Arts Li- Section. She also participated in the affairs brary of the University of Pennsylvania from of the Pennsylvania Library Association and 1906 until her retirement in 1952. During the Music Library Association.

Foreign Libraries

CARLOS LARRAZABAL BLANCO is interim ment of printed books and has served the director of the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Museum in various capacities for thirty years. Venezuela. CESAREO GOICOCHEA is director of Biblio- H. DE BUCK has retired from the librar- teca Nacional, Madrid. ianship of the University of Groningen. PORFIRIO DIAZ MACHICADO has been ap- FRANK CHALTON FRANCIS is director and pointed director of the library of the Uni- principal librarian of the British Museum. versidad de San Andres, Bolivia, replacing Mr. Francis has been keeper of the depart- the late Humberto Machicado.

School for Administrators (Continued from page 133)

have no doubt that I learned a great deal to be a librarian and that as a conse- from my three months with Metcalf and quence I shall find it easier to be a better company. Much of what I absorbed was librarian myself." factual and specific and should prove The educational objectives of the sem- useful to a struggling young administra- inar were not spelled out in verbose and tor, but I have the feeling that in the confusing prose. For that reason one can years ahead I will derive much more briefly summarize them as follows: They benefit from certain of the less tangible were to help practicing library adminis- aspects of the seminar. For one thing trators further their understanding of (and I am not sure just how this came the management functions in research li- about) I feel that my attitude toward braries, to sharpen their knowledge of library work has taken a definite turn administrative skills, and to increase for the better. Librarians have a distinct their effectiveness in supervisory posi- tendency to apologize for the profession tions. The final success of the program and I was as guilty of this as the next can only be determined in terms of the person. Thanks to the seminar I am achievements and contributions of the much better satisfied that what we do is participants in the years ahead. The Car- as important to the institutions we serve negie Project exposed the fellows to li- as anything else that is being done within brary administration on a high level; them. In short, I think I have a much development will be an individual mat- better understanding of what it means ter.

MARCH 1959 153 ACRL Board of Directors: Midwinter Meetings

BRIEF OF MINUTES Standards prepared by the committee of which he is chairman. He summarized the JANUARY 29 procedure of his committee in producing its document and relayed to the Board selected Present: Officers, President Lewis C. comments of librarians, administrators, and Branscomb, Vice President Wyman W. Par- educators on the final draft. General ap- ker; directors-at-large, Elizabeth Findly, Pa- proval of the draft was enthusiastic, but tricia P. Paylore; directors representing sec- discussion raised some questions concerning tions, Lottie M. Skidmore, Katherine Walk- its provision concerning audio-visual mate- er; directors on ALA Council, John F. Har- rials. Mr. Harvey moved the strengthening vey, Robert R. Hertel, Newton F. McKeon, of one sentence and, on motion of Mr. Par- Jr., Elizabeth O. Stone, Jackson E. Towne; ker, the standards were approved with the section chairmen (non-voting), J. Terry revision proposed by Mr. Harvey. (The Bender, Edward C. Heintz, Carl W. Hintz, standards will be printed in a later issue of Gertrude W. Rounds; ACRL Executive Sec- CRL.) Mr. Hirsch suggested that the stand- retary (non-voting), Richard B. Harwell. ards be promulgated by separate publica- Guests: Mrs. }. Henley Crosland, Felix E. tion as well as by publication in CRL and Hirsch, Robert W. Orr, Giles F. Shepherd, that copies be distributed to administrative Jr., Maurice F. Tauber, Stanley L. West. officers and to regional accrediting agencies Absent: Carson W. Bennett, Fleming Ben- without charge and to others for a nominal nett, Herbert T. F. Cahoon, Mrs. Mary Man- sum and that the type be held to meet fu- ning Cook, Elmer M. Grieder, Ralph H. ture demands. Mr. Hertel moved that the Hopp, John H. Ottemiller, Orlin C. Spicer, distribution of five thousand copies be au- H. Dean Stallings, Eileen Thornton, Lau- thorized. The motion passed. Mr. Hertel rence E. Tomlinson, Constance M. Winchell, then moved that the Board express its con- Walter W. Wright. gratulations and thanks and the thanks of After a few introductory remarks by Pres- all of ACRL to Mr. Hirsch and his com- ident Branscomb, Mr. West reported the mittee for their long, sincere, and effective candidates for office nominated by the work. ACRL Nominating Committee and the sec- tion nominating committees except the Rare Mr. Orr reported on the work of the Books Section. (Nominations are published ACRL Committee on Organization. He em- elsewhere in this issue of CRL.) phasized that the committee was primarily Mrs. J. Henley Crosland gave a report concerned with determining areas of posi- of her work as chairman of the Foundation tive action for ACRL and its sections and Grants Committee. General discussion fol- that questions relating solely to internal lowing her report emphasized the desirabil- organization would be deferred in favor of ity of making grants available in both hu- an active program. He pointed out, how- manistic and scientific areas, the necessity ever, that the proposals of the ALA Con- for full ALA support of activities concerned stitution and Bylaws Committee which will with college and university libraries, and be voted on by ALA Council at Washing- necessity for a corpus of facts about college ton will have a continuing effect on ACRL and university libraries in efforts to broaden organization and, through it, on ACRL pro- support of the ACRL grants program. It gram. He summarized the conclusions of was the sense of the Board that the commit- his committee as that the adoption of the tee has full authority to plan and carry for- suggested changes would be unduly restric- ward an intensified program. tive on an individual division in the con- Mr. Hirsch submitted the College Library duct of its own affairs and pointed out the

154 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- specific provisions in the proposed amend- university librarians work with that office ments that might alter ACRL policy. Mr. and the Library Administration Division's Parker moved that ACRL oppose all por- Committee on Federal Relations in promot- tions of the proposed revisions of Article ing legislation advantageous to college, uni- VI of the ALA Bylaws which are unduly versity, and research libraries. He reported restrictive and interfere with the internal that Miss Krettek had already called his at- administration of the division and that tention to several bills already introduced ACRL's representatives on the ALA Coun- in the new Congress that are of special in- cil be urged to oppose such revisions in the terest to libraries. next meeting of Council. Reports were received from the several section chairmen. Most were strictly interim JANUARY 30 reports. The report from the University Li- braries Section (Mr. Hintz, chairman) lays Present: Officers, President Lewis C. Brans- out an ambitious program which has already comb; directors-at-large, Elizabeth Findly; been initiated with the establishment of directors representing sections, Lottie M. committees on academic status, economic Skidmore, Katherine Walker; directors on status, research, and university library sur- ALA Council, John F. Harvey, Newton F. veys. Mr. Bender reported the rapid and McKeon, Jr., Elizabeth O. Stone; section vigorous development of the Rare Books chairmen (non-voting), J. Terry Bender, Section and called attention to the pre-con- Carl W. Hintz, Gertrude W. Rounds; ACRL ference meeting sponsored by the section Executive Secretary (non-voting), Richard B. which will be held at Charlottesville, Vir- Harwell. Guests: Arthur T. Hamlin, Mary D. ginia, June 18-20. Herrick, Edmon Low. Mr. Low made an informative and in- Absent: Carson W. Bennett, Fleming Ben- teresting report on the work and plans of nett, Herbert T. F. Cahoon, Mrs. Mary Man- the Advisory Committee on Cooperation ning Cook, Elmer M. Grieder, Robert R. With Educational and Professional Organi- Hertel, Edward C. Heintz, Ralph H. Hopp, zations. Mr. Harwell reported briefly for John H. Ottemiller, Wyman W. Parker, Pa- the Advisory Committee to Administer the tricia P. Paylore, Orlin C. Spicer, H. Dean Rangoon Project (Robert B. Downs, chair- Stallings, Eileen Thornton, Laurence E. man). The Board voted to receive the re- Tomlinson, Jackson E. Towne, Constance M. port of the Committee to Investigate the Winchell, Walter W. Wright. Need for Establishing an Awards Commit- Mr. Harwell reported for Mr. Orr on tee Within ACRL (Russell Shank, chair- ACRL's representation at the Midwinter man) and deferred further action concern- meeting of the ALA Program Evaluation ing awards. Mr. Hamlin reported from the and Budget Committee. He noted that re- Committee on Committees. The Board ac- quests for appropriations to be included in cepted Richard H. Logsdon's report from the 1959-60 budget must be received dur- the Committee on National Library Week. ing this spring. Reports were received from each of President Branscomb called the attention ACRL's editors: Mrs. Margaret Toth, edi- of the Board to the pamphlet just pub- tor of the ACRL Microcard Series, Rolland lished by ALA, Library Opportunities in Stevens, editor of the ACRL Monographs, the National Defense Education Act. There and Maurice F. Tauber, editor of CRL. A was general discussion deploring the ab- report was received from the ACRL repre- sence in the act of specific provisions to sentative on the AASL-ACRL-DAVI Joint aid college and university libraries. Mr. Committee on Mutual Interests in the Audio- Branscomb noted the importance of work- Visual Field (Richard Chapin). ing toward fuller representation of library The following official actions were voted interests in the preparation of bills to go at this meeting: before Congress. Mr. Harwell praised the effectiveness of the work in this area of To receive the report of the Committee Miss Germaine Krettek in the Washington to Investigate the Need for Establishing office of ALA and urged that college and an Awards Committee Within ACRL and

MARCH 1959 155 to discharge the committee with the membership of the joint committee to in- thanks of the Board; to convey to the clude representation of other ALA divi- ALA Awards Committee through its sions and of other organizations outside chairman, Wyman Parker, that the report the ALA. indicated that ACRL should participate in an awards program only if a substan- Mr. Branscomb called the attention of tial financial award can be a part of it. those present to the lack of a quorum at To change the name of the Committee this meeting and at the point in Thurs- on Foundation Grants to Committee on day's meeting when the motion concerning Grants. amendments to the ALA Bylaws Avas To designate the dedication ceremonies adopted. He noted that a mail vote by the for the new library at Colgate University Board would be needed to confirm the ac- April 13 as the inauguration of National tions taken by the Board in the absence of Library Week for college and research a quorum. Mr. Hamlin spoke strongly on libraries. the responsibility of Board members to be To continue ACRL representation on present at meetings and to participate in the AASL-ACRL-DAVI Joint Committee divisional affairs. His point was emphasized on Mutual Interests in the Audio-Visual and supported in further comments by Mr. Field and to endorse expansion of the Branscomb, Miss Skidmore, and others.

ARL Meeting

THE FARMINGTON PLAN, a cooperative ar- should be accepted as a major and continu- rangement among some sixty American li- ing ARL responsibility. braries, was the principal topic of discus- 2. "The coordinated effort to assure ade- sion at the fifty-second meeting of the As- quate coverage of currently published for- sociation of Research Libraries in Chicago, eign library materials of scholarly importance January 26, 1959. A special conference, at- should be extended and strengthened, on a tended by representatives of the Farmington world-wide basis. Plan participants and of such groups as 3. "The Farmington Plan Committee divisions and sections of the ALA, the Na- should be chartered and supported as the re- tional Science Foundation, and the Central sponsible, central committee for ARL in Intelligence Agency, occupied most of the this whole field. Toward this end, the Com- day. Participants discussed the report of a survey of the first ten years of the Farming- mittee should be adequately staffed, and ton Plan conducted by Robert Vosper and should be authorized to proceed as may Robert Talmadge of the University of Kan- be necessary through subcommittees and co- sas Library under the direction of Robert opted members. It should be responsible for Downs, Dean of Library Administration of continuous liaison with all appropriate the University of Illinois and chairman of scholarly, educational, and governmental the ARL Farmington Plan Committee. bodies, as well as with appropriate joint After full discussion of the achievements committees. The Committee's activities and the weaknesses of the Plan in bringing should encompass continuous study and as- to this country scholarly books which might sessment of needs, operation of programs, not otherwise have been acquired, the con- and review and analysis of programs in ference agreed upon the following recom- action. mendations, which were later approved 4. "ARL should continue to seek, or it- unanimously by the Association of Research self provide, funds for secretarial and re- Libraries: search assistance for the Committee and its 1. "Leadership in the development and office. If possible the Committee chairman coordination of major scholarly acquisitions and the office should continue to be located programs of national scope and importance together.

156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- 5. "Certain operating patterns of the important fields, offers one ready-made pro- Farmington Plan, as they have developed cedure toward this end. particularly in western Europe, should be 9. "ARL should continue to bring force- modified along lines mentioned by the sur- fully to the attention of appropriate govern- vey report: looking toward a more flexible mental agencies, educational bodies, and and decentralized selection and procurement foundations that the national pool of re- search books and journals is of high national pattern, while still assuring that adequate importance, that an effectively coordinated records are maintained for purposes of national program for world-wide coverage study and review. In accomplishing this, is an expensive but urgent undertaking, and a subcommittee on procurement from west- that adequate assistance through direct, ern Europe may be in order. long-term financing and through staff aid 6. "The strengthened Farmington Plan is in the national interest. Committee should give high priority to At its regular meeting ARL discussed fostering and experimenting with flexible, a number of problems of importance to re- coordinated procurement efforts in other search libraries. Edward Freehafer, director parts of the world, along lines recommended of the New York Public Library and chair- in the area working papers; in pursuing man of the ARL-sponsored joint libraries this task the Committee will need to develop committee on fair use in photocopying, re- effective relationships, as noted in (3) above, ported on the progress made by that com- with the appropriate working committees mittee in attempting to define principles in the several areas, in order to be certain and procedures which will protect both the of receiving adequate specialized service. rights of holders of copyright and the tradi- 7. "Prior to the development of a system- tional rights of scholars. ARL approved the atic procurement program for better cov- employment of legal counsel to advise this erage of foreign periodicals, the Farmington committee. Lawrence Thompson, director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, Plan Committee should institute some sample reported that plans were nearly complete studies, along lines proposed in working pa- for a cooperative pool of microfilms of of- per III, to ascertain the adequacy of our ficial gazettes of foreign countries. Reports holdings, especially in the humanities and were heard from committees concerned with social sciences, as well as in engineering. In microtext standards, with a survey of re- the meantime, steps should be taken to tight- sources in Slavic studies in American li- en up procedures for securing, selecting, and braries, and with microfilming of doctoral recording sample issues of new periodicals. dissertations. 8. "Attention should be given to the need Minutes of the ARL meeting and proceed- for more extensive duplication among ings of the Farmington Plan Conference American libraries of the important, cur- will soon be available from the executive rently published foreign books. Multiple secretary of ARL, William S. Dix, librarian use of assigned Farmington Plan agents, in of Princeton University.

Art Librarians Form Sub-Section

Art librarians organized a sub-section of ACRL's Subject Specialists Section at Midwinter. The group plans its first meeting as a part of ALA's Washington Conference. Ruth E. Schoneman, librarian of the Art Institute of Chicago, is chairman of the organizing committee of the sub-section. Recognition of the group of art librarians as the first sub-section of subject specialists came with the approval of a petition from thirty-five art librarians by the executive committee of the Subject Specialists Section at its meeting January 29.

MARCH 1959 157 Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Wyman W. Parker, Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Connecticut.

VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Mrs. J. Henley Crosland, Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries, Atlanta. Edmon Low, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater.

DIRECTOR AT LARGE (1959-62) Dale M. Bentz, State University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. Neal R. Harlow, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver.

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Morrison C. Haviland, University of Vermont Library, Burlington.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Henry Alden, Grinnell College Library, Grinnell, Iowa. Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College Library, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

SECRETARY: Ada E. Berkey, Western Michigan University Library, Kalamazoo. Victoria E. Hargrave, MacMurray College Library, Jacksonville, Illinois.

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Helen Mitchell, Clark College Library, Vancouver, Washington.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Catherine Cardew, Briarcliff Junior College Library, Briarcliff Manor, New York. Barbara M. Smith, Green Mountain Junior College Library, Poultney, Ver- mont.

SECRETARY: Frances Atwood, Lasell Junior College Library, Auburndale, Massachusetts. Helen Abel Brown, St. Mary's Junior College Library, Raleigh, North Carolina.

RARE BOOKS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: James T. Babb, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Frederick Golf, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

SECRETARY: Tyrus G. Harmsen, Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Ruth M. Heiss, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: George S. Bonn, Science and Technology Division, New York Public Library, New York. Charles H. Stevens, Lincoln Laboratory Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Thelma C. Bird, Teaching Materials Library, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute.

SECRETARY AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Frances Breen, State University Teachers College, Plattsburg, New York. Fritz Veit, Chicago Teachers College and Chicago City Junior College, Wood- row Wilson Branch, Libraries, Chicago, Illinois.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Richard E. Chapin, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Ralph W. McComb, Pennsylvania State University Library, University Park. Ralph E. McCoy, Southern Illinois University Libraries, Carbondale.

SECRETARY: Ruth C. Ringo, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville. Jo Ann Wiles, Library School Library, University of Illinois, Urbana.

DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (four to be elected)

Helen M. Brown, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Lois E. Engleman, Denison University Library, Granville, Ohio.

James Humphry III, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York, New York. Frank N. Jones, Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ralph H. Hopp, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis. Marion Milczewski, University of California Libraries, Berkeley.

J. Richard Blanchard, University of California Libraries, Davis. W. Porter Kellam, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.

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