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Detroit, Michigan the cataloging production of nine libraries July 3, 1965 during March, have been received for use in the study of shared cataloging being made for ARL by John Dawson (Univer­ THE SIXTY-SIXTH MEETING of the Associa­ sity of Delaware), Mr. Dix reported. They tion of Research Libraries opened at 2 P.M. will provide the basis for an analysis of with a program session at the McGregor the types of cataloging provided for vari­ Conference Center of Wayne State Univer­ ous categories of publications. sity. Edward G. Freehafer, director of the Benjamin E. Powell (Duke University), New York public library and chairman of chairman of the Committee on the Center ARL, presided. He introduced William S. for Research Libraries, which was estab­ Dix (Princeton) to report on the Shared lished at the invitation of the center to Cataloging Program, "a vehicle now hap­ consider its program, organizational struc­ pily orbiting around Capitol Hill." ture, and funding, reported on its recom­ This program was given top priority over mendations, which had been discussed with a year ago, because a major problem of re­ the librarian of Congress and the assistant search libraries is to have more books cata­ librarian in advance and, insofar as they loged more promptly than is now possible affected LC, had been approved in prin­ through the Library of Congress, Mr. Dix, ciple. The committee studied the report of chairman of the Shared Cataloging Commit­ the survey of the center made by Stephen tee, said. ARL, in a "unilateral decision" A. McCarthy (Cornell University) and Ray­ and after considering various alternatives, nard C. Swank (California, Berkeley), and decided that the answer was a Centralized the committee's conclusions were "very Cataloging Program, which should be sup­ preliminary" and highly selective, Mr. ported by the federal government and Powell emphasized. which should be carried out by LC. In testi­ The Center for Research Libraries, which fying on the Higher Education Act of 1965 was created in 1949 as the Midwest Inter­ in both the House and the Senate, ARL rep­ Library Center, in recent years has assumed resentatives advocated and LC supported some of the characteristics of a national an amendment that would authorize an ap­ agency although the bases of its support propriation to the Department of Health, have remained primarily regional. Its name Education and Welfare ( $5 million for the was therefore changed to reflect this in­ first year) for transfer by the Commissioner creased scope. of Education to LC to finance the acquisi­ "The problems associated with acqUisi­ tion of more materials of research value tion, preservation, and dissemination of and to provide for prompt cataloging (with­ knowledge, which become more complex in three or four weeks, especially in foreign every year, are completely familiar to ARL languages, of receipt of the books) . This members," Mr. Powell said. "These prob­ suggestion was sympathetically received in lems have grown out of the increase in both houses. It is now embodied in Part C, knowledge and the expanding rate of pub­ Section 231, of Title II of H.R. 9S67, which lications; the extension of research interests has been reported favorably by the Commit­ to include geographic and subject areas of tee on Education and Labor; Senator little concern to scholarship prior to the Wayne Morse, chairman of the Subcommit­ twentieth century; the increase in research tee on Education, with other members of and in the number of researchers; and the the subcommittee joining him, introduced increase in the urgency of access to informa­ a similar amendment to S. 600, the Senate tion. Included also is the problem of how Higher Education Bill, which is now being to preserve the materials that are now de­ considered by the subcommittee in execu­ teriorating in libraries as well as how best tive session. to adapt available machinery and electronic Some forty thousand cards, representing equipment to the needs of research libraries. 532 / The Association of Research Libraries 1 533

Solution of these and other problems will cause in its extensive collection are many require our best efforts and the highest of the materials that need to be preserved possible degree of cooperation among all for the research community. The committee research libraries. . . . felt that this program should be based on "If the Library of Congress increases sub­ the recommendations that ARL's Committee stantially its coverage of the world's litera­ on Preservation presented at the 1965 mid­ ture, and catalogs these materials promptly, winter meeting and that were adopted in its own resources will be strengthened and principle. The center could give its atten­ research libraries generally will be greatly tion to assuring that current publications assisted. Then, if these research libraries are printed on permanent/durable paper can agree to share use and ownership of the and to testing papers used. masses of material that are likely to be little Third, in regard to automation, there was used, including documents, newspapers, "no question but that the Library of Con­ and serials of developing countries and gress should be responsible for developing retrospective printed records of countries the techniques and standards required for not hitherto included in the teaching and the automation of bibliographic informa­ research programs of most universities, the tion." The center might test and evaluate. average ARL library will be relieved of a Fourth, the center should administer the heavy burden and the scope of material Farmington Plan, and it should consider available to it increased immeasurably. It programs to collect social science machine­ is the belief of the committee," Mr. Powell readable data now being produced by gov­ said, "that solution of many of the multi­ ernment, business, and universities and to varied problems facing research libraries provide bibliographic control over these lies in this direction and that a center, di­ data. rected by the research libraries of the coun­ Fifth, in regard to funding the center, try, that can extend such services ... as are the committee felt that major financial sup­ now provided through the Center for Re­ port "for any broad program" for CRL had search Libraries, offers advantages that to come from the federal government, with should be explored." LC, HEW, and the National Science Foun­ The committee gave attention to five dation and the National Foundation on areas and suggested a division of responsi­ the Arts and the Humanities being pos­ bility between the center and LC. First, sible sources. Nongovernment foundation under "Resources and Bibliographic Con­ assistance, as well as support either by trol," the committee felt that LC should member libraries or by higher ARL dues enlarge the scope of its acquisitions and to be passed on to the center "as the provide prompt, cel)tralized cataloging (as operating arm of the association," was also Part C, Section 231, of Title II of H.R. envisioned. No definite pattern of funding 9567, described above, envisions). It should or organization was recommended. also obtain for the center, from countries Discussion brought out the fact that the lacking an organized book trade, a second committee did not think of the center as a copy of research materials, which would federal agency or as a "second" national serve as a loan copy for the scholarly com­ library, but some found it hard to envision munity. The center should develop collec­ continuing and assured federal support tions of currently published materials­ without an official link, for example, as a retrospective collecting is not anticipated­ branch of LC. One participant thought that under good control and should provide it was rather arrogant to divide up functions speedy, low-cost access to them. It could between the center and LC when ARL does also reprint or reproduce various types of not even have an official link with the publications, expand its foreign newspaper center, but Mr. Powell stressed that the microfilm program, and possibly take over allocations were for discussion purposes such projects as NYPL's Foreign Gazettes only, and others felt that CRL could render Microfilm Program. a national service, finding its role in rela­ Second, a national preservation program, tion to LC. The interest of ARL in the de­ which should be supported by federal velopment of such a program was affirmed funds, should be undertaken by LC be- by vote. 5341 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965

.. Effective Distribution of Non-GPO Pub­ resolved. He also reported on HEW's study lications" was discussed by Clifton Brock of the effects of drugs on man, in which (University of North Carolina). Basing his NLM will have responsibility for the anal­ talk on his article "Implementing the De­ ysis, through MEDLARS, of chemical com­ pository Law," published in LJ, April 15, pounds and their effects on man; the 100th Mr. Brock held that, despite major im­ anniversary of John Shaw Billings' coming provements in the depository system ac­ to NLM's predecessor, the Surgeon Gen­ complished since the passage of the 1962 eral's Office; work being done on the his­ act, non-GPO publications are not reaching tory of medicine; and NLM's .. aggressive" the depository libraries, and he expressed program to acquire manuscripts and re­ doubt that they ever will in substantial cordings-oral history. NLM is now one­ numbers as the law is presently written. and-a-half years deep in programing for There are 340 .. departmental plants" and cataloging, he said, and expects that sys­ 294 "field plants" producing publications, tems work and programing will be com­ he said, and only a small portion of them pleted by September, with production to reach libraries through a "chaotic variety of begin by January 1966. It is expected that time-consuming, expensive, and problem­ a biweekly list of current acquisitions will atical acquisition methods." Much valuable be produced, that it will be cumulated quar­ material is thus produced outside the regu­ terly and annually, and that it will serve lar channels to depository libraries. The is­ as the basis of the annual catalog now pro­ suing agencies can declare such materials duced by LC by the shingling method. "for official use only," or for .. strictly ad­ GRACE (Graphic Arts Composing Equip­ ministrative or operational purposes which ment), which produces upper and lower have no public interest or educational case and can compose a page in one minute, value," or they may be classified for reasons is being used. No decision has been made of national security. Another deterrent to yet about distributing catalog cards, but distribution is the fact that the issuing they probably will be distributed. The de­ agencies, rather than the Superintendent centralization of. the MEDLARS system has of Documents, have to bear the cost of begun; Brad Rogers, who has Honeywell depository copies of non-GPO publications. equipment, is using the output to supply As a solution, Mr. Brock proposed that one medical subject headings to the U niver­ copy of each non-GPO publication, except sity of Colorado medical school and a con­ for classified and strictly internal admin­ tract has been made with UCLA for re­ istrative documents, be required to be sent programing for use on IBM equipment. In to the Superintendent of Documents, who June, NLM's Board of Regents approved could in turn, if so directed, send to de­ the next regional center-.. in the Midwest" pository libraries microfacsimile copies of -and 25-30 other universities have applied those centrally determined to have educa­ for mechanized research capability. tional and informational value. The Monthly Foster E. Mohrhardt (National Agricul­ Catalog would list these non-GPO publica­ tural Library) reported on the publication tions at some increase in the size and cost of ABLE (Agricultural and Biological Lit­ of the Catalog and the microfacsimiles erature Exploitation), a systems study of would also increase the cost to the Super­ NAL and its users; the Pesticides Docu­ intendent of Documents, but this cost, he mentation Center, which is NAL's respon­ held would be small in proportion to the sibility; the publication, over a period of value of having these publications avail­ three years, of the dictionary catalog of able throughout the country. NAL, 1862-1965, in sixty-eight volumes, The afternoon session closed with reports which will sell for $952; and a study to from the three national libraries. Scott see how a mechanized system can help the Adams (National Library of Medicine) land-grant colleges. The plans for the new spoke of the Senate hearings on the Medical NAL building at Beltsville, to cost $7 mil­ Library Assistance Act of 1965 at which lion, have been returned by the Fine Arts Richard Logsdon (Columbia University) Commission "with warm approval for great presented testimony for ARL; alleged con­ architectural achievement," Mr. Mohrhardt flicts between this bill and Title II of the said. Higher Education Bill are gradually being Mter summarizing Congressional action The Association of Research Libraries I 535 on appropriations for LC, progress toward content and machine format. The task force a third library building to be named for under the direction of the supervisory pro­ James Madison, and some of the projects gramer is designing a format, and a 110- being handled by computer, such as card page preliminary report on it for discussion division accounts, printing the indexes to within LC has been completed. It pinpoints the Presidential papers, and the automatic many problems that must be solved before typesetting of the seventh edition of the further steps can be taken. Mter review in subject headings list, librarian of Congress LC, this report-and others to be issued­ Mumford reported on automation at LC, will be made available to the library com­ characterizing the year as an extremely ac­ munity for comment, the librarian said. tive one and one of progress. It took several LC's approach is somewhat different months to build a talented information from that of Lawrence F. Buckland of In­ systems specialist staff of five professionals foronics, Inc., which was outlined in The and two clerical assistants, he said in de­ Recording of Library of Congress Biblio­ scribing each member. In addition, a top­ graphical Data in Machine Form. His ap­ level internal committee, which the librarian proach was that catalog card data could be himself heads, gives attention to program input by formatting so that certain kinds of and policy matters; LGs six special recruits information are always in specified loca­ have been assigned to ISS to analyze pres­ tions. LC believes that bibliographical data ent LC operations; and a task force of a are so diverse and complex that almost cataloger and a reference librarian is work­ every item has to be tagged specifically ing with the supervisory programer and and that this approach will result in more and systems analyst on machine-readable accurate keypunching than the positional catalog records. approach. LGs proposed record, however, The ISS staff has concentrated on two · includes fixed fields to control certain items tasks: the development of specifications for for quick searching and variable fields for automating LC's bibliographic operations bibliographic data. Thus the catalog infor­ and of a standardized format for machine­ mation can be as long or as short as the readable catalog records. The picture of an book warrants. automated LC given in the King survey The librarian referred to work being done team report, Automation and the Library on the "California List" and to LC's hope of Congress, is still the best picture and will that, with foundation support, it will be continue to be used as a guide until its able to study problems involved in dis­ premises are proved untenable, Mr. Mum­ tributing machine-readable catalog records ford said. Work has been directed toward and to establish in LC an information cen­ drawing a more precise picture of what LC ter on automation projects of library inter­ wants to do, what an automated library will est. In closing he stressed once again the look like, how we can accomplish transition library's commitment to automation and the to it, and what it will cost. The detailed hope that both the association and its in­ analysis of operations, begun in February, dividual members would give LC support includes flowcharting operations, analyzing in this area. files and catalogs, interviewing staff, and The program meeting then adjourned for the like. Consultant help will ·be required a social hour and dinner. ARL reconvened to complete this analysis. In fiscal 1967, for its business session at 7: 30 P.M., with a system to meet requirements will be de­ Mr. Freehafer again in the chair. The eve­ signed, and the next step will be to im­ ning was devoted chiefly to committee re­ plement parts of the system. ports. Of basic significance, especially to li­ Gordon Williams ( CRL) gave a "non­ brarians, are the data that would be han­ report" on the Automation Committee, be­ dled by the system. At the conference on cause Mr. Mumford had covered much of machine-readable catalog copy held at LC the ground. Di:lvid Kaser (Joint U niver­ on January 11, the feasibility of distributing sity Libraries, Nashville) reported for the such copy as punched cards, magnetic tape, Committee on the Revision of the Catalog­ and punched paper was discussed. But ing Code, saying, in essence, that no library first agreement must be reached on what will be able to adopt the new code in toto. the record will be, both as to bibliographic It would be too expensive. Most will prob- 536 I College & Research Libraries • November, 1965

ably use the new rules_ in establishing new man reported that the Board of Directors headings and will accept LC cards, which had approved a special fund, not to exceed will follow the new rules when new head­ $1,000, for use of the ALA Washington ings need to be established but will not Office on matters of mutual interest to ARL change established enb·ies. and ALA. At the Executive Secretary's re­ John H. Moriarty (Purdue University) quest, a visiting committee to survey the presented an interim report of three pages secretariat has been authorized. The Board of text and twenty-eight charts on "Growth also voted ARL's thanks to Professor Julian In ARL Libraries, 1950-1980." From the Levi (University of Chicago) for his as­ figures reported by fifty-eight libraries (not sistance to the association; it approved the including LC) eight "composite" libraries exchange of information when the ARL and were represented, and volumes held, vol­ the Association of College and Research Li­ umes acquired, and total library expendi­ braries have counterpart committees; and tures were shown and projected to 1980. it recommended a change in the by-laws to The average "composite," for example, held establish the officers of ARL as an execu­ just under 900,000 volumes in 1950-51, tive committee empowered to act between while in 1963-64 this figure had risen to meetings of the Board and the membership, 1,490,000 volumes, indicating that the fifty­ authority that is especially important when eight libraries held a total of 86.4 million legislative developments require prompt volumes. The projected size of the average action. , collection in 1980 would be 2,860,000 Mter a vote of thanks to Wayne State volumes, but Mr. Moriarty said that a more University for the excellent arrangements realistic figure would be 3,750,000 volumes. for the conference, the sixty-sixth meeting A full report is expected late in the summer adjourned. ARL will meet next in Chicago, and will be mailed to ARL members. immediately preceding the ALA Midwinter John Lorenz (director of the Division of conference.-Elizabeth E. Hamer. • • Library Services and Educational Facilities, HEW) described the reorganization of the STUDENT LIBRARY Office of Education, especially as it affects COMMITTEES library services, into four bureaus corre­ (Continued from page 494) sponding to levels of education: elementary and secondary education; higher education; while or not. The librarian and the stu­ adult and vocational education, including dent members of the committee are the educational TV and the former Library deciding factors in this situation. A stu­ Services Branch; and a bureau of research. dent library committee can be very suc­ In addition, a national center for educa­ cessful and helpful to the librarian and tional statistics was created. the library staff one year and fail the fol­ William N. Locke (Massachusetts In­ stitute of Technology) reported on Project lowing year. If there is no continuity of Intrex and a five-week planning confer­ members on the committee, it can turn ence; Mr. Logsdon described the status of out to be an abysmal failure. It appears, the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965; however, that the trend over a long Stephen McCarthy discussed the problem period of time has been to find out stu­ of overhead on government research proj­ dent opinion and work with students in ects and how libraries could get a fair per­ ways other than through a student li­ centage; and a number of committee chair­ brary committee. • • men or their representatives filed reports ranging in coverage from the Farmington Plan to the National Union Catalog of IN THE WINTER OF 1965 a Student Library Manuscript Collections. Committee was established at Oakland Uni­ The Executive Secretary, James E. Skip­ versity, Rochester, Mich. This committee per, reported, among other things, on the would like to know of similar groups in the Systems Development Corporation's study United States and effect they have in gear­ for COSATI of the structuring of a national ing university libraries to the needs of stu­ dents and faculty. Responses should be sent library information system, on legislation, to George M. Bailey, executive secretary, and on the fact that he will represent ARL ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago. at the Helsinki meeting of IFLA. The chair- SUMMARY OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY STATISTICS: AGGREGATE UNITED STATES, 1959/60-1963/64 Prepared by Theodore Samore, College and University Library Specialist Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education

1959-60 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 1963-641

1. Number of libraries . . . . 1,951 1,975 1,985 2,075 2,140 2. Number of students served (enrollment) 3,402,000 3,610,000 3,900,000 4,345,000 4,800,000 Collections: 3. Number of volumes at end of year 176,721,000 189,110,000 201,423,000 215,000,000 228,000,000 4. Number of volumes per student . 51.9 52.4 51.6 49.4 47.5 5. Number of volumes added during year 8,415,000 9,396,000 10,900,000 12,300,000 13,000,000 6. Number of volumes added per student 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.7 7. Number of periodi·cals received . . 1,271,000 1,399,000 1,505,000 1,600,000 1,650,000 8. Number of periodicals per student 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 Personnel: ""-3 ~ 9. Total (in full-time equivalents) 18,000 19,500 21,100 23,300 24,500 ('\) 10. Professional personnel . . . 9,000 9,700 10,300 11,200 11,500 c.,~ 11. Professional staff as percentage of total staff 0.50 0.50 0.49 0.48 0.47 c., 1:378 1:372 1:378 1:388 1:401 0 12. Ratio of professional staff to students . ~ 13. Nonprofessional staff . . . . . 9,000 9,800 10,800 12,100 13,000 ~- 14. Number of hours of student assistance 12,062,000 13,204,000 14,161,000 14,519,000 15,000,000 c;·<"+- Operating Expenditures: ~ 0 15. Total (excludes capital outlay) $137,245,000 $158,904,000 $183,700,000 $213,000,000 $229,000,000 "-+. !l:l 16. Expenditures per student ...... $40.34 $44.02 $47.13 $50.95 $47.70 ('\) 17. Expend. as percentage of total edu. and general expend. 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.5 c., ~ 18. Salaries (personnel not on hourly rate) $72,495,000 $83,782,000 $95,900,000 $113,000,000 $116,000,000 ~ ""t 19. Salaries as percentage of oper. expend. 52.8 52.7 52.2 53.3 52.0 ~ 20. Wages (at hourly rates of pay) . . $11,680,000 $13,889,000 $15,500,000 $17,000,000 $18,000,000 ~ 21. Wages as percentage of oper. expend. 8.5 8.7 8.5 8.2 8.0 ~ 22. Books and other lib. materials expend. . $40,760,000 $48,301,000 $56,400,000 $65,000,000 $75,000,000 & ""t 23. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 29.7 30.4 30.7 30.4 31.0 ~ 24. Binding expenditures ...... $4,852,000 $5,000,000 $6,200,000 $7,000,000 $8,000,000 ;·""t 25. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 3.6 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.5 c., 26. Other operating expenditure . . . . $7,458,000 $7,932,000 $9,700,000 $11,000,000 $12,000,000 ...... ___ 27. Such expend. percentage of oper. expend. 5.4 5.0 5.3 4.7 5.2 wCJ1. -..).

t Estimated. When completed data for 1963-64 will represent a much more exact picture of academic library resources since definitions of certain key terms was clarified and strengthened. For details see the Introduction to Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 1969-64, Institutional Data. (OE 15023-64) University Libraries Section Bylaws

(AS AMENDED JULY 1965) 4

Article I. N arne sequently two new members will be ap­ pointed each year. The name of the Section shall be Univer­ Sec. 3. Powers and Duties. The Steering sity Libraries Section. Committee shall aid the chairman in the Article II. Object development of the activities of the Section. Sec. 4. Quorum. A majority of the mem­ The primary object of the Section shall bers shall constitute a quorum of the Steer­ be to advance university librarianship, uni­ ing Committee. versity library service, and the development of university libraries. A university is de­ Article VII. Committees fined as an institution of higher learning Sec. 1. Authorization. Committees of the which offers programs leading to the degree Section as a whole shall be authorized by of doctor of philosophy or its equivalent. action of the chairman after consultation Article III. Membership with the Steering Committee, but establish­ ment shall not require action by the Steer­ Any member of the Association of Col­ ing Committee. lege and Research Libraries may elect mem­ Sec. 2. Standing Committees. Standing bership in this Sectien. committees may be established to consider matters of ·the Section that require con­ Article IV. Meetings tinuity of attention by the members. When An annual meeting of the Section shall be such a committee is established, its func­ held at the time and place of the annual tion, name, and size shall be determined. conference of the American Library Associa­ Unless otherwise approved by the Steering tion. Committee, members of standing com­ Article V. Officers mittees shall be appointed for terms of three years, and may be reappointed for a second The officers of this Section shall be a but not a third consecutive term; in no chairman, a vice-chairman (chairman elect), case shall a person serve on a committee for and a secretary. The chairman shall serve more than six consecutive years. Appoint­ for one year. The chairman elect shall serve ments shall be made in such a manner as to for one year as vice-chairman; at its expira­ provide continuity in membership. tion, or upon the occurrence of a vacancy Sec. 3. Appointment. The vice-chairman in the office of chairman, he shall succeed (chairman elect) of the Section shall ap­ to the office of chairman. The secretary point committee members to fill the vacan­ shall serve for three years. cies due to occur during his term as chair­ Article VI. Steering Committee man; he may name the chairman of each committee or request the committee to elect Sec. 1. Composition. There shall be a its own chairman. Special appointments to Steering Committee consisting of the officers fill vacancies on committees may be made . of the Section, the last retiring chairman, by the chairman. and six appointed members. The chairman Sec. 4. Discontinuance. A committee may of the Section shall serve as chairman of the be discontinued by the chairman of the Steering Committee. The appointments shall Section with the approval of the Steering be made by the chairman. Committee. Sec. 2. Terms of Office. ·The appointed members serve for three ·years. The initial Article VIII. Nominations and Elections members of the committee shall be appoint­ Candidates for elective office in the Sec­ ed for terms expiring in different years. Sub- tion shall be presented by the Nominating 538/ University Libraries Section Bylaws 1 539

Committee, appointed by the chairman for ately and to serve for one year, the other a one-year term. Other nominations may be to serve as vice-chairman (chairman elect) . submitted in writing by any ten members Sec. 3. Steering Committee. If an ap­ and shall be filed with the secretary. Any pointed member of the Steering Committee such nominations shall be included in the resigns, the chairman shall appoint a suc­ official ballot. No candidate shall be pre­ cessor to complete the unexpired term, the sented who has not consented in writing to appointment being subject to the approval his candidacy. Elections shall be conducted of the rest of the committee. by mail ballot. The candidate receiving the Sec. 4. Secretary. If the office of secretary largest number of votes shall be regarded as becomes vacant, a secretary shall be elected elected. at the next election for a three-year term. A member of the Steering Committee shall Article IX. Vacancies be appointed by the chairman to serve as Sec. 1. Chairman. If the offices of both interim secretary until the election has taken chairman and vice-chairman become vacant place. within the same year, the Steering Com­ Article X. Amendments mittee shall designate one of its members to act as chairman until a chairman is duly Sec. 1. Proposals. Amendments to the By­ elected. At the next election, two candidates laws may be proposed by any committee of shall be elected, one to take the office of the Section or by petition signed by ten the chairman immediately and to serve for members of the Section. Proposed amend­ one year, the other to serve as vice-chairman ments shall be presented in writing to the (chairman elect) . chairman. Sec. 2. Vice-Chairman. If the office of Sec. 2. Voting. The Bylaws may be vice-chairman becomes vacant, two candi­ amended by a two-thirds vote of the mem­ dates shall be elected at the next election, bers present and voting at any given meet­ one to take the office of chairman immedi- ing of the Section. • •

Junior College Book List

]AMES W. Pmm, librarian at the Charles Stewart Mott library in Flint, Mich., has accepted appointment as editor of the Junior College Book List, planned for publi­ cation by the American Library Association. The publication, when completed, will include fifteen thousand titles selected for the liberal arts program of junior colleges.

ACRL Grants Program

AN ADDITIONAL GRANT of $25,000 has been received f~om the U.S. Steel Foundation for the 1965/ 66 program, for distribution to emerging institutions of the Southern states. Eligible institutions have been contacted by the ACRL Committee on Grants. Announcements of institutions receiving grants will be made in CRL, January 1965 (See also CRL, September 1965, p. 443) • •

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ACQUISITIONS jected $163,000 needed to endow and equip the room. JACKSON LIBRARY of the graduate school The BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SociETY (London) of business, Stanford University, has been has awarded its Gold Medal posthumously given a collection of American banking to William Alexander Jackson, former li­ histories. These were collected by the late brarian of Harvard University's Houghton George V. Hutton, Jr., of Kingston, N.Y., library of rare books and manuscripts. and were presented to the library by Mrs. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY school of medi­ Hutton. cine has been granted funds for training DoROTHY BENDIX, associate professor of biomedical librarians in computer technolo­ library science at Drexel Institute would gy and applications to biomedical litera­ appreciate receiving copies of acquisition ture, contingent upon passage of the budget policies from any academic libraries that by Congress. The grant by the National have prepared them. Library of Medicine will start on January 1, The UNIVERSITY OF HousTON has ac­ 1966, and continues for five years. Three quired a collection of nine hundred Latin students a year will be enrolled, and will American plays from Willis Knapp Jones of receive a stipend of $5,500 per year. Irwin Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. H. Pizer, during the planning and recruit­ University of Houston recently acquired ing stage, will be half-time director while the Ballinger Mills collection of about five he is finishing his course work at the Uni­ thousand volumes for its law library, the versity toward the PhD in medical history. gift of Mr. Mills. The collection of early Mr. Pizer developed the computer-based American state reports and English law of serial system at Washington, and is now the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries librarian of the Upstate Medical Center was supplemented by the letterpress books library, State University of New York, for the law firm, dating from 1840 to 1907. Syracuse. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY school of medi­ AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, cine has been granted $45,000 by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation for expan­ SCHOLARSHIPS sion of library holdings, which will be used INDIANA UNIVERSITY libraries announces to purchase back issues of scientific journals. the continuation of a program to give in­ The LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY PROJECT· has tensive instruction to prospective rare book been granted $15,000 for the detailed librarians. Two fellows will be selected for planning of a three-volume manual on the a study program using the facilities and preservation and restoration of books and collections of the Lilly library. Fellows will other library materials by the Council on remain in residence in Bloomington, Ind., Library Resources. One volume is en­ from July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1967. Each visioned as dealing with the care and re­ will receive a stipend of $5,000 for the pair of ordinary volumes, a second volume twelve-month period. Applications must be devoted to rare books, and the third volume received in Bloomington on or before to conservation of other types of materials March 15, 1966, and appointments will be collected by libraries. Planning is expected made on or before May 1. Requests for ap­ to require a year. plication forms may be addressed to Cecil A GRANT OF $7,931 TO ALA to forward K. Byrd, Librarian, Indiana University, completion of its Catalog Code project was Bloomington, Ind. 47405. made by the Council on Library Resources. The FRANCIS A. CoUNTW AY library has The Code is expected to be ready for publi­ been given $5,000 toward the Aesculapian cation in December. reading room by the Executive Committee The J. MoRRIS JoNEs-World Book En­ of the Harvard Aesculapian Club. Aescula­ cyclopedia-ALA Goals Award for 1966/67 pian members throughout the United States has been announced by the Executive have contributed nearly $132,000 of a pro- Board of ALA. It is available in support of 542 / News from the Field I 543

programs which implement the ALA Goals catalog room, circulation desk, reference for Action, to all units of ALA including and periodical rooms, staff and technical chapters, for amounts up to the total of processing areas. The library site is a sunken $25,000 for the year. Applications are in­ court about five feet below ground level. vited. Stacks will house the present collection of SCHOLARSHIPS IN SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP four hundred thousand volumes with ex­ are offered for 1966/ 67 by the Special Li­ pansion space for twice that number; there braries Association, for graduate study at will be seating provision for twelve hun­ an accredited library school. Application dred persons. The new .library on the old forms may be obtained from the Special (South) campus will be connected with a Libraries Association, 31 East lOth St., projected student center on the new (North) New York 10003, and must be received by campus by a covered double-cantilever foot­ the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund bridge spanning Hempstead Turnpike. Committee at the above address by Feb. 1, The RANDOLPH-MACON WoMAN's CoL­ 1966. LEGE library in Lynchburg, Va., is in proc­ The AMERICAN STANDARDS AssociATION ess of a $1,098,000 expansion and renova­ has received $2,130 toward support of a tion program. Contracts will be let in De­ meeting at UNESCO headquarters in cember for increasing book capacity to two Paris in November to discuss international hundred thousand volumes, and provide standardization of library statistics, from seating for half the student body. the Council on Library Resources. A NEW EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE CoLLEGE library is expected to cost more BUILDINGS than $2,000,000; bids were opened in OccuPANCY of the new library at South­ August by the State Education Department. em Colorado State College is planned for THE UNIVERSITY OF HousTON began con­ Christmas-vacationtime this year. struction of an addition to theM. D. Ander­ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY has named an son memorial library in July. The new addi­ ad hoc committee for planning a new medi­ tion, at a cost of some $3,300,000, is ex­ cal library building. The committee will pected to provide space for almost one mil­ probably continue to exist as a group to lion volumes and. two thousand student provide advice and counsel to the archi­ seats including 404 graduate study carrels. tects; Robert B. Austin, formerly deputy The 126,000 sq. ft. addition is planned for librarian, has agreed to act as consultant completion by early 1967. for the new building. NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY at Washington MEETINGS, SEMINARS, Square will break ground for a new $17,- WORKSHOPS 500,000 library building next year. A test A LIBRARY-COLLEGE WORKSHOP at James­ wall, some 30 feet wide by 40 feet high, town (N.D.) College is being planned for was erected at the proposed site of the new Dec. 18-21. The invitational conference will building this autumn. The new structure emphasize preparation of a statement of an will have space for two million volumes and ideal design for a library-college, in mod­ seating for thirty-five hundred students. erate detail. RoBERTS WESLEYAN CoLLEGE's new li­ DREXEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'S brary was opened for service on May 13, graduate school of library science is offering and dedicated on Oct. 10. The North Chili, a seminar in search strategy during the fall, N.Y., college library will seat three hundr.ed winter, and spring quarters of this academic fifty and accommodates one hundred thou­ year. The course, surveying the field of in.:. sand volumes. formation science, will be directed by Mrs. ADELPHI UNIVERSITY has a new two-story Claire K. Schultz. library building to house one hundred The Jewish Library Association in coop­ seventy-five thousand volumes and seat eration with Drexel Institute of Technology four hundred fifty readers. graduate school of library science, is spon­ HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY's new library build­ soring a seminar on synagogue librarianship ing will be a ten-story stack tower flanked starting Oct. 26, and continuing for six at its base by interlocking pavillions housing consecutive Tuesday evenings. 544 1 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965

A NINETEEN PAGE AUTHOR AND TITLE A COMPROMISE VERSION of the Higher Ed­ INDEX to the published volumes of Fliigge ucation Act of 1965 (HR 9567) passed Handbuch der Physik has been compiled both Houses of Congress on Oct. 20, and is by the Lincoln Laboratory library, M.I.T., now awaiting President Johnson's signature. Lexington, Mass. 02173. Requests for the However, no funds were appropriated to index should be sent to Loyd Rathbun at implement Title II, providing for library the above address. programs. Hopefully, funds will be appro­ MoNTANA STATE CoLLEGE, Bozeman, priated early in 1966. For a copy of the con­ changed its name to Montana State Uni­ ference report (House Report 1178) on the versity at Bozeman on July 1. Higher Education Act, write to the House STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEw YoRK has Document Room, U.S. Capitol. announced a library cataloging project to MISCELLANY correlate resources throughout its fifty-eight member colleges and centers: The Upstate HoovER INSTITUTION of Stanford Univer­ Medical Center library at Syracuse has sity has established a project for cataloging been awarded $16,000 to finance the first by computer the material garnered from the phase of cataloging. Irwin H. Pizer and late Herbert Hoover's files of the American Terrence J. Hoverter will direct the project, Relief Administration. The project uses key­ the compilation of a union list of periodicals word classifications and is in charge of Mrs. and other current materials received each Rita Campbell; at present it is "holding for year by more than half of the colleges and funds." centers. This will enable the university to The FIRST SIX VOLUMES ( 1958-64) of the determine what new resources are needed, Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law and will clear the way for weeding of in­ have been cumulated and bound and is complete collections and for regrouping now available to subscribers for $15; to holdings. The initial phase is expected to nonsubscribers or subscribers beginning include publication by February of a 350- with volume 8 for $25. The cumulation in­ page checking list of twelve thousand titles. cludes an author index, a subject index and The project looks toward doubling of library a list of all periodicals indexed. It is avail­ holdings by 1970, and a system of inter­ able from Stanford University Law Li­ library loans. brary, Stanford, Calif. 94305. The UNIVERSITY OF HousTON library has LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION released a catalog of its W. B. Bates col­ SCHEDULES, Subject Headings Used in the lection of Texana and Western Americana. Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Con­ Copies are available from the library. gress, and its supplements, and L.C. Classi­ Abstracting Services in Science, Technol­ fication-Additions and Changes will be dis­ ogy, Medicine, Agriculture, Social Sciences, tributed by the Library of Congress' card and Humanities (The Hague: International division beginning Nov. 1. Orders after Federation for Documentation, 1965) is that date should be addressed to the Card FID publication 372; viii + 320p. The list Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, was published in August and provides de­ Navy Yard Annex, Washington, D.C. 20541. tailed information, with particular atten­ Subscriptions currently in effect will con­ tion to sub-editions, on abstracts journals tinue in force until they expire. and card services. It is available (from the FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY's library publisher) for 25 Dutch guilders-approx­ school is making a study of the feasibility imately $7. •• of centralized record systems in Florida's junior college libraries. The study will deal with the practicality of preparing junior college records with the aid of data process­ ACRL Membership on September 30, ing equipment, and will involve nineteen 1965 was 9,497. Membership on Octo­ colleges. ber 30, 1964 was 8,599. Section and A REVISED EDITION of National Inventory Subsection membership information of Library Needs is now available from will be published in the January issue. ALA for $2 per copy. Additional ACRL, Section & Subsection Appointments The ACRL Committee on Appointments dam; H. Joanne Harrar, Luella R. Pollock, ( 1966) and Nominations ( 1967) includes James H. Rogers, and Elizabeth Simkins are G. Flint Purdy, chairman; Charles M. Ad­ committee members. ams, University of North Carolina, Greens­ The Junior College Libraries Section Stan­ boro; Miss Marion B. Grady, Ball State Uni­ dards and Criteria Committee has as a member versity; John F. Harvey, Drexel Institute of Elizabeth A. Martin. Technology; J. Elias Jones, Drake Univer­ The Rare Books Section Committee on Local Arrangements Chairman is J. Melvin Edelstein, sity; Samuel F. Lewis, University of Wis­ New York University; Herbert T. Fuller Cahoon consin Center System; William V. Nash, is a committee member. Chairman of the sec­ University of Utah; and Kathryn R. Renfro, tion Nominating Committee is Newton F. University of Nebraska. McKeon, Jr., Amherst College; committee mem­ The Local Arrangements-1966 New bers are Donald B. Engley, and Denton H. York Conference Committee is chaired by Wilcox. The Program Committee Chairman, Morris A. Gelfand, Queens College; Hum­ 1966 New York Conference, is Marcus A. Mc­ phrey G. Bousfield, Brooklyn College; Ben Corison, American Antiquarian Society, and C. Bowman, University of Vermont (librar­ Edwin Wolf, II, is a committee member. ian-designate of Hunter College); Mother The Nominating Committee for the Subject Mary de Montfort, College of New Ro­ Specialists Section includes Andrew Turchyn, chelle; Rice Estes, Pratt Institute; D. Nora Indiana University, chairman; Janet Louise Gallagher, Adelphi University; Esther Markel and Helen M. Nebenthau as members. The Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sub­ Greene, Bernard College; Joseph T. Hart, section Nominating Committee Chairman is Fordham University; Bernard Kreissman, John H. Moriarty, Purdue University; commit­ City College of New York; Ellsworth G. tee members include Robert W. Gerhardt and Mason, Hofstra University; Roscoe Rouse, Mrs. lola R. Stoehlein. State University of New York, Stony Brook; Mrs. Kathryn Blackwell was elected vice and Brother Alexander F. Thomas, Ion a chairman and chairman-elect of the Art Sub­ College, are committee members. section; Mrs. Marie D. Peck, St. Paul public Membership Committee's Junior College library, was elected secretary of the subsection. Libraries Section representative is Betty J. The Law and Political Science Subsection Harrison, Marshalltown (Iowa) Community Nominating Committee this year includes Chair­ College. Helen Paragamian is a member of man Gerritt E. Fieldstra, Anthony P. Grech, the ACRL National Library Week Commit­ and Howard Haycraft. The subsection's Ad Hoc tee. Gustave A. Harrer, Boston University; Planning Committee is chaired by Robert C. and Archie L. McNeal, University of Mi­ Miller, Marquette University; members are Janet M. Rigney and Jane Wilson. The Nom­ ami, are members of the Committee Ad Hoc inating Committee of the Slavic and East on Research. Harriett Genung, Mount San European Subsection Chairman is Mrs. Eliza­ Antonio College, Walnut, Calif., is a mem­ beth Nebehay, United Nations Dag Hammer­ ber of the Standards Committee and E. Wal­ skjold library; committee members include S. L. fred Erickson was reappointed to the com­ Jackson and Mrs. Helene Reshetar. mittee. The University Libraries Section's Ad Hoc The Program Committee, 1966 New York Committee on Academic Status has new mem­ Conference, will have Helen M. Brown as bers Leslie W. Dunlap, Carl W. Hintz, and chairman; Morris A. Gelfand, and Eileen W. Porter Kellam; Lewis C. Branscomb, Ohio Thornton, Oberlin College, as members. State University, is again chairman. Nominat­ Foster E. Mohrhardt, National Agricul­ ing Committee for the section includes Mar­ tural Library, has accepted reappointment jorie E. Karlson, Washington University, St. Louis, as chairman; John P. McDonald and as ACRL representative to the American Joseph H. Reason. New members of the ULS Association for the Advancement of Science. Research and Development Committee are Earl The College Libraries Section Ad Hoc Com­ Farley, David W. Heron, and George Piternick; mittee on Community Use of Academic Librar­ Gustave A. Harrer is chairman again this year. ies includes Barbara LaMont. The Section's Newly appointed members of the Steering Com­ Committee on Non-Western Resources num­ mittee are Ben C. Bowman and Basil Stuart­ bers Evan Ira Farber among its members; Stubbs. New members of the Urban University Anne C. Edmonds, Mount Holyoke College, is Libraries Committee, of which Lorena Gar­ this year's chairman. The Nominating Commit­ loch remains as chairman are Mark M. Gorm­ tee for the section is chaired by Roger C. ley, Edward G. Holley, David C. Weber, and Greer, State University of New York at Pots- William L. Williamson. 545 Personnel

APPOINTMENTS MRs. SuE BIELAwsKI is chief bibliog­ rapher in the Indiana University libraries HARRIETT DYER ADAMS has been ap­ order department. pointed assistant librarian of the graduate NEIL S. BoARDMAN is administrative as­ school of public affairs, State University of sistant to the directors of libraries, Indiana New York, Albany. University. JAMES A. ALLEN is director of Larson li­ LoRISE BoGER is now chief reference li­ brary, Little Rock (Ark.) University. brarian of West Virginia University, Mor­ MRs. MARLENE ALLISON is an assistant gantown. librarian in technical services at State Uni­ MILLER BooRD has been appointed li­ versity of New York, Albany. brarian of Randolph-Macon Woman's Col­ IsABELLE T. ANDERSON became librarian lege, Lynchburg, Va. of the Barrow Neurological Institute of St. DAviD BRIGGS joined the University of Joseph's hospital, Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 1. California, Santa Barbara, reference staff SusAN APLIN joined the reference staff in August. of University of California library, Santa MRs. JEANNE BRINER has accepted the Barbara on Sept. 1. position of bibliographer in University of MRs. BARBARA ARo is now binding li­ Arizona library, Tucson. brarian, Washington University, St. Louis. MRs. MARJORIE FERRIER BRISTER is now MRs. MARTHA AvERY has been appointed serials librarian at Montana State Univer­ to the serials department staff of the Uni­ sity, Bozeman. versity of California library, Berkeley. EDWARD H. BROADHEAD is the new direc­ FRANCES BANKO is now a member of the tor of Southern Colorado State College li­ library acquisitions staff at City College, braries. MRs. CARLENE BROWN is a new mem­ New York. ber of the library acquisitions department RUDOLF BART has joined the staff of the staff at University of California, Berkeley. UCLA library to catalog Near Eastern HARRY W. BRUTON is the new head of publications. the catalog department in Southern Colo­ VICTOR A. BASILE is the new chemistry rado State College libraries. librarian at Indiana University. MRs. BARBARA D. BRYAN has been named RoDMAN BAssEIN is the new serials cata­ assistant director of libraries at Fairfield loger in Rush Rhees library, University of University (Conn.) . Rochester. LAURETTA BucK is assistant serials cata­ MRs. ALICE BAUER assumed the duties of loger in Southern Illinois University library, head of the catalog department in the Uni­ Carbondale. versity of Cincinnati library on Sept. 1. CYNDA Lou BuxTON became business GLADYS H. BEAN has been appointed hu­ administration librarian in University of manities librarian of University of Arizona, Denver in September. Tucson and joined the staff on Sept. 1. MARGARET CAPRON became a member ANN BRISTOW BEL TAN is now assistant of the library staff at University of Cali­ documents librarian at Indiana University. fornia, Santa Barbara, in the serials and GEORGIANE K. BENTZLER is librarian of cataloging departments. the Marshfield-Wood County center of the KELLEY CARTWRIGHT has joined the staff University of Wisconsin in Marshfield. of the Institute of Library Research, Uni­ WILLIAM BERGERON has been appointed versity of California, Berkeley. administrative intern in the UCLA librar­ TERRENCE W. CASSIDEY is assistant order ian's office. librarian at Indiana University. MRs. REGINA BERNEIS has joined the MRs. GERALDINE CoHEN became research staff of Western Michigan University's de­ assistant in machine methods at Washing­ partment of librarianship laboratory library, ton University school of J;Dedicine library, Kalamazoo. St. Louis, in September. 546 / Personnel 1 547

EDwARD CoLLINS has joined the catalog RUDOLPH H. GJELSNESS joined the staff staff of Western Michigan University, Kala­ of University of Arizona library, Tucson, as mazoo. chief special collections librarian. MRs. HELGA CoPE has joined the central DoROTHY GRAHAM has returned to UCLA serials record division of the City College library and will be in the catalog depart­ library, New York. ment. MRs. MINA CRAIS is cataloger at Sibley ELIZABETH GRAVES became librarian of music library, Eastman school of music, the Rotch library of architecture and plan­ University of Rochester. ning on Oct. 25. ALICE CREIGHTON is history of medicine RoBERT W. GREENWOOD is now assistant librarian, University of Rochester school of director for technical services and head of medicine and dentistry. the acquisitions department of Tulane Uni­ THOMAS L. CRYSTAL, JR., is the new versity library, New Orleans. Latin American bibliographer in the re­ ANTHONY HALL has been named director sources and development program at Stan­ of library systems analysis and development ford University libraries. in UCLA library. MRs. GERALD F. DINGMAN is now assist­ FREDERICK A. H. HALL was named bibli­ ant librarian of Bates College, Lewiston, ographer for Latin American and Iberian Me. history and literature in Newberry library, SANFORD DoRBIN was named to the ac­ Chicago; he assumed his duties on July 16. quisitions staff of University of California, AMANDA HARMON has joined the refer­ Santa Barbara library. ence department staff of Rush Rhees library, ELEANORE C. DowLING has been ap­ University of Rochester. pointed music cataloger, Washington Uni­ HELEN HEALY has joined the library staff versity libraries, St. Louis. of the Educational Resources Center, West­ RAY DROLSOM is now serving as catalog em Michigan University, Kalamazoo. librarian in Joint University libraries, Nash­ MARTIN HELGESON is now a member of ville. the library's catalog division, City College, NoRMAN DUDLEY has been named head New York. of the acquisitions department in UCLA CAROLYN HEsSELMEYER joined the Uni­ library. versity of South Florida staff on July 1 as KARIN A. EcKELMEYER is a new member assistant reference librarian. of the catalog division, Stanford University MRs. LUTIE HIGLEY is the new chief libraries. public services librarian of University of THOMAS EITINGON has become a library Arizona, Tucson. cataloger at the City College, New York. CARL W. HINTZ, University of Oregon JIM R. ELKOUlU has joined the catalog librarian, assumed the additional duties of division of Stanford University libraries. director of libraries, Oregon State System of C. JoHN EscHELBACH has joined the staff Higher Education, on July 1. of Foothills College library, Los Altos Hills, MRs. MARGARET C. RoUT is a new mem­ Calif. ber of the technical services library staff at RussEL EvANS is assistant cataloger at State University of New York at Albany. Wisconsin State University library, La­ JosEPH HowARD has been named chief crosse. of the catalog department, Washington STEPHEN S. A. FAUNCE accepted the University libraries, St. Louis. position of assistant to the librarian, Wash­ TsAI Hsu has been named reference li­ ington University school of medicine, St. brarian at Montana State University, Boze­ Louis, and began work on Sept. 20. man. GILBERT G. FITES became librarian at CHUNG-KAI HuANG is the Asian librarian, Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, Rush Rhees library, University of Rochester. Okla., on Sept. 21. WASYL HucuLAK has accepted the posi­ RICHARD FREDELL has been named as­ tion of assistant cataloger on the library sistant to the director, Washington Uni­ staff of Southern Illinois University, Car­ versity libraries, St. Louis. bondale. 548 1 C allege & Research Libraries • November, 1965

MARGARET E. HuGHES has been named JOSEPH D. LowE is the new librarian in head librarian of the University of Oregon the Far East library, University of Wash­ medical school. ington, Seattle. PmLIP IMROTH became a cataloger in MATr P. LowMAN, II, has been named the University of Denver libraries last curator of rare books and assistant head of spring. special collections at Newberry libmry, RICHARD M. JOHNSON is the librarian of Chicago. the Manitowoc County center, University CAMDEN McCoNNELL has been in charge of Wisconsin. of reserve book service at University of RoBERT D. JoHNSON has joined the staff California, Santa Barbara, since July 12. of Foothill College library, Los Altos Hills, SusAN McEwAN has accepted the posi­ Calif. tion of assistant cataloger in University of ELAINE MARIA KEEBLER is mathematics­ South Florida library, effective Sept. 7. astronomy-physics librarian of Indiana Uni­ CAROLYN McMILLEN has been named versity. serials librarian at Michigan State Universi­ J. GoRDON KENEFICK is now associate ty, East Lansing. librarian, Yale University. MRs. BERTHA MAKOW has joined the staff SHAKE KESHKEKIAN is newly appointed of the UCLA biomedical library. to the catalog division of Stanford Uni­ MRs. SHERRILL MANN was appointed to versity libraries. the catalog staff of the University of Cali­ MRs. PRISCILLA KmsHBAUM joined the fornia library, Santa Barbara, on July 11. reference staff of University of Denver li­ CARLOS E. MARRERO is assistant in the braries in September. education-psychology division library, South­ WILLIA¥ H. KNEEDLER has been ap­ ern Illinois University, Carbondale. pointed assistant librarian in charge of ac­ VIRGINIA LowELL MAUCK has been named quisitions, New York City Community Col­ assistant curator of manuscripts, Lilly li­ lege. brary, Indiana University. BERTRAM H. KNousE has been named RoBERT W. MAUTNER is chief science assistant librarian, State University College, librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson. Geneseo, N.Y. MRs. SYLVIA MERRITT is newly appointed EvELYN M. KocHER is chief catalog li­ to the circulation and reference staffs of brarian of West Virginia University, Mor­ UCLA law library. gantown. RoY M. MERSKY on Sept. 1 assumed the AKE I. KoEL has been appointed head of position of law professor and director of technical services in Hamilton College li­ research, which includes responsibility of brary, Clinton, N.Y. the law library, at University of Texas, ELFRIEDA LANG was appointed curator of Austin. manuscripts at Lilly library, Indiana Uni­ AGNES METZLER is now administrative versity, effective July 1. assistant to the director, Tulane University ANNETTE LEE is now gifts librarian of library, New Orleans. Indiana University. JAMES T. MICHNA has been named as­ Jumm LEONDAR has been named to the sistant to the director, Center System li­ staff of the newly-established Bureau of braries, University of Wisconsin. Information Sciences Research at Rutgers. PAUL MILES will serve during the coming SAMUEL F. LEWIS is the new associate year as director of a library liaison center director of the University of Wisconsin in Santiago, Chile; to coordinate many of Center System libraries. the functions of the cooperative program of THOMPSON M. LITTLE becomes associate the universities of Chile and California. director of library services, Hofstra Uni­ THEODORA MILLS is now Slavic cataloger versity, Hempstead, L.I., N.Y., on Nov. 1. in Rush Rhees library, University of Roch­ JoHN B. Lro has been appointed Oriental ester. studies librarian of University of Arizona, MYRNA JEAN MoRTON has joined the ac­ Tucson. quisitions department staff at Ohio Wes- Personnel I 549

leyan University library. MRs. LucY SALVIA joined the catalog RoBERT F. M UNN, director of libraries, department of University of California li­ West Virginia University, Morgantown, has brary, Santa Barbara, in August. been named assistant provost of the uni­ CATHERINE NICHOLSON SCHLICTING has versity. He will continue to serve as li­ joined the reference department staff of brary director. Ohio Wesleyan University library. DAVID NEVIN is the new chief of the JANET F. ScHMIDT has been named li­ audio-visual department, Washington Uni­ brarian of the Marathon County center of versity libraries, St. Louis. University of Wisconsin, Wausau. ELMER J. O'BRIEN has been named as­ MoNICA M. ScHNEIDER has been appoint­ sistant librarian, Garrett Theological Sem­ ed librarian of the Fox Valley center, Uni­ inary, Evanston, Ill. versity of Wisconsin, Menasha. LE RoY D. 0RTOPAN has been named RoGER E. ScHWENN is now director of chief of cataloging in University of Wiscon­ the Center System libraries, University of sin library on Sept. 1. Wisconsin, Madison. WILLIAM OsuGA has been made head of ADA M. SELTZER joined the staff of the the interlibrary loans section of the UCLA University of South Florida on Aug. 1, as library's reference department. assistant reference librarian. THOMAS F. PARKER has joined the UCLA MRs. JANICE H. SHAwL has been ap­ library's reference department staff. pointed to the staff of the UCLA library's HUlBERT PAUL accepted appointment ef­ catalog department. fective Aug. 16 as acquisition librarian, RALPH M. SHOFFNER has been named to University of Oregon. the staff of the Institute of Library Re­ MARY Jo PETERSCHMIDT has been ap­ search at University of California, Berkeley. pointed to the undergraduate library staff ELIZABETH A. SHOUGHRO has been named of the University of Washington, Seattle. assistant director for reader services and DAVID PICCA joined the acquisitions staff science librarian, Tulane University, New of University of California, Santa Barbara Orleans. library, on June 14. MRs. MILDRED SIMMONS has been ap­ DoNALD M. PowELL has been appointed pointed elementary school librarian in the assistant university librarian of University Peabody demonstration school, Nashville. of Arizona, Tucson. DAVID R. SMITH is a newly-appointed DELORES ANN PRITCHARD has returned to reference librarian at UCLA. the library staff of the University of Cali­ JoHN B. SMITH was named assistant law fornia, Santa Barbara, and is assigned to librarian at Columbia University, effective the reference department. July 1. LoUISE G. PRITCHARD joined the staff of KLAUS SPEER has joined the staff of Sib­ the University of Arizona, Tucson, as inter­ ley music library of ' Eastman school of library loan librarian, on Aug. 1. music, University of Rochester, and will be MRs. ELLEN PuGH is associate cataloger working with the rare book collection and for foreign monographs in Rush Rhees li­ assisting graduate students. brary, University of Rochester. AL SQUILLANTE assumed his duties as ARMANDO RE is the new assistant li­ law librarian of the University of Denver in brarian for technical services in the State September. College at Salem (Mass) . JANE STEVENS is the new head of the ARNE RICHARDS is now documents li­ order department, Tulane University li­ brarian, Kansas State University, Manhat­ brary, New Orleans. tan. MRs. TAMARA STRUBEL has joined the OLIVE L. RoBERTS is now director of catalogin~ staff of Rush Rhees library, Uni­ Norton library, Louisiana College, Pineville. versity of Rochester. KATHERINE RYAN began work in Foothill GEORGE R. SwANSON has joined the ref­ College library, Los Altos Hills, Calif., in erence staff of Montana State University li­ September. brary, Bozeman. 550 1 College & Research Libraries • November, 1965

JANICE L. THOMPSON is map librarian at cataloger in the libraries of Southern Il­ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. linois University, Carbondale. ANN TuPPER has ·joined the technical MRs. EvA B. WINTER has been appointed services staff of State University of New serials librarian of Pennsylvania Military York at Albany, as assistant librarian. College, Chester. ANTHONY H. VAUGHAN is a new member ALLEN WYNNE became assistant acquisi­ of the reference staff, University of Cali­ tions librarian at Colorado State University fornia library, Santa Barbara. on July 1. MRs. SALLY S. WACH was appointed on WENDELL A. YEATTS, JR., has been ap­ Sept. 1 to the staff. of the biology library, pointed senior assistant librarian and head University of California, Berkeley. of the data processing department of the ELEANOR WEDGE is the new fine arts University of Missouri library. librarian at Indiana University. MRs. MARTHA YouNG, formerly of the JAMES M. WHITEHEAD is the new science H. W. Wilson Company, is now a library librarian, University of Colorado, Boulder. cataloger at the City College, New York. MRs. ALICE WILKINS joined the staff of Joint University libraries, Nashville, this NECROLOGY autumn, as catalog librarian. BERNARD WILSON became head of the MRs. FANNIE HENDRIE, staff member of processing department, Newberry library, the library for 36 years at Drexel Institute Chicago, in July. of Technology, died on Sept. 2. BETTY RuTH WILSON is the new assistant MoRTIMER TAUBE, chairman of the board of Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Md., died on Sept. 3.

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