COLLEGE and RESEARCH LIBRARIES West Congratulate Charles W

Personnel ITH the retirement of Charles W. played a vital role in the development of the W Smith as librarian of the University university library and the services it renders. of Washington on September I, the Pacific In I923 he was sent to Europe by the uni Northwest loses another of its library pio versity on a buying trip, which resulted in neers. Mr. Smith came to the university as the completion of important sets and the assistant librarian on his graduation from the acquisition of over nineteen thousand separate University of Illinois Library School in 1905. items. He is this year completing forty-two years A charter member of the Pacific Northwest of continuous service to the university. In Library Association, Mr. Smith holds the I9I3 he was made associate librarian and unique record of having served as chairman of the committee on bibliography continuously since its inception, except for the year he was president of the association. Under his leadership the committee on bibliography has brought to successful completion a number of cooperative ventures, the last of which was the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center. It was largely due to Charles Smith's vision and enthusiasm that a workable plan for a bibliographic center was perfected and a $35,000 grant was secured from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. From this grant in 1940 the committee on bibliography under Mr. Smith's leadership and direction has developed a functioning project, soundly managed and soundly financed, which is play ing an important role in the furtherance of scholarship in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Smith has found time for active mem bership in a number of organizations includ ing the American Historical Society and the Charles W. Smith Bibliographic Society of America. He has contributed frequently to scholarly publica associate professor of library economy. In tions, and his Checklist of Books and Pam I926 he was given a full professorship and phlets Relating to the Hist01ry of the Pacific in I929 after the retirement of the late Northwest, the second edition of which has W. E. Henry he was appointed librarian. long been out-of-print, is still considered the The board of regents has approved the ap basic reference tool in this field. pointment of Mr. Smith as professor and Forty-two years of unstinted, untiring serv librarian emeritus and bibliographic consult ice of the sort given the University of ant. Washington by Charles W. Smith is in Few men have had so long and so intimate calculable and cannot be measured. The an association with the development of a great university community appreciates his contribu .. research library as has Mr. Smith. When tion, however, and has long held him in high he came to Washington in I905 the library esteem. He is affectionately known as contained approximately twenty thousand "Booky" Smith by his colleagues on the campus. volumes. On his retirement he leaves a It is worthy of note that Mr. Smith has se well-rounded collection of more than six lected and trained his successor, Harry C. hundred thousand volumes. By every instinct Bauer, who becomes director of libraries on a bibliographer and a scholar, Mr. Smith has September I. Librarians in the Pacific North- 450 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES west congratulate Charles W. Smith on his 1mt1atmg the recataloging of the Vatican splendid record of achievement and hope that Library in Rome. In October of 1929 he they will have his friendly counsel for years joined the staff of the Graduate Library to come.-] ohn S. Richards. School of the University of Chicago as as sociate profess9r. R. William M. Randall, for a dozen or At Chicago Dr. Randall served in various D more years a member of the faculty capacities, his principal activities as teacher of the Graduate Library School of the Uni being in the fields of classification and catalog versity of Chicago, on June I, I947, became ing and college library administration. He be director of libraries of the University of came the first editor of the Library Quarterly Georgia, succeeding Ralph H. Parker. in 1931, which position he held until he en Dr. Randall returns to the ranks of uni- tered the United States Army in 1942. He was made professor in 1931 and served as assistant dean of students of the university, 1938-42. From I929 to 1931 Dr. Randall was em ployed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as consultant for the Advisory Group on College Libraries, of which Dr. Bishop was chairman. · In that capacity he visited the libraries of two hundred or more liberal arts colleges and gained firsthand informa tion concerning the status and administration of that type of library. The College Library ( 1932) and Principles of College Library Adminisi'ratio,n (with F. L. D. Goodrich, 1936), grew out of that experience and his study of college administration in general. In 1939 he directed the institute of the Graduate _Library School of the University of Chicago devoted to the consideration of the problems of acquiring and _cataloging ma Dr. T¥illiam M. Randall terials and edited the volume of papers pres ented at the institute under the ' title, The versity library administrators with a rich Acquisition and Cataloging of Books (1940). and distinctive experience as librarian, teacher, D~ring his stay at the University of Chi editor, author, library consultant, and mem cago Dr. Randall was a student of the Middle ber of the armed services. He began his East and spent considerable time visiting the connection with libraries as student assistant libraries of that region. Prior to the war, and senior classifier at the University of he also engaged in the study of cryptography Michigan Library from I920 to I925. Dur and, at the beginning of the war, was re ing the period he received the degrees of quested by the Army to enter the service A.B. (I922) and A.M. (I924) from the because of his knowledge of Arabic and of university. From Michigan he went to Hart the Middle Eastern countries. He entered ford, Conn., where he became instructor the Army in 1942 as a major and served as in phonetics and general linguistics, Kennedy follows: I942, liaison officer, Air Transport School of Missions, and curator of the Anani Command, R.A.F., in Cairo; later in charge kian Collection of Arabic Manuscripts of the of Political and Economic Intelligence, G-2, Hartford Seminary Foundation. He received U.S. Army Forces, Middle East (until June his doctorate, summa cum laude, from the I943) ; attached to Joint Intelligence Agency, seminary in I 929. Middle East (War Intelligence), Cairo, June From January to June I928 Dr. Randall 1943-April I944; attached to Intelligence, was associated with William Warner Bishop, North African Division, Air Transport Com J. C. M. Hanson, and Charles Martel in mand, Casablanca, Morocco, April 1944-April OCTOBER, 1947 451 1945; North Atlantic Division, April-October undergraduate library which is now under 1945· construction. Upon leaving the service, Dr. Randall be- He has served as president of the Harvard came manager of the Library Division of Library Club and has been an active mem Snead & Company, with headquarters at ber of S.L.A. and A.L.A. Some idea of his Orange, Va., and in August I946 became accomplishments is suggested by articles he vice president of the Angus Snead Macdonald contributed to Special Libraries, Harvard Corporation.-Louis R. Wilson. University Library Notes, and Papers & Pro ceedings of the National Association of State LMER Mori Grieder, who became librarian Libraries. E of West Virginia University on July I, The Library of the Harvard Graduate is a native of Iowa and a graduate of School of Public Administration (Littauer the University of Dubuque. From I930 to Center) consisted of a few hundred volumes 1935 he taught at the La Porte City High in seminar collections when Mr. Grieder School and at the University of Dubuque came to Harvard, and the Littauer Building, summer school. which now houses it, was not opened until a year after his arrival. By the middle of 1947, the new library had grown to' "":more than I30,ooo volumes and pamphlets . .;· Mr. Grieder helped to plan and directly suplrvised the building up of an institution which not only serves its own graduate school but also functions as a document center for the uni versity as a whole. It should be noted that, while his title was "assistant librarian," there was never any librarian of the Graduate · School of Public Administration, and Mr. Grieder was responsible directly to his faculty and to the director of the university library. -Edwin E. Williams. HE Board of Regents of the University T of Washington has announced the ap pointment, effective Sept. I, 1947, of Harry C. J3auer as director of libraries and professor of librarianship. Bauer succeeds Charles W. Smith, librarian, who is retiring after forty Elmer M(;ri Grieder two years continuous service on the faculty of the university. In 1936, after receiving a library degree Mr. Bauer, a graduate of the St. Louis from Columbia and working in the New York Library School ( I 93 1) , was born and reared Public Library as a temporary assistant in in St. Louis. He attended the University the economics division, he went to the Detroit of Missouri from 1921 to I923 and later Public Library a~ a junior assistant. Thence, transferred to Washington University (St. in February 1938, he came to Harvard as Louis) where he received the A.B. degree assistant librarian in the Graduate School of in 1927 and the M.S.

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