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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. degree (physics) in Public Administration. He returned to this I929. It was here he was elected to Sigma position in January 194.6 after nearly three Xi. years of service in the Army, chiefly in New Bauer became interested in librarianship Guinea and the Philippines. From October following a number of years as a part-time I946 until he resigned to go to West Virginia, student assistant in the St. Louis Public he worked as assistant to the director of the Library during his high school days. His Harvard University Library, concerning him first professional appointment came in 1929 self particularly with plans for the new as an assistant in the applied science depart-
452 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ment of that institution. In 193 I he moved was promoted to major and two years later to the University of Missouri Library where in 1945, after thirty-three months c~ntinuous he was appointed chief of the circulation overseas service in this area, Africa, and department. Italy, he returned with his group to the A new field opened for Bauer with the United States. Major Bauer was awarded important library development in the Tennes the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, and the see Valley Authority when, in March 1934, Purple Heart. Now on inactive duty, he he was invited to organize and administer is a lieutenant colonel in the Reserve Corps. the technical library system of that project. At the University of Washington Bauer is While with the T.V.A. Mr. Bauer col~ also a member of the faculty of the school laborated with Mrs. Lucile Keck and Mrs. of librarianship, teaching courses in adminis I. E. Dority in editing the second edition of tration. He is active in civic affairs, being a member of the mayor's committee on salacious literature. This committee's report received considerable notice when it.. was published in the July 12, 1947, Saturday Review of Literature. He is a member of the Seattle Municipal League and the Uni versity Kiwanis Club. He is a contributor to professional periodicals, holds membership in the organizations of the library field, and was the president of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Special Libraries Association for 1946- 47. Mr. Bauer is interested in the furthering of the diffusion of knowledge. Toward this end he has devoted much of his time to winning the confidence of students and faculty and to other aspects of public relations which might result in much greater use of uni versity library facilities than is now generally made in colleges and universities in this country. His appointment by the Board of H~rry C. Bauer Regents of the University of Washington is recognition of the high esteem in which Public Administration Libraries: A Manual Bauer is held in academic and library circles. of Practice, published by Public Administra Th.e university is fortunate in securing one tion Service in 1941. He also served on the who not only has high standards and a fine board of directors of Special Libraries As record of achievement, but whose judgment, sociation from 1940 until April 1942 when sense of proportion, and understanding of he departed from the T.V.A. on military people-as demonstrated in his associations leave to accept a commission as a captain within and without the profession-will con in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was also tinue to bring credit to librarians.-Robert active in the credit union movement, serving L. Gitler. as treasurer-manager of a T.V.A. credit union and as president of the Tennessee HE University of Missouri recently an Credit Union League in 1941-42. T nounced the appointment of Ralph Hal Harry Bauer's record in the Army Air stead Parker as librarian. Dr. Parker was Corps is a distinguished one. Upon complet director of libraries at the U niver.sity of ing courses at the officer's training school at Georgia and takes to his new assignment Miami Beach, Fla., and the combat intel a broad understanding of library objectives ligence school at Harrisburg, Pa., he was in higher education and a varied experience assigned to the 98th Bombardment Group in library administration. Essentially a and sent to the Middle East. In 1943 he teacher at heart, his ability as a librarian
OCTOBER, 1947 453 provide for the reclassification and recatalog ing of the collection. In cooperation with college and university libraries in the Atlanta Athens area, he took an active part in in itiating the university center. While at the University of Georgia, Dr. Parker devoted much of his time to a study of library build ing requirements and to planning for the Ila Dunlap Little Memorial Library. Soon after war was declared Dr. Parker entered military service and rose from the rank of private to that of captain. After completing officer's candidate school, he was assigned to the office of the Adjutant General in Washington because of his knowledge of International Business Machines acquired through his adaptation of the I.B.M. system to University of Georgia Library records. Dr. Parker has been active in state and national library organizations, exerting his Ralph Halstead Parker leadership in offices of state associations and through committee work in A.L..A. He has is peculiarly well-suited to the opportunities been a member of the A.L.A. Committee on for library development at the University of Library Administration, 1936-37, the Board Missouri. He replaces Benjamin E. Powell on Resources of American Libraries, 1940-47, who is now librarian of Duke University. and is chairman of the Committee on Library A native of Texas, Dr. Parker attended Equipment and Appliances. Until recently the University of Texas where he earned he was a member of the Tennessee Valley successively his bachelor's, master's, and Library Council and was concerned with doctor's degrees, majoring in the field of establishment of the Southeastern States Latin American history. Subsequently in Regional Library Survey.-Wayne S. Y ena 1936-37 he attended the University of Chi wine. cago Graduate Library School on a fellow ship which enabled him to follow a special n !CHARD H. LOGSDON, recently assistant program of study on college and university .1'. director of the Veterans Administration administrative problems. A student assistant Library Services, became assistant director ship in the University of Texas Library es in charge of technical services for the Li tablished a career interest-which led ultimately braries of Columbia University on September to his appointment in 1930 as loan librarian 1. Mr. Logdson has had an unusually suc at his alma mater. Following his study at cessful career as a librarian and will con the University of Chicago, he was librarian tribute a large share to the success of the of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., and fine staff being assembled at Columbia. in 1940 he assumed the duties of director Particularly interested in education, he has of libraries at the University of Georgia. been able to combine library administration The A. L.A. survey of the University of and teaching in several positions which he Georgia Library system created opportunities has held. After graduation from Western which Dr. Parker made wise use of to effect a Reserve University in 1934 he went to Adams reorganization, sound in principle and appro:. State Teachers College as librarian and in priate in detail. He was particularly structor in library science. After taking time concerned with the consolidation of scattered out to acquire a Ph.D. at the University of resources and the development of a modern Chicago, he went to Madison College as central catalog. Through the generosity of librarian and associate professor in library the general education board he was able to science in 1939 just prior to completion of
454 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the new Madison Memorial Library. In this position he was responsible for developing and expanding the services of the library and was particularly successful through participa tion in the work of faculty and student com mittees in achieving integration of the library program with the over-all program of the college. In addition to normal services, the library assumed responsibility during his ad ministration for supervision of the regional audio-visual center sponsored by the state department of education. This center sup plied films, records, and slides not only to the college but to schools in the area. Four years later, in 1943, he was appointed head of the Library Service Department at the University of Kentucky. Taking military leave from this position in 1944, Logsdon's interest in education and training was wisely used by the U.S. Navy when he was attached to the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Richard H. Logsdon Division during his period of active duty. In this capacity he assisted in the preparation don has displayed clear thinking, a knowledge of curricula for naval training schools and of sound basic principles, and the ability to was a member of the board of review for make full use of his grea~ energy in the training films and other training aids. solution of problems. Following service in the Navy he became The loss of his services to the Veterans librarian of the U.S. Office of Education Administration program is a serious one but where he carried through a reorganization it is expected that the addition of his abilities _..../"' of the library as part of the commissioner's to the staff at Columbia will be a benefit to ·plan to improve the services of the Office the profession as a whole.-Francis R. St. of Education. John. In February 1947 Logsdon came to the Veterans Administration as assistant director AURICE F. TAUBER, since 1944 assistant of library service. He has done outstanding M director of libraries in charge of tech work in helping to develop policies and proce nical services in the Columbia University dures necessary to carry out the consolidation Libraries, added his full strength to · the and development of library service in this faculty of library service beginning September organization. 1. He came to Columbia with the under Interested in the development of the pro standing that, after a further period of fession of librarianship, he has been an active practical experience, he would transfer full participant in important committee work of time to the school. In the meantime, he the various professional organizations. He served the school in a part-time capacity has been chairman of the Publications Com first as assistant professor and since July I, mittee of A.C.R.L. since 1946; a member of 1946, as associate professor. the Board of Education for Librarianship It is seldom given to a librarian to conduct of the A.L.A. since 1946; a member of the a survey and then have the opportunity to put Fourth Activities Committee of A.L.A. since his suggestions for improvement into effect, 1946; and president of the Library Education but that briefly has been the experience of Division since June 1947. Maurice Tauber with the Colqmbia Univer Firmly convinced that good training coupled sity Libraries. With L. Quincy Mumford, with sound administration supervision is the he surveyed the technical operations of the answer to successful library operation, Logs- university libraries in 1943-44. At the end
OCTOBERJ 1947 455 tunnel through mountains of details, noiseless but vigorous powers of leadership, and an tennae sensitive to the point of view of others. An indefatigable worker, Dr. Tauber has squeezed a variety of special assignments into his schedule. He has been a consultant on problems of the technical services at Vassar College Library, the University of Vermont Library, and the New York State Library. He is co-author with Louis Round Wilson of The University Library and, with Dr. . Wilson, surveyed the University of South Carolina Library in I946. He served on the committee appointed by the Librarian of Congress to study the principles of descriptive cataloging. Since September I945 he has been· an energetic managing editor of College and Research Libraries. He was recently elected vice president of the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the American Library Maurice F. Tauber Association. Beginning this month he will join Louis Round Wilson and Robert Bing of that year he came to the position he has ham Downs in a survey of the Cornell U ni just relinquished and has spent his time since versity Libraries. With practical library then translating his proposals into action. experience to his credit in three universities His task in the new position, the scope of and with his extensive experience in surveys, which he helped to define, was to coordinate he can be said to have become one of our all of the "technical services" (acquisitions, leading authorities in that important sphere cataloging and classification, binding, and of library work behind the scenes which at photography) and to smooth out and simplify Columbia is referred to as the technical the various operations in this sector. services.-Carl M. White. Among specific accomplishments by his staff he ca,n look back upon the following: elimi N September I5 Alfred Harris Rawlinson nation of overlapping and waste motion in O became librarian and head of the de a number of library routines; simplification partment of library science at the University of cataloging and of the billing procedures of South Carolina. His new position brings for acquisitions and photography; greater him back to his adopted state after a year centralization of acquisitions work; clearer and a half as librarian of Centre College, separation of homogeneous duties for the Danville, Ky. Before going to Centre Col purpose of utilizing staff members of dif lege, Mr. Rawlinson had been, at various ferent levels of preparation. These and re times, reference librarian and . cataloger in lated accomplishments contributed their part the Richland County Public Library, Colum toward such striking changes in statistics as bia, S.C.; assistant professor in the Emory the following (figures are for I944 and I947 University Library School; regional librarian respectively) : volumes cataloged, 38,oo8 to of the Murray, Ky., State Teachers College, 58,442; orders placed, II,232 to 26,787; ex and executive secretary of the Arkansas State changes received, I,655 to I I,783; gifts re Library Commission. ceived, I 7,820 to 4 I ,870; serials checked, A missionary's son, Mr. Rawlinson grew 27,907 to 59,075; pamphlets bound, 8,353 to up in China, where his father edited the I2,67I. Photographic income rose from Chinese Recorder and the China Mission $8,799.48 to $I5,286.39. Year Book. He holds an A.B. from Bucknell, In securing these results he has shown a a library degree from Emory, and an M.A. steady sense of direction, the capacity to from the University of South Carolina. Dur-
456 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ing the war years he was secretary of the Southeastern Library Association and he has held other offices in state library associations. To his new position Mr. Rawlinson brings a thorough understanding of South Carolina, the university, and the university libraries. He finds them expanding more rapidly than at any previous period of their history and undergoing reorganization following the sur vey made by Wilson and Tauber in 1946. South Carolina librarians and the chess play-
Charlotte A. Baker
Miss Baker came to Colorado in the fall of 1893 for her health and entered the train ing class of the Denver Public Library in the fall of 1894. Later she worked in the cataloging department there. Then in the summer of 1900 she accepted a position as librarian of New Mexico Agricultural Col lege, where as she expressed it: As librarian I was supposed to manage the library and do anything else that seemed useful. A /fred Harris Rawlinson I rang the bell for the change of classes, but forgot so often that the work was turned over ers of Columbia will welcome his return for to a student. Then I sold stationery for the opposite reasons. The librarians know and community, ran a local mail distributing center, appreciate his good humor and friendliness, helped stage college entertainments, all for the the chess players his cold, calculating ferocity. munificent sum of fifty dollars a month. -John VanMale. In 1906 she returned to Colorado as as sistant librarian of the Colorado State Agri HARLOTTE A. BAKER, one of the "old cultural College working under the brilliant C guard" of land-grant college librariansj Joseph F. Daniels, who later as head of the died at Fort Collins, Colo., on June 22, 1947, Public Library and Riverside Library School, five weeks after her eightieth birthday. Ri-xerside, Calif., is so well-remembered by From the summer of 1900 when she became public librarians. In 1910 she became li librarian of New Mexico Agricultural Col brarian and served in that position until she lege to 1936 when she retired as librarian retired in r 936. emeritus of Colorado State College of Agri Important in the story of the development culture and Mechanic Arts, she was active of land-grant college functions was the little not only in college work but in what she known survey made by a committee of the considered a real function of the land-grant Agricultural Libraries Section of the A.L.A., college libraries, the promotion of libraries and published by mimeographing at the U.S. in the small towns typical of the rural areas. Department of Agriculture Library in 1922.
OCTOBER~ 1947 457 Miss Baker was the chairman of this com in the Tremont Branch Library. His pro mittee, of which the other active member fessional career since that time has all bee in planning was Lucy May Lewis, librarian in one institution, but one in which there i of Oregon State College. Overshadowed by a unique combination of college, public, an the very thorough report by Charles H. special library functions. In 1937 he wen Brown on libraries in the 1930 survey of to the Cooper Union as head of the museu land-grant colleges issued by the U.S. Office library, at that time one of five separate li of Education, it nevertheless did set out for braries in that institution. In 1940 he be the first time some of the characteristics of came head librarian and was given the tas the land-grant college library and some of the peculiarities of its organization and needs. Miss Baker's administrative ability, to gether with her sense of values, made the l.ibrary of Colorado "Aggies" one of the well known smaller land-grant collections, but she will be long remembered by both faculty and students more for the vitality of her personal contacts with people. Yet it is for the promo tion of the small libraries of Colorado, and the training of librarians for those collections, that she will be longest remembered. These activities were reflected in her service as secretary of the Colorado State Library Com mission from 1913 to 1919, as editor of Occasional Leaflets and the ColO'rado Li braries for the Colorado Library Association from 1913 to 1922, and as principal of the summer library school of the Colorado State Agricultural College from 1918 through 1932. In 1940 Miss Baker was awarded one of Harold Lancour the first of the "Distinguished Service" awards of the Colorado Library Association for her work in the promotion of public of reorganizing and consolidating the whole libraries. At the request of friends and library system. The library Mr. Lancour former students the Library of Colorado leaves to his successor is a lively and vital A. & M. College is establishing a Charlotte A. organization of several departmental libraries Baker Memorial Collection to be made up under a strong central organization. The of the type of book that she would have increased professional services provided by delighted to introduce to students who were the reorganized library called for increased just coming to know the joys of reading. staff and financial support. Since 1939 the lames G. Hodgson. Cooper Union Library staff has grown from five librarians with a budget of $29,00Q to eleven professional librarians, all with faculty AROLD LANCOUR has become assistant status, twenty-two clericals, and an operating H director of the University of llli,nois budget of $75,000. Library School, replacing Lewis F. Stieg. While Mr. Lancour's professional interests He began his new duties Sept. I, 1947. are in the practical problems of administra Mr. Lancour has had a varied experience tion, most of his leisure-time activities are since his graduation from Columbia library bibliographical. His first published bibli school in 1936. His introduction to library ography on early immigrant passenger lists work was gained in the University of Wash went through two editions in one year, and ington Library. After serving in several his checklist of American art auction catalogs posts in the New York Public Library is the standard work in this field. The ac Reference Division, he spent several months quisitive instincts of the collector are ex-
458 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ressed in his shelf of examples of fine Science. In 1946 he was appointed assistant rinting of the sixteenth century. As an librarian in charge of circulation at the Uni tive member of the Grolier Club of New versity of Puerto Rico. ork and the American Antiquarian Society, Mr. Suarez will bring to his new post an e has found congenial associations for these intimate ~nowledge of the needs of Puerto terests. Rican students from a service standpoint. Mr. Lancour was one of the founders of the His ability to apply this knowledge has been ngineering School Libraries Section of the demonstrated on innumerable occasions in the ssociation of College and Reference Li- solution of difficult problems presented to the raries and chairman of the section from public service department of a bilingual, half 941 to 1946. He is now its representative Latin American, half North American univer n the A.C.R.L. Board of Directors. In the sity library. In addition to his administrative merican Association for Engineering Educa competence, Mr. Suarez maintains an active ion he helped originate, and since 1941, has interest in the broad social problems of the erved on its national committee on libraries. island, not the least of which is the institution During the war Mr. Lancour was an in tructor in the now famous school for Army ibrarians which operated during 1944 and 945 in Paris and later in Oberammergau. ith LeRoy C. Merritt at the University f California and Herbert Goldhor at the niversity of Illinois, he is the third of the acuity of that school to become actively ngaged in education for libarianship. Mr. Lancour secured his B.S. and M.S. egrees from Columbia School of Library ervice and has just completed the work for is doctor's degree in education at Columbia reachers College.-B .C.H.
VAN SUAREZ-MORALES, formerly assist ant librarian in charge of circulation at he University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, ssumed the librarianship of the College of griculture and Mechanic Arts in Mayagiiez, .R., on Aug. I, 1947· Mr. Suarez has risen rapidly in the profes 1 uan Suarez-M orales ion since he began his career as a student ssistant in the University of Puerto Rico ibrary in 1943. Upon his graduation with of an efficient library system which will reach n A.B. degree in 1944, he served as a library every bohio in the hills. Puerto Rican li ssistant in the circulation department of the brarianship as a whole has been immeasur niversity library for a year, after which he ably strengthened by this appointment of 1uan as given a stipendium for a year's study in Suarez-Morales.-Lawrence S. Thompson the Syracuse University School of Library
Appointments 1anet Agnew, librarian of Sweet Briar rector· of libraries of New York University. College, has been appointed to the librarian He has been . acting director since 1945 in ship of Bryn Mawr College. During the addition to his duties as full professor in past summer she has been a member of the the Washington Square College classics de library school faculty at North Carolina. partment. Ernest L. Hettich has been appointed di- Albert C. Gerould, deputy librarian of the
OCTOBER, 1947 459 United Nations, has been named librarian the University of Washington Library a of Clark University at Worcester, Mass. Seattle. David K. Berninghausen, director of the Louise Darling, recently returned fro Phillips Library of Birmingham-Southern Army library service in the Pacific, has bee College, has been appointed librarian of the made librarian of the newly-organized Bio Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science medical Library of the University of Cali and Art in New York City. fornia at Los Angeles. Recent administrative appointments at the Neal Harlow, formerly of the Bancrof University of Denver include Carl W. Hamil Library. of the University of California a ton as librarian of the College of Business Berkeley, is heading the new Department o Administration, Mrs. Frances Hickey Scha Special Collections of the University of Cali low as librarian of the College of Law, Lyle fornia Library at Los Angeles. Morey as head of the catalog department, Dorothy B. Hammell, Brooklyn Colleg 1ane Gould as head of the purchasing depart Library, has been appointed librarian of th ment, 1ane Pope as head of the serials de Education Library of the University of South partment, and Margaret Hayes as chief of ern California. the service division. Emma Linton Holman, formerly of th Lee C. Brown, executive secretary and li extension division of the Virginia State Li brarian of the American Merchant Marine brary, has been named librarian of Mar Library Association, is now librarian of the Baldwin College, Staunton, V a. Pennsylvania Military College at Chester. Henry E. Coleman, 1 r., librarian of th William S. Budington has been appointed George Avery Bunting Library, Washingto librarian of the Engineering Library of Co College, Chestertown, Md., · has been ap lumbia University. Since leaving the service pointed librarian of Washington and Lee U ni he has received a degree in engineering from versity, Lexington, V a. Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Donald C. Davidson has succeeded Katha Barbara Hubbard, library staff member of rine F. Ball as librarian of Santa Barbara Cornell University, is now chief of the read College of the University of California. ers' division of the M t. Holyoke College Li The University of California at Berkeley brary. has made the following appointments to ad Edith A. Wright, formerly reference li ministrative and specialist positions: Vincent brarian of the American Library in Paris, H. Duckles as head of the Music Branch has become order and periodical librarian of Library; Elizabeth Huff as head of the East the New 1ersey College for Women. Asiatic Library; Frances B. 1enkins as head Elizabeth I ves, of the Middlebury College of the newly-established science reference serv Library, has been appointed assistant li ice; Myra B. Kolitsch as head of the library brarian of Elmira College. school library; Thomas B. Murray as stack 1 anet Dickson, order-catalog librarian of supervisor; and Marion B. Allen, in charge the Providence Public Library, has been ap of public relations. pointed head cataloger of the State University Sidney B. Smith, who has been in residence of Iowa. at Chicago for the doctorate, has been ap Lillian B. Goodhart, of the cataloging staff pointed director of libraries at the University of the Yale University Law School Library, of Vermont. is now chief of the cataloging department of Morrison C. Haviland, until recently acting the New 1ersey College for Women Library. head of the reserve book room of the U ni Dixon Wecter, chairman of the research versity of California at Berkeley, has been group at the Huntington Library, has been appointed general assistant to the director of appointed literary editor of the Mark Twain the Harvard College Library. estate. The Mark Twain collection has been The University of California at Los An transferred from Harvard to .lfuntington on geles has appointed Dumtry Krassovsky as a long-term loan. bibliographic consultant in Slavic materials Evelyn Elliott, head of the catalog depart and Georgia Catey as librarian of the geology ment at Kansas State Teachers College at and physics libraries. Emporia, has become head of circulation of 1ohn Dulka, assistant reference librarian
460 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES f the Milwaukee Pubh~ Library, has been Bernard R. Berelson, assistant professor ppointed reference librarian at Milwaukee of library science at the University of Chi tate Teachers College. cago, has been appointed dean of the Graduate Edith Schumacher, head cataloger of the Library School at the university. Frances >ratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, has been Henne, at present an assistant professor, has ppointed assistant librarian in charge of tech been named associate dean and dean of stu ical processes of the New York State M ari dents. ime Academy at Fort Schuyler. Olga M. Peterson, chief, Public Relations Anne Coogan, formerly of the reference Office, A.L.A. Headquarters, has been ap ~epartment of the Grosvenor Library, is now pointed librarian of the University of St. 'lead reference and circulation librarian at Thomas, Houston, Tex., as of October the 2arnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. first.
Retirements Granville Meixell, who has been librarian Emporia, has retired after twenty-five years of the Applied Science Libraries and later the of service. Engineering Library of Columbia University Abbie McFarland has retired as librarian of since 1925 has retired. Mary Baldwin College at Staunton, Va. Mr~. Elsie Howard Pine, assistant profes Dr. E. C. L. Miller, director of libraries, sor of library science and former acting li and Florence McRae, librarian of the Medical brarian of Kansas State Teachers College at College of Virginia, retired on January I.
Personnel Changes in Foreign Libraries POLAND Posen Polish libraries have suffered intensely, Dr. Andrzej Woytkowski, former director perhaps more than those of any other Euro of Count Raczynski's Library, is now a pro pean nation, even Germany, as a result of the fessor and director of the university library war. Quite aside from confiscation, plunder in the University of Lublin. He was suc ing, and total destruction of many Polish ceeded by Dr. Marian Rymarkiewicz. The libraries, the personnel situation was seri library was partially destroyed by fire in 1944 ously aggravated by the fact that no less than and 1945. 145 Polish librarians lost their lives during the war. As complete a list as possible was L6di published in Bibliotekarz, XII ( 1945), 2-3, A new university library is being organized and XIII ( 1946), 137-39, 233· Dr. Adam under the directorship of Dr. Adam Lysakow Lewak, director of the university library in ski. Warsaw who kindly supplied this informa Torun tion, states that of the 145 dead librarians, Dr. Z. Mocarski, who died in 1941, has no less than 71 were executed. In 1939 there been succeeded by Janina Przybylowa as di were some 1300 librarians and archivists in rector of the Nicholas Copernicus Municipal Poland. Library. Krakau Breslau Dr. Karol Piotrowicz, former director of Dr. Josef Deutsch surrendered the director the Library of the Polish Academy of Sci ship of the Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek ences died in Russia in 1940. Mrs. Suszytowa after the transfer of Silesia to Poland. The became director in 1945. library itself was almost totally destroyed by Dr. Marian Kukiel, formerly director of fire during the last months of the war. In its Prince Czartoryski's Library, has been in stead a municipal library under the director England since 1940. The present director is ship of Dr. Antoni Knot is being established. Dr. Karol Buczek. LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON
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In June the Carnegie State Teachers College Library School. Conferences and Corporation of New York Representatives from practically every sec ·Curricula granted $250,000 for tion of the state attended. After a general an experimental five-year session the institute was divided into two program to develop four university study cen discussion groups: one, concerned with young ters concerned with Latin America. The people's reading and school library problems, project will be developed jointly by the Uni the other with library extension on a state versity of North Carolina, the University of wide basis and with public relations as affect Texas, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. The pro ing the service of public libraries. gram is designed to make available compre In May, at the invitation of the Colorado hensive examinations of Latin America to Library Association, twenty-five librarians teachers, businessmen, and government offi met in Denver to discuss the possibility of cials as well as to students. Each center forming a Mountain-Plains Library Associa will offer a fuller curriculum on Latin Amer tion. Those attending the meeting repre ican subjects than has been possible in the sented eight neighboring states. Three of the past. Broader facilities for graduate work states represented now participate in the and an expansion of literary resources will Pacific Northwest Library Association or the be features of the program. Southwest Library Association, so it was the The McGregor Room in the Alderman librarians of the five remaining states who had Library of the University of Virginia served more than an academic interest in combining as a meeting place for four evening seminars into a regional group. It was decided that in contemporary poetry and prose, sponsored the first regional conference would meet in by the school of English. William Butler 1948. With assurance of support from in Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. terested librarians, a three-day meeting is Auden were the subjects of the meetings. planned and an attendance of two or three The McGregor Room also serves as the meet hundred expected. Ralph T. Esterquest, ing place of the Bibliographical Society, cen University of Denver Libraries, has been ap tering in the University of Virginia and the pointed chairman of the Mountain-Plains Charlottesville community, but open to others Library Conference Planning Committee. who may be interested. The Washington Li The thirty-fourth annual Conference of. brary Association sponsored a meeting con Eastern College Librarians will meet at Co cerned with the problems of public library lumbia University on Saturday, Nov. 29, 1947. administration at the twelfth annual institute on government held at the University of The Western His~ Washington in Seattle. "Library Service to Gifts and Collections torical Manu- Business and Government" and "The Book scripts Collection mobile and Its Place in Library Extension" of the University of Missouri recently ac were the topics reviewed. quired the Senatorial and Vice Presidential The first postwar regional library con Papers of Harry S. Truman covering the years ference of representatives of Pennsylvania, ·1934-45· Other recent acquisitions include the New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, and papers of Ralph E. Lozier, congressman from the District of Columbia will be held October Missouri, 1918-35, and the memoirs of 9-II in Baltimore. The general theme will Thomas E. Breckenridge, a companion of be "The Education of This Generation." John C. Fremont on two of his expeditions. During June 4, 5, and 6 an in-service li The debates and proceedings of the Missouri brary institute was held on the campus of Constitutional Convention held in Jefferson Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. City, Mo., during December and January The program was sponsored jointly by the 1845-46 have also been acquired. · Kansas Library Association and the Kansas The Alderman Library of the University
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f Virginia has recently received a collection in Milan in I475· Other titles included are f manuscripts, notebooks, scrapbooks, and Antoninus Florentinus's Confessionale, I490; iscellaneous papers belonging to the late the Biblia Latina, Venezia, I489; Cicero and Senator William Cabell Bruce. As a charter Plinius II's Epistulae Selectae, I500; and day gift, Dr. and Mrs. J ohri W. Price, Jr., Henricus de Gorichemus's Conclusiones super of Louisville, Ky., presented the College of IV libros sententiarum, c. I488. William and Mary with a collection of papers With the establishment of a School of and correspondence formerly preserved at the Medicine on the Los Angeles campus of the Skipwith family seat, "Prestwould," Mecklen University of California, plans have been burg County, V a. The collection contains made to build a biomedical library which will approximately 6500 pieces covering the years serve the new school and the graduate life I 762-I890. Included in the gift was a series sciences fields. The library will eventually of approximately sixty letters exchanged be be located in its own building which will be tween William and Peyton Short during the centrally located in the biomedical group and period, I78I-I824. in proximity to the campus's general library. In May, Columbia University acquired the The new buildings are expected to be com world's outstanding collection of Spinoza's pleted in I950. Until that time the biomedi works and associated material. This collec cal library will be housed in a temporary tion, which represents the combined lifework building on the campus. Louise Darling has of two noted Spinoza scholars, was inte been appointed to the biomedical librarianship. grated by Mr. Oko in I935 after the death A department of special collections has been of Mr. Gebhardt, who was the foremost established in the Library of the University German scholar on Spinoza. Mr. Oko, who of California at Los Angeles. This collec was born in Russia and educated in Berlin, tion will be administered by Neal Harlow came to the United States at the age of and will embrace rare books, manuscripts, twenty. He began his collection when he archives, maps, music, and photography. was fifteen. He died in this country in I944 while approaching completion of a definitive A survey of the Cornell U niver- bibliography on Spinoza. The gift to Co Surveys sity Libraries will be made this lumbia includes one volume signed by Spinoza month by a staff composed of -- which was a part of the philospher's personal Louis R. Wilson, chairman, Robert B. Downs, library. The signature may be the only one and Maurice F. Tauber. The survey has extant. The collection also includes seven been approved by the Board of Trustees of teen of the seventeenth-century editions of Cornell at the request of Stephen A. Mc Spinoza's works. An original manuscript of Carthy, director of libraries. a work on Spinoza by Sir Frederick Pollock, noted British scholar, is one of the items. The American Council of The University of Southern California re Microfilms Learned Societies announced cently acquired the George Barr McCutcheon earlier this year that work has collection of James Whitcomb Riley. A near been completed on more than half of the files ly complete Riley collection is furnished by of the nineteenth-century Negro newspapers the I 70 items. being microfilmed by the Committee on Negro Northwestern University Library has re Studies of the American Council of Learned ceived a valuable collection of fourteen in Societies. Positive microcopies of the films cunabula from the "Royal Library in Copen are now available for purchase by libraries hagen. The work of thirteen different print and educational institutions. Order lists and ing presses is represented. The oldest book information on the Negro Microfilm Series in the collection, Script ores historiae Au may be obtained from the Committee, 1219 gustae, was printed by Philippus de Lavagna Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
OCTOBER, 1947 463 The United States Department velopments in American Colleges and U n Publications of State has issued Making the versities." Compiled by Eleanor F. Lewi Peace Treaties, 1941-1947, reference librarian at Northwestern, thes which is a history of the making of the peace annotated lists furnish an interesting biblio beginning with the Atlantic Charter, the Yalta graphical source for teachers, librarians, an and Potsdam Conferences, and culminating laymen. A similar list is currently compile in the drafting of peace treaties. with Italy, by M. Helen Perkins, of the reference de Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, and Finland. partment, under the title, "Science Course Clara L. Guthrie and Dorothy M. Cooper, in Higher Education." The Library of th of the University of Washington Library, University of Texas publishes a well-designe have prepared a three-page annotated bibliog periodical titled The Library Chronicle raphy concerning atomic energy and its im edited by Joseph Jones, of the English de plications entitled "The Age of the Atom." partment. The Milwaukee Public Library, Richard The Huntington Library, which in Ma E. Krug, librarian, has issued a Procedure received on a long-term loan Mark Twai Manual~ which is to serve as an introduction materials from the Samuel L. Clemen to the library, as a training aid, as a guide estate, has published "Mark Twain: An Ex to practice, and as a basis for uniform pro hibition Selected Mainly from the Paper cedures in all departments and neighborhood Belonging to the Samuel L. Clemens Estate.' libraries. The manual is well-organized, The hand list was prepared by Edwin H. written in a clear style, and contains a de Carpenter, Jr., with an introduction by Dixo tailed index. Wecter, literary editor of the Mark Twain "The Contribution of the Library to the estate. The hand list, thirty-three pages in Improvement of Instruction" is the title of a length, sells for 50¢. paper by William Stanley Hoole, director of The Princeton University Library has is libraries, University of Alabama, in The sued College and University Libr·ary Statis Southern Association Quarterly, vol. 9, p. tics, 1919-20 to 1943-44. The compilation is 367-69, May I947· based upon lists which were started by James The United States Office of Education has T. Gerould when he was at Minnesota and issued a mimeographed publication, "Direc later at Princeton. Margaret C. Shields tory, Colleges and Universities Offering contributes a useful analysis of the statistics Graduate Courses Leading t9 Master's and and considers such matters as the growth of Doctor's Degrees, I940-I945·" The number book stocks on a geographical basis a~d the of degrees granted in the various institutions age and size of institutions in relation to is included. their book stocks. Books and budgets as they Slide films and Motion Pictures-To Help relate to university population are also dis Instructors is the title of a new catalog list cussed. ing selected visual teaching aids produced and Extra copies of the July supplement of distributed by the School Service Department College and Research Libraries, entitled of the Jam Handy Organization. Free copies Essays in Honor of Charles Harvey Brown, of this catalog may be obtained by writing to are available through the A.L.A. Headquar the Jam Handy Organization, 282I E. Grand ters Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago I I. Blvd., Detroit I I. The cost is $I per copy. The Reference Department, Northwestern The July I947 issue of the Bulletin of the University Library, continues to publish in American Institute of Architects contains a mimeographed form several useful biblio section on "The Library Building.'' Besides graphies. One of these is "Recent Educa brief ~ articles by C. B. J oeckel, A. S. Mac tional Literature; A Selected List of Recent Donald, and J. P. Jones, excerpts from com Books and Articles in Periodicals Which Dis ments and articles are included. A ten-page cuss Educational Aims and Curricular De- bibliography is appended.
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