Notes from the ACRL Office

The reading habits of college students have It was, of course, impossible to be present been mentioned frequently in these columns. at the Queens College Library dedication but By coincidence this was the principal topic at I did visit this beautiful new building two two important meetings of librarians on the days before. This is a divisional library. same day, May 14. Some stacks are located on interior mezza- At the dedication of the Paul Klapper Li- nines, handy to the main reading areas. brary (Queens College, New York) Theo- Unique to my experience is the use of an dore Waller headed a panel discussion, "The "intermediate floor" of book stacks which lies Development of Lifetime Reading Habits in between the first floor mezzanine and second College." Mr. Waller is vice-president of floor. Queens has generous provision for the the Grolier Society and chairman of the display of art and books. There is a single American Book Publishers Council's Com- entrance-exit in addition to the required mittee on Reading Development. emergency-only exits. The huge reserve book The very same morning our ACRL Phila- room on the ground level has no public stair delphia Chapter held its spring meeting at or elevator connection with the rest of the suburban Rosemont College. Dr. Carl White library, and the students may complain about of Columbia and I spoke on, "Do College this. The Paul Klapper Library is well Students Read?" Dr. White approached the furnished and lighted and appears to be an topic from the point of view of specific reme- excellent instrument for education which dies. With some misgivings I followed my warrants study by librarians who are plan- instructions and attempted a philosophical ning new buildings. approach. On this same trip east I stopped at Char- This topic is being currently studied by lottesville, Va., to see Mr. Jack Dalton. The Waller's Committee on Reading Develop- ALA has recently contracted with the U. S. ment and is being given some consideration Naval Academy to survey its library; and the by the National Book Committee. As many ACRL Office has supervision and direction ACRL members know, I have been working of this project. Mr. Dalton has agreed to out a program designed to improve college serve as one of the two surveyors and we reading patterns. If a successful plan can be met to discuss problems and procedures. produced, it will surely attract foundation While in New York for one day, I set up financing. In short, the topic is important; shop briefly in telephone booths to call people it is being discussed widely, and this great in that area about various committee assign- current interest must be turned into study and ments and similar business. I spent most of experimentation of permanent value to li- the morning at one of the large corporations brarianship. whose educational foundation is making a I particularly enjoyed this chapter meeting grant to college libraries through ACRL. A because it was attended by many former col- formal announcement will be made at or be- leagues of the University of Pennsylvania and fore ALA Conference. other old friends. This was my first ap- Another day was spent at the Graduate pearance before ACRL's first chapter. The Library School of Rutgers University and a meeting was held in the new wing of the few hours at nearby Princeton. The fine new Rosemont College Library, which is a re- Rutgers University Library will be completed markable blending of new with old. After next spring. The Rutgers Library School lunch the chapter members toured the library, faculty includes an unusually large percent- visited informally, and walked around the age of leaders in librarianship. The day grounds, which are as beautiful as any I have spent with them included a faculty meeting ever seen and which were at their very best on and was extremely interesting. this bright, mild May day. The ACRL Finally, this week in the east included a Buildings Institute, previously planned for day in Philadelphia going over details of the Villanova College, will be held at Rosemont Conference and another day in Washington on July 3. where I visited three federal libraries and

296 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES caught some of the ALA Executive Board request to the Post Office Department or the which was just finishing a weekend of meet- Bureau of Customs. No written regulations ings. govern the procedure for these permits which We have recently received an official state- are issued at the discretion of the Post Office ment about the foreign propaganda ban which Department. Libraries are, of course, in- has been so troublesome to many research li- vited to apply for this privilege. ACRL braries. The statement comes from the should be notified of any which are refused Bureau of Customs and the Post Office De- permission to receive foreign propaganda partment. The basis of action is a 1940 through the mails. Pravda and Izvestia have ruling from the Attorney General concerning never been banned by name, but it is assumed the Foreign Agents Registration Act. This that they, like other Soviet publications, in- states in effect that the mails can exclude variably contain foreign propaganda. materials from abroad which contain political The Committee on Interlibrary Loans (ap- propaganda from unregistered sources. Dur- pointed by the Reference Section of ACRL) ing the war this law applied principally to is considering revisions in the multiple carbon Axis propaganda. The propaganda provi- unit form. Suggestions for change are wel- sions were not generally enforced for several come. The committee also seeks opinion on years after the war. The Post Office De- the basic structure of the form, its size, spac- partment can refuse to deliver and can destroy ing and arrangement, and on the adequacy of printed materials containing foreign political the instructions. Comments should be sent propaganda addressed to persons not regis- to the chairman, Henry M. Fuller, Yale Uni- tered as foreign agents or in the diplomatic versity Library, New Haven, Connecticut, service. The government claims that transla- before July I if possible. Other members of tion staffs have been substantially increased the committee are: Joseph R. Dunlap, James at the principal ports of entry. J. Heslin, Legare H. B. Obear, Foster M. Any group which has a justifiable interest Palmer, Margaret D. Uridge. in foreign propaganda must make a formal —Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary.

READY SOON C&RL Becomes a Your ACRL Bi-Monthly ORGANIZATION Beginning with the January, 1956 MANUAL issue COLLEGE AND RESEARCH ... to explain ACRL to its members and prospective members in such a way that LIBRARIES will appear six times will encourage interest in our ASSOCIA- TION and promote voluntary and general a year, January, March, May, July, participation in all of its many activities. September and November. Size of ... to provide a practical working exposi- tion of the organization, bylaws, headquar- the issues will be 80-96 pages. The ters' activities and committee functions for those members who have the privilege and ACRL Board of Directors approved responsibility of serving their professional organization in some elective or appointed this plan at Midwinter. capacity. The ACRL ORGANIZATION MANUAL COLLEGE AND RESEARCH will be distributed to the entire member- ship, probably in the early fall. ACRL is LIBRARIES will continue to be the first division to issue anything quite sent to all ACRL members who pay like this, so please look it over with care and keep it handy for reference. Addi- ALA dues of $6.00 or more. Non- tional copies will be available on request. A note of criticism about the MANUAL, member subscriptions will continue however informal, will be appreciated by the ACRL Office. at the present rate of $4.00.

JULY, 1955 297 News from the Field

Professor O. T. Barck, presented. The Metropolitan was an out-

Acquisitions, Gifts, Jr., professor of his- growth of this "citizens' meeting," incorpora- Collections tory, Syracuse Univer- tion taking place in 1870. sity, has made the Li- In memory of Levi Snell Chapman (1865- brary a gift of a valuable and extensive collec- I954)> graduate of Syracuse University in the tion of the papers of Moses DeWitt, 1766- class of 1889, his children have presented the 1794. His gift greatly enriches the rapidly Syracuse University Library with a collection growing collection of manuscripts at the li- of Chapman family papers ranging in date brary, and complements and integrates, in sub- from approximately 1825 to 1910. The late ject matter and time, with the library's Peter L. S. Chapman was a member of the Board of and Gerrit Smith collections. Moses DeWitt, Trustees of the university from 1934 until his pioneer of Onondaga County, and for whom death. He came of a strong family of Cen- the town of DeWitt was named, was born in tral New York State pioneers, the various Orange County and settled in what is now generations of whom contributed significantly Onondaga County about 1792. He was a to the social, economic and political life of cousin of DeWitt Clinton, nephew of Gen. the localities in which they resided. James Clinton, and a nephew of Simeon De- The small quantity of the papers of L.S. Witt, surveyor-general of the State of New Chapman cover his term in the New York York. He was one of the surveyors who es- State Legislature, his student days at Whites- tablished the boundary line between New town Academy and at Syracuse University. York and Pennsylvania and was an assistant The earliest family papers are those of surveyor in laying out the Military Tract Nathan Chapman (1786-1866), grandfather bounty lands in central New York (the basis of L. S. Chapman. Approximately 100 letters of our present central New York townships). in this lot concern the subjects of anti-slavery, The papers will be of great assistance in the local politics, farming, social conditions, etc., study of New York State land history as well in and about the village of Clockville, Madi- as of valuable aid to persons doing research son County, New York. The letters and in the general history of this central portion manuscripts of Nathan Randall Chapman of New York State. (1809-1897), son of Nathan and father of From the estate of the late Ralph M. Com- L. S. Chapman, constitute the largest segment fort, graduate of the Syracuse University Col- of the gift. There are approximately 1100 lege of Fine Arts in 1893, the Syracuse Uni- pieces; many relate to the anti-slavery move- versity Library has just received a collection ment and other reforms of the period. of the papers of his father, George Fisk Com- The Library of Congress has received a fort, 1833-1910, founder and first dean of the collection of about 27,000 letters and memora- College of Fine Arts. In addition to Profes- bilia of Clara Barton as a supplement to the sor Comfort's part in establishing the College Barton papers already in the Library. The of Fine Arts at Syracuse in 1873, he was one new group of papers is the gift of Miss Saidee of the founders and first trustees of the F. Riccius and Hermann P. Riccius of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Worcester, Mass., Miss Barton's grandniece City. and grandnephew. Composed mainly of let- One lot of the papers comprises letters and ters addressed to Miss Barton and her family, documents relating to Syracuse University the new material reflects primarily her work history from 1895 until 1910. The most in Cuba during and after the Spanish-Ameri- extensive and complete group relates to Pro- can War. fessor Comfort's part in founding the Metro- The diaries added to the collection with politan Museum of Art. Included are letters this new acquisition fill some of the gaps in addressed to Professor Comfort in 1869 ask- the series of diaries she kept from 1849 to ing him to speak at a meeting at the Union 1912. Perhaps the most interesting are those League Club, New York, comprising promi- for the Civil War and Reconstruction peri- nent New Yorkers at which consideration of ods. Lectures she gave to defray the expenses establishment of a great art museum was of identifying the graves of Union soldiers at

298 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Andersonville, Ga., are in the group. Much approved or vetoed in what are called "Bill of her correspondence deals with disasters and Jackets." These folders include copies of portrays the influences that have established bills passed by the Legislature, together with patterns for meeting emergencies in floods, pertinent information about the meaning and famines, and wars. intent of the bills. This material is already Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, widow of the in the State Library. It contains little about former governor of the Federal Reserve Franklin D. Roosevelt personally, and is used Board (1914-36), has added a notable group largely in legal research. The Franklin D. of letters to her husband's papers in the Li- Roosevelt Library has made a complete micro- brary of Congress. More than 50 letters, film of the collection, in 261 reels. One copy dating 1910-24, are from to of the film will go to the Governor's Office in Hamlin; other correspondents represented are the State Capitol in Albany and one to the William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, State Library. Terms of the agreement pro- Charles Francis Adams, John Hay, Van Wyck vide that there will be no charge for admission Brooks, Cordell Hull, and Josephus Daniels. to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library for A substantial number of the letters were those using the papers. All requests to bor- written by Hamlin to his wife in the years row them for exhibition or other purposes are 1900-34. Most of the new material, however, subject to approval by the State Librarian. consists of letters to Governor Hamlin (and The State Library may withdraw any papers some to Mrs. Hamlin) from the 1880's for its own use at any time. The Franklin D. through 1950. The group is selective, so that Roosevelt Library will supply microfilm from there are no complete files of correspondence, its negative when requested. but the level of subject interest is high. This The library's collection of legislative ma- passage from a letter Josephus Daniels wrote terial goes back to the time of the Capitol fire, to Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin on June 21, 1937, is in 1911, and has been brought up to date by interesting for its reminiscing: the transfer of similar records for the three terms of Governor Thomas E. Dewey for We are about the oldest in age and the 1953-54- youngest in heart of the Cleveland, Wilson and Roosevelt regimes. We have seen many The Yale University Library has acquired great things in our day and have sometimes its 2000th book printed before 1501 A.D. been disillusioned, and we have not been The book, Levi Ben Gerson's Perush Iyob, a without our troubles. But we are optimistic commentary on the Book of Job, is the first enough to be like the old man who called his Hebrew book printed in Ferrara, Italy, and sons about him as he reached seventy-five the fourth book printed in Hebrew in the and said: "My sons, I have lived a long time entire world. It was given to Yale by a and had much trouble but most of it never group of library staff members and a local happened." rare book dealer in honor of Louis M. Announcement of an agreement on the final Rabinowitz of New York City, one of the disposition of the papers of Franklin D. Yale Library's most generous benefactors. Roosevelt as Governor of New York State, Only seven copies of the book, printed in 1929-32, was made by Charles F. Gosnell, 1477, are known to exist in the world. Four state librarian, and Herman Kahn, director of of these seven copies are now in America. the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde One is at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Park. The agreement was made between the another in the Library of Congress, the third office of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, retired, at the Hebrew Union College and the fourth the former state budget director, the state li- at Yale. Levi Ben Gerson, author of the brarian and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Li- book, was an Aristotelian philosopher of the brary at Hyde Park, New York. Custody of Middle Ages. correspondence has been transferred from the One of the world's most famous medical Governor's Office to the State Library in manuscripts, the 600-year-old Codex Paneth, Albany. The State Library in turn is deposit- has been acquired by the Yale Medical Li- ing the papers on a permanent loan at Hyde brary. This rare, early medieval work con- Park. taining 1378 pages, all of them in excellent This loan does not include correspondence, condition, is believed to have been the entire memorandums or other matter on legislation medical library of the University of Prague

JULY, 1955 299 when it was founded in 1347-48. The beauti- Thomas' approach with that of such other fully-colored illuminations, hand-drawn by young British poets as Auden, Day, Lewis, painstaking craftsmen, give an insight not only MacNeice and Spender: . . Thomas was to the art of the early 14th century but also concerned with the problem of man's re- to the amazingly advanced surgical instru- generation, but he never became identified ments of the time. Many of the scalpels, with their group. His interest in the re- surgical saws, forceps and ofthopedic instru- construction of the individual contrasted ments shown in this manuscript look remark- sharply with their interest in the reconstruc- ably like those used today. tion of society. His poetry reflected an in- For more than 70 years the Codex, re- fluence more Freudian than Marxian. He garded as one of the most important medieval was primarily concerned with the spiritual re- medical manuscripts still extant, was owned generation of the individual. That individual by the Paneth family of Germany. Before was himself." being acquired by the Paneth family, it was in The University of Miami, Coral Gables, the Cathedral Library of Olmutz, and at one Florida, has purchased the 20,ooo-volume li- time is believed to have been at Mylau in brary of the Western Society of Engineers Saxony. The manuscript consists of 42 from the John Crerar Library. This collec- separate texts which represent a cross-section tion contains complete files of the standard of all medical knowledge available up to the engineering journals and the various society beginning of the 14th century. publications. Since Miami has a rapidly de- An original Fourth Folio of Shakespeare's veloping engineering school this collection will plays printed in 1685—has been acquired by provide a definite stimulus to their program. the Stanford University Library. The The University of Kansas Library has ac- volume was purchased in England with funds quired the manuscript journals of Laurent contributed by Mrs. M. G. Seelig and B. F. Garcin (1683-1752), Swiss surgeon, botanist, Schlesinger. The collection of comedies, his- meteorologist, and traveler. Supplementing tories, and tragedies contains one play printed and extending KU special collections both in for the first time, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. travel and in botany, the 600 folio pages in- The Stanford folio is a fresh and complete clude papers relating to Garcin's voyages to copy, with no facsimiles and no repairs. Pre- such of the far-away places as the Cape of served in excellent condition, it was rebound Good Hope, Ceylon, and Bengal, besides in polished calf and its pages gilt edged during numerous botanical descriptions and drawings. the early nineteenth century. It is the first Of incidental interest is the discovery that the original Shakespeare Folio of the four printed Garcin Manuscripts were formerly owned between 1623 and 1685 to come into the li- by two other well-known Swiss botanists, brary's possession. Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893) and his Original manuscripts, correspondence and son, Casimir (1836-1918). collected works of the British poet-author, KU has acquired recently a collection, for Dylan Marlais Thomas, who died in 1953, the most part unpublished, of fifteen letters have been presented to Houghton Library, which give new and important information Harvard University, by his friend and ad- about Lord Chesterfield's plans for the edu- viser, Oscar Williams of New York. Among cation and the adoption of his godson and the papers and articles is Thomas' complete heir, Phillip Stanhope. Most of the letters work on his last poem Prologue which was are from A. C. Stanhope, Phillip's father and finished in October, 1952. This includes 94 a distant cousin of the Earl, to Chesterfield. sheets and 166 pages of material which show They indicate that long before 1760, the as- the author's complete change of content from sumed date of Chesterfield's "adoption" of original thought to final poem. The 102-line Phillip, A. C. Stanhope, through Sir Edward poem is so arranged that the first line rhymes Wilmot and Robert Dodsley, had opened with the last, the second with next-to-last, negotiations with the Earl for the care and in- until the mid-point is reached. struction of his son. The letters run from John L. Sweeney, curator of the Woodbury September 1757 to February 1759. Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library, Harvard, A collection of rare documents of Louisiana in a foreword to Selected Works of Dylan and southern history, including the only re- Thomas published in 1946, contrasted corded eye-witness account of the 1788 fire

300 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES which destroyed , has been pre- ard works and translations. sented to Tulane University by Felix H. Mr. Maverick was convinced that a Kuntz, New Orleans real estate man. The thorough understanding of the Far East collection contains an extensive group of would be essential for world peace, and be- manuscripts, pamphlets, rare broadsides and fore he died last year he left a memorandum books pertaining to Louisiana from the early in which he proposed that his collection be- 18th century, through the Civil War. In- come part of a university library. cluded are manuscripts relating to John Law, Scottish speculator and promoter whose The Idaho State Legisla- activities in colonial Louisiana had such dire Buildings ture has made $1,333,000 consequences for French national finance; to available to the University Don Pedro Rousseau, commandant of the of Idaho for a new library building. This Spanish flotilla guarding the Mississippi river amount is somewhat lower than the original in colonial times; and to Governor Galvez, sum requested, but it is still adequate to con- Martin Navarro, Bouligny, Carosse, and struct a four-story, rectangular, brick library other famous figures of Louisiana history. building on divisional lines to comprise ap- The collection, which was built up by proximately 100,000 square feet. Construc- Kuntz over a period of more than 20 years, tion will probably not begin until April, 1956. will be set up at Tulane as a memorial to The Williams College Library is planning the donor's parents. It will be known as the to construct a $400,000 addition to its library Rosemonde E. and Emile Kuntz collection during the coming year. This addition will and will be housed in a special room which is double their stack capacity, which is rated at being prepared for it in the Howard-Tilton 165,000 volumes, will provide 37 faculty offices Memorial library. After preliminary arrange- and 50 student carrels, 2 special collection ments are made, the collection will be avail- rooms, and a smoking room. It is hoped that able to scholars for research purposes and a the addition will be completed so that it can continuous series of exhibits of the collection's be put into use in the summer of 1956. important materials will be inaugurated. It is still news in Kansas when another Later, a full descriptive catalog will be pub- library is being air conditioned. The Univer- lished. Much of the manuscript material has sity at Wichita reports that its library is hitherto been unknown virtually to historians. being air conditioned for the coming summer. It is expected that it will throw new light on The Glenn L. Martin Institute of Tech- certain phases of colonial administration, re- nology was dedicated at a public ceremony on lations between powers in the Mississippi Maryland Day, March 25, 1955. Erected Valley, and the development of the region. at a cost of $8,500,000, the institute is made The University of Houston Library has up of eight buildings. It houses the entire acquired the late Maury Maverick's library College of Engineering and many of the on the Far East, a 900-volume collection, said academic and research departments of the to be one of the most unusual and compre- College of Arts and Sciences. The source of hensive in private ownership. Mr. Maverick funds for the Institute included an original was a member of the American Oriental gift of $2,300,000 by Glenn L. Martin, Society and had visited China, Japan, Korea, $5,678,455.15 from the State of Maryland, the Pacific islands, Australia, and New Zea- and $142,946.52 from the Office of Naval land on a government mission in 1945 and Research and Bureau of Ordnance of the De- 1946. He built up the library through pur- partment of Defense. chases and gifts from contacts he had estab- The Chemistry Department has a depart- lished in many parts of the world. mental library, a part of the university's li- The collection includes British government brary system. The Engineering and Physical documents on Chinese relations over the past Sciences Library serves the Physics, Mathe- hundred years; U. S. government documents matics, and Industrial Education Depart- covering the entire period of U. S.-Chinese re- ments, and the College of Engineering in- lations; some Communist material; rare cluding the Mechanical, Civil, Aeronautical, Japanese maps; volumes dealing with early Electrical, and the Chemical Engineering De- printing and engraving, flora and fauna, works partments, as well as the Institute for Fluid of art, manners and customs, etc.; and stand- Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, and the

JULY, 1955 301 Aeronautical Laboratory. hold rank as accorded at the time of his em- Plans for a new building at the University ployment, which is that of professor. of Wyoming are in motion, with hopes to start The University of Kansas and three Kansas construction sometime this summer. The late City cultural institutions will unite for a W. R. Coe (the man who gave Yale his tribute to the life and times of the composer, western Americana collection) left the uni- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The "Mozart versity $750,000 and the state matched this and His Age" observance will extend through amount, in its last meeting of the Legislature. the 1955-56 school year both on the campus and in Kansas City. January 27, 1956, will New York University's be the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Miscellaneous million-dollar library of Joining with KU will be the William Rockhill rare Hebrew literature and Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of ceremonial objects was on public exhibit dur- Fine Arts, the Kansas City Philharmonic ing April and May in observance of the 300th Orchestra and the Linda Hall Library of Sci- anniversary of Jewish settlement in the ence and Technology. . Established and sponsored by The general theme will be the significance the NYU Jewish Culture Foundation, the of Mozart's music and the intellectual and 13-year-old library is in the university's Re- cultural currents of his time. The four in- ligious Center, 2 Washington Square North. stitutions will present concerts, plays, lectures, It contains the Mitchell M. Kaplan collection discussions and exhibits to survey Mozart's of manuscripts, incunabula, and rare editions; period from many aspects—political history, the Rosenthal and Matz collections of current art, science, economics, literature and music. Judaica and Hebraica; and a comprehensive And yet on the other hand unless warinesse collection of Hebrew text books and diction- be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a aries used in the schools of Israel today. It good Book; who kills a Man kills a reason- also houses 20 solid-silver ceremonial works able creature, Gods Image; but hee who de- of art, fashioned by sixteenth and seventeenth- stroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, century silversmiths. The ceremonial objects kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. were seized from European synagogues by the —John Milton, AreoPagitica, 1644. Nazis during World War II and later re- The University of Kansas displayed, during covered by American military authorities. March, April and May, an unusual and ex- Among the library's 25,000 literary pieces are tensive exhibition relating to censorship, 115 rare manuscripts, a number of them five banned books, and freedom of the press. centuries old. One fragment of a Hebrew Arranged by Mr. Joseph Rubinstein, super- manuscript, part of a grammar, is believed vising bibliographer of special collections, and to have been written in the 1430's. warmly supported by KU's chancellor, Dr. NYU, which pioneered in the teaching of Franklin D. Murphy, the exhibit attracted Hebrew as a modern language in American widespread regional and national interest. colleges and universities, is the only institution Accompanying the announcements from the that offers the baccalaureate, master's and university was this statement by Chancellor doctor's degrees in any phase of modern Murphy, which subsequently appeared in Hebrew culture or education. several Kansas newspaper editorials. On March 8, 1955, official action was taken by the University of Miami to formalize Protecting Free Market Placc of Ideas faculty rank for the professional members of The written or printed word has played a the library staff. Although such rank, and central and crucial role in the dramatic his- the privileges pertaining thereto, had pre- tory of man's effort to scale the hard cliffs of viously been accepted by the faculty and the prejudice, ignorance and tyranny. administration, it had not been formalized, In a real sense, the trials and tribulations suffered by the written manuscript and nor had the titles of specific rank been identi- printed book reflect the continuous struggle fied with the various positions. Briefly, it may of man to become and remain free, for, in the be said that junior members of the staff will work of the censor and book burner, the be instructors, senior members of the staff, as- naked determination of the tyrant to sub- sistant professors; department heads, associate limate reason and thought to his own ends is professors; and the director will continue to never more apparent.

302 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The University of Kansas, dedicated now period by a grant of $100,000 from the as always to the "free market place of ideals," Carnegie Corporation. is proud to present this exhibit as an expres- The Far Eastern series will come under the sion of our belief in the right of man to pro- editorship of a board that has been in ex- ceed through reason as well as faith and as a istence at Columbia for more that 40 years, reminder that this right must be guarded during which it has supervised the translations jealously by thoughtful men at all times. of over 50 vital historic documents from the Mr. Rubinstein, having spent many months Western world. The editor-in-chief of this collecting instances of censored or banned board is Jacques Barzun, professor of history publications of all kinds, from the Areopagi- at Columbia. This Western series, known as tica to John Peter Zenger's New York Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, Weekly Journal, prepared an annotated is edited by members of the History Depart- checklist, published by the KU library. ment at the University and will be used as a Copies may be obtained upon application to pattern for the oriental project. The Colum- the Office of the Director of Libraries, Uni- bia University Press has provided the costs of versity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. the publication of the Western series. Now in session (June 20-August 12) is the The editorial policy for the new series will second annual Institute on Historical and be similar to that of the Western series: to Archival Management, sponsored by Radcliffe make accessible in English, representative College and the Department of History, Har- texts that may aid in an understanding of the vard University. Thirty experts in the field past; through careful introductions and com- are listed in the faculty and 16 major na- mentaries, to bring within the reach of the tional and local institutions are cooperating. reader who is not a specialist the fruits of Earle W. Newton is director. modern scholarship; and to furnish biblio- graphical guidance to those who may wish to The Library Associates of push their studies further. Publications Brooklyn College announce A compilation of the scientific periodicals with pride their first pub- and selected serials in the libraries of Duke lishing venture: I, Walt Whitman, a drama- University, the University of North Caro- tization of the life and times of America's lina, North Carolina State College and greatest p°et, by Dr. Randolph Goodman of Woman's College of the University of North the English Department. The book which is Carolina has recently been published jointly exquisitely designed, has an introduction by by the libraries of the four institutions. This Mark Van Doren. Copies may be obtained is the first step in an enlarged program of li- by writing to H. G. Bousfield, chief librarian, brary cooperation between the Duke Univer- Brooklyn College, Brooklyn 10, New York. sity Library and the Libraries of the Con- Publication of Ex Libris, a leaflet issued by solidated University of North Carolina. It the Friends of the Library, has been resumed is a further step in the cooperative library at the Johns Hopkins University. Volume program that has been in operation since the XIV, number 1, is dated January, 1955, and 1930's between the University of North Caro- copies may be obtained from the Librarian, lina at Chapel Hill and Duke. Faculty mem- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18, bers and graduate students on both campuses Maryland. needing materials for research from either One of the country's most urgent present- library can get them within one or two days. day needs is an infinitely better understanding A cooperative program to include the three of the Far East—its cultures, history, tradi- institutions of the Consolidated University tions and philosophy. With this problem in and Duke is now being worked out by an mind, the Columbia University Press plans Inter-University Committee appointed by the preparation and publication of translations Presidents Gordon Gray of the Consolidated of many of the key documents of oriental his- University of North Carolina and Hollis tory, hitherto available to only a scattering Edens of Duke. The Committee consists of of scholars who could translate, and at the the librarians and one faculty member from same time understand, these complex far each of the four institutions. The list of peri- eastern materials. Publication of the oriental odicals is the first of several cooperative en- works will be made possible over a five-year terprises recommended by the committee.

JULY, 1955 303 Edited by Miss Parker, periodicals librarian Howell J. Heaney (Charlottesville, Va., at Library, the book con- 1955. 240P.). tains 385 pages and indicates the location of The seventh and eighth parts of the third substantially all the scientific periodicals and volume of the second edition the Handbuch the most important serials in the four li- der Bibliothekswissenschaft, edited by George braries. Leyh, have been issued Otto Harrassowitz A few copies of Ernest V. Hollis' Philan- (Wiesbaden, 1954). Part 7 completes the thropic Foundations in Higher Education period of the Reformation, and starts the (New York: Columbia University Press, period of the Anti-Reformation. The latter i938, $4.50) are available from Mr. Hollis. is completed in Part 8, which also considers Libraries that do not have a copy of this the period from the Renaissance to the standard reference work may wish to order a Revolution, the passing of the old libraries, copy from Mr. Hollis, Department of Health, and the rebuilding of the French libraries. Education and Welfare, Office of Education, Seton Hill College (Greensburg, Pa.) has Washington 25, D.C. issued a Reading List for Students, compiled Yale University Press announces the pub- by the Committee on Student Reading (1954, lication of Volume I of Bibliography of Ameri- 28p., 504). can Literature, to appear in November, 1955. Warren Hastings, by Keith Feiling, issued This first volume, compiled by Jacob Blanck, in London by Macmillan is available in the is entitled Henry Adams to Donn Byrne United States (New York, St. Martin's Press, (New Haven, $15.00). 1954, 420p., illus., $6.00). The biography is American Giving in the Field of Higher based primarily on over 300 volumes of Hast- Education is a study of gifts and bequests to ings' personal papers, and his unpublished 50 colleges and universities 1920-21 through letters to George Vansittart. I953"54- It shows that while the trend of Art of Asia, by Helen Rubissow, practicing support continues upward, from the stand- artist and author of several other publications point of the purchasing power of the dollar, in the arts, has been issued by Philosophical educational philanthropy has not been holding Library (New York, 1954, 237P., illus., its own. The report is issued by John Price $6.00). Another Philosophical Library title Jones Company, Inc. is Foreign Policy Analysis, by Feliks Gross Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the (1954, I79p., $3-75). Bibliographical Society of the University of The Library of Congress has available Virginia (Vol. 7, 1955), edited by Fredson copies of American Doctoral Dissertations, Bowers, contains its usual quota of biblio- for each of the years 1912-18 and 1926-32. graphical adventures in such diversified areas, Write to Office of the Secretary, Library of among others, as Shakespeare (particularly Congress, Washington 25, D.C. Hamlet), Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Gold- The Year's Work in Librarianship (Lon- smith's Traveller, Parisian panel stamps be- don, The Library Association, 1954, 270p., tween 1480 and 1530 (illustrated), Peele's 40s., 30s. to members) marks the end of the Edward I, the printing of a Valerius Maxi- work in its present form. Except for the mus dated 1671, the precedence of the 1676 World War II years, when a gap in annual editions of Milton's Literae Pseudo-Senatus coverage occurred, the series has provided a Anglicani, the missing Term Catalogue, the systematic survey of current publications and circulation of some London newspapers, 1806- activities in librarianship in Great Britain and 1811, the booksellers "ring" at Strawberry other countries since 1928. Projected by the Hill in 1842, and abstracts from the wills and Library Association is Five Years' Work in estates of Boston Printers, 1800-1825. Con- Librarianship, the first volume of which is tributors to the volume include Alice Walker, planned for publication in 1956. This step John R. Brown, Fredson Bowers, Harold has been taken in view of the fact that Walker, Vinton A. Dearing, William B. Library Science Abstracts (issued quarterly Todd, Ernst Kyriss, C. William Miller, by the Library Association) has been covering Frank S. Hook, Curt F. Buhler, Bruce Hark- the field since 1950. The new five-year ness, Cypian Bladgen, Robert L. Haig, Allen volume is intended to be concerned mainly T. Hazen, Robert L. Lowe, Dennis E. with the general developments and trends in Rhodes, Rollo G. Silver, Rudolf Hirsch and library service.

304 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

RAYMOND C. LINDQUIST was appointed li- Dr. Smith has had an brarian of the Cleveland Public Library on unusually successful March I, 1955. He career of eight years graduated from the at Burlington. The University of Min- Vermont library bud- get has been more than doubled so that it now exceeds $100,- 000, and the staff has been increased from 13 to 19. In addi- tion, there has been Sidney B. Smith nesota in 1927 and a careful study of f won his law degree spatial problems at the University of Ver- from the same insti- mont Libraries to the end of utilizing avail- tution in 1930. After able library areas more effectively, and, experience as an as- for practical purposes, the building is 50% sistant in the St. Paul larger. Staff duties have been clarified, cata- Public Library from loging procedures simplified, and current 1923 to 1932 and as records improved. With such programs as librarian for the U. S. the introduction of extensive orientation Raymond C. Lindquist Bureau of Prisons procedures for freshmen, Dr. Smith has at Leavenworth, he brought the University of Vermont Libraries attended the Columbia School of Library into a more prominent position as an educa- Service and won his B.L.S. there in 1935. tional and service unit on the Burlington cam- From 1935 to 1937 he served as librarian of pus. To LSU he will bring not only a high the New York City Department of Correc- level of scholarship and a seasoned adminis- tions and subsequently, from 1937 to 1943 as trative hand to carry on the fine traditions librarian of the New York Law Institute. established at Baton Rouge by Guy Lyle dur- He won his master's degree from Columbia ing the last decade, but also imaginative in 1943 and stayed three more years in the leadership which will be urgently needed by east as secretary-librarian of the New York the LSU Library as it enters a new period State Public Library Commission. of expansion.—Lawrence S. Thompson. In 1946, Mr. Lindquist was appointed li- brarian of the Cuyahoga Country Public WALLACE VAN JACKSON has returned to Library. He was able to increase his budget his native state as library director of Virginia from $212,660 in 1946 to $1,014,000 in 1955, State College. and circulation climbed significantly in the Mr. Van Jackson's same period. Three regional branches and career in the profes- two bookmobiles were added to the system. sion began in 1927 During these busy years Mr. Lindquist has when he became li- also found time to serve as ALA treasurer brarian of Virginia (1952-date) and as a member of various com- Union University mittees. where he served until To the distinguished position of librarian 1939. Meanwhile, of the Cleveland Public Library, Raymond he received the B. A. Lindquist brings a wealth of sound adminis- from Virginia Union, trative experience, a basic understanding of the first degree in li- the humane tradition of librarianship, and an Wallace Van Jackson brary science from imaginative leadership. Hampton Institute, SIDNEY BUTLER SMITH has been appointed both in 1934, and the M. A. in library science director of the Louisiana State University Li- braries and assumed his new duties on July 1, JULY,1955. Directo1955 r of the University of Vermont 305 Libraries since 1947 (see COLLEGE AND RE- SEARCH LIBRARIES 9:80-81, January, 1948), from the University of Michigan in 1935. trator, an enthusiastic worker, and a con- From 1939 to 1941 he attended the University genial spirit. This fine combination augurs of Chicago Graduate Library School com- well for the Johnston Memorial Library of pleting the residence requirements for the Virginia State College.—Lillie K. Daly. Ph.D. He then taught for one year at the Atlanta University School of Library Service. FREDERICK WEZEMAN has resigned as chief In 1942 he became librarian of Atlanta Uni- librarian of the Oak Park Public Library to versity and continued in that capacity until accept a position as associate professor of Li- 1947 when he accepted the invitation of the brary Science at the University of Minnesota. U. S. Information Service to go to Monrovia, He will begin his new job September 1. Liberia, as public affairs officer. While A native of Oak Park, Mr. Wezeman was abroad, he attended the UNESCO Library appointed chief librarian in 1953, coming from School held in England as the official repre- the Racine, Wisconsin, Public Library where sentative of Library of Congress. He re- he had served as chief librarian for seven turned to the States in 1949 to head the li- years. During his two years at Oak Park he brary of Texas Southern University in Hous- waged a successful campaign to raise the li- ton where he remained until his appointment brary tax rate, increasing the library budget to the position at Virginia State College in from $108,000 to $146,000. 1954. Since 1952, he has also been the special In addition to his teaching duties at Min- consultant for a book acquisition project at nesota, Mr. Wezeman will have responsibili- Alabama State College and Alabama A&M ties for arranging institutes and workshops in College. public library management and administra- Mr. Van Jackson has participated ener- tion. getically in professional associations and written extensively for both professional and DONALD CONEY, librarian of the University non-professional periodicals. Most recently of California at Berkeley, became vice-chancel- he has served as chairman of the College lor of the University of California's Berkeley Division of District Five of the Texas Li- campus on July 1. Mr. Coney will continue brary Association and as a member of the as university librarian; and as vice-chancellor ALA Committee on Intellectual Freedom. he will handle building and development prob- In Wallace Van Jackson, Virginia has lems, long-range planning and expansion for gained a dedicated librarian, an able adminis- the Berkeley campus.

Appointments

ROGER P. BRISTOL became head of the University of Dayton, has been appointed di- preparations division of the University of rector of the Marian Library of that insti- Virginia Library on January 1, 1955. tution. MILDRED R. CROWE, medical librarian of WILLIAM H. HUFF has been appointed the University of Alabama since 1945, became serials and acquisitions librarian at the Chi- medical librarian of the University of Miami cago Undergraduate Division of the Univer- at Coral Gables, Florida, on April 16, 1955. sity of Illinois Library. CAROLINE DRAKE, formerly assistant li- GLADYS JOHNSON has been appointed refer- brarian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ence librarian at the Virginia Polytechnic In- has resigned to complete her Master's Degree stitute. at the University of Michigan. MRS. JOSEPHINE HALVERSON MORRIS has EDWARD D. FREEHAFER, formerly chief of been appointed head of the technical processes the Reference Department of the New York division of the Colorado A&M College Li- Public Library, was named director in De- brary. cember 1954. A biographical sketch of Mr. A. STEVE PICKETT has been appointed order Freehafer appeared in the April, 1954 issue librarian at San Fancisco State College. of COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES, p. 226. RICHARD PRATT has been appointed assist- REVEREND PHILIP C. HOELLE, formerly a ant librarian, Rodgers Library, New Mexico member of the Department of Religion of the Highlands University, Las Vegas.

306 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MALCOLM STEARNS, JR., assistant librarian JAMES TYDEMAN is now head, Serials Di- of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con- vision, Southern Illinois University Libraries, necticut, has been appointed acting dean of Carbondale. students at that institution. WILLIAM WALLACE has been promoted to ROBERT E. THOMPSON, formerly librarian associate librarian and archivist at New Mex- of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the ico Highlands University in Las Vegas. University of California, has been appointed MARY ELLEN WOODWARD has been ap- supervising bibliographer at the University of pointed acting reference librarian of the Uni- North Carolina at Chapel Hill. versity of Wyoming in Laramie.

Retirements

Libraries, like people, have personalities, sults of his leadership: his re-creation of the and if the University of Pennsylvania Library library into a human enterprise in which the as we know it today beginning freshman and the mature scholar has a personality, it is each received and heard with understanding is in great measure and respect; his introduction of the university the personality of community to some of its responsibilities of; its director, DR. possessing a scholar's library of high rank; his CHARLES W. DAVID. recognition of the responsibilities of the li- Called to the Uni- brary to the Philadelphia community and, versity from Bryn indeed, to scholarship the world around; his Mawr College, from vision, uninfluenced by parochial considera- a life dedicated to tions, in setting in proper perspective, along education, and also with the machinery for their use, the biblio- from the pre-emin- graphical resources of the city and its vicinity; Charles W. David ence he had gained in his wise counsel, and his contributions made bibliographical organ- through hard labor and long hours, to the ization, he came to devote himself to the re- professional associations, national and inter- search needs of the institution he was to serve national, with which he became affiliated; his for fifteen years; he soon found that the needs spectacular improvements in the professional of undergraduates cried equally for attention. and personal welfare of his staff. All these To his objective of "bringing books and minds might have been the work of a life time, together at the moment when they ought to rather than of a man who accepted fresh meet," Dr. David has bent his genius and his tasks at fifty-five. Rarely does the scholar energies with a fervor not dissimilar to the find administrative talents so deeply chal- crusaders of earlier days. It has seemed a lenged ; great has been Pennsylania's good long crusade, and it is hard to realize that the fortune to find that challenge met so well. man who has given so much of his life to a Thus it seems that a comfortable share of dream is not to enter his holy land. our problems have been solved and the Uni- But it was not for negative reasons only versity of Pennsylvania Library—through the that the staff learned with regret that the impress of its director—has regained its place director was to retire, because of age, on in the library world. For these achievements, June 30th. The new library still lies "before generations of Pennsylvanians will have cause us like a land of dreams, so various, so beauti- to be grateful. So too will librarians who ful, so new," and the devotion, wisdom, and have sat at his feet.— IValter W. Wright. skill that Dr. David has poured into the great new library building, which will one day re- NELSON W. MCCOMBS has retired from the volutionize education at the University of position of head librarian of the University Pennsylvania, can hardly be appreciated even Heights campus of New York University. by those who have been closest to him. He has been connected with NYU for 32 It is, even more, because of the positive re- years.

JULY, 1955 307 Foreign Libraries

JOSEF BECKMANN was appointed director of succeeded Harold Holdsworth as librarian of the University Library in Freiburg im Breis- the University College of the West Indies, gau on December i, 1954. Mona, Jamaica. ROBERT H. BLACKBURN has been promoted JOZEF GRYCZ, associate director of the from assistant librarian to librarian of the Polish National Library in Warsaw, died on University of Toronto. October 24, 1954. HANS BOCKWITZ, director of the Deutsches STANISLAV KRUPKA, director of the Univer- Buch- und Schriftmuseum in Leipzig, died on sity of Olomouc (Olmiitz) Library, resigned December 2, 1954, shortly after his seventieth on September 15, 1954, to become director birthday. of the Olmiitz Theaters. His successor is W. E. GOCKING, formerly librarian of the Drahoslav Gawrecki, founder and first direc- Central Library of Trinidad and Tobago, has tor of the Ostrava State Library.

Necrology

Six decades of active, influential living were into his thinking. He was an expert cataloger granted DR. WILLIAM WARNER BISHOP be- and knew from experience the intricate details tween his graduation of all divisions of a library. His many years from the University as reference chief at the Library of Congress of Michigan in 1892 gave him a knowledge of the literatures of and his confinement many fields. It is impossible to evaluate his to his home in Ann contributions to the theory and practice of Arbor because of fail- library administration. They were recognized ing health. He was nationally and internationally. His work for born in Hannibal, the reorganization of the Vatican Library is Missouri, July 20, a major example. He had the ability to plan 1871 and died in Ann a project and to select capable associates to Arbor, Michigan, Feb- whom he delegated the duties of carrying out ruary 19, 1955- the program. His personality will be an Dr. fVilliam Warner These 60 years were active influence for years to come. He was Bishop devoted to the ad- one of the stalwarts of the library world. vancement of learn- —F. L. D. Goodrich. ing. He was a successful, inspiring teacher at the beginning of his career and whenever Editors note: The University of Michigan he reverted to the class room, laying aside for Library Notes n. s., v. 1, No. 5, March 25, a few hours his administrative duties as li- 1955, contains a series of appreciative notes of brarian. Within two years of securing his Dr. Bishop. They are written by Gertrude B.A. degree he commenced his library work, Maginn, F. L. D. Goodrich, Ella M. Hymans, the work to which he devoted his life. He Eunice Wead, and Donald Coney. A me- was preeminently a scholar and that attitude morial tribute from the Ann Arbor Library of mind was evident in everything which he Club is also included. undertook. He was never a recluse or merely JOHN S. CLEAVINGER, member of the fac- an onlooker. He was a leader in the educa- ulty of the School of Library Service, Colum- tional interests of the library profession. He bia University, from 1926 to 1945, died in was also an able organizer and practical Orangeburg, N.Y., on December 29, 1954. administrator. Fortunately the Library Quarterly pub- MARY L. SAMSON, associate librarian of lished Dr. Bishop's autobiography, issuing it the United States Military Academy in West serially a few years ago. It gives the major Point, N.Y., since 1928, died on November 10, interests and events of his life and an insight 1954.

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