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ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS ing parthenogenesis and regeneration by means of chemical stimuli and for his de- THE LIBRARY of the University of Cali- velopment of the tropism theory, namely, fornia, Los Angeles, has acquired a collection that all ethics are a product of man's in- of ninety-five of the papers of Jacques Necker herited tropisms. Among the papers are let- (1732-1804). The collection consists of papers, ters between Dr. Loeb and his fellow scien- memorials, and reports, issued either pri- tists, a large collection of his experimental vately or in his official capacity as minister notebopks and manuscripts, and proofsheets of finance of France, and includes books and of his books and articles. pamphlets attacking him. Some of the works are of considerable rarity and do not appear ROSARY COLLEGE LIBRARY, River Forest, in the standard bibliographies for the period. 111., has received a gift of 450 books com- prising a reference collection of lives of the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has been presented saints. The donor was the Thomas Moore with an extensive manuscript collection pro- Association. viding significant new insight into the Jack- sonian era. The papers comprise the bulk SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY has re- of the letters, diaries, memoranda, bank rec- ceived a gift of a hundred books on the art ords, and accounting books of Thomas Ol- and culture of Japan from the Japanese gov- cott, nineteenth-century financier and phi- ernment in commemoration of the centennial lanthropist. Included are letters from many of American-Japanese diplomatic relations. figures of importance such as Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and }. Pierpont Morgan. The material, given SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY by Douglas Worth Olcott, president of the has acquired the complete library of Dr. Jos£ Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Albany, Mogravejo Carrion of Cuenca, Ecuador. The and its directors, should prove indispensable collection consists of more than seven thou- to anyone studying New York banking and sand volumes on Ecuadorian history, govern- politics during the Jacksonian period. ment, anthropology, and literature.

THE HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY at Inde- STANFORD UNIVERSITY has received the pendence, Mo., recently added to its manu- Harry R. Lange Historical Collection of script collections scrapbooks of newspaper Musical Instruments and Books, to be housed clippings and World War II aerial photo- under the jurisdiction of the Music Library graphs of bombing targets, records of com- at Stanford. The gift of a California busi- missions, committees, and boards appointed nessman, it includes fine violins dating from by the former President, sound tapes of some 1723, violas, a cello, an oboe, and modern of his speeches, and papers of many of the copies of old violas and recorders. government officials during his administra- tion. THE LONGWOOD LIBRARY at Kennett Square, Pa., will be merged with the Hagley KNOX COLLEGE, Galesburg, 111., has received Museum Library near Greenville, Del. The more than thirteen thousand volumes from combined library will be known as the Eleu- the valuable personal library of the late Dr. therian Mills Historical Library and will Clarence H. Haring, professor of Latin occupy a new building being erected on the American history and economics at Harvard original property of the Du Pont Company. University for thirty years. The collection includes personal and busi- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has been pre- ness papers of members of the Du Pont sented with the papers of the American family from 1588 to 1954, correspondence, physiologist, Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), best journals, family books, and early records of known for his experimental work in induc- E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8c Company.

MAY 1961 211 THE PIUS XII MEMORIAL LIBRARY, St. Yonge Library of Florida History at the Louis University, has just received the li- University, Senator Holland told library of- brary of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, ficials that he expects to add papers from consisting of over eighty thousand scientific his term in the U. S. Senate at a later date. volumes. The Academy of Science library is These papers are of vital importance as made up of periodicals, books and scientific source materials in the writing of the politi- papers collected since the Academy's found- cal and historical development of the state. ing in 1856. Of use primarily as reference Other recent acquisitions of historical sig- material on the history of science, the ma- nificance to the P. K. Yonge Library of Flor- terial will complement the extensive micro- ida History include the gubernatorial papers film holdings of the Vatican Library Manu- of William Sherman Jennings, eighteenth script collection in this research area. In- Governor of Florida, 1901-05. Presented by cluded are exchange publications from sci- Mrs. William Sherman Jennings and her son entific institutions, universities and museums Sherman Bryan Jennings, the bequest also throughout the world, with many regularly includes some of Mrs. Jennings' papers; Mrs. published papers from behind the Iron Cur- Jennings has been very prominent for many tain. The Academy will continue to collect years in civic and club work throughout the from these sources and augment the collec- state of Florida. tion at Pius XII Library each year, in order to keep the references as up to date as pos- BUILDINGS sible. BELOIT COLLEGE was the chief beneficiary THE LIBRARY of the late Walter Eugene in the will of Iva Marion Butlin, alumna and Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Har- librarian emerita. An endowment in the vard University from 1928 to 1950 has been amount of approximately $190,000 will be acquired by the library of the University used for the maintenance and operation of of California, Los Angeles. The collection the new Colonel Robert H. Morse Library comprises well over fifteen hundred volumes on the campus. relating to Vedic and Sanskrit literature, A NEW $1,600,000 modular three-story- works of Pali, Tibetan, Buddhist, and Jan and-basement library building will be started provenance in both original editions and at the University of Wichita. This building translations, and materials on Indian phi- will care for 350,000 volumes and provide losophy, religion, folklore, medicine, gram- 1,000 seats for students and faculty. By the mar, poetics, rhetoric, drama, astronomy, addition of a fourth floor room can be pro- mathematics, lexicography, history, and other vided for 500,000 volumes and 1,400 seats. fields.

BETHANY NAZARENE COLLEGE recently THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARY broke ground for the new library building has recently acquired many groups of manu- planned with funds from businessmen, firms, scripts. Among them are the Drumheller and members of the Nazarene churches in the Family Papers which include the diary of Oklahoma City area. Leonard J. Powell, former president of the University of Washington; and the Edwin B. THE LIBRARY of the College of Education Stevens Papers, correspondence and papers at Cortland, N. Y., will move to a new build- relating to the administrations of presidents ing late this summer or early fall. The three- Graves, Kane, and Suzzallo of the University story structure is located in the center of a of Washington. rapidly expanding campus and cost $1,100,- 000, exclusive of furnishings and equipment. VALUABLE ADDITIONS to the University of Florida holdings of Florida manuscript let- THE OFFICIAL OPENING of the new John M. ters include the gift from United States Sena- Olin Research Library at Cornell University tor Spessard L. Holland of papers covering was heralded by extensive publicity. The his terms as a member of the Florida Senate Cornell Daily Sun issued a souvenir edition (1932-1940) and as Governor of Florida (1941- February 10, containing pictures, editorials, 1945). In presenting the papers to the P. K. special articles, comments by the dean and

212 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES by professors, a history of the library, and an In addition, there will be three seminar account of the ceremonies marking its open- rooms that can be converted into one large ing. The picture page of the Ithaca Journal, lecture hall. Nineteen study carrels for the February 11, was devoted entirely to interior use of faculty and graduate students are views including the study carrels, the catalog planned. If the appropriation is passed in section, and the business office, and a photo- the present legislative session, construction graph of the exterior was carried on the front will be started in the fall. page. In addition, John M. Olin Library In- troductory Guidebook (Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell WORK HAS BEGUN on major alterations University Library, 1961, 14 p.) describes the planned for the far eastern library of die services and gives the floor plans. University of Washington. Expansion and remodeling will include doubling of the THE NEW WAHLERT MEMORIAL LIBRARY on present stack capacity, increasing the read- the Loras College campus in Dubuque, Iowa, ing area, and adding new and renovated with a total seating capacity of 644, can ac- space for the staff and office of the librarian. commodate nearly half of the student body Other improvements planned are new at one time. Its stack area has a capacity for stacks, special shelving for unbound periodi- 300,000 volumes. The building is a two-story cals and newspapers, and improved lighting structure in the shape of an asymmetrical and air circulation. cross, built of red Tudor brick. The main section of the building is 222 feet long and GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 62 feet wide. The extensions to north and south are of unequal size, that to the north Two GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES have been being 62 x 60 feet, that to the south, 42 by made recently by the Council on Library 42 feet. The four end-sections have glass and Resources, Inc. The library of the University wall bays reaching from ground level to the of Illinois, Chicago Undergraduate Division, projecting gable roof. The reference and received $50,000 to apply advanced data pro- reading room contains 6,000 volumes and cessing techniques to university library pro- seats 282 readers. Sixteen double steel carrels cedures, to develop and overall system utiliz- provide individual study cubicles for 32 stu- ing latest electronic equipment, and to adopt dents. business machines for library use. Louis Schultheiss, serials-acquisitions librarian, is WHILE WORK on the new $2,679,000 Uni- the director of the project. The University versity of Nevada Library at Reno goes of Pittsburgh received $58,886 to test and steadily forward with an anticipated com- refine techniques developed by its computa- pletion date of early fall, plans are under tion and data processing center for informa- way for a library building at the Las Vegas tion retrieval in the legal field. campus. Each is distinctive. The Noble Get- chell Library at Reno will be a completely THE MIDWEST INTER-LIBRARY CENTER has air conditioned building three stories high been awarded a grant by National Science with 91,125 square feet of floor space. It will Foundation for continued partial support of seat 1400 students and accommodate 300,000 the Scientific Journals Center. The center is volumes. The collection will be on open intended to assure that the midwest area shelves in a divisional arrangement—hu- receives one copy of every significant journal manities, social science, and science and published anywhere in the world in the fields technology. of chemistry and biology. The project is sup- • Plans for the library building at the Las ported jointly by the group of twenty mid- Vegas campus represent a novelty in library western universities that are members of the design in the area. The general plan is cir- Midwest Inter-Library Corporation and the cular, with access to all working areas con- National Science Foundation in the interest trolled from the main desk. The stack area of making the latest scientific discoveries in will have a capacity of 100,000 volumes and these fields available to American scientists. will be open to the patrons. The building will contain separate rooms for listening, for THE A. W. CALHOUN MEDICAL LIBRARY, audio-visual materials, and for microfilms. Emory University School of Medicine, and

MAY 1961 213 the Biochemical Library, University of Cali- als and resources, documentation, and a sum- fornia at Los Angeles, have received grants mary of the library's mission and program in from the U. S. Public Health Service for the the next two decades will round out the to- training of medical librarians. Each will offer tal library picture. three internships yearly to outstanding grad- uates of library schools accredited by ALA. "THE NATIONAL LIBRARY of Medicine In- Applicants must be U. S. citizens or have re- dex Mechanization Project," issued as Part ceived their first citizenship papers. Each in- 2 of the January issue of Bulletin of the tern will receive $4,800 for the year, plus tu- Medical Library Association (96 p.) is avail- ition and a travel allowance to attend the able from the National Library of Medicine, annual meeting of the Medical Library Asso- Washington, D. C. The report describes the ciation. Program for the coming year will be- details in transforming the Current List of gin June 8, 1961. Inquiries may be addressed Medical Literature, compiled and published to Mildred Jordan, Librarian, A. W. Calhoun in the traditional manner, into the Index Medical Library, Woodruff Research Build- Medicus, now published as the end-product ing, Emory University, Atlanta 22, Ga., or to of a mechanized system. The new procedure Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Li- results in a significant increase in coverage, brary, University of California Medical Cen- faster reporting, and superior presentation. ter, Los Angeles 24. The Care and Repair of Books (New York, 1960, 122 p., $6.15) has been published PUBLICATIONS in a revised edition by Bowker Company. THE COMMISSIONER'S COMMITTEE on Refer- Regarded as standard in its field by librari- ence and Research Library Resources, New ans, booksellers, and collectors, the work was York, has issued a report entitled A Coopera- originally written by Harry M. Lydenberg tive Program for the Development of Refer- and John Archer. Brought up to date by ence and Research Library Resources in New John Alden of the rare book room of the York State, an interim report to Dr. James Boston Public Library, the new edition em- E. Allen, Commissioner of Education. Rec- phasizes new scientific developments and in- ommendations include the establishment of cludes material on the special problem of a state reference and research library board, book preservation in southerly climates. It establishment of a network of five regional stresses methods most likely to be widely reference and research library systems, as- available and practicable, and possible to sistance by the state in establishing and de- use without recourse to exceptional skill or veloping cooperative library programs by machinery. providing a minimum annually of ten dol- lars for each student enrolled in each cat- Cooperative Library Service to Higher Ed- egory in the fall semester, state assistance in ucation (New York, 1960), issued by the developing a cooperative program by allot- Council of Higher Educational Institutions, ting five dollars annually for each profes- reviews the problem of cooperation, and sional person in New York, and a review of facts relating to students, colleges and their the entire program after five years of opera- libraries, and student use of New York li- tion. braries. As a solution, it recommends a co- operative program, and a supplementary "THE FUTURE OF LIBRARY SERVICE: Demo- academic library system. It concludes with an graphic Aspects and Implications" is the title estimate of costs and outlines the role of the selected for the combined July and October Council of Higher Educational Institutions. issues of Library Trends. Editor of the issue is Frank L. Schick, assistant director, Library KRAUS REPRINTS, INC. is publishing a photo- Services Branch, U. S. Office of Education. offset edition of the Catalogue of the John Some twenty librarians will contribute sec- Carter Brown Library, 1919-1931. For it the tions dealing with the future of library serv- staff of the John Carter Brown Library has ice from 1960 to 1980 in public, school, col- marked with an asterisk the entries that have lege and university, state, and federal li- been corrected or emended in their own braries. Library education, personnel, materi- interleaved copy and urges users to write

214 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES for further information about individual be a series of general lecture and demonstra- items. The library has prepared a mimeo- tion sessions as well as small group discus- graphed list of the corrections for owners sions of pertinent problems. Earl C. Bor- of the original edition who would like to geson, librarian of the Harvard Law School, mark their copy. director of the institute, is accepting reserva- tions. The association's annual meeting is PHENOMENAL GROWTH of traditional serv- scheduled the following week, June 25-29, at ices of the Library of Congress is evident in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Boston. the Annual Report of the Librarian of Con- gress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, THE SIXTH SEMINAR on the Acquisition of i960. Substantial increases are reported in Latin American Library Materials will be Congressional inquiries, in the number of held July 6-8 at Southern Illinois University, book catalogs and printed catalog cards sold, Carbondale. Problems related to acquiring and in the number of claims to copyright, to library materials from Colombia and Venezu- name a few. New developments include es- ela, problems of bibliographic information tablishment of a Near Eastern and North on Latin America, and reports of progress African law division, and creation of an Afri- made on previous seminar recommendations can section in the reference department. will be the chief concern of the meeting. About 868,980 items were added to the refer- Further information may be obtained from ence materials, bringing the total number William A. Bork, Director, Latin American available to the government and the pub- Institute, Southern Illinois University. lic, 38,995,221 items of diverse nature. A STUDY OF INDEXING of conference reports Guidelines for Library Planners, edited by by C. W. Hanson and Marian Janes, of the Keith Doms and Howard Rovelstad, (Chi- Research Department of ASLIB (England), cago: ALA, 1960, illus., 128 p., $3.75) is an revealed that of 205 publications examined, authoritative work on library planning and 103 had no index whatsoever. Of the re- construction, based on the proceedings of mainder, 32 had no author index; and 18 the 1959 Library Buildings and Equipment had no subject index; thus, only 52 of the Institute sponsored by the Buildings and 205 had both subject and author index. Fur- Equipment Section of Library Administra- ther study revealed that the situation is tion Division. The report includes discus- growing worse rather than improving as sions by experts in architecture, library publications increase. The investigators con- consulting, and researching, as well as in- cluded that organizers of conferences, con- formation regarding layout, interiors, floor- gresses, and symposia could materially in- ing, equipment, specifications, lighting, heat- crease the usefulness of the reports of their ing, and ventilation. proceedings by providing them with indexes. Results of the study were published in MISCELLANEOUS Journal of Documentation, XVI (1960), 65- 70. A STUDY of library costs and operations of THE PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER of ACRL Purdue University is being made for the will meet Saturday, May 20, at Lincoln Uni- business office by Gerald L. Quatman, Ph.D. versity, near Oxford, Pa. At 10:30 A.M., candidate in industrial psychology and part- Dean Jack Dalton, of the School of Library time research assistant at the library. The Service, Columbia University, will speak purpose of the study is to determine portions on "The Work of the ALA Interna- of total expense of various types of library tional Relations Office." At 2:00 P.M., Mrs. service and to establish total costs per stu- Eleanor B. Allen, librarian, Lippincott Li- dent or per faculty member. The informa- brary, University of Pennsylvania, will speak tion will be of value in negotiating research on "Library by Remote Control—Karachi" contracts with sponsoring organizations. and Dr. Yu-shu Pu, assistant technical serv- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LI- ices librarian, Drexel Institute Library, will BRARIES will hold the Fifth Biennial Law Li- speak on "The Libraries and the National brarians Institute at the Harvard Law School Classification System of the People's Repub- in Cambridge, Mass., June 19-23. There will lic of China."

MAY 1961 215 THE EXECUTIVE BOARD of the Pennsylvania lege, Marshall, Tex., February 16; Sarah L. Library Association has approved the follow- Wallace, public relations director, Minneap- ing resolution: olis Public Library, at the inauguration of Owen Meredith Wilson as president of the Recognizing that an effective educa- University of Minnesota, February 23; Pa- tional program at the college level re- tricia Paylore, assistant librarian, University quires intelligent and efficient use of a of Arizona, Tucson, at the inauguration of variety of educational materials to meet G. Homer Durham as president of Arizona curricular demands, be it resolved: State University, Tempe, March 11; Sidney That the Executive Board of the B. Smith, director of libraries, Louisiana Pennsylvania Library Association re- State University, Baton Rouge, at the inaug- quest the Middle Atlantic States Asso- uration of Herbert Eugene Longenecker as ciation of Colleges and Secondary president of Tulane University, New Orleans, Schools and the Library Education Di- April 15; Lewis C. Branscomb, director of vision of the American Library Asso- libraries, Ohio State University, Colum- ciation to recommend that library orien- bus, at the inauguration of James Mor- tation, covering formal instruction in gan Read as president of Wilmington Col- the use of books and libraries, be re- lege, Wilmington, Ohio, April 30; Jens Ny- quired of all freshmen; and further, holm, university librarian, Northwestern that credit be given for such a course. University, Evanston, 111., at the inaugura- tion of George Wells Beadle as chancellor of ALA REPRESENTATIVES at collegiate cere- the University of Chicago, May 4, and Wen monies this year were Mary D. Herrick, as- Chao Chen, librarian, Kalamazoo College, sociate librarian, Boston University, at the Mich., at the inauguration of James Miller inauguration of James Forrester as president as president of Western Michigan Univer- of Gordon College, Beverly Farms, Mass., sity, Kalamazoo. October 12; Wyman W. Parker, librarian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., at SEVEN AMERICAN librarians are touring the the Silver Convocation honoring President Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange Albert N. Jorgensen on the occasion of the mission. The American exchange mission left twenty-fifth anniversary of his service at the New York City early in May and are study- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., ing library techniques in the USSR for about November 12; Jens Nyholm, university li- thirty days. Their Russian counterparts vis- brarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, ited the United States during April. The 111., at the inauguration of William Graham American librarians who are touring Russia Cole as president of Lake Forest College, include: David C. Clift, executive director of Lake Forest, 111., November 19; John H. the ALA; Mrs. Frances Lander Spain, presi- Knickerbocker, director, Civil War Institute, dent of ALA; Rutherford Rogers, chief assist- Gettysburg College, Gettsyburg, Pa., at the ant to the Librarian of Congress; Raynard dedication of the library building at Mount C. Swank, director, International Relations Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md., Office of the ALA; Melville Ruggles, vice November 19. president Council on Library Resources, Inc.; Emerson Greenaway, director, Free Li- Mrs. Frances Lander Spain, coordinator, brary, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Sallie Farrell, children's services, circulation department, field representatitve of the Louisiana State New York Public Library, at the inaugura- Library. tion of Edward J. Mortola as president of Pace College, New York City, January 19; THE MIDWESTERN, Mississippi Valley, and Humphrey G. Bousfield, librarian, Brooklyn Plains-Mountains regional groups are jointly College, at the inauguration of Lawrence Lee sponsoring a regional meeting of the Biblio- Jarvie as president of the New New City graphical Society of America at the Rowfant Community College, Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb- Club, Cleveland, Ohio at 2:?0 P.M., 10 July, ruary 16; Mildred Wyatt, librarian, Stephen for all members of the society or of the Row- F. Austin State College, Nacogdoches, Tex., fant Club. Speakers at this meeting will be at the inauguration of Howard Clifton Ben- Kenneth Nebenzahl, Robert Vosper, and nett as president of East Texas Baptist Col- David Kaser.

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SAMUEL ROTHSTEIN, associate librarian of and growing student population of the met- the University of British Columbia, Van- ropolitan area. couver, will be the director of its new In addition to preparing a report recom- school of librarian- mending the development of a regional li- ship, scheduled to brary system designed to serve higher educa- open in September tion, Mr. Haas completed a study of the use 1961. students make of libraries other than those Dr. Rothstein re- at their own schools, reviewed the holdings ceived his bachelor's of many academic libraries, prepared a di- and master of arts rectory of the resources of the collegiate li- degrees from British braries in the area, and conducted several Columbia in 1939 other specialized studies of library services and 1940 and subse- and resources available to students in the quently did graduate New York City area. Mr. Haas will continue work in romance his work with the Council on a part-time languages at the uni- basis for several months until the research Samuel Rothstein versities of California program is completed. and Washington. Af- Before coming to New York City, Mr. ter service in the Canadian army he obtained Haas was acquisitions librarian and later his bachelor of library science degree from assistant librarian of the Johns Hopkins Uni- the University of California, Berkeley in versity Library. From 1950 to 1952 he was 1947. with the Racine, Wis., Public Library. In 1951 Dr. Rothstein received a grant Mr. Haas, who is thirty-six years old, is a from the Carnegie Corporation for ad- graduate of Wabash College. He did gradu- vanced study at the University of Illinois, ate work at the University of Wisconsin, and and he was awarded the doctorate by the is a graduate of the library school of that university in 1954. His thesis was published university. He is a member of Phi Beta as an ACRL monograph as The Develop- Kappa. ment of Reference Services Through Aca- demic Traditions, Public Library Practice, ROBERT VOSPER assumes administrative and Special Librarianship (1955). control of libraries at the University of Cali- Dr. Rothstein joined the University of fornia at Los Angeles in July as university British Columbia Library staff in 1947 and librarian and profes- has served successively as head of acquisi- sor of library service. tions, assistant librarian, and associate li- He succeeds Law- brarian. rence Clark Powell, who as dean will de- WARREN J. HAAS became associate director vote full-time to the of university libraries at Columbia Univer- new library school. sity January 1. In this capacity he will serve This is a return to as operations officer for some thirty different familiar scenes for professional school and departmental library Mr. Vosper, who was collections. For the past year and a half, Mr. head of the acquisi- Haas has been library consultant to the tions department and Council of Higher Educational Institutions later associate li- in New York City. He has conducted the R. Vosper brarian at UCLA Council's Library Research Program with from 1944 to 1952. the objective of finding effective cooperative This position carries unusual responsibil- solutions to some of the problems colleges ities. New graduate programs and student- and universities encounter in providing li- body growth present obvious administrative brary service and materials for the large problems. UCLA has in recent years in-

MAY 1 961 217 creased its holding percentagewise faster going to UCLA in 1944 and to the Univer- than any other large university library. The sity of Kansas in 1952. He has had many im- budget has more than doubled since 1952. portant assignments and offices in ALA and Under its new chancellor, Franklin Mur- for the Association of Research Libraries, phy, formerly of the University of Kansas, and takes special satisfaction from his role UCLA has undertaken commitments which in establishing a unit within ACRL concern- will greatly increase the present rate of col- ing rare books when president of ACRL. lection building and may make this the lead- He has exercised leadership in these and ing American institution in library acquisi- other professional circles by a rare combina- tions. Much of the future of the institution tion of independent thinking, tactful per- will depend on the knowledge, judgment, suasiveness in council, and diligence in exe- and vision of the new librarian. cution. He is equally effective before a Mr. Vosper has much in common with thousand people or with one key personal- his great predecessor, Lawrence Clark ity in a quiet corner. His past accomplish- Powell. Both have been men of vision and ment and tested abilities augur well for the courage. Both have been aggressive in get- future of libraries at UCLA. We will miss ting financial support. Both are wise book- the frequent references in our literature to men, widely read, with uncanny skills in the banks of the Kaw and rolling plains ferreting out valuable libraries and arrang- golden with harvest, but these will doubtless ing transfer of title and transportation. On be replaced with equally refreshing pictures the trail of a collection Mr. Vosper organ- of the azure skies and majestic, white-crested izes his resources and armament with the combers of southern California.—Arthur T. zest, skill, and detail of a Teddy Roosevelt Hamlin, University of Cincinnati. setting off for a shoot in Africa. Both librarians have been imaginative, re- sourceful administrators in building pro- EDWARD N. MAC CONOMY became the li- grams, organization of services, and staff brarian of Albion College, Albion, Mich., procurement. When faced with a low salary on February 1, 1961. Born near Albion in scale and few applications, Mr. Vosper ran 1916, Mr. Mac Conomy received his B.A. an ad in The Times Literary Supplement degree from the College of William and that is, five years later, still pleasantly re- Mary in 1938. He completed the M.A. in membered in British library circles. From it political science at the University of Mary- came some seventy applications, and a series land in 1943 and the M.A. in library science of talented librarans. at the University of Michigan in 1951. He is Mr. Vosper (like Mr. Powell some years at present completing work on the Ph.D. de- ago) spent 1959/60 in England on a Gug- gree in political science at the University of genheim fellowship. His letters to his staff Michigan with the dissertation topic "The are redolent with references to mossy stone Political Thought of William Temple, Arch- cottages, pubs with draught Guinness, fine bishop of York, 1929-1942, Archbishop of old libraries, and second-hand bookstores Canterbury, 1942-1944." Mr. Mac Conomy's where he leisurely gathered books for K.U. scholarship has been recognized by election and data on his research topic. to Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Seemingly this good man has unlimited Phi Kappa Phi. time for bookstore browsing, catalog reading, From 1940 to I960 he was a member of and sundry other academic whittling. He the staff of the Library of Congress, since takes time with his family of three teen-age 1948 as an analyst in political science (Amer- daughters, young son, Stevie, and talented, ican national government) in the Legislative attractive wife, Loraine. Slight of frame and Reference Service. He brings to his new gentle in manner, he delights in the in- position an extensive background in refer- formality of tie-less, short-sleeved shirts, walk- ence librarianship and bibliography and a ing shorts, and even sandals. strong interest in academic libraranship. His Robert Vosper has both his B.A. and M.A. rare sense of humor and sound perspectives from the University of Oregon. He went to toward men and books will distinguish his Berkeley for his library certificate (1940) and career at Albion.—Stephen Ford, University served briefly there and at Stanford before of Michigan.

218 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Appointments

MRS. EDNA ALCOMBRACK is a library asssist- RICHARD DAUBERT is assistant loan librar- ant in the book order section of the acquisi- ian, University of New Hampshire. tions division, University of Washington, GEORGE B. DAVIS is head librarian, Bennett Seattle. College, Hillbrook, New York. MRS. ESTHER BOATRIGHT ANDERSON is cur- RICHARD DAVIS is assistant professor, riculum materials and serials librarian, Sa- graduate school of library science, Drexel In- vannah (Georgia) State College. stitute of Technology, Philadelphia. JOHN C. L. ANDREASSEN, formerly director DESIREE DE CHARMS is music library assist- of administration, Library of Congress, is ant, University of Illinois, Urbana. now archives and records management con- sultant, Bureau of Government Research, MRS. DORIS DODDS is documents assistant, New Orleans. University of Illinois Library, Urbana. GILBERT DONAHUE is research librarian, WILMER BAATZ is chief, library branch, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. Wayne State University, Detroit. ROBERT E. DYSINGER, formerly assistant li- JULIUS BARCLAY has been named chief li- brarian of the division of special collections brarian, Bowdoin College, is now librarian, at Stanford University Library. Alton Center, Southwestern Illinois Campus, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. PATRICK T. BARKEY, formerly head of cir- culation, University of Notre Dame (Indi- ROBERT WILKINSON EVANS will become head ana) Library, is now head of circulation, East- of the acquisitions and binding department ern Illinois University, Charleston. of the Oberlin (Ohio) College Library July 15. ROBERT BECKER, formerly a staff member of the Bancroft Library reference division, MRS. CAROLYN W. FIELD is a staff member University of California, Berkeley, is now of the graduate school of library science, assistant director of the library. Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. MRS. LEA M. BOHNERT, formerly with RCA STUART FORTH will become associate di- and lecturer at the American University, is rector of libraries, University of Kansas, now chief, information retrieval section, li- Lawrence, on July 1. brary branch, Federal Aviation Agency, LORNA D. FRASER, formerly head of the Washington, D. C. cataloging department, University of To- WILLIAM BRACE is on the faculty of the ronto, is now the assistant librarian and library school, Florida State University. head of the cataloging department of York GEORGE CALDWELL will become head of the University, Toronto, Ontario. reference department, University of Kansas EDWIN BLACK GEORGE, formerly chief of Library, Lawrence, on July 1. the economics division in the legislative ref- PATRICIA CHIN-WEN CHANG, formerly li- erence service, Library of Congress, has been brary service fellow, University of Michigan, appointed deputy director of the legislative is now with the catalog department, Univer- reference service. sity of California, Los Angeles. MISS HOWARD W. HUBBARD, formerly ad- DWIGHT L. CHAPMAN, formerly senior di- ministrative assistant to the assistant director visional librarian in charge of Museums Li- of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, is now as- braries, University of Michigan, is now assist- sistant director of the ALA Washington of- ant librarian, Amundsen Junior College, fice. Chicago. FRANK JACOBS is assistant librarian in HOWARD F. CLINE, director of the Hispanic charge of public circulation, Loyola Univer- Foundation, Library of Congress, has been sity, Chicago. appointed an advisory editor of The Ameri- RICHARD D. JOHNSON is administrative as- cas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American sistant to the director, Stanford (California) Cultural History. University Library.

MAY 1961 219 DOROTHY KAHN is librarian for Science brary, University of California, Los Angeles. Research Associates, Chicago. JESSE SHERA has been appointed director WALDEMAR KLUNDT is a staff member of of Western Reserve University Center for the humanities division library, San Jose Documentation and Communication Re- (California) State College. search. He continues as dean of the School FRANCES LIVINGSTON is professional assist- of Library Science. ant to the head of the serial record depart- Miss SIEGLINDE SEILER is library assistant ment, University of Louisville (Kentucky) in the catalog division, University of Wash- Library. ington, Seattle. ELLEN MAYEUX, formerly reference li- DONALD L. SIEFKER is reference librarian, brarian, National Library of Medicine, is Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. now the librarian, medical library, Federal WENDELL SIMONS is on the staff of the Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. University of California Library, Santa Bar- AARON I. MICHELSON is assistant professor bara. of library science, College of Arts and Sci- PETER SPYERS-DURAN is circulation li- ences, University of Oklahoma, brarian, University of Wichita, Kan. DONALD MILLER is now on the staff of the PETER STECKL, formerly branch librarian, catalog department, University of California, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Santa Barbara, not Berkeley as reported in is now assistant librarian, University of Sas- the March issue. katchewan, Canada. CORA L. MULDERS is librarian of the United RALPH STENSTROM, formerly circulation li- Nations Library, Mexico City, Mexico. brarian, Beloit College, is now education, JACK POOLER is engineering librarian, Stan- philosophy and psychology library assistant, ford University. University of Illinois, Urbana. DONALD A. REDMOND, formerly librarian of JOSEPHINE T. SUN is catalog assistant, Uni- the Nova Scotia Technical College, is now versity of Illinois Library, Urbana. science and engineering librarian, University JOHANNA TALLMAN is lecturer in the of Kansas, Lawrence. School of Library Service, University of Cali- VIRGINIA REED is research librarian, Up- fornia, Los Angeles. john Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. CAROLYN URQUHART, is principal library

JAMES H. RENZ, formerly librarian, Florida assistant in the reference department, Uni- collection, Miami (Florida) Public Library, versity of California, Los Angeles. is now head of acquisitions department, Col- TORDIS VATSHAUG, formerly on the staff of lege of William and Mary Library, Williams- the acquisitions division, National Library burg, Va. of Medicine, is now reference librarian, Fed- eral Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. GLADYS ROWE is associate librarian of the Laboratories for Applied Sciences, Univer- LUCILE VICKERS is head librarian and as- sity of Chicago. sociate professor of library science, Buena MICHAEL J. SADOSKI, formerly engineering Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa. librarian, Stanford University, is now engi- MARJORIE WEST is reference librarian, In- neering librarian with Convair, San Diego, dustrial Relations Center, Chicago. Calif. THOMAS J. WHITBY is Slavic science ac- MRS. RUTH M. SAMARIN, recently returned quisitions specialist for science and technol- to this country after spending nearly ten ogy, Library of Congress. years teaching with the Foreign Missionary Society of Brethren Church in the Central MURIEL YIN, formerly a staff member of African Republic, is now senior library as- the White Plains (New York) Public Library, sistant in the catalog department, Univer- is now on the staff of the education library, sity of California, Berkeley. University of California, Los Angeles.

MRS. NORMA L. SCHULTE, formerly engi- LINDA ZORN is library assistant in the engi- neering librarian, Hughes Aircraft Company, neering branch library, University of Wash- is now in the business administration li- ington, Seattle.

220 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Necrology

ROBERT DEVORE LEIGH died suddenly of books in countless library schools. He taught a heart attack on January 31 in Chicago, for twenty years as a visiting lecturer at the where he had gone to attend the midwinter London University School of Librarianship, meeting of ALA. He and his interest in classification was caught was born in Ne- up by S. R. Ranganathan who attended his braska in 1890 and lectures in 1924, and who himself has gained grew up in Seattle; an international reputation for his work in but he was always this subject. In the United States Bliss and proud of his New later, Shera have paid their tributes to his England ancestry, influence. and he came back If these had been his only contribution to east to attend Bow- librarianship, they would have been more doin College. He than most of us can hope to do. But Sayers was graduated in was a full man: he wrote ten books alto- 1914 as valedictorian. gether, and they covered aspects of library In 1927 he earned work as diverse as work with children, anno- Robert D. Leigh his doctorate in po- tation in catalogues, and methods of stock litical science at Co- control. Some of them went outside library lumbia. He taught at Reed College, work: he wrote the standard biography of 1914-19, and at Williams College, 1922-28; Coleridge-Taylor, and the official history of then he was Bennington's first president, Croydon in the Second World War (one of 1928-41. the worst bombed towns in England). Dr. Leigh became well known to librari- The needs of his chosen profession de- ans when he was director of the Commission manded that he should teach (and with his on Freedom of the Press, 1944-46, and of love for young people, he never refused to the Public Library Inquiry, 1947-50. He help them) and so he taught and wrote served Columbia's School of Library Serv- textbooks on library techniques. But he was ice, 1950-59, as visiting professor, acting dean, no biblio-technician: he had a glowing love and dean. for literature, and was himself a lyricist of He brought to the School of Library Serv- no mean ability. His knowledge of nine- ice a vigorous and far-sighted leadership teenth-century writers was unrivalled, yet supported by close attention to details and his receptivity to new writing made him fore- tempered by unfailing personal kindness to most among the admirers of James Joyce's colleagues and students. In his many assign- Finnegan's Wake when it first appeared, to ments outside the school, his voice and vote the consternation of the weekend book re- were always clear, forceful, and kindly—and viewers. He was a librarian who read, but always guided by trained good judgment and was never lost. innovating vision. For my generation of British librarians His first wife, Mildred Boardman, died however, his passing signifies the loss of a after long illness in May 1959. In September respected older friend, for he was already 1960 he was married to Mrs. Carma Zimmer- the outstanding name in British librarian- man, librarian of the California State Li- ship when we entered the profession over brary.—A. T. Hazen, Columbia University. twenty years ago: yet when we grew a little older he could find time and opportunity to encourage us in our professional interests, The name of W. C. BERWICK SAYERS is however obscure the libraries from which known throughout the world of librarian- we came. Our gaucherie and dogmatism ship for his works on the theory of library never irritated him. He was a great man, classification. His Introduction to Library and I count myself honored to have known Classification has appeared in nine editions him so well in the last fifteen years.—Ber- and his Manual of Library Classification in nard I. Palmer, The Library Association, three. These have become standard text- London.

MAY 1961 221 EUGENE F. GILROY, librarian of St. Joseph's PHILIP KRICHBAUM, a staff member of the College, Philadelphia, Pa., died suddenly on subject cataloging division, Library of Con- December 23, 1960. gress for nearly twenty years, died January VLADIMIR GSOVSKI, chief of the European 14. law division in the law library, Library of JEROME VALENTINE, senior research ana- Congress, died January 12 at the age of sixty- lyst in the air research division, Library of nine. Congress, died January 18.

Selection of Library Sites (icontinued from page 192) the bearing strata by removing the over- up, were possible, with two more without burden. This made it necessary to in- windows below them. It was possible to clude a basement in the building, and have the entrance level, plus its mezza- this involved a drainage problem. The nine, a full second floor, and a penthouse basement and the drainage diffiiculties with a good deal of useful space in it; even could have been avoided if the site had the latter is closer to the ground than the not been so small that it was necessary main reading room in Widener. More- to plan for a five-story building. over, the building, which would have been a little large for its site if it had SUMMARY been taller, does not give that impression. A specific example illustrating some of 5. Policy decisions on the part of the the considerations involved in the selec- university permanently limiting the size tion of a site may be provided by the of the undergraduate college and on the Lamont Library at Harvard. This site part of the library limiting the size of was selected from four possibilities after the undergraduate book collection meant some weeks of discussion and prepara- that provision did not have to be made tion of rough sketches of a suitable build- for a future extension. ing in each location. Its actual position To recapitulate, the site must be large was chosen because: enough to provide for the building and 1. It was the only remaining available for projected additions, and it must be in site in the Yard large enough for a build- as convenient a location as possible. This ing of the desired size. A location in the does not mean that it ought to be in the Yard close to the two other central li- exact center of the campus; but it ought brary buildings, Widener and Houghton, to be readily accessible from classroom to which it could be connected by tunnel, buildings, particularly those for the hu- was an important factor. manities and social sciences. The orienta- 2. It was so placed that the freshmen tion, ideally, should be on a long axis had to pass its front entrance six times a running directly east and west, with the day going to and from their meals in the entrance on the south. A site that slopes Freshmen Union. It was on a main walk downward from the entrance to the rear between the houses where the upper may be advantageous, and costs of con- classmen lived and the classrooms, and struction may be greatly increased if closer to the latter. ground conditions are unsatisfactory. 3. It had a long east-west axis, giving Parking and delivery problems should the most desirable long north and south not be forgotten. Since a site will rarely exposures for the reading areas. be found that is ideal in every respect, 4. The ground slope was such that careful assessment of the advantages and two levels with windows below the main disadvantages of each possible site is entrance, which was only one short step called for before a decision is made.

222 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Second Conference on Rare Books

ACRL's RARE BOOK SECTION will have its pont Morgan Library; Ellen Shaffer, Free Li- second special conference as a preliminary to brary of Philadelphia; Thomas R. Adams, ALA's conference this summer. The rare John Carter Brown Library; J. Terry Ben- books meeting will be in Oberlin, Ohio, der, The Grolier Club; Howard H. Peckham, July 6 through July 8. Accommodations for William L. Clements Library; David Randall, the registrants will be in a dormitory of Lilly Library; H. Richard Archer, Chapin Oberlin College, and the program meetings Library; Harold W. Tribolet, Lakeside Press, are scheduled for Oberlin's Hall Auditorium. and others. Walter Muir Whitehill of the Attendance at the rare books meeting will Boston Athenaeum, Frederick G. Kilgour of not be limited to members of this section or the Yale Medical Library, and Richard E. of ALA, and early registration is strongly Banta of Crawfordsville, Ind., will be the advised as the total number of registrants speakers for special programs. Leading dis- must be limited to two hundred, somewhat cussions on special interests will be Robert less than the total registration at the similar O. Dougan, Henry E. Huntington Library; meeting at Charlottesville, Va., two years ago. Irvin Kerlan, Washington, D. C.: James The fee for the entire meeting, including Wells, Newberry Library; Mrs. Frances quarters and meals, will be thirty dollars per Brewer, Detroit Public Library; Helmut person. Reservations or inquiries should be Lehmann-Haupt, New York City; and John directed to Robert W. Evans, Librarian, Cook Wyllie, University of Virginia Library. Muskingum College Library, New Concord, There will be a short business meeting of Ohio. The deadline for registration will be the section on Friday, July 7. Mr. Archer will June 6. Announcements of the meeting have report on the status of the preliminary man- been mailed to all members of the Rare ual for rare book librarians and Mr. Wyllie Books Section and to all institutional mem- will make a report from the group's Com- bers of ACRL. mittee on Appraisals. Officers of the Rare The care and preservation of rare books Books Section are Frederick Goff, Library of will be the general theme of the meeting. Congress, chairman; Mrs. Frances J. Brewer, Considerable time will be left in the sched- Detroit Public Library, vice chairman and ule, however, for informal intermingling of chairman-elect; and William H. Runge, Uni- the participants. versity of Virginia Library, secretary. Mr. Discussants of the basic theme of the meet- Cahoon is the section's representative on the ing will include Herbert T. F. Cahoon, Pier- ACRL Board of Directors.

Harwell Resigns ACRL Post Richard Harwell has resigned as Executive Secretary of ACRL and Associate Executive Director of ALA to accept an appointment as librarian of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., beginning September i. He will continue his work with ACRL through ALA's Cleveland Conference and until the end of July. It is expected that the appointment of a new Executive Secretary of ACRL can be announced in the July issue of CRL.

MAY 1961 223 ACRL Constitution and Bylaws Committee Report to the Board of Directors, June 1960

On June 19 and 22, 1960 the committee met at die Montreal Conference to consider necessary changes in the ACRL Constitution and Bylaws as printed in College and Re- search Libraries, September 1957, and as amended at the San Francisco Conference, 1958. The changes to be considered by the committee are necessary to bring the ACRL Con- stitution and Bylaws into agreement with the Constitution and Bylaws of ALA. The committee recommends the following changes or amendments: Constitution ARTICLE III, MEMBERSHIP Sec. 1. Members—Change first sentence to read: Any . . . member (deleting the words, "personal or institutional or life".) Sec. 2. Suspension and Reinstatement.—Delete entire section. This is taken care of by ALA Constitution, Article III.

ARTICLE VIII. BYLAWS Sec. 1. Adoption, Suspension, and Amendments.—Change last sentence to read: "pro- vided that notice of the proposed changes has been published not less than one month before final consideration." Bylaws ARTICLE II. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION Sec. 4. Right to vote. In accordance with amendments at San Francisco, delete the last 13 words: "and the director who will represent that section on the Board of Directors." Sec. 5. Elections. (b) Sections.—Change section to read: "Elections to elective positions for sections shall be made as each section determines. The election of officers shall be reported to the Executive Secretary."

ARTICLE III. QUORUM Sec. 2. Association.—Change to read: "100 members shall constitute a quorum of the Association for the transaction of all business except elections by mail.

ARTICLE VI. VACANCIES Sec. 1. Elective Positions. (c) Change to read: If vacancies occur in the offices of president and vice-president within the same term, the Board of Directors shall elect as president one of the directors- at-large [deleting "directors or"] for the remainder of the term. When a regular elec- tion is next held, a president and a vice-president shall be elected.

The committee recommends that these proposed changes or amendments be pre- sented at two general meetings of the Association and be printed in College and Re- search Libraries one month before final consideration in accordance with Article IX of the Constitution. The committee has carefully studied the Constitution and Bylaws of ACRL and can find no other apparent conflicts with the ALA Constitution and Bylaws. Respectfully submitted, Ruth K. Porritt, Chairman 1959/60 ACRL Constitution and Bylaws Committee EDITOR'S NOTE: The foregoing report is printed in compliance with the recommendation of the committee and with Articles VIII and IX of the ACRL Constitution.

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