Brief of Minutes ACRL Board of Directors

Meeting, Tuesday morning, ing scope and editorial policy of the ACRL February 2, 1954, Monographs, and read the statement printed in Chicago on the inside cover of recent monographs. Mr. McNeal reported that the emphasis of Present were officers, directors, chairmen the ACRL State Representatives had been on of sections and committees, and ACRL repre- membership. Procedure in appointing state sentatives on ALA Council. President Mac- representatives was described. It was desira- Pherson presided. As usual, an agenda with ble for these people to serve relatively long supporting documents had previously been terms. Practices and policies were informally mailed to all those present. approved. Miss MacPherson welcomed Mr. Mum- The Research Planning Committee had ford, incoming ALA president; she intro- recommended dissolution at Los Angeles. duced Miss Saidel, ACRL's new publications Mr. Fussier, who represented the committee, officer, and Miss Mitchell, secretary to Mr. felt that if it was to continue its purpose Hamlin. should be redefined. Robert H. Muller had David Jolly reported for the Buildings written in to express belief in the importance Committee that a very successful buildings of such a committee to ACRL. Mr. Hamlin institute had been held in Madison, Wiscon- concurred but suggested the committee be dis- sin the previous Saturday and Sunday. banded now and that the objectives be studied In the absence of a representative of the and redefined and brought back to the Board Duplicate Exchange Union, a letter from the another year. Mr. Thompson and Mr. Max- chairman, Mrs. Dorsey L. MacDonald, was field spoke of the value of the committee to read. This dealt with revised rules of pro- publishing. cedure and cooperation with the U. S. Book It was voted that, Exchange. the Research Planning Committee be Mr. Heintz reported for the Committee on abolished. Financing C&RL that individual responsibili- ties were being assigned to committee mem- G. Flint Purdy, chairman of the Statistics bers. He read portions of a letter from Committee, summarized the results of a meet- Walter Hafner which told of specific results ing the previous day of Office of Education achieved by Stechert-Hafner ads in the officials with officers of ALA and its divisions journal. on the collection and publication of library Mr. Thompson stated that the Publications statistics. This group agreed on the need for Committee was doing well with the ACRL a clearing house on statistical work. The Monographs. The ACRL Microcard Series ACRL committee had furnished its forms to would have eighteen titles ready for publica- several state agencies. The recent publication tion by the end of February. Precisely the (by newsletter) of the junior college statistics same qualitative standards should be main- was mentioned and Mr. Moriarty com- tained for the Microcards as for C&RL and mented on its value to him. The committee the Monographs. The University of Roch- emphasizes the collection of facts of immedi- ester Press, publisher of the series, handles ate administrative use to college librarians. all such details as classification, distribution, Mr. Lyle asked whether Mr. Purdy wanted and bookkeeping. The Northern Printing an ACRL resolution urging Office of Educa- and Engraving Company of Racine manufac- tion coordination with ACRL in collecting tures the cards. Felix Reichmann, Fremont college library statistics. A carefully drafted Rider and Mr. Thompson comprise the edi- resolution might be useful. No single ques- torial board. A small subsidy is needed to tionnaire form could cover all needs; a clear- cover postage costs of manuscripts. Mr. ing house was desirable. The ACRL Maxfield emphasized the importance of know- Statistics Committee will explore these prob-

212 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES lems further with the Office of Education. point one member to an ALA board in which The Committee on Audio-Visual Work the division should have an interest. Pro- was not represented. Mr. Maxfield described posals to reorganize the ALA Executive plans to issue a monograph on audio-visual Board were described. facilities in college libraries and Mr. Hamlin read a portion of a letter from the chairman Meeting, Tuesday evening, on the need for an AV newsletter. February 2, in Chicago Mr. Ellsworth was not present to report for the Committee to Implement Library of Present were officers and directors and Congress Bibliographical Projects but had several guests. written to request continuance of the com- President MacPherson welcomed Mr. mittee in its present form one more year. Lindquist, ALA treasurer, as the representa- Mr. Eaton stated that the Committee on tive of the Executive Board. She reported Committee Appointments was making good that James M. Kingsley, Jr. had resigned as progress but that suggestions for people to chairman of the Committee on Conference serve were welcomed. Programs; he had been replaced by Ralph H. The President reported appointment of Hopp. Gerald McDonald to head the ad hoc com- Mr. Shipman presented the financial state- mittee to study the establishment of a group ment. Balance on November 30 was within ALA for librarians especially inter- $16,226.30; this was $16,355 on February 2. ested in rare books. Other members are Funds had increased steadily in recent years Colton Storm, Hannah D. French, Thomas but important obligations had been assumed M. Simkins, Lawrence C. Powell, and Clyde recently. The Association was in good shape Walton. financially. On request, Mr. Hamlin de- scribed the need for budget revisions. Not all At the request of Mr. Eaton the Executive of the $4,120 requested for C&RL subvention Secretary had prepared a short, draft state- should actually be used. Conference budget ment of purpose for each ACRL committee. should be increased to cover travel of the It was agreed that the directors should define increased headquarters staff. New office the scope of each committee operation. After equipment was needed because four full-time some discussion it was voted that, staff members were crowded into an office ap- (1) the name of the Committee on Com- proximately 14' x 14' and he hoped ALA mittee Appointments be changed to would provide ACRL with other quarters; if "Committee on Committees." a move is made, some new furniture is abso- (2) the wording of Mr. Eaton's sug- lutely necessary. Adjustments in salaries gested statement of purpose for the were desirable because of changes in the ALA Committee on Committees be ac- pay plan and vacancies in positions. Mr. cepted: "To study ACRL committees Shipman noted that the total increase re- and to recommend the establishment quested was only $245, after appropriations to or discontinuance of committees as the discontinued committees are subtracted. needs of the Association require; to define the duties of committees subject It was voted that, to approval of the Board of Directors; the budget be amended as follows: to solicit recommendations for ap- C&RL Subvention pointments to committees, and to —increased to $4,120.00 transmit these recommendations with Annual Conference its own advice to the president and the —increased to 300.00 president-elect." Publication Officer salary —decreased to 3,500.00 Julia Bennett appeared briefly to report on New Office Equipment federal legislation. —increased to 850.00 Mr. Moriarty reported on meetings of the Publications Committee Committee on Divisional Relationships. —increased to 125.00 They had been unable to simplify the dues scale. The committee favored a procedure President MacPherson presented a request whereby any interested division might ap- from the University of Chicago Graduate

APRIL, 1954 213 Library School for assistance in financing and money. He cited examples of waste in the their conference on college librarianship in ACRL office. June. There was long discussion. It was The Board discussed salary and classifica- noted that an expense of $700 was for the tion matters in the absence of Miss Saidel and publication of the papers. Mr. Hamlin. It was the consensus of opinion that a competent and suitable executive secre- It was voted that, tary could not be found at the beginning rate ACRL offer to publish the Proceedings of of Grade 13. the 1954 Chicago University Graduate Li- brary School Conference as an ACRL It was, therefore voted that, Monograph. the Board recommend to Mr. Clift the Alton H. Keller, chairman of the ALA reclassification of Mr. Hamlin from Grade Board on Acquisition of Library Materials, 13 to Grade 14. stated that support was needed by their Joint The question of salary for the editor of Committee of Librarians and Publishers on C&RL as well as for the editors of the Reprinting. Funds were being solicited from Monograph and Microcard series was dis- ALA, its divisions, and other organized bodies cussed, and no action was taken. to develop a program of reprinting publica- President MacPherson presented plans for tions needed by libraries. A "Reprint Expe- the Twin Cities Conference. ACRL was to diter's" office in New York will be the center have certain priority on meeting rooms on for the work. $1,000 is needed for the first Tuesday, June 22. The Board was agreeable year and probably for the second; after that to the plans already under way to have a the office should be self-supporting. series of meetings on the University of It was voted that, Minnesota campus on that day. The agenda for the Board meeting included $355 be appropriated the ALA Board on a report with several recommendations by Acquisition of Library Materials for the Burton W. Adkinson, chairman of the Com- purpose of securing clerical assistance mittee for the Protection of Cultural and toward the effective implementation of Scientific Resources. Mr. Hamlin spoke of their reprint project. the importance of some action in this area. Referral was made to the morning's discus- ARL was said to be skeptical of the practical sion of committee functions. value of this cause, and there was a general reluctance to take any ACRL action or to en- It was voted that, courage the Executive Secretary to spend President MacPherson ask chairmen of time on this subject. ACRL committees to comment on state- The agenda likewise contained a proposal ment of their functions as set forth and by Mr. Hamlin for closer cooperation be- distributed as an appendix to the agenda; tween ACRL and learned societies by the use that on the basis of these comments the of liaison people or representatives to such Executive Secretary be asked to prepare a organizations as the American Historical revised statement of committee functions Association, American Chemical Society, etc. and refer it to the Committee on Com- The hour was very late and the proposal was mittes; and that the Committee on Com- only briefly considered. President Mac- mittees prepare a statement on the final re- Pherson was empowered to appoint a com- porting for approval of the Board of Di- mittee to explore the matter. Mr. Lyle, Mr. rectors. Adams and Mr. Branscomb were appointed. President MacPherson reported that pay at In the agenda Mr. Hamlin had proposed a ALA Headquarters had been increased for new inter-library loan committee to study the lower brackets (clerical and secretarial), possible changes in the forms and procedures and her opinion had been requested in regard now in use and to investigate American co- to increases for the professional staff. On operation in international inter-library loans. question, Mr. Hamlin reported that the This was referred to Mr. Eaton's committee. elaborate ALA classification and pay plan The ACRL Planning Committee, proposed was, in his experience, a waste of both time (Continued on page 225)

214 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Notes from the ACRL Office

At various times this office has appealed to vary with the age of the patron and with the to college and research libraries for their type of material to be used. Students generally annual reports, staff bulletins, and sundry enjoy using microfilm. Some of our students have stated that they never thought reading other'publications. A good deal of this ma- could be fun until they used the microfilm reader. terial is received every day, skimmed or read On the other hand, a visiting faculty member in for items of importance, and turned over to the higher age bracket decided not to use an arti- the ALA library for preservation and often cle in the New York Times when he found it for loan by mail. After several years I have was available only on microfilm. Mr. John B. acquired certain prejudices for and against Nicholson, Jr., of Kent State University wrote: publications or authors. For example, it's a 'There is a kind of romance about using micro- good general rule to read anything written film readers which the undergraduate likes. by a Wright. (Wright, Louis B., Wright, We have no difficulty in selling the idea of film use to either the undergraduate or graduates. Wyllis E., Wright, Walter W., to name only Faculty members at first resisted the use of film three.) Another is to read publications from rather strongly. But today this has been over- West Liberty, West Virginia. come for the most part.' The greatest resistance West Liberty State College is, I under- to microfilm on the part of faculty members has stand, a small state institution of less than come from the mathematics and physics depart- 700 students and has a book collection of ments. under 30,000 volumes. ". . . The cost of microfilming one year's issue A professional library staff of one found of a magazine is often less than the cost of binding; but, for a few titles, the cost of micro- time in 1951 to run a brief study of the stu- film is far greater than that of binding." dents who don't use the library, and was con- cerned that the library might not be making From the annual report of one of the contact with almost one-fifth of the students. Wrights (Walter W. Wright, Assistant Li- This definite recognition of responsibility to brarian in Charge of the Service Division, the the lost sheep of the campus is unusual. University of Pennsylvania) comes this, Those who have lived and worked on large quoted principally from his Reserve Book De- campuses know that many students boast of partment Head, Miss Betty Feeney. never having entered the chapel or the library (which is worse?). It is only occasionally "In August, Miss Feeney and I visited the that I see signs that a library staff has taken Lamont and Hayden libraries in Cambridge. positive action to reach those students who This visit was useful in clarifying the picture of our proposed undergraduate library and it have bibliothecal allergies. This exasperating provoked a piece of thoughtful reporting from illness is one we will never eradicate com- Miss Feeney. While she became a convert to pletely, but diagnosis should be a step toward the cause exemplified by Lamont, she went be- cure, or can it be we need library evangelists? yond that in a paragraph that bears repeating: Mrs. Boughter, who is the professional 'On the other hand, I persist in coming out by staff of West Liberty State College is among the same door I went in so far as the over-all the first to experiment with suspension of fines concept of service to the undergraduate is concerned. The segregation of 60,000 volumes for books and periodicals. Experience over or 160,000 volumes, no matter how carefully one full semester led to reinstatement of the selected and ingeniously shelved and housed, fine system. While this experiment without does not solve the problem created by an educa- fines increased overdues, Mrs. Boughter con- tional program that is geared to push 13,000 peo- cluded that elimination of fines should be ple through college via uniform assignments studied further. "We have been pleased to and mass production methods. Such a segrega- note . . . that complaints about our fine sys- tion is, to be sure, the beginning of the solution, tem, formerly quite numerous, have been com- and Harvard has made this beginning, but it pletely eliminated." must be viewed as only that. If the University Library does in reality propose to make a con- Here is the West Liberty report on micro- tribution to the undergraduate in terms of film: "teaching with books," then the entire service "The reactions of patrons to microfilm seem program must be designed to reach him. A

APRIL, 1954 215 vital service to the undergraduate in a university where on the campus—no general display of this size will have to be at least a "program" best books on open shelves to which students for the entire Service Division, if not a crusade. can go directly and make their own selections. It must involve a more promotional and dynamic A university library can do much, if it will, to approach on the part of the Reference Depart- enrich the lives of the students. When the ment; it must be a constant awareness of the proposed General Education Division becomes undergraduate and his difficulties on the part a reality, much more will be done at Stanford. of the Circulation Department in devising sys- Meanwhile, a beginning has been inspired by tems, routines and avenues of approach to the William B. Ready, who joined the staff in July main book collection; it must be a practical and 1951 as Chief Acquisition Librarian. simple integration between the Reserve Depart- "Experimental dormitory libraries for recrea- ment where the undergraduate goes first and tional reading were established at Encina and the Circulation and Reference Departments; Lagunita with duplicate books set aside over a it must be a Freshman orientation program that period of time for that purpose. The collections is alive and thriving and which has the active were managed by volunteer student librarians. support from the faculty.' " A third collection was loaned to the Newman Club until support for an independent library An unusual item among the many which was obtained, at which time the books were each mail brings is a beautifully printed pam- returned to the campus. The Vestry Library phlet, "Greetings from the Stanford Univer- in the Memorial Church has been actively de- veloped with the enthusiastic cooperation of sity Libraries, Christmas 1953." This begins the Chaplain and Mr. Miller, Lecturer in Re- with appropriate Christmas verse, continues ligion. with a brief statement by Mr. Swank on the "In the spring a colorful display of prints of outstanding acquisitions of the year, notes modern painting, hung along the walls of the on the staff, library lectures or other notable main staircase, attracted considerable interest. happenings of the year, special services, etc., About a hundred good but inexpensive repro- and concludes with a list of all donors. ductions were mounted on masonite for lending Also from Stanford ("Report of the Di- to students and faculty, who could take them rector of University Libraries," 1951/52) home, hang them in their rooms, and exchange comes the following: them later for other paintings of their choice. There was an immediate and appreciative de- "In a material sense . . . resources increased mand for this service—a small service indeed, but little last year—a few more books and but happily conceived. The collection is in- periodicals, a small print collection, a little more tended to offer something to every taste, and the equipment, and a slight budget increase sum very modest investment of funds has gone for up the gains. The emphasis of the year's work first-rate reproductions which are inexpensively has therefore rested on increasing the value mounted. Mrs. Volkov, art specialist in the to the University of our present resources. In Reference and Humanities Division advises on short, our progress has been substantial, even acquisitions and handles the loans. The estab- though it has not been of the sort which lends lishment of this collection and the administrative itself to inventory. It has resulted from the arrangements for its care illustrate what was ingenuity, the devotion, the esprit de corps of previously said about the more effective use of the staff. Old activities have been restudied, existing resources and the ability to extend the new ones have been instituted in a spirit of library's service with little or no additional helpfulness. This conscious and inspiring effort money. to do our work better with the tools at hand "Then in the lower lobby there appeared an- is the subject of the ensuing report. nouncements of the first Intermezzo programs, "The Library has not recently had a formal a series of talks, films, exhibits, and recitals program of extra-curricular service aimed at sponsored by the library. The lectures were the stimulation of good voluntary reading, the held informally in the Bender (rare book) building of private libraries, the appreciation of Room and featured members of the faculty and the arts, and other such values which are im- such outside speakers as Bernard De Voto and portant to the cultural development of the stu- Dorothy Baker. The talks were followed by dent. Through the years library exhibits have coffee and discussion. Several book-related films, helped; so have the seven-day book shelves. such as Quartet and Of Mice and Men, were Certainly the mere exposure of students to the shown in Cubberley Auditorium to capacity library stack must incite many of them to new crowds. Reading lists and other background reading experiences. But that is not enough. materials were distributed. There is no doubt Undergraduates are ordinarily forbidden access that Intermezzo cast the library in a new and to the stack, and there is no browsing room any- welcome role in the hearts of the many students

216 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES and faculty who felt its impact. . . . The whole set numbers some 233 volumes and "Another project which brought crowds to costs well over a thousand dollars. the library for a new experience was the quar- I have long been curious about sales of terly book sale. Thousands of surplus duplicates, this title, both because of the great cost, and after being weeded of volumes with market or because I see sets in some very small college exchange value, were displayed on book trucks in the lower lobby and sold to students and libraries, and read in their annual reports faculty for nominal prices. A few students found about cataloging economies which are credited bargains, many (some for the first time) bought to this tool. Last fall the publisher told me books for their private libraries, and everybody that he had sold about eight hundred sets of had fun." the basic catalog (167 vols.) and had about 125 copies on hand from the second printing. None of these moves at Stanford is The printing order for the first supplement unique, but together they indicate a healthy (42 vols.) had been a great deal higher; of recognition of broader educational responsi- the thousand copies run, all but about one bilities than has been customary in university hundred had been sold. The printing order libraries. Quite a few libraries the size of for the second Supplement was likewise put Stanford have opened their stacks to all or at 1000 copies, of which about 650 copies had most of the undergraduate body. In comment- been sold last November, shortly after publica- ing on open stacks for undergraduates, The tion date. Contrast with these figures the Northwestern Library News stated sometime June, 1942 announcement of the project in ago, "In our case the system has proven not the Journal of Documentary Reproduction only educationally sound, but also financially (5:109-110) which states: "at least 300 sub- advantageous; that is, it has saved a consider- scriptions, most of which have already been able amount of money for the University." received, will be required. . . ." If a moral may be drawn, it is that a professional asso- Two college library bulletins received in ciation such as ACRL should not shrink back one morning's mail last fall carried the fol- from costly ventures provided they are very lowing notices: useful. They can be made to pay their way.

"Friends of the college, alumni, and neighbors Another "costly venture" which is just be- of the college community are reminded that our ginning to win acceptance by college libraries library books are available for them to borrow, is the periodical microfilm program of Uni- provided that student needs have priority." versity Microfilms, Inc., also of Ann Arbor. (From Lewis and Clark College Library, Port- As most librarians know, this is a service to land, Oregon.) supply a microfilm copy of the completed "Do you know that the library at St. Thomas volume of a periodical at a cost which is often is for the use of Houstonians in general, as well equivalent to the cost of binding. This service as for faculty and student body? As the only Catholic library available to the public in this is available only to libraries with current sub- region, we think it worthwhile to remind you of scriptions. this. Tell your friends and acquaintances. . . . From my reading of annual reports, it is The use of our books could be widely extended. quite apparent that this program has been . . . Books may be consulted or borrowed Monday a great success in some progressive college thru Friday until 9 P.M. . . ." libraries. It is very beneficial in all types of institutions when used with care. No li- Here are two small colleges in large cities brary will want to give up binding all periodi- which not only offer the borrowing privilege cals in favor of microfilm; the title which is to hundreds of thousands, but advertise it. best on film at one institution should be bound Most college libraries do serve their communi- elsewhere, because needs vary. A case in ties by freely granting the borrowing privilege, point is College and Research Libraries. If but general practice is not to give publicity to the grand total of professional librarians on this service. campus is only two or three or four and the This journal frequently carries an ad of stacks are getting a little tight, should you Edwards Brothers (Ann Arbor, Michigan) continue to bind? I think not (and please for the Library of Congress Author Catalog send any pre-1950 and October 1952-April or for the two five-year supplements which 1953 copies back to ACRL headquarters, as cover the period from 1942 through 1952. many issues are o.p.). This matter of micro-

APRIL, 1954 217 film vs. bound volumes is essentially a matter able; to bridge the gap between commercial of anticipated use and available shelf space. publishers and the university presses but not We are inclined to overestimate the use (not to compete with them; to present to the aca- importance) of periodical volumes more than demic public and to libraries (and to the gen- several years old, and few librarians can feel eral public when possible) books of real use- sure of plenty of shelf space for another fulness in economical but attractive formats generation. Reading machines and film will printed on good quality paper and bound in never be popular except with small fry and boards; to combine these factors with low gadgetteers, but are accepted as a standard overhead costs in the publication of editions tool of scholarship by the younger genera- limited to 500, 750, or 1000 copies priced at tion of faculty. customary commercial rates; to avoid sub- It is surprising to visit so many college ventions other than the need for capital to libraries which do not own a modern microfilm launch a given title but with the intent to re- reader. One perfectly good model retails for turn such risk capital as rapidly as returns $350, and this cost can be spread over several can be realized from sales; and finally to pay budget years. Sizeable discounts on readers a royalty to each author on all net sales and are available to libraries which contract for to make the books so published pay their own current files of periodicals on microfilm. The way." microcard and the microfilm are here to stay, Both Scarecrow and Shoe String have issued and should be basic equipment for even the very useful works at moderate prices. Some smallest college libraries. of their titles appear to be of unusual im- Another University Microfilms service of portance to scholarship. college libraries is the program of issuing If other college librarians are of a mind doctoral dissertations on microfilm. These are to enter the same general field as Scarecrow abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts ($6.00 and Shoe String, suggested press names are: per year) and positive films are available at Sevescent (reprinting the classics), Sala- a cost of ii cents per page ($i.00-$2.50 for mander (able to survive burning), Scalawag most dissertations). Included are the theses (in the lighter vein), Septentrional (Ameri- of nearly fifty leading American universities cana), or possibly Sesquipedalian (look this up and many more institutions will be joining the yourself). program. In many cases the abstract is all A related enterprise is Academic Reprints, that the reader needs. Not so many years ago which grew up and operates adjacent to the I remember procuring ten manuscript theses Stanford University Campus in Palo Alto. As on inter-library loan for a student who had the name implies, this is limited to republica- to make sure they held nothing he could use. tion of scholarly books, an enterprise which All came, first-class postage, of course, and certainly delights all college librarians. At heavily insured. The transactions involved the request of the Stanford University Li- a multitude of requests, acknowledgements, brary, this concern has issued short runs of and miscellaneous correspondence. Disserta- out-of-print items needed in quantity (particu- tion Abstracts would have been worth its larly reserve book room use) at a cost not far weight in gold then, and undoubtedly will be above normal, quantity, book trade rates. so to many a future reference librarian. Xerox equipment is used for this. Academic The advertisement elsewhere in this issue Reprints will be able to bring down the cost of is tangible evidence of the usefulness of the such short-run work if other libraries use its Shoe String Press, which is the part-time inter- facilities and thereby make possible some pool- est of John H. Ottemiller and Robert F. ing of current needs. Metzdorf, both of the Yale University Li- Cooperating in this same general field is our brary. Like Ralph Shaw's Scarecrow Press own Association with its ACRL Monographs. (see C&RL for January, 1954), this enter- At the last meeting of the Board of Directors prise makes available at moderate prices a substantial sum was voted to implement the scholarly material which might not otherwise reprint program of the ALA Board on the get into print. To quote Mr. Ottemiller, Acquisition of Library Materials. Librarians "The purpose of the Shoe String Press is to will welcome these and similar ventures which publish desirable texts and compilations (both make more scholarly materials available. * * * old and new) which are not otherwise avail-

218 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Around the middle of February many col- tutions Section is being requested for Thurs- /ege libraries received bills for the estimated day morning. Reference will probably meet postal charges to pay for shipments of govern- on Thursday afternoon at the Municipal ment documents from Washington. This is Auditorium. Thursday is also a good day a tangible result of a move in the government to be present because the evening brings li- to cut down on free postal services, even when brary school reunion dinners and square danc- these are for worthy educational purposes. ing. One of our members estimates that this The University campus is a few miles from U. S. government directive will cost each the center of town but easily reached by bus. depository library up to five hundred dollars Taxi fare, as I remember it, is slightly more a year; and it may well mean as much as than $1.50. $300,000 a year diverted from total income Interest in college library building prob- of college and reference libraries of this lems remains high and ACRL will take part country. in the Library Buildings Pre-Conference In- This action stems from government policy, stitute in St. Paul on Saturday and Sunday, not the Superintendent of Documents, and June 19-20. This institute is jointly spon- comments or complaints will be most effective sored by the buildings committees of ALA, when sent to members of Congress. ACRL, AASL, PLD and DLCYP. The pro- gram on Saturday will cover those general * * * aspects of planning which are applicable to ACRL plans for the Twin Cities Confer- all types of library buildings. On the follow- ence are all extremely tentative as this is ing days registrants will separate into a col- written. If arrangements can be worked lege library group, a school library group, and out, college and reference librarians will spend a public library group. The college librarians the full day of Tuesday, June 22 on the cam- will meet in the Hill Reference Library, St. pus of the University of Minnesota. The Paul. morning will probably be devoted to College Details of the Institute will be published in Section discussion groups. The afternoon will the ALA Bulletin and elsewhere. Attendance probably have programs by the University and is limited to one hundred and reservations Junior College sections, and some of the morn- must be made before June 1st with Miss ing discussion groups may likewise continue Helen Geer at ALA Headquarters. The through the afternoon. Somewhere, somehow, registration fee is $6.00. we should all find lunch on this campus which Another conference of special interest to normally handles a faculty and student popu- college librarians is that of the University of lation of about 17,000. Our resourceful Chicago on "The Function of the Library in Committee on Conference Programs (Ralph the Modern College." This runs from June Hopp, chairman) will undoubtedly find us 14th to 18th and is therefore conveniently all some diversion or recreation for the late scheduled for people who will be attending the afternoon period before dinner. ALA Conference in Minneapolis the week The program for the Pure and Applied following. Details of the G.L.S. Conference Science Section will probably come Tuesday are given elsewhere in this issue.—Arthur T. morning; that of the Teacher Training Insti- Hamlin, Executive Secretary.

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APRIL, 1954 219 News from the Field

The James Joyce col- that it so effectively extends and* enriches both Acquisitions, Gifts, lection of Mr. James the Ellis and Clendening collections, giving Collections Spoerri, Chicago law- the University of Kansas in total a deep re- yer and eminent bibli- search collection in the history of science. ographer of Joyce, has been acquired by the A collection of manuscripts relating to an University of Kansas Library. Numbering important aspect of medical and agricultural some 600 pieces, the Spoerri collection repre- science has been presented to the Library of sents twelve years of careful attention to Congress. The collection contains some 900 Joyce bibliography. It is probably one of the personal papers of the late Dr. Cooper R. three most complete collections of printed Curtice, eminent agricultural scientist and Joyceana now in institutional hands. A check parasitologist, and was given to the Library list is now in process, and the materials will by the Curtice family of Fairfax, Virginia. soon be available for exhibit and research. By establishing that the cattle tick was the The entire collection and subsequent addi- carrier of dread "Texas fever," a disease that tions will be retained intact in the Rare Books literally paralyzed most of the Southern section of the Department of Special Col- United States cattle industry in the 1890's, Dr. lections. Curtice and his colleagues, who began their re- The University of Kansas Library has com- search as early as 1884, demonstrated that pleted arrangements to take over the core a disease can be transmitted by an insect. (30,000) volumes of the distinguished eco- This fact opened a new field of medical re- nomics collection of Chicago's John Crerar search; Dr. William C. Gorgas and Dr. Library. In order to live within its building Walter Reed applied it in eliminating the and budget Crerar has begun to concentrate scourge of yellow fever and malaria in the its field of service and collecting. Economics tropics. is out-of-scope and Kansas University takes Many of Dr. Curtice's papers—correspond- over what may be recorded as the largest ence, diaries, personal records, genealogical single purchase in the field of economics. and biographical materials, and manuscripts Rich in nineteenth century English material— of his articles—relate to his crusade to teach corn law pamphlets and the like—the Crerar- livestock raisers how to eradicate the cattle to-Kansas Collection was founded by J. tick. Even when his opinion was unsupported Christian Bay primarily at the turn of the by other scientists or by leaders in the live- century by the purchase of at least two great stock industry, Dr. Curtice tirelessly pro- scholarly libraries: the C. V. Garritsen col- moted his theory that "Texas fever" could lection from Amsterdam and the private li- be eliminated by destroying the carrier of the brary of R. T. Ely of Wisconsin. disease. As important as the economics collection Controversial plays about Russia are noth- from Crerar is the Fitzpatrick purchase. A ing new, and neither are after-theater traffic former professor of botany, Thomas Jefferson snarls and air-conditioned theaters, according Fitzpatrick, assembled his library while on the to playbills in a Cornell University Library staff of the University of Nebraska. The collection. strength of the Fitzpatrick collection is in the The thousands of unarranged playbills, dat- historical botany and the early history of the ing back to 1756, were in a collection of books science in the United States. The Rafinesque and papers bequeathed to Cornell by Benno portion alone, books and manuscripts, may be Loewy, lawyer and bibliophile of New York one of the best in the country. There were City who died in 1936. Graduate students over thirty John Ray items on one shelf. recently completed the task of arranging the Among the choice items were over 300 early materials. Now the playbills make an easily Linnean items and a rich hoard of books, used research source on the history of the pamphlets, and manuscripts of the important American and British theater. The early early American botanists. Adding to the American playbills generally presented the value of the Fitzpatrick purchase is the fact British plays and starred English actors. Be-

220 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ginning in 1830, increasing interest in "native reinforcements for the mission. Anna Maria American talent" appeared. made this trip with the Rev. Jason Lee, The Yale University Library has received a founder of the Oregon Mission and the man group of rare books and documents dealing who was to become her husband. This with Western Americana. They are the gift woman, whose poems are among the earliest of William Robertson Coe, who is also the known verse composed in the Oregon Ter- donor of Yale's famous Coe Collection of ritory, died with her infant son on June 26, Western Americana. This new group in- 1838, less than a year after her marriage. cludes a 427-year-old edition of a Spanish One of the Ambrose Bierce journals con- novel which is believed to be the world's first tains route maps of a journey in 1866 from book in which the name California appears. Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory to Also among the books are two journals of Fort Benton in the Montana Territory. Ambrose G. Bierce; the Letter Book of Bierce made this journey as an aide to Major Major Benjamin O'Fallon, a pioneer Indian General Hazen during the Red Cloud War Agent and nephew of General William Clark, and his maps are the earliest surveys of this of Lewis and Clark fame; the only known route through what was then the heart of copy of the first constitution proposed for the wild Sioux territory. These volumes Nevada; and a group of newspapers published attest to Bierce's skill as a topographical in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1877 and 1878. In engineer, a skill generally obscured by his addition, there are the letters of Anna Maria reputation as a writer. He showed the same Pittman Lee, known as the first white woman daring in his Fort Benton expedition as in his to see Willamette Falls, Oregon. She was more widely-known experiences as a Union also the first to be wed in Oregon Territory, agent behind the Confederate lines during the the first teacher in the territory and the first Civil War. white woman buried there. Dedication of the new James Ford Bell The world's first book to mention the room in the University of Minnesota Library name California is Las Sergas de Esplandian, was held on October 30. The room, a gift or The Adventures of Esplandian, written by from Mr. Bell, founder of General Mills and Garcia Gutierres de Montalvo and published a University Regent, houses his world-famed at Seville in 1510. The one at Yale is the collection of rare books relating chiefly to only known copy of an edition published in events which led to the discovery of America Burgos, Spain, in 1526. When the Spanish and to the exploration and settlement of the pioneers reached the coast of the area now Northwest. Dedication ceremonies included a called California, they gave it that name be- symposium on "Book Collecting and Scholar- cause they thought it closely resembled a ship" and a dinner sponsored by Friends of mythical island called "California" in Las the University Library. Principal speaker at Sergas. The mythical island of "California," the dinner was Edward Weeks, editor of The as described in this medieval Spanish romance, Atlantic Monthly, whose topic was "Ad- is a paradise inhabited by handsome, Amazon- ventures in the World of Books." Speakers like women ruled by a Queen Calafia. Las at the symposium, presided over by Theodore Sergas de Esplandian has a literary distinction C. Blegen, Dean of the Graduate School at quite apart from its reputation as the origi- the University, were Colton Storm, Assistant nator of the name California. It was the Director, William L. Clements Library, Uni- first book in Don Quixote's library to be con- versity of Michigan; Stanley Pargellis, Li- demned to the flames in a vain effort to cure brarian, Newberry Library, Chicago; Louis B. the renowned romantic of his dreams. Wright, Director, Folger Shakespeare Li- Anna Maria Pittman Lee was a poetess as brary, Washington, D. C.; Frank P. Leslie, well as a prolific letter writer. The letters President of the Friends of the Library. at Yale include seven of her original manu- Designed to fit its contents, the James Ford script poems along with her correspondence Bell room is of the late Elizabethan period— with her family. A native of New York, she in keeping with the era of discovery and ex- left for the Oregon Mission, which had been ploration associated with English people in established at the request of the Indians the sixteenth century. Three of its walls are themselves, in 1836. She was part of a group panelled in linenfold-carved English oak, while of men and women who constituted the first the fourth is formed by a stained glass window

APRIL, 1954 221 set in a deep bay spanned by three arches sup- reading policy can be established with no ported on stone columns. A massive, carved change in the building. Extension of the stone fireplace from a 16th century English wings easily makes possible future expansion manor house carries out the Elizabethan without modifying the essential architectural theme. Furniture in the room consists almost design or the library operations. entirely of original pieces made in that period On May 25, 1953, Bethel College, located or earlier. at North Newton, Kansas, dedicated its new The Bell collection of rare books is built library building although it had been open for around one of the most romantic of all use since February 1, 1953. Miss Leona themes: the discovery and exploration of the Krehbiel reports that students and faculty ac- North American continent beginning with complished the move from the old building the search for "a road to Cathay." This to the new in two days, January 29 and 30, search is reported in one of the collection's using wooden trays especially built for the volumes, a 1477 edition of Marco Polo's move. Travels printed in German, a book of such John F. Harvey, newly appointed librarian rarity that only one other copy is known to at Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, exist in the United States. reports that three reading rooms of the Col- The Henderson State Teachers College lege Library have now been air-conditioned. Library, Arkadelphia,. Arkansas, has built up The plans for Rutgers University's new in the last three years a collection of audio- library, ground for which was broken on visual materials in the fine arts area. The September 22, 1953, include small lockers as holdings are 582 art reproductions from paint- places for students to leave their books, type- ers of all ages, ranging from standard vertical writers, portable microfilm readers, etc. The file size to 3 x 5 feet. To accompany the library at present operates without fines. In- study of these paintings, there are 789 slides, formation about the two points is sought by 2x4 inches in size. The slide collection in- headquarters. If your library has had experi- cludes sculpture and architecture from the ence with either of them, please write to the ancient through the modern period. Although Executive Secretary. the record collection was begun prior to 1950, the library has added more than 500 record- ings in the last three years. Not only are The A. S. W. Rosenbach musical recordings included, but also drama, Miscellaneous Fellows in Bibliography speech, poetry, and historical and educational during the next three years recordings. Seven rooms equipped with long- have been appointed. Dr. Fredson Bowers, playing machines are available in the library. Professor of English at the University of The book collection in these subjects has been Virginia, has been appointed fellow for the built up to provide background study in the current year and will offer a series of lectures field of fine arts. "On Editing Shakespeare and other Eliza- bethan Dramatists." Miss Dorothy Miner, The Marquette University Me- the Director of the Walters Art Gallery of Buildings morial Library, Milwaukee, Baltimore, the fellow for 1954-55 has chosen completed at a cost of one and as her topic "The Medieval Illustrated Book," one half million dollars, and unofficially opened and Dr. John H. Powell of Philadelphia, the September 21, 1953, was dedicated on Decem- fellow for 1955-56, is to speak on "United ber 2. It is a monument to the civic conscious- States Government Publications, 1776-1816." ness, the generosity, and the pride of accom- The A. S. W. Rosenbach Fellowship in plishment of the businessmen and industrial- Bibliography was established in 1929 by the ists of Milwaukee and Wisconsin. late Dr. Rosenbach of Philadelphia, interna- A three-story structure, the Memorial Li- tionally known dealer in rare books, to bring brary is cross-shaped in design. There are to the University of Pennsylvania distin- five stack levels, and the building has a shelf guished scholars for the delivery of a series capacity of 500,000 volumes. ' Noteworthy of public lectures on some topic in the field of is the library's flexibility. The present open bibliography. stack system can be easily changed to closed Dr. Bowers will deliver three lectures at stack administration, if desired. A divisional the University on April 21, 28, and May 5.

222 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES He has chosen for his topics: "The Nature of social, economic, literary, industrial, educa- the Texts and Their Problems," "The Func- tional, and other events. tions of Textual Criticism and Bibliography," World Literature, Volume I: Greek, and "The Method, Form and Content of the Roman, Oriental and Medieval, by Buckner Critical Edition." The lectures are to be B. Trawick, has been issued by Barnes and held in Alumni Auditorium of Dietrich Hall Noble (New York, 28op., $1.50). One of at 4:00 in the afternoon and will be open to the College Outline Series, this volume con- the public. tains plot outlines, biographical data, historical Dr. Bowers is nationally known in this backgrounds, and evaluations. country as the leading exponent of the sys- Writings and Addresses of Luther Harris tematic and scholarly tradition of descriptive Evans, Librarian of Congress, 1945-1953 is a bibliography begun in England by W. W. bibliographical compilation published by the Gregg and Ronald B. McKerrow. He is Library of Congress (1953, 92p.). This is the author of numerous articles on biblio- an impressive listing of Dr. Evan's contribu- graphical and textual problems and of the tions to the literature of librarianship and book Principals of Bibliographical Description other fields. (Princeton, 1949). He is at present at work The Public Library in American Life, by on a bibliography of restoration drama. Ernestine Rose (New York, Columbia Uni- Bard College Library, Annandale-on-Hud- versity Press, 1953, 238p., $3.25) is an up-to- son, N. Y., celebrated its sixtieth anniversary date statement of the services of the public by a meeting held in the overcrowded Hoff- library. Of special interest to college and man Memorial Library. The main address research librarians are Chapter 16, "The Pub- was given by Dr. Werner Jaeger, University lic Library and Scholarship," Chapter 17, "A Professor and Director of the Institute for People's University," and Chapter 18, "Pro- Classical Studies at Harvard University. The fessors of Books." Miss Rose is concerned speaker, internationally famous for his stand- with the intellectual processes of people, and ard work Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Cul- suggests that librarians as "Professors of ture, gave an interpretation of "The Greeks Books" can help them with their problems in and the Education of Man." His address has the world of knowledge and ideas. The just been printed; a limited number of volume is a culmination of many years of complimentary copies are available to aca- experience, and is written on a practical level. demic libraries from the office of the Librar- Motion pictures, from "Fred Ott's Sneeze," ian, Bard College. produced in 1894, to such films as "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," produced in 1949, are listed in three catalogs issued by the Library Detroit in Its World Set- of Congress. Two of the volumes—Motion Publications ting: A 250-Year Chronol- Pictures, 1894-1912 and Motion Pictures, ogy, 1701-1951, has been is- 1940-1949—have just been published and they, sued by the Detroit Public Library (1953, together with Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, 3up.). This volume, made possible by a issued in 1951, provide an unbroken, 55-year grant from the McGregor Fund, was edited record of the copyright registration of more by Rae Elizabeth Rips, with the staff as a than 76,000 motion pictures in this country. whole participating in its compilation. The Foreign films registered for United States four major categories employed in the volume copyright are also listed. All three catalogs are Detroit and Michigan, World History, are printed on good quality, antique paper Cultural Progress, and Scientific and Com- and are bound in durable buckram covers, so mercial Progress. These headings are used they may serve as a permanent source of film appropriately as the chronology unfolds. An information. Orders, accompanied by check item under "Cultural Progress" for 1940, for or money order, for any or all the volumes example is "Zoot suit craze began," while should be sent to the Copyright Office, Li- under the same heading for 1840 there is brary of Congress, Washington 25, D. C. noted the "First recorded bowling match at The 92-page Motion Pictures, 1894-1912 sells Knickerbocker Alleys, New York." The for $2; the 1,250-page Motion Pictures, 1912- volume should be a useful reference source 1939 is $18; and the 598-page Motion Pic- for librarians who are interested in tracing tures, 1940-1949 is $10.

APRIL, 1954 223 The launching of a vast, 15-year project Mr. Raymond H. Shove, Division of Library to gather, edit, and publish all of the known Instruction, University of Minnesota, Minne- papers of Benjamin Franklin, whose 248th apolis, Minnesota. birthday anniversary was on January 18, has The UNESCO International Social Science been announced by the American Philosophi- Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 3, 1953, contains a num- cal Society and Yale University, joint sponsors ber of papers on "Public Opinion Research." of the venture. The project has been made There is also a bibliography on the subject possible by a grant from Life Magazine on for 1945-53. behalf of Time, Inc. The edition will be the The Scarecrow Press has issued two new most inclusive ever published of the writings titles of interest to reference librarians: and papers of Franklin, scientist, philosopher Drury's Guide to Best Plays, by F. K. W. and statesman. It will also be one of the Drury (1953, 367P., $6.50), and State Laws largest editorial ventures in the history of on the Employment of IVomen, by Edith L. American book publishing. To be adminis- Fisch and Mortimer D. Schwartz (1953, tered by Yale and the Philosophical Society 377P- $7-5o)- More than 1200 plays are listed out of grants from Life Magazine and the by Drury. Data include date of production Society, the venture will cost more than or printing, editions and collections in which $600,000 over a 15-year period. The Society the plays have been published, annotations has already spent $250,000 in the last 20 which describe the plays, and information on years assembling Franklin items for its own number of acts, types of sets, performers, and collection. The editorial work, to be centered costumes. Also included are a title index, a at Yale, will be under the editorship of subject index, and a guide to abbreviations Leonard W. Labaree, Farnam Professor of citing collections. The Fisch-Schwartz vol- History at Yale. The Yale University Press ume includes legislation on equality of treat- will publish the edition which is expected to ment and opportunity and regulation of work- run to 25 or 30 volumes. ing conditions for women. The legislation is The Institute of Life Insurance, 488 Madi- arranged by states. son Ave., New York 22, N. Y., Elizabeth College and other librarians will be inter- Ferguson, librarian, has available Life In- ested in Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship, surance Fact Book 1953 and other free pam- first series, edited by Emily Miller Danton phlets on insurance. (American Library Association, 1953, 202p. Archibald Hanna, Jr., librarian of the Coe $4.45). The eighteen librarians considered Collection of Western Americana and of in this volume are Clement W. Andrews, Benjamin Franklin Collection at Yale is the Sarah B. Askew, Arthur E. Bostwick, R. R. compiler of John Buchan, 187 5-1940: A Bowker, Miriam E. Carey, Jennie M. Flex- Bibliography (Hamden, Conn., The Shoe ner, James L. Gillis, J. C. M. Hanson, String Press, 1953, I35p., $3.00). This vol- Caroline M. Hewins, Josephus N. Larned, ume lists books and pamphlets by Buchan, Henry E. Legler, Eunice R. Oberly, E. C. his contributions to books and periodicals, and Richardson, Minerva Sanders, Katharine L. writings about him. It should be noted that Sharp, Elizabeth P. Sohier, Mary L. Tit- this is the second publication of The Shoe comb, and Alice S. Tyler. String Press, the first being a reprint of the The October 1953 issue of Library Trends, Epistle in Verse on the Death of James Bos- issued by the University of Illinois Library well, by the Rev. Samuel Martin. School is "Current Trends in Cataloging and The Report(s) of Meeting(s) and the Classification," edited by Maurice F. Tauber; Newsletter of the Association of American the January, 1954, issue is "Scientific Man- Library Schools, both of which are issued in agement in Libraries," edited by Ralph R. February and July, may be secured at an Shaw. annual subscription rate of $1.50 each through More than 2,800 Russian publications con- Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jones, Secretary-Treas- taining information about Manufacturing and urer, School of Library Service, Atlanta Uni- Mechanical Engineering in the Soviet Union versity, Atlanta, Georgia. are listed by subject in a bibliography of that The third edition of the Directory of the title published by the Library of Congress Association of American Library Schools, (i953, 234p.). This is another in the Li- 1953, is available at $2.00 from the Editor, brary's series of publications listing sources

224 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of information useful to individuals and or- lication program. ganizations conducting research programs that Many of the most significant older records require knowledge about specific aspects of of the Federal departments and agencies are the Russian economy (Order from LC Card included in the new list. The several hundred Division, $1.60). microfilm publications described provide basic South Atlantic Studies for Sturgis E. documentation for research in United States, Leavitt, edited by Thomas B. Stroup and European, Far Eastern, and Latin American Sterling A. Stoudemire (Washington, D.C., history as well as in local history and gene- The Scarecrow Press, 1953, 2i5p., $5.50) alogy. Also listed are materials for research is a series of papers in honor of Professor in economics, public administration, political Leavitt. While many of the papers emphasize science, law and ethnology. The microfilms Dr. Leavitt's major interest, Latin-American contain explanatory notes and other informa- literature, there are also included articles on tion intended to facilitate their use. other literary topics. Lawrence S. Thompson The Utenriksdepartementets Bibliotek of has contributed "Resources for Research in the Norwegian government has issued Bok- Latin-American Literature in Southern Li- stavsignaturer for Internasjonale Organisas- braries." joner og Foreninger Politiske Partier. It was Harriett Genung, librarian of Mt. St. An- compiled by Hedvig Schaanning and published tonio College in Pomona, Calif., is the author in Oslo in 1953. This is a list of abbreviations of "The Heart of the College" in Junior of the names of hundreds of organizations College Journal for November, 1953. in various fields of international relations in The National Archives has issued a revised all countries of the world, both official and and enlarged List of National Archives non-official bodies are noted, as well as tech- Microfilm Publications (1953, 98p.). This nical and non-technical groups. publication lists Federal records of high The H. W. Wilson Co., 950 University research value that are now available on Ave., New York City, has available for sale microfilm to scholars, research institutions, a few copies of The British Museum Library, and the general public at moderate cost by Arundell Esdaile (London, G. Allen & through the National Archives microfilm pub- Unwin, 1946, $3.00).

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both in Mr. Hamlin's annual report and in the Los Angeles Conference had recom- the agenda, was postponed until the Minne- mended the employment of an A-V specialist apolis Conference. by the divisions at ALA headquarters, or the Mr. Hamlin reported briefly on a meeting establishment of a clearing house there. The of librarians and publishers regarding the ex- Board referred these recommendations to the tended use of small books or paperbacks in ACRL Audio-Visual Committee. college libraries. At the morning meeting, it had been been reported that the Committee on Selective In reply to a communication from the Bibliography had come to a standstill in its president of the Division of Cataloging and work. Classification, it was voted that, It was voted that, ACRL indicate their willingness to co- the Committee on Selective Bibliography operate with the Division of Cataloging and Classification in response to their invi- be abolished. tation to participate jointly through com- Since it had been inactive for two years, it mittees or other officially designated dele- was also voted that, gates in studies or projects in the areas of the Committee on Preparation and Quali- our mutual interests. fications for Librarianship be abolished. The Audio-Visual Workshop held prior to —Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary

APRIL, 1954 225 Personnel

FOUR NEW CHIEFS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Four of the major positions in The New York Public Library, left vacant by retirement or promotion, have recently been filled. Three are in the Reference Department, one is Library-wide—and all but one of the appointments were by promotion from within. The odd one recalls a former staff member. All of the new Chiefs are well known through ALA and other professional activities and therefore the following notes merely summarize their careers.

EDWARD G. FREEHAFER, formerly chief of has served on a number of ALA and NYLA the Personnel Office, became chief of the ref- committees and on the University of the State erence Department on January I, 1954, the of New York's Examining Committee for fourth man to hold the post, the third to Public Librarians' Certificates of which he have the title. Harry Miller Lydenberg was was chairman in 1952. He is a member of chief reference librarian. His successors, the New York Library Club, the Archons of Keyes D. Metcalf, Paul North Rice and now Colophon, and the Grolier Club. Freehafer became chief of the reference de- Freehafer commutes from Pelham; has a partment. wife and son; and collects Pennsylvania Dutch Except for parts of two years, 1944 and antiques and literature. 1945, as assistant librarian at Brown, Free- hafer's whole library career has been in The RUTHERFORD D. ROGERS became chief of New York Public Library. He came to the the Personnel Office on January 1, 1954, suc- ceeding Edward G. Freehafer who had been reference department after graduation from chief since the Office was established six years Columbia School of Library Service in 1932, ago. began in the Main Reading Room and then toured the building with stops at the Infor- Mr. Rogers was born and received his B.A. mation Desk, Economics Division and the in Iowa, but since then has lived and worked Director's Office. In 1941 he was appointed in New York State. He took his M.A. and chief of the newly organized American His- B.S. at Columbia, worked for two summers in The New York Public Library and in 1938 tory and Genealogy Division and in 1942 became reference librarian in the Columbia added the duties of acting chief of the Acqui- College Library and later was acting librarian sition division. In 1944 he left New York and librarian. for Providence. In 1945 he was back as executive assistant After four years' service with the Air in the Reference Department, a roving assign- Transport Command, ending with the rank ment largely concerned with details of man- of Captain, he spent 1946-48 in Wall Street agement and procedures. Late in 1947 he with the investment banking firm of Smith, organized a Personnel Office, new to the li- Barney.& Co. Fortunately for librarianship, he decided to let the financial world take brary and covering the staff of nearly 1,600 in care of itself and left it to become director of both the Reference and Circulation Depart- the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo. There he ments. He was appointed chief and, with a not only successfully administered his own staff of eleven, began operations on January institution but also worked effectively toward 1, 1948. In that year he worked closely with better organization of all library resources in Public Administration Service in the develop- the city and county. ment of a Classification and Pay Plan for There was a star in the East and in 1952 the Reference Department. With and with- he began to follow it by going to Rochester out outside agencies he has made later ex- as director of the Rochester Public Library tensive personnel surveys covering all library and director of the Monroe County Library employees. System. There, according to the President In addition to his Library duties, Freehafer of his Board of Trustees, he "won the enthusi-

226 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES astic support of the board of trustees, his William Berquist, on January 1, 1951. On staff and the general public" and took "the August 24, 1953 the Acquisition Division Monroe County Library System through its was merged with the Preparation Division earlier stages to a sound foundation." so that now, except for book selection, the For very good reasons the Grand Central acquisition and cataloguing procedures for is called Terminal and Rogers' friends and the Reference Department are in his care. colleagues in New York City are hopeful Two days after he became chief of the that the eastern journey is ended. Preparation Division the library authorized Rogers has served on various professional a survey of it by Cresap, McCormick and committees including the University of the Paget and for five months thereafter Kingery, State bf New York's Examining Committee a staff new to him and the surveyors worked for Public Librarians' Certificates. cheerfully and intelligently together to find out what they did, why they did it, and how John Fall succeeded Rollin A. Sawyer, it could best be done. So far as they can be retired, as chief of the Economics Division put on paper the results are recorded in the on June I, 1953. He had been chief, since surveyors' report, a document now familiar 1944, of the Acquisition Division. In his to many libraries and library schools. The new post he is responsible for the further aftermath in terms of staff relationships and development of the largest special collection effective work is a continuing harvest. in the Reference Department with somewhere Apart from the usual technical training, between 900,000 and 1,000,000 volumes. Kingery's special preparation for leading a In the Acquisition Division he was in touch staff of about 200 came from several years with the world's sources of new and old publi- as Readers' Adviser, conductor of discussion cations of all kinds. He was active in estab- groups and personnel assistant. A tour of lishing the Farmington Plan and in 1948 duty with the U. S. Army in Alaska may have traveled through western Europe for the As- helped. He has also been an active member sociation of Research Libraries to explore of many ALA and NYLA committees. contract arrangements for the Plan. He is As an author, he has published Hoiv-to-Do- probably better known to more booksellers It Books: a Selected Guide, 1950; Oppor- and publishers than anyone else on the library's tunities in Library Careers, 1952; What's in staff. It For Mef, 1947; and another is on the way. He is concerned with the management and As a collector he gathers first editions and use of large collections of books as well as original drawings of Clarence Day and books with their accumulation. Under the direction about tobacco. of Keyes Metcalf he made a preliminary And when the day's last semi-colon has been survey and report on the possibility of a laid to rest he quietly twists wires into shin- regional center for the mid-western research ing curves which lead to who knows what libraries and more recently prepared one of infinite concepts beyond the scope of cards.— the basic documents for Carl White's Com- Deoch Fulton. mittee on the Northeastern Regional Library. Fall has found or made time for work on Maurice F. Tauber, editor of this journal, many ALA committees and has been specially has been named Melvil Dewey Professor of concerned with those in the field of procure- Library Service at Columbia University, ment. He is a director of the United States where he has taught since 1944. Book Exchange and is the ALA's representa- This appointment is well merited by the tive to the H. W. Wilson Company. many contributions of Dr. Tauber to the Although he has been one of the world's scholarship of the profession. Few living men largest book buyers he will not admit to any have done so much. The distinction is also personal collecting habits. But none of his well merited because of devoted service to pro- own bookshelves has any empty space and fessional associations, particularly to ALA and books seem to grow and spread in his apart- ACRL. ment by a secret life of their own. The appointment will be popular because Dr. Tauber is a teacher, with endless time and Robert E. Kingery was appointed chief sympathy and interest in students. A modest of the Preparation Division, succeeding G. man, a generous person, kindly, warm and

APRIL, 1954 227 human. Columbia has chosen well.—Arthur Libraries. He received his Bachelor's degree T. Hamlin. in 1938, the Master's degree in 1939, and has done advanced graduate work in political Oliver Dunn began his duties as as- science. sistant director of libraries at Purdue Uni- Following completion of work for the versity on November Bachelor's degree in 16, 1953, having held Library Service in the position of asso- 1942, he was promot- ciate director of li- ed to the professional braries at the Cali- staff as reference as- fornia Institute of sistant. Increase in Technology since responsibilities and 1949. corresponding ad- Dr. Dunn was vancement came at born in Oxnard, Cali- regular intervals. He fornia, in 1909, com- was appointed college pleted his elementary librarian in 1946, and and secondary educa- Oliver Dunn was appointed to the tion in the Los An- John II. Berthel newly created post of geles public schools, and received his B.A. Butler librarian in 1948. and M.A. in Philosophy from Stanford Uni- He has taught the Contemporary Civiliza- versity, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from tion course in Columbia College and Social Cornell University. He holds the B.L.S. Science Literature in the School of Library degree from the University of California Service. He is serving currently as a member (1949). of the Faculty of General Studies. For several years Dr. Dunn was Contract His many friends on the staff of the Colum- Administrator and Statistical Analyst in the bia Libraries and in the various faculties of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, and he has also held a position as research assistant in the University wish him every success in the the University of California in Berkeley. new post and know that his contributions will Among Dr. Dunn's activities in profes- be many and lasting as they have been at Co- sional librarianship have been his presidency lumbia.—Richard H. Logsdon. of the Pasadena Library Club and chairman- ship of the Regional Resources Coordinating Edward Judson Humeston, Jr., was ap- Committee of the California Library Asso- pointed professor and head of the Library ciation. He is a member of ALA and the Science Department California Library Association. His impor- of the University of tant contribution to the development of li- Kentucky in Septem- brary cooperation in California is reflected ber 1953. Mr. Hum- in his publication in the California Librarian eston brings to Lex- of "A Union Catalog of Bibliographies in ington an enviable Southern California Libraries," in December, record of scholarship 1952, and "Bibliographical Cooperation in and teaching experi- California: A Survey of Highlights," in June, ence, and already dur- 1953.—Everett T. Moore. ing his short -tenure the department has John H. Berthel who has been serving shown distinct ad- as Nicholas Murray Butler librarian at Edward J. vances. Humeston, Jr. Columbia University since 1948 has been Born in Philadel- appointed librarian of The Johns Hopkins phia in 1910, Mr. Humeston received his A.B. University, Baltimore, Maryland. He will in 1932 from Hamilton College, his A.M. in report to his new post on July 1, 1954. 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Princeton Mr. Berthel's association with Columbia University with a major in modern languages began in 1934 as a student in Columbia Col- He received his B.S. in L.S. from George Pea- lege and part time assistant in the University body College in 1946. In addition, he studied

228 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES in Grenoble and Paris in 1934 and 1935 and associations, including ACRL, he has served has travelled widely on the continent. as a member of the ALA Subscription Books His teaching experience includes two years Committee (1950-1953), a member of the at the Taft School (1934-1936), the Princeton executive board of the Texas Library Associa- Tutoring School (1936-1937), Hollins Col- tion (1952-1953), and editor of the Texas lege (1937-1942), the University of Texas Library Journal (1952-1953). In November (1948-1953, associate professor of library 1953 he inaugurated the University of Ken- science), and the University of Wisconsin tucky Library Service Papers, the first num- (visiting lecturer in library science, summer, ber of which was Laura K. Martin's "Public 1952). For two years after he received his Librarie>> s in Kentucky Today: A Brief Sur- library degree from Peabody he served as vey. chief librarian of Kansas State Teachers Col- Mr. Humeston's standards for education lege at Pittsburg. He served for three and for librarianship will mean much to the Ohio a half years in the United States Army during Valley, and his broad understanding of hu- World War II and held many responsible manistic scholarship will mean much to li- editorial posts in connection with the Army's brary education in the nation at large.—Law- publication program. rence S. Thompson. In addition to his membership in library

Appointments Mary Edna Anders, formerly assistant pro- the International Relations Collection of fessor in the library school of Florida State George Washington University. University, Tallahassee, Florida, has been Vito J. Brenni has been appointed refer- appointed social science librarian at the Uni- ence librarian of the University of West versity of Florida. Virginia Library. Martha Bartlett, formerly librarian of the G. S. T. Cavanagh, formerly reference Willimantic State Teachers College Library, assistant in the Brooklyn Public Library, has is new head librarian of the Highland Park been appointed librarian of the University of (Illinois) Public Library. Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Sara Yancey Belknap, formerly director Among recent appointments to the Colum- of Dance and Music Archives in New York bia University Libraries staff are the follow- City, has joined the staff of the University ing: Robert G. Bailey is senior documents of Florida Libraries as librarian in charge of assistant, Acquisitions Department; Harvey Dance and Music Archives. Bloomquistis is librarian, Zoology-Botany Li- Virginia Beatty has been appointed director brary; Mrs. Phyllis Dain, cataloger; James C. of the Medical Literature Service, College Dance is librarian, Psychology Library; Ann of Physicians of Philadelphia. Mrs. Beatty E. Frear is professional interne, Engineering was formerly with the Atomic Energy Division Library; Wade Doares is librarian, Journal- of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. ism Library; Mrs. Rosalie Halperin is senior William K. Beatty, former reading room reference assistant, Avery Architectural Li- assistant, has been named assistant librarian, brary; Elaine F. Jones is senior circulation Readers' Service, Library of the College of assistant, Business Library; Kenneth Lohf Physicians of Philadelphia. is assistant, Reference Department; Francis Arthur B. Berthold has been appointed O'Leary is assistant librarian of the Natural acting chief of the Division of Library and Sciences and librarian, Geology Library; Har- Reference Service of the U. S. Department lan Phillips is assistant head, Oral History of State. Research Office; Jadwiga Pulaska is cata- Eleanor Blum, formerly reference librarian loger; Eugene Sheehy is senior reference as- of the University of Illinois Undergraduate sistant, Reference Department; and Leslie A. Library, has been appointed librarian of the Taylor-Evans, cataloger. Journalism Library, University of Illinois. Jay Elwood Daily is librarian at Wagner Alice P. Bray, formerly of the U. S. State College, Staten Island, New York. Department, has been appointed cataloger of Phyllis Bull Dalton has been promoted to

APRIL, 1954 229 principal librarian in charge of all reader Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. services at the California State Library, Rosemary Mahon has returned as assistant Sacramento. librarian, Evansville College Library. H. Vaile Deale, formerly librarian of Illi- Anne V. Marinelli, who has been lecturer nois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, has and consultant in Italy on a Fulbright grant been appointed director of the Beloit College in 1952/53, has been appointed assistant pro- Libraries, Beloit, Wisconsin. fessor in the Library School of Florida State Robert Delzell, formerly chief of the Acqui- University, Tallahassee. sition Department of the Washington Uni- Ruth Martindale has been appointed li- versity Library, St. Louis, has been appointed brarian of the Eckhart Library (Mathematics documents librarian, Air University Library, and Physics) at the University of Chicago. Maxwell Field, Alabama. Grace E. Middletown is assistant, cata- D. Genevieve Dixon, formerly with the loging department, University of Arkansas library school of the State Teachers College Library. in Pittsburg, Kansas, has been appointed Clyde J. Miller is interim humanities li- director of the Library Science Department brarian at the University of Florida, replac- of Texas State College for Women, Denton. ing Annette Liles, who has taken a year's Mary Virginia Doss has been appointed leave of absence for further study at North- reference librarian in the Education Library western University. of the University of Florida. Robert F. Munn has been appointed assist- Rice Estes has been appointed first assistant ant librarian of the University of West Vir- librarian at George Washington University ginia after having served in the same library Library, replacing Miller Simpson. as reference librarian. Evan Farmer has been appointed librarian The following staff appointments have been of the Livingston (Alabama) State Teachers made to the Ohio State University Libraries: College. Ruth M. Erlandson is reference librarian and Mary L. Goss has been appointed reserve assistant professor of library administration; and order librarian of the Carleton College Jane W. Gatliff, reference assistant; Celianna Library, Northfield, Minnesota. Grubb, personnel librarian; Ann Sullivan, John Gribbin is now associate librarian of cataloger, Ann Wenger, reference assistant; Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. George L. Williams, librarian, History and Katherine G. Harris is director of Ref- Political Science Graduate Library; and erence Services, Detroit Public Library. Thelma P. Vakura, cataloger. John F. Harvey, formerly librarian at Mrs. Grace Osterhus is now periodical li- Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, is now brarian at George Washington University. librarian at Kansas State Teachers College, Martha Patterson, formerly senior cata- Pittsburg. loger at the University of California Library, Muriel Hodge, former cataloger, has been Davis, is now senior cataloger in the Kansas appointed assistant librarian, Preparation Di- State College Library. vision, Library of the College of Physicians Raymond A. Piller has been appointed assist- of Philadelphia. ant librarian and instructor in library science Harriet Howe, who retired as director of at Southeastern State College, Durant, Okla- the University of Denver School of Librarian- homa. ship in 1950, is acting director of the Gradu- Jane L. Pope has become assistant head of ate School of Library Science of the Uni- Acquisitions, University of Chicago Library, versity of Southern California for the year in charge of the periodical and serial record 1953/54. section. Herbert Hucks, Jr., associate librarian of Diana M. Priestly has been appointed law Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Caro- librarian at the University of British Colum- lina, since January 1947, has been named bia, Vancouver, B.C. librarian of the college. Maurice F. Rahilly has been appointed Charlotte Kenton, formerly reference li- assistant college librarian in charge of readers' brarian of the Armed Forces Medical Li- services at the State University of New York brary, has been appointed to the Reference Maritime College Library, Fort Schuyler, Department of the library of the National New York.

230 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Ruth Rockwood, recently a Fulbright fel- Alice Jean Tanner has been appointed law low in Thailand, is teaching in the library librarian of Kansas City University. school of Florida State University, Tallahas- James Tydeman is librarian of the Univer- see, Florida. sity of Chicago Graduate Library School Li- Alec Ross, formerly of the Acquisitions brary and in charge of the Graduate Library Department of the University of California School's induction training program at the Library at Los Angeles, has become head of University of Chicago. Acquisitions at the University of Kansas Li- Carol Vassalo has been appointed assistant brary. librarian at the Willimantic State Teachers Bertha M. Rothe, formerly law librarian College, in charge of the training school library. of the U. S. Housing and Home Finance Lynn Walker has been promoted to the Agency, has become law librarian of George position of science librarian, University of Washington University. Florida, replacing Edwin Quinn. Joseph Rubinstein has been appointed super- Olive D. Willgrubs has been appointed vising bibliographer in the new Special Col- order and reference bibliography librarian of lections Department of the University of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Kansas Library. Jolla, California. Elma St. John has been appointed periodi- Paul A. Winckler has been appointed li- cal librarian of the University of Kansas Li- brarian in charge of the Downtown Division brary. Library of St. John's College, Brooklyn, Edith Scott, formerly head of technical serv- comprising the College of Pharmacy, School ices at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, of Commerce, Nursing Education and Uni- Indiana, has been appointed head of cataloging versity College libraries. and acquisitions, University of Oklahoma Mrs. Jane H. Yadon, formerly of the Uni- Library. versity of Louisville Library, has been ap- Dan A. Seager is librarian, Ouachita Col- pointed reserve book librarian at George lege, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Washington University.

Retirements Fremont Rider retired from the librarian- invention of microcards. In 1944 he published ship of Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan The Scholar and the Future of the Research University June 30, 1953. He had attended Library. Probably the most exciting book on The New York State Library School in library economy that ever was published, it Albany in 1905-1906, but was not identified reads like a detective story, and before long with any library until he became librarian at almost every research librarian was reading Wesleyan in 1933. For some of these inter- it. Mr. Rider refused to have his microcard vening years, he was managing editor of idea copyrighted. He became chairman of Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, the Microcard Foundation, but quickly set and from 1912-1917 was editor of Library up an advisory group of librarians to help him Annual. He was author of a number of in the development of microcards. Other books and editor of a remarkable series of organizations were encouraged to produce guide books: indeed, his guide book of New microcards, and now hundreds of thousands York City is far the best that ever was pub- of cards are printed every year. Microcards, lished. with microprint and microfilm apparently In his twenty years at Wesleyan, he has have a permanent place as a form of micro- seen the Library grow from less than 200,000 text. to more than 400,000 volumes. He has done In 1949 Mr. Rider published Compact much more than guide the development of Storage, which discussed the ingenious method the Library. His fertile mind suggested one he had devised at Wesleyan for shelving less invention after another, some of them affect- used research material. Other innovations ing not only Wesleyan but other research at Wesleyan, which have been joyfully ac- libraries. cepted by many other libraries, are the Wes- Undoubtedly, most important, was his leyan Library book trucks and the Rider sec-

APRIL, 1954 231 tional shelving. His Life of Melvil Dewey ship of Wesleyan, it merely gives him more is one of the most satisfactory volumes in the time to devote to two of his many interests, ALA series of American Library Pioneers. genealogy and microcards.—Paul North Rice. His The Great Dilemma of World Organiza- tion offered a possible solution for a great Mary S. DuPre, librarian of Wofford Col- problem. It has been rumored that, at some lege, Spartanburg, S.C., since 1905, retired time in his busy life, he has written detective in August 1953. stories under an unknown nom de plume. Miss Gertrude Larsen, cataloger, and Mrs. For many years Fremont Rider has been Adelaide Ohlendorf, head of the serial rec- especially interested in genealogy. He was ord section in Acquisitions, retired from the editor of The American Genealogical Index University of Chicago Library Staff last and The American Genealogical and Bio- summer. graphical Index and has built, in Middletown, Helen A. Russell retired on June 1, 1953, The Godfrey Memorial Library, devoted en- after twenty-four years as librarian, State tirely to this field. It is good to know that Teachers College at West Chester, Pennsyl- although he has retired from the librarian- vania.

Foreign Libraries Dr. Karol Badecki, custodian of the Jagiel- 20, 1953 when he was 70 years old. He is lonian Library of the University of Cracow, well known in the library world. died on January 29, 1953. Dr. Thilo Schnurre, director of the Mur- Wilhelm Munthe, chief librarian of the hardsche Bibliothek in Kassel, Germany, University of Oslo, retired soon after October retired 011 May 1, 1952.

Corrections A. J. Walford of the British Ministry of 1953. However, he succeeded Mr. W. B. Defence, London, became editor of the Li- Stevenson, who was editor from 1946-IC52. brary Association Record, beginning January, Mr. L. R. McColvin held the post prior to this.

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Archibald Malloch, formerly librarian of 1949-50, she surveyed public library service in the New York Academy of Medicine, died New Zealand under a Fulbright fellowship. on September 19, 1953 in White Plains, New York. Willard Potter Lewis, librarian of Pennsyl- vania State College from 1931 to 1949, who Miriam D. Tompkins, associate professor passed away at State of library service at the School of Library ^^^ College on August Service of Columbia University, died on March 2, 1954. Miss Tompkins began her professional career in the public libraries of Milwaukee and New York City, and subsequently became vjf^ jam in M. and Jennie a member of the library school faculty at Emory University. In 1935 she joined the staff at Columbia, continuing there until her death. Her interests centered primarily around adult education through libraries. She •I^HBHMBBHHB dletown, Connecticut was a co-author of Helping the Reader To- Willard Potter Lewis in 19", took a Mas- ward Self-Education in 1938, and collaborated ter's degree the fol- in the preparation of Adult Education Activi- lowing year and in 1913 graduated from the ties for Public Libraries for Unesco. In New York State Library School at Albany

232 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES with a B.L.S. He served successively as li- tion plans which were to transform the Sec- brarian of the Y.M.C.A. at Albany, 1913-14; tion into a vigorous and full-fledged division of Baylor University, 1914-19; of Camp Mac- of ALA were now projected, under the ag- Arthur at Waco, Texas in 1917; and of the gressive leadership of Charles Harvey Brown University of New Hampshire from 1919 to of Iowa State College at Ames, and a dues- 1929. There followed a brief interval as paying membership of hundreds of college librarian of his alma mater at Middletown librarians now began to develop and consti- from 1929 to 1931 and then, when President tuted one phase of the paper work which fell Hetzel moved from New Hampshire to Penn. to Mr. Lewis' lot in connection with the new State, Mr. Lewis was sent forth, to be librar- secretariat. In 1938, at Kansas City, the As- ian of the latter institution, where he served sociation of College and Reference Libraries until his retirement and death. When Mr. came into being. The undersigned had the Lewis came to State College the book collec- privilege of substituting for Mr. Lewis at tion could only boast a total of 130,000 vol- the San Francisco meeting of ALA held the umes, and these grew, to the time of his re- following year, and Mr. Ben Powell, then tirement, to 309,000. librarian of the University of Missouri, and In 1941 the first portion of a new library later Mr. Charles V. Park of Central Michi- building which Mr. Lewis had planned was gan College were to succeed Mr. Lewis before dedicated at State College, with Mr. P. L. Mr. Orwin Rush, then librarian of Clark Windsor, then the distinguished librarian of University, was to become the first full-time, the University of Illinois, as the principal paid secretary of ACRL in 1947. During speaker. all the years that this notable expansion of Mr. Lewis was a member of the Library college and university library representation Section of the Advisory Committee of the in the organization of ALA was being advo- Land Grant College Survey, 1928-1929, and cated and legislated Mr. Lewis accorded a member of the Connecticut Public Library every phase of it his staunchest support. Commission, 1929-1931. He was active in Those of us who knew Mr. Lewis through the Pennsylvania Library Association, and contacts with him at successive conferences served as its president in 1939-40. Signifi- of the American Library Association, con- cantly, he helped to establish a College and ferences which he always attended with Reference Section for the PLA; and he served marked relish, remember him vividly as a on numerous committees. He had previously quite definitely home-spun, but genial, con- been President of the New Hampshire Li- scientious, hard-working and devoted member brary Association. of the profession. Throughout most of his career Mr. Lewis Mr. Lewis' children include three sons, contributed articles to our professional jour- Robert, Walter and Donald and one daughter, nals. He instituted the publication of an Barbara, whose married name is Mrs. Wil- attractively printed bulletin called Headlight liam Heising. Mrs. Lewis was in ill health on Books at Penn State, and established a for several years, and died in January, 1954. weekly series of "Wednesday Readings" in Speaking of the growth of the library at the library. He also promoted fraternity li- Pennsylvania State during the '30's and '40's, braries and prepared a "Fraternity Five Foot Mr. Lewis' successor has written: Shelf" which listed effective titles for these "His effectiveness is to be measured collections. He reinstated the Summer Li- not only by statistical gains but also by brary School in cooperation with the PLA the vigor with which he worked for ade- and the State Library. quate library service for his institution." Mr. Lewis was elected Secretary-Treasurer It was the privilege of the undersigned to of the College and Reference Section of the visit Mr. Lewis at State College in the years ALA at Denver in 1935 and the following before the new library building was erected, year at Richmond his duties were notably and in recollection there comes to mind, as expanded. Although the Section had been the two of us strolled down a pleasantly conducting adequate meetings at the annual shaded State College street, a passing old conferences of the Association, it had main- Ford car filled to the brim with eight or ten tained only a small membership on the basis rather young children. A half-dozen youthful, of wholly supplementary dues. Reorganiza- and obviously enthusiastic, voices shouted

APRIL, 1954 233 from the car: "Hello, Mr. Lewis!", where- New York, after an illness of several months. upon he paused to comment with a smile: Internationally renowned as a bibliographer, "You see, I am WELL known HERE!"— Mr. Wilson was the Jackson E. Towne. founder and Chair- man of the Board of Fanny Borden, librarian emeritus of Vassar the world's largest College, died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. January reference publishing 31 after an illness of several months. Miss house, the 56-year-old Borden was a graduate of Vassar College H. W. Wilson Com- and received her professional training at the pany of New York, New York State Library School. She served publishers of more as assistant librarian at Bryn Mawr from than 20 major index- 1901 to 1903 and as associate librarian at ing and reference Smith, 1903 to 1906. Her long period of services acclaimed as service at Vassar began in 1908 when she H. W. Wilson indispensable to re- returned to the college as a library assistant. search and scholar- Prior to her appointment as reference librarian ship in libraries the world over. in 1910, a post which she held until taking On the fiftieth anniversary of the Company's the librarianship in 1928, she served as classi- founding in 1948, the American Library Asso- fier and cataloger. During her thirty-seven ciation saluted it as "the most important bib- years at Vassar, the library's collection in- liographical enterprise ever conceived and creased five-fold, under Miss Borden's ad- brought to fruition by any one man." And the ministration library endowments were in- Saturday Review commented: "The name creased, the fine quality of the book collection, H. W. Wilson is to bibliography what Web- especially strong in source materials and ster is to dictionaries, Bartlett to quotations." bibliographies, was maintained and the library A leading educator wrote that it would be building enlarged by the addition of a new difficult if not impossible to imagine what wing. A true scholar, she understood the modern scholarship or librarianship would be needs of faculty and students and worked like without the Wilson publications. untiringly to make the library an effective One of Mr. Wilson's keys to success in pro- teaching instrument. In addition to compiling viding library services was his willingness to two extensive and widely-used bibliographies, heed the requests and consider the problems of she prepared a library handbook for students the libraries themselves. Every publication and taught classes in bibliography. She not of The Wilson Company has been the out- only enriched the library's collection in the growth of a definite need in libraries, and in field of fine printing but she imparted her attempting to meet the need, advice of the love of beautiful books to students and staff. librarians has been widely sought. In the case After her retirement in 1945, Miss Borden of periodical indexes, the subscribers them- continued to devote many hours to library re- selves from time to time vote on the periodicals search, indexing archives and material relat- to be indexed. ing to the early history of the college. Up to the time of her illness she was working Mr. Wilson had been a regular attendant on a history of the library, and while no at library conferences, in recent years having chapters had been written, the source material attained the distinction of having attended had been organized and arranged. Miss Bor- more conferences of the American Library den was a member of the American Library Association than any other member. He en- Association, New York Library Association, couraged his staff to participate in library as- Bibliographical Society of America and the sociation affairs and gave generously of their American Institute of Graphic Arts.—Dorothy time and abilities to committee work. In still A. Plum. another channel of cooperation representatives of the American Library Association and the Halsey William Wilson, founder of The Special Libraries Association have been invited H. W. Wilson Company of New York, died frequently to sit unofficially with The Wilson on March 1, 1954, at the age of 85 at his Company's Board of Directors. home in Croton Heights, Westchester County, In addition to his services to research, H. W.

234 COI.LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Wilson made several unique contributions to Brown University conferred on him the hon- the field of publishing. One of the most orary degree of Doctor of Letters in 1939, notable is the plan he originated for saving and in 1948 he received from the University and interfiling type for the "cumulative" in- of Minnesota its first "Outstanding Achieve- dexes associated with his name. ment" medal. Both the American Library Another unusual contribution is the "service Association and the Special Libraries Associa- basis" method of charge, which not only made tion paid special honor to him in 1948, on the possible the publications of hundreds of ref- fiftieth anniversary of his firm's first publica- erence volumes, but made it financially pos- tion, and in 1950 he received the American sible for libraries on six continents to own Library Association's $500 Joseph W. Lippin- them. cott Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mr. Wilson served as president of the pub- Librarianship. In the same year the Univer- lishing firm bearing his name from its begin- sity of Minnesota Press published an account ning until December 1952, when he requested of his achievements, John Lawler's The H. W. that he be relieved of some of his administra- Wilson Company: Half a Century of Biblio- tive duties in order to devote more time to a graphic Publishing, with a foreword by E. W. study of the company's general policies and McDiarmid, a past president of the American future plans. He was accordingly named Library Association, in which he said, "Wilson Chairman of the Board of Directors and was has played a vital . . . part in nearly every succeeded as president by Howard Haycraft, scholarly activity of the past half-century." who had been vice-president since 1940. A tribute is paid to Mr. Wilson by C. Sum- As the man who was regarded by many as ner Spalding in the January 1954 issue of the greatest benefactor of libraries since An- C & R L for his interest and work in relation drew Carnegie, Mr. Wilson received numer- to the Library of Congress printed catalogs. ous honors from educators and librarians.

Federal Services to Libraries (Continued, from page 178) the dragon of arithmetical progression. fair to the Federal personnel who cooperated The results of the survey are being pub- in this work to mention that some of the lished in book form late this spring by the services listed may have been modified or American Library Association under the discontinued in the interim between report- title of Federal Services to Libraries. Part I age and publication, and that all Federal is to be devoted to an exposition of the poli- services to libraries or to any other organiza- cies governing Federal services to libraries, tions or individuals are dependent upon such and Part II (the main section of the book) variables as budget and staff. Conversely, will consist of an alphabetical listing by sub- some services may well have been inaugu- ject of the services available to libraries from rated after the book went to press. Nothing the government at the time the typescript less than a looseleaf service could hope to went to press early in 1954. Each service is achieve current coverage of this field. It is described in sufficient detail to make it mean- nevertheless the hope and belief of the Fed- ingful. Finally there is an index in which eral Relations Committee that librarians every service, book, document, individual or and others will find in Federal Services to agency mentioned in the text is cited by page Libraries a key to many services offered by reference, and under the name of each their government but hitherto not used by agency are to be found the services it offers. many libraries which stand to benefit from Since nothing changes more rapidly than them. the Federal scene in Washington, it is only

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