A CRL Board of Directors Midwinter Meeting 1963

BRIEF OF MINUTES of the nominees appears elsewhere in this January 30 issue. Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; On a motion by Jay Lucker the board Vice President and President-elect Neal R. voted to approve a petition to organize a Harlow; Past President Ralph E. Ellsworth; Slavic and East European Subsection in the directors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Andrew J. Subject Specialists Section. It was voted to Eaton, Flora Belle Ludington, Lucile M. approve the Bylaws of the Junior College Morsch; directors on ALA Council, Helen Lib~aries Section, following a motion by M. Brown, Dorothy M. Drake, James Hum­ Lucile Morsch. On motions by Mr. Harlow phry, III, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. and Miss Ludington the board voted to Spangler; chairmen of Sections, Charles M. terminate the Burma Projects Committee Adams, H. Richard Archer, Virginia Clark, and the Library 21 Committee, respectively. David Kaser, Jay K. Lucker, Reta E. King Discussion of matters involved in imple­ (representing Felix E. Hirsch); vice chairmen menting the report of the Special Committee of Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gard­ on ACRL Program led the group to consider ner, Eli M. Oboler; past chairmen of Sec­ at some length the entire question of re­ tions, Helen Wahoski, James 0. Wallace, cruiting members for ALA and its divisions Irene Zimmerman; ACRL Executive Secre­ and sections. It was the sense of the meeting tary Joseph H. Reason. Committee chair­ that the best job of recruiting is done by in­ men present were Lorena A. Garloch, Wil­ dividual librarians, that art librarians, for liam V. Jackson, Jr., Frances Kennedy, Stan­ example, can recruit other art librarians ley L. West. Invited guests were Miss Roy better than anyone else; that people are most Land, Edmon Low, Robert H. Muller. interested in the small group. Neal Harlow, president-elect of ACRL, suggested that there As the first item of business of the first be subcommittees on membership at all session of the ACRL Board of Directors at levels: division, section and subsection. the Midwinter Meeting, January 30, 1963, Another phase of this discussion concerned President Stokes called upon Past President Ellsworth, the ACRL representative to the structure of the proposed Library Re­ search Committee; this matter was referred PEBCO, for his report. Dr. Ellsworth re­ to the Planning and Action Committee for ported that funds for 1963-64 would be ap­ study. proximately the same as in the current year; he reported on the areas of program and H. Richard Archer, chairma·n of the Rare activity for which PEBCO recommended Books Section, reported that a manuscript priority; and that PEBCO voted to recom­ entitled "Rare Book Collections: Some Theo­ mend that ALA study the functions and re­ retical and Practical Suggestions for Librar­ sponsibilities of LAD so as to determine if ians and Students," originally called "Rare some or all of those functions and respon­ Book Manual," had been referred to the sibilities could be more effectively and ap­ ALA Publishing Department and would, in propriately carried out by other units of the all probability, be issued this year as an Association. Dr. Ellsworth's suggestion that ACRL Monograph. Archer also reported ACRL consider reorganization of the di­ tentative details of the Preconference Insti­ vision in conformity with the structure of tute on "Western Americana" to be spon­ the Association of Research Libraries was sored jointly by the ACRL Rare Books Sec­ referred to the Planning and Action Com­ tion and the History Section of RSD in mittee for study. Chicago in July. Reports of the nominations for division Stanley West, chairman of the Advisory and section elections for 1963 were given by Committee on Cooperation with Educational Messrs. Bentz and Reason. A complete list and Professional Organizations reported that

MARCH 1963 147 his committee is planning to bring together given to various sections of the State Library at the Chicago Conference a small group of Associations to plan cooperatively with their librarians and a few research scientists, com­ State Librarians to insure successful implementa­ tion of the legislation, if and when it is passed. puter experts, and documentalists to discuss ways in which traditionally trained librarians January 31 can best learn to take advantage of the new machinery that is becoming available in the Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; field of information retrieval. Vice President and President-elect Neal R. Lorena Garloch, chairman of the ACRL Harlow; directors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Committee on National Library Week, re­ Andrew J. Eaton, Lucile. M. Morsch; di­ ported that Gustave Harrer is analyzing cer­ rectors on ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, tain college and university library statistics Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler; chairmen of which will be helpful, it is hoped, for use Sections, Charles M. Adams, Virginia Clark, during National Library Week. Miss Gar­ Jay K. Lucker; vice chairmen of Sections, loch also reported that seven articles have Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Eli M. been written for state library publications Oboler, Norman E. Tanis; past chairmen of and one each for College and Research Li­ Sections, James 0. Wallace, Irene Zimmer­ braries and the Wilson Library Bulletin in man; ACRL Executive Secretary Joseph H. an effort to encourage greater participation Reason. Committee chairmen present were in National Library Week on the part of George S. Bonn, William H. Carlson, Wil­ college and university libraries. As chairman liam V. Jackson, Jr., Frances Kennedy. In­ of the Urban University Libraries Com­ vited guests were Miss Roy Land, Frank mittee of the University Libraries Section, Lundy, Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson. Miss Garloch reported that the members of Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson visited the second her committee are planning to hold a closed meeting of the Board of Directors in order meeting at the Chicago Conference with the to discuss matters concerning the ALA Mem­ public librarians and school library super­ bership Committee and the ACRL Section visors from their respective cities; it is hoped Development Committee. During the. course that their discussion will result in the pub­ of the discussion it was revealed that the lication of an article in one of the library ACRL subsections, particularly, needed more journals. ' extensive information concerning personal Edmon Low, chairman of the ACRL Ad­ members than is now requested on the ALA visory Committee to the President on Federal dues notice; it was decided that all member­ Legislation, called attention to those features ship activities would be coordinated by Miss of the National Education Improvement Act Roy Land, the ACRL representative on the of 1963 which are favorable to college and ALA Membership Committee. university libraries; he requested authority George Bonn, chairman of the Library to make concessions on legislative matters, Services Committee reported that his com­ if it should be necessary to do so. Neal Har­ mittee felt the need for a basic document low moved and the body expressed a vote of which would serve as a frame of reference confidence in our legislative representative. for encouraging the development and im­ The board then approved the following res­ provement of library services. A draft of olution which was to be presented to Coun­ this document, tentatively entitled "A Li­ cil on Thursday by President Stokes: brary Users Bill of Rights" was presented; it is intended to have this document completed To the Council of the American Library Asso­ and ready for distribution at the Chicago ciation: Conference. The Association of College & Research Librar­ The board decided that the ACRL Pro­ ies urges the members of Council and particu­ gram and Business Meeting would be held larly those members representing State Associa­ on ',Yednesday, July 17 at 8:30-10:00 P.M. tions and regional chapters, to inform members and that the Board of Directors would meet of their various groups of the provisions of The President's National Education Improvement on Thursday, July 18, 8:30-10:00 P.M. ·and Act and encourage them to ask their Senators on Friday, July 19, 2:00-4:00 P.M. and Representatives for full support of the pro­ Charles Adams, chairman of the College gram. And, furthermore, that encouragement be Libraries Section, reported that the Section

148 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES is planning to hold its annual conference tinues to work with the American Associa­ meeting on Saturday, July 20, at Beloit Col­ tion of Junior Colleges towards implemen­ lege, Beloit, Wisconsin. The program of the tation of the ALA Standards for Junior Col­ meeting will deal with the problems faced in lege Libraries and that the document "Cri­ the use of the college library in this day of teria for Beginning Junior College Librar­ changing college curricula. ies" is being revised with a view toward William H. Carlson, chairman of the Com­ publication. Miss Clark also announced that mittee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies, the Section plans to display at the Chicago reported that the committee is studying the Conference a collection of student library requirements of the various accrediting handbooks and a draft of an "ideal" hand­ bodies-regional, national and professional book outline. -for the purpose of recommending simplifi­ Frank Lundy acquainted the board with cation and unification of these requirements the activities and point of view held by a and also to develop an awareness among the group of college and university librarians agencies of the burdens placed upon colleges who are concerned about the total effect of and universities .undergoing accreditation. the reorganization of ALA upon ACRL. The Committee hopes also to bring about The Board voted to support LAD's appli­ an increase in the practice of having librar­ cation for a renewal of the World Book En­ ians serve as members of accrediting teams. cyclopedia-ALA Goals Award so as to con­ Virginia Clark, chairman, reported that tinue the Office for Recruitment for another the Junior College Libraries Section con- year. ••

The Princeton Statistics for 1961-62

VOLUMES IN LIBRARY: VoLUMEs ADDED: I. Harvard ...... 6,931,293 I. California-L.A...... 154,801 2. Yale ...... 4,572,893 2. Illinois ...... 142,436 3. Illinois ...... 3,525,820 3. Cornell ...... 135,260 4. Michigan ...... 3,049,715 4. Michigan ...... ll9,976 5. Columbia ...... 3,012,464 5. California-B...... 106,710 6. California-Berkeley ... . 2,701,186 6. Yale ...... 90,015 7. Stanford ...... 2,287,332 7. Texas ...... 86,203 8. Cornell ...... 2,278,046 8. Columbia ...... 85,875 9. Chicago ...... 2,210,062 9. Harvard ...... 82,658 10. Minnesota ...... 2,072,285 10. Chicago ...... 82,284 11. Indiana ...... 1,828,992 II. Ohio State ...... 79,953 12. Princeton ...... 1,754,580 12. Washington ...... 79,431 13. Pennsylvania ...... 1,744,680 13. Wisconsin ...... 78,664 14. California-L.A. 1,719,359 14. Louisiana State ...... 75,722 15. Duke ...... 1,540,063 15. Michigan State ...... 72,927 16. Northwestern ...... 1,532,420 16. Stanford ...... 71,323 17. vVisconsin ...... 1,527,432 17. Princeton ...... 66,102 18. Ohio State ...... 1,520,597 18. Missouri ...... 62,593 19. Texas ...... 1,508,262 19. Minnesota ...... 61,423 20. Johns Hopkins ...... 1,207,246 20. Pennsylvania ...... 60,750 •• MARCH 1963 149 Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Neal R. Harlow, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT W. Porter Kellam, University of Georgia, Athens Archie L. McNeal, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.

DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (1963-67) William H. Carlson, Oregon State College, Corvallis Edward B. Stanford, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Walfred Erickson, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti Robert R. Hertel, Illinois State Normal University, Normal Elliott Hardaway, University of South Florida, Tampa W. Stanley Hoole, University of Alabama, University X Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, University of Illinois, Urbana Mrs. Alice Phelps Pattee, State University, Stillwater, Okla.

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Eli M. Oboler, Idaho State College, Pocatello VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: H. Vail Deale, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. Benjamin G. Whitten, Whittier College, Whittier, Calif. SECRETARY: Ruth A. Diveley, Occidental College, Los Angeles Anne C. Edmonds, Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J.

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Norman E. Tanis, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich. VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom, Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. Joseph Yenish, Community College, Temple University, Philadelphia SECRETARY: Mrs. Shirley A. Edsall, Corning Community College, Corning, N.Y. Mrs. Bessie Davis Randall, Orange County Community College, Middletown, N.Y.

150 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES

' Officers, 1963/64

RARE BOOKS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Edwin Wolf, II, Library Company of Philadelphia

VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: P. William Filby, Peabody Institute, Baltimore William L. Hanaway, Jr., New York Public Library

SECRETARY: Mrs. Ann Bowden, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin Mrs. Dorothea D. Reeves, Harvard Business School, Boston

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Wrayton E. Gardner, St. Louis University

VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Carson W. Bennett, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind. Alfred N. Brandon, University of Kentucky, Lexington

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Benjamin B. Richards, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia Donald 0. Rod, State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls

CHAIRMAN-ELECT AND SECRETARY: Orville L. Eaton, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant Robert P. Lang, State University College, New Paltz, N.Y.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Dale M. Bentz, University of Iowa, Iowa City

VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Andrew J. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis Robert L. Talmadge, Tulane University, New Orleans

MARCH 1963 151 1962/63 Remington Rand Equipment Grant

THIRTY-TWO COLLEGES located in twenty­ KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Salina, Kan. four states have been selected to receive fur­ (Frank J. Anderson) $416.25. niture and equipment under the terms of KING CoLLEGE, Bristol, Tenn. (Elizabeth M. a grant made to ACRL by the Remington England) $171.00. Rand Division of the Sperry Rand Corpora­ tion. This is the fourth year that Remington LINFIELD CoLLEGE, McMinnville, Ore. (Mar­ Rand has participated in the ACRL Grants tha Ezell) $256.00. Program. The colleges receiving awards are LIVINGSTONE CoLLEGE, Salisbury, N.C. (Jo­ privately supported four-year institutions. sephine P. Sherrill) $146.00. The special committee from the ACRL Col­ lege Section which made the awards is com­ MARYMOUNT CoLLEGE, Tarrytown, N.Y. posed of James F. Holly, librarian, Macal­ (Mother Jeanne d'Arc) $131.75. ester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, chairman; MARYWOOD CoLLEGE, Scranton, Pa. (Sister Sister M. Adrienne, reference librarian, Col­ M. Denis) $310.00. lege of St. Theresa, Winona, Minnesota; and Bernard E. Richardson, librarian, Cornell MILTON CoLLEGE, Milton, Wis. (Lois M. College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Bird) $117.50. The libraries of the colleges listed below MissouRI VALLEY CoLLEGE, Marshall, Mo. will receive items of equipment of the value (Ruth Zahn) $45.60. indicated: COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ON THE OHIO, BARD CoLLEGE, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Mount St. Joseph, Ohio (Sister Helen) (Marion E. Vosburgh) $114.00. $251.25. BEAVER CoLLEGE, Glenside, Pa. (Elizabeth MouNT ST. ScHOLASTic CoLLEGE, Atchison, L. Hammond) $294.00. Kan. (Sister M. Florence Feeney) $251.25. CARROLL CoLLEGE, Helena, Mont. (Rev. NoRTH CENTRAL CoLLEGE, Naperville, Ill. James R. White) $187.75. (Ruth Kraemer) $404.75. CHESTNUT HILL CoLLEGE, Philadelphia, Pa. OLIVET CoLLEGE, Olivet, Mich. (George Han­ (Sister Anne Xavier) $256.00. son) $276.00. DILLARD UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La. (Ern­ WILLIAM PENN CoLLEGE, Oskaloosa, Iowa est C. Wagner) $158.00. (Inis I. Smith) $117.50. FoNTBONNE CoLLEGE, St. Louis, Mo. (Sister QuEENS CoLLEGE, Charlotte, N.C. (Phoebe Alberta Anne) $147.00. Oplinger) $416.25. REGIS CoLLEGE, Weston, Mass. (Sister Mary GoDDARD CoLLEGE, Plainfield, Vt. (William Macrina) $540.00. E. Osgood) $160.50. RosEMONT CoLLEGE, Rosemont, Pa. (Mother GRAND CANYON CoLLEGE, Phoenix, Ariz. Mary Dennis) $147.00. (R. Vernon Ritter) $256.00. CoLLEGE OF ST. JosEPH, Albuquerque, N.M. HAMLIN£ UNIVERSITY, St. Paul, Minn. (Ben­ (Sister M. Paulinia Altepeter) $14 7 .00. jamin M. Lewis) $210.00. SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WooDs CoLLEGE, Saint CoLLEGE OF IDAHO, Caldwell, Idaho (Rich­ Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. (Sister Camilla) ard G. Elliott) $160.50. $395.00. INDIANA CENTRAL CoLLEGE, Indianapolis, Ind. TALLADEGA CoLLEGE, Talladega, Ala. (Mar­ (Edna Miller) $373.00. garet H. Scott) $79.25. JAMESTOWN COLLEGE, James town, N.D. WESTMONT CoLLEGE, Santa Barbara, Calif. (R. W. Witt) $311.00. (John E. Kephart) $241.00. • •

152 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Bylaws of the Junior College Libraries Section of ACRL

Article I. N arne (a) The duties of the chairman are to act as chief administrative officer of the Section, The name of this body is the Junior Col­ to appoint all standing and special com­ lege Libraries Section of the Association of mittees unless other provision has been made College and Research Libraries of the Amer­ in these bylaws, to serve as ex-officio member ican Library Association. of all committees without the right to vote Article II. Object except in the case of a tie, and to preside over all meetings with responsibility for the The object of this Section is to contribute programs at such meetings. to library service and librarianship through (b) The duties of the vice chairman (chair­ those activities which will relate to libraries man-elect) are to assume the duties of the supporting education in junior colleges and chairman when the chairman is unable to equivalent institutions. act in that capacity and to serve as chairman Article III. Relationship to the of the Projects Committee. Association of College and Research (c) The duties of the secretary are to keep Libraries a record of the proceedings of the Section, to prepare a written report of the proceedings This body is a Section of the Association to be read at the next business meeting of of College and Research Libraries. The Con­ the Section, to maintain information about stitution and Bylaws of that division and of the membership, to supervise balloting by the American Library Association, to the ex­ mail, and to be responsible for locating, con­ tent to which they are applicable, take tacting, and corresponding with regional precedence over these bylaws. and area organizations of junior college li­ brarians, including the reporting of activities Article IV. Membership of these organizations at the annual meeting. Membership in this Section consists of any (d) The chairman, vice chairman, and im­ personal, life, or institutional member of the mediate past chairman as representatives .of American Library Association who elects the Section serve as members of the Board m~mbership in the Association of College of Directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Junior Col­ and Research Libraries. lege Libraries Section. Sec. 3. Nominations. (a) A Nominating Committee of not less Article V. Meetings than three members will be appointed by Sec. 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meet­ the vice chairman (chairman-elect) with the ing of the Section will be held during the approval of the chairman to nominate can­ annual conference of the American Library didates for elective positions as Section of­ Association. ficers. Appointments will be made at such Sec. 2. Special meetings. Special meetings times as to enable the committee to meet may be called by the chairman of the Sec­ during the annual meeting preceding the one tion. at which the results of the election are to be Article VI. Officers announced. Sec. 1. Titles. The officers of this Section (b) The Nominating Committee will pre­ are a chairman, a vice chairman who is the sent names in blocks of two names each and chairman-elect, a secretary, and the immedi­ will secure written consent from each can­ ate pas~ chairman. didate. Sec. 2. Duties. (c) Additional nominations signed by five

MARCH 1963 153 members of the Section and accompanied by approximately one half the members shall the written consent of the candidate may be expire each year. • Members will be ap­ made by filing such nomination with the poit:J.ted to fill the unexpired term in the secretary prior to December 15. event of a vacancy. Special committees ex­ (d) Each nominee must be an active mem­ pire at the end of the term of the chairman ber in good standing. who appointed them. A new Nominating Sec. 4. Elections. Elections will be held by Committee will be appointed each year. mail ballot. A report of the results will be Sec. 4. Projects Committee. This committee made at the annual meeting. is responsible for coordinating the work of Sec. 5. Term of office. Officers begin their the committees, for determining financial term of office at the close of the annual meet­ needs of the projects under way, for develop­ ing. If extraordinary circumstances beyond ing requests to be made to the divisional the control of the Section prevent a regular budget committee, for screening requests for meeting, the term will begin at the anni­ grants, for establishing priorities when need­ versary of the close of the last previous an­ ed, and for keeping the membership in­ nual meeting. formed of committee activities. Sec. 6. Vacancies. In case of a vacancy in Sec. 5. Discontinuance. Standing com­ the office of chairman, the vice chairman will mittees may be discontinued by vote at the J succeed to the office of chairman and will annual meeting. Special committees cease at serve in that capacity until the expiration of the expiration of their term of office. the year for which he was elected chairman. Sec. 6. Notification. The secretary shall In case of a vacancy in the office of vice inform the divisional executive secretary an­ chairman (chairman-elect), a special election nually of the establishment and functions, shall be held by mail vote. Nominations will membership, or discontinuance of all com­ be made by the incumbent Nominating Com­ mittees of the Section. mittee. A vacancy in the office of secretary Sec. 7. Mail votes. Committee votes may will be filled by appointment by the chair­ be taken by mail. man to fill out the term. Article VIII. Executive Committee Article VII. Committees Sec. I. Composition. The Executive Com­ Sec. I. Establishment. mittee consists of the chairman, the vice (a) Standing committees to carry on ac­ chairman, the secretary, and the immediate tivities requiring extended attention will be past chairman. established at the annual meeting. The mo­ Sec. 2. Powers and Duties. The Executive tion establishing such committees will re­ Committee has authority over the affairs of commend the name and functions of the the Section during the period between meet­ committee. ings of the Section, subject to review by the (b) Special committees other than the members at a meeting of the Section. ;Nominating Committee (whose appointment Article IX. Quorum has been previously specified) will be ap­ pointed by the chairman. Business of the Section may be transacted (c) Chairmen of standing committees, to­ by a quorum of 15 members, or by a mail gether with the vice chairman of the Section ballot. as committee chairman, will constitute the Article X. Amendments standing Projects Committee. Sec. 2. Composition. All committees other These bylaws may be amended by a mail than the Projects Committee will consist of vote approved by two-thirds of the members an udd number of not less than three mem­ voting or by a two-thirds vote of the mem­ bers, each of whom is an active member in bers present and voting at two successive an­ good standing, or the chief librarian of an nual meetings. A bylaw may be suspended at active institutional member. an annual meeting by a two-thirds vote of Sec. 3. Terms of office. Members of stand­ the members present and voting. • • ing committees will be appointed for two­ * On approval of these bylaws, the chairman will year terms and may be reappointed for an appoint one half of the chairmen and one half of the members for a one-year term to place this provision additional term of two years. The terms of into operation.

154 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES News from the Field

AcQUISITIONS, CoLLECTIONs, GIFTS man literary historian, Wilhelm Kosch. The collection is still in the hands of Dr. Kosch's STANFORD UNIVERSITY libraries have re­ estate in Germany, and will be distributed ceived all of the books and journals of the to both Carbondale and Edwardsville cam­ late Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, the gift puses of SIU. of his son Ernest See of Los Angeles. The CoNCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY's Stanford collection at Stanford (Calif.) Uni­ Schultz Memorial library in Springfield, Ill., versity also has received some five hundred has received some six hundred volumes from microfilm copies of letters of Edward A. the library of the late Dr. W. H. T. Dau, Ross, pertaining to Ro~s· years as a Stanford Lutheran theologian. faculty member. The collection of theater NoRTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY library, Boston, memorabilia made by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel has been presented with the books, manu­ Stark of San Francisco will be presented to script material, and notes on Horace Mann Stanford University libraries next autumn, accumulated by Louise Hall Tharp while along with an index or catalog to the col­ she was writing Until Victory. lection made by Mr. Stark. HARVARD CoLLEGE library, Cambridge, SIXTEEN ANCIENT PRINTED WORKS, four of Mass., has acquired a private collection of them printed before the year 1500, are gifts some eight thousand Finnish books, pam­ to Stanford (Calif.) University library from phlets and periodicals made by Eino Ellila. the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. William UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA library's two­ Crocker. The gift includes volumes from the millionth item is their recently acquired let­ presses of Aldus Manutius of Venice, Anton ter to the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Koburger of Nuremberg, and Erhard Rat­ Isabella, concerning the first Spanish colony dolt of Venice. There are eleven volumes in the New World. The library also has pur­ printed in the sixteenth century, including chased a copy of a sixteenth-century surgical nine additional Aldine imprints; and a book by Guido Guidi, and a sixteenth-cen­ seventeenth-century two-volume set, "The tury illustrated medical manuscript, along Works of Benjamin Jonson," printed by with a number of other rare medical works, W. Hale, London, with the dates 1616 and with funds from the John Sargent Pillsbury 1640. Fund. During the past year, Henry Evans of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, has Peregrine Press in San Francisco has greatly recently made significant purchases of old augmented the collection of publications of scientific books to implement its program in that press in the university library, and Mrs. graduate studies leading to a doctorate with Dagmar Doneghy presented to the library a special interest in the history of science. collection of letters written to her husband, Among these items are the scientific papers the late Joseph Warren Beach, by more than of Roger Boscovich which include about two sixty authors. Irving Kerlan and Harold thousand manuscript letters and two hun­ Kittelson and a number of others have added dred scientific manuscripts. significantly to the library's collection of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE library, Newark, children's literature. Walter library at the has received from S. Hallock du Pont, Wil­ university has received a group of some two mington, Delaware, a collection of 650 first, hundred books on Long Island whaling from variant, limited, and rare editions of the Malcolm M. Willey, vice president of the works of John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kip­ university. Special collections acquired dur­ ling, and Bernard Shaw. Many of these are ing the past year by the university libraries autographed presentation copies, or contain include some fifteen hundred volumes gath­ inserted autograph letters and other associa­ ered by the late William D. Morgan of St. tion materials representing correspondence Paul, on early science and astronomy. Other with publishers, friends, and critics. groups are the late George P. Conger col­ SouTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY libraries lection on the history of philosophy; a five­ acquired, in December, a collection of some hundred volume collection on the history fourteen thousand volumes of the late Ger- of aeronautics brought together by Col. R. L.

MARCH 1963 155 Preston; and a group of some four-hundred­ and personal correspondence of such writers fifty titles relating to -the life and times of as Dylan Thomas and Thomas Earp. Napoleon Bonaparte. A paperback edition of Hawthorne's Life CoNCORDIA SEMINARY, St. Louis, has re­ of Franklin Pierce has recently been pur­ ceived a collection of manuscripts and books, chased by the Ohio State University Center in memory of the Reverend Ernest Martens. for Textual Studies, Columbus. Only one The gift of 265 items was given by Walter F. other copy of the paperback is known to Martens, Charleston, W.Va. The collection exist, although there are several clothbound for the most part contains books and manu­ copies extant. The paperback was published scripts in the field of liturgics and hymnol­ in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston. ogy. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI libraries has re­ BROOKLYN CoLLEGE library has acquired ceived from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones the papers of Norman Cousins, editor of a large collection on gardening, including Saturday Review, for the period from 1940 several seventeenth and eighteenth century to 1958. Most deal with international and imprints. Other gifts to Cincinnati include a political activities. library of nineteenth century literature from CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES have re­ Lucien Wulsin; the entire library of Dillwyn cently acquired ten incunabula. The earliest Ratcliff, varied in scope and containing much j work is Ulrich Hans monumental edition unusual scholarly material; and, continuing (Rome, 1471) of Plutarch's Lives in two her gift of the major part of her library, folio volumes of what is generally presumed many art books from Mrs. Russell Wilson. to be the first printed edition of Plutarch. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, will re­ Two of the other incunabula are believed to ceive the manuscripts of stories, plays, screen­ be unique in American libraries: Ovid's plays, essays and poetry of Tennessee Wil­ Metamorphoses, Venice, 0. Scotus, 1492, and liams, to be available for study through the Horace's De arte poetica in an undated Paris Humanities Research Center. The univer­ edition printed by George Wolff for Jean sity's drama library at present includes col­ Petit, provisionally assigned to 1499. Another lections of literary papers and manuscripts of fifteenth century book of special interest is Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Sabinus' Paradoxa in ]uvenali (Rome, 1474). Miller, and Maxwell Anderson. The Columbia University libraries have UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON library's man­ also acquired a number of additions to the uscript collection has received the papers of holdings of manuscript collections. Among Hugh B. Mitchell, former United States these are the Eleanor Robson Belmont pa­ senator and congressman, relating to his po­ pers comprising about ·three thousand letters litical career. and manuscripts, including correspondence UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN's library has ac­ from Anatole France, Theodore Roosevelt, quired a collection of 243 works by and George Bernard Shaw, and Israel Zangwill; about Rousseau. approximately six hundred letters written by the American artist Kenyon Cox to his AwARDs, GRANTS, ScHOLARSHIPs parents in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; a nearly complete collection of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA's biomedical manuscripts of Rose Franken's short stories library, Los Angeles, has announced the and novels; approximately one hundred third year of its medical library internship letters written by Alexander Hamilton as program. Applications for 1963 j64 are due Secretary of the Treasury to General Otho H. before March 30. They should be addressed Williams; and the correspondence, manu­ to Miss Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedi­ scripts, letter-books, diaries, and memora­ cal Library, University of California Medical bilia of John Howard Payne. Center, Los Angeles 24. OHio STATE UNIVERSITY has purchased the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA library, San only known manuscript page of "Blithedale Diego at La Jolla has been awarded $12,650 Romance," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The by the Council on Library Resources to con­ university also has purchased a collection of tinue investigation of the computerization of signed manuscripts of unpublished poems serial records. The library has completed a

156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES preliminary program on its own initiative. Library Research Center of the Graduate SIMMONS CoLLEGE library school, the Con­ School of Librarianship of the University of necticut Valley Chapter of SLA, the New Illinois. The commission has made a grant England Group of the Medical Libraries of $14,298 for the statewide survey of library Association, and the Connecticut Library As­ reference services, resources, and facilities sociation are jointly sponsoring a student in Wisconsin, to suggest ways to meet the award fund in memory of the late Henrietta information and reference needs through a T. Perkins. Further information should be coordinated system of reference services. requested from Mrs. Mary Lee Tsuffis, pres­ AMERICAN CouNCIL oF LEARNED SociETIES ident of the Connecticut Valley Chapter, has awarded grants in aid to forty-one schol­ Special Libraries Association, P.O. Box 35, ars in thirty-one colleges and universities Andover, Conn. and libraries in United States and Canada. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS'S Chicago under­ Library scholars awarded grants are David graduate division library has been awarded V. Erdman of the New York Public library, $45,033 to continue a research project aimed for work on the recovery of the deleted texts at automating all functions of the library. of William Blake; and to James G. McMana­ Donor of the grant is National Science way of the department of literature and Foundation. The project, already in prog­ bibliography, Folger Shakespeare library, ress for three years, is in charge of Don S. for an edition of the Shakespeare-Davenant­ Culbertson and Louis A. Schultheiss. Re­ Dryden-Shadwell operatic Tempest. search under the new grant will be directed CouNCIL ON LIBRARY REsouRcEs has grant­ toward testing of the already-devised system ed the sum of $11,500 to the Association of of data processing by computer. Research Libraries for the development of GRANTS-IN-AID from the Harry S. Truman programs to preserve printed and manuscript Library Institute, up to a limit of $1,000, materials that are now deteriorating. Gordon are available. The institute's committee on R. Williams, director of the Midwest Inter­ grants-in-aid will consider applications for Library Center, has been named to head de­ projects involving the Truman administra­ velopment of the three-faceted program. tion and the history of the Presidency. It has Council on Library Resources has made adopted a policy of favoring grants to prom­ two grants to the Library Technology Project ising students and young scholars rather than of ALA totaling $27,080, to be used for prep­ to those who have already established a repu­ aration of a manual on library furniture and tation in the various appropriate fields of re­ another on floors and floor coverings. search. Application forms for grants-in-aid The use of the Dewey Decimal Classifica­ may be had from the director of the library tion abroad will be surveyed to learn of at Independence, Mo. adaptations or expansions that would in­ WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY has been crease its usefulness, ALA and the Council named to receive a gift of $10,000 from the of Library Resources recently announced. George W. Codrington Charitable Founda­ The field survey will be financed by a grant tion in memory of Mrs. I. F. Freiberger. The of $20,000 each froin the Council on Library money will be used for enlargement of the Resources, and Forest Press, Lake Placid, New library building. York, and $10,000 from the Asia Foundation. THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA will Surveyors plan to visit Burma, Ceylon, India, continue its creative dramatics program with Indonesia, Korea, Malaya, Pakistan, Persia, the sum of $2,500 granted by the Philadel­ South Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, and (ten­ phia Foundation for that purpose. tatively) Brazil, Greece, Israel, Nigeria, ONE MILLION DOLLARS has been contrib­ Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Yugo­ uted by an anonymous donor to the Colum­ slavia. bia-Presbyterian Medical Center for the con­ Present uses of sheet microfilm in the struction of a new medical library for ·Colum­ United States will be studied under a grant bia University's College of Physicians and of $7,038 from the Council of Library Re­ Surgeons. sources to the Library Technoiogy Project WISCONSIN FREE LIBRARY COMMISSION has of ALA. The survey will be made by Wil­ announced a survey to be conducted by the liam Hawken, Berkeley, Calif.

MARCH 1963 157 MEXICO CITY CoLLEGE is offering two spe­ ideas, and knowledge. Attendance is limited cial summer scholarships to graduate librar­ to ninety persons. ians; applications should be filed before The clinic will present descriptions of ex­ April l. The scholarships are for full tuition isting data processing programs in individ­ and fees and a living allowance. One schol­ ual libraries. Papers will be presented by arship is for the summer quarter (June 17- John D. Henderson, Los Angeles County August 28) and the other is for the summer Public library; Ralph H. Parker, University session (July 8- August 16). For further in­ of Missouri library; Seymour Taine, Na­ formation write Roberto A. Gordillo, Li­ tional Library of Medicine; Lorin R. Burns, brarian, Mexico City College, Km. 16 Car­ Public libraries of Lake County, Indiana; retera Mexico-Toluca, Mexico 10, D.F. James Jacobs, Montgomery (Md.), School System; Marjorie Griffin, IBM Advanced BuiLDINGS Systems Development Division, San Jose, SIMPSON CoLLEGE, Indianola, Iowa has let Calif.; Hillis L. Griffin, Phillips Petroleum contracts for a new library building to pro­ Company's National Reactor Testing Station vide seating for 630 students, to include 103 technical library. Three papers of a gen­ carrels, plus 12 faculty cubicles. The library eral nature will include "Trends in Library will also house a student lounge, listening Applications of Data Processing," by Burton and seminar rooms, and the Matthew Simp­ Adkinson; "Flow Charting of Library Oper­ son room for rare books and college memo­ ations," by Edward M. Heiliger; and "Pos­ rabilia. Shelf space is to be provided for a sible Applications of IBM Equipment to quarter-million volumes. Information Storage and Retrieval in Li­ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY library, now braries," by Donald H. Kraft. The papers under construction, will probably be com­ by Messrs. Henderson, Parker, and Taine pleted in early fall, 1964. The building will will be duplicated and distributed in ad­ have six floors--five of them underground­ vance to registrants, and will be summarized and will house initially a million and a half and analyzed at the clinic by a selected dis­ volumes. It is planned for expansion to hold cussant. a total of four million volumes. The above­ NEw ENGLAND CoLLEGE LIBRARIANS will ground story will blend with the Georgian hold their annual meeting at the Cushing­ architecture of other campus buildings. Martin library, Stonehill College, North UNITED STATES MILITARY AcADEMY, West Easton, Mass., on April 19 and 20. Point, N.Y., laid the cornerstone for a new AN INsTITUTE on "Improving Service to library building recently. Students in School, Public, and College Li­ VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY School of Medi­ braries" has been arranged by the library cine has begun construction on a new wing school of the University of Minnesota, Min­ to provide quarters for the medical division neapolis, and the Center for Continuation of the Joint University libraries, Nashville, Study, with the cooperation of the library Tenn. The wing will ultimately accommo­ division of the State Department of Educa­ date three hundred readers, and an eight­ tion, the Minnesota Library Association, and level stack will provide shelves for 120,000 the Minnesota Association of School Li­ volumes. Special facilities will include a brarians. The institute will be on April 20. History of Medicine room, open and closed ASTIA has arranged a series of confer­ study carrels, and a staff lounge. ences for the purpose of furthering the building of machine-searchable vocabularies MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS on January 30 and 31, February 6, February LIBRARY APPLICATIONS OF DATA PROCESSING 13, February 20, February 27, March 6, will be the subject of a clinic at the U niver­ March 13, March 20, March 27, and April sity of Illinois campus at Urbana on April 3. Each of the meetings will be devoted to 28-May I. The clinic will be sponsored by a particular scientific field. The first of the Graduate School of Library Science and ASTIA's microthesauri developed from the the Division of University Extension. In­ program, on chemistry and chemical engi­ tended for libraries that are actually en­ neering, was published in December. The gaged in mechanized procedures, or in the timetable calls for use of the additional process of converting, the clinic will provide microthesauri in ten subject areas by early opportunity for a pooling of experience, spring.

158 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES CATHOLIC LIBRARY AssociATION's annual Harry S. Truman library institute to Mr. convention will be on April 16-19 at Los Birkel, for the study noted above; to Charles Angeles. The theme of the conference will G. Hamilton, of New Orleans, for a study of be "The Library and the Mass Media." the 1948 campaign; and to Monroe Billing­ UNESCO's general conference in Decem­ ton, University of South Dakota, for a con­ ber approved a pilot project in school li­ tinuation of his study on civil rights. brary development in Africa, a regional THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES administered center in Senegal for training librarians, and by the General Services Administration were a pilot public library in the Ivory Coast, represented in a "Tele-Lecture" program and a pilot project in national planning of on December 4, organized by the University library services in Latin America. of Omaha. .Wayne C. Grover, archivist of the United States, Elizabeth B. Drewry, director MISCELLANY of the Franklin D. Roosevelt library, and Philip C. Brooks, director of the Harry S. UN.IVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA library, Berke­ Truman library spoke briefly by a conference ley, prepared an exhibit of famous books telephone circuit to audiences at five uni­ in mathematics on the occasion of the sixty­ versity campuses, and answered questions ninth annual meeting of the American Math­ from the five campuses, Omaha, University ematical Society, at Berkeley in January. of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin Thirty-four books ranging from a 1482 edi­ campuses at Madison and Milwaukee, and tion of Euclid to an imprint of 1899 were Syracuse University. shown. Also included in the exhibit were a NEW JERSEY's major university libraries few manuscripts, from a second-century pa­ and the New Jersey state library are under­ pyrus fragment to an eighteenth century taking joint studies to find out how they can manuscript of Roger Boscovitch. Most of better serve the research and scientific com­ the books and all of the manuscripts are munities of the state. University libraries are owned by the university. seeking ways to set up a program in which SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has started all the principal resources in the scientific­ coding the 600,000-volume collection in the research field can be classified and used. A Carbondale library for eventual use with special committee has for the past year data processing equipment in its circulation worked on the idea of information exchange procedures. centers within the framework of the New Books in Print may include information Jersey Council for Research and Develop­ about publisher's discounts in its next edi­ ment. tion. R. R. Bowker Company, publisher of NEw YoRK PuBLIC LIBRARY has issued a BIP explains that inclusion of information supplementary catalog of The New York about long- and short-discounts is being con­ Public library's gazettes preservation pro­ sidered. gram listing official gazettes which have been PROCEEDINGS of the institute on informa­ microfilmed during 1962 and added since the tion retrieval held at the University of Min­ catalog of December 1961. The list is ar­ nesota in September, were published in ranged by country, gives the dates covered, February. Wesley Simonton is the editor. the number of feet of film and the price. HARRY S. TRUMAN library's new research­ Thus far the project covers two hundred ers include Bill K. Hall, Baker University, and fifty national, provincial and municipal working on the 1948 campaign; Donald C. jurisdictions, assembled and filmed in such Swain, University of California, on the sci­ a way that independent sections, such as entific policies of the government in the proceedings of legislative bodies, patents and Truman administration; Peter C. Birkel, trade marks, trade bulletins, subsidiary leg­ University of Connecticut, on Presidential islative documents and departmental reports press conferences in regard to American for­ may be purchased in many instances. The eign policy, 1937-1952; Edward G. Cook, Gazettes project at The New York Public University of Kansas, on appropriations for library was suggested by the Association of national defense at the beginning of the Research Libraries. In this catalog a special Korean incident; and J. Malcolm Smith, effort was made to film African and Asian Arizona State College, on the emergency gazettes of countries which attained inde­ powers of the President in times of crisis. pendence during 1962. Requests for the cat­ Grants-in-aid have been awarded by the alog of films now available, and other in-

MARCH 1963 159 qmnes, should be addressed to The New ties and Colleges, and a report has now been York Public Library, Official Gazettes Pro­ published with the aid of a grant from the gram, Room 101, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Council on Library Resources. Street, New York 18, New York. THE ALA CoMMISSION on a N a tiona! Plan THE LIBRARY of the Insurance Society of for Library Education was announced in New York has completed a move to new January. Chairman is Richard H. Logsdon, quarters on the ninth floor at 150 William director of libraries at Columbia University. Street. The library now also serves the Col­ FIVE EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES will be sur­ lege of Insurance. veyed for the United Board for Christian RECRUITMENT ARTICLES from 1962 issues of Higher Education in Asia during five months Library Journal have been reprinted and are between February and July. Bertha Frick, available from R. R. Bowker Company, 62 professor emeritus of Columbia University's West 45th Street, New York 36, in support School . of Library Science will visit sixteen of the 1963 National Library Week program. colleges in Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Hong New Technical Books will be issued by the Kong, and Indonesia to learn how their New York Public Library'~ Science and libraries can be strengthened to keep pace Technology Division ten times a year, in a with the growth of the institutions they new format. serve. SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES will be abstracted and PuBLIC RECORDS in Great Britain now are indexed during 1963 by cooperative effort of published on 3 x 5 micro-opaque cards un­ National Aeronautics and Space Administra­ der a new program of the Public Records tion, Documentation, Inc., and the Institute Office of Great Britain. Certain classes of of the Aerospace Sciences. International records are now available in the card series Aerospace Sciences will be published by -privy council registers from June 1631 to IAS, on the 1st and 15th of each month; May 1637, and treasury minute books for while Scientific and Technical Aerospace Re­ 1719-22 and 1725-28. Forthcoming are eight ports will be prepared by Documentation, volumes relating to the American Civil War, Inc., and published by NASA, on the 8th and some of the proceedings of the Colonial and 23rd of each month. Conference of 1887. The Public Record Of­ HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES resources fice also plans publication in 1963 of a new in Canadian university libraries have been guide to the contents of the Office, and sec­ surveyed by Edwin E. Williams at the invi­ tional guides to groups of records in a paper­ tation of the Library Survey Committee of back series, publication of the latter to be­ the National Council of Canadian Universi- gin in 1963. • •

Library Buildings Institute THE LIBRARY BUILDINGS INSTITUTE will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13, at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. The theme for the Institute will be "Library Buildings for Quality Service." There will be a $16 registration fee. Reservations should be sent to the Library Administration Division, ALA. The format of the institute will consist of one general session which will be devoted to the problem of the library building con­ sultant and four periods of individual sessions by types of libraries. The Buildings Committee for College and University Libraries at its four sessions will consider the building plans of eight libraries: two junior colleges, two universities, two colleges, and two profes­ sional school libraries. Final decisions concerning the library plans which will be con­ sidered at the institute will not be made until April 30. Librarians interested in having their preliminary plans considered at the insti­ tute are invited to write to William Jesse, Director, University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, before that date. • •

160 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

JOAN AKIRA is a cataloger at New York nology library, where he had served as head School of Social Work library, Columbia of the serials department since September University, New York. 1960. MRs. DoNNA ANDERSON has joined the staff Born in Paris, Mr. Dennis received his of the business library at Columbia Univer­ A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1951. He sity, New York, as a reference librarian. served in the Navy from 1951 to 1956, be­ SALVATORE ATTINELLO has been assistant fore he obtained his M.L.S. degree from the circulation librarian at Columbia Univer­ University of California in 1957. Before sity College library, New York, since August. joining Drexel's staff, he worked from 1957 MARIAN AusHERMAN became an assistant to 1960 for the Free Library of Philadelphia. reference librarian at Columbia University's The record of his library activities shows medical library, New York, in September. the variety and strength of his interest in LOUISE IDA BACKUS was appointed assistant librarianship. He taught library administra­ reference librarian at Columbia University's tion in the Drexel Institute of Technology business library, New York, in October. Graduate School of Library Science, served BEVERLY GENE BAKER is a new member of on the membership committee of the Penn­ the University of Georgia library staff, in sylvania Library Association, and was the Athens. first treasurer of the Library Association of MRS. GAYNELLE W. BARKSDALE, head of Drexel Institute of Technology. readers' services and reference librarian at JAMES FALL has been an assistant reference librarian at the space studies library, Co­ Atlanta (Ga.) University, is serving as acting lumbia University, New York, since July. librarian during the absence in Turkey of DoNALD FITCH is the new head of the William W. Bennett. reference department at University of Cali­ On June 1 JoHN D. BATSEL becomes li­ fornia library, Santa Barbara. brarian of Lambuth College, Jackson, Tenn. JosEPH F. GANTNER has been appointed li­ HELEN BECKER is now a cataloger in the brarian of the Scripps Institution of Ocean­ manuscripts section, descriptive cataloging ography library at the University of Cali­ division, Library of Congress. Miss Becker fornia, San Diego. Mr. Gantner had been was a cataloger at Hunt Botanical library of on the staff of the Biomedical library at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. UCLA. WILLIAM W. BENNETT was granted leave JAMES P. GERSBACH has accepted the posi­ from his post as chief librarian of Atlanta tion of chief cataloger at Rensselaer Poly­ (Ga.) University on July 1, to serve as technic Institute, Troy, N.Y. UNESCO expert on the organization of uni­ THEODORE GouLD is now assistant librarian versity libraries and director of the library for readers' services at the University of of Middle East Technical University at California, Davis. He has been head of the Ankara, Turkey. loan department at University of California, ANN CuRRAN has been appointed research Berkeley. assistant for computer utilization at Harvard LESLIE M. GowER has accepted the posi­ medical library, Boston. tion of head librarian at Pan American Col­ MRS. ARLINE CusTER has been appointed lege, Edinburg, Tex. Mr. Gower was on the index editor in the manuscripts section, de­ staff of Northwestern State College of Louisi­ scriptive cataloging division of Library of ana, Natchitoches. Congress. She was formerly head of the U.S. VALERIE M. HALLOR was named assistant Post Office library's catalog unit. reference librarian at Columbia University, WILLIAM T. DAMERON became librarian New York, in August. of the library science library, University of MRs. ELizABETH HAMER has been appoint­ Michigan, Ann Arbor, on February I. ed assistant librarian, a newly created post, DoNALD D. DENNIS became librarian of at the Library of Congress. Mrs. Hamer had Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa., in been since 1960 assistant librarian for pub­ September leaving Drexel Institute of Tech- lic affairs at LC.

MARCH 1963 161 RosALIE HARRILL is now assistant cataloger He was with the Library of Congress from at Columbia University, New York. 1940 to 1960. J. NORMAN HEARD is acquisitions librarian PEGGY ANN McCuLLY is assistant catalog at Northwestern State College of Louisiana, librarian at Oregon State University, Cor­ Natchitoches. vallis. She has been until recently librarian MRs DoROTHY HoiJER has joined the staff of Christian College, Columbia, Mo. of the biomedical library at University of MARGUERITA McDoNALD, is now engineer­ California, Los Angeles. ing librarian at Oregon State University, MRs. GAZELLE JANZEN, reported in the No­ Corvallis. Miss McDonald was formerly li­ brarian of the Chouteau County Free library vember issue of CRL as librarian until re­ t cently at the Food Research Institute library at Fort Benton, Mont. at the University of California, Berkeley, ac­ KAY R. McFARLAND ,has been appointed tually had been librarian of that institute at director of the department of library sci­ Stanford University before going to Menlo ence, Shippensburg (Pa.) State College. (Calif.) College as assistant librarian. CHARLES A. McisAAC has accepted the po­ JACQUELINE JoHNSON is now reference li­ sition of chief of acquisitions at Boston Uni­ brarian at the engineering library at Colum­ versity. He was a rare book cataloger at bia University, New York. Brandeis University library, Waltham, Mass. I MRS. SIMONE KLUGMAN is now with the JuANITA McKINLEY, we reported in the acquisitions department at University of November issue of CRL, had joined the Cub­ California, Berkeley. berley library staff at the University of Cali­ FRANZ KRIZ has been appointed head of fornia, Berkeley. We should have placed the medical cataloging section at Columbia Cubberley library at Stanford University. University libraries, New York. JEss A. MARTIN assumed his new duties as JAMES H. LANGDON, JR. took charge of the supervisory librarian at the National Insti­ circulation department of Birmingham tutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. in Febru­ Southern College (Ala.) upon the resigna­ ary. He was formerly health center librarian tion of Lauren Doggett on Feb. 1. at Ohio State University, Columbus. JOAN LEE has joined the staff of the Stan­ HAYDEN MAsoN has been appointed librar­ ford (Calif.) University government docu­ ian of the National Fire Protection Associa­ ments division as international documents tion, Boston. librarian. RICHARD P. MATTHEWS is a member of GEORGE R. LEWIS has been appointed chief the library staff at the United States Military librarian at Kentucky Southern College, Academy, West Point, N.Y. He was formerly Louisville. at Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. DouGLAS LocHHEAD is to be librarian of MARILYN MELOTTE is in the engineering Massey College of the University of Toronto library at Stanford University, not at Univer­ after next July 1. He is at present chief li­ sity of California, Berkeley, as we reported brarian and assistant professor of English at in the November issue. York University, Toronto. DoNALD MILLER has been appointed head of the catalog department at University of CAROLINE LYBECK is now head circulation California library, Santa Barbara. librarian at Oregon State University, Cor­ JAMES MoNTGOMERY is bibliographer for vallis. She had been assistant librarian at South American studies at the Joint Univer­ the University of North Dakota, Grand sity libraries, Nashville. Forks. DAVID OYLER has accepted a position as RoBERT McAFEE, JR., has been appointed assistant circulation librarian at Oregon geology librarian at the natural sciences State University, Corvallis. libraries, Columbia University, New York. BEATRICE PADDOCK is the humanities ref­ EDwARD N. MAcCoNOMY will assume the erence librarian at University of Wichita duties of chief of the stack and reader divi­ (Kan.) Ablah library. sion of the Library of Congress, on April 1. MERLE PAULSON is the new periodicals li­ Dr. MacConomy has been librarian of Al­ brarian at Ablah library, University of Wich­ bion (Mich.) College since February of 1961. ita, Kan.

162 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES VERNON E. PoRTERFIELD is now assistant SAMUEL WADDELL has been appointed ref­ librarian at Trinity University, San Antonio, erence librarian in the medical library, Co­ Tex. He was head of technical processes at lumbia University, New York. Arizona State University, Tempe. HERMINE MAE WATTERSON is now assistant GLORIEUX RAYBURN is now a reference li­ reference librarian in the engineering and brarian in Columbia University's business physical sciences division, Columbia Univer­ library, New York. sity libraries, New York. MRs. SHIFRA RIN is a cataloger in the for­ RoNALD WEIHER is an information librar­ eign languages section of the descriptive cat· ian at the University of Kansas City (Mo.) aloging division, Library of Congress. Mrs. general library, He had been on the staff at Rin has been Hebraic cataloger at Brandeis Kansas City Junior College. University library, Waltham, Mass. RuTH WHITE was recently appointed li­ BENTON F. ScHEIDE is the new reader's brarian of ALA headquarters library. services librarian, San Diego (Calif.) State FRANCES WILSON has been named to the College. He was formerly director of librar­ technical services staff at U ni versi ty of ies at Northeast Missouri State Teachers Col­ Kansas City (Mo.) libraries. lege, Kirksville. PHILIP B. YAMPOLSKY is now assistant head NANCY CAROLYN SHOFNER is a new staff of the Japanese section of the East Asian member at Price Gilbert library, Georgia In­ library, Columbia University, New York. stitute of Technology, Atlanta. RuTH TANIS YouNGBERG is assistant catalog MRS. BASILIANE SIDERAKIS is an assistant librarian at Oregon State University, Cor­ cataloger at Columbia University libraries, vallis. New York. FOREIGN LIBRARIES HAROLD SIROONIAN has been appointed li­ brarian of Lamont Geological Observatory GERHARD LIEBERS took over in January the library, Columbia University, New York. directorship of the University of M iinster BYRON L. SMITH is working with the social library, West Germany. Dr. Liebers had for science and acquisitions departments at San some time been assistant librarian at the Diego (Calif.) State College. University of Gottingen in West Germany. DAVID ALAN SMITH is now a serials cat­ At Munster he succeeds Walter Bahuis, who aloger in the descriptive cataloging division, died suddenly in the early summer of 1961. Library of Congress. Mr. Smith has been a cataloger at the National Library of Med­ RETIREMENTS icine, Washington, D.C. MRs. MARTHA M. SMITH has joined the LEWIS H. THACKER of the general refer­ catalog department at Northwestern Univer­ ence and bibliography division of Library sity, Evanston, Ill. of Congress retired in January after more STANLEY SwANSON is senior cataloger at than thirty-five years of service. Mr. Thacker Oregon State University library, Corvallis. joined the staff in 1927, serving first as a He was until recently librarian at Nebraska reading room assistant, then in the Smith­ State Teacher's College, Chadron. sonian division, and in the correspondence RuTH SwiNSON has joined the readers' serv­ and reference section and the Thomas J ef­ ices staff of Northwestern State College of ferson room of the reference and bibliog­ Louisiana, Natchitoches. raphy division. THO BURN TAGGART, JR., became social sci­ ence reference librarian at the University of NECROLOGY Wichita (Kan.) Ablah library in September. He was assistant librarian at Nebraska State EDITH M. CouLTER, head of the periodicals Teachers College, Wayne. department at Stanford (Calif.) University RAYMOND NAI-WEN TANG is assistant cata· library for several years before 191 I, and loger at the East Asian library, Columbia thereafter lecturer, assistant professor, asso­ University, New York. ciate professor, and professor of library sci­ S. DAVID THURMAN, III has been appoint­ ence at University of California, Berkeley, ed assistant librarian at ALA headquarters. from 1945 to 1949 when she retired, died on

MARCH 1963 163 January 27. She was a graduate of Stan­ became classifier at the University of Chi­ ford (1905), of the New York State Library cago library, and head classifier in 1916. Dr. School, Albany (1907). She was awarded the Jacobsen returned to Decorah as the first Isadore Gilbert Mudge citation by ALA in full-time librarian of Luther College in 1920. 1961. He served as Luther librarian until his re­ ADELE FISHER, assistant librarian and cat­ tirement in 1949. While still at Luther, he aloger of the Northwestern University Den­ directed the reorganization of the library tal School library, passed away on Decem­ at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, ber 21. Her professional career included Minn., and after his retirement from Luther, work at Temple Sholem, the Chicago Public he served as librarian there until 1953. He library, and twenty years at Northwestern also was consultant in the reorganization of University Dental School library. the library at Chicago Lutheran Theolog­ KARL T. JAcoBSEN, librarian emeritus of ical Seminary, Maywood, Ill., and of the Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, died on Jan­ Central Lutheran Theological Seminary, uary 16. Dr. Jacobsen was graduated from Fremont, Nebr. He directed the organization Luther College in 1902. After a year's ap­ of the library of Pacific Lutheran Seminary, prenticeship at the State Historical Society Berkeley, Calif., and initiated the organiza­ library at Madison, Wis., he became cata­ tion of the library at Luther Seminary, Sas­ loger in the Library of Congress. In 1911 he katoon, Saskatchewan. • •

ACRL Rare Books Section/RSD History Section Preconference

The Rare Books Section of ACRL and the History Section of RSD will have a preconference on Friday and Saturday before the annual ALA \ conference at Chicago in July. Preconference headquarters will be the Knickerbocker hotel, and meetings will probably be held at Newberry library, and on the campuses of University of Chicago and Northwestern University, on July 12 and 13. The theme of the conference will be "Western Americana." The meet­ ings will deal with broad subject areas within the topic. Each subject area will be covered by a historian and a bibliographer expert in that particular subject. The meetings will commence Friday morning and continue through Saturday evening. Complete programs and registration forms will be mailed on May I. Members of the Planning Committee for the preconference are Robert Rosenthal, curator of the special collections, University of Chicago library; Colton Storm, curator of the Ayer collection, Newberry library; and Ken­ neth Nebenzahl, 333 N. Michigan Ave., all of Chicago. Local arrange­ ments are being handled under the chairmanship of Richard D. Olson, curator of rare books and special collections, Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill., assisted by Donald W. Krummel, head of the reading room at Newberry library and Robert Adelsperger, assistant ref­ erence librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago. • •

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