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News from the Field ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS Frank, who was a friend of Calvin Coolidge. Seventy-six Stearns-Coolidge letters contrib- BAKER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Baldwin, ute to the value of this correspondence. Kan., has received $2,500 from an anony- mous Kansas City businessman and $4,000 EASTERN MONTANA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION from the Board of Education of the Metho- has acquired the Dudley White collection of dist Church to build its reference collection. western historical material. The two thou- sand books, photographs, and maps were THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO LIBRARIES amassed by Mr. White for the study of Mon- have been given an exact facsimile of the tana history. forty-two-line Gutenberg Bible published by Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, in 1913-14. The donor JOSEPH RUBEINSTEIN, head of the Depart- is Dr. Charles W. Bullock, a retired chemist ment of Special Collections of the University who earned four degrees at the university. of Kansas Library, has recently returned from a buying trip in Europe. His purchases THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY, there were largely in the field of the con- Berkeley, has been enriched by an extensive tinental Renaissance. collection of music, rare books, and manu- THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN has received scripts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and a grant of $5000 from the Council on Library eighteenth centuries. Formerly owned by Dr. Resources Inc., for a National Conference Aldo Olschki of Florence, Italy, the collec- on the Undergraduate and the Lifetime tion is especially valuable for its items on Reading Habit to take place in Ann Arbor music theory, musicology, and its early on February 21-22, 1958. The conference will scores. The Olschki collection will be housed include discussion of the role of the college with the music library when it moves to May T. Morrison Hall, the new music building and university library. soon to be completed. PLAYWRIGHT MAXWELL ANDERSON has pre- sented a collection of original manuscripts UCLA and THE LIBRARY JOHNS HOPKINS to the University of North Dakota Library. have acquired by joint UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Written in ink in ordinary ledgers, the acquisition the private library of Dr. Lis scripts reveal poet-dramatist's working tech- Jacobsen. The collection covers early Scan- nique. It is expected that additional manu- dinavian and Icelandic cultures and includes scripts and papers will be added from time works in the fields of early Scandinavian law, to time by Anderson who is a 1911 graduate religion, folksongs, and verse. of the university. signed by TWENTY-ONE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA has John Henry Newman and two by his broth- acquired a Bible inscribed by William Penn er, Francis, have been added to the Cardinal in 1705 for presentation to his son, John. Newman collection in Dinand Library, Holy The book had been in the possession of the Cross College, Worcester, Mass. The Rev. family of the late Judge John M. Patterson J. Richard Quinn donated six of the cardi- who bought it in 1916. nal's letters and those of his brother. The remainder were included in the rich New- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has been man collection presented by the Rev. George given 5,000 volumes by Robert J. and Rich- J. Donahue of Norwich, Conn. This group ard P. Kern, publishers of the Belleville of materials included twenty-one first edi- News-Democrat. The collection is from the library of the late Fred J. Kern, and includes tions, among them The Dream of Gerontius work on early twentieth-century politics, eco- (1866). nomics, and history. Dinand Library has received some fifteen hundred books and the papers of the late UNDER A NEW NAME, the Tamiment Insti- Foster Stearns, a former librarian of the col- tute Library of New York City continues to lege. Included are 304 letters of his father, offer unique opportunities to study materials 38 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES in the history of American labor and radical and totals 366 lines. The title is listed in a movements. The collection includes the catalog published in 1697 but no copy of Meyer London Memorial Library, the Eu- the poems had ever been found so it was gene V. Debs collection, and American La- presumed lost. The manuscript containing bor Archives. the poems was discovered by James Osborn in a London bookshop last March. While ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS of Greek manuscripts, sixty-one volumes com- cataloging the volume, he was able to dem- prising some one hundred works, many not onstrate the identity of the work. previously available, has been donated to the BUILDINGS Yale University Library. The donor is the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust, Boston, THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has founded in 1950 by the bequest of a promi- opened its $3,500,000 library named after the nent Fall River textile industrialist. The late Morris Raphael Cohen, a faculty mem- bulk of the collection comes from the famous ber for thirty-six years. A four-story, glass- library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, nineteenth- enclosed structure, the library has a capacity century bibliophile. Oldest of the manu- of 600,000 volumes and can accomodate 1,600 scripts is a psalter written about 900 A.D. readers. When in full operation, the library The most recent, a manual of sign language, will contain the present collection of 450,000 dates from the end of the seventeenth cen- volumes, including 35,000 that have been tury. The collection is especially rich in sec- stored for many years. ular texts. According to available records, A NEW BUILDING FOR MUSIC AND DRAMATIC more than thirty of this group are not in any ARTS has been occupied by the University of other North American collection. They in- Kansas. Included among its units is a music clude works in literature, law, music, medi- library complete with listening rooms. cine, philosophy, grammar, and military sciences. GROUND HAS BEEN BROKEN for the new Rocky Mountain College Library. Planned Yale University Library has been given the by Orr Pickering and associates, Billings, manuscript, together with American and Montana, the single-story functional build- Canadian publication rights, of Eugene ing will cost an estimated $250,000. In addi- O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet. Royalties tion to the customary units, it will contain from the publication of the play will be an audio-visual room and facilities for con- used for maintenance of the O'Neill collec- ferences. tion at Yale, and for the purchase of books on drama. TABOR COLLEGE, Hillsboro, Kan., dedi- The Yale Library has also received a cated its new library last fall. The building $20,000 gift from Adrian Van Sinderen for provides one of the better library installa- the establishment of two annual prizes of tions of its kind in the state. $500 and $300 for the best undergraduate book collections. The prize money will be PUBLICATIONS divided equally between the student and his THE SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Hamp- college library. The prizes are to be awarded shire Inter-Library Center, South Hadley, not on the basis of rarity or monetary value, Mass., reviews the activities of this success- but on the student's knowledge of the field ful cooperative enterprise for the year end- and the creativity revealed in forming the ing August 31, 1957. Special note is made of collection. Keyes D. Metcalf's survey The Hampshire Inter-Library Center; a Survey of Its Back- A SERIES OF MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ground and Problems with Recommenda- ENGLISH POEMS, lost nearly three hundred tions for Its Future. Copies of this study are years, has been discovered at Yale University. being distributed by HILC. The work of Thomas Stanley (1625-1678), the poems describe his intimate relationships THE AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY AS- with other Cavalier poets during the dark SOCIATION is proceeding with plans to revive days of Oliver Cromwell. The series bears the Index to Religious Periodical Literature the general title of "A Register of Friends" on a current basis beginning with 1957. Ap- JANUARY 1958 39 proximately fifty periodicals (chiefly in Eng- the Committee on Research of the Associa- lish) will be indexed. An annual volume tion of American Library Schools. The pa- with a three-year cumulation is being pers discuss past research and suggest areas planned. Assisted by a grant from the Sealan- for future investigation. tic Foundation, the project is being edited by THE UNIQUE FILE of the Panama Star and Dr. Lucy W. Markeley at Seabury-Western Herald, oldest English-language newspaper Theological Seminary, Evanston, 111. Further on the West Coast, is being microfilmed by information may be obtained from Dr. the firm of N. A. Kovach (4801-09 Second Markeley. Ave., Los Angeles 43). The files of this peri- THE 1956-57 ANNUAL REPORT of Kress Li- odical, published continuously since 1849, are brary of Business and Economics, Harvard an untapped mine of source material on the University is brief but it affords a revealing mass migration during the Gold Rush. The view of the management of this important years from 1850 to 1870 should be available special collection. this month. THE NOVEMBER, 1957 ISSUE of Junior Col- TECHNICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATES will pub- lege Journal contains "A Survey of the Lit- lish Technical Contents. It is to be a monthly erature on the Junior College Library" by compilation of the tables of contents of ap- Sister Carlos Maria Miller, R.S.M., librarian proximately 100 journals in the fields of of Mount Aloysius Junior College, Cresson, mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, Pa. and electronics. W. Roy Holleman is presi- dent of the organization which has its office A "FACT SHEET" titled Leads is being issued at 11261 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles 34.

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