News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS Frank, who was a friend of Calvin Coolidge. Seventy-six Stearns-Coolidge letters contrib- BAKER UNIVERSITY , 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 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 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 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 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 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 . 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. by the ALA International Relations Round Table. Volume 1, number 1 (October 1957) The Alma College Library: A Survey has indicates that its aim is to keep readers been published by ALA. It is a report of a "aware of activity in the international li- study conducted on the Alma campus last brary field." Edited by Helen E. Wessells, fall by Richard B. Harwell and Robert L. the publication is expected to be issued at Talmadge. A few copies of the survey are least four times a year. available for purchase through the ACRL office at $2.00 each. HELLMUT LEHMANN-HAUPT is the author of The Life of the Book (London and New The reference section of the PACIFIC York: Abelard-Schuman, 1957, 240p., illus., NORTHWEST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION has pub- $3.50). Especially for those unfamiliar with lished Who's Who Among Pacific Northwest the terminology of book-making, he has de- Authors. scribed in readable style how books are writ- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES FIELD STAFF ten, published, printed, designed, sold, read, has announced a new subscription policy for and collected. Numerous illustrations enliven its series of publications. AUFS now provides this consideration of both the historical back- subscribing institutions with up to five copies grounds and current problems of the book of all reports as they are published for an industry. annual fee of $100. This plan is in addition A WORK OF IMPORTANCE to Renaissance re- to the existing arrangement whereby colleges searchers and historians is The Lumley Li- and universities can purchase up to thirty- brary; the Catalogue of 1609, edited by Fran- five copies of all reports for $500 per year. cis R. Johnson (Stanford) and Sears Jayne AUFS reports on contemporary foreign (Virginia) and published by the British Mu- affairs are prepared by its staff, each of whom seum. The book presents a significant picture is selected for his knowledge of a particular of the tastes and intellectual interests of a area. Between visits to the eleven sponsoring cultivated seventeenth-century Englishman. universities and colleges, each AUFS writer COLLEGE AND RESEARCH will be makes regular, extended stays in his foreign interested in the October, 1957, issue of area. The reports provide teaching and re- Library Trends, issued by the University of search material and are a source of up-to- Illinois Library School. This issue, entitled date information for students of foreign af- "Research in Librarianship," was edited by fairs.

40 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION at the University of Virginia. Financed by has announced the publication of Public a grant of $41,500 from the Council on Li- Papers of the Presidents of the United States. brary Resources, this experiment is designed The first of these annual volumes, compiled to determine the usefulness of such installa- by the National Archives and Records Serv- tions to permit decentralized consultation of ice, will cover 1957. Volumes covering previ- centralized resources. Essentially the plan is ous years are being considered. simple: anyone in a branch library on cam- pus can telephone the main library over a MISCELLANEOUS special line and ask to see a particular book; THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT has estab- a clerk places the book under a TV camera lished the Japan Information Center of Sci- and attaches a remote-control page turner. ence and Technology. The organization is In practice some technical difficulties have supported by government and private funds. been noted. To focus the study more sharply, It will serve as a center for organization and Richard Logsdon (Columbia), Herman Fuss- dissemination of domestic and foreign ma- ier (Chicago) and Scott Adams (National terial and will abstract and index periodical Institutes of Health), representing an advis- literature on science and technology. Toshi- ory committee of CLR, have suggested that sada Bekku is president, and S. Yoshioka is particular attention be given to searches director of the new institution. involving serial publication catalogs.

AT LEAST FOURTEEN SETS of the first supple- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRADUATE ment of the Library of Congress Catalog of LIBRARY SCHOOL will hold its twenty-third Printed Cards were furnished without vol- annual conference on July 7-9, 1958. Its title ume 59 (U.S. Congress. House—U.S. Steel). is "Iron Curtains and Scholarship: The Ex- Charles W. David, director of Longwood Li- change of Knowledge in a Divided World." brary, Kennett Square, Pa., is collecting sub- "The conference will be concerned with scriptions for this volume. If enough sub- such current and urgent problems as those scribers respond, the volume can be re- of the barriers to cultural exchange on both printed by J. W. Edwards at approximately sides of the iron curtain; the structure, vol- $20 a volume. Interested librarians should ume, and range of publishing on the other write to Dr. David. side of the iron curtain; American library A SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTATION under the holdings of iron curtain publications; the joint sponsorship of the Canadian Library range and value of the literature of the Com- Association and McGill University Library munist bloc in the sciences, the social sci- School will be held January 20-21, 1958. Dr. ences and the humanities; and the recipro- Ralph R. Shaw, professor, Graduate School cal effects of a freer exchange of knowledge." of Library Service, Rutgers University, will THE ASSOCIATION will be the seminar director. Further information hold its fifty-seventh annual meeting in may be obtained from Miss Yvonne North- Rochester, Minnesota, on June 2-6, 1958. wood, Canadian Library Association, 46 El- The theme of the meeting will be "Advances gin Street, Ottawa, Ontario. in Medical Library Practice." Thomas E. THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL BOOK SALE of Keys, librarian of the Mayo Clinic is con- the Summit (N.J.) College Club offered vention chairman. 25,000 volumes donated by local residents at A pre-convention activity is being planned prices ranging from 10 cents to $2.00. Since for Saturday, May 31. A series of refresher the project was initiated, $52,000 has been courses embracing many fields of medical li- realized by this organization affiliated with brary work will be given. Classes will be the American Association of University made up from the following subjects: admin- Women. The money is used for the club's istration, acquisitions, classification, catalog- scholarship fund. Libraries with vast reserves ing, non-book materials, photoduplication, of unwanted gifts may find it desirable to public relations, reference work, rare books,, work with similar local groups. history of medicine, bibliographic services, A PILOT PROJECT in closed-circuit television periodicals, binding, library architecture, applied to a library system is well under way equipment, and medical terminology.

JANUARY 1958 41 Personnel

The resignation of RALPH T. ESTERQUEST At Harvard I believe they still say with as director of the Midwest Inter-Library regard to administrative units that each tub Center leaves the Board of Directors of the must stand on its own bottom. If it is the Center with a consid- intention of Harvard to enlarge and erable task in the strengthen the tub for medical library facili- search for a succes- ties, the right man has been chosen. That sor. his new position represents a grand oppor- In his position at tunity for Ralph can be taken for granted; the Center, Ralph only a grand opportunity would have taken Esterquest wore a him from the cooperative library field to number of hats. As which he is so devoted.—Louis Kaplan. an executive secre- became director of libraries tary, he sat with the J. ELIAS JONES at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, on Board of Directors October 1, 1957. Mr. Jones was born on (composed of librar- October 18, 1916, and he graduated from ians and other uni- Western Reserve University in 1941 with an versity administra- RALPH ESTERQUEST A.B. degree in chemistry. The following year tors) and with the he received a B.S. in L.S. degree from West- Advisory Board (composed exclusively of ern Reserve. After three years of service with librarians). A look at the stacks of the Cen- the U.S. Army in World War II, he returned ter would convince any librarian that Ralph to assume a professional position in the was also a manager of a warehouse, storing Cleveland in 1945. From 1945 books, newspapers, pamphlets, advertising to 1947 he was research librarian of the Ferro specimens, microcopies, sound records, time- Corporation. In 1949 he became assistant tables, drawings, and maps in a manner head of Science and Technology at the little reminiscent of a library. He also wore Cleveland Public, and from 1952 until 1957 the hat of a diplomat, traveling far and wide, he served as chief of the Catalog Division. and writing at length to further this new He taught at the Rutgers University Gradu- manner of cooperation. At times, he was also ate School of Library Service in 1956 and at a salesman, selling to foundations the ideas the University of Denver Library School in which his Advisory Board and he were 1957. In 1951 he earned an A.M. degree in dreaming. modern languages from Western Reserve, To mention only these aspects of his work and he is presently working on his doctoral is to indicate the qualities required: pa- dissertation there. His professional activities tience, tact, the ability to speak well in pub- have been numerous and varied. He has lic and in private, the ability to make served as a member of the ALA Council friends, and, of course, intelligence. Which (1956-date), president of the Library Club of of these qualities he possesses to the highest Cleveland and Vicinity (1956-57), chairman degree I do not know, so well did he per- of the Northern Ohio Catalogers Regional form his many tasks. Group (1954-55), and chairman of the Com- Ralph has been appointed to the position mittee on Classification of the DCC (now of librarian to the Harvard Medical School, Resources and Technical Services Division, the School of Public Health, and the School 1954-date). In 1949-50 he was managing of Dental Medicine. He comes to that po- editor of the Enamelist Magazine, and he sition with a wealth of library experience has contributed articles on various phases of gained at Northwestern, Illinois, the Insti- porcelain enameling technology to ceramic tute for Advanced Study at Princeton, ALA journals.—L.S.T. headquarters, the Pacific Northwest Biblio- graphical Center, the University of Denver, The recently completed study of higher and the Midwest Center. educational needs for Florida as conducted

42 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES for the Board of Control for Florida Insti- JOHNNIE GIVENS succeeded LUCY HOWARD, tutions of Higher Learning included among retired, as librarian of Austin Peay State its recommendations a system of two-year College on January 1, 1958. Miss Givens had community colleges and two additional uni- been assistant librarian since 1946. She ob- versities—one for the lower east coast and tained her B.S. degree from the University the other for the Tampa Bay area on the of Tennessee, her B.S. in L.S. from Peabody west coast. The Legislature has voted funds Library School in 1949, and is a candidate for establishing six new community colleges for the M.A. from the Graduate Library and the west coast university, the name of School of the University of Chicago in 1958. which has not been decided, to be located in Those of us who have been associated with the suburbs of Tampa. her in state and regional professional activi- ELLIOTT HARDAWAY, who has been named ties are greatly pleased with the College's director of libraries for the new university, decision. Miss Givens is one of the most per- was President John S. Allen's first appoint- sonable, energetic, imaginative, attractive, ment. The library, which is to be located and professional-minded young librarians in centrally and is to dominate the campus the field today. The administration of Austin geographically and ideologically, is one of Peay is delighted with its own choice, and the three buildings for which $8,602,000 has there is every likelihood that the very con- been earmarked. Mr. Hardaway will have siderable potential Miss Givens possesses will the task of planning the building, selecting be encouraged in its application at this col- the staff, and assembling the book collection lege.—William H. Jesse. for a possible enrollment of 10,000 by 1970. He is ideally suited for these tasks. Through ROBERTA RYAN has been appointed li- serving as assistant director of libraries for brarian of South Georgia College, a member the University of Florida since 1955, he is of the University System of Georgia, Janu- acquainted with the state, and from its in- ary 1, 1958. Mrs. Ryan was graduated from ception he has participated in the thinking the Library School, George Peabody College and planning for the new university. Prior for Teachers, and has done graduate study to 1955, Mr. Hardaway served as associate at the University of Chicago Library School. director of libraries, Louisiana State Uni- She has held college appointments at Hardin versity; assistant chief, Information Centers Junior College, the College of William and Branch, Tokyo, Japan; librarian, North Da- Mary, Shorter College, and Georgia State kota Agricultural College; and on the staffs College for Women. She comes to South of the Library of Congress, East Carolina Georgia from the directorship of the Teachers College, and the University of Colquitt-Thomas Regional Library, Moul- Illinois. trie, Georgia. The appointment of Mrs. Ryan follows A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Mr. the resignation of KATHARINE S. DIEHL who Hardaway received the BA. (Latin) and assumed headship of the Department of M.A. (Mathematics) degrees from Vander- Library Services, College of Education, Uni- bilt and the B.S. in L.S. and M.S. in L.S. versity of Tennessee, January 1, 1958. from the University of Illinois. His keen idealistic interest in the place EVERETT T. MOORE, head of the reference of the library in higher education, his origi- department at the UCLA Library repre- nal thinking, and his resilient disposition sented ACRL and ALA at the inauguration will enable him to succeed in the tasks which of John Lowell Davis as president of Chap- few of us are called upon to accomplish man College, Orange, California, on De- simultaneously.—Stanley L. West. cember 6, 1957.

Appointments

ULF A. ABEL of the Kungliga Biblioteket, ment as exchange and gift librarian in the Stockholm, is serving on a year's appoint- University of Kansas Library. ,

JANUARY 1958 43 BURTON W. ADKINSON has been appointed AGNES M. DAVIS has been promoted to director of the Office of Scientific Informa- head of the Physical Sciences Reading tion at the National Science Foundation. Room, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Li- brary, Blacksburg, Virginia. RICHARD G. ARMS, formerly in charge of public relations for the General Electric JOHN DEGARA has been appointed librar- Company in Cincinnati, is now director of ian of the agriculture library at Ohio State the Historical and Philosophical Society of University. Ohio, which is located in the University of ANNA LAURA DODSON is now librarian of Cincinnati Library. the Division of Librarianship, Emory Uni- versity. RUTH BAUNER is librarian of the Instruc- tional Materials Center at Southern Illinois EDNA DWYER is circulation librarian, Idaho University. State College, Pocatello. H. , formerly librarian of MARGARET BENNETT became cataloger in DONALD FERRIS the Mercer University Library, Macon, Geor- the Martin Branch of the University of Ten- gia, in September, 1957. nessee, is librarian of the Institute of Agri- culture of the University of Minnesota. ELSIE BERGLAND is now forestry-veterinary , formerly acting director medicine librarian at the Colorado State THOMAS FRAZIER of the Drake University Library is in the University Library, Fort Collins, Colorado. catalog department of Michigan State Uni- JOHN A. BRASWELL, JR. has been order li- versity of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, brarian, University Library, American Uni- East Lansing. versity of Beirut, Lebanon since July 1, 1957. RALPH E. FRITZ is now acquisitions librar- PHILIP C. BROOKS, formerly head of the ian at the Kansas State Teachers College, Federal Record Center in San Francisco, is Emporia. librarian of the Harry S. Truman Library, WILLIAM A. GILLIARD, formerly chairman Independence, Missouri. of the Department of , St. John's University, Brooklyn, is director of STITH MALONE CAIN, formerly librarian of Illinois Wesleyan University, Blooming- libraries. ton, is librarian of Wisconsin State College, JOHN L. HAFENRICHTER is head of refer- Whitehead. ence, Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti. GEORGE H. CALDWELL, formerly assistant head of the European Exchange Section of ANNE HART, circulation librarian at Bates the Library of Congress, became documents College, Lewiston, Maine, since 1955, is now librarian at the University of Kansas on assistant librarian. July 15, 1957. MICHAEL G. HITCHINGS, acting assistant li- brarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library is assistant to the librarian, MARY CARTER in Wellington, New Zealand, holds the Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. Commonwealth Research Librarianship for ALICE CHARLTON, who recently retired as 1957-58 at the Lehigh University Library, chief catalog librarian, Stanford University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Libraries, has been appointed chief catalog The Ashland (Kentucky) Junior College librarian emeritus by the Stanford board of Library is the Ashland Center Library of the trustees. University of Kentucky Library. JESSIE HOP- JOHN L. CURRY, formerly librarian at WOOD HUGHES is the librarian. Roosevelt High School, West Palm Beach, ALVINA DES JARDINS is now assistant cata- Florida, is general reading room librarian log librarian at the Colorado State Univer- at Atlanta University. sity Library, Fort Collins, Colorado.

MARY L. DAVIE, formerly circulation li- ARDIS JENSEN, formerly a member of the brarian of Knoxville College, Knoxville, reference staff of the James Jerome Hill Ref- Tennessee, is acquisitions librarian in charge erence Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is of serials at Atlanta University. now catalog librarian.

44 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ALBERT M. JOHNSON, formerly chief librar- ROBERT W. MAUTNER, formerly catalog ian of the U.S. Veteran's Administration librarian, is periodicals librarian of the Ver- Medical Teaching Group Hospital, Mem- mont Avenue Campus of the Los Angeles phis, Tennessee, is head librarian of South- State College. western at Memphis. ELLEN B. MISKALL has joined the catalog RUTH CRAWFORD JONES is periodical librar- department at Northwestern University Li- ian at the University of Pittsburgh Library. brary.

JAMES R. KING, C.M., is chairman of the MILDRED MYERS is periodicals and exten- Department of Library Science, St. John's sion librarian at the Kansas State Teachers University, Brooklyn. College, Emporia.

JAMES KINGSLEY, formerly chief acquisi- HELEN RUSS O'CONNOR is catalog librarian tions librarian of the University of Minne- at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. sota, is chief bibliographer. HARALD OSTVOLD, formerly librarian of JOHN A. KNIGHT is now education librarian the Institute of Agriculture of the University at the Brooklyn College Library. of Minnesota, is now chief of the Science SHERRY L. KUEHL is library assistant, cir- and Technology Division of the New York culation department, Iowa State University Public Library. Library. ELAINE PANCOAST has joined the technical FRANCIS DUPONT LAZENBY, formerly assist- services division of the Northwestern Univer- ant professor of classics at the University of sity Library. Illinois, is graduate-research librarian, cura- , formerly education tor of the Treasure Room, and librarian of MARY ALICE PEAIRS librarian, is now curriculum librarian at the the Mediaeval Institute at the University of Los Angeles State College Library. Notre Dame. DONALD J. PEARCE has been appointed as- MARY RITA LINDBERG is assistant cataloger, sistant acquisition librarian at Ohio State Idaho State College, Pocatello. University. MRS. HAN HSIANG CHIU LIU, former librar- ian of Shorter College, Rome, Georgia, MARY G. REHMS is library supervisor, cat- joined the staff of the Columbia Theological alog department, Iowa State University Li- Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, as assistant li- brary. brarian-cataloger on September 1, 1957. MATT T. ROBERTS, formerly superintend- MRS. FRANK LOGAN, who was retired for ent of stacks at the University of Pennsyl- several years, has joined the staff of the vania Library, is reserve book librarian. Converse College Library, Spartanburg, ELIZABETH RODDA is now acquisitions li- South Carolina. brarian at the Kansas State Teachers Col- JOHN DAVID MARSHALL, formerly reference lege, Pittsburg. librarian at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, HELEN RUGG, formerly reference librarian is now acquisitions librarian of the Univer- of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library, sity of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Minneapolis, Minnesota, was promoted to WILLIAM R. MADDEN is reference librarian associate librarian on September 15, 1957. at the Vermont Avenue Campus of the Los LUCY K. RUMBLE is assistant director for Angeles State College. technical processes, Colorado State Univer- JESS A. MARTIN, formerly librarian of the sity Library, Fort Collins, Colorado. San Diego, California, County Medical Soci- ELMA ST. JOHN is now serials-acquisitions ety, is head of technical processes, Convair librarian at the Colorado State University Astronautics Technical Library, San Diego. Library, Fort Collins, Colorado. ALEXANDER MASON, formerly assistant ref- ALMA D. STARKIE, formerly chief librarian erence librarian for the World Book Encyclo- of the British Council Libraries in Spain, is pedia, is special collections cataloger at the assistant reference librarian at the Univer- University of Kansas Library. sity of Kansas.

JANUARY 1958 45 GEORGE A. SUMMENT is bibliographer at in the Division of Librarianship, Emory Uni- the Kansas State College Library, Manhattan. versity, in September, 1957. MARY E. TIMBERLAKE, formerly librarian JOHN ZIMMERMAN became librarian of of Newberry College, Newberry, South Caro- Maryland State Teachers College, Frostburg, lina, is now reference librarian at the Uni- Maryland, in September, 1957. versity of South Carolina. She is assisted in Recent appointments to the University of this department by JOHN BOYD, formerly of Kansas City Libraries are: MURIEL BURKE, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute Library, assistant cataloger; CARMEN PURA JIMINEZ, Auburn, Alabama, and JANE BYRD. law cataloger; LARUE SOWER, chief cataloger. ELMA CLAIRE TROMBLE is librarian at the The following professional appointments Garden City (Kansas) Junior College and have been made at the University of Nebras- Senior High . ka Library: MARGARET COOPER, assistant librarian, Public Service Division; KATH- WALTER F. VELLA is now head of the John G. White Collection of Folklore and ERINE SLAGLE, assistant librarian, College of Oriental Studies at the Cleveland Public Medicine; WINFRED TAYLOR, receiving li- Library. brarian, Technical Service Division; HELEN TONER, assistant librarian, College of Medi- ROLAND VILUMS has been appointed cat- cine; and JEAN TROUTMAN, assistant librar- aloger, Ohio State University. ian, social studies division. LUCILE WAGNER is now circulation librar- The following appointments have been ian at the Kansas State Teachers College, made recently at the University of North Pittsburg. Carolina Library: LOUISE MCG. HALL, head of the reference department; PATTIE B. MC- GLENN WHALEY became head of reference services at the Drake University Library, INTYRE, assistant head of the reference de- Des Moines, Iowa, on July 15, 1957. partment; CATHERINE MAYBURY, head of the documents department; WILLIAM S. POWELL, JOHN P. WILKINSON, formerly assistant li- special assistant for special collections; BETTY brarian, Ontario College of Education, is GRAY ZOUCK, librarian for the botany and now assistant director of libraries for social zoology libraries. studies in the University of Nebraska Library. Recent appointments at Stanford Univer- BETTY RUTH WILSON has been appointed sity Libraries include: FREDERICK E. BRASCH, loan librarian at Randolph-Macon Woman's consultant in bibliography; GEORGE T. KEAT- College Library. ING, honorary curator in musical bibliog- raphy; , senior science librar- JOHN RUSSELL WOODARD became reference ELLEN RIEDEL librarian at Mercer University, Macon, Geor- ian; IRVING WHITTEMORE ROBBINS, JR., hon- gia, September, 1957. orary curator of rare books and manuscripts; ELMER E. ROBINSON, honorary curator of MAY YANG is reference assistant at the Americana; ALBERT SPERISEN, honorary cura- Northwestern University Library. tor of typography; GEORGE VDOVIN, assistant MARTHA JANE ZACHERT became instructor chief of science division.

Necrology

HENRIETTA HOWELL, head of the catalog Congress before going to Cincinnati in 1946. department, University of Cincinnati Li- She held many important posts in DCC. brary, died on November 1, 1957 after an Henrietta Howell was a teacher and leader illness of seven weeks. She was fifty years to her staff. In personality quiet and unob- of age. trusive, in character firm and principled, in A graduate of Kentucky (A.B.) and Illi- professional knowledge thorough and con- nois (B.S. and M.A. in library science), she structive, she exemplified the ideals of her served on the staffs of the University of Ten- native state, Kentucky, and of our profes- nessee, Florida State, and the Library of sion.—Arthur T. Hamlin.

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EIGHTY- SEVEN COLLEGE or university li- Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. (Mar- braries have received sub-grants through the garet Horn) ACRL Foundation Grants Committee from Connecticut College, New London, Conn. funds granted to ALA and ACRL by the (Hazel A. Johnson) United States Steel Foundation, the New David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tenn. York Times, and Remington Rand. Sixty- (Mary Glenn Mason, assistant librarian) four of the grants, ranging in amount from Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. (Robert $200 to $600, were awarded from the U. S. W. Agard) Steel gift. The ten grants from funds dis- Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, tributed for the New York Times vary in Va. (Saide A. Hartzler) amount from $250 to $800. Thirteen grants, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, 111. (Jay W. of from $200 to $500, were made from the Stein) Remington Rand gift. Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. Grants were determined by ACRL's com- (Helen Power) mittee from more than six hundred applica- Evansville College, Evansville, Ind. (Thomas tions from approximately three hundred col- S. Harding) lege and university libraries. The committee, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. (Arna which met in New York in late fall, includes Bontemps) Arthur Hamlin, chairman; Humphrey G. Goucher College, Towson, Md. (Sarah D. Bousfield, Mrs. Dorothy M. Crosland, Theo- Jones) dore A. Distler, Robert W. Orr, Luella R. Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. (Walter Pollock, Benjamin B. Richards, and Richard Pilkington) B. Harwell. Harding College, Searcy, Ark. (Annie May Alston) U. S. STEEL GRANTS Hendrix College,, Conway, Ark. (Mrs. H. W. Kamp) Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Tex. Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111. (Deckard (Callie Faye Milliken) Ritter) Allen University, Columbia, S. C. (Georgia Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, E. Cooke) 111. (Rodney J. Ferguson) Alma College, Alma, Mich. (Helen C. Mac- Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Curdy) (Wilma Mosholder) Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark. (Dorothy Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. (H. A. Sydenstricker) Brubaker) Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pa. (Mary E. Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. (Don- Wheatley) ald E. Fields) Bennington College, Bennington, Vt. (Mary Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Ore. S. Hopkins) (Laurence Tomlinson) Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va. (Edna Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va. (Mary Woolery) H. Bassett) Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Santa Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va. (Ger- Maria Ponce (Sister St. Angeles) trude C. Davis) Central College, Pella, Iowa (Alice Lam- Mercer University, Mason, Ga. (Charles H. mers) Stone) Chapman College, Orange, Calif. (Fanny S. Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C. (Hazel Carlton) Baity) College of Saint Scholastica, Duluth, Minn. Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss. (Bethany (Sister M. Antonine) Swearingen) College of the Sacred Heart, Santurce, P. R. Monmouth College, West Long Branch, (Maria Luisa C. Quinoves) N. J. (Janet E. H. Hobbie)

JANUARY 1958 47 Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa NEW YORK TIMES GRANTS (Blanche V. Watts) Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. (William Mount Mercy College, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Sister W. Bennett) M. Cornelius) Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Warren Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. (John Tracy) S. Davidson) Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa (For- (Robert W. Evans) rest E. Brown) Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. (An- Drew University, Madison, N. J. (Arthur E. drew H. Horn) Jones, Jr.) Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Okla. Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. (Fran- (Lee B. Spencer) cis A. Small) Principia College, Elsah, 111. (Virginia Hall) Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. (Odrun E. Peterson) (Edward A. Chapman) Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. (Benja- Rider College, Trenton, N. J. (Theodore min M. Lewis) Epstein) Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio (Ruth T. Rosary College, River Forest, 111. (Sister Whitcomb) Mary Tobias) University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Conn. Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, (Lewis M. Ice) Ind. (Carson W. Bennett) Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Sacred Heart Dominican College, Houston, Va. (Henry E. Coleman, Jr.) Tex. (Sister M. David) Saint Martin's College, Olympia, Wash. REMINGTON RAND GRANTS (Luke O'Donnell) Saint Michael's College, Winooski, Vt. (Vin- Associated Colleges at Claremont, Claremont, cent B. Maloney) Calif. (David W. Davis) Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. (Leigh Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C. (C. H. D. Jordahl) Marteena) Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N. Y. Colby College, Waterville, Me. (John R. (Ermine Stone) McKenna) Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, Tenn. College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Md. (Sis- (Claryse D. Myers) ter M. Madeline Sophie) Upsala College, East Orange, N. J. (Miriam Converse College, Converse, S. C. (Louisa Grosh) Carlisle) Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. (Robert Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. (John F. Sutton) A. Sperry) Ursuline College for Women, Cleveland, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Ohio (Sister M. Natalie) Va. (Paul L. Grier) Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. (Don- Hillyer College of the University of Hart- ald E. Thompson) Washington College, Chestertown, Md. (Rob- ford, Hartford, Conn. (Edward Hall ert G. Bailey) Broadhead) Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. (Katharine Marymount College, New York, N. Y. P. Carnes) (M. Agnes) Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah Talladega College, Talladega, Ala. (Mar- (Shirley Baughman) garet H. Scott) Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash. Western Maryland College, Westminster, (Ruth S. Reynolds) Md. (Elizabeth Simkins) William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss. Wheeling College, Wheeling, W. Va. (Jose- (Ruth B. Duncan) phine Savaro) Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. (Her- (Hans Fabian) bert Hucks)

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