News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS Rackham's correspondence with the pro- ducer, Sydney Carroll.

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY of Oxford Univer- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has been presented sity has announced a gift by Paul Mellon o£ with the papers of Mark Van Doren, Pul- the personal library of John Locke, English itzer Prize poet and professor emeritus of philosopher and scholar. The collection, con- English at Columbia University, who retired sisting of 835 printed books and eleven man- last year after thirty-nine years of teaching uscripts, and including works on philosophy, at Columbia. Included in the vast collection theology, natural science, and medicine, is of nearly twenty thousand items are original considered by authorities to be one of the manuscripts, notes, typescripts, galleys, let- most important extant collections of books ters, and annotated printed books. These of an individual Englishman. Mr. Mellon, will be housed in Columbia's Special Collec- son of the late Andrew W. Mellon (former tions Library. Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador to CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been pre- Britain), will retain possession and use of the sented with a rare first edition of Henry books during his lifetime. Any microfilm Fielding's novel, The two copies required by Oxford will be made and Joseph Andrews. volumes, published in 1742 by A. Miller, given to the library. London bookseller, are finely bound in mottled calf with gold tooling and bear the BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has received armorial bookplate of a former owner, Lau- the gift of a private collection of almost rence Currie, an English collector. The gift, eight hundred books, pamphlets, manuscripts, made by three undergraduates—Carol Gitt- and prints by and about Leonardo Da Vinci. lin, Nancy Rosenthal, and Judith Yusem— The donor is Bern Dibner, bibliophile and is in memory of their roommate, Carolyn J. engineer of Wilton, Conn., who made the Rieger of Brooklyn. gift from his distinguished collection of ma- terials on the history of science. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has acquired the complete papers of Wyndham Lewis, THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LIBRARY London painter, writer, and philosopher. In- is the recipient of eight fifteenth-century vol- cluded in the collection are nearly six thou- umes on history and theology from Jonas sand letters from some of the most eminent Bikoff, wholesaler and noted New York State literary and artistic figures of the century. rare book collector. The volumes include a The collection contains over eleven hundred 1471 volume of Luctus Christianorum ex of the author's own letters, some written to Passione Christi by Nicolas Jenson of Venice his mother and grandmother from his school and a first edition of St. Augustine's City of days to his army service in World War I. God printed by Koberger in 1473. Available also are many of the Lewis books in the succession of states most prized by THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES have scholars: rough notes, first draft, revised type- been presented with many of the original script, revised galley, revised page proof and, drawings and paintings of Arthur Rackham, in many instances, first edition. Thousands noted English book illustrator whose illustra- of pages of manuscript for his wide-ranging tions for children's books moved one critic to lectures and essays are present in the collec- call him "court painter to King Oberon and tion. Queen Titania." The donors, Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred C. Berol of New York City, made the THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI has been pre- initial gift to the Rackham collection in sented with the personal library of Dr. 1956, and added sketches and water-color Phanor James Eder, distinguished interna- painting in 1957. The recent presentation tional attorney of New York. The collection includes twenty pencil and water-color draw- consists of more than eleven hundred books ings for costumes used in the stage produc- and bound volumes of rare pamphlets on tion of Hansel and Gretel in 1933-34, with (Continued on page 232)

MAY 19 60 229 ACRL Meeting;

George W. Brown, noted Canadian edu- "The New Standards and Their Significance cator, will typify the binational spirit of the for the 1960's." Montreal Conference as ACRL's speaker for "Collecting in the Field of Science" will its membership meeting, Tuesday evening, be the subject of the Rare Books Section's June 21. In his talk, "North Americanism: program scheduled for Monday morning, Our Canadian and American Patterns," Dr. June 20, in the lledpath Library of McGill Brown will compare the institutions and University. Speakers will include Bern Dib- cultural characteristics of Canada and the ner, engineer and bibliophile from Norwalk, United States. Dr. Brown is best known as Conn.; Jacob Zeitlin, Los Angeles book the editor of the Dictionary of Canadian dealer; and Richard Pennington, librarian Biography. He is also a professor of history of McGill. The program will be followed by at the University of Toronto. a luncheon in the Redpath Library. The James S. Coles, president of Bowdoin Col- section will hold a "sherry hour" in Mc- lege, F. Taylor Jones, executive secretary of Gill's Osier Library in the afternoon. the Middle States Association of Colleges The Subject Specialists Section plans an and Secondary Schools, and Felix E. Hirsch, all-day tour to visit special libraries in Ot- librarian of Trenton State College and tawa on Tuesday, June 21. Reservations may chairman of the ACRL Committee on Stand- be made at the ALA ticket desk in Montreal. ards will speak to the College Libraries Sec- The Art Sub-Section of the Subject Special- tion on "Implementation of ALA Standards ists Section will have a dinner (followed by for College Libraries" at the University of a business meeting) on Monday, June 20. Montreal, Tuesday afternoon, June 21. As part of the tour to Ottawa this group Library standards will be the subject also will make a special visit to the Canadian of the program planned by the Junior Col- National Gallery. lege Libraries Section for its meeting, Mon- A panel discussion of "Standards for School day, June 20. Felix Hirsch will speak on Library Programs" will constitute the pro-

OPEN MEETINGS

ACRL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Tuesday, June 21, 8:00 P.M. (Windsor Hotel).

Section Meetings:

College Libraries Section: Tuesday, June 21, 2:00 P.M. (University of Montreal).

Junior College Libraries Section: Monday, June 20, 4:30 P.M.

Rare Books Section: Monday, June 20, 10:00 A.M. (McGill University); luncheon 12:30 P.M.; sherry hour 4:00 P.M.

Subject Specialists Section: Tuesday, June 21 (tour to Ottawa).

Art Librarians Sub-Section: Monday, June 20, 6:30 P.M. (dinner followed by busi- ness meeting until 10:00 P.M.); Tuesday, June 21 (tour to Ottawa with Subject

Specialists Section, including visit to National Gallery, 1:30-4:00 P.M.).

Law and Political Science Sub-Section: Monday, June 20, 8:30 P.M.

Teacher Education Libraries Section: Tuesday, June 21, 4:30 P.M. (University of Montreal).

University Libraries Section: Sunday, June 19, 8:00 P.M.

230 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES at Montreal

gram sponsored by the Teacher Education brary, Ypsilanti. Dr. Erickson will be mod- Libraries Section and ALA's American As- erator of the panel. sociation of School Librarians at the Uni- The University Libraries Section plans a versity of Montreal, Tuesday, June 21. panel discussion for its meeting Sunday eve- Panelists will include Rachel W. DeAngelo, ning, June 19. The topic for the program coordinator of the library education pro- will be "Storage Libraries and Storage Prob- gram, Queens College; Frances Breen, librar- lems." Ralph H. Hopp, associate director of ian, State University Teachers College, the University of Minnesota Libraries, Lee Plattsburg, N. Y.; Marion W. Taylor, assist- Ash, editor and research analyst for Yale ant professor of library science, Chicago University Library's selective book retirement Teachers College; Walter S. Wilson, super- program, and Fred Dimock, head of the cir- intendent, Massena (N. Y.) Central Schools; culation department at the University of Charlotte M. Coye, librarian, Osborn High Michigan Library will each discuss a differ- School, Detroit; and Walfred Erickson, ent aspect of the storage problems of univer- director, Eastern Michigan University Li- sity libraries.

CLOSED MEETINGS

ACRL Committee Meetings: Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organiza- tions: Monday, June 20, 8:30 P.M. Committee to Explore the Relationship Between the Law Library and the General Library of a University: Wednesday, June 22, 8:30 A.M. Committee on Constitution and Bylaws: Sunday, June 19, 4:30 P.M. Committee on the Duplicates Exchange Union: Sunday, June 19, 4:30 P.M. Committee on Grants: Monday, June 20, 4:30 P.M. Nominating Committee: Tuesday, June 21, 4:30 P.M. Committee on Organization: Sunday, June 19, 4:30 P.M.; Monday, June 20, 8:30 P.M. Publications Committee: Monday, June 20, 8:30 P.M. Committee on Standards: Tuesday, June 21, 4:30 P.M. State Representatives: Tuesday, June 21, 4:30 P.M.

Section Committee Meetings: Steering Committee, College Libraries Section: Monday, June 20, 6:30 P.M. (dinner). Steering Committee, Subject Specialists Section:' Monday, June 20, 4:30 P.M. Committee on Academic Status, University Libraries Section: Tuesday, June 21, 10:00 A.M. Committee on Research and Development, University Libraries Section: Monday, June 20, 4:30 P.M.; Thursday, June 23, 8:30 A.M. Steering Committee, University Libraries Section: Tuesday, June 21, 8:30 A.M. Committee on University Library Surveys, University Libraries Section: Monday, June 20, 8:30 A.M. Committee on Urban University Libraries, University Libraries Section: Monday, June 20, 12 M. (luncheon, followed by business meeting).

Board of Directors Meetings: Monday, June 20, 10:00 A.M.; Tuesday, June 21, 10:00 A.M.

MAY 1960 231 Colombia and other Latin American coun- The project was financed by the Ford Foun- tries. The items span four centuries and em- dation. Professor C. Martin Wilbur, director brace history, botany, economics, linguistics, of Columbia's East Asian Institute, was proj- ethnology, archaeology, natural history, art, ect chairman. Documentary information on travel, literature, and biography. the Communist movements, in China and North Korea fills about 40 per cent of the THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARY microfilmed archives. According to Professor has received a collection of rare and valuable Wilbur, the microfilms "should be of tre- works on orchids and their culture from the mendous value to historians specializing in family of the late George C. VanDusen, East Asia. . . . No historian has had such grain-milling industrialist of Excelsior, Minn. detailed information on the Japanese army Among the outstanding items is a massive and navy in relation to Japanese politics." four-volume set of the Imperial Edition of Copies of the microfilms of the archives may Sander's Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated be purchased from the Library of Congress. and Described (London: 1888-1894). THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA has presented THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has ac- the University of Maryland Library with a quired the original field notes of William complete set of the histories of twenty-five Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedi- Chinese dynasties. The set, which includes tion. The notes, containing many personal 934 volumes covering more than three thou- observations unknown to historians, have sand years of Chinese history, was reprinted been given to the library by Frederick W. in Taiwan from the original wood-block- Beinecke of New York City, who purchased printed edition. them from the owner, Louis Starr of Prince- ton, N. J. (one of the Hammond heirs). BUILDINGS Known as the "Hammond Papers," Clark's notes were originally written before and THE HAMPSHIRE INTER-LIBRARY CENTER in during his journey up the Missouri River. South Hadley, Mass., announces that it will The documents will be added to the Yale move from its present quarters in Mount Collection of Western Americana. Photo- Holyoke's Williston Memorial Library to a graps of some of the manuscripts are avail- special unit in the new University of Massa- able on request to the Yale University News chusetts library addition. The expanding Bureau. HILC holdings of over fifteen thousand bound volumes and five special collections THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has ob- have reached capacity limits in the center's tained a rare 154-year-old map of the United present location. The new quarters will pro- States through funds given by Yale alumni vide bookstack space for 82,500 periodical for the university's collection of unusual volumes, a reading room for twenty to maps. The map, drawn for the "geographical twenty-eight readers, typing facilities for pat- amusement" of the "Youth of the United rons, three microfilm readers, and office room States," is a Parcheesi-like game now valu- to accommodate double the present staff. able to historians because it reveals not only something about early American parlor IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY is planning a "first games, but also some fascinating data about addition" to its library building at Ames. Eastern cities in 1806. Produced by Jacob The general, mechanical, and electrical speci- Johnson, a Philadelphia book dealer and fications have been completed by the archi- stationer, it is made of hand-laid rag paper tects, Brooks-Borg of Des Moines. The addi- backed with cloth and measures 33 x 26 tion, measuring 74 by 129 feet, will have five inches. levels for reader service and stack areas. The amount of floor space for library purposes ALMOST 500,000 PAGES of confidential in- will be about 75 per cent of that in the formation from the Japanese military ar- present building. Essential facts and illustra- chives have ben microfilmed and opened to tions showing the elevation and a cross sec- historians by a group of scholars from Co- tion of the building and the site plan are lumbia, Georgetown, Harvard, and Yale uni- given in the February 24, 1960 issue of The versities and from the Library of Congress. Library at Iowa State.

232 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES THE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Board of Trus- ern lighting facilities, for which the State tees has announced that a new library to of New Jersey allocated necessary funds cost about $1,800,000 is one of the primary about a year ago. goals of its long-term development program. BELOIT COLLEGE, Beloit, Wis., has an- A fund-raising campaign for this purpose nounced the construction of a $1,200,000 will begin this year. The campaign commit- library building as the first objective of its tee is headed by Mr. Joseph A Grazier of multimillion dollar development program. New York City, president of American Ra- Tentative plans call for a building with a diator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, book capacity of 350,000 volumes. It will in- and Mr. Edward A. Jesser, Jr. of Ridgewood, clude such features as an audio-visual center, N. J., president of the Peoples Trust Com- faculty study areas, seminars, a map library, pany of Hackensack. Plans for the new li- and classrooms for the library science depart- brary call for a building that will seat ap- ment. It is expected that the new library will proximately 450 readers and house 300,000 be completed not later than the fall of 1962. volumes.

MISSISSIPPI STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN MEETINGS may well be proud of the new three-story addition to its Fant Memorial Library. More A CONFERENCE on area studies and the reading and reference rooms have increased college library was held at the Brooklyn Col- the research and study area, cataloging fa- lege Library in April. The topics included cilities have been enlarged, space for books the nature and extent of publishing in a has been doubled, and a microfilm room and small country and in a large country, the conference room have been added. One of museum as a resource for area studies, mu- the outstanding features is the Culbertson tual appreciation of East-West values, sources Room, named in honor of Beulah Culbert- of area studies materials, cataloging and son, librarian for almost fifty years. The servicing area studies materials, and a bib- room contains MSCW's collection of ar- liography of non-Western civilizations. Illus- chives and books by Mississippi authors. trative exhibits were on display in the li- brary. Through a grant-in-aid made by the STANFORD UNIVERSITY recently dedicated Carnegie Foundation of New York, the its new Tanner Memorial Library which was Brooklyn College Area Studies Committee given to Stanford by Professor and Mrs. assisted in promoting the conference. Obert C. Tanner in memory of their three sons. Dr. Tanner served briefly as acting ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY held its second an- chaplain at Stanford in 1945 and was a nual Congress for Librarians at the univer- member of the philosophy department fac- sity campus in Jamaica, N. Y., in February. ulty from 1940 to 1945. At present he is a Over eight hundred persons attended. Verner professor of philosophy at the University of W. Clapp, president of the Council on Li- Utah. The library accommodates about brary Resources, Inc., delivered the keynote thirty students and will eventually contain speech, and Dr. Benjamin E. Powell, presi- 4,000 volumes. dent of ALA, gave the luncheon address. The day-long program included eleven con- THE ROSCOE L. WEST LIBRARY at Trenton current panel sessions, staffed by library ex- State College will be remodeled under the perts, and a series of exhibits by firms related college bond issue passed by the voters of to the world of books. Rev. Joseph E. Ho- New Jersey last November. The sum of gan, C.M., executive vice president of St. $200,000 has been set aside for enlargement John's, presided over the program, and Helen of the reading and stack facilities. It is ex- R. Blank, chairman of the department of li- pected that the seating capacity of the library brary science, acted as chairman. will be doubled and that new shelf space will be secured to accommodate a collection of about 160,000 volumes. Work on the re- PUBLICATIONS modeling is to begin in the summer or fall THE THIRD DECENNIAL INDEX OF The of 1960. The library has also recently bene- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, fited from the introduction of the most mod- a monumental work reflecting the acceler-

MAY 1960 233 ated program of acoustical research in the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, past decade, will be published late this sum- D. C., at five cents a copy. mer. It will contain the following sections: (1) author and subject indexes to papers A SEVENTY PAGE REPORT, Deterioration of published in the JASA 1949-1958 inclusive; Book Stock, Causes and Remedies, describes (2) author and subject indexes to contem- two phases of an investigation conducted by porary papers on acoustics published in W. J. Barrow, document restorer at the Vir- many other journals and listed in the JASA ginia State Library, which were previously 1949-1958; and (3) inventor, subject, and reported in less detail. Randolph W. Church, numerical indexes to acoustical patents re- Virginia State Librarian, edited the report. viewed in the JASA 1949-1958. There will be The studies were made under a grant from only one printing of this 1,100-page index. In- the Council on Library Resources, Inc. The quiries concerning price and other informa- first phase of the investigation involved the tion should be addressed to the Acoustical testing of 500 non-fiction books published Society of America, 335 East 45th Street, between 1900 and 1949. The second phase New York 17, N. Y. consisted in the experimental development of a method for checking the high rate of ALTHOUGH IT IS CONCERNED specifically with deterioration in published books. The sub- influences on school and public librarians, sequent investigation, still in progress, is con- all librarians will find rewarding an exami- cerned with developing a stable book paper nation of The Climate of Book Selection, a with a low rate of deterioration, yet prac- collection of papers presented at a sym- tical for commercial use. posium at the University of California in 1958 and brought together into a volume by BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S Catalog of African f. Periam Danton (Berkeley: University of Government Documents and African Area California School of Librarianship, 1959, Index (Boston: G. K. Hall 8c Co., 112p., 98p.). Among the contributors to the volume $18.00) is an author catalog of monographs are James D. Hart, Max Lerner, John W. and serials, but it does not include serial Albig, Norton E. Long, Ralph W. Tyler, holdings. The main entries include tracings Harold D. Lasswell, Fredric J. Mosher, Mar- for variant titles and personal names. There jorie Fiske, and Talcott Parsons. The place are about two thousand titles covering all of the library in society, the relations of li- areas of Africa, with entries verified by the brarians to individuals and to groups, cen- Library of Congress (if possible). The use- sorship, and special problems in California fulness of this list lies in its bringing into are among the topics treated. one list identification of materials not easily available elsewhere. The African Area In- The Folger Library: A Decade of Growth, dex in the same volume is an alphabetical 1950-1960 (49p., illus., 1960), is an exciting list of all material on Africa in the Boston story of the expansion of the great library University collection. of Shakespeare and related materials. "The development of a vision caught by Henry Index to the Classed Catalog of the Boston Clay Folger when a student at Amherst Col- University Library, based on the Library of lege in the 1870's," the Folger Library has Congress Classification (Boston: G. K. Hall grown in collections, services, use, and space & Co., l,000p. $49.50) is an alphabetical rela- during the decade of the report. tive index on about twenty thousand cards of subjects with their corresponding Library THE FOURTH NUMBER of the National Sci- of Congress classification numbers as inter- ence Foundation series, Scientific Informa- preted at Boston University in its develop- tion Activities of Federal Agencies, is de- ment of its classed catalog. The index covers voted to the United States Government all the major areas of knowledge to a limited Printing Office. The seven-page report (NSF extent, and is more detailed in the human- 60-9, March 1960) offers a concise summary ities, pure sciences, communication arts, nurs- of the types of publication available from ing, and social welfare fields. The subject GPO and information about their avail- terms and classification numbers reflect cur- ability. Copies may be obtained from the rent usage up to June 1, 1959.

234 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COR- titled Alcohol Education for the Layman. PORATION has published The IBM Circula- The authors are Margaret E. Monroe and tion Control System at Brooklyn College Jean Stewart, who conducted their research Library by Henry Birnbaum, chief circula- at the Graduate School of Library Service tion librarian at Brooklyn College. The sys- at Rutgers. Both research and publication tem uses IBM transaction cards and IBM were underwritten by the United States call cards to permit mechanical filing and Brewers Foundation. In commenting on the withdrawing of call cards from the circula- scope and purpose of the bibliography, the tion loan file. Copies of this manual are authors note that the criteria for the selec- available at local IBM sales offices. tion of materials were "sound authority in the field of alcohol education, competent A BIBLIOGRAPHY issued by the Library of and honest communication of the informa- Congress under the title Latin America in tion in a form useful to the layman, and Soviet Writings, 1945-1958 reflects rapidly an important contribution to an area of growing Soviet interest in Latin America alcohol education. Equally careful evalua- and considerable curiosity about the USSR tion was made of the materials rejected as in the minds of many Latin Americans. The of those selected." Copies of the book may bibliography was compiled by Leo A. Okin- he procured directly from the Rutgers Uni- shevich and Cecilia J. Gorokhoff and edited versity Press, New Brunswick, N. J. by Nathan A. Haverstock. A limited number of copies are available from the Office of the A CATALOG OF REPRESENTATIVE WORKS by Secretary, Library of Congress, Washington living composers who are residents of Illinois, 25, D. C. with brief biographical sketches and list of publishers, is available free as long as sup- plies last. Address requests to the compiler, Good Reading, the descriptive general bib- liography that has befriended librarians and Will Gay Bottje, Department of Music, educators for the past twenty-five years, has Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 111. just been published in the most complete and A Union List of Publications in Opaque thorough revision of its history, appearing Microforms (New York: The Scarecrow Press, both in a Mentor paperback edition from Inc., $7.50), listing nearly all the microcards New American Library and, for the first time published through December 1958, is now since 1948, in a clothbound edition from available. This is a compilation of American R. R. Bowker Company. publishers' listings of microprint reproduc- The new 1960 edition of Good Reading tions, some thirty-two hundred items of combines the forces of thirty-six of today's twenty-three publishers. Entries are alpha- leading educators who have selected and betical by author or genealogy or series and described over two thousand of the world's supplemented by an index of authors, co- most significant books, both hardcover and authors, and subjects. The present volume is paperback. All periods and fields of study the first in a projected series that will keep are covered, including poetry, drama, biog- the list up to date as new material is pub- raphy, history, fine arts, politics, sociology, lished and revisions become necessary. the sciences, psychology, the classics, etc., with each booklist prefaced by a discussion THE PIUS XII MEMORIAL LIBRARY of Saint of the period of subject at hand. Prepared by Louis University is holding an exhibit of the Committee on College Reading, each paintings from the collection of Mr. and chapter is under the editorship of one Mrs. Morton D. May of St. Louis until July scholar, with the over-all editorial respon- 4. All available wall space on the second and sibility in the hands of J. Sherwood Weber, third floors of the new building has been professor of humanities and chairman of the utilized to display the 117 canvases in the department of English at Pratt Institute. collection. Keynoting the show are forty- The Mentor paperback edition costs 75 eight canvases by Max Beckmann. Other out- cents; the clothbound edition, $4. standing German expressionistic paintings are represented in pictures by Ernst Kirchner,

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS has published Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Mueller, and Emil the results of a bibliographical research en- Nolde. Colored reproductions of some of

MAY 1960 235 the paintings and an article caption "Rough Council on Library Resources, Inc., Wash Stuff in the Library" appeared in the March ington, D. C., for a study of the bibliographi- 14 issue of Time. On sale at the library is a cal control of microforms. The study will catalog containing black and white repro- be conducted by Wesley Simonton, assistant ductions of each of the paintings in the professor of library science, University of exhibit. Minnesota. He will be aided by an advisory committee, including Herman H. Fussier, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has director of libraries, University of Chicago; available for loan to professional and aca- Stanley Pargellis, director, The Newberry Li- demic groups an exhibit on foreign science brary, Chicago; and George A. Schwegmann, literature. The exhibit is designed to ac- chief, Union Catalog Division, Library of quaint United States scientists and technol- Congress. The study is expected to be com- ogists with what is currently being translated pleted in mid-September 1960 and a report into English from the Russian scientific will be published. literature and where these translations may be obtained. All requests and inquiries re- BROWN UNIVERSITY has received a grant of garding the exhibit, shipping arrangements, $24,000 from the Council on Library Re- etc., should be addressed to office of Science sources, Inc., Washington, D. C., for a study Information Service, National Science Foun- of ways to improve school library services dation, Washington 25, D. C. in Rhode Island through coordination of university, community, and school libraries. An Appraisal of Favorability in Current The study will be under the general super- Book Reviewing is the title of No. 57 of the vision of Professor Elmer R. Smith, chair- Occasional Papers published by the Univer- man of the Department of Education at sity of Illinois Graduate School of Library Brown University. At the conclusion of the Science. The paper, written by Guy A. study a report will be published which Marco, library of Amundsen Junior College, should be of assistance to other metropolitan Chicago, attempts to measure favorability areas. in the book reviewing scene as a whole, and particularly in regard to individuals, by means of aggregate figures and a simple sta- ELEANOR LOUISE NICHOLES has been tistical index. Copies are available without awarded a fellowship by the American charge upon request to the Editor, Occa- Council of Learned Societies to further her sional Papers, University of Illinois Graduate work on a biography of Thomas Love Pea- School of Library Science, Urbana, 111. cock. She has resigned as librarian of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library and will spend Copies of the Arizona State University Li- the remainder of the year in England. brary: Report of a Survey of the Library, by Richard Harwell and Everett T. Moore (Chi- RECENT ALA REPRESENTATIVES at collegiate cago: 1959), are available for purchase from ceremonies were WILLIAM H. JESSE, director the ACRL office at $2.00 a copy. The supply of libraries, University of Tennessee, at the is limited, and the report will not be re- inauguration of LeRoy Albert Marin as printed. president of the University of Chattanooga, March 18; HOWARD ROVELSTAD, director of Laws of the Creek Nation, edited by An- libraries, University of Maryland, at the in- tonio J. Waring with a foreword by W. P. auguration of Charles B. Hirsch as president Kellam, is the first number of the University of Washington Missionary College, Washing- of Georgia Libraries series Miscellanea Pub- ton, D. C., March 23; H. DEAN STALLINGS, lications. The series is being published by librarian, North Dakota Agricultural Col- the University of Georgia Press and will con- lege, Fargo, at the inauguration of John J. tain both source materials and reprints of Neumaier as president of Moorhead State rare items in the libraries' collections. Teachers College, Moorhead, Minn., March 25; and JOHN F. HARVEY, director of librar- MISCELLANEOUS ies, Drexel Institute of Technology, at the

THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES inauguration of Clarence Moll as president has received a grant of $11,550 from the of Pennsylvania Military College, April 30.

236 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

DAVID E. KASER has resigned as assistant In 1958 Washington University Manuscripts; director for technical services at Washing- a Descriptive Guide, edited by Mr. and Mrs. ton University to accept appointment as di- Kaser, was issued by Washington University rectors of the Joint in its Library Studies Series. Mr. Kaser is University Libraries now at work on a book about the pioneer and professor of li- Irish-American journalist, Joseph Charless. brary science in Van- Under a grant from the American Philo- derbilt University, sophical Society he will spend several weeks George Peabody Col- in Ireland this spring gathering material in lege for Teachers, the National Library. and Scarritt College In his scholarly interests, his administra- for Christian Work- tive ability, his pleasing personality, and his ers. He will assume enthusiasm for librarianship Mr. Kaser pos- his new duties on sesses an unusual combination of talents July 1. which fit him well for the important position A native of Indi- he will assume in Nashville. David E. Kaser ana, Mr. Kaser grad- uated from Hough- MARION A. MILCZEWSKI becomes director ton College in 1949. He received an M.A. in of libraries at the University of Washington English from the University of Notre Dame in Seattle in July. Before joining the Gen- in 1950. Going on to the University of Mich- eral Library staff at igan for his professional training, he was the University of awarded an A.M.L.S. degree in 1952 and a California at Berke- Ph.D. in 1956. ley as assistant li- Beginning as a student assistant in col- brarian in 1949 he lege, Mr. Kaser has had varied experience in had been director of academic libraries. During his years in Ann the Southeastern Arbor he held half-time positions in the States Cooperative order division of the University of Michigan Library Survey for Library. From 1952 to 1954 he was periodical two years. From service librarian at Ball State Teachers Col- 1943-1947 he was as- lege. In 1956 he became chief of acquisi- sistant to the direc- tions at Washington University, and in 1959 tor of ALA's Inter- he was made assistant director for technical national Relations Marion A.Milczewski services. Office in Washing- Among his responsibilities at Washington ton and during the next two years its direc- University have been the supervision of a tor. Prior to that he had served ALA vari- special book-buying project involving the ously in connection with its "Books for expenditure of $150,000 for research material Latin America" program and as assistant to in the humanities and social sciences and Carl Milam, ALA's executive secretary. Im- the inauguration of a cooperative acquisi- mediately following his graduation from the tions program among the large libraries in University of Illinois Library School he was St. Louis. library intern in the Tennessee Valley Au- Along with his professional duties Mr. thority. Kaser has maintained an active interest in This varied experience was promptly ex- research and publication. His study of ploited and enlarged upon his arrival at Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia, based Berkeley as John Mackenzie Cory left for on his doctoral dissertation at Michigan, was New York Public Library. In the succeeding published in 1957 by the University of Penn- years Mr. Milczewski weathered the shifts of sylvania Press. His edition of the cost books duty occasioned by the arrivals and depar- of this publishing firm is ready for the press. tures of colleagues: Douglas Bryant to Har-

MAY 1960 237 vard, Frances B. Jenkins to Illinois, Jean ations which makes big game hunting, poli- McFarland to Reed (later to Vassar), and tics, and library management exciting and Melvin Voigt to Kansas State University. hazardous. Donald Coney, University of This was a time at the University of Cali- California, Berkeley. fornia characterized by rapid growth and change. Mr. Milczewski participated in all RAY WILLIAM FRANTZ, JR. will become as- aspects of this history: at various times he sistant director of public services of The was in charge of personnel and budget, he Ohio State University Libraries on July 1, sat on uncounted committees to plan build- succeeding David Wilder. Both his master's ings containing library space, and he advised degree in library science and his Ph.D. in on the library's collections. His Latin Ameri- English were taken at the University of Illi- can interest continued through his associa- nois (see sketch in April 1955 CRL) while he tion with the Seminar on the Acquisition of gained experience in the library and in Latin American Materials and is currently teaching freshman English. expressed in membership in the Research Appointed librarian of the University of Committee of the Center for Latin American Richmond in January of 1955, Dr. Franz' Studies in the Berkeley Institute of Interna- first duty involved interior planning of the tional Studies. Mr. Milczewski's sympathetic new Boatwright Memorial Library and the interest in foreign library development and transfer of equipment and books into the librarians has broadened through contact new facility. He subsequently reorganized with the many visitors from foreign libraries library services at Richmond. A member of who flow annually through the Berkeley Beta Phi Mu, he has a scholarly interest in campus. Reversing this role, he and his fam- and appreciation of graduate education and ily spent 1954-55 in England on a Fulbright research. grant where he studied British university li- His duties at Ohio State will include the brary administration. coordination of reader services on a campus- He now goes to a vigorous, expanding wide basis, further inmplementation of the university in the Northwest where much of recently adopted concept of area libraries, the institutional history with which he has and the planning of improved library facili- been associated at Berkeley will be repeated ties for undergraduate students.—Lewis C. —repeated, that is, with the kind of vari- Branscomb.

Appointments

ROBERT FINLEY DELANEY, formerly instruc- PHILIP H. ENNIS has been appointed as as- tor in the library science department, Catho- sistant professor in the University of Chicago lic University of America, is now counselor Graduate Library School. Though Mr. Ennis for public and cultural affairs of the United is not a professional librarian, he will bring States Embassy in San Salvador. to his teaching a new approach to library problems from a strong background of ex- BOGDON DFRESIEWICZ is now on the cata- experience in social science research. loging staff of the Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. BARBARA A. GATES, formerly head of tech- nical services, Public Library of Brookline, DAVID K. EASTON, formerly associate librar- Mass., is now catalog librarian, Chenery Li- ian of the Quartermaster Food and Con- brary, Boston University. tainer Institute, Chicago, is now librarian of the Research Library, Armco Steel Company, ANTHONY F. HALL has joined the library Middletown, Ohio. staff at UCLA.

238 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES DAVID W. HERON, assistant director of ice. Dr. Powell earned his A.B. degree at Oc- Stanford University Libraries, has ben named cidental College and his doctorate in letters special library adviser to the University of at the University of Dijon, France. His li- the Ryukyus, Okinawa, under the terms of a brary degree was earned at the University of Rockefeller Foundation grant administered California, Berkeley. He has been at UCLA by Michigan State University. Mr. Heron since 1938, and head librarian since 1943. will be on leave from Stanford during the Occidental College conferred upon him the eighteen months to two years he will spend honorary Litt. D. in 1955. The new school, at the University of Ryukyus. He leaves for temporarily located in the UCLA Library Okinawa this July. and scheduled to get under way next Sep- tember, will offer a one-year program lead- WILLIAM L. HUTCHINSON, formerly librar- ing to the degree Master of Library Science. ian, Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore., is It will enroll fifty students in the initial now librarian of the newly established in- class. dustrial reference library of the Pacific Power and Light Company, Portland, Ore. NAOMI ROBBINS, formerly reference assist- ant at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., is CARLETON KENYON, formerly head of the now head of the science reference depart- catalog division of the Los Angeles County ment. Law Library, is now law librarian, California State Library. Louis SHORES, dean of the Library School TAD G. KUMATZ, formerly of Hofstra Col- of Florida State University will take a year's lege, is now head of circulation, Pratt Insti- leave of absence from the University to serve tute, Brooklyn, N. Y. as editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia.

REV. JOVIAN LANG, O.F.M., has been ap- MELVILLE R. SPENCE, formerly acquisitions pointed librarian of Quincy College, Quincy, librarian, University of Oklahoma Library, 111. is now assistant director in charge of public services and assistant professor in the School CONSTANCE E. LEE, formerly supervising of Library Science. reference librarian, California State Library, is now chief of reader services. ALVA W. STEWART has been appointed WILLIAM F. LINDGREN, formerly catalog li- chief librarian at the newly established Meth- brarian, University of Arizona, is now head odist College in Fayetteville, N. C. catalog librarian Colorado State University, HELEN Y. YOUGH, formerly librarian of the Fort Collins. State Teachers College Library at Frostburg, LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL has been named Md., is now librarian of the Textile Museum dean of UCLA's new School of Library Serv- Library, Washington, D. C.

Retirements

KATHARINE P. CARNES retired on 1 Sep- MRS. MAGDALENE FREYDER HODGSON re- tember 1959 as librarian of the Candler Me- tired on February 29, 1960 as librarian of morial Library, Wesleyan College, Macon, the American Medical Association. Mrs. Ga. Hodgson was also editor of the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus. JAMES G. HODGSON resigned on April 8, 1960 as chief of the library branch, Quarter- BEULAH MUMM has retired as chief of master Food and Container Institute, Chi- reader services after forty-seven years of serv- cago. ice with the California State Library.

MAY 1960 239 Necrology

CHARLES HARVEY BROWN, librarian emeri- brought to Iowa State's library the scholar- tus of the Iowa State University, died on ship and bibliographical insight urgently January 19, 1959. Dr. Brown contributed as needed by a vigorous and creative scientific much as any other single individual to creat- institution. At the same time he made the ing the present form and function of ACRL. Iowa State College Library a vital force in At the same time, however, few modern uni- the state through active coordination with versity librarians had the same broad view state library activities, a pioneering use of of the basic needs of all aspects of librarian- the college radio, an effective program for ship. training undergraduates (and graduates!) in Dr. Brown's depth of perception into li- the use of the library, and imaginative serv- brary problems arose in part from his belief ice to agricultural extension. in the humane, book-centered tradition of li- Charles Brown did not fade away after his brarianship, in part from a rich professional retirement. His service to the Far East, to the experience prior to coming to Ames in 1922. incipient research collections in the South, He started his career as assistant librarian and as a visiting professor at Illinois helped at his alma mater, Wesleyan University, Mid- to distinguish the generation of Lydenbergs, dleton, Conn., in 1897, the year in which he Wheelers, and Bays who had some of their won his baccalaureate degree. Two years most creative years in their chosen aspects of later he received a master's degree from librarianship in the period after retirement. Wesleyan; and in 1937 he was awarded the For the benefit of new members of the honorary Litt.D. In 1901 he was graduated profession who do not remember Dr. Brown's from the old New York States Library School memorable presidency of ALA in 1941-42, in Albany. From 1901 to 1903 he was at the this fact should be recorded here; but long- Library of Congress during the exciting early time observers of ALA activity could never years of the Putnam administration. Again visualize our national organization in its he had the experience of being with a li- present form if we had never had the benefit brary in its formative years when he served of Charles Brown's leadership. under Dr. Clement W. Andrews at the Crerar Finally, Charles Brown's perceptive knowl- from 1903 to 1909. At the Brooklyn Public edge of men enabled him to pick for his Library as assistant from 1909 to 1919, he staff and develop at Ames some of the out- was in the midst of an institution that was standing leaders of American librarianship, almost the prototype of the public library, men such as Ralph Dunbar, Robert W. Orr, and from 1919 to 1922 he had a taste of the and Eugene H. Wilson, all of whom were federal library service with the United States assistant librarians at Iowa State at one time Navy. or another. These men and dozens of others When Dr. Brown went to Iowa State in of us who worked at Ames during the Brown 1922 he found an institution whose collec- administration will never forget our chief tions were far from the distinguished but and the solid foundation he helped lay practical scientific collection that existed at for our professional careers.—Laivrence S. Iowa State upon his retirement in 1946. He Thompson.

CORRECTION: The author of "Infernal Machines" (CRL, XXI (1960), 148) is Earl Farley, assistant head of the preparations department, University of Kansas Li- brary.

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