News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS copies of nine poems and two novels, and thirty-five articles in magazine form; letters THE LIBRARY OF UCLA on February 20 from London to friends, and the original acquired a copy of the first printed edition drawing for the frontispiece of "Son of the of the complete works of Plato-0 pera Wolf." Omnia, 1513-its two-millionth book. Tlie UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S Hilo campus gift was from members of the faculty, alum­ has received a collection of one thousand ni association, Regents, and Friends of the volumes in the fields of drama, the theater, Library. The two-million-and-first volume, avant-garde verse, and nineteenth-century arriving the morning of the presentation American fiction from James I. Hubler. ceremonies for the Aldine Plato, was a ninth-century Arabian astrological work, Al­ Carl G. Stroven, university librarian at bumazar's De Magnis Coniiunctionibus, Rat­ the University of Hawaii in Honolulu has dolt, 1489, the gift of the University of presented eight hundred volumes to the Hilo California library in Berkeley and of its campus library to form a basic collection librarian, Donald Coney. of English and American literature. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY library has re­ has acquired the ten-thousand volume li­ ceived a large part of the library of the late brary of Americo Castro, Hispanic scholar Dr. Emmett F. Horine including his ·collec­ who is professor-in-residence of Spanish lit­ tion on Daniel Drake and his times, and erature at UCSD. materials on the history of medicine and STANFORD UNIVERSITY libraries in early medical schools in Kentucky, and medical February received the eighty-drawer index bibliography. Dr. Horine had already do­ for the Stark theater collection compiled by nated his collection on William Harvey to Samuel Stark during the past twenty-five the library of Chandler medical school of years. This completes the collection which the university. was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Stark to the GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION has given Stanford theater library last year and which . to Baker library of Harvard business school is now being arranged. records dating from 1814 for the Walter Stanford University libraries also has re­ Baker Chocolate plant, including journals, ceived a gift of 548 volumes of general ledgers, cashbooks, payrolls, and sales jour­ English literature from the estate of Mil­ nals, and examples of labels, receipt books dred D. Chidester. and advertising. Mrs. and Mrs. Stewart Marshall of Palo THE PERSONAL PAPERS of Sherman Alto have presented to Stanford a collection Adams have been presented to Dartmouth of rare items including the Bologna 1495 College by Mr. Adams. The papers include edition of the 0 pera of Pico de Mirandola, letters; typescripts and page proofs of his a first edition of De Re M etallica, Basle, autobiography; and campaign materials, ap­ 15 56, two other sixteenth-century editions, pointment books, speeches, statements and two seventeenth-century editions and the texts of press conferences from his years as Berlin 1928 reprint of the first. The gift assistant to President Eisenhower. also included Agricola's De Mensuris et THE PAPERS of Norman Cousins, editor Pondibus Romanorum atque Graecorum, of Saturday Review,-some forty-five boxes Basle, 1550. of them-have been presented to the Brook­ The Charlotte Ashley Felton memorial lyn College library by Mr. Cousins. library at Stanford University has recently HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY library has ac­ received a large collection of Jack London quired some eleven hundred books from the books and manuscripts from Christian de library of the late James Truslow Adams, Guigne of San Francisco. The collection in­ the gift of his widow. The volumes deal cludes fifty-three first editions, typescript with American colonial history, Civil War

212 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES history and the antebellum South, and Eng­ est award of the U.S. Public Health Service lish history and literature. -the Distinguished Service medal. SCORES, SKETCHES AND LETTERS of major RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY at the National composers from 1890 through 1940, ap­ Gallery of Art will be supported by a grant praised at more than one million dollars, from Samuel H. Kress Foundation amount­ have been presented to the New York pub­ ing to $40,000 each year for five years, with lic library by the Robert Owen Lehman the object of publishing fine art books for Foundation. They will be available to re­ sale at prices lower than those now current. search scholars at the branch library at MRs. LUETTA COLVIN MILLEDGE of Sa­ Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, vannah (Ga.) State College has been award­ scheduled to be open in 1965. ed the Freedoms Foundation's George Lincoln Center branch also will bou'se Washington Honors Medal for her play, the Toscanini memorial archive now being Let Freedom Ring, written for National Li­ brought together. The archive will comprise brary Week at the request of Savannah State microfilm of original music manuscripts College library and presented on radio sta­ and other material. tion WSOK last year. Mrs. Milledge has NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY has· been pre­ written a television play, Promises to Keep, sented with a fifteen-thousand volume col­ for National Library Week this year. lection of out-of-print books by Appleton­ CARLETON CoLLEGE, Northfield, Minn., Century-Crofts division of Meredith Pub­ has received an unrestricted grant of lishing Company. Special items will be add­ $10,000 from the International Nickel Com­ ed to NYU's Fales collection. pany. The fund will be used for establish­ A SELECTION of mounted Bible pages ment of a curricular materials library to printed in several languages a century or support the work of teacher education at more ago, a page from an early missal, Carleton. and a contemporary Ethiopian composite THE CONCORDIA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE painting of Solomon and Sheba were pre­ of St. Louis has received a research grant sented to Western Reserve University by for one thousand dollars from the Con­ Stanley Slotkin of Cleveland. cordia Publishing House, for the prepara­ OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY libraries have tion of a general bibliography of the Luther­ acquired letter collections of Hart Crane an Church-Missouri Synod. and Louis Bromfield. The Crane papers in­ A GRANT of $20,000 for staffing the Li­ clude letters and postcards from the poet; brary/USA exhibit at the New York World's the Bromfield group includes letters to the Fair has been made by the Council on Li­ author from Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitz­ brary Resources. This supplements the gerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. $55,000 already contributed by private in­ THE PAPERS of the late Senator Estes Ke­ dustry, library associations, and other fauver have been given to the University of sources. The fund will be used to provide Tennessee library by his widow through a training for 288 professional staff members memorial foundation. of the exhibit in the philosophy of the ex­ hibit and the applications of electronic data AWARDS, GRANTS AND processing equipment and techniques and SCHOLARSHIPS their significance for library operations. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS graduate WINNERS of the Edwin Corle memorial school of library science has received a book collection contest at University of Cali­ $125,000 grant from the Ford Foundation fornia, Santa Barbara, are Peter E. Hanff, to inaugurate a program for the prepara­ Denis Dutton, and Sybil An.p.e Davis. Mr. tion of librarians and bibliographers for Hanff, first prize winner, is the university work in the Latin American collections in library's . nominee for the Amy Loveman the United States. A total of $75,000 will national ~ward ,. be made available for fellowships and schol­ DR. FRANK B. RoGERS, director of Deni­ arships during two academic years, 1964/65 son library at the University of Colorado · and 1965/66: three fellowships up to medical center, was presented with the high- $5,000; five $3,000 scholarships the first

MAY1964 213 year; and ten $3,000 scholarships the sec­ BUILDINGS ond year. Information and application forms may be secured from Robert R. Los ANGELES STATE COLLEGE library Douglass, Director, Graduate School of Li­ was dedicated on February 12 as a memo­ brary Science, Box 7576, University Sta­ rial to the late John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth tion, Austin, Tex. 78712. President of the United States. The dedica­ Two UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES received first tion came at a time when a major addition honor awards and five other academic li­ to the library is being planned; the projected braries received awards of merit in the sec­ addition would increase stack capacity from ond Library Buildings Award Program two hundred and fifty thousand volumes to sponsored by ALA, the American Institute eight hundred and twenty-six thousand and of Architects, and the National Book Com­ provide additional reader stations for twen­ mittee. First honors went to the Charles Pat­ ty-seven hundred students, at a cost of terson Van Pelt library of the University of $6,300,000. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Hein­ ST. PROCOPIUS CoLLEGE at Lisle, Ill., ded­ ecke rare book and manuscript library at icated its new library building on April 12. Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Awards The $700,000 structure will accommodate of Merit went to the Hollis F. Price library, one hundred and ten thousand volumes, an LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tenn.; Lever­ audio-visual auditorium seating one hun­ ett House library at Harvard University, dred, a microfilm room, language labora­ Cambridge, Mass.; Archbishop Ale many li­ tory, Slav culture center, seminar rooms, brary at Dominican College, San Rafael, and rare book room. Calif.; Otto G. Richter library, University NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY facili­ of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.; and Lafayette ties at the Agricultural Research Center, College library, Easton, Pa. Beltsville, Md., were projected in the 1964 TESTS OF RECORD PLAYERS for USe by li­ federal budget, which provided $450,000 braries will be conducted by ALA's Library for preparation of plans, specifications, and Technology Project working with funds drawings. Cost of the facility of some granted by the Council on Library Re­ 256,000 square feet is expected to be about sources. The tests, at a projected cost of $6,780,000; plans should be completed by $9)050, should result in a revised edition April 1965. The collection of the library of The Testing and Evaluation of Record now totals some 1,212,000 volumes at pres­ Players for Libraries, first published in 1962 ent housed in the "South Building" of the by L TP and now out of print. U.S. Department of Agriculture. FoRD FouNDATION has granted $280,000 CoNsTRUCTION has started on an addi­ to support construction, equipping, and tion to Princeton University's Firestone li­ servicing of a new library at Trinity Col­ brary, to house the Scheide collection of lege, University of Dublin, Ireland. The rare books and manuscripts. At the same present library contains eight hundred time exterior work will be done on a second thousand volumes, and has no more stor­ addition to the library to house other addi­ age space for annual acquisitions of some tions to the rare book and manuscript col­ twenty thousand volumes. lection of Princeton University library. THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES, The Work on the addition should be completed Hague, Netherlands, will add to staff and by late fall. collections using a $25,000 grant from the AN ADDITION to University of Dayton's Ford Foundation. Albert Emmanuel library will double the LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT and a computer size of the building at a cost of some half­ center will be funded by the Ford Founda­ million dollars. Work was started in March tion with a grant to Mexico's National and is scheduled for completion by Septem­ School of · Agriculture at Chapingo provid­ ber. ing computer rental, additional faculty, and THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA fellowships to increase the number of staff is planning a new building next to the His­ available to the center; and a librarian, torical Society of Pennsylvania, with com­ books, periodicals and equipment plus an pletion scheduled for about May 1966 at a in-service training program for the library. cost of some one-and-a-half million dollars.

214 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The present Ridgway building has been library science next Nov. 1-4 at Monticello. sold, and the new building will continue the Rolland E. Stevens is institute chairman: name. It is expected that there will be full THE NINTH SEMINAR on the Acquisition cooperation and a physical connection with of Latin American Library Materials spon­ the Historical Society; it is planned to de­ sored by the Pan American Union will be posit all of the manuscripts of the Library at Clayton, Mo., on June 25-27. Washing­ Company with the Society, and the rare ton University libraries will be host. The books of the Society with the Library Com­ seminar working papers on bibliography, pany, and to maintain a joint print, map, book publishing, and exchange of publica­ and drawing department. tions from Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, LETOURNEAU COLLEGE's new $250,000 Peru, and Uruguay will be published with library was dedicated in February. The col­ the report of the seminar by the Pan lege is in Longview, Texas. American Union. Further information on THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEER Research and participation may be obtained from Andrew Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, J. Eaton, Director of Libraries, Washington Va., has new quarters for its library in the University, St. Louis, Mo.; on program and technical engineering building completed working papers from Miss Marietta Daniels, last August. A microfilm reading room and Associate Librarian, Pan American Union, a general reading room are provided, in ad­ Washington 6, D.C. dition to accommodation for the collection ALPHABETIC SUBJECT INDEXING was the of twelve thousand books and three-thou­ topic of a seminar held at Rutgers Uni­ sand bound volumes of journals. versity on March 12 and 13; National Sci­ ence Foundation was the sponsor of this MEETINGS as of two previous seminars. John Met­ calfe of the University of New South .Wales, THE THIRD ANNUAL INSTITUTE of archival Australia, was the first-day speaker; on the administration will be held on July 12-Au­ second day of the seminar a panel of experts gust 15; cosponsors are the department of discussed and added to Mr. Metcalfe's pre­ history and the graduate school of librarian­ sentation. Panel members were Richard An­ ship of the University of Colorado, in coop­ gell, Library of Congress; Charles Bernier, eration with the Colorado State Archives. National Institutes of Health; Lea Bohnert, Inquiries should be addressed to D. C. C-E-1-R, Inc., and Cyril Cleverdon, ASLIB Renze, University of Denver, Dept. of His­ Cranfield Project, with Susan Artandi of tory, Denver, Colo~ 80210. Rutgers as moderator. Bella Shachtman of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AGRI­ the Library of Congress spoke at Thursday CULTURAL LIBRARIANS and Documentalists evening's banquet. conference has been announced for Octo­ ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY in Jamaica, Long ber 5-7, 1965, at Washington, D.C. Island, N.Y., began its annual one-day cop­ LIBRARIANS IN ATTENDANCE at the Col­ gress of librarians with Edwin Castagna, loquium on Experimental Colleges at Wa­ director of Enoch Pratt free library in Bal­ kulla Springs, Florida, on April 5-8 included timore, who spoke on "Three Who Met the George Bailey, Robert T. Jordan, Orwin Challenge"; continued with panel discus­ Rush, Louis Shores, and Lee Sutton. sions, and ended with luncheon and Charles A WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER PROGRAMS in Steinberg of CBS, who spoke on TV and library operations is being planned for June the reading habits of the American public. 1-26 by the University of Illinois, Urbana. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the South­ Workshop director will be Kern W. Dick­ eastern New York .Resources Council held man, assistant director of the statistical ser­ an organizational meeting at State Univer­ vice unit of the university; laboratory prac­ sity College, New Paltz, early in March, to tice work will be in charge of Hillis L. foster cooperative services among the ref­ Griffin, information systems librarian at erence and research libraries of the area. Argonne National Laboratories. Representatives of one community college UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES will be the theme and four college libraries, two research li­ of the Allerton Park Institute sponsored by braries and two public libraries were pres­ the University of Illinois graduate school of ent.

MA¥1964 215 A CONFERENCE on technical information REP AIRS and installation of ventilating center administration directed by Arthur W. equipment in the main reading room of the Elias, manager of the scientific information Library of Congress has closed the room for section of Wyeth Laboratories at Radnor the first time in sixty-six years. Reopening Pa., will be held at Drexel Institute of will be in the autumn. Technology June 15-17. Drexel is also of­ As A RESULT of a meeting last July of the fering a public relations workshop during National Bureau of Standards and the Gen­ the same three-day period, directed by Don­ eral Services Administration, at which blem­ ald H. Hunt, library career consultant, and ishes in microfilm negatives was discussed, designed for librarians and library school the GSA has issued an interim policy on students. Information and registration blanks microfilming permanent records which for the technical information center con­ states that it will not approve disposal of fe~ence may be obtained fr9m Marjorie records of permanent value based on reten­ Krrschman; applications and information tion of microfilm copies. Agencies have for the public relations workshop from Mrs. been asked to inspect samples from collec­ Marilyn Filderman; requests for either tions of negative microfilms and to report should be directed to them at the Graduate to GSA; and have been advised that, since school of Library Science, Drexel Institute blemishes have not been observed in positive of Technology, Philadelphia 19104. microfilm, permanent records should be THE SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the copied on positive film as soon as possible. Medical Library Association will be in San FIVE UNIVERSITIES IN THE WASHINGTON Francisco, June 1-5, at St. Francis Hotel. D.C., AREA-American, George Mrs. Carmenina Tomassini, University of Washing~ ton, Howard, Catholic, and Georgetown­ California medical center library, San Fran­ have set up a Joint Graduate Consortium to cisco, is general chairman. establish policy for a five-year cooperative Two seminars are scheduled for June 1 progr~m, by which graduate students regis­ at the St. Francis by the MLA Committee tered many one of the universities may take on Continuing Education. "Basic Punched the courses and use the libraries and other Card Principles for Librarians" will deal facilities of all five. Each of the universi­ with use of machines and the capabilities of ties will retain autonomy at the graduate basic data processing. "Implications of Ma­ level, and will contribute to the support of chines in Medical Libraries" is intended for the Consortium. Elmer West will serve as medical librarians already using machines. executive secretary, and offices will be in COMPUTER TYPESETTING will be the sub­ the Brookings Institution. ject of a meeting in London in July; exact dates have not yet been announced. Further RESEARCH and educational activities of information may be obtained from the In­ the National Agricultural library, Agricul­ stitute of Printing, 44 Bedford Row, Lon­ tural Research Service, Federal Extension don W1, England, sponsor, with the Print­ Service, and Cooperative State Research Ser­ ing and Allied Subjects Research Associa­ vice have been coordinated within the U.S. tion, of the meeting. Such correspondence Department of Agriculture under the Di­ rector of Science and Education, Nyle. C. should be marked "Computer Typesetting Brady. Meeting 1964." ~EVEN. FIRMS were fined on January 25 in Chicago m a case involving price-fixing and MISCELLANY customer allocation in the sale of metal li­ CoLoRADo WoMAN's CoLLEGE, East Den­ brary shelving. Those fined were Sperry ver, has opened to the public its library of Rand, Art Metal, Globe-Wernicke, W. R. some forty thousand volumes, three-hun­ Ames, Estey, Hamilton, and Virginia Metal dred-twenty-five periodical titles and its Products. The prosecution pointed out that collections of tapes, phonorecords, and these seven firms account for 95 per cent slides. Free access is extended·· to everyone; of the total metal library shelves sold in a fee of ten dollars is charged for check-out this country. privileges by anyone not connected with GoDDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER at ewe. Greenbelt, Md., plans to augment its library 216 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES collection with seventy thousand volumes, the National Federation of .Science Abstract­ journals, and technical publications in aero­ ing and Indexing Services might react to space sciences. The program will be devel­ changing trends. The membership approved oped by John I. Thompson Company, using an expanded program which will concentrate digital computers, and the entire collection on increasing the number of studies and re­ will be assigned to computer memory, with search projects and provide a forum for automatic printout of the catalog. membership and other interested groups. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, des­ Plans have been evolved for a working con­ ignated a section of Olin library as a per­ ference late this year to restructure the fed­ manent memorial to the late Arthur Holly eration and broaden the membership base. Compton at dedication ceremonies on JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, founded in the March 15. fourteenth century by Casimir the Great in NEBRASKA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Krakow, Poland, celebrates its six-hun­ Chadron, has been renamed Chadron State dredth anniversary this year. In Lenin­ Teachers College. grad, the library of the USSR Academy of CORTLAND (N.Y.) STATE COLLEGE stu­ Sciences celebrates its two-hundred-fiftieth dents have assessed themselves five dollars anniversary, and the Saltykov-Shchedrin per semester for library books, for the next public library observes its one-hundred-fif­ academic year. This will increase the book tieth anniversary. In recognition of these budget of the college about thirty-t\'\ZO thou­ milestones, a Troika Anniversary Tour of sand dollars. State funds for book purchases Czechoslavakia, Poland, and USSR has are expected to total about forty-five thou­ been arranged for librarians, publishers, and sand dollars for the same period. Student scholars. A Balkan extension of the tour leaders who organized the referendum, using will incorporate Rumania, Bulgaria, Hun­ the ALA Standards for College Libraries as gary and Yugoslavia. Further information a yardstick, pointed out that the library col­ may be obtained from Slaviana Documenta­ lection at Cortland should provide more tion Service, 110 Morningside Drive, New than twice the present number of volumes; York 27. and that use of the collection has more than Archives and Manuscripts in Libraries, doubled in the past two-and-one-half years. 2d ed., by Philip Hepworth, is number ALLIANCE COLLEGE library has established eighteen in a series of pamphlets issued by a Union Catalog of Polish-American his­ the Library Association (Great Britain). tory. Six scholarly libraries with substantial Price is 12s, available from the association, Polish collections are now cooperating; oth­ Chaucer House, Malet Place, London WC ers are asked to write to UCPAH, Alliance 1, England. College Library, Cambridge Springs, Pa. MICROFILM POSITIVE copies of the Soviet 16403. national bibliography of books and pamph­ CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY, Lebanon, lets from 1907 to 1946 are available from Tenn., established in 1842, has had several the Photoduplication Service of Library of professional schools including law, medi­ Congress. The complete set of eighty-five cine and divinity, but today operates a reels, including spools, boxes and postage, · junior college program only. As academic costs $825.00. Prices for individual reels programs changed, volumes were withdrawn available on request. from its library and stored, until finally STUDIES IN COORDINATE INDEXING, five­ th~re were more than seven thousand, with volume set covering implementation and imprints dating from the sixteenth to the operation of modern indexing techniques nineteenth centuries on subjects ranging (now out of print), by Mortimer Taube, from mathematics to theology. In February, published by Documentation, Inc., has been the Joint University Libraries at Nashville issued in microfiche or flat sheets of micro­ bought the total stored collection and moved film called Ducoform. A related volume, it to Nashville. Information Storage and Retrieval: Theory ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING services rep­ Systems and Devices, published hardbound resentatives met in March at San Antonio, by Columbia University Press in 1958, is Tex., to discuss scientific and technical com­ also available on microfiche. The sixth vol­ munications problems and ways in which ume of the Studies will be published on

MAY1964 217 July 1 in hardbound copies, and will be when publication was suspended, and there available in microfiche from the same pub­ will be a ten-year cumulative index. Edi­ lisher. torial inquiries should be addressed to the EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES LABORATORIES Department of Economic Library Selections INc., established by the Ford Foundation, List, 211 S. Ditheridge St., Pittsburgh 13. has published Bricks and Mortarboards, Subscription correspondence should be sent dealing with college planning and building; to the Subscription Dept., Gordon and it includes a chapter on college and uni­ Breach Science Publisher, Inc., 150 Fifth versity libraries by Alvin Toffier. Single Ave., New York 11, N.Y. copies are available free from the publisher, Index to Periodical Articles Related to 477 Madison Ave., New York 10022. Law is published quarterly by Roy M. Mer­ THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS and the sky and J. Myron Jacobstein, with annual Center for Regional Economic Studies of cumulations. Editorial and subscription cor­ the University of Pittsburgh have revived respondence should be addressed to Prof. the former Johns Hopkins publication, Eco­ Jacobstein, Stanford University law library, nomics Library Selections. The first issues Stanford, Calif. 94305. will catch up with the period since 1962 ••

Rare Books in Natural History

A PRECONFERENCE institute on the bibliography of natural history will be sponsored by the Rare Books Section of ACRL on June 25-27 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Linda Hall library, Kansas City. The program will focus attention on the rare books, manuscripts and il­ lustration in the historical studies of the natural sciences. Some of the speakers will be William T. Stearn, British Museum (Natural History); Ja­ cob Zeitlin, antiquarian book dealer; Robert Mengel, University of Kansas; Sten Lindroth, Uppsala University, Sweden; Vivian Lee, Stanford Uni­ versity; Frans A. Stafleu, Utrecht, Netherlands; Richard C. Rudolph, University of California, Los Angeles; and Robert C. Stauffer, University of Wisconsin. The conference registration fee is $30, which includes all meals except breakfast, lodging at a university dormitory, and other conference expenses. Registration will be limited to 175. Anyone wishing to attend should send a check in the amount of $30 to Thomas R. Buckman, Director of Libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, before June 15. All members of the Rare Books Section will receive a conference registration form and other de­ tails by mail. However, registration is not limited to Rare Books Section members. Advance registrations may be claimed after noon on Thursday, June 25. Transportation will be provided Thursday from Kansas City air terminal, to Lawrence, and also from Lawrence to Linda Hall in Kansas City on Saturday. • •

218 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

EMERSON JACOB has been appointed li­ Denison University has announced the brarian at California State Polytechnic Col­ appointment of BENJAMIN M. LEWIS as lege at San Luis Obispo after having served librarian to succeed Lois E. Engleman, who for five years as li­ has held that position since 1948. Dr. Lewis brarian at the Ritter has been librarian at Hamline University, library of Baldwin­ St. Paul, Minnesota, since 1955. He will Wallace College, assume his new duties at Denison in August. Berea, Ohio. A na­ A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Univer­ tive of Ohio, he re­ sity, Dr. Lewis earned the- Distinguished ceived his AB at Flying Cross and Air Medal and Cluster as Mount Union Col­ an Air Force first lieutenant during World lege, MSLS from War II. He earned the Master of Arts, Mas­ Western Reserve, ter of Arts in Library Science, and the Doc­ MA in history from tor of Philosophy degrees at the University Columbia, and in of Michigan where he also held a teaching 1961, his PhD in fellowship in 1948-50. Prior to his position history from West- Dr. Jacob at Hamline, he was assistant librarian at ern Reserve. Eastern Illinois State College in Charleston. Dr. Jacob's previous positions were as In addition to his library duties at Hamline assistant librarian at Mount Union College, he has also served as tennis coach, and he acquisitions librarian at the University of has brought distinction to both positions. Maryland, and from 1948-58, acquisitions The Hamline University Library Hour librarian at Michigan State University. At which has brought lectures of interest to Michigan State he helped build up the re­ the campus was inspired by Dr. Lewis. search collections during a period when the A scholar with research interests in the university was developing an extensive grad­ history of publishing in America, he is cur­ uate program. At Baldwin-Wallace College rently writing an essay on engravings in he successfully supervised the transfer of early American magazines for inclusion in the book collection into the new Ritter li­ Books in America's Past: Essays Honoring brary in 1959. Rudolph Gjelsness. Earlier publications in­ During his tenure at Baldwin-Wallace, clude "An Introduction to American Mag­ Dr. Jacob has been active in programs for azines, 1800-1810"; "Guide to Engravings interlibrary cooperation sponsored by the in American Magazines, 17 41-181 0"; and Cleveland Commission on Higher Educa­ "Register of Editors, Printers and Publish­ tion. He has also been an active participant ers of American Magazines, 1741-1810." in the informal meetings of the Northeast­ Dr. Lewis is a member of ALA and of ern Ohio Academic Librarians Group. Minnesota Library Association and has Never an ivory-tower professional, Dr. Ja­ also participated in meetings of Midwest cob has combined his scholarly subject in­ Academic Librarians. terests with a keen interest in current affairs Dr. and Mrs. Lewis, the former Lois and has always been most generous in offer­ Maujer, have three children, Gary 18, Rob­ ing professional advice and assistance to ert 16, and Nancy 10.-John Parker. other librarians in the Northeastern Ohio area. At California Polytechnic he will as­ APPOINTMENTS sume the responsibility for library service at a growing institution. To this responsi­ DoNALD AXMAN has accepted a position bility he will bring a broad and varied ex­ as assistant chief of the cataloging depart­ perience which should prove an immeasur­ ment at University of North Carolina li­ able asset to academic librarianship in Cali­ brary, Chapel Hill. fornia.-Stuart A. Stiffler. DoNALD A. BAIRD has been appointed li-.

MAY1964 219 brarian of the Simon Frazer University, appointed librarian in the Department of Vancouver, B.C. the Army in Germany, France, and Italy. MRS. RAGNILD BAIRNSFATHER has been DoN S. CULBERTSON has been named li­ appointed assistant reference librarian at brarian for research and development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam­ Colorado State University, Fort Collins. bridge. BETTY JANE LOUISE CURTIS is .adminis­ MARY LEA BARHAM is now readers' ser­ trative librarian in the Department of the vice librarian at Midwestern University, Army, Korea. Wichita Falls, Tex. MRs. GERI DECKER is on the staff of the MRs. LuciLLE BEDAN is special science humanities department of the University of and business studies librarian at University Notre Dame's college library. of Notre Dame (Ind.). MATHEW DEE is now assistant personnel FLEMING BENNETT is now librarian at librarian at Ohio State University, Colum­ Florida Experiment Station in Gainesville. bus. CHARLES BEYMER is head of the general BELA DEMETER has been appointed to science library for the college of University the catalog division at Stanford University of Notre Dame. libraries. EDWARD M. BoswoRTH is _assistant cata­ ELIZABETH C. DEVLIN is assistant refer­ loger at Temple University library, Phila­ ence librarian at Amherst College. delphia. JOE DIXON is now librarian of Brevard JEAN BowEN is now librarian of the College in North Carolina. Rodgers and Hammerstein phonorecord SANDRA JEAN DYE has joined the catalog archive at New York public library. division of the University of Washington li­ JOHN C. BRODERICK has been appointed brary, Seattle. specialist in American cultural history in JERRY ANN EICHHORN has been appoint­ the LC manuscript division. ed librarian in the Department of the Army, RUTH ELIZABETH BROWN is catalog-refer­ serving Germany, France and Italy. ence librarian at the Institute for Cancer BETTYE H. ELLISON has joined the under­ Research at Philadelphia. graduate library of the University of Wash­ MRs. HELENA H. BRYCHTA is on the staff ington, Seattle. of the acquisitions unit at National Institutes BETTY FEENEY has been appointed asso­ of Health library. ciate librarian of New York Academy of MRs. SALLY BURG is head of the records Medicine library. section of University of Notre Dame li­ JANE FLENER has been named assistant di­ brary. rector, Indiana University libraries, Bloom­ S. K. CABEEN became assistant to the di­ ington. rector of the Engineering Societies library in JEAN E. FouLKE is chief of readers ser­ \ New York on Feb. 1. vices at the National Institutes of Health JOHN KENNETH CAMERON has, been ap­ library. pointed chief of the reader services division MRs. 0MNEYA T. Foz is with the acquisi­ of Air University · .library, Maxwell Air tions department at University of Notre Force Base, Ala. Dame library. JoHN M. CARTER has been appointed EMIL F. FREY has been named associate head of circulation at Mitchell memorial librarian at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, library, Mississippi State University. Minn. ELIZABETH M. CocK is head librarian at AsHBY J. FRISTOE began work in January Georgian Court College, Lakewood, N.J. in the acquisitions department at University LEWIS C. CoFFIN is now law librarian of North Carolina library, Chapel Hill. Mr. and general counsel ·at the Library-of Con­ Fristoe has special responsibility for serials. gress. MELVYN WAYNE GELFAND has been ap­ HELEN M. CooPER will become librarian pointed to the staff of the business library at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., in at Temple University, Philadelphia. August. RoBERT M. HAYES has been appointed to EARL CLIFTON COVINGTON, JR., has been the UCLA school of library service as pro-

220 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES fessor in residence. Dr. Hayes will teach and librarian at the school of dentistry and phar­ direct research in the field of information macy of Temple University, Philadelphia. science. JEAN M. LEGG is head of the engineering KENT HIRST has been named cataloger in library at Ohio State University, Columbus. the music library at Ohio State University, GEORGE I. LEWICKY has been appointed Columbus. assistant director of Library/USA at New T. MARK HoDGEs is now head of circula­ York World's Fair. tion at Harvard medical library in Boston. MR. Jm-MING LIN has been appointed to EuGENE A. HoLTMAN is acquisitions li­ the staff of the Far Eastern library at Uni­ brarian at Illinois State University, Normal. versity of Washington, Seattle. ELEANOR McGoNAGLE has been named DAVID HowELL was appointed head of the catalog department Mississippi State Lindgren librarian at Massachusetts Insti­ University on Feb. 1. tute of Technology, Cambridge. MRs. ELIZABETH C. McNAIR has been MRS. SUZANNE HUBBELL is acquisitions named librarian of Coker College in Harts­ librarian at Trenton (N.J.) State College. ville, S.Car. RosEMARY HuBER has been appointed as­ MRs. HAZEL MARSH is a new member of sistant librarian at Quincy College in Illi­ the humanities department staff in the col­ nois. lege library at University of Notre Dame. DoNALD HUFFSTUTLER has been appoint­ BERYL MARTHA MATTHEWS is assistant in ed circulation supervisor at Washington Uni­ the social sciences department at University versity school of medicine library in St. of Maryland library, College Park. Louis. JUDITH LOUISE MILLER is reference as­ MARJORIE R. HYsLoP has been named as­ sistant in East Stroudsburg (Pa.) State sociate director of the American Society for College library. Metals documentation service, Metals Park, EvELYN MooRE has joined the Washing­ Ohio. ton University school of medicine library as THEODORE IVANUS has been appointed to research associate for machine methods. the newly established position of librarian GERALD EDWARD MORRIS is assistant li­ of the East European and Soviet studies brarian at Mystic Seaport library in Mystic, program at University of Notre Dame. Conn. WAN-WAN JERNG is a cataloger in the MRs. AIMEE MuTHER is now a reference descriptive cataloging division of the Li­ librarian at Agricultural Experiment Sta­ brary of Congress. tion, University of Florida, Gainesville. MRs. BEVERLY JoHNsoN has accepted ap­ LINDA LEE MYERS is reference librarian pointment with the acquisitions department at the technical library of E. I. duPont de of UCLA libraries, and will work on the Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. Latin American studies program. MRs. PANNA M. NAIK is assistant li­ MARY L. KLINGELHOEFFER is special ser­ brarian at the South Asia regional studies li­ vices librarian at Erlangen and Herzo base brary at University of Pennsylvania, Phil­ libraries, Department of the Army, Ger­ adelphia. many. RALPH NIELSON is a cataloger at Univer­ FELICE KRAMMEN is circulation librarian sity of Idaho library, Moscow. in the school of social work at University of MICHAEL NIKOROVICH is a cataloger at Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. · Cheyney (Pa.) State College library. DoROTHY MARTHA KuNKLE is librarian JUDITH 0PENLANDER has been named hu­ at the Eastern Utilization Research and De­ manities librarian in the college library at velopment Div., Agricultural Research Ser­ University of Notre Dame. vice library at Wyndmoor, Pa. MRS. MARIANNE OPPENHEIMER is circu­ RoBERT H. LAND has been named chief lation librarian at Beaver College, Glenside, of the general reference and bibliography di­ Pa. vision in the reference department of Li­ GERHARD H. ORTON is assistant in the brary of Congress. catalog department at Temple University ELIZABETH LAUTENSCHLAGER is assistant libraries, Philadelphia.

MAY1964 221 MRs. MAXINE 0TTE has been appointed at the start of the 1964/65 academic year. assistant cataloger, Chicago Teachers Col­ MRs. CAROL SKRENTNY . is a cataloger in lege, North. the descriptive cataloging division of Li­ NANCY PARSLY is a cataloger in the East­ brary of Congress. ern Baptist College library, St. Davids, Pa. DANIEL C. SNIVELY is DOW assistant li­ MRS. SHERRILL PERRY recently joined the brarian at Indiana (Pa.) State College. staff of the San Francisco State College li­ MICHAEL J. SPENCER is a _reference li­ brary as assistant social science librarian. brarian at Ohio State University libraries, IRWIN H. PIZER has joined the New York Columbus. State University Upstate Medical Center, MRs. RuTH SPIECKER has been appointed Syracuse, as librarian. science librarian at Northwestern Univer­ RICHARD G. PRESSER has been named as­ sity, Evanston, Ill. sistant to the librarian at Manhattan School MRS. Y ASUKO TERANISHI has been ap­ of Music library. pointed to the acquisitions staff at University DIANA PRIESTLY became librarian of the of California libraries, Berkeley. faculty of law at University of Toronto in RoBERT E. THoMASON has· been named January. assistant university librarian at University MRS. HELENE RESHET AR has joined the of California, Irvine campus. acquisitions staff of the University of Wash­ JAMES VoLNY is the new assistant head of ington library, Seattle. the general science department in the U ni­ REGINA SAU-LIN Ro joined the humanities versity of Notre Dame's college library. division of the University of North Carolina RoBERT WALLACE became librarian of library, Chapel Hill, in February. the University of Kentucky's new Prestons­ MRs. MARY E. RocouRT is now assistant burg Community College in February. in the catalog department at Northwestern LARRY WELCH has been appointed cir­ University libraries, Evanston, Ill. culation librarian at the University of New SHIRLEY · RoDGERs has accepted a posi­ Mexico. tion in the business administration library ERNEST E. WEYRAUCH has been named at UCLA. education librarian at Indiana University. RICHARD W. RYAN began his new duties MRs. SuE WHETSTONE has been appoint­ as assistant catalog librarian at Denison ed a member of the humanities department University, Granville, Ohio, in January. staff in the college library at University of · WILLIAM RYAN is head of the humanities Notre Dame. department in the college library at Uni­ DoNALD K. WILSON became reference li­ versity of Notre Dame. brarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in STEPHEN R. SALMON has accepted the March. post of assistant director of libraries at SARAH E. WILSON has been named li­ Washington University, St. Louis. Mr. Sal­ brarian of the University of North Carolina mon has been assistant chief of the Library chemistry library, Chapel Hill. of Congress photoduplication service. WILLIAM G. WILSON is joining the staff ANITA M. SARGENT is a new reference of Enoch Pratt free library after four years division staff member at University of on the staff of Beloit (Wis.) College library. Washington libraries, Seattle. Mr. Wilson has been head of reference ser­ ALLEN ScHELL is a new member of the vices at Beloit for the past two years. general science department in University of BARTON L. WIMBLE is now a reference Notre Dame's college library. librarian at Chenery library, Boston Uni­ MARGARET JANE SCHNURE is assistant li­ versity. brarian and archivist at Susquehanna Uni­ THEODORE 0. WoHLSEN is now a cata­ versity, Selinsgrove, Pa. loger at Rush Rhees library, University of RussELL SHANK, assistant university li­ Rochester (N.Y.). brarian at the University of California, MARY H. YEAGER is now army librarian Berkeley, will join the faculty of the school at Pirmasens library, Muenchweiler Hos­ of library science at Columbia University pital, D'Isly Kasern, Germany.

222 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES NECROLOGY West Liberty (W.Va.) State College has an­ nounced retirement plans for July 1. CATHERINE ANDERSON, head cataloger at PAUL HERMAN BucK will retire as direc­ Tennessee state library and archives in tor of Harvard University libraries and li­ Nashville, died on Dec. 15. Miss Anderson brarian of Harvard College on June 30, but had been head of circulation at Joint Uni­ will continue as university professor. versity Libraries and cataloger at Florida JoLAN M. FERTIG retired as librarian and State University and at the University of head of technical information at Westing­ Houston libraries. house research libraries in Pittsburgh on MRS. MARGARET WILSON FAYER, head li­ February 1. brarian at Middlebury College's Starr· li­ MRs. CECILE GINSBURG of the aerospace brary for eighteen years, died on January information division of the Library of Con­ 26. gress retired on March 13. HARRY W. HART, JR., since 1949 librarian FLoRA B. LUDINGTON, librarian of Mount at Columbia College, died on March 18. Holyoke College since 1936 will retire in MRs. MARJORIE S. MARDELLIS, for the June. past nine years in charge of UCLA's Slavic BERTA GERTRUD PLAUT retired as senior cataloging program, died on March 17. catalog librarian at West Virginia Univer­ HILDA L. RAYSON, a member of the Li­ sity, Morgantown, in July. brary of Congress cataloging staff from LOUISE G. PRITCHARD retired at the end 1935 until she retired in 1963, died on of 1963 after twenty-seven years with the March 17. Library Association of Portland, Oregon, IRENE SAARIK, wbo was in charge of the most recently as head of special collections. school of nursing library at University of EUGENIE RAYMOND, head of the art and Toronto from 1956 until early 1963, died music department of the Seattle (Wash.) on February 29. public library for twenty-three years, retired CORWIN SEITZ, member of the staff of the in January. University of Oregon library for more than FRANCIS R. ST. JoHN retired as head of thirty years, died on March 12. Brooklyn public library at the end of last EuGENE P. WATSON, librarian of North­ year, and has now been named research as­ western State College at Natchitoches, La., sociate at Columbia University school of since 1940, died on February 29. library science. FRIEDA VAN DER HALBEN, librarian of the RETIREMENTS engineering library at University of Cincin­ nati, retired in March after thirty-nine years MRs. VIVIAN BouGHTER, librarian at with the university libraries. • •

"Western Americana"

AFTER careful consideration, the decision has been -made not to publish the proceedings of the Western Americana Institute, a preconference spon­ sored jointly by the Rare Books Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the History Section of the Reference Services Di­ vision, July 12-13, 1963. The following paper has been published: Archibald Hanna, Jr., "Some Shreds from Henry Wagner's Mantle," Antiquarian Bookman, 32(6) :459- 463. August 5, 1963. This was also scheduled to appear in the first issue of The American West. Several other papers are either scheduled for publication or are being considered by The American West, a publication of the Western History Association, A. R. Mortensen, Editor, University of Utah. • •

MAY1964 223 STATE TOTALS OF 1,862 ACADEMIC LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, PERSONNEL

LmRARY COLLECTIONS PERSONNEL

Number Number Number of Number of Number of of pro- of non- volumes at volumes periodicals fessional professionalB STATE ENROLLMENT end of year added received (FTE) (FTE)

Alabama 47,500 2,184,700 105,900 15,400 116.9 88.9 Alaska 3,000 81,200 12,400 900 5.0 5.0 Arizona 38,200 978,000 78,000 10,600 54.0 66.8 Arkansas 27,600 1,178,000 50,300 10,000 64.5 39.6 California 489,000 15,535,200 1,121,700 173,300 1,143.7 1,242.7 Colorado 49,700 2,396,500 163,400 18,300 115.5 140.5 Connecticut 55,200 6,918,300 214,100 17,100 207.9 291.0 Delaware 7,400 390,600 25,400 2,500 15.0 24.0 District of Columbia 42,800 2,398,500 121,700 15,100 117.5 94.6 Florida 78,000 3,023,100 217,500 30,700 225.5 253.8 Georgia 52,000 3,016,900 190,400 23,700 189.2 144.3 Hawaii 11,700 459,900 70,600 3,000 35.7 32.8 Idaho 12,000 470,100 28,500 5,500 35.0 31.6 Illinois 213,100 13,016,200 617,700 83,400 581.7 552.9 Indiana 102,900 5,326,500 285,000 45,400 268.8 350.9 Iowa . 60,100 3,511,000 160,200 21,500 154.3 152.1 Kansas 54,500 3,291,900 203,300 33,700 145.4 119.6 Kentucky 47,700 2,715,300 163,200 21,100 156.7 119.7 Louisiana 62,200 3,289,400 192,300 31,100 185.2 182.0 Maine 1,000 1,172,400 38,900 5,300 35.0 37.3 Maryland 57,700 2,804,800 197,900 21,700 159.8 161.3 Massachusetts 134,500 13,905,800 518,600 62,900 460.3 672.4 Michigan 164,200 7,126,000 432,200 74,700 396.8 364.3 Minnesota 82,600 4,099,100 178,900 25,500 190.1 153.9 Mississippi 36,900 1,410,500 72,900 11,400 97.7 55.0 Missouri . 86,600 4,804,400 215,400 34,300 227.5 209.0 Montana 13,900 683,700 36,000 7,400 42.5 29.3 Nebraska 32,800 1,691,600 65,100 15,600 80.2 65.5 Nevada 4,700 212,000 19,800 1,700 19.0 21.0 New Hampshire 13,600 1,358,000 49,700 7,000 57.1 69.8 New Jersey . 92,500 4,871,500 263,000 36,700 253.3 312.4 New Mexico 18,700 788,500 41,700 16,000 41.0 35.0 New York 377,700 19,057,800 1,001,300 122,000 1,085.7 1,196.4 North Carolina 77,500 5,590,000 341,900 32,200 280.8 274.9 North Dakota 13,900 686,30(} 29,900 6,000 36.5 18.5 Ohio . 185,600 9,214,500 439,100 56,000 396.6 447.7 Oklahoma 55,200 2,540,200 146,000 18,500 110.5 112.6 Oregon 38,600 2,234,700 169,000 19,300 131.4 130.8 Pennsylvania 200,600 11,164,000 565,800 77,800 598.4 641.1 Rhode Island 20,300 1,576,200 78,200 12,800 67.6 86.3 South Carolina 31,100 1,763,900 73,900 13,100 78.7 78.9 South Dakota 15,300 765,100 35,000 7,400 36.6 25.6 Tennessee 63,700 3,385,500 183,700 23,000 182.1 151.2 Texas 190,400 8,491,400 579,900 65,600 417.8 439.6 Utah . 35,600 2,117,400 140,500 17,700 82.5 61.4 Vermont 9,400 625,900 28,500 4,100 43.5 29.8 Virginia 60,100 3,982,500 176,900 23,300 163.7 186.7 Washington 70,700 3,138,500 172,900 34,300 180.9 239.2 West Virginia 31,600 1,240,000 61,100 9,700 57.3 81.4 Wisconsin 81,000 3,564,900 176,800 25,900 214.3 144.3 Wyoming 7,100 344,700 18,700 2,200 14.0 22.3 U.S. Service Schools 13,400 1,081,900 74,600 6,500 61.1 72.0 Outlying Parts: Canal Zone 500 11,700 600 100 1.0 1.0 Guam 1,000 9,500 1,700 300 2.0 2.0 Puerto Rico . 28,700 807,300 64,300 3,700 45.0 88.5 AND OPERATING EXPENDITURES, AGGREGATE UNITED STATES, 1961-62

OPERATING EXPENDITURES IN DOLLARS

NUMBER OF HOURS OF STUDENT ASSISTANCE Total Sa.Iaries Wages Books Binding Other

226,700 1,660,100 897,100 147,500 482,900 62,900 75,700 4,300 149,700 69,000 9,000 57,800 5,500 8,500 86,600 1,194,500 577,700 91,200 437,600 47,500 40,600 126,200 874,100 453,100 71,900 279,300 32,200 37,600 492,400 23,302,300 12,451,900 2,260,300 6,646,400 833,700 1,110,000 202,000 2,242,600 1,119,400 193,200 768,300 74,900 ' 86,800 87,200 3,638,300 2,017,600- 98,900 1,406,700 54,100 61,100 14,300 370,700 165,100 14,300 150,200 27,600 13,500 159,900 2,021,500 976,100 - 205i,900 651,200 67,100 117,200 250,400 3,748,900 2,038,100 209,600 1,186,200 126,200 188,900 201,000 2,926,100 1,546,400 176,200 967,700 93,700 142,100 61,100 789,400 354,200 66,000 303,000 18,400 47,800 44,100 541,100 285,200 54,200 158,600 14,000 29,100 869,000 10,705,400 5,718,000 969,300 3,094,900 302,200 620,900 407,400 4,826,200 2,432,500 465,800 1,496,500 185,000 246,400 273,600 2,777,500 1,339,100 269,800 878,100 134,400 156,200 341,100 2,569,300 1,163,000 298,900 898,600 94,200 114,700 243,200 2,359,200 1,164,500 174,700 800,000 107,100 112,800 375,500 3,452,700 1,780,300 267,100 1,106,400 129,500 169,400 52,900 594,400 299,900 57,200 187,600 21,100 28,600 140,600 2,693,600 1,496,400 143,600 687,300 95,900 90,300 428,500 9,615,900 5,275,200 660,000 2,384,500 335,800 960,500 680,800 7,426,400 4,105,300 715,200 2,091,000 205,800 309,100 298,800 3,351,000 1,717,600 347,600 1,022,100 101,800 162,000 172,400 1,216,500 616,600 102,800 398,100 53,200 45,800 332,200 3,571,400 1,828,400 305,200 1,100,000 140,000 197,800 44,300 626,000 321,200 54,400 180,900 23,400 46,200 142,000 1,288,100 662,400 121,900 382,600 43,900 77,300 32,000 397,400 192,300 41,900 136,600 14,100 12,600 54,800 988,200 538,800 62,000 249,400 29,100 108,900 187,400 4,361,000 2,509,800 260,300 1,319,200 83,100 188,600 64,100 747,400 347,700 54,500 279,000 37,800 28,800 981,900 18,145,200 10,287,900 1,623,500 4,679,300 577,900 976,600 461,500 5,041,000 2,414,900 349,500 1,869,900 .191,900 214,900 69,000 507,300 250,400 55,200 160,300 19,800 21,700 593,300 6,978,400 3,656,900 665,200 2,019,400 206,300 430,700 245,700 1,980,400 919,500 174,400 695,600 . 85,60Q 105,300 179,900 2,211,900 1,179,000 258,900 597,700 79,700 96,600 591,100 9,674,300 5,187,000 688,800 2,973,800 362,200 462,600 67,100 1,180,800 613,700 76,600 385,600 36,500 68,500 117,100 1,282,400 567,500 83,300 515,000 57,500 59,100 69,600 568,500 276,600 67,600 177~300 24,000 22,900 355,900 2,837,700 1,358,500 246,700 968,600 110,500 153,400 903,300 8,416,200 3,602,000 692,200 3,447,500 289,200 385,300 207,800 1,457,100 637,300 203,100 469,400 41,200 106,300 51,400 563,700 307,700 53,600 162,800 19,500 20,200 192,400 2,660,200 1,497,100 178,800 742,500 107,300 134,400 251,500 3,379,300 1,917,700 307,300 848,400 125,200 180,700 115,400 1,146,900 600,900 93,200 360,500 45,200 47,000 261,900 3,290,200 1,762,000 250,100 1,030,600 103,700 143,800 15,200 259,500 133,700 24,100 81,200 10,200 10,400 500 1,075,300 717,900 600 285,000 23,900 47,900

17,200 20,000 ' 13,400 6,600 28,100 17,600 - 9,700 800 102,300 817,300 464,000 73,800 238,800 ' 13,700 27,100

-Prepared by FrankL. Schick, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education Committee on Library Services

THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION of the 1962 The collection should include important Special Committee on the ACRL Program basic reference works, as well as adequate (Jack E. Brown, chairman) read: bibliographic tools to exploit the collection "Encourage the development and im­ efficiently. provement of library services in college, 2. Its accessibility. (Standards, V and university, and other research libraries VIII). All materials in the collection except through the establishment of a Committee rare or unusual works should be easily ac­ on Library Services charged with publiciz­ cessible through direct selection from open ing services that should be more widely shelves or through prompt delivery. Refer­ adopted, by means of publications, insti­ ence works and bibliographic tools should tutes, seminars, etc." be conveniently located for ready use. Such a committee was subsequently ap­ For special needs access should be pro­ pointed (George S. Bonn, chairman), and vided to the collections of other libraries in its discussions on the appropriate library through in-person consultation arrangements services to be publicized it took the point or through interlibrary loan and photo of view of a library user rather than of a duplication facilities. library administrator; the already well-pub­ 3. Its availability. Materials that circulate licized college library standards, it was felt, should be loaned for a reasonable length of are more for the librarian than for the user. time after which they should be made avail­ Very early in its deliberations the commit­ able to other authorized users. tee realized that it would be impossible to Inexpensive photocopies of any part of formulate a library-wide statement on li­ the collection should be readily obtainable brary service that could be specific enough within the limits of the usual "fair use" re­ to satisfy every college and research library striction. situation or, indeed, every librarian; that 4. Assistance in its use. (Standards, IV). the most it should do would be to point Help and advice in the use of the library, out that authorized users of libraries are its materials, and its services should be entitled to the best service possible; and available at all times from competent pro­ that some users may not be aware of what fessional librarians. they are missing. The following statement For faculty and research needs, this help is offered as a preliminary working docu­ should extend to literature searching, bib­ ment to be read, refined, or adapted. liography compilation, subject area guid­ ance, and other specialized service as re­ RIGHTs oF LIBRARY UsERs quired. 5. Instruction in its use. (Standards, VII). The primary purpose of any library is to Instruction in the use of the library should serve the reading, reference, .and research be integrated with or closely related to regu­ needs of its users. All authorized users of lar course work and should teach the or­ college and research libraries have a right ganization of library resources and develop to expect library services up to date and skill in the use of bibliographic and refer­ commensurate with their needs, provided ence tools. The library staff may be expected by competent librarians and founded on to cooperate with the faculty in assuring adequate collections which are easily avail­ that suitable training is offered. able in suitable quarters. Both formal and informal instruction are 1. The collection. (Standards for College desirable. and should make use of such aids Libraries, I and V). The library collection as a handbook or guide to the library's re­ (books, periodicals, and other media of sources, facilities, and services; orientation communication) should be sufficiently tours; visual presentations; and individual broad, authoritative, and up-to-date to sup­ consultations. port effectively the instructional and re­ 6. Physical facilities. (Standards, VI). search programs of the institution. (Continued on page 228)

226 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MALC in Indiana

THE NINTH ANNUAL Midwest Academic Li­ Dame faculty members. Many librarians brarians' Conference, held at the Univer­ were especially interested in CHOICE. sity of Notre Dame on April 17 and at Val- The speakers for the evening included . paraiso University on April18, was attended Frazier Poole, University of Illinois, Chi­ by more than two hundred and fifty college cago, who clearly summarized the develop­ and university librarians. ments and planning for the program of As in the past, meetings were held on "Automation at the University of Illinois," campuses which had new buildings. The and displayed charts explaining the pro­ fourteen-story Notre Dame library, to be gram. George M. Bailey, executive secre­ dedicated in May, contains a basement, two tary, ACRL, reviewed the role of the ACRL large floors above ground, and a twelve office. story tower extending upward from the On Saturday morning we headed west­ center of the building, with a penthouse. ward to Valparaiso where we heard a panel Special features of the very large struc­ discussion on "Accreditation Practices and ture ( 429,780 square feet) include faculty Implementation of Standards," moderated offices in the basement; a luxuriously fur­ by James V. Jones, St. Louis University. nished subject divisional college library on Norman Tanis, Henry Ford Community the first two floors above ground; a state­ College, reviewed the background of the ly rare book area separated into rooms for development of the Standards and noted exhibits, reading, and stacks; a good work­ objections especially of junior college ad­ flow relationship among the technical and ministrators. Mrs. Charlotte Knight, Wis­ public services; an audio area with 7 4 indi­ consin State College and Institute of Tech­ vidual listening stations; and an impressive, nology, summarized the steps in preparation massive mosaic covering the front of the for a visit of accrediting agencies. Mr. Jones tower. explained that North Central Association The Valparaiso library, dedicated in is made up of institutions. He noted how 1959, is a more traditional building in spite its accrediting program works. It aims to of its modern exterior. It has three 'levels. assist institutions in self-improvement. It The entrance opens into a lounge, around is not a watch dog. It has a leadership pro­ which are the card catalog, circulation desk, gram through which it hopes to secure the and exhibit area. To the right is a periodical services of higher administrative officials in room; to the left is the reference room; and larger institutions and specialists, including the stacks are in the rear of the building. librarians. However, all members of its The lower level will house seminar rooms, visiting teams are responsible for appraising an audio-visual classroom, archives, a read­ any part or all of an institution. Examiners ing laboratory, and a rare book room. A are concerned with four points in looking new law library was dedicated in late April. at· a library: a general impression, staff and A third building, the Memorial Chapel, re­ services, collections, and use. Noteworthy cently built, should be mentioned for the are the plans for the formation of a federa­ solemnity provided by the design of the in­ tion of accrediting agencies. terior. After lunch, Ted Samore, U.S. Office of At the ftrst afternoon meeting, Virgip.ia Education, clarified. the procedure for col­ Clark, assistant editor for reviewing, lecting statistics for college and university CHOICE, moderated a panel on "A Philos­ 'libraries. Librarians have been asked to re- ophy of Book Selection for Smaller Col­ . port their statistics to state libraries to elim­ leges." Participants included Peter Doiron, inate duplication of effort, expedite the Oakland University, Carl H. Sachtleben, St. process of collection, and increase the rate Louis University (librarian of Valparaiso of response. Questionnaires will be sent out University after September 1), Donald E. . about August 1 for 1963 I 64 statistics. The Thompson, Wabash College, and two Notre analysis of 1961/62 statistics should be '<',MAy j 964 227 available soon; for 1962/63, the analysis Holly, Macalester College, will be chairman. should be completed by fall. -George M. Bailey. •• Stephen Ford, Grand Valley State Col­ lege, in discussing "Guidelines for Estab­ . . . Library Services lishing a Liberal Arts College Library" em­ phasized that his library will not be a book­ (Continued from page 226) less one as so widely reported. He is plan­ An adequate number of comfortable chairs ning for a collection of sixty thousand vol­ should be provided in a well lighted, prop­ umes. Features include a library-oriented erly ventilated, quiet atmosphere. faculty; study carrels with audio and video Provision should be made for users to units in each, controlled from the circula­ type, to read microforms, and to work in tion desk; and automated activity for serial small groups without disturbing others. renewals and other activities. Studies or carrels should be generally An added feature was Mr. Ford's descrip­ available in the library building where fac­ tion of the "Naked Patron"-provided by ulty members or research personnel can Sentronic, developed by General Nucleonics, work on special projects near the books and Inc. This is a device "which automatically periodicals they need. and without personal contact detects and 7. Open hours. The library should be locates the unauthorized removal of library open and adequately staffed as many hours property." It makes use of a piece of radio­ per week as possible, including week ends active metal in the spine of a book and a and during holidays and vacation periods. machine which deactivates a book when The present members of the ACRL Com­ charged out and reactivates the book when mittee on Library Service are Mrs. Frances returned. What fun! The system has been N. Cheney; Harold D. Gordon; Arthur T. installed in the Grand Rapids public library. Hamlin; Mrs. Patricia B. Knapp; Laurence The tenth MALC will be held at Beloit J. Kipp; Natalie N. Nicholson; George S. College, April 30-May 1, 1965. James F. Bonn, chairman. • •

Library Equipment Preconference

LIGHTING, audio facilities, flooring, informal furnishings, and mechanical book distribution will be discussed at a preconference institute on library equipment June 26-27 prior to the opening of the ALA annual conference in St. Louis. The registration fee of $12 should be sent to the LAD office at ALA headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. "Informal Furnishings for the Library" will be discussed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, architects. "Standards for Il­ lumination" will be the topic of H. Richard Blackwell, director of the In­ stitute for Research in Vision, Ohio State University, while Brock Arms, president of Interior Space Design Division of Perkins and Will, will speak on "Designs for Lighting." C. Walter Stone, director, Center for Library and Educational Media Studies, graduate library school of the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on "Listening Facilities in the Library," and Keyes Metcalf will speak about "Mechanical Distribution of Books in the Library." A rep­ resentative of the American Carpet Institute and Armstrong Cork Com­ pany will present ideas on "Flooring Materials for Libraries." On the evening of June 26, the group will tour the Washington Uni- versity libraries, and on June 27, St. Louis University library. • •

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