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HE HAMPSHIRE Inter- Center, to faculty needs that the Hampshire Inter- TInc., in western Massachusetts may Library Center assumes an important role. well be a very significant development in While each of the colleges concerned has a library economy. The purposes of the Cen- better than average library and very con- ter deserve careful study by all college siderable endowment, no one of the three . The annual report for its first could completely meet the need for materi- year of operation is available from the als to keep the faculty abreast of their fields Center's Secretary, Newton McKeon, li- for teaching purposes. And not even Har- brarian of Amherst College. The corpora- vard University, with its vast library system tion is a cooperative book storage and and financial resources, provides fully the selection project by three close neighbors, research materials needed by individual Smith, Amherst, and Mt. Holyoke with faculty members. It is in these two areas participation by the Forbes Library in that the Center should play an important Northampton and the University of Massa- role, and that other, now unborn, centers chusetts in Amherst. will exercise great influence on educational A standard text states four principal standards in other neighborhoods. missions for the college library:* "to provide During its first year the Center sub- the study and reference materials required scribed to 119 periodicals, by the common for supplementing classroom instruction . . .; agreement of all three faculties. Ninety- to encourage students to use books inde- eight of these titles were previously taken by pendently as a means to the acquisition of one, two, or three of the (180 sub- knowledge; to provide the technical and scriptions). The remaining 21 titles are specialized study materials needed to keep new to the area. Thus cooperation makes the faculty abreast of their fields for teach- available more journals than before at less ing purposes; to provide as far as possible cost. Current issues are circulated to all the materials for research needed by indi- libraries, but back volumes are kept on the vidual faculty members." Center's own book shelves in South Hadley. As we look at these missions and the needs These few paragraphs do scant justice to of Amherst, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke Col- a new form of library cooperation which I leges, it is apparent that each institution believe should have a great future, and I must always provide its own materials to mention it in these columns because the supplement classroom instruction. Each Center has not received the spotlight of pub- college will likewise have no trouble in licity which it should have. The general supplying the books needed for the en- conditions under which the Center is grow- couragement of students in the independent ing to fruitful service exist all over the use of books. For both purposes no very country. The pattern can be altered to fit large collection of books and related materi- local need and conditions. I spoke on this als is required, provided freshness and in- general subject recently at the Southeastern terest are maintained by regular flow of Library Association, and the paper will be additions and withdrawals. printed in its publication, SELA. It is as we look at the library's obligation * * * The Illinois State Association met in * Guy R Lyle. The Administration of the College Library. N.Y. Wilson, 1949 (2nd ed.), p. 24. Springfield in October, and I was present

JANUARY, 1953 79 to speak on ACRL chapters. Essentially, The regional association meetings afford a chapter is nothing more or less than a a much better opportunity to talk to people device to help bring closer together the and pick up ideas and attitudes than our national and the state or local library pic- huge annual conference and midwinter tures. The chapter is a subdivision of sorts. meeting. At the latter it is only human It is an entity like ACRL but on a smaller nature for an executive secretary to show scale. It has complete freedom of action a lined and worried face to the world. and interest. Since the chapter is small, Several members have suggested a few it gives interested ACRL members consid- personal anecdotes from these trips: riding erable opportunity to participate in projects, with a mailman on his R.F.D. route through to hold office, and to exercise leadership in the Rockies and inserting the mail in the other ways. Such activity inevitably leads to boxes on the right-hand side (Labor Day better knowledge and more contact with the morning) ; seeing two wild moose from the national association. The leaders in chaptei road in Montana, the first outside captivity affairs will certainly have their opportuni- I have ever seen in spite of considerable ties to lead in national ACRL activity. time spent in the Maine woods; the ever- Chapters, like ball players, inevitably have lasting, continuous, wicked forest fires good and poor seasons. None of their good through which I drove for at least 150 miles works will be performed automatically. in the wee hours between Cincinnati and I hope that chapters will lead to all Knoxville; eating buffalo meat in the Black sorts of cooperative activity. This might Hills; the rollicking good humor that would take the form of the collection of statistics, bubble forth at PNLA meetings; the dreari- or liberal interlibrary loan arrangements ness of any station between 1 and 6 A.M. ; for a given area, or even developments such the bus driver expounding on Hemingway's as the Hampshire Inter-Library Center. new novel; the great physical beauty of our At the business meeting the section voted land which can be found in any region and to seek chapter affiliation with ACRL. the understandable pride of state and region Action on this will be taken by the ACRL on the part of those who live there. Board of Directors at their next meeting. * * * * * Since late August I have taken two long Lawrence S. Thompson, chairman of the trips to represent ACRL. The first of these ACRL Publications Committee, will be was to the Mountain Plains Library Asso- glad to receive more manuscripts to be pub- ciation meeting in Rapid City, South Da- lished as ACRL Monographs. An occa- kota, then on with stops in Montana and sional issue may be devoted to a group of Washington, to the Pacific Northwest Li- short articles on related professional sub- brary Association meeting in Victoria, B.C. jects. Faculties of library schools are urged Late in October I attended Southeastern in to suggest ACRL Monograph publication Atlanta and made stops on the way. to the authors of very superior papers on Both trips were interesting professionally suitable subjects. and personally. I visited a score of college * * * libraries going and coming. In some cases I met with faculty committees or presidents A tentative schedule of the Los Angeles and in other cases spent only an hour or so Conference next June (21-27) has just looking over the collection and discussing come to my desk. This shows for the period library problems with staff. between lunch on Monday and dinner on

80 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Friday exactly six periods (morning, after- income from members allotting to divisions noon, and evening), which are not taken increased 49%. by ALA general sessions, Council meetings, An analysis of the complete figures of and free periods during which other events ACRL members who joined during the cannot be scheduled. In other words, all months of January, February, and March ALA boards and committees, all the di- 1952 (well over half our membership) visions with their committee activities, and shows that the average member, personal all the sections and other organizations and institutional, paid $9.85. Of this ALA must fit into these six periods. The alterna- took $4.98 or 50.6%, other divisions re- tives are the very undesirable Monday ceived 570 or 5.8%, and ACRL received morning or Friday night spots, or pre- and $4.31 or 43.4%. Two years ago ACRL post-conference arrangements with attend- received approximately 53.8% of the mem- ant special expense. Members with ideas, bership dollar paid to ALA by ACRL please step to the stage. members. * * * The percentage allotted to divisions is Under the first year of operation with the controlled by the ALA Executive Board. new dues scale the income of the divisions A decline from 53.8% to 43.4% in two increased 27% over the previous year (as- years is a matter of grave concern to all suming all divisions had been on the experi- ACRL members. mental divisional support plan) and ALA's —Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary

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EXPENDITURES , nBudgeted Actual C&RL Subvention $ 3,750.oo $ 2)544.04 ALA Washington Office Support 400.00 400.00 Annual Conference Expenses 150.00 - ACRL Quarterly Newsletter 500.00 424.61 American Council in Education Membership 100.00 Council in National Library Assoc. Dues 10.00 10.00 C.N.L.A. American Standards Committee Z39 5-oo 5-00 Section Expenses: College 75-00 31-17 Tunior College 75-oo 39-27 Pure & Applied Science 100.00 — Reference 100.00 78.09 Teacher Training 75-oo 85.78 University 7S-oo 31.21 Committee Expenses: Audio Visual 100.00 51.42 Administrative Procedures 100.00 — Buildings 450.00 87.78 Constitution and Bylaws 25.00 — Financing "College & Research Libraries" 100.00 •— Duplicates Exchange 25.00 — Interlibrary Loans 100.00 114.16 Preparation & Qualifications for Librarianship 50.00 — Publications 150.00 608.87 Study Materials for Instruction in Use of Library 25.00 •— Membership 175-00 186.97 Recruiting I75-00 44-95 Statistics 100.00 35.00 Policy 25-oo — Officers' Expenses: President 25.00 25.00 Treasurer TO.00 10.00 General Administrative (Including Travel) 850.00 833.12 Executive Secretary T.I.A.A 600.00 650.00 (Includes Sept. 1952) Executive Office Expenses: Salaries3 : 11,100.00 11,683.79 Travel of Executive Secretary 900.00 688.79 Social Security Taxes — i2'3.02 Addressograph 100.00 88.83 Group Insurance Premium Workmen's Compensation .....' — 62.82 New Equipment 100.00 — Communications, Supplies, Etc 400.00 565-29 Totals $21,100.00 $19,508.98 Balance on Hand September 1, 1951 $11,290.78 Balance on Hand September 1, 1952 $i3>965-30 1 Some ACRL funds are credited and debited at ALA headquarters, and adjustments are made when ALA pays dues allotments to ACRL, based upon this "Accommodation Account." 2 This committee was dissolved in 1952' and turned over its assets to ACRL. 3 ALA Executive Board Action was taken July 1951, which automatically raised this previously budgeted salary figure to a point equal to or higher than the expenditures.

82 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

KENNETH H. FAGERHAUGH took over the WILLIAM S. BUDINGTON, of the duties of his new position as librarian of Engineering and Physical Science Libraries at Carnegie Institute of Technology on August Columbia University has been appointed as- i. He moved to this position from the John sociate librarian of the John Crerar Library, Crerar Library where he had served as as- Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Budington holds sistant librarian since September 18, 1950. a Bachelor's Degree Prior to this time, :L-r from Williams Col- beginning April 1, ^flMHj^ lege and the Virginia 1948, Mr. Fager- '' JBI^^^^^k ' Polytechnic Institute haugh had served as " K I (Electrical Engineer- research librarian in JJHfa^ -—J ing). In addition, he H m charge of Research ft I holds the Bachelor's Information Service, TJ| Degree and the the new department ^fe^y* Master's Degree Jk Crerar Library ^ from the Columbia f^Bjk which does library School of Library

trial and govern- ,„.„. _ his professional ca- llham S0 Kenneth H. mental agencies. ^ • Budington reer jn library work Fagerhaugh After graduating at Norwich Univer- from Luther College, sity where he served as Reference Librarian Mr. Fagerhaugh taught chemistry for four during 1941 and 1942. This work was years before taking his professional training interrupted by service in the U. S. Army from in librarianship at the University of Michi- 1942 to 1946 including two years of work gan. Following library school, he worked in engineering and research at Oak Ridge, for a year as a chemist for E. I. du Pont Tennessee. He joined the staff of the Co- and in August, 1943, was assigned by that lumbia University Libraries as Engineering company to the plutonium project of the Uni- Librarian in 1947. A year later in 1948 he versity of Chicago at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. assumed responsibility also for the Physical In that position, he was in charge of the Sciences Libraries (Chemistry, Physics and library and the classified files at the Clinton Mathematics). Laboratories. Later he was librarian for a His work at Columbia was outstanding not year with Rohm & Haas Company in Phila- only as a divisional supervisor but in his par- delphia and then became technical librarian of ticipation with other supervising librarians in the research and development branch of the shaping overall library policy. He was par- Military Planning Division of the Office of ticularly successful in his work with mem- the Quartermaster General in Philadelphia. bers of the faculty in developing the collec- In addition to this position, he was also serv- tions and in making library services effective ing as Acting Chief of the Technical Informa- in the research and instructional programs of tion Section at the time he moved to the the Engineering and Physical Science De- John Crerar Library. partments. He served also as a member of As an active member of Special Libraries the faculty of the School of Engineering Association, Mr. Fagerhaugh has held a num- teaching a course in Engineering Library ber of committee and group appointments. Technique for all students. The many He served as president of the Illinois Chap- qualities which he exhibited continuously in ter of SLA while in Chicago, and is at pres- his work at Columbia, intelligence, a keen ent a member of the Executive Board of the analytical mind, directness, and good judg- national association. ment will, I am sure, be valued at John —Herman H. Henkle. Crerar as they were at Columbia.

JANUARY, 1953 83 In his promotion to the associate librarian- 1934, graduating with highest honors and re- ship of the John Crerar Library, Budington ceiving the Sullivan award. While at Pea- joins the increasing number of librarians in body he worked in the Reference and positions of major responsibility who have Periodical Depart- experience in the Columbia Libraries to their ments of the Library. credit. His many friends and supporters From 1936 to 1942 here, both on the Library staff and on the he was librarian of Faculties will be following his career with Furman University interest and high expectations.—Richard H. and from there he Logsdon. went to his alma ma- ter to serve as librar- VIOLA GUSTAFSON, of the John Crerar Li- ian from 1942 to brary staff since November 5, 1947, was ap- 1945. During the pointed assistant librarian in charge of acqui- summers of 1938 sitions and processing through 1940 he at- on June I, 1952. James Isaac tended the University Prior to this appoint- Copeland of Chicago to do ad- ment she had served vanced work in edu- successively as as- cation and . sistant chief cata- Since 1945 Mr. Copeland has been on the loger, chief cataloger, campus of the University of North Carolina and chief of the either as a graduate student, working for the Technical Services Ph.D. degree, or as a staff member of the Department. A University Library in reference work, as graduate of Iowa Head of the Division of Government Docu- Wesleyan College, ments. He has completed course require- Miss Gustafson had ments for the advanced degree, majoring in served as assistant to history and minoring in education. the senior cataloger and classifier at the Uni- Mr. Copeland was born and reared in versity of Chicago from 1930 to the time of Clinton, South Carolina and the subject of her appointment to the Crerar staff. In his Ph.D. dissertation is History of Public 1943, she served for three months as a Co- Education in South Carolina. operative Cataloging Fellow at the Library Mr. Copeland will bring to his work at Pea- of Congress. One of her present responsi- body excellent training and a rich experience bilities is supervision of Crerar's classified in library and educational work.—A. F. catalog project, now in progress under a Kuhlman. grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.— Herman H. Henkle. JESSE H. SHERA has been appointed Dean of the School of Library Science at Western JAMES ISAAC COPELAND has been appointed Reserve University, effective September 1, librarian of the Peabody College Division of 1952. the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Dr. Shera has deep Tennessee. He succeeds Mr. John E. Burke, roots in Ohio, for he who has resigned in order to devote himself was born in the to the completion of his Ph.D. work at Pea- southern part of that body. state, and received Mr. Copeland is no stranger at Peabody or his B.A. degree, with in Nashville. After graduating from Presby- honors in English, terian College in 1931, receiving his B.A. de- from Miami Univer- gree cum laude, he came to Peabody for the sity in Oxford, Ohio. period September 1931 to January 1936. In Later he received his this period he took first his Library Science M.A. degree in Eng- degree in 1932 and his M.A. degree with a lish from Yale Uni- major in history and minor in education in Jesse H. Shera versity and a Ph.D.

84 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES in Library Science from the University of Quarterly, American Documentation, College Chicago. His dissertation, published as Foun- and Research Libraries, and the official dations of the Public Library, was favorably organs of such associations as the ALA, SLA, received by historians as well as by librarians the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, and is widely used as a text in library schools. and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical His apprenticeship in librarianship was Society. His interests, as expressed in his served .as administrative assistant to the li- writings, are primarily in library history, brarian in the Library, bibliographic organization and classification, where he later served as Bibliographer and and the theory of librarianship out of which a Research Assistant in the Scripps Foundation sound program of professional education must for Research in Population Problems from grow.—Margaret E. Egan. 1928 to 1938. From his experience here and, later, in Washington as Chief of the Census- HAROLD G. RUSSELL, associated with the Library Project and as Assistant Director University of Minnesota libraries since 1919, of the Central Information Division of the has been appointed assistant director of li- Office of Strategic Services, Dr. Shera de- braries. Mr. Russell came to Minnesota veloped a keen appreciation of the im- September 1, 1919, as head of the circulation portance of special librarianship and a department. In 1921, he became head of first-hand knowledge of the problems in- acquisitions, serving also, on a part-time basis, volved in providing adequate specialized serv- as a faculty member in the library instruction ices. He hopes to carry forward the solid division. Since 1932, he has served as chief pioneering work in that field for which reference librarian. His new post is de- Western Reserve University has already scribed as assistant director for collections established a considerable reputation. His and bibliographic services. In this capacity, administrative experience was further en- he will have general responsibility for all riched by a term of service as Assistant Di- problems relating to the "resources" side of rector of the Libraries the library's administration. All units and prior to his appointment to the faculty of the departments of the library will deal directly Graduate Library School. with him on questions concerning the selec- Always active in professional associations, tion, care and disposition of library materials. Dr. Shera has held a number of committee Mr. Russell will also work with the Midwest appointments in both ALA and SLA. Interlibrary Center. Ohioans may remember him as chairman of the College and University Section of the Ohio Library Association in 1936. Most re- Angus S. Macdonald, president of Snead and cently he has been serving as chairman of Co., ended 47 years of service to the company the Committee on Bibliography of the ALA, when it was sold recently to Globe-Wernicke in which capacity he wrote the U.S. report on Company of Cincinnati. Mr. Macdonald bibliographic services in this country and joined the staff in 1905 after graduation from served as U.S. delegate to the UNESCO the Columbia University School of Architec- Conference on the Improvement of Biblio- ture. graphic Services which was held in Paris in Mr. Macdonald is completing contracts November, 1950. made by the Snead Company prior to the sale Although he is probably best known for and discontinuing all other commercial activi- his Foundations of the Public Library, Dr. ties. His experience and training will still be Shera is also co-editor of Bibliographic Or- available to the library world as a consultant. ganization, published by the University of Mr. Macdonald does not intend to practice as Chicago Press in 1951, and has written an architect but to serve architects, librarians, several essays for compilations in both li- and trustees in connection with their building brarianship and history. In addition, he has problems on a per diem basis. He will con- been a constant contributor to the Library tinue to make his home at Orange, Virginia.

JANUARY, 1953 85 Appointments Muriel Baldwin, formerly acting chief of responsibilities for the Coe Collection, Dr. the Art Division, New York Public Library, Hanna will also be librarian of the Benjamin has been appointed chief. She succeeds Franklin Collection of the Yale Library. Eleanor Mitchell, who is now in Rome, Italy. The announcement of the appointment coin- Roy P. Basler, formerly executive secretary cided with the completion of the cataloging of the Abraham Lincoln Association, has been of the Coe Collection and with the publication appointed chief of the General Reference and by the Press of a 400-page Bibliography Division of the Library of Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Western Congress. Americana Collection. Ethel Bond will be lecturer in librarianship, Johann Hannesson has been appointed University of California, for the spring se- curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection of mester. the Cornell University Library. He suc- Robert F. Cayton was appointed periodical ceeds Kristjan Karlsson, curator since 1948. librarian at the University of Cincinnati Erie P. Kemp, formerly of the University Library on October i, 1952. He was of Miami staff, is now head of the Acquisitions formerly a member of the Catalog Depart- Department, Columbia University. ment of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Mrs. Alice McBride Hansen, formerly Library. librarian of Pennsylvania College for Women, Howard Francis Cline has been appointed has been appointed librarian of the Mills director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Memorial Library at Rollins College, Winter . He succeeds Lewis Park, Florida. She succeeds Paul Kruse. Hanke, now professor of Latin American Allen T. Hazen, professor of library serv- history at the University of Texas. ice at Columbia University, has been awarded Russell Fossett has been appointed adminis- a Guggenheim Fellowship for the year 1952-53 trative assistant and instructor in library sci- to complete a study of the library of Horace ence at the State Teachers College, Bridge- Walpole. water, Massachusetts. Richard J. Hofstad, formerly circulation Margaret Fulmer is now an instructor in librarian of Georgetown University, Wash- the division of library instruction, University ington, D.C., has been appointed assistant of Minnesota. librarian for acquisitions at that institution. Budd L. Gambee, film librarian and as- Percy M. Hylton has been appointed li- sistant professor of library science, Ball brarian of Carthage College, Carthage, Illi- State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, nois. He was formerly reference and circula- will teach under a Fulbright grant at the tion librarian of the Missouri State Library. American College for Girls and Ibrahim Uni- Marjorie Elizabeth Karlson, reference as- versity, Cairo, Egypt. sistant in the rare book room at Yale Uni- Bruno Green, formerly assistant librarian, versity since 1949, has been appointed senior Rutgers University Law School, is now li- librarian in the reference department of the brarian of the Syracuse University Law Louisiana State University Library. School and assistant professor in the School. William A. Kozumplik, formerly assistant Mary G. Greene has been appointed librarian of Oregon State College, has been senior cataloger in the Vassar College Li- appointed assistant librarian of the Air Uni- brary, Poughkeepsie, New York. She was versity Libraries, Maxwell Field Air Base, formerly catalog librarian at Central Wash- Alabama. ington College of Education Library, Ellens- Harold Lancour, associate director of the burg. University of Illinois Library School, is on a Archibald Hanna, Jr., has been ap- year's leave of absence from his post to serve pointed William Robertson Coe librarian of as director of the State Department's library the Yale Collection of Western Americana. service program in France. Dr. Hanna, who has been in charge of cata- William R. Lansberg has been appointed loging the extensive Coe Collection, has been head of acquisitions of the Baker Library of senior cataloger and research assistant at the Dartmouth College. Yale Library since 1949. In addition to his Howard H. Lapham will serve as acting

86 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES librarian of West Virginia University, Reserve Book Department, when Mary Eliza- Morgantown, while Charles E. Butler is on beth Feeney, a one-time in-service trainee, be- leave of absence to work on a novel about came the librarian of the newly established Ireland. University Hospital Library; Flora L. Dei- Charles T. Laugher has been appointed bert has been appointed head of the Reference head of readers' services, Bowdoin College Department; Mrs. Eleanor B. Allen, formerly Library. associate librarian, has been made librarian, Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., bas been ap- Lippincott Library; Harriet W. Lawrence, pointed assistant librarian of the Air Uni- formerly associate librarian, Lippincott Li- versity Libraries, Maxwell Field Air Base, brary, has left for California to take a tempo- Alabama. rary position as assistant law librarian at Frances Low has been appointed librarian Stanford University, Stanford, California. of the College of Chemistry at Louisiana J. Mitchell Reames, formerly reference li- State University. brarian of Clemson College, was appointed Nina J. Mahaffey has been appointed assist- assistant librarian in charge of readers' serv- ant librarian of the Rose Polytechnic Institute ices at Northwestern State College, Natchi- Library, Terre Haute, Indiana. toches, Louisiana, on September I, 1952. Lucy W. Markley, formerly librarian of C. Easton Rothwell has been appointed Union Theological Seminary, New York, has director of the Hoover Library of Stanford been appointed head of the catalog depart- University. Harold C. Fisher will continue ment of the Krauth Memorial Library of the as chairman of the Library and of the Insti- Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadel- tute. phia. N. Orwin Rush, director of the University Robert F. Munn has been appointed head of of Wyoming Library, has a Fulbright Fellow- the reference department of the West Vir- ship to study library cooperation in England ginia University Library, Morgantown. for nine months in 1952-53. Arthur S. DeVolder has been appointed Jeanette Stanford has been appointed to the head circulation librarian with the rank of staff of the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell assistant professor at the University of University. Oregon Library; Jean Wang and Elizabeth Juanita Terry has been appointed reference DeGree have been appointed acquisition li- librarian of Williams College, Williamstown, brarians and Edward P. Thatcher has been Massachusetts, succeeding Ethel Richmond, appointed science librarian. The last three who has retired. have the rank of instructor. Nathan van Patten, professor emeritus of Edith M. Owen, formerly assistant bibliography, has been appointed curator of librarian of University College, Swansea, the Memorial Library of Music of Stanford Wales, has been appointed readers' services University. librarian at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, H. Lynn Womack, formerly stack super- New York. visor in charge of service to readers at the The following appointments have been made Armed Forces Medical Library, has been at the University of Pennsylvania Library: appointed associate librarian of Georgetown John P. McDonald was named head of the University. Necrology Dr. Abraham L. Robinson, librarian and Librarian in 1949. In recognition of his professor of chemistry at the University of notable service to the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, died August 4, 1952. A graduate a Robinson Memorial Fund has been estab- of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Robin- lished to purchase books for the University son joined the faculty of the University of Library. Pittsburgh and received his Ph.D. from there Miss Lois Criswell, assistant catalog li- in 1926. An outstanding scientist and scholar, brarian at Oregon State College since 1943, Dr. Robinson took on the additional duties of died in Portland, Oregon, on October 9, 1952, acting Librarian of the University of Pitts- after an illness of several months. burgh from 1944-1949, and became University Miss Criswell, early in her career, was

JANUARY, 1953 87 associated with several public libraries in in Istanbul-Bebek on August 14, 1952. Washington and Oregon. In the past thirty Rev. Leo I. Hargadon, librarian emeritus years she was employed by the Universities of of Fordham University, New York, New California and Idaho, the Oregon College of York, died on July 16, 1952 at the age of Education, where she was assistant librarian seventy-one. from 1923 to 1943, and Oregon State College. Joseph Ibbotson, librarian emeritus of She reached retirement age earlier this year Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, died but had been retained on the library staff to on June 30, 1952 at the age of eighty-two. finish a major reclassification project she was C. Edwin Wells, librarian emeritus of directing. Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville, J. Kingsley Birge, consultant in Turkish Missouri, died recently at the age of seventy- bibliography to the Library of Congress, died five.

Retirements Pierce Butler, professor of library science volume of essays printed as a special issue of since 1931 in the University of Chicago Grad- was presented to him uate Library School, retired in June 1952. A upon his retirement.

Foreign Libraries Palle Birkelund was appointed Rigsbibliote- Sir Frederick Kenyon, formerly director of kar (director of the Royal Library in Copen- the British Museum, died on August 23, 1952. hagen and administrative head of the Danish Dr. Helmut Mogk has been acting director library system) on October 1, 1952. His of the University of Leipzig Library since predecessor, Svend Dahl, has retired on ac- April 1, 1950. count of ill health. Luxmoore Newcombe, director of the Na- Willi Gober was appointed director of the tional Central Library in London, died on University of Halle Library on April 1, 1952. May 25, 1952. Walter Hoffmann, leader in the German Ernst Wermke has been appointed director public library movement and author of such of the library of the Technische Hochschule important works as Die Lektiire der Frau, in Munich. He was formerly director of the died in Leipzig on April 24, 1952. Vroclaw Public Library.

Graduate Assistantships The University of Florida Libraries is offering two graduate assistantships in the academ'c year 1953-54 f°r study leading to a master or doctoral degree in a subject field other than library science. Graduate assistants work approximately 15 hours per week in the library, assisting in bibliographical research in their field of study. Stipend is $1200 for a nine-month period and holders of assistantships are exempt from out-of-state tuition fees. The deadline for filing formal application is March 31, 1953. Inquiries are invited, especially from librarians or students in library schools who are interested in advanced work in subject fields. Applications should be made to: Director of Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

88 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Guild of Book Works, A.I.G.A. The Guild of Book Workers, an affiliate of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, wishes to advance the knowledge of the conservation, repairing, and hand binding of rare materials. Toward this end it wishes to cooperate with library organizations to spread the knowledge of the bookbinding craft among librarians. It also wishes to cooperate with libraries in the presentation of basic processes to the general public. The Guild is preparing a traveling exhibition to show the principal steps in fine binding. This exhibition will be available to libraries for the cost of transportation. Application should be made to the Guild of Book Workers, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 13 East 67th Street, New York 21, New York, and state preferred dates. For the larger library meetings and conventions, the Guild may be able to furnish a craftsman to demonstrate the various steps in fine binding and repair of books and manu- scripts. Normally this craftsman would set up a portable shop at the conference for one or for several days and would demonstrate and explain his work informally to any who gathered around. In the application for this type of exhibition the approximate square-footage of space that could be made available should be mentioned. Application should be made at least two months in advance. The Guild will undertake to provide speakers on subjects relating to its field to meetings of librarians. In some cases it may be able to provide some of these services to library schools and to individual libraries. It is interested in dissemination of knowledge about its field of activity and will charge only for such basic costs as materials, travel, etc. For further information contact Robert Melton, president, the Guild of Book Workers, at the address given above.

U. of C. Offers Scholarships The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago is offering several fellowships and scholarships for the academic year 1953-1954. Three cash fellowships of $1100 each, and several full tuition and half tuition scholarships will be awarded. Awards will be made on the basis of the candidates' academic record and general promise of ability to carry on research and to contribute to the profession of librarianship. Application blanks and additional information may be obtained from the Office of Ad- missions, Room 203 Administration Building, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois, or directly from the Graduate Library School. Applications must be received in the Office of Admissions no later than February 15, 1953.

Subscription Policy Change in Publication The Board of Directors of Serials Round Table announces a change of policy with regard to subscriptions to its official publication, Serial Slants. Serial Slants is distributed free to all members of Serials Round Table. However some memberships have been accepted in the Round Table from persons who were not members of the ALA. Beginning in 1953, only ALA members will be eligible for membership in Serials Round Table. The member- ship fee is $1.00. Others interested in receiving Serial Slants quarterly can do so by sub- scribing at the rate of $2.00 per year. Memberships and subscriptions should be sent to the secretary-treasurer of Serials Round Table, Shirley Taylor, at 2533 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, Calif., and not to the editor. Editorial correspondence should be directed to Elizabeth Kientzle, at the John Crerar Library, 86 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 1, 111.

JANUARY, 1953 89 News from the Field

The library at South- rare or fine editions of important works in Acquisitions, Gifts, western College, Win- American history as well as in English and Collections field, Kansas, in coopera- American literature. Included are also a tion with the fine arts complete file of the New York Tribune for division of the college, has established a new the Civil War period and some important department in the library. A record player periodical files. with three sets of earphones has been placed An original copy of The Dictes and Sayings in the main reading room and a record library of the Philosophers, first dated book ever of approximately 500 discs made available to printed in England, has been presented by the patrons. Louis M. Rabinowitz of New York City to The Regents of the University of Minne- the Yale University Library. The rare vol- sota have entered into an agreement to accept ume, one of four known to be in this country, as a gift at some future date the Ames gives Yale the distinction of being the only Library of South Asia, a unique regional col- collegiate institution in America possessing lection of books, maps, charts and other the three most famous "firsts" in the book materials relating primarily to South Asia— publishing world. the area usually interpreted to include Pakis- Since 1926 the Yale Library has owned one tan, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon and Burma. of the most perfect examples of the 45 extant The library represents 45 years of continu- copies of the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1440 ous collecting from sources throughout the in Mainz, Germany. In 1947, the Library world by Charles Lesley Ames, vice president was given a perfect copy of the Bay Psalm of the West Publishing Company of St. Paul. Book, first printed book in America, dated The outstanding feature of the library is that 1640. The Dictes and Sayings of the Philoso- it brings together in a compact collection phers was printed in 1477 by William Caxton, material pertaining to India and South Asia noted printing pioneer, at Westminster, Eng- insofar as it has been possible to acquire such land. material. It is a library concentrated on one particular segment of the world, and while The Fifth Annual Meet- much of the same material would be found in ing of the Southern Hu- a few large libraries such as the Library of Miscellaneous manities Conference took Congress, it would be classified and dispersed place on April 4-5, 1952, at under a multitude of subject headings. the University of Kentucky. The delegates Under the terms of the gift to the Regents, were the guests of the College of Arts and the Ames Library will become a specialized Sciences of the University of Kentucky at a unit of the University libraries sometime on luncheon on April 4. or before June 29, 1961, to be maintained in Among the topics discussed were the follow- perpetuity primarily as a regional library. ing: Virginia Humanities Conference, South- Bard College Library, Annandale-on- ern Conference of Academic Deans and Hudson, New York, has recently received a Southern Regional Education Board, teaching collection of more than 1,000 volumes in con- of music in the South, research in Southern nection with the donation of the famous colleges and universities, live manuscripts of Blithewood Estate to the college. The for- Southern writers, Classics in the South, hu- mer owner of the estate, the noted bibliophile manities curricula in the South, the humanities Mr. Christian A. Zabriskie, has long taken an and professional teacher training, and the active interest in the development of Bard future program of the Conference. College Library. He let the library have the The Conference will meet in Knoxville books in his mansion, most of which had been next spring. gathered by his father Mr. Andrew C. The Library of Congress reports that the Zabriskie. This collection contains many un- microfilming of the National Union Catalog, usual volumes on the history of New York its main supplement, and the Hebraic, Chi- State, especially Dutchess County, and many nese, Korean, and Japanese Union Catalogs

90 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES was completed on June 30. The project, Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, by Charles Darwin undertaken by Remington Rand on a con- (1952, 6i5p., plates, $7.50). tractual basis, was started on March 10. A Union List of Serials in American Bene- Although the 16-millimeter negative microfilm dictine Libraries, edited by Rev. Adolph E. copy that has been produced was made as a Hrdlicka, has been issued by the St. Pro- safety measure, the Photoduplication Service copius Abbey, Lisle, 111. (1952, i6op., $1.50). will fill orders for prints from it, or from The Pharmaceutical Curriculum, by Lloyd parts thereof, consisting of one or more reels, E. Blauch and George L. Webster has been at the rate of $4 per ioo-foot reel. issued by the American Council on Educa- The Charles J. Livingood Library of trou- tion, Washington, D.C. (1952, 257p., $2.00). badour literature has been presented by the Chauncey Sanders is the author of An In- Livingood heirs to the University of Cincin- troduction to Research in English Literary nati Library. This specialized collection of History (Macmillan, 1952, 423p., $5.50). nearly five hundred titles supplements a large This volume considers such matters as the background collection of the history, litera- materials, tools, and methods of research. ture and lore of Provence of the University Chapters are devoted to problems in editing, of Cincinnati Library. The special emphasis biography, authenticity and attribution, source of the collection is on the poetry of Provence, study, success and influence, chronology, in- especially that by Frederic Mistral, a personal terpretation, technique, history of ideas, and friend of the late Charles Livingood of Cin- folklore. The chapter on folklore was pre- cinnati. pared by Stith Thompson. Included also are suggestions for thesis-writing, bibliographical Philosophical Library has is- references and specimen bibliographies, notes . sued The Eternal Drama, a and thesis pages. This should be a useful Publications n 1 • t book for both students and librarians. Lo?nprenenswe 1 reatise on Freedom and the Tragic Life, a Study in the Syngenetic History of Hu- Dostoevsky, by Vyacheslav Ivanov, with a manity, Drama and Theatre, by Richard foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra, has been Rosenheim (1952, 302p., $6.00). issued by the Noonday Press, New York Nathaniel L. Goodrich, librarian emeritus, (1952, i66p., $3.50). This volume by the Dartmouth College, is the author of The Russian symbolist poet has been translated by JVaterville Valley: A Story of a Resort in the Norman Cameron and edited by S. Konovalov. New Hampshire Alountains (Lunenberg, Vt., The North Country Press, 1952, 77p., illus., Your Opportunity, 1952-1953, edited and $2.50). published by Theodore S. Jones (Milton 87, Two new titles in the College Outline Mass., 1952, 222p., $3.95 paper or $4.95 Series have been published by Barnes and bound) is a useful and comprehensive catalog Noble: Labor Problems and Trade Unionism, of awards, competitions, scholarships, loans and unusual opportunities open to Americans by Robert D. Leiter (320p., $1.75), and Business and Government: An Introduction, and Canadians for use in this country and abroad. It contains an alphabetical subject by Jack Taylor (322p., $1.50). Barnes and Noble are also the U.S. agents for Studies in index. the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth E. G. Swem, librarian emeritus, College of and Fourteenth Centuries, by B. Wilkinson, William and Mary, is the author of Indexes 2d ed. (Manchester University Press, 1952, and Machines (Williamsburg, Va., 1952, 9p.). 284P., $4.50), and The Annals of Tacitus: A Ernst C. Krohn is the compiler of The Study of the History of Writing, by B. History of Music: An Index to the Litera- Walker (Manchester University Press, 1952, ture Available in a Selected Group of Musico- 284P., $4.50). logical Publications (1952, 463P.). This is The ALA has issued 1952 Annual Confer- No. 3 of the Washington University (St. ence Summary Reports (Chicago: ALA, 1952, Louis) Library Studies. l68p., $2.00). Some readers may be surprised to read that Stechert-Hafner (Hafner Publishing Co.) more people live in Latin America than in the has issued a facsimile reprint of the first edi- United States. The estimated population of tion of Journal of Researches into the Geology the former is 152,800,000 in an area two-and- and Natural History of the Various Countries one-half times the size of Europe. These

JANUARY, 1953 91 figures appear in the introduction to the new of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., for 85 2gth edition of The South American Hand- cents. book: 1952, with a number of chapters com- The personal papers of the late Newton D. pletely rewritten. For many years this Baker, former Secretary of War and promi- Handbook has been recognized as the standard nent lawyer, have been given to the Library guide to the countries south of the Rio of Congress by his children. The collection, Grande. Although published in London, the which consists of some 52,000 items, contains H. W. Wilson Company, New York 52, is materials that relate to Baker's career from the distributor of the book (782P., charts, 1916 until his death in 1937. maps and tables, $2.00) in this country. The Library of Congress has published a Seventeenth Century Verse and Prose 128-page list of more than 3,000 Russian (Volume 2:1660-1700) by Helen C. White, abbreviations. Compiled by Dr. Alexander Ruth C. Wallenstein and Ricardo Quintana, Rosenberg of the Library's Reference Depart- of the University of Wisconsin, has been pub- ment, this selective list—entitled Russian lished by the Macmillan Company (1952, Abbreviations—is designed to assist research 472p., $4.75). This anthology, which con- workers who need authoritative interpreta- tains bio-bibliographical materials relating to tions of the abbreviations that appear in cur- authors of the selections, consists of pieces rent Russian literature. (Card Division, from the best seventeenth century edition Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., reproduced as accurately and directly as pos- 85 cents a copy). sible. The first volume of a definitive catalog of Employee Personnel Practices in Colleges the library of Thomas Jefferson was published and Universities, 1951-1952, is a survey com- recently by the Library of Congress. Prepared pleted under the sponsorship of the College by Miss E. Millicent Sowerby of the staff of and University Personnel Association (809 S. the Reference Department, the catalog will be Wright St., Champaign, 111., 6gp., $2.50). in five volumes and will, when completed, give Eighty-one institutions furnished data for the scholars an opportunity to map the bounds of report. Jefferson's vast knowledge and explore the The TVA Technical Library, Knoxville, sources that gave body and stimulus to his Tenn., has issued TVA as a Symbol of Re- thought. The first volume of the catalog can source Development in Many Countries, a be obtained from the Government Printing digest and selected bibliography of informa- Office at $5.00 a copy. Subsequent volumes tion (1952, 55p.). Bernard L. Foy, technical are expected to appear in 1953. librarian, is also assistant to the director of Two new volumes in the revised 8th edition information. of Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischem The Library of Congress has published a Chemie have been published: Titan (Tita- list of 338 books, periodical articles, and other nium) System No. 41 (Verlag Chemie, materials concerning the protection of libraries GMBH., Weinheim/Bergstrasse, Germany, and museums. It is entitled Safeguarding 1951, 481P., $27.20), and Arsen (Arsenic), Our Cultural Heritage, and the materials System No. 17 (1952, 475P-, $33-33). Both cited contain information that may be useful of these volumes are up-to-date, comprehen- in dealing with such peacetime dangers as sive and critical reviews of all aspects of the fires and floods as well as wartime dangers. subjects involved. The volume on titanium The 117-page bibliography was compiled by contains considerable discussion of structural, Dr. Nelson R. Burr of the Library's General industrial and electronic applications; while Reference and Bibliography Division. The the volume on arsenic, among other discus- materials cited were prepared on the basis of sions, includes detailed information on techni- actual experience in this and other countries cal applications, particularly in insecticides, in developing measures for protecting cultural and in glass, concrete, rubber and many other treasures or for repairing damage to them industries. Research librarians have come to and relate primarily to World War II experi- regard highly these systematic reviews of ence. The entries are alphabetically arranged pertinent world literature. under subject subdivisions, and there is an Clarence E. Carter is the author of Histori- author index. Copies of the bibliography may cal Editing ("Bulletins of the National be purchased from the Card Division, Library Archives," No. 7, August, 1952). The mono-

92 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES graph discusses various matters involved in forms and contains excerpts from William preparing an edition of documents (search for Archer's out-of-print manual on play-writing; relevant documents, canons of selection, tex- and (4) "From Technique to Values" includes tual criticism, transcription, arrangement, a transcript of a lecture on literary values by annotation, etc.), collation, and problems of A. R. Orage. Among other contributors are printing. Robert Penn Warren, Rudolf Flesch, S. S. College librarians will be'interested in the Van Dine, Rolfe Humphries, and Robert program of Caedmon Publishers, 460 Fourth Graves. Ave., New York 15, N.Y. Since April, 1952, The Chicago Undergraduate Division Li- the firm has issued recordings of Dylan brary of the University of Illinois (Chicago Thomas, the poet, Thomas Mann, reading in 11) has republished its student library in- German from Tonio Kroeger and The Holy struction handbook. The contents have been Sinner, Tennessee Williams, reading scenes entirely rewritten. A few copies are available from The Glass Menagerie, and Katherine for free distribution to college and university Anne Porter. Planned for the winter are re- libraries, as are multilithed copies of the cordings of Colette and Sartre, Robert Ross Library's most recent Annual Report, which reading two of the Canterbury Tales in describes its new program of Counselor Li- Middle English, Archibald MacLeish, Eudora brarianship and Library Instruction. Welty, the thrfce Sitwells, and others. Caed- The first annual compilation of college and mon recordings are available throughout the university library statistics for the four-state country in record shops and bookstores. Each area of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and of the 12-inch, non-breakable recordings is Nebraska has just been issued. Compiled as priced at $4.95, and contains an average of a joint project of the college sections of the fifty to sixty minutes of reading. four state library associations, this report The University of Illinois Library has attempts fuller statistical coverage for insti- issued a Handbook for Graduate Students tutions of higher education in those states and Members of the Faculty (1952, 36p., than is feasible in the annual printed sum- available on request). This is one of the best maries in College and Research Libraries. of such guides to help graduate students in This first report includes 1950-51 statistics for their research, and to orient faculty members 80 of the 150 colleges and universities in in their various relationships to the library. these states but plans call for fuller repre- New York State Maritime College, Fort sentation in future reports. The first com- Schuyler, New York, N.Y., Terence J. pilation, which follows the standard report Hoverter, librarian, has issued a revised edi- form used in College and Research Libraries, tion of its useful Handbook for library stu- has been done by Margaret V. Thompson, dents. Edited by Frederick J. O'Hara, it is research assistant at Parsons College, and well-organized and in attractive format. was prepared under the supervision of John The third edition of the University of Illi- F. Harvey, librarian at Parsons. Copies of nois Library, Chicago Undergraduate Division the report may be obtained from Mr. Harvey Library Handbook contains, in addition to at Parsons College Library, Fairfield, Iowa. imaginative illustrations, a folding chart of With the first issue of Volume 12 (1952) "Sample Reference Books in Selected Sub- the title of Microfilm Abstracts has been jects." changed to Dissertation Abstracts, a more Best Advice on How to Write, an anthol- accurate and descriptive title for its contents. ogy for practicing writers, is edited by Dissertation Abstracts is published by Uni- Gorham Munson. (New York, Heritage versity Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on House, 1952, 29op., $3.50.) It deals with a straight subscription basis ($6.00 per year; the basic psychology of writing and centers on $1.50 per issue), and all free distribution to the fundamental reader-writer relationship. selected libraries has been discontinued. The volume is divided into four parts: (1) Plans call for six issues a year, one of which deals with principles and includes Schopen- will include cumulative author and subject hauer's essay on style and the need for sim- indexes to the whole volume. plicity in writing; (2) concerns the writing of fiction and features Fielding on the "storyable Paul L. Horecky, Slavic Division, Library element"; (3) treats the writing of various of Congress, is the compiler of a "Prelimi-

JANUARY, 1953 93 nary Checklist of Russian, Ukranian, and The eighteenth volume of International Belorussian Newspapers Published since Bibliography of Historical Sciences covering January I, 1917, within the Present Bound- 1949 and some publications of previous years aries of the USSR and Preserved in United has been published by Armand Colin, Paris. States Libraries (a Working Paper)." Of interest to all librarians are the hear- The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim ings before a subcommittee of the House Aviation Center at Cornell University has Committee on Education and Labor on H.R. published the "first annual supplement" 5195, the "Library Services Act," held on (g6p.) to its Survey of Research Projects in April 1-2, 1952. Included are statements by the Field of Aviation Safety, first published Harold Brigham, president, ALA Public in 1951. Established in September 1950, with Libraries Division; Virginia Chase, president, headquarters in New York City, the Founda- ALA Division of Libraries for Children and tion endeavors to foster the improvement of Young People; Earl J. McGrath and Ralph aviation safety through research, education, M. Dunbar, U. S. Office of Education; training, and the dissemination of air safety Verner W. Clapp, Library of Congress; studies and information to industry and the Charles M. Mohrhardt, Detroit Public Li- general public. The supplement, like the brary, and others. The "Library Services Survey, is a broadly-classified listing of re- Act" was not reported out,of committee search projects and reports, each described before the 82d Congress adjourned but efforts succinctly to suggest its usefulness or im- will be made to have a new bill introduced portance. Since so many research studies in in the 83d Congress. aviation safety are carried on under contract The February 1952 issue of PMLA con- with a variety of corporations and educa- tains George K. Boyce's "Modern Literary tional institutions, most are published in Manuscripts in the Morgan Library," a "technical report" form and not distributed checklist of Morgan library holdings not now widely. The Survey adds a useful biblio- listed elsewhere except in that library's own graphical key to the contents of unclassified card catalog. Of particular interest to re- technical reports in this field. search scholars in English and American The first additions and changes to the first literature, the checklist calls attention to the edition of the Army Medical Library Classi- wealth of literary material available in the fication have been issued (List no. I, Janu- Morgan collection, characteristically con- ary 1952). Twelve corrections to the sidered to be devoted chiefly to medieval schedules, one to the tables, and fifteen to the manuscripts and early printed books. The index are noted. The Armed Forces Medi- medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the cal Library has also published a revised edi- Morgan collection are recorded, of course, tion of Organizing Small Medical Libraries in the De Ricci Census. in Military Installations. A guide to the rare books and special col- By arrangement with the publishers, Yale lections in the University of South Carolina University is microfilming the Eastern Edition library has been published recently. Com- of the Wall Street Journal from its begin- piled by Elisabeth Doby Miller, assistant li- ning in 1889 to the present and on a con- brarian at South Carolina, Special Collec- tinuing basis. Orders are now being accepted tions in the McKissick Memorial Library, for positive microfilm copies at 8.4 cents per University of South Carolina (1952, I29p.), foot. Plans call for four reels to a year, each identifies and describes briefly some 717 rare containing the issues for three months. and association volumes, including 82 in- Microfilm copies of 1951 issues will cost ap- cunabula. proximately $33.60. Orders should be sent Two recent publications of the University to John H. Ottemiller, associate librarian, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, includes its Catalogo das Yale University. Publicaqoes Periodicas da Universidade de Volume 1, part 9 (p. 769-864) of the second Sao Paulo, and Indice Bibliografico das Pub- edition of Milkau's Handbuch der Biblio- licaqoes da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Vol. thekswissenschaft, edited by Georg Leyh, has I, part 1. been published by K. F. Koehler Verlag, The CMC Sales Catalogue, 19s2- issued by Stuttgart. Communication Materials Center, Columbia

94 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES University Press, 413 West 117th St., New Illinois, appeared in the April issue of The York 27, lists films, radio transcriptions, Journal of the AER (Association for Educa- photograph recordings, pamphlets, etc., which tion by Radio). The purpose of this study have been produced by CMC and are availa- was to assemble data describing the use made ble for sale. of radio in large college and university li- "The Enlarged Library Building at Chapel braries. Although radio has not been widely Hill," a pamphlet issued by the University of used by college libraries for reasons of ex- North Carolina on the occasion of the open- pense, lack of personnel, and dissatisfaction ing of its new library addition, April 18, with present day library-radio programs, the 1952, includes an interesting and informative author makes a plea for the radio program as summary of the history of the university a means of stimulating study and raising the library, a description of the building with level of reading tastes. floor plans and pictures, and some statistics Columbia University School of Library on the size, cost, capacity and equipment of Service has published A Classification for the enlarged library plant. Communications Materials, by Jay W. Stein. The Handicrafts of France as Recorded in Designed to provide a workable arrangement the 'Descriptions des Arts et Metiers' 1761- of communications materials as an alternative 1788by Arthur H. Cole and George B. to the scattered arrangements afforded in Watts, is Publication No. 8 of the Kress Li- such standard systems as LC and DC, these brary of Business and Economics, published mimeographed schedules were tested by apply- by the Baker Library of the Harvard Gradu- ing them to a large collection deposited in the ate School of Business Administration (1952, Columbia University Libraries. Other insti- 43p.). The Baker Library has also issued tutions building communications collections two new reading lists: "Business Literature: for the use of scholars and specialists may find a Reading List for Students and Business- this classification scheme useful for the effec- men" (Reference List no. 12), and "Ex- tive arrangement of their own collections. ecutive Compensation: Selected References, Copies may be obtained from the Columbia 1947-1952" (Reference List no. 13). University Bookstore, New York 27, New The Hilprand Press, Los Angeles, a new- York, at $2.00 each. comer to the ranks of publishers, has issued The third volume of Index Translationum, Samuel X. Radbill's Bibliography of Medi- the international bibliography of translations cal Ex-Libris Literature (1951, $4.50), a published by UNESCO is available from Co- comprehensive list of references to medical lumbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, bookplates, including both books and peri- New York 27, New York ($7.50). Listing odical literature. Directed by Mrs. Clare approximately 13,500 translations appearing R. Bill, a longtime collector of and au- in 1950 (as well as previously unreported thority on bookplates, the Hilprand Press will translations published in 1948 and 1949), the concentrate on the publication of items re- index is arranged by country in which the lating to bookplates and bookplate collecting. translation was published and derives from Appleton-Century-Crofts has published national lists prepared in each country. Al- Prose of the English Renaissance, selected and phabetical indexes of authors, translators and edited by J. William Hebel, Hoyt H. Hud- publishers are provided. The statistical table son, Francis R. Johnson, and A. Wigfall appearing at the end of the volume shows Green (882p., $5.50). Designed as a com- that Germany, France and Japan lead all panion volume to Hebel and Hoyt's Poetry other countries in the number of translations of the English Renaissance, selections are produced, and the total figures for all coun- included from the writings of Sir Thomas tries indicate that approximately 50 per cent More, Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas North, of translations were works of literature, 15 John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney, Richard per cent social science, law and educational Hakluyt, John Donne, and 37 other Tudor- materials, and about 9 per cent history, biog- Stuart writers. raphy and geography. The natural and ap- An article "Radio's Role in Large Uni- plied sciences accounted for only about 11 per versity Libraries" by Le Moyne W. Ander- cent of the total number of translations. son, library adviser at the University of Art collections for small libraries are con-

JANUARY, 1953 95 sidered in Maj Lundgren's Konst-Litteratur Reference," "Questions for Practical Work," i Urval for Mindre Bibliotek (Sveriges and "Addenda, July 1951." Allmanna Biblioteksforenings Smaskrifter, Principles and Practices of Classified Ad- No. 33, 1951). A selected list of recent vertising, edited by Morton J. A. McDonald, Swedish titles for which printed catalog cards has been published in a revised edition under have been prepared is included. the auspices of the Association of Newspaper A comprehensive list of recent publications Classified Advertising Managers, Inc. (Cul- in Spanish and Portuguese relating to cata- ver City, Calif., Murray and Gee, 1952, loging and classification has been compiled by 470 p., $7.50). The volume, which contains Alberto Villalon, Director of the Central a glossary and illustrations, is a useful refer- Library of the University of Chile Medical ence work on the subject. School, Santiago, Chile. Descriptive and Two volumes of American foreign relations critical annotations have been supplied for have recently appeared. Documents on about three-quarters of the titles in this American Foreign Relations, 1950, vol. XII, classified list which has been published as edited by Raymond Dennett and Robert K. vol. 1, Group 1, Series B of the series Biblio- Turner (Princeton University Press, 1951, grafias y lecturas bibliotecnicas. An earlier 702 p., $6.00) is another in the series being volume in this series, devoted to similar issued under the auspices of the World Peace publications relating to the organization and Foundation. Recent American Foreign administration of libraries issued since 1947, Policy, Basic Documents 1941-1951 by Fran- was published in 1950 as vol. 1, Group 1, of cis O. Wilcox and Thorsten V. Kalijarvi Series A. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952, 927 p., Karl A. Baer has compiled an annotated $6.50) is an expansion of an earlier volume, bibliography of Plasma Substitutes, Except A Decade of American Foreign Policy, and Those Derived from Human Blood, 1940- includes some fifty or sixty documents which 1951. This comprehensive list of references cover 1950 and 1951. Brief editorial notes has been published by the Army Medical have also been added. Library as one of the special bibliographical The second edition of a list of Business compilations planned to supplement its other Manuscripts in Baker Library, compiled by indexing and abstracting programs. Robert W. Lovett, has been issued by the The first number of a new quarterly pub- Graduate School of Business Administration, lication, Southern Asia: Publications in IVest- Harvard University (1951, 213 p., $1.50). ern Languages, a Quarterly Accessions List The first list, issued in 1932, contained 508 has been released by the Library of Congress. entries; the new edition contains 1,118 en- Designed to supplement the library's current tries. accessions lists for Russian and East Euro- Cataloging and Classification: An Intro- pean materials, the present list is sponsored ductory Manual, by Thelma Eaton (1951, jointly by the library and the Joint Commit- 113 p., distributed by The Illini Union Book- tee on Southern Asia of the American Council store, Champaign, 111., $1.50) has been de- of Learned Societies and the Social Science signed as an undergraduate introduction to Research Council. Subscriptions at $2.00 per cataloging and classification problems. year, or single copies at 50 cents are avail- The Years Work in Librarianship, vol. able from the Card Division, Library of XV, 1948, has been issued by The Library Congress, Washington 25, D.C. Association (London, 1952, 281 p., £2, fi.ios. A. D. Roberts has issued the second edi- to members). The volume includes reports tion of Introduction to Reference Books (The by regular contributors, in addition to some Library Association, Chaucer House, Malet new ones—A. Shaw Wright, LeRoy C. Mer- Place, London, W.C.I, 1951, 214 p., 15s., ritt, R. W. Pound, P. D. Record, and ios.6d. to members). In this new edition, K. W. Humphreys. Dr. Merritt, of the Mr. Roberts has included revisions on more School of Librarianship, University of Cali- than half the pages of the first edition, as fornia, has written the chapter on "Research well as a chapter on bibliographical works of in Librarianship." Frances M. Birkett has reference. Three appendices include a "Note prepared the chapter on "National and Uni- on Tracing and Selecting New Works of versity Libraries." It is hoped that The

96 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Library Association will some day issue this A recent publication, a series of lectures useful compilation more currently than it has delivered under the A. S. W. Rosenbach Fel- been able to do in recent years. lowship in Bibliography at the University of Beginning with the January 1952 issue, the Pennsylvania, is Bartolome de Las Casas, Decimal Classification Section's quarterly Bookman, Scholar and Propagandist by Lewis publication, Notes and Decisions on the Appli- Hanke, until recently director of the Hispanic cation of the Decimal Classification started Foundation of the Library of Congress (Uni- its third series, which includes additions and versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1952, $5.00). corrections to the 15th edition, as well as other notes relating to the application of both editions. While some of the notes and deci- THE SUBJECT ANALYSIS sions in the first two series have been super- seded, most of their content is still in force. OF LIBRARY MATERIALS * Issues of Notes and Decisions from 1934 through 1948 may be purchased from the Card Division of the Library of Congress Papers presented at an Institute at Columbia Univer- for $3.45 a set; from 1949 to date, from the sity, June 24-28, 1952, under the sponsorship of the School of Library Service and the A.L.A. Division of Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Govern- Cataloging and Classification. ment Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at 30 cents per year. The price of a single issue *

is 10 cents. Includes contributions by: Wyllis E. Wright, Leo H. A guide to agricultural reference materials LaMontagne, Jesse Shera, David Judson Haykin, Gerald is being compiled by Orpha E. Cummings, D. McDonald, Alex Ladenson, Frank B. Rogers, Mar- garet Egan, Kanardy L. Taylor, Harry Dewey, Wesley librarian, Giannini Foundation of Agricul- Simonton, Verner W. Clapp, Carlyle J. Frarey, Jean K. tural Economics at the University of Cali- Taylor, Ruth Erlandson, Allen T. Hazen, J. W. Perry, fornia, J. R. Blanchard, librarian, University Dorothy Charles, Sarita Robinson. of California at Davis, and Harold Ostvold, * agriculture librarian, University of Minne- sota, St. Paul, Minn. The aim will be to EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION IJY list descriptively the most important and use- MAURICE F. TAUBER ful sources of bibliographical and reference- * type information in the field of agriculture. Any suggestions as to information problems that could be treated in such a guide would Approximately 230 p. Price $2.75 be welcomed by the compilers. Order from Columbia U. Bookstore "Rogues and Vagabonds in the Book Trade" New York 27, N.Y. is the title of a lecture delivered by Percy H. Muir, President, International Booksellers Association, at the University of Pennsylvania Library. It is published in the Winter ACRL Committees 1951/1952 issue of The Library Chronicle. Matthew W. Black, curator of the Furness The ACRL Committee on Commit- Memorial Library of Shakespeare at the tees will appreciate suggestions or University of Pennsylvania, has also con- applications for committee appointments tributed an article on the correspondence be- for 1953-54. Consult the ALA Bulletin tween the Furnesses and Charles and Mary for December, 1952, pp. 397-398, for the Cowden Clarke, nineteenth-century Shake- list of ACRL Committees and then send speareans. your suggestions to Walter W. Wright, The Union List of Periodicals and Other chairman, at the University of Pennsyl- Serial Publications in the Medical and Bio- vania Library, Philadelphia, or other logical Sciences Libraries of the Greater Los members of his committee as listed on Angeles Area, published by the Special Li- P- 397 of the ALA Bulletin. Members braries Association, Southern California are urged to volunteer their services. Chapter, has appeared. The cost is $5.00.

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