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College and Research Libraries HAROLD M. TURNER The CECL' s First Fifty Years The first Conference of Eastern College Librarians was held in 1912; in 1964 the fiftieth such conclave took place. Throughout its history the CECL has been noted for its informality, its independence, and its prophetic concern for matters that later command the attention of the entire profession. Led in its early years by strong individual li­ brarians-such as Columbia's C. C. Williamson-the CECL has latterly taken its direction from a steering committee. CERTAIN SINGULARITIES of this fifty­ especially on this fiftieth anniversary oc­ year-old Conference of Eastern College casion when silence itself might well be Librarians should be noted. These in­ golden. clude: its informality; its long fidelity to Yet having been made the Confer­ Columbia; a total inconsistency with re­ ence's antiquary, I am not easily silenced spect to its name (anyone may come, now. After spending several months off even library patrons); its coincidence and on in poking around in its past, fin­ with America's great feast day; its con­ gering its relics, and inhaling its dust, tinuing location in one of America's bet­ I have become attached to this Eastern ter holiday towns; its wholly indepen­ Conference, as one fifty-year-old to an­ dent status; and its total want of mem­ other. And hence I run the risk of saying bership, minutes, constitution, by-laws, not too little on this occasion but rather business proceedings, money mulcts in too much. the form of dues, and other trappings of As antiquary then I am drawn first­ the more formalized library conferences. almost in Old Testament style-to the But the singularities do not end there. people who have run the Conference For example, even the hastiest examina­ through the years. "In the Beginning" tion of its program contents will show there was W. Dawson Johnston of Co­ how little given this Conference has lumbia, who ran it for two years before been to self-analysis, to brooding over going on to his reward. And that was to its identity, to introspection or even to Paris as director of the American Li­ retrospection in any form. In fact, it has brary there. Next came William Coo­ carried these selfless qualities to the lidge Lane of Harvard, and William C. point where one might legitimately ask Hicks of Columbia, who ran it in tandem whether such a paper as this one belongs for three years; then Hicks alone for ten on the Conference program at all, and years more before going on to his re­ ward, and that was Yale (no Bois de Mr. Turner is Lecturer in the School of Boulogne, of course, but a good place Library Service at Columbia University. even so). Next came Harriet B. Prescott, This paper is printed as read to the fiftieth Columbia's chief cataloger, who ran it Conference of Eastern College Librarians in as an interim matter for one year. Then, New York on November 28, 1964. with two years of assistance from Miles I 289 290 I College & Research Libraries • July, 1965 0. Price while sidelined by illness, C. C. a sure hand, with Hare, and with much Wi~liamson ran it for fourteen years, and dexterity, which make the Conference Carl M. White for several more. There­ seem all the more worth celebrating to­ after the responsibility passed into the day. As Dr. Williamson cheerfully ac­ hands of its steering committees where knowledged to me not long ago, he had it has remained ever since. By every one serious administrative Haw. He show of the record, I might add, these found it almost painfully hard to dele­ committees have done their work effec­ gate detail. But not for want of faith in tively and with good grace. But then his subordinates. Rather, I suspect, be­ I would be neglecting my own responsi­ cause he was so fond of detail himself. bilities .as antiquary if I failed to point In any case, at his desk, first in Low out that here and there the record has library and then in Butler, he centralized also turned up a chairman who sounded the entire responsibility for the Confer­ a little harassed and overburdened, and ence. From there he ran the whole show. a little like the man Lincoln once de­ He handled the delicate business of scribed, who after being tarred and speaker and topic procurement, and in­ feathered, and .about to be ridden out of cidentally, he had quite a knack for that. town on a rail said, .. if it weren't for the Almost ingenuously, he would write honor of the thing, I'd just as soon walk." people asking their suggestions for Of all the people, however, who have topics. Then once he had them, he run the Conference, Dr. Williamson is would ask the same people who sug­ the one I would most like to linger with gested them to speak on them. And now for a bit. He is an extraordinary often enough they would. man, if you don't know him-a spare and Also, Dr. Williamson arranged for the erect eighty-eight-year-old, still very annual meeting place as it moved suc­ much alive, living in Greenwich, Con­ cessively from Milbank chapel to the necticut, and not only running the Men's Faculty Club and the Women's, Greenwich Garden Club now but the to Casa Italiana, and finally to Harkness. club's library as well. Dr. Williamson He screened the mailing lists. He saw to came to Columbia in 1926, you may re­ the mailings. He handled all the corre­ member. He came by way of Bryn Mawr spondence, both outgoing and incoming, where he taught economics, the New relating to the Conference. By far the York public library where he had been most of the incoming mai~ was lauda­ chief of the economics and business di­ tory, but occasionally it could be cranky, vision, the Rockefeller Foundation for as when a college librarian in New Jer­ which he did an Americanization study, sey complained she had heard so many and the Carnegie Corporation which talks on the Library of Congress that sponsored his report on American library she could now make one on it herself. education which he alone refers to today He also prepared, edited, and all but as the .. Carnegie Report." saw the annual program through the His fourteen-year stewardship of the press. And that could be a hazardous Conference was remarkable in many re­ job, like the year he left off Isadore spects. For one, he was simultaneously Mudge's middle initial, or the time when managing two other sizeable enterprises: right up until the final galley proof, the Columbia University library system Keyes D. Metcalf was unaccountably and its school of library service. But down to discuss .. bar, college, and re­ more remarkable, I think, is the way in search libraries" instead of the more which he ran the Conference as if it sobering .. university, college and re­ were a kind of third Indian club he kept search libraries." twirling in the air. And he did so with Dr. Williamson also handled the Con- The CECL's First Fifty Years I 291 ference' s finances, such as they were. himself would toss out a library subject And that could be another precarious for discussion. Often it bore on some task considering that the Conference action of the ALA Executive Council. seldom had more than five dollars to its Just as often it was a rehash of what name (it always passed the hat in those the Association of Research Libraries, days) and that more than once he had another elite, was talking about. More­ to throw not only his own considerable over, there seems to have been a peren­ prestige but all of Columbia's behind nial gripe around the table about the Li­ him as well, in prevailing upon one of brary of Congress' cooperative catalog­ the city's larger banking systems to carry ing venture and about the way LC kept this blue chip account. bouncing cards back for correction until But even all these were not the end the catalogers were scared to death even of his tasks. Besides carrying the full to send copy in. The Friday Nighters load of this Saturday's proceedings on talked about public documents, too, and his shoulders, he also took it upon him­ the need for better numbering and in­ self every year to run a kind of Confer­ dexing systems. And since, as my in­ ence Within a Conference, or, more ac­ formant told me, these dinners were held curately, a Conference Before a Con­ in the period when microfilm was in its ference. And this was the annual Friday ascendancy, much as automation is to­ Night Dinner and Smoker afterward­ day, they also discussed that. I was fur­ a kind of stag at eve at which presum­ ther told that it was as important for a ably no one drank more than his fill. man to be able to discourse knowingly I cannot resist going on about these about "salts of bromide" and the relative Friday night dinners for a bit. They reduction ratios of 8, 16, and 35 mm were highly honorific affairs, freighted microfilm then as it is to do so about with status, and hedged all about with "parameters" and "printouts" and "simu­ restrictions. They were restricted first lation studies" today. to men, and then more specifically, to Now while these dinners were tightly those who after years on the slippery restricted affairs, occasionally the group ladder upwards, now perched securely would make room at the table for a on the top rungs, great gray eagles of young man on the way up, a Danton or the American library scene.
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