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Citation Cottrell, G. W. Jr. 1959. News of the libraries - Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XIII.3. Harvard Library Bulletin XIII (3), Autumn 1959: 478-482.

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LIBRARY COi\1.r\llTT.EE H. Schaffner, J)nvid P~ \Vhcatl11ndt H~1rold T~ Y\lhitei Lucien \\ 1ulsin. HE Library Co1nmittee of the T Fncu ky of Ar ts :3.nd Sci~nc e~ i PERSONNET,, . as a ppo in ted by the Prcsid en t for one year f rorn 1 Ju!y 1959, consisrn BcENT appojnnncnts jn the Uni- of the follo,ving: Paul I-I. Buck (Li- R:ycrsfry JJibrary Y oted by the hrary) t Chairmnn~Dough!.~ \V~ Bryant Pres idcn t and FeU o,vs of Har- (Library), Bernard Iludians.ky (Engi- vard Colic geJ ,vith the consent of the neering), Frnnk i\-'J..Cross, Jr (I-Ie- Iloard of O vcrscc tsi a re -as f ollo,-~.1s; b re ,;.v),IJI er b crt D iccktna n n (R oin an cc Sarah F. Adari1s, Assistant in the Languages)" 1\lerle Fainsod (Govern- Harvurd University Archives ment}, AJcxandcr Gcrschcnkron ([co- l\1ar)orjc J.Bcnzingcri Reference Li- non1 i cs), I-Ienry C. I-I-a tfic ld ( G cnu .inic brarian in the Library uf the Languriges) i Philip J~!\1c::Niff (Lilira- Schools of i\1cdjcine and Public ry) Recd C~ Rollins (Bota.ny), John I-Icalth

i\1."\Vard (1\1usic), Bartlett J. ,1/hiting Barb :=tr~ L+ Ile rrn a fl i Catal ogu er in (Eng]ish)i Cedric H~ \Vhitman (Clas- th~ 1-Iarvard College Libiary sics), Robert L. "\Volff (I-Iisto1J), Ed- Cat her i ne JJ, Bi oder up, A ssisto n t Li- ,d n E. Wi 11ia n1s acts as Secretary to b r:1ri an for Reader Service in the the Cointnittec. Library of the Schoois of h·1edi~ {Jne and PnbEc Health Charles E. Brinkler, Assistant in the \'JSlTI NG COJ\1l'dl1TEE Lnmont Librar)Tr of the I-I"::lrvard HE Con1n-,ittee to yj~it the Uni- College Library T venity Lil lra ry, a pp oin red by Robert "'''. Flint., Cat:i 1og u er in the . the Board of Overseers for one H rvard Col 1ege J..,ibra ry yc-ar fro1n 1 July 1959i h as follo\vs~ Eleanor l\l. Garvey, Assistant to the Arthnr A. Houghton, Jr. Chairn1an, Curator of Printing and Graphic Carleton A.· Richn1ond, \ 7ice Chair- Arts in the H'1r\rard College Li~ nu1n. F. Gregg Ben1is) \ViUian1 A. i\'l. brary Durden, \V:.1rd l\it Canaday, Imrie de Ruth A. I-Iepbu rn i Ca tal ogu er in the ,, cgh, Fraochi W. Hatch, 1-Iarris:onD. Hi r,1 nrd La ,v Library Horblit~ ParknH1nD. Hcnvct Donald F. Iva i1ostecky 1 Chief Cataloguer in

I-Iyde, Bayard L. Kilgour 1 Jr~ Roy E. the Library of the Sthools of I_.~rs:cn~ Stanley ~fa rcus, Gilbert I-I. i\-ledic:ineand P11blicI-J enhh i\ 1 on tagu e, Arthur W. Page, JIo ies Pc n- Il oris I. Nico faev sky, Sp cc ialist j n

n Jse i Dexter Perkins, ('.,ar] I-,J. Piorz- Russian History in the Harvard hein1er, Jri Curt H. Reisinger, Joseph Colicge Library and Research As- 478

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XIII, Number 3 (Autumn 1959) News of the Libraries· 479 • soc1ate in the Russian Rcscnrch EXHIBITIONS Center Lelia A. Sapienzat Chief Cataloguer JUL)r 1958-JUNE 1959 in the H ar\Tard Lu \V Library HE foUo\ving list records a sc- Joseph de Somogyi, Rcseu n;h Assjs t T lectjon of exhibitions held in ant in the Center for !\1iddle East- various J,Jarvard libraries durinu 0 ern Studies and Specialist in Ilonk the year I July 1958 to 30 June 1959: Sc 1ectio n 1n the Harvard ColJ cge Lihr:iry ,V!UENER L1DRARY R.u th S. Stern f el d, C-atal ogu er in the Harvard Co Hege Library Alain Halls

A Uen Il r ,, ea n er t Specialist for Doc- City i\1a ps and \Tie,vs of the Sixtccnt 1l, u n1en tary Reproduction in the Seven tc en ti lj and Eighteenth Cen- Harvard College Library rur ies Ur~u1a L. \.Valz, Reference Librar- Thcodo re R.. oosevc lti T "\\re nty·-sh: th ian in the Libr.'.lryof the Schools President of the United States: Ccn- of i\tlcdicine and Pub1ic 1-Icr..lth ten n ial Exhibit to Corn n1ctn orate the Arthur B. ,, 7iUi:nns, Cataloguer ju Date of his Birt ht 2 7 October [ 8 5 8 the Har \7ard College I ..i bra r y C hdstin es Ilooks David C. lVeber, l\.ilc1nber of the Ilooks and h1aps of Alaska Fuculty of Arts and Sciences Oregon. a Cct1tcnnial Observance of Akiko 17 =3.,n aga w·a, Qi ta 1ogucr in the Its Statehood I-Iarvard Co11egeJ..ribrary I·Ia,vaii La bib Zu,-viyya-\' am~k, J\-iiddleEast- Publication~ of the T,vcnty-fif th Re- ern Specialist jn the Harvard Col- union Class lege Library and Associ atc in the Center for l\1iddle E-ustern Studies Harry E/kl11sJfTidener M e1no rial Ro 0111s The title of J:n11cs C. 11amaskos has l1ecn c.:hanged from Cata1ogucr in the Gutenberg BjbI e ( th rou ghou t) 1-Iarvard Co]lege l..ibrary to that of Samu el Johnson's Dictionary; Wil1 ian1 Ad1ninistrativc Assishlnt for Cnmlogu- Illakej K~te Grccn:.nvay; An1eric.an ing in the I-IanTard Co1lcg-cLibrary, and EngU.s h Li tera rurc 1~heodore N. Tread\vell retired as Shakespeare Foljos; Orjginal Dnnviog~: Assistant I ..ibradan in the IrJarvard La\l~ Cruikshank, Smith, Ro,vlandson; J_,ihra ry 3 1 Au gust 1 9 59. R esigna tion s Harry Elkjns \:\'idcner! Lt,trers ha ,re b ec n as f oHo,vs; FJo ra K. R izle! Th c Gruikshanks (Po Htical Cad ca- i\1iddlc Eastern Spccialjst in the I-Iar- tu rcs) 1.TardCo]!ege Library, effecti,rc 30 June Shakespeare Folios; Audubon Birds; l959; Jcrornc T. Lcv~•js~Assi~tant in the Christm ~s Books and Cards Lamont Library of the I-Jarvard Col- Bindings; Cen ten arie., lege Lihrary., effective l Augu~t 1959; Sha k espca re F o 1io s; }:a r ly Prj n ccd and Robin F. B1as-cr,Adn1inistrative Boo ks; Cos tu 111cs Assistant for Catalogning in the I-far- English and American Literature; Col- vard Co 11egc Library, effccti \+e Io Oc- ored Plates of North American \Vild t ob er 1959r Flo\, 0 crs

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XIII, Number 3 (Autumn 1959) Harvard Library B111let2'n

Sha kespe ri re Folios: Caxto h; Costu1ncs; Graphic Arts Roo111 Audubon Ilirds (plntes) Chjncsc Scrolls Persian J\1inia tu res I-I OlJGH l'ON L 1BlUii.R Y LAi\1 OJ'r,.TTL lERAR Y Exhibition Roont Alain Corridors The Grand Tour: An Exhibition of Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Eighteenth-century \ 7i e,,? _ Coun cj 1 ( th ro ughou t) Italian Books and i\.1anuscnpts Exlub- Recent Hurvard Authors (throughout) i ted in the hon or of the J\·1arches a I-Ia rvard Ycarb o ok Competition Orjgo H nrvard D ra n1a tic Cl uh The Paris of Henry of Navarre: Books I·Iarvard Crhuson Photographs and lvl-anus c rip ts 11Iustra ti ve of the ,~ 7inthrop I·Iouse Dra.1natjc Society Book of That Title Published by Harvard Y earb u uk Con1petition the I-Iarvard U ni\·ersity Press Isak Dincscn Exhibit~ In Honor of Her l\1 a ps of Siberia and Russi a: \ 7isit to the University Books Purchased ,v.ith the Fund Estab- Undergraduate i\1anagers Council lished by Henry Sakonstal1 H o,vc, Eliot Hou~e Drama Group Cfo~Sof I 869 Fogg Art A1useu111Bcrma~ Exhibit An Exhibition Iionorlng the Centen- . Adarns House Drama Socrety· nial of On the Origin of Species I-1arva rd Op era Guild vVil1i:11n i\·i akcpcac c Thackcra y B ascd Harvard Gi Iber t and Sullivan Pin yers upon th~ Collection F onn ed and Pre- Aubrey Beardsley E~hibit by Fogg Art s en red by Her be rt T-r~Carle bac h, '09 ~1useu,n International Student Alliance I( eatsRoonz i\-1cdicine and Art: Prints 8od Pictures Loaned by Fogg Art !-t1uscu1n l{eats and the Theater In Co1nnie1norarion of the Centenary Poetry Roont of the Death of Leigh Hunt { I 784- r 850) !\1a nuscript \\' or ksheets, Prin red Books~ Bio graphical Sketche~, and Photo- graphs of~ Gro1t11dFloor H11Il W. S. A1envin The Original 1\1anuscript and Fjrst Conrad Aiken Printings of A'llzerica, on the 1 5or h Richard Eberhan Anni·versary of the Ilirth of Snrnnel Stg n ley K unitz F ra.ncis Sn1it h Phi1ipBootl1 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Rob- Kath~rine Hoskins Ri Chard ,vilbu r ert Burns, i 5 January 17 59 A Selection f ron, Ha rv·ard 's Boo ks of ,~, j Uiam A 1fred Hours Jon Silkin EarJy Books on Astronomy- to Signal- ize the InstaU-ation of the Pope Or- BAKER LIDRARY rery Art in Science

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XIII, Number 3 (Autumn 1959) News of tbe l~ibraries 1~he Business Scene in Sixtcc.nth-Ccn- Chrjstop her Colun1hus LangdeU - Bi- tury Germany ograp Ii ical £g rl y T ra.nsporta ti on in Am erica T J1e F c d era l Register System Six Cen turi cs of Data Proe essing A] aska Furch~ se Enen1 ies of Books Legis1ri ti ve History~ In tcrnal Re vc nue The Business Scene in Old London Code of i954 Hints for the \:\rouid-Be Gentleman The Use of A ,nerican Law l~eports Fariner and A1nerican Jurisprudence Student Life at the Harvard Bu s:iness Abrahan1 Lincoln as a La,vycr School, 1908-1958 The i{e y Numb er Systc1n The J\1cdici Ilu5iness Records and J_.a\\'Day Their Donor, H4 Gordon Selfrjdgc Index to Legal Periodicals Business in Nineteenth-Century Rural Josi ah Quincy Biogra p hica.l Ne,,,.York Legal R.e.search-Treaties~ NA TO The AppHcation of Graphics i\1ar ketin g Cotton MEDICAL SCHOOL LlBHARY The Busi n essnI an in Cari ca tu re Historical Books on Ncuro~physiology The Pacific Nortlnvcst., Past and Pres- Rel-ared to Sc n1inars jn Basic N cu- ent ro1o gical Sciences Stockholder Relations The Tenth Anniversary of the Gradu- Early English and American Rai 1roads ation of Worn en from the Hatvard Hours of Labor in the Good O]d Days: l\'lcdica 1 School Tim eta b lcs1 Lo"re 111,1 ills Portrait of a Duildj ng ( 1 oo Church ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL Street, Nc,v York): A Loan Exhi- L1nRARY bition of Paintingst Sponsored by the American Federation of Arts PJansfor Library Expansion Pa tent hf e di c i nes, Nin etc en th ~Century 1"he Wrhings of Paul Til1ich Bonflnza Christ's Passion and Rcsu r rec tio n as The H nrvard Bus incss Sc ho ol:t 1 908- . Seen jn Sixtccnch-Cc11tury \Vood- 1958 cuts Ear 1y I1_1surance Sc hen1es Con tern porary R elig j o us Art A Glimpse of Dean Horton LA,v ScnooL LIBRARY Trearure Roo111 'l\1 us F,urvl" OF Col\.-JPA I-tATH'E Zoor.oov L1nRARY History of the Civil La\v The First Ye~r of J... n,v School Boo ks! Letterst and P j c tures to Ce] e- Josiah Quincy, and Harv11rdunder I-Iis b rate the [ ooth Anniversary of the Presidency, 1829--1845 Joint Co1nn1unica.tion On the 'Tend- IJani e1 W c bster ency of Species to Fonn Varieties, 1nadc by Dar,vjn and '~'allace to the /..angde!JRending Roo1n Linnenn Society, l ..ondon~ 1 July Judah P. Benjamin -Iliographical 1858 ~case in Point' A1aska and Ha,vaii: Exploration nnd Ho, v to Use Shepard is Cit at ions a rural I-Iisto ry

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XIII, Number 3 (Autumn 1959) Harvard l.sibrar y Rul Iet i 11 NE,1/ PROGRA1'.-I FOR -:an in tc g rul part of the Lib mryt s rc- LIBRARY RESOURCES sources prograrn. It ,viH provide a f u l l-tin1e assign 111ent of 1esenr ch on the R EH\Vi:N E. \V1t.L1A1v~s,si~cc coi1ection'.'i, instead of the .periodic ef- M 1956 the Ass1stnot LtbrarJan forts to check and ,vced that have for Book Se]ection j n the been mnde in the r~st decade~ H ar,rard leg c bra en as- Co 1 Li ry, has be Sp~cific nrn.ttcrs requidng study :ire: sjgnc a ne,vly defined d responsibility a rev1e,v of the concept of deposit Ii- for 1nakjng a.pprai.~~ls· of exisdng col- 1 bn1ry storage, j n cl u d1n g analysis of lecnons and rcco111111endationsfor the I-l:.u·l'ard's nrn.tcrials in the Nc1.v Eng- dcvdopn1ent and organiza6on of the land Deposit Library and a considera- resources of the. University L.ibrury. tion of pos-sjblc impro,·cmcnts in the The ne"r ,progran1 ,viH he a continuing arr.angcn1ents of these 1natcrials-to en- survey ,v.ith the objective of brjngjng sure 1naxin1um accessibility for schol- t ogethcr jnf orrna don th :i r ,vi 11assist j n arly use; the cstabE~hment of a pat- d e,relr>pi n g nd 8 pplying a consistent tern for the re\Tie\vand ,vccding of the acquisition policy; it ,vill seek to build \V".iden er l ..i brary co11ection s a long up the strength of the Libn1r,ls col- ,vi Lh tl 1c idcn tifica tio tl and analysis of ] ecti (>ns in re.:;:pon~e to s~h o1arl y g~ps; the dra,ving up of criteria for n~cds :and, jn so far as -possible, to an- assignment uircd :1.- tjcipate these needs. it \v·Hl seek to the of n c,v]y a cq rn nla in tain ha 1ancc and au1k e sure that teria I to the Deposit Library; the de- the quality of the co 11cction s keeps 'Telopn1 en t of pa ttcrn s for re locating p~ce ,vi th the constant incrcas e in n1atcrbls transferred f rorn other units their size and in tl ~c dcrn ands in ad c of the Unhrersity LHuary to the, Col~ upon them by users. Jege Library or to th t Ne,~~ Eng land In effect, l\1r Wi1liams \vHl act as a Deposit Library; the pro blc m of the special officer to adiri,e the Director deterioration of n1ateria]s, "\Vhe ther of the University Library concerning through excessi vc use or because of th c co Uecdons~ This is not to .be :1 poor papcrt along ,,dth the p()ssibili- separate and austrn.ct stud r, but, on the tics for their pr escrva ti on; and the ef- contrary, a ineans of evolving a c-on- fects on bibliographic records of rec- tj nu ous and coordinated •program of ommendations resulting fJon1 the5c - + • expansion) rclo cation, and ,i:ir hdra ,val 1n vcst1gatJ ons ..

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XIII, Number 3 (Autumn 1959) List of Con tri bu tors

H F.kilF.R'f Ilu·r-n-:1t.F1 r;Ltl, , 7ice~Chrince1lor of the University of Can1bridgc, J\1astcr of PeterhouseJ and Profes~or of j\iJodern History G. L. HuxLEY, Fello\v of All Sou]i, Oxford

D !\NIEL L. l\1:cCuE.,JR., Assi~tnn t Professor of Eng 1is h, Boston Co 11cg c

G EOl~GE H "'\VltLlA 1\1s., lV j n n Prof cssor of Ecc] esiastic:al 1-listory., Ha rY nrd Uni- ,Ters1ty+

Ho\VARDl\1u1\JFORD Jo~r.s~ Professor of Eng1ish~Harvard University

Sru ART A TK1Ns 1 Prof cssor of G crm ani Harvard Uni vcr.sity

j\1ADJSON C. BATES, Professor of Eng 1is h., En1cr j n1s,R utg c::rsUn ivcrsi cy J\11r.AbASou~~OVAi Siav-jc Divjsioni Harvard CollegeJ_.ibrary

\V1LLL\t\1 A. JACKSON., Professor of Bjbiiography 1 I-larva.rd University., and Li- brarian of the 1--Ioughton Library of the 1-Iarvard Co1IegeLibrary

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