The Selection of Books for Lamont

The selection of books for Lamont

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Citation Williams, Edwin E. 1949. The selection of books for Lamont. Harvard Library Bulletin III (3), Autumn 1949: 386-394.

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NDERGRADUATES are the pri1nary concern of hundreds. of college libraries, but, even ,vhcn an institution offers no graduate courses of any kind, its library norn1ally n1ust give sotne attention to faculty needs. The Lan1ont Library is in u different situation. It is contributing to the biblio- graphical ,ve11-beingof the faculty and of graduate students by re- lieving \~/idener and some other Harvard Hbrarics of heavy use by u n dcrgrad u ntcs~ and it is some times vi sited ( as the reserved coliecti on s in the 1.\'idcncr Rending Roon1 used to be) by instructors and gradu- ates ,,~hen they require copies of boo~s in great

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Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume III, Number 3 (Autumn 1949) 1,be Sel_ectivnof Books for Lmn_ont be found there. This accounted for approxjmatcly 4,500 titles (,vhich duplication brings ro 22,500 v0Jun1es) on reserve, and for 1norc than 5,ooo additional titles in the general collection. Reading lists, of course, arc a faculty product, so selection by Ebrarians ,vas not in- volved. Recreational reading ,Yas to be furnished by the Farns\vnrth Roon1

(about 5,ooo vohnnes) and the Poetry Room (about 31000 volun1cs)., both of ,vhich hnd been opcr8ting jn "\\7jdcner for years. The forn1er collection had been ,vccdcd and renovated ,vhilc the· roon1 ,vas closed during _the,var'.1- and both are kept up to date by a 'Curator of the Poetry Roon1 and Subject Spccjalist in English Literature in the E-Iar~ vard College Library. t . At first glance lhe rcscrv-ation n1ight seen1 to 111akea special selection project unncccss'dry. Sludents, Jike other 1nen, presu1nably read for profit, for p1casure,or for son1econlbina tjon of the t,vo. '\~7idcncr, next door, can supply extraordinary needs; ,vith norn1al required and recreational reading in Lamont cared for already, ,vhat n1ore is needed? This question should~ nt Icastl suggest renssurn11ce, : It js l1nlikel)7 that . anyone ,vill bc-irrcparnbly dan1aged by omissions or other results of poor selection ju the general co1Jectionfor Lan1ont. Stil1, from the pre1nise that no single volume 111it can he termed

essential1 it docs not foUo,v that a general c0Hcctio1~ is undesirable. Perhaps students ought to read more than js required; in preparing ter,n papers, for cxa1nple, they ma.y often have to turn to books that no instructor has rccomtnended or assigned for any class as ,a \vhole. fvloreover, interest in chosen subjects 1nay· lead a student to find p]easnre in volun1es that do not divert enough of his c]2ssn1ates to ,varrant their inc]usion in a F arns"~orth lloo111. '\'hcther or not access to their stacks cnn he pern1ittcd~ 1~'idener and other research libraries arc so large that the best books on 111ost subjects are sub1nerged jn the high1)7 technical, the ohso]esccntt the 1nediocre, and ,vorsc. A spccia]ist needs the jnferior as V{cll ns the great books, nnd should he con1pctent to find his \vay- atnong them; but an und~rgraduate faces ,vasteful ~nd discournging searches unless he can start ,vith a selection of the n1ost ·useful 1n2terial on 3.11)7 fie]d of interest to hin1.. If he exh~usts the selection nnd des1rcs to in,restigatc · further it is then tin1e for him to call on the research coJlections, and his rending in the Lan1ont stacks ought to hav~ 1nadc hin1 enough of specialist to do so clfcctively. Indeed~ ,vhile the nc\v building can

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grca tly facilitate both hi~ re quircd and his 11nsp e ci alize cl recreati anal reading by offerjng .better physical,2ccon1n1odationst the general collection, ,vhich did not exist before,. n1ay be caHcd ~amont's n1ajor bib Iiogra ph 1cal contri butio n to the u n derg rad ua tc. }}icking out this general collection might haYe been nn enjoyable task for n mr111,vho kncv{ enough to do it, particularly if he ,vere also interested in exerting a salutaf)7 influence on future generations of

1--Iarvsrd students by sparing thcn1 authors 1 ideas, and subjects oh- noxious to h i1n, \Vhi Ic providing gencrou s quan titi cs of those his tastes approved. lnstcadt th c ,vor k of coordinating sciccti on devolved up on one ,vho not onl}Tlacked these qualifications but ,·vho thought it dc- sira bl c for sru d cnts as \v cll as prudent for h i1nself to fall O\V a p rocc dore th~t ,vould shelter hin1 beneath reservntion 2: The faculty has been resp onsihle for Lamont book selection. It might have been simple to go to each instructor or department and request a list of the ·books that ought to be acquired. :B11t,no 111atterho,v ,vell he kn0\"\1'Sthe literature of a subject, a specialist n1ay not be prepared t~ think of all the books on it that ought to be in ::1 library .. Perhaps a better job could be done 1norc easily if fairly coin- - ·prehensive Jists could be .subrnitccdto the faculty for. revjsion. ·un- suita blc titles then 111ightreadily be crossed out~ and sorne, at ]east, of the on1issions "\YOuldprobably be suggested by the titles at hand. F ortunatel)r, n1cn1bcrs of the 1-Iarvard f acuity had already-done i.vork that· could be utilized in co1npi1ingsuch prelirninary lists., E:ach of the seven Houses has a coHection of rnorc than 10,000 ~nd fc\vcr than 13,500 yolu1n~s; in his artic]e describing these libraries! Frank N. Jones has stated that ~the project of getting together the books for the first t\vo Houses enlisted at one tin1e or another the active coopera- tion of a hundred or 1norc F nculty men1hers . . ..' 1 All .seven have had the benefit of facult)r 2dvice at least to sonic extent throughout their history., and, though they differ ,videly·~ all have been selected ,vith the needs of Harvard students ju 1nind; consequently it ,vas believed that a large proportion of the books o\vncd by the I-louses _ ,,~ould prove to be desiderata for a general 11ndcrgraduate collection. Typists began carl)T in 1947 to copy main-entry cards for all hooks in the Adams I-louse Library; then the sjx others \Vere incorporated one by one until a card file had been ·made coverjng all volu,nes in the

1 'Th~ Lihrarjc.s of the I-Iarv:ard Houses/ HAR\TARD Lun::ARYIluLLETlN, II .( 1948), 368~

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seven Houses1 \\ 7ith sy1nbo]s jndicating in )vhich of the libraries each tide ,vas to be found.2 The second major source of titles for consideration ,vas one to ,vhich nt least a fe,v n1e1nbersof the Harvard facult)r had contributed. The Carnegie Corporation of Nc,v York, ,vhen 1naking grants-in-a 1d to coilcgcs for book purchases, financed the preparation ::ind pub1ica- tion in 1931 of A List of Books for College Libraries,edited by Charles B. Sha,v, 2nd containing more than 14~000 titles selected by t,vo hundred f acuity 1ncrnbcrs of Harvard and f ort) 7 -ninc other An1erican col1egesand universitics ..8 A supplement, also edited by Sha,v~ and listing nearly 4,000 nc,v hooks that had appeared bet\veen 1931 and 193 8, ,va.sprepared in the sa1nc man1~cr and published in 1940. 4 The second step in the l..an1ont selection project ,vns to annotate cards that had been copied from the T--Iouselibrary catalogues and type nc\v ones nntB the file included a record of everything in these t\vo (Sh::1\v]isrs.' A third source of suggestions ,vas needed to provide for the years since r 93 8~ lVlorc th an one hundred and :fift)r ~chol~rly journals~ in- cluding the fifty-four in ,vhich the Sha,v snpplen1ent cites book re- i;ric,vs,\VC~c chosen for checking4 Revie\vs (many of thcn1 by n1cn1- bcrs of the Harvard facult)T) in issues of each journal fron1 r 939 to date \'.rere read, and card~ \Vere made for all books that had been favor- bl y revielve d and did not seen1 ob.vious]y unsuitable.. F 01~rteen pro- f essionaI 1ue1nhersof the Jibrary staff ,vere called upon to help ,\rith the revie,v checking ,vhen it ,vas seen that the supervisor of the project ,vould not .finish soon enough if he ·attempted to do it 211hirnself. No effort ,vas made to be very-selective; the librarinns inevitably ,verc unf:uniiiar ,vith many _ofthe subjects in ,vhich they had to exan1inc revie,vs, and the faculty evidently \vould find it easier to clit11in11.tc titles that need not have been listed than to -add those that ought to hgvc been brought to their attention b11t ,verc not. Finally~the cards \Vere annotated ~osho.\Y ,vhich titles ,verc already assured of inclusion in Lamont because they ,vere on required-reading Jjsts. Since no decjsions ,,~quid be needed on these, this ,vas a 111cansof

2 These cards could ~o"r be used as the b~sis for Union Catc1logue of I-Io1,1sc Libr~1rics~ ,vllicl1 Jll•gllt be kept up to date in Lamont, but it seems douhtful that such :a c;=italoguc\vould Le ·worth ,vhile. Sha,v. A List of Books for College T.,'ibrt1ries (Chicago, 1931). ,. Shaw1 A l~ist of Books for College Libraries 1931~38 (Chicago., 1940). Pre- , Htninary checking had sho,vn that Jittle cou1d have been added to Sh::.i,v by using

Foster _E.1\.1.ohrhardt's A Lirt of Books for Junior College Libr11ries ( Chicagu 1 1937 ).

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Harva;d Library Bulletin saving sonic ti1ne for the judges;moreover, it might have been un,visc to select books on a subject ,vithout taking into account those that had been chosen in advance. '''hen the file ,vas compictcd late in 1947 it \Vas found to consist of ncar]y 44isoo cards1 each indicating ,vhether or not the title it listed \Vas in Sha,v-or on a required-reading list, ,vhich I-louses o,vncd it~ if any, and (for books less than nine or ten y·ears old) ,vh1ch of one hundred and .fifty journals had favorably revie,vcd it. The titles then had to be clr.ssificd and sorted by subject; in the process it ,vas pos~ible 1 to discard 111orethan 4.,000 as surcl)T unnecessary' because they ,verc out of date, jnf erior editions., or too specialized. l\lost of the latter ,verc voln1nes that pres11mablyhad stray·ed into one or another of the H ouscs by gift.5

In January 1948, 40 1 290 cards., no,v divjdcd into :fifty-fo11rsubject files, ,vcre ready for submission to those ,vho \Vould select. Each dc- parttncnt of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had been inforn1ed of the project and asked to ~ppoint one of its men1ber.s as a representative ,vith ,vllom the Libra~y could deal~ The t,venty-cight departments·6 con]d be counted upon to handle ·thirty-five of the subjects - philoso- phy.,psyr:hology, social relations, government, eco11on1icstco1nparativc p 1l i 1 Ioo gy, 111ath cma ti cst astronomy·, physics, cI l en1 istr y, n1ineral ogy, geology, biology., anthropo1ogy,medicine, e11gineering,fine arts,. archi- tectur·e, n1usic, geography""history, and the f oJlo,ving languages and 1iteratnrcs: An1erican,Eng]ish, Gern1ant Scand1navian.,French, Italian, Spanish1 Portugu~-set La~tin.,Greek, Celtic, Sen1itic, far E-astcrn, -and lndic.. Uscf ul arts ,vcre attached to . engineering; the Biology Depart- ment ,vas asked to pass on palaeontological and agricu]tural n1aterials; and a n1 e n1b er of d 1e I-Iistor}r De par tm cn t c overe d S 1a.vi c. It ,vas not difficult to n1ake le·ss forn1al arrangc1nents for expert selection in 111ostof the other subjects by asking for help f rotn the Curator of the Nicn1an ficllo\"~.tshipslthe Librarian of the I-Ioughton Library·.,the Curator of the Depart!11ent of Printing ~nd Graphic Arts! the Director of the Andovcr-HarvaJd Theologica.I T... 1bn1ry, ·officers giving in~truction jn ~1ilitarJr and . naval science., the Denn '1.ndthe

c; Cards for all House library titl-e.s tI1at \Vere not =.:tpptoved for Lamont by the _faculty have Leen collected i"n a file that may he useful to I-louse Jihrnrians ,vho ·wish to ,vccd their colltctions. -11For the departtncnts then existing see I-Inr-vflrd Uuh..iersity Cataloguet N 01)c1nber 1 1945, PP· I 58-I 59.

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vard Archivcs1 the .i\1anagingEditor of I sis~the Librarian of the Blue Hill lVleteorological Observatory, the Assistant Director of Physical Education, the Curator of the Theatre Collection, and an Associate Professor of Public Spcaking4 A fc,v miscellaneous or small groups of cards \vcre .handled by n1cn1bers of thev'-'idencr Library staff. The collections. of cards 1vith ,vhich 1nembers of the faculty \Vere confronted ranged in siz·e f ron1 t\vo dozen to nearly seven thousand. Each dcpartn1ent, of coutse., ,vas free to deal ,vith them as it chose, and there ,vas no uniforn1hy in the procedures adopted. In so1nc cases the chairman or his representative did the ,vork hin1sclf; other -dcpart- n1ents appointed co1nn1ittccs to serve as juries; and the cards for s01nc subjects \Vere further sorted ,in order that a specialist in each sub- division of the field could cxan1inethose in the area ,vith ,,rhich he ,va s ni.ost f amil iar. 1\1any pr of e.ssorscalled inforn12 l1 y on one or 111ore of their col1eagues for advice. Consequently it is i1npossible to make a complete ]ist of the individuals to ,,rhon1 the Lamont Library js indebted for help. 1t should be emphasized, hov...-ever,that the ,vork of selection ,vas done by officers of the University ,vho ,vcre askcdt either directl}r or through their departrncnts, to assist; this request, in every case, n1cant an unexpected -addition to normal te:=a.c11ing~nd ad1ninistrativeduties, yet there ,vcrc no refusals to cooperate and, in most cascsl the £election ,vas 1n~de very prompdy. The last of the cards ,vcrc returned by the end of April 1948, less than four n1onths after the first of thern had been distributed.. Probab]c use by 1--lar,Tardundergraduates vlas the critcrjon for selection, rilthcr than any theory· of ,vhat ,vould constitute an ideal book. co1lection. Education, for example, is not an undergraduate field of concentration at Harvard, but is J1eavilyrepresented in the Sha,v lists;

the prcl i1ninary card file for ed u ca tion ,vas, th crcf orc1 rut h] essl y ,veeded until only 290 titles ,vere approved of the 880 that hud been suggested. Other accidents of tin1c and p]ace in Auenced selection. Harvard students of fine arts spend a good deal of time in the Fogg n1useurn using jts col1ections of originalst slides, ctc4; the Fogg js across the street f ram l~an1ont; and fine arts books arc ver)T expensive.· Consequently· the list approved in chis field ,vas smaller than it ,vould have. been if there \Vere no fine arts library at the Fogg~ Gern1an books are hard

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume III, Number 3 (Autumn 1949) 392 Hnrvard Library· Bulletin to obtain at present,. so the German collection in La111ont ha.s been smaller to start 1vith than ,vouid have been desirable. In French, on the other hand~ the Department of Ro1na.nce Languages authorized the transfer of hooks free])r fron1 the Lo\vell l\1en1orial and French l.,i- braries on the top floor of '~'idener., so the Lamont coilection of French literary classicsis a 1nore extensive one than ,vould have been assernbled by purchase alone. · Cards ,vere not dup]icared; each title appeared in only one subject file, and there ,vas sorne n1is-classificadon. It ,vas not snrprising; there- f orc, that a nu1nber of the additions suggested by { aculty tn~rnbers proved to be titles that had been subn1itted to and approved (in n1ost

cases) by another departn1ent.. Of the 40 1 290 titles assen1bled for f acult) 7 consideration, approxin1atel)r 7,7 oo ,verc rcj cctcd, and net ndditions to the list by· the sc]ectors an1ountcd to 3.,809; hence a total of J 6, 399 titles ,vere approved for inclusion. lv!an)7 rejections '-vere to be expected in the scienccs,-,vhcre books bcco111eout of date n1ost rapid Iy; in son1e other ~nuj ects a n1ajority· of the titles rejected ,verc ju d gc d too speciali z.e d for undergraduate n ceds. Th c 1it 1 g u istic attain- n1cnts of the -aver:t ge studc n t in cach ficl d , vcrc, of course, an essential factor in deciding on books in languages other thai1 English. It should he noted that t\Yo special portions of the general collection - the periodicals and the reference books - had been selected for -the 111ostpart before faculty ad'vicc,vas sought. It ,v~s be_lievedthat back files of serials, lllllcss indexed, ,voul

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume III, Number 3 (Autumn 1949) 11 be Selection of Booksfor La111011t 393 once. Undoubtedly facnlty n1en1bers ,vonld have differed ,vith the supervisor of the project in sorne cases. Perhaps, ho,vever, he ,vould not hnve ·been nnanin1ol1s]y overru]ed on n1any iterns, for it \Vas in~ .structivc to see ho\Y frequently· a professor, overlooking the syn1bol indicating required reading, ,vould utte111ptto reject cgrds for volun1cs that one or another of his colleagues assigns to undergraduates. Of the 36,399 :i"pprovcd titles, 9,83 z \Vere already on required read- . ing lists or in the reference collection. Checking indicated that 4,392 n1orc had already been catalogned for Lamont, chiefly as a result of

the gifts tha~ have been· 1ncntioncd 1 .and that dupJicatc ~opies of nn- othcr 6,364 ,vere availa\Jlc for transfer fr-0111 \~ 7idener. NormalJyt a book ,vas not transferred to the general collection in J... an1ont unless there ,vas a duplicate of it for 1\'idener to rct~in~but it has not secrned practicable to establish any inflexibj e rule that Lan1ont sha]l contain only· copies of books kept in the ,1\7idencr .stacks. The Fi1.rnsv\rorth and Poetr)r Roorns have never been :SO restricted. l\. book rnnst go to J..Jan1ontif it is on reserve and additionnl copies of it cannot be bought. l\1oreover, ,vhcn hundreds of llndcrgradn:ites have assignn1ents in the sau1e book, it docs little good to tell the graduate .student or facult} 7 n1en1her ivh.o needs it that "\"-7idcncr has a copy,· for that copy, no doubt, \vjll already be in the hands of an enterprising undergraduate.

FinaHy1 La1nont has purchased a good 1nany books, particularly in the

scienccs 1 that '~'idencr \vou]d never have bought; in these ficldsi La- n1ont represents a d 1Jplic::itionfor the un

l"'his 5'upplies extenuation 2 for La1nont's deficiencies~ l\11any of the volun1cs selected arc not there yet. On the other hand, it js clear that better adn1inistration of the selection project 7 b)T the ,vritcr ,vould not only have given the faculty n1ore tin1c a.nd more satisfactory lists on \vhich to \vork, but \Vould have lcf t a lunger period af tcr selection,

The c lerica.1 cnlp] oy-ees ar~ to be cong.ra tu lated on l1 a vj ng done ;1o c x:ce1 lent . joL, particuforl;v i\-tissGJady.s \~7clls, ·who \\--as~wfrh the project longer th-J.n ~ny of the others. ·

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume III, Number 3 (Autumn 1949) 394 Ila r-vn-rdLibrary Bu Ii e tin. during ,vhich additional hundreds of out-of-print books could i1avc been tracked do,vn. The hunt for titl cs remaining on the desiderata list , viil continue. Sc1ection of nc,v books ,vill be based on revje,vs in the current issues of the journa]s used to supplcn1ent tl1e Sha,v lists, ,vith continued ad~ vice from the faculty. La1nont is not designed to house 1nore than 100,000 volumes., and it opened ,vith n1orc than 80,000; thus it 1nust faidy soon begin to discard oJd books asrapidly as it 2dds ne,v ones. A research 1ib ru ry gro,vs and tries to prcscrv c a]111 ost every thing that comes to it; an undergraduate librtlry can be kept at the sau1c size because no voiun1c in jt need ren1ain there rahvays- 011e n1ay hope that there ,vill be n1any copies of Hun1er in Lan1ont as Jong as the building .. standst but, even in ten or t\venty· years,. they ,vi]l not be the .san1c copies of the san1c editions that ,verc there jn 1949. This may be sun1n1arized as reqssura11ce2: The collection js itn- permancnt; so,. thcref ore, are its present deficiencies.. All those ,vho nse jr ( or ,vhosc students use it) can help to jn1provc Laniont' s book collectioi1, \vhich.,in a fe,v years, ,vil1 reflect the original selection less than the lacer criticjsn1s and suggestions n1adc f ron1 day· to day·· by

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v\lJLLTAhr A. JACK SO~! Professor of Bih1iography ~n·d Assistant Librari-an of the College Library in charge of the Houghton Library~ I-Iar, 1 ard Uni- versity

DONA Ln Co~F.Y, Li h ra ri an nnd Prof cssor of Librada nsh ip~ Uni versitr of Ca Ji~ f ornia at Berkeley

N ~,VTON F l\·Icl{ RON, Di re~ tor of the Co]leg e Library and Prof cssor of Eng- lish, Amherst Col1ege

I-L1RVIE BRANsroJ\IB, Chancellor, \T anderbilt Uniltersity l Rr.nNARllCoHF.K, A~i~tant Profes~or of Genernl Education and of the llis- I . tory of Science, Ha n:i-nrdUni versi (y . '

I-IYDER E. RoLLJKs, Gurney Professor of English J.... iterature 1 Harvard Uni- vcrsny

HE TNRICH ScHNEIDER, Profess or of G crm anl I-Iar,,.a rd Univ crsi ty

F.o,v1NE. ,,,.ILLTAi.\'l.S, Assistant to the Librarhu1 of Harvard College

LEON EDEL, Ne\\' ·York City

~1r.1-rroN l\·1 . Sr A L'rs, JR,A ss-istri nt Prof cssor of Eng 1is h, L-a,vrence Co 11ege

CAJ\"I[LLA 1-IAY GJLLlESJ Uncvcrsity of Leeds

juHN J. ENcK 1 Teat:hing Fellcn-vin Engli.,h~ Harvard University

'HERJ\1..:\h"' TEERlNKt Arnhcrn, Netherlands

I-:IAI\11LTON VAUGHAr-.T BAIL, Treasurer of the Frankljn lnstitutei Philadelphia, ·pcnn 5y 1va nia

Ptt1Lll' J. J\·1cNnT, Assistant L.ibrarian of the College Library in charge of the lAlmont ] .,ibrary, Hanrard University

f nEDERI CK C. PACKARD, Assocj ate Jlrof essor of Pub Ii c Sp ea kin g1 Harvard Uni - vers1ty+ '

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