COLLEGE and RESEARCH LIBRARIES Classroom Building Constructed at a Cost of Was Made to the Joint Committee on the Nearly $1,000,000

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ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS century history of New Jersey and neighbor- ing states. THE LIBRARY of Morristown (N.J.) Na- Although the library is still being cata- tional Historical Park is unique in the Na- loged, it is open to all serious students of tional Park System. This new wing of the American history. An inventory and name park museum building houses a major col- index have been prepared for most of the lection of Revolutionary War materials. manuscript collection, and the printed Originating chiefly from the bequest of the materials have been classified and shelved. late Lloyd W. Smith and an earlier donation by William Van Vleck Lidgerwood, the col- THE CHAPIN LIBRARY at Williams College lection consists of nearly 25,000 manuscripts has acquired some twenty notable specimens and 17,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, of the printer's art with funds from the Ho- and broadsides. race A. Moses Foundation. This special fund was presented to the college through the in- The collection is especially rich in Wash- terest of Leonard B. Schlosser for the pur- ingtoniana, with more than a hundred of chases of representative examples of graphic his manuscript letters and documents, near- arts during recent centuries. ly a score of bound account books, journals, and letterbooks, and several autographed THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has received the volumes from his library. Hamilton, Jeffer- first installment of the papers of Jesse H. son, Adams, Madison, and other "founding Jones, one-time head of the Reconstruction fathers" also are represented by sizeable hold- Finance Corporation and Secretary of Com- ings of letters. In fact, virtually every prom- merce. These materials include 60,000 items inent figure of the Revolutionary period is covering his official correspondence during represented in the manuscript collection. Or- 1932-45 when he served as head of the Re- derly books and journals of British, French, construction Finance Corporation and Sec- and Hessian, as well as American, partic- retary of Commerce (1940-45). In addition ipants are found there, some of the most to correspondence, there are bound volumes noteworthy being the "lost" orderly book of of newspaper clippings covering all phases Sir William Howe (June-October 1776), Ad- of Mr. Jones' career, a complete file of RFC miral Rodney's log book and signal book, press releases, and a speech file containing Jarquain Laine's diary of naval events from approximately 7,000 manuscripts.

1778-80, and Major Joseph Bloomfield's jour- OBERLIN COLLEGE LIBRARY has been pre- nal (1776-78). Newspapers and periodicals of sented with an extensive collection of dime the period also are in the collection. novels by Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Frank of Considerable material, both in manuscript Akron. Part of the estate of Dr. Walter F. and printed form, is to be found for other Tunks, the gift includes more than 2,200 periods of American history, from the age items and encompasses 89 series titles. The of discovery to nineteenth-century travel and library will preserve the collection as an exploration. Among the colonial items are entity and plans to issue a descriptive list portions of Thomas Hutchinson's man- later this year. uscript of his History of Massachusetts Bay, THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC at Oberlin the original documents published in Mon- College has received the music library of the cure Conway's Barons of the Potomac and late Gustave Langenus as a gift from his Rappahanock, several journals written dur- children, Alan Langenus of New York and ing the French and Indian War, and an im- Adelaide Langenus Wright of Ridgeway, portant Indian collection which includes Pa. The collection contains more than 500 numerous accounts of Indian captivities. books and a varied collection of scores, The library contains a number of War of primarily for the clarinet. 1812 and Civil War manuscripts, in addition to a large and significant body of material SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION on the eighteenth- and early nineteenth- has bought the 2,000-volume Jewell Stevens

SEPTEMBER 1959 385 collection of American and British literature building project, estimated at between $1,- for the SIU library with privately contrib- 500,000 and $2,000,000. uted funds. Of special interest are the com- The two sections of the building, contain- plete collection of first editions and a group ing approximately 80,000 square feet, will be of manuscript letters of D. H. Lawrence and constructed to match the modern architec- J. Middleton Murry. tural design of the other Technology Center buildings. They will be air-conditioned, and A SMALL but important collection of the will have a capacity of at least 1,500,000 papers of Mark Sullivan (1874-1952), jour- books and periodicals. nalist and author, has been presented to the Under the new arrangement, with the in- Library of Congress by his son, Mark Sul- clusion of the Illinois Tech budget, and livan, Jr., of Washington, D.C., Mr. Sul- with reduced operating costs, the Crerar Li- livan's career brought him in close touch brary will be able to more than double its with many of the men who made the history acquisitions and to offer improved and ex- he wrote about in his six-volume chronicle, panded reading rooms, study and research Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925. facilities, and associated services. The air- Letters from Theodore Roosevelt, William conditioning and other modern building Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. facilities will aid in preserving collections of Harding, Calvin Coolidge, William Jennings rare documents, books, and periodicals. Con- Bryan, and Charles Warren are among some venient transportation facilities, extensive 200 items in the collection. parking space, and improved service possible with the new efficient layout will serve the interests of the users of these great tech- BUILDINGS nical and medical collections. THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY will move to Crerar Library was founded in 1895 from the Technology Center campus of the Il- the proceeds of a trust fund established by linois Institute of Technology as soon as a John Crerar, a prominent Chicago business- new building can be erected. The library man. The library moved into its present will continue to be governed by its board building in 1920, and occupies ten of the of directors. In addition to its own holdings fifteen floors. No plans have been announced of some million volumes in medicine, sci- as to the use or disposition of the building ence, and technology, the Crerar Library will when the library moves to Technology Cen- have custody of the institute's 125,000-vol- ter. ume technical collection. The Illinois Tech library staff will be consolidated with the GROUND was broken on June 12 for the Crerar staff, making a total of approximately new National Library of Medicine in Bethes- eighty-five people. da, Md., on property adjacent to that occupied by the National Institutes of Health. The move is being made to locate the The ceremony marked the beginning of Crerar Library in a center of technological work on the new $7,000,000 building to be education and scientific research, to make completed in 1961. The new building was possible expansion and improvement of its designed by the architectural firm of O'Con- services, and to realize economies in its op- nor and Kilham of New York. The Arthur eration. At present, students, faculty mem- Venneri Company of Washington is the con- bers, and scientific personnel of Technology tractor. The building will have five floors, Center comprise the largest single group of three below ground level, providing space upsers of the Crerar Library. A separate sec- for 1,250,000 bound volumes. The great his- tion of the new building will be devoted to torical collections of the library, at present Illinois Tech's library of arts, humanities, in rented space in Cleveland, will be re- and social science literature. integrated with the main collection when The proposed site of the new building is the building is completed. in the center of the Illinois Tech campus. Illinois Tech is providing the land for the THE LIBRARY of the Norfolk (Va.) Divi- building under a long-term lease. The two sion of the College of William and Mary institutions will share in the cost of the has occupied a new combined library and

,386 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES classroom building constructed at a cost of was made to the Joint Committee on the nearly $1,000,000. Planned by the local firm Union List of Serials, Inc., a non-profit of Oliver and Smith with consultative assist- group representing all segments of library ance from Edward Stone, designer of the work in the United States and Canada. Dr. U.S. pavilion at Brussels, and Walter Kil- Frank B. Rogers, director of the National ham, architect of Princeton Library, the li- Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C., is brary will seat 300 and provide shelving for chairman. The project will be carried out 90,000 volumes, twice the present book stock. by the Library of Congress under the super- vision of John W. Cronin, director of the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, has two new library buildings under construc- processing department. tion. A music library is being built with a The grant provides for the consolidation fund of $250,000 given by Mrs. Clifford W. in one alphabet of available information re- Gaylord. This building, which will provide garding holdings by United States and Ca- about 10,000 square feet of usable floor nadian libraries of serials that commenced space, will be ready for occupancy in 1960. publication prior to 1950. Part of this in- Also to be completed in 1960 is Steinberg formation will be taken directly from the Hall of Art and Archaeology, which will second edition of the Union List and its two house the University's art and architecture supplements. Titles that have not previous- libraries and galleries. ly appeared in the Union List will be assembled from the National Union Catalog, GRANTS the Southeastern Supplement to the Union THE COST of the third and final edition of List of Serials, and reports from participat- the Union List of Serials in Libraries in the ing libraries and others, including especially United States and Canada will be largely the National Library of Canada. These titles, underwritten by a $244,651 grant from the estimated at 15,000 in number, will be listed Council on Library Resources. The grant in a checking edition sent to some 500 li-

Clearinghouse for Library Research

Research under way in all fields of librarianship will be reported in Library Research in Progress, a new bulletin initiated by the Library Services Branch of the U. S. Office of Education. Designed to serve as a clearinghouse of information, the bulletin will group project listings by subject and will include the following data (if available) : name and address of principal investigator, title, purpose, scope and methodology, sponsor and/or cooperating groups, method of financing, publication plans, date initiated, and estimated terminal date. The first issue will appear in late September. Copies will be available without charge upon request. To achieve broad coverage, Library Research in Progress seeks the cooperation of all who are engaged in research relating to libraries, whether for an academic degree, under a foundation grant, or for personal publication. Only research in progress or fully planned will be listed. Projects dealing with library methods, tech- niques, developments, and surveys fall within the scope of the new publication. Purely literary or bibliographical research, demonstration projects (unless there is a formal plan of evaluation), and studies of temporary significance will be excluded. Items for inclusion should be described on Form LSB-5 "Notice of Library Research Project" available from the Library Services Branch. Specialists of the Branch will act as the general editorial board for the bulletin.

SEPTEMBER 1959 387 braries. The holdings reported as a result ONE OF THE EARLIEST grants made by the will be added to the main file as copy for Council on Library Resources, Inc., was in the third edition of the Union List. It is ex- 1957 to the Virginia State Library to inquire pected that the work will be ready for print- into the deterioration of book paper and ing some time in 1961, when a publisher will to seek remedial measures. The study was be selected. It is hoped that the work may be conducted by William J. Barrow, a well- issued during 1962. An edition of 2,500 cop- known document restorer and inventor of a ies is contemplated; the selling price to li- system for the preservation of library mate- braries will be approximately fifty dollars. rials, who is associated with the Virginia Meanwhile as a continuing solution to State Library. The study was concluded late problems of recording serials, the Joint Com- in 1958. mittee proposes to promote, as a cooperative A preliminary report of the study was library project, the completeness and utility made in an article entitled "Is There a Doc- of New Serial Titles, issued by the Library tor in the House?" by Randolph W. Church, of Congress. Virginia State Librarian, in Publishers' Weekly, January 5, 1959. A fuller exposition THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION will under- of the findings appeared under the title take a survey of federal departmental and "Permanence in Book Papers" by W. J. Bar- agency library facilities under a $72,965 row and Reavis C. Sproull as the lead article grant from the Council on Library Resources, in Science for April 24, 1959. The complete Inc. Luther H. Evans, formerly director gen- data are to be issued in the near future as eral of UNESCO and Librarian of Congress a publication of the Virginia State Library. (1945-53), will serve as senior consultant for The Council has made a new grant to the the project which will be under the direction Virginia State Library to continue its study of Charles A. H. Thomson, senior staff mem- of paper in the direction of finding methods ber of the Brookings Institution. for producing permanent book papers at a The survey will be the first major over-all cost competitive with present papers, and of appraisal of federal library facilities. It is applying to existing book stock the preserva- expected to provide a foundation for future tive measures derived from the earlier study. planning and coordination of these activities. Work is expected to start about October 1. THE COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES, INC., Preliminary planning began July 1. It is has awarded a contract to Ramo-Wooldridge, contemplated that the survey will be com- a division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, pleted and the results published in book Inc., of Los Angeles, for the first phase of form early in 1961. an investigation into problems of mechanical The survey will concentrate on the li- indexing and retrieval of information. braries of the executive establishment in the The proposed research program will in- Washington area. Regional problems will be clude the recording on punched cards, investigated on a sampling basis by examin- punched tape, or magnetic tape of a small ing the organization and operation of fed- experimental library of scientific text. This eral libraries in two regional centers, per- library will be "raw"; i.e., it will not have haps Chicago and Denver, with special ref- been previously organized, classified, or in- erence to inter-agency relationships. dexed. A general-purpose computer will be programmed to search this text, in response A GRANT from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., to questions formulated by scientific workers, has made possible eleven scholarships award- with a view to discovering and printing out ed by the American Theological Library As- information relevant to the answers. sociation. Ranging from $300 to $2,000, the The investigation, which will require nine scholarships are designed to improve the months, is expected to permit the formula- professional capacity and academic status of tion of a more comprehensive investigation librarians serving institutions affiliated with involving a considerably larger experimental the American Association of Theological library and total effort. The study will be Schools. Eight of the eleven awards are for directed by Don R. Swanson. Noam Chom- study at graduate schools of library science. sky of the Institute for Advanced Study, The remainder are for work in subject fields. Princeton University, and Paul L. Garvin of

,388 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Georgetown University will serve as linguist considered the development of a common consultants to the project. The results of the machine language or a series of compatible mechanized information retrieval will be machine languages to prepare scientific and compared with those of traditional methods technical literature for searching, selecting, of indexing by Johanna A. Tallman and correlating, and translating by automatic Donald V. Black, both science-technology equipment. The conference was sponsored librarians at the University of California at jointly by the university and the Rand De- Los Angeles. velopment Corporation.

THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES THE AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE has received a two-year grant from the Coun- will hold its annual meeting at Lehigh Uni- cil on Library Resources, Inc., for use in versity, Bethlehem, Pa., October 22-24. Rob- extending the Farmington Plan. ert S. Taylor, associate librarian at the uni- During its first decade of operation the versity, is convention chairman. Plan was restricted to publications in the INFORMATION STORAGE and retrieval will be Roman alphabet and certain classes of publi- the subject of a two-week course given from cations were also excluded. At the end of its tenth year the Plan was evaluated by ARL, September 28 to October 9 at the University with the financial assistance of the Council of California, Los Angeles. Sponsored by the on Library Resources, and it was determined University's physical sciences and engineer- that it should be continued in operation and ing extension, the course will emphasize the extended to certain of the areas, forms, and need for systematic mathematical structure subjects which had previously been exclud- for this work, a description of its present ed. The present grant is toward the expenses state, and its relationship to general informa- of this extension, which will require a num- tion systems. Information and applications ber of studies of the status of the national may be obtained from H. L. Tallman, Phys- acquisitions situation with regard to certain ical Sciences Extension, M. S. 6115, Univer- classes of publications; the establishment of sity of California, Los Angeles 24. selection and purchasing agreements with publishers, dealers, and libraries abroad; and PUBLICATIONS the development of programs of acquisition Library Statistics of Larger Colleges and for special classes of material in coordination Universities, 1956-57 (U.S. Office of Educa- with the groups which are the principal users tion Circular No. 578) by John Carson of these publications. Rather, specialist for college and research William S. Dix, librarian of Princeton libraries, Library Services Branch, presents University, is executive secretary of ARL. selected data from 135 institutions with en- Robert B. Downs, dean of library adminis- rollments of 5,000 students or more. The tration at the University of Illinois, is chair- study includes a comparative analysis of man of the Association's Farmington Plan averages of selected data on libraries in sev- Committee. The grant, which is in the sum enty-nine colleges and universities that main- of $15,000, will be administered on ARL's tained this enrollment level during the ten- behalf by Princeton University. year period beginning 1946/47. The high- lights of the study are: MEETINGS 1. The median number of volumes in the THE TOPICS discussed by the Chemical 135 libraries was 349,250. The median num- Literature Division at the 136th meeting of ber of volumes added during 1956/57 was the American Chemical Society were "Tech- 17,031. nical Information Services for Industry: Case 2. The median number of professional Histories" and "Technical Writing for Spe- staff was 20.1; of nonprofessional staff, 20.0. cialized Purposes." The group met in At- 3. These libraries spent an average of lantic City, September 13-18. $36.87 per student. AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ma- 4. Of each dollar of library operating ex- chine searching and translation was held at penditure, salaries and wages accounted for Western Reserve University, September 6-12. sixty-four cents; library materials and bind- More than fifty papers written by specialists ing, slightly less than thirty-one cents; and

SEPTEMBER 1959 389 other operating expenditures, about five Kentucky Library Association, c/o Univer- cents. sity of Kentucky Library, Lexington.

5. Between 1946/47 and 1956/57, average A LIST of 750 desirable 1958 books for the library operating expenditures of larger in- lower-division college library has been de- stitutions increased 146.7 per cent and the veloped by Robert T. Jordan, librarian, Taft cost per student rose 122.9 per cent. How- College, Taft, Calif. Based largely on re- ever, during this period library expenditures views, the list is designed to provide a book scarcely varied from being 3.1 per cent of selection aid for the two-year college. A few total institutional expenditures for educa- copies are available free from the author, tional and general purposes. Box 902, Taft, Calif. Circular No. 578 is the first of three reports based on a nationwide survey of li- THE PAPERS of William Henry Harrison,, baries in institutions of higher education for second in the microreproduction series of 1956/57. The second report will be a cir- Presidential papers in the Library of Con- cular giving selected statistics of higher ed- gress, have been filmed on three reels con- ucation libraries by type of institution and taining 2,575 exposures. The Harrison pa- by enrollment. The final report will cover pers contain approximately 1,100 items, rang- all aspects of academic library statistics. It ing in date from 1785 to 1932. A positive will appear as a chapter of the Biennial Sur- copy is available on interlibrary loan, or one vey of Education in the United States, 1956- may be purchased for $20. 58. THE NEW EDITION of the Encyclopedia of Copies of Circular No. 578 have been American Associations (Detroit: Gale Re- mailed to libraries of all institutions of high- search Co., 1959. $20) lists basic information er education. Additional copies are available about 8,892 national organizations, 3,000 without charge from the Library Services more than appeared in the first edition. In Branch, Office of Education, Washington 25, addition to the basic volume, a geographic D.C. index has been compiled. It is sold only in conjunction with the encyclopedia. THE SIXTH EDITION of Library and Refer- ence Facilities in the Area of the District of DR. FELIX REICHMANN, assistant director, Columbia, prepared by the Loan Division Cornell University Library, is author of of the Library of Congress, describes the col- Sugar, Gold, and Coffee: Essays on the His- lections and services of almost 250 libraries. tory of Brazil Based on Francis Hull's Books It lists the rules for use of each library, the (Ithaca: Cornell University Library, 1959). name of its librarian, its address, and its tel- This work was developed from materials in ephone number, and describes the units the Francis Hull Library of Braziliana pre- furnishing public service. There is an index sented to Cornell by Herbert F. Johnson. to subjects covered by the various libraries THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, New and to the names of librarians. Copies are York Chapter, has published the eighth ed- available at $2.00 each from the Card Di- ition of Special Libraries Directory of Great- vision, Library of Congress. er New York, a listing by subject specialty NUMBER 2 (NSF 59-19) of the National indexed by subject, library, and personnel. Science Foundation's Scientific Information The publication may be ordered from Mrs. Activities of Federal Agencies series is on the Elizabeth M. Hutchins, Young 8c Rubicam, U.S. Office of Naval Research. It describes Inc., 285 Madison Avenue, New York 17. the general scientific information programs; The price per copy is $3.00 for SLA mem- subject fields, sources of information, and bers and $5.00 for non-members. Checks supply of technical reports; and libraries and should be made payable to the Special Li- information centers of all facets of the braries Association, New York Chapter. agency. Twenty-five Short Cases in Library Person- LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON, director of the nel Administration, by Kenneth R. Shaffer University of Kentucky Libraries, is the com- (Hamden, Conn.: The Shoe String Press, piler of a literary map of Kentucky. Copies 1959, 135p., $3.50) is the first of a series of are available at one dollar each from the descriptions of "situations" concerned with

,390 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES various aspects of library administration. MISCELLANEOUS The primary purpose of the volume is to provide material for instructional use in li- BENJAMIN E. POWELL, ALA President and brary schools, but librarians in general will librarian of Duke University, will represent recognize some of the "cases"; no solutions ALA and ACRL at ceremonies marking the are offered, but questions of procedure are beginning of Louisiana State University's raised. centennial year October 22-23. The two-day program will include the dedication of LSU's American Research on Russia, edited by new $3,500,000 library, which was completed Harold H. Fisher (Bloomington: Indiana in 1958. University Press, 1959. 240p., $5.00) is a series THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has issued its of essays on research in America of Russian first catalog cards prepared by photocom- history, economics, political science, philos- position for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ophy and religion, social relations, science, materials. The new process is made possible geography, literature, linguistics, music, and by a Japanese machine that has a capacity of architecture and minor arts. In an intro- almost 10,000 characters on 35 glass plates ductory article on "The Growth of Russian and, in composing, each character can be Studies," Philip E. Mosely traces the develop- modified in more than 200 different ways. ment of curricular and research programs in The new process will eliminate the necessity American universities. Among other provoca- of writing characters by hand. tive comments, he writes: "A scholar has a special duty to be vigilant against his own A MICROFILM COPY of the Association of preconceptions and preferences and to be College Unions Bulletin, 1933 to date, and willing constantly to test his previous con- proceedings of all conferences since 1914 has clusions against new evidence or data pre- been placed in university libraries in each of viously neglected. In this way he serves both eleven regions. They are: Connecticut; as a scholar and as a citizen. As a citizen Teachers College, Columbia; Maryland; he takes part in many non-research activities. North Carolina; Cincinnati; Illinois; Mich- As a scholar he always returns to that cen- igan; Kansas; Oklahoma State; Arizona; and tral purpose of making his research as nearly Oregon. Interlibrary loan requests should objective as possible, not by renouncing val- be directed to the appropriate depository. ues, but by making them explicit through his self-disciplined effort to rise above them THE HEADQUARTERS of the National Fed- as he studies and analyzes a system which, eration of Science Abstracting and Indexing very different from our own in its values, Services have been established in Washing- constitutes, in the world of today, a dynamic ton, D.C. Raymond A. Jensen is executive and challenging focus of power." secretary. The federation was organized last year to work for the improvement of ab- THE COPYRIGHT OFFICE has a limited num- stracting, indexing, and analysis of the world's ber of surplus copies of its publication, Dra- scientific and technical literature. Two proj- matic Compositions Copyrighted in the Unit- ects under way are the preparation of a ed States, 1870-1916. This is the earliest cum- union list of periodicals covered by major ulative catalog issued by the Copyright Office abstracting and indexing services since Jan- and provides comprehensive coverage of the uary 1, 1957, and the preparation of a sub- work of American dramatists during an im- ject, language, and country analysis of sci- portant period of literary activity. It con- entific periodicals and monographic series tains over 60,000 titles alphabetically ar- produced by scientific institutions. ranged, with complete index to authors, translators, proprietors, etc. As long as the CURRENT Russian scientific literature will surplus lasts sets will be sent free to libraries be more readily available in the New Eng- requesting them. While many copies are land area, thanks to Massachusetts Institute shelf-worn, all are sound and complete. Sets of Technology Library. It has accepted the may be requested from R. G. Plumb, Head, role of New England depository for trans- Information and Publications Section, Copy- lations of Russian scientific and technical right Office, Washington 25, D.C. journals furnished by the Office of Technical

SEPTEMBER 1959 391 Services, U.S. Department of Commerce. This York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Fran- arrangement will make available some 10,000 cisco, Los Angeles, and other library centers, translated articles and 50,000 abstracts a and will observe libraries in each area. year for physics, biology, and chemistry. In They will report and discuss their findings at addition, the MIT Library has substantially two-day seminars which will be conducted by improved its coverage of Slavic journals American librarians at each of the library through purchase and exchange. centers. Particular attention will be given to American attitudes toward reference and ad- THE OBERLY MEMORIAL AWARD for the visory services, to the bibliographic resources best bibliography in the field of agriculture used, to the type of librarian providing the was awarded to J. Richard Blanchard and services, and to the cooperative devices which Harald Ostvold for their Literature of Agri- link libraries in the interests of the individ- culture Research (Berkeley: University of ual user. California Press, 1958). Mr. Blanchard is li- The seminar is designed to improve the brarian of the University of California at range and quality of services in the libraries Davis and Mr. Ostvold, former agriculture represented by these ten librarians. It is librarian at the University of Minnesota, is hoped that it will also stimulate detailed chief of the New York Public Library refer- study and discussion in Japan of concrete ence department. steps that might be taken to improve refer- AN HONORARY DEGREE of Master of Arts ence services in Japanese libraries generally. was conferred on Donald B. Engley, librarian A VARIED CROSS-SECTION of college library of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., at the architecture, both in the United States and June commencement exercises of Amherst abroad, is represented in a growing collec- College. tion of graphic materials assembled as a per- TEN JAPANESE LIBRARIANS will visit the sonal project by Harold D. Jones, Brooklyn United States during October and November College Library. The collection includes to participate in a field seminar on library about 400 2 x 2 color slides, 300 8 x 10 reference services sponsored by the ALA In- black-and-white prints, floor plans, descrip- ternational Relations Office and a joint com- tive articles, and preliminary instructions to mittee from the International Relations architects. It is available for loan on a fee Committee and the Reference Services Di- basis. Full information may be obtained vision. The trip will be supported by funds from Mr. Jones, Brooklyn College Library, from the Rockefeller Foundation. Bedford Avenue and Avenue H, Brooklyn The Japanese librarians will visit New 10, N.Y.

A Sight to Open Khrushchev s Eyes

ON THE CAMPUS—In order to get the real feel of America, you have to see it not only working and playing but studying. I wish Prime Minister Khrushchev could spend a day or two on the campus of one of our large and still growing state universities. He has publicly admitted recently that there is no room in Soviet higher education for a great proportion of the boys and girls who graduate from high school. I think it would do him good to see in action the American philosophy that every boy and girl should have access to a higher education if they want it and are capable of assimilating it. He should take a tour of the university library, too, and see American students at work studying Marx and Engels as well as Adam Smith, and classes in the Russian language as well as others.—Adlai E. Stevenson, "Tour for Khrushchev—The Real America," New York Times Magazine, July 5, 1959, p. 7. (Mr. Stevenson included "On the Campus" as one of "eight sights that might open [Khrushchev's] eyes about America.")

,392 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

At the end of this summer the University ried out in Denmark with headquarters at of California at Berkeley loses MELVIN J. the University of Copenhagen. Scientific ab- VOIGT, assistant librarian, to Kansas State stracting and indexing services are produced University, where he in all the larger countries of the world and will become director it was Mr. Voigt's belief that an unbiased of the university li- comparative study of the value of these brary and professor services to scientists is possible only in a of library service. country which itself does not publish such A native of Cali- services and where the common language fornia, Mr. Voigt has is not that of any of the services under lived a good deal in evaluation. Thus, one of the Scandinavian the Middle West countries was a logical choice for the seat where he acquired a of this research, which covered a large taste for the climate number of libraries, universities, and re- peculiar to that research organizations. gion. He graduated It is clear that Kansas State University, with an A.B. degree Melvin J. Voigt with its emphasis on science, will offer a in mathematics from broad challenge to Mr. Voigt's wide experi- Bluffton College, Ohio, in 1933, received an ence and deep interests in the literature of A.B. in library science from the University the sciences.—Donald Coney. of Michigan in 1936 and a M.A. in 1938. He returned to Michigan in the summer of TYRUS GEORGE HARMSEN, who became li- 1951 as a visiting professor of library sci- brarian of Occidental College, Los Angeles, ence. Before coming to Berkeley in 1952 Mr. on August 1, is a native of southern Califor- Voigt had been librarian and professor of nia. He took his bac- library science at Carnegie Institute of calaureate degree at Technology from 1946, and director of the Stanford University library and publications research for Gen- in history followed eral Mills from 1942 to 1946. by the master's in At Berkeley Mr. Voigt was in charge of history. In 1948 Mr. personnel and budget, but these duties Harmsen received formed only a part of his responsibility. He the bachelor's degree shared in many decisions affecting all areas in library science of the library's management; his responsibil- from the Univer- ity in the area of library service on the sity of Michigan. campus was in the field of science and Mr. Harmsen served technology and in this capacity he was super- in France and Ger- visor of seven branch libraries in engineer- many during World Tyrus G. Harmsen ing and the physicial sciences. In his spare War II. time he made his wide experience with After summer work at the Huntington scientific and technological library materials Library, Mr. Harmsen joined the staff of available to the School of Librarianship, the manuscripts department as assistant where, as a part-time lecturer, he developed cataloger in 1948. On his resignation eleven and taught courses on the bibliography and years later he was assistant curator designate literature of science and technology and on of that department. During the summer of documentation. It was this long-time inter- 1958 he gave a graduate course in the his- est that led to his appointment to a Ful- tory of books and printing at the Univer- bright research grant for 1958/59 for a study sity of Southern California. He has been evaluating scientific and technical abstract- active in the California Library Association ing and indexing services, which he car- and the Rare Books Section of ACRL. 528 SEPTEMBER 1959 Mr. Harmsen's extracurricular interests in- to extend learning and culture through the clude membership in the Zamorano Club, medium of the printed word." In his work the Rounce and Coffin Club, and the Book for ALA Jack has taken the problems of li- Club of California. For a number of years brarianship anywere, the problems of li- he has edited the Zamorano Club's quarterly, brarians everywhere to be his problem. If Hoja Volante.—John E. Pomfret. he has not posed an answer to every problem (and that would be impossible), he has given With inestimable gentlemanliness JACK each of them understanding. In his work in DALTON moves with quiet efficiency to per- India, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, in Latin Amer- form wonders of librarianship. Librarians all ica, and in Europe he has increased the sta- over the world, neo- ture of American librarianship and, there- phyte students and fore, of America. His informal reports have honored scholars been characterized by straightforward report- alike, regard him as ing, penetrating perceptiveness, and encom- their personal friend. passing comprehension. That he is indeed, Jack began his undergraduate college work for Jack has carried at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, but both to his world-girdling his B.S. and M.S. degrees were received from assignment as head the University of Virginia. His first library of ALA's Interna- work was as a student assistant at Charlottes- tional Relations Of- ville, as one of a triumvirate whose other fice the same energy members were Randolph Church, now State and spirit which Librarian of Virginia, and John Cook Wyl- Jack Dalton marked his service as lie, now librarian of the University. Jack librarian at the Uni- taught English at V.P.I, from 1930 to 1934. versity of Virginia. He is as effective on the After a year of graduate study in Charlottes- campus of the University of the Ryukyus or ville he received a special grant from the in the sessions of an international congress General Education Board to study librarian- as he once was in the halls and stacks of the ship at the University of Michigan. He re- University's Alderman Library. turned to Charlottesville to join the staff of A few years ago I had the enviable ex- the Alderman Library in 1936. In 1942 he perience of working one winter in the Alder- became associate librarian and, after a sea- man Library as a guest of the University. It son of independent study under a second was then I learned at first hand how grant from the G.E.B., he succeeded the thoroughly Jack Dalton fulfills the ideal for courtly and distinguished Harry demons as a library administrator; he seemed to know librarian in 1950. "It is doubtful," states Mr. about everything in his domain, and to in- demons in writing of Jack in The Univer- terfere with nothing. His associates (sub- sity of Virginia Library, 1825-1950 (Char- ordinates would be the wrong word) ran the lottesville: 1954), "if many University Li- library, for the Alderman has an immensely brarians on their first assumption of that efficient staff; but the impress of his personal- post have been equally well equipped—or ity was on every department. It was (and is) have been as capable of profiting by that a delightful, comfortable, friendly library in equipment." which to work, whether as a staff member or Jack was called from his campus in 1956 to a reader. undertake a new and important job for ALA In the last two years the library world has in the area of international librarianship. learned generally what Virginia knew spe- To that job he brought the same quality of cifically. As his friend Linton Massey, long equipment and the same ability to profit. To president of the distinguished Bibliograph- his deanship at Columbia (which he will as- ical Society of the University of Virginia, sume next month) he takes the same assets, writes of him: "Here personified in one cor- now enhanced by broader experience. Co- porality is the omniverous reader, the com- lumbia's School of Library Service and the petent teacher, and the professional librarian whole world of librarianship will thereby standing always ready, and as best he may, profit.—Richard Harwell.

,394 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES JAMES E. SKIPPER assumed his duties as scheme. The project is now so well under director of libraries at the University of way that it looks as though the time goal Connecticut at Storrs on August 15. may be realized. His formal train- In connection with his doctoral program ing includes the A.B. at Ann Arbor, Skipper was appointed in- from North Caro- structor for a brief period in the department lina, the A.B.L.S. of library science. He has served as president and A.M.L.S. from of the Franklin County (Ohio) Library As- Michigan, and he is sociation, president of the College Section expecting to receive of the Michigan Library Association, chair- the Ph.D. from the man of the Copying Methods Section of latter institution in RTSD, chairman of the Subcommittee on 1960. His disserta- Micropublishing Projects of the Resources tion topic is a history Committee of RTSD, and has been active of the Ohio State in ACRL. University libraries. His honors include membership in Phi His first profes- James E. Skipper Eta Sigma; the Michigan Academy of Arts, sional experience Letters and Science; and Carnegie Fellow, was gained at Washington and Jefferson Col- Rutgers Seminar on Advanced Library Ad- lege where he was assistant librarian. His ministration. next position was that of assistant acquisition Mr. Skipper takes to his new post at Storrs librarian and later acquisition librarian and an intelligent grasp of university library ad- assistant professor of library administration ministration coupled with aggressive, vigor- at the Ohio State University. In the latter ous qualities of leadership. He should be position he continued the reorganization of particularly effective in strengthening the the department begun by his predecessor and resources at Connecticut both for instruc- participated in the discussion and decision tional use by undergraduates and for re- which led to the establishment of a central search purposes by graduate students and serial record. The establishment of this faculty.—Lewis C. Branscomb. bibliographic tool represented a tremendous forward step at Ohio State in combining in JAMES C. Cox has been appointed director one easily accessible record all of the per- of libraries at Loyola University, Chica- tinent information respecting serials, and go. Formerly associate librarian, Mr. Cox much of the credit for pushing the project succeeds the Rev. in the early stages belongs to Skipper. Be- A. Homer Matlin, yond this he was a very active contributor S.J., who has been of ideas not only in the area of acquisition appointed director of and technical processing, but also in the area libraries for the Uni- of general administration at Ohio State. versity of Detroit. His next title was Assistant Librarian for As director of li- Technical Services at Michigan State Univer- braries, Mr. Cox is sity where he was brought in at a time when responsible for Loy- it was felt that technical processes at that ola's four libraries, institution were in particular need of mech- located at its Lake anization. Within a short time, largely upon Shore campus, its his recommendation, Xerox, Multilith, and downtown center in Photoclerk equipment was introduced to James C. Cox Lewis Towers, and provide for the reproduction of catalog its medical and den- cards, order cards, bibliographies, and vari- tal schools in the Chicago Medical Center. ous similar materials. Associate librarian since August 1958, Mr. Also while at Michigan State he provided Cox joined the University in 1952 as a much of the leadership in establishing a ten- graduate assistant in the English depart- year project to reclassify the collections ment. In 1953 he was appointed to the li- under the Library of Congress classification brary staff of the downtown campus. He was

SEPTEMBER 1959 395 appointed to the library staff at the Lake ence of Christians and Jews and for almost Shore campus in August 1956. A graduate two years served as head librarian of Wagner of Loyola, Mr. Cox received his bachelor's College, Staten Island, N.Y. degree in English in 1950 and holds a mas- Mr. Daily was born in Pikeville, Colo., in ter's degree in library science from Rosary 1923. After wartime service with the U.S. College, River Forest, 111. Army he attended New York University and received the B.A. degree in 1951. In the fol- JAY ELWOOD DAILY has been named li- lowing year he was awarded the master's brary adviser to the Mandalay Library Proj- degree and in 1957 the doctorate by the ect, a project for the development of the li- Columbia University School of Library Serv- brary of the University of Mandalay, Burma, ice. which is being sponsored jointly by the Uni- versity and ALA with financial support from REV. BRENDAN C. CONNOLLY, S.J., has been the Ford Foundation. named director of libraries at Boston Col- Mr. Daily takes to his new post a back- lege. Father Connolly goes to his new assign- ground of particularly appropriate experi- ment from Weston College where he has ence. He is, moreover, no stranger to the been librarian and teacher of philosophy Far East, having spent nearly three years and theology since 1951. At Boston College in Korea, first as a civilian psychiatric social Father Connolly will direct the University worker attached to the U.S. War Depart- Library and the special law, nursing, busi- ment, later as an administrative officer in the ness, social work, and science libraries. employ of the Methodist Service Committee, Father Connolly has taught library science and, most recently, two years in Burma at Catholic University and has served as where, with Ford Foundation support, he consultant in library planning for Jesuit organized the library of the Institute of libraries in Iraq, Venezuela, and the Philip- Public Administration and Management in pines. He is a contributor to library and Rangoon and served in other advisory and other periodicals and is a member of ALA, administrative capacities. Catholic Library Association, and the Mod- Not all of Mr. Daily's work as administra- ern Language Association. tor and library organizer has, however, been Father Connolly holds a doctorate in li- as an expatriate. At home he has organized brarianship from the University of Chicago. the libraries of the Council for Financial He has also earned academic degrees at Bos- Aid to Education and the National Confer- ton College and Catholic University.

Appointments

PAGE ACKERMAN is ranking assistant li- librarian of the Biological Sciences Library, brarian of the University of California at Stanford University, is head of that library. Los Angeles. RANDALL A. DETRO is librarian of Nicholls MARTHA J. BAILEY, formerly assistant li- State College, Thibodaux, La. brarian of the Linde Company, Division of PAUL S. DUNKIN has been appointed to Union Carbide Corporation, Speedway Lab- the faculty of Rutgers University as profes- oratories, Indianapolis, is librarian. sor of library service. ROBERT W. BAUMGARTNER is documents EUGENE B. EISENLOHR, formerly reference assistant librarian at Northwestern Univer- librarian at the Newark (N.J.) Public Li- sity. brary, is reference librarian at Trinity Col- CHARLES BEYMER has been appointed sen- lege, Hartford, Conn. ior cataloger at the Cornell University Li- CLAIRE J. ESCHELBACH, formerly cataloger, brary. University of California at Santa Barbara MOLLY CARR is senior cataloger at How- Library, is head of the catalog department ard College Library, Birmingham, Ala. and in charge of special collections. JOANNE DANDOIS, formerly senior biology JEANNE GELINAS has joined the staff of the

,396 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES readers service division, Marquette Univer- librarian at the University of South Florida sity Library. Library, Tampa, on July 1. MRS. ALICE G. GRIFFITY is director of the KATHLEEN P. MCKIBBIN is in the reference- library of the Mohawk Valley Technical In- circulation division of the Biomedical Li- stitute, Utica, N. Y. brary, University of California at Los ROBERT J. HAERTLE has joined the staff of Angeles. Marquette University Library. FLORENCE M. MARTINEAU is science assist- BRADFORD HARRISON III, is assistant refer- ant at Northwestern University Library. ence librarian and assistant curator of special REV. PATRICK J. MULLINS, C.M., formerly collections at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. director of libraries at Kenrick Seminary, St. CLYDE L. HASELDEN, formerly librarian at Louis, is campus librarian at DePaul Uni- Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, is li- versity, Chicago. brarian of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. IRENE NORELL, a member of the librarian- JOHN DOUGLAS HOAG has been appointed ship faculty, Northern Illinois University, librarian of the Art Library and research as- became assistant professor of librarianship, sociate of Yale University. San Jose State College, Calif., on September SHIRELEY HOPKINSON became assistant pro- 1. fessor of librarianship, San Jose State Col- BEVERLY PFEIFER has joined the staff of lege, Calif., on September 1. Marquette University Library. ANDREW H. HORN has returned to UCLA, PHYLLIS A. REINHARDT, formerly librarian where he was a member of the library staff of the Art Library, Yale University, is art from 1948 to 1954, as the first officer of the librarian at Smith College, Northampton, new School of Library Service at UCLA. Mass. His title is Lecturer in Library Service, and HAROLD B. SCHELL has been appointed ad- he will be responsible for setting up curricu- ministrative assistant to the director, Cornell lum and procedures in preparation for the University Libraries. school's opening in September 1960. JACK E. SCHULTZ is assistant librarian in EMERSON JACOB, formerly acquisitions li- charge of reference services, Beloit College brarian, Michigan State University, is li- Libraries, Beloit, Wis. brarian of Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, RICHARD SHOEMAKER has been appointed Ohio. to the faculty of Rutgers University as pro- LESLIE H. JANKE, formerly assistant professor of library service. fessor in the department of librarianship, STEWART SMITH has accepted the position San Jose State College, Calif., is head of the of librarian at the Florida Presbyterian Col- department of librarianship. lege, St. Petersburg. HAZEL MARIE JOHNSON is reference librar- BARBARA MILLER SOLOMON, formerly as- ian at the University of Pittsburgh. sociate professor of history at Wheelock Col- JUNE KOSTYK, formerly a reference librar- lege, became director of women's archives ian at the University of Florida, is on the at Radcliffe College on July 1. staff of the Engineering Library, University RALPH H. STENTROM is assistant librarian of California at Los Angeles. in charge of circulation, Beloit College Li- GEORGE HILL MATHEWSON LAWRENCE, di- braries, Beloit, Wis. rector, Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cor- GORDON STONE is music librarian, Univer- nell University, has been appointed director, sity of California at Los Angeles. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Li- DOUGLAS H. SWARTOUT is assistant librar- brary, Carnegie Institute of Technology. Dr. ian and assistant professor at the Michigan Lawrence's appointment will become effec- College of Mining and Technology, Hough- tive in the fall of 1960 when the library is ton. expected to be completed. MARY BARBARA VICK is serials librarian DAVID A. LOCHER is assistant librarian of at Northwestern State College of Louisiana, the California Academy of Sciences Library Natchitoches. in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. BESS PATERSON WALFORD is technical li- GERALD B. MCCABE became acquisitions brarian in the research and development de-

SEPTEMBER 1959 397 partment of Philip Morris Inc., Richmond, Library to take up a position as library ad- Va. visor to the International Cooperation Ad- NEVA WHITE has been granted a two-year ministration program at Kabul University, leave of absence from Marquette University Afghanistan.

Retirements

MRS. LOUISE VICKERS HOROBIN retired as JANE D. SPOORE, librarian, School of Ar- head cataloger of the U.S. Military Academy chitecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Library, West Point, N.Y., after thirty years Troy, N.Y., retired from active duty June of service there. Mrs. Horobin was on the 30, terminating thirty years of fruitful serv- staff of the New York Public Library from ice with the Institute. She properly regarded 1918-19, worked for Columbia University her position as that of teacher and librarian, 1920-28, and joined the West Point Library regularly meeting with classes to orient staff in 1928. students in attacking new projects and class MILDRED SINGLETON, has retired as head li- assignments. brarian, Hope College, Holland, Mich. DORA SMITH, head of the department of li- JEANNETTE VANDER PLOEG, associate profes- brarianship, San Jose State College, Calif., sor of librarianship at San Jose State College, retired July 1, after twenty-nine years of Calif., retired on July 1, after thirty years of service at the college. service.

Necrology

DOROTHY E. COOK, editor of the Standard cataloger, East Cleveland Public Library. Catalog series of publications, died March MAXINE GRUBB, serials reviser in the Uni- 26. Miss Cook had served as a cataloger versity of Illinois Library, died on May 28 at the University of Illinois and as head at the age of forty-one.

Foreign Libraries

BRUNO CLAUSSEN, former director of the trative Management Agency, Tokyo, Japan, University of Rostock Library, East Ger- is assistant chief librarian of the National many, died on Sept. 25, 1958, at the age of Diet Library in Tokyo. 79. He was associated with the library from RAFAEL DI PRISCO has been designated di- 1912 to 1949. rector of the central library of the Univer- ADA GREEN is university librarian at the sity of Venezuela. Memorial University of Newfoundland, Can- DONALD A. REDMOND is on leave from his ada. position as the librarian, Nova Scotia Tech- TOKUJIRO KANAMORI, who was chief li- nical College, to serve as advisor to the librarian of the National Diet Library of Ja- brary of the Middle East Technical Univer- pan until his retirement in May 1959, died sity, Ankara, Turkey. on June 16, at the age of seventy-three. JAN OYVIND SWAHN is assistant librarian of SHIRO OKABE, formerly director of the Ad- Lund University Library, Stockholm, Swe- ministrative Management Bureau, Adminis- den.

,398 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Status of College and University Librarians

The University Libraries Section of ACRL, and research,"1 and are eligible for member- recognizing the mutual interests of faculty ship provided their own institution consents. members and librarians in the dissemination Some accrediting agencies have stipulated of knowledge and the advancement of learn- faculty rank for professional library staff. ing, knowing that the work of professional Reasons that academic status should be librarians is essentially educational in char- granted. Academic recognition for profes- acter, and convinced that the institution sional librarians seems quite logical for edu- benefits substantially when library activities cational reasons. Recent developments in are integrated with teaching and research higher education and in librarianship make plans, strongly recommends that professional this recognition desirable and feasible. librarians be granted academic status, with 1. Demands upon academic libraries corresponding faculty privileges. have increased greatly during recent years. Status already granted. Over half of the The ever-quickening tempo of research, with colleges and universities in the country have a corresponding upward spiral in rates of already recognized the propriety and value publication throughout the world, make ef- of academic status for their professional li- fective library service even more important brary staffs by granting academic recognition to the maintenance of a high quality of to professional librarians. Sometimes full instruction and research. Similarly, the pro- faculty status is granted, with academic rank liferation of subjects, ever-increasing special- and titles; in other instances librarians are ization, and the need to handle a variety of recognized formally as members of the acad- foreign languages also raise the level of emic family with equivalent and correspond- ability that is required to cope with this ing ranks. Whether academic or full faculty great flood of information. status shall be granted is a matter of in- 2. Curricular and educational require- dividual determination by each institution. ments have caused academic libraries to be- However, the essential educational nature of come more responsive. One concrete evi- the librarian's duties has been recognized in- dence of this growing responsiveness is the creasingly by administrators, faculties, pro- reorganization of many libraries along sub- fessional societies, and accrediting agencies. ject lines since 1938. Other libraries have For example, the society of college faculty been reoriented towards student interests members, the American Association of Uni- by establishing undergraduate or lower di- versity Professors, states that "librarians of vision libraries. A great many libraries, professional status are engaged in teaching recognizing accessibility as a factor in use, have provided educational stimuli by put- This report was prepared by the Commit- ting more books on open shelves. This re- tee on Academic Status of ACRL's Univer- orientation has made the library more sity Libraries Section, adopted by the Section flexible and more usable as a teaching during the Washington Conference, and ap- instrument; consequently, librarians have proved for ALA by the ACRL Board of undertaken increased teaching, counseling, Directors in a post-Conference mail vote. and research activities. These trends also Arthur M. McAnally, Director of Libraries have placed greater emphasis upon com- and of the School of Library Science, Univer- petence in subject areas as well as in the sity of Oklahoma, is chairman of the com- professional aspects of library work. mittee. Other members are Robert B. Downs, 3. The educational scope of institutions Dean of Library Administration, University has been broadened through increased offer- of Illinois; William H. Jesse, Director of Li- ing of public education, institutes, short braries, University of Tennessee; Archie L. courses, exhibits, museums, and publication

McNeal, Director of Libraries, University of 1 Cited in R. B. Downs, "The Current Status of Miami; and Sidney B. Smith, Director of Li- University Library Staffs," in R. B. Downs, ed., The Status of College University Librarians (Chicago: braries, Louisiana State University. ALA, 1958), p. 25.

SEPTEMBER 1959 399 programs. Institutions also have achieved fessionalism in performance of his duties. wider audiences for public service through The librarian must be a creative member the medium of television. All of these in- of the academic community. He performs an crease the demands for effective library educational function and should be inter- service. ested in research and publication to advance 4. The educational qualifications of li- the frontiers of his profession, or in admin- brarians have been improved, and there has istrative studies which make a contribution been an improvement in the personality and to this advancement. He should be inter- understanding of people recruited to the li- ested in professional organizations, and has brary profession. The first professional dean obligation for faithful service to his in- gree is now at the master's level, due to im- stitution. provements in library education since 1948. The director of a library has the respon- 5. Advances in research, professional writ- sibility of furthering the professional ad- ing, and progress in the field also are doing vancement of the staff. He must facilitate much to establish librarianship as a mature their professional advancement, encourage profession. educational progress, formal or informal, in 6. Institutions are demanding librarians professional and in other subject areas; pro- of high calibre to meet the growing demands. vide for a careful separation of professional To attract the most capable personnel, sat- and non-professional activities, to the end isfactory status is necessary, for librarians that professional librarians are enabled to are becoming aware of the importance of use their abilities to the fullest; scrupulously status. Librarians now have a choice of adhere to the highest standards in appoint- positions due to a shortage of librarians that ments and promotions; recognize that pro- has existed since World War II. It is safe motion in rank does not necessarily require to say that any institution not granting the performance of administrative duties; academic status to its professional librarians and through democracy in administration will find it increasingly difficult to recruit utilize the abilities of the professional staff a high type of library personnel. in the management of the library. 7. Finally, librarians need the protection Only a portion of the work that must be of academic freedom to build broad and performed in a library requires professional varied collections unrestricted by prejudice, training and ability. Routine and non-pro- bigotry, or special pressures. fessional tasks are performed by clerical and Definition. Academic status for profes- sub-professional staff. It must be understood sional librarians may be defined as the clearly that academic status is recommended formal recognition, in writing, by an insti- only for professional librarians, who need and tution's authorities, of librarians as members are entitled to it. of the instructional and research staff. The Privileges of academic status. Along with recognition may take the form of assigned the contributions which library staff mem- faculty ranks and titles, or equivalent ranks bers make because of academic status there and titles, according to institutional custom. are certain privileges which they in turn Obligations of academic status. Status car- may expect. These relate to tenure, academic ries with it certain definite responsibilities freedom, sabbatical leaves, equitable salaries, for the individual. These correspond to the holidays, insurance, and retirement. librarian's obligations to his profession, to ACRL urges all academic institutions to support it and contribute to its advance- recognize the similarity of education, train- ment. The first requirement is for intellec- ing, and goals of faculty members and li- tual activity, including a keen interest in the brarians, and to formalize that similarity so intellectual life of the campus. The librarian that the cause of education can be benefi- must accept responsibility for independent cially and creatively improved by bringing learning and continual intellectual growth. into close harmony the requirements and Next, the librarian must accept responsibil- obligations, as well as the privileges, which ity for educational statesmanship; his activ- faculty and library staff should share in the ity touches upon all areas of academic life. great work of improving American educa- Status also calls for the highest level of pro- tion.

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