News From the Field 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 pos- sible 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 oc- cupied 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.