Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Lewis C. Branscomb, Director of Libraries, Ohio State University, Columbus.

VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT (one to be elected) Wyman W. Parker, Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Connecticut. Joseph H. Reason, Howard University Library, Washington, D. C.

DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE (two to be elected) (1958-60) Elmer M. Grieder, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California. Forrest C. Palmer, Mississippi State College Libraries, State College.

(1958-61) Page Ackerman, University of California Library, Los Angeles. Patricia Paylore, University of Arizona Library, Tucson.

DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (one to be elected) Newton McKeon, Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts. Marion A. Milczewski, University of California Library, Berkeley.

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Edward C. Heintz, Kenyon College Library, Gambier, Ohio.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Morrison C. Haviland, University of Vermont Library, Burlington. Rev. Jovian Peter Lang, Librarian of College Libraries, St. Louis-Chicago Prov- ince, O.F.M., St. Louis, Missouri.

SECRETARY: Margaret E. Knox, University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville. Allan R. Laursen, College of the Pacific and Stockton College Libraries, Stock- ton, California.

DIRECTOR (1958-61): Frances Kennedy, Oklahoma City University Library. Laurence E. Tomlinson, Lewis and Clark College Library, Portland, Oregon.

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Orlin C. Spicer, Morton High School and Junior College Libraries, Cicero, Illinois.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Helen Mitchell, Clark College Library, Vancouver, Washington. James O. Wallace, San Antonio College Library, San Antonio, Texas.

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SECRETARY: Oma Carter, Central Christian College Library, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Loretta J. Frazier, Joplin Junior College Library, Joplin, Missouri.

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Carson W. Bennett, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Ruth M. Heiss, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. Ruth E. Schoneman, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute, Chicago, 111.

SECRETARY (1958-60): Dwight L. Chapman, Museums Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Frank N. Jones, Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Gertrude W. Rounds, New York State Teachers College, Oneonta.

SECRETARY AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Thelma C. Bird, Teaching Materials Library, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute. Donald O. Rod, Iowa State Teachers College Library, Cedar Falls.

DIRECTOR (1958-61): Walfred Erickson, Eastern Michigan College Library, Ypsilanti. Katherine Walker, Northern Illinois University Library, DeKalb.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Carl W. Hintz, University of Oregon Library, Eugene.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Richard E. Chapin, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing. James V. Jones, St. Louis University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri.

SECRETARY: Lois C. Bailey, Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Edith Scott, University of Oklahoma Library, Norman.

DIRECTOR (1958-61): Ralph H. Hopp, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis. James Ranz, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

RARE BOOKS SECTION Nominations for officers of the new Rare Books Section will be published in the July CRL. An election will be held in the open meeting of the Section Tuesday, July 15.

MAY 1958 233 Notice of Proposed Amendments to the Pending ACRL Constitution

The Steering Committee of the University Libraries Section of ACRL has instructed the Chairman of the University Libraries Section to refer to the ACRL Board of Directors the following proposed amendments to the pend- ing ACRL Constitution and Bylaws:

Constitution, Article V. Substitute the following:

Section 2 (a) Voting. The Board shall consist of the president, vice- president, retiring president, four directors-at-large, and the chair- man, vice-chairman and retiring chairman of each section.

Section 2 (b) Non-Voting. The executive secretary and the Ameri- can Library Association Councilors elected on nomination from the Association are ex-officio members without vote.

Section 3 Terms. The directors-at-large shall be elected from the members of the Association for four-year terms, which terms shall over-lap so as to insure continuity of policy.

Bylaws, Article IV. Omit Section 2.

It is expected that these amendments will be proposed for adoption at the ACRL membership meeting during the ALA San Francisco Confer- ence in July, 1958. (The full text of the pending Constitution was published in the September, 1957 issue of CRL, pages 405-409.)

The Steering Committee consists of the following members: William H. Carlson, Carl W. Hintz, David O. Kelley, A. Frederick Kuhlman, Frank A. Lundy, Ralph W. McComb, Robert H. Muller (Chairman), G. Flint Purdy, Raynard C. Swank. The proposed amendments were formulated in a meeting of the Committee on January 29, 1958 and were approved by all members.—Robert H. Muller, Chairman, University Libraries Section.

234 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A Statement by the ACRL Committee On Constitution and Bylaws

The Committee does not endorse the amendments to the ACRL Constitu- tion proposed by the Steering Committee of the University Libraries Section and referred to the ACRL Board of Directors by Robert H. Muller, Chairman of the Section, for two principal reasons. First, the Committee holds that the composition of the Board in the proposed Constitution was arrived at after ex- tentive consultation with qualified advisers. The voting membership of the Board is such that the broad interests of ACRL as a whole are amply represent- ed. The proposed amendment concentrates the voting membership in the group associated with office holding—present and past. For comparison, note the difference in the structure of the Board which the Committee recommends and the one Mr. Muller proposes: The Committee's plan specifies a voting membership of twenty, composed of the President, Vice-President, Retiring President, four directors-at-large, five section representatives, and eight ALA Councilors elected by ACRL. The non-voting members are the five section chairmen and the Executive Secretary. These make a total membership of twenty-six. Mr. Muller's proposal specifies a voting membership of twenty-two, composed of the President, Vice-President, Retiring President, four directors- at-large, the five section chairmen, the five vice-chairmen, and five retiring chairmen. Non-voting members are the eight ALA Councilors elected by ACRL and the Executive Secretary. These would make a total of thirty-one. The second, and more important reason for the Committee's decision not to endorse the proposed amendments is that the ALA Committee on Constitution and Bylaws is preparing a statement of minimum requirements for division by- laws. This will mean that every division will have to give its basic documents another going over. The ACRL Committee on Constitution and Bylaws recommends acceptance of the Constitution at its second reading in San Francisco. The first reading was followed by acceptance without a single dissenting vote at Kansas City. With acceptance of the Constitution at San Francisco, ACRL can settle down to normal business. Further changes in ACRL's Constitution can then be made in the light of the minimum requirements to be specified by ALA's Committee on Constitution and Bylaws or in the light of its own needs as determined by experience.—G. F. Shepherd, Jr., Chairman, ACRL Committee on Constitu- tion and Bylaws.

MAY 1958 235 News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS Carnegie Foundation is prepared to under- write half of the cost of a set (approximate- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA MEDICAL ly $3,000 for the 2,500 slides; $1,800 for the CENTER has received the Lawrence Reynolds 1,500 slides) purchased by other educational Library, more than five thousand books and institutions that meet certain criteria. In- manuscripts valued at $500,000. Dr. Reyn- quiries should be addressed to the Carnegie olds who had assembled the collection over Corporation, 589 Fifth Avenue, New York the past forty years made the presentation. 17, N. Y. It constitutes the first unit of a million- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY is dollar library that will serve the medical the possessor of 2,000 volumes representing center. three generations of book collecting by a THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LIBRARY distinguished Irish family, the Leslies of has acquired the collections of John Gould County Monaghan. The collection is a gift Fletcher, 1939 winner of the Pulitzer prize of Louis H. Silver of Chicago. The prin- for poetry, and Charles Hillman Brough, cipal subjects covered are belles-lettres and former Arkansas governor. The Fletcher li- Irish history. Included are family letters brary was presented by his widow, known that give an intimate view of English court as an author of children's books under the life during the early part of the twentieth name Charlie May Simon. It contains 1,183 century. volumes of poetry, folklore, and first edi- tions as well as manuscripts and letters of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES has ac- the poet. The Brough library, also the gift quired the "Mayor's Court Papers," a collec- of his widow, numbers approximately three tion of nearly two thousand court records thousand volumes, primarily on history and dated between 1681 and 1819. Described literature. as "of prime importance to students of American legal and social history," the pa- BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been pers were the gift of the estate of the late given an extensive manuscript collection of Dr. Benjamin Salzar, New York neurologist. the works and correspondence of the late CORNELL UNIVERSITY has been given $250,- Reginald De Koven, composer of light opera 000 by Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., of Wilming- and popular music. The complete manu- ton to endow the new engineering library. script scores of twenty opera and partial Income from the endowment will supple- scores of sixteen others are prominent ment existing funds for the purchase of among the 400 items in the collection. The books and other materials. Mr. Carpenter donor was K. B. Weissman of New Ro- is chairman of E. I. du Pont de Nemours chelle, N. Y. and Company.

THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW DAVIDSON COLLEGE LIBRARY was the recip- YORK has given sets of color slides depicting ient of a collection of first editions of the the arts of the United States to fifteen edu- works of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott cational institutions. The slides are the as well as various items about Burns. The product of a two-year survey of visual arts books were the gift of the Reverend Samuel in this country covering eighteen categories M. Lindsay of Palm Beach, Fla. from architecture to painting, furniture to silver. From the 4,000 slides, sets of 2,500 THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY and 1,500 were selected for experiments in has acquired two James Fenimore Cooper use of such materials for teaching not only autograph items, along with some first edi- art but also American social and cultural tions of the author's work. The donor was history. Each set of slides is accompanied by John Stuart Groves, an alumnus of the a catalog containing data on each item and school. essays covering each of the categories. The THE EMORY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been

236 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES given 300 old rare books, valued at $14,000, chemical journals available in the Midwest. from the library of Charles Howard Cand- THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY is the ler. Outstanding among the items given by beneficiary of a $970,000 legacy left by John Mrs. Candler are an early fourteenth-cen- R. Slattery, lawyer and one-time director of tury Irish Bible, four incunabula, a second the United States Fidelity and Guaranty edition of Wynkin de Worde's The Ordi- Company, who died in 1926. The funds nary of Christian Men, and a second edition were transferred to the library after the of John Gower's Confessio Amantis. death of his widow last year. Their income

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has add- will be used to operate the privately sup- ed a Koberger Bible to its collection, thanks ported reference department. to the generosity of the university's junior More than thirty thousand letters, speech- class. This is one of fourteen known copies es, articles, notes and reports written and re- of the Bible printed in 1475 by Anthony ceived by Lillian D. Wald during her career Koberger of Nuremberg. as nurse and social worker in Manhattan's lower east side have been given to the THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES New York Public Library. The papers were have been given two groups of manuscripts a gift of the Visiting Nurse Service of New by Paul Nash and his brother John North- York. cote Nash. Consisting largely of letters written in the 1920's, the papers reveal the NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has working methods and personalities of the received two notable gifts: from Congress- artists. The manuscripts were the gift of man James Roosevelt, an extensive collec- the Associates of the Library. tion of material by and about Woodrow Wilson; from DeWitt O'Kieffe of Kenil- THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LIBRARY has worth, 111., more than 500 volumes, mostly enriched its holdings with a sizable group of a scholarly character, published during of duplicates from the Library of Congress the last 200 years. Slavic collection. Strongest in Russian scien- Originally assembled by Merle Johnson, tific serials dating from the mid-1940's, the noted bibliographer, the collection of these materials comprise almost forty thou- Wilsoniana includes first and special edi- sand periodicals and sixteen thousand mon- tions of books by Wilson, books containing ographs. contributions or introductions by him, gov- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has ernment publications, biographical and crit- purchased the Douglas C. McMurtrie manu- ical works, bound volumes of periodicals scripts, consisting of some 100,000 pieces. Of and extracts from journals to which he con- particular interest is material covering the tributed, collected speeches and messages, history of early printing in a dozen states and a variety of memorabilia and association collected for the American Imprints Inven- items. Taken as a whole, the 800 pieces tory and scheduled for later volumes of the present documentary material concerning unfinished History of Printing in the United Wilson as a Princetonian, Governor of New States. The MSU Library owns full publica- Jersey, and President of the United States. tion rights. Notable for their fine-to-mint condition, the O'Kieffe books concentrate mainly on THE MIDWEST INTER-LIBRARY CENTER has the humanities and world history but in- received aj $22,970 grant from the National clude volumes on science and technology Science Foundation to initate an acquisi- as well. Although many of the titles are not tions program for journals in the biological new to the Northwestern Library collec- sciences. The aim is to make available 5,500 tion, it is believed that they will make a journals listed in Periodical Science Publi- contribution to a separate undergraduate cations: A World List, published by Bio- library envisaged for the future. logical Abstracts. This new program com- plements the similar Chemical Abstracts THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LIBRARY coverage already underwritten by the Na- has been presented with a collection of old tional Science Foundation. Together, the textbooks valued at $20,000. Dr. John Nietz, two projects will make 8,200 biological and professor of education at the university, was

MAY 1958 237 the donor. The collection is said to be one THE ALA COUNCIL has endorsed "Librar- of the largest of its kind in the country. ies Today," a statement about the impor- tance of library services in a free society. ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has Of college and research libraries the state- been given a 600-year-old manuscript Bible ment says: "At the college level we must consisting of 880 vellum pages. The donors provide library services to meet the needs were Samuel J. Lasser of Jamestown, N. Y., not only of an enormously increased enroll- and Hugh Grant of Bradford, Pa. The li- ment but also of the revolutionary new de- brary has received also a copy of the origi- mands for study and research in science, nal edition of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend. languages, and other rapidly widening fields. The 20 paper-covered parts were the gift The great research libraries must be of Albert J. Whitehill of Seattle. strengthened in their holdings, their biblio- TULANE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has received graphical services, and their ability to make a collection of more than three hundred instantly available to American scientists documents, pamphlets, broadsides and news- the results of foreign, as well as domestic, papers published in the South during the research. It is in these libraries that much middle of the nineteenth century. Assem- research begins." bled by Felix H. Kuntz of New Orleans, who THE PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER of ACRL made the gift, the collection covers many held its winter meeting on February 20 in aspects of conditions before, during, and the auditorium of the Free Library of Phil- after the Civil War. adelphia. Dr. Felix Hirsch, librarian of THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LIBRARY Trenton State College, spoke on the back- has acquired three collections of outstand- ground of college library standards. Robert ing importance to its research program. S. Taylor, associate librarian of Lehigh Uni- They are: the Hugh Sinclair collection of versity, gave his impressions of his year as a the writings of Robert Boyle and Joseph Fulbright lecturer at the Technische Hoge- Priestley; the Edgar Goldschmid collection school in Delft, Holland. of illustrated books on pathology and anat- The chapter's spring meeting was held omy; and a group of 1,200 volumes on poli- at Haverford College on May 10. The con- tical and economic affairs published in ference's main objective was an investiga- France betwen 1560 and 1650. tion of interlibrary cooperation in the Phil- YALE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL LIBRARY has adelphia area. Ralph Esterquest, former di- established the John H. Bumstead Memo- rector of the Midwest Inter-Library Center; rial Fund to honor the late New Haven Lorena Garloch, librarian of Pittsburgh physician who was an associate clinical pro- University; and Richard Harwell, ACRL fessor in the Yale School of Medicine. In- executive secretary, addressed the meeting. come from contributions to the fund will be used to build the library's collections. THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES held its fiftieth meeting at the Newberry Li- brary in Chicago on January 27. The most ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES important business was discussion of an THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LI- advisory committee report entitled "The BRARIES has received a $12,000 grant from ARL and the Problems of Research Librar- the Ford Foundation "for a study of the ies." It outlines a program and specifies practicability of preparing an index of for- topics for future study and possible action. eign legal periodicals." William B. Stern of The report was adopted in principle, with the Los Angeles County Law Library has instructions to the committee to implement been appointed director of the project. A it (if necessary) with further studies, spe- leading specialist on foreign law, he has cial programs and meetings on particular long been a proponent of foreign law in- topics. A new committee was formed to im- dexing. A tentative report on the project prove the flow and quality of information will be made at the fifty-first annual meeting about technological applications to library of AALL in Washington, D. C., June 30- work and to further communications be- July 3, 1958. tween librarians and documentalists.

238 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Cataloging received extended considera- mencement speaker. Citations were present- tion as a result of two reports. The first on ed to Charles Herrick Compton, librarian the progress of the Committee on Coopera- emeritus, St. Louis Public Library, and Clar- tive and Centralized Cataloging led to agree- ence E. Miller, librarian, St. Louis Mercan- ment that a survey should be made (if tile Library, among others. funds can be found) of cataloging practices in research libraries with a view to improv- LIBRARY SCHOOLS ing central sources of relevant information. The second was a report by Andrew D. Os- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRADUATE born on the progress of his study at the Li- LIBRARY SCHOOL co-sponsored the second brary of Congress on "cataloging at source"; executive conference on organizing and that is, in the publishing house. The under- managing information. Held on March 14, lying principle was endorsed by vote of the the meeting provided an opportunity for association. executives and librarians to share experi- ences in the burgeoning field of company Dissemination of Russian technical and special library work. scientific information was discussed in de- tail and the association voted affirmatively THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC will offer on the desirability of governmental action its second music library workshop, July 21- to speed the flow. Resources for Slavic and 25, 1958. Guest speakers will include Dr. Middle Eastern studies, the Farmington Harold Spivacke, chief, music division, Li- Plan, fair use in photocopying and the pub- brary of Congress, and James Coover, music lishing of doctoral dissertations were the librarian, Vassar College. Faculty and staff subjects of other progress reports. members of the school will participate. For more information, write to Edward Easley, BUILDINGS director of admissions, Eastman School of Music, Rochester 4, N. Y. BROOKLYN COLLEGE is erecting a $3,000,- 000 wing to its library. Scheduled for com- FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SCHOOL pletion in the spring of 1959, the addition will sponsor the first Southern College and will enlarge the seating capacity from the Research Library Workshop in Tallahassee, present 725 to 1,750 readers. Stack space will June 25-27, 1958. Benjamin E. Powell, li- be increased an additional 200,000 volumes. brarian of Duke University, will keynote a The three-story wing will include a music consideration of Southern library resources. library and a photoduplication laboratory. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA has SCIENCE will feature a workshop on audio- been given $1,000,000 by Chester Fritz, in- visual materials in libraries as part of its ternational investment banker, to build a li- summer session. Professor Carl H. Melinat brary building. Mr. Fritz, who attended the will direct a consideration of all aspects of university for two years before completing audio-visual work in this field. Further in- his work at the University of Washington, formation may be obtained by writing to gave the money "in recognition of the im- him at the school. portant and growing service of the univer- sity to the entire state." Having already THE TEXAS CHAPTER of Special Libraries given more than $100,000 for scholarships Association, has established the Jesse K. and $32,000 for other university projects, he Brown Memorial Loan Fund at the GRAD- felt that support was needed for a library UATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE, UNIVER- that would add to the university's stature. SITY OF TEXAS. In honor of the late Mrs. The present gift may be used only for con- Brown who was secretary of the chapter, it struction of a library building. will be used to assist students with small loans during the period of their studies. SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY celebrated the lay- ing of the cornerstone for the Pius xn PUBLICATIONS Memorial Library at the mid-year conferring of degrees. Keyes D. Metcalf, librarian emer- THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY publishes itus of Harvard University, was the com- inexpensive facsimile editions of seventeenth-

MAY 1958 239 and eighteenth-century English works. Reg- microfilm exposures will sell for an esti- ular members pay $3.00 a year and receive mated $20,000. six publications. Individual issues and back- THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WIS- list items are supplied at $.60 each. The CONSIN has published Guide to Wisconsin society operates under the aegis of the Clark Newspapers, 1833-1957, compiled by Donald Library at UCLA. E. Oehlerts. A complete survey of every The Chronicle of United Nations Activ- newspaper known to have been published ities has begun publication of a monthly in- in the state, it lists 2,259 titles with dates of dex. It gives a complete subject breakdown publication, editors and location of copies. of the work of the U.N. and its specialized The volume is available from the society in agencies. The index is published at the be- Madison for $8.00 a copy. ginning of each month. It will be cumulated XEROGRAPHY assumes new importance as a yearly. medium for scholarly publication in the THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY has light of an announcement from University published The Great Debate: Lincoln vs. Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich. The firm of- Douglas, 1854-1861, a guide to an exhibit of fers Xerox prints of all doctoral dissertations materials from the collection of Mr. and from graduate schools participating in the Mrs. Philip D. Sang of Chicago. Printed in nationwide microfilm program. Prints meas- two colors, the catalog includes a foreword uring 51/2" x 81/," will be available in roll by Robert B. Downs and an introductory form at a cost of four cents a page (min- note by Leslie W. Dunlap who selected and imum charge: $2.00). For an additional annotated the materials. charge of $1.50 the pages will be cut and assembled in a plastic spiral binder. Only Ad Memoriam Caroli Linnaei is a hand- complete dissertations will be furnished by somely printed and illustrated catalog of this process. Selected pages are available as the recent Linnaeus exhibit at the UNIVER- photographic enlargements at twenty cents SITY OF KANSAS LIBRARY at Lawrence. This a page. publication of the University of Kansas Li- brary commemorates the 250th anniversary Human Relations in Industrial Research of the birth of the great Swedish naturalist. Management, Including Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Conferences on THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY has pro- Industrial Research, Columbia University, duced A Bibliography of the Writings of 1955 and 1956, edited by Robert T. Livings- Noah Webster, compiled by Mrs. Emily Ells- ton and Stanley Milberg (Columbia Univer- worth Ford Skeel and edited by Dr. Edwin sity Press, 1957, 418 p., $8.50), contains a H. Carpenter, Jr. Representing a continuing series of papers of particular interest to re- work of more than forty years, the bibliog- search librarians. The five parts of the book raphy totals 732 pages and appears in a —the expectations and jobs of research, the limited edition of 500 copies. It is avail- individual and the research job, research or- able from the Public Relations Office, New ganization and the management jobs, some York Public Library, New York 18, at $12.50. aspects of human relations, and managerial THE NORTH CAROLINA INTERLIBRARY CEN- technologies—are developed from selected TER has issued the first number of the North papers from the two conferences. "The Role Carolina Interlibrary Center News. Those of Communications in Research," by David interested in receiving this monthly publica- B. Hertz and Albert H. Rubenstein, is of tion should address requests to I. T. Little- direct concern to librarians in their efforts ton, acting director, Interlibrary Center, to work with researchers. Other papers con- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. tribute to an understanding of some of the special problems of personnel involved in THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has been au- industrial research. thorized to arrange, index and microfilm the papers of the twenty-three Presidents in its collection. Public Law 85-147, 85th Con- MISCELLANEOUS gress, provides $720,000 for this purpose. THE ASIA FOUNDATION, a non-profit, non- Positive prints of the nearly three million political organization, solicits contributions

240 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of books on the college and university level, THE A. S. W. ROSENBACH LECTURES at the published later than 1947, and works of University of Pennsylvania were given this standard authors regardless of date. Trans- year by Dr. William Charvat, professor of portation costs for substantial shipments will English at Ohio State University. His topic be borne by the foundation. Address Books was "Literary Publishing in America, 1790- for Asian Students, 21 Drumm Street, San 1850," concerning publishing centers of the Francisco 11. period, relationships between authors and publishers, and various problems of book THE FEASIBILITY of standardizing and test- production. The lectures should appear in ing equipment used by libraries is being book form within the year. studied by John H. Ottemiller, associate li- brarian of Yale University, under the aus- The SIXTH ANNUAL SOUTHERN BOOKS COM- pices of ALA. The Council on Library Re- PETITION has published an annotated list of sources has made a grant of $14,944 to fi- thirty-six books issued by fourteen Southern nance the six-month project. printers and publishers in 1957 which are distinguished for their physical appearance. A FILM depicting the usefulness of the As in past years, the winning books will be modern library has won an award for the sent on tour. Exhibit schedules are available Virginia Polytechnic Institute Motion Pic- from Lawrence S. Thompson, University of ture Unit. "King Size Diary" was photo- Kentucky Library, Lexington. graphed in the VPI Library with Seymour Robb as technical adviser. The film is avail- "THE USEFUL ATOM" a United States able for loan or purchase (price: $100). Atomic Energy Commission circulating pack- age exhibit is available free for display in li- RECRUITING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP gets a boost braries throughout the nation. Comprised of from an attractive booklet prepared by the eight poster panels and an atomic power Channing L. Bete Company of Greenfield, plant model, the exhibit is intended to stim- Mass. Called "Librarian Wanted," the 16- ulate lay reading in nuclear science. Re- page scriptographic pamphlet is designed quests for display scheduling should be sent primarily for distribution by guidance and to the American Museum of Atomic Energy, vocational advisors in schools but the light- Box 117, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. hearted yet accurate presentation will make it useful to all who are concerned with re- THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING LIBRARY has cruiting. Single copies can be obtained from established a petroleum history and research the publisher for $.25 each. Larger quantities center. It will acquire and organize materials are available at a substantial discount. essential for scholarly work in this field.

College Library Buildings Institute

The ACRL Building and Equipment Committee of the Buildings and Equipment Section of the Library Administration Division will hold a buildings institute on July 11 and 12 in San Francisco. It will be held in the Richard A. Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street. The fee for this institute is $25 which includes meals, accommodations for Friday night, a bus trip to new library buildings, and a copy of the proceedings of the institute. Registration is limited to one hundred. The focus of the meeting will be on junior college and small college library buildings. There will also be a general discussion of the needs and requirements of junior college libraries. Reservations should be sent, with a check for $25, before June 10 to Edwin T. Coman Jr., Librarian, University of California, Riverside, Cal- ifornia.

MAY 1958 241 Personnel

JOHN MINTO DAWSON left his position as carrying through a projected program of assistant director of preparations at the Uni- very active library development at the Uni- versity of Chicago Library to become direc- versity of Delaware.—Herman H. Fussier. tor of libraries at N. ORWIN RUSH of the University of the University of Wyoming assumed the directorship of the Delaware in April, Florida State University Library on January 1958. Before joining 1, 1958. the staff at Chicago Mr. Rush brings in 1948, he had distinguished and served as business varied college and manager of the Uni- university library ex- versity of Alabama perience to his new Library, had been post. As the first ex- on duty with the ecutive secretary of U. S. Army for three the A C R L, Mr. years, and had been Rush has worked assistant librarian of John M. Dawson with many of the li- Tulane University braries of institu- Library. He received his Ph.D. from the tions of higher edu- Graduate Library School in 1956, having cation in the nation. Orwin Rush then completed an important study of cer- Nm Under his energetic tain aspects of centralized cataloging. and creative leadership ACRL began a new While the various departments of the Li- era of development and professional or- brary concerned with the acquisition and ganization. preparation of materials had been adminis- Mr. Rush was Senior Fulbright Fellow tratively consolidated before 1948, a variety to the United Kingdom. He has been direc- of procedures required further integration, tor of libraries of the University of Wyo- coordination, and simplification; it is in this general area that John Dawson has centered ming, Clark University, and Colby College. much of his attention, and in doing so he As past president of the Rocky Mountain has carried through a wide variety of basic and Plains Library Association, and an ac- improvements in the Library's operations. tive leader in college and university librar- Some of these innovations have now come ies organization, Mr. Rush has brought into use by a considerable number of librar- statesmanship to all of his committee work ies, notably the procedure of preparing and elected offices. The library and campus catalog cards by Xerox reproduction and of Florida State University are looking for- offset printing. ward to a new period of scholarly and re- search growth and development under Mr. Mr. Dawson's knowledge of, and interest Rush's leadership. in almost all phases of library operations, his ability to analyze a problem and find the KENNETH W. SODERLAND has been appoint- key issues, his high standards and sense of ed assistant director for preparations at the responsibility, his willingness to disturb the University of Chicago Library. Mr. Soder- status quo in the interests of greater library land holds two master's degrees from the effectiveness and efficiency, his vigorous, but University of Washington in library science meticulous following through on a problem and in Scandinavian languages and litera- or a procedure, and his friendly personality ture. Before coming to the University of have all combined to make him a valuable Chicago Library in 1956 as head of the and stimulating colleague. While Chicago cataloging department, he was senior cata- will miss him very much, we are also pleased loger at the Library of Congress. In addi- that he has been given the responsibility of tion to his new responsibilities, Mr. Soder-

242 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES land will continue to serve as head of cata- represented ALA and ACRL at the inau- loging for the present. guration of Dr. Irvin E. Lunger as president of Transylvania College, Lexington, Ken- PAGE ACKERMAN, assistant librarian, tucky, on April 15. UCLA Library, represented ACRL at the convention of the National Association of The TENNESSEE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION elect- College Stores in Los Angeles, April 8-11. ed the following officers at its annual con- vention, March 15-15, 1958: MARTHA L. DALE M. BENTZ, associate director of li- braries, Iowa State University, represented ELLISON, president; RUTH RINGO, vice-presi- ALA and ACRL at the observance of the dent and president-elect; ADA MCCAA, sec- Centennial of Iowa State College at Ames, retary; and JOHNNIE GIVENS, treasurer. on March 22. WILBUR F. HELMBOLD, librarian of How- JOSEPHINE P. SHERRILL, librarian, Livings- ard College, Birmingham, Alabama, repre- stone College, Salisbury, North Carolina, sented ALA and ACRL at the inauguration represented ALA and ACRL at the inau- of Henry King Stanford as president of guration of Dr. Rufus Patterson Perry as Birmingham-Southern College on April 11. president of Johnson C. Smith University JOSEPH H. REASON, director of libraries, at Charlotte, North Carolina, and the ob- Howard University. Washington, D. C., rep- servance of the ninety-first anniversary of resented ALA and ACRL at the inaugura- the founding of the university on April 7. tion of William Joseph McDonald as Rector LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON, director of li- of the Catholic University of America on braries, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 16.

Appointments

FRANCIS L. BERKELEY, JR., curator of man- MICHAEL DURKAN, formerly librarian of uscripts at the University of Virginia, now the Athlone Branch Library in Ireland, is also holds the post of associate librarian. a cataloger in the Olin Library, Wesleyan JAMES M. BABCOCK, formerly assistant University, Middletown, Connecticut. archivist of the University of Oklahoma, is EDNA F. DWYER is now circulation librar- now chief of the Burton Historical Collec- ian at the Idaho State College Library. tion, Detroit Public Library. LAURABELLE EAKIN, formerly chief librar- JOE HARDEN BAILEY, formerly librarian at ian of the Veterans Administration Hospital West Texas State College (1955-1957), is in Pittsburgh, is reference librarian of the now associate librarian at North Texas State Falk Library of Health Professions, Univer- College, Denton. sity of Pittsburgh. RICHARD K. BROME is now with the ref- GLENORA EDWARDS is head of the docu- erence and bibliography section of the ments division, University of Pittsburgh Li- UCLA Library. brary. SPENCER A. BROWN, formerly circulation li- JOAN FRANKEL is now assistant librarian at brarian, Associated Colleges, Claremont, Newton College of the Sacred Heart, New- California, is assistant catalog librarian, Col- ton, Mass. gate University. HUGH L. ELSBREE is director of legislative GRANT T. DEAN is now cataloger, Chicago reference service at the Library of Congress. Historical Society. JOHN E. GALEJS is instructor and serials li- KATHARINE S. DIEHL, formerly librarian of brarian, Iowa State College Library. the South Georgia College, Douglas, is now ANTHONY GRECO, JR. is periodicals reading associate professor and head of the Depart- room librarian at the UCLA Library. ment of Library Service, College of Educa- CLIFFORD R. JOHNSON has been appointed tion, University of Tennessee. librarian of the Ford Foundation. DOROTHY R. DRAGONETTE is now head of ELEANOR JOHNSON will become bio-med- the acquisitions section of the UCLA Bio- ical librarian at the University of Chicago medical Library. on June 15.

MAY 1958 243 ANNA KALNINS is instructor and classifier, librarian at the Wisconsin State College, La- Iowa State College Library. Crosse. W. A. KOZUMPLIK is now chief of the CLARA RALMON is now with the cataloging Technical Information Branch, Air Force department of the UCLA Library. Special Weapons Center, Kirtland Air MARGARET RATHBONE, formerly with the Force Base, New Mexico. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, is li- EUGENIA D. LEJEUNE is librarian of the brarian of the Human Resources Research George C. Marshall Research Center, Vir- Office Library, George Washington Univer- ginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia. sity, Washington, D. C. MIRIAM LUCKER LESLEY is archivist, Arch- RACHEL ROTH is now periodicals librarian ives of American Art, Detroit Institute of at the New York University-Bellevue Med- Art. ical Center. WYNIFRED LEMAITRE, formerly cataloger at LOUISE SAVAGE, chief of acquisitions at the the Harvard University Library, is now a University of Virginia, now also holds the cataloger at the Vassar College Library. post of associate librarian. CYNTHIA FURNEAUX TUCKER is serials li- BERYL LEVINE has been appointed refer- ence assistant at Northwestern University Li- brarian, Amherst College Library. brary. RUTH M. TOLSON, formerly assistant cat- aloger, Florida A. & M. University, is cat- GEORGE R. LEWIS, formerly with the Bay- aloger, Hampton Institute Library. lor University Library, is head of the Cir- JOHN WEATHERFORD, formerly manuscripts culation Department of the Alabama Poly- librarian of the Ohio Historical Society, is technic Institute Library, Auburn. assistant to the director, Miami University MARY RITA LINDBERG, formerly an Army Library, Oxford, Ohio. librarian in Japan, is assistant cataloger in JOHN P. WILKINSON, formerly assistant li- the Idaho State College Library. brarian of Ontario College, College of Ed- SARA R. MACK, formerly librarian of the ucation, is now assistant director of librar- Mt. Penn High School, Reading, Pennsylva- ies for social studies at the University of nia, is assistant librarian of the Kutztown Nebraska. State Teachers College Library, Kutztown, RUTH K. YOST, assistant librarian of the Pennsylvania. Kutztown State Teachers College Library, KATHERINE L. MAGRAW, formerly with the Kutztown, Pennsylvania, since 1952, is now U. S. Air Force libraries in Europe, is head head librarian. of the Book Selection and Acquisition Sec- The Library of Congress has announced tion, Library Services Branch, Bureau of the appointment of six new interns: ANNE Naval Personnel. R. BYRD, University of Illinois; KAY D. SAMUEL MARGOLIS is now with the acquisi- GUILES, University of Michigan; STEPHEN R. tions department, UCLA Library. SALMON, University of California; RODNEY MARIE F. MAROSCIA is now cataloging li- G. SARLE, University of North Carolina; and brarian, Central Technical Processes, Bell JAMES R. THRASH, Western Reserve. Telephone Laboratories, New York City. New appointments in the University of RUTH MARTIN is cataloger at Newton Col- Pittsburgh Library include the following: lege of the Sacred Heart, Newton, Mass. MARGARET ALLAN, trainee; HELEN HOCH, cat- EUGENE J. MILLICH, formerly with the aloger of foreign publications; FRANK MC- University of Minnesota Library, is reference GOWAN, bibliographer.

Retirements

BEULAH O. ALLEN, head, Catalog Depart- MARY ELLEN LEWIS, librarian of the Kutz- ment, Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia town State Teachers College Library, Kutz- Polytechnic Institute, retired December 31, town, Pennsylvania, for nineteen years, re- 1957. Miss Allen had served the V.P.I. tired on January 23, 1958. Library for nearly twenty-nine years, the LOTTIE BRASHEARS, associate librarian of last ten as head of the Catalog Department. the North Texas State College, retired on

244 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES January 31, 1958, after thirty-six years of GLADYS F. PRATT retired from the librar- service. She has served in various capacities ianship of the Massachusetts State College, in the library, as associate librarian since Framingham, October 1, 1957. She had 1947 and as acting librarian on five oc- served in this position since 1941. casions. ELLEINE H. STONES, chief of the Burton MYRA E. WHITE, librarian of Northeast- Historical Collection of the Detroit Public ern University, Boston, since 1920, retired Library since 1941, retired on November 1, on November 30, 1957. 1957.

Necrology

ANNA L. FRENCH, librarian of Western braries and professor of library science at Michigan University from 1907 until her re- the University of North Carolina, died on tirement in 1946, died on February 23, 1958. Friday, January 31, 1958, after suffering a During her long tenure the present library cerebral hemorrhage on the previous day. building, now about to be vacated for a Since his retirement in June, 1954, Mr. and new building, was constructed, and she saw Mrs. Rush had continued to live in Chapel the book collection rise from none to 63,000 Hill. Until the time of his death, Mr. Rush volumes. remained active in civic and professional MILDRED R. JOHNSTON, librarian of the affairs in the Chapel Hill community. A full Alabama State Teachers College, died on account of Mr. Rush's career was published December 15, 1957. in this magazine on the occasion of his re- BETH RICE MILLER (Mrs. Wharton Miller) tirement. (XV 1954, 465-66.) died on February 11, 1958. She served on Louis H. BOLANDER, librarian emeritus of public library staffs in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and Syracuse; and from 1927 until her re- died on December 12, 1957, at the age of tirement in 1955, was assistant professor in sixty-seven. He served in the Naval Acad- the Syracuse University School of Library emy Library from 1925 to 1956, as head Science. librarian from 1946 to 1956. FRANKLIN HAINES PRICE, chief librarian of JOHN P. DULLARD, New Jersey State li- the Free Library of Philadelphia for eighteen brarian from 1915 until 1945, died on Oc- years, died on January 9, 1958. tober 7, 1957, at the age of ninety-five. EDNA WILLIAMS, assistant catalog librarian MINNIE WOHLAUER, periodicals librarian of Colorado State College, died on Novem- of the Neuropsychiatric Library at the New ber 12, 1957, at the age of thirty-seven. York University-Bellevue Medical Center, CHARLES E. RUSH, retired director of li- died on January 17, 1958.

Foreign Libraries

HERBERT DICKMANN, director of the library KARL ASSMANN, director of the Sachsische of the Verein Deutscher Eisenhiittenwerke, Landesbibliothek, Dresden, retired on Oc- Diisseldorf, retired on December 31, 1957. tober 1, 1957, at the age of sixty-seven. His successor is GUNTHER BAUHOFF. WALTER BAUHUIS, formerly with the Uni- versity of Heidelberg Library, is now direc- HEINZ GITTIG has been head of the In- tor of the University of Munster Library. formation Division of the Berlin Staatsbib- FRIEDRICH BUSCH retired from the direc- liothek since December 1, 1957. torship of the Hannover Stadtbibliothek on MANFRED KRUGER has been director of the January 5, 1956. He was succeeded by ROLF library of the Deutsches Institut fur Rechts- KLUTH of the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in wissenschaft, Potsdam, since January 1, 1958. Berlin. ERWIN WEIS, director of the Bibliothek fur ERNEST ZUNKER became director of the Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart, died on January 7, University of Greifswald Library on Janu- 1958, at the age of forty-six. ary 2, 1957.

MAY 1958 245 The SCAD Report: The Place of the ACRL in the Reorganized ALA

The Special Committee on Activities De- to make the shifting of authority and respon- velopment of ACRL stems directly from the sibility, as required by the new machinery, reorganization of the ALA into five major not only work, but work better than any- associations of libraries in specific fields and thing we have had up to now. We would be seven, at the moment, type-of-activity divi- less than honest, however, if we did not ad- sions concerned with the execution of the mit that, as we have struggled with our as- varied functions of libraries. The Commit- signment, and as we sat in meetings and tee is inherent, perhaps, in the increasing visited in corridors in Chicago, where all but complexity of the entire library situation one of us was present, and as we have mar- and the ways in which this has expressed it- velled at the proliferation of sections and self in a multiplicity of associational efforts, committees, doubts have begun to rise in the organizations, and committees. Specifically, in the minds of some of us about the work- its origin, on paper, rests in a thoughtful ability of the new ALA. letter of November 21, 1956 from Samray Smith, interim executive secretary of ACRL, APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM to our then president Robert Orr. Our first step was to study the specific In this letter Mr. Smith listed the chief areas of responsibility, which have through problems of college and university libraries the reorganization been assigned to ACRL. as compiled by Dr. Frederick Wagman and Next we asked ourselves, what are the "big- pointed out that they included some areas in ger things" and "areas of greater need" to which ACRL has made solid contributions which ACRL should be able to give in- but others in which it has done nothing. creased attention now that it is the intent to He pointed out that in the reorganization relieve it of responsibility for the specific ac- ACRL had been assured that while the As- tivities of our libraries at the level of execu- sociation would be relieved of housekeeping tion. We did this within the framework of chores this would enable it to devote its en- the six assigned areas of responsibility and of ergies to "bigger things" and to "larger the transfer under the reorganization of the areas of greater need." He suggested that a functions of our committees on audio-visual Special Committee be established to deter- work, buildings, recruiting, and statistics to mine what these "bigger things" and "areas other divisions of ALA. It was early apparent of greater need" are and how ACRL can that everything depended upon the inter- meet and solve them. From this came SCAD. pretation of the six areas of responsibility. This present activities committee differs Under a broad interpretation a rich and from all earlier ACRL activities committees fruitful program could, we thought, be car- in that it is not concerned, except second- ried out. Under a narrow interpretation arily, with the associational machinery and much of what we might envisage doing structure. We have been asked rather to would fall to the "doing" divisions of ALA. think about our place in the newly and sub- stantially reorganized ALA which our ACRL HELP IS ASKED leaders have fully accepted and which, in- deed, they have had a part in fashioning. As we pondered the possible functions, We have been requested to make recom- projects, and accomplishments of ACRL, mendations as to what ACRL can do within within its assigned areas of responsibility we the new-look ALA and how we can continue felt, each of us, that we were somehow not to be the strong and virile association we being very imaginative. "Bigger things" and have become. We have approached this as- "areas of greater responsibility" sounded so signment in a spirit of good will and with the good, and appeared to promise so much that thought that a sincere effort should be made it seemed, somehow, as if some new and

246 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES exciting things could be suggested to the As- is possible that even these few responses, sociation. Because we, within the committee, however scanty, were enough to establish a felt that our ideas were not exciting in any kind of associational opinion pattern. Three sense of newness and because we felt too that things were apparent in the replies, as they some of the things we did think of were con- were in our own earlier answers to the same siderably restricted by the six assigned areas questions. These are: (1) Much, very much, of responsibility we turned to other mem- depends on how the areas of responsibility bers of the association for help. are interpreted. (2) Under a broad inter- We did this by each making a list of twen- pretation, which most of our respondents ty "dedicated" librarians within his or her applied, ACRL can, within the areas of re- kind and size of library. It was not by de- sponsibilities, continue an enriching and sign that this request went, after elimina- constructive program. (3) The problems we tion of duplicative suggestions by commit- face are the same old problems libraries have tee members, to exactly one hundred peo- always faced. Their importance and urgency ple. To these hundred people representing have changed, though, with the climate of all the kinds of libraries which constitute the times. ACRL, we directed a simple one page re- quest. We asked: FUNDAMENTALS AND HISTORY

What are the problems of college, Our problems, as our gathering together university, and research libraries to and detailing of them will show, are con- which the reorganized ACRL should be cerned with, and revolve around, the three addressing its energies? basic fundamentals that have been central in all library affairs from ancient times to the What are "the bigger things" ACRL present: books, people, shelter. These ele- can do now that its housekeeping chores ments were present in the very first, simple, have been assigned to the activities di- one-man or part-of-one-man library, just as visions? they are present now. To have a library there must first of all be books. People must We requested each of our "dedicated" peo- take care of these books. Both the books ple to set down in priority sequence the six and the people who care for them, who or- most urgent and important problems faced ganize or interpret them, must have shelter. by his or her type of college or university Books and the buildings that shelter them library. We also asked that, this having been come into being only through human effort done, each of the six problems be related to and achievement. In the final analysis these the assigned areas of responsibility to see if fundamentals must, in the modern sense, be it fell within any of these areas or if it would equated in terms of money. The only thing fall instead in the province of one of the that is different, as compared with earlier type-of-activity divisions. times, is a tremendous increase in mass and To these questions we got helpful replies. complexity. It turned out though that if our one hun- Now, as always, ACRL and every other li- dred people were "dedicated" sixty-eight of brary association must be chiefly and direct- them were not dedicated enough to help us ly concerned with these fundamentals. Our with our assignment. Actually our percent- committee has proceeded with its assignment age of replies was about the same as in the in the sure knowledge that this is so. We replies to an association-wide questionnaire have been and are continuously and keenly sent out in 1946 by the Brown Committee aware that ACRL should be, or should be on the Relations of ACRL to ALA. Since made to be, an organization which can do we had, or thought we had, a picked group constructive and good things, with a min- of people, we had expected a much higher imum of effort, about the basic essentials of percentage of replies than we got. libraries and librarianship. The thirty-two people who did help us For further background for our assign- made up in the quality of their replies for ment we have reviewed the history of college the quantitative lack of responses. There was and university librarians within ALA, and considerable unanimity in their answers. It the origins of ACRL, as briefly presented in

MAY 1958 247 the ACRL Organization Manual of 1956. It of college, university, and research li- is significant, we feel, that college and uni- braries by: versity librarians have been, for the most a. Furthering the use of educational part, an unhappy segment of ALA. This un- libraries. happiness and the resulting uneasy partner- b. Broadening the basis of cooperation ship, as well as the birth of ACRL in con- among libraries. troversy, the organization manual documents. c. Aiding the scholar. Fortunately these attitudes and relationships d. Cultivating international under- changed for the better soon after the found- standing. ing of ACRL. Our association has, since it 10. Support College and Research Libraries. came into being on May 30, 1940, as a ma- These ten principles were indeed cardinal, jor division of ALA, had a rich and con- so much so that they can still stand unaltered structive program of achievement, and dis- as a guide for us. Our committee has ori- content with the parent association has all ented and will continue to orient its think- but disappeared. Now, under the reorganiza- ing and planning around them. tion, which would drastically change our methods of operation and our ways of as- NEW AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY sociational life, we are at another testing Against the background of our history and time. the ten basic principles above, we present Our committee fully recognizes that the the chief problems now facing college, uni- whole motivation and intent of the reorgan- versity, and research libraries as we have de- ization is to provide the mechanisms for a termined them with the aid of our thirty- constructive and unified approach, within a two respondents. We do this by listing the single large parent association, to the in- six areas of responsibility assigned to ACRL creasingly complex and varied problems of in the reorganization. Under each respon- libraries and librarianship. With this intent sibility we have grouped, as follows, the and motivation we are fully, heartily, and problems which we and many of our help- we believe, constructively, in accord. We ers feel can be attacked within that respon- must, nevertheless, in this analysis, attempt sibility. The problems listed are set down en- to look the facts as we see them and the tirely in unweighted order. evolving associational pattern, as we under- stand it, fully in the eye. 1. Planning programs of study and service The 1940 organizational committee of for college and university, research, and spe- ACRL evolved the following ten well con- cialized libraries. ceived cardinal policies for the new associa- (a) Assume leadership in, conduct stud- tion: ies of, seek funds for solution of the prob- 1. Build an effective organization. lems of controlling the massive literature of 2. Make the present affiliation with ALA a our times, (b) Study handling of the book fruitful relationship. in its newer audio visual forms. Shall this be by traditional library, or by an off-shoot 3. Provide continuity of leadership. of it, or by an autonomous audio visual 4. Cultivate mutual understanding between center? (c) Conduct studies of the rising librarians and their colleagues in learned cost of all books and the implications of societies and other professional associa- these costs for libraries, (d) Analyze and tions. bring in recommendations about changing 5. Enlist all career members of college and demands for books created by changing research library staffs as members of the curriculums and expanding research pro- association. grams, contract or institution based, (e) 6. Plan stimulating meetings. Study need to speed up acquisitions to 7. Encourage research and study by librar- keep abreast of fast-paced production of ians. materials in a wide variety of forms, (f) 8. Initiate publications. Study role and scope of a materials center, 9. Sponsor a program of activities in behalf (g) Develop acquisition policies, relative

248 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES to the size of collections, discarding of ob- university, research, and specialized libraries solete materials, the development of selec- and stimulation of the participation of its tion aids, (h) Maintain up-to-date statis- members in appropriate type-of-activity di- tics. (i) Orient students and instruct them visions. in use of the library, including provision of opportunities for independent work and (a) Develop a philosophic approach to reading, (j) Continue studies of need for the place of, the problems, and the needs departmental libraries in the light of the of college and university librarianship. evolving and changing higher educational (b) Give more attention to the juniors in scene, (k) Create subject sections in addi- our midst, their professional growth and tion to pure and applied sciences. This is their development, (c) Encourage profes- probably provided for in the new Subject sional writing. Junior members of the pro- Specialists Section organized in Chicago. fession particularly need encouragement (1) Give attention to, and develop ways and a means of expression, (d) Improve li- of keeping abreast of developments in, as brary staff-faculty relationships, work for well as the implications of, the newer com- academic status and distinguish more munication technologies. (m) Revive clearly between professional and non-pro- under college and university auspices cur- fessional work. Included here is also de- rent book review services, similar to U. S. velopment of a sense of professional re- Quarterly Book Review, (n) Develop core sponsibility. (e) Promote better education lists of books: for teachers colleges; for for college and university librarianship. junior colleges; general lists of basic books (f) Develop more subject specialists to bet- on model of Shaw list and/or the Lamont ter articulate the work of the library with catalog, (o) Give more attention to rare the work of the faculty and with the teach- books, their acquisition and their catalog- ing and research program. ing. (p) Have something on every pro- 6. Conduct activities and projects for the gram concerned with the contents of improvement and extension of service in col- books. lege and university, research, and specialized libraries when such activities and projects 2. Establishment and evaluation of stand- are beyond the scope of the type of activity ards in appropriate fields. divisions, after specific approval of the ALA Develop up-to-date standards for all Council. phases of the operations of libraries. This (a) Maintain professional staff, includ- is a vitally felt need expressed by many ing recruiting. This problem, at this par- people. ticular juncture, looms over and above 3. Synthesis of activities of all units within everything else in the minds of the people ALA as they relate to college and univer- who have participated in the present analy- sity, research, and specialized libraries. sis. (b) Do something about a placement service for the profession, (c) Keep librar- No suggested specific problems or needs ies growing and developing at rate of fit this responsibility. widening curriculum, mounting enroll- ments, and increasing research. Included 4. Representation and interpretation of here is foreseeing implications of growth college and university, research, and special- and keeping library staff in step with grow- ized libraries in contacts within and outside ing institutions, (d) Stimulate a sense of the profession through appropriate publica- "awareness" of the importance, function, tions and other activities. and problems of the library among librar- ians and in higher education generally. Promote a series of well-written provoc- This is perhaps closely related to the ative articles interpreting the college li- heart-of-the-university" concept, (e) Make brary in a general sense. the library, as the "heart of the university" 5. Stimulation of the development of li- a real concept as opposed to lip service, (f) brarians and librarianship in college and Improve business practices and procedures.

MAY 1958 249 (g) Understand and meet the implica- be immediately obvious to the casual reader. tions, for our libraries, of the increased em- As I view them they not only permit but phasis on science and technology, (h) demand that ACRL broaden out on a pro- Arouse and maintain faculty interest in the ductive level into the wide vistas of pro- library, including concern for its support fessional interests which ACRL heretofore and development, and a close cooperation has barely touched." in its use. A past president of ALA has this feeling: "It is not at all clear in my mind, under the We are encouraged to believe that the ALA reorganization exactly where ACRL above problems and needs, even though responsibilities end and those of other di- drawn from a very scanty sampling of opin- visions begin. As I read over the fields of ion, represent an association-wide opinion responsibility of ACRL . . . however, I see pattern. We believe this is so because our nothing incompatible in ACRL considering problems, although assembled without any all or any of the matters (a comprehensive reference to a similar association-wide sur- listing of problems) mentioned above." vey made in 1946 under the able and ex- A university librarian who has been close perienced leadership of Charles Harvey to the work of ACRL reports this way: "I Brown, are remarkably the same as the prob- really feel that ACRL has sufficient program lems uppermost in the minds and thoughts right now and needs, above all, to improve of college librarians in 1946. The 1946 prob- performance. Specificially we are not doing lems, and needs, twelve of which are listed a quarter as much as we should in building in weighted order in a report of the com- financial support of college libraries. There mittee in CRL, January, 1947, are, with one is a crying need for standards. The program exception, found in the above assemblage. of cooperation with educational and profes- In 1946 college librarians were most con- sional organizations could take the whole cerned about producing publications direct- energy of the association for several years. ly and chiefly concerned with college and One new field would be an investigation of university libraries. This is a need which close integration of library resources with has, in the intervening years, been brilliantly the teaching program." met. Now, ten years later, our most acute, Another university librarian, formerly although possibly not our deepest concerns president of the University Libraries Section, seem to center around maintenance, recruit- in a long and thoughtful letter devoted ing, and training of staff. chiefly to developing librarianship into a It is significant, and also typical of ACRL high level profession includes this: "I believe history, that the 1946 survey was undertaken that a good program of meetings is only because there was still dissatisfaction, within one manifestation of a healthy organization ACRL, about its relations with ALA. The ... if there is one group in the United States deepness of this discontent is indicated by which should serve as a home base for study the fact that of those answering the Brown and pursuit of all kinds of problems and questionnaire 270 favored withdrawing projects affecting college and university li- ACRL from ALA headquarters while only braries today it ought to be the ACRL and 273 favored remaining under the parental its appropriate sections." roof. A different point of view comes from a promising young junior librarian now work- SOME CURRENT OPINIONS ing for a doctoral degree. He says: "Assign- We present now some of the comments ing fields of emphasis is a little like trying and observations received from the thirty- to classify a book both by form and subject two respondents to our request for help. matter without either being subordinate. I These are statements which have been in- know of no good solution to the problem, strumental in shaping our thinking. A for- but it would appear that the present one mer president of ACRL says this: "The im- renders ACRL a sort of coordinating agency plications lodged in these clearly enunicated for the work of other divisions insofar as statements of fields of interest are so broad they affect academic libraries and gives it and inclusive that their full import may not little jurisdiction."

250 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Another university librarian, also a former operating after its establishment in 1932 in ULS president, has this reaction: "It is my a vacuum created by the failure of either guess that the findings [of the Committee] ALA or its earlier college and reference sec- will make abundantly clear that ACRL will tion to face up to the broader and increas- have an extremely narrow and unrealistic ingly acute problems of literature control. field of operations if we should not be per- Under these circumstances ARL was inevit- mitted to deal with questions such as these ably, and against its original intent, drawn [listed in his letter] affecting the university into a direct attack, requiring cooperation libraries. I cannot see that the type-of-activ- far beyond its member libraries, on some ity divisions are going to be nearly so in- phases of the literature control problem. terested in interpreting the impact of these Some of these things Dr. Muller considers various problems on the college and univer- in his careful and thoughtful analysis, also sity library field as we are ourselves." appearing in these pages, of the place of the University Library Section within ACRL. Still another of our respondents has said: "I might end with the hope that our group A striking illustration that this problem of can become, in its activities, more compa- bibliographical control, the greatest problem rable to ARL. This small but active group facing librarians and the cultural and scienti- has done much of value from a practical fic world today, has largely gone by default standpoint since its formation. Could we among all the library associations is that work more closely with this group, or pos- when a great foundation felt the need of sibly merge with it, or at least pattern our attacking this problem the initiative came organization so that we too can undertake from it to the librarians, rather than the more projects of value and imagination?" customary procedure from the library associa- To the above people and to others not tions to the foundation. quoted who responded in similar vein our This unusual procedure is indication that committee is grateful. These various ideas the time is long overdue for ACRL, which, and reactions lend validity, we believe, to we emphasize, is now the Association of Col- our analysis of associational functions and lege and Research Libraries, to come to needs. grips with this entire gargantuan problem. It can do this more effectively than any other AREAS OF GREATER NEED agency, because more than any other as- Of all the problems and needs listed above sociation it is composed of libraries and li- we single out and stress one particularity, brarians directly concerned with these prob- as follows: Assume leadership in, conduct lems and because it is in membership, activ- studies of, seek funds for solution of the ities, and deliberations, open to all research problems of controlling the massive litera- libraries and librarians, and its actions, pro- ture of our times. grams, policies, and projects are subject to This problem, and this need, come closer evolvement and execution in open discus- to "bigger things" and "areas of greater serv- sion. For these reasons, among others, we ice" than anything presented in this anal- recommend that the University Library Sec- ysis. It is an all pervasive problem, not only tion set up a general Committee on Biblio- of librarianship but of the total civilization. graphical Controls, with sub-committees as It is a problem too, which has, up to this needed, to come to grips with the whole com- point, not been faced up to in any organized plicated and knotty matter. or comprehensive way by any library associa- A rich and waiting field of endeavor can tion. The Association of Research Libraries, be cultivated by a broadly conceived Com- which is not really an association in any mittee on Bibliographical Controls. These comprehensive sense, because its member- are some of the numerous things such a com- ship is restricted to a minority of the re- mittee could undertake: It could study and search libraries of the country has, to its promote the evolution of machine and elec- credit, attacked some facets of this problem. tronic controls. It could organize national This association, which has its roots too in and even international conferences on con- the basic discontent of college and univer- trol, evolve projects for facsimile electronic sity librarians within the ALA, found itself transmission of materials and secure founda-

MAY 1958 251 tion funds for carrying them out, enter the Our monograph series too has been not- knotty field of translations and struggle with ably successful, in content and influence, as and bring more coordination to the prob- well as financially. This series should be lems of duplication in abstracting and in- continued. We see no reason why publica- dexing services as well as the uncovered tions of import to college or research librar- areas. It could develop a new philosophy of ies which may now emanate from other di- exclusiveness and weeding out of the large li- visions of ALA should still not be published braries as opposed to the traditional philos- in this series. Doing this will be one way in ophy of inclusiveness. And it could promote which we can discharge our responsibility studies of the cultural implications of our of "stimulation of the development of li- vast literature. All this and many other brarians and librarianship in college, uni- things it could do with a voice of authority, versity, research, and specialized libraries " subject to open councils, in ways which we Among the over-all suggestions listed have heretofore not had in America. So above is one, the production of a series of many and so important are the things that articles on college and university librarian- await doing that such a committee would ship for publication in the general press, perhaps need sub-committees active in spe- which we feel deserves particular attention. cific fields and areas. In the earlier history of the ALA, around In addition to the above suggestions which the turn of the century, there were a good we put forward as a "bigger thing" the many articles concerned with libraries and problems and needs listed under the assigned librarianship appearing in the general press. areas of responsibility offer a rich field of Articles such as this in the current press, associational endeavor providing that the stressing college and research libraries, their responsibilities are, as we earnestly feel they problems and their contributions could do should be, broadly interpreted. We do not much to increase a general public awareness feel that things which await doing require of our kinds of libraries and the important further spelling out since they are so direct- place they take in the life of the land. We ly implied in the above statement of prob- recommend that ACRL undertake produc- lems. Clearly much needs doing in the areas tion of such articles. of academic status, library staff-faculty re- lationships, standards, buildings, student ori- How WE FUNCTION entation in use of the library, audio-visual While this report is not primarily con- materials, book selection aids, financial sup- cerned with the associational machinery of port of library, and in many other areas. ACRL it does seem to us that the lack of continuity which Dr. Muller notes in his PUBLICATION PROGRAM analysis of ULS is an associational weakness One of the most fruitful parts of the generally. Perhaps it is the machinery and ACRL program has been our publications. possibly it is a failure to make the machinery These, which were assigned first priority in we have work well but there is apparently a 1946 by the Brown committee, have right- hiatus and a lack of liaison between our ex- fully had high priority in the later ACRL isting sections and our Board of Directors. history. They have helped us grow as a pro- Evidence of this is that at Chicago some fession and have improved the quality of section chairmen were not aware that an our work. In College and Research Libraries important committee, such as SCAD, had we have one of the best professional journals been appointed and was functioning. Also in the country, in any field. It is by and of some chairmen came to the board meetings ACRL. It is unthinkable that it should be unprepared for the discussions and business merged with any other more general publi- because they had not been fully briefed on cation. CRL must continue to be ours, pro- the agenda. Some section chairmen too, had duced under our own publication program. had no contact whatsoever with their repre- So produced and published it will continue sentatives on the board. to grow in usefulness and bring added pres- All this seems to indicate that closer ties tige to college, university, and research li- and more direct and immediate lines of com- brarianship. munication between the sections and the

252 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES board are desirable or else that sharper at- possibly, or restricting, in an organization, so tention needs to be given to the association neat and logical on paper, which requires affairs at sectional levels. Our committee has so much synthesis? Does the work of library not studied the functioning of the board associations really lend itself to sharp com- in detail, and its relationship to the sections, partmentation by kind and function? and is therefore not in a position to make There does not seem to be much common recommendations. It does feel though that sense, really, in college and university li- Dr. Muller's point about lack of continuity brarians being drawn into the Library Ad- between ULS and the Board of Directors is ministration Division to compile the statis- well taken. While we do not consider this tics of college and university library use, matter within the charge to our committee which are separate and distinct from other we believe that improvements either in the kinds of library statistics, and chiefly of in- terest to college and university librarians, functioning of the present machinery, or and then to come right back into ACRL, else alteration of the machinery is necessary. where of course the primary interest is, to

SYNTHESIS AND PAROCHIAL POINTS OF VIEW get their findings published. There may be more mutuality of interest between college In the conclusion of the ALA management and university library buildings and other survey there appears the following state- kinds of library buildings, but university and ment: ". . . The American Library Associa- college buildings are still distinctly different, tion appears to be on the threshold of a enough so that there is no special benefit in great opportunity. This opportunity can be builders of other kinds of library buildings met successfully only if there is an elimina- studying them in the minute detail that has tion of divisive tendencies, a de-emphasis of been true in the notably successful ACRL parochial points of view, and a strengthen- building programs and pre- or post-confer- ing of the association's unified capacity to ence meetings and workshops of recent years. fulfill its broad mission. . . ." We may well ask too, what is the special Our committee, in its present analysis, has advantage of a university librarian serving tried at least to subordinate the parochial as chairman of a Library Administration Di- point of view. We wonder though, should vision where, for instance, at least half of all of us in ALA, in all divisions and associa- the matters of finance are not particularly tions, be successful in doing this completely, relevant to his kind of library and the finan- if this in itself may not bring a new kind cial problems he faces. Or, conversely, we of weakness into being, a weakness perhaps may also wonder, who benefits by a public at the opposite extreme of our earlier as- librarian being concerned, in an official as- sociational history. Our five associations and sociational capacity, with the problems of our seven divisions will now be working with college finance. There may be advantages good will to make the new associational ma- we do not perceive in such criss-crossing of chinery effective. May there not, through effort, but from the practical standpoint the hindsight, be at least a small danger, in our benefits of the extensive dispersal of interest new situation, of the cause of libraries and and effort required by the ALA reorganiza- librarianship being so dispersed that it will tion with all its attendant synthesizing, are fall between twelve or more stools? not readily apparent. Let us hope we will A striking thing about the areas of re- not, in the reorganization, merely be jump- sponsibility for the seven divisions and the ing through hoops to comply with a neat five associations is that each of the twelve is paper organization. We make these com- given, as a major responsibility, synthesizing ments not in any sense of destructive criti- the work in all other divisions and associa- cism but only as a frank voicing of the tions of the ALA which are in any way con- doubts which are beginning to assail some of cerned with its particular kind of library us. or type-of-activity. Presumably, since the re- Our young junior, quoted above, has sponsibility for synthesis permeates the whole something, we believe, when he says that ALA structure, much overlapping of work trying to divorce type from function in the is expected. Is there something artificial ACRL is like trying to classify a book both

MAY 1958 253 by form and subject without either being some, possibly, has been such an organiza- subordinate. The answer of the new ALA to tion. It has commanded loyalty and devotion this quandary is synthesis. But how will we from1 many of us and it does have achieve- synthesize? Will we have committees on ments and accomplishments in which we synthesis in each of our twelve parts and can take pride. It is important that, within perhaps one association-wide synthesis com- the reorganization, it be more than ever this mittee to keep our work coordinated? If we kind of an organization. It is important too, do not have committees for synthesis how we hasten to add, that we continue to know will we achieve coordination? These are ques- and feel that in the final analysis ACRL, and tions the committee does not feel qualified for that matter ALA too, are only a means to answer. Answers must be found though to a single end—better and stronger college if the new ALA is to be as successful as we and research libraries, well coordinated with, all hope it will be. and a determining and influential part of, Another aspect of the reorganization trou- the national and world library fabric. Some- bles us, and here the parochial point of view how, through synthesis perhaps, tempered comes to the fore. One of our university li- and spiced with a bit of the parochial view, brarians quoted above says that the type-of- such an organization must be achieved. Our activity divisions are not going to be nearly committee has labored over this report with so interested in interpreting the impact of the intent and the sincere hope that it will the various problems of college and univer- be a small contribution toward achieving sity librarianship as we are ourselves. This is such an Association of College and Research a significant phrase "as we are ourselves." Libraries as a significant and virile part of By "ourselves" he means, of course, college, a greater American Library Association. university, and research librarians seeking We do not consider our findings and the solutions from the college or research point present state of our thinking as in any sense of view. Can we achieve better solutions for final. There will, we believe, be much soul college and university problems in the new searching in the now widely ramifying ALA ALA, by synthesis, or otherwise, than we did for quite a spell as the organization shakes under our old organization? Certainly what down. As a part of the shaking down process we do now will have to be better and more we invite criticism, comments, brickbats, or effective than anything we have done up to bouquets, as the spirit moves, from all who now if the reorganization is to be a success. ponder these things, in the interests, not of There is, after all, something to be said a neat paper organization but of stronger for the parochial point of view. It is a human libraries and better librarians. It will be most and natural instinct to want to belong to helpful if we can have reactions of this kind something that one feels himself a part of, well in advance of the San Francisco Con- to which he establishes loyalties and in the ference.—Special Committee on Activities success and achievement of which he takes Development. William H. Carlson, Chair- pride. ACRL, unsatisfactorily in the eyes of man.

ACRL Secretary Promoted

RICHARD B. HARWELL, executive secretary of ACRL, has been ap- pointed associate executive secretary of ALA. This is one of three new administrative positions approved by the ALA executive board in 1957 as a part of reorganization. Mr. Harwell's primary duty will remain that of executive secretary of ACRL. In addition he will undertake at ALA Headquarters the responsibility of coordinating the work of a service unit composed of a group of divisional offices.

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