Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XX.3

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Citation Williams, Edwin E. 1972. Notes on the Harvard Libraries - Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XX.3. Harvard Library Bulletin XX (3), July 1972: 337-341.

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RE1'1 REJ\1l:Nl'S Hild a E. Con Ian has retired s Jn t er.library Loan Librarian in the f I ar,,ard Col- lege Li lJrn ry after forty-eight y cars on the staff. 1\1iss Con Ian j oi n ed the Widener Orculation Department h1 l924i subsequently headed the Periodical

Room for a nu111bcrof years 1 and had been in charge of i[1ter1ibrary loans since l 960. Helen E. lloney~ Head of the Cata]ogue Dep~rttncnt of Baker J_,ibrary at the Graduate Schoo] of B usin c.ssAd nlin istra tion, has re dred after t\ven t y-d ght years at HntV"ardr ~\1iss I-Ioney C:ltTIC to the vVidcncr Catalogue IJepattrnent in r 944 fro n1 ConncctI cut Uni \'C rsity and ,vent to Il aker Library th c f oUo\\.~ing year~ Helen D. lfTlf/nrd his retired as Curator of the Theatre Collection jn the Harvard CoHege Library, a posirjon she had he]d for t\ve1Ye years. Before con1in g to the I _.ibrary. l\1iss \Vil lard had b ecn associ atc

Orn ER p ERSONNF.L CHANGES H. Gordon. Hecha1111nh~s resigned as As.sodate U nivcrsity Librnrian for Re- .sourcesand Acquisj ti o ns and i\1 cn1 be r of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order to go to the \ 1 i rgi ni a Polytechnic I nsti tu Le and Sta tc Uni vcrsi ty of Vi r- ginia a r Blacksburg as Assist3 n t Di rector for Te chnica l Scrv j ccs. 1\1Ir. Be chanan c~tnc to the Harvard Libral'y in 1957. As head of the Personnel Office, one of his major con rri bu tions ,v~s d cvd op n1en t of the internship pro gro.ni. Since 1967 he has headed the Departn1cnt of Resources and Acquisitions; he has also be en :H~ti \1 c in Iibra ry a ff =iirs na ti ona.11y, pa rticu !a rl y as a 1ncmbcr of the A meri- can J.. ihrary Association Committee on Accreditation. ]eaune A. Broburg has bcrn appointed C11r~tor of the Farns,vorth and Poetry Rooms jn the Harvard College Library .. She hnd served a-sAssistant Curator since 195 5 under John L. S,;veeney, "\\rho retired i11 t 969., and Professor Robert S. Fitzgerald. Alary van A hshove11Chatfield is no\v Assistant Lihrarian for Technical Ser- \' lees at Ila ke r T.. i bra ry of the Grad u a re Sc boo] of Il u siness Adn1i nistra ti on~ l\1rs. Chatfic]d can1c to the Widener staff as a ref erencc librarian in 1961 and transferred to the reference staff at Baker t\,'O years later. In 1967 she becatne H cad of the Acquisitions De par tn1 en t at Ila ke r and "ra s on leave for 197r-7 2 ,vhile ·completing her ,vork for the i\1.B.A. degree at the Han'c1rd Business SchooL P/Jilip E. Leiubncb bcca1llCAss•smnt University Librarian for Personnel early in 1971. He came to the Departn1cnt of Resources and Acquisitions in the Harvard Co1IcgcLibrary during 1964 and had been Specialist in Book Sc]ection sin cc 1 9 67; during 1 9 70-7 t he ,vas on leave in order to serve as-Assistant L-ibra~ rfa n at Queen Mary Co]lege of the University of London.

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Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) Harvard Library Bulletin A1argm·etKaren Nelson, l\1r~ Leinbachis predecessor as Assistant Gniversity Librarian for Person n cI., resigned in January· 19 7:2 , f ollo,vj i1g l1cr 111arriage to Professor Franldin \:Varren i\1cFnrlan of the Business School. l\.itissNelson came to the Library staff in 1962.and con1pictcd -an internship in 1966; she had been associated ,,,frh the Personnel Office for 1norc than eight years. ]enune T ..l'lev..,.liu succeeds J,1iss ,viJlard as Curator of the Theatre Collection in rhc Harvard Col1ege Library., i\1jss NcYvlin had taug-ht at \ 1i]lanova~ St. John's Univcrsjryi and the City University of Ne,,, \' ork before she came to IrJ:-arvardin 1968 as Assistant Curator of the 'f'he~tre Co1lection. She earned a doctora tc f r

THE JHo)ilROE C. GU"i'l'r.'IA~ L1BRA.RY-RESE.ARCH CENTER

UNTJL 7 February 1972, ,vhcn the J\ilonroc C. Gutman Library-Rcscrirch Center ,vas open cd, the Library· of th c (.;r~ d 11n te Schoo 1 of Education had n c,rcr occupied a building dcs~gnedfor it. :t\lo"1 i af tcr 5 2 yc"rs in itnprovjsed accom-

modations-, it is instal1cd in a very attractive building on Appian ,vayI adjacent to Larsen and LongfelJo,v I~JaHs.'\,l'ith 93 llOO square feet of floor space, the Gutman building comprjses .five levc1s, the first four for the Library and the fifth for faculty office and research faci]ities.

The gfoss and sandbfasted concrete building opened ·\1dthmore than coo1000 volumes asscn1bl cd f ron1 ha if a. dozen seattered lo ca.ti on s. Ano th er 2 5,ooo vol- un1cs \,·ill be transferred fron1 \Vidcner Library oYer the next ns;.•oyears. The

Gu tnrn.n Library a1 so provides sevcra l spcci al co Ucccion s and servicesI includj ng a collection of textbooks from the eighteen.th through the ca.r]y t,,icnticth cen- tury; an I nstruc ti onal R c.so1irces co] lecti on of tea.ching nia.tcria ls; a.n Urban Information Collection on urb:in nnd 1ninority educatiOnj a file of so1ne 4iooo educ:itional tests; n 1'1edia Division ,vith cquipn1cnt and fud]ities for filn1i audio- tape, yj d eotape, and rel 9!t c-dscrv ices; nnd some 60, ooo docu n1en t5, on n1i cro fie h c fro1n the Educational R.-esources Inf onn-ation Center (ER-IC). Also avriilable ,vHl be n1icrofichc and n1icrofi]n1 readers and a coin-operated reader-printer. A recent gift of .,ome Joo motion picture .fihns h!s grc:ltly exp~nded the Library's fiJm ho1dingsa The hu iJding pro v·jdes a large number of study an

than 200 other infor111a] seating and reader spaces." In addition 1• the office floor pro,ddes more than 50 offices for faculty· 1nen1bers·and researchers, along vdth sen1inar, conf erencei atid secretarial space.

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) Notes 011 t!Je Harvard Libraries 3 39 The building is nan1ed for ~1onroc C. Gunnan of the Harvard class of 1905,. a N e1v York invcst1nen t hanker and philan th ropj st ,v ho h-as b ccn a. generous supporter of Harvard for many years. Besides his gifts to the Gutman Library~ his bcnefacdons include the j\1onroe C~ Gutrnan National Scholarships and the Gutman Professorship of Latin-American Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and

Scicnces 1 and support for research on social sb.ldics curriculan1 at the Graduate School of f,ducation. The Schoo] also received a major Federal construction grant under Title II of the Higher Education Facilities Act. The project, ,vhich cost $6,100,oooi incl11ded the moving and restoration of Read nnd Nichols Housesl t,vo historic frame buildings on the site, for use by the School. Benjarnin Thompson and Associ-arcsof Cambridge ,vcrc the archi- tecrn~ 1 ..hc contract for the Gutman building ,,.·as a-\vardcd in February J970 to the Jackson Const ruction Con1 pan y of Need han1., n nd in cl uded a ssu ra nccs of equal en1p]oyn1cnt opportunities for black and other rnh1ority "Torkers on all phases of tllc project.

THE Jo"H:K G. vv·oLBACH L1BRARY AT THE 0BsER\'A'l'ORY

DuRl:"lG February the library of the Harvard College Observatory occupied ne-\,' quarters in the Perkin Building, a ne,v structure designed by the Cmnbrjdge Seven_and built at a c..:ostuf nearly $4,000,000 ,vith the assistance of a grant frotn the Nationnl Science Foundatjon and a fund-raising campaign by the Obsc.rva.tory. The Perkin Building, ,vh.ich houses offices and laboratories as

,veH as the library1 ]inks together all the facilities on Observatory Hill. On the occasion of the 1nove, the Corporation voted to nrime the ]lbrary-for John G. "¼'olbach, a menlber of the T-I:lrvard class of 1948~,vho has- long been jnrcrc:.stedin the Astronon1ical Observatory and ,vas a contributor to its Lui1ding fund. H~rvard's research collection in astronomy has been hou~cd for tnany years in tile Phillips J... ihrury Roon1} nan1ed for Ed,vard Bron1ficld Phillips, ,vho left a major bcq ucst to the ObservRtory in 1849. The auditorium in Ilui]ding D ,vill no, v perpetuate his na n1e as th c Phil 1i ps Audi tori un1.

KRFSS I..... 1 BRA.RY REL •oR.T

EvtnEN"CE that a ]ibrary report can be interesting and readable has been supplied once n1ore by Kenneth E. Carpenter, Curator of the Iuess Library of nusincss and Econotnics at the Harvard Ilusincss Schoo]~ I&JisAnnunl Iiepo,-tfor 1970-7 [ ans\i.·crs, for the staff of a rare-hook library, the questionJ u,vhat do you do, exactly?'' Ii"e ,vritesj in part, as fo]Jo,vs: uAfter re~ding through a bookse1lerls cata1og and noting likely candidates for purchase) a stnfI mcn1ber determines ,vhcthcr I-I-ar,T:irda.Jready has the 'book. If not, ,·vc have to decide ,vhether Harvard ought to have it~ Is the book jmporta.nt: I.Jo\\' does the book fit \\'ith our collection? ls the price dght for this book for Kress? Son1crin1cs extensive checking js required. \'.\1c ,vcrc offered a \ 1ienna, 1 Bor. edition of J G. Fichte"s Der geschlossne H andelsstaflt. Although the first edition of 1 800 ,vas here,. ,ve " 1 a n ted this one· if the phi los-

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) 34° Har-vardLibrary Bnlletin opher had revised it. This incant a trjp to '\\ 7idener to check ll'jchte 1s cor- respondence.. The I 801 edition ,vas not 1nentioncd thcrc:i-hut it ,vas fl lso not ci tcd an y,v here else not in the recent bi b1iograph y of Fie 11teor other 1na j or bibiio gra phi es.. So ,ve bought the book, b eca u sc it con tributes to our k no,v l- edge of the tra nsm i ssion of th c grc:1t philosopher's thoughtT \\ 7 e then notj fied the editors of the ne,v ·edition of Fichte at the Bavarian Acadcn1y of Sciences; this c diti on "\Vasu nkn o"~n to them .. u.lf our order r~aches the bookseller first, before the books ,ve ,vant are sold~ they arrive in a n1onth or uvo. 'J'h~n it seems like Cbrism1as., regardless of the date. After ch-eckjng the hooks to nlake .sure·they are as described.. 1ve start cataloging. For the past nvo years the prc:lin1inary cataloging has been done by l\·lrs. 1'-1ichaelFarn1er ,vho has been very h:ard-,vorking and efficient, She dctcnnincs th c c orrcct name of the a:uth or :and his birth and d cath dates, transcribes the tit1e and in1print and dcscrihcs the physical book, ie. nun1ber

of pagesi plates, rnaps 1 etc.

"Son1etimes this process is quite sin1ple1 because the author i5 1ve]l linov ..,n 1 and the book gppcar.s in standard bib1iographies~ such often sccn1s to be the exception rather than d1c role. Econon~ic pamphlets are apt to be by Jittle-kno,vn authors or anonyn1ons and ar-c not jnfrcquently hsued ,vithout date of puhlication. 1".ime·and the Ia,v of di1ninishing returns generally put lin1its on our c ff o rts to out~ in complete cataloging inf orn1a ti on, hut son1ctilll es p ersistenc ci kno\\' ledge of so me obscure ,vo rk, or p 1a in 1uc k leads to ans,v crs......

uAftcr identifying the authnr 1 date 1 etc. 1 and describing the book physically, one has to assign the subject he[ldings under "\,·htc::hcards ,vil1 be nlcd. A c~rd

is typed by another as.sfatant1 i\1rs. Richard J\1cC1intock, ,vhose accurate atten-

tion to de~ail is invaluable. After checking the fina] typed card 1 it is repro~ du ccd, the vnriou s: headings are typed on, and th c cards arc sorted for our catalogt the Union Catalog in l\ 1idener, ::.nd the National Union C:it:ilog at the Li bra ry of Congress. The filing of cards in our catalog must be chec kc d. Throughout the en ti re process the greatest p ossib Jc accuracy nl us t be n1a in- t~ incd. This is tru c of a 11 ]i b rarics, for errors or n1isfiled c:ards breed others and can also lead to the outlay- of funds for duplicates. uAfter the book has been cataloguedt it goes to a .student assistant, this past year ·J\1issDiana -Post1etlnvaite:i-a Radc1iffc senior. She puts in a bookplate, oils leather hindingsj mends any tearsl and finally shelves the book. , , .. ''\Vhcn users do not -a~k::i p~rticular questiont one often has to determine ,vhethcr the person really l

''Partly ,vith this purpose in vie,v1 the student assjstant~ especially,. has been annotating certain bibliographies to indicate ,\•hich books are in }{ress. One result has been more ,vork for all of us. The bibliographer often has information that ,1,as not available to us at the time a book ,vas catalogued. For instance, hu ndred:s of iterns need to b c rcca ta 1o gucd hcca use I_.. W, Hans on,

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) Notes ou the Harvard Libraries 34 1 Co11te111poraryPriuted Sources for British and Irish Eco1101J1icHistory! 1701~ 1750 ( r 963) has often identified the author of ~n ~nonyn1ous \Vork. or dflterl more accurate]y an undated itcrn+ Correcting and recataloging them is no luxury for a Jihrary Jikc Kress, but 3 nccessit)\ since our bibliographic~l jn- f onn ation .is rcli cd on.

H \~le a Iso ha vc rec ata login g resu 1ting from tra nsf erring l~no k~ f ro1n Bak er or ,~videner .... :F·orinstance! ,ve found thnt \X/idcncr had 3n a11oyn1ouspam-

ph]ct from 18471 ,vhich \,'as by Daniel Le Grand, the first ad\roc'1te of in- ternational lcgjsbtion for the protection of \\·orkers. Since ,,·e had just ac- quired three of his exc.:-eed•ng]yrare pan1phletsi ,ve felt it best to transfer this one -the n1ure so since it nnd one of the purchases arc not recorded by the biographer of Le Grand or listed in the Bib1iothcquc Nationa]eis carnlog+ ''Co1npcting for tin1e and attention are seveTal thousand titles of the origiofll Fox,vcll Collection ,vhich :are yet to be catalogued. This bac1dog of ,\·orks published benveen 1850 and I 900 n1ust ~0111cho,v be recorded nd made rn1ail- able to scholars.,' T,·vo fello,\•ship progran1s~ 1,1:r. c~rpcntcr rcportsi have been supported by the Kress Foundation~ R'\:hibitions of the year included one on Lgtin An1erican holdings, prepared ,;,vith the assistance of i'\·1rs. James P. Haughn1an, one on 450 years of ad\·Ocacy of decimal coinage (apropos of the Ilritish change-

over),, and one on Gcnnan husinc.,;;sand econo1nic 1ircrature 1 1500-1800. spon- sored joint1y ,vith the Gcnnan Center of Boston and prepared \\'irh the help of Prof cssor Fritz R cd lichr Fu rt her st-aff a cri vi ti es inc] u dcd pub li cations, plan- ning. concinui~g professional development, and the Curator's ,vork as 8 n1en1bcr of the University Library Study Comrnittee on Professional Library Personnel

Final 1y ! lvJr. Carp enter rcco r

Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XX, Number 3 (July 1972) CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

ivfARCIA ALLENrucK, Associate Professor of Fnglish and Comparative Literature at The Ot:y College of the Chy University of Ne,v York and Senior Research Fello,v 1n L-'1ndscapc Architecture at Dumbarton Oaksi Horvard University· ( 19i 2.-197 J) i contributed u1,1axman and Klopstock; A N C\V Letterti to the J ann:lry 197r issue of the HARYARD LIBRARY IluLLETIN; her dissertation at Colun1- bia ( 1964) ,vas on Henry Fuse]i.

/vlRs.IlAYARA ARourul"l~OVA is J..,ecturer on Sfa.\:rjcLanguages and Literatures at Har,rard. Her Radcliffe dissertation ( 1958) ,vas on HLinguistic and Stylistic Prohk1ns of,,,. ord Order in 1'1'odcroRussian.">

ZBI GX IE, v BRzEztN SJ{ 1 is }lrof essor of Pnbl ic L:1,v and Government and Director of the Research Institute on Con1n1unist Affairs at Colmnbfa.University. His many articJcs and books include Between Two Ages: An1ericn'sRole in the 11 echuetronic Er«, ,vhich -.1taspublished by \Ti king in J 970.

Noni\IAN S~ F1r::.tH:t-;Gearned his doctonllc at Columhia and taught at Stanford for .several years prior to r 969, ,v hen he ,vent as u F c]I o,v to th~ I nsti tu te of E~r]y _A.mcrican I-Jistory and Cul turc at "''iHiamsburg, \i'irginia; he is no\v Edi tor of Pu bl ica ti ons ~t the I nsti tu te~

PAUL A. FREUND came to the Harvard faculty in 1939 after some years of government serYicct and has been Carl 1\1.. Loeb University Profc.ssor since 1958. Atnong his many pub]ic:itions is On La~v and Justice (Harvard Uni1-•cr- sity Press, 1968).

l\.1ARYI-IYDE,. -author and collector, collaborated ,vith her husbandi the late Donald F. Hydci on several books and articks and in forming the private Jibrary of ,,rhich the I{arv~rd Co Hege Library pu b]ished a thrcc-volun1e cata]ogue in 1965: Catalogui Bibliot/Jecae Hydein11ae; T/Je:Hyde Collection of the -J,JTorks of SmnuelJobnson, comp~ by J. D~ Flcen1an

RoJ\.IAN JAKonsoK js Sann1e1Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, En1e-ritu1iat I-Jar\'·ard and Instirurc Professor at the 1\1:assa.chusetts Institute of Technology.. He is a prolific author in several languages, and h-as been honored by Fcstschriften pub]ishcd .in 1 956! 1967 ( 3 vo]s.) i and r 968.

PATRICK GREIG Scon is a 1nernber of the Department of English J... iterature at the l.Tnbrer,i;;ityof Edinburgh; his published ,vorks include Te1111yson'sEnoch A rd c11:A 11 i ctor ian Rest-Se fl et, ,v hi ch \Yas ed by the Tenny son Soci cty in 1970.

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