Brief of Minutes, Association of Research Libraries, January 26, 1952, Io-wa City

HE 38TH meeting of the Association of In further discussion, it was revealed that T Research Libraries was held in Iowa approximately I 7,000 books had been received City, Iowa, on 1anuary 26, I952, in connec­ by Farmington Plan libraries during the past tion with the dedication ceremonies for the year, of which at least so% would not have new library building at the State University come into the country without the Plan ~ No of Iowa. Three sessions were required for extension of the Farmington Plan to new the 38th meeting of ARL, all being held m countries was authorized, although the Com­ the historic Old Capitol building. mitte-e on National Needs proposed to suggest certain "critical areas" for future considera­ FIRST SESSION tion, as, for example, South East Asia. Coun­ Newspapers on Microfilm tries included in the Farmington Plan at A new edition of Newspapers on Microfilm present are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bo­ was reported in progress. The original I948 livia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, edition was published by ARL.1 The new Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, edition is to be published by the Library of Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. Congress and will be based in part upon the SECOND SESSION records accumulated in the Microfilming Clearing House at LC. Mr. Schwegmann of Manuscripts, Copyright, etc. LC plans to complete the editorial work be­ Mr. Rice of NYPL raised a question on the fore 1une 30, I952. implementation of the "Report on the Use of Manuscripts" (see C&RL 1an. I952, p. s8- Farmington Plan 6o) which 'led directly to a discussion on The Farmington Plan, whereby ARL mem­ literary rights and copyright. The Executive bers in cooperation seek to get into the country Secretary, Mr. David, reported that he had and have centrally recorded one copy of each referred to the, National Historical Publica­ book of research importance, was presented tions Commission the problem of perpetual by Mr. Metcalf. He recalled that after the literary property rights. last two meetings he had been directed to Mr. Coney of California then referred to prepare a simplified classification that might· the need for a better understanding of copy­ be used for a concentration of Farmington right and the rights of libraries or scholars to receipts among some 25 large libraries. His make copies of copyrighted material. Mr. investigation of this problem not being com­ Shaw of the Department of Agriculture sug­ plete, he was asked to continue the study. gested that the issue related primarily to the A thorough discussion followed on the private use of materials, a use outside the problem of so-called "minor languages," and scope • of copyright. Private use of copies is whether materials from "minor language" permissible but cannot, of course, include re­ countries should be distributed according to publication rights or public uses. subject classification (the original concept of With respect to manuscript materials, it 'the Farmington Plan) or whether, because was noted that the courts have to date held of language and cataloging difficulties, these that publication takes place when the material materials should be sent to a single library. has been placed in a public institution. When The suggestion to handle materials in some the person who sells or gives the manuscript to of the less widely read languages by ignoring a library is also the owner of both property the subject classification was rejected. and literary rights the manuscript is published and the library is free to use it in any way 1 On sale for $2.00 by Dr. C. W. David, University f Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. it wishes. But under these decisions, when

JULY, 1952 253 the owner of a manusc,jpt does not own the Policy on the Interlibrary Lending literary property he has no right to publish of Microfilm it by giving or selling it to a public institu­ The Committee on the Interlibrary Lending tion, and if the literary property does not pass of Microfilm favors a liberal policy of micro­ to the library with the manuscript the library film lending. The principal provisions of would continually be violating the common law such a policy are set forth below. It should literary property in such a manuscript by be borne in mind that any one provision listed making it publicly available. below is subject to the limitations implied in the other provisions. Publication and Recording of Dissertations 1. The conditions of loan set forth in the Mr. Ellsworth of Iowa presented a report proposed revision of the ALA Interlibrary for his committee which stressed (A) that all Loan Code under Part I: Principles and doctoral dissertations be published, (B) that Policies should apply to the interlibrary lend­ micropublication was suitable, and (C) that ing of microfilm. Specific reference is made abstracts be made periodically available. The in Part I of the Code to the purpose, responsi­ report then recommended that ARL members bilities, expenses, and duration of interlibrary join an enlarged Microfilm Abstracts pro­ loans. gram, with participation possible on different 2. Positive microfilm should be lent freely levels, according to the method in which micro­ and without restriction. publication was handled. In support of the 3· Negative microfilm should be lent pro­ committee report, Mr. Ellsworth remarked vided the lending library owns the original, on the desirability pf using an existing organi­ or has easy access to the original for re­ zation (University Microfilms) and an exist­ photographing, and provided the original is ing abstract journal, particularly as they as­ not so fragile that re-photographing would sured speedy publication and bibliographical damage it. Extreme care should be exercised control. In the discussion that followed, the in handling negative microfilm. costs of the Microfilm Abstracts service were 4· Microfilm of manuscript material owned sharply attacked. The program was also seen by another library should not be lent without to be, in a sense, a duplication of Doctoral the permission of that library except in in­ Dissertations, a successful ARL bibliography stances where it is quite obvious such permis­ for many years. A motion to adopt the report sion is unnecessary. The use of such material was carried, however. An investigation was should be subject to the conditions imposed also asked for a cumulative index to Doctoral on the borrowing library by the rerort of the Dissertations. Committee on the Use of Manuscripts. 5· The requesting library is required to Safeguarding Library Mat e-rials in the Event name in the first application for a loan of of War microfilm the type of microfilm reading equip­ ment it has available for use. Microfilm Mr. Rice of NYPL stated that a committee should be restricted for use in the building of the CNLA is at work on this matter and where suitable equipment and supervision are that suggestions for local action will soon be available for its use. forthcoming. 6. The minimum unit of loan will be one reel. Not more than four reels should be Exports to Russia -and Other Countrie/Under requested at one time. ' Communist Control Upon motion, the report was adopted as a statement of policy. Recent relief granted by the Department of Commerce permitting licensed exportation has made committee study and action unneces­ THIRD SESSION sary. Princeton Statistics

Microfilm Lending Discussion on the stattsttcs annually as­ sembled and distributed by Princeton was led Mr. Lyle of Louisiana presented a report by Mr. Heyl. It was· agreed that the annual for his committee, as follows: report should hereafter be arranged alpha-

254 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES betically and should include only those colleges Publication of the National Union and universities having membership in ARL. Catalog, etc.

Committee on Bibliography Mr. Clapp of LC described the project, soon to begin, of filming the Union Catalog Mr. Shaw of USDAL presented a brief as a security measure. various proposals report describing the approach to the problem have also been made in recent years for the of entry and abbreviation in Chemical A b­ publication of the Union Catalog in printed stracts, the reversal of Biological Abstracts' form. Preliminary studies on cost and form policy which resulted in sections of BA be­ have been made by LC. The possibilities of coming available again on library -subscription, publication are now ready for study by a joint and a proposal for a research grant in biblio­ committee of national library organizations. graphic communication. LC has also started work which will extend the Slavic Union Catalog (a separate part of Committee on Serials the National Union Catalog) to include sub­ Mr. Brown of Iowa. State Coilege intro­ ject and title cards. The expanded Cyrillic duced the report of his committee by remark­ Union Subject Catalog will be completed, ing on the increase of journal subscription according to present plans, in 1953. rates. French technical and scientific journals The promotion of UNESCO coupons was may cost so% more in 1952 than in 1951. recommended by an action requesting ALA to English and American prices for scientific submit the matter for ALA Council considera­ and technical journals were estimated to be tion. 25% higher in 1952 than in 1951. The prices for 1953 will be further increased. Fulbright Scholarships The practice of some publishers in charging Mr. Clapp, having been in a position to re­ libraries a rate higher than that charged indi­ view the applications of librarians for Ful­ viduals has been observed by the Committee. bright awards, remarked on the necessity for Some publishers are setting U.S. subscription well-matured and sound project descriptions. rates higher than rates for other countries. He suggested that ARL members concern Strong protests have been made against these themselves with finding good candidates and discriminations. in giving advice on project descriptions. Chinese Importations USBE trnd Non-Trade Publications Mr. David announced that the Treasury Department has been receptive to his request A proposal was made by Mr. Wagman of that 13 libraries be permitted licenses to im­ LC and approved that ARL support the ex­ port Cljinese books. Complete information perimental use of USBE facilities in the pro­ on procedure was expected soon. curement of non-trade publications.

Henry Silver Election of Officers Having learned from Mr. Pargellis of Mr. Miller of Indiana was elected Execu­ Newberry that the ACLS study on publication tive Secretary, replacing Mr. David who had costs and Mr. Henry Silver's good work had served in this post faithfully and efficiently for been terminated, it was moved that a letter five years. Mr. David was elected to the be sent to ACLS emphasizing the services of Advisory Committee, replacing the senior Mr. Silver and the regret of ARL that the member, Mr. P. N. Rice.-R. A. Miller, important study had been discontinued. executive secretary.

Danish Microfilming Project The firm of Arthur G. Hasso in Hellerup, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, Denmark, has announced a microfilming in preparing copies of Danish parish registers, project for complete files of leading Danish census records, military levying rolls, probate newspapers. This firm has been engaged in records, etc. Details may be obtained from the an extensive microfilming project for the firm at 4-10 Sundvej, Hellerup, Denmark.

JULY, 1952 255 Ne\Vs from the Field Bryn Mawr College colle :.: tion by adding later materials as they Acquisitions~ Gifts, has received ·by gift become available. Collections and bequest from The personal papers of the late Henry L. Howard L. Goodhart Stimson have been presented to Yale Univer­ almost one thousand volumes, to form the sity. The vast collection of over. 6o,ooo Marjorie Walter Goodhart Mediaeval Li­ documents covers Stimson's life from his days brary. The collection, which contains numer­ as a student at Andover and Yale, down ous examples from such well-known 15th through his service as Secretary of State in century printers as Aldus, Jenson, John of the Hoover Cabinet, ending in 1933. In Spire, Peter Schaeffer, Stephan Plannk, accordance with the wishes of Stimson, who Zainer, Zel, Ratdolt, Koberger, Koelhoff, graduated from Yale in 1888, the papers were Gui Marchand, Jean Petit, Anton Sort, presented to the university by the Henry L. Sweynheym and Pannartz, and numerous Stimson Literary Trust. others, is particularly strong in theological The personal papers of the late William and philosophical works but includes materials Howard Taft, his father Alphonso Taft, on law, medicine and music as well as con­ and other members of the Taft family have temporary editions of 15th century authors. recently been presented by the former Presi­ Among the authors and titles represented are dent's children to the Library of Congress as Saint Jerome, Eusebius, Gregory I, Bonaven­ a gift to the nation. Part of the papers have tura, Bernard de Clairvaux, Albertus Mag­ been in the library since 1919, when the nus, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Boethius, former President himself deposited them there. Rolewinck's Fasciculus Temporum, Colum­ The collection, consisting of some 5DO,ooo na's H ypnerotomachia Poliphili, Savonarola, items, contains correspondence with figures of Justinian, Caesar, Boccaccio, Vergil, Dante, national importance. Until January I, 1960, Josephus, Petrarch, and Gafurius' P'ractica the papers may be consulted only with the Musicae. permission of the Taft family. Permission Acquisition by the Yale University Library should be requested through the Chief of the of "the most important Americana find in Manuscripts Division of the library. years" broqght nationwide publicity. The A first edition of the earliest American Pequot Library Association of Southport, architectural book written and published in Connecticut, has lent to Yale the collection to the United States has been added to the Co­ which three Southport citizens had contributed lumbia University Libraries. The book, The to the upbuilding. These included papers Country Builder's Assistant, written and pub­ signed by Queen Elizabeth I and Kings lished in 1797 by Asher Benjamin and eontain­ Henry VII and Henry VIII; a set of auto­ ing "new designs in country building and archi- • graphs of the signers of the Declaration of tecture," received wide distribution throughout Independence; Hakluyt's Principal/ N aviga­ the colonies and exerted a profound influence tions, 1589; a printed letter in Latin by Chris­ on the development of architecture in the topher Columbus describing his trip to the United States. In the volume, for the first New World, and John Eliot's 1663 trans­ time, there were designs for specific American lation of the Bible into the Indian tongue. A use which would be executed by builders in fuller account of the "find" appeared in Time, remote areas where architects, as such, were April 14, 1952. not available. The archives and files of the publishing firm Bombed, water-soaked, mutilated, and ten of Henry Holt and Company have been pre­ years late, the last parcel of a gift from sented to Princeton University by the com­ Japan, dedicated to the improvement of pany. Particularly valuable because of the Japanese-American understanding, has arrived extensive author-publisher correspondence at ·the Columbia University East Asiatic represented, the collection promises to be a Library. The delayed gift, comprising more valuable source for 19th and 2oth century than 300 volumes representing the last pre­ literary research. The Holt company has war Japanese thought in the arts, social announced its intention of maintaining the sciences, and humanities, was made to the

256 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES University just prior to Pearl Harbor by the space in the library building, another donor, Nichi-Bei bunka gakkai (The Japanese Cul­ Victor Emanuel '19, gave support. This ture Center of America), which had its head­ made it possible to install air-conditioning for quarters in Tokyo. two floors of stack, provide additional steel The Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, announces shelving, paint where needed, and make the receipt of a substantial bequest from one suitably secure the whole area used to house of its outstanding benefactors, George Nathan the rare books. Newman, who died July 28, 1951. Over a One of Louisiana's better known private period of twenty years, Mr. Newman gave book collections, consisting of more than the library between 30,000 and 40,000 vol­ 3,000 volumes, has been presented to the umes, chiefly' in the fields of art, music, litera­ Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane ture, genealogy, and local history, and 7000 University. The collection, bequeathed to phonograph records. Mr. Newman left the Tulane by the will of the late Mrs. Mary library his house and the contents thereof, Thomas Duncan of Alexandria, La., consists including app oximately 6,ooo volumes, an primarily of historical and legal materials and extensive stamp collection and numerous is especially strong in Louisiana and southern framed prints and pictures. He also left historical volumes. It includes early Louisi­ the library approximately $IO,ooo.oo in ana and southern biographies and journals, cash and an interest in a valuable piece of complete files of several outstanding historical property in the main business district of Buf­ journals, and many standard works on re­ falo. gional history. Of special interest are a letter A Lincoln document which provided one from Edward Livingston, noted Louisiana of the notable "scoops" of newspaper history statesman of the 19th century, several vol­ has been given to the Cornell University umes of newspapers published at Alexandria Library. The manuscript, signed in Lincoln's during the Civil War, and original early 19th hand, is an engrossed copy of his Emancipa­ century legal treatises and manuscripts of tion Proclamation freeing the slaves. Its southern historical interest. acquisition came with a gift of original Lin­ Aimed at preserving the minutiae which coln material from Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas are the key to history, a new division of H. Noyes of Indianapolis. The Noyes gift manuscripts has been started at the Univer­ also includes the original manuscripts of Lin­ sity of North Dakota library under the coln's Congressional message of 1862 on the direction of two University history profes­ abolition of slavery in the District of Colum­ sors. The new division is called the Orin G. bia, and of part of his final speech in the unsuc­ Libby Historical Manuscripts Collection, in cessful senatorial campaign of 1858 against honor of Dr. Libby, who sponsored the organi­ Stephen A. Douglas. zation of the North Dakota State Historical Through the generosity of two alumni, one Society, and for the next forty years of the long-felt needs of the Cornell Uni­ served as its secretary, editor, and principal versity Library has been met by the estab­ contributor to its publications. The collection lishment of a Rare Book and Manuscript of letters, manuscripts, business papers and Department. An alumnus who wishes to similar material concerning North Dakota remain anonymous was inspired by the recent will provide a priceless treasure of source discovery of the long-sought diaries of material for studies of the vivid chapters of Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, the state's history. Recent acquisitions have and encouraged by the fascinating accounts of lreen correspondence of John Burke, g~vernor literary research in Altick's The Scholar Ad­ of North Dakota (1907-1913); papers of verztwrers, to make a gi~t to provide for the Louis Kosuth Church, governor of Dakota first year's operation. Support for continued Territory ( 1887-1889); papers of Samuel operation over a period of years from the Torgeson, Grand Forks banker; letters, docu­ same source has been generously assured. ments and books from ]. M. Gillette, pro­ These funds have been available for the op­ fessor of sociology at the university, 1907- eration and development of the rare book 1950. The library also holds the papers of collection, but not for the provision of Webster Merrifield, president of the Uni­ quarters. versity ( 1891-1909). To meet the need of preparing suitable Brown University Library has recently re-

JULY, 1952 257 ceived a gift of $IOo,ooo from Mr. and Mrs. signed by George C. Henderson, director of John D. Rockefeller, ] r., to establish a me­ the photographic service for the past five morial to Arthur Moulton Allen, a classmate years, the new laboratory is completely fur­ of Mr. Rockefeller. The present Social nished with all modern equipment required Studies Reading Room in the ] ohn Hay to handle work in many fields of photography. Library is to be renamed the "Arthur M. Dedication of the new library of the State Allen Reading Room" and will contain the University of Iowa took place on ] anuary portrait now being painted at Mr. Rocke­ 25 -26. Addresses on the first day included feller's direction, and a memorial plaque. one on "The Student and His Reading" by Dr. Stanley Pargellis of the Newberry Li­ A library institute for in-service brary, and a discussion of the university Curricula training for practicing librarians library's place in teaching and research by will be held at Emory Univer­ Dean E. T. Peterson, director of libraries, sity August 4 to g. The first R. E. Ellsworth, and , Prof. ] ohn E. Briggs. such program offered by Emory since 1939, The second day was devoted tit> seminar dis­ the institute is expected to attract about 50 cussions on: "Human Relations Area Files librarians from throughout the South. Problems," "Library Architecture and Build­ The Chicago Undergraduate Library of ing Planning," "Special Collections and Rare the University of Illinois has replaced its Books," "Library Implications of General Reference Department with an experimental Education Programs," "Micropublication of Department of Library Instruction and Ad­ Dissertations." visement, which maintains very close relation­ The book collection at Southwestern Col­ ships with both the Department of English lege, Winfield, Kansas, was moved into the and the Student Counseling Bureau. (See new library building early in the year. The its mimeographed "Proposal for a New Type new building is a two-story structure, modern of College Library Department," a limited in design. In addition to the open shelf number of copies of which are still available capacity of the reading rooms there are four on request.) levels of stacks. The reading rooms are What are believed to be the first accredited efficiently lighted by using a combination of courses in the work of historical agencies fluorescent ceiling lights and sealed-beam were offered last spring at the Library School spots recessed into the ceiling. of the University of Wisconsin, by the staff The $8so,ooo air-conditioned William Al­ of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. len White Memorial Library on the campus Four courses covered the fields of historical of Kansas State Teachers College of Em­ records including printed records, private poria was dedicated at special ceremonies manuscripts and public archives; historical April 21-22. Modern in design the building museums, sites and restorations; state and is a four-story structure with red brick and local historiography; and the history and stone exterior. Interior features include both administration of historical agencies. Further natural and fluorescent lighting, forced air details may be had from Miss Rachel Schenk, ventilation, large glass areas and no solid director of the Library School, University of part1t10ns. The building has a ground area Wisconsin, Madison; or Dr. Clifford Lord, of 20,000 square feet, outside dimensions ·of director, State Historical Society of Wis­ 142 x 146 feet, a seating capacity of 8oo, and consin, 816 State Street, Madison 6, Wis­ shelving capacity for approximately 200,000 consin. volumes. Brown University has opened The dedication and informal opening of Buildings a new photographic laboratory. the enlarged library building at the University The extensive new quarters of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, took place centrally located on the campus on April 18. are entirely utilized for the work of the laboratory. Formerly located in a small The University of Min­ frame structure at the edge of the campus, Miscellaneous nesota Library has opened the laboratory has now acquired a large a freshman-sophomore li­ three-story building with 22 rooms and brary in an attempt to serve a floor area of over 7000 square feet. De- the undergraduate library needs. This library

258 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES is the beginning of a plan to bring the under­ Fellow in Bibliography for 1952 at the Uni­ graduate closer to the materials he must deal versity of Pennsylvania. In this capacity he with all through college. At the moment the will deliver three lectures on "The Apprecia­ emphasis is on the social sciences. In the tion of Ancient and Medieval Science in the future, however, the humanities and the Renaissance." The lectures will be heard natural and physical sciences will be included. • Oct. 17, 24 and 3 1. They will deal succes­ Everything in the library is pointed at one sively with medicine, philosophy and mathe­ objective, ease of use and withdrawal of matics. books. The Kansas State Teachers College of All the stacks are in the middle of the Emporia announced the establishment of an reading room, open to all parts of the room, annual book award for outstanding contribu­ and students browse through them freely. tion to the field of children's literature at dte The entire book collection in the reading dedication of the new William Allen White room is of the self-service type. The shelv­ Library April 21. The project, to be known ing arrangement is somewhat unique at the as the William Allen White Children's Book university. The major breakdown is by the Award, will be sponsored by the library and main teaching departments served, such as the Kansas State Teachers College Depart­ political science, English, etc. Within each ment of Library Science. The winning group to each book is assigned a circulation author, who will be selected by the school number which also serves as a location sym­ children of Kansas, will receive a medal which bol for the shelf. is to be designed by a Kansas artist. Plans At Brooklyn College Library lists of new are to make the first award in the autumn acquisitions are being prepared by using of 1953. IBM, the M ultilith machine, and punched Controlling interest in the British Book cards. The cards, punched for new books Centre, New York, has .been purchased by as they arrive in the library, are first ar­ Captain I. R. Maxwell, managing director of ranged by subject on an IBM sorter. Simpkin Marshall Ltd., the British book They are then run through and IBM account­ wholes·alers. He has announced a vigorous ing machine which transfers the punched in­ expansion program which is expected to alter formation in list form to a Multilith stencil the entire character of British book distribu­ at the rate of 6o titles per minute. The time tion in this country. and labor saved by utilizing machines will Projects planned for the Book Centre are make it possible to issue a list of new books the est'ablishment of an international depart­ each month. ment which will maintain stocks and accept Cornell University has announced the crea­ orders for any foreign publication, a maga­ tion of a central university archives to col­ zine subscription department, a publishing lect and preserve its historical records. For de·partment for scholarly and non-fiction titles a first task, the archives organization will (also published by other firms abroad) and assemble and catalog historical material which the creation of a British Book Club to dis­ is already at the university in the collection tribute monthly selections chosen by an Anglo­ of regional history, the university library American board of judges. itself and elsewhere. The agency will also The British Book Centre in New York establish a procedure for screening records was originally established by B. T. Batsford being discarded by various university offices. in 1949. The new president of the BBC is It will go beyond the campus to seek addi­ · Albert Daub, former secretary, director and tional material from alumni, other individuals general manager of Stechert-Hafner, Inc. and and additional sources. Both the archives of the Hafner Publishing Company. Ronald and the collection of regional history will Freelander continues as executive vice-presi­ be placed this summer in the new Albert R. dent, and Kenneth MacKenzie as secretary­ Mann Library being completed for the State treasurer and sales manager. Colleges of Agriculture and Home Eco­ The Hon. W. W. Astor, Ronald Tree and nomics. Walter Pierre Courtauld, who had interests Dr. George Sarton, emeritus professor of in the Dunstead Trust and the Centre, con­ the history of science at Harvard University, tinue as minority stockholders. has been appointed the A. S. W. Rosenbach On the fiftieth anniversary of the publica-

JULY, 1952 259 tion of The Virginian, May 1952, the Uni­ opening of the exhibit and has been accepted versity of Wyoming Library opened a for publication by the Bibliographical Society memorial exhibition in honor of the book of America for its Papers. that has become known as the greatest novel of the West that America has yet produced. • Professor Edwin T. Martin, Over forty different editions and printings Emory University, is the au­ Publications of the novel were on display along with many thor of ThQmas J e/ferson/ other interesting items including the original Scientist, a publication of manuscript of four chapters of the novel, Henry Schuman (New York, 1952, 289 p., given to the University of Wyoming Library $4.00). Professor Martin has prepared a recently by the members of the Wister careful and interesting story of Jefferson's family; two story book dolls representing the role in science, a story which has never Virginian and Molly, given by a friend to before been assembled in just this way. Other Mr. and Mrs. John Hicks when they were volumes recently released by Henry Schuman married in 1906; several unpublished Wister include Doctors in Blue: The Medical His­ letters; many photographs of the author; a tory of the Union Army in the Civil War, photostat copy of Owen Wister's first pub­ a study based on surgeons' reports, inspectors' lished story "Down in a Diving Bell" which observations, soldier narratives and other appeared in H ora Scholastica for November source materials, by George Washington 1873, the school paper of St. Paul's School, Adams (235 p., $4.00); The Quest for Concord, N. H., etc. Utopia, by Glenn Negley, an anthology of The occasion was also celebrated by present­ 33 imaginary Utopias, So per cent of them ing a one-half hour radio program over the hitherto unavailable ($6.75); and Elijah local radio station, KOWB, about The Vir­ Jordan's Business Be Damned, a critique of ginian and its author, Owen Wister. The American business in its relations to the broadcast included a thirteen minute record­ nation's industry, its political and legal struc­ ing of an interview between Owen Wister's ture, and its cultural order. daughter, Mrs. Walter Stokes, .and Luther Two new titles in the Barnes and Noble Evans, Librarian of Congress. The song College Outline Series recently received are Ten Thousand Cattle Straying, written by Readings in Sociology, edited by Alfred Mc­ Wister for the drama version was sung on Clung Lee (439 p., $1.75), and An Outline this program by a member of the Music of International Relations, by George B. de Department of the University of Wyoming. Huszar and Alfred De Grazia, Jr. (339 p., Two books have been published by the $1.50). The Lee volume contains 50 read­ University of Wyoming Library Associates ings prepared by 56 social scientists. The to help commemorate the first fifty years of Huszar-De Grazia volume includes materials The Virginian. One book is entitled, My dealing with the United Nations and other Father, Owen Wister by Frances K. W. international organizations. Stokes and The Letters Written by Owen The Library Association (London) has Wister to his M oth eor during his First Trip issued The London Union List of Periodicals: to Wyoming in r885. These letters were not Holdings of the Municipal and County Li­ known until recently and they contain much braries of Oreater London, edited by new, valuable information about Owen Wis­ K. A. Mallaber and Philip M. De Paris ter's first visit to Wyoming. The other book (1951, 216 p.) and the Subject Index to consists of Owen Wister's letters from the Periodicals, I950, general editor: T. Rowland Western History Department of the Univer­ Powel (658 columns, price £s.s.o.). Two sity of Wyoming Library and was published new Library Association pamphlets were pub­ on the Southpass Press, one of the oldest lished in February: no. 9, County Library presses to come into Wyoming and now put Transport, A Report of the Transpo,rt Sub­ back into operation by the University Library. Committee of the County Libraries Section, Both of these books were released at the time edited by F. A~ Sharr ( 64 p., price 7s.), and of the opening of the exhibition. no. 10, The State as Publisher, a Librarian's A paper, "Fifty Years of The Virginian/' Guide to the Publications of His Majesty's was given by N. Orwin Rush, Director of Stationery Office, by Sidney Horrocks (32 p., tl:le University of Wyoming Library, at the price ss.). The Sharr pamphlet is based on a

260 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES I950 study of the use of bookmobiles by Eng­ duction, Dr. Lawrence C. Powell, librarian, lish county libraries and includes extensive reveals the materialization of an idea which data on types of vehicles used and on operat­ he had jotted down years before in a ten­ ing methods. Mr. Horrocks' brief guide pro­ cent notebook: a research center of special vides a convenient, clear account of the kinds materials for UCLA. The attractively of official publications issued by the British printed pamphlet contains the following ad­ government, their history, purpose, and pres­ dresses: "Rare Books and Research in the ent characteristics, together with information Humanities," by Majl Ewing; "Remarks on about indexes and guides to them, suggestions Rare Books," by Henry R. Wagner; "The for arranging them, and an "interim code" Collector of Rare Books," by George L. for cataloging them. Harding; . "Rare Books and Research in His­ The American Council of Learned Societies tory," by 1ohn Walton Caughey; "Rare has issued a critique of the report Education Books in a University Library," by 1ames T. and National Security, issued by the Educa­ Babb; and "The Prevalence of Riches," by tional Policies Commission of the National Neal Harlow. All librarians should enjoy Education Ass·ociation of the United States, this contribution to the literature of book the American Association of School Ad­ collecting and research. ministrators and the Executive Committee Early English Books at Georgetown has of the American Council on Education. This been prepared by 1ohn Alden, assistant li­ brief (5 p.) statement emphasizes the im­ brarian at Georgetown University, in an portance of educational programs in the social effort to remedy the unavoidable omission of sciences and the humanities in a national Georgetown's holdings from Bishop's Check­ security program and suggests that the orig­ list of American Copies of "Short-Title Cata­ inal report did not give sufficient recognition logue" Books. While the number of titles to them. The Winter I952 number of the recorded is not large, of five no other copy A CLS Newsletter ( v. 3, no. I) is devoted is to be found in the United States; of eight to the annual report of the executive director, others only one other copy is recorded; and Learning, the Study of Man. of eleven, only two other copies are known Columbia University Press has published in this country. A few copies are available two important reference titles, The Columbia for free distribution to institutions and indi­ Lippincott Gazettee

JULY, 1952 261 Two more of the Library of Congress eludes all points of view. Books, pamphlets, "Departmental and Divisional. Manuals" have and articles included give information on the been published: .No. I9, "Disbursing Office" country, the people, the history, and political, and No. 20, "Order Division." Order from economic, social and cultural aspects. of all Card Division: No. I9, 40 cents and No. 20, regions and countries throughout the con­ 45 cents. Other recent Library of Congress tinent. Informal annotations seek to inter­ publications include a new edition of Library pret the issue rather than the individual pub­ and Reference Facilities in the Area of the lication. This guide is a counterpart to a District of Columbia, prepared jointly by the survey on Europe compiled by the European Washington chapter of the Special Libraries Affairs Division in I950. It also marks the Association and the Library of Congress (4th first entrance of the University Press into ed., I952, I53 p.), and Motion Pictures, the book publishing field. I9I2-I9J9 (1256 p., 1951, $I8), the first pub­ The 27th edition of the Blue Book of r6mm lication in the cumulative series of the Cata­ Films recently issued by The Educational log of Copyright Entries. This catalog lists Screen (I 72 p., $r.so) describes more than by title 5 I, I I 2 motion pictures registered for 7000 non-theatrical films available for use by copyright between I912 and I939 and includes schools, churches, industrial and community a name index and a series list. This basic organizations. Full data is given on sound, reference volume has been widely reviewed color, length, TV rights, original source and and favorably received in both professional chief ~ational distributors. The basic ar­ and non-professional journals. A supple­ rangement is by subject with an alphabetic mentary volume covering the years from I940 index to facilitate location of films by title. to I949 is being prepared. These two volumes The Microcard Foundation, Middletown, and subsequent semiannual issues of Motion Conn., has issued No. 8 of The M icrocard Pictures and Filmstrips in the regular series Bulletin (February I952). This issue is the of the Catalog of Copyright Entries will con­ "Third Annual Consolidated Catalog of stitute a comprehensive bibliography of United Microcard Publications," and includes the States motion pictures from I912 to the works available from I9 different publishers. present. Titles are arranged by Dewey classification Three new features have been added to numbers. Among the titles listed are the Maps and Atlases, part 8 of the Catalog of first 50 volumes of the Library Journal and Copyright Entries, the only comprehensive C. H. Melinat's thesis, "The Administration guide to the non-governmental output of of Interlibrary Loans in American Libraries." maps and related materials in the United Two charts useful for permanent library States. The new sections which appeared for display have been published by the Van the first time in the January-June I95 I issue, Allyn Institute, P.O. Box 227, Burbank, Cali­ published early in March I952, are an index fornia. The Librarian's Visual Aid Chart, by area and subject, a publishers' directory, available in three sizes and in single or full and a list of renewal registrations. color, is a schematic diagram of the Dewey The February 1952 issue of the Library Decimal Classification which can be utilized of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current as a guide-chart to shelving arrangements in Acquisitions includes two articles on Alfred a particular library. A World's Great Books Whital Stern and the collections of original Chart ( I7" x 22") illustrating in chrono­ Lincoln materials he has given to the national logical order I I 7 great books and giving a library. concise description of what each book is The University Press of Washington about is available in one color at $2 .50, or in (D.C.) has published Introduction to Africa,· full color for $s.oo. Other library aids ob­ A Selective Guide to Background Reading, tainable from the Van Allyn Institute include prepared in the European Affairs Division of a filmstrip on teaching the use of the Readers' the Library of Congress European Affairs Guide (40 frames, $s.oo) and a full-color, Division (237 p., $1.75). Intended as a I4-minute, I6mm sound film, Keys to the guide to background reading for general Library. The color film is priced at $120, readers rather ·than for scholar-specialists in but black-and:..white prints are available at African. study, the selection aims to present $6s. a well-rounded, balanced picture which in- Readings in Ethical Theory, edited by Wil-

262 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES frid Sellars and John Hospers (Appleton­ The pressing need for some kind of co­ Century-Crofts, 707 p., $5.00) is a collection operative storage seems apparent from his of important papers and other readings in­ report that 31.8 per cent of all libraries in tended to provide a "balanced and first-hand that area are already critically short of space account of the theoretical controversies that and that within two years, acute shortages have developed in ethics since the publication of space will be felt in nearly 64 per cent in 1903 of Moore's Principia Ethica." of the Philadelphia libraries. Hausdorfer's Topically arranged, the selections include figures on the size and composition of library material from the writings of Bertrand Rus­ staffs gives rather detailed comparisons of sell, George Santayana, John Dewey, total staffs and parts of staffs assigned to G. E. Moore, A. C. Ewing, C. D. Broad, major activities within library systems and Sir David Russell and others. A six-page should be of interest to other librarians who bibliography of suggestions for further reading might wish to compare their own staff dis­ is included. tribution with that in other institutions. The Department of State has issued Our The second edition of Lucyle Hook and Foreign Policy 1952 (General Foreign Policy Mary V. Garver's manual The Research Series 56, 78 p., 25 cents) which describes the Paper: Gathering Library Material,· Organiz­ steps which the U.S. government is taking to ing and Preparing the Manuscript has been meet major international problems. This published by Prentice-Hall (85 p., $1.30). summary was prepared at the suggestion of Intended as a handbook for the use of an President Truman to tell the people how undergraduate student who is preparing a U.S. foreign policy is made, what it is, and research paper for the first time, the manual how it works. Copies are obtainable from includes an extensive section on using library the Superintendent of Documents, Washing­ tools, and offers guidance, with examples, for ton 25, D.C. the preparation of a working bibliography, College and university libraries having making outlines, taking card notes, and writing archival and manuscript collections will be in­ the paper. A sample research paper is in­ terested in the Report of the Ad Hoc Com­ cluded. mittee on Manuscripts of the American The External Research Staff of the Depart­ Historical Association which appears in the ment" of State presently is developing a association's annual report for 1950, pt. I, consolidated catalog of non-government re­ p. 64-7 I. The result of a two-year study of search-in-progress in the social sciences on "the arrangement and use of recent large foreign areas and international problems (ex­ collections," this report summarizes current cluding U.S. foreign policy and relations with "good" practices under the headings of ar­ other countries). The catalog is designed rangement, guides, acquisition policies, physi­ to provide a comprehensive guide to research cal protection, qualifications of users and that is not systematically cataloged anywhere restrictions on the use of the content of else in the U.S. It includes both research in manuscripts, facilitation of the use of collec­ progress and research completed but not yet tions, and protection of the _researcher. published. Developed from lists published in In addition to the usual report on the con­ various professional journals, contributions dition of the library, the .11 nnual Reposrt of from individuals and groups who recognize the librarian of Temple University for the value of having their research reflected in 1950/51 includes some interesting statistics the catalog, and from personal contacts of on space available for the growth of library members of the External Research Staff, the collections in the Philadelphia area and com­ catalog is limited primarily to the research of parative data on the size and composition of university faculties and graduate students. the library staffs in twenty college and uni­ Begun in March 1951, the catalog now re­ versity libraries. Compelled to seek some cords approximately 2000 research projects solution to the overcrowding in Sullivan Li­ underway or completed. Information in­ brary, Mr. Hausdorfer undertook a study cluded in the catalog is available to any of library stack space available for expansion scholar who can use it, and the External in other libraries in the Philadelphia metro­ Research Staff, Room 602, State Annex No. politan area to determine whether other in­ I, Department of State, Washington 25, D.C., stitutions might not have a similar problem. invites all scholars to contribute information

JULY, 1952 263 on their own research. Thirteen of the re­ been operative since the First World War. search lists planned by the staff have been The Junior College Directory, 1952, con­ published, each dealing broadly with the taining the latest official information on junior research concerned with some particular geo­ colleges in the United States is available from graphic area. Periodic supplements are the American Association of Junior Colleges, planned to keep the lists up to date. 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Wash­ A H andlist of South African Periodicals ington 6, D.C. Price $1.00. current in December 1951, superseding an Three addresses by Amy Winslow, Clar­ earlier list published in 1946, has been pub­ ence Graham, and Luther Evans are included lished by the South African Public Library in A Symposium in Public Librarianship, (Grey Bibliography No. 5, 54 p., price 3/6). published by the University of California Compiled by C. Daphne Saul, the list is ar­ School of Librarianship ($1.25). These lec­ ranged by subject and is provided with a title tures were delivered at the Berkeley and Los index. Information is given on publishers, Angeles campuses in May 1951 during the price and frequency and the list provides a symposium which was held to commemorate convenient guide to approximately 6oo peri­ the centenary of the American public library. odical publications. Miss Winslow's talk deals with the Enoch St. Catharine Junior College, St. Catharine, Pratt Free Library and its place in the life Kentucky has published The Catholic Book­ of Baltimore. Mr. Graham analyzes the list, 1952, an annotated bibliography of Cath­ potential of new forms of library materials, olic reading chosen to guide the recreational new methods, techniques and devices, and new and instructional reading of Catholics. The concepts of library service in vitalizing public list was edited for the Catholic Library Asso­ library programs, and Dr. Evans discusses ciation by Sister Stella Maris. Copies are the importance of free libraries in building a available from St. Catharine Junior College free world. at 75 cents each. A new one-reel 16mm sound film, Using Wage Policy in Our Expanding Economy, the Scientific Method, has been prepared by a report prepared by the Department of Coronet Films, 65 E. South Water St., Chi­ Education and Research, Congress of Indus­ cago, Ill. Available in color ($100) or black trial Organizations ( 6o p., 50 cents), in­ and white ($so), this film presents the scien­ cludes extensive statistical data relevant to tific method in the context of an everyday general trends within the national economy. problem. Beginning with the definition of the A, direct appeal to American business to problem, the story shows the steps in the bring to higher education the added financial procedure: collection of information, forma­ support it requires is the substance of a tion of a hypothesis, the experimental testing memorandum report, Higher Education and of the hypothesis and retesting the results American Business, prepared by the Com­ obtained. A complete catalog of Coronet mission on Financing Higher Education (37 Films featuring descriptions of 423 16mm p., free). According to the commission's sound instructional motion pictures is avail­ report, an additional $200 million in financial able free upon request to the company. support is needed if higher education is not The first number of a new quarterly pub­ to be hurt by inadequate funds. Suggested lication, Southern Asia: Publications in West­ av_enues of support which business corpora­ ern Languages, a Quarterly Accessions List tions might ·explore are discussed and the has been released by the Library of Congress. scholarship program of the Ford Motor Com­ Designed to supplement the Library's current pany Fund is outlined as an example of one accessions lists for Russian and East Euro­ type of support program which is in actual pean materials, the present list is sponsored operation. Columbia University Press has jointly by the Library and the Joint Commit­ published another report submitted to the tee on Southern Asia of the American Council commission, Government Assistance to Uni­ of Learned Societies and the Social Science versities in Great Britain, prepared by Har­ Research Council. Subscriptions at $2.00 per old W. Dodds, Louis M. Hacker, and year, or single copies at 50 cents are avail­ Lindsay Rogers ( 133 p., $2.50). Each of able from the Card Division, Library of these three papers discusses aspects of the Congress, Washington 25, D.C. British government's financial support pro­ gram for British universities which has (Continued on page 272)

264 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

AMES H. RICHARDS, Jr., has been named California at Berkeley, effective July IS , I952. librarian of the Carleton College Scoville He assumes the posi­ J Memorial Library. Mr. Richards assumed tion vacated by his new duties on Douglas W. Bryant, March I, I952, suc­ who has just become ceeding Mrs. Marian administrative assist­ Adams Bryn-Jones, ant librarian at Har­ who has gone to vard. Japan as associate Though Mr. librarian of the new­ Voigt has spent the ly-established Inter­ last twenty years east national Christian of the Rocky Moun­ University. tains, he is a Cali- Mr. Richards is an M elvin J. l/oigt fornian, born in Up- honors graduate of James H. land on March I2, Wesleyan University 1. Richards, Jr. I91 He attended Chaffey Junior College, of Middletown, graduated with a major in mathematics from Conn. During the war, he was instructor, Bluffton College, Ohio, and received a B.L.S. adjutant and classification officer, battery com­ in 1936 and an M.L.S. in 1938 from the mander, and frontline liaison officer. He was University of Michigan. While working twice awarded the Bronze Star Medal, has toward these degrees, he was employed in the the Purple Heart and Army Commendat:on Physics and Astronomy Libraries at Michi­ Medal. After the war, he attended the gan, first as assistant and then in charge. In School of Library Service at· Columbia Uni­ 1938 he became assistant classifier in Michi­ versity where he earned the B.S. degree. gan's General Library, .leaving this position In I947 Mr. Richards went to Earlham in 1942 to accept appointment as director of College in Richmond, Indiana, where he the Library and Publications ReseaTch Depart­ served as library consultant for a year and ment for General Mills, Inc. of Minneapolis. librarian for two years. During this time he There he reorganized the library into an up­ also served on the Action Committee of the to-date technical research service, initiated Indiana Library Association, as secretary of publication of a library research bulletin, and the College and University Libraries Round organized a couricil of Twin City librarians. Table of the Association, and was chairman­ His present position at the Carnegie Institute elect when he left Indiana to be assistant li­ of Technology dates from 1946, when he be­ brarian of George Washington University came librarian and associate professor of in Washington, D.C. library science (promoted to full professor in The Carleton library has collections total­ 19~). In addition to his work at the Insti­ ling more than I55,000 volumes and ranks tute, Mr. Voigt teaches on a part-time basis among the foremost of the trans-Appalachian at the Carnegie Library School in Pittsburgh, college libraries. It is the largest academic and as visiting professor gave a course in library in Minnesota other than that at the scientific documentation at the University of state university. Michigan last summer. Carleton has prospects and architectural He is president of,the Pennsylvania Library plans for a new library building that will Association and the author of a number of better ~eet the college's needs. Preparations articles appearing in professional journals. for this major step in the Carleton library's At present he is preparing for publication two development will assume an increasingly im­ articles based on papers given at recent meet­ portant role in Mr. Richards' work in North­ ings of the American Society for Engineering field. Education, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is well­ ELVIN J. VoiGT has been appointed known as the compiler of Subject H eadings M assistant librarian at the University of in Physics. JULY, 1952 265 O THE DIRECTORSHIP of libraries at the general will find in him a tireless pace setter. T University of Kansas Robert Vosper California's loss is the nation's gain.-Law­ brings varied experience gained on four uni- rence Clark Powell. versity campuses on the Pacific Coast. A NDREW HoRN, the new associate librarian native of Oregon and A at UCLA, is a bona fide product of that a graduate of its Uni­ institution. Following an early bent for his­ versity at Eugene torical study he pro­ (B.A., and M.A. in ceeded from under­ classical languages) graduate status V osper added a through a 1943 Ph.D. Berkeley library de­ in medieval history at gree in I 940, and fol­ UCLA. From there, lowed it with two following an army in­ years' experience in terval, he went to Robert Jl osper order and reference Johns Hopkins as as­ work in the U niver- sistant professor of . sity of California Library at Berkeley. His history I946/47, next move wa down state to Stanford where where his interest in he spent another two years as reference assist­ A ndrecw Horn libraries crystallized ant. to the point that he In 1944 he became head of the acquisitions returned west to enter the School of Librari­ department in the UCLA Library and for the anship at Berkeley. UCLA then called him next eight years he participated increasingly back, and in the succeeding years he has risen in the dynamic postwar expansion of the Los through the library ranks just as effective_ly Angeles campus, being promoted to assistant and rapidly as he had through the History De­ librarian in 1948,· to associate librarian the partment. His first work was in the newly following year, and serving as acting univer­ organized Department of Special Collections sity librarian in 1950/51 during the Librari­ where his academic experience was put to ef­ an's sabbatical leave. During this time Vosper fective use in the development of archival and directed an acquisitions program which saw mss. programs and in the development of an UCLA more than double its size to nearly a acquisitions and use program closely geared million volumes. In his responsibility for ad­ to the needs of graduate.students and faculty. ministering a newly established centrally di­ Thus naturally he succeeded his mentor; Neal rected branch library system, he worked suc­ Harlow, to the Department Headship in 1950 cessively in the fields of engineering, industrial and then to the assistant librarianship in 195 I relations, biomedicine and law. when Harlow left to take over the U. of At UCLA V osper was active also in em­ British Columbia Library. ployee and faculty relationships, serving on As associate librarian he will guide the key committees of the State Employees Associ­ library's . public service program and handle ation, as president of the Phi Beta Kappa budgeting and personnel matters. Mr. Horn chapter, and as director of a Men's Faculty is active in both library and historical societies Discussion Group. The California Library and writes frequently for both groups. Mi­ ' Association and national library organizations crofilming and archival development are spe­ have also benefited fr'om his work on their cial interests; last summer he attended the committees. He also f~und time to father Archival Institute in Washington. four children! His wife, a native of Idaho, was an Oregon classmate. The new assistant librarian at UCLA is Robert V osper's professional strength de­ Gordon R. Williams, recently assistant chief rives from a balanced combination of bookish, of Technical Services at the John Crerar Li­ organizational, and humane interests. He is brary, and during his stint at G.L.S., adminis­ a graceful and persuasive speaker, an imagina­ trative assistant to the chief of Readers Serv­ tive thinker, a fluent and versatile writer. The ices in the University of Chicago Library. Midwest in particular and the profession in Mr. Williams is also a California product,

266 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES with an A.B. and graduate work in psychology management and administration of technical at Stanford. In the UCLA tradition he is a service activities. He has been ass1stmg in thorough-going bookman, with two years' the assembling of materials for a revision of experience at Paul Elder's Bookstore in San The University Library~ by L. R. Wilson and Francisco, part of the time as assistant man­ M. F. Tauber. ager, and then four years as manager of Frarey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Brentano's in Los Angeles, following on naval American Library Association, Association of service. A brief pre-professional stint in the College and Reference Libraries, the Division UCLA library was enough to send him on to of Cataloging and Classification, the New G.L.S., from which he now has his M.A., and York Library Club, and the New York Re­ then back to his new appointment. His several gional Catalog Group. He has served as a talents will be put to use for he will be re­ member of the Division of Cataloging and sponsible for acquisitions and cataloging and Classification Committee on Constitution and for the Branch Libraries, which are domi­ By-Laws and was a participant in the pre­ nantly in scientific and technical fields.-Rob­ ALA Conference Institute at Columbia this ert Vosper. summer on Subject Analysis of Materials. Contributor of a number of book reviews to ARLYLE }. FRAREY has been appointed as­ professional journals, he is a member of the C sistant librarian at Duke University suc­ editorial staff of Co!lege and Research Li­ ceeding the late Robert W. Christ and will bra1·ies.-M.F.T. assume his duties there early in Sep­ ~. LESTER AsHEIM has been appointed tember. D dean of the Graduate Library School of A graduate of Ob­ the University of Chicago. Dr. Ashei"m as­ erlin College, Frarey sumed his duties on worked for several May I, 1952. years as a non-pro­ The new dean re­ fessional assistant in ceived his Ph.D. de­ the catalog depart­ gree ,from the Gradu­ ment of that library ate Library School in prior to entering the 1949. He joined the army in 1942. Fol­ faculty of the Gradu­ lowing four years Carlyle J. Frarey ate Library. School in service with the .Air that year and as­ Force in which he served as a weather fore­ sumed the duties of caster, a public relations specialist, and an dean of students in historical officer, he completed his professional January, 195 I. Dr. Lester A sheim degree at Columbia in 1947, and worked for Asheim holds the three years as a cataloger in the City College B.A., B.L.S., and M.A. in English from the Library, New York. He returned to Co­ University of Washington. He was elected lumbia in the fall of 1950 as research assist­ to Phi Beta Kappa in 1941. ant in the School of Library Service, assisting Dr. Asheim is the author of Report on the Dr. Maurice F. Tauber. He completed work Conference on Reading Development and edi­ for the M.S. degree in June 1951. Most re­ tor of A Fo•rum on the Public Library Inquiry. cently he has been completing the residence He assisted former Dean Berelson on the vol­ requirements for his doctorate and teaching ume, The Library's Public, and has contribu­ introductory courses in bibliography, technical ted articles to several magazines and journals. services, and organization of materials at Co­ He is currently acting managing editor of The lumbia. He is presently a member of the Library Quarterly. His fields of special inter­ summer session faculty at that school. est are education for librariansh~p, public li­ Frarey's interests, training and experience brary services, and the agencies of popular have been chiefly concentrated in the techn:­ culture. His doctoral dissertation, "From cal services where he had been concerned with Book to Film" deals with an aspect of this the use of the catalog, subject headings, and latter subject.

JULY~ 1952 267 Before corning to the University of Chi­ At the time he accepted the position at Iowa cago, Dr. Asheirn had been a regional librari­ State College, Carhart was president-elect of an for the Federal Public Housing Authority, the West Virginia Library Association. librarian of the U. S. Penitentiary, MeN eil He is a member of the American Association Island, Washington, and junior librarian in of University Professors, American Library the Library of the University of Washington. Association, Association of College and Ref­ During the war, he served with the Signal erence Libraries, Colorado Library Associa­ Intelligence Branch of the U. S. Signal Corps tion and the Rocky Mountain Region of the in Alaska. Bibliographical Center for Research. EAN H. McFARLAND assumes a newly ORREST F. CARHART, JR., assistant director created title, assistant librarian in charge Fof libraries at the University of Denver, J of S.ervice, at the University of California, has accepted appointment as librarian for the Berkeley, effective Air Force Human Resources Research Center. May I, 1952. She Carhart assumed his new duties at the will be responsible for Center's headquarters at Lackland Air Force all Main Library Base, San Antonio, Texas, in early June. He public service depart- joined the Denver library staff in 1949· . rnents and seventeen The Research Center, with operating units branch libraries. at 14 Air Force bases in eight states, is the A native Califor­ largest non-medical, non-material resear:: h nian, Miss McFar­ organization in the United States military es­ land was born in tablishment. Its over 1000 military and pro­ Riverside, and is a fessional personnel conduct scientific studies graduate of Pomona for evaluation of Air Force personnel and for Jean H. McFarland College, Claremont. the improvement of training. Miss McFarland's Carhart will supervise operations of a Lack­ appointment as assistant librarian in charge land library which serves the Center's approxi­ of Service follows on almost twenty years mately 6oo military and professional personnel of service in the University Library at Berke­ at that base. The library's facilities also are ley. She was first appointed to a position in available to personnel manning the Center's Accessions as librarian, junior grade, in July laboratories and field sections at other bases. 1930, following graduation from the UC Prior to joining the University of Denver School of Librarianship. With only one library staff, Carhart was head of the circula­ break-she attended Columbia University in tion department of the Iowa State College 1934/35, obtaining a Master's in Economics­ library. He previously had been assistant li­ she worked in the library until 1943, serving brarian at the University of West Virginia and successively in Biology, Reference, Catalog, head of the Mathematics-Economics Library and the Loan and Shelf Division, of which she at the University of Michigan. was made chief. Beginning in August, 1943, A native of Sheffield, Iowa, he graduated Miss McFarland took military leave to serve from Drake Univ~rsity, Des Moines, Iowa, in as a WAVE officer in the U.S. Navy. She 1939, and received his bachelor's degree in returned in 1946 to become head of the Gen­ library science at the University of Michigan eral Reference Service, the position she held in 1941. Two years later he received his when she was made acting head of General master's degree at Michigan. Services in N overnber 1949.

268 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Appointments E. Hugh Behymer, librarian of Bethany York State Teachers College, New Paltz. College, Bethany, N.Y., has been granted a John R. McKenna has been appointed as­ Fulbright Award to conduct seminars and sistant librarian of Bowdoin College. discussion groups in library science m Kent U. Moore, formerly head cataloger Australia. and assistant librarian of Kenyon College, William Reed Brandt, assistant librarian has been appointed chief of the cataloging of the University Club Library of New York division of Southern Illinois University m since 1947, became librarian of Ripon College, Carbondale, Illinois. Ripon, Wisconsin, in March, 1952. Charles D. Hickey, formerly in charge of Charles H. Brown, librarian emeritus of acquisitions at Montana State University, is Iowa State College, was appointed visiting now acquisitions librarian for the National professor of library science at the Florida Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Wash­ State University for the spring semester of ington, D.C. He assumed his new position in 1952. July. Charles E. Butler, librarian of the Univer­ Ruben W eltsch was appointed reference sity of West Virginia, has been granted a librarian at the University of Cincinnati Li­ Guggenheim fellowship for creative writing. brary on April I, 1952. Mr. Weltsch was He will be in Dublin during 1952-53. previously reference librarian at Rice Insti­ Georgia R. Coffin, formerly rare book room tute (1949-1952). assistant at the University of Illinois Library, Max Bissainthe, Director of the Biblio­ has been appointed librarian of the new Rare 'theque N ationale of Haiti, and a graduate of Book and Manuscript Department of the the School of Library Service at Columbia Cornell University Library. University, has been decorated and has been Frederick N. Cromwell has resigned as elected to the rank of Officer in the National librarian of the University of Arizona in order Order "Honneur et Merite," for his out­ to become director of the U. S. Information standing contribution to Haitian culture in Libraries in Spain, succeeding William C. producing the Dictionnaire de B ibliographie Haygood. Haitienne. Marshall Fisher is now librarian of the Mrs. Maxine H. Wallin has been appointed Security-Classified Library of the Research chief circulation librarian, Agriculture Li­ Center, Princeton University. brary, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Francis ]. Flood is now assistant professor Rudolph Johnson has been appointed acqui­ and chairman of the Department of Library sitions librarian, Agriculture Library, Uni­ Science at the University of Missouri. versity of Minnesota, St. Paul. John Forsman has been appointed head of John Lester N alan, formerly assistant di­ the Reserve Book Room at the University of rector of the Processing Department, Li­ Southern California, Los Angeles. brary of Congress, is director for library Carl ]. Frommherz (Columbia '41) has . services for the Department of State. He been appointed chief catalog librarian at the replaces Douglas Bryant, who has been ap­ Chicago Undergraduate Library of the U ni­ pointed administrative assistant librarian at versity of Illinois. Harvard University. Fred L. Genthner, formerly periodical Louis Schultheiss, formerly Art & Architec­ service librarian at Ball State Teachers Col­ ture Librarian, has been appointed chief circu­ lege in Muncie, Indiana, has joined the staff lation librarian, University of Denver Li­ of the library of California State Polytechnic braries, succeeding Melvin Newman, who re­ College at San Luis Obispo. signed to take a position as librarian, U.S. Air Richard J. Hofstad "has been appointed Force, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England. circulation librarian of the Riggs Memorial Charles Spencer has been appointed refer­ Library, Georgetown University, Washing­ ence librarian in the Business Administration ton, D. C. Library, University of Denver. Isabel M. Holmes has been appointed senior Julian P. Boyd, librarian on leave from cataloger of the Princeton University Library. Princeton University, has been appointed pro­ Robert P. Lang is librarian of the New fessor of history, effective in the fall of 1952.

JULY, 1952 269 He will relinquish his library post but con­ Mr. Kenefick will be in direct charge of tinues as editor, The Jefferson Papers. · The these collections in the Department of Drama sixth of the 52-volume series is ready for the and the School of the Fine Arts. In his rela­ press. Dr. Boyd was a 1952 Guggenheim tionship to the other departmental collections, award winner. he will serve as an adviser and coordinator. Louis D. Sass of the College of the City Robert F. Metzdorf, cataloger and former of New York Library has been appointed Lec­ vtsttmg scholar at Harvard University's turer in Librarianship, School of Librarian­ Houghton Library, has been appointed to the ship, University of California (Berkeley) new position of curator of manuscripts. He beginning July 1, 1952. Mr. Sass holds A.B. will also serve as secretary to the editorial and A.M. degrees from the University of committee editing the Papers of James Bos­ Nebraska and is a graduate of the School of well. The appointment is effective August r. Library Service of Columbia University. He Mrs. Henrietta T. Perkins, at present act­ is at present a candidate for the Doctor of ing head cataloguer and reference librarian of Philosophy Degree in the Philosophy Depart­ the Yale School of Medicine Library, has been ment at Columbia. promoted to the new post of Assistant Librari­ Three new staff positions in Yale Univer­ an there. sity's Sterling Memorial Library have been Mr. Metzford and Mrs. Perkins have also established. James Gordon Kenefick, head of been named research associates. the circulation department and a research as­ Mortimer Taube, formerly deputy chief, sociate, has been named to fill a new post of Technical Information Service, Atomic En­ assistant librarian in which he will act as liai­ ergy Commission, announces the organization son member between the main library and the of "Documentation, Inc.," a new service in ~arious collections of technical and specialized the publication, analysis, organization and com­ books housed in other departments of the uni­ munication of specialized information, 1832 versity. Jefferson Place, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.

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270 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Necrology Reuben Peiss, associate professor at the tions of the Pacific Coast; and at the time of University of California School of Librarian­ his death the quantity (close to 2,ooo,ooo vol­ ship, died on February 23, I952. After dis­ umes) and quality of the library placed it tinguished service at Harvard, the Office of among the half dozen leading libraries in Strategic Services, the Library of Congress North America. Mission in Germany and the State Depart­ Mr. Leupp distinguished himself not only ment's Acquisition and Distribution Division, as an administrator but also a torchbearer he accepted his professorial appointment at of the humane tradition of librarianship. In Berkeley in I950. Mr. Peiss not only had an his first annual report he emphasized (in enviable Imblication record, notably his His­ speaking of his predecessor, Joseph C. Rowell, tory of Librades ( I950), a translation and head librarian at Berkeley for forty-four expansion of the work by Alfred Hessel, but years) "that Method is a poor substitute for he was also known among his friends and Knowledge, and Apparatus for Personality." professional associates as a ready and critical Nevertheless, in spite of Mr. Leupp's abun­ thinker on his feet and in the classroom. At dant store of knowledge and his distinguished Berkeley his intellectual qualities won him personality, the method and the apparatus many friends among other members of the that he established at Berkeley set a high faculty, and his death was as severe a blow to standard for his contemporaries. them as it was to the profession at large.­ It would be neither proper nor even pos­ L.S.T. sible to attempt to assign Mr. Leupp a par­ ticular position in his generation of university Harold L. Leupp,* librarian emeritus of librarians. It is safe, however, to assume the University of California Library at Berke­ that future academic "librarians will speak ley, died on February II, 1952. He served with conviction of the twenties and the thirties as associate librarian from 1910 to 1919 and as the age of the Bishops, the Putnams, the as librarian from 1919 to 1945. During his Browns, the Wilsons, the Mitchells, and the tenure the Berkeley library assumed undis­ Leupps.-L.S. T. puted leadership among the research collec- Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, noted book collec­ * See also Charles H. Brown, "Harold L. Leupp, Ad­ ministrator," College and R esearch L ibraries 6 :353-54, tor, editor and author, died on July I, after a September 1945. long illness.

Retirements Mrs. Reba Davis Clevenger retired from during World War I. From I919 to 1928 he her position of assistant librarian, University was assistant librarian at the University of of North Carolina (N.C. State Agricultural North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has served and Mechanical College), West Raleigh, on as president of the Kansas Library Association, July I, 1951, after seventeen years of service and he was appointed by the governor of Kan­ with that institution. sas to serve on the Kansas State Library Survey Commission for 1949-51. Charles M. Baker, librarian of the Univer­ During Mr. Baker's librarianship the hold­ sity of Kansas since 1928, retired on June 30, ings of the University of Kansas Library have 1952. Born in Boston, Mass., in 1887, Mr. grown from 210,000 to over a half a million Baker received the A.B. and A.M. degrees volumes. Full-time staff appointments have from Harvard and was graduated from the increased from twenty-one to forty-one. New Y ark State Library School at Albany in The library plant has been enlarged by two 1918. He taught English at Syracuse Uni­ additions to the library to house offices, read­ versity and served with the ALA War Service ing rooms, and 28o,ooo volumes.

JULY, 1952 271 Foreign Libraries Carl Wen del, retired director of the U ni­ 19S1, at the age of eighty-three. versity of Halle (Saale) Library, died on Viktor Burr, formerly of the University July I6, 19SI at the age of seventy-seven. of Tiibingen Library, became director of the Andre Bovet, for many years director of the University of Bonn Library on November I, City Library of N eucha tel, died in I9SO at I9SI. the age of sixty. Walter Till, director of the Papyrus Col­ Jakob Fellin, retired director of the Uni­ lection of the Oesterreichische N ationalbiblio­ versity of Graz Library, died on August 24, thek, has retired.

News from the Field (Continued from page 264) A. D. Roberts has issued the second edi­ Foundation. Recent American Fo•reign tion of Introduction to Reference Books (The Policy, Basic Documents 1941-1951 by Fran­ Library Association, Chaucer House, Malet cis 0. Wilcox and Thorsten V. Kalijarvi Place, London, W.C.I, I9SI, 214 p., ISS (Appleton-Century-Crofts, I9S2, 927 p., ( IOs.6d. to members). In this new edition, $6.50) is an expansion of an earlier volume, Mr. Roberts _has included revisions on more A Decade of American Foreign Policy, and than half the pages of the first edition, as includes some fifty or sixty documents which well as a chapter on bibliographical works of cover 1950 and 19S I. Brief editorial notes reference. Three appendices include a "Note have also been added. on Tracing and Selecting New Works of The second edition of a List of Business Reference," "Questions for Practical Work," Manuscripts in Baker Library, compiled by and "Addenda, July I9.5L" Robert W. Lovett, has been issued by the The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study Graduate School of Business Administration, in Popular Entertainment, by George E. Harvard Univers,ity (19s1, 213 p. $r.so). Duckworth, has been issued by the Princeton The first list, issued in 1932, contained so8 University Press (I9S2, SOI p. $7.SO). Pro­ entries; the new edition contains 1,118 en­ fessor Duckworth deals primarily with the tries. works of Plautus and Terence. He analyzes Cataloging and Classification: An Intro­ and discusses the plots and characters of ductory Manual, by Thelma Eaton ( 19SI, the plays, stage conventions, suspense and 113 p., Distributed by The Illini Union Book­ irony, etc. of the two playwrights. The vol­ store, Champaign, Ill., $r.so) has been de­ umes contains a bibliography and detailed signed as an undergraduate introduction to index. cataloging and classification problems. Principles and Practices of Classified Ad­ The Year's Work in Librarians hip, vol. vertising, edited by Morton J. A. McDonald, XV, 1948, has been issued by The Library has been published in a revised edition under Association (London, 19S2, 281 p., £2., f1.10s. the auspices of the Association of Newspaper to members). The volume includes reports Classified Advertising Managers, Inc. (Cul­ by regular contributors, in addition to some ver City, Calif., Murray and Gee, I9S2, 470 new ones-A. Shaw Wright, LeRoy C. Mer­ p. $7 .so). The volume, which contains a ritt, R. W. Pound, P . D. Record, and glossary and illustrations, is a useful reference K. W. Humphreys. Dr. Merritt, of the work on the subject. School of Librarianship, University of Cali­ Two volumes of American foreign relations fornia, has written the chapter on "Research have recently appeared. Documents on in Librarianship." Frances M. Birkett has American Foreign Relations, I9SO, vol. XII, prepared the chapter on "National and U ni­ ~dited by Raymond Dennett and Robert K. versity Libraries." It is hoped that The Turner (Princeton University Press, I95I, Library Association will some day issue this 702 p., $6.oo) is another in the series being useful compilation more currently than it has issued under the auspices of the World Peace been able to in recent years.

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