News From the Field

AcQUISITIONs quired some thirteen hundred books in so­ ciology and related areas from the collection STANFORD UNIVERSITY libraries has been of the late Edward Cardinal Mooney. given some thirty pieces of memorabilia doc­ HARRY S. TRUMAN library's recent acces­ umenting some significant events in the pro­ sions include additional papers of Frederick fessional career and personal life of the J. Lawton, former director of the Bureau of nineteenth-century opera and concert sing­ the Budget; of Frieda Hennock, former er, Jenny Lind. The gift was made by Sam­ member of the Federal Communications uel Stark of San Francisco. Committee; White House files of Matthew UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA li­ J. Connelly; and a large clipping file of the brary, Los Angeles, has received two collec­ Democratic National Committee represent­ tions of rare books and music manuscripts ing the period of the Truman administra­ numbering more than five hundred items. tion. First of the collections comprises printed COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has received the pa­ books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth pers of V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese centuries. Among them are Bible commen­ statesman and world leader. The collection taries, numerous editions of the Bible, edi­ includes diaries, files of correspondence, tele­ tions of the Old and New Testaments, and grams, books, speeches, and records of con­ books on patristics, missals, philosophy, ar­ versations. The papers will be housed in chitecture, biography, medicine, and law. In special quarters in the East Asian library at the second collection are books and manu­ Columbia. They will be organized by Dr. scripts on music dating from the seventeenth Koo, his associates, and members of the li­ to the nineteenth centuries, and engraved brary staff. music scores from the eighteenth century. THREE VOLUMES probably once part of SoUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY library has Benjamin Franklin's library have been dis­ purchased the Caresse Crosby collections of covered in the rare books collection at correspondence, literary manuscripts, art­ United States Military Academy library at work, and editions of the Black Sun Press West Point, New York. Two of the volumes from Mrs. Crosby. For some years the col­ bear Franklin's signature on the title pages. lection has been in storage in Mrs. Crosby's The volumes are three of the four which castle in Italy. Included are manuscripts and make up Architecture Hydraulique written letters of Ezra Pound, D. H . Lawrence, by the French military scientist Bernard Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, Henry Mil­ Forest de Belidor. Although the exact his­ ler, Kay Boyle and others whose works were tory of how the books came to be in the published by the Press during the period be­ academy library has been lost, it is likely tween the world wars. that they were brought by Col. Jonathan Southern Illinois also has made two rna jor Williams, Jr., first superintendent of the additions to its Irish Renaissance collection academy and grand-nephew of Franklin. with the purchase of six Yeats manuscripts OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY libraries, Colum­ and the correspondence files and manuscripts bus, has announced its largest acquisition to of Katharine Tynan, acquired from the au­ date of Chinese materials as background for thor's daughter. an expanding program in this area. Purchase SENATOR HoMER E. CAPEHART recently of the Creed collection of Chinese materials presented papers representing eighteen years adds some thirty-two hundred book and peri­ in the United States Senate to the Indiana odical titles in Chinese art, bibliography, State Library. They consist of general cor­ biography, history, literature, missions, poli­ respondence, letters, and documents cover­ tics, religion, travel, "dictionaries, and gram­ ing the years at the end of World War II, mars. The materials are mostly in English, the postwar era, the Korean war, and the French, German and Latin. The collection Cold War period. also includes a ninety-thousand-card bibli­ SACRED HEART SEMINARY, Detroit, has ac- ography of Western language literature on

506 COLLEGE A ND RESEARCH LIBR A RIES the Chinese Empire, arranged alphabetically 1964j 65 for study leading to a master's or by author, subject, and title. doctoral degree in a subject field other than TEMPLE UNIVERSITY library, Philadelphia, library science. Stipends of $2,250 for a ten­ has been given a collection of some five hun­ month period require fifteen hours of library dred letters written by Richard Ow€n, nine­ duty each week; $3,000 for ten months re­ teenth-century English scientist and first di­ quires twenty hours of library duty each rector of the British Natural History mu­ week. Formal applications are due before seum, by Owen's granddaughter, Mrs. Fran­ March 14·, 1964. Applications may be ob­ ces Hirtzel. tained from the Director of Libraries, U ni­ PAPERS, ,DIARIES, AND NOTEBOOKS of Samuel versity of Florida, Gainesville. M. Vauclain dating back to the mid-1870's APPLICATIONS are still being considered for have been given to the DeGolyer Founda­ grants-in-aid from the Harry S. Truman tion, Dallas, Mr. Vauclain was an inventor library. Up to $1,000 for travel and living and manufacturer of railroad locomotives. expenses is provided for grantees working GENNADIUS LIBRARY, American School of at the library. Application forms are avail­ Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, has re­ able from the director of the library at In­ cently acquired, with the support of the dependence, Missouri. Lilly Endowment, the archives of Heinrich THE WHIPPLE MEDICAL AND DENTAL LI­ Schliemann, excavator of Mycenae and Troy. BRARY FuND has been established at U niver­ The collection consists of some thousands sity of Rochester. The fund is expected to of letters addressed to Schliemann, copies exceed three quarters of a million dollars of his letters, notebooks, journals, and mis­ in the next several years. cellaneous papers. THE MEDICAL LIBRARY CENTER of New By the gift of James Dixon, the library York has received a grant of $34,710 to con­ also has acquired original manuscript scores clude work on the Union Catalog of Medi­ of musical compositions of conductor Dimi­ cal Periodicals. The project is expected to tri Mitropoulos. reach completion by September of next year. THE NEw YoRK AcADEMY of Medicine AwARDS, GRANTS, ScHOLARSHIPS has been granted $74,000 by the Health Re­ CuLVER-STOCKTON CoLLEGE, Canton, Mis­ search Council of the City of New York to souri, has received a $123,000 bequest from study medical literature resources in the the late Helen Isabella Johann of Madison, greater New York area. Wis., and will use the funds for the pur­ SLA's SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION CENTER chase of books for the Robert K. Johann maintained at the school of library science memorial book collection of midwest Ameri­ at Western Reserve University will expand cana created earlier by Miss Johann, and and broaden its services and holdings with for books and equipment for the Carl Jo­ a grant of $13,838 from National Science hann library. Foundation. Barbara Denison has been A PROJECT to develop a high-speed com­ named part-time director of the center, and puter system for information retrieval and plans have been made to initiate studies, automation of library cataloging procedures offer consultation, and compile an up-to-date at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia University list of holdings, which now comprise some medical libraries has been funded by the eight-hundred fifty classification schemes and National Science Foundation. The system subject heading lists. would produce printed catalog cards from TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, has re­ punched cards which would also be used for ceived from the Samuel Paley Foundation a storing information in the computer. Devel­ gift in excess of one million dollars, for its opment headquarters at Yale will computer­ new library building. The funds will be used ize holdings of the three libraries which pro­ to equip and furnish the new building, and vide 80 per cent of their recorded use. The to construct a student plaza area and clock project, for which NSF has granted $61,755, tower adjacent to it. In addition, a portion is expected to be completed by 1965. of the gift will be allocated to create a per­ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA libraries, Gaines­ manent endowment, the income of which ville, is offering graduate assistantships for will finance cultural and educational events

NOVEMBER 1963 507 at the library, and for accessions of rare and Western Reserve University, Ruth E. Brown special book collections. of Drexel Institute, and Mary Louise Thom­ LEHIGH UNIVERSITY has been awarded as and Mrs. Vera Hrusoff of Catholic Uni­ $59,880 by the National Science Foundation versity of America. All of the recipients for development of a graduate curricula in were 1962j 63 enrollees in approved courses information sciences. The two-year program in medical librarianship. will be conducted by the staff of the univer­ EIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS of $1,000 each will be sity's Center for the Information Sciences awarded by the Special Libraries Association and Lehigh faculty. The center is a division for graduate study in special librarianship. of the university library. Applications may be obtained from SLA, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE library, 31 East lOth Street, New York 3, N.Y., and Blacksburg, has received a grant of $100,000 must be returned to them before February from the Mt. Ararat Foundation for acquisi­ 1, 1964. tion of research materials. BuiLDINGS WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY at Morgantown has received a grant of $5,290 from Na­ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S new science li­ tional Science Foundation for investigation brary opened its doors in September. Cost­ of potential u_se of a large academic library ing approximately one million dollars, its by smaller academic libraries and libraries three levels house about one-hundred-thirty of industrial organizations within the dis- thousand volumes. Study tables on each floor, tinct region. · and study patios on the first and second COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES has made floors, cubicles for faculty and graduate re­ the following grants: to the Library Associa­ searchers, and seminar, typing, and micro­ tion (England) for a survey of major index­ film rooms are provided. ing and abstracting services for library sci­ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA library, Davis, ence and documentation in the United has nearly completed a remodeling and con­ Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, struction project that will increase capacity $2,000; to the Committee to Investigate to about half a million volumes, and reader Copyright Problems Affecting Communica­ stations to about twelve hundred. An addi­ tion in Science and Education, to aid in a tional wing is now being planned for con­ feasibility study · of a clearinghouse to serve struction in 1966, to permit library service as intermediary between owners of copy­ to some ten thousand students, and provide righted material and scientists and others space for three quarters of a million volumes. wishing to make one or more photocopies of LoRETTO HEIGHTS CoLLEGE, Denver, Colo., it, $700. dedicated a new library building in April. ALA has received a grant of $48,960 from UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE's Hugh M. Mor­ Council on Library Resources, $5,000 from ris library was occupied on September 2. National Science Foundation, and use of The library will seat twelve hundred readers, office space and equipment from the Na­ and house one million volumes. tional Library of Medicine, for a new sta­ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII dedicated the new tistics coordinating project to establish a library building at its Hilo campus on system of standardized library data collec­ August 1. tion for administrative use and research KEARNEY (Nebraska) STATE COLLEGE dedi­ needs. Joel Williams, chief of the operating cated its new library building in October. section of the standards and processing The building will accommodate 900 readers branch, division of educational statistics, and has stack space for two-hundred thou­ USOE, Department of Health, Education, sand volumes. and Welfare is on leave to head the project VASSAR CoLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has for one year. completed a library enlargement and reno­ MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION scholarships vation program which provides seating in have been awarded to Miss Miwa Ohta and the main library for eight hundred., seventy Eleanor Haydock of Columbia University, faculty studies, and shelving for the present Ronald M. Watterson of Emory University, collection of three-hundred-fifty-three thou­ Mary Ellen Soper of Illinois University, sand volumes plus estimated acquisitions for Stephan Torok and Elizabeth J. Yeates of the next twenty years.

508 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS' new undergraduate sources have been studied to assist in imple­ library and academic center at Austin in­ menting the proposed Reference and Re­ cludes research collections in modern Ameri­ search Library Resources Bill planned for can and English literature, the history of introduction in the New York State legisla­ science, Western Americana, and Texana. ture in 1964. Grants of $16,000 each from The undergraduate library occupies three the Council on Library Resources and the floors of the five-story building. It houses Old Dominion Foundation funded the sixty thousand volumes, and can accommo­ study, which was completed in October. date one-hundred seventy-five thousand. ANNIVERSARIES of library dedications this Eighteen hundred students can study in the autumn have called attention to progress large reading rooms, seminar and confer­ at St. Bonaventure (New York) University ence rooms, reading lounges, and listening library, and at University of Dayton (Ohio). booths. The N ew York Times Annual Index will UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON has completed be reprinted in early 1964 by R. R. Bowker a rna jor addition to its Henry Suzzallo li­ Company, starting with indexes covering brary, which provides an und~rgraduate col­ the years 1930-1961, and ultimately to in­ lection on the first floor, numbering one­ clude a complete file back to the paper's hundred thousand volumes. The addition founding in 1851. also houses faculty seminar and research ANTIOCH CoLLEGE library has produced a rooms and provides space for collections second edition of its Faculty Library. Hand­ until now in storage and for collections in book, single copies of which are available branch libraries which have been moved to for the asking. the main library. DREXEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY's grad­ LESLIE FROST undergraduate library of uate school of library science is undertaking York University, Toronto, was officially a research project to conduct tests and dem­ opened on October 9. Three stories and onstrations of the optic-coincidence system penthouse will accommodate 210 readers, of information storage and retrieval. Henry and house one-hundred twenty-five thousand Francis du Pont Winterthur museum is volumes. cooperating in the project, which is being financed by a grant from the Copeland-Ande­ MISCELLANY lot Foundation. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA libraries, Los NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY libraries opened the Angeles, has announced that the new and Fales collection of rare books and manu­ official designations for its two library build­ scripts on October 24. ings will be "University Research Library" NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL library has pub­ for the building unofficially known until lished its Subject Heading List, through a recently as North Campus library, and "Col­ cooperative agreement with the Rockefeller lege Library Building," for the original Foundation. building until recently known as the Main MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION officers elect­ library. ed for 1963j 64 are Louise Darling, Univer­ THE GUNST MEMORIAL LIBRARY of the sity of California, Los Angeles, president; books arts was dedicated at Stanford U ni­ Estelle Brodman, Washington University, versity on October 18. Nucleus of the library St. Louis, vice president; Myrl Ebert, Uni­ is some four thousand volumes of outstand­ versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, sec­ ing typography. A fund has been established retary; and Carroll F. Reynolds, University by the Gunst family and friends to support of Pittsburgh, treasurer. New board members. the new library. are Alderson Fry, David Kronick, and Mary UNIVERSITY OF HAwAn's Gregg M. Sinclair Post. library has established a microfilm project The N ewsletter on Intellectual Freedom, for Samoan archives, and field work was now in its twelfth volume, is much changed completed this autumn. Archives of both from its near-print, brief-note precursor of American and Western Samoa have been years past. It publishes substantive articles filmed for the U. H. library's Hawaiian and in neat letterpress and serviceable format. Pacific collections. Edited by Leroy Merritt of the University NEw YoRK CITY's library needs and re- of California School of Librarianship, the

NOVEMBER 1963 509 Newsletter is a definitive record of efforts at Simultaneously, the Association of Assist­ intellectual restriction in the world of books ant Librarians has announced that its forty­ and libraries. Published bimonthly, this of­ year-old correspondence courses are being ficial publication of ALA is available at discontinued. three dollars the year. Handbook of Special Librarianship and The LIBRARY AssociATION (England) has Information Work has been published in a established new professional examinations second, revised edition by ASLIB, London. for chartered librarians, and British post­ "SUBJECT CoLLECTIONS IN EuROPEAN LI­ graduate schools of librarianship have been BRARIEs" is being compiled by Richard C. established for Belfast and Sheffield univer­ sities in addition to the already established Lewanski, librarian at Johns Hopkins U ni­ school in London University. Nongraduate versity Bologna Center. Publication in 1964 students who provide a general certificate is planned by R. R. Bowker Company. of education with at least two "A" levels Film Cataloguing Rules was published by will be eligible for examination. ASLIB, London, in June. • •

ALA Representatives at Academic Ceremonies

ALA REPRESENTATIVES at recent academic ceremonies included: Charles Penrose, librarian, Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, N.Y., at the inauguration of William Louis Whitson as president of the college on September 20; Alden Wakevainen, institutional library advisor, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, at the inauguration of the Reverend Edward Joseph Sponga, S.J., as president of the University of Scranton on September 20; John M. Dawson, director of li­ braries, University of Delaware, at the inauguration of Keith Spalding as presi­ dent of Franklin and Marshall College on September 26; Florrie Conway, li­ brarian, Wayland Baptist College, Plainview, Tex., at the inauguration of Roy Cornelius McClung as president of the College on October 8; Ralph Blasingame, Jr., Pennsylvania State librarian, at the dedication of L. A. Beeghly library of Juniata College on October 11; Donald E. Thompson, librarian, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., at the inauguration of William Edward Kerstetter as presi­ dent of DePauw University, October 12; Lorena A. Garloch, associate director of libraries, University of Pittsburgh, at the inauguration of Paul R. Stewart as chancellor of Waynesburg College, October 12; Ralph H. Parker, librarian, Uni­ versity of Missouri, at the dedication of the Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial library of Cottey College on October 13; Arthur T. Hamlin, librarian, University of Cin­ cinnati, at the inauguration of John Nissley Stauffer as president of Wittenberg University on October 18; Katherine Beville, University of Virginia library, Charlottesville, at the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Woodrow Wil­ son as President of the United States, at Staunton, Va., on_ October 18; John S. Richards, at the dedication of the Henry Suzzallo library addition, University of Washington, on October 18; M. Francis Breen, librarian, College of Education, State University, Plattsburgh, N.Y., at the inauguration of Foster Sargent Brown as president of St. Lawrence University on October 19; Marvin A. Miller, director of libraries, University of Arkansas, at the dedication of the College of the Ozarks library on October 20; Dorothy Hamlen, librarian, University of Akron, at the inauguration of Robert Isaac White as president of Kent State University on October 25; Morris A. Gelfant, librarian, Queens College, Flushing, N.Y., at the inauguration of Dumont F. Kenny as president of the Queensborough Com­ munity College of the City University of New York on October 29. • •

510 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel

WILLIAM A. FITzGERALD will become di­ brary school was strengthened and Peabody rector of libraries at Marquette University College adopted the MA as its basic library on January I. He has been director of Pea­ degree, and in 1955 this Peabody degree body library school received full accreditation from the ALA -a professional divi­ Committee on Accreditation. sion of the Peabody In 1957 Peabody College adopted a new graduate school­ degree of specialist in education. Qualified since August 1948. candidates for this degre~ and for the PhD A native of Bos­ degree in subject fields (including educa­ ton, Dr. FitzGerald tion) may elect library science as their minor was graduated from subject. Boston College, re­ Enrollment in the library school and the ceiving an AB de­ number of LS degrees awarded at Peabody gree in 1927 and an MA degree in 1928. have tripled since 1947-48. Then followed more The library science library, which is a sec­ graduate work at Dr. FitzGerald tion of the Joint University Libraries, has Fordham University been substantially improved by completing where he received his PhD in history in and binding the periodical files, by purchas­ 1934, and at Columbia University school of ing systematically each year pertinent new library service where he received a BS de­ materials as published, and by employing a gree in library science in 1938. professionally trained librarian to administer Dr. FitzGerald started his library career the library. at the secondary school level by combining Dr. FitzGerald's service at Peabody has his graduate study with library work and been interrupted by two leaves to serve as teaching at Brooklyn Preparatory School library consultant (representing the U.S. from · 1928-44 and as evening librarian at State Department) to the Republic of China Stuyvesant High School, New York City, and Hong Kong 1956-58, and to the Kingdom 1939-44. Summers from 1933-41 were spent of Libya, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1961- teaching library science courses at Boston 63. (During these periods Frances Neel College, Georgetown and Villanova univer­ Cheney directed the Peabody library school sities, and from 1942-45 he taught courses in most effectively.) While overseas Dr. Fitz­ history and library science at St. John's Uni­ Gerald's activities included advice in plan­ versity. ning new, and remodeling old, library build­ From 1944-48 he served as librarian and ings; advice in selecting Western books to assistant professor of medical history at the build up teaching libraries; assistance in St. Louis University school of medicine. education for librarianship through work­ The past fifteen years, during which Dr. shops and personal counseling; close coop­ FitzGerald has been director of the Peabody eration with official education authorities library school, have been eventful for the and other governmental administrators to school. In 1949 the curriculum of the li- promote the development and use of li-

NOVEMBER 1963 511 braries; and in Taiwan advising in the se­ mation which are now becoming possible lection of Western textbooks for translation for university libraries. There will also be into Chinese. demands that the library participate actively Professionally, Dr. FitzGerald has been an in the teaching processes of the university, active member of numerous organizations: which will cover only the junior and senior ALA (president of Library Education Divi­ years and graduate work. sion, 1956-57), the AAUP, AALS, CLA (pres­ Ed Heiliger is an administrator who dele­ ident 1939-41), MLA, SELA, and SLA. gates authority and responsibility to his staff One of Dr. FitzGerald's greatest assets is members, and he is an operator in the good his wife Julia Frances. In Nashville their sense of the word. He is also willing and home has always been generously shared with eager to face the changing future of univer­ library school students and faculty members sity librarianship with confidence and ener­ in library science and related fields. During gy. His move to Florida Atlantic University the overseas assignments Julia helped with is another example of his willingness to in­ the workshops. In Taiwan she taught Eng­ troduce new ideas and methods and to face lish at the Chinese Officers' Language School life in new and different situations. and assisted in welfare activities for lepers After graduation from the library school and tubercular patients. As head of the re­ of Denver University, he gained experience serve section of the Joint University Li­ in the public library and the Wayne Univer­ braries before going to Taiwan and, since sity library, both in Detroit. In 1944-45, he returning from Africa, as assistant in ac­ was the director of the American library of quisitions, Julia has demonstrated both effi­ Nicaragua and for a three-year period after ciency and effectiveness of a rare calibre. that, became the director of the newly estab­ The FitzGeralds are a unique team char­ lished library school at the University of acterized by great dedication to and identifi­ Chile in Santiago. In Chile he found it was cation with the schools, the persons, agencies, necessary not only to develop the curricu­ and cultures with which they become asso­ lum, but also to translate a large amount ciated. Precious and enduring friendships of the course material into Spanish. One of enrich their lives and the lives they con tact. the results of this endeavor is his work, They will bring to Marquette a refreshing, "Catalogacion y Clasificacion de Libros," mature competency.-A. F. Kuhlman. published in 1949. After managing the De­ partment of State Program of Overseas Li­ EDWARD MARTIN HEILIGER took up his braries in 1949, he spent three years as di­ duties as director of libraries of Florida At­ rector of the Bibliotheca Benjamin Franklin lantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, on in Mexico City, where he expanded the mo­ September I. This tion picture activities and pushed the idea simple announce­ of bookmobiles. ment does not reveal The idea of regional libraries gained his the fortunate coinci­ full attention for the period 1954-57 when dence of the arrival he was director of the regional library at of new ideas in uni­ Watertown, New York. From there he went versity librarianship to head the undergraduate division library and the availability of the University of Illinois on Navy Pier of a man who fits in Chicago, housed in quarters which were the requirements of formerly the cafeteria of the Naval Training these new ideas. The School there. library is to be part Ed Heiliger was in this position when I of the Learning· Re­ met him in 1959. His library was faced with sources Center of Mr. Heiliger unusual growth requirements in the decade Florida Atlantic Uni- for which he was planning. The book col­ versity and the intention of the university lection, library staff, and the student body administration is to build up a fine tradi­ were to increase from 500 per cent to 1000 tional university library in the best sense, per cent in ten years. Facing the possibility and to facilitate it, as far as possible, with that traditional methods could fail to meet the best aspects of mechanization and auto- the expected needs, Ed was seeking to learn

512 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES whether he could meet these requirements PERRY D. MoRRISON became college li­ with the aid of mechanization and automa­ brarian, Sacramento State College, on July tion. I was in turn seeking a librarian who 1 after fourteen years of distinguished ser­ was willing to consider new ideas about vice on the staff of library systems, mechanization, and automa­ the University of tion. The fortunate result of our meeting Oregon library in has been published under the title of Ad­ progressively impor­ vanced Data Processing in the University Li­ tant positions. brary, by Louis A. Schultheiss, Don S. Cul­ Native son of Min­ bertson, and Edward Heiliger, published by nesota, . Californian The Scarecrow Press, 1962. This volume re­ by adoption, Mr. cords the results of the project which was Morrison received undertaken at Navy Pier in 1961, supported the AB degree from by grant from the Council on Library Re­ Whittier College in sources and for which the Information Sys­ 1942. After service tems Section of the General Electric Com­ in the Army of the pany performed a six months' contract. United States, in Dr. M 01 rison The response of Ed Heiliger's staff to the which he attained project was noteworthy. It was clear that he the rank of captain, he returned to Whit­ had been selecting his staff members with tier for a m·aster's degree in history in 1947. care and had been turning their thoughts His interest in librarianship as a career, towards the possibility of trying new things whetted by employment in the Henry E. in their library, for they were enthusiastic Huntington library, led to his enrollment and industrious beyond the call of duty in in the University of California school of meeting the requirements which the project librarianship and a BLS in 1949. laid upon them. Mr. Morrison joined the staff of the Uni­ All pioneering efforts have their difficul­ versity of Oregon library in 1949 as admin­ ties, however, and Ed Heiliger encountered istrative assistant to the librarian. His suc­ some of these in his efforts to implement cess in this position led to his appointment some of the results of the project; and he as head social science librarian when the leaves some continuing efforts for accom­ divisional plan was adopted in 1950. He plishment by his successor, Frazer G. Poole, served in this capacity, with a two-year who comes to Navy Pier from the director­ leave for advanced study at California cul­ ship of the ALA Library Technology Project. minating in the DLS, until 1·959 when he Florida Atlantic University is fortunate in was given added responsibilities as assistant securing Mr. Heiliger for its director of li­ university librarian. The subject of his re­ braries, for there is virtually no other li­ search for the doctorate was the career of brarian in the country with the type of ex­ the academic librarian; a study of the social perience which he can bring to bear upon origins, educational attainments, vocational the new university's problems. Mr. Heiliger experience, and personality characteristics is fortunate in being able to take Louis of a group of American academic librarians. A. Schultheiss with him as his associate li­ In addition to his administrative duties brarian, for Schultheiss gained his experi­ in the library, Mr. Morrison taught the lit­ ence as project director with Heiliger in erature of the social sciences in the U ni­ Chicago. versity of Oregon's department of librarian­ Members of the university library profes­ ship. He has been an active participant in sion will be watching the activities of these professional organizations, on campus com­ progressive librarians with great interest, as mittees, and in community affairs. He served well as wishing them a full measure of suc­ with distinction as president of the Oregon cess in their endeavors. The success of these Library Association in 1961-62. men will lead to a better understanding and In Perry Morrison, Sacramento State Col­ improved solutions of university library lege is getting a librarian who combines ad­ problems, and most importantly, lead to the ministrative competence with an interest in enhanced effectiveness of university libraries people and an aptitude for sound scholar­ within the educational structure.-C. D. Gull. ship.-Carl W. Hintz.

NOVEMBER 1963 513 After more than four years as the first di­ ity control department, H. J. Heinz Com­ rector of the Library Technology Project pany, San Francisco. There should be no FRAZER G. PooLE has accepted the librarian­ need to attempt to recount here his recent ship of the Chicago accomplishments at ALA headquarters. undergraduate divi­ What was initially designed as a two-year sion, University of project has become an activity with high Illinois. In these four justifications for continuance, resulting in more recent years no small part from Poole's leadership. Frazer Poole has be­ Commander Poole, as he is carried on come well known in Naval Reserve rosters, was on active duty the profession as a from 1942 to 1946 in World War II, and was practical administra­ recalled for overseas carrier duty during the tor with high stan­ Korean War in 1950-51. His scientific bent dards of operation; is shown in his specialty as an aerological his appointment with officer. He was trained in aerological engi­ the university, on neering at the more advanced levels at the the verge of a move Mr. Poole Naval Academy's postgraduate school during to an exciting new 1943-44. campus with undoubtedly explosive growth It is to be hoped that his new position will ahead of it, is a logical reflection of his give Frazer Poole an occasional week to re­ experience and personal characteristics. cuperate along the wild waters of some Ca­ Professor Poole, as he now will be classi­ nadian river, canoeing and fishing with his fied on the academic ladder, is a cum laude attractive wife Becky and young son Glen­ graduate of Catawba College where he later don. The profession is fortunate that his was instructor in botany and assistant regis­ home will remain in Chicago where he can trar for two years. He had a semester as be called upon for advice and where the graduate assistant in botany at the U niver­ rest of us can visit him for sound demonstra­ sity of North Carolina immediately before tions in the areas of technology and general his expected call to active duty with the administration.-Donald C. Davidson. Navy in 1942, and did additional graduate work in the same field at Berkeley in 1947-48. APPOINTMENTS His library degree was secured at the Uni­ versity of California, Berkeley, in 1949. NICKEY P. AcHEE, JR., has joined the staff Mr. Poole's first year as librarian was spent of Wright Memorial library, Parsons Col­ in the biology library on the Berkeley cam­ lege, Fairfield, Iowa, as reference librarian. pus. In 1950 he became assistant librarian at MRs. RuTH ADAMS has joined the staff of Santa Barbara College of the University of the college library at UCLA. California. During the period from July LESLYE 0. ALTEMEIER is now reference li­ 1950 to April 1959 Frazer, serving as assistant brarian in the ~edical division of the Joint librarian, was really in charge for some three University libraries, Nashville. and a half years while the undersigned had RoGER C. ANDERSON is an assistant acqui­ additional temporary assignments. The cam­ sitions librarian at University of Kansas, pus was changed from an undergraduate col­ Lawrence. lege into a general campus, a move to a 400- GENE DALE ATKINS has been appointed acre campus from a fourteen-acre one was catalog-reference librarian at Virginia Mili­ made, the first unit of a new building was tary Institute, Lexington. built and equipped, and the program for EMILIA BERNAL is a new University of Illi­ a second unit was written. Frazer Poole was nois cataloger, at Urbana. an active moving force in all this, and saw CAROL BLOOM has joined the staff of the developments elsewhere in the University of reference department of the University of California which he will undoubtedly see in California, Santa Barbara library. a more compressed time span in his new po­ HERBERT BLOOM began his duties as assist­ sition. His biography would not be complete ant serials librarian at Southern Illinois Uni­ without mention of the title of a position versity on Septemb_er 3. held during 1946-47: assistant manager, qual- ARNOLD BoRDEN became zoology librarian

514 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES at University of North Carolina, Chapel reference librarian at Ohio University, Ath­ Hill, on October 1. ens. Miss BILLIE BozoNE is now on the staff of EuGENE DE BENKO has been named inter­ the University of Illinois library at Urbana, national programs librarian and library con­ as assistant reference librarian. sultant to the dean of international programs DoRIS ANNE BRADLEY has been appointed at Michigan State University, East Lansing. assistant chief of the cataloging department MRs. LOUISE THOMPSON DESHAIES has at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. joined the staff of University of North Car­ She was senior serials cataloger at Yale Uni­ olina library as a cataloger. versity library. RICHARD M. DouGHERTY has accepted ap­ RAY BRIAN was appointed associate librar­ pointment as chief of the acquisitions depart­ ian at California Academy of Sciences li­ ment at University of North Carolina, brary, San Francisco, in July. Chapel Hill. MAYNARD J. BRITCHFORD has been ap­ DoRoTHY DuNN has been appointed to the pointed university archivist at the Univer­ circulation-reference department of the law sity of Illinois library, Urbana. library at UCLA. CHARLOTTE JOSEPHINE BROWN has joined HuGH DuRBIN has been named librarian the staff of University of Nevada library as of the education library, Ohio State U niver- assistant catalog librarian. sity, Columbus. · CHRISTIAN BRUN has been named head of JANET EARNSHAW has been appointed as­ the department of special collections at U ni­ sistant acquisitions librarian at Los Angeles versity of California, Santa Barbara library. State College. WANDA J. CALHOUN is now head librarian MRs. ALICE JEAN EcKMIER is senior ac­ at Florida Presbyterian College, St. Peters­ quisitions librarian of York University li­ burg. braries, Toronto. KENNETH E. CARPENTER has been named MARY LoUISE ELDER has joined the staff to the research staff of Bibliography of Amer­ of University of Kansas libraries, Lawrence, ican Literature. He has been reference li­ as special collections cataloger. brarian at Bowdoin College. RoBERT L. ENEQUIST is now chief librarian JENN CHIEN has been appointed to the of the College of Insurance, New York. catalog department of Brooklyn College CoNSTANCE JANE ENGLISH is the new engi­ library. neering librarian at University of Nevada. MRS. ELisE CHIN is in the catalog division HANS FABIAN has been appointed librarian of University of Washington libraries. of the foreign languages graduate library at K YUNG CHoi is now a reference librarian Ohio State University, Columbus. at Ohio State University, Columbus. EARL FARLEY has been appointed to a new MRs. RuTH CHRISTENSEN has been appoint­ position as library systems specialist at Uni­ ed education librarian at Los Angeles State versity of Kansas, Lawrence. College. MARY MASSEY FIELDS has been named to NoRMAN FoRD CLARKE has been appointed the catalog division of City College library, assistant professor of library science at Uni­ New York. versity of Kentucky, Lexington. He was li­ DoNALD FERRIS is the new head of the brarian at Jamestown (N.D.) College. order unit of Purdue University libraries. MRs. BERTHA CoDDINGTON has been named JANE FLIEGER was appointed acquisitions commerce librarian of the University of Illi­ assistant in the University of Idaho library nois, Urbana. on July 1. ANNA CoNDIT has joined the cataloging RosEMARY FRANCis is a new appointee in staff at University of Kansas libraries, Law­ the undergraduate library at University of rence. Washington. SARAH ANN CooK is assistant order librar­ LoRNA D. FRASER is now assistant direc­ ian at Purdue University. tor of York Universities libraries, and librar­ JAMES CoRBETT is now humanities librar­ ian at Glendon Hall in Toronto. ian at University of Oregon library. JoHANNA E. FRITSCHE has been appointed JuNE MARY CouGHLIN is a new assistant to the staff of Sonoma State College library,

NOVEMBER 1963 515 Cotati, Calif., where she will be music and brarian at Southern Illinois University, Car­ phonorecord cataloger. bondale. JAcK I. GARDNER has been appointed as­ DwiGHT HuMPHREY is librarian in the cat­ sistant catalog librarian at University of Ne­ alog department of University of Oregon. vada. MRs. AuDREY IvERSEN has returned to Uni­ RoBERT GAYLOR has been appointed as­ versity of Illinois library, Urbana, as classics sistant reference librarian at the University librarian. of Kansas libraries, Lawrence. JAMES L. IzATT has been appointed a fel­ LAUREL GoRDON is an assistant acquisitions low in the library department of City Col­ librarian at Los Angeles State -College. lege, New York. RICHARD GRAY has been named senior ref­ LILLIAN M. JAcKsoN joined the staff of erence librarian at Ohio State University, Sacramento State College as assistant librar­ Columbus. ian in education and psychology reference. JOHN B. GRIGGS has joined the reference MRs. CECILE JIRGAL is newly appointed to staff at Purdue University libraries. the serials department at UCLA. PORTIA HAWLEY GRISWOLD is the new seri­ JosEPH JoHN became librarian of the chem­ als librarian at University of Nevada. istry library at University of North Carolina, MRs. ILENE HAMMOND has been appointed Chapel Hill, on August 19. technical services librarian at Parsons Col­ ELIZABETH JOHNSON joined the staff of Drexel Institute of Technology library as lege, Fairfield, Iowa. acquisitions librarian, on October 1. MRS. PATRICIA EVANS HAMPTON is gifts JoHN M. JoHNSON has been appointed to and exchange librarian at University of Kan- . the reference department of North Carolina sas, Lawrence. State at Raleigh. RoGER K. HANSON is circulation librarian MRS. MARGUERITE JONES joined the cata­ at University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. loging staff at Sacramento State College in . BRUCE HARRISON became head librarian at September, as assistant librarian. Ferrum Junior College (Va.) in September. MRS. SARAH JONES is DOW on the biomed­ LouisE HARSCH has joined the staff of ical library staff at UCLA. University of California, Santa Barbara li­ MRs. SHIRLEY JoNES is a new serials li­ brary as a member of the government publi­ brarian at Washington University libraries, cations and serials department. St. Louis. HARRIS HAUGE is now head librarian at SHARAD 0. KARKHANIS is on the education Monmouth (Ill.) College. department staff of Brooklyn College library. RoBERT J. HAVLIK has been named re­ MARGUERITE KAUFMAN has returned to search library specialist at the Library Ser­ University of Illinois library, Urbana, as vices Branch of USOE. assistant architecture librarian. RoBERTA HAYES is now circulation librar­ MRs. MARY WARD KERBY has been ap­ ian in the Peabody College division of Joint pointed assistant reference librarian at Uni­ University libraries, Nashville. versity of Kansas libraries, Lawrence. LoUISA V. HEETH became fine arts librar­ HELEN M. KING is a new cataloger at Vir­ ian at Ohio University, Athens, on Septem­ ginia Polytechnic Institute library, Blacks­ ber 1. burg. NoLA A. HoBBS is now a cataloger at Vir­ HAROLD KIPP is now bibliographer at Ohio ginia Polytechnic Institute library, Blacks­ State University libraries, Columbus·. burg. Orro KIRCHNER-DEAN is the new com­ BERNARD H. HoucKY is now on the refer­ merce librarian, Ohio State University, Co­ ence staff at Purdue University libraries. lumbus. EDWARD G. HoLLMAN was appointed social SYDNEY A. KNEEBONE has joined the newly science librarian at University of Oregon created serials division of City College li­ on October l. brary, New York. JoHN HouKES has been appointed indus­ ANDREW KoLESTAR' fills a new appointment trial administration and agricultural econom­ in exchanges and searching at Ohio Univer­ ics librarian at Purdue University libraries. sity, Athens. WILLIS M. HuBBARD is assistant science li- RICHARD KoziCKI is bibliographer for Asian

516 COLLEGE AND RESEARC~ H LIBRARIES studies in the acqulS1Uons department at MoNWELLA McQUILLON has been appoint­ University of Illinois, Urbana. ed periodicals librarian at Los Angeles State A. F. KuHLMAN, director emeritus of the College. Joint University libraries, Nashville, spent JAMES R. MACKLIN is now reference librar­ the month of October in Ankara, Turkey, ian at Jacksonville (Fla.) University. serving as library building consultant under JOSEPHINE MAILLARD became a reference the sponsorship of UNES~O to the Middle librarian at University of Oregon library, East Technical University. Eugene, on September 1. JoAN LANDO is now assistant documents RoBERT MALINOWSKY is the new assistant librarian at Ohio State University libraries, science and engineering librarian at Univer­ Columbus. sity of Kansas, Lawrence. MARGARET LAPPIN is now in charge of the RICHARD MANDELL has become bibliog­ curriculum collection at University of Penn­ rapher at York University libraries, Toronto. sylvania libraries. DOROTHY MANNING is a new member of the MARIE V. LAVIS is a cataloger in York Uni­ cataloging staff at University of Oregon. versity libraries, Toronto. RoBERT B. MARBERRY became a member of MRs. EMMA Lou LECKY has been appointed the staff of Sonoma State College library, head of the card preparation unit and as­ Cotati, Calif., at the end of August. sistant head of the processing division of J. D. P. MARTIN has been appointed chief Purdue University libraries. librarian of Trent University, Toronto. MRs. KANGHEE LEE is with the Far Eastern RAIMUND E. MATTHIS became technical library at University of Washington libraries. services librarian at University of Puget WEI-CHENG LEE has been appointed as­ Sound, Tacoma, Wash., in April. sistant circulation librarian at University of CLARA MAYER has been appointed to the Kansas libraries, Lawrence. social studies division of City College library, RoBERTA LEMONS is now a catalog librar­ New York, as Russell Sage collection librar­ ian in the medical division of Joint Univer­ ian. sity libraries, Nashville. DANIEL LAl\fAR METTs, JR., has been ap­ MoLIN LEo has been appointed assistant pointed librarian of Mercer University, Ma­ catalog librarian at Los Angeles State Col­ con, Ga. lege. EDwARD B. MICKLE has accepted assign­ JosEPH LIA has been named to the catalog ment in the reference and acquisitions di­ department staff at University of California, visions at City College library, New York. Santa Barbara library. BRADLEY F. MILLARD has been appointed JOHN J. LIBERTY has joined the staff of reference librarian at the University of Puget Sacramento State College as assistant acqui­ Sound, Tacoma, Wash. sitions librarian. MRs. A VIS MITCHEM is now serials librarian MARTY LIGHTWOOD is a new reference staff at Jacksonville (Fla.) University. member at Lippincott library of the Univer­ HENRY S. MONTAGUE, JR., has been ap­ sity of Pennsylvania. pointed head of cataloging at Virginia Poly­ JEANNE LoPEZ is the new browsing room technic Institute library, Blacksburg. librarian at Ohio State University libraries, BEATRICE MoNTGOMERY began work on Columbus. July I as head of the searching section of SusAN LosHER is a member of the;! City Col­ the acquisitions department at University of lege, New York, library staff in the humani­ North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ties and acquisitions divisions. WALDO H. MooRE has been named chief MRs. HELENE BERTRAND McCuTCHON is of the reference section of the Library of now acquisitions librarian at York Univer­ Congress Copyright Office. sity libraries, Toronto. MERWIN W. MooRES is now assistant head JoHN W. McELROY has been appointed of the reference division and head social head of the preparations section of the Li­ sciences librarian at University of Washing­ brary of Congress manuscript division. ton libraries. DuLcE D. McLEAN is a cataloger at Lip­ WILLIAM T. MoRRIS, JR., has been named pincott library, University of Pennsylvania. to the staff of American Institute of Aero-

NOVEMBER 1963 517 nautics and Astronautics, New York, as in­ division staff at University of Washington dex editor. He has been with the IBM data libraries. systems division. DoNALD PETTY is now a staff member in MRs. VIOLET NDENGA is newly appointed to the general reference division of City College the reference division of University of Wash­ library, New York. ington libraries. Miss JoHNNIE L. PHILLIPS has been ap­ WALTER L. NECKER has assumed the post pointed special a,ssistant in reference and of librarian-curator of the Wood library and special services, at Northwestern University museum of anaesthesiology at Park Ridge, libraries, Evanston, Ill. Ill., which was dedicated on November 3. WILLIAM PHoENIX is now assistant director MRs. MARJORIE NELSON has been ap­ of the libraries, University of Missouri at pointed assistant periodicals librarian at Los Kansas City. He continues as chief of tech­ Angeles State College. nical services there. PHILIP L. NESBEITT was appointed to the ELLEN T. PuGH is now senior catalog li­ general reference division of City College brarian at University of Oregon library. library, New York, early in 1963. WILLIAM L. RAMIREZ is head of the de­ ANDRE NITEKI is now assistant librarian at partment of rare books and special collec­ the University of Lagos, Nigeria. tions at San Francisco public library. ALICE I. NoLTE has been appointed science RICHARD RANK assumed his new duties at librarian at University of Oregon. Loyola University, Los Angeles, where he has MRs. JEANNE NoRTH has been appointed been appointed law librarian. head engineering librarian at Stanford Uni­ MRS. BARBARA RAPOPORT is a cataloger at versity. UCLA. MRs. CAROLYN NOURSE is a new cataloger MRs. loNE REDFORD has joined the library at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. staff in the undergraduate division at Uni­ MIGHA F . . OPPENHEIM has been appointed versity of Washington libraries. librarian of the Paula K. Lazarus library of GERALD RENNER became head of circula­ intergroup relations, National Conference of tion and reference at the College of William Christians and Jews, in New York City. and Mary library, Williamsburg, Va., in Sep­ MRs. MARYDE FAHEY ORR has joined the tember. General Electric Company's Schenectady lab­ GEORGE RENTZ joined the staff of the oratories as chief reference librarian. Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif., as cur­ LAURA OsBORN is now reference librarian ator of its Middle Eastern collection on at the health center library at Ohio State September I. University, Columbus. LoRETTA ANNE RICHEY is assistant catalog PHILIP C. OxLEY has joined the City Col­ librarian at University of Nevada. lege library, New York, as audio-visual li­ BuRTON A. RoBIE has accepted the position brarian in the Bernard Baruch school of of librarian of Windham College, Putney, business and public administration. Vt. MRS. KATHERINE PACKER has become chief MRs. SIEGLINDE RooNEY has joined the cataloger in the York University libraries, acquisitions staff at York University libraries, Toronto. Toronto. WILLIAM L. PAGE is assistant librarian of GERALD R. Rossi is on the cataloging staff Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, at Brooklyn College library. N.Y. FRED RoPER is now a member of the bio­ ELENA p ANAJOTOVIC has been appointed to medical library staff at UCLA. the newly created position of assistant ref­ DELoREs FERMINA RoviROSA has been ap­ erence librarian at Occidental College, Los pointed to the cataloging staff of Southern Angeles. Illinois U ni versi ty. J. CARLYLE PARKER has been appointed to MARTHA RuDYK has been appointed a fel­ the library staff of Stanislaus State College, low in the library department at City Col­ Turlock, Calif. He will be in charge of pub­ lege, New York. lic services. MRs. RASMA RuGELIS is a cataloger at York MRs. Lois PARKER has joined the reference University libraries, Toronto.

518 C O LLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MARTIN SABLE is now language arts librar­ MRs. LEoTA C. STEWART became catalog ian at Los Angeles State College. librarian at Carleton College, Northfield, JoHN SAEGER became reference librarian at Minn., on September 16. Occidental College, Los Angeles, early this MRs. MARION STUART joined the acquisi­ autumn. tions staff at University of California, Berke­ JoHN B. ST. LEGER is an assistant social ley on October I. studies librarian at Southern Illinois Univer­ CURTIS W. STUCKI is now head of the cat­ sity. alog division at University of Washington FLORENCE A. SALINGER has been named libraries. head of the dental school library at Univer­ MRs. ERIKA SvuKSTS is a new member of sity of Pennsylvania. the social sciences department of Brooklyn EuGENE N. SALMON has been appointed to College library. the California State library, Sacramento. He DoRIS ANN SwANSON became assistant so­ was head circulation librarian at University cial science and business administration ref­ of Oregon, and head of information services erence librarian at Sacramento State College, of the Library Technology Project. on October I. DoROTHY ScHERER joined the reference ELEANOR SYMONS has been appointed head staff at University of Oregon on October I. of the preparat.ions department at University KATHARINE SCHWARTZ is a new cataloger at of Kansas libraries, Lawrence. University of California, · Santa Barbara li­ STEPHAN TAR.czy was appointed to the brary. cataloging staff at University of California, PHILIP JoHN SCHWARZ has joined the li­ Berkeley,, on September 9. brary of University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, pAMELA J. THAXTER is on the cataloging Wash., as public services librarian. staff at Brooklyn College library. HAROLD S. SHARP is engineering informa­ JuDY J. TING has been appointed to the tion analyst at Lockheed-Georgia Company, library staff at Stanislaus State College, Tur­ Marietta, Ga. lock, Calif., and will work in cataloging and CHRISTA C. Y. SHIH has been appointed to acquisitions. the City College library, New York, as a YING JI TING has joined the cataloging cataloger in the Bernard Baruch school of staff at UCLA. business and public administration. MARY FRANCES TIPTON .is now serials li­ BARLETT SIGERSON has joined the staff of brarian at Alabama College library, Monte­ City College, New York, as science librarian. vallo. RoNALD SILVERA is now a member of the MRs. GEORGIANNA TITUS has been ap­ reference staff at University of California, pointed head of engineering and physical Santa Barbara library. sciences branches at University of California, BARBARA SILVERNAIL is new in the govern­ Berkeley. ment publications room at UCLA. UNICE J. ToussAINT recently joined the WENDELL SIMONS has been appointed as­ faculty at Colorado College in Colorado sistant university librarian at University of Springs as reference-documents librarian. California, Santa Cruz. JAcK TsuKAMOTo is the new reference li­ JERRY SKAGGS has been named to the tech­ brarian at Monmouth College library. nical services staff of University of Missouri JoHN VANDERMOLEN has accepted a posi­ at Kansas City libraries. tion as assistant to the librarian at Wiscon­ LELAND R. SMITH is science and technology sin State College library, Platteville. librarian at Los Angeles State College. . MRs. DoRIS JEAN VAUGHN became assistant PAUL SPENCE became history and political librarian at the university school of Southern science librarian at University of Illinois li­ Illinois University on September 2. brary, Urbana. JoHN VEENSTRA began eighteen months' ADOLFS SPRUDZS is now foreign law library leave of absence from Purdue University li­ assistant at University of Illinois, Urbana. braries on September 18 to go to Cali, Co­ MRs. MATILDA STARNS is the new assistant lombia, where he will serve as acting director order librarian at Southern Illinois Univer­ of libraries of Universidad del Valle. sity. MRs. BLANCHE VITROGAN has been ap-

NOVEMBER 1963 519 pointed to the humanities department staff FOREIGN LIBRARIES at Brooklyn College library. EvERT VoLKERSZ has joined the acquisitions HELMUT PRESSER is now director of the staff at UCLA. Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. DAVID WALKER, JR., has been named head JEAN PIERRE SYDLER is director of the li­ of administrative services of the Stanford brary of the Eidgenossische Technische university libraries. Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland. KENNETH G. WALTER is assistant cataloging librarian at Ohio University, Athens. NECROLOGY SzE-TsENG WANG is East Asian cataloger at CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM died in Worcester, Ohio State University, Columbus. Mass., on August 13. He was emeritus li­ DoNALD WATT, JR., has been appointed to brarian, president, and director of the Amer­ a new position at Princeton University li­ ican Antiquarian Society. brary, that of assistant to the librarian. FRANCEs LuNBECK BRowN died on October MARGARET WEAKLEY has joined the staff 4. For the past eighteen years she has been of the school of medicine library at Univer­ chief reference librarian at University of sity of Virginia, as serials librarian. Denver. MRs. CoNSTANCE WEIDE has been named LUCILLE DUFFY, head of the cataloging to the chemistry library staff at UCLA. division at University of Washington library MRs. CAROLYN R. WIER is a new reference died on July 29, after twenty-three years of and acquisitions assistant at Carleton Col­ service. lege library, Northfield, Minn. Lucy FAY, former professor at Columbia GLADYS WALKER WHITE is now engineer­ University, twice head librarian at Univer­ ing librarian at Princeton University library. sity of Tennessee and acting librarian at RuTH W. WHITE is associate professor of Temple University, died at Chapel Hill, library science at University of Southern N.C., on August 8. Mississippi, Hattiesburg. She has been head WILLIA KATHRYN GARVER, for twenty­ librarian at Brevard Junior College, Cocoa, eight years associated with the University of Fla. Illinois library, died on July 31. She was as­ CLARK E. WILLIAMS is the first university sistant university librarian for acquisitions archivist at Ohio University, Athens. at the time of-her retirement in 1947. MRs. Lucy SuE WILLIAMS has been named CARL H. MILAM, executive secretary of circulation librarian at Baylor University li­ ALA from I920 to 1948, died on August 25 brary. at his home in Barrington, Ill. JUDITH WINOGRAD is a new member of the EVGENII IVANOVICH SHAMURIN, Russian humanities division staff, City College li­ bibliographer, died December I, I962. brary, New York. CHARLES WINSTON is the newly appointed RETiREMENTS book selection officer at Washington U niver­ sity libraries, St. Louis. MILDRED C. CHUTTER, head cataloger at YvoNNE WuLFF is the library intern at Ohio University, Athens, retired in July. Ohio State University, Columbus. FRANCES CLAYTON, assistant librarian at MRs. PATRICIA RINGER YAMAMOTO is now Texas Western College, El Paso, retired on browsing room librarian at Illini Union, October I, after twenty years with the library. Urbana. VIOLETTE CosTABEL retired at the end of DuDLEY YATES is public service librarian at August after more than twenty-five years with Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa. the cataloging staff at Stanford University. MRs. JANET YEE became a member of the SYLVIA GILMORE has retired after nearly health sciences library staff at University of thirty years as browsing room librarian at Washington libraries this autumn. University of Illinois, Urbana. MRS. MARIE ZIELINSKA has been appointed RoBERT H. HAYNES, assistant librarian of to a new cataloging position at University of Harvard College library, retired last summer. Montreal. EsTHER M. RILE retired on July I as chief

520 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES librarian_ Qf University of Redlands (Calif.) of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash., for more library. than thirty years. LOUIS I. IBBOTSON, librarian of the Univer­ ABI RussELL, who has been director of li­ sity of Maine, Orono, retired on July 1. He braries at Alabama College, Montevallo, since had been with the university for more than 1931, retired this autumn. thirty years. VERONICA J. SEXTON retired in August from EDITH JoNEs retired on September 1 from the position she had held for thirty-three her position as classics librarian at Univer­ years, that of librarian of the California sity of Illinois, Urbana, after thirty-four years Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. with the library. MRs. VIOLET SHuE retired on August 31 RICHARD S. MACCARTENEY, chief of the from the staff of the Hoover Institution at reference division of the copyright office at Stanford University. During most of the past Library of Congress since 1947 retired in forty-one years Mrs. Shue has served in var­ August. ious capacities in the libraries of Stanford, MARGARET GAYLEY PALMER retired as li­ the Hoover Institution, and University of brarian of the dental school at University of California, Santa Barbara. Pennsylvania in June. CHARLES HoLMEs STONE, university librar­ WARREN L. PERRY retired on September I ian of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., retired after serving as librarian of the University on September 1. · • •

Junior College Library Handbook Collection

A COLLECTION of student handbooks gathered available at the ALA conference in Chicago. from over fifty junior college libraries has At that time some of the handbooks, which been placed at ALA headquarters in Chi­ were exceptionally well done, were displayed. cago. This collection is available on interli­ Many librarians who visited the ACRL booth brary loan to interested librarians or librar­ examined the handbooks, requested copies ies. of the standards, and, in general, evidenced The Committee on Instruction and Use, a genuine interest in the preparation and use of the Junior College Library Section of of such library guides. ACRL, has made a study of student hand­ For those who were not able to see the books over the past two years. Initially, ques­ handbooks at ALA, there is now opportunity tionnaires concerning library instruction and to borrow them for more leisurely examina­ the use of library handbooks were circulated tion. Those that are especially recommended to all junior college librarians in the United for comprehensiveness of coverage and dis­ States. Handbooks were requested from the tinguished format include those from Flint responding librarians. Community College, Foothill College, Los Committee members then proceeded to Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Valley study the handbooks themselves and to for­ College, Pasadena City College, Stephens mulate standards for an "ideal" library hand­ College, and Wright Junior College. 'book for junior college students. The stan­ However, the librarian who is revising a dards dealing with format (size, reproduction handbook, or preparing one for the first time, techniques, etc.) and content (the card cata­ will find all of the handbooks very helpfuL­ log, circulation regulations, reference ser­ Alice B. Griffith, Chairman, Committee on vices) were compiled in June 1963 and made Instruction and Use.

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