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A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY of Mexi- Specialized Science Information Service in can books, published during 1957-60, is avail- the United States: A Directory of Selected able under the title Mexico Bibliografico. It Specialized Information Services in the Physi- lists 4,332 works issued by 212 publishers. cal and Biological Sciences has been issued by Books of all types are covered, including the National Science Foundation (November, translations in science, economics, history, 1961, 528p.). The statements about each political science, children's books, and fiction. service includes the name, scope, user quali- Mexico Bibliografico was compiled by Jose- fications, collection, information services, and fina Berroa with assistance from the Insti- publications. It should be of exceptional help tuto del Libro Mexicano, and financial aid to reference . from the R. R. Bowker Company. Outside THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Punch-Card Mexico and Cuba copies may be obtained Methods in Research and Documentation, from R. R. Bowker Company, 62 West 45th with Special Reference to Biology (based on Street, New York 36, N.Y., at $12 each net the second revised German edition by Martin postpaid. Scheele) has been provided by J. E. Holms- British Technology Index, a cumulative in- trom (New York, Interscience Publishers, dex to British technical journals, began pub- 1961, 274p„ $9.50). Punched-card methods lication in January 1962. Initially 400 titles (machine, needle, visual), general rules and will be analyzed. The publication will ap- experience in applying punched card meth- pear monthly and will be cumulated an- ods, and practical examples of applications nually. The publisher is the Library Associ- are discussed in the volume. Illustrations ac- ation, Chaucer House, Malet Place, London, company the text. W.C. 1; price: 15 guineas ($50). THE SECOND EDITION of Reference Service, Christian Periodical Index, volume 1, by S. R. Ranganathan, has been published 1956-1960, is available from the Buffalo Bible by Asia Publishing House (1961, Taplinger Institute Book Store, 910 Union Road, Buf- Publishing Co., 119 West 57th Street, New falo, N.Y.; list price, $12.50; special offer to York 19, N.Y., 433p., $7.75). previous subscribers, $10.95. The 5-year cum- ulation is produced by the Christian Librari- K. A. LODEWYCKS, of the Univer- ans' Fellowship. sity of Melbourne, has issued Essentials in Library Planning (1961, 136p.). This is a The Farmington Plan Handbook, Revised detailed analysis of the plans, layouts, areas, to 1961 and Abridged, by Edwin E. Williams, needs of various groups, ventilation, light- has been released by the Association of Re- ing, and practically all other aspects of the search Libraries (copies sold by Office of the library building. Mr. Lodewycks spent some Executive Secretary, Association of Research time in the United States and has been Libraries, Cornell University Library, Ith- involved with construction of the new library aca, N.Y.). "This volume does not supplant at the University of Melbourne. the original edition of 1953 for historical purposes," writes Mr. Williams. In general THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESS has the procedure has been to tie this edition to published Research Opportunities in Ameri- the 1953 publication by not repeating cer- can Cultural History, edited by John Francis tain information, but carrying it forward. McDermott (Lexington, Ky., 1961, 205p. The new edition contains a section on the $6.00). Among the contributors are Lester Vosper-Talmadge survey. Part VI of the Cappon, Howard H. Peckham, Thomas D. work is a list of "Countries, Agents, and Ad- Clark, Theodore C. Blegen, Richard M. Dor- visers." There is a bibliographical supple- son, John T. Flanagan, David Kaser, David ment on the plan, covering the years 1953- Mead, E. P. Richardson, and Philip D. Jor- 1961. dan.

MARCH 1962 155 The First Century at the University of Michigan. The two are the National Union Washington, 1861-1961, by Charles M. Gates Catalog, 1952 to 1955 Imprints, and the has been issued by the University of Wash- Union List of Microfilms, Cumulation 1949- ington Press (1961, 252p., $7.50). This illus- 1959. trated, attractively printed book contains a The National Union Catalog publication number of references to the library in the de- was sponsored by the ALA Committee on Re- velopment of the educational and research sources of American Libraries, and was com- programs at the University. piled by the Union Catalog Division of the Library of Congress. This catalog is an ex- THE SEVENTEENTH EDITION of the useful A tension of the National Union Catalog, 1952 History of Architecture, by Sir Banister to 1956. It doubles the number of mono- Fletcher (revised by R. A. Cordingley) has graphic titles listed in the Library of Con- been published by Charles Scribner's Sons gress catalogs for this period. The thirty (New York, 1961, 1366p., $16.75). Illustrations volumes have a total of 26,000 pages and are in the volume have been increased from 549 library bound in buckram. The total price to 652, art paper has been used for the for the set is $420.00. whole work, and the chapters on Renais- The Union List of Microfilms, Cumula- sance architecture has been considerably ex- tion 1949 to 1959 is the last such reference panded by fuller treatment of Baroque archi- to be compiled by the Philadelphia Biblio- tecture. Entirely rewritten are chapters on graphical Center and the Union Library Belgian and Dutch, Chinese, Indian, Japa- Catalogue. It lists more than 52,000 micro- nese, and Muslim architecture. films reported by 200 libraries in the United

THE 1962 ISSUE of The Bowker Annual of States and Canada. Long runs of scientific Library ancl Book Trade Information has periodicals, as well as music manuscripts and appeared. Formerly the American Library medical monographs are listed for the first ir Book Trade Annual, this volume, like its time. The two volumes totaling over 1400 predecessors, contains a large amount of in- pages are bound in buckram and priced at formation and statistical data of various types $35.00 for the set. of libraries, publishing and the book trade, Who's Who, 1962 edition, will be published librarians, associations, and committees. and distributed in the United States by There are also available an activities index, St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New the 1961 library buying guide, and a general York City. It was previously published in index. (R. R. Bowker, 62 West 45th St., New this country by The Macmillan Co., also of York 36, $6.95). New York. St Martin's has taken over the standing orders from Macmillan, so those PUBLICATION of two major library refer- libraries which have been receiving Who's ence works was announced December 15 by Who need not reorder. The 1962 edition will J. W. Edwards, Publisher, Inc. of Ann Arbor, be published and distributed on March 21.

Miscellaneous

Two RECENT CRANTS by the Council on Li- transmit interlibrary loans directly from one brary Resources, Inc., were: state academic library to another by special To the Society of American Archivists, courier system. The study will be made by $42,000 for a study of state archival agen- LeMoyne W. Anderson, librarian at Colo- cies and programs, with a view to setting rado State University, Fort Collins. standards and pointing the way to improve- ment. The study, to be completed by June A CONFERENCE, "Information Retrieval in 1963, will be made by Ernest Posner, 1815 Action," sponsored by the Center for Docu- South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington, Va. mentation and Communication Research of To the Association of State Institutions of the School of Library Science, Western Re- Higher Education in Colorado, $5,000 to de- serve University, will be held in Cleveland, termine whether it is feasible to establish a Ohio, April 18-20, 1962. The purpose will cooperative technical processing program and be to review research development and op-

156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES erational activities related to machine litera- erature and Librarianship, July 3 to ture searching systems using the GE 225 gen- Aug. 11. eral-purpose computer. Registration fee for Emory University, School of Library Sci- the conference is $10. Further details, and a ence, Atlanta: Medical Librarianship, conference program when available, may be June 18 to July 27. obtained by writing to the Center at West- University of Southern California, School ern Reserve University, 10831 Magnolia of Library Science, Los Angeles: Bib- Drive, Cleveland 6. liography of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences, June 25 to Aug. 3. THE ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART has a new home in New York. The new location of the Archives is in the American Federation of Applications for the scholarships should be Arts Building at 41 East 65th Street, New sent to the dean of the library school in each York 21. case.

Dartmouth College Library Bulletin for NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE'S electronic December 1961 is devoted entirely to critical information storage and retrieval system will and biographical materials relating to Wal- be developed by the General Electric Co. lace Stevens. Copies will be sent gratis to under contract with the Public Health Serv- academic and public libraries that ask for ice. The computer-based system will be them. Address the Dartmouth College Li- known as MEDLARS (Medical Literature brary, Hanover, N.H. Analysis and Retrieval System), and will en-

THE ILLINOIS COMMITTEE ON HUMAN able the library to broaden and accelerate RIGHTS in Higher Education has issued a re- its services to medical education, research and vised "Statement of Policy Relative to Fair practice. Practices in Higher Education" which is available free, in single copies, from its secre- WASHINGTON, D.C., AREA university librari- tary, Mrs. A. B. Counselbaum, 343 South ans took part in an informal half-day confer- Dearborn Street, Chicago 4, Illinois. The ence on reserve book procedures at George- statement deals with such matters as admis- town University Library in mid-January. The sions, scholarships, grants, loans, curriculum, conference was welcomed by the librarian of extra-curricular activities and student or- Georgetown University, Joseph E. Jeffs, ganization, housing, staff and student em- and was chaired by the assistant librarian, ployment and student placement. Sam Waters. Librarians participating in conference included Mrs. C. Manning, from THE 1961 ANNUAL MEETING of the Medical American University, James P. Johnson, Library Association will be held in Chicago from Howard University, Sal Costabile, from June 4-8, 1962. Convention chairman from Georgetown University, and Mrs. is Donald Washburn, 222 E. Superior Ct„ Katherine A. Cima, from the University of Chicago 11. Maryland. THE NATIONAL MICROFILM ASSOCIATION will hold its 11th annual convention April THE LOUISIANA STATE LIBRARY is offering 25-27, 1962 at the Mayflower Hotel, Washing- two $2,000 scholarships for the 1962-63 aca- ton, D.C. More than 75 microfilm equipment demic year, for graduate study leading to a manufacturers, dealers, and service com- master's degree in Library Science. An- panies will exhibit systems and equipment. nouncement of these grants, which are in- cluded in this library's state plan and made THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION is of- possible through funds available under the fering a scholarship of $150 for each of the Library Services Act, is made by Dr. Essae M. following courses in medical librarianship to Culver, state librarian. Upon completion of be given during the 1962 Summer session. their degrees, recipients will be expected to Students who complete the courses will be work for at least two years in a Louisiana eligible for MLA Grade I certification. public library which serves rural areas in the , School of Library State. Application papers must be filed by Service, New York City: Medical Lit- April 15, 1962.

MARCH 1 962 157 Acquisitions, Gifts, Collections

THE MATTHEWS LIBRARY, Arizona State dence relates primarily to the Maryland University at Tempe, has received the law Senatorial campaign of 1950. Also included library collection of William E. Brooks, Ar- are political questionnaires, records of cam- izona legislator and lawyer, from his sister, paign contributions, election returns, radio Mrs. Carolina A. Edwards, Colton, Califor- scripts, scrapbooks of clippings and other nia. materials covering a wide range of political subjects. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY,

Los Angeles, recently acquired a major col- THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY lection of books by and about Captain James LIBRARY at Harvard University has purchased Cook (1728-1779). Included in the collection, the Austin Collection of Japanese ornitho- gathered by Sir Maurice Holmes during the logical literature which includes a few Chi- past 35 years, are materials on Cook's voyages nese and Korean books and some on general and his standing in the history of explora- natural history from these countries. The tion and advancement of geographical knowl- acquisition makes the library's holdings of edge. Japanese bird books the most complete in

JOINT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES at Nashville, the western world. serving Peabody and Scarritt Colleges and A MAJOR SHIPMENT of rare manuscripts on Vanderbilt University, has received gifts of microfilm has been received by the Library nearly $10,000 to establish a collection of of Judaica and Hebraica at New York Uni- southern literature in memory of Edwin versity's Washington Square Center, from Mims, professor of English at Vanderbilt the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Acad- University for fifty years. emy of Sciences. The new material brings to

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA will re- more than 15,000 the number of valuable ceive the literary papers of William C. Len- historical documents on microfilm acquired gel, editor and author. Mr. Lengel's initial in Russia and Hungary for the NYU library gift to the university consists of original by Professor Abraham I. Katsh, curator of manuscripts of novels and short stories, first the library. These items have not previously editions of some of his books, unpublished been available to scholars in the western correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, and world. personally inscribed photographs of prom- The microfilm received recently from inent people. Budapest contained the second half of the David Kaufmann collection, of which the BAKER LIBRARY of the Harvard Business first half arrived at NYU last July. The col- School has received a collection relating to lection includes manuscripts pertaining to the beginnings of the scientific management the Bible, codices, commentaries on Hebrew movement. The donor is J. Christian Barth literature; documents relating to Talmudic of Philadelphia, son of Carl G. Barth, who scholarship and religious laws; works on was one of the first to put into effect the liturgy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, teachings of Frederick W. Taylor. The col- theology, and philosophy; and historical lection includes historical materials, draw- articles. Some date as far back as the year ings, and notebooks of forms and blueprints 1021. drawn up by the Barths (father and son) for the companies for which they served as con- ADDITIONS to the holdings of the Harry S. sultants, glass slides, a unique assemblage of Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, slide rules, and some fifty printed volumes, included papers donated by Dillon S. Myer, many of them inscribed by the authors. Joseph M. Jones, and N. T. Veatch, Kansas City engineer who was associated with former UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LIBRARIES has President Truman in the county road build- acquired the papers of Millard E. Tydings ing program. Among many photographs ac- (1890-1961). Tydings served in Congress as quired were several hundred relating to the Representative from 1923 to 1927, and as early career of Mr. Truman and his Jackson Senator from 1927 to 1951. His correspon- County background, and current photo-

158 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES graphs of the visits of Vice President John- Atlantic Monthly, and The Family Weekly. son, General Eisenhower, and others. There are thirty-two reviews either by or about Miss Sandoz's works appearing in The EUGENE G. GOTTSCHALK of Bronxville, New Saturday Review, New York Times, Wash- York, has given to the University of Wyo- ington Post, New York Herald Tribune, ming Library an extensive collection of the New York Sun, New York World-Telegram, works of Mari Sandoz. The Gottschalk col- Nebraska History and the Westerners Brand lection includes: first editions, all auto- Book. The collection is completed by several graphed, of Old Jules (1935); Sloqum House letters by Miss Sandoz on historical topics, (1937); Capital City (1939); Crazy Horse three working maps used in Old Jules and (1942); The Tom-Walker (1947); Cheyenne Capital City; and copies of talks, awards re- Autumn (1953); Winter Thunder (1954); ceived and programs given by Miss Sandoz. The Buffalo Hunters (1954); Miss Morissa (1955); The Horsecatcher (1956); The Cat- YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has recently re- tlemen (1958); Hostiles and Friendlies (1959); ceived from Hans P. Kraus, New York rare Son of the Gamblin' Man (1960); Love Song book dealer, the late Robert Sterling Clark's to the Plains (1961); and These Were the collection of books on horsemanship. The Sioux (1961). In addition to the above vol- gift comprises 800 books and 600 pamphlets umes there are forty-four articles written by dealing with all aspects of equitation, includ- Miss Sandoz which have appeared in such ing riding, breeding, training, and care of publications as: Saturday Evening Post, horses in many countries of the world. It American Heritage, Prairie Schooner, North will enrich Yale's collection of sporting American Review, Ladies Home Journal, books.

Buildings

THE RECENTLY OPENED new science library THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE will begin of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, is construction of a new library in the spring of an almost windowless 3-story and basement 1962. Costing $3,127,000, and having 110,000 structure. The million dollar building, gift square feet of floor space, the building will of three local industrialists, houses collec- provide for storage of 600,000 volumes, and tions in the sciences, engineering, and mathe- study space for 1,000 students. Two-thirds of matics. Services to industry in the region are the seating will be individual study carrels in emphasized and cooperative arrangements the bookstack. The new building will be with nearby special libraries are under con- completed and occupied by September 1963. sideration. Mobile Libraries—a la Camel Harry Norris, a lecturer at the London and he took notes by hand. Valuable in- School of Oriental and African studies, formation in these books, estimated by a has traveled across Mauritania by jeep local scholar to total at least 2,000 books and camel, in a battle against time, to on all subjects, could still be saved if find the camel-borne libraries that the prompt action is taken to photograph nomads carry from one camping site to them. Among these is a twelfth century another. Every year many pages of irre- commentary on the Koran by the noted placeable manuscripts become dilapi- Middle East scholar, Abu Hilal Al-Askari. dated beyond recognition, and records of Mr. Norris believes it to be an original historical events, throwing light on the in the author's own handwriting. Its ancient civilization of the Sahara, are brown pages, partly eaten by termites, are lost forever. now stiff and crumbling, and Mr. Norris Norris reports that after copying hun- fears than in another few years little dreds of pages, his stock of film ran out may be left of it.

MARCH 1962 159 Personnel

T. N. MCMULLAN'S appointment as direc- of the Library Section, Louisiana College tor of libraries at Louisiana State University, Conference. His faculty activities include announced December 16, disproves such old membership in the American Association of adages as "The grass University Professors, in which he is serving is greener," and "A a second year as vice-president, and on the prophet is not with- Policies Committee, Faculty Council. out honor." His three His off-campus and nonlibrary interests degrees are from are centered largely in the Kiwanis Club, for L.S.U. His entire which he has served as Key Club advisor to professional career the Baton Rouge £ligh School, and the Re- has been spent in serve Officers Association of the United the service of the in- States, of which he has been president of the stitution the librar- Louisiana chapter. His military service in- ies of which he now cluded one year overseas in AFPAC, General heads. His ability to McArthur's headquarters. He is now retired discharge the respon- with the rank of lieutenant colonel. T. N. McMullan sibilities of the posi- A warm and friendly person himself, one tion to which he has of Mac's chief assets is a charming family, been appointed has been demonstrated in consisting of a married daughter, two sons, two separate periods in which he has served the older of which is now in college, and as acting director. two grandchildren, plus a librarian wife, who Born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909, Mr. teaches the required course in the Use of McMullan received his Bachelor of Science Books and Libraries at L.S.U., and is, there- and Master of Science degrees in engineering fore, in a key position from which to give and his Bachelor of Science in Library Sci- him the benefit of the sage advice and criti- ence degree from L.S.U. in 1931, 1932, and cism of a very large segment of his library 1934, respectively. During his college years, public. As one who can speak for another he worked as a student assistant in the uni- very important, but much smaller, segment versity library. Following completion of his of that public, the Library School faculty work for a library science degree, he was ap- and student body, I am happy to have the pointed to the staff as head of circulation. privilege of introducing to CRL readers the This position, with constantly increasing re- new director of libraries at Louisiana State sponsibilities, he continued to hold—with University, Theodore N. McMullan, or, as time out for Military service, 1941-45—until he is known affectionately to his staff, Mr. he became acting director, 1954-55, associate Mac.—Florrinell F. Morton. director with special responsibility for public

service, 1955-61, and again since September, CARL M. WHITE, former director of the 1961, acting director. It was largely during Columbia University Libraries and professor his first period as acting director that the in the School of Library Service, has accepted programing and planning of L.S.U.'s new a position with the Ford Foundation. His library building were accomplished. This first assignment will be to assist in the de- valuable experience he is now putting to use velopment of the National Library of Ni- as he works with the library building com- geria in Lagos. His many accomplishments mittees for the two new libraries presently as director of libraries (1943-1953) and the in planning period at the Alexandria and growth of the collections and services during the New Orleans campuses of the university. his term are well demonstrated in library Mr. McMullan's professional activities in- literature. clude membership and committee work in With an outstanding record of service as the usual professional organizations. He has director of the Ankara Library School, which served as president of the Louisiana Library was supported by the Ford Foundation, Dr. Association and is currently chairman-elect White now joins the Foundation staff as pro-

160 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES gram specialist in library development. His In addition to his work at the Evansville many friends on the library staff wish him Public Library, Dr. Goldhor was instru- the best of everything in this new and im- mental in organizing the Tri-State Librar- portant venture.—Richard H. Logsdon. ians—a grass-roots organization of librarians and friends of libraries in southwestern In- HERBERT GOLDHOR resigned his position as diana, southeastern Illinois and western Ken- chief librarian of the Evansville Public Li- tucky. In 1961, arrangements were made for brary on January 31 to return to the Uni- handling of book orders for the Tell City, versity of Illinois Li- Indiana, Public Library. This led to the brary School as as- exploration of the possibility of a regional sociate director. Prior processing center to serve all the libraries to coming to Evans- which use Library Service Act funds in the ville in 1952, he had seven counties around Evansville. With all been associate pro- this Dr. Goldhor has found time to write a fessor of the faculty number of articles for publication in pro- of the same library fessional journals, and to work with Joseph school. As associate L. Wheeler in writing a book on public li- director Dr. Goldhor brary administration, scheduled for publica- will have special re- tion in 1962. sponsibility for teach- In his ten years at the Evansville Public ing courses and train- Library Dr. Goldhor established a high ing students in the Herbert Goldhor standard of performance for his successor to field of public library emulate. His decision to leave Evansville administration, in addition to his administra- was made only after an inward struggle, and tive duties. with the conviction that a greater challenge In his ten years as chief librarian at Evans- awaits him at Illinois.—Thomas S. Harding. ville, he has seen the book stock of the library increase from 245,596 volumes to 304,682, while the circulation jumped from HENRY BIRNBAUM has resigned from his 614,000 in 1952 to more than 1,150,000 in position as chief circulation librarian at 1961. While these figures are impressive, they Brooklyn college to accept the position of li- do not reveal the full extent of his accom- brarian at Pace Col- plishments. Believing fervently that the worth lege in the City of of a book is in its use, and that the reader New York. should be the center of all library activities, Swiss by birth, Mr. he sought continuously to streamline library Birnbaum became a policies and procedures to achieve these ends. U.S. citizen in 1941. Building on the solid foundations laid by his After early experi- two predecessors, Ethel McCollough and ence in business, he Arnold Rosaaen, Dr. Goldhor effected a re- entered the army and organization of the central library into two served in Military major divisions—Adult Information Depart- Intelligence from ment and Technical Services Department— 1941 to 1945. For the as well as a Young Adult Room for readers next year he was a of high school and post-high school years. representative in the Henry Birnbaum Since the Evansville Public Library has the Library of Congress responsibility of servicing all of Vanderburgh Mission in Germany. For the next two years County, a modern bookmobile was acquired he was a research analyst for the war crimes to reach outlying areas. Land for a much- trials in Nuremberg. He was graduated needed branch to serve Evansville's rapidly magna cum laude in International Relations growing east side was acquired recently, and from the University of Colorado in August, a branch library building is now in the plan- 1952. He is a member of Pi Gamma Mu ning stage. Meanwhile, this part of the city (Social Science honorary), Delta Phi Alpha is being served by a modern booketeria in (German Language honorary), and Phi Beta one of the shopping centers. Kappa.

MARCH 1962 161 Mr. Birnbaum received his M.S.L.S. de- Division of ALA, and was elected its chair- gree from Columbia University School of Li- man.—H. G. Bousfield. brary Science in 1954. He began his work at Brooklyn College before he had finished his professional training at Columbia. He was PARKER WORLEY on September 1st assumed employed as a Fellow in the acquisition de- the librarianship of the Rutgers Univer- partment in 1953. On completion of his Co- sity Library in Camden, N.J. He came lumbia work, he became an assistant in the to the Rutgers library catalog department; and in 1957 was ap- system from Trenton pointed chief of the circulation department. State College where Special assignments included editing the he was readers' ad- Brooklyn College staff bibliography. When viser since 1958. Pre- the time came to move from the old library vious to that time to the new, Mr. Birnbaum was in sole charge he was librarian at in planning and organizing the shift. He Thiel College and was deputy chairman of the library depart- assistant librarian at ment during the summer of 1960, and was Ursinus. During 1948 in charge of the performance budget for and 1949 he served Brooklyn College Library. an internship in the In the circulation department he became Library of Congress. interested in developing a refinement in the Mr. Worley grad- department's IBM transaction-card system. uated from the Uni- The system had been adopted some years versity of Oklahoma in 1947. One year later ago, but there had never been a location file. he received his bachelor's degree in Library His effort to discover how a location file Service, and after serving for five years as could be created and maintained by IBM librarian at Thiel College, he came to the machines was successful, and he was com- Graduate School of Library Service in 1958. missioned by IBM to write a manual. This During the time he was in the library school was entitled General Information Manual, at Rutgers, he also worked as an assistant in IBM Circulation Control at Brooklyn Col- the university library in the periodical de- lege Library, 1960. The Manual has received partment. wide distribution, and IBM and the library He has been associated with Trenton State have received hundreds of requests for it, College since 1958, and in 1961 was awarded from librarians throughout the world. a master's degree in History at Rutgers Uni- In 1960 Mr. Birnbaum initiated the estab- versity. lishment of a Circulation Service Discussion He served four years in the Navy and is Group within the Library Administration an active member of the Naval Reserve.

Appointments

CHARLES BEYMER, formerly a staff member trol Library, Washington University Librar- of the Cornell University Library, Ithaca, ies, St. Louis, Mo. N.Y., is now assistant head, acquisitions de- MICHAEL BROOK, formerly reading room partment, University of Notre Dame, Notre superintendent at the Southampton, Eng- Dame, Ind. land, University Library, has joined the DAVID BISHOP, formerly reference librarian, staff of the Minnesota Historical Society Li- Los Angeles County Medical Association, is brary, St. Paul, as assistant reference librar- now librarian II in the Biomedical Library, ian. University of California, Los Angeles. CHARLES A. BROPHY, JR., has been ap- CAREY S. BLISS, formerly assistant curator pointed head librarian at Batelle Memorial of rare books, The Henry E. Huntington Institute, Columbus, Ohio. For the past ten Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif., years, Mr. Brophy has played a key role in has been appointed curator of rare books. developing Batelle's Slavic library, which MRS. OLGA BOROS is catalog librarian, Con- contains one of the nation's largest collec-

162 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES tions of technical and scientific publications Dame, Ind., is now assistant director of the from the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, humanities division. and other Slavic countries. Mr. Brophy's de- FRANK LUCASH is reference librarian, Cen- gree in library science is from University of tral Library, Washington University Librar- Illinois. He is a member of the American ies, St. Louis. Documentation Institute. PHILIP JAMES MCNIFF has been appointed DAVID W. BRUNTON, formerly head librar- Archibald Cary Coolidge bibliographer, a ian, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, 111., is now new position in the Harvard University Li- director of the cooperative processing center, braries. He will continue to serve as associate Nevada State Library, Carson City. librarian for resources and acquisitions in MRS. CAROLYN F. BUCKNALL is librarian II the Harvard College Library. in the catalog division, University of Wash- LESTER MATTISON, formerly assistant to the ington, Seattle. director, has been appointed assistant pro- MARY LEE BUNDY is assistant to the direc- fessor and chief circulation librarian, Uni- tor of libraries and library-research consult- versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. ant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, WILLIAM A. PARRISH, who is presently cura- Troy, N.Y. tor of prints, The Henry E. Huntington MRS. MAUDE CLAY is a cataloger in the Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif., University of California Agriculture Library, has received the further appointment of ad- Riverside. ministrator of exhibitions. EILEEN A. CONLEY, formerly humanities ANITA M. PROFFITT, formerly the Base li- librarian, University of Notre Dame, Notre brarian at Pease Air Force Base, New Hamp- Dame, Ind., is now engineering librarian shire, was recently appointed to the staff of there. the reference branch of the U.S. Air Force. ROBERT C. ENNEN is assistant director, JOHN CARSON RATHER, formerly specialist technical services division, University of for college and research libraries, Library Notre Dame Library, Notre Dame, Ind. Services Branch of the Office of Education, MELBA FAUCETT, formerly a staff member has been appointed assistant chief of the of the Creighton University Library, Omaha, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Neb., is now head of Business and Economics Congress. Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre JESSIE RICHARDSON; formerly of the refer- Dame, Ind. ence department, is now principal librarian MRS. PATRICIA GEBHARD is a cataloger in of the Bio-Medical Library, University of the University of California Library, Santa Minnesota, Minneapolis. Barbara. MRS. TOMOMI REVOYR is senior library as- ISAAC GOLDBERG, formerly a staff member sistant in the technical information service, of the Library of Congress, is now librarian Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. II in the Engineering and Mathematical EUGENE N. SALMON, head circulation li- Sciences Library, University of California, brarian, University of Oregon, Eugene, has Los Angeles. been granted a leave of absence to accept a F. RIDLEN HARRELL, formerly a staff mem- special assignment as head of Technical In- ber of the University of Michigan Library, formation Services, American Library As- Ann Arbor, is now head of the Social Science sociation's Library Technology Project, Chi- Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre cago. Dame, Ind. WILLIAM J. SCHNEIDER has joined the NOLA ANN IVERSON, formerly adult assist- Minnesota Historical Society Library, St. ant, Kansas City, Mo., Public Library, is now Paul, as an assistant librarian. assistant cataloger, Idaho State College Li- MRS. VIRGINIA SECREST is catalog librarian, brary, Pocatello. Central Library, Washington University Li- MARIA KESZLER is assistant librarian in the braries, St. Louis. Social Science Library, University of Notre GEORGE E. SEREIKO, formerly a staff mem- Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. ber of the Western Reserve Historical So- FRANCIS D. LAZENBY, formerly librarian, ciety Library, Cleveland, is now assistant di- Mediaeval Institute and Graduate-Research rector, social studies division, University of Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Notre Dame Library, Notre Dame, Ind.

MARCH 1962 163 MARILYN L. THOMPSON, formerly with U.S. University of Delaware Libraries as agricul- Army Libraries in Germany, is now senior ture librarian. Mr. Helms was formerly a librarian in the Physics-Mathematics-Statistics reference librarian at Rutgers University Li- Library, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. brary. LEDELLE WETTENGF.L, until recently Base RICHARD L. SNYDER on February 15 be- librarian at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado came associate director of libraries, Massa- Springs, Colorado, has joined the staff of the chusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. U.S. Air Force Academy Library as catalog- Mr. Snyder was formerly science librarian at ing librarian. MIT. RICHMOND D. WILLIAMS has been named JOHN M. STEADMAN, formerly a Recognized director of the Eleutherian Mills Historical Scholar at Oxford University, has been ap- Library. He had been associate director since pointed to the research staff of the Hunting- May 1961 of Longwood Library, later given ton Library, San Marino, Calif. Dr. Steadman the present name. received his B.A. and M.A. at Emory Uni- FRANK Q. HELMS has joined the staff of the versity and his Ph.D. at Princeton.

Retirements

THELMA BRACKETT, librarian of the Uni- organization merged with the library of the versity of New Hampshire, Durham, since Hagley Museum and was renamed the Eleu- 1942, retired on December 31, 1961. She was therian Mills Historical Library. He was state librarian of New Hampshire for ten director of libraries at the University of years before 1942. During her administration Pennsylvania from 1940 until 1955. of the university library, all professional li- MRS. GLADYS NOLLMAN has retired as prin- brarians on the staff were granted faculty cipal librarian of the Bio-Medical Library, status. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, after CHARLES W. DAVID, director of the Eleu- twenty-five years of service. therian Mills Historical Library, Wilming- THEODOOR W. L. SCHELTEMA, cataloger in ton, Del., retired at the end of 1961. Dr. the subject cataloging division, Library of David was director of the Longwood Library, Congress, retired December 8, 1961 after Kennett Square, Pa., from 1955 until that thirty-three years of service.

Necrology

HUGO HESPEN, editor of the National brary at the time of her retirement in 1948, Union Catalog since 1947, and a staff mem- died December 5, 1961 in Panama City, ber in the union catalog division, Library of Florida. Congress, for thirty-four years, died Decem- ROBERT OLIVER SCHAD, curator of rare ber 11, 1961. books and secretary to the Board of Trustees, ELEANOR F. LEWIS, head of the reference The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art department of Northwestern University Li- Gallery, died in Pasadena, December 25, 1961.

Foreign

MARTIN CREMER has retired as director of NASSER SHARIFY, formerly deputy director the Westdeutsche Bibliothek, Marburg. of the Library of Parliament of Iran, is now JOSEF REST, director of the Universitats- director-general of the National Library of bibliothek, Freiburg im Breisgau, W. Ger- Iran. many, died April 9, 1961 at the age of sev- TAKAO SUZUKI has been appointed direc- enty-seven. tor of the National Diet Library, Tokyo.

164 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL Board of Directors Midwinter Meeting 1962

BRIEF OF MINUTES On a call for discussion many board mem- January 29 bers expressed their opinions on the issues Present: President Ralph E. Ellsworth; raised. The consensus of the group was sum- Vice President and President-elect, Katharine marized by Dr. Ellsworth. It was decided M. Stokes; Past President, Edmon Low; Di- that ACRL should continue to work within rectors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Neal R. Har- the ALA structure, but that it should present low, Flora B. Ludington, Lucile M. Morsch; its views more forcefully within ALA and Directors on ALA Council, J. Richard develop more aggressive statements of pro- Blanchard, Helen M. Brown, Dorothy M. gram. Drake, James Humphry, III, Ralph H. Hopp, Dr. Ellsworth closed the meeting with a Newton F. McKeon, Jr., Russell Shank, Mrs. recommendation that the president's term Margaret K. Spangler; Chairmen of Sections, of office be longer than a year, preferably Mrs. Frances J. Brewer, Esther M. Hile, two. Further discussion of this point brought Helen Wahoski, James O. Wallace, Irene a suggestion that instead of extending the Zimmerman; Vice Chairmen of Sections, president's term of office, a program com- Virginia Clark, Ervin Eatenson, David Kaser, mittee or planning committee should be Jay K. Lucker; Past Chairmen of Sections, appointed to lay out a long-range program, George S. Bonn, Ralph W. McComb, Fritz with the president-elect serving as chairman Veit; ACRL Executive Secretary, Mark M. and remaining on the committee for a three- Gormley. Committee chairmen present were year term. It was agreed that this would pro- Dale M. Bentz, Lorena A. Garloch, Gus A. vide better continuity of program. Harrer; editors, William V. Jackson, Maurice F. Tauber; guest, Frank A. Lundy. January 30 The first session of the ACRL Board of Present: President, Ralph E. Ellsworth; Directors at ALA's Midwinter Meeting was Vice President and President-elect, Katharine devoted entirely to a full and frank discus- M. Stokes; Past President, Edmon Low; Di- sion of the future role of ACRL in ALA and rectors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Flora B. with ARL. President Ellsworth made an in- Ludington, Lucile M. Morsch; Directors on troductory statement preparatory to the dis- ALA Council, Newton F. McKeon, Jr., J. cussion outlining his views of the relation- Richard Blanchard, Helen M. Brown, Ralph ship of ACRL to ALA and ARL. He felt H. Hopp, James Humphry, III, Dorothy M. that ACRL's relationship to ALA in the Drake, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. present organizational structure was not sat- Spangler; Chairmen of Sections, Mrs. Frances isfactory. He described ALA's structure as J. Brewer, Esther M. Hile, Helen Wahoski, undesirable for the reason that it tends to James O. Wallace, Irene Zimmerman; Vice inevitably glorify and exaggerate the role Chairmen of Sections, Charles M. Adams, of the type-of-activity divisions at the ex- Virginia Clark, H. Richard Archer, Jay K. pense of the type-of-library divisions. Lucker, Ervin Eatenson, David Kaser; Past Dr. Ellsworth did not advocate ACRL's Chairmen of Sections, George S. Bonn, Fritz secession from ALA but suggested that if Veit, Ralph W. McComb; ACRL Executive ALA were organized on a federation of li- Secretary, Mark M. Gormley. Committee brary associations basis, ACRL would be in chairmen present were Dale M. Bentz, a better position to support a broader and Lorena A. Garloch, Gustave A. Harrer, Felix more effective program. As for ACRL's rela- E. Hirsch; editor, William V. Jackson; two tionship with the now corporate and enlarged guests from India sat in on the meeting. ARL, he felt there would be no problems or At the second session of the Board of Di- conflicts which could not be resolved through rectors, President Ellsworth called attention cooperation. to a resolution formulated by ARL on the

MARCH 1 962 165 matter of the proposed revised accrediting as our major program, expressing its concern standards of the American Association of about the threat of declining support, and Law Schools. He felt that it would be wise urging that every effort be made to correct for ACRL to take a positive position on this this situation. The motion was seconded and topic and asked for authority to compose a carried. similar resolution in the name of ACRL. A Mr. Gormley presented to the board a motion was moved, seconded, and carried revised statement of ACRL responsibility for permitting the president to draft this state- their approval. The statement as revised ment. (The statement will appear in a later would include responsibility for materials: issue of CRL.) "The identification and evaluation of book Miss Ludington announced that Charles and nonbook materials useful in college, uni- B. Shaw of Swarthmore College died the versity, and research libraries; the identifica- previous day. She was requested by President tion of principles and establishment of Ellsworth to prepare a statement of tribute criteria involved in their selection and use; in the name of ACRL, a copy to be trans- the stimulation of the production of such mitted to Mrs. Shaw as well as to the presi- materials; and the responsibility for activi- dent of Swarthmore. The statement reads ties related to the bibliography, compilation, as follows: publication, study, and review of professional literature in its area of responsibility." In- The Association of College and Research Li- corporation of this additional phraseology braries notes with sadness the passing of in the official statement of responsibility Charles B. Shaw, for many years the distin- would make valid ACRL's administration of guished librarian of Swarthmore College. The the "New Shaw List" project. A motion was List of Books for College Libraries edited by made, seconded, and carried for approval of Mr. Shaw thirty years ago was a substantial the revised statement. contribution to many college libraries. As a teacher and consultant he was an inspiration Since section and committee reports had to many members of our profession. been submitted in writing in advance of the Midwinter sessions and distributed to board A report of the nominations for the 1962 members for information, President Ells- division and section elections was presented worth invited discussion of any special prob- by Mr. Gormley. A complete list of the lems of the sections and committees, nominees appears elsewhere in this issue. Mrs. Brewer, chairman of the Rare Books Mr. Low, ACRL past president and repre- Section, commented that there are some sentative to ALA's PEBCO, gave an informa- members of the section who feel that it is tive but rather pessimistic report on the not necessary or desirable to have a precon- budget for the coming year. He distributed ference institute of the section every year, to the board members an excerpt from but rather every other year. President Ells- PEBCO's report to the ALA Executive Board. worth ruled that it is up to the sections to The report listed eleven programs deserving coordinate their preconference plans with of emphasis, one of which is Publications (in- over-all ALA conference plans. cluding divisional periodicals). Priorities Mr. Wallace, chairman of the Junior Col- were not yet assigned, but will be later in lege Libraries Section stated that the section the light of funds available. Mr. Low com- was in close association with the American mented that he believed that funds for Association of Junior Colleges and requested ACRL's official journal and chief program, that the section be officially authorized to College and Research Libraries, were in dan- represent ACRL in dealings with AAJC. A ger of erosion, and said he would like a motion was seconded and carried. statement from the Board of Directors in- Brief reports from the Publications Com- dicating the priority they would like him to mittee and the Committee on Organization, assign to their journal in comparison to which had not been received in time for other suggested ARCL programs, at the forth- duplication and distribution to the board, coming PEBCO meeting at Miami Beach. were read by Mr. Gormley. President Ells- Mr. McComb moved that the ACRL Board worth commented that the same procedure of Directors pass a resolution on to PEBCO of submitting written reports in advance designating College and Research Libraries would be followed in connection with the

166 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES annual conference. He announced that Dr. the period, 1946-48, and as editor since April Robert A. Miller of Indiana University would 1948. During the fourteen years as editor, be our speaker at the ACRL Membership College and Research Libraries has expanded Meeting at Miami Beach. from a purely subscription publication to a Budgeting procedures were covered by Mr. membership journal, and has grown from a Gormley. All requests from sections and quarterly to a bimonthly. It has a national committees are to be prepared and forwarded and international reputation of some merit, to headquarters by March 26. He reported and this has been a direct result of the ex- also on the problems of providing member- pert and full cooperation that the editor has ship lists to the various sections and sub- had from his editorial board and from the sections, but was hopeful that the eventual several executive secretaries who have served installation of automatic equipment at head- during this period. The journal had an excel- quarters would improve this situation. lent start under the editorship of A. F. Kuhl- Of great interest to the Board of Directors man, and continued to thrive under Carl M. was President Ellsworth's report of progress White (with E. W. McDiarmid and Ernest J. on the project that the Council on Library Reece as successive managing editors). The Resources recently funded to establish a cur- long term that I have spent with the journal rent college-level book selection service. Can- has been related directly to my belief that this didates are being considered to fill the posi- was a useful way to serve ACRL and the li- tions of editor and assistant editor. An brary profession in general. It has been most editorial board and advisory committee will satisfying to know that CRL is used con- be appointed as well. Suggestions of potential stantly by librarians as a source of informa- candidates were invited. tion in their practical work. Dr. Ellsworth announced the appointment During the period from February to Sep- of Jack E. Brown to the chairmanship of the tember 1961, I was away, traveling in several newly created President's Committee on parts of the world, and spending six months ACRL Program. Other members of the com- in Australia working with the Australian li- mittee are Neal Harlow, James Humphrey, brarians in the examination of the present III, and Lucile Morsch. state of resources in the libraries of the coun- President Ellsworth gave mention to a try. Through the joint activities of Richard postal bill passed by the House of Represen- B. Harwell, Ronald V. Glens, and Eugene tatives which would give the Attorney Gen- Sheehy of the editorial staff, as well as my eral permission to define Russian propaganda secretary at Columbia University, Mrs. Dona and keep it out of the mails. ARL is actively Drangel, the work of the journal proceeded engaged with this problem and is taking ap- without serious difficulty. Publication of the propriate action. Dr. Ellsworth said that he several issues appearing during my absence was delegated by ARL to get in touch with had been generally planned prior to my de- the Assistant Attorney General and see if he parture, and the individuals above, as well thinks library associations can do anything as other members of the staff, performed most about it. Dr. Ellsworth thought ACRL ought effectively. to have a standby council to take action for Since I have been back on the job at Co- this board if and when it seems appropriate lumbia University I have found that time and wise to do so. seems to be slipping by so fast that I am not The Chairman-elect of ACRL's Rare Books able to give the hours that are necessary to Section, H. Richard Archer, reported that increased loads in teaching, research, and the Rare Book Manual he is editing will be writing. It was apparent this should be my published sometime this year as ACRL last period of appointment as editor. I am Monograph No. 26. most grateful for this continued confidence in me on the part of the Board of Directors.

DR. TAUBER REPORTS I have never been too much concerned with the economics of publishing CRL, al- I have the honor of submitting my last though I have been affected by the budgetary report as editor of College and Research Li- actions of ALA. In the budget of ALA it is braries. I have been associated with the jour- indicated that CRL receives a "subsidy." If nal since 1944, serving as managing editor for this is the best term to use for the designa- te ARCH 1962 167 tion of supplementary funds to a journal, editors, thanks should go to Constance Win- which, if it had continued as a subscription chell for her feature on reference books, and publication would have more than likely paid to Carolyn Ulrich, Wyllis E. Wright, Edna its own way, this is all right. The point that Mae Brown, and Geraldine Kaufman Maurer, I wish to make here is that the ACRL Board for their contributions on new periodicals. must stay behind CRL as one of its basic N. Orwin Rush, Arthur T. Hamlin, and projects, and support its publication as fully Richard B. Harwell have been most helpful as necessary. It would be a serious omission from their posts as executive secretaries of in this report if I did not pay tribute to Co- ACRL. There have been about fifteen peo- lumbia University, and especially the School ple who have served at ALA headquarters of Library Service, for the many kinds of as liaison personnel, but the several publica- additional support that have been forthcom- tions officers—Cynthia Saidel (Mrs. Irv ing during the long stay of the journal at Spigelman), Samray Smith, Floyd Cammack, Morningside Heights. Peter Demery, Ronald V. Glens—had fuller We have tried to follow a policy of pub- responsibilities with CRL. Individuals who lishing new materials or imaginative rework- have assisted with special work should be ings of old data. Sometimes we have pub- commended for their continuous help. These lished items which have been criticized by include C. Donald Cook, S. G. Gribble, and some of our sharp and wise colleagues. The Richard Schimmelpfeng. To all of these, I many types of readers of CRL make it im- express my thanks for the countless actions portant to cover a variety of fields and to that have been of direct assistance in the treat problems on several levels. We have editing of CRL. Through a long period taken some pride in our ability to introduce Elaine Mitchell has served as secretary to new writers to librarianship, and to encour- the executive secretary at ACRL headquar- age contributions from younger members of ters, and in this capacity has been of con- the profession. We have tried to single out stant assistance to the editor. individuals who have been working on proj- I have high hopes for CRL. The new edi- ects and prod them for articles for CRL. I tor comes to his position not only experi- am sure that these are things that any editor enced in the handling of CRL, but he has a does, but I want to pay tribute to the many long and wide experience in editing and writers here and abroad who have provided publishing generally, as well as a full grasp the copy that makes a journal successful. of the national activities of ACRL and other There is no such thing as a good journal library organizations. Richard Harwell brings without good copy. The editorial staff mem- so many talents to the post of editor of CRL bers have had no small part to play in the that I am sure that he and his practically selection of material, and to the three who new editorial board will make the journal have been with me from the very start of an even more useful and wanted publication my editorship—Robert B. Downs, Ralph E. than it has been. Mark Gormley and Mrs. Ellsworth, and Jens Nyholm—and to the Mary Falvey have to fit into the program of several others who have been on the staff, the journal with both industry and enthusi- including John Berthel, Carlyle J. Frarey, asm. Clarence Gorchels, Byron Hopkins, John C. I offer my best wishes to the new editor Rather, Lawrence S. Thompson, and Walter and his staff, the executive secretary, and W. Wright, I wish to express my deep grati- the Board of Directors of ACRL.—Maurice tude. Although not listed on the masthead as F. Tauber.

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168 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES New Editor and Editorial Board of CRL

Richard Harwell, librarian of Bowdoin of ACRL he served also as associate ex- College, will succeed Maurice F. Tauber ecutive director of ALA. He is currently as editor of CRL, beginning with the a member of ACRL's advisory committee May issue of the magazine. At the same on the Burmese projects, its advisory com- time there will be a complete change in mittee on the Metcalf project concerning the editorial board. The new editorial library buildings, and its grants commit- board will consist of Maurice F. Tauber, tee, and is chairman of the nominating professor, School of Li- committee of its Rare Books Section. brary Service, Columbia University, New Dr. Tauber joins the editorial board York; Miss Flora B. Ludington, librar- of CRL after fourteen years as editor of ian, Mount Holyoke College, South Had- the magazine. Even prior to his assump- ley, Massachusetts; Peter W. Demery, tion of the editorship he was closely acting acquisitions librarian, University associated with it in various other capac- of Washington Library, Seattle; David ities. He is widely known for his distin- Kaser, director, Joint University Librar- guished work as a professor in Columbia ies, Nashville, Tennessee; W. P. Kellam, University's School of Library Service, director of libraries, The University of and equally well known for his many Georgia, Athens; Eli M. Oboler, librar- contributions to library literature, par- ian, Idaho State College, Pocatello; Ben- ticularly for his coauthorship with Dr. jamin B. Richards, chairman, division of of The University library education and service, Kansas Library and his volume on Technical State Teachers College, Emporia. Services in Libraries. He has been an Mr. Harwell brings to his new duties adviser to major research libraries all more than twenty years of varied edi- over the world in their cataloging and torial experience and a close familiarity other problems in the area of technical with the problems of CRL and of ACRL. services, and is considered a leading au- Prior to undertaking his present duties thority in that area of library work. He at Bowdoin College he had been execu- has participated in many surveys of col- tive secretary of ACRL, from January lege, university, public, and research li- 1957 through the summer of 1961. He braries and spent a major portion of is author of thirty-odd books and pam- 1961 surveying the libraries of Australia. phlets, more than a score of articles in Miss Ludington was president of ALA general magazines and scholarly journals, in 1953 and 1954, and is currently a mem- and of close to six hundred reviews. His ber of its publishing committee. She is most recent major publication is Lee, a a member of the ACRL board of direc- one-volume condensation of Douglas tors, and has been active at various times Southall Freeman's four-volume R. E. on many of its committees and many Lee. In addition to publications in the committees of ALA. She has contributed field of Civil War history, he has pub- widely to library periodicals and other lished several bibliographies and a dozen educational publications. She is the au- items directly related to librarianship. thor of Books and Libraries, Tools of the He is presently a regular reviewer for Academic World, one of the three pam- the Chicago Tribune's Magazine of Books phlets distributed by the National Book and an occasional reviewer for the Sat- Committee and ALA in connection with urday Review. the first observance of National Librarv During his time as executive secretary Week in 1957. She was the recipient of

MARCH 1962 169 ALA's Lippincott Award in 1957. In ad- 1950-54 and in 1957-58. He has served as dition to being prominent in college li- a reviewer for the Library Journal since brary work she has had foreign service in 1953, and has contributed articles to that librarianship in India, Japan, and Tur- magazine, the ALA Bulletin, and Im- key and also has traveled widely in Africa. proving College and University Teach- Previous experience with CRL is the ing. He was editor and co-compiler of the primary asset that Mr. Demery brings to ACRL monograph College and Univer- his work as a member of the editorial sity Library Accreditation Standards— board of the magazine. He worked as 1957. He was a member of ACRL Stand- ACRL publications officer from 1958 to ards Committee from 1954-56 and a co- 1960. He is a past editor of the Washing- compiler of the ACRL annual statistics ton Libraries and for some time served report of college and university libraries as a reviewer of Near Eastern books for in 1958 and 1959. He has conducted a the Library Journal. regular newspaper column since 1952, Dr. Kaser is the author of Messrs. Carey first in the Intermountain, and since & Lea of Philadelphia: A Study in the 1960 in the Idaho State Journal, Poca- History of the Booktrade, Directory of tello. He has conducted a weekly radio the St. Louis Book and Printing Trades broadcast, "Books and You," since 1949. to 1850 and coauthor (with Jane Kaser) He has been widely active in state, re- of Washington University Manuscripts: gional, and national library association A Descriptive Guide. Presently in press work. is his The Cost Book of Carey & Lea, Mr. Richards is a former chairman of 1825-1838. He has contributed nearly a ACRL's College Libraries Section and score of articles to various library and has served on its grants committee. He is bibliographical journals. He is a former the editor of California Gold Rush Mer- editor of Missouri Library Association chant; The Journal of Stephen Chapin Quarterly and is assistant editor of Li- Davis and of several other publications. brary Resources ir Technical Services. From 1952 through 1958 he was editor He is chairman of the Acquisitions Sec- of The Stepladder, a quarterly journal of tion of ALA's Resources and Technical poetry. He has contributed reviews to the Services Division, and chairman-elect of Library Quarterly. ACRL's University Libraries Section. He is a member of the regional advisory BANQUET FOR DR. TAUBER board of the Bibliographical Society of Social highlight of the ACRL Mid- America. winter season was the banquet on Tues- Long experience with library publica- day evening for retiring CRL editor Dr. tions has marked the career of Mr. Kel- Maurice F. Tauber. Thirty people who lam. He was editor of the Southeastern have been associated with Professor Tau- Librarian from 1952 to 1961, and is now ber during the fourteen years of his stew- editor of the Miscellanea series published ardship gathered for good food, remi- by the University of Georgia Library. He niscences, and the presentation of an is a former member of ACRL's Publica- illuminated citation to Dr. Tauber. The tions Committee and has been prominent citation read: in ACRL and ALA activities for many years. To Maurice F. Tauber, the Association of College and Research Libraries presents Wide editorial experience also high- this token as evidence, insufficient but sin- lights the career of Mr. Oboler. He is cere, of its appreciation of his fourteen editor of the PNLA Quarterly and of the years of service as editor of College and LPRT Newsletter. He has twice served Research libraries. His editorship has been as the editor of Idaho Librarian, from marked by constant increase in the stature

170 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of the magazine just as his career as a li- Downs, Ralph E. Ellsworth, Mary Fal- brarian has been marked by constant vey, Carlyle J. Frarey, Ronald V. Glens, achievement toward his goal of the fullest Mark M. Gormley, Richard Harwell, possible service to academic—nay to all— David Kaser, Richard Logsdon, Milton librarianship. Both he and the magazine Lord, Edmon Low, Flora B. Ludington, truly illustrate his ambition to help li- brarians in their work. Elaine C. Mitchell, Lucile M. Morsch, Florrinell F. Morton, Jens Nyholm, Ben-

Chicago, 30 January 1962 jamin E. Powell, Benjamin B. Richards, Alfreda Rogowski, Robert W. Severance, Members of ACRL and of the ALA Ralph Shaw, Samray Smith, Frances Lan- headquarters staff who were present to der Spain, Grace T. Stevenson, Kathar- honor Dr. and Mrs. Tauber were David ine M. Stokes, Eileen Thornton, Robert H. Clift, C. Donald Cook, Robert B. Vosper, and Wyllis E. Wright.

Training Programs

The Indiana University Libraries an- University of North Carolina. Awards are nounce the continuation of their program made to those who can qualify for li- designed to give intensive instruction to brary assignments and whose credentials prospective rare book librarians. The fa- suggest special professional potential. Ap- cilities and collections of the Lilly Li- plications for either a July 1 or Septem- brary will be used as a training center. ber 15 award must be filed by February Two Fellows will be selected for a study 15. Announcement of appointments will program intended to familiarize them be made April 1. Information and appli- with bibliographical methods, the anti- cation blanks may be secured from Jean quarian book trade, and the organization Freeman, Admissions Officer, School of and management of rare book and spe- Library Science, University of North cial collection departments or libraries. Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The School of Librarianship of the Library work-study scholarships of- University of California announces that fered by The University of Michigan it will have available for students enter- provide an opportunity for well-qualified ing in the fall of 1962 nine part-time re- students to acquire intensive work ex- search assistantships. Research assistants perience in a department of the univer- may be enrolled in either the first year sity library. To be eligible, applicants or the advanced program of the school. must have gained admission to the Ho- Applications for admission may be ob- race H. Rackham School of Graduate tained by addressing the Dean, School Studies as degree candidates in library of Librarianship, University of Cali- science. The appointment is for the pe- fornia, Berkeley 4. riod from June 15, 1962 through June 14, In cooperation with the University of 1963 and may be once renewed. Appli- North Carolina Library, the School of cations should be made not later than Library Science offers several library as- April 1. Announcement of the awards sistantships each year to students ad- will be made about May 1. Inquiries mitted to the M.S. in L.S. degree pro- and requests for application blanks gram. To be eligible, applicants must be should be directed to the Office of the admitted to the School of Library Sci- Director, University Library, The Uni- ence and to the Graduate School of the versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

MARCH 1 962 171 Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Katharine M. Stokes, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Neal R. Harlow, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. Ralph H. Parker, University of Missouri, Columbia

DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE (1962-65) Andrew H. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Edward C. Heintz, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (1962-66) Joe W. Kraus, Kansas State University, Manhattan Robert L. Talmadge, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Charles M. Adams, Woman's College, University of North Carolina Greensboro VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Eli M. Oboler, Idaho State College, Pocatello Margaret Enid Knox, University of Florida, Gainesville

SECRETARY: Helen Bliss, Eastern Oregon College, La Grande William R. Brandt, Ripon College, Ripon, Wis.

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Virginia Clark, Wright Junior College Library, Chicago, 111. VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Leon F. Fordham, Daytona Beach Junior College, Daytona Beach, Fla. Norman E. Tanis, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich.

SECRETARY: Phyllis L. Brown, Laredo Junior College, Laredo, Tex. Mrs. Ethlyn Greenwood, Bay Path Junior College, Longmeadow, Mass.

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RARE BOOKS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: H. Richard Archer, Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass

VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Ben C. Bowman, University of Vermont, Burlington Edwin Wolf, II, Library Company of Philadelphia

SECRETARY: Thomas M. Simkins, Jr., Duke University Library, Durham, N.C. Howard A. Sullivan, Wayne State University Library, Detroit, Mich.

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Jay K. Lucker, Department of Science 8c Technology, Princeton Univer- sity Library, Princeton, N.J.

VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Wrayton E. Gardner, St. Louis University Library, St. Louis, Mo. Gordon Stevenson, Art and Music Department, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Mo.

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Ervin Eatenson, Science-Technology Library, San Jose State College, San Jose, Calif.

SECRETARY AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Felix E. Hirsch, Trenton State College, Trenton, N.J. Reta E. King, Nebraska State Teachers College, Chadron

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: David Kaser, Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tenn. VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Dale M. Bentz, University of Iowa, Iowa City Ralph H. Hopp, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

SECRETARY: (1962-65) Lorena A. Garloch, University of Pittsburgh Natalie N. Nicholson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

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