ACRL Board of Directors Midwinter Meeting 1964

BRIEF OF MINUTES Mr. Bailey reviewed briefly the schedule of activities for officers and committee chair­ January 27, 8:30p.m. men between the Midwinter Meeting and Present: President, Neal R. Harlow; Vice the annual conference. A detailed schedule President and President-elect, Archie L. Mc­ will be mailed in February to persons re­ Neal; Past President, Katharine M. Stokes; sponsible for ACRL activities. The need to Directors-at-large, Andrew J. Eaton, Jack communicate through correspondence was E. Brown, Lucile M. Morsch; Directors on emphasized by Mr. Bailey. ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, Walfred Mr. McNeal reported, as chairman of B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances the Planning and Action Committee, the B. Jenkins, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret objectives and goals of ACRL, reading from K. Spangler, Edward B. Stanford, Robert L. a letter, dated January 4 in which Mr. Har­ Talmadge; Chairmen of Sections, Dale M. low noted the need to outline the goals of Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Rli M. Oboler; ACRL. He asked for suggestions from the Vice Chairmen of Sections, Carson W. Ben­ ACRL Board of Directors. The committee nett, H. Vail Deale, Orville L. Eaton, Mrs. reported the following major objectives to Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom; Past Chairmen the Board: increasing assistance to college of Sections, Charles M. Adams, David and junior college libraries, suggesting im­ Kaser; ACRL Executive Secretary, George provements in direct library service to users, M. Bailey. Committee Chairmen present encouraging libraries to come up to the ap­ were George S. Bonn, Lorena A. Garloch; proved standards, developing resources, Editor, Richard K. Gardner; Representative, and improving communication within and John H. Moriarty; guests, Thomas R. Buck­ among the various groups interested in the man, Richard A. Farley, Robert R. Hertel, libraries of these institutions. The commit­ Frank Schick. · tee had briefly discussed two recommenda­ The minutes of the Board of Directors tions submitted for ACRL consideration meeting as reported in CRL, September from the Conference-Within-a-Conference. 1963, were approved. A report of nomina­ Mr. Bonn reported on the plan of the tions received to date for the 1964 division Library Services Committee, in coopera­ and section elections was presented by Mr. tion with the University Libraries Section, Bailey. A complete list of the nominees ap­ to sponsor the first general session in St. pears elsewhere in this issue. Louis, at which three speakers will present Miss Stokes, ACRL representative to specific approaches to solving the problem PEBCO, reported on the Midwinter Meet­ of making libraries effective in the teaching ing of that ALA committee, noting that the and learning process. Mr. Harlow stated two days of meetings were devoted to that Alvin M. Weinberg, director, Oak statements of needs by ALA, division, com­ Ridge National Laboratory, would speak at mittee, and project representatives, and the second general session on service to spokesmen for kinds of libraries and chap­ users of academic and research libraries. ters. In addition, headquarters and financial A highlight of the meeting was the pre­ needs were stated. In a summary, the broad sentation by Dr. Schick, assistant direc­ needs were listed as personnel, research tor, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of and planning, improved communication, Education, of the report on "Library Sta­ strengthening headquarters operations, legis­ tistics of Colleges and Universities, 1962- lation, extended and improved quality of 63," which had just been published (in library services, and improved program for January, on time, as promised by U.S. O.E.). intellectual freedom. After receiving the applause of the Board

MARCH 1964 135 members, Mr. Schick noted that 70 per cent mittee, read a letter from Mrs. Grace Ste­ coverage (instead of the expected 50 per venson regarding its status and recommend­ cent) had been attained by the September ed that the subcommittee be discontinued. 30 deadline. State agencies were used in The possibility of an ACRL audio-visual collecting the statistics, although some aca­ committee was considered. demic libraries did not cooperate in this Miss Garloch reported upon the plans of pattern. Junior college libraries were most the ACRL National Library Week Commit­ incomplete in reporting. The Office of Edu­ tee, with mailings to librarians for eighteen cation now has about 85 per cent returns states, including a personal letter, statistical and hopes for 92 per cent to be included in summary, and sample State fact sheet. Em­ the analytic report. The statistics were made phasis will be placed on recruitment. available in time for use in the National The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 P.M. Library Week program. The Board dis­ cussed the possibility of publishing the re­ January 28, 8:30p.m. maining statistics for 1962/63 and what Present: President Neal R. Harlow; Vice procedures should be followed in the fu­ President and President-elect Archie L. ture. Mr. Schick also reported on an in­ McNeal; Past President Katharine M. quiry about a preferred publication date Stokes; Directors-at-large, Andrew J. Eaton, but it was noted that the findings were no Jack E. Brown, Lucile M. Morsch; Direc­ longer valid since they were based upon an tors on ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, anticipated return of only 50 per cent. Walfred B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mr. Farley, chairman of the LAD Build­ Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, .Russell Shank, ings Committee, stated that two kinds of Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Edward B. inquiries are coming to the committee: how Stanford, Robert L. Talmadge; Chairmen of to begin planning programs-these are an­ Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gard­ swered by the headquarters office; and in­ ner, Eli M. Oboler, Benjamin B. Richards, quiries about presenting plans at an annual Norman E. Tanis; Vice Chairmen of Sec­ institute. No buildings institute will be held tions, Carson W. Bennett, Orville L. Eaton, in 1964, but an equipment institute is Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom; Past Chair­ scheduled for St. Louis. men of Sections, Charles M. Adams, David The first issue of CHOICE: Books for Kaser; ACRL Executive Secretary, George College Libraries will be published March 1. M. Bailey. Chairmen of Subsections present Mr. Gardner, its editor, reviewed the ac­ were Laurence H. Miller, Robert C. Miller, tivities for the first six months and noted Kirby B. Payne; Committee Chairmen, John that thirty-five thousand copies of a promo­ M. Dawson, Mark M. Gormley, Frances tion piece were being mailed to libraries. Kennedy, Edmon Low, Stanley L. West; He listed subjects for which reviewers were editor, William V. Jackson; guest Frank needed: Social Science, Economics, and Po­ Schick. litical Science. The Choice staff has nego­ Nominations for the College Libraries tiated with the ALA Editorial Committee in Section were reported by Mr. Bailey. respect to plans for publishing the Uni­ Mr. Harlow discussed the schedules of versity of California college book list. programs and business meetings for the St. The preconference institute of the Rare Louis Conference. Books Section will be held at the University A memorandum announcing a meeting of of Kansas and Linda Hall libraries on June the Committee on ALA Publishing on Jan­ 25-27, 1964 with financial support from uary 29, 1964 to discuss ALA publishing those libraries in addition to the registra­ activities and programs, was called to the tion fee. According to Mr. Buckman, chair­ attention of the ACRL Board. Representa­ man of the program committee, the theme tives of all ALA agencies, divisions, sec­ will be "The Bibliography of Natural His­ tions, and committees concerned with pub­ tory." Speakers will be secured from the lishing activities were requested to attend United States and abroad. Plans are being this meeting called by the chairman of the made to publish the proceedings. Committee on ALA Publishing. Mr. Har­ Mr. Moriarty, ACRL's representative on low asked Mr. Moore, chairman of the the AASL-ACRL-LED-DAVI Joint Sub­ ACRL Publications Committee, to attend, committee of the ALA Audio-Visual Com- along with all ACRL editors.

136 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Two recommendations made by the study­ section Steering Committee also discussed discussion groups at the Chicago Confer­ a proposed joint committee with the Asso-. ence-Within-a-Conference had been pre­ ciation for Asian Studies on non-Western sented to the members of the Planning and library resources for undergraduates. The Action Committee, who noted that the prob­ possibility of establishing an audio-visual lem raised in one of the recommendations committee in this section was discussed by had already been identified as one of the the Board. Mr. Bailey will investigate the general objectives of ACRL by the commit­ possibilities of such a committee. tee. The committee agreed that the recom­ Edmon Low gave an extensive report on mendations needed clarification, and Mr. activities pertaining to federal legislation for Harlow stated that ACRL would be pleased libraries of colleges and universities. State to work with ·other divisions concerned in commissions will be established by the state relation to them. The recommendations governors to select the institutions to receive were distributed to Board members who funds under the Higher Education Facilities were asked to make additional suggestions Act. It is not certain whether appropriations to Mr. Bailey during Midwinter. for the Act will be available in 1964. The In applauding the success of the U.S. Board voted to leave action to implement Office of Education, Library Services the legislative proposal for materials for Branch, in collecting and publishing aca­ college and university libraries to the judg­ demic library statistics for 70 per cent of ment of the ALA Committee on Legislation. the libraries of such institutions, according Frances Kennedy, chairman of the Mem­ to the prearranged schedule, the Board ex­ bership Committee, referred to the report pressed the desire that the additional sta­ submitted before Midwinter. She noted that tistics, not included in the January publica­ much possible activity of the committee is tion, would be made available as a supple­ already being handled at ALA headquarters. ment in the same form; and stated its posi­ The committee is developing a brochure for tion as favoring the same regular schedule the division. of publication with the possibility of great­ Norman Tanis reported that he will at­ er coverage in future years. Dr. Kaser tend the meeting to be held in Washington, moved that an official resolution of appre­ D.C., February 17-18, 1964, sponsored by ciation be sent to the Commissioner of Edu­ the Council on Library Resources, to dis­ cation, Francis Keppel, with copies to Dr. cuss the proposed , study for strengthening Schick and John Lorenz. A letter to this library services in junior college education. effect will be written by Mr. Bailey. Mem­ For the Subject Specialists Section, the bers of the ACRL Board were asked to biggest problem is to identify the member­ write letters of appreciation to Commis­ ship of each of the four subsections since sioner Keppel. provision for selection of subsection mem­ Mr. Gormley noted the report of the bership was made only on the membership Grants Committee as published in CRL, renewal form, but has not yet been provided January 1964. The Board members were on the membership form for new members. especially concerned about the small size This section agreed to cosponsor the pro­ of the grants which varied from $250 to gram already planned by the Library Ser­ $1200. A number of Board members fa­ vices Committee for St. Louis. The Law vored larger grants, perhaps using a portion and Political Science Subsection hopes to of the amount available in this way. It was provide a complete slate of officers for stated that even the small grants are very 1964/65. Plans are to attempt to cosponsor valuab~e to the smaller libraries. a program with the American Association Mr. Gormley, acting for Dr. Tauber who of Law Librarians. The Agricultural and was unable to attend Midwinter, noted the Biological Subsection's program at St. Louis activities of the Committee on Library Sur­ will be concerned with the theme of library veys in developing a manual of surveys, service to users at the research level. The planning a workshop on surveys, and train­ Slavic and East European Subsection will ing qualified surveyors. submit bylaws for approval at St. Louis. The College Library Section is planning The latter subsection officers hope to secure a conference program on "The Federal funds to compile a directory of librarians, Government and College Libraries." The archivists, and information specialists with

MARCH 1964 137 Slavic competence. This subsection is plan­ al and Professional Organizations, noted his ning to obtain a speaker in the Slavic field concern about its functions. It has held some for its program at St. Louis. interesting luncheon meetings with guests Mr. Richards reported on the Teacher from these two areas. He recommended that Education Section and several Board mem­ the Planning and Action Committee con­ bers noted the changing academic picture, sider the purpose of this advisory commit­ with fewer teachers colleges. Mr. McNeal tee. requested statements from Mr. Richards and Mr. Jackson expressed the hope of the Mr. Oboler about the positions of these col­ monographs Editorial Board that funds leges and the need for the Teacher Educa­ could be provided for an honorarium for tion Section. authors of monographs. The Editorial Board The University Libraries Section is mak­ hopes that additional manuscripts will be ing stqdies of academic status, according to submitted. Mr. Bentz. The ULS Urban Universities Li­ Mr. Harlow requested that all those re­ brary Committee is planning a luncheon in sponsible for ACRL activities keep the ex­ St. Louis where a report on the New York ecutive secretary informed. Mr. Bailey ex­ metropolitan program of library coopera­ pressed appreciation to everyone for their tion will be presented. cooperation. Mr. West, chairman of the Advisory The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 P.M. Committee on Cooperation with Education- •• Periodicals ...

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ON NovEMBER 6, 1963, an indictment was returned in the United States Dis­ trict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, naming James S. Rizek and Richard Caverly as defendants. The former was a book dealer and the latter the former chief librarian of Scranton public library. The indictment charged that Caverly and Rizek conspired together to transport in interstate commerce books, documents, and periodicals that they knew to be stolen or taken by fraud from the Scranton public library in violation of the Federal Statutes. The indictment charged further that Rizek had done business under the names of Academic Sales Company, The Academic Service Corporation, Raritan Book Company, and other names. As part of the unlawful plan, Rizek and his associates approached and made proposals to public and college libraries in different parts of the country to exchange books and their bound periodicals for microfilm of these and other titles. The Government charged that in furtherance of the conspiracy the defend­ ants, Rizek and Caverly, would steal or convert to their own use, from the Scranton public library, books, documents, etc., and that Rizek and his asso­ ciates would establish contacts with other public and college libraries to dispose of books and documents so stolen. The Government alleged further in the indictment that Rizek and Caverly would authenticate the disposal of books to purchasers by the use of letterheads and order blanks of the Scranton public library. These acts complained of in the indictm~nt are alleged to have occurred dur­ ing the period from February 1961, through June 1962. However, it is believed. that these activities continued over a much longer period. The activities complained of in the Scranton indictment have not been con­ fined to Rizek and his companies. From recent press reports there has been a veritable epidemic of thefts of books, manuscripts, and documents during the past year. Most of the cases complained of follow the pattern of the Rizek indictment and have to do with the unlawful acquisition of publications from libraries. The favorite approach of the book dealer involved is the exchange of bound volumes for microfilms of these volumes. In many of these cases the individual book dealer has failed to carry out the provisions of his contract or has failed to make payment for the merchandise bought, or has delivered microfilm not up to the minimum of standards. As a consequence of the failure of these book dealers to fulfill their agreement, there have been many complaints received by the Bookdealer-Library Relations Committee of the American Library Associa­ tion. The function of this committee is the study of all aspects of book dealer­ library relations. The chairman of this committee is Carl Jackson, who has been actively engaged in the investigation of numerous complaints of alleged frauds perpetrated by the dealer. In view of the widespread character of the operations complained of and the losses sustained by the libraries of the country, those li­ braries that have been victimized and that have not already done so, might wish to communicate with the chairman, Mr. Carl Jackson, Associate Director, Uni­ versity of Colorado Libraries, to the end that there be an investigation of the facts and if the facts warrant, the matter may be called to the attention of the proper officials. • •

MARCH 1964 139 Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Archie L. McNeal, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Helen M. Brown, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Sarah Dowlin Jones, Goucher College, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland

DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE (1964-68) (two to be elected, one from each bracket) Ruth Madeline Erlandson, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Christine L. Reb, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Catherine Cardew, Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor, New York Ruth Ellen Scarborough, Centenary College for Women, Hackettstown, New Jersey

DIRECTOR ON ALA COUNCIL (1964-68)

Rev. Oliver L. Kapsner, St. Vincent College, L~trobe, Pennsylvania Rev. Jovian Lang, Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: H. Vail Deale, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Anne Carey Edmonds, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey Helen L. Sears, Wells College, Aurora, New York SECRETARY: D. Nora Gallagher, Adelphi College, Garden City, Long Island, New York Ermine Stone, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: James F. McCoy, Trenton Junior College, Trenton, New Jersey James W. Pirie, Flint Community Junior College, Flint, Michigan SECRETARY: Mrs. Alice B. Griffith, Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York Helen Paragamian, Pine Manor Junior College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

140 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES -Officers, 1964/65

RARE BOOKS SECTION CHAIRMAN: Robert 0. Dougan, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California Clyde C. Walton, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Marcus A. McCorison, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts Wilbur J. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles, California SECRETARY: Miss Marion E. Brown, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mrs. Maud D. Cole, New York Public Library, New York, New York

SUBJECT SPECIALIST SECTION CHAIRMAN: Carson W. Bennett, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: James Humphry, III, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Lillian Tudiver, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York SECRETARY: ( 1964-67) Mary Frances Pinches, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio Jack L. Ralston, University of Missouri at Kansas City

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES . SECTION CHAIRMAN: Orville L. Eaton, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan CHAIRMAN-ELECT AND SECRETARY: Richard Alan Farley, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas Mrs. Mildred Hawksworth Lowell, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Andrew J. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles, California David C. Weber, Stanford University, Stanford, California

MARCH 1964 141 News From the Field

ACQUISITIONS THE MEMORIAL LIBRARY of the University of Notre Dame has acquired the Stanley THE GEARY PAPERS, a collection of some Barney Smith collection of Greek and Latin nine hundred Civil War manuscripts, were classics ancJ also his Robert Burns collection. donated to the Mobile (Ala.) public library by Mrs. John H. van Aken, a member of THE ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY of the First the library board. For the most part the Corps of Cadets and the library collection documents are in good condition and will be of the Military Historical Society have been available to scholars for study. acquired by the libraries of Boston Univer­ sity. The catalog of the First Corp archives THE JOURNAL OF THE C.S.S. ALABAMA has been completed and is available at has been donated to the Mobile public li­ Chenery library, although the documents brary by a group of Mobile businessmen. will remain in the First Corp Armory until Mrs. Clara Stone Fields, state legislator, the university's new central library is con- solicited public support for placing the doc­ .structed. Cataloging of the twelve thousand ument in the Mobile public library. The books in the acquisition is still in progress. journal will be on display at all times, and MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY library, microfilms will be available for scholars. East Lansing, has acquired its millionth STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has re­ volume-an illuminated Book of Hours ca. ceived some seventy rare sixteenth-, seven­ 1440, with eighty-six miniature paintings. teenth-, and eighteenth-century volumes in The volume is the gift of the university's the areas of religion, philosophy, and classi­ Friends of the Library. cal literature. Donor was Stanford professor THE DANIEL S. ADAMS COLLECTION of of music Leonard Ratner. five hundred Shakespearean volumes has BORIS I. NICOLAEVSKY's collection of ma­ been established at New England College li­ terials on Russian revolutionary movements brary, Henniker, N.H., the gift of Mrs. Wil­ has been acquired by the Hoover Institution liam B. Severance .of Manchester. of Stanford University. More than twenty THE PERSONAL LIBRARY of Robert Frost thousand books and pamphlets, a large num­ has been given to New York University by ber of periodicals and newspapers, thou­ his daughter, Mrs. Lesley Ballantine. Some sands of rare leaflets, handbills, etc., and three thousand volumes will eventually be private archives, manuscripts, and corre­ housed in a se.J?inar room in a projected spondence dating from 1860 to the present new library building at NYU. are included. CORNELL UNIVERSITY has acquired from UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE's Hugh M. the Fabius family in Paris a collection of Morris library has received a collection of papers, correspondence, and other items per­ fore-edge paintings on late eighteenth-cen­ taining to the· Marquis de Lafayette which tury and early nineteenth-century books as­ for many years was maintained by the sembled by the late Mrs. Christopher L. descendants of the . French hero of the Ward and presented by her daughters. Two American Revolution. Some eight hundred of the forty-nine items have double fore­ items in the collection were presented by edges. Cornell and the Fabius family to the French National Archives. All documents presented Mrs. Ward's collection of Horace Wal­ to the French government were microfilmed pole's Strawperry .Hill Press imprints has .for Cornell, and Cornell papers were micro­ also been presented to the library by her filmed for the French N ationai Archives. daughters. The collection comprises some one hundred titles,, the imprints being sup­ .. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES plemented by scholarly works on Walpole, has purchased a ra:re first edi.tion of Na­ the Press, and eighteenth-century· England. thaniel Hawthorne's "Celestial .Railroad."

142 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A METALLURGICAL REFERENCE BOOK COL­ develop an inexpensive portable reader­ LECTION of more than two hundred volumes printer for microcopies, by Council on Li­ was presented to the Free Library of Phil­ brary Resources. adelphia by the Philadelphia chapter of the American Society for Metals. The collection THE NEw ENGLAND LIBRARY AssociA­ is known as the Theodore Wiedemann li­ TION announces a scholarship in librarian­ brary in memory of its founder, King of ship for the academic year 1964-65, of Prussia (Pa.), industrialist. $1,000 to be awarded to an applicant who is a New England college senior or grad­ THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'S Guy W. uate or a resident of New England, to be Bailey library has been given a collection of used for one year's full-time study toward 147 different editions of Ovid, mostly from a master's degree in library science at an the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, by ALA accredited school. Information and ap­ Mrs. Lester M. Prindle. plication forms may be secured from Miss Iva Foster, Chairman, N.E.L.A. Scholarship UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT's Bailey library Committee, Bates College Library, Lewis­ recently received the papers of Warren Aus­ ton, Me. Completed applications must be tin, former United States ambassador to the in the hands of the committee by April 20. United Nations, given by Mr. Austin's widow. The papers include correspondence, THE SOUTHWESTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIA­ memos, clippings, speeches, annotated copies TION is offering a scholarship of $750 for of documents, and memorabilia. It is ex­ full-time study in 1964-65 toward a mas­ pected that the material will be available to ter's degree in library science at an ALA­ researchers by midsummer. accredited school. Applications will be ac­ cepted from residents served by the donor AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS -Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mex- · . ico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Information and APPLICATIONS for three internships in applications are available from Marvin A. medical librarianship for 1964-65 are being Miller, Director of Libraries,' University of accepted by the biomedical library at Uni­ Arkansas, Fayetteville. Deadline is April 15. versity of California, Los Angeles. The pro­ gram offers a year of planned work com­ A MANUAL on methods of reproducing re­ bined with enrollment in a limited number search materials will be prepared by the Li­ of courses in foreign languages, documenta­ brary Technology Project of ALA working tion, biological sciences, and history of sci­ with a grant of $66,994 from the Council ence. It has been approved for level II cer­ on Library Resources. William R. Hawken tification by the Medical Library Associa­ is editor. tion. The program is supported by a grant INDIA, CosTA RICA, AND ARGENTINA li­ from the U.S. Public Health Service and braries have received grants from the Ford applicants must be citizens of the United Foundation to develop and improve library States (or have applied for citizenship) , and facilities. The University of Singapore re­ must hold masters' degrees from accredited ceived $70,000 for training staff members; library schools. Application forms and infor­ the University of Costa Rica $307,200 for mation may be obtained from Miss Louise general studies faculty and library facilities, Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Library, Uni­ and the Argentine Chemical Association re­ versity of California Center for Health Sci­ ceived $25,500 for developing library facili­ ences, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. The com­ ties, publication program, and lecture series. mittee must have completed applications by March 30. BUILDINGS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has been granted AUBURN (Ala.) UNIVERSITY dedicated its $70,565 for continuing work on the Na­ new library building-four stories to house tional Union Catalog of Manuscript Collec­ up to one million volumes-on Nov. 5. tions, by the Council on Library Resources. SouTHERN CALIFORNIA CoLLEGE, Costa DoCUMENTATION, INCORPORATED, Bethes­ Mesa, dedicated its new library in N ovem­ da, Md., has been awarded a contract to ber.

MARCH 1964 143 EUREKA (Ill.) COLLEGE has started a THE NATIONAL MICROFILM AssOCIATION's campaign to obtain $550,000 for a new li­ 1964 convention will be on April 28-30 at brary building and equipment. Philadelphia. Theme will be "Microrepro­ ductions, Media of Progress for Informa­ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO received the first tion Control." Further information and reg­ major contribution toward a new central istration blanks are available from National library building when a check for $500,000 Microfilm Association, P.O. 386, Annapolis, was turned over to the university in early Md. January by the Harriet Pullman Schermer­ horn Charitable Trust. The gift will be used . AN ALL-DAY CONFERENCE Will be held at . to plan tb,e building, probable cost of which Brooklyn College library on April 14. The will be fifteen million dollars. The plans topic will be "Reference Services for For­ look toward a collection of four to five mil­ eign Area Studies." Additional information lion volumes; present collections now total may be obtained from Mrs. Rose Z. Sell­ two million two hundred thousand. ers, Associate Librarian, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn 10, N.Y; UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, envi­ sions an underground undergraduate library INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR Docu­ on two floors with central light and ventila­ MENTATION will have its thirty-first meeting tion courts, space for one hundred thousand and congress in Washington, D.C., on Oc­ volumes, and reading rooms for forty-eight tober 7-16. hundred students. Construction costs are MISCELLANY estimated at seven million dollars. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS division of uni­ UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME will dedi­ versity extension and the graduate school of cate its new thirteen-story, twelve-and-one­ library science announce a five-week course half-million-dollar library building on May in medical literature and reference work 7. The college library occupies the first two (Library Science E439) starting June 15. floors, with seats for 2,411 readers and Meetings will be at the University of Illinois shelving for more than two hundred thou­ Library of Medical Sciences, 1853 West sand volumes. The university's research li­ Polk Street, Chicago. Preregistration appli­ brary occupies the eleven-story high-rise, cations must be made before May 1; forms with a capacity of two million: volumes and are available from Mr. A. J. Proteau, Divi­ carrels for 586 readers. The building was sion of University Extension, Illini Center, occupied last September. LaSalle Hotel, 10 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. 60602. THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA officiated at the A directory of documents librarians and opening of a new university library at Sri persons responsible for government docu­ Venkateswara University in Andhra Pradesh ments in the libraries of the United States in January. is being compiled by the RTSD-RSD Inter­ divisional Committee on Public Documents MEETINGS of ALA. The committee requests that these A MEETING sponsored by the Council on persons send their names, titles, and busi­ Library Resources, Inc., was held in Wash­ ness addresses to Thomas R. Shaw, Chair­ ington, D.C., on February 17-18 to discuss man, RTSD-RSD Interdivisional Committee a proposed study for strengthening library on Public Documents, Library School, Lou­ services in junior college education. isiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 70803. THE MIDWEST AcADEMIC LmRARIANS ) CoNFERENCE will be held at the University MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL­ of Notre Dame on April 17 and at Val­ OGY has initiated a long-range program for paraiso University on April 18. the application of principles and methods of information processing to library opera­ THE OHio VALLEY GROUP of Technical tion. Director of the program will be Carl Service Librarians will hold their 1964 meet­ F. J. Overhage, former director of MIT's ing at Furdue University Libraries, Lafayette, Lincoln laboratory, who will work closely Ind., on April 24-25. with the new director of libraries, William 144 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES N. Locke. The program will begin opera­ Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants-in-Aid, tion July 1. Loan Funds, and Other Financial Assist­ ance for Library Education has been re­ MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINING AND vised by a committee of the Library Educa­ , TECHNOLOGY AT Houghton and Sault Ste. tion Division of ALA, and is available from Marie has been renamed Michigan Tech­ the division office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago nological University. 60611. Price is 5 Oc for single copies; 10, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts $4.50; 25, $11.00; 100, $40.00. began publication in January 1964. It will be published in English, twice a month, by Guidelines for Establishing Junior College the American Society of Hospital Pharma­ Libraries is a reprint of the article that ap­ cists. peared in the November 1963 issue of CRL. Copies are available at 20c from ACRL, THE MARCH ISSUE of Wilson Library 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. Bulletin has several articles on public rela­ tions discussing the importance of PR in A SECOND SUPPLEMENT to Photocopying college and university libraries. We are in­ from Bound Volumes has been published by formed that reprints will be available from the Library Technology Project of ALA. It the periodical's offices. evaluates three photocopiers, the SCM Cor­ poration's Wedgelite, the new model Co­ LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, Bethlehem, Pa., will pease Duplex Book Copier, and APECO's include the training of information scien­ Panel-Lite. The twelve-page supplement is tists in its graduate program, starting in the 8 ~ x 11 inches and is punched for insertion fall of 1964. The program leading to an in standard three-ring notebooks. interdisciplinary master's degrees will be conducted by Lehigh's division of informa­ A LIST of federal government publica­ tion sciences. Graduate fellowships and as­ tions printed outside the government print­ sistantships will be available at the univer­ ing office will be compiled under the super­ sity. vision of Jennings Wood, chief of the ex­ change and gift division of the Library of THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LiBRARY SCI­ Congress. Mr. Wood is chairman of the Ad­ ENCE at Drexel Institute of Technology, visory Subcommittee on Depository Librar­ Philadelphia, is offering a course in law ies of the RSD/RTSD Interdivisional Com­ librarianship starting April 6. mittee on Public Documents. The project DREXEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is has received $5,000 from the Council on offering a course in work simplification in Library Resources to assist the compiling libraries during its summer session June 22- activities; the list is to be published early July 24. Applications should be directed to this year. the Admissions Office, Drexel Institute of THE FORMER U.S. INFORMATION SERVICE Technology, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. LmRARY at Tours, France, has been turned A DUPLICATE ABBREVIATED SHELF LIST on over to Stanford University, and will be IBM cards is the goal of a four-year pro­ available to Tours residents, students at the gram at Indiana (Pa.) State College library. University of Poitiers, and Stanford stu­ Each department of the college will even­ dents at that university's study center in tually receive a print-out in book form. Im­ Tours. It occupies the mezzanine floor of mediate benefits are duplicate print-outs of the Tours Municipal library. The collection new acquisitions, and selected areas of the of sixteen thousand volumes has been re­ shelf list, and development of circulation named the "John F. Kennedy Memorial and acquisitions controls. Library." LmRARY MOVING TECHNIQUES are ana­ BRAZIL has asked the Peace Corps for six lyzed in a monograph prepared by Peter volunteer librarians to help set up library Spyers-Duran, University of Wisconsin-Mil­ facilities for the University of Brasilia. A waukee, and available at $2.50 per copy central reference library, an educational from Miss Elspeth Pope, Editor, University faculty library, and a library for the sci­ Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwau­ ence institute of the university are planned. kee, Milwaukee, Wis. 53211. •• MARCH 1964 145 Personnel

ANNE CAREY EDMONDS will become the taught in the library schools of Syracuse librarian of Mount Holyoke College on and Rutgers universities. July 1, upon the retirement of Flora Belle Miss Edmonds has been an officer in Ludington. Miss Ed­ the library associations of Maryland and monds has been for New Jersey, and is secretary to the College the past three years Section of ACRL.-Sarah Dow/in Jones. librarian of Doug­ lass College, the Loms KRoNENBERGER, Brandeis Univer­ women's undergrad­ sity's newly appointed librarian, is a truly uate division of Rut­ modest and soft-spoken man who combines gers-The State Uni­ in his career distinguished service to several versity of New Jer­ fields of American literary life, and who sey. She went to brings a truly humanistic yet tough-minded Douglass after a approach to the current activities of Gold­ year of postgraduate farb library. study at the School From 1926 to 1933 Mr. Kronenberger of Library Science was a member of the editorial staff of Boni Miss Edmonds of Western Reserve and Liveright. At the same time he wrote University. his own first novel, The Grand Manner, as Miss Edmonds was born in Penang, Ma­ well as reviews for the leading serious maga­ laya, and was educated in England; she re­ zines of the day. ceived the certificate in commerce from the He later joined the house of Knopf as an University of Reading (England) and be­ editor, and soon took leave to go to Eng­ gan her career outside the library profession land, where he started work on his Kings by working for the War Damage Commis­ and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Cen­ sion in London. Coming to the United tury England, about which Clifton Fadirnan States, she studied at Barnard College for later wrote: "Kronenberger would rather be her A.B., and then, after a year in prepro­ right than be startling. . . ." He consciously fessional work at the Enoch Pratt free li­ shuns showiness and is deeply concerned brary in Baltimore, returned to Columbia with the abiding interests of the library and for her master's degree from the school of the scholarly community it serves. library service. Kronenberger developed his talents as a She began her experience in academic judge of literary and artistic quality when he libraries with a year in the commerce li­ found a job as drama critic on Time Maga­ brary of City College of New York, and in zine, where he started in 1938 and contin­ 1951 went to Goucher College as reference ued, with a short interruption, until 1961. librarian, moving to assistant librarian for From 1940 until 1948 he also served as drama critic for the newspaper PM. Kronen­ readers' services in 1958. Before she left berger was not one of those journalists who Goucher in 1960 for further graduate work, saw their own careers solely in terms of she took a second master's degree (this one their day-to-day writing and their positions in historical geography) from the Johns within a huge bureaucratic publishing or­ Hopkins University, and varied her experi­ ganization. He always kept his sights on ence with a year as exchange reference li­ questions of a less ephemeral nature; and brarian at the British Broadcasting Corpora­ he published novels, translations, anthol­ tion's reference library in London. ogies, literary articles, as well as many Miss Edmonds has had further experience contributions to literary symposia consider­ which stands a college librarian in good ing serious critical questions·. His books stead: she has taught college courses. While include The Thread of Laughter, 'The Re­ at Goucher College she taught classes in public of Letters, Marlborough's Duchess, freshman composition, and she has also Company Manners, Grand Right and Left,

146 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A Month of Sundays, and-to be published architecture faculty was admired by all of next spring-The Cart and the Horse, a col­ his library associates. lection of essays on contemporary American Mter three years in academic librarian­ culture. ship, he was lured into the special library Kronenberger is no newcomer to Bran­ field as-- director of the information center of deis University: he marched in the univer­ the Public Relations Society of America in sity's first commencement procession. He New York City. In this demanding position, also started courses in comedy and con­ he was called upon to collect and provide temporary drama at Brandeis in 19 51. He data for the members, originate and pre­ has had experience with the problems of pare research studies, write speeches, serve teaching the latest generation of students, as conference and institute planning con­ and he knows very well the seriousness and sultant, and counsel job applications and depth of their mterests. make referrals to public relations executives. In Louis Kronenberger, Brandeis has ac­ Dick possesses an even temperament. As quired a librarian with the qualities vital for one of our former mutual colleagues once an institution where intellectual aspirations commented, he has the ability "to make are deeply serious. He responds in a pro­ haste slowly" while employing a fine sense found way to real literary values; he is sym­ of humor and a wry wit. As a student, writ­ pathetic to innovations and freshness, but he er, counsellor, public relations expert, and is not bowled over by flashiness. His great most import~ntly, a professional librarian, modesty evokes modesty in persons who he has found in New York a position which deal with him. Both the experience and the will test his mettle. Mr. Shepherd is worthy personality of Louis Kronenberger are now of the challenge.-Le Mayne W. Anderson. available to help Goldfarb library ascend to the level of a first-class library with an ROBERT SOMERS, who assumed the posi­ abundance of the very best materials for tion of chief librarian at Alabama College, use by the very best scholars.-Jrwin Wei!. Montevallo, last fall brings a wide and var­ ied library experience to an old, established RICHARD J. SHEPHERD, recently-appointed but thoroughly alive and ready-for-a-new­ librarian at State University College, New expansion library situation. A native of Paltz, New York, brings to his post a back­ Meriden, Connecticut, where he completed ground which must be envied by any college his elementary and high school education, president searching for a director of librar­ after a stint in the army during 1945-47, he ies. attended Brown University, later transfer­ A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Shepherd ring to Wesleyan wher_e ·he obtained his received his bachelor's degree in English bachelor's degree. Part of the year following from Harvard. He began his professional he was a library assistant at the Olin me­ career as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain morial library and left in the fall of 1952 to Dealer only to have it terminated by a four­ attend library school at Florida State Uni­ year hitch in the U.S. Army. He returned to versity, where he worked in the materials j'ournalism as a writer for Art News and center. subsequently was associated with the New A job at Air University in periodical and York Public library in the reference di­ general reference work kept his active and vision. f~rtile mind occupied to the hilt and, for a Shortly after obtaining a master's degree change of pace, classified documents acquisi­ in library service at Columbia, he accepted tion work gave him an insight into the pro­ an appointment to the staff of the-University cedures for acquiring and processing materi­ of Illinois at Chicago. While serving in this als. A job as literature research specialist at capacity, he was recognized quickly as a Rome Air Development Center, Griffis Air respected professional librarian and a trust­ Force Base, enticed him away but wasn't ed member of the faculty' as well as a friend exciting enough to keep him, nor was the and confidant to students and colleagues. He Akron public library reference section in displayed· a keen appreciation for the biblio­ 1957-58 where supervisory experience was graphical requirements· of the patron. The his chief gain. In 19 58 he returned to our rapport whic~he developed with the art and library as bibliographer especially in the

MARGH 1964 - . \ 141 fields of air defense, communication, and feasibility of automating the Pacific North­ electronics. In that year he obtained his mas­ west Bibliographic Center. ter's degree. A year at Mobile public library Taylor's work at the university library has and a year at Brook.ley Air Force Base li­ received commendation from administration brary demonstrated the fact that college and and faculty alike. He has added several new uniyer~ity library work was what he really members to his staff, and is an active mem­ loved so he was most happy when the call to ber himself of the AAUP, PNLA, SLA, and assume the position at Alabama College was Beta Phi Mu, the national honorary library made. science fraternity. He has initiated special Here his intellectual curiosity, his wide techniques for alerting faculty members to and keen knowledge of books, and his strong new materials in their respective fields and interests in the arts will surely be a great has, altogether, made himself indispensable asset 'to a rebirth of an excellent basic col­ to those who care about books.-Leroy lege collection which needs rejuvenation in Ostransky. both physical plant and book collection.­ APPOINTMENTS John Kenneth Cameron. SISKO ALAVA has been appointed to the acquisitions staff at the University of Cali­ DESMOND TAYLOR was recently appointed fornia, Berkeley. librarian at the University of Puget Sound, NORMAN ALEXANDER is now head of in Tacoma, Wash. After joining the uni­ public services at Portland, Ore., State Col­ versity staff as ref­ lege library. erence librarian in KARIN AUGERSON has joined the college 1960, Taylor became library staff at UCLA. acting librarian in JAMES M. BARRY has been appointed the spring of 1963, medical school librarian at Rutgers Uni­ and head librarian versity, New Brunswick, N.J. on September 1, MRS. MEREDITH R. BASKETT is a new 1963. member of the University of Washington Raised in Toledo, library staff, Seattle. Ohio, Taylor re­ HELEN S. BosTON has joined the refer­ ceived his bachelor's ence department of the Department of degree from Emory Health, Education and Welfare library. and Henry College MEL VERN BROWN joined the documents in Virginia, and his section of University of North Carolina master's degree in sci- Mr. Taylor library, Chapel Hill, in October. ence from the Uni- ANA GuERRA DEREN is the Latin Ameri­ versity of illinois. After he received his BA can exchange librarian in the gifts and ex­ in 1953, Taylor served as a member of the changes section of UCLA's acquisitions de­ U.S. Army Security Agency, a post he held partment. The appointment is for six for the next three years. months. Taylor's interest in research grew out of MILDRED S. DUGAN is newly appointed his early training at Warder public library assistant librarian, processing division, Ohio in Springfield, Ohio, where he spent three University library, Athens. years as reference assistant. He has since WALTER T. DziURA has been named edi­ participated in Library 21's first group as tor of the Bulletin of Bibliography. a standby member. Here, as a direct result MANIE FRANKLIN is the new chief of the of the training course, he became especially special services library, U.S. Military Acad­ concerned with the potential use of auto­ emy, West Point, N.Y. mated devices and techniques. PEGGY GLOVER is head librarian of the The special training and new-found inter­ technical data management office of the est resulted in two articles which were pub­ Defense Industrial Supply Center, Philadel­ lished in the Northwest's regional library phia. quarterly. The first deals with the implica­ PEARL JEANETTE GoNDRELLA has been tions of Library 21 training for the profes­ appointed librarian in the Department of sion at large, and the second explores the the Army Special Services, Korea.

148 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MRs. RoMA S. GREGORY is now assistant science librarian at Massachusetts Institute librarian, Missouri Botanical Gardens li­ of Technology, Cambridge. brary, St. Louis. LuciA N. PARKER is a subject specialist in C. DAKE GULL has been appointed pro­ the reference division of the University of fessor of library science and information Washington library, Seattle. systems consultant to the Aerospace Re­ Gn.JEs B. RoBERTSON has been appointed search Applications Center at Indiana Uni­ head of public services of the undergraduate versity. division library, University of Illinois, Chi­ OMER HAMLIN, JR., has been named head cago. librarian at University of Kentucky medical S. DoNALD RoBERTSON is now head of center. the serials department at Wisconsin State WILLIAM F. HARRISON, JR., has joined the College library, Whitewater. University of South Florida library staff in RoBERT D. ScHALAU is now law reference Tampa, as assistant cataloger. librarian at Nevada state library, Carson MORRISON C. HAVILAND became assistant City. director of Tulane University's Howard­ HILDA E. S'rEINWEG has been appointed Tilton memorial library in February. chief cataloging librarian at Ohio University, CHARLES L. HIGGINS is now librarian of Athens. Nazareth College, Rochester, N.Y. RUTH ELAINE STONE has been appointed MARY JEANNETTE HousEHOLDER has been lecturer and librarian for school of library appointed librarian in the Department of science at University of North Carolina, the Army Special Services, Germany, Italy, Chapel Hill. and France. EILEEN THORNTON, librarian of Oberlin CARROLL SAM IDEN is now in charge of College, will be on leave until April 30 to library facilities at Delco Radio Division of visit universities and university libraries in General Motors Corporation, Kokomo, Ind. England. MRS. DOROTHY B. JAMERSON is curricu­ S. P ADRAIG WALSH is head cataloger at lum materials and serials librarian at Savan­ University of Delaware's Morris library, nah, Ga., State College. Newark. ELIZABETH KNAPP is now head of public LEE H. WILLIAMS assumed the duties of services at Sir George Williams University assistant director for technical service, a library, Montreal. new position, at State University of New RICHARD JAMES LIETZ became reference York at Stony Brook on March 2. librarian in the social sciences library at Uni­ MRs. MURIEL WooD became health sci­ versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in ences librarian at University of Washington, December. Seattle, in November. MRs. JoANNA Lru has joined the catalog­ ing staff of Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ FOREIGN LIBRARIES nology libraries, Cambridge. WILLIAM N. LocKE, for eight years direc­ LUDWIG BoRNGASSER is now director of tor of libraries and head of the department the Westdeutsche Bibliothek in Marburg, of modern languages at Massachusetts In­ Germany. He was director of the Hessische stitute of Technology, will devote his entire Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek at Darms­ time to management and development of the tadt. libraries. NECROLOGY FREDERICK LYNDEN is newly-appointed to the staff of Bancroft library at University SvEND DAHL, former director of the Dan­ of California, Berkeley. ish Royal library, died on November 15. MICHAEL J. MACAHILL is now head of ALICE GAY, head cataloger at Occidental technical services at Sir George Williams College, Los Angeles, since 19 3 9, died in University library, Montreal. January. MRs. KATHLEEN A. McCLANE is refer­ FLORENCE S. HELLMAN, chief of the for­ ence librarian at University of Washington mer division of bibliography of the Library library, Seattle. of Congress from 1938 to 1943, died on MARGARET OTTO has been named assistant December 28 in Washington, D.C.

MARCH 1964 149 HmEo KisHIMOTo, director of the Uni­ versity of Tokyo library since 1960, died ACRL Membership on January 25. February 1, 1964 LEo E. LAMONTAGNE, former assistant chief and principal cataloger in the subject Total ...... 8,491 cataloging division of Library of Congress Subject Specialists ...... 1,356 died on December 25. ANNA M. TARR, until her retirement li­ Junior College ...... 624 brarian of Lawrence College, Appleton, Teacher Education ...... 408 Wis., died on December 26. LUELLA B. MONTGOMERY TORR, retired University ...... 3,011 librarian at Beekman Downtown Hospital College ...... 2,311 in New York City, died on November 21. Rare Books ...... 631 RETIREMENTS Approximately 750 members do not EDITH E. AVERITT retired in February select membership in any ACRL Sec­ from the staff of University of North Caro­ tion, and almost 500 members select lina library, Chapel Hill, after nearly forty more than one ACRL Section. Over years of service, first in cataloging, then as 1,500 are institutional memberships. geology-geography librarian. • •

ACRL Preconference

A CONFERENCE on the bibliography of natural history under the auspices of the Rare Books section of ACRL and cosponsored by the University of Kansas libraries and the Linda Hall library will be held in Lawrence and Kansas City on June 25, 26, and 27. Registration will begin at noon on Thursday, June 25 on the University of Kansas campus where the program will continue through Friday evening. The Saturday morning session, June 27, will be at the Linda Hall in Kansas City, adjourning with a luncheon at noon. Bus transportation from Lawrence to Linda Hall will be provided on Saturday morning. Program speakers will include historians of science, bibliographers, collectors, antiquarian dealers, and librarians. Several program participants from abroad are expected. The program will focus attention on the uses of rare books, manuscripts, and illustration in the historical studies of the natural sciences, and will seek to stimulate and advance studies of the bibliography of natural history in this country. A volume of proceedings will be published following the conference. The final program and other details will be announced in April. Further information may be obtained by writing to Thomas R. Buckman, Director of Libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans., who is in charge of program planning and local arrangements. The conference registration fee is $30.00, which includes meals and lodging in a university dormitory near the Memorial Union and the library where the meetings will be held. All of the buildings used by the conference are air con­ ditioned. Kansas City is easily accessible by air or rail from any part of the country. Lawrence is thirty-eight miles to the west by turnpike. Bus transportation will be provided on Thursday. St. Louis, site of the annual ALA conference in 1964, is less than an hour by air from Kansas City. Everyone interested in the bibliography of natural history is invited to attend . •• 150 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES