Brief of Minutes ACRL Board of Directors

MEETING, JUNE 23, 1954, IN MINNE- of the reporting form which is distributed in the early fall. APOLIS The Audio-Visual Committee had no tangi- Present were officers, directors, chairmen of ble accomplishments to report according to sections and committees and ACRL repre- Mr. Gibson, the chairman. Lines of com- sentatives on ALA council. President Mac- munication with other A-V groups needed Pherson presided. The meeting followed an strengthening. Mr. Hamlin reported an ex- agenda with supporting documents which had tensive correspondence with DAVI over been mailed to all in advance of the meeting. better liaison with college librarians. Dis- Gerald D. MacDonald, chairman of the cussion turned to the problem of separate A-V ad hoc committee to study the place for rare departments vs. A-V departments adminis- book interests in the ALA, reported in favor tered by the library. Mr. Green felt that of a Rare Books Committee. This should many teachers college librarians would just promote wider understanding of the value of as soon be rid of A-V departments. He rare books to scholarly research and to cul- suggested as a project a symposium on the tural growth, bring improvement in the care, pros and cons of A-V responsibilities under use and recognition of rare books in all the librarian. Mr. Maxfield mentioned the libraries, provide for discussion of problems new ACRL MONOGRAPH on A-V problems common to rare book librarians, and en- which is now under preparation by Walter courage librarians of these collections to be- Stone. come active members of ALA. Participation Mr. Adams reported briefly on the recent of rare book librarians in ALA activities was pre-conference institute of the ALA Build- emphasized. There was brief discussion of ings Committee with divisional buildings the pros and cons of having such a committee committees. under ALA (which had referred the problem Mr. Maxfield reported for the Committee to ACRL) or ACRL. It was felt that a on Publications. Mr. Thompson, the chair- round table would be dangerous because sup- man, was concerned over the need for a care- port and assistance of a parent organization ful and comprehensive statement of functions was important, at least at the start. It was and policies, particularly with reference to voted that, existing publications series. He felt there ACRL authorize a Cornmittee on Rare was need for an explicit statement of func- Books, Manuscripts and Special Collec- tions and exact relationships of existing pub- tions. lications among themselves and this Com- The work of the Statistics Committee was mittee as a group. He also recommended the reviewed by Mr. Purdy, who has been prin- creation of a fund (about $1000) to assist cipally responsible for ACRL work with sta- research, which would be administered by the tistics and who was completing six years as Committee. Research would lead to ACRL chairman of the Committee. He reviewed the publication. Mr. Maxfield as managing history of college library statistics over the editor of the ACRL MONOGRAPHS, urged the past decade, following discontinuance by ALA. creation of a special subcommittee to edit The Committee has always felt that this was manuscripts and implement the whole project. a job done by default since it properly be- In the ensuing discussion Mr. Lyle empha- longed to ALA or the Office of Education. sized the importance of this Committee and Until some more intelligent coordinated pro- the need for it to approve publications and gram is developed ACRL should probably assume responsibility for them. He had no continue this service which is demanded by objection to a subcommittee on MONOGRAPHS library administrators. Dale Bentz, the in- or any other series, but felt multiplication of coming chairman, was completing a revision such groups would breed confusion, and

.440 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES assignment of separate responsibility was Discussion turned to the need for a brief unwise. Mr. Maxfield emphasized the im- handbook on Friends of the Library organi- portance of continuity in a long-term ACRL zations for colleges. ACRL had been asked MONOGRAPHS program. The need for free- to appoint several people to prepare this. A dom in operating detail did not necessarily special committee was not considered neces- conflict with responsibility to the Publications sary and the problem was left for the Publi- Committee. On question Mr. Maxfield was cations Committee to handle in consultation told to continue his negotiations with prospec- with the incoming president, Mr. Lyle. tive authors and to carry on other normal Mr. Heintz reviewed the activities of the duties. It was voted that, Committee on Pinancing C&RL. While com- the Publications Committee be requested mittee activity had not produced much adver- to study its relations to the three major tising during the past year, nearly 100 solici- ACRL publishing enterprises and bring tation letters had been written recently and back a report. should produce ads. The need for the com- Mr. Hamlin reported for the CNLA Com- mittee had been questioned. Mr. Heintz mittee for the Protection of Cultural and recommended that his group have one more Scientific Resources in the absence of Mr. year. It was voted that, Adkinson. An encouraging development is a the Committee on Financing C&RL be plan to prepare basic bibliographies of re- continued for another year and enlarged search materials with the expectation that by two additional members. these would be used as buying guides and Mr. Heintz reported that his Committee thereby stimulate wide duplication. Discus- had considered the effect on advertising were sion turned to the immensity of the problem C&RL to change from a quarterly to bi-monthly and slow progress with it. Mr. Logsdon felt issue. Sales would be greatly facilitated. that real gains had been made in recent The Publications Committee had discussed bi- months, that the approach was realistic, and monthly issue with editor Tauber. that ACRL should continue support of the The Committee on Committees (Mr. Committee. ARL discussions of this subject Eaton, chairman) had completed a revision were reviewed. It was unanimously voted of the statements of purpose for every ACRL that, committee. These statements were available Mr. Adkinson, as chairman of the Com- for all present in mimeographed form (They mittee for the Protection of Cultural and will be printed in C&RL and in the organization Scientific Resources, be assured of ACRL issue of the ALA Bulletin). interest and support. The Board considered whether or not Mr. Kipp reviewed the accomplishments formal approval of these statements was and problems of the U.S. Book Exchange, desirable at this time. It was decided to which has been self-supporting since 1952. wait until new chairmen had an opportunity A major problem is housing. Another is that to study them. Mr. Eaton reported his group of getting the story of USBE across to the had lined up the membership for ACRL com- users, since most libraries which know its mittees so they could all get to work at once services use them. The written report of the Joint Advisory right after conference. Mr. Lyle confirmed Committee on Union List of Serials was the fact that all chairmen, and nearly all members, had already been invited to serve passed around for examination in the absence of Mr. Severance. President MacPherson and had accepted. Many names had been and Mr. Hamlin reported very briefly for suggested for committee assignments and not other ACRL committee chairmen and rep- all could be assigned. Mr. Eaton's Commit- resentatives on joint committees who could tee had tried to steer a middle course between not be present. Mr. Eaton stated that the emphasis on continuity of committee work and state representatives had made many sug- rotation to give other members their oppor- gestions of new blood for ACRL committee tunities. assignments. Mr. Lyle urged the representa- On recommendation of the Committee on tives to make greater use of state library Committees it was voted that, bulletins. (1) The Committee to Implement Li-

OCTOBER, 1954 441. brary of Congress Bibliographical Projects printed elsewhere. Behind the report lay the be discontinued. need for an Executive Board which is directly (2) The proposed Interlibrary Loan representative and not separate from the Committee be referred to the ACRL Ref- divisions. Mr. Moriarty requested approval erence Section. of a provision that divisional executive secre- (3) The ACRL Board of Directors as- taries function as a cabinet with the ALA sume responsibility for the proposed Plan- executive secretary serving as permanent ex- ning Committee through a subcommittee offlcio chairman. It was voted that, of the Board. ACRL favors the establishment of a cab- (4) A Committee on Relationships with inet within ALA to administer the head- Educational A ssociations be established. quarters offices. This last committee was the recommenda- President MacPherson commented briefly tion of an ad hoc committee of three Board on great progress made by ACRL chapters. Members. The exact statement of purpose is Discussion turned to ALA policy against to be drafted by the chairman. Mr. Shores payment of speakers on conference programs. emphasized the need for activity in this gen- ACRL has financial autonomy and could eral area. make exceptions to the rule. There was It was reported that Mr. Jesse, chairman general agreement that the policy against pay- of the Committee on Administrative Pro- ments was wise, and that one exception need cedures felt its scope should be limited to not set a precedent. The topic would be standards. Both he and Mr. Eaton's com- explored further at the next meeting. mittee felt the committee name should be changed. It was voted that, MEETING, JUNE 25, 1954, IN MINNEAPOLIS the name of the Committee on Adminis- Present were officers and directors. Presi- trative Procedures be changed to Commit- dent MacPherson presided. tee on Standards. Attention was called to the lack of a Mr. Hamlin reported that a conference quorum. Miss MacPherson ruled that busi- had been held in New York last May to dis- ness be conducted as usual and that all actions cuss promotion of the use of inexpensive books taken must be confirmed by mail vote of the on college campuses. This conference was 1953/54 Board of Directors. (This vote was attended by more than a score of college li- taken after conference and all actions were brarians in the area and half as many pub- confirmed.) The principal item of business lishers. The American Book Publishers was the budget for next year. A deficit was Council was an informal sponsor of the meet- expected, and will probably continue for sev- ing. The group had voted unanimously in eral years. On the other hand the balance in favor of a joint ACRL-PLD committee to the treasury is large and income from mem- compile lists of inexpensive books for the bership and publications steadily increases. purpose of promoting worthwhile reading Prior to taking up the budget, the treas- among college students and other adults. Be- urer's report (Sept. 1 to May 31) was briefly hind this action lay the feeling that the availa- reviewed. Miss Saidel estimated that C&RL bility of good paperback books was not suffi- would require about $3,680 for the current ciently known, and there was need for large year instead of the $4,120 budgeted. The quantities of flyers listing the best paperbacks. Buildings Committee had used very little of These lists would be very useful to college the funds allotted them. Headquarters office faculties and to public library readers. Mr. expenses for stationery, stamps, phone and Eaton felt the proposed committee should first supplies was a rapidly increasing item. Some be referred to this Committee on Committees of this was due of course to officer and section and that the Board should act after its recom- activity. mendation had been received. The ACRL MONOGRAPHS showed a deficit for Mr. Moriarty, ACRL's representative on the year because the figures made no allow- the Committee on Divisional Relationships, ance for inventory accounts receivable, etc. reported emphasis on reconstitution of the Mr. Coney suggested that since they were to ALA Executive Board. He reviewed the be self-supporting they should handle their report later presented to Council, which is own bookkeeping. This was also favored by

.442 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Mr. Shipman and Mr. Hamlin. other divisions. This request was initiated by The Board discussed the problem of the Mr. Hamlin and not by ALA. He knew the University Section which had promised a money was needed. It would replace a small small fee to a conference speaker although no sum appropriated several years ago and then funds were appropriated for this purpose and not paid. No precedent was to be estab- general policy is against payment of confer- lished. Miss Bennett was praised for the ence speakers. President MacPherson fav- success of her office. It was voted that, ored reimbursement of the section in this an appropriation of $300 be authorized instance. It was voted that, toward the expenses of the ALA Wash- an appropriation of $75 be authorized to ington Office for 1954/55- cover the honorarium of the conference On query Mr. Hamlin enumerated some of speaker engaged by the University Li- the probable sources of "Miscellaneous In- braries Section. come." Additional section dues were a big It was also voted that, item. Publications other than ACRL MONO- an increase of $40 be authorized the Li- GRAPHS always brought in a little. There braries of Teacher Training Institutions might be a survey by the ACRL office. Section to cover travel expenses of their ACRL MONOGRAPHS should produce income conference speaker. because a large part of the work of the clerk- Miss Gifford commented on the expense typist is devoted to MONOGRAPHS and the ($122.50) for the one Reference Section salary must be offset by substantial income. Newsletter. Miss Saidel explained that this Mr. Hamlin suggested that "Annual Con- had been done by a commercial agency be- ference Expense" be reduced with the under- cause of backlog of work at ALA, and the standing that expense of ACRL staff in at- cost (about $.09 each including postage) was tending conference be charged to "Travel." higher than usual. Miss Mitchell who is At the suggestion of Miss Gifford the appro- secretary to Mr. Hamlin, noted also that this priation for the Reference Section was in- cost includes a $20.00 charge by ALA for creased to $300. running the addressograph plates. (ACRL Mr. Hamlin explained that the increase in formerly maintained its own file but has now travel allowance for the executive office was abandoned it.) based on the present sum plus the needs of Mr. Coney questioned the interest rate the new Publications Officer, plus other con- (3%) paid on ACRL funds in the savings ference attendance expenses. Some funds account. He felt that 32% could be realized were required for new furniture when ALA on government bonds. In any case Mr. Ham- found the necessary larger office for the lin ought to discuss the matter with the ALA ACRL staff. Comptroller. It was voted that, President MacPherson noted that the pro- the Executive Secretary explore with the posed budget presented a deficit of nearly Treasurer the possibility of investing the $6,000. She then read a statement by treas- $10,000 of the Association s surplus (now urer Shipman: in savings account at Safety Federal Sav- ings and Loan in Kansas City) so as to "In recent years, income has been regularly secure greater yield than the savings ac- underestimated, and expenditures over- count rate. estimated. For 1952/53 (the last year for which complete figures are available) Attention turned to the budget for 1954/55. we budgeted a deficit of $4,500 and ended (See General Session minutes.) the year with a surplus of nearly $4,000. At the meeting of June 23, the Publications Obviously, such a situation will not con- Committee had requested $1,000 to assist tinue indefinitely, but membership this year research. Both Mr. Lyle and Miss Mac- indicates another gain for ACRL, and the Pherson felt that this should be considered deficit suggested above should not be too only when the Committee had a more definite alarming." program for its use. Miss MacPherson presented the case for On question Mr. Hamlin stated that he a small sum for the ALA Washington office, had yet to see ACRL produce a deficit. which ACRL formerly supported along with There might be a small one for the current

OCTOBER, 1954 443. year. It had always been a practice to esti- Laws be requested to investigate an amend- mate income very conservatively. Member- ment to the by-laws which will specify the ship, and receipts from memberships, were majority required to pass a mail vote, and growing very rapidly. Mr. Coney suggested to present a report to the Board at Mid- that the next budget attempt a more realistic winter. estimate of income. It was then voted that, President MacPherson raised the question the proposed budget for IQ54/55 be ac- of reauthorization of a Research Planning cepted with the following amendments: Committee. Mr. Hamlin stated that such a (1) Annual Conference Expenses—de- committee had been created on his recom- crease to $150. mendation several years ago. It had never (2) Reference Section—increase to $300. been effective and had recently requested Mr. Hamlin suggested that the Board re- (and received) dissolution. Other organiza- view ACRL practice in preparing Annual tions, including other ALA divisions, derive Conference and Midwinter programs. The great benefit from research planning com- president and the chairmen of sections each mittees. He therefore urged that the Com- plan their own. Other ALA divisions are mittee on Committees be requested to study seeking to coordinate plans of sections and to the subject. It was voted that, join with other divisions or groups in pro- the Committee on Committees be re- grams of joint interest so as to reduce them quested to consider the establishment of a in number. He felt coordination was possi- Research Planning Committee, and to pre- ble and desirable. Miss Skidmore cited a sent a report of its study to the Board at program topic of joint interest to the Teacher Midwinter. Training Section and the Junior College Sec- Mr. Clift had invited ACRL to contribute tion. Miss Ganfield felt that a section busi- toward the expenses of an ALA delegate to ness meeting must be coupled with a pro- attend the Council meeting of the Interna- gram at Midwinter in order to draw attend- tional Federation of Library Associations at ance. Mr. Hamlin thought that progress Zagreb this fall. $1,000 was available from might be made by using workshops or seeking other sources. $400 was being sought from topics of broader interest for joint meetings. several divisions. The subject of the meeting Mr. Fowler suggested the ACRL office serve (union library catalogs and related matters) as an informal clearing house on conference is of ACRL interest. It was voted that, programs. It was voted that, an appropriation of $200 be authorized to the ACRL Executive Secretary be em- help defray expenses of ALA representa- powered to investigate the problems of tion at the 20th session of the IFLA Midwinter and Annual Conference Meet- Council in Zagreb. ings with a view toward avoiding conflicts (Note: The delegate is to be Douglas Bry- and increasing coordination of programs. ant, Vice President of IFLA and chairman Miss Saidel, ACRL Publications Officer, of the ALA International Relations reported discussion with Mr. Tauber regard- Board). ing a bi-monthly C&RL. Cost data were being Mr. Hamlin presented the need for more secured. Section newsletters could be incor- recognition of the program of issuing doctoral porated. It was pointed out that newsletter dissertations on microfilm. It had been sug- material could be incorporated in C&RL at gested that the State Representatives work on any time when the editor and any section this. It was voted that, chairman wanted to do so. the board express approval of an ARL- Mr. Hamlin stated that the Constitution University Microfilms program and that makes no specific provision for formal Board the State Representatives of ACRL be of Directors action by mail vote. Something urged to promote this program especially more than a simple majority vote is ordinarily in respect to the issuance of dissertations required. He urged that the Committee on through Dissertation Abstracts. Constitutions and By-Laws study this problem Mr. Hamlin had prepared for the agenda carefully and present its findings at the next a statement on the implications for college meeting of the Board. It was voted that, libraries of increasing college enrolments. the Comjnittee on Constitution and By- After some discussion it was agreed that no

.444 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES action was desirable but the topic might be reclassify the position of the ACRL execu- developed at a future conference program. tive secretary, which dates back to 1952. She The organizational discussions of the Ref- reported discussions with Mr. Clift. He now erence Section were considered. Miss Gifford felt the problem was no longer his and be- reported strong feeling against ACRL at the longed to the ALA Committee of Three establishment of PLD's Reference Section in (Charles Gosnell, Chairman). Mr. Mum- 1952. Reference librarians had been slighted ford, a member of the Committee of Three by recent nominating committees. Miss Gif- had told Miss MacPherson that no action ford stated she was not in favor of a separate could be taken until the proposed survey of reference division but thought that the matter ALA headquarters by Cresap, McCormick should be discussed and a report made for and Paget (to be completed in the spring of Board consideration. 1955). Miss MacPherson reviewed changes Mr. Hamlin felt that, in retrospect, he had in duties of the executive secretary in recent probably used poor judgment in not taking years. She cited the difficulty ACRL would an active stand when the reference section for have in getting a competent replacement at the Public Libraries Division was first pro- the beginning salary step for this grade, posed. He felt the executive secretary should should the position be vacated. She regretted not contact the Nominating Committee except that her persistent efforts had produced no at its invitation or on instruction of the solution to this problem and asked whether Board. After further discussion it was voted the new president should continue to work for that, reclassification. Mr. Hamlin stated that he the executive secretary give special atten- didn't feel abused at all. But he did feel that tion to the needs and problems of the Ref- salaries at headquarters were way out of line. erence Librarians Section as discussed at "It was the sense of the meeting in this this meeting and give all possible assistance discussion regarding the salary situation that to the chairman of the Section. A better the incoming president should continue the representation in the general ACRL or- efforts of previous presidents to improve the ganization should be sought. classification of the ACRL executive secre- President MacPherson reviewed the his- tary." tory of repeated Board action to have ALA Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary

Charles Harvey Brown Honored

Dr. Charles Harvey Brown, librarian emeritus of Iowa State College and leader in the founding and guidance of ACRL in its early years, was honored twice this past June. From the Iowa State College Alumni Association came its Faculty Citation, awarded annually to a faculty member "in recognition of long, outstanding and inspiring service. . . ." From the American Library Association came election to honorary membership. The citation which ac- companied Dr. Brown's honorary membership has been printed in full in the ALA Bulletin. During the past seven years of his retirement, Dr. Brown has continued to render an im- portant service to his profession through his own study and writings, by teaching, by wide cor- respondence and as a consultant. Since 1946, when he became librarian emeritus on the Ames campus, he has been active as bibliographer for the Iowa State College Library and as surveyor of library schools and libraries in many parts of the country. Dr. Brown was president of ALA in 1941-42, and he served this and other educational associations in many capacities dur- ing the past half century. He has always maintained his acquaintance and interest in young people and in the professional growth of his subordinates. These two honors recognize a life- time of dedicated service.

OCTOBER, 1954 445. ACRL General Session Minutes

The ACRL General Session was held in representatives on ALA Council are: Mar- the Arena Auditorium, Minneapolis, on Tues- garet L. Fayer, librarian, Middlebury Col- day evening, June 22. Dr. Harriet D. Mac- lege, Middlebury, Vt.; Dorothy M. Cros- Pherson, president of the Association, pre- land, director of libraries, Georgia Institute sided. of Technology, Atlanta; H. Dean Stallings, Carroll Binder, editorial editor of the librarian, North Dakota Agricultural Col- Minneapolis Tribune, was introduced. He lege, Fargo; Carl W. Hintz, librarian, Uni- spoke on 'American Attitudes Toward Par- versity of Oregon, Eugene; John H. Otte- ticipation in World Affairs." miller, associate librarian, Yale University, Julia Bennett, director of the ALA Wash- New Haven, Conn.; and Fleming Bennett, ington office, summarized current Congres- librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson. sional legislation of interest to librarians. Treasurer Joseph C. Shipman reported on She emphasized the importance of the state the surpluses of recent years which are caused conferences which precede the White House by regular increases in membership and the Conference on Education which is scheduled expanding publication program. Member- for 1955. The bill on Cooperative Research ships for the first nine months of the current in Education will permit jointly financed year were already higher than any previous projects of research in education by colleges, twelve month period. The balance-on-hand universities, and state educational agencies. with the treasurer on May 31 was $17,897.60. The matter of postal charges to depository Mr. Hamlin spoke briefly on the state of libraries was under study. Miss Bennett the association. He commented on the sub- summarized the current status of the Library stantial natural growth in membership with- of Congress appropriation and the Universal out benefit of campaigns or high pressure ad- Copyright Convention. vertising. ACRL should probably at this Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the Harvard time devote its major attention to services at University Library, could not be present to the college level rather than that of research deliver his paper because he was scheduled to libraries. The college population had in- testify at hearings on the Library of Congress creased tremendously in the past decade and appropriation. His address, "Why We would have similar or greater growth in the Ought to be Investigated" was delivered by next fifteen years, yet this great democracy Douglas W. Bryant. (Article printed else- remains backward in the use of good books. where in this issue.) The college library must play a major role President MacPherson introduced Guy in the development of healthy and permanent Lyle, director of libraries, Louisiana State intellectual interests in the youth of America. University as succeeding to the ACRL presi- Before concluding the business meeting dency at the end of this conference. (Mr. President MacPherson announced that an Lyle has since accepted a new position as official gavel had been made for the Associa- director of libraries at Emory University.) tion by 13 year old Peter Hamlin. ACRL She announced also the election returns. The had never had a gavel. The gift was ac- new vice-president and president-elect is knowledge with thanks and turned over to Robert Vosper, director of libraries, Univer- Mr. Lyle as the incoming president. All sity of Kansas. Lawrence S. Thompson, were welcomed to the next session, to be director of libraries, University of Kentucky, held in Philadelphia in 1955. is the new ACRL director-at-large. Six new Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary

.446 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL Budget for 1954-55

As ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN MINNEAPOLIS, JUNE 25, 1954

ESTIMATED INCOME $25,660.00

ALA allotments to ACRL from dues $23,000.00 Executive Secretary, TIAA premium dues 360.00 Income on investments 300.00 ACRL MONOGRAPHS ' 1,500.00 Miscellaneous income 500.00

EXPENDITURES $32,060.00

C&RL subvention $ 3,400.00 Annual conference expenses 150.00 ACRL State Representatives 250.00 Memberships in other organizations 100.00 Annual ballot 200-00 ALA Washington Office 300.00 Travel of ALA Delegate to IFLA council meeting in Zagreb 200.00

SECTION EXPENSES College $ 75-00 Junior College ^O-OO Pure and Applied Science 250.00 Reference 300.oo Teacher Training I00-00 University 75-00

COMMITTEE EXPENSES Audio-Visual 75.oo Buildings 500.oo Constitution and By-Laws 25.00 Publications x50.oo Statistics 150.oo Duplicates Exchange Union 25.00 Recruiting 150.00 Standards I00-00

OFFICERS' EXPENSES President $ 25.00 Treasurer 5°-00 General administration (including travel of officers) 900.00 Executive Secretary TIAA 720.00 Salaries—Executive Secretary 7,79°.oo Publications Officer 5,550.oo Secretary 3,850.00 Clerk-Typist 2,750.00 Social Security, Group Insurance, etc 400.00 Staff travel 1,800.00 Communications, supplies, etc 900.00 New office equipment • • 600.00

OCTOBER, 1954 447. News from the Field

The century-old hand- came to the John Crerar Library in 1904. Acquisitions, Gifts, written manuscript of Chauncey H. Griffith, for many years vice Collections what is considered the president and director of typographic research world's most famous and development for the Mergenthaler Lino- commentary on American democracy has been type Company, has presented the University of acquired by the Yale Library from France. Kentucky Libraries with his personal typo- The 1,200 page manuscript, which includes graphical collection including several thousand marginal notes, revisions and memoranda, is manuscripts, designs, and fugitive printed that of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy items of significance for typographical history. in America, acknowledged as the masterpiece Of special importance is the voluminous cor- of one of the greatest political philosophers of respondence extending over twenty years be- modern times. The manuscript is the gift of tween William Addison Dwiggins and Mr. Louis M. Rabinowitz, of New York City, to Griffith. The Dwiggins-Griffith papers the Yale Library. strengthen further the position of Lexington The French manuscript, written in a as a center of typographical research, since the crabbed hand on heavy rag paper, was ac- James A. Anderson Collection (with numer- quired from Count Jean de Tocqueville, pres- ous pieces relative to the old Gillis Press and ent head of the family and a descendant of a other New York printers of the early part of brother of the French author whose work has this century), the Victor Hammer Collec- been translated into all the languages of the tion, and an extensive collection of material civilized world. George W. Pierson, Larned from European private presses and type Professor of History at Yale and a personal foundries are already in the University of friend of the Count de Tocqueville, was re- Kentucky Libraries. sponsible for bringing the Democracy in Among Duke University Library's signifi- America manuscript to Yale. The Count now cant acquisitions during the past year are sev- lives in a Normandy chateau near Cherbourg, eral noteworthy collections of manuscripts. France, where the manuscript was kept. Mr. The papers of the late North Carolina sena- Pierson is the author of Tocqueville and tors Willis Smith and Clyde R. Hoey have Beaumont in America, published in 1938 and been given by their families. The personal based on the University's Tocqueville collec- and legal papers of the Simons, Siegling and tion. Cappelman law firm of Charleston, S.C., cover The new Tocqueville documents at Yale a century's span, 1830-1929, and promise to are the working manuscripts, showing the afford scholars much new information about development of the text right up to the final one of the most historic of American cities. printer's* copy, which was probably transcribed The Socialist Party of America has given the by a copyist and is no longer in existence. library its non-current files for 1939-1952 to The University of Kansas has continued a supplement the Party Archives (1900-1938) program, instituted in the field of economics a which have been in Duke's possession for a year ago, of acquiring large blocs of out-of- number of years. Miss Lucy Randolph scope books from the important John Crerar Mason, CIO Public Relations Representative, collections. Recently about 10,000 volumes in 1938-1952, has presented her personal papers political science, primarily comparative govern- which include significant material relating to ments, and in sociology were selected for the Protestant Episcopal Church as well as to transfer to Lawrence from Chicago. In addi- labor and labor problems in the South. The tion KU acquired en bloc Crerar's distin- Herschel V. Johnson collection, including guished Gerritsen collection on the intellectual letter books, personal correspondence, and Mr. and social history of women. Numbering over Johnson's unpublished autobiography is rich 4000 titles, this collection was the subject of a in information concerning Georgia and na- printed bibliography: ha Femme et le Fernin- tional politics in the pre-Civil War and Con- isme, by A. H. Gerritsen (Paris, 1900). The federate periods. Other collections include collection was formed by Mme. Gerritsen and the papers of William Watts Ball, late editor

.448 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of the Charleston News and Courier; and of dren's librarianship will be the recipient of Herbert Jackson Drane, a prominent Florida the award each year. Donors of the annual politician and industrialist who served as a prize are Franklin and Helen Hoke Watts member of Congress from 1917 to 1933, and of Franklin Watts, Inc., a New York pub- of the Federal Power Commission from 1933 lishing firm specializing in children's books. to 1937. Mrs. Watts, editor-in-chief of the firm, James Strachey, younger brother and liter- has been a teacher, bookseller, writer, editor ary executor of the late Lytton Strachey, has and publisher of children's books. Frankl'n given the Duke University Library the holo- Watts started in the retail book business in graph of his brother's Elizabeth and Essex, Lawrence, Kansas, being co-founder of the believed to be the only Strachey literary manu- Lawrence Book Nook, which opened for busi- script in the United States. Elizabeth and ness in 1925. From 1927 to 1930 he was a Essex, Strachey's second full-length biography, book buyer for George Innes Co. in Wichita. was first published in 1928. Later he was a bookseller in Indiana and a representative of several publishing houses be- The University of Tennes- fore Franklin Watts, Inc. was founded in Projects see Library reports a special 1942. research materials appropri- Thelma Eaton, Associate Professor, Library ation of $50,000. Its nature might be of School, University of Illinois, has completed interest to university libraries considering re- an aptitude test for classification and catalog- classification. When completed, the change ing designed primarily to be used in recruiting from Dewey to LC at the University of prospective librarians, particularly those at- Tennessee will have cost about $85,000. The tracted to the field of cataloging. The result project was begun March 1950, and present of several years effort, the aptitude test has schedules would indicate completion by Octo- been published by the University press. ber 1955, five and a half years later. Reclassi- Princeton University Library sponsored an fication funds have been derived from three exhibition, May 13-June 18, designed to place sources: first, transfer of surplus public serv- its Rittenhouse Orrery in its historical setting. ices personnel to technical processes as falling The orrery, or mechanical model of the solar enrolments, normal to the nation, permitted system, which was made by David Ritten- (approximately $25,000) ; second, formally house of Pennsylvania and acquired by the budgeted reclassification funds beginning this College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1771, biennium ($10,000 to $15,000 a year) ; third, remains on exhibition in the Library. One of skimming off the top of the research materials the most famous, although not the first, of fund during the immediate past, the present, these machines was built in England about and the immediate future budgets (an esti- I7I3 by John Rowley for his patron, Charles mated $35,000). The $50,000 special grant Boyle, fourth Earl of Orrery (whose title was is intended to counteract the negative effects derived from the barony of Orrery in County of this last category. Reclassification, which Cork, Ireland). had been under consideration by the library The Princeton Rittenhouse orrery, upon staff for several years, was introduced to the which praise was bestowed by patriotic writers faculty and administration as a total univer- as an example of American skill and ingenuity, sity and major library problem by Maurice F. suffered through subsequent generations and Tauber's "Book Classification in University then after a period of neglect was brought to Libraries," the first in the series of University light again and exhibited at the World's Fair of Tennessee Library Lectures. in Chicago in 1893. Then it was inexplicably lost for half a century and found again, quite An annual $100 award to by accident, in 1948. During 1952 and 1953, Miscellaneous be known as the "Franklin it was restored. (The second Rittenhouse and Helen Hoke Watts orrery, which can be seen today in the Uni- Award" has been established effective next versity of Pennsylvania Library, has fared year in connection with library science work considerably better than its Princeton counter- at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. part.) The outstanding student in the field of chil- Howard C. Rice, Jr., chief of Department

OCTOBER, 1954 449. of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Ky., St. Catharine Junior College, 73 p., $-75). Princeton University Library is the author of This is "an annotated bibliography, for the The Rittenhouse Orrery; Princeton s Eight- most part Catholic in authorship or subject eenth Century Planetarium, 1767-1954, pub- matter, chosen as a guide to the recreational lished under the sponsorship of the Friends of and instructional reading of Catholics." the Princeton Library and the Friends of the The American Prison Association (135 E. Observatory. The book was designed by P. J. 15th St., New York 3, N.Y.) has issued A Conkwright and printed by the Princeton Uni- Manual of Correctional Standards (1954? versity Press (xii, 88p., with 16 illustrations, 423 p., paper, $2.75, cloth, $3.75). Chapter 21 $2.50). of this work is devoted to "Library Services." Geraldine Farrar, eminent American so- The National Archives has issued a Select prano and star of the grand-opera and concert List of Documents in the Records of the stage during the first half of this century, has National Recovery Administration, compiled presented to the Library of Congress an im- by Homer C. Calkin and M. H. Fishbein portant collection of materials reflecting her (Special Lists, No. 12) (Washington, 1954, life and musical achievements, which brought 190 p.). Additional parts of the Preliminary her international acclaim. Inventories have also been released by the The Geraldine Farrar Collection contains National Archives as follows: No. 66, "Rec- hundreds of autograph letters from distin- ords of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils guished colleagues of the operatic world, and Agricultural Engineering," compiled by among them Massenet, Puccini, Charpentier, H. T. Pinkett; No. 67, "Records of the Select Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Lilli Lehmann, Committee of the House of Representatives to Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames, Arthur Bo- Investigate Air Accidents, 1941-43," compiled danzky, Gatti-Casazza, Marcella Sembrich, by G. P. Perros; No. 68, "Cartographic Rec- and Emma Calve. Letters from dramatic ords of the American Commission to Negoti- and literary figures include such correspond- ate Peace," compiled by J. B. Rhoads; No. 69, ents as Sarah Bernhardt, Minnie Maddern "Records of the House Committee on the Fiske, Julia Marlowe, David Belasco, Charles Civil Service Pertaining to the Investigation Dillingham, Cecil B. DeMille, Irvin S. Cobb, of Civilian Employment in the Federal Gov- Fannie Hurst, and Richard Harding Davis. ernment, 1942-46," compiled by G. P. Perros; and No. 70, "Records of the Select Committee Joseph Dean is the author of of the House of Representatives on Post-War P ublications Hatred, Ridicule or Con- Military Policy, 1944-46," compiled by G. P. tempt (New York, Macmil- Perros. lan, 1954, 271 p., $3.75). Librarians will find Doubleday and Co. (Garden City, N.Y.) this an interesting volume which reveals, on has been publishing several series of paper- the basis of English cases, the essence of libel. bound studies. The Short Studies in Political As the author observes: "The possibilities of Science, for example, include such works as libel are infinite. A single malicious or in- No. I, Political Community at the Interna- considerate expression may ruin a reputation. tional Level, by Karl W. Deutsch; No. 2, The Only a strong and comprehensive law can hold Revolution in American Foreign Policy, 1945- the ring in the battle of words, which are the 1954, by William G. Carlton; No. 3, France: potent weapons of everyday life." The cases Keystone of IVestern Defense, by Edgar S. cover politicians, authors, actresses, artists, Furniss, Jr.; No. 4, The Problem of Internal spiritualists and many others. Winston Security in Great Britain, 1948-1953, by H. Churchill, for example, was accused of manip- H. Wilson and Harvey Glickman; No. 5, ulating the Battle of Jutland communiques so Germany: Dilemma for American Foreign that Sir Ernest Cassel could make a fortune Policy, by Otto Butz; No. 6, Democratic on the New York Stock Exchange. Most of Rights versus Communist Activity, by Thomas the cases are modern, but some are from the I. Cook; and No. 7, The Role of the Military nineteenth century. in American Foreign Policy, by Burton M. The Catholic Booklist, 1954., edited for the Sapin and Richard C. Snyder. These pam- Catholic Library Association by Sister Stella phlets sell for $.95 each, with the exception Maris, O.P., has been issued (St. Catharine, of No. 6, which is $.85. There are also

.450 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Studies in Psychology and Short Studies in ested in this volume as a whole, and par- Sociology, with titles priced from $.65 to $.95. ticularly with the conclusions of the final For information concerning these series write chapter, "The Challenge to Democracy." to College Department, Doubleday and Com- St. Martin's Press (New York) has issued pany, Inc., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22. G. H. D. Cole's Socialist Thought: Marxism Donald E. Dickason, director of non-aca- and Anarchism, 1850-1890 (1954, 482 p., demic personnel, University of Illinois, has $6.00). This is volume II of A History of issued Personnel Administration on the Cam- Socialist Thought. pus (Champaign, 111., 1954, 25 p., $2.00). Another St. Martin's Press imprint is Every- The College and University Personnel Associ- day Life in Babylon and Assyria: A New ation, with headquarters at 809 S. Wright Study of Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization Street, Champaign, 111., has published A with Special Emphasis on the Period between Study of Personnel Practices for College and TOO and 530 B.C., by Georges Contenau, University Office and Clerical Workers, by translated from the French by K. R. and A. B. Wilbur D. Albright (1954, 131 p., $2.50). Maxwell-Hyslop (1954, 324 p., $5.00). All librarians may want to see Freedom of The Instructions sur le Faict de la Guerre Communication, the proceedings of the first of Raymond de Beccarie de Pavie, sieur de conference on intellectual freedom, held in Fourquevaux, edited by G. Dickinson, has New York City, June 28-29, 1952, edited by been published by the Athlone Press, Uni- William Dix and Paul Bixler (Chicago, versity of London (1954, cxxxvi, ill p., $8.0©, American Library Association, 1954, 143 p. distributed by John de Graff, Inc., 64 W. 23rd $4.00). The volume consists of four parts: St., New York 10). The text of Fourque- (1) The Library and Free Communication, vaux's work was first published in 1548. Miss with papers by Julian Boyd, Alan Barth, and Dickinson, in an introduction, discusses the E. W. McDiarmid; (2) The Present Prob- French army under Francis I and Fourque- lem in Book Selection, with papers by Verner vaux's criticisms and suggestions for its re- W. Clapp, Ralph Munn, Jerome Cushman, form. and Robert L. Collison; (3) Pressures— Fund og Forskning i det Kongelige Biblio- Where From and How?, with statements by teks Samlinger, I, 1954, has been published by David K. Berninghausen, Harwood L. Childs, the Royal Library of Denmark. The first in and John E. Smith; and (4) Our Common a new series, this volume is a collection of Stake in Free Communication, with papers by papers concerning the Royal Library. Articles Donald S. Klopfer, Lester Markel, and Merle are written by librarians and cover a variety Miller. There are summaries at the end of of subjects, such as American Indian Bibles, each of the first three parts, and a conference Danish literature in Dutch translation, and summary by Alan Barth at the end of the the book collection of Henry III of France, final section. John E. Smith has prepared a and others. (Copenhagen, 1954). selective bibliography on intellectual freedom. Federal-State-Local Tax Correlation, a Faxon has issued revised editions of the use- symposium participated in by Kenneth W. ful The Pamphlet File (220 p.) and The Pic- Gemmill and others, has been issued by the ture File (136 p.). Both of these works are Tax Institute, Inc., Princeton, N.J. (1954, by Norma O. Ireland. 256 p., $5.00). The papers included in the Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt's Art Under a volume are directed at pointing up both the Dictatorship has been issued by the Oxford problems and the potentialities of unsnarling University Press (New York, 1954, 277 p., the tangle of intergovernmental fiscal rela- $5.50). The volume, which includes 45 illus- tions. trations on plates, is concerned with the artis- Practical Aspects of Photographic Charging tic policies of both the Soviet Union and Nazi by Marianna Andres is No. 39, of the Uni- Germany, although emphasis is on the latter. versity of Illinois Library School Occasional Architecture, printing, sculpture, arts and Papers. crafts, painting, and archaeology are consid- The Library of Congress has published re- ered by Dr. Lehmann-Haupt in his portrayal cently Bibliographical Procedures and Style: of the procedures of dictators to pervert art A Manual for Bibliographers in the Library to propaganda. Librarians should be inter- of Congress (Washington, 1954, vi, 127 p.

OCTOBER, 1954 451. $.65). Written by Blanche P. McCrum and ades of New York's Oldest Library (New Helen D. Jones, this "how-to-do-it" book de- York, Macmillan, 1954, 372 p., $5 00). Pub- scribes in some detail how bibliographies ought lication of this volume was timed with the to be prepared and outlines specific rules of 200th anniversary of the New York Society style to guide compilers. Intended particu- Library. Sprightly and informal, this is a larly for the use of LC's own bibliographical chronicle of Mrs. King's experiences and im- staff, the specifications adhere closely to stand- pressions of the New York Society Library ard LC cataloging practices and to ALA rules since she entered its service in 1907. Mrs. of entry. Descriptive bibliography of rare King retired in 1953. Every librarian will books is omitted from the manual as are the read with pleasure the recounting of library special forms of entry required for non-book problems. He will also realize how impor- materials and for the special literature of law, tant a role a library plays in the cultural life music, technical scientific reports and patents. of America. The pages are full of recollec- Examples are given liberally, a selected list of tions concerning authors and titles that have references to other handbooks and style man- become prominent on library shelves. The uals is included, and an index is provided. volume is a welcome addition to the literature Several appendices are concerned with abbre- of librarianship; it is also a social and literary viations, alphabetization, the use of numerals, history. annotations, indexing, and related matters. The 1954 edition of Collier's Year Book ' A new publication of the Philosophical Li- (New York, P. F. Collier & Son, 1954, 2 vols., brary, New York, is a Dictionary of European 680 p., $10.00 each), contains about 600 indi- History, compiled by William S. Roeder vidual articles, indexed by nearly 8,000 entries. (1954, 316 p., $6.00). Statistical information for all nations and the Available from Wilmer H. Baatz, Milwau- 48 states is brought up to date. Vital statis- kee Public Library, Milwaukee 3, Wis., is a tics, biographical sketches, editorial cartoons, new Directory of Members of Special Li- and illustrations are among the features of braries Association, Milwaukee Chapter, as the volume. Among the many articles of of October, 1953. Price is $.50 to non-mem- interest to librarians are: Academic Freedom bers. and Education Standards; American Library The North Central Association Quarterly, Association; American Literature; Book Pub- for April, 1954, contains, in addition to a lishing Industry; Canadian National Library; group of articles on various educational prob- Education; and Libraries and Intellectual lems, an extensive report on "The Workshop Freedom. as an In-Service Education Procedure," by The Shoe String Press (Hamden 17, Conn.) James R. Mitchell. While concerned with has published Shakespeare: Of an Age and the training of teachers, the report is also sug- for All Time (The Yale Shakespeare Festival gestive for librarians. Lectures), Charles Tyler Prouty, editor The Fund for Adult Education has issued (1954, 147 p., $2.50). In addition to an intro- Reason and Discontent: The Task of Liberal ductory statement by Dr. Prouty, there are Adult Education, by Lyman Bryson (Pasa- papers by David P. Harding, Helge Kokeritz, dena, Cal., 1954, 48 p.). The booklet consists Frank McMullan, Arleigh D. Richardson of three lectures presented by Professor Bry- III, Eugene M. Waith, and Norman H. son. In the final lecture, he observes: "What Pearson. Another publication of The Shoe I believe in adult education is that you can't String Press issued recently is A History of have freedom unless you set up and support the Russian Hexameter, by Richard T. Burgi an educational system that goes through all (1954, 208 p., $4.50). This is a discussion not life, that constantly helps people learn how to only of Russian poetry in general but also of be free, with each man teaching every other the influence of classical antiquity. man, if he knows something that the other man can use." Professor Bryson's comments c j 7?• 7 * 1 Chicago Teachers College should be of particular interest to librarians. bound-t ilmstrip . . , , , r has just completed the first One of the most interesting volumes on the ^eries in a projected series of six wTork of a library to appear in recent years is full color filmstrips. The purpose of the Marion King's Books and People: Five Dec- group is to provide a basis for a well rounded

.452 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES program for library orientation for freshmen. of cooperative effort. Members of the Chi- The strip just released is entitled Reference cago Teachers College Library staff and the Materials. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, al- Departments of Education, Library Science, manacs, yearbooks, bibliographical works are Speech, and Art have joined forces in produc- presented in a way which will capture the ing this integrated work. interest of even those students who are not book minded. The sound track is refreshingly Academic Reprints has witty. The sound disc may or may not be Special Services recently announced a an integral part of the presentation. service to reprint short To obtain film and disc set Reference Mate- runs (1-20 copies or more) of books and peri- rials send'your order to Society of Visual Edu- odicals for libraries. The cost of a very few cation, 1345 W. Diversey Ave., Chicago 14, copies is of course relatively high. In many Illinois, price $6.00. cases the company believes that libraries will A brief description of the entire series, now be interested in having some few extra copies in preparation, follows: run for marketing by Academic Reprints, Filmstrip 1. An Introduction to the Facilities which will share with the library receipts from of Your Library. An overview of the sales. This service should be of particular service department and of their facilities interest to the reserve book librarians of large will be given. institutions. A number of periodical articles Filmstrip 2. Periodical Indexes. Procedures or small sections of books can, for example, for carrying out an assignment. Interpret- be reproduced together. For further informa- ing entries, compiling bibliographies. It is tion write to Academic Reprints, P. O. Box planned to describe the function of the 3003, Stanford, California. Readers' Guide, International, Education, and Biography Indexes. Possible mention Catholic University of America (Washing- of others. ton, D.C.) now offers to its affiliated insti- Filmstrip 3. Reference Materials. (Com- tutions of higher education an advisory service pleted) on college library evaluation. This advisory Filmstrip 4. The Materials Center. This service ranges all the way from handling minor filmstrip will outline the function and the mail inquiries to important building problems nature of the collection of materials in the and to blue printing the library development specialized department which includes chil- program for a new institution. When visita- dren's books and other children's materials, tion is required, a team is used if the problem as well as units, courses of study and a is sufficiently complex. text book collection. Filmstrip 5. The Audio-Visual Center. The Inquiries regarding the advisory service function and equipment of this department should be addressed to Dr. Roy J. Defarrari, of the library will be explained. Chairman on Affiliation and Extension, Catho- Filmstrip 6. Other Library Facilities in Your lic University of America, Washington 17, Community. For this last strip the facili- D.C. The service is headed by Eugene P. ties of the public library and several Willging, director of libraries at Catholic Uni- highly specialized libraries are to be de- versity of America. Mr. Willging has recently scribed. spent some time in Puerto Rico giving assist- One of the series, no. 4, would be of special ance to the new Catholic University of Puerto interest to teacher training institutions. Rico at Santa Maria with its library develop- The production of the filmstrips is a result ment and building program.

OCTOBER, 1954 453. Personnel

The appointment of RUBENS BORBA DE the work of the Processing Division of the MORAES as director of the United Nations Li- Library. brary in New York was recently announced. His services to library associations include A biographical sketch of this distinguished li- the presidency of the Ohio Library Association, brarian is planned for a subsequent issue. the chairmanship of the ALA Audio-Visual Board, the Committee on Photographic Re- ACRL takes pleasure in presenting L. Quincy production, and the Federal Relations Com- Mumford, the new librarian of Congress, in mittee. Those who attended the Cleveland the words used by Miss Ludington to intro- Conference attribute the great success of that duce Mr. Mumford as the incoming ALA meeting, now rivaled by the Twin Cities, was president at Minneapolis in June (ed.) in large part due to his good management. Mr. Mumford, it is a happy coincidence that This is a unique occasion in the history of in selecting the next librarian of Congress, librarianship in the United States when an President Eisenhower chose you, our incoming ALA presiding officer president. It is my honor and privilege to turn has the honor of turn- over this gavel, symbolic of the headship of ing the presidency our largest national library association, to one over to the librarian who has been selected to direct the largest re- designate of Con- search library in the world. gress. Fifty years ago at the St. Louis Con- PAGE ACKERMAN has been appointed assist- ference, which was an ant librarian at the University of California, international one, Dr. Los Angeles, with particular responsibility for Herbert Putnam, personnel, budgeting, and branch libraries. then the librarian of Born in Evanston, Illinois, Miss Ackerman Congress, had the as- received her early education in Santa Monica, sistance of no less California, attended than twenty honorary UCLA, graduated vice presidents. Since L. Quincy Mumford from Agnes Scott April 22, when our College, received her first vice president, Lawrence Quincy Mum- B.S. in Librarianship ford, was nominated by President Eisenhower from the University to be librarian of Congress, he has indeed been of North Carolina, an honored vice president. and took graduate When Mr. Mumford takes office as li- work in Social Wel- brarian of Congress, he will be the first grad- fare at UCLA. uate of a library school to assume the headship Her experience has of our national library. His abilities as a included several years leader in our profession were recognized a year Page Ackerman as a school librarian ago when the membership selected him as the in Atlanta, and as a president-elect of the American Library Asso- cataloger in the Atlanta-Athens Area Union ciation. He is an honor graduate of Duke Catalog, two years as director of libraries at University and in addition holds an M.A. de- the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and gree from Duke. He is a graduate of the four years as assistant librarian of the Union School of Library Service of Columbia Uni- Theological Seminary in Richmond. She versity. He has had experience in the New joined the UCLA Library staff in 1949 as York Public Library. Since 1945 he has been social welfare librarian and librarian in charge associated with the Celeveland Public library, of the graduate reading room. becoming in 1950 its director. Miss Ackerman is a member of ALA, Cali- He will go to the Library of Congress not fornia Library Association, Phi Beta Kappa, as a stranger but as an expert who was called and the Council on Social Work Education. on in 1940 to help reorganize and coordinate For her work with the Army during the Sec-

.454 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ond World War Miss Ackerman received the from the State University of Iowa (B.A. in Meritorious Service Citation in 1945.—David 1938) ; Columbia University (B.S. in Library W. Heron. Science, 1944 and M.A. in English, 1945) ; and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. EDWIN B. COLBURN has been appointed in English, 1952). chief of indexing services of the H. W. Wil- In addition to his experience at Moravian, son Company, with supervision over the edi- Dr. Couchman has held a variety of teaching torial and preparatory processes which go into and library positions including connections the making of the various Wilson indexing and with the Columbia University and New York cataloging services. He assumed his new City libraries and at Syracuse University and duties on September 1. the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Colburn He has written a number of articles for brings to his new professional publications, and is a member of post a wide back- ALA and other organizations. ground of profes- sional experience and ANDREW H. HORN has succeeded Charles activity. Born in E. Rush as librarian of the University of Connecticut, he holds North Carolina, taking office on September a B.A. from Am- 1. Born in Utah and educated in Venice herst, B.S. in Library (Calif.) and Santa Service from Colum- Monica, Horn bia, and an M.A. in earned degrees of English from North- B.A., M.A., and western University. Edwin B. Colburn Ph.D. (History) Between 1939 and from the University 1947 he was associated with the New York of California at Los Public Library, serving in a number of posts Angeles and the in the stack and preparation divisions. In B.L.S. from the same January 1948 he became chief of technical institution's Berkeley processes in the Northwestern University library school. From Library, and since June 1950 he has been 1943 to 1946 the U.S. Army was his supervisor, Processing Department, of the Andrew H. Horn Cleveland Public Library. employer, followed Since 1950 he has also served as Executive by a year's teaching in the History Depart- Secretary of the ALA Division of Cataloging ment at the Johns Hopkins University, where and Classification, a position he will relinquish he met the charming and helpful Mary Baier on July 1 to become Treasurer of the Divi- to whom he is now married. sion. Included among his other professional A combination of shyness and bookishness activities are: chairman, DCC Committee on turned him from teaching to librarianship— Administration, 1948-49; chairman, ALA an inauspicious combination for administra- Committee on Library Equipment and Appli- tive work—and he began his career in the ances, 1950-53; president, Cleveland Library summer of 1947, seated at a typewriter below Club, 1952-53; consultant on processing, ground level in the UCLA library, carding a various ALA conferences; consultant on bulk purchase of wartime continental im- equipment, U. S. Office of Education, 1951; prints. It was here that Horn displayed author of articles in professional periodicals. unusual capacity for fast and accurate work, and his subsequent library school record was GORDON W. COUCHMAN, formerly profes- one of the best ever made therein. sor of English and chairman of the English In 1948 Horn returned to UCLA as assist- Department at Moravian College for Wom- ant to Neal Harlow who was then head of en in Bethlehem, Pa., is now librarian at the newly founded Department of Special Nebraska Wesleyan University. Collections, and here he showed an aptitude A native of Earlville, Iowa, Dr. Couchman for the organization of manuscripts, archives, holds degrees in English and Library Science records, and other bulky and obstreperous

OCTOBER, 1954 455. kinds of the so-called non-book materials. tration is desired and encouraged.—Lawrence He succeeded Harlow as head of that depart- Clark Powell. ment and when his mentor left UCLA for British Columbia, Horn moved into the assist- EVALENE PARSONS JACKSON became direc- tor of the division of librarianship at Emory ant librarianship, rising a year later to asso- University on September 1, 1954. A member ciate librarian when Vosper left Powell for of the Emory faculty Lawrence (Kan.). During the spring of since 1936, Miss Jack- 1954 Horn was acting librarian of UCLA. son has served succes- The six years' experience on the mushroom- sively as assistant ing Westwood campus saw Horn transformed professor of library from an introverted archivist to a forceful, science, 1936-1942, as- outgiving, all-around administrative librarian, sociate professor of li- as his responsibilities were enlarged to include brary science, 1942- personnel, budgeting, and public relations. 48, and, since the His competence in records management was reorganization of the drawn upon by President Sproul who ap- library school in 1948 pointed Horn to a statewide university com- as a division of the mittee to deal with California's large and College of Arts and complex records problem. Evalene P. Jackson Sciences and of the Under Horn's chairmanship the newly Graduate School, as associate professor of li- founded California Library History Com- brarianship. Miss Jackson received her A.B. mittee of the California Library Association degree from Barnard College, her A.B. in L.S. undertook several long-needed projects. The from Emory University and her M.S. from Library School at Chapel Hill will benefit the School of Library Service, Columbia Uni- from his competence and interest in the his- versity. As a member of the staff of the Car- tory of books and libraries. His concern negie Library of Atlanta (now Atlanta Public with student welfare led him to numerous Library), she had varied experience in readers' counseling assignments with campus groups. advisory service with children, young people He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. and adults.

Administrative procedure and organization Students of Miss Jackson know her for her at UCLA benefited from Horn's passion for critical and inquiring attitude of mind, and for orderly and systematic procedures, which is her insistence upon high standards of scholar- tempered by a humane approach to personnel ship. They also know her as a stimulating and work. To the bare bones of the organiza- challenging teacher of rare insight and broad tional chart he added the flesh and blood of sympathies, and as a person who is both hu- personal concern, so that the very large or- morous and wise. Teaching, program and cur- ganization which the UCLA library system riculum planning have always been her major has come to be, developed a family feeling and interests, and the curriculum has been strength- morale which Horn's successors will have to ened and enriched through the years by the work hard to retain. Andy Horn probably continuing critical study that she has given to came closer to the hearts of more people it. The new program leading to the master's throughout the UCLA campus than any other degree was based largely on a memorandum university figure in our time, for the simple prepared by her as a basis for study by the reason that he was always responsive to other faculty. peoples' needs, from help in cataloging an Miss Jackson served brilliantly as program incunabulum to adjusting a student typist's chairman for the Southeastern Conference on chair. Hard, accurate imaginative work, long Library Education, held in Atlanta in 1948, hours, loyalty and devotion—these are the to explore and define the new directions in main entries in the UCLA Horn book. North library education. Carolina and her neighbors will strongly gain No curriculum for the education of librar- from this latest UCLA contribution to the ians which Miss Jackson directs, however, will top level of university library administration, ever be static. It will show appropriate con- for Horn's abilities and qualities are im- cern for current concepts but it will also be mediately adaptable wherever good adminis- pointed toward new frontiers in librarianship,

.456 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES new concepts, new principles that will make in British university library administration. the profession more meaningful to the society He will be affiliated with the University of which it serves. It will always have substan- Birmingham and will also observe other Brit- tial intellectual content with emphasis on qual- ish university libraries. ity and high standards of scholarship, in short, Mr. Milczewski has been assistant libra- it will be a program that is worthy of a schol- rian at the University of California since arly profession.—Tommie Dora Barker. 1949. Before coming to Berkeley he was di- rector of the Southeastern States Cooperative GUY R. LYLE, director of libraries at Louis- Library Survey. He served as assistant to iana State University for the past 10 years, has the director (1943/46) and then director resigned to become director of libraries at (1946/47) of the American Library As- Emory University, sociation's International Relations Office. Atlanta, Ga. Mr. During 1942/43 he was executive assistant Lyle assumed his new of ALA's Books for Latin America project position September I. and traveled to Mexico City to aid in the es- Canadian born, Mr. tablishment of the Biblioteca Benjamin Lyle received his Franklin. bachelor of arts de- gree from the Univer- ROBERT H. MULLER became assistant di- sity of Alberta in rector of the University of Michigan li- 1927. From 1927 braries on June 1. His major responsibility until 1932 he attended will be in the broad area of technical services. the School of Library Dr. Muller is well qualified for these new Service at Columbia Guy R. Lyle duties. As director University, where he of libraries and pro- was awarded the bachelor's and master's de- fessor of library grees in library science. Before going to service at Southern LSU in 1944, Mr. Lyle was professor and li- Illinois University, brarian at North Carolina Woman's College. Carbondale, from He also served as librarian and instructor at March 1949 through Antioch College, from 1929 to 1935, and was May 1954, he super- assistant professor at the University of Illi- vised a technical nois Library School during 1935-36 and 1942- services program that 43, while on leave from N.C. Woman's Col- included such major lege. He has held summer teaching positions accomplishments as at the University of North Carolina, Colum- the integration of or- Robert H. Muller bia and Peabody. dering and catalog- Mr. Lyle is president of the Association of ing operations into a system providing for pre- College and Reference Libraries for the term cataloging of all books as soon as ordered; beginning July, 1954 and is a member of the centralized serials processing; machine ALA, the American Association of University (IBM) methods of accounting, budget, and Professors and the Louisiana Library Associa- supplies control; greatly improved purchasing tion. His publications include: The Adminis- operations; and a clearer demarcation be- tration of the College Library, 1944 (revised tween professional and clerical duties. Other edition, 1949) ; A Bibliography of Christopher extensive direct experience in the field of Morley (co-author with H. Tatnall Brown, technical processes includes two years of work Jr.), Scarecrow Press, 1952; and I am Happy in the area of periodicals and binding prepa- to Present (co-author with Kevin Guinagh), ration at Temple University and a year as H. W. Wilson Co., 1953. chief of the Acquisitions Department in the Library Division of the Office of Technical MARION A. MILCZEWSKI, assistant libra- Services of the U.S. Commerce Department. rian, University of California, Berkeley, has Dr. Muller will also participate in the been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for the planning of the new undergraduate library academic year 1954/55 to engage in research building at Michigan, which will serve a

OCTOBER, 1954 457. purpose similar to that of the Lamont Library lish from the University of California at Los at Harvard. For this responsibility, he is Angeles in 1952. He holds the Certificate in also preeminently well qualified. He has Librarianship from the University of Cali- played the major role in the planning of two fornia at Berkeley (1943). important university library buildings—the Beginning in 1941 as a page at the Long recently completed building at Bradley Uni- Beach, California, versity (where he was librarian from Sep- Public Library and tember 1946 through February 1949) and the continuing later as a air conditioned modular two and a half mil- student assistant in lion dollar building now in process of com- the University of pletion at Southern Illinois University. In California Library at addition he was chairman of the ACRL Berkeley, Mr. Quin- Buildings Committee from 1949 to 1953, and sey became bookstack during that period organized library buildings supervisor of the Uni- plans institutes under ACRL auspices, and versity of California initiated two comprehensive surveys of college Library at Los An- and university library buildings, described in geles in 1943. He several issues of COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LI- was made senior li- Robert L. Quinsey BRARIES. brarian in the Refer- Muller's concept of both technical processes ence Department in functions and the functions of library build- 1946, supervisor of the Reserve Book Room in ings are strongly influenced by his great 1947, and in 1948 became librarian of UCLA's interest in education for librarianship. He Undergraduate Library, which he organized organized and was chairman of the teaching and developed as a separate undergraduate department of library service at Southern Il- open stack library and made into a vital part linois University and has served as a full- of the teaching program for undergraduate time visiting lecturer at the University of students. He was editor of several successive Illinois Library School. editions of the library's undergraduate hand- He has also taken, with creative results, an book, Know Your Library, and a contributor interest in and a broad view of the teaching to library periodicals. For several years he function of the library. At Carbondale, he was the library's liaison agent with the as- was responsible for establishing an education sociated students, and was an active partici- library, a phonograph record lending library, pant in staff association activities. libraries in dormitories, and a library—in the His resulting broad experience in all aspects student union building—established in 1949 of a university library's public service pro- and based on the collections of the Lamont gram and his unusual capacities for working Library (this was the first use of the then effectively as a teacher for young people and unpublished Catalogue of the Lamont Library for bringing library services directly into focus as a buying guide for college libraries). with classroom teaching needs led to his ap- Muller's administrative objectivity and pointment as chief of reader services at the fairness, and his integrity, imagination and in- University of Kansas Libraries early in 1953. sight should enable him to continue at Ann His initial responsibilities involved supervision Arbor this inspiring and unique record of of reader service departments in the main accomplishment.—Harry Dewey. library building, including the new undergrad- uate library then being organized and equip- ped. His promotion broadens the area of his

ROBERT L. QUINSEY was promoted to the responsibilities to encompass all public service position of assistant director of the Univer- units on the campus, among them a large new sity of Kansas Libraries on July 1, 1954, after Science Library which is about to begin op- service as division chief in charge of reader eration, and is in well-deserved recognition of services since February, 1953. his unusual ability as an administrator and Mr. Quinsey was born in Illinois in 1917, his admirable grasp of the vital functions of and received an A.B. in English from Stan- a university library in serving its clientele.— ford University in 1941 and an M.A. in Eng- Robert L. Talmadge.

.458 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES RALPH R. SHAW'S appointment to a pro- position among scholarly publishers—and paid fessorship in the new library school of Rutgers royalties to authors. As a globe trotter, University has substantially enriched the field raconteur, wit, host and in some dozens of of library education. other capacities, Ralph Shaw approaches the The team of Lowell ideal of the Renaissance man. Martin and Ralph If and when more Ralph Shaws are re- Shaw in New Bruns- cruited for librarianship, the library schools wick may properly would do well to recruit them for their facul- give a vital stimulus ties.—Lawrence S. Thompson. to all aspects of re- search in librarian- JOSEPH P. RUFFIER has been appointed ship. librarian of New York University's Wash- To anyone who fol- ington Square Library. lows the current li- Mr. Ruffier will head the largest of the brary press, the ca- seven divisions that constitute the University's Ralph R. Shaw reer of Ralph Shaw is library system. There are more than well known, but it 1,000,000 volumes in the combined collections, may be summarized here for the record. Born with the Washington Square Library, a gen- in Detroit in 1907, he was educated at West- eral library, containing approximately 440,000 ern Reserve (A.B., 1928), Columbia (B.S., books. 1929, and M.S., 1931, in library science), and Mr. Ruffier joined the staff of the Uni- Chicago (Ph.D., 1950). After serving in var- versity Heights Library at N.Y.U. in 1939, ious capacities in the Cleveland Public Li- and in 1943, following military service, he brary, the New York Public Library and the transferred to the Washington Square Li- Engineering Societies Library, he was ap- brary. He has been serving as acting libra- pointed librarian of the Gary, Indiana, Public rian for the past year. Library in 1936. He served there for four Mr. Ruffier received his B.A. degree in years until 1940 when he was selected from a 1939 from New York University College of large field to be librarian of the United States Arts and Science. In 1942, he was awarded Department of Agriculture. His tenure there the B.S. degree from the Columbia Univer- was interrupted only by service in the United sity School of Library Service. States Army during World War II. Among Ralph Shaw's other activities, it is DR. LUCIEN WHITE became librarian of especially pertinent here to note that he has Augustana College, September 1, 1954. Born taught at Columbia (1936/37) and has di- in Illinois in 1914, White grew up in the rected workshops at Columbia and Western Middle West. He Reserve. As an inventor, his Photoclerk, graduated from Au- Photocharger and Rapid Selector have won gustana in 1935 and a him international fame. As a scholar, his few years later joined Literary Property in the United States (1950) the faculty as a lan- and many special studies, reports and contribu- guage teacher, becom- tions to the library press have won him special ing head of the French distinction. As a bibliographer, his most note- Department in 1945. worthy achievement is perhaps the planning White, in a series of and successful execution of the Bibliography leaves of absence, was of Agriculture. As a professional leader, he able to complete his won an enduring reputation as chairman of Ph.D. at the Univer- the ALA Activities Committee, and other sity of Illinois, to at- Lucien White committee chairs have also benefited greatly tend the Sorbonne from his leadership. As proprietor of the during the summer of 1947, and to do research Scarecrow Press, he should add to his course at the University of Grenoble in 1949-50. offerings at Rutgers a seminar for university A deep and continuing interest in the biblio- press directors, for with no institutional sup- graphical aspects of his work recently bore port he has brought Scarecrow to a prominent unexpected fruit. Following the departure of

OCTOBER, 1954 459. Donald Rod to Iowa State Teachers College, Library in 1952 as assistant librarian in Luke White was asked by President Bergen- charge of technical processes. In this ca- doff if he was sufficiently interested in the pacity he has, with the aid of the head cata- Augustana librarianship to take a year off to loger and head of the acquisitions department, prepare himself for it. Deciding definitely accomplished a reorganization of processing that he was, the White family, including wife routines to effect a speedier work-flow and Lois and three-year old David, moved to to reduce unit costs. His secondary duty has Urbana and the University of Illinois Library been that of coordinator of the twelve branch School where he received his M.S. de- libraries on the campus, and he has. served as gree in August 1954. chairman of a transfers committee which ap- Luke White's interest in scholarly research proves transfer of materials to and from the has produced several articles in educational General Library. In his new position he will journals, and he has been gathering material continue his former responsibility for techni- for some time about early French explora- cal processing and in addition be responsible tions in the Great Lakes area. He has just for the library's building program. The cir- completed for the UNESCO International culation and special collections departments Committee on Social Science Documentation will also report to him.—Andrew H. Horn. an analysis of the coverage by country of Population Index.—Harold Lancour. WILLIAM LANDRAM WILLIAMSON has been appointed supervisor of the Butler Division of GORDON R. WILLIAMS has been appointed the Columbia University Libraries. He as- to the new post of ranking assistant librarian sumed his position on July I. at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Williamson had been a student at the Mr. Williams was born in Ontario, Oregon, Graduate Library School of the University attended Oregon Schools, and received his of Chicago, where he B.A. from Stanford University, where he is completing work subsequently did graduate work. He received for the doctorate. He his M.A. from the received his bach- Graduate Library elor's degree from School of the Uni- the University of versity of Chicago, Wisconsin in 1941, a where he became a B.A. in Library Serv- candidate for the doc- ice from Emory Uni- torate in 1952. versity in 1942, and He served as a an M.S. degree from teaching fellow for the School of Library one year at the Uni- William L. Service at Columbia versity of Oregon, Williamson University in 1949. and was associated His first professional experience was at the with the Paul Elder Gordon R. Williams Atlanta Public Library, his service there Book Shop in San being interrupted by four years in the Army Francisco as buyer and assistant manager. where he was assigned to troop transport During the Second World War he became work. During the period he rose from private assistant force control officer on Admiral to first lieutenant and saw service in the Turner's staff; after the war he served as a Pacific, Caribbean, and the Atlantic. vice president of Brentano's and as manager In 1947 he became a member of the staff of their Pacific Coast stores. In 1949-1950 of Baylor University, where he supervised he was staff assistant to the librarian, and public services and later became assistant li- Eckhart Librarian at the University of Chi- brarian, associate librarian, and finally acting cago. From 1950 to 1952 he served at the librarian. He resigned in 1951 to begin doc- John Crerar Library as assistant chief of toral study. technical processes and executive assistant to Mr. Williamson has been an active member the librarian. of ACRL, and has contributed to COLLEGE Mr. Williams joined the staff of the UCLA AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES and other journals.

.460 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Appointments

Dr. J. R. Ashton was appointed librarian Forces Medical Library, has been appointed of the University of North Dakota on Sep- head cataloger at Wayne University. tember I. Mary Ellen Darst is now chief of the Bib- Mrs. Alice Googe Bauer, serials cataloger liography Section, Duke University Library. at Duke for several years, is now head of Robert F. Delzell was appointed chief, technical processing, University of West Vir- Acquisitions Branch, Air University Libraries, ginia Library. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in Janu- Mrs. Lloyd M. Bailey, formerly serials ary, 1954- Mr. Delzell came to the Air cataloger at the Northwestern University Li- University Libraries as a bibliographic assist- brary, has been appointed catalog librarian at ant in the Documents Acquisitions Section in the University of Arizona Library in Tucson. July, 1953. He was formerly head of the Tilton M. Barron, former librarian, Ur- Acquisitions Department at Washington Uni- sinus College, became librarian, Clark Univer- versity, St. Louis. sity on September I. Oliver T. Field was appointed chief, Cata- John H. Becker has been appointed head log Branch, Air University Libraries, Max- librarian of Otterbein College, Westerville, well Air Force Base on February 8, 1954. Ohio. Mr. Field came to the Air University Li- Herbert Cahoon, formerly attached to the braries from the Public Library, Detroit, New York Public Library's Reserve Division, Michigan where he was chief of the Auto- has been appointed curator of autograph motive History Division. Until October 15, manuscripts and later printed books at the 1953 he was administrative assistant to the Pierpont Morgan Library. deputy of the Management and Budget Di- Charles A. Carpenter, Jr., formerly circu- vision, Office of the U. S. High Commissioner lation librarian, Dickinson College, Carlisle, for Germany. Pa., has been appointed head librarian, Mus- Mary V. Gaver, formerly librarian at State kingum College, New Concord, Ohio. Teachers College, Trenton, N.J., has been Kenneth J. Carpenter has been appointed appointed an associate professor of library head of the Rare Books Department of the service, Rutgers University. General Library, University of California, Evelyn Hansen, music cataloger at Duke, Berkeley. has resigned to accept a position with the Lucille Cobb has been appointed assistant Army Library Service in Germany. librarian of the New Mexico Institute of Robert D. Harvey has been promoted to Mining and Technology, Socorro, N.M. assistant director in charge of Public Services Leonard Coburn has been appointed li- at the University of Vermont Library. brarian of the University of Illinois Engi- Charles C. Hopkins, Jr. was appointed sub- neering Library. ject cataloger, Duke University Library. The following personnel changes have oc- William H. Huff has been appointed ad- curred in the Columbia University Libraries: visor librarian in the Chicago Undergraduate John N. Waddell is assistant librarian in the Division of the University of Illinois Library. Reference Department; Jean M. Stein, Kilbourn Janecek has been appointed as- Phoebe Greenberg, Lee H. Williams, and sociate librarian in charge of Public Services Mrs. Anne L. Pollock are members of the at the University of Omaha Library. He Cataloging Department staff; C. Donald Cook was formerly head of the Reference Depart- is research assistant in the Cataloging Depart- ment in the same library. ment; Mary Covington is an assistant in the Mrs. Bertha Jones has been appointed sci- Reference Division of the Medical Library; ence subject cataloger, Duke University Li- William D. Eppes is stack supervisor in the brary. Circulation Department; Wei-ta Pons is a Mrs. Edwina Johnson, for several years professional intern; and Edward Swierzb is Biology-Forestry librarian at Duke, has been circulation assistant in the Chemistry Li- appointed supervisor of the Biology-Forestry brary. and Physics-Mathematics libraries. Dorothy Comins, formerly of the Armed Ivan Johnson, formerly document librarian,

OCTOBER, 1954 461. has been appointed librarian of the Center for has been appointed first director of the con- Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, solidated libraries of the Buffalo area, includ- Stanford University. ing the Grosvenor, the Buffalo Public Library Ruth F. Kraemer has been appointed di- and the Erie County Library System. rector of the North Central College and Frank L. Schick has been appointed associ- Evangelical Theological Seminary library. ate in library service, Columbia University. Dr. Robert Leigh is acting dean, School of He is on leave from Wayne University Li- Library Service, Columbia University, while brary. Dr. Carl White is on leave, 1954-55. Stanley A. Shepard is now in the acquisi- Irving Lieberman is an associate in library tions department, University of Kansas Li- service, Columbia University. Mr. Lieber- brary. man, who is completing his work for the doc- Edward L. Sheppard is librarian of the torate at Teachers College, Columbia Uni- Hartford, Connecticut, Seminary Foundation. versity, has spent the last year at the Uni- Harry Skallerup has been appointed li- versity of California Library School develop- brarian of the University of Illinois Physics ing a project in audio-visual materials. Library. Barbara L. Light has been appointed assist- Miriam Stoner, formerly assistant librarian ant cataloger, Bell Telephone Laboratories, of the Technology Department of the Car- Inc., Technical Library. negie Library of Pittsburgh, has been ap- John Maine has been appointed librarian, pointed science and engineering librarian of Tusculum College, Greenville, Tennessee. Carnegie Institute of Technology. John P. McDonald is now head, Reference Robert Sutton has been appointed librarian Department, Washington University Library, of Ursinus College. St. Louis. Elizabeth Tarver is chief catalog librarian, Jean H. McFarland, formerly assistant li- Louisiana State University Library. brarian, University of California at Berkeley, Betsy Taylor has been appointed head of has accepted the position of librarian and the catalog division of the Northwestern Uni- assistant professor, Reed College. versity Library. Jane Oliver, formerly librarian of the Uni- Frances Thackston is now serials cataloger, versity of Georgia Law School, has been ap- Duke University Library. pointed Georgia State Librarian with offices Susie L. Theis has been appointed catalog in Atlanta. librarian at Montana State University. Pauline O'Melia has been appointed assist- Evald Uustalu has been appointed librarian ant professor of library science at Indiana of the Henry Schofield Memorial Library of University. the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Jesse C. Mills is acting head, Reserve Book Robert G. Wagner has been appointed as- Department, University of Pennsylvania Li- sistant reference librarian of Los Angeles brary. State College. John L. Nolan has returned to the Library John Weatherford has been appointed man- of Congress as assistant director of the Ref- uscripts librarian, Ohio Historical Society, Co- erence Department after having served for lumbus. two years as director of the United States Mrs. Astrid Werner is assistant translator, Information Service Library in London. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Technical Martha H. Patterson has been appointed Library, Murray Hill, N. J. senior cataloger at Kansas State College Li- Jo Ann Wiles has been appointed librarian brary. of the University of Illinois Library School S. Gilbert Prentiss has been appointed ref- Library. erence librarian of the University of Vermont Mrs. Ingrid Winter has joined the staff of Library. the Preparations Department of the Uni- Burton A. Robie has been appointed head versity of Kansas Library. of the Humanities Library of Massachusetts Robert N. Young, formerly stack super- Institute of Technology. visor of Columbia University Libraries, has Joseph B. Rounds, formerly director of the been appointed to the acquisitions staff of the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, and director of Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell Uni- the Erie County Library System since 1947, versity.

.462 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Retirements.

Miss TOMMIE DORA BARKER'S retirement tion for, public libraries remains warm and as director of the Divis'ion of Librarianship, . confident. Emory University recognized her Emory University, will not mark the end of contributions to Southern culture and to edu- her long and brilliant career as librarian and cation for librarianship by awarding her the educator. The librarians of the Southeast honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in will never allow this retirement to become a 1930. reality. She will need In 1930 the Library School, affiliated with all of her undoubted Emory in 1925, was transferred to the astuteness and inge- campus. Miss Barker was asked by the Ad- nuity to elude those ministration of the University to return as of us who will con- Dean in 1936. tinue to draw upon An able administrator, she possesses the her sagacity, her most necessary of administrative character- courage, her kindness istics, the ability to recognize and use initia- and her humor. She tive and independent thought on the part of has earned the pleas- her staff. She has stimulated constant study ures of leisure; and, of the curriculum and of the profession by her being a remarkable faculty. Always willing to experiment, she woman, will probably has never sacrificed quality and substance. Tommie Dora Barker find some time for Emory, the oldest of the ALA accredited li- them in spite of us. brary schools in the Southeast, became the No one could gauge the extent and depth first of these to establish a curriculum leading of her influence upon the development of li- toward the master's degree for the fifth year brarianship in the Southeast. From 1915 of study. The program, projected by the until 1930 she was librarian of the Carnegie faculty under her leadership, was put into Library of Atlanta (now the Atlanta Public practice in 1948. Miss Barker became direc- Library) and director of the Library School, tor of the Division of Librarianship of the then connected with that institution. Both Graduate School. The new program was ac- the library and the school grew and estab- credited by the Board of Education for Li- lished enviable records under her leadership. brarianship in 1954, under the new ALA The library set standards for the area. The standards adopted in 1951. superb book collection was evidence of the Alumni have been known to express con- soundness of her policies, and of her percep- cern that the Library School is no longer a tion of the educational, research and recre- separate body within the institution. In re- ational needs of a growing city; while her ality the Division is thoroughly integrated keen interest in the social role of the library with the life of Emory and likes it. The pro- was reflected in services, and in the curric- gram retains considerable evidence of Miss ulum of the school. Graduates were con- Barker's firm belief in ethics, substance, and versant with the economic and social problems in the cultural role of the library. Policies of the region and with the potential contri- foster a warm, personal relationship between bution of books and reading to the solution of faculty and students, and this is particularly these problems. Among the alumni of the marked in the concern of the director that school are some of the most distinguished she be readily available to those in need of librarians in America. counsel and help. The Division has reached a Miss Barker left the library in 1930 to new milestone under her direction, but she become regional field agent in the South for would be disappointed if her faculty were the American Library Association. Libraries satisfied to remain there. of the South, A Report on Developments, Miss Barker has found time for participa- 1930-1935, records the experiences of those tion in professional organizations, local, re- years; in which, although the author does not gional and national. Throughout her career say so, she provided and fostered an esprit de she has been active in ALA, in which she has corps which has continued to unify librarians twice served as a member of council. She has in this region. Her belief in, and her affec- also been a member of the Library Extension

OCTOBER, 1954 463. Board and a director of the Divisioh of Li- Her father having been a college professor brary Education. She is a former president and her maternal grandfather the head of a of the Association of American Library private academy in Virginia, it was natural Schools. One of the founders of Southeastern that when she graduated from the University Library Association, she has also been presi- of Kentucky she should teach, which she did dent of that organization. Her contributions in schools in Kentucky and Alabama. to the Georgia Library Association and to In 1911 she took the apprentice course and library activities in the state have been count- went to work in the Louisville, Ky. Free Pub- less. lic Library. She got a certificate at the Li- In addition, Miss Barker is the author of brary School, University of Wisconsin and numerous and substantial contributions to the went from there to the Department of Hygiene literature of librarianship. of Wellesley College as librarian where she In discussing Elmer Davis' But We Were stayed seven years, going from there to the Born Free, friends have been apt to call Miss University of North Dakota, in charge of cata- Barker's attention to the last chapter. She loging. During her Wellesley tenure she has not waited to retire to speak her mind; worked summers in the Reference Cataloging she has never lacked courage to take unpop- Department of N.Y.P.L. ular sides, jeopardy or no jeopardy. Her In 1922 she went to the Library School of incisive intellect, her interest in the state of the University of Wisconsin, where she was the world, her feeling of commitment to her instructor, then assistant professor in the Li- beliefs will not permit her to seek too private brary School and field visitor for the Wiscon- a life. And all of the people whom she has sin Free Library Commission. turned into librarians enjoy her wit, her kind- When the School of Library Science was ness and her appreciative pleasure in the opened at the University of North Carolina in agreeable details of existence too much to 1931 she was invited there and after a year allow her to do so.—Evalene P. Jackson. was made acting director. In 1932 she took her Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago. Egypt, New Zealand and Japan, to mention In 1941 she became the first dean of the North only a few "far countries," have sometime re- Carolina School. quested the help of American-trained librar- Meanwhile she has taught library science at ians. Now Iran has Louisiana State University and the University joined them. The of Washington, been president of the North University of Tehran Carolina Library Association and chairman has requested that and member of various committees of the ALA SUSAN GREY AKERS and the Southeastern Library Association and be sent to them as vis- has had interesting contacts with the library iting lecturer and the world of the Southeast. United States State From September 1950 to April 1951 she was Department, on the in Tokyo as an American Consultant in the recommendation of Library Science Workshop, Institute for Edu- the Conference Board cational (Japanese) Leaders under the Infor- of Associated Re- mation and Education Section, Department of Susan Akers search Councils, has the Army. given her an Educa- Her special interest in cataloging probably tional Exchange Grant. stems from her Dakota experience but she Since she is retiring as dean of the School of began her book Simple Library Cataloging Library Science of the University of North when she was teaching in Wisconsin. It has Carolina this fall she is free to accept and been a boon to people dealing with small li- will fly over October first. braries and is now in its 4th edition. Coming from an academic background, hav- She goes to Tehran with great interest and ing done much teaching in the classroom, and her ability and background will reflect credit being the author of articles in various library on the American librarian. Her many friends journals and the manual, Simple Library Cata- wish her success and happiness in this new loging, she should prove satisfactory to them. opportunity.—Grace L. Aldrich.

.464 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The South has lost several of its outstand- eastern Library Association, the Georgia ing librarians during 1954 through retirement. Library Association (president 1927-29), the One of them is MARGARET JEMISON who chose Atlanta Library Club (president 1934-35), the to retire at the end of Atlanta Historical Society, and the English the summer quarter Speaking Union. after being librarian She is making her home in Talladega, where of Emory University she plans to garden, read, and do some of the for thirty-three years. old fashioned kind of fishing in which the rod Under her direc- is a reed and the bait is a worm. One of her tion the book resources colleagues has said that with her return to have grown from a Alabama, Georgia has lost one of its best li- small uncataloged col- brarians and one of its most loyal Confeder- lege collection to an ates.—W. Porter Kellam. outstanding one of over 400,000 volumes CHARLES E. RUSH, director of libraries and serving one of the Margaret M. Jemison professor of library science at the University great universities in of North Carolina, retired on June 30, 1954. the South. Emory's Wesleyana is the largest Thirteen years of single collection on the Wesleys in the world his distinguished ca- and its Joel Chandler Harris Collection of reer were spent in literary relics, manuscripts, and books is one of Chapel Hill. During the most complete collections on an author in this period the li- any library. brary's collections Miss Jemison has hand-picked the book were almost doubled purchases at Emory and the collection reflects in size and its main her good judgment in making the most of building greatly ex- limited funds. For many years she combined tended and modern- her vacations with buying trips to New York ized. and Boston, and twice she went to Europe. Before coming to The book collection shows the result of the North Carolina, Charles E. Rush purchasing phase of these trips and her large Charlie Rush held personal collection of theater programs, among several important university and public library which is one from the Folies Bergeres, indi- posts. He was director of the Cleveland Pub- cates the non-business aspects of them. lic Library from 1938 to 1941; associate li- In addition to her delight in traveling and brarian of Yale University, 1931-38; librarian, theater going, Miss Jemison is an avid reader Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1928- with wide-ranging tastes. Ordinarily, how- 31; librarian, Indianapolis Public Library, ever, she does not like American humor but 1917-28. Earlier he had served as librarian of the writings of John Kendrick Bangs are an the public libraries of Jackson, Michigan exception. In fact, the reading of the House- (1908-10); St. Joseph, Missouri (1910-16); boat on the Styx several years ago led her to and Des Moines, Iowa (1916-17). Samplings collect first editions of his works and she has of his honors attest to activity in professional most of them. affairs all the way back to the New York State Miss Jemison is a native of Talladega, Ala- Library School from which he received a de- bama, and was educated in the Alabama gree in 1908. In both Missouri and Indiana Synodical College, Hollin's College, and the he was president of the state library associa- Library School of the Carnegie Library of At- tion. He served on the council and executive lanta. Before going to Emory in 1921, she board of the ALA, and in 1931-32 was vice- had served as librarian of the Carnegie Li- president of the association. He represented brary in Valdosta, Georgia; librarian of the United States librarians at the meetings of the Anniston (Alabama) Public Library; assistant International Library Committee in Stockholm librarian of the Dallas (Texas) Public Li- in 1930 and at Warsaw in 1936. As advisor brary; and had spent a year in ALA War Serv- on library services to the Carnegie Corporation ice. She is a member of the ALA, the South- of New York from 1934 to 1936, he partici-

OCTOBER, 1954 465. pated in professional investigations in the calculable friendship for the library; reorgan- United States, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland izer of the Friends of the Library, now flour- and in Europe. In 1939 he was elected vice- ishing with a membership of 386; pioneer in president of the American Association for introducing the use of photography in li- Adult Education after having served for sev- braries; advisor and helper in many useful eral years on its council and executive board. activities." There was still some time for writing. Charlie Rush's host of friends on all corners Professional journals carry many of Charlie of the globe congratulate him upon work well Rush's written contributions to librarianship. done and wish him long life and happiness as His publications also include, as joint author, he devotes his attention now to some of those Modern Aladdins and Their Magic; The other jobs that have been waiting.—Benjamin Science of Things About Us (1926); and, as E. Powell. editor, Library Resources of the University of North Carolina; A Summary of Facilities Miss Hilda Alseth, librarian of the Uni- for Study and Research (1945). versity of Illinois Engineering Library since When our genial neighbor returned to 1918, has retired. North Carolina in 1941, he came back to the land of his fathers. He was born and reared Mrs. Ada J. English, librarian of the in Indiana, but all four of his grandparents Women's College of Rutgers University since started life in eastern North Carolina. That 1923, has retired. little adjustment was necessary is indicated in the "citation of honor" the Friends of the Uni- Emma R. Speed, head of the catalog de- versity of North Carolina Library conferred partment in the Cornell University Library, upon him at their annual meeting in May. retired on July 1, 1954, after more than 40 The citation reads in part, "Planner of the years on the library staff. splendid new addition to the library building dedicated two years ago; possessed of a magic Ella May Thornton, who has been on the rod to locate book collections ready for dona- staff of the Georgia State Library since 1909, tion and patiently persuasive in influencing has retired. their owners; leader in the successful endeavor to increase the legislature's appropriation for Margaret White, librarian in the catalog books; man with a vision about extending the department of the General Library, Uni- usefulness of the library collections; projector versity of California (Berkeley), retired July of a system of continuous library exhibits that 1, 1954, after 34 years of service with the has attracted wide attention and has won in- library. Foreign Libraries

Josef Rest, director of the library of the Lauri Tudeer retired as head librarian of University of Freiburg im Breisgau, retired the University of Helsingfors Library in March 31, 1953. February upon reaching his 70th birthday. Necrology

Ruth Shepard Granniss, librarian of the March 7, 1954 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, Grolier Club from 1905 until 1944, died on at the age of eighty-one.

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