Harold L. Leupp, Administrator Harold Lewis Leupp is one of the last tributions. Harold Leupp is primarily an of a noted array of librarians who have re­ administrator, although he has an exception­ tired from the active administration of uni­ ally clear understanding of scholarship and versity libraries during the last ten years. research. He makes no claims in his own During this period, most of the larger uni­ behalf of productive scholarship, insofar as versity libraries have seen the appointment publications are concerned. He did adminis­ of new leaders. The list includes such out­ ter and develop a great research library-one standing university libraries as Harvard, which stands among the three or four great Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, university libraries of this country, if the Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Chicago, Missouri, comparison is based on the services rendered. Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, In a study of the holdings of scientific Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now California. periodicals as ascertained by a check of the To this list might be added a number of research libraries not connected with uni­ versities, such as the New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and the New­ berry Library. It is too early to evaluate the services to scholars and students which these librarians have rendered. The group includes some who were graduates of iibrary schools; others who came into the profession without -special training· but who have made notable contribu­ tions; many who were productive scholars in their own right; others who had a clear understanding and appreciation of scholarship but whose chief contributions were in the development of services-present and poten­ tial-which their libraries rendered to the faculty and students, to scholar.ship, and to research. / During the period of activities of this group, research libraries increased in size almost to the point of embarrassment. Serv­ ices were greatly developed but still failed to keep pace with increasing demands. Many problems, not fully solved, such as photo­ HAROLD L. LEUPP graphic reproduction, policies of cooperative acquisition, and new types of buildings, had Union List of Serials, the library of the their origins in studies and experiments made University of California was found to be by librarians who have now retired. Pos­ among the three or four outstanding libraries sibly the chief contribution of this group was in this country. The coll~ctions at Berkeley the increased services rendered, together with will serve scholars for many decades to major emphasis- on use rather than on rou­ come and will stand as an enduring monu­ tines. During this period, the Association of ment to the accomplishments of Harold Research Libraries and the Association of Leupp. College and Reference Libraries were or­ The most important feature of the library ganized. of the University of California is not in the Against the background which is barely size and completeness of its holdings, how­ touched upon in the preceding paragraphs, ever, but in the exceptional use made of its can be outlined the services of those who, in facilities. The library has been administered far different ways, have made exceptional con- with special emphasis on the needs of its

SEPTEMBER~ 1945 353 clientele and the methods by which such . tainty. We knew he would join the Army needs could be satisfied. in 1917, and he did. In a year he was pro­ Some years ago a scholar who had been moted from the rank of second lieutenant to surveying the services of university libraries the rank of captain. His great disappoint­ stated in personal conversation that the fac­ ment, as any of us would have guessed, was ulty of the University of California was that he was considered too valuable in the receiving a higher standard of service from training program to be sent abroad. His its library than any other university he had appointment in 1910 as associate librarian at yet visited. He also added that the faculty the University of California was followed at Berkeley did not appreciate that fact. The by his appointment as chief librarian in 1919. contributions made to the war effort in the Harold Leupp is direct, arriving at the use of the library by government agencies on heart of any situation without involving him­ the West Coast may not be described at self in ramifications. His straightforward, present. In the opinion of the writer, they frank approach has at times proved discon­ were far greater than the services rendered certing to those of his colleagues who dislike by any library during the First World War, to have their lack of logic and slowness in with possibly one or two exceptions. thinking made apparent. On the other hand, California was one of the first to organize this approach has enabled him to solve many a photographic laboratory on a large scale. questions of administration which are still This laboratory has .been consistently self­ disturbing some of ·us. supporting. In 1942, at the time of my latest · Harold is incisive; he 'is perfectly willing visit, I was astonished to find that the equip­ to pick flaws in a person's logic and to point ment at California was more complete and out inconsistencies in others as well as in the volume of output was greater than himself. This ability has resulted in close similar installations and output at any li­ friendships with a few who can take· as well brary I had seen; with the exception of the as give. Harold Leupp is not an appeaser; Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Incidentally, this neither has he been a publicist in a journal­ laboratory is responsible for much of the very istic sense. considerable service California has rendered These virtues or faults, however one may to war agencies. regard them, may account for the intense My association with Harold Leupp com­ loyalty of his friends. His personal qualifi­ menced in 1904, when he graduated from the cations were best described, in my opinion, by New York State Library School and became Arthur Low Bailey, a colleague who wrote assistant reference librarian at the John me many y~ars ago: "Harold Leupp ap­ Crerar Library. T~e friendship which orig­ proaches about as close to my idea of a inated in those yeilts in Chicago has never gentleman as anyone I have ever known." lessened. Harold was so consistent that his Would that we had more like him! reactions could be predicted with fair cer- CHARLES H. BR9WN Herbert S. Hirshberg in a New Field The announcement of Herbert S. Hirsh­ the Cleveland Public Library staff, he went berg's retirement as director of libraries at to Toledo in 1914 as head librarian. Here Western. Reserve University recalls his many he is remembered for his excellent job of contribution'"s in the library field. In a library selling the library to the community. He put career covering four decades, _he has served on the first library week held in Toledo, in in many capacities in libraries of the East cooperation with the advertising club and the and Midwest. Specifically, he is known for Chamber of Commerce. The community ac­ his leadership in Ohio where he has served cepted his development program, and library various institutions for thirty-seven years. service in Toledo greatly expanded. It is difficult to cite Mr. Hirshberg's con­ The pioneer in Mr. Hirshberg's character tributions in the order of their value, but was best illustrated when in 1922 he was he seems to have been drawn to positions given the opportunity to become Obio's state requiring pioneer efforts. From service on librarian. He was the first trained librarian

354 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the state library had had in the I05 years of its existence. In view of this it is remark­ able that the professional staff he organized is considered one of the strongest the library has ever had. He became well known, too, for the reorganization and efficient execution of the various state library functions, and directed his efforts especially towards re­ moving libraries from political control. He strongly urged libraries of the state to change to school district library units. At that time most of the public libraries of the state were municipal libraries, with boards appointed by the mayors. Appointments to such boards were often made on a partisan basis, and this was carried through in the selection of the library staff. Under the school district type, board appointments are made by the board of education and partisanship usually does not enter into them. Ohio is benefiting from this policy today, for the majority of its .libraries have come to be of this kind and are relatively free from politics. HERBERT s. HIRSHBERG Mr. Hirshberg carried the knowledge and experience gained at Columbus to Akron, Hirshberg was concerned with library archi­ as its librarian, and then to the. deanship of tecture and building planning. Branches in the library school of Western Reserve U ni­ Toledo, various libraries in the state which versity where he imparted it to graduating he helped plan when state librarian, and the students-students now dispersed over the centralized and remodeled library building of country. At the unfversity he also held the Western Reserve University stand to his position of director of libraries. credit. One of his contributions to library As dean he attracted into the profession literature stems from experience in this field. more men than had enrolled in the school In I930 he wrote Elements of the Library in its entire previous 'history. Under his di­ Plan, which was published by the American rection the curriculum was revised; courses Library Association as one of its Manuals of in administration and reference were broad­ Library Economy. Later he prepared a paper ened, the latter to include an intensive study for the I933 Chicago A.L.A. Conference of government documents. His daily work entitled "Four Library Buildings," dis­ in these courses stimulated the idea of a cussing subject versus conventional arrange­ new approach to the use of reference ma­ ment of large public libraries. In the terial and resulted in his compilation of Sub­ Children~ s Library Yearbook No. I he wrote ject Guide to Reference Books~ published by an article on the interrelation between juve~ the American ~ibrary Association in I942. nile and adult departments. He presented This work is a contribution which will be a paper at the I 926 American Library Asso­ useful to the profession for many years. ciation conference on "Personnel Standards As director of university libraries, Mr. for Small Public Libraries," which was re­ Hirshberg . developed a central university li­ printed in the Classics of American Librarian­ brary where previously there had been only ship. At present ·he is working on the "Sub­ libraries of the various colleges. Likewise, ject Guide to u: S~ Government Publications" he moved the library school into the university (coauthor, Carl ~ Melinat), which is to be library building, providing mutual benefit to published in the fall. He is an inventor, students of the school and to the staff of the too, having design~~( ·a· mechanical counter to library. aid circulation assistants in computing over­ Throughout his years of library work, Mr. due fines.

SEPTEMBER~ 1945 355 Mr. Hirshberg has been active in national made his way through the library field, break­ and state association affairs. He was presi­ ing a path for others to follow. He leaves dent of the Ohio Library -Association in the active field of librarianship, but 'it is I9I7-I8 and has been vice president of the certain that benefits will still come to the American Library Association and a member profession from work in his new field. of numerous committees of the latter. Kindly and dignified, Mr. Hirshberg has WALTER T. BRAHM The Record of F. L. D. Goodrich frederick Lee Dewey Goodrich retires this cago, he became assistant librarian of the summer as librarian of the College of the University of Michigan (I 907-20) and held City of -New York. Leaving New York at its associate librarianship from I920-30. His the end of J~ne, he temporarily will be training there came chiefly from the late curator of printed books in ~he William L. Theodore W. Koch. In I9I7-I9 he was Clements Library at Ann Arbor. granted a leave of absence and organized Born in Manchester, Mich., in I877, Mr. three camp libraries in the South. ·After the Goodrich is one of three brothers who appear armistice he did still more interesting work in Who's Who in America. In i897 he com­ at Paris and Beaune, France. pleted· the four-year course in education at For several years Mr. Goodrich gave sum­ Michigan State College, which nearly forty mer courses at the University of Michigan years later gave him the honorary degree of on such topics as library buildings and special master of education. Thus, to natural apti­ collections. Besides many articles in profes­ tude he add~d ·· professional skill as a teacher sional periodicals, he wrote, with William and expositor. In I903 he earned the bache­ M. Randall, Principles of College Library lor of arts degree at the University . of Administration. The volume has been a Michigan and in I9I6 attained its M.A. de­ standard text in library schools, having ap­ gree. He earned his B.L.S. degree in I906 peared in two editions. Mr. Goodrich also at the New York State Library School. was chairman for several years of the im­ After a year as assistant reference li­ portant American Library Association Com­ brarian at the John Crerar Library in Chi- mittee on Fellowships pnd Scholarships. At City College he has been a colossus of helpfulness, good nature, and patience for a dozen years. Although working with a mixed student body he has been able to maintain friendly relations with all elements. When the faculty was perplexed by publi­ cized economic agitations, Mr. Goodrich kept to the golden mean. In a library so crowded that thirty thousand volumes had to be packed away in cases, he never gave up hope of an adequate municipal grant for the enlargement of the building, which now rates A-I in post­ war priority. Senior among the head libra.rians of the four borough colleges supported by Greater New York, Mr. Goodrich has been their wise leader. He is a true and beloved benefactor of the intellectual life of the metropolis. When he leaves, he will be accompanied by the affectionate regards of student and fac· ulty and, last but not least, the warm wishes of his fellow-librarians in the numerous pro· fessional associations in which he served. B lac k~tone Studio 1 FREDERICK LEE DEWEY GooDRICH WILLIAM W. RocKWELL

356 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Charles Martel, 186o--1945

Too prone to assume the development of a library science as peculiarly American, we must at times admit our inaccuracy. It is a truism that many of our early library lead­ ers-those who in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries forged the frame- . work of the young profession-were adopted from Europe. Such a leader was Charles Martel, who died May 15, 1945. A Swiss by birth and education, at the age of nineteen he ex­ changed the University of Zurich, where he had studied after leaving the Gymnasium, for the Midwestern University of Missouri. Evidently he liked us, for he remained to make his life here. After completing his studies and engaging in othet work for a time, he went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1892. There he became the friend and coworker of ]. C. M. Hanson, who soon departed for the Library of Congress and shortly asked Martel to join him.

In 1901, at the crucial time when Herbert CHARLES MARTEL Putnam was reorganizing the Library of Con­ gress services and beginning to offer printed cards for sale, Martel became chief classifier. Monsignor Tisserant in organizing the vast In this capacity he began the greatest work collection of the Vatican Library in Rome. of his career-directing the development of When he reached retirement age in 19]0, the L.C. classification schedules. Although he was relieved of his many administrative the work was based in part on the Cutter duties but was asked to remain as bil;>Ho­ Expansive System, it was planned from the graphical consultant, that the library might start as a practical disposition of a specific continue to profit from his wide background book collection, not as a theoretical organiza­ and deep knowledge of bibliography and Euro­ tion of knowledge. Martel carefully ex­ pean languages. On Mar. 5, 1940, a sur­ plained his thesis to the many librarians who prise luncheon was given at the round table sought information and schedules. Yet the of the Library of Congress in honor of his popularity of the classification system grew eightieth birthday. Close friends toasted rapidly, in spite of the fact that not all him and presented an appreciation volume -of schedules were completed until a few years 237 letters from all over the world. ago. , He was a gifted scholar, a progressive In 1912 he was made chief of the Cata­ librarian, and a beloved administrator. His logue Division, a position he held until 1930. loss is felt not only in Washington but by A. highlight of this period was his work in the entire library 'Yorld. the winter and spring of 1928 with William Warner Bishop, ]. C. M. Hanson, and VELVA ]. OsBORN

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Appointments to Positions Luther Harris Evans isfactorily without utilizing the library resources of the ·nation. On . 1une I6, I945, President Truman an­ nounced that he was sending to the Senate· No other position in . the Library of Con­ his nomination of Luther Harris Evans as gress has closer relations with the government Librarian of Congress. The appointment was than that of director of the Legislative confirmed on June 29. While the appoint­ Reference Service, and from the beginning ment was generally expected, it is nonethe­ Dr. Evans showed an unusual ability in less gratifying to librarians to have this satisfying the library wants of the Senators assurance that the splendid . leadership of and Congressmen. Mart in A. Roberts, chief Archibald MacLeish will. be continued by the assistant librarian, died in 1une I940, and man who has served so ably as Mr. Mac- on November I Mr. MacLeish appointed Dr. Leish's lieutenant. . Evans to that position. By that time the Luther Evans graduated from the Univer­ reorganization of the Library of Congress sity of Texas in 1923 and received his M.A. had progressed to the point of setting up degree in political science from that institu­ three departments: the Administrative De­ tion the following year. While serving as an partment, the Processing Department, and the instructor in the problems of citizenship at Reference Department. Luther Evans, as Leland Stanford University, he continued chief assistant librarian, was director of the his studies and received his Ph.D. degree in Reference Department. I927. He was then on the faculties succes­ During his five and one-half years as chief sively of New York University, Dartmouth, assistant librarian, Dr. Evans repeatedly as­ and Princeton. sumed the duties of acting librarian in the The library world first came to know Dr. absence of Mr. l\1acLeish. He has seen eye Evans when he became national director of to eye with . Mr. MacLeish in his desire to the Historical Records Survey of the Works make the Library of Congress serve not only Progress Administration in I935· The His­ the government but the libraries of the whole torical Records Survey probably received country. He was an enthusiastic supporter more commendation and less criticism than of the publication of the Catalog of Books any other part of the W.P.A. It may well Represented by Library of Congress Printed have been the successful administration of Cards under the auspices of the Association this task that convinced Archibald MacLeish, of Research Libraries. He advocates the soon after assuming office, that Dr. Evans division of responsibility by the greater li­ was the man to appoint as director of the· braries, to assure that all important foreign Legislative Reference Service of the Library books are secured by some American library. of . Congress. During the past few years the staff at the ' A report on the Historical Records Survey, Library of Congress has been considerably made by Dr. Evans to a Senate committee on strengthened. Dr. Evans was the enthusi­ Mar. I, I938, includes a statement about astic choice as the new chief of the librarians libraries which shows how much he appre­ who had worked under him. The newspapers ciated their possible contribution even before have asserted that he was one of the three he had become a librarian. He said: men recommended . to the President by the American Library Association. As Luther It is so generally recognized that one of the Evans assumes the most important library greatest civilizing influences developed in Amer­ position in the country, it should be a satisfac­ ica during the past century is the library sys­ tion to him that he does so with the approval tem of the nation, that we seldom have occasion of his fellow staff members at the Library to realize how terribly handicapped we would of Congress and of the many librarians in be without it. I think it is safe to say that no large and important agency of government · in university and public libraries throughout the this country, no matter what its . purpose and country who have felt the warmth of his in­ functions may be, and no large business and terest in general library progress. philanthropic enterprise, could do its work sat- PAUL NoRTH RicE

COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 359 I Donald Coney graduates and others who know little about Donald Coney, the new librarian of the the library's ·varied services. A further plan, University of California at Berkeley, first so far suspended because of war conditions, became interested in librarianship when he is the creation experimentally of a service was a student at the University of Michigan. coordinator to act as liaison officer between Except for two years ( 1932-34), when he faculty and library and to focus his effort was supervisor of technical processes at the primarily upon the undergraduate library Newberry Library, he has directed his ener­ problems raised by the faculty. gies towards university librarianship. He Another of Mr. Coney's objectives has been was a circulation assistant and a departmental to integrate the library with university librarian at the University of Michigan growth. A mimeographed memorandum, ( 1920-27), librarian at the University of "The Place of the Library in a Program of Delaware ( 1927-28), assistant librarian at Expansion or Reorganization at the Univer­ the University of North Carolina (1928-31), sity of Texas," prepared by him, illustrates and librarian of the University of Texas this. from 1934 until his recent appointment at Although collecting and the use of ma­ California. In addition to his library posi­ terials are his primary 'concerns, Mr. Coney tions, Mr. Coney has also served on the has been keenly interested in intermediary faculties of the library schools of the univer­ activities. Experience at Delaware, North sities of Chicago, Illinois, and North Carolina, and Texas revealed to him the ·carolina. importance and necessity of accounting for As an administrator, Mr. Coney has been administrative control-as the presence of alert to new developments in university li­ revised bookkeeping systems in all of these brarianship and in related fields. Not infre­ institutions and the existence of bookkeeping quently he has been an innovator and machines in two of them testifies. Further­ experimenter. He has been an outspoken more, Newberry experience with the process­ exponent of placing the university library in ing of books led to an article by him in its correct relation . to students, faculty,. and Current Issues in Library Administration scholars generally. To him, the building of a (University of Chicago Press, I 939), "The collection pertinent to the needs of a clientele Administration of Technical Processes." He and the distribution of that collection to has been sympathetic to the use of the busi­ individuals requiring its use, are the two ness machines and other labor-saving devices important aspects of library activity. which have slowly found their way into In the building of collections, Mr. Coney libraries. Recently, he acquired for the recently .has had approved at Texas a project University of Texas Library a special mimeo­ for creating a faculty fellowship in bibliog­ graph machine and an electric typewriter for raphy, under which a member of the faculty the production of catalog cards, thus indi­ would spend a semester each year studying cating a preference for local manufacture as the library's resources in a given subject area, against the purchase of printed cards. He evaluating them, and outlining plans for their was a party to 'the development by Ralph improvement. He also has studied methods H. Parker of a system of loan and for apportioning book funds in the university periodical punched card control records, library and has evolved an experimental index developed by the International Business plan which goes beyond the present unsys­ Machine Corporation. tematic procedures. Finally, Mr. Coney has not overlooked the In connection with a projected building place of the library staff in the university program for the University of Texas Library, hierarchy. His recent administrative memo­ Mr. Coney has proposed an improved division randum, "Nonstudent Personnel Problems in of material and of service. A step toward the Library," implies the kind of attention this is the recently created west reading room this has received at his hands. of the library, which handles the most fre­ In addition to his many activities in the quently used current periodicals, open-shelf American Library Association and local li­ reserves for undergraduates, and a popular brary organizations, Mr. Coney has been reading collection for recreational purposes, associated with the Institute of Latin-Ameri­ thus providing a starting point for under- can Studies at the University of Texas since

360· COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES its inception, having been a member first of Libraries in War Areas of the Council of the faculty committee to study the need for National Library Associations. He has also such an agency and later of the executive been the chairman of the A.L.A. Special Ad­ committee of the institute. This association visory Committee on the Union List of Serials led to his article "The Materials of Intel­ Supplement. He has contributed many arti­ lectual Interchange," published in Inter­ cles and reviews to professional journals. A merican Intellectual Interchange (Institute of Latin-American Studies of the University /. H. Lancaster of Texas, 1943). On June I, 1945, J. H. Lancaster became Wyllis E. Wright librarian of the Peabody College Division of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Wyllis E. Wright, the new librarian of the Tenn., and a member of the Peabody College Army Medical Library, began library work faculty. Besides administering the library, as a page in the Lowell, Mass., Public Li­ Dr. Lancaster is to teach courses in the li­ brary at the age of twelve and, with the ex­ brary school and in the college dealing with ception of one year, has been in library work library service and with methods of research ever since. He was a student assistant in in education. the Williams College Library throughout his Dr. Lancaster brings to his new posts a course there. After receiving his B.A. degree background in both librarianship and teaching. from Williams in 1925, he remained on the After graduating with the -degree of bachelor library staff for two more years, meanwhile of science at Ohio Wesleyan University in receiving an M.A. in 1926. 1920, he spent seven years as a teacher and While in the Williams library he became administrator in schools of northwestern interested in cataloging and classification and Ohio. He then became director of student served as cataloger during the absence of the teaching at Heidelberg College. From 1939 regular cataloger. He also prepared a classi­ to 1943 he was librarian at Heidelberg and, fication for the Williamsiana collection. in addition, in 1942-43 he managed the From 1927-30 he was in the Preparation university bookstore. For a year and a Division of the New York Public Library, half in 1942-43 he also supervised night and he obtained a B.S. degree from the School school courses held at Heidelberg in the of Library Service, Columbia University, in E.S.M.W.T. program of the University of 1928. From 1930-33 he was librarian of the Toledo College of Engineering. Since 1943 American Academy in Rome, where he as­ he has been assistant professor of library sisted in the complete recataloging of the science at the University of Illinois Library collection. During this period he was also School and has also taught physics in the interested in the preparation of a union A.S.T.R.P. at Illinois. catalog of materials relating to Rome and In the period covered by his Heidelberg Roman studies, undertaken by the Instituto di connection Dr. Lancaster continued study, Studi Romani. In 1933 he returned to the receiving the degree of master of arts at New York Public Library as chief classifier Ohio State University in 1926; that of doctor and in 1936 become chief cataloger. of philosophy at Teachers College, Columbia His interest in cataloging processes led to University, in 1941; and that of bachelor of his appointment on the Cooperative Catalog­ science at the School of Library Service, Co­ ing Cofmittee and the Advisory Committee lumbia University, also in 1941. His master's on the Union List of Serials. He has also essay dealt with school library laws of the served on the A.L.A. Catalog Code Revision various states and his doctoral dissertation Committee. At the New York Public Library with the use of the library by student he has introduced simplification in cata­ teachers. loging practices, in line with the current con­ The change of fields on Dr. Lancaster's ception of what is needed in the preparation part in recent years came about as a result of a catalog for a large reference library. of an increasing interest in the library as a Mr. Wright has taken an active part in means of education and as a source of instruc­ the Victory Book Campaign, and at present tional material and of ideas for student he is a member of the Joint Committee on a teachers. He has been active in organizations Book Compaign for Devastated and Other of librarians and in 1942 was elected vice

SEPTEMBER, 1945 361 president ·of the Ohio Library Association. tion in celebration of the sooth Anniversary ' Dr. Lancaster ser ~ed as a second lieutenant of the Invention of Printing from Movable in the' United States Army in · 1g18. Type was arranged arid a catalog pr.epared. Other catalogs were compiled in connection Charles M. A dams with exhibitions for the Edwin .Patrick Kil­ Charles M. Adams assumed his duties as roe · collection of Tammaniana and· for the· librarian of the Woman's College of the Isidore· Witmark collection. In 1944, in University of North Carolina . at Greensbor·o collaboration with the . English Graauate on September 1. He received his A.B. · de­ Union, an exhibition and . program were gree .from Amherst College in 1931 and his. arranged in celebration of the 300th anniver­ B.~ . . from the Columbia School of Library sary of the printing of the Areopagitica. Service in 1933. In 1942 he completed his A contributor to publications. of the work · for ·an M.A: ·in the · department of Typophiles, to the News-Letter of the English. American Institute of Graphic Arts, and to Mr. Adams was born: in 1907- in La Moure, the Bulletin of the New York Public Li­ N.D. There he ·assisted in gathering and braryJ Mr. Adams is also a former editor of organizing the town's first library. At the New York Library Club Bulletin. He Amherst College he worked as a student supervised the compilation of the reports of ass1stant in the library. ·During the first the resources of Columbia for inclusion in three years after college he was an instructor Downs's Resources of New York City Li­ of English at Athens College·,, Greece. While braries ( 1942). He completed the final read­ in Europe he traveled· and attended summer ing and supervised the publication for · the courses at the University of Toulouse and Columbia University Libraries of Edward the University of ·Strasbourg, receiving in­ Epstean's translation of the History of struction in hand bookbinding in the latter Photography by Josef Maria Eder (New institution. Later, at the New School for York City, Columbia University Press, Social Research in New Y ark, he followed 1945). up his interest in bookmaking by taking a course · in hand pnntmg under Joseph Paul M. Angle Blementhal. In the School of Library Serv­ Paul M. Angle, recently appointed to the ice, Columbia University,. during the summer librarianship of the Chicago HistoricaJ So­ sessinns pf 1939 and 1942, he taught the ciety, brings to his new position thirteen years course on the history of . books and printing of experience acquired as state historian of and during the summer of 1941, that on the Illinois and director of the Illinois State His­ care of books in special collections. torical Library. At the information desk and in the reserve Mr. Angle, who holds a bachelor's degree room of the New York Public Library from from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a 1934 to 1938, Mr. Adams became acquainted master's degree from the University. of with the varied reading and referenc<; needs Illinois, was secretary of the Abraham Lin­ of the gene.ral public and of niatlue research coln Association at Springfield for seven years workers. During his seven years at Colum­ before assuming charge of the Illinois · State bia he was in charge of the department of Historical Library. During his directorship special collections, represented the director of. the· latter institution, its book collection in the administration of 'the Low Memorial grew to approximately eighty thousand vol­ Library, and played a significant part in umes, which represents an increase of about developing the collections of rare books and 30 .per cent, and its manu$cript and newspaper other special materials · for the university collections double.d in size. The collection of through gifts and purchases. As assistant to Lincoln autographs increased from fifty or the director of libraries, he participated in sixty to. more than four hundred, and many planning and working out- solutions to a num-. of these are of first importance. Last year: her of administrative · problems ·concerned the library acquired one of the five holograph with personnel, building arrangements, and copies of. Lincoln's Ge.ttysburg Address, which resources; was · purchased .by the school children of Mr. Adams was also in· charg'e of exhibi­ Illinois, aided by Marshall Field III. The tion work :at Columbia. In 1940 the"exhibi- libra:ry ·has received other notable benefac~

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~------tions-in particular, the fine Lincoln collec­ he organized the documents division and was tion of Alfred W. Stern of Chicago. Much the administrative officer of all the public of the · expansion of the Illinois State. His­ service units of. the library. In the dpcuments torical Library in recent years can be traced division he set up a · union catalog arranged directly to the excellent public relations estab­ by issuing agency, for all documents held in lished by Mr. Angle and to his ability to any of the libraries on the. Berkeley campus. select and guide a capable staff. At the University of Califo.rnia he also .con­ Since 1932, when Mr. Angle went to ducted ·a seminar in bibli9graphy and research Springfield, he has edited the Journal of the methods for graduate · students in the po­ Illinois State Historical Society and the so­ litical science department. ciety's other publications and, after' its incep ... Mr. Wilcox was chairman of the A.L.A. tion in 1940, the L1 braham Lincoln Quarterly~ Committee on · Public Documents from 1936 He has written and published a history of to 1938 and again from 1941 to date. · He Springfield in Lincoln's time, worked with has contributed many papers concerning docu­ Carl Sandburg on Mary Lincoln~ Wife and ment problems at the annual meetings of the Widow~ and edited a new edition o.f Whit­ committee. ney's Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. He In 1937 he was instrumental in securing has written a number of articles on historical, passage of H.R. 5471 by the U. S. Congress, bibliographical, and library subjects, and .fre­ which brought to depository libraries, for the quent reviews. first time, •the Congressional : hearings. In addition, passage of this bill again allowed Jerome K. Wilcox depository libraries the privilege of securing ; Senate and House journals and public bills. J ero.me K. Wilcox became librarian of the He is the author · of numerous articles and College . of the City of New York Septem­ publications pertaining to public document ber I. He has been in the library profession use, among which are: U.S. Reference Publi­ for over twenty years, having begun his cationsJ 1931, with a 1932 supplement; Guide career as a student assistant while working to the Official Publications of ihe New. Deal for his B.A. degree at Wesleyan University. Lldminis·tration~ 1934, with two supplements, After graduation in 1926, he attended the one in 1936 .and one in 1937; Unemployment University of Illinois Library School, where Relief Docum e nts~ 1936; Manual on the Use at the same time he was also an assistant in of State Publications, 1940; and most recent­ the order department of the library. After ly, Official War Publications~ in nine volumes, receiving an M.A. at Illinois in August 1928, 1941 to 1945. For several years he has also he entered the John Crerar Library in Chi­ contributed annually "Recent Aids and cago as .assistant reference librarian, where Guides to Public Document Use" in Sp·ecial he remained until 1935. Under his editorship Libraries. at the Crerar Library, the irregular Staff As chairman of the California State Docu­ News became a quarterly publication known ment Committee of the California Library as the John Crerar Library Quarterly . . He Association,: he has sought to secure better was also instrumental in establishing the distribution and indexing of California state John Crerar Library Reference List, to publications. With this goal in mind, his which he contributed many bibliographies. committee introduced into the California While in Chicago Mr. Wilcox wfis president state legislature in · January 1945 a Senate of the Chicago Library Club and cha{rman bill . which passed both houses unanimously of the club's committee which produced the and was .signed by the Governor. This act 1933 Directory of Libraries. of the Chicag.o makes California the fi:r:st state to have a Llrea. depository system for the publications . of He went to Duke University in 1935 to the state. become chief of the acquisitions division, where he reorganized. and systematized the Thomas R. Barcus business records. In August 1937 he became On June I Thom·as R. Barcus assumed his assistant librarian of the University of Cali­ new duties as chief of the Gift and Exchange fornia at Berkeley and in 1940 was promoted Section of the Library of Congress. Mr. to associate librarian. While at California Barcus is . a native of Plainview, Tex., and

SEPTEMBER~ 1945 . 363 has an A.B. degree from Southern Methodist the publications noted above, he has written University, a bachelor's degree from the a dozen or so articles for various library and School of Library Service at Columbia, and other periodicals. Mr. Barcus is a devotee a master's degree in library science from the of chamber music and "le jazz hot," and has University of Michigan. a personal collection of about a thousand Mr. Barcus has had a variety of library records of the latter. experience prior to his going to the Library of Congress staff. From 1929 to 1934 he Alexander Moffit was an assistant in the library extension serv­ Alexander Moffit, who succeeds Donald ice at Michigan, where he compiled reading Coney as librarian of the University of Texas, lists and assisted in the editing of Alumni is from Iowa, having taken his bachelor's Reading Lis·ts. In 1934 he was placed in degree at the State University of Iowa in charge of the departmental library which 1926. After three years as a private secre­ covered the subjects of economics, mathe­ tary for a business firm in Chicago, he went matics, insurance, and geography. Two years to the University of Illinois Library School, later he assumed charge of the history and receiving the professional bachelor's degree political science rea'ding room. there in 1931 and the master's degree in 1935. for five years, · 1938-43, Mr. Barcus For five years Mr. Moffit held various worked with William Warner Bishop at the positions at the University of Illinois Library, central book purchasing office sponsored by first as assistant in the exchange division, the Carnegie Corporation. He was directly then as a reference assistant, and finally as concerned with buying books, maps, music, librarian of the chemistry library. In 1936 pictures, journals, and phonograph records he went to Texas as associate librarian. for the colleges in the United States that There he assisted in the reorganization and received grants for their libraries from the integration of the technical department and .. Carnegie Corporation. In order to carry on latterly in the direction of the library's public the work, he visited and reported on a num­ service. units. Like his predecessor, he has ber of college libraries of various sizes and been especially interested in the adaptation kinds which were under consideration for of business machines to library operations. ·grants. The record of this work is included He has been active in library association work in his publication, The Carnegie Co'rporation and has written several articles for and College Libraries~ 1938-43. periodicals. ·In 1943 Mr. Barcus· went to Canada as librarian of the University of Saskatchewan. Arthur M. McAnally In his two years there he has been successful Arthur M. McAnally became librarian of in solving several administrative problems: the University of New Mexico in July, after he succeeded in enlarging the size of the staff, several years' experience in college and uni­ increasing the budget, raising salaries of per­ versity libraries of the Southwest and Middle sonnel, lengthening vacation periods, super­ West. Mr. McAnally was educated at the vising the preparation of a library handbook University of Oklahoma, where he received for students, and placing a lecture on the the library science degree and B.A. and M.A. library in the freshman week program. A degrees in English, and at the Graduate special appropriation to clear overdue binding Library Sdiool of the University of Chicago. was also obtained, and changes were made His doctoral dissertation, now in prepara­ in circulation, order, and cataloging. routines. tion, concerns standards of support for lib­ During the spring term of 1943, he taught eral arts college libraries. reference at the -University of Michigan. His early experience was in the Edinburg, At the present time Mr. Barcus is a mem­ Tex., Junior College and at N or!hwestern ber of the A.L.A. Committee on Boards and University. As assistant librarian at Knox Committees, the Membership Committee, and College, Mr. McAnally worked extensively the Canadian Library Advisory Board. He with the Friends of the Knox College Library has been active in the programs of the Ameri­ and made a detailed analysis of student read­ can Library Association and of various ing. While librarian at Bradley Polytechnic Canadian library associations. In addition to Institute, he helped secure a new library

.. 364 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES building and concentrated on improving the He has held office in the Texas and Illinois usefulness of the library. He also instituted library associations and is at present a mem­ a faculty survey of library resources and ber of the Subcommittee on Postwar Plan­ did considerable exploratory work in adapt­ ning for College and University Libraries of ing the quick-training principles of the War the A.L.A. and the Association of Coll~ge Manpower Commission to the training of and Reference Libraries and of the A.L.A. nonprofessional library personnel and in ap­ Subcommittee on Job Evaluation and plying motion and time study techniques to Training. the improvement of library processes. As Mr. McAnally also takes to the University librarian of the Wisconsin State Teachers of New Mexico a durable interest in the College in Milwaukee, he approached the Southwest as a region, a belief that the li­ problem of library use by analyzing the vary­ brary must participate actively in the expan­ ing needs and teaching methods of instruc­ sion of the college or university as it becomes tional departments and developed systematic a regional service agency, and ·nonlibrary in­ plans for the improvement of library service terests in the effects of the frontier on Ameri­ to each. can literature and in competitive tennis.

British Museum Catalogue-Original Series

The Association of Research Libraries entirely legible for rapid consultation. has decided to issue a photographic reprint The Trustees of the British Museum of the original British Museum Catalogue have given their permission for the repro­ of Printed Books issued between I88I and duction and have kindly waived copyright. I goo. The paper of this invaluable tool The committee of the Association of Re­ has begun to disintegrate so rapidly and so search Libraries having the project in seriously that it is perfectly evident that the charge is composed of Warner G. Rice, new Catalogue cannot possibly overtake the Paul North Rice, and William Warner destruction of the old. A photographic re­ Bishop, chairman. The printing will be production is absolutely need~d to enable done by Edwards Bros. of Ann Arbor, libraries to keep up their use of what is Mich. The price will run between $400 without question the most useful single and $225, ·depending on the numl}er of catalog in existence. subscriptions. Owing to the paper shortage it is not Advance subscriptions may be sent to yet possible to compute prices. A pros­ the secretary of the Association of Research pectus inviting subscriptions will be issued Libraries, Paul North Rice at the New about Oct. I, I945, and it is hoped that York Public Library, to the chairman at P,rinting can begin by Feb. I, I946. The the University of Michigan Library, or price will be kept as low as possible and to the publishers. will depend on the ·number of subscriptions. The book will be decidedly reduced from William Warner Bishop the size of the original issue but will be June I, I945

SEPTEMBERJ 1945 365 Milton E. Lord, General chairman of the News from ] oint Committee on Books for Devastated Libraries, in a com­ York City Board of Higher Education and munication of May 1, 1945, calls attention increased the mandatory increments to ten to the appeals libraries, publishers, learned instead of six annual ones. societies, and individuals are r~ceiving · for Members of the· staff of the Sullivan books and periodicals to be sent to institutions Memorial Library, Temple University, Lucy iri devastated areas. The Joint Committee E. Fay, acting librarian, have completed a on Books for ·Devastated Libraries is seeking survey of the book collection which will serve to coordinate all such efforts through a na­ as a guide for the faculty in adding to the tionat ·book and periodical campaign. In con­ library's holdings in the various subject fields. nection with this an American Book Center for War Devastated Libraries is being set up Among the four with the assistance of representatives of the South publications to be is- various countries and interested organiza­ sued by the Alder­ tions. He recommends, therefore, that li­ man Library of the University of Virginia braries and individuals continue to hold books during 1945 is a facsimile of the 1828 catalog and periodicals destined for overseas until of the University of Virginia Library. This further information is available. Similar catalog, which describes the collection brought advice is offered to institutions receiving re­ together by Thomas Jefferson,· will be issued quests that exchange publications held since as No. 6 in the University of Virginia Biblio­ the war began, be forwarded to certain repre­ graphical Series and will have an introduc­ sentatives of foreign countries for distribu­ tion by William H. Peden. tion. It seems advisable that all of these The library of the College of William and publications be held until it is clear that de­ Mary has received the Joseph Bryan collec­ livery can be ·made directly to the institutions tion of Southern Americana, comprising some for which they were specifically intended. 1500 titles., which was presented by John Stewart Bryan in memory of his father. The Bassett ·Jones The library of the College of William and Ea;t Libris Polaris was Mary has received a collection of letters and purchased recently by documents collected by the late Hon. Robert the Columbia University Libraries. This M. Hughes and his father, Judge R. W .. collection, devoted to arctic and antarctic Hughes, of Norfolk, V a. The papers range explorations, contains several thousand items. from the midde eighteenth century to 1933 Books, periodicals, maps, newspaper clippings, and consist principally of letters written by photographs, autographed letters of explorers, such well-known literary, political, and mili­ and souvenirs furnish much useful material tary figures ~s James Madison, James Mon­ for the historian. There are. a number of roe, George· Wythe, Robert E. Lee, John rare early items included. Randolph of Roanoke, Woodrow Wilson, The University of Pennsylvania Library Robert Southey, Henry · Wadsworth Long­ has developed its Chinese collection to the fellow, ' Washington Irving, and Benjamin point where it now contains about six thou­ Watkins Le.igh. sand titles in approximately thirteen thousand volumes. These titles are distributed among A survey of the the four traditional categories: classics, his­ Middle West Wheaton College Li- tory, the philosophers, and belles-lettres, being brary by a faculty strongest in the first three divisions. The planning committee has resulted in a pro­ work of cataloging the collection should be gram for the development of this library over completed by the end of 1945. a peripd of several years. Among the recom­ On April 9 Governor Dewey of New York mendations made was the appointment of an state signed the Olliffe Bill, which increased administrator to coordinate the library and the mandatory minimum salary of library the curriculum. assistants under the jurisdiction of the New The University of Illinois Library, Robert

366 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES life in the early days. Through the acqUisi­ the Field tion of these and other collections of similar importance, the University' of Wyoming Li­ B. Downs, director, is building up a special brary's holdings of source material on the collection of house magazines. Twenty-eight history of the state and its principal industry hundred industrial and other firms have been are greatly strengthened. asked to place the library on their mailing The library committee of the University lists to receive their publications. The col­ of Southern California issued the first num­ lection includes magazines that are circulated ber of The Library Bulletin jn April. · The among employees and those used· for distribu­ new publication, whil:h will appear ir,regu­ tion to· customers, dealers, stockholders, and larly, is addressed primarily to the Friends of others. the Library and is a medium through which gifts will be acknowledged and Friends will The first number be informed of the library's progress. West of The Librarian~ s The Mills College Libr'ary, Evelyn Steel Occasional Letter to Little, librarian, has acquired a collection of the Faculty was issued in April by Lawrence materials from the estate of Pane Coolidge, Clark Powell, librarian of the University of a California writer who died in 1941. The California at Los Angeles. The progress of greater part consists of manuscripts of building plans, activities of the library in Coolidge's published works, covering Western wartime, and a proposed survey of the book adventure and histories and biographies of . collections are among the topics covered. It Southwest Indians, cowboys, and prospectors . is an informative letter that invites reading. It includes also a group of cowboy songs Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., has presented written as Coqlidge heard th~m sung around to the Huntington Library a de luxe edition campfires thirty years ago. of Mein Kampf which came into the pos­ The University of California Library has session of the Third Army troops last April acquired a collection of approximately twenty near Weimar. The volume is bdund in thousand theatre programs and handbills for parchment-covered oak boards and measures the period 1800-1900. . sixteen by twenty-one inches. General Patton Several West Coast libraries lent volumes sent it as a tribute to the memory of his for the Conference Library of the United father, who was a member of the board of Nations Conference on International Organi­ trustees of the library from its creation in zation, which was under the general super­ 1919 until his death in 1927. vision of the Libr·ary of Congress. Among The University of Wyoming Library, those making substantial loans were the U ni­ Mary E. Marks, librarian, has acquired versity of California, Stanford, Mills Col­ several important collections of books and lege, and the San Francisco ·Public Library., manuscripts relating · to Wyoming and the cattle industry. The Wyoming Stock Grow­ Alice M. Humis- ers' Association has deposited its minutes and Personnel ton, for two years proceedings from 1873, its file of Wyoming acting head cataloger brand books, and. early correspondence, pic­ of the University of California at Los tures, photographs, and clippings about Angeles, has been made head cataloger. pioneers of the cattle industry. The papers Neal Harlow has joined the staff of the of Senator Warren consist of letters, clip­ University of California at Los Angeles Li­ pings, letterpress books, and ledgers about the brary as librarian, senior grade, in the Warren interests in the cattle and land in­ acquisitions departJTient. His duties will in­ dustry, as well as about the Senator's interest clude the planning of a new division of rare in other industrial projects of the state. The books, manuscripts, and archives. Charles B. Penrose papers from 1892 to 1936 Ralph Hagedorn, research bibliographer contain letters and clippings dealing with the and chief of the Reference Department of the Johnson County cattle war. The L. A. R. University of Alabama Library, has been Condit material includes letters, bills, ledgers, appointed assistant librarian in charge of the and newspapers which tell the story of ranch Acquisition Department of the University of

SEPTEMBER_, 1945 367 Wisconsin Library, Madison. librarian since 1une I 943, who has resigned Martha A. Connor has resigned as refer­ to go into hospital library work. ence librarian of the Sullivan Memorial Li­ Fina Ott resigned as librarian of Wash­ brary, Temple University, to take a new burn University, Topeka, Kan., early in 1945. administrative position in the library of Elizabeth Elbright has been appointed acting Swarthmore College, Charles B. Shaw, librarian. librarian. Robert M . Trent has been appointed chief Mary Fox Clardy has been appointed li­ of technical processes at the Louisiana State brarian of the Bethel Woman's College, University Library, Guy R. Lyle, director. Hopkinsville, Ky. Before his appointment was made Mr. Trent Although Carl M. White's trip to China spent several months surveying the acquisition on behalf of library interests had to be and cataloging ac~ivities of this library. abandoned' because of condttions in the Orient, Raymond W. Holbrook has been appointed he has continued in the service of the State associate director in charge of technical Department and on May 19 left for London processes and acting head of the catalog divi­ to act as a consultant on library matters in sion in the University of Georgia Library, connection with undertakings of the Confer­ Wayne S. Yenawine, acting director. Mr. ence of Allied Ministers of Education. He Holbrook has just completed a two-year expects to return to the United States m appointment as supervisor of recataloging at September. ... Georgia. He was formerly a member of the Kenneth Boyer, who has been assistant li­ library staff of the College of the City of brarian of Bowdoin College, has been made New York. librarian. Barcus Tichenor, librarian at Ball State · Mary D. Herrick became librarian of Teachers College, Muncie, Ind., since 1921, N asson College, Springvale, Me., on Aug. I, has resigned, effective 1uly 13, 1945. 1945· Leslie Dunlap, until recently assistant li­ Paul S. Ballance, for the past two years brarian and head of the Acquisition Dep~rt­ librarian of the Texas Engineers Library at ment of the University of Wisconsin Library, Texas A. & M. College, has been made acting has been appointed assistant chief of the L.C. librarian of the college. general reference and bibliography division. David H. Clift, assistant to the director of Richard S. Angell, librarian of Columbia libraries, Columbia University, now with the University Music Library, has been appointed Office of Strategic Services at Washington, a fellow of the 1 ohn Simon Guggenheim has been appointed associate librarian of Memorial Foundation. He is preparing a Yale University, effective upon his return to book on the organization of music libraries. civilian life. Orlin C. Spicer, librarian of Monticello Frances Clayton, who has been assistant College, Godfrey, Ill., has been appointed librarian of the College of Mines and Metal­ head of the circulation department and lurgy, El Paso, Tex., has been appointed assistant to the librarian of the University of librarian. She succeeds Hilda Cole, acting Missouri.

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