News from the Field
ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS Dickens, and William Makepeace Thack eray. A "WORKING SCHOLAR's" library collection OHio STATE UNIVERSITY libraries, Colum of 14,500 volumes has been purchased by the bus, have received a collection of some thir University of California, Santa Barbara. The ty-five volumes including several journals of Jacob Peter Mayer library covers mainly horology and watchmaking from the library the humanities, and additionally includes of the late Herman H. Seff, a pioneer mem a considerable number of books relating to ber of the Buckeye Chapter of the National mass media, film and television problems, Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. and studies in psychology. These materials will be kept up to date by A RARE RELIGIOUS BOOK setting forth the contributions from Mrs. Seff and present basic philosophy of the teachings of Buddha members of the chapter. has been given to the Yale University li- · brary, New Haven, Conn., by Ira Victor Mor A WARDS, GRANTS, ScHOLARSHIPS ris. The book, hand-penned in meticulous A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY on social science monastery script in Tibet more than three literature published in Communist Bloc hundred fifty years ago, measures 10 by 28 countries will be supported by a $54,000 inches, and weighs 55 pounds. The exclu grant from the National Science Foundation sive use of gold in the lettering accounts for to the Bureau of Census. the weight. AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY has THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAwARE, Newark, been granted $35,031 by the National Sci has been given the library of the Delaware ence Foundation to provide Russian and re Saengerbund comprising about five thousand lated mathematical literature for abstracting German books. A large majority are early and research libraries. The society was also or middle-nineteenth century popular nov granted $68,724 to support a program of els. translation of mathematical research articles. MoRRIS LIBRARY of Southern Illinois Uni NATIONAL SciENCE FouNDATION has granted versity recently received from John W. Allen the Medical Library Association $16,200 to the bulk of his personal library and files of support the Second International Congress original material. Included in the gift are of Medical Librarianship. some five hundred volumes, dozens of manu UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA libraries, Gaines scripts, illustrated maps, thousands of pages ville, offer a number of graduate assistant of typed notes, letters, photographs, nega ships for the academic year l963j64, for tives and slides. The published books, in study leading to a master's or doctoral de gree in a subject field. Stipends of $2,250 cluding Allen's own county histories, com for a ten-month period require fifteen hours prise a collection on southern Illinois history of library duty each week; stipends of $3,000 and pioneer life. for the same period require twenty hours. THE LATE GuGLIELMO FERRERRo's manu Holders of assistantships are exempt from scripts, letters, and papers have been pre out-of-state tuition fees. The deadline for sented to the Columbia University libraries, filing formal application is March 15. Ap New York City, by his daughter, Nina Fer plication forms may be obtained from the rero Raditsa. Director of Libraries, University of Florida, NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY's Fales collection of Gainesville. nearly forty thousand volumes and approxi INDIANA UNIVERSITY libraries announce the mately ten thousand manuscripts has been continuation of their program designed to augmented by a further gift of DeCoursey give intensive instruction to prospective rare Fales that includes a group of letters and book librarians. Two fellows will be select notebooks by Ronald Firbank. Also includ ed, who are required to remain in residence ed are some twenty-five letters of Sir Walter in Bloomington from July 1, 1963, to June Scott, three letters of William Butler Yeats, 30, 1964, engaged in programs assigned by sixteen manuscript essays by Arnold Ben members of the Lilly library staff. Each fel nett, and letters by R. L. Stevenson, Charles low will receive a stipend of $5,000 for the
64 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES twelve-month period payable in twelve in "Iections of the university, is the gift of Ed stalments. Fellows are expected to find emi win J., Frederick W., and the late Walter ployment in rare book divisions of college, Beinecke, and their families. The building university or public libraries at the conclu is now under construction and will be com sion of the year. pleted in late 1963. JoHNS HoPKINS UNIVERSITY h~s been grant THE NEWLY RENOVATED NEWBERRY LIBRARY ed $15,833 for an operations research and in Chicago arranged an exhibition of rare systems engineering study of the university books and manuscripts, which opened De library. cember 1, to celebrate completion of its mil THE MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION again lion-dollar remodeling program. in 1963 will award the Murray Gottlieb Prize UNIVERSITY OF WICHITA (Kan.) dedicated of $100, for the best essay on some phase of their new Ablah library building on Novem American medical history by a medical li ber 2. The three-story-and-basement struc brarian. Mrs. Mildred Langner is chairman ture costing more than one million dollars of the Murray Gottlieb Prize Essay Commit was the gift of the Ablah family. It provides tee, Medical Library Association, National approximately one-hundred-twenty thousand Library of Medicine, 8600 Wisconsin Ave., square feet of space, with a capacity of three Bethesda 14, Md. April 15 is the closing date hundred-fifty thousand volumes. More than for submitting essays. a thousand readers can be accommodated, ARTHUR D. LITTLE, INc., of Cambridge, 230 at wall-type study carrels. Expansion of Mass., has been granted a contract by the Na the library can be accomplished by adding a tional Science Foundation for a study of the fourth floor. degree of centralization of facilities desirable GROUND WILL BE BROKEN for the Francis A. for storage and dissemination of scientific Countway library of medicine in Boston documents. in late March or early April. Occupancy is THE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL planned for the spring of 1965. The Count INSTITUTIONS in New York City is engaged in way library will house the combined collec a study to improve the use of library facili tionS--numbering some four hundred fifty ties of seven member institutions in Brook thousand volumes.-of the Boston medical li lyn, ·working with a grant of $3,750 from the brary, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Fund for the Advancement of Education. School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard Rice Estes, librarian of Pratt Institute and School of Public Health. Construction costs president of the Metropolitan College Inter are estimated at four and a half million dol Library Association, is conducting the study. lars. THE AMY LoVEMAN NATIONAL AwARD of CEDAR CREST CoLLEGE, Allentown, Pa., be $1,000 is being offered for the second year to gan construction of a new library building a college senior who has collected an out in December. Cost is estimated at seven standing personal library. Established in hundred thousand dollars. Plans call for 1962, the annual award is sponsored by the Book of the Month Club, Saturday Review, space for one-hundred thousand volumes, and the Women's National Book Association. and seating for 50 per cent of the student SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE enrollment of five hundred. BELOIT (Wis.) COLLEGE had datestone-seal has received a grant of $16,462 to support a ing ceremonies on September 23, shortly user study of translated Soviet journals. after their new Colonel Robert H. Morse li BuiLDINGS brary was occupied. The building has some JuNIATA COLLEGE, Huntington, Pa., has fifty-three thousand square feet and cost about one-million two-hundred thousand received a grant of $25,000 from the Kresge dollars including furnishings and landscap Foundation toward a library building now ing. Book capacity is three-hundred-fifty under construction. The three-floor library thousand volumes. Nearly half the student got under way last August, and plans call body of one thousand can be accommodated, for completion of the building by August 122 at carrels throughout the three-level 1963, at an estimated cost of $603,000. building. THE NEW BEINECKE LIBRARY at Yale Uni versity, New Haven, Conn., which will have MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS a capacity of 750,000 volumes and will house AMERICAN AssociATION FOR THE ADVANCE the principal rare book and manuscript col- MENT OF SciENCE section on information and
JANUARY 1963 65 communication discussed the use of foreign The work i~ supported by a grant from the science literature at a section meeting late National Institute of Health. in December. RESULTS OF A SURVEY on information stor SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY School of Library age and retrieval equipment conducted by Science will hold a seminar in the evalua the Research Information Center and Ad tion of filmed and recorded materials on visory Service on Ip.formation Processing of August 12 to 23. Enrollment will be limited the National Bureau of Standards, under to thirty students. For application forms sponsorship of the Council on Library Re and information, address Dean Wayne S. sources, have been announced in a 176-page Yenawine, School of Library Science, Syra report. Fifteen specific systems employing cuse University, Syracuse 10, ·N.Y. search-type selection principles are described THE LITERATURE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE, its and findings are given in a comparative management and use, was the subject of a chart. In addition, microfilm aperture card meeting at Oak Ridge, Tenn., arranged pri systems and related devices used for address marily for the benefit of librarians at AEC location retrieval are discussed. libraries, in September. PROBLEMS OF MUTUAL INTEREST to the li THE COLLEGE SECTION of the Catholic Li brary profession and the Library of Congress brary Association's Wisconsin unit discussed were discussed at a meeting of the Librarian of Congress, several LC staff members, and "Acquisitions Work, the Balance between Business and Bookmanship," at a meeting of the Librarian's Liaison Committee in No the association in Milwaukee in October. vember. The report of the Librarian of Con gress on the Bryant Memorandum, special COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES were dis LC projects, recent legislation, and LC's cussed by Philip P. Mason of Wayne State plans for the future and its space problem University, Detroit, at the twenty-sixth an were among the items considered. nual meeting of the Society of American BosToN UNIVERSITY School of Education Archivists on September 30. has established plans for an educational film A REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR LATIN AMERICA, at library to be housed in the Law-Education Mendoza, Argentina, organized by UNESCO building now under construction. The li and the government of Argentina, recom brary will be a memorial to the late Abraham mended that at least 5 per cent of the budg Krasker, founder of the university's pioneer ets of Latin American universities be devoted film library. to library services. Changes in Latin Ameri- THE THIRD EDITION of the Union List of . can university libraries that should be made Serials incorporating the information in the under the ten-year plan of the Alliance for second edition, the first and second supple Progress and the 1962 Santiago .Conference, ments, and added entries for new titles and a clearinghouse for materials and informa holdings up to the beginning of the current tion on library construction, and a pilot New Serial Titles of the Library of Congress, project for the exchange of publications were will be published by H. W. Wilson Com discussed. Recommendations were made con pany, probably in early 1965. The third edi cerning UNESCO's proposed program of as tion has been compiled by the Library of sistance in planning library services, organi Congress under a grant to the Joint Com zational structure of university libraries, book mittee on the Union List of Serials by the collections, technical services, personnel Council on Library Resources. training, and cooperation among university THE INsTITUTE oF HEBREW STUDIES at libraries. New York University has announced that it THE USSR has ratified two UNESCO con is undertaking an expanded research pro ventions concerning international exchange gram in ancient manuscripts. of publications and exchange of official pub AMERICAN BOOKS and reference materials lications and government documents. on technical subjects will be exhibited in Moscow and two other Soviet cities by the MISCELLANY United States Information Agency during THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL five months from January to May. About SciENCES has begun identifying and recording seven thousand titles from some seven hun information on the world's serial publica dred American publishers will be shown. A tions in a bibliographic project leading counterpart Soviet exhibit will simultaneous toward a Biological Serial Record Center. ly tour three American cities. • •
66 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel
ROBERT K. JOHNSON has been appointed and public services. Following these broad, director of libraries at Drexel Institute of varied experiences he went to Drexel Insti Technology to succeed John F. Harvey, who tute of Technology in 1959. previously had held the position together Dr. Johnson has held. offices and major with that of dean of committee assignments at state and national the Drexel Graduate levels, and has served as a library consultant School of Library Sci and library surveyor. In addition to numer ence. Prior to the ad ous unpublished survey reports, he has con ministrative separa tributed to professional library journals and tion of the library is the author of Air University Library Study school from the li of Libraries in Selected Military Educational brary Dr. Johnson Institutions, published in the ACRL Micro served for three years card Series, nos. 62-77, 82 in 1955/ 56. as assistant director Equipped with sound academic and pro of libraries at Drexel, fessional training, varied and successful li gaining experience to brary experience, natural administrative abil fit him admirably for ity, a good sense of humor, and a warm Robert K. Johnson his new position. In personality, Dr. Johnson should make a addition to his ad- rna jor contribution in the development of ministrative duties, he wi1l serve as professor the library at DrexeL-E. W. Erickson. of library science. Dr. Johnson is supported in his position JAcK A. CLARKE received his appointment by a strong background of education and as director of libraries at Wisconsin State professional experience. An A.B. from Mon College, Eau Claire on July I, 1962. tana State University in 1937, B.A.L. from In addition to a Ph.D. degree in French the University of Washington the following history received from the University of Wis year, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the Univer consin, Dr. Clarke holds an undergraduate sity of Illinois in 1946 and 1957, respectively, degree from Michigan State. Postgraduate qualify him emiHently as an academic per studies in history and library science were son. completed at Wisconsin also. Dr. Clarke Beginning his academic library career in also spent a semester and summer session at public services at Pacific University in 1938, the University of Poi tiers, at Poi tiers, France. Dr. Johnson was made acting librarian and His experience includes an internship at instructor in library science the following the Library of Congress. Following this he year. This was followed by two years at became librarian at Washington Cathedral Central College, Fayette, Missouri as head library and later at Doane College. Previous librarian and instructor in library science. to his present appointment, Dr. Clarke was From 1942 to 1946 D.r. Johnson was an em assistant librarian for social studies at the ployee of General Motors Corporation for University of Wisconsin. one year, and for three years was in the He continues his interest in history by U.S. Navy, two as a communications officer. writing articles and book reviews for his A civilian again in 1946, he returned to torical journals. A similar service is given Pacific University as head librarian and as librarianship through articles in library jour sociate professor of library science for two nals. Book reviews chiefly in the fields of years, after which he left for the University philosophy and religion appear in profes of Illinois to combine work in technical sional library periodicals. He is active in processes with study toward a doctorate in professional associations. library science. Leaving Illinois in 1952 he Quick of wit, with a keen sense of humor went to Air University until 1959, in ad that comes to the surface at unusual times, ministrative positions in techni~al processes he is a stimulating person to faculty and
JANUARY 19'63 67 students. His associates find Mr. Clarke a very fortunate appointment. Roy Kidman took pleasing and congenial person with whom to his undergraduate degree in chemistry at work.-Helen Wahoski. UCLA, his degree in librarianship from USC, and then spent a year as a law cataloger at ALAN D. CovEY on August 31, 1962 com UCLA before being called to the University pleted ten years of service to the day as col of Kansas in 1954. At Kansas he took on a lege librarian of Sacramento State College, task similar in kind bllt smaller in scope to and on September 1 he became university the one ahead of him in San Diego. The librarian of Arizona State University, Tempe. University of Kansas had just established a A native Californian, Dr. Covey received new science library to consolidate several de his A.B. degree from the University of Cali partmental libraries. Mr. Kidman's practical fornia, Berkeley, in 1940 and the Certificate understanding of the library needs of scien in Librarianship from the same institution tists, together with his skill as a librarian and in 1946. In 1955 he received his Ed.D. de his capacity to gain the confidence of aca gree from Stanford University. demic people, resulted in a remarkably suc Dr. Covey began his professional work at cessful program. In addition to his regular the University of California, Berkeley, as assignments, he was called upon by two microfilm cataloger in 1946-4 7, as head of science departments to teach bibliography the library photographic service in 1947-48, courses for graduate students, and his per and as assistant head of the engineering li sonal interest in the history of science had brary in 1948-49. In 1949 he-became assistant an important place in the formative years librarian of San Francisco State College, at the University of Kansas of an academic where he remained until June 1951, when program in that discipline. he entered Stanford University to study for In light of this variety of high level skills the doctorate. In 1952 he was appointed col it was understandable that Robert Talmadge, lege librarian of Sacramento State College. on going to Tulane as director of libraries, Dr. Covey has made impressive contribu should want to have Roy Kidman with him tions to the development of libraries and as his assistant director. Du:dng the pa~t two librarianship in California. Always active years he has been Talmadge's right-hand in professional organizations, he served as man in bringing efficiency and imagination president of the California Library Associa to bear on the Tulane library. tion in 1959. A perennial committeeman, he First rate medical librarians are a scarce has worked vigorously at improving stand breed. The University of California at San ards of support and service in the libraries Diego has found one.-Robert Vosper. of the California State colleges. His doctoral dissertation, "Evaluation of College Libraries RUDOLFO 0. RIVERA, has been appointed for Accreditation Purposes," has significantly director of the University of Puerto Rico influenced policies in the evaluation of col libraries. Mr. Rivera was with the Duke lege and university libraries by regional ac University Press from 1933 to 1940, when creditation associations. he became executive assistant of the ALA California's loss is Arizona's gain. Dr. Cov Advisory Committee on Cooperation with ey takes to his new assignment a broad ex Latin America. In March 1942, he went to perience in library administration, an ex Managua, Nicaragua, to set up the American tensive knowledge of books, and great ca Library of Nicaragua, and continued as li pacity for warm and enduring friendship. brarian there until February 1944, although We in California wish him the best of luck he had some months earlier joined the staff in his new responsibilities.-Kenneth ]. of the American Embassy in Managua. Mr. Brough. Rivera has been with the United States For eign Service since 1944. RoY L. KIDMAN returns to California to become the first medical librarian of the DoN R. SwANSON, a physicist, has been University of California at San Diego where appointed professor and dean of the Grad the University of California is establishing uate Library School of the University of its third medical school, the other two being Chicago, effective in February 1963. Swan in San Francisco and at UCLA. This is a son has, since 1955, been head of the Syn-
68 C 0 L L E G E A N D R ESE A R C H LIB. RA R IE S thetic . Intelligence department of Thomp His research and other publications re son Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., in California. veal, among other qualities: 1) a reasonable His research has been concentrated in the concern, but no panic, with the widely fields of computer applications, scientific in heralded "information explosion"; 2) a formation retrieval, intelligence data han thorough knowledge of computer capa dling, linguistics, mechanical translation, bilities but no disposition to believe that and other automatic or artificial methods of the laws of economics will be set aside by storing, organizing, and finding information. machines or that the machine is necessarily During the past eighteen months he has been the best solution to all information prob serving as a member of the panel of experts lems; 3) a general concern with fundamental engaged in a study of the feasibility of auto questions in the field of librarianship and mating many of the operations of the Li information systems; and 4) a lucid style brary of Congress. and perceptive wit. Swanson took his B.S. at California Insti The faculty of the Graduate Library tute of Technology, his M.A. at Rice In School, in recommending Swanson's appoint stitute, and his Ph.D. in physics at the Uni ment, were particularly anxious to continue versity of California at Berkeley in 1952. He and extend the strong tradition of bringing served as a communications officer in the interdisciplinary approaches and techniques Navy from 1943 to 1946; he is married and to bear on the solution of a variety of basic has three children. He was a member of the problems in the field of librarianship. Swan Science Information Council of the N a son is unusually well qualified in these re tiona! Science Foundation from 1958 to spects to enrich the school's program-and, 1961, and he has been an invited lecturer indeed, the whole of librarianship.-Her before a wide variety of audiences. man H. Fussier.
Appointments
LEE AsH has joined the faculty of Drexel's of Ohio Sta:te University libraries, Columbus. School of Library Science as assistant profes She was with the Louisiana State Library, sor. He continues as editor and publisher of Baton Rouge. American Notes & Queries, and maintains ALicE BRUNN is library intern at Ohio his residence at New Haven, Conn. State University libraries, Columbus. BARBARA G. BARTLEY has been appointed MRs. RuTH BRYAN is reference assistant assistant professor of library science, Uni and special collections cataloger in the hu versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was for manities department of Long Beach (Calif.) merly at Oshkosh (Wis.) State College. State College library. MRS. ELIZABETH BATES is on the staff of GLENN BuNDAY is now in the reference de the engineering library at University of partment, University. of Southern California, Southern California, Los Angeles. She was Los Angeles. formerly with the University of California, MRs. IsABEL BuxTON is on the staff of the Riverside, in the cataloging department. University of Southern California College li PIERRE BERRY is now head of the original brary, Los Angeles. cataloging section of Michigan State Univer CoLIN CAMPBELL became general librarian sity library, East Lansing. He was a cataloger at the University of Idaho library, Moscow, at Johns Hopkins University library, Balti in November. more, Md. MRS. PATRICIA CARMONY has joined the CoNSTANCE BoBBIE is a cataloger at Ohio staff of University of California at Los Ange State University libraries, Columbus. les, as librarian in the government publica MICHAEL J. BRIGGS has been appointed tions room of the reference department. serials and documents librarian at the Na KENNETH E. CARPENTER has returned to tional Library, Lagos, Nigeria. He was a Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me., as cataloger at Duke University library, Dur reference librarian, and will also work with ham, N.C. the Bowdoin archives and manuscript collec HELEN BRITTEN is on the cataloging staff tions. Mr. Carpenter has been with Hough-
JANUARY 1963 69 ton library at Harvard University, Cam ant social science librarian at University of bridge. Nevada, Reno. KENNETH J. CARPENTER is now assistant DoRALYN JoANNE HICKEY has accepted ap director of the University of Nevada library, pointment as assistant professor in the school Reno. He had been head of the rare books of library science at the University of North department, University of California, Berke Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has been assistant ley. research specialist at the Graduate School of RAY L. CARPENTER has been appointed Library Service, Rutgers University, New lecturer in the school of library science, U ni Brunswick, N.J. versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. WILLIAM HIGHFILL is assistant to the li KATHY CH'IU is a cataloger at Yale Univer brarian at Kansas State Teachers College, sity library, New Haven, Conn. Emporia. MRs. RuTH M. CHRISTENSON is the new MoNIKA HoRNSTEINER has been appointed education librarian at Los Angeles State serials librarian at Wells College, Aurora, College. She was formerly research assistant N.Y. to Professor Frank Klingberg, UCLA his CHIA-PI Hsu is now Chinese bibliographer torian. and research assistant in the Yale University DAN DIAZ has been appointed chief bibli library, New Haven, Conn. ographer at the University of Connecticut li GRACE Hsu is reserve librarian at Oregon brary, Storrs. He has been a reference li State College library, Corvallis. brarian at Stanford (Calif.) University li CuRTIS E. JENKINS has been appointed as brary. sistant librarian at Washington College, MARCIA ENDORE is employed in the re Chestertown, Md. gional technical reports center of the gov RoNALD JoHNSON has been appointed as ernment publications room, University of sistant libraria'n at Bethany College library, California, Los Angeles. Lindsborg, Kans. WoLFGANG M. FREITAG has been appointed MARGARET KAHN is librarian, Ohio State chief librarian for undergraduate book selec University English and speech graduate li tion, Stanford (Calif.) University library. He brary, Columbus. She was formerly assistant had been librarian of the division of engi librarian at Eastern Illinois State University, neering and applied physics at Harvard Uni Charleston. versity, Cambridge, Mass. MARY KARL is on the staff of Michigan J uuus FROME has been named deputy for State University library science division, East science and technology of the Armed Forces Lansing. Technical Information Agency, in charge of · CHARLES A. KRITZLER is a cataloger in the ASTIA's acquisition and bibliographic pro Western Americana collection at Yale Uni gram. Mr. Frome is an attorney, and an ex versity library, New Haven, Conn. pert in technical information retrieval. SAM KuLA has joined the staff of U niver RuPERT E. GILROY is now research assist sity of Southern California libraries, Los An ant and reserve book room librarian at Yale geles, circulation department. Mr. Kula has University library, New Haven, Conn. been deputy curator of the National Film CHARLES M. GoTTSCHALK is head of systems Archives at the British Film Institute, Lon identification and analysis section of the new don, England. National Referral Center for Science and MRs. MILDRED LANGER has accepted ap Technology, at the Library of Congress, pointment as medical librarian and associate Washington, D.C. professor of medical bibliography at the U ni FRANCES GouDY has been named acquisi versity of Miami school of medicine, Coral tions librarian at Lafayette College library, Gables, Fla. Easton, Pa. She had been head librarian at HERMAN W. LIEBERT has been appointed Grove City (Pa.) College for the past three. librarian of the Beinecke rare book and years. manuscript library, now under construction DALE GRESSETH is the new head of acquisi at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. tions at the University of Vermont library, CHARLES E. McCABE is newly-appointed as Burlington. He was assistant librarian at head of the referral services section of the Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. National Referral Center for Science and JoHN R. HAAK has been appointed assist- Technology, Washington, D.C. Mr. McCabe
70 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES has until recently been chief of the scientific has worked as a serials cataloger in John information branch of the Army research Crerar library, Chicago. office. DELORES RoviROSA is now assistant social WILLIAM McCoY has been appointed as science librarian at the University of Ne sistant librarian for administration at the vada, Reno. She had been head of the cata library of the University of California, Davis. log department of the National Library of MRS. LouisE McDONOUGH is now on the Cuba. staff of the engineering and mathematical GLADYS E. RowE is the newly appointed li sciences library at University of California, brary assistant in the Aero-] et General Cor Los Angeles. She has been with the U niver poration engineering project, Sacramento, sity of Illinois libraries, Urbana. Calif. She was associate librarian at the Uni MRs. MARJORIE W. MAcLEoD joined the versity of Chicago Laboratories for Applied catalog division of Boston University li Science. braries on September I. IsABEL SEWALL is the new reference librar SHEILA McMuRRAY is the new associate ian in the humanities and social sciences di humanities librarian at University of Ne vision of Stanford (Calif.) University li vada, Reno. She was assistant reference li braries. brarian at the University of California, San KENNETH R. SHAFFER, director of the ta Barbara. School of Library Science and of the college RoBERT D. MARTENSON has been appointed libraries at Simmons College, Boston, has cataloger in the Yale University music li been serving as U.S. Department of State brary, New Haven, Conn. consultant to the governments of Denmark, LE RoY C. MERRITT has been appointed West Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, and the editor of the Newsletter on Intellectual Free Netherlands, in the areas of architecture, dom. Dr. Merritt is professor in the Univer education for librarianship, and library ad sity of California School of Librarianship, Berkeley. ministration. MRs. EVELYN MoRGENTHALER has accepted MRs. STELLA MARIS SIAGIAN has received the position of assistant librarian at Valdosta appointment as cataloger at Yale University (Ga.) State College library. libraries, New Haven, Conn. MARY J o MUNROE is serving as reference AuRORA GARDNER SIMMS has joined the librarian at the Washington University Long Beach (Calif.) State College library as School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. Miss reference librarian in the humanities depart Munroe was formerly librarian of the Cor ment. nell University-New York Hospital School MILDRED SIMPSON is now in the circulation of Nursing library, New York City. department in the University of Southern NELSON PIPER is assistant librarian, tech California library, Los Angeles. nical services, at University of California Li BARBARA SKERRY is assistant in the refer brary, Davis. ence department at Michigan State Univer RICHARD L. PRATT has been appointed ref sity library, East Lansing. She was with the ence librarian at MacMurray College library, Ohio University library, Athens. Jacksonville, Ill. KENNETH SMEJKAL is now assistant librari MARIA PsHENICHNY is a cataloger at Yale an at the University of Dubuque (Iowa) li University library, New Haven, Conn. brary. RuTH RENAUD is reference librarian at PENELOPE SMITH has been appointed li Loyola University library, New Orleans. She brarian in the documents department at Uni had been head of general services at New versity of California library, Berkeley. Miss Orleans Public library. Smith has worked with the library branch RANDALL G. RicE has been assigned to of the special services division of the United head the material sciences division, Armed States Army in Europe. Services Technical Information Agency, Ar RoBERT C. SMITH has joined the staff of lington, Va. He was with Chemical Abstracts the Kansas State University library, Man Service in Columbus, Ohio, from 1954 to hattan, as a cataloger. He was formerly a 1962. member of the staff of Eisenhower library, MRS. MARIA RoDE is a new cataloger in the Abilene, Kans. Stanford (Calif.) University libraries. She WILLIAM S. SPARKS joined the staff of Kan-
JANUARY 1963 71 sas Wesleyan University library as assistant CAROL VoGEL has been appointed library librarian on September 1. career consultant at the University of Pitts PETER SPYERS-DURAN has been appointed burgh Graduate Library School. to the staff of University of Wisconsin-Mil ELDON W ANCURA joined the acquisitions waukee library as administrative assistant department of Kansas State University li and assistant professor, effective in February. brary in October. He was assistant circula Mr. Spyers-Duran has been professional as tion librarian at Oregon State University li sistant of Library Administration Division brary, Corvallis. at ALA headquarters. WILLARD WEBB, former film librarian of JOHN F. STEARNS has been assigned by the the Library of Congress, is administrative di National Science Foundation to establish the new National Referral Center for Science rector of the American Science Film Founda and Technology at the Library of Congress. tion, newly-established group to promote Mr. Stearns was deputy director of the office films as tools for research and communica of scientific and technical information in the tion of research results. National Aeronautics and Space Administra EuNICE WoLF is now circulation librarian tion. at Kansas State Teachers College library, LuciLLE ALM ToLMAN is a new member of Emporia. She was formerly head librarian, the cataloging staff of the Michigan State Popular library, Portland, Ore. University library, East Lansing. MRs. ANN R. WooD has been appointe~ KEITH TROST has been appointed public science library assistant at Northwestern Uni services librarian at Kansas State College, versity libraries, with special responsibility I Pittsburg. for mathematics and geology libraries. Foreign Libraries
AGUSTIN LOERAY CHAVEZ, formerly director KARL FORSTNER is the new director of the of the State Library School and of the Biblio Studienbibliothek in Salzburg. teca N acional in Mexico, died on March 10. WITOLD STANKIEWIOZ is the new director of the Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw. Retirements
LAWRENCE HEYL, associate librarian at staff of Case Institute of Technology, Cleve Princeton University library for more than land, on October 31. Miss Stewart had ac twenty years, retired on July 1 after forty cepted a temporary appointment to the staff two years on the library staff. in 1956. She has returned to her home in , BESSIE KYLBERG, head of acquisitions at Grinnell, Iowa. Fresno (Calif.) State College library, retired MARY ALVEY ZADRA has retired as librarian on August 30 after fifteen years of service. of the Mackay School of Mines of the Uni MRs. SARAH G. MAYER retired on October versity of Nevada, a position she held for ten 31 after twenty-nine years as a cataloger in years. the field of science and technology at the NATHAN ZUCKERBERG, assistant librarian of Library of Congress. Mrs. Mayer won com the research library in the division of em mendation for her revision of the classifica ployment, New York State Department of tion schedule for medicine, Class R, at LC. Labor, retired in August after more than MILDRED STEWART retired from the library fifteen years of service. Necrology
WILLIAM HAWLEY DAVIS, editor of the 1942 from the Library of Congress, died in Stanford University Press from 1925 to 1945, Washington, D.C., on October 22. Mrs. died December 5 at Palo Alto-Stanford hos Goodman served LC for more than thirty pital. years, mostly as reference and bibliograph MRs. MARY PIKE GoODMAN, who retired in ical librarian in the periodical division.
72 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES LEONARD H. KIRKPATRICK died in an auto son), And Master of None (1956), amply mobile accident on November 29. He began attests. He wrote and published books con his career in librarianship at Utah State stantly, some of those of most interest to li University in 1936, and became librarian at brarians being Melvil Dewey: A Biography the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, (1944); The Scholar and the Future of the in 1941. Mr. Kirkpatrick served two terms Research Library (1944); and Compact Book as president of the Utah Library Association, Storage (1949). Since his retirement as li and one term as president of the Mountain brarian at Wesleyan in 1953, he published Plains Library Association. a three-volume Preliminary Material for a STELLA WHITFORD, librarian with the Navy Genealogy of the Rider (Ryder) Families in Departrrent in Washington, D.C. for thirty the United States (1959), and the 1,217-page five years previous to her retirement in 1950, Rider's International Classification for the died on August 1. Arrangement of Books on the Shelves of General Libraries (1961). He planned and FREMONT RIDER, librarian of Wesleyan built the Godfrey Memorial Library and University from 1933 to 1953, died in Mid- served as the enterprising promoter of its , dletown, Connecticut, October 26, 1962, after foundation right up to his death. Its pri a long illness. He was one of the library mary function is the publication of the profession's living legends for his vigorous American Genealogical-Biographical Index prosecution of many fine projects. Although (a revised and enlarged cumulation of a he came late to the business of libraries, he 1942-52 publication) that has now issued made a decided impact by his inventions volume 41 (Dav-Dee). and through the development of valuable Fremont Rider was a pioneer in inter techniques. He was the inventor of micro library cooperation and during the thirties cards and pioneered in ways of book stor he was the leading spirit in an attempt to age and in cooperation. organize the Connecticut Valley academic Mr. Rider, born in Trenton, New Jersey, librarians to share the use of their book col May 25, 1885, had several years as a boy in lections. Undoubtedly much of the ground Middletown, Connecticut, before he went work for the present Hampshire Inter-Li to Syracuse University, graduating in 1905. brary Center was laid at this time. He was honored by Syracuse in 1937 with His pioneer thinking in regard to micro an LL.D. He attended the New York State reproduction of books led to the invention Library School, Albany, and later helped of microcards. It was his most important in Melvil Dewey with his Decimal Classification. vention and he refused to patent it as he Fremont Rider then entered business in wanted microcards to be widely used as an New York, and for about twenty-five years aid to scholarship. It was a great pleasure was engaged in editorial and publishing for Mr. Rider to receive the annual medal ventures. He was on the R. R. Bowker staff, of the National Microfilm Association in and as served as editor of the Publisher's 1961 for distinguished service in microre Weekly and the Library Journal. production. At Wesleyan University, he was active in There are many evidences at Wesleyan's many areas and the Olin library profited in Olin library of Fremont Rider's librarian many respects. The book collection was in ship. His version of compact book storage is creased from 174,272 to 388,809 and as corol in effective use without modification for ap laries an annex to the book stack was built proximately 50 per cent of the cataloged in 1938, and compact storage of books was collection of half a million books. His con inaugurated in the next decade. As editor cept of a large library for undergraduates of the intermittent Wesleyan library peri is evidenced by Wesleyan's book collection, odical, About Books, he produced statistics which shows amazing strength in many areas to support his theory that American college of scholarship. Generous gifts of personal li and university libraries doubled the size braries of decided rarity, encouraged during of their book collections every fifteen years. his tenure, have given the book collection a This caused some flurry in library circles. maturity that the library of few small col Rider's energies were enormous, as his leges could ever attain.-Wyman W. Park- autobiography (written in the third per- er. •• JANUARY 1963 73