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COLLEGE and RESEARCH LIBRARIES Twelve-Month Period Payable in Twelve In­ 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
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