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Acquisitions Robert Henryson to the 20th-century novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, with special emphasis on • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, the Jacobites, Robert Louis Stevenson, Queen has acquired the collection of the Rhode Island Mary of Scotland, and Sir Walter Scott. The poet Medical Society. The donation of approximately John Davidson is represented in 13 first editions 50,000 volumes was voted by the Society member­ published between 1893 and 1910 by John Lane of ship at its annual meeting in May. Founded in London. Another first edition is Thomas Carlyle’s 1812, the Society is the eighth oldest state society in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in His­ continuous operation. The collection contains nu­ tory (1841). Early editions of Scott include a third merous volumes of note, including Pliny’s Historia edition of Lord of the Isles (1815) and a second edi­ Naturalis (1501) and about 15 other 16th-century tion of Marmion (1908). The immensely popular if works. The oldest English-language title is A Dis­ now forgotten “lady” dramatist of Scotland, course of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie by Peter Joanna Baillie, is represented in a set of her Series of Lowe, published in Glasgow in 1612. Among Plays in Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the many rare first editions is The Physiology of Frie­ Stronger Passions of the Mind (4 volumes, drich Haller (1757). An unusual collection is one of 1806-1812). Works of 18th-century British drama non-medical publications by physicians, including in the collection include a 1766 operatic adaptation works of fiction, poetry, history, travel, etc., in­ of Fielding’s Tom Jones by Joseph Reed, and works cluding Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of by the prolific George Colman. Sherlock Holmes (1892). Originally given to the So­ • The College of William and Mary, Williams- ciety in 1927, the extra-professional collection in­ burg, Virginia, has acquired at auction an archive cludes 1,200 volumes and an endowment, which of 300 pages of manuscript material relating to Brown will assume for the collection’s mainte­ Commodore James Barron and the Chesapeake- nance and expansion. The Society materials also Leopard affair of 1807. Barron (1768-1851) was include long runs of the journal publications of var­ captain of the U.S. Navy ship Chesapeake when it ious state medical societies, which will be added, was overcome by a British ship, the Leopard, look­ with the Society’s current medical texts, to the ing for alleged British deserters. The materials pur­ Brown Sciences Library. chased relate to the court proceedings of 1807-1808 • The Center for Research Libraries’ Southeast and include correspondence, rough minutes of Asia Microform (SEAM) Project, Chicago, has re­ hearings, witnesses’ testimony, attorneys’ interro­ ceived microfilm copies of manuscripts from the gations. Some of the items are previously un­ Yogyakarta Palace in Indonesia, the gift of Sultan known. The Barron papers are of particular value Hamengkubowono IX. The 120 rolls represent two in shedding light on 19th-century court martial collections: one of court histories and genealogies proceedings and will be added to Barron’s personal and one of dance, dance-drama, and musical nota­ papers, already at the College. tions. The films are the result of an Australian proj­ William and Mary has also purchased an 1818 ect to preserve the deteriorating documents. Spon­ letter from President John Tyler to his first wife, in sored in part by the Ford Foundation with the which he regrets that he will not be home for stipulation that copies be made available to Ameri­ Christmas due to the pressures of public life. can scholars, the films were presented to a SEAM • Columbia University, New York City, has re- representative at ceremonies in Indonesia. SEAM ceived a segment of the correspondence of Sir Ju­ has launched a new project to film manuscripts in lian Huxley (1887-1975) in commemoration of the the Sonobudoyo Museum in Yogyakarta. centenary of the British scientist’s birth. The letters • City College of the City University of New are the gift of author, philosopher and civil liber­ York, Manhattan, has received a collection of 750 tarian Corliss Lamont, whose correspondence volumes and various journal issues relating to Scot­ with Huxley began in the 1920s when Lamont, tish life and literature. The materials are the gift of later a teacher at Columbia, was a graduate stu­ emeritus professor Coleman C. Parsons, who dent. Included are 20 letters from Huxley and 12 taught English at the College from 1937 to 1971 from Lamont, covering a wide range of topics. and is the author of more than 100 articles on Scot­ Early letters offer advice to the young philosophy tish literature. Subjects in the collection range scholar, while later ones comment on Lamont’s chronologically from the 15th-century poems of successful legal challenges to Senator Joseph Me-

490 / C&RL News Carthy’s investigative committee in 1953 and, in ports, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tran­ 1965, of the U.S. Postmaster General’s censorship scripts, interview notes and photographs docu­ of incoming foreign mail. menting the political, social and economic forces • Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which have shaped the area. has agreed to serve as the depository of the archives • The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American has received a collection of approximately 600 Physical Society. Included are operating papers, drawings, designs, letters, photographs, and other correspondence, and financial records of the Divi­ materials from the archives of industrial designer sion dating back to its founding in 1947. The ar­ Raymond Loewy. The material was purchased at chives have been placed in the Manuscript Collec­ the auction of the Loewy archives in France fol­ tion as an open collection and have been listed in lowing his death in 1986. Loewy is famed as the de­ OCLC. signer of such familiar items as the Coca-Cola bot­ • Lehman College of the City University of New tle, the classic S–l locomotive, the Greyhound York, Bronx, has recently arranged and made Scenicruiser bus, and the Studebaker Avanti auto­ available three collections of significance in the his­ mobile. Among the materials are a large water- tory of the Bronx. The records of the Fordham Ma­ color rendering of the exterior design of Air Force nor Beformed Church, established in 1696 and the One which Loewy worked out in consultation with oldest church in the Bronx with a permanent minis­ President John F. Kennedy; designs of automo­ try, have been processed. The collection of 18 cubic biles, heavily annotated by Loewy, showing his in­ feet is comprised of record books, consistory min­ fluence and direction; photographs of the innova­ utes, correspondence, legal documents, church tive 1934 Hupmobile, which he designed; sketches publications and programs, speeches, committee for the Russian Moskvitch car of the 1970s which reports, photographs, maps and blueprints, and was never built; and designs for the 1956 Cornell spans the years 1792 to 1967. Also organized are safety car. His work on the Exxon Corporation logo some 40 cubic feet of material from the Riverdale is represented by a number of variations on the fi­ Neighborhood House, a social service organiza­ nal product. Among many photographs of Loewy tion, including minutes, correspondence, photo­ himself is one which shows him as a proud 13-year- graphs and publications from 1883-1978. Lehman old sitting in a small racing car of his own design. has also processed and described the working pa­ The Library has also confirmed that a draft of pers of journalist Jill Jonnes, author of W e’re Still the Bill of Rights, written by Roger Sherman, is in­ Here: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the South cluded in the papers of President James Madison. Bronx (1986). Included are 10.5 cubic feet of re­ Apparently written by Sherman, a member of a

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September 1987 / 491 House of Representatives, in July of 1789, the draft Commission of the People’s Republic of China. In­ indicates his influence in adding the Bill of Rights cluded are new and old reference works, modern as a group of amendments to the Constitution. and traditional literature, works on art history and Madison is considered the “father” of the Bill of the social sciences, and volumes from the Contem­ Rights but is known to have favored the idea that porary China and Chinese Art series and the Great amendments be interwoven throughout the Con­ Encyclopedia series. stitution. • The University of Rochester School of Medi- • The New York State Library, Albany, has re- cine’s Edward D. Miner Library, New York, has ceived a collection of materials relating to fire­ received the papers of physiologist Edward Fre­ fighting from Dr. Thomas Walsh of Albany. Items derick Adolph (1895-1986). A scientist of interna­ in the collection date from the 17th century to the tional reputation, Adolph trained several genera­ present and cover topics related to the history of tions of physicians and physiologists, and made fires and fire-fighting throughout the United major contributions to the understanding of the States, Great Britain, and Europe. There are long body’s regulatory functions and to the physiology runs of several American and British periodicals of adaptation. The collection represents Adolph’s and National Fire Protection Board manuals, large research, publishing and teaching activities at numbers of professional fire-fighting equipment Rochester over a period of 61 years. catalogs and advertising ephemera. In addition to • The University of Texas at Austin has received many photographs of fire trucks and other equip­ ment, the collection contains substantial material a gift of 1,607 volumes in Chinese, including 644 on hydraulics and water supply, including a group titles, from the People’s Republic of China. The of books on the construction of the Croton Reser­ books were formally presented by Consul General voir in New York State. The core of the collection Yaoli Ni at a ceremony in Houston and represent a careful selection of scholarly works. Many are in includes materials on the history of numerous fire departments throught the United States. special library bindings and include dictionaries, • Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, encyclopedias and directories in the fields of lan­ guage, literature, history, culture, philosophy, re­ Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired a missions period­ ligion, economics, business and the arts. Other ti­ ical collection of nearly 800 items from the Over­ tles cover areas of science and technology. One seas Ministries Studies Center, New Haven, Con­ 10–volume set, Tsou hsiang shih chieh (March necticut. Included is a wide range of Third World Toward the World), contains the memoirs of Chi­ literature in English and other languages. nese diplomats, officials and scholars who visited • Temple University Libraries' Urban Archives, foreign countries in the late 19th century. Of inter­ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have recently ac­ est to researchers are volumes of the 1982 Popula­ quired the records of the Pennsylvania National tion Census of China as well as Great Economic Abortion Rights League (NARAL). The records re­ Events in the People’s Republic of China flect NARAL’s activities during the late 1970s as a (1949-1980) and reprints of periodical titles from pro-choice organization, as well as the views of the the time of the early Republic. Also included are pro-life and religious organizations in the Philadel­ deluxe editions of four of the most popular Chinese phia area. novels, The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Jour­ Temple’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Depart­ ney to the West, The Water Margin, and The Story ment has also acquired a gift from Roger Knuth of of Three Kingdoms. RCA/CBS of 11,000 original pulp magazines and • The University of Tulsa’s Special Collections first and limited editions of science fiction and fan­ Department, Oklahoma, has received a collection tasy genre writings. The gift includes many com­ of correspondence between poet, novelist and plete or nearly complete American and British pe­ critic Robert Graves (1895-1986) and Scottish folk riodicals and many books by fantasy writer H.P. singer Isla Cameron written between 1961 and Loveeraft. 1971. The collection includes 85 letters signed by • The University of California, Los Angeles, Graves and 77 signed by Cameron, and was pur­ Department of Special Collections has acquired a chased from a London dealer. At the height of his collection of the first 100 printed works of the career during the period of the correspondence, Whittington Press. The collection includes one reg­ Graves had settled permanently on the island of ular and one leather/special issue of each title, with Majorca, from which he travelled frequently to the exception of the leather/special issues the Press lecture or to receive public honors. The letters printed for others. It also includes a complete run demonstrate that Graves and Cameron were close of the Press’s catalogs and an almost comprehensive friends who gave one another support and encour­ run of its broadsheets, posters, ephemera, and agement. Graves discusses the two “Muses” who marbling sheets. inspired much of his love poetry and speaks of his • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, re- famous work The White Goddess and of his need to cently received more than 1,000 volumes of Chi­ be in love in order to write true poetry. Graves, nese books from a delegation headed by Dong- who never learned to type, wrote the letters in chang He, vice chairman of the State Education longhand.

492 / C&RL News Tulsa’s Special Collections Department has also for its postgraduate Conservation Programs. The issued a comprehensive guide to its collection of the grant will allow the School to admit 36 new stu­ materials of English novelist Paul Scott. Scott was dents over the next three years for training as pres­ visiting professor at Tulsa in 1976 and 1977 and is ervation administrators, and 18 students for train­ most noted as the creator of The Raj Quartet, the ing as conservators. basis for the recent PBS series “The Jewel in the Crown.” Scott died in 1979. The collection in­ cludes materials relating to Scott’s novels, televi­ Scores of records sion and stage plays, lectures and addresses, as well of scores and books as reviews, reader’s reports, press cuttings and ra­ dio reviews, magazine and newspaper appear­ A cooperative project undertaken by the mu­ ances and a large number of draft book reviews and sic libraries of the Eastman School of Music, In- reader’s reports. It chronicles Scott’s life from 1960 diana University, and the University of Califor- until his death and contains virtually all his corre­ nia at Berkeley, under the auspices of the spondence during the period, some 5,700 letters Associated Music Libraries Group and funded written to him and 6,000 by him. by a Title ILC grant from the U.S. Department of Education, has resulted in the retrospective Grants conversion of 29,454 bibliographic records for music scores and books. Of these records, 7,370 J • Brown University’s John Carter Brown Li- input at Eastman and Indiana were new to the brary, Providence, Rhode Island, has been OCLC database, and 7,774 of those input at awarded $250,000 by alumnus Finn M. W. Casper- Berkeley were new to the RLIN database. son, chief executive officer of Beneficial Corpora­ Tapes from the respective institutions are in the tion. The funds will be used for the creation of a process of being cross-loaded into RLIN and Map Room in the library’s new wing. OCLC for the widest possible use by member • Carnegie-Mellon University’s Hunt Botanical institutions. Library, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documenta­ Adherence to standards as described in The tion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has received a National Plan for Retrospective Conversion in ; grant of $12,268 from the State Library of Pennsyl­ Music (MLA Newsletter, no.60, March April vania with funds provided by the federal Library 1985) was strict. AACR2 authority work was ; Services and Construction Act, Title III. The grant done for all access points, and local authority ' will allow portions of the library’s card catalog to control was maintained. be converted into machine-readable form and to Eastman and Indiana used the “enhance” ca­ make its resources available on OCLC. The Pitts­ pability to improve significantly a total of 7,354 burgh Regional Library Center will undertake the records in OCLC. This included the addition of conversion of approximately one-fourth of the col­ access points such as the unique music pub- lection, including its floristic and systematic litera­ lisher’s numbers, subject headings, and the up- ture. grading of name and uniform title headings to Carnegie-Mellon, with the Carnegie Library of AACR2 specifications. In most instances pre- Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh, has AACR2 descriptions were left unmodified, but also received an LSCA Title III planning grant of all codes for fixed fields and indicators were $58,673 to form a library consortium. The grant is supplied or corrected during enhancement. effective in October. The establishment of a coop­ The highest concentration of records con- erative preservation and storage facility together verted are in the areas of piano music, piano with the Pennsylvania State University libraries and one other instrument, duets, and chamber and other research libraries is among the goals of music. Berkeley also converted a significant consortium. Internships and cooperative staff de­ number of records for band music, vocal music, velopment programs will also be developed. and liturgical music, and were able to convert • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, most of their pre-1900 imprints. Indiana con- verted 4,199 titles in music teaching and litera- has received a three-year grant of $250,000 from turc (MT classification). the Pew Memorial Trust for the conversion of a The three libraries each concentrated on dif­ portion of its typewritten catalog records into ferent areas and strengths of their collections in machine-readable form. Approximately 60,000 of order to minimize overlap and to facilitate fu­ the Center’s remaining 200,000 catalog cards will ture retrospective conversion efforts. The proj­ be converted as part of the project, developed in ect was coordinated through monthly reports, conjunction with OCLC, which is contributing 25 shared sample records to aid in quality control, percent of the project costs in services. The records joint meetings, and reports to the funding will also be made available on RLIN. agency. This is the largest cooperative effort yet • Columbia University’s School of Library Ser- undertaken for the retrospective conversion of vice, New York City, has been awarded $450,000 music materials. by the National Endowment for the Humanities

September 1987 / 493 • Gettysburg College's Musselman Library, supplied carpet for the library and additional Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a money has been pledged by alumni for the pur­ $14,676 grant by the Pennsylvania Historical and chase of materials. Museum Commission. The grant will fund the col­ • Stanford University, California, has been lege’s participation in the Pennsylvania College awarded an LSCA Title III grant of $50,829 to and University Archival and Manuscript Reposi­ serve as fiscal agent for the planning of a California tory Regrant Program. As part of the program, ar­ statewide conference on library and information chivists will conduct a records inventory of the ad­ services for ethnic California. It is projected that ministrative offices, academic departments, and Blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Pacific and Native Amer­ faculty governance committees; create records re­ icans will constitute the predominant population tention schedules based upon the records inven­ of the state by the turn of the century. The goal of tory; plan an orderly transfer of historically impor­ the project is to explore the implications of this eth­ tant records to the college archives; and begin nic shift and to help libraries respond to it. A plan­ arrangement of the most significant records. The ning committee of representatives from academic regrant program is a cooperative effort of the Na­ and public libraries around the state has been ap­ tional Historical Publications and Records Com­ pointed by the State Librarian and has submitted a mission and the State Historical Records Advisory $212,000 conference proposal. Roard. Stanford has also received an award of $146,000 • The Human Relations Area Files, Inc., New from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to con­ Haven, Connecticut, has received a $40,000 NEH tinue the Mellon Internship in Preservation Ad­ grant and $50,000 from the National Science ministration for three years. The first Mellon Foundation for the project “A Supplement to the award in 1984 allowed three postgraduate interns Ethnographic Bibliography of North America.” to develop planning and managerial skills and new Work on the two-volume supplement to the 1975 technical knowledge. The present grant will fund edition began July 1, and is expected to take two three additional interns at the rate of one per year. years. The Ethnographic Bibliography is the stan­ • The State University College at Buffalo, New dard bibliographic reference work on Eskimos and York, together with Canisius College and the State North American Indians. University of New York at Buffalo, has been • Kent State University’s School of Architecture awarded a $3,000 grant by the Japan Foundation and Environmental Design, Ohio, has received a for the acquisition of books on Japanese culture, six-year, $600,000 grant from the Ohio Roard of history, and social life. The collection will be Regents under its Academic Challenge program. housed in the State University College library. More than $215,000 has been designated for the • The University of California, Los Angeles, new architectural branch library, dedicated in Department of Special Collections, has been April, including funds for renovation, furnishings, awarded a $22,000 grant by the Times Mirror and a professional librarian’s salary. An alumni gift Foundation to support the processing and preser­ vation of the Los Angeles Times photographic ar­ chive. The archive contains more than two million Bentley Library fellowships negatives covering the period 1893 through 1981. The Times keeps its previous six years of negatives The Rentley Historical Library has an­ in its current research archive and transfers non- nounced the availability of fellowships for current negatives to UCLA annually. Funds for the Summer 1988 through its Research Fellowship current project will be used to re-box the collection Program for the Study of Modern Archives. and to convert and update an index microfilmed With funds received from the Andrew W. Mel­ from old index cards to an online database which lon Foundation and the National Endowment will provide broader access to the collection. for the Humanities, the library offers fellow­ • The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has re- ships for research on problems associated with the collection, appraisal, administration, pres­ ceived a $918,163 endowment from the estate of ervation, and use of modern records and manu­ Edmund Field, a 1916 graduate. Field was the script collections. grandson of Edmund Burke Fairfield, the Univer­ Professional archivists, records managers, sity’s second chancellor, who served from 1876 to historians, and other scholars at any stage of 1882. Income from the endowment will be used to their professional career are eligible for fellow­ enhance the collections. ships. For application forms and further infor­ • The University of South Carolina’s College of mation, write to Francis X. Rlouin Jr. or Wil­ Library and Information Science, Columbia, has liam K. Wallach, Bentley Historical Library, received $8,000 to fund the third and final year of a University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann project emphasizing the state’s library heritage. A Arbor, MI 48109-2113; (313) 764-3482. Appli­ project entitled “South Carolina’s Library Heri­ cations for the Summer 1988 program must be tage,” including articles, oral history interviews postmarked by December 11, 1987. and an exhibit, is now available for tours. Plans are underway for a conference on South Carolina li­

494 / C&RL News brary history and the documentation of the experi­ • The Vermont State Archives, Montpelier, and ences of black librarians in the state. Funding for the Manuscripts and Special Collections Unit of the the project has come from the Committee for the New York State Library have received an NEH Humanities, the South Carolina State Library, and preservation grant of $60,000 to microfilm the the South Carolina Library Association. Stevens Papers. The Papers encompass the years South Carolina’s Library Processing Center has 1700-1860 and focus on the territorial disputes that received an LSCA Title III grant of $15,000 from gave birth to Vermont as a republic in 1777 and as a the South Carolina State Library, not $1,500 as re­ state in 1791. Assembled by Henry Stevens Jr. ported in the April 1987 C&RL News. (1791-1867), an important collector of Vermon- • The University of Waterloo, Ontario, has re- tiana and founder of the Vermont Historical Soci­ ceived a grant of $1,750 from the Social Sciences ety (1838), they were sold by Stevens’ heirs to the and Humanities Research Council of Canada to New York State Library in 1875. Partially burned purchase a rare architectural dictionary for the in the 1911 Capitol fire, their fragile condition has Rosa Breithaupt Clark Collection. The grant was since restricted their use. Under the auspices of the made under the “Fleeting Opportunities” provi­ Vermont Secretary of State’s Office, the Papers sion of the Council’s “Support to Specialized Col­ will be transferred to the Vermont State Archives lections in University Libraries Program,” de­ for filming. Both states will receive copies of the signed to help university libraries take advantage of films. unforeseen opportunities to buy highly desirable items. Such grants must be matched by library funds. Acquired was the Architectural Publication News notes Society’s Dictionary of Architecture, published in London beween 1848 and 1892, a fundamental ref­ • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, erence for the study of the history of architecture has become a full member of the Library of Con­ that has never been reprinted. Complete sets of the gress CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) pro­ eight folios are now very scarce. gram. As a full member, the Center will perform Waterloo has also recently been awarded a grant name authority work for its headings and authenti­ of $5,000 from the Waterloo Regional Heritage cate its own records. CRL has been an active con­ Foundation to conserve the Kitchener-Waterloo tributor to the LC Name Authority File since Octo­ Record collection of 875,000 photographic nega­ ber 1986 and has “enhance” capabilities on OCLC tives. for its monographic cataloging. It has been esti­

September 1987 / 495 mated that CRL will catalog 1,800-2,000 serials by G.K. Hall in 1981, the Baldwin Library has per year. Given the uncommon titles owned by the maintained chronological, imprint, and added en­ Center, its participation in CONSER will make an try files for all books added since. The files have important contribution to the program’s goal of proven useful in checking catalogs and bibliogra­ building a comprehensive serials database that en­ phies by imprint and in studying specific publish­ compasses all languages, subjects, and formats. ing houses, e.g., Darton, Tabart, Partridge, and • The University of Florida’s Baldwin Library, Mahlon Day. Anyone compiling bibliographies of Gainesville, has completed its imprint catalog for publishers before 1900 may wish to query Baldwin books in English before 1900 primarily for chil­ even though the focus is on popular materials and dren, some 40,000 of which are held by the library. not primarily children’s books. Although an index to the collection was published ■ ■ . P E O P L E .

Profiles David F. Bishop, director of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Georgia since 1979, has been named uni­ James H. Billington, director of the Woodrow versity librarian at the University of Illinois, Wilson International Center for Scholars since Urbana-Champaign. 1973, was confirmed by Congress on July 24 as the He succeeds Michael 13th Librarian of Congress. He takes over from Gorman, acting director Daniel Boorstin and will assume his duties in late since the death of Hugh September. A native of Pennsylvania, Billington C. Atkinson. He as­ was valedictorian of the undergraduate class at sumed control of the na­ Princeton in 1950 and was designated a Rhodes tion’s largest public uni­ Scholar, receiving his doctorate from Balliol Col­ versity library on August lege, Oxford, in 1953. Following army service he 21. joined the History faculty at Harvard University A native of New York and moved to Princeton in 1962. In 1964 he was City, Bishop earned a made a full professor. Billington is the author of bachelor’s degree in mu­ numerous books and was twice nominated for the sic and did graduate National Book Award. He has served on several ed­ work in music literature itorial and advisory boards and has been a Guggen­ at the University of David F. Bishop heim fellow, among many other distinctions. He Rochester’s Eastman has also participated as host, commentator, or con­ School of Music. He earned his MLS from the sultant on numerous educational and network tele­ Catholic University of America and subsequently vision programs and has accompanied several con­ studied mathematics and computer science at the gressional delegations to the U.S.S.R. University of Maryland, holding several library po­ sitions there from 1963 to 1974. Thereafter he was L orena Filosa Boylan, assistant librarian for head cataloger and later assistant director of tech­ technical publications at Haverford College, has nical services at the University of Chicago. been named director of the library at St. Charles Bishop serves on the board of directors of both Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. the Association of Research Libraries and the Cen­ She is the first woman to hold the post. ter for Research Libraries, and is active in many A graduate of LaSalle University, Boylan re­ professional organizations, including ALA. ceived her MLS from Drexel University and began her professional career in 1977 as assistant librarian Charles D. Churchwell, until recently dean at Bryn Mawr College. She became catalog librar­ of library service at Washington University in St. ian at Swarthmore College in 1981 and joined the Louis, has joined the faculty of the Library Science staff at Haverford in 1984. Program at Wayne State University, Detroit,

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