AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
75th Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association
At Miami Beach, Florida June 17-23, 1956
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 EAST HURON STREET CHICAGO 11, ILLINOIS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
75th Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association
Miami Beach, Florida June 17-23, 1956 •
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 EAST HURON STREET CHICAGO 11, ILLINOIS ] 956 A LA Conference Proceedings Miami Beach, Florida
GENERAL SESSIONS First General Session...... 1 Second General Session...... 1 Third General Session...... 2 Fourth General Session...... 3 Fifth General Session...... 3
COUNCIL SESSIONS First Council Session...... 4 Second Council Session...... 6 Membership Meeting ...... 6
DIVISIONS American Association of School Librarians...... 7 Association of College and Reference Libraries ...... 11 Cataloging and Classification, Division of...... 18 Hospital Libraries Division ...... 24 Libraries for Children and Young People, Division of...... 26 Library Education Division...... 34 Public Libraries Division...... 35
BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES Acquisition of Library lVIaterials, Board on ...... 4ll American Library History Round Table ...... 49 Art Reference Round Table ...... 49 Audio-Visual Board ...... 50 Audio-Visual Round Table ...... 50 Awards, Board on ...... 51 Bibliography, Board of...... 52 Bookbinding Board ...... 53 Buildings Committee ...... 5:l Editorial Committee ...... 55 Education for Librarianship, Board of...... 55 Equipment Committee ...... 55 Federal Relations Committee ...... 56 Film Statistics Revision Joint Committee ...... 56 Friends of Libraries Committee ...... 57 Government Publications, Joint Committee on ...... 58 lntellectual Freedom Committee ...... 5& International Relations Board ...... 60 Junior Members Round Table...... 59 Library Periodicals Round Table ...... 59 Firs Library Service Abroad, Round Table on ...... 60 Library Work as a Career, Joint Committee ...... 60 The First General Session of the 75tl Personnel Administration, Board on...... 63 Conference of the ALA convened in ti Resources of American Libraries, Board on...... 66 Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, F Serials Round Table ...... 66 8:00 P. M., June 18, 1956, with Presic Staff Organizations Round Table ...... 67 S. Richards presiding. Statistics Committee ...... 69 He read a message from the Presid< United States which stated: OTHER ORGANIZATIONS The public library symbolizes e American Library Schools, Association of ...... 70 al opportunity in America but th to which library services are sup1 PROJECTS a local community is highly indi Inter-Institutional Library Cooperation, Clearing House on ...... 72 the aspirations of the citizens City, Town, and County School Library Supervisors ...... 73 there. Increasingly, Americans ar State School Library Supervisors...... 73 ing aware that support for the: Adult Education Workshop ...... 73 libraries falls far short of fulfilli aspirations. Workshop on Personal Relations in Public Relations ...... 75 I am informed that the America1 Association has conducted a st, the last two years which provides I and practical qualitative stanc which any community can mes adequacy of its library. I nndersl the primary overall recommen< for a virtual network of library covering the entire country and the resources of the strongest to all. This idea carries the basic , concept of cooperation into a portant area of our national life. receive the immediate and caref tion of all who are interested in th welfare of America. My best wisl
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The Second General Session of the 75t Conference convened in the Ballro01 Fontainebleau Hotel, at 2 :00 P.M., with President John S. Richards, and W. Sandoe, president, Public Libraries presiding. President Richards made the fin announcement of the passage of th< Services Bill, on that morning. GENERAL SESSIONS
First General Session
The First General Session of the 75th Annual all librarians in their efforts to give this Conference of the ALA convened in the Miami idea factual expression. Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida at DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 8 :00. P. M., June 18, 1956, with President John Delegates to the conference were welcomed S. Richards presiding. by Miami Beach City Councilman the Hon. Harold B. Spaet. He read a message from the President of the President Richards then presented the Joseph United States which stated: W. Lippincott Award to Ralph A. Ulveling, The public library symbolizes education director of the Detroit (Mich.) Public Library. Presented annually for distinguished service in al opportunity in America but the degree the profession of librarianship, Mr. Ulveling's to which library services are supported by citation read in part: " ... his professional ac• a local community is highly indicative of complishments have included the exercise of the aspirations of the citizens who live constructive originality in devising improve there. Increasingly, Americans are beeom· ments in services to the public, courage in up• ing aware that support for their public holding library ideals, successful leadership in libraries falls far short of fulfilling these securing governmental changes beneficial to aspirations. libraries, the establishment of advanced, liberal personnel policies in the library field, as well as I am informed that the American Library many other effective and constructive contribu Association has conducted a study over tions to the library profession through writings the last two years which provides principles and service." and practical qualitative standards by Robert E. Scudder, chairman, ALA Board on which any community can measure the Awards presented the Melvil Dewey Medal, adequacy of its library. I understand that awarded for creative professional achievement the primary overall recommendation is of high order, to Miss Norah Albanell Mac-Coll, for a virtual network of library systems head reference librarian of the Columbus covering the entire country and bringing Memorial Library of the Pan American Union. the resources of the strongest libraries The award was based "upon her successful com• to all. pletion of the translation and essential adapta• This idea carries the basic American tion into Spanish of the Fifteenth Edition of the concept of cooperation into a most im Dewey Decimal Classification ..." portant area of our national life. It should John D. Henderson, chairman of the Intellec receive the immediate and careful atten tual Freedom Committee, presented the private tion of all who are interested in the general preview showing of the film, "Storm Center", welfare of America. My hest wishes go to after which the meeting was adjourned.
Second General Session
The Second General Session of the 75th Annual He then introduced the chairman of the Conference convened in the Ballroom of the Local Committee, Dr. Archie McNeal, who in Fontainebleau Hotel, at 2 :00 P.M., June 19, troduced the members of the Executive Com with President John S. Richards, and Mildred mittee, and introduced other. committee chair W. Sandoe, president, Public Libraries Division, men who were present. presiding. President Richards presented Eleanor Plain, President Richards made the first official chairman of the ALA Jury on Citation of announcement of the passage of the Library Trustees, who read the Citations to the Trustees Services Bill, on that morning. of 1956. Citations were presented to Mrs. Otis 1 Miami Beach Conference, 1956
Wilson, executive secretary of the West Virginia President Richards introduced Mildred San Library Commission and Judge Eugene Bur doe, as co-chairman of the Second General dick, president of the James Memorial Library Session, who represented the Public Libraries Board of Williston, N. D. Division. Miss Sandoe spoke generally of the Mrs. Wilson's citation stated: "In recogni Notable Books Council, announcing that the tion of her valuable and constructive work in subject of the panel discussion would Le A promoting library interest throughout the State Case for Notable Books. Members of the panel of West Virginia; for the effectiveness of her were: Mrs. Florence S. Craig, chairman; Mrs. efforts to obtain governmental and citizen sup Louise Hall Tharp, author; Raymond Walters, port for the State Library Commission; for her Jr., hook review editor; Joseph Barnes, editor, brilliant leadership in securing passage of state Simon & Schuster; Lillian C. Clarke, and Grace legislation permitting the establishment of W. Gilman, both librarians. The panel dis larger units of librnry service, and for her cussed the selection of the notable books, criti continuing interpretation of library needs to ciiing the bases of selection on the grounds the officials and the people of West Virginia." that the word notable is elusive of definition, and suggesting that notable books need notable Judge Burdick's citation stated: "In recogni readers. was mentioned that perhaps the tion of his distinguished achievement in restor It list should be enlarged, with more fiction and ing and developing library service in the city poetry included. Mr. Barn!'-S stated: "Let us of Williston, North Dakota; and of his untiring meet people on their own grounds and find out and successful efforts to secure sound financial where their interests are, and not try to give support for the James Memorial Library; of his them a concept of notability which we ourselves inspiring leadership in promoting public in might not be wholly sure of." terest in libraries, and of his notable contribu tions to the welfare of public libraries through The meeting was turned back to President out the state of North Dakota." Richards, and adjourned at 3 :50 P. M.
Thir The Third General Session, jointly sponsored library organization might accomplish for school by the Division of Libraries for Children and and public libraries ... her sound ability and Young People, American Association of School qualities of leadership that helped to make Librarians, and the National Book Committee, this possible ... her belief in people and books was convened at the Miami Beach Auditorium, and the potential that they hav11 in bringing Miami Beach, at 8:30 P. M., June 20, 1956. about world understanding which made her Second Vice President Mrs. Frances Lander teaching experience at the Japan Library School Spain and Maxine LaBounty, president of the at Keio University an inspiration to the students Division of Libraries for Children and Young who were to become school and children's li People, presiding. brarians ..." The citation and check was re Mrs. Spain presented Nancy Jane Day, who ceived by Elizabeth Clarke, librarian of the presented the E. P. Dutton-John Macrae Award Adams Jr. High School of Seattle, for Miss to John Frank Huebler, assistant librarian, Uni Sealoff. versity of Michigan. Mr. Huebler plans to use Mrs. Spain relinquished the chair to Presi the award to make a study of how a laboratory dent Richards who !'poke of the work of the school library may serve as a nucleus for various ALA Waill1ington office, particularly in the area services to children and teachers in the school of the Library Services Bill. He paid homage itself and to children and teachers elsewhere. to Julla Bennett for her outstanding services Miss Day then presented the Grolier Society and asked that Mr. Clift, ALA Executive Sec Award to Georgia Sealoff, West Seattle High retary, escort her to the platform. President School Library. The award citation read in Richards then introduced Mrs. Merlin Moore, part, " ... for her work with the boys and who presented Miss Bennett with a bouquet of girls of West Seattle High School Library to roses, a watch, and a $500 bond from the whom the school library, which they have exhibitors. helped to plan and operate, is a vital force in Mrs. Spain then introduced Maxine LaBounty their daily lives ... her vision of what state to preside over the program. 2 GENERAL SESSIONS Miss LaBounty introduced the head officers from her reading to her desire to write, telling of the sponsoring organizations, and stated that of first attempts aud finally her first published she was proud to present the speaker for the story. She said that she had not come to eulogi:i;e evening, Jessamyn West, author. Miss West librarians, hut that she hoped that some day she spoke of her early reading in a community could thank them by the production of a fine where books were few and of the first books piece of writing. she read when a small library was opened in The third General Session was adjourned at her home town in California. She progressed 9:55 P. M. Fourth General Session The Fourth General Session was convened in the great nationalist movement beginning in the the Fontainebleau Hotel, at 2:00 P. M., June British West Indies, explaining that the area 22, 1956. President-elect Ralph R. Shaw and extends from Miami to the Great Salt Lake, Robert Vosper, president ACRL, presiding. with a background of many cultures and President-elect Shaw introduced Mrs. Evelyn peoples, all divided by the sea. He was proud Hensel, president of the Division of Cataloging to state that Great Britain has handed over a and Classification, who announced that the great measure of political responsibility so that Margaret Mann Citation was awarded to Susan today, political changes have aided in instilling Gray Akers. in the people a sense of pride in their home President-elect Shaw then presented Robert land as a part of the West Indian Federation. Vosper, who announced that the meeting was He said that they are engaged in Operation beiug sponsored by three divisions: ACRL, Bootstrap, trying to accomplish progress in DCC, and the Library Education Division. In agriculture, science, education, labor, and social introducing the speaker of the evening, Mr. reforms at the same time. He pointed proudly Vosper stated that librarianship is basically to their record of progress, and asked for our international and cited our friendly relations sympathy, interest, technical assistance. In re• with libraries and librarians south of the United turn, he hoped that the federation would be States. He introduced Phillip M. Sherlock as judged by the quality of the contributions they tlie unofficial cultural ambassador of Jamaica, make. educator, and author. Mr. Sherlock pointed to President-elect Shaw adjourned the session. Fifth General Session The Fifth Genna! Session was convened at the the Southern Governors Conference is one of Fontainebleau Hotel, June 22, 1956 at 8:30 the recourses of those who wish to put a limit P. M., president John S. Richards presiding. on Federal control, but that other undertakings Calling the se~•iM to order, president Richards of the Conference have been more provincial presented the Hon. Frank G. Clement, governor in nature, striving to change the ruined and of Tenne~see, who was to speak on "The Twen rustic South to the land of opportunity. He tieth Century South." pointed to the various goals of the Con ferenco::: Governor Cl t rncnt, staling that we are a to industrialize; to improve state governments; peculiarly individualistic people, pointed to the to set up a framework for cooperative educa• problems arising from this fact: that the great tional efforts among states through the South technological changes, mass production for in ern Regional Education Board; to improve stance, are contrary to our feelings of individual mental health training and research; to inquire ism; that the demands of our industrial economy into the feasibility of united action to develoµ call for an adjustment of our traditional, in industrial opportunities for nuclear energy re• dividualistic democracy. He then stated that: search. Governor Clement spoke of the great '·The federal bureaucracy in this country today improvements in library service in the South tries our collective abilities to keep it suscepti as allied to the new South's increased social ble of practkal democratic control. He said that arul industrial awareness. 3 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 \....., President Richards then presented Helen .'11. library cooperation but at the same time, Harris for her report on the progress of libraries stressed the fact that weak core collections in in the Twentieth Century South. Miss Harris Southern universities threatens interlibrary co first paid homage to Mary U. Rothrock for her operation with "a mass of mediocrity." Re noteworthy efforts in the improvement of South ferring to the military maxim of pressing on ern libraries. Miss Harris gave as examples : where you are strong, Mr. Lyle said that South the great development of regional libraries, ern university libraries had raised the value of which led to annual state aid to public libraries the interlibrary loan system and purchase poli which has been notably increased, growth of cies to a point not obtained in many other local support, better facilities for work between regions. He proposed that the Southeastern In libraries, and the Southeastern States Coopera terlibrary Research Facility merge with the tive Library Sur\'cy. She pointed out, in speak Association of Southeastern Research Libraries ing of the Library Sen·ices Act, that "Leader as a basis for the strengthening of both organ ship at a level which links states together in izations to gain greater support from the South cooperation on common problems and which ern Regional Education Board. facilitates communication with other regions President Richards then presented Wayne and with library counsel at the national level, M. Hartwell who announced the results of the will help give point and focus to this five-year l 956-57 election (see the July-August ALA demonstration of the essential nature of the Bulletin, 1956). library function." President Richards presented Ralph R. Shaw, President Richards presented Guy R. Lyle for the incoming president, handing him the gavel a statement on college and research libraries. of office. President Shaw gave his inaugural Mr. Lyle spoke of the university library co address, which is printed in the September ALA operation in the southeast, mentioning par Bulletin, 1956. President Shaw declared the ticularly the Southeastern Interlibrary Research 75th Annual ALA Confer~nce clo~d, and ad Facility. He pointed out the adYantages of journed the mt?cting. COUNCIL SESSIONS First Council Session June 18. 1956- 2 :00 P. ~1. Approved the new statement of national At the first meeting during the Miami Beach standards for public libraries, Public Li Conference, the ALA Council took the follow brary Service; A Guide tn Evaluation with ing action. Minimum Standards. Approved appointment of the 1956-57 The Council also received greetings from The Finance Committee: Library Association through Francis Tighe, Arna Bontemps - new member: Roger City Librarian, Nottingham, England, attend McDonough, chairman, Alice B. Mc ing the Conference as The Association's official Guire. delegate. (This Committee was later discontinued. REPORTS WERE HEARD FROM: President Rich effective with the revised Constitution and ards, who pointed up that this has been a year Bylaws, upon recommendation of the Com of fruition of several goals of the Association mittee on Boards and Committees carrying -passage of the Library Services Bill, imple out the implementation of the Management mentation of the Management Survey, revision Survey.) of Post War Standards and the establishment 4 \ CoUNCIL SESSIONS of the Public Relations Office which is already has strengthened its relationship with other attacking recruiting, membership promotion accrediting agencies, and the BEL is one of 21 and public relations for libraries.. Additional approved accrediting agencies now recognized. efforts are needed for further implementation Mr. Lancour announced that on November I, of these achievements and the Association 1956, Robert L. Gitler, director of the Japan should consider itseU at a series of thresholds. Library School, will assume the duties of secre To insure success of the Library Services Act tary to the Board of Education for Librarian• mobilization of library personnel must be ship and executive secretary to the ALA Library achieved through cooperation of the libraries; Education Division. The President expressed the new Standards will become indispensable appreciation for the additional responsibilities to its implementation and will be of much as carried by Mr. Lancour during the past year sistance. The a~sociation must be diligent in its in the absence of professional assistance at efforts in the change-over period from the old Headquarters and offered thanks to the Uni- · organization to the new. Never again will there versity of Illinois. he so good an opportunity to advance libraries through public relations as now due to the William S. Dix, chairman, ALA International enactment of the Library Services Bill. All Relations Board, outlined the work of the means at the Association's disposal should be Board and paid tribute to his predecessor chair utilized to make the public relations office man, Douglas Bryant. He stated that working effective and successful. Mr. Richards noted with numerous international organizations is Arkansas' "Operation Library" which indicates a great load on a five-man board. Discussions the renewed interest and activities of trustees of the IRB and the Round Table on Library and lay persons in libraries and stated that Service Abroad have led to close cooperation this calls for dynamic leadership in the libraries. and good results. In the reorganization the Round Table will become a working arm of John D. Henderson, chairman, ALA Com the Board. He called attention to the hospital mittee on Intellectual Freedom, reported that ity center set up for foreign visitors during the CIF Newsletter goes to 5,000 and is geared the Conference by the Round Table as an ex to censorship and related matters in the realm ample of Board and RT cooperation. A grant of of intellectual freedom. The Newsletter has been $111,600 from the Rockefeller Foundation to supported through grants from the Fund for ALA was announced by Mr. Dix, which will the Republic and the current $6,000 grant is enable the ALA to establish an Office for Over the terminal one. A grant from Louis Rabi seas Library Development to develop proposals nowitz enabled the Committee and the Public leading to the establishment of library schools Libraries Division to work on book selection abroad. IRB and the State Department are for small libraries during the Philadelphia Con still cooperating in projects of advanced train ference and the Report has been published for ing in this country for foreign librarians and sale at $2.50. To protect itself with pressure two additional grants in this category were an groups each library needs to develop its own nounced for July 1 and October 1, 1956. IRB book selection policy according to community is trying to develop better methods of giving and professional needs. in-service training to foreign librarians. In re· sponse to IRB's invitation approximately fifty Harold Lancour, chairman, ALA Board of librarians from abroad were present in Miami Education for Librarianship, stated that the Beach and were introduced to the Council at Board has been concerned during recent years the conclusion of Mr. Dix's report. with accreditation under the new standards set up by the Beard and approved by Council. John Boynton Kaiser talked briefly on John Those schools dropped under the new standards Cotton Dana and the Chairman of the Board were excluded only after very careful considera on Awards announced the winners of the 1956 tion. The exclusion of undergraduate schools Dana Publicity A wards which were received under the new standards points up the need of at the Wilson Tea. (See September ALA Bul standards for undergraduate schools. The Board letin for list of winners.) 5 Mi.ami Beach Conference, 1956 Second Council Sesdon June 21, 1956-2:00 P.M. Council approved recommendation of the At the second session during the Miami Beach Steering Committee. The new document Conference the ALA Council took the follow will become effective January 1, 1957. ing action: Omission of provision for proxies for Adopted the recommendation of the Execu councilors was questioned and it was stated tive Board awarding Honorary Life Member that this was deliberate in keeping with ship to The Honorable Lister Hill. the new responsibilities for Council members. Adopted Resolution of thanks to the Sun porters of the Library Services Bill present;d Approved chapter status for the following by the Federal Relations Committee. State Library Associations who have met the requirements of Article 5 of the Bylaws and Approved the Final Report of the ALA upon recommendation of the Committee on Council Steering Committee on Implementa Constitution and Bylaws who found no con tion of the Management Survey. The Report flicts between their constitutions and that of is published in the September ALA Bulletin. ALA: (Question was raised on Recommenda New Hampshire Tennessee tion 2 of the Steering Committee's report New Mexico Texas as to who would decide, in the case of Oklahoma Wyoming chapters now having more than one repre sentative on the Council, who would be the Approved the recommendations of the ALA council member. SCIMS feels that the Committee on Boards and Committees. These chapters should be responsible for deciding recommendations were published in the Sep on this but suggested the councilor most tember ALA Bulletin. It was agreed that the recently elected might be designated.) Committee on Program Evaluation and Budget In addition to the divisions recommended will act this Fall instead of the Finance and in the Final Report of SCIMS, one addi Budget Committees, which go out of existence tional petition for divisional status had wtih the effective date for the revised Constitu been received and found to be in order tion and Bylaws on January 1, 1957. during the Conference, and Council. Council expressed its appreciation for the Approved establishment of the Library Ref difficult tasks performed by the Committee on erence Services Division. Constitution and Bylaws and the Steering Com mittee on Implementation of the Management Approved amendments to the Constitution Survey. and Bylaws as submitted in the May ALA Bulletin with additions to the Bylaws as sub The following awards were presented by the mitted by the Committee on Constitution and president during the Second Council Session: Bylaws at Miami Beach. These additions are Beta Phi Mu-Margaret Rufsvold published in the September A LA Bulletin. Letter Librarian-Sister Jane Marie NOTE: The Membership at its meeting Barbour June 22 ratified the amended Constitution Letter Library-University of Kansas and Bylaws and in accordance with the Library Membership Meeting June 22, 1956-10:00 A.M. brary Association express its appreciation to all As noted above the Membership ratified the who have planned and worked to make this such revised ALA Constitution and Bylaws which a successful conference, citing the Local Com effects the reorganization recommended by the mittee and expressing particular appreciation Management Survey and the Council Steering for the many contributions made by John Rich Committee on Implementation of the Survey. ards during the year of his Presidency. Reports were heard from the ALA Friends The Resolutions Committee Report was sub of Libraries Committee, the Joint Committee mitted to this meeting and the Membership of ALA and CLA, and the Board on Acquisi adopted the Resolution that the American Li- tion of Library Materials. 6 DIVISIONS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS The American Association of School Librarians County public schools, gave the opening ad held a Sunday evening cruise supper, a work dress, "The Strategic Significance of Instruc conference: The School Library as an Instruc tional Materials in Universal Education." In tional Materials Center, and a State Assembly relation to his topic, Dr. Hall made three main Breakfast. It co-sponsored the workshop: Let's points: 1. The need to educate well all chil Talk About Bindings, with DLCYP, assisted dren of all people, of all abilities. 2. Excellent, by the Publishers' Liaison Committee, The Chil well educated teachers, familiar with instruc dren's Book Council, and the ALA Board on tional materials. 3. AvaL!ability of instructional Bookbinding. It also sponsored, with DLCYP, materials. Following Dr. Hall's address, there CLA and A YPL, the ALA general session, June were demonstrations and presentations by three 20, at which Jessamyn West was the speaker. Dade County classroom teachers on "Utilizing At the request of the ALA Editorial Committee, Instructional Materials in the Classroom." Mrs. AASL held an invitational meeting of repre Isabel Bruce of Miami Shores Elementary sentative school librarians, for the purpose of School demonstrated a fifth grade unit on discussing the new work proposed to replace animals, Mrs. Marion V. Frantz, Sylvania Fargo's The Library in the School. The Board Heights Elementary School, a third grade Span of Directors of the American Association of ish unit, and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Kyle, Kinloch School Librarians held three meetings, and a Park Junior High School, a 9th grade unit on business meeting. the history of the English language. Mrs. Althea T. Frederick, curriculum assistant, Flagami Ele The Sunday evening cruise on the Dream mentary School, and Mrs. Leona Goldweber, boat on Biscayne Bay was attended by almost Basic Education Teacher, Kinloch Park Junior three hundred librarians, authors, editors and High School, Dade County, gave a presenta guests. A chicken box supper was served, and tion of "Teacher Use of School Libraries and musical entertainment was provided. Mrs. Materials Centers." They presented a compari Dorothy Heald, librarian of Citrus Grove Ele son of the integrated materials center under the mentary School, Miami, was chairman of the supervision of the school librarian, and the event. The following Florida authors of chil dual center where the school librarian and dren's books were guests: Louis Capron, Sonia Audio-Visual specialist cooperate in administra Bleeker Zim, Herbert Zim, Joseph Lippincott, tion of materials. A panel of four school li Mary Helm Clarke, Kelly Masters (Zachary brarians presented the topic, "Librarians' Re Ball), Effie Power, Ruby Leach Carson, and sponse to Teaching Needs." Participating li Miriam Powell. Other guests of honor included brarians were Page Borden, Robert E. Lee High Mrs. David Clift, Mrs. Ransom Richardson, School, Jacksonville, Fla.; Ray Erbes, Reavis Cora Beatty, Mrs. Dilla W. MacBean, Dr. High School, Oak Lawn, Ill.; Mildred Krohn, Lillian Batchelor, Myrtle Dunlap, Nora Beust, East Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio; Audrey Newman, supervisor, Instructional Ma Jean Lowrie, Campus School, Western Michi terials, Florida Department of Education, Edgar gan College of Education, Kalmazoo, Mich. Lane, Supervisor of Instructional Materials, They discussed the advantages and disadvan Dade County Board of Public Instruction, tages of both the integrated and the dual ma Louise Blanchard, School editor, Miami Daily terials center. June 19, the program began with News, Doris McAbee, School Editor, Miami a tape recording of a talk by Dr. Paul W. F. Herald. Witt, professor of Education, Teachers College, The School Library as an Instructional Ma Columbia University, "Trends in Emerging Pat terials Center: Improving Teaching and Learn terns of Programs of Instructional Materials." ing Through Planned Programs of Instructional This talk was followed by a panel of librarians, Materials was held at Miami Beach High who described the administrative patterns for School, June 18, and June 19. The co-chairmen materials in their school systems. The partici .,,ere Louise Galloway and Dr. Louis Shores. Dr. pants were: Esther Burrin, director of School Joe Hall, superintendent-elect of the Dade Libraries, Indianapolis Public Schools; Virginia 7 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 McJenkin, director, Fulton County School Li leaders. Then Dr. Miriam E. Peterson, director braries, Atlanta, Ga.; Margaret Strassler, co of Libraries, Chicago Board of Education, ordinator of Instructional Materials, Monroe served as chairman of an open discussion. The County Schools, Key West, Fla.; Elizabeth Wil members of the panel, and John H. Jacobs, liams, head supervisor, Library and Textbook chairman of the American Library Association Section, Los Angeles, California City Schools. Board on Bookbinding, served as consultants. Laura K. Martin, associate professor, depart During the panel, the buzz sessions and the ment of Library Science, University of Ken open discussion, the following points in rela tucky, Lexington, presented the summary of tion to binding were empha5ized: I. Books must the work conference. (For text of this summary, be attractive and strong, whether in publishers' see October, 1956 School Libraries.) bindings, pre-binds or re-binds. 2. Paper must match wearability of the cover. 3. New ma The State Assembly Breakfast was held in the terials in bindings must be experimented with. Fleur De Lis room of the Fontainebleau Hotel, 4. Statistics from experiments are needed. 5. June 21. Mrs. Marie Lapp, librarian, Allapattah There is a need for standardization of publish Elementary School, Miami, was the chairman. ers' types and terms in binding. 6. There must Guests at the head table included Mrs. Lois continue to be a variety of bindings to fit a Pilson, Mrs. Betty Lunnon, AASL co-chairmen variety of needs. 7. Librarians need to be better of the Miami Beach Conference; Mrs. Lapp, informed about binding types and qualities. 8. Audrey Newman, Mary Helen Mahar, Myrtle Binding types and qualities should be included Dunlap, treasurer, AASL; Dr. Lillian L. Batche in book reviews. Types of bindings of one book lor, vice-president, AASL, and Mrs. Dilla W. were exhibited in the Ballroom during the J\lacBean, president. Reports of school library session, in the AASL Hospitality Center, Eden organization activities of the states were pre Roe, and at the DLCYP exhibit booth. sented Ly four representatives. Helen Perdue of Maryland reported for Regions l and 2, Board of Directors' Meetings. The Board of Sybil Baird of Alabama for Regions 3 and 4, Directors held three meetings, two on June 17, Carolyn Holmes of Ohio for Regions 5 and 6, and one on June 22, in the Fontainebleau Hotel. and Elizabeth Williams of California for Mrs. Dilla W. MacBean, president, presented Regions 7 and 8. The reporters highlighted her report for 1955-56. (The report will be publications of organizations, revision of stand published in the October, 1956 School Li ards, emphasis on the improvement of elemen braries.) The report stimulated discussion of tary libraries, activity in recruitment, student professional relations with members of edu<'a library assistant organizations, in-service edu tional groups and the teaching profession. It cation and studies of certification. ( These re was su ggested that AASL should encourage ports will be summarized in the O<'tober, 1956 schools of education to include the school li Srhool Libraries.) brary in the professional education of teachers, possibly through a printed piece of literature The workshop, "Let's Talk About Bindings" on the subject, and this project could be the was held in the Ballroom of the Fontainebleau work of the Professional Relations Committee. Hotel, June 20. Dr. Lillian L. Batchelor was It was also recommended that AASL should <'hairman for AASL, and Mrs. Francis L. Spain reach undergraduate programs in library was chairman for DLCYP. Doris Patee of the science, especially when they are in the facul Macmillan Company explained bookbinders ties of education, and that state school library terms so that the subsequent discussions would supervisors should be encouraged to work with be understood clearly. Miss Patee's introduc these programs. The influence of educational tion was followed by a panel, "How I see Bind practice on school administrators was noted, ing Problems." Jessie Boyd served as modera and the need for articles in professional periodi tor, and the participants were Audrey Newman, cals for administrators was stressed. representing school librarians; Barbara Moody, for children's librarians; publishers were rep The report of the special committee for recom resented by Eunice Blake of Lippincott, and mendations in the administration of scholar William R. Scott of Scott, Incorporated; and ships in the school library field, as proposed the pre-binders, by Charles Leunig of Huntting. by the Grolier Foundation, was presented by Each member of the panel presented his side Miss Mahar, ex-officio member of the commit of the problem involved. Following the panel tee. Members of the committee are Dr. Miriam there were small buzz sessions in which mem Peterson and Alice Devine, of the Chicago bers of the Children's Book Council were group Board of Education. The report recommended 8 D1VISIONS that two scholarships should be awarded, one Headq11.arters. The report was presented for th.: in an undergraduate library school program, information of the Board. and one in a graduate program. The scholar Norris McClellan, editor of School Libraries, ships should be administered by the library attended the Friday Board meeting, to discuss schools in accordance with their usual policies plans for future issues of School Libraries. The on scholarships. Theodore Waller, for the Gro following plans were made for special issues lier Foundation, had stated that the Grolier in 1957: January, Libraries in Technical Foundation would be prepared to aid in the Schools, Miss Gaver, special editor; March, selection of the library schools, and in publiciz Book Selection, Miss Hodges, special editor; ing the scholarships. The Grolier Foundation May, School Library Service for Exceptional suggested that AASL should administer the Children, Dr. Batchelor, special editor. It was funds for the scholarships. The Board recom agreed that the executive secretary should ap mended that the library schools should be point a new business manager in or near Chi selected three years in advance, and change cago, and that the School Libraries editorial from year to year, as was also suggested by the committee should prepare an index to School Foundation. The Board accepted the report, Libraries. and it will be submitted to the ALA Executive Board for approval of acceptance. Leo Weins, ALA comptroller, attended the June 22 Board Meeting to explain the proposed Miss Mahar reported also briefly on the two budget for 1956-57. Mr. Weins stated that the meetings of the AASL-ACRL-DA VI Commit proposed budget for 1956-57 would be operative tee, April 28 and May 18. Minutes of the April for the present, but would be changed under 28 meeting were included in the docket. At the the reorganization, probably as '-lf January 1, meeting on May 18, efforts were made to define 1957. The need to replenish AASL publications the professional content of the library and A-V was discussed, and plans made for their reprint fields. Representatives from DAVI expressed the ing under the budget for 1955-56, and 1956-57. wish that AASL's statement on the school li It was agreed by the Board that AASL should brary as a materials center be withdrawn from have programs at the ASCD and AASA meet the agenda of the AASL business meeting at ings in 1957. It was suggested that the Profes Miami Beach, but it was explained that the sional Relations Committee be expanded, with statement was internal business of AASL, that membership over the whole country. The im it has been presented twi'l:e for consideration of portance of cooperation with elementary school the membership, and in print, and must be pre principals was stressed. sented for action at the Miami Beach meeting. The proposal of Daniel Melcher for support Miss Mahar reported that relations among the of AASL exhibits at educational meetings was members of the AASL-ACRL-DA VI Committee presented, and a Committee of the Board was were cordial, and that the members were work appointed to consider this proposal: Mrs. Dilla ing together with good will. W. MacBean, chairman, Sybil Baird, Jessie The request to Mrs. MacBean by Miss Morsch Boyd, and Elizabeth Hodges. for a statement of the fields of responsibility of Two proposals were submitted to the Board AASL was discussed by the Board with Eliza which had been sent to the executive secretary: beth Williams, chairman of the AASL Special a suggestion that AASL take the initiative in the Committee for the Implementation of the Man founding of a national organization of student agement Survey, and Mrs. Alice McGuire, mem library assistants, and a suggestion that the ber of the ALA Steering Committee. It was function of the Exhibits Committee be expanded agreed that Miss Williams and her committee to include the collection of ideas for school would submit an interim statement of fields library exhibits. The Board had previously not of responsibility to Miss Morsch within a short looked with favor on a national student staff time, with the understanding that the statement organization, and the matter will be referred would be presented for consideration of AASL to the AASL Student Assistants Committee. It membership at the Midwinter meeting, 1957. was the consenslfS of the Board that ideas for Miss Mahar reported to the Board on the tenta school library exhibits were provided adequate tive and p1:1>posed reorganization of the Head ly by the Wilsori Library Bulletin. quarters staff, as presented by Mr. Green For James Boula, chairman of the AASL away, chairman of the Committee for Head Statistics Committee, Miss Mahar submitted to quarters Reorganization, on April 17, at ALA the Board the Committee's proposal for a study 9 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 of audio-visual materials and services in school mittee as follows: 1. To be concerned with the libraries. It was the opinion of the Board that responsibility and training of professional the consideration of the study be postponed people who will provide and produce materials until data from the recent survey of school li of learning in the schools. 2. To clarify an·d braries by the U. S. Office of Education is ob "iron out" differences in opinion regarding the tained. appropriate training and functions of those who The BUSINESS MEETING of the American As provide A-V services in schools. Dr. Stone sociation of School Librarians was held in reported that the Committee met on April 28 the Lucerne Hotel, Miami Beach, June 21, and May 18, and would meet again September 20, 21. He stated that he believed the Committee 1956. Mrs. Dilla W. MacBean, president, pre sided. Platform guests were officers and mem could be of great service to the professions concerned, and reports of discussions would be bers of the Board of Directors: Dr. Lillian Batchelor, vice-president, Myrtle Dunlap, treas published later. urer; Nancy Jane Day, Dr. Maud Minster, Sara Dr. Stone then reviewed the historj of the J affarian, Mrs. Florence K. Burry, Margaret statement of AASL's philosophy of school li C. Rehring; Jessie E. Boyd. The following braries as materials centers. The statement ~as Board members were not present: Katherine drafted in the spring of 1955 by the AASL A-V Gallivan, Mattie Ruth Moore, Mrs. Dora Leavitt Committee and presented for the first time to Hay. Miss Dunlap presented the proposed the membership of AASL at the Philadelphia budget for 1956-57. She commented on the in Business Meeting. It was then printed in the creased demands for AASL publications during October, 1955 issue of School Libraries, and the the past year, and the need for reprinting these February, 1956 issue of the ALA Bulletin. _It publications. was presented again, with comments and criti cisms received by Dr. Stone, at the AASL Dorothy Schumacher, member of the Elec business meeting during the Midwinter, 1956 tions Committee, reported for the chairman, meeting. Dr. Stone then presented a draft of Blanche Aust, the results of the 1956 AASL the statement for final consideration by the elections as follows: Successful candidates: members present. The statement was discussed vice-president and president-elect, Mary Vir sentence by sentence, and changes made by ginia Gaver; recording secretary, Sara Jaffari vote. The entire revision was finally put to a an; Board of Directors: Region 2-Elizabeth vote, and passed unanimously. The complete Hodges; Region 3-Sybil Baird; Region 5- text of the official statement, "AASL's Phi Crystal McN ally; Reg'.on 6-Jean Lowrie; losophy of School Libraries as Instructional Ma councilors-Sarah Fenwick, Naomi Hokanson, terials Centers" will be printed in the October, Margaret Moss. The newly elected officers, 1956 School Libraries. board members and councilors who were present were presented by Mrs. MacBean. Mildred Nickel, chairman of the Member ship Committee, stated that the report of mem Dr. C. Walter Stone, chairman of the Audio bership would be given at Midwinter, since Visual Committee, reported the work of the the December count of membership was more Committee in three major areas: 1. Preparation, valid. She urged that the committee should presentation to AASL members, and modifica continue to work for new members and for tion of a tentative statement of philosophy con renewals, and that a new membership folder was cerning school libraries as materials centers. planned. Miss Nickel reported the discontinu 2. Representation of AASL points of view at ance of regional chairmen, and requested that meetings including those held by the ALA suggestions for state chairmen be sent to her. Audio-Visual Board and the AASL-ACRL DA VI Committee. 3. Preparation of a list of Mrs. Effie LaPlante, co-chairman of the Tech A-V selection aids to be included in the forth nical Processes Committee, reported that the coming revision of A Basic Book Collection /or tabulation of the questionnaire on classification High Schools. and subject headings in school libraries had been completed. It is hoped that the report will In relation to (2) above, Dr. Stone reported be published in one or two of the ALA pub that he had lllet with the ALA A-V Board at lications. Midwinter, and urged the establishment of an ALA Audio-Visual Committee in the structure Nora Beust reported briefly on· the Tenth of the ALA reorganization. Dr. Stone explained National Conference on Citizenship, at which the purposes of the AA!::L-ACRL-DA VI Com- she represented ALA for AASL, and· on the 10 DIVISIONS newly organized Audio-Visual Commission on Mrs. MacBean reported on the Board's ap Public Information. The Commission is com proval of the suggestions of the special com posed of representatives of different organiza mittee for the administration of the Grolier tions in the A-V field, and its purpose is to scholarships in the school library field. She public:ize the need for A-V equipment and ma then gave her president's report. At the con terials in elementary and secondary schools. clusion of the report, she presented the gavel It has held two meetings this past spring, and to the new president, Dr. Lillian Batchelor. In is planning to work on standards for A-V her acceptance speech, Dr. Batchelor stressed programs. the importance of working with state organiza Evelyn Thornton reported on the Ninth Con tions of school librarians, with educational or ference on Elementary Education, of the U. S. ganizations and parent-teacher groups. She sug Office of Education, at which she represented gested the re-examination of AASL's profes ALA and AASL, and on her representation sional goals. Mrs. MacBean's President's Re of AASL at a program meeting of the Associa port and the acceptance speech by Dr. Batchelor tion for Childhood Educational International. will be published in the October, 1956 School Both of these meetings were held in Washing Libraries. ton in the spring of 1956. Mary Helen Mahar, executive secretary ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND REFERENCE LIBRARIES The minutes of the Board of Directors meet luncheon and membership meeting in the Uni ings and of the Membership Meeting are re versity's cafeteria. ported in the November 1956 issue of the As The election of officers for the new year was sociation's official journal, College and Research announced by Mrs. Thelma V. Taylor, a member Libraries. The annual report covers committee of the Nominating Committee. They are: vice action at the annual meeting and will appear president and president-elect, Eileen Thornton, in the journal later in the year. librarian, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; di ACRL cooperated with the Library Educa rector-at-large ( three-year term), Mrs. Mary tion Division and the Division of Cataloging Manning Cook, reference librarian and lecturer and Classification in sponsoring the Fourth in bibliography, Mills College, Oakland, Calif.; ALA General Session held on June 22. For this representatives on ALA Council (four-year reason, there was no ACRL General Session term), H. S. Brubaker, librarian, Lawrence Col at the Miami Beach Conference. lege, Appleton, Wis.; Marietta Daniels; as June 19 and 20 ACRL sponsored Circles of sociate librarian, Pan American Union, Wash Information in the Alhambra Room of the ington, D. C. (one year only); Helen Frances Hotel Seville. General supervision was in the Pierce, librarian, Modesto Junior College, hands of Stanley L. West, director of Libraries Modesto, Calif.; and Elizabeth Opal Stone, of the University of Florida in Gainesville. assistant director of libraries, Southern Illinois Each circle was an informal group in which a University, Carbondale. problem of immediate professional concern was The members unanimously passed the fol discussed under expert guidance. An average lowing revision of the by-laws which replaces of 200 interested librarians were present; those all of Article IV, Section 2: in attendance felt free to move from circle to "Standing committees shall be establish circle, and came and went as they chose. Each ed with clearly defined areas of responsi of the 29 circles, on topics ranging from "Ac bility and with a specified number of mem quiring Materials on Exchange" to '·Weeding bers and specific terms of office. Commit the Collection," was in charge of a circle leader tee memberships shall be staggered with of acknowledged competence in its subject area. regularity, in order to provide continuity. Following the Circles of Information June 20, The vice-president (president-elect) shall some 200 division members went by chartered appoint committee members to fill the bus to the University of Miami for the formal vacancies due to occur during the term of 11 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 his presidency; he shall also name the appreciation to Dr. Tauber and the School chairman of each committee. Special ap of Library Service at Columbia for his contribu pointments to any committee may be made tion to our journal, College and Research Li by the president for one year only. The braries. vice-president (president-elect) may waive VOTED, to approve the College and Research his privilege of appointing the chairman Libraries budget for 1956/57. and request the committee to elect its own chairman." VOTED, to reject the proposal of the ALA Council Steering Committee on the Implementa A rising vote of thanks was given to l\Ir. tion of the Management Survey to add the Hamlin, the retiring executive secretary, and adjective "general" prior to the phrase about the following resolution unanimously adopted: reference and research collections in the ACRL "Every organization hopes to find staff statement of field of interest. members who will do more than the con VOTED, to appoint Marietta Daniels to the tract calls for. In recent years, the Associ position of ACRL representative on ALA ation of College and Reference Libraries Council created by the resignation of Natalie has been especially fortunate in having as N. Nicholson for one year only or until the its executive secretary, Arthur Hamlin. He next election. brought to this job imagination, energy, and perseverance. Those who watched his VOTED, to approve the recommendation of accomplishments knew that it would mere• the ACRL Committee on Publications that the ly be a matter of time before some other full cost of any reprints should be assessed organization with greater opportunities against the purchaser; that is, a new scale of would ask for his services. All of us knew charges for reprints should be prepared and we were lucky to have him as long as we announced in terms which will at the least did. In return for giving us this outstand represent the full charge of the printer for the ing service, Arthur Hamlin has long since materials ordered. received our thanks and our admiration. VOTED, to approve discontinuance of the 11 we can add is our wishes for success A ACRL Committee on Relations with Learned in his new job and our pledge of coopera• Societies. tion with him in any projects which could use our resources and talent to help him in VOTED, to establish an Advisory Committee his new position. We know that he will on Cooperation with Educational and Profes work for advancement of all libraries while sional Organizations. he sets new standards of performance at Cincinnati." VOTED, to approve the following resolution in connection with the appointment of a new Following the luncheon members visited the executive secretary: University's Art Museum and the University Library. They then proceeded by bus to see "It is the sense of this Board that the some of the principal sights of interest in the ~alary of the ACRL executive secretary Miami area before returning to their hotels. must be substantially increased in order lo secure the type of individual necessary The following official actions were taken at to conduct our business properly, and that the two meetings of the ACRL Board of Direc this be done even if reclassification is tors on June 18 and 21: (President Robert necessary." Vosper, director of libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, presided at both meetings.) VOTED, to approve recognition of the generous contributions of the United States Steel Founda VOTED, to approve the ACRL Budget for 1956/57. tion as follows : VOTED, to approve the ACRL Monographs "The Board of Directors of the Associa budget for 1956/57. tion of College and Reference Libraries gratefully recognizes the many important VOTED, to approve an amendment to the and genernus contributions of the United ACRL by-laws to replace Article IV, Section States Steel Foundation to the improve 2, as quoted above. ment of higher education through better VOTED, that the chairman of the Publications financial support of college libraries, par Committee draft a resolution expressing our ticularly: 12 D1v1s10NS 1. Grants of .30,000 in 1955 and a:;:ain \"OTED, to appro1·e expression of appreciation in ] 956 for the impron:ment of college for the Remington Rand grant as follo11·s: and university libraries. This support makes possible library tools and pro "The Board of Directors gratefully ac grams important to the educational proc• knowledges the generous grant of $5,000 ess in scores of institutions. for the purchase of equipment for college 2. The availability of these grants has and uniYersity libraries from Remington assisted hundreds of librarians in the Rand, a division of the Sperry Rand Cor presentation of their needs to faculties poration. This grant will materially assist and college administrations, and has a number of libraries in their services to greatly increased institutional under higher education. It is also recognized as standing of the library's proper role in a public expression of confidence in the the educational process. Association's program for the support of colJege libraries. The executive secretary 3. The Foundation has materially in is instructed to transmit to Remington creased knowledge of library needs in Rand this expression of the Association's foundation circles and-, therefore, stimu appreciation for this assistance to the col lated grants from other sources. lege and university libraries of this 4. Through its wise and able execu country." tive director, the Foundation has ren- dered valuable assistance to this Associa Approximately 130 people took part in the tion in the formulation of its program ACRL-sponsored trip to Havana on June 23- for the national support of coll!!ge li- 25. A formal luncheon was held in the Hotel 1.,raries, and in its presentation of the Nacional with approximately 60 Cuban col program to corporate foundations. leagues in attendance. Saturday afternoon was "It is, therefore, our wish that the gratitude spent in Yisits to libraries in Havana. A recep of the Association be recorded formally and tion was tendered to the group at the Seciedad 1,t> publicly acknowledged. The secretary is Economica. On Sunday afternoon the visiting iustructed to transmit this action to Roger l\I. librarians II ere honored by a reception at the Blough, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Universidad de Villanueva. A ful) report of the United States Steel Foundation, and to W. the tour appeared in the September issue of the Homer Turner, executive director." ALA Bulletin. Junior College Libraries Section Chairman: Mrs. Thelma Taylor, Los Angeles junior colJege library standards was now being Harbor Junior College, Los Angeles, Calif.; written under the editorship of Catherine Car vice-chairman: Angelin E. Tesdell, Everett dew of Briarcliff Junior ColJege. Junior ColJege, Everett, Wash.; secretary: Orlin Ruth Scarborough reported on work relating C. Spicer, J. Sterling Morton High School and to statistics. Following through on suggestions Junior College, Cicero, Ill.; director: Ruth brought out at the Midwinter Meeting, Miss Scarborough, Centenary Junior College, Hack Scarborough said that the form would be simpli ettstown, N. J.; Mrs. Thelma Taylor, chair fied this year so that most items would apply man, called the meeting to order June 21, 1956. more directly to junior colJege libraries. Miss The minutes of the Midwinter Meeting were Scarborough commented, "In comparing this approvea as read. year's (1954-1955) statistics with last year's, Elizabeth Neal, Compton District Junior Col there were 31 columns of information this year lege, Compton, Calif., chairman, Standards as to 19 columns of information last year; 75 Committee, was unable to be present. Mrs. junior colJeges reported this year as to 109 last Taylor reported that the membership had voted year. There are far more blank spaces in the by mail ballot (74-18) to adopt the standards tabulations this year than last year, no doubt which Miss Neal and her committee put into due to the items askeil in the questionnaire final form during the past year. Mrs. Taylor which apply to all colleges from the smallest also announced that a monograph relating to junior colJege to the largest university." Forms 13 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 this year will be sent to about 600 junior the Association of College and Reference Li colleges. Those present indicated that they braries from 1949 to 1956," its deep apprecia would appreciate a deadline later than October tion for his guidance, counsel, loyalty and 1. There was some discussion of statistics as friendship which have furthered in numerous they relate to junior colleges having high school ways the work of the Section. The Section mem work and whether there should be a grouping bers extend their sincere wishes for a very suc for four-year junior colleges and for two-year cessful, prosperous and happy future. The junior colleges. For statistics to be printed in Junior College Libraries Section wishes to ex 1957, reprints will be available at 50c each if press to Elizabeth Neal, chairman, Standards ordered ahead of time. A tear sheet at the end Committee, 1955-56, its appreciation for her of the statistics form, will serve as an order unstinted efforts to bring the work of this com blank. mittee to a highly successful close. Mrs. Taylor announced the officers for next In the thirty minutes remaining after the year - chairman: Angelin E. Tesdell, Ever business meeting, there was some informal dis ett Junior College, Everett, Wash.; vice-chair cussion of problems that confronted junior col man: Mrs. Lula K. Pratt, Connors State Agri lege librarians present. One of the problems cultural College, Warner, Okla.; secretary: which elicited lively discussion pertained to Gertrude Haury, Hutchison Junior College, the handling of audio-visual materials, par Hutchison, Kans.; director: Ruth Scarborough, ticularly those which may be housed outside Centenary Junior College, Hackettstown, N. J. the library. Another problem facing some li Also Helen Pierce of Modesto Junior College brarians is giving service to those non-residents has been elected to the Board of Directors of of the college community. ACRL and Catherine Brubeck of Jacksonville Junior College has been appointed to the ACRL Mrs. Taylor introduced the incoming chair Committee on Standards. man, Miss Tesdell, who said that she would welcome suggestions for programs and for proj The following resolutions were adopted: The ects during the coming year. Junior College Libraries Section wishes to ex press to Arthur Hamlin, executive secretary of Orlin C. Spicer, secretary Libraries of Teacher-Training Institutions Section Tuesday, June 19, 8 :00 A.M. Breakfast, Sov ties and students of existing prizes, for perhaps erign Hotel. we might "uncover a future Ernest Hemingway, Donald A. Woods, librarian, Wisconsin State Bruce Catton, or Carl Sandburg. Who knows?" College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, chairman, pre BusINESS MEETING: The minutes of the busi sided at the June 19 breakfast. Dr. Agnes ness meeting of Feb. 3, 1956 were read. Gregory, associate professor, Florida State Uni Mr. Woods reported that Walfred Erickson versity Library School, Tallahassee, Fla., spoke and Katherine Stokes, members of the Bibliog on the subject "Literary Awards." raphy Research Committee, had asked to be Miss Gregory gave a general illustrative relieved of their assignments. They are being survey of the most important literary awards of replaced by Gertrude Van Zee, Western Michi today. There's scarcely a subject of form of gan College of Education, Kalamazoo, Mich., writing that isn't eligible for a prize of some chairman, and James Martindale, Ball State kind, be it international, national, regional, or Teachers College, Muncie Ind. Samuel J. Mar local. Opportunities are open to authors or ino, Indiana State Teachers College, Terre would be authors for any kind of a composi Haute, Ind. is the continuing member. The com tion. In book selection, librarians should seri mittee will report at the Midwinter Meeting its ously consider buying many of the literary further study on the Educational Periodicals award books, since prize books always win project. readers. They also represent the trends of the Dr. R. F. Schaupp, chairman of the Com year in subject matter as well as literary style. mittee on Standards, sent a summary report She reminded us not to fail to inform our facul- which 'Was read in part. The attending mem- 14 DIVISIONS bers recommended that further studies on whether the twelve psychological periodicals Standards be dropped for the present, but that which were dropped from the International In this same committee re-direct its efforts toward dex could be included in the Education Index. advising the National organization responsible Further study of this problem will be made for Standards in Colleges and Universities of this year. the extreme importance in having a qualified Mr. Woods announced the election of Wal librarian appointed to any evaluating commit fred Erickson, Michigan State Normal College, tee where the library is involved. Dr. Kenneth Ypsilanti, Mich., as secretary and chairman Brough, San Francisco State College and Dr. elect for the Section. He also noted that Kather Orville L. Eaton, Emporia State Teachers Col ine Walker, Northern lllinois State College, lege are the other members of the committee. DeKalb, III., the present secretary, would be The secretary read a letter from the H. W. come the chairman. Wilson company in response to an inquiry as to Katherine Walker, secretary Committee on Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections The Committee on Rare Books met in the Library in Cleveland, followed with her paper Alhambra Room of the Hotel Seville, June 21, on, "The Training of Rare Book Librarians." 1956, with about 50 people in attendance. Immediately following the presentation of the The presiding officer was the acting chair two papers a request was made from the floor man of the Committee, Hannah D. French, a for their publication and a lively discussion of research librarian of the Wellesley College both papers ensued. Library. Miss French announced the appointment of The program consisted of two papers. Lyman Mrs. Georgia C. Haugh, Curator of Books at H. Butterfield, Editor-in-chief of the Adams the William L. Clements Library of the Uni Papers spoke first on, "The Adams Papers: versity of Michigan as the new chairman of the Their Story up to Now," and Harriet C. committee, and the meeting adjourned. Jameson, Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. Armed Forces Medical H. D. French Reference Librarians Section The Reference Librarians Section met June 18, Both Mrs. Wessells and Mrs. Cheney agreed 1956, in the Fontainebleau Hotel. There were that a central problem in reviewing reference about 300 in attendance. Thomas S. Shaw, Pub books is the difficulty in determining just which lic Reference Section, Library of Congress, books are reference books. Editor and reviewer chairman of the Section, introduced the three agreed that a broad interpretation was impor speakers who discussed the subject of review tant. Mrs. Wessells pointed out the need for ing reference books. Mrs. Helen E. Wessells, pre-publication copies or galley proofs of the editor of Library J oumal, approached the prob books to be reviewed and the need for a faith lem from the editor's point of view and Mrs. ful corps of reviewers able to evaluate books Frances Neel Cheney, Library School, George quickly and critically in special fields. Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., from the In Library Journal, reference books may be reviewer's standpoint. Miss Donna D. Finger, found in the section on professional reading Public Library, Kansas City, Mo., chairman of and in the reviews of foreign materials, in the Subscription Books Committee, explained addition to the section on reference books. In the reviewing methods of Subscription Books the course of a year, the editor tries to see Bulletin. that Library J,,urnal gives a thorough coverage 15 -Miami Beach Conference, 1956 of reference books. Mrs. Wessells said that 1949, 50, 51 have been published; 1952 Library Journal will continue to do all in its is in press. power to increase the use of referetice mate Guide to Historical Literature. rials. She brought to the attention of the Ref A revision is under active consideration erence Section the fact that Library Journal by the American Historical As!;Oeis is very much interested in publishing a concise, tion. <'ompilation of reviews from Library Journal List of Master's Theses. Barton Bledsoe's for overseas use to replace the U. S. Quarterly List of Master's Theses in Science, Book Review. 1952, appeared in 1954. :\[rs. Cheney explained the reviewer's need Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction. of having a restricted audience in mind when This is now in process of revision. reviewing reference books. The reviewer should Lucile l\L Morsch, Library of Congress, address himself to the reference librarian, but chairman of the Council Steering Committee h C' should not limit his reviews to one type of on Implementation of the Management Survey, library. The reviewer of reference books must reported on the progress of the formation of look ahead for new titles. Since he has limited the new Division of Library Reference Serv space for his reviews, he must concentrate on ices. The necessary 300 petitions for the forma th e important titles. Before deciding to review tion of the division have been aigned. A com a new edition of a standard reference work, he mittee will be appointed to get the new division needs to determine for himself whether it really under way. Miss Morsch also reported that is a new edition. He must guard against biased Council had accepted the interim statement of judgment and keep his own special interests th e fi eld of responsibility of the new division. in check. Foster M. Palmer, Harvard College Library, Miss Finger described the step-by-step pro chairman of the Committee on Interlibrary cedure followed by the Subscription Books Loans gave the report of his committee. The Committee in reviewing books for the Subscrip Committee completed revision of the multiple tion Books Bulletin, and made it clear that the carbon interlibrary loan form. The revised Bulletin reviews are the result of the combined forms are now in production by two leading efforts of every member of the Committee. manufacturers. The business meeting of the Reference Librar The new printing of the General Interlibrary ians Section was held immediately following Loan Code 1952, to be issued by Gaylord Bros. the program on the reviewing of reference in the near future, while leaving the poli'Cy books. There were approximately 60 people portion untouched, incorporates a fair amount present for the business meeting. The secre of new factual information in the appendices. tary of the Section announced the results of The CoRlmittee decided to proceed with a the elections for the coming year. The vice proposal that United States libraries participate chairman and chairman-elect is Barnard L. in international interlibrary loan on a regular Foy, Technical Library, Tennessee Valley Au basis. In May the Committee circularized 55 thority, Knoxville, Tenn. The secretary is Jean libraries asking whether they would accept in K. Taylor, Queens Borough Public Library, terlibrary loan requests from abroad on the Jamaica, N. Y. following basis: In the absence of John L. Nolan, Reference Central libraries abroad would send requests Department, Library of Congress, chairman of in duplicate, one title only on each pair or the Committee on New Reference Tools, the slips, to the Library of Congress. There tliey secretary of the Section read the committee would be looked up in the Union Catalog and report. The Committee is considering a list of locations noted. The Library of Congress would titles which represent most needed i-eference send one slip along to the library holding the books as determined from a questionnaire cir book and the other slip would be sent to the culated to the ACRL Reference Librarians in borrower to report where its request had gone. 1953. The current status of each title on this All further dealings would be directly between list has been investigated, and activity since the American library whose copy was recorded 1953 can be reported in respect to the fol in the Union Catalog and the borrowing library lowing: abroad. American Historical Association The Committee's nex t step will depend on Writings on American Histori·. the number of favorable answers to its proposal. 16 DIVISIONS The report of the Committee on Wil~on In mailed to all subscribers of the Industrial Arts dexes was read by the Secretary of the S(!Ction Index with the request that they indicate their in bhe absence of the Chairman of the Com holdings. Out of a total of 2,821 subscribers, mittee, Jerome K. Wilcox, College of the City 2,189 responded. The returned questionnaires of New York Library. During the year 1955/56, made it clear that sufficient libraries are sub the group continued to operate in combination scribers to most of the titles on the preliminary with the Committee on Wilson Indexes of the master list of periodicals to offer substantial Reference Section, Public Library Division, prospective support for two indexes. ALA, and the Industrial Arts Index Commit The Combined Committees on tile Wilson tee of the Special Libraries Association. Most J ndexes will now prepare the final list of of tl1e work of the year was done by two sub periodical titles, as well as a statement of committees set up last year, the Applied Sci policies and suggested fields of coverage in the ence and Technology Subcommittee and the general fields now represented by the Industrial Business Periodical Subcommittee. Each sub Arts Index, wkich will go to all subscribers in committee issued a preliminary master list of the fall of 1956. periodical titles within its subject areas. The lists were combined in one alphabetical list and Janet White, secret.arv Committee on Standards Eight persons attended the meeting of the Mr. Yenawine gave a progress report on the Committee on Standards, held in the Card revision of dollar standards. The study will be Room of the Rendale Hotel, June 19. undertaken by LeRoy Qualls, Unh·ersity of Mr. Yenawine, chairman, opened the meet Florida. An index figure or percentage correc inp; by reviewing the status of the Monograph tion will Le determined for dollar standards on Standards, now under preparation by a suh to adjust for recent inflation, and when this is rommittoo headed by Eli M. Oboler, Idaho done, a new valid and realistic basis for dollar State College. The subcommittee had raised standards will be computed. the question as to whether Caroline Paddock's The chairman then gave a summary of sug thesis, Arcreditation Standards for the Libraries gestions from Committee members relative to (lf Professional Schools (University of Cali a restatement of the Committee's functions. No fornia, 1954) and proposed plans of the editor action was taken, but the chairman will circu of the College Blue Book for enlarging its sec larize the summary to Committee members for tion of standards of regional accrediting asso further comment. ciations might at least partially meet the need the "Standards Monograph" is designed to Arthur Hamlin, executive secretary, ACRL, meet. Discussion revealed that those present referred to the new standards for public libra believed that an arrangement of standards data ries and urged that the Committee undertake by accrediting agency was needed in addition a similar project for college and university to Miss Paddock's analysis, and that the Com libraries. He indicated that a workable plan mittee at this time should not depend on the for accomplishing this, drawn up by the Com College Blue Book as a source for the stand mittee, might be the means of obtaining a ards of all regional accrediting associations. It grant of foundation funds from the ACRL was agreed that the subcommittee should pro Board. Those present felt that this would be ceed with the monograph as planned. an important project for the Committee to undertake, and that it would logically follow It was also agreed that the Committee rec the publication of the Committee's monograph ommend Miss Paddock's thesis to the Editorial on the present standards. Board of ACRL for publication in the mono• graph series or in the microcard series. Ruth Walling 17 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 DIVISION OF CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION During the ALA Conference in Miami Beach edition of the ALA Cataloging Rules for Au the Division of Cataloging and Classification thor and Title Entries were discussed and the held four Board meetings, a business meeting Board approved motions providing for DCC and a Workshop on Card Reproduction, as well representation at a proposed International Con as sponsoring a joint program meeting with ference on Corporate Headings and at the 1957 Serials Round Table and a General Session meeting of the German Library Association. with ACRL and LED. Other functions oI the In a discussion of committee functions, it DCC were a Council of Regional Groups was decided to refer the matter of relationship Luncheon and a Punch Party and Fashion of the Membership and the Public Relations Show sponsored by the Committee on Public and Recruiting Committees to the Committee Relations and Recruiting, and meetings of the on Constitution and By-Laws. Committee ap Committee on Membership, the Code Revision pointing procedures were discussed and it was Committee, the Board on Cataloging Policy decided that with the help of the executive and Research, the Special Committee on Bib secretary to try to have a completed slate for liographic Control of Audio-Visual Materials Board approval at Midwinter. and the lnterdivisional Committee. The Board approved the following brief The Executive Board met four times during statement of responsibility of the Division: the Conference. The Board received, with no further action, a report from the Special Sub "The field of responsibility of the Division committee of the DCC Committee on Publica of Cataloging and Classification embraces all tions Appointed to Study the Proposed Merger facets of library service which are concerned of the Journal of Cataloging and Classification with the identifying, recording, organizing, with the ALA Bulletin which recommended and bibliographic control of library and that the DCC Executive Board oppose the archival materials in all types of libraries. merger. The phrase library and archival materials includes such types and forms as the follow Carlyle J. Frarey, University of North Caro ing: print, near-print, maps, music scores, lina School of Library Science, reported on manuscripts, photographs, prints, micro-re the cataloging statistics project which resulted productions, fi !ms, recordings." from the ARL recommendation that cataloging statistics be included in ARL statistics. He providing that if later developments in ALA said the report was to be submitted to the organization indicate that a return to the con editor of !CC with the hope of publishing it cept of a more comprehensive division embrac and that all materials gathered for the report ing technical services in libraries becomes pos are to be turned over to the Committee on sible, the Special Committee on Implementa Administration for further study. tion of the Management Survey be directed to rewrite the statement accordingly. Approval A tentative budget was presented and dis was also given to making the chairman of the cussed. Because of the contemplated reorgani Committee on Constitution and By-Laws a zation, and upon advice from Leo Weins, the member of the Special Committee on Imple ALA comptroller, it was decided that the mentation of the Management Survey. budget should he adopted as a working paper with provision that adjustments be made later. The Bus1NESS MEETING was held June 19 in the Empress Hotel, with Evelyn Hensel, Penn The Board approved a statement of policy sylvania State University Library, president of on payment of conference expenses for the the Division, presiding. Approximately 200 president and directed the executive secretary people attended this meeting at which amend to convey to the ALA Executive Board the ments to the By-Laws as given in the April concern of the DCC with regard to the im 1956 JGC were approved. The membership also portance of payment of a share of conference approved the formation of a Special Committee expenses of ALA councilors in the future, since on Regional Processing and a Special Commit under the reorganization, proxies will not be allowed. tee on Implementation of the Management Survey as well as an extension of the term Arrangements being made between ALA and of the Special Committee on Cataloging Ori• The Library of Congress to finance a revised ental Materials. The highlight of the meeting 18 DIVISIONS came with the awarding of the 1956 Margaret ]oumal. l'vliss Hensel stressed the need to in :\lann Citation to "Susan Grey Akers, distin crease membership and mentioned the work of guished author and teacher, leader of catalog the Committee on Membership. She reviewed ing activities in the Southeast and throughout the activities of other committees, pointing out the United States, consultant for Library Serv in particular the progress of those committees ice in Japan and Iran, for noteworthy contri at work on revising the tools of our profession. butions to library service. By precept and Miss Hensel briefly explained her hope that example she has shaped the cataloging prac in the future the Division might be able to tices of thousands of small libraries throughout establish an endowment for research, the in the country. We honor her accomplishments come from which would provide an annual and name her as one who has practiced not fellowship for research in cataloging and clas ably the high ideals of cataloging service up sifieation. held by Margaret Mann." Mary Darrah Her rick, chairman of the Committee on the Award '.\frs. Mahoney reported briefly on the activi of the Margaret Mann Citation presented the ties of the Headquarters office, mentioning Citation to Lucile Kelling, dean of the School particularly the correspondence, the necessary of Library Science at the University of North reports and the field work done in the two Carolina, in the absence of Miss Akers. years that DCC has had a paid Executive Sec retary. It was pointed out that one of the great Edward Heiliger, University of Illinois Chi advantages of having a headquarters office was cago Undergraduate School Library, chairman the improved communication and cooperation of the Committee on Cooperation with Latin with other units of ALA. American Catalogers and Classifiers, introduced the committee members from Latin America At the close of her report the executive and other Latin American catalogers who were secretary read the report of the Committee on attending the meeting. Elections. The following candidates were elect ed: president, Margaret W. Ayrault, University A report on the 16th edition of the Dewey of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.; vice Decimal Classification by the editor, David J. president and president-elect, Maud L. Moseley, Haykin, was read by the executive secretary, University of Washington Library, Seattle, Mrs. Orcena Mahoney. Wash.; treasurer, Wesley C. Simonton, Uni Miss Hensel reviewed the year's accomplish versity of Minnesota Library, Minneapolis, ments and cited particularly the work done by Minn.; directors-at-large, F. Bernice Field, the Special Committee on Implementation of Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. the Management Survey toward reorganization. and Viola Gustafson, The John Crerar Library, She called attention to the enlargement of the Chicago, Ill.; ALA councilors, Margaret Old Code Revision Committee and of negotiations father, Ohio State University Libraries, Colum for the appointment of an editor for the revised bus, Ohio; J. Elias Jones, Cleveland Public Code. Work has continued on the 16th edition Library; and Eleanor R. Hasting, Armed of the Decimal Classification. Of particular in Forces Medical Library, Washington, D. C. terest was the reconstruction of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee as a Those present were introduced to the audi joint committee of the Lake Placid Club Edu ence and Miss Hensel turned the gavel over cation Foundation and the ALA reporting to the incoming president, Margaret W. Ayr equally to the Foundation, ALA and the library ault, who spoke briefly before adjourning the profession generally. meeting. Miss Ayrault mentioned that in past years and currently the DCC is actively ·en Mention was made of completion of the gaged in trying to modernize and refine the Catalog Use Study which was supported by every day tools of catalogers: classification grants from the Norman Bassett Foundation schedules, subject heading lists, catalog codes. and the U. S. Steel Foundation. A draft report She said we must continue DCC efforts in is now being circulated to the advisors and it these areas, but should also give increased at is hoped it will be ready for publication in tention to recruiting intelligent, personable November. The Division sponsored an experi people into the library profession. ment in reporting and publishing cataloging statistics through the Journal of Cataloging June 21, 1956, the Division of Cataloging and Classification. It is expected that a report and Classification held a Workshop on Card will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Reproduction in the Empress Hotel, Evelyn 19 Alia mi Beach Conference, 1956 Hensel, Pennsyhania State University Library, tion Room of the Empress Hotel. Presiding presiding. offi cers were Jane L. Pope, University of Chi Representatives of the Addressograph-Multi cago Library, and Evelyn Hensel, Pennsylvania graph Corporation, The Haloid Company and State University Library. Approximately 300 A. B. Dick Company gave demonstrations of attended the meeting. the various machines. Dorothy Comins, Wayne University Library, Hugh Irwin, a representative for the Ad presented the program speakers on "Case dressograph-1\foltigraph Corporation gave the Studies on the Application of the Lubetzky first talk on Multilith and made the interesting .Principles to Serials." M. Ruth MacDonald, observation that a library should purchase a Armed Forces Medical Library, reported the duµlicating machine, regardless of make, when current policies and practices of the Armed a clerk's annual salary is equal or more than Forces Medical Library in regard to the oata• the cost of a duplicator. A prepared master loging of serials. S1e stated that four factors plate was placed on the Multilith and sample peculiar to the Armed Forces Medical Library cards were run off and passed around the room influenced their practices: the need for prompt for inspection. availability of current serials, the existence of the Index-Catalog, the size of the collection The second demonstration was by The Ha and the large proportion of foreign titles. She loid Company. In giving the demonstration also made the point that the Army require lecture, the representative pointed out that the ment of accountability records is met by the initial expenditures for the XeroX could not shelf-list which contains a complete record for be figured in the unit cost of reproducing each serial in one place regardless of title catalog cards until all the applications of the changes, since the original call number is re machines are explored. The usual method of tained where volume numbering is continu• using the XeroX is making plates to be used ous. She went on to explain the method <'Orporate entries, and would complicate cata stated that the choice of cataloging method loging because of added work of closing entries is not difficult for the cataloger. for each change of name, and because specified Mr. Kebabian's reply included the statement exceptions appear to be difficult to apply. that at the New York Public Library closed In Miss MacDonald"s reply she stated that stacks allowed dividing files of magazines by the principles of the Lubetzky report were not different titles without concerning the reader. being completely followed at the Armed Forces He said also that the size of the catalog was \ledi,.al Library and that the success of any of concern at the New York Public Library and plan should be judged by the general type of that applying rules and exceptions had not material handled, not the exception. She further been considered difficult by the catalogers. Catalog Code Revision Committee The Catalog Code Revision Committee held and that the Library of Congress had agreed two meetings in Chicago on June 13 and 14, to make Mr. Lubetzky available to serve as and one at Miami Beach on June 21. In addi editor. tion to members of the Committee, Hugh Chap• The Committee discussed the general prin lin of the British Museum and Seymour Lu ciples to be followed in drafting the new rules betzky of the Library of Congress took part in and agreed that the first draft should be based all meetings. Mr. Chaplin, a member of the on author or title entries only, with no so-called Cataloguing Rules Subcommittee of the (Brit "natural" entries, although it reserved final ish) Library Association, told of the work approval of the principle until it has had an done in England on the revision of the Anglo opportunity to study the resulting rules. In American Rules, which has proceeded along addition, methods of dealing with standard lines closely parallel to those proposed for code titles, form headings and collective headings revision in this country. used as subdivisions of author entries were The chairman announced that the Executive agreed on. Board of the ALA had voted 10,000 toward the expenses of the third edition of the code, Wyllis E. Wright, chairman Board on Cataloging Policy and Research The DCC Board on Cataloging Policy and which it is believed will be effective July 1, Research met June 18, 1956, at the Empress 1956, DCC will have final editorial authority Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla. The meeting was while the Library of Congress will act in the attended hy: Members of the Board: Margaret capacity of fiscal and administrative officer. Mr. C. Brown, Bella E. Shachtman, Maurice F. Wright reported that the Committee was pres Tauber, Wyllis E. Wright and John W. Cronin, ently occupied in working out problem areas chairman. Guest: Evelyn Hensel. in the statement of principles. One of the basic Mr. Wright reported on the work of the problems is to determine whether or not it is Catalog Code Revision Committee and also advisable to follow certain principles related mentioned some of the highlights of the Uni to author and title entry or to enter a work versity of Chicago Graduate Library School by its outstanding characteristic. There is Conference on "Toward a Better Cataloging danger here that entry problems and filing Code." Mr. Wright reported that the ALA Executive Board had authorized the expendi problems will be confused. Subcommittees are ture of $10,000 to be used toward the expenses being appointed which will be responsible for of editorial work in connection with catalog various aspects of code revision. It is hoped code revision. According to the contract drawn that the revised catalog code will be completed up hetween ALA and the Library of Con:Jress, in about three and one-haU years. 2'1 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Mr. Wright reported that about 150 persons tion might be made of the number of inter attended the Chicago conference. Many of the view reports obtained in this study, since the papers treated the subject from an historical mention of 5500 interview reports gives a better or theoretical point of view, but the two topics idea of the scope of the study than does the of discussion specifically related to code revi statement that 37 libraries participated in the sion were (1) the use of an author's dates study. solely for purposes of identification and ( 2) Consideration was given to the request that the entry of serials under "title as issued." the Board sponsor a meeting on documentation Those attending the conference appeared to at the Kansas City meeting. It was emphasized favor the use of "title as issued" for serials. that such a program should be designed to Approval was also expressed for doing away spark interest in the subject of documentation with the distinction made in the past code on the part of those librarians who know very between institutions and societies. Mr. Wright little about the subject. In this connection expressed the opinion that if librarians in this reference was made to a statement in the New country were to simplify rules for corporate York Times of June 17, 1956, in which it was entries to the point where they were more in reported that Dr. Lawrence C. Powell was con line with Swedish practice, acceptance by Ger cerned about "'would-be housekeepers, analysis man librarians would be more likely, and probers and planners who long to de-emphasize chances of international agreement would books, mechanize the library and change its therefore be considerably greater. A full report name to materials center.' He is worried," the of the Chicago meetings will be published in New York Times article continued, "about the October 1956 issue of the Library Quar• what are called 'bibliographic control, contact terly. points, mass media, decision-making processes, A progress report on the Catalog Use Study retrieval of information and the dissemination was prepared by Dr. Jackson on June 10, 1956, of knowledge by machine' and holds that noth and was made available to all Board members. ing better than the hook has yet been invented Dr. Jackson's report read in part: to record and transmit knowledge." Upon further discussion it was agreed to report to "In conformity with the April 20 decision the Executive Board that, if the Executive of the Board a draft report has been written Board still wanted such a program, the Board and is now being prepared for distribution on Cataloging Policy and Research wouJd to all advisors for criticism. It probably will assume the responsibility for obtaining three go out on schedule, by June 30. However, it speakers. However, the Board considers that is based very largely on the tabulated mate the most important question before the profes rial analyzed by IBM. From the rich un sion at the present time to be that of catalog coded material in the interview reports, two code revision, and recommended that this topir case studies have been composed." he given priority at the Kansas City meeting. Dr. Jackson does not plan to distribute the case Mr. Wright pointed out that wide publicity re studies with the draft but expects that they garding the activities of the Catalog Code Re will be included in the published report. Dr. vision Committee might prevent the kind of Jackson also considers that much additional criticism that followed the last revision. Each information could be extracted from the inter of several meetings planned at Kansas City \'iew reports and suggests that a casebook be might be devoted to one particular aspect of compiled which could be used to supplement the Code. standard texts in library science. The Board The Board next discussed whether or not this agreed to postpone action on this last sugges was an appropriate time to seek contributions tion until the Fall meeting. Considering the for an endowment fund, the income from which cost of IBM tabulating service, it was sug would be used for research projects. It was gested that, in the event another study required agreed that the usual sources of such funds the use of IBM tabulating equipment, the po£· were likely to require a rather specific state sibility be explored of using IBM equipment ment describing the project for which the owned by a library or an educational institu money would be used. Some foundations might tion which would be willing to permit the use be persuaded to contribute money for other of their machines. The Chairman suggested purposes than pure research. A foundation · that in the letter to Mr. Bassett reporting on which had evinced an interest in international the progress of the Catalog Use Study, men- developments might be willing to contribute 22 DIVISIONS to the expenses of an international conference. any one committee, should act as an originat It was thought that the summary report of the ing and coordinating agency and, when neces Board's activities during its first five years, sary, as a board of arbitration. The Board was which Dr. Tauber is now preparing, would be originally established to assist the Executive helpful in suggesting projects which might Board and to give attention to matters which attract foundation support. It was decided that they had insufficient time to explore. The prob following the receipt of Dr. Tauber's report lem revolves around such questions as the fol the Board would appoint one person who would lowing: In proposing studies, how specific he charged with the responsibility for drawing should the Board be? How much preliminary up a statement proposing various types of ac investigation should be undertaken before the ti, ities which might be considered appropriate study is proposed, or does this differ accord area;; for financial subsidies by outside agencies ing to the study itself? and Should the Board or foundations. deal with questions of implementation? The Reference was made to the international consensus was that the Board should avoid in study of corporate entries proposed by Dr. volvements with the studies themselves and Andrew D. Osborn. Mr. Wright and Miss confine itself to activating the work of other Hensel are drawing up a statement requesting committees. To go further than that would be that ALA prepare a letter to be sent to other to usurp the role of the Executive Board and national library organizations informing them the Committees. The Board properly acts as that code revision is under way and that rules advisory group to the Executive Board, to assist for corporate entries will undoubtedly be re the Executive Board with specialized projects. ,·ised, and inviting these organizations, if inter In some instances the Executive Board may ested, to indicate the committees or individuals wish to pass on a recommendation to a stand to be contacted by the Catalog Code Revision ing committee with the request that they study Committee. This gleaning of ideas from all cost and methodology and report back to the organizations will assist us as we look toward Executive Board. A suggestion of the Board the international conference on corporate en on Cataloging Policy and Research may, upon tries meeting under UNESCO auspices in about further consideration by the appropriate com thrtce years. mittee, be rejected. Miss Hensel suggested that, when one particular committee seemed to On various occasions in the past the func the Board to be the logical one to explore tions of the Board and its place in the DCC the problem, the Board -include the name of organizational plan have been discussed by the the committee in its recommendation for ac Board itself. The subject was again presented tion. It was also recommended that the Board for discussion at this meeting. The Board upon be permitted to sit in on one Executive Board its creation was empowered to appoint con meeting each year, at which time the Execu sultants and ad hoc committees. If numerous tive Board would have an opportunity to query consultants or committees were appointed, the Board members about the work of the Board. Board's activities could conceivably overlap those of the standing committees in the or At the close of the meeting the present offi ganization. It was thought that the Board, with cers agreed to serve for the year 1956-1957. responsibilities that are broader than those of Margaret C. Brown Council of Regional Groups The Council of Regional Groups held its an the national work of the Division. It was de nual luncheon at the Empress Hotel June 21, cided to try the experiment of a meeting of with 38 in attendance. The purpose of this the Council of Regional Groups for conducting meeting is for informal discussion of regional of Regional Group business and a joint meet J!roup and divisional business, and no formal ing with the Membership Committee at Mid program is ever planned. Margaret Ayrault, winter. Mrs. Mahoney, executive secretary of president of the Division, advanced the idea DCC, informed the representatives of her travel of the advantages of a Midwinter Meeting of plans for the fall. the Group as an additional opportunity for sharing ideas and effecting a closer tie with Henrietta Howell, chairman 23 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Membership Committee The meeting convened June 20, 1956, in the The State representatives expressed a need Card Room at the International Hotel. Commit for an up-to-date geographical list of DCC tee members and State representatives present members. The preparation of such a list may were: Mary Herrick, Boston University, who not be feasible, but the chairman agreed to served as proxy for the incoming chairman, investigate the possibilities with the Executivt> Mrs. Dorothy P. Ladd; Lucile Crutcher, head, Secretary. Catalog Department, University of Alabama; The group was in favor of approaching de Margaret C. Brown, chief of Processing, Free linquent members by means of a letter to be Library of Philadelphia; Mary Elizabeth mailed by the executive secretary next fall, if Sparks, head, Catalog Department, University the results of the ALA reorganization warrant of Louisville; Eleanor S. Lucas, cataloger, such action. Miss Brown suggested that State University of Florida; Elizabeth Peeler, head, representatives could follow up this approach Catalog Department, University of Miami; if they could be given the names of the de Thera Cavender, State University of Iowa; linquent members in their areas. Edna E. Van Syoc, head cataloger, Florida State University; Esther Shubert, catalog Margaret W. Ayrault, incoming president of librarian, University of Nebraska; and Jeanne the Division, had suggested previously to the M. Holmes, assistant chief, Catalog and Rec chairman of the Committee that a meeting ords Section, U. S. Department of Agriculture might be scheduled for J\Iidwinter to be held Library, chairman, who presided. in conjunction with the Council of Regional Groups. Even though it was agreed that at The activities of the Committee during tendance would probably be small, the group 1955/ 56 were discussed, and suggestions were felt that the potential value of such a meeting made for the revision of some projects and the would warrant an attempt to organize it for addition of others. next Midwinter. Once more the great need for promotional Miss Ayrault had also suggested that the material was emphasized. The group expressed Membership Committee might work in the the opinion that more effective material might Latin American region through the assistance be possible if it were prepared by the execu of the Latin American Committee. With the tive secretary of the Di\·ision and made avail concurrence of those present, the chairman able for use by any committee which might agreed to see whether details can be worked have need for it. out with Edward Heiliger, chairman of the Latin American Committee. It was decided that the Committee should On the basis of a suggestion made by Evelyn continue its policy of welcoming new members Hensel, president of the Division, the chairman to the Division. Those present expressed the opinion that this type of activity should be proposed that the Committee might undertake checking to expanded in an effort to decrease the number Who's Who in Li.brary Service of membership losses. locate the names of catalogers who are not members of ALA and/ or DCC. Miss Brown The importance of the work of the State reported that a suggested project of the Board representatives was stressed. The representa on Cataloging Policy and Research would in tives who were present were urged by the volve the same kind of checking of Who's Who. chairman to submit reports for inclusion in Therefore, this topic was tabled pending the Newsletter in order that new ideas can be further investigation. circularized. Jeanne M. Holmes HOSPITAL LIBRARIES DIVISION The Hospital Libraries Division held the fol Business Meeting (open) ; and Program Meet lowing meetings during the Miami Beach Con ing (open). ference: Executive Board Meeting (closed); Mrs. Suzanne McLaurin Connell, president, 24 D1v1s10Ns Air Cniversity Library, Maxwell Air Force (Mrs. Dorothy R. Bushy, Cherryfield, Me., Base, Alabama, and six other members of the chairman); Constitution Committee (Ava C. Executive Board held an informal meeting in Smith, Veterans Administration Center Moun Card Room Number 1, Cadillac Hotel, June tain Home, Tenn., chairman); Hospital Book 18. The following matters were discussed: Guide and Advisory Board (Charlotte Studer, 1. President's outline of action taken since Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Ind., editor; the Midwinter Meeting Margaret L. Wallace, Gary Public Library, 2. Revision of Hospital Libraries Gary, Ind., chairman). 3. Mailing of Hospital Book Guide Margaret C. Hannigan, National Institutes 4. Financial statement and proposed budget of Health, Bethesda, Md., gave her report as 5. Management Survey and results of the chairman of the Bibliotherapy Committee and ,·ote on the new name for the Division called on Genevieve Casey, Detroit Public 6. Outline of agenda of Business and Pro- Library, Detroit, Mich., to give the results ob gram Meetings tained from a questionnaire on bibliotherapy 7. Outline of Committee Reports which the Committee had published in Hos 8. General announcements pital Book Guide. The BUSINESS MEETING was held in the Catharine Heinz, United Hospital Fund, New El Dorado Room of the Cadillac Hotel, June York, N. Y., reported on the activities of the 19, with l\irs. Connell, president, presiding. Buildings Committee and gave an account of Approximately forty people were present. the work done by the Committee on Hospital The minutes of the Midwinter Meeting were Library Architecture of the Fund which is approved as published in the March, 1956 issue representing the Hospital Libraries Division of Hospital Book Guide. Buildings Committee. Reports of the Board of Directors were given Helen Y ast, American Hospital Association, by Mrs. Connell and Mrs. Vera S. Flandorf, Chicago, 111., gave an account of her activities secretary, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chi as ALA representative on the Inter-Association cago, Ill. Mrs. Flandorf read the minutes of Hospital Libraries Committee and asked for the Executive Board meeting and the secre the approval of the membership on two im tary's annual report; Mrs. Connell reported on portant accomplishments of the Committee the Division's financial situation and delivered the preparation of an article on hospital library the president's address to the membership. service to be published in the 1956 Adminis Reports of representatives on ALA Commit trator's Guide Issue of Hospitals and the draft tees were next on the agenda. Mrs. Connell ing of a letter about hospital library service read the report submitted by Helen E. Hilton, to be sent to the Joint Commission on Accredi Veterans Administration Center, Wadsworth, tation of Hospitals. The membership expressed Kan., the representative on the ALA Board on interest in these items and voted approval of Pers(\nnel Administration, Subcommittee to re them. vise the Code of Ethics for Librarians; Mildred In the absence of the chairman, Sherrill Mc Whorter, Veterans Administration Hospital, McMillan, U. S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, Dublin, Ga., gave her report as representative Calif., the report of the Nominating Committee on the ALA Board on Acquisitions of Library was read by Dr. Sadie P. Delaney, Veterans Materials, Committee on Reprinting. Administration Hospital, Tuskegee, Ala. The Clara E. Lucioli, Cleveland Public Library, following new officers were elected: Vice-presi Cleveland, Ohio, reported on the Council Meet dent and president-elect-Margaret O'Toole, ing which was held on June 18. Veterans Administration Hospital, Minneapolis, Committee reports were given next. Mrs. Minn.; treasurer-Alva S. Klotter, Patton State Connell read the following reports for chairmen Hospital, Patton, Calif. who were not at the Conference: Archives Mrs. Connell reported on the Division's major (Bertha K. Wilson, Veterans Administration piece of unfinished business- the Management Hospital, Downey, Ill., chairman) ; Audio Survey- and explained the action which had Visual Committee, Subcommittee on Reading been taken since the Midwinter Meeting, in Aids for the Handicapped (Dorothy E. Nie cluding th e vote on the new name for the man, Veterans Administration Center, Los An Division. geles, Calif., chairman) ; Bibliography Com There was a general discussion about the mittee, Subcommittee to edit New Horizons valuable work done by Helen Geer, ALA 25 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Headquarters Library, as the Division's liaison 1. An Institution Librarian's Viewpoint representative. A resolution was unanimously Genevieve Casey, Detroit Public Library, passed to thank Miss Geer for her able serv Detroit, Mich. ices and to have the president write to the 2. A Children's Librarian's Viewpoint-Mrs. ALA executive secretary in order to express Vera S. Flandorf, Children's Memorial appreciation. Hospital, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Connell then called for any new busi 3. A Veterans Administration Librarian's ness and general announcements to be made Viewpoint-Henry J. Gartland, Veterans from the floor. She reported on any new ap Administration, Washington, D. C. · pointments and expressed appreciation to Fos 4. A Patient's Viewpoint-Robert S. Jenssen, ter E. Mohrhardt, Department of Agriculture, 18101 N.W. 2nd Court, North Miami, Fla. Washington, D. C., who had done such good 5. An Educator's Viewpoint - Dr. Louis work as editor of Hospital Libraries and had recently resigned. In closing, she paid a tribute Shores, Florida State University, Talla to Almena Pashby, Veterans Administration hassee, Fla. Hospital, Coral Gables, Fla., and thanked her Miss Hannigan read the beautiful "Prayer for her excellent help as local chairman. for Hospital Libraries" which was written by Miss Hannigan brought greetings as presi the Dean of St. Paul's, the Very Rev. W. R. dent-elect. Matthews, published in The Bookseller, De cember, 1949 and reprinted in Library Journal, The PROGRAM MEETING was held in the Club March 1, 1950. Chalet of the Lucerne Hotel, June 20. About fifty people were present. The Armed Forces In closing, Mrs. Connell thanked the speak Section, Public Libraries Division, and the ers for an excellent program and invited the Institutions Committee had been invited to audience to have an informal discussion with meet with the Hospital Libraries Division for the speakers. this program. This was an interesting and varied program Mrs. Connell welcomed the group and intro which was well received by a most attentive duced the speakers. audience. The program was devoted to the following Suzanne McLaurin Connell, symposium on bibliotherapy: president, 1955-56 DIVISION OF LIBRARIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE The division held a membership meeting, three People's Librarians and the National Book Com meetings of its Board of Directors, jointly spon mittee in sponsoring the Wednesday evening sored a workshop on binding and joined with third ALA General Session on June 20, 1956. four other groups in sponsoring one of the ALA DLCYP president, Maxine LaBounty, coordina General Sessions. Each DLCYP section had tor, Children's Service, Public Library of the several sessions. The CLA had, in addition to District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., intro its business meeting, a meeting of its Executive duced the speaker, Jessamyn West, who talked Committee, a Storytelling Festival in three ses on The Three Rs. The Wilson Library Bulletin sions, an auction in two sessions to raise money will carry this talk. At this session, presided for the Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Fund, over by ALA second vice president, Mrs. Fran and the Newbery-Caldecott banquet. The A YPL ces Lander Spain, coordinator, Children's Serv had a two session workshop on introduction of ice, New York Public Library, the Grolier books to young people, a business meeting and Society Inc. Award for 1956 was given to a meeting of its Board of Directors. Georgia Sealoff, West Seattle High School, Seattle, Washington, for outstanding service in DLCYP joined with the American Associa reading guidance and was accepted for MiS6 tion of School Librarians, the Children's Li Sealoff by Elizabeth Clarke, librarian, Addams brary Association, the Association of Young Jr. High School, Seattle, Washington. 26 DIVISIONS The E. P. Dutton-John Macrae Award for and to appear in the March 1956 ALA Bulletin advance training in the field of children's and was recommended to division members.) young people's library services, was given to CLA chairman, Jane Darrah, Public Library, Jack Huebler, University Elementary School Youngstown, Ohio, reported on major section Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. activities. A new recruiting leaflet, Wanted - With the AASL, the DLCYP sponsored a You, the Children's Librarian, was just off the workshop on the binding of children's books, press. It is in two colors and the illustrations especially picture books. See AASL proceed were contributed by Robert McCloskey. It will ings for a report of this session. be sold through ALA Publishing Department. Facsimiles of the Newbery and Caldecott MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Maxine LaBounty Medals just produced, would be sold in packets presided over the membership meeting of the by CLA as a means of raising money for the division June 18, 1956. The minutes of the July Melcher Scholarship Fund. A packet of the 8, 1955 meeting in Philadelphia were read and facsimiles of either medal plus a list of the approved. (The Midwinter membership meet books which have received that medal, would ing of the division dispensed with formal busi be sold for one dollar. Organizations and groups ness and devoted its entire time to a panel of children's librarians were invited to obtain presentation of ALA reorganization plans as and sell the packets. they would affect the division. Moderated by Margaret C. Scoggin, vice-president and presi The three day CLA Storytelling Festival was dent-elect of the Division, the panel included announced. It was planned by Mrs. Eulalie the division president, the chairman and chair Steinmetz Ross, Public Library, Cincinnati, man-elect of both CLA and A YPL and Rose Ohio. mary Livsey, chairman of the CLA committee The Standards Committee under the chair to write a "field of interest" statement for the manship of Rosemary Livsey, Public Library, new division on children's services. The panel Los Angeles, Calif., has worked closely with the presented the "field of interest" statement for Public Libraries Division Committee on Public two newly proposed divisions, one to be con Library Standards in developing the standards cerned with the library materials and services to be presented to Council for consideration and for children, the other with the library materials approval during the conference week. It had and services for young people, The "field of also represented CLA in work with the ALA interest" statement submitted by the Public Steering Committee on reorganization matters. Libraries was read by Ruth Gregory, Public A YPL chairman, Frances M. Grim, Public Library, Waukegan, Illinois and chairman PLD Library, Cleveland, Ohio, reported that the Organization Committee. The AASL new state Activities Committee, Grace Slocum, Public ment was read by Sarah Jones, State Education Library, Brooklyn, N. Y., chairman, has ex Department, Atlanta, Ga., for Elizabeth Wil plored with library schools the possibility of in liams, City Schools Library, Los Angeles, Calif., service workshops for librarians interested in and chairman of the AASL committee on re improving their services to young people. It is organization. It was clear that further work on hoped that one or two such workshops may be the statement either by the groups or by the sponsored by A YPL in the next year or so. ALA Steering Committee to which they were submitted would be necessary in order that each The Membership Committee, Helen Haverty, represent exclusive areas of responsibility not Public Library, Washington, D. C., chairman, covered by any other group. Questions to Alice had procured reprints of the annual list, Inter Louise LeFevre, representative of the Steering esting Adult Books of 1955 for Young People Committee, and to States Mead, representative and of Mrs. Elizabeth McG. Graham's article of the management survey company, ranged The Young Adult in the Small Library. Both widely. One discussion of special interest to the would be used in promoting A YPL and the groups brought out the fact that the plan as ALA membership. proposed would not prohibit sub-organization The Workshop on introduction of books to by type-of-library within the type-of-activity di young people was announced. visions or councils, as they were called. It would prohibit, in the type-of-library divisions, sub DLCYP Committee reports were mimeo groups by type-of-activity. Widespread study graphed and had been distributed to those at and discussion of the September 1955 ALA the meeting. Reports from five committees were Bulletin report of the Council during midwintt>r included. 27 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 The Report of the Advisory Committee on the chairman. A Children's Library Committee of Selection of Books for Blind Children which the Public Library Section of IFLA was estab prepares suggestions for the Library of Congress lished and Miss Haviland was appointed to it. Division for the Blind, has nearly completed its The division was represented by Miss Havi compilation, including a number of older titles land at the Vienna meeting in September 1955 which are not now available in Braille or on of the International Board for the Youth Book. talking books. ( Chairman, Mrs. Aileen O'Brien The first announcement of winners of the Hans '.\forphy, New York Public Library). Christian Andersen A ward established by the The Design and Equipment Committee has Board last year would be delayed until the fall. outlined and planned a publication on library Miss Haviland introduced Eileen Colwell, rooms and equipment for services to children. Children's Librarian, The Burroughs, Hendon, It recommends completion and publication of England, who was visiting United States and the material under the new organization. would be one of the Festival storytellers. Miss ( Chairman, Mrs. Laura S. Pardee, Public Li Colwell extended greetings from the Youth Li brary, Flint, Mich.). braries Section of the Library Association in The Television Committee commented on the England. Picture Book Parade films and suggested that Miss LaBounty introduced Mrs. Elizabeth librarians explore their use on local TV stations. Margulis, Hational Reading and Library Com The committee also commented on the report mittee chairman of the National Congress of of NBC called "Searching Analysis of Telecasts Parents and Teachers. Mrs. Margulis indicated made by NBC Children's Program Review Com her wish to talk with librarians working with mittee" and the possibility of seeking coopera PTA groups on the state or local level. tion of other agencies such as AA UW and The completion of storytelling material for Junior League in production of TV programs. the General Federation of Women's Clubs was (Chairman, Alice K. Stevens, Public Library, announced by Miss LaBounty. Storytelling Time Kalamazoo, Mich.). by Elva Young Van Winkle was prepared in The Publications Planning Committee had response to a GFWC request to the Division suggested as most needed publications in the for material to help train volunteer storytellers. field of library work with children, a book on Carnival of Books, Ruth Harshaw's weekly all phases of public library work with children radio program on children's books began on and a pamphlet for parents, teachers and other June 9, 1956 to be done "in cooperation with the adults on the selection and purchase of hooks American Library Association." This is stated for home libraries. In the field of work with twice on each program. young people it suggested as most needed a book on all aspects of this type of work in President LaBounty sketched ALA reorgan public libraries. All three were recommended ization from the Philadelphia conference to date to the ALA Publishing Department. ( Chairman, and described the implications for the division Laura Cathon, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, and its two sections. The division would cease Penn.). to exist at the end of 1956 and would be re placed in the ALA by two divisions of a new The highlights of the International Relations type, one including librarians who work with Committee report were given hy its chairman, children, whether in school or public libraries, Virginia Haviland, Public Library, Boston, the other, those who work with young people in Mass. The committee is exploring a possible any type of library. She explained that the offi European trip to places of interest to children's cers and directors of the division and the sec· librarians and others interested in children's tions wished the help of the memebrship in books. Suggestions of places for inclusion would determining what action should be taken on be welcomed as would names of people who division projects which would otherwise cease might be interested in such a trip. when the DLCYP no longer exists. A one year supplement to the list, Children's Books Recommended for Translation, One Hun The major project on which decision was dred Books of the Last Twenty-Five Years, necessary was Top of the News. After the situa 1930-1954, had been completed. tion was presented the membership resolved it self into small discussion groups to consider the The DLCYP was represented at the Brussels steps that should be taken about that DLCYP meeting of IFLA last fall hy the committee publication. 28 D1v1s10Ns The discussion following the buzz session and the phrase "if financially feasible" was ranged from enthusiastic endorsement and de included in many comments. sire for continuation of Top of the News to the In response to a request for an expression of suggestion that it be made a part of the ALA opinion by a show of hands, the large majority Bulletin or other journals. supported continuation of Top of the News as a separate publication to be published jointly Some young people's librarians considered by the newly constituted CLA and A YPL. It this the time to separate the publication for was indicated that the subject would be further young people's from that for children's librar considered in the CLA and A YPL business ians because the emphhsis of their work is meetings and that decision and action rested chiefly on introduction of adult books and serv with these groups and their executive commit ices to young people. Some children's librarians tees. sought continuation of Top of the News as a At the conclusion of the discussion the presi joint publication of CLA and A YPL since chil dent announced that a Top of the News Review dren's librarians also have responsibility for Committee had been set up with Elizabeth John work with young people in smaller and in some son, Public Library, Lynn, Mass., as chairman larger libraries. The Regional News was de to study the strengths and weaknesses of Top of scribed as provincial and non-professional by the News and to indicate how, if it is to con• one. The financial uncertainty facing the two tinue, it should change to adapt to the needs future groups was a source of great concern and interests of the new divisions. Association of Young People's Librarians The association held two workshops, an Execu mature and talented ... they must be kept tive Board and a business meeting during the reading on a high level. Miami Beach Conference. All meetings, except Mrs. Edwards then spoke of what books to the Executive Board meeting, were held in the ofier these teen-agers. Teen-agers are on their Pompeian Room of the Eden Roe Hotel. Frances way to maturity when they learn from books and Grim, Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, chair see the problems of adults. It is good for them man of the Association of Young People's Li to see what makes people seem indispensable brarians, presided at all meetings. and why they succeeded in life or failed. We Workshop Meetings. The first workshop meet can also lead young people to take pride in the ing was held June 19th. The theme: Introducing United States by giving them books such as a Books to Young People. Speakers: Margaret A. biography of Lincoln or Edmonds' Drums Along Edwards, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, the Mohawk. Md., Olga Pobutsky, Public Library, Detroit, Mrs. Edwards spoke of librarians for young Mich., Roxanna Austin, State Department of people. They must have a passion for living, a Education, Atlanta, Ga., and Ray Fry, Public love for books and people. The YP librarian Library, Dallas, Tex. Grace Slocum, Public Li must be creative, have a knowledge of the hu brary, Brooklyn, N. Y., was moderator. man heart and a cultural background. She must Mrs. Edwards' topic was "Sugar on the lend grace and glamour to reading and wher Bread." She spoke of today's young people be ever she appears, she should "light up," for ing most affected by the changing world and hundreds of potential readers must be gathered said that we must re-examine our ways to work by bread, sugar and cream. with them. She spoke of three classes of teen Ray Fry spoke briefly on book talks. Forty-five agers: the emotionally disturbed teen-agers who minutes is an average time for a talk to a class, present a challenge to the librarian . . . any using ten to fifteen book titles, the more books project to induce them to read is good. The mentioned the better, and ending with a story. average teen-agers who are eager to live, to be He added it is a good idea to have book lists someone and to do things ... they like lots of to pass out and jackets definitely help. Mr. Fry action and war stories, with this group the YP concluded by giving a brief demonstration book librarian can expand and deepen this interest. talk, using one story from Schuman's Many And the high I.Q. teen-agers who are brilliant, Loves of Dobie Gillis. 29 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Olga Pobutsky's subject "as '·TV: a Way to too strict, that parrnts too oftcp make .. snap Introduce Teen-Agers to Books:· l\Iiss Pobutsky jud;:;ment, whereas youth wants guidance and told of the Detroit Public Library's successful understanding. weekly half hour radio program known as A second concern ,rith young people is how "Young America Looks at Books." This consists to become a more a1tractiYe, likeable person. of a panel book discussion with a young people's 60 per cent want to make new friends, they want librarian and three or four teen-agers partici people to like them better and wish they were pating. Scripts are not used, only guide ques more popular. Many want to develop more self tions are given to the teen-agers two weeks confidence and wish they could carry on a before the program, and the librarian selects conversation. the books. The radio program started in 1949. In October of 1955, "Young America" started Young people want to know how they can get on Detroit's educational TV channel. It is pat along comfortably and successfully with mem terned exactly like the radio program, except bers of the other sex. Dr. Duvall says that the visual aids are used. Miss Pobutsky added that Purdue Opinion Panel finds that 48 per cent they usually photostat any charts or jackets boys seldom have dates, and 41 per cent don't used. A hostess appears at the beginning and have girl friends. Dr. Duvall added that there ending of the program, and occasionally a guest is more parental disapproval of dates and dating is invited to appear on the show. now than in two former generations. Roxanna Austin spoke on "Discussion Groups A fourth concern of teen-agers centers around and Special Library Rooms for Young People." growing up and becoming men and women. 45 She said if you do not have a room, use a per cent of girls in the Gilbert Youth Research corner and make it attractive. A fluid collection pool of 15-17 year olds said their parents never is important, if books are kept moving you will talked with them about the facts of life, and in have YP's coming in all the time. You should a 1955 nationwide study, 76 per cent said their make them feel they are welcome in the library. parents never discussed sex education with Mrs. Austin told of the American Heritage pro them. Dr. Duvall added that youth needs a sim gram in Georgia. Ages 17-25 participated, all ple, straightforward book on facts of life. levels of education, social and economic status "How can you tell when you are really in were represented. A wide range of topics was love, and ready to get married?" is another discussed. Books and films were mainly used, question asked Dr. Duvall frequently. In an though many did not like the films because they swering this question, you should know enough were too emotional and not enough background to give real guidance about differences between given. Results from the project: an increase in love and infatuation, best age for marriage, how people available for group discussion, growth long an engagement should be, what makts of self confidence and for many, introduction to marriage good. reading that they have not done before. Dr. Duvall conducted a question and answer Ray Fry closed the first morning's meeting period after her talk. During this time such describing the special "Bob Mathias Day" in questions as "Would you put such books as Dallas ... this was the day the famous athlete Facts of Life on the open shelf?", "Is high visited the Dallas Public Library's Youth Col school marriage a trend and what are schools lection and local high schools at the invitation doing to meet this trend?", and "Do you feel of l\Ir. Fry. frank fiction has any harm on young people?" were asked. Approximately 200 persons at The second workshop was held on Wednes tended the workshop each day. day, June 20th at 10 A.M. Guest speaker was Dr. Evelyn Duvall, author of Facts of Life and ExECUTIVE BOARD MEETING. Six members of the Love /or Teen-Agers. Dr. Duvall's topic was Executive Board met in the Eden Roe Hotel, "What Young People Want to Know About June 20th. Frances Grim, chairman, presided. Themselves." She spoke of five main areas of 1. Ray Fry, Dallas Public Library, treasurer, teen-age concern, and hints as to how well their presented a rough draft of the estimated questions are being answered. budget, 1956-57. After a discussion it was moved and seconded that the chairman be The number one concern of teen-agers is their allowed travel expenses. relationship with their parents. They want their parents to listen to them and respect their opin 2. A motion was made and carried that the ions. 65 per cent say their parents' decisions are association pay the cost of the luncheon for 30 D1v1s10Ns Dr. Duvall, the DLCYP booth and the room Membership Committee. Helen Haverty, Pub of the executive secretary. lic Library, Washington, D. C., chairman, re ' 3. A letter from Geraldine Clark, Brooklyn ported the best results in recruitment were Public Library, was read by the chairman, obtained by making personal contacts through concerning the Youth Adult Council of the phone and mail, sending to libraries reprints National Social Welfare Assembly. The of "Interesting Adult Books for Young People," Board agreed to carry out Miss Clark's rec and through talks given at local and district ommendations not to join this organization, meetings. but participate only by invitation. Activities Committee. Grace Slocum, Brook 4. Activities Committee. The chairman, Grace lyn Public Library, chairman, reported on the Slocum, Brooklyn Public Library, reported plans for the workshop training for work with on the plans for a workshop at an eastern young people in an eastern university. It is w1iversity. She said the university would hoped to extend the workshop to other regions take care of the details, but AYPL would of the United States in a few years. · have to appoint a consultant. It was moved Frances Grim described the problem that has and seconded to go alwad with the experi arisen with Top of the News. TON has been mental workshop. issued jointly by CLA and AYPL, but with the 5. Membership. Helen Haverty, Washington, reorganization, a decision has to be made as to D. C. Public Library, chairman, reported whether the magazine should be issued jointly 1,500 copies of Interesting Adult Books for or should be discontinued. After a lengthy dis Young People were mailed to small and cussion a motion was made and seconded that mediuni libraries without YP work. As ol AYPL appoint a committee to work with CLA "December of 1955, there were 1,217 mem to explore ways to implement Top of the News. bers in A YPL. Miss Grim read a draft of the Statement of 6. Top of the News. A discussion was held Responsibility for the Association of Young · about the Top of the News, but no agree People's Librarians, which the Steering Com . ment \vas reached. mittee requested. The statement was accepted ..BUSINESS ME.ETING. Approximately 25 persons by the members and submitted to the Steering .atteqcled the business meeting of AYPL June Committee. 22nd in the Palladium of the Eden Roe Hotel. Jean Roos, Cleveland Public Library, gave a ' F"rances Grim, chairman, presided. The min brief report on reorganization of the American . µtes· of the last meeting were read by the secre Library Association's headquarters. · tary'. The following committee reports were "in·ade:' The results of the election were read by the secretary. The Association will have as its chair Book Selection Committee. In the absence man for 1956-57, Jane A. Ellstrom, Lakewood of the chairman, Frances Grim read the report. Public Library, Lakewood, Ohio; vice-chairman ·The list of Interesting Adult Books for Young and chairman-elect, Jane S. McClure, Free People appeared in the March 1956 issue of Library of Philadelphia, Penn.; secretary, The NEA Journal, in The Booklist and Top of the odore Peck, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Balti News. more, Md.; treasurer, Rachel Wayne, Cleveland F-irst Choice List Committee. The chairman Heights Public Library, Cleveland Heights, ~fas not present. Miss Grim reported that the Ohio; representative to DLCYP Board, Pauline . e-0mmittee hopes to have the list compiled this Winneck, Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass . ·. summer. Marian Trahan, secretary Children's Library Association The St()rytelling Festival provided conference Ross, director of Work with Children, Public goers with the opportunity to hear and enjoy Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. Each day's session ·. somi/-of the finest of storytelling. Three pro- was scheduled to honor a master storyteller. On 0'gra~s herd in La Ronde of the Fontainebleau June 19, Mary Gould Davis Day, the storytellers Hotel ·,\·ere 'planned by Mrs. Eulalie Steinmetz and their stories were: Mrs. Augusta Baker, '31 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 New York Library: "The Goat Well" from The ing the dinner the publishers of the award Fire on the Mountain, by Harold Courlander winning books, Houghton MilHin Company and and Wolf Leslau; Marjorie Dobson, Public Harcourt, Brace and Company, were hosts at • Library, Indianapolis, Ind.: "The Peddler of reception in the Cabana Terrace Gardens of the Ballaghardereen" from The Way of the Story• Eden Roe Hotel. teller, by Ruth Sawyer; Shigeo Watanabe, New Original works by illustrators of children's York Public Library: "The Old Man of the books, autographed and rare children's books Flowers" from The Dancing Kettle, by Yoshiko were sold at auction for the Frederic G. Melcher Uchida ( told in Japanese); Mary Strang, New Scholarship Fund June 20 and 21 in the Ball York Public Library: "The Nightingale," by room of the Fontainebleau Hotel. Chief Auc Hans Christian Andersen from The Art of the tioneer Jerome Cushman, Salina, Kansas, as Storyteller by Marie L. Shedlock. Stories were sisted by L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of told in memory of Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen on Congress delighted the audience with their June 20 by Eileen H. Colwell, Public Library, amusing banter and professional salesmanship. Hendon, England: "Elsie Piddock Skips in Her The 117 items sold added $3,255.00 to the Fund. Sleep" from Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field by Eleanor Farjeon; Stephanie Fraser, Enoch The BusINESS MEETING was held June 21 in Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.: "Miss Cow the Ballroom of the Fontainebleau Hotel with Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit" from Uncle Jane Darrah, CLA chairman, presiding. It was Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, by Joel voted to dispense with the reading of the min Chandler Harris; Mrs. Rosemarie Hohne, Pub utes of the last meeting. The report of the lic Library, Cincinnati, Ohio: "The Wolf and treasurer, Mary Peters, children's librarian, the Seven Kids,'' by the Brothers Grimm (told Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio, was read and in German) ; Marguerite A. Dodson, Public Li filed. The Committee Reports were accept&Newbery Medal was presented to Jean Lee Latham for her book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Recommendations: and the Caldecott Medal was awarded to Feodor That space be reserved in the fall issue of Rojankovsky for his illustrations in Frog Went Top of the News for publication of the 1956 A.-Courtin'. Their acceptance speeches will be Supplement to the list Forei.gn Children', p11blished in The Horn Book Magazine. Follow- Books Available in the United St.at= 32 DIVISIONS Mer11bership Committee Vice-Chairman and Chairman-Elect: Chairman: Barbara S. Moody, director, work Mrs. Charlemae Rollins, children's librar with Children, Free Public Library, Louisville, ian, Hall Branch, Public Library, Chicago, Ky. The Committee urged PTA Chairmen to Ill. join, sent letters to heads of departments in Secretary: Barbara S. Moody, director large libraries asking them to urge their sta_ffs of Children's Work, Free Public Library, to join, and sent a letter to the membership. Louisville, Ky. The membership total is somewhat ahead of Treasurer: Elizabeth Burr, public library last year. consultant, Children's and Young People's N ewbery-Caldecott Committee Services, Free Library Commission, Madi Chairman: Marian C. Young, chief, Chil son, Wis. dren's Department, Public Library, Detroit, DLCYP Board Member: Siddie Joe Mich. The award of the Newbery Medal to Johnson, coordinator of Children's Services, Jean Lee Latham for her book Carry On, Mr. Public Library, Dallas, Tex. Bowditch and the Caldecott Medal to Feodor Newbery-Caldecott Committee - Mem Rojankovsky for his illustrations in Frog Went bers-at-large: Isabella Jinnette, coordinator A-Courtin' were announced in Frederic G. of Work with Children, Enoch Pratt Free Melcher's office in New York on March 5, 1956. Library, Baltimore, Md. Ann Willson, first The award winners were honored at the New asst., Children's Dept., Public Library, l;ery-Caldecott Dinner at this conference. Seattle, Wash. Mary Ann Wentroth, boys' Recommendations: and girls' librarian, Public Library, Okla That an earlier start be made, perhaps a homa City, Okla. preliminary survey of spring and early Recordings Committee summer publications so that committee's Chairman: Frances Whitehead, children's li serious reading is not all confined to a few brarian, Parkman Branch, Public Library, De months. troit, Mich. The manuscript of Records /or Bors Publicity Committee and Girls has been sent to Mrs. Pauline Love, Chairman: Elizabeth Burr, library consultant, chief of ALA Publishing. Children's and Young People's Service, State Film Reviewing Committee Free Library Commission, Madison, Wis. The Chairman: Ruth Hewitt Hamilton, Public committee has succeeded in getting wide cov Library, Seattle, Wash. An article on film eval• erage in periodicals with announcements and uation and an annotated list of films was pub information about CLA activities. lished in the December, 1955 Top of the News. Recruiting Committee Recommendations: Chairman: Isabella Jinnette, Co-ordinator, That the CLA Executive Board define the Work with Children, Enoch Pratt Free Library, functions of this committee more clearly. Baltimore, Md. The chairman presented the new Books Worth Their Keep Committee recruiting leaflet "Wanted--you, the chil Chairman: Ethna Sheehan, Queens Borough dren's librarian," with drawings by Robert Mc Public Library, Jamaica, N. Y. A definitive list Closkey, which will be available from the of Books Worth Their Keep (1940-1949) ha~ DLCYP office at ALA Headquarters. been prepared. Recommendations: Recommendations: That local level recruiting be continued. That the sixty-odd mimeographed copies Nominating Committee of the list be sent to the DLCYP office for Chairman: Effie Lee Morris, children's li distribution by single copies to libraries brarian, West Farms Branch, Public Library, who wish to reproduce them. New York, N. Y. Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Policy Com Nominating Committee Elections Sub-Com mittee mittee Chairman: Virginia Haviland, Public Li Chairman: Katherine Waller, Evanston, brary, Boston, Mass. The committee has formu• Ill. The following officers have been elected lated a statement of policy which has been to serve for 1956-1957: forwarded to the ALA Executive Board for Chairman: Marian C. Young, chief, Chil formal approval. dren's Department. Public Library, Detroit, Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Fund Pub. Mich. licit)' Committee 33 Mwmi Beach Conference, 1956 Chairman: Marian Schroether, children's Ji. program of act1V1t1es that will insure the brarian, Public Library, Waukegan, Ill. Notices highest standards of library service to all about the sale of the Newbery-Caldecott seal children, and to adults working with or facsimilies and the Fund itself have been sent interested in rhildren and children's books. to library periodicals and state libraries and The professional growth and career op state associations. portunities of librarians working with chil Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship Fund Com dren. mittee Auction The production, selection, distribution, Chairman: Mrs. Carolyn W. Field, The Free promotion and interpretation of books and Library of Philadelphia. other materials used in library service to Storytelling Festival, lune 1956 Conference at children and for use with children. Miami Beach A motion was made and passed that this state· Chairman: Mrs. Eulalie Steinmetz Ross, di ment be presented to the Steering Committee rector of Work with Children, Public Library, of the ALA Mana~ement Survey. Cincinnati, Ohio. The future of Top of the News brought varied Survey Committee opinions. It was moved and carried that the Chairman: Elizabeth Gross, Enoch Pratt Free CLA Membership recommend to the CLA Exe Library, Baltimore, Md. This committee was cutive Board that Top of the News be continued reactivated at the 1956 Midwinter Meeting and after the first two issues in 1956-1957 if it is is working toward securing foundation support budgetarily possible. for the survey. Announcements Standards Committee A telegram of greetings was received from Chairman: Rosemary Livsey, director, Work the International Youth Lihrary, Munich, Ger with Children, Public Library, Los Angeles, many. Calif. The committee prepared a statement on the standards of library work with children The Autograph Party given by the Grolier which the committee chairman presented to the Society, Inc. added $467.50 to the Frederic G. Public Library Division Standards Committee Melcher Scholarship Fund. and participated in its workshop. The committee Resolutions Committee also prepared a tentative statement of CLA Chairman: Mary Ann Wen troth, boys' and Field of Responsibility which was presented to girls' librarian, Oklahoma City, Okla. The the CLA membership at the Miami Beach Con Committee, on behalf of CLA, extended their ference. gratitude and appreciation to those many indi Discussion and Other Business viduals and groups who have contributed to Discussion of the forthcoming reorganization making the 1956 conference so successful and followed. Marian C. Young read the following inspiring. Special thanks were given to Mrs. statement of responsibility toward the new or May Edmonds, for her tireless efficiency in ganization of CLA. extending hospitality and her ingenuity in CLA FIELD OF RESPONSIBILITY planning the Newbery-Caldecott dinner and to Within the organization pattern of the all those who participated in the Storytelling American Library Association the Chil Festival, making it such a memorable occasion dren's Library Association represents those and causing the spirits of those who listened to libraries which offer a program of library be refreshed and inspired anew. service to children. After the presentation of the incoming chair The Children's Library Association is man, Marian C. Young, the meeting was ad concerned with: journed. The promotion and extension of a wide Effie Lee Morris, secretary LIBRARY EDUCATION DIVISION President Sealock opened the meeting with in tion for Librarianship, and the executive assist troduction of members of the Board of Educa- ant, Mrs. Yuri Nakata, and new library school 34 ·D1v1s10Ns directors. Announcement of the appointment of The completion of the work of the cer1i6.ca· Robert Gitler, now director of the Japan Li tion under the chairmanship of Mr. Bernard brary School, as executive secretary to the Schein, Public Library, Newark, N. J., under• Board of Education for Librarianship and to taken upon the request of the Board of Educa the DivisioR taking office November 1. Present tion for Librarianship, was reported. officers of the Division and of the Teachers President Sealock introduced the speaker, Dr. Section were introduced and the election of the Jesse H. Shera, Dean, School of Library Science, following officers for the coming years were Western Reserve University, who discussed the announced: President, Dr. William A. Fitz. study of education for librarianship which Gerald, Library School, George Peabody Col Western Reserve is undertaking on a grant from lege for Teachers; vice-president and president the Carnegie Corporation. Questions as to scope elect, Mrs. Florrinell F. Morton, Library School, and method and lively discussion followed. Louisiana State University; director, John B. Nicholson, Kent State University Library. Florrinell F. Morton, acting secretary Teachers Section Florrinell F. Morton, chairman, presided at Standards and of the report of the Chicago the meeting June 20. University Workshop on the Core Curriculum?" The meeting was opened with introduction of Miss McCusker reported the findings of her the incoming chairman, Lauretta McCusker, brief questionnaire concerning the status of Iowa State Teachers College, and the newly students in graduate schools who have had elected vice-chairman and chairman-elect, Dr. under-graduate library training. A panel dis Irving Leiberman, School of Librarianship, cussion followed in which Dr. FitzGerald dis Washington University, and Board member, cussed the policy of Peabody College regarding Mrs. Rachel De Angelo, coordinator, Library such students; Irene Hayner, University of Education Program, Queens College. Michigan Library School, spoke to the point of the recruiting value of undergraduate Coral Melson, reporting for the chairman, courses; and Mrs. De Angelo described the fully Dr. Pauline O'Melia, gave a summary of the integrated undergraduate-graduate program in results of the questionnaire designed and dis library education at Queens College. Questions tributed by the Curriculum Study Committee in and discussion from the floor followed each an effort to answer the question: "To what ex presentation and rounded out the subject under tent do institutions offering library education consideration. conform to the basic philosophies of the AACTE Florrinell F. Morton, chairman PUBLIC LIBRARIES DIVISION At the ALA Annual Conference in Miami of PLO presented a program and the Notable Beach the Public Libraries Division held one Books Committee sponsored an ABC Party at membership meeting, which was devoted to re which books were discussed informally by the ports and other business, and also sponsored an gues~ in small groups. ALA general session on Notable Books. The PLO president Mildred W. Sandoe, Cincin• Division's board of directors met four times. nati Public Library, presided at the membership Each of the five PLO Sections, Adult Education, meeting in the Grand Ballroom of the Fon American Association of Library Trustees, tainebleau Hotel on the morning of June 19. Armed Forces Librarians, Library Extension, Approximately 900 persons were in attendance and Reference, held business meetings and spon as reports were given by the president, the sored programs. The Architecture Committee executive secretary, and the presidents of the 35 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 five sections. (For complete reports, see Public Gregory, and the survey of the Division, as part lion in PLO and in the Armed For Libraries, September 1956.) Reports were also of the ALA management survey, under Mias heard from the chairman of the Coordinating Sandoe. Now, under the incoming president, ians Section was promoted by mea Committee on the Revision of Standards and John Eastlick, the cycle was complete, and the letters sent to service librarians eni its Subcommittee on Promotion of the Revised time for "organizing the Division" had again the advantages to be gained in belon Standards. returned. Miss Kee brie0y mentioned the ac professional organization, and enclos tivities of the PLD Office during the past year, bership blanks to simplify the me President Sandoe, in reporting on the state joining. of the Division, limited herself to the develop which included editing and production of The ments of the four months since her report to PLD Reporter and Public Libraries, advisory For the Library Extension Section, Council at the Midwinter Meeting. She made services through correspondence and field work, dent, Verna Nistendirk, Boonslick R the official announcement to the membership of Division organizational work, and work with brary, Sedalia, Mo., told of the Secti , the resignation of S. Janice Kee as executive outside agencies including the University of During the year revisions were und secretary, effective August 31, 1956. Miss Kee Chicago Home-Study Department, the Inter three important publications in the Ii had accepted the position of secretary, Wiscon national City Managers Association, the Gen tension-Merrill's Regional and Di sin Free Library Commission, to start Septem eral Federation of Women's Clubs, Kiwanis brary Laws, a publicity flyer titled ber 1. Miss Sandoe paid tribute to Miss Kee's International, the Arkansas Junior Chamber of or /f.egional Library Serves All the Pe high qualities of character and leadership which Commerce, and the American Heritage Founda the Farmer's Bulletin, Rural Librari had made her invaluable to the Division in her tion. The membership of the Division was re In preparation also were "Case Studies four and a half years as executive secretary, and ported as 5,825. County Units" and a five-year study mobile operational costs. During the on behalf of the Division she thanked Miss Kee Edith Foster, president of the Adult Educa Section gathered together a collectio~ for her service. In selecting a successor to Miss tion Section, West Georgia Regional Library, prints illustrating rural library servi Kee the Division will work closely with the Carrollton, Ga., reported on the year's activities pictures were turned over to the A ALA executive secretary, Miss Sandoe said. of the Section, including the preparation of a quarters Library where they are avai Suggestions of possible candidates were solic list of resource people in adult education, the loan. The Section will continue its ited from the membership. formulation of a field of interest statement for education and training of extension l Miss Sandoe spoke of the accomplishments the proposed Adult Education Division, and the with the cooperation of the Library E normal organizational activity of the Section. of the Division during the year, among which Division. were the completion of the revision of standards Frank Milligan, of Jefferson, Iowa, president for public libraries, the focusing of attention on Dorothy Truesdale, chairman of t~ of the American Association of Library Trustees notable books, and the survey of reference serv ence Section, Rochester (N. Y.) Publio told of the work of the Section in setting up the ice conducted by the PLD Reference Section. told of the progress that had been mal framework for the organization of the AAL T, She expressed the thanks of the Division to the Survey of Reference Service in AmericJ and looked forward to great activity in the Sec H. W. Wilson Company and the Grolier Society Libraries by the committee under ti tion during the coming year. for contributing funds to finance the survey. manship of Mrs. Frances Neil Cheney. Mildred Hammond, U. S. First Army, Gov also of the adoption by the Section of In speaking of the passage of the Library ernor's Island, New York, president of the policies modeled on those of the Pl Services Bill Miss Sandoe pointed out the chal Armed Forces Librarians Section, emphasized braries Division, and of the continuing lenge that it brings to the entire library profes the revision of the Industrial Arts lnd1 sion and called on the members of the Division three projects in reporting for the Section: (1) Joint Committee on Wilson Indexes. to meet the challenge. "Book Selection; a Guide for Armed Forces Ml Librarians" has been completed and will be dale reviewed the organizational work S. Janice Kee gave a brief review of the Divi distributed in the near future to Armed Forces been done by the Reference Sections sion during the time she had been executive librarians. This guide to book selection policies a_nd of ACRL tow_a~d. their union in t~ secretary. She began with the administration of was prepared for use of Armed Forces librarians t10n of a new D1v1s1on of Library ~ Harold Brigham, the first president of the en in charge of general libraries at bases, posts and Services as recommended by the ALA larged Division which had just been formed stations. Librarians from Army, Navy, and Air ment Survey. from the Public Libraries, Extension, and Trus Force in the east-central area of the United Dr. Lowell Martin, Rutgers Univers tees Divisions, and continued through the ad States have cooperated in the project; (2) Out Brunswick, N. J., chairman of the Coor ministrations of Ruth Rutzen, Jack Spear, Ruth lines for a talk were prepared and forwarded Committee on the Revision of Post-Wa Gregory, Mildred Sandoe. She spoke of the to staff and command librarians, with the sug ards, reported the completion of the work of organizing the new Division with its gestion that librarians be encouraged to speak and the acceptance of the finished d five Sections, under Mr. Brigham and Miss to student groups on library service as a career. by the PLD Board of Directors and t Rutzen, the establishment of The PLD Reporter Along with the talk outlines are a list of ma Council. He emphasized tho fact that and the beginning of revision of a number of terials for use in developing the outline, pam standards stressed cooperation among l important publications including Post-War phlets prepared as recruiting aids by various and offered encouragement to libraries Standards for Public Libraries under Mr. Spear, agencies, and a list of accredited library the formulation of needed policies under Miss for better service to their public. E, schools; (3) Membership in ALA with affilia- programs aimed at librarians, trustees 36 DIVISIONS tion in PLO and in the Armed Forces Librar• general public should be undertaken to assist ians Section was promoted by means of 525 in the interpretation and implementation of letters sent to service librarians emphasizing the new standards. the advantages to be gained in belonging to a The Sub-Committee on Promotion of tl1e Re professional organization, and enclosing mem• vised Standards, represented by its chairman, bership blanks to simplify the mechanics of Mrs. Janet Z. McKinlay, Public and School joining. Library Services Bureau, New Jersey State De For the Library Extension Section, its presi• partment of Education, reported on various dent, Verna Nistendirk, Boonslick Regional Li means of publicizing and promoting the stand brary, Sedalia, Mo., told of the Section's work. ards. These include a kit of materials composed During the year revisions were under way of of: (1) An abbreviated, popular version of the three important publications in the field of ex standards aimed at librarians, trustees and gov• tension-Merrill's Regional and District Li ernment officials; (2) A film strip and script brary Laws, a publicity Ayer titled A County showing library activities; and (3) A discus• or lf.egional Library Serves All the People, and sion manual for use in groups of librarians and the Farmer's Bulletin, Rural Library Service. trustees. It was proposed that appropriate ma In preparation also were "Case Studies of Multi terials should be sent to leading TV and radio County Units" and a five-year study of book stations and an article on the standards be sub mobile operational costs. During the year the mitted to a leading national magazine. The sub Section gathered together a collection of glossy committee felt that the final preparation, pro• prints illustrating rural library service. These duction and promotion of these materials should pictures were turned over to the ALA Head be put into professional hands. quarters Library where they are available for President Sandoe introduced the incoming loan. The Section will continue its study of president of the Division, John T. Eastlick, di education and training of extension personnel rector, Denver Public Library, who spoke brief with the cooperation of the Library Education ly of the problems and difficulties involved in Division. the reorganization of the Division during the coming year. He was firm in the belief that it Dorothy Truesdale, chairman of the Refer would emerge as a stronger and more effective ence Section, Rochester (N. Y.) Public Library, Division. He solicited the aid of the member• told of the progress that had been made in the ship in this task. Survey of Reference Service in American Public Libraries by the committee under the chair The officers of the Division for 1956-57 were manship of Mrs. Frances Neil Cheney. She told introduced. In addition to Mr. Eastlick, presi also of the adoption by the Section of financial dent, they are: Arthur Parsons, Jr., director, policies modeled on those of the Public Li Omaha Public Library, vice-president and presi braries Division, and of the continuing work on dent-elect; Harold W. Tucker, librarian, Queens the revision of the Industrial Arts Index by the Borough Public Library, treasurer; and Dorothy Joint Committee on Wilson Indexes. Miss Trues K. Smith, interim executive secretary. It was dale reviewed the organizational work that had announced that Mrs. Smith would serve in this been done by the Reference Sections of PLD capacity until the 1957 Midwinter Meeting, or and of ACRL toward their union in the forma• until the position of executive secretary is filled tion of a new Division of Library Reference if the appointment should be made before the Services as recommended by the ALA Manage Midwinter Meeting. ment Survey. The board of directors met four times during Dr. Lowell Martin, Rutgers University, New the Conference, giving most of its attention to Brunswick, N. J., chairman of the Coordinating discussion of the ALA reorganization as it ap Committee on the Revision of Post-War Stand plied to the Division, the new statement of pub ards, reported the completion of the project lic library standards and its promotion, the im and the acceptance of the finished document plementation of the Library Services Act, and by the PLD Board of Directors and the ALA the procedure to be followed in selecting a Council. He emphasized th« fact that the new successor to Miss Kee. standards stressed ~ooperation among libraries, Dr. Lowell Martin, chairman, Coordinating and offered encouragement to libraries to strive Committee on the Revision of Standards, upon for better service to their public. Education the request of President Sandoe, gave a brief programs aimed at librarians, trustees and the review of the project of revisi11.g Post-War 37 .\Jiami Beach Conference, 1956 Standards /or Public Libraries. Expressed in of three prepared the following brief definition for the position, and submit th the discussion that followed, was enthusiastic which was accepted by the board: to the ALA executive secretary. approval of the document and recognition that "The Public Library Association repre 2) The ALA executive secretary w' an intense promotional and educational cam sents and is responsible for the advance a job description for the posr paign would be necessary on the part of state ment and expansion of public library serv question, which will be review Ii brary agencies and state library associations ice to all ages, in all kinds of life situations approved by the Executive Co for interpretation and implementation of the in various types of communities. The As of the PLD Board of Directors. new standards. This committee is to continue: sociation is also responsible for the co ( 1) evaluation of these standards as they are ordination of the activities of all our units 3) The ALA executive secretary ' applied to different situations, and (2) research within the ALA that relate to this type respond with the candidate. and collection of data to specialize the stand of library and for a program of service to furnish the PLD Executive Co ards. individuals and groups who constitute the with background material on al dates and his rating on them, The board voted approval of the document, Association." , establishing the top three can Public Library Service; A Guide to Evaluation The board voted to accept the recommenda with Minimum Standards. Mrs. Janet McKin tion of the chairman, PLD Membership Com 4) The PLD Board will consider lay, chairman of the Sub-Committee on Promo mittee, that this committee be suspended for three candidates and make rec tion of the Revised Standards reported on the one year to allow time for the over-all ALA dations for the final appointmen work of the sub-committee. Her report was sub membership effort to develop. ALA Executive Board. stantially the same as that given at the PLD The report of the Elections Committee was The Board endorsed a resolution su membership meeting (see above). accepted. The fol!owing candidates were elect by the American Association of Libra The procedure for selecting the successor to ed: Vice-President and president-elect: Arthur tees, in which they requested considera S. Janice Kee was discussed. It was decided at Parsons, Jr., Omaha Public Library. ALA the trustee interest and programs in th the first meeting of the board that more infor councilors representing the Division: Sigrid tion of a successor to S. Janice Kee. mation on the ALA Headquarters Staff or Edge, Simmons College School of Library ganization was necessary in order to determine Science; John G. Lorenz, Michigan State Li The PLD Board authorized the establ\ the job description of the person to be selected. brary; Evelyn Day Mullen, Alabama Public of the Coordinating Committee for the The Board voted to approve the appointment Library Service Division; Violet F. Myer, Enoch Services Act. The function of this spec· of Dorothy K. Smith, assistant to the executive Pratt Free Library; Bernard W. Van Horne, Li mittee is to identify the problems in secretary, as interim executive secretary for the brary Association of Portland, Ore. menting the new law and to seek solul period September 1 until the 1957 Midwinter A report of the ALA Statistics Committee, these problems through action of the Meeting. Additional salary, in a form of a bonus which proposed a clearing house for library tee, by the establishment of subcommit at the rate of $1,000 a year, was approved for statistics, was reviewed and considered. The study and action, and by involving vario Mrs. Smith during this period. In the event board voted approval of the report and in within the ALA or by referring projects a successor is not chosen by the time of the Mid structed the executive secretary to send a letter units. The board voted to ask the ALA winter Meeting, a re-negotiation with Mrs. of request to the executive secretary of ALA, tive Board to (1) designate this rom Smith will be made, it was decided. asking that the need for a clearing house, ex A report of the ALA Steering Committee on pressed in the report, be given consideration in Implementation of the Management Survey, the reorganization of the ALA Headquarters Library. dated June 21, 1956, was reviewed for the board Adult by Ruth W. Gregory, chairman, PLD Division A proposed tentative Division budget for Organization Committee. Miss Gregory also pre 1956-57, prepared by the ALA comptroller and The Adult Education Section met sented a working paper in which the Division's PLD executive secretary, was presented, dis with fifty members attending. Presiden field of interest statement of ten primary in cussed and approved as a working budget until Foster opened the SPssion hy callin~ f terests (see Public Libraries, March, 1956) was further information about the reorganization port from Robert Ake, chairman of th translated into "field of responsibility." She re affecting financing of the Division is made Education Resources Committee. lated the ten interests to the definition of func available. tion of type-of-library divisions, as outlined by The procedure for selecting a successor to June Bayliss, treasurer of Adult E SCIMS, as the 1956 Midwinter Meeting (see S. Janice Kee was discussed and approved at Section, gave a complete financial repor Public Libraries, September, 1956). The board the meeting of the board on June 22. Miss ing a balance of $792.22 as of May 31, voted acceptance of the statement of responsi Sandoe and Mr. Eastlick reported a conference Minutes of the Philadelphia me bility, as presented by Miss Gregory. with the ALA executive secretary in which the meeting were read and approved. President Sandoe announced the request of following steps for selecting the successor were agreed upon: Lucy Lomax, secretary of Adult E SCIMS for a one- or two-sentence definition Section, gave the report of the Objecti of the Division's field of responsibility for use on 1) The PLD past-president will continue Activities Committee in the absence ALA membership forms. A board committee to compile a list of potential candidates chairman, Mrs. Helen Lyman Smith. 38 DIVISIONS for the position, and submit the names represent the ALA in the coordinating function to the ALA executive secretary. outlined above, (2) to consider special financial 2) The ALA executive secretary will write assistance to this committee and (3) to recom a job description for the position in mend additional persons for appointment to the question, which will be reviewed and committee. approved by the Executive ComDlittee The board also voted to call to the atten of the PLD Board of Directors. tion of the ALA executive secretary an im 3) The ALA executive secretary will cor mediate need for finances to call a meeting of respond with the candidate. He will this committee and request his consideration furnish the PLD Executive Committee of use of a recent anonymous gift to the ALA with background material on all candi earmarked for the purpose of planning for the dates and his rating on them, thereby use of federal funds in rural library develop establishing the top three candidates. ment. President Eastlick announced the probability 4) The PLD Board will consider the top of being called upon to represent the Division three candidates and make recommen at a meeting in Chicago in October to make dations for the final appointment by the decisions on the reorganization of ALA Head ALA Executive Board. quarters. The board authorized Mr. Eastlick The Board endorsed a resolution submitted to speak for the Division in this meeting. by the American Association of Library Trus Miss Kee announced the re-appointment of tees, in which they requested consideration of Mrs. Inez Herrig to a 2-year term as national the trustee interest and programs in the selec chairman of the General Federation of Women's tion of a successor to S. Janice Kee. Clubs' Library Division. Mrs. Herrig will con The PLD Board authorized the establishment tinue the "Know and Grow" program during of the Coordinating Committee for the Library her term of office. Services Act. The function of this special com Miss Kee also told of the plans for radio mittee is to identify the problems in imple publicity during the Miami Beach Conference. menting the new law and to seek solutions of A radio program originating in Miami had been these problems through action of the commit turned over to ALA on Wednesday night from tee, by the establishment of subcommittees for 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. It was to be called "Library study and action, and by involving various units Open House" and Dr. Sessa was to be the host within the ALA or by referring projects to these for the program. Representatives of PLD's five units. The board voted to ask the ALA Execu sections were to be interviewed by Dr. Sessa tive Board to (1) designate this committee to during the hour allotted to PLD. Adult Education Section The Adult Education Section met June 20 Mrs. Muriel Javelin, president-elect, Adult with fifty members attending. President Edith Education Section, explained the significance Foster opened the session by calling for a re and progress of the Library-Community Project. port from Robert Ake, chairman of the Adult This was followed by questions and discussion Education Resources Committee. regarding the LCP. June Bayliss, treasurer of Adult Education The president recognized the presence of Section, gave a complete financial report, show Malcolm Knowles, consultant of the Adult Edu ing a balance of $792.22 as of May 31, 1956. cation Conference Workshop and expressed ap preciation for his invaluable assistance in the Minutes of the Philadelphia membership Workshop. meeting were read and approved. The president recognized the presence of Lucy Lomax, secretary of Adult Education Fern Long, chairman of Adult Education Board. Section, gave the report of the Objectives and The Section expressed appreciation of the Activities Committee in the absence of the fine work done by S. Janice Kee, executive chairman, Mrs. Helen Lyman Smith. secretary, Public Libraries Division. 39 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Mrs. Muriel Javelin expressed the Section's Room of the Broadripple Hotel. Robert S. Ake, gratitude to the retiring president, Edith Foster. chairman of the Committee presided. The Secretary announced that the new of Mr. Ake reported on returns from question ficers elected by the Section are: Hannis Smith, naires up to that date and asked for criticism consultant, Wisconsin Free Library Commis and suggestions from Committee members. Ruth sion, director; Ida Gosh kin, director of Group Warncke, director of the ALA Library-Com Services, Akron Public Library, vice-president munity Project commented on the usefulness and president-elect; l\Irs. Lura Currier, direc of the returns to that date and gave helpful sug tor, Mississippi Library Commission, secretary. gestions throughout the meeting. The new officers present were introduced. Miss Several suggestions were made for ways in Foster turned the meeting over to the incoming which the questionnaire might be clarified and president, Mrs. Muriel Javelin, who adjourned suggestions were made as to how the Resources the session. File might be kept up to date. Ways in which The Conference program of the Adult Edu the Resources File might be made more useful cation Section proceeded throughout the week to the various states were also discussed. in the cooperative adult education workshop, It was decided that a follow-up letter would with Mrs. Muriel Javelin serving as coordinator. be sent to each representative in the early fall. This letter would include points clarified at RESOURCES COMMITTEE the meeting, suggestions of ways in which more The PLI) Adult Education Section, Resomces completed questionnaires might be secured and Committee met for a progress report and dis possible uses of the File. cussion of problems June 21, 1956 in the Card Edith Foster American Association of Library Trustees The American Association of Library Trus organization of the National Assembly of Li tees held a program and bus.iness meeting and brary Trustees. He stressed the importance of a banquet at the Miami Beach Conference, and having a delegate from each state at the 1957 the executive board of the Association met Conference. These delegates would deliberate five times. on questions at large and program objectives, The combined business meding and program act as a consultative body, and take back the was held at the Eden Roe Hotel June 21, at thinking of the assembly to their own state 10:00 A.M. The AALT president, Frank T. groups. This procedure would remove the greet Milligan, Jefferson, Iowa, presided. A panel of est stumbling block in the trustee organization, library trustees, moderated by Harold J. Baily, namely lack of communication. · trustee of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Public Library President Milligan presented the trust~ discussed the question, "How Can Our Public action program for 1956-57, which had been Libraries Help Make The United States a developed by Channing Bete, public relations Nation of Readers and Thinkers'?" Participants counsel and library trustee of Greenfield, Massa on the panel were: Mrs. W. Howard Smith, chusetts. This program, which follows, was Florida State Library Board; Mrs. Ella V. unanimously adopted by the Section. Aldrich Schwing, author and trustee, Plaque inine, Louisiana; Irving Siegler, Newark (N. J.) Trustee Action Program for 1956-57 Library Board; Mrs. '.Werlin Moore, Little Rock, I. Develop a state plan that: Arkansas, chairman of the Arkansas State Li l. Sets a new high goal for library senice brary Commission Board; and James McCain, basoo on new revised standards Guntersville, Alabama, Alabama Library Trus tees Assoclation. 2. Uses federal funds as seed money, not as welfare Mr. Milligan gave a brief progress report on the Trustees Section under their new constitu 3. Has a 5-year timetable of accomplishm@nt tion and by-laws during the past year, and re II. Educate the public-via "Operation Li viewed briefly the plans for comp!etion of the brary" and other publicity on 40 DIVISIONS 1. The new library standards crat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi, also author, Pulitzer prize winner and former Ji. 2. State plan brary trustee. He described the various citizen 3. The local library and its services bodies which act as safeguarding forces through III. Build up trustee enthusiasm and activity, by their special concerns with various phases of community life. Library trustees, he pointed out, 1. State and regional trustee meetings constitute the only really effective safeguardcrs 2. Membership in ALA ( at least one member of the people's right to read. "It is their respon per trustee board) sibility to see that the library is not destroyed," 3. A two-day trustee workshop in Kansas City he said. "Unless they act progressively the li based on the theme "Information Un brnry will be sterile and controlled by pro limited-A Modern Library for Today's fessional patriots. Without the free library, our World" country cannot remain free." 4. A new bulletin-"The Library Trustee." The executive board of AALT discussed the following: development of an action program The members of the Section adopted a resolu for the year; increase of membership in the tion to support the Junior Chamber of Com Section; plans for the Kansas City Conference; merce in their efforts to place '·Operation Li support of the Jaycee project "Operation Li brary" on their national agenda, and to tele brary"; a plan to reactivate the resolution graph the fact of this action by the AAL T to adopted by the Section in 1955 for cooperative the national headquarters of the U. S. Junior effort with library schools to include in their Chamber of Commerce. curriculum a course on trustee responsibility The annual Trustees' Dinner was held at the and trustee-librarian relations; a resolution re Eden Roe Hotel at 6:30 P.M., June 21. Mr. questing consideration of trustee interests and Milligan presided. The speaker of the evening programs in the selection of a new executive was Rodding Carter, editor of The Delta Demo- secretary for the Public Libraries Division. Architecture Comn1ittee The Architecture Committee held three simul Public Library, Fairfax County, Va.; Russell taneous two-hour work shop meetings on June Bailey, architect, Orange, Va.; Charles M. 20. Attendance totaled 145. At each session Mohrhardt, associate director, Public Library, varied building plans were presented and dis Detroit, Mich.; William Chait, librarian, Public cussed. Library, Kalamazoo, Mich.; James Albert, architect, Kalamai;oo, Mich.; Emerson Green On the basis of the enthusiasm displayed by away, director, Free Library, Philadelphia, Pa. those who attended these meetings it will be necessary to present the same type of pro Also, William F. Morse, librarian, Public Li gramming at the 1957 Annual Conference of brary, Ardmore, Okla.; Estellene P. Walker, the American Library Association. librarian, State Library, Columbia, S. C.; All three meetings were coordinated by Ray Harold D. Martelle, Jr., administrative assistant, mond E. Williams who, on very short notice, Wayne County, Detroit, Mich.; Raymond C. served as acting chairman at the Conference. Lindquist, director, Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. Participants included: Mrs. Mildred Schulz, librarian, Public Library, East Moline, Ill.; E. Presiding Officers were: Harold W. Tucker, Caswell Perry, librarian, Public Library, Bur director, Queens Borough Public Library, bank, Calif.; Mrs. Mary B. Bloom, librarian, L. I., N. Y.; Mrs. Kathryn A. Devereaux, Ji. Public Library, Lakewood, Ohio; Bryon C. brarian, Public Library, Moline, III.; Arthur H. Hopkins, director, Public Library, East Orange, Parsons, Jr., director, Public Library, Omaha, N. J. Neb. Also, Mrs. Mary K. McCulloch, librarian, Keith Doms, chairman 41 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Armed Forces Librarians Section The PROGRAM MEETING of the Armed Forces reference service, reference centers should be Section was held in the Pompei Room of the provided with telephone or teletype communi Sorrento Hotel, July 21, 1956. Approximately cation in order to expedite the service. 120 attended. A luncheon followed the workshop. The Mildred Hammond, staff librarian, Hdqtrs. speaker, Brigadier General Fred M. Dean, Vice First Army, Governor's Island, N. Y., president, Commander, Flying Training Air Force, Waco, presided. Texas, spoke on "Techniques for Attracting, The progi·am subject, "Military Resources in Satisfying and Holding the Military Reader". Reference Services", was carried out through At the business meeting which followed the talks and a workshop. Sarah R. Reed, assistant luncheon it was decided the projects for the professor, School of Library Science, Florida ensuing year include (1) the investigation of State University, Tallahassee, discussed trends the need for a union catalog of unit histories in public library reference service during the in the Armed Forces Libraries be made by a period 1945-1955. committee, and (2) that a committee be ap Paul J. Burnette, director, Army Library, pointed to study the application of the minimum Washington, D. C., summarized briefly the standards of public library service to Armed history, function, and services of the Army Forces Libraries. Library. Virginia A. Staggers, chairman of the Public Dr. Louis Shores, dean, School of Library Relations Committee, reported the outlines for Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, a speech on library service were prepared and discussed a list of twenty current reference forwarded to command librarians with the sug books which in his opinion may be of interest gestion that outstanding librarians in each com and value to Armed Forces Libraries. mand be encouraged to arrange to speak to Laura Lewis, chairman of the Program Com student groups on library service as a career. mittee, conducted a workshop at which these Bibliographies and the latest list of accredited conclusions were given as a result of group library schools were attached to the speech out discussions of pertinent questions: ( 1) refer lines to be used in expanding the outlines. ence service should be given to the fullest extent possible, ( 2) assistants should be carefully Miss Staggers also said that the forms for screened and have at least high school educa reporting personnel changes in · the Library tion plus on-the-job training, (3) greater use Journal were approved. Duplicate copies of the should be made of inter-library loan facilities, form were forwarded to command librarians (4) periodical indexes for military magazines for their use. are needed, (5) military unit histories are of The nominating committee reported results value as reference material, but a complete list of the 1956 election. The new officers are of these histories is not available, ( 6) more president, Alice Hoskinson, base librarian, publicity is needed to inform readers of refer Naval Station, Newport, R. I.; vice-president ence service, (7) no arbritrary time should be and president-elect, Ann Kirkland, headquar set for the searching of needed reference ma ters, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Air Force teriaf and, if necessary, the talents and knowl Base, Calif.; secretary, Nellie McAlpine, head edge of the entire staff be used in finding the quarters, First Air Force, Mitchell Air Force material, ( 8) because of the importance of the Base, N. Y. Library Extension Section The Library Extension Section met in business Sedalia, Mo., who· had served the Section as session on June 21 at 10 A.M. in the North Card president during the year · just ending. The Room of the Empress Hotel. Presiding was principal business of the session was a con Verna Nistendirk, Boonslick Regional Library, sideration of the status of the Se.ction in the ,42 DIVISIONS ucw ALA organization. those of the Public Libraries Division, and that their professional needs would be better satis The discussion included the pros and cons fied by dissolving the Library Extension Sec of the several possible· places where extension tion and remaining, as individual members, in librarians might find their niche. These were: the Public Libraries Division without Section (1) as a committee, ( 2) as a type-of-activity affiliation, than by organizing a new Division division, ( 3) as a section, ( 4) as individuals, of Library Extension. It was voted that the with no group organization, (5) as a unit of Library Extension Section would cease to exist the new Division of State Libraries. December 31, 1956, and that any unfinished After considerable discussion the members Section projects would be taken over and com decided that their interests were essentially pleted by the Public Libraries Division. Notable Books Council The Notable Books Council sponsored an ABC although there was no attempt made to govern (Authors, Books, Conversation) Party June 19, the topics of conversation at the various tables in the Coronation Room of the Empress Hotel. as long as they dealt with books and reading. Most of the 500 persons who attended the party A tall cool drink was served to the partici went directly from the afternoon general session on Notable Books. The guests who assembled at pants, and during the course of the afternoon the Empress Hotel were seated at tables in Mrs. Florence S. Craig, 1955 chairman of the groups of eight, including a host or hostess for Notable Books Council, acted as mistress of each table. The hosts had brought books which ceremonies. The sixty-seven hosts including out might be used as spring boards for "book talk," standing librarians, authors and publishers. Reference Section Meeting was called to order by Dorothy Trues funds shall be delegated to the American Li dale, senior librarian, Business & Economics brary Association, provided, however, that all Division, Rochester (N. Y.) Public Library, disbursements shall be made under the direc chairman, J1;1,ne 20. tion of the Board. New officers were announced: vice-chairman The Treasurer sent in a report of balance to and chairm:an-elect, Peter J. McCormick, head, date of $1084.94. Reference Ser~ice, Milwaukee Public Library; Committees then presented their reports: secretary, Geo~gia Gambrill, principal librarian, I:leference Dept., St. Louis Public Library; BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE. treasurer, Bernard F. Downey, Jr., head, Busi No activity due to proposed merger. Com nes~-Technology Dept., Trenton (N. J.) Free mittee will continue to function under re !:',L. organization. The revision of the Reference Section by COMMITTEE ON WILSON INDEXES. During laws, Article IV, Section 2 (cl) was stated. In 1955-56 the three committees representing order to make the Section's financial practice the Public Libraries Division, the Associa conform to ALA policy, it was voted that tion of College & Reference Librarians and krticle IV, Section 2 (cl) be changed to read the Special Libraries Association continued as follows: Article IV-Officers and Duties. Sec. to operate as a combined committee on 2· (cl;) Treasurer. The treasurer shall represent Wilson indexes. The Committee was the Executive Board in all financial matters and divided into two sub-committees, the Ap shall report on the financial condition of the plied Science & Technology Subcommittee Section at the annual business meeting. The with Henry M. Fuller and later Ralph H. receipt, distribution and auditing of Section Phelps as sub-chairman and the Business 43 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Periodical Subcommittee with Mrs. Jane Cincinnati Public Library; Rose Vormelker, Schuyler and Evelyn E. Kirkland as co• assistant director, Cleveland Publie Library; chairmen. Both subcommittees met fre and Mrs. Cheney, chairman. Assisted ably by quently to examine periodicals in their Janice Kee, ALA, a11d her staff, Helen Lyman fields and to prepare a master list of titles and Ralph Dunbar. Contributions from the Ref to be considered for indexing. Combined erence Section, H. W. Wilson Company and the lists include about five hundred periodical Grolier Society, Inc., allowed for tabulation and titles-almost double the number (243) printing of the returns. State library agencies now being indexed. An alphabetical list and several state associations assisted in the was sent to Industrial Arts subscribers to mailing of the questionnaires. 60% return. Some ascertain how many received any or all of errors in reporting were discovered. Libraries these prospects. Out of 2,821 subscribers, serving less than 10,000 were not included (sug 2,189 responded. This was the highest re• gestion from the state agencies). The Smith sponse ever received by the H. W. Wilson classification scheme was used. Company on any questionnaire pertaining to their indexes, showing there is sufficient A study of the survey emphasizes: 1) The support for the two prospective indexes better quality service given in larger unit or• Applied Science & Technology and Busi ganizations; 2) the lack of professional per• ness Periodicals. In May the committees sonnel even in the larger libraries; 3) the grave coordinated their findings and a statement limitations of most reference collections; 4) of policy is being drafted to be mailed to limitations in extension of reference service; subscribers no later than September 1956. 5) the need for work shops or institutes in the As soon as responses to this policy state· field of reference; 6) need for better lines of ment have been analyzed the Committee communication between library and community will be ready to prepare the final voting and among libraries of the community and the list of periodical titles. state. THE MANAGEMENT SURVEY COMMITTEE. The problem of adequate reference service in Mary Radmacher, head, Reference Depart the U. S. is one which must be tackled on a ment, Gary (Ind.) Public Library, referred state-wide basis. In publishing our results, data to the Field of Interest Statement pooled will be organized by comparable groups so that with ACRL which was adopted at the joint large municipal libraries may review their serv meeting, Midwinter, February 2, 1956. ices in terms of w):iat other comparable libraries are doing. Then the meeting was turned over to the new chairman, Doris Wells, head, Reference Depart Rose Vormelker then explained some of the ment, Denver Public Library. Miss Wells re• tabulations and questions. ported that Mr. Haycraft of the H. W. Wilson Company wanted the Wilson Index Committee Mildred Vannorsdall gave the history of the to continue serving and to be self-perpetuating. Survey and its prospects. "With present lack of facts and figures in mind, it seemed up-to-date Discussion of the Public Library Reference factual information on reference services, equip Services Survey continued the program. Mrs. ment, and policies in American public libraries Frances N. Cheney, Library School, George would be welcomed by many people for several Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., told of the purposes: the determining of policies, the study instigation of the Survey in 1954: Committee of trends in the field, the consideration of weak members: Catherine Beal, supervisor, Adult nesses and strengths in present reference serv Services, Omaha Public Library; Elizabeth ice, and the interpretation of this service to Bond, coordinator, Adult Services, Minneapolis those supporting the library financially. Ex Public Library; Charles Higgins, chief, General change of policy such as lending reference Reference Department, Boston Public Library; books, periodical binding, etc., may not only Elizabeth Gilbert, reference librarian, Spokane assist one library in setting its policy but may Public Library; de Lafayette Reid, acting as lead to increased understanding and coopera• sistant state librarian, Illinois State Library; tion among libraries. Besides factual informa• Beulah Mumm, reference section librarian, Cali tion on reference services, the Survey may re fornia State Library; Ruth Renaud, head, sult in stimulation of discussion and fresh Adult Department, New Orleans Public Li thinking about reference service problems. It brary; Mildred Vannorsdall, Reader's Bureau, is hoped that the results of the Survey for each 44 DIVISIONS ~tate may be reviewed by someone from that Mr. Haycraft of the H. W. Wilson Company state, perhaps by the State library, and that and Mr. Waller of the Grolier Society, Inc., the resulting commentary may be publicized were introduced. Mr. Haycraft congratulated through use at state and district meetings and the group on the 60% response to the question hy publication in state library periodicals. The naire. He suggested that the Survey formulate, same activities on a regional basis might also according to library size, standards of reference he helpful. It is hoped, of course, to publish tools to be in their collections. Mr. Waller ex nationally the results in some form so that they pressed a hope for closer relations between may be available to all who are interested. We reference librarians and reference publishers. did not attempt to gather information on costs, A request came from the audience that costs in-service training, policies for dealing with of reference books be included in the Survey's threats to freedom of inquiry, and required standards. relatively little on development of cooperative projects." Margaret L. Jacobs, secretary 45 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES Board on Acquisition of Library Materials Edwin E. Williams, chief, Acquisition Depart 3. Joseph N. Whitten, Cooper Union Li ment, Harvard College Library, chairman pre brary, New York, gave a report on "Reprinting: sided at the meeting on June 21. 100 persons The Work of the Reprints Expediting Service." were present. He gave a brief resume of the background 1. William H. Kurth, Order Division, Library of the service and the steps taken to organize of Congress, read a paper on "Advance Pay it and explained the scope of the service. Ac ment Plan for Periodical Subscriptions." Mr. complishments to date include the establish Kurth stressed the economies and other advan ment of the Reprint Expediter's Office on a tages, both to libraries and to suppliers, in part-time basis in April 1955, with the support organizing periodical subscriptions about an of librarians and publishers; four issues (one extended-term subscription period, perhaps a complete volume) of the Reprint Expediting three-year term paid in advance: reduced rates, Service Bulletin, each with at least a short reduced renewal costs, reduced paper work, article as well as the routine reports; a record and so on. He emphasized the practicability of of ten titles reprinted or to be reprinted, with such term subscriptions and pointed out that some hope of deriving a practical formula for librarians, by group action, might be able to predicting demand; the establishment of a obtain even more advantageous concessions and sample of 350 co-operating libraries for recom to persuade even more publishers of the value mending titles for reprinting; the creation of of the plan. a group of consultants, representing librarians and others, to keep the service informed of In the discussion period that followed, one special needs and to give advice in their own speaker reported that an actual experiment of areas of competence; the development of an this sort had resulted in confusion and prac enlarged program calling for a full-time staff, tical difficulties that he hoped might be elimi with a lowered membership rate for libraries; nated with experience. plans for broadening the program to take in 2. John Fall, Economics Division, New York titles of interest to school librarians and others Public Library, gave a "Report of Progress" working with children. on "A Code of Fair Practice for Librarians and During the discussion period following, ques Book Dealers." On the initiative of the Board tions were raised concerning "paperbacks," and on Acquisition of Library Materials a commit one member of the audience suggested that in tee had been established, consisting of Mr. Fall asking librarians to state their preferences a (chairman); Joseph Groesbeck, deputy librar minimum or maximum order should be re ian, United Nations Library; James J. Heslin, quested as a guide to publishers. librarian and assistant director, New York His torical Society; and Richard S. Wormser, book 4. Mr. Williams introduced a fourth speak seller, New York, former president, Antiquarian er, not included in the program as announced: Booksellers Association of America, Incorpo Simeon J. Bolan, of the Columbia University rated. A number of comments had been obtained Libraries, who had returned recently from a by correspondence and direct appeal. Amon:; procurement trip to Russia. the practices for which librarians are criticized Mr. Bolan explained the circumstances that are unauthorized copying of rare material sent had resulted in his trip: the need at Columbia on approval, abuse of the approval privilege, for basic bibliographies of Russian material; the neglect of the importing dealer while making presence at Columbia of important Russian full use of the bibliographical information in sources that were desirable for the Russians and his catalogs, and collusion in refraining from could be used for bargaining; and the willing competitive bidding at auctions. Booksellers, on ness of the Russian authorities to arrange for the other hand, have been criticized for the exchange of publications and also for purchase practice of offering material with the offer of Russian books, old as well as new. '~price on request." Mr. Bolan had visited a number of bookstores A discussion period followed but added little in Moscow and Leningrad and had called at to the findings of the committe:e. t:w nffice of the official export agent to arrange 46 BOARDS, COl\IllfITTEES, ROUND . ;ABLES for shipment and to settle the library account. tions; $5 for additional subscriptions) for li He had found pre-Revolutionary imprints brary subscriptions to the Reprint Expediting scarce and expensive; new books could be ob Bulletin; and (c) the interest shown by pub tained at a low export price but had to be lishers in the Reprint Expediting Project. Mr. ordered early. As a result of his contacts he Keller hazarded fifteen as the number of re had accepted an offer which would result in printed titles that could be credited to the his establishing his own business in New York project and pointed out that sales had been in September 1956 under the title "Slavia Book perhaps four times the amount expected. A Company, Incorporated" for the sale of publica question was raised about the possibility of tions imported from Russia and publications in co-operation with a similar group in Great Russian obtained from outside Russia. He ex Britain, and Mr. Fall-representing the Board's pects to issue fortnightly lists of publications. Committee on Reprinting, in the absence of Questions followed. the chairman, Joseph N. Whitten, librarian, 5. To conclude the program, Mr. Williams Cooper Union, New York-offered to take up c~lled upon Mr. Kurth to report on his cost the matter with Mr. Whitten. of-books index: an attempt to compile from 2. Next the subject came up of the new Ac national bibliographies, on punched cards, data quisitions and Resources Division under con concerning prices of books and periodicals, in sideration as a result of the Management Sur order to arrive at index numbers showing price vey of the ALA. The ALA Council Steering changes. Mr. Kurth briefly explained his prob Committee on Implementation of the Manage lems-the determination of criteria and the ment Survey had reported returns indicating a establishment of index numbers for comparison potential membership of 1900, and the Council -and asked for suggestions from the audience. could take action toward the establishment of There was some discussion of the possible the Division if 300 petitions could be collected usefulness of such an index. One speaker asked by nine o'clock, June 19. Mr. Kurth to define his unit of measurement, and Mr. Kurth explained that he had tentatively 3. Mr. Fall reported on the work to date of defined a "book" as a monographic publication the Board's committee to draft a code of fair containing one hundred pages or more. practice for librarians and book dealers. The committee consists of Mr. Fall and three other CLOSED MEETING. Edwin E. Williams, chief, Ac• members: Joseph Groesbeck, deputy librarian, quisition Department, Harvard College Library, United Nations Library; James J. Heslin, li chairman, presided at a closed meeting June 19. brarian and assistant director, New York His Present were Board members: Alton H. Kel torical Society; and Richard S. Wormser, book ler, chief, Exchange and Gift Division, Library seller, New York, former president, Antiquarian of Congress; Robert Vosper, director, Univer Booksellers Association of America, Incorpo sity of Kansas Libraries; Robert W. Wads rated. Mr. Fall pointed out the comparatively worth, head, Acquisitions Department, Uni keen interest among antiquarian booksellers as versity of Chicago Library; Avis Zebker, co contrasted with retailers, and he mentioned ordinator, B.ook Order Department, Brooklyn some criticisms made by dealers concerning the Public Library. Absent: John E. Smith, city practices of librarians, as in the copying of librarian, Public Library, Santa Barbara, Calif. rare materials. Mr. Keller emphasized the value Also present for early part of meeting: John such a code, if given general recognition, might Fall, chief, Economics Division, New York have in supporting librarians in their efforts to Public Library, chairman of the Board's com persuade administrators and officials to abandon mittee to draft a code of fair practice for li regulations burdensome to dealers and librari brarians and book dealers. ans. Mr. Fall mentioned the new copyright act and the effect it might have in interfering with 1. Mr. Williams distributed copies of the importation by libraries of British editions, and Board's statement recommending for the con Mr. Vosper offered to investigate the details sideration of the ALA Executive Council a on behalf of the Board and the Association of budget for 1956/1957 for the Reprint Expedit• Research Libraries. At the end of this part ing Service. The budget had already been ex of the meeting Mr. Fall withdrew. amined and approved by Board members, but there was some discussion of (a) the appropri 4. The Board next considered the problem of ation of S:1800 requested from the ALA, (b) the increased subscription rate imposed upon the reduced fee ( $10 for first-copy subscrip- public libraries for Chemical Abstracts. 47 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 a. Mr. Williams read a formal proposal by the ALA Council Steering Committee on to the ALA Executive Secretary, made by the Implementation of the Management Survey. Board, for the establishment of a joint com• 6. Mr. Williams outlined the eontent of his mittee of the ALA and the American Chemical report to the ALA Executive Board: (a) the Society to study the problem, with representa status of the Reprint Expediting Service; ( b) tives of the Medical Library Association and the status of the code of fair practice for li the Special Libraries Association as members brarians and book dealers; ( c) the status of the of the joint committee. Board's work on the problems connected with b. Mr. Vosper reported that the American the increased subscription rate for Chemical Chemical Society, while showing no interest in Abstracts; and ( d) the position of the Board reducing the subscription rate for public li with respect to the Management Survey and braries, had been co-operative in lightening the the new Acquisitions and Resources Division. work of librarians by rearranging the list of 7. Mr. Keller, as the representative of the titles abstracted to bring it into conformity with Board in its relations with the ALA Board on library practice. Bookbinding, made a brief report. Mr. Wads 5. Mr. Williams read Miss Morsch's pre• worth offered to attend the open meeting of the liminary statement of function for the new Board on Bookbinding June 19. Acquisitions and Resources Division proposer! Edwin E. Wil~ams Board on Acquisition of Library Materials Board on Resources of Amt>rican Libraries Jo1:-;T MEETING division. He noted especially the expansion of A well-attended open meeting was devoted to research and its extension, with a great growth the subject of a Program for a Council on Ac of scholarly interest, into new geographical quisition and Resources-informal papers being areas. He also commented on the growing mas,; presented from the \'iewpoint of the university of ephemeral material with which libraries must library by Dr. F. H. Wagman, University of cope and upon the non-trade publications Michigan, of the college library, by Eileen throughout the world which have thus far not Thornton, Vassar College, of the public library been adequately dealt with through the Farm by Edna G. Peck, Boston Public Library, and ington Plan. Cooperation h86 achieved much of the school lihrary by Margaret V. Girdner, but more is called for- notahlv in the matter San Francisco Public Schools. of storage and in regional plan;1ing on a state• wide basis. Dr. Charles W. David, chairman of the Board on Resources presided initially and introduced Miss Thornton felt that ALA had been more the subject of the meeting by pointing out how successful in serving the interests of large re the two boards would inevitably be affected by search libraries than it had those of the smaller the ALA reorganization now in progress. He college libraries. She noted the multiplicity noted that it now appeared all but inevitable of the duties of the college librarian and iiom that they would soon be merged in a new "Di mented on the great need in which he stands vision on Acquisition and Resources," a mem of assistance or guidance, particularly in mat bership organization with elected officers, and ters of book selection, exchanges, the handling a span of interest and responsibility consider• of gifts, and in the problems presented by such ably wider than that which the boards had been special collections as archives. The greater accustomed to recognize in time past. He felt libraries, she observed, are affected because of it essential that they should begin to plan now the dependence on them of the college libraries for the future which seemed to lie pretty clearly for the loan of materials which they do not before them. have on their own shelves. She appealed for more emphasis on collection building in our Dr. Wagman discussed the problems facing programs of education for librarianship. research libraries in the years immediately ahead-problems which he felt must occupy a Miss Peck felt strongly that the new division considerable place in the program of the new would ha,,e to give more attention to the prob- 48 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES !ems of book•selection in public librarirs. She of books, and she noted that in this matter said that librarians responsible for book.selec the school librarians stood in a strategic posi· tion stood greatly in need of opportunities to tion because the work they do for their clientele meet together and discuss their common prob directly affects the public that becomes avail· lems. She noted that relations with salesmen, able for the colleges and the public libraries. the competition of films with books, and cen And yet, she said, the school librarians tend sorship were all matters of great importance to be pushed out of ALA. She felt that this which ought to be considered in conference by splintering•off was undesirable and expressed librarians who are required to deal with them. the hope that the establishment of the new di• The past fifty years of ALA, as seen from her vision would counteract it. viewpoint, had not been very productive ones in the field of book•selection. In the discussion over which Edwin E. Williams, chairman of the Board on Acquisi• Miss Girdner spoke of the isolation, or loneli• tion, presided at the end of the meeting, a num• ness, in which the school librarian often finds her of questions were raised from the floor herself, as being the only person in her or which indicated a certain misgiving lest the di~• ganization "who speaks with books." She felt parate interests of so many different types of the need for an exchange of experience (in libraries could not be successfully merged to• such a forum as the new division might pro• gether under a single division, a certain fear vide), for studies of acquisition procedures and lest the greater research libraries would tend work simplification, and for a study of evalua to dominate the scene, as they had admittedly tion techniques and of their interpretation to tended to do in time past. But on the whole the public. Recent experience in California, she there seemed to be a fair amount of agreement said, had demonstrated that librarians in wide that the projected new division must be so ly different kinds of librari"s could consider conceived and directed as to make it embrace these matters together with great advantage. She with equitable consideration the interests of cited reprinting as another field in which co• libraries of all types and sizes. operative action promises to be helpful. She url(ed a real place in ALA for the discussion Charles W. David, Edwin E. Williams American Library History Round Table Library development in the South was featured South during the Civil War. Dr. Maurice Tau• in the three papers presented. Robert Lester her, professor of Cataloging and Classification described with humor and vigor the contribu• at Columbia University, presented a paper on tions of the philanthropic foundation to the Louis Round Wilson, the librarian who perhaps library renaissance in the region. Ben Powell, more than any other has been identified with director of Libraries at Duke UniYersity, gave the great library movement in the South. a solid histo,rical account of librariPs in the Louis Shores Art Reference Round Table The Art Reference Round Table held its annual in name to the Art & Museum Section of the meeting at the Lowe Gallery, University of new Division of Specialized Libraries. It was Miami, Coral Gables, on June 20, 1956, Marjorie the consensus of opinion that we would lose E. Lyons, chairman, presiding. The following members of ARRT who were also members of officers were elected for 1956-57: Mrs. Jean M. the Museum Group of SLA since there was a Tomko, librarian, Classics Library, John Hop conAict of interests here, but it was felt that kins University, Baltimore 18, Md.; chairman: we should wait developments next January Bertha Landers, head, Art, Music & Film De• when the new name takes effect. After dis• partment, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas cussing and approving the art periodical index• City, Mo., secretary-treasurer. One of the main ing recommendations ( a current project of topics of discussion was the eventual change ARRT) slated to be sent to H. W. Wilson Com• 49 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 pany along with a joint statement from the Davis, director of Vizcaya: the Dade County Museum Division of SLA, and investigating the Art Museum, spoke on their collection, and possibility of sponsoring a Directory of Cartoon after a tour of the house, personally escorted ists, the meeting adjourned. At 10 A.M., the di the group through the gardens, ending with re rector of the Lowe Gallery spoke to the group freshments and a social hour in the Galleon about the collection, after which we toured the Suite. gallery independently. At 2 P.M. Robert T. Marjorie E. Lyons, chairman Audio-Visual Board The Audio-Visual Board met for dinner June titled "A Directory of 3,300 16mm Film Li 21, in the dining room at the Empress Hotel. braries," has gone to the printer and will he Present at the meeting were Board members: published in early fall. Clarence R. Graham, director, Louisville Free The Committee on the Revision of Film Use Public Library; Raynard C. Swank, director, Statistics met June 20, and discussed the re Stanford University Libraries; and Vivian vision of the form to he used in the annual Cazayoux, head, Film Department, Louisiana collection of film statistics from public libraries State Library; Violet Myer, head, Film Depart by the ALA Office for Adult Education. ment, Enoch Pratt Free Library, whose ap The Coordinating Committee on the Revision pointment to the Board becomes effective in of Public Library Standards accepted the sug August, 1956; and Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson, gestions made by the Board for minor changes associate Executive Secretary. in the statement of standards. Board members, Mrs. Patricia Cory, librarian, The Board approved the appointment of Mrs. Lexington School for the Deaf and Mrs. Ruth Charlotte Bilkey Speicher as co-chairman of Hewitt Hamilton, assistant librarian, Seattle the Motion Picture Preview Subcommittee. Public Library, were absent from the meeting. C. Walter Stone, chairman of the Audio Ex-officio members, C. Walter Stone, chair Visual Committee of the AASL came to the man, AASL Audio-Visual Committee, Louis meeting briefly to report on the AASL-ACRL Shores, chairman, ACRL Audio-Visual Commit DA VI Joint Committee. tee, and William Quinly, chairman, Audio Mrs. Stevenson reported that The Booklist Visual Round Table, were also absent. is willing to publish a supplement to Films Vivian Cazayoux, chairman of the Board, pre for Public Libraries. The Board approved the sided and reported on the following: appointment of a committee to compile this supplement. The report, "Cooperative Film Services in The Board approved the statement of func• Public Libraries" by Patricia Cory and Violet tion of the new Audio-Visual Committee pre Myer has exhausted the first printing of 650 sented by the Committee on Boards and Com copies and is being reprinted. mittees as follows: "To study and promote the The "Film Handbook for Public Libraries," use of all media and materials of an audio-visual being written by Bertha Landers is almost com nature as they are related to libraries. To co pleted. operate with other agencies having similar Seerley Reid reports that the U. S. Office of functions." Education 1956 directory of film libraries, en- Vivian Cazayoux, chairman Audio-Visual Round Table The Audio-Visual Round Table met in the Pal The membership report of the Audio-Visual ladium Room of the Eden Roe Hotel, June 21, Round Table, read by Mrs. Kathryn Devereaux, 1956. William Quinly, Chicago Teachers' Col librarian, Moline Public Library, Moline, Ill., lege, Chicago, Ill., vice-chairman, chairman showed 213 members for 1955-56, plus 7 new elect, presiding. There were 89 members members for 1956-57, as of June 13, 1956. present. Mrs. Mary Daume, librarian, Monroe County 50 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES Library, Monroe, Mich., reported for the nomi government. In four years, they've produced nating committee that Mrs. Kathryn Devereaux 900 classroom films which help wage a danger had been elected vice-chairman, chairman-elect ously successful war for men's minds during for 1956-57, and that Harold Goldstein, li a 10 year primary and secondary education pro brarian, Davenport Public Library, Davenport, gram which continues 10 months a year, 6 days Iowa, had been elected secretary. a week. 5 years of Physics, 4 years of Chemistry and 4 years of foreign languages are compulsory. After discussion of a proposal that A VRT With this intense program they've made great sponsor an evaluative survey of the Audio-Visual strides against illiteracy. As long as a student equipment used by libraries, the membership remains in school, he is not obliged to serve in decided that the survey could not be published the army, instead may go into a Technicom, a under the name of AVRT, but that members secondary school nm by various scientific bur would cooperate with Mr. Quinly in its publica eaus, to participate in research programs. In tion and would receive copies of the completed Russia, every library has films, and every li study. It was also suggested that NAVA might brary is open round the clock, with people be contacted concerning the survey. using it continually. Bertha Landers, Art, Music and Film Dept., Within the present day library's relationship Kansas City Public Library, presented her film to its community, how can we in free America previewing plan, a new commercial develop get the best results in the communication field? ment in the Audio-Visual field. The American public needs to be educated in Mr. Quinly introduced Maurice B. Mitchell, what to ask from its libraries and schools. We president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, must make readily available to the adult, as well Inc. Mr. Mitchell has just returned from a as the child in the classroom, well selected, and meeting of UNESCO in Paris where he repre reasonably priced films. To keep pace with the sented the United States at an "Expert Meet scientific advances being made in the totali ing on Film and Television." Being proposed tarian countries, our technology and our private at the meeting was an international center to ly owned communications industry must help. To relieve over-burdened teachers, we could, encourage and disseminate educational, cul perhaps, establish a system of "Master-teachers" tural and scientific films from all nations for who will supervise aides with less education, use on television throughout the world. but with sufficient in-service training who, in The free nations, said Mr. Mitchell, need to turn, can train today's students. We must main find a common ground on which they can ex tain accurate information on the new projectors, change materials of communication with other microwave relays, movies on tapes, the vast new countries. The problem is highly complicated field of electronics that is rapidly changing by the varying methods of communication and today's communication patterns. We must find the hundreds of types of equipment involved. the most efficient way to get new materials of Behind the Iron Curtain, Russia's approach to communication to the people, giving 20th cen the problem is bold and new. Their communica tury service and 20th century films through 20th tion is aimed at one target. None of their movies, century libraries. We must learn to communi for instance, are intended only for entertain· cate better and to supply the cultural and scien ment, and their television is the "voice" of the tific leadership in our communities. Board on A wards The Board on A wards held four meetings dur ber of the Board), New York Public Library; ing the Miami Beach Conference from June Mrs. Helen E. Wessells, editor, Library Journal. 17th through June 20th. The chairman, Robert In addition to two recommendations regard E. Scudder, Free Library of Philadelphia, pre ing awards which were prepared for Executive sided. Board members present were: Marietta Board information and action at the Miami Daniels, Pan American Union Library; Wyman Beach Conference, the Board considered a num W. Parker, Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan ber of other policy matters, as well as several University, i\1iddletown, Connecticut; Mrs. new awards which have been proposed for Frances Lander Spain (the newly elected mem- ALA sponsorship. The Board also gave its ap- 51 Miami Be Board of Bibliography The Board of Bibliography met on June 18, clipsheet devoted to news of bibliographical 1956, at the Continental Hotel, Miami Beach, projects was discussed again with some doubts Fla. Present were Jesse H. Shera, Western Re expressed as to the possibility of collecting serve University, chairman, and Edwin B. Col enough material to make this worthwhile. It Lurn, H. W. Wilson Co. Consultants pre.sent was decided, however, after some discussion that were Lee Ash, Carnegie Endowment for Inter by including projects not yet under way (a national Peace, representing international or ganizations, and John Lester Nolan, represent departure from previously adopted criteria) ing the Library of Congress. Absent were Robert there would be sufficient material of interest to Downs, University of Illinois, and Rudolph fill a bulletin at irregular intervals. Reports Hirsch, University of Pennsylvania. concerning changes in current bibliographical l. Membership. The chairman announced projects were also considered as appropriate. It that pressure of other work forced him to resign was also decided to distribute the clipsheet to from the Board and that Francis St. John, scholarly journals outside the library profession Brooklyn Public Library, had also resigned ac in addition to library periodicals and to circu cording to a letter from Ralph Shaw. The ap late it abroad as well as in this country. Mr. pointment of Cecil Byrd, University of Indiana, Ash offered to make available the Carnegie En Frances Jenkins, University of Illinois, and Paul dowment office facilities for reproducing and Kruse, Golden Gate College, was reported. distributing the clipsheet if means could be 2. Evans' American Bibliography. Progress found for assembling and editing the material. on the project for bringing Evans' American After discussion it was moved and voted to Bibliography up through 1805 was reported by recommend to the Executive Secretary of ALA Mr. Ash. Arrangements for copying the imprint that responsibility for receiving, assembling, cards at the New York Public Library had been made, and with a grant of $100 the project and editing the material for the clipsheet be was proceeding with the expectation that it assumed by ALA Headquarters when the re would be finished by the end of August. A organization had been completed and the new manuscript index had been reproduced and cut Reference Division secretariat established. It up to facilitate the work in New York and in was urged that Board members and consultants the District of Columbia where it i;; hoped that send contributions to the chairman and that work can start soon. source be indicated. 3. Clipsheet. The desirability of issuing a 4. The state of bibliography. No further re- 52 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES ports on the proposed surrny of the state of in No,cmbcr 1955 and that the E,-ecuti,·c Board bibliography had been received. Mr. Nolan had expressed interest but had taken no action. will make inquiries at ACLS as to the progress Tb.e chairman said he would explore the made in its plans to participate in the survey. possibilities of reproducing the report on legal bibliography given at the January 1956 meeting Mr. Ash reported that the Board's plans for of the Board by Mr. Liddell. surveys of the state of bibliography had been discussed at the SLA Advisory Council meeting John Lester Nolan .;:, . Bookbinding Board The Bookbinding Board held three formal ses complicated and therefore a successful con sions at the Miami Beach conference. All mem clusion would require time and careful thought bers of the Board were present except John on the part of both librarians and binders. Dawson who was unable to attend. On the morning of June 20, the Board acted One item transacted at the first meeting was as co-sponsor to the workshop on the subject to elect a chairman of the Board to succeed "Let's Discuss Binding" 1,·ith the AASL and John Hall Jacobs whose term expires on August DLCYP, with the chairman of the Board serv 31st, 1956. Paul Howard was elected Chairman. ing as consultant in the discussion and other The successor on the Board was also discussed Board members being present to participate and each member agreed to explore possible whenever necessary. This meeting was quite candidates and keep in touch with Mr. Howard. useful in calling to the attention of the Board The first open meeting of the Board was held the feeling of these two important groups on on June 19, with two Board members makin the matter of the type of binding which li formal talks. Mr. John Stratton gave a succinc brarians desire. The question of securing simi history of the ALA's part in the bookbinding· liar reactions from other groups is now before program and pointed up the problems which the Board because it feels the need of knowing the Association has faced in trying to solve the wishes of librarians in general. binding problems. He was followed by Paul Unfortunately, neither spectacular progress Howard who spoke briefly on the spring con nor final results can he reported as emanating ference of the LBI in New York pointing up from the Miami Beach conference. The prob the relationship of the LBI to ALA, as well lems were pointed up and the Board now be as some of the differences of opinions between lieves it is in position to work toward a solu the two groups. There was a general discussion tion to some of the problems about binding of binding problems and specifications of both which librarians face. prebound and rebound library books. It wa agreed that the problem is important but quit John Hall Jacobs, chairman Buildings Committee The minutes of the ALA Buildingll Committee teered to investigate the possibility of having held during the 1956 Midwinter Meetings were public library building costs included in the read and approved. The treasurer's report ( see Dodge Reports. below) was read and approved. Status of the Committee under Reorganiza Statistics. The c)iairman opened the meet tion. The chairman mentioned that he had sent ing by speaking first about the statistics on a statement during the Midwinter Meeting to building costs requested by the editor of the the Steering Committee on Implementation of American Library Annual. Since it was thought the Management Survey concerning the desire it was not possible to obtain these statistics of combining the Buildings and Equipment in time for the next edition of this annual, Mr. committees under the reorganization of ALA. Rovelstad said that he would write to Mr. Various functions of the Committee were dis Shaffer about the matter. Mr. Garber volun- cussed, particularly those concerning the col- Miami Beach Conference, 1956 lection of stat1st1cs on all types of buildings had .now been formulated by the Committee of including those under construction. It was felt the United Hospital Fund and the chairman of that this was a function of Headquarters ( pre the Buildings Committee of the Hospital Li sumably the Library) to do this rather than the braries Division. It is hoped that these recom committee. State agencies can do it within mendations, which took a year and one-half to their own states, but this way of collecting formulate, would become standards. statistics has not proven to be practical. Association of College and Reference Li Publishing. Mrs. Crosland reported that braries. Mrs. Dorothy Crosland, chairman: Mrs. Keyes Metcalf had said that he would be Crosland reported that there had been no sub interested in writing an all-inclusive book on stitute at this meeting on college and university library buildings, but he had not started on it as library buildings. Donald Cameron is to be the yet. Mr. Garber suggested that a group be ap new chairman of the ACRL Buildings Commit pointed with an editor to compile a book on tee. Mrs. Crosland said she did not know what buildings. Each section could be written by Mr. Cameron's plans were for the future but no an authority with an over-all editor. Although it doubt there would be an institute included. might take a period of time, at least it would be accomplished. Discussion took place as t/J Equipment Committee. Sidney Smith, chair who would be the editor. Miss Geer volunteered man: Mr. Smith reported the action taken at her services, and she was appointed to the his meeting which took place earlier in the editorship. It was hoped that an outline could week. It had been planned that there would be be made in time for discussion at the Mid an Equipment Institute or Workshop preceding winter Meeting. either the Kansas City or the San Francisco ALA conferences. He asked whether it could PLANS OF THE DIVISION BUILDINGS COMMITTEES. be a combined Buildings and Equipment Insti American Association of School Librarians. tl\te and whether or not these two dates would Ray Erbes, chairman: There was no representa be satisfactory to the Buildings Committee. It tive at this meeting; therefore, no plans could was the consensus of opinion that an equipment be discussed. institute, sponsored by the Equipment Commit Division of Libraries for Children and Young tee with help from the Buildings Committee, People. Mrs. Laura Pardee, chairman: There should be planned, if possible, for the Kansas was no representative at this meeting; therefore, City Convention with the San Francisco one as no plans could be discussed. second choice. It was suggested that two days Public Libraries Division. Keith Doms, chair be devoted to such an institute with meetings man: Mrs. Williams, who substituted for Mr. in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Various Doms, reported that the meetings on buildings subjects were suggested, such as reproduction which were held the previous day had been of materials, communication, transportation, hi highly successful. About 170 people had at fi equipment, maintenance, mending, etc. The tended them. The Division was planning the members of the Buildings Committee present same sort of program for the Kansas City Con were very pleased that the Equipment Commit ference. tee was planning such an institute in the near future. Hospital Libraries Division. Catharine Heinz, chairman: Miss Heinz reported that recom The meeting adjourned at 12 :10 P.M. mendations for an integrated hospital library Helen T. Geer, secretary TREASURER'S REPORT Income Period Ended 5-31-56 Cash balance - September 1, 1955 $318.18 Expense Pictures 9.76 • Slides 12.00 Postage 1.12 Supplies 6.60 Total expense $29.48 Cash balance - May 31, 1956 $288.70 54 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES Editorial Committee The Editorial Committee met June 20, Pres by Sister Melania Grace and Eugene P. Will ent were Lester Asheim, chairman, Mrs. Marion ging; Interpretation, Evaluation and Use of Li E. Hawes, Thelma Reid, Pauline J. Love, and brary Materials: The Humanities in the Li Florence L. Simmons. Thurston Taylor, a new brary, by Lester Asheim; The School Library appointee to the Committee, was also present. Supervisor, edited by Harold Lancour; Author The Committee approved five manuscripts for Headings for the Official Publications of the publication: Guide to Reference Books, 7th State of Kansas, by Bessie E. Wilder. There was Edition, 2nd Supplement, by Constance M. discussion and action on five other projects. Winchell; Books for Catholic Colleges, 1953-55, Pauline J. Love, secretary Board of Education for Librarianship The Board of Education for Librarianship met ited under the 1951 standards for accreditation in four sessions, June 17-20. Harold Lancour, the library schools of The University of Minne associate director, University of Illinois Library sota, University of Oklahoma, University of School, and chairman of the board, presiding. Southern California, University of Toronto and The following members were present: Nancy Western Reserve University. Jane Day, supervisor of Library Services, State Progress in cooperative accrediting with re of South Carolina; Raymond C. Lindquist, di gional education associations was recorded. In rector, Cleveland Public Library; Margaret I. 1955-56 the board visited the University of Rufsvold, director, Indiana University Division Southern California in cooperation with the of Library Science, Bloomington; Eugene H. Western College Association and scheduled fu. Wilson, director of Libraries, University of Col ture visits to two library schools with the Middle orado, Boulder. Richard B. Sealock, librarian, States Association. Independent visits to be Kansas City (Missouri) Public Library, mem made in 1956-57 to previously accredited library ber-elect, attended some of the sessions. Lester schools were approved. Asheim, dean, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, and Jack Dalton, librarian, Miss Day, chairman of the subcommittee to University of Virginia Library, who assisted in study undergraduate programs in library sci accrediting visits to library schools also at ence, presented a report. tended some of the sessions. Harold Lancour was re-elected chairman for The board discussed reports from visiting the year 1956-57. committees on five library schools and accred- Harold Lancour, chairman Equipment Committee The Equipment Committee met in the San in Kansas City in June 1957. It was also recom Marino Hotel on June 18. Present were: Sidney mended that this institute be sponsored jointly B. Smith, David Maxfield, J. Archer Eggen, by the Equipment Committee and the Buildings Howard Rowe and Helen Geer. Committee. (At a meeting later in the week the The meeting was concerned with the question Buildings Committee concurred and the rec of having an institute on equipment at some ommendations were passed on to the Executive ALA conference in the near future. After con Secretary. As of the present no de.finite decision sidering possible dates, locations and procedures has been reached or reported to me as to wheth it was recommended that a two-day pre-confer er the institute will be approved and scheduled.) ence institute be planned for the ALA meetings Sidney B. Smith, chairman 55 Miami Beach Conj ere nee, 1956 Federal Relations Committee Chairman John H. Ottemiller, associate librar the day before, making it law. She then de ian, Yale University Library presiding. Six scribed the procedures for securing the appro members of the Committee were present. priation of funds for the Act before Congress The chairman called on Julia Bennett, ALA adjourns. She thanked all those present for their Washington Office, to summarize action on the wonderful cooperation which brought about the Library Services Act and review the status of passage of this legislation. the appropriation request. Mr. Ottemiller then turned the n11,eting over The Committee voted unanimously that the to Mrs. Loleta Fyan, State Librarian, Michigan chairman send a letter of thanks to the Con State Library, Lansing, who led a panel dis gressional Members, sponsors, and others who cussion of "State Plans for the Use of Federal played an important role in the passage of the Funds under the Library Services Act." Panel Library Services Act. ists were: Zelia J. French, Extension Librarian, State Traveling Libraries Commission, Topeka, A Committee of three was named by the Kansas; Evelyn Day Mullen, director, State chairman to draft a resolution expressing the Public Libraries Division, Montgomery, Ala thanks of the ALA to sponsors and other Mem bama; Roger H. McDonough, director, Division bers of Congress whose actions had assisted in of State Library, Archives and History, Depart the passage of the Library Services Act. This ment of Education, Trenton, N. J. resolution was prepared for presentation to Council. Miss French discussed Standards and Prin ciples of Planning, Miss Mullen spoke of the The place of the Federal Relations Commit type of projects planned hy the states, and Mr. tee in the new reorganization structure of ALA McDonough reviewed some completed stati, was discussed. plans. Chairman John H. Ottemiller presided at the Following the panel presentations, small meeting with state coordinators, state library workshop groups were organized on the follow agency directors, state library association di ing subjects: 1. Applying principles to library rectors on June 20. projects; 2. Applying minimum standards; 3. About two hundred people were present for Making a state-wide plan; 4. Determining when this open meeting on State Plans for the Use an area is ready for a project; 5. Expansion of of Federal Funds under the Library Services direct service from the state library; 6. Branches Act. of the state library; 7. Developing county li The chairman asked Julia Bennett, ALA brary service; 8. Developing multi-county li Washington Office, to review for the group re brary service; 9. Extending service from a local cent developments on the Library Services Act. library; 10. Expansion of services by federa Miss Bennett described House and Senate pas tions; 11. In-service training; 12. How to fill sage of the Act on May 8 and June 6 respec personnel needs. Each group reported on their tively and called attention again to the fact discussion in the final summary period. that President Eisenhower had signed the Act Julia D. Bennett Film Statistics Revision Joint Committee This committee met in the Card Room of the tions, combined with comments from other San Marino June 20th, with Vivian Cazayoux of members received prior to the meeting, will the Audio-Visual Board presiding, and Eleanor enable the Office for Adult Education to prepare Phinney of the Office for Adult Education as a second draft for consideration by the com staff member. The chief business was discussion mittee. A trial run with several cooperating of a tentative draft of a questionnaire designed libraries will be made early in the fall, before to determine current practices of public li the questionnaire is put into final form for gen braries in gathering and recording statistics of eral distribution. It is hoped that the results of film use. This questionnaire is a preliminary the questionnaire will be ready for disqussion step in the revision of the collection of film by the committee at th@ 1957 Midwinter Meet statistics by ALA. Although only four members ing. of the committee were present, their sugges- Eleanor Phinney 56 BoARDS, CoMMITTEES, RouNo TABLES Friends of Libraries Committee The Friends of Libraries Committee held a The Friends of Libraries luncheon was held dosed meeting in Card Room 2 of the Cadillac on Thursday, June 21, 1956, in the Mona Lisa Hotel in Miami Beach June 19, 1956. Present Room of the Eden Roe Hotel in Miami Beach. were :\Irs. Gretchen Conduitte, Jacksonville, Featured speaker was Hon. Charles P. Farns• Fla., Public Library: Mrs. Anna Brenner Mey• ley, former mayor of Lo11isville, Kentucky, who ers, Miami Beach; Jean Cochran, Augusta, Ga., talked informally about "The City - a Friend Public Library; Ernest Doerschuk, Lancaster, of the Library." Ile was introduced by Clarence Pa., Public Library; and !\Iiss Emelia Wefel, R. Graham, director of the Louisville Free Cleveland Public Library. Public Library. Mrs. Gretchen Conduitte, com• Mrs. Conduitte presided. Notes made at the mittee chairman, presided. Midwinter Meeting by Rose Vainstein, Gary, One hundred and fifty-four persons attended Ind., Public Library, were read. That meeting the luncheon, including three committee mem• was attended by Jan.ice Kee and two committee hers who did not attend the busines.s meeting, members. Margaret Ligon, Pack Memorial Library, Old business concernin~ an edition of a Asheville, N. C., who aided in providing display Friends' manual for college and university Ji. material; Mrs. Lillian Van Mater, Hempstead, hraries was discussed. It was the committee's L. I., N. Y. Public Library, former committee recommendation that this project be a part of chairman, and George Mcneland, Dept. of Pub· the work of the ACRL in the future. It was also lie Libraries, Rockville, Md. suggested that the public library edi~ion be Samples of Friends' publications were ar· revised and reprinted. It was later ascertained ranged on twelve bulletin board panels which that Catherine J. Butler, librarian of the Car• were displayed on tables in the Mona Lisa negie Library of Homestead, Munhall, Pa., Room. Mr. Moreland, Mr. Doerschuk and Miss would be willing to do the revision. Cochran distributed leaflets at the door. These The advisability of joint trustees and Friends leaflets included a mimeographed committee meeting at local and state level was discussed announcement regarding the official display in with no final conclusion. It was reported that the Card Room of the Hotel Fontainebleau; a Pennsylvania regularly holds separate meetings, bookmark donated by Doubleday and Co., which while Tennessee has just decided to have trus• carried a column by L. L. Day, "Editor-at· tees and friends in one group and to secure Large," urging support of friends of the library section status in the state library association groups; and the March-April, 1956, issue of for this group. Program Notes for women's clubs, published The possibility of a national organization of by the National Association of Manufacturers, frienrls' groups was again discussed. Most com• which contained an article, "Educational Gro• mittee members felt it was not needed. It was ceries," which recommended the formation of recommended, however, that more laymen be friends of the library groups. appointed to the ALA committee, especially Special guests included ALA President, John from the Chicago area so that Midwinter Meet• Richards, and Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Charles ings could be more fully attended. Farnsley, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Terry Parker A schedule for manning the exhibit desk in of Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Parker was elected the Hotel Fontainhleau was made and last min• the first president of the Friends of the Jack• ute arrangements for the luncheon on June 21st sonville Public Library, formed on June 14, were made. Three items were to he distributed 1956. to each person attepding the luncheon, two of "The difference between barbarism and civil• them gifts from publishers. ization is hooks," Mr. Farnsley stated in his The chairman reported that 355 notices had speech. "As friends of hooks and libraries, you been mailed to public library Friends' groups, have a great cause. Do not give up. Keep on committee members and directors of state Ji. working for your library. Keep on asking your brary agencies to secure the display material. Mayor for things you want for your library." It was reported that the committee had Mr. Farnsley hum.irously described his first $210.36 in the treasury and that 8300.00 had appointment to the Board of Library Trustees lieen recommended as a budget for next year. and the deYelopment of his interest in libraries. Mrs. Gretchen Conduitte He emphasized his appreciation of the active 57 Miami Beach Conference, )956 library leadership displayed by !\fr. Graham. Mr. Farnsley reviewed the ways in which He repeated what he has been quoted widely Louisville developed the radio and television as believing, that a good library can put money facilities which have been widely publicized in any community's pocket. Good library service and the installation of what he termed "poor can bring industry, tourists, and unlimited bus man's air-conditioning" in the branch libraries. iness. The cultural advantages of Louisville In addition to serving as mayor of Louisville were directly responsible for a great deal of the from 1948-53, Mr. Farnsley was a member of city's fairly recent industrial growth. the Kentucky legislature from 1936-40, practised "Representatives of some of the major indus• law from 1930-48, served as a trustee of the tries have told me that the library made the University of Louisville and curator Transyl difference," he said. "People don't want to go vania University, and is a member of many to a cultural desert any more than they want cultural and community organizations, includ to go to a physical desert." ing the Friends of Kentucky Libraries. Joint Committee on Government Publications The chairman of the Joint Committee intro quarters needed for gathering and processing duced Shirley Bystrom, the Documents Expedi our data. ter, who made a brief report on the activities Miss Vormelker indicated the wide range of of the Documents Expediting Project during questions reference departments of public li the past year. braries are called upon to answer and suggested subjects on which data are now difficult to find. The program of the evening was a panel dis• The departments of economics, political cussion on the census publications of 1960 and science and sociology_use census publications .what librarians would like to have them contain. more heavily than most other departments on W11lter Brahm, director of the Ohio State Li university campuses, according to Dr. Pullen. brary, served as moderator. The panel members He stressed the importance of collecting and were: Dr. Conrad Taeuber, assistant director, providing basic information, and for maintain U. S. Bureau of Census, Rose Vormelker, Busi ing continuity, from census to census in which ness Information Bureau, Public Library, Cleve volume certain facts could he found, would be land, Ohio, and Dr. William Pullen, University useful to documents librarians in university Ji. of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill. braries. Dt. Taeuber introduced the subject by posing Audience participation in the discussion was a number of questions concerning types of in invited, following introductory remarks by panel formation he wondered whether or not the members, and discussion was lively until ad• Bureau of Census should include in 1960. He journment at ten o'clock. drew attention to the cost of providing staff and B. E. Powell, chairman Intellectual Freedom Committee John D. Henderson, chairman, presided at the mandatory but be given only when quality of meeting June 18, 1956. the material justified selection; that librarians The Committee considered a number of re be represented among the judges; that any ported violations of intellectual freedom and agreement presently arrived at he reviewed at asked that further information be obtained the end of two years. about them and/or suggested possible ways of The Committee, in reappraising its position solution. and functions under ALA reorganization, con Extended discussion occurred over the Fund cluded that the committee's size might well be for the Republic proposal of awards for books reduced by two or three members, that its in the realm of intellectual freedom. It was the members should attend midwinter meetings, and consensus of the Committee that if such awards that its membership should continue to repre were to be given, the objectives should he sent all major types of libraries. broad, giving the judges reasonable leeway in making choices: that awards should not be Paul Bixler, secretary 58 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES Junior Members Round Table The Junior Members Round Table met at the er on the topic, "On Your Mark! Get Set! Go!" Lucerne June 18, 1956, with approximately 35 This talk concerned how to get the most out in attendance. Charlotte Leonard, Dayton Pub of the convention and provided a witty and lic Library, Dayton, Ohio, chairman of the worthwhile introduction to the ALA conference group presided. There was informal discussion as a whole. The program was followed by a of state chapter activities and the purpose and coffee hour for all to get acquainted with each need for a national organization. It was felt other. young members of the library profession need Shirley Kohn, Oak Park Library, Oak Park, some orientation to ALA as a whole and that Ill., was elected vice-chairman and chairman our round table can provide this necessary elect. Chosen as secretary-treasurer was Marie introduction. Miss Leonard reported this past Golubski, Richland Public Library, Richland, year's effort to contact state library associations Wash. Neal Austin will be the new thairman, to learn if many states have chapters. Only and he comes from the High Point Public Li three states are . organized. brary, High Point, N. C. Mrs. Lura B. Currier, director of the Missis sippi Library Commission, was program speak- Charlotte Leonard, chairman Library Periodicals Round Table A meeting of the Library Periodicals Round the meeting, read a· message from the chair Table was held June 19, in the Palladium of man in which he reported on the year's activi the Eden Roe Hotel. About 40 persons attended. ties and the status of the Round Table under the ALA reorganization plans. In the absence of chairman John Harvey, Margaret Cole, editor of Library Literature, head librarian, State College, Pittsburg, Kan., H. ·w. Wilson Company, read a paper entitled Miriam McNally of Denver, secretary of LPRT "The Librarian's Own Index: How Library presided. She introduced Mildred Stibitz, direc Literature is Edited." This also appears in the tor of Public Relations, Dayton, Ohio, and July LPRT Newsletter. editor of the LPRT Newsletter, who acted as secretary in Miss McNally's place. Elaine von Oesen, State Library Commission, Raleigh, N. C.,. treasurer of LPRT, presented Ransom Richardson, editor of the ALA Bulle a report of membership as of June 14, 1956, as tin, read a paper in which he discussed his job follows: 270 paid members (84 new in 1956); and emphasized the special characteristics of 27 inembers paid through 1957; 10 members a membership periodical as distinct from a pro paid through 1958. There are five Canadian fessional journal. His paper appears in the members and one in each of the following July LPRT Newsletter. countries: England, the Netherlands, Israel, Porter Kellam, director of Libraries, Univer Sweden, Russia, New Zealand,' South Africa. sity of Georgia, Athens, program chairman for Mildred T. Stibitz, secretary pro . tern 59 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Round Table on Library Service Abroad International Relations Board The annual open meeting of the Round Table The theme of the remainder of the meeting on Library Service Abroad, sponsored jointly was the panel discussion on "International Ex with the International Relations Board, was change Librarians: Shall I Be One, Should I cl)1led to order June 20 at the Lucerne Hotel Take One?" Panel participants were Ethel M. by the chairman, Lee Ash, librarian, Carnegie Fair, acting librarian, Sweet Briar College, Endowment for International Peace. The chair Sweet Briar, Va.; Mary V. Gaver, Graduate man welcomed nearly 100 members of the School of Library Service, Rutgers University, Round Table and seven visiting foreign librar New Brunswick, N. J.; David Wilder, in charge ians who were present at the meeting. of Public Services, Ohio State University Li Then followed the reading of the Committee brary, Columbus; and Helen Sunnafrank, li reports which had been held over from the brarian, Guernsey County District Public Li, preceding business meeting. (At the business brary, Cambridge, Ohio. meeting the Round Table voted to change its In her presentation Miss Fair stressed five name to the International Relations Round points to be considered thoroughly by any li Table, to indicate better its probable new role brarian intending to work abroad: What is the of assistance as a program arm of the Inter country like to which you are going? Why do national Relations Board.) you want to go? What do you have to offer A summary of the report of the Committee that will be acceptable in the country to which on Exchange of Persons was presented by you 11.re going? How do you hope to fit into the Elizabeth Robb, U. S. Department of State, situation within the country and make effective chairman. In the discussion which followed, your plan or talent? What will be the evidence the suggestion was made to use the membership of your success? of the Round Table as a basic roster of Ameri Miss Gaver pointed out that all American can librarians who have worked abroad, and exchange librarians must be professionally it was proposed that a form should be devised qualified, have a sense of mission, be able to to be filled out by the membership which would improvise and do without the professional tools include such information as linguistic ability, we have in this country, and have linguistic field of speciality, overseas experience, etc. A abili~. In discussing the problems of foreign motion that the report be accepted carried. (A librarians and library school students in this revised form of the report was submitted to country, Miss Gaver stressed the following the chairman in July and will be published points: adjustment to MW environment; need later.) for work experience along with theoretical The report of the Scholarship Committee was training in library schools; need for helping presented by the chairman on behalf of the foreign students and librarians to understand chairman, Felix Hirsch, New Jersey State our ways of working together; need for hand Teachers College. The report of the Scholar tailored programs of study without the pressure ship Committee was unanimously accepted, and of getting a degree; need to have experience will he published in the Round Table's News in our homes and churches; need for uphold letter. ing as high academic standards for foreign stu Laurence Kipp, Harvard University, editor dents as for our own students; need to help of the Newsletter, did not submit a formal re foreign library school students develop their port but it was noted that two issues have been own ways of doing things based on conditions published during the past year. Mr. Kipp re within their own countries. signed his assignment with the last issue due Next, Helen Sunnafrank spoke on the suc to the pressure of oth"r obligations. cessful experience of having an exchange Ii- 60 BoARDs, CoM.Ml'fTEES, RouN1> TABLl'>S brarian, Isaura Salazar, from Panama, in her his problems and adjust to his new environ library last year. By means of advance publicity ment. Since a visitor's or student's reactions within the community, everyone was eager to upon returning home to the host country will meet the exchange librarian and make her feel depend upon what stage he was in on his "ad welcome, and the program met with great justment curve"-at the bottom, poor; ap success. proaching the top, good-Mr. Wilder feels it David Wllder discussed a newly developed is extremely important to WOl"k out all pro "adjustment curve" which shows the extent to grams for visiting librarians and foreign stu which foreign students and visitors adjust to dents so that at the end of their stay they their new environment. He graphically illus will be on the upgrade and not downgrade of trated his discussion with a chart which mapped their "adjustment curve." the "adjustment curve" of three persons---Mr. A very frank and lively discussion followed Wilder when he was librarian of the American the panel's presentation. l\Ir. Hockey, director University of Beirut, and two st,<.dents for Beirut of the Eastern Carribean Library Commission in this country. Fil-st, he indicated, there is the reported that the Commission emphasizes train spectator stage, at which point the adjustment ing and practical experience for its future li curve goes down very little--some never leave brarians. Other foreign guests commented on this stage---however, as the foreigner becomes the problem of adjustment, the need for less more involved in local problems, which at this theory, and more practical training for foreign point he cannot solve, the "adjustment cun·e" library school students, with more time to make goes down and usually the lowest point will be practical applications of the theory before re reached with manifestation of some kind of turning to their homeland. It was felt that there physical ailment. When the bottom is reached was need for more interneships. the curve rises as the foreigner is able to solve Jane Wilson, acting secretary Joint Committee on Library Work as a Career In the dimly lighted Club Chalet of the Lucerne al library recruiting plans (-2) Coordinating re Hotel (night club atmosphere) the Joint Com cruitment activities and (3) Exploring possibili mittee met June 19 to discuss recruiting activi ties for a paid staff to direct recruiting. ties of various library agencies. Helen Focke Joint Committee not entire solution. Task presided. still great and problem is increasing. Mr. Lindquist, director, Cleveland Public Li Amy Winslow, Enoch Pratt Public Library, brary, gave as the purpose of his talk, ALA reported at Midwinter, 1954. Plar,s to Recruit, "to review past activities of the ALA and to discuss future plans." 1. Studied carefully all library material on recruiting and made many suggestions. Report: The responsibility was given to Board of Edu Committee recognized weaknesses to be (1) cation for Librarianship many years ago. Five la.ck of funds, (2) lack of centralization, (3) members were asked to develop standards for work done largely by committees and ( 4) accrediting library schools. After war, BEL be changing membership. Committee emphasized came increasingly concerned and in 1947 called that we may discuss all types of activities but a conference uniting groups previously en 17 real problem is no paid staff. Same problem :i;aged in recruiting. exists in othe1· professions. Nursing recruiting Carl Milam, Executive Secret,ary, urged con committee has a budget of $106,000. Concluded: sideration of handicaps. Some of the same prob The 1954 Committee--A program similar to that lems are still prevalent and listed the lack of finance as a chief problem. Recommendation: in the nursing field is necessary. BEL con• Formation of JCLWC. Upon the recommenda sidered (1954 report) hut thought it unwise tions of this group, JCLWC was formed for the to campaign for funds to establish a recruiting purpose of (l) Assuming responsibility for office. A subcommittee was appointed hy BEL planning, sponsoring and implementing Nation- to consider parts of Winslow's report. Manage- 61 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 ment survey intervened and we have not been About 3000 requests come to ALA per yem able to follow through with suggestions. from counsellors and library students. Many parts of ALA are active in recruitment. AJ,A gives assistance to writers of books, articles or pamphlets and works with JCLWC. Examples are: Cataloging and Classification Public relations office was established and ALA Recruiting Committee Projects has tried to get a fund to give scholarships for ( 1) Booklet on recruiting this summer librarianship in order to interest persons in the field. Mr. Richards thinks project should he (2) Calendar for Library Service School stu further explored. dents emphasizing cataloging Mr. Clift, in a letter of June 7, stated that ( 3) Speakers bureau "Area of Recruitment is critical and neglected Public Libraries has no committee but is de and is chief priority of new ALA Public Re voting a fall issue to recruitment. lations Office." There is need of funds to help with work-Why not use National Council on ACRL-Has committee, activities include: Advertising as used for other professions? ALA 1. Pamphlet on librarianship would need $50,000 to work with group, and 2. Promoting: Alpha Beta Alpha, an under would have a chance to draw up an individual graduate library fraternity designed to plan. Recruitment is clearly tied in with public attract undergraduates to remain relations. No approach has been made for scholarships. 3. All members are encouraged to write artides on recruiting and submit them to Len Arnold states that since Public Rela approved journals tions Office was established, it has been col lecting ideas from all individuals and groups. 4. Measurement and guic:lance project on re Need for concentrated effort through confer cruitment ence of greatest brains in country to outline 5. Underwrite one project plans. AASL-Recruitment Committee ALA Plans-Mean ( 1) Continuing work 1. Folder-How about Librarianship for being done (2) Continuing work written by you? JCLWC and (3) New effort through Len Arnold, Public Relations director. A time when 2. New folder in process everybody is really genuinely concerned. What IJCLYP-No committee is needed most is not criticism but rather en 1. Operates through executive board thusiasm and individual effort on part. of li brarians to get young people interested in 2. 1951 folder, Getting Inside librarianship. 3. Using reprint in May 1955 Madamoiselle Plans for a Recruiting Film by Otis McBride on Librarianship as a Career for Dr. Louis Shores, Library School, Florida 4. Career Corner in magazines State University, Tallahassee, Fla. CLA-:-Large committee- three years trying to Dr. McBride emphasized need for librarians recruit a local level with the slogan "Every by mentioning the request being made to li person should be a recruiter." brary schools. The idea of a film on recruit Two folders;, ment was initiated at FSU Library School to show the various types of libraries and library "Wanting you, the children's Librarian- services. A film should arouse interest in Li illustrated by Robert McCloskey brarianship. The proposed film would have Requests are sent to headquarters and re• broad coverage of all types 0£ libraries and £erred to BEL offices which prepare and keep would be designed to appeal to freshmen who up to date. enter college without any prior determined ( 1) Lists of library schools major. In an informal manner the film would take one to all types of librarians in many (2) Publications available places and would give many facts about the (3) Published scholarship and loan funds professi,on. for librarianship Question was raised by Carl Melinat as to BEL uses all divisional material. the grade level of appeal of the film; freshmen 62 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES or sophomore; and asked about using the film it involves. (2) Be cheap (25c) and colorful. A 11 ith high school students. handy reference tool. Some 50,000 copies will Dr. McBride was not clear as to the use of be made. (3) Will be so attractive that student the film with high school students. He stated, also will read it. ACRL-Plans to set vocational however, that a budget of $7,000 would be guidance manuals to publish and distribute needed to complete the film. There is no knowl the pamphlet. Will be written by Robert King edge as to available financial assistance. ery of N. Y. P L. who will streamline it. Question: What is status on production of Question: Will it be a general manual or film outside of Florida? devoted solely to college librarianship? Answer: Don't know where we are on film. Answer: To all types of service. Finance needed before next step is decided SLA recruiting pamphlet for college students upon. Plan to make a film turn to ALA for by Elsa S. Freeman, Geography Library, Depart decision to be made as to next step. ment of Interior, Washington, D. C., was read Question: Is film for recruitment for all levels by Paul Barnett, Army Librarian in Pentagon. or all types of libraries served? Miss Focke asked Miss Timmerman to re Answer: Yes. port on sales on Paging Your Future. Miss Tim merman reported that between $50 and $75 of Question: Will film help with early interest Paging Your Future had been sold. As of May in librarianship? 31, about $250 in addition to between $50 and Ans"er: ALA is planning to go into Civic $75 had been placed in separate funds. Clubs and take advantage of their interest to Miss Focke apologized that only one issue of get it to help finance production of the film on Clearinghouse News Letter has been published. recruitment. A report from Dr. John F. Harvey, chairman, Hazel Timmerman asked whether Dr. Mc Joint Committee on Library Work as a Career, Bride had checked California about the film in was read by Miss Focke. process there and Dr. McBride gave a negative Report from Dr. Harvey on Action Manuals answer. Someone suggested that a request be for JCLWC began at midwinter. Previous made to some large businesses or industrial manual too elaborate, about 250 pages, briefer organization for funds. Miss Focke suggested one suggested. Marie Loiseaux agreed to pub that some subscription company might be con lish in September Wilson Library Bulletin. cerned. Report of nominating committee: ACRL - Recruiting Pamphlet - for Voca Chairman, Dr. John F. Harvey; secretary: tional Counselor-by Eugene P. Watson, North Alice Ruff; Report approved by unanimous western State College Library, Nachitoches, La. ballot. Mr. Watson began by announcing that the It was proposed that terms of office be ex pamphlet to be aimed at guidance counsellors tended over two years. Moved and seconded ~is still in the dream state. The ideas range that persons assembled instruct Mr. Harvey to from free leaflets to ones priced at $1.00 or more. appoint a committee to study proposals and Pamphlet will: (1) Tell what Librarianship make recommendations for the election of offi is. What opportunities are available and what <;ers for 2 year terms over-lapping carried. Board on Personnel Administration OPEN MEETING. The Role of the Staff Organ mittee of the Staff Organizations Round Table, ization in the Library was the topic considered presided. Amy Winslow, Enoch Pratt Free by a panel at the meeting on June 21, spon Library, Baltimore, Md., acted as moderator of sored jointly by the Staff Organizations Round the panel which included Edwin Castagna, Table and the Board on Personnel Adminis Public Library, Long Beach, Calif.; Ralph H. tration. Betty Jane Lewis, Public Library, Cin Hopp, University of Minnesota Libraries, Min cinnati, Ohio, chairman of the Steering Com- neapolis; Mrs. Alpha Blanche Myers, Public 63 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 Library. Newark, N. J.; and Katherine Pres The audience was gil'en opportunity to di cott, Pnblic Library, Cleveland, Ohi•. red its questions to the panel in writing. Each member of the panel presented his While these questions \\cere being collected, views on the staff organization's role. Mr. Hopp Miss Winslow asked the panel "Should the emphasized it! great importance in communi chief administrator be a member of the staff cation between administration and staff, its organization?" There was a difference of assistance in the professional and personal opinion among the panelists on this point, and growth of staff members, and its services in also on the type and the amount of his partici connection with staff welfare. pation if he were a member. Mr. Castagna felt that, no matter how much democracy in ad Mr. Castagna considered the staff organi ministration was practiced, the administrator's zation as the link bet.ween staff and adminis presence would inhibit discussion and dam tration. He indicated its assistance in raising age the ability of the group to think out a professional standards and standards of effici problem. Miss Winslow pointed out that the ency, and also its value in creating and main decision on the inclusion or exclusion of the taining good morale. The basis for a good chief administrator should be made at the relationship between administration and staff time the staff association is organized. organization, he believed, included a common The question of the personnel officer's mem desire to work together in improving an im bership was likewise debated. It was recog portant public service, the frank recognition nized that the place of the personnel officer in of the proper functions of the administrator the library's organization might have some and those of the staff association, and the re bearing on this point, as well as whether the spect of each for the other. The importance members of the staff organization would dis of democratic administration on staff organi cuss problems freely if be were present. The zation-administration relationships was illus answer to the question, "Should coordinators trated and implications drawn. and department heads be members?" was Tn Mrs. Myers' opinion the staff organization given by indicating it depended entirely on has three major purposes: promoting good re 1he individual library and its staff organization. lations among staff members, departments, and Several questions centered on such topics governing body; assisting in the improvement as the channels and need for two-way com of conditions of employment, such as salaries munication; promothg good relations between and pensions, and of working conditions, in professional and clerical staff; whether library cluding those dealing with physical surround lime should be given for meetings of the staff ings; and the development of the individual organization; if the staff organization should by his participation in the work and activities meet in the library's buildings and the ad of the staff organization. Mrs. Myers aptly rnntages pro and con; whether non-members illustrated how the individual's participation should be permitted to attend staff association contributed to his personal and professional business and program meetings; and if the growth and also to his worth to the library. staff organization should have representation at the library board meetings. Unfortunately, time Miss Prescott considered the staff organ• did not permit the discussion of several ization's major role is that of "the voice of the questions which had been submitted. staff", and emphasized how the seasoned judg ment 9f such an organization could be of great Miss Winslow in concluding the meeting service both to the administration and to the stressed the point that the role of the staff staff members. She felt that practice of de organization is a relative and growing thing. mocracy in the library as a whole was in Its role may be one thing now and something fluenced greatly by a democratic staff organ quite different in the future. ization. The staff organization's place in BUSINESS SESSIONS m· THE BOARD. During providing the staff with a greater feeling of its three business sessions, the board discussed security and with reductions in tensions was the various projects on which its four sub stressed as was also the opportunities for per committees are engaged. The May 1956 draft sonal and professional growth provided the of the pamphlet, prepared by the Subcom individuals by participation in a staff organ mittee on Classification and Pay Plans for ization. Public Libraries, was accepted and approved 64 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES with the understanding that certain suggestions the place of personnel administration in the made by critics reviewing the May draft would proposed new division was considered. It was be incorporated prior to publication. c!ecided by the hoard that a statement would The codes of ethics of other professional as be prepared to be sent to the new division, wciations were reviewed briefly, and the plan when established, emphasizing the importance of personnel administration in overall library of work and time-table of the Subcommittee administration, and providing needed back on Code of Ethics were considered. irround materials on the board's work, includ The ALA Executive Board's decision approv ing projects and programs under way. Each ing that the ALA Group Insurance Plan be of the board's publications was analyzed as put into operation was reported to the board. to its currency and adequacy, and a decision Steps in promotion of the plan were reviewed was reached that the new division, when es and the function of the Subcommittee on ta blislied, be informed of the board's opinion Group Insurance in relation to its promotion on whether discontinuance, continuance as now considered. published, or a revised edition of each of its l\frs. Rezia Gaunt, chairman of the Sub publications was needed. committee on Placement Service, made a pro BUSINESS SESSIONS OF SUBCOMMITTEES. The gress report on the proposals for a posting Subcommittee on Placement Service, meeting placement service to be submitted to the ALA on June 18, discussed various types of posting Executive Board at its Fall 1956 Meeting. (advertising) ideas for placement service. The joint open meeting of the Staff Organ Plans were made to develop several proposals izations Round Table and the Board on Per for such posting service and to submit them to sonnel Administration at the Miami Beach the ALA Executive Board for its consideration Conference was discussed and the final plans at its 1956 Fall Meeting. outlined. The Loard prepared and sent a The Subcommittee on Group Insurance, letter of congratulation to the Staff Organi whik, not meeting formally during the Con zations Round Table in recognition of its ference Week, learned of the Executive Board's Iv. entieth anniversary. decision which would make it possible to put Plans were made for the promotion of the ALA Group Insurance Plan into operation. Salaries of Library Personnel 1955, the pam Several informal discussions ensued to develop phlet reporting the findings of the board's a lime-table for bringing the plan to the 1955 survey. The release on this survey issued attention of ALA members. This plan covers to the press during the Conference Week was accident and sickness, accidental death and mentioned briefly. The inclusiveness of a state dismemberment insurance, and contains an ment on salaries for key positions to accom optional rider for hospital and surgical cover pany, The Library's Pay Plan: A Statement age. It will be available to personal ALA of Principles, was debated. It was decided that members residing or claiming residence in the the figures for all libraries be used rather than United States, its territories and possessions, a more detailed treatment by type of library. Canada and Mexico. During the initial en The need for a salary pool for other types rollment period, personal members under age and sizes of libraries, similar to that for large 70 may apply. Thereafter, the plan is limited public libraries was recognized. A brief dis to those under age 60. cussion followed on cost and how this might At its business meeting on June 19, the be put into operation. Subcommittee on Code of Ethics studied the The Board's newsletter, BPA Notes, was codes of other professional groups and made analyzed as to its usefulness to personnel of plans for further work on the preparation of ficers and librarians. It was decided that the a new ALA code of ethics. desirability of continuing this newsletter, or The Subcommittee on Classification and Pay issuing a similar publication, be recommended Plans for Public Libraries held a meeting on to the proposed Division on Library Adminis June 18. It discussed the comments received t-ration. from critics and subcommittee members on At the board's business meetings and dur the l\Iay 1956 draft of its pamphlet on position ing the meeting with Tibrary personnel officers classification. The subcommittee approved the on June 19, the board's program of work and pamphlet for publication with the under- 65 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 standing that its working group would make tbc fall of 1956 under the title, The Library's certain alterations in line with suggestions Position Classification Plan. received. The pamphlet will be published in Hazel B. Timmerman, Executive Assistant ALA Board on Personnel Administration Board on Resources of American Libraries A "ell-attended closed meeting was devoted in the preparation of the manuscript of a to the consideration of varied agenda. proposed publication on "Notable Materials Added to American Libraries, 1950-1954"; but A representative of the Technical Infor the hope was expressed that the manuscript mation Service, Atomic Energy Commission, would be ready for press by the early autumn. was present by invitation and received the assistance of the Board in determining the A proposal was presented by the Chairman location of a number of additional depositories of the Board for a long-range cooperative of AEC docnments. project for a "Short-Title Check-List (with American locations) of 16th Century Im Committee reports were received as follows: prints." Though approved in principal (if from the Subcommittee on the National adequate financial support could be obtained), Union Catalog, a report on the progress of there was discussion of the difficulties and the the expansion of the Books: Authors Catalog project was referred back to its author for into a current National Union Catalog, begin further investigation and possible modification. ning with January, 1956. From the Subcom mittee on the Library Resources of the South The approaching termination of the chair \\ est, a brief report on the prospect of obtain man's membership in the Board was noted, ing support for an important survey of the and it was announced that Keyes D. Metcalf library resources of the Southwest. From the had been appointed to succeed him. Subcommittee on the Listing of Domestic There was an indecisive discussion of the Periodicals for Microfilming, an important future of the Board in view of the impending preliminary estimate (based on an experi ALA reorganization and the uncertainty as to mental checking of the Union List of Serials) whether a new Division on Acquisition and of the number of periodicals to be involved Resources would be established or not. in this project, and an outline of proposed SEE ALSO: Joint meeting with Board on future procedures. Acquisition of Library Materials. A delay was reported by Wm. V. Jackson Charles W. David, chairman Serials Round Table The Serials Round Table Business and Pro reported on action taken at this conference gram Sessions were held in the Coronation by the Executive Board-based on recom Room of the Empress Hotel, June 19th. The mendations made by members on returned BusrNESs MEETING, was conducted by Jane L. questionnaires. Pope, University of Chicago Library, chair F. Bernice Field, Yale University Library, man. The reading of the minutes of last year's New Haven, Conn., chairman, Nominating meeting was dispensed with as they had ap Committee, gave the report of that committee's peared in Serial Slants. The secretary-treasurer action. Jane Ganfield, Purdue University Li gave the financial report and asked for pay brary, Lafayette, Ind., was elected the new ment of dues. Bella Shachtman, U. S. Depart• chairman and Harry Dewey, University of ment of Agriculture Library, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin Graduate Library School, Madison, chairman, Committee on Management Survey, Wis., was elected to the Executive Board. Both 66 BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ROUND TABLES terms of office were for the 1956/58 biennium. McDonald; and at the New York Public Li The PROGRAM MEETING, was held in con brary, by Paul B. Kebabian. The third paper, junction with the Division of Cataloging and "Comments and Questions on Previous Papers," Classification. The topic-"Case Studies on was given by F. Bernice Field. · the Application of the Lubetzky Principles to Evelyn Hensel, Pennsylvania State Uni Serials." The chairman of the Serials Round versity Library, University Park, Pa., pres Table opened this portion of the meeting with ident of the Division of Cataloging and Classi the introdnction of Dorothy Comins, Wayne fication and Chairman of the Program Com University Library, Detroit, Mich., program mittee, conducted the discussion which fol chairman for the Serials Round Table. The lowed the papers. two papers which followed her opening re The papers appear in full in the July issue marks were based on the actual use of these of Serial Slants. principles in two different libraries-at the Armed Forces Medical Library, by M. Ruth Jane L. Pope, chairman Staff Organizations Round Table BUSINESS MEETING. The annual business meet Le Moyne Anderson, Bulletin editor, re ing took place in the Ocean Terrace Room of ported that four issues of the SORT Bulletin the Sovereign Hotel at Miami Beach, June 19. were edited, printed, 1111d mailed to the mem There were approximately 51 persons present. bership. He reported that collectively, it took The chairman, Betty Jane Lewis, presided. six full-time, five-day work weeks to do this Steering Committee members present were: work. He recommended that another member Ruth Brennan, secretary, St. Louis Public Li of the Steering Committee be assigned to this brary; Marion Appleton, Seattle Public Li office. brary; and Margaret Jacobs, Enoch Pratt He also recommended that the Bulletin Free Library. Members not present were: editor receive an allowance of expense money Le Moyne Anderson, University of Illinois to attend the Annual Conference. Library at Chicago, Bulletin editor; Helen Membership chairman, Dorothy Day, re Maunu, Cleveland Public Library, treasurer; ported as of June 1, 1956, there are 98 paid Dorothy Day, Louisville Free Public Library, memberships, of which 91 are regular mem membership chairman; Mary Hugentugler, Los bers and seven are associate members. There Angeles Public Library, project chairman; were 11 new members. In the past three years and Charles Higgins, Boston Public Library. SORT has dropped 51 memberships. Mise Day The minutes of the 1955 business meeting recommends that a research committee be ap• were read and approved as read. pointed to study SORT activities, publications, The treasurer's report showed a balance on and conferences in order to find out why these hand, June 30, 1955 of $361.06. Receipte were organizations are no longer interested in $455.00. Disbursements were $527.18. Balance SORT. on hand, May 31, 1956, was $288.88. Project chairman, Mary Hugentugler, was The secretary reported that twenty-one as• ill and did not send a report. According to sociations had borrowed manuals and con her midwinter report, a committee composed stitutions. Free materials were sent to thirty of Gorden Aspengren, University of Southern libraries and kits of free materials to five state California; Johanna Collins, Minneapolis Pub or regional conferences. Eight requests for in lic Library; Luella Herbst, Pasadena Public formation were answered. Correspondence with Library, and Emilie Perillo, Queens Borough Committee members was carried on and mem Public Library, contacted at least two or more bership records were kept. Duties in connec libraries in every state by letter to the Staff tion with the election and the SORT Booth Association president, suggesting the organi were acc~mplished. zation of SORT meetings at State and Regfonal 67 Mia111i IJl'ach Co11/erencr, 1956 conferences. Jn addition, the president of every treasurer; Le Moyne W. Anderson, University State Library Association received a letter of Illinois Library at Chicago, Bnlletin edi explaining the project, and requesting coop· tor; Dorothy L. Day, Louisville Free Public eration. Fourteen groups were interested iu Library, membership chairman; and Margaret this project. L. Jacobs, Enoch Pratt Free Library, project Margaret Jacobs of the Pratt Staff Associ chairman. ation reported that she had attempted to in Correspondence. A letter of congratulation terest several libraries in a joint program. on the Twentieth Anniversary of SORT, from There was no response. They did have one re Roberta Bowler, chairman of the Board on quest for information on organizing a staff Personnel Administration, was read. association. Their director, Amy Winslow, was PROGRAM ~1EETING. More than two hundred moderator for the Joint Meeting of the BP A people attended the Joint Program Meeting and SORT. of the Board on Personnel Administration and Old Business. Miss Lewis spoke of the two the Staff Organizations Round Table on June revisions to the SORT constitution. The term 21, in the Ballroom of the Fontainebleau of office has been changed from two to three Hotel at Miami Beach. Betty Lewis, chairman vears. The chairman has the right to ask the of SORT, introduced the moderator, Amy resignation of any Steering Committee mem Winslow, director of the Pratt Free Library, ber who does not fulfill his duties. These re Baltimore, Maryland. Miss Lewis announced visions were voted on by mail. Both passed the subject of the panel discussion as The unanimously. Role of the Staff Organization in the Library. New Business. The recommendation that a :'\Iiss Winslow introduced the panel mem sum of money he granted to the Bnlletin bers: Edwin Castagna, Public Library, Long editor for conference expenses was made as a Beach, Calif.; Ralph H. Hopp, University of motion by Mrs. Alpha Myers. It was voted ;l1innesota libraries, Minneapolis; Alpha Myers, unanimously to grant $50.00 to the Bulletin Puiblc Library, Newark, NJ.; and Katherine editor for conference expenses. Prescott, Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. The recommendation that another member Each member was allowed ten minutes for of the Steering Committee assist in the pub his talk. lication of the SORT Bulletin was favorably Miss Winslow remarked that staff organ received. It was decided that the editor might izations have come a long way in the last want to appoint his assistant. twenty-five years. Twenty-five years ago both · The recommendation of the Membership a Statistics Committee A closed meeting of the ALA Statistics Com Invitations to attend the meeting had been mittee was held during the 75th Annual Meet• sent to all ALA divisions and they were rep ing of the American Library Association in resented as follows: ACRL & DCC-Dale M. the Card Room of the Sorrento Hotel, Miami Bentz, State University of Iowa Libraries; Beach, Fla. The chairman, Helen D. Hutchin DLCYP-Marian C. Young, Detroit Public Li son, Free Library of Philadelphia, presided. brary; DHL-Mrs. Suzanne M. Connell, U.S. Members present: Robert Alvarez, Nashville Air Force Base, Ala.; AASL-James L. Boula, Public Library, Nashville, Tenn.; Ralph Dun Twp. High School and Junior College, Joliet, bar, Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, IJL The PLD, in lieu of a represel!tative, sent Washington, D. C.; Ralph Parker, University a letter stating that its Board of Directors, at a meeting on June 17, had voted approval of of Missouri Library, Columbia; Howard M. the report and also to send a letter to the Smith, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadel Executive Secretary of ALA requesting that in phia, Pa.; Elaine von Oesen, North Carolina the reorganization of the Headquarters library Library Commission, Raleigh; and Hazel Tim an attempt be made to implement recom merman, ALA Staff Liaison. mendations of the report. 69 l'rliami Beach Conference, 1956 William J. Roehrenbeck, Free Public Li He stated that the U.S. Office of Education brary, Jersey City, N. J., by invitation of the would employ four analysts to process the ALA Executive Secretary, attended as a newly public library statistics now being collected. appointed committee member, effective Sep No one ventured an answer to the question tember 1, 1956. of how much of the work of a statistics clear The subject of discussion was the report of inghouse the present ALA staff could work in the Subcommittee on the Establishment of a with present duties. After some discussion of Clearinghouse for Library Statistics, copies of the possibility of part-time personnel, it was which had been sent to all committee mem generally agreed that the cost estimate should bers, to the ALA Executive Secretary, to the include the salary of a full-time professi®nal associate Executive Secretary, and all ALA librarian not lower than $4,500 per year, the divisions. Mr. Smith, chairman of the Sub salary of a secretary, and money for equip committee, explained that basic thinking of ment, postage, telephone and miscellaneous the Subcommittee in recommending that such office expenses. a clearinghouse be established at ALA Head The motion was made, seconded and passed quarters included the fact that the latter is that the Subcommittee report be approved. now doir-ig some of this type of referring. The Committee then instructed the chairman Miss Timmerman reported that the statistics to proceed on the basis of the discussion to functions in the reorganization plan would be check with the Executive Secretary of ALA under the division of Library Administration. on a cost estimate to accompany the proposal. She later added that such a division would The chairman was asked to send the results undoubtedly be formed as there were some of her correspondence with Mr. Clift to the 4,000 petitions signed. She recommended that members of the Committee and ask for an a cost estimate should accompany the proposal expression of opinion by the members before when it is sent to the Executive Board. Most the request is made to the Executive Board. of the discussion was on the cost estimate, The request must receive appro,·al of the Ex and how to arrive at a realistic figure. Mr. ecutive Board at the Midwinter, 1957 Meeting Dunbar pointed out that any estimate would in order to be included in the budget for the be a prediction of two elements: how much following year. information needed to be collected; and how many inquiries would have to be answered. Helen D. Hutchinson, chairman OTHER ORGANIZATIONS Association of American Library Schools Harold Lancour (Illinois) president, presided the Association on the issue was read to the at the meeting June 21, 1956, at the Sovereign meeting Ly the president. After discussion, Hotel. Ralph Munn (Carnegie) moved that the Asso BusINESS MEETING. The report of the treas ciation support the Nominating Committee in urer, showing a balance of $626.56, was ac the practice of submitting only a single can cepted as distributed. didate. There were many seconds and the mo tion passed without dissent. The Nominating Committee reported the Reporting on the work of the Executive election of Lowell Martin (Rutgers) as vice Board the president called attention to his president and president-elect and of Vernon Memo to Members as a new publication for Ross (McGill) as director to serve from 1956- 59. . the year. He also reported that the Executive Board had authorized sending the publications The letter from LeRoy C. Merritt object of the Association free of charge to thirty-five ing to the nomination of only one candidate foreign library schools. Commenting on the for the office of vice-president and president better attendance at Midwinter Meetings, he elect and callinr; for discussion and action by revealed that plans were underway for an all 70 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS In the discussion Father Kortendick pointed order to understand fully what the schools out that while the three schools represented hope to accomplish. by papers mentioned the same points in their Discussion from the floor brought out two outlines that there was a considerable differ new points. Virginia Lacy Jones (Atlanta) ence in the amount of emphasis given to dif stressed the special problems posed for her ferent points and to the methods of instruction students by the current issue of racial deseg• used in presenting them. He noted that de regation. She outlined the unit of study pre spite such differences the explicit goal of all pared at Atlanta for study of the problem and the courses is to bring students to an under offered to make the information available to standing of and a pride in librarianship. Dr. other schools. Long raised a question of whether such courses Jesse Shera (Western Reserve) suggested go far enough in orienting students to trends that orientation courses emphasize the public and directions in librarianship. Bonk -pointed library too much and neglect the school li out that such courses have to be considered brary almost completely. in respect to the rest of the curriculum in Howard W. Winger, secretary-treasurer PROJECTS Clearing House on Inter-Institutional Library Cooperation A representative group of 14 librarians met Harold L. Hammill, Los Angeles Public in the Sorrento Hotel on June 19, 1956, to Library, told of efforts toward cooperation in discuss the creation of such simple machinery Southern California; he said that the librar as might serve to make better known current ians in the area were anxious to avoid the programs and projects in the area of inter mistakes of duplicate collecting which are a institutional library cooperation. Ralph T. Es part of the history of the large eastern li terquest, who had invited the group to meet, braries; and he reported on informal discus presided. sions of a storage center in the Los Angeles Lewis C. Naylor, Cuyahoga County Public area. Norman L. Kilpatrick, Florida State Uni Library, reported on the survey made by the versity, Dale L. Barker, Georgia Institute of Indiana Library Association some time ago Technology, and Graham Roberts, Southeast which proposed a storage library addition to ern Interlibrary Research Facility, collabor the Indiana State Library. Keyes D. Metcalf ated in reporting the history of SIRF, the spoke about the development of the Hamp newest inter-institutional agency. William H. shire Inter-Library Center. Lois E. Englemen, Carlson, Oregon State System of Higher Edu Denison University, and John Herrold Lan cation, described the operations of the Pacific caster, Ohio Wesleyan University, described Northwest Bibliographic Center, commented the steps taken by the Ohio Coilege Associa on subject specialization agreements in the tion and the Ohio Library Association to Northwest, and reported late information on develop cooperation among the state's college the survey of library needs in the region about libraries, and they reported on the status of to get under way. Charles W. David, Long the union list activities being supported cur wood Library, spoke of the useful work of the rently by an ACRL-U.S. Steel Corp. grant. Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union !virs. Margaret D. Uridge and Marion A. Library Catalogue. Milczewski, University of California, reported Mr. Esterquest reviewed the reasons for call on developments in northern California, de ing the meeting, emphasizing the need for per'. scribed the recent survey of storage needs and manent machinery for communication among the survey of unusual collections, commented those in the profession who were giving on the California teletype network, and re thought to the development of cooperative en viewed the cooperative program for filming terprises of all sorts. Mr. David suggested an the newspapers of the state. annual meoting with carefully-prepared min- 72 PROJECTS utes. The consensus was that any annual inter-library cooperation, and Library Trends statement of progress in the field should be was proposed as a logical publication to which given wide distribution through publication, such a review might be submitted. and various media were discussed. It was The group agreed to meet again at Mid further agreed that the initial statement should winter. be a basic review of the present state of Ralph T. Esterquest City, Town, and County School Library Supervisors Over 100 attended a luncheon meeeting at a Reactor Panel which included Frances Hat the Lucerne Hotel, June 19th. Virginia Mc field, supervisor of Instructional Materials, J en kin, director of Libraries for the Fulton Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Elizabeth Hodges, super County, Georgia, Public Schools, presided as visor of Library Services, Baltimore County, chairman. Assisting her in arrangements for Md.; and Evelyn Peters, supervisor of Library the meeting was Sara J affarian, director of Greensboro, N. C., Public School Libraries, Services, New Orleans, La., Public Schools. as secretary-treasurer of the group. There was general discussion from the group present. Mr. Garland pointed up those ways James E. Garland, director of School House Planning Department of Dade County, Fla., in which the school librarian could be help Board of Public Instruction, gave an illus ful to the architect in planning new school trated lecture on the subject, "Blueprint for libraries. School Libraries." He discussed, from his per Miss Hatfield headed a committee of local sonal experience, the planning and equipping librarians on providing decorations for the of school libraries, provoking discussions from tables using a Seminole Indian theme. State School Library Supervisors The State School Library Supervisors met at project and State Supervisor of School Li I he Sorrento Hotel, June 20. Twenty-two mem braries in South Carolina, reported on the bers attended. new library project of the Southern States The presiding officer was Margaret E. Workshop Conference. A report mimeographed Rutherford (secretary), assistant supervisor of on summary of activities in each State was School Libraries in Virginia. Acting-president, distributed. due to absence of president, was Jane Hobson, Elections: President - Cora Paul Bomar, state supervisor of School Libraries in New supervisor of School Libraries, State Depart Jersey. ment of Education, Raleigh, N. C. Secretary Nora Beust of the U. S. Office of Edu :VIrs. Lena de Grummond, supervisor of School cation, reported on the Audio-Visual Com Libraries, State Department of Education, mission. Nancy Jane Day, chairman of the Baton Rouge 4, La. Adult Education Workshop Over 500 librarians from 44 states, Alaska, Intellectual Freedom Committee; lntercultural Canada, Mexico, Trinidad, Cuba, and the Action Committee; Joint Committee on Li Canal Zone attended the meetings of the brary Services to Labor Groups; Library Ex Miami Beach Adult Education Workshop on tension Section, PLD; Notable Books Council, The Use of Community Resources and Library PLD; Public Libraries Division; Notable Materials, held each morning at eight o'clock, Books Council, PLD Public Libraries Divi June 18-22. The Workshop was sponsored by sion; and Public Relations Committee. Mrs. the: Adult Eclncation Board; Adult Educa Muriel C. Javelin, consultant, ALA Library tion Section, PLD; Audio-Visual Board; Community Project, as president-elect of the Audio-Visual Round Table, and the Office for Adult Education Section and program chair Adult Education. Also cooperating were the: man for the Section, co-ordinated the Work- 73 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 shop. Malcolm S. Knowles, administrative co methods, techniques, materials and resources ordinator, Adult Education Association of the used in the demonstrations. The Wedne!!day U.S.A., as workshop consultant, participated sessions were concerned with the use of com in the briefing sessions, the opening and clos munity resources in plaoning specific types of ing sessions of the Workshop, and throughout library adult education programs. There were the week as needed. There were 102 program five concurrent sessions: Planning a Boole participants from 12 state agencies, 39 munici Based Diswssion Using the Notable Books of pal libraries, 11 regional libraries, 7 county 1955 (sponsored by the Adult Education Sec libraries, 8 colleges and universities, 2 labor tion of PLD); Planning a Series of Film Pro unions, and the ALA staff. All program par grams for the PTA (sponsored by the Audio ticipants attended a two-hour briefing session Visual Board); Notable Books Read Better on the Sunday evening preceding the Work with Sound-based on Life and Language in shop. the Old Testament, by Chase, and a recording of Charles Laughton reading from the Bible The goals of the Workshop were: (sponsored by Joint Committee on Service to 1. To explore ways in which the library Labor Groups) ; The Library Plans to Study can more fully realize its role in rela the Community (sponsored by ALA Library tion to the over-all education activi Community Project). ties and resources of the community; On Thursday there were five concurrent 2. to increase sensitivity to the adult demonstrations of actual library programs education needs of the community, using specific types of materials. As on Wed and to improve skills in assessing these nesday, the discussions following the dPmon needs; strations were concerned with method, tech 3. to increase skills in the process of niques, materials, resource people used, and planning cooperatively with other adult back-home application rather than with the education resources of the community; actual subject content. Demonstrations were: Using Films with the PTA-Film Age of Tur 4. to explore the use of a wide variety moil (sponsored by the Audio-Visual Board) ; of materials and resources in library Music Appreciation through Recordings and adult education programming. 35mm Slides (sponsored by the Audio-Visual The opening session, Planning a Library Round Table) ; The Right to Read-A Book Adult Education Program (sponsored by the based Discussion al Which Community Lead ALA Library-Community Project), was a role ers Show How Censorship Can Be Handled playing demonstration in which the Librarian (sponsored by Intellectual Freedom Commit of a hypothetical Middletown, U.S.A. met tee); Can We Immunize Against Prejudice? with representatives of community organiza A Film Forum (sponsored by the Intercul tions to plan the library's adult education pro tural Action Committee) ; Using Audio-Visual gram for the coming fall. The purposes of Materials with Senior Citizens-Film Posse this session were to demonstrate the proce• (sponsored by Adult Education Board and dure of planning a program of service to Joint Committee on Library Service to Labor adults based on community needs and the use Groups). of a citizen group to assist in such planning; Throughout the week there was an observer to illustrate the resources represented by such at each meeting who noted the problems and a group and the ways in which many aspects topics discussed, the ideas which came out of of the library's traditional program can meet the meeting, the role of the leader, etc. These the adult education objective. twenty-five observers reported their 6.nrlings On Tuesday morning, in hotels all up and to three key observers-Edwin Castagna, Long down Collins Avenue, "workshoppers" met in Beach (California) Public Library; Mrs. Mar fifteen small groups to consider the Monday ion E. Hawes, Enoch Pratt Free Library, morning session and to relate the Monday Baltimore, Md.; and Lucile Nix, State Depart discussion to their back-home situations. ment of Education, Ga. The key observers The Wednesday and Thursday sessions were participated in the two general sessions, acted demonstrations, followed by discussion of the as roving observers throughout thi, week, and 74 PROJECTS on Friday morning were intC'rviewcd by Mal Education Section, Public Libraries Division, colm Knowles concerning their own findings West Georgia Regional Library, Carrollton, and those of the team of Observers. This Fri Ga.; John D. Henderson, chairman, Intellec day session entitled Have We Met Our Goals? tual Freedom Committee, Los Angeles County was a discussion and critical analysis of what Public Library, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. had been happening at Workshop sessions Muriel C. Javelin, chairman, Program Com during the week. Evaluation sheets on the mittee, Adult Education Section, PLD, ALA; total Workshop were filled out by the partici S. Janice Kee, executive secretary, PLD, ALA; pants. The comments at the final meeting and Malcolm S. Knowles, administrative co-ordi the tabulation of the evaluation sheets will be nator, Adult Education As1,ociation of the co-ordinated for the use of ALA units plan U.S.A.; Fern Long, chairman, Adult Educa ning further programs in Adult Education. tion Board, Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library; Members of the Planning Committee were: Verna R. Nistendirk, president, Library Ex Len Arnold, Public Relations director, A.L.A.; tension Section, Public Libraries Division, Virginia M. Beard, chairman, Audio-Visual Boonslick Regional Library, Sedalia, Mo.; Round Table, Cleveland (Ohio) Public Li Mrs. Dorothy Oko, chairman, Joint Commit brary; Vivian B. Cazayoux, chairman, Audio tee on Library Service to Labor, New York Visual Board, State Library, Baton Rouge, Public Library; Mildred W. Sandoe, presi La.; Mrs. Florence S. Craig, chairman, Nota dent, PLD, Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Library; ble Books Council, Public Libraries Division, Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson, director, Office for Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Adult Education, ALA; Ruth Warncke, di Ohio; Jerome Cushman, chairman, Intercul rector, Library-Community Project, ALA; Dan t ural Action Committee, Salina (Kansas) Pub A. Williams, chairman, Public Relations Com lic Library; Edith L. Foster. president, Adult mittee, Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library. " 'orkshop on Personal Relations in Public Relations The Public Relations Committee sponsored Mr. Knowles laid the groundwork for the the Workshop on Personal Relations in Public role-playing by pointing out techniques used Relations, which was held June 17, at the and assigning to the audience responsibilities Fontainebleau Hotel. The Workshop was di for the discussion which would follow the vided into two parts with the initial section, demonstration. He also pointed out that the a role-playing demonstration, presented at 2 :00 community represented, "Middletown," was P.M. The theme was "How To Improve the the same community to be considered during Library's Public Relations." The participants the week long Adult Education Workshop. were Lucile Nix, State Department of Edu The concern in each case was a reexamination cation, Atlanta, Ga.; Evelyn Parks, May Me of the basic concept of the library's role in morial Library, Burlington, N. C.; Sarah R. the community. Other concerns here were the Reed, Florida State University Library School, development of guiding principles in the Ji. Tallahassee; Henry C. Shearhouse, Jr., Re brary's public relations program, and identi gional Library Center, Watertown, N. Y.; and fication of problem areas librarians have with Ruth Warncke, ALA Library-Community Proj relation to public relations. The group was ect. divided into four listening teams. Team one The presiding officer was Harold L. Roth, was to look for areas needing further clari assistant director, East Orange Public Li fication; team two were the skeptics and crit brary, East Orange, N. J. The consultant was ics; team three were to consider problems Malcolm S. Knowles, administrative coordi and obstacles that come to mind regarding nator, Adult Education Association of U.S.A., local situations; team four were to concern Chicairo, Ill. The total attendance at the first themselves with methods and techniques dem ,-;p"~ion wa~ 110. onstrated. 75 Miami Beach Conference, 1956 The role-playing demonstrated a meeting cerned with the same problems. These were calJed by a local librarian to which were in the problems of limited budgets; the methods vited a local newspaper editor, a representa of training Public Relations people; the defi tive of the Council of Social Agencies, a nition of Public Relations; the determination trustee, and the public relations staffer. In the of newsworthiness; development of relations course of the demonstration the audience saw with local media; development of a Public a public relations program in action and prob Relations program; methods of assessing the lems involved in developing understanding of value of a Public Relations program for the the role of the library in the community. library. A dialogue between Mr. Roth and Mr. Each of the experts spoke from his own Knowles set the scene for the listening team point of view but in the end seemed to run reports, which were centered mainly around their comments into the same channel. In all the question of the makeup of the committee instances the experts were frank and emi represented, the use made of the resources nently practical. They pointed out that in all available in the community, and the value of cases where media is involved, newsworthi the library survey demonstrated. The audi ness is the point of greatest concern in· get ence was permitted to buzz for a short period, ting space. Librarians were again informed after which questions were posed to be an that executives of the various media are hu swered by the panel. man beings and respond well to personal visits from librarians. The one concern when The questions showed signs of successful requesting space on these visits is that the stimulation of the thinking apparatus by the librarians have a program or a suggestion technique used. The people as a whole were which can be considered. The media man interested in the use of outside resources in does not want to be put in the position of developing the library's program and were having to devise the program as well as sup mightily concerned with the proper use of the plying space. Mr. Legate kept emphasizing Board in putting the library's best foot for the fact that Public Relations is nothing more ward. One definite feeling was that in this than individual relations with persons out situation there was too much emphasis on out side the individual's organization. Values were side public relations and not enough on in reappraised on location of publicity. In all ternal public relations. cases it was pointed out that overall effect The second part of the workshop took place is more important and that a program sched at 7 :30 P.M. at which time a group of ex uled over the course of a year will get its perts wa.s brought in to answer specific ques share of space, while haphazard publicity will tions to -be presented to them by spokesmen usually suffer from not building up the neces for two of the listening teams. 135 p~ople sary rapport with the media. attended this session which, while more cut A final summary pointed out the fact that and dried in its technique of question and Public Relations is the cumulative effect of answer from questioner to expert, still held individual actions. Build a strong service--a the attention of the group until 10:00 P.M. good pregram-then the publicity will come. The experts were Len Arnold, Public Re Publicity, if not supported by a good program, lations Director of ALA, who acted in dual can backfire. In all cases the librarian must capacity of newspaperman as well as ALA outline the long range ohjcctiv~s in Public staffer; Judith Waller, Public Affairs repre Relations lo the entire library staff, so they sentative, National Broadcasting Company, will know the parts they are expected to play Chicago, Ill.; James M. Legate, general man in the overall program. Public Relations must ager, Radio Station WIOD, Miami; and Sey be a function of Administration in the library. mour Samet, regions.I director, American Jew This was the only meeting of the Public ish Committee, Miami. Relations Committee aside from its role as joint The questions were spirited and so were sponsor of the Adult Education Workshop. the answers. The areas of concern overlapped and showed that most librarians were con- Harold L. Roth 76