Personnel

N NovE~BER 1894 Justin Winsor hired a I young man, just graduated from Harvard, as an assistant in the catalog department of the Harvard College Library. This marked the beginning of a long and outstanding career for T. Franklin Currier. He started as an assistant in cataloging and classifying, and was put in immediate charge of the catalog department in May 1902, a position which he held until his retirement in I 940. In 1913 he was made an assistant librarian, and in 1937 he received the appointment of associate librarian. For many years previous to his retirement, he was at work on his bibliography of Whit­ tier which was published in 1937. He then turned pis scholarly interests to another American poet and in 1939 was granted a year's leave af absence to begin work on a bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. T. Franklin Currier When he retired the following year, he was given the title of Honorary Curatqr of New England Literature and Consultant in Ameri­ public catalog. On top of all this confusion, can Literary Bibliography in the university the decision was made to combine the alpha­ library. The same year he received a grant betico-classed catalog with the author catalog, from the Milton Fund to help him continue thereby producing a modern dictionary cata­ his research. Up until a few months before log. Then came the trying years of the First his death in September, at the age of 73, he World War, followed by those of the depres­ was still at work on the Holmes bibliography, sion. Such difficulties and problems as these attempting to solve, to his own satisfaction, Mr. Currier had to meet with no appreciable the mere handful of bibliographical puzzles increase in his staff. Is it any wonder, then, that remained. lt is ·to be hoped that this that he felt obliged to work out economical work will be published in the near future, so methods? There was the need, and necessity that Mr. Currier's research will not be lost proved to be the mother of invention. But to scholarship. it took a man of Mr. Currier's ability and During that period of almost half a cen­ shrewdness, with his gift for organization, to tury between 1894 and 1940, Mr. Currier create a virtue out of the necessity. worked undeMhe. administration of no fewer Mr. Currier was both a capable administra­ than six librarians. One regrets that he did tor and a cataloger par excellence as well. not live to write his recollections of those He was an advocate of simplified rules for years which mark an important era in the library cataloging, and his theories in this development of the world's largest university line were strengthened by the fact that he library. And they. were not easy years. was also a bibliographer and a scholar. He There was the move from the crowded quar­ was a pioneer in his endeavors for simplifica­ ters of old Gore Hall into the new Widener tion, a "thoughtful rebel" as someone has so memorial building, a move which resulted aptly called him; and the present tendency in a rapid increase in accessions. There was of libraries toward the adoption of those the change from small cards to those of same principles for which he stood is a real standard size, and the duplication of records tribute to him. in order to create both an official and a Hand in hand with simplified cataloging

72 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES went his ideas for what he termed "selective energy and enthusiasm were a never-failing cataloging." In his own words this "method source of inspiration. They respected and results in free omission of subject headings loved T.F.C., and, in the words of one of for books in foreign languages, for out.:of­ his associates, those of us whom he has left date books, for obsolete editions, and for behind "have good reason to feel that some­ technical treatises on abstruse subjects; it thing we may never experience again has inclines -towards recording under the correct passed from the picture in the Harvard Col­ subject headings comprehensive treatises, lege Library."-Susan M. Haskins. books of general interest, and live material on cleariy defined and especially on minute HE Massachusetts Institute of Technology topics." T is most happy that it has been able to He was constantly on the alert to improve persuade Vernon D. Tate to leave his im­ procedures, and some of his greatest con­ portant work as director of the Division of tributions to librarianship have been in this Photographic Archives and Research at the line. He is well known as the originator National Archives to come to us as librarian. of th.e process known as preliminary catalog­ We hope that in his new task he will prove ing, which has come to be adopted by several in ·the long run to be even more useful to large libraries in the country, including the the world of scholarship than he has already Library of Congress. It was part of a larger been. effort by which he strove to separate profes­ Libraries may seek distinction in a num­ sional and clerical duties and is considered ber of ways. The two traditional, and hence one of "the most significant contributions to most obvious, ones are by providing a macro­ the economy of cataloging." Mr. Currier collection which by its all-embraciveness in­ himself described the process in the June I 940 sures the scholar of a high probability of com- number of College and Research Libraries. . pleteness in his research, or by creating Mr. Currier by no means limited his pro­ smaller and exceptionally distinguished selec­ fessional activities to his own institution. He tive collectio.ns in special fields. Because of served on several library committees, notably the regenerative nature of technological liter­ the A.L.A. committee for the 1908 edition ature, neither of these is a. natural objective of the Catalog Rules and the A.L.A. Co­ for the library of an institu-tion which special­ operative Cataloging Committee, and he was izes irt technological matters, and M.I.T. is chairman of the Committee on Incunabula for spared further regional responsibility by the the new ·edition of the catalog code. He also expressed his views through many articles Vernon D. Tate published in the various library periodicals. In addition to his Bibliography of 1 ohn Greenleaf Whittier, which has been described as being "as near perfection as any bibli­ ography is permitted to be," Mr. Currier · published in 1939 a volume entitled Elizabeth Lloyd and the Whittiers; a Budget of Letters. He also compiled and edited the Catalogue of Graduates of the Public Latin School in Boston, r8r6-1917. This publication is o-f more than passing interest because Mr. Currier was a graduate of ·the school. Nor were his int~rests limited to the li­ brary profession, for we find him a. member of such a society as the Friends' Historical_ Association. His love for the out-of-doors, and for mountain climbing in particular, was reflected in his membership in the Appalachian Mountain Club. For the members of his staff, Mr. Currier's

JANUARYJ 1947 73 existence of its great library neighbors at also add a distinguished person to the group Harvard University and in Boston. of librarians of whom Boston already has There are other ways, however, in which reason to be proud. He arrived at Cambridge a library may be distinguished and may render on January I ., and after a six months' period useful service or contributions to scholarly of study and indoctrination will assume his progress. One of these is surely by advancing new post on July I.-John E. Burchard. _ the art of documentation and 'of getting the information in the document from the page . J. ERROLD ORNE, the new director of libraries " to the mind of ma.n. It is clear enough that of Washington University, St. Louis, the spate of publication in all fi~lds is one began his library career at the age of sixteen which, quite aside from the library growth as part-time assistant in the public library problem w.hich has been well enough worried, of St. Paul. After obtaining his B.A. and offers potential frustration to future scholars M~A. from the University of Minnesota, he. or perhaps even to the scholars of today. studied at the University of Paris, 1934-35, There are a number of tools, technologically then attended the University of Chicago, well along, which have possible application 1936-39, where he obtained his Ph. D. degree to this problem. It is entirely appropriate in Romance linguistics. In 1940 he secured that M.I.T., which does have staff who have his forinal library degree from the University had a good deal to do with the production of Minnesota and served as a fellow in li­ of the tools and who know a fair amourit brary science at the Library of Congress until about their physical capabilities, should con­ his appointment as librarian of Knox Col­ cern itself as well with their intellectual lege, Galesburg, Ill., in 1941. At the Library capabilities. of Congress Dr. Orne surveyed the collections Such exploration might be made in any field in Romance literatures and directed the re­ of documentation and is perhaps more vitally moval to safe storage of irreplaceable books needed in fields other than science, which and manuscripts at the outbreak of the war. by its precision has achieved a rather orderly From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U.S. treatment of its literature. But no serious Navy. One of his duties was to organize observer of these matters will venture to the indexing unit of the Office of Research guess that the scientific literature is in satis­ and Inventions, which coordinated the work factory shape. Because of its . relative sim­ done at over thirty research libraries. The plicity, it offers a reasonable place to begin Subject Heading List for Naval Libraries, experiments which, if successful, should have wider and possibly more important implica­ Jerrold Orne tions in other fields. The appointment of Dr. Tate is, then, symbolic at least of our intention to make some contribution to this field, as well as of our intention that the scientific and techno­ logical collections at M.I.T. shall be solid, complete, and above all usable. His ex­ perience, moreover, will be applied to our interest in audio-visual education. Dr. Tate is already so well-known in the library world and has achieved such a reputa­ tion that it would seem to me gratuitous to make any e,xten.ded comment about his past record. w~ ' ~re happy that in addition to his technical accomplishments he is a trained historian, a man· of broad interests, a man whose connections' both here and in Europe are first class. We feel that in bringing him to M.I.T. · w~ shalf'not only provide for our own needs in the best possible way but shall 74 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES second edition, 1946, which he compiled in (with the Bureau of Mines), and long serv­ collaboration with Lieut. Grace Swift, was ice in the technical library field specially a cr-editable by-product of his library work in qualify Mr. Phelps for his key position. He the Navy. served as assistant in the technology depart­ Immediately following his separation from ment of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh the service, Dr. Orne became chief of the from 1928 to 1939, receiving his library degree . Office of the Publication Board (subsequently during this period. From October 1939 renamed Office of Technical Services), U.S. through November 1942 he headed the tech­ Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., nology department of the Birmingham, Ala., where he streamlined the complex operations Public Library. In December 1942 he be­ involved in acquiring, indexing, abstracting, came librarian of the War Metallurgy Com­ and disseminating all documents from which mittee of the National Academy of Sciences, military security restrictions had b'een re­ National Research Council, in which position moved since the end of the war. As an he supervised· the dissemination of secret and administrator, Dr. Orne succeeded in inspir­ confidential research information to metal­ ing confidence in his crew of over one hun­ lurgical research laboratories. This work dred technicians and librarians. also included the indexing and_.editing of N a­ Dr. Orne brings to his new task the educa­ tiona! Defense Research Committee reports tional background of a scholar, a long-stand­ of the War Metallurgy Committee, which ing interest· in library work, a .record of di­ many technology librarians will recall having versified library training and experience, and· seen in the series of Office of Scientific Re­ proved ~xecutive ability. As a librarian, Dr. search and Development reports now being Orne possesses vision, enthusiasm, and com­ distributed by the Library of Congress. mon sense in an unusually high degree.­ Mr. Phelps received his education at Robert H. Muller. Monmouth College, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the University of Alabama. ALPH H. PHELPS was appointed director He has been active in library organizations R of the Engineering Societies Library on and is a member of the American Chemical October I 7 to succeed Har.r:ison · W. Craver. Society. He has written abstracts and He had, become assistant director in July articles for various engineering and library 1945 and acting director in February 1946. periodicals. A chemistry degree, experience as a chemist One of his main and continuing interests has been the improvement in quality and Ralph H. Phelps variety of reference books, especially in the scientific and technical field. This interest has led to his work in editing the Special Li­ braries· Association's Trade-Names Index ( 1941) and to. his appointment as a mem­ ber of the Subscription Books Committee of the American Library Association. Mr. Phelps has launched into his new duties with a . vigor that indicates a reas­ sertion of the position of leadership that the Engineering Societies Library has always held. He has demonstrated a concern for staff esprit de corps by timely action in the face of inflation. He has undertaken a notably successful campaign to publicize the library's variety of services in professional engineering journals and other publications. He has up his rolled-up sleeves many plans that I have been privileged to listen to, and I am sor.ry I cannot mentio_n some ·of them here.-Harry ,,..,. Dewey.

JANUARY~ 1947 75 tion of fourteen separate libraries was just one move, but a big one, in getting the Ver­ mont libraries on course. Interspersed through his work has . been study, at Columbia University and at the University of- Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. degree in December. Concentrating in his dissertation on the content of student reading, he has also maintained an active interest in communications research during the past few years. . Dr. Smith brings . to the State College of Washington a memory of varied library head­ aches and the diagnosis and cure for each and the ability to emerge from long stretches of hard work with an undulled sense of humor and a complete avoidance of irritableness. With years of editorial experience, an un­ canny ability to see the strengths and weak­ nesses of any plan at a glance, and an unfail­ Stanley .L. West ing vitality, Mrs. Smith will be a tremendous help to our Mr. Smith who has come to N Nov. I, 1946, G. Donald Smith suc­ Washington.-Robert H. Wilkins. O ceeded W. W. Foote as librarian of the State College of Washington at Pullman. TANLEY L. WEST became director of li­ Froni the University of Vermont, where · S braries of the University of Florida at Dr. Smith has been director of libraries for Gainesville on November I8. the past two years, and from Maine, his Mr. West received his A.B. at the Univer­ home state, to the West Coast is a long sity of Califorvia in 1933, continuing there jump. The move to a major position which an additional year as a graduate student in needs an outstanding administrator, organizer, political science. Turning to the law, he was and builder capable of keeping constantly in graduated from · the University of Florida view the educational aims of a university and Law School in 1938. of its library while dealing with the confused While in law school Mr. West worked in minutiae of administration, will be, however, the law library, and, liking it, decided as just a good, brisk stride forward for him. so many other librarians have done in similar With varied administrative experience behind circumstances, to make librarianship his life him-at Colby College, Maine, as assistant work. Accordingly, in the summer vacation librarian, 1933-36; at Mary Washington Col­ of 1937 he entered the Columbia University lege, Virginia, as librarian, I939-40; at Herzl School of Library Service and was graduated Junior Co!lege, Chicago, as librarian, I94I- in 1942. 42; at the University of Chicago. as assistant Upon his graduation from law school, Mr. to the director of libraries, I 942-44; and at ·West· was made law librarian at the Univer­ Vermont-there has been a steadily increas­ sity of Florida, resigning that position in 1940 ing emphasis in everything he has done on to become instructor in law and law librarian defining and stating aims, then systematizing, at the University of Pittsburgh. In October pointing up, and building up all library activi­ 1942, following the induction of David H. ties towards the fulfilment of those aims. His Clift, C. C. Williamson, then director of July Vermont library committee report on libraries at Columbia, invited Mr. West to objectives, functions, and organization, the take over Mr. Clift's post as assistant in fruit of twenty months of study and prepara­ charge of general administration, and he was tion, followed by tearing apart by committees granted leave of absence for th~t purpose. and rebuilding, is a chart by which any good For nearly four months following Dr. library navigator could steer. The centraliza- Williamson's retirement in june 1943 and

76 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES until the present director began active duty, Mr. West was executive head of a staff com­ mittee which administered the routine affairs of the Columbia University Libraries. In November I943 Mr. West entered the United States Naval Reserve, serving as communications officer on the U.S.S. Wyandot until his separation on Jan. I, I946. During this time his ship was active in the taking of Okinawa aqd was badly damaged by Japanese bombs. Mr. West became associate librarian of the Columbia University Law Library on Feb. I, I946, and continued as exec:utive officer of this library of 270,000 volumes until his de­ parture for his new position. In addition to duties in the law library, lie served as chairman of a personnel policy committee to compile a> staff manual and was active in the affairs of the American Association of Law Morris A. Gelfand Libraries and of the Law Library Association of Greater New York. He leaves law li­ brarianship with considerable regret and with his was the first appointment to be recom­ a consistently successful record; however, the mended to President Klapper. He came to larger field of general university administra­ a library which had no books, no building, tion had an irresistible appeal: and no furniture. But with an amazing Perhaps Mr. West's outstanding character­ acumen he helped gather and improvise until istic and one which has won for him the within a few months the library was ready esteem and respect of faculty, students., and for students. He organized hordes of N .Y.A. sfaff alike, is a perennial and youthful en­ . and W.P.A. workers into really efficient thusiasm, tempered by a judicial mind and a projects that turned out prodigious quantities realistic approach to administrative problems. of u~eful work. His relations with faculty Law librarians regret losing him, but are glad· and students were most cordial, and through to present him, as an outstanding exemplar, him the library became a real center of col­ to the wider field of the general university lege life. library.-Miles 0. Price. When he entered the Army in 1942 he was determined to see real aetiop, but fate put ORRIS A. GELFAND, assis.tant librarian him to cataloging in an Army library where M at Queens College since its beginning he did such an outstanding job that he was in I937, has been named librarian. This well­ sent off to become a statistical officer. He earned promotion has come on the occasion rose to the rank of major and served as of his return from Army service and on the adjutant of a bomb group in England and resignation of Charles F. Gosnell. France. In September 1945 he was trans­ Mr. Gelfand's library career began at the ferred and attached to General MacArthur's Washington Square Library of New York staff to organize Army libraries in the Pacific. University. His previous experience, as a With that job well on its way, he was re­ member of the registrar's office and as a leader leased to inactive duty, and returned to in student government, paid rich dividends Queens in August 1946. in popularizing the library, and while there He is well-equipped in personality, train­ he put the ground floor reserve book room ing, and experience to carry on the tradition on a big business basis and helped bring out of rapid but solid growth at Queens, and an unusually successful library guide. those who know him look to Queens to When organization of the Queens College continue to set the pace for the sister city Library was begun in the summer of 1937,- colleges.-Charles F. Gosnell.

JANUARY~ 1947 77 LARENCE H. FAUST, dean of the college versity of Chicago adopted in 1942. The C of the University of Chicago, has been program, administered and in large measure appointed dean of the· Graduate Library established by him, provides a four-year cur­ Sch,ool and professor of library science. He riculum in liberal education beginning after succeeds Ralph A. Beals, who resigned Octo­ the completion of the sophomore year of high ber I to become director of the New York school. Dr. Faust will remain acting dean Public Library. D,r. Faust recei~ed his A.M. of the college until his successor is chosen. and Ph.D. degrees in English from the Uni­ versity of Chicago and his A.B. from North _ALLEN T. HAZEN, who came to the Uni­ Central College. ~ versity of Chicago in 1945 as associate professor in the department ·of English and bibliographer in the field of the humanities in the library, has been appointed acting di­ rector of libraries. Dr. Hazen took his bachelor's and doctor's degrees at Yale Uni­ versity and his master's degree at Harvard. From 1935' to 1943 he was instructor in English and assistant in the rare book room of the Yale University Library, and from 1942 until his appointment as bibliographer at Chicago he was an instructor at Hunter College. Dr. Hazen has made a special study of Samuei Johnson and his work. Among other writings, he is the author of Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications and com­ piler of A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press. Allen T. Hazen

Clarence H. Faust

"The libraries of the country have great possibilities as agencies of .education in a critical period of our history," Dr. Faust said, commenting on his new appointment. "The Graduate Library School is concerned in its program of research, publication, and training for librarianship with the problems which this opportunity and its corresponding responsibility present to librarians." Dr. Faust has been interested in reading and the apprehension of meaning and with the prob­ lem of the broad extension of general educa­ tion through reading. As dean of the college, Dr. Faust was responsible for implementing the new program of undergraduate education which the Uni-

78 COLLEG/f. AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Appointments Edward A. Chapman, director of publica­ Evelyn Buckley is now head of the catalog tions for Edwards Brothers at Ann Arbor, department of the College of St. Thomas has been appointed librarian of Rensselaer Library in St. Paul. Polytechnic Institute at Rensselaer, N.Y. Eleanor Burke, after two years of· service S~ Hartz Rasmussen, librarian since 1941 in the WAVES, has joined the library staff · of the Economic, Financial, and Transit De­ of the University of California in Berkeley partment of the League of Nations mission as head of the loan department. in Princeton, N .]., has been named librarian Eugene H. Wilson, director of the Uni­ ' of the United Nations · Library at Lake versity of Colorado Libraries, has been ap­ Success. . pointed director of the summer session of the LeRo:y C. Merritt, formerly librarian of university. the State Teachers College, Farmville, Va., Frances Burrage, University of New is now an associate professor in the School Mexico Library, is now reference librarian of Librarianship of the University of Cali­ of Baylor University. fornia. He has recently been associated with Mary E. Sparks, of the cataloging staff the committee studying ·college and university of Northwestern University Libraries, has library buildings. been appointed head cataloger of the State Ray 0. Hummel, Jr., of the Folger Shake­ Historical Society of Iowa Library at Iowa speare Library in Washington, is now chief City. catalog librarian o.f the University of Minne­ Ray Jordan has becom~ librarian of the law sota and assistant professor of the division of school, John B. Stetson University, De Land, library instruction. Fla. James. M. Kingsley, formerly assistant di­ Gwendeline Miller is now assistant li­ rector of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin brarian of the College of St. Teresa, Winona, in Mexico City, is now librarian of the Uni­ Minn. versity of Minnesota's Medical and Biological Mrs. Julia P. Pavloff, reference assistant Library. in the Municipal Reference Library, Milwau­ Eugene. P. Willging, librarian of the Uni­ kee, has been appointed librarian of Milwau­ versity of Scranton, has been appointed as­ kee-Downer College. sistant librarian of the Catholic University of J.\1arjorie Jean Sprake, head of the prepa­ America. rations division of the Queens College Li­ Beverley Ruffin is librarian of the State brary, is now catalog librarian of the U. S. Teachers College, Farmville, Va. She for­ Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, merly was head cataloger of the Northwestern N.Y. University Libraries at Evanston. Elizabeth Long Porcher, formerly of the Abigail F. Hausdorfer, librarian of the University of South Carolina Library, is ~ow School of Library Service, Columbia U niver­ head of circulation for the University of sity, is now librarian of Area I, Pennsylvania Denver Libraries. · . Area College Centers, Philadelphia. R. Malcolm Sills was appointed librarian Marietta Daniels has been appointed li­ of the Massachusetts State Coliege at Ft. brarian for the Inter-American Assembly, Devens, in September. He had been on the Library of Congress. Recently she has been reference staff of the Harvard College Li­ working for the A.L.A. International Re- brary. lations Office. · Richard E. Barrows is in char~e of refer­ Louis H. Bolander, assistant librarian of ence, circulation, and reserves for/ the Massa­ the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, chusetts State College Library at Ft." Devens. since 1925, .has been appointed librarian. Anne E. Markley has be.en appointed ussist­ Edward M. Heiliger, director of the ant professor in the School of Librarianship Biblioteca Americana de Nicaragua, is now of the University of California. director-adviser of the central library and Genevieve Porterfield has left the Cleve­ instr~ctor in library science of the University land Public Library to become referenc~ li­ of Chile at Santiago. brarian of the University of New Mexico.

JANUARY~ 1947 79 Elizabeth Simkins has become librarian and versity at Detroit. professor of library science, Western Mary­ William R. Roalfe, law librarian of Duke land College, Westminster. She was for­ University, has been appointed librarian of merly reference librarian, Georgia Institute the Elbert H. Gary Law Library of North­ of Technology, Atlanta. western University. Anna. K. Fossler has retired from the li­ Mrs. Ruth Lowenthal is riow head of the brarianship of the California College of Arts catalog department of the Ft. Hays, Kan., and Crafts in Oakland. State College Library. Howard F. McGaw, former librarian of Ruben W eltsch, serials librarian at Am­ Memphis State College, is now director of herst College, has gone to Kenyon College, Ohio Wesleyan University Library. Gambier, Ohio, as .·reference librarian. ' Harriet R. Peck, librarian of Rensselaer Gladys M. Brownell is now nead cataloger Polytechnic Institute for the past thirty-four of the Colby College Library, Waterville, years, retired on October I. Me. Basil Mitchell, of the Reference Depart­ Dorothy M. Fenton, formerly librarian of ment of the New York Public Library, has Dakota Wesleyan University, is now librarian been appointed librarian of the Journalism of Arkansas State College, Jonesboro. Library of Columbia University. Ruth M. Erlandson is now assistant li­ Eleanor L. Johnson, former head of the brarian of Brooklyn in charge of reference. business library, Carnegie Library of Pitts­ She has been reference librarian of the White burgh, has been appointed physics librarian at Plains, N.Y., Public Library. Purdue University. Esther Eytcheson has left th~ Department Maurice D. Leach, Jr., has been appointed of Agriculture Library in Washington to be­ assistant librarian of the Texas College of come head cataloger of the Linda Hall Sci­ Arts and Industries at Kingsville. ence Library, Kansas City, Mo. Jean Macalister is now associate reference Vivian L. Drake is now head of the acqui­ librarian of Columbia University. sition department of the University of Cincin­ Elizabeth A. Quigley has been appointed nati Library. librarian of the University of San Francisco Dorothy Charles, formerly on the faculty Law Library. of the Graduate Library School, University Mabel Schulte is now librarian of Western of Chicago, and Dorothy E. Cole, formerly State College at Gunnison, Colo. librarian of the Graduate Library School, are Norbert D. West has gone from Bro~n now on the staff of the H. W. Wilson Com­ University to be law librarian of Wayne Uni- pany.

Recent Personnel Changes 1n Foreign Libraries

Prior to World War II there was an cation at any early future date. The lists abundance of sources of information on the of personnel changes in foreign research li­ personnel of foreign libraries. The more or braries which are included here are presented less frequent revisions of Minerva and the as news items rather than as .a partial Index Generalis provided dependable current directory. Subsequent lists will be published lists of library officials, and in many instances as the information is received. individual countries published directories The compiler has received enthusiastic co­ similar to the A.L.A. Handbook. In addition, operation from librarians in many countries, the Zentralblatt fur Bibliotfzekswesen · re­ of whom a few may be mentioned here: Dr. ported major personnel changes in its monthly Carl Bjorkbom, Tekniska Hogskolans Biblio­ issues .• tek, Stockholm; Mr. Peter Kleppa, Univer­ In the chaos following the end of the war sity Library, Oslo; Dr. R. Edelmann, Royal in Europe, revision of the great handbooks of Library, Copenhagen; Dr. L. Brummel, Royal the academic and learned world is patently Library, The Hague; Dr. Wolf Haenisch, out · of the question. It is questionable Oeffentliche Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek whether the Z entralblatt will resume publi- (former-ly Preussische Staatsb~bliothek), Ber-

80 COLLEGE AND RESEARC~I LIBRARIES lin; Dr. Ernst Trenkler, N ationalbibliothek, Sciences and Medicine) had its own director, Vienna; Dr. "Albert Predeek, Postfach 2, Dr. Svend Dahl. On Apr. I, 1943, Dr. Palais, Rossla, Harz; Dr. 1oh. Melich, Hun­ Petersen retired, and Dr. Dahl succeeded garian Academy of Sciences (A Magyar him as director of the Royal Library. At the Tudomanyos Akademia Konyvtara), Buda­ same time, however, · Dr. Dahl is "Rigsbib­ pest; Dr. Wilhelm Herse, Herzog-August­ liotekar" and continues as director of the Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel; and Mr. Arthur University of Copenhagen Library. . Dr. E. Gropp, Biblioteca Artigas-Washington, Lauritz Nielsen, formerly of the Royal Li­ MoQtevideo. brary, became assistant director of the uni­ SWEDEN versity library in charge of Division I ; and Stockholm Dr. 1ean Anker, of the university library, Dr. Carl A. P. Bjorkbom was appointed became assistant director in charge of Di­ head librarian of the Tekniska Hogskolans vision II. Bibliotek in August 1946 as the successor of ' Soon after the Germans occupied Den­ Hilda Lindstedt. mark, Dr. Victo·r Madsen of the Royal Li­ brary died. Dr. Madsen had been "first Fredrik Hjelmquist, who had been chief librarian of the Stockholm Public Library librarian" for many years and enjoyed an international reputation as an incunabulist since 1928, was succeeded in 1941 by Knut and co-editor of the N ordisk tidskrifl for Knutsson, who had served as "first librarian" bok- och biblioteksvasen. Along with Dr. Isak in the Stockholm Public Library from 1929 Collijn, emeritus librarian of the Swedish to 1940 and then for one year as professor of Royal Library, Dr. Madsen had served as a Slavic languages at the University of Lund. fo{eign member of the Kommission fur den Henry Olsson resigned in 1945 as director Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library On Aug. I, I94I, Helge Holst retired as in order to assume the chair of literary his­ tory at the University of Stockholm formerly librarian of the Polyteknisk Laereanstalt and was succeeded by Arne ]. M~ller, librarian of held by Martin Lamm. Prof. Olsson's ~uc­ cessor is Leonard Dal, who had served under Danmarks Industriforenings Biblio~ek. On Apr. 1, 1942, the libraries of the Polyteknisk him as sublibrarian. Laereanstalt , and the Industriforening were Uppsala combined as Danmarks tekniske Bibliotek, Per Hehbe, former librarian of the Agri­ and Mr. M~ller was appointed as the chief cultural College (Lantbrukshogskolan), was librarian. killed in 1942 in an accident. He was suc­ NORWAY ceeded by Lars Frykholm, formerly of the Bergen Library of Parliament (Riksdagsbibliotek), Anton Mohr Wiesener retired on Aug. 30, who took office in 1943· 1946, as librarian of Bergens Museums Dr. Anders Grape, who had been honored Bibliotek and was succeeded by Hallvard in 1945 by ~ notable homage volume entitled Sand Bakken, who had bee~ a librarian at Donum Grapeanum, retired in 1946 as chief the University of Oslo Library between 1935 librarian of the University of U ppsala Li­ and 1946. brary (Carolina Re.diviva). He was suc­ ceeded by Dr. Tonn s Kleberg. Oslo Hanna Lund retired as head of the catalog DENMARK department of the University of Oslo Library Copenhagen on 1an. 15, 1942, and was succeeded by .A new position known as "Rigsbibliotekar" Harald Ludvig Tveteras. Miss Lund made (chief of all state libraries in Denmark) was important contributions to the classified cata­ created in 1943, and Dr. Svend Dahl was logs of the university library. appointed the first incumbent. Prior to 1943 Olaf Selmer-Anderssen retired in 1946 as the Royal Library had its own director, Dr. librarian of the Nobel Institute for the Pro­ Carl S. Petersen; and the University of motion of Peace (Nobel Instituttet). In Sep­ Copenhagen Library (consisting of two di­ tember 1946 he was succeeded by Susanne visions, viz., I. Humanitjes, and II. Natural Elisabeth H~~kenberg Mellbye, who had been

JANUARYJ 1947 81 an assistant in the library of the Norwegian of the University of Graz Library by Dr. W. Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1937 Benndorf, who was dismissed from ·the gov­ and 1946. ernment rolls during the Nazi occupation NETHERLANDS of Austria. Amsterdam Vienna Dr. ]. Berg resigned as librarian of the Dr. Paul Heigl, director of the National­ University of Amsterdam during the early part of the war and was succeeded by Dr. bibliothek from 1938 to 1945, has disappeared, H. de la Fontaine Verwey. and his whereabouts are unknown. Dr. Johann Josef Bick, director from 1923 to Rotterdam 1938, has returned to his former position. Dr. W. Leendertz resigned after the liber­ Dr. Emil Wallner, former director of the ation of Holland from his office as librarian Division of Manuscripts of the National­ of the College of Commerce in order to bibliothek, died in 1940 and was succeeded accept a new appointment as professor in the by Dr. Otto Brechler. University of Amsterdam. He was succeeded Dr. Robert Teichl, former vice director, by Dr. T. S. Jansma. and Dr. Robert Haas, former director of the Division of Music of the N ationalbibliothek, Utrecht were retired on pension in 1945. Prof. Dr. A. Hulsof, director of the University Nowak of the U ~iversity of Vienna suc­ of Utrecht Library, was suspended from his ceeded Dr. Haas. post immediately after the liberation and was Dr. Johann Gans, who was replaced in imprisoned for more than half a year• on 1938 by Dr. Alois J esinger as director of the charges of collaboration with the Nazis. He University of Vienna Library, has been re­ was subsequently discharged from his office stored to his former position. and retired because of age. His successor Dr. Franz Heinrich Tippmann, former is Dr. J. H. Kernkamp, previously a sub­ director of the Wiener Technische Hoch­ librarian of the Royal Library in The Hague. schule, .died in 1945. The office is now occu­ pied by Dr. 0. Lazar, who has returned from HUNGARY Stockholm. Budapest Dr. Joseph Szinnyei, formerly chief li­ GERMANY brarian of the Academy of Sciences (A The whole library situation in Germany ·Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Konyvtara), is extremely confused. Aside from the loss died on Apr. 14, 1943. On May 24, 1943, of nearly ten million volumes (estimate of Dr. J oh. Melich was elected to his office by Dr. Albert Predeek) by the research libraries, the academy. the great state libraries in Munich and Ber­ Dr. I van Pasteiner has resigned as director lin are shattered, little news is forthcoming of the University of Budapest Library and from libraries in the Polish "and Russian has been succeeded by Dr. Ladislaus Matrai. zones, and the great university libraries in Dr. Joseph Fitz has resigned as head li­ · Konigsberg and Breslau had to be surrendered brarian of the H~ngarian National Museum to the Russians and Poles respectively. but continues in the service of the library. Wholesale upheavals in personnel have oc- His successor as head librarian is Dr. Joseph . curred as the results of the catastrophes of Gyorke. · war and the denazification processes. Dr. Haenisch has compiled a list of the present Debrecen directors of German research libraries which Dr. Stephan Nyireo has resigned as director is reproduced here in toto in order to indi­ of the University of Debrecen Library to as­ cate which librarians have remained in office sume a post in the Hungarian Academy of and which have been replaced. Sciences. · AUSTRIA Aachen Graz Dr. Werner Schmitz, formerly of the Dr. F. Gosch has been succeeded as director Preussische Staatsbibliothek, has succeeded

82 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Dr. Albert Huyskens as director of the Tech- the Technische Hochschule. Dr. Carl Rau nische Hochschu1e Library. is tem~orarily in charge.

Bamberg Dresden Dr. Curt Hofner, formerly of the Dr. Er~st Koch has been succeeded as li­ Bayerische · Staatsbibliothek, has succeeded brarian of the Technische Hochschule by Dr. Dr. Max Muller as director of the Staatliche Christian J anentzky, formerly professor of Bibliothek. literary history. Dr. Hermann Neubert has been succeeded Berlin as director of , the Landesbibliothek by Dr. The Preussische Staatsbibliothek and the Karl Assmann, previously a member of Dr. remnants of the library of the T echnische Neubert's staff. Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg have been combined as the Oeffentliche Wissen­ Dusseldorf schaftliche Bibliothek under · the directorship Dr. Hermann Reuter continues as director of Dr. Rudolf Hoecker, formerly of the Tech­ of the Landesbibliothek. nische Hochschule Library. Dr. Huge A. Kriiss, former director of the Preussische Erlangen Staatsbibliothek, died on Apr. 27, 1945; and Dr. Eugen Stollreither continues as director Dr. Albert Predeek, former director of the of the university library. Technische Hochschule Library, was evacu­ ated with the remains of his library to the Frankfurt a/M Harz after it was largely destroyed by direct Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Eppelsheimer, author of hits from aerial bombers. the H andbuch der W eltliteratur~ has suc­ Dr. Gustav Abb, former director of the ceeded Dr. Richard O~hler as director of University of Berlin Library, died in April the Stadt- und U niversitatsbibliothek ( includ­ 1945. His successor is Dr. Wieland Schmidt, ing the Stadtbibliothek, Senckenberg-Biblio­ formerly on the staff of the Preussische thek, and the Rothschild-Bibliothek). Staatsbibliothek by virtue of his position on I the Kommission fiir den Gesamtkatalog der Freiburg i/B Wiegend'rucke. Dr. Josef Rest continues as director of the university library. Bonn Dr. Erich von Rath retired as director of Giessen the University of Bonn Library in 1942 and Dr. Heinrich Clarius has been succeeded was succeeded by one of his assistants, Dr. as librarian of the University of Giessen by Karl Lelbach. Dr. Hugo Hepding, previously a member of his staff. Braunschweig Dr. Werner Spi~ss continues as director of Gottingen the Stadtbibliothek. Dr. ·Karl Julius Hartmann continues as director of the university library. Breslau Dr. Josef Deutsch is no longer director of Greifswald the University of Breslau Library. He is said Dr. Wilhelm Braun, formerly of the Stadt­ to be working in the Landesbibliothek in bibliothek in Stettin, has succeeded Dr. Wal­ Fulda, but this report has not been verified. ther Menn as director: of the university library. Cologne Dr. Hermann Corsten continues as director Halle of the university library. Dr. Richard Sander has been succeeded as librarian of the University of Halle by Dr. Darmstadt Franz Zimmermann, previously a member of Walter Sbrzesny is no longer librarian of his staff.

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Hamburg Dr. Kielmeyer has replaced Dr. Fritz Dr. Gustav Wahl has been succeeded as Prinzhorn as director of the university li­ librarian of the Staats- und Universit~tsbib­ br.ary. liothek by Dr. Hermann Tiemann, previously a member of his staff. Mainz A new university was founded in Mainz Hannover in 1946, and Dr. Walter Menn, formerly Dr. Otto Leunenschloss continues as director of the University of Greifswald Li­ director of the library of the Technische brary, is the first librarian. Hochschule, but his collections have been evacuated to Norten-Hardenberg, Hannover. Marburg Dr. Fritz Rohde continues as director of Heidelberg the university library. Dr. Karl Pi-eisendanz has been succeeded as director of the university library ·by Dr. Munich Hermann Finke, previously a member of his Dr. Rudolf Buttmann has been succeeded staff. as director of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek by Dr. Franz Wenninger, previously a mem­ lena ber of his staff. Dr. Theodor Lockemann, formerly director Dr. Joachim Kirchner has been succeeded of the university library, died in 1944. His as director of the university library by Dr. successor is Dr. Viktor Burr. Walter PlObst, previously a member of his staff. Kassel Dr. Hans Peter des Coudres has been Munster succeeded as director of the Landesbibliothek Dr. Josef 'Kindervater has been succeeded by Dr. Wilhelm.Hopf. Dr. des Coudres was as director of the University Library by Dr. listed in the 1938 J ahrbuch der deutschen Christoph Weber, formerly on the staff of the Bibliotheken as director of the library of the University of Konigsberg Library. Schutzstaffeln of the NSDAP m Burg W ewelsburg, Westphalia. Rostock Dr. Thilo Schnurre continues as director Dr. Bruno Claussen continues as director of the Murhard-Bibliothek. of the university library.

Kiel Schwerin Dr. Herbert Oberlander is no longer Dr. Carl August Endler has been suc­ director of' the university library. Dr. Hein­ ceeded as director of the Mecklenburgische rich Grothues, previously a member of Dr. Landesbibliothek by Dr. Wilhelm Heess, for­ Oberlander's staff, is the vice director in merly bibliographer for the .Rostock Historical charge. Commission. '

Konigsberg Stuttgart Dr. Carl Hermann Diesch, well-known as Dr. Theophil Frey has been succeeded as the compiler of the Bibliographie der ger­ director of the Wiirttembergische Landes­ manistischen Zeitschriften, is no longer bibliothek by Dr. Wilhelm Hoffmann, previ­ director of the university library. Uncon­ ously a member of his staff. firmed reports have stated that he is in Hol­ Dr. Paul Gehring has been succeeded as stein. director of the Technische Hochschule Li­ brary by Dr. Walter Bauhuis, formerly on Leipzig the staff of the University of Berlin Library. Dr. Heinrich Uhlendahl continues as di­ rector of the Deutsche Biicherei. Persistent Tiibingen reports that Dr. Uhlendahl was dead have Dr. Georg Leyh continues as director of prayed to be without foundation. the university library.

84 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Weimar teca Artigas-Washington, was appointed. di­ Dr. Robert Hohlbaum has been succeeded rector of the Official Library School of the as director of the Landesbibliothek by Dr. University of Montevideo as of Nov. I, I945· von Philippsborn. ' He is continuing as director of the Biblioteca Artigas-Washington. Wiesbaden Dr. Gustav Struck has been succeeded as Rio de Janeiro director of the· N assauische Landesbibliothek • by Dr. Franz Gotting, formerly an archi­ Dr. Rubens Borba de Moraes, formerly vist of the Goethe Museum in Frankfurt director of the Municipal Library in Sao a/M. Paulo, was appointed on Jan. I, I946, to succeed Dr. Rodolfo Garda as director of W olfenbuettel the National Library. Dr. Hermann Herbst, distinguished bibli­ ographer of bookbinding literature, died on Santiago de Chile July 8, I944, when a transport cc1rrying him to Greece suffered a direct hit from an aerial Edward M. Heiliger, formerly director­ bomber. librarian of the Biblioteca Americana in Managua, Nicaragua, has been appointed LATIN AMERICA under a two-year contract by the University Montevideo of Chile to organize its library s~hool. Arthur E. Gropp, director of the Biblio- -LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON • Classification and Pay Plan

THE University of California reports the introduction of a new position classifiFation and compensation plan for the library positions on the various campuses of the institution. The class titles and compensation schedules are as follows: Title Salary Range in Step Increases Librarian I $2400, $2520, $2640, $i76o, $288o. Librarian 2 $288o, $3ooo, $3I20, $3240, $3360, $3480, $36oo, $3720, $3840. Librarian 3 $3900, $42oo, $4500, $48oo. Librarian 4 $48oo/ $5 Ioo, $5400. Senior Library Assistant $I98o, $2040, $2Ioo, $2I6o, $2220, $2280, $2340, $2400. Principal Library Assistant $2400, $2520, $2640, $2760, $288o. On the basis of satisfactory performance, step increases are considered annually for Senior Library Assistant, Principal Library Assistant, Librarian I, and Librarian 2; and are con­ sidered triennially for Librarian 3 and Librarian 4. The Personnel Editor welcomes news of other classification and pay plans that are designed to cope with present conditions. A summary of such information will appear in the April issue.

JANUARY~ 1947 85 Business Education Vis­ Audio-Visual Aids ual Aids, 330 W. 72nd New-s fro·m St., New York City 23, has been formed by Clifford Ettinger, editor in the nation that owns 1200 or more volumes and former . business teacher. The new printed before 1501. Scholars will find this firm, BEVA specializes in providing visual 11 new collection useful since approximately aids to teachers of business. It offers a half of the volumes are concerned with re­ selected group of films in the fields of account­ ligious problems, some of these showing pre­ ing, consumer education, sales training, dis­ Reformation questioning of various church tributive education, duplicating machines, practices. Literature and textbooks are also guidance, shorthand, and typing among others. represented and a few legal and scientific volumes are included. Pratt Institute Library School Yale library has been presented with printed CommitteesJ announces an elective course in materials andp hotostatic copies of documents ConferencesJ special libraries which will be used by tl1e prosecution in the Nazi war Curricula offered in the spring quarter trials. This interesting collection was do­ starting Mar. 17, 1947. In­ nated by John M. Woolsey, Jr., a graduate struction in this course will be given by Rebecca of Yale and a member of the staff of United B. Rankin, librarian of the Municipal Refer­ States chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson. ence Library of New York. The Library of the New York State Col­ The university administration of North­ lege of Agriculture at Cornell University has western has created a library council. This received a gift which probably makes it the council will be responsible for promoting co­ most complete library on bee culture in the operation among all the libraries of the world. This collection donated by E. F. university in an effort to provide a unified Phillips has been designated as the "Everett library program for Northwestern. William Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Library." It R. Roalfe, librarian of the law library, was totals more than three thousand volumes elected secretary for the coming year. The an'd contains foreign as well as domestic council will meet quarterly and at such other publications., times as may seem desirable. The Reference Librarians' Council of. the Under the sponsorship of the San Francisco Bay area is preparing a check­ Publications Committee on Bibliography, list of local and county histories. Plans are College Section, National in process for making this into a state-wide Council of Teachers of English, Edna Hays project. · has compiled The College Teaching of Eng­ lish, A Bibliography, 1941-1944. James T. Babb, Yale Secondary Education in the South, edited Gifts and Collections University librarian, by W. C. Ryan, ]. M. Gwynn, and A. K. has an·nounced Yale li­ King and published by University of North brary's acquisition of a rare copy of a map Carolina Press ( 1946), should be of par- · depicting the siege of Yorktown. The map ticular interest to teachers college librarians. was executed by Maj. Sebastian Bauman, of This book, issued under the direction of Louis the American forces, and represents the only R. Wilson, contains a wealth of material American survey of the siege. Not only is about educational problems in the South. the map valuable historically but it also repre­ Limitation of the libraries serving secondary sents a handsome example of the engraver's schools and implications for more extensive art in that period of American history. It was library training are indicated. engraved by Robert Scot in Philadelphia in B. Lamar Johnson, dean of instruction and 1J82. librarian at Stephens College, is the author of The Sterling Memorial Library at Yale "Patterns of General Education" in the recently received 196 incunabula from Louis Junior College Journal, October 1946. Vari­ M. Rabinowitz, of New York. This hand-' ous educational programs are discussed, among some gift makes .Yale one of the few libraries these being the Great Books program and

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library profession is "to collect, organize, and the Field serve ~xactly and expeditiously all recorded · thought. To discharge this function effi­ general survey courses. ciently, the profession should develop an ever­ Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni­ widening human outlook and keep on versities, Year Ended June 30, 1944, prepared perfecting an ever-sharpening technique. by L. E. Blauch and F. G. Cornell, has been This, it has to do on a cooperative basis." issued as Bulletin No. 16 - ( 1946) of the Sant Ram Bhatia is the editor of Indian United States Office of Education. Librarian. The University of California Library at The Catholic Book List, 1946, edited under Los Angeles has issued Know Your Library the auspices of the Catholic Library Associ­ (University of California Press, 1946). This ation, has been published by the Department is a small attractively illustrated manual for of Library Science, Rosary College, River students and provides information to guide Forest, Ill. An annotated bibliography, it is them in the use of the facilities of the library. intended as a guide to contemporary liter­ Northwestern University Library began; ature "written in the Catholic tradition." publication of an informal mimeographed bulletin, Northwestern Library News, on The University of Pennsyl­ Sept. 13, 1946. Issued weekly, this publication Scholarships vania is offering five library carries news of special interest to North­ service scholarships to full­ western librarians. time students: The scholarships will be "The Last Canute" by Garrett Hardin, awarded on the basis of the students' aca­ assistant professor of bacteriology at Santa demic ability and financial need. The scholar­ Barbara College, appears in the September ships carry no cash stipend but offer each 1946 i~sue of The Scientific Monthly. College recipient the opportunity of earning credit and university librarians will want to read towards tuition fees not to exceed $400 for. this cleverly written article which criticizes tw9 consecutive terms. · An interesting aspect book-collecting and preparational procedures of this new plan insures that holders of in libraries. scholarships will be assigned to library projects The Oregon State Archives has issued the associated with their particular field of study. first of a series of six mimeographed inven­ "Ten hours' work per week for thirty .weeks tories of Oregon records in its collections. per year, or sixteen weeks for either semester, Indian Librarian, published at P.O. For­ are required of a scholarship holder." These ma·n College, Lahore, is a new publication scholarships may be renewed for not more devoted to the development of librarianship than four academic years. Application forms and libraries in India. The first number· was may be procured from the office of the director issued in June 1946 and contained papers by of libraries, Charles W. David. The first S. R. Ranganathan, M. L. Nagar, and others. scholarship was awarded to Wallace Schultz, Of the ten contributing editors of the new a student in the graduate school of arts and journal, seven are associated with college or sciences. "Mr. Schultz is preparing a doc­ research libraries. In a foreword to the first toral dissertation on Theodore Dreiser, and number, S. R. Ranganathan, who is president will work in the collection of manuscripts of the Indian Library Association and li­ and letters which Mr. Dreiser presented · to brarian of Hindu University Library the University of Pennsylvania shortly before (Ben ares), writes that the function of the his death last year."

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