News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA LI- BRARY has acquired the papers of the late THE PAPPAS LAW LIBRARY will be estab- Senator William Langer. These include per- lished in the new Legal Center of sonal and official papers from the time, early University. This is made possible by a gift in the century, when he was a practicing of $350,000 from the Pappas brothers: Judge lawyer and a state's attorney at Mandan, John C. Pappas of Milton, Ambassador N. D. These papers will become a part of Thomas A. Pappas of Belmont, and Arthur the Libby Collection of manuscripts on the C. Pappas of Arlington, Mass., all former state and its outstanding public figures. students at the university. The Legal Center THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA has will be constructed as soon as feasible and received nearly one hundred playbills for should be ready for occupancy in the aca- works produced from the novels of Charles demic year, 1962/63. The library will pro- Dickens. Presented by Mrs. D. Jacques Beno- vide space for 200,000 volumes. liel in memory of her husband, they will be JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Jack- added to the Dickens collection built over sonville, Fla., received a gift of $25,000 from the years from gifts by Mrs. Benoliel. the Charles E. Merrill Trust for the purchase SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY of books. This gift will enable the library to has received a gift of $5,000 from Phillip purchase a portion of the number of vol- Sang of Chicago for a collection of auto- umes needed for accreditation. graphed letters of Presidents of the United THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has received States, and of signers of the Declaration of important additions to the papers of Daniel Independence and of the United States Con- Scott Lamont, Secretary of War during Presi- stitution. An exhibit of the materials is dent Cleveland's second administration. The planned for this year. An exhibit catalog manuscripts include notes and memoranda is being prepared. relating to Lamont's cabinet participation THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON has re- and his correspondence with leading polit- ceived a gift of more than 1500 unusual ical figures of his time. Chinese books from the Ministry of Educa-

THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LIBRARY has tion of the Republic of China. Most of these received 3,500 rare books and pamphlets, books are in the Chinese language and rep- most of them first editions, from Mrs. O. J. resent a broad cross-section of Chinese cul- Tanner, Jr. The volumes, collected during ture. They include more than 300 repro- the lifetime of the late O. J. Tanner are ductions of Oriental painting masterpieces valued in excess of $10,000. They cover a from the Palace Museum of Peking and his- variety of subjects, including geography, art, tories of twenty-five Chinese dynasties. They religion, literature, and history, predomi- will be kept in the Far Eastern Library. nantly Americana. WEST VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY

THE NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY has issued a bibliography of Lincoln books has recently received the following: papers available in its library at the present time. of C. A. Sorenson, former Attorney Gen- This collection has recently been enriched eral of the state and prominent in public through purchase of materials and books power development and in state politics; made possible by contributions from the correspondence and reports of the Central treasury of the now disbanded Abraham Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation Dis- Lincoln Fellowship of West Virginia, Inc., trict relating to its formative period; scrap- and from additional funds solicited by two books and papers of Oren S. Copeland, for- former members of the fellowship. The ma- mer Congressman and mayor of Lincoln, terials have been purchased in memory of Neb.; papers of W. H. H. Pilcher pertaining D. L. Salisbury. to the Omaha Indians; and papers of former THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING LIBRARY, Governor Adam McMullen. Western History and Archives Department,

MARCH 1960 159 has recently received a collection of corre- A NEW LIBRARY BUILDING on the campus spondence, legal briefs, speeches, articles, at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, and publicity releases from 1935 to 1952, Mont., formally dedicated last fall, is now from Thurman Arnold, former U. S. assist- in use. This new $275,000 building will have ant attorney-general and U. S. circuit judge. a capacity of almost one hundred thousand YALE UNIVERSITY'S Elizabethan Club has volumes when special stack facilities can be been presented with a virtually unknown obtained. Located in the heart of the cam- book dealing with the life of William Shake- pus across the street from the administration speare, published in London in 1743. The building, it will serve as a hub for academic book is The Life of Mr. William Shakespeare, activities and as a general information cen- a pirated version of Alexander Pope's ac- ter. Its special features include an audio- count of Shakespeare, based on the first visual room, a browsing lounge, and even biography of Shakespeare written by Nicho- a small chapel in a quiet corner of the lower las Rowe and published in 1709. Only two level of the building. copies of the 1743 book are known to exist, THE LIBRARY of the Industrial Relations the other being in the great Shakespeare Center of the University of Chicago has collection at the Birmingham (England) Li- been re-dedicated as the A. G. Bush Library brary. The donor, James M. Osborn, who is of Management, Organization, and Indus- this year's president of the Elizabethan Club, trial Relations. The three-story contempo- presented the volume in memory of the late rary style building itself was dedicated only Carl H. Pforzheimer. last June. The new name honors Archibald G. Bush, chairman of the Executive Com- BUILDINGS mittee and director, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul. COLORADO COLLEGE has received from the The library was established in 1945 when El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs the Industrial Relations Center was a grant of $1,250,000 for a new library build- founded. Besides serving the staff of the ing. The money will be used to construct a center, the library provides a variety of serv- library to house its 170,000-volume collec- ices for member companies. At present, fifty tion, with space for an eventual collection of firms hold memberships in the Industrial 300,000 volumes. The new building will Relations Center, and another ten are en- have reading room and reference areas with gaged in research and education programs. optimum lighting and ventilation for stu- dents; ample stack space for the collection, THE UNITED NATIONS has been given $6,- which is growing at the rate of 5,000 vol- 200,000 by the Ford Foundation to construct umes a year; and quarters to safeguard prized a new library building adjacent to the Secre- special collections. The site of the new tariat Building in New York City. The new building is on the academic quadrangle of structure will consist of three stories below the college, next to Palmer Hall. Coburn ground and three above plus a penthouse. Library, the present building, will be con- The dimensions will be 100'X200/ It is de- verted to other use. signed for a collection of 400,000 volumes. The plans were drawn by the firm of Har- THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME is plan- rison and Abramovitz in consultation with ning to build a $6,000,000 campus library, four librarians selected by the Ford Founda- the largest single construction project in the tion. The consultants were Douglas W. Bry- school's history. The Rev. Philip S. Moore ant, associate director, has been named chairman of the committee Library; Verner W. Clapp, president, Coun- of thirteen members of the faculty and ad- cil on Library Resources, Inc.; Frank B. ministration. The university is asking its Rogers, director, National Library of Medi- alumni to pay half the cost of the building, cine; and Frederick H. Wagman, director of with the remainder expected to come from non-alumni benefactors. Construction of the libraries, University of Michigan. building, part of a ten-year $66,600,000 de- velopment program, is planned to start by GRANTS the end of this year. The library will have THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has received a space for two million volumes. grant of $200,000 from the Carnegie Corpo-

160 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ration of New York to establish and operate method. The other grant of $2,600 covers for five years an Africana section in the gen- testing programs to be conducted by the eral reference and bibliography division. Chicago Paper Testing Laboratory, Inc. The program will be designed to provide bibliographies of African materials in Amer- ican research libraries, to promote the acqui- MEETINGS sition of African materials, and to provide specialized reference services using LC col- AN INSTITUTE ON CATALOG CODE REVISION will be held at McGill University in Mon- lections. The library's unusual holdings of treal June 13-17, 1960. It will be co-sponsored Africana result from an acquisitions program by the Cataloging and Classification Section dating back to 1800. Currently, it receives of ALA and the Cataloging Section of the some twelve thousand African items an- Canadian Library Association. This second nually from commercial dealers and thou- institute on catalog code revision, in addi- sands more through exchanges with govern- tion to bringing up to date the material ment agencies and institutions in Africa. presented at Stanford University in 1958, The FOUNDATION LIBRARY CENTER (588 will provide an opportunity for review and Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.) has received discussion of the premises, objectives, pro- a Carnegie grant of $250,000 towards its sup- cedures, and present results of the revision port over a ten-year period. The center was of the ALA catalog rules as carried out by established in 1956 with Carnegie funds, and the Cataloging and Classification Section's serves as a repository of information relevant Catalog Code Revision Committee. The Mc- to American foundations and their activities. Gill University dormitory and meal accom- Tn addition, it is preparing a directory of modations will be available to registrants. foundations and their fields of operation. Information on fees and registration will be announced in professional journals. A GRANT of $159,200 for a test program to evaluate procedures for the exploitation THE CHICAGO GRADUATE LIBRARY SCHOOL of literature of interest to metallurgists has will have its annual summer conference been given to Western Reserve University August 15-17, 1960. The conference has been by the National Science Foundation. The subtitled "A New Evaluation on the Occa- work will be carried on at the Center for sion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Documentation and Communication Re- First Graduate Library School Institute, search, of which James W. Perry is the di- 'Library Trends' (1936)" and will deal with rector. Allen Kent, associate director, has the topic, "Persistent Issues in American been designated as the responsible inves- Librarianship." The major emphasis will be tigator. The grant will enable the center to on urgent current problems and their impli- extend its operations into many scientific cations for the future, although there will fields as they pertain to metallurgy. also be some evaluation of trends over the past quarter century. Further information Two GRANTS to ALA have been made by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. One, and details concerning registration and in the amount of $20,000, will be used to housing may be obtained by writing to Les- develop a mechanical book-marking device ter Asheim, Graduate Library School, Uni- to replace present hand methods. Battelle versity of Chicago, Chicago 37. Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, will AN INSTITUTE IN LIBRARY ADULT EDUCATION conduct the research and development on will be held in Bloomington, Ind., June this machine. The investigators hope to de- 10-15, 1960. This is for all library personnel velop a device similar in size and ease of and trustees in all sizes and all types of operation to a small adding machine. The libraries. Participants may enroll for grad- present grant covers the first phase, lasting uate credit. The institute will deal with the about six months, which is designed to test library as an educational institution, adult the feasibility of the system. If the first phase learning conditions, improving discussion is successful, a complete prototype will be leadership and participation skills, program constructed and will be tested in a library; planning and evaluation, and making the cost comparisons will be made between pres- best use of resources. Address correspondence ent methods of marking and the machine to Robert M. Smith, Bureau of Studies in

MARCH 1 960 161 Adult Education, Box 277, Bloomington, ler, cite many added features of the new Ind. edition: a detailed chart on building costs THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARY of public and college and university libraries SCHOOL, in cooperation with the Minnesota in 1959; salary information for large aca- Library Association, will hold a book arts demic libraries; standards for college li- institute, April 8-9, 1960, at the University braries, and standards for indexing. The sta- of Minnesota. Subjects include type design, tistical material has been revised and brought book design and printing, book illustration, up to date; there are other new articles. the deteriorization and preservation of pa- Part II of the book presents a comprehensive per, bookbinding, and the care of books. directory of library associations, their officers For additional information, write the direc- and committee members, and a library buy- tor of the institute, Raymond H. Shove, Li- ing guide. Included also in this year's volume brary School, University of Minnesota, is a five-year cumulative index, giving an Minneapolis 14. analytical index of material in the current volume as well as references to all important , with the co-sponsor- articles and charts in previous volumes. ship of the department of history of Har- vard University, will offer the seventh an- THE FIRST ISSUE of an occasional newsletter, nual Institute on Historical and Archival Library Cooperation in New York, made its Management from June 27 through August appearance in January. It aims to convey 5, 1960. Lester J. Cappon, director of the news about interlibrary cooperative projects Institute of Early American History and to metropolitan area libraries serving re- Culture at Williamsburg, Va., archival con- search or college-level teaching programs. It sultant of Colonial Williamsburg, and lec- will serve as a clearinghouse for information turer in history at the College of William about such projects and similar operations. and Mary, will direct the course. Designed This issue describes the library research pro- for college graduates who are interested in gram of the Council of Higher Educational a career in archival, museum, and historical Institutions in New York. Warren J. Haas, society work, the course is open also to em- consultant for the CHEI project, is editor of ployees of institutions in these related fields. the newsletter. His address is Room 1504, Two full-tuition scholarships of $200 each 41 Park Row, New York 38. are available. Inquiries should be addressed THE FINDINGS of a survey of library hours to the Archival Institute, 10 Garden Street, in seventy-eight liberal arts colleges with Cambridge 38, Mass. enrollments between 500 and 1,000 students have been released by the investigator, Rob- ert M. Agard, librarian, Earlham College, PUBLICATIONS Richmond, Ind. The median number of A TOTAL of 9,099 professional librarians hours open each week was seventy-six. More were employed in 1,940 colleges and uni- than half of the libraries were open Sunday versities during 1957, according to a U. S. afternoon and evening. The most common Office of Education survey. Of these, 2,741 closing time was 10:00 P.M. on weekdays and were men and 6,358 were women. The total between 3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. on Satur- represents an increase of nearly 7 per cent days. Copies of the one-page report are over the number reported in 1955. The fig- available from Mr. Agard on request. ures are included in Faculty and Other Pro- THE THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of the Council fessional Staff in Institutions of Higher on Library Resources, Inc., covers grants and Education: First Term, 1957-58, by Wayne E. contracts totaling $1,275,822 for thirty-five Tolliver and Hazel C. Poole (OE-53000). projects. The report contains a section on The American Library and Book Trade "The Problem of Size" with respect to Annual, 1960 has been issued by the R. R. library collections. It notes that the world Bowker Co. (New York, 1959, $5). This, the publication rate has doubled every forty-five fifth annual volume of the series, has a years since Gutenberg printed the first book slightly changed title; earlier editions were and that it has doubled every twenty-two called American Library Annual. The edi- years in the United States during the past tors, Wyllis E. Wright and Phyllis B. Steck- century and a half. Charts showing the

162 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES growth of academic libraries since 1831 are looking at the circulation problem as a included. whole rather than in parts." SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Union List of Serials THE MAY AND JUNE 1959 ISSUES of the in New Jersey are still being accepted. This Journal of the American Institute of Archi- project is an undertaking of the New Jersey tects contain an article on "The Library Chapter of Special Libraries. The group Building" by Clinton H. Cowgill and George hopes to issue revisions on a continuing E. Pettengill. Among the more unusual items basis. One letter of the alphabet is mailed of discussion in the text are such matters monthly so that the more than one hundred as library table arrangements, possible ar- subscribers, at the end of two years, will rangements of rooms, division of space con- have a complete list of local holdings. The trolled from a single point, and details of cost is $15.50 per year. Address orders to different types of library buildings.

Dr. F. E. McKenna, Air Reduction Co., Inc., THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has is- Murray Hill, N. J. sued A Manual of Procedures of the Catalog THE LOUISIANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION is Department, edited by Robert D. Slocum considering printing another edition of the (Ithaca, 1959, 234p. plus appendix). This is Louisiana Union Catalog, since many librar- one of the most comprehensive catalog- ies outside the state have shown interest in department manuals compiled to date. Li- purchasing copies. The catalog is bound in brarians and heads of catalog departments hard covers, is over nine hundred pages in in other institutions will find this a useful length, and the page format is similar to guide for the development of their own that used in the National Union Catalog, manuals. with eighteen entries to the page. A review Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the of the catalog is found in the Library of Library of Congress: Pictures, Designs, and Congress Information Bulletin for October Other Two-Dimensional Representations has 19, 1959. The price will not be more than been issued by the Library of Congress $30, the exact cost being determined by the (1959, 16p.). The rules cover problems of extent of the demand. Pre-publication sub- individual pictures as well as those in col- scriptions are being received by Norma lections, and are applicable to prints, paint- Durand, Stephens Memorial Library, South- ings, drawings, photographs, transparencies western Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, La. and slides, etc. For copies, apply to Card Building Library Collections, by Mary Division, Library of Congress. Duncan Carter and Wallace John Bonk THE COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC EDUCATION (New York: Scarecrow Press, 1959, 259p., of the American Psychiatric Association will $6.00) is directed primarily to public library publish in book form the report prepared service, but junior college, college, and uni- by Vaclav Mostecky of the Harvard Law versity librarians will find various portions Library on the information sources relating of it applicable to their work. There are to adolescents. The report showed that a sections devoted to principles of book selec- researcher working in the field had to con- tion, censorship, and surveying and weed- sult no less than fifteen indexing and ab- ing collections, as well as material about stracting services to find out about similar trade and national bibliography and opera- work done by other organizations and re- tions in order work. searchers; and that a current documentation service concerning research materials relat- A THIRTY-TWO-PAGE MIMEOGRAPHED REPORT, Preliminary Study of Library Circulation ing to adolescents was long overdue. A Systems for the Council on Library Re- summary of the report is scheduled for sources, prepared by John Diebold & Asso- publication in the American Journal of Psy- ciates, Inc., New York, N. Y. (1959), is avail- chiatry. It is hoped that the report will be able on request from the Council on Library followed by a regular annual service pro- Resources, Inc. The Diebold report, sum- viding bibliographical information for any marizing a short-term investigation to iden- researcher working in the field. tify the problems and isolate areas for fur- A NEWLY REVISED and expanded Organiza- ther work, concludes that "significant tion Handbook for 1960 National Library advancements in the future will depend on Week has been issued. The fifty-six-page

MARCH 1960 163 manual is designed to guide local and state Technical Assistant to the Director, Maxwell leadership in forming committees and de- Air Force Base, Alabama. veloping effective programs geared to special local and regional objectives. The handbook contains two new important sections on "The MISCELLANEOUS Development of Local Goals" and "The A COORDINATING COMMITTEE for Slavic and Role of the Public Library Trustee." Na- East European Library Resources has been tional Library Week's emphasis in 1960 on established by the Joint Committee on the field of teen-age reading is given special Slavic Studies and the Association of Re- attention throughout. Copies of the hand- search Libraries. The main purpose of the book have been mailed to over 4,500 librar- new committee is to provide a permanent ies as well as to NLW state committees. contact between the Slavic and East Euro- Additional copies are available at 35 cents pean scholarly community and representa- from National Library Week, 24 W. 40th tives of American research libraries. It will St., New York 18, N. Y. initiate or sponsor research, rather than con- A LIST of Masters Theses of Fisk Univer- duct it. It is also to serve as a clearinghouse sity, 1912-1958 is available at 50 cents a copy of information about new developments in from Office of the Librarian, Fisk University, the East European acquisitions and exchange Nashville 8, Tenn. field. Librarians are requested to report re- Indexes and Indexing, by Robert L. Col- search projects and address inquiries relat- lison, has been issued in a new edition by ing to the Slavic and East European field John De Graff, Inc., New York (200p., to the executive secretary, Vaclav Mostecky, $4.50). New chapters have been included to Harvard Law Library, Cambridge, Mass.

cover coordinate and mechanical indexing, THE and Har- business indexing, and fees. Appendixes con- vard College have signed a formal agreement cern the Society of Indexers and a specimen that will make possible a single great medi- examination paper for indexers. cal research library in Boston. The plan is Mass Communication: A Sociological Per- to combine collections, facilities, and services spective, by Charles R. Wright, is a new of the Library with paperback in the Studies in Sociology Series those of the Boston Medical Library in a of Random House (New York, 124p., 95^). new building to be erected at the medical school. The cost of the new structure will Six ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS are covered by re- cently compiled bibliographies in the Mili- be covered by a gift of $3,500,000 from Miss tary Librarians Division bibliography series. Sanda Countway of Brookline, Mass. Under These lists of basic references for small, the terms of the agreement the Boston Medi- medium, and large institutions have been cal Library will continue as a corporate compiled for collections with special re- entity, but the two institutions will support sources in these subject areas. Titles and the Countway Medical Library as a unified compilers are: Economic Warfare, by Clara service. Designing of the new building will J. Wedger, librarian, Industrial College of begin this spring; occupancy is scheduled the Armed Forces; Military Management, by tentatively for 1963. Marilyn S. Williams, bibliographic assistant, THE UNITED STATES and the USSR have Air University Library; Psychological War- signed an agreement to cooperate in ex- fare, by Jacqueline W. Baldwin, librarian, changes in scientific, technical, educational, U. S. Army Special Warfare School; Ord- and cultural fields in 1960-61. Two sections nance-Weapons and Related Subjects, by relate to libraries. One covers an exchange Fern Hunter, librarian, The Ordnance of delegations of five to seven persons Board, Department of the Army; Maps, between ALA and appropriate Soviet organi- Mapping and Map Reading, by Edward C. zations. They will visit libraries and biblio- Vogel, Army Map Service; and Navigation, graphic centers to study techniques of docu- by Alton B. Moody, U. S. Navy Hydro- mentation and analogous processes, methods graphic Office. Single copies of above titles of reproduction and dissemination of infor- and earlier titles in this series are available mation, and methods of training library on request to: Air University Library, Attn: personnel. In addition, both parties agree

164 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES to assist in the exchange of library materials be awarded to each of the four following between universities and public libraries of schools: School of Library Service, Columbia their respective countries. University; Division of Librarianship of Emory University; University of Illinois THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has established a Near Eastern and North African Law Divi- Library School; and School of Library sion. Zuhair Elias Jwaideh has been ap- Science, University of Southern California. pointed chief of the division, which will The other four scholarships will be awarded handle the law library's reference, biblio- to worthy candidates for any of these loca- graphic, and consultative activities con- tions. Candidates may request application cerned with legal materials for Near Eastern forms, information on tuition, and dates for and North African countries. the courses from the respective library schools. Since credentials must be approved Two NEW AWARDS, the Library Literature in advance, applications for admission should Award and the Clarence Day Award, have be made as early as possible. been established by ALA. The Library Lit- A DELEGATION from the National Federa- erature Award, given by the Scarecrow Press, tion of Science Abstracting and Indexing Inc., of New York, will be made for the next Services visited scientific information centers five years in recognition of an outstanding in Moscow, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Copen- contribution to library literature. The award hagen last fall. According to their report, amounts to $500 and will be given only the committee experienced a cordial recep- when a title merits such recognition. The tion everywhere. Questions were freely asked Clarence Day Award, given by the American and answered, and detailed inspection of Textbook Publishers Institute of New York, equipment and procedures was permitted. will be made for the next three years to a All centers were found to be well staffed librarian for outstanding work promoting and administered, despite differences in the love of books and reading. This award, their structure and procedures. The dele- to be given only when a suitable recipient is gation concluded that no single national found, will consist of a citation, a contempo- plan merits adoption by all countries. rary print suitably engrossed, and $1,000. Two juries, serving as subcommittees of the STEPHEN A. MCCARTHY, director of the ALA Awards Committee will administer the Cornell University Libraries, was elected awards. Nominations are welcomed. executive secretary of the Association of Re- search Libraries at the fifty-fourth meeting of THE SURVEY OF LIBRARIES in federal de- ARL held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, partments and agencies, being conducted by January 27. Mr. McCarthy succeeds William the Brookings Institution, Washington, S. Dix, librarian of Princeton University, D. C., is now under the direction of Dr. who resigned the office because of his new Luther H. Evans, formerly Librarian of responsibilities as chairman of the U. S. Na- Congress and director general of UNESCO. tional Commission for UNESCO. He replaces Colonel Charles A. H. Thomson who has resigned from the Brookings staff. RECENT ALA representatives at collegiate An advisory committee headed by Dr. Rob- ceremonies were DONALD E. THOMPSON, li- ert D. Calkins, president of Brookings Insti- brarian, Wabash College, at the inaugura- tution, will assist in the planning and exe- tion of Ralph Alexander Morgen as presi- cution of the survey. Ralph M. Dunbar, dent of Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre formerly director of the Library Services Haute, Ind., November 20; LOTTIE M. SKID- Branch of the U. S. Office of Education, has MORE, chairman of libraries and audiovisual been appointed research associate to work services, Joliet High School and Junior Col- with Dr. Evans. lege, at the Centennial Founders Day Con- vocation at Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION will January 9; and BENJAMIN E. POWELL, ALA award eight scholarships of $150 each to President and librarian of Duke University, students accepted for the approved courses at the inauguration of Wendell Melton Pat- in medical librarianship during the summer ton as president of High Point College, session of 1960. At least one scholarship will High Point, N. C., February 6.

MARCH 1 960 165 Personnel

NATHAN R. EINHORN has been appointed Keller until Mr. Wood returned at the end assistant chief of the exchange and gift divi- of May. sion of the Library of Congress, where he Mr. Einhorn is a member of ALA, the has served in various District of Columbia Library Association, capacities since De- and the American Historical Association.— cember 1950. Jennings Wood, Library of Congress. Born in York, Pa., in 1923, Mr. Einhorn MAURICE D. LEACH, JR., has been ap- received his B.A. de- pointed head of the department of library gree from the Penn- science at the University of Kentucky. Mr. sylvania State Uni- Leach, who assumed his duties at the Uni- versity in 1947 and versity October 1, 1959, was with the U. S. did graduate work in Information Agency in Egypt, Lebanon, and history at Harvard Washington from 1950 to 1959. During his University from 1947 tours in the Near East he opened six USIS to 1949 for the M.A. libraries, served as a member of local library Nathan R. Einhorn degree. After gradu- organizations and, at the request of the ation from the School Egyptian Minister of Education, as a mem- of Library Service of Columbia University ber of the Advisory Committee for the in 1950, he came to the Library of Congress Teacher-Librarian Training Program. Mr. in July of that year under the Special Re- Leach had previously been assistant librar- cruiting Program. He has been assistant ian, Texas College of Arts and Industries, head of the gift section and head of the Kingsville (1946-47) and bibliographer, De- Orientalia and American-British sections of partment of State (1947-48). During his mili- the exchange and gift division. Named act- tary service he taught in the library section ing assistant chief last November when Jen- of the Special Services School, Fort Mon- nings Wood left for India, Mr. Einhorn was mouth, N. J. Mr. Leach is a graduate of the also acting chief of the division during the University of Kentucky (A.B., 1945) and the illness and after the death of Alton H. University of Chicago (B.L.S., 1946).

Appointments

I-L WENDELL ALFORD, formerly serials ALEXANDER BECK is junior circulation li- librarian at Southwestern Baptist Theologi- brarian, Fresno State College, Calif. cal Seminary, Fort Worth, is now serials BARBARA BEGG is now engineering librar- librarian, Iowa State Teachers College Li- ian, Drexel Institute of Technology. brary, Cedar Falls. DOROTHY BENDIX is associate professor of ANNE AREY is research assistant for the library science, Drexel Institute of Tech- Drexel Institute of Technology library nology. school. SALLY BETHEA, formerly cataloger, East MRS. JOYCE BALL is junior librarian in the Texas State College, is now cataloger, Uni- document library, Stanford University Li- versity of Florida Libraries. braries. MRS. KATHRYN BLACKWELL, formerly act- HARRY C. BAUER has resigned as director ing librarian, Weyerhaeuser Library, Macal- of libraries, University of Washington, Seat- ester College, St. Paul, Minn., is now refer- tle. Mr. Bauer will be engaged in writing, ence librarian. teaching, and research in the university's KENNETH P. BLAKE, JR., formerly librar- School of Librarianship. ian, reserve book room, Yale University, is

166 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES now head of readers' services, Colby College RANDALL A. DETRO, formerly serials librar- Library, Waterville, Me. ian, Northwestern State College of Louisi- HELEN R. BLANK is acting chairman of ana, Natchitoches, is now librarian at F. T. the department of library science, St. John's Nicholls State College, Thibodeaux, La. University. ELEANOR R. DEVLIN has been appointed ROBERT V. BRADLEY, formerly assistant associate reference librarian and assistant circulation librarian, University of Florida professor of library administration, Ohio Library, is now assistant cataloger, Univer- State University, Columbus. sity of South Florida Library. RONALD DE WAAL, formerly special col- ELAINE BROADBENT, formerly cataloger, lections librarian, University of New Mexico, University of Utah Library, is now cataloger is now head librarian at New Mexico Mili- in social sciences, University of Chicago. tary Institute, Roswell, N. M. DANIEL DIAZ is junior librarian in the JEAN A. BROTSMAN has been appointed gift and exchange librarian, Ohio State Uni- humanities and social sciences division, Stan- versity, Columbus. ford University Libraries. MRS. DOROTHY DIAZ is a junior librarian ELIZABETH E. BROWN is librarian at the in the catalog division, Stanford University Lamb Estate Research Center of Interna- Libraries. tional Business Machines Corporation. HENRY T. DRENNAN, formerly coordinator MRS. IBA BROWN is in the catalog depart- of Slavic materials University of Washington ment, Library. Library, is now state librarian and director, M. AUDREY BROWN is junior librarian in Idaho State Library, Boise. the humanities and social sciences division, MRS. FLORENCE DUNCAN has been ap- Stanford University Libraries. pointed cataloger, The University of Kansas SUSAN BUSH is assistant librarian, Southern City Libraries, Kansas City, Mo. Illinois University laboratory school. MRS. BETTY WADE FERRIS, formerly assist- RALPH W. BUSHEE, formerly assistant li- ant, social science room, University of Flor- brarian, Decatur Public Library, is now head ida Library, Gainesville, is now acquisitions of the order department, Southern Illinois assistant, University of South Florida Li- University Library. brary, Tampa. MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER is junior librarian DAVID FINCH is librarian at French Insti- in the Lane Medical Library, Stanford Uni- tute, New York, N. Y. versity Libraries. ELIZABETH FOGG is humanities librarian, ROBERT E. CAZDEN, formerly head of gifts Drexel Institute of Technology. division, University of California, Berkeley, MRS. FLORENCE FURST is chemistry librar- is now assistant order librarian, Oregon State ian, Stanford University Libraries. System of Higher Education and Oregon MRS. MARGARET ANN GALAMBOS, formerly State College at Corvallis, Ore. in the Yale University Library, is now in the NEAL COIL, formerly in the reference de- catalog department, Harvard College Li- partment, Ball State Teachers College, Mun- brary. cie, Ind., is now chief reference librarian, FRANCES L. GOUDY, formerly reference li- Indiana State Teachers College, Terre brarian, Ohio Historical Society, is now li- Haute. This corrects the announcement brarian, Grove City (Pa.) College. which appeared in the November 1959 CRL THEODORE GOULD, formerly head of the that Mrs. Margaretta Drury was appointed gift division of the gift and exchange de- to this position. partment, University of California Library, JAMES R. COX is head of the circulation Berkeley, is now head of the loan depart- department, University of California Li- ment. brary, Los Angeles. EUGENE GRAZIANO, formerly assistant sci- MARY FRANCES CRAWFORD is home eco- ence librarian, Southern Illinois University, nomics librarian, Drexel Institute of Tech- is now science division librarian. nology. MRS. CHARITY H. GREENE, formerly on the JAMES C. DAMASKOS is administrative as- library staff of the University of Tennessee, sistant in the catalog department, Harvard is now circulation librarian, Southern Illi- College Library. nois University.

MARCH 1960 167 DOROTHY C. GRIGG, formerly order librar- Library, is now assistant cataloger, Univer- ian, Winthrop College Library, Rock Hill, sity of South Florida Library. S. C., is now cataloger, technical services EDITH K. LIGETI is junior reference librar- division, North Carolina State Library. ian, Fresno State College, Calif. MARGARET E. HALL has been appointed MRS. EUNICE G. LOVEJOY has been ap- circulation desk librarian, Ohio State Uni- pointed reference librarian of the Education versity, Columbus. Library, Ohio State University, Columbus. FAITH N. HART, formerly reference assist- JAMES L. MCDILL is in the catalog depart- ant, University of Rochester Library, is now ment, Harvard College Library. assistant circulation librarian, University of JOHN P. MCGOWAN, formerly librarian, Florida Libraries. Technological Institute, Northwestern Uni- versity, is now director, Franklin Institute MARY P. HART is now in the catalog de- partment, Harvard College Library. Library, Philadelphia, Pa. PATRICIA BOWNE MCINTYRE is special col- RICHARD D. HERSHCOPF is assistant refer- ence and periodicals librarian, Bradley Uni- lections assistant, University of Florida Li- versity, Peoria, 111. braries. LUCY J. MADDOX, formerly librarian, JOHN P. ISCHE, formerly associate librar- Owosso (Mich.) College, is now director, ian, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Uni- library aide program, Ferris Institute, Big versity of Florida, is now librarian and pro- Rapids, Mich. fessor of medical bibliography, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University. JESS A. MARTIN has been appointed librar- ian of the Health Center Library, Ohio ERLAND L. JACOBSEN is junior reference li- State University, Columbus, effective April I, brarian, Fresno State College, Calif. 1960. GLADYS JOHNSON is now head of the main MRS. MARY MARTON of the serial record reference reading room, Carol M. Newman division, Library of Congress, has been Library, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, named editor of New Serials Titles. Blacksburg, Va. DAN MATHER is assistant social science li- RICHARD D. JOHNSON, formerly a member brarian, University of Idaho. of the staff of the humanities and social sci- ELEANOR F. MATTHEWS has been appointed ence division, Stanford University Libraries, librarian of the English and Speech Gradu- is now a senior librarian in the catalog de- ate Library, Ohio State University, Colum- partment. bus. WALTER A. KEE, formerly head of the DAVID K. MAXFIELD, formerly assistant to library and documents section, the Martin the director, is now librarian, Kresge Medi- Company, Baltimore, Md., is now chief, Li- cal Library, University of Michigan. brary Branch, Technical Information Serv- FADIL I. MERHEMIC has been appointed ice, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Wash- reference librarian, Health Center Library, ington, D. C. Ohio State University, Columbus. Louis A. KENNEY, formerly chief of tech- JOSE RAFAEL MUNOZ, formerly director of nical services, Illinois State Library, is now libraries in the Dominican Republic, Ciudad chief librarian of the Air Force Institute of Trujillo, Dominican Republic, West Indies, Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force is now an associate librarian, catalog sec- Base, Ohio. tion, United Nations Library, New York. EVALENA KING, formerly reference librar- KATHLEEN MUNRO is now acting director ian, Vassar College, is now head of the of the University of Washington Library, readers service division. Seattle. PHILIP A. KNACHEL is chief of technical EDWARD C. NELSON, formerly librarian services at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Bronx Reference Center, New York Public WILLIAM H. KURTH, formerly assistant Library, is now supervising librarian in chief of the order division, Library of Con- charge of the Donnell Reference Library, gress, is now chief of the circulation division, NYPL. National Library of Medicine. JOHN H. O'MEARA is curriculum materials RODGER C. LEWIS, formerly assistant cata- consultant, Newark State College Library, log librarian, New Mexico State University Union, N. J.

168 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MARY B. PJNSON has been appointed as- of Colgate University Library, is now hu- sistant acquisition librarian and instructor manities librarian, University of Oregon. in library administration, Ohio State Uni- HAROLD W. THOMPSON, JR., formerly li- versity, Columbus. brarian, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., is JACK RAMSEY, formerly chief librarian of now assistant professor of library science, the Glendale (Calif.) Public Library, has Glassboro State College, N. J. been appointed to the newly created post MURIEL P. WESTON, formerly assistant li- of chief of the library relations department, brarian, Toronto Teachers College, is now The H. W. Wilson Company. head librarian, Lakeshore Teachers College, DAVID T. RAY, formerly with the Smith- Toronto. sonian Institution Library, is now serials PAUL W. WINKLER, assistant professor, cataloger, Southern Illinois University Li- University of Denver School of Librarian- brary. ship, is visiting associate professor at the University of Southern California School of MARJORIE REEVES is now junior reference librarian, Fresno State College, Calif. Library Science. HARVEY B. WISEMAN, formerly librarian of SISTER REGINA MARY is associate librarian, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Conn. Ketchikan High School and Community College, Ketchikan, Alaska, is now catalog RICHARD L. SNYDER, formerly science librarian, University of Oregon. librarian, Indiana University, is now science EDWIN E. WILLIAMS, since 1956 assistant librarian, Institute of Tech- librarian for book selection, Harvard Col- nology. lege Library, has been assigned a newly de- MRS. ASTRID STEELE, formerly in the peri- fined responsibility to advise the director odicals and binding department, Massachu- of the University Library on the develop- setts Institute of Technology, is now as- ment and organization of the collections. sistant reference librarian at M.I.T. RUTH E. WINN, formerly in the Boston MRS. SARA STEVENSON has been appointed Public Library, is now assistant engineering cataloger, The University of Kansas City librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Libraries, Kansas City, Mo. nology. S. LOUISE STULL is curriculum librarian PAUL WITTKOPF is assistant technical serv- and senior reference librarian, Fresno State ices librarian, Drexel Institute of Technol- College, Calif. ogy. MRS. VIRGINIA SULLIVAN, formerly cata- AKIKO YAMAGAWA, formerly of Boston loger, Lafayette College Library, Easton, Pa., Public Library, is now in the catalog depart- is now catalog librarian at Newark State ment, Harvard College Library. College Library, Union, N. J. LABIB ZUWIYYA-YAMAK, formerly head of PAUL K. SWANSON, formerly librarian of technical processes, American University of the Free Library, Brattleboro, Vt., is now Beirut, is* now Middle Eastern specialist in assistant catalog librarian, Colgate Univer- the Harvard College Library and associate sity, Hamilton, N. Y. in the center for Middle Eastern Studies at BRUCE T. THOMAS, formerly on the staff Harvard.

Necrology

ALEENE BAKER, head of the documents MRS. ELIZABETH GRAY POTTER, librarian of division in Deering Library, Northwestern Mills College, Oakland, Calif., until her re- University, since 1933, died December 9, tirement in 1937, died October 14, 1959. 1959. (Continued on page 176)

MARCH 1960 169 pilation and publication of college and uni- members and junior college librarians who versity library statistics. His report precipi- prepared the standards. It voted that the tated further discussion by the Board on this standards be promulgated by early publi- subject. A motion to reconsider the Board's cation in CRL and the distribution of re- earlier recommendation concerning the sta- prints of them to appropriate educators and tistics was defeated. The Board then voted librarians. to transmit to LAD the Publications Com- On the suggestion of Mr. Tauber the mittee's statement concerning the January Board voted a recommendation that provi- 1960 issue of CRL. sion be made in the budget for CRL for After discussion of Mr. Ralph Parker's 1960/61 for the publication of a cumulative recommendations from the Committee on index of volumes sixteen through twenty. Organization the Board voted to recommend Discussion of the proposed "A Librarian's to the ALA Committee on Organization that Code" for librarians revealed extensive dis- ACRL's Committee on the Duplicates Ex- satisfaction with the draft presented for con- change Union be transferred to the Re- sideration by the LAD committee. Mr. sources and Technical Services Division. It Grieder was designated by the Board to voted to defer action on recommendations represent its feelings about the draft to the for the clarification of the ACRL publica- committee. tions program and on the question of the The Board determined that ALA's direct retention or abolishment of the group des- interests in the subjects to be discussed at ignated as ACRL State Representatives. the White House Conference on the Aging The Board approved the Standards for are thoroughly covered by other divisions' Junior College Libraries and recorded its fields of interest and that ACRL should not appreciation and thanks to the committee request representation at the conference.

Personnel

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Foreign Libraries

WOLFGANG BENNDORF, director of the Uni- the University of Kiel Library, on June 30, versity of Graz Library, died on April 24, 1959. 1959. J. HALPERN has been appointed acting di- rector, University Library, Greifswald, as of SIR EDMUND CRASTER, director of the Bod- March 3, 1959. leian Library from 1931 to 1945, died on JOHANN S. HANNESSON, curator of the Ice- March 21, 1959. landic collection, Cornell University Librar- WALTHER GEBHARDT, formerly assistant di- ies, and lecturer in the English department rector of the Westdeutsche Bibliothek in at Cornell, resigned effective December Marburg, is now director of the Tubingen 31 to accept the headmastership of the Gym- University Library. nasium at Laugarvatn in Iceland. PAUL GEHRING retired as director of the FRIEDRICH- ADOLF SCHMIDT-KUNSEMULLER, Tubingen University Library on June 16, formerly director of the Stadtbibliothek, 1959. Mainz, is now director of the University of HEINRICII GROTHUES retired as director of Kiel Library.

176 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Nominees for ACRL

PRESIDENT Edmon Low, State University Library, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Ralph E. Ellsworth, University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder. Arthur T. Hamlin, University of Cincinnati Libraries, Cincinnati, Ohio.

DIRECTORS AT LARGE (1960-63) ^ Douglas Wallace Bryant, Harvard University Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Flora Belle Ludington, Mount Holyoke College Library, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Lucile M. Morsch, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Robert L. Talmadge, University of Kansas Library, Lawrence. y

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College Library, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Esther M. Hile, University of Redlands Library, Redlands, California. Luella R. Pollock, Reed College Library, Portland, Oregon.

SECRETARY: H. Vail Deale, Beloit College Libraries, Beloit, Wisconsin. Warren F. Tracy, Coe College Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ~

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Catherine Cardew, Briarcliff Junior College, Briarcliff Manor, New York. i.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: James O. Wallace, San Antonio College Library, San Antonio, Texas.

SECRETARY: Virginia Clark, Wright Junior College Library, Chicago, Illinois. Peggy Ann McCully, Christian College Library, Columbia, Missouri.

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RARE BOOKS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Frederick Goff, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Mrs. Frances J. Brewer, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan. Wilbur J. Smith, University of California Libraries, Los Angeles.

SECRETARY: George H. Healey, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. William H. Runge, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville.

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION

CHAIRMAN: George S. Bonn, Science and Technology Division, New York Public Library, New York.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Janet M. Rigney, Council on Foreign Relations Library, New York. Irene Zimmerman, University of Florida Library, Gainesville.

TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Fritz Veit, Chicago Teachers College and Chicago City Junior Col- lege, Woodrow Wilson Branch, Libraries, Chicago, Illinois.

SECRETARY AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Mrs. Maud Merritt Bentrup, Northeast Louisiana College Library, Monroe. Helen Wahoski, Oshkosh State Teachers College Library, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

UNIVERSITY LIB ARIES SECTION

CHAIRMAN: Ralph W. McComb, Pennsylvania State University Library, Uni- versity Park.

VICE-CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: John H. Ottemiller, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut. Giles Freemont Shepherd, Jr., Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York.

SECRETARY: Ruth C. Ringo, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville.

DIRECTOR ON ALA COUNCIL (one to be elected) Dorothy Margaret Drake, Scripps College Library, Claremont, California. William H. Jesse, University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville.

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