ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


On August 1, Dr. Gustave A. Harrer assumed 
his new duties as Director of Libraries at the 
University of Florida in Gainesville. The ap­

pointment brought to 
a close eight exciting 
years during which, as 
head of the library 
system at Boston Uni­
versity, Dr. Harrer 
wrought far-reaching 
changes upon the 
Charles River cam­
pus. Under his direc­
torship the library’s 
budget, holdings, sal­
aries, and professional 

G. A. Harrer staff were dramatical­
ly increased; valuable

collections were brought to the University; the 
Twentieth Century Archives were initiated; the 
Friends of the Boston University Libraries was 
revitalized as an organization; and the beauti­
ful Mugar Memorial Library was constructed, 
consolidating nine departmental libraries on the 
campus. I t was during the planning and build­
ing of Mugar th at Dr. Harrer’s catholicity of 
knowledge and interest became legend, for 
rare indeed is the man who in the same morn­
ing could discourse on medieval binding and 
show the construction crew how to adjust a 
particularly intricate mechanical apparatus.

A warm, affable man with a wide knowledge 
of books and human beings, Dr. Harrer per­
sonifies the librarian-bookman-scholar-adminis- 
trator in the best traditional sense. Linguist, 
musician, builder, traveller, reader, champion 
of civil liberties, husband, father, charming 
host, library consultant, and participant in  civic, 
historic, and professional organizations, he is in 
that unique position of having conquered the 
twenty-four hour day.

Dr. Harrer received his AB (1948), MA 
(1950), and PhD (1953, in Germanic Lan­
guages) from the University of North Carolina 
and his MS in LS from the University of 
Illinois (1954). Beginning his academic career 
as assistant professor of German and Latin at 
Millsaps College (1949-51), he entered the 
world of librarianship in 1954 when he was ap­
pointed Assistant Order Librarian, University 
of Tennessee Libraries, and then Associate Or­
der Librarian at the same University the next 
year. In 1957 Dr. Harrer was wooed to the 
West Coast as Chief Acquisitions Librarian at 
Stanford University, and in 1958 was appoint­
ed Stanford’s Assistant Director for Central 
Services, a post he held until his arrival in 
Boston in 1960.

Long active in  ALA, and in the New Eng­

Personnel
land, California, and Tennessee library asso­
ciations, Dr. Harrer has at various times served 
on some dozen national library committees, 
and has frequently contributed to professional 
library and academic publications. Among his 
honors are the American Council of Learned 
Societies fellowship in linguistics (University 
of Michigan, 1948); the Fund for the Ad­
vancement of Education faculty fellowship for 
advanced graduate work (1951-52); the Kath­
erine L. Sharpe Alumni Fellowship (University 
of Illinois Library School, 1953-54; the Car­
negie Seminar in Advanced Library Adminis­
tration Fellowship (under Keyes Metcalf, 
1958); and the CLR Grant for the Study of 
Book Number Code (1960).

Dr. Harrer’s wide experience and fine per­
sonal assets assuredly mean that the University 
of Florida Libraries have acquired a unique 
Director. Having spent eight years in the Athens 
of the New World, it may be assumed th at 
with the best wishes of his many friends, Gus 
Harrer also takes with him to the land of 
Ponce de León, the Puritan Ethic.—Howard B. 
Gotlieb, Boston University.

J. Donald Thomas took his bachelor’s degree 
from Tulane in 1948 and his master’s in  library 
science at Columbia in 1951. His career has 
provided a wide vari­
ety of experience as 
background for his 
new position as execu­
tive secretary of the 
Association of College 
and Research Librar­
ies. He has served on 
the staff of the docu­
ments division in the 
a c q u i s i t i o n s  depart­
ment at Columbia; as 
librarian of the infor­
mation service of the 
French Embassy in 
New York; as assistant Mr. Thomas
librarian of Hunter
College; as reference cataloger of the Standard 
Oil Company central library in New York; and 
as assistant chief librarian for the Montreal 
Star in Montreal.

In the fall of 1960, Mr. Thomas came to 
the University of Chicago library as adminis­
trative assistant to the director. Initially he was 
assigned a wide variety of problems in the 
public service fields, technical processing, phys­
ical plant maintenance, alteration, and plan­
ning. He became the first head of the general 
services division of the library, a post estab­
lished in 1962. In this position Thomas, first 
as an assistant director and later as an associ­

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ate director, had primary responsibility for 
operations of the major public services of the 
general library. W ith the close association and 
support of his departm ent heads, he developed 
and implemented a wide variety of new and 
improved public services and procedures. He 
was, of course, heavily involved from the be­
ginning in the concepts and the planning of 
the Joseph Regenstein library.

Don Thomas has clear and strong views on 
the operational needs of libraries, and he has 
constantly been alert for opportunities to im­
prove services, efficiency, or respond in  other 
ways to operational requirements. H e is im­
patient with those h e believes to be slow or 
unresponsive in such matters. His wide back­
ground of professional experience is matched 
by a wide range of personal interests in which 
Mr. Thomas displays similar vigor, authority, 
and knowledge. He has a great, but disciplined, 
affection for a reasonably wide assortment of 
dogs; he is a collector of early prints and en­
gravings; he is a producer as well as a con­
sumer of the finest in French cuisine; and still 
can find time to ski in  both Aspen and Austria.

W e are confident that with this background 
and this wide range of interests, ACRL will as­
suredly be enlivened by his disciplined and 
vigorous approach to many fundamental prob­
lems.—Herman H. Fussier, University of Chi­
cago.

In  reviewing candidates for the position of 
associate director of library services at Hofstra 
University a few years ago, we stated that we 
needed a man strong
enough to be receiv­
ing offers of head li- 
b r a r i a n s h i p s  within 
th ree years. How pre­
cisely th e successful 
candidate, Thompson 
M. Little, was chosen, 
is indicated in  the fact 
that on November 1 
he will become direc­
tor of libraries at 
Ohio University, Ath­
e n s , e x a c t l y  t h r e e  
years from the day on 
which he joined our Mr. Littlestaff.

Tom Little s career
has been marked by distinguished education 
and experience. After graduation from Bow- 
doin College, he worked briefly in an envelop 
factory. He quickly escaped, to attend the 
Columbia University school of library service, 
from which he graduated w ith honors, and 
received the W heeler award, the highest honor 
bestowed on a student in the school. Follow­
ing five years of distinguished and increasingly 
responsible work at the Stanford University 
library, as social science reference librarian and

assistant chief of the humanities and social 
science division, Tom returned to Columbia as 
librarian of the school of library service. He 
also has taught a course in social science liter­
ature at this school from 1962 to 1968.

For the past three years at Hofstra Univer­
sity he has been largely instrumental in guid­
ing the development of a rapid library expan­
sion th at has tripled the staff, quadrupled the 
total budget and quintupled the book budget 
in a period of three years. His work has been 
especially outstanding in revising and reshap­
ing acquisition and cataloging procedures to 
absorb a radically increased load, and in super­
vising the move of the entire library into a 
new library building.

Tom Little has worked actively in  state, local, 
and national library affairs, and was a principal 
speaker at the Conference on the Bibliographic 
Control of Library Science Literature held this 
Spring in Albany. He is co-editor with Carl 
M. W hite of Sources of Information in the So­
cial Sciences, for which he is now preparing 
a new edition. Tom Little is highly respected 
by the staff, and his general intelligence, wide 
range of skills, and ability to stimulate staff 
response come to Ohio University at an espe­
cially im portant time in its growth, as th ey pre­
pare to move into a large new library building. 
The entire staff at Hofstra wish him a warm 
farewell, and look forward to following his 
career upward.—Ellsworth Mason, Hofstra 
University.

A P P O I N T M E N T S

Mrs. Susan Anthes has joined the staff of 
the University of Miami as assistant reference 
librarian.

Janet Arey has been appointed reference 
librarian at Birmingham-Southern College.

Lee Ash, library consultant, has contracted 
to edit the 16-page bimonthly Hew England 
Library Association Newsletter, which will be­
gin publication in  January, 1969. Editorial ad­
dress: 31 Alden Road, New Haven, Connecti­
cut 06515.

Jean Barnett has joined the staff of the 
University of California library, Riverside, as 
cataloger-bibliographer in humanities.

Joseph M. Barth has been appointed au­
diovisual librarian at the United States Military 
Academy, West Point.

Richard W. Beebe has been named acqui­
sitions librarian at the State University of New 
York College, Geneseo.

Lawrence Bowman has been named li­
brarian of the Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Mrs. Nancy G. Boylan has been appointed 
head, government documents departm ent at 
the University of Iowa libraries.

Jeraldine Byrne is now in charge of the
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bibliographic checking section at the University 
of California library, Riverside.

Phyllis Carter has joined tbe staff of Duke 
University library as a descriptive cataloger.

Glyn Evans, formerly research librarian of 
the Royal Society of Medicine Library, Lon­
don, is now head of the machine project at 
the School of Medicine Library, Washington 
University.

Ronald L. Fingerson has been appointed 
head, serials department at the University of 
Iowa libraries.

Stuart Forth is acting vice president for 
student affairs at the University of Kentucky.

Robert Andrew Golter has accepted the 
position of assistant director of University Li­
braries and librarian of the J. Henry Meyer 
Memorial Library, Stanford University libraries.

Harold Gordon is acting director of li­
braries at the University of Kentucky.

Charles Hicks is now acting head of the 
acquisitions department at the University of 
Miami library.

Mrs. Patricia Hitchings is now head of 
reference services at Hamilton Library, Edin­
boro State College, Pa.

Donald C. Hoffmeister has joined the 
staff of the State University of New York Col­
lege, Geneseo, as circulation librarian.

Marcia Jebb is now associate librarian in 
the reference department, Cornell University 
libraries.

Mrs. Doris J Jensen has joined the staff 
of the Cornell University libraries as assistant 
librarian, law library.

Diane Johnson is a new staff member of 
the government publications department, Uni­
versity of California library, Riverside.

Richard M. Kolbert has been appointed 
head, acquisitions department at the Universi­
ty  of Iowa libraries.

Caroline D. Ladeira has joined the staff 
of the Cornell University libraries as assistant 
librarian, serials and binding department.

William T. Lane has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at the State University of New 
York College, Geneseo.

Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, chief librarian of Hamil­
ton library, Edinboro State College, Pa., will be 
on leave during 1968-69 to serve as the li­
brary director of the Asian Institute of Tech­
nology in Bangkok, Thailand on an appointment 
by the Agency for International Development.

William C. Leonard has accepted appoint­
ment as head of the graphic arts service and 
instructor in library administration at the Uni­
versity of Oregon.

Mrs. Bonnie Meyer Ledbetter is now a 
cataloger at Birmingham-Southern College.

Leslie H. Meyers has joined the staff of 
the reference department, Cornell University 
libraries.

Dennis Leeper is the new head of reader 
services, Hamilton Library, Edinboro State Col­
lege, Pa.

Mrs. Kenneth Lisberg is a new staff mem­
ber at the School of Medicine Library, Wash­
ington University.

Venita McPherson is a new staff member 
in the reference department at the University 
of California library, Riverside.

Thomas L. Mann has been appointed act­
ing assistant reference librarian at Wisconsin 
State University, Whitewater.

John H. Martin has accepted the position 
of acquisitions librarian at the School of Medi­
cine Library, Washington University.

Mrs. Cherie Montgomery is now circula­
tion librarian at the School of Medicine Li­
brary, Washington University.

Judith A. Proctor has joined the staff of 
the Cornell University libraries as assistant li­
brarian, serials and binding department.

Joseph Schwartz is now director of reader 
services and assistant librarian at the University 
of Minnesota Library, Duluth.

Nasser Sharify has been named dean of 
the graduate library school, Pratt Institute.

Stanley Skarzynski has joined the staff of 
the Hamilton Library, Edinboro State College, 
Pa., as a bibliographer.

Louise Stewart is now head, acquisitions 
section, University of California library, River-

Stuart A. Stiffler has been appointed li­
brarian at Findlay College.

Mahhardi Suprapta is now an assistant cat­
alog librarian, Cornell University libraries.

Elizabeth Van Leuven is now the Russian 
bibliographer-cataloger at the University of 
California library, Riverside.

Virginia Veit has joined the staff of the 
Jackson Library, Stanford University libraries, 
as a cataloger.

Mrs. Lance C. Vinson is a new cataloger 
at Bowdoin College’s Hawthorne-Longfellow 
library.

Saul W einstein has been named acting 
chief librarian for 1968-69 at Hamilton li­
brary, Edinboro State College, Pa.

Mrs. E mma Williams has assumed the 
duty of assistant to the chief librarian at Ham­
ilton library, Edinboro State College, Pa.

Donald G. Wilson has been appointed act­
ing university librarian at the University of 
California library, Riverside.

Clifford W ürfel has been named head of 
special collections at the University of Cali­
fornia library, Riverside.

Mrs. Margaret Carter Zieman became 
reference assistant at Georgia Institute of Tech­
nology on September 1.

(Continued on page 327)

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A V A I L A B L E  I N  O C T O B E R
Financial Assistance for Library Education, 

a list of fellowships, scholarships and grants- 
in-aid which will be available for the academic 
year 1969/70 has been prepared by the Office 
for Recruitment and will be available from that 
office late in October. Price is 50 cents for a 
single copy; 10 copies—$4.75; 25—$11.25; and 
100—$42.00. ■ ■

that L C , which since 1961 has been sup­
plying (on contract) subject headings for 
doctoral dissertations, has stated that be­
cause of the great increase in the work 
and the shortage of catalogers, it can no 
longer continue this activity without im­
pairing the library’s effectiveness in other 
programs. University Microfilms, mean­
while, has developed the DATR IX (key- 
word-in-title) system. This system leaves 
something to be desired, said Mr. Buckman, 
but L C  headings for some subjects did al­
so, and earlier efforts to have each institu­
tion assign subject headings to its own dis­
sertations had proved even less satisfac­
tory. A  choice, however, must be made. 
University Microfilms will provide money 
for an analysis of the suitability of 
D A TR IX descriptors, and, meanwhile, L C  
will be asked to continue the contract for 
a year until this investigation can be com­
pleted. Directors of AR L libraries were 
asked to give this matter their personal at­
tention. Mr. Buckman will try to have rem­
edied the six to eight week delays in the 
delivery of microfilms already mentioned, 
as well as six to eight month delays in 
getting dissertations microfilmed by Uni­
versity Microfilms, another serious problem 
for academic libraries.

G. F. Shepherd (Cornell University li­
braries) reported that The New York 
Times would replace any substandard mi­
crofilm of the newspaper supplied between 
September 1, 1967, and April 1, 1968. A 
team from the Eastman Kodak Company 
has found that the film now meets ar­
chival standards.

Dr. Logsdon “told it like it was” at Co­
lumbia during the student sit-in there, and 
librarians of other universities spoke of 
some of the consequences for libraries of 
campus demonstrations, for instance, in re­
gard to insurance.

L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Con­
gress, who distributed a summary— but fair­

ly lengthy— report on the library, described 
the status of appropriations to L C , of the 
bill to amend and extend the Higher Ed­
ucation Act, including the amendments to 
Title II-C of that Act requested by L C , 
and of appropriations for Title II-C. He 
pointed out that the $2.8-million item in 
the budget of the Architect of the Capitol 
for the Library of Congress James Madison 
memorial library building had been “de­
ferred without prejudice” b y  the House 
Appropriations Committee (as later it also 
was by the Senate), and he spoke of the 
library’s increasingly dire need for space 
and the adverse effect that this may have 
on national programs.

President Eaton, after noting that other 
reports had been filed, announced that the 
next A R L meeting would be on January 
26, 1969, in Washington, D .C. The Asso­
ciation will spend Saturday, January 25, at 
L C  inspecting activities and being briefed 
on programs and developments of interest 
to AR L. After some graceful words of 
thanks by Benjamin Powell (Duke Uni­
versity library) to the Linda Hall library 
and its Director Joe Shipman, for “extra­
ordinary hospitality,” the meeting ad­
journed.— Elizabeth E. Hamer. ■■

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

P E R S O N N E L
(Continued from page 313)

R E T IR E M E N T S
Philip Hofer, collector and bibliographer,

has retired after 30 years of service as curator
of the department of printing and graphic arts
in the Harvard College library. Mr. Hofer
founded this department, the first of its kind in
a university library, with his own collection of
10,000 books and manuscripts in 1938.

N E C R O L O G Y
Miss Ruby E. Dare, librarian of Green­

ville College, Greenville, Illinois, succumbed
to a massive stroke on August 8, 1968 at the
age of 63.

IN MEMORIAM
Contributions to a Rudolph H. Gjels- 

ness Scholarship Fund are being received 
by the University of Michigan depart­
ment of library science.

The New York public library has es­
tablished an Archibald P. De Weese 
Memorial Book Fund.

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