ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

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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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