ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


Personnel
J a m e s  H u m p h r y  III, president of the As­

sociation of College and Research Libraries, 
1 9 67-1968, will become vice president of The

H. W . Wilson Compa­
ny on August 1. He 
will be involved in the 
general and adminis­
trative aspects of the 
company’s work. Mr. 
Humphry has been a 
director of the compa­
ny since 1965, and is 
a member of the Ref­
erence Services Di­
vision’s Committee on 
Wilson Indexes, 1958- 

Mr. H um phry 59 and Chairman, 
1962-65.

Presently, he is chief librarian of The Metro­
politan Museum of Art where he has been 
since 1957. While there, he planned the 
Thomas J. W atson library, which at its open­
ing in 196 5  was described by Sanka Knox of 
T h e N ew  York T im es as “the latest triumph 
in a series of projects to modernize The Metro­
politan Museum.” The library grew to 165,000 
volumes, 2 5 0 ,0 0 0  photographs, 2 5 0 ,0 0 0  slides, 
and 1 ,000 periodical titles during this period 
and staff increased to forty-five. It is con­
sidered the largest and most comprehensive 
independent art library in the western hemi­
sphere.

Mr. Humphry received his BA from Harvard 
in 1939 and his BS in LS from Columbia Uni­
versity in 1941. While at Columbia, he worked 
in the reference department of the New York 
public library, 1 939-41, and again, after mili­
tary service, in 1946-47, at which time he was 
chief of the map division. W hile in the U.S. 
Army, 1 942-46, 1951-54, he rose to the rank 
of Colonel.

He left the New York public library to be 
librarian and professor of bibliography, Colby 
College, 1 947-51, 1954-57. Mr. Humphry has 
taught at the school of library service, Colum­
bia University, 1967-68. H e has contributed 
to professional periodicals and is the compiler 
of T h e Library o f E dw in  Arlington R obinson 
(Colby College Press: 1 9 5 0 ) and editor of 
Edw ard Fitzgerald’s R ubaiyat (C olby College 
Press: 1 9 5 9 ).

W ithin ACRL, prior to being president, Mr. 
Humphry was vice-chairman and chairman, 
Art Subsection, Subject Specialists Section, 
1 9 6 1 -6 2 ; chairman-elect and chairman, Subject 
Specialists Section, 1 964-66; a member of the 
Planning and Action Committee, 1 9 62-65, and 
its chairman, 1966.

He was (an d  is) a member of the ALA 
Council, 1 9 5 9 -6 3 , 1 9 6 7 -6 9 ; member, Book­

binding Committee, 1 9 4 9 -5 1 ; Coordinator for 
Maine, Library Services Act, 1948, 1 955-57; 
member Subscription Books Committee, 1963- 
6 6 ; member of Library Administration Divi­
sion’s Buildings Committee for College and 
University Libraries, Section on Buildings and 
Equipment, 1959-64.

In the Special Libraries Association, he was 
vice-chairman and chairman, Museum Group, 
New York Chapter, 1 962-64; member, Copy­
right Committee, 1 960-61; New York Confer­
ence chairman, 1967. In the Maine Library 
Association, he was president, 1 9 5 5 -5 7  and 
editor of Maine L ibrary Association Bulletin, 
1949-51. H e was president of the New York 
Library Club, 1965-66, and a member of its 
Council, 1959-67. He served as president of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art Employees’ 
Association, 1 961-63, and was a member of 
the Board of Governors, 1958-66.

He has also been a consultant to the Coun­
cil for the Advancement of Small Colleges, 
1 956; Archons of Colophon member 1958-, and 
Convenor, 1 9 6 3 -6 4 ; International Council of 
Museums corresponding member, 1965-; Ameri­
can Association of Museums Library Group 
chairman, 1 965-; St. John’s University Con­
gress for Librarians advisory councilor, 1963- 
67; American Heritage consultant, 1965-; John 
Wiley & Sons consultant, 1966-, He has been 
active in the New York Library Association, 
1 965-; a member of Harvard University Fine 
Arts Visiting Committee 1 967-; Library of 
Presidential Papers national board member,
1967-; New York Council on the Arts Grants- 
in-Aid Program administrator, 1 967-; New 
York Metropolitan Beference and Research L i­
brary Agency, Inc. (M E T R O ), trustee, 1967-; 
Archives of American Art trustee, 1967-, and 
chairman of its Advisory Committee, 1967-.

Mr. Humphry has conducted numerous li­
brary surveys, a number of them with his twin 
brother, John, who is state librarian and as­
sistant commissioner of libraries of the State of 
New York. (L ibrary surveys done jointly are 
starred in the following list; where new build­
ings were constructed, or planned, as a result 
of the surveys a dagger is u sed.) Norwich Uni­
versity, Northfield, Vt. ( 1 9 5 7 ) ;  Wadsworth 
Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. ( 1 9 5 7 - 5 8 ) ; Bay 
Shore, N.Y. ( 1 9 6 3 ) t ;  Sayville, N.Y. (1 9 6 3 ) † ; 
Boy Scouts of America (1 9 6 4 )  studying nation­
al headquarters needs and reorganization; Art 
Institute of Chicago (1 9 6 5 )  †; State of Dela­
ware, all libraries ( 1 9 6 5 - 6 6 )*† and including 
plans for the new state library building, Dover; 
Henry Francis DuPont Museum, Winterthur, 
Del. (1 9 6 5 -6 6 ) * t ;  Rhode Island School of De­
sign ( 1 9 6 6 ) β†; Greenwich, Conn. ( 1 9 6 6 - 6 8 ) β†; 
New London, Conn. (1 9 6 6 )  β†; State of Louisi­

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ana, all libraries ( 1 9 6 6 - 6 8 ) * ; Granby, Conn., 
a study of the town and needs for library serv­
ice and facilities ( 1 9 6 7 ) ° .

F o r Delaware, with his brother, he is work­
ing on a Title III of LSCA project studying 
all types of libraries and on plans for the 
Delaware Technical and Community College 
Library, Georgetown, which is to be a  re­
source center involving cooperative efforts of 
all kinds of libraries in Sussex County. Also, 
with his brother, he is acting as a consultant 
to CONSAD Research Corporation, New York, 
which is preparing a study for the Baltimore 
Regional Planning Council for the library sys­
tems of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and 
Anne Arundel County. This study is to investi­
gate the provision of library service without re­
gard to geographical or jurisdictional differ­
ences. The work contract is with the Division 
of Library Extension, Maryland State Depart­
ment of Education.

L eo M. Weins, president of The H. W . 
Wilson Company says, “Mr. Humphry’s ad­
ministrative abilities and professional knowl­
edge and experience will be of great impor­
tance to The Wilson Company as it continues 
the development of its services to the library 
profession. As a member of the executive group, 
Mr. Humphry will assume responsibilities for 
over-all policy formulation and execution as 
the company enlarges its capacities to attain 
greater inclusivity and timeliness in its many 
indexing and bibliographical publications.”

Upon losing the services of Mr. Humphry, 
Thomas Hoving, director of The Metropolitan 
Museum of Art said, “One looks upon the 
loss of a man of Jim Humphry’s abilities with 
sincerely mixed feelings— sadness at our loss, 
but frank delight that such a distinguished 
firm has chosen one of the staff of this great 
institution to hold such a high and important 
post.”—Jo h n  Fall, N ew  York Public Library

G e o r g e  M. B a i l e y ,  one of the most compe­
tent and well liked persons in our profession, 
is leaving his post as executive secretary of 

ACKL to become pro­
fessor and college li­
brarian of York Col­
lege effective Septem­
ber 1. A new unit of 
the City University of 
New York system, York 
College was opened in 
the fall of 1967 and 
Mr. Bailey will have 
the task of developing 
its library system. The 
new college, which 

Mr. Bailey will have its perma­
nent location in Jam ai­

ca, Long Island, will be developed eventually 
into a full-scale university.

George was born in Millers, Maryland, north 
of Baltimore, not too many years ago. Having 
a scholarly bent, he left the family farm on 
graduation from high school and obtained a 
BA in history from Franklin and Marshall 
College, Lancaster, Pa. in June of 1946. The 
next year he took an MA in American history 
from the University of Pennsylvania. He then 
taught history at Franklin and Marshall College 
for a year and in 1948 went to the University of 
Wisconsin where he did additional graduate 
work in history and also served as an instruc­
tor in history. In 1952 he transferred to the 
University of Wisconsin’s library school and 
graduated with an MA in library science in 
August of 1953. That same year, with a banjo 
on his knee, he traveled west to the University 
of California at Berkeley where he served for 
a year as an administrative intern to the uni­
versity librarian, Donald Coney. He also worked 
for a year as a reference librarian in the social 
science reference service at the Berkeley li­
brary.

In 1 955 he came to the University of Cali­
fornia library at Davis as a reference librarian 
and was quickly promoted to head of the ref­
erence department, a job which he handled 
with much skill. During his residence in Davis, 
George participated actively in civic affairs and 
was particularly successful in heading a fund 
drive for the local public library. W hile in 
California, Mr. Bailey held several important 
committee assignments in the California L i­
brary Association and did very useful work as 
chairman of the Documents Committee and 
the Conference Exhibits Committee. In 1959 
he left California and accepted the position of 
chief of reference and special services at North­
western University where he worked until 
1963. W hile at Davis and Northwestern he 
became an active worker in ALA, serving as 
chairman of the History Section of BSD, chair­
man of SORT and on various committees. In 
addition, he has been membership chairman 
of the Illinois Library Association and president 
of the Wisconsin Library School Alumni As­
sociation.

W hen Mr. Bailey became executive secretary 
of A CRL in 1963, he told m e and other friends 
that he planned to stay with A CRL at least 
four or five years in order to contribute as 
much as possible to the organization’s growth 
and effectiveness. Always a man of his word, 
George has done just that. Under his direction 
and with the aid of a series of strong presi­
dents, A C R L  has, without question, been 
greatly strengthened. F o r most of the past five 
years has been the largest division; increasing 
from 8071 members in 1963 to 13,327 members 
in March of 1968. Many important programs 
have been instituted or completed during 
Bailey’s tenn of office. Much attention has 
been given to long range planning and a re­

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view of objectives. The publications program 
has been extended, with the successful addition 
of C R L  News. Various sections, particularly the 
Junior College Libraries Section, have been 
especially active and effective. Of great value 
has been the establishment of close relations 
instituted by Mr. Bailey with other organiza­
tions, such as the Association of American Col­
leges, and the American Association of Junior 
Colleges.

During his career, George has been sup­
ported by his charming wife Claire, a research 
biologist. They have two lively children.

The administration of York College has been 
most perceptive in appointing George Bailey 
to the important post of its first chief librarian. 
All of his colleagues will be watching the 
growth of his new library with much interest. 
W e know it will be an unusually good one.— 
J. R ichard B lanchard, University o f California, 
Davis.

On July 1, 1968, R i c h a r d  Q u i c k , a native 
of New Jersey, will take over the directorship 
of the library of the State University of New 
York at Geneseo (fo r a sketch of his career 
to September 1965, see C R L, September 1965, 
pp. 433-434).

In a series of positions at the University of 
Delaware from 1954 to 1965 which led him to 
the assistantship to the director of libraries, 
Mr. Quick’s varied administrative duties gave 
him wide experience in public relations, sys­
tems organization, personnel management, col­
lection building, rare books and manuscripts, 
building planning, equipment selection, and 
the little appreciated but major problems of 
planning and organizing moves from old to 
new buildings. He pioneered studies in the 
assessment of resources requirements and costs 
for new doctoral programs during the decade 
when the University of Delaware and its li­
brary went through a period of major changes 
in size, pace, and philosophy. This background 
fitted him well for his work in Arizona where 
the extension of his experience was necessary.

W hen Mr. Quick became director of library 
services at Arizona State College, Flagstaff, in 
September 1965, the institution was a little 
less than a year short of becoming Northern 
Arizona University. The progress made by the 
institution since that date has been unusual; 
and without doubt a large share of the credit 
for Northern Arizona University’s growth, de­
velopment, and acceptance as a university goes 
to Mr. Quick for his capable planning, direc­
tion of a hard working staff, and for his ability 
to wheedle funds from a harried administra­
tion.

His responsibility for a burgeoning library 
in a rapidly growing university gave him op­
portunities to reorganize, modernize, revitalize,

and reorient the library’s operations and serv­
ices for an intensified undergraduate instruc­
tional program and new graduate programs as 
the college transformed itself to a university. 
The staff has been upgraded and expanded; a 
new library building, under construction when 
Mr. Quick arrived, was modified and occupied: 
technical and public services were overhauled 
and the library’s resources have been almost 
doubled.

Mr. Quick has continued his professional 
activities by publishing a survey of community 
use of academic libraries in C R L (M ay 1967, 
Volume 28, No. 3, pp. 1 8 5 -1 8 8 ), by being a 
member of the A CRL Committee on Com­
munity Use, the A LA Awards Committee and 
the Grolier Award Jury, as president of the 
College and University Libraries Division and 
a member of the E xecutive Board of the 
Arizona State Library Association, and as an 
author of occasional articles for the alumni 
publication at Northern Arizona University. 
Some years ago his historical interests led him 
into the crime reporting field with publication 
in D elaw are N otes, 31st series, 1958, of “Mur­
der at Delaware College: The Death of J. E . 
Roach, 185 8 ”; more recently his established 
and recognized archaeological interests and 
talent have resulted in further research and 
publication, and he has two reports of excava­
tions of historical sites, one in Delaware and 
one in Arizona, in preparation.

Arizona and Northern Arizona University 
can ill afford to lose Mr. Quick. E x a ct predic­
tions cannot be made, but what the future 
holds in library services for the State University 
of New York at Geneseo will obviously be 
vigorous, varied, well-planned and produced. 
Good-bye, Dick; and congratulations to SUNY 
Geneseo.— R obert K. Johnson, University of 
Arizona.

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

R o b e r t  E . B a l a y  will assume the position 
of head of the reference department in Sterling 
memorial library of Yale University effective 
July 1. Mr. Balay will be responsible for the 
administration and development of reference 
services in the Sterling library, and for coordi­
nation of reference services throughout the 
university library.

L a r r y  E a r l  B o n e , assistant director, Uni­
versity of Illinois graduate school of library 
science at Urbana, has been appointed deputy 
librarian of the American Library in Paris, 
France, while on leave from U. of I. for the
1 9 68-69 academic year. In Paris, he will direct 
the public services of the main library there 
and in the four branches in Lyon, Toulouse, 
Montpelier and Grenoble. The American L i­
brary is the largest English language library 
in continental Europe.

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Vanity Fair died 
thirty-one years ago. 
It still has plenty to say.

Lippmann on politics.
G allico  on sports.
Hemingway on bulls.
Graham  on dance.
Nathan on drama.
Kenton art.

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o f  V a n i t y  F a ir , a ll  2 3  y e a r s  (1 9 1 3  t o  1 9 3 6 )
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v i t a l  r e fe r e n c e  s o u r c e . V a n i t y  F a ir  c a p t u r e d  
th e  in n o c e n c e , th e  tu r b u le n c e ,  th e  d e s p a ir  
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s h a p e d  t h e  s ix tie s . F ro m  t h e  a s s a s s in a tio n  o f  
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M a r t h a  B ovee has been appointed head of 
the serials department o f the University of 
California, San D iego library.

R o bert E. C o n n e l l  has been appointed 
librarian at Washington and Jefferson College, 
effective March 1.

Ja m e s D o n a l d  C raig becomes assistant to 
the director for planning, Joint University li­
braries, Nashville, on June 1.

M a r y  C a t h e r in e D u n n ig an  has been ap­
pointed head o f the architectural library of 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

M rs. M a r c ia  (M cG rew ) F in d le y has 
joined the staff as assistant librarian and head 
o f technical services, Spring Hill College, M o­
bile, Ala.

D ouglas D . G ordon has been appointed 
order librarian at Simon Fraser University 
library, Burnaby, British Columbia.

(M iss) C l e m  M. H a l l  has becom e assistant 
director o f the Washington Office o f ALA.

On June 1 M rs. F ran ces H a r d ie  becomes 
catalog librarian for Slavic materials, Joint 
University Libraries, Nashville.

H o l l a c e  H en k el has been appointed mech­
anization librarian at the medical library 
of the University o f Virginia School of 
Medicine.

M r s. Z oia  H orn has been appointed head, 
reference department at the Ellen Clarke 
Bertrand library, Bucknell University.

Susan I. K noke has been appointed bibliog­
rapher for African studies at Michigan State 
University.

M rs. C a r o l  L a it e  will join the Wilson 
College ( Chambersburg, Penna.) library staff 
as cataloger on June 15.

D avid O. L a n e  has been appointed to the 
position o f assistant librarian at the University 
of California, San D iego campus. The appoint­
ment is effective June 14.

Jess A. M a r t in , chief, library branch, Na­
tional Institutes of Health, will assume his new 
duties at Temple University health sciences 
library on July 15. He will becom e director of 
the health sciences library with the academic 
rank of associate professor o f medical librarian­
ship. Soon after his arrival, the present medical 
library will b e relocated to a new Basic Sci­
ences building. Plans for a health sciences 
library to accommodate 250,000 volumes will 
then get underway.

R e d m o n d  K a t h l e e n  M olz, editor of the 
Wilson Library Bulletin for the past six years, 
has been named chief o f the Library Planning 
and Development Branch in the Division of 
Library Services and Educational Facilities, 
U.S. Office o f Education, and will assume her 
new post on June 1.

T h o m a s  M o r to n  has been appointed head

of technical processes in the biomedical library, 
University o f California, San Diego.

G eorge J. R au sch, Jr ., has been named 
director o f the Drake University libraries.

A u s tin  C h i-w e i Sh u , formerly with the Uni­
versity of Singapore, is now bibliographer for 
East Asian studies at Michigan State Uni­
versity.

C ath e r in e  V irg in ia  v o n  Sch o n  is subject 
specialist in English and American literature, 
State University o f New York at Stony Brook. 
Miss von Schon’s chief responsibility will be 
systematic development o f the collection of 
English and American Literature.

M a r y  E. W in n ik e has been appointed ref­
erence librarian with the Rush medical college 
library o f Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, 
Chicago.

N E C R O L O G Y

Je a n  Ka u f f m a n , for twenty-six years on the 
library staff o f Northwestern University, and 
music librarian since 1945, died on April 20.

B il l ie  C o r n e t t  M c N e a l  (Mrs. Archie L .) 
passed away on Easter Sunday, April 14.

Sa m r a y  Sm i t h , until recently editor o f the 
A L A  Bulletin, died on April 19 in Chicago. 
Mr. Smith served as A C R L  Publications Of­
ficer and Acting Executive Secretary in 1956 
and 1957.

Jo h n  C ook W y l l ie , director o f libraries 
at the University of Virginia, died on April 18 
at the age o f sixty. He had been associated 
with the Alderman library for four decades.

Z-39 Standards 
Committee

S C /l  o f Z-39 Stan dards C o m m it t e e , the 
International Subcommittee, whose member­
ship is comprised o f the chairmen o f all sub­
committees, held an all-day meeting April 5 
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the call of 
Chairman Jerrold Orne, librarian o f the Uni­
versity o f North Carolina libraries. Ernest Sohns 
and Henry Tovey, o f the National Science 
Foundation, and Fred Croxton, o f the Redstone 
Scientific Information Center, Huntsville, Ala­
bama, joined the subcommittee chairmen.

Dr. Orne explained the responsibility o f these 
chairmen in handling documents from the 
International Standards Organization (I S O ), for
it is this International Subcommittee, S C / l ,  
which is charged with casting the U .S. vote. 
Recently, votes as the U.S. member body of 
ISO have been called for on such subjects as 
Transliteration o f Cyrillic Characters, Titles 
Leaves o f a Book, Indexing and Bibliographic 
References. Each such international standard 
is referred first to the subcommittee chairman