ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Personnel
The Wofford College community of Spar­

tanburg, S.C., is to be congratulated on hav­
ing secured Frank J. Anderson as its librarian.

A free spirit with a 
h e a l t h y  iconoclastic 
bent, a book seller 
( books on ships, es­
pecially submarines), 
a man with a facile 
pen, and a mordant 
sense of humor, An­
derson approaches li­
brarianship with a zest 
usually found only in 
sweet girl graduates 
who gush about books 
and are good to their 
mammas.Mr. Anderson

There is a quality 
of eighteenth-century rationalism about Ander­
son’s enthusiasm, a quality which ought to be 
good for the sticky sentimentality so prevalent 
in many of our southern communities. He is 
a man obviously fond of people, knowledge­
able about books, and, while imbued with a 
decent reverence for the past, will not pooh­
pooh whatever’s fresh and new. Educated in 
liberal tradition, he can yet see the use of 
technocrats in the world of librarianship.

A product of the universities of Connecticut 
and Indiana, he received his professional edu­
cation at Syracuse. His experience has varied 
a good bit, but reviewing it chronologically 
does not suggest a man forever in search of 
himself, but rather a man committed to educa­
tion (he may even believe man is perfectible 
for all I know) and to making libraries come 
alive. After a few years at Kansas Wesleyan 
in Salina, Kansas, he served as a branch librari­
an in the Chicago public library system for 
one year. His naval career as a member of a 
submarine crew may have influenced his de­
cision to direct the Submarine library at Gro­
ton, Conn, from 1957 to 1960. If so, it was 
his interest in submarines and in special li­
braries as such which did it rather than the 
soggy nostalgia of the professional veteran.

In 1960 Kansas librarians were pleased to 
welcome Anderson back to Kansas Wesleyan. 
Visitors to that campus could not miss the fact 
that the library, crowded as it was, was the live­
liest place on campus. He gave the library im­
aginative leadership, saw its collections double, 
and seemed to be, in short, a better librarian 
than Wesleyan deserved, a situation many other 
institutions tried to rectify. Wofford finally suc­
ceeded.

Anderson has served as a consultant to a 
variety of organizations and has taught at the

University of Illinois. He is a good committee 
man and certainly in Kansas took an active 
part in the state library association—no small 
achievement in that most over-organized of 
such associations! He takes his responsibilities 
to the AAUP, ALA, and SELA seriously, but 
does so with a light touch.

At Wofford, Anderson is planning a new 
one hundred and fifty thousand volume li­
brary upon which construction is to begin in 
October. He publishes The Wofford Bibliopolist 
which, while no thing of beauty, is both pro­
vocative and amusing. Even though it is an 
offset publication, its editor is interested in 
the history of books and printing and mucks 
about with his own Kitemaug Press. That 
press’s productions afford him and his friends 
much innocent pleasure, and he has plans to in­
volve Wofford’s students in printing as well as 
teach them something of the history of the art. 
He is, in short, a welcome addition to the ranks 
of librarians in the Southeast. His colleagues in 
that corner of the country are as deserving in 
congratulations as Wofford is.—Stuart Forth.

To one who looks with admiration on the 
European tradition of the scholar-librarian, it 
is a pleasure to learn that Ray W. Frantz, Jr., 

has been selected to 
f o llo w  h is d i s t i n ­
guished predecessors 
as university librarian 
of the University of 
Virginia in September. 
Ray brings to this po­
sition an unaffected 
and broad humanistic 
background. The son 
of a noted university 
professor of English 
literature, he wrote his 
own doctoral disserta­

Dr. Frantz tion on the place of 
folklore in the crea­

tive art of Mark Twain. Since receiving the 
PhD in English from the University of Illi­
nois in 1955, he has continued to publish on 
the subjects of Twain and library history.

Besides his academic interest, Ray has al­
ways enjoyed the outdoors. His favorite sport 
is fishing, and although it would be flattery to 
call him the American Walton, his first publi­
cation was an article in Field and Stream. He 
is also a fine golfer (anyone who shoots under 
100 looks terrific to me) and a gentleman on 
the course. It is easy to be a good loser, but 
it takes character to be a gracious and unem­
barrassed winner, especially when one wins 
all the time.



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In emphasizing Ray’s scholarly and recrea­
tional interests, I do not mean to turn attention 
away from his qualities of administration and 
leadership. He has been director of the li­
brary of the University of Richmond, 1955-60; 
assistant director of the Ohio State University 
libraries, 1960-62; and most recently director of 
libraries at the University of Wyoming, 1962- 
67. His professional knowledge and judgement 
were recognized when he was named library 
consultant for a proposed new college at Sun 
City, Ariz. in 1964. He has shown in these 
positions the knowledge, self confidence, and 
good will that make for a loyal and effective 
staff. There is no question that he will serve the 
University of Virginia in the manner to which 
it has become accustomed.—Rolland E. Stevens.

The Southwest welcomes back Roscoe 
Rouse, Jr., who becomes librarian of the Okla­
homa State University library on July 1. 

He succeeds Edmon 
Low who has built 
this library into one 
of mature stature. Un­
der Dr. Rouse’s guid­
ance and leadership 
we may expect this li­
brary to continue to 
build in strength and 
to take new directions 
of service to that cam­
pus, to the region, and 
on the national scene. 
He is a worthy suc­
cessor to another fine Dr. Rouse
librarian. At Okla­

homa State Dr. Rouse will also serve as pro­
fessor and chairman of the department of li­
brary education, an undergraduate program 
with an enrollment of five hundred students. He 
will in addition hold the rank of dean at the 
institution.

Dr. Rouse brings to his new position a solid 
background of experience and achievement. 
For the past four years he has been director 
of libraries of one of the exciting new univer­
sities of the country, the new State University 
of New York at Stony Brook. It speaks volumes 
for his energy and enthusiasm that so much 
has been accomplished there in so short a time: 
a book budget increase from $250,000 to 
over $1,000,000 growth in staff from 12 to 
130, the employment of twenty bibliographical 
searchers and the initiation of en bloc pur­
chases to build a great collection rapidly, the 
planning of a new 500,000 square foot library 
building, initiation of a program to use data 
processing to the ultimate, and many other 
achievements in the frantic haste to build a 
new university. His activities there may be a 
model for others in the field. We hope that 
he may find the challenges of an existing major

library satisfying after this experience! Before 
going to New York, Dr. Rouse was university 
librarian of Baylor University for ten years 
after one year as circulation librarian. His work 
there also was very successful, including the 
planning of a new library building and inte­
gration of the library effectively into univer­
sity affairs. His earlier experience was at 
Northeastern Oklahoma State College, and 
like so many of us he also started out as a 
student assistant—at Rice University and the 
University of Oklahoma. He spent several 
years in the 8th Air Force as a B-17 navigator 
in the European theater. In addition to admin­
istrative work, he has experience in teaching 
at the library schools of North Texas and 
Oklahoma, and has had a number of consultant 
assignments.

Dr. Rouse holds the MA and the PhD in li­
brary science from Michigan plus the BA in 
library science and the MA in English litera­
ture from Oklahoma. Not a native Southwest- 
erner, he was born and attended public schools 
in Valdosta, Georgia. He was one of the mem­
bers of the notable Advanced Seminar for Li­
brary Administrators at Rutgers under Keyes 
Metcalf, and is a member of Beta Phi Mu.

In professional affairs Dr. Rouse has been 
quite active in national, regional and state li­
brary association work, and in research and 
publication. Currently he is on the Committee 
on Library Organization and Management of 
ALA’s Library Administration Division which 
is working on a manual of university library 
organization. He is the liaison representative 
for the RTSD Copying Methods Section and 
Committee on Copyright Issues, as well as a 
director of the College and University Section 
of the New York Library Association. Earlier 
he held offices in the Texas Library Association, 
including the chairmanship of the College and 
University Division, he was editor of the 
Oklahoma Librarian, and served as chairman 
of the College and University Library Section 
of the Southwestern Library Association. His 
research interests are in the fields of univer­
sity library organization and management, li­
brary history and library education. He has 
published several chapters in books in these 
fields as well as a number of articles in li­
brary journals.

In personal life, Dr. Rouse is married to a 
native Oklahoman and the father of a son and 
a daughter. He is active in church affairs, 
teaching adult Sunday school and participating 
in campus religious matters. His hobbies in­
clude fishing, sports and gardening.

It will be interesting to see the new direc­
tions that the Oklahoma State University li­
brary will take under his leadership. He in­
herits a very sound and stable library which 
Edmon Low has built into one of the leading 
university libraries of the Southwest. Few



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people ever have the individual talents of his 
predecessor and Dr. Rouse’s efforts probably 
will be concentrated in other directions. We 
might anticipate continued heavy emphasis 
on collection building, new dimensions in 
automation, and wholehearted participation 
and leadership in cooperative library affairs in 
the state, region and perhaps nation.—Arthur 
M. Me Anally.

A P P O I N T M E N T S
Roger Beasley has been named Slavic bib­

liographer in the Syracuse University library 
cataloging department. He will begin his new 
duties July 1.

Calvin J. Boyer was recently appointed di­
rector of libraries at Midwestern University, 
Wichita Falls, Texas.

The appointment of John O. Bronson, Jr., 
as head librarian of Chesapeake College has 
been announced.

W endell B. Daniel has been appointed 
head of the language and literature division 
of the Paul Klapper library, Queens College, 
City University of New York.

Ruth M. Davis has been named associate 
director for research and development at the 
U.S. Public Health Service’s National Library 
of Medicine.

Richard L. Gobble is now head, Union 
Catalog Project, U.S. Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare Library, Washington, 
D.C.

George F. Heise has been named admin­
istrative assistant for indexing services, of the 
H. W. Wilson Company.

Charles R. Lee, Jr., has been named di­
rector of libraries, Centre College, Danville, 
Ky.

Roberta Lemons has been appointed head 
cataloger for the University of Virginia medi­
cal library.

Etelvina Lima, assistant professor in the 
University of Brasilia, has been appointed vis­
iting lecturer and cataloger with the Paul Klap­
per library of Queens College, City University 
of New York.

Gene Llewellyn joined the staff of Uni­
versity of Washington libraries as automation 
coordinator, on March 1.

Mrs. Mary McKenzie assumed the position 
of assistant librarian in Connecticut College 
on March 1.

F. David Thurman has recently been ap­
pointed as librarian of the Supreme Court li­
brary in Oneida County, Utica, N.Y.

Shirley Thurston assumed the duties of 
library science librarian in the reference de­
partment of Drexel Institute of Technology on 
April 1.

William Tresse has been appointed head 
of the arts library to be opened in the fall of

1968, in the second unit of the Music building 
of University of California, Santa Barbara.

Priscilla Wagner is now assistant medical 
librarian, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.

Yun-Kang Wang is a newly appointed cata­
loger in Queen’s University library, Kingston, 
Ont.

Richard Warren, Jr., is a cataloger of his­
torical sound recordings, Yale University library.

Jo Sung-Chun Yeh is a cataloger of the 
East Asia collection, Yale University library.

R E T IR E M E N T S

Bernadine C. Hanby, director of Northern 
Illinois University libraries, is retiring on Aug. 
31, after 25 years as Northern’s director of 
libraries.

Lyon N. Richardson, director of Western 
Reserve university libraries since 1946, has 
asked to be relieved of his post of director, 
effective July 1.

N E C R O L O G Y

Donald D. Miller, head of the catalog de­
partment, University of California library, San­
ta Barbara, was killed in a fall from a cliff 
above the beach in Santa Barbara on Feb. 7.

Flora B. Ludington died March 23 after 
a long illness. Miss Ludington was librarian at 
Mount Holyoke College from 1936, and re­
tired in 1964.  ■ ■

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Tens of thousands of dissertations 
have been written. That’s not news.

But we can find the one you want 
in seconds. That is.

Finding the right dissertation at the right 
time is a problem. Compiling a bibliography 
of relevant titles means days – even weeks –  
of searching. It’s a formidable, time-wasting 
problem for researchers and librarians.

Now there’s a way that greatly reduces 
the time needed to put together a bibliogra­
phy of pertinent dissertations. It’s a way to 
quickly and inexpensively get actual research 
started sooner. It’s a service named DATRIX.

A com puter is the core of DATRIX. 
Here’s what it does:

Performs a thorough search of the more 
than 126,000 post-1938 dissertations we have 
on file (including 95% of those written last 
year at U.S. and Canadian universities); re­
trieves, with computer speed, titles of desired 
dissertations; and prints out the desired bib­
liography. Positive microfilm or bound xero­
graphic copies of the complete dissertations 
can be ordered.

DATRIX is another new service of Uni­
versity Microfilms, a pioneer in making the 
library a more efficient research tool.

DATRIX will be o p erativ e on July 1, 
1967, and using it is simple and direct: with 
the aid of a DATRIX order form and descrip­
tive words selected from a key-word list sup­
plied, the researcher defines his specific area 
of interest. When this request is transmitted 
to a computer, a bibliography of relevant 
titles is printed and mailed to the library or 
individual so that they’ll have what they need 
in working days instead 
of waiting weeks.

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