ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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From Inside the DLP
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, 
Training and Resources Branch, Division of 
Library Programs, Bureau of Libraries and E d­
ucational Technology, U.S. Office of Education, 
Washington, D.C. 20202.

Recent reports of professional library vacan­
cies have indicated th a t an over supply of li­
brary school graduates may be developing. 
Only sketchy data are available on the prospec­
tive need for librarians in the 1970s and they 
have not taken into account reentrants into the 
profession, “primarily women previously em­
ployed as librarians who temporarily left the la­
bor force for family responsibilities.” Supply in­
formation is even more limited for librarian-re­
lated supportive positions. To cope with this 
problem a research project was begun early in 
1972 to determine requirements up to 1980 for 
professional librarians and librarian-related 
manpower such as library technical assistants. 
The research will be performed by the Division 
of Manpower and Occupational Outlook of the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics under a contract 
with two agencies of the Office of Education, 
the National Center for Educational Statistics 
and the Bureau of Libraries and Learning Re­
sources (the proposed name for th e reorga­
nized Bureau of Libraries and Educational 
Technology). Half the funding will be provided 
by each agency, BLLR’s part coming from Title 
II–B of the Higher Education Act appropria­
tion for research.

“Statistical data currently available on em­
ployment from NCES, BLET, Census, BLS, 
and other sources will be used to develop data 
on current (1970 or 1971) employment of pro­
fessional librarians, library technicians, and li­
brary assistants by employment setting or spe­
cialty,” according to the procedure planned by 
BLS which will use its established techniques 
to arrive at estimates where current data are 
not available. In addition BLS will conduct in­
terviews of employees in the field and other 
knowledgeable persons. Techniques established 
in other BLS studies will be used to estimate 
replacement needs due to death, retirements, 
and transfers to other fields of work. The proj­
ect is expected to be completed in one calendar 
year.

This year, the Fall of 1971 edition of Library 
Statistics of Colleges and Universities: Data for 
Individual Institutions is being published in 
two volumes, Part A comprising five tables as 
follows:

1. Number of Units Held at E nd of Year in 
Library Collection and Number of Units 
Added During Year to Library Collection,

College and University Libraries, by In­
stitution: Aggregate United States, 1970- 
71.

2. Actual Operating Expenditures of College 
and University Libraries and Expendi­
tures for Wages of Hourly Staff Not 
Charged to Library, by Institution: Ag­
gregate United States, 1970-71.

3. Salary Expenditures for Regular Library 
Staff and Salary Equivalents of Contrib­
uted Service Library Staff, by Type of 
Position and Term of Employment, Col­
lege and University Libraries, by Institu­
tion: Aggregate United States, 1970-71.

4. Budgeted Operating Expenditures of Col­
lege and University Libraries, by Institu­
tion: Aggregate United States, 1970-71.

5. Regular Library Staff, Fall 1971, by Type 
of Position and Term of Employment, and 
Hourly Library Staff, 1970-71, by Hours 
of Assistance, College and University Li­
braries, by Institution: Aggregate United 
States.

Part B will contain four additional tables, as 
follows:

1. Indexes Concerning Operating Expendi­
tures, Collections, and Staff, College and 
University Libraries, by Institution: Ag­
gregate United States, Fall 1971.

2. Regular Library Staff (F T E ) by Term of 
Employment, Type of Position, and Sex, 
College and University Libraries, by In­
stitution: Aggregate United States, Fall 
1971.

3. Extended USER Privileges Provided and 
Administration, if Applicable, of a Cen­
tralized, Organized Collection of Audio­
visual and/or Other Nonprint Materials 
for Faculty an d /o r Students, College and 
University Libraries, by Institution: Ag­
gregate United States, Fall 1971.

4. Interlibrary Cooperation and Participation 
in Title III, Library Services and Con­
struction Act Programs, College and Uni­
versity Libraries, by Institution: Aggre­
gate United States, Fall 1971.

These two volumes edited by Dr. Stanley V. 
Smith of the Library Surveys Branch, NCES, 
present the data of 2,514 college and university 
libraries and five joint libraries which submitted 
correct responses as of December 1, 1971.

Dr. Frank L. Schick, Chief of the LSB indi­
cated that for the first time, for this 1971 sur­
vey, data are being provided for the branch 
campuses of multicampus institutions. In the 
past, a single consolidated institutional report 
was presented. This change was initiated to 
give more flexibility to the use of the data and 
to present significantly more data by publishing



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information for important segments of the in­
stitutions for which all branch campuses had 
not reported.

An analytic report with summary tables for 
all responding colleges and university libraries 
will be published at a later date. ■  ■

News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

•  The library at the University of Cali­
fornia at Riverside has announced that after 
a year of negotiation, the Peter Claas Music Li­
brary has been purchased. This collection of 
some 1,300 scores is especially rich in first and 
early editions of nineteenth century dramatic 
music. The core of the collection was developed 
by Willy Salomon, an eminent musicologist. He 
was a professor at the Frankfurt Conservatory 
and also conducted at the Frankfurt Opera 
House. Many of the scores of Wagner’s operas 
in the collection contain Salomon’s meticulous 
annotations which have been, and will continue 
to be useful to orchestras and singers.

During the rise of Nazi power, Salomon con­
cealed his library in Graz, Austria and fled to 
Paris with his sister, who was engaged to Peter 
Claas. Claas fled to England and after taking 
English nationality served in the British army 
during the Second World War. When the Ger­
mans captured Paris, both Salomon and his sis­
ter were taken by the Gestapo. He was sent to 
the Buchenwald concentration camp, and she 
to Auschwitz. By some means which have never 
been disclosed, Claas organized Salomon’s es­
cape from Buchenwald and brought him to En­
gland. Tragically, Salomon’s sister was mur­
dered in Auschwitz.

When Salomon died in London after a long 
and very painful illness, he bequeathed his li­
brary to his good friend, Peter Claas. Claas, an 
internationally known dealer in and collector 
of works of art and antique furniture, is also a 
collector of music scores. Over the years he 
added to the collection, bringing it to its pres­
ent size. When Claas retired, he decided to part 
with the library, a decision which has greatly 
benefited the University of California at River­
side.

•  Wichita State University library has 
acquired the Robert W. Baughman collection 
of Kansas maps. Baughman’s interest in Kansas 
maps developed from a collection of early west­
ern maps that had accumulated in his family. 
For over forty years, he traveled extensively, 
visiting libraries and bookshops in search of 
maps to add to his collection. However, his 
collecting interests were not limited to Kansas 
maps. He was also an avid stamp collector and

he served as philatelic advisor to President John 
F. Kennedy.

The Baughman collection is the finest private 
collection of Kansas maps ever assembled. It 
contains goldfield, Indian reserve, territorial, 
statehood, township, county, and railroad maps, 
which cover the territorial period through the 
1920s, when county name changes and bound­
ary lines were finally settled.

Baughman loved and cherished his map col­
lection and sought to share his interest with his 
fellow Kansans. He did this through his book 
Kansas in Maps, published by the Kansas State 
Historical Society in 1961, as a contribution to 
the Kansas centennial. Many of the maps in the 
Baughman collection are reproduced in his 
book.

A W A R D S  A N D  G IF T S

•  Ms. Margaret Alexander Edwards is the 
recipient of the Journal of Library History 
annual award for the most outstanding article 
published during the year. Dean Harold Gold­
stein, editor, Journal of Library History, made 
the announcement and presented Ms. Edwards 
with the $100 award in recognition of her ar­
ticle “I Once Did See Joe Wheeler Plain.” It 
appeared in the October 1971 issue of the 
Journal. Ms. Edwards wrote the article because 
she “wished to pay tribute to a great librarian 
who changed the direction of my life; one who, 
instead of operating as a technician, was a true 
professional who brought thousands of people 
into the library not only for information but for 
enrichment.”

Ms. Edwards was coordinator of young adult 
services at Enoch Pratt Free Library; since her 
retirement, she has traveled extensively through­
out the country as a visiting teacher, workshop 
leader, and lecturer. Through the years, she has 
contributed to numerous professional magazines 
and is the author of The Fair Garden and the 
Swarm of Beasts: The Young Adult and the Li­
brary. She is currently tending her farm in Jop­
pa, Maryland, and working on a book “that is 
not about librarians.”

•  The 1971 George F reedley Memorial 
Award was presented to James M. Symons of 
the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minne-