College and Research Libraries The War Man- East power Commission, through its state representative in New Jersey, has made available to librarians a course in job efficiency. A representative of the state library association was selected to take the course and to advise librarians through- out the state relative to making library routines more efficient. Some of the li- braries already are putting into practice the simplified routines with gratifying results. The Pattee Library of American Lit- erature, which was presented to the Pennsylvania State College Library, Wil- lard P. Lewis, librarian, in 1941, has been cataloged in part and is available for use under certain restrictions. The collection contains first editions of Wash- ington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and George W. Cable; a large collection of annuals and gift books of a century ago; volumes of early Amer- ican magazines; and miscellaneous material such as pamphlets, songsters, letters, notes, and indexes. The Library of Congress has received by gift from Mrs. Gertrude Atherton a collection of her manuscripts and mem- orabilia. Included in the gift is the original typescript of her latest novel, The Horn of Life, published last year. The library has also her manuscript of The Golden Peacock and The Jealous God, in addition to some of the original source material, including early Ameri- cana, which she used in The .Conqueror. The Library of Congress and the Na- tional Library of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics have been exchanging material regularly during the war, and, as a result, the Library of Congress has received currently newspapers, magazines, Nevvs from scientific material, and other Russian ma- terials of great value in connection with war research. The Library of Congress has received twenty-eight full microfilm rolls of J apa- nese census reports representing sixty-five volumes of about four hundred pages each, containing the most detailed information available outside Axis territory on dis- tribution by locality, age grouping, occu- pational pursuits, etc., in Japan. These were received through the courtesy of Professor Robert B. Hall, of the U niver- sity of Michigan. Among the recent accessions of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Library are the Papers of the Indian Rights A sso- ciation, comprising twenty-five thousand items; the Margaret Coleman Bucking- ham Collection of 460 volumes of account books of early iron mining in Pennsyl- vania; the Atlantic Neptune Maps, a collection of coastal charts issued by the British for use by its navy from 1777 to 1780; and the Meredith Collection, con- taining papers and account books of Jonathan Meredith, an early tanner, Wil- liam Meredith, attorney, and William M. Meredith, attorney and former Secre- tary of the Treasury. The Library of Congress began in July to issue printed cards for microfilm copies of books in the library. These are printed for use in the catalogs of the library and for distribution to other libraries in the same manner and at the same cost as cards for books. South The University of Georgia Library, Wayne S. Yenawine 328 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field acting director, has received a grant of twenty-five thousand dollars from the General Education Board for continuing the recataloging and reclassification of the library. The grant will provide special personpel for the· next two years. Ray- mond .W. Holbrook, formerly head of cataloging and classification at the College of the City of New York, has been ap- pointed supervisor of the cataloging proj- ect. The war information center in the library of the University of North Caro- lina now contains more than one thousand books, five thousand pamphlets, and a newspaper clipping file. Four full-time staff members, aided by volunteers from the local civilian defense organization, administer the collection which is heavily used by faculty, students, and residents out in the state. By a recent gift the University of Kentucky Library, Margaret I. King, librarian, has received the books and records of the I 20-year-old printing firm of John P. Morton, of Louisville, Ken- tucky, publishers for many years of the Western Farmers' Almanac and of school textbooks. The collection makes a valu- able contribution to the history of edu- cation in the South. The University of Kentucky has re- ceived recently a Confederate collection containing material about the war record of General John Hunt Morgan. Efforts are being made to add to the library's collection of Morganiana. The library of Southwestern University, Memphis, Tenn., Charlotte Newton, act- ing librarian, has acquired a collection of films relating to life in Latin American SEPTEMBER, 1943 countries. They were secured through the Southern Council on International Relations and may be borrowed for dis- playing off the campus. The proposed reorganization of the technical processes and reference service described by Librarian John ]. Lund of Duke University in College and Research Libraries for June I 942 has been put into practice in the Duke University Library. The plan makes use of two divisions: the first covering ordering, acquisition, and descriptive cataloging, and the second, subject cataloging and reference service. On April I 2, at a meeting of the Friends of the Library, Duke University opened a new rare book room and accepted for the university a valuable collection of Whitmaniana. The collection consists of books, periodicals, manuscripts, proof sheets, sheet music, portraits, and clippings relating to the American poet Walt Whit- man, and was presented by Dr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Trent in honor of their three daughters. The University Southwest of New Mexico Li- brary, Wilma L. Shelton, librarian, has received a twenty- five thousand dollar grant from the Rocke- feller Foundation to be used primarily for the acquisition of books on the an- thropology and history of Mexico, Cen- tral America, and the Caribbean. The grant makes available five thousand dol- lars a year for a period of five years. Northwestern Middle West University, Effie A. Keith, acting librar- ian, has acquired from the estate of the late Professor Franz Boas, noted anthro- pologist, his library of nearly five thousand 32 volumes and ten thousand reprints. The collection is particularly rich in the early works on anthropology, containing most of the important materials on primitive art and primitive linguistics. The Bierce Library of the University of Akron, Josephine A. Cushman, librar- ian, has had established by the Friends of the Library a collection of English and American literature to be known as the Albert I. Stanton Collection, in honor of Dr. Stanton who retires this year after fifty years of service with Buchtel College and the University of Akron. More than six hundred volumes have been received. Emphasis is on the period of the English Renaissance and Reformation. The Western Historical Manuscripts Collection in the University of Missouri Library has received the papers of Arthur M. Hyde, Governor of Missouri from I92I to I925 and Secretary of Agriculture from I929 to I933· The University West of California, Har- old L. Leupp, li- brarian, has received by gift an unusual col- lection of IOI volumes consisting chiefly of herbals and early rare botanical items, presented by C. E. Fyfer, of Santa Bar- bara, in memory of his wife. Allen Tate, dis- Personnel tinguished American poet and critic, has been appointed to the Chair of Poetry of the Library of Congress for one year beginning July I, I943· Richard H. Logsdon, librarian of Madi- son College, Harrisonburg, V a., has been appointed acting head of the department of library science, University of Ken- tucky. Carl M. White, director of the U ni- versity o.f Illinois Library and Library School, has been appointed director of libraries and the School of Library Serv- ice of Columbia University to succeed Charles C. Williamson, recently retired. Kenneth R. Shaffer, acquisitions librar- ian of the Indiana State Library, has been appointed assistant to 1:he director of li- braries, Indiana U niv~rsity. Robert A. Miller is director of libraries. William Baehr, librarian of Augustana College and Theological Seminary of Rock Island, Ill., has been named librarian of Kansas State College, Manhattan. He succeeds Arthur Bourne Smith, who retired on August 3 I after thirty-two years of service at Kansas State. Mary E. Baker retired in August as librarian of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Bertus Harry Wabeke has been ap- pointed to the $taff of the Library of Congress as Bibliographer of the Nether- lands East Indies. He will work with the staff of the Netherlands Studies Unit in the library and will compile bibliographies on the Netherlands East Indies, the N eth- erlands, and the Dutch in America. Eldon R. James, formerly librarian of the Harvard Law School, has been ap- pointed law librarian of Congress to succeed the late John C. Vance. Ralph Fritz, formerly professor of edu- cation at Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg, has been made librarian of the college, succeeding Odella Nation who retired after forty years as librarian. Fritz is a graduate of the George Peabody College for Teachers Library School. James Hendricks is acting librarian of the Utah State Agricultural College dur- ing the absence of David W. Davies, who is serving with the armed forces. 330 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MEETING OF THE LIBRARIANS OF MIDDLE WESTERN RESEARCH LIBRARIES Following is a report of the meeting held January 29, 1943, at the University of Chicago. For several years the presidents of thirteen Middle Western universities have been in the habit of meeting from time to time to consider matters of mutual interest. The librarians of these institutions and the li- brarians of the Newberry Library and the John Crerar Library were invited to meet at the University of Chicago on Jan. 29, 1943, to discuss the general subject of co- operation among the research libraries of the Middle West. The following institu- tions were represented: Indiana University, Robert A. Miller, librarian; Iowa State College, Frances Warner, serials librarian; John Crerar Library, K. L. Taylor, chief, reference department; Michigan State Col- lege, Jackson E. Towne, librarian; New- berry Library, Stanley M. Pargellis, li- brarian; Northwestern University, Effie A. Keith, acting librarian; Ohio State Univer- sity, Earl N. Manchester, librarian; Purdue University, William M. Hepburn, librarian; State University of Iowa, Grace Van Wor- mer, acting librarian; University of Chi- cago, Ralph A. Beals, director of libraries; University of Illinois, Carl M. White, direc- tor of libraries; University of Michigan, Warner G. Rice, director of libraries; U ni- versity of Minnesota, Frank K. Walter, university librarian; University of M is- souri, Benjamin E. Powell, librarian; Uni- versity of Nebraska, Stephen A. McCarthy, director of libraries. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Keyes D. Metcalf, and James A. McMillen also were present for a part of the meeting. Carl M. White presided. Mr. Hutchins spoke of the desirability of inter-institutional planning in higher edu- cation and research and of the difficulties encountered by the Committee of Thirteen. He laid stress on the positive role that li- brarians might play in the shaping of desir- able inter- and intra-institutional programs. SEPTEMBER, 1943 Mr. Metcalf presented a proposal ongt- nating with a committee of the consultants of the Librarian of Congress for a division of responsibility among American libraries, on the national level, in the acquiring and recording of library materials. Attention was paid also to the possibilities of local storehouses for the collection of little-used books. The opinion seemed general that both national and local programs would not be interfered with, and might prove to be strengthened, by a regional approach. There was general agreement that co- operation among the libraries represented could not be based on a delimitation of spheres of interest, that no institution should be expected to agree not to do anything, and that responsibility for institutional self- determination could not be impaired. It was agreed that each institution would need to shape its own policies in relation to its own constituents, each academic library particularly being responsible for the de- velopment of strong collections for the cur- ricular and principal research interests of its own institution. It was also agreed to regard any commitments that might be undertaken as tentative and so subject to modification in the light of subsequent events. On the positive side, it was agreed that in every research library, even in small libraries, there is probably a margin over and above expenditures for current needs that can be directed toward the strengthen- ing of particular portions of the collections, and that the principal opportunity for inter- institutional cooperation in collecting lies in these areas of "special collections" or "exhaustive" collecting, it being understood that completeness in most areas is unobtain- able. Miss Warner reported the principal interests of Iowa State College to be: ani- mal breeding, animal chemistry, economic entomology, genetics (plant and animal), plant breeding, plant chemistry, veterinary 331 medicine (exclusive of works published be- fore the nineteenth century, tropical veteri- nary medicine, and popular works). Mr. Miller listed as the "special collec- tions" toward which Indiana University is directing its attention: Lincoln, especially origins of the Republican Party and the campaigns of I856 and 1860; Indiana history; the Ohio Valley, I789-I86I, ex- cluding Civil War, slavery, and the Old Northwest; English history and literature, I689-I720, exclusive of the drama, with particular attention to Defoe; the War of I812 in the West; Livy and Pliny. Mr. Pargellis reported that the Newberry Library's special interests include: North American Indians; exploration of North and South Arne rica (to I 8oo) ; colonial history of the Americas; Portuguese history (to I82o); music, scores, theory, etc;; Arthurian legend; calligraphy; history of typographic arts; pamphlets on the Ameri- can Revolution, I 760-83, both English and American; Civil War (especially regimental histories) ; eighteenth century correspond- ence, autobiographies, memoirs, etc., English and American. After some discussion it was agreed: 1. That each person present should draw up a statement showing (a) the principal areas of strength already attained by his library and (b) other areas marked out for special development; 2. That these state- ments ideally should approach in fulness and specificity the information a librarian would wish to supply to visiting scholars, but, such full description being lacking, lists would be useful; 3· That each librarian should be responsible for preparing his own materials and for distributing them to all other mem- hers of the group, facilities for manifolding being provided to those in need of them through the gracious offer of Charles H. Brown; 4· That Mr. Brown be asked to undertake the responsibility of following up and consolidating the statements thus pre- pared. Mr. Pargellis directed attention to the disintegration of newspaper files for the years I880-I900 and inquired what interest those present had in cooperative filming of selected files of Middle Western newspapers for the critical years. Interest being gen- eral, it was agreed that each person present send Mr. Pargellis the following: 1. A re- port of steps already taken to film local newspapers; 2. Papers to be considered if cooperative filming proves feasible. Inquiry into the possibilities of a coopera- tive scheme for clearing duplicates was assigned to a committee composed of Messrs. Miller (chairman), Pargellis, and Beals. The following topics, which had been proposed for discussion, were by general agreement laid on the table: cooperative buying in Europe after the war, cooperative buying in general, local or regional deposit libraries, and reproduction of Axis war periodicals. With respect' to future meetings it was agreed: 1. That another meeting of the group is desirable; 2. That no formal organization should be set up, the date of the next meeting to be set and the necessary arrangements to be made by a steering committee composed of Messrs. Brown (chairman), White, and Beals. RALPH A. BEALS Secretary pro tempore The Use of Recor Js in College Teaching (Continued from page 288) purchased out of the same funds as books and periodicals. Equipment should come from the same funds that pay for type- writers, catalog cases, etc., while repair and upkeep would be from maintenance. Rental on any materials should come from operating expenses, not book fund. This, of course, if the collection is to be a part of the library which many persons now agree, is the most satisfactory place on a college campus for such a collec- tion. 332 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES