College and Research Libraries A University's Specifications UN D O U B T E D L Y s o m e o f t h e r e a d e r s o f College and Research Libraries have s e e n t h e f o l l o w i n g s t a t e m e n t , w h i c h w a s s e n t o u t i n 1 9 4 3 b y a M i d w e s t e r n u n i v e r - s i t y w h e n s e a r c h w a s b e i n g b e g u n f o r a h e a d l i b r a r i a n . S u c h d e f i n i t i o n s a r e s o u n u s u a l , h o w e v e r , t h a t c o n s e n t w a s s e c u r e d f r o m t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y t o p r i n t t h i s o n e . I t i s r e p r o d u c e d i n i t s e s s e n t i a l s , t h e r e b e i n g o m i t t e d o n l y a f e w i t e m s w h i c h a r e l o c a l o r c o n c e r n t h e i n q u i r y a s i t w a s b e i n g m a d e a t t h e m o m e n t . — E D . Qualifications and Duties Qualifications T h e u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i a n , k n o w n a s t h e h e a d l i b r a r i a n , s h o u l d p o s s e s s t h e f o l l o w - i n g q u a l i f i c a t i o n s : 1 . H e s h o u l d b e a m a n n o t o v e r f o r t y y e a r s o f a g e . 2 . H e s h o u l d b e a p e r s o n w h o e n v i s a g e s t h e s e r v i c e t h e l i b r a r y c a n g i v e t o a g r o w - i n g i n s t i t u t i o n . 3 . H e s h o u l d b e a p e r s o n w h o k n o w s t h e w h o l e l i b r a r y p r o g r a m a n d i t s p r o b - l e m s a n d h a s a b i l i t y t o m a n a g e a n d d i r e c t t h e w o r k o f t h e l i b r a r y a n d i t s d i v i s i o n s t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f h i s a s s i s t a n t s . 4 . H e m u s t b e a p e r s o n a b l e p e r s o n ; o n e w h o a p p r e c i a t e s f u l l y t h e s e r v i c e a l i b r a r y s h o u l d r e n d e r t o s t u d e n t s a n d t e a c h e r s ; w h o u n d e r s t a n d s t e a c h e r s a n d s t u d e n t s ; w h o h a s t h e s p i r i t o f t h e t e a c h e r a n d t h e a b i l i t y t o f u n c t i o n a s a t e a c h e r ; w h o h a s a g e n u i n e i n t e r e s t i n t h e p r o b - l e m s a n d n e e d s o f o t h e r i n d i v i d u a l s w h o m u s t b e s e r v e d b y t h e l i b r a r y ; w h o i s f r i e n d l y w i t h o u t b e i n g o f f i c i o u s , s y m p a - t h e t i c w i t h o u t b e i n g e m o t i o n a l , u n d e r - s t a n d i n g w i t h o u t b e i n g s e l f - c o n s c i o u s , i n t e l l i g e n t w i t h o u t b e i n g p e d a n t i c ; a n d w h o h a s s e l f - c o n t r o l a n d t a c t . 5 . H e m u s t b y g e n e r a l a c a d e m i c b a c k - g r o u n d a n d t r a i n i n g b e w o r t h y o f c o m - p a r a b l e s t a t u s w i t h o t h e r m e m b e r s o f t h e f the University Librarian f a c u l t y . T h i s t r a i n i n g m u s t i n c l u d e t h e b a c h e l o r ' s d e g r e e , b u t a h i g h e r d e g r e e i s p r e f e r a b l e . H e s h o u l d h a v e g o o d s o u n d s c h o l a r l y t r a i n i n g i n t h e l i b e r a l a r t s a n d s c i e n c e s w i t h a c o n c e n t r a t i o n i n s o m e s u b - j e c t m a t t e r field. I n a d d i t i o n t o t h e a b o v e - m e n t i o n e d g e n - e r a l t r a i n i n g h e m u s t h a v e p r o f e s s i o n a l t r a i n i n g a t l e a s t t o t h e l e v e l o f a m a s t e r ' s d e g r e e i n l i b r a r y s c i e n c e . H e s h o u l d h a v e a b i l i t i e s t o a c q u i r e a t r a i n i n g t o t h e l e v e l o f t h e d o c t o r a t e i n t h i s field. 6 . H e m u s t h a v e h a d i n a d d i t i o n t o t h e a b o v e - m e n t i o n e d t r a i n i n g a t l e a s t t w o y e a r s o f s u c c e s s f u l p r o f e s s i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e i n t h e m a n a g e m e n t a n d d i r e c t i o n o f a l i b r a r y i n a n i n s t i t u t i o n o f h i g h e r l e a r n - i n g . Duties 1 . B e i n g d i r e c t l y r e s p o n s i b l e t o t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y , h e s h a l l a d m i n - i s t e r t h e m a i n l i b r a r y a n d s u p e r v i s e t h e d i v i s i o n a l l i b r a r i e s o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y a n d p e r f o r m s u c h o t h e r d u t i e s g e n e r a l l y a s - s i g n e d t o t h a t o f f i c e r . 2 . T h e l i b r a r i a n s h a l l m a k e r e c o m m e n - d a t i o n s t o t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y i n r e g a r d t o a p p o i n t m e n t s , p r o m o t i o n s , a n d d i s m i s s a l s o f m e m b e r s o f t h e l i b r a r y s t a f f s , t h e s e l e c t i o n s o f b o o k s f o r t h e m a i n v 276 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES l i b r a r y , a n d t h e b u d g e t . I n t h e c a s e o f d i v i s i o n a l l i b r a r i e s , t h e u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i a n s h a l l s u p e r v i s e t h e l i b r a r i a n o f t h e s e d i v i - s i o n s a n d c o n s u l t w i t h t h e d e a n o f t h e d i v i s i o n b e f o r e r e p o r t s a n d r e c o m m e n d a - t i o n s s h a l l b e m a d e a b o u t t h e l i b r a r y o f h i s d i v i s i o n . 3 . H e s h a l l s e r v e a s a m e m b e r e x o f f i c i o o f t h e c o m m i t t e e o n l i b r a r y s e r v i c e . 4 . I n c o n s u l t a t i o n w i t h t h e c o m m i t t e e o n l i b r a r y s e r v i c e , w h i c h s h a l l a c t i n a n a d v i s o r y c a p a c i t y , t h e l i b r a r i a n s h a l l m a k e r u l e s a n d r e g u l a t i o n s f o r u s e o f t h e l i - b r a r y . T h e s e r u l e s a n d r e g u l a t i o n s a r e s u b j e c t t o t ; h e a p p r o v a l o f t h e f a c u l t y a n d t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y . 5 . H e s h a l l e n f o r c e a l l l i b r a r y r e g u l a - t i o n s a c c o r d i n g t o t h e p r o c e d u r e s e t f o r t h f o r t h e i r e x e c u t i o n . 6 . A l l p u r c h a s e s o f b o o k s , m a g a z i n e s , p a p e r s , e t c . , f o r t h e m a i n l i b r a r y s h a l l b e a p p r o v e d b y h i m . H e m a y c a l l u p o n t h e c o m m i t t e e o n l i b r a r y s e r v i c e f o r a s s i s t a n c e i n m a k i n g s e l e c t i o n s . 7 . H e s h a l l p r e s e n t a n a n n u a l r e p o r t t o t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y r e l a t i n g t o t h e l i b r a r y s e r v i c e , w i t h s u c h r e c o m - m e n d a t i o n s a n d i n f o r m a t i o n a s m a y b e p e r t i n e n t . 8 . H e s h a l l s e r v e t h e u n i v e r s i t y a s h e a d o f t h e d e p a r t m e n t o f l i b r a r y s c i e n c e ( s h o u l d s u c h a d e p a r t m e n t b e e s t a b l i s h e d ) i n t h e u n i v e r s i t y . I n t h i s c a s e h e s h a l l s e r v e u n d e r t h e d i r e c t s u p e r v i s i o n o f t h e d e a n o f t h e c o l l e g e i n w h i c h t h e d e p a r t - m e n t i s p l a c e d o r u n d e r t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y s h o u l d i t b e o r g a n i z e d a n d e s t a b l i s h e d a s a s e p a r a t e d i v i s i o n o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y . T h e u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i a n i n L i n c o l n U n i v e r s i t y s h a l l b e a m e m b e r o f t h e f a c u l t y a n d i n t h i s p o s i t i o n h e s h a l l h a v e t h e s a m e o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r s t u d y a n d a d - v a n c e m e n t a n d w e l f a r e c o n s i d e r a t i o n s a s o t h e r m e m b e r s o f t h e f a c u l t y . T h e s a l a r y f o r t h i s p o s i t i o n s h a l l b e c o n s i d e r e d a t t h e l e v e l o f o t h e r f a c u l t y m e m b e r s w h o s e t r a i n i n g a n d e x p e r i e n c e a r e c o m p a r a b l e . JUNE, 1944 24 7 John Edward Goodwin IF I HAD TO DOCUMENT this biographic sketch I would have to begin with an old photograph of John E . Goodwin, the late Maurice H . Avery, and the writer, taken at Albany in the fall of 1903. W e were coyly seated on a sofa with our legs stretched out in front so that the soles of our shoes loomed large in comparison with our faces in the background. T h i s was considered very funny at the time. A few weeks before, shortly after the opening of the term at the N e w Y o r k State Library School, I had been ap- proached by a tall, slender, serious young man of about twenty-six or twenty-seven who told me in no more words than were necessary that he had an option on a couple of well-furnished rooms about a mile away from the Capitol and that if three of us could get together we could split the twelve-dollar-a-month rent so that we would have for four dollars better quarters than our separate hall bedrooms for which we were paying five dollars monthly. I already knew the young man to be John Goodwin, that he was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and later I learned that he had been working at the Madison Public Library, fortunately un- der the dynamic Cornelia Marvin, who later became Oregon state librarian and married the governor. I also learned that he was born and raised on a Wiscon- sin farm and that his forebears were E n g - lish, both important, as between them they probably were somewhat responsible for his general handiness and capability, his natural dignity, his conservatism, his re- ticence, and his characteristics as an ad- ministrator and builder. W e lived J O H N E D W A R D G O O D W I N together for the college year of 1903-04, sharing a large front room with Brussels carpet, lace curtains, and crystal chande- liers—"our study" and also Goodwin's sleeping quarters, not merely by right of discovery, but because he was the only one of the trio with the neatness and orderly habits essential to such luxury. A v e r y and I slept in simple surroundings upstairs. During that year Goodwin was the balance wheel and the respectable front of the trio. These were the late years of M e l v i l Dewey and M r s . Fairchild, when the factors of inspiration were about equaled by those of irritation, a time when officially there was only Miss Sanderson v 278 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES to connect the Olympians with the lowly student, a time when library truth was supposed to have been ascertained and all that was necessary was the propagation of the faith. It was not then the happiest place for those with too inquiring minds or heretical views and some of us needed restraint in our desire to tell the world how we felt. During that year Goodwin had been singularly aloof to the attrac- tions of his fellow students and noticeably had never wandered into the happy hunt- ing ground of the home education depart- ment. W h e n he returned for his second year the reason became evident: he had married a Wisconsin fellow student, Jean- nette Storms, who proved to be not only just what he needed but also the perfect wife for a man in university life. A s I did not return to Albany for a second year I only learned a year later that Goodwin had gone to the Stanford University Library in 1905, where as as- sistant librarian his main job was in charge of all circulation services. Three years later through his good offices I was invited to Stanford as head of the order depart- ment and our close personal relations were renewed, for I was then unmarried and glad to have a room in his home. L i f e was very simple and very democratic in those days in California on the "Stanford F a r m " under the great David Starr Jor- dan. There was a faculty baseball team of which Jack Goodwin was the catcher. I often went to see it in action, working out the varsity team and quite occasionally trimming it. T h e catcher's steadiness in handling wild but occasionally very effec- tive former star pitchers and in fielding the ball to First Baseman (President) Jordan, then rather heavy and no longer agile, were very important, and Goodwin had just that quality. I then learned also of his hobby of cabinet work. M u c h of his spare time he put in making fine furni- ture from old walnut beds or other pieces he picked up at second hand. T h i s inter- est in and knowledge of furniture was of real value when he had the job of furnish- ing two university libraries, those of T e x a s and U . C . L . A . , and his skill was continually being shown in the design of gadgets and specifically in the provision of necessarily inexpensive filing drawers for L . C . cards in his early days at Los A n - geles. W h i l e at Stanford Goodwin was acquiring administrative experience and learning how to handle both his public and his assistants with the minimum of fuss and friction. W h e n he left Stan- ford at the end of 1911 there remained so good an impression of him and his work there that in 1927 he had an opportunity to return as head librarian. However, he preferred the more strenuous but more interesting problems as head at U . C . L . A . In February 1912 he began a slightly more than ten-year period as librarian of the University of Texas. During that time I saw him only once or twice on short visits to California. I remember discussion of his problems there, particu- larly of the building situation. H e had inherited a quite new and lovely little building, a Georgian gem so placed that it was almost impossible to enlarge i t — this in a growing state university in the largest state in the Union. W h e n Good- win came to T e x a s the collection num- bered 74,274 volumes and the increase had recently been around 5000 yearly. W h e n he left in September 1923, the growth had increased to a rate of 20,000 a year and the total was 250,675, about 50,000 volumes more than the new library was supposed to house. During his administration so many out- JUNE, 1944 374 24 7 standing special collections were added that the University of T e x a s Library be- came nationally noticeable. A m o n g these were the Littlefield Southern History Col- lection, a great special library, toward the development of which Goodwin used his quiet informative and persuasive tactics on its founder and suppporter, the late M a j o r George W . Littlefield. Other notable collections added were the fine Genaro Garcia Library of Mexican ma- terials, the W r e n n Library in English Literature, the Aitken Library, and the Bieber Collections. In September 1919 a school of library science was started in the college of arts and sciences and for the six years of its existence Goodwin was its chairman. In spite of its important contribution of training library workers for the state, Governor " M a " Ferguson killed it off by bluepenciling its appropriation while engaged in the feud with the university which made service rather discouraging there for sometime. Goodwin was also a member of the state board of library examiners. In 1923 he resigned to go to U . C . L . A . His immediate successor, E. W . Winkler. to whom I am indebted for data on his T e x a s period, writes me: " O n e of the attractions California held out to M r . Goodwin was little library and no building—perhaps, no staff, no ex officio duties, no library school also. T h e i r many friends in Austin regretted to see the Goodwins go." Goodwin has told me that I was re- sponsible for his return to California, that when he had the U . C . L . A . offer I wrote him a letter foretelling such possi- bilities and such growth for its library that he was persuaded to go there. He had already spent several years in Cali- fornia, was therefore almost a Californian, and Californians really believe each other when they talk about their state; they are like that. W h y , becomes evident in the growth of U . C . L . A . and its library from 1923 to 1944, the period of Goodwin's administration. H e came to a library of about 40,000 volumes, catering to a liberal arts college emerging from its former state as a teachers college and junior college. It was still housed in a small building on the old Los Angeles Teachers College campus. T h e library staff numbered four- teen including the librarian. N o w in 1944 he heads an organization of fifty members and the library contains 451,100 volumes and will soon reach the half million mark at the present rate of growth. It has, moreover, become under his guid- ance, as did Texas, a library for scholar- ship and research with again its well-rounded growth supplemented by several important special collections, not- ably the library of John Fiske, the his- torian, and the Friedrich Kluge philology library, both gifts of local benefactors; the Louis Havet classical collection; the library of Arthur Chuquet in modern European history; and the library of Rob- ert Ernest Cowan, 3000 books and 5500 pamphlets of Californiana. Several spe- cial collections in the Scandinavian field and in linguistics, the latter bought in cooperation with the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley, have also been added. A new university library building was planned and erected on the new campus in his first decade at U . C . L . A . Follow- ing the plan which was then almost tradi- tional—Goodwin is no revolutionary—it has most of the good features of the con- temporary buildings at Northwestern and at the University of Rochester, with as much elasticity and room for expansion as any. A s the architect who designed it v 280 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES was also responsible for the San Fran- cisco Public Library, it looks as if G o o d - win did a first-class j o b of orientation for him. W h i l e I seem to have emphasized his characteristics as a pioneer and builder, this sketch w o u l d be quite incomplete without reference to his characteristics as an administrator. W e both served under the late George T . Clark, librarian of Stanford University, and had opportunity to observe his ways and learn something of his wisdom. A s a head librarian G o o d - win has shown the same characteristics, subordination of all extraneous interests to his j o b and constant attention to it, even a disinclination to leave it to anyone else for any length of time. His ideal seems to be that of a fine, well-balanced team under one leader with opportunity for all within it but little encouragement for any- one considered too keen on individualism, even if that may mean overlooking excep- tional capacities. Caution in adding to the staff and careful consideration of all personnel problems, great patience and kindliness combined with the courage to make difficult decisions when necessary, are other characteristics which have combined to make the U . C . L . A . library a place where there are more happy and satis- fied librarians than on the staff of some more exciting places. Like some rather quiet and not particu- larly articulate men he is more observant than is often supposed and has shown shrewdness and insight in his dealing with people. H e has a quiet but pungent sense of humor. W h e n someone told him that I had injured my wrist in a fall over a church step in Chicago, he remarked that I had better go to church more often or stay away altogether. G o o d w i n is an excellent example of a man w h o has ac- cepted certain limitations, indifferent health through much of his professional life, no particular aptitude for active par- ticipation in mass affairs, but w h o has so concentrated on the job for which he was fitted that he has rendered fine service wherever he has been. S Y D N E Y B . M I T C H E L L JUNE, 1944 2 8 1 Stbphzv A. M C C A R T H Y Assistant Director, G e n e r a l A d ministration, Columbia U n i v e r sity L i b r a r i e s March /, 1944 H A R R I E T D O R O T H E A M A C P H E R S O N L i b r a r i a n , Smith College September I, 1943 T k > oi^yubn E U G E N E H . W I L S O N Director of L i b r a r i e s , U n i v e r s i t y of C o l o r a d o December 10, 1943 R A L P H E . E L L S W O R T H Director of L i b r a r i e s and Professor of L i b r a r i a n s h i p , U n i v e r s i t y of I o w a December I, 1943' W £ $ k J P to -fw^F^' o C \ S V m / ^ " " - ' ^ M. ' J ^ n L ~ • • • H M i WmmmsgsM I WmMm , - Mt WmmSm 1 ^tm Appointments to College and University Library Positions, 1943-44 TH E LAST A C A D E M I C Y E A R has b r o u g h t several changes in college and uni- versity library administrative positions. Readers of College and Research Libraries have been informed about some of these appointments. T h e following informa- tion will supplement that provided in earlier issues and will, it is believed, be welcomed especially at a time when regu- lar library meetings are not being held. Stephen A . McCarthy advanced to a newly-created assistant directorship of the Columbia University Libraries on March 1. He left the University of Nebraska, his proving ground as an administrator, where he had advanced from assistant director of libraries in 1937 to associate director in 1941 to director in 1942, serv- ing in the latter capacity until he went to Columbia. While sharing the problems of the general administration of the li- brary in the years 1937-41, Dr. McCarthy served also as the head of the cataloging department and supervisor of the techni- cal departments. A f t e r assuming the directorship, the connection with the tech- nical department was continued, although it was not as close as in the earlier years, except for the order department. As di- rector, Dr. M c C a r t h y concentrated on the development and direction of the purchas- ing program of the library, including book selection, and the status and management of the library staff were put into effect in 1942 and 1943. He was active in library affairs of the state, serving as president of the Nebraska Library Asso- ciation in 1939-40, and was primarily instrumental, in cooperation with the Ne- braska State Library Commission, in the planning and completion of the "Union Catalog for Nebraska Libraries," which is housed in the state capitol with the library commission. McCarthy is succeeded at Nebraska by Frank A . Lundy, a graduate in the hu- manities of Stanford University. M r . Lundy has since devoted four years to graduate study in librarianship, two in the School of Librarianship at the Uni- versity of California and two as a fellow in the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. His professional studies were supplemented by a wide selec- tion of courses in the social sciences. His experience of approximately twelve years in the universities of California (Berkeley and Los Angeles), Arizona, and Illinois, includes reference work in both general and scientific fields, the cata- loging of rare books at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, circu- lation work, and book buying, the latter as assistant in and, later, as head of the acces- sions department of the University of California Library. He also worked two years with the library committee at the latter institution in developing the re- search collections and, more recently,, taught courses in book buying and ad- vanced reference at the University of Illinois Library School. M r . Lundy's doctoral dissertation, now in preparation, concerns personnel admin- istration in university libraries. T h e new Director of Libraries of the State University of Iowa, Ralph E. Ells- worth, came from the University of Colo- JTJNE, 1944 283 rado where he concentrated attention on improving the services of the university library through a new building, on li- brary use, on staff development, and on problems of education and library co- operation which reached beyond a single campus. (See College and Research Li- braries, June 1943, pages 233-39.) T h e new building planned on the sub- ject divisional basis has been widely dis- cussed in library literature. W h e n D r . Ellsworth went to Colorado in 1937 there was only one library school graduate on the staff. W h e n he left a substantial percentage of the staff were professional and many had master's degrees in addi- tion. Faculty status had been secured for a number of the staff. T h r o u g h the medium of an elected staff committee which concerned itself with major ques- tions of policy, with tenure, promotion, and dismissals, a democratic system of administering the library was developed. Ellsworth was succeeded at Colorado by Eugene H . Wilson, who went to the U . S . Department of Agriculture Library primarily to organize and coordinate the work of the division of technical processes which had been set up in the process of consolidating the U . S . D . A . Library. He was there only eleven months before the University of Colorado claimed his serv- ices. Before going to Smith College as li- brarian at the beginning of the academic year, Harriet D . MacPherson had spent several years, pleasantly remembered by her students and colleagues, as a member of the faculty of the School of Library Service, Columbia University. A f t e r graduating from Wellesley College and securing her master's degree from the L i - brary School of the N e w York Public Library, she continued her studies at C o - lumbia University where she received the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1929 in French literature. A f t e r several years' experience in the cataloging department of the Columbia University Libraries and of the library of the College of the City of N e w York, she began her teaching in 1927 as part-time instructor and in 1930 be- came a full-time member of the faculty. Her writings are divided between literary subjects and professional subjects. Prior to going to Fisk University as librarian, Arna Bontemps spent some time in study at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, but he is to date best known to American librarians as a widely-read Negro author. H e has acquainted himself at first hand with prob- lems of education through teaching in private schools, in Oakwood Junior Col- lege, Huntsville, Ala., and in Shiloh Academy, Chicago. T h e new librarian of Northwestern, Jens Nyholm, was made assistant librarian of the University of California in 1939. In that post he sought a close integration of the library's acquisition and processing units (the accessions department, the divi- sion of gifts and exchanges, the binding section, and the cataloging department), improvement of the internal organization of the processing units, and streamlining their procedures. H e studied reader re- action to the catalog, the usefulness of which was improved through the initiation of a catalog advisory service aimed at bridging the gap between the users and the makers of the catalog. A l l the while he took a lively personal interest, and stimulated a like interest on the part of the members of his staff, in new develop- ments in cataloging. H e has been and re- mains especially interested in improving cooperative cataloging. v 284 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Summer Quarter Program at the Graduate Library School T H E G R A D U A T E L I B R A R Y S C H O O L of the University of Chicago in its program for the summer quarter, 1944, will empha- size several special features in addition to twenty advanced courses in its A . M . and P h . D . programs and a group of courses in its basic professional curriculum leading to the bachelor of library science degree. O f interest to school librarians and teacher-librarians will be the Workshop for School Librarians, directed by Mildred L . Batchelder, chief of the School and Children's Library Division of the Ameri- can Library Association, from June 19 to July 29. T h e librarians will focus their attention on special projects con- nected with their own work, but the li- brary workshop will be closely integrated with the workshops in elementary and secondary education conducted by the de- partment of education. For public librarians, an intensive re- fresher course on " T h e Public Library after the W a r " is scheduled for the three weeks beginning July 31. In a series of fifteen discussion periods, combined with readings and special assignments, the faculty of the school will present the most recent methods and plans in public library administration and service. Each regis- trant will develop a postwar plan for his own library. "Library Extension" will be the gen- eral subject of the ninth institute con- ducted by the Graduate Library School during the week of A u g . 21-26, 1944. T h e central purpose of the program will be to propose working plans for extending the areas, enlarging the units, and improv- ing the patterns of library service after the war. Speakers will include both li- brary leaders and specialists in govern- ment, education, and the general extension field. A m o n g the topics to be considered are: state and federal aid, the state library agency, patterns of local government and library organization, contracts for library service, library cooperation, and book- mobile service. In connection with the institute, a full-time three-week course on "Larger Units of Library Service" will be given during the period August 21 to September 9. T h i s will follow the lec- tures of the institute with two weeks of special study of methods of extending the size and effectiveness of library units. T h e first group of courses in a three- summer cycle in which the program for the bachelor of library science degree may be completed will also be offered. Fur- ther information is available from the school. Four scholarships, two for full-tuition and two for half-tuition, will be offered in the academic year 1944-45 to students in the bachelor of library science curricu- lum. Applications may be made by stu- dents with four years of successful college work who are eligible for a one-year pro- gram of professional study. Applications may also be made by students with two years of successful college work who are eligible for a three-year program combin- ing study in general college subjects and librarianship. Applications must be filed by June 15, 1944; forms may be obtained by writing the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago. JUNE, 1944 285 T h e Library of East Congress has re- ceived as a gift from the author's brother, Ivor S. Roberts, a collection of manuscripts, printer's copies, discarded material, and other literary re- mains of Elizabeth M a d o x Roberts, Ken- tucky-born poet and novelist. Yale University Library, James T . Babb, acting librarian, has received as a gift Sara Teasdale's diary of her first trip abroad in 1905 and six notebooks contain- ing all of the poems she wrote from 1911 until her death. These have come as a gift of Margaret Conklin, literary execu- trix for Sara Teasdale. T h e papers of Sir W i l f r e d Grenfell have been presented to Y a l e University Library by W i l f r e d Grenfell, Jr. T h e Sholem Asch collection of Hebrew and Yiddish books and scrolls, together with the manuscripts of his own writings and much of his correspondence with his contemporaries, has been presented to Yale University Library by Louis M . Rabinowitz. T h e American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions has deposited its archives in the Harvard College Library. T h e collection includes, in addition to the correspondence of the secretariat of the board, logs of vessels it owned and many examples of early ephemeral printing. Also included is much important material on Indians of the American West. There are over one hundred thousand documents for the period prior to i860. T h e annual meeting of the N e w Eng- land college libraries will be held at Wellesley College, June 10-13. Rooms and meals will be available on the Welles- ley campus for those who attend. Jennie D . Lindquist, of the staff of the University of N e w Hampshire Library, News from is conducting a series of radio broadcasts, "Good Books for Boys and Girls," under the extension division of the university. Emory University South Library, Margaret Jemison, librarian, announces that with the publication of the Autobiography of Joseph Addison Turner, 1826-68, the first series of Sources and Reprints was completed. T h i s series was inaugurated by Emory University Library early in 1943 and is being continued. T h e Fisk University Library, Arna Bontemps, librarian, has received as a gift the George Gershwin Memorial Collec- tion of Music and Musical Literature, founded by Carl V a n Vechten. T h e col- lection, including the personal library of M r . V a n Vechten, consists of books on music, published music, manuscripts, let- ters, phonograph records, and an impor- tant series of photographs of musicians (both white and colored), scrapbooks, and other miscellaneous items. T h e University of Kentucky Library, Margaret I. King, librarian, is the recipi- ent of the 652-volume library of the late Cale Y o u n g Rice, Kentucky poet. T h e library has also acquired a file of Stars and Stripes and a collection of ancient Roman coins. A special appropriation of $200,000 for library purchases was authorized by the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University at the session which closed Feb. 12, 1944. T h i s appropriation was granted by the board in answer to a special request from the university library committee based upon a survey of needs and of ma- terials available under present conditions. v 286 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field O f this amount $127,000 was earmarked for the Hill Memorial Library of Louisi- ana State University. Indiana Univer- Middle W est sity Library has purchased a collec- tion of seven hundred pamphlets dealing with the origins of the Revolutionary W a r . T h e collection was started in the middle of the last century by Henry Stev- ens and continued by his successors. It is particularly strong in English and con- tinental imprints. In January 1944 the University of Illi- nois Library, R . B. Downs, director, dis- continued indefinite loans of books. T h e plan now in effect provides a printed faculty call slip on which a faculty mem- ber will indicate the probable date he expects to complete his use of the book. O n that date a reminder will be sent if the book has not been returned. A n ex- tension of time will be granted if needed. T h e purpose of the new plan is to facili- tate library service on the campus and to increase the availability of books and periodicals. A Friends of the Library organization of Michigan State College has been an- nounced. Jackson E. T o w n e , librarian, is secretary of the organization. T h e first number of its official publication, Friends of the Library News, was issued in D e - cember 1943. L i f e membership is $ 1 0 0 ; annual dues, $3. T h e staffs of the Kellogg Library and the library school of the Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, in coopera- tion with the Kansas Library Association, are planning an in-service library institute JUNE, 1944 to be held in Emporia, June 13-16, 1944. T h e institute is designed to be of special benefit to librarians of small public li- braries and of school libraries in rural areas. T h e University of Iowa Library, Ralph E. Ellsworth, director, has acquired a music collection of approximately 1200 volumes which was assembled by Sher- wood Kains, director of music, Univer- sity of Cincinnati. T h e collection in- cludes the Bach Gesellschaft edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in forty-seven volumes and several hundred orchestral and vocal scores of the past two hundred years. Indiana University Library, Robert A . Miller, director, has completed an ar- rangement which will bring to the univer- sity the fine Wordsworth and Coleridge library of O . L . Watkins of Indianapolis. O n the seventy- West fifth anniversary of Oregon State C o l - lege, Corvallis, Lucy M . Lewis, librarian, the Friends of the Library of Oregon State College was started. T o date there are sixty-three paid-up members, and gifts to the amount of over three hundred dol- lars have been received and turned over to the college library. T h e Huntington Library has received a grant of fifty thousand dollars from the Rockefeller Foundation to be expended in support of the program for regional studies of the Southwest. T h e project will be carried on under the supervision of Rob- ert Grass Cleland, historian of California and the American Southwest and member of the library's research staff. Four grants covering one half of the tuition charges in return for library service are available to librarians at the summer 287 \ session at M i l l s College this summer. T h e session runs from the 30th of June to the 6th of August and includes a varied program in art, music, language, etc. A m o n g the opportunities are three lan- guage houses, Casa Panamerica, Chung Kuo Yuant and La Maison Franqaise. For detailed information write to Helen Blasdale, acting librarian, M i l l s College, Oakland 13. T h e Lou Henry Hoover Memorial Fund of the Hoover Library on W a r , Revolution, and Peace at Stanford U n i - versity has been established as a memorial to M r s . Hoover. T h e Claremont Colleges Library, W i l - lis H . Kerr, librarian, published in March a series of checklists representing the Pacific area holdings of the Oriental L i - brary at Claremont and other libraries in the region. These checklists appear in three volumes and include books in West- ern languages, periodicals and serials, and books in Chinese and Japanese languages. M a r k H . S. Personnel Tseng, who has been cataloger and bibliographer for the Oriental Library at Claremont Colleges Library under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, is now a bibliographer in the Stanford University library. Edward Heiliger, formerly reference librarian at W a y n e University, Detroit, is the director of the Biblioteca Americana at Managua, Nicaragua. Donald E . Strout, formerly documents librarian, Indiana University, began his new duties as a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota Library School in January. Zelma Smith, librarian, McPherson College, resigned June 1 to be married. Virginia Harris, a graduate of M c P h e r - son College, has been made librarian for the coming school year. Marybelle McClelland, formerly of the reference department, has succeeded Anne Stuart Duncan as librarian of the Iowa State Teachers College. Miss Duncan retired Sept. 1, 1943. W a l t e r M . W r i g h t , formerly librarian of the Harvard Club in N e w Y o r k City, is now general assistant in the library of Johns Hopkins University. Lawrence Clark Powell has been ap- pointed librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the Univer- sity of California at Los Angeles, succeed- ing Cora Sanders who was librarian for thirty years. Frances Kemp has become librarian of Reed College, Portland, Ore. She was formerly librarian of Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio. M r s . A . B. Dabney, University of Ken- tucky, has succeeded M r s . Sue Alexander as librarian of Ashland Junior College, Ashland, K y . D a n M . King, formerly museum librar- ian, has been appointed acting librarian of the Cooper Union Library to succeed David K . Maxfield, acting librarian since August 1943, who has gone into the armed services. Sister Stella Marie Fleming is now li- brarian of Saint Catherine Junior College, St. Catherine, K y . Evyline Devary has been made librarian of Kentucky Wesleyan College, Winches- ter. v 288 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES