College and Research Libraries / Harold L. Leupp, Administrator Harold Lewis Leupp is one of the last of a noted array of librarians who have re- tired from the active administration of uni- versity libraries during the last ten years. During this period, most of the larger uni- versity libraries have seen the appointment of new leaders. The list includes such out- standing university libraries as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Chicago, Missouri, Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now California. To this list might be added a number of research libraries not connected with uni- versities, such as the New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and the New- berry Library. It is too early to evaluate the services to scholars and students which these librarians have rendered. The group includes some who were graduates of iibrary schools; others who came into the profession without -special training· but who have made notable contribu- tions; many who were productive scholars in their own right; others who had a clear understanding and appreciation of scholarship but whose chief contributions were in the development of services-present and poten- tial-which their libraries rendered to the faculty and students, to scholar.ship, and to research. During the period of activities of this group, research libraries increased in size almost to the point of embarrassment. Serv- ices were greatly developed but still failed to keep pace with increasing demands. Many problems, not fully solved, such as photo- graphic reproduction, policies of cooperative acquisition, and new types of buildings, had their origins in studies and experiments made by librarians who have now retired. Pos- sibly the chief contribution of this group was the increased services rendered, together with major emphasis- on use rather than on rou- tines. During this period, the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Reference Libraries were or- ganized. Against the background which is barely touched upon in the preceding paragraphs, can be outlined the services of those who, in far different ways, have made exceptional con- SEPTEMBER~ 1945 tributions. Harold Leupp is primarily an administrator, although he has an exception- ally clear understanding of scholarship and research. He makes no claims in his own behalf of productive scholarship, insofar as publications are concerned. He did adminis- ter and develop a great research library-one which stands among the three or four great university libraries of this country, if the comparison is based on the services rendered. In a study of the holdings of scientific periodicals as ascertained by a check of the HAROLD L. LEUPP Union List of Serials, the library of the University of California was found to be among the three or four outstanding libraries in this country. The coll~ctions at Berkeley will serve scholars for many decades to come and will stand as an enduring monu- ment to the accomplishments of Harold Leupp. The most important feature of the library of the University of California is not in the size and completeness of its holdings, how- ever, but in the exceptional use made of its facilities. The library has been administered with special emphasis on the needs of its 353 clientele and the methods by which such . needs could be satisfied. Some years ago a scholar who had been surveying the services of university libraries stated in personal conversation that the fac- ulty of the University of California was receiving a higher standard of service from its library than any other university he had yet visited. He also added that the faculty at Berkeley did not appreciate that fact. The contributions made to the war effort in the use of the library by government agencies on the West Coast may not be described at present. In the opinion of the writer, they were far greater than the services rendered by any library during the First World War, with possibly one or two exceptions. California was one of the first to organize a photographic laboratory on a large scale. This laboratory has .been consistently self- supporting. In 1942, at the time of my latest · visit, I was astonished to find that the equip- ment at California was more complete and the volume of output was greater than similar installations and output at any li- brary I had seen; with the exception of the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Incidentally, this laboratory is responsible for much of the very considerable service California has rendered to war agencies. My association with Harold Leupp com- menced in 1904, when he graduated from the New York State Library School and became assistant reference librarian at the John Crerar Library. T~e friendship which orig- inated in those yeilts in Chicago has never lessened. Harold was so consistent that his reactions could be predicted with fair cer- tainty. We knew he would join the Army in 1917, and he did. In a year he was pro- moted from the rank of second lieutenant to the rank of captain. His great disappoint- ment, as any of us would have guessed, was that he was considered too valuable in the training program to be sent abroad. His appointment in 1910 as associate librarian at the University of California was followed by his appointment as chief librarian in 1919. Harold Leupp is direct, arriving at the heart of any situation without involving him- self in ramifications. His straightforward, frank approach has at times proved discon- certing to those of his colleagues who dislike to have their lack of logic and slowness in thinking made apparent. On the other hand, this approach has enabled him to solve many questions of administration which are still disturbing some of ·us. Harold is incisive; he 'is perfectly willing to pick flaws in a person's logic and to point out inconsistencies in others as well as in himself. This ability has resulted in close friendships with a few who can take · as well as give. Harold Leupp is not an appeaser; neither has he been a publicist in a journal- istic sense. These virtues or faults, however one may regard them, may account for the intense loyalty of his friends. His personal qualifi- cations were best described, in my opinion, by Arthur Low Bailey, a colleague who wrote me many y~ars ago: "Harold Leupp ap- proaches about as close to my idea of a gentleman as anyone I have ever known." Would that we had more like him! CHARLES H. BR9WN Herbert S. Hirshberg in a New Field The announcement of Herbert S. Hirsh- berg's retirement as director of libraries at Western . Reserve University recalls his many contribution'"s in the library field. In a library career covering four decades, _ he has served in many capacities in libraries of the East and Midwest. Specifically, he is known for his leadership in Ohio where he has served various institutions for thirty-seven years. It is difficult to cite Mr. Hirshberg's con- tributions in the order of their value, but he seems to have been drawn to positions requiring pioneer efforts. From service on the Cleveland Public Library staff, he went to Toledo in 1914 as head librarian. Here he is remembered for his excellent job of selling the library to the community. He put on the first library week held in Toledo, in cooperation with the advertising club and the Chamber of Commerce. The community ac- cepted his development program, and library service in Toledo greatly expanded. The pioneer in Mr. Hirshberg's character was best illustrated when in 1922 he was given the opportunity to become Obio's state librarian. He was the first trained librarian 354 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the state library had had in the I05 years of its existence. In view of this it is remark- able that the professional staff he organized is considered one of the strongest the library has ever had. He became well known, too, for the reorganization and efficient execution of the various state library functions, and directed his efforts especially towards re- moving libraries from political control. He strongly urged libraries of the state to change to school district library units. At that time most of the public libraries of the state were municipal libraries, with boards appointed by the mayors. Appointments to such boards were often made on a partisan basis, and this was carried through in the selection of the library staff. Under the school district type, board appointments are made by the board of education and partisanship usually does not enter into them. Ohio is benefiting from this policy today, for the majority of its .libraries have come to be of this kind and are relatively free from politics. Mr. Hirshberg carried the knowledge and experience gained at Columbus to Akron, as its librarian, and then to the . deanship of the library school of Western Reserve U ni- versity where he imparted it to graduating students-students now dispersed over the country. At the unfversity he also held the position of director of libraries. As dean he attracted into the profession more men than had enrolled in the school in its entire previous 'history. Under his di- rection the curriculum was revised; courses in administration and reference were broad- ened, the latter to include an intensive study of government documents. His daily work in these courses stimulated the idea of a new approach to the use of reference ma- terial and resulted in his compilation of Sub- ject Guide to Reference Books~ published by the American ~ibrary Association in I942. This work is a contribution which will be useful to the profession for many years. As director of university libraries, Mr. Hirshberg . developed a central university li- brary where previously there had been only libraries of the various colleges. Likewise, he moved the library school into the university library building, providing mutual benefit to students of the school and to the staff of the library. Throughout his years of library work, Mr. SEPTEMBER~ 1945 HERBERT s. HIRSHBERG Hirshberg was concerned with library archi- tecture and building planning. Branches in Toledo, various libraries in the state which he helped plan when state librarian, and the centralized and remodeled library building of Western Reserve University stand to his credit. One of his contributions to library literature stems from experience in this field. In I930 he wrote Elements of the Library Plan, which was published by the American Library Association as one of its Manuals of Library Economy. Later he prepared a paper for the I933 Chicago A.L.A. Conference entitled "Four Library Buildings," dis- cussing subject versus conventional arrange- ment of large public libraries. In the Children~ s Library Yearbook No. I he wrote an article on the interrelation between juve~ nile and adult departments. He presented a paper at the I 926 American Library Asso- ciation conference on "Personnel Standards for Small Public Libraries," which was re- printed in the Classics of American Librarian- ship. At present ·he is working on the "Sub- ject Guide to u: S~ Government Publications" (coauthor, Carl~ Melinat), which is to be published in the fall. He is an inventor, too, having design~~( ·a· mechanical counter to aid circulation assistants in computing over- due fines. 355 Mr. Hirshberg has been active in national and state association affairs. He was presi- dent of the Ohio Library -Association in I9I7-I8 and has been vice president of the American Library Association and a member of numerous committees of the latter. Kindly and dignified, Mr. Hirshberg has made his way through the library field, break- ing a path for others to follow. He leaves the active field of librarianship, but 'it is certain that benefits will still come to the profession from work in his new field. WALTER T. BRAHM The Record of F. L. D. Goodrich frederick Lee Dewey Goodrich retires this summer as librarian of the College of the City of -New York. Leaving New York at the end of J~ne, he temporarily will be curator of printed books in ~he William L. Clements Library at Ann Arbor. Born in Manchester, Mich., in I877, Mr. Goodrich is one of three brothers who appear in Who's Who in America. In i897 he com- pleted · the four-year course in education at Michigan State College, which nearly forty years later gave him the honorary degree of master of education. Thus, to natural apti- tude he add~d·· professional skill as a teacher and expositor. In I903 he earned the bache- lor of arts degree at the University . of Michigan and in I9I6 attained its M.A. de- gree. He earned his B.L.S. degree in I906 at the New York State Library School. After a year as assistant reference li- brarian at the John Crerar Library in Chi- B lac k~tone Studio 1 FREDERICK LEE DEWEY GooDRICH cago, he became assistant librarian of the University of Michigan (I 907-20) and held its associate librarianship from I920-30. His training there came chiefly from the late Theodore W. Koch. In I9I7-I9 he was granted a leave of absence and organized three camp libraries in the South. ·After the armistice he did still more interesting work at Paris and Beaune, France. For several years Mr. Goodrich gave sum- mer courses at the University of Michigan on such topics as library buildings and special collections. Besides many articles in profes- sional periodicals, he wrote, with William M. Randall, Principles of College Library Administration. The volume has been a standard text in library schools, having ap- peared in two editions. Mr. Goodrich also was chairman for several years of the im- portant American Library Association Com- mittee on Fellowships pnd Scholarships. At City College he has been a colossus of helpfulness, good nature, and patience for a dozen years. Although working with a mixed student body he has been able to maintain friendly relations with all elements. When the faculty was perplexed by publi- cized economic agitations, Mr. Goodrich kept to the golden mean. In a library so crowded that thirty thousand volumes had to be packed away in cases, he never gave up hope of an adequate municipal grant for the enlargement of the building, which now rates A-I in post- war priority. Senior among the head libra.rians of the four borough colleges supported by Greater New York, Mr. Goodrich has been their wise leader. He is a true and beloved benefactor of the intellectual life of the metropolis. When he leaves, he will be accompanied by the affectionate regards of student and fac· ulty and, last but not least, the warm wishes of his fellow-librarians in the numerous pro· fessional associations in which he served. WILLIAM W. RocKWELL 356 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Charles Martel, 186o--1945 Too prone to assume the development of a library science as peculiarly American, we must at times admit our inaccuracy. It is a truism that many of our early library lead- ers-those who in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries forged the frame- . work of the young profession-were adopted from Europe. Such a leader was Charles Martel, who died May 15, 1945. A Swiss by birth and education, at the age of nineteen he ex- changed the University of Zurich, where he had studied after leaving the Gymnasium, for the Midwestern University of Missouri. Evidently he liked us, for he remained to make his life here. After completing his studies and engaging in othet work for a time, he went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1892. There he became the friend and coworker of ]. C. M. Hanson, who soon departed for the Library of Congress and shortly asked Martel to join him. In 1901, at the crucial time when Herbert Putnam was reorganizing the Library of Con- gress services and beginning to offer printed cards for sale, Martel became chief classifier. In this capacity he began the greatest work of his career-directing the development of the L.C. classification schedules. Although the work was based in part on the Cutter Expansive System, it was planned from the start as a practical disposition of a specific book collection, not as a theoretical organiza- tion of knowledge. Martel carefully ex- plained his thesis to the many librarians who sought information and schedules. Yet the popularity of the classification system grew rapidly, in spite of the fact that not all schedules were completed until a few years ago. , In 1912 he was made chief of the Cata- logue Division, a position he held until 1930. A. highlight of this period was his work in the winter and spring of 1928 with William Warner Bishop, ]. C. M. Hanson, and SEPTEMBER~ 1945 CHARLES MARTEL Monsignor Tisserant in organizing the vast collection of the Vatican Library in Rome. When he reached retirement age in 19]0, he was relieved of his many administrative duties but was asked to remain as bil;>Ho- graphical consultant, that the library might continue to profit from his wide background and deep knowledge of bibliography and Euro- pean languages. On Mar. 5, 1940, a sur- prise luncheon was given at the round table of the Library of Congress in honor of his eightieth birthday. Close friends toasted him and presented an appreciation volume -of 237 letters from all over the world. He was a gifted scholar, a progressive librarian, and a beloved administrator. His loss is felt not only in Washington but by the entire library 'Yorld. VELVA ]. OsBORN 357 ' .. Appointments to Positions Luther Harris Evans On . 1 une I6, I945, President Truman an- nounced that he was sending to the Senate · his nomination of Luther Harris Evans as Librarian of Congress. The appointment was confirmed on June 29. While the appoint- ment was generally expected, it is nonethe- less gratifying to librarians to have this assurance that the splendid . leadership of Archibald MacLeish will. be continued by the man who has served so ably as Mr. Mac- Leish's lieutenant. . Luther Evans graduated from the Univer- sity of Texas in 1923 and received his M.A. degree in political science from that institu- tion the following year. While serving as an instructor in the problems of citizenship at Leland Stanford University, he continued his studies and received his Ph.D. degree in I927. He was then on the faculties succes- sively of New York University, Dartmouth, and Princeton. The library world first came to know Dr. Evans when he became national director of the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration in I935· The His- torical Records Survey probably received more commendation and less criticism than any other part of the W.P.A. It may well have been the successful administration of this task that convinced Archibald MacLeish, soon after assuming office, that Dr. Evans was the man to appoint as director of the · Legislative Reference Service of the Library of . Congress. A report on the Historical Records Survey, made by Dr. Evans to a Senate committee on Mar. I, I938, includes a statement about libraries which shows how much he appre- ciated their possible contribution even before he had become a librarian. He said: It is so generally recognized that one of the greatest civilizing influences developed in Amer- ica during the past century is the library sys- tem of the nation, that we seldom have occasion to realize how terribly handicapped we would be without it. I think it is safe to say that no large and important agency of government · in this country, no matter what its . purpose and functions may be, and no large business and philanthropic enterprise, could do its work sat- isfactorily without utilizing the library resources of the ·nation. No other position in . the Library of Con- gress has closer relations with the government than that of director of the Legislative Reference Service, and from the beginning Dr. Evans showed an unusual ability in satisfying the library wants of the Senators and Congressmen. Mart in A. Roberts, chief assistant librarian, died in 1 une I940, and on November I Mr. MacLeish appointed Dr. Evans to that position. By that time the reorganization of the Library of Congress had progressed to the point of setting up three departments: the Administrative De- partment, the Processing Department, and the Reference Department. Luther Evans, as chief assistant librarian, was director of the Reference Department. During his five and one-half years as chief assistant librarian, Dr. Evans repeatedly as- sumed the duties of acting librarian in the absence of Mr. l\1acLeish. He has seen eye to eye with . Mr. MacLeish in his desire to make the Library of Congress serve not only the government but the libraries of the whole country. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the publication of the Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards under the auspices of the Association of Research Libraries. He advocates the division of responsibility by the greater li- braries, to assure that all important foreign books are secured by some American library. During the past few years the staff at the ' Library of Congress has been considerably strengthened. Dr. Evans was the enthusi- astic choice as the new chief of the librarians who had worked under him. The newspapers have asserted that he was one of the three men recommended . to the President by the American Library Association. As Luther Evans assumes the most important library position in the country, it should be a satisfac- tion to him that he does so with the approval of his fellow staff members at the Library of Congress and of the many librarians in university and public libraries throughout the country who have felt the warmth of his in- terest in general library progress. PAUL NoRTH RicE COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 359 I Donald Coney Donald Coney, the new librarian of the University of California at Berkeley, first became interested in librarianship when he was a student at the University of Michigan. Except for two years ( 1932-34), when he was supervisor of technical processes at the Newberry Library, he has directed his ener- gies towards university librarianship. He was a circulation assistant and a departmental librarian at the University of Michigan ( 1920-27), librarian at the University of Delaware ( 1927-28), assistant librarian at the University of North Carolina (1928-31), and librarian of the University of Texas from 1934 until his recent appointment at California. In addition to his library posi- tions, Mr. Coney has also served on the faculties of the library schools of the univer- sities of Chicago, Illinois, and North ·carolina. As an administrator, Mr. Coney has been alert to new developments in university li- brarianship and in related fields. Not infre- quently he has been an innovator and experimenter. He has been an outspoken exponent of placing the university library in its correct relation . to students, faculty, . and scholars generally. To him, the building of a collection pertinent to the needs of a clientele and the distribution of that collection to individuals requiring its use, are the two important aspects of library activity. In the building of collections, Mr. Coney recently .has had approved at Texas a project for creating a faculty fellowship in bibliog- raphy, under which a member of the faculty would spend a semester each year studying the library's resources in a given subject area, evaluating them, and outlining plans for their improvement. He also has studied methods for apportioning book funds in the university library and has evolved an experimental index plan which goes beyond the present unsys- tematic procedures. In connection with a projected building program for the University of Texas Library, Mr. Coney has proposed an improved division of material and of service. A step toward this is the recently created west reading room of the library, which handles the most fre- quently used current periodicals, open-shelf reserves for undergraduates, and a popular reading collection for recreational purposes, thus providing a starting point for under- graduates and others who know little about the library's ·varied services. A further plan, so far suspended because of war conditions, is the creation experimentally of a service coordinator to act as liaison officer between faculty and library and to focus his effort primarily upon the undergraduate library problems raised by the faculty. Another of Mr. Coney's objectives has been to integrate the library with university growth. A mimeographed memorandum, "The Place of the Library in a Program of Expansion or Reorganization at the Univer- sity of Texas," prepared by him, illustrates this. Although collecting and the use of ma- terials are his primary 'concerns, Mr. Coney has been keenly interested in intermediary activities. Experience at Delaware, North Carolina, and Texas revealed to him the importance and necessity of accounting for administrative control-as the presence of revised bookkeeping systems in all of these institutions and the existence of bookkeeping machines in two of them testifies. Further- more, Newberry experience with the process- ing of books led to an article by him in Current Issues in Library Administration (University of Chicago Press, I 939), "The Administration of Technical Processes." He has been sympathetic to the use of the busi- ness machines and other labor-saving devices which have slowly found their way into libraries. Recently, he acquired for the University of Texas Library a special mimeo- graph machine and an electric typewriter for the production of catalog cards, thus indi- cating a preference for local manufacture as against the purchase of printed cards. He was a party to 'the development by Ralph H. Parker of a system of loan and periodical punched card control records, developed by the International Business Machine Corporation. Finally, Mr. Coney has not overlooked the place of the library staff in the university hierarchy. His recent administrative memo- randum, "Nonstudent Personnel Problems in the Library," implies the kind of attention this has received at his hands. In addition to his many activities in the American Library Association and local li- brary organizations, Mr. Coney has been associated with the Institute of Latin-Ameri- can Studies at the University of Texas since 360· COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES its inception, having been a member first of the faculty committee to study the need for such an agency and later of the executive committee of the institute. This association led to his article "The Materials of Intel- lectual Interchange," published in Inter- A m erican Intellectual Interchange (Institute of Latin-American Studies of the University of Texas, 1943). Wyllis E. Wright Wyllis E. Wright, the new librarian of the Army Medical Library, began library work as a page in the Lowell, Mass., Public Li- brary at the age of twelve and, with the ex- ception of one year, has been in libra r y work ever since. He was a student assistant in the Williams College Library throughout his course there. After receiving his B.A. degree from Williams in 1925, he remained on the library staff for two more years, meanwhile receiving an M.A. in 1926. While in the Williams library he became interested in cataloging and classification and served as cataloger during the absence of the regular cataloger. He also prepared a classi- fication for the Williamsiana collection. From 1927-30 he was in the Preparation Division of the New York Public Library, and he obtained a B.S. degree from the School of Library Service, Columbia University, in 1928. From 1930-33 he was librarian of the American Academy in Rome, where he as- sisted in the complete recataloging of the collection. During this period he was also interested in the preparation of a union catalog of materials relating to Rome and Roman studies, undertaken by the Instituto di Studi Romani. In 1933 he returned to the New York Public Library as chief classifier and in 1936 become chief cataloger. His interest in cataloging processes led to his appointment on the Cooperative Catalog- ing Cofmittee and the Advisory Committee on the Union List of Serials. He has also served on the A.L.A. Catalog Code Revision Committee. At the New York Public Library he has introduced simplification in cata- loging practices, in line with the current con- ception of what is needed in the preparation of a catalog for a large reference library. Mr. Wright has taken an active part in the Victory Book Campaign, and at present he is a member of the Joint Committee on a Book Compaign for Devastated and Other SEPTEMBER, 1945 Libraries in War Areas of the Council of National Library Associations. He has also been the chairman of the A.L.A. Special Ad- visory Committee on the Union List of Serials Supplement. He has contributed many arti- cles and reviews to professional journals. /. H. Lancaster On June I, 1945, J. H. Lancaster became librarian of the Peabody College Division of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tenn., and a member of the Peabody College faculty. Besides administering the library, Dr. Lancaster is to teach courses in the li- brary school and in the college dealing with library service and with methods of research in education. Dr. Lancaster brings to his new posts a background in both librarianship and teaching. After graduating with the -degree of bachelor of science at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1920, he spent seven years as a teacher and administrator in schools of northwestern Ohio. He then became director of student teaching at Heidelberg College. From 1939 to 1943 he was librarian at Heidelberg and, in addition, in 1942-43 he managed the university bookstore. For a year and a half in 1942-43 he also supervised night school courses held at Heidelberg in the E.S.M.W.T. program of the University of Toledo College of Engineering. Since 1943 he has been assistant professor of library science at the University of Illinois Library School and has also taught physics in the A.S.T.R.P. at Illinois. In the period covered by his Heidelberg connection Dr. Lancaster continued study, receiving the degree of master of arts at Ohio State University in 1926; that of doctor of philosophy at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1941; and that of bachelor of science at the School of Library Service, Co- lumbia University, also in 1941. His master's essay dealt with school library laws of the various states and his doctoral dissertation with the use of the library by student teachers. The change of fields on Dr. Lancaster's part in recent years came about as a result of an increasing interest in the library as a means of education and as a source of instruc- tional material and of ideas for student teachers. He has been active in organizations of librarians and in 1942 was elected vice 361 president ·of the Ohio Library Association. ' Dr. Lancaster ser~ed as a second lieutenant in the ' United States Army in · 1g18. Charles M. A dams Charles M. Adams assumed his duties as librarian of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina . at Greensbor·o on September 1. He received his A.B. · de- gree .from Amherst College in 1931 and his . B.~ . . from the Columbia School of Library Service in 1933. In 1942 he completed his work · for ·an M.A: ·in the · department of English. Mr. Adams was born: in 1907- in La Moure, N.D. There he ·assisted in gathering and organizing the town's first library. At Amherst College he worked as a student ass1stant in the library. ·During the first three years after college he was an instructor of English at Athens College·,, Greece. While in Europe he traveled· and attended summer courses at the University of Toulouse and the University of ·Strasbourg, receiving in- struction in hand bookbinding in the latter institution. Later, at the New School for Social Research in New Y ark, he followed up his interest in bookmaking by taking a course · in hand pnntmg under Joseph Blementhal. In the School of Library Serv- ice, Columbia University, . during the summer sessinns pf 1939 and 1942, he taught the course on the history of . books and printing and during the summer of 1941, that on the care of books in special collections. At the information desk and in the reserve room of the New York Public Library from 1934 to 1938, Mr. Adams became acquainted with the varied reading and referenc<; needs of the gene.ral public and of niatlue research workers. During his seven years at Colum- bia he was in charge of the department of special collections, represented the director in the administration of ' the Low Memorial Library, and played a significant part in developing the collections of rare books and other special materials · for the university through gifts and purchases. As assistant to the director of libraries, he participated in planning and working out- solutions to a num-. her of administrative · problems ·concerned with personnel, building arrangements, and resources; Mr. Adams was also in· charg'e of exhibi- tion work :at Columbia. In 1940 the "exhibi- tion in celebration of the sooth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing from Movable Type was arranged arid a catalog pr.epared. Other catalogs were compiled in connection with exhibitions for the Edwin .Patrick Kil- roe · collection of Tammaniana and· for the · Isidore · Witmark collection. In 1944, in collaboration with the . English Graauate Union, an exhibition and . program were arranged in celebration of the 300th anniver- sary of the printing of the Areopagitica. A contributor to publications. of the Typophiles, to the News-Letter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and to the Bulletin of the New York Public Li- braryJ Mr. Adams is also a former editor of the New York Library Club Bulletin. He supervised the compilation of the reports of the resources of Columbia for inclusion in Downs's Resources of New York City Li- braries ( 1942). He completed the final read- ing and supervised the publication for · the Columbia University Libraries of Edward Epstean's translation of the History of Photography by Josef Maria Eder (New York City, Columbia University Press, 1945). Paul M. Angle Paul M. Angle, recently appointed to the librarianship of the Chicago HistoricaJ So- ciety, brings to his new position thirteen years of experience acquired as state historian of Illinois and director of the Illinois State His- torical Library. Mr. Angle, who holds a bachelor's degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a master's degree from the University. of Illinois, was secretary of the Abraham Lin- coln Association at Springfield for seven years before assuming charge of the Illinois · State Historical Library. During his directorship of. the · latter institution, its book collection grew to approximately eighty thousand vol- umes, which represents an increase of about 30 .per cent, and its manu$cript and newspaper collections double.d in size. The collection of Lincoln autographs increased from fifty or sixty to . more than four hundred, and many of these are of first importance. Last year: the library acquired one of the five holograph copies of. Lincoln's Ge.ttysburg Address, which was · purchased .by the school children of Illinois, aided by Marshall Field III. The libra:ry ·has received other notable benefac~ 362 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH· LIBRARIES ~---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- - - tions-in particular, the fine Lincoln collec- tion of Alfred W. Stern of Chicago. Much of the · expansion of the Illinois State. His- torical Library in recent years can be traced directly to the excellent public relations estab- lished by Mr. Angle and to his ability to select and guide a capable staff. Since 1932, when Mr. Angle went to Springfield, he has edited the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and the so- ciety's other publications and, after' its incep ... tion in 1940, the L1 braham Lincoln Quarterly~ He has written and published a history of Springfield in Lincoln's time, worked with Carl Sandburg on Mary Lincoln~ Wife and Widow~ and edited a new edition o.f Whit- ney's Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. He has written a number of articles on historical, bibliographical, and library subjects, and .fre- quent reviews. Jerome K. Wilcox ; J ero.me K. Wilcox became librarian of the College . of the City of New York Septem- ber I. He has been in the library profession for over twenty years, having begun his career as a student assistant while working for his B.A. degree at Wesleyan University. After graduation in 1926, he attended the University of Illinois Library School, where at the same time he was also an assistant in the order department of the library. After receiving an M.A. at Illinois in August 1928, he entered the John Crerar Library in Chi- cago as .assistant reference librarian, where he remained until 1935. Under his editorship at the Crerar Library, the irregular Staff News became a quarterly publication known as the John Crerar Library Quarterly . . He was also instrumental in establishing the John Crerar Library Reference List, to which he contributed many bibliographies. While in Chicago Mr. Wilcox wfis president of the Chicago Library Club and cha{rman of the club's committee which produced the 1933 Directory of Libraries . of the Chicag.o Llrea. He went to Duke University in 1935 to become chief of the acquisitions division, where he reorganized. and systematized the business records. In August 1937 he became assistant librarian of the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley and in 1940 was promoted to associate librarian. While at California SEPTEMBER~ 1945 . he organized the documents division and was the administrative officer of all the public service units of . the library. In the dpcuments division he set up a · union catalog arranged by issuing agency, for all documents held in any of the libraries on the . Berkeley campus. At the University of Califo.rnia he also .con- ducted ·a seminar in bibli9graphy and research methods for graduate · students in the po- litical science department. Mr. Wilcox was chairman of the A.L.A. Committee on · Public Documents from 1936 to 1938 and again from 1941 to date. · He has contributed many papers concerning docu- ment problems at the annual meetings of the committee. In 1937 he was instrumental in securing passage of H.R. 5471 by the U. S. Congress, which brought to depository libraries, for the first time, • the Congressional : hearings. In addition, passage of this bill again allowed depository libraries the privilege of securing Senate and House journals and public bills. He is the author · of numerous articles and publications pertaining to public document use, among which are: U.S. Reference Publi- cationsJ 1931, with a 1932 supplement; Guide to the Official Publications of ihe New. Deal Lldminis·tration~ 1934, with two supplements, one in 1936 .and one in 1937; Unemployment Relief Docume nts~ 1936; Manual on the Use of State Publications, 1940; and most recent- ly, Official War Publications~ in nine volumes, 1941 to 1945. For several years he has also contributed annually "Recent Aids and Guides to Public Document Use" in Sp·ecial Libraries. As chairman of the California State Docu- ment Committee of the California Library Association, : he has sought to secure better distribution and indexing of California state publications. With this goal in mind, his committee introduced into the California state legislature in · January 1945 a Senate bill . which passed both houses unanimously and was .signed by the Governor. This act makes California the fi:r:st state to have a depository system for the publications . of the state. Thomas R. Barcus On June I Thom·as R. Barcus assumed his new duties as chief of the Gift and Exchange Section of the Library of Congress. Mr. Barcus is . a native of Plainview, Tex., and 363 has an A.B. degree from Southern Methodist University, a bachelor's degree from the School of Library Service at Columbia, and a master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan. Mr. Barcus has had a variety of library experience prior to his going to the Library of Congress staff. From 1929 to 1934 he was an assistant in the library extension serv- ice at Michigan, where he compiled reading lists and assisted in the editing of Alumni Reading Lis·ts. In 1934 he was placed in charge of the departmental library which covered the subjects of economics, mathe- matics, insurance, and geography. Two years later he assumed charge of the history and political science rea'ding room. for five years, · 1938-43, Mr. Barcus worked with William Warner Bishop at the central book purchasing office sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation. He was directly concerned with buying books, maps, music, pictures, journals, and phonograph records for the colleges in the United States that received grants for their libraries from the .. Carnegie Corporation. In order to carry on the work, he visited and reported on a num- ber of college libraries of various sizes and kinds which were under consideration for ·grants. The record of this work is included in his publication, The Carnegie Co'rporation and College Libraries~ 1938-43. ·In 1943 Mr. Barcus · went to Canada as librarian of the University of Saskatchewan. In his two years there he has been successful in solving several administrative problems: he succeeded in enlarging the size of the staff, increasing the budget, raising salaries of per- sonnel, lengthening vacation periods, super- vising the preparation of a library handbook for students, and placing a lecture on the library in the freshman week program. A special appropriation to clear overdue binding was also obtained, and changes were made in circulation, order, and cataloging. routines. During the spring term of 1943, he taught reference at the -University of Michigan. At the present time Mr. Barcus is a mem- ber of the A.L.A. Committee on Boards and Committees, the Membership Committee, and the Canadian Library Advisory Board. He has been active in the programs of the Ameri- can Library Association and of various Canadian library associations. In addition to the publications noted above, he has written a dozen or so articles for various library and other periodicals. Mr. Barcus is a devotee of chamber music and "le jazz hot," and has a personal collection of about a thousand records of the latter. Alexander Moffit Alexander Moffit, who succeeds Donald Coney as librarian of the University of Texas, is from Iowa, having taken his bachelor's degree at the State University of Iowa in 1926. After three years as a private secre- tary for a business firm in Chicago, he went to the University of Illinois Library School, receiving the professional bachelor's degree there in 1931 and the master's degree in 1935. For five years Mr. Moffit held various positions at the University of Illinois Library, first as assistant in the exchange division, then as a reference assistant, and finally as librarian of the chemistry library. In 1936 he went to Texas as associate librarian. There he assisted in the reorganization and integration of the technical department and latterly in the direction of the library's public service. units. Like his predecessor, he has been especially interested in the adaptation of business machines to library operations. He has been active in library association work and has written several articles for periodicals. Arthur M. McAnally Arthur M. McAnally became librarian of the University of New Mexico in July, after several years' experience in college and uni- versity libraries of the Southwest and Middle West. Mr. McAnally was educated at the University of Oklahoma, where he received the library science degree and B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, and at the Graduate Library Sdiool of the University of Chicago. His doctoral dissertation, now in prepara- tion, concerns standards of support for lib- eral arts college libraries. His early experience was in the Edinburg, Tex., Junior College and at N or!hwestern University. As assistant librarian at Knox College, Mr. McAnally worked extensively with the Friends of the Knox College Library and made a detailed analysis of student read- ing. While librarian at Bradley Polytechnic Institute, he helped secure a new library .. 364 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES building and concentrated on improving the usefulness of the library. He also instituted a faculty survey of library resources and did considerable exploratory work in adapt- ing the quick-training principles of the War Manpower Commission to the training of nonprofessional library personnel and in ap- plying motion and time study techniques to the improvement of libr ary processes. As librarian of the Wisconsin State Teachers College in Milwaukee, he approached the problem of library use by analyzing the vary- ing needs and teaching methods of instruc- tional departments and developed systematic plans for the improvement of library service to each. He has held office in the Texas and Illinois library associations and is at present a mem- ber of the Subcommittee on Postwar Plan- ning for College and University Libraries of the A.L.A. and the Association of Coll~ge and Reference Libraries and of the A.L.A. Subcommittee on Job Evaluation and Training. Mr. McAnally also takes to the University of New Mexico a durable interest in the Southwest as a region, a belief that the li- brary must participate actively in the expan- sion of the college or university as it becomes a regional service agency, and ·nonlibrary in- terests in the effects of the frontier on Ameri- can literature and in competitive tennis. British Museum Catalogue-Original Series The Association of Research Libraries has decided to issue a photographic reprint of the original British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books issued between I88I and I goo. The paper of this invaluable tool has begun to disintegrate so rapidly and so seriously that it is perfectly evident that the new Catalogue cannot possibly overtake the destruction of the old. A photographic re- production is absolutely need~d to enable libraries to keep up their use of what is without question the most useful single catalog in existence. Owing to the paper shortage it is not yet possible to compute prices. A pros- pectus inviting subscriptions will be issued about Oct. I, I945, and it is hoped that P,rinting can begin by Feb. I, I946. The price will be kept as low as possible and will depend on the ·number of subscriptions. The book will be decidedly reduced from the size of the original issue but will be SEPTEMBERJ 1945 entirely legible for rapid consultation. The Trustees of the British Museum have given their permission for the repro- duction and have kindly waived copyright. The committee of the Association of Re- search Libraries having the project in charge is composed of Warner G. Rice, Paul North Rice, and William Warner Bishop, chairman. The printing will be done by Edwards Bros. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The price will run between $400 and $225, ·depending on the numl}er of subscriptions. Advance subscriptions may be sent to the secretary of the Association of Research Libraries, Paul North Rice at the New York Public Library, to the chairman at the University of Michigan Library, or to the publishers. William Warner Bishop June I, I945 365 Milton E. Lord, General chairman of the ] oint Committee on Books for Devastated Libraries, in a com- munication of May 1, 1945, calls attention to the appeals libraries, publishers, learned societies, and individuals are r~ceiving · for books and periodicals to be sent to institutions iri devastated areas. The Joint Committee on Books for · Devastated Libraries is seeking to coordinate all such efforts through a na- tionat ·book and periodical campaign. In con- nection with this an American Book Center for War Devastated Libraries is being set up with the assistance of representatives of the various countries and interested organiza- tions. He recommends, therefore, that li- braries and individuals continue to hold books and periodicals destined for overseas until further information is available. Similar advice is offered to institutions receiving re- quests that exchange publications held since the war began, be forwarded to certain repre- sentatives of foreign countries for distribu- tion. It seems advisable that all of these publications be held until it is clear that de- livery can be ·made directly to the institutions for which they were specifically intended. The Bassett ·Jones Ea;t Libris Polaris was purchased recently by the Columbia University Libraries. This collection, devoted to arctic and antarctic explorations, contains several thousand items. Books, periodicals, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, autographed letters of explorers, and souvenirs furnish much useful material for the historian. There are. a number of rare early items included. The University of Pennsylvania Library has developed its Chinese collection to the point where it now contains about six thou- sand titles in approximately thirteen thousand volumes. These titles are distributed among the four traditional categories: classics, his- tory, the philosophers, and belles-lettres, being strongest in the first three divisions. The work of cataloging the collection should be completed by the end of 1945. On April 9 Governor Dewey of New York state signed the Olliffe Bill, which increased the mandatory minimum salary of library assistants under the jurisdiction of the New News from York City Board of Higher Education and increased the mandatory increments to ten instead of six annual ones. Members of the · staff of the Sullivan Memorial Library, Temple University, Lucy E. Fay, acting librarian, have completed a survey of the book collection which will serve as a guide for the faculty in adding to the library's holdings in the various subject fields. Among the four South publications to be is- sued by the Alder- man Library of the University of Virginia during 1945 is a facsimile of the 1828 catalog of the University of Virginia Library. This catalog, which describes the collection brought together by Thomas Jefferson,· will be issued as No. 6 in the University of Virginia Biblio- graphical Series and will have an introduc- tion by William H. Peden. The library of the College of William and Mary has received the Joseph Bryan collec- tion of Southern Americana, comprising some 1500 titles., which was presented by John Stewart Bryan in memory of his father. The library of the College of William and Mary has received a collection of letters and documents collected by the late Hon. Robert M. Hughes and his father, Judge R. W .. Hughes, of Norfolk, V a. The papers range from the midde eighteenth century to 1933 and consist principally of letters written by such well-known literary, political, and mili- tary figures ~s James Madison, James Mon- roe, George· Wythe, Robert E. Lee, John Randolph of Roanoke, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Southey, Henry · Wadsworth Long- fellow, ' Washington Irving, and Benjamin Watkins Le.igh. A survey of the Middle West Wheaton College Li- brary by a faculty planning committee has resulted in a pro- gram for the development of this library over a peripd of several years. Among the recom- mendations made was the appointment of an administrator to coordinate the library and the curriculum. The University of Illinois Library, Robert 366 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field B. Downs, director, is building up a special collection of house magazines. Twenty-eight hundred industrial and other firms have been asked to place the library on their mailing lists to receive their publications. The col- lection includes magazines that are circulated among employees and those used · for distribu- tion to· customers, dealers, stockholders, and others. West The first number of The Librarian~ s Occasional Letter to the Faculty was issued in April by Lawrence Clark Powell, librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles. The progress of building plans, activities of the library in wartime, and a proposed survey of the book . collections are among the topics covered. It is an informative letter that invites reading. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., has presented to the Huntington Library a de luxe edition of Mein Kampf which came into the pos- session of the Third Army troops last April near Weimar. The volume is bdund in parchment-covered oak boards and measures sixteen by twenty-one inches. General Patton sent it as a tribute to the memory of his father, who was a member of the board of trustees of the library from its creation in 1919 until his death in 1927. The University of Wyoming Library, Mary E. Marks, librarian, has acquired several important collections of books and manuscripts relating · to Wyoming and the cattle industry. The Wyoming Stock Grow- ers' Association has deposited its minutes and proceedings from 1873, its file of Wyoming brand books, and. early correspondence, pic- tures, photographs, and clippings about pioneers of the cattle industry. The papers of Senator Warren consist of letters, clip- pings, letterpress books, and ledgers about the Warren interests in the cattle and land in- dustry, as well as about the Senator's interest in other industrial projects of the state. The Charles B. Penrose papers from 1892 to 1936 contain letters and clippings dealing with the Johnson County cattle war. The L. A. R. Condit material includes letters, bills, ledgers, and newspapers which tell the story of ranch SEPTEMBER_, 1945 life in the early days. Through the acqUisi- tion of these and other collections of similar importance, the University' of Wyoming Li- brary's holdings of source material on the history of the state and its principal industry are greatly strengthened. The library committee of the University of Southern California issued the first num- ber of The Library Bulletin jn April. · The new publication, whil:h will appear ir,regu- larly, is addressed primarily to the Friends of the Library and is a medium through which gifts will be acknowledged and Friends will be informed of the library's progress. The Mills College Libr'ary, Evelyn Steel Little, librarian, has acquired a collection of materials from the estate of Pane Coolidge, a California writer who died in 1941. The greater part consists of manuscripts of Coolidge's published works, covering Western adventure and histories and biographies of Southwest Indians, cowboys, and prospectors . It includes also a group of cowboy songs written as Coqlidge heard th~m sung around campfires thirty years ago. The University of California Library has acquired a collection of approximately twenty thousand theatre programs and handbills for the period 1800-1900 . . Several West Coast libraries lent volumes for the Conference Library of the United Nations Conference on International Organi- zation, which was under the general super- vision of the Libr·ary of Congress. Among those making substantial loans were the U ni- versity of California, Stanford, Mills Col- lege, and the San Francisco ·Public Library., Alice M. Humis- Personnel ton, for two years acting head cataloger of the University of California at Los Angeles, has been made head cataloger. Neal Harlow has joined the staff of the University of California at Los Angeles Li- brary as librarian, senior grade, in the acquisitions departJTient. His duties will in- clude the planning of a new division of rare books, manuscripts, and archives. Ralph Hagedorn, research bibliographer and chief of the Reference Department of the University of Alabama Library, has been appointed assistant librarian in charge of the Acquisition Department of the University of 367 Wisconsin Library, Madison. Martha A. Connor has resigned as refer- ence librarian of the Sullivan Memorial Li- brary, Temple University, to take a new administrative position in the library of Swarthmore College, Charles B. Shaw, librarian. Mary Fox Clardy has been appointed li- brarian of the Bethel Woman's College, Hopkinsville, Ky. Although Carl M. White's trip to China on behalf of library interests had to be abandoned' because of cond ttions in the Orient, he has continued in the service of the State Department and on May 19 left for London to act as a consultant on library matters in connection with undertakings of the Confer- ence of Allied Ministers of Education. He expects to return to the United States m September. ... Kenneth Boyer, who has been assistant li- brarian of Bowdoin College, has been made librarian. Mary D. Herrick became librarian of N asson College, Springvale, Me., on Aug. I, 1945· Paul S. Ballance, for the past two years librarian of the Texas Engineers Library at Texas A. & M. College, has been made acting librarian of the college. David H. Clift, assistant to the director of libraries, Columbia University, now with the Office of Strategic Services at Washington, has been appointed associate librarian of Yale University, effective upon his return to civilian life. Frances Clayton, who has been assistant librarian of the College of Mines and Metal- lurgy, El Paso, Tex., has been appointed librarian. She succeeds Hilda Cole, acting / librarian since 1 une I 943, who has resigned to go into hospital library work. Fina Ott resigned as librarian of Wash- burn University, Topeka, Kan., early in 1945. Elizabeth Elbright has been appointed acting librarian. Robert M . Trent has been appointed chief of technical processes at the Louisiana State University Li brary, Guy R. Lyle, director. Before his appointment was made Mr. Trent spent several months surveying the acquisition and cataloging ac~ivities of this library. Raymond W. Holbrook has been appointed associate director in charge of technical processes and acting head of the catalog divi- sion in the University of Georgia Library, Wayne S. Yenawine, acting director. Mr. Holbrook has just completed a two-year appointment as supervisor of recataloging at Georgia. He was formerly a member of the library staff of the College of the City of New York. Barcus Tichenor, librarian at Ball State · Teachers College, Muncie, Ind., since 1921, has resigned, effective 1 uly 13, 1945. Leslie Dunlap, until recently assistant li- brarian and head of the Acquisition Dep~rt­ ment of the University of Wisconsin Library, has been appointed assistant chief of the L.C. general reference and bibliography division. Richard S. Angell, librarian of Columbia University Music Library, has been appointed a fellow of the 1 ohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is preparing a book on the organization of music libraries. Orlin C. Spicer, librarian of Monticello College, Godfrey, Ill., has been appointed head of the circulation department and assistant to the librarian of the University of Missouri. 368 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES