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ing new staff members at Brothers College 
of Drew University, B. Lamar Johnson de-
scribes the special program for inducting 
faculty members at Stephens College, Mal-
colm Willey arouses envy in at least one 
metropolitan faculty apartm"ent-dweller with 
his account of the faculty housing program 
at the University of Minnesota, and Reuben 
Frodin makes a good case for the controver-
sial "full-time appointments" at the U niver-
sity of Chicago. Because such examples and 
speakers were chosen with discrimination, the 
several papers of this type rise above the level 
of personal testimony on "how we do it at 
our institution." 

Four papers are devoted to the academic 
preparation of faculty members, one for the 
junior college by James Reynolds, of the 
University of Georgia, one for liberal arts 
colleges by W. W. Whitehouse, of Albion 
College, one for graduate teachers by Fer-

nand us Payne, of Indiana University, and one 
for , teachers in technical schools by L. L. 
Jarvie, of the New York State Education 
Department. These contributions are the 
weakest in the volume. The scope and 
familiarity of these topics invites common-
place comments, which in this case are un-
relieved by new insights into means for pro-
ducing the "raw material" which will be 
selected, inducted, housed, and retired. 

Staff members of academic libraries con-
stitute one portion of the faculty personnel 
which this volume discusses. Administering 
librarians in colleges and universities are 
among the faculty managers to whom the 
volume is addressed. The staff member can 
read it asking, "How does it apply to me?" 
and the administering librarian can read it 
asking, "What does it suggest for my per-
sonal policies?" Both will find frequent and 
provocative answers.-Lowell Martin. 

New Reference Tools 
U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog Main-

tenance Division. Cumulative Catalog of 
Library of Congress Printed Cards, J anu-
ary 1947. Washington, Library of Con-
gress [1947.] 71p. 

Special .Libraries Association. Michigan 
Chapter. Union List of Serials in the Li-
braries of M e'firopolitan Detroit, Compiled 
as a I oint Project of the Michigan Chapter 
of the Special Libraries Association and the 
Detroit Public Library, under the Direc-
tion of a Special Committee. Mabel 
Louise Conat, Chairman. . . . Detroit, 
Wayne University Press, 1946. 67op. 
Judged on the basis of the first monthly 

issue, this is an important reference as well 
as cataloging tool. It is to appear monthly 
with quarterly and annual cumulations. The 
monthly and quarterly numbers will list only 
publications issued since January 1939, but 
the annual volume will include all cards 
printed during the year regardless of im-
print date. The inclusion of essential added 
and cross references and of many foreign 
titles greatly enhances its reference and biblio-

graphical value, while the very large propor-
tion of cards from research libraries other 
than the Library of Congress makes it par-
ticularly helpful to librarians working with 
interlibrary loan. In format the Cumulative 
Catalog is slightly larger than the Catalog of 
Printed Cards which it supplements and, al-
though it has more entries per page, it seems 
reasonably legible. 

The list of the Michigan Chapter of the 
Special Libraries Association is a record of 
the serial holdings of thirty-nine libraries in 
Detroit as of January 1943 with the addi-
tion, in a few instances, of certain important 
titles acquired since then. It will, of course, 
be of most interest and value to the co-
operating libraries and to others near De-
troit. However, the fact that it includes 
many titles outside the scope of the Union 
List of Serials in Libraries of the United 
States and Canada and others of more 
specialized and local interest not found there 
makes it very useful as a new source of 
bibliographical information as well as a 
means of locating titles.-] ean F. M acalister. 

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