College and Research Libraries


College and University Library 
Statistics 

T H}i: ANALYSIS of statistics appearing in this issue of College and Research Li-
braries has been made by the librarians 
who have been responsible for their com~ 
pilation. Information for the college and 
university library statistics was gathered 
by Donald E. Thompson, director of li-
braries, Mississippi State College (Group 
I) , and Dan Graves, librarian, Willamette 
University Library (Group II). The 
teachers college and normal school section 
was prepared by Wendell W. Smiley, li-
brarian, East Carolina Teachers College. 

The I947-48 college and university li-
brary statistics for Group I show a definite 
upward swing in most categories over pre-
vious years. More libraries reported their 
figures. In I945-46 there were 45 reports, 
.in I 946-4 7 there were 5 I reports, and in 
I947-48 there were 63 reports. Amounts 
spent for total library expenditures and the 
individual items composing these totals have 
increased. Individual salaries being paid 
have become larger and there have been 
more staff members added. Many rates 
of pay for student service are better. 

The new statistical report form is a great 
improvement over the old form. It has 
eliminated som~ of the unessential ques-
tions and still presents all of the necessary 
information. More items might ·be elimi-
nated and still have enough essential statis-
tics for everyone concerned. Five questions 
were answered by very few libraries. 
These concerned transactions regarding 
interlibrary loans, photostats, and micro-
films, and information about the number of 
reference questions answered and bibliogra-
phies compiled. 

There are some drawbacks in the present 

APRIL~ 1949 

report system. Too many libraries con-
tinue to give sketchy information. For ex-
ample, 63 libraries sent in report forms 
but only 42 reported salaries for the chief 
librarian, only 5 I reported salaries for 
department heads, and some reported no 
salaries at all. In many other instances 
information was withheld. If an adequate 
picture of library statistics is to be obtained, 
it will be necessary for more libraries to 
report on all of the items. 

The A.C.R.L. Statistics Committee 1s 
now working on several problems con-
cerning statistics. Some of these are: 

I. The possibility of getting individual li-
braries to report on more of the items. 

2. A better and more complete distribu-
tion system for sending out the report forms. 

3· A possible revision of the statistical 
forms. 

4· The desirability of sending out the forms 
sooner so that the results can be published in 
the January issue of College and Research 
Libraries. 

An analysis of the teachers college and 
normal school data reveals that the follow-
ing three schools, included last year, did 
not submit reports: State Teachers College, 
Geneseo, N.Y.; Black Hills Teachers Col-
lege, Spearfish, S.D.; State Teachers Col-
lege, Farmville, Va. The State College at 
Fairmont, W.Va., sent in its report too late 
for inclusion. Seven schools not in the I 946-
47 tabulation are included in the present 
listing. 

The tabulation seeks to provide a good 
·cross-section of the entire country as libraries 
from every region are represented. The 
present listing includes 45 schools, as com-
pared .to 4I in the I946-47 tabulation. 

159 



. ' 
College and University Library Gen-

News- Period-
papers. icals 

Student Enrolment Cur- Cur- Circulation 
Fiscal Faculty Members Regular Sessions No. of rently rently Volumes Reserved 
Year Regular Summer Under- Grad- Summer Book Volumes R e- Re- Lent for Book 

Library Ending Session Session graduate uate Sessione Stock1 Added ceived ceived ' Home Use2 Loansa 

Alabama .. . ............... 30Se48 1116 841 8491 278 4842 304,083 30 , 224 126 2293 135,227 131 , 827 
Arizona . ..... . ............ 30J"e48 382 107 4956 191 2031 205,493 10,070 53 1570 40,761 206,091 
Arkansasl9 . .... .. ....... 3477 8 4667 164 27529 236,096 10,143 22 1302 60,139 151,250 
Brown . .... . ...... . ..... . . 488 0 4478 480 0 701,094 25,047 30 6500 100,904 112,038 
California (Berkeley)20 . .. . .. 4066 54514 18,417 4074 18,05413 1,554,282 133,57611 500 18,000 380,292 568,67012 
California (Los Angeles) . ... . 1092 452 12,705 1686 13,02813 623,906 42,064 230 10,684 180,000 319,379 
Chicago ...... . ...... .. .... 794 8 18 18 18 1, 705,398 64,368 104 7368 303,267 758,514 
Cincinnati ........ . ........ 896 125 . ' 7657 620 2243 621,752 18,316 27 2023 62,574 133,424 
Colgate (Hamilton, N.Y.) ... 140 41 1448 34 494 162,569 6433 7 638 29,704 71,963 
Colorado21 .. . ..... . .. . . . ... 698 565 8667 695 7215 683,84921 36,385 45 2901 124,002 496,825 
Colorado A. & M . ... . .... .. 442 73 3606 103 8 126,819 5170 73 885 32,742 22,619 
Columbia .. . ............... 2568 8 30,68627 28 is;o25 1,900,488 62,065 117 5004 8 8 
Dartmouth .. . ....... . ..... 365 0 2985 16 0 658 , 915 19,016 42 1932 · 77:7os .. zzs: 947 
Denver . ... ... .. .. .... .... 31Ag48 626 316 9574 796 6267 219,181 22,378 32 1386 112,307 92,055 
Duke . ... . ....... .. ....... 30J"e48 581 140 3682 1385 1800 927,665 30,868 79 3620 134,056 173,377 
Florida .......... .. ..... ... 748 17 7628 549 901713 331 , 294 39,230 143 2343 107 , 573 74,718 
Georgia ... .. ........... . .. 465 275 7464 382 4145 225,086 12,748 52 1563 36 , 445 120,793 
Harvard ... . ... . .. . . ....... 8 8 5612 6991 8 5,119,967 151,648 8 316526 209,49526 223,51726 
H<?w~rd (Washington, D.C.). 33414 8 4437 1158 8 198,922 12,888 57 1107 77,256 86,313 
IllinOIS .... . ......... . . . .. · 3967 8 22,72129 239029 8651 29 2,185,108 108,896 544 17,094 422,644 828,259 

indiana . ... ... . .. . ........ 618 . 277 11,751 242516 540218 755,727 8 167 883630 239,523 483,710 
Iowa . . . . . . . ... ... .. . .... .. 666 368 8721 1518 5163 602,923 · i4;5io 92 2356 187,728 289,017 
Iowa State .... ... ....... .. 1522 286 8805 794 3517 390,371 13,797 99 2284 103,386 11 30131 
Joint University . . . . .... . . . . 30A.fe48 576 292 4102 145322 392523 515,853 27,788 30 3539 254,298 206:572 
Kansas .. . . .. ....... .. .. . .. 30 "e48 843 289 8878 613 3459 393,794 12,709 196 1531 51,790 319,264 
Kentucky . . ... . . . . .. . . .. .. 938 447 7300 502 4346 437' 162 30,681 135 1831 90,379 38,60910 
Louisiana State .. . ......... 910 367 8970 795 4931 339,03033 19,095 71 1593 64' , 121 13 68231 
Michigan ... ... . ..... ... .. . 1056 478 15,039 7826 11 , 161 1,376,425 36 , 056 147 6235 223,247 l ,098:235 
Michigan State .... .. .. .... . 1387 490 14,326 892 5288 232,371 22,381 41 1836 148,039 232,150 
Minnesota7e ....... . .. .. . .. . 3084 1135 28,312 2932 32,32813 1,529,889 55,198 123 24,352 429,718 229,856 
Mississippi . . . ... . . . ....... 220 8 3277 149 1935 160,956 ....... 8 8 8 36,063 35,660 
Mississi.ppi State . . ......... 795 14524 3472 110 2048 125,698 8018 · 7337 150037 21,05937 19,38437 
Missoun .. . .. ........ . .... 621 287 10,709 743 5282 566,337 19,828 8 8 126,567 296,170 
Mount Holyoke ........... . 146 0 1142 54 0 211,397 6615 13 892 25,618 35 , 786 
New Hampshire . . . . .. . ..... 226 311 3735 132 251813 150,861 7750 50 1085 55,443 804611 
North Carolina . ..... . .. . ... 600 305 608246 780 799513 514,797 20 , 330 63 4312 224,606 40,57331 
North Dakota . .. .... ..... . 160 76 ' 2652 138 852 157,291 4094 4Q37 61237 28,365 29,459 
Northwestern .. . . . ... . .... . 31Ag48 1926 484 24,357 1440 10,829 935,44848 48,312 70 7062 162,645 254,865 
Oberlin ..... . . . . ... . . . . . ... 30J"e48 192 31 2074 196 376 472 03}88 8025 29 1290 117,197 35,70031 
Ohio State ... ...... ..... ... 2305 956 22,910 2493 12,531 766:820 44,757 92 3358 183,594 1,126,530 
Oklahoma ... . .. . .......... 491 295 12,301 1036 4755 291,512 11,922 43 827 77,366 78,913 
Oregon .. . . . . .. ...... .. . . . . 38740 121 5675 480 2914 401,264 12,975 133 3207 201,461 184,722 
Oregon State ....... ... . .. . . 835 132 7143 319 2634 231,545 12,703 105 1914 77' 673 116,457 
Pennsylvania . ....... . ..... 1950 8 14,334 5148 3629 1,151,199 31,284 59 2846 198,016 75,96831 
Pennsylvania State . .. .. ... . 134839 441 7603 807 

· · 9i2o 
8 294,407 14,800 60 3333 96,527 191,846 

Pittsburgh .... ........ .. .' . . 1500 8 14,300 4963 513,500 33,600 21 3217 . 119,500 135,200-
Princeton . .. ..... .. . .. . .. . . 520 0 3455 577 0 1,119,695 34,312 8 8 133,626 188,624 
Rochester ... .... .. ... . ... . 831 122 4371 627 2146 479,617 16,262 52 2695 117,035 165,834 
Smith .. . .. . . . .. .. ....... . . 270 27 2174 154 223 345,372 10,987 32 1236 51,344 24,21531 
South Dakota State . .. . . . .. 278 73 2364 62 66632 88,683 3408 11 950 21,144 23,910 
Southern Methodist . . ... ... 346 M 6723 308 783213 244,311 14,500 28 1084 140,409 124,655 
Temple.: .... .. . ..... .. .. . 667 321 117~~~ 1141 7681 291,693 21,147 38 1940 80,049 132,237 Tennessee .. . . ... .. .. . . ... . 1684 38341 718 5187 290,298 15,810 39 2023 120,515 156,698 
Texas ... .. .. . .. .... . . . .... 31Ag48 763 438 16,009 1364 17,42413 868,171 36,757 197 6038 175,366 901,626 
Vassar . .... . .. . . ...... .. .. 30J"e48 234 0 1368 9 0 263,134 4877 39 1365 42,192 21,81631 
Virginia . .. ..... .. .. .. . ... . 318 110 3871 1248 1598 514,900 30,074 173 3437 8 8 
Virginia State ... . ...... . ... 167 111 1386 56 850 40,506 5502 17 312 . 52; 689 . " 46;87i 
Washington (St. Louis). . . . . " 1360 276 6964 1114 4439 490,834 20,976 5 2574 97,442 95,824 
Washington (Seattle) ... .... 31Mar48 1450 714 14,340 1650 7314 627,426 30,706 210 9140 195,429 218,022 
Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Je48 1025 330 15,604 2318 7109 319,334 25,546 42 2549 99,726 152,943 
Wellesley.. .... . ........... " 222 8 1723 45 8 254,753 6794 26 1064 46,180 35,65931 
Wyoming .... . . ... . .. . .... . 424 163 3202 160 235613 139,513 6567 57 924 66,301 53,573 
Yale ....... . . ... .. .. . ..... 31My48 1299 8 5696 3149 8 3, 770,813 128,083 125 6030 204,669 107' 738 

High .... .. . .. .. ...... . 4066 1135 28,312 7826 32,328 5,119,967 151,648 544 24,342 429,718 1,126,530 
Median .. . . . . ... . . ... . 68364 281M 6924 66164 439264 401,264 19,828 57 228864 107,573 154,82()64 
Low .. .... . . .. ....... . 140 0 1142 9' 0 40,506 3408 5 312 21,05937 22,619 
N42 •....... . .. . .. ... .. 58 46 59 58 50 63 61 59 60 61 48 

1 Total at end of fiscal year. 2 Excludes overni~ht loans and loans of reserved banks. 3 Includes overnight loans. 4 For circulation. Some libraries have 
added hours for reading and study only. 5 As of third week, fall term. 6 Graduate and undergraduate combined. 7 Excludes agricultural extension. 8 Not 
reported or not available. 9 Total less duplicates. 10 Record not kept for reserve room. 11 Includes 53,567 foreign dissertations reported for first time. 
12 Includes 28,465 loans from the rental collecti<?n· 13 Total enrolment for two sessions. 14 Teaching staff only. 15 Graduate, 946; professional, 1479. 
16 Undergraduate, 3721; graduate, 1364; profess10nal, 317. 17 Faculty employed on 12-month basis. 18 Undergraduate college, 2933; divisional, 4053 · 
professional schools, 1529; university college, 3381. 19 Medical library not included. 20 Berkeley campus only. 21 Excludes medical school except for book 
stock. Includes documents library of 287,405 items. 22 Graduate, 732; ftrofessional, 721. 23 Undergraduate, 2032, fe;aduate, 1645; professional, 248. 24 
Faculty only. 25 Main collection of Harvard College library only. 26 Incudes all libraries. 27 Includes graduate stu ents. 28 Included in undergraduates. 
29 Excludes medical school, law school, and library school; regular session, 2066; S!J=~r s~iol!, 461. 30 Duplicates not excluded. 31 Overnight only. 
32 Excludes graduate students. 33 Excludes 120,191 volumes not under control of uruvers1ty librarian. Includes 4121 volumes of newspapers not previously 
counted. 34 1st summer term, 235; 2nd su=er term, 225. 35 Included in book figure. 36 First term, 83; second term, 30. 37 Central library only. 38 Does 



eral and Salary Statistics (Gr9up I) 

Library Operating Expenses 
Total of Total 
Books Total College or 

Sabbatical Staff Student Periodicals Other Operating University 
Leave Salaries Service Books46 Periodicals Binding and Binding Expensesli9 Expenditures Expenditures 

None $103,923 $22,954 $ 70,87352 30 $14,424 s 85,297 $11,441 223,-615 $ 4,775,075 
33,382 12,412 22,24762 30 5638 27,885 2149 75,828 3,018,247 

None 40,591 8611 24,142 s 8027 2258 34,427 2977 86;606 8 
60 149,446 10,341 72,523 23,025 12,872 108,420 268,207 3,059,193 

N~~~· ... 43 502,721 195,491 201, 15Q49 . .. 30 65,111 266,261 42,021 1,006.,494 
8 

218,669 59,800 96,970 19,122 28,755 144,847 13,500 436;816 
None 389,82944 75 158,350 27,576 37,379 223,285 26,454 639,588 8 
None 99,735 13,424 52,12152 30 8932 61,053 3680 177,892 · 6;ooo;ooo 
None 17' 903 7399 11,002 3232 1043 15,277 3842 44,421 8 
None 81,720 35,000 38,577 10,676 7352 56,605 5055 178,380 . 3;6i2;678 
Professional 31,333 7955 2025 2595 3258 7878 2802 49,968 8 

N~~~· ... 8 804,05844 76 173,221 61,86062 63 235,081 46,846 1 ,085, 985 i6;3s3;429 114,975 9046 32,313 18,599 13,162 64,074 8384 196,479 3, 118,738 
None 108,153 12,524 52,46252 30 64 52,46268 15,21J62 188,350 4,594,498 
Librarian 169,757 24,823 160, 72Q59 35 30 160,720 13,705 369,005 8 

N~~~ .... 8 130,135 35,765 90,543
59 30 35 90,543 12,996 269,439 . 7 ;275; i25 

81,426 12,989 46,88561 11,956 6729 65,570 10,745 170,730 4,421,457 
None 425,642 22,176 200' 28252,66 35 27,028' 6 227,310 135,641 810,769 26,262,162 
Professional 82,364 8150 31,98819 36 3296 35,284 5265 131,063 8 

61 555,718 76,880 312, 91Q59 30 36 312,910 43,483 988,991 30,249,140 

N~~~-· .. 
60 170,000 30,000 125,000 36,000 31,000 192,000 12,000 404,000 8 

144,573 49,373 51,633 19,832 14' 612 86,077 14,380 294,403 6,502,512 
None 92,950 11,868 27,886 19,508 18,988 66,382 22,617 193,817 13,173,814 

N~~~ .... 87,928 38,812 70 828
52 36 15,516 86,344 15,502 228,586 8 

60,924 31,480 31:790 13,506 8377 53,673 4272 150,349 8 
79,132 14,367 45,063 7956 11,924 64,943 13,811 172,253 · s;357;5os 

iib;~i~~-
63 145,007 19,889 35,402 15,436 15,249 66,087 !J034 240,017 8 

465,200 40,320 158,50759 30 35 158,507 11,900 675,927 23' 217' 67672 
Professional 73,660 33,149 36,580 26,123 · · 5o23 67' 726 10,813 185,348 9,882,91073 
None 302,73767 23.95257 177,914 50,789 5.1,011 279,714 12,750 619,153 8 
None 28,338 6915 26,489 6710 3829 37,028 8507 80,788 . i;653;452 
None 20,088 3104 20 46259 

2o;3o7 
35 36 20,462 1711 45,365 8 

1ibrarian 95,167 39,269 92:33961 12,013 124,659 8086 267' 181 . 9;429; 654 
8 30,950 1702 12,049 5187 1920 19,156 1962 53,770 1,457,070 

h~r~·si~~al 35,662 7109 15,66061 2950 3890 22,500 2574 67,845 2, 704,600 
8 143,777 32,827 44,484 13,833 11,438 69,755 26,408 272,767 4,591, 714 

N~~~· · .. 17,468 3204 11,23352 36 2421 13,654 2070 36,396 920,733 222,428 55,527 179,16269 36 36 179,162 20,798 477' 915 8 
Librarian 79,598 5467 18,25561 7686 6233 32,174 3618 120,857 · 2; is9;o6o 
None 192,631 43,481 112,790 61,000 e1 173,79063 11,739 421,641 18,305,189 

60 44,060 20,000 63,00059 30 30 63,000 6000 133,060 8 
47 69,330 58,63368 34,23961 6114 6036 46,389 10,331 184,68370 · 2;327 ;o2974 
47 85,317 17' 743 30,509 8911 9302 48,722 6172 157' 954 5,494,224 

iib~~~i~~· 
8 295,198 24,905 80,638 20,990 22,529 124,157 18,685 462,945 15,999,829 

114,155 39,801 58,89271 35 36 58,892 9454 222,302 15, 077,675 
8 93,313 12,200 102,06169 36 36 102,061 10,594 218,168 7,116,848 

183,657 6882 58,096 i9;94i 23,128 101' 165 291,704 5,815,592 
105,284 13,184 68,47252 30 12,563 81,035 15,344 214,847 8 

N~~~ ... . 55 61,978 2641 24,03952 30 3347 27,386 3464 95,469 19,990 5662 8106 1897 1848 11,851 332 37,835 8 
N~~~ · ... 60,231 13,913 35,598 8678 3311 47,587 3585 125,316 . 2;484; 9i9 113,548 13,226 50,251 10,149 9534 69,934 16,459 213,167 5,070,236 
None 126,579 5591 52,112 13' 831 7294 73,237 35,279 240,686 7,563,888 
None 166,632 60,935 164,343 31' 976 25,049 221,368 14,780 463,715 

· i;67i;oi5 
8 

. N·~~~ · ... 8 81,445 3153 !J42561 5449 3551 18,425 5523 108,546 
141' 103 24,824 48,025 13,324 10,409 71,758 14,811 252,496 8 

19,599 4559 13,82052 30 2630 16,450 1400 42,008 8 
None 101,576 612567 44,395 24,749 5884 75,028 17' 749 200,478 6,326,288 
None 241,014 2409 97,87359 

io;sso 
36 30 97,873 18, 185 359,481 6, 748,206 

None 128,885 22,990 57' 665 10,000 78,545 11,868 242,288 6, 787,489 
56 66,735 2483 14,833 6453 3680 24,966 5981 100,165 2,040,448 

P~~f~si~~al 31,807 6225 8406 4816 4194 17,416 7781 63,229 3,449,549 
None 469,07044 76 199,28852 36 44,168 243,456 34,406 746,932 13,128,433 

555,718 195,491 177,914 61,000 65,111 312,910 135,641 1,085,985 30,249,140 
95,167 13,424 41,48654 13,324 8932 67' 726 10,77954 216,50854 5, 653,48464 
17,468 1702 2409 1897 1043 7878 332 36,396 920 ,733 

59 57 40 39 49 61 60 62 38 

not include 252,949 cataloged pamphlets. 39 Excludes extension. 40 Eugene campus only. 41 Knoxville division only. 42 Number of libraries on which 
high, median, and low are based. 43 Librarian and director of Bancroft library. 44 1ncludes student services. 45 Includes professional. 46 Generally includes 
audio-visual aids. 47 Staff members with rank of assistant professor or higher. 48 Includes 36,780 documents no~previously counted. 49 Includes periodicals 
and audio-visual materials. 50 Librarian and others with faculty rank. 51 Those with rank of assistant pro essor or above. 52 Includes periodicals. 53 
Librarian and assistant librarian. 54 Average of two medians. 55 Professional staff eligible for extra month with pay, every seventh year, for study or travel. 
56 Librarian, three research librarians. 57 Main library only. 58 Includes subprofessional and clerical staff. 59 Includes periodicals and binding. 60 Those 
with academic title. 61 Includes audio-visual aids. 62 Includes binding. 63 Included in periodical figure. 64 Included in other expenses. 65 $79,534 for 
entire university library. 66 $387,935 for entire university library. 67 Have library bindery with costs included in library salaries. 68 Books and periodicals 
only. 69 Does not include building maintenance and operatil expense, building sites, new buildings, and additions and alterations to buildings. 70 Excludes 
dental library. 71 Includes capital outlay, periodicals, and inding. 72 Includes $5,791,070 for hospital expenditures. 73 Excludes extension. 74 Excludes 
dental school. 75 Incl1ded in staff salaries. 76 .Salaries and positions as of July 1, 1947. 



~allege and University Library Gen--

Salaries! 
Associate Clerical, 

or Subprofessional Administrative 
Assistant Department Heads50 Professional Assistants Assistants Assistants and Others 

Chief Chief All Departments All Departments2 All Departments2 All Departments2 
Library Librarian Librarian No. Min. Max. No. Min. Max. No. Min. Max. No. Min. Max. 

Alabama ... . . . . · . . . .. ..... . ( $4650 7 $3400 $3550 19! $1800 $3100 1 $1630 5 $1500 $1900 
Arizona . . . . . .. ... . . .. . .... s 3900 3 2800 3000 71 1650 2700 1 

sisoo 
2100 2 2000 2400 

Arkansas . . . . . . ..... ... . . .. 4800 4000 5 2100 3000 6 2000 2700 5 1650 5 1200 1380 
Brown ..... . ... . ...... . ... 6250 5000 9 2520 4000 14H- 2280 5000 19 1300 2520 33 1040 2600 
California (Berkeley) . ...... 10,200 6000 25 3240 72{)()M 7I! 2760 4620 65i 2340 3240 44! 1920 4080 
California (Los Angeles) 7 ••.. 7800 13 2400 4800 32 2400 3840 18 1980 2400 15 1860 3900 

gr~~r:~~ti: ::::::::: :: ::: : : 
. . . 4 4 20 4 4 40! 4 4 0 135 4 4 

6500 12 2000 3880 12 2400 3400 6 1800 2480 19 1800 3180 
Colgate (Hamilton, N.Y.) . .. 4 3500 2 2300 3000 3 1600 2400 0 7! 16 16 
Colorado .. . .. . . .. ... .. .... 7000 4600 12 1980 3600 7 2460 2700 4 1968 2052 9 i572 2460 
Colorado A. & M ... .... . . . . 4800 3500 0 4 2400 3000 4 1500 2000 5 1980 1990 
Columbia ... .. .. . .... . ... .. 4 4 19 3300 4 90 2500 4600 4 2100 2100 255 1400 3000 
Dartmouth .. .. . . . .... . . . .. 7800 54 10 1920 3300 15 1740 3900 6 1620 1710 32 1380 2850 
Denver . . .... . .. . ..... .. .. . 51 4500 6 2950 3400 20i 2400 3000 2 1740 17! 1440 2100 
Duke . . .... .. ..... . .. .. . .. 4 4 10 4 4 27 4 4 19! 4 4 14 4 
Florida .. ... . ........ ..... . 4 4 10 4 4 11! 4 11! .. 4 . . . 4 16 
Georgia ..... .... . ......... 6800 4000 9! 2400 3700 9 1800 3000 5 1800 2400 12! 1380 2100 
Harvard . . ... ... . . . ....... . 4 3 4 4 57-ir; 1980 6000 2~~ g~~ 2580 11~ilf g~~ 3360 Howard (Washington, D.C.). 5905 5 3397 4iso 6 2645 2394 2394 
Illinois . .. .. .. .. . ... . . .. .. . 10,500 55 30 2 2 3000 5760 95 19 2400 4320 0 ~~tiT ~~~ 2520 Indiana . . ... .. . . . . . ....... 4 20TI" 1620 3900 21 50 2400 3120 0 2040 
Iowa . .. ..... .... . ......... 8580 56 10 2920 4220 24 2460 3900 171 1100 2160 5! 1620 2760 
Iowa State . . ... . ..... ... . . 7000 6740 6 2520 3600 8 2400 3000 17 1500 1920 19 1320 1920 
Joint University .. .. . . .... . . 4 4 11 4 4 16 4 4 5! 4 . . 4 8 4 4 
Kansas . .. •.. .. . .. .. ...... . 5200 4000 16 1600 3000 5 2400 2600 4 1800 2000 5 1560 1800 
Kentucky ........ . ...... .. 4 4 14 4 ( 11 4 4 6 4 4 8} 4 4 
Louisiana State ......... . . . 6500 57 131 2800 4000 16 2360 3600 13! 1800 2100 13 1680 2800 
Michigan ..... .. .. .. . ... . .. 850052 58 27 2400 4540 81 2100 4190 28! 1920 2100 5! 1920 2500 
Michigan State .. ... . .... ... 6000 4020 8 2760 3800 12 1860 3060 2 2300 2400 6 1768 2040 
Minnesota sa ... . . . ... . . .. ... 9775 6000 1262 2256 5664 55 2256 3960 0 . 50 1560 3096 
Mississippi. .......... , . 4 4 3 2500 2750 1 1800 5 4 4 . . 4 4 
Mississippi State .. . . . .. .. "'sooo 4000 4! 2500 3300 2! 2400 3000 0 2 1500 1560 
Missouri 5800 11 1800 3500 13 2100 3200 13 1500 2000 12 1380 1700 
Mount H~ly~k~ : : : : : : :: : : : : 4950 2 3000 3450 5 1700 3200 2 1900 6 1300 1550 
New Hampshire . . . ...... . .. 4095 3200 2 2800 3207 6 2500 2900 5 1500 1985 3 1400 1660 
North Carolina . ... .. . .. . .. . 6900 4500 161 2000 3880 211 1960 2820 8 1800 2400 12i 1245 3000 
North Dakota .. . . . .. . . .... 4000 3 2900 3000 1 2700 0 0 
Northwestern . . . . .. .. .. .. .. 10,000 6 3000 5000 25 2520 5100 17 6! 2100 2640 26! 1740 2880 
Oberlin ... .. .. ...... ... .. . . 8200 5 2500 3250 12 2200 3150 4 1740 1980 16 1 % 1350 2650 
Ohio State .... . . .. . ... .. .. . 7200 7000 19 1800 4104 20 2568 3576 0 57f 1560 442843 
Oklahoma . ... ... . . . ..... . . 5400 3800 5 3000 3440 8 1500 2580 8 1440 3 1440 1740 
Oregon . .. . . ... ... .... ... . . 7000 8! 2678 3990 18 2468 3255 5 2100 2220 19! 1800 2220 
Oregon State .. ... . . . . ...... 714Q53 4410 1~--/r; ~~~g 3780 18 2468 3738 2 2100 3~-ilf t~~ 2508 Pennsylvania ...... ... . .. . . 4 5300 4000 18 2580 4400 23 1350 2400 2500 
Pennsylvania State ....... .. 6000 .. . _59J 10 2500 4000 16 2075 2800 0 23 1380 2130 
Pittsburgh ... ....... ...... . 4 4 10 4 4 lOi- 4 4 11 4 17 4 4 
Princeton . ... ....... . . ..... 4 3 5000 5500 28! 2220 3600 15 1800 2220 64 t 1200 2800 
Rochester .... . : . ... .... . .. 4 12 2600 4200 14 2000 3000 10 1560 1716 14 1352 2400 
Smith .. .. .. . ... . . . ........ 4 4 6 4 4 9! 4 4 3i 4 4 8! .. . 4 4 
South Dakota State . . . .... . · ·4soo 3300 1 3000 0 1 1800 1 1500 
Southern Methodist .. .. . . .. 4500 4200 6 2400 3800 10 2100 2800 0 7! 1500 1800 
Temple . .. . •.. .... . .. . .... 4 60 11 2750 3120 14! 2400 2880 7 1620 2000 19 1200 1860 
Tennessee ... . ....... . .... . 4 4 663 250053 420053 544 200044 420044 li44 1560« 24004' 2744 132044 210044 
Texas . . .. . ......... . . . .. . . 7200 4800 17 4 2520 4284 211 2520 3528 71 1848 2280 231 1668 32Q4 
Vassar . . . . ...... . ..... . ... 5500 6-s- 2500 4300 91 2600 4100 0 

i824 
16 1248 1768 

Virginia . . ... . ... ...... .. . . 7098 61 10 2429 4243 9 2160 2563 1 1824 29 1440 2093 
Virginia State .. . ... . . .. .. . . 4 0 5 4 .. 4 0 1 4 4 
Washington (St. Louis) .... . · · 75oo 10 2200 3500 7 2120 3000 8 1560 1920 11 1200 2290 
Washington (Seattle) ... ... . 7800 13 1920 4800 30! 2520 3900 0 74t 1800 2850 
Wayne ... . . . . .......... . .. 8916 6 4494 5706 13 3382 5016 11! 2743 2875 7! 2168 3352 
Wellesley ... ... . ... . ... .. .. 4 5! .. 4 4 9! 4 4 5 4 4 6! 4 4 
Wyoming . . . . ......... . .... 5196 4 2928 3720 4 2808 3420 1 2544 2 1860 3024 
Yale . .. . .... .. .. ..... . .... 4 5 4 69 2340 4740 3 1980 2220 101-} 1300 2700 

High .. .. . . . .. . .. . .. ... 10,500 7000 30 2 2 5000 720Q64 95! 9 3382 6000 651 2743 3240 255 2168 442843 
Median .. .... .... .... . 6500 4410 9TI" 2520 382546 13 li 240046 3200 5 1800 213Q41 13 147Q46 2460 
Low . .•. . ... . . . . .. ... . 3900 3200 0 1600 2750 0 1500 2400 0 1100 1630 0 1040 1380 
N4s .. .... . ... . ..... . . . 39 23 61 50 48 63 52 49 63 39 36 63 50 49 

1 Salaries and number of positions as of September 1948. 2 Includes school, college and departmental libraries. 3 All staff members, 39 hours 
during summer vacation; regular session and other vacations; professional, 40; subprofessional, 42- 44; clerical and others, 44. 4 Not reported or not 
available. 5 No definite policy. 6 Summer vacation, 35; other vacations, 38. 7 Salaries and positions as of June 30, 1948. 8 Summer vacation, 38i; 
other vacations, 40. 9 15 days for 1st year, 26 days after 1st year. 10 Not to exceed total vacation time. 11 Not limited but may be reduced to 
pay for a substitute. 12 Summer vacation, 35; other vacations, 37!. 13 Professional, 39; all others, 40. 14 Professional and administrative office 
assistants, 24 or 26; subprofessional and clerical, 18; others, 12. 15 Depends on length of service. 16 60c- 75c per hour. One at $1400. 17 Pro-
fessional and subprofessional, 41!; administrative office assistants, 40; all others, 43. 18 18 days after third year. 19 Professional and subprofessional, 
40 during school sessions and 37 during vacations; clerical and others, 44 at all times. 20 1st five years, 12; 2nd five years, 15; over 10 years, 18. 
21 Professional and subprofessional, 6; clerical and

1
others, 9. 22 Professional, 3(}-180; subprofessional, 30; clerical and others, 18. 23 Professional 

and subprofessional, 39; clerical and others, 41. 24 at year, none; 2nd year, 5!; 3rd year, 11. 25 Professional and subprofessional, 15; clerical and 
others, 12. 26 Professional and subprofessiona( 42; clerical and others, 40. 27 Administrative office assistants, 21; clerical and others, 12. 28 Pro-
fessional, subprofessional, and administrative office assistants, 42; clerical and others, 44. 29 H days per month for clerical; no Clolicy for others. 
30 One month for professional and subprofessional, li days per month for others. 31 Same as teaching staff at Thanksgiving, hristmas, and in 



eral and Salary Statistics (Group I) 

Number of Employees in Full-Time 
Hours per Week 

Required of -
Equivalent(9 Each Full Time Number of Working Days Allowed with Pay As: 

Admin- Staff MemberM Special Holidays Sick Leave Rates of Pay 
istrative Cler- Reg- Sum- Annual Vacation Subpro- Subpro- for Student 
Office ical ular mer Clerical fessional fessional Service per 

Profes- Subpro- Assis- and Sea- Sea- Vaca- Profes- Subpro- and Profes- and Profes- and Hour 
sional fessional tants Other Total sion sion tiona sional fessional Others sional Others sional Others Min. Max. 

33! 2 1 5 41! 40 40 40 24 24 12 9 9 12 12 .35 .50 
101 1 0 2 131 39 39 39 26 26 26 12 12 Varies Varies .60 . 75 
121 4 0 4 201 3 39 3 26 13 13 7 7 15 6 4 4 
26 23 22 3 7 1 31 80-f 38 ( a 24 24 24 8 8 5 6 .60 .80 
95

nnr 
61

nnr 
1 441 201t 40 40 40 24 15 15 4 4 12 12 .80 1.27 

46 18 1 14 79 40 40 40 24 15 15 8 8 12 12 .80 1.05 
64! 0 0 135 199! 37! 37! 37! 20 15 6 6 10 10 4 4 
25 5 1 15 46 40 381 8 26 26 26 11 11 12 12 .40 . 75 
7 0 1 8 16 39 - 39 39 1 month 5 6 .60 .75 

20 5 1 5 31 40 40 40 26 13 13 9 9 18 12 .60 . 70 
6 3 0 5 14 40 40 40 24 24 15 8 8 15 15 .50 .60 

121! 3 12i 223 360 38! 38! 38! 26 26 9 9 9 11 11 4 . .. 4 
28! 6 1 29 64! 39 4 4 6 weeks 4 weeks 4 ~e"eks 5 5 10 10 .65 . 75 
30 2 1 15 48 38 38 33 26 12 12 15 15 Ind~ftnite Ind~finite .50 . 75 
43! 17 p 12 73! 39! 39! 39! 26 26 26 10 10 4 4 .45 . 75 

. 23! 11! 0 16 51 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ' 4 4 
19! 5 1 9! 35 39 39 39 26 13 13 10 10 12 12 .50 :so 
nll) 28-..fo- 5 11~ -il) 2061-J'-o- 37! 35 

12 14 14 14 11 11" 15 16 .55 .80 
9! 1 29! 40 40 40 26 26 26 0 0 15 15 .35 .50 

129H 0 0 72·.].0 201ll-o- 13 13 13 1 month 2weeks 6 6 15 is .50 .90 
44 0 1 31; 76! 38! 38! 38! 24 1218 11 11 12 12 .45 .65 
32 17 2 3! 54! 40 40 40 26 12 12 7 7 30 30 .40 . 75 
15 18 2 17 52 43 43 43 26 12 12 8 8 Varies Varies .55 .80 
28 5! 1 7 41t 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ... 4 4 
23 4 1 4 32 19 19 19 26 26 12 21 21 4 1248 .40 . 55 
26 6 1 7i 40! 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 
321 13! 2 10 58t 23 23 23 30 30 18 16! 16! 22 22 .35 .60 

130 25 0 8 163 40 40 40 24 24 24 5 5 12 12 4 4 
19 3 1 3 26 2S 2S 2S 30 30 15 6 6 26 26 .65 .85 
69 0 0 50 119 40 40 40 12- 24 12- 15 4 4 12 12 4 4 
6 5 1 3 15 40 40 40 24 12 12 4 4 .50 .50 
7 0 0 2 9 41i 41i 41! 24 12 6 6 .35 .50 

27 13 1 10 51 28 28 28 26 26 26 4 12 12 .40 .50 
8 2 1 5 16 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 

10 5 0 3 18 40 40 40 30 30 30 6 6 29 :45 .60 
40! 9 1 9! 60 40 40 40 31 31 31 31 31 5 .45 1.00 

5 0 1 0 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 .60 4 " 
54 6i 1 34! 96 37; 37! 37! 27 18 jg 6 6 is 15 .65 1.00 
17.1 1 4 1 15~ 3 38Th 39 36 32 26 26 26 10! 10! 12 12 .45 . 70 
45 2$" 0 1 5~!-o- 102! 40 40 40 26 26 10 10 11 11 .50 . 75 
15 9 8 1 26 39 39 39 1 month 2 ~~eks 2 weeks 10 10 2 weeks 2 weeks .40 .50 
23T"O" 4! 1 1~ 45{1) 38-40 40 40 27 12 12 6 10 34 a;; .50 . 75 
23~ 0 1 ~~i-o- 34lo%- 40 40 40 26 12 12 6 10 26 12 .50 . 75 47! 21! 2 94 37 34! 4 1month 38 38 12 12 36 36 .65 .80 
29 0 1 21 51 40 40 40 30 30 6 6 18 18 .50 1.25 
22H 11 1 16 50-H- 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ... 4 ... 4 
26! 21 4 37 881· .. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 
27 10 1 13 51 40 40 37 26 12 12 9 9 .. 6 .60 • 75 
17! 31 0 8! 291 40 40 .. 39 26 26 26 24 24 40 40 ... 4 
3 2 0 1 6 40 40 40 20 20 14 5 5 14 14 

:85 
4 

lSi 0 0 7 25! 41 41 38 18-24 12 12! 10 12 12 .40 
29! 6 1 18 54! 39 35 35 26 26 27 . 17! 17i 11 12 .50 1.00 
19 17 1 31 68 38! 38! 38! 31 14 14 12 7 12 12 .50 . 75 
42-l-o- 7i 1 22i 73~'b- 41 41 41 18 18 18 5 5 12 12 .40 .55 
16} 0 0 16 32} 38! 4 42 33 15 9 9 22 24 .50 .65 
25 1 4 31 61 40 40 40 20 20 20 12. 12 12 12 ... 4 4 

5 0 0 1 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 
26 9 1 11 47 38 38 38 26 26 26 13 13 26 26 .60 . 75 
40! 0 1 74 115! 40 40 38 14 14 14 8 8 12 12 .65 1.00 
21 lOt 0 7 38! 40 40 40 22 15 15 8 8 15 15 .50 • 75 
16 5 1 5! 27! 35 4 35 29 24 24 22 10 11 11 ... 4 4 
9 1 1 1 12 17 17 17 28 28 28 4 4 30 30 . 45 :65 

67 0 0 91r"-o 158/TI" 38t .. 4 35 26 26 Va.ries v~;ies 24 24 ... 4 . .. 4 
130 61 12! 223 360 43 43 43 33 31 31 24 24 30 30 .80 1.27 
26 5 1 11 48 4Q46 40 4Q46 26 24 15 9 946 12 1246 . 5046 • 75 
3 0 0 0 6 35 34! 33 14 12 12 0 0 10 6 .35 .50 

63 63 63 63 63 46 43 38 45 39 43 47 46 33 34 . 46 .45 

the spring. 32 Summer vacation, 36; other vacations, 39. 33 Salaries and positions as of July 1, 1947. 34 Up to 12 days with approval of depart-
ment head, up to one month with approval of librarian, and over one month with approval of president. 35 One day per month cumulative to 
90 days. 36 6 days for leas than one year of service, 12 days for 1-3 years of service, 18 days for over three years of service. 37 Summer vacation, 
36; other vacations, 40. 38 Two weeks for less than five years of service and three weeks for more than five years of service. 39 Su=er vacation 
30; other vacations, 40. 40 Professional and subprofesawnal, 18; others, 12. 41 Professional, 39; all others, 45. 42 Su=er vacation, 35; other 
vacations, 38!. 43 Binderr foreman. 44 Knoxville division only. 45 Number of libraries on which high, median and low are based. 46 Average 
of two medians. 47 Administrative assistant. 48 Clerical and others. 49 Includes all libraries. 50 Includes heads of school, college and departmental 
libraries. 51 $5000 partial salary; remainder charged to graduate college budget. 52 Balance of salary paid from another budget. 53 t more salary 
charged as director of libraries of Oregon State System of Higher Education . 54 $2700 (part-time) to $6300 for 2! assistant librarians. 55 Two at 
$6160 and $6420. 56 Two at $4909 and $5544 . 57 Salary range, $420Q-5200. 58 Two at $5500 and $8250. 59 Three from $3850 to $6100. 60 
Salary range, $360Q-4100. 61 Two at $4243 and $5508 . 62 Excludes 9 other departmental librarians not on central library budget. 63 Excl•1des 
Memphis and Martin branches. 64 Maximum is salary of director of Bancroft library. 65 Same for professional, subprofessional, clerical and others, 
unless otherwise indicated. 



College and University Library Gen--

News-
Fiscal Student Enrolment Faculty Members2 Periodicals papers 
Year Regular Summer Regular Summer Book Currently Currently 

Library Ending Session Session Session Session Stock Received Received 

Agnes .Scott . . . ... . . . . . ... .. ..... 1Je48 530 52 ·is 55,276 274 71 Allegheny College .. . . .... . ............... 30Je48 1081 422 71 117,379 416 14 . 
~rt~ht ..... · ::: .. . . ......... 1183 114! 278,597 937 11 
Augustana ....... . . .. ...... . ... . '3'iJi48 '889 '22410. 55 14 20,125 229 66 
Bates .............. . 

ao.J~4s 
305 9 

Beloit .... . ....... . ....... ........... . 1052 212 72 22 149,055 444 13 
Bil'mingham-Southern . ..... Sum48 1463 728 56 41 67,676 505 13 
Bowdoin ... . .... . . . ........... . .. . ...... 30J"e48 1086 783 69 55 220,803 443 13 
Bryn Mawr ............ . ... . ...... . ... . .. 724 204,488 948 6 ' 
Car-leton . .... ........................... 1130 ios 148,192 550 34 
Carroll .. .. . 875 56 14 37' 245 242 11 
Coe .... . . ......... . ..................... 31Ag48 856 376 57 t' 33 56,311 236 9 
Colby . . ... . ........................ ····· 30J"e48 1044 80 10 130,891 510 7 
Colorado .... . .................... . 1282 535 88 71 140,523 605 15 
Concordia . : . . . ... . . . ... . ..... . .. . ... . . . . 1209 237 60 19 34,941 228 17 
Davidson .. .. ... . .. .. . . .. . ..... . ..... . . . . 1My48 965 340 56 16 49,445 210 25 
Denison ... .. . ..... . . . ... . ...... .. . .. .... 31Jl48 1339 '3881b 101! 

116,294 641 17 
Dickinson ... ..... . ...... . . . . . ·· · ·· ··· · · · 30{e48 919 70 53 81,345 396 11 

-~i~!~ ·. ·.: : : : : : : : ...... ...... . ... ... ... 750 45 71,574 404 16 .. .. . . . . . . .. . . 512 
'227 

48 58,822 254 6 
Emory and Henry .. . ..... . ........ .. 31Ag48 579 28 22 25,366 125 7 
Fisk ....... · · · ·· · ·· ····· · · · ····· · ··· 1Jl48 1023 154 55 11 96,519 396 53 
Goucher ... . .. ·30{e48 741 73 87,324 415 4 
Hamilton ..... ······· ···· 598 136 66! 30 214,352 802 14 
Hope . .. ...... . . .. .. . · ················· · 1Je48 1201 180 63 14 51,965 295 7 
Illinois Wesleyan ..... ......... . . 31Jl48 1354 636 81 43 46,306 305 7 
James Millikin ....... . ... . .. . .... . .. 1Sep48 1625 462 66 34 43,000 240 6 
Lawrence ........... . . . .... . .... . .. .. . . .. 30Je48 1062 75 76,648 341 13 I 
Madison, Tenn ... . . . . . .... : .............. 31Ag48 297 . 5471° 39 ' '49 

24,458 60 6 
Madison, Va . . . ..... . ....... . ... . .. . . . .. . 30Je48 1261 101 49',001 280 15 
Marietta .. ......... . .................... 1Sep48 1230 452 70 29 131,882 330 7 
Michigan College of Mining and Technologyl4 . 30J"e48 1653 942 128 121 37,127 539 21 
Mills ... ... . .. . ................ . . .. ...... 759 325 86 70 104,563 464 4 
Millsaps ...... .. ..... . . . ............. . ... 800 ~~~1d 49 25 22,019 192 8 Morningside . ........ . ........ 31Jl48 1013 73 33 57,575 324 12 
Mount Union ........ . ... .. ... . . . . ... .... 30Je48 950 540 53 ' 15 76,112 450 11 
New Rochelle .. .. ......... . ..... 30Ag48 878 68 60,402 277 14 
Parsons .... . .. .. ............ . ....... . ... 31Ag48 536 334 35 28 26,054 180 8 
Randolph-Macon Women's College . . 30Ap48 715 76 67,508 291 17 
Redlands .......... .. ................ . ... 30{e48 1186 823 86 64 74,730 . 588 12 
Reed ............ . . . ............... ··· · ·· 748 65 87,270 374 4 
Rosary .............. . ...... ·········· ··· 728 356 75 11 58,373 378 5 
St. Catherine ............. . .............. 847 337 67 22 69,635 460 17 
Seneca, Hobart William Smith ..... . . . ... .. 1201 248 88 13 90,082 292 2 
Sweet Briar . ... .. .. . .......... . . 455 38 68,70713 394 11 
Talladega .. .. . . . .......... ... . .. . · . ...... 370 40 43,498 205 14 
Trinity, San Antonio, Tex .. ........ . ..... . 1Sep48 2393 1075 97 44 43,929 312 20 
Valparaiso .. . ............ . . ....... . . . .•.. 30{e48 1920 364 111 41 48,993 399 6 
Wake Forest ..... . ............ .. . . . .. . .. . 2030 866 179 49 98,020 818 22 
Wells .. .. ........ . .... . ... . . ... .. .. 326 51! 104,227 400 11 
Wesleyan, Middletown, Conn . ........ 971 87 . 37 364,140 954 13 Westminster ..... . .. ..... . ... 31Jl48 1267 452 79 36,672 241 20 
Willamette ..... . . .. 30{e48 1235 236 81 21 42,75013 376 25 
Williams .. ... ...... . ........ . .. 1120 374 130 45 197,048 561 8 
Wooster ............ . ····· · ··········· 30Ap48 1290 331 84 30 107,623 339 9 

High .. . .......... .. ....... . ...... . .. 2393 1075 179 121 364,140 954 66 
Median ... . . . . .. ... . · .. . . . ........... 1018 374 70 30 69,171 376 11 
Low .. . .. . .. .... . .... .. . . ..... . . . .. . 297 136 ~ 28 10 20,125 60 2 

1 a Second session 163. 1 b Second session 250. 1 c Second session 294. 1 d Second session 438. 2 Equivalent to full time basis. 3 Ea-
timated. Record not kept for full year. 4 Not included in library budget. 5 Includes reserve book circulation. 6 Loan period three months. 
7 Half reserve books on open shelves. No record available. 8 Includes clerical assistance. 9 Includes periodicals and binding. 10 Includes 
periodicals. 11 Overnight only. 12 Contributed service, estimated. 13 Accessioned volumes only. 14 Report for Houghton campus only. 



eral and Salary Statistics (Group II) 
Total 

Library Operating Expenditures Last Fiscal Year 
College or 

Circulation University 
Volumes Reserved Audio- Expenditures 
Lent for Book Staff Student Period- Visual Last Fiscal 
Home Use Loans Salaries Service Books icals Binding Material Other2o Total Year 

90S&· 905711 $10,775.00 S4563. 91 $587.65 $532.47 $13.40 $660.00 $17,132.43 •••••• ••• • 0 ·'· 
19,527-> 11,498 12,152.60 $2689.23 4383.99 1877' 96 901.49 $22,005.27 s 506,945.55 ·· 
30, 195• 107,789 35,016.00 5670.00 21,355.00 5254.00 3272.00 s 4052.00 74,619.00 1',289,542.00 . 
.. 5922; 10,3413 5751.344 1307.474 . 3968:45 701.95 619.15 12,348.36 ············ · · 6oo:oo ........ .. .. 39,174 .:0 73,991 12,740.00 1200.00 4948.00 1000.00 1000.00 $ 175.00 21,663.00 ············ 
11,228-" 24,386 11,635.33 2372.36 4947.29 2372.00 1217.21 1278.05 2331.61 26,153.85 

· · 562;2oo: 55, 19,362 · 11,397 14,287.96 3500.00 9703.96 1547.45 1203.60 245.36 2828.29 33,316.62 
20,592 - 24,818 20,923.00 3787.00 105~~~:~ 2814.00 2761.00 1813 . 00 42,601.00 . .... .. .. ... 42,01~ 29,240.00 1300.00 5305.39 3006.60 16,234.70 60,703.65 · ··········· 
23,718 27,079 7 18,317.22 1220.92 5653.35 2489.97 983.43 1170 . 20 29,835.09 669,055.~6 

9029- 5577 7900.00 1800.00 8250.00 1000.00 750.00 400.00 20,100.00 · · 3s9;43o:o4 10,501 18,549 7800.00 1224.40 2029.74 892.75 552.90 517.28 13,017.07 
16,898 9539 18,252.00 4000.00 7559.88 1920.76 2500.00 2019.26 36,252.00 .. . ......... 
25,881 40,381 15,607.73 3540.27 3489.98 2255.01 960.15 1941.44 27,794.58 575,653.76 
12,185 31,931 4581.95 2317 . 67 1988.30 677.81 312.50 491.81 10,370.04 454,747.00 
14,014 16,915 10,052.30 1825 .30 3429.08 1402 . 12 674.99 1017.82 18,401.61 509,882.62 
25,948 22,578 23,203.991 7 1777.05 4034.45 2781.86 1759.87 228.61 10,437.21 35,223.04 686,505.00 
13,522 13,410 11,777.50 5560.008 5899.72 1629.00 865.67 875.31 26,607.20 429,789.97 
17' 712 20,02111 8011.17 1696.67 2362.41 1644.53 712.42 342.41 14,769.61 494,917.44 

6743 I 509511 8300.00 1690.21 3239.56 1009.62 198.24 357.81 14,795.44 368,188.15 
13,872 2400.00 1270.00 3998.67 196.99 287 . 63 8153.29 392,694.51 
27,083 31,681 21,773.04 1799.70 6900.05 595.73 3173.74 34,242.26 560,666.09 
16,516 19,769 22,343.99 439.60 4304.68 1853.88 1425.50 845.42 31,213.07 489,908.10 
23,017 14,358 20,127.01 5550.66 774.60 2027.30 28,479.57 803,636.88 
16,362 16,78011 13,655.12 2207.13 5910.07 1114.45 459.16 208.06 23,553.83 715,799 . 38 
12,943 32,965 8466.33 2286.00 2940.84 1192.08 227.09 503.80 15,616 . 14 · · 543;os4: 77 10,386 35,784 9954.28 1836.87 7755.649 807.88 20,354.67 
14,024 10,526.00 757 . 00 3458 . 00 1679.00 835.00 657.00 17,912.00 513,377.00 

3932 9163 2500.00 3104.12 772.20 610.89 225.83 105.00 260.98 7609.02 " 4i3;i72:oo 38,191 63,741 16,898 . 7618 2804.58 6289.61 1189.45 990.40 9.40 1271.63 29,453 . 83 
29,131 18,971 10,799.57 2158 . 798 6031.39 1489.23 1358.16 596.99 22,434.13 535,788.44 

5620 1363 11,329.00 2738.12 2481.24 757.47 17,305.83 903,359.00 
25,635 805811 25,020.00 1289.76 8708.08 1753.16 1116.13 707.68 38,594.81 629,986.78 
11,015 3508 5700.00 480.00 3109 . 00 623.00 368.00 544.00 10,824.00 350,000.00 

6957 10,09311 6006.05 4144 . 10 6006.61 913.78 406.21 332 . 32 17,869.07 380,805.09 
13,378 13,386 7235.16 1878.28 3219.78 1582.24 764.37 267.17 14,947.00 429,876.46 
26,972 838911 8174.00 2132.17 4227 . 08 1380.99 1346.35 54.87 828.75 18,144.21 378,987.10 
11,483 15,227 9470.62 883.88 3631.71 661.43 998.35 810.71 15,939.81 ············ 
13,551 583311 15,950.00 4217.58 1151.96 992.81 ,. i342:62 22,312.35 ······· ····· 38,334 43',670 20,390.42 5711.95 7015.12 2061.99 2560.88 39,082.98 737,353.30 
25,569 38,79211 15,250.00 2865.00 8878.00 1060.00 214.00 963.00 29,230.00 478,578.00 
23,165 28,950 15.305. 6512 1636.21 3231.73 1225.06 1359 . 36 1109.21 23,867.22 318,018.76 
22,592 14,84211 9356.38 3732.60 3707.74 1569.39 761.53 115.87 695.46 19,938.97 371,346.75 
24,888 27,671 10,655.37 2305.85 3877.46 1958.04 1266.13 858.89 20,921.71 1,050,000.00 
17,704 3088 13,989.95 412.50 4392.59 1632.45 1109.14 889 . 98 22,425 . 91 341,326.52 
24,865 7416 8273.72 1099.02 2507.76 1111.97 199.80 200.00 649.27 14,041.54 378,251.07 
23,1445 14,721.73 4346.37 8211.27 1800.00 759.82 2892.35 32,731.54 ... ......... 

114,716 448111 11,046.72 5552.12 12,473.72 1185.99 1025.30 774.08 32,057.93 690,649.68 
21,354 45,111 23,828.00 3406.30 10,243.4 710 2824.00 1621.36 41,923 . 13 994,487.92 
15,380 500511 5008.90 2027.45 1180.01 29.32 558.18 7-i;oi6:S5 

597,460.34 
25,936 33,734 38,623.03 5970.55 20,350.869 6072.41 .... ..... ... 
18,764 33,349 11,812.00 1323.00 5416.00 917.00 237.00 126.00 19,831.00 460,000.00 
15,622 11,826 6900.00 1736 . 00 2677.00 1233.00 652.00 1602.00 14,800.00 650,000.00 
17.912 58,178 26,726.87 3143.8715 10,267.08 6029.90 3008.83 536.29 2575.55 52,288.39 1,385,215.33 
33,3231G 31,264 13,023.34 2445.98 6086.24 1789.57 840.17 1817.70 26,003.00 710,624.91 

114,716 107,789 38,623.03 5910.55 21,355.00 8878.00 3272.00 1278 . 05 16,234.70 74,619.00 1,385,215.33 
18,764 16,915 11,794.75 2158.79 4755.60 1558.42 852.92 175.00 852.16 22,369.13 513,377 . 00 

3932 1363 2400.00 412.50 772.20 196.99 198.24 9.40 126.00 7609.02 318,018 . 76 

15 Not included in library budget. 16 Includes room circulation. 17 Includes bonus. 18 Does not include $1490.88 paid by State Board of 
Education. 19 Estimated 1948-49 budget. 20 Does not include building maintenance and operating expenses, building sites, new buildings, 
and additions and alterations to buildings. 



College and University Library Gen.-
Salaries 

Associate 
or Administrative 

Assistant Office Subprofessional and 
Chief Chief Assistants Department Heads Professional Assistants Clerical Assistants 

Library Librarian Librarian No. Min. No. Min. Max. No. Min. Max. No. Min. Max. 

Agnes Scott . ........ .. . . . . .. .. . 2 $2150 $2400 $ 900 $1400 
Allegheny College ....... .. .. ... 

s336o . 6! Amherst .. . . .... . . . ........... . 1 3 $2520 2100 2400 4 1200 1500 
Antioch .... ...... .. . .. . ... .... $5400 1 $1900 3 2900 3000 l 

ii271 Augustana ........ . .. .... . ..... 2600 1i 15021 
Bates .. . . ..... . . .. ... ... . .. . .. 33002 25002 34 23003 
Beloit . . ......... ... . . . . ... ... . 3250 2 2400 2500 4 1320 1440 
Birmingham-Southern ........... 4000 270Q-3000 2 2000 2800 2 1500 1920 
Bowdoin ........ .... . . ........ 602()5 41706 1 1820 l 2 1300 2600 
Bryn Mawr . .. ................ . 2 1 3 5 
Carleton .... ...... .. . ... ...... 4000 3 2600 2900 8 1560 1700 
Carroll. .. ....... . . . .. . ... . .... 3000 1 2 2400 
Coe . . .... ... ..... ....... . ..... 3250 2450 2800 

i2oo Colby ..... .......... . ..... . . .. 4500 3000 1 1400 1 2500 1 2200 6 
Colorado ... .............. . .. .. 3400 2500 2 2500 1 1800 4 1675 7 
Concordia .. ....... . .. .. . ..... . 2480 2101.95 .. 
Davidson .. . ... . .. .. . . . .... . . .. 

isoo iioo Denison . ...... .. ........... . .. 3600 2800 1 3-f 2400 2700 6 19<!0 
Dickinson .... . ......... ..... .. 31908 1 1500 4 1980 2750 3 9 
Earlham ..... . . . ..... ....... .. 
Elmira .... . .. ... . . ... ... .. ... . 
Emory and Henry ... . . . . ... . . .. 2400 
Fisk ....... ......... .. .. ...... 4750 2925 1 1600 2 2300 2400 2 2000 2400 4 1260 1700 
Goucher .. . .. .. .. ....... ... .... 4140 1 1800 2 3200 3450 2 2200 2400 3 1700 
Hamilton .... . . . ..... . .... .. ... 3 
Hope . .. .... ... . .. .......... .. 

2400, 3000 7 1200 1700 

... Illinois Wesleyan . . ......... .... 240010 2 1500 1800 
James Millikin ... .. ....... .. . .. 

1> 

Lawrence .. . ............. .. .... 4200 3000 3 1440 1740 
Madison, Tenn . . .......... ..... 1500 6 517 .. .. 
Madison, Va .. ..... . . . . . ..... . . 4131 11 3 288012 3338 .64 2 1756.80 

2299.57 Marietta ... ..... ....... . ...... 4000 2 1100 2300 3 
Michigan College of Mining and 

Technologyu .. ... .... . ....... 
Mills .......... . ...... ...... .. . 

3600 2700 1560 2280 

Millsaps .... . . ..... . . . ......... 2400 1 2100 
Morningside ....... . .......... . 3200 1 1700 1 • 1600 
Mount Union ...... . .. . .... . ... 550014 360016 2 200010 224010 
New Rochelle .. . . .. ...... . . . . . . 16 16 2 2000 2300 4 132010 1504 
Parsons .... . .. . . ... ... . ... . .. . 3600 2640 1 2200 1 1320 
Randolph-Macon Women's Col! .. . 
Redlands ... ........... .. . .. .. . 3876 3600 1 1824 2680 2880 2628 2749 1692 
Reed .. . ...... . . .. . .. . .. ...... . 3800 3 2300 2700 3 1800 1900 
Rosary .. .. . ......... ... ...... . .. 18 
St. Catherine .... ... ........... 16 2 2371.56 2672.56 
Seneca, Hobart William Smith ... 2200 2300 . 21 1170 1500 
Sweet Briar . . . .......... . . ..... 3800 2800 1 1600 2 2280 2400 2 1300 1400 
Talladega .............. . .... .. 2856.60 2 2235 . 60 2359. 80 l 
Trinity, San Antonio, Tex . . .. ... 1 1800 3 1720 2200 1 1700 1 1500 
Valparaiso . . ......... . ........ . 3000 2800 1 2600 2 2400 
Wake Forest ...... 5000 2 2400 2! 2200 2400 1 1800 
Wells .................. ... .... 
Wesleyan, Middletown , Conn .. .. 4000 2 220017 4 2200 2800 6 2000 2500 6 1200 1500 
West minster .. .. . ......... ..... 2900 2 2500 3 1320 
Willamette .. . ..... . .... . .... . . 3300 2700 2 1500 

isoo Williams ..... . ................ 6000 1 2100 3 3200 4050 2 2200 2300 3 1440 
Wooster .. .... . . ....... 

Highest ... ... ... ...... ... . 6020 .00 4170.00 2 2200 . 00 4 3200.00 4050 . 00 6! 2880 .00 3338.64 8 2400.00 2600.00 
Median ................... 3600.00 2800 . 00 1 1800.00 2.5 2500. 00 2880 . 00 2 2200.00 2400.00 3 1440.00 1700 . 00 

4 Low . ......... .. .... . .. . .. 1500.00 2101.95 1> 1400 . 00 1 1720 . 00 2200 . 00 l 1100. 00 2240 . 00 l 517.00 1400 . 00 

1 Plus $340 summer salary. 2 Plus $300 bonus. 3 Plus $100 bonus. 4 Two at $41 per week. 5 Plus $958.33 su=er salary. 6 Plus $616.67 summer 
salary. 7 Three clerical at 75 cents per hour. 8 Plus $250 su=er session. 9-60 to 70 cents per hour. 10 Ten months. 11 Plus 672 summer salary. 
12 Plus $600 su=er salary . 13 Report for Houghton campus only. 14 $2500 charged to instruction. 15 $1600 charged to instruction . 16 Religious, 
services contributed by Sisters. 17 Maximum, minimum is $1500. 18 Assistant professor and above. 19 Director full year with half pay or half year 



eral and Salary Statistics Group (II) 
Hours per Week 

No. of Employees in Full-Time Equivalent Student Service Required of Each Days Allowed 
Subpro- Admin- Last Fiscal Year Full-Time Staff Number of Days with Pay as 
fessional istrati ve Total Member Annual Vacation Holidays Sab-

Profes- and As sis- Hours per Rate per Hour Profes- Subpro- Profes- Subpro- Profes- Subpro- batical 
sional Clerical tants Others Total Year Min. Max. sional fessional sional fessional sional fessional Leave 

3 2 5t 39 39 17 17 18 

4 1 1 6 
25 25 lOt 3l 1 15 12,319 50 55 39 39 14 14 

19 

4 1 5t 56 75 40 40 18-30 18 7 7 23 

2i . 2i 3033 40 50 40 40 18 22 None 
5 5 40 24 24 None 
3 4 7 5273 40 40 28 14 
4 2 6 40 60 39 39 30 30 19 

2t . 2 1 2 7t 30 60 42 38t 24 24 6 19 
7 < 4 1 1 13 

5o 
39 39 28 8 None 

4 / 7 11 2400 65 40 33 5 
It 1 1 3t 4351 50 50 40 20 17 
3 3 3061 40 38- 39 36 
4 6 1 11 500 40 50 38 38 28 14 7 7 20 

5 2t 7t 4878 
5o 

39 28 10 N~~e 
2 2 4505 55 40 24 10 
3t 3t 4000 

35 5o . 38t 38t 5 2 6 1 l~t 4037 26 15 15 
20 

5-s- 3 1 38t 30 15 15 N~~e 
I t 2t 4i 3604 45 50 40 40 26 12 4 4 
2 1 1 4 3380 50 50 39 None 
1 1 4236 30 44 50 
6 4 1 11 5142 35 50 40 40 30 15 7 20 

5 3 1 1 10 912 
5o 

40 
38t 

60 lOt 
4 7 11 60 40 20 15 8 8 21 

4 1 5 4352 50 50 40 75 2S 

2 2 
4 4! 5832 40 50 40 40 26 26 23 23 19 "5" 

3 3 3673 50 39 21t 
2 3 5 1500 45 45 42 42 24 24 6 6 

22 

1 1 6 8 30 35 14 14 5 5 
4 2 6 7791 36 36 39 

4ot 
42 18 None 

3 3 10 16 4000 40t 30 15 t 

2 4 6 1000 50 75 40 40 1226 12 8 
6} . t 1 8i 1430 60 70 38t 30 12 

27 

2 2 40 24 
28 

24 
2 1 3 8319 40 40 28 20 20 
4 4 3565 45 60 37t 27 15 
4 4 8 5705 35 40 37t 37t 20t 20t None 
3 1 4 
4 3t 7t 38 38 90 27 27 

21 

5 2 1 8 40 26 5 27 

4 3 7 4675 60 38 30 6 N~~e 
3 3 3272 50 1.00 39 28 13 

27 

4i 
. 2i 

4i 934 40 50 40 26 19 
3 51 3899 50 65 381 30 20 11 11 
4 2 1 7 52 39 39 48-37-24 24 10 10 19 

4 t 4! 2750 35 50 37 20 36 
28 

10 
3 3 1 7 11,016 40 40 28 
3 2 5 11' 104 44 20 12 21 

18 

8t 1 t 10 45 45 38 24-30 23 
21 

4 t 4! 151628 50 50 38 26 15 ... 
21 

11 6 2 3 22 50 75 39 27! 10 
27 

3 3 6 40 50 40 28 6 
2 2 3470 50 50 40 26 18 

25 

6 3 1 10 334430 39 39 26 26 15 15 
5 2 7 5525 45 50 39! 7-10 None 

11 7 2 10 22 1231.9 60 1.00 44 42 90 30 27 27 
4 2! 1 1! 6 3950 45 50 39.5 39 28 18 lOi 10 
1 l t t 1 500 30 35 37 20 12 11 l t 

with full pay. 20 Library staff who are faculty members 1 year in every 7. 21 Librarian. 22 Librarian and assistant librarian. 23 Professional members 
of staff receive 5% of present salary for every year of service up to a total of ten years. 24 Regular college vacations. 25 Special arrangement. 26 Li-
brarian one month. 27 Professional members of staff. 28 1400 hours on scholarship basis. 29 Librarian two months. 30 Not included in library budget. 



Teachers College and Normal School 
Student Faculty Circulation 

Enrolment Members Volumes 
Regu- Sum- Regu- Sum- Lent 

Fiscal Jar mer Jar mer Grad- for Reserve 
Year Ses- Ses- Ses- Ses- uate Book Home Book 

Library Ending sion sion sion sion Work Stock Use Loans 

Alabama, Jacksonville;State Teachers College ............ 30Se48 1068 1171 100 100 No 22,854 24,691 81,885 
Arizona, Flagstaff, State Teachers College .... . .. . . .......... . 30J"e48 776 627 55 60 Yes 32,280 65 , 108 17,559 
Arkansas, Conway, State Teachers College ....... .. .. . ....... 1474 1784 68 78 No 39,883 56,808 26,064 
Colorado, Greeley, State College of Education ... . .... . . . .. . . . 30Se48 1974 3640 112 124 Yes 118,483 53,4481 67,084 
Georgia, Collegeboro, Georgia Teachers College ......... . ..... 30~e48 635 580 50 41 No 37,567 19,201 14,604 
lllinois, Charleston, Eastern illinois State College ............. 1190 748 142 76 Yes 67,039 44,703 32,022 
illinois, De Kalb, Northern illinois State Teachers College ..... 1833 690 112 90 Yes 69, 068 48,596 53,268 
Iowa, Cedar Falls, State Teachers College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3068 1693 272 178 No 141,768 65,699 122 ,442 
Kansas, Emporia, State Teachers College ........ . ... ......... 1363 1264 135 107 Yes 95,853 3 3 
Kansas, Pittsburg, State Teachers College ..... .. . ... ... . . ... . 1819 1728 124 143 Yes 73,287 24,172 26;o57 
Kentucky, Bowling Green, Western Kentucky Teachers College . 20Ag48 1776 1471 109 109 Yes 78,771 27,966 75,697 
Kentucky, Murray, Murray State Teachers College ... .. . ... . .. 30J"e48 1560 1070 103 81 Yes 39, 796 44,384 9756 
Maryland, Frostburg, State Teachers College . .. ... . ..... ... . . 258 2254 29 No 19,254 22,734 9729 
Maryland, Towson, State Teachers College .... ... ............ 610 44 No 34 , 998 41' 975 8245 
Michigan, Kalamazoo, Western Michigan College of Education .. .31Ag48 4018 1707 ' Yes 72,279 37,474 64,999 
Minnesota, Bemidji, State Teachers College . . ............... . 30J"e48 598 415 53 42 No 24 , 754 20 ,568 15,808 
Minnesota, Mankato, State Teachers College ...... .. ......... 1008 818 63 47 No 30,532 23,773 29,634 
Minnesota, Moorhead, State Teachers College .... . ...... ... .. 690 216 62 30 Yes 27,592 19,962 32,056 
Minnesota, Winona, State Teachers College ..... .. . . ........ . . 605 275 54 22 No 35,637 23,715 40,582 

..Mississippi, Cleveland, D elta State Teachers College ......... . . 690 420 52 36 No 20,060 16,465 6860 
Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri State College . . .. 30Ap48 1450 1161 80 84 No 50 , 536 21,455 5 
Missouri, Warrensburg, Central Missouri State College ..... : ... 30~e48 1368 1384 92 99 Yes 75,731 45,523 43,266 
Nebraska, Kearney, State Teachers College ..... ...... . . . ..... 773 769 59 61 No 38,123 
Nebraska, Peru, State Teachers College . .. ........ .. ..... .. .. 392 396 57 53 No 54,189 25,335 6 
New Hampshire, Keene, Teachers College . .. . . ...... .... .. .. . 429 53 . 75 No 24,955 24,836 12,808 New Mexico, Las Vegas, Highlands University ..... ... . .... ... 1076 1009 61 Yes 35,587 25,274 11,869 
New York, Albany, State College for Teachers . . . . ... . ........ 31~,r48 1331 929 126 53 Yes 42,842 38,848 36 , 169 
New York, Oswego, State Teachers College .... ..... .. .. . . .... 1334 597 86 47 No 33,905 56,629 55,194 
North Carolina, Greenville, East Carolina Teachers College ..... 30~e48 1404 715 Yes 67,026 
North Dakota, Minot, State Teachers College . .. ... ... . ... . ... 703 610 60 44 Yes 31,285 46,263 40,151 
North Dakota, Valley City, State Teachers College ... . ........ 335 485 46 36 No 36,710 129~~~ 1563 Oklahoma, Alva, Northwestern State College .. . ........ . ..... 624 39 No 27,354 2965 
Oklahoma, Edmond, Central State College .. . .............. .. 1039 1017 87 87 No 36,885 28,163 27,445 
Oregon, Ashland, Southern Oregon College of Education .... . .. 601 288 40 23 No 20,558 12 ,870 13,937 
Oregon, La Grande, Eastern Oregon College of Education ...... 726 261 44 18 No 25,706 27,381 20,725 
Oregon, Monmouth, College of Education .. .............. . ... 468 583 39 29 Noj 30,757 30 , 873 39,831 
Pennsylvania, West Chester, State Teachers College . .......... 31My48 1739 836 101 60 No 50,278 51,674 17' 110 
South Dakota, Aberdeen, Northern State Teachers College .... . 30Je48 803 731 52 41 No 30,548 15,320 5141 
Texas, Commerce, East Texas State Teachers College ......... . 31A§48 2064 2324 118 124 Yes 93,639 32,873 86,253 

-Texas, D enton, North Texas State Teachers College ... . . . . . .. . 4677 3143 315 240 Yes 183,462 132,884 20,515 
Texas, Huntsville, Sam Houston State Teachers College . .. ... .. 2278 2295 135 97 Yes 83,409 90 , 560 63,010 
Texas, San Marcos, Southwest Texas State Teachers College . . . 1711 1970 90 94 Yes 66,935 26,462 94,287 
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, State Teachers College . . ... . . . .. . ..... 1794 1396 115 94 Yes 70,985 40,163 51,349 
Wisconsin, Oshkosh, State Teachers College . . .... ............ 30~~48 853 608 60 35 No 39,804 20,991 51,405 
Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Central State Teachers College .. .. .. 881 740 61 48 No 44,017 16,807 4855 

High ............. ..... .. .... . ............ . . .. . . . . .... 4676 3640 315 240 183,462 132,884 122,442 
Median .. .. .. .. ...................................... 1190 818 63 61 39,796 28,163 29,634 
Low .. ... .. . . . . ... . .. . ..... ..... . .......... . ...... : .. 258 216 29 18 19,254 9534 1563 

1 Open stacks. 2 Included in books fund. 3 No statistics kept. 4 2 weeks workshop only. 5 No record. 6 Included in home use. 7 Fiscal yr. 



Library General and Salary Statistics 

Total College or 
Normal School 

Staff Student 
Library E xpenditures Expenditures 

Last Fiscal 
Salaries Service Books Periodicals Binding Other Total Year 

$ 4545.36 $3067.27 $5347.74 $ 302.25 s 373.87 $2138 . 58 $15 , 775.07 s 448,800.00 
6200.00 416.75 4604.06 1252.52 1135.05 306.63 13,915.01 ······ ······ 
7073.51 3073.56 4627.18 884.84 421.35 684.29 16,764 . 73 1,115,411.98 

24,517.23 13,858 . 02 9970.07 2 2106 . 81 874 . 68 51,326.81 1, 222, 765 . 45 
7554.00 2480 .. 00 3210.00 485.00 297 . 00 479.00 14 , 505 . 00 229 , 400.00 

22,177 . 00 4480 . 87 4809 . 98 1720.90 1224.54 1087 . 69 35,500.98 764,614 . 23 
20,853.34 3813.20 5785.97 1258.34 1394 . 24 1274.56 34,379.65 896,154.22 
22,932 . 83 7967.51 8640.11 2358.06 1761.94 2163.52 45 , 823 . 97 

· · s44;2i4 : oo 27' 913.00 7557.00 3674.00 2233.00 2056.00 695 . 00 44,128 . 00 
13,790.06 4101 . 60 4384.41 2204.80 2666.16 4745.42 31 , 892.45 752,361.90 
20,000.00 2882 . 54 5000.00 907.80 725 . 00 1748.32 31,288.66 714,376.74 

9965.82 2136 . 75 6314 . 17 2 693.89 464.77 19,575 . 40 628,850.48 
6283.35 366 . 73 688.23 481.50 371.07 88.01 8278.89 

· · 4o9;569 : 78 11,310.00 849.44 68.84 
1s;235 : oo 

12,228.28 
31 , 033.39 5326 . 61 9506.63 2625.45 2674 . 00 66,401.08 1, 726,500 . 00 

8773.44 808.00 3771. 95 700.93 671.85 16,600.22 31,326.39 360,120 . 00 
8939.52 1370 . 21 3462 . 26 814.11 481.64 28,035.46 43,108.28 

.. 376 ; 868:24 10,362.67 903 . 66 2564.96 942.65 356.85 728.85 15 , 859.64 
6828.56 2163 . 63 2371.00 991.37 380.55 500.00 13,235.11 314 . 104.00 
6989 . 98 1282. 30 3836.66 730.28 688 . 87 1850 . 00 15,378 . 09 252,374.49 

13,193 . 00 3136.00 7185.00 1132.00 460.00 3688.00 28 , 794.00 491,648 . 00 
14,692 . 00 3250.00 3982...00 1432 . 00 741.00 1445.00 25 , 522.00 

. . 488;8i2:29 6224.93 2637.54 3113.46 674.83 544.35 253.87 13,548.98 
5340 . 00 992 . 40 2042 . 27 771.32 381.39 1644.15 11,171.53 ····· ··· ···· 
4800.00 133.48 2365.23 518.86 77.30 7894.87 

.. 8ii ;882:93 6400 . 00 2207.21 6347.58 2 23.69 153 . 28 16 , 131.76 
25,624.83 503.00 5533.767 1210.037 398 . 637 1179 . 757 34,450 . 007 638,968.64 

i3;i4o:oo 
4657.11 748.10 304.14 

3o;s67:oi . . 463: i82: 00 4099.00 7902.56 1907.32 2331.47 1486 . 66 
449 . 92 1348.75 1767.55 1305 . 07 540.69 259 . 65 13 , 037.69 J 307,732.00 

6875.00 2207.00 889 . 00 8 183.00 10,154 . 00 
.. 235 ; 245 : 6o 5019 . 95 1392.10 8633.06 556 . 50 1992.52 291.81 17 , 885.94 

5782 . 50 2824 . 85 3625.79 1009.12 464.45 262 . 74 13,969.45 
. . 242; i25:S5 6584.55 666. 34 1343 .65 989 . 75 527.12 1139 . 03 11,250.44 

5183. 33 2517.52 1781.03 914 . 76 531.00 1615 . 25 13,542.89 202,496 . 00 
6800.00 2094 . 52 1775 . 35 1032.47 430 . 91 416.23 12 , 549 . 48 236,597 . 00 

15,175.00 2971.00 4553.00 1418.00 500 . 00 1767 . 00 26,384.00 1,176,202 . 00 
4200.00 1908 . 70 1622 . 18 1205 . 54 260 . 64 519 . 53 9716 . 59 350 , 192.73 

18,539.77 8102.94 7661.42 1119.89 2118 . 58 37,542.60 1' 131,408.82 
47,340.31 21,142.70 24,218.37 3337.67 1764 . 53 10,920.47 108,724.05 ·· · ··· · ···· · 
19,250 . 00 4908.00 5740.00 721.00 421.00 1210.00 32,250.00 1, 732,275.00 
15,475.00 8843 . 30 8654 . 76 946 . 50 9 946.62 35,810.68 964,995.00 
21,700.00 1142 . 00 10,500.00 1600.00 2 450.00 35 , 392 . 00 628,445 . 00 
10,549.80 1099 . 45 8698. 6JIO 674.90 · 6o9 : 4o 344 . 20 21,976 . 36 346,868 . 40 
12,060.00 1000.00 5600 . 00 600.00 300.00 325.00 19,885.00 318,094.00 

47,340.41 21,142.70 24,218 . 37 3337.67 2674.00 28,035.46 108,724.05 1, 732,275 . 00 
10,046.24 2480 . 00 4604.06 989.75 540.69 1017 . 15 19, 885.00 491,648.00 

4800 . 00 808.00 688. 23 302 . 25 23. 69 88.01 7894.87 252,374 . 00 

Nov. 1, 1948. 8 Included in periodicals. 9 Operates own bindery. 10 Includes text books. 



Library 

Alabama, Jacksonville, State Teachers College .. . . ....... . .. . ........... . 
Arizona, Flagstaff, State College ....... ..................... . 
Arkansas, Conway, State Teachers College ....... . . ........ ... ......... . 
Colorado, Greeley, State College of Education ..... . .. ...... . .... . ...... . 
Geor~ia, Collegeboro, Georgia Teachers College ....... . ..... . .. . ........ . 
Illinms, Charleston, Eastern Illinois State College ... . ................ . .. . 
Illinois, DeKalb, Northern Illinois State Teachers College . ....... .. ...... . 
Iowa, Cedar Falls, State Teachers College ....... . .... . ....... . ........ . . 
Kansas, Emporia, State Teachers College ......... .. ... . .............. .. . 
Kansas, Pittsburgh, State Teachers College . . . . ......................... . 
Kentucky, Bowling G reen, Western Kentucky Teachers College ...... . .. .. . 
Kentucky, Murray, Murray State Teachers College ............... . . . . . . . . 
Maryland, Frostburg, State Teacher~Cgllege .............. .... ... .. . .. . . 
Maryland, Towson, State Teachers vollege . .......... ..... .... .. . . .. . .. . 
Michigan, Kalamazoo, Western Michigan College of Education ........... . 
Minnesota, Bemidji, State Teachers College . ... ... .... ..... .. ..... . ... . . 
Minnesota, Mankato, State Teachers College ........ .. ..... .. . . . . ...... . 
Minnesota, Moorhead, State Teachers College . ... .... . ..... . .... ... .... . 
Minnesota, Winona, State Teachers College ..... ... .. . ...... ............ . 
MissiBBippi, Cleveland, Delta State Teachers College ..................... . 
Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri State College . ........... .. . 
Missouri, Warrensburg, Central Missouri State College . .. .. . ... . ....... . . . 
Nebraska, Kearney, State Teachers College .. .. ... .. ..... .. . ............ . 
Nebraska, Peru, State Teachers College ...... .. . .. ... . . ..... .. ....... . . . 
New Hampshire, Keene, Teachers College . ...... .................. . .... . 
New Mexico, Las Vegas, Highlands University .. ..... .. .......... .. . . . .. . 
New York, Albany, State College for Teachers ......... . . ... ... . ........ . 
New York, Oswego, State Teachers College . .. .......................... . 
North Carolina, Greenville, East Carolina Teachers College . .......... .... . 
North Dakota, Minot, State Teachers College ... .. . . ............ . ....... . 
North Dakota, Valley City, State Teachers College .... ... . . ..... . .... . . . . 
Oklahoma, Alva, Northwestern State College ....... .. ....... . ... ..... . . . 
Oklahoma, Edmond, Central State College ...... ........ .... .. ... . ... . . . 
Oregon, Ashland, Southern Oregon College of Education .... .. .. . . . 
Oregon, La Grande, Eastern Oregon College of Education ..... ... ....... . . 
Oregon, Monmouth, College of Education .. . ... . .................... . . . . 
Pennsylvania, West Chester, State Teachers College . .............. .. .... . 
South Dakota, Aberdeen, Northern State Teachers College . ......... .. . . . . 
Texas, Commerce, East Texas State Teachers College ..... .. . . ........ .. . . 
Texas, Denton, North Texas State Teachers College . ................ . . .. . 
Texas, Huntsville, Sam Houston State Teachers College ... .. ..... . .. . .. .. . 
Texas, San Marcos, South west Texas State Teachers College .. .... . . . .... . 
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, State Teachers College .... .... . ........ . ..... .. . . 
Wisconsin, Oshkosh, State Teachers College . . .. . ........ .. .......... ... . 
Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Central State Teachers College ........... .... . ~ 

High .......... .. . .......... .... ........ ... ... ..... ............. . 
Median ... .... . ...... ....... . . ... ...... ..... ...... ..... .. ... . . . . 
I..ow . .. ........ .. ...................... . ... .. .. .. ........ . ..... . 

Teachers College and Normal School 
~----No. of Employees in Full-Time Equivalent-----~ 

Pro-
fessional 

7 
3 
6 
6 
8! 
7 
5{t 
6 
3 
1 
3 
8 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
6t 
3 
2 
2 
2 
2 
9-t 
4 
5 
3 
2 
2 
2 
I 
2 
2 
3 
1 
6 

15 
5 
71; 
6 
2 
4 

15 
3 
1 

Subpro-
fessional 

1 

1 
2 
I 
I! 
I 
2 
1 
1 

2 

2 

1 

1 
1 

2 

H 

Administrative 
Office 

Assistants 

1 

1 

.. 

Clerical 
and 

Others 

! 
3 

3 
1 
! 

Total 

10 
3 
7 
6! 

11! 
8 
6t 
8 
5 
2! 
4 

12 
3 
3 
3 
2 
3 
61 
6 
2 
2 
2 
2 

10t-
7 
5 
3 
3 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
4! 
2 
6 

15 
7 
71 
7 
3} 
4 

15 
4 
2 

1 Not reported. 2 Summers only. 3 Annual base pay. 4 Confidential. 5 Ten months, serve 2 summers out of 3 for i of this salary. 7 Plus $485.71 for 
summer session. 8 Plus $471.42 for summer session. 9 Plus $192.85 for su=er session. 10 Plus $733.32 for summer session (8 weeks). 11 Plus 742.86 and 



Library General and Salary Statistics 
-----------------------Salaries----------------------~ 

Associate or 
Assistant 

Chief Librarian 
Librarian No. Min. 

$3300.00 1 $2000.00 
I I 

4000.00 
3000.00 
5865.00 
4400.00 
4100 . 00 

4500 . 00 
4 

1 2600.00 

3540 . 00 . . . . .... . 
3850.0()5 .. 
3500.00 . . . ... . . . 
4800 . 0()5 

Department Heads 
No. Min. Max. 

3 $3100.00 $3300.00 

. 3 3850 . 00 3850.00 
3 2167.67 3685.00 
7 3100.00 3300.00 
6 2585.00 I 
4 2850 . 00 3500.00 
3 4 
2 2800.00 

2 2750.00 2750 . 00 
4 2800 . 0()5 3400 .0()5 

3100.00 1 2600.00 . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . 
3400. 007 1 3300 . 008 
3~00 . 0010 2600.0011 ••••••• 
3200.0012 1 3100 . 0013 .. 
3900.0014 1 2700.0014 
4920.00 1 4728 . 0015 2 3060 . 00 3264.00 
3600 . 00 . . . . . . . . . 2 2820.00 3420 .00 
3200.00 
2940.00 
2400.00 
3650.00 

0 0 3200.0() 
0. 2700 . 00 
0 0 2400.00 

5912.40 2 
3000 .00 
3780 . 00 
4050 . 00 4850.00 2 

4800.00 . . . ..... . 
3400.00 

4 2484 . 00 3036.00 
1 2400.00 
3 3000 0 00 3300 0 00 
2 2800.00 3000.00 

2820 .00 1 2500 .00 . . . .. . . . . 
3200.00 3200.00 . . . ..... . 
3600.00 1 3000.00 . . . ..... . 
3600.00 
4300 . 00 1 3200 .00 . . . ... . . . 
4300.00 1 3400.00 . . . ... . . . 
4138.0017 . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . 
3000 . 00 . . . ..... . 
4200 . 00 

I 

ssoo:oo 
4400.00 
4300 . 00 
3900.00 
4100.00 

5912.40 
3850.00 
2400.00 

1 3600.00 
1 4400.00 

47 ,280.07 
31,000.03 

2500.00 

5 3300.00 3500.00 
5 3200.00 

7 3850.00 3850 . 00 
3 2800 0 00 3300 0 00 
1 2167.67 2750.00 

Professional Assistants 
All Departments 

No. Min. M!J.x. 

0 0 0 ••• 0 0. 0 0 0 •••• 

2 $2600.00 $2700 . 00 

1 3685.00 
! 2400.003 

· · i 2ioo:ooa 
1 4 

3 2900 .0()5 3000.0()5 

2! 2700.00 3156.00 

2 2760.0Q18 ...... . 

1 2880.00 

2 3676.0018 3984 . 0018 

6 2700.00 3200.00 
3 2150.00 3000.00 
61 1500.00 2650.00 
4 2800. 00 3500 0 00 
1 3125.00 
3 2400.00 3200 . 00 

6i 3685.00 1.3984 . 00 
2 2760.00 3156.00 

~ -~ 1500.00 2400.00 

Subprofessional 
Assistants 

All Departments 
No. Min. Max. 

22 
1 $1440.00 

1 1200 .00 
1 4 
1 1800.00 
1! 1800 . 003 $3025 .00 
1 2310.00 
2 1830 . 00 1992 .00 
1 2200.00 
1 1350 .009 

2 1260.00 2400 . 00 

2 2160 . 00 

1 1540 . 00 

1 1963 .00 
1 2100 . 00 

1 2575.00 

2575 . 00"',' 3025 .00 
1800.00 2400.00 
1200.00 1992.00 

Clerical Administrative 
Assistants and Others 

All Departments 
No. Min. Max. 

... ::::::: ::::::: 
2 $1320.00 $1890 .00 

1 1800 . 00 
! 

3 1440.00 1560.00 
1 1800.00 

2 17~0 . 00 1770 . 00 

1 2400.00 

1 2400.00 

1 1839.84 
1 1600.00 

2 1860.00 1980 . 00 

1 1500.00 

2400.00 1980.00 
1 1800.00 1830.00 
li 1320 . 00 1560.00 

School, College, and 
Departmental Libraries 

Central Library Budget 
Head 

No. Min. Max. 

1 $2900.00 
1 2550.00 ...... 
2 3150.00 $3600 . 00 

l 4236 . 003 

2 3200.00 3600 . 00 

1 3300.00 
i .... .. . I 

1 4236.00 3600.00 
1 3200.00 3600.00 
! 2550.00 3600.00 

'857.14 for summer session (10 weeks). 12 Plus $457.14 for summer session. 13 Plus $442.86 for summer session. 14 Plus $500.00 for summer session. 15 Emerita 
l work. 16 Salary for 10 months. 17 Plus $600.00 for summer session. 18 9 months plus $500.00 for summer session. 



Teachers College and Normal School Library General and Salary. Statistics 

Library 

Alabr.ma, Jacksonville, State Teachers .College . . .... . ••... ... . ... . ... 
Arizona, Flagstaff, State Teachers College .. . .. . . ... .. . . .... .. . . . .. . . 
Arkansas, Conway, State Teachers College .. ... ... . . . ... . .. . . . .... . . 
Colorado, Greeley, State College of Education .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. ... . ... . 
Georgia, Collegeboro, Georgia Teachers College .......... . . . . . .... .. . 
Illinois, Charleston, Eastern lllinois State College .. . .... .... ... . ... . . 
lllinois, DeKalb, Northern lllinois State College . . .. . ..... .. ..... . ... . 
Iowa, Cedar Falls, State Teachers' College .. .......... . .. . ... .. . .... . 
Kansas, Emporia, State Teachers College . ...... ......... .. .... . . . .. . 
Kansas, Pittsburg, State Teacher& College . . . .. . . . .... .. .. . ........ . . 
Kentucky, Bowling Green, Western Kentucky Teachers College . .. .. .. . 
Kentucky, Murray, Murray State Teachers College . .. . .. . ... . .... . .. . 
Maryland, Frostburg, State Teachers College . .. ........ . . . ... .. ... . . 
Maryland, Towson, State Teachers College . . ....... . .... .. .. . ... . .. . 
Michigan, Kalamazoo, Western Michigan College of Education .. .. . . . . 
Minnesota, Bemidji, State Teachers College . .. . ......... . ....... .. . . 
Minnesota, Mankato, State Teachers College ... . .... . ... . . . .. . ... . . . 
Minnesota, Moorhead, State Teachers College .. ... ... . ............. . 
Minnesota, Winona, State Teachers College . . ..... ... .. . ........... . . 
Mississippi, Cleveland, Delta State Teachers College .. . . .. ....... . .. . . 
Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri State College .. . .... . .. . 
Missouri, Warrensburg, Central Missouri State College .............. . . 
Nebraska, Kearney, State Teachers College .. ... ... ........ . . . ... . ... . 
Nebraska, Peru, State Teachers College .. . .. ....................... . 
New Hampshire, Keene, Teachers College . . . . .. . .... . ....... . ... ... . 
New Mexico, Las Vegas, Highlands University . ...... . . . .... . . . .. .. . . 
New York, Albany, State College for Teachers .... . . . .... . ... ... ... . . 
New York, Oswego, State Teachers College .. ... ...... ... .. .. . . ..... . 
North Carolina, Greenville, East Carolina Teachers College ....... . .. . . 
North Dakota, Minot, State Teachers College ... . , . . .... . . . ....... . . . 
North Dakota, Valley City, State Teachers College .. . ... ... .. . ... . . . . 
Oklahoma, Alva, Northwestern State College . . . ... . ............ .. .. . 
Oklahoma, Edmond, Central State College .. . ........ .. .. .... .. ... . . 
Oregon, Ashland, Southern Oregon College of Education ....... . ... . . . 
Oregon, La Grande, Eastern Oregon College of Education . ... . .. . .... . 
Oregon, Monmouth, College of Education . . . ..... . . .. . .. . ... . .. . . . . . 
Pennsylvania, West Chester, State Teachers College .. ... . .... . .. . ... . 
South Dakota, Aberdeen, Northern State Teachers College . . .. ... . . . . . 
Texas, Commerce, East Texas State Teachers College .... .... . ... . . . . . 
Texas, Denton, North Texas State Teachers College . .... . ... . . .. . ... . 
Texas, Huntsville, Sam Houston State Teachers College . .. .. . ... . . . .. . 
Texas, San Marcos, Southwest Texas State Teachers College ... . ... . .. . 
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, State Teachers College . .. ...... ... . ..... .. .. . 
Wisconsin, Oshkosh, State Teachers College ... . . .... . ... ..... ... ... . 
Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Central State Teachers College . . .......... . 

High ..... . ..... . . . .. . . .. ... .. .. . . . .. ....... .. ..... .. .... . .. . 
Median .. ... ... ... . . . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . . . . . .... . ... .. . . ... . . . . 
Low ... ... . .. . . ... .. . . . . . . ... ... . . .... ... . . . ... . . . .... .. ... . 

Student Service Last Fiscal Year 
Total Hours Rate per Hour 

for Year Min. Max. 

7320 
834 

8735 
28,405 

8026 
10,556 

8150 
18,598 
16,780 

1 

9608 
7122 
776 

1698 . 
8897 
1616 
3044 
2008 
4307 
2890 
7840 
8126 

1 

2481 
267 

4414 
768 

1 

10,510 
2700 

1 

.. . 1 

7063 
1002 
4099 
3490 
2972 

1 

22;5i5 
48 , 715 
12 , 269 
19,652 

5285 
1965 
3000 

48,715 
5285 

267 

25 
50 

40 
1 

40 
50 

1 

45 
40 

1 
. 30 

40 
50 
50 
50 
45 
45 
50 
30 
40 
40 
35 
40 

1 

50 
50 
·so 
39 
40 
40 
50 
40 
60 
55 
60 
40 
40 
35! 
40 

1 

40 
50 
60 
50 

60 
45 
25 

40 
50 

50 
1 

50 
60 

1 

55 
65 
30 
30 
50 

1 

60 
50 
45 
45 
55 
40 
40 

1 

50 
1 

so 
50 
50 

1 

39 
50 
40 
50 
40 
75 
70 
75 
40 
50 
35! 
60 
40 
75 
60 
60 
60 

75 
50 
30 

Hours per Week Required 
of Each Fulltime 

Staff Member 
Pro- Subpro-

fessional fessional . 

40 
4()4 

38 
40 
39 
35 
37 
40 
39 

39-40 
40 
40 
35! 
35 
42 
38 
40 
43 
38 
44 
42 

1 

40 
40 
44 
37! 

1 

39 
40 
4010 
4412 
38! 
40 
41! 
40 
40 
4312 
40 
40 
40 
40 
3814 
41 
38 

44 
40 
35 

44 
44 

39-40 

40 
35! 
35 

42 
1 

37t 
1 

3011 

40 

41 
4312 

44 
40 
30 

No. of Days Allowed with Pay as: 
Annual Vacation Special Holidays 
Pro- Pro-

fessional Clerical fessional Clerical 

3 

20 

3D-32 
6 

None 
None 

20 
27 
26 
25 
18 
15 
15 

2 
2 

None 
None] 
None 
None 

30 
11 

1 

18 

307 
22 

1 

3 

N~·ne 
30 

30 
24 
24 
26 

13 

None 
24 
21 
18 
21 
12 
30 
30 
30 

30 
24 
11 

16! 

10 
12 

11 

22 
20 

35 

is 
24 

18 

35 
18 
10 

3 

13 

14..:16 
48 

24-26 
24 

20 
5 

10 
18 
20 
12 

2 

. ~1 

14 
6 

'5 
61 
15 
7 

18 
25 
8 

11 
1 
2 

15 
15 

13 

14 
14 
5 

10 
20 
20 
30 

1 

20 
1 
15 

18 
26 

61 
16 
5 

11 
11 

i5 

15 
9 
5 

Sabbatical 
Leave 

None 

P~~f~si~nal 
None 
Professional& 
Professionals 
None 
Professional 
Professionals 
None 

None 

N~~~ - .. 
Professional 
Professionals 

1 

P~~f~si~nals 
None 

2 

P~~f~l~nal5 
1 

None 

None 
Professional9 
None 
None 

1 

iih;~~i~~ 
Professionals 
Head Librarian 
None 
None 
None 
None 
None16 
None 
Nonel7 
None17 
None17 

1 Not reported. 2 Same as faculty. 3 Library open only when school is in session. 4 Librarian 
62 hrs. per week. 5! salary. 6 Legal holidays. 7 Librarian only. 8 Librarian and two assistants may be 
granted·. 9 Half salary for 12 weeks in academic year; does not apply to summer school. 1 0 Su=er 45. 

11 Su=er 35. 12 Su=er 40. 13 No policy. 14 Su=er 3·6. 15 All school holidays and vacations. 
16 Will apply to staff when it comes. 17 Every 3rd su=er off with pay. 



Personnel 

R ALPH WENDELL McCoMB, associate li-barian at the Pennsylvania State 
College Library since January I947, succeeded 
Willard P. Lewis as college librarian on 
September I. 

Mr. McComb, a native of Manquin, Va., 
is a graduate of the University of Chicago, 
Ph.B. I929, and of the University of Illinois 
Library School, B.S. in L.S. I932 and M.A. 
I936. He has also completed a major portion 
of the work for his doctorate at the Graduate 
Library School, University of Chicago. 

Ralph Wendell McComb 

Before assuming his position at Penn State, 
Mr. McComb served as reference assistant 
at the Newberry Library in Chicago, I929-
3 I, as assistant in the circulation and catalog 
departments of the University of Illinois, 
1933-36, as reference librarian, acting 
librarian and assistant librarian at Tulane 
University Library, I936-40. He served in 
the Army Medical Corps from I942 through 
I945 and was overseas for 3 I months. 

Because of the breadth and variety of his 
library background McComb is an ideal suc-
cessor to Mr. Lewis. His combination of 
specialized library work at Newberry and 
general university library work at Illinois, 
Tulane, and Penn State-plus an unusually 
pleasant and engaging personality-fit him 

APRIL~ 1949 

admirably for the new responsibilities he has 
recently assumed. 

While in New Orleans Mr. McComb was 
active in the Louisiana Library Association 
and L'Athenee Louisianais and is now serving 
as secretary of the Standards and Certifica-
tion Committee of the P.ennsylvania Library 
Association. 

Mr. Lewis, librarian of the Pennsylvania 
State College since I 93 I, became associate 
librarian with a year's leave of absence effec-
tive September I. An increasing measure of 
ill health prompted Mr. Lewis to shed the 
responsibilities of the librarianship. He will 
continue to maintain an active interest in the 
work of the library.-M.F.T. 

MARY ELIZABETH MILLER, who succeeded Eleanor Falley as liprarian of Goucher 
College on January 3, brings to her new 
assignment a wide variety of successful ex-
perience. Beginning as a circulation and 

. reference assistant in the McGregor Public 
Library at Highland Park, Mich., Miss 
Miller went to the Swarthmore College Li-
brary as a cataloger after she received her 
library degree from Michigan. Later she 
was the cataloger in charge of the education 
college section at the Harvard College Li-
brary, and since I945 she has been a member 
of the staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. 
She was the last director of the Pratt Library 
Training Class and, in September I945, be-
came the library's first personnel officer. 
Thus Miss Miller has a background of both 
college and public library service, in staff 
as well as administrative work. 

Miss Miller has made a significant con-
tribution to the organization ·of the Enoch 
Pratt Free Library in her establishment of 
the personnel office through the coordination 
of related activities. This was especially so 
during the immediate postwar years, when 
there was a continued scarcity of personnel 
and related problems of constant salary ad-
justments to be met. To her tasks Miss 
Miller brought unbounded enthusiasm and an 
intense desire to establish personnel policies 
that would reflect the most advanced thinking 
in this particular field. 

Concurrently with her work at Enoch 

173 



Pratt, Miss Miller carried on heavy com-
mittee assignments in the Public Libraries 
Division, the Cataloging and Classification 
Division, and the Joint Committee on Re-
cruiting, all of the American Library Asso-
ctatwn. She was also active in Maryland 
Library Association committee work. 

Librarians in Maryland are delighted that 
Miss Miller remains on the local scene and 
her associates at Pratt extend their best 
wishes to her in the new, challenging job in-
volving the construction of a library building 
on the new Goucher campus in Towson.-
Emerson Greenaway. 

EUGENE P. WILLGING has been appointed director of the Catholic University of 
America Library. Since the death of the 
Rev. Francis A. Mullin in January 1947, 
Mr. Willging has been acting director and 
prior to that he served as assistant director. 

A native of Dubuque, Iowa, and a gradu-
ate of Loras College in 1931, Mr. Willging 
completed professional library courses at the 
University of Michigan in 1932 and later 
took graduate work at Michigan in 1934 and 
Columbia University in 1937 . . After a year's 
experience as a ·cataloger at the Catholic 
University Library, he became librarian of 
the University of Scranton (then St. Thomas 
College) in 1933. In 1941 he became acting 
manager of the Diocesan Guild Studios in 

Eugene P. Willging 

Scranton and served there until his transfer 
to Catholic University in September 1946. 

From 1938 to 1941 Mr. Willging was ex-
ecutive secretary of the Catholic Library 
Association and editor of the Catholic Li-
brary World ,· in 1941 he became co-founder 
of Best Sellers~ a semi-monthly book review-
ing organ of general literature. His com-
pilation, The Index to American Catholic 
Pamphlets has been published regularly since 
1937· 

Appointments 
Dr. Mortimer Taube, who has been chief 

of the science and technol<_)gy project at the 
Library of Congress, has resigned to accept 
a position with the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion as assistant director of its technical in-
formation branch. He will continue to serve 
as a consultant in scientific documentation to 
the Library of Congress. 

Dr. Dorothy G. Williams has been granted 
a leave 'of absence from her position as cu-
rator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro 
History and Literature, New York Public 
Library, to serve as fundamental education 
specialist with UNESCO in Paris. 

Dr. Frances L. Spain, librari"an and head of 
the department of library science of Win-
throp College since 1936, has been named 
assistant director of the Graduate School of 

Library Science of the University of South-
ern California at Los Angeles. 

Wesley C. Simonton, supervisor of the 
processing unit, catalog department of the 
Columbia University Libraries, has been ap-
pointed chief catalog librarian arld assistant 
professor of library science at the University 
of Minnesota. 

Philip ]. McNiff, who has been on the 
Harvard University Library staff since 1942, 
has been appointed librarian of the new La-
mont Library for undergraduates in Harvard 
College. Other administrative appointments 
in the Lamont Library are: Frank N. Jones, 
general assistant; Morrison C. Haviland, in 
charge of the reference department; and Ro-
land H. Moody, in charge of the circulation 
department. 

174 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Boniface E. Moll, librarian of the Abbey 
Library, St. Benedict's College, Atchison, 
Kan ., since 1939, has been recalled by the 
Department of the Army for a three-year 
tour of extended active duty in order to ac-
cept an assignment as instructor and librarian 
on the staff and faculty of the Chaplain 
School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Helen D. 
Baird has been appointed acting librarian in 
his absence. 

A recently completed administrative reor-
ganization of the Columbia University Li-
braries has resulted in the following person-
nel changes. Richard H. Logdson, assistant 
director in charge of reader services, is now 
associate director. Assistant director Charles 
W. Mixer has been transferred from general 
administration to technical services. John H. 
Berthel, librarian of Columbia College, is 
now Nicholas Murray Butler librarian. 
William Burlington, engineering librarian, has 
been assigned the physical sciences as well. 
As reported in our last issue, Thomas P. 
Fleming has assumed responsibility for the 
biological sciences as well as the medical li-
brary of the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons. Helen H. Yerkes has been appointed 
personnel officer. 

Robert 'W. Lovett has been granted a 
three-year leave of absence from the Har-
vard University Archives to head the manu-
scripts division of the Baker Library of the 
Harvard Business School. 

Alice Day, member of the referen~e de-
partment staff of the Columbia University 
Libraries has been appointed reference li-
brarian of the School of Business of the U ni-
versity. 

Arvy F. Ligon has been appointed librarian 
of Hillsboro College, Hillsboro, Te.x. 

Dr. A. S. Wolanin, formerly librarian and 
assistant curator of the Archives and Mu-
seum in Chicago, is now chief librarian of 
the Alliance College Library in Cambridge 
Springs, Pa. 

Frank Seegraber is now reference librarian 
of Boston College. 

Ruth Seabolt has been appointed head 
cataloger and Herbert L. Ganter, curator of 
rare books and manuscripts at the library of 
the College of William and Mary. 

The following appointments have been 
made to the staff of the University of N e-
braska Library at Lincoln: Janice T. Woods, 

APRIL, 1949 

assistant librarian, humanities division; Floyd 
R. Meyer, assistant librarian, social studies 
and education division; Betta Axelrod, as-
sistant librarian, College of Law; Marjorie 
W. Lindsey, assistant librarian, College of 
Agriculture; Dorothy C. Hickey, assistant li-
brarian, documents department. 

Ruben W eltsch, reference librarian at Ken-
yon College, Gambier , Ohio, became refer-
ence librarian of the Rice Institute Library, 
Houston, shortly after the first of the year. 
During the past summer Mr. Weltsch was 
librarian at the UNESCO seminar on teach-
ing about the United Nations and its spe-
cialized agencies held in Garden City, N.Y. 

Selda Arginteanu is now administrative as-
sistant and head of the catalog department of 
the Newark Colleges of Rutgers University. 

Martha R. Cullipher, formerly head of cir-
culation and reference at Goucher College 
Library, Baltimore, is now reference librarian 
of Washington and Lee University, Lexing-
ton, Va. 

George S. Bonn has been appointed librar-
ian of the Technological Institute Library of 
Northwestern University. In addition to his 
professional training at ·chicago, Mr. Bonn 
holds an engineering degree from Ohio State 
University and has had experience as a re-
search engineer. 

Robert D. Marston has succeeded Mar-
garet Sandlin as head librarian of Sterling 
College, Sterling, Kan. 

Ernest J. Reece , former Melvil Dewey 
Professor of Library Service at Columbia 

1 University, is visiting professor of library sci-
ence at the University of Illinois for the 
present semester. Professor Reece is study-
ing some features of the new curriculum and 
conducting a seminar for doctoral candidates 

· in the school. 
William J. Elliott has been appointed order 

librarian of Colgate University. 
Helen F. Shumaker is now head of the 

acquisitions department of the University of 
California at Los Angeles. 

Dr. Fritz Veit, law librarian of the U.S. 
Railroad Retirement Board, Chicago, has 
been appointed director of libraries of Chi-
cago Teachers College and Woodrow Wil-
son Junior College. 

The following administrative changes have 
occurred at the University of California Li-
brary at Berkeley in the past year: Carolyn 

175 



Hale, who was until 1947 head of the re-
served book department at Berkeley, has been 
appointed head of the library school library. 
Dorothy Mattei, formerly on the staff of the 
general reference service, is now head of the 
reserve book department. Joyce L. Steven-
son, formerly readers' librarian in the Welles-
ley College Library, has been appointed assist-
ant head of the loan department. Helen M. 
Porterfield, who has been on the staff of the 
social sciences reference service, heads the new 
serials department of the library, established 
October I. Assistant head of the department 
is Mary Parsons, formerly head of the binding 
department. Alan D. Covey, formerly head of 
the library photographic service, became assis~-

ant head of the EJ?gineering Branch Library 
last August. Mr. Covey's position in the li-
brary photographic service has been filled by 
William R. Hawken. 

Isabelle Farnum, naval research librarian 
with the Port Hueneme Advanced Base 
Depot, is now head of the Engineering Li-
brary, University of Southern California. 
Dr. Gertrud Lobell has been named head of 
the science library. 

Clara Douglas has b.een appointed serials 
librarian of the Louisiana State University 
Library. 

Helen Forsberg, former serials librarian of 
the University of Washington Library, is 
now librarian of the geology library at L.S.U. 

Necrology 
Erich von Rath, librarian emeritus of the 

University of Bonn and chairman of the 
Wiegendruckkomission, died in Bonn on 
August 31. Professor von Rath is well 
known for his work on the Gesamtkatalog 
der Wiegendrucke. 

Philip S. Moe, librarian of the College of 
Medicine on the Omaha campus of the Uni-

versity of Nebraska, died on Aug. 27, 1948. 
A recreational reading room, established with 
the aid of the Philip Moe Memorial Fund 
by the Medicine Alumni Association, has been 
opened in the medical library. 

John Edward Goodwin, librarian emeritus 
of the University of California at Los An-
geles died at Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 1948. 

Retirement 
Helen A. Bagley, who has been a member 

of the faculty of the Drexel Institute of 
Technology School of Library Science since 
1926, retired at the end of the last academic 
year. Miss Bagley has been active in the 
profession since joining the staff of the John 
Crerar Library in 1905. 

Edna C. Noble has retired after forty-five 

years of service to the library of the College 
of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska. 
One y~ar had been spent working in the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture on a leave of 
absence. Miss Noble is a graduate of N e-
braska Wesleyan University and took her 
professional library training at Illinois. 

Personnel Changes in Foreign Libraries 
On June I, 1948 Dr. Josef Bick retired 

as generaldirektor of the Oesterreichische 
N ationalbibliothek in Vienna and assumed his 
new duties as generalinspizierender of all 
Austrian libraries. Dr. Josef Stummvoll, 
who has been visiting in the United States, 
is acting generaldirektor. A handsome 6oo-
page Festschrift was published in Dr. Hick's 
honor in May. 

On April 15, 1948 Dr. Josef Becka re-
signed as librarian of the National and U ni-

versity Library in Prague. He was succeeded 
in this office by Dr. Vih~m Zavada. Ing. Sava 
Medonos was appointed director of the library 
of the Prague Technological Institute on 
March 1, 1948. Dr. Zavada has written to the 
compiler of this list that "the reorganization of 
Czechoslovak librarianship is still in progress." 

Dr. Franz Funck-Brentano, former li-
brarian of the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, died 
in Paris in 1947. 

Lawrence S. Thompson 
.l 

176 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Ne-ws from the Field 
Rice Estes, assistant li-

A cquisitions, Gifts, brarian, University of · 
Collections Southern California, re-

ports that U.S.C. re-
cently purchased the Heinrich Gomperz 
Library of Philosophy. Considered one of 
the finest philosophical collections, the Gom-
perz Library contains approximately 1 I,ooo 
volumes and 2,000 pamphlets. The collec-
tion, originally built up by the prominent 
Viennese philosopher, Theodore Gomperz, 
was inherited by his son, Heinrich, who in 
1936 was appointed a professor of philosophy 
at the University of Southern California. 
Chronologically, the collection includes nearly 
every important philosophical contribution 
from the Petrus Lombardus of 1485 to works 
published through 1934· It contains over 
500 rare items and many of the basic tools 
needed for research, including a number of 
the rarer journals and serials. The collec-
tion is particularly rich in German philoso-
phy, strong in the classics, and also provides 
outstanding material on religion, esthetics, 
and philology. 

Theodore Steinway, president of Steinway 
and Sons,· New York City, donated to Bard 
College Library, Felix E. Hirsch, librarian, 
his collection of H. G. Wells first editions. 
This collection, consisting of about 500 Eng-
lish and American first editions of H. G. 
Wells' works and of pertinent literature on 
Wells, is one of the three largest Wells col-
lections in this country and the largest yet to 
be made available to the public. Bard Col-
lege Library already owns some famous first 
editions of English authors from Dickens to 
Hardy, but this is the largest single donation 
to be made to the special collections of the 
library. 

In December Williams College, Williams-
town, Mass. received the bulk of Paul White-
man's music library. This addition to the 
Whiteman Collection, already established at 
Williams, provides the largest single collec-
tion of modern concert and dance music in 
~my American college or university. The 
collection, begun in 1935 with a gift of some 
500 phonograph records, has been increased 
in subsequent years by hundreds of scores 
and parts of the Whiteman orchestra. It 

APRIL, 1949 

provides an opportunity for students of music 
to study the development of many forms of 
modern music and the progress that has been 
made in arranging for the large and small 
orchestra. The collection contains a wide 
variety of orchestral scores; useful material 
concerning the biography of jazz and popular 
music. The student of modern concert music 

· will find the commissioned pieces and other 
larger works of interest. George Gershwin's 
works are well represented in the collection. 
The "Rhapsody in Blue," presented on Feb. 
15, 1924, in Aeolian Hall by Paul Whiteman, 
is among the notable Gershwin works. All 
the parts played by the Whiteman orchestra 
that winter evening are included and they 
show some interesting last minute revisions. 
The work of America's popular music ar-
rangers is also available to the interested stu-
dent. Williams College hopes to increase 
the usefulness of the Whiteman Collection by 
the addition of composers' and arrangers' 
noteboC!ks, original manuscripts of works of 
various American composers and conductors, 
and biographical and concert program ma-
terial. Roy Lamson, Jr., was appointed 
curator of the collection in 1946. 

Northwestern University Library reports 
the acquisition of a large collection of Afri-
can newspapers, periodicals and pamphlets as 

. a gift from the University Museum of the 
University of Pennsylvania. This gift is ex-
pected to provide effective support to the 
African research program of the Department 
of Anthropology. A large part of the col-
lection consists of government publications. 
Important data on the geography, climate, 
vegetation and geology of the many colonies 
are documented in them. They also con-
tain source material on the political and so-
cial organizations of the tribal groups of 
each colony. "Not the least significant aspect 
of this acquisition is the demonstration of 
inter-university cooperation and division f 
labor it gives." The University of Pennsyl-
vania will place emphasis on studies of North 
Africa, while Northwestern will specialize 
on Negro Africa. American resources for 
training and research in the field of African 
studies will, for the first time, provide cov-
erage of the entire continent. Northwestern's 

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collections of anthropological Africana will 
be systematically developed with the help of 
a three year grant from the Carnegie Cor-
poration of New York. 

The library. of the University of California 
at Los Angeles has busied itself during the 
last few years in adding significant holdings 
to its collection of English Victorian novels. 
This acq~isitions program has become a ma-
jor campaign and the results of this cam-
paign are well worth mention. Standard 
authors are well represented but 769 titles, 
most of them three volume works by lesser 
known writers, have also been acquired. 
U.C.L.A. now has one of the finest collec-
tions in this field in the country. 

A statement from Dr. Louis B. Wright, 
director of the - Folger Shakespeare Library, 
reminds us that the American public thinks 
of the Folger Library as primarily dedicated 
to Shakespeare. He points out that actually 
its collections go far beyond Shakespeare and 
even beyond merely literary materials. The 
wider scope of the collection is emphasized 
by the acquisition in 1938 of more than 10,000 
rare volumes from the library of Sir Leicester 
Harmsworth, the English newspaper mag:-
nate. These books, all published before 1641, 
cover most phases of human life and make it 
possible for the student to reconstruct an ac-
curate picture of English society during the 
period in which England acquired the overseas 
bases that: made its later imperial develop- · 
ment possible. 

The Folger Library intends to maintain its 
status as the world's greatest Shakespeare 
collection but it further intends to go far 
beyond Shakespeare in its efforts to supply 
materials that will make possible detailed 
studies of Shakespeare's age and the age that 
followed. 

The new Woodrow Wilson Room at the 
Library of Congress was formally dedicated 
on Saturday, January 8. It contains the 
books personally acquired and used by the 
twenty-eighth president during his life. 
Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress, 
officiated at the ceremony and Mrs. Woodrow 
.Wilson, who presented her husband's library 
to Library of Congress in - 1946, participated 
in the ceremonies. Francis P. Gaines, presi-
dent of Washington and Lee University,· de-
livered an address in appreciation of Presi-

dent Wilson's achievements. 

Ohio State University announced 
Buildings in November that it had 

completed plans for its new 
$2,500,ooo library addition. The addition, 
totaling 1,6oo,ooo cubic feet or 140,500 square 
feet, will more than double present space in 
the main library. The present three main 
floors, plus basement, will be extended to 
provide two reserve rooms on the first floor, 
two subject reading rooms on each of floors 
two and three, immediately p.dj acent and 
giving direct access to the stacks, and circula-
tion desk and processing departments on the 

· first floor. The stacks, eight feet high, will 
begin on floor two and rise 12 stack levels. 
They will be equipped with 440 carrels of 
two sizes, 30 seminar rooms located on the 
mezzanine stack floors, and two meeting 
rooms on the twelfth level. Ohio State's 
23,500 students and 2,500 faculty will de-
pend upon a continuously-running electric 
conveyor to deliver their books at the circula-
tion desk where an annunciator of I 50 num-
bers will announce completion of book re-
quests. Book capacity of 1,2oo,ooo volumes 
in the new stacks will increase the total ca-
pacity of the building from 400,000 to 
1,6oo,ooo. Seating capacity will be increased 
hom 725 to 1,8oo. An alternate in the heat-
ing and ventilating bids includes air condi-
tioning in the new stacks and the four new 
reading rooms. Exact types of lighting fix-
tures are still undetermined, although both 
fluorescent and incandescent lights will be 
used. Expansion beyond the present addi-
tion is envisaged as wings on the new reading 
rooms. If ground is broken early in 1949 it 
is hoped that construction of the new addition 
will be finished sometime during 1950. 

Harvard's fine new Lamont Library for 
undergraduates was dedicated in a ceremony 
held on January 10. During December, 
8o,ooo books were moved into the new quar-
ters. The Lamont Library is planned on the 
open shelf principle, so that almost all books 
are directly accessible ·to the student. Enter-
ing the library, the student passes through the 
stacks and picks out his book on the way to 
the reading room. In leaving, he returns 
through the stacks, leaving his book on the 
way to the door. 

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In November Dr. Carl 
Committees, Con- M. White, in his ca-
ferences, Curricula pacity as secretary of 

the Conference of 
Eastern College Librarians, invited a com-
mittee to consider the possibility of cancel-
ing plans for the conference in I949· The 
appointment of this committee was deemed 
necessary considering the newly planned re-
gional meetings of the A.L.A. The commit-
tee considered the problem and portions of 
the report made to the members of the con-
ference during the November I 948 meeting 
follow: 

"The committee recommends that there be 
no meeting of the Conference of Eastern 
College Librarians in I949· The committee 
recommends further that the members of this 
conference give their interest and active sup-
port to their respective A.L.A. regional meet-
ings in I 949· 

"The committee regards this report as a 
temporary one and recommends to the secre-
tary that a new committee be appointed to 
consider the scope and the nature of future 
meetings, after experience with regional 
A.L.A. meetings, in I949·" 

A majority of those attending the I948 
meeting approved the recommendations of 
the committee. 

The Graduate Library School of the Uni-
versity of Chicago announces that the I949 
library conference, to be held from August 
8-I3, will deal with the reports of the Public 
Library Inquiry. 

Grants, 
Scholarships 

The Carnegie Corporation 
has granted $37,000 to the 
University of Chicago for 
the preparation of teaching 

materials for library schools. The members 
of the faculty of the Graduate Library School 
and of the college at the University of Chi-
cago have planned a two-year project to pre-
pare and produce instructional material which 
will provide students with knowledge of lit-
erature in various fields and with criteria for 
judging books and relating them to the prob-
lems of the readers. 

It has been announced by Elmer M. 
Grieder, librarian of West Virginia Univer-
sity Library, that the General Education 
Board of New York has granted West Vir-

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gtma University $I5,000 for the purpose of 
strengthening the library's collection of pe-
riodical, yearbook and other serial material. 
The terms of the grant require that it must 
be matched by an equal amount from local 
sources. 

President Robert E. Doherty of Carnegie 
Institute of Technology reports that a $35,000 
grant by the Buhl Foundation of Pittsburgh 
has completed a library book fund drive fO'r 
$11o,ooo. Book purchases will be part of a 
cooperative program in which the Carnegie 
Library of Pittsburgh, the University of 
Pittsburgh Library and Carnegie Institute of 
Technology are coordinating the use of their 
libraries and their buying in order to mini-
mize duplication and to insure adequate 
library facilities for the growing educational 
and research needs of the Pittsburgh area. 

The United Nations Educa-
Publicati~ns tional Scientific and Cultural 

Organization has appointed 
Columbia University Press as its official 
agent in the United States for the distribu-
tion and sale of its publications. 

Although UNESCO has been publishing 
books, pamphlets and documents for about 
two years, Americans have hitherto been n·· 
quired to deal directly with the organiza· 
tion's headquarters in Paris. Through In· 
ternational Documents Service, a division of 
its press, Columbia will now be able to supply 
directly from stock in this country any 
UNESCO publications which are on sale to 
the public and which have been issued in 
furtherance of its educational projects. New 
publications will be issued in this country by 
Columbia whenever UNESCO has additional 
printed material to offer. 

A dozen books and pamphlets and three 
periodicals are already available. Among the 
former are a handbook on the teaching of 
handwriting, a survey of school psychologists 
throughout the world, studies of the educa-
tional needs of war-devastated count~ies, and 
official reports of UNESCO conferences. 
The periodicals are Museum, an illustrated 
quarterly art review, Bulletin for Libraries, 
and UNESCO Courier, a monthly journal 
of news of the organization and its work. 

Columbia University Press is also the offi-
cial agent for the publications. of international 

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organizations. In 1937 it became the Ameri-
can agent for the League of Nations, many 
of whose books and documents are still avail-
able. 

With the support of the Rockefeller 
Foundation, the Library of Congress is spon-
soring the publication of a series of 16 ex-
tended essays dealing with various aspects of 
American civilization in the twentieth cen-
tury. The tentative title selected for the 
series is "The Library of Congress Series in 
American Civilization." Each volume is in-
tended to present a synthesis of the historical 
background, with emphasis on the recent 
background, and an analysis of the achieve-
ments of the American people in that aspect 
of our civilization with which it deals. 
Where appropriate the volumes will present 
and discuss the contemporary pr9blems con-
fronting our people. In general the series 
will attempt a survey of American civilization 
as it exists in the middle of the twentieth 
century. 

Stanley C. Hlasta, assistant head of the 
Carnegie Institute of Technology Department 
of Printing Administration , is preparing for 
publication "Basic Type Faces ; and How to 
Use Them." The book will be published 
during the fall of 1949. It describes and 
tells how to use close to IOO different type 
faces ranging from the Venetian through con-
temporary periods (including old English and 
Bible types), and directs the intelligent use 
of these types in the book, magazine, and ad-
vertising fields. 

The Library of Congress has issued A 
Tribut e to Thos e Young M en of th e Library 
of Congr ess Who Gave Th eir Lives in th e 
World War , I94I-I945 · A poem, "The 
Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak," by 
Archibald MacLeish, is included in the book-
let which contains the photographs and biog-
raphies of the fifteen promising young staff 
members of L.C. who made the supreme 
sacrifice. 

The Library of Congress continues to pub-
lish many worth while publications of inter-
est to librarians . Among recent publications 
received are C ent ennial of th e Or egon T er-
ritory Exhibition , S ept emb er I I , I948-l anu-
ary II, I949 (65¢, Supt. of Documents); On 
th e M eaning of Music, a L ectur e D eliv er ed 
by Glen Haydon (Free, Information and 
Publications Office, Library of Congress) ; 
R ef er enc e Not es on th e Press in Europ ean 

Countries Participating in th e European R e-
covery Program (prepared bi the European 
Affairs Division, Harry J. Krould , Chief , 
25 ¢, Card Division , L.C.); T extbooks: Th eir 
Examination and Impro ve m ent (prepared by 
the European Affairs Division , $r.os, Card 
Division , L.C.). 

The United States Department of State 
has issued the R eport of th e Unit ed Stat es 
Library Mission to Adv iser on th e Es·tablish-
ment of th e Nat ional Diet Library of ·] apan 
(Publication 3200, Far East ern S eries 27). 
Th~ letter of transmittal is signed by Charles 
H . Brown and Verner W. Clapp. 

Kathryn C. Cassidy and Joy Redfield are 
the authors of Library Classification and Se-
lect ed Bibliography of Traffic Engineering 
Lit eratur e, published by the Yale University 
Bureau of Highway Traffic, 1948. 

The United Board for . Christian Colleges 
in China, ISO Fifth Avenue, New York II, 
has issued Th e Libraries of th e Christian 
Colleg es of China. This is a report of a 
survey made in I947-1948 by Charles B. 
Shaw, librarian of Swarthmore College. Mr. 
Shaw delves into all aspects of the 13 college 
libraries involved in the survey. His conclu-
sions and recommendations involve such mat-
ters as technical difficulties, future of li-
brarianship, education for librarianship, west-
ern librarians, book stock, gifts, reference 
service, techniques, lighting, temperature con-
trol and cooperative activities . 

Teachers college librarians will be inter-
ested in Community R ecr eation , A Guide to 
Its Organization and Administration by Har-
old D. Meyer and Charles K. Brightbill. Dr. 
Meyer, professor of sociology at North 
Carolina, and Mr. Brightbill , national di-
rector, Recreation Service, Veterans Ad-
mtmstration, have produced a complete 
roundup of community recreation in Amer-
ica. Recreation technique s are emphasized. A 
workshop section follows each chapter, as 
well as a section in references. The book is 
published by D. C. Heath ( 1948, $s.oo). 

R. H. Whitford and ]. B. O'Farrell, of 
tht> College of the City of New York Li-
brary staff, are the authors of "Use of a 
Technical Library" in the December 1948 
issue of M echanical Engin eering. 

Use Your Library is the title of a new 
guide to the resources and services of the 
University of Notre Dame Library. The 
handbook for students was prepared by a 

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staff committee consisting of Irma Bonicelli, 
Pauline Ramsey, William M. Setty, and Wil-
liam A. Kozumplik, chairman. 

Walter H. Kilham, Jr., is the author of 
"Planning the Princeton Library," in the 
1 ournal of Higher Education, December 1948. 

Yos emite, th e Big Tre es, and th e High 
Sierra: A S el ective Bibliography, by Francis 
P. Farquhar, has been issued by the Univer-
sity of California Press ( 1948, $7.50). Mr. 
Farquhar discusses 25 titles in this interest-
ing and excellently printed volume. Refer-
ences to many related works are included. 

The Library 1 ournal for Dec. 15 , 1948, 
contains a series of articles on library build-
ings of interest to C. & R. L. readers. In-
cluded are "New Library 'Humanistic Lab-
oratory,' " by Frederick S. Osborne, dealing 
with the Harvey S. Firestone Library at 
Princeton; "Library First on Building Pro-
gram," by Charles M. Adams, concerning the 

. plans for a library at 'Woman's College of the 
University of North Carolina; "Pasadena 
Pioneers Building Planning," by L. Herman 
Smith, describing the Pasadena City College 
Library under construction; "Few Barriers in 
Building," by Wyman W. Parker, describing 
plans of the Kenyon College library; and 
"Planned a Building for Future Needs," by 
Donald E. Thompson, providing information 
about the plans of the new library for Mis-
sissippi State College. All of the articles 
contain floor plans and other illustrations. 

The University of Nebraska Libraries now 
issue a new house organ, Cornhusk er Li-
brarian, edited by Arline Wilcox. It con-
tains staff news, general news items and in-
formation concerning library organization and 
administration. 

Mississippi State College Library now 
publishes a mimeographed informational news 
bulletin dealing with library affairs. 

Fourteen outstanding Southeastern scien-
tists have been named to the advisory board 
of a new scientific journal which will record 
technological progress in eleven Southeastern 
states. Serving without compensation, the 
scientists will consult on editorial and scien-
tific policies of the new publication. Their 

, objective will be to promote the technological 
development of the Southeast through scien-
tific research. The first issue of the journal 

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appeared in January. Its title is The ] our-
nal of South east ern R esearch. This publica-
tion will provide Southeastern engineers and 
scientists with their own medium for attack-
ing common problems and recording research 
results. 

A survey has recently been 
Miscellany made of the Engineering So-

cieties Library, New York, 
according to Ralph H. Phelps , director. The 
library, founded 35 years ago by four engi-
neering societies, currently serves 40,000 en-
gineers. The survey was undertaken for the 
purpose of determining ways by which the 
library could become of even greater value 
to members of the four societies and to engi-
neers in general. Mr. Richard K. Wood su-
pervised the survey which was financed by a 
grant from the Engineering Foundation. 

Those interested in public relations for li-
braries may procure information concerning 
the program and activities of the Library 
Public Relations Council by writing Miss 
Mary L. Kent, Branch Office #2, Veterans 
Administration, 299 Broadway, New York. 
The Council's New York and Cleveland 
chapters ' hold monthly meetings. People out-
side these areas can share in its activities, 
however, since full reports of the meetings 
and speeches are mailed regularly to the en-
tire membership. In addition packets of 
outstanding public relations materials from 
libraries and other sources are sent to mem-
bers several times a year. The membership 
fee for · these services is $2.00 a year. 

The . New York Public Library commemo-
rated its IOOth anniversary during the week 
of November 22-28. The Gutenberg Bible, 
the Bay Psalm Book , the Tickhill Psalt er, 
the final draft of Washington's Farew ell Ad-
dr ess and the famous first editions through 
the centuries were among the "One Hundred 
Treasures" placed on public exhibition. 

Maurice F. Tauber and William H. Jesse 
are engaged in a survey of the libraries of 
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks-
burg, V a. The survey is being sponsored by 
the General Education Board. 

Louis R. Wilson and Robert W. Orr are 
surveying the libraries of the Alabama Poly-
technic Institute at Auburn. 

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