College and Research Libraries Notes from the A C R L Office TH E H A M P S H I R E Inter-Library Center, Inc., in western Massachusetts may well be a very significant development in library economy. T h e purposes of the Cen- ter deserve careful study by all college librarians. T h e annual report for its first year of operation is available from the Center's Secretary, Newton McKeon, li- brarian of Amherst College. T h e corpora- tion is a cooperative book storage and selection project by three close neighbors, Smith, Amherst, and M t . Holyoke with participation by the Forbes Library in Northampton and the University of Massa- chusetts in Amherst. A standard text states four principal missions for the college library:* "to provide the study and reference materials required for supplementing classroom instruction . . .; to encourage students to use books inde- pendently as a means to the acquisition of knowledge; to provide the technical and specialized study materials needed to keep the faculty abreast of their fields for teach- ing purposes; to provide as far as possible the materials for research needed by indi- vidual faculty members." As we look at these missions and the needs of Amherst, Smith, and M t . Holyoke Col- leges, it is apparent that each institution must always provide its own materials to supplement classroom instruction. Each college will likewise have no trouble in supplying the books needed for the en- couragement of students in the independent use of books. For both purposes no very large collection of books and related materi- als is required, provided freshness and in- terest are maintained by regular flow of additions and withdrawals. I t is as we look at the library's obligation * Guy R Lyle. The Administration of the College Library. N . Y . Wilson, 1949 (2nd ed.), p. 24. to faculty needs that the Hampshire Inter- Library Center assumes an important role. While each of the colleges concerned has a better than average library and very con- siderable endowment, no one of the three could completely meet the need for materi- als to keep the faculty abreast of their fields for teaching purposes. And not even Har- vard University, with its vast library system and financial resources, provides fully the research materials needed by individual faculty members. It is in these two areas that the Center should play an important role, and that other, now unborn, centers will exercise great influence on educational standards in other neighborhoods. During its first year the Center sub- scribed to 119 periodicals, by the common agreement of all three faculties. Ninety- eight of these titles were previously taken by one, two, or three of the libraries (180 sub- scriptions). T h e remaining 21 titles are new to the area. T h u s cooperation makes available more journals than before at less cost. Current issues are circulated to all libraries, but back volumes are kept on the Center's own book shelves in South Hadley. These few paragraphs do scant justice to a new form of library cooperation which I believe should have a great future, and I mention it in these columns because the Center has not received the spotlight of pub- licity which it should have. T h e general conditions under which the Center is grow- ing to f r u i t f u l service exist all over the country. T h e pattern can be altered to fit local need and conditions. I spoke on this general subject recently at the Southeastern Library Association, and the paper will be printed in its publication, SELA. * * * T h e Illinois State Association met in Springfield in October, and I was present JANUARY, 1953 79 to speak on A C R L chapters. Essentially, a chapter is nothing more or less than a device to help bring closer together the national and the state or local library pic- tures. T h e chapter is a subdivision of sorts. It is an entity like A C R L but on a smaller scale. It has complete freedom of action and interest. Since the chapter is small, it gives interested A C R L members consid- erable opportunity to participate in projects, to hold office, and to exercise leadership in other ways. Such activity inevitably leads to better knowledge and more contact with the national association. T h e leaders in chaptei affairs will certainly have their opportuni- ties to lead in national A C R L activity. Chapters, like ball players, inevitably have good and poor seasons. None of their good works will be performed automatically. I hope that chapters will lead to all sorts of cooperative activity. T h i s might take the form of the collection of statistics, or liberal interlibrary loan arrangements for a given area, or even developments such as the Hampshire Inter-Library Center. At the business meeting the section voted to seek chapter affiliation with A C R L . Action on this will be taken by the A C R L Board of Directors at their next meeting. * * * Since late August I have taken two long trips to represent A C R L . T h e first of these was to the Mountain Plains Library Asso- ciation meeting in Rapid City, South Da- kota, then on with stops in Montana and Washington, to the Pacific Northwest Li- brary Association meeting in Victoria, B.C. Late in October I attended Southeastern in Atlanta and made stops on the way. Both trips were interesting professionally and personally. I visited a score of college libraries going and coming. In some cases I met with faculty committees or presidents and in other cases spent only an hour or so looking over the collection and discussing library problems with staff. T h e regional association meetings afford a much better opportunity to talk to people and pick up ideas and attitudes than our huge annual conference and midwinter meeting. A t the latter it is only human nature for an executive secretary to show a lined and worried face to the world. Several members have suggested a few personal anecdotes from these trips: riding with a mailman on his R . F . D . route through the Rockies and inserting the mail in the boxes on the right-hand side (Labor Day morning) ; seeing two wild moose from the road in Montana, the first outside captivity I have ever seen in spite of considerable time spent in the Maine woods; the ever- lasting, continuous, wicked forest fires through which I drove for at least 150 miles in the wee hours between Cincinnati and Knoxville; eating buffalo meat in the Black H i l l s ; the rollicking good humor that would bubble forth at P N L A meetings; the dreari- ness of any station between 1 and 6 A.M. ; the bus driver expounding on Hemingway's new novel; the great physical beauty of our land which can be found in any region and the understandable pride of state and region on the part of those who live there. * * Lawrence S. Thompson, chairman of the A C R L Publications Committee, will be glad to receive more manuscripts to be pub- lished as ACRL Monographs. An occa- sional issue may be devoted to a group of short articles on related professional sub- jects. Faculties of library schools are urged to suggest ACRL Monograph publication to the authors of very superior papers on suitable subjects. * * * A tentative schedule of the Los Angeles Conference next J u n e (21-27) has just come to my desk. This shows for the period between lunch on Monday and dinner on 80 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Friday exactly six periods (morning, after- noon, and evening), which are not taken by A L A general sessions, Council meetings, and free periods during which other events cannot be scheduled. In other words, all A L A boards and committees, all the di- visions with their committee activities, and all the sections and other organizations must fit into these six periods. T h e alterna- tives are the very undesirable Monday morning or Friday night spots, or pre- and post-conference arrangements with attend- ant special expense. Members with ideas, please step to the stage. * * * Under the first year of operation with the new dues scale the income of the divisions increased 2 7 % over the previous year (as- suming all divisions had been on the experi- mental divisional support plan) and A L A ' s income from members allotting to divisions increased 4 9 % . An analysis of the complete figures of A C R L members who joined during the months of January, February, and March 1952 (well over half our membership) shows that the average member, personal and institutional, paid $9.85. Of this A L A took $4.98 or 50.6%, other divisions re- ceived 570 or 5.8%, and A C R L received $4.31 or 43.4%. T w o years ago A C R L received approximately 53.8% of the mem- bership dollar paid to A L A by A C R L members. T h e percentage allotted to divisions is controlled by the A L A Executive Board. A decline from 53.8% to 43.4% in two years is a matter of grave concern to all A C R L members. —Arthur T. 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A C R L Treasurer s Report and A L A Accommodation Account,1 1951-52 INCOME A L A Allotment to A C R L f r o m Dues $ 1 9 , 4 1 9 . 2 0 Additional Section Dues 105.So Montana State U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y S u r v e y 395-49 U n i v e r s i t y of Notre Dame L i b r a r y S u r v e y Administration 334-00 Registration F e e s , B u i l d i n g s Institute 226.27 Group Insurance Premium R e f u n d 2 4 . 3 1 S e c r e t a r y ' s S h a r e T . I . A . A . P a y m e n t 325.00 A I . A L i f e Memberships in A C R L A s s e t s of Cooperative Committee on L i b r a r y Buildings 2 078.80 R o y a l t i e s — U n i v e r s i t y Microfilm 4-5o S a l e of A C R L Monographs 1 3 6 . 3 4 R e t u r n of Check f o r A L A Washington Office Support 400.00 L i b r a r y B i n d i n g Institute U s e of A C R L Addressograph Plates 58-34 Miscellaneous Income 24.00 Total Income $ 2 2 , 1 7 4 . 5 0 EXPENDITURES n , Budgeted A c t u a l C & R L Subvention $ 3,750.oo $ 2)544.04 A L A Washington Office Support 400.00 400.00 A n n u a l Conference E x p e n s e s 150.00 - A C R L Quarterly Newsletter 500.00 424.61 A m e r i c a n Council in Education Membership 100.00 Council in National L i b r a r y Assoc. Dues 10.00 10.00 C . N . L . A . A m e r i c a n S t a n d a r d s Committee Z 3 9 5-oo 5-00 Section E x p e n s e s : College 75-00 3 1 - 1 7 Tunior College 75-oo 39-27 P u r e & Applied Science 100.00 — R e f e r e n c e 100.00 78.09 Teacher T r a i n i n g 75-oo 85.78 U n i v e r s i t y 7S-oo 3 1 . 2 1 Committee E x p e n s e s : Audio V i s u a l 100.00 5 1 . 4 2 Administrative Procedures 100.00 — B u i l d i n g s 450.00 87.78 Constitution and B y l a w s 25.00 — F i n a n c i n g " C o l l e g e & Research L i b r a r i e s " 100.00 •— Duplicates E x c h a n g e 25.00 — I n t e r l i b r a r y L o a n s 100.00 1 1 4 . 1 6 Preparation & Qualifications f o r L i b r a r i a n s h i p 50.00 — Publications 150.00 608.87 S t u d y Materials f o r Instruction in U s e of L i b r a r y 25.00 •— Membership 175-00 186.97 Recruiting I75-00 44-95 Statistics 100.00 35.00 Policy 2 5 - o o — Officers' E x p e n s e s : President 25.00 25.00 T r e a s u r e r T O . 0 0 10.00 General Administrative ( I n c l u d i n g T r a v e l ) 850.00 8 3 3 . 1 2 E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y T . I . A . A 600.00 650.00 (Includes Sept. 1 9 5 2 ) E x e c u t i v e Office E x p e n s e s : S a l a r i e s 3 : 1 1 , 1 0 0 . 0 0 1 1 , 6 8 3 . 7 9 T r a v e l of E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r y 900.00 688.79 Social S e c u r i t y T a x e s — i2'3.02 Addressograph 100.00 88.83 Group I n s u r a n c e P r e m i u m W o r k m e n ' s Compensation . . . . . ' — 62.82 N e w Equipment 100.00 — Communications, Supplies, E t c 400.00 565-29 Totals $ 2 1 , 1 0 0 . 0 0 $ 1 9 , 5 0 8 . 9 8 Balance on H a n d September 1 , 1 9 5 1 $ 1 1 , 2 9 0 . 7 8 Balance on H a n d September 1 , 1 9 5 2 $i3>965-30 1 Some A C R L f u n d s are credited and debited at A L A headquarters, and adjustments are made when A L A pays dues allotments to A C R L , based upon this "Accommodation A c c o u n t . " 2 T h i s committee was dissolved in 1952' and turned over its assets to A C R L . 3 A L A E x e c u t i v e B o a r d Action was taken J u l y 1 9 5 1 , which automatically raised this previously budgeted salary figure to a point equal to or higher than the expenditures. 82 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel K E N N E T H H. F A G E R H A U G H took over the W I L L I A M S. B U D I N G T O N , librarian of the duties of his new position as librarian of Engineering and Physical Science Libraries at Carnegie Institute of Technology on August Columbia University has been appointed as- i. He moved to this position from the John sociate librarian of the John Crerar Library, Crerar Library where he had served as as- Chicago, Illinois. M r . Budington holds sistant librarian since September 18, 1950. a Bachelor's Degree Prior to this time, :L-r from Williams Col- beginning April 1, ^ f l M H j ^ lege and the Virginia 1948, Mr. Fager- '' J B I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ k ' Polytechnic Institute haugh had served as " K I (Electrical Engineer- research librarian in J J H f a ^ - — J ing). In addition, he H m charge of Research f t I holds the Bachelor's Information Service, TJ| Degree and the the new department ^ f e ^ y * Master's Degree J k Crerar Library ^ from the Columbia f ^ B j k which does library School of Library trial and govern- , „ . „ . 0 _ his professional ca- Kenneth H. mental agencies. ^ llham S• Budington reer jn library work Fagerhaugh After graduating at Norwich Univer- from Luther College, sity where he served as Reference Librarian M r . Fagerhaugh taught chemistry for four during 1941 and 1942. This work was years before taking his professional training interrupted by service in the U. S. Army from in librarianship at the University of Michi- 1942 to 1946 including two years of work gan. Following library school, he worked i n engineering and research at Oak Ridge, for a year as a chemist for E. I. du Pont Tennessee. He joined the staff of the Co- and in August, 1943, was assigned by that lumbia University Libraries as Engineering company to the plutonium project of the Uni- Librarian in 1947. A year later in 1948 he versity of Chicago at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. assumed responsibility also for the Physical In that position, he was in charge of the Sciences Libraries (Chemistry, Physics and library and the classified files at the Clinton Mathematics). Laboratories. Later he was librarian for a His work at Columbia was outstanding not year with Rohm & Haas Company in Phila- only as a divisional supervisor but in his par- delphia and then became technical librarian of ticipation with other supervising librarians in the research and development branch of the shaping overall library policy. He was par- Military Planning Division of the Office of ticularly successful in his work with mem- the Quartermaster General in Philadelphia. bers of the faculty in developing the collec- In addition to this position, he was also serv- tions and in making library services effective ing as Acting Chief of the Technical Informa- in the research and instructional programs of tion Section at the time he moved to the the Engineering and Physical Science De- John Crerar Library. partments. He served also as a member of As an active member of Special Libraries the faculty of the School of Engineering Association, M r . Fagerhaugh has held a num- teaching a course in Engineering Library ber of committee and group appointments. Technique for all students. The many He served as president of the Illinois Chap- qualities which he exhibited continuously in ter of SLA while in Chicago, and is at pres- his work at Columbia, intelligence, a keen ent a member of the Executive Board of the analytical mind, directness, and good judg- national association. ment will, I am sure, be valued at John —Herman H. Henkle. Crerar as they were at Columbia. J A N U A R Y , 1953 83 In his promotion to the associate librarian- ship of the John Crerar Library, Budington joins the increasing number of librarians in positions of major responsibility who have experience in the Columbia Libraries to their credit. His many friends and supporters here, both on the Library staff and on the Faculties will be following his career with interest and high expectations.—Richard H. Logsdon. V I O L A G U S T A F S O N , of the John Crerar Li- brary staff since November 5, 1947, was ap- pointed assistant librarian in charge of acqui- sitions and processing on June I, 1952. Prior to this appoint- ment she had served successively as as- sistant chief cata- loger, chief cataloger, and chief of the Technical Services Department. A graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College, Miss Gustafson had served as assistant to the senior cataloger and classifier at the Uni- versity of Chicago from 1930 to the time of her appointment to the Crerar staff. In 1943, she served for three months as a Co- operative Cataloging Fellow at the Library of Congress. One of her present responsi- bilities is supervision of Crerar's classified catalog project, now in progress under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.— Herman H. Henkle. J A M E S ISAAC C O P E L A N D has been appointed librarian of the Peabody College Division of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tennessee. He succeeds M r . John E. Burke, who has resigned in order to devote himself to the completion of his Ph.D. work at Pea- body. M r . Copeland is no stranger at Peabody or in Nashville. After graduating from Presby- terian College in 1931, receiving his B.A. de- gree cum laude, he came to Peabody for the period September 1931 to January 1936. In this period he took first his Library Science degree in 1932 and his M.A. degree with a major in history and minor in education in 1934, graduating with highest honors and re- ceiving the Sullivan award. While at Pea- body he worked in the Reference and Periodical Depart- ments of the Library. From 1936 to 1942 he was librarian of Furman University and from there he went to his alma ma- ter to serve as librar- ian from 1942 to 1945. During the summers of 1938 through 1940 he at- tended the University of Chicago to do ad- vanced work in edu- cation and library science. Since 1945 M r . Copeland has been on the campus of the University of North Carolina either as a graduate student, working for the Ph.D. degree, or as a staff member of the University Library in reference work, as Head of the Division of Government Docu- ments. He has completed course require- ments for the advanced degree, majoring in history and minoring in education. M r . Copeland was born and reared in Clinton, South Carolina and the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation is History of Public Education in South Carolina. M r . Copeland will bring to his work at Pea- body excellent training and a rich experience in library and educational work.—A. F. Kuhlman. J E S S E H. S H E R A has been appointed Dean of the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University, effective September 1, Dr. Shera has deep roots in Ohio, for he was born in the southern part of that state, and received his B.A. degree, with honors in English, from Miami Univer- sity in Oxford, Ohio. Later he received his M.A. degree in Eng- lish from Yale Uni- versity and a Ph.D. James Isaac Copeland 1952. Jesse H. Shera 84 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES in Library Science from the University of Chicago. His dissertation, published as Foun- dations of the Public Library, was favorably received by historians as well as by librarians and is widely used as a text in library schools. His apprenticeship in librarianship was served .as administrative assistant to the li- brarian in the Miami University Library, where he later served as Bibliographer and Research Assistant in the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems from 1928 to 1938. From his experience here and, later, in Washington as Chief of the Census- Library Project and as Assistant Director of the Central Information Division of the Office of Strategic Services, Dr. Shera de- veloped a keen appreciation of the im- portance of special librarianship and a first-hand knowledge of the problems in- volved in providing adequate specialized serv- ices. He hopes to carry forward the solid pioneering work in that field for which Western Reserve University has already established a considerable reputation. His administrative experience was further en- riched by a term of service as Assistant Di- rector of the University of Chicago Libraries prior to his appointment to the faculty of the Graduate Library School. Always active in professional associations, Dr. Shera has held a number of committee appointments in both ALA and SLA. Ohioans may remember him as chairman of the College and University Section of the Ohio Library Association in 1936. Most re- cently he has been serving as chairman of the Committee on Bibliography of the ALA, in which capacity he wrote the U.S. report on bibliographic services in this country and served as U.S. delegate to the U N E S C O Conference on the Improvement of Biblio- graphic Services which was held in Paris in November, 1950. Although he is probably best known for his Foundations of the Public Library, Dr. Shera is also co-editor of Bibliographic Or- ganization, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1951, and has written several essays for compilations in both li- brarianship and history. In addition, he has been a constant contributor to the Library Quarterly, American Documentation, College and Research Libraries, and the official organs of such associations as the ALA, SLA, the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. His interests, as expressed in his writings, are primarily in library history, bibliographic organization and classification, and the theory of librarianship out of which a sound program of professional education must grow.—Margaret E. Egan. HAROLD G. R U S S E L L , associated with the University of Minnesota libraries since 1919, has been appointed assistant director of li- braries. M r . Russell came to Minnesota September 1, 1919, as head of the circulation department. In 1921, he became head of acquisitions, serving also, on a part-time basis, as a faculty member in the library instruction division. Since 1932, he has served as chief reference librarian. His new post is de- scribed as assistant director for collections and bibliographic services. In this capacity, he will have general responsibility for all problems relating to the "resources" side of the library's administration. All units and departments of the library will deal directly with him on questions concerning the selec- tion, care and disposition of library materials. Mr. Russell will also work with the Midwest Interlibrary Center. Angus S. Macdonald, president of Snead and Co., ended 47 years of service to the company when it was sold recently to Globe-Wernicke Company of Cincinnati. M r . Macdonald joined the staff in 1905 after graduation from the Columbia University School of Architec- ture. M r . Macdonald is completing contracts made by the Snead Company prior to the sale and discontinuing all other commercial activi- ties. His experience and training will still be available to the library world as a consultant. M r . Macdonald does not intend to practice as an architect but to serve architects, librarians, and trustees in connection with their building problems on a per diem basis. He will con- tinue to make his home at Orange, Virginia. JANUARY, 1953 85 Appointments Muriel Baldwin, formerly acting chief of the Art Division, New York Public Library, has been appointed chief. She succeeds Eleanor Mitchell, who is now in Rome, Italy. Roy P. Basler, formerly executive secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association, has been appointed chief of the General Reference and Bibliography Division of the Library of Congress. Ethel Bond will be lecturer in librarianship, University of California, for the spring se- mester. Robert F. Cayton was appointed periodical librarian at the University of Cincinnati Library on October i, 1952. He was formerly a member of the Catalog Depart- ment of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Library. Howard Francis Cline has been appointed director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress. He succeeds Lewis Hanke, now professor of Latin American history at the University of Texas. Russell Fossett has been appointed adminis- trative assistant and instructor in library sci- ence at the State Teachers College, Bridge- water, Massachusetts. Margaret Fulmer is now an instructor in the division of library instruction, University of Minnesota. Budd L. Gambee, film librarian and as- sistant professor of library science, Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, will teach under a Fulbright grant at the American College for Girls and Ibrahim Uni- versity, Cairo, Egypt. Bruno Green, formerly assistant librarian, Rutgers University Law School, is now li- brarian of the Syracuse University Law School and assistant professor in the School. Mary G. Greene has been appointed senior cataloger in the Vassar College Li- brary, Poughkeepsie, New York. She was formerly catalog librarian at Central Wash- ington College of Education Library, Ellens- burg. Archibald Hanna, Jr., has been ap- pointed William Robertson Coe librarian of the Yale Collection of Western Americana. Dr. Hanna, who has been in charge of cata- loging the extensive Coe Collection, has been senior cataloger and research assistant at the Yale Library since 1949. In addition to his responsibilities for the Coe Collection, Dr. Hanna will also be librarian of the Benjamin Franklin Collection of the Yale Library. The announcement of the appointment coin- cided with the completion of the cataloging of the Coe Collection and with the publication by the Yale University Press of a 400-page Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Western Americana Collection. Johann Hannesson has been appointed curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection of the Cornell University Library. He suc- ceeds Kristjan Karlsson, curator since 1948. Erie P. Kemp, formerly of the University of Miami staff, is now head of the Acquisitions Department, Columbia University. Mrs. Alice McBride Hansen, formerly librarian of Pennsylvania College for Women, has been appointed librarian of the Mills Memorial Library at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. She succeeds Paul Kruse. Allen T . Hazen, professor of library serv- ice at Columbia University, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the year 1952-53 to complete a study of the library of Horace Walpole. Richard J . Hofstad, formerly circulation librarian of Georgetown University, Wash- ington, D.C., has been appointed assistant librarian for acquisitions at that institution. Percy M . Hylton has been appointed li- brarian of Carthage College, Carthage, Illi- nois. He was formerly reference and circula- tion librarian of the Missouri State Library. Marjorie Elizabeth Karlson, reference as- sistant in the rare book room at Yale Uni- versity since 1949, has been appointed senior librarian in the reference department of the Louisiana State University Library. William A. Kozumplik, formerly assistant librarian of Oregon State College, has been appointed assistant librarian of the Air Uni- versity Libraries, Maxwell Field Air Base, Alabama. Harold Lancour, associate director of the University of Illinois Library School, is on a year's leave of absence from his post to serve as director of the State Department's library service program in France. William R. Lansberg has been appointed head of acquisitions of the Baker Library of Dartmouth College. Howard H. Lapham will serve as acting 86 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES librarian of West Virginia University, Morgantown, while Charles E. Butler is on leave of absence to work on a novel about Ireland. Charles T . Laugher has been appointed head of readers' services, Bowdoin College Library. Robert M . Lightfoot, Jr., bas been ap- pointed assistant librarian of the Air Uni- versity Libraries, Maxwell Field Air Base, Alabama. Frances Low has been appointed librarian of the College of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. Nina J. Mahaffey has been appointed assist- ant librarian of the Rose Polytechnic Institute Library, Terre Haute, Indiana. Lucy W . Markley, formerly librarian of Union Theological Seminary, New York, has been appointed head of the catalog depart- ment of the Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadel- phia. Robert F. Munn has been appointed head of the reference department of the West Vir- ginia University Library, Morgantown. Arthur S. DeVolder has been appointed head circulation librarian with the rank of assistant professor at the University of Oregon Library; Jean Wang and Elizabeth DeGree have been appointed acquisition li- brarians and Edward P. Thatcher has been appointed science librarian. The last three have the rank of instructor. Edith M. Owen, formerly assistant librarian of University College, Swansea, Wales, has been appointed readers' services librarian at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. The following appointments have been made at the University of Pennsylvania Library: John P. McDonald was named head of the Reserve Book Department, when Mary Eliza- beth Feeney, a one-time in-service trainee, be- came the librarian of the newly established University Hospital Library; Flora L. Dei- bert has been appointed head of the Reference Department; Mrs. Eleanor B. Allen, formerly associate librarian, has been made librarian, Lippincott Library; Harriet W . Lawrence, formerly associate librarian, Lippincott Li- brary, has left for California to take a tempo- rary position as assistant law librarian at Stanford University, Stanford, California. J. Mitchell Reames, formerly reference li- brarian of Clemson College, was appointed assistant librarian in charge of readers' serv- ices at Northwestern State College, Natchi- toches, Louisiana, on September I, 1952. C. Easton Rothwell has been appointed director of the Hoover Library of Stanford University. Harold C. Fisher will continue as chairman of the Library and of the Insti- tute. N. Orwin Rush, director of the University of Wyoming Library, has a Fulbright Fellow- ship to study library cooperation in England for nine months in 1952-53. Jeanette Stanford has been appointed to the staff of the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. Juanita Terry has been appointed reference librarian of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, succeeding Ethel Richmond, who has retired. Nathan van Patten, professor emeritus of bibliography, has been appointed curator of the Memorial Library of Music of Stanford University. H. Lynn Womack, formerly stack super- visor in charge of service to readers at the Armed Forces Medical Library, has been appointed associate librarian of Georgetown University. Necrology Dr. Abraham L. Robinson, librarian and professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, died August 4, 1952. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Robin- son joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh and received his Ph.D. from there in 1926. An outstanding scientist and scholar, Dr. Robinson took on the additional duties of acting Librarian of the University of Pitts- burgh from 1 9 4 4 - 1 9 4 9 , and became University Librarian in 1949. In recognition of his notable service to the University of Pittsburgh, a Robinson Memorial Fund has been estab- lished to purchase books for the University Library. Miss Lois Criswell, assistant catalog li- brarian at Oregon State College since 1943, died in Portland, Oregon, on October 9, 1952, after an illness of several months. Miss Criswell, early in her career, was JANUARY, 1953 87 associated with several public libraries in Washington and Oregon. In the past thirty years she was employed by the Universities of California and Idaho, the Oregon College of Education, where she was assistant librarian from 1923 to 1943, and Oregon State College. She reached retirement age earlier this year but had been retained on the library staff to finish a major reclassification project she was directing. J . Kingsley Birge, consultant in Turkish bibliography to the Library of Congress, died in Istanbul-Bebek on August 14, 1952. Rev. Leo I. Hargadon, librarian emeritus of Fordham University, New York, New York, died on July 16, 1952 at the age of seventy-one. Joseph Ibbotson, librarian emeritus of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, died on June 30, 1952 at the age of eighty-two. C. Edwin Wells, librarian emeritus of Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville, Missouri, died recently at the age of seventy- five. Retirements Pierce Butler, professor of library science since 1931 in the University of Chicago Grad- uate Library School, retired in June 1952. A volume of essays printed as a special issue of the Library Quarterly was presented to him upon his retirement. Foreign Libraries Palle Birkelund was appointed Rigsbibliote- kar (director of the Royal Library in Copen- hagen and administrative head of the Danish library system) on October 1, 1952. His predecessor, Svend Dahl, has retired on ac- count of ill health. Willi Gober was appointed director of the University of Halle Library on April 1, 1952. Walter Hoffmann, leader in the German public library movement and author of such important works as Die Lektiire der Frau, died in Leipzig on April 24, 1952. Sir Frederick Kenyon, formerly director of the British Museum, died on August 23, 1952. Dr. Helmut Mogk has been acting director of the University of Leipzig Library since April 1, 1950. Luxmoore Newcombe, director of the Na- tional Central Library in London, died on May 25, 1952. Ernst Wermke has been appointed director of the library of the Technische Hochschule in Munich. He was formerly director of the Vroclaw Public Library. Graduate Assistantships The University of Florida Libraries is offering two graduate assistantships in the academ'c year 1953-54 f ° r study leading to a master or doctoral degree in a subject field other than library science. Graduate assistants work approximately 15 hours per week in the library, assisting in bibliographical research in their field of study. Stipend is $1200 for a nine-month period and holders of assistantships are exempt from out-of-state tuition fees. The deadline for filing formal application is March 31, 1953. Inquiries are invited, especially from librarians or students in library schools who are interested in advanced work in subject fields. Applications should be made to: Director of Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 88 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Guild of Book Works, A.I.G.A. The Guild of Book Workers, an affiliate of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, wishes to advance the knowledge of the conservation, repairing, and hand binding of rare materials. Toward this end it wishes to cooperate with library organizations to spread the knowledge of the bookbinding craft among librarians. It also wishes to cooperate with libraries in the presentation of basic processes to the general public. The Guild is preparing a traveling exhibition to show the principal steps in fine binding. This exhibition will be available to libraries for the cost of transportation. Application should be made to the Guild of Book Workers, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 13 East 67th Street, New York 21, New York, and state preferred dates. For the larger library meetings and conventions, the Guild may be able to furnish a craftsman to demonstrate the various steps in fine binding and repair of books and manu- scripts. Normally this craftsman would set up a portable shop at the conference for one or for several days and would demonstrate and explain his work informally to any who gathered around. In the application for this type of exhibition the approximate square-footage of space that could be made available should be mentioned. Application should be made at least two months in advance. The Guild will undertake to provide speakers on subjects relating to its field to meetings of librarians. In some cases it may be able to provide some of these services to library schools and to individual libraries. It is interested in dissemination of knowledge about its field of activity and will charge only for such basic costs as materials, travel, etc. For further information contact Robert Melton, president, the Guild of Book Workers, at the address given above. U. of C. Offers Scholarships The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago is offering several fellowships and scholarships for the academic year 1953-1954. Three cash fellowships of $1100 each, and several full tuition and half tuition scholarships will be awarded. Awards will be made on the basis of the candidates' academic record and general promise of ability to carry on research and to contribute to the profession of librarianship. Application blanks and additional information may be obtained from the Office of Ad- missions, Room 203 Administration Building, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois, or directly from the Graduate Library School. Applications must be received in the Office of Admissions no later than February 15, 1953. Subscription Policy Change in Publication The Board of Directors of Serials Round Table announces a change of policy with regard to subscriptions to its official publication, Serial Slants. Serial Slants is distributed free to all members of Serials Round Table. However some memberships have been accepted in the Round Table from persons who were not members of the ALA. Beginning in 1953, only ALA members will be eligible for membership in Serials Round Table. The member- ship fee is $1.00. Others interested in receiving Serial Slants quarterly can do so by sub- scribing at the rate of $2.00 per year. Memberships and subscriptions should be sent to the secretary-treasurer of Serials Round Table, Shirley Taylor, at 2533 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, Calif., and not to the editor. Editorial correspondence should be directed to Elizabeth Kientzle, at the John Crerar Library, 86 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 1, 111. JANUARY, 1953 89 News from the Field The library at South- Acquisitions, Gifts, western College, Win- Collections field, Kansas, in coopera- tion with the fine arts division of the college, has established a new department in the library. A record player with three sets of earphones has been placed in the main reading room and a record library of approximately 500 discs made available to the patrons. The Regents of the University of Minne- sota have entered into an agreement to accept as a gift at some future date the Ames Library of South Asia, a unique regional col- lection of books, maps, charts and other materials relating primarily to South Asia— the area usually interpreted to include Pakis- tan, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon and Burma. The library represents 45 years of continu- ous collecting from sources throughout the world by Charles Lesley Ames, vice president of the West Publishing Company of St. Paul. The outstanding feature of the library is that it brings together in a compact collection material pertaining to India and South Asia insofar as it has been possible to acquire such material. It is a library concentrated on one particular segment of the world, and while much of the same material would be found in a few large libraries such as the Library of Congress, it would be classified and dispersed under a multitude of subject headings. Under the terms of the gift to the Regents, the Ames Library will become a specialized unit of the University libraries sometime on or before June 29, 1961, to be maintained in perpetuity primarily as a regional library. Bard College Library, Annandale-on- Hudson, New York, has recently received a collection of more than 1,000 volumes in con- nection with the donation of the famous Blithewood Estate to the college. The for- mer owner of the estate, the noted bibliophile Mr. Christian A. Zabriskie, has long taken an active interest in the development of Bard College Library. He let the library have the books in his mansion, most of which had been gathered by his father M r . Andrew C. Zabriskie. This collection contains many un- usual volumes on the history of New York State, especially Dutchess County, and many rare or fine editions of important works in American history as well as in English and American literature. Included are also a complete file of the New York Tribune for the Civil W a r period and some important periodical files. An original copy of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, first dated book ever printed in England, has been presented by Louis M. Rabinowitz of New York City to the Yale University Library. The rare vol- ume, one of four known to be in this country, gives Yale the distinction of being the only collegiate institution in America possessing the three most famous "firsts" in the book publishing world. Since 1926 the Yale Library has owned one of the most perfect examples of the 45 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1440 in Mainz, Germany. In 1947, the Library was given a perfect copy of the Bay Psalm Book, first printed book in America, dated 1640. The Dictes and Sayings of the Philoso- phers was printed in 1477 by William Caxton, noted printing pioneer, at Westminster, Eng- land. Miscellaneous The Fifth Annual Meet- ing of the Southern Hu- manities Conference took place on April 4-5, 1952, at the University of Kentucky. The delegates were the guests of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Kentucky at a luncheon on April 4. Among the topics discussed were the follow- ing: Virginia Humanities Conference, South- ern Conference of Academic Deans and Southern Regional Education Board, teaching of music in the South, research in Southern colleges and universities, live manuscripts of Southern writers, Classics in the South, hu- manities curricula in the South, the humanities and professional teacher training, and the future program of the Conference. The Conference will meet in Knoxville next spring. The Library of Congress reports that the microfilming of the National Union Catalog, its main supplement, and the Hebraic, Chi- nese, Korean, and Japanese Union Catalogs 90 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES was completed on June 30. The project, undertaken by Remington Rand on a con- t r a c t u a l basis, was started on March 10. Although the 16-millimeter negative microfilm copy that has been produced was made as a safety measure, the Photoduplication Service will fill orders for prints from it, or from parts thereof, consisting of one or more reels, at the rate of $4 per ioo-foot reel. The Charles J. Livingood Library of trou- badour literature has been presented by the Livingood heirs to the University of Cincin- nati Library. This specialized collection of nearly five hundred titles supplements a large background collection of the history, litera- ture and lore of Provence of the University of Cincinnati Library. The special emphasis of the collection is on the poetry of Provence, especially that by Frederic Mistral, a personal friend of the late Charles Livingood of Cin- cinnati. Philosophical Library has is- . sued The Eternal Drama, a Publications n 1 • t Lo?nprenenswe 1 reatise on the Syngenetic History of Hu- manity, Drama and Theatre, by Richard Rosenheim (1952, 302p., $6.00). Nathaniel L. Goodrich, librarian emeritus, Dartmouth College, is the author of The JVaterville Valley: A Story of a Resort in the New Hampshire Alountains (Lunenberg, Vt., The North Country Press, 1952, 77p., illus., $2.50). Two new titles in the College Outline Series have been published by Barnes and Noble: Labor Problems and Trade Unionism, by Robert D. Leiter ( 3 2 0 p . , $ 1 . 7 5 ) , and Business and Government: An Introduction, by Jack Taylor ( 3 2 2 p . , $ 1 . 5 0 ) . Barnes and Noble are also the U.S. agents for Studies in the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, by B. Wilkinson, 2d ed. (Manchester University Press, 1952, 2 8 4 P . , $ 4 . 5 0 ) , and The Annals of Tacitus: A Study of the History of Writing, by B. Walker (Manchester University Press, 1952, 2 8 4 P . , $ 4 . 5 0 ) . The ALA has issued 1952 Annual Confer- ence Summary Reports (Chicago: ALA, 1952, l68p., $2.00). Stechert-Hafner (Hafner Publishing Co.) has issued a facsimile reprint of the first edi- tion of Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, by Charles Darwin (1952, 6i5p., plates, $7.50). A Union List of Serials in American Bene- dictine Libraries, edited by Rev. Adolph E. Hrdlicka, has been issued by the St. Pro- copius Abbey, Lisle, 111. (1952, i6op., $1.50). The Pharmaceutical Curriculum, by Lloyd E. Blauch and George L. Webster has been issued by the American Council on Educa- tion, Washington, D.C. (1952, 257p., $2.00). Chauncey Sanders is the author of An In- troduction to Research in English Literary History (Macmillan, 1952, 423p., $5.50). This volume considers such matters as the materials, tools, and methods of research. Chapters are devoted to problems in editing, biography, authenticity and attribution, source study, success and influence, chronology, in- terpretation, technique, history of ideas, and folklore. The chapter on folklore was pre- pared by Stith Thompson. Included also are suggestions for thesis-writing, bibliographical references and specimen bibliographies, notes and thesis pages. This should be a useful book for both students and librarians. Freedom and the Tragic Life, a Study in Dostoevsky, by Vyacheslav Ivanov, with a foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra, has been issued by the Noonday Press, New York (1952, i66p., $3.50). This volume by the Russian symbolist poet has been translated by Norman Cameron and edited by S. Konovalov. Your Opportunity, 1952-1953, edited and published by Theodore S. Jones (Milton 87, Mass., 1952, 222p., $3.95 paper or $4.95 bound) is a useful and comprehensive catalog of awards, competitions, scholarships, loans and unusual opportunities open to Americans and Canadians for use in this country and abroad. It contains an alphabetical subject index. E. G. Swem, librarian emeritus, College of William and Mary, is the author of Indexes and Machines (Williamsburg, Va., 1952, 9p.). Ernst C. Krohn is the compiler of The History of Music: An Index to the Litera- ture Available in a Selected Group of Musico- logical Publications (1952, 463P.). This is No. 3 of the Washington University (St. Louis) Library Studies. Some readers may be surprised to read that more people live in Latin America than in the United States. The estimated population of the former is 152,800,000 in an area two-and- one-half times the size of Europe. These JANUARY, 1953 91 figures appear in the introduction to the new 2gth edition of The South American Hand- book: 1952, with a number of chapters com- pletely rewritten. For many years this Handbook has been recognized as the standard guide to the countries south of the Rio Grande. Although published in London, the H. W . Wilson Company, New York 52, is the distributor of the book (782P., charts, maps and tables, $2.00) in this country. Seventeenth Century Verse and Prose (Volume 2:1660-1700) by Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallenstein and Ricardo Quintana, of the University of Wisconsin, has been pub- lished by the Macmillan Company (1952, 472p., $4.75). This anthology, which con- tains bio-bibliographical materials relating to authors of the selections, consists of pieces from the best seventeenth century edition reproduced as accurately and directly as pos- sible. Employee Personnel Practices in Colleges and Universities, 1951-1952, is a survey com- pleted under the sponsorship of the College and University Personnel Association (809 S. Wright St., Champaign, 111., 6gp., $2.50). Eighty-one institutions furnished data for the report. The TVA Technical Library, Knoxville, Tenn., has issued TVA as a Symbol of Re- source Development in Many Countries, a digest and selected bibliography of informa- tion (1952, 55p.). Bernard L. Foy, technical librarian, is also assistant to the director of information. The Library of Congress has published a list of 338 books, periodical articles, and other materials concerning the protection of libraries and museums. It is entitled Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage, and the materials cited contain information that may be useful in dealing with such peacetime dangers as fires and floods as well as wartime dangers. The 117-page bibliography was compiled by Dr. Nelson R. Burr of the Library's General Reference and Bibliography Division. The materials cited were prepared on the basis of actual experience in this and other countries in developing measures for protecting cultural treasures or for repairing damage to them and relate primarily to World W a r II experi- ence. The entries are alphabetically arranged under subject subdivisions, and there is an author index. Copies of the bibliography may be purchased from the Card Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., for 85 cents. The personal papers of the late Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of W a r and promi- nent lawyer, have been given to the Library of Congress by his children. The collection, which consists of some 52,000 items, contains materials that relate to Baker's career from 1916 until his death in 1937. The Library of Congress has published a 128-page list of more than 3,000 Russian abbreviations. Compiled by Dr. Alexander Rosenberg of the Library's Reference Depart- ment, this selective list—entitled Russian Abbreviations—is designed to assist research workers who need authoritative interpreta- tions of the abbreviations that appear in cur- rent Russian literature. (Card Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., 85 cents a copy). The first volume of a definitive catalog of the library of Thomas Jefferson was published recently by the Library of Congress. Prepared by Miss E. Millicent Sowerby of the staff of the Reference Department, the catalog will be in five volumes and will, when completed, give scholars an opportunity to map the bounds of Jefferson's vast knowledge and explore the sources that gave body and stimulus to his thought. The first volume of the catalog can be obtained from the Government Printing Office at $5.00 a copy. Subsequent volumes are expected to appear in 1953. Two new volumes in the revised 8th edition of Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischem Chemie have been published: Titan (Tita- nium) System No. 41 (Verlag Chemie, G M B H . , Weinheim/Bergstrasse, Germany, 1951, 481P., $27.20), and Arsen (Arsenic), System No. 17 (1952, 4 7 5 P - , $ 3 3 - 3 3 ) . Both of these volumes are up-to-date, comprehen- sive and critical reviews of all aspects of the subjects involved. The volume on titanium contains considerable discussion of structural, industrial and electronic applications; while the volume on arsenic, among other discus- sions, includes detailed information on techni- cal applications, particularly in insecticides, and in glass, concrete, rubber and many other industries. Research librarians have come to regard highly these systematic reviews of pertinent world literature. Clarence E. Carter is the author of Histori- cal Editing ("Bulletins of the National Archives," No. 7, August, 1952). The mono- 92 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES graph discusses various matters involved in preparing an edition of documents (search for relevant documents, canons of selection, tex- tual criticism, transcription, arrangement, annotation, etc.), collation, and problems of printing. College librarians will be'interested in the program of Caedmon Publishers, 460 Fourth Ave., New York 15, N.Y. Since April, 1952, the firm has issued recordings of Dylan Thomas, the poet, Thomas Mann, reading in German from Tonio Kroeger and The Holy Sinner, Tennessee Williams, reading scenes from The Glass Menagerie, and Katherine Anne Porter. Planned for the winter are re- cordings of Colette and Sartre, Robert Ross reading two of the Canterbury Tales in Middle English, Archibald MacLeish, Eudora Welty, the thrfce Sitwells, and others. Caed- mon recordings are available throughout the country in record shops and bookstores. Each of the 12-inch, non-breakable recordings is priced at $4.95, and contains an average of fifty to sixty minutes of reading. The University of Illinois Library has issued a Handbook for Graduate Students and Members of the Faculty (1952, 36p., available on request). This is one of the best of such guides to help graduate students in their research, and to orient faculty members in their various relationships to the library. New York State Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, New York, N.Y., Terence J . Hoverter, librarian, has issued a revised edi- tion of its useful Handbook for library stu- dents. Edited by Frederick J. O'Hara, it is well-organized and in attractive format. The third edition of the University of Illi- nois Library, Chicago Undergraduate Division Library Handbook contains, in addition to imaginative illustrations, a folding chart of "Sample Reference Books in Selected Sub- jects." Best Advice on How to Write, an anthol- ogy for practicing writers, is edited by Gorham Munson. (New York, Heritage House, 1952, 29op., $3.50.) It deals with the basic psychology of writing and centers on the fundamental reader-writer relationship. The volume is divided into four parts: (1) deals with principles and includes Schopen- hauer's essay on style and the need for sim- plicity in writing; (2) concerns the writing of fiction and features Fielding on the "storyable element"; (3) treats the writing of various forms and contains excerpts from William Archer's out-of-print manual on play-writing; and (4) "From Technique to Values" includes a transcript of a lecture on literary values by A. R. Orage. Among other contributors are Robert Penn Warren, Rudolf Flesch, S. S. Van Dine, Rolfe Humphries, and Robert Graves. The Chicago Undergraduate Division Li- brary of the University of Illinois (Chicago 11) has republished its student library in- struction handbook. The contents have been entirely rewritten. A few copies are available for free distribution to college and university libraries, as are multilithed copies of the Library's most recent Annual Report, which describes its new program of Counselor Li- brarianship and Library Instruction. The first annual compilation of college and university library statistics for the four-state area of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska has just been issued. Compiled as a joint project of the college sections of the four state library associations, this report attempts fuller statistical coverage for insti- tutions of higher education in those states than is feasible in the annual printed sum- maries in College and Research Libraries. This first report includes 1950-51 statistics for 80 of the 150 colleges and universities in these states but plans call for fuller repre- sentation in future reports. The first com- pilation, which follows the standard report form used in College and Research Libraries, has been done by Margaret V. Thompson, research assistant at Parsons College, and was prepared under the supervision of John F. Harvey, librarian at Parsons. Copies of the report may be obtained from Mr. Harvey at Parsons College Library, Fairfield, Iowa. With the first issue of Volume 12 (1952) the title of Microfilm Abstracts has been changed to Dissertation Abstracts, a more accurate and descriptive title for its contents. Dissertation Abstracts is published by Uni- versity Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on a straight subscription basis ($6.00 per year; $1.50 per issue), and all free distribution to selected libraries has been discontinued. Plans call for six issues a year, one of which will include cumulative author and subject indexes to the whole volume. Paul L. Horecky, Slavic Division, Library of Congress, is the compiler of a "Prelimi- JANUARY, 1953 93 nary Checklist of Russian, Ukranian, and Belorussian Newspapers Published since January I, 1917, within the Present Bound- aries of the USSR and Preserved in United States Libraries (a Working Paper)." The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Aviation Center at Cornell University has published the "first annual supplement" (g6p.) to its Survey of Research Projects in the Field of Aviation Safety, first published in 1951. Established in September 1950, with headquarters in New York City, the Founda- tion endeavors to foster the improvement of aviation safety through research, education, training, and the dissemination of air safety studies and information to industry and the general public. The supplement, like the Survey, is a broadly-classified listing of re- search projects and reports, each described succinctly to suggest its usefulness or im- portance. Since so many research studies in aviation safety are carried on under contract with a variety of corporations and educa- tional institutions, most are published in "technical report" form and not distributed widely. The Survey adds a useful biblio- graphical key to the contents of unclassified technical reports in this field. The first additions and changes to the first edition of the Army Medical Library Classi- fication have been issued (List no. I, Janu- ary 1952). Twelve corrections to the schedules, one to the tables, and fifteen to the index are noted. The Armed Forces Medi- cal Library has also published a revised edi- tion of Organizing Small Medical Libraries in Military Installations. By arrangement with the publishers, Yale University is microfilming the Eastern Edition of the Wall Street Journal from its begin- ning in 1889 to the present and on a con- tinuing basis. Orders are now being accepted for positive microfilm copies at 8.4 cents per foot. Plans call for four reels to a year, each containing the issues for three months. Microfilm copies of 1951 issues will cost ap- proximately $33.60. Orders should be sent to John H. Ottemiller, associate librarian, Yale University. Volume 1, part 9 (p. 769-864) of the second edition of Milkau's Handbuch der Biblio- thekswissenschaft, edited by Georg Leyh, has been published by K. F. Koehler Verlag, Stuttgart. The eighteenth volume of International Bibliography of Historical Sciences covering 1949 and some publications of previous years has been published by Armand Colin, Paris. Of interest to all librarians are the hear- ings before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor on H.R. 5195, the "Library Services Act," held on April 1-2, 1952. Included are statements by Harold Brigham, president, ALA Public Libraries Division; Virginia Chase, president, ALA Division of Libraries for Children and Young People; Earl J. McGrath and Ralph M. Dunbar, U. S. Office of Education; Verner W . Clapp, Library of Congress; Charles M. Mohrhardt, Detroit Public Li- brary, and others. The "Library Services Act" was not reported o u t , o f committee before the 82d Congress adjourned but efforts will be made to have a new bill introduced in the 83d Congress. The February 1952 issue of PMLA con- tains George K. Boyce's "Modern Literary Manuscripts in the Morgan Library," a checklist of Morgan library holdings not now listed elsewhere except in that library's own card catalog. Of particular interest to re- search scholars in English and American literature, the checklist calls attention to the wealth of literary material available in the Morgan collection, characteristically con- sidered to be devoted chiefly to medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Morgan collection are recorded, of course, in the De Ricci Census. A guide to the rare books and special col- lections in the University of South Carolina library has been published recently. Com- piled by Elisabeth Doby Miller, assistant li- brarian at South Carolina, Special Collec- tions in the McKissick Memorial Library, University of South Carolina (1952, I29p.), identifies and describes briefly some 717 rare and association volumes, including 82 in- cunabula. Two recent publications of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, includes its Catalogo das Publicaqoes Periodicas da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and Indice Bibliografico das Pub- licaqoes da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Vol. I, part 1. The CMC Sales Catalogue, 19s2- issued by Communication Materials Center, Columbia 94 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES University Press, 413 West 117th St., New York 27, lists films, radio transcriptions, photograph recordings, pamphlets, etc., which have been produced by C M C and are availa- ble for sale. "The Enlarged Library Building at Chapel Hill," a pamphlet issued by the University of North Carolina on the occasion of the open- ing of its new library addition, April 18, 1952, includes an interesting and informative summary of the history of the university library, a description of the building with floor plans and pictures, and some statistics on the size, cost, capacity and equipment of the enlarged library plant. The Handicrafts of France as Recorded in the 'Descriptions des Arts et Metiers' 1761- 1788by Arthur H. Cole and George B. Watts, is Publication No. 8 of the Kress Li- brary of Business and Economics, published by the Baker Library of the Harvard Gradu- ate School of Business Administration (1952, 43p.). The Baker Library has also issued two new reading lists: "Business Literature: a Reading List for Students and Business- men" (Reference List no. 12), and "Ex- ecutive Compensation: Selected References, 1947-1952" (Reference List no. 13). The Hilprand Press, Los Angeles, a new- comer to the ranks of publishers, has issued Samuel X. Radbill's Bibliography of Medi- cal Ex-Libris Literature (1951, $4.50), a comprehensive list of references to medical bookplates, including both books and peri- odical literature. Directed by Mrs. Clare R. Bill, a longtime collector of and au- thority on bookplates, the Hilprand Press will concentrate on the publication of items re- lating to bookplates and bookplate collecting. Appleton-Century-Crofts has published Prose of the English Renaissance, selected and edited by J. William Hebel, Hoyt H. Hud- son, Francis R. Johnson, and A. Wigfall Green (882p., $5.50). Designed as a com- panion volume to Hebel and Hoyt's Poetry of the English Renaissance, selections are included from the writings of Sir Thomas More, Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas North, John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Hakluyt, John Donne, and 37 other Tudor- Stuart writers. An article "Radio's Role in Large Uni- versity Libraries" by Le Moyne W . Ander- son, library adviser at the University of Illinois, appeared in the April issue of The Journal of the AER (Association for Educa- tion by Radio). The purpose of this study was to assemble data describing the use made of radio in large college and university li- braries. Although radio has not been widely used by college libraries for reasons of ex- pense, lack of personnel, and dissatisfaction with present day library-radio programs, the author makes a plea for the radio program as a means of stimulating study and raising the level of reading tastes. Columbia University School of Library Service has published A Classification for Communications Materials, by Jay W . Stein. Designed to provide a workable arrangement of communications materials as an alternative to the scattered arrangements afforded in such standard systems as LC and DC, these mimeographed schedules were tested by apply- ing them to a large collection deposited in the Columbia University Libraries. Other insti- tutions building communications collections for the use of scholars and specialists may find this classification scheme useful for the effec- tive arrangement of their own collections. Copies may be obtained from the Columbia University Bookstore, New York 27, New York, at $2.00 each. The third volume of Index Translationum, the international bibliography of translations published by UNESCO is available from Co- lumbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, New York ($7.50). Listing approximately 13,500 translations appearing in 1950 (as well as previously unreported translations published in 1948 and 1949), the index is arranged by country in which the translation was published and derives from national lists prepared in each country. Al- phabetical indexes of authors, translators and publishers are provided. The statistical table appearing at the end of the volume shows that Germany, France and Japan lead all other countries in the number of translations produced, and the total figures for all coun- tries indicate that approximately 50 per cent of translations were works of literature, 15 per cent social science, law and educational materials, and about 9 per cent history, biog- raphy and geography. The natural and ap- plied sciences accounted for only about 11 per cent of the total number of translations. Art collections for small libraries are con- JANUARY, 1953 95 sidered in M a j Lundgren's Konst-Litteratur i Urval for Mindre Bibliotek (Sveriges Allmanna Biblioteksforenings Smaskrifter, No. 33, 1951). A selected list of recent Swedish titles for which printed catalog cards have been prepared is included. A comprehensive list of recent publications in Spanish and Portuguese relating to cata- loging and classification has been compiled by Alberto Villalon, Director of the Central Library of the University of Chile Medical School, Santiago, Chile. Descriptive and critical annotations have been supplied for about three-quarters of the titles in this classified list which has been published as vol. 1, Group 1, Series B of the series Biblio- grafias y lecturas bibliotecnicas. An earlier volume in this series, devoted to similar publications relating to the organization and administration of libraries issued since 1947, was published in 1950 as vol. 1, Group 1, of Series A. Karl A. Baer has compiled an annotated bibliography of Plasma Substitutes, Except Those Derived from Human Blood, 1940- 1951. This comprehensive list of references has been published by the Army Medical Library as one of the special bibliographical compilations planned to supplement its other indexing and abstracting programs. The first number of a new quarterly pub- lication, Southern Asia: Publications in IVest- ern Languages, a Quarterly Accessions List has been released by the Library of Congress. Designed to supplement the library's current accessions lists for Russian and East Euro- pean materials, the present list is sponsored jointly by the library and the Joint Commit- tee on Southern Asia of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. Subscriptions at $2.00 per year, or single copies at 50 cents are avail- able from the Card Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C. A. D. Roberts has issued the second edi- tion of Introduction to Reference Books (The Library Association, Chaucer House, Malet Place, London, W.C.I, 1951, 214 p., 15s., ios.6d. to members). In this new edition, M r . Roberts has included revisions on more than half the pages of the first edition, as well as a chapter on bibliographical works of reference. Three appendices include a "Note on Tracing and Selecting New Works of Reference," "Questions for Practical Work," and "Addenda, July 1951." Principles and Practices of Classified Ad- vertising, edited by Morton J. A. McDonald, has been published in a revised edition under the auspices of the Association of Newspaper Classified Advertising Managers, Inc. (Cul- ver City, Calif., Murray and Gee, 1952, 470 p., $7.50). The volume, which contains a glossary and illustrations, is a useful refer- ence work on the subject. Two volumes of American foreign relations have recently appeared. Documents on American Foreign Relations, 1950, vol. X I I , edited by Raymond Dennett and Robert K. Turner (Princeton University Press, 1951, 702 p., $6.00) is another in the series being issued under the auspices of the World Peace Foundation. Recent American Foreign Policy, Basic Documents 1941-1951 by Fran- cis O. Wilcox and Thorsten V. Kalijarvi (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952, 927 p., $6.50) is an expansion of an earlier volume, A Decade of American Foreign Policy, and includes some fifty or sixty documents which cover 1950 and 1951. Brief editorial notes have also been added. The second edition of a list of Business Manuscripts in Baker Library, compiled by Robert W . Lovett, has been issued by the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University (1951, 213 p., $1.50). The first list, issued in 1932, contained 508 entries; the new edition contains 1,118 en- tries. Cataloging and Classification: An Intro- ductory Manual, by Thelma Eaton (1951, 113 p., distributed by The Illini Union Book- store, Champaign, 111., $1.50) has been de- signed as an undergraduate introduction to cataloging and classification problems. The Years Work in Librarianship, vol. XV, 1948, has been issued by The Library Association (London, 1952, 281 p., £2, f i . i o s . to members). The volume includes reports by regular contributors, in addition to some new ones—A. Shaw Wright, LeRoy C. Mer- ritt, R. W . Pound, P. D. Record, and K. W . Humphreys. Dr. Merritt, of the School of Librarianship, University of Cali- fornia, has written the chapter on "Research in Librarianship." Frances M. Birkett has prepared the chapter on "National and Uni- versity Libraries." It is hoped that The 96 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Library Association will some day issue this useful compilation more currently than it has been able to do in recent years. Beginning with the January 1952 issue, the Decimal Classification Section's quarterly publication, Notes and Decisions on the Appli- cation of the Decimal Classification started its third series, which includes additions and corrections to the 15th edition, as well as other notes relating to the application of both editions. While some of the notes and deci- sions in the first two series have been super- seded, most of their content is still in force. Issues of Notes and Decisions from 1934 through 1948 may be purchased from the Card Division of the Library of Congress for $3.45 a set; from 1949 to date, from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Govern- ment Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at 30 cents per year. The price of a single issue is 10 cents. A guide to agricultural reference materials is being compiled by Orpha E. Cummings, librarian, Giannini Foundation of Agricul- tural Economics at the University of Cali- fornia, J. R. Blanchard, librarian, University of California at Davis, and Harold Ostvold, agriculture librarian, University of Minne- sota, St. Paul, Minn. The aim will be to list descriptively the most important and use- ful sources of bibliographical and reference- type information in the field of agriculture. Any suggestions as to information problems that could be treated in such a guide would be welcomed by the compilers. "Rogues and Vagabonds in the Book Trade" is the title of a lecture delivered by Percy H. Muir, President, International Booksellers Association, at the University of Pennsylvania Library. It is published in the Winter 1951/1952 issue of The Library Chronicle. Matthew W. Black, curator of the Furness Memorial Library of Shakespeare at the University of Pennsylvania, has also con- tributed an article on the correspondence be- tween the Furnesses and Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, nineteenth-century Shake- speareans. The Union List of Periodicals and Other Serial Publications in the Medical and Bio- logical Sciences Libraries of the Greater Los Angeles Area, published by the Special Li- braries Association, Southern California Chapter, has appeared. The cost is $5.00. A recent publication, a series of lectures delivered under the A. S. W. Rosenbach Fel- lowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, is Bartolome de Las Casas, Bookman, Scholar and Propagandist by Lewis Hanke, until recently director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress (Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1952, $5.00). T H E SUBJECT ANALYSIS O F LIBRARY MATERIALS * Papers presented at an Institute at C o l u m b i a Univer- sity, J u n e 24-28, 1952, under the sponsorship of the School of Library Service a n d the A . L . A . Division of C a t a l o g i n g a n d Classification. * Includes contributions b y : W y l l i s E. W r i g h t , Leo H . L a M o n t a g n e , Jesse Shera, D a v i d J u d s o n H a y k i n , G e r a l d D. M c D o n a l d , A l e x Ladenson, Frank B. Rogers, Mar- garet Egan, Kanardy L. Taylor, Harry Dewey, W e s l e y Simonton, Verner W . C l a p p , Carlyle J . Frarey, J e a n K. Taylor, Ruth Erlandson, A l l e n T. Hazen, J . W . Perry, Dorothy Charles, Sarita Robinson. * E D I T E D , W I T H AN I N T R O D U C T I O N IJY MAURICE F. TAUBER * Approximately 230 p. Price $2.75 Order from Columbia U. Bookstore N e w York 27, N . Y . A C R L Committees The ACRL Committee on Commit- tees will appreciate suggestions or applications for committee appointments for 1953-54. Consult the ALA Bulletin for December, 1952, pp. 397-398, for the list of ACRL Committees and then send your suggestions to Walter W. Wright, chairman, at the University of Pennsyl- vania Library, Philadelphia, or other members of his committee as listed on P- 397 of the ALA Bulletin. Members are urged to volunteer their services. 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