College and Research Libraries


Nominees for ACRL Section 

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION 

CHAIRMAN: Martha L. Biggs, Librarian, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. 

VIcE-CHAIRMAN and CHAIRMAN-ELEcT: 
Edward C. Heintz, Librarian, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. 
Benjamin M. Lewis, Librarian, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota . . 

SECRETARY: . 
Esther M. Rile, Librarian, University of Redlands, Redlands, California. 
Odrun E. Peterson, Librarian, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. 

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION 

CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Lula K. Pratt, Librarian, Connors State Agricultural College, 
Warner, Oklahoma. 

VICE-CHAIRMAN and CHAIRMAN-ELECT: 
Mrs. Helen Abel Brown, Librarian, St. Mary's Junior College, Raleigh, North 

Carolina. 
Orlin C. Spicer, Director of Libraries, ]. Sterling Morton High School and 

.Junior College, Cicero, Illinois. 

SECRETARY: 
William K. Grainger, Reference Librarian, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, 

California. 
Natalie La pike, Librarian, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California. 

DIRECTOR (1957-60) : 
Lottie M. Skidmore, Librarian, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois. 

PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE SECTION 

CHAIRMAN: Edward A. Chapman, Librarian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
Troy, New York. 

VIcE-CHAIRMAN and CHAIRMAN-ELECT: 
Carson W. Bennett, Librarian, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, In-

diana. 
Mrs. Dorothy M. Halmos, Librarian, Allan Hancock Foundation, . University 

of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 

DIRECTOR: 
Whiton Powell, Librarian, Albert Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

New York. 
H. Dean Stallings, Librarian, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, North 

Dakota. 

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Officers, 1957-58 

LIBRARIES OF TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS SECTION 

CHAIRMAN: Mr. E. Walfred Erickson, Librarian, Eastern Michigan College, Ypsi-
lanti, Michigan. 

SECRETARY and CHAIRMAN-ELECT: 
Gertrude W. Rounds, Librarian, New York State Teachers College, Oneonta, 

New York. 
Fritz Veit, Director of Libraries, Chicago Teachers College and City Junior 

College, Wilson Branch, Chicago, Illinois. 

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION 

CHAIRMAN: Robert H. Muller, Assistant Director, University of Michigan Library, 
Ann Arbor. 

VIcE-CHAIRMAN and CHAIRMAN-ELECT: 
Carl W. Hintz, Librarian, University of Oregon, Euge.ne, Oregon. 
Archie L. McNeal, Director of Libraries, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 

Florida. 

SECRETARY: 
Charlotte K. Anderson, As~istant Librarian, University of New Hampshire, Dur-

ham, New Hampshire. 
Lois C. Bailey, Librarian, Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University, 

Dallas, Texas. 

Ballots have been mailed to each member of ACRL. To be counted they must 
•· be returned to section secretaries by June I. Results will be announced at the Kan-

sas City Conference. 

Conference Placement Service 

A simplified Contact Placement Clearing House will be available 
during the Kansas City Conference to employers and to librarians in-
terested in changing positions. An office will be provided (1) where em-
ployers may post notices of vacancies and leave messages for persons 
interested in vacancies, and (2) where librarians interested in changing 
positions may see the posted vacancies, leave messages for employers, and 
post notices of their availability. 

No blind advertisements will be accepted. No notices will be posted 
unless the individual is attending the Kansas City Conference. 

Interested persons are referred to the May, 1957, ALA Bulletin for 
fuller information. 

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A CRL Board of Directors 
Midwinter 1957 Meetings 

Official actions of the ACRL Board of 
Directors at its meetings in Chicago Jan-
uary 29 and 30 were approval of: 

I. The following statement of fields 
of responsibility with the understanding · 
that it can be revised later if need be: 
"This Division represents those libraries 
which support formal education above 
the secondary school level or which 
maintain research collections." 

2. The change of name of the Associa-
tion from Association of College and 
Reference Libraries to Association of 
College and Research Libraries. (The 
ACRL Committee on Constitution and 
Bylaws will incorporate this change in 
the revised draft on which it is presently 
working.) 

3. The establishment of a committee 
to evaluate ACRL program and budget 
needs in terms of the reorganization. 

4. A resolution: "That in view of the 
heavy load of the ACRL Executive Sec-
retary and in view of expec~ed increased 
activities, the ALA Executive Secretary 
be requested to maintain headquarters 
staff services commensurate with expand-
ing needs." 

5. An expression of interest through 
ACRL's representative to CNLA in a 
proposal to form a joint committee con-
sisting of r epresentatives of various li-
brary associations to explore the possi-
bility of a general congress of library as-
sociations to m eet simultaneously in a 
place like Atlantic City. 

6. The endorsement, through ACRL's 
representative on the Joint Advisor y 
Committee on Union List of Serials, of 
the more elaborate of two proposals to 
produce a national catalog of serials. 

7. The endorsement of the United 
States Book Exchange's application for a 

grant to finance th_e continuation of its 
operation. 

8. An expression of ACRL's apprecia-
tion, through the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Foundation Grants, to the 
Lilly Foundation for its recent $26,000 
grant. 

At the first of its two sessions (.J anu-
ary 29) President Robert W. Orr intro-
duced to the Board ACRL's new Exec-
utive Secretary, Richard B. Harwell. 
Treasurer Ralph Parker reported that 
his office had become only a nominal one 
after the transfer to ALA of the responsi-
bility for the division's funds. It was in-
formally agreed by the Board that the 
office should be eliminated in the reor-
ganization. Samray Smith, ACRL Pub-
lications Officer and Interim Executive 
Secretary, reported a growth in circula-
tion for College and Research Lib raries 
and the publication of three numbers 
in the ACRL Monographs since the last 
meeting of the Board. Rolland Stevens, 
new editor of the Monographs ) described 
briefly two forthcoming numbers, Spo-
k en Poetry on Records and Tapes by 
Henry Hastings and Poole's Index: Date 
and Volum e Key by Marion V. Bell and 
Jean C . Bacon. Maurice Tauber, Editor 
of C&RL ) expressed ACRL's regret at 
the loss of Mr. Smith as Publications Of-
ficer and brought to the attention of the 
Board the problems of editing a scholar-
ly bimonthly on a volunteer basis. He 
emphasized the desirability of continu-
ing C& RL as a magazine of wide profes-
sional scope. 

Francis Allen, Chairman of the Nomi-
nating Committee, made the first report 
at the second session of the Board (Jan-
uary 30) . The nominees have since been 
listed in the March number of C& RL. 

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Wyllis Wright discussed plans for a 
new union list of serials. The ACRL en-
dorsement of "the more elaborate of 
two proposals" was, specifically, an en-
dorsement of the plan "To prepare a 
new edition (or, more probably, a sup-
plement) which will expand the scope 
of the Union List to one at least as broad 
as that of New Serial Titles)· to bring out 
up-to-date editions of the lists of news-
papers, foreign documents, and interna-
tional congresses; to add some additional 
such separate lists, as for foreign news-
papers and possibly for city directories; 
to be in a position to issue, as needed, 
special lists of serials by subjects, by 
country of issue, by regional holdings, 
etc." 

Robert W. Vosper reported on ACRL 
plans for the Kansas City Conference 
and suggested that the Phillips Hotel be 
informally designated the ACRL hotel. 

Mr. Vosper summarized for the group 
the work of ALA's Program Evaluation 
and Budget Committee on which he rep-
resented ACRL. He noted that all ACRL 
budget requests had been allowed. 

Arthur Hamlin reported that founda-
tion grants of $40,000 had been distrib-
uted to 118 institutions. Most of the 
grants, he declared, were for books and 
library materials. The Remington Rand 
grants were for equipment, a few were 
for consultative services, and two were 
for research. 

The place of ACRL in ALA reorgani-
zation was the subject of expressions of 
some concern throughout the two meet-
ings of the Board. Robert W. Severance, 
as ACRL's representative on ALA's Com-
mittee on Organization, reported briefly 
on ACRL's status. ACRL will turn over 
some of its present committee work to 
other divisions of ALA. Mr. Orr empha-
sized that there will be more ACRL time 
and energy available for truly profes-
sional programs and cited the request 
that ACRL represent ALA on the Presi-
dent's Committee on Education Beyond 

MAY) 1957 

the High School as an example of how 
ACRL will speak for the whole profes-
sion of librarianship in its special field. 
It was determined · that a special com-
mittee to "evaluate ACRL program and 
budget needs in terms of the reorganiza-
tion" be adopted. 

Work of the Audio-Visual Committee 
was reported by C. Walter Stone. He 
commented on the publication and dis-
tribution of the audio-visual directory 
compiled by Jane Culler and Fleming 
Bennett and mentioned three tentative 
projects: the collecting of A/ V statistics 
for 1955-56 and· 1956-57 which will be 
undertaken by Richard Chapin; a study 
of A/ V materials available for college 
or university research which will be 
undertaken by John Harvey; and the 
possibility of the production of a film 
for use in college library orientation. 

Mr. Stone, Donald Cameron of the 
Buildings Committee, and Dale Bentz 
of the Committee on Statistics each ex-
pressed concern over the status of his 
committee in ALA reorganization. It was 
recommended that all present commit-
tees proceed with their current work un-
til formal reorganization along other 
lines has been effected. 

The place of ACRL's Rare Books 
Committee in reorganization proved a 
question of considerable concern. Mr. 
Vosper read Miss Georgia Haugh's re-
port for the committee. It was deter-
mined that ACRL delegate Mr. Sever-
ance and Mr. Vosper should represent 
ACRL's deep interest in the work of this 
committee to the ALA Committee on Or-
ganization. 

Robert Talmadge expressed the will-
ingness of the Committee on Recruiting 
to continue its work through a represent-
ative on any joint ALA committee on 
recruiting. Completion of a study of ex-
isting standards was reported by Wayne 
Yenawine from the Committee on Stand-
ards. He urged the compilation of quali-
tative standards for college and univer-

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sity libraries as a major project of col-
lege and university librarians. 

In addition to its formal actions and 
the receipt of the committee reports here 
outlined, the Board received summary 
reports of the several sections from Rich-
ard Blanchard for the Pure and Applied 
Science Section, Benjamin B. Richards 
for the College Libraries Section, and 
Lottie M. Skidmore of the Junior Col-
lege Section. Additional reports were 

heard from · Giles Shepherd of the 
Constitution and Bylaws Committee, 
Charles Penrose for the Duplicates Ex-
change Union, Flora B. Ludington of 
the Committee on Committees, William 
R. Lansberg of the Committee on Fi-
nancing College and Research Libraries} 
Mary Herrick of the State Representa-
tives Committee, and Jerrold Orne of 
the Publications Committee. 

R.B.H. 

Action T award Reorganization 

A "Giant Step" in ALA reorganiza-
tion was taken in March by the Special 
Committee on Reorganization. Its report 
has been made to Council by mail and 
it can be confidently expected that re-
organization will be completed during 
the Kansas City Conference. 

As a full report will be made before 
Council at Kansas City, a complete re-
capitulation is unnecessary here. Briefly, 
SCOR succeeded in formulating a clear 
separation of divisional responsibilities 
within the structure of the new ALA. 
The new definitions of responsibility en-
able ALA to move ahead in its over-all 
furtherance of librarianship and each di-
vision to work effectively for the whole 
profession within its special fields of 
competence and interest. 

ACRL was efficiently represented on 
the Special Committee by ex-President 
Robert W. Severance. Of most immedi-
ate interest to ACRL among the recom-
mendations of the committee's work are 
the new statement of responsibility, the 
suggested incorporation of the Special-
ized Library Division into the Associa-
tion of College and Research Libraries, 
and the formulation of positive defini-
tions of the work to be undertaken by 
type-of-library divisions and type-of-ac-
tivity divisions. 

ACRL emerges as a type-of-library di-

vision-one of the "thinking organs" of 
ALA. "Type-of-library divisions," reads 
the guiding statement developed by 
SCOR, "are focused upon planning in 
and evaluation of the whole library as 
an institution and upon the synthesis of 
all functions as they contribute to the 
improvement of the services of the li-
brary." Adherence to this credo will per-
mit ACRL to emphasize the truly pro-
fessional in its activities and to eliminate 
some of the "housekeeping" functions of 
the past. The provisions for dual divi-
sional membership in ALA still, how-
ever, allow for full expression of special-
ized or technical interests in librarian-
ship by ACRL members as each can also 
be a member of one or more type-of-
activity divisions. 

In reorganization ACRL will transfer 
some of its old committees and activities 
to type-of-activity divisions. But there 
will be no dearth of work or of oppor-
tunity for ACRL. There will be no less-
ening of ACRL membership activity in 
the programs that are important to col-
lege and research libraries. ACRL will 
still be in the prime position for promot-
ing the interests of its institutional and 
individual members. And its members 
will serve on type-of-activity committees 
wherever their interests and abilities are 
appropriate. 

226 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



SCOR recommended the incorpora-
tion of the Specialized Libraries Division 
into ACRL. Action on that recommen-
dation will be taken by Council at Kan-
sas City. The restatement of ACRL re-
sponsibilities assumes that Council ac-
tion will be favorable. The new state-
ment of responsibility has gone to each 
of the ACRL officers and Board members 
for approval by mail vote. It, too, will 
be presented to Council at Kansas City. 
For the information of the entire ACRL 
membership, here is the statement as it 
was approved by SCOR for submission 
to ALA Council and to the Division: 

"The Association of College and Re-
search Libraries represents the libraries 
of higher education (of those institutions 
supporting formal education above the 
secondary-school level), independent re-
search libraries, and specialized libraries. 

"ACRL has specific responsibility for: 

I. Planning of programs of study and 
service for college and university, re-
search, and specialized libraries 

2. Establishment and evaluation of stand-
ards in appropriate fields 

3. Synthesis of the activities of all units 
within ALA as they relate to college 
and university, research, and special-
ized libraries 

4. Representation and interpretation of 
college .and university, research, and 
specialized libraries in contacts outside 
the profession 

5. Stimulation of the development of li-
brarians and librarianship in college 
and university, research, and special-
ized libraries and stimulation of the 
participation of its members in ap-
propriate type-of-activity divisions 

6. Conduct of activities and projects for 
the improvement and extension of 
service in college and university, re-
search, and specialized libraries when 
such activities and projects are be-
yond the scope of type-of-activity divi-
sions, after specific approval by the 
ALA Council." 

R.B.H. 

MAY~ 1957 

Foundation Grants 

A third grant from the United States 
Steel Foundation of $30,000 to ACRL 
"for improving libraries and services as 
valuable adjuncts to teaching" was an-
nounced in April by Homer W. Turner, 
Executive Director of the Foundation. A 
final grant of $5,000 to aid libraries in 
the purchase of microfilm files of the 
New Y ark Times has been made by the 
New York Times Company. 

"These grants," comments President 
Robert W. Orr, "are forceful evidence 
of the continued concern of business for 
the development of libraries, which will 
in turn develop broad reading habits 
among college students. Such additional 
grants froni previous donors ar~ doubly 
and trebly welcome as expressions of 
conviction of the merit of ACRL's grants 
program." 

Last year 118 sub-grants were made to 
college and university libraries from a to-
tal of $40,000 administered by ACRL. 
Nearly a hundred of these were sub-
grants from the United States Steel 
Foundation. Ten were from the funds 
awarded by the N ew York Times. Others 
came from a 1956 grant by Remington 
Rand. A grant of $26,000 from the Lilly 
Endowment for distribution in Indiana, 
Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Illi-
nois will soon be allocated by ACRL's 
Committee on Foundation Grants. 

The U.S. Steel and New York Tim es 
grants just announced will not be allo-
cated until later in the year. Full an-
nouncements of the procedure for mak-
ing application for a sub-grant from 
these funds will be made in the July is-
sue of C&RL. Sub-grants will, as before, 
be made in modest sums. "The aim, " 
says President Orr, " is to place the money 
widely where it can make direct contri-
butions to higher education through the 
library function." 

R.B.H. 

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News from the Field 
AcQUISITIONs_, GIFTS, CoLLECTIONs 

THE ARENTS CoLLECTION of Books in Parts 
has just been installed in a room ad joining 
the Arents Tobacco Collection at the New 
York Public Library. This library is com-
posed almost entirely of works in English 
(there are several in French) .printed in 
England and America from the eighteenth 
to the twentieth century. So far as is known, 
this is the only collection in which the prin-
ciple of selection is that the work must have 
appeared piecemeal over a period of time 
and should still be ·preserved in its original 
paper wrappers or board covers. 

Not only did such well-known nineteenth 
century novelists as Dickens, Thackeray, 
George Eliot, and Trollope first appear in 
this form, but the vogue even extended to 
the entire field of belles-lettres, including 
poetry, essays, biography, etc., and took in 
philosophical authors, such as Herbert Spen-
cer. Many of the famous ornithological and 
flower ·books, with their beautiful color 
plates, first appeared in separate portions 
and were so issued to subscribers. The cele-
brated sporting novelists and illustrators 
were also published ·in parts-Surtees and 
Henry Aiken, among many others. These 
works are all of great rarity, as most of the 
surviving copies are bound in cloth or mo-
rocco in order to preserve them. 

An interesting and important feature of 
the library is the presence of holograph 
manuscripts of some of the books, original 
drawings of illustrators such as ] ohn Leech, 
Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, 
and others, as well as autograph letters re-
lating to the books and their illustrations. 
Among the writers of the manuscripts and 
letters are Charles Dickens, W. M. Thack-
eray, W. H. Ainsworth, Anthony Trollope, 
Wilkie Collins, Kate Greenaway, as well as 
lesser figures. 

The collection, numbering about a thou-
sand pieces, is housed in a room similar to 
that of the tobacco library. It is decorated 
and furnished in the manner of a collec-
tor's treasure-house. 

THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARY will re-
ceive a gift of approximately $4,000 from 

the school's Class of 1957. Income from the 
money is available for unrestricted purchase 
of books. This action, suggested by the gift 
committee of the Class of 1957, was passed 
by a vote of the entire senior class. 

THE STEFANSSON CoLLECTION of Baker Li-
brary at Dartmouth College has acquired 
the Eggert Laxdal collection of books and 
periodicals in the Icelandic language dating 
from 17 48 to 1917, and a collection of about 
three hundred modern Icelandic books of 
literature, lyric and epic poetry, biography, 
history, and science. 

THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA has 
just made a notable addition to its collec-
tion of Pennsylvania German imprints. The 
Borneman collection, acquired in 1955, cov-
ering a period of a hundred years from the 
1730's, has been enriched by a purchase of 
250 additional imprints, which strengthen 
the collection in the books of the early 
presse~ of Lancaster, Carlisle, Reading, York, 
Easton, Harrisburg, and as far away as New 
Berlin, Canada. 

PUBLICATIONS 

SAINT Loms UNIVERSITY LIBRARY is issuing 
ManuscriptaJ volume I, number I of which 
was dated February, 1957. Its purpose is the 
publication of scholarly articles of a general 
nature; the publication of articles based 
upon research in the manuscript collections 
of The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film 
Library; the recording in a "Notes and 
Comments" section of information about 
articles and books concerning manuscripts; 
the listing of the codices in the various col-
lections which are available for use; the 
reviewing of books of general interest to 
students and teachers of the Humanities 
and History . (including the history of the 
Sciences). 

The Vatican microfilm project will reach 
completion by the end of January, 1957. It 
will have filmed some eleven and one-half 
million pages which are available for con-
sultation at the Knights of Columbus Vat-
ican Film Library at Saint Louis University. 

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A second project will immediately get 
under way. This project envisions the film 
reproduction of the rare printed books of 
the Vatican Library. Copies of these rare 
printed books will be made available at as 
low a price as possible. Lists of materials to 
be filmed will be sent to libraries and re-
search institutes. 

Saint Louis University Library also plans 
to make available to teachers and students, 
to schools and colleges, color duplicates (35 
mm. transparencies) in several sets selected 
from the thousands of such colored trans-
parencies of illuminated manuscripts and ar-
chitectural masterpieces which the Library 
possesses. At present, the following sets are 
being prepared: St. Peter's, Rome (interior 
views); The Urbino Bible; The Vatican 
Project. Each set will contain 30 slides, a 
summary description suitable for lecture 
preparation, and will sell for $25. 

Books and Publishing) 1956) volume 3 of 
lecture series of the School of Library Sci-
ence, Simmons College, contains papers on 
"Modern Textbooks and Mass Education," 
by Henry H. Hill, president of George Pea-
body College for Teachers; "Scientists as 
Documentalists," by Eugene B. Jackson , li-
brarian, research staff, General Motors Cor-
poration; and "Why Read Books?" by Ly-
man Bryson, Director of Educational Broad-
casts, Columbia Broadcasting System. 

CHARLES DIEHL's Byzance ) grandeur et de-
cadence has appeared in an English transla-
tion by Naomi Walford under the title By-
zantium: Greatness and Decline (New Bruns-
wick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1957, 
336p. , illus., $8.50), as part of the Rutgers 
Byzantine Series. Following the main body of 
the text is an extensive "Bibliographical 
Note" prepared by Peter Charanis, general 
editor of the series. 

LIBRARY ScHOOLs 

BEGINNING WITH THE 1957 SUMMER SESSION, 
July 9-August 16, qualified candidates for 
the basic professional (M.S.) degree at Co-
lumbia University's School of Library Serv-
ice will be al:>le to enter programs of study 
that are designed for a special type of library 
or library work. This is one of the major fea-
tures of the revised program of study just 

MAY, 1957 

adopted by the faculty of the nation's oldest 
and largest library school after two years of 
study' by the dean and faculty , including a 
dozen day-long conferences with groups of 
library leaders in various types of libraries 
and library work. 

The School's revised curriculum consists, 
as heretofore, of courses that will provide 
the majority of students with training for 
general librarianship. But provision is made, 
also, for a number of special programs to 
which students are admitted if their previ-
ous experience, education, and personal ob-
jectives indicate that they are ready for a ma-
ture choice of a special field. If admitted to 
a special program, the student will take seven 
courses prescribed for all M.S. candidates, 
covering the major subject areas of profes-
sional librarianship. The five other courses 
constituting the full 36-point program for 
the degree are prescribed by the faculty ad-
visers for the several special fields, and con-
sist of courses either in the School of Li-
brary Service or in other parts of Columbia 
University that contribute directly to work 
in the special type of library for which the 
student is preparing. Special programs have 
been approved by the faculty and are now 
in operation in medical and engineering li-
brarianship, also in library work with chil-
dren and young people. Other special pro-
grams for qualified students are arranged for 
students individually by the Dean in other 
special fields such as business and finance, 
music, art, rare book librarianship, and adult 
education posts in public libraries: 

In the coming Summer Session a number 
of courses that are parts of the special pro-
grams in particular fields are being offered-
some for the first time. These courses are 
open to qualified professional librarians seek-
ing specific advanced training, but who are 
not working for any degree, as well as to stu-
dents working for the degree. Four of them 
are being organized as workshop courses with 
double daily sessions in the evening or late 
afternoon for the first three or last three 
weeks of the Summer Session. These, as well 
as the other courses, carry full credit for the 
School's professional degree. 

Further information and applications may 
be obtained from the School of Library 
Service, Columbia University, New York 27 , 
N.Y. 

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A NEW SCHOOL OF LIBRARIANSHIP (Escu-
ela de Bibliotecologia) opened Monday, Feb-
ruary 11, in Medellin, Colombia. Gaston 
Litton, librarian and archivist from the U.S., 
who has spent many years in Latin Amer-
ica in library work, is the director of the new 
school. Although primarily a school sup-
ported by funds from Rockefeller Founda-
tion, the University of Antioquia and the 
National University Fund (Fondo Universi-
tario Nacional), it has elicited the interest 
and collaboration of the Organization of 
American States insofar as its potential use 
for inter-American purposes is concerned. 

A LIBRARY TRAINING PROGRAM which com-
bines work in an active, modern university 
library with study for an advanced degree 
is offered by Louisiana State University, Ba-
ton Rouge. Trainees receive the benefit of 
full student status and serve as half-time 
members of the Library staff. Appointments 
are given for twelve months and may begin 
in September, February, or June. The sal-
ary will be $ 1,500 per year. Applications for 
traineeships should be made to the Director 
of Libraries, Louisiana State University. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

DR. T. GLADSTEIN, director of the Library 
at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 
in Haifa, has asked any American library to 
supply the following numbers of Nucleonics: 
Vol. 13 (1955) Nos. 3 and 6-11 (published 
by McGraw-Hill). Please write to Efraim 
Margolin, Technion, 1000 Fifth Ave., New 
York 28, N. Y. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY, 
Los Angeles Campus, University Extension, 
and the California Library Association are 
jointly sponsoring a Conference on Library 
Administration to be held on the U niver-
sity of California, Los Angeles campus, 
August 7-9, 1957. 

Planned for heads of small and medium-
sized libraries of all types and for depart-
ment heads and branch librarians looking 
toward a career in administration, the Con-
ference's purpose is to encourage partici-
pants to re-examine their own administra-
tive philosophy and practice through group 
discussion of case problems, presentation of 
basic principles by leading library adminis-

trators, and examination of both problems 
and principles by non-library authorities in 
management and human relations. 

Housing and meals will be provided on 
the UCLA campus, and the total fee, includ-
ing registration , will be under $50. For de-
tailed information, write to Phillip E. Frand-
son, Department of Conferences, University 
of California Extension, Los Angeles 24. 

THE NEw HAMPSHIRE LIBRARY AssociATION 
is offering three interest-free loans up to $200 
for the use of qualified persons to assist in 
meeting costs of professional library educa-
tion. The loans are made available from the 
F. Mabel Winchell Fund, which was initi-
ated in 1949 in memory of the long-time li-
brarian of the Manchester City Library. 

Interested individuals should write Mar-
cus A. McCorison, 2nd vice-president, New 
Hampshire Library Association , Dartmouth 
College Library, Hanover, N. H., for fur-
ther details. 

GILBERT W. CHAPMAN, chairman of the 
National Book Committee, Inc., New York 
City, has announced plans for the first Na-
tional Library Week to be held March 16-22, 
1958. The National Book Committee, Inc., 
is an independent, non-profit, citizens' group 
organized in 1954 to foster the wiser and 
wider use of books and the preservation of 
the freedom to read. 

RADCLIFFE CoLLEGE, with the c_o-sponsor-
ship of the Department of History of Har-
vard University, offers in the summer of 
1957 an intensive institute for college grad-
uates and employees of archival agencies, 
historical societies, and museums. Student~ 
will devote full time for six weeks to the 
study of archival and historical resources and 
programs, and have an opportunity to ex-
amine representative institutions in opera-
tion. 

THE MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION oF 
NoRTHERN OHIO is sponsoring a hospital li-
brary workshop to be held at the School of 
Library Science, Western Reserve Univer-
sity, Saturday, May 25. Anyone interested in 
hospital libraries is u·rged to attend. Ad-
vance registration fee of $6 should be sent 
to Miss Carol McHenry, Lakewood Hospi-
tal , 14519 Detroit Ave. , Lakewood 7, 0. 

230 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Personnel 
WALTER WooDMAN WRIGHT, assistant li-

brarian at the University of Pennsylvania, 
succeeds Frank N. Jones as librarian and as-

sistant professor of 
library science at 
Ohio University at 
Athens in July, 1957. 

Mr. Wright grew 
up in Cambridge, 
Mass., and in 1937 
he was graduated 
from Harvard Col-
lege, where his fa-
ther was a professor 
of French. He re-
ceived his B.S. in 
L.S. from Columbia in 

WALTER W. WRIGHT 1938. Several years 
at the Harvard Col-

lege Library were followed by experience at 
the New York Public Library, the New York 
Harvard Club library, Johns Hopkins, and 
finally at the University of Pennsylvania. 

In dress, interests and manners Mr. 
Wright is quite as proper and conservative 
as this background of family, education, and 
experience. His shoes are always black, his 
ties sober and sport shirts are not a part 
of his wardrobe. At evenfall his desk is 
completely clear on top and meticulously 
neat within. 

Behind this fac;ade of New England re-
spectability lies a skilled, imaginative, ama-
teur magician, a sympathetic and effective 
leader of staff, and a bold and original pro-
fessional experimenter. 

Mr. vVright is a book collector on the 
White Mountains, mountaineering, rail-
roads, New England history, magic, and 
many side lines. The magnitude of his col-
lection strains the patience of his good wife 
(also a librarian) and the floor supports of 
his home. He is quick to detect error or 
failure about him, whether it be the pagina-
tion of CRL or an engineer's failure to 
sound the diesel horn at the proper place 
for the length of time specified in the rail-
road's regulations. His pleasant eccentrici-
ties, wide interests, and abilities make him 
a suitable subject for a profile in the New 
Yorker. 

MAY~ 1957 

Professionally, Mr. Wright has been a 
leader in the development of library service 
to students, simplification of interlibrary 
loan procedures, development of library 
equipment, and library building planning. 
His publications discuss these and other 
topics. His most recent published work is 
(as editor) the Proceedings of the 1955 Build-
ing Plans Institutes (ACRL Monograph 
#15). For some years he has served as a mem-
ber of the editorial staff of CRL. He is 
dedicated to the mission of libraries to high-
er education, and much may be expected 
from him as he takes over his first command. 
-Arthur T. Hamlin. 

JEAN H. McFARLAND, librarian of Reed 
College, Portland, Ore., will become librar-
ian of Vassar College next September. 

Before becoming 
librarian of Reed 
College in 1954, Miss 
McFarland was as-
sistant librarian of 
the University of 
California Library at 
Berkeley, having 
joined the staff there 
in 1930. 

A native of River-
side, Calif., and a 

JEAN H. McFARLAND graduate of Pomona 
College, Miss Mc-

farland holds the M.A. in Economics 
from Columbia University, where she also 
attended the School of Library Service. She 
received the certificate from the School of 
Librarianship at the University of California 
at Berkeley in 1930. 

Miss McFarland is a vice-president and 
member of the executive board of the Zonta 
Club of Portland. She is a member of the In-
ternational Relations Study Group of the 
Portland AAUW. Her professional member-
ships include the American Library Associa-
tion, the Pacific Northwest Library Associa-
tion, the Oregon, California, and New York 
library associations. She is a member of the 
Publications Committee of ACRL. 

Miss McFarland succeeds Miss Ethel M. 
Fair, who has been acting librarian. 

231 



Appointments 

THOMAS R. ADAMS, director of the Chapin 
Library of Williams College, will succeed 
Lawrence C. Wroth as librarian of the John 
Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I., 
July I, 1957. 

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER and LEAH FREEMAN 
are assistant periodicals librarians, and 
FRANK LANGER is assistant reference li-
brarian at University of Miami Library. 

RICHARD L. ANDERS became chief of the 
Catalog Department at Baker Library, Dart-
mouth College, January I. 

LEMOYNE W. ANDERSON will become di-
rector of libraries at Colorado State Univer-
sity, Fort Collins, beginning July I. He is 
now reference librarian of the undergradu-
ate division of the University of Illinois, 
Chicago, Library (Navy Pier). 

LEAONEAD BAILEY, formerly librarian of 
West Virginia State College, Institute, 
W. Va., is now reference librarian of Saint 
Louis University. 

FLOYD CAMMACK has been appointed pub-
lications officer of ACRL. 

EDWIN H. CARPENTER has accepted an ap-
pointment as editor of the California His-
torical Quarterly~ effective in July. 

JoHN CHAPMAN, formerly assistant director 
for the humanities of the University of 
Nebraska Library, is now head of the Art 
Department of the Minneapolis Public Li-
brary. 

RICHARD K. GARDNER has accepted an ap-
pointment to the librarianship of the Michi-
gan State University Vietnamese Project in 
Saigon. 

PEDRO GRAsEs became director of the 
library of the Central University of Vene-
zuela in Caracas February 16, 1957. The 
University has recently acquired a handsome 
new library building with a capacity of 
1,500,000 volumes. 

FRANCOIS-XAVIER GRONDIN, formerly assist-
ant librarian in economics at the New York 
Public Library, is now associate professor 
and chief of the Department of Government 
Publications of the Rutgers University Li-
brary. 

EvELYN R. HANSEN is reference assistant at 
Baker Library, Dartmouth College. 

GuY R. LYLE, director of libraries, Emory 
University, Georgia, is teaching at the Keio 
Library School, Japan, through July. Mr. 
Lyle is the first appointee in the new Rocke-
feller supplementary grant program, which 
makes possible the appointment of a foreign 
librarian at Keio for three months each 
year. As a corollary, outstanding Japanese 
librarians will be given assignments in this 
country. 

"\V'ILLIAM B. MEREDITH is assistant to the 
director of the Division of Acquisitions and 
Preparations at Baker Library, Dartmouth 
College. 

MRs. A. GRACE MIMS is circulation librar-
ian at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. 

MARY NoEL has been appointed curator 
of the Abernethy Collection of the Middle-
bury College Library, Middlebury, Vt. 

ERIKA ScHINN is cataloger at Baker Li-
brary, Dartmouth College. 

RAY ScHLUETER, until recently librarian of 
the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, 
is now librarian of the Institute for Defense 
Analyses, Weapons Systems Evaluation 
Group, Washington, D. C. 

LESLIE ARMOUR TAYLOR is librarian of the 
School of Commerce and Finance of Saint 
Louis University. 

JoRMA VAINO VALLINKOSKI has been ap-
pointed librarian of the University of Hel-
singfors. Employed by the library since 
1939, he had been acting librarian since the 
death of his predecessor, Lauri 0. Tudeer, 
in 1954. 

MRs. MINNIE WALL is head of the Catalog 
Department of the Alabama Polytechnic In-
stitute Library. 

CHARLES WARREN is circulation librarian 
of the University of New Mexico Library. 

MRs. RuBY MAE WEINBRECHT is chief of 
readers' services and assistant professor of 
library science at the Indiana State Teachers 
College, Terre Haute. 

CECIL W. WELLBORN is head of circulation 
of the University of Arizona Library. 

232 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 

1 



Retirements 

LAWRENCE C. WROTH, librarian of the 
John Carter Brown Library in Providence 
since 1923, has announced his retirement, 

effective July I , 1957. 
Mr. Wroth has re-
cently been awarded 
the Gold Medal of 
the Bibliographical 
Society. The only 
other American ever 
to earn the Society's 
Gold Medal was Wil-
berforce Eames, who 
received it in 1929. 
Mr. Wroth has been 
active as a librarian 
for more than fifty 

LAWRENCE C. WROTH years. He is as widely 
known as a typo-

graphic expert and historian as for his bib-
liographic accomplishments. 

JAMES GooDWIN HoDGSON will retire as di-
rector of libraries at Colorado State Uni-
versity (formerly Colorado A. & M. College) 
at the end of June. Mr. Hodgson joined the 
staff there in 1936 and became director of 
libraries in 1944. His long professional ca-
reer began in 1916 when he was an assistant 
in legislative reference service at the New 
York State Library and included four years 

as librarian at the International Institute of 
Agriculture in Rome. He has been widely 
known for his publications in the field of li-
brarianship, both as an author and as an 
editor. Well grounded in sociology as well 
as librarianship, Mr. Hodgson compiled sev-
eral of the well-known R ef er ence Sh e lf 
volumes. 

CAROLINE WHITTEMORE) a member of the 
staff of the Dartmouth College Library since 
1929 and chief catalog librarian since 1945, 
retired December 31 , 1956. Miss Whittemore 
received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 
1919, a certificate from N. Y. State Library 
School in Albany in 1923, and a M.S. from 
Columbia School of Library Service in 1929. 
She was a member of the staff of the Brook-
line, Mass., Public Library from 1921-1927, 
serving as head cataloger during the last 
four years of that period. During the aca-
demic year 1940-41 , while on leave from 
Dartmouth, she taught cataloging at Colum-
bia. 

MRs. GLADYS LEWIS , head of the Acquisi-
tions Department of the University of Cal-
ifornia at Davis Library, retired in October, 
1956. 

MARY FLOYD, librarian of Eastern Ken-
tucky State College, retired February 1, 1957. 

Necrology 

HAROLD GoDDARD Rucc, associate librar-
ian emeritus of Dartmouth College, died at 
Hanover , N. H. , February 13, at the at;e of 
-74. From the time of his graduation from 
Dartmouth, in 1906, until his retirement in 
1953, Mr. Rugg was associated with Baker 
Library at Dartmouth. He had been cura-
tor of the rare book collections and the col-
lege archives. An avid collector of literary 
material on Vermont, he also owned a valu-
able collection .of Robert Frost poetry, most 
of which he gave to Baker Library. 

BARBU LAZAREA NU, director general of the 
library of the Academy of the Roumanian 
People's Republic, died January 19, 1957. 

JEAN ANKER, editor of Library Research 
Monographs ) LibriJ and Centau rus and di-

MAY_, 1957 

rector of the Scientific-Medical section of the 
University of Copenhagen Library since 
1943, died in January, 1957. A member of 
the staff of the University Library since his 
graduation in 19 I 7, Anker was widely rec-
ognized as a leader in Scandinavian librar-
ianship. Perhaps nis most important contri-
bution was the classed catalog of the scien-
tific and medical literature in University 
Library. His accounts of this job rank among 
the classics in the literature of classification. 
Anker was also a leading authority on bird 
books and bird art, on which he published 
a definitive work which appeared as a 
Festschrift on the occasion of the establish-
ment of Section B (Science and Medicine) of 
the University of Copenhagen Library. 

233 



All This and K. C. Steaks, Too 

Mississippians brag that their roads 
are good because they were built late, 
that the state profited from the errors 
of ro.ad builders in other areas and built 
the best. · The Kansas City Conference of 
ALA promises to be cool and comfort-
able because Kansas City is in a hot cli-
mate. All the hotels and meeting rooms 
will be air-conditioned. 

Cheat the heat in Kansas City. As Bob 
Talmadge commented in the ALA Bul-
letin for March, "Fortunes in air-condi-
tioning have been made in Kansas City 
during the last decade, and hotels, stores, 
and public buildings, including many of 
the area's libraries, are cool havens from 
the midsummer sun." 

Heat or high water, the Kansas City 
Conference promises to be an interesting 
meeting for ACRL. There will be no 
"official" ACRL hotel, but the Phillips 
has been suggested as an informal head-
quarters for college and research librar-
ians. 

The complete (though still tentative) 
ALA conference program appears in the 
ALA Bulletin for May. ACRL members 
will certainly want to be present for the 
general sessions on the evenings of June 
24, 27, and 28. The final milestone of re-
organization should be passed at one of 
those meetings. ACRL's own member-
ship meeting will be held in the after-
noon of Thursday, June 27. The Junior 

. College Libraries Section is undertaking 
an especially ambitious program, with 
meetings scheduled the 26th, 27th, and 
28th. The College and the Teacher 
Training Institutions sections plan a 
joint meeting on the morning of June 
27. The Pure and Applied Science Sec-
tion will hold a meeting at the Linda 
Hall Library June 25. Also on June 25 
will be an open program by the Rare 
Books Committee. The University Li-
braries Section will conduct a full pro-

gram on faculty status of librarians June 
26. There will be something for every-
body, including a jaunt to Bol? Vosper's 
University of Kansas Library 011 the 
"free" afternoon (June 26). 

Yes, there will be something for every-
body at Kansas City-except that the 
Kansas City Athletics will be on the road. 
A young, modern metropolis, the city of-
fers the advantages of a big town with 
ingratiating, small-town hospitality. Its 
Twelfth Street (of "Twelfth Street Rag" 
fame) and its Country Club Plaza com-
bine to lend a metropolitan air to the 
"Heart of America." 

A variety of opportunities suggest 
themselves for extra-conference activi-
ties: the open-air Starlight Theatre, Kan-
sas City Museum, William Rockhill Nel-
son Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins M u-
seum of Fine Arts; for the strictly li-
brary minded, Richard Sealock's exten-
sive Kansas City Public Library system, 
the Library of the University of Kansas 
City (with an extensive collection of 
Western Americana), the new Linda 
Hall Library of Science and Technology, 
the Library of the University of Kansas 
Medical Center, the Federal Reserve Li-
brary, and the morgue of the world-fa-
mous Kansas City Star. 

On its formal opening the week after 
ALA Conference, the Harry S. Truman 
Library in nearby Independence will of-
fer special attraction for visitors. Confer-
ence visitors are promised the special 
treat of a preview of this library. 

The "Kansas City Kitty" of the Rudy 
Vallee era has been almost forgotten in 
this "Everything's Up-to-Date" era of 
Rodgers and Hammerstein, but a visit 
to the Conference will teach a new gen-
eration why the old-timers used to sing 
of leaving everything and everywhere 
else "When Kansas City Kitty Smiled at 
Me." R.B.H. 

234 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Distribution of 

Library Resources 
(Continued from page 188) 

cial libraries of research significance 
have been included in the revised com-
putations. The figures may appear some-
what inconsistent, therefore, with those 
noted for library centers, and it should 
be understood that the differences are 
explained by the use of different bases 
for tabulation. Table IV and Map II re-

Rank 
1955 

1 
2 

3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 

10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 
41 
42 
43 
44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
49 

TABLE IV 
NuMBER OF VoLUMES IN REsEARCH 

LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED STATES 

Rank Volumes 
State 1935 1935 

New York . . . . 1 
District of 

Columbia . . . 4 
California • . . . 2 
Massachusetts . 3 
Ohio . . • . . • . . . 5 
Illinois • • . . . . . 6 
Pennsylvania . . 7 
Michigan . . . . . 8 
Connecticut . . . 9 
New Jersey . . . 10 
Texas . . . . . . . . 16 
Indiana . . . . . . 12 
Missouri . . . . . 11 
Wisconsin . . . . 13 
Minnesota 14 
Washington . . . 18 
Iowa . . . . . . . . . 15 
Maryland . . . . . 17 
North Carolina 2 5 
Virginia . . . . . . 22 
Colorado . . . . . 23 
Kansas . . . . . . . 19 
Oregon . . . . . . . 24 
Louisiana . . . . . 3 0 
Georgia . . . . . . 31 
Florida . . . . . . . 35 
Rhode Islanrl . . 2 1 
Tennessee . . . . 20 
Kentucky . . . . . 27 
Alabama . . . . . . 32 
Nebraska . . . . . 29 
Oklahoma . . . . . 33 
Maine 26 
New Hampshire 28 
South Carolina 34 
Utah . . . . . . . . . 36 
West Virginia . 39 
Arizona . . . . . . 38 
Arkansas . . . . . 44 
Vermont . . . . . . 37 
Montana ..... 40 
Mississippi . . . . 42 
New Mexico . . 49 
Delaware . . . . . 41 
South Dakota . 45 
Wyoming . . . . . 46 
North Dakota . 43 
Idaho ...... .. 48 
Nevada . . . . . . . 47 

Totals ... . . . 

16,931,000 

10,348,000 
14,401,000 
12,944,000 
9,669,000 
8,907,000 
8,056,000 
4,427,000 
4,220,000 
4,137,000 
2,196,000 
3,345,000 
3,495,000 
3,027,000 
2 ,916,000 
1,665 ,000 
2,527,000 
2,163,000 
1,131,000 
1,552,000 
1,425 ,000 
1,643,000 
1,416 ,000 

818,000 
790,000 
447,000 

1,6 40,000 
1,642,000 
1,011,000 

763,000 
947,000 
720,000 

1,046,000 
948,000 
594 ,000 
446,000 
420,000 
425,000 
236 ,000 
440,000 
376,000 
267,000 

90,000 
314,000 
227,000 
187,000 
254,000 
167,000 
175,000 

137,931,000 

Volumes 
1955 

34,041 ,000 

25,357,000 
23,951,000 
22,951,000 
18,606,000 
17,089,000 
14,697,000 

8,988,000 
8,507,000 
8,080,000 
6,716,000 
6,520,000 
6,239,000 
6 ,195,000 
5,700,000 
4,415,000 
4,108,000 
3,888,000 
3,882,000 
3,684,000 
3,098,000 
3,045,000 
3,038,000 
2,797,000 
2,659,000 
2,553,000 
2,469 ,000 
2,412,000 
2,379,000 
2,292,000 
1,93 1,000 
1,902,000 
1,706,000 
1,693,000 
1,483,000 
1,330,000 
1,207,000 
1,187,000 
1,153,000 

928,000 
848,000 
828,000 
677,000 
557,000 
475 ,000 
470,000 
456,000 
378 ,0 00 
249,000 

279,814,000 

MAY_, 1957 

Rank 
1955 

l 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 

10 
11 
12 
13 
l4 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 
41 
42 
43 
44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
49 

TABLE V 
RATE oF INcREASE oF VoLUMES IN 

RESEARCH LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED 

STATES FROM 1935 TO 1955 

State 

New Mexico 
Florida . .. . . .... ... .. . . .. . . 
Arkansas 
North Carolina . ...... . .... . 
Louisiana ... .... . . . . ... .. . . 
Georgia ...... .. . .. . .... . .. . 
Mississippi . . . .. . . . .... . . .. . 
Texas ............ ... . . ... . 
Alabama . . .. . . . .. ... . 
Utah ........ .. .... . 
West Virginia ... . 
Arizona 
Oklahoma .. ....... . . 
Washington ........ . 
Wyoming . ... ..... .. . 
South Carolina .. ... . 
District of Columbia 
Virginia . . .. . ...... . 
Kentucky ..... . 
Idaho .. .... . .. . ... . ... . 
Montana 
Colorado 
Oregon . . . .... ... . 
Vermont . ..... .... .. .... . . 
South Dakota ...... .. . . . . . . . 
'Visconsin ... . . . . . . 
Nebraska .. ...... .. ... . .... . 
Michigan .... .... . 
Connecticut .. . . 
New York . 
Minnesota . . .... . . . 
New Jersey . . . . . .. ...... . 
Indiana ..... . . .. . ....... .. . 
Ohio ..... ... .. . . ... . 
Illinois 
Kansas ........... . . . ... . .. . 
Pennsylvania .... .. . . ... . 
Maryland ... 
North Dakota . ... .. .. . .. . . . 
New Hampshire 
Missouri .. . 
Delaware . . . 
Massachusetts 
California . . .... . ..... . . . 
Maine .. . .. . . ........ . . . 
Iowa ........ · . .. . 
Rhode Island .. . ......... . 
Tennessee .. . . . . ... . . . . . 
Nevada ............. ... ... . 
National average .. . ... ... . 

Per Cent 
of Increase 

652.2 
471.1 
388.5 
243.2 
241.9 
236.6 
210.1 
205.8 
200.4 
198.2 
187.4 
179.3 
170.9 
165.2 
151.3 
149.6 
145.0 
137.4 
135.3 
126.3 
125.5 
117.4 
114.5 
110.9 
109.3 
104.6 
103.9 
103.0 
101.6 
101.1 

95 .5 
95.3 
94.9 
92.4 
91.9 
85.3 
82.4 
79.7 
79.5 
78.6 
78.5 
77.4 
77.3 
66.3 
63.1 
62.6 
50.5 
46.9 
42.2 

102.11% 

235 



veal the essential data. The ten states 
which were on top in 1935 maintained 
their eminence in 1955, though with 
several shifts in the order. For example, 
the District of Columbia moved up from 
fourth to second place, California went 
from second to third, and Massachusetts 
from third to fourth. 

In the 20-year period, the total book 
resources of the country more than dou-
bled, going from 137,931,000 to 278,776,-
000 volumes. Individual states ranged 
from New Mexico's whopping increase 
of 652 per cent down to Nevada's 42 per 

cent, as shown in Table V. The national 
average was 102 per cent increase. States 
which showed more than a 200 per cent 
growth were, in descending order, Flor-
ida, Arkansas, North Carolina, Louisi-
ana, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Al-
abama. Thirty-nine states possessed more 
than one million volumes within their 
borders, and only five held less than 500,-
000. 

By geographic areas (see Tables VI 
and VII), the largest percentage increas-
es took place in the Southwest and the 
Southeast, followed by the Northwest, 
Northeast, Midwest, and Far West. 

TABLE VI: RATE OF INCREASE OF VoLUMES IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1935 
TO 1955 BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA 

NORTHEAS'f 

Connecticut .. . .... . ... . ... . . .. . ... . 
Delaware ......... .. ........ ..... . . 
District of Columbia 
Maine 
Maryland 
Massachusetts . . 
New Hampshire 
New Jersey ..... . 
New York .. . 
Pennsylvania ... 
Rhode Island 
Vermont . ..... . ....... . 
West Virginia . . . . ....... . . . . 

Average 

MIDWEST 

Illinois 
Indiana .. . .. 
Iowa ... 
Michigan ... . 
Minnesota . ... . 
Missouri . . . . ..... ... . . . . . 
Ohio . 
Wisconsin 

Average 

SOUTHWEST 

Arizona . .... . 
New Mexico 
Oklahoma . .. . 
Texas .. . ... . . . 

PER CENT 

101 .6 
77.6 

145.0 
63.1 
79.7 
77.3 
78.6 
95.3 

lOLl 
82.4 
50.5 

110.9 
187.4 

96.2 

PER CENT 

91.9 
94.9 
62.6 

103.0 
95.5 
78.5 
92.4 

104.6 

91.7 

SOUTHEAST 

Alabama ... . . . .. . : . .. . .... . 
Arkansas .. 
Florida ... .. ...... . . 
Georgia . . . 
Kentucky 
Louisiana .... . 
Mississippi ... . 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Tennessee . ..... . 
Virginia . . ..... . 

Average 

NORTHWEST 

Colorado . .. . 
Idaho . . .. .. .. . 
Kansas ...... . 
Montana .. . .. . . . 
Nebraska ....... . ... . .. . 
North Dakota ... .. . ..... . ... . ... . .. . 
South Dakota 
Utah . . ..... . . .. . 
Wyoming .. . 

Average . . . 

PER CENT FAR WEST 

179.3 
652.2 
170.9 
205.8 

California 
Nevada .. 
Oregon 
Washington 

PER CENT 

200.4 
388.5 
471.1 
236.6 
135.3 
241.9 
210.1 
243.2 
149.6 
46.9 

137.4 

182.4 

PER CENT 

117.4 
126.3 
85.3 

125.5 
103.9 
79.5 
69.3 

198.2 
151.3 

112.1 

PER CENT 

66.3 
42.2 

114.5 
165.2 

Average .... . ... . . . ..... . . . . . 205.5 Average ........ . .. . 79.3 

236 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 





Certain obvious conclusions emerge 
from these two comparative studies of 
the distribution of American library re-
sources over the last 20 years. There is, 
for example, a wide gap still separating 
the haves and have-nots, though there 
are indications that the gap is gradually 
narrowing. The scholar and research 
worker in certain areas of the country 
continue to be seriously handicapped by 
the absence of adequate resources close 
at hand and must depend upon richer 
libraries elsewhere. Doubtless a realiza-
tion of this fact has spurred the rapid 
growth of collections in such regions as 

the Southeast and the Pacific Northwest. 
Sparse populations and economic factors 
are likely to retard indefinitely the de-
velopment of strong libraries in the 
Southwest and Northwest. The increas-
ing availability of library materials in 
micro-reproduction may alleviate some 
of the shortages. Also of value are broad 
programs of library cooperation, such 
as the Rocky Mountain and Pacific 
Northwest Bibliographic Centers, ena-
bling those areas to make maximum use 
of their own facilities before turning to 
libraries elsewhere. 

TABLE VII: NUMBER OF VOLUMES IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES OF THE u ITED STATES BY 
GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN 1955 

NORTHEAST 

Connecticut 
Delaware 
District of Columbia 
Maine 
Maryland 
Massachusetts 
New Hampshire 
New Jersey 
New York 
Pennsylvania 
Rhode Islanci 
Vermont 
West Virginia 

Total .. 

MIDWEST 

Illinois 
Indiana .. . 
Iowa ..... .. ............ . 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
Missouri 
Ohio .. 
'.Visconsin 

Total . 

SOUTHWEST 

Arizona . . 
New Mexico 
Oklahoma 
Texas 

Total 

MAYJ 1957 

VOLUMES 

8,507 ,000 
557,000 

25 ,357,000 
1,706,000 
3,888,000 

22 ,951 ,000 
1,693 ,000 
8,080,000 

34,041 ,000 
14,697,000 
2,469 ,000 

928,000 
1,207,000 

126,081,000 

VOLUMES 

17,089,000 
6,520,000 
4,108,000 
8,988 ,000 
5,700,000 
6,239.000 

18,606 ,000 
6,195 ,000 

73,445 ,000 

VOLUMES 

1,187,000 
677 ,000 

1,902.000 
6,716,000 

10,482,000 

SOUTHEAST 

Alabama ... 
Arkansas 
Florida ... . . . 
Georgia .... . . ... . . .... . 
Kentucky ..... . .. . . . . . 
Louisiana . ...... . 
Mississippi 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Tennessee 
Virginia 

Total 

NORTHWEST 

Colorado .. . 
Idaho .. .. . . 
Kansas .. . 
Montana ..... . 
Nebraska . .... . . ... . . 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Utah .. 
Wyoming .. 

Total ... 

FAR WEST 

California 
Nevada .. 
Oregon .. 
Washington 

Total .... . ... . . . 

VOLUMES 

2,292 ,000 
1,153,000 
2,55 3,000 
2,659 .000 
2,379,000 
2,797,000 

828 ,000 
3,882 ,000 
1,48 3,000 
2,412 ,000 
3,684,000 

26,122 ,000 

VOLUMES 

3,098,000 
378,000 

3,045,000 
848,000 

1,931 ,000 
456 ,000 
475,000 

1,330,000 
470,000 

12,031 ,000 

VOLUMES 

23 ,951,000 
249,000 

3,038 ,000 
4,4 15 ,000 

31,652,000 

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