College and Research Libraries A C R L Grants Program, 1959-60 A grant of $35,000 from the United States Steel Foundation, Inc., makes possible the fifth annual ACRL grants program. Application forms for individual l i b r a r y participation in the 1959-60 pro- gram will be distrib- uted in September to eligible libraries—the libraries of privately supported universities and four-year colleges. The U. S. Steel grant, writes R. C. Ty- son, chairman of the Foundation's F i n a n - cial Policy Committee, is in consideration of "the need to strength- en college and univer- sity libraries by im- proving their collec- tions, equipment, and programs as adjuncts to the teaching and learning processes." He says: "The Trustees in making this grant, directed their attention to the gen- eral needs of all colleges and universities, but chiefly to private liberal arts colleges and universities for developing their collec- tions, improving the quality of library serv- ice to higher education, and otherwise aid- ing in the best use of the most modern teach- ing and learning tools." This grant brings the total of gifts made to ACRL by the U. S. Steel Foundation in the last five years to $155,000. Additional grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the New York Times, Remington Rand, the C.B.S. Foundation, and the Nationwide In- surance Company make the total in the first five years of the ACRL grants program more than $200,000. " A C R L is deeply grateful to the United States Steel Foundation for its continued support," says Wyman Parker, ACRL Presi- dent. "As grateful as we are, we realize that the ACRL grants program must be ex- Edwarci C. Logelin, vice president, U. S. Steel Corporation— Chicago, presents check from United States Steel Foundation to Richard B. Harwell, ACRL executive secretary. panded, not only to justify U. S. Steel's con- tinued participation but, even more im- portantly, to help meet the needs that the program thus far has so dramatically called to our attention. We shall undertake an intensified drive for broader financial sup- port, and we are confident that the merit of increasing foundation support for col- lege and university libraries will convince other foundations of the wisdom of join- ing U. S. Steel in making grants to ACRL." The mechanics of the 1959-60 ACRL grants program will be similar to those of previous programs. The ACRL committee will review applications at a meeting in late fall. Awards will be announced in the Janu- ary 1960 CRL. Last year grants were made to seventy-six libraries. Robert W. Orr, director of libraries at Iowa State College, is this year's chairman of the committee. Other members are Humphrey G. Bousfield, Arthur T . Hamlin, Edward C. Heintz, Wyman W. Parker, Luella R. Pollock, and Benjamin B. Richards. JULY 1959 307 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S , G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S M I C H I G A N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y h a s purchased, with the assistance of the M. S. U. Development Fund, the collection of Lincoln books gathered by Mr. Jewell F. Stevens of Chicago. This collection of near- ly a thousand bound volumes and compris- ing more than three thousand separate items was appraised at $7,000 by Dr. Les- lie Dunlap, director of the State University of Iowa Libraries. The collection is de- scribed at some length in the News of the Friends of the M. S. U. Library, volume 14, number 1. T H E L I B R A R Y S C H O O L of the University of Southern California has received the late Althea Warren's professional library as a gift from her sister, Mrs. Lee Borden Mill- bank. Miss Warren was a faculty member at the school. T H E PAPERS of A. Owsley Stanley, gover- nor and senator from Kentucky and for many years a member of the U. S.—Canadian International Joint Boundary Commission, have been placed in the University of Ken- tucky Library by his family. The material includes not only extensive manuscript col- lections relating to the Kentucky and the national political scene but also much manuscript material on U. S.-Canadian re- lations. P R A T T I N S T I T U T E L I B R A R Y is the recipient of a gift of 4,000 children's books from the library of the Child Study Association of America. The books are representative of the finest titles published in this field be- tween 1925 and 1950. S O U T H E R N I L L I N O I S U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has benefited by several gifts: contemporary oil paintings of Lincoln and Webster from Phillip Sang of Chicago; an original oil portrait of James Joyce, painted by his friend Budgen in Zurich in 1919, and a set of page proofs of James Joyce's Dublin by Patricia Hutchins with marginal annota- tions by Stanislaus Joyce, given by Charles Feinberg of Detroit; and $1,000 for library purchases from I. L. Shurman of Chicago. A SIGNIFICANT P O R T I O N of the Truman presidential papers was opened to research- ers at the Harry S. Truman Library in In- dependence, Mo., May 11. The papers in- clude about three-fourths of two principal segments of President Truman's White House central files, those of some of his immediate staff, and a portion of the pa- pers representing Mr. Truman's service as a senator. It is estimated that they contain about 1,500,000 pages. A collection of books, microfilm, and microprint also will be made available to users of the library. These materials deal with the nature and history of the Presidency and foreign rela- tions of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the books came from the President's personal library. Others have been purchased from a grant of $48,700 made to the Harry S. Truman Li- brary Institute by the Rockefeller Founda- tion. Persons wishing to use papers and other materials are requested to make advance application to Dr. Philip C. Brooks, direc- tor of the library, informing him of the nature and purposes of their projects. This will give the staff an opportunity to locate materials of interest and will enable the researcher to begin his work with minimum delay. Students will normally be expected to include letters of introduction from their professors with their applications. The institute has initiated a program of grants-in-aid. These will normally be grants of less than $500 to provide travel and liv- ing expenses for short periods of work at the library. For the immediate future grants will be concentrated on those who are work- ing on the period of former President Tru- man's public career and those who will be using the resources of the Truman Library. J O H N P. M A R Q U A N D , Pulitzer-Prize winning author, has given all of his literary manu- scripts to Yale University Library. The col- lection includes a dozen or more novels, many short stories and essays, and the dra- matized version of The Late George Apley which Mr. Marquand wrote with George S. Kaufman in 1944. Each novel usually is represented by complete first and second 308 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES drafts, both with numerous manuscript cor- rections and revisions, and a final version as sent to the publisher. Altogether the manuscripts fill five large shelves in the Yale Library's Collection of American Lit- erature. A L L T H E M A N U S C R I P T S and papers of the first fifteen issues of New World Writing, pioneer paperbound publication in con- temporary literature, have been given to the Yale University Library. At the same time, the New American Library announced that its publication, a literary cross-section from all over the world, will cease publi- cation. New World Writing was begun in December 1951, and was released semi-an- nually. B U I L D I N G S T H E I O W A LEGISLATURE has appropriated $1,312,500 for the first addition to the Iowa State College Library. Preliminary plan- ning of the new space is already under way. T h e March 30, 1959, issue of The Library at Iowa State (vol. 13, no. 7) gives a nine- page account of the library's housing prob- lems during its ninety-year history. S E N A T O R T H E O D O R E G R E E N (Democrat, R h o d e Island) has introduced Senate Joint Resolution 97 authorizing a $75,000 appro- priation for preliminary plans and estimates for an additional building for the Library of Congress. This is similar to House Joint Resolution 352 introduced by Representa- tive Omar Burleson (Democrat, Texas). T h e Washington Office of A L A advises that let- ters to congressmen urging early action on these resolutions would be helpful. Lack of space is one of LC's most pressing prob- lems. P R E L I M I N A R Y W O R K has begun on the new library building at Simmons College, Bos- ton. T h e structure will consist of two parts, one of two stories, the other of five. T h e probable cost will be about two million dol- lars, including furniture and equipment. T h e library will occupy the first two floors of both buildings and part of the third floor of the taller unit. T h e main floor will extend through both buildings so that all essential services will be on one level. T h e School of Library Science will share the upper floors of the taller building with the School of Publication. S A N F E R N A N D O V A L L E Y S T A T E C O L L E G E dedicated its new library building early in May. T h e library is the first permanent building to be completed on the campus of the new school. G R A N T S A G R A N T of $430,000 from the Ford Foun- dation, to be used over a five-year period, has been awarded to the Boston University African Research and Studies Program. T h e program has a dual purpose of training stu- dents in African studies and providing a research resource for scholars whose inter- ests are focused on Africa as an area of study. Part of the grant will be used to augment the program's library resources. T H E C O U N C I L ON L I B R A R Y R E S O U R C E S , I N C . , has awarded a $201,531 contract to the Cros- ley Division of A V C O Manufacturing Cor- poration, Cincinnati, for development of experimental electronic equipment for li- brary use. T h e Crosley investigations are ex- pected to take approximately a year. They will be devoted specifically to developing the following: 1. A step-and-repeat camera suitable for preparing high-reduction microphoto- graphic storage fields. T h e purpose is to demonstrate feasibility of conveni- ently and faithfully preparing such memory fields from original books and other publications. 3. Electronic buffer storage facilities to mechanisms to demonstrate the feasi- bility of selecting information stored in three dimensions, and to demon- strate photographic and electronic re- production of the content of the photo-memory. This is an area in which Crosley had already done considerable work. 3. Electronic buffer storage facilities to demonstrate the feasibility of supply- ing information from the photo-mem- ory simultaneously in electric or opti- cal form to a number of users. Assuming that the foregoing investiga- tions produce feasible solutions, there are other elements of the electronic system to be developed. One is a searching system; another is a method for "printing o u t " hard copy that will be characterized by high JULY 1959 309 definition and very faithful reproduction. The staff of the Council on Library Re- sources is working with AVCO on both of these possibilities. Still another element is a method of transmission of the stored images to remote points, with "print out" or "read out" at these points. The Council hopes that the Crosley in- vestigations will contribute to an eventual library system featured by a significantly great reduction in the storage space required for recorded information; a comparatively indestructible and permanent means of pre- serving and storing records; ease and ra- pidity of access (elimination of unnecessary time and motion in entering and removing information from the store); and capacity for rapid transmission of information to any other desired point. This implies fur- ther reduction in volume of necessary local storage and the capacity to duplicate any stored material. D E N I S O N U N I V E R S I T Y has received a Ford Foundation grant of $40,000 to strengthen the teaching of non-western civilizations in the college program. The program calls for a three-year inter-disciplinary seminar which will study, in turn, India, China, and Japan. Funds will be provided for supplementing current library resources pertaining to these areas. An additional grant of $500 a year for three years has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart M. Cram for "any necessary library acquisitions" relating to the Far East. A T W O - Y E A R G R A N T made by the Council on Library Resources, Inc., to the Joint Libraries Committee on Fair Use in Photo- copying has made it possible for the Com- mittee to secure the services of Webster, Sheffield 8c Chrystie, a New York law firm, to make a legal study of the problems of photocopying in libraries. The Committee, which represents ALA, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association, was established in 1957 to work on the problems involving copyright which arise in connection with the photocopying of materials in their collections done by libraries for their users. P U B L I C A T I O N S T H E SECOND A N N U A L R E P O R T of the Coun- cil on Library Resources, Inc., summarizes appropriations totaling $403,361 for thirty- two new projects during the period ending June 30, 1958. Broadly categorized, the problems under examination are those of bibliographic access and physical access to materials and of administrative arrange- ments. This last category involves factors such as library organization, and govern- ment financing, recruitment and training for librarianship, and development of stand- ards, specifications, and testing methods in cataloging, binding, and equipment. Accord- ing to the report, "the objective of library work is to be able to provide the reader, no matter where he may be, with informa- tion as to what recorded knowledge exists applicable to his interest, and to be able to furnish him with the relevant portion of that record, no matter where it may be- located." The Council's aim is to foster so- lutions to the problems that prevent the objective from being fully realized. The Southern California Union List of Microtext Editions, compiled by Andrew H. Horn from reports, of participating libraries, has been issued by the libraries of Occi- dental College and University of California at Los Angeles. The list arranges informa- tion about holdings by type of micro-for- mat, and within each type in the order that the reports were received by the compiler. The format is loose-leaf, so that the list may be expanded indefinitely without re- vising original pages. An alphabetical author and title index precedes the actual listing of library holdings. In the listing of symbols of participating libraries information is pro- vided about the library's policy on lending microtexts. Additional index listings, cor- rections, additional holdings, and new titles acquired will be reported in an occasional SCULME Newsletter, and from time to time revised index pages and supplements will be issued. T H E E S T A B L I S H M E N T and first year of oper- ation of the Southwest Missouri Library Services, Inc., are reported by Brigitte L. Kenney in Cooperative Centralized Process- ing (Chicago: ALA, 1959, $2.25). Founded in 1957 by ten Missouri public libraries, the center receives books purchased by member libraries, catalogs them, reproduces catalog cards, and prepares books for the shelves. Charges to the libraries are based on their 310 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES budgets for the previous year. T h e report describes technical processing by the librar- ies before the center was established, shows how it was organized, how it functioned during the first year, how its services were used, and what benefits the libraries en- joyed. Seven appendixes present basic data and procedures. Despite problems in or- ganization and relationships, the cooperative venture succeeded in accomplishing its main objectives. During the first year, 36,000 vol- umes were processed at an average cost of fifty-six cents each, considerably less than the previous costs of the majority of par- ticipants. Bibliographical Essay on the History of Scholarly Libraries in the United States, 1800 to the Present has been published as no. 54 in the University of Illinois Library School Occasional Papers series. In writing this extensive paper, Harry Bach, head of the acquisition department at San Jose State College Library, consulted more than 130 sources dating from 1945 to 1956. Copies will be sent to any individual or institution without charge upon request to the Editor, Occasional Papers, University of Illinois Li- brary School, Urbana. LIBRARIES with significant holdings in Iranian materials will be interested in Cata- loging of Persian Works, by Nasser Sharify (Chicago: A L A , 1959, $3.50). Written orig- inally as a doctoral dissertation, the study establishes rules for transliteration of Per- sian into the roman alphabet and the entry of Persian names as well as principles of descriptive cataloging. Science Information News is a new bi- monthly publication that reports on both national and international developments in scientific and technical information. It is compiled and edited by the National Science Foundation's Office of Science Information Service. T h e publication is designed to meet the need for reporting and exchanging news of worldwide activities in science communi- cation and documentation. It is hoped that contributions from interested groups will make it a centralized news source, hastening progress toward more effective utilization of the world's scientific knowledge. Directorio de Publicaciones Periddicas Mexicanas contains 610 entries with full information on 840 Mexican periodicals, in- cluding title, editor, frequency of publica- tion, data of first issue, and data on type of contents, name of present and first editor, subscription price, circulation, and adver- tising. T h e 250-page, paperbound publica- tion sells for $10.00. It can be secured from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, R i o Volga No. 3, Mexico 5, D. F. W E S T V I R G I N I A U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y , M o r - gantown, has microfilmed the biographical sections of all known Hardesty Atlases cov- ering West Virginia. T h e project was a co- operative effort by the library, T . T . Perry of Charles T o w n and A. B. Stickney of Los Angeles. Copies of the complete micro- film of specific county biographies and photostatic copies may be purchased from the library's West Virginia Collections. V O L U M E X I I of Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, edited by Fredson Bowers (Charlottesville, 1959, $10.00) con- tains a variety of offerings for bibliographi- cally minded librarians: Ian Watt's "Pub- lishers and Sinners: T h e Augustan View," William Charvat's "Melville and the Com- mon Reader," Bruce Harkness' "Bibliog- raphy and the Novelistic Fallacy," R . H. Bowers' "Some Folger Academic Drama Manuscripts," and William B. T o d d ' s "Re- current Printing." Other papers consider Victorian magazine publishers and editors, the composition of The Merchant of Venice, Fletcher and Beaumont, Scottish printers and booksellers, William Blake's engravings, Samuel Richardson as a printer, the publica- tion of Leigh Hunt's Imagination and Fancy, and Howells' bibliography. Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney supply their list of bibliographical scholarship for 1957. M I S C E L L A N E O U S P I L A M B D A S I G M A , oldest library honor society in the United States, founded at Syracuse University School of Library Sci- ence in 1903, will merge with and become a chapter of Beta Phi Mu, international library science honor fraternity. T H E ROLE of classification in the modern library will be discussed at an institute to be conducted by the University of Illinois Li- brary School and the University Extension Division at Allerton House, Monticello, 111., November 1-4. Leaders from the field of JULY 1959 311 classification will discuss such questions as whether classification is acomplishing its stated aims, the value of the classified cata- log in research libraries, the use of Library of Congress classification for research collec- tions, the problems involved in classifying special collections, and what the future can be expected to produce. The planning com- mittee consists of Frances B. Jenkins, Don- ald Strout, Harold Lancour, and Thelma Eaton, chairman. For more complete in- formation write Miss Eaton, University of Illinois Library School, Urbana. T H E L I B R A R Y O F CONGRESS has accepted the offers of two firms to study the possibili- ties of the mechanization of its operations, especially in information storage and re- trieval. Representatives of the firms will visit LC for a period of about two weeks. They will report their conclusions and make recommendations on the nature and scope of the library's future activities in this area. Acceptance of the offers was recommended by LC's Interdepartmental Committee on Mechanized Information Retrieval. Richard S. Angell, chief of the subject cataloging division, will represent the committee in working with the visiting teams in their survey of the library's operations. T H E 250TH A N N I V E R S A R Y of the birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson will be celebrated in Birmingham, England, September 14-19. Among the events will be an exhibition of books, manuscripts, and portraits of John- son and his circle. It will display a copy of each of his publications. The materials will be on display from September 14 to Oc- tober 3. N A T I O N A L L I B R A R Y W E E K for 1 9 6 0 will be observed on April 3-9. Preliminary re- ports on the 1959 program show that more than 5 , 0 0 0 communities participated with increasing p a r t i c i p a t i o n through local schools, clubs, libraries, and merchants, as well as wide cooperation on the part of broadcasters, newspapers, and magazines. An official annual report was published in June. R A D C L I F F E C O L L E G E is sponsoring the preparation of a biographical dictionary of American women, Notable American Wom- en, 1607-1950. It will contain sketches of approximately 1,500 women from the col- lonial period down to those deceased not later than 1950, and will comprise two or more volumes. The project is an outgrowth of the college's expanding collection of ma- terials on the history of American women. The articles will be written by historians and other scholars and, in general, will be on the same scale as those in the Dictionary of American Biography, whose high scholarly standards the new work will strive to equal. The editor is Dr. Edward T . James, recently associate editor of Supplement T w o of the DAB. The committee of consultants, headed by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., has been ap- pointed, but the editor solicits names for inclusion and information about possible contributors from librarians and scholars. His address is Radcliffe College, Cambridge 38, Mass. T H E S C H O O L O F L I B R A R Y S C I E N C E o f t h e University of Southern California, is at- tempting to establish a memorial scholarship fund to honor and perpetuate the memory of Althea Warren. A former faculty member, Miss Warren had been the head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library for many years, and prior to that, head of the San Diego Public Library. She had served as president of ALA and as president of the California Library Association, as head of the Victory Book Campaign during World War II, and in innumerable ways had ad- vanced the library profession in this country. Money contributed to this scholarship or loan fund will be used to help some deserv- ing student attend library school each year. T o create a permanent interest-bearing scholarship, it is necessary to have a fund of approximately $25,000. A smaller amount may be used for a loan fund. Contributions should be addressed to Miss Martha Boaz, Dean, School of Library Sci- ence, University of Southern California and marked: "For the Althea Warren Memorial Scholarship Fund." T H E A N N U A L SPRING W O R K S H O P o f t h e College and University section of the Wis- consin Library Association was held on April 11 at the University of Wisconsin Library School in Madison. A panel dis- cussed education for academic librarianship. C U R T F. B U H L E R delivered the Rosenbach Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania on April 9, 16, and 23, 1959, as the Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography for 1958-59. 312 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel Paul M. Miles In southern California library circles there was warm and unanimous applause when Lawrence Clark Powell announced locally that P A U L M . M I L E S was his selection to succeed Gordon R. Williams as assistant university librarian at UCLA. The dis- may which UCLA's friends felt over the prospect of losing Mr. Williams, at the climax of seven years of distinguished serv- ice, was much al- layed when it was learned that his work would fall to the quiet, capable, and efficient hands of Paul Miles, one of those backbone librarians whose influence is felt through his work rather than by his words. He doesn't say much; when he does talk, though, it is invariably direct and meaningful. And its only adornment is apt to be a dash of wry humor, usually slipped in slyly. On the other hand, this laconic librarian's capacity for work is so prodigious and the quality of it so extraordinary as to dumbfound even his most loquacious colleagues. A graduate of the University of Denver, Miles has done graduate work (M.A., Uni- versity of California, 1947) and research (Mexico City, 1949) in history. Through these studies he has become bilingual, in- deed so proficient as to woo and win the charming Mrs. Miles in her native Spanish language. Before he enrolled as an under- graduate at Denver, Mr. Miles had worked a year as a trade paper journalist; but while he was a student he served as a page in the Denver Public Library. Four and a half years in the Army (staff sergeant) during World War II, followed by his graduate study at California where he was also a teaching assistant, brought him almost in- evitably to the Berkeley School of Librar- ianship (B.L.S. in 1950). His first profes- sional assignment was in the serials depart- ment at UC (Berkeley). However, most of his library service since 1950 has been at UCLA—reference librarian (1950-51), geol- ogy librarian (1951-52), UN documents li- brarian (1952-57), and since 1957 librarian of the Institute of Industrial Relations and Business Administration and Economics Li- braries of the UCLA system. Paul Miles has been well prepared— within the UCLA library, administrative, and faculty-student structure—for the com- plex duties of the assistant librarianship. His major assignment will be building plan- ning and space allocation, with increasing responsibility for budget preparation in col- laboration with the ranking assistant librar- ian, Miss Page Ackerman.—Andrew H. Horn. JENNINGS W O O D has been appointed chief of the Gifts and Exchange Division of the Library of Congress. Mr. Wood has been a member of the staff of the Library of Congress since 1937. He has been assist- ant chief of the Gifts and Exchange Di- vision since 1948. As chief of the division he succeeds the late Alton Keller. Mr. W o o d was one of two Ameri- can representatives at the Seminar on I n t e r n a t i o n a l Ex- change of Publications in the Indo-Pacific area held in Tokyo in 1957 and served as reporter of the seminar. During the past winter and spring he represented the Li- brary of Congress and the Department of State in the interest of acquiring Indian gov- ernment publications under the Indian Wheat Loan Fund for the Library of Con- gress and other American libraries. Mr. Wood was born in Earle, Ark., in 1910. He did both undergraduate and gradu- ate work at the University of Arkansas. C O R R E C T I O N : Robert K . Johnson has been appointed assistant director of libraries at Drexel Institute of Technology. John Har- vey is director of libraries at Drexel. Jennings Wood JULY 1959 313 Appointments S C O T T A D A M S , formerly librarian of the National Institute of Health, is program director for Foreign Science Information, Office of Science Information Service, Na- tional Science Foundation. LEE ASH, formerly editor of the Library Journal, joined the Yale University Li- brary's Selective Book Retirement Project on July 1, 1959, as editor and research ana- lyst. A. R . M E E R A B A I , assistant librarian, Mad- ras Medical College Library, will serve on the staff of the Denison University Li- brary, Granville, Ohio, in the coming year. J A M E S A. B O U D R E A U , formerly assistant director of the Simmons College Library, is director of the library of the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, Boston. E T H E L M . F A I R , retired director of the Library School of New Jersey, served last year as reference librarian of Denison Uni- versity, Granville, Ohio. T H O M A S J . G A L V I N , formerly librarian of the Abbot Public Library, Marblehead, Mass., is assistant director of libraries and lecturer in the School of Library Science, Simmons College. P A U L A G I B B O N S is now head of the acqui- sition department of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology Library. E . J . H U M E S T O N , JR., formerly head of the Library Science Department of the Uni- versity of Kentucky, is professor in the Li- brary School of Drexel Institute, Philadel- phia. R O B E R T S . K R A M P is reference librarian, Michigan State Library, Lansing. D A V I D A . K R O N I C K , formerly medical li- brarian of the University of Michigan, is librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library. A R L E N E K U P I S is humanities librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rev. H O M E R M A T L I N , librarian of Loy- ola University, Chicago, will succeed DAN- IEL J. R E E D as director of libraries of the University of Detroit in the late summer. P H I L I P L. M I L L E R is chief of the Music Division of the New York Public Library. FRANCES M U S E is now head of the refer- ence department, Georgia State College of Business Administration Library, Atlanta. N A T A L I E N . N I C H O L S O N is associate direc- tor of libraries in charge of reader services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. E V E R E T T H. N O R T H R O P , formerly assistant librarian, Academy Library, U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N. Y., has been appointed associate librarian. D A N I E L J . R E E D , director of libraries at the University of Detroit since 1953, is as- sistant chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. R Y B U R N M. Ross is associate director of libraries in charge of technical services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. G E R T R U D E SCHUTZE is manager of library services at Standard and Poor's Corpora- tion, New York. W I L L I A M L. S T E W A R T , JR., is head of the circulation department, Georgia State Col- lege of Business Administration Library, Atlanta. A L L E Y N E B. V A N D E R V O O R T , formerly assist- ant librarian at Millikin University, De- catur, 111., has been appointed order and periodicals librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington. W I L L I A M S. W A L L A C E , formerly associate librarian and archivist, Rodgers Library, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, has been appointed librarian and archivist, effective September 1, 1959. T O M V . W I L D E R is chief of the newly established Natural Resources Division of the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress. M A R I A N N E Y A T E S is librarian of the Trans- portation Center Library, Northwestern University. She was formerly head of pub- lic services. 314 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Retirements F A N N Y S. C A R L T O N , librarian at Chapman College, Orange, Calif., for the past fourteen years, will retire this summer. Miss Carlton went to Chapman in 1945 from the Spanish American Institute, Gar- dena, Calif., where she had been secretary to the president for five years. From 1932 to 1940 she was librarian at the Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico, having previously been a missionary for twelve years on the island, serving under the United Christian Missionary Society. A graduate of Hiram College, Miss Carl- ton received her bachelor of science degree in library science from Western Reserve University, where she was the recipient of a Carnegie Corporation grant. She is a mem- ber of ALA, the California Library Associa- tion, and the American Association of Uni- versity Women. J . V I V I A N H E D G C O C K , librarian of the Rodgers Library, New Mexico Highlands University, since 1924, will retire from her post in August. A graduate of Highlands and the University of Illinois Library School, Miss Hedgcock has spent her entire career at Highlands where, as librarian, she di- rected the library's expansion from 6,000 to nearly 100,000 volumes. Necrology T H O M A S S. H A Y E S , librarian of the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico, died on May 18, 1959, at the age of 57. He was responsible for the best university library building, col- lection, and administration south of Miami. He was an effective classroom teacher, a courageous and perceptive columnist (for El Mundo of San Juan), and one of those continentals who came to know and love the island and to lay the foundations for its present position of leadership in Latin America. Over a decade and a half ago I went to T o m Hayes to secure information about insular politicians for a federal investiga- tive agency. He knew everything worth knowing about the island and its person- alities, from the fabulous adventures of the late Bill O'Reilly to the hopes and aspira- tions of his good friend Luis Munoz Marin for the future of Puerto Rico. Above all T o m Hayes had the magic touch for schol- arly companionship with the faculty. He gave some effective lessons in library ad- ministration that were never in any library school curriculum.—L.S.T. E L E A N O R S. C A V A N A U G H , librarian of Standard and Poor's Corporation, New York, died on March 18, 1959. J A M E S F. K E N N E D Y , retired librarian of the Fordham University Law School, died in March 1959. D O R O T H Y L A R S E N , associate librarian of Westmar College, Le Mars, Iowa, died on May 13, 1959. M U R I E L M U R R A Y , head of the order de- partment at Northwestern University Li- brary, died on April 19, 1959. Graduated from Wellesley in 1928, and holding an M.A. in Psychology from Northwestern and a B.L.S. from Michigan, Miss Murray was a dedicated and able librarian. During the almost thirty years she was associated with Northwestern, she won everyone's admira- tion for her skill and resourcefulness, the more remarkable because she worked under a severe physical handicap. She was an ex- cellent order librarian and through her work made a lasting contribution to the develop- ment of Northwestern's library collections. M A R Y R O B E R T S , acquisitions assistant in the University of Illinois Library, died on March 23, 1959. M E T A S E X T O N , who retired from the Uni- versity of Illinois Library in 1951 after thirty years of service, died in Chicago on March 17, 1959. H U B E R T P O R T E R S T O N E , assistant professor of library science and head of the refer- ence department at Bowling Green State University Library, died on March 18, 1959. JULY 1959 315 A C R L at Washington A fine panel discussion, " T h e Program of the Federal Government in Education and Research," and exceptionally strong program sessions by the several ACRL sections marked the Washington Conference as an unusually successful one for college and uni- versity librarians. Activity on their part over- flowed ACRL bounds into most of the type- of-activity divisions' programming and into many of ALA's overall activities. A high- spot in such extra-ACRL participation in ALA affairs was Ben Powell's impressive address at his inauguration as president of ALA. ACRL's general program emphasized pres- ent federal activity in library and educa- tional affairs, the opportunities for exten- sion of such activities, and the necessity for intensified activity in this direction by both librarians and governmental representatives. Ably planned by Frank Schick of the Li- brary Services Branch of the U. S. Office of Education and as ably moderated by Wil- liam Dix, librarian of Princeton University, the panel covered concisely and effectively an area of importance and concern to the profession. Senator Jacob Javits of New York and Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama presented the legislative point of view about the government's program in education and research. Elliot Richardson, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, expounded the position of the executive branch of govern- ment, and Harry C. Kelly, Assistant Director for Scientific Personnel and Education of the National Science Foundation, presented the view of the scientists. Mr. Dix made a brilliant summary of their remarks and of the implications of their remarks before returning the meeting to ACRL President Lewis C. Branscomb. The meeting was concluded with the passing of the gavel to incoming President Wyman Parker. Outstanding among section activities was the three-day pre-conference program for rare book librarians sponsored by the Rare Books Section at the University of Virginia. More than two hundred participants were registered at this meeting which is more fully reported elsewhere in this issue. Almost as many college and university librarians were registered for the Buildings Institute sponsored by the Buildings and Equipment Section of the Library Administration Di- vision on the campus of the University of Maryland. Provocative speeches on library organi- zations were the feature of the program of the University Libraries Section. Frank Lundy, director of libraries at the Uni- versity of Nebraska, and Ralph McComb, librarian at Pennsylvania State University, were the speakers. The College Libraries Section and Junior College Libraries Section held a joint meet- ing with a broadly competent panel dis- cussing "Teaching Students to Use the Li- brary" as its program. The panel's modera- tor was Philip Bradshaw, assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. Li- brarian participants were Virginia Clark, William Quinly, Vail Deale, and Morrison Haviland. George S. Bonn of the Science and Tech- nology Division of the New York Public Library spoke to the Subject Specialists Section on "Japanese Periodicals in Science and Technology." The new Art Sub-Section of the Subject Specialists Section held its first program meeting and a luncheon meet- ing. Kyle Morris spoke at the program meeting on "A New Program in Documen- tation of the Arts." An organization meeting looking toward the creation of a sub-section for law and political science specialists was held during Conference. Earlc T . Hawkins, president of State Teachers College, Towson, Md., and Felix Hirsch, librarian of Trenton State College, N. J., were the speakers at the meeting of the Teacher Education Libraries Section. President Hawkins spoke on "What Is Hap- pening to Teacher Education and Its Im- plications for Our Libraries," Dr. Hirsch on "The Significance of the New College Li- brary Standards." The Conference program of the Rare Books Section was held at the Folger Shake- speare Library and centered around an en- tertaining speech by book collector C. Wal- 316 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Left to right: Mrs. Elliot Richardson, wife of the Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Roy M. Hall, Assistant Commissioner of Education; William S. Dix, librarian, Princeton University; and Wyman W. Parker, librarian, Wesley an University, and ACRL President. Photo taken at dinner preceding ACRL's membership meeting in Washington. ler Barrett, " T h e Motivations and Directions of a Private Collector Assembling Materials for an Institutional Library." Mr. Barrett's talk was followed by a cocktail party. Important committee sessions were con- ducted by the Grants Committee, the Com- mittee on Organization, the Standards Com- mittee, the Publications Committee, the A C R L State Representatives, and the execu- tive or steering groups of the various sec- tions. The Advisory Committee on Coopera- tion with Educational and Professional Or- ganizations held an eminently successful dinner at which A C R L members entertained representatives of a score of other organi- zations. Brief of Minutes A C R L Board of Directors Board actions are subsequently reported. Most far-reaching among them were the adoption of Mrs. J. Henley Crosland's re- port for the Grants Committee calling for increased support for an emphasis on the A C R L grants program and the adoption of the report made by Robert W . Orr for the Committee on Organization setting terms for the editors of A C R L publications and their editorial boards. A C R L opposed in ALA Council and Membership meetings the adoption of changes in the ALA Constitution and By- laws which its Board had felt restrictive on divisional activities, and all such changes were defeated. JUNE 24, 1 9 5 9 Present: Lewis C. Branscomb, president; Wyman W. Parker, vice-president and presi- dent-elect; Eileen Thornton, past president; Richard B. Harwell, executive secretary; Elmer M. Grieder, director-at-large; Lau- rence E. Tomlinson, Lottie M. Skidmore, H. Dean Stallings, Katherine Walker, Ralph H. Hopp, Herbert T . F. Cahoon, directors representing sections; Fleming Bennett, John H. Ottemiller, Jackson E. Towne, Wal- ter W. Wright, John F. Harvey, Elizabeth O. Stone, Newton F. McKeon, Jr., directors on ALA Council; Edward C. Heintz, Orlin C. Spicer, Carson W . Bennett, Carl W . JULY 1959 317 Hintz, J. Terry Bender, section chairmen (non-voting members); Mrs. J. Henley Cros- land, Robert W. Orr, Giles F. Shepherd, Jr., committee chairmen; and Maurice F. Tau- ber, editor of CRL. President Branscomb opened the meeting with a brief report of the year's activities. He called on Mrs. Crosland to begin the business of the day with her report from the Grants Committee. After a description of the work done during the past year in con- tinuing the A C R L grants program, Mrs. Crosland requested an endorsement from the Board for the recommendations in her re- port calling for an increased grants program and the widest possible support for it by the Board and by ACRL as a whole. Her report inspired considerable discussion and her recommendations were enthusiastically recieved by the Board. It was voted that the report be received, endorsed in prin- ciple, and referred to the Grants Committee itself for implementation. Mr. Orr reported for the Committee on Organization. The committee recommended changes in the composition of the Publica- tions Committee and the setting of terms for the editors of ACRL's several publica- tions and the editorial boards. The report was accepted unanimously. President Branscomb called the attention of the Board to the fact that work had been continuing for several years towards the compilation of junior college library stand- ards and that the Junior College Libraries Section now had a draft of standards nearly ready for publication. He noted that the standards, however, had not previously been brought before this Board. The Board voted to refer the draft of the standards to the A C R L Committee on Standards with the recommendation that the work on them be brought to as early as possible completion. Mr. Hirsch, Chairman of the Committee on Standards, called the attention of the Board to the fact that the College Library Stand- ards approved by the Board at its Midwinter meeting would be published in this issue of CRL and that reprints of them would be available for wide distribution in September. Mr. Branscomb commended Miss Thorn- ton for her fine work in presenting ACRL's budget to ALA's Program Evaluation and Budget Committee and called on her for comments about the budget. She noted that all of the budget items requested for ACRL's program for 1959/60 had been approved. After some additional discussion of the budget, the meeting was adjourned. JUNE 26, 1 9 5 9 Present: Lewis C. Branscomb, president; Wyman W. Parker, vice-president and presi- dent-elect; Richard B. Harwell, executive secretary; Elmer M. Grieder, director-at- large; Laurence E. Tomlinson, Lottie M. Skidmore, H. Dean Stallings, Katherine Walker, Ralph H. Hopp, Herbert T . F. Cahoon, directors representing sections; Jackson E. Towne, Walter W. Wright, John F. Harvey, Elizabeth O. Stone, Newton F. McKeon, Jr., directors on ALA Council; Ed- ward C. Heintz, Orlin C. Spicer, Carson W. Bennett, Ruth M. Heiss (chairman-elect, Subject Specialists Section), J. Terry Bender, section chairmen (non-voting members), Robert B. Downs, Ralph E. Ellsworth, Mary D. Herrick, Edmon Low, Frank L. Schick, committee chairmen; and Mrs. Margaret Kototh, editor of the ACRL Microcard Series. As the first unit of the Board's second meeting, reports from the several sections of ACRL were called for by President Brans- comb and were received from all except the Teacher Education Libraries Section. The reports emphasized the variety and strength of ACRL affairs as expressed through the work of its sections. Of particular interest, because it was a report of its first year of full-fledged activity, was the report from the Rare Books Section. Mr. Bender called the attention of the Board to the successful con- ference held at Charlottesville a week before under the auspices of the Rare Books Sec- tion. The conference had drawn an en- thusiastic attendance of 212 registrants and its programs had been generally acclaimed as of exceptionally high quality. The Board directed the Executive Secretary to express to Mr. William H. Runge, Curator of Rare Books at the Alderman Library at the Uni- versity of Virginia, the gratitude of the Board and of all of ACRL for his fine work in managing the Rare Books Conference. (Continued on page 328) 318 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Brief of Minutes (Continued from page 318) T h e Board also directed the Executive Sec- retary to explore in behalf of the Rare Books Section the possibility of holding a similar conference in conjunction with the 1960 ALA Conference in Montreal. Reports were heard from the Advisory Committee to Administer the Rangoon Project, the Advisory Committee on Co- operation With Educational and Professional Organizations, and the Committee to Ex- plore the Relationship of the Law Library to the General Library of a University. Mr. Downs, reporting on the Rangoon project, outlined the situation with which Paul H. Bixler is working in establishing a library for the social sciences faculty there and called the attention of the Board to the ap- probation which Mr. Bixler's work has re- ceived in all reports about it. As an ad- dendum to Mr. Downs' report, Mr. Harwell told the Board of a tentative request to sup- port a similar project for a one-year period at the University of Mandalay and received the approval of the Board to coordinate the advisory function for this project, when final authorization for it is received, with the committee already established for the Rangoon project. T h e Board commended Mr. Low for his work with other professional and educa- tional organizations and particularly for the successful dinner meeting he had organized as a part of the Washington Conference. They encouraged the continuation of the work of this type and Mr. Low was re- quested to send to each Board member a FRANCE DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION 1940-1944 A Collection of 2 9 2 Statements on the Government of Marechal Petain and Pierre Laval Translated by Philip W. Whitcomb. Provides valuable information on the V i c h y government: its organization, its relations with the German authorities, and the problems it f a c e d . A publication of T h e H o o v e r Institution on W a r , Revolution, and Peace. Three volumes $20.00 Stanford University Press 328 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES New A C R L Officers and Appointments ED M O N L O W , librarian of Oklahoma State University, is the winner of the princi- pal race in ACRL's annual election. He de- feated Mrs. J. Henley Crosland, director of libraries at the Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, for the office of vice-president (presi- dent-elect). In the other divisional balloting Neal R. Harlow, university librarian of the University of British Columbia, was elected ACRL director-at-large over Dale Bentz, associate director of libraries at the State University of Iowa. Mr. Low succeeds Wy- man W. Parker, now president of ACRL, in the vice-presidency. Mr. Harlow succeeds Mrs. Mary Manning Cook. New A C R L section officers were also elected in the spring balloting. Donald E. Thompson, librarian of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., is the vice-chairman (chairman-elect) of the College Libraries Section. Victoria E. Hargrave, librarian of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, 111., is that section's new secretary. Catherine Car- dew, librarian of Briarcliff College, Briar- cliff Manor, N. Y„ and Mrs. Helen Abel Brown, librarian of Saint Mary's Junior College, Raleigh, N. C., are the new vice- chairman (chairman-elect) and secretary of the Junior College Libraries Section. Fred- erick Goff, of the Library of Congress, and Tyrus G. Harmsen, of the Henry E. Hunt- ington Library, San Marino, Calif., are the new officers of the Rare Books Section. The Subject Specialists Section elected George S. Bonn, chief of the science and technology division of the New York Public Library, its vice-chairman. Fritz Veit, director of li- braries of Chicago Teachers College and Wilson Junior College, won the correspond- ing election in the Teacher Education Li- braries Section. Ralph W. McComb, uni- versity librarian of the Pennsylvania State University, is the new vice-chairman of the University Libraries Section. Serving as sec- retary of that section is Ruth C. Ringo, as- sociate director of libraries of the University of Tennessee. President Wyman Parker has made twen- ty-nine new appointments to A C R L com- mittees. Craig Hardin and David Jolly are Edmon Low Wyman W. Parker new members of the Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Profes- sional Organizations. John Cook Wyllie is chairman for 1959-60. William Dix succeeds Raynard C. Swank as a member of the Ad- visory Committee to Administer the Ran- goon Project. The new Committee on Con- ference Programs consists of Richard Morin, chairman, Wayne Yenawine, Margaret Fayer, and three Canadian representatives: Effie C. Astbury, Martha Shepard, and Beatrice V. Simon. Ruth K. Porritt is the new chairman of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. New members of the committee are Howard McGaw and Johnnie Givens. Alice Appell is the new member of the Committee on Du- plicates Exchange Union. Robert W. Orr has been appointed to fill an unexpired term on the Committee on Grants and will serve as chairman of that committee. Edward C. Heintz is the other new member of the committee. ACRL's Committee on National Library Week is H. Vail Deale, chairman, William Bennett, William Lansberg, and Eleanor Peterson. Katherine Walker is chairman of the 1959-60 Nominating Committee. Serving with her will be J. Terry Bender, Richard Blanchard, Richard Farley, Andrew Horn, Dorothy Keller, Frances Meals, E i l e e n Thornton, and Stanley West. There is no new appointment to the roster of the Pub- lications Committee, but Porter Kellam has succeeded to its chairmanship. New mem- bers of the Committee on Standards are Orlin C. Spicer and Norman Earl Tanis. JULY 1959 319 The First A C R L Rare Books Conference Over two hundred people—librarians, booksellers, book-collectors, and authors— gathered from all parts of the country at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from June 18 to June 20 for the first ACRL conference devoted to the problems of col- lecting, housing, cataloging, and using rare books and manuscripts. From Thursday afternoon through lunch- eon on Saturday there were eight panel dis- cussions, three addresses, and any number of unscheduled cocktail parties. The open- ing panel, under the chairmanship of H. Richard Archer of Chapin Library, Wil- liams College, was concerned with the rare book manual being prepared by members of the Rare Books Section. The consensus of the panelists (James M. Wells, Newberry Library; Cecil Iv. Byrd, Indiana University; Roland Baughman, Columbia University) and of the audience was that such a publi- cation would be particularly useful to li- brary school students and to librarians just beginning to organize rare book collections. Frequent references to the manual were made throughout the conference—indeed the manual was almost the theme of the conference—and in the course of the dis- cussions there were many valuable sug- gestions concerning facts and philosophies to be included, expanded, or explained. The panel on financial problems, with Richard S. Wormser, rare book dealer, Stanley Pargellis, Newberry Library, and Alexander D. Wainwright, Princeton Uni- versity, chairman, dealt with a subject that was of interest to everybody in the audience and drew the most spirited discussion of the entire conference. The three chief problems discussed were insurance, appraisals, and tax deductions; and the greatest of these was appraisals. Appraisals, the speakers em- phasized, should be made only by ex- perienced booksellers and should be based on the current market value of the gift, not on any potential research value it might have for a particular library. In view of the many abuses of this practice by librarians who make their own appraisals and thus subject themselves and their donors to in- quisitive visitors from the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue, Mr. Wyllie recommended that a statement be drawn up outlining a standard procedure for libraries similar to the official statement on appraisals of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. A committee composed of Messrs. Wyllie, Wainwright, and Pargellis was ap- pointed to prepare such a statement and submit it to the members of the Rare Books Section. The remaining six panels discussed Civil War collecting; cataloging and classification; acquainting the public with rare books; portraits, prints, broadsides, clippings, maps, music, etc.; colonial Americana; history of science; western Americana; and the anti- quarian book trade and auction houses. At the end of almost every panel there were questions, answers, and comments from the audience, and once again the practical as- pects of acquiring material were discovered —in the lively discussion on bidding at auction—to be of great concern to the li- brarian. Mr. Babb's eloquent tribute to anti- quarian booksellers and to their constant help to librarians and book collectors was warmly applauded. The address at dinner on Thursday eve- ning was delivered by David C. Mearns of the Library of Congress. He spoke wittily and convincingly of the need for supporting the National Union Catalog of Manuscripts. At the banquet on Friday evening Alex- ander Davidson, Jr., librarian of the Grolier Club, spoke briefly on the virtues of book clubs. The conference officially ended with luncheon on Saturday and an address by Donald C. Biggs of the California Historical Society on the problems of western historical societies. Immediately after luncheon many visitors to Virginia went on a tour of Monticello. There was a great show of interest in similar meetings to be held before ALA Conferences, but wherever and whenever these take place, it will be impossible to surpass the University of Virginia in hos- pitality and efficiency—two factors which made this gathering so eminently successful and pleasant.—Marjorie Gray Wynne, Yale University Library. 320 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES