College and Research Libraries 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 A C O L L E C T I O N O F O N E H U N D R E D CATALOGS of private a n d institutional libraries, dating f r o m the early seventeenth century, has been purchased by the University of California Library at Berkeley f r o m Archer Taylor, noted bibliographer and a u t h o r of Book Catalogs: Their Varieties and Uses. T h e col- lection contains many of the most useful catalogs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including catalogs of the private libraries of J . B. Mencken (1670); Angelico Aprosio (1671); Nicolaus Heinsius (1682); J a c o b Oisel (1687); Charles Bulteau (1711); D u e D'Estrees (1740); a n d Camille Falconet, consulting physician to the King of France (1763). T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A , Santa Barbara, has acquired by special purchase the private library of R o l a n d D. Hussey, a p r o m i n e n t historian on the West Coast and professor of Latin American history at the University of California at Los Angeles. T h i s collection of nearly three thousand volumes a n d periodicals relating to Latin America includes most of the standard monographs on Latin America written in English and many representative works in Spanish. T h e emphasis is on the Caribbean, the West In- dies, Mexico, a n d Central America. Particu- larly useful are the many bibliographies of the individual countries. A T W E N T Y - F I V E V O L U M E Chinese translation of an i m p o r t a n t part of the Buddhist Tripi- taka has been donated to the library of the University of Chicago by W. P. Yuen of La- Salle College, H o n g Kong. T h e books, a photolithographic reproduction of a nine- teenth-century block-print edition preserved in H o n g Kong, have been placed in the uni- versity's Far Eastern Library. T h e set com- p r i s e s t h e Maha-Prajna-Paramitra Sutra of the Tripitaka, the entire collection of Bud- dhist writings. T h i s Sutra contains 600 books of five million words dealing with the Bud- dhist view of the u n f o l d i n g n a t u r e of man. C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y has been presented with a significant portion of the private col- lection of Allan Nevins, professor emeritus of American history at Columbia University. T h e gift includes letters a n d documents writ- ten by T h e o d o r e Roosevelt, Eli Whitney, Jefferson Davis, and H e n r y Adams, Hamil- ton Fish documents, Grover Cleveland pa- pers, H e n r y W h i t e papers, a n d Brand Whit- lock materials as well as the manuscripts of Professor Nevin's books and f o u r file drawers of notes for a biography of John D. Rocke- feller. Professor Nevins, holder of two Pu- litzer prizes for biography, retired from Co- lumbia in 1958 a n d is now a senior member of the research staff at H u n t i n g t o n Library in San Marino, Calif. T H E F L O R I D A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has received a gift of 5,111 volumes of Eng- lish a n d American poetry containing the first printings of poems relating to childhood. John MacKay Shaw, recently retired execu- tive of the American T e l e p h o n e a n d Tele- g r a p h Company of New York, is the donor of this u n i q u e collection, valued conservatively at $35,000. Most of the m a j o r and many of the minor poets are represented by first or other early editions, from Quarles a n d W i t h e r in the seventeenth century to Frost a n d Masefield in the twentieth. T h e collec- tion is especially rich in the mid-Victorian poets, a n d in the recognized poets of child- hood such as Stevenson, Field, Riley, de la Mare, a n d Milne. J A C K S O N V I L L E ( F L A . ) U N I V E R S I T Y h a s r e - cently received two substantial gifts for its library. J o h n E. Meyer presented $5,000 to purchase books for the general collection, a n d the J u n i o r League of Jacksonville gave $10,000 to purchase material in the field of philosophy. L E H I G H U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has been pre- sented with a collection of rare books a n d manuscripts by R o b e r t B. H o n e y m a n , alum- nus a n d trustee, a n d Mrs. H o n e y m a n , of Pasadena, Calif. T h e gift, valued at $25,000, includes a n u m b e r of Darwin's works re- cently exhibited in commemoration of the first p u b l i c a t i o n of On the Origin of Species. Final page proof of the historical work with all corrections a n d notations in Charles Dar- win's h a n d , a first edition, a n d a copy of each of the five subsequent editions are in- S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 395 eluded. Literary works of an earlier period are among the volumes received. Additions to the poetry collection are first a n d second issues of the first edition of W a l t W h i t m a n ' s Leaves of Grass. T H E W O O D R O W W I L S O N C O L L E C T I O N a t L i - brary of Congress has been presented with a small g r o u p of papers, including six letters (1910-17) f r o m President Wilson to H a r o l d Godwin, a classmate. Elizabeth Godwin of Roslyn, N . Y., is the donor. Included is a holograph letter dated November 29, 1883, addressed to "Pete," a n d a cablegram sent by P r e s i d e n t W i l s o n f r o m P a r i s t o R o b e r t Bridges at Scribner's on May 29, 1919. N O R T H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y h a s augmented its impressive collection of ma- terial published d u r i n g the French Revolu- tion. T h e new material, acquired in Belgium, consists of about 450 pamphlets a n d 100 legal documents a n d periodical issues. A b o u t 365 of the pieces are in Flemish (the r e m a i n d e r in French) a n d deal with the revolutionary events in Flanders. All the publications were published d u r i n g the Revolution. L E T T E R S O F L O U I S W I L E Y , business man- a g e r of t h e New York Times f o r t w e n t y - n i n e years before his d e a t h in 1935, have been presented to the University of Rochester li- brary by a niece, Mrs. Maxine Wiley of Hanover, N. H . T h e collection includes let- ters f r o m H e r b e r t Hoover, T h e o d o r e Roose- velt, William H o w a r d T a f t , W a r r e n G. H a r d - ing, Calvin Coolidge, F r a n k l i n D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Alfred E. Smith, Charles Evans Hughes, Dwight W . Morrow, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, a n d many other notables. T h i s collection has been a d d e d to the 4,000 letters a n d other papers previously presented by Mr. Wiley's brothers a n d sisters. ANOTHER NEWSPAPER, t h e Ocean City Senti- nel-Ledger, has been added to the growing list of New Jersey publications preserved at the Rutgers University Library. Early copies of this weekly publication have been re- ceived by the library's p h o t o d u p l i c a t i o n de- p a r t m e n t , where plans have been made to transfer the entire file to microfilm. T h e li- brary has also obtained original copies of the Ocean Daily Reporter, f o u r - p a g e p r e d e c e s s o r of the Sentinel-Ledger. Included in the more t h a n forty publications on microfilm at the library is the state's oldest surviving news- p a p e r , t h e Elizabeth Daily Journal, e s t a b - lished in 1779 as the weekly New Jersey Journal. B U I L D I N G S L I B R A R I E S are b u r g e o n i n g in California. New library buildings are in use at Monterey Peninsula College a n d on the Alta Loma campus of Chaffey College. U n d e r construc- tion are a new library at the Dominican Col- lege of San Rafael; a six-story a d d i t i o n for San Jose State College at a cost of $2,000,000; a second u n i t of the library b u i l d i n g for Santa Barbara City College, d o u b l i n g its size; a new library b u i l d i n g for M e n l o College to be completed by the end of 1961; a n d a new one for California Western University to be completed this fall. T H E N E W LIBRARY on the Cornell Univer- sity campus is n e a r i n g completion. It will be known as the J o h n M. O l i n Library in h o n o r of the university trustee a n d chairman of the executive committee of O l i n Mathie- son Chemical Corporation, who contributed $3,000,000 toward its cost. A gift of $100,000 toward construction costs has been received f r o m Mr. a n d Mrs. H a r o l d D. Uris of New York City, in addition to an earlier contri- b u t i o n by Uris Brothers firm. T h i s brings the total a m o u n t raised for the project to $5,000,000 of the estimated $5,700,000 cost. T h e new seven-story library b u i l d i n g has a capacity of 2,000,000 volumes a n d offers ex- ceptional facilities to serve graduate students a n d faculty. T H E ADDITION to the Jacksonville (Fla.) University Library, dedicated in May, has increased the book capacity f r o m 32,000 to 120,000, a n d the seating capacity f r o m 166 to 500. T h i s is a m a j o r step in the university's program to develop the library a n d the insti- tution for accreditation by the Southern As- sociation in 1961. T h e new addition, costing $375,000, has three levels a n d is completely air-conditioned. M A R Y B A L D W I N C O L L E G E plans to construct a new library in the summer of 1962. T h e building, costing $680,000, will house 100,000 books. It is expected that the new library will enable the college to increase its enrollment. N O R T H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T Y recently dedi- cated the new addition to its law library. T o t a l cost of the Owen L. Coon Library a n d its e q u i p m e n t was $1,500,000. Funds 396 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S were provided by the R o b e r t R. McCormick Charitable T r u s t , the Owen L. Coon Foun- dation, the Law School Alumni Association, a n d the university. T h e fire-proof a n d air- conditioned b u i l d i n g will double the space allocated to the library a n d will provide an a u d i t o r i u m a n d a practice courtroom as well as additional classrooms, faculty offices, a n d facilities for law school publications. T h e new library will accommodate 170,000 vol- umes, the largest law collection in Chicago a n d t h e sixth largest in the U n i t e d States. Individual carrels, typing cubicles, special e q u i p m e n t for the use of microfilm a n d microprint, a faculty library, a n d a treasure room for an o u t s t a n d i n g collection of rare books are only p a r t of the library's expand- ing service. G R O U N D has been broken for the new Uni- versity of Pennsylvania u n d e r g r a d u a t e li- brary, seminar, and classroom building. A new eight-story building, with a housing capacity for 1,500,000 books, is the first u n i t of a proposed two-unit library. Made possi- ble by allocation of $4,000,000 by the Gen- eral State Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a n d $1,000,000 f r o m gifts by trustees a n d other friends of the university, the new b u i l d i n g will be entirely air-condi- t i o n e d . T o p r e v e n t c o n d e n s a t i o n , glass throughout the b u i l d i n g will be heat-absorb- ing, grey double glass. A vapor barrier will be used in the construction of the brick walls a n d roof, a n d walls of the three lower floors will be of glass. Included in the plans are a microfilm reading room, photographic labo- ratory for producing microfilm, study areas, a n d seminar classrooms. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H h a s a n - nounced plans for a new and more unified concept of library p l a n n i n g . W i t h construc- tion of the $10,000,000 central H i l l m a n Li- brary, a start will be made to create a "social p r o f e s s i o n s q u a d r a n g l e . " T h e p r o j e c t e d buildings will house the professional schools of business, education, law, p u b l i c a n d in- t e r n a t i o n a l affairs, a n d social work. Each will have its own professional library, b u t all will be connected with each other a n d with the central library. Cataloging a n d acquisi- tions will be centralized. T h e guiding idea is to link the world of books for liberal edu- cation, professional training, and special re- search. T w o W I N G S will be added to the Detroit Public Library at a cost of $10,000,000. Money for the additions is being provided by the city, a n d additional f u n d s for furnish- ings a n d e q u i p m e n t will be sought through gifts. Included in the plans are committee rooms, study carrels, a n d two auditoriums. T h e library, doubled in size, will be com- pleted in 1962. W o r k i n g in close cooperation with nearby Wayne State University Library, the Detroit Public Library will form one of the great library research centers of the country. M I S C E L L A N E O U S T H E F I R S T W I D E - S C A L E T E S T of Illinois State Normal University's $30,000 television sta- tion a n d closed-circuit h o o k u p to twenty-five classrooms on the campus has been made, testing a group of 200 freshman English stu- dents. Mrs. A. T . Faberburg, Jr., library in- structor, gave a series of three lessons de- scribing Milner Library a n d its operations. University officials h o p e that the lessons can be filmed for presentation next fall to the forty-eight sections of students enrolled in freshman English. T h i s method of teaching by television will not only conserve staff time b u t it will enable beginning students to learn how to use the library earlier in the school year. A report of the results will prob- ably be made in a library periodical. A SURVEY to locate all i n f o r m a t i o n centers in the U n i t e d States serving the physical and life sciences and technologies, a n d to collect factual data relating to their activities and services, is being conducted by Battelle Me- morial Institute for the N a t i o n a l Science F o u n d a t i o n . T h e findings will be used to p r e p a r e a n a t i o n a l directory of i n f o r m a t i o n centers a n d to relate the activities of the centers to the total U n i t e d States scientific a n d technical i n f o r m a t i o n program. All sci- entific and technical i n f o r m a t i o n centers are urged to cooperate in answering questions for the survey. Any activity identifiable as an information center should be r e p o r t e d to William H . Bickley, Battelle Memorial In- stitute, 505 King Avenue, Columbus 1, Ohio. T H E SLA T R A N S L A T I O N C E N T E R at the J o h n Crerar Library in Chicago has received two grants from the N a t i o n a l Science Founda- tion. T h e first, for $24,000, is for continued S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 397 s u p p o r t for the operation of the center. T h e second, for $34,105, is for a "survey of trans- lation activities in universities, societies a n d industry, in the fields of science a n d tech- nology" u n d e r the direction of D o n a l d W. Ramsdell, chief of the center. T h e survey will a t t e m p t to d e t e r m i n e sources, extent, a n d cost of translating activities and to stim- ulate d o n a t i o n of copies of translations to the SLA Center. T H E M I D W E S T I N T E R - L I B R A R Y C E N T E R h a s extended eligibility for full membership in the corporation to university and research libraries t h r o u g h o u t the country. In the past, membership has been restricted to midwest- ern institutions. R o b e r t B. Downs, chairman of the board, has pointed out that some ac- tivities of the center clearly indicate a trend towards a national basis of operation. A pro- posal for associate membership with limited privileges and responsibilities, reduced dues, a n d n o board representation, may be made available for libraries located outside the Midwest that do not want full membership. A F R I C A N N E W S P A P E R S are being microfilmed by the photoduplication service of the Li- brary of Congress, which has available a list of the newspapers considered for microfilm- ing on a c u r r e n t basis. T h e project has been i n a u g u r a t e d by the Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association. If libraries wish to have additional African newspapers considered for microfilming, they should make suggestions to the chairman of the committee, R o b e r t D. Baum, 1106 Seaton Lane, Falls Church, Va. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K E N T U C K Y L I B R A R Y for the past three years has been laying the basis for a Kentucky U n i o n Catalog to serve librarians a n d readers in the state. T h e cata- logs of the College of the Bible, the Lexing- ton Library, a n d Transylvania College have been reproduced in full, a n d these libraries and seven others from F r a n k f o r t to More- head are now c o n t r i b u t i n g a u t h o r cards to the Eastern Kentucky U n i o n Catalog. T H E A M E R I C A N C O U N C I L O F L E A R N E D S O - C I E T I E S is sponsoring an inquiry into the bases for p l a n n i n g microfilming a n d other scholarly photocopying projects. Financed by a $28,888 g r a n t from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., the investigation will be conducted by Lester K. Born, head, Manu- scripts Section, Descriptive Cataloging Divi- sion, Library of Congress. I n his work Dr. Born will be assisted by an advisory commit- tee a n d he will consult with interested con- stituent societies of ACLS a n d other organi- zations. His r e p o r t is expected to feature proposals for general principles a n d stand- ards for photocopying projects a n d a discus- sion of problems involved in foreign acquisi- tions. T he inquiry should be completed in a b o u t one year. A B R O A D P R O G R A M of user standards for the professional librarian was u n d e r t a k e n in J u n e at the first -meeting of the sectional committee for standardization of library sup- plies a n d e q u i p m e n t at the American Stand- ards Association offices at New York City. ALA is the administrative sponsor of this new ASA project, a n d Frazer G. Poole, direc- tor of the ALA Library Technology Project, is chairman of the sectional committee. T h r e e subcommittees have been set u p : one to work on library steel bookstacks, a n o t h e r on li- brary f u r n i t u r e , a n d a third on library sup- plies. Each g r o u p has established specific initial standardization objectives. T h i s is the first a t t e m p t to obtain standards for library supplies a n d e q u i p m e n t . L A K E F O R E S T C O L L E G E is benefitting from a new v e n t u r e in library-community coop- eration. T h e library has been added to the list of agencies to which the women of the community devote hours of volunteer serv- ices each week. These volunteers assist in the technical services d e p a r t m e n t where work is particularly heavy as a result of the library's reclassification program. T H E C A R N E G I E C O R P O R A T I O N of New York has granted $45,000 to ALA to survey state libraries a n d to establish standards. R o b e r t D. Leigh, dean emeritus of the Columbia University School of Library Service, will direct the project. Leon Carnovsky a n d Ed- ward A. W i g h t have been a p p o i n t e d to the research staff. T h e survey a n d standards com- mittee of the American Association of State Libraries will act as an advisory g r o u p with the cooperation of the Council of State Gov- ernments. Slated to begin in J a n u a r y 1961, the project will take eighteen months. A N ADDRESS O N "Adventures with R a r e Books" was given at Goucher College May 13 by Dorothy E. Miner, librarian and keeper of manuscripts of the Walters Art Gallery. 398 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Personnel W I L L I A M R . L A N S B E R G has been a p p o i n t e d director of libraries at Elmira College, El- mira, New York. Born in Boston in 1916, Mr. Lansberg received his A.B. de- gree (cum laude a n d Phi Beta Kappa) at D a r t m o u t h in 1938. H e pursued graduate study at the Univer- sity of N o r t h Caro- l i n a , e a r n i n g t h e M.A. in 1940 and the Ph.D. (Romance lan- guages) in 1945. Part- William R. Lansberg t i m e w o r k as a student in the Uni- versity of N o r t h Carolina Library convinced h i m that library work had a strong appeal, a n d after three years of teaching at South- west Missouri State College a n d Boston uni- versity he studied Library science at Simmons College where he received his degree in 1949. From varied experiences in d e p t h Mr. Lansberg has gained much that he can bring to bear on his new position at Elmira Col- lege. H e was at the University of N o r t h Carolina Library as supervisor in the circu- lation d e p a r t m e n t , 1940-42, a n d an indexer with the H . W. Wilson Company, 1949-51; at D a r t m o u t h he has been assistant to the li- brarian, 1951-52, head of acquisitions, 1952- 53, director of the division of acquisitions a n d preparations, 1953-60, a n d since 1952 he has been assistant professor a n d secretary of the Faculty Committee on the Library. I n addition to Phi Beta K a p p a Mr. Lans- berg earned other n u m e r o u s u n d e r g r a d u a t e honors, a n d in his professional life many other honors have come to him. H e was the winner of the J o h n Cotton D a n a Publicity Award for the Baker Library at D a r t m o u t h College in 1953 a n d again in 1954. H e travelled in France d u r i n g the summer of 1946 at the invitation of the French govern- m e n t . — G . F. Shepherd, J r . C L A R E N C E C . G O R C H E L S has been head li- brarian a n d chairman of the d e p a r t m e n t of library science at the Central Washington College of Education, Ellenburg, since July 1. Previously he h a d been acting assistant di- rector of libraries, Washington State Univer- sity, Pullman, where he held other positions on the staff since 1945. His experience also includes work in county, municipal, a n d special libraries. D u r i n g 1958/59 Mr. Gorchels was visiting assistant professor in the School of Librarian- ship of the University of Washington. Dur- ing the past year he was an associate on the faculty of the School of Library Service, Columbia University, where he completed his work for the doctorate except for the dis- sertation. H e is a graduate of Wisconsin State Teachers College, Oshkosh, a n d holds a B.L.S. degree f r o m Wisconsin (1945) and a master's degree from Columbia (1952). Appointments V I N C E N T J O H N A C E T O , formerly librarian, Central School a n d Community Library, B u r n t Hills, N. Y., is now assistant professor of library science, New York State College for Teachers, Albany. J A C Q U E L I N E D. B A S T I L L E , formerly librarian II, Free Library of Philadelphia, is now li- brarian, Smith, Kline a n d French Labora- tories, Philadelphia. R I C H A R D B E C K , formerly science-technology librarian, University of I d a h o Library, is now assistant librarian for readers service. R O B E R T W. B U R N S , J R . , formerly loan li- brarian, University of I d a h o Library, is now science-technology librarian. J . M I C H A E L B R U N O has been a p p o i n t e d as- sistant librarian, Michigan State University, Oakland, Rochester. S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 399 C H A R L E S E. B U T L E R , formerly librarian, Canisius College, Buffalo, N . Y., is now li- brarian, Longwood College, Farmville, Va. R I C H A R D M. C O L V I G is music cataloger, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N . Y. R U D O L F H I R S C H , formerly assistant director a n d curator of the rare book collection, has been a p p o i n t e d associate director of the University of Pennsylvania Library. T E R E N C E J . H O V E R T E R has been a p p o i n t e d librarian of T h e F r a n k l i n F. Moon Me- morial Library of the State University Col- lege of Forestry at Syracuse University, a n d a member of the faculty as associate profes- sor. T o his new position Mr. H o v e r t e r brings a broad educational background a n d the ex- perience of twenty-three years of professional library work. H e has served as head of the circulation d e p a r t m e n t of the library of the Catholic University of America, as serials librarian at Queens College, a n d as librarian of the State University of New York Mari- time College at Fort Schuyler, Bronx, N. Y., where he set u p a n d organized a complete college library. H E N R Y C H A R L E S K O C H has been a p p o i n t e d assistant director of libraries at Michigan State University with a m a j o r responsibility in development of resources. Mr. Koch brings an interesting a n d varied background of ex- perience a n d t r a i n i n g to his new position. Prior to assuming his new duties on July 1, he served f o r five years at MSU as h u m a n i - ties librarian a n d two years as assistant divi- sion head (history) at the Cleveland Public Library. H e received an A.B. at Carleton College, M.A. (history) at Columbia, a n d the M.A.L.S. at Michigan. In addition he has d o n e g r a d u a t e work at J o h n s H o p k i n s a n d research in the m u n i c i p a l archives at Basel, Switzerland. S T E P H E N A . M C C A R T H Y , director of the University Library at Cornell University, has been n a m e d director of libraries for the en- tire university. Mr. McCarthy will be respon- sible for all libraries at Cornell, including those on the state campus. L O U I S M A R T I N , formerly circulation librar- ian, University of Detroit, is now assistant librarian, Michigan State University, Oak- land, Rochester. J . G O R M L Y M I L L E R , librarian of the New York State School of Industrial a n d L a b o r Relations, Cornell University, has been as- signed duties, in a d d i t i o n to his present re- sponsibility, as assistant director of libraries for the entire university. W I L H E L M M O L L , formerly first assistant, documents d e p a r t m e n t , I n d i a n a University Library, is now assistant medical librarian, Medical Center Library, University of Ken- tucky. W H I T O N P O W E L L , librarian of the M a n n Library of the New York State Colleges of Agriculture a n d H o m e Economics, Cornell University, has been assigned duties, in addi- tion to his present responsibility, as assistant director of libraries for the entire university. F E L I X R E I C H M A N N , assistant director of the Cornell University Library, a n d -head of the technical service departments, has been as- signed duties, in a d d i t i o n to his present re- sponsibility, as assistant director of libraries for the entire university. R E T A W. R I D I N G S , formerly director, his- torical division, Wyoming State Archives a n d Historical D e p a r t m e n t , Cheyenne, is now reference librarian, Vassar College, Pough- keepsie, N. Y. L Y M A N W. R I L E Y , formerly assistant cura- tor of rare books for c o n t i n e n t a l E u r o p e a n materials, is now bibliographer of the rare book collection, University of Pennsylvania Library. G I L E S F . S H E P H E R D , JR., assistant director of the Cornell University Library a n d head of reader services, has been assigned duties, in addition to his present responsibility, as assistant director of libraries for the entire university. J O Y C E D. T U R N E R , formerly senior librar- ian, Cornell Public Library, is now assistant librarian, State University College of Edu- cation, Brockport, N . Y. M R S . N E D A M . W E S T L A K E , formerly assistant curator of rare books for English a n d Ameri- can materials, is now curator of the rare book collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library. L A B I B Z U W I Y Y A - Y A M A K , formerly head, technical processes, American University of Beirut, is now Middle Eastern specialist, H a r v a r d College Library, a n d associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at H a r v a r d . 400 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Retirements H E L E N G U N Z , assistant librarian, T h e American Museum of N a t u r a l History, has retired a f t e r forty-two years of service. M A R G A R E T V. J O N E S , librarian, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., has re- tired after thirty-two years of service. E M I L Y H O Y T M C C U R D Y has retired as li- brarian, Mooney Memorial Library, Uni- versity of Tennessee (Medical Units), Memphis, after forty-two years of service. R U T H SAVORD, librarian, Council on For- eign Relations, Inc., New York, has retired after thirty years of service. L. B E L L E V O E G E L E I N resigned as editor of the Library of Congress Classification Sched- ules March 31, 1960, a f t e r nearly thirty years of service in the Library's subject cataloging division. Necrology From his many contributions to librarian- ship it is possible to choose two which are most likely to h o n o r his memory, and which Professor C A R L E T O N B. J O E C K E L , who died on April 15, 1960, might have chosen himself, h a d it been possible to penetrate his sincere sense of modesty, as most worthy of remem- brance. T h e first of these is suggested in his title of professor, for he began teaching at California only eleven years after being grad- uated f r o m the New York State Library School in 1910—and continued an active in- terest in the progress of the School of Li- brarianship long after he retired from Cali- fornia in 1950. T h r o u g h o u t this long period —whether he h a p p e n e d to be resident at California, Michigan, Chicago, or again at California—his interest was centered in the student, in persistently seeking ways to stim- ulate the student into making his m a x i m u m contribution. Significantly more than most e m i n e n t scholars, Professor Joeckel recog- nized a n d fulfilled his obligation to discover, stimulate, a n d train the scholars and admin- istrators of the future, not only in the public library field, but in college and university libraries as well. A n o t h e r m a j o r contribution for which Jock will be long remembered is his faith in the concept of larger units of service for the development of good library service to the people of America—a faith a n d concept for which he is known the world over. Already fully developed in his m o n u m e n t a l 1935 dis- s e r t a t i o n , The Government of the American Public Library, Jock kept the idea of larger units in the f o r e f r o n t of library t h i n k i n g through long years of work with ALA's Fed- eral Relations Committee, through research a n d writing, a n d through the sponsorship of institutes in the field of library extension a n d the subsequent editing of their papers. And, always, through his teaching. So much so that it is possible to say—with a real sense of historical accuracy—that the Library Services Act, now in its f o u r t h successful year, is a creation of the fertile m i n d a n d persistent hard work of Professor Joeckel.— LeRoy C. Merritt, University of California. W I L L I A M C A R R O L L B E N N E T , order librar- ian, Northwestern State College of Louisi- ana, died J a n u a r y 30, 1960. R O S E E . B O O T S , chief librarian, McGraw- Hill Publishing Co., died February 26, 1960. SISTER M I C H A E L J A M E S C A R T E R , O . P . , f o r twenty years librarian of Barry College, Miami, Fla., died March 9, 1960. F. E V E L Y N C R O W N , head of the monthly checklist section a n d editor of the Monthly Checklist of State Publications, e x c h a n g e a n d gift division, Library of Congress, died J a n u a r y 25, 1960 after more than nineteen years service. N O R M A M. H A M M O N D , librarian at Albion (Mich.) College for more than ten years, died February 24, 1960. A L F R E D W H I T A L S T E R N , distinguished Lincoln scholar a n d collector, died May 3, 1960 at the age of 79. S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 401 Foreign Libraries M . T . FREYRE DE A . DE VELAZQUEZ h a s been a p p o i n t e d director of the Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti in H a v a n a . WILHELM GULICH, director of the library, Kiel Institute of W o r l d Economics, died April 15 at the age of 65. T . D. SPROD, formerly liaison officer, Com- monwealth N a t i o n a l Library, a n d librarian of the Australian Reference Library at the Australian Consulate-General, New York, has r e t u r n e d to Australia a f t e r three years service in America. Teaching Students to Use the Library (Continued, from page 372) a n d the turnover is slower), b u t because the evidence suggests that this is the only way to reach the student body as a whole. If his time a n d his library are not already full, the librarian may still want to storm the fraternity lounges and cam- pus bars for marginal users. But the evi- dence seems to indicate that unless he approaches these students through their professors his efforts will be largely in- effective. Faculty members have their responsi- bilities, of course, to do their teaching jobs to the best of their abilities. T h i s may not always produce the a m o u n t and the kind of library use the librarian would like to see; b u t it may just be possible that the p a t t e r n of successful scholarship at certain levels a n d within certain areas does not d e m a n d o u r kind of library use. W e may try, through our work with these faculty members, to con- vince them otherwise, b u t in the end they must be allowed to judge. Besides, their feelings will be reflected in their students despite efforts of the library to reach the students directly. T h e student also must assume certain responsibilities. T h e fact is that in most institutions there already are—and in the rest there soon will be—enough "volunteer" library users to keep both faculty and library staff too busy to worry about the others. My conclusion is not so m u c h a rec- ommendation as a realization of the way things are. T h e librarian is most effec- tive at making a success of the casual, voluntary student contact. H e should, f u r t h e r , feel responsible for "teaching" the faculty. But "teaching students to use the library"—"formal instruction in library technique for the student body in general" as I have defined it—this is the job of the teaching faculty. T h e pro- fessor should be and clearly is responsi- ble not only for his students' grasp of the subject content of a course, b u t also for their concept a n d acquisition of the skills, including library skills, necessary to master that content. 402 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S Grants for Libraries and Individuals: The ACRL Program for 1960/61 More grants for re- search by individual librarians as well as s o m e w h a t l a r g e r grants to libraries are made possible for the 1960/61 grants pro- gram of A C R L by wider f o u n d a t i o n par- ticipation in the pro- gram a n d larger grants to it. Contributors to the s u p p o r t of the program this year are the U n i t e d States Steel F o u n d a t i o n , Inc. (the principal contributor since the inception of the A C R L grants), the I n t e r n a t i o n a l Business Machines Corporation, the Koppers Founda- tion, the Microcard F o u n d a t i o n , M i c r o Photo, Inc., the N a t i o n a l Biscuit Company, the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, T i m e , Inc., a n d the H . W. Wilson Founda- tion, Inc. Approximately $50,000 will be available for distribution by the A C R L Grants Committee. It is expected that the committee will make a b o u t the same n u m b e r of grants as in previous years of the program. " W e feel," says R o b e r t W. Orr, director of the library of Iowa State University a n d chairman of the committee, " t h a t we can best serve the interests of libraries a n d also best carry out the wishes of the donors of o u r f u n d s by keeping the n u m b e r of o u r grants about the same a n d increasing somewhat the size of the ones we make. W e believe that an increase in the size of o u r grants will b r i n g us more applications which reflect imaginative ways of making a library useful through the addi- tion of a small 'extra' to its budget." Forms for applications by libraries are being distributed this m o n t h to all eligible institutions. A note i n t r o d u c i n g the form Alex L. Baptie, treasurer of the Microcard Foundation, hands a check from the Foundation to Wyman W. Parker, 1959/60 presi- dent of ACRL, at the Montreal Conference of ALA. Looking on is Albert J . Diaz, executive director of the Foundation. reads in p a r t : "Applications for sub-grants are invited f r o m privately endowed institu- tions whose curriculum constitutes or in- corporates a four-year p r o g r a m of undergrad- uate instruction. . . . It is expected that sin- gle sub-grants will range as high as $1200- $1500. Applications may be requests for books or e q u i p m e n t . T h e y should be for s u p p o r t of a project which is conceived as a u n i t within the library's program a n d should not be for items normally supported by the library's own budget." Applications for grants are due to be re-- ceived in the A C R L office not later than October 17. Copies of all applications will be reviewed by each of the members of the grants committee, a n d the committee will meet late in the fall to make the awards. Grants will be a n n o u n c e d in the J a n u a r y issue of CRL. G R A N T S T O I N D I V I D U A L S Research by individual librarians will be made possible by an unspecified n u m b e r of S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 403 grants for that purpose. T h e n u m b e r of grants in this area will be adjusted to the need exhibited by worthwhile applications. Grants may be requested for work in any area of librarianship or bibliography. T h e y will not be made, however, for any project which is part of work toward an academic degree. Grants will be made in amounts u p to $1,000. Research grants have been made in several of the previous a n n u a l programs, but they will be emphasized more strongly than ever before this year. At least two grants of ap- proximately $1,000 each will be made as bibliographical fellowships. It has been the special request of the Microcard F o u n d a t i o n that such fellowships be established with its contribution to the A C R L Grants Pro- gram. I n presenting the check of the Microcard F o u n d a t i o n to President W y m a n W. Parker at Montreal, A. L. Baptie, treasurer of the F o u n d a t i o n , commented: "Originally a li- brarian conceived the idea of Microcards as a solution to certain library problems. In the years following the Microcard F o u n d a t i o n has h a d the privilege of working closely with many libraries and librarians and is pleased to express its appreciation in a tangible way. W e sincerely h o p e that o u r contribution to the A C R L Grants Program will allow the u n d e r t a k i n g of some of the tremendous a m o u n t of bibliographic work which needs to be d o n e . " T h e r e are n o professional or associational qualifications on the eligibility of individ- uals to apply for a research g r a n t from A C R L . An application form is not necessary. T h e committee invites application by letter. Letters of application should be addressed to R i c h a r d Harwell, Executive Secretary, ACRL, 50 East H u r o n Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. An applicant's letter should state succinctly the n a t u r e a n d purpose of the project, a budget for the a m o u n t of the g r a n t requested, the project's present state of development (if already begun), its pro- posed date of completion, a n d the reasons why f u n d s f r o m outside the applicant's own institution are sought. T h e deadline for ap- plications is the same as for institutional re- quests. T h e y will be considered in the same fashion a n d grants will be a n n o u n c e d at the same time as are those to libraries. R o b e r t W. Orr, director of the library of Iowa State University, is chairman of the A C R L Grants Committee. O t h e r members of the committee are Lois Engleman, Ed- ward C. Heintz, E d m o n S. Low, Flora B. L u d i n g t o n , R i c h a r d Morin, a n d Giles Shep- herd. H u m p h r e y G. Bousfield has been desig- nated as a consultant to the committee, and the executive secretary of A C R L works with it as an ex-officio member. F O R M S M A I L E D Forms on which applications in the Grants Program for 1960/61 should be submitted have been mailed f r o m the A C R L office to well over a thousand libraries presumed to be eligible for grants. T h e librarian of any institution which has not received forms a n d which is believed to be eligible in the program should request forms f r o m the A C R L office immediately. Concerning eligi- bility in the program the introductory note to the application form comments: " T h e Committee has authority to make sub-grants for any projects which present extraordinary needs or possibilities. An institution which feels that the limitations on eligibility cre- ate an injustice in its case is urged to submit an application anyway. Each request will be considered on its merit. Accreditation is not a prerequisite for the award of an A C R L sub-grant." Price Tag on a University Library (Continued from page 361) nold Muirhead on William Cobbett, T o m T u r n e r on modern English litera- ture, Harry G. Oberholser on ornithol- ogy, and Henry B. W a r d on parasi- tology. These are the kinds of collections that bring distinction to an institution, and mark the difference between merely a good library and a great library. T o p u t a price tag on them is doubtless meaningless. 404 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S A C R L President's Report, 1959-60 AL L O F T H E S E C T I O N S of A C R L have been busy this year, with encouraging re- sults. T h e J u n i o r College Libraries Sec- tion has actively supported its representatives on the Committee on Standards, effectively led by Felix Hirsch. J u n i o r college library standards have been approved this year, as were the college library standards last year. T h i s r e p r e s e n t s c o n t i n u e d a c h i e v e m e n t through hard work. As a national organiza- tion one of o u r primary obligations is to promulgate standards which clarify a n d im- prove the conditions of libraries a n d li- brarians t h r o u g h o u t the U n i t e d States. As N o r t h American libraries are recognized as the most efficiently organized in the world, standards established by o u r organizations improve the libraries of the world. T h e recently organized R a r e Books Sec- tion, in its continued enthusiasm, plans a pre-conference session at Oberlin next year a n d promises to complete a rare book m a n u a l this fall to be published as p a r t of the A C R L M o n o g r a p h Series. T h e University Libraries Section con- tinues active in many directions, one of the most interesting being a study of the aca- demic status of librarians. T h i s study will be of decided significance to the profession. T h e Subject Specialists Section has capi- talized on its diversity a n d has already pro- duced subsections in art a n d political science. T h e Political Science Subsection will un- doubtedly follow u p work similar to that so admirably h a n d l e d this year by R a l p h Ells- worth's Committee T o Explore the Relation- ships Between the Law Library and the Gen- eral Library of a University. T h i s committee has been in close and influential contact with the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Na- tional Commission on Accrediting. A C R L has librarians in Burma at Rangoon a n d Mandalay directing Ford F o u n d a t i o n experimental libraries. T h e successful rela- tionships in Burma of Paul Bixler and Jay Daily indicate the probable continuation of this Ford F o u n d a t i o n grant. T h e Council on Library Resources, Inc., has made a grant to Keyes Metcalf for four years to aid him in producing a definitive book on library buildings. T h i s project is jointly sponsored by A C R L a n d the Asso- ciation of Research Libraries and is admin- istered through ALA. O t h e r groups which have silently done a necessary j o b to make possible the r u n n i n g of this complicated body include the Con- ference Program Committee, devotedly led by Richard Morin; the Committee on Com- mittees, wisely chaired by A r t h u r H a m l i n ; the N o m i n a t i n g Committee, u n d e r the ex- perienced leadership of Katherine Walker; the Committee on N a t i o n a l Library Week, with Vail Deale's enthusiastic leadership; and Porter Kellam's i m p o r t a n t Publications Committee. R o b e r t Orr's special Committee on Organization has completed its assign- ment and has received Board ratification of its final recommendation that its duties be combined with those of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws a n d those of the Committee on Committees, the whole to be the responsibility of one committee. T h e Duplicates Exchange U n i o n was trans- ferred to ALA's Resources a n d Technical Services Division as its activities "fall more naturally now to that division. O u r p u b l i c a t i o n , College and Research Li- braries, has entered its twenty-first year and is fully established as one of the most in- fluential a n d interesting in the whole li- brary field. U n d e r the devoted editorship of Maurice T a u b e r it is newsworthy, scholarly, a n d readable. N o n e of the projected A C R L Monographs has reached publication stage this year. T h e A C R L Microcard Series, how- ever, continues to add titles at an impressive rate. T h e A C R L Grants Program has received increased impetus this year, a n d it is a pleasure to report for this committee, ably guided by R o b e r t Orr, that an even greater sum than ever before will be available this fall. U. S. Steel has given the Association the considerable sum of $35,000 for grants to libraries and has promised to match f u n d s given by new contributors to the program u p to an additional $15,000. T h r o u g h the special work of Edward Heintz a n d the good advice of H u m p h r e y Bousfield, the gifts from addi- tional corporate foundations, A C R L has al- S E P T E M B E R 1 9 6 0 405 ready in h a n d over $45,000 to h e l p libraries across the country by its 1960/61 grants. At the M o n t r e a l C o n v e n t i o n the A C R L Board was t r o u b l e d by drastic cuts a p p o r - t i o n e d to A C R L by ALA's P r o g r a m Evalua- tion a n d Budget C o m m i t t e e in t r i m m i n g the b u d g e t requests of ALA's divisions t o fit p r e d i c t a b l e income. A l t h o u g h t h e r e a p p e a r e d to be n o d i s c r i m i n a t i o n in P E B C O ' s cuts to divisions, A C R L ' s were of such dimensions t h a t the Board i n s t r u c t e d its B u d g e t Com- m i t t e e to take special notice of the b u d g e t procedures f o r n e x t year. For the f u t u r e A C R L can well afford to c o n t i n u e o n the p a t h so encouragingly de- veloped this year: constantly i m p r o v i n g standards, always giving a h a n d - u p to those who n e e d h e l p , c o n t i n u i n g c o n c e n t r a t i o n o n better relationships with other associations a n d w i t h i n o u r own, a n d increased work by all to secure money f o r books a n d libraries f r o m p r i v a t e individuals, f o u n d a t i o n s , a n d t h r o u g h legislation. O u r chief concern is w i t h quality, a n d o u r c o n t i n u e d effort should be to i m p r o v e this profession t h r o u g h b e t t e r service by wise p e o p l e w o r k i n g with the best selection of b o o k s . — W y m a n W. Parker, President, 1959/60. ACRL Microcard Series— Abstracts of Titles TH E A C R L M I C R O C A R D S E R I E S is p u b l i s h e d f o r A C R L by the University of Rochester Press u n d e r the e d i t o r s h i p of Mrs. M a r g a r e t K. T o t h . T i t l e s are available directly f r o m the Press. Recently p u b l i s h e d titles i n c l u d e : GILES, FLEETWOOD. Texas Librari- N o . 113 ans: A Study Based on W h o ' s W h o in L i b r a r y Service, Third Edition, 1955. ( T h e s i s : M.L.S., University of T e x a s , 1958.) 1960. xi, 174, 61., tables, m a p . $2.25. A n analysis a n d description of professional li- b r a r i a n s who have h a d s o m e i d e n t i f i a b l e connec- tion with T e x a s . First the 335 l i b r a r i a n s living in T e x a s were e x a m i n e d for current g e o g r a p h i c a l location by county, for a g e a n d sex, e d u c a t i o n , a c a d e m i c a n d professional honors a n d association m e m b e r s h i p s , a n d experience. Second, analysis was m a d e of f o u r categories of l i b r a r i a n s (644 in n u m b e r ) who h a d h a d s o m e connection with T e x a s — T e x a s - b o r n l i b r a r i a n s e m p l o y e d in T e x a s , T e x a s - b o r n l i b r a r i a n s e m p l o y e d o u t s i d e T e x a s , out-of-state l i b r a r i a n s e m p l o y e d in T e x a s , a n d out-of-state l i b r a r i a n s f o r m e r l y e m p l o y e d in T e x a s . C o m p a r i s o n s m a d e a m o n g t h e f o u r cate- gories covered sex a n d age, e d u c a t i o n , a n d em- p l o y m e n t . T h e p r e s e n t a t i o n is offered in five chapters a n d an a p p e n d i x . KAY, CAROLYN. Research Training N o . 114 at the Master's Degree Level in A.L.A.-Ac- credited Library Schools, 1956. ( T h e s i s : M.L.S., University of T e x a s , 1959.) viii, 1351., tables. $ 1 . 5 0 . T h i s is a study of research t r a i n i n g in master's d e g r e e p r o g r a m s in thirty l i b r a r y schools ac- credited in 1956 by A L A . A t t e n t i o n was given to selected aspects of the research " e n v i r o n m e n t " in the schools a n d their p a r e n t institutions, f o r m a l a n d i n f o r m a l instruction in research method- ology, a n d s t a t u s of the research study. R e s e a r c h instruction was f o u n d to be offered i n twenty- three schools; a thesis is r e q u i r e d in f o u r schools; a thesis or other type of study is r e q u i r e d or an elective in twenty-one o t h e r schools. P o t e n t i a l for research a p p e a r s , in g e n e r a l , to b e stronger in s t a t e universities than in other types of institu- tions. T A Y L O R , GERRY MAILAND. Voca- N o . 1 1 5 tional Interests of Male Librarians in the United States. ( T h e s i s : M.L.S., University of T e x a s , 1955.) vi, 731., tables. $1.50. T h e a u t h o r has m a d e a study of vocational interests of m a l e l i b r a r i a n s in the U n i t e d States b a s e d on use of the " S t r o n g Vocational Interest B l a n k " a n d e m p l o y i n g a s a m p l e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e of l i b r a r i a n s in m a j o r types of libraries a n d j o b classes within the profession. A l i b r a r i a n scale was constructed f o r use with the S t r o n g inventory and, when used, will i d e n t i f y m e n whose in- terests c o m p a r e closely with those of successful m a l e l i b r a r i a n s in the n a t i o n , as shown by the s a m p l e . T h e conclusion reached in this study is that m a l e l i b r a r i a n s are like p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r a - tors, personnel m a n a g e r s , a n d lawyers in terms of vocational interest, a n d least like engineers, artists, a n d office workers. 406 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S