College and Research Libraries News from the Field ACQUISITIONS, G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S T H E L I B R A R Y of the University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, has acquired a collection of ninety-five of the papers of Jacques Necker (1732-1804). T h e collection consists of papers, memorials, and reports, issued either pri- vately or in his official capacity as minister of finance of France, and includes books and pamphlets attacking him. Some of the works are of considerable rarity and do not appear in the standard bibliographies for the period. C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y has been presented with an extensive manuscript collection pro- viding significant new insight into the Jack- sonian era. T h e papers comprise the bulk of the letters, diaries, memoranda, bank rec- ords, and accounting books of Thomas Ol- cott, nineteenth-century financier and phi- lanthropist. Included are letters from many figures of importance such as Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and }. Pierpont Morgan. T h e material, given by Douglas W o r t h Olcott, president of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Albany, and its directors, should prove indispensable to anyone studying New York banking and politics during the Jacksonian period. T H E H A R R Y S. T R U M A N L I B R A R Y at Inde- pendence, Mo., recently added to its manu- script collections scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and World W a r II aerial photo- graphs of bombing targets, records of com- missions, committees, and boards appointed by the former President, sound tapes of some of his speeches, and papers of many of the government officials during his administra- tion. K N O X C O L L E G E , Galesburg, 111., has received more than thirteen thousand volumes from the valuable personal library of the late Dr. Clarence H . Haring, professor of Latin American history and economics at Harvard University for thirty years. T H E L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S has been pre- sented with the papers of the American physiologist, Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), best known for his experimental work in induc- ing parthenogenesis and regeneration by means of chemical stimuli and for his de- velopment of the tropism theory, namely, that all ethics are a product of man's in- herited tropisms. Among the papers are let- ters between Dr. Loeb and his fellow scien- tists, a large collection of his experimental notebopks and manuscripts, and proofsheets of his books and articles. R O S A R Y C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y , River Forest, 111., has received a gift of 450 books com- prising a reference collection of lives of the saints. T h e donor was the Thomas Moore Association. S A N J O S E S T A T E C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y h a s r e - ceived a gift of a hundred books on the art and culture of J a p a n from the Japanese gov- ernment in commemoration of the centennial of American-Japanese diplomatic relations. 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 acquired the complete library of Dr. Jos£ Mogravejo Carrion of Cuenca, Ecuador. T h e collection consists of more than seven thou- sand volumes on Ecuadorian history, govern- ment, anthropology, and literature. S T A N F O R D U N I V E R S I T Y has received the Harry R . Lange Historical Collection of Musical Instruments and Books, to be housed under the jurisdiction of the Music Library at Stanford. T h e gift of a California busi- nessman, it includes fine violins dating from 1723, violas, a cello, an oboe, and modern copies of old violas and recorders. T H E L O N G W O O D L I B R A R Y at Kennett Square, Pa., will be merged with the Hagley Museum Library near Greenville, Del. T h e combined library will be known as the Eleu- therian Mills Historical Library and will occupy a new building being erected on the original property of the Du Pont Company. T h e collection includes personal and busi- ness papers of members of the Du Pont family from 1588 to 1954, correspondence, journals, family books, and early records of E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8c Company. M A Y 1 9 6 1 211 T H E P I U S X I I M E M O R I A L L I B R A R Y , S t . Louis University, has just received the li- brary of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, consisting of over eighty thousand scientific volumes. T h e Academy of Science library is made up of periodicals, books and scientific papers collected since the Academy's found- ing in 1856. Of use primarily as reference material on the history of science, the ma- terial will complement the extensive micro- film holdings of the Vatican Library Manu- script collection in this research area. In- cluded are exchange publications from sci- entific institutions, universities and museums throughout the world, with many regularly published papers from behind the Iron Cur- tain. T h e Academy will continue to collect from these sources and augment the collec- tion at Pius X I I Library each year, in order to keep the references as up to date as pos- sible. T H E L I B R A R Y of the late W a l t e r Eugene Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Har- vard University from 1928 to 1950 has been acquired by the library of the University of California, Los Angeles. T h e collection comprises well over fifteen hundred volumes relating to Vedic and Sanskrit literature, works of Pali, Tibetan, Buddhist, and J a n provenance in both original editions and translations, and materials on Indian phi- losophy, religion, folklore, medicine, gram- mar, poetics, rhetoric, drama, astronomy, mathematics, lexicography, history, and other fields. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N L I B R A R Y has recently acquired many groups of manu- scripts. Among them are the Drumheller Family Papers which include the diary of Leonard J . Powell, former president of the University of Washington; and the Edwin B. Stevens Papers, correspondence and papers relating to the administrations of presidents Graves, Kane, and Suzzallo of the University of Washington. V A L U A B L E A D D I T I O N S to the University of Florida holdings of Florida manuscript let- ters include the gift from United States Sena- tor Spessard L . Holland of papers covering his terms as a member of the Florida Senate (1932-1940) and as Governor of Florida (1941- 1945). In presenting the papers to the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University, Senator Holland told library of- ficials that he expects to add papers from his term in the U. S. Senate at a later date. These papers are of vital importance as source materials in the writing of the politi- cal and historical development of the state. Other recent acquisitions of historical sig- nificance to the P. K. Yonge Library of Flor- ida History include the gubernatorial papers of William Sherman Jennings, eighteenth Governor of Florida, 1901-05. Presented by Mrs. William Sherman Jennings and her son Sherman Bryan Jennings, the bequest also includes some of Mrs. Jennings' papers; Mrs. Jennings has been very prominent for many years in civic and club work throughout the state of Florida. BUILDINGS B E L O I T C O L L E G E was the chief beneficiary in the will of Iva Marion Butlin, alumna and librarian emerita. An endowment in the amount of approximately $190,000 will be used for the maintenance and operation of the new Colonel Robert H . Morse Library on the campus. A NEW $1,600,000 modular three-story- and-basement library building will be started at the University of Wichita. This building will care for 350,000 volumes and provide 1,000 seats for students and faculty. By the addition of a fourth floor room can be pro- vided for 500,000 volumes and 1,400 seats. B E T H A N Y N A Z A R E N E C O L L E G E recently broke ground for the new library building planned with funds from businessmen, firms, and members of the Nazarene churches in the Oklahoma City area. T H E L I B R A R Y of the College of Education at Cortland, N. Y., will move to a new build- ing late this summer or early fall. T h e three- story structure is located in the center of a rapidly expanding campus and cost $1,100,- 000, exclusive of furnishings and equipment. T H E O F F I C I A L O P E N I N G of the new J o h n M. Olin Research Library at Cornell University was heralded by extensive publicity. T h e Cornell Daily Sun issued a souvenir edition February 10, containing pictures, editorials, special articles, comments by the dean and 212 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 by professors, a history of the library, and an account of the ceremonies marking its open- ing. T h e picture page of the Ithaca Journal, February 11, was devoted entirely to interior views including the study carrels, the catalog section, and the business office, and a photo- graph of the exterior was carried on the front page. In addition, John M. Olin Library In- troductory Guidebook (Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Library, 1961, 14 p.) describes the services and gives the floor plans. T H E N E W W A H L E R T M E M O R I A L L I B R A R Y o n the Loras College campus in Dubuque, Iowa, with a total seating capacity of 644, can ac- commodate nearly half of the student body at one time. Its stack area has a capacity for 3 0 0 , 0 0 0 volumes. T h e building is a two-story structure in the shape of an asymmetrical cross, built of red T u d o r brick. T h e main section of the building is 222 feet long and 62 feet wide. T h e extensions to north and south are of unequal size, that to the north being 62 x 60 feet, that to the south, 42 by 42 feet. T h e four end-sections have glass and wall bays reaching from ground level to the projecting gable roof. T h e reference and reading room contains 6,000 volumes and seats 282 readers. Sixteen double steel carrels provide individual study cubicles for 32 stu- dents. W H I L E W O R K o n t h e n e w $ 2 , 6 7 9 , 0 0 0 U n i - versity of Nevada Library at R e n o goes steadily forward with an anticipated com- pletion date of early fall, plans are under way for a library building at the Las Vegas campus. Each is distinctive. T h e Noble Get- chell Library at R e n o will be a completely air conditioned building three stories high with 9 1 , 1 2 5 square feet of floor space. It will seat 1 4 0 0 students and accommodate 3 0 0 , 0 0 0 volumes. T h e collection will be on open shelves in a divisional arrangement—hu- manities, social science, and science and technology. • Plans for the library building at the Las Vegas campus represent a novelty in library design in the area. T h e general plan is cir- cular, with access to all working areas con- trolled from the main desk. T h e stack area will have a capacity of 100,000 volumes and will be open to the patrons. T h e building will contain separate rooms for listening, for audio-visual materials, and for microfilms. In addition, there will be three seminar rooms that can be converted into one large lecture hall. Nineteen study carrels for the use of faculty and graduate students are planned. If the appropriation is passed in the present legislative session, construction will be started in the fall. W O R K H A S B E G U N on major alterations planned for the far eastern library of die University of Washington. Expansion and remodeling will include doubling of the present stack capacity, increasing the read- ing area, and adding new and renovated space for the staff and office of the librarian. Other improvements planned are new stacks, special shelving for unbound periodi- cals and newspapers, and improved lighting and air circulation. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS T w o G R A N T S T O U N I V E R S I T I E S have been made recently by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. T h e library of the University of Illinois, Chicago Undergraduate Division, received $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 to apply advanced data pro- cessing techniques to university library pro- cedures, to develop and overall system utiliz- ing latest electronic equipment, and to adopt business machines for library use. Louis Schultheiss, serials-acquisitions librarian, is the director of the project. T h e University of Pittsburgh received $ 5 8 , 8 8 6 to test and refine techniques developed by its computa- tion and data processing center for informa- tion retrieval in the legal field. 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 been awarded a grant by National Science Foundation for continued partial support of the Scientific Journals Center. T h e center is intended to assure that the midwest area receives one copy of every significant journal published anywhere in the world in the fields of chemistry and biology. T h e project is sup- ported jointly by the group of twenty mid- western universities that are members of the Midwest Inter-Library Corporation and the National Science Foundation in the interest of making the latest scientific discoveries in these fields available to American scientists. T H E A . W . C A L H O U N M E D I C A L L I B R A R Y , Emory University School of Medicine, and M A Y 1 9 6 1 213 the Biochemical Library, University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles, have received grants from the U. S. Public Health Service for the training of medical librarians. Each will offer three internships yearly to outstanding grad- uates of library schools accredited by A L A . Applicants must be U. S. citizens or have re- ceived their first citizenship papers. Each in- tern will receive $4,800 for the year, plus tu- ition and a travel allowance to attend the annual meeting of the Medical Library Asso- ciation. Program for the coming year will be- gin June 8, 1961. Inquiries may be addressed to Mildred Jordan, Librarian, A. W . Calhoun Medical Library, Woodruff Research Build- ing, Emory University, Atlanta 22, Ga., or to Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Li- brary, University of California Medical Cen- ter, Los Angeles 24. PUBLICATIONS T H E C O M M I S S I O N E R ' S C O M M I T T E E on Refer- ence and Research Library Resources, New York, has issued a report entitled A Coopera- tive Program for the Development of Refer- ence and Research Library Resources in New York State, an interim report to Dr. James E. Allen, Commissioner of Education. Rec- ommendations include the establishment of a state reference and research library board, establishment of a network of five regional reference and research library systems, as- sistance by the state in establishing and de- veloping cooperative library programs by providing a minimum annually of ten dol- lars for each student enrolled in each cat- egory in the fall semester, state assistance in developing a cooperative program by allot- ting five dollars annually for each profes- sional person in New York, and a review of the entire program after five years of opera- tion. " T H E F U T U R E O F L I B R A R Y S E R V I C E : Demo- graphic Aspects and Implications" is the title selected for the combined July and October issues of Library Trends. Editor of the issue is Frank L . Schick, assistant director, Library Services Branch, U. S. Office of Education. Some twenty librarians will contribute sec- tions dealing with the future of library serv- ice from 1960 to 1980 in public, school, col- lege and university, state, and federal li- braries. Library education, personnel, materi- als and resources, documentation, and a sum- mary of the library's mission and program in the next two decades will round out the to- tal library picture. " T H E N A T I O N A L L I B R A R Y of Medicine In- dex Mechanization Project," issued as Part 2 of the January issue of Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (96 p.) is avail- able from the National Library of Medicine, Washington, D. C. T h e report describes the details in transforming the Current List of Medical Literature, compiled and published in the traditional manner, into the Index Medicus, now published as the end-product of a mechanized system. T h e new procedure results in a significant increase in coverage, faster reporting, and superior presentation. The Care and Repair of Books (New York, 1960, 122 p., $6.15) has been published in a revised edition by Bowker Company. Regarded as standard in its field by librari- ans, booksellers, and collectors, the work was originally written by Harry M. Lydenberg and J o h n Archer. Brought up to date by J o h n Alden of the rare book room of the Boston Public Library, the new edition em- phasizes new scientific developments and in- cludes material on the special problem of book preservation in southerly climates. It stresses methods most likely to be widely available and practicable, and possible to use without recourse to exceptional skill or machinery. Cooperative Library Service to Higher Ed- ucation (New York, 1960), issued by the Council of Higher Educational Institutions, reviews the problem of cooperation, and facts relating to students, colleges and their libraries, and student use of New York li- braries. As a solution, it recommends a co- operative program, and a supplementary academic library system. It concludes with an estimate of costs and outlines the role of the Council of Higher Educational Institutions. K R A U S R E P R I N T S , I N C . is publishing a photo- offset edition of the Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library, 1919-1931. For it the staff of the J o h n Carter Brown Library has marked with an asterisk the entries that have been corrected or emended in their own interleaved copy and urges users to write 214 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 for further information about individual items. T h e library has prepared a mimeo- graphed list of the corrections for owners of the original edition who would like to mark their copy. P H E N O M E N A L G R O W T H of traditional serv- ices of the Library of Congress is evident in the Annual Report of the Librarian of Con- gress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, i960. Substantial increases are reported in Congressional inquiries, in the number of book catalogs and printed catalog cards sold, and in the number of claims to copyright, to name a few. New developments include es- tablishment of a Near Eastern and North African law division, and creation of an Afri- can section in the reference department. About 868,980 items were added to the refer- ence materials, bringing the total number available to the government and the pub- lic, 38,995,221 items of diverse nature. Guidelines for Library Planners, edited by Keith Doms and Howard Rovelstad, (Chi- cago: ALA, 1960, illus., 128 p., $3.75) is an authoritative work on library planning and construction, based on the proceedings of the 1959 Library Buildings and Equipment Institute sponsored by the Buildings and Equipment Section of Library Administra- tion Division. T h e report includes discus- sions by experts in architecture, library consulting, and researching, as well as in- formation regarding layout, interiors, floor- ing, equipment, specifications, lighting, heat- ing, and ventilation. M I S C E L L A N E O U S A S T U D Y of library costs and operations of Purdue University is being made for the business office by Gerald L . Quatman, Ph.D. candidate in industrial psychology and part- time research assistant at the library. T h e purpose of the study is to determine portions of total expense of various types of library service and to establish total costs per stu- dent or per faculty member. T h e informa- tion will be of value in negotiating research contracts with sponsoring organizations. T H E A M E R I C A N A S S O C I A T I O N O F L A W L I - B R A R I E S will hold the Fifth Biennial Law Li- brarians Institute at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., J u n e 19-23. T h e r e will be a series of general lecture and demonstra- tion sessions as well as small group discus- sions of pertinent problems. Earl C. Bor- geson, librarian of the Harvard Law School, director of the institute, is accepting reserva- tions. T h e association's annual meeting is scheduled the following week, J u n e 25-29, at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Boston. T H E S I X T H S E M I N A R on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials will be held July 6-8 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Problems related to acquiring library materials from Colombia and Venezu- ela, problems of bibliographic information on Latin America, and reports of progress made on previous seminar recommendations will be the chief concern of the meeting. Further information may be obtained from William A. Bork, Director, Latin American Institute, Southern Illinois University. A S T U D Y O F I N D E X I N G of conference reports by C. W . Hanson and Marian Janes, of the Research Department of ASLIB (England), revealed that of 205 publications examined, 103 had no index whatsoever. Of the re- mainder, 32 had no author index; and 18 had no subject index; thus, only 52 of the 205 had both subject and author index. Fur- ther study revealed that the situation is growing worse rather than improving as publications increase. T h e investigators con- cluded that organizers of conferences, con- gresses, and symposia could materially in- crease the usefulness of the reports of their proceedings by providing them with indexes. Results of the study were published in Journal of Documentation, X V I (1960), 65- 70. T H E P H I L A D E L P H I A C H A P T E R of A C R L will meet Saturday, May 20, at Lincoln Uni- versity, near Oxford, Pa. At 10:30 A.M., Dean Jack Dalton, of the School of Library Service, Columbia University, will speak on " T h e Work of the A L A Interna- tional Relations Office." At 2 : 0 0 P.M., Mrs. Eleanor B. Allen, librarian, Lippincott Li- brary, University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Library by Remote Control—Karachi" and Dr. Yu-shu Pu, assistant technical serv- ices librarian, Drexel Institute Library, will speak on " T h e Libraries and the National Classification System of the People's Repub- lic of China." M A Y 1 9 6 1 215 T H E E X E C U T I V E B O A R D of the Pennsylvania Library Association has approved the follow- ing resolution: Recognizing that an effective educa- tional program at the college level re- quires intelligent and efficient use of a variety of educational materials to meet curricular demands, be it resolved: T h a t the Executive Board of the Pennsylvania Library Association re- quest the Middle Atlantic States Asso- ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Library Education Di- vision of the American Library Asso- ciation to recommend that library orien- tation, covering formal instruction in the use of books and libraries, be re- quired of all freshmen; and further, that credit be given for such a course. ALA R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S at collegiate cere- monies this year were Mary D. Herrick, as- sociate librarian, Boston University, at the inauguration of James Forrester as president of Gordon College, Beverly Farms, Mass., October 12; Wyman W . Parker, librarian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., at the Silver Convocation honoring President Albert N. Jorgensen on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his service at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., November 12; Jens Nyholm, university li- brarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., at the inauguration of William Graham Cole as president of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, 111., November 19; John H. Knickerbocker, director, Civil W a r Institute, Gettysburg College, Gettsyburg, Pa., at the dedication of the library building at Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md., November 19. Mrs. Frances Lander Spain, coordinator, children's services, circulation department, New York Public Library, at the inaugura- tion of Edward J . Mortola as president of Pace College, New York City, January 19; Humphrey G. Bousfield, librarian, Brooklyn College, at the inauguration of Lawrence Lee Jarvie as president of the New New City Community College, Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb- ruary 16; Mildred Wyatt, librarian, Stephen F. Austin State College, Nacogdoches, T e x . , at the inauguration of Howard Clifton Ben- nett as president of East Texas Baptist Col- lege, Marshall, T e x . , February 16; Sarah L. Wallace, public relations director, Minneap- olis Public Library, at the inauguration of Owen Meredith Wilson as president of the University of Minnesota, February 23; Pa- tricia Paylore, assistant librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson, at the inauguration of G. Homer Durham as president of Arizona State University, Tempe, March 11; Sidney B. Smith, director of libraries, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, at the inaug- uration of Herbert Eugene Longenecker as president of Tulane University, New Orleans, April 15; Lewis C. Branscomb, director of libraries, Ohio State University, Colum- bus, at the inauguration of James Mor- gan Read as president of Wilmington Col- lege, Wilmington, Ohio, April 30; Jens Ny- holm, university librarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., at the inaugura- tion of George Wells Beadle as chancellor of the University of Chicago, May 4, and Wen Chao Chen, librarian, Kalamazoo College, Mich., at the inauguration of James Miller as president of Western Michigan Univer- sity, Kalamazoo. S E V E N A M E R I C A N librarians are touring the Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange mission. T h e American exchange mission left New York City early in May and are study- ing library techniques in the USSR for about thirty days. Their Russian counterparts vis- ited the United States during April. T h e American librarians who are touring Russia include: David C. Clift, executive director of the ALA; Mrs. Frances Lander Spain, presi- dent of ALA; Rutherford Rogers, chief assist- ant to the Librarian of Congress; Raynard C. Swank, director, International Relations Office of the ALA; Melville Ruggles, vice president Council on Library Resources, Inc.; Emerson Greenaway, director, Free Li- brary, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Sallie Farrell, field representatitve of the Louisiana State Library. T H E M I D W E S T E R N , Mississippi Valley, and Plains-Mountains regional groups are jointly sponsoring a regional meeting of the Biblio- graphical Society of America at the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio at 2 : ? 0 P.M., 10 July, for all members of the society or of the Row- fant Club. Speakers at this meeting will be Kenneth Nebenzahl, Robert Vosper, and David Kaser. 216 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 S A M U E L R O T H S T E I N , associate librarian of the University of British Columbia, Van- couver, will be the director of its new school of librarian- ship, scheduled to open in September 1961. Dr. Rothstein re- ceived his bachelor's and master of arts degrees from British Columbia in 1939 and 1940 and subse- quently did graduate work in romance languages at the uni- versities of California and Washington. Af- ter service in the Canadian army he obtained his bachelor of library science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1947. In 1951 Dr. Rothstein received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation for ad- vanced study at the University of Illinois, and he was awarded the doctorate by the university in 1954. His thesis was published as an A C R L monograph as The Develop- ment of Reference Services Through Aca- demic Traditions, Public Library Practice, and Special Librarianship ( 1 9 5 5 ) . Dr. Rothstein joined the University of British Columbia Library staff in 1947 and has served successively as head of acquisi- tions, assistant librarian, and associate li- brarian. W A R R E N J . H A A S became associate director of university libraries at Columbia Univer- sity January 1. In this capacity he will serve as operations officer for some thirty different professional school and departmental library collections. For the past year and a half, Mr. Haas has been library consultant to the Council of Higher Educational Institutions in New York City. He has conducted the Council's Library Research Program with the objective of finding effective cooperative solutions to some of the problems colleges and universities encounter in providing li- brary service and materials for the large and growing student population of the met- ropolitan area. In addition to preparing a report recom- mending the development of a regional li- brary system designed to serve higher educa- tion, Mr. Haas completed a study of the use students make of libraries other than those at their own schools, reviewed the holdings of many academic libraries, prepared a di- rectory of the resources of the collegiate li- braries in the area, and conducted several other specialized studies of library services and resources available to students in the New York City area. Mr. Haas will continue his work with the Council on a part-time basis for several months until the research program is completed. Before coming to New York City, Mr. Haas was acquisitions librarian and later assistant librarian of the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Library. From 1950 to 1952 he was with the Racine, Wis., Public Library. Mr. Haas, who is thirty-six years old, is a graduate of Wabash College. He did gradu- ate work at the University of Wisconsin, and is a graduate of the library school of that university. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. R O B E R T V O S P E R assumes administrative control of libraries at the University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles in July as university librarian and profes- sor of library service. He succeeds Law- rence Clark Powell, who as dean will de- vote full-time to the new library school. This is a return to familiar scenes for Mr. Vosper, who was head of the acquisi- tions department and later associate li- brarian at UCLA from 1944 to 1952. This position carries unusual responsibil- ities. New graduate programs and student- body growth present obvious administrative problems. U C L A has in recent years in- Samuel Rothstein R. Vosper M A Y 1 9 6 1 217 creased its holding percentagewise faster than any other large university library. T h e budget has more than doubled since 1952. Under its new chancellor, Franklin Mur- phy, formerly of the University of Kansas, U C L A has undertaken commitments which will greatly increase the present rate of col- lection building and may make this the lead- ing American institution in library acquisi- tions. Much of the future of the institution will depend on the knowledge, judgment, and vision of the new librarian. Mr. Vosper has much in common with his great predecessor, Lawrence Clark Powell. Both have been men of vision and courage. Both have been aggressive in get- ting financial support. Both are wise book- men, widely read, with uncanny skills in ferreting out valuable libraries and arrang- ing transfer of title and transportation. On the trail of a collection Mr. Vosper organ- izes his resources and armament with the zest, skill, and detail of a Teddy Roosevelt setting off for a shoot in Africa. Both librarians have been imaginative, re- sourceful administrators in building pro- grams, organization of services, and staff procurement. When faced with a low salary scale and few applications, Mr. Vosper ran an ad in The Times Literary Supplement that is, five years later, still pleasantly re- membered in British library circles. From it came some seventy applications, and a series of talented librarans. Mr. Vosper (like Mr. Powell some years ago) spent 1 9 5 9 / 6 0 in England on a Gug- genheim fellowship. His letters to his staff are redolent with references to mossy stone cottages, pubs with draught Guinness, fine old libraries, and second-hand bookstores where he leisurely gathered books for K.U. and data on his research topic. Seemingly this good man has unlimited time for bookstore browsing, catalog reading, and sundry other academic whittling. He takes time with his family of three teen-age daughters, young son, Stevie, and talented, attractive wife, Loraine. Slight of frame and gentle in manner, he delights in the in- formality of tie-less, short-sleeved shirts, walk- ing shorts, and even sandals. Robert Vosper has both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon. He went to Berkeley for his library certificate (1940) and served briefly there and at Stanford before going to U C L A in 1944 and to the Univer- sity of Kansas in 1952. He has had many im- portant assignments and offices in ALA and for the Association of Research Libraries, and takes special satisfaction from his role in establishing a unit within A C R L concern- ing rare books when president of A C R L . He has exercised leadership in these and other professional circles by a rare combina- tion of independent thinking, tactful per- suasiveness in council, and diligence in exe- cution. He is equally effective before a thousand people or with one key personal- ity in a quiet corner. His past accomplish- ment and tested abilities augur well for the future of libraries at UCLA. W e will miss the frequent references in our literature to the banks of the Kaw and rolling plains golden with harvest, but these will doubtless be replaced with equally refreshing pictures of the azure skies and majestic, white-crested combers of southern California.—Arthur T. Hamlin, University of Cincinnati. EDWARD N . M A C CONOMY became the li- brarian of Albion College, Albion, Mich., on February 1, 1961. Born near Albion in 1916, Mr. Mac Conomy received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary in 1938. He completed the M.A. in political science at the University of Mary- land in 1943 and the M.A. in library science at the University of Michigan in 1951. He is at present completing work on the Ph.D. de- gree in political science at the University of Michigan with the dissertation topic " T h e Political Thought of William Temple, Arch- bishop of York, 1929-1942, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-1944." Mr. Mac Conomy's scholarship has been recognized by election to Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Phi Kappa Phi. From 1940 to I960 he was a member of the staff of the Library of Congress, since 1948 as an analyst in political science (Amer- ican national government) in the Legislative Reference Service. He brings to his new position an extensive background in refer- ence librarianship and bibliography and a strong interest in academic libraranship. His rare sense of humor and sound perspectives toward men and books will distinguish his career at Albion.—Stephen Ford, University of Michigan. 218 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 Appointments M R S . E D N A A L C O M B R A C K is a library asssist- ant in the book order section of the acquisi- tions division, University of Washington, Seattle. M R S . E S T H E R B O A T R I G H T A N D E R S O N i s c u r - riculum materials and serials librarian, Sa- vannah (Georgia) State College. J O H N C. L. A N D R E A S S E N , formerly director of administration, Library of Congress, is now archives and records management con- sultant, Bureau of Government Research, New Orleans. W I L M E R B A A T Z is chief, library branch, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. J U L I U S B A R C L A Y has been named chief li- brarian of the division of special collections at Stanford University Library. P A T R I C K T . B A R K E Y , formerly head of cir- culation, University of Notre Dame (Indi- ana) Library, is now head of circulation, East- ern Illinois University, Charleston. R O B E R T B E C K E R , formerly a staff member of the Bancroft Library reference division, University of California, Berkeley, is now assistant director of the library. M R S . L E A M . B O H N E R T , formerly with RCA and lecturer at the American University, is now chief, information retrieval section, li- brary branch, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. W I L L I A M B R A C E is on the faculty of the library school, Florida State University. G E O R G E C A L D W E L L will become head of the reference department, University of Kansas Library, Lawrence, on July 1. P A T R I C I A C H I N - W E N C H A N G , formerly li- brary service fellow, University of Michigan, is now with the catalog department, Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles. D W I G H T L . C H A P M A N , formerly senior di- visional librarian in charge of Museums Li- braries, University of Michigan, is now assist- ant librarian, Amundsen Junior College, Chicago. H O W A R D F. C L I N E , director of the Hispanic Foundation, Library of Congress, has been appointed an advisory editor of The Ameri- cas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. R I C H A R D D A U B E R T is assistant loan librar- ian, University of New Hampshire. G E O R G E B. D A V I S is head librarian, Bennett College, Hillbrook, New York. R I C H A R D D A V I S is assistant professor, graduate school of library science, Drexel In- stitute of Technology, Philadelphia. D E S I R E E DE C H A R M S is music library assist- ant, University of Illinois, Urbana. M R S . D O R I S D O D D S is documents assistant, University of Illinois Library, Urbana. G I L B E R T D O N A H U E is research librarian, Wayne State University, Detroit. R O B E R T E. D Y S I N G E R , formerly assistant li- brarian, Bowdoin College, is now librarian, Alton Center, Southwestern Illinois Campus, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. R O B E R T W I L K I N S O N E V A N S will become head of the acquisitions and binding department of the Oberlin (Ohio) College Library July 15. M R S . C A R O L Y N W. F I E L D is a staff member of the graduate school of library science, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. S T U A R T F O R T H will become associate di- rector of libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, on July 1. L O R N A D. F R A S E R , formerly head of the cataloging department, University of To- ronto, is now the assistant librarian and head of the cataloging department of York University, Toronto, Ontario. E D W I N B L A C K G E O R G E , formerly chief of the economics division in the legislative ref- erence service, Library of Congress, has been appointed deputy director of the legislative reference service. M I S S H O W A R D W. H U B B A R D , formerly ad- ministrative assistant to the assistant director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, is now as- sistant director of the ALA Washington of- fice. F R A N K J A C O B S is assistant librarian in charge of public circulation, Loyola Univer- sity, Chicago. R I C H A R D D . J O H N S O N is administrative as- sistant to the director, Stanford (California) University Library. M A Y 1 9 6 1 219 D O R O T H Y K A H N is librarian for Science Research Associates, Chicago. W A L D E M A R K L U N D T is a staff member of the humanities division library, San Jose (California) State College. F R A N C E S L I V I N G S T O N is professional assist- ant to the head of the serial record depart- ment, University of Louisville (Kentucky) Library. E L L E N M A Y E U X , formerly reference li- brarian, National Library of Medicine, is now the librarian, medical library, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. A A R O N I. M I C H E L S O N is assistant professor of library science, College of Arts and Sci- ences, University of Oklahoma, D O N A L D M I L L E R is now on the staff of the catalog department, University of California, Santa Barbara, not Berkeley as reported in the March issue. C O R A L. M U L D E R S is librarian of the United Nations Library, Mexico City, Mexico. J A C K P O O L E R is engineering librarian, Stan- ford University. D O N A L D A. R E D M O N D , formerly librarian of the Nova Scotia Technical College, is now science and engineering librarian, University of Kansas, Lawrence. V I R G I N I A R E E D is research librarian, Up- john Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. J A M E S H . R E N Z , formerly librarian, Florida collection, Miami (Florida) Public Library, is now head of acquisitions department, Col- lege of William and Mary Library, Williams- burg, Va. G L A D Y S R O W E is associate librarian of the Laboratories for Applied Sciences, Univer- sity of Chicago. M I C H A E L J . S A D O S K I , formerly engineering librarian, Stanford University, is now engi- neering librarian with Convair, San Diego, Calif. M R S . R U T H M . S A M A R I N , recently returned to this country after spending nearly ten years teaching with the Foreign Missionary Society of Brethren Church in the Central African Republic, is now senior library as- sistant in the catalog department, Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. M R S . N O R M A L. S C H U L T E , formerly engi- neering librarian, Hughes Aircraft Company, is now in the business administration li- brary, University of California, Los Angeles. J E S S E S H E R A has been appointed director of Western Reserve University Center for Documentation and Communication Re- search. He continues as dean of the School of Library Science. Miss S I E G L I N D E S E I L E R is library assistant in the catalog division, University of Wash- ington, Seattle. D O N A L D L. S I E F K E R is reference librarian, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. W E N D E L L S I M O N S is on the staff of the University of California Library, Santa Bar- bara. P E T E R S P Y E R S - D U R A N is circulation li- brarian, University of Wichita, Kan. P E T E R S T E C K L , formerly branch librarian, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, is now assistant librarian, University of Sas- katchewan, Canada. R A L P H S T E N S T R O M , formerly circulation li- brarian, Beloit College, is now education, philosophy and psychology library assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana. J O S E P H I N E T . S U N is catalog assistant, Uni- versity of Illinois Library, Urbana. J O H A N N A T A L L M A N is lecturer in the School of Library Service, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles. C A R O L Y N U R Q U H A R T , is principal library assistant in the reference department, Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles. T O R D I S V A T S H A U G , formerly on the staff of the acquisitions division, National Library of Medicine, is now reference librarian, Fed- eral Aviation Agency, Washington, D. C. L U C I L E V I C K E R S is head librarian and as- sociate professor of library science, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa. M A R J O R I E W E S T is reference librarian, In- dustrial Relations Center, Chicago. T H O M A S J . W H I T B Y is Slavic science ac- quisitions specialist for science and technol- ogy, Library of Congress. M U R I E L Y I N , formerly a staff member of the White Plains (New York) Public Library, is now on the staff of the education library, University of California, Los Angeles. L I N D A Z O R N is library assistant in the engi- neering branch library, University of Wash- ington, Seattle. 220 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 Necrology Robert D. Leigh R O B E R T D E V O R E L E I G H died suddenly of a heart attack on January 31 in Chicago, where he had gone to attend the midwinter meeting of ALA. He was born in Ne- braska in 1890 and grew up in Seattle; but he was always proud of his New E n g l a n d ancestry, and he came back east to attend Bow- doin College. He was graduated in 1914 as valedictorian. In 1927 he earned his doctorate in po- litical science at Co- lumbia. He taught at Reed College, 1914-19, and at Williams College, 1922-28; then he was Bennington's first president, 1928-41. Dr. Leigh became well known to librari- ans when he was director of the Commission on Freedom of the Press, 1944-46, and of the Public Library Inquiry, 1947-50. He served Columbia's School of Library Serv- ice, 1950-59, as visiting professor, acting dean, and dean. He brought to the School of Library Serv- ice a vigorous and far-sighted leadership supported by close attention to details and tempered by unfailing personal kindness to colleagues and students. In his many assign- ments outside the school, his voice and vote were always clear, forceful, and kindly—and always guided by trained good judgment and innovating vision. His first wife, Mildred Boardman, died after long illness in May 1959. In September 1960 he was married to Mrs. Carma Zimmer- man, librarian of the California State Li- brary.—A. T. Hazen, Columbia University. T h e name of W . C. B E R W I C K S A Y E R S is known throughout the world of librarian- ship for his works on the theory of library classification. His Introduction to Library Classification has appeared in nine editions and his Manual of Library Classification in three. These have become standard text- books in countless library schools. He taught for twenty years as a visiting lecturer at the London University School of Librarianship, and his interest in classification was caught up by S. R. Ranganathan who attended his lectures in 1924, and who himself has gained an international reputation for his work in this subject. In the United States Bliss and later, Shera have paid their tributes to his influence. If these had been his only contribution to librarianship, they would have been more than most of us can hope to do. But Sayers was a full man: he wrote ten books alto- gether, and they covered aspects of library work as diverse as work with children, anno- tation in catalogues, and methods of stock control. Some of them went outside library work: he wrote the standard biography of Coleridge-Taylor, and the official history of Croydon in the Second World W a r (one of the worst bombed towns in England). T h e needs of his chosen profession de- manded that he should teach (and with his love for young people, he never refused to help them) and so he taught and wrote textbooks on library techniques. But he was no biblio-technician: he had a glowing love for literature, and was himself a lyricist of no mean ability. His knowledge of nine- teenth-century writers was unrivalled, yet his receptivity to new writing made him fore- most among the admirers of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake when it first appeared, to the consternation of the weekend book re- viewers. H e was a librarian who read, but was never lost. For my generation of British librarians however, his passing signifies the loss of a respected older friend, for he was already the outstanding name in British librarian- ship when we entered the profession over twenty years ago: yet when we grew a little older he could find time and opportunity to encourage us in our professional interests, however obscure the libraries from which we came. Our gaucherie and dogmatism never irritated him. He was a great man, and I count myself honored to have known him so well in the last fifteen years.—Ber- nard I. Palmer, The Library Association, London. M A Y 1 9 6 1 221 E U G E N E F . G I L R O Y , librarian of St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, Pa., died suddenly on December 23, 1960. V L A D I M I R G S O V S K I , chief of the European law division in the law library, Library of Congress, died J a n u a r y 12 at the age of sixty- nine. P H I L I P K R I C H B A U M , a staff member of the subject cataloging division, Library of Con- gress for nearly twenty years, died J a n u a r y 14. J E R O M E V A L E N T I N E , senior research ana- lyst in the air research division, Library of Congress, died J a n u a r y 18. Selection of Library Sites (icontinued from page 192) the bearing strata by removing the over- burden. T h i s made it necessary to in- clude a basement in the building, and this involved a drainage problem. T h e basement and the drainage diffiiculties could have been avoided if the site had not been so small that it was necessary to plan for a five-story building. S U M M A R Y A specific example illustrating some of the considerations involved in the selec- tion of a site may be provided by the Lamont Library at Harvard. T h i s site was selected from four possibilities after some weeks of discussion and prepara- tion of rough sketches of a suitable build- ing in each location. Its actual position was chosen because: 1. It was the only remaining available site in the Yard large enough for a build- ing of the desired size. A location in the Yard close to the two other central li- brary buildings, Widener and Houghton, to which it could be connected by tunnel, was an important factor. 2. I t was so placed that the freshmen had to pass its front entrance six times a day going to and from their meals in the Freshmen Union. It was on a main walk between the houses where the upper classmen lived and the classrooms, and closer to the latter. 3. It had a long east-west axis, giving the most desirable long north and south exposures for the reading areas. 4. T h e ground slope was such that two levels with windows below the main entrance, which was only one short step up, were possible, with two more without windows below them. It was possible to have the entrance level, plus its mezza- nine, a full second floor, and a penthouse with a good deal of useful space in it; even the latter is closer to the ground than the main reading room in Widener. More- over, the building, which would have been a little large for its site if it had been taller, does not give that impression. 5. Policy decisions on the part of the university permanently limiting the size of the undergraduate college and on the part of the library limiting the size of the undergraduate book collection meant that provision did not have to be made for a future extension. T o recapitulate, the site must be large enough to provide for the building and for projected additions, and it must be in as convenient a location as possible. T h i s does not mean that it ought to be in the exact center of the campus; but it ought to be readily accessible from classroom buildings, particularly those for the hu- manities and social sciences. T h e orienta- tion, ideally, should be on a long axis running directly east and west, with the entrance on the south. A site that slopes downward from the entrance to the rear may be advantageous, and costs of con- struction may be greatly increased if ground conditions are unsatisfactory. Parking and delivery problems should not be forgotten. Since a site will rarely be found that is ideal in every respect, careful assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of each possible site is called for before a decision is made. 222 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 Second Conference on Rare Books ACRL's R A R E B O O K S E C T I O N will have its second special conference as a preliminary to ALA's conference this summer. T h e rare books meeting will be in Oberlin, Ohio, July 6 through July 8. Accommodations for the registrants will be in a dormitory of Oberlin College, and the program meetings are scheduled for Oberlin's Hall Auditorium. Attendance at the rare books meeting will not be limited to members of this section or of ALA, and early registration is strongly advised as the total number of registrants must be limited to two hundred, somewhat less than the total registration at the similar meeting at Charlottesville, Va., two years ago. T h e fee for the entire meeting, including quarters and meals, will be thirty dollars per person. Reservations or inquiries should be directed to Robert W. Evans, Librarian, Muskingum College Library, New Concord, Ohio. T h e deadline for registration will be June 6. Announcements of the meeting have been mailed to all members of the Rare Books Section and to all institutional mem- bers of A C R L . T h e care and preservation of rare books will be the general theme of the meeting. Considerable time will be left in the sched- ule, however, for informal intermingling of the participants. Discussants of the basic theme of the meet- ing will include Herbert T . F. Cahoon, Pier- pont Morgan Library; Ellen Shaffer, Free Li- brary of Philadelphia; Thomas R. Adams, John Carter Brown Library; J . Terry Ben- der, T h e Grolier Club; Howard H. Peckham, William L. Clements Library; David Randall, Lilly Library; H. Richard Archer, Chapin Library; Harold W. Tribolet, Lakeside Press, and others. Walter Muir Whitehill of the Boston Athenaeum, Frederick G. Kilgour of the Yale Medical Library, and Richard E. Banta of Crawfordsville, Ind., will be the speakers for special programs. Leading dis- cussions on special interests will be Robert O. Dougan, Henry E. Huntington Library; Irvin Kerlan, Washington, D. C.: James Wells, Newberry Library; Mrs. Frances Brewer, Detroit Public Library; Helmut Lehmann-Haupt, New York City; and John Cook Wyllie, University of Virginia Library. There will be a short business meeting of the section on Friday, July 7. Mr. Archer will report on the status of the preliminary man- ual for rare book librarians and Mr. Wyllie will make a report from the group's Com- mittee on Appraisals. Officers of the Rare Books Section are Frederick Goff, Library of Congress, chairman; Mrs. Frances J . Brewer, Detroit Public Library, vice chairman and chairman-elect; and William H. Runge, Uni- versity of Virginia Library, secretary. Mr. Cahoon is the section's representative on the A C R L Board of Directors. Harwell Resigns ACRL Post Richard Harwell has resigned as Executive Secretary of A C R L and Associate Executive Director of ALA to accept an appointment as librarian of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., beginning September i . He will continue his work with A C R L through ALA's Cleveland Conference and until the end of July. It is expected that the appointment of a new Executive Secretary of A C R L can be announced in the July issue of CRL. M A Y 1 9 6 1 223 A C R L Constitution and Bylaws Committee Report to the Board of Directors, June 1960 On J u n e 19 and 22, 1960 the committee met at die Montreal Conference to consider necessary changes in the A C R L Constitution and Bylaws as printed in College and Re- search Libraries, September 1957, and as amended at the San Francisco Conference, 1958. T h e changes to be considered by the committee are necessary to bring the A C R L Con- stitution and Bylaws into agreement with the Constitution and Bylaws of ALA. T h e committee recommends the following changes or amendments: Constitution A R T I C L E I I I , M E M B E R S H I P Sec. 1. Members—Change first sentence to read: Any . . . member (deleting the words, "personal or institutional or life".) Sec. 2. Suspension and Reinstatement.—Delete entire section. This is taken care of by ALA Constitution, Article III. A R T I C L E VIII. B Y L A W S Sec. 1. Adoption, Suspension, and Amendments.—Change last sentence to read: "pro- vided that notice of the proposed changes has been published not less than one month before final consideration." Bylaws A R T I C L E I I . N O M I N A T I O N S AND E L E C T I O N Sec. 4. Right to vote. In accordance with amendments at San Francisco, delete the last 13 words: "and the director who will represent that section on the Board of Directors." Sec. 5. Elections. (b) Sections.—Change section to read: "Elections to elective positions for sections shall be made as each section determines. T h e election of officers shall be reported to the Executive Secretary." A R T I C L E I I I . Q U O R U M Sec. 2. Association.—Change to read: "100 members shall constitute a quorum of the Association for the transaction of all business except elections by mail. A R T I C L E V I . V A C A N C I E S Sec. 1. Elective Positions. (c) Change to read: If vacancies occur in the offices of president and vice-president within the same term, the Board of Directors shall elect as president one of the directors- at-large [deleting "directors or"] for the remainder of the term. When a regular elec- tion is next held, a president and a vice-president shall be elected. T h e committee recommends that these proposed changes or amendments be pre- sented at two general meetings of the Association and be printed in College and Re- search Libraries one month before final consideration in accordance with Article I X of the Constitution. T h e committee has carefully studied the Constitution and Bylaws of A C R L and can find no other apparent conflicts with the ALA Constitution and Bylaws. Respectfully submitted, Ruth K. Porritt, Chairman 1 9 5 9 / 6 0 A C R L Constitution and Bylaws Committee E D I T O R ' S N O T E : The foregoing report is printed in compliance with the recommendation of the committee and with Articles VIII and IX of the ACRL Constitution. 224 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