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 B A N C R O F T L I B R A R Y of the University of California, at Berkeley has been presented with the personal papers of General Henry Morris Naglee (1815-1886). T h e papers are the gift of his daughter, Mrs. Marie R. Robins. T h e materials deal particularly with the New York Volunteers, Stevenson's Regiment, one of the military units sent to California and Mexico in 1847, but also include the Gen- eral's Civil W a r manuscripts. C A T H O L I C U N I V E R S I T Y O F A M E R I C A has been presented with 625 microcards of source ma- terial on the councils of the Church by Al- bert James Diaz, executive director of Micro- card Editions. Originally published in the eighteenth century under the editorship of Giovanni Domenico Mansi, Archbishop of Lucca, the work, entitled Sacrorum Con- ciliorum Nova Et Amplissima Collectio, com- prised 60 large folio volumes. It has long been out of print. A N U N P U B L I S H E D C I V I L W A R M A N U S C R I P T , furnishing a first-hand account of the much debated Battle of Shiloh, has been acquired by Columbia University. T h e manuscript, a 35-page letter written in 1865 by Don Carlos Buell, leader of the Union's Army of the Ohio, seeks to discredit an account of the battle written by General William T . Sher- man and presents Buell's side of a 99-year controversy. T h e letter, originally discovered twenty years ago in the possession of a rare- book dealer in Baltimore, was purchased by Allan Nevins, formerly professor of history at Columbia. T H R E E N E W C O L L E C T I O N S have been re- ceived at the library of Michigan State Uni- versity. A fine collection of Anthony Trollope has been acquired from Ralph Fordon of Detroit. Most of the 145 volumes are first editions in the original bindings. From Pro- fessor Charles P. Wagner of Ann Arbor, the library has acquired 1600 volumes on Spanish literature. These are primarily texts and criticism from the classic age of Spanish lit- erature. From the library of Frederick Van- derbilt Field came a F a r Eastern collection of more than 2,000 books, pamphlets, and mimeographed reports. B O S T O N C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y has purchased two private collections of Rumanian histori- cal and literary works, which now place the library in so far as Rumanian holdings are concerned, in the 1000-2500 category. In the volume by Ruggles and Mostecky, Russian and East European Publications in U. S. Li- braries, Boston College Library had shown up less well than this. T H E M I L L S C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y , Oakland, Calif., recently acquired the stock of the Eucalyptus Press, operated for many years on the college campus by Rosalind Keep. A F A M O U S C O L L E C T I O N of old diaries, news clippings, manuscripts, and photographs on Western Americana has been purchased by the University of Nevada for $55,000. It was assembled by one of the Gold Rush pioneers, Alf Doten, miner, storekeeper, farmer, news- paper reporter and editor who was a close companion of Mark Twain. His day-by-day account of pioneering life in Nevada and California for a period of 54 years, from 1849 to 1903, presents accounts of the Com- stock era in historic Virginia City that may require the rewriting of Nevada history. T h e collection will be housed in the new univer- sity library, now nearing completion on the R e n o campus. 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 received from Professor Emeritus Allen R. Benham his personal library of twenty thousand volumes. T h e collection, accumu- lated over a period of fifty years, is primarily medieval and Renaissance literature, but also includes a well rounded selection of other periods and other humanistic disciplines. Y A L E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y is initiating a program for collecting, preserving, studying, and republishing important recorded music and documents. T h e program has been ma- terially aided by a gift of phonograph records from Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C. Witten, II, of New Haven. T h e Witten Collection adds approximately 15,000 recordings of great singers from the beginning of commercial sound-recording in the 1890's to the present day. In addition, the library has received a group of valuable privately-made and un- published recordings of the T h e a t r e Guild. J U L Y 1 9 6 1 293 BUILDINGS D E D I C A T I O N O F T H E N E W L I B R A R Y at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, took place in April. T h e building, costing $739,000, has 56,316 square feet of floor space, and will provide storage for 200,000 volumes, and study space for 600 students. As a comparison, the old facility provided storage for 100,000 volumes and space for 350 students. T h e audio-visual services center and law library are located at the basement level; general reference, pe- riodicals and central services are on the main floor; the humanities, social science, business administration and education col- lections are on the second floor. Classrooms, offices, studios, faculty study room, and grad- uate study area occupy the third floor. Fur- nishings are in keeping with the modern style—the twenty catalog files are of birch; the chairs and tables, of maple. T o t a l cost of equipment was $118,000. B E A V E R C O L L E G E , Jenkintown, Pa., has re- ceived a gift of three hundred thousand dol- lars toward a new library, from Mrs. J o h n C. Atwood, J r . of Chestnut Hill, vice president of the Beaver College board of trustees. B R I D G E W A T E R C O L L E G E , Bridgewater, Va., will begin construction late this summer on a library building to accommodate a student body of 800 to 1,000 and provide adequate space for faculty studies and special book collections. A three-story structure is being planned to house 109,000 volumes, seat 269 students, and provide carrels for 46. A F U N D of $2,500,000 has been made avail- able to the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, by the Colorado State legislature for construction of a new library building. T H E A D D I T I O N to the Weyerhaeuser library at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., dedi- cated in November, will double the size of the library and alleviate the overcrowded conditions that have existed there for the past decade. T w o L I B R A R I E S of the University of Min- nesota are now located in new quarters. T h e Architecture Library is on the first floor of the new Architecture Building overlooking the Frederick Mann court. It contains 6500 volumes and can accomodate 55 readers. T h e 145,000 volume Bio-Medical Library has been moved to new quarters in Diehl Hall. C O N S T R U C T I O N is underway on the Vander- bilt University campus on a new building which will house the law division of the J o i n t University Libraries. T o be occupied in September, 1962, the building will provide shelves for 250,000 volumes and seats for 160 readers. A L I B R A R Y S T O R E H O U S E , measuring 80 by 223 feet, will be part of the chemical store- house addition being constructed at the Uni- versity of Minnesota. T h e front of the build- ing will be devoted to a shipping and re- ceiving room, sorting area, office space, and a study room. T h e stack room will have 15,060 square feet equipped with standard bracket-type shelves ten feet high. T H E N E W S I M M O N S L I B R A R Y of Southwest Mississippi J u n i o r College at Summit was opened early in the year. T h e one hundred fifteen thousand dollar brick building is com- pletely air conditioned and provides space for nearly twenty thousand volumes. T h e large main reading room is supplemented by twenty individual study carrels, a music room, workroom, Mississippi room, class rooms, audio facilities, and two offices. New furni- ture, archways of laminated pine, and wall panels of birch add charm to the interior. T h e library is named after Robert L . Sim- mons, one of the college founders and past president of the board. A G R A N T of $200,000 to aid the University of Rochester Medical Alumni Association's fund drive for expansion of the Edward G. Miner Medical Library has been awarded by the J o h n and Mary R . Markle Foundation. This grant brings the drive to within $100,- 000 of its $500,000 goal. Plans for expanding and remodeling the library include construc- tion of a three-level 40 by 100 foot addition, more than doubling the present library space. A N E W L I B R A R Y for undergraduates has top priority in Stanford University's campaign to raise $100,000,000 by 1964. T h e building will be of reinforced concrete, with vaulted arcade design and red tile roof. T h e combined floor space will total more than 100,000 square feet. Ultimately the library will contain a basic collection of 150,000 volumes in open stacks. Seats will be provided for 1500 read- ers. Outdoor reading pavilions will be lo- cated on the grounds and on roof terraces formed by the variation between two and three stories. An estimated cost of $4,870,000 will cover the building and equipment. 294 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 E X P A N S I O N O F T H E L I B R A R Y at University of Washington, Seattle, was begun in J u n e . T h e new addition will be constructed on the east and north sides of the existing Henry Suz- zallo Library building. Present stack and rotunda areas will be remodeled to become integral parts of the new structure. Seating facilities for 1200 readers and new shelving for 1,115,000 volumes will be provided as the expansion more than doubles existing floor space. M I S C E L L A N E O U S T H E L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S has received a grant of $100,000 from the Council on Li- brary Resources, Inc., to survey the possibili- ties of automating the organization, storage, and retrieval of information in a large re- search library. A team of leading experts in computer technology, data processing, and systems analysis, will examine the information system of the Library of Congress from the point of view of the functioning of an in- dividual institution, and from that of a research library having activities interrelated with those of other research libraries. A F U L L Y A U T O M A T I C C O P Y I N G M A C H I N E h a s recently been introduced simultaneously by three firms. T h e machine will copy any kind of original up to eleven inches wide to lengths of one hundred fifty feet. It automat- ically turns itself on when an original is fed into it, makes the exposure, adjusts itself to the rate of four copies a minute, and turns itself off. It makes clear black and white permanent copies of all colors. Further in- formation can be obtained from any of the three firms: Anken Chemical and Film Cor- poration, Newton, N. J . ; General Aniline and Film Corporation, Johnson City, N. Y.; and Photek, Inc., Providence, R . I. I N D I A N A U N I V E R S I T Y has appointed J o h n W . Matheson and Kenneth M. Nesheim as the Lilly Fellows for 1961-62. These fellow- ships were established with the aid of a grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., to train two prospective rare book librarians each year for three years. T h e fellows will follow a study program in the Lilly Library that is designed to familiarize them with biblio- graphical methods, the antiquarian book trade, and the organization and management of rare book departments. Mr. Matheson is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Washington Library School and is presently employed as an exchange specialist in the Library of Congress. Mr. Nesheim will be graduated from the library school of the University of California, Los Angeles, in June. As a student he has been employed in the Clark Library for a number of years. A S P A R T O F A N E W W O R L D - S T U D Y P R O G R A M , each of Pennsylvania's fourteen State col- leges has been designated a "foreign cultural center." T h e colleges have been asked to de- velop special depositories of information and materials about particular cultural areas, selected on the basis of existing facilities at the colleges. T h e object of die program is to make available to all Pennsylvania students sources of knowledge about foreign cultures not generally found in other institutions of the State. Development of these centers will require the colleges to expand their libraries to include collections of art, literature, and news media of the various countries. Special- ists will be added to the faculties to develop courses of study for students. A N E W P O L I C Y F O R M E M B E R S H I P has been established by the Midwest Inter-Library Center, Chicago, 111. Under the new plan, membership is limited to research libraries, but geographic location is not restricted. Ex- perience has shown that distance from the center is not a significant factor in the avail- ability or use of its materials, and there is a growing recognition that most of its pro- grams are national in scope and interest. In addition, associate membership is now avail- able to research libraries outside the mid- west region. Associate members will pay only half the fee required of full members, but will not have representation on the board. T H R E E nationally-known library consult- ants have been engaged jointly by the Mar- shall Space Flight Center and the Army Ordnance Missile Command to assess the library needs of the Redstone Arsenal com- plex. Included in the study will be the li- brary requirements of the Marshall-AOMC graduate study program carried out through the Huntsville Center of the University of Alabama. T h e consultants are: Robert Vos- per, librarian of the University of California, Los Angeles; Joseph Shipman, director of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Mo.; and Dr. Jerrold Orne, director of the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill. J U L Y 1 9 6 1 295 A College President and the Standards (iContinued from page 270) not look toward the banker—not for philanthropy as he has in the past, but for ideas and suggestions with respect to the classification, indexing, storage and quick random access to information. To- day's banker handles very little money. One bank president with whom I dis- cussed this told me that while his bank has assets approaching one hundred mil- lion dollars, they scarcely ever have more than $200,000 or $300,000 on hand in cash. What the banker does do, however, is to handle information of all types, in- formation with respect to depositors' or borrowers' names, accounts, type of ac- counts, additions or subtractions from those accounts, interest credits to or charges against those accounts, credit risks, reliability of securities, etc. As this information is received by the bank, it must be classified according to type of service, indexed, stored, and then upon a moment's notice, the banker must be able to go to any particular bit of informa- tion and know that he has it completely and accurately. The modern banker is now turning to computing machines with magnetic memory systems to fulfill this particular function. Perhaps the librarian of the future, in fulfilling his function as the custodian of information, will also do it in gigantic machines with magnetic memories. Old-school librarians frequently were attracted to their careers because of their love of books. In the functional sense, however, the new librarian must choose his career on other grounds. Some of you revolt at this, and as a bibliophile, I can- not say that I blame you. However, as those of you who are familiar with the chemical literature know, even in a sin- gle field which has been as well organized as it can be, old methods have already shown themselves to be unable to cope with the tremendous growth of knowl- edge and information. Not only in the sciences, but even in the humanities, there is already activity of this sort. One need only cite the "holy alliance" of I B M and the Vatican in pre- paring the concordance for the Dead Sea Scrolls by means of the IBM 604-B com- puter in but a minute fraction of the decades which would have been required for scholars working with pencil, paper, and index cards. Librarians have experimented, and will continue to do so. T h e browsing rooms introduced during the last genera- tion represent an attempt to bring stu- dents into close contact with books, and the new library design of commingled reader space and stack space is a further attempt to meet this same problem, as part of the imagination which must be used in order that the second function may be properly fulfilled. In reassessing the implementation of t h e ALA Standards for College Librar- ies, I would only emphasize once again that these are standards for the present rather than standards for the future. They are representative of the average rather than the progressive. Medal Awarded Metcalf At the fiftieth anniversary convocation of the dedication of the central building of the New York Public Library a medal of honor for an outstanding research li- brarian was presented to Keyes D. Metcalf, librarian emeritus, Harvard College Li- brary. Representative presentations were also made to the Library of Congress, the British Museum, and the Bibliotheque National. 296 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 E V E R E T T T . M O O R E became assistant librar- ian at the University of California, Los Angeles, on July 1, 1961, the first appoint- ment announced by l i b r a r i a n , R o b e r t Vosper. He has been head of the reference department at U C L A since 1946 and one of the library's most dependable and un- e x p e n d a b l e s t a f f members during a decade and a half of rapid expansion. As a reference li- brarian, author and editor, teacher, ad- ministrator, and professional colleague, Everett Moore is a man of critical taste, near- subliminal humor, and clear perception, without pretense, urbane, unawed, and of unshrinkable integrity. For many librarians, his name stands for freedom in thinking and expression, style and readability in writing, and accountability in action. His new recognition is well earned, overdue, and warmly applauded.—Neal Harlow. M A R K M . G O R M L E Y will become executive secretary of A C R L September 1. Mr. Gorm- ley is now assistant director of libraries and associate professor of l i b r a r y s c i e n c e a t Colorado State Uni- versity, Fort Collins. He will continue his duties there through the summer quarter but he will attend the A L A Conference in Cleveland as a member of the ALA H e a d q u a r t e r s staff and A C R L members Mark M. Gormley who do not already know him will have an opportunity to meet him there. It is a long way from Milltown in Wis- consin to the Miltown of organizational work, but this is the full circle that Mr. Gormley now makes in coming to A C R L . His first professional job was as teacher- librarian in the high school of Milltown, Wise., 1951-53. Mr. Gormley was born in Superior, Wise., and received his elementary education there. During World W a r II he served with the U. S. Maritime Service 1942-43 and in the U. S. Navy 1943-46. After the war he re- turned to Superior and was graduated from Wisconsin State College with a bachelor of science degree in 1951. He later did his graduate work in librarianship at the library school of the University of Denver, receiving his degree in August 1954. From September 1953 to June 1956 he was librarian of the senior high school in Janesville, Wise. Mr. Gormley's college and university li- brary experience has been in a variety of jobs at Colorado State University. He began his work there in 1956 as a special assistant li- brarian teaching upper-division and grad- uate courses in library science and serving as administrative assistant to the director of libraries, then James G. Hodgson. He be- came assistant to the director of libraries in 1957 and served as acting director of libraries in the late spring of that year. Since the appointment of LeMoyne Anderson as di- rector of libraries at Colorado State Uni- versity, he has worked closely with Mr. Anderson in nearly every area of the work of a rapidly expanding state university li- brary, and the merit of his work has been recognized in a steady series of promotions. He was named to his present position in the Colorado State University Library July 1, 1960. Mr. Gormley brings to the A C R L office and ALA Headquarters a new and different set of abilities that will supplement and complement the work done for our organi- zation by its three previous full-time execu- tive secretaries. He has already been widely active in associational work, not only for ALA but also for his state and regional associations. He has been a member of the executive board of the Colorado Library Association since 1958, was president of CLA 1959-60, and co-chairman of the pro- Everett T. Moore J U L Y 1 9 6 1 297 gram committee for the meeting of the Mountain Plains Library Association in 1959. In 1957-58 he was vice president of the Denver University School of Librarian- ship Alumni Association. In other ways too he has furthered the goals of college and university librarianship, particularly in var- ious radio and television programs promot- ing National Library Week. He is currently chairman of LAD's Recruiting Committee for Colorado. Mr. Gormley is married and the father of two children, a daughter of six and a son of two. His interests are not limited to librar- ianship but include history (even to an active interest in antique automobiles), gardening, fishing, golf, and ice skating. Mark Gormley will do a good job for A C R L and for ALA. It is a pleasure to be the spokesman for both of our organizations in welcoming him to this new stage of his library career.—Richard Harwell. S C O T T A D A M S has recently joined the staff of the National Library of Medicine in Washington, as deputy director. Adams served as chief of the acquisi- tions division of the old Army Medical Library in 1945-46, and from 1946 to 1950 he was its act- ing librarian. In 1950 he became librarian of the National In- stitutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and in 1956-58 was in charge of the N I H R u s s i a n S c i e n t i f i c Translation Program. During 1959-60 he served as Head of the Foreign Science In- formation Service of the National Science Foundation, and was instrumental in initiat- ing the P L 480 program of translations. Adams participated in the Library of Con- gress Mission to Germany in 1946. H e was president of the District of Columbia Library Association, 1948-49; a member of the board of directors of the Medical Library Associa- tion, 1952-53; secretary of the United States Book Exchange in 1953-54, and president of the American Documentation Institute in 1953-54. He served as co-editor of the issue of Library Trends which dealt with govern- ment libraries; he was co-editor of the Guide to Russian Medical Literature (1958), and has contributed notable articles to the library literature. Adams is a desultory collector of miscel- lanea, a hi-fi buff, and a neighborhood politi- cal activist in a campaign to forestall further zoning law changes. He is the proud father of a daughter now in her sophomore year at Smith College.—Frank B. Rogers K A R L I S L . O Z O L I N S has been appointed head librarian of Augsburg College and Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Min- nesota. H e assumed these duties in Sep- tember 1961. Mr. Ozolins was born in Riga, Latvia where he received his basic education. Be- f o r e c o m i n g t o America, he studied theology at the Uni- versity of Marburg, Germany from 1946- 49. In America, he received his B. A. at Augsburg College in 1951, B.Th. from the Augsburg Theological Seminary in 1952 and M. A. in Library Science from the University of Minnesota in 1961. At present he is completing his M. A. in Education at the University of Minnesota. Ozolins held a pastorate in Barronette, Wisconsin 1951-1955. He also taught re- ligion and classical languages at Augsburg College from 1955 to 1959 and was appointed Associate Librarian in 1959. Ozolins is a member of the A.L.A., M.L.A. and is at present chairman of the Reference Section of the M.L.A. C . D O N A L D C O O K has been appointed co- ordinator of cataloging, Columbia University Libraries, succeeding Altha E. Terry who will retire June 30, 1961. From 1952 to 1957 he held posts of increasing responsibility at Columbia, and since 1957 he has been assis- tant to the director of libraries. He served also as documents librarian at the United Na- tions in Geneva from 1947 to 1952, and as a Scott Adams 298 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 staff member of the Columbia School of Li- brary Service from 1953 to 1957. T h e ap- pointment of Mr. Cook to the position of coordinator of cataloging, new to Columbia, is a culmination of a five-year search for a person to maintain the high standards of cataloging developed by Harriet Prescott and Isadore G. Mudge, and carried on by Miss Terry with the encouragement and support of Constance M. Winchell. Appointments J U L I U S W . A L L E N , formerly assistant chief of the economics division in the legislative reference service, Library of Congress, is now chief of the economics division. E L M E R L. A N D E R S E N , who served recently as president of the Friends of the University Libraries at Minnesota, was elected Governor of the State of Minnesota in November. Gov- ernor Andersen, a long time book collector and friend of the university, has given as- surance of his continued deep interest in the library. S O L O M O N B E H A R , formerly a staff member of the San Francisco Public Library, is now working in the gifts division of the acquisi- tions department, General Library, Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. M R S . G R A C E J . B E R M I N G H A M , formerly as- sistant librarian, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University, is now librarian. G E O R G E S. B O B I N S K I is college librarian, State University of New York College of Ed- ucation, Cortland. E S T E L L E B R O D M A N , formerly assistant li- brarian for reference services, National Li- brary of Medicine, is now librarian and associate professor of medical history, Wash- ington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo. R E V . F R A N C I S K . C A N F I E L D , librarian at Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, Mich., was installed as president of the Catholic Li- brary Association at its 1961 Conference in St. Louis, April 4-7. His term of office will run 1961-1963. M A R Y C . C A R G I L L is serials catalog librar- ian, Emory University, Atlanta. K E N N E T H C. C R A M E R , formerly assistant reference librarian in the Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, N. H., is now in charge of the special collection at the United States Military Academy Library, West Point, N. Y. H E N R Y J . D U B E S T E R , chief of the general reference and bibliography division, Library of Congress, has been temporarily assigned to the office of the librarian to work on stud- ies of information retrieval. M A R I N E L L E H A R R I S , formerly a staff mem- ber of the University of Oklahoma Library, is now reference librarian, University of Iowa, Iowa City. E A R L E E N H O L L E M A N , formerly assistant to the archivist, University of Texas, is now reference librarian, Emory University, At- lanta. R O B E R T R . H O L M E S , formerly head of the east European accessions index project, Li- brary of Congress, is now assistant chief for operations in the subject cataloging division. M A R J O R I E R . H Y S L O P , formerly managing editor of Metal Progress, is now manager of documentation service, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, Ohio. R O B E R T L. K E E L , formerly librarian of the Huntsville Center, University of Alabama, is now circulation librarian in the Peabody College division, Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tenn. W I L L I A M G. K E R R , formerly director of four libraries in Morocco, North Africa, for the United States Air Force, Europe, is now in the readers advisory service at the United States Military Academy Library, West Point, N. Y. A N N E K I N C A I D is assistant head, Morrison Library, University of California, Berkeley. R O B E R T H. L A N D is acting chief of the gen- eral reference and bibliography division, Li- brary of Congress. A R D I S L O D G E , formerly assistant head of the reference department, University of Califor- nia Library, Los Angeles, is now head of that department. R O B E R T M E T Z D O R F , formerly associated J U L Y 1 9 6 1 299 with the Yale University Library, is now as- sistant vice president of Parke-Bernet Gal- leries in charge of its book department. Mr. Metzdorf will assume his new duties on July 15, 1961. P H I L L I P M O N Y P E N N Y , professor of political science, University of Illinois, has been ap- pointed director of the Survey and Standards for State Library Agencies. E V E R E T T H. N O R T H R O P (Lieutenant Com- mander, USMS), formerly acting librarian, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N. Y., is now librarian. J O H N A. P A R K L R , formerly librarian, Ca- tonsville Community College and Catonsville Senior High School, Catonsville, Md., is now the audio-visual librarian at the United States Military Academy Library, West Point, N. Y. J A C K P O O L E R , formerly engineering librar- ian, Stanford University, is now chief li- brarian of the science division and director of the technical information service. M R S . A L I C E W R I G H T P O R T E R is reference li- brarian in the physical sciences reading room of the Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. M A R T H A F. S C H M I T T is reference librarian, University of Oregon, Eugene. W I N I F R E D S E W E L L , formerly librarian of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, is now subject heading specialist in the index division, National Library of Medicine. I R W I N F. S I M P K I N S , formerly acting head of the business and industry department, Flint Public Library, is now science librarian, Emory University, Atlanta. N O R M A N D. S T E V E N S will serve as acting director, Howard University, Washington, D. C., during the temporary absence of Jo- seph H. Reason. J O H N M. S T R E C K E R , formerly order and as- sistant reference librarian, De Pauw Univer- sity, is now assistant chief of acquisitions, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis. T H O M A S E . S U L L I V A N , formerly chief of the catalog department, John Crerar Library, is now administrative assistant for indexing services with the H. W . Wilson Company. S H E R R Y T E R Z I A N , formerly librarian, Pru- dential Insurance Company, is now librarian, Neuropsychiatric Institute of California, Uni- versity of California Medical Center, Los Angeles. M R S . R A C H E L T H A Y E R , a staff member of the Lewis and Clark College Library, Port- land, Oregon, since 1946, is now assistant li- brarian. J O H N B . T U C K E R , formerly librarian of the public library in Oxford, Mass., is now in charge of interlibrary loans at the United States Military Academy Library, West Point, N. Y. G E O R G E V D O V I N , formerly head of the science division and director of the technical information service, Stanford University, is now head of Public services, University of California Library, San Diego, La Jolla. D A V I D C. W E B E R , formerly assistant direc- tor of the Harvard University Library and assistant librarian of Harvard College, is now assistant director of libraries, Stanford Uni- versity. H U B E R T H . W H I T L O W , J R . , formerly social sciences librarian, University of Georgia, is now reserve librarian, Emory University, At- lanta. Retirements M R S . G R A C E H . F U L L E R , head of the biblio- graphy and reference correspondence section of the general reference and bibliography division, Library of Congress, retired March 3. M R S . C A T H E R I N E G . G R E G G , Cyrillic biblio- graphic project, Library of Congress, retired March 17. E T H E L M. K I M B A L L , staff member in the descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress, has retired after thirty-one years of service. P H O E B E L U M A R E E , associate librarian, West- ern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, retired in June. H O W A R D M C G A W has resigned from the 300 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 directorship of the University of Houston Li- brary. T H E O D O R E A . M U E L L E R retired March 3 1 after more than thirty-one years of service as a cataloger in the fields of philosophy and religion in the Library of Congress. G E N E V I E V E F . R Y A N retired March 3 1 after fifty years of service in the catalog depart- ment of the Library of Congress. M R S . M A R I E S A M A N I S K Y , senior librarian in the catalog department, University of Min- nesota, resigned January 10 after nearly twenty-three years on the library stalf. M R S . H E L E N G E O R G E S E N O U R , head of the acquisitions and binding department of the Oberlin (Ohio) College Library, will retire August 31 after nearly thirty-two years of distinguished service in this position. Necrology E L I Z A B E T H F O X C R O F T C A R R , librarian of the medical school, Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., died February 19. W I N N I F R E D A. C H A P M A N , a staff member of the Library of Congress from 1939 to 1954, died on March 13 at the age of seventy-three. A L I C E J O H N S O N , reference librarian and as- sistant professor of library science emerita, University of Illinois, Urbana, died March 4 after a brief illness. S I D N E Y K R A M E R , internationally known and respected librarian and bookman, died April 25 at the age of forty-nine. Before the establishment of his Washington bookstore in 1946, Mr. Kramer held various positions with Columbia University Library, Library of Congress, and Arizona State College Li- brary. A N G U S S N E A D M A C D O N A L D , international au- thority on library architecture, died February 22 at the age of seventy-seven. J O H N E A R L M O R R I S , senior reference librar- ian, University of Oregon, Eugene, died March 28. M R S . L. Q U I N C Y M U M F O R D , wife of the Li- brarian of Congress and children's librarian at the New York Public Library until 1932, died April 25. Foreign Libraries E R W I N A C K E R K N E C H T , director of the Schil- ler-National-Museum, Marbach, died August 24, 1960. G E O R G E C O L L O N , librarian of the Biblio- thfeque de Tours, died in 1960. R E V . A L B A N D O L D , director of the Pal- impsest Institut, Beuron, died last Septem- ber at the age of seventy-eight. W E R N E R D U X , formerly of the Deutsche Biicherei, Leipzig, is now director of the li- brary of the Technische Hochschule, Dresden. C U R T F L E I S C H H A C K , director of the Deutsche Biicherei, Leipiz, retired January 31. R A Q U E L F L O R E S is reference librarian, In- stitute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama, Guatemala City. MAX FRANK, formerly director of the Zen- tralbibliothek im Haus der Ministerien, Ber- lin, is director of the Landesbibliothek, Go- tha. H . A. H O W E L E R retired from the librarian- ship of the Free University of Amsterdam on November 1, 1960. G E R H A R D P A C H N I C K E is director of the Uni- versitatsbibliothek, Jena. M A R Y M A U D S M E L S E R , who was associated with the library staff of the University of Kansas for fifty consecutive years, died Octo- ber 26, 1960. T A K O A S U Z U K I , formerly secretary-general of the House of Representatives of the Jap- anese Diet, is now chief librarian of the Na- tional Diet Library, Tokyo. J U L Y 1 9 6 1 301 A Wary Eye to the Future: A Message from A C R U s President Like the proverbial iceberg, ACRL is mostly below the surface. It is more than its officers, its office at ALA Headquarters, its miniature budget, or its Executive Sec- retary. It consists, first, of all of thousands of librarians hard at work on the job, each doing the work of two, each keeping a cautious and wary eye on the future; it consists of its publications—College and Re- search Libraries, the monographs, the books and journal arti- cles its members write; it consists of its standing and ad hoc committees laboring on special problems; it consists of the dol- lars, from grants, being used to enrich the book collections of private colleges and universities; and it consists of a point of view and of many unsolved problems. T h e uneasy equilibrium within the ALA family, created by the reorganization, worries many of us and worries me partic- ularly. At home we do not glorify our operations as ends in themselves but only as a means to the kind of library service our kinds of libraries expect. This relationship should reflect itself in our national organization—ALA. But Gresham's law may operate here; the function may weaken the form and thus become an end in itself. Administration, technical processes, the building, the reference services are our servants, not our mas- ters. They have no meaning in themselves. But when they are blended in the right proportions to serve the purposes of a specific library they make sense. Freed of this central guidance, their practioners may lose their sense of proportion and the pur- suit of only a part of the whole can become a kind of professional madness. This is no less true of a national organization than of a specific library. Many of us feel that the dignity of our profession is being offended by the Madi- son Avenue tone of too many of ALA's central activities. We are not merchants, and we have nothing to sell. We belong to the Academic Community. Learning and scholarship are our being. Let us think about these problems clearly and carefully, without, at the same time, allowing ourselves to become embroiled again in organizational disputes. All of us are tired of that. We are college and university librarians because we want to be college and university librarians. Let us work to make ALA an organization that we are proud to have represent us and which we are proud to represent. Richard Harwell has done his turn of duty for us, and we are grateful to him. It is good that he can again become a librarian. Mark Gormley will also be an ex- cellent executive secretary. Be patient while he learns the intricacies of the office. Ed Low has agreed to carry on the program for Federal help to college and uni- versity libraries that he started last year. This itself is a test of the efficiency of ALA in representng our interests as academic librarians, for within ALA's structure furtherance of this program must be channeled, not through ACRL, but through the Federal Relations Committee of the Section on Governmental Relations of the Library Administration Division. We are counting on him to perform miracles!— Ralph E. Ellsworth, ACRL President. Ralph E. Ellsworth 302 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 Elections and Appointments KA T H A R I N E M. S T O K E S , librarian of West-ern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, becomes v i c e - p r e s i d e n t a n d p r e s i d e n t elect of A C R L at the close of ALA's C l e v e l a n d Confer- ence. She will be the first person to serve as president of two of the major divi- sions of ALA since its r e o r g a n i z a t i o n . She was president of the Library Admin- i s t r a t i o n Division 1958-59. Miss Stokes was nominated by ACRL's Nominating Com- mittee to run against Howard McGaw of Houston, T e x . Mr. McGaw withdrew his nomination in April (too late for the nom- ination of another candidate) because of his resignation as director of libraries at the University of Houston. T h e new A C R L vice-president has been librarian at Western Michigan since 1948. She received her college degree from Sim- mons College in 1928 and her degrees in librarianship (both the M.A. and the Ph.D.) from the University of Michigan in 1945 and 1949. She has been active in the work of ALA, A C R L , and LAD and in that of the library association in each of the states where she has lived. She has been an officer of the Pennsylvania Library Association, editor of the Illinois Library Association's ILA Record, and editor of the Michigan Librarian. D I R E C T O R Jack E. Brown, chief librarian of the Li- brary of the National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont., won over Felix E. Hirsch, li- brarian of Trenton State College, Trenton, N. J., in the single contest for a post as director-at-large (1961-65) on the division's board of directors. Mr. Brown is well known to Canadian librarians because of his ex- tensive work in the last few years in develop- ing Canadian library service. S E C T I O N O F F I C E R S T h e new vice-chairmen and chairmen elect of ACRL's six sections will be Charles M. Adams, librarian of the Woman's Col- lege, University of North Carolina, Greens- boro, for the College Libraries Section; Vir- ginia Clark, reference librarian of Wright Junior College, Chicago, 111., for the Junior College Libraries Section; Richard H. Archer, librarian of the Chapin Library of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., for the Rare Books Section; Jay K. Lucker, chief of the Department of Science and Technology of the Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J., for the Subject Specialists Section; Ervin Eatenson, librarian of the science-technology libraries of San Jose State College, San Jose, Calif., for the Teacher Education Libraries Section; and David Kaser, director of the Joint Univer- sity Libraries, Nashville, Tenn., for the Uni- versity Libraries Section. Secretaries were elected this year in only four of six sections. They are Esther Greene, librarian of Barnard College, New York, N. Y., for the College Libraries Section; Mrs. Avis R . Stopple, librarian of Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, Calif., for the Junior College Libraries Section; Han- nah D. French, research librarian at Welles- ley College, Wellesley, Mass., for the Rare Books Section; and Louise J . Markel, library supervisor at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge, Tenn., for the Subject Specialists Section. C O M M I T T E E A P P O I N T M E N T S New committee appointments by in-com- ing president Ralph Ellsworth include: Leslie W. Dunlap and John P. McDonald to the Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Other Educational and Professional Organizations. Lorena Garloch has accepted reappointment as chairman of this com- mittee. Richard Harwell and Mr. Kaser to the Committee on Grants. Richard Morin is the new chairman of this committee, and Humphrey G. Bousfield will continue to serve as consultant for it. Katharine M. Stokes J U L Y 1 9 6 1 303 LeMoyne Anderson, Elliott Hardaway, Gustave A. Harrer, J o e H . Howard, Roy L . Kidman, William R . Pullen, and Katherine Walker to the Committee on National Li- brary Week. Mr. H a r r e r will serve as chair- man of this committee. Frances Kennedy and G. Flint Purdy to the Committee on Organization. Mr. Purdy is the new chairman of this committee. Dale Barker and Paul Freisner to the Committee on Standards. Mr. Hirsch has accepted reappointment as the chairman of this committee. Henry C. Koch and Carl Sachtlaben to the Publications Committee. Will Ready has agreed to continue as chairman of this com- mittee. Mrs. Margaret K. T o t h has been reap- pointed editor of the A C R L Microcard Series. T h e terms of Maurice F. T a u b e r as editor of CRL and William V. Jackson as editor of the A C R L Monographs do not expire this year. Mr. Jackson has appointed the following to the editorial board for the Monographs: Donald Coney, Mr. Dunlap, Eileen T h o r n t o n , and Stanley West. T h e composition of the editorial boards for the other A C R L publications is unchanged. As a special committee, the Advisory Com- mittee T o Administer the Burmese projects remains as before: Robert B. Downs, chair- man; Paul H . Bixler, William S. Dix, and L . Quincy Mumford. President Low recently announced the appointment of a special Advisory Commit- tee to the President on Federal Legislation. Mr. Low will serve as chairman of this com- mittee during Mr. Ellsworth's administration. Other members of the commitee are Lewis C. Branscomb, Mr. Downs, Frederick G. Kil- gour, Richard H . Logsdon, and Stephen A. McCarthy. T h e current Committee on Appointments and Nominations will complete its work at the Cleveland Conference. T h e new vice- president and president elect will make his appointments to this committee later in the year. A C R L ' s Budget Committee is wholly ex- officio, consisting of the division's three prin- cipal officers and its executive secretary. Mr. Low will be chairman for 1961-62, and i Mark Gormley will replace Mr. Harwell. Any additional divisional committee ap- pointments will be announced after the Cleveland Conference. Appointments to sec- tional committees will be made by the new chairmen of the sections later in the year O'Shaughnessy Library (Continued from page 266) its book collections. There are also lo- cated in the stacks a book lift, an eleva- tor, and a depressible receiving book truck for the outside book depository. There are some special artistic features of O'Shaughnessy Library which should be pointed out. On the outside of the building are to be found carvings of the coats-of-arms of the archbishop and bish- ops of the diocese. These were prepared by Brioschi Studios of St. Paul. Over the campus entrance is a statue of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians, sculptured by Joseph Kiselewski of New York. An in- teresting feature of the building is a series of stained-glass medallions made by Pichel Studios of Waukesha, Wis. Throughout the building these medal- lions, inserted in casement windows, depict various authors, literary figures, the saints of the church, explorers, found- ers of religious orders, areas of the cur- riculum, and coats-of-arms. O'Shaughnessy Library has been in use now for over a year and we have discov- ered no serious flaw in the over-all plan and operation of our new building. We have found it remarkably adaptable to our changing needs. There have been many willing hands and minds available in the planning of this new library build- ing and St. Thomas is grateful to all of them, but especially the college is pro- foundly grateful to Mr. O'Shaughnessy who brought to reality this dream of former librarians and presidents. 304 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