College and Research Libraries AcQUISITIONS, CoLLECTIONS, GIFTS FIRST EDITIONS numbering some five hun- dred and fifty mystery and detective fiction works have been given to Occidental Col- lege library, Los Angeles, as the beginning of the Guymon Collection which eventually may reach ten thousand volumes. The giver was E. T. Guymon of San Diego. AN ADDITIONAL three hundred volumes has been presented to Sonoma State College li- brary by the donor of a recent gift of ten thousand volumes. The additions are all examples of the binders' art. A GREAT NUMBER of original manuscripts of Charles and Kathleen Norris have been added to the 1954 gift of Mrs. Norris to the Stanford (Calif.) University libraries. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE library has re- ceived a collection of books and manuscripts and a painting relating to Robert Burns, · from W. Atlee Burpee of Philadelphia. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has received manuscripts and pictorial material of Cleve- land Abbe and other members of the Abbe family, through the generosity of Petrina Shea of Washington, D.C. News of this ac- quisition by LC prompted the Archivist of the United States to transfer to LC a collec- tion of the meteorologist's personal papers which had been sent to the National Ar- chives by the Weather Bureau in 1944. The whole collection now comprises some fifty- five hundred items. THE OswALD VEBLEN papers--some twelve thousand documents--have been acquired by the Library of Congress through the gen- erosity of Mrs. Veblen. SouTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's Morris li- brary has acquired a collection of some thousand items of British War Office ma- terial of a century or more ago. ART CATALOGs--about seventeen hundred of them-have been given to the North- western University libraries at Evanston, Ill., by Benjamin K. Smith of Winnetka. A CIRCUS COLLECTION has been acquired by the Illinois State Normal University's Milner library. Approximately twenty-two thousand books, manuscripts, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, route books, periodicals and letters are in the group. SEPTEMBER 1963 News from the Field THE MEDICAL LIBRARY at University of Louisville has received the manuscript lec- tures delivered at the medical department of the university by Lunsford Pitts Yandell II during the 1870's, and three volumes of students' notes taken at the lectures, the gift of Lunsford Pitts Yandell IV. Mr. Yandell also loaned to the library a scrapbook kept by his great-great-grandfather, Lunsford Pitts Yandell I, with newspaper clippings concerning the medical school in the 1830's and '40's. THE JULES M. BURGUIERES sugar collection of some thirty-five hundred volumes has been given anonymously to the Louisiana State University libraries, Baton Rouge . Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias~ a thirteen volume set by Alexandre and Am- broise Verschafellt, has been donated to the Louisiana State University libraries by the daughter of E. A. Mcilhenny, who published an English translation of the work. RECENT GIFTS to the Detroit Public li- brary from John S. Newberry include an illuminated Parisian missal and an ·English law book, both of the fourteenth century; a self-portrait by Kate Greenaway; a collection of first editions of G . B. Shaw, works con- taining contributions by him and about him and some memorabilia; a collection of first editions and books or periodicals con- taining contributions by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan; and eighteen first edi- tions of works by Willa Cather. A COLLECTION of books, manuscripts; and other materials by and about Adolph Bolm, ballet dancer and choreographer, has been given to the Syracuse University library by Mrs. Beatrice Bolm of Hollywood, Calif. NINETEENTH CENTURY gift books and peri- odicals have been donated to Ohio State University libraries in Columbus by C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr., of Detroit. The collection comprises some two hundred and fifty items. A coPY of the first American edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; copies of James Thurber's works; and unrevised proofs and a first edition of Nelson Algren's Man with the Golden Arm have been ac- quired by the Ohio State University libraries, Columbus. 409 AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES has grant- ed $12,650 to University of California library, San Diego, for research in computerization of periodical records. DoYcE NuNis, director of the UCLA li- brary's oral history program has been award- ed a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1963-64, to pursue studies of the American West from 1800-1840. HARVEY MuDD CoLLEGE, Claremont, Calif., has been granted $5,000 by the Council on Library Resources to investigate the possi- bility of establishing a science library and information center in Claremont. CouNCIL ON LIBRARY REsouRcEs has awarded a contract in the amount of $51,- 274 to Carson Laboratories in Bristol, Conn., for research and demonstration of optical techniques which would appear to offer de- sirable information about storage and re- trieval possibilities. THE UNITED STATES D EPARTMENT OF AG- RICULTURE's Distinguished Service Award was presented to Foster E. Mohrhardt, direc- tor of the National Agricultural library, on May 17. THE AMERICAN BAR AssociATION has re- ceived a grant of $35,000 from the Council on Library Resources to aid a study of auto- mated indexing of court decisions. ST. PROCOPIUS CoLLEGE, Lisle, Ill., has received $46,000 from four Chicago lodges of the Catholic Central Union to be used for the Center of Slav Culture of the new library under construction. ALBERTA WILSON SERVER, professor of ro- mance languages at the University of Ken- tucky, Lexington, has pledged $ 15,000 for the establishment of a center for the study of Mexican culture. The fund will be known, in honor of Dr. Server's mother, as the Lou Emma Wilson Mexicana fund, and interest will be used to buy current and past books and manuscripts on Mexico for the university library. MARGARET ANN EuBANK of Baltimore, Md. , has been awarded the LBI scholarship of $1 ,000 for 1963. KALAMAZOO (Mich.) COLLEGE has been awarded $ 100,000 from the Calder Founda- tion for its library building fund. CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY's College of Physi- cians and Surgeons medical library fund has been augmented by a gift of $200,000 from the John and Mary Markle Foundation. BuRLINGTON INDUSTRIES FouNDATION has granted $26,000 to North Carolina State Col- lege school of textiles for library expansion. WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY has received four grants for its Center for Documenta- tion and Communications, totaling $312,956, by the National Institutes of Health, USOE, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. A fifth grant to Western Reserve, for library ex- pansion, in the amount of $ 10,000, was made by the George W. Codrington Chari- table Foundation. THE RICHARD KING MELLON FouNDATION h as awarded $50,000 to Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, for support of the library. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH has been grant- ed $29,443 by the Council on Library Re- sources for searching statuatory law by com- puter. HoUSTON ENDOWMENT has given $10,000 toward purchase of the Kemp collection of Texana for the University of Texas library, Austin. THE M EDICAL LIBRARY AssoCIATION pre- sented its Marcia C. Noyes award to Dr. Stanislaw Konopka, director of the Central Medical library of the Ministry of Health, Warsaw, Poland. BuiLDINGS DoMINICAN CoLLEGE OF SAN RAFAEL dedi- cated its new Archbishop Alemany library in May. The building will accommodate one- third of a student body of one thousand, and has stack space for one hundred thou- sand volumes. Seminar rooms, listening rooms, faculty reading room, typing cubi- cles, curriculum materials collection, audio- visual materials, and microform materials are provided for in the new building. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, . Tempe, is starting work on a new library building to house one million volumes, recently ap- proved for construction. TRINITY CoLLEGE in Washington, D .C., dedicated its new library building at the end of May. The building will accommodate 554 readers and 178,000 volumes. NoRTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY's transporta- tion center library, Evanston, Ill., was dedi- cated early in May. The four-thousand - square-foot building to pro~ide reader serv- 410 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ices was made possible by a grant from Gen- eral Motors Corporation. NoTRE DAME · (Ind.) UNIVERSITY has re- ceived a grant of $ 100,000 towards its new library building from the Kresge Founda- tion. CLARK UNIVERSITY, Worcester, Mass., has started planning the construction of a new library building. TuFTs UNIVERSITY, Medford, Mass., has selected a plan for its projected new library building, and has announced that construc- tion is to begin soon. SPRING ARBOR (Mich.) CoLLEGE broke ground in April for its new library building. KALAMAzoo (Mich.) CoLLEGE has an- nounced that it will start construction of a new library building to house a quarter-mil- lion volumes and seat seven hundred fifty persons. HASTINGS (Neb.) CoLLEGE dedicated its new Perkins Memorial library building in May. The Charles A. Dana Foundation has granted $400,000 to DARTMOUTH CoLLEGE, Hanover, N.H., to construct a medical and biological library. METHODIST CoLLEGE, Fayetteville, N.C. in June began construction of its first library building. The building will cost a projected $430,000 and will house some fifty thousand volumes. Avalon Foundation has given $50,000 to the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA school of dentistry toward construction of a library. UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, Kingston, will complete its new library building in 1964. The two million dollar structure be- gun last year will have seating capacity for eight hundred readers and space for four hundred fifty thousand volumes. Houston Endowment has given $25,000 to TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL CoLLEGE, Lubbock, for the construction of a library building. Calder Foundation has given $ 10,000 to LAWRENCE CoLLEGE, Appleton, Wis. , for · a library addition. MISCELLANY UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Extension Center at Birmingham is offering a course in hos- pitallibrarianship this autumn. A Union List of Periodicals in Libraries of Southern California has been compiled and published by the Southern California SEPTEMBER 1963 chapter of the Special Libraries Association. TuLANE UNIVERSITY library has established a Latin American library. Some eighty thou- sand volumes from the Middle American Re- search Institute collection at Tulane has been combined with recent acquisitions on Latin America to provide a social studies collection. Scientific and literary holdings as well as legal and medical holdings will be maintained separately. BosToN UNIVERSITY's College of Industrial Technology having moved to a central lo- cation, its library collection is now located in Chenery library and the business and economics library. A COLLECTION of graphic materials de- scriptive of more than one hundred recent- ly constructed library buildings in colleges and universities of the United States is available from Harold D. Jones of 36 Clark St., Brooklyn I, N.Y. Omo LIBRARY FouNDATION has been or- ganized as a nonprofit corporation under the auspices of the Library Section of the Ohio College Association, the Ohio Library Association, and the Ohio Association of School Librarians, and Ohio Library Trus- tees Association. It is authorized to accept gifts, grants, or bequests. PuBLICATION of a union list of serials for the Philadelphia area has been arranged by the executive board of the Philadelphia chapter of Special Libraries Association. Literature Service Associates of Bound Brook, N.J., will distribute the list. AN EVENING COURSE in search strategy Will be conducted at Drexel Institute of Tech- nology, Philadelphia, this autumn . Content of the course will be nearly the same as a full time course offered previously in Drexel's Graduate School of Library Science. THE FIRST ANNUAL VOLUME of British Technology Index was published in July, by the Library Association. It covers the sub- ject content of some four hundred British technical journals published in 1962. Vocabularium Bibliothecarii, a multi- lingual glossary of library terminology, lists by subject more than three thousand library terms in English with equivalents in four other languages--French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Intended to facilitate interna- tional exchanges of library materials, it was published in May by UNESCO at Paris. • • 411 Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, Inc. IT WAS DURING a driving shower that mem- bers of the recently expanded Association of Research Libraries, Inc., gathered for their sixty-second meeting at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Chi- cago, at 2 P.M. on Saturday, July 13. Inclem- ent weather, however, kept few people away; attendance was high. The topic for the session, which was de- veloped through a panel discussion, was "The Relationship of University Libraries to Off-Campus Patrons, with Particular Em- phasis on Commercial and Industrial Re- search." Three working papers, (1) "Meet ing the Library Needs of Industry," by Rob- ert H. Muller, University of Michigan, (2) "Off-Campus Library Service by Private U ni- versities," by absentee David Weber, Stan- ford University, and (3) "The Off-Campus Research Facility and Its Library," by James C. Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, had been distributed to members beforehand and had apparently been carefully read by some, if not all, persons present. Donald Coney, University of California at Berkeley, served as moderator. The working papers were summarized by their authors, and a vigorous discussion en- sued, quieting earlier fears that a larger membership of the association might reduce participation in floor activities. It appeared to be rather generally con- ceded that, as much as research libraries would like to be able to furnish the serv- ices and materials needed by outside agen- cies, they cannot do so to the detriment of the service they are obliged to render to their home constituencies. This was gen- erally accepted as fact regardless of wheth- er the research library is private or public or of whether the requesting agency is de- signed to profit, or is nonprofit. Much discussion was devoted to the de- sirability of establishing some kind of stand- ard fee basis for the entire country whereby · outside agencies could purchase access to re- search libraries, but there was no consensus. It was pointed out that in the absence of sound management data and because of widely various local circumstances, a stand- ard fee would be difficult to establish. Such fees as are presently being assessed by some libraries are not based upon cost of service; they are rather "nuisance" charges which serve to keep outside demands to a workable minimum. There was discussion of a screening and referring mechanism designed to get re- quests into the libraries most appropriate to the service needed, but again there was no unanimity except that the best such screen is a competent librarian working in an industrial library. Reference was made to England's recently established National Science Lending Library at Boston Spa and to several state plans recently inaugurated or laid out in this country. It was pointed out that some advanced services to industry are available for a fee through the science and technology division of the Library of Congress and other libraries which are equipped to act as national reference centers. The ARL devoted its evening session to business old and new. Chairman Robert Vosper, University of California at Los Angeles, reported that: 1) The Executive-Secretary, James E. Skip- per, will attend the IFLA meeting at Sofia, Bulgaria, in September. 2) The association: has a direct interest and will be active in the work of the recently established Commission on the Humani- ties. 3) Stephen McCarthy, Cornell, and David Kaser, Joint University Libraries, will participate in December in the annual pr9gram of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, discussing the relationship between the graduate school and the research library. L. Quincy Mumford, Library of Congress, reported anticipating an expansion of the searching service of the National Union Catalog. Donald F. Cameron, Rutgers, com- mented upon visiting foreign librarians. The membership approved unanimously a mo- tion to extend invitations to membership in the association to the Linda Hall and Huntington libraries. Chairman Vosper an- nounced the appointment of a new Com- mittee on Automation, to be chaired by Herman Fussier, University of Chicago. Charles Gosnell, New York University, re- ported for the Joint Committee on Copy- right.-D.K. •• 412 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES FoRREST F. CARHART, JR., son of a cata- loger and husband of a school librarian, the new director of the American Library Association's Library Technology Project, brings to his position the understanding, knowledge, and devo- tion gained through a varied, profitable library heritage and career. Forrest F. Car- hart, Jr., had his first library work experi- ence as a page in the public library at Des Moines, Iowa. The Mr. Carhart advancement from this position to the directorship of one of the profession 's most dramatic projects is a mark of his achievements. A graduate of Drake University, Mr. Car- hart received both an AB and AM in library science from the University of Michi- gan. He has served that institution's library in several capacities and has been president of its library school alumni association. Mr. Carhart has also been on the library staff of the University of West Virginia, Iowa State College, and the University of Denver. He was assistant director of the library of the University of Denver from 1949 through 1952. From his position as staff librarian at the Air Force Personnel Training Research Cen- ter at Lackland Air Force Base, Mr. Carhart went to the newly established Air Force Academy as deputy librarian and director of the public service division. Here he estab- lished and organized the library program first at its headquarters in Denver and then at its permanent site near Colorado Springs. Imagination, decisiveness, and persever- ance are only a few of the characteristics which admirably fit Mr. Carhart for his new position. His friendliness is reflected by the loyalty of his friends throughout the coun- try; his ability is reflected by his accomplish- ments; his professionalism has led him to the presidency of the Chicago Library Club, the Colorado Library Association, and the Institutional Research Council, Inc. SEPTEMBER 1963 Personnel Mr. Carhart brings to his new position not only these characteristics and the qualifica- tions of his education and experience, but also the good wishes and respect of his co1- 1eagues.-Donald E. Wright. GEORGE M. BAILEY's friends, and he has a legion, will be delighted to know that he has accepted the position of executive sec- · retary of ACRL. Al- though still young, George has already had an interesting and varied career. He will bring to ACRL a warm and friendly personality, experience in several phases of library work, and the ability to work hard and diligently at any task to which he applies Mr. Bailey himself. Born on a farm in the hilly country north of Baltimore, Mr. Bailey spent a year in business college in Baltimore shortly after graduation from high school. Later, setting his sights in a more scholarly direction, he went to Franklin and Marshall College, Lan- caster, Pa., where he graduated with a BA in history in June of 1946. The next year he took an MA in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. He then taught history at Franklin and Marshall College for a year, and in 1948 traveled to Wisconsin, notable for its strong history de- partment, where he did additional graduate work in history and also served as an in- structor in history. In 1952 he transferred to Rachel Schenk's University of Wisconsin library school, and graduated with an MA in LS in August of 1953. His first position was as administrative intern to the univer- sity librarian, University of California, Berkeley. He also served for one year as a reference librarian in the social sciences reference service of the Berkelt;y library. In 1955 he came to the University of California library, Davis, as a reference librarian and was quickly promoted to head of the reference department, a job which 413 he handled with skill and diligence. Dur- ing his residence in Davis, George partici- pated actively in civic affairs and was par- ticularly successful in heading a fund drive for the local public library. He was admired and respected by the faculty and students of the Davis campus and his colleagues on the library staff, who regretted his departure for Northwestern University where he has been serving since 1959 as chief of refer- ence and special services. All through his career, Mr. Bailey has been very active in library association work, contributing articles to professional peri- odicals. During his residence in California, he held several important committee as- signments in the California Library Asso- ciation and did very useful work as chair- man of the Documents Committee and the Conference Exhibits Committee. He has also been an eager supporter of the ALA, serving as chairman of the History Section of RSD, chairman of SORT and on various committees. In addition, he has served as membership chairman of the Illinois Library Association and as president of the Wiscon- sin Library School Alumni Association. There are many problems facing ACRL. George M. Bailey, with his enthusiasm and devotion to work, will undoubtedly be able to solve many of them .-]. Richard Blan- chard. LAURENCE J. KIPP, who has been asso- ciated with the Harvard University library system since 1948, was recently appointed librarian of the Bak- er library of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administra- tion. A native of North Dakota, Mr. Kipp received his A.B. from State Teachers College m Valley City, N.D., his A.M. from the University Mr. Kipp of Colorado and his library science de- gree from the University of Illinois in 1941. He served as librarian of Eureka College in 1941-1942 before a tour of duty with the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. On his return to civilian life, Mr. Kipp served as special assistant and assistant ex- ecutive director of the American Book Cen- ter for War-devastated Libraries before join- ing the Harvard staff 'in 1948 as assistant to the director of the Harvard University library. From 1951 to 1954, he held the po- sition of chief of loan services, Harvard Col- lege library and in 1954 he went to the business school where he has served as as- sistant, associate and acting librarian. Larry has played an active role in pro- fessional library developments on state, na- tional, and international levels. He recently served as a member of the Council of the American Library Association, as chairman of the International Relations Round Table, and he has been active in the work of the Intellectual Freedom Committee. His professional writings include many articles and re:views, and he has served as consultant to universities, foundations and government agencies. His report on Inter- national Exchange of Publications, pub- lished in 1950, was based on a survey made for the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation under the direction of the Library of Congress. 1961 saw the publication of Indian Li- braries and the India Wheat Loan Educa- tional Program, a report by Larry and his wife, Cecilia R. Kipp, based on their year of advisory work with university libraries in India. This assignment was a natural follow- up to their work in directing the Interna- tional Relations Committee's program for Indian librarians in this country. The Kipps not only supervised the pro- fessional aspects of these tours but made their Lexington home a sort of international house where cordial hospitality contributed to international understanding. The Baker library of nearly four hundred thousand volumes and a staff of fifty serves the needs of the business school community and has developed services to alumni, asso- ciates of the school and-with limitations-- to businessmen and business interests. Larry has, for some nine years, contributed to the developing of these resources and services. This strong background of experience, coupled with a wide reading background, in- cisive intellectual curiosity, and administra- 414 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES tive ability augur well for the continued development of the Baker library under Larry's leadership.-Philip ]. McNiff. RoNALD V. GLENs has been appointed di- rector of libraries, Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y. Mr. Glens has been executive secretary of the Reference Services Division of ALA; before coming to ALA headquarters in June of 1960 he was general librarian at the University of Idaho library, Moscow. In 1956-57 he was on the staff of the William Allen White library at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and he was librarian of the Bread Loaf campus library at Middle- bury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1955. Mr. Glens received his baccalaureate from Kansas State University, Manhattan, in 1952, and his master's degree in library science at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia. ELLSWORTH MASON, newly appointed di- rector of libraries at Hofstra University fol- lowing six years of distinguished service as librarian and lectur- er in English at Colo- rado College, is one of the really great academic librarians in the group that will, within the next few years, be run- ning our large uni- versity libraries. Dr. Mason earned his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale and learned his librarian- ship in the refer- Dr. Mason ence room at Yale, Montana State College, and at the University of Wyoming. He was a machinist mate in the United States CB's during World War II. He has written more than a dozen schol- arly articles in the · field of modern litera- ture, and three books on James Joyce. He has also made many professional contribu- tions in the form of committee assignments and publications. He is a member of the editorial board of the new college-level book selection service. Those of us who have worked with him rejoice in the power of his incisive, critical observations. His ability to apply his fine SEPTEMBER 1963 scholarliness to the field of literature and to the problems of librarianship with equal attention bespeak the quality of his mind and his sincerity. His pleasure in attacking humbug and careless thinking is a delight to watch. During his six years at Colorado College he increased the growth of the library many fold, he brought several important collec- tions to the library, he gathered a new staff, brought a new library building (and this, by the way, is one of the best planned col- lege library buildings in the United States) into existence, and became one of the most active members of the Colorado Library Association. He is the ideal librarian for Hofstra at a time when it is increasing its size and stat- ure rapidly and solidly. His influence will soon be felt all along the Atlantic coast. He is, incidentally, a very sharp poker play- er.-Ralph Ellsworth. DR. FRANK B. RoGERS became professor of medical bibliography at the University of Colorado medical center on August 31. He had been director of the National Library of Medicine since 1949. A native of Nor- wood, Ohio, he re- ceived his bachelor's degree from Yale University, his medi- cal degree from 0 hio State University and his master's degree in library science from Columbia Uni- versity. A former Dr. Rogers colonel in the medical department of the United States army, he served as instructor in the army's Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., during World War II, and took part in the Luzon campaign in the Philippines. After the war, he spent two years in Ja- pan, and a year as resident in surgery at Walter Reed Hospital; in 1948 he joined the staff of the Army Medical library. Dr. Rogers just completed his term of office as president of the Medical Library Associa- tion. 415 KENNETH E. TooMBS became director of libraries and professor of library science at the University of Southwestern Louisiana on July I. He has been assistant director of ' libraries at Louisi- ana State University since 1962. A native of Colo- nial Heights, Va., Toombs received an A.A. degree from Tennessee Wesleyan College, the B.A. de- gree from Tennes- see Polytechnic In- Mr. Toombs stitute, an M.A. de- gree from the Uni- ~ersity of_ Virginia, and an M.S. degree in hbrary science from Rutgers University. Toombs joined the LSU library staff as chief circulation librarian in 1956. In 1958 he became special assistant to the director and from 1958 to 1962 served as head of the social science division. A consultant on moving libraries, Toombs planned and directed the consolidation 'and move of the university library to a new building in 1958. He was an instructor in the_ lib~ary school in 1961. He has been very ac~Ive m the State Library Association as editor of the Bulletin; 1959-62 and parlia- mentarian during 1962-1963. From 1946 to 1947 Mr. Toombs served w~t~ _the _Dnited States Army 88th Infantry DIVISIOn m Italy, and with the Signal Corps from 1951 to 1953. Before joining the LSU staff, Toombs was a reference assistant at the Alderman li- brary at the University of Virginia, and he was a research assistant in the graduate school of library service at Rutgers Uni- versity. Since coming to Louisiana he has been active in professional organizations at the state, regional and national levels. Mr. To~mbs has advanced rapidly in the pro- fessiOn. The University of Southwestern L~u~siana has wisely chosen a young ad- ~mistrator, well qualified in library educa- ~IOn and experience, to ably oversee a rap- Idly expanding university library. He is a man whose fine personal qualities make him an asset to the state and to the library com- munity, where he has made many friends.- T. N. McMullan. EGoN A. WEISS has been appointed librar- ian of the United States Military Academy. Mr. Weiss has been associated with the USMA library since 1958 as assistant li- brarian and subse- quent to Sidney For- man's resignation in July 1962 as acting librarian. Before be- coming associated with the military academy, Mr. Weiss served as branch di- rector for the Brook- line, Mass., public Mr. Weiss library. Mr. Weiss holds academic degrees from Harvard (A.B.-eco- nomics), Boston University (M.A.-Ger- manic languages and literature) and Sim- mons College (M.S.-library science). His active service during World War II included assignments as radio operator-gun- ner and aerial gunnery instructor, and over- seas duties in intelligence as prisoner-of-war interrogator and subsequently, as member of the De-Nazification Branch of the Public Safety Division, Office of Military Govern- ment (Germany). Mr. Weiss has continued his affiliation with army reserve affairs and currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel as chief of the special functions division in the 356th Civil Affairs Area Headquarters "B" in New York City. Mr. Weiss is a member of ALA and ACRL an.d serves on the Program Advisory Com- mittee to the Office of the Chief of Military History. His activities include the military librarians workshops as well as the South- eastern (New York) Library Resources Council. APPOINTMENTS GERALDINE AMos has been appointed head ca~alo?er at the Federal library at Lagos, Nigena. She has been with Dillard Univer- sity library, New Orleans. . JoHN K. AMRHEIN has been appointed as- Sistant reference librarian at Pennsylvania State University, State College. 416 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MRS. ANN ANDREW is now a member of the rare books department staff at Univer- sity of Toronto library. ·MRS. LILLIAN DICKENSON ANDERTON has been appointed head reference librarian at American River Junior College, Sacramento, Calif. WILLIAM BETCHER began work in the reference department at the University of Pittsburgh library in June. MRS. LOis BINGHAM has joined the Univer- sity of Toronto library's rare book depart- ment staff. RoBERT BLESSON assumed the position of circulation-reference librarian at Saint J o- seph's College library, Rensselaer, Ind., July 1. ALFRED N. BRANDON is now director of Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins ,.,; University, Baltimore. MRS. BETTY MARTIN BROWN has been ap- pointed to a new position on the cataloging ..- staff at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. JoHN P. BuRNHAM has joined the staff of the University of Maine library, Orono, as cataloger and reference librarian. RuTH LAPHAM BuTLER has been appoint- ed consulting bibliographer at Kalamazoo (Mich.) College's Mandelle library. RAYMOND CHu began work in September as librarian in the department of East Asian studies at University of Toronto library. MRS. MARGARET CLAUSSEN has been ap- pointed assistant catalog librarian at Brad- ley University, Peoria, Ill. She has been on the library staff of Southern Illinois Univer- sity. MoRRIS L. CoHEN has been appointed law librarian and associate professor of law at Biddle law library of the University of Pennsylvania law school. He has been law school librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo. WENDY CoLE is now a member of the catalog department at University of Toronto library. SEPTEMBER 1963 EvRoN CoLLINS has been named head of circulation at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. She has been biology librarian at Northwestern University libraries, Evans- ton, Ill. LILLIAN P. CooPER has been named direc- tor of the recataloging project at Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. JoHN M. CoRY has been named deputy director of the New York Public library. JoHN M. CRossEY has assumed the post of curator of African collections at Yale Uni- versity library. Mr. Crossey has been with Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill. MILTON CROUCH is now subject reading rooms librarian at Pennsylvania State Uni- versity library, State College. He was assist- ant social science librarian at University of Florida, Gainesville. JULIA I. L. DEES is assistant librarian in charge of reference services and instructor in library science at Concord College, Athens, W.Va. JuDITH DoiG has been appointed to the staff at Queen's University, Kingston, On- tario, Canada. She has been head circulation librarian at University of Oregon library, Eugene. JEROME DRosT is serials-acquistion librar- ian at the University of Delaware library, Newark. He was formerly librarian at Vet- erans' Administration Hospital library, Fort Custer, Mich. MRs. SoPHIA DuDA is a new staff member of the cataloging department at University of Toronto library. MRS. LOis MARY DuNLAP is librarian of the college of medicine, University of Cin- cinnati. JoHN E. DusTIN has accepted appointment to the Southern Illinois University Exten- sion Center library, Edwardsville, as humani- ties librarian. MARJORIE DuvAL has been appointed li- brarian of the Portland branch of the Uni- versity of Maine libraries. 417 EVELYN A. ENGLANDER has been appointed assistant in the reference department at Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill. PAuL E. EDLUND has been appointed col- lections maintenance and preservation of- ficer at the Library of Congress. F. BERNICE FIELD has been appointed as- sistant librarian in charge of cataloging and .- classification at Yale University library. GusTAWA FISZHAUT has been named to the cataloging staff at University of Toronto li- brary. STEVEN W. GAHAGEN, JR., has joined the University of the South library at Sewanee, Tenn., as serials librarian. He has been on the staff of Louisiana State University li- brary, Baton Rouge. RoBERT A. GAHRAN has been appointed assistant librarian of Crosby library, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. ALVIN F. GAMAGE is reference librarian at Trinity College library, Hartford, Conn. LORENA GARLOCH has been appointed as- sociate director of university libraries at University of Pittsburgh. She has been head of the main library there. PETER GIRARD is a new cataloger at Uni- versity of Toronto library. · CoRINNE GoDFREY recently became a mem- ber of the catalog staff at University of Toronto. CLARENCE GoRCHELS is now librarian at South Bay State College, Palos Verdes Es- tates, Calif. He was librarian of Central Washington State College, Ellensburg. MRS. ALAYNE GRAY has been appointed to the staff of the acquisitions department at University of California library, Berkeley. DwiGHT E. GRAY has been appointed chief of the science and technology division in the reference department of the Library of Con- gress. ANDREW GREGOROVICH has joined the cata- loging staff at University of Toronto library. ANTHONY HALL has been appointed co- ordinator of technical processes at UCLA library system. NORMAN HANDELSMAN . has joined the UCLA library acquisitions staff. DoNNA HASKELL is now head of the cata- log department at Arizona State University library, Tempe. She has been in the catalog department of University of California, Berkeley library . ALICE HEDDERICK is a new member of the cataloging staff at University of Toron~o library. jAMES HENDERSON has been appointed head of the reference department at New York Public library. DAVID R. HoFFMAN has been appointed head of the technical information service of the Library Technology Project at ALA headquarters. ELEANORE C. HoFSTETTER is now a refer- ence assistant at the University of Delaware library, Newark. SAMUEL R. HYDE has been appointed ar- chitecture librarian at University of Hous- ton. W. CARL JACKSON has been appointed as- sociate director of libraries at the Univer- sity of Colorado, Boulder. Mr. Jackson has been assistant professor and chief acquisi- tions librarian at University of l'y[innesota libraries. GERALD JAHODA, director of technical in- formation, Esso, Linden, N.J., has been ap- pointed professor of library science at Flori- da State University, Tallahassee. ELIZABETH J ocz has joined the cataloging staff at the University of Toronto library. MRs. EsTHER JOHNSON became head of the forestry library of the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, on July I. HoLWAY JoNES has been appointed head social sciences librarian at University of Oregon, Eugene. MRS. ANNA KACZYNSKI has joined the acquisitions department staff at University of California library, Berkeley. 418 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES WILLIAM KATz, assistant to the director of ALA's publishing department, has been ap- pointed associate professor in the depart- ment of library science, University of Ken- tucky, Lexington. PAUL KEBABIAN has joined the University of Florida library staff at Gainesville. He has been with the cataloging department of the New York Public library reference de- partment. RoBERT R. KEPPLE, supervisor of readers' services in Argonne National Laboratory's library services department, has accepted a two-year appointment as head librarian at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. MRs. DoROTHY KESSELl has been appoint- ed head of the serials and documents depart- ments at University of California, Berkeley. RICHARD E. KIRKWOOD has been appointed documents librarian at Bowdoin College li- brary, Brunswick, Me. WILLIAM H. KuRTH has been appointed head of the acquisitions department at UCLA library. DAviD 0. LANE has been appointed assist- ant director for reader services at Boston University libraries. MRs. DoROTHY LEVY has been appointed head catalog librarian at Drexel Institute of Technology library, Philadelphia. IRVING LIEBERMAN has been appointed ad- visory director of the institute of librarian- ship at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, for 1963-64. Dr. Lieberman is director of the school of librarianship at University of Wash- ington, Seattle. JAMES C. MACCAMPBELL became univer- sity librarian at University of Maine, Orono, on July 1. NoRVILLE MciLROY is a new member of the science and medicine department library of the University of Toronto. DAYLE MANGES has joined the staff of Northwestern University's Deering library at Evanston, Ill., as Africana bibliographer. ALEXANDRA MASON has been named head SEPTEMBER 1963 of the special collections department at Uni- versity of Kansas library, Lawrence. JEAN MAUPIN is a new member of the ref- erence department staff at UCLA library. RICHARD W. MYERS has been appointed assistant librarian at Bates College, Lewiston, Me. MRS. MINERVA NESSLER is now assistant in the circulation department of Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill. RICHARD O'BRIEN has been appointed Western European bibliographer at Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles. GERALD G. OPPENHEIMER is now health sciences librarian at University of Washing- ton, Seattle. He was manager of information services of Boeing Scientific Research Labo- ratories. MRS. HELEN PARISKY has rejoined the staff of UCLA library's catalog department. WILLIAM EDWARD PETERS has been ap- pointed assistant catalog librarian at Penn- sylvania State University, State College. FELICITY PICKUP has joined the staff of University of Toronto library, and will divide her time between the catalog depart- ment and the faculty of food sciences library. MRs. DoROTHY PoRTER, supervisor of the Negro collection of Howard University, Washington, D.C., will serve as acquisitions librarian in the National library of Nigeria, Lagos, during the coming year. Yu SHu Pu has been appointed super- visory catalog librarian at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. MRs. JADVIGA RAuDZENS is a new member of the University of Toronto library's cata- loging staff. SHELAGH REBURN is in the acquisitions de- partment of the University of Toronto li- brary. MARY F. REED has been appointed assist- ant librarian and director of the department of technical services at University of Maine library, Orono. CoNRAD REITZ has been appointed to the 419 I· cataloging staff of the University of Toronto library. MRs. PATIENCE RoGGE has been appointed to the social sciences reference service staff of University of California library, Berkeley. MARIA E. ROPPOLO has been appointed agriculture librarian at the University of Delaware library, Newark. WILLIAM RosELLE has been appointed as- sistant catalog librarian at Pennsylvania State University, State College. HANS RosENSTOCK has accepted a position in the library at the University of Ghana in Accra. MRs. AsTRA RozE is now the librarian of the school of architecture at University of Toronto. G. A. RuDOLPH became assistant director for technical services at Kansas State U ni- versity on September 1. He was assistant librarian at Ohio University, Athens. STEPHEN F. and VIRGINIA SCHULTHEIS have been appointed librarian and assistant li- brarian of the University of the Seven Seas, Whittier, Calif. FREDERICA SEDGWICK has joined the period- icals reading room staff at UCLA library. She has been with the University of Southern California library as science librarian. JoHN M. SEKERAK has been appointed di- rector of library services, American River Junior College, Sacramento, Calif. MRs. MARY SHEPHERD is a new member of the acquisitions department at University of Toronto library. K. S. SIDHU is now a serials cataloger at Kansas State University. ANNA SKORSKI is a new staff member of the circulation department of University of Toronto library. HuGH SMITH has been appointed to the acquisitions staff at University of Toronto library. JOHN E. SMITH has been appointed librar- ian at the Irvine campus of University of California. RoBERT SPERRY joined the reference de- partment at Kansas State University on September 1. He has been law librarian at Valparaiso (Ind.) University. NoRMAN D. STEVENS became associate li- brarian for public services at Rutgers Uni- versity, New Brunswick, N.J., on July 1. WILLIAM STEWART has been appointed as- sistant acquisitions librarian at the Univer- sity of South Florida library, Tampa. RoBERT B. STONE is now staff cataloger at Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. MRs. KAREN SANDINE SuTHERLAND has as- sumed the new position of documents li- brarian at University of Houston (Tex.) li- braries. FRANKLIN TALBOT has joined the staff of the University of Maine's Portland branch l.ibrary. RASHID TAYYEB has joined the University of Toronto library staff as cataloger. MARY LOUISE THOMAS is the new reference librarian at Washington University school of medicine library, St. Louis. CHIN TIEH-PENG has been appointed cata- loger at the University of Delaware library, Newark. MRs. JuDITH ToLCHIN has been appointed librarian in the government publications room at UCLA library. JOYCE A. TRACY has been named junior cataloger in the recataloging project at Bow- doin College library, Brunswick, Me. MARGARET TuRNER is now a member of the circulation department of University of Toronto library. CHARLES A. VERTANES has been appointed library consultant at Mitchel College, East Meadow, N.Y. YuN-KANG WANG is a new member of the cataloging staff of University of Toronto library. GERALD WEEKS has been appointed to the staff of University of Toronto library as a cataloger. 420 C 0 L L E G E A N D. R ESE A R C H LIB R A R IE S RoBERT WEINSTEIN has been appointed special consultant on . photographic collec- tions by the UCLA library. JEAN WHIFFIN is in charge of the serials section of University of Toronto library's acquisitions department. HARRY E. WHITMORE joined the staff of the University of Maine library at Orono on July I, as head of a new department of circulation services. DoROTHY L. WILLIAMS is assistant librarian of the Psychiatric Institute, New York. She was librarian of the Hospital Review and Planning Council of Southern New York. MRS. MARTHA JANE ZACHERT has joined the faculty of Florida State University li- brary school, Tallahassee, as assistant profes- sor. Mrs. Zachert had been librarian of Southern College of Pharmacy, Mercer Uni- versity, Macon, Ga . FOREIGN LIBRARIES CARLOS CuETO FERNANDINI is now director of the Biblioteca Nacional del Peru. He has been professor in the U niversidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. S. C. NwoYE is librarian of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has been on the staff at Ibadan, and has been deputy librarian at N sukka since 1951. RETIREMENTS MRS. ALicE S. ALBEN, head librarian at Centenary College, Shreveport, La., retired ' in June after more than twenty years on the library staff. ELLA CARRICK, senior catalog librarian at University of Oregon library, Eugene, and ~ staff member there for thirty years, retired in June. DAVID H. CoLE retired from the Library of Congress after fifty years of service, on April 30. He was senior reference librarian of the general reference and bibliography division. MRs. EvE DoLBEE retired from her posi- tion as librarian of the UCLA chemistry li- brary after twenty years of service. SEPTEMBER 1963 LuciLLE DuFFY, chief catalog librarian at University of Washington, Seattle, has re- tired after more than twenty years with the libraries. JuLIA H. MAcLEoD retired from the staff of Bancroft library of the Unjversity of Cali- fornia in Berkeley on July 31. She has been head manuscripts librarian there since 1948. MILDRED L. METHVEN retired in June after forty years of librarianship in Minnesota and at the Library of Congress. She has been assistant librarian at Bates College, Lewiston, Me., since 1959. GwLADYS WILLIAMS, since 1956 a member of the staff at Bancroft library at the Uni- versity of California in Berkeley, recently re- tired. NECROLOGY MRS. FLORENCE S. BURTON, acqUisitiOnS librarian at UCLA's engineering library from 1951 to 1956 died at Clermont, Fla., on May 18. MRs. ANNA G. DANTZIG, a member of the Library of Congress staff for twenty-eight years, died at Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Dantzig was successively in the catalog division, re- viser in charge of the Slavic unit in the de- scriptive cataloging division, head of the Slavic cataloging project, and assistant head of the Slavic languages section of LC. JuNE RicHARDsoN DoNNELLY, director of Simmons College school of library science in Boston from 1913 until 1937, died in March 1962, at Staunton, Va. E. HEYSE DuMMER, head of the depart- ment of modern languages at Illinois Col- lege, Jacksonville, and managing editor of the ACRL Microcard Series since 1954, died on February 23. MARGARET ELLSWORTH, retired associate librarian of Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley, Mass ., died on July 22. She had been with the college library since 1922. DIMITRY KRASSOVSKY died in June. For fifteen years he was Slavic bibliographer at UCLA libraries, until his retirement a year ago. He was curator of Slavica at Hoover library at Stanford University from 1925 to 1947. • • 421 A CRL Board of Directors at Chicago BRIEF OF MINUTES july 18 Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; Vice President Neal R. Harlow; directors-at- large, Andrew J. Eaton, Lucile M. Morsch; directors on the ALA Council, James Hum- phry, III, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Robert L. Talmadge; chairmen of sections, Charles M. Adams, H. Richard Archer, Virginia Clark, Felix E. Hirsch, David Kaser, Jay K. Lucker; vice chairmen of sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Eli M. Oboler, Norman E. Tanis; past chairmen of sections, James 0. Wallace, Irene Zimmerman; com- mittee chairmen and guests, George S. Bonn, Lorena A. Garloch, Edward C. Heintz, Rob- ert R. Hertel, Edmon Low, Archie L. Mc- Neal, FrankL. Schick; ACRL Executive Sec- retary Joseph H. Reason. The minutes of the Midwinter Meeting of the Board of Directors were approved. Presi- dent Stokes then presented Frank L. Schick of the Library Services Branch, USOE, for a discussion of the situation concerning the publication of college and university library statistics. Dr. Schick expressed the concern of the LSB about the delay in publishing the statistics which he attributed largely to bu- reaucracy, the printing schedule of the Gov- ernment Printing Office and the fact that many librarians are very negligent about returning the forms as requested. The high percentage of responses is the result of LSB's making four or five requests for a reply. Even with its present schedule Library Sta- tistics of Colleges and Universities is still the second or third fastest publication issued by the USOE. Dr. Schick said further that the LSB is spending a lot of money on statistics; the Bureau is paying for overtime printing and overtime mailing in its efforts to get the publication into the hands of librarians at the earliest possible date. Since it seems un- likely that the printing schedule can be ac- celerated, the chief hope for an earlier pub- lication date lies in encouraging a greater number of librarians to return the LSB forms sooner. Dr. Schick promised that a complete print-out of the statistics would be -available at the LAD desk during the Mid- winter Meeting, as it was last January, and that after January 15, 1964 LSB would sup- · ply, upon request, the statistics of as many as ten institutions. After much discussion by Messrs. Hertel, Kaser, Harlow, Talmadge, Bentz, Oboler and others concerning im- provement of the publication schedule it was decided on a motion by Mr. Harlow that the Board of Directors would leave in the hands of the officers the matter of a probable pre- liminary publication of statistics in N ovem- ber or December and allow the officers to study the feasibility of making a complete print-out for distribution to librarians at cost. Edmon Low, alternate for Ralph E. Ells- worth, ACRL representative on PEBCO, re- ported that PEBCO had sent a balanced budget to the ALA Executive Board and that all funds requested by ACRL had been grant- ed. Mr. Low suggested that ACRL should con- sider developing a more ambitious program and stated that there was very little likeli- hood that requests submitted after the dead- line would be granted. -Mr. Low then gave a brief report on the legislative outlook. He felt that very little would be done for aca- demic libraries until the proposed civil rights legislation is completed. Mr. Low thought that the Academic Facilities bill II)ight get through the House; that the bill which would provide money for books which is still in committee might not get through. The Sen- ate might change this bill if it reaches that body but he felt that the provision for li- brary buildings would most certainly be re- tained. Mr. Low stated that he was far more hopeful than he was in January. David Kaser, editor of College and Re- search Libraries) informed the board that the editorial board of CRL would consist of Sam- uel Rothstein, Maurice F. Tauber, James E. Skipper, John M. Dawson, Eileen Thornton, Gustave A. Harrer and Norman E. Tanis. Mr. Kaser invited members of the board to assist him in uncovering sources for good articles. Jay Lucker announced that the Slavic and East European Subsection would continue to be governed by a committee composed of Laurence H. Miller, chairman, Eleanor Buist, Dmytro M. Shtohryn, and Andrew 422 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Turchyn, and that an election would be held next Spring. H. Richard Archer reported that the West- ern Americana Conference which was spon- sored by the ACRL Rare Books Section and the History Section of RSD was successful and had a total attendance of 143. Mr. Arch- er also stated that the section had been in- vited to hold its 1964 preconference institute at the University of Kansas. Charles Adams stated that the outlook for the meeting of the College Libraries Section at Beloit College on Saturday, July 20, looked very good; 200 members had ordered lunch and there would be four buses for the trip. Eli Oboler, chairman-elect of the College Libraries Section, announced that the theme for the section meeting in St. Louis would be "The Federal Government and the Col- lege Library." Lorena A. Garloch, chairman of the ULS Urban Universities Committee, informed the board that the committee had decided to continue work as a committee and not seek to become a discussion group. The meeting was adjourned at 10:15 P.M. july 19 Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; Vice President Neal R. Harlow; directors-at- large, Andrew J. Eaton, Lucile M. Morsch; directors on ALA Council, Robert L. Tal- madge; chairmen of sections, Charles M. Ad- ams, Virginia Clark, Felix E. Hirsch, Jay K. Lucker; vice chairmen of sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Norman E. Tanis; past chairmen of sections, James 0. Wallace, Irene Zimmerman; committee chair- men and guests, George S. Bonn, Archie L. MeN eal, Everett T. Moore; ACRL Executive Secretary Joseph H. Reason. The second meeting of the Board of Directors opened at 2:10 P.M. with President- Elect Harlow presiding. Mr. Harlow called on Everett Moore for a report on the meet- ing of the Publications Committee; Mr. Moore stated that the committee had re- viewed the publication program of the as- sociation but found that there was little documentation concerning the responsibili- ties and functions of the committee. He stated that the ACRL Publications Officer ·had been requested to collect the needed documentation which would be studied by the committee at its Midwinter Meeting. Mr. SEPTEMBER 1963 Moore stated further that it was the opinion of the committee that it should be con- cerned with the entire publishing activity of ACRL, and make recommendations to the board about such matters as editorial policy and the appointment of editors. It was announced that Richard K. Gard- ner, editor of the proposed book selection journal, reported his editorial board had decided the new journal would be named Choice: Books for College Libraries and that Mary Poole had been appointed assist- ant editor for production and Virginia Clark, assistant editor for reviewing. The list of committee chairmen for 1963-64 and new committee members was read; the list and the appointment of editors Kaser and Gardner were approved on ~motion by Katharine M. Stokes. The board was reminded that ACRL had taken no official position on the role of the Library Administration Division and that the ALA Committee on Organization wished that it be done. After some discussion, Mr. Harlow presented the following resolution which he had composed previously and it was approved on a motion by Miss Stokes which was seconded by Lucile M. Morsch: It is the belief of the Board of Directors ·of the ACRL that existing relationships between ACRL and LAD are on the whole satisfactory. In respect to the instances which have often been mentioned-the collection of statistics and the holding of library building instituteS-it is found that cooperation is in fact quite easy to maintain whenever it is attempted. Many ACRL members participate actively in both divisions, and many individuals have served in official positions, up to the presidential level, in both groups. Because a great deal of time and energy has already been spent upon organization and re- organization, and because the existing arrange- ment provides a feasible (if not perfect) basis for cooperation in program and administration, it is recommended that no change be made in the present Divisional scheme. Miss Stokes reviewed the efforts which had been made by the officers to find a new executive secretary for ACRL; she recited the qualifications of the candidate who had been selected by the interviewing committee · and stated that the candidate wished that his name not be divulged until he had cleared the matter with his present employer. 423 On a motion by Miss Morsch it was agreed that the officers be authorized to recommend the unnamed candidate to the executive di- rector of ALA for appointment. At the request of a member of the board, the executive secretary was asked to report on the membership of ALA and the divi- sions; the report showed that ACRL with 7,255 members, as of May 31, 1963, is the largest division of ALA. Mr. Harlow as chairman of the Planning and Action Committee stated that while ACRL had made some outstanding accom- plishments through its Grants program, pub- lica tion of CRL , and the development of standards for junior college and college li- braries, the association really had no pro- gram which served to direct its work. He felt that ACRL had neglected the entire area of service to the users of academic and re- search libraries and that the heart of a de- veloping program for the association is cen- tered in the Library Services Committee of which George Bonn is chairman. Mr. Bonn reviewed the activities of his committee as it has attempted to develop a "Library Users Bill of Rights"; since Midwinter the commit- tee has been at work condensing, simplifying, and standardizing the ten points of the original Bill of Rights. He said that it was felt that the proposed Bill of Rights should not only present the gen eral concepts of the library services that every user has a right to expect but that it should also spell out in some detail the various sp ecific services that can aid both the user and the librarian in ev a luating the services that any library offers its users. Mr. Bonn said further that the committee is considering ways of pub- licizing and implementing programs of serv- ice at the three working levels of ACRL interest: (I) beginning undergraduate stu- dent level; (2) advanced upperclassmen and beginning graduate student level; and (3) advanced graduate student and faculty re- search level in the appropriate libraries. Mr. Harlow said that ACRL would at- tempt to hold two general sessions during the St. Louis Conference concerned with services being given by academic libraries and the relationship of the library to the educational program. He asked that the of- ficers of ACRL consider the possibility of joint programs with other divisions of ALA; Dale Bentz said that the University Libraries Section is considering a joint program with the American Association of Law Librarians. Jay Lucker reported that the Law and Political Science Subsection had not held a meeting nor an election this year; Wrayton Gardner, in-coming chairman of the Subject Specialists Section promised to concern him- self with the membership of the subsections this year. Mr. Lucker reminded the board of the need for information about the mem- bership of the subsections; he was prom- ised that every effort would be made to se- cure this information. The board expressed its appreciation to Miss Stokes and Mr. Reason for their work during the year just ending. The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 P.M . •• En. NoTE: Since the Chicago Conference meeting of the ACRL Board of Directors, the appointment of George M. Bailey as executive secretary of ACRL has been announced. Mr. Bailey has been chief of reference and special services at Northwestern University library, Evanston , Ill., since 1959. He will take up the duties of his new appointment on Nov. I. URGENT 424 Please Return the USOE Statistics Questionnaire by September 30, 1963 for early release COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES LAWRENCE W. TowNER, recently appointed director of the Newberry library, spoke to an audience of some five hundred persons at the ACRL membership meeting on July 17. Dr. Towner, who was introduced by Fritz Veit, chairman of the Chicago Con- ference Committee, spoke about "The New- berry Library: Retrospect and Prospect." Dr. Towner told his audience a little about the establishment and history of his library and much about its resources. The New- berry, of which William F. Poole was the first librarian, was provided for in the will of Walter Loomis Newberry who died at sea in 1867. While the Newberry bequest has been, and still is, the main source of income, the library has benefited from gifts of books, manuscripts and funds which have been made by many other public-spirited and cultivated Chicagoans. The Newberry collects materials pertaining to Western civi- lization from the late Middle Ages to World War I, and is considered by scholars to be one of the finest research collections in the world for the study of Western European history and literature from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. Fritz Veit, chairman of the Elections Com- mittee, announced the names of the newly- elected officers of ACRL and its sections. Archie L. McNeal, who had been chosen by the members as vice president and presi- dent-elect, was presented to the group. Rich- ard K. Gardner announced the name which had been chosen for the proposed book se- lection journal, the names of his two assist- ant editors, and promised that the new jour- nal would be issued early in 1964. A report on the membership of ALA and ACRL re- vealed that ACRL with 7,255 members as of May 31 , 1963 is again the largest division of ALA. Topics of current interest were discussed in the meetings of the several sections of ACRL. Members who attended the meet- ing of the University Libraries Section heard three papers concerning the costs of data processing in library work. Don S. Culbert- son spoke about the use of data processing in acquisitions and cataloging; Melvin J. SEPTEMBER 1963 ACRL at Chicago Voigt, in serial handling; and James R. Cox, in circulation work. It was pointed out that libraries are now spending three out of four dollars for staff whereas one dollar of four was formerly the case. The decision to use data processing can not very well be made on the basis of cost; rather the volume of work must often be the deciding factor. Furthermore, no valid comparison of costs can be made because we do not have suf- ficient information about the unit costs of work done by traditional methods. Felix E. Hirsch told the Teacher Educa- tion Libraries Section that the teacher edu- cation library of tomorrow should differ from the library of the strong liberal arts college only in placing a greater emphasis on education but not in the basic quality of the book collection and service to users. Dr. Hirsch stated that for our future teach- ers all aspects of world affairs should be em- phasized, especially the problems of the new nations. Robert R. McClarren discussed the failure of the library profession to develop a program of research commensurate with the many important aspects of librarianship. The program meeting of the Subject Spe- cialists Section was sponsored by the Agri- culture and Biological Sciences Subsection. There were group discussions concerning the problems of special subject collections in college and research libraries; some of the topics discussed were acquisitions, catalog- ing, coordination of multisubject collections, information retrieval, public services, and serials and documents. Program meetings were held also by the Art Subsection and the Slavic and East European Subsection. Members of the latter group were addressed by Melville J. Ruggles, vice president of the Council on Library Resources, who dis- cussed the development of Slavic area studies in the United States and the need for or- ganizing the bibliography of the Slavic field. Mr. Ruggles also suggested some broad prin- ciples of operation which might guide the activities of this newly formed subsection. Richard K. Gardner and Mrs. Ruth M. Christiansen addressed the Junior College Libraries Section. Mrs. Christiansen gave a 425 review of current practices involved in han- dling audio-visual materials and services in college libraries; Mr. Gardner, editor of Choice: Books for College Libraries, the book selection journal to be published by ACRL, talked about the principles of book selection and the philosophy which will guide him in his work as editor. The Rare Books Section and the History Section of RSD sponsored a successful preconference institute on Western Americana. Persons who attended the meeting viewed special exhibitions of materials at the Newberry Li- brary, at the University of Chicago, and at Northwestern. Among the papers presented were: "Transportation as a Factor in the Development of the West," "The Urbaniza- tion of the West," "The Mythology of the West," and "Economic Aspects of Western American History." Plans to publish the pa- pers are under consideration. The college librarians took a bus trip to Beloit College on Saturday where they viewed the new library building and par- ticipated in a program on the topic "The College Library: New Demands and New Approaches." Wyman W. Parker gave the principal paper which was discussed by a panel consisting of Benjamin B. Richards as moderator, Virginia Clark, Miss 1 ohnnie Givens, 1 ean Black and Anne C. Edmonds. Among other things, Mr. Parker said we have found in this century that books and buildings are not enough-for example, look to the hundreds of small town libraries which remain like those gruesome vaults in cemeteries-open for deposit only. What is needed as well as books and buildings is a spirit of inquiry and a lust for learning which is a highly infectious virus passed by contact with a provocative and exciting teacher--'one of thousands of individuals who is passionately committed to the search for truth and the transmission of this love of life through learning. We all have more and better students than ever before. They are bursting with energy and enthusiasm-and their horizons are boundless. This, of course, is good as far as their ideas go but hard on the librarians to attempt to satisfy such limitless interests. There is now more advanced work in prog- ress in the colleges than ever before. It hits all of us, for our faculty members demand more effort and expect a higher standard of performance than previously. Honors work or the individual project is in evidence on every campus and increasing constantly. In truth, the undergraduate curriculum has be- come so accelerated that in a good many in- stances a fine student goes on to graduate school from college knowing well the tools of research while the superior scholar may even gain an A.B. having had the equiva- lent of a first year of graduate study. Variety and range is essential, for we want students to have the same opportunity to choose among quantities of books as they must have to consider various ideas. Their decision is important only as it strengthens the process of discrimination between the good and the bad, the true and the false, satisfaction vs. restlessness, virtue vs. dishon- or, wisdom as preferable to just knowledge. Mr. Parker surveyed the problems faced by college librarians and some of the de- velopments which aid in solving these prob- lems. He then asked his audience: And how about you? Do you know your faculty and what their specialties are? Do you know the staff and what their enthusiasms and poten- tials may be? Do you know your students and what they want or what they may need? Conferences such as this help to pass the word for the profession and do enlarge one's vision, but also beneficial are stretches of disciplined work on bibliography, pro- fessional reading, cultural reading, boning up on a special field, auditing a language literature class, attending meetings in the region to cement or institute local alliances -even such things as going to college plays, lectures, and concerts to share a spark of the ever-young and ever-stimulating life of the campus which is both nonsensical and intellectual-and wonderfully sati~fying. • • 426 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL President's Report, July 1963 LAsT SUMMER ACRL seemed to be in a very uncertain state. Our Executive Secretary of one year's standing was about to leave for a new position; the editorship of the "college- level book selection service," for which ALA had turned over to ACRL a CLR grant, was still under negotiation; there were rumblings of discontent from a group of powerful mem- bers who were understood to be meeting in smoke-filled rooms (?) , but not for poker! Then came the report of the Special Com- mittee on the ACRL Program appointed by President Ellsworth during the Midwin- ter Conference in January 1962, commonly called the Brown Report, after its chairman, Jack E. Brown. The committee had been instructed "to examine existing ACRL ac- tivities with a view to e~olving a program of action which will carry out more fully the objectives of ACRL, namely the pro- motion of library services and librarianship in the libraries of higher educational insti- tutions, independent research libraries, and specialized libraries." A committee had been appointed in 1957 at the time of ALA's re- organization for a similar purpose under the chairmanship of William H. Carlson. The Brown Committee reviewed the find- ings of the Carlson Committee and found that several of the problems cited "have been, or are being, tackled by ACRL com- mittees" but that "an equal number of the noted problems have received little or no attention." Therefore, the creation of sev- eral new committees was recommended. The most important of them, the Planning and Action Committee, was to consist of the vice president and president-elect as chairman, the executive secretary (without vote) and four other members. Since vice president Harlow was a member of the Brown Com- mittee, the other four members of that com- mittee were appointed to the Planning and Action Committee for varying terms, so that their guidance would continue over the next three years. A Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies was appointed under the chairman- ship of WiUiam Carlson, one on Library Services with George Bonn as chairman, and SEPTEMBER 1963 another on Library Surveys with Maurice Tauber as chairman. Two more suggested committees conflicted with other ALA or ACRL committee interests, but one of them, the Membership Committee, was or- ganized with Frances Kennedy as chairman, after discussion with the deputy executive director of ALA at a Midwinter Meeting of the ACRL Board of Directors. The Plan- ning and Action Committee is considering what to do about the final committee, one on Library Research, which would perhaps duplicate some of the activities of the Re- search and Development Committee of our University Libraries Section. The new com- mittees are full of ideas and anxious to act, as demonstrated by their Midwinter reports to the Board. After the departure of our lively Mark Gormley in late July, came Joe Reason in mid-September to give us a year of his wis- dom and ·diplomacy as a legacy from the Ford Foundation, which had expected to have him remain in Burma until July 1963. His first few weeks at headquarters were sans secretary and the only typewriter available was electric, a luxury he wasn't able to op- erate. But Mrs. Falvey, our Publications Of- ficer, helped him nobly and eventually he acquired Miss Engelking to use that type- writer effectively. He began to work at once on finding an editor for the "New Shaw," but before that could be settled Rick Har- well decided he wanted to be relieved of the editorship of CRL as quickly as possible, because of pressures he had not anticipated. The Publications Committee was hastily asked for recommendations and a fortunate replacement was found in Dave Kaser, of the Joint University Libraries, who took over CRL with the March issue, to the re- lief of Mrs. Falvey and Dr. Reason, who had labored valiantly on the January one. The Editorial Committee for the "New Shaw" met at Midwinter and soon there- after persuaded Richard Gardner of Mari- etta College to take on the ALA-CLR proj- ect this summer. The committee met with him in April after he had successfully nego- tiated with Wy Parker for a base of opera- 427 tions in Connecticut Wesleyan. We hope to see the first issue of the new selection tool in January 1964. Meanwhile, the activities that have come to be usual . in ACRL have gone galloping on. The Grants Committee asked Mark Gormley to continue to solicit donors and he has already secured the basic funds for next year's program. Ed Low has again proved his ability to impress ' the politicians in Washington with the needs of academic libraries--a newspaper account of a hear- ing gave him more space than the college presidents . appearing with him! The statis- tics of academic libraries were not distrib- uted until April, but they represent a 95 per cent coverage which interests Washing- ton more than the CRL selection ever did. They were available in manuscript at Mid- winter and John Lorenz supplied informa- tion to all who requested it between then and the appearance of Circular 699. The headquarters office has patiently responded to continuous floods of requests for Dr. Hirsch's Standards as well as all the others ranging from book lists and buildings to positions open and people to fill them. And in Kalamazoo your president's secretary u'sed $20.00 worth of Thermofax paper to keep all concerned informed of what was hap- pening-the carbons we threw in free! The National Library Week Committee prepared an analysis of the 1960/ 61 academic library statistics and a number of articles which appeared in prominent spots in state and national library publications. The Subject Specialists Section has a new Slavic Subsec- tion, the Rare Books Section cooperated with RSD in planning another outstanding preconference institute, and the College Section continues its tradition of spending a day on a campus close to the annual con- ference site with its trip to Beloit. The final problem to be solved this year is to find a replacement for our executive secretary who must return to his position as librarian of Howard University this fall. The fact that he fitted our requirements and ALA 's so perfectly and performed so outstandingly in keeping us a smoothly functioning part of the ALA family makes it hard to find a successor. But at least we can count on Neal Harlow and his Planning and Action Committee to take us steadily forward in constructive action n ext year.- Katharine M. Stokes. • • CHOICE: Books for College Libraries THE FIRST ORDER of business at the second board meeting of the editorial board of ACRL's college book selection journal was the selection of a name for the publication from among those submitted in the contest announced in June. After considera ble dis- cussion CHOICE: Books for College Li- braries was selected. This name had been suggested by four librarians-Sister Thomas Aquinas, S.S.J., Nazareth College library, Nazareth, Mich.; Louise Grove, School of Nursing, Washington County Hospital, Ha- gerstown, Md.; Eli M. Oboler, Idaho State College library, Pocatello; and William G. Wilson, Beloit College library, Beloit, Wis. It was voted to award all four a free year's subscription for their respective libraries. Mr. Gardner, editor of the journal, an- nounced that Virginia Clark, reference li- brarian at Kenyon College, will be assistant editor for reviewing, and Mary E. Poole, adult books reviewer for ALA Booklist, will be assistant editor for production. He also announced that spring rather than January 1964 was a likely target date for publication considering the great amount of work to be done in getting the journal underway. He requested the help of mem- bers of the board in recruiting reviewers, and asked that lists of current acquisition s published by libraries of board members be sent to the editorial offices of the journal. The address for the journal is: CHOICE: Books for College Libraries, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 06457 • • 428 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL Committee and Subsection Appointments NEW COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS by the in- coming president, Neal R. Harlow, include: Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organizations: Stanley L. West reappointed chairman; Ed- ward M. Heiliger reappointed and Thomas R. Buckman newly appointed. Advisory Committee to the President on Federal Legislation: Edmon Low, reappoint- ed chairman; Lewis C. Branscomb, Robert B. Downs, Frederick G. Kilgour, Richard H. Logsdon, Stephen A. McCarthy reap- pointed. Committee on Grants: Mark M . Gormley appointed chairman; Humphrey G. Bous- field reappointed. Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies: William H. Carlson reappointed chairman; Norman E. Tanis reappointed. Committee on Library Services: George S. Bonn reappointed chairman; Mrs. Patricia B. Knapp and Natalie N. Nicholson newly appointed. Committee on Library Surveys: Maurice F. Tauber reappointed chairman. National Library Week Committee: Lor- ena A. Garloch reappointed chairman; Mrs. Dorothy A. Bradley, Robert K. Johnson, Brewster E. Peabody reappointed; Fleming Bennett, Dorothy M. Drake, Sarah D. Jones, N. Orwin Rush, David T. Wilder newly ap- pointed. · Planning and Action Committee: Archie L. McNeal, vice president and president- elect, will serve as chairman; W. Porter Kel- lam newly appointed. Publications Committee: Everett T. Moore appointed chairman; Mark M. Gormley re- appointed; Ben C. Bowman, David W. Heron newly appointed. Committee on Standards: Norman E. Tanis appointed chairman; Donald C. Davidson, Joseph H. Reason newly appoint- ed. Membership Committee: Frances Kennedy reappointed chairman; Gordon Stevenson reappointed (representing Subject Special- ists Section) ; newly appointed Helen Bliss (representing College Libraries Section) ; Frances L. Meals ·(representing Junior Col- lege Libraries Section) ; Reta King (repre- senting Teacher Education Libraries Sec- tion); Thomas M. Simkins, Jr. (represent- SEPTEMBER 1963 ing Rare Books Section); Miss Roy Land (representing University Libraries Section- also ACRL representative to the ALA Mem- bership Committee) . Archie L. McNeal, vice president and pres- ident elect, appointed John M. Dawson, chairman, George S. Bonn, Miss Johnnie E. Givens, Stanley McElderry, Joseph H. Rea- son, Donald E. Thompson, James 0. Wallace and Andrew J. Eaton (ex officio-member of last year's committee) to Committee on Appointments (1964) and Nominations (1965). College and Research Libraries: David Kaser, editor; Elizabeth Swint, assistant edi- tor; newly appointed editorial board: John M. Dawson, Gustave A. Harrer, Samuel Rothstein, James Skipper, Norman E. Tanis, Maurice F. Tauber, Eileen Thornton. Choice: Books for College Libraries: Rich- ard K. Gardner, editor; Virginia Clark, As- sistant editor for reviewing; Mary E. Poole, assistant editor for production ; editorial board: Neal R. Harlow (ACRL President), chairman; Ellsworth G. Mason, Robert H. Muller, Wyman W. Parker, Joseph H. Rea- son, James H. Richards, Jr., Eileen Thorn- ton, Leo M. Weins, George M. Bailey (ACRL Executive Secretary) . SuBSECTIONs OF SuBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sub- section: Chairman-Kirby B. Payne, Na- tional Agricultural Library, Washington, D.C.; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect -Wayne R. Collins, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Secretary-Ann E. Kerker, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Art Subsection: Chairman-Stanley T . Lewis, Queens College, Flushing, N.Y.; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect-John D. Hoag, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. ; Secretary-Miss Gerd Muehsam, Cooper Union, New York. Slavic and East European Subsection: Ex- ecutive Committee-Laurence H. Miller, chairman, University of Illinois, Urbana; Eleanor Buist, Columbia University, New York; Dmytro M. Shtohryn, University of Illinois, Urbana; Andrew Turchyn, Indiana University, Bloomington. • • 429