College and Research Libraries 326 The 1963-64 Office of Education Survey of College and University Library Statistics IT ·Is EXPECTED that the questionnaires for the forthcoming 1963/64 sur- vey will be ready for mailing in August. ACRL and the Association of Research Libraries, the College and University Library Statistics Com- mittee of ALA-LAD, The Catholic Library Association, the American Theological Library Asso~iation, and the American Association of Junior Colleges have assisted in various phases of last year's survey and partici- pated in some aspects of planning for this year. It is anticipated that most state libraries will again cooperate with the Office of Education in the distribution and collection of the question- naires. Last year, forty-seven state libraries and the State University of New York cooperated with the Library Services Branch in this survey. Thanks to the assistance of these state agencies and the cooperation of the various library associations returns were 20 per cent greater than at a comparable period the year before. For the first time since 1959-60 when the Library Services Branch of the U.S. Office of Education began collect- ing college and university library data it was possible to release the results of the fall survey in January of the following year. (Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, I962-63, Institutional Data-OE-15023-63.) This publication includes data on the collections, personnel, and expend- itures of 1,463 libraries. The Supplement to Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, I962-63, an example of cooperation, was compiled by the Library Services Branch and published by the Library Administration Division of ALA and provides institutional data on 419 libraries. A copy of the latter publication is available for 75 cents from the Library Admin- istration Division at ALA headquarters. In order to maintain the same schedule for the survey it is essential that all institutions of higher education . return completed questionnaires not later than October 1, 1964. It is planned that the information will be pub- lished in Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 1963-64, Institu- tional Data by January 1965. An analysis of the same data arranged by type of institution and size of enrollment should appear in the summer of 1965. The forthcoming survey will contain several changes from last year; some of these are in line with preliminary recommendations proposed by the National Statistics Coordinating Project, others are based on recom- mendations from the field or correspond to needs of the Office. The prin- cipal additions and changes can be listed as follows. 1. The definition of volume will no longer include microtext; instead, separate queries will ask for number of reels of microfilms and number of pieces of other forms of microtext. 2. Several nonrecurring questions have been added: which classification scheme is used iu libraries; the extent of faculty status of librarians; and public service hours of the library. A short but detailed section on physical facilities requests information on added library space between January 1958 and December 1963. Such information will assist in the imple- mentation of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963.-George M. Bailey, Executive Secretary, ACRL. • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Time Produces the Organization ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ACRL PRESIDENT, 1963/64 If "time produces the man," it must do the same for organizations. Whether it be the British Empire, NATO, or some less conspicuous example, time provides the setting in which each may achieve its ap- propriate ends. Most such agencies subse- quently disappear, having served or failed in their purpose; by adapting, a few con- tinue to thrive. Some only survive: though obsolescent, they become entrenched or their momentum does not run down. Like men, organizations exist in an environ- ment-acting, reacting, growing, dying- and the ACRL is no exception. ACRL's origin may not have been wholly timely. Born in St. Louis in 1889 (and now in its 75th year), it differentiated slowly from its parent ALA, and its long and pen- sive childhood strongly affected its adult character and disposition. As an organiza- tion, it has tended to perpetuate its existing structqre as an earmark of security; but if new conditions demand readjustment, ACRL must retain its sensitivity, renew its interests, and change directions. The Association's adaptation to the world of education and research has been both effective and halting. That there are younger organizations with parallel interests and ac- tivities argues some lack of initiative, flexi- bility, or energy. That ACRL has lately modified its structure to improve continuity and awareness and to focus attention upon matters of new and expanding concern speaks for its vitality. Representing a ma- jority of the nation's academic and research librarians, the Association has a duty to maintain initiative and to be alert and ac- tive in order to justify and assure its exis- tence. Let me cite a pertinent example. One of our members (Patricia Knapp) wrote in one of our publications (an ACRL Mono- graph): " ... granted that the contribution of the library is somewhat more limited than it has been proclaimed to be, a more important implication is that there is [a] widespread lack of understanding about JULY 1964 what a library can and should contribute to the college-indeed, about what a library is." In part this may be because learning has been changing its character and signifi- cance of late, and if we once knew what the function of a library was in relation to it (and this is not obvious from the literature), this might be of little value to us now. Since learning is done by individuals, who must engage in it independently if they are to become self -educating people, the develop- ment of individual competence in acquir- ing, evaluating, and utilizing recorded knowledge is requisite. Recent studies begin to identify specific contributions librarians can make to the education of students, but these often appear to be beyond the under- standing and interest of academic librarians. Amid the rising concern of university peo- ple over the nature and objectives of higher education, dare we be less involved or qual- ified than they? Even with eight thousand paying mem- bers, it seems clear that ACRL cannot thrive on the rejuvenescence of annual ap- pointments and elections. It is also evident from progress developing in some sections and committees that it can respond to change and be effective in planning and action (and I cite annual reports of the Library Services Committee, Junior College Section, Plan- ning and Action, Standards, Grants, Publi- cations, Liaison with Accrediting Agencies, and CHOICE as examples). ACRL, as a major unit of ALA and in its own sub- ordinate parts, must continually question its objectives and procedures, build in ma- chinery for review and revision, and see that appointed and elective officers are pro- vided opportunity for initiative but become immediately activated by responsibility for work under way. We can learn from social scientists, educators, school librarians, bibli- ographers, statisticians, and computer peo- ple, and from research and investigation, but we must make this knowledge our own or be ready to adjust our inadequate programs to other peoples' patterns. 327 In this way I see ACRL's responsibility. Among its thousands of personal members, those who want to do something about it must make themselves known and go to work. The advantage of ACRL's vast size is the growing number of effective people, its disadvantage, the increasing opportunity for anonymity. Persons wishing only to be known and seen had best join some other society; and all who would write off the As- sociation as ineffective or thwarted by ALA will kindly look the other way. All others please apply. Time and man produces the organization. -Neal Harlow. •• ALA Representatives at Academic Ceremonies 328 ALA representatives at recent academic ceremonies included: Ruth Harris, librarian, Hastings College, at the dedication of the Kearney State College library on October 31; Robert Serverance, director, Air University library, at the dedication of Auburn University library, Nov. 5; Ralph E. McCoy, director of libraries, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, at the inauguration of Glenn A. Richardson as president of Greenville College, November 9; W. P. Kellam, director of libraries, University of Georgia, at the inauguration of Sanford Soverhill as president of Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., on Novem- ber 15; Gertrude Van Zee, Dwight B. Waldo library, Western Michigan Uni- versity, at the inauguration of Calvin A. VanderWerf as president of Hope College, Holland, Michigan, on November 16; Elizabeth G. Myer, Public Services in Rural Areas, Providence, R.I., at the Bryant College Centennial Symposium and Convocation, on November 18; Gustave A. Harrar, director of libraries, Boston University, at Bates College 100th anniversary convoca- tion, on November 20; Fritz Veit, director of libraries, Chicaga Teachers College and Chicago City Junior Colleges, at the installation of David Wein- stein as president of the College of Jewish Studies (Chicago) on February 16; David Otis Kelley, university librarian, University of New Mexico, at that university's 75th anniversary celebration and academic conference on February 25; Forrest C. Palmer, librarian, Madison College, at the dedication of the Alexander Mack memorial library, Bridgewater College, on April 3; J. Elias Jones, library director, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, at the inaugura- tion of Ralph Candler John as president of Simpson College on April 5; John P. Waggoner, Jr., assistant librarian, Duke University, at the inauguration of Lucius Stacey Weaver as president of Methodist College, Fayetteville, N.C., on April 10; B. E. Powell, university librarian, Duke University, at the inauguration of Samuel Proctor Massie as president of North Carolina College on April 25; Lawrence S. Thompson, director of libraries, University of Ken- tucky, at the inauguration of John Wieland Oswald as president of that uni- versity on April 28; J. Periam Danton, University of California, Berkeley at the dedication of the California State College library, Hayward, on May 2; Hardin Craig, Jr., librarian, Fondren library, Rice University, at the inauguration of William Harwood Hinton as president of Houston Baptist College on May 8; Carl W. Hintz, university librarian, University of Oregon, at the dedication of the William Jasper Kerr library of Oregon State University on May 8; Merrill Berthrong, administration librarian, University of Pennsylvania, at the inauguration of William Walsh Hagerty as president of Drexel Institute of Technology on May 12; Robert Vosper, university librarian, University of California, Los Angeles, at the inauguration of Franklyn A. Johnson as presi- dent of California State College on May 15; and John Cook Wyllie, librarian, University of Virginia, at the dedication of the George C. Marshall research library at Virginia Military Institute on May 23. · • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ACRL Elections and Appointments HELEN MARGARET BROWN was elected vice president and president-elect of ACRL and assumed the duties of the office at the close of the St. Louis Con- ference. Miss Brown has been librarian of Wellesley College since 1953. Her earlier ex- perience was at Vassar, from 1934 to 1944: as order librarian from 1940 to 1943, and as reference librarian in 1943-44. Miss Brown became librarian of MacMurray College in 1944 and went to Skidmore College as librarian in 1947. Her AB was obtained from Vassar in 1933; and her library degrees from Columbia Univer- sity School of Library Service-BS in 1934 and MS in 1942. The new president-elect was a member of the ALA Council in 1944- 48 and again in 1959-63. She was chairman of the College Libraries Section in 1946-47; a member of the ACRL Committee on Standards from 1953 to 1955 and from 1957-60; and has been a member of the ACRL Committee on Grants since 1962. She was president of the Hudson-Mohawk Library Association (New York) in 1952- 53; and chairman of the College Section of Massachusetts Library Association 1954-55. ACRL directors-at-large, to serve from 1964 to 1968 are Ruth M. Erlandson, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Ruth Ellen Scarborough, Centenary College for Wom- en, Hackettstown, N.J. SECTION OFFICERS The College Libraries Section elected Helen L. Sears as vice chairman and chairman-elect; and Ermine Stone as secretary. Junior College Libraries Section members chose Elizabeth E. Martin as chairman; James W. Pirie as vice chairman and chairman-elect; and Mrs. Alice B. Griffith as secretary. The Rare Books Sec- tion's new officers are Robert Ormes Dougan, chairman; Marcus A. McCorison, vice chair- man and chairman-elect; and Marion E. Brown, secretary. Subject Specialists chose James Hum- phry, III, as their vice chairman and chairman- elect, and Mary Frances Pinches as secretary. Teacher Education Libraries Section chairman- elect and secretary is Mrs. Mildred Hawkes- warth Lowell. Everett T. Moore is the chair- man-elect of University Libraries Section. JULY 1964 SUBSECTION OFFICERS The Agricultural and Biological Sciences Subsection of the Subject Specialists Section has named Fleming Bennett as its vice chair- man and chairman-elect. William Dane is the vice chairman and chairman-elect of the Art Subsection; the new Law and Political Science Subsection chairman is Doris J. Detwiler; chairman-elect is John Fall, and secretary is Robert W. Schaaf; the subsection member-at- large of the executive committee is Janet M. Rigney. Andrew Turchyn is the chairman of the Slavic and East European Subsection, and the vice chairman is Eleanor Buist. COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS Neal Harlow, past president of ACRL, be- comes chairman of the Budget Committee, and Helen M. Brown, ACRL president-elect, be- comes a member of the committee. Russell Shank is newly appointed to the Advisory Com- mittee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organizations; a second appoint- ment is yet to be made. Members of the new Audio-Visual Committee are Fleming Bennett and John Moriarty; Edward Heiliger is chair- man of the committee. Two new members have been named to the Committee on Grants- Arthur Hamlin will be the chairman, and Miss Johnnie Givens is a new committee member. William Jesse is one of two new members of the Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies; a second member will be named. Mrs. Patricia Knapp is the new chairman of the Committee on Library Services; Robert Scudder and Frazier Poole are new members of the committee. Mark M. Gormley is the chairman of the Committee on Library Sur- veys, and Mary Edna Anders and Bernard Kreissman will serve as committee members. Reta E. King and Gordon Stevenson have ac- cepted reappointment to the Membership Com- mittee. Robert Johnson is the National Library Week Committee chairman and Katherine Mal- lino and Grace Farrior are new members. Helen M. Brown becomes (ex officio) the chairman of the Planning and Action Commit- tee and Katharine M. Stokes and John M. Dawson have been appointed committee mem- bers. New appointments to the Publications Committee are Don Ferris, W. R. Eshelman, and Donald Thompson. Peter Spyers-Duran is the new member of the Committee on Stan- dards. The ACRL Representative to the Inter- divisional Committee on Documentation, Jesse H. Shera, has accepted reappointment. Robert B. Downs is the new ACRL representative to the American Council on Education. • • 329 A CRL Board of Directors at St. Louis BRIEF OF MINUTES June 30, 2:00 p.m. Present: President Neal Harlow; Vice Presi- dent and President-elect Archie L. Mc- Neal; Past President Katharine M. Stokes; directors-at-large, Andrew J. Eaton, Lucile M. Morsch; directors on ALA Council, Domthy M. Drake, Walfred B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Robert L. Talmadge; chairmen of sections, Eli M. Oboler, Norman E. Tanis, Wrayton E. Gardner, Benjamin B. Richards, Dale M. Bentz; vice chairmen of sections, H. Vail Deale, Elizabeth E. Martin, Robert 0. Dou- gan, Carson W. Bennett; past chairmen of sections, David Kaser; George M. Bailey, A~RL executive secretary. Others present included subsection chairmen, Stanley T. Lewis, Laurence Miller; committee chair- men and representatives, John P. McDonald, Mark M. Gormley, William H. Carlson, George S. Bonn, Frances Kennedy, Lorena A. Garloch; editors, Richard Gardner, Wil- liam V. Jackson; and guest, Helen M. Brown, 1964/65 ACRL president-elect. The minutes of the Midwinter Meeting of the Board of Directors were approved as published in College and Research Libraries. President Harlow summarized the activi- ties of various units of ACRL as reported in writing to the Planning and Action Com- mittee in May 1964, and distributed to members of the Board of Directors. After each summary, chairmen were asked to make additional comments. Programs of the St. Louis Conference are reported under "ACRL in St. Louis." The College Libraries Section has estab- lished two ad hoc committees, one for non- western library materials for undergraduate studies, another on community use of aca- demic libraries. A planning meeting of the first committee was held in St. Louis. Mr. Tanis reported that representatives of ACRL, ALA, and the American Associa- tion of Junior Colleges attended a joint meeting sponsored by the Council on Li- brary Resources in Washington, D.C., Feb- ruary 17-18. The meeting was held to study a proposal for "Strengthening Library Ser- vices in Junior College Education." As a result of this meeting, a proposed study of Junior College library service was submitted to the Council on Library Resources, but was not approved at the March meeting. However, the proposal is still under con- sideration for funding by CLR and other agencies. Other contacts between ACRL and AAJC members were reported and a joint conference of the two groups is being pro- posed for Detroit in 1965, prior to the ALA conference. The Junior College Libraries Section is also collecting faculty library handbooks, studying criteria for "The in- structional materials center," and plans to submit a detailed proposal for a revised edition of Books for Junior College Li- braries. The Rare Books Section hopes to plan a preconference in the Detroit area in 1965. The Subject Specialists Section now has a record of its subsection membership as a result of a questionnaire mailed to mem- bers in March. This information will be kept up to date in the IBM records at ALA. The Art Subsection mailed a newsletter to its members. The Law and Political Science Subsection has been reactivated. The Slavic and East European Subsection has developed bylaws which will be submitted to the ACRL Board at the Midwinter Meeting in 1965. The members of the Teacher Education Libraries Section were asked to consider whether the interests of the section differed sufficiently from those of the College Li- braries Section to warrant continuing the former section. Mr. Richards reported that the matter would be discussed at the sec- tion's meeting in St. Louis. Bylaws of the section were drafted and will be presented at the Midwinter Meeting. Mr. Bentz stated that the Academic Status Committee of the University Libraries Sec- tion had completed reports on tenure and on duties of professional librarians. Other 330 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES studies were being made, including a sur- vey of institutions with faculty status. Some discussion resulted from the fact that re- ports are sometimes published with apparent ACRL approval when this has not actually been secured. Changes in the section's by- laws are being considered to permit stagger- ing terms of office of committee members. Miss Stokes, chairman of the Budget Committee and ACRL's PEBCO representa- tive, reported on the ACRL budget, which was distributed to board members. The budg- et was approved as submitted to PEBCO, except for a revolving fund. Instead of pro- viding for a fund only for ACRL, a pro- posal will be made to vote one fund for the use of all ALA divisions. Various questions were answered about the budget. Mr. Gardner reported that the financial status of CHOICE is better than anticipated, but that a great deal of publicity is needed to insure sufficient subscriptions to make the publication self -supporting after the grant funds are used. The editorial board approved a price of $10 for subscriptions in addition to the first copy ordered at the same address, beginning with volume two in March 1965. Peter Doiron, Oakland University, has been hired as assistant editor for reviewing, to replace Virginia Clark. In this connection, Mr. Harlow read a statement from Mrs. Pauline Love, director of the ALA Publishing Department, that "The ALA Executive Board has approved a request from the ALA Editorial Committee to seek a grant to underwrite the costs of editing and publishing the California new campus book list." The role of Advisory Committee on Co- operation with Educational and Professional Organizations was discussed. Mr. Bailey noted several activities during the past year which might involve members of the com- mittee. There are eight organizations in Washington concerned with higher educa- tional institutions. Mr. Bailey was asked to refer inquiries to members of the committee. In speaking for the Grants committee Mr. Gormley reported a gift of $100,000 in materials and equipment from the Microcard Foundation for distribution to college li- braries which do not already own such ma- terial. This grant is in addition to continu- ing grants from U.S. Steel and others. Mr. Carlson, chairman of the Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies, dis- JULY 1964 cussed the continuing concerns of his com- mittee regarding accreditation and noted that available funds will allow a representa- tive to attend a meeting in Washington in October, planned by the Federation of Ac- crediting Agencies. The Library Services committee discussed the establishment of a possible clearinghouse of information. A statement on the "Rights of Library Users" was published in the May issue of CRL, and a general session at St. Louis was devoted to "Effective Library Service to Students-Fact or Fiction?" The Library Surveys committee is plan- ning a national conference on surveys at Columbia University for the Spring of 1965. Librarians and administrators will be in- vited. Discussion continued about the ALA membership forms. Mr. Bailey assured the members that new forms, providing for se- lection of subsection membership, will be available beginning September 1. If old forms are received after that date, they should be returned to Mr. Bailey. Miss Garloch stated the concern of the members of the ACRL National Library Week Committee that the chairman was not represented on the ALA committee and that there was not more cooperation between state chairmen of the ALA committee and the ACRL committee. Possibly the ACRL committee should be abandoned unless there is more coordination of activities. Some re- port on the results of the work of the ACRL committee is needed. The activities of the Publications Commit- tee were reviewed, including its request for a revolving fund, the decision not to publish the proceedings of the 1963 Rare Books Conference on Western Americana, the statement submitted to the ALA Publishing Committee requesting means of prompt publication, and plans for redesigning CRL. Mr. Eaton and the other members of his committee on Local Arrangements were thanked for securing members of their staff to man the ACRL booth. According to Mr. Tanis, the concern about the Standards continues to demand a great deal of attention. The committee is working closely with the American Asso- ciation of Junior Colleges to clarify the situ- ation. The Standards committee is also con- cerning itself with guidelines for accredita- tion of junior college libraries and with a 331 possible study of library services in college extension centers. Mr. Jackson reported that the Rare Books Manual had been given to the ALA Pub- lishing Department in May. The members of the Monographs editorial board are still concerned about the lack of suitable ma- terial and hope that honorariums will be provided to encourage preparation of mono- graphs. The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 P.M. July 1, 8:00 a.m. Present: President Neal Harlow; Vice President Archie L. McNeal; Past President Katharine M. Stokes; directors-at-large, An- drew J. Eaton, Lucile M. Morsch; directors on the ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, Walfred B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Robert L. Tal- madge; chairmen of sections, Eli M. Oboler, Norman E. Tanis, Wrayton E. Gardner, Dale M. Bentz; vice chairmen of sections, H. Vail Deale, Elizabeth E. Martin, Carson W. Bennett, Robert 0. Dougan; past chair- men of sections, Charles M. Adams, David Kaser; George M. Bailey, ACRL executive secretary. Guests included Helen M. Brown, 1964/65 ACRL president-elect, Richard A. Farley, G. Flint Purdy, Frank L. Schick. Mr. Harlow reported that his role as president was to provide some specific em- phasis during the year. This year, we have emphasized library services. He noted that a great deal of planning takes place among the members of the association, their sec- tions, subsections, and committees. Much of the activity is stimulated by the Planning and Action Committee. Mr. Bailey reported the results of the elections for officers of ACRL and of the sections. These are listed on page 332 of this issue of CRL. In other comments, Mr. Bai- ley also asked the board members to con- tinue sending reports to the ACRL office as requested and noted his appreciation for the prompt attention by the members to requests for information. According to Mr. Schick of the U.S. Of- fice of Education, the statistics question- naire will be mailed to libraries of higher educational institutions in August, for re- porting statistics for 1963/64. The question- naire will request additional information on library facilities, space, and faculty status. The supplement to the 1962/63 statistics is available for 7 5¢ from the ALA Library Administration Division. No supplement will be issued in future years. The need of the analytical data was discussed and the board members voted to request the publication of this data at intervals not to exceed two years. Mr. Farley reported on the activities of the LAD Buildings Committee for College and University Libraries. This resulted in discussion of means of securing consultant services, making information available about new library buildings, and holding critiques. Small colleges often cannot afford to hire consultants and, for such institutions, the LAD activity is very valuable. In action resulting from the meetings of the Planning and Action Committee, Mr. MeN eal discussed the enlargement of the committee to include the president-elect as chairman, president, past president, three appointed members, and the ACRL execu- tive secretary. This was approved by the ACRL board. In assuming its responsibility for the ACRL constitution and bylaws, the P & A committee had proposed a change in the ACRL bylaws to provide for three-year terms for committee appointments, with pos- sible reappointment for a total period not to exceed six years. Miss Morsch suggested that reappointment should be made only on the recommendation of the committee chair- man. After discussion, the board reversed the recommendation of the Planning and Action Committee and approved a proposed change in the bylaws to provide for two- year terms, with reappointment for not more than two additional terms, not to ex- ceed a total of six consecutive years. This change will be voted on by the member- ship. Mr. MeN eal reported on a provision for ACRL chapters to be inserted in the ACRL bylaws. After some discussion on the pro- visions for chapters, the Planning and Ac- tion Committee was authorized to revise the suggested statement for submission to the board at its Midwinter Meeting. Mr. Harlow discussed the question of payment of royalties for authors of mono- graphs, and Mr. McNeal was asked to write a letter to Mr. Clift, for the ALA Executive Board's attention, asking for authorization to pay royalties. The board also approved the establishment of an ACRL Audio-Visual 332 · COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Committee or a subcommittee of the ALA Committee. In other action, Mr. Harlow asked that Mr. McNeal write to Mr. Clift, stressing the completion of the new membership forms. He again stressed the importance of securing a revolving fund for prompt publi- cation. Bylaws for the Teacher Education Libraries Section and the Slavic and East European Subsection will be considered at Midwinter. Mr. McNeal plans to establish an ad hoc committee on research and has asked several members to serve on it. Schedules for ACRL meetings at Mid- winter in Washington and for the annual conference at Detroit will be forwarded to the officers and committee chairmen as soon as the schedules are available. The meeting was turned over to Archie L. McNeal, president of ACRL for 1964/65, who adjourned the meeting at 9:30 A.M . •• ACRL Membership July 23, 1964 Total .... Subject Specialists Junior College Teacher Education . ........... 8,354 . .. ...... . 1,311 632 424 University . . . . . ...... 2,841 College ... .. . . ..... . .. . .... 2,156 Rare Books . . 615 Please note that many members do not select membership in sections although two section memberships are available · without extra charge. ACRL at St. Louis "EFFECTIVE LIBRARY USE BY STUDENTS- Fact or Fiction" was the theme of the first ACRL general session cosponsored by the ACRL Library Services Committee, Subject Specialists Section and University Libraries Section. Approximately six hundred per- sons attended. George S. Bonn, chairman, ACRL Library Services Committee, em- phasized that the program was an outgrowth of the committee's activity to encourage the development and improvement of library services in the libraries of higher educa- tional institutions, in independent research libraries, and in specialized libraries. This improved service should be developed for the undergraduate, the advanced upperclass- man and first-year graduate, and the ad- vanced graduate student and faculty re- search person. The work of the committee resulted in the statement, "Rights of Library Users," published in CRL in May (p. 226). This is a basic working statement developed from the point of view of the library user rather than the librarian or administrator. It needs to be redefined, adapted, and made specific to fit each local situation. More important is the need to teach library users how to use library materials effectively. To this end, three panelists discussed three JULY 1964 different approaches to the problem of train- ing students to use their libraries effectively, emphasizing the cooperative involvement of both faculty and librarians. Mr. Bonn spoke about "Engineering Literature as a Required Course for Undergraduates," as exemplified by a fifth-year program for chemical engi- neers at Rice University. Thomas L. Minder spoke on "The Dean's Colloquy ... " at Pennsylvania State University, noting the interrelationships of the engineering faculty, the teaching program, and the library. Pa- tricia B. Knapp discussed the Montieth Li- brary Project based on three theories: how information in the library is organized, what college students need to know about this · organization, and how they are most likely to learn it. In summary, Mr. Bonn stated that good library service depends not on expediency or popularity, but on "energetic promotion of high professional standards of library service throughout the library's community." Alvin M. Weinberg, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and author of the con- troversial report, Science, Government, and Information, summarized the developments and challenges in these fields at another ACRL general session and membership meeting, concerning himself with the rela- 333 tionships between the cnsts m science, the information centers and the librarian, the location of the information centers, the government's role, and the future of such centers. Dr. Weinberg stated "that science, in response to the information crisis, is under- going a hierarchal social reorganization, and that this social reorganization will impose a corresponding hierarchal organization ·on our scientific information system. . . . As the information center grows, so will the li- brary which supports the center" leading to broader "cooperation between the scien- tist and librarian .... " Approximately four hundred persons attended. Prior to Dr. Weinberg's talk, President Neal Harlow spoke about the program of ACRL, announcing that the supplement to Library Statistics for College and Universi- ties, 1962-63, is available for $.75 from the Library Administration Division. This sup- plement provides statistics for 419 addi- tional libraries. This year was noted as the 75th anniversary of the founding of ACRL in St. Louis and the 25th anniversary of College and Research Libraries. Mr. Harlow emphasized the role of ACRL, its Planning and Action Committee, and librarjes in general in the learning process. The con- ference programs were an attempt to as- sume this role. The results of the ACRL elections were distributed in the conference folder and are announced elsewhere in this issue. Other officers were introduced: Archie L. McNeal, president of ACRL for 1964-65; Katharine M. Stokes, ACRL past president; and Helen M. Brown, newly-elected ACRL vice presi- dent (president for 1965-66). George M. Bailey, who became ACRL executive secre- tary in November, was also introduced to the membership. Richard K. Gardner reviewed the devel- opment and plans for Choice, which began publication in March. He urged the support of college and university librarians in order to continue the successful beginning of this essential ACRL program. The College Libraries Section members heard a panel discussion on "The Federal Government and College Libraries," mod- erated by Theodore Samore, who sketched the role of the Library Services Division in the U.S. Office of Education and its rela- tionships to college libraries. John F. Stearns explained how the National Referral Center for Science and Technology aids the librari- an (see also CRL, May 1964). Thomas R. Cassidy talked about the interlibrary loan service of the National Library of Medicine. The developments in the United States Gov- ernment's depository program were dis- cussed by Carper W. Buckley. The services of the Library of Congress to college li- braries were noted by Robert H. Land. Ad- ditional comments on each paper were made by William R. Eshelman, Edward C. Heintz, E. J. Josey, and Eli M. Oboler. In his talk about "The Junior College of the Future" at the meeting of the Junior College Libraries Section, Robert T. Jordan emphasized the importance of continuing personal contact between students and li- brarians, applications of the computer and decentralization of the library. The Institute on Rare Books in Natural History, held at the University of Kansas and Linda Hall library in Kansas City, was attended by about eighty persons from a number of professions from liberal arts to the history of medicine. Speakers, including librarians, museum directors, professors, and bookdealers from England, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States, analyzed the bibliographical achievements of the past in natural history, and emphasized the need for future research and updating the methodol- ogy. "The Architect vs. The Librarian: Con- flict and Cooperation in College Library Planning" was the subject explored by Eu- gene Mackey, St. Louis architect, and Ells- worth Mason from the point of view of the architect and librarian respectively. Mr. Mackey told the Teacher Education Librar- ies Section members that a good academic library must function well and be easily maintained. The four subsections of the Subject Spe- cialist Section conducted individual pro- grams. The Art Subsection programs in- cluded an illustrated lecture by Maurice B. McNamee, St. Louis University, on "The Vested Angel in Flemish Paintings," a visit to the library of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, and a discussion of "Modern Art Research Problems and the Periodicals of 334 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Cen- turies" by Arthur H. Minters, art dealer. At the meeting of the Agricultural and Biolog- ical Sciences Subsection, Charles W. Schil- ling, George Washington University, de- scribed the work in the pilot program of the Biological Sciences Communication Project on the compilation of an extensive body of information dealing with aquatic biology. Dr. Martin Cummings, National Library of Medicine, showed a film, "The . Medlars Story" to illustrate his discussion of the theme of library service to users at the research level. The Law and Political Sci- ence Subsection met jointly with the Ameri- can Association of Law Libraries to hear about the Library of Congress classification for Anglo-American law. The Slavic and VETERINARY MEDICINE (Conti nued from page 916) larger colleges required the smallest number of seats and number of volumes. It was not determined whether the gen- eral library provided additional facilities. Some of the smaller colleges, however, were much more ambitious in their stated needs, though it should be said that the two institutions with the highest enroll- ments did require the largest facilities. In addition to the fact that of fourteen libraries all but one served clientele from outside the veterinary college as well as their own, the final point determined was that the hours of service per week were less than for general libraries. The great- est number of hours open per week was 79.5 and the lowest 49, with a median of 62 and an average of 62.8. A question may be raised concerning the amount of related and supporting material that is part of the general library collection and its relationship to the vet- erinary collection. The assumption that much material of this kind does exist in JULY 1964 East European Subsection heard of some experiences in building Slavic research col- lections. The Standards committee held an open meeting to provide an opportunity for junior college librarians and officials and repre- sentatives of the American Association of Junior Colleges to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the ALA Standards for Jun- ior College Libraries. The Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Profes- sional Organizations gathered with St. Louis architects to compare notes on mutual prob- lems. Members of the Urban University Li- braries Committee and guests heard a re- port by Bernard Kreissman on cooperative projects in New York metropolitan libraries. •• either the main or another branch library is supported by the fact that at Kansas State University the veterinary library collection consists primarily of gifts from friends of the veterinary college and books purchased from contributions from . alumni. Almost all purchases from gen- eral library funds are housed in the gen- eral library rather than in the veterinary medicine library. Voluntary statements on the questionnaire such as the following support this further: "The veterinary li- brary in ·general does not duplicate peri- odicals already available in the main li- brary. The majority of periodicals in the field of general science, biology, bacteri- ology, anatomy, physiology, biochemis- try, etc., are kept in the. main library." This survey obviously does not answer all specific questions and was not ·in- tended to approach ·definitiveness. But the general guideline which it suggests does give us at Kansas State University helpful information for planning for the future. •• 335 From the ACRL Executive Secretary NoT SINCE 1956 has CRL included a state- ment referred to as a report of the ACRL executive secretary, although there have been numerous notes of information pro- vided from this office. For several years, Arthur Hamlin, our second executive sec- retary, reported in detail on the activities of ACRL. In my opinion, this was a sound idea-it provided one means of contact be- tween you, the members, and your executive secretary, whose most important function is to aid you in fulfilling your hopes and aspi- rations from the office, now located in the southeast corner of the third floor at 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois. You, the ACRL members, voted to retain the headquarters at this central geographic location of the country. But this central lo- cation will be only a geographic entity un- less there is a constant effort to promote a most important characteristic-communica- tion. I believe that we can assume our re- sponsibilities and accomplish our goals if we communicate with each other. This we do at the Midwinter Meeting and annual conference of ALA; and at our local, state, and regional conferences. Many of us say that there are too many meetings, that the same information is repeated. But as I note our eagerness to meet old friends at con- ventions to discuss mutual problems, and note the lack of knowledge of many of us about what our colleagues are doing, I won- der if we really mean what we say. In my role as your executive secretary, during the periods between meetings, a sig- nificant part of my job is to act as your liaison officer-helping you carry out your programs initiated through your ACRL Board of Directors, six sections, four sub- sections, and approximately fifteen commit- tees. I spend a sizeable share of my time in coordinating committee appointments, nominations, elections, and budget prepara- tion under the supervision of the officers. But I have also detected a constructive con- cern about the total program of ACRL. With your cooperation, we should be able to communicate effectively to continue to build the kind of program we want on the solid foundation established during our first seventy-five years. In order to understand your needs, it is essential that I get to know as many of you as well as possible. Thus, I have been grate- ful for the contacts I've had so far at my first Midwinter Meeting and annual con- ference as executive secretary, at the meet- ings of the Midwest Academic Librarians, the Philadelphia Chapter of ACRL, and the Maine Library Association. I shall be hon- ored to have the opportunity to visit with you at your state and regional meetings to talk either formally or informally about the ACRL and ALA programs. For the record, permit me also to report that a large share of my time is spent in providing consultant service for the profes- sion. In numerous cases I can answer ques- tions directly from my experience or from sources in our headquarters library, but I have found a wealth of information in the other ALA staff members, whose combined experience provides a reservoir of knowl- edge from which all can profit. Nor do I hesitate to refer questions to our officers, committee chairmen, or others of you when I believe the request demands more knowl- edgeable information than we can provide at headquarters. In a third role, I have represented you and ALA members in general at meetings of the A~erican Association of Junior Colleges, With whom we have a growing concern be- cause of the growth of junior colleges, through our Junior College Libraries Section and our ACRL Standards Committee. I have also attended a Colloquium on Experimen- tal Colleges where we heard of experimental programs in ten institutions of higher educa- tion. Each year, the ACRL executive sec- retary attends the Conference of the As- sociation for Higher Education. Finally, the executive secretaries are called upon to work cooperatively in plan- ning ALA activities which cannot be as- signed to any one division or project. For (Continued on page 942) 336 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES News from the Field ACQUISITIONS A PHOTOGRAPHIC COPY of Princeton's In- dex of Christian Art is being acquired by UCLA-one of four copies in existence. The copy will be supplemented annually and should be available to scholars by Spring of 1966. THE Am FoRCE AcADEMY library has re- ceived the Theodore von Karman memorial collection of books and periodicals for its science and technology section. The Aero- space Education Foundation sponsored the collection. THE FIRST BOX of rare books from the Louis H. Silver collection, purchased in May by the Newberry library in Chicago, was opened on May 18. Contents included nineteen Shakespeare quartos. EASTMAN LIBRARY at Tougaloo College has received a copy of the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary (1755) in the original bindings. Donor is Hellen Griffith, former Tougaloo faculty member. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been given the personal papers of Adlai Steven- son, U.S. Ambassador to the United Na- tions, and twice Democratic candidate for President. Already in files in the library are records and correspondence from his presi- dential campaign headquarters; additional papers will be sorted and forwarded to Princeton at a later time. Papers relating to Mr. Stevenson's term as governor of Illinois have already been given to the Illinois State historical library at Springfield, and certain correspondence as head of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations is property of the Federal government. Access to the Princeton papers will be restricted by consent of Mr. Stevenson and the university librarian. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has pur- chased the Tollemache manuscript of Chau- cer's Canterbury Tales, dating from the fifteenth century. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK at Stony Brook has been given a collection of some eight thousand volumes of literary and historical works of the eighteenth, nineteenth, JULY 1964 and twentieth centuries. Donor was Nicholas Kelley, New York attorney. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY libraries has purchased a copy of the New York Times Magazine's January 15, 1961, Kennedy in- auguration issue, autographed by President Kennedy and Robert Frost. Frost's poem composed for the inaugural ceremonies is contained in the issue. THE PAT I. NIXON collection of some two thousand volumes of Texana was dedicated by Trinity University library on June 2. It will be housed in the Chapman graduate center. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LIBRARIES has purchased an Alduous Huxley collection which includes eighty first editions and twenty-one autograph letters and typescripts with author's corrections of Antic Hay and Arabia lnfelix. A society library from Great Britain has been purchased as the foundation of Uni- versity of Houston's Joseph W. Evans me- morial bibliography collection. Funds for the purchase some two hundred seventy-five titles, seventeen hundred volumes, one hun- dred fifty nineteenth- and twentieth-century library and auction catalogs were provided by Mrs. Joseph W. Evans and Mrs. Alice Evans Pratt. Historical bibliography num- bering 237 volumes from other sources, and titles purchased several years ago from the library of the late William H. Burges will be combined with the new purchase. A FIRST EDITION of George Sandys' trans- lation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" has be- come the 1 OO,OOOth volume acquired by the Lipscomb library at Randolph-Macon Wom- an's College at Lynchburg, Va. It was pre- sented to the library by Herbert C. Lips- comb, for whom the library is named. Sandys completed the translation at James- town and the book was published in Eng- land in 1626. THE C. M. DOKE· COLLECTION in the field of African languages has 'been acquired by the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland library in Salisbury, through the generosity of Professor Doke and the Rock- 337 efeller Foundation. More than three thou- sand books, pamphlets, and manuscripts in- cluding some very rare items, first editions, and unpublished works, represent some one hundred twenty languages. AwARDS, GIFTS, SCHOLARSHIPS J. PERIAM DANTON has been awarded a Fulbright Research Scholar grant for an investigation of the origins of the modern scholarly library, working in an institute affiliated with the University of Vienna. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL of librarianship at the University of Denver has made avail- able ten scholarships for the 1964/65 aca- demic year. Five will be for full tuition, and five for half-tuition. The school also has announced five full-time graduate assist- antships paying $3,036 annually, and ten half-time graduate assistantships paying $1,518. CONSEQUENCES FOR AUTOMATION of the newly-developed perforated tape for type- setting will be studied by Inforonics, Inc., of Maynard, Mass., supported by a grant to the Library of Congress from the Council on Library Resources. Information as to standards of conversion to machine-read- able form will be sought, in an attempt to demonstrate that bibliographic information punched into such tape can be reproduced in any form-complete, abridged, typewrit- ten, or printed. Work will begin with cata- log entries, and it is hoped, will progress to application of similar techniques to other forms of bibliographic information. AFRICAN STUDIES AssociATION has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for the production of a comprehensive de- scriptive guide to Africa-related archival and manuscript sources in this country. Prepara_. tion is sponsored by the National Historical Publications Commission under the chair- manship of the Archivest of the United States. The director of the project would appreciate information about the nature and location in this country of little-known sources relating to Africa. Please address correspondence to Morris Rieger, Director, National African Guide Project, National Historical Publications Commission, Nation- al Archives and Records Service, Washing- ton, D.C. 20408. THE AssociATION OF AMERICAN LAw ScHOOLS has received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to study means of improving law school libraries. Miles 0. Price has been named to direct the project. Annotated book selection lists will be prepared-the first, an Anglo-Ameri- can law collection of approximately sixty thousand volumes; later lists will be con- cerned with foreign, international, and com- parative law-describing an "optimum" col- lection of some two hundred thousand vol- umes. INFORMATION PACKAGES for current ar- ticles, each package containing abstracts and a set of index entries; are being studied by Herner and Company, Washington, D.C., under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Between two and three hun- dred of these modular content analyses will be prepared for articles on heat transfer during the course of the feasibility study. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- TURE's Superior Service Award has been presented to the assistant director for pub- lic services of the National Agricultural Library, Angelina J. Carabelli. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY school of library service will award all-expense scholarships to. outstanding college graduates and fellow- ships to young college instructors during the next three years, using funds from a $275,- 000 grant made by the Rockefeller Foun- dation. Grant funds also will be used to bring visiting faculty and guest lecturers to the school and to allow faculty to visit and study new developments in other library sch9ols. Workshops and conferences are be- ing planned, and materials, equipment and furnishings for the school will be purchased. Further information about the scholar- ships and fellowships may be obtained from Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, Dean of the At- lanta University School of Library Services. Guy R. LYLE, director of libraries at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., received an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree at the Spring Convocation of the University of Al- berta, Edmonton. Mr. Lyle gave the con- vocation address on May 29. BOWDOIN COLLEGE LIBRARY has received a gift of $1,000 from an anonymous do- nor to establish a Class of 1825 Book Fund. The fund is open for additions from anyone who may be interested. 338 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES BoWDOIN CoLLEGE has been granted $2,480 for the purchase of back files of mathematical journals, by the National Sci- ence Foundation. BOSTON UNIVERSITY will receive double the total of contributions to its Central Li- brary Campaign Fund made by Rhode Is- land alumni, because of a "matching" con- tribution by a Rhode Island charitable foun- dation which prefers anonymity. THE COMMITTEE OF THE PERMANENT CHARITY FuND of Boston has awarded $45,000 to Boston University for its Central Library Campaign Fund, and has made a second grant of $15,000 for strengthening the libraries' collections for humanities and social sciences. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S projected new medical library in St. Louis will have a con- ference and browsing room furnished by past students and colleagues to honor Dr. Margaret Smith, professor of pathology. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY graduate school of library service has received from the Nation- al Science Foundation a grant of $30,500 for continuing a seminar series on Systems of Intellectual Organization of Information. Three seminars were held under a previous grant in 1963-64; a fourth is planned for November or December. THE GRADUATE ART HISTORY AssociA- TION at Columbia University has established the Mary W. Chamberlin memorial fund in honor of the fine arts librarian of the uni- versity. Books purchased with the fund will carry a book plate inscribed in her memory. The fund is open for contributions, which should be sent to the association in care of the Department of Art History and Arche- ology, Columbia University. NoRms FELLAND has received the Special Libraries Association geography and map division's honors award for 1964. Miss Fel- land has been librarian of the American Geographical Society since 1944. THE CENTER FOR DocuMENTATION and COMMUNICATION RESEARCH at Western Re- serve University has received a grant of $74,000 from the National Science Founda- tion to continue research in automatic proc- essing for information retrieval, looking to- ward the development of a set of rules for automatic indexing. WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY'S school JULY 1964 of library science will make a grant of $4,000 for 1964-65 to a graduate assistant holding a master's degree in library science who wishes to work toward the PhD. A scholarship of $1,428 covering full tuition for two semesters plus a summer is available to a person holding a bachelor's degree who wishes to study for the master's in library science. LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE, Portland, Ore., has been given a grant of $1,500 by the Council on Library Resources for the preparation of an annotated bibliography of materials on Japan, for the use of under- graduates participating in its overseas pro- gram. The bibliography will be prepared by Hideo Kashimoto, chairman of the depart- ment of religion. LILLY ENDOWMENT of Indianapolis, Ind., has made a gift of $25,000 towards the new , Library Company of Philadelphia building. MRs. LuciLLE JACKSON STRAuss of Penn- sylvania State University's College of Chem- istry and Physics library received a Special Libraries Association Achievement Award- a silver bowl, in recognition of her work on Technical Libraries: Their Organization and Management, published in 1951. JoiNT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, Nashville, have received a grant of $10,000 from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the purchase of Portuguese books and journals. THE LIBRARY SERVICES BRANCH became officially a Division of U.S.O.E. in May. Its new name-Division of Library Services. SPECIAL LIBRARIES AssociATION has cho- sen four librarians for the SLA Hall of Fame: Joan M. Fertig was head of Techni- cal Information at Westinghouse Research Laboratories from 1929 to 1964; Margaret Hatch was chief librarian in the Pacific Coast head office of Metropolitan Life In- surance Company, San Francisco, for twen- ty-nine years before retiring in 1959; Mary Jane Henderson was librarian of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada in Montreal for thirty years before 1960; and Marion· E. Wells, librarian of the First Na- tional Bank of Chicago from 1931 to 1961. THE COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES has granted $5,000 to the U.S. National Bureau of Standards to further a small scale investigation of automatic indexing. 339 BuiLDINGS PRELIMINARY PLANNING for the Falconer Biology library at Stanford University is under way. The biological sciences center, in which the library will occupy the top floor of the teaching wing, will be started in the summer of 1965. THE MARINE HisToRICAL AssociATION has broken ground for its new $450,000 li- brary at Mystic Seaport, Conn. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S new $2,300,000 research library will provide space for six hundred thousand volumes and seating for six hundred readers in its six stories. Con- struction will start this autumn. THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA libraries at Athens has available some two million dol- lars for construction of a science library. NoRTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has an- nounced that construction of its projected $9,800,000 "laboratory" library building will start in the Spring of 1965, and should be completed in two years. The new build- ing will more than triple the capacity of the present Deering library, to which it will be joined by a common entrance way. Three four-story pavilions are linked together over a common first floor and basement to pro- vide a total of three hundred thirty-seven thousand square feet of space for some three thousand student readers and two hundred faculty, a noncirculating core col- lection of about fifty to seventy-five thou- sand volumes, and a research collection of approximately one million volumes, to be shelved in radial stacks. The library plan was developed by an eight-member planning committee. According to reports from North- western, "consultants did not agree with the committee in some of its conclusions." A GIFT of $1,250,000 from the Gardner Cowles Foundation has been announced by Drake University, for enlargement of Cowles library. A preliminary grant of $50,000 was made last spring to finance a study of the proposed expansion. The library now has one-hundred twenty-seven thousand volumes and the projected enlargement would pro- vide space for a total collection of some two-hundred seventy-five thousand books. A TWO-MILLION-DOLLAR library and mili- tary museum is being planned for Fort Knox as a center for historical and military re- search in armored warfare. GROUND WAS BROKEN on July 1 for the John XXIII library at St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans. Construction should be completed by early fall of 1965. The four story building will triple the floor space of the present library and house some one- hundred twenty-five thousand volumes in- cluding the Brunot collection on Louisiana, at a cost of some $600,000. THE PROJECTED new Clark University library will be a memorial to the late Rob- ert Hutchings Goddard, pioneer space sci- entist. Preliminary plans call for eighty-two thousand square feet of space, housing five- hundred thousand volumes and study space for six hundred or more students. The uni- versity, in Worcester, Mass., hopes that construction will be complete by 1968. DEMAREST LIDRARY of Hobart and Wil- liam Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y., on May 16 dedicated a new wing which doubles the floor space formerly ·available. The $430,- 000 addition was opened in January. NEW YoRK UNIVERSITY has announced a library and study center project for the Washington Square Center; the library will have a two-million-volume capacity, and study accommodations for three thousand students. Groundbreaking ceremonies with- in the year are hoped for. The university's 1964/65 basic book budget has been in- creased by a half-million dollars, and a ten- million-dollar "catch up" fund will be avail- able for book acquisition between 1965 and 1973. C. W. PosT CoLLEGE has announced plans for a $3,500,000 library to house six hundred thousand volumes on its Green- vale, L.I., Campus. DICKINSON COLLEGE, Carlisle, Pa., will give priority to the building of a new li- brary as a part of its development and ex- pansion plan for the next ten years. Space for expanding the present collection of one hundred thirty thousand volumes to three hundred thousand and study accommoda- tions for five hundred students will be sought. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY is planning a four- level building with a capacity of six hundred thousand volumes. Cost of the Waco, Tex., campus structure is estimated at $2,800,000. · SHEPHERD COLLEGE broke ground in April for a new library to cost $650,000. Present plans call for increasing the present 340 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES collection of thirty-seven thousand volumes to one hundred four thousand within the next fifteen years. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA in Canberra has contracted for the first stage of a new building to provide space for one and a quarter million volumes. The current construction will cost $7,800,000. CAMERON LIBRARY of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, a six-story building to house more than half a million volumes and accommodate more than a thousand read- ers, was dedicated on May 28. MISCELLANY The Colorado Academic Library is a new quarterly publication of the College and University Section of the Colorado Library Association. Edited by Royce Butler of the University of Denver, this publication is running from eighteen to twenty-four pages per issue and is neatly reproduced from typescript. It contains both news items from the Colorado academic library scene and substantive articles by Colorado librarians. To our knowledge it is the only state journal addressing itself to the needs just of college and university libraries, and we wish it well. AVAILABLE for the cost of transportation from University of Colorado libraries at Boulder are the following Russian news- papers from mid-1961 to early 1964. Please address all inquiries to Miss Marcy Murphy, Serials Librarian at University of Colorado, Boulder 80204. Bakinskii Rabochii Ekonomicheskaia Gazeta-1961 Gudok Kazakhstanskaia Pravda Krasnaia Zvezda Kommunist Tadzhikistana Pravda Ukrainy Pravda Vostoka Sel'skaia Zhizn' Sovetskaia Belorussia Sovetskaia Estonia Sovetskaia Kirghizia Sovetskaia Latvia Sovetskaia Litva Sovetskaia Moldaviia Sovetskaia Rossia Trud Turkmenskaia Iskra Zaria Vostoka JULY 1964 THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO and Edu- cational Facilities Laboratories will sponsor a one-week institute on library building con- sulting at University of Colorado, Boulder, on August 10-14. The institute will be di- rected by Ralph E. Ellsworth; guest lecturers will be Keyes Metcalf and William Jesse. SPECIAL LIBRARIES AssOCIATION officers for 1964/65 are William S. Budington, president; Aileen Thompson, president-elect; Lorna M. Daniells, chairman, Advisory Council; Herbert S. White, chairman-elect, Advisory Council; Jean E. Flegal, treasur- er; and William K. Beatty and Kenneth N. Metcalf, directors. THE AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION, work- ing with a grant from the Council on Li- brary Resources, has developed a set of magnetic tapes of the full text of some five thousand appellate court decisions in full text, for use in experiments in automated in- formation retrieval. In making these tapes widely available for research purposes, the foundation project believes that compara- tive testing of retrieval systems may be fa- cilitated by use of the same data base. Tapes are available at cost of tape and machine copying time. Interested persons should write to the American Bar Foundation, 1155 East Sixtieth St., Chicago 60637. "IMPLEMENTING THE JuNIOR CoLLEGE LIBRARY STANDARDS," by Norman E. Tanis, appeared in the March 1961 issue of CRL, and has now been reprinted. Single copies at no charge and multicopy orders at 20¢ per copy are available from CRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. The Union List of Periodicals in the Col- lege and Special Libraries of Greater Spring- field, Massachusetts, available from Evelyn Jackson, American International College Li- brary, Wilbraham Road, Springfield 9, Mass., includes dates and volumes, broken files, and locates approximately two thou- sand periodicals. Union List of Serials for Mid-America in Libraries of Greater Kansas City and Sec- tions of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas (2d edition) was compiled by Idris Smith and published by SLA's Heart of America chapter. The two volumes are available from Miss Smith at the Business and Technical Dept., Kansas City Public Library, 311 East 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. 64106. "THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR in the British 341 Sessional Papers" is available as a reprint, gratis, from Readex Microprint Corpora- tion. The original article and catalog ap- peared in the October 1963 issue of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. MouNT SAINT JosEPH CoLLEGE is the new name of Mount Saint Joseph Teachers College of Buffalo, N.Y. AVAILABLE FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION is a pamphlet, "Combat- ting Undemocratic Pressures on Local Schools and Libraries." Price is 10¢ each with 20 per cent discount for 25 or more copies; 40 per cent discount for 100 or more copies. Address of the Union in 156 Fifth Ave., New York 10. THE PAPERS OF STEPHEN GIRARD--esti- mated at one million pieces-including let- ter books, ledgers, account books, and other EXECUTIVE SECRETARY (Continu ed f rom pag e 336) example, I am serving on a staff liaison com- mittee which is helping to plan a program to follow up the activities of last year's Con- ference-Within-A-Conference. In summary, as Grace Stevenson stated this past Midwinter, the ALA staff hopes to provide the closest thing to a "corporate memory of your organization." When we request that something be done, it is because we are attempting to follow your direction as members. Mr. Castagna, our ALA president for 1964/ 65, states that "ALA is like a large army that moves on many fronts .... "The position and role of our division, with its members, in this movement depends on your constructive support. I am honored by your confidence in my ability to carry out the assignment. After records, about four fifths of which have been organized by Girard College librarians, will be filmed by the American Philosoph- ical Society of Philadelphia so as to be avail- able to scholars. The papers have been pre- served "in a room at the school for orphan boys" established under the terms of Mr. Girard's will. CLEMSON CoLLEGE in South Carolina be- came Clemson University on July 1. A UNION LIST OF PERIODICALS received by the nine Wisconsin state college libraries has been compiled by Richard Cooklock of Wisconsin State College, River Falls. BRITISH STANDARD, B.S. 3700, published by the Society of Indexers provides detailed guidance for preparing or using indexes. Price is 10 shillings, from BSI Sales Branch, 2 Park St., London W 1, England. •• eight months, I am feeling humbled by what is expected of me. However, I also believe that we can succeed in ·accomplishing our goals if we communicate with each other, as members of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and with librarians from other types of libraries, either by you locally or through our contacts with the other divisions here at ALA headquarters. In doing this, we shall continue to have con- flicts, but we can solve our differences, not by avoiding them, but by facing them squarely. A real source of satisfaction has been the understanding of our officers and com- mittee chairmen during my first year in the ACRL office. With this continuing expert advice, I am sure that I shall be able to serve effectively as your executive secretary. I shall be grateful if I can do that for you.- George M. Bailey. • • 342 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The president of the University of Toron- to has announced the appointment of REG- INALD BRIAN LAND, associate librarian of the University of To- ronto, as director of the University of To- ronto library school. Mr. Land has been on leave of absence for one year from the University as ex- ecutive assistant to the Minister of Fi- nance, in Ottawa. Mr. Land gradu- ated in .1949 from Mr. Land the University of To- ronto obtaining his B.A. with honors in political science and economics. In 1953 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Library Science with honors from the University of Toronto library school, and in 1956 he received the Mas- ter's degree in library science. In 1963 he was awarded his Master of Arts degree in political science. Since 1959 Mr. Land has been on the staff of the library of the UI;liversity of Toronto. Before that he was in the reference department of the Toronto public library and for one year he was in charge of the business and industry division of the Wind- sor public library. From Windsor he went to Montreal as associate editor of Canadian Business Magazine. Since joining the staff of the University of Toronto he has been a special lecturer at the library school giving an elective course on college and uni- versity libraries. Mr. Land has taken a prominent part in the affairs of professional organizations. In 1962-63 he was president of the Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario; vice president of the Ontario Library Associa- tion and a member of the Council of the Canadian Library Association. He brings to his new appointment varied, practical ex- perience and an awareness of the library needs of Canada.-Bertha Bassam. JULY 1964 Personnel BENJAMIN B. RICHARDS is the new li- brarian at Chatham College, succeeding Arthur L. Davis, who has retired. Dr. Davis served the Pennsyl- vania College for Women (Chatham College since 1953) for fifteen years, during which time the size of the stu- dent body, faculty, and collections more than doubled. As Chatham has pros- pered so has her li- brary, the James Mr. Richards Laughlin memorial library, increased in the range and depth of collections and ser- vices. Mr. Richards brings to his new job en- ergy, educational and administrative back- ground, and a strong conviction that the library should permeate and strengthen the entire curriculum. He has degrees from the . State College of Iowa, A.B. 1939; Western Reserve University, B.S. in L.S. 1941; the Claremont Graduate School, M.A. 1951; and has studied at the graduate library school of the University of Chicago. He is past chairman of the College Li- braries section of ACRL and present chair- man of the Teacher Education Libraries sec- tion. He has served ACRL on the Founda- tion Grants Committee and the editorial board of College and Research Libraries. A former member of the Illinois and the Kan- sas Library Associations, he is now on the Membership Committee of the Pennsylvania Library Association. Richards is proud of having helped to establish the successful Midwest Academic Librarians Conference. At Knox College from 1946 through 1958, Richards edited The Step Ladder, a quarterly poetry journal; his California Gold Rush Merchant, the journal of Stephen Chapin Davis (San Marino: The Hunting- ton Library, 1956), toured the United States in the Best Western Book Exhibit of 1957. He has also served as librarian and profes- 343 sor, chairman of the division of library -edu- cation and services, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and was chairman of the William Allen White Children's Book Award, 1958-1963. Mr. Richards is married to a former librarian and has a Mount Hol- yoke College daughter. RuTHERFORD D. RoGERs: What manner of man is this? Great intellectual curiosity and integrity Scholarly exactness but never didactic Independent of thought and action Ready grasp of complex issues Sound in judgment Discerning mind Fair and loyal Intolerant of shoddy work Quick to recognize and praise merit A hard driver-of himself most of all High professional competence Devoted to duty Incisive in action Concise yet fluent in speech and writing Scornful of subterfuge, straightforward Warm in manner Twinkling good humor Interested in others Kind and courteous .... These are some of RDR's characteristics. Plainly LC's loss is Stanford's gain. A dancer of grace and a man of taste, he loves good music, good theater, and good books. A gour- met, he savors fine food and vintage wines. He appreci- ates feminine pul- chritude-in fact, all the finer things in life. He's a bon vi- vant, but don't let him fool you-that Mr. Rogers glass in his hand probably has sparkling water in it. He's al- so a terror on the tennis court, being known to sprawl full length (thereby spraining a wrist) in an effort to return a difficult serve. (Don't worry, Stanford; he's insured.) Iowa's gift to librarianship, Rudy marched off with honors at the State College of Iowa (B.A.) and at Columbia (M.A. in Eng- lish and comparative lit. and B.S. in L.S.) --even at the Army Air Force's Cryp- tography School-and in 1958 he received SCI's Alumni Achievement Award for Out- standing Leadership in the Profession of the Alumnus. In 19 3 7, while still in library school, he began his career in library work as an assistant at NYPL. He served in the Columbia college library (1938-48) as ref- erence assistant, acting librarian, librarian, and librarian-on-leave, with time out ( 1942- 46) to rise from private to captain in the AAF. After a fling as a research analyst in investment banking, Rudy returned to the fold in 1952, when he became director of the Grosvenor library in Buffalo. Four years later he became director of the Rochester public library and of the Monroe County library system. NYPL reclaimed him as chief of the personnel office in January 1954, and in February 1955 he was made chief of the reference department, the post he left in December 19 57 to become deputy Librarian of Congress (then chief assistant Librarian of Congress). The first of Septem- ber 1964 he will take up his new duties as director of Stanford University libraries. He has traveled widely and (watch him , Stanford) has a taste for it. Official business and the affairs of the many professional or- ganizations, to which he devotes his time and energy unstintingly, have taken him abroad from time to time. He was, for ex- ample, a member of the U.S. library delega- tion that visited the USSR in 1961 and in February of this year he attended the UNESCO-sponsored Manila Seminar on N a- tiona! Libraries in Asia and the Pacific area. His restless feet have carried him repeat- edly over the thirty-six acres of floor space occupied by LC and he has probably come as near as anybody to walking along all 270 miles of LC's book shelves, snapping his finger rhythmically as he goes. (He was a professional drummer in his college days- did you know?-and he still beats out rhythms heard only to himself.) What he doesn't know, he quickly ac- quires. His grasp of computer technology and the possibilities of applying it to li- brary problems is a case in point. He worked very closely and fruitfully with the team that reported on Automation and the Library of Congress. No armchair librarian, he attends meet- ings all over LC and investigates conditions 344 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES from the cellar to the roof. It is no wonder that he is widely known and, in turn, per- sonally knows many, many staff members. His door is always open to them. He is, in fact, liked and respected by the "littlest" li- brarian to the most august Member of Con- gress. Other major assets: his lovely wife, Mar- garet, and engaging ·sixteen-year-old daugh- ter, Jane. LC can ill afford to lose the Rogers. We part with them with deepest reluctance and regret, while wishing them the fullest mea- sure of happiness and success, which they so richly deserve.-Elizabeth E. Hamer and L. Quincy Mumford. The announcement was made recently of the appointment of BASIL STUART-STUBBS to the position of librarian of the University of British Columbia to succeed Jim Ranz. It is singularly appro- priate that a univer- sity as comparatively young and academ- ically vigorous as UBC should at this stage in its rapid ex- pansion have as its librarian the young- est appointee ever in its forty-odd-year history, Mr. Stuart- Mr. Stuart-Stubbs Stubbs is thirty-three. His appointment is a promotion from the ranks and in this respect he has set another precedent because he is the first of six li- brarians to be selected from the existing li- brary staff. Mr. Stuart-Stubbs is a native of Moncton, New Brunswick, where he grew up. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1952 with first class honors in philosophy. He did graduate work in li- brarianship at McGill University library school where he was awarded his BLS in 1954. He served a term as reference librar- ian in the McGill University library before returning to Vancouver in 1956. At the UBC library he served successively in sev- eral departments: cataloging, serials, and special collections where he was head of division. His most recent appointments were as administrative assistant to the librarian in 1961-62, and as supervisor of collections in JULY 1964 1963-while continuing to serve as head of his division. Mr. Stuart-Stubbs is the author of a few articles in librarianship; his editorial time has been spent in recent years on the ed- itorship of the British Columbia Library Quarterly, a position he relinquished on his new appointment this year. In 1962 he re- ceived a grant from the Canada Council to gather material for a forthcoming book on the historical cartography of Canada, a sub- ject close to his heart. (The influence of his former chief, Neal Harlow, whose early in- terest was the historical cartography of San Francisco, may be suspected here.) He is a member of many library associations and holds office in a number of committees. He is married to the former Nancy Bal- lard, of Seattle, herself a librarian and also a graduate in library science from McGill. They have two daughters.-Robert M. Ham- . ilton. CARSON W. BENNETT, formerly chief li- brarian at Rose Polytechnic Institute, be- came director of the library at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, last November. Mr. Bennett brings to his new position many years of library ad- ministration and a knowledge of library procedures which will enable him to move forward the program at Heidel- berg. A native of Indi- ana, Mr. Bennett re- Mr. Bennett ceived his AB degree at Butler University, the MA at Indiana State College (Terre Haute), and his profes- sional library degree from George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. His experience has been in a number of libraries. He was li- brarian of the Indiana Boys School, 1940- 41, and WPA project supervisor, Charles- town, Ind., 1941-42. During the years 1942- 45 he served his country as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. Upon discharge from the service, he became senior reference li- brarian at the Indianapolis public library, which position he held during the period 1945-48. He was appointed circulation li- 345 brarian at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) and contributed greatly to an expanding library program at that institution from 1948-1950. Going to Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1950, Bennett remained for a period of thirteen years, until accepting his present appointment at Heidelberg. The library at Rose Polytechnic Institute, an undergradu- ate college primarily for engineering stu- dents, was greatly improved during his ad- ministration. The collections were expand- ed, additional library space acquired, and services to students and faculty improved. It was the excellence of Mr. Bennett's work at Rose which resulted in his appointment at Heidelberg. Knowing something of his personality, his devotion to duty, and his knowledge of library problems, this writer predicts for Heidelberg College a highly suc- cessful administration under Mr. Bennett. He has published in professional journals. Mr. Bennett is married to the former Pauline Kerns and they have two children, Sarah, 16, and Nancy, 8.-Clyde Hull Can- trell. APPOINTMENTS ELVI AER is now a member of the acqui- sitions department of University of Toronto library. MRs. AFSAR AHMED has joined the ac- quisitions staff of University of Toronto library. JoHN L. ALLEN has been appointed as- sistant reference librarian at Western Wash- ington State College in Bellingham. MRs. JEANNETTE E. ANTON is in the cir- culation department at University of Toron- to library. JuDY AusTIN has been named to the cata- log staff at Joint University Libraries, Nash- ville, to start in August. EILEEN CALDWELL has been appointed to the science and medicine department of Uni~ersity of Toronto library. LYALL CAMPBELL has joined the Uni- versity of Toronto library's reference de- partment. IAN R. CARR-HARRIS is now with the cat- alog department of University of Toronto library. CLA,UDIA CARTER has accepted a position as serials librarian at University of South Florida, Tampa. MEGAN CoFFEY is a new staff member of the University of Toronto circulation de- partment. CLAUDE CowAN has been named assistant divinity librarian in the Joint University Li- braries, Nashville, Tenn. MRs. JANET CURRAN has been appointed to the University of Toronto library, circu- lation department. MIRIAM DoNOHOE is assistant librarian at ALA headquarters library. PATRICIA DURANCE is a new appointee in the University of Toronto reference depart- ment. MUDITE EKSTEINS has been appointed to the University of Toronto library's catalog department. L. THOMAS FRAZIER has been appointed head catalog librarian at Western Wash- ington State College, Bellingham. CHESTER R. GouGH has been appointed deputy librarian at Washington University school of medicine, St. Louis. JOHN GRANTIER is acquisitions librarian at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. JESSIE GRIFFIN has been named head of the circulation department of the Woman's College library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. MRs. RACHEL GROVER is a member of the rare books department staff at Univer- sity of Toronto library. JAMEs D. HANNA is now acquisitions li- brarian at Western Washington State Col- lege, Bellingham. JOHN HEINZKILL has been appointed ref- erence librarian at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. MRS. DIANE HENDERSON is newly ap- pointed to the catalog department of Uni- versity of Toronto library. CHLORYS ELGIE HEWETT has been named assistant catalog librarian at University of Houston (Tex.). MRS. ROWENA HIBBITTS began on June 1 as circulation librarian in the Peabody di- vision of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville. 346 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ALFRED HoDINA has accepted the posi- tion of science librarian at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, Troy, N.Y. DAVID Hu has been appointed cataloger and curator of the East Asian collection at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. BILL IsoM is with Booth library at East- ern Illinois University. PHYLLIS E. JAYNES ·is now librarian of General Motors Institute at Flint, Mich. KARIN KATTAI has joined the acquisitions department of University