College and Research Libraries Among the press- General ing publication needs outlined by the R e f - erence Librarians Subsection at the San Francisco conference was that of a current biography service. T h e H . W . Wilson Company has just begun the publication of such a service. It will be cumulated monthly and feature national and inter- national names of the day. It is interest- ing to note that Who's Who in America has also begun the publication of a loose leaf current biography service entitled Who's Who in the News and In the News and Why. Columbia LTniver- East sity Library, C . C . Williamson, direc- tor, is opening a lending library of popu- lar current books in fiction, travel, biog- raphy, literature, etc., for the benefit of members of the university teaching, ad- ministrative, and maintenance staffs, their immediate families, and registered stu- dents. T h e service will be supported by a low per diem charge for the rental of the books. T h e recently dedicated Babson Insti- tute Library and W o r k Laboratory at Babson Park, Mass., is a red brick, Georgian Colonial structure. T h e build- ing was planned to bring about the closest possible relationship between the students and the books which they will need to use. T h e two main floors and basement contain work offices or individual studies for junior and senior students, the pe- riodical and reference room, a series of faculty and student conference rooms, staff offices and work rooms, and a browsing room for recreational reading, as well as an assembly hall with projection equip- ment for visual education and a book shop. News from T h e University of Maine Alumni As- sociation has begun a campaign to raise funds to assist in financing a $400,000 library building program to replace the thirty-three year old, overcrowded Car- negie building. T h e projected building will conform to the Georgian Colonial red brick construction used in other recent additions to the campus at Orono, will be three stories high, and designed to seat about 30 per cent of the student body. E . A . Funke, a notable book collector of Riverdale, N . Y . , has given to M a n - hattan College of N e w Y o r k City a col- lection of rare books which includes a copy of the Estienne Greek N e w Testament of 1 5 5 0 , Verdizotti's Aesop's Fables, the Hamburg, Germany, Criminal Code of 1 5 8 0 , the Henry W . Poor copy of the Roman Missal from the Plantin Press printed in 1686, and other rare and un- usual volumes. T h e College of the City of N e w Y o r k is to receive $ 3 7 , 2 5 0 in book funds orig- inally donated to its predecessor, the Free Academy, ninety years ago and since then held by the N e w Y o r k Board of Educa- tion. T h i s fund was originally donated by Ephraim Holbrook who died in 1 8 5 2 leaving $5000, and Seth Grosvenor who died in 1 8 5 6 leaving $30,000. M r . Gros- venor in his will expressed the hope "that such books may always be selected as to be useful in reforming the rising genera- tion." University of Vermont's L i b r a r y at Burlington has recently assembled for dis- play twenty-four of the thirty-one volumes listed by the first president of the univer- sity as being books in its original college library. These reference books were 176 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field available to students in the year 1800. T h e y include largely editions of the Bible, volumes of sermons, a copy of the Greek minor poets, and one or two volumes of Joseph Priestley's experiments. John H a y Library at B r o w n Univer- sity, Providence, R . I . has recently com- pleted a new wing providing stack space for 150,000 books, two new reading rooms, and a new circulation room. One of the reading rooms is known as the Reuben Aldredge Guild Room, in honor of the librarian who served from 1848 to 1893, and is equipped with deep-cushioned chairs for recreational reading. T h e divisions of social studies and the humanities will have reading rooms with adjacent semi- nars for faculty and students in this sec- tion. T h e Washington Square Book Club of the Washington Square College Library of N e w Y o r k University recently began its sixth year with an informal talk by George Stevens, then editor of the Satur- day Review of Literature, on the policies which governed his choice of books and re- viewers. M r . Stevens, now with J . B. Lippincott Company, was asked many questions about his selection of re- viewers. It is interesting to note in connection with Washington Square Library that the card catalogs in the biology and chemistry libraries which heretofore have been in classified form, are being made over into dictionary catalogs in order to promote their use among students and faculty. Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., is de- veloping a general working collection of materials relating to General Lafayette for whom the college was named in 1824. T h e collection includes some of his orig- inal letters, autographed manuscripts, portraits, busts, etchings, and engravings of scenes from his life. T h e collection already numbers several thousand items, including a special gift from the American Friends of Lafayette who have made the college their official depository. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N . Y . , has begun a campaign among its trustees, alumni, faculty, and students to raise $200,000 for a new library building. T h e structure is to be of red brick, Georgian style, with two stories and a basement. T h e three stacks will in- clude thirty carrels for individual workers. Colby College, Waterville, M e . , re- cently marked its first Library D a y by laying the cornerstone of a new library building to be erected on the Mayflower Hill Campus two miles from the present campus. In the morning, E d w a r d F . Stevens, former librarian and director of the School of Library Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, spoke on " T h e Function of the Library in the Liberal Arts College." In the after- noon, Robert B. Downs, director of libraries, N e w Y o r k University, former librarian at Colby College ( 1 9 2 9 - 3 1 ) , led a round table discussion on the subject of " T h e Library—the Focus of the Class- room." T h e University of Middle West Wisconsin, M a d i - son, has completed the erection of a new law school library with accommodations for 120,000 books. M o r e than 200 law school students re- cently set aside their canes and legal decorum and aided by the dean, Lloyd K . Garrison, and other faculty members car- MARCH, 1940 177 ried the first load of 40,000 law books from their own cramped quarters to the new building. T h e library addition pro- vides space for a reading room holding 1 5 0 students, six faculty offices, and a seminar. A collection of law etchings donated by the father of Professor Charles Bunn of the l a w school faculty will be hung on the walls of the seminar room. T h e establishment South of a new research d e p o s i t o r y , t h e Propaganda and Promotion Archives, at the Library of Washington and Lee Uni- versity, Lexington, V a . , has been an- nounced. T h e new archives collection has been jointly organized by the li- brarian, Foster Mohrhardt, and O. W . Riegel, director of L e e Journalism Foun- dation. T h e archives will be housed on the ground floor of the college library and will be cross indexed and made easily accessible for use. Some 10,000 items have been acquired thus f a r , largely from the European countries at w a r . T h e General Education Board of N e w Y o r k City has made a grant of $ 5 5 , 2 5 0 to provide a union catalog of library facilities in the following five educational institutions in G e o r g i a : Emory Univer- sity and Georgia School of Technology at A t l a n t a ; Agnes Scott College and Colum- bia Theological Seminary at D e c a t u r ; and the University of Georgia, at Athens. T w o permanent copies of the union catalog will- be available, one at Emory University, Atlanta, and the other at University of Georgia, Athens. T h e union catalog will not be restricted to the five institutional libraries but will in- clude facilities of many other independent libraries in the state. Duplicate copies of catalog cards of all acquisitions will be sent by these institutions. T h e aim of this undertaking is to make available to graduate students all of the library facili- ties in the Atlanta area. Representatives from each school will form an executive committee for the administration of the project. University of North Carolina, Chapel H i l l , has received from the library of its former head of the department of biology, Henry van Peters Wilson, an unusual col- lection of 200 books and monographs, and 7000 unbound pamphlets and reprints re- lating to the field of zoology. A t the University of South Carolina at Columbia, the cornerstone of a new $670,000 library was laid by the repre- sentatives of the G r a h d Lodge of Masons of South Carolina on Founders' D a y , J a n u a r y 10, 1940. T h e 1 2 0 0 volume law library assembled by the late J o h n J . Howe, Carrollton, K y . , has been given to the University of Kentucky L a w Library. T h i s comprises complete sets of Kentucky session laws. U n i v e r s i t y of Southwest T e x a s Library, Aus- tin, has recently strengthened its Latin-American collection with the purchase of the M u n o z collection of Chilean history, biography and bibliog- raphy amounting in all to over 1000 vol- umes. Edith Anthony, Personnel graduate of Carnegie L i b r a r y S c h o o l , Pittsburgh, Pa., and circulation assistant at the Pennsylvania State College, has re- signed to accept a position as librarian of the Westinghouse Electric and M a n u f a c - turing Company of Pittsburgh. J u l i a n P. Boyd, graduate of Duke Uni- 178 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES versity and librarian and editor of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania since 1 9 3 5 , has been appointed librarian of Princeton University Library. Frances E . Church, librarian, W a r d - Belmont J u n i o r College, Nashville, T e n n . since 1929, died recently. Miss Church, a graduate of D r u r y College and South- west Missouri State Teachers College, re- ceived her library training at Illinois •and Columbia University School of Library Service. Prior to starting her work at Ward-Belmont, she was assistant librarian at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and acting librarian at Peru State Teachers College, Peru, Neb. M r s . Clarence S. Cleasby, J r . , a gradu- ate of Pembroke in 1939, and W i l l i s F . Eastman, J r . , graduate of Brown 1 9 3 9 , have been appointed assistants of the cir- culation department at Brown University Library, Providence, R . I . J . Howard Dice, librarian, University of Pittsburgh, since 1920, passed away in December after a long illness. M r . Dice graduated from the University of Pitts- burgh and from the N e w Y o r k State Library School. Prior to becoming li- brarian at the University of Pittsburgh, he was on the staff at Ohio State L i - brary and librarian for the U . S. W a r Department. M a r t h a A . Foster, graduate of Drake University and Columbia University School of Library Service, and M r s . Royal Gladding, formerly of Middlebury Col- lege ( V t . ) Library, and graduate of Simmons College Library School, have been appointed to the catalog department of B r o w n University Library. M r s . Louise Heinz, supervisor of the Institute of the Fine Arts Library of N e w Y o r k University, is on leave of ab- sence from November 1 9 3 9 to September 1940. Her place will be filled by the temporary appointment of Mildred Stein- bach who has had professional library training at Columbia University and graduate work in fine arts at N e w Y o r k University. Miss Steinbach will be on leave from the Fine Arts Library of Vas- sar College. Recent appointments to the faculty at the Library School of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge include Nor- ris M c C l e l l a n and Janet A g n e w . Miss M c C l e l l a n who will teach school library administration and book selection is a graduate of Louisiana State University and Columbia University School of L i - brary Service and was formerly high school librarian at Port Washington, L . I . and Scarsdale, N . Y . She was consultant for Gaylord Brothers for two years. Miss A g n e w was formerly a member of M c G i l l University Library staff and on the faculty of M c G i l l University L i - brary School. She will teach history of books and libraries, and bibliography. M r s . Dorothy E . Spofford, on leave of absence at Vassar College Library for a year, has returned to B r o w n University to become librarian of Pembroke College. Katharine M . Stokes, Simmons College Library School '28, and circulation li- brarian of the Pennsylvania State College Library since 1 9 3 1 , is on leave of absence from February to M a y to serve as refer- ence librarian at Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, Pa. Laurence E . Tomlinson, who has been appointed librarian of Phillips University, Enid, Okla., will also serve as adviser to men on the campus. In connection with his new duties, he plans a special guidance program for the freshman class including study skills and habits, social etiquette, and (Continued on page 202) MARCH, 1940 18 7 A Nation-wide Study of Junior College Terminal Education PLANS HAVE been recently completed f o r a nation-wide study of education at the j u n i o r college level, w i t h specific reference to terminal courses. T h e study w i l l include both general education and vocational education. T h e study is being carried f o r w a r d by a special commission created by the A m e r i - can Association of J u n i o r Colleges. M e m b e r s of the commission i n c l u d e : D o a k S . C a m p b e l l , chairman, dean of the G r a d u a t e School, P e a b o d y C o l l e g e for T e a c h e r s , N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . W a l t e r C . E e l l s , executive secretary, A m e r i c a n Association of J u n i o r C o l l e g e s , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . B y r o n S . Hollinshead, president, S c r a n - ton-Keystone J u n i o r C o l l e g e , L a P l u m e , P a . , representing J u n i o r C o l l e g e C o u n c i l of the M i d d l e States G u y M . W i n s l o w , president, L a s e l l J u n i o r C o l l e g e , A u b u r n d a l e , M a s s . , rep- resenting N e w E n g l a n d J u n i o r C o l l e g e C o u n c i l L e l a n d L . M e d s k e r , D e p a r t m e n t of O c - cupational Research, C h i c a g o J u n i o r C o l - leges, representing N o r t h C e n t r a l J u n i o r C o l l e g e Association J . E . B u r k , president, W a r d - B e l m o n t J u n i o r C o l l e g e , N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . , repre- senting J u n i o r C o l l e g e D i v i s i o n of the Southern Association D a v i d L . S o l t a u , president, L o w e r C o - lumbia J u n i o r C o l l e g e , L o n g v i e w , W a s h . , representing N o r t h w e s t Association of J u n i o r C o l l e g e s Rosco C . I n g a l l s , director, L o s A n g e l e s C i t y C o l l e g e , C a l i f . , representing C a l i - fornia J u n i o r C o l l e g e F e d e r a t i o n J . C . W r i g h t , assistant U n i t e d States commissioner of education f o r vocational education, W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . L e o n a r d V . Koos, professor of second- a r y education, U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o . A u b r e y A . D o u g l a s s , chief of the D i v i - sion of S e c o n d a r y E d u c a t i o n , S t a t e D e - partment of E d u c a t i o n , Sacramento, C a l i f . T h e study is made possible by a g r a n t f r o m the G e n e r a l E d u c a t i o n B o a r d . I t begins at once and w i l l continue through- out 1 9 4 0 . P l a n s provide f o r making results of the study available. 180 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES