College and Research Libraries


T h r e e committees 
General of the J u n i o r Mem-

bers Round T a b l e 
are working on problems of interest to 
college and reference libraries. These 
problems include local indexes in Ameri-
can libraries, lending collections of pro-
fessional literature, and a plan for the 
exchange of duplicate material among li-
braries. 

Chairmen of the committees are as fol-
lows : 

Duplicate Exchange: John M . Connor, 
Medical Library, Columbia University, New 
York City 

Lending Collections of Professional Liter-
ature: Walter H. Kaiser, Graduate Library 
School, University of Chicago 

Local Indexes in American Libraries: 
Mrs. Norma O. Ireland, 433 East Valley 
View, Altadena, Calif. 

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Special ballots for election of officers 
of the Association of College and R e f e r -
ence Libraries will be available at the 
A . C . R . L . information desk during the 
Cincinnati conference, M a y 26 to J u n e I. 
Members may vote at any time up to the 
general session, Thursday afternoon. 
Other members may vote at the business 
meeting when the polls will close. A 
check list of members will be available at 
the A . C . R . L . desk and at the business 
meeting. W e hope it will be possible to 
announce the result at the close of the 
business meeting. Please note we have 
more than one candidate for the offices of 
treasurer and general director, and that 
in each case one name only is to be checked. 

Arnaud C . M a r t s , 
East president of Buck-

n e l l U n i v e r s i t y , 
Lewisburg, Pa., has announced the 
g i f t of $ 1 5 0 , 0 0 0 toward a new building 

News from 
for Bucknell University Library. T h e 
building plans call for a $ 3 5 0 , 0 0 0 struc-
ture. 

A special endowment campaign has been 
instituted to raise $ 7 5 0 , 0 0 0 for the Y a l e 
L a w School Library to meet the condi-
tions of the offer of John A . Hoober, 
Y a l e L a w School ' 9 1 , of $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 toward 
a million dollar endowment. 

E d w a r d C . Starr, curator of the Col-
gate Baptist Historical Collection at Col-
gate University, Hamilton, N . Y . , has 
completed a bibliography of Baptist 
authors, including little known items dat-
ing back to the seventeenth century and 
covering 65,000 authors. M r . Starr is now 
endeavoring to secure a copy of each item 
for the Spear House on Colgate campus 
in which are already housed 150,000 
pamphlets and 14,000 books relating to 
the Baptist denomination. 

Columbia University Library, C . C . 
Williamson, director, recently held a con-
vocation in celebration of the anniversary 
of the invention of printing in the L o w 
Memorial Library building. M a r g a r e t 
B. Stillwell, librarian of the Annmary 
Brown Library in Providence, addressed 
the gathering on the importance of pro-
viding a refuge in this country for the 
precious collections of books and manu-
scripts in England and on the continent 
now threatened by war. H a r r y M . L y -
denberg, director of the N e w Y o r k Public 
Library, also spoke on the importance of 
the printed page as a means of spreading 
our political, ethical, and religious ideas. 
A special exhibition of volumes of in-
cunabula and early printing was held in 
the L o w Library. 

George Washington University L i -

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the Field 
brary, Washington, J o h n R . Mason, li-
brarian, has provided in its new library 
building a large room with broad tables 
as a writing laboratory for students in 
English composition. T h e work is done 
under the direction of the library staff and 
the faculty of English composition. 

T h e first year's service of the browsing 
room in W i l l a r d Straight Hall, the stu-
dent union under the auspices of the Cor-
nell University Library, Otto Kinkeldey, 
librarian, has just been concluded. T h e r e 
was an average attendance of over 1 3 0 0 
each week, and every two weeks a new 
exhibit was set up. During the coming 
year, it is planned to have a weekly read-
ing hour on Sunday afternoons. 

Y a l e University Library, Bernhard 
Knollenberg, librarian, held a special ex-
hibition in February of the manuscripts 
and notebooks of Sinclair Lewis, recently 
presented to the Y a l e Collection of Ameri-
can Literature by the author. T h e exhibi-
tion was preceded by a lecture on Lewis 
by Professor Emeritus William Lyon 
Phelps, centered about the notebooks for 
Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and 
It Cant Happen Here. T h e notebooks 
offer a view behind the scenes of the 
library workshop. Each contains as many 
pages as an average novel, crammed with 
minute details about people and places. 
Other items in this special exhibit in-
cluded " L a u n c e l o t , " Lewis' first published 
work which appeared in the Yale Literary 
Magazine of M a r c h 1 9 0 4 ; Hobohemia, 
his first produced play; and many other 
interesting items including presentation 
copies of his books, photographs, and trans-
lations of his works in eight foreign lan-
guages. 

T h e Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, Au-
gustus H . Shearer, librarian, has recently 
received a special collection of B u f f a l o the-
ater programs covering the years 1889 to 
1900. One of the items included is the 
world premiere performance of Sherlock 
Holmes with William Gillette. 

Brown University Library, Henry B . 
Van Hoesen, librarian, is noting a large 
increase in circulation due to the better 
library facilities of the rejuvenated J o h n 
Hay Library building, reported in a previ-
ous issue, and especially to the university's 
new four-course program which provides 
for more outside reading, writing, and 
independent study. T h e library recently 
had on display an exhibition of docu-
ments, manuscripts, and books relating to 
the history of Rhode Island, including 
among the rare items a book written by 
Roger Williams in 1643 as a guide to the 
language of the Narragansett Indians. 

A rare copy of the Chester County 
Times published at West Chester, Pa., 
and containing the first biography of Abra-
ham Lincoln has been presented to the 
William L . Clements Library of American 
History at the University of Michigan by 
A . H . Greenly of N e w Y o r k City. Ran-
dolph Adams is in charge of the Clements 
library. 

A student library committee including 
four representatives from the three upper 
classes has been organized at the Penn-
sylvania State College Library, W i l l a r d P . 
Lewis, librarian. T h e first proposal 
planned by the committee was a contest 
inviting students to propose lists of the 
ten most interesting books published in 
the United States prior to 1 9 3 9 not now 
in the library. A prize was awarded for 
the best list. T h e committee also spon-
sored a list of student hobbies to be lent 

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by students for exhibition at the library. 
T h e Wednesday afternoon reading pro-
gram in its eighth year drew an average 
attendance of seventy-five. Readings were 
given by faculty members and officers of 
the institution. T h e library is installing 
the M c B e e Keysort charging system which 
has seen such satisfactory use at H a r v a r d 
University L i b r a r y . 

One of the nation's outstanding libraries 
on labor problems and legislation has been 
presented to N e w Y o r k University L i -
brary, Robert B . Downs, director, by the 
Labor Bureau, Incorporated, an inde-
pendent organization founded twenty 
years ago for research and economic serv-
ice to labor unions and civic organiza-
tions. Included in the collection are 
national and state labor reports, files of 
trade union publications, reports of pro-
ceedings at labor conventions, and a large 
collection of official documents, such as 
transcripts of congressional hearings and 
government labor department publications. 
T h e r e are also many books and pamphlets 
bearing particularly on wages, hours, and 
working conditions; studies of the cost of 
living; form budgets; and arbitration 
briefs. 

In celebration of the printing anniver-
sary, an exhibition was held early in the 
year at the John Carter Brown Library 
of B r o w n University, Lawrence C . 
Wroth, librarian, with material relating 
to each of the significant anniversaries. 
T h e display emphasized books published 
in Mexico, South America, and the United 
States. T h e J o h n Carter Brown Library 
has 70 of the 200 books known to have 
been published in Mexico in the sixteenth 
century. South America's first printed 
materials were administrative documents, 
and the exhibition included the earliest 
known document dated 1584, an order 

from K i n g Philip I I of Spain requiring 
the adoption of the calendar of Pope 
Gregory X I I I . T w o other rare volumes 
were a copy of the Whole Book of Psalms, 
commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, 
published in 1 6 4 0 ; and a copy of General 
Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts 
Colony, 1 6 7 2 . 

Of interest to librarians is a typescript 
illustrated with photographs and bound 
in Samoan T a p a cloth giving a careful 
record in 1 1 6 pages of the remarkable 
library building designed and constructed 
on the principle of native architecture in 
American Samoa by Paul J . Halloran, 
Dartmouth ' 1 9 . T h e book is the g i f t of 
the designer to Dartmouth College L i -
brary, Nathaniel B . Goodrich, librarian. 

H a r v a r d University Graduate School 
of Business Administration Library, A r -
thur H . Cole, librarian, has been greatly 
enriched by the g i f t of the George W . 
Kress Library on business and economics. 
T h i s collection which includes more than 
30,000 volumes.has been assembled in a 
special Kress Room and is said to be one 
of the three greatest collections on his-
torical business and economics. T h e 
others are the Goldsmith collection at 
London and the collection at Columbia 
University assembled by Professor E . R . 
A . Seligman. 

H a r v a r d University Library, Cam-
bridge, Mass., Keyes D . M e t c a l f , librar-
ian, has opened in the Germanic Museum 
the new Faber du F a u r Library contain-
ing a collection of more than 7000 rare 
German books including first editions of 
M a r t i n Luther, Frederick the Great, and 
Goethe. Four centuries of German 
drama, poetry, and the novel are included 
in the scope of this collection. T h e earliest 
volume was published in 1494, and the 
latest, in 1 8 7 0 . T h e donor is C u r t von 

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Faber du Faur, a German playwright and 
literary critic, who lived in Italy from 
1931 until very recently when he came 
to America. 

Seton Hill College Library, Greens-
burg, Pa., Sister Melania Grace, librarian, 
is experimenting with a survey of student 
recreational reading for the current aca-
demic year. So far, the percentage of 
blank student cards is about 15 per cent 
of the enrolment. Such students will be 
interviewed by the librarian in an endeavor 
to find out why they are not reading other 
than curricular materials. 

At the exhibition celebrating the anni-
versary of printing held at Bard College 
Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, N . Y . , 
Felix Hirsch, librarian, incunabula 
owned by the library were displayed, as 
well as many works printed by Aldus, 
Elzevir, Estienne, and representatives 
of the more famous private presses. 
The distinguished type designer, Frederic 
Goudy, gave the opening address and lent 
many rare items from his private collec-
tion. 

The State Teachers College Library, 
Slippery Rock, Pa., Mrs. Alice E . Han-
sen, librarian, has set aside one of the 
rooms in its recently completed build-
ing as a Curriculum Materials Library. 
This collection will include state courses 
of study, educational bulletins, syllabi from 
Pennsylvania and other states, a textbook 
collection of several thousand volumes, 
and other miscellaneous materials. 

The Newark Public Library, Beatrice 
Winser, librarian, announces that its ref-
erence assistants answered approximately 
9 5 0 , 0 0 0 questions by telephone and at the 
information desks during 1939. Newark 
is in process of making an index to be 
added to the library's information file 
noting Abraham Lincoln's associations 

with New Jersey and important New Jer-
sey collections of Lincolniana. 

Announcement has been made of the 
gift of 3 0 0 0 to 4 0 0 0 rare books, repre-
sentative of the great works of English 
literature from the early days of printing 
to the nineteenth century, to the reference 
department of the New York Public Li-
brary, Harry Miller Lydenberg, librar-
ian. In addition to the gift, made by 
Albert A. Berg in memory of his brother, 
Henry W., a trust fund has been estab-
lished for the administration of the collec-
tion which will be installed in a special 
reading and research room. The New 
York reference department will also re-
ceive a large collection of books, manu-
scripts, and papers after the death of Mrs. 
E. S. Harkness under the will of her 
husband, Edward S. Harkness, the famous 
benefactor who died recently. 

The Maine State Library staff, Au-
gusta, Oliver L . Hall, librarian, has been 
invited by the college librarians of Maine 
to meet with them twice a year to discuss 
problems and to prevent duplication of re-
search and duplication of expensive sets. 

The Massachusetts State Library, Bos-
ton, Dennis A. Dooley, state librarian, has 
just received a gift of twenty large scrap-
books containing newspaper clippings col-
lected by Calvin Coolidge before he en-
tered the White House. With the col-
lection were included manuscripts of 
speeches delivered by Coolidge and clip-
pings relative to public questions and pub-
lic persons in whom he was interested. 
The collection was presented by Congress-
man Foster Stearns of New Hampshire, 
formerly state librarian of Massachusetts. 

The reference department of the 
Public Library, Bridgeport, Conn., Julian 
A. Sohon, librarian, has recently had on 
exhibition a large and unusually interesting 

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collection of pottery, the work of Leon 
Volkmar of Bedford, N . Y . For two years, 
this department has been given the award 
for outstanding participation in American 
A r t Week sponsored by the American 
Artists Professional League. 

Because of the European W a r , atten-
tion of scholars interested in eighteenth 
century English literature has been cen-
tered on the famous R . B. Adam Library 
relating to Samuel Johnson and his era 
at the University of Rochester. T h i s col-
lection, valued at a million dollars, has been 
lent to the university for an indefinite 
period. Requests from scholars and col-
lectors for information and for photo-
static and film copies have increased more 
than 25 per cent recently. 

Providing for half 
Middlewest a million volumes, 

1 7 miles of book-
shelf space have recently been added to 
the University of Illinois Library, Urbana, 
in a new $ 2 2 5 , 0 0 0 addition to the book-
stack. T h e university has 1 , 1 7 5 , 7 0 0 vol-
umes and is the largest state university 
library. A s has been recently announced, 
Phineas L . Windsor is retiring this year 
as librarian and will be succeeded by C a r l 
M . White, now librarian of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, Chapel H i l l . In 
addition to the libraries located on the 
main campus at Urbana, the university in-
cludes libraries of the college medical, den-
tal, and pharmacy schools at Chicago. 
T h e medical library has recently received 
what is reputed to be the best private 
medical library in America from D r . A . E . 
Hertzler of Lawrence, Kan., the famous 
"horse and buggy doctor." 

T h e new library building of the State 
Teachers College, Winona, Minn., has 
been formally dedicated and named the 

M a x w e l l Library in honor of the late presi-
dent. T h e seating capacity of the new 
building is 250—one-half of the college 
enrolment—and the book capacity, 80,000 
volumes. Mildred Engstrom is the li-
brarian. 

T h e Deering Library at Northwestern 
University, Theodore W . Koch, librarian, 
has been given the special collection of 
2000 books representing the work of 
feminine writers and assembled by the Na-
tional Council of Women under the lead-
ership of its chairman of letters, M r s . 
Grace Thompson Seton. M r . Koch pre-
pared a special catalog for this collection. 
T h e collection originally included 1 0 0 
books exhibited at the International Con-
gress of Women in 1 9 3 3 and has since 
been expanded to include over 300 titles 
representing the work of the women of 
all nations. 

Iowa State College Library, Ames, 
Charles H . Brown, librarian, is planning 
the erection of a temporary warehouse to 
store 150,000 volumes of the less used 
collections in the library, pending an ap-
propriation for the building of new wings 
for the library. T h e warehouse will be 
of steel construction, and the stacks will 
be so built that they may be eventually 
transferred to the permanent wings. Con-
sideration is being given to an experi-
ment providing separation of the graduate 
library from the undergraduate library. 

" C a t a l o g Questions Answered" is the 
title of a permanent display spread out 
since the beginning of the academic year 
on the catalog counters of the general li-
brary of the State University of Iowa at 
Iowa City, Grace van Wormer, acting 
director. T h e counters have been covered 
with glass underneath which have been 
placed sheets giving explanations, in non-
technical language, of catalog rules or 

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methods, together with illustrations. 
In J a n u a r y 1 9 4 0 the rejuvenated li-

brary building at Simpson College L i -
brary, Indianola, Iowa, Inis I. Smith, li-
brarian, was reopened with many im-
portant and enlarged facilities. Stack pro-
vision will now accommodate 48,000 vol-
umes, an increase of 50 per cent; and the 
reading room seating capacity has been 
doubled—all of this for an expenditure 
of approximately $8000. 

University of Missouri Library, Co-
lumbia, Benjamin Powell, librarian, held 
a special exhibit of 23 paintings of promi-
nent American artists in J a n u a r y , includ-
ing five paintings by John Steuart C u r r y , 
two by George G r o z , who is noted for his 
picturing of the despair and chaos in G e r -
many after the W o r l d W a r , and others 
by Doris Lee, Hobson Pittman, and sev-
eral other outstanding artists. 

University of North Dakota Library, 
G r a n d Forks, Delia Mathys, librarian, 
is developing a Blue Key Library of 
books by alumni and faculty members. 
T h e latest volume to be added is the most 
recent work of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 
Iceland, the First American Republic, de-
scribing that country which has had repre-
sentative government since 930 A . D . 

Kathryn N . M i l l e r , cataloger at the 
University of Missouri Library, Columbia, 
and Marietta Daniels, head of the circu-
lation department at Washington Univer-
sity Library, St. Louis, M o . , will be 
editor-in-chief and business manager, re-
spectively, of the new Missouri Library 
Association Quarterly to be published by 
the association. T h e r e will be a number 
of special sections, including one devoted 
to college and university libraries. 

Ohio State University Library, Colum-
bus, E a r l N . Manchester, librarian, has 
received as a gift the personal library of 

the late George F . Arps, long a member of 
that faculty. T h e collection is rich in the 
fields of education and psychology and 
includes outstanding works in German 
and French as well as English. 

T w o hundred unusual volumes in the 
fields of the Romance and Germanic lan-
guages have been given to the library of 
Hastings College, Hastings, Neb., M a r -
guerite Nesbit, librarian, from the per-
sonal library of Dorothy Buck, formerly 
of the Hastings faculty. 

Flora Stone Mather College Library, 
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 
Elizabeth Richards, librarian, has recently 
opened a "playback" room with the co-
operation of the music and speech depart-
ments. B y the use of the new phono-
graphic equipment with headphones, stu-
dents may hear recordings of their own 
voices, or the correct pronunciation of 
foreign languages. 

John Crerar Library, Chicago, J . Chris-
tian Bay, librarian, granted interlibrary 
loans during 1 9 3 9 to 428 institutions lo-
cated in all parts of the United States and 
Canada on 2 4 0 1 requests and involving 
2 9 1 4 volumes. T h e library borrowed 
only 50 items from other libraries. 

T u l a n e Univer-
South sity Library, N e w 

Orleans, L a . , N e w -
comb College Library, and the H o w a r d 
Memorial Library will be housed together 
in a new $500,000 building, construction 
of which has just been started on the 
Newcomb College section of the campus. 
T h e building will have complete air con-
ditioning and insulation against sound, 
moisture, heat, and cold. Other special 
features include a room for the reading, 
storing, and possible production of micro-
film ; a walled enclosure outside the build-

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ing for outdoor reading; an attractive and 
comfortable indoor browsing room; and 
several special collection rooms, including 
one for the H o w a r d Memorial Collection 
which will be shelved separately. Robert 
J . Usher, H o w a r d Memorial librarian, 
will be director of the new combined li-
brary. 

University of North Carolina Library, 
Chapel H i l l , C a r l M . White, librarian, is 
to receive, as a gift from Archibald Hen-
derson, his special personal collection of 
materials dealing with the life and career 
of George Bernard Shaw. Presentation 
of the g i f t is to coincide with the univer-
sity's sesquicentennial celebration, begin-
ning this year and continuing through 
1 9 4 5 . D r . Henderson, recognized as 
Shaw's chief biographer and the greatest 
authority on his l i f e and works, has spent 
thirty-five years in accumulating the col-
lection to be presented. A l l of the works 
included will be autographic, containing 
some inscriptions appropriate to the work 
written and signed by the author. 

T h e reference department of the J a c k -
sonville ( F l a . ) Public Library, Joseph 
M a r r o n , librarian, has completed a sub-
ject index and illustration index of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution 
monthly magazine from 1908 to date. 
T h i s department has also completed a 
family index of all family histories and 
genealogies in 600 books in its collection. 
W o r k was done by W o r k Projects Admin-
istration clerks supervised by the reference 
staff. 

T e x a s Christian 
Southwest University Library, 

Fort W o r t h , M r s . 
Bertie H . Mothershead, librarian, is spon-
soring a group of pre-library science under-
graduates and is planning meetings for 
them once a month with addresses by 

prominent librarians from T e x a s and the 
southwest. T h i s library has also recently 
opened a special collection room for the 
literature of the southwest. T h e walls are 
decorated with a border of cattle brands 
and paintings of southwestern scenes. T h e 
book collections include complete files of 
journals and books from that region. 

T h e Oklahoma Agricultural and 
Mechanical College Library, Stillwater, 
reports the installation of a Curriculum 
Laboratory for students in education in 
which are placed copies of all textbooks 
authorized for use in Oklahoma schools. 
T h i s library has also set up a rental shelf 
of current popular fiction and nonfiction. 
Payments for book rentals and library 
fines are made through the purchase of 
coupon books which are secured at regis-
tration time. 

Southeastern State Teachers College L i -
brary, Durant, Okla., M r s . M a u d e 
Cowan, librarian, has begun the mainte-
nance of a traveling library, sending books 
to the rural schools in the southeastern 
district. 

University of T e x a s Library, Austin, 
Donald Coney, librarian, has just received, 
as a g i f t from M r s . Charles H . M i l l s of 
Corsicana, two large scrapbooks illustrat-
ing the public life of the late Colonel 
Roger Q . M i l l s , one-time T e x a s senator. 
These scrapbooks have been added to the 
special M i l l s Collection consisting of some 
600 items about the senator which are in 
turn a part of the T e x a n a Collection, the 
state's outstanding repository of material 
about T e x a s . 

M i l l s College L i -
F a r West brary, M i l l s Col-

lege, Calif., M r s . 
Evelyn S. Little, librarian, has just com-
pleted an addition to its present building 

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to provide for current expansion. T h e 
w i n g will provide shelving for 3 5 , 0 0 0 
volumes and includes, besides stack space, 
administrative offices, workrooms and staff 
rooms at a total cost of $ 1 3 , 2 0 0 . A spe-
cial exhibition relating to the anniversary 
of printing " f r o m Gutenberg to G r a b -
h o r n " w a s held in the art gallery under 
the joint auspices of the library and art 
department with books chosen from the 
library's own treasure collections, supple-
mented by incunabula and other rare books 
lent by libraries in the B a y region. In 
connection with the exhibition, talks and 
addresses were given at various times— 
one by Joseph M . Gleason, of the San 
Francisco College for W o m e n , entitled 
" T h e Hierarchy of E a r l y Printers," and 
a radio address by D r . L i t t l e entitled 
" T w e n t y - s i x L e a d S o l d i e r s — A Salute to 
Printers." 

Washington State College L i b r a r y , 
Pullman, W . W . Foote, librarian, has 
received as a g i f t two truckloads of books 
from the Argentine Republic dealing with 
history, politics, economics, social, and cul-
tural development. I t has also received 
from M r s . Harriett W a r d of Wenatchee 
two very rare v o l u m e s — D e t a i l e d Account 
of Receipts and Expenditures Kept by a 
Merchant in New York City from the 
Years 1793 to 1816 and The Seaman's 
Daily Assistant published in London in 
1 7 7 8 . T h i s library has recently received 
1 3 valuable original manuscripts and more 
than 1 9 0 0 volumes as the result of pur-
chases made in Spain. T h e collection 
largely deals with the history of Central 
America and the W e s t Indies. T h e 
earliest of the original manuscripts is dated 
1 5 2 6 while several others are from the 
same general period. Included in the 
group is a valuable study of resources of 
Louisiana territory made about 1 7 8 5 . 

T h e collection w a s made possible through 
funds received from the Washington State 
College Friends of the L i b r a r y Associa-
tion. 

T h e private, public, and business let-
ters of Adolph Sutro have come into the 
possession of the Bancroft L i b r a r y of the 
University of California, Herbert I. 
Priestley, librarian. T h e material reveals 
many of the outstanding happenings in the 
romantic and economic history of San 
Francisco, Virginia City, and the C o m -
stock Lode. 

T h e reference staff of the San Diego 
Public L i b r a r y , Cornelia D . Plaister, li-
brarian, has been indexing since J a n u a r y 
I, 1 9 3 0 , the San Diego Union, files of 
which extend back, with its predecessors, to 
M a y 2 9 , 1 8 5 1 . 

Scripps College L i b r a r y , Claremont, 
C a l i f . , Dorothy M . Drake, librarian, is 
experimenting with a new plan of im-
posing no fines and no time limits for the 
return of books, reserve books excepted. 
In exchange for the privilege, the student 
council has accepted on behalf of the stu-
dents the responsibility for returning books 
as soon as they are through with them or 
relinquishing the title if requested by some 
one else. Scripps College L i b r a r y is also 
dividing its card catalog into two sections: 
one an author-title file, the other, sub-
ject. 

Francis S. Bach-
Personnel elder, Dartmouth 

' 3 9 , has been ap-
pointed assistant in the reference depart-
ment at Dartmouth College L i b r a r y , 
Hanover, N . H . 

Leland D . Baldwin, formerly connected 
with the library of the Western Penn-
sylvania Historical Society and later in 
charge of the University of Pittsburgh 
Press, has been appointed acting librarian 

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of the University of Pittsburgh, succeeding 
J . H o w a r d D i c e whose death w a s noted 
in M a r c h . M r . B a l d w i n is the author of 
a number of recent books about Pitts-
burgh and western Pennsylvania. 

Helen Bennett, librarian of the E d u -
cation Seminar L i b r a r y at the U n i v e r s i t y 
of Minnesota, has been appointed librarian 
of D u l u t h J u n i o r College, D u l u t h , M i n n . 

M i l d r e d Bennett, Minnesota ' 3 5 , has 
been appointed librarian at G u s t a v u s A d o l -
phus College, Saint Peter, M i n n . 

M r s . M i l d r e d H . Brode, formerly a 
supervisor of the spectroscopic project at 
Massachusetts Institute of T e c h n o l o g y , is 
n o w assistant in the catalog department at 
D a r t m o u t h C o l l e g e L i b r a r y , H a n o v e r , 
N . H . 

D o n a l d T . C l a r k e , C o l u m b i a ' 3 6 , for-
merly in the Economics Division of the 
N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y , has been ap-
pointed assistant librarian of the H a r v a r d 
G r a d u a t e School of Business A d m i n i s t r a -
tion, Boston. 

T h e o d o r e C u t l e r , M i n n e s o t a ' 3 9 , has 
been appointed an assistant in reference 
and circulation at the U n i v e r s i t y of M i s -
souri L i b r a r y , Columbia. 

Elizabeth B . F r y , Carnegie ' 3 9 , is serv-
ing as substitute assistant librarian at Slip-
pery R o c k State T e a c h e r s College, 
Slippery Rock, Pa., for R u b y F r a m p t o n 
w h o is on leave because of illness. 

Bertha H u g h e s , Illinois ' 3 8 , has been 
appointed cataloger in the U n i v e r s i t y of 
I o w a L i b r a r y , I o w a C i t y . M i s s H u g h e s 
w a s formerly head of the catalog depart-
ment at the U t a h State A g r i c u l t u r a l C o l -
lege, L o g a n . She succeeds Elizabeth Robb 
w h o resigned to become assistant in the 
fine arts department of E n o c h P r a t t F r e e 
L i b r a r y at Baltimore. 

M a r i a n n e Jelinek, formerly a teacher 
of bookbinding and leather w o r k in V i e n -

na, A u s t r i a , has become a specialist in book 
repairing at the D a r t m o u t h College L i -
brary Bindery in H a n o v e r , N . H . 

M r s . O l i v e r L . L i l l e y , formerly in the 

catalog department of the D a r t m o u t h C o l -

lege L i b r a r y , is n o w librarian of the T u c k 

School of Administration and Finance at 

D a r t m o u t h . 

Helena D . M c G r e w , P r a t t Institute, 

formerly in the T h e a t e r L i b r a r y of the 

N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y , has been ap-

pointed to the T h e a t e r L i b r a r y at D a r t -

mouth College. 

F u l m e r M o o d , librarian at the U n i v e r -

sity of Redlands L i b r a r y , Redlands, C a l i f . , 

w i l l lecture at the School of L i b r a r i a n -

ship at the U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a at 

L o s Angeles during the summer of 1 9 4 0 . 

M a r g a r e t Nicholsen, librarian of the 

State T e a c h e r s College L i b r a r y at Bemid-

ji, M i n n . , has resigned to take advance 

w o r k at the G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y School, 

U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o . M i s s Nicholsen 

has been succeeded by Eileen T h o r n t o n , 

formerly on the staff of the U n i v e r s i t y of 

Minnesota L i b r a r y . 

E l l e n Page, librarian of the Peter A l -

dred M e m o r i a l R o o m at the U n i v e r s i t y of 

Pittsburgh, has resigned her position to 

join the staff of the children's department 

of the N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y . 

M r s . Shirley G a l e Patterson, formerly 

in the catalog and circulation departments 

at D a r t m o u t h College L i b r a r y , is now the 

first E n g l i s h department librarian to have 

charge of the special library in Sanborn 

E n g l i s h House at D a r t m o u t h . 

H a z e l Rea, in charge of cataloging at 

the U n i v e r s i t y of Redlands L i b r a r y , R e d -

lands, C a l i f . , resigned from that position 

and is now an assistant on the staff of the 

U n i v e r s i t y of Southern C a l i f o r n i a L i -

brary in L o s Angeles. 

H o m e r E . Robbins has recently been 

2 270 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



appointed director of the L i b r a r y at Po-

mona College, Claremont, C a l i f . , in suc-

cession to R a l p h H . Parker w h o has gone 

to the University of Georgia. D r . R o b -

bins is also professor of classical languages 

and literatures at Pomona. 

J o h n R . Russell, head of the catalog 

division in the National A r c h i v e s at W a s h -

ington, has been appointed librarian at the 

University of Rochester succeeding D o n -

ald B . Gilchrist, deceased. M r . Russell 

w a s formerly on the staff of the N e w 

Y o r k Public L i b r a r y and the University 

of M i c h i g a n L i b r a r y and spent a year in 

E u r o p e as fellow in librarianship of the 

General Education Board. 

M i l d r y H . Sluth, W a s h i n g t o n ' 3 8 , has 

resigned as junior librarian in the catalog 

division of the U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n 

L i b r a r y to accept a civil service appoint-

ment as senior translator in the U . S. 

N a v y Department. 

M o r t i m e r T a u b e , formerly at R u t g e r s 

U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y , has been appointed 

head of the order department at D u k e 

U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y , D u r h a m , N . C . 

M a x w e l l O . W h i t e , C o l u m b i a ' 3 9 , has 

been appointed superintendent of serials 

and exchange at the U n i v e r s i t y of I o w a 

L i b r a r y , I o w a C i t y . M r . W h i t e had 

previously been circulation assistant at the 

College L i b r a r y of Columbia U n i v e r s i t y 

in N e w Y o r k C i t y . H e succeeds T h e o -

dore S. Bland w h o resigned to accept the 

position of junior librarian in the Office of 

the Chief Engineers, U . S . A r m y , W a s h -

ington. 

Caroline W h i t t e m o r e of the reclassifica-

tion department of D a r t m o u t h College L i -

brary w i l l teach classification at the C o -

lumbia School of L i b r a r y Service for the 

year 1 9 4 0 - 4 1 . 

Elizabeth W h i t t l e s e y has resigned as 

acquisitions librarian at Carleton College 

L i b r a r y , Northfield, M i n n . , to accept a 

position on the staff of the D a v e n p o r t 

( I o w a ) Public L i b r a r y . She is succeeded 

by Elizabeth Eggleston, Columbia ' 3 8 . 

Adelaide P . W i n s l o w , N . C . ' 3 9 , is now 

assistant in the circulation department of 

D a r t m o u t h College L i b r a r y . 

T h e f o l l o w i n g re-

Reporters porters help to make 

possible news from 
the field: 

College and University Libraries 

Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont— 
Louis Ibbotson, University of Maine, 
Orono 

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecti-
cut—Margaret Hazen, Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology Library, Cambridge 

New York City—Nelson McCombs, Wash-
ington Square Library, New York Uni-
versity, New York City 

Eastern New York—Helmer Webb, Union 
College Library, Schenectady, N . Y . 

Western and Northern New York—Whar-
ton Miller, Syracuse University Library, 
Syracuse, N . Y . 

Eastern Canada—W. S. Wallace, Toronto 
University, Toronto, Ontario 

New Jersey—Zaidee Brown, New Jersey 
State Teachers College Library, Upper 
Montclair 

Eastern Pennsylvania—Herbert Anstaett, 
Franklin and Marshall College Library, 
Lancaster 

Western Pennsylvania—Miriam Grosh, Ge-
neva College, Beaver Falls 

Northern Ohio—Elizabeth M . Richards, 
Flora Stone Mather College Library, 
Cleveland 

Ohio—Edward A. Henry, University of 
Cincinnati, Cincinnati 

Indiana—Hazel Armstrong, Indiana State 
Teachers College Library, Terre Haute 

Illinois and Iowa—Isabelle Clark, Grinnell 
College Library, Grinnell, Iowa 

Michigan—Charles V. Park, Central State 
Teachers College Library, Mount Pleas-
ant 

JUNE, 1940 271 



Wisconsin—Anna T a r r , L a w r e n c e College 
L i b r a r y , Appleton 

Nebraska and M i n n e s o t a — E m m a Wiecking, 
State T e a c h e r s College, M a n k a t o , M i n n . 

Kansas, Missouri, and A r k a n s a s — D a v i d 
J o l l y , Stephens College L i b r a r y , Columbia, 
M o . 

Virginia, N o r t h Carolina, and South C a r o -
lina—Katherine Skinner, University of 
N o r t h Carolina L i b r a r y , Chapel Hill, 
N . C . 

Georgia and F l o r i d a — E d n a R . Hanley, A g -
nes Scott College L i b r a r y , Decatur, 
G a . 

Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and A l a -
b a m a — M a r y E . Baker, University of 
Tennessee L i b r a r y , Knoxville 

Colorado, U t a h and W y o m i n g — R a l p h E . 
Ellsworth, University of Colorado, Boul-
der 

T e x a s and O k l a h o m a — A l e x a n d e r Moffit, 
University of T e x a s , Austin 

California and N e v a d a — C h r i s t i a n Dick, 
University of Southern California, L o s 
Angeles 

Washington, Oregon and I d a h o — C h a r l e s 
W . Smith, University of Washington, 
Seattle 

Arizona and N e w M e x i c o — W i l l i a m H . 
Carlson, University of A r i z o n a L i b r a r y , 
T u c s o n 

British Columbia and W e s t e r n C a n a d a — 
J o h n Ridington, University of British C o -
lumbia L i b r a r y , V a n c o u v e r 

Reference Libraries and Reference De-
partments of Public Libraries 

E a s t — J e s s e Cross, M o n t a g u e Branch, Pub-
lic L i b r a r y , Brooklyn 

M i d d l e W e s t — M i l d r e d Boatman, Public 
L i b r a r y , St. Louis 

Florence G i f f o r d , Public L i b r a r y , C l e v e -
land 

South—Bess M c C r e a , Enoch P r a t t F r e e L i -
brary, Baltimore 

F a r W e s t — E l i z a b e t h Henry, Public L i -
brary, Seattle 

L a r g e Reference L i b r a r i e s — 
M i l d r e d Ross, Grosvenor L i b r a r y , Buffalo 
Lucille A i m T o l m a n , John C r e r a r L i -
brary, Chicago. 

WILLARD P . LEWIS, Secretary 
Association of College and Reference 
Libraries 
Pennsylvania State College Library 

State College, P a . 
NOTE: The editors of College and Research Libraries 
are greatly indebted to the Inter-collegiate Press 
Bulletin Service of New York City for a number of 
items. 

The editors will be glad to receive current items 
relating to college, university, and reference libraries 
and reference departments of public libraries for 
publication. Such items may be sent to your 
district reporter or to the secretary. 

272 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



PROPOSED REVISION OF T H E A.C.R.L. 
C O N S T I T U T I O N A N D B Y - L A W S 

A t its meeting of December 2 7 , 1 9 3 9 , the 
Board of Directors of the Association of 
College and Reference Libraries instructed 
the association's Committee on Constitu-
tion and B y - L a w s to prepare a new Consti-
tution and by-laws based on the existing 
by-laws but in line with recommendations 
of the third Activities Committee of the 
American L i b r a r y Association. T h e com-
mittee, since its appointment, has withheld 
action on various recommendations referred 
to it by members through the secretary of 
A . C . R . L . in view of impending large changes 
in the structure of its parent organization, 
the American L i b r a r y Association. I t has 
now embodied such of these recommenda-
tions as are consistent with the third A c -
tivities Committee recommendations in the 
following tentative draft of a new Consti-
tution and by-laws. 

T h i s d r a f t is tentative. It is subject to 
revision at a meeting of the committee in 
Cincinnati during the annual conference. 
I t is published here with the expectation and 
hope that advice will come to the committee 
from members of the A . C . R . L . Suggestions 
for improvement may be sent to the chair-
man, in care of the University of T e x a s L i -
brary, Austin. T w o documents should be 
read in conjunction with this tentative d r a f t : 
the present A . C . R . L . by-laws {A.L.A. Bulle-
tin 3 2 : 8 1 2 - 1 5 , Oct. 1 5 , 1 9 3 8 ) and the " F i n a l 
Report of the T h i r d Activities Committee," 
Ibid. 3 3 : 782-804, Dec. 1 9 3 9 ) . 

DONALD CONEY, Chairman 
For the Committee 

Proposed Constitution 
Article I. Name 

Sec. 1 . T h e name of this organization 
shall be " T h e Association of College and R e f -
erence Libraries, a division of the American 
L i b r a r y Association." ( T h e word "college" 
is understood to include college and univer-
sity. T h e term "reference libraries" is used 
to include such libraries as the L i b r a r y of 
Congress, the John C r e r a r L i b r a r y , the 

N e w b e r r y L i b r a r y , the reference department 
of the N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y , and the 
reference departments of other public librar 
ies.) 

Article II. Object 
Sec. 1 . T h e object of the association shall 

be to promote library service and librarian-
ship in the kinds of libraries enumerated in 
Article I. T h e association shall direct and 
carry on a program of activities to advance 
( a ) the standards of library service, in the 
broadest sense, in these kinds of libraries, 
and ( b ) the continued professional and 
scholarly growth of those engaged in work 
in these libraries. 

Article III. Relationship to A.L.A. 
Sec. 1. T h i s association is organized as 

a division of the American L i b r a r y Associa-
tion under the Constitution and by-laws of 
that Association and its Constitution and by-
laws (and any amendments thereto) are 
binding upon this association, insofar as they 
relate to divisions of the American L i b r a r y 
Association. 

Article IV. Membership 
Sec. I. Personal Members. A n y person 

interested in, or associated with, the w o r k 
of the kinds of libraries enumerated in A r t i -
cle I may become a member of this associa-
tion by becoming a member of the American 
L i b r a r y Association and by complying with 
other conditions prescribed in the by-laws. 

Sec. 2. Institutional Members. Any li-
brary of the kinds enumerated in Article I, 
or any other institution or organization ap-
proved by the Board of Directors, may be-
come an institutional member by becoming 
an institutional member of the American 
L i b r a r y Association, and by complying with 
other conditions prescribed in the by-laws. 

Sec. 3. Contributing and Sustaining 
Members. A n y person or institution eligible 
to membership may become a contributing 
or sustaining member upon payment of the 
annual sums provided in the by-laws. 

JUNE, 1940 273 



Sec. 4. Honorary Members. On nomi-
nation of the Board of Directors, honorary 
members may be elected by two-thirds vote 
of the members present at any annual meet-
ing of the association. Members of foreign 
library associations and those outside the 
library profession who have consistently 
aided the kinds of libraries enumerated in 
Article I are eligible to election as honorary 
members. Honorary membership shall be 
for life, subject to Sec. 5. 

Sec. 5. Suspension and Reinstatement. 
T h e membership of any individual or insti-
tution may be suspended by a two-thirds 
vote of the Board of Directors. A sus-
pended member may be reinstated by a 
three-fourths vote of the board. 

Article V. Officers 

Sec. I. Officers and Duties. T h e officers 
of the association shall be a president, a 
vice president, a secretary, and a treasurer, 
who shall perform the duties usually at-
tached to these offices. 

Sec. 2. Terms. T h e president, vice presi-
dent, and treasurer shall be elected from 
the membership of the association and shall 
serve for one year or until their successors 
are elected and qualified. T h e secretary 
shall be elected from the membership of the 
association and shall serve for three years, 
or until his successor is elected and quali-
fied. 

Sec. 3. President-elect. T h e vice presi-
dent shall be the president-elect, and shall 
succeed to the office of president at the end 
of the president's term. 

Sec. 4. Representation. T h e persons who 
are officers at any one time shall be chosen 
so as to represent as many of the various 
interests and groups in the association as is 
possible. 

Article VI. Board of Directors 

Sec. I. Duties and Authority. The 
Board of Directors shall have general over-
sight and direction of the affairs of the as-
sociation, and shall perform such specific 
duties as may be given to it in the Constitu-
tion and by-laws. It shall conduct all busi-
ness pertaining to the association as a whole 
between annual and other meetings of the 

association, and shall have authority to 
make decisions for the association during the 
periods between all meetings. It shall de-
cide upon the expenditure of all funds be-
longing to the association as a whole, and 
shall be authorized to allot such funds to 
sections and committees. 

Sec. 2. Members. T h e board shall con-
sist of the president, vice president, retir-
ing president, secretary, treasurer, three di-
rectors at large, and the directors elected by 
sections. T h e chief officer (or, in his ab-
sence, the vice chief officer, or the retiring 
chief officer, in this order) of each section 
is an ex officio member without vote. 

Sec. 3. Terms. T h e directors at large 
and directors representing sections shall be 
elected from the members of the association 
for three-year terms, which terms shall over-
lap so as to insure continuity of policy. 

Article VII. Meetings 

Sec. 1. General Meetings. T h e associa-
tion shall hold an annual conference at such 
place and time as may be determined by the 
Board of Directors. Meetings may be 
called for any times by the board. 

Sec. 2. Section Meetings. Meetings of 
the sections shall be held at the time of the 
annual conference, and may be called for 
other times by the chief officer or other con-
trolling agency of any section with the ap-
proval of the Board of Directors. 

Sec. 3. Admission to Meetings. General 
meetings are open to all interested in the 
work of the association. Sections may, with 
the approval of the Board of Directors, hold 
closed meetings. 

Article VIII. Sections 

Sec. I. Creation. A n y group of twenty 
or more members of the association, repre-
senting a field of activity in general distinct 
from those of then existing sections, may or-
ganize a section upon receiving approval 
from the Board of Directors. Sections shall 
be composed only of association members. 

Sec. 2. Representation on the Board of 
Directors. Any section of 50 or more mem-
bers shall elect from its voting membership 
one representative on the Board of Direc-
tors. 

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Sec. 3. Autonomy and Authority. Each 
section shall, with the approval of the Board 
of Directors, have autonomy in, and re-
sponsibility for, its own affairs and the ex-
penditure of funds assigned to it by the 
Board of Directors. Each section may close 
its meetings to all but its own members. It 
shall have power to elect its own officers, to 
appoint committees relating to its own a f -
fairs, and to nominate its own representa-
tives on American Library Association com-
mittees. 

Each section may organize subsections on 
a subject, geographical, or other basis. 

When conflicts of interest arise between 
sections, the questions shall be referred to 
the Board of Directors for decision. 

Sec. 4. Selection of Section and Alloca-
tion of Vote. Members of the association 
may select the section or sections with which 
they wish to affiliate. A member affiliating 
with more than one section must establish 
his right to vote for sectional officers and 
director by designating the particular section 
in which he wishes to exercise this right. 

A rticle IX. By-Laws 
Sec. I. Adoption and Amendment. By-

laws may be adopted and amended by a 
majority vote of the members of the associa-
tion present at any general session of any 
annual conference, upon a• written recom-
mendation of the Committee on Constitution 
and B y - L a w s appointed by the president. 

Article X. Amendments 
Sec. 1. T h i s Constitution may be amended 

by a two-thirds vote of members present at 
any general session of two successive annual 
conferences not less than four months apart, 
upon a written recommendation of the Com-
mittee on Constitution and B y - L a w s ap-
pointed by the president, provided that notice 
of the proposed amendments is published in 
the official publication of the association not 
less than one month before final considera-
tion. 

Proposed B y - L a w s 
Article I. Dues 

Sec. I. Personal Members. Dues for a 
personal member shall be the allotment to 

which the association is entitled from the 
American Library Association. Each per-
sonal member of the association must desig-
nate the association as the division of the 
American Library Association to receive al-
lotment of American Library Association 
dues whenever he belongs to a class of 
American Library Association members from 
whose dues allotments are made. 

Sec. 2. Institutional Members. Dues for 
an institutional member shall be the allot-
ment to which the association is entitled 
from the American Library Association. 
Each institutional member of the association 
must designate the association as the division 
of the American Library Association to re-
ceive allotment of American Library Asso-
ciation dues whenever such allotments are 
made. 

Sec. 3. Contributing and Sustaining 
Members. T h e annual dues for contribut-
ing members shall be $ 2 5 ; and for sustain-
ing members, $ 1 0 0 . 

Sec. 4. Honorary Members. T h e r e shall 
be no dues for honorary members. 

Sec. 5. Time Payable. A l l membership 
dues, other than those taking the form of 
American Library Association allotments, 
are payable annually to the treasurer during 
the first month of the fiscal year. 

Sec. 6. Delinquency. Members whose 
dues are other than American Library Asso-
ciation allotments and which are unpaid on 
the first day of the third month of the mem-
bership year, and who continue delinquent 
for one calendar month after notice of such 
delinquency has been sent, are thereby 
dropped from membership. Dropped mem-
bers are automatically reinstated on pay-
ment of dues for the year within which pay-
ment occurs. 

Article II. Nominations and Elections 

Sec. 1. Committees. A committee to 
nominate candidates for elective positions to 
be filled for the association as a whole shall 
be appointed by the vice president (president-
elect), with the approval of the president, at 
such time as to enable this committee to 
meet during the annual conference preced-
ing the one at which elections are to be 
made from the nominees. 

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28.7 



T h i s committee shall, as f a r as possible, 
represent the various groups and interests of 
the association. 

It is the duty of this committee to select 
the ablest persons available for the positions 
to which nominations are to be made. In 
making its selection the committee shall keep 
in mind the following objectives: ( a ) the 
importance of developing leaders among the 
younger members of the association; (b) 
the desirability of rotating important offices 
among the various sections composing the 
association; ( c ) the necessity of securing a 
Board of Directors on which all sections 
will have as equal a number of representa-
tives as is possible at any one time. 

Candidates for elective positions for sec-
tions shall be chosen as each section deter-
mines. 

Sec. 2. Reports. T h e Nominating Com-
mittee shall report nominations to the secre-
tary not less than six months before the an-
nual conference at which nominees are to be 
considered. Nominations shall be published 
by the secretary in the official publication of 
the association not less than three months 
before the annual conference. 

Sec. 3. Nominations by Others. Nomina-
tions other than those by the nominating 
committees, signed by not less than ten mem-
bers of the association, shall be filed with the 
secretary not less than two months before 
the annual meeting and must be accompanied 
by written consent of these nominees. 

Sec. 4. Right to Vote. A l l members of 
the association shall be eligible to vote on 
the elective positions of the association. 

Only members with right to vote in the 
section concerned shall vote for its officers 
and the director who will represent that sec-
tion on the Board of Directors. 

Sec. 5. Elections. ( a ) Association. 
Elections to elective positions for the associa-
tion as a whole shall be made by mail vote 
in such manner as the Board of Directors 
shall determine, provided that arrangements 
shall be made to insure the inclusion of 
sealed and qualified votes cast at the annual 
conference by any member in attendance 
whose ballot has not already been received. 
Announcement of elections shall be made 
only after these votes have been counted. 

T h e candidate receiving the largest number 
of votes shall be elected. In case of a tie 
vote the successful candidate shall be deter-
mined by lot. 

(b) Sections. Elections to elective posi-
tions for sections shall be made as each sec-
tion determines. 

T h e election of directors representing sec-
tions must be reported in writing by a sec-
tion's retiring chief officer to the secretary of 
the association before the adjournment of 
the annual conference. A n y section failing 
so to report such election by this time shall 
lose its right to be represented on the board 
for the following elective year. 

T h e election of chief officers of sections, 
and vice chief officers, if any, shall be re-
ported to the secretary in the same w a y and 
at the same time. 

Article III. Quorum 

Sec. 1. Board of Directors. A majority 
of the voting members of the Board of D i -
rectors shall constitute a quorum. 

Sec. 2. Association. F i f t y members shall 
constitute a quorum of the association for 
the transaction of all business except elec-
tions to the elective positions of the associa-
tion. 

Article IV. Committees 

Sec. I. Authorization. Committees of 
the association as a whole shall be authorized 
by action of the association or the Board of 
Directors, except as otherwise provided in 
the Constitution and by-laws. 

Sec. 2. Appointment of Committee Mem-
bers. Committee members shall be ap-
pointed by the president (and he must ap-
point them) unless it is otherwise provided 
in the action authorizing the committee or 
in the Constitution and by-laws. 

Sec. 3. Discontinuance. A committee 
may be discontinued only by the agency 
authorizing it. 

Article V. Vacancies 

Sec. I. Elective Positions. Appointments 
to fill vacancies in elective positions of the 
association as a whole (except president and 
vice president) shall be made by the Board 

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of Directors for the duration of the term of 
the office when that term is not more than 
one year. When the term exceeds one year, 
appointment shall be made until the next 
annual conference. 

A vacancy in the office of president shall 
be filled, for the remainder of the term, by 
the vice president. T h i s succession shall not 
prevent a person who succeeds to the presi-
dency because of vacancy, from serving his 
normal term as president the next year, as is 
provided in the Constitution. 

A vacancy in the office of vice president 
can be filled only by election as provided in 
the by-laws. 

If vacancies occur in the offices of presi-
dent and vice president within the same 
term, the Board of Directors shall elect as 
president one of the directors or the direc-
tors at large for the remainder of the term. 
A t the next annual conference a president 
and a vice president shall be elected. 

Vacancies on the Board of Directors shall 
be filled by election at the next annual con-
ference after the vacancy occurs. 

Appointments to fill vacancies on a com-
mittee of the association as a whole shall be 
made by the president, unless otherwise pro-
vided in the action authorizing the commit-
tee, or in the by-laws. 

Article VI. Years 

Sec. I. Membership Year. T h e member-

ship year of the association shall be the 
calendar year. 

Sec. 2. Fiscal Year. T h e fiscal year 
of the association shall be the calendar 
year. 

Sec. 3. Elective and Appointive Year. 
T h e term of office for elective and appointive 
positions of the association filled annually 
shall be the period beginning with the ad-
journment of the annual conference and 
ending with the adjournment of the next 
succeeding annual conference. T e r m s of 
office for elective positions occupied longer 
than one year shall be calculated from 
the adjournment of the annual confer-
ence. 

T h i s by-law shall not apply to the term 
of office of any person elected by the associa-
tion to represent it on the American Library 
Association Council, or on any other Ameri-
can Library Association body, which may 
have terms of office differing from 
terms specified in these by-laws. In 
such cases the term specified by the 
American Library Association shall pre-
vail. 

Article VII. Rules of Order 

Sec. 1. T h e rules contained in Roberts' 
Rules of Order shall govern the association 
in all cases to which they are applicable, and 
in which they are not inconsistent with the 
Constitution and by-laws. 

JUNE, 1940 
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