College and Research Libraries


News from 
T h e C a r n e g i e 

General Corporation of N e w 
Y o r k has appropri-

ated $55,800 for the development of li-
braries in technological colleges. Sums 
ranging from $3000 to $6000 have been 
granted eleven colleges for the purchase 
of books for general undergraduate read-
ing. These grants are to be expended 
over a three-year period beginning in Oc-
tober 1941. 

Dickinson College 

East of Carlisle, Pa., has 

inaugurated reading 

periods to encourage student reading for 

research and leisure in the new James W . 

Bosler Library. T h e reading periods, 

during which time the student will be 

released from attendance at classes, last 

two weeks in each semester, and are pre-

ceded by conferences between student and 

pi'ofessor on the proposed independent 

study. 

The Bulletin Board is the name of 

the new weekly mimeographed sheet issued 

by the staff of Pennsylvania State College 

Library, W i l l a r d P. Lewis, librarian. It 

is described as a "publication of, by, and 

for the library staff." In addition to 

weekly news items, the sheet carries a 

brief list of new and interesting books. 

T h e first number appeared on November 

3-
Among the papers recently transferred 

to the Franklin D . Roosevelt Library 
were letters of opinion received by the 
President from the public on various 
domestic and foreign policies of the ad-
ministration during 1933-41 ; letters from 
clergymen in reply to the President's cir-

cular request of September 23, 1935, for 

advice on problems of social legislation 

and unemployment; correspondence of 

M r s . Franklin D . Roosevelt, 1934-37; 

and letters received by James A . Farley 

from leaders of the Democratic party 

during the campaigns of 1930, 1932, and 

1936. T h e work of arranging the manu-

scripts and books is going forward rapidly 

but they are not yet available for use. 

O n September 18, 1941, Solon J. Buck, 

director of research and publications in 

the National Archives since 1935, became 

the second Archivist of the United States. 

He succeeded R. D . W . Connor who 

resigned to accept a newly-endowed pro-

fessorship of American history and juris-

prudence at the University of North 

Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

In keeping with a policy already fol-

lowed by several universities, N e w Y o r k 

University is permitting its candidates for 

doctoral degrees to reproduce their theses 

on microfilm. A substantial saving is 

thus afforded the student. O f a distinct 

advantage to the library will be the slight 

decrease in the demand for shelf space. 

Recent gifts to 
South the library of the 

College of William 
and M a r y , Williamsburg, Va., E. G . 
Swem, librarian, include a collection of 
letters of Thomas Ritchie and members 
of the Harrison family at Brandon for 
the years 1830 to 1875. A collection of 
thirty George Mason papers has been 
added to the library's collection which al-
ready includes letters by Thomas Jeffer-
son, James Madison, James Monroe, 
George Washington, and John Marshall. 

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Another gift of considerable significance 

was that of the Cabell papers for the 

period from 1740 to 1850, during which 

time five generations of the Cabell family 

attended William and M a r y . 

T h e Merner-Pfeiffer Library of T e n -

nessee Wesleyan College, Athens, was 

dedicated on November 5, 1941. Frances 

Mackey is librarian. 

T h e Joint University Library of Nash-

ville, Tenn., A . F. Kuhlman, director, was 

dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on 

Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, 

1941. T h e dedicatory exercises marked 

the culmination of a program of coopera-

tion between George Peabody College for 

Teachers, Scarritt College, and Vander-

bilt University which was actively begun 

in 1935. Jointly owned and directed and 

giving service to three institutions, the 

Joint University Library represents the 

most advanced stage that library coopera-

tion in this country has reached. 

Colorado State 
Middle West C o l l e g e L i b r a r y , 

Fort Collins, James 
G . Hodgson, librarian, held open house 
for the faculty on December I, 1941, in 
celebration of having grown to one hun-
dred thousand volumes. T h e regular 
monthly faculty meeting was held in the 
library at this time. Through appropriate 
talks, attention was drawn to the prob-
lems and opportunities of libraries today 
and tomorrow. Following tea which 
was served in the building, members of 
the faculty were invited to examine a 
series of exhibits illustrating various activi-
ties of the library and staff. 

T h e South Dakota State College, 

Brookings, H . Dean Stallings, librarian, 
has added shelves to the stacks of its 
library sufficient to house fifty thousand 
additional volumes. T h u s will its shelf 
capacity be brought to 125,000 volumes. 
Shelves to support about eighty thousand 
volumes more can be installed. 

For several years the efforts of Indiana 
librarians have been directed at improving 
facilities for the training of school librar-
ians. W o r k i n g in conjunction with the 
department of public instruction, the state 
board of education, and the supervisor of 
school libraries, this group is now engaged 
in a study of the problems connected with 
the training of school librarians. 

T h e James Jerome Hill Reference 
Library of St. Paul, Helen K . Starr, 
librarian, has received the five hundred-
volume accounting and taxation library 
of the late Herbert M . Temple of St. 
Paul. 

A readers' advisory service to assist 
students in discovering the bibliographical 
resources of the Antioch College Library, 
Y e l l o w Springs, O., has been announced 
by Paul H . Bixler, librarian. 

T h e 1941 Kansas legislature appropri-
ated $250,000 for building and equipping 
a library building on the campus of the 
State Teachers College at Emporia. 

T h e University of 
Southwest Texas Library, Aus-

tin, Donald Coney, 
librarian, has acquired for its archives col-
lection more than a thousand photographs 
of old buildings still standing in Texas. 
These photographs were made as a part 
of a nationwide project of the Historic 
American Buildings Survey. 

MARCH, 1942 
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T h e Library As-
Far West sociates of Occiden-

tal College, Los An-
geles, an organization of alumni and 
friends interested in the development and 
enrichment of the library, held their first 
meeting on November 24, 1941, with 
Louis B. W r i g h t of the Huntington Li-
brary as the speaker. Elizabeth J. M c -
Cloy is librarian. 

T h e library of the University of Cali-
fornia at Los Angeles, John E. Goodwin, 
librarian, has acquired the library of ex-
Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. 
T h e collection includes more than four 
hundred volumes in the field of money and 
banking. 

A committee of the state college presi-
dents, under Aymer Hamilton of Chico 
State College, has been working on pro-
posals for the reclassification of library 
positions in the state of California. T h e 
chairman proposed a classification scheme 
similar to that of the teaching faculty, 
with a salary schedule on a par with that 
body. 

T h e library of the University of South-
ern California, Miss Christian R. Dick, 

librarian, received from the estate of 

librarian emeritus Charlotte M . Brown, 

who died on M a r c h 11, 1941, an excellent 

collection of books, pamphlets, and clip-

ings on the Catalina Islands. 

Robert A . Miller, 
Personnel director of libraries 

of the University of 
Nebraska, Lincoln, has been appointed 
director of libraries of Indiana University, 
Bloomington, effective March 1, 1942. 
Stephen A . M c C a r t h y , now associate 
director, is succeeding him as director. 

A l m a Bennett became librarian of O t -
tawa University on September 1, 1941. 
She succeeded Virginia Richards who re-
signed. 

Fina C . O t t , formerly librarian at A l m a 
College, Alma, Mich., became librarian of 
Washburn Municipal University, Topeka, 
Kan., on September I, 1941, succeeding 
Jessie Dean who retired in August after 
thirty-eight years as librarian. 

Paul W . Winkler has been appointed 
librarian of McPherson College, M c -
Pherson, Kan., to succeed Claxton Helms. 

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