College and Research Libraries


By ERNEST J. REECE 
With the Assistance of Students at the School of Library Service1 

College and University Library 
Ne\Vs, 1941"42

2 

Mr. Reece is Professor of Library Service, 
Columbia University. 

PURSUANT to long-standing custom there is collected here current informa­
tion pertaining to college and university 
libraries. 3 No claim is made to exhaustive­
ness, the aim having been to gather items of 
prominence and general interest. Owing 
to conditions of the year, the total bulk is 
somewhat reduced from that of recent 
reports and at certain points the emphasis 
has changed. In general, fewer notable 
accessions are recorded, and attention is 
lessened to new services, to the considera­
tion of aims and purposes, and to such mat­
ters as the normal exhibits and publications 
by libraries. There has been lively concern 

Abbreviations used in footnotes: A.A. C. BulL-As­
sociation of American Colleges Bulletin; A.A.U.P. 
BulL-Bulletin of the American Association of Uni­
versity Professors; A.L.A. Buii.-A.L.A. Bulletin; 
Bull. of Bib.-Bulletin of Bibliography; C.&R.L.­
College and Research Libraries; ].H.E.-Journal of 
Higher Education; L.J.-Library Journal; L.Q.­
Library Quarterly; P. W.-Publishers' Weekly; and 
S .&S.-School and Society. 

1 Students as follows participated in gathering ma­
terial: Margaret Augustine, Eleanor Fleming, Helen 
Gaffney, Thomas F. Gardner, Ruth Gilman, Cath­
arine A. Greene, Mar it A . Johnson, Irene Mac­
Donald, Sylvia Mechanic, Mildred Tabb, Dorothy S. 
Truesdale, Pauline Whitlock. 

2 This summary normally would have been pre­
sented at the I942 Conference of Eastern College 
Librarians at Columbia University. Although this 
meeting was omitted, the report has been prepared in 
the usual way as being of possible interest to members 
of the conference and to others. The period approxi­
mately is that dealt with in publications bearing dates 
from Nov. I, I94I, to Oct. 3I, I942, inclusive. 

a The present summary is the eighteenth in a series. 
Number seventeen was publi~hed in Library Journal 
66:1075-8I, and citations to earlier ones appeared in 
Library Journal 65 :Io;I. 

for technical problems, especially those of 
cataloging, and a rise in cooperative 
endeavor and in shifts of position at some 
levels. The war of course has had a 
marked influence in diverse ways. 

As the decrease in outstanding acquisi­
tions might suggest, gifts of books and col­
lections hold a relatively modest place in 
the news. Bates .added 234 volumes for 
its Chase room ;4 Bowdoin a film set of 
pre-18oo American periodicals ;5 Harvard 
the James family papers, 6 pieces from the 
Matt B. Jones library, 7 William Blake 
material, 8 and extensive Quiller-Couch 
first editions ;8 Wesleyan the four thou­
sand Greek, Latin, and other Wadsworth 
items ;9 and Yale the Van Vechten 
Gertrude Stein library10 and the Gis­
sing collection of George M. Adams. 11 

Columbia received from Frederick Coyken­
dall valuable nineteenth-century Anglo­
Irish literature and from other sources 
various American letters and autographs 
and three epistles of John Stuart Mill.12 

4 Bates College. Report ... I94I-42, p. I8. 
5 Bowdoin College. Library. Report ... I94I-42, 
3 

p. e Ji.arvard University Library Notes 4:74-79. 
7 Ibid. 4:9 5-96. 
s Harvard University. Reports ... I940·4I, p. 354· 

559 Wesleyan University. Library. About Books, v. 
I 2, no. 3-4, p. I-4-

Io Yale University Library Gazette I6 :45-47; P. W. 
I4I :526. 

11 Yale UniversitY' Library Gazette I6:47-5o; P.W. 
I4I :526. 

12 Information from Acquisitions Department of 
Columbia University Libraries. 

MARCH, 1943 107 



Fordham's "Friends': gave it the six thou­

sand volumes of the late Spanish ambas­
sador, Don Juan Riano y Cayangos. 13 

Queens College of New York has the I 500 
philosophy titles once belonging to Profes­
sor Prall of Harvard14 and a donation for 
increasing them made by the graduating 
class. To Princeton there came the im­
pressive Garrett Arabic and other books 
and manuscripts15 and from Andre de 
Coppet, on "extended loan," thirty thou­
sand documents from the archives and 
papers of Eugene Beauharnais, Napoleon's 
stepson. 16 Bryn Mawr received 1500 di­
versified pieces from Professor Shorey's 
library, 17 Pennsylvania State the Plumb 
Bible collection, 18 and Buffalo the Grat­
wick penology material an:l ten thousand 
volumes of miscellaneous literature, besides 
liberal additions to its poetry books and 
manuscripts. 19 Indiana fell heir to the 
private libraries of Samuel and Theophilus 
Wylie, 20 and Michigan to the 3300 Cross 
items on English history, the Thieme 
volumes on poetry, bibliography, and the 
French renaissance, 21 and various inscribed 
bamboos. 22 Wisconsin got Professor L. 
P. Jones's scientific library/3 Nebraska 
Thomas Kimball's architectural material, 24 

and Oklahoma eight hundred volumes as 
a: memorial to Theodore H. Brewer. 25 
There were donated to Scripps the six 
thousand books, manuscripts, and letters of 
the late John I. Perkins, 26 and to Southern 

13 Fordham University. Report, 1941, p. 21. 
14 c.&R.L. 3:264; L.J. 67:358. 
16 S.&S. s6: 109; Princeton University Library

Chronicle 3:113-48. 
16 Princeton University Library Chronicle 3:45-51. 
17 Bryn Mawr College. Report ... 1940-41, p. 33· 
18 L.J. 67: 1 So." 
19 University of Buffalo. Report ... 1940-41, p. 

14. 
2o C.&R.L. 3 :93· 
21 University of Michigan. Report ... 1940-41, 

p. 211, 217. 
22 Ibid., p. 21 I, 
23 L.l. 67 :483. 
2

• C.&R.L. 3:343. 
25 L.l. 67 :639· 
26 A.A.C. Bull, 28:490-91. 

California the collection on the Catalina 
Islands left by Librarian Emeritus Char­
lotte M. Brown. 27 The Bryan depo3it of 
18oo historical volumes at North Carolina 
was converted into a gift. 28 William and 
Mary added various family and personal 
papers, 29 and Johns Hopkins the collection 
of William Hand Browne, former librar­
ian and professor of English. 30 Rochester 
gained a first edition of Massinger's Bond­
man and a collection of engravings of 
American cataracts.31 Abroad, Cambridge 
reported receipt from Sir Stephen Gaselee 
of over 270 books, mostly of early sixteenth­
century printing. 32 

Notable acquisitions other than gifts in­
clude at Princeton an unpublished poem 
of Thomas Campbell 33 and .a first edition 
of Gosson's Ephemerides of Phialo. 34 

Columbia secured the balance of the Selig­
man collection and a first edition of Sir 
Henry Wotton's Elements of Architec­
ture.35 Temple arranged to add the 

microfilmed American Culture series and 
to exchange cards covering it for those of 
Pennsylvania's American Periodicals se­
ries. 3 n At Denver microfilm copies of 
some of the chief European library periodi­
cals are in hand. 37 California at Los 
Angeles has obtained the collection on 
money and banking of ex-Senator Gore, 38 

New Mexico is bringing together South­
west historical source materials, 39 and 

27 C.&R.L. 3 :19~· 
28 Ibid. 3:266. 
29 Ibid. 3:190-91. 
30 Johns Hopkins University Library . Ex Libris 

II ;[4). 

31 University of Rochester Library, Fortnightly 
Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 9, p. 1. 

32 Cambridge University Library. Report, 1940-41, 
p. 1-14· 

33 Princeton Univers1ty Library Chronicle 3:31-32. 
34 Ibid. 3 :107-oS. 
35 Information from Acquisitions Department, Co­

lumbia University Libraries. 
36 Temple University Library Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 

1, cover page. 
3

7 C.& R.L. 2:93; Ibid. 3 :343. 
38Ibid. 3:192. 
aD Ibid. 3 :93· 

COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 108 



Texas has assembled over one thousand 
photographs of old buildings which still 
stand in its state.40 Indiana procured the 
Oakleaf Lincoln library.41 

Published Notices 

Various items and collections received 
mention in print, for the record and to 
make them known. C. K. Shipton told of 
the Harvard archives ;42 Collector's Guide 
reprinted much of an article on the Brown 
Lincoln material which previously had ap­
peared in A braham Lincoln Quarterly ,·43 

Yale reported on its extra-illustrated copy 
of Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to 
the Declaration of I ndependence,"44 and an 
article in American-German Review dealt 
with the Jesse Isodore Straus manuscripts 
at Vassar. 45 Several passports printed in 
France by Benjamin Franklin and pre­
served in American libraries got notice 
from the pen of Randolph G. Adams. 46 

For the Clements library at Michigan 
there was set forth its Greenly Lincoln 
collection, 47 and for Illinois its store of 
newspapers.48 Doane brought together 
the facts about college and university 
libraries in Wisconsin ;49 there appeared 
an historical account of the library at New 
Mexico Highlands University ;50 growth 
of the state collection at Texas was de­
scribed ;51 announcement was made of the 
establishment of the Robert E. Lee 
Archives at Washington and Lee52 and 
of the Archives of American Civilization 

40 Ibid. 3:191. 
41 Ibid. 3 :J43· 
42 C.&R.L. 3 :5o·56. 
4 3 Collector's Guide, April -May-June, 1942, p. 9-11. 
44 Yale University Library Gazette I6:50·57· 
4 s American-German Review, vol. 8, no. I, p. 16-18, 

36; no. 2, p. 8-Io, 39· 
46 Rutgers University Library Journal 5:5-8. 
4T Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review 47:318-27. 
48 lllinois Libraries 24:71-77· 
49 L.J. 67:515·19. 
so New Mexico Library Bulletin 2:7-8. 
51 Texas Library Association. News Notes, April 

1942, p. 7·9· 
52 C.&R.L. 3:342-43. 

MARCH, 1943 

at Princeton ;53 and the Florida historical 
source material at the John Carter Brown 
Library was characterized. 54 

Library resources continue to be en­
hanced by money gifts. The Carnegie 
Corporation appropriated $ss,8oo for 
books to eleven technological colleges, 55 

$s,ooo to selected liberal arts colleges for 
educational periodicals, 56 and an un­
specified amount to Michigan for micro­
filming title pages and tables of contents 
of certain early English books in American 
libraries.57 A Rockefeller grant of 
$so,ooo went to Amherst in pursuance of 
the agreement to match contributions to 
the Folger library ;58 while other libraries 
to benefit from the same donor were those 
at Harvard, Brown, Oxford and the 
London School of Economics in England, 
and Chile in South America.59 Some of 
Stanford's special libraries received aid 
through the bequest of Timothy Hopkins' 
estate to the university.60 Bowdoin came 
into a fund of $I ,ooo as a memorial to 
W. C. Merryman, 61 and the New York 
Literary Foundation gave Upsala $I 50 
for books in Germanic literature.62 Occi­
dental's "Library Associates," formed to 
promote enrichment and development, 
held their first meeting. 63 

Discussions of function have taken an 
unusual turn. Apart from a suggestive 
general article by Seelye on what libraries 
might contribute to college programs and 
activities, 64 the interest is in specialized 
aspects of the subject. Wailing took up 

53 Ibid. 3 :92. 
114 Florida Historical Quarterly 20:3-46. 
55 C.&R.L. 3 :190; A.L.A. Bull. 35:7o8. 
56 A.L.A. Bull. 36:45. 
G

7 P.W. 140:2247· 
G& Amherst College. Report ... 1941, p. 19. 
59 A.L.A. Bull. 36:90. 
SOA.A.C. Bull. 28:148 . 
61 Bowdoin College. Report ... 1941·42, p. 33· 
62 A.A.C. Bull. 28:313. 
63 C.&R.L. 3:192. 
64 L.J. 67:567·71. 

109 



the answering of book needs in survey 
courses65 and Stanford the implications to 
libraries of honors courses ;66 while Kuhl­
man included college and university li­
braries in his consideration of policies 
affecting research. 67 Hoole dealt with the 
place of music in one library, 68 and Young 
with phases of reading guidance. 60 

The brake which the war has tended to 
put upon extensions seems to be reflected 
in a paucity of new services. Fisk has 
experimented with an open-shelf room 
designed to supplement the materials for 
reading on regular course work. 70 The 
Denver films of European library periodi­

cals are announced as available for the 
making of copies. 71 Teachers College at 
Columbia has introduced a number of new 
features which are included among devices 
described by Witmer. 72 Beyond the 
examples mentioned in this paragraph, re­
liance apparently is mainly upon estab­
lished facilities. 

Considerable interest is evident, how­
ever, in measuring resources and results. 
Book stock was dealt with from this stand­
point by Stone, 73 and circulation records 

were studied at Hamilton 74 and Nor­
wich. 75 More specialized aspects were 

brought out by Eells in his attention to 
the reading of periodicals by junior college 
students76 and by Lancaster in an investi­
gation of the dependence upon libraries by 
student teachers. 77 An over-all approach 

615 L.Q. 12:75-93· 
66 Ibid. 12:221-45. 
61 Ibid. 12:585-6oo. 
68 S.&S. 55 :260-63. 
09 L.l. 67:25-28. 
70 Ibid. 67:837-38. 
71 C.&R.L. 3:343. 
72 L.l. 67 :718-19· 
7a L.J. 66 :941-43· 
74 L.Q. 12:94-108. 
7~ Norwich University Library. Report, 1941-42, 

p. 8-10. 
76 L.Q. 12:474-85. 
77 Lancaster, J. H. Use cf the Library by Student 

Teachers. 1941. 

to the evaluation of university library 
service appeared m an article by Purdy. 7 b 

Administration 

Administration in its numerous facets 
claims moderate space in the periodicals. 
Hanson discussed organization and re­
organization at Chicago and Wisconsin, 70 

Thompson the background of department 
libraries, 80 and Coney81 and Ellsworth82 

the distributing of departmental book 
appropnatwns. As possibly bearing on 
such matters, one professor stressed the 
innocence of faculty committees regarding 
library management, 83 and another con­
sidered problems of collaboration between 
teaching staffs and librarians. 84 The task 
in a university library of adapting book 
stock, technical organization, and refer­
ence service to the needs of undergraduates 
was set forth by Lund. 85 Means of pro­
viding for current expenses were treated, 
the difficulty being pointed out of inter­
esting large donors in such financing. 86 

The equipment of staff members received 
attention in McDiarmid's comments on 
their preparation through experience, 87 

also in an article by MacGregor.88 Light 
on the status of staffs came from develop­
ments in the New York City colleges, 80 

while more was promised in connection 
with a reclassification of library positions 
in California.00 N. Orwin Rush argued 
for the exploiting of special collections as 

78 L.Q. 12 :638-44· 
79 L.Q. 12:519-32. 
80 Ibid. 12:49-74. 
81 Ibid. 12:422-28. 
82 Ibid. 12:486-94. 
:College English 3:295-97. 

l.H.E. 13:146-49. 172. 
~ A.A.U.P. Bull. 28:480-88. 
86 5.&5. 55:102-04. 
87 L.Q. 12:614-21. 
88 L.J. 67:259-61. 
89 C.&R.L. 3 :43-45. 
00 Ibid. 3:192. 

COL LEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 110 



a fruitful ad vert ising device. 91 Several 
libraries were cited for distinctive pub­
licity.92 The year's A.L.A. statistics ap­
peared according to schedule. 93 Bishop 
treated rare book rooms, although only 
partly in relation to colleges and univer­
sities.94 

Whether from conviction or because of 
exigencies, cooperative enterprises abound. 
Lowell treated their achievements and 
status comprehensively, 95 and Kuhlman 
edited a compilation touching their 
aspects in Nashville and in the South.96 

Meanwhile the Pacific Northwest Library 
Association went ahead with the survey of 
its region ;97 the "valley colleges". in New 
England held meetings looking to unified 
effort ;98 North Carolina, Duke, and 
Tulane pursued their concerted plan for 
acquiring Spanish-American materials ;99 

North Carolina worked with the Library 
of Congress on legislative journals ;100 co­

ordination was being perfected in the 
Atlanta-Athens district in Georgia ;101 

and theN ashville project was housed in the 

new Joint University Library building. 102 

Also, the Philadelphia Center produced a 
basic umon list of microfilms103 and 
established itself at the University of 
Pennsylvania ;104 the Bibliographical Plan­
ning Committee of Philadelphia issued the 
report of its resources survey ;105 Denver 

91 L.J. 67:210-11. 
92 A.L.A. Bull. 36:522, 527. 
00 Ibid. 36:112·15, 120·31. 
94 LQ. 12:375-85. 
00 Lowell, M. H. Colle_qe and University Library 

Consolidations. 1942. 
96 Kuhlman, A. F., ed. Development of University 

Centers in the South. 1942. 
97 C.&R.L. 3:265. 
98 Smith College. Report . . . 1940-41, p, 27-2R. 
99 Duke University. Report ..• 1940-41, p. 91; 

Revista Iberoamericana 4:249-52. 
100 C.&R.L. 3:92. 
101 University Administration Quarte1ly 1:5-9. 
102 C.&R.L. 3 :102·16, 138. 
1oa Bull. of Bib. 17:133; C.&R.L. 3:2G5. 
104 L.J. 66:1015. 
105 Bull. of Bib. 17:13:;. 

klA RCII, 1943 

promoted a new serial list ;106 the facts 
about union catalogs generally were 
gathered under the editorship of 
Downs ;107 and the New England Deposit 
Library began operation. 108 It is of inter­
est also that a college and reference section 
of the state library association was 
organized in Kentucky ;109 that California 
college and university librarians met to 
consider defense problems ;110 that the 
Carnegie Corporation gave $sooo to 
advisory groups on academic libraries ;111 

and that the American Library Associa­
tion, with the help of a grant of $1 Io,ooo 
from the Rockefeller Foundation, is plan­
ning to fill gaps in the files of American 
journals and books in European and 
Asiatic research institutions when the war 

112is over.

Technical Organization 

Concern for effective technical organiza­
tion has run high. Donohue proposed a 
system and schedule for departmental 
ordering of books ;113 Bernt took up weed­
ing procedures ;114 Coldren discussed the 
supplying and replacing of destructible 
materials assigned to classes ;115 Plant 
treated the handling of periodicals ;116 

Pratt told of the use of International 
Business Machines in the circulation de­
partment at Florida117 and also explained 
the fine rates now in effect there. 118 

106 Ibid. 17:156. 
107 Downs, R. B., ed. Union Catalogs in the United 

States. 1942. 
108 L.J. 67 :358; Harvard Universit:y· Library Notes 

4:111, 
109 C.&R.L. 3:266. 
110 L.J. 67:312. 
111 A.L.A. Bull. 36:45. 
112 C.&R.L. 3:42, 2o6, 268; A .L.A. Bull. 36: P-tt­

12. 
113 l.H.E. 13:77-80. 
11

• L.J. 67:22-24. 
115 C.&R.L. 3:46-49. 
116 Ibid. 3 :57-63. 
117 L.J. 67:302-03. 
t18 Ibid. 67 :SaG. 

111 



Cataloging continued to excite con­
troversy, the new A.L.A. code being con­
sidered by Ludington, 119 Smith, 120 and 
Ellsworth, 121 and the cataloging "crisis" 
by Heyl.I 22 Miller dealt with the use in 
three institutions of the card catalog.123 

Tauber sketched the history of classifica­
tion in college and university libraries/ 24 

and Anderson that of the cataloging in the 
Harvard law library. 125 Bolz126 and Reyn­
olds127 grappled with general binding 

and mending problems, and Barr with 
those pertaining especially to periodicals 
in wartime.128 Michigan reported an 
increase in photostat operations.129 Sug­
gestions for the improvement of bookplates 
came from Tufts.130 Pittsburgh reported 
on a course in the use of the library, 131 

and Pennsylvania State issued a students' 
handbook. 132 

Effect of War 

The outbreak of war came near the 
beginning of the year now under review, 
and its effect has been pervasive. Charles 
H. Brown sounded a call for action, 133 

Lund provided a cautionary note, 134 and 
the Office of Education issued a pamphlet 
which may increase dependence upon li­
braries in the period.135 Defense and war 
activities were enumerated as a result of a 
California conference136 and of surveys by 
Wilson, 137 Hanley/ 38 and Mohrhardt ;139 

119 C.&R.L. 3 :I2I-28. 
120 Ibid. 3: I 28·33· 
1 21 Ibid. 3:I34·38. 
1; ; L.J. 67:720-21. 
123 L.Q. I2:629-37. 
124 Ibid. I 2 :7o6-24. 
125 Harvard Library Notes 4:105-09. 
1~ L.J. 67 :8o4. 
127 Ibid. 67:9I6. 
128 Ibid. 67:420. 
1 29 University of Michigan. Report .•. I940-4I, 

p. 233· 
130 Tuftonian 2:70-7 5. 
1 31 J.H.E. I3 :I24·28. 
1 32 Pennsylvania State College. Library Handbook 

fo r Students, 1942·43­
133 c.&R.L. 3 :99-Ioo, 116; L.J. 67:55-56. 
1 34 A.L.A. Bull. 36:370. 
135 L.J. 66 :944· 
136 Ibid. 67:3I2. 
137 C.&R.L. 3 :I8- 3 o. 

and those in force locally were reported 

for Brown/ 40 Iowa State, 141 Oregon/ 42 

and Long Beach J unior. 143 Notable ex­
amples instanced are the information 
centers, 144 efforts on the Victory Book 
Campaign/ 45 and exhibits. 146 Pennsyl­
vania State has a war film library, avail­
able for the extension work of the college 
and for defense training throughout the 
state.l47 Harvard issued a selected civilian 
defense bibliography/ 48 and Yale has con­
tinued its assembling of ephemeral ma­

149terial bearing upon the war. Tech­
niques and methods to meet emergency 
needs have claimed some attention, in 
application to college libraries as well as 
to others, in Landon's paper on the 
preservation of wartime material 150 and 
in Cowles' article on indexing in certain 
fields affected by defense and related con­
cerns.151 What has been done to libraries 
comes out in Russell's statement on condi­
tions in war areas, 152 in the account of the 

burning at the University of the Philip­
pines, 153 and in Pringle's story of the situa­
tion at Hawaii ;154 and, at home, in the 
departure of staff members for military 
service155 and in the new responsibilities 
accelerated programs have brought.156 

138 Ibid. 3 :38-42. 
139 Ibid. 3:3 I-37­
140 A.L.A. Bull. 35:702. 
141 Ibid. 36:66-68. 
142 University of Oregon. Library Staff Associa­

tion. Call Number, val. 3, no. 2, p. 7-8. 
B 3 Long Beach Junior College Library. Report, 

I 9~~·c!&R.".L. 3:264. 
145 Temple University Library Bulletin, val. 8. no. 

2; L.J. 67:3 I 2; Alfred University. Repo1·ts ... 

I 9t,!·L~}. p.6i~ji2; University of Pennsylvania Li­
brary Chronicle 10 :43-8I; University of Rochester 
Library. Fortnightly Bulletin, val. 2I, no. I, p. 1. 

147 J .H.E. I 3 :389-90­
148 Harvard University Library Notes 4: I I 3- 14· 
149 Yale University Library Gazette I 7:14-20. 
1w A.A.C. Bull. 28:340-42. 
151 L.J. 67:I6o-65. 
152A.L.A. Bull. 36:P-II·I2. 
153Ibid. 36: 55I; L.J. 67:8o1. 
154 L.J. 67:327. 
155 E.g., Harvard University Librar_y Notes 4:88. 
1w C.&R.L. 3 :264; New York Ttmes, March 22, 

I942, sec. 2, p. 6, col. 2. 

COLLEGE AND RESEARCll LIBRARIES 112 



Publications 

Publications attributable to libraries 
and librarians are Michigan's list of its 
early military books/ 57 Duke's compila­
tion of Alabama pamphlets/ 58 Winchell's 
1938-40 supplement to the sixth edition 
of Mudge's Guide/ 59 Heyl's revised list 
of national bibliographies/ 60 and Tomlin­
son's dictionary of terms relating to 
librarianship.161 

Consummation of work under way be­
fore the war makes the news of buildings 
fairly copious, and even the number of 
fresh projects is liberal. The outstanding 
events were the dedication of the joint 
university structure at N ashville162 and 
the opening of the rare booki63 and deposit 
buildings164 at Harvard. New edifices 
likewise were completed or almost so at 
South Carolina/65 Carroll/ 66 Tennessee 
Wesleyan, 167 Carthage, 168 Northland, 169 

MacMurray/69 St. Olaf's, 170 St. Am­
brose/71 ~nd San Jose State.172 Major 
extensions went into use at Connecticut 
College173 and at Oregon State/ 74 and 
there was thoroughgoing renovation at 
Bard.175 Macalester let a contract,176 

Wisconsin is well on with a project for an 
undergraduates' building, 177 and Dart­

m P.W. 140:2037; Bull. of Bib. 17:IIo. 
1ss Bull. of Bib. 17:156. 
100 Winchell, C. M. Reference Books of I938-I940. 

19~'Heyl, Lawrence. Current National Bibliogra­
phies. Rev. ed, 1942, . 

181 Tomlinson, L. E. Library Sczence Glossary. 
19
~~·c.&R.L. 3 :1 9 1; S.&S. 54:582-83; A.A.C. Bull. 

28 : 147·48. 
183 Harvard University Library Notes 4:61-67; New 

York Times Book Review, Apri1 5, 1942, p. 20. 
184 Harvard University Library Notes 4:110. 
1ec1 C.&R.L. 3 :92. 
t66A.A.C. Bull. 28:487; C.&R.L. 3:266. 
167 C.&R.L. 3=191. 
168 Ibid. 3:343. 
169 Ibid. 3 :93. 
110 Ibid. 3 :26s; L.J. 67:587. 
m A.A.C. Bull. 27:733. 
112 L.J. 67:825-27. 
11a Ibid. 67:707-10. 
m C.&R.L. 3:93. 
m Ibid. 3 :264. 
17& Ibid. 3 :93· 
1n University of Wisconsin. Report ... 1939-41, 

p. 35. 

mouth has authorized its new wings. 178 

With a view to intended structures, Em­
poria received $2 50,000 from the Kansas 
legislature, 179 Moravian Seminary $5o,ooo 
from alumnte/80 Wittenberg $5o,ooo 
anonymously/ 81 and Greenville $1o,ooo 
from Eugene Enloe. 182 The year's publi­
cations brought descriptions of the new 
quarters at Pennsylvania State183 and 
South Georgia184 and of the storage build­
ing at Iowa State.185 

Personnel Changes 

The movement of personnel has been 
heavy, although not in positions of major 
rank. Ralph A. Beals became director at 
Chicago186 and Robert A. Miller at 
Indiana. 187 Thelma Brackett was ap­
pointed librarian at New Hampshire/ 88 

Philip M. Benjamin at Allegheny/ 89 

David J oily at Hampton, 19°Frances Kemp 
at Lake Erie, 191 Joseph D. Ibbotson at 
Rollins/ 92 Mary M. Gillham at 
Toledo/ 93 Fina C. Ott at Washburn/ 94 

Paul W. Winkler at McPherson/ 94 

Louise F. Eastland at Albright/ 95 Alma 
Bennett at •Ottawa (Kansas) / 96 Helen 
Hagan at Coker/ 97 Henry E. Coleman at 
Washington (Maryland), 197 and Oivind 
M. Hovde at Concordia (Minnesota). 198 

1711 C.&R.L. 3:92. 
170 Ibid. 3 a 9 I. 
11l11A.A.C. B1tll. 28:310. 
181 Ibid. 27:734. 
182 Ibid. 28:309; Illinois Libraries 24:63. 
183 L.J. 66:934-36. 
184 Ibid. 67:20-21. 
185 Ibid. 67: I so- 53­
186 C.&R.L. 3:267. 
187 Ibid. 3:192. 
188 L.l. 67 :803; Bulletin of the New Hampshire 

Public Libraries 38 :82. 
189 L.J. 67 :s86. 
100 Bulletin of the New Hampshire Public Libraries 

38:82. 
191 Columbia University. School of Library Serv­

ice. Library Service News 3 :25. 
m L.J. 67 :s86. 
193 Ibid. 66 :983. 
194 C.&R.L. 3:192. 
l96L.J. 66:98!. 
100 C.&R.L. 3:192. 
197 Ibid. 3 =94· 
t98 L.J. 66:983. 

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Similarly, in Texas Mrs. Johanna G. 
Saulter was designated at Samuel Hous­
ton199 and Mary E. Watson at Bishop ;200 

in Kentucky Ruth L. Van Sciver took 
charge at Asbury ;201 in Illinois Edward 
F. Mahoney became head at St. Bede202 

and Edwin Wilbracht at Concordia. 202 

Mary Gary was made librarian at Georgia 
Southwestern, 203 Clarence J. Schuerman 
at St. Joseph's in Indiana, 204 and Willis 
C. Warren acting librarian at Oregon. 205 

Among vocational agencies, Arthur M. 
McAnally was chosen as librarian by 
Bradley Polytechnic Institute, 206 Emma 
L. Main by Texas Technological Col­
lege,207 and Marjorie G. Wynne by 
Pennsylvania Military College ;208 Norma 
L. Rathbun went to the teachers college 
at Willimantic (Connecticut) ,209 Ruth Y. 
~erry to that at Westfield ( Massachu­
setts) ,21 ° Felix E. Snider to that at Green­
ville (North Carolina), 211 Audrey Graff 
to that at Ellendale (North Dakota), 212 

and Mabel W. A. Forward to the state 
normal school at Farmington (Maine) ;213 

H. H. A. Bernt became librarian at the 
Newark University School • of Law, 214 

Ruth Y. Zacharias at the Cincinnati Col­
lege of Pharmacy, 215 Ruth D. Monk at 
the Manitoba University Medical Li­
brary,216 and Mrs. J. B. Mainwood at 
Michigan's Rackham Educational Me­
morial in Detroit. 217 

1oo Ibid. 66:988. 
200 Ibid. 66:980. 
201 Ibid. 67:412. 
202 Ibid. 66:987. 
203 Ibid . 66:981. 
20~ I bid. 66:984. 
205 C.&R.L. 3:344. 
206 C.&R.L. 3:94. 
207 L.J. 67:745. 
208 Ibid. 66:978. 
209 Ibid. 67:47. 
210 Ibid. 67:134. 
211 C.&R.L. 3:94. 
212 L.J. 66:984. 
21a Ibid. 66:987. 
214 C.&R.L. 3:94. 
215 Columbia University. School of Library Serv· 

ice. Library Service News 4:39. 
216L.J. 67:412. 
m Ibid. 67:228. 

Appointments to junior colleges were 
those of Mabel Martin at Bennett (Mill­
brook, New York), 218 Mary E. Mayo at 

219Armstrong (Savannah, Georgia) , 
Edith E. Cutting at Larson (New Haven, 

220Connecticut) , Mary I. Fulton at 
221Albert Lea (Albert Lea, Minnesota) , 
222G. Donald Smith at Herzl (Chicago) , 

and Thelma D. Morehouse at Marin 
(Kentfield, California). 223 

Carroll F. Reynolds was promoted to 
be assistant librarian at Pittsburgh, 224 

and Constance Winchell succeeded Isa­
dore G. Mudge as reference librarian at 
Columbia. 225 M. Llewellyn Raney re­
tired at Chicago, 226 M. H. Douglass at 
Oregon, 227 Edith Rowley at Allegheny, 228 

William F. Yust at Rollins, 229 Fanny E. 
Lowes at Washington and Jefferson, 230 

Jessie Dean at Washburn, 231 and Eliza­
beth H. West at Texas Technological 
College. 232 Louis Round Wilson, for­
merly librarian at North Caroiina, relin­
quished the headship of the Chicago 
library school.2 33 John S. Richards left 
the associate librarianship at Washington to 
direct the Seattle Public Library; 234 and 
Robert L. Work, librarian at Albright, 
resigned to accept a departmental position 
at Harvard. 235 The year's losses by death 

(Continued on page 127) 

21
8 Columbia University. School of Library Serv· 

ice. Library Service News 3 ::.i1. 
219 Ibid. 4:38. 
220 L.J. 66:1056. 
221 Ibid. 6:983. 
222 lbid. 66:979· 
223 Ibid. 66:978. 
224 Columbia University. School of Library Serv­

ice. Library Service News 4 :39. 
225 Ibid. 3:22. 
226 L.J. 67:586. 
227 University of Oregon. Library Staff Associa· 

tion. Call Number, v. 3, no. 3, p. 1-2; C.&R .L. 
3 =344· 

228 L.J. 67:539, 586. 
229 Ibid. 67:412, 586. 
230 Ibid. 67 :634. 
231 C.& R.L. 3: 192. 
232 L.J. 67:745. 
233 Ibid. 67:586. 
234 Ibid. 67:538-39; C.&R.L. 3:344. 
235 Columbia University. School of Library Serv­

ice. Library Service News 4:39. 

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things we have done are maintaining their 
importance: the professors who helped us 
build up the collections in poetry and 
anthropology are keeping their students 
constantly using those books. Although 
Freshman Orientation Week may be lost 
for some years, those instructors who have 
always carried library instruction further 
into their class periods are continuing to 
ask the library for help and cooperation 
in their programs and are reaching large 
groups of students who may pay little 
attention to our handbooks and problems. 
The research men whom we have helped 
with interlibrary loans are becoming bet­
ter scholars with greater depths of knowl­
edge to bring to the students working 
under them. The professor who learned 
about a basic index is certainly calling 
that index to the attention of his staff 
members, many of whom were probably as 
unacquainted as he was with the immense 

body of material that the index could 
make easily available to them. The con­
tacts we have made with students at teas 
and receptions may result in one to four 
years of pleasant relations, but the faculty 
members we have come to know well dur­
ing years of sociability may be valuable 
supporters of the library's next budget 
increase campaign which is for the pur­
pose of improving services to the student 
body as well as to the faculty. 

Mrs. Byers' statement, then, should cer­
tainly influence our long-time planning, 
but Theodore Norton, librarian of Lafay­
ette College Library, in School and So­
ciety in 1936, under the title "The College 
Library and College Teaching," has given 
us a sound recipe for immediate dividends 
from our efforts: "Guarantee to the under­
graduate good teachers and the good teach­
ers will see that the undergraduates make 
effective use of the book collection." 

College and University Library News, 1941-42 
(Continued from page II4) 

were those of Peyton Hurt of Williams236 

and Sabra W. Vought, one time of Ten­
nessee and later of Pennsylvania State.233 

Charles H. Brown delivered the A.L.A. 
presidential gavel to Keyes D. Metcal£. 237 

Fanny E. Lowes was given the degree of 
Doctor of Literature at Washington and 
Jefferson. 230 Several university librarians, 
representative of those active, retired, and 

236 L.J. 67:323. 
2ar A.L.A. Bull. 36:P·37-38. 

deceased, were honored in print. The 
work of Herbert S. Hirshberg was re­
counted in the Bulletin of Bibliography ~· 238 

a number of the Library Quarterly was 
dedicated to Louis Round Wilson ;239 and 
College and Research Libraries carried 
brief articles on Theodore Wesley Koch 240 

and Justin Winsor. 241 

238Bull. of Bib. 17:105-07. 
239 L.Q. 12:339·773· 
24 °C.&R.L. 3:67-70. 
241 Ibid. 3 :64-66. 

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