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Jamestown College, N. Dakota; Robert Jordan, 
Council on Library Resources; W. Stafford 
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bibliographer of Franklin and Marshall College, 
Lancaster, Pa., was awarded the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, at the 
Opening Convocation of the 1967-1968 aca­
demic year at the college on September 14. 
Professor Anstaett recently retired from the 
position of librarian, which he had held since 
1927.

The Honorable John W. Gardner, Secretary 
of Health, Education and Welfare, received 
the degree of Doctor of Laws at the Franklin 
and Marshall Convocation.

The citation of Professor Anstaett read as 
follows:

Herbert Bulow Anstaett—A nineteenth century poet, 
Silas Weir Mitchell, once turned a phrase that speaks 
volumes about Herbert Anstaett, Bookman to Franklin 
and Marshall College since 1927. “ Show me the 
books he loves,” Silas Mitchell wrote, “and I shall 
know the man far better than through mortal friends.”

To begin knowing Professor Anstaett, one must look 
first to 194,000 books which he truly loves; the books 
at Fackenthal library, more than 150,000 of which 
have been acquired during his forty years’ romance 
there. And, in a very real sense, the books he loves 
extend far beyond the Fackenthal collection, to in­
clude the numerous additional volumes which he 
successfully cataloged as one of the first editors of 
Books In Print.

The books he has known concur eloquently with 
mortal friends by the score who speak of the humane 
depth of his understanding, the breadth of his schol­
arly interests, and the excitement of a voyage toward 
even the most remote bibliographic poet in his wake.

The scope and richness of his career have brought 
him recognition as one of the nation’s outstanding 
college librarians. But we would rather know him as 
a prime example of the genius inherent in liberal 
arts education when it is conducted on a very 
personal scale. For he has made wisdom gained 
hrough major professional accomplishment available 
n an individual basis to all who use Fackenthal 

library, thus serving as a catalyst in that subtle 
hemistry, that stirring intellectual ferment which

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HERBERT ANSTAETT CITED

MALC IN 1968
The Midwest Academic Librarians 

Conference will be held in Winona, Min­
nesota, May 3-4, 1968. The host col­
leges will be: Winona State College, 
College of St. Teresa, and St. Mary’s 
College.

sometimes makes this campus seem an English coffee 
house raised to the nth power.

While quadrupling the Fackenthal library collec­
tion; editing the monumental Books In Print and co­
editing its related Subject Guide to Books In Print; 
serving as president of the Pennsylvania Library As­
sociation; and crusading effectively for improved public 
library service throughout the Commonwealth; he has 
always remained an enthusiastic guide and partner 
in an amazing variety of scholarly endeavors. A big 
library, he would tell you, is only as good as its 
handling of the smallest demand for its services. Thus, 
he has made Fackenthal library a place where a 
professor’s call about a reference from the Vatican li­
brary and a student’s need for pictures of the instru­
ments in an orchestra both receive overabundant at­
tention; a place where your need for a single volume 
and the librarian’s preoccupation with an entire col­
lection never come into conflict.

OTTO HARRASSOWITZ
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