ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries COLLEGE & NEWS R E S E A R C H L IB R A R IE S No. 7, Ju ly /August, 1968 ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 29, No. 4 McNiff Is ACRL President-Elect Philip J. McNiff was elected vice presi­ dent and president-elect of ACRL and as­ sumed the duties of the office at the close of the Kansas City Con­ ference. Mr. McNiff has been director and librarian of the Boston public library since 1963. He began his career as a student as­ sistant in the Brookline (Mass.) public library in 1926, and became assistant in Newton (Mass.) free library in 1933, having in that Mr. McNiff year received the bac­ calaureate degree from Boston College. He served until 1935 in the Newton (Mass.) library and was librarian in the West New­ ton library from 1935 to 1940. In 1940 he received his BS in LS from Columbia University, and became head of the cata­ loging department in the Newton free library, where he remained until he became reference assistant in Harvard College in 1942. He was superintendent of the reading room from 1943-1948, librarian of Lamont library from 1948 to 1956, and assistant li­ brarian of Harvard College from 1949 to 1956. In 1954 he became a member of the faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard College; in 1956 he was named associate librarian of the college, and in 1962 became Archibald Cary Coolidge bibliographer in Harvard University. Mr. McNiff has served as consultant for the libraries of Emerson, Merrimack, Provi­ dence, Our Lady of the Elms, and Gorham State Teachers colleges; St. Paul’s School, Andover Academy, Boston Museum of Sci­ ence; Case Institute of Technology; and Southern, Southern Illinois, and Villanova universities. He was a member of the Massachusetts Library Commission to Study State Aid to Public Libraries; chairman of the Massa­ chusetts Library Development Committee; and a member of the advisory boards of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and Newton Junior College; served on the Bos­ ton College Visiting Library Committee, and was chairman of its board of directors. He was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Advisory Committee on Library Needs in Public Institutions of Higher Education; of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Advisory Committee on the Library Services and Construction Act; of the Special Advisory Committee on Certification of Librarians; and chairman of the Special Library Com­ mittee for Drafting Personnel Standards for Regional Public Library Systems. Mr. McNiff served ARL as chairman for the Far East and member of the Latin American and Middle East committees of 210 211 the Farmington Plan Committee. He is a member of the Catholic Library Association, and the Association for Asian Studies; was a member of the board of directors of New England Library Association; secretary in 1943/44 and president in 1952/54 of the Massachusetts Library Association; and a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, He has served on the Library Committee of the Boys Club of Boston; the Committee on Censorship of the Civil Liberties Union; and on the City of Boston School Commit­ tee as a member of the Advisory Committee on Comprehensive Educational Planning. He is a member of the American Associa­ tion of University Professors. From 1954 to 1961 he was a member of the ALA Council. Mr. McNiff edited the “Catalogue of La­ mont Library, Harvard College” (1953); and compiled a “List of Book Dealers in Underdeveloped Countries” (1963). ■■ ACRL Membership May 31, 1968 12,163 May 31, 1967 11,337 Section Memberships, May 31, 1968: College Libraries 3056 Junior College Libraries 1426 Rare Books 1364 Subject Specialists 2028 University Libraries 4327 Join the A M E R IC A N L IB R A R Y A S S O C I A T I O N CHECK an d DOUBLE CHECK MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 EAST HURON STREET CHICAGO. ILLINOIS 60611 COLLEGE & RESEARCH N E W S LIBRARIES ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries Editor, David Kaser, Cornell Libraries, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Publications Off icer, Mary Falvey, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey. ACRL Officers, 1 9 6 7 /6 8 : President, James H um ­ phry III ; College Libraries Section Chairm an, Audrey North; Junior College Libraries Section, Mrs. Alice B. 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