ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL BOARD PAYS TRIBUTE 
TO LOUISE GILES

At its first Midwinter meeting, the Board of 
Directors of the Association of College and Re­
search Libraries paid the following tribute to 
Louise Giles.

Sadly, there comes a time when it is too late 
to commend a friend for a job well done. Such 
a time has come, and this is our tribute to 
Louise Giles.

Louise Giles was a fine administrator, a pro­
fessionally dedicated librarian, a tireless and 
faithful worker in our association, a leader, an 
inspiration to beginning librarians, an innovator

interested in improving library service, but 
most of all she was a warm, outgoing, and com­
mitted human being.

She was dean of learning resources at 
Macomb County Community College in Michi­
gan, a former chairman of the Community and 
Junior College Libraries Section, a past presi­
dent of the Association of College and Research 
Libraries, and an American Library Association 
councilor.

None of these accomplishments, however, 
adds up to what Louise Giles was to each of us, 
and that is, a friend. Therefore, let us remem­
ber her friendship and her spirit and rededicate 
ourselves to our communities and our associa­
tion. ■ ■

Stanford Authorizes New Library
Construction of a new $20 million Main Li­

brary center at Stanford was authorized No­
vember 9 by the Stanford University Board of 
Trustees.

The center will consist of a new 180,000- 
gross-square-foot structure added to the re­
modeled existing Main Library of 175,000 
square feet.

Long regarded as Stanford’s top priority 
building project, the new structure will house 
one million volumes in its general collections. 
Physically connected with the current Main 
Library, it will be flanked by the J. Henry 
Meyer Memorial Library and the Hoover In­
stitution, creating a new “Library Quad” at the 
university.

More than $15 million in gifts and pledges 
already has been received for the new center. 
The remainder will be sought during construc­
tion, which is expected to start in early 1977

and take nearly two years to complete.
President Richard W. Lyman reported an 

anonymous pledge of $6 million toward the 
new library. Another $5 million comes from an 
anonymous “challenge” pledge and gift to the 
university, with $2 million from the James 
Irvine Foundation and $1 million from the 
Kresge Foundation. Smaller gifts account for 
an additional $1.3 million.

Buff-walled and red-roofed, the new library 
will have three stories above ground and one 
below. It will be physically interconnected with 
the existing Main Library at all levels, with an 
underground connection to the Meyer Library 
basement, which houses 400,000 volumes of the 
Main Library collections.

The new library will have about 200 studies.
The Main Library reached its capacity in 

1975 when the university also passed the four 
million mark in its total book collections. The