College and Research Libraries


Appointments to College and 
University Library Positiolls 

T HE APPOINTMENT of John W. Cronin as the assistant director of the Process-
ing Department of the Library of Congress 
was announced on September 2 7 by the 
librarian, Archibald MacLeish. Mr. 
Cronin assumed his new duties on 
October I. 

Mr. Cronin is a native of Lewiston, Me., 
with his A.B. degree from Bowdoin Col-
lege in I925 and the LL.B. degree from 
the Georgetown University Law School in 
I 929. He is a member of the Maine and 
District of Columbia bars. 

Mr. Cronin joined the Library of Con-
gress staff as an assistant in the Card Divi-
sion, .serving in this capacity from Sept. 25, 
I925, to May 8, I926, and then being 
reappointed in July I928. He has served 
continuously on the library staff since the 
latter date. From Dec. I, I938, he served 
first as acting chief and later as chief of 
the Card Division until the time of his 
present appointment. 

Through his close attention to the needs 
of the users of Library of Congress printed 
cards, Mr. Cronin has gained full under-
standing of the problems of developing 
catalogs in large scholarly libraries. His 
primary responsibilities in his new position 
will lie in the general direction of the pro-
duction and flow of work within the 
Processing Department. His experience as 

. chief of t}:Ie Card Division has fitted him 
particularly well for such administrative 
responsibility. The direction of the work · 
of that division has involved not only an 
understanding of the catalog card needs of 
a wide variety of libraries but administra-
tive skill in the management of a staff of 

MARCH_, 1945 

I50 people which, in the fiscal year I944, 
did a business in card sales of $349,000. 

Mr. Cronin has made a notable contribu-
tion to the library profession as editor of 
the Catalog of Books Represented by Li-
brary of Congress Printed Cards_, which is 

JOHN w. CRONIN 
being published currently in book form by 
Edwards Brothers of Ann Arbor, Mich., 
under the auspices of the Association of 
Research Libraries. He was also princi-
pally responsible for the preparation of the 
seventh edition of the Handbook of Card 
Distribution_, I944, and was co-compiler of 

-the Presidential Bibliographical Series_, vol-
umes 2-7 (Riverford, I935). He is a 
member of the American Library Associa-
tion, the Catholic Library Association, the 
Bibliographical Society of America, the 

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American Bar Association, and the Federal 
Bar Association. 

Nathaniel Stewart took office as chief of 
the .Card Division in the Library of Con-

NATHANIEL STEWART 

gress on Dec. I8, I944, succeeding John W. 
Cronin. 

Mr. Stewart has come to the Library of 
Congress from the position of chief of the 
Training and Publications Unit of the 
United States Office of Censorship. He 
joined the staff of the Washington head-
quarters of the Office of Censorship in 
December I 942 to develop and coordinate 
the training programs in the numerous and 
widely scattered field stations of the Office 
of Censorship. In this post it was his 
responsibility to work with some seven hun:. 
dred supervisors, to select training officers 
and to prepare them, and to help the various 
field training officers arrange the necessary 
programs and put these into effect. 

Previous to his service in the Office of 
Censorship in Washington, Mr. Stewart 

served as assistant in several departments of 
the Library of the College of the City of 
New York, I933-37; as an assistant in the 
Columbia University Libraries during the 
summer of I937; and in the Joint Univer-
sity Libraries, Nashville, Tenn., I 93 7-38, 
while studying for his bachelor's degree in 
library science. From I938 through July~ 
I942 he was chief libra1ian and associate 
professor of library science in Dillard U ni-
versity. In August I942 he aeted briefly as 
consultant and examiner in the Press and 
Publications Section of the New Or. eans 
station of the Office of Censorship, before 
being transferred to Washington. 

Mr. Stewart holds a bachelor of science 
and master of science degree from the Col-
lege of the City of New York and a 
bachelor of science degree in library science 
from George Peabody Library School. He 
is the author of a number of papers which 
have appeared in professional journals. 

G. Donald Smith has been appointed 
director of libraries of the University of 

G. DoNALD SMITH 

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Vermont, replacing Helen Barnes Shattuck, 
who had been librarian since I gog. 

Mr. Smith, who took over his new duties 
September I, has had varied experience in 
the college and university library field. 
For three years, I g33-36, following his 
library training at the Columbia University 
School of Library Service, he was associate 
librarian at Colby College, where he 

. actively participated in the reclassification 
of the book collections. For a year, 
Ig36-37, he was on the staff of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Libraries as an assistant in 
the social sciences divisional library. He 
spent the next two years as a student at the 
Graduate Library School of the University 
of Chicago, holding fellowships from the 
American Library A ssociation and the 
school, while working on his dissertation, 
an investigation of student reading. A 
portion of his findings was included in his 
master's thesis at the Graduate Library 
School. It is expected that the complete 
investigation will be presented in his doc-
toral dissertation. 

As librarian and associate professor of 
library science at Mary Washington Col-
lege, Fredericksburg, Va., Ig3g-40, Mr. 
Sll)ith had his firs~ experience as the chief 
officer of a college library. For a year, 
I g4 I -42, he was librarian at H erzl Junior 
College in Chicago. Until his appointment 
at Vermont he was assistant to the director 
of libraries at the University of Chicago 
Libraries. In this position he was able to 
assist the director in studying various prob-
lems, especially those relating to fines, li-
brary privileges, library bookkeeping, and 
departmental library organization. 

On Nov. 27, Ig44, David K. Berning-· 
hausen succeeded Clyde B. Cantrell as 
director of the library of Birmingham-
Southern College. Mr. Berninghausen 
went to Birmingham-Southern from the 

MARCH, 1945 

University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill, where he had been instructor in public 
speaking since July I g44. 

His academic background includes a B.A. 
from Iowa State Teachers College in Ig36,' 

DAVID K. BERNINGHAUSEN 

a B.S. from the School of Library Service, 
Columbia University, in Ig4I, and an 
M.A. degree in English and philosophy 
from Drake University in I g43. During 
the spring quarter of I g44 he was in resi-
dence in the graduate school at the U niver-
sity of North Carolina, again studying in 
the two fields of English and philosophy. 

From September Ig4I to March Ig44 
Mr. Berninghausen served as circulation 
librarian of Iowa State Teachers College. 
'As part of the college's radio education 
program he conducted a regular book re-
view and participated frequently in radio 
dramatic broadcasts. Prior to · his library 
training he taught in several high schools 
in the Middle 'West. 

In November of_ Ig44 the philosophy de-

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partment of North Carolina granted him 
a Williams fellowship for further study 
toward his doctorate. However, the oppor-
tunity to gain experience at Birmingham-
Southern in his chosen profession seemed to 
him the wiser. 

Clyde H. Cantrell became director of li-
braries at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti-

CLYDE H. CANTRELL 

tute, in Auburn, on November 2 7. After 
th~ee years . on the business staff of the 
Charlotte, N.C., News~ he did his college 
study at the University of North Carolina 
(A.B., 1933; A.M., 1936; A.B.L.S., 1937; 
and graduate work, 1940-41) and West , 
Virginia University (graduate work, 
1941-42). 

Mr. Cantrell's first expenence in li-· 
brarianship was as a student assistant at the 
University of North Carolina Library, 
1930-33, a~d from 1933 to 1937 he was 
supervisor of the circulation department. 
At North Carolina State College he was 
periodicals and exchange librarian, 1937-39, 

organizing and administering the periodical 
department, and circulation librarian, 
1939-41. 

Going to West Virginia University in 
August 1941, Mr. Cantrell was head of the 
circulation division, 1941-42, and assistant 
librarian, 1942-43. He established and 
standardized routines and regulations of the 
reserve and circulation departments, set up 
central location files to facilitate the loca- . 
tion of information on books in the stacks, 
and improved the system of carrells and 
seminars for use of graduate students. 
Much of his time was spent with the cata-
log department in standardizing . routines 
and in clearing and rearranging the stacks 
to make books and periodicals more readily 
available. 

Since July 1943 Mr. Cantrell has been 
associate professor of Spanish and director 
of the library at Birmingham-Southern 
College. He has concentrated especially on 
modernizing library routines and in obtain-
ing more favorable trade relations with 
publishers and dealers. In the basement of 
the library building the Cellar has been 
established for bringing people and books 
together. Fortnightly lectures or discussion 
hours are held, and students and faculty 
may purchase books or rent them in this 
room. Mr. Cantrell has set up favorable 
exchange relations with other libraries and 
has strengthened the reference collection. 
Much antiquated or superfluous material 
has been weeded from that section, and 
progress , has been made in binding com-
pleted volumes of old periodicals. 

At Auburn Mr. Cantrell will have under 
his direction the general library and six 
departmental libraries. . A new research 
program has been inaugurated, and eleven 
research professors are to be appointed in 
the near future. Present plans call for a 
rapid expansion of library facilities to sup-
port this program. 

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Retirement-of Lucy M. Lewis 
...... 

Lucy M. Lewis, librarian of Oregon 
State College and director of libraries of 

, 
the Oregon State System of Higher Edu- . 
cation, retired Jan. i, 1945, with the rank 
of director of libraries emeritus. Miss 
Lewis is a graduate of the University of 
Illinois and of the University of Illinois 
Library School. After five years as li-
brarian of New Mexico Agricultural Col-
lege, 1906-1 I, she came to Oregon State 
College as assistant librarian. She suc-
ceeded the late Mrs. Ida A. Kidder as 
librarian in 1920. The position of director 
of libraries was established in 1932 by the 
Oregon State Board of Higher Education 
and Miss Lewis was appointed. The de-
velopment of this unified control of libraries 
was an experiment watched with interest 
by the library profession and by educational 
administrators. 

Lucy M. LEwis 

Bourne Smith 

Bourne Smith, head cataloger at Antioch 
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, died at 
Dayton, Ohio, on October 17. He was a 
graduate of the University of Washington, 
Seattle, where- his father, Charles W. 
Smith, is librarian. In 1942 he completed 
the first year of library school instruction 
in the school of librarianship at the U niver-
sity of California. He assu~ed his position 
at Antioch in the summer of that year, and 
for the present academic year he had been 
awarded a scholarship at the University of 
Illinois Library School. He was preparing 
to move to Urbana for this additional study 
when stricken with illness. 

MARCH, 1945 

Mr. Sm.ith had taken a keen . interest in 
professional library matters. He was a 
member of the American Library Associa-
tion, the Ohio Library Association, and the 
Bibliographical Society of America. He 
was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He 
was the author of an article "The Chess 
Collection Re-Examined" published in the 
Library Journal last April 15. His brief 
career indicated promise and ability of the 
kind the library profession can ill afford to 
lose. A memorial book fund is being estab-
lished at Antioch in his honor. 

WILLIAM H. CARLSON 

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All arrangements were made for the 
American library representative, Carl M. 
White, to sail to China on December 9 in 
accordance with plans announced in the 
December issue of College and Research 
Libraries~ but these arrangements had to be 
canceled shortly before he expected to sail 
because of military developments in China. 
While · the military situation has taken a 
better turn, it was decided in mid-January 
to postpone the trip until conditions are 
more favorable. 

The Cooperative 
General Committee on Plan-

ning of New U niver-
sity and College Libraries, made up of 
representatives of eleven educational institu-
tions which are planning to spend more 
than twenty-five million dollars for library 
buildings after the war, met at Princeton 
University on December I5 and I6: 
Among the committee's objectives are: (I) 
the exploration of the present state of plan-
ning of the various library buildings and an 
exchange of information, ideas, and experi-
ences; (2) a coordination of approach to 
the fundamentals of library planning; ( 3) 
the initiation of studies and investigations 
of such matters as the adaptability of the 
new types and materials of construction to 
library buildings, lighting, air-conditioning, 
and scientific aids to learning; and ( 4) the 
dissemination of the information, ideas, and 
experience it accumulates not only among 
its own group but to any institution plan-
ning library facilities. Represented on the 
committee are the libraries of Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Iowa, 
Washington State, Maine, North Carolina, 
Duke, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, 
and Princeton. Other meetings will be 
held early in I945· Julian Boyd, librarian 
of Princeton University, is chairman of the 
committee. 

News from 
The third number of the News Sheet of 

the Engineering School Libraries Section 
of A.C.R.L. appeared in November. Ira 
A. Tumbleson, librarian of the Newark 
College of Engineering, Newark, N.J., is 
its editor. 

The Library of Con-
East gress is preparing a 

complete catalog of the 
Jefferson library, including not only the 
books which survive in the Jefferson Col-
lection but also those once a part of his 
collection. Information relative to J effer-
son books should be sent to Millicent 
Sower by, editor, Jefferson Library Catalog 
Project, Library of Congress, Washington 
25, D.C. The usual mark of ownership 
was a barely noticeable initial "T" which 
J efferso~ wrote on the lower margin of the 
page in front of the signature "I" and a "J" 
which he inserted immediately to the right 
of the signature "T." 

Some of the choicest literary treasures of 
China which have come to this country for 
safekeeping have been on exhibit in the rare 
book room of the Library of Congress. 
Among them is the oldest printed book in 
China, a literary anthology for which the 
blocks were carved about 950 A.D. The 
Chinese government has granted the Li-
brary of Congress permission to make 
microfilm copies of these rarities. Copies 
of the film may be acquired by other li-
braries from the Library of Congress. 

·The Library of Congress has received 
from the Rockefeller Foundation a grant 
of $4 7 ,800, available through Dec. 3 I, 
I 946, to enable the library to prepare a 
record of its holdings of Slavic materials. 
The Slavic collection in the Library of 

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the Field 
Congress is one of the largest of its kind 
in the world. The preparation of this 
catalog is another step toward the establish-
ment of a Slavic center in the Library of 
Congress. 

The/ Hungarian Reference Library has 
been placed in the custody of the Columbia 
University Libraries by the Alien Property 
Custodian. The collection includes over 
six thousand books, both Hungarian and 
English, ten thousand magazine articles and 
clippings, and more than one hundred boxes 
of pamphlets. There are more · than two 
hundred rare books in the collection. The 
works of Louis Kossuth are an important 
part of the library. 

Columbia University has acquired by 
gift part of the classics library of approxi-
mately five thousand volumes of the late 
Dr. Gonzalez Lodge, professor of Latin 
and Greek at Teachers College, Columbia 
University. Over one hundred incunabula 
are included in the collection, which con-
tains examples of •the work of famous 
printers not only of the I 5th century but 
also of the I6th and later. Latin and 
Greek writers are about equally repre-
sented. The remainder of this collection, 
about 2,500 volumes, has been presentPd to 
the library of Franklin and Marshall Col-
lege. This collection, dating chiefly since 
I8oo, contains modern editions of the 
classics, dissertations, and other books as-
sembled mainly as a working library for the 
use of professors of Latin and Greek. 

The Melvil Dewey papers, presented to 
Columbia University by the Lake Placid 
Club, are in process of being sorted and 
arranged. These papers contain interesting 
historical materials on the development of 
libraries in the United States. 

MARCH~ 1945 

Swarthmore College Library, Charles B. 
Shaw, librarian, has received during the past 
year as gifts two special collections. From 
John Edwin Wells came his Wordsworth 
collection of about 4IO pieces and his I85 
Thomson items. Both lots . have been de-
scribed as outstanding and unique. 

South 
Mrs. E. R. Alexan-

der of New York City 
has established a special 

fund in the Fisk University library in honor 
of her husband, a graduate of Fisk. The 
fund will provide for the purchase by the 
library of rare volumes demonstrating the 
Negro's contribution to scholarship and 
culture. The first volume purchased was 
Les Cenelles by Armand Lanusse, the first 
anthology of poetry by colored Americans, 
published in New Orleans in I845. Arna 
Bontemps is the librarian at Fisk. 

The library of the College of William 
and Mary has received as a gift from the 
Garden Club of Virginia $I200 to be used 
for the purchase of classics in the field of 
gardening and botany. 

The library of Texas Christian U ni ver-
sity, Mary C. Burnett, librar.ian, has re-
ceived from Mrs. G. H. Wooten, of Austin, 
Tex., the 2700 volume library of the late 
D .r. Goodall H. Wooten. Jhe collection, 
which is made up largely of de luxe limited 
editions in American, English, and French 
literature, and history, has been established 
in a room especially furnished for it. 

The collection of 
Middle West East Asiatic books 

gathered from I go8 to 
I 9 I 2 for the Newberry Library by Berthold 
Laufer, noted Orientalist, has been pur-
chased by the University of Chicago for the 
Oriental Institute. The acquisition, sup-
plementing the library's already extensive 
holdings, will place this among the leading 

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libraries in the country for resources ih 
Far Eastern studies. In acquiring this ex .. 
cellent collection, Dr. Laufer's purpose was · 
"to secure a truly representative collection 
of the Chinese, Manchu, Tibetan, and 
Mongol literatures" including "the major-
ity of the important works" in the fields of 
religion, philosophy, literature, art, and 
history, so that with them "the student 
would be able to carry on serious and pro-
found research work." 

The library of the late Demetrio 
Minotto, consisting of about 1200 volumes, 
has been given to the University of Chicago 
Library. The collection constituted the 
working library of the count, who was 
editing a chronicle of the Minotto family, 
patricians of Venice who through several 
centuries were statesmen, colonial adminis-
trators, generals, and admirals i~ the service 
of the Venetian state. 

The manuscripts collection of the U ni-
versity of Chicago Library was surveyed 
during the past year by Paul M. Angle, 

.librarian of the Illinois State Historical 
Society. The mimeographed report of the 
survey consisted of three principal parts : a 
description and evaluation of the manu-
script collection now in the library, recom-
mendations concerning care, arrangement, 
and cataloging of the present collection, and 
recomendations relative to the policy to be 
followed by the university in the collection 
of manuscripts. 

The Illinois Central Railroad has de-
posited at the Newberry Library, Chicago, 
its official records from 1851, the date of 
its charter, to 1906, which marks the close 
of the presidency or Stuyvesant Fish. The 
records are unusually complete, containing 
a set of presidential letters unbroken except 
for a five months' period. 

The Newberry Library, Stanley Par-
gellis, librarian, has announced the award 
of seven Newberry Fellowships in Mid-

western Studies. These scholai"ships were 
made possible by a grant from the Rocke-
feller Foundation to the Newberry Library. 

The Northwestern University library, 
J ens Nyholm, librarian, has received as a 
gift the I 500 . volume library of Mrs. 
George A. Carpenter, of Chicago. The 
collection contain~ a considerable number 
of early English and American imprints. 

Among the recent acquisitions of the 
Northwestern University library was a col-
lection of 2800 English and American plays 
written around the turn of the century by 
minor writers, and intended primarily for 
amateur and little theatre• presentations. 

The Twin City Library Council has set 
up a committee under the chairmanship of 
Donald E. Strout, assistant professor of the 
Division of Library Instruction, University 
of Minnesota, to investigate the procedures 
of recruitment in the Twin Cities area with 
a view to outlining a program designed to 
attract promising high school and college 
students to professional librarianship. 

The 6ooo volume economics library of 
the late Professor Weston, of the U niver-
sity of Illinois, has been presented to the 
University of Illinois Library by his daugh-
ter, Dr. Janet Weston, an associate in eco-
nomics. 

The attractive and informative mimeo-
graped Staff Bulletin published by the 
University of Illinois Library is now in its 
second volume. Its editors are Eva Faye 
Benton and Evelyn Rogier. 

Dr. Hutton Web-
West ster has presented to 

the Stanford Univer-
versity Library his extensive library relat-
ing to folklore, witchcraft, demon,olgy, 
and comparative religion. It consists of 
1354 volumes and will be known as the 
Hutton Webster Folklore Collection. 

The University of California Library, 

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Berkeley, has acquired the library of, A. A. 
Boehtlingk, a Russian-born chemist. The 
collection, which consists principally of Rus-
sian material in the field of petroleum 
technology and general technological chem-
istry, includes a set of the original specifi-
cations of Russian patents from I875-95, 
a complete set of abridgements of Soviet 
patents from I924-4I, and about 5000 orig-
inal Soviet patent specifications covering 
the period I935 to date. 

The Library Association of Portland, 
which has one of the finest book collections 
on roses in existence, has received an anony-
mous gift of $500 for garden books. Nell 
A. Unger Is librarian. 

Pearl G. Carlson 
Personnel was appointed librarian 

of Southwestern Col-
lege, Winfield, Kan., on January 1. 

C. Edward Graves, librarian of Hum-
boldt State College, Arcata, Catif., since 
1924, will retire on April I, I945· He will 
be succeeded as librarian by Mrs. Helen A. 
Everett, assistant librarian since I939· 

Lewis C. Branscomb, formerly librarian 
of the University of South Carolina, be-
came assistant university librarian, U niver-
si ty of Illinois, on Dec. I, I 944· 

John Van Male, librarian of Madison 
College, Harrisonburg, Va., will becol}le 
librarian of the University of South Caro-
lina in March I945· 

Mildred Hogan, formerly research li-
brarian of the Louisiana State Department 
of Education, has been appointed assistant 
to the director of librarie~, Louisiana State 
University. 

Donald T. Clark, assistant librarian of 
the Baker Library at 'the Harvard Grad-
uate School of Business Administration, has 
returned to his regular duties after about 
two years of teaching in schools connected 
with the Army :Air Force. 

MARCH~ 1945 

Earl G. Swem, librarian of the College 
of William and Mary for twenty-four 
years, retired on June 30, I 944· Since his 
retirement, Margaret Galphin has been 
acting librarian. 

Arthur M. Sampley, professor of Eng-
lish, has been appointed librarian of the 
North Texas State Teachers College, 
Denton. 

Virginia Engle has been made state li-
brarian of Kentucky. Until the time of 
her appointment she was head of the de-
partment of library science at Berea Col-
lege, Ky. 

Elizabeth Gilbert, formerly supervisor of 
circulation, Berea College Library, has · 
been made librarian. 

The new librarian of Georgetown Col-
lege, Ky., is Virginia Covington. 

Robert R. Douglass is now acting direc-
tor of the library school of the George Pea-
body College for Teachers, Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Dumas Malone has been appointed hon-
orary consultant in biography in the Alder-
man Library -of the University of Virginia. 
The university has received a grant from 
the Rockefeller Foundation which will 
enable Dr. Malope to devote his time to 
continuing his biography of Thomas 
Jefferson. 

Lola Rivers Thompson is now librarian 
of the John Tarleton College, Stephenville, 
Tex. She had been assistant director of the 
library school of Our Lady of the Lake 
College, San Antonio. 

Professor A. L. Robinson, of the Depart-
ment . of Chemistry of the University of 
Pittsburgh, has been acting librarian since 
April I, I 944· Lorene Garloch is assistant 
librarian. 

Robert Vail was appointed director of the 
New York Historical Society library during 
the past year. 

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