College and Research Libraries


RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY 
CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL 
CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND SCIENTIFIC 
EXCHANGES, PRINCETON, N.J., NOV. 26, 1946 
T HE FREE interchange of cultural, scien-

tific, and educational information is one 
of the most critical ne~ds of the world today. 
Society's progress depends upon the extent to 
which scholars and scientists of the world 
have free access to all sources of information 
and research. International understanding, 
fundamental to international goodwill, depends 
upon the extent to which cultural materials of 
all nations are available to all other nations. 
Intelligent and informed world opinion de-
pends upon the wide dissemination of educa-
tional materials. This conference, dedicated 
to the extension and improvement of the chan-
nels of communication between libraries and 
scholars of all nations, makes the following 
recommendations: 

I. The objective in bibliography is to make 
quickly available in published form suitable 
records of the current output from all coun-
tries of the publications of research value. 
Without prejudice to the field of retrospective 
bibliography, in which we are also deeply 
interested, we recommend that UNESCO 
and other suitable agencies and groups, gov-
ernmental and nongovernmental, encourage 
national governments, national library associa-
tions, and other agencies in every country to 
see to it that there is published for each count.t:y. 
a current national bibliography, which will in-
clude in an author arrangement under broad 
subjects, in one or more sections or parts, the 
following types of material, listed in the order 
of importance: 

a. Books and pamphlets in the book trade 
b. Government documents -at all levels 
c. Nongovernment periodicals 
d. Newspapers; and, if possible 
e. Miscellaneous publications 
f. Motion pictures, including news reels, doc-

umentaries, instructional films, and photo-
plays. 

2. We believe there is a place and need for 
both selective and comprehensive national 
bibliographies, but because of their funda-
mental importance we recommend that pri-
. ority be given to effecting arrangements for 

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securing bibliographies of the comprehensive 
type. 

3· It is recommended that the Library of 
Congress should formulate ·and present to 
A .L.A., A.R.L., S.L.A., and other library 
associations in this country, for their comment 
and criticism, plans for editing and publishing 
a complete current national bibliography of 
the United States, involving, as may be neces-
sary, the coordination of existing efforts in 
this field, such as the catalogs of the Superin-
tendent of Documents, the Monthly Check-
list of State Publications, Cumulaiive Book 
Index, Catalog of Copyright Entries, and 
other sources, and looking to the coverage of 
fields not now covered, such as municipal 
documents , house organs, etc. 

4· In the ·periodical field the following steps 
are recommended : 

a. That the U.S. national commission propose 
to UNESCO the preparation of a world list 
of periodicals, noting those that are in-
cluded in indexing and abstracting services 
and further adding a subject list of such 
services. The list should include full bibli-
ographical details for each title and, fur-
ther, should indicate which journals are 
available on an exchange basis 

b. That the U.S. national commission bring to 
the attention of th!!, U.S. delegates to 
UNESCO the need and desirability for 
greater international cooperation in the 
preparation of subject indexing and ab-
stracting services 

c. That the Library of Congress prepare a 
list of holdings of U.S. libraries in wartime 
German periodicals and make i( available 
as the basis for a want list, republication 
order list, etc. 

5. ·We urge the Library of Congress to 
continue and push forward as rapidly as pos-
sible its program for development of the 
N _ational Union · Catalog, including the in-
corporation of entries from the American Im-
prints Inventory, because of the union catalog's 
primary importance to national and interna-
tional library cooperation . 

6. We recommend to the American Library 

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Association that it proceed with the compila-
tion and publication of the proposed biblio-
graphical guide to American library resources, 
to increase our knowledge of the field and our 
potentialities for cooperation. 

7. In the field of photographic reproduction, 
we recommend the establishment of a central 
agency, or agencies, possibly reconstituting the 
Joint Committee on Scientific Aids to Learn-
ing, to deal with such matters as: 

a. Coordinating the reissue of journals and 
other materials needed by American and 
foreign libraries 

b. Determining what titles are in sufficient 
demand internationally to reproduce in the 
original size, in reduced facsimile, or by 
microfilm 

c. Advising on what masses of archives and 
rare books, here and abroad, should be 
reproduced on microfilm 

d. Making technical studies on such problems 
as comparative costs of reproduction by 
various processes. 

8. We believe that international inter-
library loans should be encourag~d but, be-
cause of the hazards of transportation, should 
be largely in the form of photographic repro-
ductions. This method has the further ad-
vantage of wider dissemination of materials. 

g. We recommend that steps be taken by 
the Association of Research Libraries to bring 
the Farmington plan into effect as soon as 
possible on an experimental basis and to ex-
pand its scope rapidly to include additional 
countries, non-Roman alphabets, and periodi-
cal material, gove_rnment documents, and 
other non-trade book materials. All acquisi-
tions should be reported to the National 
Union Catalog as an author control,· and 
libraries specializing in broad subject fields 
should undertake to prepare and publish sub-
ject bibliographies, if it is evident that they 
would prove useful. 

I o. We request the Librarian of Congress, 
the executive secretary of the Association of 
Research Libraries, and the chairman of the 
A.L.A. Board on Resources of AII\erican Li-
braries to study the problems involved in, 
and, if practicable, arrange for, obtaining 
additional sets of foreign government publica-
tions for distribution to selected American 
libraries outside Washington, coordinating the 
distribution with the Farmington plan. 

11. We. recommend to the State Depart-

ment that American libraries abroad be sup-
plied with lists of U.S. Government 
publications distributed in countries where 
these libraries are located, and that the possi-
bility be studied of making the libraries official 
partial depositories and sales agencies for 
federal documents. 

I2. In considering the accomplishments of 
the American Book Center and the prospective 
usefulness of such an organization, this group 
feels that studies should be made immediately 
looking toward the adaptation of A.B.C. into 
an agency to coordinate, insofar as seems nec-
essary, exchange in all of its manifestations 
of materials among American libraries, to 
develop programs for the transmission of 
American informational materials to libraries 
in foreign countries, with priorities for ma-
terials to those countries that have suffered 
most from the war, and, further, that priori-
ties be given to sending materials to foreign 
peoples that will inform them on develop-
ments in this country since the outbreak of 
the war, knowle.dge of which has not hitherto 
been available to them, and, further; that 
A.B.C. take affir~ative and vigorous action 
toward encouraging and coordinating institu-
tional exchanges between this country and the 
rest of the world and that, in this connection, 
the cooperation of the government be secured 
in obtaining documents of foreign govern-
ments for distribution in this country, along 
the lines of the Farmi~gton proposal. 

I3. We recommend that representatives of 
the Association of Research Libraries and the 
Board on Resources of American Libraries 
confer with Smithsonian Institution officials 
on speedier and more efficient methods of for-
warding exchange materials. 

I4. We strongly endorse the State Depart-
ment plari for exchange of librarians and other 
personnel included in its cultural relations 
program. We urge adoption by Congress of 
legislation providing for continuation and ex-
tension outside the Western Hemisphere of 
this activity. 

IS. We believe that the interests of re-
search workers in this country will be best 
served by maintaining as a unit the publica-
tions in the Washington ·Documents Center 
(Far Eastern materials) and the transfer 
of this unit to the Library of Congress at the 
earliest possible moment, in order that these 
valuable records may become available. 

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16. We believe that the needs of scholars 
and scientists in this country require the re-
sumption of normal cultural, educational, and 
scientific relations with former enemy coun-
tries as promptly as possible, and the removal 
of all barriers to the international exchange 
of information. 

17. We believe that provisions similar to 
those of the "gentlemen's agreement" (reached 
in 1935 between the Joint Committee on Ma-
terials for Research and the National Associa-
tion of Book Publishers) should be 
incorporated in the copyright laws; we re-
affirm · the principles approved by the U.S. 
national commission regarding dissemination 
of and access to information; and we urge 
that a continuing study of international bar-
riers be made by an appropriate group, which 
should work closely with UNESCO and 
other agencies concerned with these prob-
lems. 

18. We believe tran~lations are important 
and recommend the extension and develop-
ment of this field, with publication of infor-
mation on printed translations. 

19. We recommend to the State and Treas-
ury Departments that American libraries be 
entirely exempted from customs barriers and 
costs, inclu.ding the general requirement that 
consular invoices be presented for import 
shipments of library printed materials, such 
exemption . being possible under existing stat-
utes. ' 

20. We recommend that the A. L.A. Inter-
national Relations Board be encouraged to 
arrange for exhibitions of foreign books in 
American libraries and of American books 
abroad, and to investigate means of accom-
plishing this aim. 

21. We commend highly the free American 
libraries abroad, established by the Depart-
ment of State and other agencies, for the im-
portant contributions they have made to the 
spread of American culture and to foreign 
understanding of this country, and we urge 
Congress to assure their continuation on an 
adequate scale and with sufficient American 
personnel. We also recommend that experi-
ence with these libraries be competently and 
thoroughly studied and evaluated by Ameri-
can librarians. 

22. In view of the great destruction of 
printed materials and the increasing flow of 
publications abroad, we believe all countries 

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should consider plans for coordination of ac-
quisitions and the development of subject 
fields in their libraries and we recommend 
that the U.S. delegation to UNESCO 
actively support such efforts. 

23. We recommend that the American Li-
brary Association and other American Docu-
mentation Institute members take steps to 
revive and renovate the institute to serve as the 
American effective member of the Interna-
tional Federation for Documentation. 

24. We recommend that the Association of 
Research Libraries and the Library of Con-
gress. Planning Committee study, with a view 
to presenting it to the U.S. national commis-
sion, the Boyd proposal for establishment of 
a national educational, scientific, and cultural 
authority in the United States. 

Delegates to Conference 

]. T. Babb, Yale University; R. A. Beals, 
New York Public Library; G. A. Bernardo, 
University of Philippines, 37 Wall St., Room 
1610, New York City; J. P. Boyd, Princeton 
University; C. H. Brown, Iowa State College; 
Leon Carnovsky, University of Chicago; V. 
W. Clapp, Library of Congress; D. H. Clift, 
Yale University; C. W. David, University of 
Pennsylvania; R. B. Downs, University of Il-
linois; L. H. Evans, Library of Congress; C. 
B. Fahs, Rockefeller Foundation; T. P. Flem-
ing, Columbia University; ]. E. Flynn, 153 
Wellington Road, Upper Darby, Pa.; R. H. 
Heindel, Division of Libraries and Institutes, 
U.S. Department of State; C. W. E. Hintz, 
Chicago Museum of Natural History; R. M. 
Lester, Carnegie Corporation; F. B. Luding-
ton, Mount Holyoke College; E. W. Mc-
Diarmid, University of Minnesota; K. D. 
Metcalf, Harvard University; M. A. Mil-
czewski, A.L.A. International Relations Office, 
Library of Congress; R. V. Noble, Harvard 
University; Reuben Peiss, Library of Con-
gress; P. N. Rice, New York Public Library; 
K. R. Shaffer, Simmons College School of Li-
brary Science; R. R. Shaw, U.S. Department 
of Agriculture; T. W. Simpson, U.S. War 
Department; John VanMale, Univer-sity of 
Denver; R. G. Vosper, University of Cali-
fornia at Los Angeles; C. M. White, Colum-
bia University; E. E. Williams, Harvard 
University; Donald Young, Social Science Re-
search Council, 230 Park Ave., New York 
City 17. 

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BUSINESS SESSION, A.C.R.L., 
BUFFALO, JUNE 2o, 1946 
THE Association of College and Reference 

Libraries, a division of the American Li-
brary Association, convened in Memorial 
Auditorium, Buffalo, on Thursday afternoon, 
June 20, 1946, Blanche Prichard McCrum, 
president, presiding. 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: It is a very great 
pleasure to declare this ·meeting in order, this 
meeting of 1946, which marks a return to 
activities of this association, activities that 
had to cease during the war years. One of 
the pleasing aspects of our uneasy peace is 
that we may come together again. 

In one of his happier moments, Bertrand 
Russell said that an educated man was a man 
who knew the superiority of cooperation over 
competition. Cooperation has been very hard 
to maintain when we were separated so far 
one from another. 

Please consider the hand of each one of you 
shaken, and a very hearty welcome to the 
A.C.R.L. council. 

I have a few announcements to make. 
[Announcements.] 
The backbone of any organization is its 

committees. The first part of our program 
will consist of the reports of the committees 
frozen during the war, thawing today. 

The first report I should like to hear is 
that of Eugene H. Wilson, chairman of the 
Committee on Budget, Compensation, and 
Schemes of Service. 

EuGENE H. WILSON: The Committee on 
Budget, Compensation, and Schemes of Serv-
ice started work on a very i~portant project 
in 1939, but really was frozen for a long 
time. 

However, there was a great deal of activity 
in 1942-44, and I am sure you are all familiar 
with the Classification and Pay Plans for 
Libraries in Institutions of Higher Education. 

The committee had also started work on-
and had done a considerable amount of work 
on-a self-evaluating score card, when we 
were frozen and were not able to meet. That 
work was dropped. We feel that the score 
cards should be completed and that a commit-
tee should go ahe~d on the work. I know the 
incoming president is considering the problem 
of whether the committee should be unfrozen 

and continued or whether a new committee 
should be constituted. 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: The next item on 
our docket is a report from a committee that 
is very much alive, even though frozen. Mr. 
Ellsworth will make two brief reports. 

RALPH EuGENE ELLSWORTH: The Build-
ings Committee this year has not been very 
active, as a committee; yet I think it is fair 
to say that a great deal has been accom-
plished. 

Primarily because of the cooperation of' the 
Library Architecture and Building Planning 
Committee of A.L.A., stimulated by Julian 
P. Boyd, John E. Burchard, and Paul S. Bal-
lance, I believe it is fair to say that more 
new ideas in building have been proposed than 
for a long time before. 

I do not say that we are doing much of a 
job of helping with building programs, be-
cause l-and some of the other members of 
the committee-have looked for laws and 
principles that would be generally helpful. 
Unfortunately, there are no applicable laws 
that can be of general usefulness. . 

Primarily-to give a polite reason-there 
is a human equation between the librarian and 
the board and the community upon , which 
one cannot generalize and which cannot be 
systematized, by order of A.L.A. Headquar-
ters, or of any other headquarters. 

The only principle upon which we have 
worked and with which we have' had any suc-
cess at all is in terms of helping by individual 
consultation. Where we have_ been success-
ful in persuading librarians to bring in library 
consultants, we have often been able to help. 
Where we have been able to sit down with a 
librarian or a board and say "this is this, or 
that," there we have been successful. 

But there is no over-all organization shap-
ing itself up that can solve the problems of 
a local situation, where the conditions exist 
of which I spoke or where people who are 
planning buildings will not think. One of the 
basic problems is that we librarians often 
will not think out our problems but instead 
start copying other people. 

The second thing · I want to say is that 
there is in existence today a vast amount of 

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misinformation on library lighting, and our 
·committee, meeting in Princeton last week, 
did nothing but spread the misinformation. 

But you may have heard the news. Fran-
cis Keally, a member of the A.L.A. Library 
Architecture and Building Planning Commit-
tee, has succeeded in persuading the American 
Society of Illuminating Engineers to under-
take an authoritative study of library light-
ing. It will take about six months to report. 
I think all of you who are interested in light-
ing would do well to wait until that report 
is made. 

This is, to my knowledge, the last time that 
I will report for this committee, and I thank . 
the Lord for that! 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: Our next report 
is from the chairman of the Committee on 
Constitution and By-laws, Samuel W. Mc-
Allister, of the University, of Michigan. He 
will speak to you about one of the documents 
in your hands, a proposed amendment. 

SAMUEL W. McALLISTER: This is a pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution of 
A.C.R.L., which was voted on favorably at 
the general sessiop business , meeting at Mil-
waukee on June 23, 1942. It must be voted 
on twice, to become effective: 

ARTICLE VI. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SECTION 2 . 
MEMBERS. The board shall consist of the presi-
dent, vice-president, retiring president, secretary, 
treasurer, three directors-at-large, the directors 
elected by sections, and the association represen-
tatives on the American Library Association 
Council who are serving the last year of their 
terms. The chief officer (or, in his absence, the 
vice chief officer, or the retiring chief officer, in 
this order) of each section is an ex officio member 
without vote. 

It is this clause, " ... and the Association 
representatives on the American Library As-
sociation Council who are serving the last 
year of their terms ... ," which is the pro-
posed addition or amendment to the C~mstitu­
tion. It is intended to provide connective 
tissue between the board of directors and the 
constituency. 

I propose the adoption of this amendment. 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: The report comes to 

you in the form of a motion to adopt this 
amendment. Do I hear a second? 

[The motion was seconded.] 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: It has been moved 

and seconded that we adopt the amendment, 

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which then becomes part of our Constitution. 
Is there discussion? 

[The motion was put to a vote and carried 
unanimously.] 

The motion is carried. 
Donald E. Thompson is chairman of the 

Duplicate Exchange Union. Is Mr. Thomp-
son here? 

[Mr. Thompson was not present.] 
Well, I am very thankful that I made a 

digest of his report from the facts he sent 
to me. He says the union is functioning 
smoothly, with eighty-seven members; seventy-
six from colleges and universities; five from 
public libraries; six from special libraries. 

Clarence S. Paine, the chairman of our 
Publications Committee, has to be away to-
day. Is ]ens Nyholm, of his committee, in the 
audience? Is Miss ·Feagley in the audience? 
Is any other member of his committee in the 
audience? 

[Apparently no member of the committee 
was present.] 

Then I am going to ask our secretary, sight 
unseen, to read this report. 

[Secretary Charles V . Park read the re-
port.] 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: Now I take this 
opportunity, ~ince I am the president, with 
only two more days of life, to thank all of 
. the members of these committees, the mem-
bers who have reported and those who will 
report later, for their faithful and able work, 
which has been at the heart of the activities 
of the association this year. 

Before I present Charles H. Brown, chair-
man of the Committee on Relationships of 
the A .C.R.L. with A.L.A., I wish to make a 
prefatory statement. Since I want it to be 
accurate, I am going to read it to you. I 
ask your pardon for reading it, in the interests 
of sticking to the line. It is a personal state-
ment, for which I alone am responsible. 

When I reached Buffalo in time for the 
General Session on Tuesday, I was greeted by 
a host of rumors , the accuracy of which I 
have no means of judging. 

It was said to me that feeling was running 
high in certain circles against A.C.R.L. pro-
posals made to the parent association, A.L.A.; 
that these proposals constituted an ultimatum 
of the -shotgun variety, to A.L.A., including 
a threat of secession from it; that these pro-
posals came as a bombshell to many members 

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of A.C.R.L. itself and would be fought by 
them, because the said proposals were not in 
line with the thinking of large sections of the 
membership. 

Whether or not these garbled stories, told 
me in corridors of this amazing building, are 
true, I wish to answer them. Let me say 
categorically that the A.C.R.L. has at this 
time made no proposals to the A.L.A. 

Proposals to be studied and presented to 
the total membership of A.C.R.L., for its 
decision, as you in convention assembled may 
direct, are on the agenda of this meeting and 
will be made. Until you act on them, your 
officers, directors, and committees are power-
less to make such proposals for you, nor have 
they done so. 

What your committee has done is to per-
form an act of official courtesy by filing, fot.:. 
information, with the Executive Board of 
A.L.A., copies of its report to be made to 
sections of A.C.R.L., to be discussed by the 
directors . of A.C.R.L., and to be revised and 
changed as you may direct today. 

My personal copy of th~ report reached 
me while I was in transit from Wellesley to 
Buffalo, and still bears my manuscript notes 
of points to be discussed with you. Is it not 
unthinkable to you that your duly elected 
president would have been absent on Monday 
if official action were involved, as, of course, 
it was not. 

The report, as written originally and as 
discussed on Monday, plainly stated the con-
cept of A.L.A. as a federation of strong units. 
It outlined, in nearly a page and a half, a pro-
gram of organization and development within 
the A.L.A., which, while calling for certain 
changes, clearly emphasized development 
within the framework of A.L.A. 

Three and a half lines stated a separate 
organization as one possible form for the 
A.C.R.L. to take, and Resolution 5, in eight 
additional lines, invoked such separation if 
A.C.R.L. could not find a successful future 
within A.L.A., but only as a last resort. 

The weight of emphasis was plainly on 
development within A.L.A. Separation was 
no new thing, as witness the Association of 
Research Libraries. But, omitting that con-
sideration for the time, the detailed plan was 
certainly for adh'·erence to A.L.A. 

This preliminary courtesy copy of the un-
revised and undiscussed report of our com-

mittee was considered of enough importance 
by the Executive Board to be placed upon its 
agenda and, as I understand, brought to the 
Council. 

And now we come to what I hope is the 
beginning of the happy ending to this story. 
The action of ~he board, on even the unre-
vised form of the report, '¥as generous and 
promising, and Mr. Brown's committee will, 
therefore, bring in an entirely revised report 
and recommendation. 

I hope this statement answers questions that 
may be in your thoughts concerning your 
democratic rights to self-direction in A.C.R.L. 
Do not forget that Patrick Henry and your 
president stem from the same stock and that 
death for A.C.R.L. would be preferable, in 
my judgment, to a lack of liberty to decide its 
own course. This attitude is also that of all 
of your officers and directors. 

Now I propose t~ ask Mr. Brown to take 
the chair and to guide our discussions as he, 
one of our well-loved senior statesmen, is 
best able to do. I propose to return to the 
floor of this assembly and to make such addi-
tional historical statements as Mr. Brown 
may call for. • 

Mr. Brown, remember, is a senior states-
man of the A.L.A. He is almost the father 
of A.C.R.L.! We are all safe in his hands. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: I do not think Miss 
McCrum has heard the half of what has been 
said. I came here Sunday morning, and I 
have hea,rd more rumors and accusations than 
I have ever heard in forty-five years of at-
tendance at A.L.A. meetings. 

I · have never seen any action, of any com-
mittee, so misrepresented. I have never seen 
so many accusations made, some of them at 
the Council meeting last Monday. I . have 
been disturbed by these reports and rumors. 
I am glad to hear Miss McCrum say she is 
my friend. At least I have one friend! 

Let us analyze these resolutions. Let's 
take, first, the one about dues. It seems we 
are stealing A.L.A. funds. One member of 
the board spoke of the great overhead at 
A.L.A. Headquarters. We have been told 
that it takes all the money from dues to keep 
the membership records. 

We believe that we could have our head-
quarters at some university and save a con-
siderable amount of that expense. We can 
make an annual allotment to A.L.A. and 

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still have a balance for special projects. 
So, we propose that we collect our own 

dues, because we can do it at less expense; 
save all the money that goes to overhead and 
salaries; and refund to the A.L.A. a fair pro-
portion of the dues, to be determined by 
mutual agreement. 

Some years ago the A.L.A. received endow-
ment funds from the Carnegie Corporation. 
To this endowment many of us were con-
tributors. In any organization, endowments 
are made for the benefit of all groups. Surely 
one group ought to have something to say 
about their use. The elected representatives 
of a group ought to have a voice in · what 
activities, relating to their own group, should 
be carried op. 

This proposal simply asks that our elected 
representatives have something to say about 
the use of income from endowments. 

·The third resolution refers to our own 
headquarters. The Constitution promises us 
autonomy. Should not a group of public li-
brarians, or a group of college librarians, 
have a right to say where their headquarters 
shall be, arid who shall be their secretary? 
Is this revolution? Is this breaking up the 
A.L.A.? 

The last resolution-and this was the most 
misunderstood-asked whether the A.L.A., 
within a reasonable time, possibly" within six 
months, would let us know if these proposals 
would .. receive consideration; whether the 
A.L.A. would be willing to appoint a com-
mittee to discuss the matter with us. That 
proposal, asking A.L.A. to act within a rea-
sonable time, was considered a gun and a 
bomb. I cannot see the unreasonableness of 
that proposal. 

In 1932 I presented a resolution to the 
A.L.A. Council, asking for a library .con-
sultant at A.L.A. Headquarters for college 
and university work. That resolution was 
approved, only Dr. Hill voting in the nega-
tive. We were told then that there was no 
money. 

Two or three years later, the children's and 
school librarians were given a consultant at 
A.L.A. Headquarters, although no money was 
available for a college library consultant. 
We have waited since 1932-fourteen years-
with no action. We are now asking A. L.A. 
to give us some indication that we will re-
ceive consideration. 

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I was told the committee disagreed. I, 
for one, endorsed all the principles In those 
resolutions. Our timing may have been bad. 
We disagreed on method, but I do not think 
there was any disagreement on the principles 
involved. 

We are told we are proposing to disrupt 
the A.L.A. At the start of our first meeting 
the chairman asked the committee, "Do you 
believe A.C.R.L. should leave A.L.A without 
making any proposals?" The answer was, 
"No!" He then asked: "Do you believe 
A.C.R.L. should leave A.L.A. if A.L.A. is 
not willing to consider proposals?" The 
answer was unanimously, "Yes!" The com-
mittee has not disagreed on those principles. 

First, I am going to ask Dr. Ellsworth to 
read those incendiary proposals. we are go-
ing to give them a decent burial. But-be 
careful !-they may be loaded! 

After these terrible proposals have been 
read, I am going to have the action of the 
Council read. That was more encouraging 
and points to a happy solution by which we 
can co111e to agreement with A.L.A. 

Then Dr. Ellsworth will present the reso-
lutions as we are asking you to adopt them, 
postponing action on the mimeographed reso-
lutions. We are asking you to authorize your 
committee to negotiate with A.L.A., or to 
discuss with A.L.A., our mutual relationships, 
and to come to you later with a report. 

We also want authority-possibly we have 
it, but we prefer to have you say we have it-
to send out a request for a statement of pref-
erences to all of the members of this associa-
tion. 

The committee acted democratically, and I 
want to repeat that the committee has unani-
mously agreed to the principles involved. We 
do not disagree on them and we do not like 
to be represented as disagreeing among our-
selves on the principles involved in those 
resolutions. 

I would like to say one personal word. I 
have been a member of A.L.A., I believe for 
forty-seven years. A.L.A. has been most kind 
to me. I have seen the A.L.A. grow from 
an association of 1000 or 2000 members to 
an association of 16,ooo. I have seen the 
A.C.R.L. grow from a section of 6o members 
to an association of 2000 members. I have 
seen that growth begin to stop, while a similar 
organization has grown rapidly, from 2200 to 

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a membership of 4400. I honestly believe 
that A :L.A. must decentralize more than it 
has. This policy was shown when the Third 
Activities Committee reported. 

I believe that, for the sake of the A.L.A. 
itself, it must become more of a federation 
and that more authority and more autonomy 
must be given to its divisions. 

If that can be obtained in no other way 
than by separation, then I would favor it, 
although I would be very much disturbed .by 
it. 

Dr. Ellsworth, will you read 'the resolu-
tions which we are not presenting for adop-
tion? 

[A copy of the report of the committee 
and Council resolutions appeared in Library 
Journal, August 1946, p. 1005-10.] 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: Is Miss Rothrock in 
the audience? Is Mr. Ulveling in the audi-
ence? Mr. Richards, will you come to the 
platfor~ and read the action of the Coun-
cil, as a representative of the Executive 
Board? 

[Mr. Richards was not present.] 
Dr. McDiarmid is a member of the Execu-

tive Board and also an ex officio member of 
the Council. I will ask him to read the reso-
lutions adopted by the Council. These reso-
lutions were most generous and kind and 
point the way to what we hope will be a path 
to complete understanding and removal of our 
present difficulties. 

[Dr. McDiarmid read the resolutions 
adopted by Council.] 

The committee has prepared a set of new 
resolutions. I shall ask Dr. Ellsworth to 
present those resolutions to you. He will 
read all the resolutions, and then I will ask 
you to discuss and vote on them one at a 
time. 

[Dr. Ellsworth read the following resolu-
tions:] 

Be it resolved, 
I. That in view of the action by A.L.A. 

Executive Board and Council at their respective 
meetings on June x6 and 17, any consideration of 
the mimeographed report of the A.C.R.L. Com-
mittee on Relations with the A.L.A. be post-
poned until the Decel'l\ber 1946 meeting. 

2. That the A.C.R.L. committee be authorized 
to discuss with the appropriate A.L.A. committee, 
the principles and details which affect the rela-
tions of the two associations. 

3· That the committee be authorized to ob-

tain from A.C.R.L. members, statements of 
preferences on the services which should be 
rendered by national library associations. 

4· · That the Association of College and Refer-
ence Libraries express its great appreciation of 
the willingness · of the A.L.A. Executive Board 
and Council to consider mutually the problems 
of relationships of the two associations. The 
A.C.R.L. is especially grateful for the thought 
and study the Executive Board has given to this 
subject and for its expressed willingness to 
consider and study fundamental changes in its 
organization which will affect all divisions. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: Dr. Ellsworth, will 
you now reread the first resolution, so that 
it may be discussed and voted upon? 

[Dr. Ellsworth reread the paragraph.] 
At least one person disagret:s with that. 

We want that for the record. Are there any 
remarks? This is a motion to postpone con-
sideration of . the mimeographed report of the 
committee until the December meeting. · 

JOHN HowARD KNICKERBOCKER [Gettys-
burg College, Gettysburg,_ Pa.]: Is it the in-
tention of this resolution to come to a con-
clusive action at the December 1946 meeting? 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: That would be up to 
the Association. Whatever action it wanted 
to take then would. be taken. 

MR. KNICKERBOCKER: Comparatively few 
librarians are able to attend the Midwinter 
Conference, and because of that fact any ac-
tion crystallized at the midwinter meeting 
would seem dangerous-any final action, that 
is. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: I imagine the com-
mittee would recommend a plebiscite. I know 

. if I were a member of the committee at that 
time, I would certainly ask for a .Plebiscite, 
by mail vote, of all the members. 
· It would be possible to express approval or 
disapproval, in principle, as an expression of 
that group. 

MR. KNICKERBOCKER: I find that the gen-
eral membership of the A.L.A. would be 
equally interested in whatever action is taken. 
So if there is a plebescite, it would have to 
apply to the whole membership of the A.L.A. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN : I do not think I agree 
with you, because the Association of College 
and Reference Libraries would be the ones 
to vote on any action by this association. 

MR. KNICKERBOCKER: On the surface, it 
would seem so. But the wide interest in this 
has been generally indicated, and, if one clivi-

174 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



sion takes any action, the others would also 
want to do likewise. For that reason, I think 
they should be informed and perhaps con-
sulted. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: They will be informed 
and consulted, but to ask them to vote on 
resolutions which for the time being affect 
only this division, I would certainly question. 

Are there any other remarks? 
Do you wish to make any motion, Mr. 

Knickerbocker? 
MR. KNICKERBOCKER: I should like to 

move that any final action be postponed until 
the annual conference in 1947 of the Ameri-
can Library Association, rather than taking 
any definite and conclusive action at the mid-
winter meeting in December of 1946. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: You have heard the 
motion to postpone any definite action until 
the annual conference in 1947. Is there a 
second to the motion? 
. [The' motion was seconded.] 

MR. KNICKERBOCKER: I said "final action." 
Obviously, it should not preclude discussion 
on any action, but the final action on those 
subjects should be taken at the annual confer-
ence in 1947. , 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: If I were a member 
of the committee at that time, I do not think 
we would be ready for final action. This 
would tie in. The motion was made and 
seconded. 

SECRETARY PARK: I understood that the 
plan was for this committee to take a mail 
vote, asking approval or disapproval of what-
ever propositions they have to submit. If we 
do that, I think we will have a much fuller 
representation of the opinion of our members 
at large than we can secure at any confer-
ence, either the midwinter or annual. 

Certainly th'e annual conference next year, 
which is to be held in San Francisco, a long 
way off for a good many of our members, will 
probably be a small conference. For these 
reasons, Mr. Chairman, I am opposed to the 
motion that has been made. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: Are ' there any fur-
ther remarks? 

MRs. AnA J. ENGLISH [New Jersey Col-
lege for Women, New Brunswick, N.J.]: It 
seems to me that a good deal of it depends 
on how much time we have to think about this 
before the meeting in December. If the 
A.L.A. takes action sufficiently early so that 

' APRIL~ 1947 

we have time enough to get the resolutions 
before the membership for serious considera-
tion, I think then we might very well vote 
upon it in time to have it brought before the 
group in December, but otherwise we ought 
to put it off. That is my only comment upon 
it. I think we should have time enough to 
give serious consideration to so serious a 
problem. 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: There may be some 
action , by your committee, meeting with 
A.L.A., in October, before the budget is · de-
cided upon. That would require some action 
at the December meeting. It dQes not neces-
sarily have to be final action, but some action 
might be necessary. 

Are there any further speakers? 
[The motion was put to a vote and de-

feated, there being one vote in the affirma-
tive.] 

CHAIRMAN BROWN : The motion is de-
feated, with one vote in the affirmative. 

Now we are voting on the original resolu-
tion. 

[Dr. Ellsworth reread the first resolution. 
A motion to adopt the first resolution was 
made and seconded. 

Dr. Ellsworth read the second resolution. 
A motion to adopt the second resolution was 
made and seconded.] 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: Is there any discus-
sion? 

[The motion was carried unanimously. 
Dr. Ellsworth read the third resolution. A 

motion to ad~pt the third resolution was made 
and seconded. The motion was carried unan-
imously. 

Dr. Ellsworth read the fourth . resolution. 
A motion to adopt the fourth resolution was 
made and seconded. The motion was carried 
unanimously.] 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: Upon receipt of a note 
from one of my colleagues-! have not 
polled the committee-! think it might help 
the committee if we had a showing of hands 
on the principles proposed in the mimeo-
graphed resolutions, as a basis for discussion 
with the A.L.A. committee. That would be 
a statement of whether you approve of those 
resolutions, simply as a basis for discussion 
with the A.L.A. committee. Is that a fair 
question? I do not mean the wording of 
the resolutions, just the principles. And this 
is simply an expression of opinion. 

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We are proposing to request your personal 
opinion on the mimeographed resolutions, as 
a basis for discussion by your committee with 
the A.L.A. committee. It is not binding in 
any way. It is simply a statement to guide 
your committee. 

Does anyone object to having a showing 
of hands on such a question? 

G. FLINT PuRDY [Wayne University, De-
troit] : I would suggest you take them one 
at a time. , 

CHAIRMAN BROWN : All right, we will take 
them one at a time. If there are no objections 
to our doing this, in a democratic way, I 
will ask Dr. Ellsworth to read them one at 
a time. Will you read the first one? 

DR. ELLSWORTH : "Dues will be collected 
by A.C.R.L. headquarters for all institutional 
and personal members who desire to affiliate." 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: The main purpose of 
that is from the standpoint of e_conomy. We 
can do it more cheaply than A.L.A. Will 
those who are in favor of that, as a basis 
for discussion, raise their hands?· 

[A majority of the group raised their 
hands.] 
CHAIRMAN BROWN: Those opposed ? 

[Four or five persons raised their hands.] 
CHAIRMAN BROWN : It has been suggested 

we take a count on these. Will those in 
favor please stand up; opposed. 

[The count was 89 in favor; 7 opposed.] 
DR. ELLSWORTH: "A.C.R.L. is to receive 

and control a share of the incpme from the 
A.L.A. endowment in accordance with the 
ratio its membership bears to the total mem-
bership of the A.L.A." 

[A count was taken: IOI in favor; none 
opposed.] 

DR. ELLSWORTH: "A.C.R.L. will allot to 
the A.L.A. on an annual basis certain funds 
for the maintenance of the A.L.A. Head-
quarters, the amount to be determined later. 
It may also allot to A.L.A. funds for special 
projects at A.L.A. Headquarters which it 
believes desirable for college and reference 
libraries. It may allot funds to its own 
boards and committees and to other organiza-
tions or individuals for projects which in the 
opinion of its board of directors are beneficial 
to college and reference libraries." 

[A count was taken: 100 in favor; none 
opposed.] 

"A paid executive is to be appointed with 

such stenographic and clerical assistance as 
may be necessary." · 

[A count was taken: IOO in favor; none 
oppost:d.] 

"Unless the A.L.A., within a reasonable 
time, possibly before the end of this year, 
indicates a willingness to consider favorably 
a reorganization in accordance with the above 
mentioned principles, the Committee on Rela-
tionships to A.L.A. is instructed to proceed as 
rapidly as possible with proposals for the 
organization of .a separate association. It 
may, however, consider also the possibility 
of a union with some other national organiza-
tion such as the Special Libraries Associa-
tion." 

CHAIRMAN BROWN: I want to point out 
that phrase, "indicates a willingness." It 
does n~t ask the · A.L.A. to accept those 
proposals, but just to indicate a willingness 
to consider them. The phr~se was carefully 
worded. I did it myself. It does not say 
that A.L.A. must accept those proposals. 

Will those in favor pleas'e stand up? Re-
member, this is simply for the information 
of your committ~e. I am not asking for a 
vote. 

[A member of the group objected, stating 
it seemed like a vote.] 

It is not a vote. It is simply an expression 
of opinion, for your committee's guidance in 
discussing this with A.L.A. If Miss Mc-
Crum disagrees with me, will she please say 
so? 

[President McCrum did not interrupt. 
A count was taken: 55 in favor; 41 opposed.] 

That is purely theoretical now, because 
A.L.A. has already agreed to appoint a com-
mittee to discuss this with us, and that was 
the least important of the five resolutions. 

Miss McCrum, will you take the chair 
now? I wish to bring up one or two matters. 

[President McCrum reassumed the chair.] 
MR. BROWN: I wish to bring in the follow-

ing recommendation from the committee. It 
was not read to you previously. The com-
mittee moves that when this session adjourns, 
it adjourns to meet in December 1946 at 
Chicago. This adjourned meeting is to be 
considered a continuation . of this session. 

It is only at the annual business meeting 
that amendments can be made, and as we 
want some amendments later, we would like 

176 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



the December meeting to be a continuation 
of this business meeting. 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: It has been moved 
that the December 1946 meeting in Chicago, 
the midwinter meeting, be voted a continua-

. tion of this business meeting, for the purpose 
of transacting affairs. Do I hear a second 
to that motion? 

[The motion was seconded.] 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: Is there any dis-

cussion? 
[The motion was carried, with one negative 

vote.] 
MR. BROWN: I am making the following 

motion on my own initiative, without any 
consultation with the committee and merely 
as -a member of A.C.R.L. 

One person said he thought the committee 
ought to be discharged and a new committee 
appointed by the association, so that you 
would not have the same group carrying on 
the discussions with A.L.A. 

I move that this be considered the final 
report of the present committee and that 
the committee be discharged and a new com-
mittee appointed. 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: I do not mind saying 
that is a bombshell for me. I think it is 
rather hard on me! 

You have heard the motion. Is there a 
second? 

[The motion was not seconded.] 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: I am no parlia-

mentarian. I presume the motion fails since 
it has not received a second. 

[It was agreed that was correct.] 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: I think that all of 

us realize, from what has gone on here this 
afternoon, with what a hard task our com-
mittee was faced and with what high ideals 
of loyalty to our profession and to us they 
have performed. I am proud of them and 
proud of you! 

It has occurred to me that all of the mem-
bers of this group may not be as familiar 
with the history and background of this 
whole situation as a few of us are and that 
those members would welcome from me a 
statement of what led the directors to ap-
point this committee. 

I feel sure that all of you are not interested 
in this historical review and, therefore, I am 
not going to ask the whole audience to stay. 
After the secretary has made an announce-

APRIL1 194'7 

ment, I will declare the meeting adjourned 
for all who wish to leave. Any who wish to 
stay for this brief informative review on 
background are invited to do so. 

Mr. Park, will you come to the platform, 
please? 

SECRETARY PARK: There has been some 
uncertainty about publication of the papers 
presented at the meetings of this section. Dr. 
White assured me last night that College' 
and Research Libraries would be glad to 
receive, for publication, all of the papers-
those presented at our general sessions and 
those presented at all of the sectional meet-
ings. 

May I ask the officers in charge of the 
sectional meetings to see that those manu-
scripts of papers are forwarded to the editor, 
and will you kindly, at the same time, drop 
me a note to let me know they have been 
sent? 

PRESIDENT McCRUM: There remains one 
final act for me, which gives me a great 
deal of pleasure. I want my successor, your 
next president, Dr. McDiarmid, to rise and 
be recognized. ' 

And now, for all except those who wish 
to chat with ·us a few minutes about our 
problems, the meeting is adjourned. 

[The meeting adjourned at 4:10 P.M.] 
PRESIDENT McCRUM: You are in haste 

to be gone, so I shall try to be brief and I 
shall ask you to help me by concentrating 
on what I am going to s.ay. 

I think there are some members of the 
A.C.R.L. who wonder why the Committee 
on Relations with the A.L.A. was appointed, 
and the thought has been expressed that all of 
our members should know the background of 
the whole thing. While that background is 
covered in published papers that go back to 
1930, it takes a good deal of pulling together, 
and I shall be glad if I can cut short that 
process for you. 

The most immediate source of information 
-sources that each of us should reread with 
much care-are the symposium published in 
College and Research Libraries, April 1946, 
p. 145-63, and the article I was invited to 
write for the .A .L . .d. Bulletin, for the same 
date, p. 115-18 . . But the immediate history, 
as Mr. Brown has said, goes back ali far 
as the work of the First Activities Committee 
of the A.L.A., when, in 1930, that group made • 

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.. 

• 

stringent cnttctsms of the direction in which 
A. L.A. was proceeding. (Certainly, we mem-
bers of A.L.A. have been courageous in 
making and taking self-criticism. I once 
heard the Dean of .Westminister, speaking 
of English and American relations, say that 
only friends could afford to quarrel; perhaps 
the same statement applies to criticism.) 

The criticism made by the First Activities 
Committee was repeated so many times 
through the years that a bibiliography on the 
subject recently compiled by Julia Wright 
Merrill includes nineteen items. The Col-
lege and Reference Section, the College 
Library Advisory Board, A.C.R.L. itself, and 
various individuals all expressed the belief 
that scholarly and bibliographical work, which 
is thought to be · the province of librarians 
in educational and re~earch institutions, had 
been neglected in favor of general informa-
tional and recreational functions of the type 
of library we are accustomed to call "public." 

For myself, I am not very sympathetic to 
these categories, believing as I do that all 
libraries have functions that cut across schol-
arly lines and that these functions do not 
depend exclusively upon whether the library 
is public, college , or research in char acter. 

It was, however, in support of those func-
tions that contribute to the increase of 
knowledge, the development of research, and 
the bibliographical services · which are per-
manent contributions to the profession, that 
criticism from 1930 to the present time has 
been expressed. Over the years the Executive 
Board of the A.L.A. heard various proposals 
for the development of such services; heard 
them with sympathy and approval in principle, 
hut reported always that fut]d'S were lacking 
for the support of a specialist to head up the 
work at Headquarters or to execute any of 
the other alternate proposals that were made. 

In the meantime, other activities of A.L.A. 
continued to grow, while A.C.R.L. scrimped 
along in poverty on an allotment of 20 per 
cent of the dues we ourselves paid into the 
A.L.A. treasury. Moreover, if our salaries 
are such that our A.L.A. dues are only two 
dollars a year, none of it comes back to 
A.C.R.L. Although we have had as many 
as 2350 members of A.C.R.L., our total 
oper~ting budget that comes back to us from 
A.L.A. is something ' like $18oo a year. 

The Public Library Office, on the other 

hand, has a budget of around $14,000, while 
A.C.R.L. limps along with no office and on 
a volunteer basis. Our secretary, for ex-
ample, has a vigorous job of organization and 
administration to do. He is, also, consulted 
about all sorts of • college library problems. 
He sends out our ballots. He makes arrange-
ments for these meetings. Only two hundred 
dollars to cover the bare minimum of clerical 
work, postage, etc., can be made available 
to him. Each year the directors must scan 
the budget with painful care, trying to find 
a few dollars above the usual fifty-dollar 
allotment for a section that has ideas and 
wishes to do something that costs money. 

Your treasurer and your president had 
been part of a larger group associated with 
Winifred V er N ooy when she was president, 
to bring this whole thing to the attention 
of ·the Executive Board of the A.L.A. In 
June 1945 these two officers were invited by 
the Executive , Secretary of the A.L.A. to 
a meeting of the Budget Committee of the 
national assoctatwn on Oct. 5-6, 1945. 
It was evident, however, when Mrs. Cooper 
and I arrived at the October meeting, that 
at that late date no recommendation for 
dropping old activities and substituting those 
recommended by A.C.R.L. could possibly be 
effected, and so there we were at the same 
old stalemate. One proposal for the future 
was, nevertheless, . evolved by Ralph A. 
Ulveling, then A.L.A. President, and the 
;Budget Committee. It looked to the re-
organization qf the Department of Informa-
tion and Advisory Services at Headquarters, 
with a specialist in college and research li-
braries included. On Dec. 27, 1945, the 
Executive Secretary of the A.L.A. reported 
that those services as planned would show 
a deficit of around $7000 a year and so could 
not hope to be approved or to be started. 
It was after this last report that the Board 
of Directors ·of A.C.R.L. decided the time 
had come to see what action was indicated 
and what plans to relieve the situation should 
be submitted for your consideration. Mr. 
Brown's committee was, therefore, appointed 
to study our relations with the A.L.A. and 
it has operated entirely in the interest of 
finding a solution for us. 

Are there any questions? 
MR. BROWN: You might add that when 

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178 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARJES 



AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND 
BY.-LAWS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ·COLLEGE 
AND REFERENCE LIBRARIES 
T HE FOLLOWING amendments to the constitution and by-laws of the A.C.R.L. were passed 

by members of the association present at its general session at Buffalo last June and at 
Chicago on December 29, the latter being a continuation of the Buffalo meeting. 

The amendment.s to the by-laws became effective when first passed. The constitution itself, 
however, may be amended only "by a two-thirds vote of members present at any general 
session of two successive annual conferences . . . , provided that notice of the proposed 
amendments is published in the official publication of the association not less than one month 
before final consideration." The amendments to the constitution here published will not, there-
for~, become effective unless they are again passed at the next annual conferenc~ in June 
1947· 

A proposal to change the name of the organization from the Association of College and 
Reference Libraries to the Association of College and Reference Librarians was lost at the 
Deceml;>er meeting for want of. the necessary two-thirds majority. 

In the following text of tl)ese amendments, deletions are enclosed in brackets and additions 
are printed in italics. 

Arti'cle IV. Me"!bership 

Sec. 5· Life Memberships. Contributors to 
life. membership in the A .L.A.. whether be-
fore or after July I, 1940, may be received 
as life members in the A .C.R.L. by complying 
with conditions as provided in the By-Laws. 

Sec. [5] 6. Suspension and Reinstatement. · 

Article V. Officers 

Sec. I. Officers and Duties. The officers 
of the association shall be a president, a vice 
president, [a] an executive secretary, and a 
treasurer, who shall perform the duties usu-
ally attached to these offices. 

Sec. 2. Terms. The president and the vice· 
president shall be elected from the member-
ship of the association and shall serve for 
one year or until their successors are elected 
and qualified. The executive secretary shall 
be chosen by the board of directors and shall 
hold office at its pleasure. [The secretary 
and] the treasurer shall be elected from the 
membership of the association and shall serve · 
for three years, or until [their successors are] 
his successor is elected and qualified. 

Article VI. Board of Directors 

Sec. 2. Members. The board shall consist 
of the president, vice president, retiring presi-
dent, [secretary,] treasurer, three directors-
at-large, the directors elected by the sections, 

APRIL~ 1947 

and the associatiOn representatives on the 
American Library Association Council who 
are serving the last year of their terms. The 
executive secretary and the chief officer (or, 
in his absence, the vice chief officer, or the 
retiring chief officer; in this order) of each 
section [is an ex officio member] are ex officio 
members without vote. 

1 

Article I X. By-Laws 

Sec. I. Adoption, Suspension, and Amend-
ments. By-laws may be adopted, suspended, 
and amended [by a majority vote of the 
members of the association present at any 
general session of any annual conference, 
upon a written recommendation of the Com-
mittee on Consitution and By-Laws appointed 
by the president], upon a written recom-
mendation of the Committee on Constitution 
and By-Laws appointed by the president and 
by a majority vote of the members of the 
association attending any general session of 
any annual conference or casting ballots in 
a vote by mail. 

BY-LAWS 

Article I. Dues 

Sec. 5. A contributor to life membership 
in the A .L.A.. after July I, 1940, may ·be 
received as a life member in the A .C.R.L. 
by designating this division to the A .L.A.. 

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Treasurer who shall allot to the A.C.R.L. 
treasury $2.00 per year during the lifetime 
of the member. 

A c~ntributor to life membership in the 
A .L.A. be lore 1940 may become a life mem-
ber in the A .C.R.L. by the payment of $10.00 
to this division, or an annual member of 
the division by the payment of 50 cents annual 
dues. 

Article II. Nominations and Election; 

Sec. 2. Reports. The N aminating Com-
mittee shall report nominations to the ex-
ecutive secretary. . . . Nominations shall be 
published by the executive secretary ..... 

Sec. 3. Nominations by Others. Nomina-

tions . . . shall be filed with the executive 
secretary .... 

Sec. 5· Elections. 
(b) Sections. 
The election of directors representing sec-

tions must be reported in writing by a section's 
chief officer to the executive secretary. ~ . . 

The election of chief officers of sections, 
and vice chief officers, if any, shall be re-
ported to the executive secretary in the ·same 
way and at the same time. 

Article VI. Years 

Sec. 2. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of 
the association shall be [the calendar ye.ar] 
September I to August JI. 

Proceedings of the Business Session 
(Continued from page 178) 

you spoke of the dues, you said we receive 
20 per cent of the dues. That, however, is 
true only of personal dues. 

PRESIDENT McCRuM: That is true. We 
get 20 per cent of the dues of personal mem-
bers, not of institutional members. A late 
figure on the estimate of what we really pay 
into our parent Association is that it is at the 
rate · of $4 per person. If we have 2350 
members and we multiply that by four-I 
shall not do it for you-that is quite a 
substantial sum, of which we get only some 

$r8oo. 
There is one other thing. In 1941 a 

planning committee of the A.C.R.L., with 
Carl M. White as chairman, brought in 
a report recommending certain basic principles 
that should be followed in developing the 
A.CR.L. Those recommendations, too, have 
lapsed for lack of funds with which to 
prosecute them. 

If there are no questions, thank you very 
much for listening to me! 

[The meeting was adjourned.] 

180 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Personnel 

FOR YEARS there has been a feeling among the college and reference librarians of the 
country that there should be a specialist in 
college and reference matters at the A.L.A. 
Headquarters. The fact that such a position 
was promised but never· filled was one of the 
things that made some of the A.C.R.L. mem-
bers critical of the A.L.A. The decision last 
June to use a small part of the Carnegie En-
dowment gave the necessary financial suppo.rt, 
and last fall the Executive Board · of the 
A.L.A. authorized the appointment of an 
executive secretary of the A.C.R.L. This 
executive secretary was to have his office at 
A.L.A. Headquarters and serve as the college 
and reference specialist that had been so long 
desired. It is heartening news that the posi-
tion ha:s been most satisfactorily filled by N. 
Orwin Rush who will begin his duties April 
15. 

Mr. Rush started his ·library experience as 
a page in the Wichita, Kan., City Library, but 
since library school days at Columbia his ex-
perience has been entirely in the reference and 
college field. In 1932 he began a four-year 
term on the staff of the Reference Department 
of the New York Public Library. From 1936 
to 1944 he was librarian at Colby College, 

N. Orwin Rush 

APRILJ 1947 

•. 

Waterville, Me. The past year he has been 
librarian of Clark University, Worcester, 
Mass. , · 

Mr. Rush has been an active and interested 
member of the Maine Library Association and 
the American Library Association. From the 
start he has been especially interested in the 
Association of College and Reference Li-
braries and is at present treasurer of that 
organization. His alert mind and friendly 
personality make him a good choice for this 
most important position.-Paul North Rice. 

yoETA LOis JoHNS has been appointed direc-
Ltor of the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic 
Center to succeed Ralph T. Esterquest. Miss 
Johns assumed her new duties on Jan. ·s, 
1947· 

Loeta L. Johns 

She went to her new post in Seattle directly 
from Columbia, Mo., where she was acting 
executive secretary and research librarian of 
the Woma~'s Foundation, Inc. From 1937 
through 1946 she was in continuous service at 
Stephens College in various capacities as a 
library expert and she is widely known for 
her activities with the Institute for Consumer 
Education. Pi"ior to 1937 she was on the staff 

181 



of the Yale Universit~ Library and also had 
worked as assistant to the editor of the Dewey 
Decimal Classification. Her first professional 
position was with the U nive~sity of Wash-
ington Library. 

A graduate of the University of Washington 
Schobl of Librarianship, class of 1928, Miss 
Johns received her M.A. degree from the same 
university in 1930. She was graduated Magna 
Cum Laude and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 
While at the university she received a D.A.R. 
scholarship and was on the intramural debate 
winning team in 1927. She is a member of the 
A.L.A. Committee on Library Equipment 
and Appliances and has been actively inter-
ested in civic and social work in Columbia. 

An ' extended list of publications by Miss 
Johns includes many items on consumer edu-
cation and library science. ' 

Though born in Charter Oak, Iowa, Miss 
Johns was reared in the Northwest and con-
sid~rs her home to be in Seattle. Her many 
friends in the state welcome her return. 

The Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center 
is a cooperative venture supported by the li-
braries of the Pacific Northwest. Housed 
in the University of Washington Library, the 
bibliographic center includes a union catalog, 
subject bibliographies, and a trained staff to 
facilitate interlibrary loans and exchanges. 
The bibliographic center serves as an agency 
for locating and borrowing books and for 
carrying on other forms of cooperative library 
work. 

The Pacific Northwest Library Association, 
which sponsors the bibliographic center, is 
composed of libraries in the states of Idaho, 
Montana, Oregon, and Washington, and the 
Province of British Columbia. The launching 
of the bibliographic center was made possible 
by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of 
New York. Since its establishment all support 
has come from the participat-ing libraries.-
H arry C. Bauer. 

L OWELL MARTIN, who has been a member of the faculty of the Columbia U niver-
sity School of Library Service since last fall, 
has become associate dean of the school, re-
placing Ernest J. Reece, who will return to 
a full-time teaching program after his pres-
ent sabbatical leave terminates. 

Dr. Martin, who was formerly on the fac-
ulty of the University of Chicago Graduate 

Library School, comes to his new position with 
a varied background in librarianship. With 
practical experience in high school library 
work, college librarianship, and public li-
brary administration, Dr. Martin brings to 
his new position a point of view that should 
materialize into an aggressive attack upon 
present problems which are faced today in 
the training of librarians. 

Lowell Martin 

Throughout his ca,reer, Dr. Martin has 
been keenly interested in research in librar-
ianship, especially in the major areas of ad-
ministration and organization, bibliography 
and communications. His writings have dem-
onstrated the possession of a sharp, analytical 
mind which is capable of bridging the gap be-
tween theory and practice. His past and im-
mediate concern with problems of personnel 
and general administration are of especial 
significance to librarians of colleges, univer-
sities, and research organizations. 

As executive assistant to Carl Roden, li-
brarian of the Chicago Public Library, Dr. 
Martin was given a provocative series of as-
signments during the years 1940-43. The 
major task was the planning, organization, 
and administration of the experimental 
branch library at South Chicago. Other as-
signments included a study of the reorganiza-

. tion of the processing division of the system 

182 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



and assistance in the formulation of a postwar system, improved and departmentalized serv-
branch extension program. ' ices, a doubled and finally redoubled budget to 

Dr. · Martin has retained his extracurric- extend the book collections, were on the 
ular interest in the Great Books program, for agenda to which he devoted himself enthusi-
which he had served as community · coordina- astically, unswervingly, and successfully. 
tor in the Chicago metropolitan region. He Dr. Mullin recognized the need for a li-
is now chairman of the advisory committee brary school on the graduate level to train 
of the Great Books program in the New York librarians for Catholic schools and colleges 
area.-M.F.T. and B.C.H. and to provide a course of studies for profes-

REv • . FRANCIS A. MuLLIN, PH.D., M.S. in L.S., director of the John K. Mullen 
Memorial Library, the Catholic University of 
America, died on January 2. Born in Du-
buque, Iowa, in 1892, Dr. Mullin was gradu-
ated from Columbia (now Lor as) College and 
was ordained to the priesthood in St. Mary's 
Seminary, Baltimore. While professor of his-
tory at his college alma mater he was granted 
leave for graduate study at the University of 
Iowa and at the Catholic University of 
America and for medieval histor.ical research 
in European libraries. From 1934 to 1936 he 
studied library science at the University of 
Michigan to prepare himself for a new as-
signment, the reorganization and development · 
of the ' Catholic University of America Li-
~aries into a research collection that would 
~dequately serve the rapidly growing and im-
portant gradua,te schools and departments 
on that campus. An entirely new and greatly 
enlarged professional staff, a new cataloging 

sional candidates in the Washington area. In 
1938 he organized the present department of 
library science, which soon after was approved 
by the A.L.A. Board of Education for Li-
brarianship. At the time of his death over 
eighty students were enrolled, most of whom 
were training for college and university li-
brarianship or for special librarianship in the 
various governmental agencies. 

In spite of a serious heart ailment that 
curtailed most active work since 1940. Dr. 
Mullin maintained an alert and intensive 
directional part in the affairs of the library 
and the library school. He also enjoyed a 
wide correspondence with librarians, teachers, 
publishers, and authors throughout the coun-
try. But he was at his best in an interview 
or conference-a student with difficulties, a 
worried new faculty member or a tired older 
professor, a staff member with bad news from 
home or an administrative problem, a budding 
author, a colleague planning a new building, 
guests of the library, and others who came to 
consult him___:_all went away better and wiser 
for the experience. A suggestion, a word of 
advice, encouragement, or praise when it was 
most needed marked him as one with the 
human touch. 

An · acknowledged leader ·of the Catholic 
Library Association and a prominent member 
of many other library groups, Dr. Mullin 
would have been an even better known and 
valued associate had his health permitted con-
tinued attendance at professional meetings. As 
it is, his contributions to librarianship, over 
and beyond the library he organized, the li-
brary school he developed, and the projects he 
assisted and directed, have been the example 
he has set for those who have known him, the 
professional ideals he taught, and the virtues 
he lived. He was a scholar but a vitally 
human one, a bookman of wide interests with 

Francis .tl. Mullin 

· a delightful sense of humor, an effective li-
brarian, and a priest who was close to the peo-
ple he served.-lames J. Kortendick, 8.8. 

APRILJ 1947 183 



Wyllis E. Wright, who has been librarian 
of the Army Me·dical Library since June 1945, 
assumed his duties as librarian of Williams 
College, Williamstown, Mass., on January I. 
A biographical sketch of Mr. Wright appeared 
on page 361 of the September 1945 issue of 
C.&R.L. 

Francis R. St. ] ohn, chief of the circulation 
department of the New York Public Library, 
became the director of libraries of the Library 
Service Division, Veterans Administration, 
Washington, D.C., on ] anuary I. While on 
military leave from the New York Public 
Library, he was in charge of the reorganiza-
tion program of the Army Medical Library. 
For his work in developing this important 
medical research library, he was ·awarded the 
Legion of Merit. 

The following new appointments have been 
made at the Al~bama Polytechnic Institute 
Library, Auburn: ]. G. Baker, head of the 
catalog department; A. Orin Leonard, circula-
tion librarian; Walter B. Scott, acquisitions 
librarian; Julia W. Rotenberry, fine arts li-
brarian. 

David W. Davies, librarian and assistant 
professor of education at Utah Agricultural 
College, has been named director of libraries 

1 

of the University of Vermont . . 
] ames Humphry, III, chief of the map divi-

sion of the reference department of the New 
York Public Library, became librarian of 
Colby College, Waterville, Me., on Febru-
ary I. 

Ian Forbes Fraser, of the French depart-
ment of Columbia University, has been ap-
pointed director of the American Library in 
Paris. William K. Harrison, III, has been 
named librarian, and Ruth McBirney, refer-
ence librarian. All three sailed for Europe 
on the Queen Elizabeth on February 5· 

Robert W. Christ, head of the reference 
' department of the Grosvenor Library in 

Buffalo, has been appointed chief of. informa-
tion service, reference division, U.S. State 
Department. 

Scott Adams, chief of the acquisitions divi-
sion of the Army Medical Library, has become 
the acting librarian of the library. 

] ane L. McDaniel is .now head cataloger of • 
. the Georgia School of Technology at Atlarita. 

Walter W. Ristow, chief of the map clivi-

sion of the reference department of the New 
York Public Library, has become assistant 
chief of the division of maps of the Library of 
Congress. 

Richard ] . Hurley, divisional librarian in 
education of the University of Nebraska, is 
now assistant professor of the department of 
library science, University of Michigan. 

Ruth Harry has been appointed reserve 
librarian of Washington University at St. 
Louis. 

] anet Bogardus, librarian of lending service 
of the Columbia University Libraries, is now 
librarian of the School of Business Library 
at Columbia. 

Mrs. L. Reed Joost is now in charge of 
documents at the University of North Caro-
lina Library. f 

Elizabeth Tarver has been appointed head 
of the catalog department of the West Vir-
ginia University Library at Morgantown. 

Kathleen Schwab has been appointed refer-
ence librarian of the Schaffner Library of 
Northwestern University. 

Donald B. Engley, recently in residence at 
the Graduate Library School of the ,University 
of Chicago, has been named librarian of Nor-
wich University, Northfield, Vt. 

Ruth Miller is now assistant librarian at 
Mohawk College, Utica, N.Y. 

Eleanor Harkins, formerly associate pro-
fessor in library service . of the Mississippi 
State College for Women, is now head li-
brarian of the Delta State Teachers College 
Library, Cleveland, Miss. 

Robert E. Booth, editor and bibliographer 
of University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, has 
been appointed head of the reference depart-
ment, Peabody Institute Library, Bahimore. 

Dorothy Hammell is now head of the edu-
c,ation library of the University of Southern 
California at Los Angeles. 

Allan R. Laursen, former librarian of 
Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore., is li-
brarian of the College of the Pacific at Stock-
ton, Calif. 

Mrs. Regina Barrington has succeeded Lu-
cille Shanklin as librarian of Friends Uni-
versity, Wichita, Kan. 

Marion ]. Ewing is acting librarian of the 
Pomona College Library, Claremont, Calif. 

Vilma Proctor Jacobs is now librarian of 

184 COLLEGE. AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



the School of Medicine of the University of 
Southern California. 

Lucile Dudgeon, recentLy returned from 
Bombay,' has been appointed field program 
officer, Division of Libraries and Institutes, 
Office of International Information and Cul-
tural Affairs of the State Department. 

Lewis M. Ice, formerly associate director 
of research for the U~ited Seaman's S·ervice, 
is now librarian of Sampson College at Samp-
son, N.Y. 

James A. Hulbert is now librarian of Tal-
ladega College, Talladega, Ala. 

Frances L. Yocum, assistant librarian of 
Humboldt State College, Arcata, Calif., has 
been made head of the catalug department of 
the University of North Carolina Library at 
Chapel Hill. 

Harry Bitner, reference law librarian of the 
University of Pennsylvania, lias been ap-
pointed associate law librarian of Columbia 
University. 

Mrs. Alice Palo Hook, former head of the 
acquisition department of the University of 
Cincinnati Library, i_s now assistant librarian 
of the Historical and Philosophical Society of 
Ohio. 

Helen Giffin Hauck, formerly librarian of 
Blackburn and Westminster College and more 
recently post librarian, Perrin Field, Sherman, 
Tex., became chief of the circulation and 

reference depattment of the Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute Library, Troy, N.Y., on 
January 1. 

Muriel Gundren Richardson has resigned 
as chief cataloger of Tulane University Li-
brary to accept the position of head cataloger 
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Library, 
Troy, N.Y. 

Kanardy L. Taylor, chief of public services 
of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, has 
been named assistant librarian. The retire-
ment of J. Christian Bay as librarian of the 
library was announced simultaneously. An 
article on Mr. Bay will appear in the July 
issue. 

Ralph T. Esterquest, who has been director 
of the Northwest Bibliographic Center, is 
now head of processing at the University of 
Denver. · 

Randolph W. Church has been named li-
brarian of the Virginia State Library at 
Richmond. 

The University of Ch~cago has announced 
the following major staff appointments: Allen 
T. Hazen as director of libraries, and Her-
man H. Fussier and Jesse H. Shera as as-
sistant directors. 

Ralph H. Parker, director · of libraries of 
the University of Georgia, has been named 
librarian of the University of Missouri, suc-
ceeding Benjamin E. Powell. 

Necrology 
Joseph Quincy Adams, director of the 

Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, 
died on November 10 at the age of 65. Dr. 
Adams had been director of the Folger li-
brary since 193 1. 

APRIL~ 1947 

Homer E. Robbins, director of the Pomona 
College Library, Stockton, Calif., professor of 
classical history and languages at Pomona, 
and mayor of Claremont, Calif., died · in 
Claremont on October 3 I. 

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Recent Personnel Changes 1n European Libraries . 
AUSTRIA 

Salzburg, Studienbibliothek. Dr. Ernst von 
Frisch retired in I946 and was succeeded by 
Dr. 1 osef Hofinger, formerly of the N a-
tionalbibliothek in Vienna, as director. 

BELGIUM 

Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek. M. Victor 
Tourneur reached the legal retirement age 
in I943 and was pensioned on Aug. I, I943· 
From Aug. I, I943, to Oct. I7, I943, M. 
Auguste Vincent served as "hoofdconserva-
tor ad interim." On Oct. I7, I944, Dr. 
Fr. Lyna was appointed chief librarian. 

Liege, U niversiteitsbibliotheek. M. 1 oseph 
Brassinne reached the legal retirement age 
in I942 and was pensioned on Feb. I, I942. 
Mme. 1. Gobeaux-Thonet was appointed 
chief librarian to succeed him on Sept. I, 
I942. 

SWITZERLAND 

Basel, Freie Stadtische Bibliothek. Herr 
Hans Brenner-Eglinger retired on May 3I, 
I944, and was succeeded by Herr Alexander 
von Passavant as director. 

Bern, Schweizerische Landesbibliothek. Dr. 
Marcel Godet retired on Dec. 3I ; I945, 
and was succeeded by Dr. Pierre Bourgeois 
on May I, I946, as director. 

Bern, Stadt- und Hochschulbibliothek. Dr. 
Hans Bloesch died on 1 an . 28, I945· Dr. 

Hans Strahm succeeded him in September 
I946 as director. 

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Bibliotheque de la ville. 
M. William Hirschi · retired on Apr. 30, 
I943, and was succeeded by M. 1 ules Bail-
lads as director. 

Chur, Bundner Kantonsbibliothek. Dr. 
Friedrich Pieth retired on Dec. 3 I, I939, 
and was succeeded by Dr. Gian Caduff on 
1 an. I, I940, as director. 

Fribourg, Bibliotheque cantonale. Professor 
Gaston Castella retired on Oct. 27, I942, 
and was succeeded by Dr. Fran~ois Esseiva 
on Oct. 28, I942, as director. 

Geneva, Bibliotheques circulantes. Mile 
Helene Rivier retired in August I94I and 
was succeeded by M. Dujardin as director. 

Glarus, Landesbibliothek. Herr Hans Schies-
ser retired in I944 and was succeeded by 
Dr. 1 akob Winteler as director. 

Lugano, Biblioteca cantonale. Sr. Francesco 
Chiesa retired in I94I and was succeeded 
by Dra. Adriana Ramelli as director. 

St. Gallen, Staats-Archiv und Bibliothek. 
Herr 1 osef Anton M uller-Haene retired in 
1 anuary I944 and was succeeded by Dr. 
Karl Schonenberger as director. 

Sian, Bibliotheque cantonale et archives 
d'Etat. Dr. Leo Meyer retired on Aug. 
3I, I94I, and was succeeded by M. Andre 
Donnet as directo'r.-Lawrence 8. Thomp-
son. 

186 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Ne-w~, from the Field 
Acquisitions,· Gifts, 
and Collections 

John Peter Zen-
ger, publisher of 
the New York 
Weekly Journal 

was arrested in I 734 and brought to trial 
for libel against the government in the person 
of Gov. William Cosby. The trial and ulti-
mate acquittal of Zenger struck an important 
blow for freedom of the press in America. 
Yale University Library has acquired the 
most complete file of Zenger's paper now in 
existence. It includes numbers one through 
one hundred fifty-four and covers the period 
from Nov. 5, 1733, to Oct. 18, 17·36. The 
gift of Frank- Altschul , of New York, the 
file includes issues ordered burned at the 
time of the trial. Robert Olney Anthony, of 
Brooklyn, presented his Walter Lippmann 
collection, consisting of more than 1300 items 
to Yale University Library. This material 
supplements an earlier gift to Yale from 
Mr. Lippmann of several of his manuscripts, 
a large number of his letters, and other items. 

Northwestern University has acquired the 
library of the .late Frederick W. Gookin, 
East Asiatic art expert. The collection con-
sists of books on Oriental art, chiefly J apa-
nese, as well as books on Oriental history 
and civiliz~tion. Northwestern h_as acquired 
the rare Magazine of Travel, published in 
Detroit during 1857. This periodical con-
tains W. P. Isham's "Sketches of Border 
Life," an extremely interesting account of 
life in early western rai'lroad construction 
camps. Other items of interest are found 
in this magazine which serves as an important 
source for historians interested in the open-
ing of the West. 

Nicholas Murray Butler has presented 
to Columbia University Library fifteen bound 
volumes and two unbound volumes of his 
personal correspondence with nine presidents 
of the United States. Dr. Butler has asked 
that the volumes be kept "entirely confidential 
during my lifetime." The letters cover the 
period from 1891 to 1946. Dr. Butler has 
also presented to Columbia twenty-two file 
cabinets of correspondence, fifteen' volumes of 
his 'published addresses, and other items of 
significance gathered during his long career. 

APRIL~ 1947 

The new Princeton library has received 
a gift of $5o,ooo from Charles Scribner's Sons. 
The gift came from Charles · Scribner in 
memory of members of the Scribner family 
who had graduated from Princeton. 

The private library of the late Douglas 
C. McMurtrie, Chicago typographer, has 
been purchased jointly by the University of 
Chicago, the University of Illinois, and 
Northwestern University. 

Mrs. Alma M. Werfel, widow of Franz 
Werfel, presented a collection of several 
hundred books and sev~ral thousand pieces of 
manuscript belonging to her husband, to the 
Los Angeles campus of the University of Cali-
fornia. This collection will be known as the 
Franz Werfel Archives and will be housed in 
the rare book room of the library. 

The music library on the Los Angeles cam-
pus of the University of California has been 
given a complete collection of the 344 pub-
lished songs of the lat.e Jerome · Ker_n . The 
collection was donated by Mrs. Kern as a 
memorial to her husband. 

The University of California, Los Angeles, 
has also received a seventeen-volume set of 
Icelandic history and literatu.re. Included 
in the set is a manuscript outlining 
the Norse discovery of America. This series 
of volumes is considered essential to any study 
concerned· with the legal institutions, prose 
and poetic literature, and the linguistic his-
tory of the Scandinavian North. 

The University of California, Los An-
geles, has recently purchased the reference 
library of the National Unionist Association 
of London. The history of the association 
stretches back to 1867. Originally it was a 
federation of local branches of the Conserva-
tive Party. Since 1884 it has been a part of 
the machinery of the Conservative Central 
Office. The "Unionist" label . was adopted 
by the Conservatives during the -controversy 
over Home Rule to emphasize th~ir support 
of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. 
The collection contains books published in 
England between 188o and 1925 concerned 
with the main questions of the day, eco-
nomic, political, and soc~al. · 

The Alderman Library of the University 

187 



of Virginia recently received from Harcourt 
Parrish, of New York, what may be a 
unique copy of the I558 edition of Martin 
Cromer's De Origine et Rebus Gestis Polo-

. norum. The McGregor Library (American 
history) of the University of Virginia has 
been presented with a rare file of early Ameri-
can newspapers by Garland M. Barksdale 
and his son Edward M. Barksdale, of Peters-
burg, V a. The file includes issues of the 
New London, Conn., Bee ( 1800-0I), the 
Richmond, Va., Argus (I799-I805), and the 
Petersburg, Va., Virginia Gazette and Peters-
burg I ntelligencer (I 796- I 8o 5). This last 
item is apparently the most complete file of 
that rare Virginia paper available in any 
library. 

Sweet Briar College Library recently com-
pleted the cataloging of a valuable collection 
by and about George Meredith. Most o"f this 
material was collected by Professor Elmer 
James Bailey and willed to the college some 
years ago. The collection contains 450 ite~s 
(books, manuscripts, pamphlets, periodical 
articles, portraits, and clippings). It in-
cludes thirty-one first editions. One item of 
interest is a bronze medallion of Meredith's 
profile, the work of Theodore Spicer-Simp-
son. Only three medallions were struck, the 
other two are owned by the British Museum 
and by Lord Morley. 

The library of the College of William and 
Mary has received from Col. John Womack 
Wright, an alumnus, his personal library. 
The core of this collection is com.posed of 

· more than one thousand volumes on Napoleon 
and the Empire. Over one thousand three 
hundred manuscripts relating to the business 
activities of Richard Blow (I746-I833) of 
Tower Hill, Sussex County, Va., have been 
presented to the College of William and 
Mary Library by Edward J effcott, of New 
York. Blow was a shipowning magnate who 
dominated commercial activities in southside 
Virginia during the late eighteenth and early 
nineteenth centuries. 

The , University of North Carolina is ac-
tively adding to its already extensive collec-
tion of public documents of the colonies, 
states, and territories. Microfilm copies of 
various legislative journals and session laws 
are being prepared for the university library 
through the efforts qf Prof. W. S. Jenkins 
who is on leave for the purp<?se of complet-

ing the Legislative Microfilm Project for the 
Library of Congress. · The u ·niversity of 
North Carolina as . well as the Library of 
Congress will receive ,a copy of each film 
roll. 

Washington University Library, . 
Buildings St. L uis, is recataloging its col-

lection and planning a building 
program. The building program is based on 
a five-year expansion of stack space. Plans 
are being made for a new library building 
which will have a capacity of one million 
books. It is hoped that the new building will 
be completed by I95I. 

On January 6 the University of Illinois 
opened its new Chicago Undergraduate Divi-
sion at Navy Pier, three thousand feet from 
shore on Lake Michigan. This new library 
is a branch of the two-million-volume univer-
sity libr~ry at Urbana. Four thousand men 
and women are matriculated in the Chicago 
Undergraduate Division. There is a faculty 
composed of over two hundred members. 
_The library provides an open-shelf reading 

· room measuring eighty by two hundred and 
twenty feet. The room has . a sea~ing ca-
pacity of eight hundred. Fluorescent lighting, 
rubber-tiled floors, and generou~ work room 
space provide ample facilities for students and 
staff. 

David K. Maxfield, formerly acting head 
of Cooper U pion Library in New York, is 
librarian. His chief assistant is Walter 
Southern, formerly head of the Research 
Department of the Engineering Societies Li-
brary, New York. • 

Plans call for a collection of twenty-five 
to forty thousand volumes within the next 
four years. The goal for the current academic 
year is ten thousand volumes. 

Committees~ Conferences 
In the spring 

of I946 the U.S. 
Office of Educa-

tion appointed the Citizens Federal Com-
mittee to investigate and report on the crisis 
in the teaching profession. The committee 
held a three-day session in October and con-
sidered the major problems in American edu-
cation. The committee is the first national 
body of laymen that has been appointed to 
advise the Office of Education on all phases 
of American education. The next meeting 

188 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



was on March 17
1
and considered pending fed-

eral legislation concerned with education. 
On December 6 the 59th meeting of the 

Conference of College and U niyersity Li-
brarians of Southern California was held at 
Whittier College~· One of the topics dis-
cussed was library buildings. 

During the A.L.A. midwinter meeting a 
number of librarians of theological institu-
tions gathered to discuss common problems 
and the possibility of a future organization. 
As early as 1916 a Round Table of Theologi-
cal Librarians was established at the Asbury 
Park Conference of the American Library 
Association. In 1917 the name of the group 
was changed to the Round Table of the Li-
braries of Religion and Theology. As the 
years passed meetings came to be more and 
more devoted to interests and needs of librar-
ians concerned with religious collections in 
public libraries. It was the consensus of 
opinion at the 1946 meeting that a separate 
need existed for the formation of a group con-
cerned with problems and responsibilities 
peculiar to libraries of theological seminaries. 
It was proposed that a committee represent-
ing these institutions be formed and that ·it 
continue to cooperate with the larger organi-
zation. 

An executive committee has been appointed 
to work with the American Association of 
Theological Schools in projecting plans for a 
conference. Members of this committee are 
Robert F. Beach, librarian, Garrett Biblical 
Institute, Evanston, Ill.; John F. Lyons, li-
brarian, McCormick; Theological Seminary, 
Chicago; and Evah Ostrander, librarian, 
Chicago Theological Seminary. 

An Assembly of Librarians of the Amer-
icas will be held at the Library of. Congress 
in the spring of 1947, as part of the cultural 
relations program of the Department of 
State, in cooperation with the governments 
of the various Latin American republics. The 
assembly will open on May 12, 1947, and 
.will continue for a period of eight weeks. 

The Medical Library Association will hold 
its 46th annual meeting in Cleveland, May 
27-29, at the invitation of the Cleveland Med-
ical Library Association, with headquarters 
at the Wade Park Manor. Among the topics 
to be discussed are visual aids and speakers 
will include Dr. Morris Fishbein and Dr. W. 
B. McDaniel, II. 

APRIL, 1947 

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A rele~se from the U.S. 
Curriculum Office of Education reported 

that during the fall term more 
than two million students~ a 50 per cent in-
crease over the previous peak enrolment, were 
attending colleges and universities in the 
United States. Of this total, approximately 
one-half were veterans. In 1945 less than 
fifty thousand veterans were enrolled in 
schools of higher education. 

The third summer training course in the 
preservation and administration of archives 
will be offered by the American University, 
Washington, D.C., July 28-August 23. 

Yale University's National 
Recordings Voice Library continues to 

grow. A recent addition to 
this collection which contains recordings of 
such famous Americans as Woodrow Wilson, 
Theodore Roosevelt, ·and Willia·m Jennings 
Bryan, was a sound record of the addresses 
marking the close of the special convocation 
held at Yale last October. The speakers 
whose voices were thus preserved were Presi-
dent Seymour, Professor Chauncey B. Tinker, 
and Wilmarth S. Lewis. The National 
Voice Library was originally presented to 
Yale in 1942 by Robert Vincent, now chief of 
the United Nations Sound and Recording 
Section. 

An "Interim Report of the 
Publications Survey of the Public Li-

braries in New York State" 
has been issued by the Division of Research of 
the New York Department of Education. 
It deals only with the state's functions, con-
centrating on the equalization of library 
service · to. all the people of the state. 

The NovemBer 1946 issue of The Southern 
Association Quarterly contains historical 
sketches of Agnes Scott College, Mercer Uni-
versity, Millsaps College, Our Lady of the 
Lake College, University of Chattanooga, 
University of Georgia, University of Rich-
mond, and the Ursuline Academy, New Or-
leans. 

The Tekniska litteratursallskapet, the 
Swedish society for technical documentation, 
has issued Ake Davidsson's Periodica Tech-

, nica A bbreviata, the first of a series of hand-
books. This is a list of 2100 initial abbrevia-
tions of technical and scientific periodicals and 

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other serial publications issued by institutions, 
societies, and commercial firms. A special 
section of Russiap abbreviations is included. 

The Kungl. Tekniska Hogskolans Biblio-
thek, Carl Bjorkman, librarian, has issued a 
new list of accessions, covering the period 
June I94I-May I945· It is arranged by 
broad subjects and coptains a detailed index. 

The University of California has issued 
Personnel Rules for Non-Academic Employ-
ees ( I947) which is concerned with the privi-
leges and obligations of members of the staffs 
in all divisions of the university, including 
the libraries. Such matters as classification 
of positions, compensation, recruitment, hours 
of service, vacations, jury duty, leaves of ab-
sence, and transfers, are some of the sub-
jects discussed. 

The Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College has published A Notation for a 
Public Documents Classification· by Ellen 
Jackson. The notation system should be 
extremely useful to libraries which arrange 
their documents together. The notation was 
developed to designate by code the relative 
position of all public documents-federal, 
state, county, municipal, interstate, foreign, 
and international-in an alphabetical arrange-
ment by issuing office. 

The Directory of Microfilm Services in the 
United States -and Canada~ compiled· by the 
Committee on Microfilming and Documenta-
tion of the Special Libraries Association 
(J urgen G. Raymond, chairman), is a useful 
list for librarians who wish ro have ready 
information concerning the microfilm facili-
ties in American and Canadian libraries and 
other agencies. The pamphlet contains in-

, formation on the copyright question, how to 
order microfilm, and geographical . lists of in-
stitutional services and commercial services. 
Copies may be purchased from the Special 
Libraries Association, 3 I E. Tenth St., New 
York City. 

The first issue of Biologia~ a monthly 
newsletter to supplement C hronica B otanica~ 
appeared in January I947· In addition to 
news concerning biological societies, commis-
sions, and congresses, attention is called to 

new literature in biology. Regular subscrib 
ers to Chronica Botanica receive the publica 
tion free; subscriptions from others cost $ 
per volume (covering two years). 

Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the 
University of Chicago, has written a provoca-
tive article, "The Administrator," in the No-
vember I946 issue of the Journal of Higher 
Education. Librarians will be interested in 
the discussion of problems of the administra-
tion of institutions of higher education. · 

The Public Administration Service, Chi-
cago, has issued two publications of interest 
to research librarians, Federalism and Inter-
governmental Relations: A Budget of Sug-
gestions for Research by William Anderson; 
and The Federal Field Service: An Analysis 
with Suggestions for Research by Earl 
Latham and others. Major areas for possi-
ble research in both fields are discussed. 
Each publication contains a useful bibliogra-
phy. 

The Junior M .embers' Round Table of the 
Pennsylvania Library Association, Robert T. 
Grazier, chairman, has issued a Directory of 
Personnel in Pennsylvania Libraries~ I946. 
Both professional apd clerical personnel are 
included in the directory, which is divided 
into two sections, an alphabetical list by li-
brarians and an alphabetical list by post 
offices. The publication sells for $I and may 
be procured from C. B. Wightman, Free 
Public Library, Lancaster, Pa. 

The University Library: Its Functions and 
Potentialities~ an Inaugural Address Deliv-
ered in Durban o.n 2 September~ I946 by 
Herbert Coblans, is a publication of Natal 
University College, I946 (15p.). Dr. 
C9blans, the librarian of Natal University 
College, calls attention to the great need of 
cooperative bibliographical enterprises in 
South Africa. He points out the value of 
microfilm in building up collections, the need 
for union catalogs, and allocation of subject 
fields for intensive specialization. 

Louis Kaplan, of the University of Wiscon-
sin Libraries, is compiling a selective, an-
notated· bibliography of "readable" American 
autobiographies. 

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