College and Research Libraries Personnel H ERMAN H. HENKLE, director of the Processing Department of the Library of Congress since Jan. 26, 1942, has accepted the position of librarian of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, effective September 1. Mr. Henkle came to L.C. from Simmons College, Boston, where he had been director of the school of library science since 1937. He had served. previously in the public libraries at Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., and in the Biology Library at the University of Cali- of organization and procedures in his own department and his active cooperation in the development of over-all policies in the library have been a source of strength to the Li- brary of Congress and the library profession generally. In his new position Mr. Henkle will have an opportunity to apply his technical and administrative talents directly to the scientific field, which is his major interest and his field of specialization.-Luther H. Evans. fornia. In 1936-37 he was associate in li- LEWIS F. STIEG, assistant director of the brary science at the University of Illinois. He library school and professor of library was born at Colorado Springs in 1900, was science at the University of Illinois for the awarded the degree of bachelor of arts from past four years, has been appointed to the Whittier College in 1928, and received his directorship of the University of Southern certificate in library science and master of arts California Graduate • School of Library degree from the University of California Science. School of Librarianship in · 1931 and 1933, Acknowledged as an eminent authority in respectively. his field, Dr. Stieg is the first president of Active in professional organizations, Mr. the Library Education Division of the Ameri- Henkle is a member of the Special Libraries can Library Association, which he was instru- Association (president in 1945-46), the Ameri- mental in organizing. He is known for his can Library Association (member of the contributions to national media in fields of li- Board of Educ'ation tor Librarianship from brary administration and education. 1942 to 1944), the Society for the Advance- During an eight-year period Dr. Stieg ment of Management, and the History of served as librarian of Hamilton College, N.Y., Science Society. He is the author of numer- and John B. Stetson University, DeLand, Fla. ous articles and papers on library science, He was graduated from the University of principally in administration, cataloging, and Chicago Graduate Library School in 1935 education for librarianship. with the degree of Ph.D., having earned his To Mr. Henkle's vigorous initiative in A.B.L.S. from the University of Michigan in tackling the many complex organizational and 1933 and previously his A.M. from Harvard policy problems connected with cataloging University. In 1930 he was graduated with and other processing activities, the Library of the degree of A.B. from the University of Congress and American and foreign libraries Buffalo with summa cum laude honors. He in general already owe much. The greatness is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and numerous of their debt will, I believe, be realized even -· .national library associations. more fully as years go by and recent develop- 'Dr. Stieg will assume his new position at ments are seen in proper perspective. Mr. Southern California in September, succeeding Henkle's intense interest in the improvement Hazel Adele Pulling, acting director. Appointments Verner W. Clapp has been appointed chief assistant librarian of the Library of Congress. Mortimer Taube has been appointed acting directo; of the acquisitions department. Elmer M. Grieder assumed his duties as librarian of West Virginia on July 1. Mr. Grieder has been a general assistant to the librarian of Harvard University. I 272 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Donald B. Engley has been appointed li- brarian of Norwich University at Northfield, Vt. Since his return from the service he has received his M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago. Alan D. Covey, microfilm cataloger of the ' University of California Library, has been appointed head of the newly-enlarged photo- graphic service of the university. Lois E. Engleman, assistant to the librar- ian at Wellesley College, has been appointed librarian of Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. Giles F. Shepherd, Jr., head of the circula- . tion department of the University of North Carolina Library, has been appointed assistant director of the Cornell University Library. He succeeds E. R. B. Willis, associate librar- ian, who retired on July 1. Howard P. Linton, research analyst of the Far Eastern Section of the State Department, has been appointed librarian of the East Asiatic collections of Columbia University Li- braries. Violet A. Cabeen, who was assistant acqui- sitions librarian and associate in library serv- ice at Columbia University, is now chief cata- loger of the Documents Section of the United Nations. John M. Connor is chief of the circulation section of the Intelligence Reference Division of the Department of State, Washington, D.C. Blanche V. Houston is now head cataloger of the Frick Art Reference Library, New York City. Thomas V. Reiners, formerly librarian- archivist of the Brooklyn Prepat:atory School, is now head of technical processes of the Cardinal Hayes Library, Manhattan College, New York City. Eulin Klyver Hobbie, librarian of Skid- more College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., as- sumes her duties as organizer and director of libraries of the American International Col- lege, Springfield, Mass., on September 1. Helen M. Brown, librarian of MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Ill., will become librar- ian of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on September 1. Dorothy B. Hammell, of the staff of the Brooklyn College Library, is now librarian of the education library of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Margaret Gleason, assistant reference li- brarian of the Wisconsin State Historical Society at Madison, has been appointed refer- ence and loan librarian and instructor in library science on the staff of Beloit College Libraries. Elizabeth J. Ebright has been appointed librarian of the Washburn Municipal Uni- versity at Topeka. Recent Personnel Changes in French Libraries Caen, Bibliotheque de l'Universite. Mlle. Dupasquier became head librarian on Apr. I7, I946, succeeding M. Vacher de LaPouge. Dijon, Bibliotheque de l'Universite. M. Gras became head librarian on Mar. I, I942, upon the retirement of M. Oursel. Lille, Bibliotheque de l'U niversite. Mlle. Bruchet became head librarian on Nov. I, I942, succeeding Mlle. Wetzel. Paris, Bibliotheque N ationale. M. Marcel Rieunier has succeeded M. Emile Leroy, who died on June 30, I94I, as secretary general of the administration. M. Robert Brun be- came "conservateur" of the department of acquisitions on Oct. I, I945, succeeding M. Jean Forcher. M. J e_an V allery-Radot be- came "conservateur" of the department of prints on Sept. I6, I942, succeeding M. Jean Laran upon the latter's retirement. M. Jean Cordey has been "conservateur" of the de- JULY~ 1947 partment of music (created on Mar. I6, 1942) since July 24, I944, succeeding M. Guillaume de Van. Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. M. Franz Calot is now the head librarian. Previously he had borne the title of adjutant "conserva- teur" and acting "conservateur." Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine. M. Renoult bas been "conservateur" since Aug. 24, I944, succeeding M. Jean Laillier. · Paris, Bibliotheque d'Art et d'Archeologie. Mlle. Damiron has been acting in charge since Apr. I, I945· M. Lambert retired on Dec. 3I, I94I, as the head librarian, and be- tween his retirement and the appointment of Mlle. Damiron, M. Pierre LeLievre, at pres- ent ~nspector general on the staff of the di- rector general of the Direction des Biblio- theques, served as head librarian.-Lawrence S. Thompson. 273 I Acquisitions, Gifts, and Collections Frank D. Facken- thal, acting presi- dent of Columbia University, an- nounced in April a gift of $1,509,389 from the late Frederic Bancroft, librarian, lecturer, and author, the income of which will be devoted to building up the university's resources for research in American history. The gift will make available an income of about $38,ooo annually to the Columbia University Libraries for the purpose of expanding these collections. It was revealed by Dr. Fackenthal that the carefully devised program of book purchases which is contemplated in administering the funds will insure new and important re- sources for the use of scholars in the field of American history. These will reflect espe- cially the donor's interest in the history of the South and of slavery. To head the work of selecting books and literary materials under the new bequest, Reinhard H. Luthin, associate in history at Columbia, has been appointed to the staff of the libraries as bibliographer in American his- tory. Lehigh University has received a gift of Napoleonic manuscripts for the treasure col- lection of the university library. The donor, Robert B. Honeyman, is a prominent New York and California attorney. The entire collection, bound into a folio volume, is com- posed of letters and portraits covering the pe- riod from Nov. 6, 1797, to May 15, 1839. The letters will be translated by Allen J. Barthold, head of the department of Romance languages at Lehigh. Early in the year Northwestern University Library acquired collections of underground publications from Denmark, Norway, and Greece. This acquts1t10n probably gives Northwestern the largest Danish collection of this type of material in the country. All three collections are interesting and valuable in the picture they afford of resistance to Nazi domination. The materials are supple- mented by facsimile reproductions of under- ground publications from other countries. Yale University Library has acquired sev- I New-s from eral valuable additions to its extstmg collec- tions through the will of the late Gabriel Wells, well-known dealer in rare books and manuscripts: Mr. Wells bequeathed the equivalent of ten thousand dollars to the li- brary, to be selected from the rare books and manuscripts remammg in his possession. Among the items thus acquired, as reported by the librarian, James T. Babb, are the quarto of Shakespeare's Macbeth, 1674; the edition of Dante published 1477, which was the first tg contain Boccaccio's life of the poet; and Charles Lamb's first published prose work, The Tale of Rosamund Gray, 1798. Yale has also acquired one of the most ex- tensive collections now in existence of ma- terials relating to the history of the Ameri- can petroleum industry during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In February Mr. Babb announced the receipt of the collection, presented to the library by T. W. Phillips, Jr. The late Roger Sherman of Titusville, Pa., assembled the collection. Mr. Sherman, father-in-law of Mr. Phillips, was an out- standing lawyer of the Pennsylvania oil re- gion and a leading Democratic politician. He inspired two successful movements of the inde- pendent petroleum producers and refiners in their struggle against the larger companies of the period. Included in the gift are per- , sonal letters, ledgers, scrapbooks, and legal papers. Also included are thirty-seven of fifty-eight original bound volumes of valuable miscellaneous contemporary pamphlets from Mr. Sherman's private library. Yale has announced extensive additions to its James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collec- tion of Negro Arts and Letters. Books, music, pamphlets, and manuscripts from Mr. Johnson's library were presented to Yale by the widow of the distinguished poet and au- thor. The memorial collection was founded in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten, novelist and music critic. In February Helen Channing Pollock pre- sented her father's private library to North- eastern University. This collection of the late playwright, Channing Pollock, contains 274 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the ·Field more than three thousand volumes. The library of the California Academy of Sciences added 37,437 items to its archives during the past year. The largest single col- lection received during 1946 was the library of George Davidson. Included in the acces- sions were over nine thousand maps, gift o'f the Army Map Service. Early this year the Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State College, Cape Girardeau, ac- quired the Charles L. Harrison library of rare and fine books. The late Mr. Harrison was an enthusiastic collector with wide-rang- ing interests. The collection provides exam- ples of fine typography, illustrations , and bindings with manuscripts and incunabula be- ing well-represented. In March Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. , created a new center for the study of central New York regional history with the formal establishment of the Samuel Hopkins Adams Historical Collection. The collection will be supervised by a sixteen-member executive committee including Mr. Adams, Carl Carmer, Walter D. Edmonds, and Harold W. Thompson. David T. Wilder, Hamilton's associate librarian, serves as executive secre- tary to the committee. At a meeting in ·Baton Rouge on Buildings March 13 the local chapter of the American Association of U niver- sity Professors passed a resolution requesting tl\e _Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University to give the highest priority on its building program to the erection of a new library building for the university. The first step in the building expansion program at the University of Kansas City will be an addition to the library building. The addition is expected to provide adequate space for ten or fifteen years but is not planned as a permanent solution. Construction costs have been estimated at three hundred thou- sand dollars. Stack space for 350,000 addi- tional volumes and the expansion of present reading room facilities will result. On February 16 the College of the City of New York opened its Army Hall extension at JULY, 1947 1560 Amsterdam Avenue. This extension made it possible to put back into use some of the sixty thousand volumes that had been stored for several years beyond the reach of students. Jerome K. Wilcox, librarian, indi- cated at the time that the seating capacity in the library was still far from adequate and that either a new building or an addition to the old library was sorely needed. The read- ing room in Army Hall, however, did increase the library's seating capacity from seven hun- dred to one thousand seats. Army Hall now houses all books on social studies and texts assigned as reserved reading. The New England Li- Committees and brary Association will Conferences meet at the New Ocean House at Swampscott, Mass., October 19-21. The Third Summer Institute on the United States in World Affairs is being conducted by the American University in Washington, D.C., from June 16 through July 25. The basic course focuses attention upon important issues of national and international policy, empha- sizing the interrelation of domestic and for- eign developmt:;nts and problems. The earlier sessions, 1945 and 1946, attracted more than one hundred teachers from thirty different states to hear the lectures and to participate in the class discussions. Sessions are being held on the American University campus where facilities have been made available for housing institute members. The institute pro- gram includes visits to Congress, embassies and legations, and government departments and agencies. Carnegie Corporation of New York has granted $175,000 for : two-year study of how well existing public libraries are serving American communities and, whether libraries should become future custodians of noncom- mercial radio, films, and television. Robert D. Leigh, who has been appointed to head the inquiry, served as director of the Commis- sion on the Freedom of the Press whose com- prehensive reports on mass communications were published earlier in the year. Experi- 275 ' . enced in analyzing major American institu- tions, Dr. Leigh formulated and put into op- eration the educational plan for Bennington College in 1932 and served for fourteen years as its first president. He is at present acting as consultant to the New York State Tem- porary Commission on the Need for a State University. The subject of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Franciscan Educational Con- ference was libraries. This year, the con- ference, composed of friars of the various branches of the Franciscan family, met at Santa Barbara, Calif., the latter part of June and discussed the historical, physical, tech- nical, legal, and moral, as well as the apostolic phase of librarianship in the Seraphic Order. The Franciscan Educational Conference was founded in 1919, and the Very Reverend Thomas Plassman, O.F.M., of St. Bonaven- ture College, is completing his twenty-eighth consecutive year as president. Representatives of I 10 theological libraries located in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico assembled at a conference in Louisville on June 23-24. An earlier meeting of theological librarians of the Chicago area under the chairmanship of Robert F. Beach, li- brarian of Garrett Biblical Institute, Evan- ston, Ill., was mentioned in the April issue. This Chicago conference paved the way for this national conference in June under the chairmanship of Dr. L. R. E\}iott, librarian, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex. An interesting program, based on suggestions received from various librarians, was de.vised for the conference. Jerrold Orne, director of li- Curriculum braries, Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis, reports that plans have been drawn up for establishing a full course in librarianship at that institution. The program is expected to begin in October and the plans call for courses that will train students for librarianship in secondary schools, special libraries, ;nd small general libraries. "The Guide to Comparative Publications Literature and Intercultural Relations," to which one hun- dred twenty-five scholars throughout the country are contributing on a voluntary basis, is expected to appear in 1948 under the A.L.A. imprint. The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to meet the publishing expenses. Charlton G. Laird, head, Department of English of the. University of Nevada, is the editor-in-chief, having been appointed after the untimely death of Arthur E. Christy, who was one of the prime movers in the organization of this ambitious project. Psychological Abstracts has introduced sev- eral new features. Among these are full names of authors, addresses of authors when available, and lists of periodicals currently received. · In addition, more complete analy- ses of collections and sy~posia will be in- cluded. Theses and dissertations in psychol- ogy and related fields will be cited. Articles in library periodicals dealing with psychologi- cal studies will also be abstracted. The edi- tors welcome any suggestions or criticisms from librarians. Humphrey G. Bousfield, librarian, Brook- lyn College, has issued two photo-offset pub- lications, a Library Handbook for the Faculty and Clue to the Resources and Services of the Brooklyn Coll;ge Library. The second of these, which is illustrated, is intended for students. Tracy E. Goodwin has issued two volumes which should be helpful in guiding veterans in their educational problems, Veterans Hand- book and Guide and Educational Opportuni- ties for Veterans. These are issued by Good- win Publications, 1778 Fairmont Ave., Cin- cinnati. The Special Libraries Council of Philadel- phia and Vicinity has issued the seventh edi- tion of Directory of Libraries and Informa- tional Sources in Phi/adelphia and Vicinity. It has been completely revised and provides information on holdings, staff hours, library privileges, interlibrary loan policies, repro- ducing facilities, and indication of whether holdings are listed in the Philadelphia Union Library Catalogue, for approximately 275 li- braries in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Dela- ware, and the surrounding area. Subject and personal indexes are included. Fisk University, Nashville, Arna Bontemps, librarian, has issued Selected I terns from the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature. The collec- tion was founded by Carl Van V echten and enlarged by many other benefactors. The 276 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES selected list of items is excellently printed and contains illustrations. The library of the Florida State College for Women has published an attractive mimeo- graphed library bulletin, directed to faculty and students, titled "Calling All Readers." It offers information on new books and points out the various facilities offered by the li- brary. "Some Statistical Methods Useful to the Medical Librarian" by Estelle Brodman, Fred]. Pheulpin, and J. Deutschberger (Bul- letin of the Medical Library Association 35 :7-57, January 1947) discusses such mat- ters as the use of statistics, collection of data, measures of central tendency, distributions, correlations, charts, and diagrams. Exam- ples of graphical methods are also included in this study which should be helpful to college and research librarians who have had diffi- culty understanding statistical procedures. Walter Hausdorfer, librarian, Sullivan Memorial Library, Temple University, has issued an attractive booklet, Guide to Sul- livan, which is a chart of the resources and services of the library. Mural Painters in America, rSoo-1940: a Biographical and Geographical Index com- piled by Esther A. Park, reference librarian at Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg, is being brought up-to-date for publication in the fall. The original work was done at the University of Illinois Library School in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the master's degree. The bibliographical index will in- clude the place of birth, dates, and references to periodical and book information about the artist. The geographical index will contain a directory of the murals, arranged alpha- betically by state, city, or town, and the building in which the mural may be found; and will provide references to periodicals and books containing material on the ~ural. '[he Organization and Administration of a Special Library, edited by Lucille Jackson, librarian of the Vanadium Corporation of America, is a 38-page mimeographed booklet issued by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Spe- cial Libraries Association. It outlines the steps and procedures for organizing industrial, .TULYJ 194-7 business, hospital, and other types of libraries. The material is based on lectures presented in the annual eductttion course of the S.L.A. in I943· The publication should prove of value to the unoriented special librarian and to the experienced librarians as well. Copies may be ordered from Ross C. Cibella, librarian, Hall Laboratories, Inc., P.O. Box 1346, Pittsburgh 30, at so¢ each. Paul B. Foreman and Mozell C. Hill have compiled The Negro in the United States: A Bibliography, which is included in the Bulletin Series of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College ( vol. 44, no. 5, February I 94 7). Books, monographs, and pamphlets, and primary periodical references are listed. S. R. Ranganathan, librarian of the Hindu University Library, in Benares, has written National Library System-A Plan for India (published by the Indian Librarian, P.O. Forman College, Lahore). It is the first publication in a series, Library Science in India. In one chapter of the pamphlet, Mr. Ranganathan discusses "Academic Libraries." Libraries at the school and university levels are considered as are also libraries of learned societies. Attention is called to a scheme of coordination and interlibrary loan between the libraries of the universities and learned soci- eties in the country. The Extension Division, Virginia State Li- brary, has compiled and published Statistics of Virginia Public Libraries, 1945-1946. It contains information on regional, county, city, town, college, and university libra~ies. Earlier in the year the history of Exhibits arctic and anta;ctic exploration as told in books, pictures, and maps was on display in the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University. The collection, from which the exhibit was prepared, was purchased in I 945 from Bassett Jones of New York and "presents the most complete literature of the subject that has ever been assembled in one place." Among other items it contai.ns a number of volumes formerly in the library of Vilhj almur Stephansson, the noted arctic explorer . 277