College and Research Libraries Personnel W ITH the retirement of Charles W. Smith as librarian of the University of Washington on September I, the Pacific Northwest loses another of its library pio- neers. Mr. Smith came to the university as assistant librarian on his graduation from the University of Illinois Library School in 1905. He is this year completing forty-two years of continuous service to the university. In I9I3 he was made associate librarian and Charles W. Smith associate professor of library economy. In I926 he was given a full professorship and in I929 after the retirement of the late W. E. Henry he was appointed librarian. The board of regents has approved the ap- pointment of Mr. Smith as professor and librarian emeritus and bibliographic consult- ant. Few men have had so long and so intimate an association with the development of a great research library as has Mr. Smith. When he came to Washington in I905 the library contained approximately twenty thousand volumes. On his retirement he leaves a well-rounded collection of more than six hundred thousand volumes. By every instinct a bibliographer and a scholar, Mr. Smith has played a vital role in the development of the university library and the services it renders. In I923 he was sent to Europe by the uni- versity on a buying trip, which resulted in the completion of important sets and the acquisition of over nineteen thousand separate items. A charter member of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, Mr. Smith holds the unique record of having served as chairman of the committee on bibliography continuously since its inception, except for the year he was president of the association. Under his leadership the committee on bibliography has brought to successful completion a number of cooperative ventures, the last of which was the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center. It was largely due to Charles Smith's vision and enthusiasm that a workable plan for a bibliographic center was perfected and a $35,000 grant was secured from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. From this grant in 1940 the committee on bibliography under Mr. Smith's leadership and direction has developed a functioning project, soundly managed and soundly financed, which is play- ing an important role in the furtherance of scholarship in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Smith has found time for active mem- bership in a number of organizations includ- ing the American Historical Society and the Bibliographic Society of America. He has contributed frequently to scholarly publica- tions, and his Checklist of Books and Pam- phlets Relating to the Hist01ry of the Pacific Northwest, the second edition of which has long been out-of-print, is still considered the basic reference tool in this field. Forty-two years of unstinted, untiring serv- ice of the sort given the University of Washington by Charles W. Smith is in- calculable and cannot be measured. The university community appreciates his contribu .. tion, however, and has long held him in high esteem. He is affectionately known as "Booky" Smith by his colleagues on the campus. It is worthy of note that Mr. Smith has se- lected and trained his successor, Harry C. Bauer, who becomes director of libraries on September I. Librarians in the Pacific North- 450 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES west congratulate Charles W. Smith on his splendid record of achievement and hope that they will have his friendly counsel for years to come.-] ohn S. Richards. D R. William M. Randall, for a dozen or more years a member of the faculty of the Graduate Library School of the Uni- versity of Chicago, on June I, I947, became director of libraries of the University of Georgia, succeeding Ralph H. Parker. Dr. Randall returns to the ranks of uni- Dr. T¥illiam M. Randall versity library administrators with a rich and distinctive experience as librarian, teacher, editor, author, library consultant, and mem- ber of the armed services. He began his connection with libraries as student assistant and senior classifier at the University of Michigan Library from I920 to I925. Dur- ing the period he received the degrees of A.B. (I922) and A.M. (I924) from the university. From Michigan he went to Hart- ford, Conn., where he became instructor in phonetics and general linguistics, Kennedy School of Missions, and curator of the Anani- kian Collection of Arabic Manuscripts of the Hartford Seminary Foundation. He received his doctorate, summa cum laude, from the seminary in I 929. From January to June I928 Dr. Randall was associated with William Warner Bishop, J. C. M. Hanson, and Charles Martel in OCTOBER, 1947 1mt1atmg the recataloging of the Vatican Library in Rome. In October of 1929 he joined the staff of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago as as- sociate profess9r. At Chicago Dr. Randall served in various capacities, his principal activities as teacher being in the fields of classification and catalog- ing and college library administration. He be- came the first editor of the Library Quarterly in 1931, which position he held until he en- tered the United States Army in 1942. He was made professor in 1931 and served as assistant dean of students of the university, 1938-42. From I929 to 1931 Dr. Randall was em- ployed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as consultant for the Advisory Group on College Libraries, of which Dr. Bishop was chairman. · In that capacity he visited the libraries of two hundred or more liberal arts colleges and gained firsthand informa- tion concerning the status and administration of that type of library. The College Library ( 1932) and Principles of College Library Adminisi'ratio,n (with F. L. D. Goodrich, 1936), grew out of that experience and his study of college administration in general. In 1939 he directed the institute of the Graduate _Library School of the University of Chicago devoted to the consideration of the problems of acquiring and _cataloging ma- terials and edited the volume of papers pres- ented at the institute under the ' title, The Acquisition and Cataloging of Books (1940). D~ring his stay at the University of Chi- cago Dr. Randall was a student of the Middle East and spent considerable time visiting the libraries of that region. Prior to the war, he also engaged in the study of cryptography and, at the beginning of the war, was re- quested by the Army to enter the service because of his knowledge of Arabic and of the Middle Eastern countries. He entered the Army in 1942 as a major and served as follows: I942, liaison officer, Air Transport Command, R.A.F., in Cairo; later in charge of Political and Economic Intelligence, G-2, U.S. Army Forces, Middle East (until June I943) ; attached to Joint Intelligence Agency, Middle East (War Intelligence), Cairo, June 1943-April I944; attached to Intelligence, North African Division, Air Transport Com- mand, Casablanca, Morocco, April 1944-April 451 1945; North Atlantic Division, April-October 1945· Upon leaving the service, Dr. Randall be- came manager of the Library Division of Snead & Company, with headquarters at Orange, Va., and in August I946 became vice president of the Angus Snead Macdonald Corporation.-Louis R. Wilson. ELMER Mori Grieder, who became librarian of West Virginia University on July I, is a native of Iowa and a graduate of the University of Dubuque. From I930 to 1935 he taught at the La Porte City High School and at the University of Dubuque summer school. Elmer M(;ri Grieder In 1936, after receiving a library degree from Columbia and working in the New York Public Library as a temporary assistant in the economics division, he went to the Detroit Public Library a~ a junior assistant. Thence, in February 1938, he came to Harvard as assistant librarian in the Graduate School of Public Administration. He returned to this position in January 194.6 after nearly three years of service in the Army, chiefly in New Guinea and the Philippines. From October I946 until he resigned to go to West Virginia, he worked as assistant to the director of the Harvard University Library, concerning him- self particularly with plans for the new undergraduate library which is now under construction. He has served as president of the Harvard Library Club and has been an active mem- ber of S.L.A. and A.L.A. Some idea of his accomplishments is suggested by articles he contributed to Special Libraries, Harvard University Library Notes, and Papers & Pro- ceedings of the National Association of State Libraries. The Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (Littauer Center) consisted of a few hundred volumes in seminar collections when Mr. Grieder came to Harvard, and the Littauer Building, which now houses it, was not opened until a year after his arrival. By the middle of 1947, the new library had grown to ' "":more than I30,ooo volumes and pamphlets . .;· Mr. Grieder helped to plan and directly suplrvised the building up of an institution which not only serves its own graduate school but also functions as a document center for the uni- versity as a whole. It should be noted that, while his title was "assistant librarian," there was never any librarian of the Graduate · School of Public Administration, and Mr. Grieder was responsible directly to his faculty and to the director of the university library. -Edwin E. Williams. T HE Board of Regents of the University of Washington has announced the ap- pointment, effective Sept. I, 1947, of Harry C. J3auer as director of libraries and professor of librarianship. Bauer succeeds Charles W. Smith, librarian, who is retiring after forty- two years continuous service on the faculty of the university. Mr. Bauer, a graduate of the St. Louis Library School ( I 93 1) , was born and reared in St. Louis. He attended the University of Missouri from 1921 to I923 and later transferred to Washington University (St. Louis) where he received the A.B. degree in 1927 and the M.S. degree (physics) in I929. It was here he was elected to Sigma Xi. Bauer became interested in librarianship following a number of years as a part-time student assistant in the St. Louis Public Library during his high school days. His first professional appointment came in 1929 as an assistant in the applied science depart- 452 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ment of that institution. In 193 I he moved to the University of Missouri Library where he was appointed chief of the circulation department. A new field opened for Bauer with the important library development in the Tennes- see Valley Authority when, in March 1934, he was invited to organize and administer the technical library system of that project. While with the T.V.A. Mr. Bauer col~ laborated with Mrs. Lucile Keck and Mrs. I. E. Dority in editing the second edition of H~rry C. Bauer Public Administration Libraries: A Manual of Practice, published by Public Administra- tion Service in 1941. He also served on the board of directors of Special Libraries As- sociation from 1940 until April 1942 when he departed from the T.V.A. on military leave to accept a commission as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was also active in the credit union movement, serving as treasurer-manager of a T.V.A. credit union and as president of the Tennessee Credit Union League in 1941-42. Harry Bauer's record in the Army Air Corps is a distinguished one. Upon complet- ing courses at the officer's training school at Miami Beach, Fla., and the combat intel- ligence school at Harrisburg, Pa., he was assigned to the 98th Bombardment Group and sent to the Middle East. In 1943 he OCTOBER, 1947 was promoted to major and two years later in 1945, after thirty-three months c~ntinuous overseas service in this area, Africa, and Italy, he returned with his group to the United States. Major Bauer was awarded the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart. Now on inactive duty, he is a lieutenant colonel in the Reserve Corps. At the University of Washington Bauer is also a member of the faculty of the school of librarianship, teaching courses in adminis- tration. He is active in civic affairs, being a member of the mayor's committee on salacious literature. This committee's report received considerable notice when it .. was published in the July 12, 1947, Saturday Review of Literature. He is a member of the Seattle Municipal League and the Uni- versity Kiwanis Club. He is a contributor to professional periodicals, holds membership in the organizations of the library field, and was the president of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Special Libraries Association for 1946- 47. Mr. Bauer is interested in the furthering of the diffusion of knowledge. Toward this end he has devoted much of his time to winning the confidence of students and faculty and to other aspects of public relations which might result in much greater use of uni- versity library facilities than is now generally made in colleges and universities in this country. His appointment by the Board of Regents of the University of Washington is recognition of the high esteem in which Bauer is held in academic and library circles. Th.e university is fortunate in securing one who not only has high standards and a fine record of achievement, but whose judgment, sense of proportion, and understanding of people-as demonstrated in his associations within and without the profession-will con- tinue to bring credit to librarians.-Robert L. Gitler. T HE University of Missouri recently an-nounced the appointment of Ralph Hal- stead Parker as librarian. Dr. Parker was director of libraries at the U niver.sity of Georgia and takes to his new assignment a broad understanding of library objectives in higher education and a varied experience in library administration. Essentially a teacher at heart, his ability as a librarian 453 Ralph Halstead Parker is peculiarly well-suited to the opportunities for library development at the University of Missouri. He replaces Benjamin E. Powell who is now librarian of Duke University. A native of Texas, Dr. Parker attended the University of Texas where he earned successively his bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, majoring in the field of Latin American history. Subsequently in 1936-37 he attended the University of Chi- cago Graduate Library School on a fellow- ship which enabled him to follow a special program of study on college and university administrative problems. A student assistant- ship in the University of Texas Library es- tablished a career interest -which led ultimately to his appointment in 1930 as loan librarian at his alma mater. Following his study at the University of Chicago, he was librarian of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., and in 1940 he assumed the duties of director of libraries at the University of Georgia. The A. L.A. survey of the University of Georgia Library system created opportunities which Dr. Parker made wise use of to effect a reorganization, sound in principle and appro:. priate in detail. He was particularly concerned with the consolidation of scattered resources and the development of a modern central catalog. Through the generosity of the general education board he was able to provide for the reclassification and recatalog- ing of the collection. In cooperation with college and university libraries in the Atlanta- Athens area, he took an active part in in- itiating the university center. While at the University of Georgia, Dr. Parker devoted much of his time to a study of library build- ing requirements and to planning for the Ila Dunlap Little Memorial Library. Soon after war was declared Dr. Parker entered military service and rose from the rank of private to that of captain. After completing officer's candidate school, he was assigned to the office of the Adjutant General in Washington because of his knowledge of International Business Machines acquired through his adaptation of the I.B.M. system to University of Georgia Library records. Dr. Parker has been active in state and national library organizations, exerting his leadership in offices of state associations and through committee work in A.L..A. He has been a member of the A.L.A. Committee on Library Administration, 1936-37, the Board on Resources of American Libraries, 1940-47, and is chairman of the Committee on Library Equipment and Appliances. Until recently he was a member of the Tennessee Valley Library Council and was concerned with establishment of the Southeastern States Regional Library Survey.-W ayne S. Y ena- wine. n !CHARD H. LOGSDON, recently assistant .1'. director of the Veterans Administration Library Services, became assistant director in charge of technical services for the Li- braries of Columbia University on September 1. Mr. Logdson has had an unusually suc- cessful career as a librarian and will con- tribute a large share to the success of the fine staff being assembled at Columbia. Particularly interested in education, he has been able to combine library administration and teaching in several positions which he has held. After graduation from Western Reserve University in 1934 he went to Adams State Teachers College as librarian and in- structor in library science. After taking time out to acquire a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, he went to Madison College as librarian and associate professor in library science in 1939 just prior to completion of 454 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the new Madison Memorial Library. In this position he was responsible for developing and expanding the services of the library and was particularly successful through participa- tion in the work of faculty and student com- mittees in achieving integration of the library program with the over-all program of the college. In addition to normal services, the library assumed responsibility during his ad- ministration for supervision of the regional audio-visual center sponsored by the state department of education. This center sup- plied films, records, and slides not only to the college but to schools in the area. Four years later, in 1943, he was appointed head of the Library Service Department at the University of Kentucky. Taking military leave from this position in 1944, Logsdon's interest in education and training was wisely used by the U.S. Navy when he was attached to the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Division during his period of active duty. In this capacity he assisted in the preparation of curricula for naval training schools and was a member of the board of review for training films and other training aids. Following service in the Navy he became librarian of the U.S. Office of Education where he carried through a reorganization of the library as part of the commissioner's ·plan to improve the services of the Office of Education. In February 1947 Logsdon came to the Veterans Administration as assistant director of library service. He has done outstanding work in helping to develop policies and proce- dures necessary to carry out the consolidation and development of library service in this organization. Interested in the development of the pro- fession of librarianship, he has been an active participant in important committee work of the various professional organizations. He has been chairman of the Publications Com- mittee of A.C.R.L. since 1946; a member of the Board of Education for Librarianship of the A.L.A. since 1946; a member of the Fourth Activities Committee of A.L.A. since 1946; and president of the Library Education Division since June 1947. Firmly convinced that good training coupled with sound administration supervision is the answer to successful library operation, Logs- OCTOBERJ 1947 Richard H. Logsdon don has displayed clear thinking, a knowledge of sound basic principles, and the ability to make full use of his grea~ energy in the solution of problems. The loss of his services to the Veterans Administration program is a serious one but it is expected that the addition of his abilities _..../"' to the staff at Columbia will be a benefit to the profession as a whole.-Francis R. St. John. MAURICE F. TAUBER, since 1944 assistant director of libraries in charge of tech- nical services in the Columbia University Libraries , added his full strength to · the faculty of library service beginning September 1. He came to Columbia with the under- standing that, after a further period of practical experience, he would transfer full time to the school. In the meantime, he served the school in a part-time capacity first as assistant professor and since July I, 1946, as associate professor. It is seldom given to a librarian to conduct a survey and then have the opportunity to put his suggestions for improvement into effect, but that briefly has been the experience of Maurice Tauber with the Colqmbia Univer- sity Libraries. With L. Quincy Mumford, he surveyed the technical operations of the university libraries in 1943-44. At the end 455 Maurice F. Tauber of that year he came to the position he has just relinquished and has spent his time since then translating his proposals into action. His task in the new position, the scope of which he helped to define, was to coordinate all of the "technical services" (acquisitions, cataloging and classification, binding, and photography) and to smooth out and simplify the various operations in this sector. Among specific accomplishments by his staff he ca,n look back upon the following: elimi- nation of overlapping and waste motion in a number of library routines; simplification of cataloging and of the billing procedures for acquisitions and photography; greater centralization of acquisitions work; clearer separation of homogeneous duties for the purpose of utilizing staff members of dif- ferent levels of preparation. These and re- lated accomplishments contributed their part toward such striking changes in statistics as the following (figures are for I944 and I947 respectively) : volumes cataloged, 38,oo8 to 58,442; orders placed, II,232 to 26,787; ex- changes received, I,655 to I I,783; gifts re- ceived, I 7,820 to 4 I ,870; serials checked, 27,907 to 59,075; pamphlets bound, 8,353 to I2,67I. Photographic income rose from $8,799.48 to $I5,286.39. In securing these results he has shown a steady sense of direction, the capacity to tunnel through mountains of details, noiseless but vigorous powers of leadership, and an- tennae sensitive to the point of view of others. An indefatigable worker, Dr. Tauber has squeezed a variety of special assignments into his schedule. He has been a consultant on problems of the technical services at Vassar College Library, the University of Vermont Library, and the New York State Library. He is co-author with Louis Round Wilson of The University Library and, with Dr . . Wilson, surveyed the University of South Carolina Library in I946. He served on the committee appointed by the Librarian of Congress to study the principles of descriptive cataloging. Since September I945 he has been· an energetic managing editor of College and Research Libraries. He was recently elected vice president of the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the American Library Association. Beginning this month he will join Louis Round Wilson and Robert Bing- ham Downs in a survey of the Cornell U ni- versity Libraries. With practical library experience to his credit in three universities and with his extensive experience in surveys, he can be said to have become one of our leading authorities in that important sphere of library work behind the scenes which at Columbia is referred to as the technical services.-Carl M. White. ON September I5 Alfred Harris Rawlinson became librarian and head of the de- partment of library science at the University of South Carolina. His new position brings him back to his adopted state after a year and a half as librarian of Centre College, Danville, Ky. Before going to Centre Col- lege, Mr. Rawlinson had been, at various times, reference librarian and . cataloger in the Richland County Public Library, Colum- bia, S.C.; assistant professor in the Emory University Library School; regional librarian of the Murray, Ky., State Teachers College, and executive secretary of the Arkansas State Library Commission. A missionary's son, Mr. Rawlinson grew up in China, where his father edited the Chinese Recorder and the China Mission Year Book. He holds an A.B. from Bucknell, a library degree from Emory, and an M.A. from the University of South Carolina. Dur- 456 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ing the war years he was secretary of the Southeastern Library Association and he has held other offices in state library associations. To his new position Mr. Rawlinson brings a thorough understanding of South Carolina, the university, and the university libraries. He finds them expanding more rapidly than at any previous period of their history and undergoing reorganization following the sur- vey made by Wilson and Tauber in 1946. South Carolina librarians and the chess play- A /fred Harris Rawlinson ers of Columbia will welcome his return for opposite reasons. The librarians know and appreciate his good humor and friendliness, the chess players his cold, calculating ferocity. -John VanMale. C HARLOTTE A. BAKER, one of the "old guard" of land-grant college librariansj died at Fort Collins, Colo., on June 22, 1947, five weeks after her eightieth birthday. From the summer of 1900 when she became librarian of New Mexico Agricultural Col- lege to 1936 when she retired as librarian emeritus of Colorado State College of Agri- culture and Mechanic Arts, she was active not only in college work but in what she considered a real function of the land-grant college libraries, the promotion of libraries in the small towns typical of the rural areas. OCTOBER~ 1947 Charlotte A. Baker Miss Baker came to Colorado in the fall of 1893 for her health and entered the train- ing class of the Denver Public Library in the fall of 1894. Later she worked in the cataloging department there. Then in the summer of 1900 she accepted a position as librarian of New Mexico Agricultural Col- lege, where as she expressed it: As librarian I was supposed to manage the library and do anything else that seemed useful. I rang the bell for the change of classes, but forgot so often that the work was turned over to a student. Then I sold stationery for the community, ran a local mail distributing center, helped stage college entertainments, all for the munificent sum of fifty dollars a month. In 1906 she returned to Colorado as as- sistant librarian of the Colorado State Agri- cultural College working under the brilliant Joseph F. Daniels, who later as head of the Public Library and Riverside Library School, Ri-xerside, Calif., is so well-remembered by public librarians. In 1910 she became li- brarian and served in that position until she retired in r 936. Important in the story of the development of land-grant college functions was the little- known survey made by a committee of the Agricultural Libraries Section of the A.L.A., and published by mimeographing at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Library in 1922. 457 Miss Baker was the chairman of this com- mittee, of which the other active member in planning was Lucy May Lewis, librarian of Oregon State College. Overshadowed by the very thorough report by Charles H. Brown on libraries in the 1930 survey of land-grant colleges issued by the U.S. Office of Education, it nevertheless did set out for the first time some of the characteristics of the land-grant college library and some of the peculiarities of its organization and needs. Miss Baker's administrative ability, to- gether with her sense of values, made the l.ibrary of Colorado "Aggies" one of the well- known smaller land-grant collections, but she will be long remembered by both faculty and students more for the vitality of her personal contacts with people. Yet it is for the promo- tion of the small libraries of Colorado, and the training of librarians for those collections, that she will be longest remembered. These activities were reflected in her service as secretary of the Colorado State Library Com- mission from 1913 to 1919, as editor of Occasional Leaflets and the ColO'rado Li- braries for the Colorado Library Association from 1913 to 1922, and as principal of the summer library school of the Colorado State Agricultural College from 1918 through 1932. In 1940 Miss Baker was awarded one of the first of the "Distinguished Service" awards of the Colorado Library Association for her work in the promotion of public libraries. At the request of friends and former students the Library of Colorado A. & M. College is establishing a Charlotte A. Baker Memorial Collection to be made up of the type of book that she would have delighted to introduce to students who were just coming to know the joys of reading.- lames G. Hodgson. H AROLD LANCOUR has become assistant director of the University of llli,nois Library School, replacing Lewis F. Stieg. He began his new duties Sept. I, 1947. Mr. Lancour has had a varied experience since his graduation from Columbia library school in 1936. His introduction to library work was gained in the University of Wash- ington Library. After serving in several posts in the New York Public Library Reference Division, he spent several months in the Tremont Branch Library. His pro fessional career since that time has all bee in one institution, but one in which there i a unique combination of college, public, an special library functions. In 1937 he wen to the Cooper Union as head of the museu library, at that time one of five separate li braries in that institution. In 1940 he be came head librarian and was given the tas Harold Lancour of reorganizing and consolidating the whole library system. The library Mr. Lancour leaves to his successor is a lively and vital organization of several departmental libraries under a strong central organization. The increased professional services provided by the reorganized library called for increased staff and financial support. Since 1939 the Cooper Union Library staff has grown from five librarians with a budget of $29,00Q to eleven professional librarians, all with faculty status, twenty-two clericals, and an operating budget of $75,000. While Mr. Lancour's professional interests are in the practical problems of administra- tion, most of his leisure-time activities are bibliographical. His first published bibli- ography on early immigrant passenger lists went through two editions in one year, and his checklist of American art auction catalogs is the standard work in this field. The ac- quisitive instincts of the collector are ex- 458 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ressed in his shelf of examples of fine rinting of the sixteenth century. As an tive member of the Grolier Club of New ork and the American Antiquarian Society, e has found congenial associations for these terests. Mr. Lancour was one of the founders of the ngineering School Libraries Section of the ssociation of College and Reference Li- raries and chairman of the section from 941 to 1946. He is now its representative n the A.C.R.L. Board of Directors. In the merican Association for Engineering Educa- ion he helped originate, and since 1941, has erved on its national committee on libraries. During the war Mr. Lancour was an in- tructor in the now famous school for Army ibrarians which operated during 1944 and 945 in Paris and later in Oberammergau. ith LeRoy C. Merritt at the University f California and Herbert Goldhor at the niversity of Illinois, he is the third of the acuity of that school to become actively ngaged in education for libarianship. Mr. Lancour secured his B.S. and M.S. egrees from Columbia School of Library ervice and has just completed the work for is doctor's degree in education at Columbia reachers College.-B .C.H. VAN SUAREZ-MORALES, formerly assist- ant librarian in charge of circulation at he University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, ssumed the librarianship of the College of griculture and Mechanic Arts in Mayagiiez, .R., on Aug. I, 1947· Mr. Suarez has risen rapidly in the profes- ion since he began his career as a student ssistant in the University of Puerto Rico ibrary in 1943. Upon his graduation with n A.B. degree in 1944, he served as a library ssistant in the circulation department of the niversity library for a year, after which he as given a stipendium for a year's study in the Syracuse University School of Library Science. In 1946 he was appointed assistant librarian in charge of circulation at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico. Mr. Suarez will bring to his new post an intimate ~nowledge of the needs of Puerto Rican students from a service standpoint. His ability to apply this knowledge has been demonstrated on innumerable occasions in the solution of difficult problems presented to the public service department of a bilingual, half Latin American, half North American univer- sity library. In addition to his administrative competence, Mr. Suarez maintains an active interest in the broad social problems of the island, not the least of which is the institution 1 uan Suarez-M orales of an efficient library system which will reach every bohio in the hills. Puerto Rican li- brarianship as a whole has been immeasur- ably strengthened by this appointment of 1 uan Suarez-Morales.-Lawrence S. Thompson Appointments 1 anet Agnew, librarian of Sweet Briar College, has been appointed to the librarian- ship of Bryn Mawr College. During the past summer she has been a member of the library school faculty at North Carolina. Ernest L. Hettich has been appointed di- OCTOBER, 1947 rector· of libraries of New York University. He has been . acting director since 1945 in addition to his duties as full professor in the Washington Square College classics de- partment. Albert C. Gerould, deputy librarian of the 459 United Nations, has been named librarian of Clark University at Worcester, Mass. David K. Berninghausen, director of the Phillips Library of Birmingham-Southern College, has been appointed librarian of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Recent administrative appointments at the University of Denver include Carl W. Hamil- ton as librarian of the College of Business Administration, Mrs. Frances Hickey Scha- low as librarian of the College of Law, Lyle Morey as head of the catalog department, 1 ane Gould as head of the purchasing depart- ment, 1 ane Pope as head of the serials de- partment, and Margaret Hayes as chief of the service division. Lee C. Brown, executive secretary and li- brarian of the American Merchant Marine Library Association, is now librarian of the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester. William S. Budington has been appointed librarian of the Engineering Library of Co- lumbia University. Since leaving the service he has received a degree in engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Barbara Hubbard, library staff member of Cornell University, is now chief of the read- ers' division of the M t. Holyoke College Li- brary. Edith A. Wright, formerly reference li- brarian of the American Library in Paris, has become order and periodical librarian of the New 1 ersey College for Women. Elizabeth I ves, of the Middlebury College Library, has been appointed assistant li- brarian of Elmira College. 1 anet Dickson, order-catalog librarian of the Providence Public Library, has been ap- pointed head cataloger of the State University of Iowa. Lillian B. Goodhart, of the cataloging staff of the Yale University Law School Library, is now chief of the cataloging department of the New 1 ersey College for Women Library. Dixon Wecter, chairman of the research group at the Huntington Library, has been appointed literary editor of the Mark Twain estate. The Mark Twain collection has been transferred from Harvard to .lfuntington on a long-term loan. Evelyn Elliott, head of the catalog depart- ment at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, has become head of circulation of the University of Washington Library a Seattle. Louise Darling, recently returned fro Army library service in the Pacific, has bee made librarian of the newly-organized Bio medical Library of the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles. Neal Harlow, formerly of the Bancrof Library. of the University of California a Berkeley, is heading the new Department o Special Collections of the University of Cali fornia Library at Los Angeles. Dorothy B. Hammell, Brooklyn Colleg Library, has been appointed librarian of th Education Library of the University of South ern California. Emma Linton Holman, formerly of th extension division of the Virginia State Li brary, has been named librarian of Mar Baldwin College, Staunton, V a. Henry E. Coleman, 1 r., librarian of th George Avery Bunting Library, Washingto College, Chestertown, Md., · has been ap pointed librarian of Washington and Lee U ni- versity, Lexington, V a. Donald C. Davidson has succeeded Katha- rine F. Ball as librarian of Santa Barbara College of the University of California. The University of California at Berkeley has made the following appointments to ad- ministrative and specialist positions: Vincent H. Duckles as head of the Music Branch Library; Elizabeth Huff as head of the East Asiatic Library; Frances B. 1 enkins as head of the newly-established science reference serv- ice; Myra B. Kolitsch as head of the library school library; Thomas B. Murray as stack supervisor; and Marion B. Allen, in charge of public relations. Sidney B. Smith, who has been in residence at Chicago for the doctorate, has been ap- pointed director of libraries at the University of Vermont. Morrison C. Haviland, until recently acting head of the reserve book room of the U ni- versity of California at Berkeley, has been appointed general assistant to the director of the Harvard College Library. The University of California at Los An- geles has appointed Dumtry Krassovsky as bibliographic consultant in Slavic materials and Georgia Catey as librarian of the geology and physics libraries. 1 ohn Dulka, assistant reference librarian 460 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES f the Milwaukee Pubh~ Library, has been ppointed reference librarian at Milwaukee tate Teachers College. Edith Schumacher, head cataloger of the >ratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, has been ppointed assistant librarian in charge of tech- ical processes of the New York State M ari- ime Academy at Fort Schuyler. Anne Coogan, formerly of the reference ~epartment of the Grosvenor Library, is now 'lead reference and circulation librarian at 2arnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Bernard R. Berelson, assistant professor of library science at the University of Chi- cago, has been appointed dean of the Graduate Library School at the university. Frances Henne, at present an assistant professor, has been named associate dean and dean of stu- dents. Olga M. Peterson, chief, Public Relations Office, A.L.A. Headquarters, has been ap- pointed librarian of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Tex., as of October the first. Retirements Granville Meixell, who has been librarian of the Applied Science Libraries and later the Engineering Library of Columbia University since 1925 has retired. Mr~. Elsie Howard Pine, assistant profes- sor of library science and former acting li- brarian of Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, has retired after twenty-five years of service. Abbie McFarland has retired as librarian of Mary Baldwin College at Staunton, Va. Dr. E. C. L. Miller, director of libraries, and Florence McRae, librarian of the Medical College of Virginia, retired on January I. Personnel Changes in Foreign Libraries POLAND Polish libraries have suffered intensely, perhaps more than those of any other Euro- pean nation, even Germany, as a result of the war. Quite aside from confiscation, plunder- ing, and total destruction of many Polish libraries, the personnel situation was seri- ously aggravated by the fact that no less than 145 Polish librarians lost their lives during the war. As complete a list as possible was published in Bibliotekarz, XII ( 1945), 2-3, and XIII ( 1946), 137-39, 233· Dr. Adam Lewak, director of the university library in Warsaw who kindly supplied this informa- tion, states that of the 145 dead librarians, no less than 71 were executed. In 1939 there were some 1300 librarians and archivists in Poland. Krakau Dr. Karol Piotrowicz, former director of the Library of the Polish Academy of Sci- ences died in Russia in 1940. Mrs. Suszytowa became director in 1945. Dr. Marian Kukiel, formerly director of Prince Czartoryski's Library, has been in England since 1940. The present director is Dr. Karol Buczek. OCTOBER, 1947 Posen Dr. Andrzej Woytkowski, former director of Count Raczynski's Library, is now a pro- fessor and director of the university library in the University of Lublin. He was suc- ceeded by Dr. Marian Rymarkiewicz. The library was partially destroyed by fire in 1944 and 1945. L6di A new university library is being organized under the directorship of Dr. Adam Lysakow- ski. Torun Dr. Z. Mocarski, who died in 1941, has been succeeded by Janina Przybylowa as di- rector of the Nicholas Copernicus Municipal Library. Breslau Dr. Josef Deutsch surrendered the director- ship of the Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek after the transfer of Silesia to Poland. The library itself was almost totally destroyed by fire during the last months of the war. In its stead a municipal library under the director- ship of Dr. Antoni Knot is being established. LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON 461 In June the Carnegie Conferences and Corporation of New York ·Curricula granted $250,000 for an experimental five-year program to develop four university study cen- ters concerned with Latin America. The project will be developed jointly by the Uni- versity of North Carolina, the University of Texas, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. The pro- gram is designed to make available compre- hensive examinations of Latin America to teachers, businessmen, and government offi- cials as well as to students. Each center will offer a fuller curriculum on Latin Amer- ican subjects than has been possible in the past. Broader facilities for graduate work and an expansion of literary resources will be features of the program. The McGregor Room in the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia served as a meeting place for four evening seminars in contemporary poetry and prose, sponsored by the school of English. William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden were the subjects of the meetings. The McGregor Room also serves as the meet- ing place of the Bibliographical Society, cen- tering in the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville community, but open to others who may be interested. The Washington Li- brary Association sponsored a meeting con- cerned with the problems of public library administration at the twelfth annual institute on government held at the University of Washington in Seattle. "Library Service to Business and Government" and "The Book- mobile and Its Place in Library Extension" were the topics reviewed. The first postwar regional library con- ference of representatives of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia will be held October 9-II in Baltimore. The general theme will be "The Education of This Generation." During June 4, 5, and 6 an in-service li- brary institute was held on the campus of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. The program was sponsored jointly by the · Kansas Library Association and the Kansas Ne-ws from State Teachers College Library School. Representatives from practically every sec- tion of the state attended. After a general session the institute was divided into two discussion groups: one, concerned with young people's reading and school library problems, the other with library extension on a state- wide basis and with public relations as affect- ing the service of public libraries. In May, at the invitation of the Colorado Library Association, twenty-five librarians met in Denver to discuss the possibility of forming a Mountain-Plains Library Associa- tion. Those attending the meeting repre- sented eight neighboring states. Three of the states represented now participate in the Pacific Northwest Library Association or the Southwest Library Association, so it was the librarians of the five remaining states who had more than an academic interest in combining into a regional group. It was decided that the first regional conference would meet in 1948. With assurance of support from in- terested librarians, a three-day meeting is planned and an attendance of two or three hundred expected. Ralph T. Esterquest, University of Denver Libraries, has been ap- pointed chairman of the Mountain-Plains Library Conference Planning Committee. The thirty-fourth annual Conference of. Eastern College Librarians will meet at Co- lumbia University on Saturday, Nov. 29, 1947. The Western His~ Gifts and Collections torical Manu- scripts Collection of the University of Missouri recently ac- quired the Senatorial and Vice Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman covering the years ·1934-45· Other recent acquisitions include the papers of Ralph E. Lozier, congressman from Missouri, 1918-35, and the memoirs of Thomas E. Breckenridge, a companion of John C. Fremont on two of his expeditions. The debates and proceedings of the Missouri Constitutional Convention held in Jefferson City, Mo., during December and January 1845-46 have also been acquired. The Alderman Library of the University 4{52 COLLEGE AND PESEARCH LIBRARIES he Field f Virginia has recently received a collection f manuscripts, notebooks, scrapbooks, and iscellaneous papers belonging to the late Senator William Cabell Bruce. As a charter day gift, Dr. and Mrs. J ohri W. Price, Jr., of Louisville, Ky., presented the College of William and Mary with a collection of papers and correspondence formerly preserved at the Skipwith family seat, "Prestwould," Mecklen- burg County, V a. The collection contains approximately 6500 pieces covering the years I 762-I890. Included in the gift was a series of approximately sixty letters exchanged be- tween William and Peyton Short during the period, I78I-I824. In May, Columbia University acquired the world's outstanding collection of Spinoza's works and associated material. This collec- tion, which represents the combined lifework of two noted Spinoza scholars, was inte- grated by Mr. Oko in I935 after the death of Mr. Gebhardt, who was the foremost German scholar on Spinoza. Mr. Oko, who was born in Russia and educated in Berlin, came to the United States at the age of twenty. He began his collection when he was fifteen. He died in this country in I944 while approaching completion of a definitive bibliography on Spinoza. The gift to Co- lumbia includes one volume signed by Spinoza which was a part of the philospher's personal library. The signature may be the only one extant. The collection also includes seven- teen of the seventeenth-century editions of Spinoza's works. An original manuscript of a work on Spinoza by Sir Frederick Pollock, noted British scholar, is one of the items. The University of Southern California re- cently acquired the George Barr McCutcheon collection of James Whitcomb Riley. A near- ly complete Riley collection is furnished by the I 70 items. Northwestern University Library has re- ceived a valuable collection of fourteen in- cunabula from the "Royal Library in Copen- hagen. The work of thirteen different print- ing presses is represented. The oldest book in the collection, Script ores historiae Au- gustae, was printed by Philippus de Lavagna OCTOBER, 1947 in Milan in I475· Other titles included are Antoninus Florentinus's Confessionale, I490; the Biblia Latina, Venezia, I489; Cicero and Plinius II's Epistulae Selectae, I500; and Henricus de Gorichemus's Conclusiones super IV libros sententiarum, c. I488. With the establishment of a School of Medicine on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California, plans have been made to build a biomedical library which will serve the new school and the graduate life sciences fields. The library will eventually be located in its own building which will be centrally located in the biomedical group and in proximity to the campus's general library. The new buildings are expected to be com- pleted in I950. Until that time the biomedi- cal library will be housed in a temporary building on the campus. Louise Darling has been appointed to the biomedical librarianship. A department of special collections has been established in the Library of the University of California at Los Angeles. This collec- tion will be administered by Neal Harlow and will embrace rare books, manuscripts, archives, maps, music, and photography. A survey of the Cornell U niver- Surveys sity Libraries will be made this month by a staff composed of --- Louis R. Wilson, chairman, Robert B. Downs, and Maurice F. Tauber. The survey has been approved by the Board of Trustees of Cornell at the request of Stephen A. Mc- Carthy, director of libraries. The American Council of Microfilms Learned Societies announced earlier this year that work has been completed on more than half of the files of the nineteenth-century Negro newspapers being microfilmed by the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies. Positive microcopies of the films are now available for purchase by libraries and educational institutions. Order lists and information on the Negro Microfilm Series may be obtained from the Committee, 1219 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 463 The United States Department Publications of State has issued Making the Peace Treaties, 1941-1947, which is a history of the making of the peace beginning with the Atlantic Charter, the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, and culminating in the drafting of peace treaties. with Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, and Finland. Clara L. Guthrie and Dorothy M. Cooper, of the University of Washington Library, have prepared a three-page annotated bibliog- raphy concerning atomic energy and its im- plications entitled "The Age of the Atom." The Milwaukee Public Library, Richard E. Krug, librarian, has issued a Procedure Manual~ which is to serve as an introduction to the library, as a training aid, as a guide to practice, and as a basis for uniform pro- cedures in all departments and neighborhood libraries. The manual is well-organized, written in a clear style, and contains a de- tailed index. "The Contribution of the Library to the Improvement of Instruction" is the title of a paper by William Stanley Hoole, director of libraries, University of Alabama, in The Southern Association Quarterly, vol. 9, p. 367-69, May I947· The United States Office of Education has issued a mimeographed publication, "Direc- tory, Colleges and Universities Offering Graduate Courses Leading t9 Master's and Doctor's Degrees, I940-I945·" The number of degrees granted in the various institutions is included. Slide films and Motion Pictures-To Help Instructors is the title of a new catalog list- ing selected visual teaching aids produced and distributed by the School Service Department of the Jam Handy Organization. Free copies of this catalog may be obtained by writing to the Jam Handy Organization, 282I E. Grand Blvd., Detroit I I. The Reference Department, Northwestern University Library, continues to publish in mimeographed form several useful biblio- graphies. One of these is "Recent Educa- tional Literature; A Selected List of Recent Books and Articles in Periodicals Which Dis- cuss Educational Aims and Curricular De- velopments in American Colleges and U n versities." Compiled by Eleanor F. Lewi reference librarian at Northwestern, thes annotated lists furnish an interesting biblio graphical source for teachers, librarians, an laymen. A similar list is currently compile by M. Helen Perkins, of the reference de partment, under the title, "Science Course in Higher Education." The Library of th University of Texas publishes a well-designe periodical titled The Library Chronicle edited by Joseph Jones, of the English de partment. The Huntington Library, which in Ma received on a long-term loan Mark Twai materials from the Samuel L. Clemen estate, has published "Mark Twain: An Ex hibition Selected Mainly from the Paper Belonging to the Samuel L. Clemens Estate.' The hand list was prepared by Edwin H. Carpenter, Jr., with an introduction by Dixo Wecter, literary editor of the Mark Twain estate. The hand list, thirty-three pages in length, sells for 50¢. The Princeton University Library has is- sued College and University Libr·ary Statis- tics, 1919-20 to 1943-44. The compilation is based upon lists which were started by James T. Gerould when he was at Minnesota and later at Princeton. Margaret C. Shields contributes a useful analysis of the statistics and considers such matters as the growth of book stocks on a geographical basis a~d the age and size of institutions in relation to their book stocks. Books and budgets as they relate to university population are also dis- cussed. Extra copies of the July supplement of College and Research Libraries, entitled Essays in Honor of Charles Harvey Brown, are available through the A.L.A. Headquar- ters Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago I I. The cost is $I per copy. The July I947 issue of the Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects contains a section on "The Library Building.'' Besides brief~ articles by C. B. J oeckel, A. S. Mac- Donald, and J. P. Jones, excerpts from com- ments and articles are included. A ten-page bibliography is appended. 464 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES