College and Research Libraries


Graduate Studies in College and 
Research Librarianship 

AMONG dissertations, theses, and projects 

I1 completed at California, Chicago, Co-
lumbia, Denver, Illinois and Michigan 

during 1948, which may be of interest to 
college, university and research librarians, 

are the titles listed below. Starred items 

represent doctoral dissertations. 

California 

Lundy, Frank A. Faculty Rank for Pro-
fessional Librarians. 

Pedley, Katharine G. The Reading of 
Vocational Students at the Samuel 
Gontpers Trades School. San Francisco, 
in the Spring of 1946. 

Chicago 

*Burke, Father Redmond Ambrose. The 
Control of Reading by the Catholic 
Church. 

*Davies, David William. Social and Eco-
nomic Background to the History of 
the Elzeviers. 

Delougaz, Nathalie Poliakoff. Survey of 
Book Publishing in Soviet Russia. 

Doherty, Francis Xavier. The New 
England Deposit Library. (Abstract in 
Library Quarterly, January 1949.) 

*Eaton, Thelma. The Wandering Printers 
of Spain and Portugal, 1473-1536. 

*Fussier, Herman Howe. Characteristics 
of the Research Literature Used by 
Chemists and Physicists in the United 
States. (Abstract in Library Quarterly, 
January and April 1949.) 

Haselden, Clyde LeRoy. The Social At-
titudes of Librarians f!.nd Selection of 
Books on Social Issues. 

Hutton, Leonelle Maureen. Library Per-
sonnel in Negro Colleges. 

Kavanagh, Sister Clarence Marie. A 
Study of N oncurricular Reading of Stu-
dents of Marian College. 

Komidar, Joseph Stanley. American His-
tory Textbooks for Different Educational 
Levels: A Comparative Analysis of the 
Origins of the Constitution. 

Libbey, David Carleton. The Library of 

the Chicago Historical Society: A Study. 
Schlosser, Winifred Wright. The Bibli-

ography of Local Imprints as a Historical 
Source. 

Todd, Ann McKinney. Undergraduate 
Student Reading at the University of 
Missouri. 

*Van Hoesen, Florence Ruth. An Analysis 
of Adult Reference W ark in Public Li-
braries as an Approach to the Content 
of a Reference Course. 

Columbia 
Bogart, Ruth E. College Library De-

velopment in New Y ark State during 
the Nineteenth Century. 

Christ, Robert W. Acquisition Work in 
College Libraries. 

Gordon, Edna C. Current Read~ng Ma-
terial as a Factor in the Attitudes of 
College Students Concerning Certain 
Social Problems. 

Thorn, Ian W. The Div.ided Catalog in 
College and University Libraries. (Ab-
stract in this issue of College and Re-
search Libraries.) 

Denver 
Bustamante, Maria. American Sociology: 

An Introduction for Chilean College Stu-
dents ... Historical, Critical, and Biblio-
.graphical. 

Fites, Gilbert Garver, Jr. A General 
Study · of the University of Denver Busi-
ness Administration Library. 

Edwards, Zona Maxine. A Survey of the 
Biological Science Collection of the Mary 
Reed Library of the University of 
Denver. 

Julian, Hilda May. Relations Between 
the College Library and the Social 
Science Department. 

Lussky, Warren Alfred. A Survey of the 
Geography Collection of the University 
of Denver Libraries. 

McLeod, Joyce Elva. A Study of the 
Methods for the Encouragement of Rec-
reational Reading in the College Library. 

Wells, Doris Jeanette. Book Guidance for 
the Young Adult. 

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Williams, Dagny Henriette. College Li-
brary Publications as Media for Public 
Relations. 

Illinois 

Coffin, Georgia Rose. John M acock, a 
Seventeenth Century Printer. 

Hoage, Alethia Annette Lewis. Resigna-
tions in Two University Libraries. 

Knox, Margaret Enid. Publication of Sci-
entific and Technological Research by 
the United States Government. 

Sheppard, Edward Lee. The Radical and 
Labor Periodical Press in Chicago: its 
origin and development to I 8go. 

Winger, Howard Woodrow. A Personnel 
Program for Student Assistants m Uni-
versity Libraries. 

Michigan 

Grondin, Francois-Zavier. Research Ma-
terials in Canadian Constitutional His-
tory and Political Science at the U ni-
versity of Michigan. 

Manheim, Theodore. Book Publishing and 
Reading Interests in Philadelphia in I802. 

Phipps, Barbara. A Study of Reference 
Questions, in Relation to the Effective-
ness of Library Instruction at Emmanuel 
Missionary College. 

Ranz, James. The Map Library; Prob-
, lems in the Development and Organiza-

tion of Map Collections. 
Riesner, Marianna. The Acquisition of 

Map Materials for a College Library. 
Ulrich, John L. Guide to Postwar Wage 

and Salary Statistics. 

Use of Punched Cards 
(Continued from page 220) 

of two hours per day to code the cards 

a~d file them ; I 5 hours ever three months 
to arra~~~nd rearrange 
them by author; one hour per month to 

follow up outstanding orders. A simple 

preliminary time study indicates a saving 

over a year's period of approximately I 8 
weeks or over 700 hours of a clerk's time. 

The saving in salary for a six-month period 

will pay for a two years' supply of these 

cards. 

In this article I have made no attempt at 

a detailed explanation of punched cards as 

such. This question was thoroughly dis-

cussed by Katherine M. Stokes in the Li-
brary J o urn a! in I 94 7 and does not need 
repeating. 

In conclusion, the following advantages 

of this system have become apparent: 

(I) It furnishes considerable assistance in 
the bookkeeping operation and speeds up the 
processing of invoices. 

(2) It offers an efficient follow-up system. 
( 3) After serving its primary function, the 

system is adaptable to various statistical 

JULY~ 1949~ PART I 

studies. For example, at the end of the year 
for annual report purposes it will be possible 
to furnish statistics concerning the number o~ 
titles purchased in each subject field. Also, 
studies concerning the relative costs of books 
by subject will be possible. (It would .be rela-
tively simple to arrange the cards for all items 
purchased during the year by fund which is 
closely correlated with academic subjects, and 
using that figure with the amount of money 
spent on each fund, the average cost of books 
by subject could be obtained.) 

( 4) Filing of cards in the orders and re-
ceipts file and in the dead file becomes almost 
mechanical and is much faster than hand filing. 

( 5) By reading the slots on the cards, errors 
in filing and in punching show up readily. 

( 6) The orders and receipts file may be 
weeded out at regular intervals. 

( 7) One complete step in the processing of 
invoices for payment can be eliminated, thus 
speeding up the entire process. 

(8) It will no longer be necessary to type 
a copy of the purchase order to be filed by fund. 
This will save one sheet of paper for each 
purchase order typed. In addition , each page 
of the purchase order can be filled instead of 
having only two or three titles per page, as a 
separate purchase order . for each fund will 
not be necessary. 

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Supply of LibrarY of Congress 
Catalog Cards to Research Centers] 

[Note: On December 23, 1946 the Li-
brary announced (in Cataloging Service~ 
no. 7, December 1946) that the Cumulative 
Catalog of Library of Congress Printed 

· Cards would commence publication in J anu-
ary 1947 and that the depository sets of 
cards which had been maintained in anum-
ber of libraries throughout the country 
beginning in 1902 would consequently be 
unnecessary, and would be terminated. As 
a result of a significant demand, however, 
the Library has for some months engaged 
in discussions, with a committee of the 
Association of Research Libraries, whether 
it would be justified in supplying cards to 
research centers on a regional basis. The 
following announcement, the terms of 
which are acceptable to this committee, has 
resulted from these discussions.] 

I. The Library of Congress has pre-
viously indicated its willingness to support 
regional union catalogs by providing its 
currently printed catalog cards for inter-
filing in them. Such a supply of cards 
-constitutes a subsidy t<? the regional union 
catalogs which the Library of Congress 
considers to be justified by the services they 
render in lightening the load upon the N a-
tional Union Catalog, in expanding the 
Nation's bibliographical resources, in fa-
cilitating interlibrary loans, and in provid-
ing a clearing-house service for bibliographic 
information. 

2. The existing regional union catalogs 
do not, however, adequately serve all re-
gions of the country. The Library of 
Congress is therefore willing to supply its 
currently printed cards to institutional 

catalogs performing in large measure the 
same service as regional union catalogs, to 
the extent necessary to provide a more 
nearly complete regional service. The fol-
lowing conditions would govern such a free 
supply of cards. 

(a) The recipient library must be a 
center of research of recognized importance 
in a wide variety of fields. (In selecting 
institutions which meet this requirement 
the Library of Congress will consult par-
ticularly with library groups such as the 
A.L.A. Board of Resources of American 
Libraries and its subcommittee on Union 
Catalogs and Bibliographical Centers.) 

(b) The recipient library must agree 
to file cards provided by the Library of 
Congress into the most complete catalog of 
its own holdings which is generally avail-
able to its users; or to make some other 
filing arrangement deemed by the Library 
of Congress to be a satisfactory substitute. 

(c) The recipient library must agree to 
make the resulting catalog readily avail-
able for consultation by the general public, 
regardless of any restrictions on the public 
availability and its use of collections. 

(d) The recipient library must agree 
not to render illegible the information on 
the Library of Congress cards, although 
i~ may add information to the cards, either 
with or without cancelling portions of the 
printed text by dra,wing a light line through 
them. 

(e) Because the Library of Congress 
must retain title to the cards, the recipient 
library may not dispose of them without 
the concurrence of the Librarian of Con-
gress. 

1 Appendix to th e Library of Congress Information (f) The LI"brary of Congress cannot 
Bulletin February 8-14, 1949, p . 1-2 . 

258 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



undertake to supply cards printed prior to 
the date of the completion of the agreement 
with any given library. In cases in which 
an agreement is reached with a library 
which has purchased complete sets of printed 
cards in the period since the effective date 
of the cancellation of depository sets of 
cards, the Libr ct ry of Congress is prepared 
to credit the recipient library with the cost 
of such cards. This last undertaking will 
lapse as of December 3 I, I 949· 

(g) All agreements made under this 
announcement are subject to reexamination 
at 5-year intervals. In any case of cancella-

tion by the Library of Congress, the recipient 
library will be given one year's notice. 

3· The Library of Congress will wel-
come requests for cards for the purposes 
mentioned herein from the libraries which 
may be eligible and which are willing to 
accept the conditions named above. A pe-
riod of six months from the date of this 
announcement will be allowed for the filing 
of applications before action is taken on any 
of them, in order that the Library of Con-
gress may make the choices, where there 
are alternatives, best calculated to advance 
the national bibliographical interest. 

Allocation of Book Budget 
{Continued from page 218) 

significant unknown factors that cannot, at 
least now, be resolved statistically are the 
present strength of any particular book col-
lection, the cost of adequate or complete 
coverage of a field, etc. Gradually, notably 
through the Farmington experience, we 
will learn more about costs. If others will 
follow the lead of Coney and Ellsworth in 
searching the subject, we may solve other 
problems. But as one of these writers re-
plied to the questionnaire, "It is not pos-
sible at the present time to arrive at an 
objective formula," but if the formula study 
is used "with discretion and common sense" 
it may have some usefulness. 

Discretion and common sense, then, with 
an honest attempt at the kind of objectivity 
that prevents the budget from becoming a 
political plum, are probably more useful 
in balancing all obvious factors than any 
"scientific" procedure. In practice this ap-
proach is .apparently the one used at many 
libraries, including U .C.L.A., at the present 
time. Wilson and Tauber seem to agree.4 

( 9). Although one librarian reported 
that he purposely did not do so, it is com-

• Op. cit., p . 84·88. 

mon practice to make known to the faculty 
the size and use of allocations. Such prac-
tice seems only good public relations, al-
though it can be argued that knowledge of 
an unusually solvent fund may encourage 
wasteful buying. 

The library administration at U .C.L.A. 
has taken the open book as a first principle 
in its relations with the faculty, and the 
Library Committee has purposely published 
its decisions on budget matters in annual 
and special reports to the faculty. 

As is common with questionnaires, most 
respondents to this one asked to be informed 
of results. The writer too, after his ex-
perience, feels most strongly that there is 
a great need for more study of this whole 
subject and for more information on cur-
rent practice. If, for example, several li-
brarians would regularly rec'ord the details 
of book fund allocations and expenditures 
in a series of annual reports, we would have 
on hand a body of information of potentially 
great value in any pragmatic or theoretical 
approach to the problem. But of course this 
shortage of knowledge is common in many 
library fields. 

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General Description of UNESCO'S 
Project for Reproduction of 
Out,of,Print Periodicals 

I NSISTENT REQUESTS have been made to Unesco by libraries and research institu-
tions in all fields · of study, for help in 
obtaining copies of highly important out-
of-print periodicals. The demand comes 
not only from war-damaged countries but 
from libraries in countries which were 
prevented from maintaining their subscrip-
tions to foreign periodicals owing to the 
general rupture of communications, or for 
economic reasons. Also, there are many im-
portant institutions, newly established since 
the war, which cannot build up their re-
search libraries because the publications 
they need are out-of-print. 

It is recognized as an inevitable fact 
that the original publishers of periodicals 
cannot generally be interested in reprinting 
past issues. Their editorial and production 
staffs are properly concerned with the im-
mediate task of producing current issues, 
but it is believed that most publishers will 
be willing to cooperate in making it pos-
sible for Unesco to organize the production 
of reproductions, and that many will also 
cooperate in the work of distribution. 

A preliminary selection will be made 
from a small number of periodicals, all in 
the fields of higher studies and advanced 
technology, for past numbers of which a 
clear demand has been expressed and which, 
as far as is known to us at the present, are 
out-of-print. Consultation will take place 
with existing projects of a similar nature 
in various countries to a·void overlapping 
of efforts. 

The procedure then is: 
I. To ascertain from their publishers 

whether these periodicals ; re actually out-
of-print, and if microfilm or offset copies 
have already been made. 

2. If high quality copies have already 
been made but are not longer readily avail-
able, action will be taken to improve their 
availability as part of the Unesco program. 

3· If no suitable reproductions have been 
made in the past, the publisher's cooperation 
will be enlisted in having new copies made; 
copyrights will be cleared and provisional 
arrangements made for distribution, prefer-
ably through the publisher's agencies. 

4· Prices will be obtained from microfilm 
or offset reproduction firms for the produc-
tion work. The reproductions will be made 
whenever possible in the country of original 
publication, if high quality work can be 
done at a sufficiently cheap price. 

5. If the publisher requires the help of 
Unesco, the list of issues, with alternative 
prices for film or offset will be sent to all 
possible subscribers. However the publish-
er may know that his own needs, plus the 
Unesco backlog, will be sufficient for a 
definite quantity of copies. 

6. According to the number of subscrib-
ers in each case, and the wishes of the pub-
lisher, it will be decided whether reproduc-
tion is to be in microfilm or in photo offset. 

7· Orders will be placed with the re.: 
producing firms for the quantities needed. 

8. Arrangements will be made to distrib-
ute through the original publisher or other 
suitable distributor. 

Address inquiries to Libraries Division, 
Unesco, 405 E. 42nd St., New York I7, 
N.Y. 

260 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



A Brief of the Minutes of the 
Meetings of the Board of Directors 
of A.C.R.L., Chicago 
Meeting, 1 an. 2I, I949 

President Benjamin E. Powell explained 
that in addition to the members of the board, 
the A.C.R.L. representatives on the A.L.A. 
Council had been invited to attend the meet-
ing in order that they might be instructed in 
the wishes of the membership. 

Dr. Powell reported on the three mail 
votes which had been taken by the Board of 
Directors in the last six months: They had 
voted unanimously in favor of Mr. Howard's 
resolution concerning basic legislation to 
clarify the status of the Library of Congress; 
they voted in favor of establishing a subcom-
mittee of the Policy Committee. The com-
mittee was appointed last October and met 
early in November with Mr. Shaw to discuss 
the proposals of the Fourth Activities Commit-
tee; they voted to continue the policy of 
publishing the salary and general statistics in 
College and Research Libraries rather than 
as a separate. 

The first subject of discussion was· the re-
port of the Fourth Activities Committee. 
The recommendation in Part I that the execu-
tive secretaries of divisions receive secretarial 
help from a pool instead of each having a 
private secretary drew some discussion. The 
board took no action on this point but made 
a strong statement that they want the 
A.C.R.L. executive secretary to have ~hat­
ever secretarial help he needs. Some of the 
objections to the idea of a secretarial pool 
were the undesirability of having the execu-
tive secretary of A.C.R.L. responsible to the 
A.C.R.L. board and his secretarial help re-
sponsible to the A.L.A., the matter of some-
one to handle details of his work when he is 
away from the office on field trips, and the 
fact that with help from a pool the intangible 
but important factor of personal loyalty does 
not exist. 

The board then turned to discussion of 
Part II of the report of the Fourth Activities 
Committee. In regard to the provision for 
geographic organization of the A.L.A., the 

JULY~ 1949~ PART I 

opinion was expressed that it is important 
not to disrupt local cooperation now existing, 
and that there is a basic weakness in the 
proposed method of setting up state chapters 
of A.L.A.-under this proposal the majority 
of the A.L.A. members in a state, although 
they may not be the majority of the mem-
bers in the state association, may vote to 
form an A.L.A. chapter, which might wreck 
the state association. The board did not 
make a statement on this subject because 
they felt that such a statement might more ap-
propriately come from the regional meetings 
to be held in the fall. 

In discussing organization by type of work 
and by type of library some of the points 
brought out were: 

(I) The organization by type of library 
which provides that these "substantive" as-
sociations may not subdivide by type of work 
would eliminate the A.C.R.L. Reference Sec-
tion. 

( 2) The proposed affiliated associations 
would have no income except what A.L.A. 
gives them and they would not have the 
right to choose their own members. 

(3) The proposed reorganization would 
provide for sending College and Research Li-
braries- to all A.C.R.L. me~bers automatically 
and without payment other than their regular 
A.L.A. dues. 

( 4) The question arose as to what provi-
sion would be made for funds for the sectio.ns. 

( 5) There is need for one strong national 
organization but strength must grow out of 
a cooperative effort and not out of one which 
is imposed on the organization. 

( 6) Specialized interests among librarians 
must be taken into account. 

( 7) The goal is the construction of an or-
ganizational plan which will answer the now 
existing objections to a strong association. 

(8) It was suggested that ideas for the 
new structure of a central national organiza-
tion might well emanate from the · present 
major groups of A.L.A. 

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It was voted that the · Policy Committee 
and the Board of Directors, jointly, should 
draft a statement embodying the views of 
A.C.R.L. regarding the reorganization of 
A.L.A. as a directive to the A.L.A. Council. 
The motion provided that the Policy Com-
mittee be authorized to consult with other 
groups in the matter and also included the 
provision that this drafted resolution be 
brought first before the A.C.R.L. Board of 
Directors and then to a business meeting of 
the association. 

Ada J. English presented a report of the 
activities of the Committee on the Finances 
of College and Research Libraries. Her 
committee has materially increased the num-
ber of subscribers to the journal and has se-
cured a large number of ads. She requested 
additional funds to carry on the work of 
the committee. 

The board authorized an adjustment in the 
amount now paid to A.L.A. for keeping sub-
scription records of College and Research Li-
braries so as to meet more nearly the present 
cost. (The amount paid A.L.A. for this 
service has not changed since it was originally 
established in 1939.) 

The board approved President Powell's 
suggestion that the decision as to whether 
regional A.C.R.L. meetings should be held 
should be left to the regions and approved 
his plan to appoint in each region a commit-
tee composed of representatives of all the 
sections of A.C.R.L., one of whom would be 
designated the A.C.R.L. chairman for that 
region and authorized to contact the existing 
college and university chairman in that re-
gion and to arrange the program for the 
regional meeting with whatever advice may 
be wanted from A.C.R.L.'s official ·board . . 

Meeting, 1 an. 23, 1949 

Motions were passed as follows: 
(I) An additional $7 5 to the Committee on 

the Finances of College and Research Li-
braries. 

( 2) An additional $50 to the Junior Col-
lege Libraries Section for use in the com-
pletion of the directory which they are pre-
paring. 

(3) A contribution of $roo for use in 
punching I.B.M. cards in connection with the 

. A.L.A. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of 
library salaries. 

(4) .A contribution of $roo for secretarial 
help to cut and run stencils in conn'tction with 
the publication of the Library Score Card, 
which will pr'obably be available late this 
summer. 

(5) Appointment of a committee to make 
an objective study of what is actually being 
spent when a library lends a book by mail. 
This committee could look into techniques 
and practices and perhaps suggest points at 
which a saving could be made in these prac-
tices. 

(6) To publish as a supplement to the July 
issue of College and Research Libraries the 
three papers on rare books in the university 
library which were given at the meeting of 
the University Libraries Section in Atlantic 
City. A few copies are to be bound in book 
form with a special title page. 

President Powell was authorized to ap-
point a committee to investigate the desir-
ability of making a comprehensive survey of 
faculty status for librarians. 

The proposal that College and Research 
Libraries celebrate its tenth anniversary in 
October 1949 by having a special anniversary 
issue was discussed. It was suggested that a 
10-year index would be a useful tool. An-
other suggestion was a special issue devoted 
to papers by A.C.R.L. members who have 
been making studies in foreign countries. 
The board passed a motion that College and 
Research Libraries have a special number ap-
proximately twice its normal size to contain 
a 10-year index and the articles on foreign 
libraries provided that the cost of such an 
issue can be met within the amount already 
allocated to the budget of College and Re-
search Libraries. 

There was some discussion of the advisa-
bility of sending a letter to colleges and uni-
versities which have recently hired a new 
librarian requesting information which might 
be of some aid to recruiting. It was suggested 
that perhaps personal contacts by the execu-
tive secretary would be more satisfactory 
than contacts by letter. 

In discussing the library development pro-
gram which Mr. Cory had proposed to the 
A.L.A. Council, the board felt that its present 
contribution is much in that direction. 

N. 0RWIN RusH 
A.C.R.L. 
Executive Secretary 

262 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Brief of Minutes 
Association of ·Research Libraries 
Jan. 20, 1949, Chicago 

T HE 32ND MEETING of the Association of Research Libraries, one of the most 
fully attended in its history, was held in the 
Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, on Jan. 
20, 1949· 

N ewsjJapers on Microfilm . 

The executive secretary announced that the 
plan of the association to publish Newspapers 
on Microfilm: A Union Check List, compiled 
under the direction of George A. Schweg-
mann, Jr. and manufactured at the Library 
of Congress, had now been brought to com,. 
pletion. The executive secretary was au-
thorized to sell the same at $2.00 per copy. 

Indexing Service, United Nations Documents 
and Publications 

Carl H. Milam, director of library serv-
ices, United Nations, who was present as 
a guest, announced the publication, as an ex-
perimental venture, of the Weekly Index to 
Documents and Publications of the United 
Nations and the Specializ;d Agencies, begin-
ning with the year 1949. He distributed sam-
ple copies of the first number and asked that 
criticisms and suggestions be sent to him 
promptly. He said that the Weekly Index 
had not yet been established on a permanent 
basis. Whether it would be continued would 
depend in part upon the extent to which it 
appeared to meet the needs of those who 
use the documents and publications in ques-
tion. If continued he thought the subscrip-
tion price would probably be $20 for 52 
issues, approximately the actual cost of print-
ing. 

Mr. Milam spoke also of plans to produce 
an index and check list of United Nations 
documents, each volume to be devoted to one 
or more sessions of each organization, and 
an index in mimeographed form showing the 
disposition of agenda items. 

On motion it was voted that the association 
endorse the project to print United Nations 
indexes as very desirable. 

JULY, 1949~ PART I 

United States Book Exchange 

Alice Dulany Ball, executive director of 
U.S.B.E., was present as a guest and made 
a short statement. She said the exchange had 
gone into full scale operation as of Jan. I, 
1949 with the support of a three-year grant 
from the Rockefeller Foundation. She said 
it would collect duplicates from American 
libraries, list them, and supply lists to libraries 
abroad to make selections. It would also 
collect duplicates from libraries abroad and 
distribute them to American libraries. Since 
its interest centers · in research materials and 
it will distribute them at low cost, Miss Ball 
anticipated that it would be able to render a 
very real service to American research li-
braries. 

Miss Ball expressed the hope that the in-
formation which the exchange would be able 
to assemble would prove very helpful from a 
bibliographical standpoint. In addition to bib-
liographical service, it is hoped that eventu-
ally the exchange might be able to offer par-
ticipating libraries a procurement service. As 
a means of keeping participating libraries in-
formed of progress, it was proposed to issue 
a monthly newsletter; the first issue to ap-
pear February I. 

Farmington Plan 

Consideration of the Farmington Plan was 
introduced with a report by Paul North Rice 
revie*ing the first year of operation as seen 
from the vantage point of the New Y ark 
Public Library, which had acted as the con-
trol office to which all Farmington receipts 
had been sent for classification and reshipment 
to the recipient libraries. 

Mr. Rice gave statistics of the first year's 
receipts as follows: Books received from 
France, 2634; Switzerland, 558; and Sweden, 
356 making a total of 3548. The cost of 
handling them was $1029.37· They had been 
assigned and shipped to 46 of the 54 libraries 
which are participating in the plan. Assign-
ments to a particular institution had ranged 

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from a single item to as many as 729 items. 
No volumes had been received at New York 
Public Library before April, and it was very 
clear that a good many 1948 imprints would 
be received in 1949. 

Mr. Rice felt that, as an initial operation, 
the plan had achieved a considerable measure 
of success. There had, however, been difficul-
ties. There had been disappointing delays 
on the part of agents in sending the books, 
and there had been unavoidable delays in 
handling the books after their arrival in this 
country. There had been complaints from 
~orne libraries that they had received du-
plicates of their own purchases or of previous 
Farmington receipts. Agents abroad had 
found difficulty in eliminating parts of con-
tinuations and series and publications on the 
list of items they were not to send, though 
this difficulty was diminishing as agents grew 
in understanding of what was wanted. A 
difficulty which threatens to persist has been 
that participating libraries have no easy way 
to d~termine in advance ~hether or not a 
particular book will come to them under the 
Plan. 

At Mr. Metcalf's suggestion , John Fall of 
the New York Public Library, who had had 
charge of the Farmington Plan office, was 
called on to make a brief report of the trip 
which he had made to Europe in the autumn 
to establish direct contact with our Farm-
ington dealers in France, Switzerland and 
Sweden, and to prepare the way for an ex-
tension of the plan to other countries. Mr. 
Fall spoke briefly of his trip. He expressed 
appreciation of the preliminary work which 
Mr. Nyholm had done last summer. He 
listed the Farmington dealers in France, 
Switzerland and Sweden whom he had visited 
and to whom he had explained . the new 
procedures which it was proposed to f llow 
this year. He had also visited dealers in 
Norway, Denmark, the Nether lands, Belgium 
and Italy whom he recommended that we 
make our agents as the Farmington Plan is 
extended to those countries. 

Mr. Metcalf then spoke of our experiences 
with the Farmington Plan as he saw them. 
He fully recognized the difficulties, and to 
those which had already been mentioned he 
added others, namely, books sometimes cost 
us more than they would have cost if bought 
through certain New York agents; our Farm-
ington dealers have been too selective; there 

have been disagreements about classification, 
etc. But he said that the main questions 
were: "Will the Farmington Plan in the 
long run give us better coverage of foreign 
publication's than any other plan which we can 
devise and will it do this without involving 
us in too many disadvantages; will it perhaps 
have other advantages such as saving us 
money through making it possible and de-
sirable for many of us to be more selective 
than we have been in the past in our foreign 
acquisitions in fields for which we do not 
accept a major responsibility?" To these 
questions he felt that an affirmative answer 
would ultimately be given. on· the subject of 
costs he emphasized that we have been press-
ing our agents not for discounts but for serv-
ice. He felt that this was sound policy since 
if we pressed for discounts, we would "un-
doubtedly lose out on many hard-to-get books 
on which the agents would lose money if 
considered by themselves alone." 

Mr. Metcalf then proposed that we ask 
our agents abroad, as of 1949, to classify 
Farmington books for us with the guidance 
of index cards which have been prepared by 
the New York Public Library, a~d to send 
them directly to the cooperating libraries. 
In the comparatively few cases in which they 
would find it difficult to classify they would 
be asked to continue the 1948 practice of 
shipping directly to. New York Public Library 
for classification and reshipment to the re-
cipient libraries. He felt that this new ar-
rangement would save time, would give to 
each participating library a valuable direct 
contact with our Farmington dealers , etc. 

On motion it was voted that the proposal 
for classification abroad and direct shipment 
to cooperating libraries be approved. 

On further motion the addition as of Jan. 
I, 1949 of five countries to the Farmington 
Plan, namely Norway, Denmark, the Nether-
lands, Belgium, and Italy, was approved. 

On further motion, after discussion, it was 
voted that existing subject commitments be 
continued in 1949 not only with respect to 
the Farmington Plan countries of 1948 but 
with respect to the five new ones now added. 

In reply to a question Mr. Metcalf stated 
that participating libraries, not members of 
A.R.L., would be informed promptly of the 
foregoing decisions. 

Mr. Metcalf reported that Lewis Hanke, 
Library of Congress, had undertaken while 

264 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



in Mexico to investigate dealers and try to 
select one who might serve as our Farming-
ton agent for that country. 

Upon motion Mr. Metcalf was authorized, 
upon receipt of Mr. Hanke's recommenda-
tion, to proceed with negotiations looking to 
the inclusion of Mexico in the Farmington 
Plan at once. 

Mr. Metcalf stated that in the operation 
of the Farmington Plan, new monograph 
series and new periodicals would be sent 
directly to the New York Public Library for 
examination · and would then be assigned to 
participating libraries. 

Mr. Metcalf stated that with a view to 
improving communication between Farming-
ton dealers and participating libraries, and 
hence the functioning of the plan, a mimeo-
graphed publication would be issued from 
time to time by the Farmington Office and 
sent to dealers and libraries. He urged as a 
means of avoiding "dealer trouble" that li-
braries do their utmost to pay Farmington 
bills promptly. 

Mr. Metcalf requested that members come 
to the next meeting prepared to discuss a 
further extension of the Farmington Plan. 
As possible additions, Austria, Germany, 
Spain, Portugal, certain Latin American 
countries, Australia and New Zealand were 
mentioned. A question arose on the inclusion 
of Russia, but the prevailing opinion appeared 
to be that while present conditions continued, 
Russia had better not be attempted. 

Committee on Research Libraries and the 
Library of Congress 

Mr. David, chairman, made a progress re-
port dealing with the several problems which 
have been placed before the committee. 

With respect to the first problem, namely 
the bases on which the Library of Congress 
would find it possible to make full sets of its 
printed cards available without charge to 
United States libraries, he was able to report 
a definite achievement. After the problem 
had been studied for the committee by Robert 
A. Miller of the University of Indiana Li-
brary, and after extended discussions with the 
Librarian of Congress in Atlantic City and 
Chicago, a formula had been arrived at which 
was acceptable to the Library of Congress. 
(With minor verbal modifications it has since 
been published in the Library of Congress 
Information Bulletin, Feb. 8-14, 1949, Ap-

JULY, 1949, PART I 

pendix.) In essence it provides, on the anal-
ogy of the existing Library of Congress prac-
tice of providing cards without · charge to re-
gional union catalogs, that the Library of 
Congress may supply cards to institutional 
catalogs performing in large measures the 
same service as regional union catalogs. 

With respect to the problem of federal 
subsidy to libraries giving extensive service to 
federal field offices (and the allied problem 
of regional federal libraries), he was able to 
report almost no progress. Though the com-
mittee has held prolonged discussions, the ob- . 
stacles had appeared almost insuperable. 
Nevertheless ·there was strong opinion in the 
committee that there must in due course be 
a network of great regional libraries estab-
lished in this country which can hardly be 
created and maintained without federal sub-
sidy. The committee was unwilling to ac-
knowledge defeat and was determined to con-
tinue its discussions, Mr. Coney taking the 
lead. 

With respect to the problem of coopera-
tive cataloging arrangements, the committee 
had sought the help of Andrew D. Osborn, 
Harvard Library, who had gone to Washing-
ton last spring and spent several days in a 
study of it. Mr. Osborn's report expounds 
and then sets forth seriatim a considerable 
number of recommendations, the first of 
which have to do with a simplification and 
reduction of cost of entries and the rest of . 
which have to do with the setting up of a 
standing advisory committee of the Library 
of Congress and the cooperating libraries to 
revise and promulgate cataloging rules and 
deal with subject cataloging. The committee 
had had inadequate opportunity to study this 
report and requested that it be reproduced as 
an appendix to the minutes of the present 
meeting in order that the whole membership 
should be able to study it. Members were 
invited to send their comments to the com-
mittee which undertook to continue its con-
sideration of the problem. 

With respect to the problem of including 
the catalog cards of other libraries, other 
than the Library of Congress printed cards, 
in the Cumulative Catalog, the committee 
had sought the help of LeRoy C. Merritt, 
University of California. Mr. Me.rritt had 
investigated the problem, particularly by the 
method of questionnaires submitted to sub-
scribers to the Cumulative Catalog and had 

265 



concluded that "the demand is for an [ex-
panded] Cumulative Catalog containing as 
complete a record as possible in one alphabet, 
but that the cost would be so great that this 
is impractical." However, he had made a 
reference to the Ellsworth Report (Library 
of Congress Information Bulletin, Nov. 16-
22, 1948) and had suggested that a sound 
practical way out of the dilemma might still 
be f~und through some combination of the 
two approaches to the problem. The com-
mittee undertook to continue its study of the 
problem and it was direct~d that the Merritt 
and Ellsworth reports be reproduced to-
gether as appendixes to the minutes of the 
meeting. 

With respect to the problem of an inter-
change of personnel on a swapping basis be-
tween the Library of Congress and other 
libraries, the committee had sought the as-
sistance of Herman H. Henkle who had ad-
dressed a questionnaire to A.R.L. members. 
The answers were far from unanimous 
though it was clear that, in spite of difficulties, 
there existed a very real interest in the sub-
ject. The committee undertook to continue 
its consideration of the problem and to bring 
in a more definite report. 

The last problem before the committee, 
namely that of the role of the Library of 
Congress as an informational clearing house 
in relation to subjects not now covered, had 
been referred to Herman H. Fussier. His 
thoughtful report on the subject had not yet 
had from the committee the attention which 
it deserved. It was therefore ordered to be 
reproduced as an appendix to the minutes and 
the committee undertook to bring in a further 
report at the spring meeting. 

Committee on Library Statistics 

Mr. Lyle, chairman, presented a report (to 
be reproduced as an appendix to the minutes) 
and sought the discharge of his committee, it 
being his conviction that, whether an accept-
able decision could be reached or not, further 
discussions in committee would be of little 
use. However, it was pointed out that so 
important a report deserved more careful 
consideration than could he given it at the 
moment. He was therefore urged, and he 
agreed, to allow his committee to remain in 
being at least until the next meeting when it 
was hoped that important decisions could be 
made. The principal point at issue was 

whether library holdings should be counted 
and reported by volume or by bibliographical 
unit. 

Committee on Microfilming Cooperation 

Mr. Tate, chairman, reported that an in-
formation center on long-run microfilm pro-
jects had been established at the Library of 
Congress (and he urged publicity) ; that 
Newspapers on Microfilm, A Union Check-
List, .compiled by George A. Schwegmann, 
Jr., had been published and was for sale 
through the office of the executive secretary; 
and that a preliminary draft of "Standards 
for the Microphotographic Reproduction of 
Newspapers" was undergoing final revision 
and would be published in a forthcoming is-
sue of American Documentation, a new 
periodical just announced by the American 
Documentation Institute. He said that his 
committee had also given considerable atten-
tion to the problem of pricing policy in the 
production and sale of microfilms and to the 
problem of loaning positive copies of micro-
films of newspapers and similar materials. 
In both these cases further study was felt to 
be necessary before positive recommendations 
could be made. 

There were two other large problems 
which required attention. The first, namely 
the evaluation of existing files of newspapers 
and similar materials on microfilm, Mr. Tate 
said might be dealt with in the newly estab-
lished Center for Scientific Aids to Learning 
at M.I.T.; the second, that of what news-
papers should be microfilmed in order to in-
sure good nationwide coverage of the prin-
cipal sources, he felt should be referred to a 
different committee "whose interests lie in the 
field of resources planning rather than in 
technical realization." He therefore ex-
pressed the hope that his committee could 
soon complete its assignment and ask to be 
discharged. 

Committee on the Reproduction of Wartime 
Serials 

Charles H. Brown, chairman, reporting on 
an inquiry which he had made among mem-
ber libraries, recommended that action be 
taken to extend the distribution of duplicates 
of wartime serials (hitherto confined to Ger-
man serials) to include those of France, Italy 
and Japan. On motion it was so voted. 

Then turning to the reproduction program, 

266 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Mr. Brown reported that Edwards Brothers 
would complete within the next two years the 
reproduction of wartime issues of 100 serials 
of which some volumes had already been 
reproduced; he expected that 65 would be 
completed in 1949. In addition to the 100 
mentioned, Mr. Edwards expects this year 
to start the reproduction of 32 serials not 
on the original list. These reproductions will 
be on the basis of four pages on one. 

Mr. Brown distributed samples of four 
pages on one reproduction and also of repro-
duction by means of photostats. Members 
present agreed unanimously that they would 
prefer the four to one reproductions to photo-
stats, even if the price were double that of 
photostats. 

Edwards Brothers have listed the four fol-
lowing periodicals the reproduction of which 
will start as soon as sufficient orders are re-
ceived: Archiv fur die gesamte Psychologie,· 
Deutsche Mat h. V ereinigung. 1 ahres-
bericht,· Natur und Volk/ Physikalische 
Berichte. Members desiring them were urged 
to place orders at once. 

The thanks of the association were voted 
to the University of Minnesota Library and 
to Raymond H. Shove for their effective ef-
forts in locating for the committee single is-
sues of w~rtime serials. 

Committee on Indexing and Abstracting 

In the absence of Mr. Ellsworth, chairman, 
the executive secretary presented a brief re-
port on his behalf. Mr. Ellsworth and the 
members of his committee have studied their 
problem very largely through conversations 
with the members of their faculties with a 
view to finding out what the scholars want. 
Their findings have been that scholars dis-
agree among themselves on many fundamental 
questions bearing on this subject. Therefore 
the committee has reluctantly reached the 
conclusion that while much can and should 
be done, A.R.L. should do nothing on its own 
responsibility at this time. Meanwhile efforts 

JULY~ 1949 .. PART I 

of some promise are being made to find out 
how the scientist works and what his needs 
are. The results of these efforts should be 
awaited. 

With respect to the more specific problem 
of America~ representation at the projected 
conference on scientific abstracting which is 
to be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris 
this coming June, Mr. Ellsworth urged that 
steps be taken to bring it about that at least 
one librarian be placed on the American dele-
gation. That problem he had referred to the 
executive secretary who in turn had taken it 
up with Mr. Clapp of the Library of Con-
gress. Mr. Clapp's soundings at the Depart-
ment of State had been encouraging with 
respect to this matter. Mr. Clapp also re-
ported on the cooperation between the Library 
of Congress and UNESCO in the field of 
bibliography which was still in its early 
stages. 

Royal Society Conference 

Mr. Shaw drew attention to the publica-
tion of the Proceedings of the Royal Society's 
Scientific Information Conference, June 1948, 
which may be purchased directly from the 
society. 

Supplement to the DeRicci Census 

At the request of Professor C. U. Faye, 
University of Illinois , the executive secretary 
distributed copies of a circular announcing 
plans for a supplement to the DeRicci Census 
of Mediaeval and Renaissance Manuscripts. 

Place and Date of the Next Meeting 

It was decided to accept the invitation of 
the director of the Harvard Library to hold 
the next meeting in the Lamont Library, 
Harvard University, on the afternoon and 
evening of March 31, in connection with the 
Harvard Conference on The Place of the Li-
brary in a University.-Charles W. David, 
Executive Secretar_v. 

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Personnel 

I N MARCH OF THIS YEAR Robert H. M ul-ler became director of libraries at South-
ern Illinois University, Carbondale. From 
September 1946 to February 1949 he was 
librarian at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.; 
before that time he was chief of the acquisi-
tions section , Office of Technical Services, 
U.S. Department of Commerce. He re-
ceived his doctor's degree from the Graduate 
Library School in 1942. Immediately there-
after, he organized the meteorological re-
search library for the Army Air Forces Head-
quarters in Washington and subsequently 
served in the Army for two years. His 
earlier professional experience included as-
sistantships at the San Francisco Public Li-
brary and at Temple University Library. He 
received his basic library training at the Uni-
versity of California School of Librarianship, 
after graduating from Stanford University, 
California. 

Dr. Muller brings to S.I.U. a broad pro-
fessional competency with especfal promise 
and achievement in two important areas-li-
brary buildings and the teaching role of li-
braries. At Bradley he played a dominant 
role in the thinking, planning and construc-
tion of a new $6oo,ooo library building. Us-
ing modular const~uction, he evolved a struc-

ture which skillfully combined functional 
utility with aesthetic grace-and that on an 
urban campus. The Bradley University Li-
brary building and the new Washington State 
College Library building are likely to be pace-
setters for the college library buildings of the 
future. At Carbondale, Dr. Muller has an 
even greater challenge; it will be his task 
to direct the planning of a proposed new li-
brary building that is expected to cost in the 
neighborhood of $5,ooo,ooo. 

After the construction of a new building, 
the problem of effectively implementing the 
teaching role of the library is still to be 
solved. To this problem, too , Dr. Muller 
brings appropriate qualifications. His major 
interest during his graduate work was in the 
field of communications and at Bradley he 
introduced and taught a course on mass com-
munications and public opinion. He inaugu-
rated a library sponsored book discussion pro-
gram at Bradley and has investigated the 
newspaper reading preferences of university 
students. All who know or have worked with 
Dr. Muller are aware of his ability, insight 
and vision. We can expect to see interesting 
developments in library service at Southern 
Illinois University in the years ahead.-H er-
bert Goldhor. 

Appointments 
Arthur M. McAnally, who recently reor-

ganized the library system at the University 
of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, has resigned his 
position as librarian of the University of New 
Mexico to become assistant director of the 
University of Illinois Library in charge of 
public service departments and associate pro-
fessor of library science. 

Harriet D. MacPherson, professor of li-
brary science at Drexel Institute of Tech-
nology, Philadelphia, since last June, will suc-
ceed Dr. Marie Hamilton Law as dean of 
the Graduate School of Library Science in 
September. Dr. MacPherson was librarian 
of Smith Cdllege from 1943 until going to 
Drexel. 

Wilmer H. Baatz, assistant chief of the 
library division of the Veterans Adrriinistra-

tion, became assistant librarian of the U ni-
versity of Rochester on April I 8. 

Dr. Leslie W. Dunlap, assistant chief of the 
Division of Manuscripts at the Library of 
Congress, has been appointed librarian of the 
University of British Columbia at Vancouver. 

Kenneth Brough has recently been appointed 
librarian and professor of bibliography at San 
Francisco State College. 

Frank N. Jones , on the Harvard College Li-
brary staff since 1946, left to become head 
librarian of Ohio University Library, Athens, 
on July 1. 

Hobart F.· Berolzheimer, formerly first as-
sistant in book selection for the Chicago Pub-
lic Library, is now acquisitions librarian, Uni-
versity of California, Santa Barbara College 
Library. 

268 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Donald B. Engley, formerly librarian of 
Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, has 
accepted the post of assistant librarian of 
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 

William A. Kozumplik, who has been as-
sistant librarian of Notre Dame University 
since I947, is going to Oregon State College at 
Corvallis as assistant librarian with the rank 
of associate professor. 

Thomas S. Shaw, assistant in charge of pub-
lic reference, Main Reading Room, Library of 
Congress, and lecturer in reference and bibli-
ography at the Catholic University of America, 
has been appointed to a lectureship in refer-
ence and bibliography at the School of Li-
brarianship of the University of California 
for I949-50. 

Louise M. Stubblefield, reference-circula-
tion librarian at the University of Illinois at 
Galesburg since I946, became circulation li-
brarian of the Columbia University Libraries 
on July I. 

John E. Smith, librarian of the Institute 
of Industrial Relations of the University of 
California at Los Angeles, has been appointed 
head of the acquisitions department of the 
library, succeeding Helen F. Shumacher, who 
resigned to be married. Mr. Smith is suc-
ceeded in his previous post by Robert E. 
Thomason. 

Filomena Martemucci, head cataloger of 
Hunter College, New York City, has been 
appointed assistant librarian in charge of 
technical processes for the New York State 
Maritime Academy. Frederic O'Hara, li-
brary assistant, College of the City of New 
York, has been named assistant librarian in 

charge of readers services. 
.Jorge Rivera-Ruiz began work on January 

I as assistant to the director of the Hispanic-
American Institute and assistant acquisition 
librarian at the University of Miami, Coral 
Gables, Fla. 

Nina Mcintosh has succeeded Ruth Lowen-
thal as head cataloger at State College Li-
brary, Fort Hays, Kan. 

Bernice Hetzner has been appointed li-
brarian of the College of Medicine of the 
University of Nebraska Library, Lincoln. 
Mr. Joy Blanchard, department head of the 
U.S. · Department of Agriculture Library, has 
been named librarian of the College of Agri-
culture. 

Robert E. Booth, formerly head of the ref-
erence department at the Peabody Institute 
Library, Baltimore, is now associate librarian 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Mrs. E. Grimes Witcher has been ap-
pointed head of the periodical department of 
the University of Oklahoma Library, Norman. 

Francis S. Allen, Oregon State Library, is 
now senior librarian in charge of government 
documents, California State Polytechnic Li-
brary, San Luis Obispo. 

Mollie H. Hollreigh, University of Cali-
fornia Library at Los Angeles, has succeeded 
Loeta Johns as director of the Pacific North-
west Bibliographical Center. 

Martha Thurlow, formerly head of the 
chemistry library at the University of Texas, 
Austin, joined the st4ff of the Columbia 
University Libraries as assistant librarian 
in the Natural Science Library in charge of 
zoology. 

Necrology 
Raymond W. Holbrook, librarian of the 

Russell Sage Foundation since I946, died in 
New York City on May 2. A graduate of 
Dartmouth and the library schools of Colum-
bia and Michigan, Mr. Holbrook was -on the 
staff of the library of the ColJege of the City 
of New York from I93I to I943· He left 
his position as supervisor of cataloging and 
classification to head a recataloging and re-
classification project at the University of 
Georgia, where he advanced to the post of 
associate director in charge of technical proc-
esses. 

Charles Edwin Janvrin, natural history li-

JULY~ 1949~ PART I 

brarian emeritus at the University of Illinois, 
died in Urbana on March I 9 after a pro-
longed illness. After teaching from 1894 
until 1901 in the Pennsylvania Institute for 
the Blind, he was appointed librarian of the 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
Following his graduation from the New York 
State Library School in 19II, he came to 
Urbana as lecturer on departmental prob-
lems in the Library School and natural his-
tory librarian at the University of Illinois. 
During his tenure he saw the departmental 
collection grow from a few shelves of books 
to a research library of 35,000 volumes. 

269 



New-s from the Field 

Acquisitions, 

Collections 

The private library of 
GiftsJ Dr. George Petrie, for-

mer professor and dean 
of the Graduate School 

at the Alabama ·Polytechnic Institute, was 
presented to A.P.I. last year by Kate Lane, 
his sister-in-law. The collection contains some 
12,000 volumes and exhibits the varied in-
terests of Dr. Petrie. It is particularly strong 
in the fields of Alabama and southern his-
tory, modern European history, languages and 
literature, and contemporary American litera-
ture. 

A collection of approximately 8ooo photo-
graphic negatives, depicting early western 
scenes,. has been acquired by Special Collec-
tions of the University of Oregon Library. 
Known as the Lee Morehouse collection, the 
negatives include scenes of Indian life, agri-
culture, urban and rural studies, Columbia 
River life, rodeo personalities and other illus-
trations of the culture of eastern Oregon dat-
ing from I 890 to I 920. 

The Chicago U nd.ergraduate Library of the 
University of Illinois, David K. Maxfield, li-
brarian, has received a gift of architectural 
books and portfolios. Formerly comprising 
part of the special library of the Chicago 
architectural firm of Holabird and Root, the 
collection was recently appraised at approxi-
mately $10,ooo. It will be used as a nucleus 
for the special departmental reading room 
for art and architecture which the Chicago 
Undergraduate Library plans to put into 
operation next fall. 

The excellently written "Acquisitive 
Notes," edited by Robert Vosper, assistant 
librarian of the University of California, Los 
Angeles, announced in April that the library 
had purchased 50 Italian opera books. These 
books contain not only the dialogue of operas, 
but also the casts and plots of ballets per-
formed between the acts. Many of the ballet 
plots are based on mythology and some have 
exotic settings-their scenes being laid in 
China, Persia, Turkey or India. They re-
count historical tales of love, jealousy, treach-
ery and violence among the nobility, and ro-
mantic tragedies borrowed from English his-
tory. On the lighter side some of the ballet 

themes concern themselves with magic and 
fantasy; others provide examples of straight 
farce, such as The ConsC'ript (1839). 

These libretti purchased for U.C.L.A. 
range in date from 177·7 to 1853. Works by 
Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, 
Pacini, Mayr, Mercadante, Nicolai, Fiora-
vanti and many others are represented. 

Library News, published by the Mississippi 
State Library, announced in February that a 
grant had recently been provided for the li-
brary through the generosity of the General 
Education Board. This grant will be in 
force for the next three years and will be 
matched with college funds. The money will 
be used to purchase books, new sets of periodi-
cals and volumes to fill in sets now in the 
library. 

Northwestern Library recently added to 
its collection of Kantiana by acquiring nine 
new items. Among the new acquisitions was 
a first edition of Kant's, Kritik der reinen 
Vernunft (Riga, 1781), the Anthropologie in 
pragmatischer H insicht (Konigsberg, I 798), 
Kleine Schriften (Neuwied, 1793), Welches 
sind die wirklichen Fo1rtschritte, dieM etaphy-
sik seit Leibniz' und Wolff; zeiten gemacht 
hat'! (Konigsberg, 1804). The remainder of 
the newly acquired Kantiana consists of con-
temporary works about Kant's philosophy. 

Two important contributions to the Stan-
ford University music library have been made 
by Colonel Tod Bates and Flodden W. 
Heron, both of San Francisco. First editions 
of 15 comparatively unknown Strauss waltzes 
-two by Eduard, seven by Johann, and six 
by Joseph-are included in the Bates gift of 
28 pieces of rare sheet music. Colpnel Bates 
is the owner of one of the most important 
private collections of sheet music in the 
United States. Mr. Heron gave the univer-
sity's music library two volumes of Original 
Scottish Airs for the Voice with A ccompani-
ments for the Piano,, Violin, and Violencello, 
many of them by the immortal Robert Burns. 
The airs were edited by G. Thomson of Ed-
inburgh in 1805, and each of the volumes 
bears his signature. Arrangements for the 
gifts were made by Dr. Nathan van Patten, 
Stanford professor of bibliography. 

270 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



Alexander 0. Vietor, curator of the Yale 
Map Collection, announced earlier this year 
that the Yale University Library had ac-
quired the earliest pair of dated globes made 
in America. The pair includes a terrestrial 
globe, made in I8II, and a celestial globe 
made the following year. Both were hand 
made by James Wilson of Bradford, Vt., who 
later established the first globe manufactory 
in this country. The globes are examples of 
the first engraving on a globular surface done 
in America. They were obtained for Yale 
through gifts from the Yale Library Asso-
ciates, Horace Brown, Class of 1900, and 
Arthur W. Butler. The maker of the globes 
was a Vermont farmer who began the task 
at the age of 33 after having seen a British 
made globe at Dartmouth College. At the 
time he had only a meager knowledge of 
geography and astronomy and none of en-
graving. He acquired the necessary back-
ground in astronomy and geography and man-
aged, by great sacrifice, to buy a third edi-
tion of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He 
walked from his Vermont farm to New 
Haven, Conn., to see Amos Doolittle ( 1754-
I 832), who had engraved two maps in J ede-
diah Morse's Geography Made Easy. Pick-
ing up a basic knowledge of copper engraving 
from Doolittle, Wilson trudged back to V er-
mont. Being a farmer, he was an experienced 
blacksmith. He mad6 all of his own tools, 
including his lathes and presses. He did his 
own printing and even made his own ink and 
varnish. Wilson spent 300 days making his 
first copper plate for a globe. However he 
ran into difficulty trying to get the true pro-
portions of the meridians on a globular ·sur-
face and was forced to begin his work all 
over again. In 1810 he completed and sold his 
first globe. 'Wilson was now 53 years of age. 
Eight years later he helped establish a globe 
manufactory in Albany, the first of its type 
in America. Within a few years British 
globes, which had monopolized the American 
market, had all but disappeared. 

The State College Library, Fort Hays, 
Kan., is the recipient of the library collected 
by Dr. I. H. Betz of York, Pa. The library · 
is the gift of Dr. Betz's niece, Mrs. Ross L. 
Miller, Cimarron, Kan., and consists of 2000 
volumes of history, literature and science. 

Duke University Library has obtained a 
complete collectio~ of Ralph Waldo Emer-

JULY~ 1949~ PART I 

son's works and other papers. Dr. Clarence 
Gohdes, Duke professor of American litera-
ture, has described the new material as con-
taining "a complete set of first editions of all 
the books by Emerson, plus the English edi-
tions ... as well as a goodly supply of the 
separates of individual orations or essays." 
A showpiece in the collection is a copy of 
The Conduct of Life (186o) with the words 
"Nathaniel Hawthorne, from the Author, 
November 6, 186o." ' 

Dr. Carl .M. White announced in March 
a gift to the Columbia University Libraries 
of 1500 volumes of Greek classics in English 
and modern Greek translation. The books 
were contributed by an organization com-
prised of Greek ship operators. According 
to Manuel Kulukundis, president of the 
group, the collection includes the works of 
outstanding contemporary Greek authors. 
The gift will augment the modern Greek col-
lection which was presented to the Columbia 
Libraries in 1936 by the University of Athens, 
the late King George II, and the Greek min-
istry of Education. 

Stanford University has acquired the pro-
fessional library of Professor Takeo Kana-
seki, noted Japanese anthropologist. The col-
le~tion offers a wide range of material on 
eastern Asia previously unavailable to west-
ern scholars. It numbers some 8oo separate 
items, including many complete ~eries of 
journals. The collection contains contribu-
tions of Japanese scholars to the fields of pre-
history, cultural anthropology and folklore. 
Also included are archeological surveys, plates 
from government museums, monographs and 
Japanese professional journals. 

Fire completely destroyed the agricultural 
library of Pakistan some months ago and the 
government immediately issued a plea for 
assistance. In April, Dr. Sidney B. Smith, 
director of libraries at Vermont, announced 
that more than six tons of agricultural litera-
ture, including reports, pamphlets and books 
from state and national agricultural depart-
ments had. been shipped to Pakistan by the 
University of Vermont. The collection is 
composed of duplicate publications now on 
file at the University. 

Buildings 
The Oregon State Board of 
Higher Education has awarded 
contracts for the construction of 

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a modular type addition to the University of 
Oregon Library, with completion tentatively 
scheduled for midyear I950. The four level 
addition will provide about 40,000 square feet 
of floor space (exclusive of ramps and stair-
ways) at a building cost of $63 I ,6o8 for the 
go full size ( I8' X 22.5') bays and I2 smaller 
bays ( g' X 1 8'). The modular type addition 
is designed to permit unlimited horizontal 
expansion in three directions, and to allow 
maximum flexibility in interior arrangements. 
The stack, reading and office areas will be 
interchangeable. Movement between the ad-
dition and the present fixed stacks will be 
facilitated by ramps, as well as by stairways 
and elevators in each part of the enlarged 
building. 

The addition will seat 570 readers and 
have stack space for about 135,000 volumes. 
Besides furnishing custombuilt quarters for 
the library's audio-visual department, the 
addition will allow reorganization of facili-
ties and expansion of services on a modified 
divisional plan. Access to the stacks will be 
unrestricted, and reading areas will be dis-
tributed throughout the stack areas rather 
than concentrated into conventional large 
reading rooms. Each level of the addition 
will also have conference and typing rooms 
as well as group study areas, carrells ~nd 
faculty studies. 

A ne~ four-story library building is being 
constructed for Mississippi State College, 
Jackson. It will have 42 faculty studies and 
35 student carrells, and a capacity of 450,QOO 
volumes distributed throughout seven tiers of 
stacks. It will also contain a separate room 
for Mississippi books, two music rooms and 
a record library, an auditorium seating 122 
persons, a browsing room and a microfilm 
laboratory. The building will be constructed 
of reinforced cont'rete, brick and hollow tile 
with Indiana limestone trimmings. The 
building is scheduled for completion early next 
spring. 

Dr. Carl M. White, Columbia University, 
announced a bequest of $300,000 from the 
will of the late William Nelson Cromwell, 
noted lawyer who graduated from the Colum-
bia Law School in 1876. The gift will be 
used to finance a major book stack con-
struction project which will provide new 
shelving for 100,000 volumes in the Law Li-
brary. The stacks will be built th.ree tiers 

high, with a workroom for processing opera· 
tions on the top level. Rare and irreplace-
able materials will be shelved in a special 
section of the new stacks. The entire stack 
area will be moisture-proofed and air condi-
tioned. Study desks will be provided for the 
convenience of students using material m 
the stacks. 

The spring meeting of the Conference of 
College and University Librarians of South-
ern California met May 14 in the recently 
completed $500,000 Immaculate Heart Col-
lege Library. Equipment was the theme of a 
panel discussion. Everett Moore of U.C.L.A. 
acted as chairman. Sister Mary Regis, I.H.M. 
of Immaculate Heart College, Deborah King 
of U.C.L.A. and Herman Smith of Pasadena 
City College told of planning and equipping 
their respective libraries. Close inspection was 
made of the Immaculate Heart 150,000 vol-
ume library, unique for its stack tower, pro-
viding a vertical expansion with five tiers. 

In answer to the many requests 
Curricula, for information about degrees at 
Scholarships the University of Denver School 

of Librarianship, from those 
who already have a graduate or undergrad-
uate year of library science, the following in-
formation has been prepared. These stu-
dents may carry a minor of I 5 quarter hours 
( 10 semester hours). of advanced library 
courses in the School of Librarianship, to-
gether with 30 quarter hours in a subject 
field, and receive the M.A. with a major in 
the subject field. The program requires three 
quarters in residence and is available during 
the · summers, as well as the regular year. 
Application should be made to the dean, Grad-
uate College, University of Denver, Univer-
sity Park Campus, Denver 10, Colo. This 
program is in addition to the regular curric-
ulum of the school which leads to the Mas-
ter's degree with a major in librarianship. 

The fifth summer training course in the 
preservation and administration of archives, 
for custodians of public, institutional and. 
business ree0rds, will be offered July 25-Aug. 
20, 1949 by the American University, Wash-
ington, D.C., with the cooperation of the 
National Archives, the Division of Manu-
scripts of the Library of Congress and the 
Maryland Hall of Records. The program 
will consist of lectures on the most important 

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phases of work with records and manuscripts, 
demonstrations and group conferences, in 
such fields as arrangement and description of 
record and manuscript material, repair and 
preservation, and cataloging. It will also in-
clude laboratory work in the National Arch-
hives and in the Maryland Hall of Records, 
which institutions will grant to the students 
the privileges of interns for the duration of 
the course. For those especially interested in 
the care of historical manuscripts, intern-
ships will be available in the Division of Man-
uscripts of the Library of Congress, and 
special lectures and laboratory experience will 
be provided for students whose work calls for 
emphasis on the basic problems of the a·dminis-
tration of current records. The fee for the 
entire course, in which veterans may enrol 
under Public Laws 16 and 346, will be 
$40.00. Detailed information may be ob-
tained by writing to Ernst Posner, School of 
Social Sciences and Public Affairs, The Ameri-
can University, 1901 F Street, N.W., ·wash-
ington 6, D.C. 

The Medical Library Association is spon-
soring two scholarships of $150 each for stu-
dents taking the medical library course at the 
Columbia University School of Library Serv-
ice during the summer quarter of 1949. 
Funds for this purpose have come from a 
gift made by the Lilly Research Laboratories. 

Preference will • be given to students giv-
ing evidence of an intention to stay in medical 
library work and who seem to have possibili-
ties of making a real contribution to it 
through their work. It is expected that the 
individual either has or will have a library 
school degree at the end of the course. 

Application should be made to the Columbia 
University School of Library Service, New 
York 27, N.Y. 

The New York State College for Teachers, 
Department of Librarianship, will hold its 
Second Annual Workshop for Children's and 
Young People's Librarians August 1-12. 
Laura K. Martin , associate professor of 
library science , University of Kentucky, will 
direct the program. The theme of the two 
week session will be "Periodicals and Pam-
phlets for Today's Problems." Two hours 
graduate credit will be granted participants 
and the course is open to students who have 
completed a one year course in library sci-
ence. Arrangements may be made for room 

JULYJ 1949J PART I 

and board. The cost of the course is $14 for 
New York residents and $20 for nonresi-
dents. 

At the request of A.C.R.L., 
Publications Humphry G. Bousfield, librar-

ian , Brooklyn College, Brook-
lyn, N.Y., is preparing a revision of the 
pamphlet on Friends of Library Groups. It 
will be appreciated if librarians of colleges 
and universities who have such groups will 
submit information about them by means of 
a questionnaire which will be sent on request. 

Instead of a single .comprehensive student 
handbook, the University of California 
Library, Berkeley, is publishing a series of 
Orientation Leaflets to introduce the library 
and its services to new students. Leaflets pub-
lished so far are The U nivers·ity of California 
Library (No. 1); How to Use the Cat~log 
(No. 2); Magazine Index es (No. 3); How 
to Find Book Reviews (No. 4). They are 
uniform in size and punched to fit two stand-
ard sizes of looseleaf binders. 

The leaflet form , rather than the hand-
book, was chosen for several advantages it 
offers in a large and complex library. It 
allows more thorough treatment of library 
matters when that seems desirable; it permits 
variations in style and content between leaflets 
addressed to graduates and undergraduates; 
and it permits variation in color of ink and 
paper and style of typography and illustra-
tion. The more popular leaflets are quickly 
reprinted, and revised editions keep the leaf-
lets up to date. As a rule, the leaflets are 
tried out first in mimeographed editions and 
then revised and printed. This year the leaf-
lets have been distributed in English and 
Speech classes. 

Results and recommendations of a two year 
survey of how well public libraries are serv-
ing American communities will be made pub-
lic in the fall. The Public Library Inquiry, 
under the direction of Dr. Robert D. Leigh, 
has been a project of the Social Science Re-
search Council financed by a $200,000 grant 
from the Carnegie Corporation. The findings 
of Dr. Leigh's staff of experts will be pub-
lished in seven volumes by Columbia U ni-
versity Press. 

The Florida Library Association has pub-
lished Libraries in Florida. This survey may 
be obtained for $1.00 per copy froril the 

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School of Library Training and Service, 
Florida State University, Tallahassee. 

Harry C. Bauer, director, University of 
Washington Library, Seattle, is the . · author 
of "Books at the University of Washington," 
in The Pacific Spectator, vol. III, No. I, 
Winter 194g. The article has also been re-
printed as a pamphlet. 

The Association of Research Libraries has 
sponsored the publication, Newspapers on 
Microfilm: a Union Check List, issued from 
the office of the executive secretary, University 
of Pennsylvania Library. The list was com-
piled under the direction of George A. 
Schwegmann, Jr., and inCludes all entries of 
newspapers on microfilm which were reported 
to the National Union Catalog by libraries 
and other producers of microfilm. The ar-
rangemept is by country (United States first), 
and then by place and title. Locations of 
copies are indicated and prices are given when 
known. 

Sir Ernest Gowers is the author of Plain 
Words: A Quide to the Use of English, 
issued by the British Information Services, 
New York. Librarians will be interested in 
this monograph which discusses style for offi-
cial writing. Price, $1.15. 

The Public Administration Service, Chi-
cago, has issued two publications of interest 
to librarians: Public Administration Librar-
ies: A Manual of Practice (Publication No. 
102, price $2.50), and Source Materials in 
Public Administration (Publication No. 102A, 
price $1.00). The first of these is a reprint 
of the edition in the lists of materials of 1941, 
with changes in the lists of materials in 
Chapter II, "Materials and Their Acquisi-
tion." 

The Collection . of Regional History of 
Cornell University, has issued its Third and 
Fourth Annual Reports of the Cu,rator, 1946-
1948. The report by Edith M. Fox, curator, 
describes and analyzes the manuscripts, papers 
and other materials acquired by the collec-
tion during the period cited. It provides a 
body of useful information to research 
workers and librarians who are interested in 
knowing the nature of the materials acquired. 
Special lists for newspapers and periodicals 
and broadsides, as well a detailed index, are 
included. 

The January 1949 Library Notes, a bulletin 
issued by the Friends of the Duke University 

Library, contains an article on "The Music 
Collection of Duke University Library," by 
Dr. Kathi Meyer-Baer. A. S. Limouze writes 
about "Early English Periodicals in the Uni-
versity Library," and Clarence Gohdes re-
ports on the Emerson collection, gathered to-
gether by the bibliophile Carroll A. Wilson, 
which has come to Duke. 

Sister Mary Luella has edited The Catho-
lic B o oklist, 1949 for the Catholic Library 
Association. Copies are available, at 65¢ 
each, from the Department of Library Sci-
ence, Rosary College, River Forest, Ill. 

The October 1948 Arkansas Libraries is 
entitled the "College Library Edition." The 
issue contains a number of articles on college 
and university library problems, including 
both the technical and the readers' services. 

New publications of the Library of Con-
gress include Centennial of the Territory of 
Minn-esota Exhibition, March 5, 1949-lune 
15, 1949 (5o¢, Superintendent of Documents, 
Washington, D.C.), and Basic Information on 
the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, 

· 1912-1948, by W. Brooke Graves of the Leg-
islative Reference Service. 

Other Library of Congress publications in-
clude: Classification, Class K: Law, prepared 
by Elizabeth V. Benyon, senior assistant in 
charge of preparations, the Law Library, 
University of Chicago. This classification, 
which makes use of Library of Congress nota-
tion, which has been reserved for law, is 
printed as manuscript for comment and sug-
gestions by librarians and others. The 
Library of Congress eventually plans to pre-
pare and publish a classification of law "ade-
quate to its needs and in conformity with its 
system of classification." 

Repres-entative Positions i'n the Library of 
Congress (Government Printing Office, 1948), 
is a 576-page lithoprinted publication contain-
ing a wealth of information about many of 
the positions in the national library. The 
publication is intended to provide a means 
for members of the L.C. staff to relate their 
duties to the total organization and broad 
·objectives of the Library. It is also designed 
to aid the administrative members of the 
staff in planning and improving techniques 
of organization and classification. The 
library profession as a whole can use the in-
formation in this volume to answer many 
questions about the organization of L.C. and 

274 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 



the various types of pos1t10ns which have 
been established. The publication was pre-
pared under the general supervision of George 
A. Pughe, director of personnel. 

Walter Hausdorfer, librarian, Temple Uni-
versity, in his Annual Report, 1947-1948 has 
provided a thorough analysis of the problems 
and shortcomings of the Temple libraries.· 
The report is actuall a plan for development 
in the future. 

The library of the University of California 
at Los Angeles, Lawrence C. Powell, librar-
ian, has issued an attractive Hand list of an 
Exhibition of Great American Historical 
Documents, Manuscri'pts and Books. The 
materials used in the exhibition, which was 
held Feb. 23-Mar. 13, 1949, were loaned by 
The Rosenbach Company. 

The Winter 1949 Harvard Library Bulle-
tin contains the following articles of interest: 
"The Lamont Library: I. Design," by Henry 
R. Shepley, and "II. Function," by Keyes D. 
Metcalf; "The Peabody Museum Library," 
by Margaret Currier; "The Improvement of 
the Widener Building as a Research Center;" 
and a continuation of "Melville's Reading: A 
Check-List of Books Owned and Borrowed," 
by Merton M. Sealts, Jr. 

The J unio1r College 1 ournal, March 1949, 
contains Crawford Beecher Thayer's "A New 
Role of the Junior-College Library." 

A. D. Roberts, United Nations Library, 
has written an Introduction to Reference 
Books. The book is based on lectures given 
by the author during the 1945-46 and 1946-47 
sessions of the School of Librarianship of U ni-
versity Colle.ge, London. It is a practical 
explanation of various types of re"ference 
books and is aimed at the young library 
school student and library assistant. It is 
published by The Library Association, 
Chaucer House, Malet Place, London, W.C.I 
(1948, price, 12s.). 

The Harvard University Press has pub-
lished Organization and Management: Selec-
ted Pap ers, by Chester I. Barnard ( 1948, 
price $4.00). Librarians interested in per-
sonnel relations will find much of value in this 
volume. Chapter V is concerned with "Con-
cepts of Organization," and Chapter VIII is 
devoted to a consideration of "Education for 
Executives." 

JULY, 1949, PART I 

Professor Weldon A. Brown, Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute, is the author of The 
Common Cause, Collectivism: Menace or 
Challenge, 1949· The voh~me is published 
by the North River Press, Box 821, Blacks-
burg, V a. The author presents the case of 
democracy against the development of collec-
tivism. 

Two recent books published by Henry Schu-
man which are of considerable interest to 
librarians are Scientists and Amateurs·: A 
History of the Royal Society, by Dorothy 
Stimson, chairman of the Department of 
History at Goucher College, and Sons of 
Science: The Story of the Smithsonian and 
Its Leaders, by Paul H. Oehser, who has 
been affiliated with the Smithsonian since 193 I. 
The authors include materials relating to the 
collections and libraries of the institutions. 
Both of these volumes, priced at $4.00 each, 
are in The Life of Science Library series. 

The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 
which began publication in January . 1949, 
makes it easier for scholars and journalists to 
obtain current material regarding the Soviet 
Union. In addition to providing complete 
translations of the more important items in 
Pravda and Izvestia, and summaries of less 
important ones, the Current Digest contains 
selections from approximately 40 other Soviet 
newspapers and magazines. The Joint Com-
mittee on Slavic Studies, appointed by the 
American Council of Learned Societies and 
the Social Science Research Council, publishes 
Current Digest. The subscription rate, in-
cluding the quarterly index, is $150 per year; 
single copies, $3.00. Universities, colleges, 
libraries and other education and research 
bodies subscribing may obtain additional 
copies at a special rate of $25 per year. All 
communications should be addressed to the 
Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 1219 Six-
teenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 

Opportunities in College and University Li-
brarianship has been published by the Confer-
ence of College and University Librarians of 
Southern California, for distribution to voca-
tional counselors and interested college and 
junior college students. Additional copies are 
available at three cents each on application to 
Everett Moore, University of California Li-
brary, Los Angeles 24. 

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