College and Research Libraries Notes from the A C R L Office T h e reading habits of college students have been mentioned frequently in these columns. B y coincidence this w a s the principal topic at t w o important meetings of librarians on the same day, M a y 14. A t the dedication of the P a u l K l a p p e r L i - brary ( Q u e e n s College, N e w Y o r k ) T h e o - dore W a l l e r headed a panel discussion, " T h e Development of L i f e t i m e Reading Habits in C o l l e g e . " M r . W a l l e r is vice-president of the G r o l i e r Society and chairman of the American Book Publishers Council's C o m - mittee on Reading Development. T h e very same morning our A C R L Phila- delphia C h a p t e r held its spring meeting at suburban Rosemont College. D r . C a r l W h i t e of Columbia and I spoke on, " D o C o l l e g e Students R e a d ? " D r . W h i t e approached the topic from the point of v i e w of specific reme- dies. W i t h some misgivings I followed my instructions and attempted a philosophical approach. T h i s topic is being currently studied by W a l l e r ' s Committee on Reading Develop- ment and is being given some consideration by the N a t i o n a l Book Committee. A s many A C R L members know, I have been w o r k i n g out a program designed to improve college reading patterns. If a successful plan can be produced, it w i l l surely attract foundation financing. In short, the topic is important; it is being discussed widely, and this great current interest must be turned into study and experimentation of permanent value to li- brarianship. I particularly enjoyed this chapter meeting because it w a s attended by many f o r m e r col- leagues of the University of Pennsylvania and other old friends. T h i s w a s my first ap- pearance before A C R L ' s first chapter. T h e meeting w a s held in the new w i n g of the Rosemont College L i b r a r y , which is a re- markable blending of new w i t h old. A f t e r lunch the chapter members toured the library, visited informally, and w a l k e d around the grounds, which are as beautiful as any I have ever seen and which w e r e at their very best on this bright, mild M a y day. T h e A C R L Buildings Institute, previously planned f o r V i l l a n o v a College, w i l l be held at Rosemont on J u l y 3. I t was, of course, impossible to be present at the Queens College L i b r a r y dedication but I did visit this beautiful new building t w o days before. T h i s is a divisional library. Some stacks are located on interior m e z z a - nines, handy to the main reading areas. Unique to my experience is the use of an "intermediate floor" of book stacks which lies between the first floor mezzanine and second floor. Queens has generous provision f o r the display of art and books. T h e r e is a single entrance-exit in addition to the required emergency-only exits. T h e huge reserve book room on the ground level has no public stair or elevator connection w i t h the rest of the library, and the students may complain about this. T h e P a u l K l a p p e r L i b r a r y is w e l l furnished and lighted and appears to be an excellent instrument for education which w a r r a n t s study by librarians w h o are plan- ning new buildings. O n this same trip east I stopped at C h a r - lottesville, V a . , to see M r . Jack D a l t o n . T h e A L A has recently contracted with the U . S. N a v a l Academy to survey its l i b r a r y ; and the A C R L Office has supervision and direction of this project. M r . D a l t o n has agreed to serve as one of the t w o surveyors and w e met to discuss problems and procedures. W h i l e in N e w Y o r k for one day, I set up shop briefly in telephone booths to call people in that area about various committee assign- ments and similar business. I spent most of the morning at one of the large corporations whose educational foundation is making a grant to college libraries through A C R L . A f o r m a l announcement w i l l be made at or be- fore A L A Conference. A n o t h e r day w a s spent at the G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y School of Rutgers University and a f e w hours at nearby Princeton. T h e fine new R u t g e r s University L i b r a r y w i l l be completed next spring. T h e R u t g e r s L i b r a r y School faculty includes an unusually large percent- age of leaders in librarianship. T h e day spent with them included a faculty meeting and w a s extremely interesting. Finally, this w e e k in the east included a day in Philadelphia going over details of the Conference and another day in W a s h i n g t o n w h e r e I visited three federal libraries and 296 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES caught some of the A L A Executive Board which w a s just finishing a weekend of meet- ings. W e have recently received an official state- ment about the foreign propaganda ban which has been so troublesome to many research li- braries. T h e statement comes f r o m the B u r e a u of Customs and the Post Office D e - partment. T h e basis of action is a 1940 ruling from the A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l concerning the Foreign A g e n t s Registration A c t . T h i s states in effect that the mails can exclude materials f r o m abroad which contain political propaganda f r o m unregistered sources. D u r - ing the w a r this l a w applied principally to A x i s propaganda. T h e propaganda provi- sions w e r e not generally enforced for several years a f t e r the w a r . T h e Post Office D e - partment can refuse to deliver and can destroy printed materials containing foreign political propaganda addressed to persons not regis- tered as foreign agents or in the diplomatic service. T h e government claims that transla- tion staffs have been substantially increased at the principal ports of entry. A n y group which has a justifiable interest in foreign propaganda must make a formal request to the Post Office Department or the B u r e a u of Customs. N o w r i t t e n regulations govern the procedure for these permits which are issued at the discretion of the Post Office Department. Libraries are, of course, in- vited to apply f o r this privilege. A C R L should be notified of any which are refused permission to receive foreign propaganda through the mails. Pravda and Izvestia have never been banned by name, but it is assumed that they, like other Soviet publications, in- variably contain foreign propaganda. T h e Committee on Interlibrary Loans (ap- pointed by the Reference Section of A C R L ) is considering revisions in the multiple carbon unit form. Suggestions f o r change are w e l - come. T h e committee also seeks opinion on the basic structure of the form, its size, spac- ing and arrangement, and on the adequacy of the instructions. Comments should be sent to the chairman, H e n r y M . F u l l e r , Y a l e U n i - versity L i b r a r y , N e w H a v e n , Connecticut, before J u l y I if possible. O t h e r members of the committee a r e : Joseph R . Dunlap, James J . Heslin, L e g a r e H . B. O b e a r , Foster M . Palmer, M a r g a r e t D . U r i d g e . —Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary. READY SOON Your ACRL O R G A N I Z A T I O N MANUAL . . . to explain ACRL to its members and prospective members in such a way that will encourage interest in our ASSOCIA- T I O N and promote voluntary and general participation in all of its many activities. . . . to provide a practical working exposi- tion of the organization, bylaws, headquar- ters' activities and committee functions for those members who have the privilege and responsibility of serving their professional organization in some elective or appointed capacity. T h e ACRL ORGANIZATION MANUAL will be distributed to the entire member- ship, probably i n the early fall. ACRL is the first division to issue anything quite like this, so please look it over with care and keep it handy for reference. Addi- tional copies will be available on request. A note of criticism about the MANUAL, however informal, will be appreciated by the ACRL Office. C & R L B e c o m e s a B i - M o n t h l y B e g i n n i n g w i t h the January, 1956 issue C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S w i l l a p p e a r six t i m e s a year, J a n u a r y , March, May, July, S e p t e m b e r a n d N o v e m b e r . Size of t h e issues w i l l b e 80-96 pages. T h e A C R L B o a r d of D i r e c t o r s a p p r o v e d this p l a n at M i d w i n t e r . C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S w i l l c o n t i n u e t o b e sent to all A C R L m e m b e r s w h o pay A L A d u e s of $6.00 or m o r e . N o n - m e m b e r subscriptions w i l l c o n t i n u e at t h e present rate of $4.00. JULY, 1955 297 News from the Field P r o f e s s o r O . T . B a r c k , Acquisitions, Gifts, J r . , professor of his- Collections tory, Syracuse U n i v e r - sity, has made the L i - brary a g i f t of a valuable and extensive collec- tion of the papers of M o s e s D e W i t t , 1766- 1794. H i s g i f t greatly enriches the rapidly g r o w i n g collection of manuscripts at the li- brary, and complements and integrates, in sub- ject matter and time, w i t h the library's Peter and G e r r i t Smith collections. M o s e s D e W i t t , pioneer of O n o n d a g a County, and f o r w h o m the town of D e W i t t w a s named, w a s born in O r a n g e C o u n t y and settled in w h a t is now Onondaga C o u n t y about 1792. H e w a s a cousin of D e W i t t Clinton, nephew of G e n . James Clinton, and a nephew of Simeon D e - W i t t , surveyor-general of the State of N e w Y o r k . H e w a s one of the surveyors w h o es- tablished the boundary line between N e w Y o r k and Pennsylvania and w a s an assistant surveyor in laying out the M i l i t a r y T r a c t bounty lands in central N e w Y o r k (the basis of our present central N e w Y o r k townships). T h e papers w i l l be of great assistance in the study of N e w Y o r k State land history as w e l l as of valuable aid to persons doing research in the general history of this central portion of N e w Y o r k State. F r o m the estate of the late Ralph M . C o m - fort, graduate of the Syracuse University C o l - lege of Fine A r t s in 1893, the Syracuse U n i - versity L i b r a r y has just received a collection of the papers of his father, G e o r g e Fisk C o m - f o r t , 1833-1910, founder and first dean of the C o l l e g e of Fine A r t s . In addition to P r o f e s - sor C o m f o r t ' s part in establishing the College of Fine A r t s at Syracuse in 1873, he w a s one of the founders and first trustees of the M e t r o p o l i t a n M u s e u m of A r t , N e w Y o r k C i t y . O n e lot of the papers comprises letters and documents relating to Syracuse University history from 1895 until 1910. T h e most extensive and complete group relates to P r o - fessor C o m f o r t ' s part in founding the M e t r o - politan M u s e u m of A r t . Included are letters addressed to P r o f e s s o r C o m f o r t in 1869 ask- ing him to speak at a meeting at the Union L e a g u e C l u b , N e w Y o r k , comprising promi- nent N e w Y o r k e r s at which consideration of establishment of a great art museum w a s presented. T h e M e t r o p o l i t a n w a s an out- g r o w t h of this "citizens' meeting," incorpora- tion taking place in 1870. In memory of L e v i Snell Chapman (1865- I954)> graduate of Syracuse University in the class of 1889, his children have presented the Syracuse University L i b r a r y w i t h a collection of Chapman family papers ranging in date f r o m approximately 1825 to 1910. T h e late L . S. Chapman w a s a member of the Board of T r u s t e e s of the university f r o m 1934 until his death. H e came of a strong family of C e n - tral N e w Y o r k State pioneers, the various generations of whom contributed significantly to the social, economic and political life of the localities in which they resided. T h e small quantity of the papers of L . S . Chapman cover his term in the N e w Y o r k State Legislature, his student days at W h i t e s - town Academy and at Syracuse University. T h e earliest family papers are those of N a t h a n Chapman (1786-1866), grandfather of L . S. Chapman. Approximately 100 letters in this lot concern the subjects of anti-slavery, local politics, farming, social conditions, etc., in and about the village of Clockville, M a d i - son County, N e w Y o r k . T h e letters and manuscripts of N a t h a n Randall Chapman (1809-1897), son of N a t h a n and father of L . S. Chapman, constitute the largest segment of the g i f t . T h e r e are approximately 1100 pieces; many relate to the anti-slavery move- ment and other reforms of the period. T h e L i b r a r y of Congress has received a collection of about 27,000 letters and memora- bilia of C l a r a B a r t o n as a supplement to the B a r t o n papers already in the L i b r a r y . T h e new group of papers is the g i f t of M i s s Saidee F. Riccius and H e r m a n n P . Riccius of W o r c e s t e r , M a s s . , M i s s Barton's grandniece and grandnephew. Composed mainly of let- ters addressed to M i s s Barton and her family, the new material reflects primarily her w o r k in C u b a during and a f t e r the Spanish-Ameri- can W a r . T h e diaries added to the collection with this new acquisition fill some of the gaps in the series of diaries she kept f r o m 1849 to 1912. Perhaps the most interesting are those for the C i v i l W a r and Reconstruction peri- ods. L e c t u r e s she gave to defray the expenses of identifying the graves of Union soldiers at 298 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Andersonville, G a . , are in the group. M u c h of her correspondence deals with disasters and portrays the influences that have established patterns for meeting emergencies in floods, famines, and w a r s . M r s . C h a r l e s S. Hamlin, w i d o w of the f o r m e r governor of the Federal Reserve Board ( 1 9 1 4 - 3 6 ) , has added a notable group of letters to her husband's papers in the L i - brary of Congress. M o r e than 50 letters, dating 1910-24, are from W o o d r o w W i l s o n to H a m l i n ; other correspondents represented are W i l l i a m H o w a r d T a f t , H e r b e r t H o o v e r , C h a r l e s Francis Adams, John H a y , V a n W y c k Brooks, C o r d e l l H u l l , and Josephus Daniels. A substantial number of the letters w e r e written by Hamlin to his w i f e in the years 1900-34. M o s t of the new material, however, consists of letters to G o v e r n o r Hamlin (and some to M r s . H a m l i n ) f r o m the 1880's through 1950. T h e group is selective, so that there are no complete files of correspondence, but the level of subject interest is high. T h i s passage from a letter Josephus Daniels w r o t e to M r . and M r s . H a m l i n on June 21, 1937, is interesting for its reminiscing: W e a r e about the o l d e s t in a g e a n d the y o u n g e s t in h e a r t of the C l e v e l a n d , W i l s o n and R o o s e v e l t r e g i m e s . W e h a v e seen m a n y g r e a t t h i n g s in o u r d a y and h a v e sometimes been d i s i l l u s i o n e d , and w e h a v e not been w i t h o u t our t r o u b l e s . B u t w e a r e o p t i m i s t i c e n o u g h to be like the old m a n w h o c a l l e d his sons a b o u t him as he r e a c h e d s e v e n t y - f i v e a n d s a i d : " M y sons, I h a v e l i v e d a l o n g time and h a d much t r o u b l e but most of it n e v e r h a p p e n e d . " Announcement of an agreement on the final disposition of the papers of Franklin D . Roosevelt as G o v e r n o r of N e w Y o r k State, 1929-32, w a s made by C h a r l e s F . Gosnell, state librarian, and H e r m a n Kahn, director of the Franklin D . Roosevelt L i b r a r y at H y d e P a r k . T h e agreement was made between the office of G o v e r n o r T h o m a s E . D e w e y , retired, the former state budget director, the state li- brarian and the Franklin D . Roosevelt L i - brary at H y d e P a r k , N e w Y o r k . Custody of correspondence has been transferred from the G o v e r n o r ' s Office to the State L i b r a r y in A l b a n y . T h e State L i b r a r y in turn is deposit- ing the papers on a permanent loan at Hyde P a r k . T h i s loan does not include correspondence, memorandums or other matter on legislation approved or vetoed in w h a t are called " B i l l Jackets." T h e s e folders include copies of bills passed by the Legislature, together with pertinent information about the meaning and intent of the bills. T h i s material is already in the State L i b r a r y . I t contains little about Franklin D . Roosevelt personally, and is used largely in legal research. T h e Franklin D . Roosevelt L i b r a r y has made a complete micro- film of the collection, in 261 reels. O n e copy of the film w i l l go to the G o v e r n o r ' s Office in the State Capitol in A l b a n y and one to the State L i b r a r y . T e r m s of the agreement pro- vide that there w i l l be no charge for admission to the Franklin D . Roosevelt L i b r a r y for those using the papers. A l l requests to bor- row them for exhibition or other purposes are subject to approval by the State Librarian. T h e State L i b r a r y may w i t h d r a w any papers for its own use at any time. T h e Franklin D . Roosevelt L i b r a r y w i l l supply microfilm from its negative when requested. T h e library's collection of legislative ma- terial goes back to the time of the Capitol fire, in 1911, and has been brought up to date by the transfer of similar records for the three terms of G o v e r n o r T h o m a s E. D e w e y for 1953-54- T h e Y a l e University L i b r a r y has acquired its 2000th book printed before 1501 A . D . T h e book, Levi Ben Gerson's Perush Iyob, a commentary on the Book of Job, is the first H e b r e w book printed in F e r r a r a , Italy, and the fourth book printed in H e b r e w in the entire w o r l d . It w a s given to Y a l e by a group of library staff members and a local rare book dealer in honor of L o u i s M . R a b i n o w i t z of N e w Y o r k City, one of the Y a l e L i b r a r y ' s most generous benefactors. O n l y seven copies of the book, printed in 1477, are known to exist in the w o r l d . F o u r of these seven copies are now in America. O n e is at the Jewish T h e o l o g i c a l Seminary, another in the L i b r a r y of Congress, the third at the H e b r e w Union College and the fourth at Y a l e . L e v i Ben Gerson, author of the book, w a s an Aristotelian philosopher of the M i d d l e Ages. O n e of the w o r l d ' s most famous medical manuscripts, the 600-year-old C o d e x Paneth, has been acquired by the Y a l e M e d i c a l L i - brary. T h i s rare, early medieval w o r k con- taining 1378 pages, all of them in excellent condition, is believed to have been the entire medical library of the University of P r a g u e JULY, 1955 299 when it w a s founded in 1347-48. T h e beauti- fully-colored illuminations, hand-drawn by painstaking craftsmen, give an insight not only to the art of the early 14th century but also to the amazingly advanced surgical instru- ments of the time. M a n y of the scalpels, surgical saws, forceps and ofthopedic instru- ments shown in this manuscript look remark- ably like those used today. F o r more than 70 years the C o d e x , re- garded as one of the most important medieval medical manuscripts still extant, w a s owned by the Paneth family of G e r m a n y . B e f o r e being acquired by the Paneth family, it w a s in the C a t h e d r a l L i b r a r y of O l m u t z , and at one time is believed to have been at M y l a u in Saxony. T h e manuscript consists of 42 separate texts which represent a cross-section of all medical knowledge available up to the beginning of the 14th century. A n original F o u r t h Folio of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1685—has been acquired by the Stanford University L i b r a r y . T h e volume w a s purchased in England w i t h funds contributed by M r s . M . G . Seelig and B. F . Schlesinger. T h e collection of comedies, his- tories, and tragedies contains one play printed f o r the first time, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. T h e Stanford folio is a fresh and complete copy, w i t h no facsimiles and no repairs. P r e - served in excellent condition, it w a s rebound in polished calf and its pages gilt edged during the early nineteenth century. I t is the first original Shakespeare F o l i o of the four printed between 1623 and 1685 to come into the li- brary's possession. O r i g i n a l manuscripts, correspondence and collected w o r k s of the British poet-author, D y l a n M a r l a i s T h o m a s , w h o died in 1953, have been presented to Houghton L i b r a r y , H a r v a r d University, by his friend and ad- viser, O s c a r W i l l i a m s of N e w Y o r k . A m o n g the papers and articles is T h o m a s ' complete w o r k on his last poem Prologue which w a s finished in October, 1952. T h i s includes 94 sheets and 166 pages of material which show the author's complete change of content f r o m original thought to final poem. T h e 102-line poem is so arranged that the first line rhymes with the last, the second with next-to-last, until the mid-point is reached. John L . Sweeney, curator of the W o o d b u r y Poetry Rooms at L a m o n t L i b r a r y , H a r v a r d , in a f o r e w o r d to Selected Works of Dylan Thomas published in 1946, contrasted T h o m a s ' approach with that of such other young British poets as Auden, D a y , L e w i s , M a c N e i c e and Spender: . . T h o m a s w a s concerned w i t h the problem of man's re- generation, but he never became identified with their group. H i s interest in the re- construction of the individual contrasted sharply w i t h their interest in the reconstruc- tion of society. H i s poetry reflected an in- fluence more Freudian than M a r x i a n . H e w a s primarily concerned w i t h the spiritual re- generation of the individual. T h a t individual w a s himself." T h e University of M i a m i , C o r a l Gables, Florida, has purchased the 20,ooo-volume li- brary of the W e s t e r n Society of Engineers f r o m the John C r e r a r L i b r a r y . T h i s collec- tion contains complete files of the standard engineering j o u r n a l s and the various society publications. Since M i a m i has a rapidly de- veloping engineering school this collection w i l l provide a definite stimulus to their program. T h e University of K a n s a s L i b r a r y has ac- quired the manuscript journals of L a u r e n t G a r c i n ( 1 6 8 3 - 1 7 5 2 ) , Swiss surgeon, botanist, meteorologist, and traveler. Supplementing and extending K U special collections both in travel and in botany, the 600 folio pages in- clude papers relating to G a r c i n ' s voyages to such of the f a r - a w a y places as the C a p e of G o o d Hope, Ceylon, and Bengal, besides numerous botanical descriptions and drawings. O f incidental interest is the discovery that the G a r c i n M a n u s c r i p t s w e r e formerly owned by t w o other w e l l - k n o w n Swiss botanists, Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893) and his son, C a s i m i r ( 1 8 3 6 - 1 9 1 8 ) . K U has acquired recently a collection, f o r the most part unpublished, of fifteen letters which give new and important information about L o r d Chesterfield's plans f o r the edu- cation and the adoption of his godson and heir, Phillip Stanhope. M o s t of the letters are f r o m A . C . Stanhope, Phillip's father and a distant cousin of the E a r l , to Chesterfield. T h e y indicate that long before 1760, the as- sumed date of Chesterfield's "adoption" of Phillip, A . C . Stanhope, through Sir E d w a r d W i l m o t and Robert Dodsley, had opened negotiations with the E a r l for the care and in- struction of his son. T h e letters run f r o m September 1757 to F e b r u a r y 1759. A collection of rare documents of Louisiana and southern history, including the only re- corded eye-witness account of the 1788 fire 300 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES which destroyed N e w Orleans, has been pre- sented to T u l a n e University by Felix H . K u n t z , N e w O r l e a n s real estate man. T h e collection contains an extensive group of manuscripts, pamphlets, rare broadsides and books pertaining to Louisiana f r o m the early 18th century, through the C i v i l W a r . In- cluded are manuscripts relating to John L a w , Scottish speculator and promoter whose activities in colonial Louisiana had such dire consequences f o r French national finance; to D o n Pedro Rousseau, commandant of the Spanish flotilla guarding the Mississippi river in colonial times; and to G o v e r n o r G a l v e z , M a r t i n N a v a r r o , Bouligny, Carosse, and other famous figures of Louisiana history. T h e collection, which w a s built up by K u n t z over a period of more than 20 years, w i l l be set up at T u l a n e as a memorial to the donor's parents. I t w i l l be known as the Rosemonde E. and Emile K u n t z collection and w i l l be housed in a special room which is being prepared for it in the H o w a r d - T i l t o n M e m o r i a l library. A f t e r preliminary arrange- ments are made, the collection w i l l be avail- able to scholars f o r research purposes and a continuous series of exhibits of the collection's important materials w i l l be inaugurated. L a t e r , a f u l l descriptive catalog w i l l be pub- lished. M u c h of the manuscript material has hitherto been unknown virtually to historians. I t is expected that it w i l l throw new light on certain phases of colonial administration, re- lations between powers in the Mississippi V a l l e y , and the development of the region. T h e University of Houston L i b r a r y has acquired the late M a u r y M a v e r i c k ' s library on the F a r East, a 900-volume collection, said to be one of the most unusual and compre- hensive in private ownership. M r . M a v e r i c k w a s a member of the American O r i e n t a l Society and had visited China, Japan, K o r e a , the Pacific islands, A u s t r a l i a , and N e w Z e a - land on a government mission in 1945 and 1946. H e built up the library through pur- chases and gifts from contacts he had estab- lished in many parts of the w o r l d . T h e collection includes British government documents on Chinese relations over the past hundred y e a r s ; U . S. government documents covering the entire period of U . S.-Chinese re- lations; some Communist m a t e r i a l ; rare Japanese maps; volumes dealing with early printing and engraving, flora and fauna, w o r k s of art, manners and customs, etc.; and stand- ard w o r k s and translations. M r . M a v e r i c k w a s convinced that a thorough understanding of the F a r East would be essential for w o r l d peace, and be- fore he died last year he l e f t a memorandum in which he proposed that his collection be- come part of a university library. T h e Idaho State Legisla- Buildings ture has made $1,333,000 available to the University of Idaho f o r a new library building. T h i s amount is somewhat lower than the original sum requested, but it is still adequate to con- struct a four-story, rectangular, brick library building on divisional lines to comprise ap- proximately 100,000 square feet. Construc- tion w i l l probably not begin until A p r i l , 1956. T h e W i l l i a m s College L i b r a r y is planning to construct a $400,000 addition to its library during the coming year. T h i s addition w i l l double their stack capacity, which is rated at 165,000 volumes, w i l l provide 37 faculty offices and 50 student carrels, 2 special collection rooms, and a smoking room. It is hoped that the addition w i l l be completed so that it can be put into use in the summer of 1956. I t is still news in Kansas when another library is being air conditioned. T h e U n i v e r - sity at W i c h i t a reports that its library is being air conditioned f o r the coming summer. T h e G l e n n L . M a r t i n Institute of T e c h - nology w a s dedicated at a public ceremony on M a r y l a n d D a y , M a r c h 25, 1955. Erected at a cost of $8,500,000, the institute is made up of eight buildings. I t houses the entire College of Engineering and many of the academic and research departments of the College of A r t s and Sciences. T h e source of funds f o r the Institute included an original g i f t of $2,300,000 by G l e n n L . M a r t i n , $5,678,455.15 f r o m the State of M a r y l a n d , and $142,946.52 from the Office of N a v a l Research and B u r e a u of Ordnance of the D e - partment of D e f e n s e . T h e Chemistry Department has a depart- mental library, a part of the university's li- brary system. T h e Engineering and Physical Sciences L i b r a r y serves the Physics, M a t h e - matics, and Industrial Education D e p a r t - ments, and the College of Engineering in- cluding the Mechanical, Civil, Aeronautical, Electrical, and the Chemical Engineering D e - partments, as w e l l as the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, and the JULY, 1955 301 Aeronautical L a b o r a t o r y . Plans f o r a new building at the University of W y o m i n g are in motion, with hopes to start construction sometime this summer. T h e late W . R. C o e (the man w h o gave Y a l e his western Americana collection) l e f t the uni- versity $750,000 and the state matched this amount, in its last meeting of the Legislature. N e w Y o r k University's Miscellaneous million-dollar library of rare H e b r e w literature and ceremonial objects w a s on public exhibit dur- ing A p r i l and M a y in observance of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in the United States. Established and sponsored by the N Y U Jewish C u l t u r e Foundation, the 13-year-old library is in the university's Re- ligious Center, 2 W a s h i n g t o n Square N o r t h . I t contains the M i t c h e l l M . K a p l a n collection of manuscripts, incunabula, and rare editions; the Rosenthal and M a t z collections of current Judaica and H e b r a i c a ; and a comprehensive collection of H e b r e w text books and diction- aries used in the schools of Israel today. It also houses 20 solid-silver ceremonial w o r k s of art, fashioned by sixteenth and seventeenth- century silversmiths. T h e ceremonial objects w e r e seized f r o m European synagogues by the N a z i s during W o r l d W a r I I and later re- covered by American military authorities. A m o n g the library's 25,000 literary pieces are 115 rare manuscripts, a number of them five centuries old. O n e fragment of a H e b r e w manuscript, part of a grammar, is believed to have been written in the 1430's. N Y U , which pioneered in the teaching of H e b r e w as a modern language in American colleges and universities, is the only institution that offers the baccalaureate, master's and doctor's degrees in any phase of modern H e b r e w culture or education. O n M a r c h 8, 1955, official action w a s taken by the University of M i a m i to f o r m a l i z e faculty rank for the professional members of the library staff. A l t h o u g h such rank, and the privileges pertaining thereto, had pre- viously been accepted by the faculty and the administration, it had not been formalized, nor had the titles of specific rank been identi- fied with the various positions. Briefly, it may be said that junior members of the staff w i l l be instructors, senior members of the staff, as- sistant professors; department heads, associate professors; and the director w i l l continue to hold rank as accorded at the time of his em- ployment, which is that of professor. T h e University of K a n s a s and three Kansas C i t y cultural institutions w i l l unite for a tribute to the life and times of the composer, W o l f g a n g A m a d e u s M o z a r t . T h e " M o z a r t and H i s A g e " observance w i l l extend through the 1955-56 school year both on the campus and in K a n s a s C i t y . J a n u a r y 27, 1956, w i l l be the 200th anniversary of M o z a r t ' s birth. Joining w i t h K U w i l l be the W i l l i a m Rockhill Nelson G a l l e r y of A r t and A t k i n s M u s e u m of Fine A r t s , the K a n s a s C i t y Philharmonic O r c h e s t r a and the Linda H a l l L i b r a r y of Sci- ence and T e c h n o l o g y . T h e general theme w i l l be the significance of M o z a r t ' s music and the intellectual and cultural currents of his time. T h e f o u r in- stitutions w i l l present concerts, plays, lectures, discussions and exhibits to survey M o z a r t ' s period f r o m many aspects—political history, art, science, economics, literature and music. A n d y e t on the other h a n d unless w a r i n e s s e be us'd, as g o o d a l m o s t k i l l a M a n as kill a g o o d B o o k ; w h o k i l l s a M a n kills a r e a s o n - able c r e a t u r e , G o d s I m a g e ; but hee w h o de- s t r o y e s a g o o d B o o k e , kills r e a s o n it s e l f e , kills the I m a g e of G o d , as it w e r e in the eye. — J o h n M i l t o n , AreoPagitica, 1644. T h e University of Kansas displayed, during M a r c h , A p r i l and M a y , an unusual and ex- tensive exhibition relating to censorship, banned books, and freedom of the press. A r r a n g e d by M r . Joseph Rubinstein, super- vising bibliographer of special collections, and w a r m l y supported by K U ' s chancellor, D r . F r a n k l i n D . M u r p h y , the exhibit attracted widespread regional and national interest. Accompanying the announcements from the university w a s this statement by Chancellor M u r p h y , which subsequently appeared in several K a n s a s newspaper editorials. Protecting Free Market Placc of Ideas T h e w r i t t e n o r p r i n t e d w o r d h a s p l a y e d a c e n t r a l a n d c r u c i a l role in the d r a m a t i c his- t o r y of m a n ' s e f f o r t to s c a l e the h a r d c l i f f s o f p r e j u d i c e , i g n o r a n c e a n d t y r a n n y . I n a r e a l sense, the t r i a l s a n d t r i b u l a t i o n s s u f f e r e d by the w r i t t e n m a n u s c r i p t and p r i n t e d book reflect the c o n t i n u o u s s t r u g g l e of m a n to become and r e m a i n f r e e , f o r , in the w o r k of the c e n s o r a n d book b u r n e r , the n a k e d d e t e r m i n a t i o n of the t y r a n t to sub- l i m a t e r e a s o n a n d t h o u g h t to his o w n ends is n e v e r m o r e a p p a r e n t . 302 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES T h e U n i v e r s i t y of K a n s a s , d e d i c a t e d n o w as a l w a y s to the " f r e e m a r k e t p l a c e of i d e a l s , " is p r o u d to p r e s e n t this e x h i b i t as an e x p r e s - sion of o u r belief in the r i g h t of m a n to p r o - ceed t h r o u g h r e a s o n as w e l l as f a i t h a n d as a r e m i n d e r t h a t this r i g h t must be g u a r d e d j e a l o u s l y by t h o u g h t f u l men at all times. M r . Rubinstein, having spent many months collecting instances of censored or banned publications of all kinds, from the Areopagi- tica to John Peter Z e n g e r ' s New York Weekly Journal, prepared an annotated checklist, published by the K U library. Copies may be obtained upon application to the Office of the D i r e c t o r of Libraries, U n i - versity of Kansas, L a w r e n c e , Kansas. N o w in session (June 20-August 12) is the second annual Institute on Historical and A r c h i v a l Management, sponsored by Radcliffe College and the D e p a r t m e n t of History, H a r - vard University. T h i r t y experts in the field are listed in the faculty and 16 m a j o r na- tional and local institutions are cooperating. E a r l e W . N e w t o n is director. T h e L i b r a r y Associates of Publications Brooklyn College announce with pride their first pub- lishing v e n t u r e : I, Walt Whitman, a drama- tization of the life and times of A m e r i c a ' s greatest p°et, by D r . Randolph Goodman of the English Department. T h e book which is exquisitely designed, has an introduction by M a r k V a n Doren. Copies may be obtained by w r i t i n g to H . G . Bousfield, chief librarian, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn 10, N e w Y o r k . Publication of Ex Libris, a leaflet issued by the Friends of the L i b r a r y , has been resumed at the Johns Hopkins University. V o l u m e X I V , number 1, is dated January, 1955, and copies may be obtained from the Librarian, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18, M a r y l a n d . O n e of the country's most urgent present- day needs is an infinitely better understanding of the F a r E a s t — i t s cultures, history, tradi- tions and philosophy. W i t h this problem in mind, the Columbia University Press plans the preparation and publication of translations of many of the key documents of oriental his- tory, hitherto available to only a scattering of scholars w h o could translate, and at the same time understand, these complex far eastern materials. Publication of the oriental w o r k s w i l l be made possible over a five-year period by a grant of $100,000 f r o m the Carnegie Corporation. T h e F a r Eastern series w i l l come under the editorship of a board that has been in ex- istence at Columbia for more that 40 years, during which it has supervised the translations of over 50 vital historic documents f r o m the W e s t e r n world. T h e editor-in-chief of this board is Jacques B a r z u n , professor of history at Columbia. T h i s W e s t e r n series, known as Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, is edited by members of the H i s t o r y D e p a r t - ment at the University and w i l l be used as a pattern for the oriental project. T h e C o l u m - bia University Press has provided the costs of the publication of the W e s t e r n series. T h e editorial policy for the new series w i l l be similar to that of the W e s t e r n series: to make accessible in English, representative texts that may aid in an understanding of the past; through careful introductions and com- mentaries, to bring within the reach of the reader w h o is not a specialist the fruits of modern scholarship; and to furnish biblio- graphical guidance to those w h o may wish to push their studies further. A compilation of the scientific periodicals and selected serials in the libraries of D u k e University, the University of N o r t h C a r o - lina, N o r t h C a r o l i n a State College and W o m a n ' s College of the University of N o r t h Carolina has recently been published jointly by the libraries of the four institutions. T h i s is the first step in an enlarged program of li- brary cooperation between the D u k e U n i v e r - sity L i b r a r y and the Libraries of the C o n - solidated University of N o r t h C a r o l i n a . I t is a f u r t h e r step in the cooperative library program that has been in operation since the 1930's between the University of N o r t h C a r o - lina at Chapel H i l l and D u k e . F a c u l t y mem- bers and graduate students on both campuses needing materials for research from either library can get them within one or two days. A cooperative program to include the three institutions of the Consolidated University and D u k e is now being w o r k e d out by an Inter-University Committee appointed by Presidents G o r d o n G r a y of the Consolidated University of N o r t h C a r o l i n a and Hollis Edens of D u k e . T h e Committee consists of the librarians and one faculty member from each of the four institutions. T h e list of peri- odicals is the first of several cooperative en- terprises recommended by the committee. JULY, 1955 303 Edited by M i s s P a r k e r , periodicals librarian at D u k e University L i b r a r y , the book con- tains 385 pages and indicates the location of substantially all the scientific periodicals and the most important serials in the f o u r li- braries. A f e w copies of Ernest V . H o l l i s ' Philan- thropic Foundations in Higher Education ( N e w Y o r k : Columbia University Press, i 938, $4.50) are available from M r . Hollis. Libraries that do not have a copy of this standard reference w o r k may wish to order a copy f r o m M r . Hollis, D e p a r t m e n t of H e a l t h , Education and W e l f a r e , Office of Education, W a s h i n g t o n 25, D . C . Y a l e University Press announces the pub- lication of V o l u m e I of Bibliography of Ameri- can Literature, to appear in November, 1955. T h i s first volume, compiled by Jacob Blanck, is entitled Henry Adams to Donn Byrne ( N e w H a v e n , $15.00). American Giving in the Field of Higher Education is a study of g i f t s and bequests to 50 colleges and universities 1920-21 through I953"54- I t shows that while the trend of support continues upward, from the stand- point of the purchasing p o w e r of the dollar, educational philanthropy has not been holding its own. T h e report is issued by John Price Jones Company, Inc. Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ( V o l . 7, 1 9 5 5 ) , edited by Fredson B o w e r s , contains its usual quota of biblio- graphical adventures in such diversified areas, among others, as Shakespeare (particularly Hamlet), D r y d e n ' s Mac Flecknoe, G o l d - smith's Traveller, Parisian panel stamps be- tween 1480 and 1530 ( i l l u s t r a t e d ) , Peele's Edward I, the printing of a V a l e r i u s M a x i - mus dated 1671, the precedence of the 1676 editions of M i l t o n ' s Literae Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, the missing T e r m C a t a l o g u e , the circulation of some London newspapers, 1806- 1811, the booksellers " r i n g " at S t r a w b e r r y H i l l in 1842, and abstracts from the w i l l s and estates of Boston Printers, 1800-1825. C o n - tributors to the volume include Alice W a l k e r , John R. B r o w n , Fredson B o w e r s , H a r o l d W a l k e r , V i n t o n A . D e a r i n g , W i l l i a m B . T o d d , Ernst K y r i s s , C . W i l l i a m M i l l e r , F r a n k S. Hook, C u r t F . Buhler, Bruce H a r k - ness, Cypian Bladgen, Robert L . H a i g , A l l e n T . H a z e n , Robert L . L o w e , Dennis E . Rhodes, Rollo G . Silver, Rudolf Hirsch and H o w e l l J. Heaney (Charlottesville, V a . , 1955. 240P.). T h e seventh and eighth parts of the third volume of the second edition the Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, edited by G e o r g e L e y h , have been issued O t t o H a r r a s s o w i t z (Wiesbaden, 1954). P a r t 7 completes the period of the Reformation, and starts the period of the A n t i - R e f o r m a t i o n . T h e latter is completed in P a r t 8, which also considers the period f r o m the Renaissance to the Revolution, the passing of the old libraries, and the rebuilding of the French libraries. Seton H i l l C o l l e g e ( G r e e n s b u r g , P a . ) has issued a Reading List for Students, compiled by the Committee on Student Reading (1954, 28p., 504). Warren Hastings, by Keith Feiling, issued in London by M a c m i l l a n is available in the United States ( N e w Y o r k , St. M a r t i n ' s Press, 1954, 420p., illus., $6.00). T h e biography is based primarily on over 300 volumes of H a s t - ings' personal papers, and his unpublished letters to G e o r g e V a n s i t t a r t . Art of Asia, by H e l e n Rubissow, practicing artist and author of several other publications in the arts, has been issued by Philosophical L i b r a r y ( N e w Y o r k , 1954, 237P., illus., $6.00). A n o t h e r Philosophical L i b r a r y title is Foreign Policy Analysis, by Feliks G r o s s (1954, I79p., $3-75). T h e L i b r a r y of Congress has available copies of American Doctoral Dissertations, for each of the years 1912-18 and 1926-32. W r i t e to Office of the Secretary, L i b r a r y of Congress, W a s h i n g t o n 25, D . C . T h e Year's Work in Librarianship ( L o n - don, T h e L i b r a r y Association, 1954, 270p., 40s., 30s. to members) marks the end of the w o r k in its present form. Except f o r the W o r l d W a r I I years, when a gap in annual coverage occurred, the series has provided a systematic survey of current publications and activities in librarianship in G r e a t Britain and other countries since 1928. P r o j e c t e d by the L i b r a r y Association is Five Years' Work in Librarianship, the first volume of which is planned f o r publication in 1956. T h i s step has been taken in view of the f a c t that Library Science Abstracts (issued quarterly by the L i b r a r y Association) has been covering the field since 1950. T h e new five-year volume is intended to be concerned mainly w i t h the general developments and trends in library service. 304 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel R A Y M O N D C . L I N D Q U I S T w a s a p p o i n t e d l i - brarian of the Cleveland Public L i b r a r y on M a r c h I, 1955. H e graduated f r o m the f University of M i n - nesota in 1927 and won his l a w degree from the same insti- tution in 1930. A f t e r experience as an as- sistant in the St. P a u l Public L i b r a r y from 1923 to 1932 and as librarian for the U . S. Raymond C. Lindquist B u r e a u of Prisons at L e a v e n w o r t h , he attended the Columbia School of L i b r a r y Service and won his B . L . S . there in 1935. F r o m 1935 to 1937 he served as librarian of the N e w Y o r k C i t y D e p a r t m e n t of C o r r e c - tions and subsequently, from 1937 to 1943 as librarian of the N e w Y o r k L a w Institute. H e won his master's degree from Columbia in 1943 and stayed three more years in the east as secretary-librarian of the N e w Y o r k State Public L i b r a r y Commission. In 1946, M r . Lindquist w a s appointed li- brarian of the C u y a h o g a C o u n t r y Public L i b r a r y . H e w a s able to increase his budget f r o m $212,660 in 1946 to $1,014,000 in 1955, and circulation climbed significantly in the same period. T h r e e regional branches and two bookmobiles w e r e added to the system. D u r i n g these busy years M r . Lindquist has also found time to serve as A L A treasurer (1952-date) and as a member of various com- mittees. T o the distinguished position of librarian of the Cleveland Public L i b r a r y , Raymond Lindquist brings a w e a l t h of sound adminis- trative experience, a basic understanding of the humane tradition of librarianship, and an imaginative leadership. SIDNEY B U T L E R S M I T H h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d director of the Louisiana State University L i - braries and assumed his new duties on July 1, 1955. D i r e c t o r of the University of V e r m o n t Libraries since 1947 (see COLLEGE AND RE- SEARCH LIBRARIES 9:80-81, January, 1948), D r . Smith has had an unusually successful career of eight years at Burlington. T h e V e r m o n t library bud- get has been more than doubled so that it now exceeds $100,- 000, and the staff has been increased from 13 to 19. In addi- tion, there has been a c a r e f u l study of spatial problems at the University of V e r - mont Libraries to the end of utilizing avail- able library areas more effectively, and, for practical purposes, the building is 5 0 % larger. Staff duties have been clarified, cata- loging procedures simplified, and current records improved. W i t h such programs as the introduction of extensive orientation procedures f o r freshmen, D r . Smith has brought the University of V e r m o n t Libraries into a more prominent position as an educa- tional and service unit on the Burlington cam- pus. T o L S U he w i l l bring not only a high level of scholarship and a seasoned adminis- trative hand to carry on the fine traditions established at Baton Rouge by G u y L y l e dur- ing the last decade, but also imaginative leadership which w i l l be urgently needed by the L S U L i b r a r y as it enters a new period of expansion.—Lawrence S. Thompson. W A L L A C E V A N J A C K S O N h a s r e t u r n e d t o his native state as library director of Virginia State College. M r . V a n Jackson's career in the profes- sion began in 1927 when he became li- brarian of V i r g i n i a Union University where he served until 1939. M e a n w h i l e , he received the B. A . from Virginia Union, the first degree in li- brary science from Hampton Institute, both in 1934, and the M . A . in library science Sidney B. Smith Wallace Van Jackson JULY, 1955 305 f r o m the University of M i c h i g a n in 1935. F r o m 1939 to 1941 he attended the University of Chicago G r a d u a t e L i b r a r y School com- pleting the residence requirements for the P h . D . H e then taught for one year at the A t l a n t a University School of L i b r a r y Service. In 1942 he became librarian of A t l a n t a U n i - versity and continued in that capacity until 1947 when he accepted the invitation of the U . S. Information Service to go to M o n r o v i a , Liberia, as public affairs officer. W h i l e abroad, he attended the U N E S C O L i b r a r y School held in England as the official repre- sentative of L i b r a r y of Congress. H e re- turned to the States in 1949 to head the li- brary of T e x a s Southern University in H o u s - ton w h e r e he remained until his appointment to the position at V i r g i n i a State C o l l e g e in 1954. Since 1952, he has also been the special consultant f o r a book acquisition project at A l a b a m a State C o l l e g e and A l a b a m a A & M College. M r . V a n Jackson has participated ener- getically in professional associations and w r i t t e n extensively for both professional and non-professional periodicals. M o s t recently he has served as chairman of the C o l l e g e Division of D i s t r i c t Five of the T e x a s L i - brary Association and as a member of the A L A Committee on Intellectual Freedom. In W a l l a c e V a n Jackson, V i r g i n i a has gained a dedicated librarian, an able adminis- trator, an enthusiastic w o r k e r , and a con- genial spirit. T h i s fine combination augurs w e l l f o r the Johnston M e m o r i a l L i b r a r y of Virginia State C o l l e g e . — L i l l i e K. Daly. FREDERICK W E Z E M A N h a s r e s i g n e d a s c h i e f librarian of the O a k P a r k Public L i b r a r y to accept a position as associate professor of L i - brary Science at the University of Minnesota. H e w i l l begin his new job September 1. A native of O a k P a r k , M r . W e z e m a n w a s appointed chief librarian in 1953, coming f r o m the Racine, Wisconsin, Public L i b r a r y w h e r e he had served as chief librarian f o r seven years. D u r i n g his t w o years at O a k P a r k he waged a successful campaign to raise the li- brary tax rate, increasing the library budget from $108,000 to $146,000. In addition to his teaching duties at M i n - nesota, M r . W e z e m a n w i l l have responsibili- ties for arranging institutes and workshops in public library management and administra- tion. D O N A L D C O N E Y , l i b r a r i a n o f t h e U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a at Berkeley, became vice-chancel- lor of the University of C a l i f o r n i a ' s Berkeley campus on July 1. M r . Coney w i l l continue as university l i b r a r i a n ; and as vice-chancellor he w i l l handle building and development prob- lems, long-range planning and expansion for the Berkeley campus. Appointments ROGER P . BRISTOL b e c a m e h e a d o f t h e preparations division of the University of V i r g i n i a L i b r a r y on J a n u a r y 1, 1955. M I L D R E D R . C R O W E , m e d i c a l l i b r a r i a n o f the University of A l a b a m a since 1945, became medical librarian of the University of M i a m i at C o r a l Gables, Florida, on A p r i l 16, 1955. C A R O L I N E D R A K E , f o r m e r l y a s s i s t a n t l i - brarian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has resigned to complete her M a s t e r ' s D e g r e e at the University of M i c h i g a n . EDWARD D . F R E E H A F E R , f o r m e r l y c h i e f o f the Reference D e p a r t m e n t of the N e w Y o r k Public L i b r a r y , w a s named director in D e - cember 1954. A biographical sketch of M r . F r e e h a f e r appeared in the A p r i l , 1954 issue o f COLLEGE A N D RESEARCH LIBRARIES, p. 2 2 6 . R E V E R E N D P H I L I P C . H O E L L E , f o r m e r l y a member of the D e p a r t m e n t of Religion of the University of D a y t o n , has been appointed di- rector of the M a r i a n L i b r a r y of that insti- tution. W I L L I A M H . H U F F h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d serials and acquisitions librarian at the C h i - cago U n d e r g r a d u a t e Division of the U n i v e r - sity of Illinois L i b r a r y . GLADYS JOHNSON has been appointed r e f e r - ence librarian at the V i r g i n i a Polytechnic In- stitute. M R S . J O S E P H I N E H A L V E R S O N M O R R I S h a s been appointed head of the technical processes division of the C o l o r a d o A & M College L i - brary. A . STEVE PICKETT has been appointed order librarian at San Fancisco State College. RICHARD PRATT has been appointed assist- ant librarian, Rodgers L i b r a r y , N e w M e x i c o Highlands University, L a s V e g a s . 306 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES M A L C O L M STEARNS, J R . , a s s i s t a n t l i b r a r i a n of W e s l e y a n University, M i d d l e t o w n , C o n - necticut, has been appointed acting dean of students at that institution. ROBERT E . T H O M P S O N , f o r m e r l y l i b r a r i a n of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of C a l i f o r n i a , has been appointed supervising bibliographer at the University of N o r t h C a r o l i n a at Chapel H i l l . J A M E S T Y D E M A N is n o w h e a d , S e r i a l s D i - vision, Southern Illinois University Libraries, Carbondale. W I L L I A M W A L L A C E h a s b e e n p r o m o t e d t o associate librarian and archivist at N e w M e x - ico Highlands University in L a s V e g a s . M A R Y E L L E N WOODWARD h a s b e e n a p - pointed acting reference librarian of the U n i - versity of W y o m i n g in L a r a m i e . Retirements Libraries, like people, have personalities, and if the University of Pennsylvania L i b r a r y as w e know it today has a personality, it is in great measure the personality of i t s d i r e c t o r , D R . C H A R L E S W . D A V I D . Called to the U n i - versity from Bryn M a w r College, f r o m a life dedicated to education, and also from the pre-emin- ence he had gained in bibliographical organ- ization, he came to devote himself to the re- search needs of the institution he w a s to serve for fifteen y e a r s ; he soon found that the needs of undergraduates cried equally for attention. T o his objective of "bringing books and minds together at the moment when they ought to meet," D r . D a v i d has bent his genius and his energies w i t h a f e r v o r not dissimilar to the crusaders of earlier days. I t has seemed a long crusade, and it is hard to realize that the man w h o has given so much of his life to a dream is not to enter his holy land. B u t it w a s not f o r negative reasons only that the staff learned with regret that the director w a s to retire, because of age, on June 30th. T h e new library still lies "before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beauti- ful, so n e w , " and the devotion, wisdom, and skill that D r . D a v i d has poured into the great new library building, which w i l l one day re- volutionize education at the University of Pennsylvania, can hardly be appreciated even by those w h o have been closest to him. I t is, even more, because of the positive re- sults of his leadership: his re-creation of the library into a human enterprise in which the beginning freshman and the mature scholar is each received and heard with understanding and respect; his introduction of the university community to some of its responsibilities of; possessing a scholar's library of high r a n k ; his recognition of the responsibilities of the li- brary to the Philadelphia community and, indeed, to scholarship the world a r o u n d ; his vision, uninfluenced by parochial considera- tions, in setting in proper perspective, along with the machinery for their use, the biblio- graphical resources of the city and its vicinity; his wise counsel, and his contributions made through hard labor and long hours, to the professional associations, national and inter- national, w i t h which he became affiliated; his spectacular improvements in the professional and personal w e l f a r e of his staff. A l l these might have been the w o r k of a life time, rather than of a man w h o accepted fresh tasks at fifty-five. R a r e l y does the scholar find administrative talents so deeply chal- lenged ; great has been Pennsylania's good fortune to find that challenge met so w e l l . T h u s it seems that a comfortable share of our problems have been solved and the U n i - versity of Pennsylvania L i b r a r y — t h r o u g h the impress of its director—has regained its place in the library world. F o r these achievements, generations of Pennsylvanians w i l l have cause to be g r a t e f u l . So too w i l l librarians w h o have sat at his f e e t . — IValter W. Wright. N E L S O N W . M C C O M B S h a s r e t i r e d f r o m t h e position of head librarian of the University Heights campus of N e w Y o r k University. H e has been connected with N Y U for 32 years. Charles W. David JULY, 1955 307 Foreign Libraries JOSEF B E C K M A N N w a s a p p o i n t e d d i r e c t o r o f the University L i b r a r y in F r e i b u r g im Breis- gau on December i , 1954. ROBERT H . B L A C K B U R N h a s b e e n p r o m o t e d from assistant librarian to librarian of the University of T o r o n t o . H A N S B O C K W I T Z , d i r e c t o r o f t h e D e u t s c h e s Buch- und Schriftmuseum in Leipzig, died on December 2, 1954, shortly a f t e r his seventieth birthday. W . E . GOCKING, f o r m e r l y librarian of the C e n t r a l L i b r a r y of T r i n i d a d and T o b a g o , has succeeded H a r o l d H o l d s w o r t h as librarian of the University College of the W e s t Indies, M o n a , Jamaica. J O Z E F G R Y C Z , a s s o c i a t e d i r e c t o r o f t h e Polish N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y in W a r s a w , died on O c t o b e r 24, 1954. S T A N I S L A V K R U P K A , d i r e c t o r o f t h e U n i v e r - sity of O l o m o u c ( O l m i i t z ) L i b r a r y , resigned on September 15, 1954, to become director of the O l m i i t z T h e a t e r s . H i s successor is D r a h o s l a v G a w r e c k i , founder and first direc- tor of the O s t r a v a State L i b r a r y . Necrology Six decades of active, influential living w e r e g r a n t e d D R . W I L L I A M W A R N E R B I S H O P b e - tween his graduation f r o m the University of M i c h i g a n in 1892 and his confinement to his home in A n n A r b o r because of fail- ing health. H e w a s b o r n in H a n n i b a l , M i s s o u r i , July 20, 1871 and died in A n n A r b o r , Michigan, Feb- r u a r y 1 9 , 1 9 5 5 - T h e s e 60 years w e r e devoted to the ad- vancement of learn- ing. H e w a s a successful, inspiring teacher at the beginning of his career and whenever he reverted to the class room, laying aside for a f e w hours his administrative duties as li- brarian. W i t h i n t w o years of securing his B . A . degree he commenced his library w o r k , the w o r k to which he devoted his life. H e w a s preeminently a scholar and that attitude of mind w a s evident in everything which he undertook. H e w a s never a recluse or merely an onlooker. H e w a s a leader in the educa- tional interests of the library profession. H e w a s also an able organizer and practical administrator. F o r t u n a t e l y the Library Quarterly pub- lished D r . Bishop's autobiography, issuing it serially a f e w years ago. I t gives the m a j o r interests and events of his life and an insight into his thinking. H e w a s an expert cataloger and knew from experience the intricate details of all divisions of a library. H i s many years as reference chief at the L i b r a r y of Congress gave him a knowledge of the literatures of many fields. I t is impossible to evaluate his contributions to the theory and practice of library administration. T h e y w e r e recognized nationally and internationally. H i s w o r k for the reorganization of the V a t i c a n L i b r a r y is a m a j o r example. H e had the ability to plan a project and to select capable associates to whom he delegated the duties of carrying out the program. H i s personality w i l l be an active influence f o r years to come. H e w a s one of the s t a l w a r t s of the library w o r l d . —F. L. D. Goodrich. Editors note: The University of Michigan L i b r a r y N o t e s n. s., v. 1, No. 5, March 25, 1955, contains a series of appreciative notes of Dr. Bishop. They are written by Gertrude Maginn, F. L. D. Goodrich, Ella M. Hymans, Eunice Wead, and Donald Coney. A me- morial tribute from the Ann Arbor Library Club is also included. J O H N S . C L E A V I N G E R , m e m b e r o f t h e f a c - ulty of the School of L i b r a r y Service, C o l u m - bia University, f r o m 1926 to 1945, died in O r a n g e b u r g , N . Y . , on December 29, 1954. M A R Y L . S A M S O N , a s s o c i a t e l i b r a r i a n o f the United States M i l i t a r y Academy in W e s t Point, N . Y . , since 1928, died on N o v e m b e r 10, 1954. Dr. fVilliam Warner Bishop 308 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES