College and Research Libraries News from the Field AcQUISITIONs, GIFTS, CoLLECTIONS THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, University of California at Berkeley, has received as a gift of the Friends of the Bancroft Library a collection of signed documents and papers of Gaspar de Portola, first Governor of Cali- fornia (1769-70). The Portola papers con- cern the exploration to locate the Bay of Monterey, and the author's career as Gov- ernor of the town of Puebla in Mexico. The documents include Portola's original ap- pointment in June, 1776 as Governor of Puebla and instructions from Charles III concerning the post. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY has acquired the Sigmund Romberg Library, four thousand volumes of books and scores particularly rich in German and French light operas of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI has received an important group of books from David A. Tucker, Jr., professor of history of medi- cine. Numbering several thousand volumes, this collection is divided equally between rare medical books and works on the history of medicine. The most notable item is a per- fect copy of the second edition of Fabrica (1555) by Vesalius. When the new wing of the College of Medicine building is com- pleted, the medical library will occupy three floors (two for stacks, one for reading). The Tucker collection will be housed in a spe- cial section donated in his honor by Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY has acquired the private library of the late Robert John Bayer, formerly editor of Traffic World and well known bibliophile. The collection of some five thousand volumes includes a vir- tually complete collection of the works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. CoRNELL UNIVERSITY has acquired from the widow of Stanislaus Joyce an extensive collection of Joyce papers and letters. It includes the manuscript of Chamber Music, NOVEMBER 1957 six unpublished pages of the manuscript of Stephen Hero, incomplete manuscripts of several episodes of Ulysses, and over 250 letters and cards written by Joyce. Another seven hundred letters are from members of his family and from literary friends , pub- lishers, and agents. THE DARTMOUTH CoLLEGE LiBRARY has re- ceived as a sealed gift seven volumes of un- published writings of the late H. L. Menc- ken. They are My Life as Author and Edi- tor (four volumes) and Thirt y-Fiv e Y ears of. Newspaper Work (three volumes). They will not be available for use until 1991. Dartmouth has had a special collection of Men~keniana since 1939, built l~rgely by the g1fts of Richard H. Mandel. In addi- tion to the recent gift, the collection in- cludes about 150 first editions and several hundred letters, pamphlets, and clippings. Dartmouth has also received a collection of the correspondence of Edward Tuck, financier and philanthropist. Written from France during 1929-38, the letters reflect much of the economic and political situation of the period. GoDDARD CoLLEGE LIBRARY, Plainfield, Vt. , has had a 50 per cent increase in its book budget. The community government, con- sisting of some 130 students and faculty, voted to r?ise the library tax from $ 10 to $ 15 a person. The additional funds are specifically ear-marked for the purchase of books. In the balloting only two dissenting votes were cast. THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA LIBRARY has acquired the Vachel Lindsay coll ection of Frederic G. Melcher. The collection in- cludes correspondence, memorabilia, and early editions of privately printed works. THE UNIVERSITY OF NoRTH CAROLINA has assembled approximately eight hundred vol- umes which belonged to the University be- fore 1830 in its Early Carolina Room. They represent about one-third of the titles listed in the University library catalog of 1802 493 and in the Dialectic and Philanthropic So- ciety catalogs of 1827 and 1829. NoRTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has acquired a set of the German periodical, Pan, 1911-1913. Published in Berlin in the early years of expressionism under the edi- torship of Wilhelm Herzog and Paul Cas- sirer, it contains much of significance in modern German literature. Among its con- tributors were Heinrich Mann, Klabund, Musil, and Max Brod. SouTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has recently strengthened its holdings in folk- lore and related areas through the purchase of the library of the late Dr. Alexander H. Krappe. An outstanding scholar, Dr. Krappe, who died in 1947, was the author of nearly six hundred books, articles, reviews, and translations, and his working library of some twelve hundred volumes is rich in the ma- terials of his field. Among the important items coming to the library through this acquisition are: Roscher's Ausfuhrliches Lexikon der Griech- ischen und Romischen Mythologie, Elbert's Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte, Reinach's Cultes, Mythes et Religions, long runs of the periodicals F F Communications, Folk- lore, Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde, and Revue d'Ethnographie. A FUND in memory of the late Louis M. Rabinowitz, Honorary Trustee of the Yale Library Associates has been established at Yale University Library. Mr. Rabinowitz had been a long-time benefactor s:>f the Yale library donating many outstanding works in the fields of Judaica and English literature. James T. Babb states that the fund will be used for the purchase of such books and manuscripts as Mr. Rabinowitz would have bought for the library himself. KENNETH M. SETTON, director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, has an- nounced that James T. Farrell, novelist and critic, has designated the University of Pennsylvania Library as the depository for his literary papers. In addition to manu- scripts, the collection includes notebooks, diaries, correspondence, and extensive files of clippings. Acquisition of the collection was made possible by the Gordon Alward Hardwick Jr. Memorial Fund for the de- velopment of the University Library's col- lections in modern American Literature. THE COLLECTION of Emily Dickinson man- uscripts, notes, and letters recently given to Amherst College by Mrs. M. T. Bingham is now available on microfilm for purchase from the Amherst College Library. BuiLDINGs THE NEw MEDICAL LIBRARY at the Uni- versity of Kansas School of Medicine was dedicated on September 13. The building will include a library of the history of medi- cine. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA has an- nounced the allocation of four million dol- lars by the state for a new library-classroom building. Construction is expected to begin within the year. The library will house ap- proximately two million volumes and pro- vide space for classrooms, reading rooms, microfilm and photographic laboratory, mu- sic listening rooms, and accommodation for the library's numerous special collections. THE SAM RAYBURN MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Bonham, Texas, was formally dedicated ear- ly in October. The $500,000 library was started by Representative Rayburn in 1948 with a $ 10,000 award he received for dis- tinguished congressional service. It has been completed with private donations. The building contains a reproduction of the historic Speaker's Rooms in the Capitol. The collection comprises papers, documents, and memorabilia of Rayburn's forty-five years of service as a member of the House of Representatives. PuBLICATIONS A GuiDE TO READING for top management is provided by The Executive published monthly by Baker Library, Harvard Uni- versity School of Business Administration (v: I, no. 1, June 1957; $5.00 a year). The new journal has two objectives: (1) "to screen and select ... those books, pamphlets, speeches, and periodical articles . . . most significant for the busy executive . . . [to provide] a broader background of the social, political, economic, and business problems 494 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of the day" and (2) "to present brief ab- stracts which will summarize in 300 to 500 words the essential features of the original." The first three issues show a wide coverage and an added feature in frequent critical evaluations appended to the abstracts of books. THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE of The Bookmark (University of Idaho Library) contains a report on a study of "Interlibrary Loans at the University of Idaho Library" and a re- printing of "Faculty Loan Policies." The customary acquisitions notes and abstracts of articles also appear. THE H. W. WILSON CoMPANY has an- nounced the publication starting January, 1958 of two ·new indexes, The Applied Sci- ence and Technology Ind ex and the Busi- ness Periodicals Index. Initiation of these publications is an outcome of a study made by the Combined Committees on Wilson Indexes. The Applied Sci ence and Technology In- dex will cover 199 periodicals of which seventy-eight have not previously been in- dexed . by Wilson. Fields covered will in- clude engineering, automation, chemistry, physics, food and food industries, photog- raphy, air conditioning, aeronautics, and transportation. Subscribers elected 120 peri- odicals for inclusion in the Business Periodi- cals Index, of which sixty-two have not been indexed before by Wilson. Among the sub- jects included are general business, ac- counting, advertising, labor and manage- ment, finance, taxation, in addition to specific industries and trades. These two new publications will succeed the Industrial Arts Index . THE OHIO UNIVERSITY Department of English is compiling an international index to periodicals publishing in the fields of English and American language and litera- ture. It is intended as a guide for submit- ting manuscripts and will be called the Scholars' Market. THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Library Associates' fourth keepsake volume was pub- lished in late October. It is a facsimile re- print of An Address to the Citizens of Phila- NOVEMBER 1957 delphia, on the Great Advantages Which Arise From the Trade of the Western Coun- try to the State of Pennsylvania at Large, and to the City of Philadelphia in Particu- lar . . . by L. A. Tarascon and James Ber- thoud. The brochure will consist of thir- teen pages of facsimile with an afterword by Dr. Jacqueline P. Bull. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Library School has published its Occasional Paper No. 49, Cataloging Courses in the Pre- scribed Curriculum, by Heartsill H. Young, supervisor of technical services, University of Texas Library. The author surveys teach- ing procedures in twenty-nine library schools, pointing out that new courses, the shift to the fifth year master's degree, and increased use of L.C. cards have worked to reduce the amount of cataloging taught in library schools. The study gives an over- all picture of cataloging course requirements and notes different attitudes and methods in various schools. Free copies are available at the University of Illinois Library School. THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Library has published Alexander von Humboldt's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain , translated and annotated by Hensley C. Woodbridge (Scripta Humanistica Ken- tuckiensia 1). GuY ADAMS CARDWELL, JR., presents a descriptive list as an essential part of his Charleston Periodicals, 1795-1860; a Study of Literary Influences, which now appears in Kentucky Microcards, Series A: Modern Language Series, no. 14 (10 cards, $3.50 to nonsubscribers). The cards are available from the University of Kentucky Press, Lexington. INCLUDED in the Grosset & Dunlap "Gros- set's Universal Library" paperback series are four new titles: An American Doctor's Odyssey, by Victor Heiser ($1.25), The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville with an introduction by Raymond Weaver ($ 1.25), Four Plays by Ibsen, with an introduction by C_arl Van Doren ($ 1.25), and The Great Plains, by Walter Prescott Webb ($ 1.45). The 1,978 International Organizations Founded Since the Congress of Vienna: 495 Chronological List) with an introduction by G. P. Speeckaert, has been issued by the Union of International Associations (Brus- sels, 1957, 204p.). THE LIBRARY AssociATION has issued a Directory of Medical Libraries in the Brit- ish Isles (London: 1957, 9lp., 13s, or 9s 6d for members, plus 6d postage). THE NEw YoRK STATE LIBRARY has issued a "First Supplement April 1955-December 1956" to its Checklist of Books and Pam- phlets in the Social Sciences. The supple- ment contains approximately 5,800 titles. RuDOLPH G JELSNEss has compiled The American Book in Mexico: A Bibliography of Books by Authors of the United States of America Published in Mexico 1 1952-55 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan De- partment of Library Science, 1957, 92p., Studies, No. 4). College Teachers and College Teaching: An Annotated Bibliography on College and University Faculty Members and Instruc- tional Methods) compiled by Walter Crosby Eells, has been published by the Southern Regional Education Board (Atlanta: 1957, 282p.). Dr. Eells includes a number of ref- erences to faculty-library relationships, but does not exhaust the literature on the sub- ject that has appeared in library journals. The Desert Daisy) by H. G. Wells, with an introduction by Gordon N. Ray (Ur- bana: 1957), is the third in a series of chap- books published by Beta Phi Mu, national l·ibrary science honorary fraternity. The original manuscript is in the Wells collec- tion at the University of Illinois Library. JOHN L. ANDRIOT has issued the 1957 edi- tion of U.S. Government Releases. This is the second in a series of loose-lea£ services. Order from Documents Index, Box 453, Arlington 10, Va., price $ 15. John Cotton Dana) the Centennial Convo- cation; Addresses by Arthur T. Vanderbilt and L. Quincy Mumford) With a Prefatory Note by ]ames E. Bryan ) (Rutgers Univer- sity Press, 1957, 6lp., $2.75) is a fitting trib- ute to one of America's great librarians. Mr. Vanderbilt provides a comprehensive view of Dana's contributions in developing the li- brary at Newark, in establishing the active business library, and in organizing the Mu- seum. Moreover, he cites Dana's credo for the library user and the librarian alike. His slogan was "(I) Read, (2) read, (3) read some more; (4) read anything; (5) read about everything; (6) read enjoyable things; (7) read things you yourself enjoy; (8) read, and talk about it; (9) read very carefully- some things; (10) read on the run, most things; (I 1) don't think about reading, but (12) just read." Mr. Mumford, who writes of "The Forward Look of Public Libraries," points out many of the innovations in li- brary service made by Dana. These innova- tions were effective in making the library a useful agency for the average citizen. Mr. Mumford emphasizes the influence of Dana in developing the library's adult education program, and describes the Newark librar- ian's foresight regarding the library's poten- tial. "Rare Books in American State U niver- sity Libraries" is an article by RoBERT B. DowNs in the autumn issue of The Book Collector. Mr. Downs describes some of the notable acquisitions which have resulted from the expansion of middle and far west- ern universities. ARTHUR T. HAMLIN, librarian of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, has prepared an in- teresting summary of the work of his li- brary in the Cincinnati Alumnus for fall, 1957. Entitled "House of Books," Mr. Ham- lin's article discusses the value and the needs of a university library. "The Trinity College and Watkinson Li- braries," by DoNALD B. ENGLEY, is the lead article in the October number of Stechert- Hafner Book News. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES has published Robert M. Mengel's A Catalog of an Exhibition of Landmarks in the Develop- ment of Ornithology from the Ralph N. El- lis Collection of Ornithology in the Uni- versity of Kansas Libraries. l\1r. Mengel's catalog is in expository, rather than list, form and constitutes a narrative survey of 496 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES some of the chief items in KU's Ellis col- lection of some 25 ,000 bound volumes and additional pamphlets, letters, drawings, man- uscripts, and miscellaneous materials. NEW GUIDES FOR STUDENT USE of univer- sity libraries have been published by the libraries of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Kansas. Know Your Library, the UCLA publication, appears for 1957-58 in its thirteenth edition. This edition has been edited by Everett T. Moore. Students and Libraries at the University of Kansas has been edited by Robert L. Quinsey. THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LIBRARY has published in pamphlet form a Record of the Proceedings at the Opening of the Ster- ling Library by Her Majesty Queen Eliza- beth The Queen Mother, Chancellor of the University on 30 October, 1956. The Sweep of American History is a fifty- three-page booklet describing the 133 items from the Americana collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Sang currently being ex- hibited at Lincoln College, Lincoln, Il- linois. The catalog includes seventeen re- productions of pieces in the exhibit. "Our New Library Was Everybody 's Busi- ness " is the title of an article by Charles B. Murphy in The Pioneer (July-August, 1957). Rev. Murphy is librarian at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. MISCELLANEOUS THE AuGUST 20 ISSUE of Look magazine, in the section entitled "Look Applauds," contains a photograph of Dr. L. R. Wilson together with a tribute to his fifty-six years as a librarian and his outstanding work in making libraries educational instruments in their own right. AsLIB held a conference in London on October 30 on "Library Services in Techni- cal Colleges." STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY sponsored in October a meeting on information stor- age and retrieval. Speakers were Eva Lou NOVEMBER 1957 Robertson, librarian at the Lockheed Guid- ed Missile Systems Division, and James P. Thurber, Jr., associate general secretary of Stanford University. John Henry Merry- man , law librarian at Stanford, presided at the meeting. The Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Committee of the SPECIAL LIBRARIES AssociA- TION has announced two $ 1,000 scholarships for the academic year 1958-59. These will be granted for graduate study in librarianship leading to a degree at an accredited library school. "Applicants must be college graduates of high academic achievement who need fi- nancial assistance in obtaining the profes- sional education necessary for work in the special library field," states the announce- ment. "Government Publications in the Field of Science and Technology" was the subject of a meeting sponsored by the CALIFORNIA LI- BRARY AssociATION DocuMENTS CoMMITTEE on November 15 at the Institute· of the Aero- nautical Sciences in Los Angeles. The pro- gram included discussions of the history of technical publications issued by the govern- ment, ASTIA operations, Atomic Energy Commission publications, technical reports, and scientific and technical go¥ernment pub- lications for the general public. WILLIAM D. OvERMAN of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, was elected president of the Society of American Archivists at the annual business meeting of the society held in Columbus, Ohio, in October. THE EMORY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY held an open house November 15 to celebrate for- mally the completion of its program of re- modelling and enlargement. William S. Dix, librarian of Princeton University, delivered an address at an evening program presented py the library. The open house was held in conjunction with the inauguration of S. Wal- ter Martin as president of Emory. Miss Tommie Dora Barker, director emerita of the Emory Library School, represented ALA at the inauguration. 497 Personnel RuTHERFORD D. RoGERs's acceptance of the post of chief assistant librarian, the Library of Congress, as of December, 1957 was an- nounced August 15, 1957. L.C.'s accounts in general releases and its Information Bulletin trace the steps of his mount- ing progress from graduation in Iowa to chief of the refer- ence department of the New York Public Library. L.C. is getting one RUTHERFORD D. ROGERS of the COUntry's ablest librarians who combines experience with intelligence, suc- cess with modesty. As an administrator he guides with a gentle rein, and under his direction things seem to fall naturally into their proper places. In his three years at the New York Public Library, first as chief of the personnel office and, after 1954, chief of the reference department, he has won re- spect and loyalty, one reason being that, in addition to h~ more obvious qualities, he is, as his new associates will soon discover, a most loyal colleague. L.C. has done well for itself and for the n a tion whose library it is. As good citizens we can be glad of that, and our congratu- lations can be sincere even though we have lost one of our top officers. We share his pleasure at this opportunity to do the im- portant work he is undertaking. We know that he will do it well. To keep the record in one place: Ruther- ford D. Rogers was born in Jessup, Iowa, in 1915; took his B .A. at Iowa State Teach- ers College and his M.A., in English, and B.S. in Library Science at Columbia. He was an assistant at NYPL in 1937 and 1938; held various positions in the Columbia Col- lege Library, leading to that of librarian, 1938-42; U.S. Army Air Force Air Trans- port Command, retiring with rank of Cap- tain, 1942-1946; research analyst, Smith Bar- ney and Company, New York, 1946-1948; director of the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, 1948-1952; director of the Rochester Public Library and Monroe County Library, 1952- 1953; chief of the personnel office, NYPL, 1954; chief of the reference department NYPL, 1955-1957 . .....-Edward G. Fre ehafer. ' RALPH E. ELLSWORTH, director of libraries at the State University of Iowa since 1943 will become director of libraries and profes~ sor of library science at the University of Colorado on January I, 1958. He will suc- ceed Dr. Eugene H. Wilson , who has be- come associate dean of faculties. Dr. Ellsworth had been director of li- braries and professor of bibliography at Colorado from 1937 to 1943, when he left for Iowa. He thus RALPH E. ELLSWORTH returns to the institution where he de- veloped the plans for the Norlin Library, the first of the divisional university libraries. Since he has been at Iowa, Dr. Ellsworth has been a consultant for many institutions planning new libraries. His latest work was with the planning of the Washington Uni- versity Library in St. Louis. He received an honorary doctoral degree from Western Re- serve University in February. A former president of ACRL, Dr. Ells- worth has been a notable contributor to library literature. He has served for many years on the editorial staff of CRL.-M.F. T. JAMES T. BABB, librarian of Yale Univer- sity, has been honored by having a new $50,000 scholarship fund named for him. Students from Idaho will benefit from these funds, which were given by the Steele-Reese Foundation, established by ·Eleanor Steele Reese, of Salmon, Idaho. Mr. Babb is a native of Lewiston, Idaho. JERROLD ORNE~ librarian at the University of North Carolina, received a commenda- 498 COLLEGE AND RESEAR CH LIBRARIES tion from the United States Air Force prior to his departure from the Air University in August. The commendation reads in part: "As director of the Air University Library he gave new and effective direction to the organization, efficiently met the challenge for a dynamic service, and through his leadership developed plans that resulted in a library building and program that reflect great credit upon himself, the Air Univer- sity, and the United States Air Force." Miss 1\IIARY WATSON, librarian of the Cur- riculum Laboratory, Northwestern Univer- sity has resigned to be married to Joseph Komidar, librarian at Tufts University, Med- ford , Mass. ELIZABETH PEELER, head of the catalog department of the University of Miami Li- braries, has been granted a year's leave of absence to serve in a similar capacity in the University College at Ibadan, Nigeria. WILLA BoYSWORTH, librarian, Hunting- don College, Montgomery, Alabama, has re- ceived a Fulbright A ward to teach library sc.ience in Pakistan. MARGARET L. JoHNSON, librarian of Smith College, represented ALA at the inaugura- tion of Richard Glenn Gettell as president of Mount Holyoke College, November 9. JEAN H. McFARLAND, librarian of Vassar College, represented ALA at the inaugura- tion of Val H. Wilson as president of Skid- more College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Octo- ber II. EuGENE H. WILSON , associate dean of fac- ulties at the University of Colorado, rep- resented ALA at the inauguration of Eu- gene Ellsworth Dawson as president of Col- orado Women's College, Denver, October 18. STITH M. CAIN , librarian of Illinois Wes- leyan University, was ALA's representative at the inauguration of Robert G. Bone as president of Illinois State Normal Univer- sity, Normal, on October 4. PAGE AcKERMAN has been elected vice- president (president-elect) of the Southern District of the California Library Associa- tion. Appointments MARIANNA ANDRES, formerly head of the circulation department, Evansville Public Library, is assistant librarian, Evansville Col- lege, Evansville, Indiana. JANET AYERS is now reference librarian at the Technological Institute Library at Northwestern University. JuLIUS P. BARCLAY has been appointed special collections librarian at Stanford. H. GoRDON BECHANAN is now administra- tive assistant at the Harvard University Li- brary. HERBERT W. BECKWITH is now circulation desk librarian at Ohio State University. HARRY BERGHOLZ is now chief bibliog- rapher at the University of North Carolina Library. He will be responsible for evalu- ating the library's holdings and determining research and teaching needs. NOVEMBER 1957 FLORENCE BETHEA, associated with the Florida State University Library since 1928 and assistant librarian since 1944, is acting director of libraries. GEORGE K. BoYcE, formerly cataloger in the history of medicine division of the Na- tional Library of Medicine, Cleveland, is catalog librarian in the University of Michi- gan Law Library. JAcK E. BROWN, formerly first assistant in the science and technology division of the New York Public Library, is now chief li- brarian of the National Research Council of Canada. ELEONORE R. BuEHL is now head catalog- er at the new Falk Library of Health Pro- fessions, University of Pittsburgh. CECIL BuLL is cataloger in the University of Kentucky Medical Center Library. 499 BARBARA BULLER is librarian in the docu- ments department of the University of Cali- fornia Library at Berkeley. MARY JANE CARR, formerly head of the card preparation unit at Purdue University Library, is now librarian of Rockford Col- lege, Rockford, Illinois. HALLIE HousTON CARSON, formerly li- brarian of the Mills Memorial Library m Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, is librarian of Athens College, Athens, Alabama. ELIZABETH CLOTFELTER has been pro- moted to the position of cataloger in the University of Kentucky Library. JoHN M. CoNNOR, formerly technical li- brarian at the U.S. Naval Air Missile Test Center, is now librarian at the medical library of the Los Angeles County Medical Association . CLARICE DAVIS is senior library assistant in the art library, University of California at Los Angeles. GERTRUDE C. DAVIS is now librarian of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia. ELIZABETH DECHARMS is cataloger-generai service librarian at Washington University, St. Louis. MILIMIR DRAZIC, formerly with the U ni- versity of Kentucky Library, is with the or- der department, Northwestern University. CLINIO L. DuETTI has been appointed to the staff of the catalog department, North- western University. Mrs. Duetti is now act- ing head, acquisitions department, Univer- sity of Illinois Library, Navy Pier. JosEPHINE DuNN is assistant cataloger, Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio. FRANK R. EATON is assistant reference li- brarian, Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. KENNETH F. EMERICK has been appointed circulation librarian at Denison University. WILLIAM D. EPPES, formerly supervisor, stack personnel, Columbia University Li- braries, is now audio-visual coordinator, Newark State Teachers College. GEORGIA FAISON, who retired as reference librarian at the University of North Caro- lina in June has been appointed reference librarian, general services division, at the State Library, in Raleigh. MARION GANS is now librarian's assistant at Case Institute of Technology. THEODORE GOULD is librarian in the order department of the University of California Library at Berkeley. GWENDOLIN V. HEARD is principal library assistant in the reference department of the UCLA Library. WILLIAM HuFF is now head, serials di- vision, University of Illinois Library. :MARIANNA A. J OH soN has joined the ac- quisitions section of the bio-medical library at the UCLA Library. RICHARD D. JoHNSON is now reference li- brarian in the division of humanities and social sciences at Stanford. KLAus W. Jo AS, formerly of the Yale University Library, is now an assistant pro- fessor at the University of Pittsburgh and curator of the center of Maugham studies. RoBERTA CANNELL KENISTON, formerly head of the reference department of Eastern Michigan College of Education, Ypsilanti, is librarian in the University of Michigan Undergraduate Library. Loms A. KENNEY, formerly serials cata- loger at the University of Illinois Library, is chief of technical services at the Illinois State Library in Springfield. NORMAN KILPATRICK has resigned as li- brarian of Florida State University. MILLICE T K IGHT is assistant in the gift and exchange department of the acquisition division, Stanford University Library. HAROLD E. KoRF is principal humanities librarian at the Stanford University Library. OLIVE Jo LAMB has been appointed cata- loger at State Teachers College, Jackson- ville, Alabama. ZION LEVY, a native of Syria and graduate of the Pratt Institute Library School, has 500 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES been appointed cataloger of the Wagner College Library, Staten Island. DoNALD E. LucK is now with the catalog section of the UCLA biomedical library. :MARCELLA McGEE has joined the staff of the catalog department at Antioch College. JoHN McKENNA has been appointed li- brarian at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. RACHEL S. MARTIN is now assistant li- brarian in charge of the Women's College Library, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. T. H. MILBY is now librarian of the Na- tional College for Christian Workers in Kansas City. ARTHUR W. MIYAZKI is a cataloger in the Ohio State University Library. SYBIL NELSON is the new reference lib.rar- ian at Birmingham-Southern College. GEORGE L. OLSEN is now librarian of Newberry College, Newberry, South Caro- lina. LERoY D. 0RTOPAN has been appointed head cataloger, Northwestern University Li- brary. DoRIS E. PAHLAND is now a member of the humanities and social sciences division of the Stanford University Library. ELIZA PIETSCH is now a member of the staff of the rare books department of the University of California Library at Berkeley. JACK PLOTKIN is chief circulation librarian at the Stanford University Library. CLARA RALMON has joined the catalog de- partment of the UCLA Library. MARIE RAPP, formerly with the Centro Regional de Education Fundamental, Para La Americana Latina is head, reference de- partment, University of Illinois Library, Navy Pier. CARROLL F. REYNOLDS has been appointed librarian of the Falk Library of Health Pro- fessions at the University of Pittsburgh. NOVEMBER 1957 ALCIRA Rmz-LARRE is the new president of the Asocion Bibliotecaria Venezolana; Carlos Salvatierra is vice-president for 1957-58. THEODORE SAMORE is now periodicals li- brarian of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana. KuRT ScHWERIN, assistant librarian of the Northwestern University Law Library, has been appointed research associate in inter- national and comparative law in the North- western Law School and lecturer in inter- national relations and comparative govern- ment at Depaul University. MARION SMITH has been appointed di- rector of the Jackson Library on Business at Stanford University. HAROLD F. SMITH has been appointed as- sistant social studies librarian at Southern Illinois University. JENNIE AKARD SPURGEON joined the cata- loging staff of the University of Tennessee Library on July I, 1957. JAY W. STEIN, formerly librarian of South- western at Memphis, is librarian of Elm- hurst College. LEWIS F. STIEG, director of the University of Southern California Library, will serve as director of the Library School in the Uni- versity of Ankara for the next two years. WILLIAM V. SToNE has been promoted from assistant librarian to head librarian of the Downtown Division Library, St. John's University, Brooklyn, New York. HJORDIS TANGEN has been appointed cat- aloger at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. ERNEST A. THOMAS is now director of the Toreyson Library, Arkansas State Teachers College, Conway, Arkansas. He has been head librarian of Southwestern State Col- lege, Weatherford, Oklahoma. ELoYDE TovEY is a member of the staff of the gifts and exchange department of the University of California Library at Berkeley. RussELL TRUDELL has been promoted to 501 head, public service department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. KIYOKO J. TsuTsUI is senior library as- sistant in the biology library at Stanford. JOHN WEATHERFORD is now assistant di- rector of libraries at Miami University, Ox- ford, Ohio. LEE WEHLE is with the reference depart- ment at the UCLA Library. BROOKE WHITING, has joined the staff of the department of special collections, at the UCLA Library. WILMA E. V\7INTERS, formerly assistant li- brarian in the Boston University School of Medicine, is assistant librarian of the Boston Medical Libr ary. The University of Chicago has announced the following appointments: RoLLAND DICK- SON , assistant curator, sp ecial collections ; BARBARA HILLMAN, librarian of the peri- odical reading room ; SABINA WAGNER, circu- lation and reference librarian, biology li- brary. At the University of North Carolina, the following staff changes have been an- nounced: WILLIAM R. PULLEN as assistant librarian for technical processes; I. T. LIT- TLETON assistant libraria n for personnel. CATHERINE MAYBURY is now head , docu- ments department. JoAN DAVIS is· librarian of the UNCL project, and BETTY ·MARKS , ad- ministrative assistant to the librarian. The University of Oregon Library has an- nounced the appointments of JuDITH ELLIOT as catalog librarian, ALFRED HEIL- PERN as acquisition librarian, and WINIFRED LADLEY as assistant professor of library science. Among the appointments made at the University of Pittsburgh Library are the fol- lowing: MARGARET ALLAN, of the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, trainee; HELEN HocH, cataloger of foreign publica- tions ; and FRANK McGowANJ bibliographer. Among recent additions to the staff at Southern University Library are the follow- ing: MILLER BooRD, regional librarian for Southern Illinois under the New Federal Li- brary Servi ce program; ANNETTE L. HoAGE, assistant cataloger; BILL V. IsoM, assistant education librarian; VIOLA L. JAMES, visit- ing lecturer for 1957-58 in the newly or- ganized department of instructional mate- rials; FLOYD R. MEYER, librarian, newly or- ganized East St. Louis Residence Center; HAROLD F. SMITH, assistant soci al studies li- brarian ; EARL TANNENBAUM, assistant hu- manities librarian; CORA E. THOMASSEN, li- brarian, University School. Recent appointments to the Duke Uni- versity Library staff include the following: PIERRE B. BERRY and BETTY WAH WoNG, se- rials catalogers; DEWEY F. PRU ETT, JR. , sub- ject cataloger; WINSTON BROADFOOT, direc- tor of the George Washington Flowers Col- lection of Southern Americana. The Tra nsportation Center Library at Northwestern University has announced the appointment of MARIANNE YATES as head of public services and FRANCES SMITH as head of technical processes. Retirements IRENE BA YLARD, a mern her of the staff of the University of California Library at Berkeley for thirty-one years, retired at the end of August. She was associated during most of her career with the gift and ex- change department. EDITH C. CHENEY, librarian of Temple University from 1926 to 1936, retired this year. When Miss Cheney carne to Temple in I 926 the main library consisted of a single room in what is now the Chemistry Build- ing. She worked with the staff, administra- tion , and architects through the planning and construction of the Sullivan Memorial Library. She introduced and carried to com- pletion the reclassification and recataloging of the collections. From 1936 to 1946 she served as assistant librarian, and for the last eleven years has been curator of the Conwelliana-Tern plana Collections. Miss Cheney, the daughter of James W. Cheney, who had been librarian of the U.S. Department of the Army, had been on the staffs of several Washington libraries 502 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES before taking over her duties at Temple. These included the libraries of the Bureau of Education, State Department, and the Federal Reserve Board, as well as the Li- brary of Congress. Her many friends and colleagues wish her happiness in her retirement at Stone Harbor, New 1 ersey, where she has had a cottage for many years. The numerous young people whom she has encouraged to go into librar- ianship during the last thirty-one years join in this wish.-M.F.T. MARGARET S. GILL has retired as librarian of the National Research Council of Canada after serving there for twenty-nine years. HARRIET G. LoNG, professor of library science at Western Reserve University, has retired after twenty-five years of service. MARION H. PIETSCH recently retired from the University of Chicago Library after forty years of service as periodical librarian and librarian for the School of Business. · Necrology FLORENCE CRAIG, special bibliographer at the Stanford University Library died on September 10. She had been on the staffs of the bibliography and catalog division since 1918. In 1925-26 she was editor of the Interna tional Index. BuRTON F. HooD, senior library assistant at Stanford University Library died August 25 at the age of sixty-two. ALicE L. HoPKINS, retired director of the Simmons College School of Library Science, died on February 13. She served at Simmons from 1912 to 1948. KATHERINE RAY WICKSON, associated with the University of California Library at Berkeley from 1919 to 1945, died on Septem- ber 9. Foreign Libraries RICARDO CASTANEDA PAGANINI, formerly minister of education and subsequently Gua- temalan representative to the United Na- tions, has been appointed director of the Biblioteca Nacional in Guatemala. BENJA- MIN GoDOY, whom Castaneda replaces, will be Supervisor General de Bibliotecas in the Ministry of Education. Castaneda had previ- ously been director of the Biblioteca Na- cional, but he resigned to assume the educa- tion portfolio in 1948. FREDERIC GARDY, director of the Biblio- theque Publique et Universitaire of Geneva from 1906 until 1937, died on May 19, 1957, at the age of eighty-seven. NOVEMBER 1957 HELMUT LuFT, deputy director of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, died suddenly on 1 une 28. W. P. SOMMERFELDT, associated with the University of Oslo Library from 1902 until 1950, died on February 17, at the age of seventy-five. From 1921 until 1945 he edited the Norsk Bokfortegnelse, and he started the Norsk Tidsskriftind ex in 1919. CHARLES ScHMIDT, Inspector General of French Libraries and Archives from 1928 to 1940, died on February 6, 1956, at the_ age of eighty-three. 503