College and Research Libraries News From the Field ACQUISITIONS, G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F A R I Z O N A L I B R A R Y h a s been given a collection of medical works ranging in time from 300 B.C. to 1892, from Hippocrates to Krafft-Ebing. The donor was Dr. Hugh H. Smith, a co-developer of yel- low-fever vaccine, now a professor of bac- teriology at the university. B E L O I T C O L L E G E L I B R A R I E S have been pre- sented with a valuable collection of books, pamphlets, and magazines dealing with Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal period. The gift was made by Dr. Joseph C. Rheingold, a practicing psychiatrist in Bos- ton. Appraised at $10,000, the collection covers almost every detail of the financial, economic and labor history of the Roosevelt years. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A L I B R A R Y has acquired one of the great col- lections of Canadiana from the estate of Thomas Murray, Montreal manufacturer, collector, and book dealer. The huge group of materials (300 cases weighing ten tons) was purchased with the aid of the Friends of the University Library. C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R I E S have add- ed several important collections: (1) a manu- script collection of writings by Don Marquis, including sixty-five letters, presented by Doubleday and Company; (2) a collection of books and pamphlets published by the underground of several Western European countries during the German occupation in World War II; the gift was made by Mr. and Mrs. Valerien Lada-Mocarski of New York; (3) two groups of Oriental materials: the first consignment of a gift of some one thousand Japanese books from Shigeru Yos- hida, former premier of Japan, and more than fifteen hundred Chinese books pre- sented by Mrs. K. C. Yeung whose late hus- band was Presbyterian minister of New York's Chinatown for thirty years. C O R N E L L U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y acquired its 2,000,000th volume on January 7. The vol- ume singled out for this honor was Animad- versionum in Athenaei Dipnosophistas writ- ten by Isaac Casaubon and printed in Lyon, France, in 1600. Starting with 20,000 volumes in 1868, the library reached its first million volumes in 1937-38. At the present rate of growth of 70,000 volumes a year, it will comprise 3,000,000 volumes by 1972-73. I M M A C U L A T E H E A R T C O L L E G E , L O S Angeles, has received the private library of the late Mrs. Edward L. Doheny. It is rich in art, architecture and fine press books. The col- lection will be housed in a specially designed room. M A S S A C H U S E T T S I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y L I B R A R Y has been given an original manu- script by Sir Isaac Newton. Dr. Sidney M. Edelstein of New York was the donor. The manuscript is a sixty-one-page commentary and translation of a fourteenth-century book on alchemy by Nicholas Flamel. T H E F R E E L I B R A R Y O F P H I L A D E L P H I A h a s received a $100,000 trust fund in the will of Edwin A. Fleischer for the continuance and maintenance of music collection he presented to the library in 1932. It is said to be the largest and most complete collec- tion of orchestral manuscripts in the world. T H E C O L L E G E O F S T . J O S E P H O N T H E R I O G R A N D E , Albuquerque, N. M., has been be- queathed more than two thousand volumes by the late Dr. Joaquin Ortega. They are primarily on the literature and history of Spain and Latin America. S O U T H E R N I L L I N O I S U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has acquired the James Joyce collection of Dr. H. K. Crossman. One of the outstanding private collections on Joyce, it includes im- portant editions and translations of the author's work, holograph materials, associa- tion items, iconography, as well as critical and biographical works on Joyce. Outstand- ing among the holographs is all that re- mained, following the 1943 bombing of Ber- lin, of Joyce's correspondence with his Ger- man translator, Georg Goyert. The collection was purchased through the financial assist- ance of the Southern Illinois University Foundation. A comprehensive catalog is be- ing prepared for publication. BUILDINGS C O N S T R U C T I O N O F A B U I L D I N G of modern de- sign for the Cornell University Library has been authorized despite criticisms from a 142 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - former dean of architecture that it threatens to destroy " o n e of the notable campus quad- rangles in the U n i t e d States." T h e new library has been designed by W a r n e r , Burns, T o a n & L u n d e of New York in straight, modern lines. T h e seven-story building will contain about ten times more floor space than the present main library. T h e older building will become an undergraduate li- brary while the new one will be devoted to research facilities primarily for graduate students and faculty. T H E BOARD O F TRUSTEES of Dartmouth Col- lege has authorized the developing of plans and asking of bids on two additions to Bak- er Library. T h e work will involve filling in portions of two courtyards. Preliminary estimates place the cost at slightly more than $100,000. T h e additions will provide more suitable work and storage space for the Stefansson Polar Collection and the college archives. F O R D H A M U N I V E R S I T Y will break ground and start construction on its $25,500,000 center in midtown M a n h a t t a n this spring. I t will occupy seven and a half acres on two city blocks bounded by West 60th and 62nd Streets, Amsterdam, and Columbus Avenues, adjacent to the New York Coli- seum and the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts. Among the first Fordham buildings to be erected will be the law school and its library, scheduled for completion by Sep- tember 1960. A general library will be built by 1962. T h e university's schools of law, business, social service, education and gen- eral studies will be moved to the midtown center. T h e traditional campus will remain at Rose H i l l in the B r o n x . M A R Y C R E S T C O L L E G E , Davenport, Iowa, has a new two-level library building. B u i l t at a cost of $250,000, it has a potential shelving capacity of 120,000 volumes in a three-tier stack and a maximum seating seating capac- ity of 250. Although constructed along func- tional lines, the building blends with others on campus since its facade employs the same brick. P L A N S have been completed for a new $1,000,000 library at Douglass College, the women's division of Rutgers University. Fi- nanced by legislative appropriation, the building will seat 600 students and hold 150,000 volumes. Construction of the two- story, air-conditioned building will start this spring; completion is set for the fall of 1960. I t was designed by W a r n e r , Burns, T o a n 8c L u n d e of New York. T h e new li- brary will be used primarily for the under- graduate program. T H E C H A R L E S H A Y D E N F O U N D A T I O N h a s granted $100,000 for the proposed new li- brary at W a g n e r College, Staten Island, N. Y. A L I B R A R Y BUILDINGS AND E Q U I P M E N T I N - STITUTE will be held in the University of Maryland's new McKeldin Library at College Park, J u n e 18-20. T h i s institute, planned for librarians, architects, and administra- tors, will be sponsored by the Section on Buildings and Equipment of L A D . T h e pro- gram will include talks and discussions on procedures for planning a library, interior lay-outs, heating, lighting, equipment, site selection, and critiques of plans for new- libraries. Four general sessions and three periods of group meetings are scheduled. T h e A L A display of building plans and related materials will be available for use. Included will be photographs of new build- ings and equipment, publicity for fund raising, building-program statements, and documents on site selection. T h e r e will be ample opportunity to discuss individual building problems with experts on library buildings. T h e registration fee will be $26.00 (pay- able in advance) and will include room and board. T h e A L A section fee will be $10.00 (payable on arrival). All reservations for the institute must be made in advance. Informa- tion about living accommodations, registra- tion, transportation from Washington, pro- gram, etc., is available from Director of Insti- tutes, University College, University of Mary- land, College Park, Md. General inquiries may be addressed to Keith Doms, Assistant Librarian, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Doms is chairman of the Section on Building and Equipment. PUBLICATIONS STATISTICS of interest to college and uni- versity librarians appear in three recent publications of the U . S. Office of Education. Higher Education Planning and Manage- MARCH 1959 143 ment Data, 1957-58, by W. Robert Bokelman (Circular no. 517) presents information about salaries, fringe benefits, tuition and fees, and room and board in 1,146 institu- tions of higher education. Chapter 1 reports 1 9 5 7 - 5 8 salary data for twenty-four adminis- trative positions, including director of li- braries. T h e data are grouped by type of institution and by enrollment category, in each case with a distinction between public and private institutions. In addition to the maximum-minimum range, median, mean, and first and third quartile salaries are given. It is interesting to note that, when all positions are ranked by mean salaries, the director of libraries is not among the first ten in either public or private institutions. Statistics of Higher Education; 1955-56— Faculty, Students and Degrees, by Henry G. Badger and M. Clemens Johnson (Chapter 4, Section I of the Biennial Survey of Educa- tion in the United States, 1954-56) includes data on the professional library staffs of 1,858 institutions. They employed 8,515 li- brarians, 640 more than were reported by 1 , 8 7 1 institutions in 1 9 5 3 - 5 4 . In each case, approximately 30 per cent of them were men and 70 per cent women. Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni- versities, Year Ended June 30, 1957 (Circu- lar no. 541) includes library financial data in several of its tables. In the sixty-nine in- stitutions reporting, a total of $ 2 2 , 2 5 7 , 4 1 4 was spent from current funds for library services in 1 9 5 6 - 5 7 . This was a 7 . 6 per cent increase over the previous year's expendi- tures. However, the gross amount spent for libraries constituted only 2.2 per cent of the total current-fund expenditures for educa- tional and general purposes. When the in- stitutions were classified by amount of cur- rent-fund expenditures, the highest percent- age (3.2) spent for libraries was in those with budgets of less than $ 5 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . T H E P E N N S Y L V A N I A S T A T E L I B R A R Y h a s issued Library Service in Pennsylvania: Present and Proposed, a two-volume report by a research team headed by Dr. Lowell A. Martin. It is based on questionaires from 617 public, college, and special libraries, visits to 154 libraries, intensive case studies in six geographic areas, and discussions with librarians and officials. Academic librarians will be particularly interested in the data on college and university libraries and their possible role as district centers in the public library service of the state. Copies of the report have been sent to all state library extension agencies and all library schools. They are available on interlibrary loan from these places or from the Pennslyvania State Library. A summary of the report may be obtained free from the state library. T H E N A T I O N A L S C I E N C E F O U N D A T I O N h a s i s - sued the first of a new series of bulletins that will inventory all significant scientific sources and activities within the Federal Government. T h e primary objective is to make unclassified unpublished scientific re- search data easily accessible and available to all U. S. scientists and engineers, both in and out of Government. T h e first bulletin is Scientific Information Activities of Feder- al Agencies: No. 1, U. S. Department of Agriculture ( N S F - 5 8 - 2 7 ) . T H E F R E E L I B R A R Y O F P H I L A D E L P H I A h a s published its 1957 lecture series under the title Four Talks for Bibliophiles (96 p., $ 3 . 0 0 ) . T h e papers are: "Adventures in Americana," by Michael Walsh; "Sir Edward Coke and the Carson Collection," by Cather- ine Drinker Bowen; "Old Booksellers of Philadelphia," by George Allen; and "Hor- ace: Alive for Twenty Centeries," by Dr. Merle M. Odgers. T h e library has also re- leased Fraktur: the Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennslyvania Dutch, a talk by Frances Lichten, in a decorative cover designed by author ( $ 1 . 0 0 ) . Orders should be sent to the Rare Book Department of the Free Library, Logan Square, Philadelphia. T H E N E W Y O R K P U B L I C L I B R A R Y h a s authorized G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, to publish its subject heading file. It contains more than 100,000 entries for all subject headings currently in use. It will be pub- lished in five volumes, each with about one thousand 10" x 14" pages. T h e price for the set will be $140. Inquiries may be addressed to G. K. Hall 8c Co., 97 Oliver Street, Boston 10. Technical Translations is a new, semi- monthly periodical being issued by Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce. It will list and abstract trans- lations of Russian scientific papers available from government agencies, the Special Li- braries Association, cooperating foreign 144 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - governments, educational institutions and private sources. It is expected to include cita- tions to as many as 10,000 complete trans- lations a year. T h e annual subscription price is $12.00. Undergraduate Education; Proceedings of the Minnesota Institute contains papers that clarify the present status of library education with particular emphasis on standards for undergraduate and graduate programs. Edit- ed by David K. Berninghausen, the multi- lithed publication may be purchased directly from Nicholson Bookstore, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14. T h e price is $2.00. A L T H O U G H not directly related to college and university libraries, The Effective Loca- tion of Public Library Buildings, by Joseph L. Wheeler, is an important contribution to librarianship. Published as no. 52 of the University of Illinois Library School Oc- casional Papers, this report represents the culmination of long study by the former director of the Enoch Pratt Library in Balti- more, coupled with the findings of a ques- tionaire sent to libraries in cities with popu- lations of 100,000 or more. Copies may be purchased for $1.00 each from Dr. Harold Lancour, editor, Occasional Papers, Univer- sity of Illinois Library School, Urbana. Checks should be made payable to him. R U S S E L L S H A N K , engineering and physical sciences librarian at Columbia University, is the compiler and editor of Bibliography of Technical Writing, 1945-57 (New York: Society of Technical Writers and Editors, 1958. 67 p.). Copies may be purchased from the society at P. O. Box 3706, Beechwood Station, Columbus 14, Ohio. Russian-English Medical Dictionary, by Stanley Jablonski, has been published by Academic Press, Inc. Edited by Dr. Ben S. Levine, the 423-page volume covers the terminology of all principal branches of medical and paramedical sciences. It is priced at $11.00. Detailed information and sample pages may be obtained from the publisher at 111 Fifth Avenue, New York 3. A L L VOLUMES of Poole's Index to Periodi- cal Literature are again in print. They may be obtained from Peter Smith, publisher, 20 Railroad Avenue, Gloucester, Mass. The Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain will now be published three times a year instead of annually. They con- tain authoritative accounts of research and learning written for the nonspecialist and covering many fields. T h e annual subscrip- tion is 215., obtainable from the Royal In- stitution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W . 1. W A B A S H C O L L E G E , Crawfordsville, Ind., has published a 496-page history of Montgomery County, Indiana entitled Sugar Creek Saga. T h e author is Theodore Gregory Gronert. Copies may be purchased for $6.00 each from the college library. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF A R I Z O N A h a s a n - nounced the forthcoming appearance of a new quarterly journal of history to be titled Arizona and the West. T h e journal will pub- lish "explorations in western history from Cibola to contemporary frontiers." T H E SOUTHERN R E G I O N A L EDUCATION B O A R D has announced the forthcoming pub- lication of Southeastern Supplement to the Union List of Serials, a list of serial holdings in three dozen university and college li- braries in ten southeastern states. T h e sup- plement, compiled and edited by Edward Graham Roberts, library consultant for the Board, under the sponsorship of the Associa- tion of Southeastern Research Libraries, the Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility, and the Southern Regional Education Board, is intended to bridge the gap between the Union List of Serials and its supplements and New Serial Titles and will contain only serials which began publication before Jan- uary 1, 1950. Publication is set for April 15. T H E C O M M I T T E E ON L O N G - T E R M PERIOD- ICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association has compiled Periodicals Available on Long-Term Subscription, a list of 700 titles published in the United States which are available at cheaper rates when ordered for longer periods. T h e list supple- ments the report edited by James W . Barry that was published in the Winter issue of Library Resources & Technical Services. T h e first consolidation of this type of informa- tion, it may be obtained for 25 cents in stamps or coins from the Executive Secretary, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago 11. T H E P H I L A D E L P H I A B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L C E N - TER and Union Library Catalogue Union MARCH 1959 145 List of English Translations of Russian Jour- nals has been compiled in response to ques- tions asked of the Center. T h e list is avail- able to libraries included in the Union Cat- alogue free of charge, and to other libraries at $2.00 per copy. MISCELLANEOUS T H E C O N F E R E N C E ON S C I E N T I F I C C O M M U N I - C A T I O N was held in Washington, D. C., December 29-30, 1958. One of the programs was a symposium on communicating science in specialized libraries. T h e panelists were: Col. Frank Rogers (National Library of Medicine), John Sherrod (Library of Con- gress), Foster Mohrhardt (Department of Agriculture), and Burton Adkinson (Nation- al Science Foundation). Verner Clapp (Council on Library Resources) was modera- tor. In his remarks, Dr. Adkinson mentioned that the National Science Foundation is attempting to determine how much money the Federal Government spends annually for science information services, including libraries. Other NSF studies include the in- formation-gathering habits of scientists and the means of improving U. S. library col- lections of scientific literature in foreign languages. C O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y has been granted $95,620 by the Rockefeller Foundation to support a four-year training program for Indonesian librarians. It provides fellow- ships for nine candidates recommended by the Indonesian Ministry of Education. After a year's study for the master's degree in li- brarianship, each student will spend three or four months in training at an American library chosen for its relevance to the stu- dent's future employment in Indonesia. D E L A W A R E S T A T E C O L L E G E will inaugurate National Library Week by having String- fellow Barr as speaker in the Library Cultur- al Series, April 12. His topic will be "Fiction Is T r u e r T h a n History." On April 14, the college library will sponsor an assembly fea- turing Effie Lee Morris, children's specialist for the blind at the New York Public Li- brary. T E L E T Y P E W R I T E R SERVICE has been installed in the North Carolina Interlibrary Center, the North Carolina State Library, and Pack Memorial Library in Asheville. T h e services will be used to speed identification of lo- cations for interlibrary loans within the state. During the experimental period, the center will use teletype to request locations from the National Union Catalog at the Library of Congress for items needed by students and faculty at the university. Cost analyses will be made to determine the desirability of continuing this service. R A D C L I F F E C O L L E G E will offer its sixth annual Institute on Historical and Archival Management from J u n e 29-August 7. It will be co-sponsored by the department of history at Harvard University. Lawrence W . Town- er, editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and director of graduate studies in history at the College of William and Mary, will be in charge of the summer institute. T h e total staff will include eighteen or more experts in this field. T h e class is limited to fifteen students. Two full-tuition scholarships of $200 each are available. Inquiries should be addressed to the institute, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge 38, Mass. A S C I E N T I F I C J O U R N A L is appearing origi- nally in microform as an experiment by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, with the assistance of grants from the Coun- cil on Library Resources and the National Science Foundation. Wildlife Disease will be issued quarterly on approximately four 3 x 5 Microcards, each containing one article with up to forty-seven pages of microtext. A full- size leaflet accompanies each issue, contain- ing abstracts of the articles. As they will be reported to Biological Abstracts; the leaflets need not be retained indefinitely. This experimental publication will test application of microtext techniques to re- search publication. T h e feasibility of serving a small specialist group (the Wildlife Dis- ease Association has only 300 members), the adequacy of scientific communication, sav- ings in cost of publication as well as practi- cal details of format and use of inexpensive reading devices are some of the variables to be evaluated during the three-year proj- ect. T H E E N T I R E F I L E of New York City tele- phone directories, from 1878 to 1955, is now available on microfilm at the New York Public Library. Other copies of the recently completed file are at the Library of Con- gress and the Brooklyn Public Library which shared the cost of producing the 19,166 feet 146 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - of film with NYPL and the New York Tele- phone Company. R O B E R T F . M E T Z D O R F , Yale University archivist, has been appointed editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. He succeeds Earle F. Walbridge and Curt F. Buhler who have jointly edited the journal for the past twelve years. LAW- RENCE S. T H O M P S O N , director, University of Kentucky Libraries will be book editor and H E R B E R T T . F . C A H O O N , chief, reference de- partment, Pierpont Morgan Library, will be news-note editor. E C O N O M I C A L S M A L L EDITION PUBLISHING i s a new service of G. K. Hall 8c Co. Processes developed by the firm for printing of large library catalogs in small editions are being used for regular book printing with runs of 25 to 500 copies. T h e company believes its prices will prove attractive, compared with the normal expense of short-run letter- press. Further information may be obtained from G. K. Hall & Co., 97 Oliver Street, Boston 10. T H E KEYNOTE SPEAKER a t t h e 1 9 5 9 c o n - vention of the Louisiana Library Association, Baton Rouge, March 19-21, will be Dr. Ralph Ellsworth, librarian of the University of Colorado. T h e convention theme, "Now T h a t We Have Built," emphasizes the many new library buildings in the state. T H E A M E R I C A N ASSOCIATION OF L A W L I - BRARIES has announced plans for a meeting to be held in New York on J u n e 24, 1959 for the purpose of determining the advisi- bility of establishing an international as- sociation of law libraries. All institutions, law firms, and private individuals interested in the promotion of the development of legal collections on a multi-national basis are in- vited to communicate their opinions and suggestions to Professor William R . Roalfe, Northwestern University Law School, 357 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago 11. T H E L O N G W O O D L I B R A R Y has announced its sponsorship of a proposed edition of selected correspondence of Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont for the years 1861- 1865 to be prepared by Admiral J o h n D. Hayes, U.S.N. (Ret.). Communications are requested from anyone having knowledge of pertinent materials, particularly letters from du Pont to his fellow officers. Contact Charles W. David, Director, Longwood Li- brary, Kennet Square, Pennsylvania. A BIBLIOGRAPHY of the works of Horatio Alger is being prepared by Ralph D. Gard- ner, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, who would like to hear from persons knowing the titles, dates, and names of publications in which the author's short stories, articles, and poems appeared. M R S . FRANCES N E E L C H E N E Y , associate pro- fessor of library science at the George Pea- body College Library School, became the first recipient of the new Beta Phi Mu Good Teaching Award at the annual meeting of the Association of American Library Schools, Chicago, January 26. T h e annual award was established by Beta Phi Mu, the interna- tional library science honor society, and car- ries a citation, honorarium, and honorary membership in the society. Mrs. Cheney's citation read in part: " T h e expressions of her former students and her colleagues tes- tify to her skill in teaching, her understand- ing of each student as an individual, with deep insight into his capabilities, and to her ability to bring out the best in each stu- dent, helping him to develop his potential to the fullest." ALA REPRESENTATIVES at recent collegiate ceremonies were E L E A N O R W E I R W E L C H , di- rector of libraries, Illinois State Normal University, at the inauguration of Lloyd Millard Bertholf as president of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, on Feb- ruary 11; P A T R I C I A C A T L E T T , assistant li- brarian, Southeastern Louisiana College, at the inauguration of George Thomas Walk- er as president of Northeast Louisiana State College, Monroe, on February 20-21; and K A T H E R I N E G. H A R R I S , reference services di- rector, Detroit Public Library, at the inaugu- ration of Dewey F. Barich as president of the Detroit Institute of Technology on Feb- ruary 28. T H E B O A R D OF DIRECTORS of A C R L has designated the dedication ceremonies for the new library at Colgate University on April 13 as the inauguration of National Library Week for college and research libraries. Some 150 librarians will be among the dignitaries from academic and public life invited to at- tend. Honorary degrees will be given to Archibald MacLeish and Leslie E. Bliss, for- mer librarian of the Huntington Library. MARCH 1959 147 A $15,000 G R A N T to the National Microfilm Association for extending understanding of the applications of microfilm to library and similar uses and to be used in connection with its annual meeting for 1959 has been made by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. T h e Eighth Annual Meeting of the As- sociation will be held April 2, 3, and 4 at the Hotel Mayflower, Washington. Approximately six hundred librarians, archivists, scientists, technicians, government and business executives, manufacturers of equipment and supplies, and others con- cerned with the use of all forms of micro- reproduction are expected to attend the three-day annual meeting, according to Ver- non D. T a t e , executive secretary of the Na- tional Microfilm Association. A portion of the grant will be used to defray the costs of perparation, publication, and distribution of a Guide to Micro-Repro- ducing Equipment, to be edited by Hubbard W . Ballou of Columbia University Library. T h e Guide will provide for the first time comparable illustrated factual information, including prices, about microfilm cameras, printers, processors, reading machines, ac- cessory and other equipment. T h e Guide will be distributed without charge to reg- istrants at the meeting and to libraries. A second portion of the grant will enable the display of experimental and other equip- ment not commercially available. A third portion of the grant will be used to defray some of the expenses of selected archival and library technical personnel from distant parts of the country to attend and participate in the meeting. Theme of the Eighth Annual Meeting will be "A Century of Microfilm Progress, 1859-1959," commemorating the centennial of the first microfilm patent, granted in Paris, J u n e 21, 1859, to Rene Prudent Pa- trice Dagron. Dagron is best remembered for his extensive use of microfilm during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. More than 300,000 letters and dis- patches were reproduced on microfilm and flown by carrier pigeon in to Paris after the city had been surrounded and cut off completely from communication with the outside world. T h e "pigeon post" anticipated the V-Mail of World W a r I I . Examples of the original microfilms will be on display at the meeting. ALA W I L L I N A U G U R A T E this spring a serv- ice to provide librarians, retailers, and man- ufacturers with accurate qualitative informa- tion on library equipment and supplies. This new service is made possible for ALA through a grant of $136,395 from the Coun- cil on Library Resources, Inc. T h e grant will support the project for two years. "Library Technology: A Standards Pro- gram on Supplies and Equipment" is the full title of the new project. It will operate informally as the ALA Library Technology Project. ALA will administer it through an advisory committee appointed from mem- bers of LAD. Miss Katharine Stokes, pres- ident of LAD, has named the following as the advisory group: Keith Doms, assistant director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Chairman; Ralph Blasingame, Jr., state li- brarian of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg; Donald Coney, librarian of the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley; John H. Ottemiller, asso- ciate librarian of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; and Miss M. Bernice Wiese, supervisor of school libraries, Baltimore De- partment of Education, Baltimore. T h e com- mittee held its first meeting in conjunction with the Midwinter Meeting of ALA Coun- cil. Collection and compilation of existing standards for library supplies and equip- ment will be the first major program of the project. As soon as this work is under way, however, the project will establish its free information service for the answering of mail and telephone inquiries. A handbook collecting present standards into a single handy volume is an early aim of L T P . After the compilation of such a volume it is ex- pected that a regular department of the ALA Bulletin will be used to disseminate further similar data. Long range plans for L T P envision the establishment of a testing laboratory and full development of research programs to identify equipment needs of libraries and to develop needed items of equipment. L T P is the result of a proposal first fully stated by Melville J . Ruggles, Vice President of the Council on Library Resources, Inc., in 1957. Mr. Ruggles outlined the need for such a program. Its feasibility was tested in a six-months study conducted by J o h n Ottemiller in 1958. 148 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - Personnel R I C H A R D E . C H A P I N will be promoted to the position of director of the Michigan State University Library on July 1, 1959. He has b e e n associate librarian in charge of readers services since 1955. Dr. Chapin brings an interesting back- ground of academic p r e p a r a t i o n and varied experience to this new assignment. A native of Illinois, he received his un- dergraduate educa- tion at Wabash Col- lege, then went to the University of Illinois for the M.S. in L.S. and Ph.D. degrees. T h e latter was in the field of communications. Prior to going to Michigan State University, he was assist- ant director of the University of Oklahoma School of Library Science where he was a popular and successful teacher and an ex- cellent recruiter. Earlier experience was in various departments of the University of Illinois Library, plus some time in another well-managed institution, the Navy, and a brief stint at Florida State. In all of his positions, Dr. Chapin has demonstrated unusual ability to analyze and to organize, plus exceptional qualities of personal leadership. He is particularly ef- fective in relationships with faculty and ad- ministration as well as with the general pub- lic, commanding both the respect and the support of others. For a young and vigor- ous institution such as Michigan State, the choice seems a particularly happy one. They are receiving a vigorous and capable young leader who has the vision to plan for major progress, the capacity to secure widespread approval and support for the program, and the ability to administer the development soundly. Library collections may be expected to continue to grow rapidly in stature, and library services to be expanded imaginatively. He also has the potential to contribute broadly to the educational program of the University. Among Dr. Chapin's professional contri- butions are one book, Mass Communica- tions, published in 1957, several articles, and earlier, the editorship of the Southwestern Library Association's bulletin. He is chair- man-elect of the University Libraries Section of A C R L and chairman of the Copyright Revision Committee.—Arthur M. McAnally. Richard E. Chapin Appointments JOSEFA A B R E R A is bibliographer in the Ohio State University Library. B A R B A R A B A K E R , formerly cataloger in the Sutro Library, San Francisco, is now librar- ian of the Oakland, California, Teachers' Professional Library. M R S . E V E L Y N B A K E R is cataloger in the Ohio State University Library. J O H N B A L K E M A is librarian at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. E D W A R D D. B E N N E T T , formerly librarian of the Tufts College Medical and Dental Li- brary, Boston, is librarian of the Technical Library of Armco Steel Company, Middle- town, Ohio. D O N A L D N. B E N T Z is assistant professor of library science and co-director of the Cur- riculum Library, College of Education, Uni- versity of Arizona. W A R R E N E. B O E S , formerly librarian of the Chemistry Library of the University of Michigan, is librarian of the Polytechnic In- stitute of Brooklyn. M E R L E N. B O Y L A N , JR., formerly with the Public Health Library of the University of California at Berkeley, is reference librarian at the University of Arizona. M A R Y L O U I S E C A R L L , supervisor of the Mathematics and Physics Library at Prince- ton University from 1948 to 1957, is li- brarian of the Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University. BERNIECE M. CHRISTIANSEN, formerly as- MARCH 1959 149 sociated with the University of California at Los Angeles Library is assistant acquisi- tions librarian, University of Houston. J A M E S P . C L A R K , formerly assistant librar- ian of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, is librarian of the Martin Branch of the University of Tennessee. K E R M I T G . C U D D is bibliographer in the Ohio State University Library. R O S L Y N D A V I S has been appointed assistant reference librarian in charge of the Neu- ropsychiatric Library at New York Univer- sity-Bellevue Medical Center. E D I T H G . D E M O N D is reference librarian of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsyl- vania. DON W. DER is interim assistant librarian in charge of the social sciences reading room, University of Florida. R O N A L D D E W A A L is special collections li- brarian of the University of New Mexico. ELOISE E B E R T , assistant state librarian of Oregon since 1949, is now the state librarian. H U G H L. ELSBREE, formerly head of the political science department of Wayne State University, Detroit, is director of the Legis- lative Reference Service, Library of Congress. G E O R G E C. ELSER is head librarian of Chaffey College, Ontario, California. M R S . K A T H E R I N E T . E M E R S O N is assistant librarian and head cataloger at Lehigh University. B E R N A R D J . F O R D has been appointed head, circulation department, University of Penn- sylvania Library. V I O L A G U S T A F S O N will become head of the cataloging department at the University of Chicago on May 1, 1959. Since 1952 she has been assistant librarian at J o h n Crerar Library for acquisitions, cataloging, and binding. P A U L L. H O R E C K Y has been appointed as- sistant chief of the Slavic and Central Euro- pean division at the Library of Congress. SIDNEY L. JACKSON, formerly at Brooklyn Public Library, is associate professor of li- brary science, Kent State University. M I C H A E L V . K R E N I T S K Y , assistant librarian at Texas A. & M., is on a three-month as- signment as university libraries consultant to the Indonesian government. T h e assign- ment is under the sponsorship of the Inter- national Cooperation Administration of the United States State Department. C H A R L E S T . L A U G H E R is assistant director of the Western Reserve University Libraries. P H I L I P H. L Y M A N is curator of creative writing in the University of Florida Library. R O B E R T M C L E A N is assistant chief, biologi- cal science division, Michigan University Library. R O B E R T E. M A I Z E L L has been appointed to the staff of the American Institute of Physics, New York City, to direct research on the problems of publishing and docu- mentation in the field of physics. N O R M A N D. M A R T I N is reference and peri- odical librarian, Wisconsin State College, Whitewater. W I L L I A M A. M A R T I N , formerly librarian of the University of Kansas Undergraduate Library, is head of the circulation depart- ment of the University of Missouri Library. K A T H E R I N E L. M O N T A G U E has returned to the University of Tennessee Library after a three-year leave spent in Bolivia, where she served as librarian of a six-member team of specialists from the University of Tennessee. She is now librarian of the undergraduate library of the University of Tennessee. J O H N W. M O N T G O M E R Y has been appointed librarian of the Swift Library (divinity and philosophy), and instructor in theological bibliography on the federated theological faculty of the University of Chicago, effec- tive April 1, 1959. Mr. Montgomery has a master's degree in librarianship from the University of California and a B.D. from Hanna Divinity School of Wittenberg Col- lege, where he is now an instructor in New Testament Greek. C H A R L E S D. P A T T E R S O N , formerly head li- brarian of Bemidji State College, is librarian of the Glenville, West Virginia, State Col- lege. V E R N M. PINGS, formerly assistant librarian, engineering library, University of Wisconsin, became librarian, Ohio Northern University, Ada, on February 1, 1959. Mr. Pings was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin in Jan- uary 1959. L. M I L E S R A I S I G is supervisor of catalog- ing, U. S. Military Academy Library, West Point, New York. M O R T O N ROSENSTOCK has been appointed 150 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - librarian and assistant professor of social studies of the newly established Bronx Com- munity College. J O H N SHELDON has been appointed cata- loger in the Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. G E O R G E L. SKINNER, formerly associate law librarian of the University of Oaklahoma, is law librarian of the University of Mis- souri. JOSEF S T U M M V O L L , director of the Aus- trian National Library since 1948, has been appointed director of the United Nations Headquarters Library, New York. M A R I E P . T E K E S K E Y is chief of the North Carolina Interlibrary Center, Chapel Hill. M A R G A R E T H Y E R T H O M A S has returned to her former position as cataloger in the Southern Methodist University Library, Dal- las, Texas. EGON A. W E I S S is assistant librarian, U . S . Military Academy, West Point, New York. T H E O D O R B. Y E R K E , formerly librarian of the California College of Arts and Crafts, is DeGolyer librarian, Southern Methodist University Library, Dallas, Texas. H O W A R D K . ZANBERGEN is assistant librar- ian in charge of the bibliography room, Uni- versity of Florida Library. Retirements FRANCES A M B U H L , head cataloger at the Newberry Library since 1933, retired in November 1958 after more than thirty years of library service. H E L E N D A W L E Y , assistant head of the cata- loging department and head of the social science cataloging section at the University of Chicago, retired on December 31 after more than forty-two years of service. ERNEST S. G R I F F I T H has retired as director of the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, to become dean of the School of International Relations, American Uni- versity, Washington, D. C. E V I E S H A W , assistant librarian of the Ar- kansas State Teachers College, Conway, has retired after thirty-seven years of service. E L E A N O R STEPHENS, state librarian of Ore- gon, has retired after forty-five years of pro- fessional service. JACKSON E . T O W N E , librarian of Michigan State University since 1932, retires from his administrative post in July 1959 in accord- ance with the policy of the University. In 1959-60 he will be on retirement furlough, and he will return to serve two more years as professor of bibliography until his official retirement from the faculty. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Illinois Library School, Mr. Towne served in the libraries of Yale, Iowa State Univer- sity, New York University, and George Pea- body College before coming to East Lansing. At this last post he directed the library in the period of the University's greatest growth. T h e collections increased to nearly 900,000 volumes, and the handsome new building now occupied by the M.S.U. Li- brary was constructed. Mr. Towne's plans for the immediate future includes a wide range of bibliographi- cal research. Fortunately for his many friends, he plans to travel extensively in the course of his studies.—L.S.T. Necrology BESSIE B O U G H T O N , cataloger in the Univer- sity of Kentucky Library since 1931, died on December 17, 1958. M A R G A R E T E G A N died on January 26, 1959. Her writing in the allied fields of librarian- ship and documentation is both intensive and extensive. Alone, or often with others, she produced documents of lasting impor- tance; whether her name is attached to cer- tain pieces or not, she often contributed to the work of others, at their request, by turn- ing her critical and probing mind to the matter her colleagues had in hand. Library school students at Chicago and Western Re- serve who studied with her constitute an- other monument to her gifts; the intellectual time-bombs she set off in them, as in her MARCH 1959 151 written work, are the epitome of superb teaching. T h e discerning student and reader can evaluate her contribution to the forward movement of librarianship and documenta- tion better than I could hope to do through a brief, objective summary of her career and writing. It is of Margaret Egan the friend and in- dividual that it is hard to write. T h e diffi- culty lies in the fact that she was a deeply moving force in the lives of each of her friends, and that she meant something differ- ent to each one. I can speak only for myself, yet our long friendship over rough terrain may enable me to give those who did not know her a glimpse of her integrity, warmth, loyalty, saltiness, and valor. Seventeen years ago, she and I, as students in the Graduate Library School, became friends. We shared many conditions of ex- istence: never enough money for a square meal without a day of fasting to follow, chronic fatigue from trying to squeeze all we could out of the exhilarating GLS experi- ence while working at odd—sometimes very odd—library jobs, and a passion for endless talk on any subject whatever. W e shared too a madness for the old bookstores in the Loop, and often made forays there with market bags and an ill-spared dollar which brought us infinite pleasure and delight. We both had family worries, and we both knew we might run out of money or strength to stay the GLS course. W e bolstered each oth- er up, though on looking back I suspect that I leaned more heavily and often than she did. She had what I knew I lacked, a brilliant, electric mind coupled with a cosmic sense of humor; she threw away lines that profession- al philosophers and wits might have built careers on. My last year at Chicago was one prolonged birth-pang to produce a mere Master's paper; even then her contribution to a colleague was typically thorough and typically selfless. With one hand she calmed and encouraged, while with the other she pointed out fallacy after fallacy, weakness after weakness, oversight after oversight. It was no negative performance, but always the born teacher's gift of turning me back on my own work to better it, to learn from it. And all of this, always, with no count of the cost to herself in time and energy. Later, events separated us. Her letters, though infrequent, were marvels of com- munication, and our occasional reunions meant we could pick up where we had stopped with an immediate renewal of un- derstanding. Margaret Egan's work and ideas and personal qualities affected hosts of others. Her effect on the world of scholar- ship has been and will increasingly be pro- found. Her courage took her into deep waters where she has already demonstrated her great value as an explorer, a mover and shaker. Those privileged to work with her, study under her direction, and share her special professional interests mourn her early death because it is a loss we can ill afford. Those of us who knew her as a true friend as well as a colleague know that we are diminished in ourselves by her death. I can tell you only of one friend's relation with Margaret Egan; other friends could tell other stories, but all would have one central theme, that of a generous and gifted woman whose touch on our lives was in- finitely enriching.—Eileen Thornton. A L T O N H. K E L L E R , chief of the Exchange and Gift Division of the Library of Con- gress and a member of the staff there since 1933, died February 8 at the age of forty- six. A member of both ALA and the Special Libraries Association, Mr. Keller served as a member of many committees of the former and was chairman of the program committee planning meetings of A C R L for the 1959 Annual Conference of ALA in Washington. He was particularly active in the American Association of State Libraries and worked tirelessly in its behalf. He was chairman of its committee concerned with setting stand- ards of service for state libraries. During the last five years, Mr. Keller visited state librarians and other state of- ficials in every state in the Union to im- prove arrangements for exchanging federal and state publications and to increase the coverage of state publications by LC. He was in charge of arrangements for the first Assembly of State Librarians which, at the invitation of the Librarian of Congress, met at LC last fall. T h e success of this under- taking was in large part the result of Mr. Keller's energetic and effective planning. 152 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - T o his committee activities, as to each of the several positions which he occupied at LC since he entered the Card Department there in 1933, Mr. Keller brought a thor- ough knowledge of library procedures, a particular skill in organization and control of materials, and a high sense of administra- tive responsibility. D E B O R A H M O R R I S died in Hammonton, New Jersey, on January 30, 1959. Miss Mor- ris served as librarian of the Fine Arts Li- brary of the University of Pennsylvania from 1906 until her retirement in 1952. During the deanship of Warren P. Laird the faculty elected her an honorary member in recogni- tion of her contribution to the school. Miss Morris' activities were not confined to her work in the University. She was one of the founding members of the Special Li- braries Council of Philadelphia and served as its chairman from 1923 to 1925. She was active as a member of the Art Reference Round T a b l e of ALA and of SLA's Museum Section. She also participated in the affairs of the Pennsylvania Library Association and the Music Library Association. Foreign Libraries C A R L O S L A R R A Z A B A L B L A N C O is interim director of the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela. H . D E B U C K has retired from the librar- ianship of the University of Groningen. F R A N K C H A L T O N F R A N C I S is director and principal librarian of the British Museum. Mr. Francis has been keeper of the depart- ment of printed books and has served the Museum in various capacities for thirty years. C E S A R E O G O I C O C H E A is director of Biblio- teca Nacional, Madrid. P O R F I R I O D I A Z M A C H I C A D O has been ap- pointed director of the library of the Uni- versidad de San Andres, Bolivia, replacing the late Humberto Machicado. School for Administrators (Continued from page 133) have no doubt that I learned a great deal from my three months with Metcalf and company. Much of what I absorbed was factual and specific and should prove useful to a struggling young administra- tor, but I have the feeling that in the years ahead I will derive much more benefit from certain of the less tangible aspects of the seminar. For one thing (and I am not sure just how this came about) I feel that my attitude toward library work has taken a definite turn for the better. Librarians have a distinct tendency to apologize for the profession and I was as guilty of this as the next person. T h a n k s to the seminar I am much better satisfied that what we do is as important to the institutions we serve as anything else that is being done within them. I n short, I think I have a much better understanding of what it means to be a librarian and that as a conse- quence I shall find it easier to be a better librarian myself." T h e educational objectives of the sem- inar were not spelled out in verbose and confusing prose. For that reason one can briefly summarize them as follows: T h e y were to help practicing library adminis- trators further their understanding of the management functions in research li- braries, to sharpen their knowledge of administrative skills, and to increase their effectiveness in supervisory posi- tions. T h e final success of the program can only be determined in terms of the achievements and contributions of the participants in the years ahead. T h e Car- negie Project exposed the fellows to li- brary administration on a high level; development will be an individual mat- ter. MARCH 1959 153 A C R L Board of Directors: Midwinter Meetings B R I E F OF MINUTES J A N U A R Y 2 9 Present: Officers, President Lewis C. Branscomb, Vice President Wyman W . Par- ker; directors-at-large, Elizabeth Findly, Pa- tricia P. Paylore; directors representing sec- tions, Lottie M. Skidmore, Katherine Walk- er; directors on ALA Council, J o h n F. Har- vey, Robert R . Hertel, Newton F. McKeon, J r . , Elizabeth O. Stone, Jackson E. Towne; section chairmen (non-voting), J . Terry Bender, Edward C. Heintz, Carl W . Hintz, Gertrude W. Rounds; A C R L Executive Sec- retary (non-voting), Richard B. Harwell. Guests: Mrs. }. Henley Crosland, Felix E. Hirsch, Robert W . Orr, Giles F. Shepherd, Jr., Maurice F. Tauber, Stanley L. West. Absent: Carson W. Bennett, Fleming Ben- nett, Herbert T . F. Cahoon, Mrs. Mary Man- ning Cook, Elmer M. Grieder, Ralph H. Hopp, J o h n H. Ottemiller, Orlin C. Spicer, H. Dean Stallings, Eileen Thornton, Lau- rence E. Tomlinson, Constance M. Winchell, Walter W. Wright. After a few introductory remarks by Pres- ident Branscomb, Mr. West reported the candidates for office nominated by the A C R L Nominating Committee and the sec- tion nominating committees except the Rare Books Section. (Nominations are published elsewhere in this issue of CRL.) Mrs. J. Henley Crosland gave a report of her work as chairman of the Foundation Grants Committee. General discussion fol- lowing her report emphasized the desirabil- ity of making grants available in both hu- manistic and scientific areas, the necessity for full ALA support of activities concerned with college and university libraries, and necessity for a corpus of facts about college and university libraries in efforts to broaden support of the A C R L grants program. It was the sense of the Board that the commit- tee has full authority to plan and carry for- ward an intensified program. Mr. Hirsch submitted the College Library Standards prepared by the committee of which he is chairman. He summarized the procedure of his committee in producing its document and relayed to the Board selected comments of librarians, administrators, and educators on the final draft. General ap- proval of the draft was enthusiastic, but discussion raised some questions concerning its provision concerning audio-visual mate- rials. Mr. Harvey moved the strengthening of one sentence and, on motion of Mr. Par- ker, the standards were approved with the revision proposed by Mr. Harvey. ( T h e standards will be printed in a later issue of CRL.) Mr. Hirsch suggested that the stand- ards be promulgated by separate publica- tion as well as by publication in CRL and that copies be distributed to administrative officers and to regional accrediting agencies without charge and to others for a nominal sum and that the type be held to meet fu- ture demands. Mr. Hertel moved that the distribution of five thousand copies be au- thorized. T h e motion passed. Mr. Hertel then moved that the Board express its con- gratulations and thanks and the thanks of all of A C R L to Mr. Hirsch and his com- mittee for their long, sincere, and effective work. Mr. Orr reported on the work of the A C R L Committee on Organization. He em- phasized that the committee was primarily concerned with determining areas of posi- tive action for A C R L and its sections and that questions relating solely to internal organization would be deferred in favor of an active program. He pointed out, how- ever, that the proposals of the ALA Con- stitution and Bylaws Committee which will be voted on by ALA Council at Washing- ton will have a continuing effect on A C R L organization and, through it, on A C R L pro- gram. He summarized the conclusions of his committee as that the adoption of the suggested changes would be unduly restric- tive on an individual division in the con- duct of its own affairs and pointed out the 154 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - specific provisions in the proposed amend- ments that might alter A C R L policy. Mr. Parker moved that A C R L oppose all por- tions of the proposed revisions of Article VI of the ALA Bylaws which are unduly restrictive and interfere with the internal administration of the division and that ACRL's representatives on the ALA Coun- cil be urged to oppose such revisions in the next meeting of Council. J A N U A R Y 3 0 Present: Officers, President Lewis C. Brans- comb; directors-at-large, Elizabeth Findly; directors representing sections, Lottie M. Skidmore, Katherine Walker; directors on ALA Council, J o h n F. Harvey, Newton F. McKeon, Jr., Elizabeth O. Stone; section chairmen (non-voting), J. Terry Bender, Carl W . Hintz, Gertrude W. Rounds; A C R L Executive Secretary (non-voting), Richard B. Harwell. Guests: Arthur T . Hamlin, Mary D. Herrick, Edmon Low. Absent: Carson W. Bennett, Fleming Ben- nett, Herbert T . F. Cahoon, Mrs. Mary Man- ning Cook, Elmer M. Grieder, Robert R . Hertel, Edward C. Heintz, Ralph H. Hopp, J o h n H. Ottemiller, Wyman W . Parker, Pa- tricia P. Paylore, Orlin C. Spicer, H. Dean Stallings, Eileen Thornton, Laurence E. Tomlinson, Jackson E. Towne, Constance M. Winchell, Walter W. Wright. Mr. Harwell reported for Mr. Orr on ACRL's representation at the Midwinter meeting of the ALA Program Evaluation and Budget Committee. He noted that re- quests for appropriations to be included in the 1959-60 budget must be received dur- ing this spring. President Branscomb called the attention of the Board to the pamphlet just pub- lished by ALA, Library Opportunities in the National Defense Education Act. There was general discussion deploring the ab- sence in the act of specific provisions to aid college and university libraries. Mr. Branscomb noted the importance of work- ing toward fuller representation of library interests in the preparation of bills to go before Congress. Mr. Harwell praised the effectiveness of the work in this area of Miss Germaine Krettek in the Washington office of ALA and urged that college and university librarians work with that office and the Library Administration Division's Committee on Federal Relations in promot- ing legislation advantageous to college, uni- versity, and research libraries. He reported that Miss Krettek had already called his at- tention to several bills already introduced in the new Congress that are of special in- terest to libraries. Reports were received from the several section chairmen. Most were strictly interim reports. T h e report from the University Li- braries Section (Mr. Hintz, chairman) lays out an ambitious program which has already been initiated with the establishment of committees on academic status, economic status, research, and university library sur- veys. Mr. Bender reported the rapid and vigorous development of the Rare Books Section and called attention to the pre-con- ference meeting sponsored by the section which will be held at Charlottesville, Vir- ginia, J u n e 18-20. Mr. Low made an informative and in- teresting report on the work and plans of the Advisory Committee on Cooperation With Educational and Professional Organi- zations. Mr. Harwell reported briefly for the Advisory Committee to Administer the Rangoon Project (Robert B. Downs, chair- man). T h e Board voted to receive the re- port of the Committee to Investigate the Need for Establishing an Awards Commit- tee Within A C R L (Russell Shank, chair- man) and deferred further action concern- ing awards. Mr. Hamlin reported from the Committee on Committees. T h e Board ac- cepted Richard H. Logsdon's report from the Committee on National Library Week. Reports were received from each of ACRL's editors: Mrs. Margaret Toth, edi- tor of the ACRL Microcard Series, Rolland Stevens, editor of the ACRL Monographs, and Maurice F. Tauber, editor of CRL. A report was received from the A C R L repre- sentative on the AASL-ACRL-DAVI J o i n t Committee on Mutual Interests in the Audio- Visual Field (Richard Chapin). T h e following official actions were voted at this meeting: T o receive the report of the Committee to Investigate the Need for Establishing an Awards Committee Within A C R L and MARCH 1959 155 to discharge the committee with the thanks of the Board; to convey to the ALA Awards Committee through its chairman, Wyman Parker, that the report indicated that A C R L should participate in an awards program only if a substan- tial financial award can be a part of it. T o change the name of the Committee on Foundation Grants to Committee on Grants. T o designate the dedication ceremonies for the new library at Colgate University April 13 as the inauguration of National Library Week for college and research libraries. T o continue A C R L representation on the AASL-ACRL-DAVI J o i n t Committee on Mutual Interests in the Audio-Visual Field and to endorse expansion of the membership of the joint committee to in- clude representation of other ALA divi- sions and of other organizations outside the ALA. Mr. Branscomb called the attention of those present to the lack of a quorum at this meeting and at the point in Thurs- day's meeting when the motion concerning a m e n d m e n t s to the ALA Bylaws Avas adopted. He noted that a mail vote by the Board would be needed to confirm the ac- tions taken by the Board in the absence of a quorum. Mr. Hamlin spoke strongly on the responsibility of Board members to be present at meetings and to participate in divisional affairs. His point was emphasized and supported in further comments by Mr. Branscomb, Miss Skidmore, and others. A R L Meeting T H E F A R M I N G T O N P L A N , a cooperative ar- rangement among some sixty American li- braries, was the principal topic of discus- sion at the fifty-second meeting of the As- sociation of Research Libraries in Chicago, January 26, 1959. A special conference, at- tended by representatives of the Farmington Plan participants and of such groups as divisions and sections of the ALA, the Na- tional Science Foundation, and the Central Intelligence Agency, occupied most of the day. Participants discussed the report of a survey of the first ten years of the Farming- ton Plan conducted by Robert Vosper and Robert Talmadge of the University of Kan- sas Library under the direction of Robert Downs, Dean of Library Administration of the University of Illinois and chairman of the A R L Farmington Plan Committee. After full discussion of the achievements and the weaknesses of the Plan in bringing to this country scholarly books which might not otherwise have been acquired, the con- ference agreed upon the following recom- mendations, which were later approved unanimously by the Association of Research Libraries: 1. "Leadership in the development and coordination of major scholarly acquisitions programs of national scope and importance should be accepted as a major and continu- ing A R L responsibility. 2. " T h e coordinated effort to assure ade- quate coverage of currently published for- eign library materials of scholarly importance should be extended and strengthened, on a world-wide basis. 3. " T h e Farmington Plan Committee should be chartered and supported as the re- sponsible, central committee for A R L in this whole field. Toward this end, the Com- mittee should be adequately staffed, and should be authorized to proceed as may be necessary through subcommittees and co- opted members. It should be responsible for continuous liaison with all appropriate scholarly, educational, and governmental bodies, as well as with appropriate joint committees. T h e Committee's activities should encompass continuous study and as- sessment of needs, operation of programs, and review and analysis of programs in action. 4. " A R L should continue to seek, or it- self provide, funds for secretarial and re- search assistance for the Committee and its office. If possible the Committee chairman and the office should continue to be located together. 156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S - 5. "Certain operating patterns of the Farmington Plan, as they have developed particularly in western Europe, should be modified along lines mentioned by the sur- vey report: looking toward a more flexible and decentralized selection and procurement pattern, while still assuring that adequate records are maintained for purposes of study and review. In accomplishing this, a subcommittee on procurement from west- ern Europe may be in order. 6. " T h e strengthened Farmington Plan Committee should give high priority to fostering and experimenting with flexible, coordinated procurement efforts in other parts of the world, along lines recommended in the area working papers; in pursuing this task the Committee will need to develop effective relationships, as noted in (3) above, with the appropriate working committees in the several areas, in order to be certain of receiving adequate specialized service. 7. "Prior to the development of a system- atic procurement program for better cov- erage of foreign periodicals, the Farmington Plan Committee should institute some sample studies, along lines proposed in working pa- per I I I , to ascertain the adequacy of our holdings, especially in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in engineering. In the meantime, steps should be taken to tight- en up procedures for securing, selecting, and recording sample issues of new periodicals. 8. "Attention should be given to the need for more extensive duplication among American libraries of the important, cur- rently published foreign books. Multiple use of assigned Farmington Plan agents, in important fields, offers one ready-made pro- cedure toward this end. 9. " A R L should continue to bring force- fully to the attention of appropriate govern- mental agencies, educational bodies, and foundations that the national pool of re- search books and journals is of high national importance, that an effectively coordinated national program for world-wide coverage is an expensive but urgent undertaking, and that adequate assistance through direct, long-term financing and through staff aid is in the national interest. At its regular meeting A R L discussed a number of problems of importance to re- search libraries. Edward Freehafer, director of the New York Public Library and chair- man of the ARL-sponsored joint libraries committee on fair use in photocopying, re- ported on the progress made by that com- mittee in attempting to define principles and procedures which will protect both the rights of holders of copyright and the tradi- tional rights of scholars. A R L approved the employment of legal counsel to advise this committee. Lawrence Thompson, director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, reported that plans were nearly complete for a cooperative pool of microfilms of of- ficial gazettes of foreign countries. Reports were heard from committees concerned with microtext standards, with a survey of re- sources in Slavic studies in American li- braries, and with microfilming of doctoral dissertations. Minutes of the A R L meeting and proceed- ings of the Farmington Plan Conference will soon be available from the executive secretary of A R L , William S. Dix, librarian of Princeton University. Art Librarians Form Sub-Section Art librarians organized a sub-section of ACRL's Subject Specialists Section at Midwinter. T h e group plans its first meeting as a part of ALA's Washington Conference. Ruth E. Schoneman, librarian of the Art Institute of Chicago, is chairman of the organizing committee of the sub-section. Recognition of the group of art librarians as the first sub-section of subject specialists came with the approval of a petition from thirty-five art librarians by the executive committee of the Subject Specialists Section at its meeting January 29. MARCH 1959 157 Nominees for A C R L PRESIDENT W y m a n W . Parker, Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Connecticut. VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Mrs. J . Henley Crosland, Georgia Institute of Technology Libraries, Atlanta. Edmon Low, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater. DIRECTOR A T LARGE ( 1 9 5 9 - 6 2 ) Dale M. Bentz, State University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. Neal R . Harlow, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver. COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION C H A I R M A N : Morrison C . Haviland, University of Vermont Library, Burlington. V I C E - C H A I R M A N AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : Henry Alden, Grinnell College Library, Grinnell, Iowa. Donald E. T h o m p s o n , Wabash College Library, Crawfordsville, Indiana. S E C R E T A R Y : Ada E. Berkey, Western Michigan University Library, Kalamazoo. Victoria E. Hargrave, MacMurray College Library, Jacksonville, Illinois. JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION C H A I R M A N : Helen Mitchell, Clark College Library, Vancouver, Washington. V I C E - C H A I R M A N AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : Catherine Cardew, Briarcliff J u n i o r College Library, Briarcliff Manor, New York. B a r b a r a M. Smith, Green M o u n t a i n J u n i o r College Library, Poultney, Ver- mont. S E C R E T A R Y : Frances Atwood, Lasell J u n i o r College Library, Auburndale, Massachusetts. Helen Abel Brown, St. Mary's J u n i o r College Library, Raleigh, North Carolina. RARE BOOKS SECTION C H A I R M A N : James T . B a b b , Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut. V I C E - C H A I R M A N AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : Frederick Golf, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. S E C R E T A R Y : T y r u s G. Harmsen, Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 158 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES- Offices, 1959-60 SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION C H A I R M A N : R u t h M . Heiss, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. V I C E - C H A I R M A N AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : George S. B o n n , Science and Technology Division, New York Public Library, New York. Charles H . Stevens, L i n c o l n Laboratory Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION C H A I R M A N : T h e l m a C . Bird, T e a c h i n g Materials Library, Indiana State Teachers College, T e r r e Haute. S E C R E T A R Y AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : Frances Breen, State University Teachers College, Plattsburg, New York. Fritz Veit, Chicago Teachers College and Chicago City J u n i o r College, Wood- row Wilson Branch, Libraries, Chicago, Illinois. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION C H A I R M A N : R i c h a r d E. Chapin, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing. V I C E - C H A I R M A N AND C H A I R M A N - E L E C T : R a l p h W . McComb, Pennsylvania State University Library, University Park. R a l p h E. McCoy, Southern Illinois University Libraries, Carbondale. S E C R E T A R Y : R u t h C. R i n g o , University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville. J o Ann Wiles, Library School Library, University of Illinois, Urbana. DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (four to be elected) Helen M . Brown, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Lois E. Engleman, Denison University Library, Granville, Ohio. J a m e s Humphry I I I , Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York, New York. Frank N. Jones, Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, Maryland. R a l p h H. Hopp, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis. Marion Milczewski, University of California Libraries, Berkeley. J . R i c h a r d Blanchard, University of California Libraries, Davis. W . Porter Kellam, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens. MARCH 1959 159