College and Research Libraries


News from the Field 

A C Q U I S I T I O N S , G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S 

T H E S T E F A N S S O N C O L L E C T I O N at Dart-
mouth College has arranged to exchange du-
plicate books and periodicals with the Arc-
tic Institute in Leningrad and the Lenin Li-
brary in Moscow and to supply new Eng-
lish-language books for Soviet publications. 
The Stefansson collection, assembled by 
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, is the largest library 
of polar materials in the western world. The 
exchange arrangements were made by Mrs. 
Evelyn Stefansson, librarian of the collec-
tion. 

T H E D E P A U W U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y , Green-
castle, Ind., has been given a complete set 
of Limited Editions Club publications. The 
gift incfudes more than 550 volumes and a 
file of The Monthly Letter issued by the 
club. The donor was Mark P. Haines of 
Sturgis, Mich. 

T H E H U N T I N G T O N L I B R A R Y , San Marino, 
Calif., has acquired the 6,000-volume per-
sonal library of Jack London. In addition to 
books on a wide range of subjects, the col-
lection includes first editions and transla-
tions of the author's writings. The Hunting-
ton Library has added also more than a 
hundred letters written between 1899 and 
1906 by London to Cloudesley Johns, a 
southern California journalist. The letters 
include London's comments on his own writ-
ing, especially The Sea Wolf. These new 
acquisitions augment the extensive collec-
tion of London's manuscripts and correspond-
ence afready in the Huntington Library. 

K N O X C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y , Galesburg, 111., 
has received a collection of books that du-
plicate those known to have been owned or 
borrowed by Abraham Lincoln. The collec-
tion was the gift of Mrs. Donna E. Work-
man of Chicago, who assembled it. 

T H E L I B R A R Y of Sacred Heart Seminary in 
Detroit has received a variety of reference 
books from the Internationaf Order of the 
Alhambra in memory of Edward Cardinal 
Mooney, first archbishop of Detroit. 

F O U R R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S have been desig-
nated as repositories for transfations of Rus-
sian technicaf journals supplied by the Of-

fice of Technicaf Services, U. S. Department 
of Commerce. They are Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology Library, the John 
Crerar Library, Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology Library, and the University of Cal-
ifornia at Los Angeles Library. 

B U I L D I N G S 

B A R N A R D C O L L E G E L I B R A R Y has occupied 
its quarters in the new building, the Adele 
Lehman Hall-Wollman Library, at 117th 
Street and Claremont Avenue, New York. 
The five-story structure cost $2,150,000. It 
houses a library collection which will be ex-
panded to 150,000 volumes, a language lab-
oratory, classrooms, offices, and special lab-
oratories that constitute the social science 
center of the college. Formal dedication of 
the building is planned for the spring, when 
landscaping will be completed. 

B R E S C I A C O L L E G E , Owensboro, Ky., has 
formally opened its new library building. 
Designed by Max W. Brisson, it was con-
structed at a cost of $500,000, exclusive of 
furnishings. 

P U B L I C A T I O N S 

T H E L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S has issued Pres-
ervation and Storage of Sound Recordings, 
a seventy-four-page report of a study by 
A. G. Pickett and M. M. Lemcoe of the 
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, 
Texas. The purpose of the investigation was 
to study the deterioration of sound record-
ings in storage to establish the optimum 
storage environments and techniques for li-
brary use. The tests and procedures of the 
project are described and the results and 
conclusions reported. Also included are the 
best means of storing phonograph discs and 
magnetic tapes in libraries and recommenda-
tions for future work in this field. Copies 
may be purchased from the Superintendent 
of Documents, Government Printing Office, 
Washington 25, D. C., at forty-five cents 
each. 

The Library as a Community Information 
Center, a coflection of the papers from the 
Allerton Park Institute, has been published 
by the University of Illinois Graduate School 

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of Library Science. The opening paper dis-
cusses the spirit of reference service and is 
followed by two papers on identifying the 
library's public and community and satisfy-
ing the needs of the library's users. The 
ALA's Reference Services Division and the 
development of interlibrary cooperation to 
meet informational needs are treated in 
three of the discussions. Other papers deal 
with the training of personnel and the cost 
and publicizing of reference services. The 
growth of reference materials in the social 
sciences, humanities, and the scientific and 
technical fields is considered. Special note 
is made in these papers of important works 
in these areas since 1950. 

Contributors include: Rose B. Phelps, 
Robert B. Downs, William V. Jackson, Peter 
J. McCormick, Harold O. Harlan, Mary 
Radmacher, William S. Budington, Doris J. 
Probst, Helen F. Northup, Joseph C. Ship-
man, Margaret Enid Knox, Mildred Bruder, 
and Mary N. Barton. The paperbound book 
is available from the Illini Union Bookstore, 
Champaign, 111., at $2.00 per copy. 

T H E F I R S T I S S U E of Library Research in 
Progress published by the Library Services 
Branch, U. S. Office of Education, lists sev-
enty-nine projects currently under way in 
various parts of the country. They cover 
areas such as background studies; organiza-
tion and administration; resources; reader 
services; technical processes; personnel and 
training; international, comparative and 
foreign librarianship; and methods of re-
search and evaluation. Copies of LiRiP have 
been distributed to some 1800 libraries of 
all types, including sixty-eight in seventeen 
foreign countries. Additional copies are 
available free from the Library Services 
Branch, U. S. Office of Education. 

Library Evaluation, edited by Wayne S. 
Yenawine, is number 2 of the Frontiers in 
Librarianship series issued by the School of 
Library Science, Syracuse University. In-
cluded in the publication are: "Evaluation 
of Book Collections," by Rudolf Hirsch of 
the University of Pennsylvania Library; 
"Evaluation of Personnel," by Philip E. 
Hagerty, assistant director of examinations 
of the New York State Department of Civil 
Service; and "Looking Backward Is Forward 
Looking," a case study of program evalua-

tion, by Samuel Simon, assistant coordinator 
of work with adults in the Brooklyn Public 
Library. 

Libraries and Librarians (Drexel Library 
School Series, No. 2) is an address by Edwin 
Wolf II, librarian of the Library Company 
of Philadelphia on the occasion of corner-
stone ceremonies for the new library at 
Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadel-
phia, on April 13, 1959. 

A D E S C R I P T I O N of the Yale University Li-
brary selective book retirement program ap-
pears in the October issue of the Yale Uni-
versity Library Gazette. Copies of the jour-
nal are available at seventy-five cents each; 
reprints are free of charge. Requests should 
be addressed to the Order Department, Yale 
University Library, New Haven, Conn. 

T H E R E P O R T of a survey of the United 
States Book Exchange, Inc., by Edwin E. 
Williams has been published under the title 
A Serviceable Reservoir. It reviews the op-
erations of the USBE and makes suggestions 
for innovation, experiment, and continued 
study. Particular stress is placed on the role 
of the USBE in helping libraries to fill 
gaps in periodical files and the means for 
improving this service. The report recom-
mends a more aggressive public relations 
program to increase USBE membership. Cop-
ies of the eighty-one page volume have been 
mailed to all USBE members and to many 
nonparticipating libraries. Libraries that 
have not received a copy may write to the 
USBE at 3335 V Street N. E., Washington, 
D. C. 

D E E A L E X A N D E R B R O W N , librarian of the 
Agriculture Library at the University of Il-
linois, is the author of The Bold Cavaliers, 
Morgan's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Raiders, 
which was recently published by Lippincott. 

R I C H A R D H. D I L L O N , librarian of the Sutro 
Library, San Francisco, is the author of 
Embarcadero, an account of some notable 
Pacific adventures and adventurers of the 
period 1849-1906 published by Coward-Mc-
Cann in October. 

M I S C E L L A N E O U S 

T H E O R G A N I Z A T I O N M E E T I N G for the Inter-
national Association of Law Libraries was 
held in the Association of the Bar of the 
City of New York on June 24. Sixty persons 

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attended. According to its constitution, "the 
purposes of the association are to promote 
on a cooperative, nonprofit, and fraternal 
basis the work of individuals, libraries, and 
other institutions and agencies concerned 
with the acquisition and bibliographic 
processing of legal materials collected on a 
multi-national basis, and to facilitate the re-
search and other uses of such materials on a 
world-wide basis." 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F C I N C I N N A T I L I B R A R Y 

has named Bertrand Smith, Jr., bookdealer, 
and Dr. Ralph E. Oesper, professor emeritus 
of chemistry, as curators of segments of its 
collection. The newly created post of curator 
carries full faculty status and privileges, but 
no salary, for a five-year term. 

T H E R E P O R T on National Library Week in 
New Hampshire was included in the Con-
gressional Record of August 12, 1959. Wil-
liam R. Lansberg of the Dartmouth College 
Library was executive director of the annual 
event. 

M E L V I L L E J . R U G G L E S , vice-president, 
Council on Library Resources, Inc., des-
cribes Russia's national bibliographic center, 
the All-Union Book Chamber, in the cur-
rent issue of Libri (Vol. IX, No. 2, 1959). 
Mr. Ruggles' observations are based prima-
rily on data received during a recent trip to 
the Soviet Union. He sums up the work of 
the Book Chamber in the following words: 

"On reflection, it occurs to a visitor from 
the West that the Book Chamber's achiev-
ments are impressive not only because it 
does its job well, but because that job is 
unique (except for similar institutions estab-
lished in the past decade in the East Euro-
pean states of the Soviet bloc). It combines 
functions which in the United States and in 
Western Europe are carried on by several 
disparate institutions." 

A N E W C O L L E G E , organized by a three-
county educational district, will open for 
classes in Saginaw, Mich., in the fall of 1961. 
Acquisition of book stock for its library is 
now under way, with a planned collection 
of up to 40,000 volumes processed and ready 
for use by opening day the goal. Mrs. Janet 
G. Polacheck, director of libraries, seeks 
help from college and university librarians 
in setting up the requisite buying lists and 
would appreciate receiving such materials 
as booklists issued over the last five years, 

bibliographies which have been prepared in 
connection with grants applications, subject 
bibliographies in use by faculty members, 
etc. Buying lists and bibliographies may be 
sent to Miss Polacheck at Tri-County Col-
lege, c / o Hoyt Public Library, Saginaw, 
Mich. 

ALA R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S at recent collegiate 
ceremonies were: M A R Y D. H E R R I C K , as-
sociate librarian of the Chenery Library, Bos-
ton University, at the inauguration of Asa 
Smallidge Knowles as president of North-
eastern University, Boston, September 8; 
C H A R L E S E. B U T L E R , librarian of Canisius Col-
lege, at the dedication of Duns Scotus Hall, 
Rosary Hill College, Buffalo, N. Y., Septem-
ber 2 0 ; R A L P H M. H O P P , associate director 
of libraries, University of Minnesota, at the 
inauguration of Harvey Mitchell Rice as 
president of Macalester College, St. Paul, 
Minn., October 2 ; G I L E S F . S H E P H E R D , J R . , as-
sistant director of Cornell University Li-
brary, at the inauguration of William Spen-
cer Litterick as president of Keuka College, 
Keuka Park, N. Y., October 2 ; H . W. A P E L , 
librarian of Marshall College, at the in-
auguration of Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., as pres-
ident of West Virginia University, Morgan-
town, October 3 ; M O R R I S O N C. H A V I L A N D , di-
rector of the University of Vermont Library, 
at the formal opening of the Edward Clark 
Crossett Library, Bennington College, Ben-
nington, Vt., October 1 6 ; L U E L L A R. P O L -
LOCK, librarian of Reed College, at the in-
auguration of Branford Price Miller as pres-
ident of Portland State College, Portland, 
Ore., October 1 8 ; B E N J A M I N E. P O W E L L , 
ALA President and librarian of Duke Uni-
versity, at the dedication of the new library 
building and the inauguration of the cen-
tennial year at Louisiana State University, 
Baton Rouge, October 2 2 - 2 3 ; K A T H R Y N D. 
B L A C K W E L L , acting librarian of Macalester 
College, at the dedication of the O'Shaugh-
nessy Library, the College of St. Thomas, St. 
Paul, Minn., October 2 8 - 2 9 ; Lois E. E N G L E -
MAN, librarian of Dennison University, at 
the inauguration of David Alexander Lock-
miller as president of Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity, Delaware, October 30; and REV. AN-
D R E W L . B O U W H U I S , S . J . , librarian of St. 
Peter's College, at the one-hundredth an-
niversary academic convocation at the Coop-
er Union, New York, November 2. 

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Personnel 

O n September 1, 1959, R O B E R T R . H E R T E L 
became the director of libraries and profes-
sor of library science at Illinois State Nor-

mal University. H e 
went to Normal from 
Cortland, N.Y. where 
he was o n the li-
brary staff of the 
S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y 
T e a c h e r s College 
since 1947. H e was 
c o l l e g e l i b r a r i a n 
there since 1951. 

D r . H e r t e l has 
served on the Sub-
scription Books and 
Statistics Committees 
of A L A and has been 

a member of the A L A Council as well as 
of the Board of Directors of A C R L . In 
New York State, he has been chairman of 
the Teachers College Section of the State 
University and the State University Librar-
ians Conference. 

During his tenure as head fibrarian at 
Cortland, Dr. Hertel demonstrated a unique 
capacity for constructive administration. His 
complete reorganization of library services 
greatly increased the efficacy of the instruc-
tional program. Ever receptive to change, 
he maintained a flexible policy which read-
ily adjusted to new demands of both faculty 
and students. H e was vigorously persuasive 
in his requests for additional funds to com-
plete his several major acquisitions projects, 
and gently convinced hesitant donors to 
part with valuable b o o k collections for the 
library. His major activity for the last two 
years was planning the new million-dollar 
library building now under construction. 

Dr. Hertel holds two degrees from the 
State University College for Teachers at 
Albany, N.Y.—an A.B. and B.S.L.S. H e re-
ceived an A . M . degree in English literature 
from the University of California at Los 
Angefes and a Ph.D. from the University 
of Illinois Library School. H e served in the 
Army from 1941 to 1 9 4 5 . — K a t h l e e n G. 
Kavanaugh. 

R U S S E L L S H A N K has left his position as 
librarian of the Engineering and Physical 
Science Libraries at Columbia University to 
become assistant li-
brarian at the Uni-
versity of California, 
B e r k e l e y . B e f o r e 
joining the library 
staff at Columbia in 
January 1953 he had 
served as chief of 
personnef at the Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin, 
Public Library and 
on the staffs of the 
state u n i v e r s i t i e s 
of Wisconsin and 
W a s h i n g t o n . H i s 
background of education has been varied 
and continuous. He holds degrees in elec-
trical engineering (B.S., Washington, 1946), 
librarianship (B.S., Washington, 1949), and 
personnel administration (M.B.A., Wiscon-
sin, 1952). H e has completed course work at 
Columbia for the D.L.S. and is presently 
pushing a thesis through to completion. 

His position at Columbia involved direct 
responsibility for the engineering collection, 
supervision of services to the departments of 
chemistry, physics, and mathematics, and the 
teaching of literature search techniques to 
undergraduate engineering students. In ad-
dition he was frequently drafted to teach 
courses in science and engineering literature 
in Columbia's School of Library Service. 
But even this was not enough to absorb his 
all but boundless energy; since his under-
graduate days at Washington he has con-
tinued his affiliation with the United States 
Naval Reserve. 

In his more than six years of service Russ 
made his influence felt not only within the 
division which he supervised directly but 
throughout the Columbia University Li-
braries. H e has a direct and friendly way 
of dealing with people and problems. His 
instinctive sympathy and understanding of 
the needs of new staff members, for example, 
led him to be unsparing of his own time in 

Robert R. Hertel Russell Shank 

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introducing them about the campus. His 
ingratiating ways with the various service 
departments made dealing with his division 
easy and never impersonal. 

If I were to mention only one of the 
many qualities which have won him many 
friends here it would be his tolerance of 
others, extending in all directions. T h e 
Shanks, all five, will be remembered and 
missed at Columbia. 

W e wish them the best of everything at 
Berkeley.— R i c h a r d H. Logsdon. 

J O N A T H A N R . A S H T O N reported to the 
University of Northern Illinois this fall as 
head of the department of library science. 
H e brought w i t h 
him a g o o d educa-
tional background, a 
good p r o f e s s i o n a l 
background, a wealth 
of academic training 
and practical experi-
e n c e , a n d m a n y 
friends in the library 
world. 

Dr. Ashton is a 
native of Coeur d A l -
ene, Idaho, and has 
two degrees f r o m 
W a s h i n g t o n State 
College and two degrees, including an M.A. 
in library science and Ph.D. in Romance 
languages, from the University of Wiscon-
sin. He has excellent language equipment: 
Spanish, French, Latin, Portuguese, Greek, 
Italian, and German are very familar to 
Dr. Ashton and, in addition to these, he has 
a working acquaintance with Russian, Po-
lish, Dutch, and the Scandanavian languages. 
H e is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. H e 
has been a language teacher in Florida and 
Wichita universities and Colorado College 
and served as humanities librarian at his 
first Alma Mater. From 1952-1954 he was 
on the library school staff at the University 
of Wisconsin as an assistant professor. Just 
prior to coming to the University of North-
ern Illinois, Dr. Ashton served as director 
of the library at the University of North 
Dakota in Grand Forks. 

Many constructive accomplishments can 
be found in that library as a result of his 
five years as librarian. H e changed from 

closed to open stacks; the entire collection 
was weeded and shifted to make material 
more accessible; the staff was increased and 
upgraded; phonograph records and paper-
back books were added for circulation to the 
students and staff; a small lounge and brows-
ing area was provided for the students in 
what was thought to be a very inadequate 
building. 

In addition to many improvements in the 
library, Dr. Ashton made many other con-
tributions to the campus, including his 
editorship of the North Dakota Quarterly. 

North Dakota University is soon to have 
a new million-dollar library, and Dr. Ash-
ton had a lot to d o with preliminary paper 
work on the planning of the building. 

G o o d librarians are hard to attract to 
North Dakota, so certainly our loss is a 
real gain to Northern Illinois University. 
—H. Dean Stallings. 

When S I D N E Y E. M A T T H E W S assumes his 
new duties as librarian and associate pro-
fessor of library science at the Virginia 
Military Institute in 
Lexington a r o u n d 
the beginning of the 
year, it will be a case 
of the Virginian re-
turning to his native 
state. But he will be 
missed from Mid-
w e s t e r n librarian-
ship where he has 
devoted his energies 
for the past eight 
years. 

H e leaves Ohio 
S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y 
where he has held the position of acquisi-
tion librarian and assistant professor of 
library administration since 1956. In this 
capacity he has continued the work of re-
organizing the acquisitions program begun 
by his predecessors and step-by-step has 
worked out with the business office of the 
University greatly improved fiscal proce-
dures. Matthews is a g o o d administrator, pa-
tient and understanding, fair, and con-
tinuously on the search for better methods 
of acquiring materials to serve his institu-
tion. He is well liked not only by his staff 
but by his other colleagues in the libraries 

Jonathan R. Ashton 

Sidney E. Matthews 

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and by the faculty with whom he has worked 
almost daily. 

Professor Matthews' training includes the 
B.A. from Randolph-Macon, the B.S. in 
L.S. from North Carolina, and the M.S. in 
L.S. from Illinois. His professional experi-
ence began in 1950 in circulation and refer-
ence at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
and was followed by similar work and ac-
qusitions experience at Illinois. His initial 
position at Ohio State was as head of the 
serial division, from which he advanced to 
the position of assistant acquisition librarian 
and then to the headship of the department. 

Sid Matthews has a strong and continuing 
interest in Civil War history and in United 
States Masonic history. It is hoped that he 
will be able to continue both interests in 
his home state. He is a member of Beta Phi 
Mu, the American Association of Univer-
sity Professors, is a contributor to profes-
sional journals, and has been active in 
committee memberships of ALA. He has 
served as a trustee and as a steward in 
Methodist churches in Columbus. 

In recalling a native son to head up its 
library program, the Virginia Military In-
stitute is getting a man with excellent train-
ing, good experience, and the energy re-
quired to provide the kind of vigorous 
library leadership which V.M.I, is demand-
ing. His very attractive wife and young 
daughter, together with Professor Matthews' 
friendliness, will insure their quick ac-
ceptance in the Institute community.—• 
Lewis C. Branscomb. 

In January 1 9 6 0 , D A V I D T . W I L D E R will 
become university librarian at the new, ex-
perimental campus of Michigan State Uni-
versity at Oakland which will be selective 

in admissions and will stress liberal arts in 
its curriculum. Under the chancellorship of 
Durward Varner, formerly vice president 
of Michigan State, the entire faculty and 
administrative staff has been sefected for 
imaginative energy and dedication to this 
experiment in higher education. 

In this environment one could hardly 
select a better librarian than David Wilder, 
whose ability to meet the challenge of a new 
and unorthodox situation has been strength-
ened by unusual professional experience. 
After serving as librarian of Hamilton Col-
lege for five years, he became librarian at 
the American University of Beirut in 1951. 
In 1954 re returned to the United States and 
took his present position, assistant director 
of public services of the Ohio State Univer-
sity Libraries. His knowledge of the Middle 
East has been sought by the Social Science 
Research Council, the A R L Farmington 
Plan Survey Committee, and by the Arab 
Club and the Committee for Research on 
International Problems at Ohio State Uni-
versity. His activities also center on the 
school and he was president of the board of 
the American Community School in Beirut 
during his stay there and president of the 
Worthington (Ohio) PTA in 1958/59. 

In all of his activities, he exhibits a well 
developed, native flair for administration. 
People enjoy working for him and mature 
while doing so. At the conference table he 
shows great energy and inventiveness, while 
giving full attention to ideas other than his 
own and making use of all arguments in 
arriving at a decision. His experience and 
personality ought to insure his success at 
Michigan State University at Oakland.—-
Rolland E. Stevens. 

Appointments 

J A N E T A L E X A N D E R , formerly on the Ver-
mont Library Service Commission, is cat-
aloger in the Olin Library of Wesleyan Uni-
versity. 

G E O R G E M. B A I L E Y , formerly head of the 
reference department at the University of 
California, Davis, is chief of reference and 

special services, Northwestern University Li-
brary. 

N. L Y N N B A R B E R is circulation librarian 
at George Storch Memorial Library, Trinity 
University, San Antonio. 

H E R B E R T B O W E R S , formerly reference li-
brarian, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., is 

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audio-visual and library school librarian and 
instructor of library science, Drexel Institute 
of Technology. 

V I C T O R I A B R A D F O R D is a reference librarian 
at Washington University, St. Louis. 

C L I F T O N B R O C K , formerly librarian of the 
social sciences division of Florida State Uni-
versity Library, is librarian of the Business 
Administration Library, University of North 
Carolina. 

E D N A M A E B R O W N , formerly head of the 
serials section of the descriptive cataloging 
division of the Library of Congress, has 
been appointed editor of the third edition 
of the Union List of Serials. 

M O D E N A A . B R O W N , formerly reference li-
brarian at Indiana State Library, is social 
science librarian, University of Oregon. 

F R A N K R . C H A S E , formerly assistant refer-
ence librarian at Peoria (111.) Public Li-
brary, is assistant science librarian at South-
ern Illinois University, Carbondale. 

M R S . B E R T H A M A R T I N C O D D I N G T O N , head 
of the circulation department, Eastern Il-
linois University Library, Charleston, is li-
brarian, Chapman College, Orange, Calif. 

M O R R I S L. C O H E N , formerly assistant law 
librarian at Rutgers University, is assistant 
law librarian at Columbia University. 

E D Y T H E L . C O M P T O N is serials-order librar-
ian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

E M I L Y H O U S T O N D A W S O N has been ap-
pointed education librarian, University of 
Kentucky Libraries. 

K A T H A R I N E S. D I E H L , head of the depart-
ment of library service, College of Educa-
tion, University of Tennessee, has received 
an appointment as Fulbright Lecturer in Li-
brary Science, University of Dacca, India. 

E D W A R D D O R O is curator of rare books at 
Northwestern University Library. 

R A L Z E W. D O R R is circulation librarian, 
University of Cincinnati. 

M R S . M A R G A R E T T A D R U R Y , formerly an as-
sistant, education and religious department, 
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton 
County, is reference librarian, Indiana State 
Teachers College. 

H A R O L D H . J. E R I C K S O N is senior assistant 
in the acquisitions department, University 
of Cincinnati Library. 

J E R R Y L Y N N E W I N G is a reference librarian 
at Washington University Libraries, St. Louis. 

A N T O N I A F O D O R , formerly serials bibliog-

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rapher at Michigan State University, has 
been appointed assistant order librarian in 
charge of order preparation at Northwestern 
University Library. 

W I L L I A M S T U A R T F O R T H , formerly in the 
reference department of the Seattle Public 
Library, is librarian of the undergraduate 
library, University of Kansas. 

R I C H A R D K . G A R D N E R , formerly a member 
of the Michigan State University advisory 
group in public administration to the gov-
ernment of Vietnam, is librarian of Mariet-
ta College, Marietta, Ohio. 

C H A R L O T T E G E O R G I , formerly librarian of 
the Business Administration Library, Uni-
versity of North Carolina, is head of the 
Business School Library of the University 
of California at Los Angeles. 

K A T H R Y N J. G L O Y D , formerly executive 
secretary and librarian, Chicago Academy of 
Sciences, is reference librarian, University of 
Arizona. 

R O M A G R E G O R Y , formerly assistant chief of 
the acquisitions department, is chief of the 
acquisitions department, Washington Uni-
versity Libraries, St. Louis. 

R O B E R T D. H A R V E Y , formerly chief of ref-
erence and special services at Northwestern 
University Library, is librarian of Southwest 
Missouri State College, Springfield. 

D A V I D H E R O N , formerly associate librarian 
at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Univer-
sity, is assistant director at Stanford Univer-
sity Library. 

A L E T H E A H O F F , formerly head of the cat-
alog department at Drexel Institute of Tech-
nology, is cataloger at Washington Univer-
sity Libraries, St. Louis. 

E S T H E R H O L C O M B E , formerly cataloger at 
Ball State Teachers College, is catalog li-
brarian at Hope College, Holland, Mich. 

J A M E S F . H O L L Y , formerly associate li-
brarian of the Epply Library, University of 
Omaha, is librarian of Macalester College, 
St. Paul, Minn. 

W I L L I A M S T A N L E Y H O O L E , professor and 
librarian at the University of Alabama, has 
been appointed special consultant to the 
office of the United States Commissioner of 
Education. In this new position. Dr. Hoole 
will continue to conduct research in the field 
of higher education and its relation to the 
federal government. 

J E A N R . H U M P H R E Y , formerly cataloger at 

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the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, 
is catalog librarian, University of Arizona. 

B E N J A M I N H . J A C O B S O N has been appoint-
ed city planning librarian at the Fine Arts 
Library, University of Pennsylvania. 

R I C H A R D W. J O H N S O N , formerly assistant 
circulation librarian at Washington Uni-
versity Libraries, St. Louis, is assistant cir-
culation librarian at Columbia University. 

E L O N N I E J U N I U S J O S E Y is librarian and as-
sociate professor at Savannah State College 
where he will organize services in that in-
stitution's new building. He was formerly 
librarian at Delaware State College. 

K I R A K A L I C H E V S K Y is assistant engineering 
librarian of Lamar State College of Tech-
nology, Beaumont, Texas. 

A L E X A N D E R F . K A R O L Y I , formerly assistant 
order librarian, Oregon State System for 
Higher Education, is assistant librarian, 
Colorado College, Colorado Springs. 

D A V I D K A S E R , formerly chief of the ac-
quisitions department, is assistant director 
for technical services at Washington Uni-
versity Libraries, St. Louis. 

J A M E S K E N N E D Y , formerly cataloger and 
reference librarian, Lutheran Theological 
Seminary, is assistant general reference li-
brarian, Drexel Institute of Technology. 

R O Y K I D M A N is assistant librarian and 
acting librarian at Tulane University, New 
Orleans. He was formerly a member of the 
staff of the University of Kansas Library. 

I R V I N W A Y N E K R O N is librarian of the Col-
lege of Medicine Library, University of 
Cincinnati. 

D A V I D L A N E is circulation librarian, Flint 
College of the University of Michigan Li-
brary. 

G E R T R U D E L I N N E N B R U E G G E , formerly chil-
dren's librarian at Ohio University, is li-
brarian of the new education library, Ohio 
University. 

R O B E R T L O R E N S O N , formerly cataloger at 
the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamil-
ton County, is cataloger at State Teachers 
College, Terre Haute, Ind. 

M A R I A N L. M A C L E O D has joined the ac-
quisition department of the University of 
California General Library, Berkeley. 

F R A N K C. M A U L D I N , formerly librarian for 
the Mt. Diablo Schools, Calif., is catalog li-
brarian, University of Arizona. 

J O H N M A Y , formerly associate librarian in 
charge of cataloging at Hope College, Hol-
land, Mich., is head librarian at Hope. 

M I L D R E D L. M E T H V E N , formerly head of 
reference and circulation, Division for the 
Blind, Library of Congress, is assistant li-
brarian, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. 

M R S . G E O R G E A N N E M O N G E R is documents 
librarian of Lamar State College of Technol-
ogy, Beaumont, Texas. 

B E A T R I C E M O N T G O M E R Y , formerly head cat-
aloger at Baylor University, is head of the 
catalog department at the Georgia State Col-
lege Library. 

A N D R E N I T E C K I is chief of processing, 
Flint College of the University of Michigan 
Library. 

F R E D Y. O S B O R N E , formerly librarian, Long 
Beach City College, Calif., is librarian of 
Cabrillo College, temporarily located at 
Watsonville, Calif. 

D O N S. P E L K E Y , formerly librarian, Bat-
tle Creek Lakeview High School, Mich., is 
librarian, Lansing Community College, Lans-
ing, Mich. 

E L S I E A. P H I L L I P S , formerly in charge of 
the picture collection, Enoch Pratt Free Li-
brary, is music librarian, University of Ari-
zona. 

R O B E R T R . P O L A N D , formerly co-ordinator 
of technical services, Dallas Public Library, 
is acquisitions librarian, University of Ari-
zona. 

F E L I X P O L L A K , formerly curator of special 
collections at Northwestern University, is 
curator of rare books at the University of 
Wisconsin. 

E V A L Y N R O G E R S is circulation librarian at 
Washington University Libraries, St. Louis. 

H A R R Y R U N Y O N , J R . , formerly associate li-
brarian of Parsons College, is in the catalog 
department of the Wesleyan University Li-
brary. 

S T E P H E N R . S A L M O N , formerly the assistant 
for mechanized information retrieval study 
at the Library of Congress, is librarian of 
the University College of the University of 
Virginia. 

M A R T H A S C H M I T T is a cataloger at the Uni-
versity of Oregon Library. 

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M R S . M I L D R E D R. S H I R K is reference li-
brarian in the general reading room, Carol 
M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute. 

W I L L I A M S I E B E N has resigned as librarian 
of the Traffic Institute Library, Northwest-
ern University, to accept the post of li-
brarian for the Borg-Warner Corporation, 
Chicago. 

J O H N M . S M I T H is in the catalog depart-
ment at the Olin Library of Wesleyan Uni-
versity. 

H E L E N L. S N Y D E R , formerly reference and 
documents assistant, DePauw University Li-
brary, is documents librarian, University of 
Arizona. 

B A R B A R A M I L L E R S O L O M O N , formerly as-
sociate professor of history at Wheelock Col-
lege, is director of the Women's Archives, 
Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. 

G E O R G E A U G U S T S U M M E N T , formerly as-
sistant professor and bibliographer, Kansas 
State University, is assistant professor and 

acquisitions librarian, Drexel Institute of 
Technology. 

A R N U L F O D. T R E J O , formerly a reference 
librarian at UCLA, is assistant librarian at 
Long Beach (Calif.) State College. 

D O N A L D E . V I N C E N T , formerly bibliograph-
er, Wayne State University Library, is direc-
tor of libraries, University of Michigan Dear-
born Center, Dearborn, Mich. 

B A R R Y H. W A T T S of the reference depart-
ment of the Johannesburg Public Library, 
Union of South Africa, has been appointed 
Commonwealth Research Librarian at Le-
high University Library for the 1959/60 ac-
ademic year. 

W I L L I A M W H I T E H E A D is librarian at Ar-
kansas State College. 

J O H N T . W I L L I A M S , formerly an assistant 
in the undergraduate library, University of 
Michigan, is now a reference librarian, Bowl-
ing Green State University, Bowling Green, 
Ohio. 

D O R O T H Y A N N Y O U N G is bibliographer at 
Washington University Libraries, St. Louis. 

Retirements 

G E O R G E J O R D A N B L A Z I E R has retired as li-
brarian and archivist of Marietta College 
after forty-nine years with the college. 

M A T E G R A Y E H U N T has retired as associate 
professor of librarianship at Western Mich-
igan University. 

S A M U E L W. M C A L L I S T E R , associate librar-
ian of the University of Michigan for the 
last twenty-eight years, retired on June 30. 

G R A C E E . S T I L L S O N has retired as chief 
catalog librarian after forty-two years of serv-
ice at Stanford University Library. 

Foreign Libraries 

S H A K E E B A T A L L A H , formerly assistant in 
the science and engineering division of the 
Denver Public Library, is head of the cir-
culation department in the Library of the 
American University of Beirut. 

A N D E R S G R A P E , formerly head librarian of 
the University of Uppsala, died on April 

29 at the age of seventy-nine. 

K A R E L S M I T S has retired from the director-
ship of the University of Nijmegen Library. 

M . T . F R E Y R E DE A . DE V E L A Z Q U E Z is direc-
tor of the Biblioteca Nacional, Havana, Cu-
ba. 

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Necrology 

T H O M A S M A R I O N I I A M S died on August 
22 at his home in Hamilton, N.Y. He had 
been in failing health since the dedication 

of the new library at 
Colgate, but more 
noticeably since his 
return from Wash-
ington in June. 

One is at a foss to 
express his thoughts 
and feelings about a 
long-time frienct in 
public. Our cfose 
f r i e n d s h i p c a m e 
about geographical-
ly, though I first met 

Thomas Marion Iiams him at the Graduate 
Library School. One 

immediately sensed his solid judgment on 
professional matters but, as time went on, 
it became evident that here was a rare 
combination of abilities, very diverse, but 
also highly developed. T o o many people 
are judged by the quantitative aspects of 

C A R O L I N E W E N Z E L , former chief librarian, 
California Section, California State Library, 
died March 24. 

the positions they hold. T o m Iiams was con-
vinced of the qualitative importance of the 
smaller institution, and in a short twenty 
years he brought Colgate University Library 
to the front rank as a teaching department 
of the college. H e should be judged by the 
influence of his library on the institution 
and of his personality on the profession. 

Many will in the future regard the new 
and magnificent Colgate Library as his 
monument. Librarians know his personal 
scholarship. T h e faculty of Colgate know 
the value of his scholarship diffused into 
their work. His staff will remember the lead-
ership he gave them. My own memory is of 
occasional long hours of g o o d talk and of 
the frequent telephone calls back and forth 
on momentarily important items. His aid 
and advice were always available to his 
colleagues.—H e l m e r L. Webb. 

Library Resources for Classical Studies 

(Continued from page 468) 

c o n s u l t i n g the c h e c k list issued b y M i l l s 
C o l l e g e i n 1938. It s h o u l d b e p o i n t e d 
o u t that the c o l l e c t i o n s d e s i g n a t e d " P r . 
7 " a n d " P r . 15" i d e n t i f y the h o l d i n g s o f 
S t e p h e n H u r l e y a n d J a m e s K . M o f f i t t , 
n o w at N o r t h w e s t e r n a n d the U n i v e r s i t y 
of C a l i f o r n i a r e s p e c t i v e l y . 7 9 

C O N C L U S I O N 

I n c o n c l u s i o n , w e m i g h t ask ourselves 
w h a t this survey o f A m e r i c a n l i b r a r y re-
sources f o r classical studies has s h o w n . 
T h r e e things c o m e to m i n d . 

™Qvintvs Horativs Flaccvs; Editions in the United 
States and Canada, as They Appear in the Union 
Catalog of the Library of Congress ( [ O a k l a n d ] : 
Mills College, 1938). 

1. A m e r i c a n libraries are c e r t a i n l y 
e q u i p p e d to s u p p o r t a d v a n c e d studies 
a n d research i n this field. 

2. E x a m i n a t i o n o f the literature o f li-
b r a r y resources reveals, h o w e v e r , that o n l y 
s o m e o f these i n s t i t u t i o n s h a v e p u b l i s h e d 
d e s c r i p t i o n s o f o r g u i d e s t o their h o l d -
ings. 

3. N e a r l y all o f the special c o l l e c t i o n s 
o f b o o k s b y a n d a b o u t i n d i v i d u a l au-
thors w e r e o r i g i n a l l y a s s e m b l e d b y in-
d i v i d u a l b o o k c o l l e c t o r s . P e r h a p s the 
l o v e a n d care lavished o n their c o l l e c -
tions o f H o r a c e , V i r g i l , Persius a n d the 
rest is o n e e x a m p l e o f the vitality o f the 
classics in c o n t e m p o r a r y A m e r i c a ! 

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