College and Research Libraries


Seventy-Seven Grants Awarded 

By A C R L Committee 

GRANTS T O SEVENTY-SEVEN COLLEGE LIBRAR-IES were awarded by the A C R L Grants 
Committee at a recent meeting in Chicago. 
Seventy-four of the grants were made from 
funds contributed for the support of the 
A C R L grants program by the United States 
Steel Foundation, Inc. Three grants were 
made from funds given by a new contributor 
to the program, the National Biscuit Com-
pany Foundation. 

" W e are grateful," says Robert W . Orr, 
chairman of the A C R L Grants Committee, 
"for the continued support of this program 
by U. S. Steel and delighted to add the 
National Biscuit Company to the list of 
corporations who have supported our work. 
A study of the applications submitted to us 
demonstrates once more how great is the 
need of college libraries for help in all areas 
of their activities. What A C R L can do to aid 
them is far too little, but it is good that 
we can do even this little and a great en-
couragement to know that business firms 
are aware of the importance of libraries in 
education and are willing to share in mak-
ing them better." 

Applications in the 1959/60 program were 
received from 320 college libraries. Awards 
could be made only to slightly less than one 
quarter of the applicants. T h e needs for 
which awards were made are generally typi-
cal of the entire set of applications and typi-
cal of the most pronounced current needs 
of college libraries. 

Twenty awards were made for material 
in the sciences. For projects falling within 
the broad area of the humanities twenty-
three awards were made. These break down 
to four for materials in literature, three for 
books in the humanities as a general area, 
three for materials for use with especially 
gifted students, three for books on non-
Western cultures, three for books in religion 
and philosophy, and grants for support of 
language study programs, collections of 
books on art, on drama, or on music, and 

support of a model dormitory library. An 
especially imaginative request for which an 
award was made asked for funds for a col-
lection of paperback books to support a 
"reading and listening crusade to stimulate 
interest in American and British balladry, 
poets reading their own works, and contem-
porary and traditional drama, music, and 
dance." 

Five grants were made for the purchase 
of general reference works, five for the pur-
chase of audio-visual equipment, four for 
microfilm files of newspapers, four for books 
to support programs in Russian studies, and 
three to be used toward purchase of Library 
of Congress printed catalogs. T h e grants in-
clude two to support cooperative projects, 
two for books in the field of education, two 
for books in economics and government, and 
two to help fill general periodical indexes, 
and for the purchase of photocopying equip-
ment. 

This is the fifth year of the A C R L grants 
program. ACRL's Grants Committee has, in 
its five years, distributed over $200,000 in 
grants to well over three hundred college 
libraries. 

T h e 1959/60 committee consists of Chair-
man Orr, Iowa State University Library; 
Humphrey G. Bousfield, Brooklyn College 
Library; Arthur T . Hamlin, University of 
Cincinnati Library; Edward C. Heintz, Ken-
yon College Library; Wyman W . Parker, 
Wesleyan University Library; Luella R. Pol-
lock, Reed College Library; and Benjamin 
B. Richards, Kansas State Teachers College, 
Emporia, Library. 

A list of the 1959/60 grants follows: 

U N I T E D STATES S T E E L F O U N D A T I O N G R A N T S 

A L B I O N C O L L E G E , Albion, Mich. (Norma M. 
Hammond): $300. For materials on the 
teaching of languages. 

A N D E R S O N C O L L E G E , Anderson, Ind. (Vila 



Deubach): $300. For strengthening the col-
lection of fiction. 

A N T I O C H C O L L E G E , Yellow Springs, Ohio 
(Bruce Thomas): $400. For books and re-
lated materials on art. 

A R K A N S A S C O L L E G E , Batesville, Ark. (Mrs. 
Dorothy Sydenstricker): $500. For jour-
nals in biology. 

A U G U S T A N A C O L L E G E , Rock Island, 111. (Er-
nest M. Espelie): $500. For journals in 
geology. 

A U R O R A C O L L E G E , Aurora, 111. (Ethel W . 
Tapper): $350. For books and related ma-
terials on international relations. 

B A T E S C O L L E G E , Lewiston, Me. (Iva W . Fos-
ter): $500. For books on economics. 

B E A V E R C O L L E G E , Jenkintown, Pa. (Mary E . 
Wheatley): $300. For books to support a 
program in Russian studies. 

B E T H E L C O L L E G E AND S E M I N A R Y , St. Paul, 
Minn. (David Guston): $400. For pur-
chase of LC catalog supplement. 

B E T H U N E - C O O K M A N C O L L E G E , Daytona Beach, 
Fla. (Martha Marie Berhel): $500. For 
audio-visual materials. 

B I R M I N G H A M - S O U T H E R N C O L L E G E , Birming-
ham, Ala. (Mrs. Margaret H. Hughes): 
$500. For books on the American theater 
and for books in English literature and 
in history. 

C A L V I N C O L L E G E , Grand Rapids, Mich. (Les-
ter DeKoster): $500. For initial purchase 
of books for a prototype dormitory li-
brary. 

C A R D I N A L S T R I T C H C O L L E G E , Milwaukee, Wis. 
(Sister Mary Stephanie): $300. For files of 
periodicals in education. 

C E N T E N A R Y C O L L E G E , Shreveport, La. (Mrs. 
Alice S. Alben): $500. For American nov-
els, 1800-1914. 

C O L L E G E OF I D A H O , Caldwell, Idaho (Rich-
ard G. Elliott): $400. For files of peri-
odicals. 

C O L L E G E OF N O T R E D A M E OF M A R Y L A N D , 
Baltimore, Md. (Sister M. Madeleine So-
phie): $350. For books and files of periodi-
cals in psychology. 

T H E C O L L E G E OF ST.. B E N E D I C T , St. Joseph, 

Minn. (Sister Conchessa Keegan): $300. 
For books on the Orient. 

C O R N E L L C O L L E G E , Mount Vernon, Iowa 
(Forrest E. Brown): $300. For books to 
support a program in Russian studies. 

D A K O T A W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y , Mitchell, 
S. D. (Mildred R. Eyres): $500. For peri-
odical indexes. 

D ' Y O U V I L L E C O L L E G E , Buffalo, N. Y . (Sister 
Saint Ruth): $300. For back files of Bio-
logical Abstracts. 

EASTERN M E N N O N I T E C O L L E G E , Harrisonburg, 
Va. (Sadie A. Hartzler): $500. For files of 
scientific journals. 

E D G E W O O D C O L L E G E OF T H E SACRED H E A R T , 
Madison, Wis. (Sister M. Jerome): $300. 
For books to support courses in nursing. 

E L I Z A B E T H T O W N C O L L E G E , Elizabethtown, Pa. 
(Emily C. Rahter): $500. For files of jour-
nals in chemistry. 

E L M I R A C O L L E G E , Elmira, N. Y . (Anne J. 
Morse): $500. For use toward purchase of 
LC catalog of printed cards. 

E M O R Y AND H E N R Y C O L L E G E , Emory, Va. 
(Helen Power): $300. For reference ma-
terials in chemistry. 

ERSKINE C O L L E G E , Due West, S. C . (Grace 
Dawson): $350. For sets of the works of 
selected authors. 

F A I R F I E L D U N I V E R S I T Y , Fairfield, Conn. (Rev. 
Francis A. Small): $500. For files of jour-
nals in psychology. 

FISK U N I V E R S I T Y , Nashville, Tenn. (Arna 
Bontemps): $500. For photo-copy equip-
ment. 

F L O R I D A PRESBYTERIAN C O L L E G E , St. Peters-
burg, Fla. (Stewart P. Smith): $500. For 
files of journals in physics. 

G R A C E L A N D C O L L E G E , Lamoni, Iowa (Mrs. 
Cleo Hanthorne Moon): $300. For books 
on religion and philosophy. 

G R A N D C A N Y O N C O L L E G E , Phoenix, Ariz. 
(Mrs. Jean H. Riley): $300. For books and 
related materials for its curriculum library. 

H A M P T O N INSTITUTE, Hampton, Va. (Miles 
M. Jackson): $500. For audio-visual equip-
ment. 

H A R D I N - S I M M O N S U N I V E R S I T Y , Abilene, Tex. 

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(Mabel E. Willoughby): $500. For files of 
journals in paleontology. 

H E I D E L B E R G C O L L E G E , Tiffin, Ohio (Wanda 
J. Calhoun): $300. For materials to sup-
port new courses in non-Western cultures. 

H I R A M C O L L E G E , Hiram, Ohio (Thelma R. 
Bumbaugh): $450. For files of journals in 
the sciences. 

H O L Y F A M I L Y C O L L E G E , Philadelphia, Pa. 
(Sister M. Jane): $300. For books and 
periodicals in the sciences. 

H O P E C O L L E G E , Holland, Mich. (John R . 
May): $300. For books and related ma-
terials in psychology. 

FIUNTINGDON C O L L E G E , Montgomery, Ala. (R. 
Glenn Massengale): $500. For purchase 
of a portion of the files of the New York 
Times on microfilm. 

J O H N C A R R O L L U N I V E R S I T Y , Cleveland, Ohio 
(Leah Yabroff): $350. For purchase of 
paperback books to be used in connection 
with audio-visual materials in support of 
a "reading and listening crusade." 

JUDSON C O L L E G E , Marion, Ala. (Mrs. Sarah 
B. Holland): $250. For reference books in 
the sciences. 

K E N T U C K Y W E S L E Y A N C O L L E G E , Owensboro, 
Ky. (Dan M. King): $500. For foreign-
language reference books. 

K E U K A C O L L E G E , Keuka Park, N . Y . (Frances 
V. Wilkins): $500. For files of journals in 
biology. 

K N O X V I L L E C O L L E G E , Knoxville, Tenn. (Rea 
Whetstone): $300. For materials for a loan 
service of prints. 

L E W I S C O L L E G E OF SCIENCE AND T E C H N O L -
OGY, Lockport, 111. (A. V. Rybiansky): 
$500. For replacement of files of Biological 
Abstracts and Chemical Abstracts de-
stroyed by fire in January 1959. 

L Y C O M I N G C O L L E G E , Williamsport, Pa. (M. 
Ruth Grierson): $400. For purchase of LC 
catalog supplement. 

M C P H E R S O N C O L L E G E , McPherson, Kans. 
(Virginia Harris): $300. For books for its 
drama collection. 

M A R Y B A L D W I N C O L L E G E , Staunton, Va. (Mrs. 
Gertrude C. Davis): $400. For books on 
government. 

M E R E D I T H C O L L E G E , Raleigh, N. C . (Hazel 
Baity): $400. For books on anthropology 
and comparative cultures. 

M I D L A N D C O L L E G E , Fremont, Nebr. (Edith 
P. Stickney): $450. For work on union 
list of periodicals in Nebraska college 
libraries. 

M I L T O N C O L L E G E , Milton, Wis. (Lois Bird): 
$300. For books in education and for 
music scores. 

M O U N T M A R Y C O L L E G E , Milwaukee, Wis. 
(Sister M. Angela Merici): $400. For books 
to support new courses in the history 
of Russia, the Far East, and the Middle 
East. 

M O U N T M E R C Y C O L L E G E , Pittsburgh, Pa. 
(Sister M. Camillus): $300. For books on 
non-Western cultures. 

O K L A H O M A B A P T I S T U N I V E R S I T Y , Shawnee, 
Okla. (I,. B. Spencer): $400. For music 
scores. 

O K L A H O M A C I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y , Oklahoma 
City, Okla. (Frances Kennedy): $400. For 
decennial index to Chemical Abstracts. 

O L I V E T C O L L E G E , Olivet, Mich. (George 
Hanson): $450. For purchase of materials 
in literature. 

P A C I F I C L U T H E R A N C O L L E G E , Parkland, Wash. 
(Frank H. Haley): $400. For purchase of 
a portion of the files of the New York 
Times on microfilm. 

R I C K E R C O L L E G E , Houlton, Me. (Margaret 
Love Akeley): $500. For audio-visual ma-
terials to support courses in music and 
art. 

R I V I E R C O L L E G E , Nashua, N. H. (Sister Al-
bina-Marie): $300. For reference books. 

R O A N O K E C O L L E G E , Salem, Va. (Mrs. Lucile 
D. Snow): $300. For books in support of 
a program in Russian studies and for gen-
eral reference books. 

R O C K F O R D C O L L E G E , Rockford, 111. (Mary 
Jane Carr): $400. For books in the sci-
ences. 

R O S A R Y C O L L E G E , River Forest, 111. (Sister 
M. Tobias): $300. For purchase in micro-
form of files of periodicals. 

S T . V I N C E N T C O L L E G E , Latrobe, Pa. (Rev. 
Fintan R. Shoniker): $300. For purchase 

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of books for special collection for the use 
of honor students. 

S H O R T E R C O L L E G E , Rome, Ga. (Humphrey 
A. Olsen): $300. For reference books. 

STETSON U N I V E R S I T Y , Delancl, Fla. (Bob. L . 
Mowery): $500. For purchase of a portion 
of the files of the New York Times on 
microfilm. 

T E X A S L U T H K R A N C O L L E G E , Seguin, Tex. 
(Warren Lussky): $500. For reference 
books. 

T R I N I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y , San Antonio, T e x . 
(John C. Abbott): $300. For reproduction 
of catalog cards for exchange with co-
operating research institute. 

U R S U L I N E C O L L E G E , Louisville, Ky. (Sister M. 
Giovanni): $450. For periodicals and ref-
erence books. 

V I L L A M A D O N N A C O L L E G E , Covington, Ky. 
(Sister Mary Teresita): $300. For books 
in mathematics. 

V I T E R B O C O L L E G E , LaCrosse, Wis. (Sister M . 
Frances Claire): $300. For books for spe-
cial use with gifted students. 

W A Y L A N D B A P T I S T C O L L E G E , Plainview, Tex. 

(Florrie Conway): $300. For books in the 
sciences. 

W E S T M I N S T E R C O L L E G E , Fulton, Mo. (P. G . 
Morrison): $300. For books on religion. 

W E S T M O N T C O L L E G E , Santa Barbara, Calif. 
(John E. Kephart): $350. For books on art. 

W H I T M A N C O L L E G E , Walla Walla, Wasii. 
(Ruth S. Reynolds): $300. For reference 
books. 

W I L B E R F O R C E U N I V E R S I T Y , Wilberforce, Ohio 
(C. LeRoy Jordan): $300. For audio-visual 
equipment. 

N A T I O N A L B I S C U I T C O M P A N Y F O U N D A T I O N 
G R A N T S 

B O W D O I N C O L L E G E , Brunswick, Me. (Ken-
neth J. Boyer): $400. For microfilm file of 
the London Times, 1955-60. 

G O L D E N G A T E C O L L E G E , San Francisco, 
Calif. (Paul Kruse): $300. For basic ma-
terials to support new department of gen-
eral studies. 

W A S H I N G T O N A N D JEFFERSON C O L L E G E , Wash-
ington, Pa. (Edwin K. Tolan): $300. For 
reference books in chemistry. 

A C R L Meetings at Midwinter 
T h e A C R L Board of Directors will meet twice at the M i d w i n t e r m e e t i n g of 

A L A , at 2:00 P.M. T h u r s d a y , January 28, a n d 10:00 A.M. Friday, January 29. Steer-
i n g committees of the University Library Section, the T e a c h e r E d u c a t i o n Libraries 
Section, a n d the Subject Specialists Section will meet at 10:00 A.M. T h u r s d a y , 
January 28. A l s o scheduled to meet T h u r s d a y , January 28, are: the C o m m i t t e e o n 
N a t i o n a l Library W e e k (8:30 A . M . ) ; the State Represen atives (4:30 P . M . ) ; the Pub-
lications C o m m i t t e e (4:30 P . M . ) ; the C o m m i t t e e o n C rganization (4:30 P . M . and 
8:30 P . M . ) ; the C o m m i t t e e o n Standards (4:30 P . M . and 8 : 3 0 P . M . ) ; and the C o m m i t -
tee o n Committees (8:30 P . M . ) . O n Friday, January 29, the Budget C o m m i t t e e will 
meet at n o o n ; the Grants C o m m i t t e e at 2:00 P.M.; and the C o m m i t t e e o n the D u p l i -
cates E x c h a n g e U n i o n at 4 : 3 0 P.M. T h e editorial staff of CRL will also meet at 
4 : 3 0 Friday a f t e r n o o n . T h e N o m i n a t i n g C o m m i t t e e will meet at 7:30 A.M. Satur-
day, January 30. T h e f o l l o w i n g University Library Section committees will meet 
Friday, January 29: the Research a n d D e v e l o p m e n t C o m m i t t e e , the Surveys C o m -
mittee, a n d the U r b a n Libraries C o m m i t t e e at 2:00 P.M.; and the A c a d e m i c Status 
C o m m i t t e e a n d the E c o n o m i c Status C o m m i t t e e at 4 : 3 0 P.M. 

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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 F I L M L I B R A R Y of Boston University 
has been doubled in size with a self-amortiz-
ing $100,000 purchase of complete libraries 
of the nation's three largest educational film 
producers. With the acquisition of these 
films, the BU Film Library can offer a total 
of 3,000 film titles on more than twenty-five 
educational subjects. T h e three film com-
panies represented in their entirety in the 
library are Coronet Films, Encyclopaedia 
Britannica Films and McGraw-Hill Text 
Film Division. 

T H E FRIENDS of the Dartmouth Library 
contributed rare books, manuscripts, prints, 
and paintings worth more than $100,000 to 
the library in the past year. 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K E N T U C K Y L I B R A R Y 
has acquired the papers of Jouett Shouse, 
native Kentuckian who was active in na-
tional politics. T h e correspondence runs 
from 1911 to 1959, but covers chiefly Shouse's 
activities from 1915 to 1939. The collection 
contains publications and press releases of 
the organizations Shouse directed, and ap-
proximately three hundred scrapbooks cov-
ering the period. 

N O R T H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y h a s 
acquired a complete set of The Pamphleteer, 
an early nineteenth-century English publica-
tion containing 577 pamphlets in twenty-
nine volumes. The collection includes 
reprints and original pamphlets issued be-
tween 1813 and 1828. They cover a wide va-
riety of subjects with politics, economics, 
and business predominating. 

The library has received as a gift from 
Dr. Borivoj Franko-Filipasic a collection of 
about 1,100 items, many in the field of Yu-
goslav literature. 

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 obtained approximately eight hundred 
volumes of French history and literature 
from the private library of Franklin Day of 
New York. T h e collection consists mainly of 
works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century 
writers, historians, and public figures. 

T h e SIU Library has begun to acquire the 
Human Relations Area Files, consisting of 
more than one and one-half million items 

covering 170 world cultures. The files con-
sist of 5 " X 8 " cards (full-size print, not mi-
crotext) arranged by culture and topic. SIU 
is one of eighteen universities in the country 
that participate in this program. The other 
universities in the Midwest are Chicago, 
Iowa, Michigan, and Indiana. 

B U I L D I N G S 

T H E F R A N C I S B A C O N F O U N D A T I O N , I N C . , 
will move its headquarters and library from 
Pasadena to Claremont early in 1960. Con-
struction of a new building on the Clare-
mont College campus has already begun. It 
will be adjacent to the faculty house and 
near Honnold Library. The architects are 
Smith, Powell & Morgridge. Completion is 
scheduled for next spring. T h e foundation 
was established in 1938 by the late Walter 
Conrad Arensberg and his wife, Louise Ste-
vens Arensberg of Los Angeles. Its library 
brings together one of the most extensive 
collections of Bacon material in the world 
today. 

B A L D W I N W A L L A C E C O L L E G E has dedicated 
its new $1,000,000 Ritter Memorial Library. 
The three-story modular building has a ca-
pacity of 150,000 volumes (the present col-
lection is 80,000) and seats for 600 students, 
about one-third of the present enrollment. 
The plan provides for open stacks, conven-
iently organized reader service areas, an 
auditorium, and rooms for microfilm reading, 
record listening, typing, and meetings. The 
processing room is on the same floor with 
the main catalog and reference collection. In 
addition to conventional library tables, 
desks, and chairs, lounge furniture is in-
cluded on every floor. 

A G R E E M E N T has been reached on the basic 
architectural features of the addition to the 
Iowa State University Library. It will be 
five stories high with a perimeter of 74 / xl29/ 
T h e floor area is estimated at 52,100 square 
feet, about 75 per cent more space than is 
now available. Assuming the total cost of the 
building and equipment will be equal to the 
$1,312,500 appropriation, the cost per square 
foot of space will be $25.10. T h e cost per 

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cubic foot, based on a total of 678,300 cubic 
feet, will be $1.94, Details of the building, 
including an elevation, appear in The Li-
brary at Iowa State for October 28, 1959. 

T H E M E T R O P O L I T A N M U S E U M O F A R T i n 
New York City is planning to build a new 
$2,000,000 library with twice the book ca-
pacity of its present unit. T h e new library 
will be named for the late Thomas J. Wat-
son, industrialist and museum trustee. It will 
occupy a lOO'XIOO' space now occupied by 
the present library and two courtyards. T h e 
city will help finance the project. Prelimi-
nary plans have been approved and work 
should begin in 1961. T h e architects are 
Brown, Lawford and Forbes. 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S C R A N T O N has begun 
construction of a new library building that 
will cost approximately $800,000. T h e three-
story edifice will contain 418,900 cubic feet 
of space. It will have room for 150,000 vol-
umes and 500 seats. T o be constructed of 
brick and glass, the building has been de-
signed to admit a maximum amount of light 
and a minimum of noise. It is scheduled for 
occupancy in or before September 1960. 

T H E U N D E R G R A D U A T E L I B R A R Y o f t h e U n i -
versity of South Carolina is the first of its 
type in the South. It has shelf space for 60,-
000 volumes, primarily for students working 
for the bachelor's degree. T h e open-stack ar-
rangement allows free access to the entire 
collection. T h e new building contains 40,-
000 square feet of floor space. Although the 
design is functional, it was given a special 
merit awarded by the regional architect's as-
sociation. A descriptive brochure has been 
issued by the university. 

U P S A L A C O L L E G E has received $25,000 
from the Kresge Foundation for a new li-
brary conditional upon raising the remain-
der of the necessary funds. Previously the 
Charles Hayden Foundation gave $100,000 
with the same stipulation, and the Charles 
A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc., donated $5,-
000. T h e new library will cost an estimated 
$1,250,000. During the next two years the 
college will seek major grants for the library 
from foundations, business, and industry. At 
the same time a drive for funds for higher 
education will take place within the Augus-
tana Church. Upsala College hopes to re-
ceive $1,000,000 from this campaign. These 
funds will be used for the construction of 
the library and a new science building. 

M E E T I N G S 

T H E M E E T I N G of the American Documenta-
tion Institute at Lehigh University attracted 
180 registrants to hear papers evaluating in-
dexing experience and searching methods. 
Emphasis was placed on documentation ex-
perience with collections of 50,000 docu-
ments or less. Among the invited papers 
were considerations of "uniterms," descrip-
tors, subject headings, and classification as 
means of organizing collections. Document-
card and index-card systems and the limits 
of mechanization in small collections also 
were the subjects of invited papers. T h e 
three-day meeting closed with a panel dis-
cussion of the extrapolation that can be 
made to larger systems from experience with 
small collections. 

T H E M E E T I N G of the American Philosophi-
cal Library in November was the occasion 
of the formal opening of the society's new 
$2,000,000 library hali. Among the speakers 
were Kenneth M. Setton, director of li-
braries, University of Pennsylvania ("From 
Medieval to Modern Libraries"); Emerson 
Greenaway, director of the Free Library of 
Philadaelphia ( " T h e Relation of Library 
Buildings to Library Functions"); and Rich-
ard H. Shryock, librarian, American Philo-
sophical Society ( " T h e Library of the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society"). 

T H E L I B R A R Y C E N T E R of the Drexel In-
stitute of Technology, Philadelphia, was for-
mally dedicated on December 8. T h e cere-
monies included a library science colloquium 
on the relative importance of academic and 
special libraries in supplying scientific in-
formation and an evaluation of education 
for special librarianship. T h e speakers were: 
Burton W . Adkinson, head, Office of Science 
Information, National Science Foundation; 
George S. Bonn, chief, Science and Tech-
nology Division, New York Public Library; 
John McGowan, director, Franklin Institute 
Library; and John Carson Rather, specialist 
for college and research libraries, U. S. Of-
fice of Education. 

T H E E A S T E R N C O L L E G E L I B R A R I A N S C O N -
F E R E N C E was held on November 28 at Co-
lumbia University. T h e theme was "Where 
Shall the Academic Library Find Its Leader-
ship?" Dr. Robert E. Moody, director of li-
braries, Boston University, and Dr. William 

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S. Dix, director of libraries, Princeton Uni-
versity, considered the role of the faculty. 
Dr. John F. Harvey, director of libraries and 
dean of the library school, Drexel Institute 
of Technology, and Dr. Louis Shores, dean 
of the library school, Florida State Univer-
sity, discussed the role of the library school 
in training administrators. Approximately 
two hundred librarians attended. 

T H E T H I R D M E E T I N G of the Inter-American 
Cultural Council was held in San Juan, 
Puerto Rico, November 22 to December 2. 
Marietta Daniels, associate librarian of the 
Pan American Union, was a member of the 
official delegation of the Organization of 
American States. T h e council, a specialized 
organ of the OAS, reviews current cultural 
activities in the Americas and determines in 
general terms the work program of the Pan 
American Union in cultural matters. At its 
session in Puerto Rico the council consid-
ered activities in the field of library and bib-
liographic development that should be car-
ried on by the Pan American Union. It dis-
cussed two draft inter-American conventions 
on the exchange of publications and the 
free circulation of publications. These con-
ventions will be considered formally by the 
eleventh Inter-American Conference, sched-
uled for Quito, Ecuador, in February 1960. 

T H E M I D W E S T A C A D E M I C L I B R A R I A N S ' C O N -
FERENCE will be held at Grinnell College, 
Grinnell, Iowa, on Friday, April 29, and 
Saturday, April 30, 1960. 

D E D I C A T I O N C E R E M O N I E S f o r t h e n e w L o u -
isiana State University Library featured a 
panel discussion on " T h e Importance of 
Higher Education," a banquet, an academic 
convocation, and a series of programs cen-
tered on academic library work. Benjamin E. 
Powell, librarian of Duke University and 
president of the American Library Associa-
tion, was the principal speaker at the convo-
cation. T h e program speakers and their 
topics were: Robert H. Muller, assistant di-
rector of libraries, University of Michigan, 
"Library Buildings for Tomorrow"; Maurice 
F. Tauber, professor, School of Library 
Service, Columbia University, "Library 
Buildings and Technical Services"; and 
Robert B. Downs, dean of library adminis-
tration, University of Illinois, "Some Prob-
lems of College and University Libraries." 

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

Publishers' Weekly has begun to print 
Dewey Decimal Classification numbers and 
Library of Congress subject headings in its 
"Weekly Record" of new U. S. books. In 
addition, each listing will follow the author 
entry and descriptive cataloging information 
on the LC card. Each month listings will be 
cumulated, arranged by classification num-
ber, indexed by author and title, and issued 
in a new publication The American Book 
Publishing Record. T h e first number is 
planned for February. T h e annual subscrip-
tion price will be $10. 

T H E I L L I N O I S S T A T E H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y 
has been empowered by state law to micro-
film historic state newspapers. During this 
biennium $50,000 is budgeted for the project 
which is expected to take about ten years. 
Copies of the films will be available for sale 
at cost. T h e project was sponsored by the 
Illinois Library Association and the Illinois 
Press Association. 

T H E P A P E R S presented at the University 
of Michigan conference on " T h e Under-
graduate and Lifetime Reading" have ap-
peared in a book entitled Reading for Life: 
Developing the College Student's Lifetime 
Reading Interest (University of Michigan 
Press). 

T H E FIRST V O L U M E of a projected forty-
volume Papers of Benjamin Franklin has 
been published by the Yale University Press 
under the editorship of Professor Leonard 
W . Labaree. It covers the period from 
Franklin's birth in January 1706 to Decem-
ber 31, 1734. T h e volume contains more 
than three times the material in the last 
definitive colection of Franklin papers pub-
lished fifty years ago. T h e remaining vol-
umes will be issued over the next decade as 
a cooperative venture of the American Philo-
sophical Society of Philadelphia and Yale 
University. Major financial assistance has 
been given by a large grant from Life maga-
zine. 

T H E F A L L 1959 ISSUE of The Southeastern 
Librarian is devoted almost entirely to pa-
pers on the small college library and its 
special problems. Although based largely on 
experience in the Southeast, the discussions 
of library development, periodicals, selected 
policies, buildings, standards, and statistics 
have wider significance. While the supply 

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lasts, copies may be obtained from the edi-
tor, W . Porter Kellam, director of libraries, 
University of Georgia, Athens. 

T H E SECOND R E P O R T on Nonconventional 
Technical Information Systems in Current 
Use has been issued by the National Science 
Foundation. T h e report consists of descrip-
tions of technical information systems cur-
rently in operation embodying new princi-
ples for the organization of subject matter 
or using automatic equipment for storage 
and search. Among the systems described are 
twenty-four that store references, seven that 
store data, and three used to prepare in-
dexes. T h e information includes: name and 
address of the organization; name of person 
responsible for the system; details, including 
documents in the system, personnel, analysis 
of material, operation, size, and auxiliary 
files; and publications describing the system. 
Copies of this report (NSF-59-49) are avail-
able from the Superintendent of Documents, 
U. S. Government Printing Office, Wash-
ington 25, D. C., for thirty cents each. 

T H E R O D G E R S L I B R A R Y of New Mexico 
Highlands University in Las Vegas has pub-
lished The Roots of Regional Literature, a 
lecture presented by Lawrence Clark Powell. 
Copies are available from William S. Wal-
lace, New Mexico Highlands University, Las 
Vegas, at $1.00 each. 

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

A P R O G R A M of annual awards to outstand-
ing library school students has been an-
nounced by Beta Phi Mu, the international 
library science honor society, in cooperation 
with the United Educators, Inc., publish-
ing firm. T h e awards are to encourage and 
to recognize outstanding academic achieve-
ment of library school students, evidenced 
through their professional writing. Each ac-
credited library school has been invited to 
submit the best paper prepared by a regu-
larly enrolled student during the award year. 
A committee of prominent librarians will 
judge all papers for the following awards: 
first prize, $200; second prize, $100; and 
third prize, $50. Suitable publication ar-
rangements for these three papers will be 
made by Beta Phi Mu. 

Bronze plaques inscribed with the name 
of each school winner will be presented to 
participating schools by the United Edu-

cators, Inc. Individual winners will receive a 
book gift and inscribed award certificate 
from the publishing company. The first 
awards will be made in the fall of 1960. 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF F L O R I D A L I B R A R I E S o f -
fers three graduate assistantships in the aca-
demic year 1960/61 for study leading to a 
master's or doctoral degree in a subject field 
other than library science. Graduate assist-
ants work approximately fifteen hours per 
week, assisting in bibliographical research 
or library administration. The stipend is 
$1,700 for a nine-month period and holders 
of assistantships are exempt from out-of-state 
tuition fees. T h e deadline for filing formal 
application is March 31, 1960. Applications 
should be made to: Director of Libraries, 
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 

D U R I N G O C T O B E R AND N O V E M B E R Harold 
Lancour, associate director of the University 
of Illinois Graduate School of Library Sci-
ence, served under the auspices c f the Ford 
Foundation as an advisor to the University 
of Education in Liberia. His assignment was 
to develop a plan for comprehensive na-
tional library service in Liberia. Similar na-
tional plans are successfully operating in 
other major African areas such as Ghana 
and Nigeria. Dr. Lancour also toured major 
institutions of higher education in the other 
parts of Africa. 

T H E M E D I C A L L I B R A R Y A S S O C I A T I O N h a s 
announced that the Murray Gottlieb Prize 
($100) will again be awarded for the best 
essay written by a medical librarian on some 
phase of the history of American medicine. 
Articles should be between 5,000 and 6,500 
words in length. Manuscripts must be sent 
to the editor of the Bulletin of the Medical 
Library Association by March 1, 1960. 

T H E M I C R O C A R D F O U N D A T I O N , formerly in 
Madison, Wisconsin, has moved to Wash-
ington, D. C. Albert James Diaz is execu-
tive director. T h e foundation's new address 
is 901 26th Street N.W., Washington 7, D. C. 

Y A L E U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has been hon-
ored by the American Forest History Foun-
dation of New York City for its distin-
guished record of collecting and preserving 
source materials on the forest history of 
North America. T h e Forest History Founda-
tion, established in 1952, has concentrated 
on locating primary records of forest and 
forest industry history, and on their organi-
zation and preservation for scholarly use. 

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Personnel 
uating from Catholic University he became 
circulation librarian at Denison University 
in Ohio, and later gift and exchange librar-
ian at Ohio State University. Here he also 
worked successively as administrative assist-
ant and as assistant acquisition librarian. 

Donald has won exceptionally high re-
gard and praise from all who have been 
associated with him. He has the kind of 
mind that finds adventure where others en-
counter only boredom, the kind of character 
that forces him to give his full attention and 
ability to any problem he undertakes. He 
is not only a voracious reader, but one who 
brings great enthusiasm to his reading, with 
the result that he unconsciously ingests 
many facts, quotations, and ideas that are 
beneath the average reader's notice. All of 
this becomes part of the rich background 
that he can bring to bear on the problem 
at hand. He is friendly and easy to know, 
but single-minded and courteously relentless 
in leading his staff to accomplishment. In 
short, he has the qualities of mind and per-
sonality that make him the administrator's 
administrator, and the University of North 
Dakota is the richer for signing him on.— 
Rolland E. Stevens. 

Appointments 
N O R M A N D. A L E X A N D E R , formerly refer-

ence assistant, Montana State College Li-
brary, Bozeman, is now first assistant in 
charge of reference. 

Jo B A T T L E , formerly with the Mississippi 
Library Commission, is now library consult-
ant, Nevada State Library. 

C H A R L O T T E . C H ' I U - F A N G B E D F O R D , formerly 
junior Chinese cataloger, Chinese-Japanese 
Library, Harvard University, is now Chinese 
cataloger, East Asiatic Library, University 
of California, Berkeley. 

J O H N L . BUECHLF.R, formerly librarian of 
the English and speech graduate library, 
Ohio State University, is now head, special 
collections, University of Florida Libraries. 

R I C H A R D M . C O L V I G is music cataloger at 
the Vassar College Library. 

R o c c o C R A C H I , formerly head of the loan 
department, University of California Li-
brary, Berkeley, is now librarian of the tech-
nical information center, Missile and Space 
Division of the Lockheed Aircraft Company, 
Palo Alto, Calif. 

M A U R I C E L. F E L D M A N , formerly on the 
staff of the Louis R. Wilson Library, Uni-
versity of North Carolina, is now periodicals 
librarian, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 

M A R T H A M . G U E N T H E R , formerly assistant 
librarian and head cataloger, Idaho State 
College, is now assistant cataloger, Oregon 
State College. 

D O N A L D J. P E A R C E became director of li-
braries at the University of North Dakota 
on September 1. T o this position he brings 

a background not 
usual for an Ameri-
can librarian. He 
was born in South-
ampton, England, in 
1924. During the 
war he was a captain 
w i t h the B r i t i s h 
Army I n t e l l i g e n c e 
Corps, p r o c e s s i n g 
captured Japanese 
documents. In the 

_____ , — course of this work 
Donald J. Pearce he was stationed for 

a time in the United 
States and met the girl whom he subse-
quently married. After the war, he moved 
to Vancouver, B. C., where he became an 
apprentice compositor, learning job and 
newspaper printing, and then to Washing-
ton, D. C., where he attended George Wash-
ington University and Catholic University, 
while also working at the Department of 
Agriculture Library. From both schools he 
graduated with highest honors. After grad-

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W A R R E N J A M E S H A A S , formerly with Johns 
Hopkins University, has been appointed to 
the newly created post of library consultant 
to the staff of the Council of Higher Educa-
tional Institutions in New York City. 

C A R O L Y N E . J A M E S , formerly librarian, 
natural science library, University of Michi-
gan, is now forestry librarian, Colorado 
State University. 

H A R R I E T C. JAMESON, formerly chief of the 
history of medicine division, National Li-
brary of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, is now 
rare book librarian, Kresge Medical Library, 
University of Michigan. 

FREDERICK E . K I D D E R , formerly registrar of 
the Inter-American University of Puerto 
Rico, is now assistant librarian, technical 
processes, University of Florida Libraries. 

M R S . C Y N T H I A L E V E N T H A L , formerly librar-
ian, Illinois State Water Survey, Urbana, is 
now earth science librarian, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. 

A N N I E B . M I L L S , formerly instructor-
librarian, Florida Agricultural and Mechan-
ical University, Tallahassee, is now cata-
loger, Alma ( Mich.) College Library. 

E D W A R D S . M O F F A T , formerly librarian, 
Teachers Central Laboratory, Hunter Col-
lege, is now assistant librarian of Teachers 
College, Columbia University. 

M R S . L O I S S M A T H E R S N E A L is reference li-
brarian, general service division, North 
Carolina State Library. 

M R S . M A R J O R I E A T O N O N E S O N i s n o w d o c -
uments librarian, Oklahoma State Library. 

B E L A E D W A R D O ' R E L L E Y is cataloger in 

the Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. 

B R E W S T E R E. P E A B O D Y is periodicals and 
documents librarian, University of Dela-
ware, Newark. 

E D N A H E F T Y P L A T T E is reference and bib-
liography assistant, University of Florida 
Libraries. 

J A M E S D. R A M E R , formerly librarian of 
the Engineering-Physical Science Library, 
University of Maryland, is now engineering-
physical science librarian, Columbia Univer-
sity Libraries. 

R E T A W . RIDINGS, formerly historical divi-
sion director, Wyoming State Archives and 
Historical Department, Cheyenne, is now 
reference librarian at Vassar College. 

W A R R E N C. SLEDD, formerly senior librar-
ian, general reference department, Buffalo 
and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, 
N. Y., is now in the reference department, 
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. 

H O W A R D A. S U L L I V A N , formerly head of 
the acquisitions department, University of 
Detroit, is now bibliographer, Wayne State 
University Library, Detroit. 

W . MERCEDES T O M P K I N S , formerly teacher-
librarian, Beloit (Wis.) Memorial High 
School, is now serials-reference librarian at 
Vassar College. 

A L L E N B. V E A N E R , a member of the cata-
log department in the Harvard College Li-
brary since 1957, is now specialist in docu-
mentary reproduction. 

A N N A L. W E A V E R , formerly librarian, 
Queen's College, is now social sciences li-
brarian, University of Florida Libraries. 

Retirements 

M R S . F A N N I E H E N D R I E has retired as first 
assistant, Drexel Institute of Technology Li-
brary, and is now in charge of directing 
tours around the new library building. 

H E L E N O Y L E R , former head of the serials 
department, Duke University Library, re-
tired on September 1 after thirty years of 
service in several departments of the library 
at Duke. 

B E V E R L Y R U F F I N has retired as librarian 

of the Longwood College Library, Farmville, 
Va., after thirteen years of service. 

E L E A N O R W E I R W E L C H has retired as li-
brarian, Illinois State Normal University, 
after thirty-one years of service. 

E M M A W I E C K I N G has retired as librarian 
of the State College at Mankato, Minn., 
after thirty-seven years of service. Miss 
Wiecking was also associate professor of 
library science. 

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Selected Reference Books of 1958-1959 
(Continued from page 24) 

A m b i t i o u s in plan, this new series of b i b l i o g -
raphies of French translations and adaptations 
of foreign plays should prove generally useful 
to students of drama and the theatre. Eight vol-
umes are projected, encompassing some 20,000 
entries, i n c l u d i n g manuscripts as well as printed 
editions. V o l u m e 1, devoted to the ancient 
Greek theatre, lists 2388 items arranged alpha-
betically by author and individual work, then 
chronologically by date of p u b l i c a t i o n . T h e r e 
is a title i n d e x and o n e of translators and adap-
tors. V o l u m e 2, t h o u g h published, was not avail-
able f o r examination at this writing.—E.S. 

Literary History of the United States. Bibliogra-
p h y supplement, edited by R i c h a r d M. L u d -
wig. N e w York, Macmillan, 1959. 268p. $10. 

F o l l o w i n g the arrangement and scope of the 
1948 b i b l i o g r a p h y v o l u m e , this supplement p r o -
vides selective b i b l i o g r a p h i c data f o r the p e r i o d 
1948-58. Sixteen new individual author b i b l i o g -
raphies have been a d d e d — u n f o r t u n a t e l y placed 
at the end of the v o l u m e rather than in alpha-
betical sequence in the a p p r o p r i a t e section. T h e 
index represents an expansion and revision of 
the i n d e x to v o l u m e three of the Literary His-
tory, and thus serves both f o r the main b i b l i o g -
raphy and this supplementary volume.—E.S. 

NICOLL, ALLARDYCE. A History of English Drama, 
1660-1900. v.6, A Short-Title Alphabetical 
Catalogue of Plays Produced or Printed in 
England from 1660 to 1900. Cambridge [Eng.] 
University Press, 1959. 565p. $13. 

M o r e than just a title i n d e x to the earlier 
volumes of the History, this work may also be 
used independently. It not only indexes by title 
those plays m e n t i o n e d in the text and handlists 
of the first five volumes, b u t provides additional 
i n f o r m a t i o n (e.g., author, date) o n numerous 
plays, as well as listings for many plays not pre-
viously m e n t i o n e d . Of particular value are the 
hundreds of cross references f r o m alternate titles 
and subtitles u n d e r which the plays may have 
been p r o d u c e d o r p o p u l a r l y known.—E.S. 

0KSNF.VAD, REIDAR. Norsk litteraturhistorisk bi-
bliografi, 1900-1945. Oslo, Gyldendal Norskfor-
lag, 1951. 378p. Kr.32.50. 

. Norsk litteraturhistorisk bibliografi, 
1946-1955. Oslo, Gyldendal Norskforlag, 1958. 
143p. Kr.27.50. 

Norwegian literature from the sixteenth to the 
twentieth centuries is the subject of this b i b l i o g -

raphy w h i c h lists books, essays in collections, 
and periodicals. Introductory chapters o n bibli-
ography and general Norwegian literary history 
are f o l l o w e d by chapters f o r each century, and 
a name index. T h e supplement follows the same 
arrangement as the main v o l u m e . — E . B . 

SCHMITT, FRANZ ANSELM. Stoff- und Motivge-
schichte der deutschen Literatur; eine Biblio-
graphic, begriindet von Kurt Bauerhorst. 
Berlin, d e Gruyter, 1959. 226p. D M 24.50. 

A virtually c o m p l e t e re-working of Bauer-
horst's Bibliographie der Stoff- und Motivge-
schichte der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1932, 
118p.), this is a b i b l i o g r a p h y of scholarly studies 
o n the use of themes and motifs in German lit-
erature. (It is not an index of original literary 
works—fiction, drama, poetry, etc.—under sub-
ject treated.) Arrangement is alphabetical by 
" S t o f f " o r " M o t i v , " with 1800 such headings as 
" A b e n d , " " A b e n t e u e r , " " A b s c h i e d , " " A d a m und 
Eva," etc. U n d e r each are listings of available 
studies of the given theme as treated i n Ger-
man literature. Coverage is b r o a d , i n c l u d i n g 
books, periodical articles, dissertations, chapters 
in books, and papers in Festschriften. In all, 
some 37,000 titles are listed, mostly German, 
with a few foreign titles. T h e r e is an author 
i n d e x — J . N . W . 

WATTERS, REGINALD EYRE. A Check List of Ca-
nadian Literature and Background Materials, 
1628-1950. C o m p i l e d for the Humanities R e -
search Council of Canada. [ T o r o n t o ] Univer-
sity of T o r o n t o Press [1959] 789p. $15. 

Intended as a first tool f o r the comparative 
study of Canadian letters and culture, the Check 
List "attempts to p r o v i d e as c o m p l e t e a record 
as possible of the separately published works 
that constitute the literature of English-speak-
ing Canada." Arranged by genre, the first part 
aims at a comprehensive listing of Canadian 
poetry, fiction, and drama; Part II is a selec-
tive listing of books " w h i c h seem likely to b e of 
value to anyone studying the literature o r cul 
ture of C a n a d a . " Both listings are limited to 
works in English by Canadians, and include 
works published outside Canada. B i b l i o g r a p h i -
cal i n f o r m a t i o n was gleaned chiefly f r o m library 
catalogs and published bibliographies, with n o 
attempt to list reprints and variant editions. 
W h e n known, library locations are given; other-
wise the b i b l i o g r a p h i c a l source is usually indi-
cated. Keeping in m i n d its preliminary aspect, 
this should p r o v e a very useful volume.—E.S. 

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BIOGRAPHY 

The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 
1940, under the auspices of the H o n o u r a b l e 
Society of C y m m r o d o r i o n . O x f o r d , B. H . 
Blackwell, 1959. 1157p. £ 6 , 6s. 

Originally published in Welsh in 1953 u n d e r 
the title Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 
(Supplement 2S30), this English language edi-
tion is not merely a translation of that work, 
b u t includes additions and corrections. Intended 
as a " b i o g r a p h i c a l reference-book f o r students of 
the history of W a l e s , " the v o l u m e contains biog-
raphies b o t h of eminent W e l s h m e n and of n o n -
Welshmen w h o have greatly influenced Welsh 
history. T h e r e are entries for families as well as 
individuals, and n u m e r o u s cross references f r o m 
variant spellings. Sketches are signed and usually 
i n c l u d e a brief list of references. T h e r e is an 
a p p e n d i x of additional biographies.—E.S. 

H I S T O R Y 

O ' R E I L L Y , PATRICK. Bibliographie methodique, 
analytique et critique des Nouvelles-Hebrides. 
Paris, Musee de l ' H o m m e , 1958. 305p. (Soci-
ete des Oceanistes. Publications. 8) 4,000fr. 

A c o m p a n i o n v o l u m e to the author's Bibliog-
raphie de la Nouvelle-Caledonie (Supplement 
2V93), the present work includes some 3,000 
b o o k and j o u r n a l references. Classification, bib-
liographic f o r m , and brief annotations all f o l l o w 
the pattern established in the earlier v o l u m e . — 
J . N . W . 

O ' R E I L L Y , PATRICK. Hebridais; repertoire bio-
bibliographique des Nouvelles-Hebrides. Paris, 
Musee d e l ' H o m m e , 1957. 298p. il. (Societe 
des Oceanistes. Publications. 6). 3,000fr. 

Similar in plan and execution to the author's 
Caledoniens . . . (Supplement 2S23), this is pri-
marily a biographical dictionary of persons of all 
periods and nationalities prominently con-
nected with the life and growth of the N e w 
Hebrides. Both living and dead persons are in-
c l u d e d , the sketches varying in length accord-
ing to relative importance of the subjects. Bib-
liographical aspects of the work are slight, so 
that to the A m e r i c a n librarian, at least, the sub-
title is somewhat misleading.—J.N.W. 

R E A D , CONYERS. Bibliography of British History; 
Tudor period, 1485-1603. Issued u n d e r the di-
rection of the A m e r i c a n Historical Association 
and the Royal Historical Society of Great Brit-

ain. 2d ed. O x f o r d , Clarendon Press, 1959. 
624p. 635.; $10.10. 

M u c h revised and considerably enlarged, this 
second edition follows the general pattern of the 
first, p u b l i s h e d in 1933 ( G u i d e V274). " A n ex-
haustive survey of the material in print has been 
m a d e to 1 January 1957. Many entries have been 
m a d e of books and articles appearing since that 
date, b u t n o c o m p l e t e survey of this m o r e re-
cent literature has been a t t e m p t e d . " (Preface). 

In many cases the introductory notes remain 
almost the same as in the first edition; in others 
new titles have been added. However, there are 
over 2,000 additional entries in the n e w edition 
and the v o l u m e will b e w e l c o m e d by all stu-
dents of this p e r i o d . 

T H O M A S , DANIEL H . AND CASE, L Y N N M . Guide 
to the Diplomatic Archives of Western Eu-
rope. Philadelphia, LTniversity o f Pennsylvania 
Press [1959] 389p. $7.50. 

Separate chapters are devoted to state archives 
of fourteen Western European nations, with an 
additional f o u r chapters f o r "Special Archival 
Sources" (e.g., U.N., U N E S C O ) . Chapters are 
generally d i v i d e d i n t o f o u r sections: (1) a brief 
history of the country's d i p l o m a t i c archives; (2) 
i n f o r m a t i o n o n organization and classification 
of materials; (3) notes o n administration, regula-
tions, and facilities (including hours o f o p e n i n g , 
special permission required, availability of m i -
crofilms and transcriptions, etc.); and (4) a b i b -
liography of printed collections of d o c u m e n t s 
and of guides and reference works relating to the 
collections. T h e v o l u m e offers a wealth of in-
formation b o t h to the scholar p l a n n i n g to visit 
the archives themselves and to librarians and 
scholars working at home.—E.S. 

YUAN, T U N G - L I . China in Western Literature; a 
Continuation of Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica. 
N e w Haven, Far Eastern Publications, Yale 
University, 1958. 802p. $15. 

" A record of virtually all books concerning 
China published in English, French, and Ger-
man [and Portuguese] between the years 1921 
and 1957," but omitting periodical articles, 
maps, and charts. Cordier's scheme of classifica-
tion has been changed so that titles are here 
arranged u n d e r b r o a d e r subject groups. T h e 
forms of Chinese names adopted by the authors 
themselves are used f o r the main entries; h o w -
ever, in order to identify the names m o r e clearly, 
Chinese characters are inserted beside the ro-
manized forms. A supplementary v o l u m e may 
appear later containing any i m p o r t a n t omis-
sions.—E.L.R. 

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Equipment Grants Awarded by Junior 
College Libraries Section 

EIGHTEEN GRANTS for the purchase of li-brary equipment have been made to 
junior college libraries in privately sup-
ported institutions by a committee of 
ACRL's Junior College Libraries Section. 
T h e grants were made possible by a gift to' 
ALA from Remington Rand, a division of 
the Sperry Rand Corporation. Members of 
the committee which awarded the grants are 
Orlin C. Spicer, director of libraries, Morton 
High School and Junior College Libraries, 
Cicero, 111., chairman; Ira J. Peskind, assist-
ant librarian, Wright Junior College Li-
brary, Chicago; and Lottie M. Skidmore, 
chairman of libraries and audio-visual serv-
ices, Joliet Township High School and Jun-
ior College, Joliet, 111. 

"It is a privilege," says Mr. Spicer, "for 
the Junior College Libraries Section to be 
able to work this year with the distribution 
of the Remington Rand grant. The applica-
tions to the committee demonstrate how 
great is the need for strengthening the pri-
vately supported junior college libraries. 
Our work can hardly touch that need. W e 
hope, however, that it will draw to it the 
attention of others who are willing to help. 
W e can be sure that each grant we have 
made is for a good and necessary purpose 
and will bring about improved library serv-
ice on some junior college campus." 

This is the first year in the A C R L grants 
program that grants have been awarded to 
junior college libraries. Last year similar 
grants from funds contributed by Reming-
ton Rand were awarded to four-year colleges 
by a committee of ACRL's College Libraries 
Section. Prior to 1958 equipment grants 
were made as part of the work of the A C R L 
Committee on Grants. 

A list of the 1959/60 grants follows: 
B L U E F I E L D C O L L E G E , Bluefield, Va. (Frieda 

Siler): $244.75. For a catalog reference 
table. 

C A Z E N O V I A JUNIOR C O L L E G E , Cazenovia, N. Y. 
(Olive L. R. Carter): $467.50. For a charg-
ing desk. 

C E N T E N A R Y C O L L E G E FOR W O M E N , Hacketts-
town, N. J. (Ruth E. Scarborough): 
$231.75. For a map and plan storage unit. 

C L A R K E M E M O R I A L C O L L E G E , Newton, Miss. 
(Mrs. Alice Cox): $400. For use toward 
purchase of counter-height shelving. 

C O N C O R D I A C O L L E G E AND H I G H S C H O O L , Port-
land, Ore. (Lewis W . Klitzke): $431. For 
a microfilm reader. 

C U M B E R L A N D U N I V E R S I T Y , Lebanon, Tenn. 
(Mrs. W. P. Fly, Jr.): $467.50. For a charg-
ing desk. 

E M O R Y - A T - O X F O R D , Oxford, Ga. (Adelle 
Dickey): $467.50. For a charging desk. 

F R E E D - H A R D E M A N C O L L E G E , Henderson, 
Tenn. (Margaret Rainey): $505. For card 
catalog units and accessories. 

FRIENDSHIP J U N I O R C O L L E G E , Rock Hill, S. C . 
(James B. Law): $433.50. For a charging 
desk. 

L E E C O L L E G E , Cleveland, Tenn. (Le Moyne 
Swiger): $350.25. For card catalog units 
and accessories. 

L O R E T T O JUNIOR C O L L E G E , Nevinx, Ky. (Sis-
ter M. Margaret Patrick): $431. For a mi-
crofilm reader. 

L U T H E R A N C O N C O R D I A C O L L E G E , Austin, Tex. 
(Doris Knippa): $2.95. For a card catalog 
unit and accessories. 

M A R I O N INSTITUTE, Marion, Ala. (Helen 
Jean Harris): $100. For a card catalog 
unit. 

M O N T R E A T C O L L E G E , Montreat, N. C . (Anna 
L. Price): $467.50. For a charging desk. 

S O U T H T E X A S JUNIOR C O L L E G E , Houston, 
Tex. (Richard L. Ducote): $497.25. For a 
periodical index table and stools. 

SOUTHERN B A P T I S T C O L L E G E , Walnut Ridge, 
Ark. (Mona Hall): $431. For a microfilm 
reader. 

U N I O N J U N I O R C O L L E G E , Cranford, N . J . 
(George P. Marks, III): $431. For a micro-
film reader. 

U R B A N A JUNIOR C O L L E G E , Urbana, Ohio 
(Robert Auerbach): $467.50. For a charg-
ing desk. 

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