College and Research Libraries


ACRL Grants Program, 1960/61 

AN E W G R A N T o f $35,000 to ACRL 
by the United States 
Steel Foundation as-
sures the continu-
ance of the ACRL 
grants program for 
its sixth year. The 
further promise of 
the U. S. Steel Foun-
dation to match ad-
ditional gifts to the 
program up to a pos-
sible added amount 
of $15,000 guarantees 
that the 1 9 6 0 / 6 1 
committee will have 
more funds to work 
with than has any 
p r e v i o u s A C R L 
grants committee. 

A d d i t i o n a l con-
tributions totaling 
$5,550 have been re-
ceived from the In-
ternational Business 
Machines Corpora-
tion, the Koppers 
Foundation, the Mi-
crocard Foundation, Micro Photo, Inc., the 
Olin Mathieson Corporation, Time, Inc., and 
The H. W. Wilson Company. The contribu-
tion of the Microcard Foundation is $2,000, 
of the Olin Mathieson Corporation and The 
H. W. Wilson Company, $1,000 each. Smaller 
gifts from IBM, the Koppers Foundation, 
Micro Photo, and Time total $1,550. The 
grants committee has also been promised a 
renewal of the $1,000 contribution, first made 
last year, by the National Biscuit Company. 

Application forms for participation in the 
1960/61 ACRL grants program will be dis-
tributed in September to eligible libraries— 
those of privately supported universities and 
four-year colleges. In addition to grants to 
libraries it is expected that the 1960/61 pro-
gram will make provision for grants for re-
search in librarianship and that there will 
be at least two grants to support advanced 
bibliographical research. 

The increased support for the ACRL grants 

P I C S , Chicago 

W. Homer Turner, executive director, United States Steel Foun-
dation, New York, presents check from Foundation to Richard 
Harwell, ACRL executive secretary. Looking on is Edward C. 
Logelin, vice president, United States Steel Corporation—Chicago. 

program is in part due to the satisfaction of 
the United States Steel Foundation with the 
good the small grants to individual libraries 
have brought about. It is also in part due to 
intensified efforts on the part of the grants 
committee to broaden support of the pro-
gram and the fine work toward that end that 
has been done by Edward C. Heintz, a mem-
ber of the committee, as its agent during the 
past winter and spring. 

Dr. W. Homer Turner, executive director 
of the United States Steel Foundation, wrote 
in a recent letter to the executive secretary 
of ACRL: "In 1955, the Trustees [of the 
United States Steel Foundation] voted an 
initial grant of $30,000 with the expectation 
that this sum would provide seed money to 
encourage other donors to join in this im-
portant effort to aid a long neglected seg-
ment of American academic life. Although 
additional sums from other sources have been 
less than hoped for, the Trustees continued 

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to vote the $30,000 annual sum through 1958. 
The amount was raised to $35,000 in 1959 
and now again in I960, bringing the total 
assistance over the six-year period to $190,-
000." 

Commenting specifically on the 1960/61 
grant and on ACRL's efforts to increase sup-
port for the program Dr. Turner states: 
" T h e Trustees have recognized that the As-
sociation has recently been engaged in a 
more intensive effort to raise increased funds 
with the hope that the U. S. Steel Founda-
tion might match such additional funds. T o 
encourage continuation of this effort and to 
recognize the progress made, the Trustees 
have now authorized the Executive Director 
to match, dollar for dollar, any new grants 
received by the Association during the period 
from December 1, 1959, to November 30, 
1960 . . . up to a maximum of $15,000 of 
new grants." 

Despite the increased support of U. S. 
Steel and of other corporations the funds 
available for the ACRL grants program are 
still inadequate to fill even the pressing needs 
of the smaller college and university libraries 
for additional support. In its six years the 
program has awarded through its sub-grants 
approximately $250,000, but, as Dr. Turner 
remarks in noting U. S. Steel's high regard 

for this work: "We still feel that a large pool, 
of perhaps $1,000,000 yearly supplied by a 
score of donors, is a desirable, proper, urgent 
goal." 

"Each year," says Edmon Low, ACRL 
President, "we are more and more conscious 
of the gratitude we owe the U. S. Steel Foun-
dation for its continued support of our 
grants program. Our letters of thanks for the 
sub-grants are abundant evidence that the 
program is serving a genuinely worthwhile 
purpose. We shall extend our efforts to in-
crease both the support for this program and 
its effectiveness." 

The 1960/61 grants program will operate 
in the same manner as the programs for 
previous years. Applications will be received 
early in the fall and will be reviewed by the 
ACRL grants committee at its fall meeting. 
Distribution of its sub-grants will be an-
nounced in the January 1961 CRL. Robert 
W. Orr, director of libraries at Iowa State 
University, is chairman of the committee. 
Other members are Edward C. Heintz, Ed-
mon S. Low, Lois Engleman, Flora B. Lud-
ington, Richard Morin, and Giles Shepherd. 
Humphrey G. Bousfield, a member of the 
committee from its inception through the 
past year, will continue to work with it as a 
consultant. 

Standards Reprint Available 
Reprints of the "Standards for J u n i o r College Libraries" which appeared in the 

May 1960 issue of CRL are available f r o m the A C R L office, 50 East H u r o n Street, 
Chicago 11. Single copies will be mailed free o n request. For orders of five or m o r e 
reprints the price per c o p y is twenty cents. Prepayment will expedite delivery of or-
ders and it is requested that cash o r check accompany orders if possible. 

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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 

F I V E C O L L E G E S in Indiana have received 
grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., to 
fill gaps in their library collections. The 
awards were made on the basis of careful 
surveys of holdings by faculty members and 
librarians in each college, and the resulting 
lists of needed materials were reviewed by 
an advisory committee representing the En-
dowment. A total amount of $130,000 was 
divided among the following: Butler Uni-
versity, DePauw University, Earlham Col-
lege, Evansville College, and Wabash Col-
lege. 

T H E L I B R A R Y of Murray State College 
has received on a long-term loan manu-
scripts, scrapbooks, and literary correspond-
ence from Jesse Stuart, Kentucky author. 
These materials will be displayed in a spe-
cial room to be opened to the public late 
this summer. 

T H E W I L L I A M A . W H I T A K E R F O U N D A T I O N 
was established in April at Chapel Hill. 
Made possible by a legacy of $1,750,000 left 
to the University of North Carolina by the 
late Mr. Whitaker, it has as one of its pur-
poses the acquisition of books for the li-
brary, especially volumes for the rare book 
room. The other two purposes are to estab-
lish scholarships and fellowships for needy 
students and to assemble works of arts, in-
cluding paintings, sculptures, and archae-
ological objects. 

B U I L D I N G S 

T H E N E W L I B R A R Y at Beloit College will 
be named the Colonel Robert H. Morse Li-
brary in recognition of a gift of $443,000 
from the Colonel Robert H. Morse Foun-
dation of Chicago. The grant, largest sin-
gle gift in the 114-year history of Beloit 
College, brings the total amount pledged 
toward the new library to $1,000,000. 
Ground will be broken in the near future. 

E A R L H A M C O L L E G E , Richmond, Ind., will 
construct a $1,000,000 library building in 
the near future to replace the fifty-five-year-
old structure now in use. 

G R O U N D has been broken for the John M. 
Olin Library at Washington University in 
St. Louis. The new building will cost 
$3,700,000 and will provide open-stack space 
for about one million books. Reading fa-
cilities will be provided for 1,500 persons 
and, instead of a main reading room, smaller 
reading areas will be planned. It is antici-
pated that the building will be ready for use 
during the fall semester of 1961. 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF W A S H I N G T O N is plan-
ning a $3,000,000 addition to its present 
library building. The expansion is made nec-
essary by the growth and changing charac-
ter of the university and the increase in 
graduate training and research. 

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y OF S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A 
has acquired the estate of the late German 
novelist, Lion Feuchtwanger. The gift in-
cludes the author's personal library of more 
than twenty-five thousand volumes, a collec-
tion especially strong in German and French 
literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries and in scholarly works of all pe-
riods. The collection is housed in the 
Feuchtwanger home in Pacific Palisades and 
is open to all scholars by appointment. 

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

Library Research in Progress No. 3, re-
cently issued by Library Services Branch, 
Office of Education, lists fifty-two research 
projects, of which at least a dozen will be 
of special interest to college and research 
librarians. One study is on the relationship 
between college grades and the ability of 
students to use the library. Another study 
is a survey to measure students' attitudes to-
ward the college library and its facilities and 
services, and to create measuring instru-
ments for developing superior library serv-
ices. A doctoral dissertation is being done 
to investigate principles for selecting books 
for the medium-sized college library. An-
other study in progress has as its purpose 
the establishing and assessing of organiza-
tion and procedures designed to provide 
college students with library experiences re-
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develop increasing competence in the use 
of the library. Copies of the publication are 
available free from Library Services Branch, 
Office of Education, Department of Health, 
Education and Welfare, Washington 25, 
D. C. 

A N E W SERIES of books intended to pro-
vide an encyclopedic review of knowledge 
in the field of librarianship has been an-
nounced by the Graduate School of Library 
Service at Rutgers University. The follow-
ing titles are now available: Reading De-
vices for Micro-images, by Jean Stewart, 
21 Op., $5.00 (v. 5, part 2); Production and 
Use of Micro-images, by Reginald R. Haw-
kins, 220p., $5.00 (v. 5, part 1); Cataloging 
and Classification, by Maurice F. Tauber 
and Subject Headings, by Carlyle J. Frarey 
(v. 1, parts 1 and 2, in one volume), 365p., 
$8.00. Orders should be sent to Rutgers Uni-
versity Press, New Brunswick, N.J. 

Printed Books on Architecture, 1485-1805, 
by Ernest Allen Connally, prepared for the 
University of Illinois Ricker Library of 
Architecture exhibit of May 10—June 10, is 
more than a list of historical architectural 
books with bibliographical notations. It also 
contains several pages tracing the history of 
the printed book on architecture from its 
origins, in Italy in the late fifteenth cen-
tury, down to the first American publica-
tions, late in the eighteenth century. 

A USEFUL P U B L I C A T I O N , issued by the 
Copyright Society of the U.S.A., is Alois 
Bohmer's Copyright in the U.S.S.R. and 
other European Countries of Territories un-
der Communist Government: Selective Bib-
liography with Digest and Preface (pub-
lished for the Society by Fred B. Rothman 
and Co., South Hackensack, N. J., 1960, 
62p., $4.50; for Society members, $3.50). 

T H E A M E R I C A N A S S O C I A T I O N O F L A W L I -
BRARIES has initiated the AALL Publications 
Series. No. 1 is Proceedings of the A.A.L.L. 
[1959] Institute for Law Librarians: Cutting 
Costs in Acquisitions and Cataloging (67p.) 
and No. 2 is Order Procedures . . . A Man-
ual, by Viola Bird and Stanley Pearce, as-
sisted by Ruth Ault (66p.). Priced at $4.50 
each, both were published for the associa-
tion by Fred B. Rothman, South Hacken-
sack, N. J. 

STATISTICS and other data of interest to 
academic librarians appear in two recent 
publications of the U. S. Office of Educa-
tion: College and University Facilities Sur-
vey, Part 2: Planning for College and Uni-
versity Physical Plant Expansion, 1956-70, 
by W. Robert Bokelman and John B. Rork 
(Circular No. 603) includes the number and 
probable cost of library buildings planned 
for construction during this fifteen-year pe-
riod. T h e data are grouped by geographical 
area. The study contains several significant 
references to libraries in its discussion of 
providing adequate facilities for rising en-
rollments in the future. Higher Education 
Planning and Management Data, 1959-60, 
by W. Robert Bokelman (Circular No. 614) 
is the third in a series of salary and tuition 
studies. Like its predecessors, it includes 
salaries for the director of library among 
those for the twenty-four administrative po-
sitions. T h e data are presented by type of 
institution and control, and by size of in-
stitutional enrollment and control. 

Both publications are for sale by the Su-
perintendent of Documents, Washington 25, 
I). C., for seventy cents each. 

The Literature of Library Technical Serv-
ices is the title of the University of Illinois 
Library School Occasional Papers No. 58 
(March 1960). Helen Welch, David Kaser, 
K. W. Soderland, R. R. Holmes, A. B. Vea-
ner, Margaret Uridge, and W. V. Jackson 
have prepared reviews of the literature of 
such fields as technical services in general, 
acquisitions, cataloging and classification, 
serials, document reproduction, interlibrary 
cooperation, and library resources. 

A L A N D M A R K in bibliography will again 
be available to research libraries thanks to 
a major project being undertaken by the 
Kraus Reprint Corporation, 16 East 46th 
Street, New York 17. During the next two 
years it expects to reprint the entire run of 
the Internationale Bibliographie der Zeit-
schriftenliteratur. This monumental work 
covers all fields of learning in up to six 
thousand periodicals, composite works, year-
books, and transactions of learned societies, 
beginning in 1861. Most of this series has 
been out of print for twenty years and, 
owing to the poor paper used in the orig-
inal edition, many extant copies have de-
teriorated. T h e reprint edition will be 

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printed on high-quality paper with much 
wider margins than the original to provide 
for eventual rebinding after excessive use. 
Since all orders will affect the production 
schedule and prices, librarians desiring re-
placements for specific volumes are urged 
by the publisher to order now. 

A T H I R D EDITION, dated January I960, of 
Current Serials and Journals in the M. I. T. 
Libraries producecf through the combined 
processes of IBM punched cards and photo-
offset techniques is now available. The new 
edition contains approximately four thou-
sand titles and is available at $15 per cop/. 
Address Director of Libraries, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, 
Mass. 

The Processing Services of the Dallas Pub-
lic Library (235p., appendixes) is a solid and 
valuable contribution to the special survey 
literature on American library practice in 
the field of processing services. Prepared by 
Carlyle J. Frarey, associate professor, School 
of Library Science, University of North 
Carolina, this study reports on the organiza-
tion, operation, and administration of these 
processes. A limited number of copies of 
the report are available from the Dallas 
Public Library for free distribution. 

A Directory of Resources of Cooperating 
College Libraries in Metropolitan New York 
has been completed and distributed to the 
participating libraries by the Council of 
Higher Education Institutions in New York 
City. This guide to the resources of fifty-nine 
academic libraries in metropolitan New 
York will facilitate cooperation among aca-
demic libraries. Concerned primarily with 
instructional programs and libraries limited 
in scope, it will aim to have these libraries 
utilize fully dieir own resources and thus 
reduce the demands made on the large gen-
eral research libraries of the area. 

Guide to Doctoral Dissertations in Vic-
torian Literature, 1886-1958, compiled by 
Richard D. Altick and William R. Mat-
thews, has been published by the Univer-
sity of Illinois Press, Urbana (119p., $2.25). 

A N E W EDITION of History of Italian Lit-
erature, by Francesco De Sanctis (1960, 2 
vols., $12.50 for set), has been published by 
Basic Books, New York City. 

An Outline of Man's Knowledge of the 
Modern World, edited by the late Lyman 
Bryson, may appeal to college and univer-
sity librarians (New York: McGraw-Hill, 
1960, 692p., $7.50). Among the authors are 
thirty-three prominent philosophers, scien-
tists, artists, critics, and teachers. A post-
script by Lyman Bryson, entitled "Knowl-
edge: The Lifetime Journey," emphasizes 
the pursuit by man for truth and guiding 
principles. 

The Literature of the Social Sciences, an 
introductory survey and guide, is a new vol-
ume by Peter R. Lewis (London: The Li-
brary Association, 1960, 222p., $4.20; to 
members of the association in the United 
States, $3.15). This is an interesting ap-
proach to the problems of social science col-
lections in libraries. The emphasis is on 
British and not United States sources. Gen-
eral history is not included, but attention 
is given to economic history. 

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

Library Cooperation in New York, the 
bulletin published by Council of Higher 
Educational Institutions in New York City, 
reports two projects of interest to college 
and research librarians. One, designed to 
evaluate the potential cooperation among 
libraries in a compact geographic area, in-
volves nine academic libraries located 
within radius of approximately one mile of 
downtown Brooklyn. This study aims to in-
crease common knowledge of collections, to 
facilitate interlibrary use, and to develop 
communications among participating li-
braries. 

The other project is an investigation of 
student use of New York libraries. It aims 
to evaluate the need for supplementary 
academic library facilities in the New York 
area. A questionnaire was mailed to a sam-
ple of 5,000 students enrolled in colleges in 
the New York area. The students were 
asked to identify all libraries in the metro-
politan area used during the past academic 
year, to indicate approximate frequency of 
use, and to report in detail their reasons for 
using the libraries indicated. Information 
supplied by respondents will provide essen-
tial facts about extent and kind of use made 
of libraries in the area to supplement li-

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brary resources at their own colleges or uni-
versities. A report of results will be pre-
pared and made available in the fall to area 
librarians and other interested persons. 

A C O M M I T T E E to study reference and re-
search library resources in New York State 
has been appointed by the State Commis-
sioner of Education. It will investigate all 
aspects of research library service including 
exploring possibilities of bringing academic, 
special, and public research library facili-
ties into an integrated program; determin-
ing the character and source of existing and 
potential demands for library information 
services of an advanced nature; and sur-
veying existing reference and research li-
brary facilities to assess depth and scope of 
collections, and adequacy of staffs and phy-
sical facilities. 

W A Y N E S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y has been 
awarded a contract for $ 7 9 , 9 1 9 by the U . S. 
Office of Education, through its Cooperative 
Research Branch, to conduct an experi-
mental program of intensive coordination 
between the university libraries and Mon-
teith College, Wayne's new college of gen-
eral education. T h e contract will support a 
pilot project for twenty-seven months in 
connection with Monteith freshman and 
sophomore courses in the natural and social 
sciences. After appraisal, the pilot project 
may be extended into the full four-year 
Monteith curriculum. Purpose of the project 
will be to coordinate faculty planning and 
library services for students and instructors 
so that broad and varied use of the library 
will be a necessary and vital part of every 
student's college experience. Students will 
be given the opportunity to develop maxi-
mum competence in the use of books and 
other library materials and to become in-
creasingly independent in their study. 

E A R L Y T H I S Y E A R the Superior Court of 
the State of California denied application 
for a preliminary injunction to prevent 
California State Library from transferring 
the Sutro Library from its present location 
in the San Francisco Public Library Build-
ing to a portion of the Gleeson Memorial 
Library on the campus of the University of 
San Francisco. T h e Sutro library was a gift 
to the trustees of the California State Li-
brary on condition that it be permanently 

located in the city of San Francisco. T h e 
plaintiffs in the recent action (Alberta 
Pruett, et al. vs. Carina R. Zimmerman as 
State Librarian, et al.) contended that the 
lease of space in the Gleeson Memorial Li-
brary violated the terms and conditions un-
der which the State accepted the gift from 
the Sutro heirs. They alleged that in viola-
tion of the terms of the gift as accepted by 
the State, the library is to be placed in an 
atmosphere and environment under the par-
tial control and influence, and within the 
atmosphere surrounding an environment of 
a university controlled by a church. T h e 
court, however, ruled that: 

" T h e terms of the lease, which are made 
a part of the pleading, completely contra-
dict these equivocal and obscure assertions. 
Paragraph i of the lease specifies that the 
State shall use the premises only for a free 
public library in accordance with the poli-
cies established by the State Library. T h e 
university undertakes merely to provide 
floor space in a building for the shelving of 
books, the expense of utilities, . . . Para-
graph xiv of the lease requires the lessor 
to provide a separate entrance for the Sutro 
Library on Golden Gate Avenue. . . ." 

A DISTINGUISHED LIST of experts has been 
gathered for the twenty-fifth anniversary 
conference in the University of Chicago 
Graduate Library School series, to be held in 
Chicago August 15-17. T h e topic, "Persistent 
Issues in American Librarianship," explores 
the major challenges which modern society 
faces in the library field. T o investigate each 
problem area, speakers have been chosen 
whose past experience and current practice 
qualify them to survey the problem and 
suggest possible future developments. Infor-
mation may be obtained from Lester 
Asheim, director of the conference, Gradu-
ate Library School, University of Chicago. 

A UNION LIST of newspapers in California 
libraries, representing holdings of 138 li-
braries in the state, is available in the 
Union Catalog Section of the State Library 
in Sacramento. T h e list, on cards, contains 
information on three categories of newspa-
pers: foreign; those published prior to 1900 
in the United States, its territories and pos-
sessions (excluding California); and those 
published in California at any time. 

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Personnel 
M A R C U S A. M C C O R I S O N has been appointed 

librarian of the American Antiquarian So-
ciety effective August 1, 1960. Mr. McCorison 

is presently head of 
special collections at 
the State University 
of Iowa Library. Pre-
viously he was chief 
of the rare books de-
partment in the Dart-
mouth College Li-
brary. 

Though born in 
Wisconsin in 1926 
and a graduate of 
R i p o n C o l l e g e in 
that state, Mr. Mc-
Corison has spent 

most of his time in New England. A notable 
exception was a two-year stint in the Pacific 
with the United States Navy. He received an 
M.A. in history at the University of Vermont 
in 1951 where his thesis consisted of a check 
list of Vermont imprints, 1800-1810. After a 
brief return engagement with the armed 
forces he completed the master's program at 
the School of Library Service, Columbia Uni-
versity. His first position in library work was 
librarian of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library at 
Montpelier, Vermont. Mr. McCorison's pub-
lications have appeared in the Wisconsin 
Magazine of History, Printing and Graphic 
Arts, Vermont History, Proceedings of the 
American Antiquarian Society, and other 
journals. Printing is foremost among his 
hobbies, and the products of his private 
press, while infrequent, are of a high order. 

Mr. McCorison is a member of ALA and 
the American Antiquarian Society, a former 
trustee of the Vermont Historical Society, 
and a past president of the New Hampshire 
Library Association.—Richard W. Morin. 

B R U C E M. B R O W N has been appointed to 
the librarianship of Colgate University, 
Hamilton, N. Y. He succeeds Thomas M. 
Iiams and has been serving as acting librar-
ian since Mr. Iiams' death last August. 

Brown is well fitted to carry on the tradi-
tion of friendly service and genuine, useful 
bookishness which was firmly implanted in 

the pattern of library administration during 
Mr. Iiams' distinguished tenure at Colgate. 
He brings to his new position a background 
of a year's effective administrative experi-
ence as acting librarian and many years' ef-
fective bookmanship. 

A graduate of Middlebury College, Mid-
dlebury, Vt., Brown entered librarianship 
seasoned with several years' work in advertis-
ing and printing in New York City and 
Springfield, Mass. His typographical interests 
are still strongly reflected in his personal 
book collection and in the Colgate library's 
collections of fine printing. He was born 
in New York City in 1917, is married and 
the father of three children. He has a 
master's degree in education from New York 
University, and his B.S. in L.S. is from 
Columbia. 

Firm but not inflexible in his opinions, 
ambitious but not self-seeking in his career, 
meticulous in his own work but never over-
demanding of others, 
Bob Talmadge has 
proved his librarian-
ship in subordinate 
jobs at the Univer-
sity of Illinois and 
the University of 
Kansas. L a t e this 
summer he moves to 
T u l a n e University 
and will soon prove 
his abilities all over 
again, as director of 
libraries there. 

If B o b ' s c a r e e r 
sounds like something out of a Rover Boys 
book or a Jack Armstrong radio serial it is 
simply because the facts read that way. His 
record is one of hard work and accomplish-
ment followed by merited advancement that 
has moved, and keeps on moving, with Pav-
lovian consistency. 

R O B E R T L O U I S T A L M A D G E was born in Seat-
tle May 22, 1920. After elementary and high 
school education in Kansas City, Kans., Kan-
sas City, Mo., and Minneapolis he attended 
Kansas City, Kans., Junior College and the 
University of Kansas, being graduated from 

M. A. McCorison 

Robert L. Talmadge 

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the latter in 1941. A successful career as an 
undergraduate was quickly followed by a 
successful career in the Navy. On active duty 
in the U. S. Naval Reserve from June 1941 
to October 1945 he was commissioned ensign 
and naval aviator in April 1942. By the time 
he was separated from active service as a 
lieutenant three and a half years later he 
had won a Distinguished Flying Cross and 
the Navy's Air Medal. He was promoted to 
lieutenant commander before his resignation 
from the Navy in 1955. 

His library education includes B.S. in L.S. 
and M.S. in L.S. (1946 and 1951) degrees 
from the University of Illinois Library 
School, and in 1956 he attended the Ad-
vanced Seminar for Library Administrators 
at the Rutgers University Graduate School of 
Library Service. His first professional experi-
ence was as a cataloger in the University of 
Illinois Library. Subsequent positions there 
were as bibliographer and as administrative 
assistant to the director. He left Illinois in 
1953 to go to the University of Kansas as 
associate director of libraries. Since July 1959 
he has been acting director of libraries 
there. 

Bob's success at his primary work has been 
paralleled by equal success in state and na-
tional library activities. He was a founder 
and the first president (1949-50) of Beta Phi 
Mu. He is active in ALA, ACRL, and in the 
Library Administration Division and the Re-
sources and Technical Services Division of 
ALA, and was this spring a candidate for 
ACRL's Board of Directors. He was chair-
man of the College and Universities Libraries 
Section of the Kansas Library Association 
1957-58. 

In 1957-58 he worked with Robert Vosper 
in a survey sponsored by the Association of 
Research Libraries of the first ten years of 
operation of the Farmington Plan. His work 
with that project was described in an article 
" T h e Farmington Plan Survey: An Interim 
Report" (CRL, X I X (1958), 375-83). With 
Vosper he edited the Farmington Plan Sur-
vey: Final Report in 1959, and he reported 
the proceedings of the 1959 Conference on 
the Farmington Plan for the minutes of the 
fifty-second meeting of ARL, 1959. He is co-
author of The Alma College Library: A Sur-
vey, 1958, and in 1957 published in the ALA 
Bulletin "Libraries and Museums of Kansas 
City." His master's thesis topic was "Practices 

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and Policies of the Reference Departments 
of Large University Libraries Concerning the 
Preparation of Bibliographies." 

Bob is married and the father of three chil-
dren. He is active in the Presbyterian church 
and in the work of the Rotary Club of 
Lawrence. He is a member of the American 
Association of University Professors and of 
Phi Kappa Phi. 

W I L L I A M R. ESHELMAN, who has been ap-
pointed librarian of the Los Angeles State 
College, has gained all of his professional 

library experience at 
this rapidly growing 
institution, now one 
of the l a r g e s t in 
California. He be-
came periodicals-ref-
erence librarian in 
the still-forming li-
brary in 1951. He 
was made assistant li-
brarian in 1954, and 
then served succes-
sively as chief of tech-
n i c a l s e r v i c e s , of 
reader services, and 

of circulation services. On the death of 
Beverley Caverhill in 1959 he was appointed 
acting librarian. He has been well prepared 
by this varied experience and by his assump-
tion of steadily increasing responsibilities to 
assume the headship. 

Mr. Eshelman has been a California resi-
dent since 1926, having been born in Okla-
homa. His college education was received at 
the Pasadena Junior College and at Chap-
man College, from which he earned his A.B. 
in 1943. An A.M. in English literature was 
granted by the University of California at 
Los Angeles. He obtained his B.L.S. from 
the Berkeley campus of the University. At 
UCLA he was a reader and teaching assistant 
in English; at Berkeley he was a research as-
sistant in German. 

Editor, printer, and publisher are all titles 
which Mr. Eshelman can claim. He per-
formed all three functions from 1943 to 1955 
in producing, with Kemper Nomland, Jr., 
The Illiterati, a little magazine, and booklets 
of poetry bearing the imprint of The Untide 
Press. This year he has assumed the editor-
ship of The California Librarian, official 
journal of the California Library Association. 

C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S 

Wm. R. Eshelman 



He has served on die CLA's Committee on 
Intellectual Freedom and was its chairman 
in 1957. He is the secretary of the College, 
University and Research Libraries Section of 

the CLA. He has been a member of the 
Rounce 8c Coffin Club of Los Angeles since 
1947, and was its secretary-treasurer for sev-
eral years.—Everett T. Moore. 

Appointmeri ts 
D O N A L D G. A L E X I S is reference librarian, 

College of William and Mary, Williams-
burg, Virginia. 

B A R B A R A A L T M A N , formerly assistant li-
brarian, John Hancock Life Insurance Com-
pany, Boston, is now head of the medical li-
brary, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. 

R O B E R T A R M S T R O N G has been appointed 
to the gift and exchange section of the ac-
quisitions department, University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles. 

H A N S B A R T has been appointed to the 
catalog department, University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles. 

A . L. B L O O M F I E L D , professor of medicine, 
emeritus, Stanford University, has been ap-
pointed director, historical collection, Lane 
Medical Library, Stanford University. 

W A L T E R BOTSFORD, formerly secretary, Wis-
consin Free Library Commission, is now ex-
tension librarian, Idaho State Library. 

J A M E S R . B O W M A N , has been promoted to 
the position of head of the monthly check-
list section, Library of Congress, and editor 
of the Alonthly Checklist of State Publica-
tions. Mr. Bowman was formerly in the Eng-
lish language section where he specialized, 
for the most part, in the cataloging of docu-
ments. 

D A V I D B R U N T O N has been appointed li-
brarian at Elmhurst (111.) College, beginning 
in September. 

E D W I N C A R P E N T E R , formerly a staff mem-
ber of the California Historical Society, is 
now bibliographer of Western Americana, 
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gal-
lery. . 

A N N E C O O G A N C A T L I N has been named as-
sistant in reference at the University of Pitts-
burgh Library. 

G E R A L D M. C O B L E , formerly assistant direc-
tor, University of Oklahoma Library, is now 
director, School of Library Science, Univer-
sity of Oklahoma. 

M R S . H A L L I E L O O M I S C R A Y T O R , formerly 
field supervisor, Cuyahoga County Public 
Library, Cleveland, is now librarian, East 
Mississippi Junior College, Scooba. 

M R S . E L I Z A B E T H D E C H A R M S has been ap-
pointed librarian of the new Art and Archi-
tecture Library, Washington University, St. 
Louis. 

P E T E R D E M E R Y , ACRL publications offi-
cer, will join the staff of the acquisitions de-
partment of the University of Washington 
Library in September. 

J A N E T D I C K S O N , formerly head cataloger, 
Pennsylvania State College Library, is now 
head, catalog department, Smithsonian In-
stitution Library. 

T H O M A S G . ENGLISH, JR., formerly a staff 
member of the University of Nebraska Li-
brary, is now head of technical reports cata-
loging, U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory 
Library, San Diego. 

R O N A L D V. G L E N S is the new executive sec-
retary of ALA's Reference Services Division. 
Mr. Glens was formerly general librarian 
(administrative assistant) at the University of 
Idaho Library. 

J E A N G U A S C O , formerly associate librarian 
and cataloger, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 
is now chief librarian. 

M R S . L I L Y H E A R N , formerly education li-
brarian, University of Southern California, 
is now assistant librarian in charge of pub-
lic services. 

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M I L D R E D J A M E S , formerly librarian, Pearl 
River Junior College, Poplarville, Miss., is 
now head librarian, Arkansas Teachers Col-
lege, Conway. 

P H Y L L I S J A Y N E S , formerly assistant refer-
ence librarian, Genesee County Library, 
Flint, Michigan, is now reference librarian, 
General Motors Institute, Flint. 

M. IRENE J O N E S , formerly associate librar-
ian, Mooney Memorial Library, University 
of Tennessee (Medical Units), Memphis, is 
now librarian. 

D E B O R A H K I N G , who retired as head of 
circulation, University of California, Los 
Angeles, in 1957, has accepted a part-time 
position in the Document Library, Stanford 
University. 

J O H N P. M C D O N A L D , formerly assistant di-
rector for readers services, Washington Uni-
versity Libraries, St. Louis, is now associate 
director. 

J O H N B. M C T A G G A R T , formerly librarian, 
Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, Berkeley, 
Calif., is now librarian, Methodist Theologi-
cal School, Stratford, Ohio. 

E D W A R D M I G N O N has been appointed to 
the reference and bibliography and inter-
library loans sections of the reference de-
partment, University of California, Los 
Angeles. 

W A L T E R L. N E C K E R , formerly assistant li-
brarian, library branch, Quartermaster Food 
and Container Institute, Chicago, is now 
head of the library. 

G E R A L D N E W T O N , , formerly acquisitions li-
brarian, University of Kansas City Libraries, 
is now chief of technical services. 

M R S . E L I Z A B E T H K. O L M S T E A D , formerly 
circulation librarian, Wellesley College, is 
now head of the circulation department, 
Harvard Medical Library. 

C O N R A D C . R E I N I N G has been appointed 
head of the Africana section, general ref-
erence and bibliography section, Library of 
Congress. He was formerly with the Special 
Operations Research Office of American 
University. 

J A M E S H. R E N Z is acquisitions librarian, 
College of William and Mary, Williams-
burg, Va. 

H. T H E O D O R E R Y B E R G has been appointed 
assistant director of the Syracuse University 
Libraries. Mr. Ryberg goes to his new post 
from the University of Buffalo, where he has 
served as assistant director of libraries. 

J O H N M U R R A Y R O S S , formerly assistant 
music librarian, Queens College, New York, 
is now in the reference department, Univer-
sity of California, Los Angeles. 

M R S . E L I Z A B E T H S C H U G , formerly librarian, 
Watseka (111.) Public Library, is now re-
search librarian, editorial and research de-
partment, Field Enterprises, Chicago. 

L U D W I G S I C K M A N N , lecturer in the Univer-
sity of Cologne Library School, Germany, 
and vice-secretary of the Working Group on 
Coordination of Cataloging Principles of 
the International Federation of Library As-
sociations, will be a visiting lecturer at the 
University of Chicago Graduate Library 
School during the summer session. 

M O L L I E T H O M P S O N is now liaison officer, 
Commonwealth National Library, and li-
brarian of the Australian Reference Li-
brary at the Australian Consulate-General, 
New York. 

A L P H O N S E F. T R E Z Z A will become an asso-
ciate executive director of ALA and execu-
tive secretary of its Library Administration 
Division effective September 6. Mr. Trezza 
has been executive secretary of the Catholic 
Library Association and editor of The Cath-
olic Library World since 1956. 

G E R T R U D E E . V O E L K E R , formerly head of 
technical services, Iowa State Teachers Col-
lege, is now acquisitions librarian, Capital 
University, Columbus, Ohio. 

D O N A L D W A S S O N , formerly assistant librar-
ian, Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 
New York, is now librarian. 

* M R S . G L A D Y S W I L S O N , formerly head of 
the music department, Minneapolis Public 
Library, is now librarian of Schmitt, Hall 
and McCreary Company, Minneapolis. 

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Retirements 
AUGUSTUS FREDERICK K U H L M A N , retiring 

this month as director of Joint University 
Libraries (serving Vanderbilt University and 

Scarritt and George 
Peabody Colleges) is 
a man of stature in 
his profession and 
to him college and 
university librarians 
owe much. 

The first editor of 
CRL, Dr. Kuhlman 
said in 1939: "The 
ACRL can become 
the hope of our pro-
fession . . . but only 
if we have a vital 
and vigorous pro-

gram in which a large membership partici-
pates." There were then about eight hun-
dred members of the organization, and this 
high figure was attributed to the member-
ship campaigns held in connection with re-
organization—turning the College and Ref-
erence Section of ALA into the Association 
of College and Reference Libraries. This re-
organization, begun in 1936—the year Fred-
erick Kuhlman came to Nashville and Joint 
University Libraries—was an accomplished 
fact in 1938, and Dr. Kuhlman was ap-
pointed to edit the new association's jour-
nal, the first devoted to college and univer-
sity libraries. In December 1939 the first 
issue of CRL was published. 

For three years Dr. Kuhlman kept the 
struggling journal on its feet, at the same 
time working to strengthen and support the 
fledgling association and to promote the 
profession to its proper position in the li-
brary world. Such endeavor meant long 
hours of unceasing effort and a preoccupa-
tion with the broad potentials of the new 
association as well as the minutia of editor-
ship. All this, and the responsibility of run-
ning his own library for the first time— 
and it is one of the large university li-
braries of the South—would have bewil-
dered a lesser man, but Frederick Kuhlman 
took it all in his stride, while on the side 
he served on the ALA Council (1932-36); 
as chairman of the Committee on Public 
Documents (1932-36) and editor of its pa-

pers (1933-36); as chairman of the Steering 
Committee of the University and Reference 
Librarian's Round Table (1938); chairman 
and editor of College and University Li-
brary Service—Trends, Standards, Apprais-
als, Problems (1938); and chairman of the 
College and Reference Librarians' Commit-
tee on Publications (1939-41)! 

It is hardly necessary to point out that to-
day ACRL has verified Dr. Kuhlman's words 
as to its being the hope of the profession 
and that CRL is recognized as worthy of 
comparison with any publication of any pro-
fession. The approximately eight thousand 
association members are greatly in the debt 
of the ACRL pioneers who worked so long 
and hard to develop the "vital and vigor-
ous" program needed, and foremost among 
these men stands Dr. Kuhlman, with his 
infinite capacity for organization, clear and 
forward thinking, painstaking work, and un-
quenchable enthusiasm for libraries and 
librarianship. 

Dr. Kuhlman has always worked hard and 
at more than one job at a time. He re-
ceived his B.S. degree in 1916 from North-
western College, Naperville, Illinois, and 
immediately plunged into wartime social 
work for the YMCA, the Illinois War Rec-
reation Board, and the American Red Cross, 
serving as morale officer in the United States 
Army in 1918-19. In 1920 he returned to the 
academic atmosphere as an assistant profes-
sor of sociology at the University of Mis-
souri, meanwhile working toward and re-
ceiving a master's degree from Chicago in 
1922. In 1924 he became associate professor 
at Missouri, and held this post until 1929. 
During these nine years of professorship, 
Frederick Kuhlman was carrying out his aca-
demic assignment, getting a master's degree, 
making surveys and writing the reports (So-
cial Survey of City of Jackson, Tennessee, 
1920; Paroles and Pardons, Missouri Crime 
Survey, 1926); writing A Guide to Material 
on Crime and Criminal Justice, 1929; serv-
ing on various boards, conferences, and sur-
veys related to his work in sociology; and 
obtaining his Ph.D. degree. 

Sometime during that period from 1920 
to 1929, his interests were intrigued by the 
field of librarianship, and after receiving 

A. F. Kuhlman 

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the Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1929, he 
became the associate director of the Univer-
sity of Chicago Libraries. This appointment 
was made upon the recommendation of the 
social science division of the University of 
Chicago following his work in fifteen re-
search libraries for the Social Science Re-
search Council. All the boundless energy 
and ability to become steeped in his subject 
were now to be directed toward libraries. 
His activities during those first years in li-
brary work have already been noted. 

After his stint of editorship for CRL was 
over in 1941, he put his social science-sur-
vey know-how into library surveys. In 1940 
he was the co-author of A Survey of the 
University of Florida Library (for ALA) and 
A Survey of the University of Mississippi 
Library. He directed the North Texas Re-
gional Libraries Survey (1943); Survey of 
Four St. Paul College Libraries, 1952; and 
the Survey of Seven Libraries of Arkansas 
Foundation of Associated Colleges, 1958. 

Meanwhile, another facet of his profes-
sional ability came to the fore. In 1949 he 
began doing building consultant work. The 
impressive list of his library-building clients 
includes Texas Christian University, 1949; 
Mississippi State College, 1949-50; South-
western Memphis, 1950-51; Tennessee State 
Library and Archives Building, 1950-51; 
Jackson (Mississippi) State College, 1957-58; 

Florence State College in Alabama, and Au-
burn University in 1959-60. 

Always concerned with research (JUL has 
been a member of the Association of Re-
search Libraries since 1945), Dr. Kuhlman 
in 1944 took part in the Conference of 
Graduate Deans and Librarians on Develop-
ment of Library Resources and Graduate 
Work in Cooperative University Centers of 
the South, serving as joint chairman and 
editor of the Proceedings. In 1942 he had 
written The Development of University 
Centers in the South. In 1956 a new research 
association, the Association of Southeastern 
Research Libraries, was formed, and Dr. 
Kuhlman was elected its first chairman "in 
recognition," say the minutes, "of his out-
standing contributions to research leader-
ship in the Southeast and in the United 
States." 

Merely listing the details of his career can-
not begin to convey the magnitude of the 
work he has turned out. A recital of offices 
held and committees served cannot do more 
than hint at the tremendous contribution he 
has made to librarianship. 

He is now retiring from a post he has 
filled for twenty-five years, but it is unthink-
able that he could ever retire from inter-
est in and concern with his chosen profes-
sion.—William H. Jesse. 

Necrology 
The library career of H A R R Y MILLER L Y -

DENBERG, best known to many by his initials, 
HML, began when he took a position as 
page in the public library of his home town, 
Dayton, in the late 1880's. It continued when 
he served as a student assistant at Harvard 
under Justin Winsor. He graduated from 
Harvard in 1896, after three years study, 
with a magna cum laude, and instead of re-
maining at Harvard as he might well have 
done, accepted a position under Dr. John 
Shaw Billings in the newly established New 
York Public Library. In the years that fol-
lowed, aided in no small way by HML, that 
library became one of the largest and by far 
the most used library in the country. Al-
though he had many opportunities to change 

base and to become the head of other im-
portant libraries, he stayed put until retire-
ment age. 

After an assignment in charge of manu-
scripts in the Lenox part of the Library, he 
was appointed assistant to Dr. Billings and 
came under the influence of that stimulating 
but somewhat brusk soldier, doctor, and li-
brarian, and worked with him closely until 
Billings' death in 1913. 

In 1908 Lydenberg became chief of the 
reference department of the Library, but 
long before that he had begun his work of 
building up and rounding out the Library's 
collections, which was to become his greatest 
single contribution to his library and, in-
directly, to his profession. There have been 

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great book collectors at one time or another 
in each of our great libraries from the Li-
brary of Congress on down. Without them 
the libraries could not have become great; 
but the results of Harry Lydenberg's never 
ceasing struggle during a period of a gen-
eration and a half to improve the New York 
Public Library collection have never been 
equaled for persistency, consistency, bril-
liancy, and ingenuity, and as a result, in the 
fields the Library had chosen to cover, it be-
came and remains the best rounded and 
complete to be found anywhere. 

The collections of the reference depart-
ment of the New York Public Library are 
Mr. Lydenberg's greatest monument, but his 
other contributions to his profession and 
his influence on it and the scholarly world 
go much farther afield. He was responsible 
for one of the first, if not the first, photostat 
installations in a library, and was an im-
portant cog in the Joint Committee on Ma-
terials for Research, which did so much a 
generation ago to reorient library collections 
and research methods. He was the authority 
among his library colleagues on the care and 
repair of books, and his volume with that 
title, written in collaboration with John 
Archer, is still the standard manual on that 
important topic. He was the first librarian 
to comprehend fully and then to do some-
thing about what is in many ways, if the 
long view is taken, our greatest problem: the 
disintegration of the paper on which library 
holdings are printed. The experiments con-
ducted under his supervision on the preserva-
tion of newspapers during the first World 
War; his pamphlet entitled Paper or Saw-
dust; and his sponsorship of the study of 
paper preservation made by the Bureau of 
Standards, as well as his later promotion of 
microfilm, were only a few of his efforts in 
this important field. 

H M L was a historian of note. His monu-
mental history of the New York Public Li-
brary, published in 1923, is a model for 
library histories, and his editing of the Archi-
bald Robertson Diaries and Sketches in 
America, 1762 to 1780, published in 1930, is 
a work that would have done great credit to 
any professional historian. 

Lydenberg's interest in fine printing and 
his promotion of it in the printing office of 
the New York Public Library set a useful 
example for other libraries and elsewhere in 

that field. His many painstaking research 
projects carried on year after year in connec-
tion with the reference problems referred to 
him, the results of which were published in 
the Library's Bulletin, are models of their 
kind. His contributions to the New York 
Public Library Bulletin cover a period of 
sixty years, and did more than any other one 
factor in making that bulletin one of Amer-
ica's great bibliographical enterprises. 

Few now remember Lydenberg's part in 
developing the classification scheme of the 
New York Public Library, which is one of 
the few classifications developed not on a 
theoretical basis but for a particular library 
to fit a particular situation, and which is a 
classification which has served its purpose 
well. Few may remember his contributions 
to the subject-heading list used in his library, 
although it is an important part of the Li-
brary's operation today. The New York Pub-
lic Library catalog, with all its faults, is still 
one of the most useful ones to be found any-
where, and no one has a greater claim to 
credit in this connection than he had. Few 
now remember the painstaking indexing of 
some thousands of different periodical titles 
that he carried on for over a generation, 
alone for most of that period, which placed 
nearly a million cards under special names, 
places, and subjects in the catalog and which 
do so much to make that catalog uniquely 
useful. 

Space is not available to record in detail 
HML's teaching of library history at Colum-
bia, the valuable contributions he made to 
the Century Association and the American 
Philosophical Society; the part that he played 
in surveys of the library of the University of 
Pennsylvania and of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences; his presidency of ALA, 
the Bibliographical Society of America, and 
the New York Library Club; his part in 
founding the Association of Research Li-
braries; or his influence on scores and scores 
of young men and women who worked un-
der his direction in the New York Public 
Library or came under his influence else-
where. He was an able administrator, al-
though he had no special interest in library 
administration for the sake of administration. 

Lydenberg was always fearful of staying 
on the job after age had impaired his effec-
tiveness, and insisted on retiring long before 
that time came. He resigned from the New 

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York Public Library in 1941 after forty-five 
years of service, but his career was far from 
ended. He was recalled to his profession be-
fore he had found a new home to which to 
retire, and became the director of the Biblio-
teca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City, 
which he organized and established success-
fully, and which was the first of what has 
become a long series of American libraries 
in parts of the world where libraries were 
still underdeveloped. 

This task completed, he became director of 
the International Relations Office of the 
ALA, and then, well after his seventieth 
birthday, he joined the Library of Congress 
mission sent abroad to acquire for American 
libraries European books, particularly Ger-
man publications, not then available in the 
United States due to the war. On this strenu-
ous assignment he did more than his share 
and wore down the other members of the 
mission who were half his age. Returning to 
the United States, he arrived in Washington 
one evening, and the next morning walked 
the three or four miles to the International 
Relations Office at the Library of Congress 
before opening time, while the other mem-
bers of the mission were looking for a place 
to recuperate from their strenuous efforts. 

H M L was a slight, wiry man with almost 
fabulous strength and endurance. He kept 
fit physically by working in his much loved 

garden and walking. He never seemed to be 
in a hurry, but he never spared himself. His 
persistent desire not to stay on the job past 
his prime brought about his final retirement 
from active library work in 1947, although 
he continued his researches, notably his 
study of Crossing the Line which was finafly 
published in 1957. He moved to Greensboro, 
North Carolina, where he was within walk-
ing distance of the library of the Woman's 
College of North Carolina. He felt that he 
could not be without a good library at hand, 
and this particular library had the added ad-
vantage of being presided over by Charles 
Adams, a former colleague at the New York 
Public Library. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lydenberg stayed in Greens-
boro until, as age took its toll, with his usual 
acumen and competence, they moved for the 
last time to Westerville, Ohio, in order to be 
next door to his daughter and her doctor 
husband. Harry Lydenberg died in April 
1960, after a long and painful illness. 

Harry Lydenberg was a truly great, all-
around librarian, and in addition was a 
great man and one who, in spite of his quiet, 
unassuming, and almost austere manner, had 
an unusual number of library colleagues, 
scholars, and book collectors throughout the 
land who were proud to think of him as 
their friend and who mourn his loss.—Keyes 
D. Metcalf. 

Research Information Solicited 

A c a d e m i c librarians are urged to report any current investigations that may be 
suitable f o r inclusion in Library Research in Progress. In addition to publicizing 
m o r e formal research projects, this publication lists surveys, management studies, 
and other types of library self-study. Investigations in progress o n o r after January 
1, 1960 are eligible f o r inclusion even t h o u g h they may already have been com-
pleted. Library Research in Progress aims to be a c o n t i n u i n g r e c o r d of library 
studies as well as a clearinghouse of research information. Forms f o r reporting 
projects may be obtained f r o m the editor at the Library Services Branch, Office 
of Education, W a s h i n g t o n 25, D.C. 

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We Point with Pride: A Message from 
ACRL's President 

ACRL begins in 1960/61 a new decade of 
activity. Such a time often provokes a glance 
back at the road we have just traveled and 

urges a look to what 
our future course 
may be. 

The most impor-
tant development for 
ACRL during the fif-
ties was the reorgani-
zation of ALA itself 
which in turn caused 
the reorganization of 
all its then consti-
tuent divisions and 
the creation of oth-
ers. Time alone will 
show how wise we 

were in this action. At present, in spite of 
various difficulties of ACRL in adjusting to 
its new role, it seems to have been a good 
move and many believe we have a stronger 
national organization than we should ulti-
mately have had otherwise. 

During this decade ACRL can certainly 
be proud of, among many things, the con-
tinued publication of CRL. This periodical, 
under the able guidance of Maury Tauber 
and his excellent editorial staff, has been 
characterized by lucid writing, a most attrac-
tive format, and the selection of material 
well suited to the needs and interests of our 
membership. It has been a potent force in 
promoting a professional attitude on the part 
of the members and is a publication which 
we can with pride call to the attention of 
people both within and outside the library 
profession. We hope it continues to repre-
sent us as well through the coming decade. 

Much of the work of ACRL is carried on 
by committees. Possibly the most notable ac-
tivity in this field has been done by the 
Committee on Grants. For the past several 
years, through the generosity of donors, par-
ticularly the United States Steel Foundation, 
it has been possible for ACRL to make 
grants to aid libraries in private colleges 
and universities, thereby not only improving 

the libraries themselves but also calling the 
attention of college administrators in a most 
pertinent way to the needs of their libraries. 
ACRL owes a debt of gratitude to Humphrey 
Bousfield, Arthur Hamlin, Dorothy Crosland, 
Ed Heintz, and others who have served on 
this committee for their work in securing 
grants. The continuation of them on an ex-
panded scale for the coming year, with more 
donors participating than ever before, augurs 
well for the future of this program. These 
new standards have already been distributed 
widely. We must now work to implement 
them in every way and, eventually, to raise 
them to an even higher level. 

The Committee on Standards, under the 
chairmanship of Felix Hirsch, is another 
with a record of solid achievement. The 
formulation of standards for both junior col-
lege and college libraries has established 
guideposts for their development which will 
have a beneficial and lasting effect. 

The Advisory Committee on Cooperation 
with Educational and Professional Organiza-
tions is making initial contacts with these 
organizations. With its dinner meeting with 
the heads of these in Washington last sum-
mer, it opened avenues of contact which are 
leading to identification of mutual problems 
and to an opportunity for working together 
almost unlimited in extent. In fact, all com-
mittees, whether concerned with the organi-
zational aspects of the division or with bib-
liothecal or other activities, have worked 
most faithfully and the membership of ACRL 
is indebted to them. 

The various sections also have been active: 
the University Libraries Section with its 
study, under the direction of Arthur Mc-
Anally, of academic status of librarians; the 
recently formed Rare Books Section which 
sponsored the successful Rare Books Confer-
ence last year at the University of Virginia 
and is now planning another at Oberlin next 
summer; and the Subject Specialists Section 
with its enthusiastic assumption of a broad-
ened field of operation and with its creation 
of sub-sections on art and on political science. 

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Eclmon Low 

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These activities, which are only a part of the 
total are mentioned to indicate the work (the 
extent of which is often not recognized even 
by its own members) now being carried on 
by the association. 

The association has its critics, particularly 
those who have been dissatisfied with its re-
lationship to the remainder of ALA organiza-
tion and of the role assigned to ACRL. 
ACRL's activities themselves would seem to 
disprove these accusations in a large part. 
However, as most members probably believe 
that there is still room for improvement in 
one way or another, I have some suggestions 
of goals toward which the association might 
well strive in addition to continuing much 
good work already started. 

Most of the libraries with membership in 
ACRL—that is, the college and university 
libraries—operate as a unit of a larger or-
ganization, the college or university as a 
whole. I think that ACRL, as an official 
body, has not assumed as much responsi-
bility as it should in examining the rela-
tionship of the library to its parent body 
and to the outside organizations and move-
ments in higher education which affect 
colleges ar̂ cl universities as a whole and, less 
directly, their libraries. In the first sphere, 
the consideration of academic status is a start, 
but this study only gathered information 
—no recommendation or policy has been 
formulated. There remains the whole ques-
tion of library support, involving salaries of 
librarians, extent of bookstock needed, and 
amount of support in relation to total re-
sources of the institution. I am not thinking 
so much of further studies, although unques-
tionably more exact information is needed, 
but rather of specific recommendations and 
of actively calling to the attention of the 
administrators involved various shortcomings 
as they appear. Again, our standards are a 
start in this direction. 

Similarly, the Advisory Committee on Co-
operation with Educational and Professional 
Organizations is a start with outside agencies, 
but so far only a start. And as yet we have 
not done anything in the governmental field 
and this, I believe, is the area of most imme-
diate importance. 

We hear much about federal aid to educa-
tion and, more recently, of aid to higher 
education as the situation of colleges and uni-

versities becomes increasingly desperate and 
is brought more often to public attention. 
Some aid is already forthcoming—scholarships 
under the National Defense Education Act, 
for instance—and more is proposed, such as 
loans or grants-in-aid for buildings and 
equipment. As yet there seems to be little 
sentiment for aid to the general operating 
budgets as such, but rather for specific items 
or in certain areas of activity. 

It is my belief that an excellent case can 
and should be made at this time for aid to 
college and university libraries in acquiring 
books and related materials. The constantly 
rising cost of such materials, particularly 
periodicals and books in the field of the 
natural sciences, is placing an ever increas-
ing strain on library budgets of all sizes. T h e 
emphasis in the last few years on the sciences 
and expanded research in this field make the 
problem still more acute. Every library needs 
more books. In this way, and for a relatively 
small amount, material assistance could be 
given to the total educational effort in higher 
education and to research, both so important 
today for national defense. 

I should like for ACRL to make a definite 
proposal in this regard. Next January is the 
beginning of a new Congress under a new 
administration. Elections will be over then, 
for the time being, and it will be a good 
time to propose new legislation with a 
chance of having it considered. But, because 
our libraries are units of larger organizations, 
it would be desirable for such legislation to 
have the support not only of our own associa-
tion and that of ALA as a whole but also of 
the presidents and administrators of our in-
stitutions and of other professional organiza-
tions, such as the Association of American 
Colleges. T o achieve cooperation on such a 
broad front is no easy task and will require 
much effort and patience on the part of 
many. But it is in such areas as this where 
the particular mission of ACRL lies and 
where it is our responsibility to speak for 
ALA as a whole. This is a most difficult role, 
and each ACRL member should feel it his 
obligation to share his ideas in developing 
an effective program. If this be done, ACRL 
will have a program which will test the 
mettle of us all and one to which we can 
all point with added pride.—Edmon Low, 
ACRL President. 

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ACRL Board at Montreal 
BRIEF OF M I N U T E S 

J U N E 2 0 

Present: President Wyman W . Parker, 
Vice-President Edmon Low, Past President 
Lewis Branscomb; Elmer M. Grieder, Ralph 
H. Hopp, Lottie M. Skidmore, H. Dean 
Stallings, Laurence E. Tomlinson, Katherine 
Walker, John F. Harvey, Elizabeth O. Stone, 
Jackson E. Towne, Walter W . Wright, Helen 
M. Brown, Richard Chapin, Morrison C. 
Haviland, Ruth M. Heiss, Helen Mitchell, 
George S. Bonn, Catherine Cardew, Ralph 
W . McComb, Donald E. Thompson, Fritz 
Veit, Richard Harwell, Flora B. Ludington, 
H. Vail Deale, Robert B. Downs, Felix E. 
Hirsch, Robert W . Orr, Ruth K. Porritt. 

President Parker called the meeting to 
order at 10:15 Monday morning, June 20. 
He noted that his report as president and 
Mr. Harwell's report as executive secretary 
would be made to the membership meeting. 

Mr. Downs made an informative report 
on the two library projects in Burma. He 
emphasized the success with which Paul Bix-
ler has directed the project at the University 
of Rangoon and the rapidity with which Jay 
Daily, the library adviser at the University 
of Mandalay, has organized the library there. 
T h e conduct of the projects was commended 
by Mr. Branscomb. Mr. Grieder suggested 
that a by-product of the work of ACRL's 
committee might be a compilation of pro-
cedures for the work of foreign library proj-
ects. 

Miss Walker reported the tally of the 
votes in the A C R L and section elections (the 
winners are reported elsewhere in this issue 
of CRL). 

Mr. Branscomb reported as ACRL's rep-
resentative to ALA's Program Evaluation 
and Budget Committee. He emphasized the 
exigencies that PEBCO faced in creating an 
ALA budget for 1961 in the face of rising 
costs, expanding programs, and limited in-
come. He reported that the ALA basic 
budget was increased by about 7.9 per cent, 
the divisional budgets decreased by about 
13.5 per cent, the budget for divisional pe-
riodicals increased by about 1.6 per cent, the 
budget for ALA committees decreased by 

about 7.4 per cent. As probable factors ne-
cessitating the reductions in division budgets 
he cited over-all emphasis by PEBCO on re-
cruiting and membership promotion and the 
necessity for added items in the basic ALA 
budget. He reported that the ACRL's re-
quested budget for this year was $ 3 3 4 3 , con-
siderably under its 1 9 5 9 / 6 0 budget of $ 4 6 4 7 , 
but that the amount allotted by PEBCO is 
only $ 1 6 4 7 . He reported also that the budget 
for CRL was reduced from a request of $24,-
8 0 6 to $ 2 1 , 7 8 2 . He noted that the A C R L 
budget is down 6 4 per cent from its 1 9 5 9 / 6 0 
figure. 

Considerable discussion by the Board fol-
lowed Mr. Branscomb's report. Mr. Parker 
characterized it as "disheartening" and ques-
tioned whether or not the developments 
represented by it are a move toward fuller 
centralization of activities in ALA. Mr. Har-
well assured the Board that CRL could be 
carried on despite the reductions in the 
budget. Mr. Orr remarked that other ALA 
programs must not be permitted to vitiate 
the divisional budgets. Mr. Grieder rein-
forced his remarks but noted that we must 
not judge prematurely between the impor-
tance of over-all ALA activities and divi-
sional activities. He stressed that we would 
need to exercise vigilance to see that divi-
sional programs were not dangerously cle-
emphasized. Mr. Low affirmed that A C R L 
should register its concern with the execu-
tive director of ALA. He was strongly rein-
forced in this opinion by Mr. Tomlinson. 
Miss Ludington reminded the Board that, 
despite its imperfections, budgeting by 
PEBCO is a distinct improvement over for-
mer methods of ALA budgeting. T h e Board 
concluded its discussion of Mr. Branscomb's 
report with the adoption of a motion by Mr. 
Grieder: 

That the budget committee be in-
structed by the Board to take cognizance 
that in the ALA budget just approved 
the budget of A C R L along with those of 
other divisions was cut and that this 
might be evidence of a trend toward 
strengthening other ALA activities at the 
expense of division activities; and, there-
fore, to study this matter and bring in 
recommendations at Midwinter to pre-

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vent reoccurrence of budgeting that 
might lead us in such a direction. 

Miss Heiss reported briefly on the work of 
the Subject Specialists Section, particularly 
the effective work now being carried on by 
its sub-sections. 

Mr. Low distributed copies of his proposal 
for federal aid for book collections in college 
and university libraries. After a few general 
remarks by him, detailed discussion of it was 
postponed until the second meeting of the 
Board. 

JUNE 21 

Present: President Wyman W . Parker, 
Vice-President Edmon Low, Past President 
Lewis Branscomb; Elmer M. Grieder, Neal 
Harlow, Herbert T . F. Cahoon, Ralph H. 
H o p p , Lottie M. Skidmore, H. Dean Stal-
lings, Laurence E. Tomlinson, Katherine 
Walker, John F. Harvey, Elizabeth O. Stone, 
Jackson E. Towne, Walter W . Wright, J. 
Richard Blanchard, Helen M. Brown, Rich-
ard Chapin, Morrison C. Haviland, Helen 
Mitchell, Catherine Cardew, Frederick Goff, 
Ralph W . McComb, Donald E. Thompson, 
Fritz Veit, Richard Harwell, H. Vail Deale, 
Mary D. Herrick, Felix E. Hirsch, Robert W . 
Orr, Ruth K. Porritt, Flora B. Ludington, 
Keyes D. Metcalf, Mrs. Margaret K. Toth. 

T h e second meeting was called to order 
by President Parker at 10:15 Tuesday morn-
ing, June 21. 

Mr. Orr reported for the Committee on 
Organization. T h e committee recommended 
that A C R L sections should be flexible in 
their structure, that sub-sections might be 
formed on the recommendation of a sec-
tion and approval by the A C R L Board, that 
sections are free to form committees but that 
the terms of committee members should con-
form with the practices of A C R L committees 
and that their formation should be reported 
to the A C R L Board. T h e committee rec-
ommended that A C R L chapters already con-
stituted continue and that appropriate sec-
tions in state organizations be permitted to 
designate themselves as A C R L chapters sim-
ply by vote of their own membership and 
reporting to A C R L , if the state organization 
is itself a chapter of ALA. It recommended 
the abolition of the A C R L committee known 

as State Representatives. It requested the 
combination of the present ad hoc Com-
mittee on Organization, the Committee on 
Committees and the Committee on Constitu-
tion and Bylaws into a standing Committee 
on Organization. T h e recommendations of 
the committee were approved. 

Mr. Orr also reported for the Grants Com-
mittee. He commended especially the work 
of Edward C. Heintz during the year. 

Mr. Parker reported that Mr. Ellsworth 
had requested the continuation of the ad 
hoc Committee on the Relation of the Law 
Library with the General Library of a Uni-
versity until work now pending can be com-
pleted. T h e continuation was authorized. 

Mr. Deale reported on National Library 
Week, summarizing in his report the returns 
of a questionnaire sent to college and uni-
versity librarians. Mr. Hirsch reported the 
publication of the completed junior college 
library standards. 

Miss Ludington reported for ACRL's joint 
committee with the Association of American 
Colleges and emphasized the desirability of 
work of this sort as a means of maintaining 
advantageous relations with college adminis-
trators. Mr. Metcalf summarized his work on 
his project for the compilation of a defini-
tive book on college and university library 
buildings. 

Discussion on Mr. Low's proposal for fed-
eral aid was reopened. Although some reser-
vations were expressed concerning the de-
sirability of federal aid, his proposal met 
generally enthusiastic approval. T h e Board 
voted to endorse the concept of the proposal 
and authorized Mr. Low to act in its behalf 
concerning it. 

Miss Porritt reported for the Committee 
on Constitution and Bylaws and received 
Board approval of amendments necessary to 
bring the governing documents of A C R L in 
line with the ALA constitution. 

Duplicated reports were available from 
the editor of A C R L Monographs, the editor 
of CRL, and the A C R L Publications Officer. 
Mrs. T o t h reported briefly for the A C R L 
Microcard Series. Reports were received 
from the A C R L sections. 

In response to a request which grew out 
of a meeting of librarians in the Boston area, 
Miss Brown reported the general unrest and 
concern of the librarians there with the or-
ganizational structure of A C R L within ALA. 

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She stated that these librarians feel a need 
for an organization in which all areas of 
concern to academic librarians may be 
worked with by academic librarians them-
selves as a unit. Mr. Chapin reinforced her 
statement with the report that it was equally 
a summary of the feeling of the steering 
committee of the University Libraries Sec-
tion. 

Mr. Harwell initiated discussion on a pro-
posal that there be appointed a committee 
to work with the Association of Land Grant 
Colleges and State Universities. There was 
feeling that the Board did not have before it 

sufficient background to warrant a decision 
in the matter. Further consideration of the 
question was, therefore, deferred. 

Mr. Grieder had been asked by Mr. Parker 
to serve as a committee of one to consider 
the preparation of a statement 011 intellec-
tual freedom in response to a request from 
ALA. Mr. Grieder reported that because of 
the diversity of institutional loyalties repre-
sented in the membership of ACRL it would 
be extremely difficult for the Board to com-
pose a representative statement. His recom-
mendation that the Board not issue a formal 
statement was adopted. 

Building Information Wanted 
U n d e r a grant f r o m the C o u n c i l o n Library Resources to A C R L and the Associa-

tion of Research Libraries, I shall be engaged during the next f o u r years in prepar-
ing a b o o k o n the planning of college, university, and research library buildings. A 
strong advisory committee is assisting me. I plan to talk with many librarians and to 
visit many new library buildings, but in addition I should like to invite readers of 
this j o u r n a l to h e l p by sending to me frank comments o n blunders in library archi-
tecture that have c o m e to their attention. I am particularly interested in buildings 
that have been constructed during the past fifteen years. D i d special problems arise 
in dealing with the architects? W h a t features have caused trouble? Are there faulty 
spatial relationships? Has the b u i l d i n g p r o v e d to be too large or too small? Is the 
site selected unsatisfactory? Have difficulties arisen with furniture and equipment, 
air c o n d i t i o n i n g systems o r lighting? Are service facilities inadequate? Has the build-
ing been too noisy? Are the arrangements for vertical and horizontal circulation as 
they should be? Has the style of architecture caused trouble? W a s the cost of con-
struction higher than anticipated? If you were able to begin again, what changes in 
your o w n dealing with the problems w o u l d you make? D i d you receive too m u c h o r 
too little h e l p in planning f r o m the administrative officers of your institution, your 
academic staff and your students? W e r e there other problems than those listed above 
o n which you w o u l d have f o u n d outside h e l p in print o r in other forms useful? 

O n e reason f o r broadcasting an appeal for criticism in this way is that librarians 
w h o have shared in responsibility f o r p l a n n i n g a b u i l d i n g may naturally be reluctant 
to call attention to its faults. Members of the staff w h o were not involved in planning 
may be m o r e outspoken critics of architectural mistakes. 

Comments will be regarded as strictly confidential if their author so desires, and 
n o one will be q u o t e d unless he specifically authorizes me to d o so. I should be grate-
ful to anyone w h o is willing to let me have the benefit of his experience, and in that 
way be useful to others w h o are n o w or will in the years ahead be facing b u i l d i n g 
p r o b l e m s . — K e y e s D. Metcalf, 68 Fairmont St., Belmont, Mass. 

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College and University Library Statistics 

T H E ANNUAL COMPILATION of college and 
university library statistics formerly con-
ducted through ALA and published in CRL 
will be handled in the future by the Office 
of Education of the U. S. Department of 
Health, Education, and Welfare. John Car-
son Rather, specialist for college and re-
search libraries in the Library Services 
Branch of the Office of Education, will be 
in immediate charge of the work. He will 
be assisted by the research and statistical 
staffs of the Library Services Branch and 
of the Education Statistics Branch of the 
Office. 

Forms for use in reporting statistics will 
this year be received by individual libraries 
from the Library Services Branch of the 
USOE, not from A C R L or ALA's Library 
Administration Division. It is expected that 
a detailed description of this year's survey 
will appear in an article by Rather in the 
September CRL. T h e following is the state-
ment by Roy M. Hall, assistant commis-
sioner for research of the USOE, and John 
Lorenz, director of the Library Services 
Branch, announcing the new plans for col-
lecting the statistics: 

"This fall the Office of Education, Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, 
will initiate a series of annual surveys of li-
braries in institutions of higher education. 
In doing so, the Office takes a major step 
toward its goal of furnishing current data 
on all types of libraries. Public library sta-
tistics have been issued annually since 1945. 
T h e first annual survey of school libraries 
(using sampling techniques) was undertaken 
early this year. Thus the compilation of aca-
demic library statistics will complete the 
series of annual reports on the status of 
three basic types of libraries. 

"Plans for this survey were developed by 
the Library Services Branch, Office of Edu-
cation, in close cooperation with officers and 
committee members of A C R L and the Li-
brary Administration Division. Coordina-
tion was essential since this OE survey will 
replace the annual statistics published in the 
January issue of CRL. Discussions of the 
changes in content and procedure were ini-

tiated by Frank L. Schick within the OE 
and by Hazel B. Timmerman and Richard 
Harwell within ALA. Meetings of represen-
tatives of the Library Services Branch with 
the ALA committees and groups concerned 
culminated in favorable action by the 
A C R L Executive Board and the LAD Sta-
tistics Committee for College and Univer-
sity Libraries at the 1959 A L A Midwinter 
Meeting. 

" T h e survey will be conducted by John 
Carson Rather, specialist for college and re-
search libraries, with the assistance of the 
research and statistical staff of the Library 
Services Branch and the OE Educational 
Statistics Branch. 

" T h e questionnaire to be used cov-
ers the same areas as the CRL statis-
tics: collections, staff, expenditures, and sala-
ries. Changes in arrangement and wording 
of some cjuestions follow the original intent 
of the former survey. One entirely new 
question is designed to determine the num-
ber of budgeted professional positions va-
cant on September 1, 1960. It is planned to 
issue the findings of the survey in two parts. 
T h e first report will list data of individual 
institutions arranged by state: totals will be 
given for all categories of information. T h e 
second report will present analytical sum-
maries of the data grouped by type of in-
stitution and control, and by size of enroll-
ment and control. These tables will give 
ranges and medians. 

" T h e first report is scheduled for release 
in January 1961; the second in April. Copies 
of both reports will be mailed to all partici-
pating college and university libraries. In-
dividual copies will also be available on re-
quest to the Publications Inquiry Unit of 
the Office of Education or the Library Serv-
ices Branch. 

" T h e goal of the Library Services Branch 
will be to maintain the usefulness of the 
CRL statistics while at the same time pro-
viding detailed analysis of the annual data. 
It is hoped that the results will be a signifi-
cant contribution to college and university 
administration and to academic libraries 
and librarianship." 

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New ACRL Officers and Appointments 

Ralph E. Ellsworth 

RA L P H E . E L L S W O R T H is the new vice-presi-dent and president-elect of ACRL. In an 
election which commanded both an unprece-

dentedly large vote 
and a record per-
c e n t a g e of A C R L 
members voting he 
d e f e a t e d A r t h u r 
Hamlin, librarian of 
the University of Cin-
cinnati and former 
executive secretary of 
ACRL, to gain the 
principal office of the 
association for a sec-
ond time. 

Ellsworth is direc-
tor of libraries of the 

University of Colorado. For the last two 
years he has served as chairman of ACRL's 
special committee to investigate the relation-
ship between the law libraries and the gen-
eral libraries in universities. He is chairman 
of the Committee on Resources of RTSD 
and a member of the ALA Committee on 
Intellectual Freedom. He was president of 
ACRL in 1951/52 and chairman of its Uni-
versity Libraries Section in 1953. Formerly 
librarian at the University of Iowa, he was 
president of the University of Iowa chapter 
of the AAUP in 1945. In 1954/55 he was 
chairman of the board of the Midwest Inter-
Library Center. Particularly well known as a 
consultant on library buildings, he is the co-
author of Modular Planning for College and 
Small University Libraries and the author of 
articles in various professional journals. His 
"Consultants for College and University Li-
brary Building Planning" appears in this 
issue of CRL. 

In the 1960 election 4,078 of 7,285 eligible 
voters returned ballots. This count is more 
than five hundred more than the previous 
high vote in the association and represents 56 
per cent of its membership as actual voters. 

D I R E C T O R S 

In the two contests for posts as directors-at-
large, 1960-63, Flora Belle Ludington, li-
brarian of Mount Holyoke College, South 
Hadley, Mass., defeated Douglas W. Bryant, 

Lucile M. Morsch Flora B. Ludington 

associate director of the Harvard University 
Library; and Lucile M. Morsch, deputy chief 
assistant librarian of the Library of Congress, 
bested Robert L. Talmadge, associate di-
rector of libraries of the University of Kan-
sas. Both Miss Ludington and Miss Morsch 
are past-presidents of ALA. As ACRL di-
rectors they succeed Elizabeth Findley and 
Elmer Grieder. 

In the ALA election for Council members, 
Dorothy Margaret Drake, librarian at Scripps 
College, Claremont, Calif., defeated William 
H. Jesse, director of libraries at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, in the pairing on the bal-
lot for which nominations had been made by 
ACRL's Nominating Committee. As a mem-
ber of the ALA Council nominated by 
ACRL, Miss Drake will serve on the ACRL 
Board of Directors. 

S E C T I O N O F F I C E R S 

Esther M. Hile was elected vice-chairman 
and chairman-elect of the College Libraries 
Section, and H. Vail Deale is the winner in 
the election for secretary of the section. They 
succeed Morrison C. Haviland and Victoria 
Hargrave. Defeated candidates were Luella 
R. Pollock and Warren F. Tracy. 

James O. Wallace, librarian of San An-
tonio College, San Antonio, Tex., was un-
opposed as a candidate for the vice-chairman-
ship of the Junior College Libraries Section. 
The new secretary of the section is Virginia 
Clark of Wright Junior College, Chicago. 
She won over Peggy Ann McCully. Wallace 
succeeds Catherine Cardew. Miss Clark suc-

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ceecls Mrs. Helen Abel Brown. 
T h e new vice-chairman and chairman-

elect of the Rare Books Section is Mrs. 
Frances J. Brewer, chief of the gifts and rare 
books division of the Detroit Public Library. 
T h e new secretary is William H. Runge, 
acting curator of rare books at the Alderman 
Library of the University of Virginia. They 
succeed Frederick Goff and Tyrus Harmsen. 
Defeated candidates in this election were 
Wilbur J. Smith and George H. Healey. 

T h e Subject Specialists Section elected 
Irene Zimmerman of die University of 
Florida Libraries vice-chairman and chair-
man-elect over Janet M. Rigney. Miss Zim-
merman succeeds George Bonn. Frank N. 
Jones continues as secretary of the section. 

Helen Wahoski, librarian of Wisconsin 
State College, Oshkosh, was elected secretary 
and chairman-elect of the Teacher Education 
Libraries Section. She defeated Mrs. Maud 
Merritt Cook Bentrup and succeeds Fritz 
Veit. 

John H. Ottemiller, associate university 
librarian of Yale University, defeated Giles 
F. Shepherd, Jr., for the vice-chairmanship 
of the University Libraries Section. He suc-
ceeds Ralph McComb. Ruth Ringo continues 
as secretary of this section. 

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS 

T h e new chairman of the Advisory Com-
mittee on Cooperation with Educational and 
Professional Organizations is Miss Lorena A. 
Garloch, librarian of the University of Pitts-
burgh. New members of the committee are 
Edward Heiliger and Stanley L. West. 

T h e Committee on Conference Programs, 
which will devise the A C R L program for the 
Cleveland Conference in 1961, includes Fred-
erick L. Taft, director of libraries of the 
Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, as 
chairman and Kenneth Fagerhaugh, Richard 
K. Gardner, Mrs. Helen S. Moffitt, Miss Elea-
nor M. Peterson, and Miss Eileen Thornton. 

James H. Richards, librarian of Carleton 
College, Northfield, Minn., succeeds Miss 
Ruth K. Porritt as chairman of the Commit-
tee on Constitution and Bylaws. Added to 
the committee to replace members whose 
terms have expired are Miss Sarah R. Reed 
and Miss Josephine M. Tharpe. 

Robert W . Orr, director of the Iowa State 
University Library, Ames, has accepted re-

appointment as chairman of the Committee 
on Grants. Humphrey G. Bousfield will work 
with this group as a special consultant. Ap-
pointed as replacements in it are Miss Lois 
E. Engleman, Giles F. Shepherd, Richard W . 
Morin, and Miss Flora B. Ludington. 

H. Vail Deale, chairman of diis year's 
Committee on National Library Week, will 
serve as a member of the 1960/61 committee, 
the only carry-over in its personnel. Chair-
man of this year's committee is LeMoyne 
W. Anderson, director of libraries at Colo-
rado State University, Fort Collins. Other 
members of the committee are Sister M. 
Claudia and Lee Zimmerman. 

T h e new Nominating Committee has as its 
chairman Melvin J. Voigt, director of the 
Kansas State University Library, Manhattan. 
Other members are Miss Katherine Walker, 
chairman of the committee in 1959/60; 
George S. Bonn, Clyde H. Cantrell, Waif red 
Erickson, and Wyllis E. Wright. 

William B. Ready, librarian of Marquette 
University, Milwaukee, succeeds W . Porter 
Kellam as chairman of the Publications Com-
mittee. T h e only new appointment to this 
group is that of Eugene P. Watson. 

Felix E. Hirsch, librarian of Trenton State 
College, Trenton, N. J., continues as chair-
man of the Committee on Standards. Mrs. 
Helen Everett is the new appointee. 

Membership on the Budget Committee is 
all ex-officio. Wyman W . Parker is chairman 
for 1960/61. T h e membership of the Ad-
visory Committee T o Administer the Ran-
goon Project remains as before. 

T h e membership of the A C R L / A R L Ad-
visory Committee for the Metcalf Project (for 
the production by Keyes D. Metcalf of a 
definitive volume on library buildings) is ex-
pected to remain stable throughout the four 
years of the project. It was appointed during 
the last year after die usual time for com-
mittee appointments and includes Ralph E. 
Ellsworth, William H. Jesse, Stephen A. Mc-
Carthy, Frank B. Rogers, Miss Eileen Thorn-
ton, Frederick H. Wagman, and Curtis Brad-
ford. 

Warren Kuhn is the new appointee to the 
A A C / A C R L Joint Committee T o Consider 
the Problems of College Libraries. Richard 
E. Chapin continues to serve as the A C R L 
representative on the AASL-ACRL-DAVI 
Joint Committee on Mutual Interests in the 
Audio-Visual Field. 

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"As Long As W e Both Shall Live" 
(Continued from page 296) 

to suppose that I chose) because I think 
that it is g o i n g to help, o r c o m f o r t , o r im-
prove, o r amuse, or delight. A t the very 
least, I should know, after a time, 
whether or not it has met my expecta-
tions—and why. T o discover this is 
neither to praise o r to d a m n the b o o k : if 
the two d i d not match, it may have been 
my expectations that were out of line, 
and not the b o o k . 

But, says the newly-wed, this is t o o 
personal an experience to b e discussed. 
Q u i t e possibly he may carefully avoid ex-
amining his o w n real feelings in the mat-
ter. I have n o wish to set u p as a marital-
relations counselor; but, in the case of 
the reading, I am certain that it must be 
discussed: first in soliloquy; then a m o n g 
friends; and finally with the critic. It is 
my expectations that are important. If 
I am consistently satisfied, I am expect-
ing too little, and must raise my stand-
ards; if I am consistently disappointed, I 
am expecting t o o m u c h , and must c o m e 
d o w n f r o m my pedestal; if I am con-
sistently bored, I have n o expectations, 
and must set about d e v e l o p i n g some if 
I d o not intend to b e c o m e a worthless 
misfit in the w o r l d of books. W h a t is 
reasonable to expect I determine f r o m 
my o w n reading experiences and f r o m 
the comparison of my expectations with 
those of others. 

T h e librarian's j o b is n o t customarily 
thought of as embracing the f u n c t i o n of 
critic. T h e critic is supposed to evaluate; 
the librarian, to provide, describe, per-
haps (if invited) to prescribe, and dis-
seminate. Perhaps the average librarian's 
reluctance to p r o n o u n c e judgments (es-
pecially, adverse), amounting almost to 
an occupational disease, is really a nice 
regard f o r p r o p e r professional b o u n d a -
ries. But, in actual fact, many of o u r pro-
fessional activities are, to a considerable 
extent, critical—no matter h o w l o n g and 

loudly we protest our utmost impartial-
ity: cataloging and classification, for ex-
ample; or the weeding-out of material; 
or, the most o b v i o u s and basic critical 
j u d g m e n t of all, selection. T h e historical 
development of publishing and library 
service has carried us over, willy-nilly, 
into the critic's province; and we are 
apt to d o a better j o b if we play our 
part in evaluation in a conscious and 
conscientious, rather than self-deceptive, 
manner. 

I am unable to understand o r sympa-
thize with the false modesty which leads 
most of us to disparage and conceal our 
o w n critical viewpoints because they are 
amateurish, personal, and prejudiced. 
A l l of the most important decisions we 
make in a lifetime are matters of ama-
teurish, personal, and prejudiced judg-
ment: vocation, religious and political af-
filiations, marriage and friendships, etc. 
W e make little or n o attempt to hide 
the o p i n i o n s which these reflect, nor d o 
we feel any need, f o r the most part, to 
d e f e n d them or excuse them. W h y should 
it suddenly b e c o m e so different when we 
are c o n f r o n t e d with art, in any of its 
forms, o r philosophy? Is it because we 
confuse critical o p i n i o n with dictum? T o 
say that 7 like a certain b o o k is n o t to 
say that I r e c o m m e n d it indiscriminately 
to others, or that I predict it will prove 
to be immortal, o r even that I consider 
it intrinsically better than other books 
of similar sort and purpose. Even though 
every practising, professional critic de-
clares an opposite reaction, my pro-
nouncement remains valid within the 
range in which I have projected it—pro-
vided I have taken the pains to say why 
I find it so. " M y reading has always been 
extremely personal—why deny it?—a 
hungry search f o r books to feed my o w n 
prejudices, as well as to strengthen my 
weaknesses, an earnest quest f o r verifica-

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tion of my o w n e x p e r i e n c e . " 1 4 In the 
pursuit of a greater knowledge of books, 
it is not just a question of what books are 
to be k n o w n , but of who's k n o w i n g them 
— a n d how. 

V I . T H E R E L A T I O N 

T h e best reading efforts I can manage 
to make, even if I credit myself with 
" k n o w i n g " all those titles I have merely 
skimmed and rejected o r read a b o u t in 
some other b o o k , are g o i n g to fall far 
short of the total knowledge of books I 
need. A m I in the end and after so m u c h 
effort, to be defeated in my purpose? I 
believe that the answer here, as in so 
many other crucial problems of librarian-
ship, lies to a great degree in coopera-
tion. It is a matter of m i l d amazement 
to me that librarians, w h o have g o n e so 
far in cooperative acquisition, coopera-
tive cataloging, cooperative circulation, 
and cooperative storage, should have 
d o n e so pathetically little in the way of 
cooperative reading. 

If there are far too many in o u r pro-
fessional ranks w h o w o u l d scarcely 
qualify as readers in any sense, there is a 
m u c h larger n u m b e r w h o read but, hav-
ing read, seem to consider it a p o i n t of 
h o n o r or duty never to m e n t i o n the fact 
in polite society; if they admit the addic-
tion to reading at all, it is only to one or 
two of their most intimate acquaint-
ances. Since this attitude is completely 
foreign to my make-up, I cannot claim 
to understand it; but I suspect that this 
strange reticence has various motiva-
tions: in some cases, the belief that such 
conversation about books read w o u l d 
prove b o r i n g to others; or, perhaps, the 
fear that what one has read recently 
w o u l d be regarded by others as t o o 
trivial to mention or, even worse, as dis-
tinctly queer; or, in other instances, the 
misgiving that what o n e had to say a b o u t 
a given title might prove to be not the 
" r i g h t " reaction; and so on. In any event, 

1 4 Powell, Islands of Books, p. 54. 

there is a clearly discernable tradition 
that any g r o u p of librarians, f r o m two 
to twice two thousand, assembled any-
where outside the library, may discuss 
salary scales and w o r k i n g conditions, 
travel experiences and vacation plans, 
personalities and gossip, movies, sports 
and T V programs, politics and the 
weather—anything, except books and 
reading! 

W h i l e I shall never accede to this tra-
dition, I am obviously powerless to d o 
m u c h about changing it; yet, I w o u l d 
have y o u consider what seems to me to 
be three good reasons why it ought to be 
changed. T h e principal o n e is based 
u p o n an observed p h e n o m e n o n which I 
have formulated as Sweet's L a w of the 
Natural Diversity of R e a d i n g Interests: 
If you take any g r o u p of f r o m six to six-
teen reading librarians, and make n o ef-
fort to influence or m o l d their instinctive 
preferences, you will find remarkably lit-
tle overlapping in their fields of primary 
interest. O n e reads science fiction, by 
choice, and another, detective stories; a 
third is particularly interested in local 
history, and a fourth, in music; still an-
other combines an interest in medieval 
history with a love for m o d e r n art, while 
I claim the essay, and other forms of 
belles-lettres, as my favored sphere; con-
temporary English and American fiction 
has its well-read adherents, and so it goes. 
If, then, each m e m b e r of this g r o u p is 
sharing with each other m e m b e r a run-
ning review of his particular reading in-
terests and activities, everyone must de-
rive at least a conversational acquaint-
ance with a tremendously b r o a d scope of 
material to supplement his m o r e inten-
sive familiarity with certain specific 
fields. If you contend that such a vicari-
ous, " d r a w i n g - r o o m " knowledge of many 
books is worse than having n o n e at all, 
I can only record my dissenting o p i n i o n . 
T o me it is one further and fruitful way 
of k n o w i n g about a great many m o r e 
books than we can ever k n o w intimately 
and directly, and of k n o w i n g them bet-

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ter—because of personal associations— 
than a bibliographical reference or a 
paragraph in some guide-to-the-literature 
w o u l d allow. 

Theoretically, such exchange of b o o k -
knowledge might be either oral (as in 
g r o u p discussion) or written (as in a li-
brary-staff publication); and, in either 
case, it might be either informal (as in an 
i m p r o m p t u , ad libitum account) or sys-
tematic (as in a prepared speech or pa-
per). After participation in various ex-
periments, 1 have reluctantly c o n c l u d e d 
that there is n o one " b e s t " approach, 
and that the situation calls for some use 
of all possible methods. T h e main thing 
is that there should be some constant ef-
fort at c o m m u n i c a t i o n of this sort, even 
if at the outset it is a responsibility ac-
cepted only by a small minority. 

T h e second argument in favor of co-
operative reading is that it confers the 
auxiliary benefit of clarification and co-
ordination of one's o w n reading. T h e 
very effort to formulate my impressions 
and descriptions of the books I have read 
in m o r e precise terms that I w o u l d ever 
d o f o r myself alone serves to correct any 
misconceptions, sharpen vague notions, 
and relate the diverse reactions I derive 
f r o m each, and thus makes the books a 
m o r e permanent yet pliable part of my 
total working equipment. 

A n d the third reason f o r such relation 
of reading experience is its very value as 
propaganda. O n l y when some brave (or 
foolhardy?) souls take the initiative, and 
figuratively stand u p in meeting-house to 
make their declarations as readers and 
reactors, will the reluctance of others to 
d o the same be overcome. T h e r e is a 
happy quality of contagion in b i b l i o p h -
ilism: as one reader voices his enthusi-
asms or concerns, he stirs u p a like re-
sponse in listeners w h o w o u l d otherwise 
have remained silent. 

But let us be very clear on one p o i n t : 
any cooperative reading efforts are worse 
than wasted if they are intended to sell 
to others my favorite authors or even my 

chosen topics. T h e aim must be to share 
— n o t to convert; there must be not 
merely tolerance of, but positive respect 
for others' varying interests and discov-
eries; and the only permissible proselyt-
ism is that on behalf of the general g o o d 
and the c o m m o n aim of a greater com-
posite knowledge of books. W h a t is 
needed is not standardization of reading 
efforts in any one direction but a wide-
spread individuality of effort, plus the 
p r o u d , affectionate, unashamed admis-
sion of this d e v o t i o n to books. " T o the 
end I shall be r e a d i n g — a n d forgetting. 
A h , that's the worst of it! H a d I at com-
mand all the knowledge I have at any 
time possessed, I might call myself a 
learned man. N o t h i n g surely is so bad 
for the memory as long-enduring worry, 
agitation, fear. I cannot preserve m o r e 
than a few fragments of what I read, yet 
read I shall, persistently, rejoicingly. 
W o u l d I gather erudition for a future 
life? Indeed, it n o longer troubles me 
that I forget. I have the happiness of 
the passing m o m e n t , and what more can 
mortal ask?" 1 5 

T h e w o r d " r e l a t i o n " has a happy am-
biguity which lends a m u l t i p l e meaning 
to its use as the theme of this chapter. It 
can mean: (a) the "act of relating, o r 
telling"; or (b) "the m o d e in which one 
thing stands to a n o t h e r " ; or (c) the "state 
of being mutually or reciprocally inter-
ested." 16 Because there is a relation, in 
sense (b) between our individual read-
ing activities, we must d e v e l o p a relation, 
in sense (c), by means of a relation, in 
sense (a). In pioneer fashion, we can 
help each other, if we will. 

V I I I . T H E R E C O N C I L I A T I O N 

A n d so, while there is still time, I ten-
der these, my reconciliation vows, to my 
estranged profession, the " c a l l i n g " of 
books: 

I shall read, in part for profit and in 

1 5 George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Rye-
croft (New Y o r k : The Modem Library, n . d . ) , p. 45. 

li5 Webster's Colleaiate Dictionary (5th ed.; Spring-
field, M a s s . : G. & C. M e r r i a m Co., c1936), p. 839. 

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part f o r pleasure, as voraciously as deter-
m i n a t i o n can manage and as variously 
as interest allows; I shall read "persist-
ently, rejoicingly." 

By reading books a b o u t books, and by 
casual acquaintances with other books, I 
shall learn about many m o r e books than 
I am able to k n o w through the actual 
reading. I shall constantly study the pro-
fession, her traits and tendencies, n o t 
merely because she is such a fascinating 
enigma, but because the better I know 
her the m o r e likely we are to avoid fu-
ture discord. 

I shall f o r m impressions and o p i n i o n s 
about the books I read; and, whenever 
the o p p o r t u n i t y arises, I shall voice those 
views—not arrogantly, yet earnestly. 

I shall try to induce my colleagues to 
give me the benefit of their diverse read-
ing experiences; and, in this, I shall not 
wait f o r them to take the initiative, but 
will begin by discussing my o w n reading, 
in the a n n o u n c e d expectation that they 
will respond in kind. 

A n d if they should prove to be unwill-

ing to cooperate, I shall not allow this 
failure to mitigate o r cancel the other re-
sponsibilities, here undertaken. 

R e a d , react, relate. T h a t is my pro-
gram: neither a casually simple one, nor 
yet an impossible o r unreasonable goal. 
A n d , to the extent that I succeed, I be-
lieve that this search f o r a greater knowl-
edge of books will inevitably be its o w n 
reward. " T h e inquiring m i n d , the relish-
ing m i n d , the ever-young (because un-
satiated) m i n d . Books cannot o n their 
o w n give you these things. It is what y o u 
in the first place m u s t — n o matter h o w 
long y o u l i v e — b e always prepared to 
give to them. A d m i t t e d l y they can then 
return it to you stimulated and height-
ened, the k i n d of 'breeder-reactor' effect 
we n o w talk about so glibly in this 
atomic age. But, so far as y o u are con-
cerned, every masterpiece is dead until 
you bring it to l i f e . " 1 7 T h e s e aims, there-
fore, I promise to pursue f o r "as l o n g as 
we b o t h shall live." 

1 7 Haley, op. cit., pp. 19-20. 

Inflation 
A recent study of books in thirteen different subject fields showed that f r o m 1947-

58 the price increase ranged f r o m 47 to 58 per cent. For example, books in the field 
of science had an average cost of $5.52 in 1947. T h e average cost in 1958 was $9.16. 
Books in the field of business w h i c h had an average cost of $4.72 in 1947-49 had an 
average cost of $7.98 in 1958. Books in the field of history had an average cost of 
$4.76 in 1947-49 and by 1958 the average cost was $6.46. 

In the area of U . S. periodical prices, the average cost of periodicals in the field 
of agriculture in 1947-49 was $1.77, and i n 1958 the average cost was $2.48. . . . 

A c c o r d i n g to i n f o r m a t i o n obtained f r o m a leading library supply house, there 
has been a 38 per cent over-all increase in all items since 1950. 

In 1945 the average salary of all p u b l i c library employees (part time, full time, 
professional, clerical, b u i l d i n g staff, etc.) was $1,100. In 1956 the a m o u n t was 
.$2,230 

Beginning salaries of library school graduates have risen f r o m an average of 
$3,675 in 1954 to $4,693 in 1958, an increase of a b o u t 27 per cent. . . .-—From U. S. 
Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Spe-
cial Education. Extension of Library Services Act. Hearings, 86th Cong., 2d sess., on 
H.R. 9319, H.R. 9494, H.R. 9812. Washington: 1960. p. 8. 

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