College and Research Libraries


ACRL Subject Specialists Section 
Law and Political Science Subsection Bylaws 

Adopted at a meeting of the subsection in Montreal, June 20, 1960. 

ARTICLE I. NAME 

The name of this organization is the Law and Political Science Subsection of the ACRL 
Subject Specialists Section. 

ARTICLE II. OBJECT 

The Subsection represents in the American Library Association specialists in the field 
of law and political science and librarians working in this subject area. It acts for the ACRL 
Subject Specialists Section, in cooperation with other professional groups, in regard to those 
aspects of library service that require special knowledge of law and political science. 

ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP 

Any member of the ACRL Subject Specialists Section may elect membership in this Sub-
section upon payment of his dues to the American Library Association and any such addi-
tional dues as may be required for such membership. Every member has the right to vote. 
Any personal member is eligible to hold office. 

ARTICLE IV. MEETINGS 

Ten members constitute a quorum for any meeting of the Subsection. 

ARTICLE V. COMMITTEES 

The Executive Committee consists of the chairman, the chairman-elect, the immediate-
past chairman, the secretary, and one member-at-large. The members of the Executive Com-
mittee shall be selected so as to assure approxmiately equal representation to the areas of 
law and of political science. 

The Executive Committee shall serve as the Program Committee. The chairman may ap-
point two additional members to the Program Committee from the membership at large for 
one year. 

ARTICLE VI. GENERAL PROVISIONS 

Wherever these Bylaws make no specific provisions, the organization of, and procedure 
in, the Subsection shall correspond to that set forth in the Bylaws of the ACRL Subject 
Specialists Section. 

ARTICLE VII. TEMPORARY PROVISIONS 

These Bylaws shall take effect upon the adjournment of the meeting at which they were 
adopted. 

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News from the Field 

ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS 

A CoLLECTION oF MORE than two thousand 
volumes, showing how the New World 
looked to the early Spanish and Portuguese 
explorers, has been given to the University 
of Chicago by Carter H. Harrison, Chicago 
attorney and life-long student of American 
history. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Medical 
Library has received a Charles Caldwell Col-
lection from Dr. Emmet F. Horine, historian 
of medicine in the Ohio Valley. The collec-
tion, gathered over a period of forty years, is 
accompanied by a bio-bibliographical study 
written by Dr. Horine: Biographical Sketch 
and Guide to the Writings of Charles Cald-
well, M. D. (1772-1853). (Brooks, Kentucky, 
High Acres Press, 1960, 155 p.). 

YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has been given 
450 volumes of the late Bruce Rogers, re-
garded the foremost book designer of the 
20th century. The donor is Dr. Harold M. 
Marvin of New Haven, for many years Mr. 
Rogers' personal physician and close friend. 
Most of the books are personally inscribed 
by the designer. Included are two rare vol-
umes of the Rogers' Oxford Lectern Bible, 
measuring 13 by 18 inches and weighing 16 
pounds each. By contrast there is a 2-inch 
volume of "The Book of Ruth," printed on 
a long strip of paper and mounted on two 
small wooden rollers with projecting ends. 
By twisting the handles, the scroll can be 
turned in either direction. 

A SET OF THE FIRST four Folios of Shake-
speare's plays has been presented to the St. 
Andrews University, London, by the Folger 
Library of Washington, D. C. The presenta-
tion has been made on permanent loan as a 
symbol of the desire of the Folger Library 
to extend the benefits of literary scholarship 
throughout the world. 

BuiLDINGS 

CoNSTRUCTION has begun on an addition 
to the library of the University of California 
at Santa Barbara. It will increase the book 
space to accommodate 262,000 volumes and 

NOVEMBER 1960 

it will double the seating capacity. An out-
standing feature will be a new study hall 
which can remain open when the rest of the 
library is closed. 

LIBRARIES of three off-campus centers of 
the University of Kentucky recently moved 
into their own quarters in new buildings. 
They are located in Covington, Cumber-
land, and Henderson. A fourth center li-
brary is at Ashland. 

CoNSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN on an extension 
to the Technical Library at Northwestern 
University. Book capacity will be increased 
from 60,000 volumes to 110,000; study car-
rels, a microfilm and typing rom, and a semi-
nar room will be added. The estimated cost 
of $250,000 will include air conditioning for 
the new area. 

THE UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame has an-
nounced plans for a 13-story library building 
to house 2,000,000 volumes, replacing the 
present one having a capacity of only 400,-
000 books. It will be erected next year and 
will be named the Memorial Library. One of 
the special features will be a central tower 
to be devoted principally to specialized uni-
versity research units. Included in the plans 
for the building are an auditorium, archives, 
the Mediaeval Institute, the Jacques Mari-
tain Center, committee offices, special col-
lections, an audio-visual department, and 
headquarters for the Notre Dame Library 
Association. 

TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE has opened the 
Farris Rare Book Room, named in honor of 
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bennett Farris, Richmond, 
Kentucky, whose gift made possible the fur-
nishings. Among the collections it will house 
are early sports books and prints, the Hor-
ace Holley collection, and letters written by 
Jefferson Davis during his imprisonment at 
Fort Monroe, Virginia, in 1865 and 1866. 
The room in fireproof and has been de-
signed to provide constant temperature and 
humidity control for preservation of the col-
lections. 

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MEETINGS 

THE THEME of the 25th annual conference 
of the Graduate Library School of the Uni-
versity of Chicago in August was "Persistent 
Issues in American Librarianship." Ralph 
T. Esterquest, librarian of Harvard Medical 
School Library, spoke on "Co-operation in 
Library Service." He suggested that we ask 
if our present cooperative efforts are con-
structive, retrogressive or just a habit. Fred-
erick H. Wagman, director of libraries, Uni-
versity of Michigan, in his talk on "Library 
R equirements of the Modern College," stated 
that future education would be fraudulent 
unless adequate libraries :ue established for 
college programs at the time the programs 
are organized. Bernard R. Berelson, director 
of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, 
Columbia University, entertainingly sum-
marized his forthcoming publication on grad-
uate education in the United States. His 
topic was "Implications of Graduate Teach-
ing and Research." Eugene H. Wilson, vice-
president and dean of faculties, University 
of Colorado, reviewed the subject. "The 
Preparation and Use of the Professional 
Staff." Mr. Wilson believes that the present 
five-year program is unrealistic in attempting 
to satisfy the demand for librarians; his pro-
posal of a four-year program with fifteen to 
eighteen hours of library science stimulated 
lively discussion. 

TEN YEARS of development in microrepro-
duction and data processing will be observed 
next April in Chicago when the National 
Microfilm Association holds its tenth annual 
meeting and convention at the Sherman 
Hotel. Newest microreproduction equipment, 
including modern cameras, processing ma-
chines, and reading equipment will be among 
the technical items exhibited. This con-
vention, like its predecessors, will provide 
the best opportunity for representatives of 
industry, government, and the library and 
academic fields to see at first-hand the rapidly 
developing techniques in the data process-
ing field. Attendance is open to everyone in-
terested in these developments. Details on 
registration may be obtained from Vernon 
D. Tate, executive secretary, P. 0. Box 386, 
Annapolis, Md. 

PUBLICATIONS 

A Guide to U. S. Indexing and Abstract-

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ing Services in Science and Technology is 
meant to aid in searching scientific and tech-
nological literature, and to stimulate co-
ordination and improvement of coverage by 
producers of bibliographic services. Of the 
492 listed titles, 393 are regarded as ab-
stracting and 99 as indexing services. Pre-
pared by the Library of Congress for the 
National Federation of Science Abstracting 
and Indexing Services under a grant from 
the National Science Foundation, this guide 
of 79 pages may be obtained from the fed-
eration at 301 East Capitol Street, Washing-
ton 3, D. C. The price is $2.00. 

LARGE RESEARCH LIBRARIES will profit from 
a new program of reviews designed to eval-
uate expensive micro-publication projects. 
Scholars in appropriate subject fields will 
write the reviews. Comment will be made 
concerning the usefulness of the microform, 
the organization of the material reproduced, 
and the bibliographic controls provided. 
When desirable, photographic technicians 
and librarians will be asked to write supple-
mental reviews concerning questions of opti-
cal quality, adequacy of cataloging, etc. All 
producers of scholarly micropublished mate-
rial will be solicited in an effort to obtain re-
view copies of new projects. These reviews 
will be published in Library Resources and 
Technical Services. Dr. Gustave A. Harrer, 
assistant director of the Stanford University 
Library, is the coordinator. 

STANDARDS for indexes to learned and sci-
entific periodicals are concisely enumerated 
in a leaflet, obtainable from the Honorary 
Editor, The Indexer, 120 Grasmere Avenue, 
Wembley, Middlesex, England. Approved by 
the Council of the Society of Indexers, the 
standards outline minimum requirements for 
adequate indexes so vital to librarians and 
research workers. 

A PUBLICATION SERVICE for masters theses 
similar to that available for doctoral disserta-
tions is being proposed by University Micro-
films at the request of the National Science 
Foundation and the Association of Research 
Libraries. Brief printed abstracts in journal 
form, and complete theses as positive micro-
film or as xerographic enlargements in book 
form, would be published. The journal 
would be known as Masters Abstracts. 

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DUE FOR PUBLICATION this fall are the sci-
entific reports of the World War II Office 
of Scientific Research and Development now 
being declassified to be made available 
through the Library of Congress. Approxi-
mately 30,000 reports in the collection have 
been processed and organized for use as li-
brary materials. 

AN EXPERIMENTAL COPY of Chemical Titles 
designed to increase awareness of new chemi-
cal research has been published by the Amer-
ican Chemical Society. It contains keyword 
indexes (general and biochemical) , bibliog-
raphy, author index and list of periodicals. 
Starting in January 1961 , Ch emical Titles 
will be issued twice a month with 3,000 titles 
surveyed in each issue. It will cover 575 
journals. Subscription rates for colleges and 
universities are $50 each for the 1st to lOth 
subscriptions, $45 each for the 11th to 25th, 
and $30 for all succeeding ones. Orders may 
be sent to the society at 1155 16th Street, 
Northwest, Washington 6, D . C. 

THE INAUGURAL EDITION of Index Chemi-
cus, volume 1, number 1, published by the 
Institute for Scientific Information, Philadel-
phia, will be useful to the research scientist 
interested in new chemical compounds. It 
indexes new compounds within thirty days 
after their first mention in the journals, 
thereby overcoming the time lag of conven-
tional indexing and abstracting- services. In-
dex Ch emicus consists of three basic sections: 
a register of new compounds, a molecular 
formula index, and an author index. It will 
be issued monthly. 

A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICE entitled Current 
Legal Bibliography has been announced by 
the Harvard Law School Library. Nine is-
sues will appear monthly during the aca-
demic year. Each will include a compre-
hensive listing of monographs, substantial 
journal articles, and the contents of collected 
works of all types that have been currently 
received b y the library. The monthly service 
will become a supplement to bound annual 
volumes to be published under the title of 
Annual Legal Bibliography. These volumes, 
the first of which is to appear in the fall of 
1961 , will combine the total 4,000 entries of 
Current Legal Bibliography with approxi-
mately 6,000 additional references to books 
an articles not included in the separate is-

NOVEMBER 1960 

sues. Subscription for the mon~hly service is 
$3.00 a year; the annual volume will be 
$14.00. Both services are avaiable for $15.00. 

Historical Statistics of the United States, 
Colonial Times to 1957, prepared· by the Bu-
reau of the Census, with the cooperation of 
the Social Science Research Council, is ob-
tainable from the Superintendent of Docu-
ments, Government Printing Office, Wash-
ington 25, D. C., ($6.00, 801 pages). 

Documentation, Indexing, and Retrieval 
of Scientific Information describes activities 
of Federal agencies and non-government 
groups in that field. The 283-page report, 
known as Senate Document No. 113, 86th 
Congress, 2d Session, was prepared by the 
staff of the Committee on Government Op-
erations, United States Senate. It is for sale 
by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. 
Government Printing Office, Washington 25, 
D. C. at 70 cents. 

Legal Protection of Literature, Art and 
Music by Stanley Rothenberg (New York: 
Clark Boardman Company, Ltd., 380 p., 
$ 10) is written for those who wish to pro-
mote and protect creative endeavor. It is of 
interest to librarians because of its informa-
tion on domestic and foreign copyright pro-
tection, and references to research sources. 

SEVEN Russian research journals in biology 
are being translated and published by the 
American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 
addition, the institute is translating and pub-
lishing selected Russian monographs in bi-
ology. Details about these publications may 
be obtained from the institute at 2000 P 
Street, Northwest, Washington 6, D. C. 

MEDIAN SALARIES of head librarians in col-
leges and universities rank third among 
thirteen types of administrative officers in 
the percentage of increase in the 2-year 
period ending in 1960. Dean's s~laries in-
creased 27.5 % ($8 ,411 to $10,723), vice-presi-
dents, 17.8% ($12,013 to $14,154), and head 
librarians, 15.4% ($6,134 to $7,078). Regis-
trars, with only 5.1% increase ($6,032 to 
$6,340), were lowest on the list in percentage 
of salary increase. These findings were pub-
lished as Higher Education Series Research 
Report 1960-R3, Salaries Paid and Salary 
Practices in Universities, Colleges, and Junior 

479 



Colleges, 1959-60, by National Education As-
sociation, 1201 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, 
Washington 6, D. C. The price is $1.00. 

Erasmus, an international three-language 
review journal, while not new, has a growing 
number of readers in the United States. 
Started by a Dutch student of medieval civili-
zation as an instrument to analyze the best 
products of contemporary scholarship in hu-
manistic areas, it demonstrates to scholars all 
over the world the value of thorough re-
viewing. During the first twelve years of its 
existence, it has dealt with 327 American 
publications in full-length reviews, while 
hundreds of additional titles have been 
listed in its bibliographies. So far, 156 Amer-
ican scholars have contributed reviews to 
Erasmus, published by Eduard Roether, 
Darmstadt, Germany. 

"New Dimensions in Higher Education," 
is the general title of a series of studies be-
ing done by Office of Education, Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare, Wash-
ington, D. C. Each publication deals with 
a particular educational problem facing the 
Nation's colleges and universities. Five of the 
series have been completed. 

Independent Study, by Winslow R. Hatch 
and Ann Bennet, (36 p., 25¢), concerns itself 
with implications for increasing educational 
effectiveness through independent study. Ex-
perimentation suggests that greater reliance 
can be placed on well-planned independent 
study throughout the college years for aver-
age as well as superior students. Such pro-
grams have implications for library service 
and will command the attention of li-
brarians. 

THE ALA OFFICE FOR ADULT EDUCATION 
has prepared a four-page circular for the 
1961 White House Conference on Aging, 
suggesting ways for all types of libraries to 
contribute to the welfare of the nation 
through their special services. Single copies 
have been distributed to many libraries. Ad-
ditional copies may be obtained from the 
Special Staff on Aging, U. S. Department of 
Health, Education and Welfare, Washing-
ton 25, D. C. 

Effectiveness in Teaching} by Winslow R. 

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Hatch and Ann Bennet (28 p., 20¢), deals 
with recent research on teaching effective-
ness and bears upon the critical problem of 
faculty utilization. New research suggests 
that the critical factor is not so much class 
size but rather the nature of the teaching 
that effects learning, and that problem-
oriented approaches to learning are effective. 

The Experimental College, by Winslow 
R. Hatch (13 p., 15¢), extends the first and 
second of this series of studies by reporting 
the extent to which experimental colleges 
and programs make use of independent 
study and new approaches to teaching and 
learning. In adition it concerns itself with 
some of the implications in these new de-
velopments for the administration of institu-
tions of higher learning. 

Impact of College by Mervin B. Freedman 
(27 p., 15¢) gives an account of the more 
prominent research studies on the effect of 
college experience on the student. The find-
ings are of value in making changes in col-
lege procedures. 

Management of Learning by E. D. Duryea 
(37 p., 20¢), discusses principal areas of con-
cern in academic administration. The report 
calls attention to the newer ideas in college 
and university administration and provides 
further impetus to the development of this 
field. 

.These publications may be purchased from 
the Superintendent of Documents, Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. 

IF vou are interested in oriental studies 
and libraries of the Near East, you will want 
to see a copy of Library World, the first li-
brary periodical in Arabic, now in its sec-
ond volume. Covering all aspects of library 
service, the articles are abstracted in Eng-
lish , and each issue contains at least one 
major article in English. Library World is 
edited by Habib Salama, P. 0. Box 1509, 
Cairo, United Arab Republic. 

THE 1960-61 Public R elations Register, of-
ficial membership roster of the Public Rela-
tions Society of America, lists over 3,300 
qualified men and women who are actively 
engaged in public relations work for busi-
ness and industry, counseling firms, welfare 
organizations, governmental agencies, and 

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educational institutions. It may be ordered 
from the Society at 375 Park Avenue, New 
York 22, N. Y., at $35 a copy. A special dis-
count is extended to libraries. 

A BIBLIOGRAPHY of manuscripts and docu-
ments entitled Presidents and Near Presi-
dents [of the United States J has been issued 
by the University of Kentucky as Library 
Bulletin Number XX. A few fascimilies are 
included in the 14-page pamphlet, prepared 
as a catalog of an exhibit at the university 
during the summer. 

"Creating Personnel Policies to Attract 
and Retain Librarians" is the topic of a 
paper by Morris A. Gelfand, librarian at 
Queens College, Flushing, New York, in the 
July 1960 issue of The Educational Record. 
The article reviews the steps that have been 
taken in the attainment of academic status 
by librarians. 

BAsic BooKs, New York, has issued Error 
and Deception in Science; Essays on Biologi-
cal Aspects of Life, by Jean Rostand, in a 
translation from the French by A. J. Pom-
erans (196 p., $4.00). 

Paperbound Books in Print, issued in its 
summer, 1960, edition, contains 9,200 titles. 
Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of 
many original titles published only in paper-
back. (R. R. Bowker, $2.00 per copy, or $6.00 
for four quarterly issues). 

ALBERT CooK is the author of The Mean-
ing of Fiction (Detroit, Wayne State Univer-
sity Press, 1960, 317 p., $5.00). Professor 
Cook, of Western Reserve University, dis-
cusses novels and novelists in his effort to 
describe the nature of fiction. 

J. NoRMAN HEARD's Bookman's Guide to 
Americana has been issued in its second 
edition by the Scarecrow Press, New York 
(1960, 407 p., $9.50). The volume contains 
quotations on fiction, poetry, drama and 
literary essays as well as factual Americana. 

Tactics of Scientific Research: Evaluating 
Experimental Data in Psychology, by Murray 
Sidman, has been published by Basic Books 
(New York, 1960, 428 p., $7.50). Among the 
topics treated by the author are· the rela-
tion of the behavior of the scientist to the 
course and results of his investigations and 

NOVEMBER 1960 

the themes of replication, variability, and ex-
perimental design. 

Library Display , by Stephanie Borgwardt 
(Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University 
Press, 1960, 190 p., £2) is an illustrated vol-
ume on how to make the library "a source of 
inspiration and delight." American librarians 
may find some unusual suggestions for ex-
hibits and displays in this work from South 
Africa. 

PAUL WAsSERMAN, librarian and associate 
professor of the Graduate School of Business 
and Public Administration, Cornell Univer-
sity, is the author of Toward a Methodology 
for the Formulation of Objectives in Public 
Libraries: An Empirical Analysis (Ph.D. dis-
seration, University of Michigan, 1960, 200 
p.). The study is concerned with the theory 
and philosophy of measurement and evalua-
tion as applied to problems in three differ-
ent public libraries in New York State. 

DR. Loms R. WILSON, dean emeritus of 
the Graduate Library School of the Univer-
sity of Chicago and formerly librarian at the 
University of North Carolina, is the author 
of Harry Woodburn Chase, who was presi-
dent of the universities of North Carolina 
and Illinois, and New York University 
(Chapel Hill, 1960, 55 p., $2.00). This is an 
interesting story of the activities of a uni-
versity president in higher education; it is 
also a document that shows, in brief form, 
the progress and direction of higher edu-
cation in the twentieth century. 

Twenty-five Cases in Executive- Trustee 
Relationships in Public Libraries, by Ken-
neth R. Shaffer, director of the School of Li-
brary Science, Simmons College, is a new 
publication of the Shoestring Press (Ham-
den, Conn., 1960, 187 p ., $4.50). This is the 
second volume in a series of case studies be-

. ing prepared by Mr. Shaffer. Library sur-
veys, replacement of a director, budget cuts, 
mechanical equipment, arrest of a library 
patron, controversial novels, reader interest 
classification, choice of a librarian, trustees 
and the city government, dismissal of a libra-
rian, a promised bequest, missing fine money, 
and inclusion in a civil service system are 
among the topics included. 

VoLUME III of Eleanora A. Baer's Titles in 
Series: A Handbook for Librarians and Stu-
dents is available from the Scarecrow Press, 

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New York (1960, pp. 1169-1627, $11.00). This 
is a valuable source of information, and has 
been used by some librarians instead of pre-
paring analyticals for catalogs. 

EuGENE P. ·WILLGING and Herta Hatzfeld 
have issued the Second Series, Part Two, 
"Wisconsin," of their Catholic Serials of the 
Nineteenth Century in the United States: A 
Descriptive Biblography and Union List 
(Washington, Catholic University of Amer-
ica Press, 125 p., $2.95). 

JoHN L. ANDRIOT is the compiler of Guide 
to Popular U. S. Government Publications 
(Arlington, Va., Documents Index, Box 453, 
1960, 125 p. $7.50). Periodicals, serials, maps, 
and some visual aids are included. 

The Sixty College Study ... A Second 
Look is a comparison of financial operating 
data for 1957-1958 with A Study of Income 
and Expenditures in Sixty Colleges) 1953-
1954. The survey by the National Federation 
Consulting Service under the direction of 
the National Federation of College and Uni-
versity Business Officers Associations has been 
financed by a grant from the Fund for the 
Advancement of Education. The report, 
printed _by Columbia University Press, is 
available from the National Federation Con-
sulting Service, 343 South Dearborn St., Chi-
cago 4, at $7.50 a copy. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

SERVICE TO BLIND readers will be expanded 
when vounteer readers make tape-recordings 
for the Division for the Blind, Library of 
Congress. Volunteers will be enlisted from 
the membership of the Zeta Phi Eta, a na-
tional professional speech fraternity for 
women. These recordings will supplement 
the regular talking books on disks done by 
professional readers and manufactured in 
quantity for the library. Details are obtain-
able from the Information and Publications 
Office of the Library of Congress. 

SALARIES of academic librarians at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley have in-
creased considerably since 1946. In that year 
the initial salary for the Librarian 1 position 
ranged from $2400 to $2880; today it is 
$4980 to $6060. The Librarian IV position 
which paid $4800 to $5400 in 1946 now pays 
$8520 to $10,344. Salaries for Librarian n 

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and III have increased comparably. These 
figures exemplify the upward trend of aca-
demic library salaries. 

THE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SERVICE of the 
University of California at Los Angeles has 
announced establishment of the Zeitlin and 
Ver Brugge Lectures in Bibliography. Each 
year there will be a lecture by a distin-
guished scholar in the field of bibliography. 
A generous gift from Josephine and Jacob 
Zeitlin has made it possible to support the 
lectureship for a five-year period. 

THE RuTGERS UNIVERSITY Graduate School 
of Library Service announces the availabil-
ity of a new partial-tuition scholarship to 
be known as the Lowell A. Martin Scholar-
ship. Applications should be addressed to 
the Dean, Graduate School of Library Serv-
ice, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 
N.J. 

THE LIBRARY OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY 
opened a special exhibit of its Bernard 
DeVoto papers with a program including 
Catherine Drinker Bowen, Edith Mirrielees, 
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Wallace 
Stegner. The DeVoto papers were purchased, 
together with Bernard DeVoto's personal 
library, in 1956 from his estate. A gift from 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Heller of Ather-
ton, California, and a donation from the 
William Robertson Coe Fund made the 
purchase possible. The papers, which num-
ber over forty thousand items, have been 
arranged and cataloged and are open to the 
public. 

DeVoto's interest in and wide knowledge 
of various important fields relating to Amer-
ican life and letters in the nineteenth and 
twentieth centuries-including history, edu-
cation, literary criticism, conservation of 
natural resources, politics, the Mormon 
Church, the American West before the Civil 
War, free speech, the Bread Loaf Writers' 
Conferences, and publishing-form the basis 
of a voluminous correspondence. Corre-
spondents include Mrs. Bowen, Schlesinger, 
Robert Frost, Alfred Knopf, Russell Lynes, 
]. Frank Dobie, John Ciardi, Allan Nevins, 
Crane Brinton, Van Wyck Brooks, Lyndon 
Johnson, H. L. Mencken, Henry Nash Smith, 
and many others. 

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Personnel 

In GusTAVE AuGUSTUS HARRER, Boston 
University has selected as its next director 
of libraries an energetic young man of intel-

ligence and curiosity. 
These characteristics, 
corn bined with a 
very fine educational 
and personal back-
ground, an affinity 
for hard work, and 
the humanistic ap-
proach to librarian-
ship, have taken Gus 
a long way in a short 
time. 

He carne to the 
Gustave A. Harrer University of Ten-

nessee in 1954 after 
finishing his formal library training at Illi-
nois, having previously acquired the A.B., 
A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the University 
of North Carolina. His library experience 
consisted of student assistant and nonpro-
fessional work at North Carolina and Illi-
nois. As assistant order librarian at Tennes-
see (later associate order librarian), he was 
invaluable to us with his knowledge of lan-
guages, his facility with faculty contacts, and 
his ready acceptance of increasing responsi-
bility. His work was more than merely satis-
factory; he did a really fine job, and I know 
the people at Stanford, where he went in the 
spring of 1957 as chief acquisition librarian 
and stayed to become assistant director for 
central services, found this to be tr.ue during 
his tenure there. 

Being highly conscious of his responsibility 
to the profession, Gus entered into regional 
and local library activities with his usual zeal. 
He did important committee work for the 
Southeastern and Tennessee library associa-
tions, taking on such demanding and thank-
less jobs as local arrangements, editing, and 
similar assignments which require energy, an 
analytical frame of mind, endurance, and 
equanimity, all of which Gus possesses in 
abundance. 

With Alex Ladenson of the Chicago Pub-
lic Library, he is now invtstigating the prac-

NOVEMBER 1960 

ticability of the use of code numbers in book 
order work. This study, sponsored by ALA 
under a grant from the Council on Library 
Resources, is the type of project the timor-
ous, the lazy, or the hidebound give up on 
before they start, seeing it as guarded around 
by insurmountable odds. But Gus, being 
neither timorous, nor lazy, nor hidebound, 
loves to get his teeth into such a problem. 
If it can be done, he can work out a way to 
do it; if it can't be done, he will tell us why. 

Boston University is to be congratulated 
on its new director of libraries. The faculty 
and staff will find him receptive, friendly, 
and stimulating, supplementing his preoc-
cupation with running a good library with 
his genuine interest in community and uni-
versity life-William H. ]esse. 

The belief that outstanding teaching can 
be expected only from persons who have 
been seasoned in library work has often 
been expressed by LAWRENCE CLARK PowELL. 
Now that the full faculty of the UCLA 
School of Library Service has been an-
nounced it is of interest to observe how this 
belief has been carried out. 

Lawrence C. Powell Andrew H. Horn 

ANDREW H. HoRN has been appointed as-
sistant dean and associate professor. For 
seven years Dr. Horn was on the UCLA Li-
brary staff serving in turn as head of the de-
partment of special collections, assistant li-
brarian, associate librarian and acting li-
brarian. He was university librarian at North 
Carolina for three years and college li-

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Barbara Boyd JVfrs. T. P. Keatinge 

brarian at Occidental College for two years. 
His teaching responsibility will include bib-
liography, reference and documentation, and 
the library history segment of the introduc-
tion to library service, which will be taught 
jointly by the staff. 

In the First Annual Report of the School 
of Library Service, for the year 1959-1960, 
Powell takes special note of Horn's achieve-
ments in readying the School for its opening 
this fall. "We shall open for instruction, as 
scheduled, on September 19, 1960, thanks to 
the extraordinary devotion, intelligence, and 
energy of a single man-Andrew H. Horn. 
Returning to the campus of his alma mater 
at an initial sacrifice, Dr. Horn cheerfully 
accepted his responsibility; and I cannot 
open this report without rendering him my 
heartfelt thanks. The School will be forever 
in his debt for what he did for it in this 
pioneer year." 

BARBARA BoYD, lecturer in public library 
work (city, county, regional, federal), will 
bring to her assignment twenty years of ex-
perience in county and state library work 
on the Pacific coast. Miss Boyd holds the 
degree of Master of Public Administration. 

MRs. TATIANA P. KEATINGE will serve as 
lecturer in library service. For more than 
twenty years Mrs. Keatinge has worked in 
public, university and school libraries, and 
she has taught school library administration 
at the University of Arizona. 

MRS. FRANCES CLARKE SAYERS will assume 
responsibility for teaching children's library 
service. Since her retirement from the head-
ship of children's work in the New York 
Public Library in 1953, Mrs. Sayers has 
taught children's literature in the UCLA Eng-
lish department. 

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Mrs. F. C. Sayers Seymour Lubetzky 

SEYMOUR LunETZKY as professor of library 
service will bring to the teaching of catalog-
ing and classification more than twenty-five 
years of experience. For the past seventeen 
years, Mr. Lubetzky has been at the Library 
of Congress where he has achieved an inter· 
national reputation for his work on revision 
of cataloging rules. 

With his appointment as Dean of the Li-
brary School and professor of library serv-
ices, Lawrence Clark Powell announced his 
retirement as university librarian, bringing 
to a close the leadership of seventeen years 
which took the UCLA Library through a dy-
namic period of growth and expansion. 

On September I, RoBERT EDMOND BooTH 
joined the faculty of the department of li-
brary education of the College of Education, 

Wayne State Univer-
sity as associate pro-
fessor of library edu-
cation. He received 
his A.B. from Wayne 
in 1941, his B.S. in 
L.S. from the School 
of Li.brary Service, 
Columbia, in 1942, 
and his M.S. in L. S. 
from the University 
of Michigan in 1943. 

From 1944 to 1946 
Robert E. Booth he was editor and 

bibliographer at Uni-
versity Microfilms, Ann Arbor. In 1946 and 
194 7 he served as reference librarian in the 
Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, Mary-
land, and from 194 7 to 1956 he was associate 
librarian at M.I.T., Cambridge. He has also 
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consultant to a number of libraries. In 1956 
he was appointed to the faculty of the School 
of Library Science, Western Reserve Univer-
sity, where his time was divided between re-
search in the Center for Documentation and 
Communication Research, and teaching 
courses in library administration, academic 
libraries, library building, and microrecord-
ing. In 1960 he received his Ph.D. from 
Western Reserve. 

He is married to the former Ada Margaret 
Pfohl. The Booths have two daughters, Ellen, 
14 and Meg, II. 

We at Western Reserve are delighted with 
the new opportunities that Wayne will bring 
to Bob, but he leaves a vacancy here that 
will be hard to fill. Not only has he brought 
to his instructional and research duties a 
rich background of experience and a sound 
professional knowledge, but also he has been 
particularly effective in working with and 
advising students and aiding in the recruit-
ment program of the school. We regret more 
than we can say his departure from the West-
ern Reserve community, but we have known 
all along that his promotion to positions of 
greater responsibility and scope was inevit-
able, and we are happy that we could have 
him with us for this brief period of four 
years. We predict for him a real future of ac-
complishment in education for librarianship. 
Certainly the profession needs more people 
with his capabilities, and we are proud to be 
able to include him among the alumni of 
Western Reserve-Jesse H. Shera. 

FRANK J. ANDERSON has resigned as director 
of the General Dynamics Corporation Sub-
marine Library, Groton, Conn., in order to 
return to Kansas Wesleyan University, Sa-
lina, as librarian. He is a graduate of Indi-
ana and Syracuse universities. After receiv-
ing his M.A.L.S . from Syracuse in 1951, he 
was on active duty with the Navy aboard 
the submarine USS Tusk. He became librar-
ian at Kansas Wesleyan in 1952, and director 
of the Submarine Library in 1957. He was 
director-at-large of the Connecticut Valley 
chapter of the Special Libraries Association, 
and editor of its bulletin. He is a past secre-
tary of the Connecticut Cartofiles and was 
first secretary of the Groton Toastmasters. 
He is now finishing his third term as na-
tional historian of the U. S. Submarine Vet-
erans of World War II. Mr. Anderson is 

NOVEMBER 1960 

married and the father of a six-year old 
daughter. 

JAMES VAN LUIK has been appointed li-
brarian of Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, 
and assumed duties in September. For the 

]ames Van Luik 

last year he has been 
an associate in li-
brary service in sci-
ence literature at Co-
lumbia University. 
Prior to that he had 
been a research as-
sistant at Columbia, 
working in the areas 
of technical services 
and audio-visual ma-
terials. 

Van Luik took his 
bachelor's degree 
from Hillsdale Col-

lege after spending two years in Columbia 
College. He also studied at the Universities 
of Arizona and California, taking graduate 
work in biochemistry. On an exchange fel-
lowship, he received his Master's degree at 
the University of Paris in the field of bio-
chemistry. In 1954 he returned to Columbia 
University where he received his Master's 
degree from the School of Library Service in 
1955. While a candidate for the degree, he 
was also an assistant in the Columbia Chem-
istry Library with responsibility for organiz-
ing the Atomic Energy Commission docu-
ments and reviser in the School of Library 
Service. From Columbia, van Luik went to 
Purdue University as librarian of the Chem-
istry Library. He was also assistant professor 
of chemical, and chemical and metallurgical 
engineering literature at Purdue. 

After two years at Purdue he returned to 
Columbia to study for his doctoral degree. 
In July 1960 he completed his work for the 
program and is now revising his dissertation 
in the history of chemical bibliography, 
which has been provisionally accepted. He 
was a member of the faculty of Emory Uni-
versity Library School during the summer of 

.1959. 
Van Luik brings considerable energy to 

his position in Turkey, and he should make 
a substantial contribution to the rehabilita-
tion and future development of the collec-
tion in science and technology in the library 
of Robert College.-M.F.T. 

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Appointments 

JoHN C. ABBOTT, formerly librarian, Trin-
ity University, San Antonio, Texas, is now 
librarian of the southwestern campuses of 
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. 

KENNETH ALLEN, formerly chief of acqui-
sitions, University of Washington Library, 
has been named associate director of li-
braries. He is graduate of the University's 
School of Librarianship and has a wide range 
of administrative experience. He will act as 
administrative assistant to the director with 
special responsibility for budgetary manage-
ment. 

ALicE APPELL, formerly assistant acquisi-
tions librarian, University of Illinois, Ur-
bana, is now on the staff of the Public Li-
brary of Long Beach, Calif. 

J. R. AsHTON is now associate director of 
libraries and general consultant in the li-
braries in Rio Piedras, San Juan, and 
Mayaguez, of the University of Puerto Rico. 

JoHN G. AsTHON is assistant librarian, Tem-
ple University Dental-Pharmacy Library, 
Philadelphia. 

TEKLA BEKKEDAL is children's librarian 
and instructor of library science, Bemidji 
.(Minnesota) State College. 

RAYMOND BoHLING, formerly assistant di-
rector of libraries for science and technology, 
University of Nebraska, is now supervisor of 
departmental libraries, University of Minne-
sota, Minn. 

JEAN L. CAMERON, formerly with the New-
ark Public Library, is now librarian for 
Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., Kearny, N. J. 

WILLIAM J. CHALKER, formerly head li-
brarian, State University of New York, Fre-
donia, is now acquisitions librarian, Jackson-
ville (Florida) University. 

RHODA-GLENN CoLLINs is assistant refer-
ence librarian, the University of South · 
Florida, Tampa. 

MARTHA CovEY, formerly a reference as-
sistant, University of Florida Library, is now 
a senior reference librarian , The University 
of South Florida, Tampa. 

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RicHARD A. DAvis, formerly librarian of 
the laboratories for applied sciences, Uni-
versity of Chicago, is now assistant professor 
of library science, Drexel Institute of Tech-
nology, Philadelphia. 

DoNALD D. DENNIS, formerly in the docu-
ments department, Free Library of Philadel-
phia, is now serials, library science and 
special collections librarian, and instructor 
in library science, Drexel Institute of Tech-
nology, Philadelphia. 

DoNALD H . DouGHERTY, formerly chief, cir-
culation branch, Air University Library, 
Maxwell A.F.B., Alabama, is now a senior 
reference librarian, the University of South 
Florida, Tampa. 

HAL DRAFER is a member of the acquisi-
tions department, University of California 
Library, Berkeley. 

MRS. ANNE S. FLANNERY, after an absence 
of three years, has returned as assistant li-
brarian, technical processes, Lehigh Univer-
sity, Bethlehem, Pa. 

MARY E. GALBRAITH is head circulation li-
brarian, Montana State College, Bozeman. 

EDWIN BLACK GEORGE, formerly director 
of economics at Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., is 
now chief of the economics division, legis-
lative reference service, Library of Congress. 

HAROLD GoRDON, formerly in charge of the 
circulation department, Columbia University 
Library, is now head of the circulation de-
partment, Wilbur Cross Library, University 
of Connecticut, Storrs. 

MRS. MARIAN GREENE, formerly assistant 
cataloger, University of Rhode Island, is now 
reference librarian and part-time staff mem-
ber in the education-psychology section, Uni-
versity of Oregon, Eugene. 

MARGARET E. GREENWALD, formerly a spe-
cial librarian for Chipman Chemical Co., 
Inc., Bound Brook, N. J., is now science li-
brarian of Idaho State College Library, Poca-
tello. 

DALE C. GRESSETH, formerly periodicals 
order librarian, Long Beach State College, 

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Long ·Beach, Calif., is now order librarian 
of Idaho State College Library, Pocatello. 

JUDITH M. HARRISON, Fulbright exchange 
librarian from Australia, has joined the 
staff of the University of Oregon Library, 
Eugene, as a reference librarian. 

EDWARD G. HoLLMAN, formerly a cata-
loger at the University of Missouri Library, 
is now senior social science librarian, Univer-
sity of Oregon, Eugene. 

MRS. EVELYN RIVERS HUMPHREY, formerly 
in the reference department, University of 
Southern California, is now a catalog libra-
rian, University of Oregon, Eugene. 

SALLY JANE HurroN is reference librarian 
in the main reading room of the Carol M. 
Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute, Blacksburg. 

LuciLLE JANS is a member of the loan de-
partment, University of California Library, 
Berkeley. 

LESTER S. JAYSON, formerly chief of the 
torts section in the civil division of the De-
partment of Justice, is now senior specialist 
in American public law and chief of the 
American law division, legislative reference 
service, Library of Congress. 

LEONARD R. JoHNSON, formerly acquisition 
librarian, Wesleyan University, is now assis-
tant librarian in charge of technical services, 
State University College of Education, New 
Paltz, N. Y. During the absence of the li-
brarian in 1960-61, he will serve as acting 
librarian. 

TED KNEEBONE, formerly assistant libra-
rian, Northern State Teachers College, Aber-
deen, South Dakota, is now head librarian, 
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln. 

RoBERT P. LANG, librarian, State Univer-
sity College of Education, New Paltz, N. Y., 
will be on sabbatical leave during the 
1960-61 academic year to serve as Fulbright 
lecturer in library science at the University 
of the Pun jab, Lahore, Pakistan. 

JOHN LAucus, formerly selection officer, 
Baker Library, Harvard University, is now 
librarian, Busines and Economics Library, 
Boston University. 

MRS. KATHRYN DIBBENS LEWIS, formerly 

NOVEMBER 1960 

assistant acquisitions librarian, University of 
Oklahoma, is now bibliographer, Fondren 
Library, Southern Methodist University, Dal-
las. 

LILY CHAI-SHow LI is assistant librarian, 
St. John's University, Jamaica, N. Y. 

ADELAIDE B. LocKHART, formerly manage-
ment research assistant, Yale University Li-
brary, is now assistant librarian, Dartmouth 
College, Hanover, N. H. 

VIRGIL MASSMAN is reference-curriculum 
librarian, Bemidji (Minnesota) State College. 

ANTONIO MATOS is now librarian in charge 
of the graduate collection in the general li-
brary at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio 
Piedras. 

RoBERT MAUTNER, formerly at Los Angeles 
State College Library, is now head, science 
and technology reference department, Sacra-
mento State College Library. 

MARGARET MILLER, formerly general refer-
ence librarian, University of California, 
Davis, is now head of the education and 
psychology reference department, Sacramento 
State College Library. 

PETRO MIRCHUK is library assistant, Uni-
versity of Delaware, Newark. 

BEATRICE MoNTGOMERY, formerly head of 
the catalog department, Georgia State Col-
lege, Atlanta, is now head of the catalog 
department, Los Angeles County Law Li-
brary. 

WILLIAM HoWARD NACE is assistant refer-
ence librarian, Sullivan Library, Temple 
University, Philadelphia. 

MRs. TRUDI M. NELSON, formerly a cata-
loger, Syracuse University, is now a cataloger, 
University of Oregon, Eugene. 

RICHARD LEoNARD O'KEEFFE has been ap-
pointed assistant librarian and science li-
brarian, Rice University, Houston, Tex. 

GUIDO PALANDRI, formerly a cataloger, 
Wayne State University Library, is now a 
cataloger, University of Oregon Library, 
Eugene. 

ELIZABETH PEELER, formerly head of the 
catalog department, University of Miami, 

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Coral Gables, Florida, is now instructor in 
cataloging and head of the catalog depart-
ment, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria. 

MRs. loNE F. PIERRON, formerly senior so-
cial science librarian, University of Oregon, 
Eugene, is now assistant professor in the 
department of librarianship, University of 
Oregon School of Education. 

ELSPETH PoPE is public service librarian 
in charge of reference, cataloging and the 
public stacks, University of Puget Sound, 
Tacoma, Wash. 

DoLORES ANN PRITCHARD has been ap-
pointed librarian in the reference depart-
ment, University of California, Santa Bar-
bara. 

SABRON REYNOLDS, formerly reference li-
brarian, University of Illinois, is now refer-
ence librarian, Oberlian College, Ohio. 

GEORGEANNA MARY RILEY is assistant cata-
loger, Villanova University, Pa. 

RoBERT RoYCE, formerly acquisitions li-
brarian of the University of Idaho Library, 
is now assistant librarian of the Inter Ameri-
can University Library, San German, Puerto 
Rico. 

THEODORE RYDER is assistant circulation li-
brarian, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

ELIZAJANE K. ScHAEFFER is assistant refer-
ence librarian, Lehigh University, Bethle-
hem, Pa. 

OscAR SEIN is cataloger, Lehigh Univer-
sity, Bethlehem, Pa. 

MRs. VIOLET E. SHUE, formerly assistant 
librarian for public service and head of the 
reference department, University of Cali-
fornia, Santa Barbara, is now working part 

time in the Hoover War Library, Stanford 
University. 

GLENN B. SKILLIN has been appointed ref-
erence and circulation librarian of the Ed-
ward Clark Library, Bennington College, 
Bennington, V t. 

EDITH P. STICKNEY, formerly librarian of 
Midland College Library, Fremont, N e-
braska, is now social science librarian of 
Idaho State College Library, Pocatello. 

ELEANOR SYMONS is assistant head of the 
preparations department, University of Kan-
sas, Lawrence. 

ROBERT TAKAGI is a member of the staff of 
the Paleontology Library, University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley. 

W. DESMOND TAYLOR is reference and cata-
loging assistant, University of Puget Sound, 
Tacoma, Wash. 

PANSY H. WASHINGTON, formerly adminis-
trator, Army Library Service, is now assist-
ant cataloger of Idaho State College Library, 
Pocatello. 

MRS. EDITH FRENCH WATERMAN, formerly 
assistant librarian, is now head librarian at 
Montgomery Junior College, Takoma Park, 
Md. 

ANNA L. WEAVER, formerly social science 
reading room librarian, University of Florida, 
is now head of the reference department, 
University of South Florida, Tampa. 

SAM G. WHITTEN, formely coordinator of 
branches, Dallas Public Library, is now 
science librarian, Southern Methodist Uni-
versity, Dallas. 

LEE H. WILLIAMS, JR. is now head of 
technical services in the general library of 
the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. 

Retirements 
ELLEN F. ADAMS, associate librarian, Dart-

mouth College, retired on August 1, 1960 
after more than forty years of service in the 
Dartmouth Library. 

MRs. LoTTIE BERGH, librarian, St. Olaf Col-
lege, Northfield, Minn., has retired after 
thirty-five years of service. 

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GoLDA S. PAYNE, librarian, Montgomery 
Junior College, Takoma Park, Md., was 
honored on the occasion of her retirement 
by the naming of the library in her name. 

MARGARET SMITH, senior cataloger in the 
University of California Library, Santa Bar· 
bara, retired on June 30, 1960. 

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