College and Research Libraries News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S , G I F T S , C O L L E C T I O N S S E A L A N T I C F U N D , I N C . , has appropriated $875,000 to strengthen the library collections of the eighty-two seminaries accredited by American Association of Theological Schools. Each institution will be offered a chance to match grants up to a maximum of $3,000 a year for the next three years. T h e match- ing funds must be over and above the li- brary's present book budget. A select num- ber of institutions that demonstrate the greatest creativity in the planning and rela- tive improvement of their library efforts in the program will be eligible for an addi- tional two-year grant. They will receive two dollars for each one dollar they spend be- yond the existing book budget, up to a maximum grant of $6,000 a year. Thus, it may be possible for a library to increase its book budget by a total of $36,000 over the entire period. T h e Sealantic pledge will ex- tend to 1966. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F A R I Z O N A L I B R A R Y h a s completed cataloging of the manuscripts and printed material of Thomas Wood Stevens relating to his activities in the American theatre. Covering approximately 45 linear feet in nearly 70 document boxes and many folio cases, the collection includes extensive personal corespondence from 1899 to his death in 1942, scrapbooks, hundreds of clip- pings, programs, and photographs, and al- most 60 prompt books (most of them per- sonally annotated). Steven's writings are represented both in manuscript and printed form. In addition, there are 58 original etchings by Stevens and a collection of al- most 100 private press books, chiefly those of the Blue Sky Press (1899-1907), with which he was associated. T h e collection was given almost exclu- sively by Stevens' widow, now deceased, in the years following his death, but some scrapbooks and private press items, includ- ing early "little magazines," were contrib- uted by friends and former students. A de- tailed 24-page description of the collection has been prepared by Phyllis Ball, the spe- cial collections librarian. T H E L I B R A R Y of the University of Alaska has received $2,000 from Milton Rabinowitz of New York City for the purchase of his- tory and physics books. T H E L I B R A R Y of Colorado College, Colo- rado Springs, has received a gift of $4,000 from an anonymous donor. T h e sum is for purchase of books in the field of physics. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F D E L A W A R E L I B R A R Y has acquired the diplomatic papers of the late Assistant Secretary of State, George S. Messersmith. During his career with the U. S. Department of State, Messersmith held posts as ambassador to Uruguay, Austria, Mexico, and Argentina, and as American consul in Berlin from 1930 to 1934. A gift of Mrs. Messersmith, the papers date from 1932 to 1947. They include copies of letters and confidential, secret, and top-secret dispatches to secretaries of state during this period and extensive notes on projeced memoirs. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F F L O R I D A L I B R A R I E S have received from the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings estate some correspondence and unpublished manuscripts of the author. In- cluded in the gift are the research notes compiled by Mrs. Rawlings for her projected biography of Ellen Glasgow. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S L I B R A R Y h a s counted twenty-nine hundred titles in the library of musical arrangements given by the Chicago radio station W G N in 1957. T h e collection of operatic, concert, and pop- ular music covering thirty years was acquired by the Division of University Extension through efforts of Professor Bruce Foote, faculty member of the School of Music, who has appeared on many W G N programs. S O U T H E R N I L L I N O I S U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y has purchased a facsimile of Lindisfarne Gospels with the gift of $400 from the 1961 graduating class. Another gift of $300 for books about Japan was given by the Japan Society. N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 465 J A M F . S S T I L L , a distinguished poet, has given his papers to the library of More- head (Ky.) State College. A room named in his honor will house his manuscripts, pub- lished articles, pictures, and mementos. M A N U S C R I P T S recently acquired by the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo., include selected papers of James E. Webb, representing his service as director of the Bureau of the Budget and under- secretary of state, and other professional activities; John M. Redding, former gov- ernment official and publicity director of the Democratic National Committee; Frieda B. Hennock, former member of the Fed- eral Communications Commission; Stanley Andrews, former administrator of the Tech- nical Corporation Administration, and James Boyd, former director of the Bureau of Mines and defense materials administrator. T H E A M E S L I B R A R Y of South Asia has been moved from St. Paul to the Minne- apolis campus of the University of Minne- sota. T h e library became the property of the university under terms of a 1952 agree- ment between the board of trustees of the Ames Library and the university's board of regents. It will be housed on the fourth floor of Walter Library, and will be admin- istered as a special unit of the university library. T h e seventy-five thousand items in- clude books, maps, charts, official papers, and other materials relating to Pakistan, Afganistan, India, Ceylon, Burma, Tibet, Persia and Malaya. Primarily historical, the collection, nevertheless, covers many sub- jects. R E C E N T P U R C H A S E S and gifts have strength- ened the special collection on the North American Indian in the Bemidji (Minn.) State College Library. A F T E R F O U R Y E A R S of negotiation, New York University's Library of Judaica and Hebraica has acquired on microfilm the David Kaufmann manuscript collection. David Kaufmann (1852-99) was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hun- gary and world-famous scholar of Jewish history, culture, and religious philosophy. T h e collection includes manuscripts pertain- ing to the Bible, codices, commentaries on Hebrew literature; documents relating to Talmudic science and religious laws; works on liturgy, mathematics, astronomy, medi- cine, theology, and philosophy; and histori- cal articles. T h e earliest item dates back to the year 1021. While most of the material is in Hebrew, some is in Arabic, Aramaic, or Judeo-Arabic. T h e original collection is in the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Acad- emy of Sciences in Budapest. T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F W Y O M I N G L I B R A R Y h a s received the papers of Silas A. Guthrie as a gift of Judge and Mrs. Rodney Guthrie. T h e papers show graphically the relationship between eastern investors and their western managers and partners in the development of business enterprises in the west. In addi- tion to extensive correspondence, the Guth- rie collection contains many business docu- ments and records. T h e materials date from 1867 to 1890. P U B L I C A T I O N S Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Uni- versities, Year Ended June 30, 1959 includes library data in several of its tables. T h e sixty-eight institutions spent a total of $28,227,163 from current funds to operate their libraries in 1958-59. This was a 7.2 per cent increase over the previous year's ex- penditures. However, the gross amount for libraries constituted only 2.2 per cent of the total current-fund expenditures for edu- cational and general purposes. This propor- tion has remained relatively unchanged for many years. T h e total number of individuals classified as professional librarians in these sixty-eight institutions was 1,689, in the first term of 1958-59. This was a 5.7 per cent decrease from the same period in 1957-58. Data on total library expenditures and professional library staff are given also for each of the sixty-eight institutions in a series of refer- ence tables. Copies of the publication may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Of- fice, Washington 25, D. C., for $1.00 each. N U M B E R 10 of the National Science Foun- dation's Scientific Information Activities of Federal Agencies series is on the Veterans Administration. This ten-page report de- scribes the organization and mission of the administration and subject fields it covers. 466 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 Information is given on research in prog- ress and types of VA publications and re- lated scientific information activities of the agency. Copies may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Govern- ment Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., for 10 cents a copy. A F T E R 1 9 6 5 , supplements of the Catalogue general des livres imprimes de la Biblio- theque nationale will be published in a quinquennial series. T h e first will contain entries for books cataloged between Jan- uary 1, 1960, and December 31, 1964. It will arrange individual authors, corporate authors, and anonymous works in a single alphabetical sequence with added entries for publishers, translators, and preface writ- ers. Periodicals and books printed in non- Latin alphabets will be grouped separately. The University of Michigan Index to La- bor Union Periodicals is a monthly subject index to fifty labor union periodicals. In addition, it has a brief annotation for each item. Published by the Bureau of Industrial Relations, School of Business Administra- tion, University of Michigan, this service is sold on a calendar-year basis for $125. Aldous Huxley; a Bibliography, 1916-1959, by Claire John Eschelbach and Joyce Lee Shober, has been published by the Univer- sity of California Press. Approximately 2,500 items are cited in the 1,281 numbered entries. T h e volume includes a chronology of Huxley's works and indexes by titles and personal name. Radio and Television Holdings of the University Library, published by the Uni- versity of Southern California, is a handy research tool for students, professors, and librarians in radio and television. Users may find the author, title, edition, publisher, date, and call-number for each of seventeen hundred items. Unbound X e r o x copies of the publication may be obtained from the Library Photoduplication Service of the uni- versity at $7.28; microfilm copies are $2.35. B E G I N N I N G W I T H the 1 9 6 2 editions, Rand McNally & Company will distribute Year Book and Guide to Southern Africa, Year Book and Guide to East Africa, and South American Handbook. These books were formerly handled by the H. W. Wilson Company. Orders for new editions ready in January should be addressed to Rand Mc- Nally 8c Company, P. O. Box 7600, Chicago 80, 111. Each 1962 edition will be $4.00. Data Processing Equipment Encyclopedia, published by American Data Processing Inc., Book Tower, Detroit 26, Mich., describes three hundred different data processing ma- chines, including one hundred electronic computers. This two-volume work will be kept up to date by quarterly supplements and revised editions. T h e price is $50 for the set; $90 with supplements. A R E V I S E D AND E X P A N D E D E D I T I O N of Guide to the SLA Loan Collection of Classification Schemes and Subject Heading Lists describes 788 classification schemes and other systems for organizing special collections on deposit at Western Reserve University School of Library Science as of March 20, 1961. T h e list is arranged alphabetically by subject and has a detailed index. One appendix lists book numbers; the other gives classi- fication expansions and revisions of Dewey decimal, Library of Congress, universal deci- mal, and punched card systems. Original materials listed may be borrowed for four weeks; photocopy or microfilm copies may be obtained for permanent retention. Copies of the guide may be purchased from Special Libraries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New York 3, N. Y. A N A D V A N C E R E P O R T of Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 1959-60, has been prepared by John Carson Rather and Doris C. Holladay, library services branch, U. S. Office of Education. This twenty-page report presents data on library collections, personnel, and expenditures of colleges and universities. T h e most significant fact about the report is its complete coverage. It is based on the actual returns from 95 per cent of the higher education institutions in the United States and reliable estimates of essential data for the non-respondents. Thus, it makes available for the first time an all-inclusive description of collections, personnel, and expenditures in acadamic libraries. Copies may be obtained free from the Publications Inquiry Unit, Office of Education, Depart- N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 467 ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington 25, D. C. Doctoral Study by John L . Chase, Divi- sion of Higher Education, U. S. Office of Education, is based on data from 139 insti- tutions in the United States that grant doctorates. T h e sixty-five page report shows the extent of graduate fellowship support for the principal academic fields, examines the capacity of the graduate schools for training additional doctoral candidates, and discusses methods for increasing the number of college teachers with the doctorate. Copies may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., at 45 cents. Statistics of Libraries by John Carson Rather and Nathan M. Cohen, library serv- ices branch, U. S. Office of Education, cites published sources of library statistics that have some continuity. It describes them briefly and furnishes a detailed index. T h e material is divided into two sections. T h e first gives forty-four sources of national and regional statistics, grouped under six head- ings: general, education for librarianship, school libraries, college and university li- braries, public libraries, and special librar- ies. T h e second section gives 112 sources relating to single states, arranged by state since many cover more than one type of library. In all, forty-five entries include data on college and university libraries. Single copies of the bibliography may be obtained free from the Publications Inquiry Unit, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington 25, D. C. I N F O R M A T I O N on the U. S. trade books published during the last thirty years and prices of books, periodicals, and serial services appear in The Cost of Library Ma- terials: Price Trends of Publications, by Frank L. Schick, Library Services Branch, U. S. Office of Education, and William H. Kurth, National Library of Medicine. This publication resulted from the work of the Cost of Library Materials Index Commit- tee, Resources and Technical Services Di- vision. Single copies may be obtained free from the Publications Inquiry Unit, Office of Education, Department of Health, Edu- cation, and Welfare, Washington 25, D. C. B U I L D I N G S A W E L L - P L A N N E D P R O G R A M for library ex- pansion has been launched at the Univer- sity of Arizona, with announcement of a $2,000,000 building fund. Detailed draw- ings are being made for a separate science- technology library to be located approxi- mately a quarter mile east of the present main library building. Construction of the modular unit will cost $1,250,000. T h e pres- ent main building will be enlarged to house a social sciences division and fine arts and humanities materials on separate floors. Both divisions will adjoin the existing stack core. B A I L E Y L I B R A R Y , University of Vermont's new $2,100,000 modern-design, four-story, air-conditioned building, with capacity of over 500,000 volumes, was dedicated October 21. T H I S F A L L occupancy of a periodical read- ing rom at Delaware State College Library, Dover, will complete expansion in its new building. C O N S T R U C T I O N of the new building for the John Crerar Library began in July on the Technology Center campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. T h e ground floor of the air-conditioned building will house the major portion of the library's million books and pamphlets, the mechanical serv- ices, special study rooms, and other library departments. T h e second floor will be the reader service area containing a 60,000-vol- ume open-shelf collection, references serv- ices, and administrative departments. T h e student reading area will be open to stu- dents of all schools. N E B R A S K A S T A T E T E A C H E R S C O L L E G E , Peru, has budgeted $150,000 for major renovation of its library building. Work should begin early in 1962, and the project is scheduled to be completed before the autumn term. THE SUM of $700,000 has been authorized by the Nebraska State Normal Board for the construction of a new library building at Nebraska State Teachers College, Kearney. L I N F I E L D C O L L E G E , McMinnville, Ore., has approved final plans for a $300,000 expan- sion of the Northrup Library. T h e three- story addition will be built on the back of 468 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 the present building. T h e eighteen thou- sand feet of space will be allotted to read- ing rooms, an audio-visual storage and pre- view room, study carrells, a microfilm room, typing room, a group study room, a record listening area, and a language laboratory. O R E G O N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y , Corvallis, has received an appropriation of $2,385,000 from the Oregon legislature for a new library building. Plans will be made for a rectangu- lar building of four levels, having 127,000 square feet of space, a book capacity of about 580,000 volumes, and over sixteen hundred reader stations. A N E W L I B R A R Y is being built by Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tenn., to serve its more than five hundred students. It will be named in honor of Dr. A. B. Mackey, who served for twenty-five years as college president. T h e three-story building will have a floor space totalling more than twenty-two thou- sand square feet. There will be two reading rooms with seating space for two hundred students as well as many study carrells. Stacks will be open, and the building will be air- conditioned. Present plans call for occu- pancy during the fall quarter of 1961. T H R E E F L O O R S of the new academic cen- ter at the University of Texas will house an undergraduate library. It will accommo- date twenty-five hundred students and, ini- tially, about sixty thousand volumes on open stacks. In time, the collection is ex- pected to reach 180,000 volumes. T h e fourth floor of the building will house some of the special collections acquired in recent years. Estimated to cost over $4,500,000, the entire building will contain 214,000 square feet. Construction began in December 1960, and completion is scheduled for 1963. A B U D G E T of $2,470,000 has been allocated to Utah State University, Logan, to add to its university library. Construction is sched- uled to begin in the spring of 1962. G R A N T S T o A S S U R E American representation in the bibliography of early music being prepared under international auspices, a grant of $13,200 has been made to the Music Li- brary Association by the Council on Li- brary Resources, Inc. T h e Music Library Association and the American Musicologi- cal Society are co-sponsors of the U. S. joint committee responsible for organizing the American contribution to Repertoire inter- national des sources musicales. This bibli- ography of manuscripts and printed musical works to the year 1800 will record library location of existing copies. It is being edited by an international group representing the Joint Commission of the International Mu- sicological Association and the International Federation of Music Libraries. T h e work is supported by contributions from UNESCO, foreign governments, and other sources. T h e first volume in the series, which may run to a hundred volumes, has already been pub- lished. Other volumes are expected to ap- pear In 1962. P R O J E C T L A W S E A R C H , sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, Inc., will investigate the feasibility of mechanized law searching. Under a $40,000 contract, Jonker Business Machines, Inc., will index forty- five hundred cases and other materials re- lating to motor-carrier law so that an at- torney seeking precedents for a particular case can locate the desired information in minutes. Three law publishing companies and the American Association of Law Li- braries are cooperating in the project. T w o N E W GRANTS have been made to the ALA Library Technology Project by the Council on Library Resources, Inc. T h e sum of $19,380 has been appropriated for de- termination of basic principles involved in print-out from microtext and an evaluation of present processes, methods, and equip- ment, and $5,100 has been appropriated to test monaural and binaural record players designed for earphone listening. T h e latter project will be undertaken by Consumers Research, Washington, N. J . A G R A N T of $25,194 has been made by the Council on Library Resources, Inc., for the development of safer storage boxes for ar- chival material. T h e project is co-sponsored by the American Library Association and the Public Archives Commission of Dela- ware. T h e Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wis., will evaluate boxes now in use and try to develop a box that resists fire, moisture, and insects, and has low acidity. N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 469 M I S C E L L A N E O U S S T . P A U L , M I N N . , will be the meeting place for the Seventh Midwest Academic Librarians conference May 11 and 12, 1962. T h e College of St. Catherine, the College of St. Thomas, and Macalester College are sponsoring the meeting. Details regarding registration and the program may be ob- tained from James F. Holly, librarian, Wey- erhaeuser Library, Macalester College, St. Paul 1, Minn. A N E W M E A N S of dispensing L C catalog cards is being explored by the Library of Congress. Under this system, libraries could obtain sets of L C cards with books pur- chased from distributors and publishers in- stead of ordering the cards from LC. L C would catalog copies of all new American trade publications before they went on sale. Initial conferences with some book distrib- utors and a few publishers who distribute their own output have revealed a favorable attitude toward the proposal, but no defi- nite arrangements have been concluded. T H E M E D I C A L L I B R A R Y C E N T E R o f N e w York has been established to develop meth- ods of controlling published information in the field of medicine. Schools of medicine at Columbia, Yeshiva, New York Univer- sity, Cornell, New York Medical College, Rockefeller Institute, Sloan-Kettering In- stitute, and the New York Academy of Medi- cine are affiliated institutions. Jacqueline Felter, librarian of the Medical Society of the County of Queens, Forest Hills, N. Y., will direct the organization of a union cata- log of medical and allied periodicals in libraries in the New York metropolitan area. T h e union catalog is a cooperative enter- prise supported by a grant of $127,000 from the John A. Hartford Foundation. It will be housed temporarily at the New York Academy of Medicine. Microfilm, punched- card and punched-tape systems are being considered as means of recording the serial holdings. T h e ultimate goal is to facilitate interlibrary loans and reduce unnecessary duplication of medical library resources in the area. W E S T E R N M I C H I G A N U N I V E R S I T Y , Kalama- zoo, has introduced a new curriculum for training the specialist who supervises an in- structional materials center in a school or school system. T h e program combines li- brary science and audio-visual education, and it leads to a master's degree. Candidates must have a teaching certificate and at least a year's experience as a classroom teacher or school librarian. For further information, write to Alice Louise LeFevre, head, depart- ment of librarianship. ccThe Gleam of Our Chrome" " A m e r i c a n s s h o u l d n e e d n o c o m m i t t e e to d i s c o v e r t h e o b v i o u s t r u t h t h a t as a n a t i o n we s h a l l o n e day b e j u d g e d n o t b y o u r a r m i e s b u t o u r m u s i c , n o t b y o u r w e a p o n s b u t o u r p a i n t i n g , n o t b y o u r m o t o r cars b u t o u r p o e t r y , n o t b y o u r T V serials b u t o u r d r a m a . H i s t o r y will b e m e r c i l e s s i n assessing o u r c o n t r i b u t i o n t o m a n ' s a c c u m u l a t i o n o f e n d u r i n g w i s d o m a n d c r e a t i v e a c h i e v e m e n t . T h e g l e a m o f o u r c h r o m e , t h e t h r u s t o f o u r tailfins, t h e glossiness o f o u r a d v e r t i s i n g — t h e s e w i l l b e c o m e t h e m a t e r i a l s o f f u t u r e s a t i r e w h i c h w i l l d r a m a t i z e d e t a i l s o f o u r d e c l i n e a n d f a l l . O r i f w e a w a k e in t i m e , they m a y b e h a i l e d as t h e w a r n i n g signals w h i c h s t i r r e d t h e s l e e p i n g a n d a r o u s e d t h e i n d i f f e r e n t . " A s a n a t i o n we c a n b e c o m e d i s t u r b e d a b o u t c a n c e r o f t h e lungs, b u t r e m a i n u n m o v e d b y c a n c e r o f t h e s p i r i t . W e a p p r o p r i a t e f u n d s t o c l e a r t h e s l u m s o f t h e city, b u t we c a n n o t s u m m o n t h e r e s o u r c e s to c l e a r t h e s l u m s o f t h e m i n d . T h r o u g h c o n c e n t r a t i o n o f g r e a t n a t i o n a l e n e r g y w e m a y d e v e l o p ourselves i n t o a c o u n t r y well-fed, w e l l - h o u s e d , w e l l - c l o t h e d , yet t h r o u g h o u r i n n e r b l i n d n e s s r e m a i n ill-read, ill-spoken, a n d c u l t u r a l l y i l l i t e r a t e . " — F r o m " A N a t i o n I l l - R e a d , I l l - S p o k e n , a n d I l l i t e r a t e " b y J a m e s E . M i l l e r , J r . , College English, vol. 22, n o . 7, A p r . 1961. 470 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 Personnel B E N C. B O W M A N , assistant librarian of the Newberry Library, in Chicago, becomes di- rector of libraries at the University of Ver- mont, at Burlington, as of December 1. A native of Califor- nia, Mr. Bowman grew up in Arizona and Oregon, acquir- ing a love of out- door life which will be gratified in his new location in one of New England's most scenic sections. Quite coincidentally, his wife is a native New Englander who shares his interest in travel which has taken them to all parts of the United States, into Canada, Mexico, and to Europe. After taking his B.A. and M.A. in Eng- lish at the University of Oregon, Mr. Bow- man studied two years in the graduate school of the University of Chicago. During World W a r II, he was assigned to the ASTP pro- gram in Far Eastern Areas and Languages at Stanford University, whence he was dis- patched to the Asiatic-Pacific theatre for fourteen months' overseas duty. On demo- bilization, he became a graduate assistant in English at the University of Illinois, then entered the University of Chicago Grad- uate Library School, concurrently working as on-the-job trainee at the Newberry Li- brary. On obtaining his B.L.S., he joined the Newberry staff, being appointed head of public service in 1948 and assistant li- brarian in 1952. During this period he also acted as a materials consultant for the Japan Library School and the Ankara Library School projects of the ALA. A conscientious, diligent, and responsible librarian, Mr. Bowman has kept his inter- est in English and American literature; he has never lost sight of the library's chief goal—the selection, acquisition, and pres- ervation of man's cultural heritage, nor al- lowed preoccupation with technical and ad- ministrative detail to blunt his belief in N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 the humanities. He is level-headed, imagina- tive, hard-working, possessed of a quiet and admirable sense of humor, easy to work with and for. He has been a loyal and generous subordinate and colleague at the Newberry, deservedly winning the respect and affec- tion of his co-workers. At the University of Vermont, where a new library providing space for over 500,000 volumes is opening this fall, Mr. Bowman's professional experi- ence and personal qualities will undoubtedly make him as valuable and successful as he has been at the Newberry.—Stanley Pargellis. H A R O L D L A N C O U R began his work October 15 as dean of the new graduate school of librarianship at the University of Pittsburgh. Though not officially a successor to the Carnegie Institute of T e c h n o l o g y ' s L i - brary School, which is scheduled to close its doors at the end of the present aca- d e m i c y e a r , t h e n e w l y established school will inherit the l i b r a r y , many students in progress, and doubtless the good will of the sixty-year old Carnegie school. T h e year 1961-62 will be devoted by Dr. Lancour to recruiting a faculty, planning a curriculum, and to other organizational phases of the Pittsburgh school. T h e first stu- dents are to be matriculated in September 1962. Dr. Lancour went to the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science as associate director and professor in 1947. In the intervening fourteen years he has achieved national and international promi- nence in the field of library education. For several years, he was chairman or a member of the ALA Board of Education for Librari- anship and its successor, the Committee on Accreditation. He was president of the Asso- 4 7 1 Ben C. Bowman Harold Lancour ciation of American Library Schools, 1954- 56, and has served as executive secretary of Beta Phi Mu, library science honorary, since its founding in 1950. When Library Trends began publication in 1952, Dr. Lancour was appointed managing editor, a post he has filled with distinction to date. In addition, he has edited the Illinois Library School's Occasional Papers, and is on the editorial committee for the recently established Jour- nal of Education for Librarianship. Dr. Lancour's professional assignments abroad have been varied, including a year in England, 1950-51, as a Fulbright scholar, making a comparative study of English and American library education; a year in France, 1952-53, as director of U. S. Informa- tion libraries; membership on the U N E S C O International Committee for Social Science Documentation, 1953-57; a survey of libraries in West Africa for the Carnegie Corpora- tion, 1957, and in Liberia for the Ford Foundation, 1959. A native of Minnesota, Dr. Lancour is a graduate of the University of Washington, holds two degrees from the Columbia Uni- versity School of Library Service, and a doc- torate from Columbia's Teachers College. He began his professional career at the New York Public Library, and for ten years was librarian of Cooper Union in New York, immediately prior to going to the University of Illinois. With such an exceptional record as a suc- cessful administrator, teacher, and scholar, the University of Pittsburgh is fortunate in attracting Dr. Lancour to become the first director of its newest school.—Robert B. Downs. F O U R F U L L - T I M E faculty members and thirty-two students of the University of Brit- ish Columbia school of librarianship are, to quote the dedicated director, D R . S A M U E L R O T H S T E I N , "irretrievably launched into their long task of mutual elucidation." T h e school, which opened in September, brings together a faculty of broad geographic and profes- sional range. Director Rothstein represents British Co- lumbia and, as he says, has "left practice for preaching after seven years as associate li- brarian at the University of British Colum- bia" (see May CRL for biographical and professional statistics). His former boss at UBC, Neal Harlow, now dean of the grad- uate school of library service, Rutgers Uni- versity, describes him as "fundamentally a scholar with that uncommon blend of hu- man traits which make the good teacher and administrator . . . an original and logical mind (turned toward scholarship, processing, or poker), propelling curiosity, leavening humor, lively spoken and written style, hon- est delight in friends and family, and insep- arable attachment to books and bibliography. T h a t he holds concurrently the position of acting librarian of the university, in a very active and growing system," Mr. Harlow points out, "certifies his unusual resources of stamina and ability. He is himself the surest guarantee of the school's quality and achieve- ment." A recent president of the British Columbia Library Association and past chairman of the Canadian Library Associa- tion's Committee on Library Education, Dr. Rothstein has forged a close link with the profession and acquired an intimate knowl- edge of the local library scene. He supplies the following notes on his staff members: R O S E V A I N S T E I N , associate professor, comes from all over. Having thoughtfully estab- lished her association with western Canada by being born in Edmonton, she has since made a peripatetically successful career in American libraries from Brooklyn to Cali- fornia, with side excursions to Japan as an army librarian and to England as a Ful- bright scholar. Her most recent term of serv- ice as public library specialist in the library services branch of the U. S. Office of Educa- tion tops off an unusually rich background for her courses in public library work, book selection, and library history. Her lecture notes derive originally from Western Re- serve (B.L.S.) and Illinois (M.L.S.). R O B E R T M. H A M I L T O N , assistant professor, joins the school still wearing the laurels and burdens of the presidency of the Canadian Library Association. T h e office is the natural consequence of his unbroken successes in the propulsion and guidance of Canadian li- brary enterprises from microfilms to money- raising. Mr. Hamilton moves easily among the seats of the mighty, having served the nation's leaders since 1946 as assistant direc- tor of the Library of Parliament in Ottawa. T h e results of his adept reference work and liberal borrowings from his standard book on Canadian Quotations have found their 472 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 ' 1 if 1 , V Hbtoav / 11 l t * Robert M. Hamilton T H R E E O F B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A ' S " F O U R H O R S Ronald Hagler H O R S E M E N . " way into many a page of Hansard. Mr. Ham- ilton is a product of McGill (B.A., B.L.S.) and Columbia (Carnegie fellow). H e will be responsible for courses in reference work, bibliography, and government publications. D R . R O N A L D H A G L E R , senior instructor, is a young man who has compressed a maxi- mum of study and library experience into a minimum of years. After undergraduate work and a tour of library duty at St. Je- rome's College at Kitchener, Ontario, he put together A.M., A.M.L.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan while work- ing concurrently in the technical service departments of the University of Michigan Library and the Kitchener Public Library. His research interests, as indicated by his recently published dissertation, are in the field of Canadian publishing. H e will teach courses in cataloging and classification, the technical services, and the history of books and printing. T h e school of librarianship will also have a number of part-time faculty members to conduct second-term courses in library serv- ice to children, school libraries, and science librarianship. Appointments will be an- nounced at a later date. T h e school's program aims at a nice com- bination of virtues: a strong emphasis on bookmanship is offset by ample provision for field work and observation visits; seminars and tutorials will receive equal billing with formal lectures; the courses will draw on American library literature and experience, but the student investigations and papers will center on the problems distinctive to the expanding library scene in western Can- ada—in a word, the classic themes with re- gional variations. J U L I A N M I C H E L , formerly associate librar- ian, Honnold Library (which serves the As- sociated Colleges, Claremont, Cal.) is now assistant librarian, University of California, Berkeley. Before his appointment in 1957 to the Honnold Library, Dr. Michel was ad- ministrative intern at the University of California, Berkeley, for one year, and head of the division of technical processes, Fresno State College, for two years. H e received his degree in librarianship in 1954 from the University of California, Berkeley. R O B E R T D. S T E V E N S , coordinator for the organization and development of collections at the Library of Congress, has been ap- pointed to the newly established position of coordinator, Public Law 480 Program. H e will organize and direct the library's pro- gram in foreign countries under the author- ity of Public Law 83-480, the Agricultural T r a d e Development and Assistance Act of 1954, for the acquisition of books, periodi- cals, and other materials and their distribu- tion to libraries and research centers in the United States specializing in the areas to which they relate. Mr. Stevens came to the library in July 1947 as an administrative in- tern in the acquisitions department. H e served successively as head of the biblio- graphic unit in the order division and of the American and British exchange section, as chief of the serial record division and of the catalog maintenance division, and as as- sistant chief of the Union Catalog division N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 473 and of the general reference and bibliogra- phy division. Mr. Stevens graduated from Syracuse University, from Columbia Univer- sity's School of Library Service, and received the M.A. degree in public administration from the American University. J A M E S K R I K E L A S has been appointed head librarian of Milwaukee-Downer College, Mil- waukee. He was previously chief of technical services there after graduating M.S.L.S. in 1959. Born in Cudahy, Wis., in 1932, he did his undergraduate work in the fields of en- gineering and history. Member of Beta Phi Mu and Wisconsin Library Association (he is secretary-treasurer of the college and uni- versity section 1960-61), Mr. Krikelas is mar- ried and has two sons. Appointments B A R B A R A A L L E N , is catalog librarian for Russian materials, Joint University Librar- ies, Nashville. J U L I U S B A R C L A Y , formerly a staff member of the special collection division, Stanford University, is now chief librarian of the division of special collections, University of California, Berkeley. R A Y S. B A R K E R , J R . , formerly reference librarian, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W. Va., is now reference librarian, Univer- sity of South Carolina, Columbia. C L A I R E B E N S I N G E R , formerly cataloger, University of Louisville Library, Lexington, is now cataloger, University of New Mexico Library, Albuquerque. R I C H A R D F . B E R N A R D , formerly a staff member of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, is now bibliographer in the comparative tropical areas study, University of Wisconsin Library, Madison. T H E L M A C. B I R D , formerly teaching ma- terials librarian, Illinois State Normal Uni- versity, Normal, is now acting director of libraries, Indiana State Teachers College, T e r r e Haute. K A T H L E E N W . B L A K E Y , former assistant librarian, has been named associate librar- ian at Chapman Memorial Library, Mil- waukee-Downer College, Milwaukee. R O B I N B R A N T is catalog librarian, Univer- sity of Oregon, Eugene. D O N A L D R . B R O W N , formerly reference li- brarian in the history and travel depart- ment, Detroit Public Library, is now refer- ence librarian, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. R A L P H W . B U S H E E , formerly order librar- ian, Southern Illinois University, Carbon- dale, is now in charge of rare books and special collections. G R A C E C A L L A H A N is catalog librarian I I , University of California, Santa Barbara. C E C I L L. C H A S E is a staff member of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. S I M O N P I N G - J E N C H E N is assistant catalog librarian, University of Nevada, Reno. J A M E S L. C O P A S is assistant professor in the department of library science, Montana State College, Bozeman. G E O R G E R . D A V I S is librarian I in the ex- change division of the acquisition depart- ment, University of California, Berkeley. M A R Y P A U L I N E D O L V E N is assistant librar- ian, College of Medicine, University of Ne- braska, Lincoln. J O H N F . D O R S E Y , formerly a staff member of the University of California Library, Da- vis, is now head of the order department, Long Beach State College Library. A N N E C. E D M O N D S , formerly a staff member of the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, is now librarian, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J . H A N S E N G E L K E , formerly library assistant, University of Chicago Library, is now cata- loger, Western Michigan University. I M O G E N S. F I C K L E N is assistant order li- brarian, University of Nevada. M A B E L G R A N N I S , formerly a member of the cataloging and reference staffs, Michigan State Library, is now assistant catalog librar- ian, Western Michigan University. E L I Z A B E T H S T O N E G R E E R is head catalog librarian, Joint University Libraries, Nash- ville. 474 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 H A Z E L G R I F F I N is library science librarian, Peabody College Division, Joint University Libraries, Nashville. S A R A S U E G R O S M A I R E , formerly circulation- reference librarian, University of South Caro- lina, is now reference assistant, New York State University College of Education Li- brary, Cortland. C O R N E L I A H A D L E Y , formerly a staff mem- ber of the Ball State Teachers College Li- brary, is now senior assistant librarian, Col- lege of Medicine, University of Nebraska. J A M E S D . H A R T , professor of English, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, is now act- ing director of the Bancroft Library, Berke- ley. I N A H E N E F E R , formerly acquisition librar- ian, Whitworth College, Spokane, Wash., is now associate librarian, Linfield College, Mc- Minnville, Ore. D E L B E R T H O L L E N B E R G , formerly order li- brarian, Southern California School of The- ology, is now assistant librarian, Garrett Bib- lical Institute, Evanston, 111. N O R M A H O V D E N , formerly chief circulation librarian, University of Minnesota, Minne- apolis, is now chief reference librarian. P A T R I C I A H O W A R D is librarian I in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. J O H N H U T T M A N is librarian I in the ac- quisitions division, University of Washing- ton, Seattle. E L I Z A B E T H C. J A C K S O N is a staff member of the reference department, Georgia State College Library. D O N A L D J O R V E , formerly assistant librar- ian, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., is now documents librarian, Oregon State College, Corvallis. A L T O N P . J U H L I N , former head of special services, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, and for the past year teacher of library science at Texas Woman's Univer- sity, Denton, is now head of the order de- partment, Southern Illinois University. S V E N O L O F K A R E L L is senior cataloger, Oregon State College. K A T H E R I N E K A R P E N S T E I N is now reference librarian at Sonoma State College, Cotati, Cal., following a fifteen-year association with the geology library of Standard Oil of Cali- fornia. P A U L W . K E L L Y , formerly assistant librar- ian and circulation librarian, Eastern Michi- gan University, Ypsilanti, is now head li- brarian, Eastern Oregon College, L a Grande. E L I Z A B E T H F A W C E T T K O E N I G , formerly a staff member of the Florida State University Library, Tallahassee, is now senior assistant librarian, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska. L A R R Y D E A N L A R A S O N is assistant librar- ian in the social studies division, University of Nebraska. F R A N C E S L A U M A N , associate reference li- brarian, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., has been appointed reference librarian-designate of the new undergrad- uate library. M A B G A R E T L I N N , formerly assistant librar- ian, Portland (Ore.) University, is now school librarian and instructor in library science, Central Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, Wash. A N N C. L Y L E S is documents-reference li- brarian, University of Delaware, Newark. R A Y M O N D R . M C C R E A D Y is reference li- brarian, general reference and documents division, University of Oregon. R A Y M O N D G. McGrNNrs is librarian I , ac- quisitions division, University of Washing- ton. T H E O D O R E N. M C M U L L A N , associate di- rector, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, is now serving as acting di- rector. J O E B. M I T C H E L L is assistant librarian in charge of teaching materials, Illinois State Normal University, Normal. K A T H R Y N M A R I E M O R R I S O N is assistant li- brarian in the science and technology divi- sion, University of Nebraska. F R E D E R I C J . O ' H A R A , formerly a faculty member in the department of librarianship, Western Michigan University, is now on the teaching staff of the Pratt Institute Library School. R I C H E L I E U O R R is a cataloger in the Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 475 V E N I C E O S T W A L D , formerly a school librar- ian in Long Beach, Gal., is now assistant pro- fessor of librarianship, University of Oregon. J E A N S. O S U G A , formerly a staff member in the reference department, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore., is now as- sistant social science reference librarian, Long Beach State College Library, Long Beach, Cal. C E L I A P E P L O W S K I has left her post as base librarian with the United States Air Force to become head of technical services, Mil- waukee-Downer College. G E O R G E P I T E R N I C K , formerly a library staff member of the University of California, Berkeley, is now assistant director in charge of branch libraries, the science reading room, and library publications, University of Washington. V I R G I N I A G R A Y P O L A K , formerly a staff member of the University of Washington Library, is now librarian I in the social sciences reference service, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. G A R Y P U R C E L L , formerly a staff member of the Enoch Pratt Library, is now instruc- tor in the department of librarianship, Western Michigan University. R O B E R T L. Q U I N S E Y , assistant director of libraries, University of Kansas, is now head of the circulation department, Oregon State College Library. V E R N A R I T C H I E is assistant reference li- brarian, Oregon State College. R . V E R N O N R I T T E R , formerly librarian, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kan- sas City, is now technical services librarian, University of New Mexico. C E C I L R O B E R T S is chief of the social sci- ence library, Washington State University. A. R O B E R T R O G E R S , a staff member of the Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Li- brary since 1959, is now acting director. B E T T Y R O S E N B E R G , formerly bibliographi- cal assistant to the librarian, University of California, Los Angeles, is now lecturer in the School of Library Service. E L I Z A B E T H R U B E N D A L L , formerly a staff member of the Veterans Hospital Library, Topeka, Kan., is now assistant librarian in the acquisitions department, University of Nebraska. G E R A L D A. R U D O L P H , formerly a staff mem- ber of the Case Institute of Technology, is now reference librarian, Ohio University, Athens. W I L L I A M V. R Y A N , formerly assistant li- brarian, Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y., is now fine arts librarian, Ohio University, Athens. M A R Y T . S C A R L O T T is now associate librar- ian, the Hunt Library, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. R O B E R T G. S C H I P F , formerly assistant pro- fessor of physical sciences, Humboldt State College, is now science librarian, Southern Illinois University. H E N R Y C. S C H O L B E R G , formerly librarian at Columbia Heights high school, Minne- apolis, is now instructor and librarian, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minne- sota. R O B E R T P. S E C R I S T is a staff member in the reference department, Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Library. G E O R G I A L. S H A P L A N D , formerly a staff member of the Los Angeles Public Library, San Pedro branch, is now assistant humani- ties reference librarian, Long Beach State College. F R A N K C. S H I R K , formerly associate librar- ian in charge of technical services, Carol M. Newman Library, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute, is now acting director. P H I L I P S H O R E , formerly catalog librarian, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., is now acting head librarian. D O N A L D S I E F K E R , reference librarian, Earl- ham College, Richmond, Ind., is now catalog librarian on temporary appointment. I M O G E N E S I M P S O N is reference assistant, Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green. S U S A N S O O is assistant librarian, Whittier (Cal.) College. J U A N I T A S T E A R M A N is social science librar- ian, University of Oregon. W I L B U R J A M E S S T E W A R T is assistant librar- ian in the social studies division, University of Nebraska. M A R Y J A N E S T O N E B U R G , formerly assistant 476 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 cataloger, Eastern Michigan University, is now circulation librarian. L. H A R R Y S T R A U S S , formerly superintend- ent of schools, Cedarville, Mich., is now documents librarian, California State Poly- technic College, San Luis Obispo. M A R I O N V . S W E N S O N , formerly assistant chief of the cataloging section, Library of the Department of State, Washington, is now chief of the section. J O S E P H H . T R E Y Z , formerly assistant head of the catalog department, Yale University Library, is now head of a project to be car- ried out by the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, for developing basic under- graduate library collections for the three new campuses of the University at San Diego, Orange County, and Santa Cruz. E L D O N W A N C U R A is assistant circulation li- brarian, Oregon State College. B I L L W I L K I N S O N , assistant reference librar- ian, Olin Library, Cornell University, has been named Goldwin Smith librarian and librarian-designate of the new undergraduate library. W I L E Y J . W I L L I A M S is an assistant in ref- erence and bibliography and will teach courses in library science, Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Library. A N N A K . W I N G E R , formerly assistant li- brarian, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., is now a cataloger, University of Delaware Library. D O R O T H Y W O N S M O S , formerly school librar- ian, Richfield, Minn., is now assistant refer- ence librarian, University of New Mexico. S A M W O O D is associate catalog librarian, University of Nevada. H E L E N Y I E N , formerly a staff member of the University of Kansas Library, Lawrence, is now assistant acquisition librarian, Uni- versity of Nebraska. G E R T R U D E V A N Z E E is head of the catalog department, Western Michigan University. Retirements H E L E N H E F L I N G , associate librarian for technical services, University of New Mexico, retired June 30 after seventeen years of service. B L A N C H E M O E N has retired as chief refer- ence librarian, University of Minnesota, after thirty-seven years of service. L E W I S S . S A L T E R has retired as music li- brarian, University of Oklahoma. A G N E S S M A L L E Y has retired as reference librarian, Washington State University, after thirty-two years of service. S I D N E Y S M I T H has resigned as librarian of Louisiana State University. Necrology J E R O M E K. W I L C O X , librarian of the City College of New York since 1945, died Thurs- day, October 5, at the age of 59. He had been a full professor in the college since 1946. Prior to his coming to the college, he was on the staffs of the John Crerar Library, Duke University, and the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley. He was active in many national, regional, and local library associa- tions, and regarded as an outstanding spe- cialist in government publications. For many years he served as chairman of the ALA Committee on Public Documents. Among his accomplishments at the college was the development of the collections, the expan- sion of the special library facilities, and the direction of the building of the new Morris Raphael Cohen Library, which houses about 500,000 volumes. S E Y M O U R R O B B , director of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Library, Blacksburg, since 1947, died August 27. He was on the staff of the Library of Congress from 1919 to N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 477 1944, and was director of the Vested Film Program of the U. S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian in 1944. From 1944 to 1947 he was on the staff of the library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. From 1937 to 1943 he was a lecturer in library science at "Catho- lic University. Mr. Robb contributed to pro- fessional journals and was active in library associations, serving as president of the Vir- ginia Library Association in 1953. L O E L L A B A E H R , 4 9 , head librarian at Mil- waukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, since 1953, died July 16 in Waukesha after a year's illness. A graduate of Carroll College, Waukesha, and the University of Minne- sota, she joined the Downer staff in 1949 as a cataloger. Foreign Libraries J U R G E N B U S C H is director of the Stadtbib- liothek and the Stadtarchiv at Mainz. F R I T S D O N K E R D U Y V I S , one of the great pioneers in the field of documentation, died July 9 at Wassenaar, Holland. C A R L O S F U N T A N E L L A S is director of the li- brary, University of Havana. C A M I L L E G A S P A R , formerly conservator of the department of manuscripts, Royal Li- brary, Brussels, died February 3, 1960. P A S C U A L F E D E R I C O G E R M A N is director of the library, University of Santo Domingo, Ciudad Trujillo. W I L L I G O B E R , director of the Humboldt University Library, Berlin, died July 1. W E R N E R K R I E G is director of the Universi- tats- und Stadtbibliothek at Cologne, and he will also serve as the director of the Bibli- othekar-Lehrinsti tuts. O T T A L E U N E N S C H L O S S , director of the Tech- nische Hochschule, Hannover, died Decem- ber 2, 1960, at the age of 77. J O R G E B. V I V A S is the chief of the newly created reference service of the Biblioteca del Congreso de la Republica Argentina. On Spelling I asked some two hundred magazine editors to answer a one-question questionnaire on the back of a postcard and return it to me. T h e questionnaire read: "From my observation of young job applicants and young staff members, I'd term spelling instruction in today's schools Good Fair Bad " Within a few days of mailing, I had eighty editors' responses. Only fifteen checked "Good"—18 per cent; " F a i r " received thirty-one votes—39 per cent; " B a d " received thirty-four votes—43 per cent. A famous editor chose none of the three alternatives but hand-scrawled this message: " I n a word, dreadful. And so is their grammar." T w o other famous editors, intellectuals and sophisticates both, voted in direct contradic- tion to each other. But the one who said "Good" admitted that "Our people have to know and the applicants are aware of this." T h e editor of a magazine of news voted "Good" and then lamented, " T h e more intelli- gent the student, the worse he is likely to spell." Another editor, himself once a school board member, noted that "Modern methods teach kids nowadays to read faster and better but spelling suffers . . . " Two or three editors agreed, one commenting that "they have tremendously larger 'rec- ognition' vocabularies but smaller command of them in such terms as spelling and definite definitions." My "research," of course, wasn't scientific. It didn't prove much, nor was it intended to, except that, in the judgment of 82 per cent of a group of men of great literacy and high intelligence, the success of spelling education is less than good.—From an address by Howard Browning at the School Public Relations Conference, Illinois State Normal University, March 11,1961. 478 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 Developing a Collection on Africa ('Continued from page 443) which they knew best in order to get comparative data. Many persons, including students, still think first of art and Africa; and it could certainly be that the art department of a university stimulates the interest in Africa. Among the several recently pub- lished books on African art are African Folktales and Sculpture (Bolligen Series X X X I I ) , The Sculpture of Africa by Eliot Elison, William Fagg, and Bernard Quint, and Africa, The Art of Negro People by Elsy Leuzinger. T h e r e is almost no limit within the scope of a paper of this nature to the number of books on Africa one might recommend. Each week brings another possibility. And beyond the rich field of books on Africa lie the equally impor- tant ones of journals and government re- ports, for government documentation and the scholarly or timely article are the surest sources of material on modern Africa. All countries publish their legis- lative proceedings, and some publish de- partmental reports which can be secured, as a rule, from the government printer of the country. T h e r e is a wealth of ma- terial appearing in journals on Africa published either in the countries of Africa or in some cases still in the metro- pole. A proper guide to source and entry could be an article in itself. Suffice it to say here, however, that they exist and are valuable for certain types of collec- tions. Even the daily press, in reporting on this or that political event, may call attention to a recent government report of critical significance, as, for example, The East African Royal Commission Re- port, The Devlin Report, The Tomlin- son Report, and The Monckton Report. One cannot conclude a survey of rep- resentative literature on Africa without bringing to the attention of the college librarian the publications of some of the more important research institutes in Africa. These institutes are located all over the continent, many have regional offices, and they publish both journals and monographs. T h e more important of these institutes concerned with social and economic problems are L'Institut d'Afrique Noire (I.F.A.N.) at Dakar, L'In- stitut d'Etudes Centrafricaines (I.E.C.) at Brazzaville, T h e West African Insti- tute of Social and Economic Research (W.A.I.S.E.R.) at Ibadan, T h e South African Institute of Race Relations at Johannesburg, T h e East African Insti- tute of Social Research at Kampala, T h e Rhodes-Livingstone Institute at Lusaka, La Centre d'Etudes des Problems Sociaux Indigenes (C.E.P.S.I.) at Elizabethville, and L'Institut pour la Recherche Scien- tifique en Afrique Centrale (I.R.S.A.C.) at Livino-Katana. T h i s list does not in- clude the important institutes outside Africa, such as T h e International Afri- can Institute in London, which publish regularly and significantly on African affairs. Perhaps as a postscript for college li- brarians in America, one may be able to assume the knowledge, particularly at this time, of two important statements on Africa made by Americans. One is Chester Bowles' little book, Africa's Chal- lenge to America. In this book, written four years ago, Bowles, prophetically enough, calls attention to the fact that the United Nations is the forum through which America must work in giving its support to African countries. He does not equivocate as to his feelings about the responsibility of America to play a decisive role in Africa, irrespective of the historical ties it has with Europe. T h e timeliness of Bowles' observations and the personal opportunity he has to N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 1 479 be o f i n f l u e n c e at this t i m e s h o u l d cer- t a i n l y w a r r a n t c o n s i d e r a t i o n o f this b o o k . A t t h i s w r i t i n g , p e r h a p s t h e m o s t o u t - s t a n d i n g d o c u m e n t r e l a t i n g t o U n i t e d S t a t e s g o v e r n m e n t p o l i c y a n d A f r i c a is t h e r e p o r t Africa, A Study—Prepared at the Request of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate b y t h e P r o g r a m o f A f r i c a n S t u d i e s a t N o r t h - western, u n d e r t h e c h a i r m a n s h i p o f P r o - fessor M e l v i l l e H e r s k o v i t s . L o n g a s c h o l a r in t h e field o f A f r i c a n affairs, H e r s k o v i t s has fifteen r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s l o r t n e U n i t e d S t a t e s f o r e i g n p o l i c y towards A f r i c a . H e m a k e s i t p e r f e c t l y c l e a r t h a t we h a v e h a d n o p o l i c y t o w a r d A f r i c a in t h e p a s t a n d t h a t this c o u n t r y s h o u l d i n i t i a t e a s t r o n g a n d aggressive p o l i c y w h i c h w o u l d b e i n t h e best i n t e r e s t s o f a l l c o n c e r n e d . T h e r e is l i t t l e d o u b t t h a t f u t u r e gov- e r n m e n t r e p o r t s a n d b o o k s d e v e l o p i n g a n d c r i t i c i z i n g t h e ideas o f B o w l e s a n d H e r s k o v i t s will b e f o r t h c o m i n g . Bibliography 1. Stanley, Henry M., In Darkest Africa; or The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, in 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891). 2. Du Chaillu, Paul, The Country of the Dwarfs (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872). , Stories of the Gorilla Country (New York: Harper and Brothers). , A Journey to Ashango-land (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874). , Explorations in Equatorial Africa. 3. 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