College and Research Libraries ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS A "WORKING SCHOLAR's" library collection of 14,500 volumes has been purchased by the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Jacob Peter Mayer library covers mainly the humanities, and additionally includes a considerable number of books relating to mass media, film and television problems, and studies in psychology. A RARE RELIGIOUS BOOK setting forth the basic philosophy of the teachings of Buddha has been given to the Yale University li- · brary, New Haven, Conn., by Ira Victor Mor- ris. The book, hand-penned in meticulous monastery script in Tibet more than three hundred fifty years ago, measures 10 by 28 inches, and weighs 55 pounds. The exclu- sive use of gold in the lettering accounts for the weight. THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAwARE, Newark, has been given the library of the Delaware Saengerbund comprising about five thousand German books. A large majority are early- or middle-nineteenth century popular nov- els. MoRRIS LIBRARY of Southern Illinois Uni- versity recently received from John W. Allen the bulk of his personal library and files of original material. Included in the gift are some five hundred volumes, dozens of manu- scripts, illustrated maps, thousands of pages of typed notes, letters, photographs, nega- tives and slides. The published books, in- cluding Allen's own county histories, com- prise a collection on southern Illinois history and pioneer life. THE LATE GuGLIELMO FERRERRo's manu- scripts, letters, and papers have been pre- sented to the Columbia University libraries, New York City, by his daughter, Nina Fer- rero Raditsa. NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY's Fales collection of nearly forty thousand volumes and approxi- mately ten thousand manuscripts has been augmented by a further gift of DeCoursey Fales that includes a group of letters and notebooks by Ronald Firbank. Also includ- ed are some twenty-five letters of Sir Walter Scott, three letters of William Butler Yeats, sixteen manuscript essays by Arnold Ben- nett, and letters by R. L. Stevenson, Charles News from the Field Dickens, and William Makepeace Thack- eray. OHio STATE UNIVERSITY libraries, Colum- bus, have received a collection of some thir- ty-five volumes including several journals of horology and watchmaking from the library of the late Herman H. Seff, a pioneer mem- ber of the Buckeye Chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. These materials will be kept up to date by contributions from Mrs. Seff and present members of the chapter. A WARDS, GRANTS, ScHOLARSHIPS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY on social science literature published in Communist Bloc countries will be supported by a $54,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to the Bureau of Census. AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY has been granted $35,031 by the National Sci- ence Foundation to provide Russian and re- lated mathematical literature for abstracting and research libraries. The society was also granted $68,724 to support a program of translation of mathematical research articles. NATIONAL SciENCE FouNDATION has granted the Medical Library Association $16,200 to support the Second International Congress of Medical Librarianship. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA libraries, Gaines- ville, offer a number of graduate assistant- ships for the academic year l963j64, for study leading to a master's or doctoral de- gree in a subject field. Stipends of $2,250 for a ten-month period require fifteen hours of library duty each week; stipends of $3,000 for the same period require twenty hours. Holders of assistantships are exempt from out-of-state tuition fees. The deadline for filing formal application is March 15. Ap- plication forms may be obtained from the Director of Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. INDIANA UNIVERSITY libraries announce the continuation of their program designed to give intensive instruction to prospective rare book librarians. Two fellows will be select- ed, who are required to remain in residence in Bloomington from July 1, 1963, to June 30, 1964, engaged in programs assigned by members of the Lilly library staff. Each fel- low will receive a stipend of $5,000 for the 64 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES twelve-month period payable in twelve in- stalments. Fellows are expected to find emi ployment in rare book divisions of college, university or public libraries at the conclu- sion of the year. JoHNS HoPKINS UNIVERSITY h~s been grant- ed $15,833 for an operations research and systems engineering study of the university library. THE MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION again in 1963 will award the Murray Gottlieb Prize of $100, for the best essay on some phase of American medical history by a medical li- brarian. Mrs. Mildred Langner is chairman of the Murray Gottlieb Prize Essay Commit- tee, Medical Library Association, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda 14, Md. April 15 is the closing date for submitting essays. ARTHUR D. LITTLE, INc., of Cambridge, Mass., has been granted a contract by the Na- tional Science Foundation for a study of the degree of centralization of facilities desirable for storage and dissemination of scientific documents. THE COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS in New York City is engaged in a study to improve the use of library facili- ties of seven member institutions in Brook- lyn, ·working with a grant of $3,750 from the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Rice Estes, librarian of Pratt Institute and president of the Metropolitan College Inter- Library Association, is conducting the study. THE AMY LoVEMAN NATIONAL AwARD of $1,000 is being offered for the second year to a college senior who has collected an out- standing personal library. Established in 1962, the annual award is sponsored by the Book of the Month Club, Saturday Review, and the Women's National Book Association. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE has received a grant of $16,462 to support a user study of translated Soviet journals. BuiLDINGS JuNIATA COLLEGE, Huntington, Pa., has received a grant of $25,000 from the Kresge Foundation toward a library building now under construction. The three-floor library got under way last August, and plans call for completion of the building by August 1963, at an estimated cost of $603,000. THE NEW BEINECKE LIBRARY at Yale Uni- versity, New Haven, Conn., which will have a capacity of 750,000 volumes and will house the principal rare book and manuscript col- JANUARY 1963 "Iections of the university, is the gift of Ed- win J., Frederick W., and the late Walter Beinecke, and their families. The building is now under construction and will be com- pleted in late 1963. THE NEWLY RENOVATED NEWBERRY LIBRARY in Chicago arranged an exhibition of rare books and manuscripts, which opened De- cember 1, to celebrate completion of its mil- lion-dollar remodeling program. UNIVERSITY OF WICHITA (Kan.) dedicated their new Ablah library building on Novem- ber 2. The three-story-and-basement struc- ture costing more than one million dollars was the gift of the Ablah family. It provides approximately one-hundred-twenty thousand square feet of space, with a capacity of three- hundred-fifty thousand volumes. More than a thousand readers can be accommodated, 230 at wall-type study carrels. Expansion of the library can be accomplished by adding a fourth floor. GROUND WILL BE BROKEN for the Francis A. Countway library of medicine in Boston in late March or early April. Occupancy is planned for the spring of 1965. The Count- way library will house the combined collec- tionS--numbering some four hundred fifty thousand volumes.-of the Boston medical li- brary, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health. Construction costs are estimated at four and a half million dol- lars. CEDAR CREST CoLLEGE, Allentown, Pa., be- gan construction of a new library building in December. Cost is estimated at seven- hundred thousand dollars. Plans call for space for one-hundred thousand volumes, and seating for 50 per cent of the student enrollment of five hundred. BELOIT (Wis.) COLLEGE had datestone-seal- ing ceremonies on September 23, shortly after their new Colonel Robert H. Morse li- brary was occupied. The building has some fifty-three thousand square feet and cost about one-million two-hundred thousand dollars including furnishings and landscap- ing. Book capacity is three-hundred-fifty thousand volumes. Nearly half the student body of one thousand can be accommodated, 122 at carrels throughout the three-level building. MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS AMERICAN AssociATION FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF SciENCE section on information and 65 communication discussed the use of foreign science literature at a section meeting late in December. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY School of Library Science will hold a seminar in the evalua- tion of filmed and recorded materials on August 12 to 23. Enrollment will be limited to thirty students. For application forms and information, address Dean Wayne S. Yenawine, School of Library Science, Syra- cuse University, Syracuse 10, · N.Y. THE LITERATURE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE, its management and use, was the subject of a meeting at Oak Ridge, Tenn., arranged pri- marily for the benefit of librarians at AEC libraries, in September. THE COLLEGE SECTION of the Catholic Li- brary Association's Wisconsin unit discussed "Acquisitions Work, the Balance between Business and Bookmanship," at a meeting of the association in Milwaukee in October. COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES were dis- cussed by Philip P. Mason of Wayne State University, Detroit, at the twenty-sixth an- nual meeting of the Society of American Archivists on September 30. A REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR LATIN AMERICA, at Mendoza, Argentina, organized by UNESCO and the government of Argentina, recom- mended that at least 5 per cent of the budg- ets of Latin American universities be devoted to library services. Changes in Latin Ameri- . can university libraries that should be made under the ten-year plan of the Alliance for Progress and the 1962 Santiago .Conference, a clearinghouse for materials and informa- tion on library construction, and a pilot project for the exchange of publications were discussed. Recommendations were made con- cerning UNESCO's proposed program of as- sistance in planning library services, organi- zational structure of university libraries, book collections, technical services, personnel training, and cooperation among university libraries. THE USSR has ratified two UNESCO con- ventions concerning international exchange of publications and exchange of official pub- lications and government documents. MISCELLANY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SciENCES has begun identifying and recording information on the world's serial publica- tions in a bibliographic project leading toward a Biological Serial Record Center. The work i~ supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health. RESULTS OF A SURVEY on information stor- age and retrieval equipment conducted by the Research Information Center and Ad- visory Service on Ip.formation Processing of the National Bureau of Standards, under sponsorship of the Council on Library Re- sources, have been announced in a 176-page report. Fifteen specific systems employing search-type selection principles are described and findings are given in a comparative chart. In addition, microfilm aperture card systems and related devices used for address- location retrieval are discussed. PROBLEMS OF MUTUAL INTEREST to the li- brary profession and the Library of Congress were discussed at a meeting of the Librarian of Congress, several LC staff members, and the Librarian's Liaison Committee in No- vember. The report of the Librarian of Con- gress on the Bryant Memorandum, special LC projects, recent legislation, and LC's plans for the future and its space problem were among the items considered. BosToN UNIVERSITY School of Education has established plans for an educational film library to be housed in the Law-Education building now under construction. The li- brary will be a memorial to the late Abraham Krasker, founder of the university's pioneer film library. THE THIRD EDITION of the Union List of Serials incorporating the information in the second edition, the first and second supple- ments, and added entries for new titles and holdings up to the beginning of the current New Serial Titles of the Library of Congress, will be published by H. W. Wilson Com- pany, probably in early 1965. The third edi- tion has been compiled by the Library of Congress under a grant to the Joint Com- mittee on the Union List of Serials by the Council on Library Resources. THE INsTITUTE oF HEBREW STUDIES at New York University has announced that it is undertaking an expanded research pro- gram in ancient manuscripts. AMERICAN BOOKS and reference materials on technical subjects will be exhibited in Moscow and two other Soviet cities by the United States Information Agency during five months from January to May. About seven thousand titles from some seven hun- dred American publishers will be shown. A counterpart Soviet exhibit will simultaneous- ly tour three American cities. • • 66 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ROBERT K. JOHNSON has been appointed director of libraries at Drexel Institute of Technology to succeed John F. Harvey, who previously had held the position together Robert K. Johnson with that of dean of the Drexel Graduate School of Library Sci- ence. Prior to the ad- ministrative separa- tion of the library school from the li- brary Dr. Johnson served for three years as assistant director of libraries at Drexel, gaining experience to fit him admirably for his new position. In addition to his ad- ministrative duties, he wi1l serve as professor of library science. Dr. Johnson is supported in his position by a strong background of education and professional experience. An A.B. from Mon- tana State University in 1937, B.A.L. from the University of Washington the following year, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Illinois in 1946 and 1957, respectively, qualify him emiHently as an academic per- son. Beginning his academic library career in public services at Pacific University in 1938, Dr. Johnson was made acting librarian and instructor in library science the following year. This was followed by two years at Central College, Fayette, Missouri as head librarian and instructor in library science. From 1942 to 1946 D.r. Johnson was an em- ployee of General Motors Corporation for one year, and for three years was in the U.S. Navy, two as a communications officer. A civilian again in 1946, he returned to Pacific University as head librarian and as- sociate professor of library science for two years, after which he left for the University of Illinois to combine work in technical processes with study toward a doctorate in library science. Leaving Illinois in 1952 he went to Air University until 1959, in ad- ministrative positions in techni~al processes JANUARY 19'63 Personnel and public services. Following these broad, varied experiences he went to Drexel Insti- tute of Technology in 1959. Dr. Johnson has held . offices and major committee assignments at state and national levels, and has served as a library consultant and library surveyor. In addition to numer- ous unpublished survey reports, he has con- tributed to professional library journals and is the author of Air University Library Study of Libraries in Selected Military Educational Institutions, published in the ACRL Micro- card Series, nos. 62-77, 82 in 1955/ 56. Equipped with sound academic and pro- fessional training, varied and successful li- brary experience, natural administrative abil- ity, a good sense of humor, and a warm personality, Dr. Johnson should make a rna jor contribution in the development of the library at DrexeL-E. W. Erickson. JAcK A. CLARKE received his appointment as director of libraries at Wisconsin State College, Eau Claire on July I, 1962. In addition to a Ph.D. degree in French history received from the University of Wis- consin, Dr. Clarke holds an undergraduate degree from Michigan State. Postgraduate studies in history and library science were completed at Wisconsin also. Dr. Clarke also spent a semester and summer session at the University of Poi tiers, at Poi tiers, France. His experience includes an internship at the Library of Congress. Following this he became librarian at Washington Cathedral library and later at Doane College. Previous to his present appointment, Dr. Clarke was assistant librarian for social studies at the University of Wisconsin. He continues his interest in history by writing articles and book reviews for his- torical journals. A similar service is given librarianship through articles in library jour- nals. Book reviews chiefly in the fields of philosophy and religion appear in profes- sional library periodicals. He is active in professional associations. Quick of wit, with a keen sense of humor that comes to the surface at unusual times, he is a stimulating person to faculty and 67 students. His associates find Mr. Clarke a very pleasing and congenial person with whom to work.-Helen Wahoski. ALAN D. CovEY on August 31, 1962 com- pleted ten years of service to the day as col- lege librarian of Sacramento State College, and on September 1 he became university librarian of Arizona State University, Tempe. A native Californian, Dr. Covey received his A.B. degree from the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, in 1940 and the Certificate in Librarianship from the same institution in 1946. In 1955 he received his Ed.D. de- gree from Stanford University. Dr. Covey began his professional work at the University of California, Berkeley, as microfilm cataloger in 1946-4 7, as head of the library photographic service in 1947-48, and as assistant head of the engineering li- brary in 1948-49. In 1949 he -became assistant librarian of San Francisco State College, where he remained until June 1951, when he entered Stanford University to study for the doctorate. In 1952 he was appointed col- lege librarian of Sacramento State College. Dr. Covey has made impressive contribu- tions to the development of libraries and librarianship in California. Always active in professional organizations, he served as president of the California Library Associa- tion in 1959. A perennial committeeman, he has worked vigorously at improving stand- ards of support and service in the libraries of the California State colleges. His doctoral dissertation, "Evaluation of College Libraries for Accreditation Purposes," has significantly influenced policies in the evaluation of col- lege and university libraries by regional ac- creditation associations. California's loss is Arizona's gain. Dr. Cov- ey takes to his new assignment a broad ex- perience in library administration, an ex- tensive knowledge of books, and great ca- pacity for warm and enduring friendship. We in California wish him the best of luck in his new responsibilities.-Kenneth ]. Brough. RoY L. KIDMAN returns to California to become the first medical librarian of the University of California at San Diego where the University of California is establishing its third medical school, the other two being in San Francisco and at UCLA. This is a fortunate appointment. Roy Kidman took his undergraduate degree in chemistry at UCLA, his degree in librarianship from USC, and then spent a year as a law cataloger at UCLA before being called to the University of Kansas in 1954. At Kansas he took on a task similar in kind bllt smaller in scope to the one ahead of him in San Diego. The University of Kansas had just established a new science library to consolidate several de- partmental libraries. Mr. Kidman's practical understanding of the library needs of scien- tists, together with his skill as a librarian and his capacity to gain the confidence of aca- demic people, resulted in a remarkably suc- cessful program. In addition to his regular assignments, he was called upon by two science departments to teach bibliography courses for graduate students, and his per- sonal interest in the history of science had an important place in the formative years at the University of Kansas of an academic program in that discipline. In light of this variety of high level skills it was understandable that Robert Talmadge, on going to Tulane as director of libraries, should want to have Roy Kidman with him as his assistant director. Du:dng the pa~t two years he has been Talmadge's right-hand man in bringing efficiency and imagination to bear on the Tulane library. First rate medical librarians are a scarce breed. The University of California at San Diego has found one.-Robert Vosper. RUDOLFO 0. RIVERA, has been appointed director of the University of Puerto Rico libraries. Mr. Rivera was with the Duke University Press from 1933 to 1940, when he became executive assistant of the ALA Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Latin America. In March 1942, he went to Managua, Nicaragua, to set up the American Library of Nicaragua, and continued as li- brarian there until February 1944, although he had some months earlier joined the staff of the American Embassy in Managua. Mr. Rivera has been with the United States For- eign Service since 1944. DoN R. SwANSON, a physicist, has been appointed professor and dean of the Grad- uate Library School of the University of Chicago, effective in February 1963. Swan- son has, since 1955, been head of the Syn- 68 C 0 L L E G E A N D R ESE A R C H LIB. RA R IE S thetic . Intelligence department of Thomp- son Ramo Wooldridge, Inc. , in California. His research has been concentrated in the fields of computer applications, scientific in- formation retrieval, intelligence data han- dling, linguistics, mechanical translation, and other automatic or artificial methods of storing, organizing, and finding information. During the past eighteen months he has been serving as a member of the panel of experts engaged in a study of the feasibility of auto- mating many of the operations of the Li- brary of Congress. Swanson took his B.S. at California Insti- tute of Technology, his M.A. at Rice In- stitute, and his Ph.D . in physics at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley in 1952. He served as a communications officer in the Navy from 1943 to 1946; he is married and has three children. He was a member of the Science Information Council of the N a- tiona! Science Foundation from 1958 to 1961, and he has been an invited lecturer before a wide variety of audiences. His research and other publications re- veal, among other qualities: 1) a reasonable concern, but no panic, with the widely heralded "information explosion"; 2) a thorough knowledge of computer capa- bilities but no disposition to believe that the laws of economics will be set aside by machines or that the machine is necessarily the best solution to all information prob- lems; 3) a general concern with fundamental questions in the field of librarianship and information systems; and 4) a lucid style and perceptive wit. The faculty of the Graduate Library School, in recommending Swanson's appoint- ment, were particularly anxious to continue and extend the strong tradition of bringing interdisciplinary approaches and techniques to bear on the solution of a variety of basic problems in the field of librarianship. Swan- son is unusually well qualified in these re- spects to enrich the school's program-and, indeed, the whole of librarianship.-Her- man H. Fussier. Appointments LEE AsH has joined the faculty of Drexel's School of Library Science as assistant profes- sor. He continues as editor and publisher of American Notes & Queries, and maintains his residence at New Haven, Conn. BARBARA G. BARTLEY has been appointed assistant professor of library science, Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was for- merly at Oshkosh (Wis.) State College. MRS. ELIZABETH BATES is on the staff of the engineering library at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She was formerly with the University of California, Riverside, in the cataloging department. PIERRE BERRY is now head of the original cataloging section of Michigan State Univer- sity library, East Lansing. He was a cataloger at Johns Hopkins University library, Balti- more, Md. CoNSTANCE BoBBIE is a cataloger at Ohio State University libraries, Columbus. MICHAEL J. BRIGGS has been appointed serials and documents librarian at the Na- tional Library, Lagos, Nigeria. He was a cataloger at Duke University library, Dur- ham, N.C. HELEN BRITTEN is on the cataloging staff JANUARY 1963 of Ohio Sta:te University libraries, Columbus. She was with the Louisiana State Library, Baton Rouge. ALicE BRUNN is library intern at Ohio State University libraries, Columbus. MRs. RuTH BRYAN is reference assistant and special collections cataloger in the hu- manities department of Long Beach (Calif.) State College library. GLENN BuNDAY is now in the reference de- partment, University . of Southern California, Los Angeles. MRs. IsABEL BuxTON is on the staff of the University of Southern California College li- brary, Los Angeles. CoLIN CAMPBELL became general librarian at the University of Idaho library, Moscow, in November. MRS. PATRICIA CARMONY has joined the staff of University of California at Los Ange- les, as librarian in the government publica- tions room of the reference department. KENNETH E . CARPENTER has returned to Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me., as reference librarian, and will also work with the Bowdoin archives and manuscript collec- tions. Mr. Carpenter has been with Hough- 69 ton library at Harvard University, Cam- bridge. KENNETH J. CARPENTER is now assistant director of the University of Nevada library, Reno. He had been head of the rare books department, University of California, Berke- ley. RAY L. CARPENTER has been appointed lecturer in the school of library science, U ni- versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. KATHY CH'IU is a cataloger at Yale Univer- sity library, New Haven, Conn. MRs. RuTH M. CHRISTENSON is the new education librarian at Los Angeles State College. She was formerly research assistant to Professor Frank Klingberg, UCLA his- torian. DAN DIAZ has been appointed chief bibli- ographer at the University of Connecticut li- brary, Storrs. He has been a reference li- brarian at Stanford (Calif.) University li- brary. MARCIA ENDORE is employed in the re- gional technical reports center of the gov- ernment publications room, University of California, Los Angeles. WoLFGANG M. FREITAG has been appointed chief librarian for undergraduate book selec- tion, Stanford (Calif.) University library. He had been librarian of the division of engi- neering and applied physics at Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge, Mass. J uuus FROME has been named deputy for science and technology of the Armed Forces Technical Information Agency, in charge of ASTIA's acquisition and bibliographic pro- gram. Mr. Frome is an attorney, and an ex- pert in technical information retrieval. RuPERT E. GILROY is now research assist- ant and reserve book room librarian at Yale University library, New Haven, Conn. CHARLES M. GoTTSCHALK is head of systems identification and analysis section of the new National Referral Center for Science and Technology, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. FRANCES GouDY has been named acquisi- tions librarian at Lafayette College library, Easton, Pa. She had been head librarian at Grove City (Pa.) College for the past three. years. DALE GRESSETH is the new head of acquisi- tions at the University of Vermont library, Burlington. He was assistant librarian at Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. JoHN R. HAAK has been appointed assist- ant social science librarian at University of Nevada, Reno. DoRALYN JoANNE HICKEY has accepted ap- pointment as assistant professor in the school of library science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has been assistant research specialist at the Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. WILLIAM HIGHFILL is assistant to the li- brarian at Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. MoNIKA HoRNSTEINER has been appointed serials librarian at Wells College, Aurora, N.Y. CHIA-PI Hsu is now Chinese bibliographer and research assistant in the Yale University library, New Haven, Conn. GRACE Hsu is reserve librarian at Oregon State College library, Corvallis. CuRTIS E. JENKINS has been appointed as- sistant librarian at Washington College, Chestertown, Md. RoNALD JoHNSON has been appointed as- sistant libraria'n at Bethany College library, Lindsborg, Kans. MARGARET KAHN is librarian, Ohio State University English and speech graduate li- brary, Columbus. She was formerly assistant librarian at Eastern Illinois State University, Charleston. MARY KARL is on the staff of Michigan State University library science division, East Lansing. · CHARLES A. KRITZLER is a cataloger in the Western Americana collection at Yale Uni- versity library, New Haven, Conn. SAM KuLA has joined the staff of U niver- sity of Southern California libraries, Los An- geles, circulation department. Mr. Kula has been deputy curator of the National Film Archives at the British Film Institute, Lon- don, England. MRs. MILDRED LANGER has accepted ap- pointment as medical librarian and associate professor of medical bibliography at the U ni- versity of Miami school of medicine, Coral Gables, Fla. HERMAN W. LIEBERT has been appointed librarian of the Beinecke rare book and manuscript library, now under construction at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. CHARLES E. McCABE is newly-appointed as head of the referral services section of the National Referral Center for Science and Technology, Washington, D.C. Mr. McCabe 70 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES has until recently been chief of the scientific information branch of the Army research office. WILLIAM McCoY has been appointed as- sistant librarian for administration at the library of the University of California, Davis. MRS. LouisE McDONOUGH is now on the staff of the engineering and mathematical sciences library at University of California, Los Angeles. She has been with the U niver- sity of Illinois libraries, Urbana. MRs. MARJORIE W. MAcLEoD joined the catalog division of Boston University li- braries on September I. SHEILA McMuRRAY is the new associate humanities librarian at University of Ne- vada, Reno. She was assistant reference li- brarian at the University of California, San- ta Barbara. RoBERT D. MARTENSON has been appointed cataloger in the Yale University music li- brary, New Haven, Conn. LE RoY C. MERRITT has been appointed editor of the Newsletter on Intellectual Free- dom. Dr. Merritt is professor in the Univer- sity of California School of Librarianship, Berkeley. MRs. EVELYN MoRGENTHALER has accepted the position of assistant librarian at Valdosta (Ga.) State College library. MARY J o MUNROE is serving as reference librarian at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Munroe was formerly librarian of the Cor- nell University- New York Hospital School of Nursing library, New York City. NELSON PIPER is assistant librarian, tech- nical services, at University of California Li- brary, Davis. RICHARD L. PRATT has been appointed ref- ence librarian at MacMurray College library, Jacksonville, Ill. MARIA PsHENICHNY is a cataloger at Yale University library, New Haven, Conn. RuTH RENAUD is reference librarian at Loyola University library, New Orleans. She had been head of general services at New Orleans Public library. RANDALL G. RicE has been assigned to head the material sciences division, Armed Services Technical Information Agency, Ar- lington, Va. He was with Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus, Ohio, from 1954 to 1962. MRS. MARIA RoDE is a new cataloger in the Stanford (Calif.) University libraries. She JANUARY 1963 has worked as a serials cataloger in John Crerar library, Chicago. DELORES RoviROSA is now assistant social science librarian at the University of Ne- vada, Reno. She had been head of the cata- log department of the National Library of Cuba. GLADYS E. RowE is the newly appointed li- brary assistant in the Aero-] et General Cor- poration engineering project, Sacramento, Calif. She was associate librarian at the Uni- versity of Chicago Laboratories for Applied Science. IsABEL SEWALL is the new reference librar- ian in the humanities and social sciences di- vision of Stanford (Calif.) University li- braries. KENNETH R. SHAFFER, director of the School of Library Science and of the college libraries at Simmons College, Boston, has been serving as U.S. Department of State consultant to the governments of Denmark, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, and the Netherlands, in the areas of architecture, education for librarianship, and library ad- ministration. MRs. STELLA MARIS SIAGIAN has received appointment as cataloger at Yale University libraries, New Haven, Conn. AuRORA GARDNER SIMMS has joined the Long Beach (Calif.) State College library as reference librarian in the humanities depart- ment. MILDRED SIMPSON is now in the circulation department in the University of Southern California library, Los Angeles. BARBARA SKERRY is assistant in the refer- ence department at Michigan State Univer- sity library, East Lansing. She was with the Ohio University library, Athens. KENNETH SMEJKAL is now assistant librari- an at the University of Dubuque (Iowa) li- brary. PENELOPE SMITH has been appointed li- brarian in the documents department at Uni- versity of California library, Berkeley. Miss Smith has worked with the library branch of the special services division of the United States Army in Europe. RoBERT C. SMITH has joined the staff of the Kansas State University library, Man- hattan, as a cataloger. He was formerly a member of the staff of Eisenhower library, Abilene, Kans. WILLIAM S. SPARKS joined the staff of Kan- 71 sas Wesleyan University library as assistant librarian on September 1. PETER SPYERS-DURAN has been appointed to the staff of University of Wisconsin-Mil- waukee library as administrative assistant and assistant professor, effective in February. Mr. Spyers-Duran has been professional as- sistant of Library Administration Division at ALA headquarters. JOHN F. STEARNS has been assigned by the National Science Foundation to establish the new National Referral Center for Science and Technology at the Library of Congress. Mr. Stearns was deputy director of the office of scientific and technical information in the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion. LuciLLE ALM ToLMAN is a new member of the cataloging staff of the Michigan State University library, East Lansing. KEITH TROST has been appointed public services librarian at Kansas State College, Pittsburg. CAROL VoGEL has been appointed library career consultant at the University of Pitts- burgh Graduate Library School. ELDON W ANCURA joined the acquisitions department of Kansas State University li- brary in October. He was assistant circula- tion librarian at Oregon State University li- brary, Corvallis. WILLARD WEBB, former film librarian of the Library of Congress, is administrative di- rector of the American Science Film Founda- tion, newly-established group to promote films as tools for research and communica- tion of research results. EuNICE WoLF is now circulation librarian at Kansas State Teachers College library, Emporia. She was formerly head librarian, Popular library, Portland, Ore. MRs. ANN R. WooD has been appointe~ science library assistant at Northwestern Uni- versity libraries, with special responsibility for mathematics and geology libraries. Foreign Libraries AGUSTIN LOERAY CHAVEZ, formerly director of the State Library School and of the Biblio- teca N acional in Mexico, died on March 10. KARL FORSTNER is the new director of the Studienbibliothek in Salzburg. WITOLD STANKIEWIOZ is the new director of the Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw. Retirements LAWRENCE HEYL, associate librarian at Princeton University library for more than twenty years, retired on July 1 after forty- two years on the library staff. , BESSIE KYLBERG, head of acquisitions at Fresno (Calif.) State College library, retired on August 30 after fifteen years of service. MRs. SARAH G. MAYER retired on October 31 after twenty-nine years as a cataloger in the field of science and technology at the Library of Congress. Mrs. Mayer won com- mendation for her revision of the classifica- tion schedule for medicine, Class R, at LC. MILDRED STEWART retired from the library staff of Case Institute of Technology, Cleve- land, on October 31. Miss Stewart had ac- cepted a temporary appointment to the staff in 1956. She has returned to her home in Grinnell, Iowa. MARY ALVEY ZADRA has retired as librarian of the Mackay School of Mines of the Uni- versity of Nevada, a position she held for ten years. NATHAN ZUCKERBERG, assistant librarian of the research library in the division of em- ployment, New York State Department of Labor, retired in August after more than fifteen years of service. Necrology WILLIAM HAWLEY DAVIS, editor of the Stanford University Press from 1925 to 1945, died December 5 at Palo Alto-Stanford hos- pital. MRs. MARY PIKE GoODMAN, who retired in 1942 from the Library of Congress, died in Washington, D.C., on October 22. Mrs. Goodman served LC for more than thirty years, mostly as reference and bibliograph- ical librarian in the periodical division. 72 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES I LEONARD H. KIRKPATRICK died in an auto- mobile accident on November 29. He began his career in librarianship at Utah State University in 1936, and became librarian at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, in 1941. Mr. Kirkpatrick served two terms as president of the Utah Library Association, and one term as president of the Mountain Plains Library Association. STELLA WHITFORD, librarian with the Navy Departrrent in Washington, D.C. for thirty- five years previous to her retirement in 1950, died on August 1. FREMONT RIDER, librarian of Wesleyan University from 1933 to 1953, died in Mid- , dletown, Connecticut, October 26, 1962, after a long illness. He was one of the library profession's living legends for his vigorous prosecution of many fine projects. Although he came late to the business of libraries, he made a decided impact by his inventions and through the development of valuable techniques. He was the inventor of micro- cards and pioneered in ways of book stor- age and in cooperation. Mr. Rider, born in Trenton, New Jersey, May 25, 1885, had several years as a boy in Middletown, Connecticut, before he went to Syracuse University, graduating in 1905. He was honored by Syracuse in 1937 with an LL.D. He attended the New York State Library School, Albany, and later helped Melvil Dewey with his Decimal Classification. Fremont Rider then entered business in New York, and for about twenty-five years was engaged in editorial and publishing ventures. He was on the R. R. Bowker staff, and as served as editor of the Publisher's Weekly and the Library Journal. At Wesleyan University, he was active in many areas and the Olin library profited in many respects. The book collection was in- creased from 174,272 to 388,809 and as corol- laries an annex to the book stack was built in 1938, and compact storage of books was inaugurated in the next decade. As editor of the intermittent Wesleyan library peri- odical, About Books, he produced statistics to support his theory that American college and university libraries doubled the size of their book collections every fifteen years. This caused some flurry in library circles. Rider's energies were enormous, as his autobiography (written in the third per- JANUARY 1963 son), And Master of None (1956), amply attests. He wrote and published books con- stantly, some of those of most interest to li- brarians being Melvil Dewey: A Biography (1944); The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (1944); and Compact Book Storage (1949). Since his retirement as li- brarian at Wesleyan in 1953, he published a three-volume Preliminary Material for a Genealogy of the Rider (Ryder) Families in the United States (1959), and the 1,217-page Rider's International Classification for the Arrangement of Books on the Shelves of General Libraries (1961). He planned and built the Godfrey Memorial Library and served as the enterprising promoter of its foundation right up to his death. Its pri- mary function is the publication of the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (a revised and enlarged cumulation of a 1942-52 publication) that has now issued volume 41 (Dav-Dee). Fremont Rider was a pioneer in inter- library cooperation and during the thirties he was the leading spirit in an attempt to organize the Connecticut Valley academic librarians to share the use of their book col- lections. Undoubtedly much of the ground work for the present Hampshire Inter-Li- brary Center was laid at this time. His pioneer thinking in regard to micro- reproduction of books led to the invention of microcards. It was his most important in- vention and he refused to patent it as he wanted microcards to be widely used as an aid to scholarship. It was a great pleasure for Mr. Rider to receive the annual medal of the National Microfilm Association in 1961 for distinguished service in microre- production. There are many evidences at Wesleyan's Olin library of Fremont Rider's librarian- ship. His version of compact book storage is in effective use without modification for ap- proximately 50 per cent of the cataloged collection of half a million books. His con- cept of a large library for undergraduates is evidenced by Wesleyan's book collection, which shows amazing strength in many areas of scholarship. Generous gifts of personal li- braries of decided rarity, encouraged during his tenure, have given the book collection a maturity that the library of few small col- leges could ever attain.-Wyman W. Park- er. •• 73