College and Research Libraries A CRL Board of Directors Midwinter Meeting 1963 BRIEF OF MINUTES January 30 Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; Vice President and President-elect Neal R. Harlow; Past President Ralph E. Ellsworth; directors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Andrew J. Eaton, Flora Belle Ludington, Lucile M. Morsch; directors on ALA Council, Helen M. Brown, Dorothy M. Drake, James Hum- phry, III, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler; chairmen of Sections, Charles M. Adams, H. Richard Archer, Virginia Clark, David Kaser, Jay K. Lucker, Reta E. King (representing Felix E. Hirsch); vice chairmen of Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gard- ner, Eli M. Oboler; past chairmen of Sec- tions, Helen Wahoski, James 0. Wallace, Irene Zimmerman; ACRL Executive Secre- tary Joseph H. Reason. Committee chair- men present were Lorena A. Garloch, Wil- liam V. Jackson, Jr., Frances Kennedy, Stan- ley L. West. Invited guests were Miss Roy Land, Edmon Low, Robert H. Muller. As the first item of business of the first session of the ACRL Board of Directors at the Midwinter Meeting, January 30, 1963, President Stokes called upon Past President Ellsworth, the ACRL representative to PEBCO, for his report. Dr. Ellsworth re- ported that funds for 1963-64 would be ap- proximately the same as in the current year; he reported on the areas of program and activity for which PEBCO recommended priority; and that PEBCO voted to recom- mend that ALA study the functions and re- sponsibilities of LAD so as to determine if some or all of those functions and respon- sibilities could be more effectively and ap- propriately carried out by other units of the Association. Dr. Ellsworth's suggestion that ACRL consider reorganization of the di- vision in conformity with the structure of the Association of Research Libraries was referred to the Planning and Action Com- mittee for study. Reports of the nominations for division and section elections for 1963 were given by Messrs. Bentz and Reason. A complete list MARCH 1963 of the nominees appears elsewhere in this issue. On a motion by Jay Lucker the board voted to approve a petition to organize a Slavic and East European Subsection in the Subject Specialists Section. It was voted to approve the Bylaws of the Junior College Lib~aries Section, following a motion by Lucile Morsch. On motions by Mr. Harlow and Miss Ludington the board voted to terminate the Burma Projects Committee and the Library 21 Committee, respectively. Discussion of matters involved in imple- menting the report of the Special Committee on ACRL Program led the group to consider at some length the entire question of re- cruiting members for ALA and its divisions and sections. It was the sense of the meeting that the best job of recruiting is done by in- dividual librarians, that art librarians, for example, can recruit other art librarians better than anyone else; that people are most interested in the small group. Neal Harlow, president-elect of ACRL, suggested that there be subcommittees on membership at all levels: division, section and subsection. Another phase of this discussion concerned the structure of the proposed Library Re- search Committee; this matter was referred to the Planning and Action Committee for study. H. Richard Archer, chairma·n of the Rare Books Section, reported that a manuscript entitled "Rare Book Collections: Some Theo- retical and Practical Suggestions for Librar- ians and Students," originally called "Rare Book Manual," had been referred to the ALA Publishing Department and would, in all probability, be issued this year as an ACRL Monograph. Archer also reported tentative details of the Preconference Insti- tute on "Western Americana" to be spon- sored jointly by the ACRL Rare Books Sec- tion and the History Section of RSD in Chicago in July. Stanley West, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organizations reported that 147 his committee is planning to bring together at the Chicago Conference a small group of librarians and a few research scientists, com- puter experts, and documentalists to discuss ways in which traditionally trained librarians can best learn to take advantage of the new machinery that is becoming available in the field of information retrieval. Lorena Garloch, chairman of the ACRL Committee on National Library Week, re- ported that Gustave Harrer is analyzing cer- tain college and university library statistics which will be helpful, it is hoped, for use during National Library Week. Miss Gar- loch also reported that seven articles have been written for state library publications and one each for College and Research Li- braries and the Wilson Library Bulletin in an effort to encourage greater participation in National Library Week on the part of college and university libraries. As chairman of the Urban University Libraries Com- mittee of the University Libraries Section, Miss Garloch reported that the members of her committee are planning to hold a closed meeting at the Chicago Conference with the public librarians and school library super- visors from their respective cities; it is hoped that their discussion will result in the pub- lication of an article in one of the library journals. ' Edmon Low, chairman of the ACRL Ad- visory Committee to the President on Federal Legislation, called attention to those features of the National Education Improvement Act of 1963 which are favorable to college and university libraries; he requested authority to make concessions on legislative matters, if it should be necessary to do so. Neal Har- low moved and the body expressed a vote of confidence in our legislative representative. The board then approved the following res- olution which was to be presented to Coun- cil on Thursday by President Stokes: To the Council of the American Library Asso- ciation: The Association of College & Research Librar- ies urges the members of Council and particu- larly those members representing State Associa- tions and regional chapters, to inform members of their various groups of the provisions of The President's National Education Improvement Act and encourage them to ask their Senators and Representatives for full support of the pro- gram. And, furthermore , that encouragement be given to various sections of the State Library Associations to plan cooperatively with their State Librarians to insure successful implementa- tion of the legislation, if and when it is passed. January 31 Present: President Katharine M. Stokes; Vice President and President-elect Neal R. Harlow; directors-at-large, Jack E. Brown, Andrew J. Eaton, Lucile . M. Morsch; di- rectors on ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler; chairmen of Sections, Charles M. Adams, Virginia Clark, Jay K. Lucker; vice chairmen of Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Eli M. Oboler, Norman E. Tanis; past chairmen of Sections, James 0. Wallace, Irene Zimmer- man; ACRL Executive Secretary Joseph H. Reason. Committee chairmen present were George S. Bonn, William H. Carlson, Wil- liam V. Jackson, Jr., Frances Kennedy. In- vited guests were Miss Roy Land, Frank Lundy, Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson. Mrs. Grace T. Stevenson visited the second meeting of the Board of Directors in order to discuss matters concerning the ALA Mem- bership Committee and the ACRL Section Development Committee. During the. course of the discussion it was revealed that the ACRL subsections, particularly, needed more extensive information concerning personal members than is now requested on the ALA dues notice; it was decided that all member- ship activities would be coordinated by Miss Roy Land, the ACRL representative on the ALA Membership Committee. George Bonn, chairman of the Library Services Committee reported that his com- mittee felt the need for a basic document which would serve as a frame of reference for encouraging the development and im- provement of library services. A draft of this document, tentatively entitled "A Li- brary Users Bill of Rights" was presented; it is intended to have this document completed and ready for distribution at the Chicago Conference. The board decided that the ACRL Pro- gram and Business Meeting would be held on ',Yednesday, July 17 at 8:30-10:00 P.M. and that the Board of Directors would meet on Thursday, July 18, 8:30-10:00 P.M. ·and on Friday, July 19, 2:00-4:00 P.M. Charles Adams, chairman of the College Libraries Section, reported that the Section 148 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES is planning to hold its annual conference meeting on Saturday, July 20, at Beloit Col- lege, Beloit, Wisconsin. The program of the meeting will deal with the problems faced in the use of the college library in this day of changing college curricula. William H. Carlson, chairman of the Com- mittee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies, reported that the committee is studying the requirements of the various accrediting bodies-regional, national and professional -for the purpose of recommending simplifi- cation and unification of these requirements and also to develop an awareness among the agencies of the burdens placed upon colleges and universities .undergoing accreditation. The Committee hopes also to bring about an increase in the practice of having librar- ians serve as members of accrediting teams. Virginia Clark, chairman, reported that the Junior College Libraries Section con- tinues to work with the American Associa- tion of Junior Colleges towards implemen- tation of the ALA Standards for Junior Col- lege Libraries and that the document "Cri- teria for Beginning Junior College Librar- ies" is being revised with a view toward publication. Miss Clark also announced that the Section plans to display at the Chicago Conference a collection of student library handbooks and a draft of an "ideal" hand- book outline. Frank Lundy acquainted the board with the activities and point of view held by a group of college and university librarians who are concerned about the total effect of the reorganization of ALA upon ACRL. The Board voted to support LAD's appli- cation for a renewal of the World Book En- cyclopedia-ALA Goals Award so as to con- tinue the Office for Recruitment for another year. •• The Princeton Statistics for 1961-62 VOLUMES IN LIBRARY: I. Harvard ............. . 2. Yale ................ . 3. Illinois .............. . 4. Michigan ............ . 5. Columbia ........... . 6. California-Berkeley ... . 7. Stanford ............ . 8. Cornell ............. . 9. Chicago ............. . 10. Minnesota ........... . 11. Indiana ............. . 12. Princeton ........... . 13. Pennsylvania ....... . . 14. California-L.A. 15. Duke ............... . 16. Northwestern ........ . 17. vVisconsin ........... . 18. Ohio State ........... . 19. Texas ............... . 20. Johns Hopkins ....... . MARCH 1963 6,931,293 4,572,893 3,525,820 3,049,715 3,012,464 2,701,186 2,287,332 2,278,046 2,210,062 2,072,285 1,828,992 1,754,580 1,744,680 1,719,359 1,540,063 1,532,420 1,527,432 1,520,597 1,508,262 1,207,246 VoLUMEs ADDED: I. California-L.A. . ....... . 2. Illinois . .. ............ . 3. Cornell ............... . 4. Michigan ............. . 5. California-B. . ......... . 6. Yale ................. . 7. Texas ................ . 8. Columbia ............. . 9. Harvard .............. . 10. Chicago .............. . II. Ohio State ............ . 12. Washington ........... . 13. Wisconsin ............. . 14. Louisiana State ........ . 15. Michigan State ........ . 16. Stanford .............. . 17. Princeton .... . ........ . 18. Missouri .. ... ......... . 19. Minnesota ........... . . 20. Pennsylvania .......... . 154,801 142,436 135,260 ll9,976 106,710 90,015 86,203 85,875 82,658 82,284 79,953 79,431 78,664 75,722 72,927 71,323 66,102 62,593 61,423 60,750 •• 149 Nominees for ACRL PRESIDENT Neal R. Harlow, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT W. Porter Kellam, University of Georgia, Athens Archie L. McNeal, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. DIRECTORS ON ALA COUNCIL (1963-67) William H. Carlson, Oregon State College, Corvallis Edward B. Stanford, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Walfred Erickson, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti Robert R. Hertel, Illinois State Normal University, Normal Elliott Hardaway, University of South Florida, Tampa W. Stanley Hoole, University of Alabama, University X Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, University of Illinois, Urbana Mrs. Alice Phelps Pattee, State University, Stillwater, Okla. COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Eli M. Oboler, Idaho State College, Pocatello VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: H. Vail Deale, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. Benjamin G. Whitten, Whittier College, Whittier, Calif. SECRETARY: Ruth A. Diveley, Occidental College, Los Angeles Anne C. Edmonds, Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J. JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Norman E. Tanis, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich. VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom, Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. Joseph Yenish, Community College, Temple University, Philadelphia SECRETARY: Mrs. Shirley A. Edsall, Corning Community College, Corning, N.Y. Mrs. Bessie Davis Randall, Orange County Community College, Middletown, N.Y. 150 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ' Officers, 1963/64 RARE BOOKS SECTION CHAIRMAN: Edwin Wolf, II, Library Company of Philadelphia VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: P. William Filby, Peabody Institute, Baltimore William L. Hanaway, Jr., New York Public Library SECRETARY: Mrs. Ann Bowden, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin Mrs. Dorothea D. Reeves, Harvard Business School, Boston SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION CHAIRMAN: Wrayton E. Gardner, St. Louis University VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Carson W. Bennett, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind. Alfred N. Brandon, University of Kentucky, Lexington TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Benjamin B. Richards, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia Donald 0. Rod, State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls CHAIRMAN-ELECT AND SECRETARY: Orville L. Eaton, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant Robert P. Lang, State University College, New Paltz, N.Y. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Dale M. Bentz, University of Iowa, Iowa City VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Andrew J. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis Robert L. Talmadge, Tulane University, New Orleans MARCH 1963 151 1962/63 Remington Rand Equipment Grant THIRTY-TWO COLLEGES located in twenty- four states have been selected to receive fur- niture and equipment under the terms of a grant made to ACRL by the Remington Rand Division of the Sperry Rand Corpora- tion. This is the fourth year that Remington Rand has participated in the ACRL Grants Program. The colleges receiving awards are privately supported four-year institutions. The special committee from the ACRL Col- lege Section which made the awards is com- posed of James F. Holly, librarian, Macal- ester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, chairman; Sister M. Adrienne, reference librarian, Col- lege of St. Theresa, Winona, Minnesota; and Bernard E. Richardson, librarian, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. The libraries of the colleges listed below will receive items of equipment of the value indicated: BARD CoLLEGE, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. (Marion E. Vosburgh) $114.00. BEAVER CoLLEGE, Glenside, Pa. (Elizabeth L. Hammond) $294.00. CARROLL CoLLEGE, Helena, Mont. (Rev. James R. White) $187.75. CHESTNUT HILL CoLLEGE, Philadelphia, Pa. (Sister Anne Xavier) $256.00. DILLARD UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La. (Ern- est C. Wagner) $158.00. FoNTBONNE CoLLEGE, St. Louis, Mo. (Sister Alberta Anne) $147.00. GoDDARD CoLLEGE, Plainfield, Vt. (William E. Osgood) $160.50. GRAND CANYON CoLLEGE, Phoenix, Ariz. (R. Vernon Ritter) $256.00. HAMLIN£ UNIVERSITY, St. Paul, Minn. (Ben- jamin M. Lewis) $210.00. CoLLEGE OF IDAHO, Caldwell, Idaho (Rich- ard G. Elliott) $160.50. INDIANA CENTRAL CoLLEGE, Indianapolis, Ind. (Edna Miller) $373.00. KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Salina, Kan. (Frank J. Anderson) $416.25. KING CoLLEGE, Bristol, Tenn. (Elizabeth M. England) $ 171.00. LINFIELD CoLLEGE, McMinnville, Ore. (Mar- tha Ezell) $256.00. LIVINGSTONE CoLLEGE, Salisbury, N.C. (Jo- sephine P. Sherrill) $ 146.00. MARYMOUNT CoLLEGE, Tarrytown, N.Y. (Mother Jeanne d'Arc) $131.75. MARYWOOD CoLLEGE, Scranton, Pa. (Sister M. Denis) $310.00. MILTON CoLLEGE, Milton, Wis. (Lois M. Bird) $117.50. MissouRI VALLEY CoLLEGE, Marshall, Mo. (Ruth Zahn) $45.60. COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ON THE OHIO, Mount St. Joseph, Ohio (Sister Helen) $251.25. MouNT ST. ScHOLASTic CoLLEGE, Atchison, Kan. (Sister M. Florence Feeney) $251.25. NoRTH CENTRAL CoLLEGE, Naperville, Ill. (Ruth Kraemer) $404.75. OLIVET CoLLEGE, Olivet, Mich. (George Han- son) $276.00. WILLIAM PENN CoLLEGE, Oskaloosa, Iowa (Inis I. Smith) $117.50. QuEENS CoLLEGE, Charlotte, N.C. (Phoebe Oplinger) $416.25. REGIS CoLLEGE, Weston, Mass. (Sister Mary Macrina) $540.00. RosEMONT CoLLEGE, Rosemont, Pa. (Mother Mary Dennis) $147.00. CoLLEGE OF ST. JosEPH, Albuquerque, N.M. (Sister M. Paulinia Altepeter) $14 7 .00. SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WooDs CoLLEGE, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. (Sister Camilla) $395.00. TALLADEGA CoLLEGE, Talladega, Ala. (Mar- garet H. Scott) $79.25. JAMESTOWN COLLEGE, James town, (R. W. Witt) $311.00. N.D. WESTMONT CoLLEGE, Santa Barbara, Calif. (John E. Kephart) $241.00. • • 152 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Bylaws of the Junior College Libraries Section of ACRL Article I. N arne The name of this body is the Junior Col- lege Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the Amer- ican Library Association. Article II. Object The object of this Section is to contribute to library service and librarianship through those activities which will relate to libraries supporting education in junior colleges and equivalent institutions. Article III. Relationship to the Association of College and Research Libraries This body is a Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The Con- stitution and Bylaws of that division and of the American Library Association, to the ex- tent to which they are applicable, take precedence over these bylaws. Article IV. Membership Membership in this Section consists of any personal, life, or institutional member of the American Library Association who elects m~mbership in the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Junior Col- lege Libraries Section. Article V. Meetings Sec. 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meet- ing of the Section will be held during the annual conference of the American Library Association. Sec. 2. Special meetings. Special meetings may be called by the chairman of the Sec- tion. Article VI. Officers Sec. 1. Titles. The officers of this Section are a chairman, a vice chairman who is the chairman-elect, a secretary, and the immedi- ate pas~ chairman. Sec. 2. Duties. MARCH 1963 (a) The duties of the chairman are to act as chief administrative officer of the Section, to appoint all standing and special com- mittees unless other provision has been made in these bylaws, to serve as ex-officio member of all committees without the right to vote except in the case of a tie, and to preside over all meetings with responsibility for the programs at such meetings. (b) The duties of the vice chairman (chair- man-elect) are to assume the duties of the chairman when the chairman is unable to act in that capacity and to serve as chairman of the Projects Committee. (c) The duties of the secretary are to keep a record of the proceedings of the Section, to prepare a written report of the proceedings to be read at the next business meeting of the Section, to maintain information about the membership, to supervise balloting by mail, and to be responsible for locating, con- tacting, and corresponding with regional and area organizations of junior college li- brarians, including the reporting of activities of these organizations at the annual meeting. (d) The chairman, vice chairman, and im- mediate past chairman as representatives .of the Section serve as members of the Board of Directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Sec. 3. Nominations. (a) A Nominating Committee of not less than three members will be appointed by the vice chairman (chairman-elect) with the approval of the chairman to nominate can- didates for elective positions as Section of- ficers. Appointments will be made at such times as to enable the committee to meet during the annual meeting preceding the one at which the results of the election are to be announced. (b) The Nominating Committee will pre- sent names in blocks of two names each and will secure written consent from each can- didate. (c) Additional nominations signed by five 153 members of the Section and accompanied by the written consent of the candidate may be made by filing such nomination with the secretary prior to December 15. (d) Each nominee must be an active mem- ber in good standing. Sec. 4. Elections. Elections will be held by mail ballot. A report of the results will be made at the annual meeting. Sec. 5. Term of office. Officers begin their term of office at the close of the annual meet- ing. If extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the Section prevent a regular meeting, the term will begin at the anni- versary of the close of the last previous an- nual meeting. Sec. 6. Vacancies. In case of a vacancy in the office of chairman, the vice chairman will succeed to the office of chairman and will serve in that capacity until the expiration of the year for which he was elected chairman. In case of a vacancy in the office of vice chairman (chairman-elect), a special election shall be held by mail vote. Nominations will be made by the incumbent Nominating Com- mittee. A vacancy in the office of secretary will be filled by appointment by the chair- man to fill out the term. Article VII. Committees Sec. I. Establishment. (a) Standing committees to carry on ac- tivities requiring extended attention will be established at the annual meeting. The mo- tion establishing such committees will re- commend the name and functions of the committee. (b) Special committees other than the ;Nominating Committee (whose appointment has been previously specified) will be ap- pointed by the chairman. (c) Chairmen of standing committees, to- gether with the vice chairman of the Section as committee chairman, will constitute the standing Projects Committee. Sec. 2. Composition. All committees other than the Projects Committee will consist of an udd number of not less than three mem- bers, each of whom is an active member in good standing, or the chief librarian of an active institutional member. Sec. 3. Terms of office. Members of stand- ing committees will be appointed for two- year terms and may be reappointed for an additional term of two years. The terms of approximately one half the members shall expire each year. • Members will be ap- poit:J.ted to fill the unexpired term in the event of a vacancy. Special committees ex- pire at the end of the term of the chairman who appointed them. A new Nominating Committee will be appointed each year. Sec. 4. Projects Committee. This committee is responsible for coordinating the work of the committees, for determining financial needs of the projects under way, for develop- ing requests to be made to the divisional budget committee, for screening requests for grants, for establishing priorities when need- ed, and for keeping the membership in- formed of committee activities. Sec. 5. Discontinuance. Standing com- mittees may be discontinued by vote at the annual meeting. Special committees cease at the expiration of their term of office. Sec. 6. Notification. The secretary shall inform the divisional executive secretary an- nually of the establishment and functions, membership, or discontinuance of all com- mittees of the Section. Sec. 7. Mail votes. Committee votes may be taken by mail. Article VIII. Executive Committee Sec. I. Composition. The Executive Com- mittee consists of the chairman, the vice chairman, the secretary, and the immediate past chairman. Sec. 2. Powers and Duties. The Executive Committee has authority over the affairs of the Section during the period between meet- ings of the Section, subject to review by the members at a meeting of the Section. Article IX. Quorum Business of the Section may be transacted by a quorum of 15 members, or by a mail ballot. Article X. Amendments These bylaws may be amended by a mail vote approved by two-thirds of the members voting or by a two-thirds vote of the mem- bers present and voting at two successive an- nual meetings. A bylaw may be suspended at an annual meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting. • • * On approval of these bylaws, the chairman will appoint one half of the chairmen and one half of the members for a one-year term to place this provision into operation. 154 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES J AcQUISITIONS, CoLLECTIONs, GIFTS STANFORD UNIVERSITY libraries have re- ceived all of the books and journals of the late Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, the gift of his son Ernest See of Los Angeles. The Stanford collection at Stanford (Calif.) Uni- versity also has received some five hundred microfilm copies of letters of Edward A. Ross, pertaining to Ro~s· years as a Stanford faculty member. The collection of theater memorabilia made by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Stark of San Francisco will be presented to Stanford University libraries next autumn, along with an index or catalog to the col- lection made by Mr. Stark. SIXTEEN ANCIENT PRINTED WORKS, four of them printed before the year 1500, are gifts to Stanford (Calif.) University library from the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Crocker. The gift includes volumes from the presses of Aldus Manutius of Venice, Anton Koburger of Nuremberg, and Erhard Rat- dolt of Venice. There are eleven volumes printed in the sixteenth century, including nine additional Aldine imprints; and a seventeenth-century two-volume set, "The Works of Benjamin Jonson ," printed by W. Hale, London, with the dates 1616 and 1640. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, has recently made significant purchases of old scientific books to implement its program in graduate studies leading to a doctorate with special interest in the history of science. Among these items are the scientific papers of Roger Boscovich which include about two thousand manuscript letters and two hun- dred scientific manuscripts. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE library, Newark, has received from S. Hallock du Pont, Wil- mington, Delaware, a collection of 650 first , variant, limited, and rare editions of the works of John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kip- ling, and Bernard Shaw. Many of these are autographed presentation copies, or contain inserted autograph letters and other associa- tion materials representing correspondence with publishers, friends, and critics. SouTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY libraries acquired, in December, a collection of some fourteen thousand volumes of the late Ger- MARCH 1963 News from the Field man literary historian, Wilhelm Kosch. The collection is still in the hands of Dr. Kosch's estate in Germany, and will be distributed to both Carbondale and Edwardsville cam- puses of SIU. CoNCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY's Schultz Memorial library in Springfield, Ill., has received some six hundred volumes from the library of the late Dr. W. H. T. Dau, Lutheran theologian. NoRTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY library, Boston, has been presented with the books, manu- script material, and notes on Horace Mann accumulated by Louise Hall Tharp while she was writing Until Victory. HARVARD CoLLEGE library, Cambridge, Mass., has acquired a private collection of some eight thousand Finnish books, pam- phlets and periodicals made by Eino Ellila. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA library's two- millionth item is their recently acquired let- ter to the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, concerning the first Spanish colony in the New World. The library also has pur- chased a copy of a sixteenth-century surgical book by Guido Guidi, and a sixteenth-cen- tury illustrated medical manuscript, along with a number of other rare medical works, with funds from the John Sargent Pillsbury Fund. During the past year, Henry Evans of Peregrine Press in San Francisco has greatly augmented the collection of publications of that press in the university library, and Mrs. Dagmar Doneghy presented to the library a collection of letters written to her husband, the late Joseph Warren Beach, by more than sixty authors. Irving Kerlan and Harold Kittelson and a number of others have added significantly to the library's collection of children's literature. Walter library at the university has received a group of some two hundred books on Long Island whaling from Malcolm M. Willey, vice president of the university. Special collections acquired dur- ing the past year by the university libraries include some fifteen hundred volumes gath- ered by the late William D. Morgan of St. Paul, on early science and astronomy. Other groups are the late George P. Conger col- lection on the history of philosophy; a five- hundred volume collection on the history of aeronautics brought together by Col. R. L. 155 Preston; and a group of some four-hundred- fifty titles relating to -the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. CoNCORDIA SEMINARY, St. Louis, has re- ceived a collection of manuscripts and books, in memory of the Reverend Ernest Martens. The gift of 265 items was given by Walter F. Martens, Charleston, W.Va. The collection for the most part contains books and manu- scripts in the field of liturgics and hymnol- ogy. BROOKLYN CoLLEGE library has acquired the papers of Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, for the period from 1940 to 1958. Most deal with international and political activities. CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES have re- cently acquired ten incunabula. The earliest work is Ulrich Hans monumental edition (Rome, 1471) of Plutarch's Lives in two folio volumes of what is generally presumed to be the first printed edition of Plutarch. Two of the other incunabula are believed to be unique in American libraries: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Venice, 0. Scotus, 1492, and Horace's De arte poetica in an undated Paris edition printed by George Wolff for Jean Petit, provisionally assigned to 1499. Another fifteenth century book of special interest is Sabinus' Paradoxa in ]uvenali (Rome, 1474). The Columbia University libraries have also acquired a number of additions to the holdings of manuscript collections. Among these are the Eleanor Robson Belmont pa- pers comprising about ·three thousand letters and manuscripts, including correspondence from Anatole France, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, and Israel Zangwill; approximately six hundred letters written by the American artist Kenyon Cox to his parents in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; a nearly complete collection of manuscripts of Rose Franken's short stories and novels; approximately one hundred letters written by Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury to General Otho H. Williams; and the correspondence, manu- scripts, letter-books, diaries, and memora- bilia of John Howard Payne. OHio STATE UNIVERSITY has purchased the only known manuscript page of "Blithedale Romance," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The university also has purchased a collection of signed manuscripts of unpublished poems and personal correspondence of such writers as Dylan Thomas and Thomas Earp. A paperback edition of Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce has recently been pur- chased by the Ohio State University Center for Textual Studies, Columbus. Only one other copy of the paperback is known to exist, although there are several clothbound copies extant. The paperback was published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI libraries has re- ceived from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones a large collection on gardening, including several seventeenth and eighteenth century imprints. Other gifts to Cincinnati include a library of nineteenth century literature from Lucien Wulsin; the entire library of Dillwyn Ratcliff, varied in scope and containing much unusual scholarly material; and, continuing her gift of the major part of her library, many art books from Mrs. Russell Wilson. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, will re- ceive the manuscripts of stories, plays, screen- plays, essays and poetry of Tennessee Wil- liams, to be available for study through the Humanities Research Center. The univer- sity's drama library at present includes col- lections of literary papers and manuscripts of Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, and Maxwell Anderson. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON library's man- uscript collection has received the papers of Hugh B. Mitchell, former United States senator and congressman, relating to his po- litical career. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN's library has ac- quired a collection of 243 works by and about Rousseau. AwARDs, GRANTS, ScHOLARSHIPs UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA's biomedical library, Los Angeles, has announced the third year of its medical library internship program. Applications for 1963 j64 are due before March 30. They should be addressed to Miss Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedi- cal Library, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles 24. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA library, San Diego at La Jolla has been awarded $12,650 by the Council on Library Resources to con- tinue investigation of the computerization of serial records. The library has completed a 156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES j preliminary program on its own initiative. SIMMONS CoLLEGE library school, the Con- necticut Valley Chapter of SLA, the New England Group of the Medical Libraries Association, and the Connecticut Library As- sociation are jointly sponsoring a student award fund in memory of the late Henrietta T. Perkins. Further information should be requested from Mrs. Mary Lee Tsuffis, pres- ident of the Connecticut Valley Chapter, Special Libraries Association, P.O. Box 35, Andover, Conn. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS'S Chicago under- graduate division library has been awarded $45,033 to continue a research project aimed at automating all functions of the library. Donor of the grant is National Science Foundation. The project, already in prog- ress for three years, is in charge of Don S. Culbertson and Louis A. Schultheiss. Re- search under the new grant will be directed toward testing of the already-devised system of data processing by computer. GRANTS-IN-AID from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, up to a limit of $1,000, are available. The institute's committee on grants-in-aid will consider applications for projects involving the Truman administra- tion and the history of the Presidency. It has adopted a policy of favoring grants to prom- ising students and young scholars rather than to those who have already established a repu- tation in the various appropriate fields of re- search. Application forms for grants-in-aid may be had from the director of the library at Independence, Mo. WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY has been named to receive a gift of $10,000 from the George W. Codrington Charitable Founda- tion in memory of Mrs. I. F. Freiberger. The money will be used for enlargement of the library building. THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA will continue its creative dramatics program with the sum of $2,500 granted by the Philadel- phia Foundation for that purpose. ONE MILLION DOLLARS has been contrib- uted by an anonymous donor to the Colum- bia-Presbyterian Medical Center for the con- struction of a new medical library for ·Colum- bia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. WISCONSIN FREE LIBRARY COMMISSION has announced a survey to be conducted by the MARCH 1963 Library Research Center of the Graduate School of Librarianship of the University of Illinois. The commission has made a grant of $14,298 for the statewide survey of library reference services, resources, and facilities in Wisconsin, to suggest ways to meet the information and reference needs through a coordinated system of reference services. AMERICAN CouNCIL oF LEARNED SociETIES has awarded grants in aid to forty-one schol- ars in thirty-one colleges and universities and libraries in United States and Canada. Library scholars awarded grants are David V. Erdman of the New York Public library, for work on the recovery of the deleted texts of William Blake; and to James G. McMana- way of the department of literature and bibliography, Folger Shakespeare library, for an edition of the Shakespeare-Davenant- Dryden-Shadwell operatic Tempest. CouNCIL ON LIBRARY REsouRcEs has grant- ed the sum of $11,500 to the Association of Research Libraries for the development of programs to preserve printed and manuscript materials that are now deteriorating. Gordon R. Williams, director of the Midwest Inter- Library Center, has been named to head de- velopment of the three-faceted program. Council on Library Resources has made two grants to the Library Technology Project of ALA totaling $27,080, to be used for prep- aration of a manual on library furniture and another on floors and floor coverings. The use of the Dewey Decimal Classifica- tion abroad will be surveyed to learn of adaptations or expansions that would in- crease its usefulness, ALA and the Council of Library Resources recently announced. The field survey will be financed by a grant of $20,000 each froin the Council on Library Resources, and Forest Press, Lake Placid, New York, and $10,000 from the Asia Foundation. Surveyors plan to visit Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaya, Pakistan, Persia, South Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, and (ten- tatively) Brazil, Greece, Israel, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Yugo- slavia. Present uses of sheet microfilm in the United States will be studied under a grant of $7,038 from the Council of Library Re- sources to the Library Technoiogy Project of ALA. The survey will be made by Wil- liam Hawken, Berkeley, Calif. 157 MEXICO CITY CoLLEGE is offering two spe- cial summer scholarships to graduate librar- ians; applications should be filed before April l. The scholarships are for full tuition and fees and a living allowance. One schol- arship is for the summer quarter (June 17- August 28) and the other is for the summer session (July 8- August 16). For further in- formation write Roberto A. Gordillo, Li- brarian, Mexico City College, Km. 16 Car- retera Mexico-Toluca, Mexico 10, D.F. BuiLDINGS SIMPSON CoLLEGE, Indianola, Iowa has let contracts for a new library building to pro- vide seating for 630 students, to include 103 carrels, plus 12 faculty cubicles. The library will also house a student lounge, listening and seminar rooms, and the Matthew Simp- son room for rare books and college memo- rabilia. Shelf space is to be provided for a quarter-million volumes. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY library, now under construction, will probably be com- pleted in early fall, 1964. The building will have six floors--five of them underground- and will house initially a million and a half volumes. It is planned for expansion to hold a total of four million volumes. The above- ground story will blend with the Georgian architecture of other campus buildings. UNITED STATES MILITARY AcADEMY, West Point, N.Y., laid the cornerstone for a new library building recently. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY School of Medi- cine has begun construction on a new wing to provide quarters for the medical division of the Joint University libraries, Nashville, Tenn. The wing will ultimately accommo- date three hundred readers, and an eight- level stack will provide shelves for 120,000 volumes. Special facilities will include a History of Medicine room, open and closed study carrels, and a staff lounge. MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS LIBRARY APPLICATIONS OF DATA PROCESSING will be the subject of a clinic at the U niver- sity of Illinois campus at Urbana on April 28-May I. The clinic will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Library Science and the Division of University Extension. In- tended for libraries that are actually en- gaged in mechanized procedures, or in the process of converting, the clinic will provide opportunity for a pooling of experience, ideas, and knowledge. Attendance is limited to ninety persons. The clinic will present descriptions of ex- isting data processing programs in individ- ual libraries. Papers will be presented by John D. Henderson, Los Angeles County Public library; Ralph H. Parker, University of Missouri library; Seymour Taine, Na- tional Library of Medicine; Lorin R. Burns, Public libraries of Lake County, Indiana; James Jacobs, Montgomery (Md.), School System; Marjorie Griffin, IBM Advanced Systems Development Division, San Jose, Calif.; Hillis L. Griffin, Phillips Petroleum Company's National Reactor Testing Station technical library. Three papers of a gen- eral nature will include "Trends in Library Applications of Data Processing," by Burton Adkinson; "Flow Charting of Library Oper- ations," by Edward M. Heiliger; and "Pos- sible Applications of IBM Equipment to Information Storage and Retrieval in Li- braries," by Donald H. Kraft. The papers by Messrs. Henderson, Parker, and Taine will be duplicated and distributed in ad- vance to registrants, and will be summarized and analyzed at the clinic by a selected dis- cussant. NEw ENGLAND CoLLEGE LIBRARIANS will hold their annual meeting at the Cushing- Martin library, Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass., on April 19 and 20. AN INsTITUTE on "Improving Service to Students in School, Public, and College Li- braries" has been arranged by the library school of the University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis, and the Center for Continuation Study, with the cooperation of the library division of the State Department of Educa- tion, the Minnesota Library Association, and the Minnesota Association of School Li- brarians. The institute will be on April 20. ASTIA has arranged a series of confer- ences for the purpose of furthering the building of machine-searchable vocabularies on January 30 and 31, February 6, February 13, February 20, February 27, March 6, March 13, March 20, March 27, and April 3. Each of the meetings will be devoted to a particular scientific field. The first of ASTIA's microthesauri developed from the program, on chemistry and chemical engi- neering, was published in December. The timetable calls for use of the additional microthesauri in ten subject areas by early spring. 158 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES CATHOLIC LIBRARY AssociATION's annual convention will be on April 16-19 at Los Angeles. The theme of the conference will be "The Library and the Mass Media." UNESCO's general conference in Decem- ber approved a pilot project in school li- brary development in Africa, a regional center in Senegal for training librarians, and a pilot public library in the Ivory Coast, and a pilot project in national planning of library services in Latin America. MISCELLANY UN.IVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA library, Berke- ley, prepared an exhibit of famous books in mathematics on the occasion of the sixty- ninth annual meeting of the American Math- ematical Society, at Berkeley in January. Thirty-four books ranging from a 1482 edi- tion of Euclid to an imprint of 1899 were shown. Also included in the exhibit were a few manuscripts, from a second-century pa- pyrus fragment to an eighteenth century manuscript of Roger Boscovitch. Most of the books and all of the manuscripts are owned by the university. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has started coding the 600,000-volume collection in the Carbondale library for eventual use with data processing equipment in its circulation procedures. Books in Print may include information about publisher's discounts in its next edi- tion. R. R. Bowker Company, publisher of BIP explains that inclusion of information about long- and short-discounts is being con- sidered. PROCEEDINGS of the institute on informa- tion retrieval held at the University of Min- nesota in September, were published in February. Wesley Simonton is the editor. HARRY S. TRUMAN library's new research- ers include Bill K. Hall, Baker University, working on the 1948 campaign; Donald C. Swain, University of California, on the sci- entific policies of the government in the Truman administration; Peter C. Birkel, University of Connecticut, on Presidential press conferences in regard to American for- eign policy, 1937-1952; Edward G. Cook, University of Kansas, on appropriations for national defense at the beginning of the Korean incident; and J. Malcolm Smith, Arizona State College, on the emergency powers of the President in times of crisis. Grants-in-aid have been awarded by the MARCH 1963 Harry S. Truman library institute to Mr. Birkel, for the study noted above; to Charles G. Hamilton, of New Orleans, for a study of the 1948 campaign; and to Monroe Billing- ton, University of South Dakota, for a con- tinuation of his study on civil rights. THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES administered by the General Services Administration were represented in a "Tele-Lecture" program on December 4, organized by the University of Omaha . . Wayne C. Grover, archivist of the United States, Elizabeth B. Drewry, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt library, and Philip C. Brooks, director of the Harry S. Truman library spoke briefly by a conference telephone circuit to audiences at five uni- versity campuses, and answered questions from the five campuses, Omaha, University of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin campuses at Madison and Milwaukee, and Syracuse University. NEW JERSEY's major university libraries and the New Jersey state library are under- taking joint studies to find out how they can better serve the research and scientific com- munities of the state. University libraries are seeking ways to set up a program in which all the principal resources in the scientific- research field can be classified and used. A special committee has for the past year worked on the idea of information exchange centers within the framework of the New Jersey Council for Research and Develop- ment. NEw YoRK PuBLIC LIBRARY has issued a supplementary catalog of The New York Public library's gazettes preservation pro- gram listing official gazettes which have been microfilmed during 1962 and added since the catalog of December 1961. The list is ar- ranged by country, gives the dates covered, the number of feet of film and the price. Thus far the project covers two hundred and fifty national, provincial and municipal jurisdictions, assembled and filmed in such a way that independent sections, such as proceedings of legislative bodies, patents and trade marks, trade bulletins, subsidiary leg- islative documents and departmental reports may be purchased in many instances. The Gazettes project at The New York Public library was suggested by the Association of Research Libraries. In this catalog a special effort was made to film African and Asian gazettes of countries which attained inde- pendence during 1962. Requests for the cat- alog of films now available, and other in- 159 qmnes, should be addressed to The New York Public Library, Official Gazettes Pro- gram, Room 101, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York 18, New York. THE LIBRARY of the Insurance Society of New York has completed a move to new quarters on the ninth floor at 150 William Street. The library now also serves the Col- lege of Insurance. RECRUITMENT ARTICLES from 1962 issues of Library Journal have been reprinted and are available from R. R. Bowker Company, 62 West 45th Street, New York 36, in support of the 1963 National Library Week program. New Technical Books will be issued by the New York Public Library'~ Science and Technology Division ten times a year, in a new format. SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES will be abstracted and indexed during 1963 by cooperative effort of National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion, Documentation, Inc., and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. International Aerospace Sciences will be published by IAS, on the 1st and 15th of each month; while Scientific and Technical Aerospace Re- ports will be prepared by Documentation, Inc., and published by NASA, on the 8th and 23rd of each month. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES resources in Canadian university libraries have been surveyed by Edwin E. Williams at the invi- tation of the Library Survey Committee of the National Council of Canadian Universi- Library Buildings Institute ties and Colleges, and a report has now been published with the aid of a grant from the Council on Library Resources. THE ALA CoMMISSION on a N a tiona! Plan for Library Education was announced in January. Chairman is Richard H. Logsdon, director of libraries at Columbia University. FIVE EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES will be sur- veyed for the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia during five months between February and July. Bertha Frick, professor emeritus of Columbia University's School . of Library Science will visit sixteen colleges in Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia to learn how their libraries can be strengthened to keep pace with the growth of the institutions they serve. PuBLIC RECORDS in Great Britain now are published on 3 x 5 micro-opaque cards un- der a new program of the Public Records Office of Great Britain. Certain classes of records are now available in the card series -privy council registers from June 1631 to May 1637, and treasury minute books for 1719-22 and 1725-28. Forthcoming are eight volumes relating to the American Civil War, and some of the proceedings of the Colonial Conference of 1887. The Public Record Of- fice also plans publication in 1963 of a new guide to the contents of the Office, and sec- tional guides to groups of records in a paper- back series, publication of the latter to be- gin in 1963. • • THE LIBRARY BUILDINGS INSTITUTE will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13, at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. The theme for the Institute will be "Library Buildings for Quality Service." There will be a $16 registration fee. Reservations should be sent to the Library Administration Division, ALA. 160 The format of the institute will consist of one general session which will be devoted to the problem of the library building con- sultant and four periods of individual sessions by types of libraries. The Buildings Committee for College and University Libraries at its four sessions will consider the building plans of eight libraries: two junior colleges, two universities, two colleges, and two profes- sional school libraries. Final decisions concerning the library plans which will be con- sidered at the institute will not be made until April 30. Librarians interested in having their preliminary plans considered at the insti- tute are invited to write to William Jesse, Director, University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, before that date. • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES JOAN AKIRA is a cataloger at New York School of Social Work library, Columbia University, New York. MRs. DoNNA ANDERSON has joined the staff of the business library at Columbia Univer- sity, New York, as a reference librarian. SALVATORE ATTINELLO has been assistant circulation librarian at Columbia Univer- sity College library, New York, since August. MARIAN AusHERMAN became an assistant reference librarian at Columbia University's medical library, New York, in September. LOUISE IDA BACKUS was appointed assistant reference librarian at Columbia University's business library, New York, in October. BEVERLY GENE BAKER is a new member of the University of Georgia library staff, in Athens. MRS. GAYNELLE W. BARKSDALE, head of readers' services and reference librarian at Atlanta (Ga.) University, is serving as acting librarian during the absence in Turkey of William W. Bennett. On June 1 JoHN D. BATSEL becomes li- brarian of Lambuth College, Jackson, Tenn. HELEN BECKER is now a cataloger in the manuscripts section, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. Miss Becker was a cataloger at Hunt Botanical library of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. WILLIAM W. BENNETT was granted leave from his post as chief librarian of Atlanta (Ga.) University on July 1, to serve as UNESCO expert on the organization of uni- versity libraries and director of the library of Middle East Technical University at Ankara, Turkey. ANN CuRRAN has been appointed research assistant for computer utilization at Harvard medical library, Boston. MRS. ARLINE CusTER has been appointed index editor in the manuscripts section, de- scriptive cataloging division of Library of Congress. She was formerly head of the U.S. Post Office library's catalog unit. WILLIAM T. DAMERON became librarian of the library science library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on February I. DoNALD D. DENNIS became librarian of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa., in September leaving Drexel Institute of Tech- MARCH 1963 Personnel nology library, where he had served as head of the serials department since September 1960. Born in Paris, Mr. Dennis received his A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1951. He served in the Navy from 1951 to 1956, be- fore he obtained his M.L.S. degree from the University of California in 1957. Before joining Drexel's staff, he worked from 1957 to 1960 for the Free Library of Philadelphia. The record of his library activities shows the variety and strength of his interest in librarianship. He taught library administra- tion in the Drexel Institute of Technology Graduate School of Library Science, served on the membership committee of the Penn- sylvania Library Association, and was the first treasurer of the Library Association of Drexel Institute of Technology. JAMES FALL has been an assistant reference librarian at the space studies library, Co- lumbia University, New York, since July. DoNALD FITCH is the new head of the reference department at University of Cali- fornia library, Santa Barbara. JosEPH F. GANTNER has been appointed li- brarian of the Scripps Institution of Ocean- ography library at the University of Cali- fornia, San Diego. Mr. Gantner had been on the staff of the Biomedical library at UCLA. JAMES P. GERSBACH has accepted the posi- tion of chief cataloger at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, Troy, N.Y. THEODORE GouLD is now assistant librarian for readers' services at the University of California, Davis. He has been head of the loan department at University of California, Berkeley. LESLIE M. GowER has accepted the posi- tion of head librarian at Pan American Col- lege, Edinburg, Tex. Mr. Gower was on the staff of Northwestern State College of Louisi- ana, Natchitoches. VALERIE M. HALLOR was named assistant reference librarian at Columbia University, New York, in August. MRs. ELizABETH HAMER has been appoint- ed assistant librarian, a newly created post, at the Library of Congress. Mrs. Hamer had been since 1960 assistant librarian for pub- lic affairs at LC. 161 RosALIE HARRILL is now assistant cataloger at Columbia University, New York. J. NORMAN HEARD is acquisitions librarian at Northwestern State College of Louisiana, Natchitoches. MRs DoROTHY HoiJER has joined the staff of the biomedical library at University of California, Los Angeles. MRs. GAZELLE JANZEN, reported in the No- vember issue of CRL as librarian until re- cently at the Food Research Institute library at the University of California, Berkeley, ac- tually had been librarian of that institute at Stanford University before going to Menlo (Calif.) College as assistant librarian. JACQUELINE JoHNSON is now reference li- brarian at the engineering library at Colum- bia University, New York. MRS. SIMONE KLUGMAN is now with the acquisitions department at University of California, Berkeley. FRANZ KRIZ has been appointed head of the medical cataloging section at Columbia University libraries, New York. JAMES H. LANGDON, JR. took charge of the circulation department of Birmingham Southern College (Ala.) upon the resigna- tion of Lauren Doggett on Feb. 1. JOAN LEE has joined the staff of the Stan- ford (Calif.) University government docu- ments division as international documents librarian. GEORGE R. LEWIS has been appointed chief librarian at Kentucky Southern College, Louisville. DouGLAS LocHHEAD is to be librarian of Massey College of the University of Toronto after next July 1. He is at present chief li- brarian and assistant professor of English at York University, Toronto. CAROLINE LYBECK is now head circulation librarian at Oregon State University, Cor- vallis. She had been assistant librarian at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks .. RoBERT McAFEE, JR., has been appointed geology librarian at the natural sciences libraries, Columbia University, New York. EDwARD N. MAcCoNOMY will assume the duties of chief of the stack and reader divi- sion of the Library of Congress, on April 1. Dr. MacConomy has been librarian of Al- bion (Mich.) College since February of 1961. He was with the Library of Congress from 1940 to 1960. PEGGY ANN McCuLLY is assistant catalog librarian at Oregon State University, Cor- vallis. She has been until recently librarian of Christian College, Columbia, Mo. MARGUERITA McDoNALD, is now engineer- ing librarian at Oregon State University, Corvallis. Miss McDonald was formerly li- brarian of the Chouteau County Free library at Fort Benton, Mont. KAY R. McFARLAND ,has been appointed director of the department of library sci- ence, Shippensburg (Pa.) State College. CHARLES A. McisAAC has accepted the po- sition of chief of acquisitions at Boston Uni- versity. He was a rare book cataloger at Brandeis University library, Waltham, Mass. JuANITA McKINLEY, we reported in the November issue of CRL, had joined the Cub- berley library staff at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. We should have placed Cubberley library at Stanford University. JEss A. MARTIN assumed his new duties as supervisory librarian at the National Insti- tutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. in Febru- ary. He was formerly health center librarian at Ohio State University, Columbus. HAYDEN MAsoN has been appointed librar- ian of the National Fire Protection Associa- tion, Boston. RICHARD P. MATTHEWS is a member of the library staff at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. He was formerly at Bowdoin College library, Brunswick, Me. MARILYN MELOTTE is in the engineering library at Stanford University, not at Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, as we reported in the November issue. DoNALD MILLER has been appointed head of the catalog department at University of California library, Santa Barbara. JAMES MoNTGOMERY is bibliographer for South American studies at the Joint Univer- sity libraries, Nashville. DAVID OYLER has accepted a position as assistant circulation librarian at Oregon State University, Corvallis. BEATRICE PADDOCK is the humanities ref- erence librarian at University of Wichita (Kan.) Ablah library. MERLE PAULSON is the new periodicals li- brarian at Ablah library, University of Wich- ita, Kan. 162 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES t I VERNON E. PoRTERFIELD is now assistant librarian at Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. He was head of technical processes at Arizona State University, Tempe. GLORIEUX RAYBURN is now a reference li- brarian in Columbia University's business library, New York. MRs. SHIFRA RIN is a cataloger in the for- eign languages section of the descriptive cat· aloging division, Library of Congress. Mrs. Rin has been Hebraic cataloger at Brandeis University library, Waltham, Mass. BENTON F. ScHEIDE is the new reader's services librarian, San Diego (Calif.) State College. He was formerly director of librar- ies at Northeast Missouri State Teachers Col- lege, Kirksville. NANCY CAROLYN SHOFNER is a new staff member at Price Gilbert library, Georgia In- stitute of Technology, Atlanta. MRS. BASILIANE SIDERAKIS is an assistant cataloger at Columbia University libraries, New York. HAROLD SIROONIAN has been appointed li- brarian of Lamont Geological Observatory library, Columbia University, New York. BYRON L. SMITH is working with the social science and acquisitions departments at San Diego (Calif.) State College. DAVID ALAN SMITH is now a serials cat- aloger in the descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. Mr. Smith has been a cataloger at the National Library of Med- icine, Washington, D.C. MRs. MARTHA M. SMITH has joined the catalog department at Northwestern Univer- sity, Evanston, Ill. STANLEY SwANSON is senior cataloger at Oregon State University library, Corvallis. He was until recently librarian at Nebraska State Teacher's College, Chadron. RuTH SwiNSON has joined the readers' serv- ices staff of Northwestern State College of Louisiana, Natchitoches. THO BURN TAGGART, JR., became social sci- ence reference librarian at the University of Wichita (Kan.) Ablah library in September. He was assistant librarian at Nebraska State Teachers College, Wayne. RAYMOND NAI-WEN TANG is assistant cata· loger at the East Asian library, Columbia University, New York. S. DAVID THURMAN, III has been appoint- ed assistant librarian at ALA headquarters. MARCH 1963 SAMUEL WADDELL has been appointed ref- erence librarian in the medical library, Co- lumbia University, New York. HERMINE MAE WATTERSON is now assistant reference librarian in the engineering and physical sciences division, Columbia Univer- sity libraries, New York. RoNALD WEIHER is an information librar- ian at the University of Kansas City (Mo.) general library, He had been on the staff at Kansas City Junior College. RuTH WHITE was recently appointed li- brarian of ALA headquarters library. FRANCES WILSON has been named to the technical services staff at U ni versi ty of Kansas City (Mo.) libraries. PHILIP B. YAMPOLSKY is now assistant head of the Japanese section of the East Asian library, Columbia University, New York. RuTH TANIS YouNGBERG is assistant catalog librarian at Oregon State University, Cor- vallis. FOREIGN LIBRARIES GERHARD LIEBERS took over in January the directorship of the University of M iinster library, West Germany. Dr. Liebers had for some time been assistant librarian at the University of Gottingen in West Germany. At Munster he succeeds Walter Bahuis, who died suddenly in the early summer of 1961. RETIREMENTS LEWIS H. THACKER of the general refer- ence and bibliography division of Library of Congress retired in January after more than thirty-five years of service. Mr. Thacker joined the staff in 1927, serving first as a reading room assistant, then in the Smith- sonian division, and in the correspondence and reference section and the Thomas J ef- ferson room of the reference and bibliog- raphy division. NECROLOGY EDITH M. CouLTER, head of the periodicals department at Stanford (Calif.) University library for several years before 191 I, and thereafter lecturer, assistant professor, asso- ciate professor, and professor of library sci- ence at University of California, Berkeley, from 1945 to 1949 when she retired, died on 163 January 27. She was a graduate of Stan- ford (1905), of the New York State Library School, Albany (1907). She was awarded the Isadore Gilbert Mudge citation by ALA in 1961. became classifier at the University of Chi- cago library, and head classifier in 1916. Dr. Jacobsen returned to Decorah as the first full-time librarian of Luther College in 1920. He served as Luther librarian until his re- tirement in 1949. While still at Luther, he directed the reorganization of the library at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., and a fter his retirement from Luther, he served as librarian there until 1953. He also was consultant in the reorganization of the library at Chicago Lutheran Theolog- ical Seminary, Maywood, Ill., and of the Central Lutheran Theological Seminary, Fremont, Nebr. He directed the organization of the library of Pacific Lutheran Seminary, Berkeley, Calif., and initiated the organiza- tion of the library at Luther Seminary, Sas- katoon, Saskatchewan. • • ADELE FISHER, assistant librarian and cat- aloger of the Northwestern University Den- tal School library, passed away on Decem- ber 21. Her professional career included work at Temple Sholem, the Chicago Public library, and twenty years at Northwestern University Dental School library. KARL T. JAcoBSEN, librarian emeritus of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, died on Jan- uary 16. Dr. Jacobsen was graduated from Luther College in 1902. After a year's ap- prenticeship at the State Historical Society library at Madison, Wis., he became cata- loger in the Library of Congress. In 1911 he ACRL Rare Books Section/RSD History Section Preconference 164 The Rare Books Section of ACRL and the History Section of RSD will have a preconference on Friday and Saturday before the annual ALA conference at Chicago in July. Preconference headquarters will be the Knickerbocker hotel, and meetings will probably be held at Newberry library, and on the campuses of University of Chicago and Northwestern University, on July 12 and 13. The theme of the conference will be "Western Americana." The meet- ings will deal with broad subject areas within the topic. Each subject area will be covered by a historian and a bibliographer expert in that particular subject. The meetings will commence Friday morning and continue through Saturday evening. Complete programs and registration forms will be mailed on May I. Members of the Planning Committee for the preconference are Robert Rosenthal, curator of the special collections, University of Chicago library; Colton Storm, curator of the Ayer collection, Newberry library; and Ken- neth Nebenzahl, 333 N. Michigan Ave., all of Chicago. Local arrange- ments are being handled under the chairmanship of Richard D. Olson, curator of rare books and special collections, Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill., assisted by Donald W. Krummel, head of the reading room at Newberry library and Robert Adelsperger, assistant ref- erence librarian , University of Illinois library, Chicago. • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES \