College and Research Libraries AcQUISITIONS, CoLLECTIONS, GIFTS THE ORIENTAL LIBRARY at UCLA has ac- quired the Ch'ing collection of the late Ch'en Jung, comprising some two hundred forty titles in 1261 volumes. The collection, purchased some two years ago, arrived at the library in April. University of California, Los Angeles, has received and is now processing some thirty- three thousand volumes purchased last win- ter in Jerusalem-the entire stock of the firm of Bemberger and Wahrman. The pur- chase was made possible by a gift from Theodore E. and Suzanne P. Cummings of Beverly Hills. The collection is about 70 per cent He- braica and the rest is Judaica. The acquisi- tion will greatly augment library resources to support the Hebrew studies program be- gun at UCLA in 1955. A MICROPRINT EDITION of every book now extant published in the United States from 1639 to 1800 has been presented to Clark University library, Worcester, Mass. , the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alden P. Johnson of Worces- ter. Publisher of approximately one hundred such editions is the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester. JoHN M. OLIN has made a gift of $ 100,000 for the purchase of books for Washington University library, St. Louis, the library announced at the dedication of its new building named in honor of Mr. Olin. A COLLECTION of books, manuscripts and memorabilia relating to Lavoisier, eight- eenth-century French scientist, has been given to Cornell University libraries by Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas H. Noyes. UNIVERSITY of Houston library, with the help of Friends of the Library, recently pur- chased a collection of some eight hundred volumes of Greek and Latin classics from the library of the late Harris L. Russell. The collection was originally part of the library of Clyde Pharr of Vanderbilt University. NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE is the subject of a collection recently divided between University of Wisconsin and Beloit College. The late Frederick W. Roe of the .. News from the Field university faculty left his library to be shared by the two institutions. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS for library bind- ing investigations and development will be continued by ALA's Library Technology project under an additional grant from Council on Library Resources. A production model of the Minimatrex camera will be constructed under a grant from the Council of Library Resources. The model is to incorporate the features of the original "breadboard" model plus some additional features, to serve as a basic mechanism in inexpensive, disseminable information re- trieval. A camera for the production of micro- copies of books and other material by avail- able light, and without laboratory processing, plus a monocular viewer employing such microcopies will be prototyped under a grant from the Council on Library Resources. Syracuse University's school of library sci- ence will develop programs of research and instruction in the field of electronic storage and retrieval of information under a grant from the Council of Library Resources. AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY AssociA- TION has been granted $12,000 annually for three years for its scholarship program by a Commission on Lilly Endowment Scholar- ships. Inquiries should be addressed to Lilly Endowment Scholarships, Wesley Theolog- ical Seminary Library, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. , N.W., Washington D.C. THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL COMMUNICATION has made avail- able traineeships for research and develop- ment in biomedical communication. Stipends are flexible. Inquiries should be directed to Richard H. Orr, IAMC, 9650 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Md. THE CoMMUNICATIONs REsEARCH INsTITUTE recently established at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., has received a grant of $500,000 to underwrite and expand its pro- grams for exploring the importance of com- munications media. THE ALICE LOUISE LEFEVRE SCHOLARSHIP 326 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES FUND was established in March by the West- ern Michigan University Department of Li- brarianship alumni association, to be award- ed annually to an outstanding M.S. candi- date in librarianship. For information, write Dr. Jean Lowrie, Acting Director, Depart- ment of Librarianship, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. BuiLDINGS THE THIRTEEN-STORY, $8,000,000 Notre Dame (Ind.) University library to be com- pleted and occupied by autumn, will seat some three thousand readers and house about two million volumes. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, is add- ing an eight-level bookstack to Watson li- brary, to accommodate some half-million vol- umes. A second addition to the present building, in the east, will add a five-floor unit for special collections, open-stack read- ing room, technical services, faculty studies and seminars, and a graduate reading room. The additions and remodeling of the present building will cost about $1,600,000 and pro- vide reader accommodations for twenty-two hundred persons. Storage will be available for 1,350,000 volumes. The project is sched- uled for completion in the spring of 1964. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY library dedicated an addition to the library building and add- ed its millionth book to the collection on April 30. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, dedi- cated its $3,984,000 John M. Olin library on May 2. The new building has a capacity of some 1,350,000 volumes. LAFAYETTE CoLLEGE LIBRARY, Easton, Pa., will complete its new $2,000,000 library building this autumn. The library will house 450,000 volumes and seat more than four hundred readers. MEETINGS, INSTITUTES, WORKSHOPS AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE's 26th annual conference will be in Chicago October 6-11. INTERNATIONAL CoNGREss oN SciENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DocuMENTATION AND INFOR- MATION scheduled for Rome in early Febru- ary, is being organized by the Italian Nation- al Productivity Committee. Information can be obtained from the Executive Secretariat JULY 1963 of the congress, CNP, Viale Regina Mar- gherita, 83D, Rome, Italy. A FALL JOINT CoMPUTER CoNFERENCE of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies will be held in Las Vegas November 12-14. A SERIES of three seminars on current sys- tems for the organization of information will be held during the coming year at Rutgers University. The series has been planned by the Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers. Information can be obtained from Theodore C. Hines, Graduate School of Li- brary Service, Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. RESEARCH METHODS IN LIBRARIANSHIP will be discussed at a conference at Allerton Park, September 8-11. The conference will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Li- brary Science and the Division of University Extension of the University of Illinois. Pro- gram chairman is Guy Garrison, director of the Library Research Center of the Graduate School of Library Science, 331 Library, Uni- versity of Illinois, Urbana. MICROMINIATURIZATION CONGRESS plans for July 25-27 meetings in Washington, D.C., have been canceled. MISCELLANY LIBRARIES OF FAIRFIELD CouNTY, Conn., have organized as an affiliate of the Manage- ment Council of Southwestern Connecticut for the purpose of exchange of information and sharing of resources among the libraries of the area-public, college and university, business and research libraries. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has an- nounced graduate degree programs in the school of information science in the areas of science information service and technical literature .analysis, and of information prob- lems as an area of scientific study and design and operation of information systems. The program starts in September. Additional in- formation is available from Office of the Dean of the Graduate Division, Georgia In- stitute of Technology, Atlanta. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY is the new designa- tion of Michigan State University Oakland, at Rochester, Michigan. LAFAYETTE CoLLEGE ALUMNI have organ- ized a Friends of the Library group which will encourage gifts to the new college li- 327 brary of personal libraries and books. A col- lection of some two hundred volumes on the American heritage, made possible by an anonymous gift of $1,500, was announced by the new organization. INFORMATION ABOUT DRAWINGS of historic buildings other than those in the Library of Congress is sought by the Committee on the Preservation of Historic Buildings of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Insti- tute of Architects. The Philadelphia group proposes publication of a catalog of orig- inal and measured drawings of historic A CRL Elections ARCHIE L. McNEAL was elected vice presi- dent and president-elect of ACRL and as- sumes the duties of his office at the close of ALA's annual con- ference in Chicago. Mr. McNeal is direc- tor of libraries at the University of Miami. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Memphis State College in 1932, he earned the B.S. in L.S. from George Peabody College in 1936. In 1951 he was awarded the Ph.D. degree by University of Chicago. Mr. McNeal was librarian of East Tennessee State College in 1936, in 1943, and returned there in 1946 to remain until he went to the University of Tennessee as chief of readers service in 1948. In 1952 he went to the University of Miami. Mr. McNeal has been an ALA Councilor since 1955, a member of the Executive Board of ALA since 1961, and chairman of the In- tellectual Freedom Committee of ALA since 1959. He was president of LAD in 1960-61, chairman of State Representatives of ACRL in 1953-55; secretary of the ACRL Univer- sity Section, 1953-54; and has been a mem- ber of the Committee on Academic Status of American buildings. Information should be addressed to George S. Koyl, F AlA, 4400 Spruce St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. A NEW CURRICULUM in information science was begun at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia on April 1. Areas of concen- tration include instrumentation and com- puters, science bibliography, publication, and management. Further information is available from Beatrice Davis, director of students, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia 4, Pa. •• ACRL since 1960. He was president of the Tennessee Library Association from 1940 to 1942; president of the Florida Library As- sociation in 1958-59, and is vice president and president-elect of the Southeastern Li- brary Association for 1962-64. SECTION OFFICERS New vice chairmen and chairmen-elect of ACRL sections are H. Vaile Deale, Beloit College, for CoLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION; Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom, Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., for JuNIOR CoLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION; William L. Hanaway, Jr., New York Public Library, for RARE BooKs SECTION; Carson W. Bennett, Rose Poly- technic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind., for the SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SEcTioN; and Andrew J. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., for the UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION. Benjamin B. Richards, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, was elected chairman of the TEACHER EDUCATION LI- BRARIES SECTION, and Orville L. Eaton, Cen- tral Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, was elected chairman-elect and secretary. CoLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION chose Anne C. Edmonds, Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J., as secretary; RARE BooKs SECTION, Mrs. Dorothea Reeves, Harvard University; JuN- IOR CoLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION, Shirley A. Edsall, Corning Community College, Corn- ing, N.Y. •• 328 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The appointment of RICHARD K. GARDNER as editor of the current college level book selection service (the ((New Shaw") brings to this challenging po- sition a young man richly endowed with experience, scholar- ship, and imagina- tion. A graduate of Middlebury College, he holds the degree of Master of Science in Library Science from Western Re- serve University and a diploma in litera- ture from the Ecole Superieure rle Prep- Mr. Gardner aration et Perfectionnement des Professeurs de Fran~ais a l'Etranger, Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Paris, and he is currently en- gaged in completing his doctoral dissertation in French and library science at Western Reserve University. Since 1959, he has been librarian of Mari- etta College, Marietta, Ohio, where he has supervised the construction of a new library building, substantially enlarged the bibli- ographic resources of the institution, and improved the quality of the staff. He has served on the library staffs of Middlebury College; the New Bedford, Massachusetts, Public library; Fondation des Etats-Unis, Cite Universitaire in Paris; and the Case Institute of Technology. He has also served a,s librarian of the 525th Military Intelli- gence Service Group, and from June 1957 to October 1958, he resided in Saigon, Viet- nam, where he was library advisor to the Vietnamese government. During the follow- ing year he travelled extensively in Europe and Asia, and pursued further graduate study. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Phi Mu. His list of publications em- phasizes studies in bibliography, cataloging, and classification. At the present time he is a member of the executive board of the Ohio Library Association, and has been president of the library section of the Ohio College Association. He has also served on a number JULY 1963 Personnel of ALA committees, and was an active par- ticipant in organizing the Cleveland con- ference of ALA in 1961. One would find it difficult to think of a candidate better qualified than Dick Gard- ner for the responsibilities that his new posi- tion imposes. He has a thorough grasp of the problems of undergraduate education and its bibliographic needs, and his accom- plishments at Marietta dramatically demon- strate his mastery of librarianship. Moreover, he is a scholar who understands the prob- lems that scholarship involves, and he speaks the language of the scholars with a facility that will be a real asset when he seeks the assistance of subject specialists. We have known Dick for almost ten years, have worked closely with him in a variety of pro- fessional activities, and we are able to testi- fy not only to his intelligence and knowl- edge but also to his basic intellectual integ- rity and devotion to the highest ideals of the profession. We can, therefore, without hesitation, predict for him a distinguished record of achievement in his new position, and our only regret is that if, as now seems likely, his new office will be established at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Con- necticut, he will be lost to librarianship in Ohio. Personally, we would have been very happy to have had him on our faculty- greater love hath no dean than this.-]. H. Shera. RoscoE RousE assumed the positiOn of di- rector of libraries of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, on July 1. A Georgian by birth, Dr. Rouse took his B.A. in librarianship at the University of Oklahoma in 1948, and followed that with an M.A. in literature at the same school. At Michigan University he received the M.A. and the Ph.D. in librarianship in 1958 and 1962. In addition, he has done further post- graduate work in languages at Baylor Uni- versity, and he was a member of the first Rutgers University seminar for library ad- ministrators, under Keyes Metcalfe, in 1956. Immediately after obtaining the B.A. in L.S. Dr. Rouse joined the library staff of 329 Northeastern State College, Oklahoma, and within a year he was appointed acting librar- ian. He joined the Baylor library staff as circulation librar- ian in 1952, was made acting university li- brarian the following year, and university librarian in 1954. In addition to his ad- ministrative duties-, Dr. Rouse has main- tained. a strong inter- est in education for librarianllhip. At Dr. Rouse Northeastern he in- troduced courses in library use for freshmen, and taught cataloging and reference for teacher-librarians. At Baylor he established the department of library science and was professor and chairman of that department until his resignation. In the summer of 1962 he was visiting professor on the faculty of the school of library science at Oklahoma University. Dr. Rouse has been professionally active on the state, regional, and national levels, and has at various times held, among many others, the positions of editor of the Okla- homa Librarian, chairman of the College and University section of the Southwestern Library Association, and member of the Membership Committee of the ALA. His publications during this period attest to the breadth of his interest in the profession. To cap all of these assignments and responsi- bilities he has for several years been actively planning the new Baylor University library, a building soon to be erected on that cam- pus. As important as the imposing list of tangi- ble credentials which Dr. Rouse presents, are the hidden assets of a warm personality, a deep interest in faculty and school activities, a strong will tempered by a wry humor, and a concern for people and ideas. The position at Stony Brook will demand all of these as- sets for the infant institution, just starting life on its new campus, is destined to become one of the major graduate centers of the presently evolving State University of New · York. The library is starting from seed and over the years Dr. Rouse will have to plari and develop physical quarters, collections, and organization; a mighty task but the job has found its man. He has written that his new position "is a unique opportunity in American higher education and I feel for- tunate indeed to be asked to fill the posi- tion." The University is equally fortunate in its choice of a director of libraries. From Waco, Texas, to Stony Brook, Long Island, is a good piece of road, but we know that the warm welcome awaiting Mrs. Char- lie Lou Rouse, and Charles and Robin, will make New York, home, for the Rouse family. -Bernard Kreissman. DoNALD E. WRIGHT became executive secre- tary of the Reference Services Division and the American Library Trustee Association of ALA on May 1, 1963. He succeeds Ronald V. Glens as executive secretary of RSD, and takes over ALTA from Eleanor A. Ferguson, who continues as execu- tive secretary of the Public Library Asso- ciation and the American Association of State Libraries. Mr. Wright has Mr. Wright been a member of the ALA staff for the past two years as di- rector of the Small Libraries Project. The Project, financed by the Council on Library Resources, produced a series of pamphlets on various administrative problems of small libraries, defined as those serving less than 10,000 people, which have been widely rec- ognized as uniquely helpful to the librarians and trustees for whom they were written. Before he come to ALA, Mr. Wright was assistant director of the Lincoln (Neb.) City libraries, librarian of the North Platte (Neb.) Public library, and library consultant of the Nebraska Public Library Commission. While he was with the Nebraska Commission, it was one of the grant states for the Library Community Project, and Mrs. Wright was state project director. After he received his A.B. degree from the University of Colorado, he worked as a li- brary assistant at the Denver Public library until he received his A.M. in library science at the University of Denver in 1953. _Subse- 330 C 0 L L E G E A N D R ESE A R C H L . I B R A R IE S quently, he was reference assistant at the Fort Wayne (Ind.) and Detroit Public li- braries. Thus, his experience provides excel- lent background for each of the divisions for which he will serve as executive secretary. What may not be apparent from this cata- log of experience and background is Mr. Wright's wide interests outside of librarian- ship, his ability to organize his work efficient- ly, and his faculty of making friends of those with whom he works. He will make substan- tial contributions to both divisions for which he serves as executive secretary.-Eleanor Ferguson. DoROTHY A. KnTEL has recently been ap- pointed to the new position of public library specialist, Adult Services, U.S. Office of Edu- cation, Library Services Branch. Miss Kittel went to her position in the LBS from the staff of the State Library in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she had served as adult serv- ices consultant. Her professional career had provided a varied background of library work, including wide experience in adult services. A native of Baltimore, Miss Kittel did her undergraduate work at State Teachers Col- lege, Towson, Maryland. She received her M.A. degree from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. While working toward her M.A. she was librarian of the Graduate Library School library. She then served as assistant head of circulation in the Vassar College library for two years. In 1957, Miss Kittel became a member of the ALA headquarters staff as consultant in the Library Community Project, and when the project ended in 1959 she became assistant for membership promotion in the re-estab- lished office for Membership Promotion at ALA headquarters. This is a position that has long been need- ed in the Library Services Branch, and Miss Kittel should fill it with distinction.-Grace T. Stevenson. APPOINTMENTS ELEANOR BUisT, senior reference librarian at Columbia University libraries, has been appointed executive secretary of the Co- ordinating Committee for Slavic and East European Library Resources (COCOSEERS). FRANCES BuRRAGE has joined the staff of the University of Dallas library. JULY 1963 RoBERT CAYTON has accepted the librari- anship of Marietta College beginning in September. He has been in charge of serials at University of Cincinnati. RoBERT M. CoPELAND has been added to the staff of the College of St. Thomas li- brary, St. Paul, Minn. JAMES DEJARNATT has accepted the posi:; tion of assistant serials librarian at the Uni- versity of South Florida, Tampa, effective September 1. LEE W. FINKS will serve as catalog librari- an at the University of East Africa for two years. His service is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation administered by ALA's International Relations Office. WILLIAM A. GILLARD, director of libraries at St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y., is the new president of the Catholic Library Association. ELEANOR HASTINGS is now assistant chief of the technical services section of the De- partment of Health, Education and Wel- fare library, Washington. REAY HowiE has been appointed to the new position of assistant librarian of Rotch library of architecture and planning at M.I.T. P .Ao-CHUNG Hsu has been appointed cata- loger in the Carol M. Newman library of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks- burg. J. MYRON JACOBSTEIN has been appointed law librarian and associate professor of law at Stanford University as of August 1. He was assistant law librarian at the University of Illinois and at Columbia University be- fore becoming law librarian and professor of law at the University of Colorado. Ku~G HuA KAo has been appointed cataloger in the Carol M. Newman library of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg. MRS. RoBERTA KENISTON has accepted a position as assistant librarian at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, effective September 1963. JAMES R. KENNEDY recently became busi- ness and social science division librarian at 331 Drexel Institute of Technology library, Phil- adelphia. DoNNA LASKER joined the University of South Florida library staff in Tampa on May 15 as assistant reference librarian. MARGARET MONROE is the new director of the library school at the University of Wis- consin, Madison. KATHERINE MURPHY became librarian of the Rotch library of architecture and plan- ning at M.I.T. on July I. MARY E. NEHLIG, business and science li- brarian at Drexel Institute of Technology, has been appointed head reference librarian. ANITA Orro joined the University of South Florida library staff, Tampa, on July 15, as assistant special collections librarian. A. L. REMLEY has been appointed to the newly created position of director of adver- tising and promotion of H. W. Wilson Com- pany, New York. SARITA RoBINSON is head indexer of a new encyclopedia currently being published by Grolier, Inc. She has been editor of the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. CAROLINE SHILLABOR recently became li- brarian of the graduate school of design at Harvard University. She had been librarian of the Rotch library of architecture and planning at M.I.T. DoNALD T. SMITH will assume the posi- tion of assistant librarian of the University of Oregon on August I. He has been with Boston University libraries. ALicE SoNGE is now the education special- ist in the library of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Wash- ington. She was with the legislative reference service of the Library of Congress. SARAH L. WALLACE has been appointed publications officer at the Library of Con- gress. FRANCES E. WRIGHT has been appointed assistant director of libraries at Drexel Insti- tute of Technology, Philadelphia. FOREIGN LIBRARIES GERHARD LIEBERS was appointed director of the University of Munster library on Jan- uary I. He was formerly associate director of the University of Gottingen library. RETIREMENTS DAviD J. H. CoLE retired from the Library of Congress on April 30, exactly fifty years from the first day he reported for work. Mr. Cole was senior reference librarian in the general reference and bibliography division at LC for much of that time. JoHN HENRY MERRYMAN, Stanford Uni- versity law librarian since 1955, will from August I devote his full time to teaching and scholarship in the field of land use con- trols and comparative law. RoLLo G. PLUMB, head of the information and publications section in the reference di- vision of LC's copyright office, retired in April after twenty-one years of service. NECROLOGY AGNES CAMILLA HANSEN died on March 30 in Pasadena, Calif. Miss Hansen was head of the foreign department of the Seattle Public library for many years, and from 1924 to 1927 was on the staff of the Ameri- can library in Paris. Later she was associate professor of the school of librarianship at the University of Denver, and in 1938 she became associate director of the Pratt Insti- tute library school. She authored Twentieth Century Forces in European Fiction which was published in 1934. In 1961 she received the annual alumni award from Pratt Insti- tute. ALicE LoUISE LE FEVRE, professor emeritus of librarianship at Western Michigan Uni- versity, Kalamazoo, died on June 18. She was born at Muskegon, educated at Wellesley and Columbia, and began her professional career in Cleveland as a public school librar- ian. She went to Western Michigan in 1945, and under her direction the librarianship program there had its beginning and reached full accreditation of a graduate program by the ALA. CHAUNCEY B. TINKER, keeper of rare books at Yale University since 1930, died on March 16 at the age of 86. A fund established in his memory will be used to add to the Yale collections of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century English literature. • • 332 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES 1 I THE ACRL MICROCARD SERIES 1s published for ACRL by the University of Rochester Press under the editorship of Mrs. Margaret K. Toth. Titles are available directly from the Press. Recently published titles include: GICOVATE, ALICE. Early inventories No. 133 and catalogs of the Bibliotheque Nationale. (Thesis: M.S. in L.S., University of North Carolina, 1960.) 57 l. $1.00. This study traces the development of catalog- ing at the Bibliotheque Nationale from its be- ginnings to the early eighteenth century. The principal primary sources used were the manu script inventories and catalogs of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries and the manu- script catalogs of the seventeenth century. The early inventories and catalogs of Nicolas Rigault and Pierre and Jacques Dupuy and the catalogs of Nicolas Clement are evaluated and described in detail. Also analyzed are Clement's classification scheme of twenty-three classes and his modern notation, the first consistent systems to be used in the Bibliotheque Nationale. SPEIDEN, VIRGINIA McNIEL. The No. 134 image of the librarian as seen in eight career novels. (Thesis: M.S. in L.S., University of North Carolina, 1961.) iv, 43 l. $1.00. This study examines eight library teen-age career novels to try to determine their worth to the library recruitment program by studying the librarians pictured in them. The librarians were measured against the ideal librarian found by a survey of professional literature. Generally, the novels pictured good librarians, but the fact that librarianship is their incidental rather than their primary concern reduces their value as an aid to recruitment. There is a need for novels of this type which would be primarily concerned with picturing librarianship in such a manner as to make young people want to be- come librarians. MARTIN, CAROLYN PATRICIA. The No. 135 North Carolina Collection in the University of North Carolina Library. (Thesis: M.S. in L.S., University of North Carolina, 1961.) iv, 57 1. $1.00. This study records the development and growth of the North Carolina Collection begun in 1833, recognizes the persons who gave gener- ously to the collection, and presents examples of JULY 1963 ACRL Microcard Series- Abstracts of Titles the types of material in the collection. There are four chapters devoted to the beginning and historical development of the collection, the administration of the collection by Mary Lind- say Thornton and her successor William Stevens Powell, and a brief description of the special collections and the general policy of the North Carolina Collection. RocKWOOD, RuTH H. The relation- No. 136 ship between the professional' preparation and subsequent types of library positions held by a selected group of library school graduates. (Thesis: Ed.D., Indiana University, 1960.) v, 168 1. $1.50. This study is an inquiry into the relationship between the preprofessional education of the Florida State University Library School's master's degree graduates, their choice of electives in the basic year of professional education, and the subsequent positions held by these same grad- uates following completion of their professional education. Data were derived from official bulletins of the school, student records, and questionnaires to graduates. Although little if any relationship was dis- cernible between the undergraduate majors of the master's degree graduates studied and the subsequent positions held, a sufficiently close relationship was discovered between the choice of electives in area of specialization by these same graduates and subsequent positions held by them to warrant the specialist rather than the generalist approach to library education. CoKER, JANIS L. Rating the person- No. 137 ality of library school students. (Masters pa- per, Librarianship 397, Emory University, 1058.) iv, 84 l. $1.50. This study is an attempt to construct a rating scale by means of which graduate library school faculty may judge their students on selected per- sonality traits. A survey of pertinent articles in library literature yielded a list of traits consid- ered desirable in a good librarian. A separate list of the traits most frequently mentioned from 1949 to 1958 was made, and the top ten traits from this list were chosen as the variables to be rated. These variables are: emotional stability, appearance, dependability, judgment, leadership, courtesy, adaptability, initiative, imagination and cooperativeness. (Continued on page 344) 333 Library Statistics of Colleges and Universi- ties~ 1961-62; Institutional Data. By Theo- dore Samore and Doris C. Holladay. Wash- ington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963. 172p. $1.00. Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries in the University of Kansas Libraries; an Ana- lytical Carlo-bibliography. By Thomas R. Smith and Bradford L. Thomas. Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Libraries, 1963. 137p. Newspapers on Microfilm. (University of Oregon Library Occasional Paper no. 2) Eugene, Ore.: University of Oregon Li- brary, 1963. 17p. Periodical Holdings in the Library of the School of Medicine. (Library Publications, I) Saint Louis: Washington University School of MediCine Library, 1963. 179p. $1.50. Putevoditel' po Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi Biblioteke Imeni M. E. Saltykova-Shched- IIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII s = I I ~ For Books, Magazines ~ I & Periodicals I = = ~ ~ ~ From INDIA & THE EAST ~ ~ ~ I ASK i I K. K. Roy (Private) Ltd., I = = 2 § I P.O. Box 10210, I I i I 55 Gariahat Road, i I CALCUTTA-19. I I I § Specialists in § § ~ ~ ~ ~ Rare, Out of Print Books ~ ~ ~ ~ and Back Sets of Journals ~ § § 2 ~ ~ § ~llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIifi;1 rina. By N. lA. Morachevskii. Leningrad: 1962. 2d· ed. revised and enlarged. 107p. Spoken Records. By Helen Roach. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1963. 213p. $4.75 . Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. By C. U. Faye and W. H. Bond. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. 626p. $28 .20. Survey of Libraries~ Part II: Academic Li- braries. Ottawa: Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics, Education Division, 1963. 45p. $.75. Technical Translating Dictionaries. Man- chester, England: Manchester Public Li- braries, 1962. 33p. • • Microcard Series ... (Continued from page 333) A scale of the graphic type was decided on as the vehicle for making the rating. Definitions of the traits and of the cues were culled from rating scales in use by libraries, and from sug- gestions of the faculty of the division of librar- ianship at Emory University. The completed scale, together with instruc- tions to raters, appears in the appendix of this paper. STONE, ELIZABETH W., An analysis No. 138 of the core administration course of the li- brary schools accredited by the American Li- brary Association. (Thesis: M.S. in L.S., Cath- olic University of America, 1961.) x, 166 1. $1.50. Purpose of the study was to inventory the topical content of the core administration cours- es offered in the thirty-two accredited library schools and to determine the amount of agree- ment on: (I) major topics of instruction in basic administration required of all students in the Masters' program; (2) the relative importance of the various topics as indicated by the fre- quency of inclusion; (3) and the methods of instruction. It was found that the core concept of a body of knowledge that must be mastered by every- one has been accepted by 66 per cent of the library schools as applicable in the field of administration. Twenty-one of the thirty-two schools offer a core course in administration. Of the material being offered in these core courses there is 77 per cent agreement among the schools on topics covered. The study also in- cludes a survey of the literature on the teaching of library administration. • • 344 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The Eighth Midwest Academic Librarians' Conference THE EIGHTH MIDWEST AcADEMIC LI- BRARIANs' CoNFERENCE was held in St. Louis on April 5-6. Attention was fo- cused on building planning, and there were plenty of new buildings at hand to be used as case studies. The two major ones, of course, were the Pius XII Me- morial library at St. Louis University, which was completed in 1959, and the John M. Olin library at .Washington University, which was opened in Sep- tember. There were other new ones to be seen as well, including the Steinberg (Art) library and the Gaylord (Music) library at Washington University and the new building at Concordia Semi- nary. The two large libraries have much in common. They are both open-stack, gen- eral university libraries of approximately like size and purpose. Vital statistics of the Pius XII Memorial are that it has a capacity of a million volumes, can seat fifteen hundred readers, and carried a price tag of $4,250,000. The Olin library can accommodate 1,125,000 volumes on its open shelves, can seat about the same number as the Pius XII, and cost $4,000,- 000. Despite their obvious similarities, how- ever, there are important differences in architectural concept. Less restricted by the lines of surrounding buildings, the designers at St. Louis University were able to center five stack levels above ground, alternating floors and mezza- nines, and surround the stack with serv- ice and reading areas. This arrange- ment permitte4luxuriously high ceilings around the perimeter, and this handsome appearance of spaciousness is magnified by huge expanses of glass wall on all sides of the building. Architectual con- siderations prompted the decision to put more than half of the Olin floor space on or below ground so that the building's external appearance is deceptively small. There is surprisingly little fenestration for a modern building, the design center being a beautiful, glass-enclosed tree court with a suspended stair rising on one side, making it the major traffic center as well. Both libraries are highly functional in layout and manifest great care to detail in planning. The first program speaker was archi- tect Eugene Mackey, of the firm of Mur- phy & Mackey which designed the Olin building. His talk on "Architects and Librarians" was an articulate description of 'the appropriate roles of the two pro- fessions in designing a new library. A panel discussion followed. Later in the afternoon of the first day the more than three hunded registrants broke into ten small groups for the discussion of specific topics. The "Build- ing Planning" group was led by Ralph McCoy, the "Equipment Selection" group by John P. McDonald, "A-V Serv- ices" by Richard S. Halsey, "Photocopy- ing" by Ferris S. Randall, "Mechaniza- tion" by Sam Hitt, "New Depository Act" by Robert D. Harvey, "Interlibrary Loans" by Lucien W. White, "O.P. Books" by Howard . Sullivan, "Library Publications" by Robert Lightfoot, Jr., and "NL W" by Katherine Walker. Dis- cussion in all groups was lively and in- formative. The dinner speaker was Joseph Pas- sonneau, dean of the Washington U ni- versity school of architecture. His useful talk on "The Design of a University" was illustrated with slides of building design the world over and punctuated with Dean Passonneau's droll wit and infec- (Conti nued on page 336) 334 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARI ,ES France. John Gwyer's Portraits of Mean Men: A Short History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London, 1938) is a complete history of the Protocols and their forgery. There are several volumes in the col- lection which were published just prior to or during the German occupation of France. Examples of ~hese works are L. F. Celine's rabid Bagatelles pour une · massacre (Paris, 1938) and his equally violent L' Ecole des Cadavres (Paris, 1948), a book that may have suggested the idea of death camps to Hitler. There are also two examples of French collab- orationist radio addresses during the German occupation, Philippe Henriott's, l ci., Radio-France (Paris, 1943), and Jean Herold-Pacquis' L' Angleterre comme Carthage (Paris, 1944). Johannes Oester- reicher, Racisme, antisemitism, anti- christianism (Paris, 1940) was the last anti- anti-semitic book published in France before the Nazi invasion. This book is MALC. (Contint{ed from page 334) tious, personable optimism. His audience retired for the evening reinforced in its belief that all old architecture is not bad nor is all new architecture good. Saturday was spent at St. Louis Uni- versity some thirty blocks due east of WU through beautiful Forest Park. Two large discussions occupied the morning hours. The first, led by Donald Oehlerts of Colorado State University, concerned "Centralized Processing for College Li- braries," a topic which he was well pre- pared to present, having recently com- pleted a study of opportunities for inter- institutional library cooperation in his home state. The second was guided by Daniel P. Bergen of St. Benedict's Col- lege, Kansas, and was designated "Col- quite rare since the Nazis destroyed most of the copies. Still another volume that listed Jewish families and was used against them was the Weimarer H istorische-Genealoges Taschenbuch (Munich, 1913). It is an anti-semitic directory for pogrom pur- poses of all leading Jewish families not only in Germany but throughout the rest of Europe as well. In spite of its early publication date, the Nazis appar- ently used it to round up squads for death camps. Its detailed tracings of Jewish families and their ancestors, as well as anyone else in any way related to Judaism, make this work one of the most terrible books ever published. These are some of the interesting works in this collection of anti-semitica, and there are many others equally as val- uable. There are many books illustrated with anti-Jewish cartoons and jokes, most · of them repulsive. The student of French and European social history should find this a valuable collection. • • lege Environment and the College Li- brary." Many of Mr. Bergen's pregnant and provocative ideas may be gleaned from one paper which he published in this journal in November and another which appears in the present issue. At noon ACRL Executive Secretary Joseph Reason spoke to lunching conferees at the Coronado Hotel on "Experiences of an American Librarian in Burma," where he had spent 1961/62 for the As- sociation and the Ford Foundation. A note must be made of the weather. It was the finest kind of spring in St. Louis on April 5-6, and it appeared that everything that could bloom during the two days did so. MALC has not always been so fortunate.-D.K. • • 336 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES