College and Research Libraries ACRL Board of Directors Midwinter Meeting 1964 BRIEF OF MINUTES January 27, 8:30p.m. Present: President, Neal R. Harlow; Vice President and President-elect, Archie L. Mc- Neal; Past President, Katharine M. Stokes; Directors-at-large, Andrew J. Eaton, Jack E. Brown, Lucile M. Morsch; Directors on ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, Walfred B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Edward B. Stanford, Robert L. Talmadge; Chairmen of Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gardner, Rli M. Oboler; Vice Chairmen of Sections, Carson W. Ben- nett, H. Vail Deale, Orville L. Eaton, Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom; Past Chairmen of Sections, Charles M. Adams, David Kaser; ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey. Committee Chairmen present were George S. Bonn, Lorena A. Garloch; Editor, Richard K. Gardner; Representative, John H. Moriarty; guests, Thomas R. Buck- man, Richard A. Farley, Robert R. Hertel, Frank Schick. · The minutes of the Board of Directors meeting as reported in CRL, September 1963, were approved. A report of nomina- tions received to date for the 1964 division and section elections was presented by Mr. Bailey. A complete list of the nominees ap- pears elsewhere in this issue. Miss Stokes, ACRL representative to PEBCO, reported on the Midwinter Meet- ing of that ALA committee, noting that the two days of meetings were devoted to statements of needs by ALA, division, com- mittee, and project representatives, and spokesmen for kinds of libraries and chap- ters. In addition, headquarters and financial needs were stated. In a summary, the broad needs were listed as personnel, research and planning, improved communication, strengthening headquarters operations, legis- lation, extended and improved quality of library services, and improved program for intellectual freedom. MARCH 1964 Mr. Bailey reviewed briefly the schedule of activities for officers and committee chair- men between the Midwinter Meeting and the annual conference. A detailed schedule will be mailed in February to persons re- sponsible for ACRL activities. The need to communicate through correspondence was emphasized by Mr. Bailey. Mr. McNeal reported, as chairman of the Planning and Action Committee, the objectives and goals of ACRL, reading from a letter, dated January 4 in which Mr. Har- low noted the need to outline the goals of ACRL. He asked for suggestions from the ACRL Board of Directors. The committee reported the following major objectives to the Board: increasing assistance to college and junior college libraries, suggesting im- provements in direct library service to users, encouraging libraries to come up to the ap- proved standards, developing resources, and improving communication within and among the various groups interested in the libraries of these institutions. The commit- tee had briefly discussed two recommenda- tions submitted for ACRL consideration from the Conference-Within-a-Conference. Mr. Bonn reported on the plan of the Library Services Committee, in coopera- tion with the University Libraries Section, to sponsor the first general session in St. Louis, at which three speakers will present specific approaches to solving the problem of making libraries effective in the teaching and learning process. Mr. Harlow stated that Alvin M. Weinberg, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, would speak at the second general session on service to users of academic and research libraries. A highlight of the meeting was the pre- sentation by Dr. Schick, assistant direc- tor, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education, of the report on "Library Sta- tistics of Colleges and Universities, 1962- 63," which had just been published (in January, on time, as promised by U.S. O.E.). After receiving the applause of the Board 135 members, Mr. Schick noted that 70 per cent coverage (instead of the expected 50 per cent) had been attained by the September 30 deadline. State agencies were used in collecting the statistics, although some aca- demic libraries did not cooperate in this pattern. Junior college libraries were most incomplete in reporting. The Office of Edu- cation now has about 85 per cent returns and hopes for 92 per cent to be included in the analytic report. The statistics were made available in time for use in the National Library Week program. The Board dis- cussed the possibility of publishing the re- maining statistics for 1962/63 and what procedures should be followed in the fu- ture. Mr. Schick also reported on an in- quiry about a preferred publication date but it was noted that the findings were no longer valid since they were based upon an anticipated return of only 50 per cent. Mr. Farley, chairman of the LAD Build- ings Committee, stated that two kinds of inquiries are coming to the committee: how to begin planning programs-these are an- swered by the headquarters office; and in- quiries about presenting plans at an annual institute. No buildings institute will be held in 1964, but an equipment institute is scheduled for St. Louis. The first issue of CHOICE: Books for College Libraries will be published March 1. Mr. Gardner, its editor, reviewed the ac- tivities for the first six months and noted that thirty-five thousand copies of a promo- tion piece were being mailed to libraries. He listed subjects for which reviewers were needed: Social Science, Economics, and Po- litical Science. The Choice staff has nego- tiated with the ALA Editorial Committee in respect to plans for publishing the Uni- versity of California college book list. The preconference institute of the Rare Books Section will be held at the University of Kansas and Linda Hall libraries on June 25-27, 1964 with financial support from those libraries in addition to the registra- tion fee. According to Mr. Buckman, chair- man of the program committee, the theme will be "The Bibliography of Natural His- tory." Speakers will be secured from the United States and abroad. Plans are being made to publish the proceedings. Mr. Moriarty, ACRL's representative on the AASL-ACRL-LED-DAVI Joint Sub- committee of the ALA Audio-Visual Com- mittee, read a letter from Mrs. Grace Ste- venson regarding its status and recommend- ed that the subcommittee be discontinued. The possibility of an ACRL audio-visual committee was considered. Miss Garloch reported upon the plans of the ACRL National Library Week Commit- tee, with mailings to librarians for eighteen states, including a personal letter, statistical summary, and sample State fact sheet. Em- phasis will be placed on recruitment. The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 P.M. January 28, 8:30p.m. Present: President Neal R. Harlow; Vice President and President -elect Archie L. McNeal; Past President Katharine M. Stokes; Directors-at-large, Andrew J. Eaton, Jack E. Brown, Lucile M. Morsch; Direc- tors on ALA Council, Dorothy M. Drake, Walfred B. Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, .Russell Shank, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Edward B. Stanford, Robert L. Talmadge; Chairmen of Sections, Dale M. Bentz, Wrayton E. Gard- ner, Eli M. Oboler, Benjamin B. Richards, Norman E. Tanis; Vice Chairmen of Sec- tions, Carson W. Bennett, Orville L. Eaton, Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom; Past Chair- men of Sections, Charles M. Adams, David Kaser; ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey. Chairmen of Subsections present were Laurence H. Miller, Robert C. Miller, Kirby B. Payne; Committee Chairmen, John M. Dawson, Mark M. Gormley, Frances Kennedy, Edmon Low, Stanley L. West; editor, William V. Jackson; guest Frank Schick. Nominations for the College Libraries Section were reported by Mr. Bailey. Mr. Harlow discussed the schedules of programs and business meetings for the St. Louis Conference. A memorandum announcing a meeting of the Committee on ALA Publishing on Jan- uary 29, 1964 to discuss ALA publishing activities and programs, was called to the attention of the ACRL Board. Representa- tives of all ALA agencies, divisions, sec- tions, and committees concerned with pub- lishing activities were requested to attend this meeting called by the chairman of the Committee on ALA Publishing. Mr. Har- low asked Mr. Moore, chairman of the ACRL Publications Committee, to attend, along with all ACRL editors. 136 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Two recommendations made by the study- discussion groups at the Chicago Confer- ence-Within-a-Conference had been pre- sented to the members of the Planning and Action Committee, who noted that the prob- lem raised in one of the recommendations had already been identified as one of the general objectives of ACRL by the commit- tee. The committee agreed that the recom- mendations needed clarification, and Mr. Harlow stated that ACRL would be pleased to work with ·other divisions concerned in relation to them. The recommendations were distributed to Board members who were asked to make additional suggestions to Mr. Bailey during Midwinter. In applauding the success of the U.S. Office of Education, Library Services Branch, in collecting and publishing aca- demic library statistics for 70 per cent of the libraries of such institutions, according to the prearranged schedule, the Board ex- pressed the desire that the additional sta- tistics, not included in the January publica- tion, would be made available as a supple- ment in the same form; and stated its posi- tion as favoring the same regular schedule of publication with the possibility of great- er coverage in future years. Dr. Kaser moved that an official resolution of appre- ciation be sent to the Commissioner of Edu- cation, Francis Keppel, with copies to Dr. Schick and John Lorenz. A letter to this effect will be written by Mr. Bailey. Mem- bers of the ACRL Board were asked to write letters of appreciation to Commis- sioner Keppel. Mr. Gormley noted the report of the Grants Committee as published in CRL, January 1964. The Board members were especially concerned about the small size of the grants which varied from $250 to $1200. A number of Board members fa- vored larger grants, perhaps using a portion of the amount available in this way. It was stated that even the small grants are very valuab~e to the smaller libraries. Mr. Gormley, acting for Dr. Tauber who was unable to attend Midwinter, noted the activities of the Committee on Library Sur- veys in developing a manual of surveys, planning a workshop on surveys, and train- ing qualified surveyors. The College Library Section is planning a conference program on "The Federal Government and College Libraries." The MARCH 1964 section Steering Committee also discussed a proposed joint committee with the Asso-. ciation for Asian Studies on non-Western library resources for undergraduates. The possibility of establishing an audio-visual committee in this section was discussed by the Board. Mr. Bailey will investigate the possibilities of such a committee. Edmon Low gave an extensive report on activities pertaining to federal legislation for libraries of colleges and universities. State commissions will be established by the state governors to select the institutions to receive funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act. It is not certain whether appropriations for the Act will be available in 1964. The Board voted to leave action to implement the legislative proposal for materials for college and university libraries to the judg- ment of the ALA Committee on Legislation. Frances Kennedy, chairman of the Mem- bership Committee, referred to the report submitted before Midwinter. She noted that much possible activity of the committee is already being handled at ALA headquarters. The committee is developing a brochure for the division. Norman Tanis reported that he will at- tend the meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., February 17-18, 1964, sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, to dis- cuss the proposed , study for strengthening library services in junior college education. For the Subject Specialists Section, the biggest problem is to identify the member- ship of each of the four subsections since provision for selection of subsection mem- bership was made only on the membership renewal form, but has not yet been provided on the membership form for new members. This section agreed to cosponsor the pro- gram already planned by the Library Ser- vices Committee for St. Louis. The Law and Political Science Subsection hopes to provide a complete slate of officers for 1964/65. Plans are to attempt to cosponsor a program with the American Association of Law Librarians. The Agricultural and Biological Subsection's program at St. Louis will be concerned with the theme of library service to users at the research level. The Slavic and East European Subsection will submit bylaws for approval at St. Louis. The latter subsection officers hope to secure funds to compile a directory of librarians, archivists, and information specialists with 137 Slavic competence. This subsection is plan- ning to obtain a speaker in the Slavic field for its program at St. Louis. Mr. Richards reported on the Teacher Education Section and several Board mem- bers noted the changing academic picture, with fewer teachers colleges. Mr. McNeal requested statements from Mr. Richards and Mr. Oboler about the positions of these col- leges and the need for the Teacher Educa- tion Section. The University Libraries Section is mak- ing stqdies of academic status, according to Mr. Bentz. The ULS Urban Universities Li- brary Committee is planning a luncheon in St. Louis where a report on the New York metropolitan program of library coopera- tion will be presented. Mr. West, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Education- Periodicals ... (Continued from page 194) Rocky Mountain Review. Editor, 1511 Poly Drive, Billings, Mont. v. 1, no. 1, Spring 1963. 2 no. a year. $2. *Russian Metallurgy and Mining. Scientific Information Consultants Ltd., 661 Finch- ley Road, London N.W.2. no. 1, Jan./ Feb. 1963. Bimonthly. $68. (Translation of Izvestiia. Otdelenie Tekhnicheskikh Nauk. Metallurgiia i Gornoe Delo issued by Akademiia N auk SSSR) . Science and Children. National Science Teachers Association, 1201 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. v. 1, no. 1, Sept. 1963. Monthly (except Jan. and June-Aug.). $4. Servicio Legislativo de Puerto Rico. Equity Publishing Corporation, Orford, N.H. v. 1, no. 1, May 13, 1963. At least 6 no. during the legislative session. $30. Sociologia Internationalis. Duncker & Hum- blot, 1 Berlin 41 ( Steglitz) , Dietrich- Schafer-Weg 9. v. 1, no. 1, 1963. "Semi- annual. DM 36,-. · Solid State Communications. 122 East 55th St., New York 22. v. 1, no. 1, June 1963. Monthly. $30. (Supplement to Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.) Stolen Paper Review. 603 Ash, Tempe, Ariz. no. 1, Spring 1963;. Semiannual. $1. Systematics. Coombe Springs Press, King- al and Professional Organizations, noted his concern about its functions. It has held some interesting luncheon meetings with guests from these two areas. He recommended that the Planning and Action Committee con- sider the purpose of this advisory commit- tee. Mr. Jackson expressed the hope of the monographs Editorial Board that funds could be provided for an honorarium for authors of monographs. The Editorial Board hopes that additional manuscripts will be submitted. Mr. Harlow requested that all those re- sponsible for ACRL activities keep the ex- ecutive secretary informed. Mr. Bailey ex- pressed appreciation to everyone for their cooperation. The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 P.M. •• ston-upon-Thames, England. v. 1, no. 1, June 1963. Quarterly. £2. 2s. Teaching Arithmetic. Pergamon Press, 122 East 55th St., New York 22. v. 1, no. 1, Spring 1963. 3 no. a year. $2.50. Technical Meetings Index. Technical Meet- ings Information Service, 22 Imperial Drive, New Hartford, N.Y. v. 1, no. 1, Sept. 1963. Quarterly. $25. (subscription to total service) . The Textile Institute and Industry. The Tex- tile Institute, 10 Blackfriars St., Man- chester 3, England. v. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1963. Frequency not given. Price not given. Theoretical Chemical Engineering Abstracts. Technical Information Company, Ltd., Chancery House, Chancery Lane, London W.C.2. abstracts 1-313, July/ Aug. 1963. Frequency not given. Price not given. Trans-action. Circulation Department, Trans-action, Box 43, Washington Uni- versity, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. v. 1, no. 1, Nov. 1963. 6 no. a year. $3.50. Vivarium. Royal VanGorcum Ltd., Assen, Netherlands. v. 1, no. 1, May 1963. Semi- annual. $5.75. War & Peace. Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament, 2 Carthusian St., London E.C.l. v. 1, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 1963. Quar- terly. 17s. 6d. •• 138 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Indicted for Library Thefts ON NovEMBER 6, 1963, an indictment was returned in the United States Dis- trict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, naming James S. Rizek and Richard Caverly as defendants. The former was a book dealer and the latter the former chief librarian of Scranton public library. The indictment charged that Caverly and Rizek conspired together to transport in interstate commerce books, documents, and periodicals that they knew to be stolen or taken by fraud from the Scranton public library in violation of the Federal Statutes. The indictment charged further that Rizek had done business under the names of Academic Sales Company, The Academic Service Corporation, Raritan Book Company, and other names. As part of the unlawful plan, Rizek and his associates approached and made proposals to public and college libraries in different parts of the country to exchange books and their bound periodicals for microfilm of these and other titles. The Government charged that in furtherance of the conspiracy the defend- ants, Rizek and Caverly, would steal or convert to their own use, from the Scranton public library, books, documents, etc., and that Rizek and his asso- ciates would establish contacts with other public and college libraries to dispose of books and documents so stolen. The Government alleged further in the indictment that Rizek and Caverly would authenticate the disposal of books to purchasers by the use of letterheads and order blanks of the Scranton public library. These acts complained of in the indictm~nt are alleged to have occurred dur- ing the period from February 1961, through June 1962. However, it is believed. that these activities continued over a much longer period. The activities complained of in the Scranton indictment have not been con- fined to Rizek and his companies. From recent press reports there has been a veritable epidemic of thefts of books, manuscripts, and documents during the past year. Most of the cases complained of follow the pattern of the Rizek indictment and have to do with the unlawful acquisition of publications from libraries. The favorite approach of the book dealer involved is the exchange of bound volumes for microfilms of these volumes. In many of these cases the individual book dealer has failed to carry out the provisions of his contract or has failed to make payment for the merchandise bought, or has delivered microfilm not up to the minimum of standards. As a consequence of the failure of these book dealers to fulfill their agreement, there have been many complaints received by the Bookdealer-Library Relations Committee of the American Library Associa- tion. The function of this committee is the study of all aspects of book dealer- library relations. The chairman of this committee is Carl Jackson, who has been actively engaged in the investigation of numerous complaints of alleged frauds perpetrated by the dealer. In view of the widespread character of the operations complained of and the losses sustained by the libraries of the country, those li- braries that have been victimized and that have not already done so, might wish to communicate with the chairman, Mr. Carl Jackson, Associate Director, Uni- versity of Colorado Libraries, to the end that there be an investigation of the facts and if the facts warrant, the matter may be called to the attention of the proper officials. • • MARCH 1964 139 Nominees for ACRL PRESIDENT Archie L. McNeal, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT Helen M. Brown, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Sarah Dowlin Jones, Goucher College, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE (1964-68) (two to be elected, one from each bracket) Ruth Madeline Erlandson, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Christine L. Reb, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Catherine Cardew, Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor, New York Ruth Ellen Scarborough, Centenary College for Women, Hackettstown, New Jersey DIRECTOR ON ALA COUNCIL (1964-68) Rev. Oliver L. Kapsner, St. Vincent College, L~trobe, Pennsylvania Rev. Jovian Lang, Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: H. Vail Deale, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Anne Carey Edmonds, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey Helen L. Sears, Wells College, Aurora, New York SECRETARY: D. Nora Gallagher, Adelphi College, Garden City, Long Island, New York Ermine Stone, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Marjorie Eloise Lindstrom, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: James F. McCoy, Trenton Junior College, Trenton, New Jersey James W. Pirie, Flint Community Junior College, Flint, Michigan SECRETARY: 140 Mrs. Alice B. Griffith, Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York Helen Paragamian, Pine Manor Junior College, Wellesley, Massachusetts COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES -Officers, 1964/65 RARE BOOKS SECTION CHAIRMAN: Robert 0. Dougan, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California Clyde C. Walton, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Marcus A. McCorison, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts Wilbur J. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles, California SECRETARY: Miss Marion E. Brown, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mrs. Maud D. Cole, New York Public Library, New York, New York SUBJECT SPECIALIST SECTION CHAIRMAN: Carson W. Bennett, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: James Humphry, III, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Lillian Tudiver, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York SECRETARY: ( 1964-67) Mary Frances Pinches, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio Jack L. Ralston, University of Missouri at Kansas City TEACHER EDUCATION LIBRARIES . SECTION CHAIRMAN: Orville L. Eaton, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan CHAIRMAN-ELECT AND SECRETARY: Richard Alan Farley, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas Mrs. Mildred Hawksworth Lowell, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN: Andrew J. Eaton, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT: Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles, California David C. Weber, Stanford University, Stanford, California MARCH 1964 141 News From the Field ACQUISITIONS THE GEARY PAPERS, a collection of some nine hundred Civil War manuscripts, were donated to the Mobile (Ala.) public library by Mrs. John H. van Aken, a member of the library board. For the most part the documents are in good condition and will be available to scholars for study. THE JOURNAL OF THE C.S.S. ALABAMA has been donated to the Mobile public li- brary by a group of Mobile businessmen. Mrs. Clara Stone Fields, state legislator, solicited public support for placing the doc- ument in the Mobile public library. The journal will be on display at all times, and microfilms will be available for scholars. STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has re- ceived some seventy rare sixteenth-, seven- teenth-, and eighteenth-century volumes in the areas of religion, philosophy, and classi- cal literature. Donor was Stanford professor of music Leonard Ratner. BORIS I. NICOLAEVSKY's collection of ma- terials on Russian revolutionary movements has been acquired by the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. More than twenty thousand books and pamphlets, a large num- ber of periodicals and newspapers, thou- sands of rare leaflets, handbills, etc., and private archives, manuscripts, and corre- spondence dating from 1860 to the present are included. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE's Hugh M. Morris library has received a collection of fore-edge paintings on late eighteenth-cen- tury and early nineteenth-century books as- sembled by the late Mrs. Christopher L. Ward and presented by her daughters. Two of the forty-nine items have double fore- edges. Mrs. Ward's collection of Horace Wal- pole's Strawperry .Hill Press imprints has also been presented to the library by her daughters. The collection comprises some one hundred titles,, the imprints being sup- plemented by scholarly works on Walpole, the Press, and eighteenth-century · England. THE MEMORIAL LIBRARY of the University of Notre Dame has acquired the Stanley Barney Smith collection of Greek and Latin classics ancJ also his Robert Burns collection. THE ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY of the First Corps of Cadets and the library collection of the Military Historical Society have been acquired by the libraries of Boston Univer- sity. The catalog of the First Corp archives has been completed and is available at Chenery library, although the documents will remain in the First Corp Armory until the university's new central library is con- . structed. Cataloging of the twelve thousand books in the acquisition is still in progress. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY library, East Lansing, has acquired its millionth volume-an illuminated Book of Hours ca. 1440, with eighty-six miniature paintings. The volume is the gift of the university's Friends of the Library. THE DANIEL S. ADAMS COLLECTION of five hundred Shakespearean volumes has been established at New England College li- brary, Henniker, N.H., the gift of Mrs. Wil- liam B. Severance .of Manchester. THE PERSONAL LIBRARY of Robert Frost has been given to New York University by his daughter, Mrs. Lesley Ballantine. Some three thousand volumes will eventually be housed in a se.J?inar room in a projected new library building at NYU. CORNELL UNIVERSITY has acquired from the Fabius family in Paris a collection of papers, correspondence, and other items per- taining to the · Marquis de Lafayette which for many years was maintained by the descendants of the . French hero of the American Revolution. Some eight hundred items in the collection were presented by Cornell and the Fabius family to the French National Archives. All documents presented to the French government were microfilmed .for Cornell, and Cornell papers were micro- filmed for the French N ationai Archives. .. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES has purchased a ra:re first edi.tion of Na- thaniel Hawthorne's "Celestial .Railroad." 142 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A METALLURGICAL REFERENCE BOOK COL- LECTION of more than two hundred volumes was presented to the Free Library of Phil- adelphia by the Philadelphia chapter of the American Society for Metals. The collection is known as the Theodore Wiedemann li- brary in memory of its founder, King of Prussia (Pa.), industrialist. THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT'S Guy W. Bailey library has been given a collection of 147 different editions of Ovid, mostly from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, by Mrs. Lester M. Prindle. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT's Bailey library recently received the papers of Warren Aus- tin, former United States ambassador to the United Nations, given by Mr. Austin's widow. The papers include correspondence, memos, clippings, speeches, annotated copies of documents, and memorabilia. It is ex- pected that the material will be available to researchers by midsummer. AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS . APPLICATIONS for three internships in medical librarianship for 1964-65 are being accepted by the biomedical library at Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles. The pro- gram offers a year of planned work com- bined with enrollment in a limited number of courses in foreign languages, documenta- tion, biological sciences, and history of sci- ence. It has been approved for level II cer- tification by the Medical Library Associa- tion. The program is supported by a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service and applicants must be citizens of the United States (or have applied for citizenship) , and must hold masters' degrees from accredited library schools. Application forms and infor- mation may be obtained from Miss Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Library, Uni- versity of California Center for Health Sci- ences, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. The com- mittee must have completed applications by March 30. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has been granted $70,565 for continuing work on the Na- tional Union Catalog of Manuscript Collec- tions, by the Council on Library Resources. DoCUMENTATION, INCORPORATED, Bethes- da, Md., has been awarded a contract to MARCH 1964 develop an inexpensive portable reader- printer for microcopies, by Council on Li- brary Resources. THE NEw ENGLAND LIBRARY AssociA- TION announces a scholarship in librarian- ship for the academic year 1964-65, of $1,000 to be awarded to an applicant who is a New England college senior or grad- uate or a resident of New England, to be used for one year's full-time study toward a master's degree in library science at an ALA accredited school. Information and ap- plication forms may be secured from Miss Iva Foster, Chairman, N.E.L.A. Scholarship Committee, Bates College Library, Lewis- ton, Me. Completed applications must be in the hands of the committee by April 20. THE SOUTHWESTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TION is offering a scholarship of $750 for full-time study in 1964-65 toward a mas- ter's degree in library science at an ALA- accredited school. Applications will be ac- cepted from residents served by the donor -Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mex- · ico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Information and applications are available from Marvin A. Miller, Director of Libraries,' University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Deadline is April 15. A MANUAL on methods of reproducing re- search materials will be prepared by the Li- brary Technology Project of ALA working with a grant of $66,994 from the Council on Library Resources. William R. Hawken is editor. INDIA, CosTA RICA, AND ARGENTINA li- braries have received grants from the Ford Foundation to develop and improve library facilities. The University of Singapore re- ceived $70,000 for training staff members; the University of Costa Rica $307,200 for general studies faculty and library facilities, and the Argentine Chemical Association re- ceived $25,500 for developing library facili- ties, publication program, and lecture series. BUILDINGS AUBURN (Ala.) UNIVERSITY dedicated its new library building-four stories to house up to one million volumes-on Nov. 5. SouTHERN CALIFORNIA CoLLEGE, Costa Mesa, dedicated its new library in N ovem- ber. 143 EUREKA (Ill.) COLLEGE has started a campaign to obtain $550,000 for a new li- brary building and equipment. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO received the first major contribution toward a new central library building when a check for $500,000 was turned over to the university in early January by the Harriet Pullman Schermer- horn Charitable Trust. The gift will be used to plan tb,e building, probable cost of which will be fifteen million dollars. The plans look toward a collection of four to five mil- lion volumes; present collections now total two million two hundred thousand. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, envi- sions an underground undergraduate library on two floors with central light and ventila- tion courts, space for one hundred thousand volumes, and reading rooms for forty-eight hundred students. Construction costs are estimated at seven million dollars. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME will dedi- cate its new thirteen-story, twelve-and-one- half-million-dollar library building on May 7. The college library occupies the first two floors, with seats for 2,411 readers and shelving for more than two hundred thou- sand volumes. The university's research li- brary occupies the eleven-story high-rise, with a capacity of two million: volumes and carrels for 586 readers. The building was occupied last September. THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA officiated at the opening of a new university library at Sri Venkateswara University in Andhra Pradesh in January. MEETINGS A MEETING sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, Inc., was held in Wash- ington, D.C., on February 17-18 to discuss a proposed study for strengthening library services in junior college education. THE MIDWEST AcADEMIC LmRARIANS CoNFERENCE will be held at the University of Notre Dame on April 17 and at Val- paraiso University on April 18. THE OHio VALLEY GROUP of Technical Service Librarians will hold their 1964 meet- ing at Furdue University Libraries, Lafayette, Ind., on April 24-25. THE NATIONAL MICROFILM AssOCIATION's 1964 convention will be on April 28-30 at Philadelphia. Theme will be "Microrepro- ductions, Media of Progress for Informa- tion Control." Further information and reg- istration blanks are available from National Microfilm Association, P.O. 386, Annapolis, Md. . AN ALL-DAY CONFERENCE Will be held at Brooklyn College library on April 14. The topic will be "Reference Services for For- eign Area Studies." Additional information may be obtained from Mrs. Rose Z. Sell- ers, Associate Librarian, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn 10, N.Y; INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR Docu- MENTATION will have its thirty-first meeting and congress in Washington, D.C., on Oc- tober 7-16. MISCELLANY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS division of uni- versity extension and the graduate school of library science announce a five-week course in medical literature and reference work (Library Science E439) starting June 15. Meetings will be at the University of Illinois Library of Medical Sciences, 1853 West Polk Street, Chicago. Preregistration appli- cations must be made before May 1; forms are available from Mr. A. J. Proteau, Divi- sion of University Extension, Illini Center, LaSalle Hotel, 10 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. 60602. A directory of documents librarians and persons responsible for government docu- ments in the libraries of the United States is being compiled by the RTSD-RSD Inter- divisional Committee on Public Documents of ALA. The committee requests that these persons send their names, titles, and busi- ness addresses to Thomas R. Shaw, Chair- man, RTSD-RSD Interdivisional Committee on Public Documents, Library School, Lou- isiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 70803. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL- OGY has initiated a long-range program for the application of principles and methods of information processing to library opera- tion. Director of the program will be Carl F. J. Overhage, former director of MIT's Lincoln laboratory, who will work closely with the new director of libraries, William 144 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES . ) N. Locke. The program will begin opera- tion July 1. MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINING AND , TECHNOLOGY AT Houghton and Sault Ste. Marie has been renamed Michigan Tech- nological University. International Pharmaceutical Abstracts began publication in January 1964. It will be published in English, twice a month, by the American Society of Hospital Pharma- cists. THE MARCH ISSUE of Wilson Library Bulletin has several articles on public rela- tions discussing the importance of PR in college and university libraries. We are in- formed that reprints will be available from the periodical's offices. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, Bethlehem, Pa., will include the training of information scien- tists in its graduate program, starting in the fall of 1964. The program leading to an interdisciplinary master's degrees will be conducted by Lehigh's division of informa- tion sciences. Graduate fellowships and as- sistantships will be available at the univer- sity. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LiBRARY SCI- ENCE at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, is offering a course in law librarianship starting April 6. DREXEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is offering a course in work simplification in libraries during its summer session June 22- July 24. Applications should be directed to the Admissions Office, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. A DUPLICATE ABBREVIATED SHELF LIST on IBM cards is the goal of a four-year pro- gram at Indiana (Pa.) State College library. Each department of the college will even- tually receive a print-out in book form. Im- mediate benefits are duplicate print-outs of new acquisitions, and selected areas of the shelf list, and development of circulation and acquisitions controls. LmRARY MOVING TECHNIQUES are ana- lyzed in a monograph prepared by Peter Spyers-Duran, University of Wisconsin-Mil- waukee, and available at $2.50 per copy from Miss Elspeth Pope, Editor, University Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwau- kee, Milwaukee, Wis. 53211. MARCH 1964 Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants-in-Aid, Loan Funds, and Other Financial Assist- ance for Library Education has been re- vised by a committee of the Library Educa- tion Division of ALA, and is available from the division office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. Price is 5 Oc for single copies; 10, $4.50; 25, $11.00; 100, $40.00. Guidelines for Establishing Junior College Libraries is a reprint of the article that ap- peared in the November 1963 issue of CRL. Copies are available at 20c from ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. A SECOND SUPPLEMENT to Photocopying from Bound Volumes has been published by the Library Technology Project of ALA. It evaluates three photocopiers, the SCM Cor- poration's Wedgelite, the new model Co- pease Duplex Book Copier, and APECO's Panel-Lite. The twelve-page supplement is 8 ~ x 11 inches and is punched for insertion in standard three-ring notebooks. A LIST of federal government publica- tions printed outside the government print- ing office will be compiled under the super- vision of Jennings Wood, chief of the ex- change and gift division of the Library of Congress. Mr. Wood is chairman of the Ad- visory Subcommittee on Depository Librar- ies of the RSD/RTSD Interdivisional Com- mittee on Public Documents. The project has received $5,000 from the Council on Library Resources to assist the compiling activities; the list is to be published early this year. THE FORMER U.S. INFORMATION SERVICE LmRARY at Tours, France, has been turned over to Stanford University, and will be available to Tours residents, students at the University of Poitiers, and Stanford stu- dents at that university's study center in Tours. It occupies the mezzanine floor of the Tours Municipal library. The collection of sixteen thousand volumes has been re- named the "John F. Kennedy Memorial Library." BRAZIL has asked the Peace Corps for six volunteer librarians to help set up library facilities for the University of Brasilia. A central reference library, an educational faculty library, and a library for the sci- ence institute of the university are planned. •• 145 ANNE CAREY EDMONDS will become the librarian of Mount Holyoke College on July 1, upon the retirement of Flora Belle Ludington. Miss Ed- monds has been for the past three years librarian of Doug- lass College, the women's undergrad- uate division of Rut- gers-The State Uni- versity of New Jer- sey. She went to Douglass after a year of postgraduate study at the School of Library Science Miss Edmonds of Western Reserve University. Miss Edmonds was born in Penang, Ma- laya, and was educated in England; she re- ceived the certificate in commerce from the University of Reading (England) and be- gan her career outside the library profession by working for the War Damage Commis- sion in London. Coming to the United States, she studied at Barnard College for her A.B., and then, after a year in prepro- fessional work at the Enoch Pratt free li- brary in Baltimore, returned to Columbia for her master's degree from the school of library service. She began her experience in academic libraries with a year in the commerce li- brary of City College of New York, and in 1951 went to Goucher College as reference librarian, moving to assistant librarian for readers' services in 1958. Before she left Goucher in 1960 for further graduate work, she took a second master's degree (this one in historical geography) from the Johns Hopkins University, and varied her experi- ence with a year as exchange reference li- brarian at the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion's reference library in London. Miss Edmonds has had further experience which stands a college librarian in good stead: she has taught college courses. While at Goucher College she taught classes in freshman composition, and she has also Personnel taught in the library schools of Syracuse and Rutgers universities. Miss Edmonds has been an officer in the library associations of Maryland and New Jersey, and is secretary to the College Section of ACRL.-Sarah Dow/in Jones. Loms KRoNENBERGER, Brandeis Univer- sity's newly appointed librarian, is a truly modest and soft-spoken man who combines in his career distinguished service to several fields of American literary life, and who brings a truly humanistic yet tough-minded approach to the current activities of Gold- farb library. From 1926 to 1933 Mr. Kronenberger was a member of the editorial staff of Boni and Liveright. At the same time he wrote his own first novel, The Grand Manner, as well as reviews for the leading serious maga- zines of the day. He later joined the house of Knopf as an editor, and soon took leave to go to Eng- land, where he started work on his Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Cen- tury England, about which Clifton Fadirnan later wrote: "Kronenberger would rather be right than be startling. . . . " He consciously shuns showiness and is deeply concerned with the abiding interests of the library and the scholarly community it serves. Kronenberger developed his talents as a judge of literary and artistic quality when he found a job as drama critic on Time Maga- zine, where he started in 1938 and contin- ued, with a short interruption, until 1961. From 1940 until 1948 he also served as drama critic for the newspaper PM. Kronen- berger was not one of those journalists who saw their own careers solely in terms of their day-to-day writing and their positions within a huge bureaucratic publishing or- ganization. He always kept his sights on questions of a less ephemeral nature; and he published novels, translations, anthol- ogies, literary articles, as well as many contributions to literary symposia consider- ing serious critical questions·. His books include The Thread of Laughter, 'The Re- public of Letters, Marlborough's Duchess, Company Manners, Grand Right and Left, 146 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES A Month of Sundays, and-to be published next spring-The Cart and the Horse, a col- lection of essays on contemporary American culture. Kronenberger is no newcomer to Bran- deis University: he marched in the univer- sity's first commencement procession. He also started courses in comedy and con- temporary drama at Brandeis in 19 51. He has had experience with the problems of teaching the latest generation of students, and he knows very well the seriousness and depth of their mterests. In Louis Kronenberger, Brandeis has ac- quired a librarian with the qualities vital for an institution where intellectual aspirations are deeply serious. He responds in a pro- found way to real literary values; he is sym- pathetic to innovations and freshness, but he is not bowled over by flashiness. His great modesty evokes modesty in persons who deal with him. Both the experience and the personality of Louis Kronenberger are now available to help Goldfarb library ascend to the level of a first-class library with an abundance of the very best materials for use by the very best scholars.-Jrwin Wei!. RICHARD J. SHEPHERD, recently-appointed librarian at State University College, New Paltz, New York, brings to his post a back- ground which must be envied by any college president searching for a director of librar- ies. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Shepherd received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard. He began his professional career as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer only to have it terminated by a four- year hitch in the U.S. Army. He returned to j'ournalism as a writer for Art News and subsequently was associated with the New York Public library in the reference di- vision. Shortly after obtaining a master's degree in library service at Columbia, he accepted an appointment to the staff of the -University of Illinois at Chicago. While serving in this capacity, he was recognized quickly as a respected professional librarian and a trust- ed member of the faculty' as well as a friend and confidant to students and colleagues. He displayed· a keen appreciation for the biblio- graphical requirements· of the patron. The rapport whic~he developed with the art and MARGH 1964 - . \ architecture faculty was admired by all of his library associates. Mter three years in academic librarian- ship, he was lured into the special library field as-- director of the information center of the Public Relations Society of America in New York City. In this demanding position, he was called upon to collect and provide data for the members, originate and pre- pare research studies, write speeches, serve as conference and institute planning con- sultant, and counsel job applications and make referrals to public relations executives. Dick possesses an even temperament. As one of our former mutual colleagues once commented, he has the ability "to make haste slowly" while employing a fine sense of humor and a wry wit. As a student, writ- er, counsellor, public relations expert, and most import~ntly, a professional librarian, he has found in New York a position which will test his mettle. Mr. Shepherd is worthy of the challenge.-Le Mayne W. Anderson. ROBERT SOMERS, who assumed the posi- tion of chief librarian at Alabama College, Montevallo, last fall brings a wide and var- ied library experience to an old, established but thoroughly alive and ready-for-a-new- expansion library situation. A native of Meriden, Connecticut, where he completed his elementary and high school education, after a stint in the army during 1945-47, he attended Brown University, later transfer- ring to Wesleyan wher_e · he obtained his bachelor's degree. Part of the year following he was a library assistant at the Olin me- morial library and left in the fall of 1952 to attend library school at Florida State Uni- versity, where he worked in the materials center. A job at Air University in periodical and general reference work kept his active and f~rtile mind occupied to the hilt and, for a change of pace, classified documents acquisi- tion work gave him an insight into the pro- cedures for acquiring and processing materi- als. A job as literature research specialist at Rome Air Development Center, Griffis Air Force Base, enticed him away but wasn't exciting enough to keep him, nor was the Akron public library reference section in 1957-58 where supervisory experience was his chief gain. In 19 58 he returned to our library as bibliographer especially in the 141 fields of air defense, communication, and electronics. In that year he obtained his mas- ter's degree. A year at Mobile public library and a year at Brook.ley Air Force Base li- brary demonstrated the fact that college and uniyer~ity library work was what he really loved so he was most happy when the call to assume the position at Alabama College was made. Here his intellectual curiosity, his wide and keen knowledge of books, and his strong interests in the arts will surely be a great asset 'to a rebirth of an excellent basic col- lege collection which needs rejuvenation in both physical plant and book collection.- John Kenneth Cameron. DESMOND TAYLOR was recently appointed librarian at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Wash. After joining the uni- versity staff as ref- erence librarian in 1960, Taylor became acting librarian in the spring of 1963, and head librarian on September 1, 1963. Raised in Toledo, Ohio, Taylor re- ceived his bachelor's degree from Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and his master's degree in sci- Mr. Taylor ence from the Uni- versity of illinois. After he received his BA in 1953, Taylor served as a member of the U.S. Army Security Agency, a post he held for the next three years. Taylor's interest in research grew out of his early training at Warder public library in Springfield, Ohio, where he spent three years as reference assistant. He has since participated in Library 21's first group as a standby member. Here, as a direct result of the training course, he became especially concerned with the potential use of auto- mated devices and techniques. The special training and new-found inter- est resulted in two articles which were pub- lished in the Northwest's regional library quarterly. The first deals with the implica- tions of Library 21 training for the profes- sion at large, and the second explores the feasibility of automating the Pacific North- west Bibliographic Center. Taylor's work at the university library has received commendation from administration and faculty alike. He has added several new members to his staff, and is an active mem- ber himself of the AAUP, PNLA, SLA, and Beta Phi Mu, the national honorary library science fraternity. He has initiated special techniques for alerting faculty members to new materials in their respective fields and has, altogether, made himself indispensable to those who care about books.-Leroy Ostransky. APPOINTMENTS SISKO ALAVA has been appointed to the acquisitions staff at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. NORMAN ALEXANDER is now head of public services at Portland, Ore., State Col- lege library. KARIN AUGERSON has joined the college library staff at UCLA. JAMES M. BARRY has been appointed medical school librarian at Rutgers Uni- versity, New Brunswick, N.J. MRS. MEREDITH R. BASKETT is a new member of the University of Washington library staff, Seattle. HELEN S. BosTON has joined the refer- ence department of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare library. MEL VERN BROWN joined the documents section of University of North Carolina library, Chapel Hill, in October. ANA GuERRA DEREN is the Latin Ameri- can exchange librarian in the gifts and ex- changes section of UCLA's acquisitions de- partment. The appointment is for six months. MILDRED S. DUGAN is newly appointed assistant librarian, processing division, Ohio University library, Athens. WALTER T. DziURA has been named edi- tor of the Bulletin of Bibliography. MANIE FRANKLIN is the new chief of the special services library, U.S. Military Acad- emy, West Point, N.Y. PEGGY GLOVER is head librarian of the technical data management office of the Defense Industrial Supply Center, Philadel- phia. PEARL JEANETTE GoNDRELLA has been appointed librarian in the Department of the Army Special Services, Korea. 148 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MRs. RoMA S. GREGORY is now assistant librarian, Missouri Botanical Gardens li- brary, St. Louis. C. DAKE GULL has been appointed pro- fessor of library science and information systems consultant to the Aerospace Re- search Applications Center at Indiana Uni- versity. OMER HAMLIN, JR., has been named head librarian at University of Kentucky medical center. WILLIAM F. HARRISON, JR., has joined the University of South Florida library staff in Tampa, as assistant cataloger. MORRISON C. HAVILAND became assistant director of Tulane University's Howard- Tilton memorial library in February. CHARLES L. HIGGINS is now librarian of Nazareth College, Rochester, N.Y. MARY JEANNETTE HousEHOLDER has been appointed librarian in the Department of the Army Special Services, Germany, Italy, and France. CARROLL SAM IDEN is now in charge of library facilities at Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation, Kokomo, Ind. MRS. DOROTHY B. JAMERSON is curricu- lum materials and serials librarian at Savan- nah, Ga., State College. ELIZABETH KNAPP is now head of public services at Sir George Williams University library, Montreal. RICHARD JAMES LIETZ became reference librarian in the social sciences library at Uni- versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in December. MRs. JoANNA Lru has joined the catalog- ing staff of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology libraries, Cambridge. WILLIAM N. LocKE, for eight years direc- tor of libraries and head of the department of modern languages at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, will devote his entire time to management and development of the libraries. FREDERICK LYNDEN is newly-appointed to the staff of Bancroft library at University of California, Berkeley. MICHAEL J. MACAHILL is now head of technical services at Sir George Williams University library, Montreal. MRs. KATHLEEN A. McCLANE is refer- ence librarian at University of Washington library, Seattle. MARGARET OTTO has been named assistant MARCH 1964 science librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. LuciA N. PARKER is a subject specialist in the reference division of the University of Washington library, Seattle. Gn.JEs B. RoBERTSON has been appointed head of public services of the undergraduate division library, University of Illinois, Chi- cago. S. DoNALD RoBERTSON is now head of the serials department at Wisconsin State College library, Whitewater. RoBERT D. ScHALAU is now law reference librarian at Nevada state library, Carson City. HILDA E. S'rEINWEG has been appointed chief cataloging librarian at Ohio University, Athens. RUTH ELAINE STONE has been appointed lecturer and librarian for school of library science at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. EILEEN THORNTON, librarian of Oberlin College, will be on leave until April 30 to visit universities and university libraries in England. S. P ADRAIG WALSH is head cataloger at University of Delaware's Morris library, Newark. LEE H. WILLIAMS assumed the duties of assistant director for technical service, a new position, at State University of New York at Stony Brook on March 2. MRs. MURIEL WooD became health sci- ences librarian at University of Washington, Seattle, in November. FOREIGN LIBRARIES LUDWIG BoRNGASSER is now director of the Westdeutsche Bibliothek in Marburg, Germany. He was director of the Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek at Darms- tadt. NECROLOGY SvEND DAHL, former director of the Dan- ish Royal library, died on November 15. ALICE GAY, head cataloger at Occidental College, Los Angeles, since 19 3 9, died in January. FLORENCE S. HELLMAN, chief of the for- mer division of bibliography of the Library of Congress from 1938 to 1943, died on December 28 in Washington, D.C. 149 HmEo KisHIMOTo, director of the Uni- versity of Tokyo library since 1960, died on January 25. ACRL Membership February 1, 1964 LEo E. LAMONTAGNE, former assistant chief and principal cataloger in the subject cataloging division of Library of Congress died on December 25. Total ... . ....... . ... . . ..... 8,491 Subject Specialists ... . ... . ... 1,356 ANNA M. TARR, until her retirement li- brarian of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., died on December 26. Junior College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Teacher Education . . . . . . . . . . 408 University ....... . ....... . . 3,011 LUELLA B. MONTGOMERY TORR, retired librarian at Beekman Downtown Hospital in New York City, died on November 21. College ... .. . . . . ........... 2,311 Rare Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 Approximately 750 members do not select membership in any ACRL Sec- tion, and almost 500 members select more than one ACRL Section. Over 1,500 are institutional memberships. RETIREMENTS EDITH E. AVERITT retired in February from the staff of University of North Caro- lina library, Chapel Hill, after nearly forty years of service, first in cataloging, then as geology-geography librarian. • • 150 ACRL Preconference A CONFERENCE on the bibliography of natural history under the auspices of the Rare Books section of ACRL and cosponsored by the University of Kansas libraries and the Linda Hall library will be held in Lawrence and Kansas City on June 25, 26, and 27. Registration will begin at noon on Thursday, June 25 on the University of Kansas campus where the program will continue through Friday evening. The Saturday morning session, June 27, will be at the Linda Hall in Kansas City, adjourning with a luncheon at noon. Bus transportation from Lawrence to Linda Hall will be provided on Saturday morning. Program speakers will include historians of science, bibliographers, collectors, antiquarian dealers, and librarians. Several program participants from abroad are expected. The program will focus attention on the uses of rare books, manuscripts, and illustration in the historical studies of the natural sciences, and will seek to stimulate and advance studies of the bibliography of natural history in this country. A volume of proceedings will be published following the conference. The final program and other details will be announced in April. Further information may be obtained by writing to Thomas R. Buckman, Director of Libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans ., who is in charge of program planning and local arrangements. The conference registration fee is $30.00, which includes meals and lodging in a university dormitory near the Memorial Union and the library where the meetings will be held. All of the buildings used by the conference are air con- ditioned. Kansas City is easily accessible by air or rail from any part of the country. Lawrence is thirty-eight miles to the west by turnpike. Bus transportation will be provided on Thursday. St. Louis, site of the annual ALA conference in 1964, is less than an hour by air from Kansas City. Everyone interested in the bibliography of natural history is invited to attend . •• COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES