College and Research Libraries News from the Field ACQUISITIONS THE LIBRARY OF UCLA on February 20 acquired a copy of the first printed edition of the complete works of Plato-0 per a Omnia, 1513-its two-millionth book. Tlie gift was from members of the faculty, alum- ni association, Regents, and Friends of the Library. The two-million-and-first volume, arriving the morning of the presentation ceremonies for the Aldine Plato, was a ninth-century Arabian astrological work, Al- bumazar's De Magnis Coniiunctionibus, Rat- dolt, 1489, the gift of the University of California library in Berkeley and of its librarian, Donald Coney. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego, has acquired the ten-thousand volume li- brary of Americo Castro, Hispanic scholar who is professor-in-residence of Spanish lit- erature at UCSD. STANFORD UNIVERSITY libraries in early February received the eighty-drawer index for the Stark theater collection compiled by Samuel Stark during the past twenty-five years. This completes the collection which was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Stark to the Stanford theater library last year and which . is now being arranged. Stanford University libraries also has re- ceived a gift of 548 volumes of general English literature from the estate of Mil- dred D. Chidester. Mrs. and Mrs. Stewart Marshall of Palo Alto have presented to Stanford a collection of rare items including the Bologna 1495 edition of the 0 per a of Pi co de Mirandola, a first edition of De Re M etallica, Basle, 15 56, two other sixteenth-century editions, two seventeenth-century editions and the Berlin 1928 reprint of the first. The gift also included Agricola's De Mensuris et Pondibus Romanorum atque Graecorum, Basle, 1550. The Charlotte Ashley Felton memorial library at Stanford University has recently received a large collection of Jack London books and manuscripts from Christian de Guigne of San Francisco. The collection in- cludes fifty-three first editions, typescript copies of nine poems and two novels, and thirty-five articles in magazine form; letters from London to friends, and the original drawing for the frontispiece of "Son of the Wolf." UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S Hilo campus has received a collection of one thousand volumes in the fields of drama, the theater, avant-garde verse, and nineteenth-century American fiction from James I. Hubler. Carl G. Stroven, university librarian at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu has presented eight hundred volumes to the Hilo campus library to form a basic collection of English and American literature. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY library has re- ceived a large part of the library of the late Dr. Emmett F. Horine including his ·collec- tion on Daniel Drake and his times, and materials on the history of medicine and medical schools in Kentucky, and medical bibliography. Dr. Horine had already do- nated his collection on William Harvey to the library of Chandler medical school of the university. GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION has given to Baker library of Harvard business school records dating from 1814 for the Walter Baker Chocolate plant, including journals, ledgers, cashbooks, payrolls, and sales jour- nals, and examples of labels, receipt books and advertising. THE PERSONAL PAPERS of Sherman Adams have been presented to Dartmouth College by Mr. Adams. The papers include letters; typescripts and page proofs of his autobiography; and campaign materials, ap- pointment books, speeches, statements and texts of press conferences from his years as assistant to President Eisenhower. THE PAPERS of Nor man Cousins, editor of Saturday Review,-some forty-five boxes of them-have been presented to the Brook- lyn College library by Mr. Cousins. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY library has ac- quired some eleven hundred books from the library of the late James Truslow Adams, the gift of his widow. The volumes deal with American colonial history, Civil War 212 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES history and the antebellum South, and Eng- lish history and literature. SCORES, SKETCHES AND LETTERS of major composers from 1890 through 1940, ap- praised at more than one million dollars, have been presented to the New York pub- lic library by the Robert Owen Lehman Foundation. They will be available to re- search scholars at the branch library at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, scheduled to be open in 1965. Lincoln Center branch also will bou'se the Toscanini memorial archive now being brought together. The archive will comprise microfilm of original music manuscripts and other material. NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY has· been pre- sented with a fifteen-thousand volume col- lection of out-of-print books by Appleton- Century-Crofts division of Meredith Pub- lishing Company. Special items will be add- ed to NYU's Fales collection. A SELECTION of mounted Bible pages printed in several languages a century or more ago, a page from an early missal, and a contemporary Ethiopian composite painting of Solomon and Sheba were pre- sented to Western Reserve University by Stanley Slotkin of Cleveland. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY libraries have acquired letter collections of Hart Crane and Louis Bromfield. The Crane papers in- clude letters and postcards from the poet; the Bromfield group includes letters to the author from Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitz- gerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. THE PAPERS of the late Senator Estes Ke- fauver have been given to the University of Tennessee library by his widow through a memorial foundation. AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS WINNERS of the Edwin Corle memorial book collection contest at University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara, are Peter E. Hanff, Denis Dutton, and Sybil An.p.e Davis. Mr. Hanff, first prize winner, is the university library's . nominee for the Amy Loveman national ~ward,. DR. FRANK B. RoGERS, director of Deni- son library at the University of Colorado medical center, was presented with the high- MAY1964 est award of the U.S. Public Health Service -the Distinguished Service medal. RESEARCH IN ART HISTORY at the National Gallery of Art will be supported by a grant from Samuel H. Kress Foundation amount- ing to $40,000 each year for five years, with the object of publishing fine art books for sale at prices lower than those now current. MRs. LUETTA COLVIN MILLEDGE of Sa- vannah (Ga.) State College has been award- ed the Freedoms Foundation's George Washington Honors Medal for her play, Let Freedom Ring, written for National Li- brary Week at the request of Savannah State College library and presented on radio sta- tion WSOK last year. Mrs. Milledge has written a television play, Promises to Keep, for National Library Week this year. CARLETON CoLLEGE, Northfield, Minn., has received an unrestricted grant of $10,000 from the International Nickel Com- pany. The fund will be used for establish- ment of a curricular materials library to support the work of teacher education at Carleton. THE CONCORDIA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE of St. Louis has received a research grant for one thousand dollars from the Con- cordia Publishing House, for the prepara- tion of a general bibliography of the Luther- an Church-Missouri Synod. A GRANT of $20,000 for staffing the Li- brary/USA exhibit at the New York World's Fair has been made by the Council on Li- brary Resources. This supplements the $55,000 already contributed by private in- dustry, library associations, and other sources. The fund will be used to provide training for 288 professional staff members of the exhibit in the philosophy of the ex- hibit and the applications of electronic data processing equipment and techniques and their significance for library operations. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS graduate school of library science has received a $125,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to inaugurate a program for the prepara- tion of librarians and bibliographers for work in the Latin American collections in the United States. A total of $75,000 will be made available for fellowships and schol- arships during two academic years, 1964/65 · and 1965/66: three fellowships up to $5,000; five $3,000 scholarships the first 213 year; and ten $3,000 scholarships the sec- ond year. Information and application forms may be secured from Robert R. Douglass, Director, Graduate School of Li- brary Science, Box 7576, University Sta- tion, Austin, Tex. 78712. Two UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES received first honor awards and five other academic li- braries received awards of merit in the sec- ond Library Buildings Award Program sponsored by ALA, the American Institute of Architects, and the National Book Com- mittee. First honors went to the Charles Pat- terson Van Pelt library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Hein- ecke rare book and manuscript library at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Awards of Merit went to the Hollis F. Price library, LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tenn.; Lever- ett House library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Archbishop Ale many li- brary at Dominican College, San Rafael, Calif.; Otto G. Richter library, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.; and Lafayette College library, Easton, Pa. TESTS OF RECORD PLAYERS for USe by li- braries will be conducted by ALA's Library Technology Project working with funds granted by the Council on Library Re- sources. The tests, at a projected cost of $9)050, should result in a revised edition of The Testing and Evaluation of Record Players for Libraries, first published in 1962 by L TP and now out of print. FoRD FouNDATION has granted $280,000 to support construction, equipping, and servicing of a new library at Trinity Col- lege, University of Dublin, Ireland. The present library contains eight hundred thousand volumes, and has no more stor- age space for annual acquisitions of some twenty thousand volumes. THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES, The Hague, Netherlands, will add to staff and collections using a $25,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT and a computer center will be funded by the Ford Founda- tion with a grant to Mexico's National School of · Agriculture at Chapingo provid- ing computer rental, additional faculty, and fellowships to increase the number of staff available to the center; and a librarian, books, periodicals and equipment plus an in-service training program for the library. BUILDINGS Los ANGELES STATE COLLEGE library was dedicated on February 12 as a memo- rial to the late John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States. The dedica- tion came at a time when a major addition to the library is being planned; the projected addition would increase stack capacity from two hundred and fifty thousand volumes to eight hundred and twenty-six thousand and provide additional reader stations for twen- ty-seven hundred students, at a cost of $6,300,000. ST. PROCOPIUS CoLLEGE at Lisle, Ill., ded- icated its new library building on April 12. The $700,000 structure will accommodate one hundred and ten thousand volumes, an audio-visual auditorium seating one hun- dred, a microfilm room, language labora- tory, Slav culture center, seminar rooms, and rare book room. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY facili- ties at the Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md., were projected in the 1964 federal budget, which provided $450,000 for preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings. Cost of the facility of some 256,000 square feet is expected to be about $6,780,000; plans should be completed by April 1965. The collection of the library now totals some 1,212,000 volumes at pres- ent housed in the "South Building" of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. CoNsTRUCTION has started on an addi- tion to Princeton University's Firestone li- brary, to house the Scheide collection of rare books and manuscripts. At the same time exterior work will be done on a second addition to the library to house other addi- tions to the rare book and manuscript col- lection of Princeton University library. Work on the addition should be completed by late fall. AN ADDITION to University of Dayton's Albert Emmanuel library will double the size of the building at a cost of some half- million dollars. Work was started in March and is scheduled for completion by Septem- ber. THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA is planning a new building next to the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, with com- pletion scheduled for about May 1966 at a cost of some one-and-a-half million dollars. 214 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES The present Ridgway building has been sold, and the new building will continue the name. It is expected that there will be full cooperation and a physical connection with the Historical Society; it is planned to de- posit all of the manuscripts of the Library Company with the Society, and the rare books of the Society with the Library Com- pany, and to maintain a joint print, map, and drawing department. LETOURNEAU COLLEGE's new $250,000 library was dedicated in February. The col- lege is in Longview, Texas. THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEER Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Va., has new quarters for its library in the technical engineering building completed last August. A microfilm reading room and a general reading room are provided, in ad- dition to accommodation for the collection of twelve thousand books and three-thou- sand bound volumes of journals. MEETINGS THE THIRD ANNUAL INSTITUTE of archival administration will be held on July 12-Au- gust 15; cosponsors are the department of history and the graduate school of librarian- ship of the University of Colorado, in coop- eration with the Colorado State Archives. Inquiries should be addressed to D. C. Renze, University of Denver, Dept. of His- tory, Denver, Colo~ 80210. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AGRI- CULTURAL LIBRARIANS and Documentalists conference has been announced for Octo- ber 5-7, 1965, at Washington, D.C. LIBRARIANS IN ATTENDANCE at the Col- loquium on Experimental Colleges at Wa- kulla Springs, Florida, on April 5-8 included George Bailey, Robert T. Jordan, Orwin Rush, Louis Shores, and Lee Sutton. A WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER PROGRAMS in library operations is being planned for June 1-26 by the University of Illinois, Urbana. Workshop director will be Kern W. Dick- man, assistant director of the statistical ser- vice unit of the university; laboratory prac- tice work will be in charge of Hillis L. Griffin, information systems librarian at Argonne National Laboratories. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES will be the theme of the Allerton Park Institute sponsored by the University of Illinois graduate school of MA¥1964 library science next Nov. 1-4 at Monticello. Rolland E. Stevens is institute chairman: THE NINTH SEMINAR on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials spon- sored by the Pan American Union will be at Clayton, Mo., on June 25-27. Washing- ton University libraries will be host. The seminar working papers on bibliography, book publishing, and exchange of publica- tions from Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay will be published with the report of the seminar by the Pan American Union. Further information on participation may be obtained from Andrew J. Eaton, Director of Libraries, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; on program and working papers from Miss Marietta Daniels, Associate Librarian, Pan American Union, Washington 6, D.C. ALPHABETIC SUBJECT INDEXING was the topic of a seminar held at Rutgers Uni- versity on March 12 and 13; National Sci- ence Foundation was the sponsor of this as of two previous seminars. John Met- calfe of the University of New South .Wales, Australia, was the first-day speaker; on the second day of the seminar a panel of experts discussed and added to Mr. Metcalfe's pre- sentation. Panel members were Richard An- gell, Library of Congress; Charles Bernier, National Institutes of Health; Lea Bohnert, C-E-1-R, Inc., and Cyril Cleverdon, ASLIB Cranfield Project, with Susan Artandi of Rutgers as moderator. Bella Shachtman of the Library of Congress spoke at Thursday evening's banquet. ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY in Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y., began its annual one-day cop- gress of librarians with Edwin Castagna, director of Enoch Pratt free library in Bal- timore, who spoke on "Three Who Met the Challenge"; continued with panel discus- sions, and ended with luncheon and Charles Steinberg of CBS, who spoke on TV and the reading habits of the American public. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the South- eastern New York .Resources Council held an organizational meeting at State Univer- sity College, New Paltz, early in March, to foster cooperative services among the ref- erence and research libraries of the area. Representatives of one community college and four college libraries, two research li- braries and two public libraries were pres- ent. 215 A CONFERENCE on technical information center administration directed by Arthur W. Elias, manager of the scientific information section of Wyeth Laboratories at Radnor Pa., will be held at Drexel Institute of Technology June 15-17. Drexel is also of- fering a public relations workshop during the same three-day period, directed by Don- ald H. Hunt, library career consultant, and designed for librarians and library school students. Information and registration blanks for the technical information center con- fe~ence may be obtained fr9m Marjorie Krrschman; applications and information for the public relations workshop from Mrs. Marilyn Filderman; requests for either should be directed to them at the Graduate school of Library Science, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia 19104. THE SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the Medical Library Association will be in San Francisco, June 1-5, at St. Francis Hotel. Mrs. Carmenina Tomassini, University of California medical center library, San Fran- cisco, is general chairman. Two seminars are scheduled for June 1 at the St. Francis by the MLA Committee on Continuing Education. "Basic Punched Card Principles for Librarians" will deal with use of machines and the capabilities of basic data processing. "Implications of Ma- chines in Medical Libraries" is intended for medical librarians already using machines. COMPUTER TYPESETTING will be the sub- ject of a meeting in London in July; exact dates have not yet been announced. Further information may be obtained from the In- stitute of Printing, 44 Bedford Row, Lon- don W1, England, sponsor, with the Print- ing and Allied Subjects Research Associa- tion, of the meeting. Such correspondence should be marked "Computer Typesetting Meeting 1964." MISCELLANY CoLoRADo WoMAN's CoLLEGE, East Den- ver, has opened to the public its library of some forty thousand volumes, three-hun- dred-twenty-five periodical titles and its collections of tapes, phonorecords, and slides. Free access is extended·· to everyone; a fee of ten dollars is charged for check-out privileges by anyone not connected with ewe. REP AIRS and installation of ventilating equipment in the main reading room of the Library of Congress has closed the room for the first time in sixty-six years. Reopening will be in the autumn. As A RESULT of a meeting last July of the National Bureau of Standards and the Gen- eral Services Administration, at which blem- ishes in microfilm negatives was discussed, the GSA has issued an interim policy on microfilming permanent records which states that it will not approve disposal of records of permanent value based on reten- tion of microfilm copies. Agencies have been asked to inspect samples from collec- tions of negative microfilms and to report to GSA; and have been advised that, since blemishes have not been observed in positive microfilm, permanent records should be copied on positive film as soon as possible. FIVE UNIVERSITIES IN THE WASHINGTON D.C., AREA-American, George Washing~ ton, Howard, Catholic, and Georgetown- have set up a Joint Graduate Consortium to establish policy for a five-year cooperative progr~m, by which graduate students regis- tered many one of the universities may take the courses and use the libraries and other facilities of all five. Each of the universi- ties will retain autonomy at the graduate level, and will contribute to the support of the Consortium. Elmer West will serve as executive secretary, and offices will be in the Brookings Institution. RESEARCH and educational activities of the National Agricultural library, Agricul- tural Research Service, Federal Extension Service, and Cooperative State Research Ser- vice have been coordinated within the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Di- rector of Science and Education, Nyle. C. Brady. ~EVEN. FIRMS were fined on January 25 in Chicago m a case involving price-fixing and customer allocation in the sale of metal li- brary shelving. Those fined were Sperry Rand, Art Metal, Globe-Wernicke, W. R. Ames, Estey, Hamilton, and Virginia Metal Products. The prosecution pointed out that these seven firms account for 95 per cent of the total metal library shelves sold in this country. GoDDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER at Greenbelt, Md., plans to augment its library 216 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES collection with seventy thousand volumes, journals, and technical publications in aero- space sciences. The program will be devel- oped by John I. Thompson Company, using digital computers, and the entire collection will be assigned to computer memory, with automatic printout of the catalog. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, des- ignated a section of Olin library as a per- manent memorial to the late Arthur Holly Compton at dedication ceremonies on March 15. NEBRASKA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Chadron, has been renamed Chadron State Teachers College. CORTLAND (N.Y.) STATE COLLEGE stu- dents have assessed themselves five dollars per semester for library books, for the next academic year. This will increase the book budget of the college about thirty-t\'\ZO thou- sand dollars. State funds for book purchases are expected to total about forty-five thou- sand dollars for the same period. Student leaders who organized the referendum, using the ALA Standards for College Libraries as a yardstick, pointed out that the library col- lection at Cortland should provide more than twice the present number of volumes; and that use of the collection has more than doubled in the past two-and-one-half years. ALLIANCE COLLEGE library has established a Union Catalog of Polish-American his- tory. Six scholarly libraries with substantial Polish collections are now cooperating; oth- ers are asked to write to UCP AH, Alliance College Library, Cambridge Springs, Pa. 16403. CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY, Lebanon, Tenn., established in 1842, has had several professional schools including law, medi- cine and divinity, but today operates a · junior college program only. As academic programs changed, volumes were withdrawn from its library and stored, until finally th~re were more than seven thousand, with imprints dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries on subjects ranging from mathematics to theology. In February, the Joint University Libraries at Nashville bought the total stored collection and moved it to Nashville. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING services rep- resentatives met in March at San Antonio, Tex., to discuss scientific and technical com- munications problems and ways in which MAY1964 the National Federation of .Science Abstract- ing and Indexing Services might react to changing trends. The membership approved an expanded program which will concentrate on increasing the number of studies and re- search projects and provide a forum for membership and other interested groups. Plans have been evolved for a working con- ference late this year to restructure the fed- eration and broaden the membership base. JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, founded in the fourteenth century by Casimir the Great in Krakow, Poland, celebrates its six-hun- dredth anniversary this year. In Lenin- grad, the library of the USSR Academy of Sciences celebrates its two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary, and the Saltykov-Shchedrin public library observes its one-hundred-fif- tieth anniversary. In recognition of these milestones, a Troika Anniversary Tour of Czechoslavakia, Poland, and USSR has been arranged for librarians, publishers, and scholars. A Balkan extension of the tour will incorporate Rumania, Bulgaria, Hun- gary and Yugoslavia. Further information may be obtained from Slaviana Documenta- tion Service, 110 Morningside Drive, New York 27. Archives and Manuscripts in Libraries, 2d ed., by Philip Hepworth, is number eighteen in a series of pamphlets issued by the Library Association (Great Britain). Price is 12s, available from the association, Chaucer House, Malet Place, London WC 1, England. MICROFILM POSITIVE copies of the Soviet national bibliography of books and pamph- lets from 1907 to 1946 are available from the Photoduplication Service of Library of Congress. The complete set of eighty-five reels, including spools, boxes and postage, costs $825.00. Prices for individual reels available on request. STUDIES IN COORDINATE INDEXING, five- volume set covering implementation and operation of modern indexing techniques (now out of print), by Mortimer Taube, published by Documentation, Inc., has been issued in microfiche or flat sheets of micro- film called Ducoform. A related volume, Information Storage and Retrieval: Theory Systems and Devices, published hardbound by Columbia University Press in 1958, is also available on microfiche. The sixth vol- ume of the Studies will be published on 217 July 1 in hardbound copies, and will be available in microfiche from the same pub- lisher. when publication was suspended, and there will be a ten-year cumulative index. Edi- torial inquiries should be addressed to the Department of Economic Library Selections List, 211 S. Ditheridge St., Pittsburgh 13. Subscription correspondence should be sent to the Subscription Dept., Gordon and Breach Science Publisher, Inc., 150 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N.Y. EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES LABORATORIES INc., established by the Ford Foundation, has published Bricks and Mortarboards, dealing with college planning and building; it includes a chapter on college and uni- versity libraries by Alvin Toffier. Single copies are available free from the publisher, 477 Madison Ave., New York 10022. THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS and the Center for Regional Economic Studies of the University of Pittsburgh have revived the former Johns Hopkins publication, Eco- nomics Library Selections. The first issues will catch up with the period since 1962 Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law is published quarterly by Roy M. Mer- sky and J. Myron Jacobstein, with annual cumulations. Editorial and subscription cor- respondence should be addressed to Prof. Jacobstein, Stanford University law library, Stanford, Calif. 94305. •• Rare Books in Natural History 218 A PRECONFERENCE institute on the bibliography of natural history will be sponsored by the Rare Books Section of ACRL on June 25-27 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Linda Hall library, Kansas City. The program will focus attention on the rare books, manuscripts and il- lustration in the historical studies of the natural sciences. Some of the speakers will be William T. Stearn, British Museum (Natural History); Ja- cob Zeitlin, antiquarian book dealer; Robert Mengel, University of Kansas; Sten Lindroth, Uppsala University, Sweden; Vivian Lee, Stanford Uni- versity; Frans A. Stafleu, Utrecht, Netherlands; Richard C. Rudolph, University of California, Los Angeles; and Robert C. Stauffer, University of Wisconsin. The conference registration fee is $30, which includes all meals except breakfast, lodging at a university dormitory, and other conference expenses. Registration will be limited to 175. Anyone wishing to attend should send a check in the amount of $30 to Thomas R. Buckman, Director of Libraries, University of Kansas, Lawrence, before June 15. All members of the Rare Books Section will receive a conference registration form and other de- tails by mail. However, registration is not limited to Rare Books Section members. Advance registrations may be claimed after noon on Thursday, June 25. Transportation will be provided Thursday from Kansas City air terminal, to Lawrence, and also from Lawrence to Linda Hall in Kansas City on Saturday. • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES EMERSON JACOB has been appointed li- brarian at California State Polytechnic Col- lege at San Luis Obispo after having served for five years as li- brarian at the Ritter library of Baldwin- Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. A na- tive of Ohio, he re- ceived his AB at Mount Union Col- lege, MSLS from Western Reserve, MA in history from Columbia, and in 1961, his PhD in history from West- Dr. Jacob ern Reserve. Dr. Jacob's previous positions were as assistant librarian at Mount Union College, acquisitions librarian at the University of Maryland, and from 1948-58, acquisitions librarian at Michigan State University. At Michigan State he helped build up the re- search collections during a period when the university was developing an extensive grad- uate program. At Baldwin-Wallace College he successfully supervised the transfer of the book collection into the new Ritter li- brary in 1959. During his tenure at Baldwin-Wallace, Dr. Jacob has been active in programs for interlibrary cooperation sponsored by the Cleveland Commission on Higher Educa- tion. He has also been an active participant in the informal meetings of the Northeast- ern Ohio Academic Librarians Group. Never an ivory-tower professional, Dr. Ja- cob has combined his scholarly subject in- terests with a keen interest in current affairs and has always been most generous in offer- ing professional advice and assistance to other librarians in the Northeastern Ohio area. At California Polytechnic he will as- sume the responsibility for library service at a growing institution. To this responsi- bility he will bring a broad and varied ex- perience which should prove an immeasur- able asset to academic librarianship in Cali- fornia.-Stuart A. Stiffler. MAY1964 Personnel Denison University has announced the appointment of BENJAMIN M. LEWIS as librarian to succeed Lois E. Engleman, who has held that position since 1948. Dr. Lewis has been librarian at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, since 1955. He will assume his new duties at Denison in August. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, Dr. Lewis earned the- Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal and Cluster as an Air Force first lieutenant during World War II. He earned the Master of Arts, Mas- ter of Arts in Library Science, and the Doc- tor of Philosophy degrees at the University of Michigan where he also held a teaching fellowship in 1948-50. Prior to his position at Hamline, he was assistant librarian at Eastern Illinois State College in Charleston. In addition to his library duties at Hamline he has also served as tennis coach, and he has brought distinction to both positions. The Hamline University Library Hour which has brought lectures of interest to the campus was inspired by Dr. Lewis. A scholar with research interests in the history of publishing in America, he is cur- rently writing an essay on engravings in early American magazines for inclusion in Books in America's Past: Essays Honoring Rudolph Gjelsness. Earlier publications in- clude "An Introduction to American Mag- azines, 1800-1810"; "Guide to Engravings in American Magazines, 17 41-181 0"; and "Register of Editors, Printers and Publish- ers of American Magazines, 1741-1810." Dr. Lewis is a member of ALA and of Minnesota Library Association and has also participated in meetings of Midwest Academic Librarians. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis, the former Lois Maujer, have three children, Gary 18, Rob- ert 16, and Nancy 10.-John Parker. APPOINTMENTS DoNALD AXMAN has accepted a position as assistant chief of the cataloging depart- ment at University of North Carolina li- brary, Chapel Hill. DoNALD A. BAIRD has been appointed li-. 219 brarian of the Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, B.C. MRS. RAGNILD BAIRNSFATHER has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- bridge. MARY LEA BARHAM is now readers' ser- vice librarian at Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Tex. MRs. LuciLLE BEDAN is special science and business studies librarian at University of Notre Dame (Ind.). FLEMING BENNETT is now librarian at Florida Experiment Station in Gainesville. CHARLES BEYMER is head of the general science library for the college of University of Notre Dame. EDWARD M. BoswoRTH is _ assistant cata- loger at Temple University library, Phila- delphia. JEAN BowEN is now librarian of the Rodgers and Hammerstein phonorecord archive at New York public library. JOHN C. BRODERICK has been appointed specialist in American cultural history in the LC manuscript division. RUTH ELIZABETH BROWN is catalog-refer- ence librarian at the Institute for Cancer Research at Philadelphia. MRs. HELENA H. BRYCHTA is on the staff of the acquisitions unit at National Institutes of Health library. MRs. SALLY BURG is head of the records section of University of Notre Dame li- brary. S. K. CABEEN became assistant to the di- rector of the Engineering Societies library in New York on Feb. 1. JOHN KENNETH CAMERON has, been ap- pointed chief of the reader services division of Air University · . library, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. JoHN M. CARTER has been appointed head of circulation at Mitchell memorial library, Mississippi State University. ELIZABETH M. CocK is head librarian at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, N.J. LEWIS C. CoFFIN is now law librarian and general counsel ·at the Library- of Con- gress. HELEN M. CooPER will become librarian at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., in August. EARL CLIFTON COVINGTON, JR., has been appointed librarian in the Department of the Army in Germany, France, and Italy. DoN S. CULBERTSON has been named li- brarian for research and development at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. BETTY JANE LOUISE CURTIS is .adminis- trative librarian in the Department of the Army, Korea. MRs. GERI DECKER is on the staff of the humanities department of the University of Notre Dame's college library. MATHEW DEE is now assistant personnel librarian at Ohio State University, Colum- bus. BELA DEMETER has been appointed to the catalog division at Stanford University libraries. ELIZABETH C. DEVLIN is assistant refer- ence librarian at Amherst College. JOE DIXON is now librarian of Brevard College in North Carolina. SANDRA JEAN DYE has joined the catalog division of the University of Washington li- brary, Seattle. JERRY ANN EICHHORN has been appoint- ed librarian in the Department of the Army, serving Germany, France and Italy. BETTYE H. ELLISON has joined the under- graduate library of the University of Wash- ington, Seattle. BETTY FEENEY has been appointed asso- ciate librarian of New York Academy of Medicine library. JANE FLENER has been named assistant di- rector, Indiana University libraries, Bloom- ington. JEAN E. FouLKE is chief of readers ser- vices at the National Institutes of Health library. MRs. 0MNEYA T. Foz is with the acquisi- tions department at University of Notre Dame library. EMIL F. FREY has been named associate librarian at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. AsHBY J. FRISTOE began work in January in the acquisitions department at University of North Carolina library, Chapel Hill. Mr. Fristoe has special responsibility for serials. MELVYN WAYNE GELFAND has been ap- pointed to the staff of the business library at Temple University, Philadelphia. RoBERT M. HAYES has been appointed to the UCLA school of library service as pro- 220 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES \ fessor in residence. Dr. Hayes will teach and direct research in the field of information science. KENT HIRST has been named cataloger in the music library at Ohio State University, Columbus. T. MARK HoDGEs is now head of circula- tion at Harvard medical library in Boston. EuGENE A. HoLTMAN is acquisitions li- brarian at Illinois State University, Normal. DAVID HowELL was appointed head of the catalog department Mississippi State University on Feb. 1. MRS. SUZANNE HUBBELL is acquisitions librarian at Trenton (N.J.) State College. RosEMARY HuBER has been appointed as- sistant librarian at Quincy College in Illi- nois. DoNALD HUFFSTUTLER has been appoint- ed circulation supervisor at Washington Uni- versity school of medicine library in St. Louis. MARJORIE R. HYsLoP has been named as- sociate director of the American Society for Metals documentation service, Metals Park, Ohio. THEODORE IVANUS has been appointed to the newly established position of librarian of the East European and Soviet studies program at University of Notre Dame. WAN-WAN JERNG is a cataloger in the descriptive cataloging division of the Li- brary of Congress. MRs. BEVERLY JoHNsoN has accepted ap- pointment with the acquisitions department of UCLA libraries, and will work on the Latin American studies program. MARY L. KLINGELHOEFFER is special ser- vices librarian at Erlangen and Herzo base libraries, Department of the Army, Ger- many. FELICE KRAMMEN is circulation librarian in the school of social work at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. · DoROTHY MARTHA KuNKLE is librarian at the Eastern Utilization Research and De- velopment Div., Agricultural Research Ser- vice library at Wyndmoor, Pa. RoBERT H. LAND has been named chief of the general reference and bibliography di- vision in the reference department of Li- brary of Congress. ELIZABETH LAUTENSCHLAGER is assistant MAY1964 librarian at the school of dentistry and phar- macy of Temple University, Philadelphia. JEAN M. LEGG is head of the engineering library at Ohio State University, Columbus. GEORGE I. LEWICKY has been appointed assistant director of Library/USA at New York World's Fair. MR. Jm-MING LIN has been appointed to the staff of the Far Eastern library at Uni- versity of Washington, Seattle. ELEANOR McGoNAGLE has been named Lindgren librarian at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, Cambridge. MRs. ELIZABETH C. McNAIR has been named librarian of Coker College in Harts- ville, S.Car. MRs. HAZEL MARSH is a new member of the humanities department staff in the col- lege library at University of Notre Dame. BERYL MARTHA MATTHEWS is assistant in the social sciences department at University of Maryland library, College Park. JUDITH LOUISE MILLER is reference as- sistant in East Stroudsburg (Pa.) State College library. EvELYN MooRE has joined the Washing- ton University school of medicine library as research associate for machine methods. GERALD EDWARD MORRIS is assistant li- brarian at Mystic Seaport library in Mystic, Conn. MRs. AIMEE MuTHER is now a reference librarian at Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, University of Florida, Gainesville. LINDA LEE MYERS is reference librarian at the technical library of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. MRs. PANNA M. NAIK is assistant li- brarian at the South Asia regional studies li- brary at University of Pennsylvania, Phil- adelphia. RALPH NIELSON is a cataloger at Univer- sity of Idaho library, Moscow. MICHAEL NIKOROVICH is a cataloger at Cheyney (Pa.) State College library. JUDITH 0PENLANDER has been named hu- manities librarian in the college library at University of Notre Dame. MRS. MARIANNE OPPENHEIMER is circu- lation librarian at Beaver College, Glenside, Pa. GERHARD H. ORTON is assistant in the catalog department at Temple University libraries, Philadelphia. 221 MRs. MAXINE 0TTE has been appointed assistant cataloger, Chicago Teachers Col- lege, North. NANCY PARSLY is a cataloger in the East- ern Baptist College library, St. Davids, Pa. MRS. SHERRILL PERRY recently joined the staff of the San Francisco State College li- brary as assistant social science librarian. IRWIN H. PIZER has joined the New York State University Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, as librarian. RICHARD G. PRESSER has been named as- sistant to the librarian at Manhattan School of Music library. DIANA PRIESTLY became librarian of the faculty of law at University of Toronto in January. MRS. HELENE RESHET AR has joined the acquisitions staff of the University of Wash- ington library, Seattle. REGINA SAU-LIN Ro joined the humanities division of the University of North Carolina library, Chapel Hill, in February. MRs. MARY E. RocouRT is now assistant in the catalog department at Northwestern University libraries, Evanston, Ill. SHIRLEY · RoDGERs has accepted a posi- tion in the business administration library at UCLA. RICHARD W. RYAN began his new duties as assistant catalog librarian at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in January. · WILLIAM RYAN is head of the humanities department in the college library at Uni- versity of Notre Dame. STEPHEN R. SALMON has accepted the post of assistant director of libraries at Washington University, St. Louis. Mr. Sal- mon has been assistant chief of the Library of Congress photoduplication service. ANITA M. SARGENT is a new reference division staff member at University of Washington libraries, Seattle. ALLEN ScHELL is a new member of the general science department in University of Notre Dame's college library. MARGARET JANE SCHNURE is assistant li- brarian and archivist at Susquehanna Uni- versity, Selinsgrove, Pa. RussELL SHANK, assistant university li- brarian at the University of California, Berkeley, will join the faculty of the school of library science at Columbia University at the start of the 1964/65 academic year. MRs. CAROL SKRENTNY . is a cataloger in the descriptive cataloging division of Li- brary of Congress. DANIEL C. SNIVELY is DOW assistant li- brarian at Indiana (Pa.) State College. MICHAEL J. SPENCER is a _reference li- brarian at Ohio State University libraries, Columbus. MRs. RuTH SPIECKER has been appointed science librarian at Northwestern Univer- sity, Evanston, Ill. MRS. Y ASUKO TERANISHI has been ap- pointed to the acquisitions staff at University of California libraries, Berkeley. RoBERT E. THoMASON has· been named assistant university librarian at University of California, Irvine campus. JAMES VoLNY is the new assistant head of the general science department in the U ni- versity of Notre Dame's college library. RoBERT WALLACE became librarian of the University of Kentucky's new Prestons- burg Community College in February. LARRY WELCH has been appointed cir- culation librarian at the University of New Mexico. ERNEST E. WEYRAUCH has been named education librarian at Indiana University. MRs. SuE WHETSTONE has been appoint- ed a member of the humanities department staff in the college library at University of Notre Dame. DoNALD K. WILSON became reference li- brarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in March. SARAH E. WILSON has been named li- brarian of the University of North Carolina chemistry library, Chapel Hill. WILLIAM G. WILSON is joining the staff of Enoch Pratt free library after four years on the staff of Beloit (Wis.) College library. Mr. Wilson has been head of reference ser- vices at Beloit for the past two years. BARTON L. WIMBLE is now a reference librarian at Chenery library, Boston Uni- versity. THEODORE 0. WoHLSEN is now a cata- loger at Rush Rhees library, University of Rochester (N.Y.). MARY H. YEAGER is now army librarian at Pirmasens library, Muenchweiler Hos- pital, D'Isly Kasern, Germany. 222 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES NECROLOGY CATHERINE ANDERSON, head cataloger at Tennessee state library and archives in Nashville, died on Dec. 15. Miss Anderson had been head of circulation at Joint Uni- versity Libraries and cataloger at Florida State University and at the University of Houston libraries. MRS. MARGARET WILSON FAYER, head li- brarian at Middlebury College's Starr· li- brary for eighteen years, died on January 26. HARRY W. HART, JR., since 1949 librarian at Columbia College, died on March 18. MRs. MARJORIE S. MARDELLIS, for the past nine years in charge of UCLA's Slavic cataloging program, died on March 17. HILDA L. RAYSON, a member of the Li- brary of Congress cataloging staff from 1935 until she retired in 1963, died on March 17. IRENE SAARIK, wbo was in charge of the school of nursing library at University of Toronto from 1956 until early 1963, died on February 29. CORWIN SEITZ, member of the staff of the University of Oregon library for more than thirty years, died on March 12. EuGENE P. WATSON, librarian of North- western State College at Natchitoches, La., since 1940, died on February 29. RETIREMENTS MRs. VIVIAN BouGHTER, librarian at West Liberty (W.Va.) State College has an- nounced retirement plans for July 1. PAUL HERMAN BucK will retire as direc- tor of Harvard University libraries and li- brarian of Harvard College on June 30, but will continue as university professor. JoLAN M. FERTIG retired as librarian and head of technical information at Westing- house research libraries in Pittsburgh on February 1. MRs. CECILE GINSBURG of the aerospace information division of the Library of Con- gress retired on March 13. FLoRA B. LUDINGTON, librarian of Mount Holyoke College since 1936 will retire in June. BERTA GERTRUD PLAUT retired as senior catalog librarian at West Virginia Univer- sity, Morgantown, in July. LOUISE G. PRITCHARD retired at the end of 1963 after twenty-seven years with the Library Association of Portland, Oregon, most recently as head of special collections. EUGENIE RAYMOND, head of the art and music department of the Seattle (Wash.) public library for twenty-three years, retired in January. FRANCIS R. ST. JoHN retired as head of Brooklyn public library at the end of last year, and has now been named research as- sociate at Columbia University school of library science. FRIEDA VAN DER HALBEN, librarian of the engineering library at University of Cincin- nati, retired in March after thirty-nine years with the university libraries. • • "Western Americana" AFTER careful consideration, the decision has been -made not to publish the proceedings of the Western Americana Institute, a preconference spon- sored jointly by the Rare Books Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the History Section of the Reference Services Di- vision, July 12-13, 1963. The following paper has been published: Archibald Hanna, Jr., "Some Shreds from Henry Wagner's Mantle," Antiquarian Bookman, 32(6) :459- 463. August 5, 1963. This was also scheduled to appear in the first issue of The American West. Several other papers are either scheduled for publication or are being considered by The American West, a publication of the Western History Association, A. R. Mortensen, Editor, University of Utah. • • MAY1964 223 STATE TOTALS OF 1,862 ACADEMIC LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, PERSONNEL LmRARY COLLECTIONS PERSONNEL Number Number Number of Number of Number of of pro- of non- volumes at volumes periodicals fessional professionalB STATE ENROLLMENT end of year added received (FTE) (FTE) Alabama 47,500 2,184,700 105,900 15,400 116.9 88.9 Alaska 3,000 81,200 12,400 900 5.0 5.0 Arizona 38,200 978,000 78,000 10,600 54.0 66.8 Arkansas 27,600 1,178,000 50,300 10,000 64.5 39.6 California 489,000 15,535,200 1,121,700 173,300 1,143.7 1,242.7 Colorado 49,700 2,396,500 163,400 18,300 115.5 140.5 Connecticut 55,200 6,918,300 214,100 17,100 207.9 291.0 Delaware 7,400 390,600 25,400 2,500 15.0 24.0 District of Columbia 42,800 2,398,500 121,700 15,100 117.5 94.6 Florida 78,000 3,023,100 217,500 30,700 225.5 253.8 Georgia 52,000 3,016,900 190,400 23,700 189.2 144.3 Hawaii 11,700 459,900 70,600 3,000 35.7 32.8 Idaho 12,000 470,100 28,500 5,500 35.0 31.6 Illinois 213,100 13,016,200 617,700 83,400 581.7 552.9 Indiana 102,900 5,326,500 285,000 45,400 268.8 350.9 Iowa . 60,100 3,511,000 160,200 21,500 154.3 152.1 Kansas 54,500 3,291,900 203,300 33,700 145.4 119.6 Kentucky 47,700 2,715,300 163,200 21,100 156.7 119.7 Louisiana 62,200 3,289,400 192,300 31,100 185.2 182.0 Maine 1,000 1,172,400 38,900 5,300 35.0 37.3 Maryland 57,700 2,804,800 197,900 21,700 159.8 161.3 Massachusetts 134,500 13,905,800 518,600 62,900 460.3 672.4 Michigan 164,200 7,126,000 432,200 74,700 396.8 364.3 Minnesota 82,600 4,099,100 178,900 25,500 190.1 153.9 Mississippi 36,900 1,410,500 72,900 11,400 97.7 55.0 Missouri . 86,600 4,804,400 215,400 34,300 227.5 209.0 Montana 13,900 683,700 36,000 7,400 42.5 29.3 Nebraska 32,800 1,691,600 65,100 15,600 80.2 65.5 Nevada 4,700 212,000 19,800 1,700 19.0 21.0 New Hampshire 13,600 1,358,000 49,700 7,000 57.1 69.8 New Jersey . 92,500 4,871,500 263,000 36,700 253.3 312.4 New Mexico 18,700 788,500 41,700 16,000 41.0 35.0 New York 377,700 19,057,800 1,001,300 122,000 1,085.7 1,196.4 North Carolina 77,500 5,590,000 341,900 32,200 280.8 274.9 North Dakota 13,900 686,30(} 29,900 6,000 36.5 18.5 Ohio . 185,600 9,214,500 439,100 56,000 396.6 447.7 Oklahoma 55,200 2,540,200 146,000 18,500 110.5 112.6 Oregon 38,600 2,234,700 169,000 19,300 131.4 130.8 Pennsylvania 200,600 11,164,000 565,800 77,800 598.4 641.1 Rhode Island 20,300 1,576,200 78,200 12,800 67.6 86.3 South Carolina 31,100 1,763,900 73,900 13,100 78.7 78.9 South Dakota 15,300 765,100 35,000 7,400 36.6 25.6 Tennessee 63,700 3,385,500 183,700 23,000 182.1 151.2 Texas 190,400 8,491,400 579,900 65,600 417.8 439.6 Utah . 35,600 2,117,400 140,500 17,700 82.5 61.4 Vermont 9,400 625,900 28,500 4,100 43.5 29.8 Virginia 60,100 3,982,500 176,900 23,300 163.7 186.7 Washington 70,700 3,138,500 172,900 34,300 180.9 239.2 West Virginia 31,600 1,240,000 61,100 9,700 57.3 81.4 Wisconsin 81,000 3,564,900 176,800 25,900 214.3 144.3 Wyoming 7,100 344,700 18,700 2,200 14.0 22.3 U.S. Service Schools 13,400 1,081,900 74,600 6,500 61.1 72.0 Outlying Parts: Canal Zone 500 11,700 600 100 1.0 1.0 Guam 1,000 9,500 1,700 300 2.0 2.0 Puerto Rico . 28,700 807,300 64,300 3,700 45.0 88.5 AND OPERATING EXPENDITURES, AGGREGATE UNITED STATES, 1961-62 OPERATING EXPENDITURES IN DOLLARS NUMBER OF HOURS OF STUDENT Sa.Iaries ASSISTANCE Total Wages Books Binding Other 226,700 1,660,100 897,100 147,500 482,900 62,900 75,700 4,300 149,700 69,000 9,000 57,800 5,500 8,500 86,600 1,194,500 577,700 91,200 437,600 47,500 40,600 126,200 874,100 453,100 71,900 279,300 32,200 37,600 492,400 23,302,300 12,451,900 2,260,300 6,646,400 833,700 1,110,000 202,000 2,242,600 1,119,400 193,200 768,300 74,900 ' 86,800 87,200 3,638,300 2,017,600 - 98,900 1,406,700 54,100 61,100 14,300 370,700 165,100 14,300 150,200 27,600 13,500 159,900 2,021,500 976,100 - 205i,900 651,200 67,100 117,200 250,400 3,748,900 2,038,100 209,600 1,186,200 126,200 188,900 201,000 2,926,100 1,546,400 176,200 967,700 93,700 142,100 61,100 789,400 354,200 66,000 303,000 18,400 47,800 44,100 541,100 285,200 54,200 158,600 14,000 29,100 869,000 10,705,400 5,718,000 969,300 3,094,900 302,200 620,900 407,400 4,826,200 2,432,500 465,800 1,496,500 185,000 246,400 273,600 2,777,500 1,339,100 269,800 878,100 134,400 156,200 341,100 2,569,300 1,163,000 298,900 898,600 94,200 114,700 243,200 2,359,200 1,164,500 174,700 800,000 107,100 112,800 375,500 3,452,700 1,780,300 267,100 1,106,400 129,500 169,400 52,900 594,400 299,900 57,200 187,600 21,100 28,600 140,600 2,693,600 1,496,400 143,600 687,300 95,900 90,300 428,500 9,615,900 5,275,200 660,000 2,384,500 335,800 960,500 680,800 7,426,400 4,105,300 715,200 2,091,000 205,800 309,100 298,800 3,351,000 1,717,600 347,600 1,022,100 101,800 162,000 172,400 1,216,500 616,600 102,800 398,100 53,200 45,800 332,200 3,571,400 1,828,400 305,200 1,100,000 140,000 197,800 44,300 626,000 321,200 54,400 180,900 23,400 46,200 142,000 1,288,100 662,400 121,900 382,600 43,900 77,300 32,000 397,400 192,300 41,900 136,600 14,100 12,600 54,800 988,200 538,800 62,000 249,400 29,100 108,900 187,400 4,361,000 2,509,800 260,300 1,319,200 83,100 188,600 64,100 747,400 347,700 54,500 279,000 37,800 28,800 981,900 18,145,200 10,287,900 1,623,500 4,679,300 577,900 976,600 461,500 5,041,000 2,414,900 349,500 1,869,900 .191,900 214,900 69,000 507,300 250,400 55,200 160,300 19,800 21,700 593,300 6,978,400 3,656,900 665,200 2,019,400 206,300 430,700 245,700 1,980,400 919,500 174,400 695,600 . 85,60Q 105,300 179,900 2,211,900 1,179,000 258,900 597,700 79,700 96,600 591,100 9,674,300 5,187,000 688,800 2,973,800 362,200 462,600 67,100 1,180,800 613,700 76,600 385,600 36,500 68,500 117,100 1,282,400 567,500 83,300 515,000 57,500 59,100 69,600 568,500 276,600 67,600 177~300 24,000 22,900 355,900 2,837,700 1,358,500 246,700 968,600 110,500 153,400 903,300 8,416,200 3,602,000 692,200 3,447,500 289,200 385,300 207,800 1,457,100 637,300 203,100 469,400 41,200 106,300 51,400 563,700 307,700 53,600 162,800 19,500 20,200 192,400 2,660,200 1,497,100 178,800 742,500 107,300 134,400 251,500 3,379,300 1,917,700 307,300 848,400 125,200 180,700 115,400 1,146,900 600,900 93,200 360,500 45,200 47,000 261,900 3,290,200 1,762,000 250,100 1,030,600 103,700 143,800 15,200 259,500 133,700 24,100 81,200 10,200 10,400 500 1,075,300 717,900 600 285,000 23,900 47,900 17,200 20,000 ' 13,400 6,600 28,100 17,600 - 9,700 800 102,300 817,300 464,000 73,800 238,800 ' 13,700 27,100 -Prepared by FrankL. Schick, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education Committee on Library Services THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION of the 1962 Special Committee on the ACRL Program (Jack E. Brown, chairman) read: "Encourage the development and im- provement of library services in college, university, and other research libraries through the establishment of a Committee on Library Services charged with publiciz- ing services that should be more widely adopted, by means of publications, insti- tutes, seminars, etc." Such a committee was subsequently ap- pointed (George S. Bonn, chairman), and in its discussions on the appropriate library services to be publicized it took the point of view of a library user rather than of a library administrator; the already well-pub- licized college library standards, it was felt, are more for the librarian than for the user. Very early in its deliberations the commit- tee realized that it would be impossible to formulate a library-wide statement on li- brary service that could be specific enough to satisfy every college and research library situation or, indeed, every librarian; that the most it should do would be to point out that authorized users of libraries are entitled to the best service possible; and that some users may not be aware of what they are missing. The following statement is offered as a preliminary working docu- ment to be read, refined, or adapted. RIGHTs oF LIBRARY UsERs The primary purpose of any library is to serve the reading, reference, . and research needs of its users. All authorized users of college and research libraries have a right to expect library services up to date and commensurate with their needs, provided by competent librarians and founded on adequate collections which are easily avail- able in suitable quarters. 1. The collection. (Standards for College Libraries, I and V). The library collection (books, periodicals, and other media of communication) should be sufficiently broad, authoritative, and up-to-date to sup- port effectively the instructional and re- search programs of the institution. The collection should include important basic reference works, as well as adequate bibliographic tools to exploit the collection efficiently. 2. Its accessibility. (Standards, V and VIII). All materials in the collection except rare or unusual works should be easily ac- cessible through direct selection from open shelves or through prompt delivery. Refer- ence works and bibliographic tools should be conveniently located for ready use. For special needs access should be pro- vided to the collections of other libraries through in-person consultation arrangements or through interlibrary loan and photo duplication facilities. 3. Its availability. Materials that circulate should be loaned for a reasonable length of time after which they should be made avail- able to other authorized users. Inexpensive photocopies of any part of the collection should be readily obtainable within the limits of the usual "fair use" re- striction. 4. Assistance in its use. (Standards, IV). Help and advice in the use of the library, its materials, and its services should be available at all times from competent pro- fessional librarians. For faculty and research needs, this help should extend to literature searching, bib- liography compilation, subject area guid- ance, and other specialized service as re- quired. 5. Instruction in its use. (Standards, VII). Instruction in the use of the library should be integrated with or closely related to regu- lar course work and should teach the or- ganization of library resources and develop skill in the use of bibliographic and refer- ence tools. The library staff may be expected to cooperate with the faculty in assuring that suitable training is offered. Both formal and informal instruction are desirable. and should make use of such aids as a handbook or guide to the library's re- sources, facilities, and services; orientation tours; visual presentations; and individual consultations. 6. Physical facilities. (Standards, VI). (Continued on page 228) 226 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES MALC in Indiana THE NINTH ANNUAL Midwest Academic Li- brarians' Conference, held at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame on April 17 and at Val- . paraiso University on April18, was attended by more than two hundred and fifty college and university librarians. As in the past, meetings were held on campuses which had new buildings. The fourteen-story Notre Dame library, to be dedicated in May, contains a basement, two large floors above ground, and a twelve story tower extending upward from the center of the building, with a penthouse. Special features of the very large struc- ture ( 429,780 square feet) include faculty offices in the basement; a luxuriously fur- nished subject divisional college library on the first two floors above ground; a state- ly rare book area separated into rooms for exhibits, reading, and stacks; a good work- flow relationship among the technical and public services; an audio area with 7 4 indi- vidual listening stations; and an impressive, massive mosaic covering the front of the tower. The Valparaiso library, dedicated in 1959, is a more traditional building in spite of its modern exterior. It has three 'levels. The entrance opens into a lounge, around which are the card catalog, circulation desk, and exhibit area. To the right is a periodical room; to the left is the reference room; and the stacks are in the rear of the building. The lower level will house seminar rooms, an audio-visual classroom, archives, a read- ing laboratory, and a rare book room. A new law library was dedicated in late April. A third building, the Memorial Chapel, re- cently built, should be mentioned for the solemnity provided by the design of the in- terior. At the ftrst afternoon meeting, Virgip.ia Clark, assistant editor for reviewing, CHOICE, moderated a panel on "A Philos- ophy of Book Selection for Smaller Col- leges." Participants included Peter Doiron, Oakland University, Carl H. Sachtleben, St. Louis University (librarian of Valparaiso University after September 1), Donald E. Thompson, Wabash College, and two Notre '<',MAy j 964 Dame faculty members. Many librarians were especially interested in CHOICE. The speakers for the evening included Frazier Poole, University of Illinois, Chi- cago, who clearly summarized the develop- ments and planning for the program of "Automation at the University of Illinois," and displayed charts explaining the pro- gram. George M. Bailey, executive secre- tary, ACRL, reviewed the role of the ACRL office. On Saturday morning we headed west- ward to Valparaiso where we heard a panel discussion on "Accreditation Practices and Implementation of Standards," moderated by James V. Jones, St. Louis University. Norman Tanis, Henry Ford Community College, reviewed the background of the development of the Standards and noted objections especially of junior college ad- ministrators. Mrs. Charlotte Knight, Wis- consin State College and Institute of Tech- nology, summarized the steps in preparation for a visit of accrediting agencies. Mr. Jones explained that North Central Association is made up of institutions. He noted how its accrediting program works. It aims to assist institutions in self-improvement. It is not a watch dog. It has a leadership pro- gram through which it hopes to secure the services of higher administrative officials in larger institutions and specialists, including librarians. However, all members of its visiting teams are responsible for appraising any part or all of an institution. Examiners are concerned with four points in looking at · a library: a general impression, staff and services, collections, and use. Noteworthy are the plans for the formation of a federa- tion of accrediting agencies. After lunch, Ted Samore, U.S. Office of Education, clarified. the procedure for col- lecting statistics for college and university 'libraries. Librarians have been asked to re- . port their statistics to state libraries to elim- inate duplication of effort, expedite the process of collection, and increase the rate of response. Questionnaires will be sent out . about August 1 for 1963 I 64 statistics. The analysis of 1961/62 statistics should be 227 available soon; for 1962/63, the analysis should be completed by fall. Stephen Ford, Grand Valley State Col- lege, in discussing "Guidelines for Estab- lishing a Liberal Arts College Library" em- phasized that his library will not be a book- less one as so widely reported. He is plan- ning for a collection of sixty thousand vol- umes. Features include a library-oriented faculty; study carrels with audio and video units in each, controlled from the circula- tion desk; and automated activity for serial renewals and other activities. An added feature was Mr. Ford's descrip- tion of the "Naked Patron"-provided by Sentronic, developed by General Nucleonics, Inc. This is a device "which automatically and without personal contact detects and locates the unauthorized removal of library property." It makes use of a piece of radio- active metal in the spine of a book and a machine which deactivates a book when charged out and reactivates the book when returned. What fun! The system has been installed in the Grand Rapids public library. The tenth MALC will be held at Beloit College, April 30-May 1, 1965. James F. Holly, Macalester College, will be chairman. -George M. Bailey. •• . . . Library Services (Continued from page 226) An adequate number of comfortable chairs should be provided in a well lighted, prop- erly ventilated, quiet atmosphere. Provision should be made for users to type, to read microforms, and to work in small groups without disturbing others. Studies or carrels should be generally available in the library building where fac- ulty members or research personnel can work on special projects near the books and periodicals they need. 7. Open hours. The library should be open and adequately staffed as many hours per week as possible, including week ends and during holidays and vacation periods. The present members of the ACRL Com- mittee on Library Service are Mrs. Frances N. Cheney; Harold D. Gordon; Arthur T. Hamlin; Mrs. Patricia B. Knapp; Laurence J. Kipp; Natalie N. Nicholson; George S. Bonn, chairman. • • Library Equipment Preconference 228 LIGHTING, audio facilities, flooring, informal furnishings, and mechanical book distribution will be discussed at a preconference institute on library equipment June 26-27 prior to the opening of the ALA annual conference in St. Louis. The registration fee of $12 should be sent to the LAD office at ALA headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. "Informal Furnishings for the Library" will be discussed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, architects. "Standards for Il- lumination" will be the topic of H. Richard Blackwell, director of the In- stitute for Research in Vision, Ohio State University, while Brock Arms, president of Interior Space Design Division of Perkins and Will, will speak on "Designs for Lighting." C. Walter Stone, director, Center for Library and Educational Media Studies, graduate library school of the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on "Listening Facilities in the Library," and Keyes Metcalf will speak about "Mechanical Distribution of Books in the Library." A rep- resentative of the American Carpet Institute and Armstrong Cork Com- pany will present ideas on "Flooring Materials for Libraries." On the evening of June 26, the group will tour the Washington Uni- versity libraries, and on June 27, St. Louis University library. • • COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES