College and Research Libraries University of Minnesota Libraries A Policy Statement for Their Government and Administration* (As Approved in 1963 by the Senate Library Committee and the Board of Regents) A. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COLLECTIONS The resources comprising the univer- sity libraries consist of all books, period- icals, maps, manuscripts, serials, news- papers, documents, microreproductions, archives, and such other materials as are commonly preserved in library collections, that are acquired for teaching and re- search purposes in the University, except for such publications as may be obtained with departmental funds and kept in in- dividual offices or in laboratories for in- ternal administrative or exclusively de- partmental use. B. ADMINISTRATIVE OR OPERATIONAL UNITS IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYSTEM The libraries comprising the university library system include all library service units that are staffed with a regularly scheduled librarian or assistant to main- tain and supervise the collection, and that are open . regularly for u'se by students or faculty members. C. DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES Pursuant to the Regents policy adopted on June .17, 1924, no departmental li- braries may be established or maintained without the approval of the President and the Board of Regents. Any request for such approval must be accompanied by a recommendation from the director of libraries and the Senate Library Com- * Excluding the law library and nnits outside of the Twin City area. mittee before it will be considered by the Board. The Office of Room Assignment and Scheduling shall assign space only for libraries that have been approved by the Regents. All such space assignments shall be made in consultation with the central library administration. Any new library that may be established hereafter shall be operated as a part of the centrally administered university library system. All funds that may be provided for develop- ing library collections, for equipping or for staffing libraries in the University shall be administered through the various ac- counts comprising the over-all university library budgets. D. THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE As is provided for in the Constitution and By-Laws of the University Senate, there shall be a standing committee on the library. Its duties shall be to consider and recommend to the Senate any resolu- tions with respect to the university librar- ies that may be deemed advisable and on request of the Senate, to inform it as t~ any matters affecting library policy and administration. Its members shall be ap- pointed in accord with the procedure gov- erning other standing committees of the Senate, but with a special effort to reflect, in its composition, the major broad sub- ject areas represented in the University's teaching and research programs. A prin- cipal function of the committee shall be to advise the director of libraries on mat- ters of policy, from a broad, university- 504 C 0 L L E G E A N D R E S EAR C H L I B R A R IE S wide point of view. The director shall be an ex-officio member, but not chairman, of this committee. E. THE DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES The authority and responsibility for the administration of all university libraries is vested in the director of university li- braries, an academic officer with the rank of professor and with the status of dean. The director of libraries is a member of the Administrative Committee of the Uni- versity Senate. F. DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR The duties of the director of libraries shall include, along with such other tasks as may be required to fulfill the responsi- bilities of his office, the following: 1. He shall administer all funds pro- vided from any source for library acquisi- tions, binding, personnel, supplies, and equipment. 2. He shall determine, in relation to campuswide needs and available funds, and with policy advice from the Senate Library Committee, how and where the library collections of the University shall be housed, cataloged, and staffed, in a centrally administered system of library service units. 3. He shall represent to the central University administration the needs of the various libraries, and shall prepare and submit all library budget requests and recommendations. 4. He shall develop, in consultation with the various departments concerned with the appropriate administrative of- ficers, and with the Office of Room As- signment and Scheduling, all recommen- dations for space for libraries. 5. He shall work with the various building committees, with the departments concerned, and with architects and others involved, in developing all plans for build- . ing, remodelling, or equipping space for the university's libraries. 6. He shall present for action by the Senate Library Committee, the President, NOVEMBER 1964 and the Board of Regents, recommenda- tions for the establishment of new units in the library system, or for any realign- ment of existing units that may be re- quired to meet the needs of the growing University. 7. Annually, following the close of each fiscal year, he shall submit to the President a report on the university li- braries, summarizing the year's develop- ments and achievements, outlining special problems as may seem appropriate, and citing the future needs of the library sys- tem. 8. As the responsible officer of the uni- versity libraries, the director shall de- velop, with the advice of the Senate Li- brary Committee, policies governing the day-to-day operation of the library sys- tem. This will include the determination of hours of opening, privileges for various categories of borrowers, penalties for in- fringement of library rules, policies on duplication of resources, the addition of new periodical subscriptions, conditions of use governing different kinds of library materials, and the like. 9. In order to maintain a qualified staff for the university libraries, the director shall make recommendations with regard to library positions, appointments, trans- fers, promotions, and terminations. He shall also recommend for the libraries such salaries and working conditions as may be needed to attract and retain a staff qualified to develop library collections and services adequate for the University's teaching and research needs, and to pro- vide satisfactory career opportunities for personnel in the library system. 10. As the officer primarily respon- sible for the administration of the univer- sity libraries, the director shall see that he, or such deputy as he may designate, shall represent the University at national, state, and local library conferences, and at interlibrary and interinstitutional meet- ings that may involve the university li- braries. 11. In order to assure a proper con- 505 sideration of the library costs and impli- cations of organizational changes in the University, or of the establishment of new teaching and research programs that may be contemplated, the director of libraries should be consulted with respect to these implications before final recom- mendations for such changes are made. tory of the University, one copy of each publication issued by university depart- ments or other units shall be sent by the issuing officer to the university archives; and no university records, whether com- mittee minutes and reports, departmental files, photographs, architectural drawings, or recordings, shall be destroyed or per- manently discarded without the approval of the university archivist or his desig- nated representative. Inactive files may be sent to university archives; or the ar- chives librarian will assist departments in determining what kinds of materials should be preserved for their historical G. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES As stated in the Board of Regents min- utes for January 6, 1928, the director of libraries has the responsibility and au- thority, as university archivist, to develop and maintain the university archives. In the interest of assuring the proper preser- vation of materials pertaining to the his- value. •• Subscriptions and Back Issues of CRL 506 SINCE JANUARY 1964 CRL has not accepted retroactive subscriptions. Present subscribers are asked to note that back issues are not supplied for late renewals. All new subscriptions and late renewals are entered to start with the next or second-next issue after receipt of order and payment by our subscription department, and expire with the sixth issue thereafter. Copies of back issues are available to fill out runs for about six months after publication date and may be purchased from the ALA Publishing Department at $1.25 per copy. Back issues of copies due on ACRL memberships are provided regard- less of when membership dues are paid, if still available, although stocks are apt to be short or exhausted within six months of publication. Claims for replacement of missing copies should be made within six months of publication. Copies of single issues of CRL before Volume XVII (1956) are no longer obtainable. Reprints of complete volumes from I to X are available from Kraus Reprint Corporation, 16 East 46th Street, New York 17. These reprinted volumes are NOT available from ALA or ACRL. At present, no reprints of volumes, nor single issues, are availabe for volumes XI through XVI. Reprinting of these volumes is planned by Kraus, however. Single issues of scattered numbers in volumes XVII through XXV (1956-1964) are available from ALA Publishing Department, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611, but no complete runs nor bound volumes for those years are available. Microfilm copies of CRL for all volumes and years from Volume I up to and including Volume XXIV are available from University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan. • • C 0 L L E G E A N D R E SEAR C H L I B R A R IE S News from the Field ACQUISITIONS BosToN UNIVERSITY libraries have been given the personal papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Chris- tian Leadership Conference and a spokes- man for the civil rights movement. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY, Rochester, Mich., has acquired from Peter Dolben of Toledo, Ohio, a collection of some one thousand items of nineteenth and twentieth century literature plus some hundreds of works of criticism in the field; materials, many now out of print, in the art field; a series of pri- vate press books, including numerous Kelm- scott and Nonesuch works; and items in sev- eral other fields. THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON library is a beneficiary under the will of the late Edward Godfrey Cox, and will receive some fifteen hundred volumes related to Gaelic studies, some quite rare. A collection of fifty-six items-first edi- tions of books and pamphlets by Richard Aldington also has been presented to the library, by Dr. Stanley Jackson. AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS THE CATHOLIC LIB~RY AssociATION an- nounces a scholarship in library science for the academic year 1965, for work toward a master's dgeree. Applications for the $600 scholarship are available from the Scholar- ship Committee, Catholic Library Associa- tion, 461 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pa. 19041. THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has made a $27,100 grant to Special Libraries Association for sponsorship of exchange of visits between USSR and United States spe- cial librarians in the science-technology field. The exchange is one of nineteen such pro- grams provided for in an agreement be- tween the United States and the Soviet Union. Six SLA members will leave for the Soviet Union probably in the Spring of 1965. They are John P. Binnington, Wil- liam S. Burlington, Mrs. Irma Johnson, Frank E. McKenna, Gordon Randall, and Winifred Sewall. NOVEMBER 1964 THE JoHN AND MARY R. MARKLE FouN- DATION has made a grant of $80,000 to Northwestern University for construction and furnishing of the historical stack area, reading room, and browsing room in the new research wing of the University's med- ical school. A FULBRIGHT GRANT, to serve as lecturer in library science at Dacca University, Dac- ca, East Pakistan in 1964-65, has been made to Vincent J. Aceta, associate professor of library science at State University of New York, Albany. MARY FRANCES PINCHES received the Case Achievement Award on October 13 at the President's Convocation at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland. Miss Pinches, staff member at Case since 1947, received an illuminated scroll and $1,000. THE OBERLY MEMORIAL AWARD for the best bibliography in the field of agriculture or related science issued by a United States citizen will be made during the years 1963 or 1964. Seven copies of the work should be sent to Francis P. Allen, Oberly Me- morial Award Chairman, University of Rhode Island library, Kingston, R.I., before March 15. Winner will be announced at the Detroit Conference in July. BUILDINGS STANFORD UNIVERSITY has scheduled for this autumn the start of construction of the new $5,200,000 undergraduate library. WEsTERN STATE CoLLEGE, Gunnison, Colo., dedicated its Leslie J. Savage library in October. The new building increases the library accommodation to six times its for- mer capacity. There will be seating for about one thousand students; volume capac- ity in the new building is close to two hundred thousand. The three-story, million- dollar structure provides some 57,000 square feet for library use. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (Tex.) will be- gin construction of an addition to the M. D. Anderson memorial library early in 1965. Preliminary plans for the $2,500,000 project provide for doubling the capacity of the present building. 507 MEETINGS THE CENTER FOR DocuMENTATION AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, School of Li- brary Science, Western Reserve University, sponsored a two-day conference on educa- tion of science information personnel on July 27-28. Addresses by Jesse H. Shera, A. D. Booth, and Alan M. Rees outlined the place of research in the education ~f science information personnel, and the role of mathematics in the new curricula; dis- cussions and workshops stressed the ad- vantages of interdisciplinary solution of the manpower training problem. Proceedings of the conference will be published. PARAMETERS OF INFORMATION SCIENCE was the topic of the American Documenta- tion Institute at Philadelphia on Oct. 5-8, with special reference to handling scientific, technical, legal, and management informa- tion. MISCELLANY Medical Library Association officers for 1964-65 are: President, Dr. Estelle Broad- man; Vice President, Dr. Alfred N. Bran- don; Secretary, Betty Withrow; Treasurer, Dr. Donald Washburn; member of the board of directors, Mrs. Lois B. Miller. Harold J. Mason has received a contract with HEW to conduct a study at Columbia University of "The Relationship between Academic Libraries and Industrial Research in the United States." The contract extends to the end of 1965 and amounts to $6,360. An important source of information will be replies to a questionnaire that will be cir- culated soon to large research libraries. Researching the Chemical Literature, by Melvin Guy Mellon, has been published by the American Chemical Society Fundamen- tal Journals Division, 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, whence copies may be obtained at 7 5¢ each. AN AGRICULTURAL CLEARINGHOUSE pro- gram established in the National Agricul- tural library last year now has been extend- ed to land-grant colleges, experiment sta- tions, and any firm or individual working in the agricultural or biological sciences. NAL maintains reco:r:ds qf bibliographies or trans- lations and documentation studies or sys- tems. Information is available to requesters, and the library asks that completed bibliog- raphies, translations, and information con- cerning mechanized information activities be supplied to the Program Coordination Services, National Agricultural Library, Washington, D.C. 20250. INDIANA UNIVERSITY libraries announce an administration reorganization on July 1, 1964. Robert A. Miller, director of libraries and Cecil K. Byrd, university librarian and associate director, share the major respon- sibility. Dr. Byrd becomes the executive officer for all library programs, operations and services, a formal assignment of respon- sibility that he has assumed over a period of twenty years as a library officer at In- diana. Dr. Miller is assigned primary respon- sibility for policy, building programs and public relations. , Assisting Dr. Byrd is Jane Flener, who is the library personnel officer and in charge of Bloomington branch libraries. Michael M. Reynolds became assistant director for the regional campus libraries on July 1, and reports also to Dr. Byrd. A new position, that of assistant director for operations and services, will be filled in 1965. The new position, reporting to Dr. Byrd, will have supervision of all services in a new central library building, which is expected to be oc- cupied in 1968. UNESCO COUPONS now may be re- deemed through an American bank-Bank- ers Trust Company of New York. The coupons are used to facilitate purchases of books, films and scientific materials when the buyer is located in one member state and the supplier in another. A SET OF SOURCE MATERIALS on Gandhi and by him is offered by the Navajivan Trust, to American libraries. These materials deal with various aspects of Gandhi's life and work and include over thirty individual volumes. The entire set is being made avail- able to libraries in this country for $38, with the trust absorbing shipping costs from India. Inquiries about the set of materials, including requests for a list of individual volumes in the set, may be directed to the Foreign Area Materials Center, University of the State of New York, State Education Department, 423 West 118th St., New York, N.Y. 10027. Orders for the set may be sent directly to the Navajivan Trust (P.O. Nava- jivan, Ahmedabad 14, India) or through the Foreign Area Materials Center. • • 508 C 0 L L E G E A N D R ESE AR C H L I B R A R IE S DEAN T. ANDREWS has been appointed head librarian at Grove City (Pa.) College. A native of New England, Mr. Andrews holds undergraduate degrees from Gor- don College, Beverly Farms, Mass.; the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theologi- cal School, Brook- line, Mass.; and graduate degrees in library science from Pratt Institute school of library science and in education from Columbia Uni- Mr. Andrews versity. Mr. Andrews began his career at Pratt Institute library in the engineering reference library and in the circulation department. Subsequently, he joined the staff of the New York public library, serving in the map divi- sion during World War II and at the cen- tral information desk. Mr. Andrews' experience also includes four years as head librarian of the school system of the YMCA of New York City. In 1953, Mr. Andrews joined the ranks of the Greek Orthodox clergy. Since that time he has held the position of librarian of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America. His responsibilities includ- ed the library of St. Basil's Academy, the library of the Greek Archdiocese and the library of the Holy Cross Theological School in Brookline, Mass. Among his publications, Mr. Andrews lists two editions of the Bibliography of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and an illustrated handbook for the use of the library. He is editor of a collection of forty contemporary sermons and has published a number of pamphlets. He is a contributor to the Bri- tannica Book of the Year and the Interna- tional Encyclopedia Year Book, and has contributed book reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Mr. Andrews is a member of ALA and NOVEMBER 1964 Personnel has served for two years as treasurer of the New England Technical Services Librarians. During his years in New York City he was chairman of the social sciences division of the Special Libraries Association in Greater New York. MERRILL G. BERTHRONG became director of libraries at Wake Forest College, Win- ston-Salem, North Carolina, on September 1, 1964. His task will be to prepare the libraries of Wake Forest, to support a full graduate pro- gram. He had been both librarian, ad- ministration, and li- brarian, service divi- sion at the Universi- ty of Pennsylvania prior to that date. Born · in Cam- bridge, Massachu- Dr. Berthrong setts, Mr. Berthrong received his BA in 1941, magna cum laude, from Tufts; served in the Air Corps as a pilot from 1942 to 1945; re- ceived his MA in history from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1947; entered the graduate school of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1950; was a Ful- bright research scholar in Paris in 1955-56; and received his PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. Mr. Berthrong taught history at the Uni- versity of Connecticut from 1947 to 1950. From 1951 to 1954 he taught history at the College of South Jersey, Rutgers Uni- versity, in Camden. In 1953 to 1954 he was an instructor in the University of Pennsyl- vania extension service. And in 1962-1963 he was a lecturer in ·the history department of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1954 Mr. Berthrong began work in the preparations division of the University of Pennsylvania library. After his return from Paris in 1956, he was made head of 509 the reserve book department. In 1957 he was promoted to head of the circulation de- partment. And in 1958, upon the retire- ment of Dorothy Bemis, he was made li- brarian, administration. In 1963 he as- sumed the responsibility of the service di- vision of the library in addition to the administration division. He has also served as secretary of the Haney Foundation since its inception in 1963. Mr. Berthrong is married and has three sons, the oldest of whom is a sophomore at the University and the youngest is in second grade. These are the bare bones of a life which for fourteen years, has been an integrai part of the University of Pennsylvania. These dates and titles and degrees fail to tell many things. They neither define nor describe the impress which Merrill Berth- rong has left upon the library of the Uni- versity and upon those who worked with him. They fail to tell all the things that he has done for every staff member. They do not portray the hard work, both mental and physical, which he has done. They do not describe the affection in which he has held the University library and the University; they do not indicate in the least the esteem and regard in which he is held by them. And they do not show the man of upright- ness and truth which he is.-Jesse C. Mills. From a job as a gravedigger there is no- where to go but up. FLOYD CAMMACK'S ca- reer has zoomed from a summer job as a gravedigger during his undergraduate days at the Univer- sity of Kentucky to his present, new po- sition as librarian of Oakland University, Rochester, Mich. There was more to the gravedigging than just a summer job. When interviews of candidates for Rhodes scholarships Dr. Cammack were held in Chica- go the next spring this unusual background set Floyd apart from the other aspirants. It also helped compensate for his lack of an athletic background, sports being some- thing for which there had been no time while he was working his way through col- lege. The ex-gravedigger (who had also been an outstanding student and a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Lexington) was awarded a scholarship to Oxford. Shakespeare immortalized gravedigging in Hamlet. Floyd (one can be sure) for- warded its prestige by doing a good job of it, for it is the hallmark of his work that he does a good job of whatever he under- takes. He did a good job at Oxford where he received his degree in 1956. He did a good job in library school at Columbia in 1956-57. He did a superb job as publica- tions officer and general aide to the execu- tive secretary of ACRL in an all-too-short year, 1957-58. To Floyd, librarianship is more than books and management; it is the inculca- tion of ideas and the use of books, man- agement, personnel, and all the other im- pedimenta of the profession to produce ideas. The better to prepare himself towards this end he left ALA headquarters after the summer of 1958 to become a doctoral can- didate in linguistics at Cornell. Before he had completed his dissertation and received his doctorate in 1962 he had taught and studied at Cornell and at the University of Hawaii, carried through a thorough inves- tigation of Bauat;t grammar as supervisor of a National Science Foundation project in Fiji, and, incidentally, travelled around the world picking up languages with the ease that most people collect souvenirs. While in Fiji Floyd received an ACRL research grant for the compilation of a preliminary bibliography of Pacificana. This was published in 1962 as Pacific Island Bib- liography. His other publications include ar- ticles on libraries in Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook, I958; World Book Encyclopedia Annual, I959; Americana Annual, 1958; and New International Yearbook, 1958. Without ever having really left librarian- ship as a profession (he had merely been adding to his assets for good librarianship by his further education) Floyd returned 510 C 0 L L E G E A N D R ESE AR C H L I B R A R IE S to active librarianship with his appoint- ment as assistant librarian at the Univer- sity of Hawaii early in 1962. At Hawaii he has been active in the planning of new facilities and new methods for a rapidly growing university and library. In addition to his duties in the library he taught a course in the university's department of linguistics and in 1962-63 served as lan- guage coordinator for the University of Hawaii's Peace Corps training program. He has been prominent in library circles in the islands and has been Hawaii's representative on the ALA Council. He has been a leader in planning for and working for library use of machines and was one of the first li- brarians to serve as part of Library USA at the 1964 World's Fair. Floyd Cammack brings a tremendous tal- ent and a tremendous energy to the librar- ianship of Oakland University. Gravedigger or not, he will not bury them there . ...:_Rich- ard Harwell. New director of the Peabody library school, ROBERT L. GITLER is admirably fitted for his new position. His educational background, his wide experience, his dedi- cation to library ed- ucation at its best, and his qualities of mind and heart which have dictated his career thus far, inspire confidence that he will continue to contribute to li- brary education the kind of leadership it must have. Dr . Gitler re- Dr. Gitler ceived his BA from University of Califor- nia (Berkeley) in 1930; a graduate certifi- cate of librarianship from the school of li- brarianship at the same institution in 1931; his MS from Columbia University school of library service in 1939. In 1956 he was awarded an honorary PhD from Keio Uni- versity (Tokyo) , one of five granted by that institution in its one-hundred-year his- tory. He began his library career at the Uni- NOVEMBER 1964 versity of California as a student library as- sistant from 1927 to 1930, where he was re- cruited to the profession by Sidney B. Mitchell, first dean of the school of librari- anship, and by JohnS. Richards, then asso- ciate librarian there. In 1.931 he became reference assistant and circulation librarian at San Jose State College (Calif.), serving in this capacity until 1936, when he became senior librarian and instructor. After a year's leave of absence during 1938/39, he returned to San Jose, but in 1942 as a new Navy Lieutenant (j.g.) he began his military service, concluded at the end of the war when Lieutenant-Commander Gitler re~ turned to librarianship. His war years were not wasted, for his personnel experience with integrated groups of Sea-bees and car- go-handlers for which he was responsible proved his success in human relations and his organizational ability. After teaching at Columbia during the summer of 1946, he accepted the directorship of the University of Washington school of librarianship. During the next five years he accom- plished much, as attested by one of the fac- ulty, Dorothy Bevis: "a larger faculty dedi- cated in his own manner; a complete revi- sion of the curriculum to meet changing standards and increased demands; the estab- lishment of scholarships and awards; a strong placement program; national and local professional activities, and a continual availability of office and home." His library service abroad began in Jan- uary 1951 in Tokyo, as founding director and professor of the Japan library school. And, .while in Japan, he worked and con- sulted with librarians in all areas of library service-public, academic, school and spe- cial. His success there was recognized by ALA Executive Director David H. Clift when announcing Gitler's appointment as secretary of the ALA Board on Education for Librarianship and executive secretary of the Library Education Division in N ovem- ber 1956: "Mr. Gitler's long educational experience in this country and abroad fit him admirably for creative and effective work in the Association's programs for the development and improvement of education in librarianship. He comes to his new post from a highly successful experience in 511 Japan. His contributions as the first direc- tor of the Japan library school have earned him the commendation of educators and li- brarians alike. He leaves behind him a new library school solidly grounded and effec- tively launched as an important social insti- tution in Japan." He was further recognized when he re- turned to Keio University as consultant and visiting professor from March to Septem- ber, 1961, receiving from the Japan Library Association a commendation and citation for distinguished service to the library world in Japan. In December 1961 he received from the Japanese government the Fourth Order of Merit with Cordon of the Rising Sun. Meanwhile, in the United States, Beta Phi Mu gave him an award for distinguished service to education for librarianship in the United States and abroad, in the same year. In late 1961 and early 1962, Dr. Gitler served as consultant and surveyor of library education programs at University of Ha- waii's East-West Center, University of San Francisco, Kansas State College (Emporia), and University of Washington, the latter proving that "you can go home again." He comes to Peabody from the directorship of the division of library education, New York State University College at Geneseo, where during the past two years he again expanded the faculty, coordinating its efforts and strengthening admissions criteria and pro- cedures for the division. He brings, by his own admission, a philosophy of library ser- vice and library education influenced by such men as Sidney B. Mitchell, John S. Richards, C. C. Williamson, and Ernest Reece; by such women as Edith Coulter, Helen Haines, and Isadore Mudge. He was fortunate in his acquaintance with these great names, as coming generations of Pea- body students will be fortunate in their ac- quaintance with Robert L. Gitler.-Frances Neel Cheney. RoBERT K. JOHNSON has heeded Horace Greeley's advice and has left his position as director of libraries at Drexel Institute of Technology to become university librar- ian at the University of Arizona. Dr. John- son is admirably fitted for his new position by virtue of a natural ability which has been given force and direction both by his aca- demic preparation and by his extensive ex- perience. He has the distinction of holding four earned degrees: an AB from Montana State University ( 1937), a BAL from the Uni- versity of Washington (1938), an MS from the University of Illinois ( 1946) , and a PhD, also from illinois (1957). But it is to his everlasting credit, and it is a measure of the man, that such a heavy load of learning rests lightly upon his shoulders. Nor does he make overweening display of his wide-ranging experience. His career began at the circulation and reference desks in the Pacific University library in 1938. After one year he was made acting librarian, and then in 1940 he went to Central College in Missouri as librarian. In 1942 he left the profession for four years, spending the first working for General Motors and the other three in the Navy as a communica- tions officer. In 1946 he returned simultaneously to civilian life and to Pacific University as head librarian, with the additional responsi- bility in the next year of acting director of the audio-visual center. From 1948 until 1952 he worked in the University of Illinois library, two years in the acquisitions de- partment and two years in the catalog de- partment. He then spent seven years at the Air University, all but the first year in the position of chief of technical services. In 1959 he went to Drexel as assistant director of libraries and became director in 1963 when the library was separated administra- tively from the library school. Dr. Johnson has been active in local, state, and national library associations, has occupied a variety of both elected and ap- pointed positions in all three, and has con- tributed to professional journals. His Philadelphia friends-and we are many-are sorry that he has forsaken us, for he is a man of warmth, of wit, and of easy companionship. But we share with his friends in the library profession, and they, too, are many, the confident expectation that he will do an outstanding job at Ari- zona.-Warren S. Owens. 512 C 0 LL E G E AND RES~ ARCH LIBRARIES RALPH SHAw is the professional version of President Eliot's educated person-a broad man sharpened to a point. Librarian, pub- lisher, professor, bibliographer, inven- tor-and self-critic. It is remarkable enough that Shaw thought of so many needed developments in librarianship be- fore the rest of us. It is even more re- markable that he then beat us to the evaluation of his Dr. Shaw ideas, identifying their limitations while we still marveled at their originality. I first met Ralph Shaw when he was li- br~rian of the Gary, Indiana public library. At the moment he was aglow with his most recent "invention," a plan for the circula- tion desk in a branch library which con- trolled traffic in and out of the building by means of one-way entrance and exit doors. There was no choice but to go out immedi- ately to see this. As we approached the building a woman was trying her best to open the entrance door from the inside- the wrong way-with a nail file, presumably to save the few steps to the exit. The woman turned out to be the branch librarian! Ralph is the first to tell this story on himself. It was also at Gary that he developed transac- tion charging and the use of photography in circulation control, and I never saw any- body make that work backward. It will come as no surprise to those who know Shaw that he more than held his own in that somewhat select company that in- habited the graduate library school at the University of Chicago in the 30's. When I think of GLS then, I think first of Louis Wilson beaming at whoever happened to be speaking, and then of Shaw glaring at the same individual. Ralph Shaw went on to the Department of Agriculture. He made it at once a library that served those engaged in agriculture, a force within the complex of federal libraries, and a base for his ·notable work on mechan- ical control of bibliographic information. NOVEMBER 1964 In this same period Scarecrow Press was started, in the basement of a house in Georgetown, where Ralph and Viola enter- tained their friends while wrapping books ordered from the first Scarecrow list. This is not just another publishing house, but a venture built on manuscripts that otherwise would not see the light of print, and more- over built to come out on the credit side of the ledger. Ralph Shaw had it made; from that time on be could coast. It was precisely then that he picked up and went to Rutgers, starting a fresh career as teacher. His students like to reminisce about what an exciting time they had in his classes. I visited some of those classes, and I know why the students refer to excitement, but the strong immedi- ate impression I had of those sessions, look- ing through the eyes of the students, is that they were mentally uncomfortable. It was only later that they realized they had been doing some new thinking. These have been Ralph Shaw's most pro- ductive years. Work with black boxes from 6 AM to 9 AM, teaching from 9 to 1, pro- fessional projects and writing from 1 to 5, and conversation, bridge, or poker as late as anyone would stay awake at night. I am not sure which of these got him elected president of ALA, but he also fitted this into the Rutgers years. Now I hear it said that Shaw is retiring to a job in Hawaii, one with the long title of Professor of Library Service and Assist- ant to the President for Libraries, Univer- sity of Hawaii. If I know anything about human nature, this is not a man who retires. He has many abilities, but retirement is not one of them. To me the Hawaiian assign- ment is the next chapter in the Shaw biog- raphy, and I suspect be picked the job not 'so much because of the climate as because no one has made an East-West library be- fore, and he proposes to do so. Even the most casual acquaintance is conscious of the Shaw sparkle and virtuos- ity. Those who have tangled with him know his unrelenting energy in combat. But this should in no way obscure a quality of integ- rity that burns steady, evident alike in large professional matters and little personal nice- ities. Not kindness, not tolerance, but old- fashioned probity, assuming this means sim- 513 pie fairness and straightforwardness of con- duct. Finally, tradition and courtesy would call for reporting that Shaw has mellowed, now that he has a few years behind him. But we are talking about a whisky with a bite, not one of those light, bland, diluted drinks. -Lowell A. Mart in. APPOINTMENTS ABDUL JABBAR ABDURAHMAN is a cata- loger in the foreign languages section, de- scriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. ERIKA AMSTUTZ is now on the cataloging staff at University of Washington libraries. RICHARD ARNOLD has joined the catalog department at York University libraries, Toronto. JACQUELINE G. BARNETT became refer- ence assistant at Texas A&M University library on August 1. MRS. JOYCE BARNUM is with the refer- ence division at University of Washington libraries. ROGER BEASLEY is participating in the library intern program at Indiana University library. MRs. RosANNA L. BLAKELY is working with the development of libraries at regional campuses of Indiana University. W. C. BLANKENSHIP is associate professor of library science at Wisconsin State Uni- versity, Whitewater. Mr. Blankenship has been librarian at Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Tex. GEORGE BoNN has accepted appointment as head of the science and technical services departments and professor of library service, University of Hawaii, starting Feb. 1. GEORGE BoNNET is on the college library staff at UCLA. NANCY BooNE is art and architecture li- brarian at Washington University libraries, St. Louis. CALVIN J. BOYER on July 1 was appointed head of the acquisitions department at Texas A&M University library. MRs. NANCY BRAULT has accepted ap- pointment to the engineering and mathe- matical sciences library staff at UCLA. RAY BRIAN has been named librarian of California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Brian has been acting librarian for the past year. MRs. JoAN BROWN has joined_ the library staff of Central Florida Junior College, Ocala. PHYLLIS BROWN has been named to the newly created position of science and tech- nology librarian at Texas A&M University. MRS. JUDY BROWNING is in this year's library intern program at Indiana University. GLENN L. BRUDVIG assumed the duties of librarian of the biomedical library at Uni- versity of Minnesota, on October 1. PHILIP M. BURNETT is liaison librarian for economics and government at Indiana University. MARY CARPENTER has been appointed as- sistant librarian in technical services at the library of the State University of New York at Albany. PHYLLIS B. CARTWRIGHT has been named an assistant librarian at Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C. MRs. SusAN CHAPMAN is newly appointed education librarian at UCLA. BERNICE CLOUTIER is now a cataloger at Purdue University libraries. MRs. MARY FRANCES CoLLINS has been appointed assistant librarian in technical services at the library of the State Univer- sity of New York, Albany. MRs. SANDRA CoWLING became bibliog- rapher in the order department at Indiana University library on July 1. J. CEDRIC CROFTS was appointed to the acquisitions staff of University of California general library, Berkeley, and will specialize in the Western European language area. CHARLES G. CROZIER has been appointed circulation librarian at Rider College, Tren- ton, N.J. RICHARD R. DAUBERT joined the Purdue University libraries cataloging staff. HAzEL DEMEYER is librarian in the Edu- cational Resources Center at Western Mich- igan University. JAMEs ELROD has joined the staff of the music library at Indiana University as a cataloger. HANS ENGELKE is order librarian at West- ern Michigan University. ANN ERWIN has been named documents librarian at University of Houston (Tex.). PETER L. FENTON now is in charge of special collections at Bowdoin College li- brary. WILLIAM H. FISCHER is an intern this 514 C 0 L L E G E A N D R E S EAR C H L I B R A R IE S year in the Indiana University library pro- gram. MRs. JosEPHINE FLORY is assistant co- ordinator of regional campus libraries, Pur- due University. FRED GARDNER is a member of the library intern program at Indiana University this year. MRs. LUCILLE GILCREAST has joined the staff at Immaculate Heart College as peri- odical librarian. NELSON GILMAN has joined the library staff of the administrative office of UCLA. THOMAS GLASTRAS is a new member of the documents department at Indiana Uni- versity library. SARAH VIRGINIA GRAY is the newly ap- pointed periodicals librarian at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. MRs. GwEN M. GREENE became assist- ant librarian of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va., on September 1. ANNE GRIFFIN is now head librarian of the theater arts library, UCLA. MARGARET HACKWORTH is a cataloger in the English language section of the Library of Congress's descriptive cataloging divi- sion. KENNETH HARRis is assistant reference librarian at Western Michigan University. ADRIEN C. HINZE became foreign law librarian at Biddle library, University of Pennsylvania, on September 1. ELIZABETH HIZA has been named to the cataloging division at Stanford University libraries with special responsibility for science materials. SHARON RoGENE HuBBARD began her work as assistant to the head of the refer- ence department at Texas A&M University library on September 1. RoBERT IvEY has been appointed cata- loger in the Olin library, Washington Uni- versity, St. Louis. RICHARD D. JoHNSON is now chief librar- ian of the undergraduate library project at Stanford University. MRs. EDWARD KABELAC is cataloger at Wells College library. MRs. MARY S. KARL has joined the refer- ence department of Western Michigan Uni- versity's Waldo library. ROBERT ANTHONY KARLOWICH has been appointed head of the Slavic acquisitions NOVEMBER 1964 section of Columbia University libraries, ef- fective August 19. . MRs. JoYcE KEMPER is a member of the acquisitions division of University of Wash- ington libraries. JENNY KETCHAM is working in the library intern program at Indiana University li- brary. DAVID J. KITTELSON has been named li- brarian of University of Hawaii, Hil campus. MRS. ELIZABETH KNAPP is now librarian of Leslie Frost library, York University, Toronto. MRS. LAURA KUELTHAU has been ap- pointed assistant chief of circulation in Olin library, Washington University, St. Louis. MRs. GEORGENE LAWRENCE is a new member of the documents department of Indiana University library. DoROTHY LEE has been named an assist- ant librarian at Converse College, Spartan- burg, S.C. MRs. GERTRUDE LEE is now an assistant in the order department, Western Michigan University's Waldo library. MRs. BARBARA McCUNE joined the cata- loging staff at Indiana University library in September. KATHERYNE TOMSON MALLINO is now assistant librarian at Indiana State College, Indiana, Pa. CHRISTOPHER MONTGOMERY is a senior cataloger at Olin library, Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, Conn. IRENE MoRAN joined the ·Bancroft divi- sion of the catalog department, University of California, Berkeley, on August 3. GRANT W. MoRsE has been named head librarian of Wagner College, Staten Island, New York. RoBERTA Moss became serials cataloger at Texas A&M University on September 1. ELLIS MoUNT has joined the Columbia University libraries as science and engineer- ing librarian. HERBERT NATH has been appointed to the reference staff at the Citadel (N.C.) library. MRs. DoRis HARLAN OWEN has accepted a position in the cataloging unit, technical services section, National Institutes of Health library. PADMANABH K. PATIL is a cataloger in the English language section of LC's descriptive cataloging division. 515 MRs. ADRAN PAYNE is working in the undergraduate library at Indiana Univer- sity. . CLYDE J. PETERMAN became assistant librarian at Beloit College libraries on July 1. He is in charge of reference services. MRs. AMY K. PETERSON is government documents librarian at Wisconsin State Uni- versity, Whitewater. MRs. NANETTE PLOTKIN joined the en- gineering library staff of MIT on September 1, as assistant with special responsibility for civil engineering and naval architecture col- lections. RoBERT RAYMOND is on the acquisition , staff of University of California general library, Berkeley, and has been working there since August 19 as Russian bibliog- rapher. JAMES HENRY RENZ became assistant li- brarian at College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., this autumn. JAMES M. REYNOLDS, now assistant li- brarian at Indiana University, is charged with responsibility for developing regional ·campus libraries. EVERETT E. RICE is now a member of the cataloging staff in the English language sec- tion, descriptive cataloging division, of LC. PAUL W. RILEY on September 1 became associate director of Boston College li- braries, a new position. MRs. DOROTHY ROBERTSON has been ap- pointed chief cataloger at York University libraries, Toronto. S. DONALD ROBERTSON is now serials li- brarian at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater. SISTER MARIE ROSAIRE has been appoint- ed head librarian at Immaculate Heart Col- lege. DoNALD F. SAWYER is with the under- graduate library activation project at Stan- ford University. DoN ScHNEIDER is interning in the library program at Indiana University. WILLIAM H. ScHOLZ joined the MIT science library on September 14, as assist- ant librarian for metallurgy, chemical and nuclear engineering. KURT SCHWERIN was appointed librarian of Northwestern University school of law on September 1. OM PRAKASH SHARMA has joined the Asian languages section of the descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. MRs. EMMA SIMONSON is liaison librarian for Latin American studies at Indiana Uni- versity. PEGGY ANN SLAUGHTER has joined the descriptive cataloging division's foreign languages section, Library of Congress. MRs. JANE SMITH is on the staff of the undergraduate library at Indiana Univer- sity. JENNIE A. SPURGEON has been appointed · reference assistant at University of Delaware library, Newark. BRUCE W. STEWART has been named to a new position at Texas A&M University library-that of data processing supervisor. GoRDON SToNE is now head of the music division of the Free Library of Philadelphia. He had been head of the music library at UCLA. RoBERT B. STONE has accepted the posi- tion of reference assistant in University of New Hampshire library. PAUL R. STOTT has been appointed senior assistant librarian of Krannert graduate school of industrial administration, Purdue University. RoY SUDLOW is reader services librarian at University of Delaware. RAY R. SuPUT has been named assistant director of the I. F. Freiberger library at Western Reserve University, Cleveland. ELIZABETH SWAIM is now a cataloger in Olin library, Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Conn. MRs. GLENDORA SwAIM is in the library intern program at Indiana University. CHARLES SzABO is a serials cataloger in the descriptive cataloging division of Library of Congress. LAszLo SzEGEDI is on the staff of the catalog department of York University li- braries, Toronto. ELDON W. TAMBLYN has been appointed to the catalog division of Stanford Univer- sity libraries, specializing in Slavic materials. ELAINE TEIGLER has been assistant li- brarian and head of readers' services at Northwestern University school of law since September 1. STANFORD TERHUNE has joined the Bow- doin College library staff, and is in charge of acquisitions. FLEMING A. THOMAS is working with the 516 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES development of libraries on the regional campuses of Indiana University. MRs. DELLENE M. TwEEDALE is a mem- ber of the descriptive cataloging division manuscripts section at Library of Congress. KAREN E. VAN DYKE has been librarian of the veterinary medical library of Texas A&M University since July 15. Lms G. VoTAPEK is a new member of the English language section of LC's descriptive cataloging division. ANNETTE VoTH is working on American and English publications in the acquisitions department of University of California gen- eral library, Berkeley. KATHLEEN WAHL is a, new member of the acquisitions department's bibliographical section, University of Washington libraries. SHARON WALBRIDGE is now an assistant in the catalog department of Western Michi- gan University's Waldo library. MARY ANN WALSH is the new reference librarian at Rider College, Trenton, N.J. MRs. ANN CHIH-CHING WANG has joined the catalog staff at Western Michigan Uni- versity libraries, Kalamazoo. HANS H. WEBER is the new book order librarian in University of Washington li- braries, acquisition division. MRS. EVELYN WERBER was appointed on August 3 to a new position in the documents department in University of California gen- eral library, Berkeley. HERBERT S. WHITE has been named di- rector of the Scientific and Technical In- formation Facility operated by Documenta- tion, Inc. for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. THEODORE WIENER, on leave from his position as head cataloger of Hebrew Union College, will be supervisor of the Hebrew language unit of Library of Congress's de- scriptive cataloging division for one year. DoNALD G. WILSON has joined the staff of the library of the State University of New York, Albany, as head of technical services. DoNALD R. WITTIG is a new member of the catalog division at Stanford University libraries, with special responsibility for music and science materials. RICHARD J. WoLFE has joined the staff of the Lilly library, Indiana University. MRs. MARY WoLFLEY became a staff member of the documents department at NOVEMBER 1964 University of California general library, Berkeley. MRs. CHLOE WooD has joined the staff of UCLA's engineering and mathematical sciences library, as a volunteer worker. She is a retired librarian who has served in University of Kansas library, USC engineer- ing library, and Office of Naval Research library. MRs. PEARL Wu is a cataloger in the Library of Congress descriptive cataloging division's Far Eastern languages section. TINNA K. Wu is now assistant reference librarian in charge of serials and documents at Beloit College libraries. MARGERY ZUMSTEIN has been appointed education and psychology librarian at Pur- due University. NECROLOGY MRs. ALICE S. ALBEN, librarian emeritus of Centenary College, Shreveport, La., and a member of the Centenary library staff from 1940 to 1963, died on Oct. 9. NICHOLAS R. RomoNOFF, a member of the staff of the Slavic division of the Library of Congress from 1925, head of the division after 1930, and later a member of the air information division staff, died on August 10. CoRA EDGERTON SANDERS died early in September. For ten years curator of the William Andrews Clark memorial library at UCLA, she retired twenty years ago. RETIREMENTS EDWARD A. HENRY began his library career in 1906 as divinity librarian in the University of Chicago. He moved in 1928 to the directorship of libraries at the University of Cincinnati, whence he retired for the first time in 19 51. After five additional years as senior cataloger at the Joint University Li- braries, Dr. Henry retired a second time, only to accept the post of librarian of the basic science division at the University of Miami school of medicine. After seven and one-half years there, on May 31, 1964, Dr. Henry retired for the third time. He says he has now retired for good. WILLIAM R. ROALFE retired as librarian of the Northwestern University school of law on August 31, 1964, but will remain at the law school as professor of law emeritus. 517