College and Research Libraries ACRL President's Report, July 1965 THE VITALITY of any professional organi- zation can be judged by the activity and participation of its members. Using this criterion, the Association of College and Re- search Libraries can enjoy a sense of satis- faction in the year just past. The president and the board of directors function in an executive capacity, and with the help of the Planning and Action Com- mittee, give guidance and direction to the program of ACRL. The real work, however, is dependent upon the interest and en- thusiasm of the committees and their indi- vidual members. This year has had several important de- velopments, some necessitating the ap- pointment of special committees on an ad hoc basis. One of these, the College Library Section Ad Hoc Committee on Non-Western Resources has received encouragement and cooperation from the Association of Amer- ican Colleges and the United States Office of Education in seeking a grant to further its interests, through a study of data col- lected by the Association of American Col- leges in 1964. Another, the ACRL Ad Hoc Research Committee has worked on the problem of support for the efforts being made by the President's Office of Science and Technology toward national coordina- tion of resources. The Committee on Library Services, tin~ der the chairmanship of Patricia Knapp de- veloped a preliminary statement on "Rights of Library Users." A copy of this statement was sent to the AA UP for information since they are working on a statement of "Faculty Responsibility for the Academic Freedom of Students." The development of a draft statement "Guide to Methods of Library Evaluation" is well along and represents considerable work on the part of the ACRL Liaison Com- mittee on Accrediting Agencies. The Conference on Library Surveys, June 14 to 17 at Columbia University was co- sponsored by the School of Library Service of that institution and ACRL, under the direction of Maurice Tauber. This, along with continued work on a manual for sur· I 340 veyors and consultants, is the work of the ACRL Committee on Library Surveys. The Advisory Committee on Cooperation with Educational and Professional Organi- zations continues to extend relations by at- tendance and participation in meetings such as that of the American Academy of Polit- ical and Social Science where Stanley West represented ACRL. Plans are being made for a meeting with representatives of labor unions during the Detroit Conference. The ACRL Standards Committee has projected a work session at Detroit on "Li- brary Services for College Extension Cen- ters" to which representatives of regional accrediting agencies have been invited, as well as from other associations concerned with extension work. The work of the Membership Committee of ACRL, Frances Kennedy reports, has been a statistical study of all colleges and universities in the American Library Di- rectory for 1964. Head librarians not mem- bers of ALA were identified, and then a further check made to see how many of those were in colleges holding institutional membership. Data provides useful informa- tion for follow-ups which the committee sees as its work for the coming year. Another illustration of cooperative effort is found in the establishment of a joint committee with the American · Association of Junior Colleges. The AAJC-ALA Com- mittee on Junior College Libraries had its . first meeting at Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California, May 26 to 28 with fi- nancial assistance from the Council on Li- brary Resources. The Academic Status Committee of the University Libraries Section has completed four papers for publication, one of which appeared in the January 1965 issue of CRL, another in the May 1965 issue. Others are scheduled for publication later this year. Of especial significance is the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Community Use of Academic Libraries. Mr. Josey and his committee have initiated a study of com- munity use, nature of services offered, and extent or limitation of these services. j + j I t t- ACRL President's Report, July, 1965 I 341 These are but a few of the activities of PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIANS various committees chosen from the annual reports submitted to the president and to the executive secretary. Other committees have been equally active and their work constitutes a major contribution. One al- ways runs the risk in selecting a few items for comment of overlooking the more im- portant. Participation in the meetings of the ACRL Board of Directors as vice-president in 1963-64 made obvious the difficulties im- posed by the size of the board. In an effort to achieve a more effective relationship, the Planning and Action Committee undertook certain changes which would reduce the number of members. First, the Teacher Ed- ucation Libraries Section, by vote of , its members is being discontinued this year. Second, the proposed amendment to Article V of the constitution would eliminate the past chairmen of sections from membership on the board. Another proposed amendment provides for chapters to be organized. This would encourage the establishment of new chap- ters, and legalize the existence of some still active from earlier efforts in this :field. Such action was recommended by the ACRL Committee on Organization in its Report of June 1960, but never implemented. One other action this year has been ac- complished through the Publications Com- mittee, that is, the determination of terms of office of each of the editors of ACRL publications. The legislative Advisory Committee to the President has had an important part in support of the proposed Higher Education Act of 1965. As president of ACRL, I ap- peared before the House Subcommittee on Education in support of this legislation in March 1965. Along with me were Robert Downs, John Scott, and Jean Lowrie. At the hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Edmon Low and Morris Gel- fand were our representatives. Altogether the year has been one of con- siderable activity, and one which shows progress and promise for even greater par- ticipation on the part of ACRL in the Amer- ican Library Association and its program.- Archie L. MeN eal. • • (Continued from page 298) grave misconduct inimical to the best interest of the institution. In all cases where the facts are in dispute, charges in writing are presented to the library staff member, and the matter is consid- ered by a committee of his peers. Any- one against whom charges have been made is given due notice, is presented with the written charges and is allowed a reasonable opportunity to reply. The rights of representation, submission of evidence, and the introduction of wit- nesses shall be granted to both the insti- tution and the person charged, and a full record of the hearings shall be kept. The committee shall make findings of fact, and such recommendations as it may deem appropriate shall be submitted to the president of the institution. A profes- sional librarian on continuous appoint- ment who is dismissed for reasons not involving moral turpitude shall receive his salary for at least a year from the date of notification of dismissal, whether or not he is continued in his duties at the institution. Termination of a continu- ous appointment because of financial ex- igency should be demonstrably bona fide . The administrative officer's right to dismiss a staff member for a particular cause may be lost if he fails to inform his staff member of the unsatisfactory nature of his services and does not take the prescribed action within a reasonable time. While the above statements are rec- ommended for adoption by library ad- ministrations where professional librar- ians are accorded faculty rank and title, in institutions where librarians are under another system, -the library administra- tion is advised to establish a tenure pro- cedure similar in nature and principle to that described above. The foregoing statements represent an effort to formal- ize the best current practice, rather than a marked departure from present prac- tice. •• ACRL Elections and Appointments R ALPH E. McCoY was elected vice presi- dent and president-elect of ACRL and as- sumes the duties of the office at the close Dr. McCoy of the Detroit Confer- ence. Dr. McCoy has been director of librar- ies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, since 1955; in 1963/ 64 he also served as as- sistant to the vice pres- ident for planning at SIU. He began his career at Marissa, Ill., as high school librarian in 1937; went to the Uni- versity of Illinois college of agriculture as assistant librarian the following year, and a year later became editor of publications at Illinois State Library where he remained until 1943. He served as librarian of the quartermaster technical library, Fort Lee, Va., during 1946/ 48, and from 1948 to 1954 he was librarian of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at Univer- sity of Illinois. Dr. McCoy earned his baccalaureate de- gree at Illinois Wesleyan University in 1937; his BSLS from the University of Illinois in 1939, his MS in 1950, and the PhD in 1956. He was a member of the ACRL Univer- sity Libraries Steering Committee in 1960/ 61 and president of the Illinois Library As- sociation in 1956/ 57. His published work includes Personnel Administration in Librar- ies ( 1953) ; History of Labor and Unionism, a Bibliography ( 1953); and Development of Library Censorship in Massachusetts ( 1956); he served on the advisory com- mittee for Collected Works of John Dewey. ACRL directors-at-large, to serve from 1965 to 1969 are Thomas R. Buckman, Uni- versity of Kansas, Lawrence, and James H. Richards, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. SECTION OFFICERS The College Libraries Section elected Martha L. Biggs, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill., as chairman for 1965/66; H. Lee Sutton, Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, as vice chair- I 342 man and chairman-elect; and Robert W. Evans, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, as secretary. Junior College Libraries Section members chose Harriett Genung, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, Calif., as vice chairman and chairman- elect and Helen Paragamian, Pine Manor Jun- ior College, Wellesley, Mass., as secretary. The Rare Books Section's new officers are William H. Runge, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, vice chairman and chairman- elect; and Julius P. Barclay, Stanford Univer- sity, Stanford, Calif. , secretary. Subject Spe- cialists chose Mary E. Schell, California State Library, Sacramento, as vice chairman and chairman-elect. John M. Dawson, University of Delaware, Newark, is the chairman-elect of the University Libraries Section, and Lorna D. Fraser, York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada, is secretary. SUBSECTION OFFICERS The Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sub- section of the Subject Specialists Section named Roy L. Kidman, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, as vice chairman and chairman-elect; Mrs. Pauline W. Jennings, National Agricultural Library, Washington, D.C., was named secretary. The new vice chairman, chairman-elect of the Law and Po- litical Science Subsection is Jane Wilson, The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, Calif. ; the member-at-large of the executive committee is Hans E. Panofsky, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Bohdan S. Wynar, University of Denver, Denver, Colo., is vice chairman, chair- man-elect of the Slavic and East European Subsection; member-at-large of the executive committee is Alex Baer, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles . CoMMITTEE APPOINTMENTs Archie L. McNeal, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. , past president of ACRL, becomes chairman of the Budget Committee and Ralph E. McCoy, president-elect of ACRL becomes an ex officio member of the committee. Edward Heiliger, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, is the new chairman of the Ad- visory Committee on Cooperation with Educa- tional and Professional Organizations; Scott Adams, National Library of Medicine, Bethes- da, Md.; Carl W. Hintz, University of Oregon, Eugene; and John P. McDonald, University of Connecticut, Storrs, are new committee mem- bers. Bernard Rink, Northwestern Michigan J I 1 j 1 ACRL Elections and Appointments I 343 College, Traverse City, has been named chair- man of the Audio-Visual Committee, new mem- bers of an enlarged committee are D. Nora Gallagher, Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y.; Harriett Genung; Mrs. Alice B. Griffith, Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, N.Y.; H. Joanne Harrar, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S.C.; Albert P. Marshall, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.; and James B. Watts, St. Petersburg Junior College, Clear- water, Fla. The Advisory Committee to the President on Federal Legislation has added Archie L. McNeal to its roster. Arthur T. Hamlin, Uni- versity of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been reappointed chairman of the Grants Com- mittee; the Rev. Vincent R. Negherbon, St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa.; and M. D. Sprague, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., are new committee members. James V. Jones, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., has accepted chairmanship of the Committee on Liaison with Accrediting Agencies; and Eileen Thornton, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, has been reappointed to the committee. The chairman of the Committee on Library Service, 1965/ 66, is Mrs. Patricia Knapp, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., reap- pointed for another year. D. K. Berninghausen, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Marjorie E. Karlson, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., are new committee members. Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia University, New York, is again chairman of the Committee on Library Surveys, succeeding last year's chair- man Mark Gormley. Richard Harwell, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., and Edwin E. Wil- liams, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., complete the five-member committee. The Mem- bership Committee will be chaired again this year by Frances Kennedy, Oklahoma City Uni- versity; Ann Herron, Murray State College, Murray, Ky., represents the College Libraries Section; and Ralph Hopp, University of Min- nesota, Minneapolis, the University Libraries Section. Junior College Libraries and Subject Specialists sections representatives have not yet been named. Robert Adelsperger, Univer- sity of Illinois, Chicago, represents the Rare Books Section. The National Library Week Committee' chair- man will be R. Kent Wood, Utah State Uni- versity, Logan. H. W. Apel, Marshall Univer- sity, Huntington, W. Va.; Monroe Hopkins, Hannibal-LaGrange College, Hannibal, Mo.; Mrs. Mina Hoyer, University of Missouri, Co- lumbia; Joseph Treyz, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla; and Lorena Garloch, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (re- appointed) , fill committee vacancies. Ralph McCoy becomes chairman of the Planning and Action Committee; Neal Harlow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., has been named a committee member. Chairman of the Publications Committee for 1965/66 is Floyd Cammack, Oakland University, Roches- ter, Mich. A new Ad Hoc Committee on Re- search is yet to be appointed. Norman Tanis, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich., has accepted reappointment as chairman of the Committee on Standards. Sarah D. Jones, Goucher College, Townson, Baltimore, Md.; Donald 0. Rod, State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls; and Basil Stuart-Stubbs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, are new Stan- dards Committee members. Sister Helen, Trinity College, Washington, D.C.; Sarah D. Jones; and James W. Pirie, Flint Community Junior College, Flint, Mich., are new members of the Editorial Board of CHOICE: Books for College Libraries; Leo M. Weins, H. W. Wilson Company, New York, has accepted reappointment to the board. • • ACRL Membership Total, May 31, 1964 Total, May 31, 1965 8,071 8,838 The July 1, 1965, count of sec- tion memberships is as follows: Subject Specialists . . . . . . . . 1,737 Junior College Libraries . . . 730 Teacher Education Libraries 677 University Libraries . . . . . . . 3,328 College Libraries ......... 2,721 Rare Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978 Please note that many members do not select memberships in sec- . tions although two section mem- berships are available. without ex- tra charge. News from the Field ACQUISITIONS THE ERICH E. ScHMIDT collection of Persian and Near Eastern art books and periodicals was recently acquired by the University of California library, Santa Bar- bara. While the Persian materials form the central core, related materials, general his- tories of the ancient world including the classical sources, histories of Parthia, Baby- lonia, Assyria, Chaldea, and Central Asia, grammars and dictionaries of the other languages, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, books on Greek, Roman, Islamic, Oriental as well as Persian coins, Chinese pottery and porcelains form a substantial portion. Bibliographical sources include the Coun- cil for Old World Archaeology Cowa Sur- veys and Bibliographies and the Bibliotheca Oriental is of the N ederlands Institut Voor Het Nabije Oosten, 1958-1964. There are general as well as specialized archaeological periodicals, the American Journal of Archae- ology, Antiquity, Ars Islamica, Iranica An- tiqua, Iraq, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, the ] ournal of the American Oriental So- ciety and the Museum of Far Eastern An- tiquities Bulletin. Dr. Schmidt was field director for several expeditions, under the auspices of the Ori- ental Institute and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Three folios of photographs of the Persepolis, Rayy and Luristan expeditions designed to in- terest possible spons0rs are in the collec- tion. UCLA AND THE COMPOSER Meredith Willson have jointly announced Mr. Will- son's gift to the university of a collection of nearly five hundred thousand pieces of sheet music and more than twenty-five thousand phonograph records. The stock of the Stan- ley Ring music store in Hollywood, which Mr. Willson recently acquired, is included in the Meredith Willson library, newly es- tablished in the music library at UCLA. FRIENDS OF THE UCLA LIBRARY recently presented to the library a collection of holo- graph and typescript manuscripts of Harold Bell Wright's first nine novels. The manu- scripts, which are kept in t:Re department of special collections, originally belonged to I 344 Wright's publisher and friend, Elsberry W. Reynolds. Several of the manuscripts have printed marginal rules and are sewed indi- vidually by chapter, and the typescript of That Printer of Udell's is decorated with many pen-and-ink sketches and colored ini- tials by the author. QUEENS CoLLEGE, City University of New York, has accepted more than one thousand Portuguese books from the Fundac;ao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. The material dealing principally with early Portuguese literature, has been received in connection with the establishment of the Gulbenkian Chair and Seminar in Portu- guese studies. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY has acquired the Kilmarnock Burns from Peter Keisogloff, Cleveland bookdealer. This first edition of Robert Burns' poetry, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, is one of the most prized rare books today. Only 612 copies were published on July 31, 1786, of which only a small portion are now known. The recent purchase of Dylan Thomas material from Henry W. Wenning, New Haven, Connecticut, bookdealer, adds sub- stantially to the growing program to strengthen the Ohio State University li- braries' special collections. The material is from the library of Albert E. Trick, a close friend of Dylan Thomas in his youthful days in Wales. AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS THE BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY at UCLA has been chosen to be the first in a proposed national network of medical literature searching centers, and for .this purpose an award of $125,000 in a contract for a pilot study at UCLA has been announced by Martin M. Cummings, director of the Na- tional Library of Medicine. The project will be conducted under the direction of Louise Darling, biomedical librarian, and Wilfrid Dixon, of the health sciences computing facility. Under the terms of the contract, the National Library of Medicine will provide the health sciences computing facility with the MEDLARS magnetic tapes on which literature refereRces are stored. Reprogram- ... -~ .. ming of the MEDLARS tapes in COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) will make it possible for the literature search to be carried out on other computers, and the stored information can then be made available through the biomedical library to Southern California scientists and research institutions. IN THE SPRING of 1964, the Rockefeller Foundation of New York approved a grant which the Atlanta University school of li- brary service had requested for financing three conferences, institutes, or workshops to be held in the spring months of 1965, 1966, 1967. The first of these conferences was held in Atlanta, April 8-10, and was sponsored by the Atlanta University school of library service with the cooperation of the division of librarianship, Emory Uni- versity. Persons invited to attend the con- ference, with all expenses paid, were librar- ians and representatives from various other organizations. INDIANA UNIVERSITY's African studies program in collaboration with the division of library science is breaking new ground in both Mrican studies and library science by offering an assistantship worth $2,000.00 for the academic year to enable a graduate stu- dent to qualify as a librarian with special competence in the bibliography of Mrica south of the Sahara. It is intended that the successful applicant for the assistantship should enroll as a PhD or MA student in the division of library science and take courses in the field of Mrican studies to fulfill the requirements for an outside minor. A maxi- mum of fifteen hours work per week during academic sessions will be required; this will take place in the university library under the guidance of the library's bibliographer for Mrican studies. Interested candidates are invited to write to Miss Margaret I. Rufsvold, Director of the Division of Li- brary Science, Indiana University, Bloom- ington, Indiana 47 405, for further informa- tion and application forms. The AMY LovEMAN AWARD of $1,000 for the best personal library collected by an undergraduate student has been made to Jane R. Bogert, junior at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., for her collection of early American textbooks. RosEMONT CoLLEGE is the recipient of a Michael A. Bruder Foundation grant of $500. The fund will be used to start the News from the Field I 345 erection of microform storage facilities in the Gertrude Kistler memorial library. IN REMEMBRANCE of the centennial of Canadian Confederation ( 1867-1967) the University Women's Club of North York has recently voted to donate $5,000 to the library of York University in Toronto, Can- ada, for the purchase of books. BUILDINGS Plans for construction of a libra1y at the STATE UNIVERSITY CoLLEGE at Geneseo, N.Y. call for a three-story, $1,800,000 structure to be available for use in the fall of 1966. BowLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (Bowling Green, 0.) broke ground May 1 for a new four and one half million dollar library. The nine-story library will house six hundred forty thousand volumes when completed in September 1966, and will be able to accommodate one million volumes when the enrollment reaches fifteen thou- sand students. MISCELLANY The MYSTIC SEAPORT LIBRARY of the Marine Historical Association in Mystic, Conn., will be known, after July 1, as the G. W. Blunt White library. A FREE COPY of the Regulations for Fi- nancial Assistance for Construction of High- er Education Facilities can be obtained from the Bureau of Higher Education, U.S. Of- fice of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202. (The regulations were originally printed in the Federal Register, Vol. 29, No. 168 (Au- gust 27, 1964), p.12307-12315.) MoNTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, Missoula, on July 1 changes its name to University of Montana. THROUGH A RECENT GRANT of $40,200 from the Old Dominion Foundation, The New York public library is now preparing to compile and publish a new Guide to the Research Collections. William V. Jackson, associate professor of Spanish and Portu- guese at the University of Wisconsin, has been engaged as consultant and supervisor for the proje<;t. The new Guide will take approximately three years to complete, and will bring up to date Karl Brown's Guide to the Reference Collections which was published in 1941. 346 I College & Research Libraries • July, 1965 A STUDY of the library personnel situa- tion in the City University of New York, with recommendations for the solution of the major problems, has been prepared by Robert B. Downs at the request of the Chancellor of City University. Copies of the report, 'with the permission of Chancellor Bowker, have been duplicated and are available from Harold D. Jones, President, Library Association of the City University of New York and Assistant Librarian, Brook- lyn College, Brooklyn 10, N.Y. A self ad- dressed, stamped number 10 envelope should be sent with the request. The Drexel Library Quarterly, a new publication of the graduate school of li- brary science, Drexel Institute of Tech- nology, has been announced. Each issue will treat a single subject; the first contains the proceedings of the public relations workshop held at Drexel last summer. Don- old H. Hunt is editor of the Quarterly. Sub- scriptions, $10 a year, may be ordered from Carole Butcher, Drexel Institute of Tech- nology, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. Junior College Library Statistics, 1963-64, based on statistics of college and university libraries compiled by the Library Services Branch of USOE, is available at no charge from the headquarters office of ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. The publica- tion was summarized by Elizabeth Martin and prepared by Laurence Harvey, director of the data processing center, Foothill Col- lege. The LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY PROJECT is mailing copies of the Certified Products List to all institutional members of ALA; libraries which do not hold institutional membership may request single copies, free, from LTP. REPRINTS of two articles in the January 1965 issue of CRL are available from ACRL headquarters office, 50 E. Huron St., Chi- cago 60611. Single copies of Donald Ham- mer's "Automated Operations in a Univer- sity Library-A Summary," and "Profes- sional Duties in University Libraries," by Robert B. Downs and Robert F. Delzell, are free on request; multicopy orders are billed at 20c per copy. • • CUSHING-MALLOY, INC. 1350 North Main Street P.O. Box 632 Ann Arbor, Michigan Printers of ACRL Monographs LITHOPRINTERS Known for QUALITY- ECONOMY- SERVICE Let us quote on your next printing ~----------------------------------------------------------~------------~·~ RoBERT A. HouzE has been appointed librarian of Trinity University in San An- tonio, to succeed James F. Govan, now at Swarthmore. His major responsibilities will be to continue the expansion of the collec- tions and services of the George Storch me- morial library and to develop the resources and services of the graduate library for the new Chapman graduate center completed in 1964. A native of Colorado, Mr. Houze received both his AB and professional library de- gree from the University of Denver. He has also done graduate work in educational ad- ministration at Texas A&M University. Be- fore World War II service overseas as ar- tillery officer he was on the staff of the University of Denver library and Colorado State University library. He served as li- brarian of the Longmont, Colorado public library for one year after the close of the war, and spent three years as acquisitions librarian at the University of Texas before going to Texas A&M University in 1949. During his sixteen years of service as li- brary director at Texas A&M, Mr. Houze has contributed significantly to the growth of the library's collections in size and in scope and to the establishment of branch libraries on campus. The book budget has increased fivefold; the collections have tripled in size; the staff has almost doubled. The hours of service have been considerably extended, and both circulation and refer- ence statistics show a steady increase each year. Under his direction, the main library (Cushing memorial library) building has been modernized and air conditioned and its service and storage facilities greatly ex- panded. A reference library to serve the needs of the faculty and students of the College of Veterinary Medicine was the first branch library established. Later the li- braries of the schools of architecture and business administration and the department of chemistry also became branch libraries. In 1960, the Texas Engineers library, which had been originally established as a pro- fessional library for the registered engineers of the state with services also for the stu- dents of Texas A&M University, was ab- sorbed in the library system. Personnel Under Mr. Houze's leadership, the A&M library has made steady progress toward that standard of excellence endorsed by the university administration. In June 1962 the library was elected to membership in the Association of Research Libraries. Recently, studies of data processing techniques as ap- plied to library procedures have been initi- ated. Circulation control is to be automated this fall and other innovations are being programed. Plans are near completion for a major library center, whose construction will begin in the near future. Mr. Houze has always been prominent in professional activities, both at the state and national levels. He is past officer of the Texas Library Association and is vice chair- man and chairman-elect of the college di- vision of the Southwestern Library Associa- tion. Since 1961 he has served as working chairman of a subcommittee of the Ad- visory Committee (i.e., Council of College Presidents) of the Texas Commission on Higher Education. This subcommittee has been responsible for updating the library formula used by the legislature for library appropriations for all the state supported universities and colleges in Texas. Mr. Houze has also served . several terms as chairman of the Texas Council of State College Librarians, which recognized his outstanding services in a laudatory resolu- tion forwarded to the presidents of Texas A&M and Trinity universities when he re- signed. Dedicated, kindly, and unassuming, Mr. Houze leaves many devoted friends on the campus and in the community, all of whom wish him every success in his new position.-Clara M. McFrancis. C. WALTER STONE, University of Pitts- burgh professor and library science special- ist, has been named director of university libraries. Dr. Stone assumed his new duties on April 16, with responsibility for manage- ment of the main library, eventually to be the planned eleven million dollar Hillman library, and the coordination and develop- ment of departmental libraries. Under Dr. Stone's guidance, the library will work closely with Pitt's Knowledge Availability Systems and Computation and Data Process- I 341 348 I College & Research Libraries · July, 1965 ing centers to apply advanced technology to the improvement of library and com- munications services. Further, the library itself will be regarded as something more than a repository for books. Its activities will embrace other kinds of educational communication devices, such as audio-visual aids, programed instructional materials, teaching machines, and educa- tional television. The new library director came to Pitt in 1962 from a position as director of the edu- cational media branch in the United States Office of Education. Earlier, he was a pro- fessor in the University of Illinois library school. He has also held positions in the Columbia University library, the Detroit public library, at the Institute of Adult Education, at Columbia Teachers College, and at the City College of New York. Dr. Stone received his MA and EdD degrees at Columbia Teachers College, his AB at Columbia University, and his BS in li- brary science at Columbia library school.- Harold Lancour. Yale's progressive university librarian, }AMES RoBERT TANIS, has considered the case for books since early childhood. Born in Phillips burg, New Jersey, June 26, 1928, the eight-year- old first enhanced his orange-crate shelves with .. Big Little Books," a pre- cursor of the modern comic book. At that time his library fea- tured complete hold- ings in Dick Tracy. He was a well-read Mr. Tanis student at Blair Academy, 1942-46, and next pursued a BA in history at Yale ( 1951 ) . For one year in the course of his undergraduate program he withdrew of- ficially to catalog many of Yale's extensive Americana titles on the Pacific Northwest and California. After three more years he completed a graduate BD at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where again as a part-time worker he had documented thousands of backlog acquisitions, a portion of Union's McAlpin collection. With an internship as pastoral assistant to the Church of the Son of Man, East Har- lem Protestant Parish, Mr. Tanis was ready for ordination, which ceremony was set at Moosic, Pennsylvania. For three years he co-pastored Elizabeth, New Jersey's Grey- stone Presbyterian Church. There he aroused the interest of others in recording and preserving a cultural legacy. The Rev. Mr. Tanis was appointed in January, 1957, as librarian of the Harvard divinity school. Then its Andover-Harvard Theological library lacked many functional elements, including a shelf list; the library's book-purchasing budget was less than mini- mal. There was a premium on physical plant expansion, and almost no resources avail- able to that end. By 1961 a new library wing-virtually a new library in itself-had been developed from scratch by James Tanis, with the assistance and counsel of architect James Clapp from Shepley, Bul- finch, Richardson and Abbott in Boston. Their project was efficiently seen through to an economic completion. The new wing is a contemporary addition to the school's An- dover Hall, a typically English Collegiate Gothic structure. Though not itself Gothic, the new addition's sensitive proportions cre- ate the opposite impression. As in the ex- ample of its windows, all new dimensions exactly parallel those of Andover Hall, and thus achieve a distinct effect of harmony, while offering both freshness and contem- poraneity. In October 1963, the Rev. Mr. Tanis was one of eight university-oriented United States librarians to be invited by the Ger- man Federal Republic to survey postwar reconstruction in the German library sys- tem. He has also furnished professional con- sultation for many theological schools coast- to-coast. Creative articles and book reviews under his name may be found in the H ar- vard Divinity Bulletin, Pacific Northwest Historical Quarterly, American Theological Library Association Proceedings, State of the Library Art (Rutgers University), Union Seminary Quarterly Review, and Yale Uni- versity Library Gazette. His historically- oriented mind is currently wrapped in com- pleting the doctorate in church history from the University of Utrecht in the Nether- lands. His dissertation topic: Influences of Dutch Calvinistic Pietism: in the American church of the Middle Colonies in the early eighteenth century. Several monographs in that area of interest will follow. Two years ago, Mr. Tanis married the former Florence Borgmann of St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Tanis has herself been ac- tive in Christian education and also worked earlier with her husband in the East Harlem parish. His February departure from Harvard di- vinity school was facilitated by the knowl- edge that the most qualified person to take over, Dr. Maria Grossmann, was already on the Harvard staff and has, in fact, suc- ceeded him as librarian. Another unex- pected bonus in the shift to Yale was his appointment as Fellow of Berkeley College where he last lived as an undergraduate. In his new office Mr. Tanis embarks on phase one of a major capital funds drive to aid Yale's sixty-odd libraries. Among other needs to be considered will be staff salaries , which must become competitive with those of other leading library systems across the nation. The first phase of his pro- gram includes (a) salaries; (b) expansion and redevelopment of the space bounded by Sterling library; (c) funds to assist a social science library within the new central social sciences building; (d) the underwriting of increased library automation; (e) hopefully, financial support for expanded acquisitions. One gathers that the space problems of Sterling library are paramount. A partial solution attractive to the new librarian is the filling-in of Sterling's brick-sided "'light court," and thus also gaining space adjacent to Sterling's present book tower. This crea- tion would make available some five new floors in the heart of Sterling for both pub- lic and staff, and , if mezzanines could be added, six new floors primarily for stack, carrell, and office space. Such functional use of Sterling's space potential is predicated on a dual hypothesis: ( 1) any major library development in behalf of the Yale under- graduate should be made in the Sterling memorial library, rather than elsewhere on campus; (2) Gothic architecture is stylis- tically flexible, so that alteration and expan- sion of space can conclude Sterling with an architectural gain, instead of undercutting or minimizing present Gothic resources. Such coordinated expansion-favoring the undergraduate-would enhance facili- ties for periodical reading, reference and Personnel I 349 micro text. Then too, Yale not only has a map collection, but even a map laboratory which produces maps. Mr. Tanis hopes to develop considerable space in the new con- struction where this work might be more efficiently done. Of course, the new space at Sterling could facilitate use and co- ordination of Yale's vast holdings in the graphic arts, as they relate to the develop- ment of book design, past, present, and future. The librarian anticipates appointment of a major associate to plan research and de- velopment in automation. The new Kline science library should open about a year from now, and will be automated to the point where its currently cataloged materials are presented in a book-form catalog. Today the medical school library produces its cata- log from punched cards. Surely the medical and Kline catalogs might interrelate so that both scientific bibliographies would be ex- pressly available in machine-readable form. Mr. Tanis hopes to work back gradually into all remaining collections, extending such bibliographic form to their most widely used titles. The medical libraries at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia currently have such an interchange of data-a small token of what Yale's new librarian hopes to ac- complish on an interuniversity basis in the foreseeable future.-Richard H. Pachella. APPOINTMENTS MRs. HELEN ALEXANDER has been ap- pointed an intern at the UCLA law library. MRs. VIRGINIA L. ALGERMISSEN accepted a position in the reference unit, readers services section, at the National Institutes of Health library, on February 21. THOMAS C. ANDERSON, has been ap- pointed to the staff of the Audio-visual de- partment, University of Oregon library. MRs. ELEANOR ATTINELLO is the newly appointed bibliographer in the order de- partment, Bowling Green State University library. WILMER M. BAATZ' appointment as as- sistant director of libraries, in charge of operations and services for the undergradu- ate and general libraries, Indiana Uni- versity, is effective in July. MRs . AucE BAUER becomes head of the 350 I College & Research Libraries • July, 1965 acquisitions department, University of Cin- cinnati library, on September 1. MARIS-DOMINIQUE DE MouLINS D'AMIEU DE BEAUFORT has been named public ser- vice librarian at University of Cincinnati, effective on or before October 1. FRANKLIN F. BRIGHT was appointed chief of technical services at the University of Wisconsin library in April. MRs . ALAKA CHANDRASEKHAR has joined the order department staff at Western Mich- igan University's Dwight B. Waldo library, Kalamazoo. LILY CHANG is a new librarian in the gov- ernment and public affairs reading room at UCLA library. ANNA MARIE DAVISSON has been ap- pointed as a reference and assistant li- brarian at Monmouth College, Monmouth Illinois. ' H. VAILE DEALE, director of libraries Beloit College, and currently chairman of the ACRL College Section, has been awarded a Fulbright grant in Iran for the academic year 1965-66. Mr. Deale will be on sabbatical leave for a full year beginning September 1, 1965. LuciNDA DICKINSON has accepted an ap- pointment as a cataloger in the English language section, descriptive cataloging di- vision, Library of Congress. She has been a reference librarian at the University of California, Davis. · DAVID G. DoNAVAN, director of informa- tion centers for the United States Informa- tion Services in India since 1962, has been nam~d director of the Library of Congress Pubhc Law 480 Project in Pakistan. MRs. ELIZABETH C. DoRRILL assumed her new duties at National Institutes of of Health library, Bethesda, Md., on April 25. Mrs. Dorrill will serve as a library liaison officer with one of the institutes. KENNETH W. DucKETT is university ar- chivist and curator of historical manuscripts on the staff of Southern Illinois University library. He is executive secretary of the Manuscript Society and the headquarters of the Society has moved with him to Carbon- dale. KENNETH M. DuFF, librarian of the undergraduate library, University of Penn- sylvania, was named librarian of the Uni- versity of New Brunswick in St. John on July 1. HAROLD J. EcKEs is the newly-appointed assistant acquisition librarian at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater. RoBERT A. ENGLAND is on a two-year leave from San Jose State College library to fill a Rockefeller-Foundation-sponsored ap- pointment to the staff of Makerere Uni- versity College library, Kampala, Uganda. PAUL FRAME has been appointed chief librarian at Colorado Woman's College, Denver. MARTIN GASKIN becomes reference li- brarian of Macomb (Ill.) Community Col- - lege· on July 1. MRs. JEAl\TNE E. GRAY has accepted an appointment as a cataloger in the foreign languages section, descriptive cataloging di- vision, Library of Congress. She has been a cataloger at the Harvard law school li- brary since June 1964. MRs. RoMA GREGORY has been appointed head of the order department at Bowling Green State University library. REm R. HARRSCH assumed the position of head of acquisitions, University of Wiscon- sin library, on April 1. MRs. ELIZABETH HERMAN is a newly ap- pointed librarian in the university elemen- tary school library at UCLA. ANNA E. HoRN is now a cataloger in the manuscripts section, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. She was on the staff of the Cleveland public library from 1959 to 1964 when she resigned to return to graduate study. MRs. JUDITH JACKSON has accepted a position as social science librarian, educa- tion-psychology section, University of Ore- gon library. A. GERALD KANKA has been appointed as- sistant librarian of Macomb (Ill.) Com- munity College. RoBERT F. KLEIN is now assistant li- brarian at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. JANE LEASON has been appointed as a cataloger at the University of Delaware li- brary. FELISA LIM has joined the UCLA li- brary's serials department. JUDITH MooMAw has been appointed reference librarian, general reference and 1 j documents division, University of Oregon library. RussELL F. MoRATZ is the assistant li- brarian at Wisconsin State University, Whitewater. MRs. LILY BAsCOPE MoYANO is now a cataloger in the foreign languages section, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. She was librarian for the U.S. Agency for International Development to Bolivia in La Paz before she emigrated to the' United States. MARGARET E. OsTEN is now a cataloger in the Slavic languages section, descriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. She was formerly the cataloger at Manhat- tanville College. MRs. MARY PowELL PHELPS has joined the staff of the State University of New York at Stony Brook as acquisitions librar- ian. FRANCIS PIEJKO is now a cataloger in the foreign languages section, descriptive cata- loging division, Library of Congress. From 1960 to 1963 he was a cataloger at the Enoch Pratt free library before resigning to resume graduate study. JANICE PooLE has been appointed ref- erence librarian, general reference and doc- uments division, University of Oregon li- brary. MRs. JoYCE RECKNER is now librarian of the college of medicine, University of Cin- cinnati. LEo RIFT has been named automation li- brarian of Bowling Green State University. DoNALD C. SEIBERT has joined the li- brary staff at the State University of New York at Stony Brook as music librarian. EuGENE SHEEHY becomes head of the reference department of the Columbia Uni- versity libraries on July 1. He has been serving as acting head of the department since last September. }ANAKBALA C. SHUKLA is now a catalo~er in the South Asian languages section, de- scriptive cataloging division, Library of Congress. She was the librarian of the Drugs Research Laboratory in Baroda, India. BEATRICE SPRIGGS is newly appointed to the cataloging staff of the Bowling Green State University library. FRANCIS STRADA has accepted an appoint- ment as a cataloger in the foreign languages section , descriptive cataloging division, Li- Personnel I 351 brary of Congress. He has been a cataloger at Case Institute of Technology since 1955. M:as. ELLEN G. W ASBY has accepted an appointment as a cataloger in the English language section, descriptive cataloging di- vision, Library of Congress. RoBERT D. WATTERS assumed his duties as instructor and librarian of the education library, University of Minnesota, January 1. WILLIAM WALTER WICKER is now head, circulation department, ' Mitchell Memorial library, Mississippi State University. CHARLES D. WIEMAN is the new assistant circulation and reserve librarian at Wiscon- sin State University, Whitewater. R. MAX WILLOCKS has been appointed as- sociate librarian and head of technical proc- essing in Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. TINNA K. Wu, presently assistant refer- ence librarian at Beloit College in charge of serials & documents, has been appointed assistant librarian in charge of public ser- vices at Beloit. L. R. WYNAR has been named head of the reference department, Bowling Green State University library. JEANENE ZIEGLER joined the University of South Florida library staff March 1 as as- sistant cataloger. ERICH ZIMMERMANN, formerly associated with the University of Hamburg library, is now director of the Landes-und Hochschul- bibliothek in Darmstadt. RETIREMENTS PAUL BIXLER retires in July as head of Antioch College library. JULIEN CAIN retired as director of the Bibliotheque N ationale on September 15, 1964. RALPH CARRUTHERS, chief of photo- graphic services at the New York public library, retired at the end of February. MRs. GRACE HuNT retired in June after twenty years of service to UCLA. In 1950 Mrs. Hunt transferred from her position in the Chancellor's Office to assume responsi- bility for the organization and operation of the English reading room, established in the department of English by the bequest of an endowment and the private library of Professor Frederic Blanchard. ALICE E. PAINE, cataloging librarian since 1963, and former head librarian of Kearney 352 I College & Research Libraries • July, 1965 State College library, Nebraska, retires July 1, after fifteen years on the staff and forty years of work in Nebraska libraries. ERHARD SELBMANN has retired from his position as director of the University of Halle ( Saale) library in order to devote his full time to teaching and research. The new head librarian at Halle is JoACHIM DIETZE. Japanese section of the Orientalia division in the Library of Congress since 1957. MRs. HIAWATHA SMITH, a member of UCLA library's catalog department since 1952, died on April 12. CHARLES H. STONE, for twenty years li- brarian of Mercer University, died at Ma- con, Ga., on May 3. Mr. Stone retired in 1963. EARL G. SwEM who died in Louisville, N E c R 0 L 0 G y Ky. in April, served for forty-five years as librarian of the College of William arid The former director of the Ni.irnberg Mary. Stadtbibliothek, FRIEDRICH BocK, died in HENRY B. VAN HoESEN, librarian em- October 1964. eritus of Brown University, died January 6 The director of the Hungarian National at the age of 79. He had served as Brown's "Szechenyi" library, JosEF FITz, died in librarian for two decades prior to his retire- September 1964 at the age of 76. ment in 1950. MARY JosEPHINE BooTH, Eastern Illinois CHARLES C. WILLIAMSON, director of li- U niversity' s first librarian, died on January braries and dean of the school of library 2 at the age of 88. Miss Booth served the service at Columbia University from 1926 university library from 1904 until her re- to 1943, died January 11 at the age of 87. tirement in 1945. TUNG LI YuAN, sometime director of the OsAMU SHIMIZU, scholar in Japanese National Library of Peiping and recently studies and librarian, died on March 8 in of the staff of the Library of Congress, died ~ ,...--B-e-th_e_s_d_a,_M_d_._H_e_h_a_d_b_e_e_n_h_e_ad_o_f-th_e __ i_n_w_a_sh_m_· _gt_o_n_,_n_.c_._' _o_n_F_e_b_ru_ary __ 6_. ----, I University of Alberta at Calgary LIBRARIANS The University Library at Calgary, with a bookstock of 100,000 volumes and a staff of fifty, is emaarking on a major development programme and urgentl y requires experienced professional ~ staff in most departmental areas. Specific vacancies are for: (a) Acquisitions Librarian to coordinate accessioning work for books, periodicals and dona- tions f exchanges; (b) Divisional Librarians for each of the Physical Science, Life Science and Social Science <>r"'"" of thP_Lihr~rv ,. · · 11is~tion h~s not vf't been commenced): (c) Government Documents Librarian to handle U. N ., U. ~ .• L;anaman <_reaerai ana pro- vincial) and U. K. publications; (d) Maps Librarian · Salary scales: Grade I $5,800·6,500 III 7,000-7,900 ;- II 6,600-7,500 IV 7,500-9,600 For all posts, placing will be dependent on qualifications and experience; in the case of posts (a) and (b) it is hoped that appointments can be made at Grade IV (at least five years' experi- ence in a large research library will be required) ; for posts (c) and (d) at least two years' experience in a large library will be required and appointments may be made at Grade II. Applications for other general positions in Grades I and II will be welcome. As emphasis in this Library will be on scholarly service, special consideration will be given to the academic qualifications of all applicants . ~ Applications (two copies) should include a complete curriculum vitae, university record transcript, names of three persons to whom reference may be made, and a recent photograph, and should be addressed to: DR. T. MAcCALLUM WALKER, Chief Librarian, University Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada within two weeks of the appearance of this advertisement. -· COMPUTER SHELF LIST (Continued from page 315) other odd-numbered cards go into print positions 39-85, and columns 34-80 of the second and other even-numbered cards occupy positions 86-132. Normal word division is used at the end of even- numbered cards, while odd-numbered cards normally end in the middle of a word. A dollar sign appears in column 80 of the last card as an end of record code, but it is not printed. Non-printing marks were placed before the title and date of imprint for future uses, such as chronological printouts of certain classi- fications for special purposes. With a maximum of 94 positions for author, title, date, etc. on each line (minus one for the dollar code), it has been found that a very large proportion of the en- tries require only two cards and will go on one line. The programs are written in Autocoder. The classified list program, after certain initializing steps such as printing a title page, reads a card, deter- mines whether it is a regular card (for Personnel I 353 a book or journal) or a classification heading card, and formats and prints it accordingly. Error checks are provided to point out any call number duplicated or out of sequence, and any cards miss- ing or out of sequence within a set. The classification headings are programed to overprint so that they stand out on the page like bold face. The alphabetical list is produced by a program which reads the data onto tape and prepares it to be sorted by a canned sort program on the IBM 7094. The list itself is print- ed from a tape on the IBM 1401. In order to test formats, printing costs, and user reactions, a small edition of the three-part Crusades shelf list will be produced by offset and distributed to interested faculty members, graduate students, and others. This will mark the end of the pilot project phase and the beginning of routine conversion opera- tions. Two small periodical classes have already been converted, and keypunch- ing of the Africa classification is now in progress. • • New and Interesting A FIVE-YEAR cumulative index for volumes XXI to XXV (January 1960 through November 1964) of CRL is being published this autumn. It will be sent free of charge and without special requests to all current members of ACRL. All others may purchase the index for $1.00 per copy, from ACRL headquarters office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. Payment with orders is requested. The Supplement to Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities, 1963/ 64 was compiled by the Library Services Branch of USOE and published by the Library Administration Division of ALA; it pro- vides institutional data on 247 libraries. Copies are available for 75¢ each from the Library Administration Division at ALA headquarters . ••