College and Research Libraries ACRL Board of Directors BRI EF OF MINUTES July 8, 1965- 10:00 a.m. Present: President Archie L. McNeal; Vice President and President-Elect Helen M . Brown; Past President Neal R. Harlow; Directors-at-Large, Andrew J. Eaton, Ruth E. Scarborough; Directors on ALA Council, E. Walfred Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Rev. Jovian Lang, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Edward B. Stanford, Robert L. Talmadge; Chairmen of Sections, H . Vail Deale, Elizabeth E. Martin, Carson W . Bennett, Andrew J. Eaton; Vice Chair- men of Sections, Anne C. Edmonds, James W. Pirie, Everett T. Moore; Past Chairmen of Sections, Norman E. Tanis, Eli M. Obo- ler; Chairmen of Committees, Charles M. Adams, Edward Heiliger, Arthur T. Hamlin, James V. Jones, Mrs. Patricia B. Knapp, Mark M. Gormley, Frances Kennedy, R. Kent Wood (reporting for Robert John- son ), Everett T. Moore, Norman E. Tanis; Editors, David Kaser, Richard K. Gardner;. Chairmen of Subsections, Wayne R. Col- lings, Doris Detwiler, Andr.ew Turchyn; Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey; Sec- retary, Rosemary Chamberlin; and guests, Martha L. Biggs, Harriett Genung, Ralph E. McCoy. Archie L. McNeal pr.esided. The minutes of the Midwinter meetings of the Board of Directors were approved as published in CRL, March 1965. Helen M. Brown, Chairman of the Plan- ning and Action Committee, reported that the members: 1. Discussed the status of the Subject Specialists Section, noting that each of the subsection chairmen now have a $75 dis- cretionary fund, beginning in September 1965, which is the same amount as allocated to section chairmen. It is hoped the future status of the section will become settled. 2. Asked the Committee on Library Ser- vices to make minor revisions in the state- ment of the "Rights of Library Users" be- fore it is submitted to the ACRL Executive Board. 3. Generally approved the draft state- ment of the "Guide to Methods of Library Evaluation" being developed by the Com- mittee on Liaison with Accrediting Agen- cies. Mr. Jones, chairman of this commit- tee, stated that a meeting is being planned with the North Central Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools for Midwin- ter to discuss this statement. · 4. Recommended that the ACRL Board request permission from the ALA Executive Board to seek funds for another two years for the support of CHOICE. Mr. Gardner reported the reasons for the need to seek funds. The original grant of $150,000 for a three-year period ends in 1966. Expenses ar.e higher than anticipated. Subscriptions total 2,400, and five thousand are needed to make CHOICE self-supporting. The Board approved the request and Mr. Bailey was asked to submit this request to the ALA Executive Board. 5. Had received the report of the resig- nation of Richard K. Gardner, editor of CHOICE, effective January 31, 1966. A committee, under the chairmanship of Jo- seph H. Reason, has been asked to seek a new editor. Other committee members are James Richards, Eileen Thornton, and Leo Weins. Mr. Gardner commented that the report of the Visiting Committee, consisting of Leo Weins and James Richards, who spent May 20-21 at CHOICE Headquarters, was very encouraging. He expressed the need for more support from ALA, and noted the ex- cellent support of the Catholic Library As- sociation. On behalf of the ACRL Board, President McNeal expressed the division's appreciation for the fine job which Mr. Gardner has done and regret about his resignation. 6. Noted the urgent need for the publica- tion of a basic college library book list at any cost and recommended that the ACRL Board urge the ALA Executive Board to have the list published as quickly as pos- I 421 422 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 sible. This was approved. Mr. Harlow asked if an author list might be published first. Miss Brown appointed a Program Com- mittee for the 1966 conference, including Morris Gelfand, Eileen Thornton, Helen Brown, and Mr. Bailey (ex-officio). Miss Brown will serve as chairman of the com- mittee. Since the prospects for passage of the Higher Education Act are good, the program might revolve around the opportu- nities deriving from the recent federal leg- islation. An issue of CRL might be devoted to background papers. Other divisions might be asked to participate. Mr. MeN eal noted some highlights of the year's program in ACRL. The reports of these activities have been distributed to members of the Board and have been sum- marized in the President's Report in the July issue of CRL. H. Vail Deale, chairman, College Li- braries Section, reported the death of Helen Sears, vice chairman. Anne C. Edmonds has been appointed to serve as vice chairman during the remainder of the current year, after Miss Sears' resignation had been re- ceived in January. The Committee on Non- Western Resources has been made a stand- ing committee. The joint AAC-ACRL Com- mittee on College Libraries, established in 1957, has been reactivated. The Junior College Libraries Section has established four standing committees for bibliography, instruction and use, special projects, and standards and criteria. The Rare Books Section held a success- ful preconference. Carson Bennett, chairman of the Subject Specialists Section, inquired about the pos- sibility of providing section status for the subsections. The Slavic and East European Subsection secured the Board's permission to negotiate with either Stanford University or Bowker Associates for the publication of their proposed directory. The University Libraries Section ap- proved a change in bylaws to provide for three-year committee appointments. In regard to ACRL committee activities, the increase in size and change in member- ship of the Audio-Visual Committee was noted. There has been much activity by ACRL representatives in connection with the proposed Higher Education Act of 1965. Approximately $34,300 is available for the ACRL Grants Program this year. The com- mittee is attempting to secure additional funds for "emerging institutions." Several Board members discussed the procedures for the program. The Committee on Library Services is at- tempting to .establish a program for the New York Conference to introduce orienta- tion techniques for students. This may in- volve the use of a professional booth. Mr. Gormley, chairman of the Committee on Library Surveys, reported the success of the Conference on Library Surveys, cospon- sored by Columbia University, June 14-17. Ninety-six persons participated. The papers will be published by Columbia University in the near future. Mr. McNeal expressed appreciation to the members of the Com- mittee on Local Arrangements. Frances Kennedy, chairman, Membership Committee, distributed a report of July 1 showing that 45 per cent of head librarians of academic institutions are not members of ALA. The question has been raised about voting privileges for institutional member- ships and is being considered by a subcom- mittee of GALA. The availability of CRL on subscription for $5.00 is also being ques- tioned, since a number of librarians sub- scribe to C RL instead of becoming ALA 'members. Mr. McNeal announced that Miss Kennedy has been voted the outstanding li- brarian in Oklahoma this year. R. Kent Wood, incoming chairman of the National Library Week Committee, report- ed that the committee needs new ideas, more coordination of activities, and lacks membership from the junior colleges. He hopes to have one committee member re- sponsible for each of six geographical areas of the country, and serve as consultants for these areas. Everett Moore, chairman of the Publica- tions Committee, noted the plans to estab- lish an ALA Publishing Board, the effects on ACRL publishing interests, and the need for expression of opinions from ACRL mem- bers. A study of the plan is being made by the ALA Committee on Organization. The Publishing Board would not attempt to con- trol the content of division publications. Mr. McNeal reported that the request for per- mission to pay royalties to authors of ACRL t I I J ACRL Board of Directors I 423 Monographs has received approval, accord- ing to Richard Sealock, chairman of the Subcommittee of the ALA Executive Board to investigate publishing activities. Neal Harlow, PEBCO representative, stated that the entire ACRL budget has been approved as requested, in spite of some drastic cuts in the total budget re- quests. The Standards Committee is work- ing on guidelines for extension center li- braries. As a result of the first meeting of the AAJC-ALA Committee on Junior Col- lege Libraries, it is hoped that criteria can be established for the effective development of junior college libraries. David Kaser, editor of CRL, stated that over 80 per cent of the papers received are rejected, and that there is a backlog of over thirty-five papers which would take a year to publish. He hoped that news items could be kept as brief as possible. More ad- vertisements are being sold. Mr. Bailey informed the Board members that a new roster of members of the Board, committees, editorial boards, and sections, would be distributed in the near future. In addition, the members would receive a schedule of activities for the period before Midwinter. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 noon. BRIEF OF MINUTES july 8, 1965- 8:30 p.m. Present: President Archie L. MeN eal, Vice President and President-Elect Helen M. Brown, Past President Neal R. Harlow; Directors-at-Large, Andrew J. Eaton, Ruth E. Scarborough; Directors on ALA Council, E. Walfred Erickson, Elliott Hardaway, Mrs. Frances B. Jenkins, Rev. Jovian Lang, Mrs. Margaret K. Spangler, Robert L. Tal- madge; Chairmen of Sections, H. Vail Deale, Elizabeth E. Martin, Carson W. Bennett, Andrew J. Eaton; Vice Chairmen of Sections, James W. Pirie, Mildred H. Lo- well, Everett T. Moore; Past Chairman of Sections, Eli M. Oboler, Norman E. Tanis; Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey; Secretary, Rosemary Chamberlin; and guests, Martha L. Biggs, Richard A. Farley, Ralph E. McCoy, Frank Schick. Archie L. McNeal presided. Mr. McNeal reported that William Jesse has been hospitalized during the confer- ence. Mr. Harlow moved the following: Resolved, that the members of the Board of Directors of ACRL want to express their great appreciation for the many contribu- tions of William Jesse to the Association and hope that his recovery will be quick and complete. This was approved. Mr. Harlow stressed again that the ACRL budget requests have been completely ap- proved. Mr. Bailey reported that the orig- inal budget proposal of $6,600 for the Col- lege Libraries Section's Ad Hoc Committee on Non-Western Resources activity in iden- tification of resources, approved by the ACRL Board and the ALA Executive Board to seek funds, had been far too · small. A proposal for an increase to $46,500 has been approved by the ALA Executive Board. (NoTE: Since the proposal has been in- creased by the committee from a twelve to an eighteen months period, the amount has been finally raised to $58,900.) A proposal for a similar activity is being developed by Ward Morehouse of the State University of New York. We hope that the work in this field can be a cooperative project. We are now cooperating with F. L. Wormald, vice president, Association of American Colleges, in developing the ACRL project. David Weber reported, for James Jones, that the draft of the "Guide to Methods of Library Evaluation,'' will be circulated to the regional accrediting associations. It is not intended as a survey of libraries. The Board approved the draft statement. Mr. McNeal read the following resolution submitted by the members of the Junior College Libraries Section: WHEREAS, proposed federal legislation will provide funds for improving the book col- lections of junior college libraries, and, WHEREAS, inherent difficulties have been found in other general book lists for junior colleges which have been published or are being proposed, and, WHEREAS, action has been recommended by the Joint American Association of Junior Colleges-American Library Association Committee, r:: 424 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 Be it therefore Resolved, that the Junior College Libraries Section, ACRL, ALA, urge that early action be pursued to com- plete the proposed basic junior college book list which has been under consideration for three years. There was considerable discussion of the reason for delay in completing a basic junior college book list. Mr. Pirie states that the ALA list is to be prepared. Mr. McNeal reported on discussions he had during the conference with Mr. Bertalan and Arthur Brody, of Bro-Dart. Board members noted that ALA should sponsor and control the preparation of the junior college list. The Board approved the following statement: Archie L. McNeal · and the Chairman of the ACRL Publications Committee investi- gate with the ALA Executive Board and Richard B. Sealock, Chairman of the Sub- committee of the ALA Executive Board on ALA Publishing, the possible publication of the junior college book list as soon as pos- sible. Mr. Bailey and Mrs. Jenkins, a member of the ALA Editorial Committee, have been asked to provide Mr. McNeal with as much information and background as possible. Mr. Schick and Mr. Hardaway noted the activities of the LAD Statistics Committee for College and University Libraries. The statistics questionnaire is being standardized and questions are included to provide in- formation about scope of collections and building space. Mr. Schick hopes to have the next questionnaire approved soon. He "THE CHANGING RoLE oF LIBRARIEs" was th.e title of the address to the ACRL mem- bers at the general session by William T. Knox, chairman of COSA TI in the Pres- ident's Office of Science and Technology. Mr. Knox noted the plans of the Commit- tee on Scientific and Technical Information for more effective and efficient information systems in science and technology and the hope for more active involvement of the library community. COSATI is being assist- ed by a study team from the System De- noted the reorganization of the U.S. Office of Education, with numerous staff changes. The statistics workshop, cosponsored by LAD, is being planned for the spring of 1966. The interest of ACRL has been as- sured and a letter to this effect will be writ- ten by Helen Brown, president of ACRL for 1965/ 66. Richard Farley reported that the LAD Buildings Committee for College and Uni- versity Libraries gives assistance to begin- ning building planners. The Preconference on Buildings included critiques of all types of libraries and involved 350 persons from academic libraries. The voting privileges of institutional mem- bers were again discussed. Many members joined ALA as institutional members and not as individuals. If the institution has a vote and the librarian is a member, then he can vote twice. A motion to postpone discussion until Midwinter to secure more information was not seconded. Another motion to go on record as opposing institutional voting was approved. Several members expressed their support of the institutional vote. In a con- sensus of opinion regarding the institutional vote, fourteen members of the Board were opposed and four were in favor. The matter is to he discussed again at the Midwinter meetings. An information report of the meetings of the AAJC- ALA Committee on Junior Col- lege Libraries was distributed by Elizabeth Martin. The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 p.m. •• ACRL at Detroit velopment Corporation and hopes to have a report by the fall of 1965. A national com- plex of library systems might comprise national, regional, and local library sys- tems-the possible functions of each were noted. The task group of COSA TI members "would be especially interested in a defini- tion of the part that the Association of Col- lege and Research Libraries and its mem- bers should play and its plans for fulfilling those responsibilities." William T. Knox and friends-at his right, Archie McNeal, past president of ACRL; Helen M. Brown, ACRL president; at his le ft, Germaine Krettek, Director of the ALA Washington Office. Mr. Knox's paper will he published in the September issue of the ALA Bulletin. President Archie L. McNeal reviewed some of the highlights of activities in ACRL during the year, as summarized in the Pres- ident's Report which appeared in the July issue of CRL. He expressed appreciation to the staff of the ACRL office for its support during the year and announced the resigna- tion of Richard K. Gardner, editor of CHOICE. Mr. Gardner has done an excel- lent job of getting the publication started. Proposed changes in the ACRL Constitu- tion and Bylaws, published in the May issue of CRL, were presented to the members present by Lucile Morsch. The following changes in the Constitution were accepted and will be voted upon for final approval at the membership meeting in New York: 1. Removal of past chairmen of sections from the ACRL Board of Directors; 2. Provision for ACRL chapters; 3. Statement of relationship of ACRL to ALA. The following Bylaws were approved: I. Deletion of dues for additional sections; 2. Mail votes of the Board members; 3 . Regulations for ACRL chapters; 4. Two-year terms of appointment for standing committees, with a maximum of three consecutive terms of appoint- ment. The results of the ACRL elections were distributed in the conference folder and were announced in the July issue of CRL. Mr. McNeal introduced Helen M. Brown, president of ACRL for 1965/ 66, Ralph E. McCoy, newly-elected ACRL vice president (president for 1966/ 67); George M. Bailey, executive secretary; and Richard K. Gard- ner, editor, CHOICE. The members of the College Libraries Section took a bus to the University of Windsor, had lunch at the Union, and heard Reed Harris, U.S. Information Service, speak on the subject, "Breaking Barriers: National, Racial, and Religious," noting the activities of United States libraries overseas, burned and unburned. There are 167 U.S. Informa- tion Service libraries holding two million volumes, with 20 per cent of the materials in local languages. These libraries serve twenty-four million people a year. A series of workshops were held for jun- ior college librarians on audio-visual mate- rials, led by Ruth Christensen; buildings, led by J. 0. Wallace; cataloging and clas- sification, led by Wilma Heisser; instruction and use, by Alice Griffith; and Standards, by Harriett Genung. Following the work- shops, John F. Harvey, dean, library school, Drexel Institute of Technology, spoke on "The Form and Function of the Junior College Library." Comments on the paper (Continued on pag e 432) From the ACRL Executive Secretary LAST YEAR, I attempted to summarize brief- ly ( CRL, July 1964, page 336 ff.) the four roles performed in the office of ACRL Ex- ecutive Secretary: liaison officer for the Association, consultant service for the pro- fession in matters pertaining to our types of libraries, representation at meetings of library groups and other professional as- sociations, and participation in general ALA activities. It is now almost two years since I be- came part of the ALA staff. Last year, I was feeling honored by your confidence in me and humbled by the job you expected to be accomplished. I also have other re- actions-pride and satisfaction for the priv- ilege of working with so many capable members of our Association. The longer I work at ALA, the stronger all of these feel- ings become. As I become more familiar with the activities and programs of ALA and ACRL, I become more aware of the enormous responsibility of the position and the impossibility of keeping well informed about what ALA is and does. Time is the only factor which limits the amount of service which might be provided for the profession from this office. Many of the members with whom I have worked have expressed appreciation to me for the work that is being done. I am grate- ful for those expressions. But I am proud to state that this work would not be ac- complished if it were not for the strong professional attitude and time consuming activities of such a large number of ACRL members. I am amazed that the three ACRL officers, the President, Past Presi- dent, and Vice President, each of whom is performing a full time job, are so willing to give of their time for all the demands of their offices for a three-year period. If you are not one of the participating ACRL members, please join us. We need your help! There is a lot more to be accom- plished. The details of the activities of our mem- bers who work so faithfully in ACRL, its committees, publishing programs, sections, and subsections, were very well reported by Archie McNeal in the July issue of CRL, providing an understanding of the compre- I 426 hension which he has maintained of the ACRL programs during his year as Presi- dent. As Mr. McNeal states, our total pro- gram is one which shows .. progress and promise." I would like to take this opportunity to comment about some of my activities dur- ing the year. I have stated a number of times that I am especially concerned about the responsi- bility of ACRL and ALA in cooperating with other professional organizations. There- fore, it has been satisfying to see a closer relationship established by the formation of the American Association of Junior Col- leges- ALA Committee on Junior College Libraries. The first meeting of this joint committee in May resulted in a number of major recommendations which will be reported in detail in the near future. The work of this joint committee should be- come a major activity in ACRL. Likewise, it is good to note the reactiva- tion of the joint Association of American Colleges-ACRL Committee on College Li- braries, formed in 1957. In attempting to establish a close liaison with both AAJC and AAC, I have had the pleasure of making a number of visits to the offices of these organizations when I have been in Washington, D.C. I have worked closely with AAC in the develop- ment of the proposal of the College Li- braries Section seeking funds to identify non-western materials for undergraduate programs. In my concern with this program, I attended a meeting of the Great Lakes College Association and the conference of the graduate library school of the U niver- sity of Chicago, both on the subject of non- western resources. Norman Tanis and I participated, as ALA representatives, at the UCLA Con- ference on Junior College Libraries in July and Mr. Tanis continued in his role of in- terpreting the ALA Standards in a speech before librarians, faculty, and administra- tors. I participated, with James Pirie, Nor- man Tanis and J. 0. Wallace, in the an- nual conference of AAJC. Together, we manned a display table stocked with in- formation about ALA and found ourselves From the ACRL Executive Secretary I 427 rather popular with junior college presi- dents and faculty. I also joined Mr. Tanis and Helen Brown at the Drexel Conference on Standards when each of us spoke about the Standards, elaborating on the qualita- tive and quantitative aspects and attempt- ed to explain their role in the growth of academic libraries in the near future. It is satisfying indeed to realize that other professional organizations are waiting eagerly to work more closely with ALA or its appropriate divisions. I am also im- pressed with the growing stature of ALA in other professional circles. In this connection, it was a real ac- complishment when ALA held its Airlie House Conference where representatives of fifty-four other national organizations dis- cussed "Education and the Nation's Li- braries." For an idea of the results, read Charles Carner's comments in the ALA Bulletin, June 1965, page 441, and note the concern of others about our profession. Each year, I attend the National Con- ference on Higher Education, held in Chi- cago. For three days in March, several thousand academic administrators and fac- ulty heard about the pressures and priori- ties of higher education and discussed the questions in smaller groups. The proceed- ings are worth reading in their published form, Current Issues in Higher Education. ALA works actively with a number of other library organizations. A very reward- ing experience for me this year was pro- vided by my attendance at the Annual Con- ference of the Catholic Library Association's College Libraries Section, including a work- shop on college library problems. This was so successful that participants requested a repeat performance next year. A lot of credit goes to Sister Helen of Trinity Col- lege .. Before the reorganization of ALA, ACRL had a number of active chapters. Some of these have continued although no legal pro- vision was made in the new ACRL Consti- tution and Bylaws until amendments were approved at the Detroit Conference. Al- though final approval will be needed at the Conference in New York for the constitu- tional amendment providing for chapters, we hope that a closer liaison can be estab- lished with local, state, and regional aca- demic library groups, whether they desire to have ACRL chapter status or not. In fulfilling this hope, I attended meetings of the Eastern College Librarians Conference and the Midwest Academic Librarians Con- ference. Such meetings are especially val- uable because they provide the chance to talk with a number of librarians who do not attend the ALA conferences. More time is available to get to know the members of ACRL, and to talk with them about ALA programs-this is something which I con- sider a privilege. I hope to continue to par- ticipate in these meetings and those of various state and regional academic groups as time and opportunity permits. A sizeable amount of my time was con- cerned this past year with the proposed federal legislation. In this connection, I attended the hearings in Chicago and Washington on the Higher Education Act of 1965. It is essential to state that the real key to any legislative activity is Germaine Krettek, director of the ALA Washington office. We, in ACRL, are deeply indebted to her for the outstanding role she is per- forming for the profession. She has received the solid support of a number of ACRL members this past year, but she needs your support when legislation is pending. Never forget to impress your legislators about your library needs by writing the appro- priate letters. Another large segment of my time is spent with the ACRL Grants program, con- tacting foundations and processing the ap- plications. Although the amounts may seem small to some members, those who receive the "small" grants make the activity a valu- able one by their letters of gratitude. I cannot end this report without refer- ence to the ALA team-the 163 staff mem- bers. Never have I had the pleasure of working with such a large proportion of capable and enthusiastic colleagues. Despite the fact that there is always more to be accomplished than time permits, we sin- cerely hope that a large part of your needs are being accomplished. It has been a busy and rewarding year. With the above background of experience, your increasing support, the outstanding ACRL officers, and the knowledgeable help of my headquarters colleagues, we look for- ward to a greater program in the future. In securing this improved program, we wel- come your comments and suggestions.- George M. Bailey. • • Ambitious West Chester State College built one of America's finest colle:ction~s of English literature and Americana. For peanuts. In 1962, when Pennsylvania's West Chester State College added a full lib- ·eral arts curriculum to its teacher train- ing program, tremendous additions had to be made to its library. West Chester State College, of course, was not one of the huge, heavily- endowed schools. Money may have been limited, but apparently initiative and imagination weren't. For no more than what s.ome of our giant university libraries spend on read- ing room furniture, this ambitious col- lege is acquiring a priceless, permanent collection. On microfilm. From Univer- sity Microfilms Incorporated. Today, West Chester has an Early English Collection (circa 1475 to 1700) that includes over 80% of the titles in Pollard & Redgrave and a rapidly grow- ing list from the Wing catalog. They have most of the American Culture series, beginning with the "Co- lumbus Letter" of 1493 and including over 6000 books published through 1876. And each year they are receiving 200,000 additional pages, microfilmed from actual manuscripts or the most valuable available editions. The cost of acquiring all these rare works in their original form is unthink- able ... for any institution. Yet, every West Chester student can have any of them at his fingertips, in minutes. Which is one reason why the num- ber of liberal arts majors at West Chester is growing so rapidly. And they can keep up an ambitious program. University Microfilms Incorporat- ed actually offers many such services to schools, colleges and universities. Early English and American periodi- cals, "out-of-print" books, Russian and Chinese language books, important doc- toral dissertations. Altogether, over 500,000 volumes listed in our compre- hensive catalogs. Send for them. They are free and you'll see just how inexpen- sive ambitious projects can be. ······················------------··· UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS, INC. 313 N. FIRST STREET, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Gentlemen: Please send me your comprehen- sive catalogs of Microfilm services. NAME-------------------------- ADDRESS _______________________ ..._ CITY _______________________ _ STATE------------------------ CWJM ~~i~~o~~!!Yo ~~E~~~~~~~~: !~~N· News from the Field ACQUISITIONS CoLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY has ac- quired the library collection of the Grand Trianon Museum at Colorado Springs. An estimated ten thousand volumes are pri- marily belles lettres. UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow, has re- ceived a photographic collection spanning sixty-six years of the history of the Coeur d'Alene silver-mining district, bequeathed by Nellie Stockbridge, who photographed the area from 1898 until a few months be- fore her death on April 21. The collection comprises some thirty-five thousand nega- tives, about five thousand of which are on glass and will be filed at the library. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has an- nounced a gift of $2,500,000 from Grover M. Hermann, his daughter Shirley and his son Robert, to the fund for the university's new library building. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY's Kresge library, Rochester, Mich., has acquired a collection of some five thousand phonograph records to form the basis of the Peter J. Doben li- brary of recorded music. Many rare record- ings are included among the 3,500 LP' s, 1,500 seventy-eights, and 500 forty-fives which make up the collection. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY has allocated to the strengthening and support of the uni- versity library a gift of $3,500,000 from William Watson Smith. The Avery library of CoLUMBIA UNIVER- SITY has acquired the Frank Lloyd Wright collection of drawings by his friend and teacher, Louis Henry Sullivan. The col- lection consists of 122 drawings done be- tween 1874 and 1910; eighty-four are un- published, and several were annotated by Wright. AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS A grant of $10,000 to defray costs of a secretariat for the Federal Library Com- mittee, established in March to improve co- ordination and planning among the federal government's research libraries, has been made by the Council on Library Resources. COORDINATION OF FOREIGN MANUSCRIPT copying will be aided by the establishment of an experimental center in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, using a $75,300 grant from the Council on Library Resources. The center will record the prog- ress . of projects for photocopying foreign archiVal records and manuscript material and implement coordination through publi~ cizing projects in process, alerting sources of support, and developing standards and techniques. The center will also serve as a secretariat for a national committee on photocopying of foreign archival and manu- script material. The grants-in-aid committee of the HAR- RY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE, Indepen- dence, Mo., in the last three months award- ed five grants for work involving the Tru- man administration and the history and na- ture of the presidency of the United States. UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA has been granted $3,723 for an experiment in the library ap- plication of telefacsimile, to start on October 1 and be completed by January 31 , in trans- mission by telephone circuit between the university library at Reno and the Univer- sity of California library at Davis. The ex- periment is expected to yield information on techniques, quality of reproduction, and adequacy as a substitute for interlibrary loan of materials. Council on Library Re- sources is providing the funds. THE OKLAHOMA LIBRARY AssoCIATION last April made the seventh Distinguished Service Award in its fifty-eight-year history, to Frances Kennedy, librarian of Oklahoma City University. The UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (England) postgraduate school of librarianship has been awarded a grant of £12,714 by the Science Research Council to carry out a three-year research project on subject in- dexes and automated retrieval of informa- I 429 430 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 tion. The work will be under the direction of the schoors director, W. L. Saunders, and will be carried out by Michael F. Lynch. BUILDINGS The UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA'S new Irvine campus library opens in September with approximately ninety thousand vol- umes and a staff of thirty-eight, thirteen of whom are professional librarians. EMORY UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga., plans a new library for advanced studies at an estimated cost of $5,400,000. MIDDLE GEORGIA CoLLEGE in Cochran, moved its library into a new $550,000 building on July 9. Actual moving of the twenty-thousand volume collection was done by the 550 students of the college, di- rected by the faculty and administrative staff. ILLINOIS WESLEYAN plans a new library building of three stories and approximately 45,000 square feet, with space for seven hundred student readers and two hundred thousand volumes. Ground will probably be broken in May of next year, and con- struction should be completed within the following year. FRANKLIN CoLLEGE (Ind.) dedicated its new three-story library building last May. It provides for an expansion of the present collection of sixty thousand volumes to one hundred fifty thousand, and eventually will provide seating for four hundred readers. GRACE CoLLEGE, Winona Lake, Ind., projects March 1966 as the starting date for construction of a new library building. UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE is planning a new library building. The new two-story structure will adjoin the present seminary library, have 21,900 square feet to house individual and group study rooms, reading rooms, staff offices and workrooms, and stack capacity for a collection of one hun- dred thousand volumes. ST. MARY's DoMINICAN CoLLEGE, New Orleans, La., broke ground on August 4 for its new John XXIII library. MississiPPI STATE UNIVERSITY's Mitchell memorial library will increase seating ca- pacity to fifteen hundred and book capacity by about a quarter-million volumes with the construction of a three-story addition to the present building, for which plans are being prepared. TARKIO CoLLEGE (Mo.) starts construc- tion of a new four-level library building totaling some forty thousand square feet. Initial seating capacity will be for about four hundred students, and stack capacity will be about ninety-seven thousand vol- umes. Unfinished expansion space will pro- · vide for a total of six hundred readers and one hundred eighty thousand volumes. NEw YoRK UNIVERSITY school of com- merce dedicated a Rare Book Room to house its collection of books and manu- scripts on May 11. Construction was made possible by a gift from the class of 1962. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER will expand and renovate Rush Rhees library and the Sibley music library of Eastman school of music. Rush Rhees, which serves four River Campus colleges, will require some $5,500,- 000 to double present stack space; add space for staff operations; provide seat- ing for a total of fifteen hundred under- graduates, study cubicles for 570 gradu- ate students and studies for 125 faculty, rooms for typing, an audio-visual center, and improved facilities for rare book col- lections. Alterations in the music school library will provide additional stack space, reading rooms, office and processing space, and expanded listening facilities. CEDARVILLE (Ohio) CoLLEGE is planning a new $300,000 library building, to house more than eighty thousand volumes. DICKINSON CoLLEGE, Carlisle, Pa., has received a gift of $250,000 from Boyd Lee Spahr, to be used for a new library. Con- struction will start in 1966 on quarters to house three hundred thousand volumes, study facilities to accommodate half the student body, and research space. MARY BALDWIN CoLLEGE, Staunton, Va., broke ground for a new $1,280,000 library building to be completed by early 1967. It will provide for three hundred readers and two hundred thousand volumes. MEETINGS AN INFORMAL ROUND TABLE on interna- tional cooperation for library and informa- tion services in Latin America will be held in Washington, D.C. Sept. 30-0ct. 2, under the auspices of the Pan American Union. Focus of the discussions is the determina- tion of problems which an individual library or the concerted efforts of several libraries in Latin America cannot resolve, but which require international action or outside as- sistance. "THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FOR LI- BRARY SERVICES in Metropolitan Areas" has been announced as the topic of the twelfth annual institute sponsored by the University of Illinois graduate school of library science and the division of university extension at Robert Allerton House on Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Papers to be presented will investigate the characteristics and changes expected in metropolitan population from 1960 to 1980; trace present and future patterns of the metropolis as a political unit, and point out major changes in social structures expected. Suggestions for solving institutional library problems, present and potential, and the manner in which plans for academic li- braries are reflected in over-all institutional planning; planning and program activities now underway which take into considera- tion present and future needs of colleges and universities as a result of societal changes in metropolitan areas; and the part played by special libraries will be discussed. The SIXTH OF THE RuTGERS SEMINAR SERIES, held under a grant from National Science Foundation on Nov. 8-9 will have as its topic Coordinate Indexing, with a presentation by Mortimer Taube, Documen- tation, Inc.; and a panel discussion by Charles L. Bernier, National Library of Medicine; John C. Costello, Battelle Me- morial Institute; and Vincent E. Giuliano, Arthur D. Little, Inc. Susan Artandi will be moderator. A SECOND INSTITUTE ON INFORMATION RE- TRIEVAL, to be held Nov. 10-13, has been announced by the University of Minnesota library school. Registration fee will be $25. For furth er information and program details write to the director, Center for Continua- tion Study, University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis , Minn. 55455. A grant of $35,500 to the NATIONAL AR- CHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE has been JOade by the Council on Library Resources to assist in convening an Extraordinary Con- gress of the International Council on Ar- chives. With the Society of American Ar- chivists cooperating, the congress will meet News from the Field I 431 in Washington, D.C. from May 10-13 in the hope that an international effort to re- duce existing limitations on the availability of archival and manuscript sources may be initiated. The grant by CLR will enable overseas archivists to attend the congress. A SEMINAR ON COMPUTER-BASED SYS- TEMS for libraries next May 31-June 18 will be cosponsored by the division of univer- sity extension and the graduate school of library science of the University of Illi- nois. The three-week seminar under the direction of Kern W. Dickman and Hillis L. Griffin is designed to acquaint librarians with the concepts of computer program- ing in relation to library applications. In- formation and application forms are avail- able from the seminar's supervisor, 116b Illini Hall, Champaign, Ill. Tuition will be $125. MISCELLANY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has established a collection of materials re- lating to the history of American air trans- portation to be known as the Library of Aeronautical History. MEDICAL LIBRARY AssociATION officers for 1965/ 66 are Alfred N. Brandon, Johns Hopkins University, president; Mrs. Mil- dred C. Langner, University of Miami school of medicine, vice president; Betty Withrow, Wake Forest College, Bowman Gray school of medicine, secretary; Donald Washburn, American Dental Association, treasurer. NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK's Steering com- mittee this year will be chaired by Louis G. Cowan, director of the Morse Communica- tion Research Center at Brandeis Universi- ty, Waltham, Mass. The TEXAS legislature has appropriated $17,100,000 for operating the libraries of twenty-two state supported colleges and universities during the 1965/ 67 biennium. This approaches doubling the budget of the biennium now ending and reflects the ef- forts of a committee of librarians, business managers, and the staff of the Texas Com- mission on Higher Education, as well as the solid support of Governor John Connally. ARABIC HOLDINGS of seventeen libraries in the United States are enumerated in Occasional Paper No. 75 published in June by the University of Illinois graduate school 432 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 of library science. It is composed of more than four hundred serial titles, and is avail- able at no charge from the publications office of the university, 435 Library, Ur- bana, Ill. Science Periodicals from Mainland China is a new quarterly from the National Federation of Science Abstracting and In- dexing Services, consisting of photorepro- ductions of the tables of contents of each issue of each journal received by NFSAIS . Social Sciences and Humanities Index is the new name, beginning with the June 1965 issue, of International Index. One hun- dred thirty-eight of the present 163 titles will be continued, and seventy-one titles have been added. H. W. Wilson Company is the publisher. Who's Who in Library Service, 4th edi- tion, will be published in the autumn of 1966 under the sponsorship of the Council of National Library Associations and other organizations. Questionnaires are being mailed this fall, and it is expected that the new edition will contain biographical sketches of some fifteen to twenty thousand librarians, archivists, and information scien- tists. Shoe String Press, Hamden, Conn., will issue the work in a new format . • • ACRL at Detroit (Continued from pag e 425 ) were made by Harriett Genung, Philip Gan- non, and Phyllis Brown. Lester E. Asheim, director, ALA Inter- national Relations Office, talked about uni- versity libraries in developing countries at the meeting of the University Libraries Sec- tion, detailing problems in book acquisitions and the influence of social and cultural traditions in library practice and philos- ophy. In the developing countries there is a tremendous drive toward education and libraries are sure to be involved. Approximately one hundred and fifty rare book librarians and book dealers attended the sixth preconference held in Detroit and Ann Arbor on the subject, «The World of the Rare Book Librarian." They toured the Detroit public library, including its rare book room and Burton historical collection; and the University of Michigan with its William L. Clements library and the rare book room. Speakers discussed the role of librarians and bibliographers, the making of a rare book librarian, the «love life of li- brarians," rare book resources at the Uni- versity of Michigan, the twilight of rare book collecting or how to stop worrying and love automation, and the challenge of Amer- ican music. The Agricultural and Biological Sciences Subsection heard a panel discussion on cen- ters of information by panel members from the National Agricultural Library, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Art Subsection conducted tours of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the art department of the Detroit public library. They also heard descriptions of the archives of American art and the library of the Deb·oit Institute of Arts. At the Slav- ic and East European Subsection meeting, talks were given on libraries and biblio- graphic centers in Yugoslavia; and a profes- sor's view of Slavic and East European studies and the library. The Standards Committee held an open meeting with representatives of other organ- izations to discuss the draft statement of guidelines for extension center libraries. • • "Greater Achievements @ through Greater Membership" Observe ALA Membership Day October 21, 1965 Write for FREE Membership Promotion Materials Membership Promotion American Library Association 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611 An informal, but good, measure of the worth of a librarian is how much another librarian would like to work with him. For years I have wanted JIM GovAN on a li- brary staff with me, but the timing of possible openings has never worked to this end. The possi- bility is now pre- cluded by the ap- pointment of Mr. Govan as the librar- ian at Swarthmore College, but it will Dr. Govan be a pleasure to work with him as a colleague in the informal league of eastern college librarians. Mr. Govan began his work as librarian at Swarthmore this June after four years as librarian of Trinity University in Texas. He immediately stepped into the problems of a building program already under way, so headaches for his first few years at Swarth- more are guaranteed. The position of li- brarian there is a particularly challenging one, as the new librarian will inevitably be judged against the fine long-term reputa- tion of Charles Shaw. Mr. Govan will be able to stand up to that reputation or any- one else's. He will also be able to take a fresh look at the problems of the small liberal arts college and guide Swarthmore's growing library in new directions. Follow- ing Mr. Shaw and the interim trusteeship of Martha Connor as acting librarian will not be without its problems of living up to the past. There will be other problems too: the figurative termites that undermine the library system of any old college have not been absent at Swarthmore any more than at other places. And the problems of adapt- ing a college library to differences in cur- riculum and composition of student bodies, to new techniques of library service, and to Personnel new demands on all colleges are present there as at all other college and university libraries. Preceding his service at Trinity Mr. Go- van had been at the University of Alabama library in a variety of jobs from 1955. He graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, in 1948 and from the Emory library school in 1955. From a background of bookish and historically inclined parents, he himself has combined his interest in librarianship with an interest in history. He received his doctorate from the Johns Hop- kins University in 1960, his dissertation be- ing on the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain. In 1951-52 he had worked on his research at the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London. At Trinity, as well as being librarian, he was a professor of history and was president of the San Antonio Historical Society in 1964. Mr. Govan has been active in the Texas Library Association and has been particu- larly concerned with standards for college libraries. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Phi Mu. His military service includes a stint with the Navy, 1944-46 and one in the Army 1953-55. Among the other assets that he brings with him to Pennsylvania are a charming wife and four children.-Richard Harwell. RICHARD C. QUICK became director of li- brary services at Arizona State College at Flagstaff-soon to become the University of Northern Arizona--on September 1. Born in Montclair, New Jersey and schooled in Bloomfield, he went from high school to the United States Navy, then to Kenyon College for his undergraduate 8e- gree. A brief career in the business world came to an end when he enrolled in the graduate library school of Western Reserve University. In 1954 he came to the University of Delaware as head of circulation where his obvious talent for administration soon led I 433 434 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 to his reassignment as assistant to the di- rector, a position he has held since 1956. In addition to assisting the director in every way possible, he has planned and executed major bibliographic studies of library re- sources which have been of critical im- portance to the Graduate Studies Commit- tee in its decisions on petitions to offer doc- toral programs. These are models of meth- od, execution, and presentation. He was a major participant in planning Delaware's new building and supervised the move from the old building to the new. Mr. Quick's happy felicity with the En- glish language inevitably led to his writing all library publicity and quarterly articles for the alumni magazine . This talent was recognized, too, by the Delaware Library Association and the Delaware Archaeological Society whose bulletin he has edited for years. He has served the Delaware Library Association as president and long-term board member. An ardent and able archae- ologist (scientific, not amateur!) he has been president and a director of the Dela- ware Archaeological Society. He has served on several faculty committees and com- mittees of the ACRL, DLA and Delaware Archaeological Society. An able and forthright spokesman for libraries, an ardent and articulate archae- ologist, an enthusiastic surf-fisherman (go- ing to Arizona!) , a good companion and a loyal friend, he will he missed in all those circles in Delaware to which he has con- tributed so much; and the librarians and archaeologists in Arizona have gained a colleague whom they will enjoy. Arizona State College faculty and students can look forward to the lively and progressive de- velopment of their library.-John Dawson. It has been almost twenty-four years since ELIZABETH CAVEN SEELY, freshly married with an AB from Vassar College and a BS from the Columbia School of Li- brary Service dropped by the library at Sarah Lawrence College to ask about va- cancies. She had just moved to Westchester, where her husband, William E. Seely had a job on the .Yonkers paper, and she had taken a part-time job as librarian of the new union catalog of the Westchester Library Association. The union catalog, which has been such a boon to Westchester libraries since 1938, had been the brain-child of Aubrey Lee Hill, at that time librarian of the New Rochelle public library where Elizabeth ("Cave" to ,all her Vassar friends) had done a short stint as reference li- brarian. She had also been reference librarian at the Tompkins Square branch of the New York public library. This first inter- view ended with a promise by the li- brarian to let her know if anything turned up. Then Mrs. Seely Frances Kemp, who had been assistant librarian at Sarah Law- rence College for ten years and who was just at the beginning of a brilliant career, left to go to Lake Erie College, and on De- cember 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Seely came to Sarah Lawrence as assistant librarian, and there she has been ever since. The Sarah Lawrence system, with its emphasis on the interest of each individual student in her own education, and its de- emphasis on the textbook, is a severe chal- lenge to the library and the librarians. The library must function very efficiently, but must seem to do so effortlessly. In order to achieve this the staff has to be always aware of what is going on in all the classes, what the teachers and students are talking about, and they have to anticipate most requests before they materialize. This means a con- stant association with the teaching faculty. This is the kind of milieu in which Eliza- beth Seely has been able to function suc- cessfully. She has served on many com- mittees of the administrative faculty, but she has also been elected more than once to the Admissions Committee (committees at Sarah Lawrence are elected, not appoint- ed ) . In 1960 she was made associate li- brarian, and awarded a teaching contract, which in our terms means tenure. She was on sabbatical leave from January to July 1964. Although she was born and brought up in Poughkeepsie and went to high school and coJlege in Poughkeepsie, she is now a confirmed Westchesterite. The Seelys have a largish house in Bronxville with a big lawn and many flowers and fruit trees-she is es- pecially renowned for good parties and for her prize-winning tulips. She has been very active in the Westchester Library Associa- tion; during her presidency the first effective steps were taken to gain state support for the Westchester library system. She also has been active in the American Library Association, the New York Library Associa- tion, and the Metropolitan College Inter- library Association. Her special library in- terests are periodicals and interlibrary loan. Elizabeth has three sisters; one of them, Genevieve Traber, is also a librarian. She has also many friends who wish her well in her new job as librarian of Sarah Lawrence College.-Ermine Stone. JEssm CARNEY SMITH was appointed li- brarian of Fisk University in Nashville, Ten- nessee, on July 1, taking over a position that Dr. Smith has been held in the past by such well known predecessors as Neil Van Deus en, Carl M. White, and Arna Bontemps. Those who ar.e ac- quainted with Jes- sie's quiet compe- tence, obvious abil- ity, and gracious manner are confi- dent, however, that she is more than equal to her chal- lenging new assignment. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Smith took her baccalaureate degree from the Agricultural and Technical College there. She holds masters degrees from Michigan State University and George Peabody Col- lege and the PhD from the University of Il'inois, where her dissertation concerned the libraries of land grant institutions. At Fisk, which is now looking forward to its centennial year, Dr. Smith has some large tasks that will require immediate attention. Not the least of these is the critical need for expansion of an overcrowded library building; funding from the Rockefeller Foundation is already in hand for this proj- ect. She will have also, however, to work Personnel I 435 toward the solution of several administra- tive problems and upon the development of the collections. Fisk already has some out- standing special collections, including one of Negroana, the George Gershwin memo- rial collection of music literature, the Charles Waddell Chestnutt collection, and the rich archives of the American Mission- ary Association. Dr. Smith is not a newcomer to Nash- ville. In addition to having been a graduate student at Peabody, she has also served as coordinator of library service at Tennessee A & I State University there and has been active in library affairs in the area. She is well known and is uniformly liked and re- spected by her colleagues. Fisk University has made an excellent selection in appoint- ing her to guide its library development during the coming crucial years; that her tenure there will prove to he a highly suc- cessful one may be accepted as a foregone conclusion.-D. K. RICHARD L. SNYDER brings to Drexel Institute of Technology an eminently suit- able career of professional experience and development. At In- diana University where he took his master's degree in 1952, he remained to serve first as ge- ology librarian until 1955, and then be- came biology librar- ian. In 1958 he was appointed science librarian. While at I. U. he taught a course in the litera- ture of science and Mr. Snyder technology. Mr. Snyder went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 as science librarian, and at the beginning of 1962 he was promoted to associate director in charge of technical services. During his stay at MIT Mr. Snyder taught his course in the literature of science and technology at Simmons school of library science. As associate director with special re- sponsibilities in technical services Mr. Sny- der was able to make use of his long in- terest in machine applications to the techni- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ 436 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 cal problems of a library. The recording of serials was under his supervision as was the production of Current Serials and I ournals in the MIT Libraries-an annual catalog produced from punched cards. As the administrator of the Chinese science project he worked closely with the Co- operative Computer Laboratory in the pro- duction of the International Union List of Communist Chinese Serials, a list of free world holdings of Communist publications from the mainland of China. This bibliog- raphy was set on PHOTON controlled by tape from a computer which in turn was fed from a Flexowriter. Mr. Snyder also helped design, produce, and publish the Correlation Index of Current Department of Defense Research Reports. One of the reasons for Mr. Snyder's con- tinued progress is due in great part to his mastery of the current professional litera- ture and his solid background in science. As one of his former colleagues at MIT recently said, "He has it all stored in mem- ory with instant retrieval!" There's no doubt about it-Dick does his homework. However academic achievement and professional theory do not per se make a librarian. There are administrative crises, technical breakdowns and recurring per- sonnel problems to cope with. He has special success in personnel problems be- cause he has made it his business to under- stand and to be able to perform the details of every operation for which he is respon- sible. His leadership is unobtrusive but strong and unifying. His grassroots skill in library chores, his extensive grasp of theory, his empathy, all combine to make Mr. Sny- der not only a librarian's librarian but significantly, the lowly stacker's librarian! As an administrator he encourages sugges- tions, innovations, and discussion. At MIT he pioneered and implemented the compli- cated transition from Dewey to Library of Congress classification. Unlike the proverbial hardworking Jack, Dick is not a dull boy! He loves parties, games and sports in summer and winter. He treks annually to the wilds of Ontario where he grew up, and has a refuge in the foothills of the New Hampshire White Mountains. Mr. Snyder belongs to the American Li- brary Association, the Special Libraries Association, the American Documentation Institute, and has had various offices and committee assignments. But he gave up his membership in the Lexington Town Band when he moved to Drexel. His booming trombone was sorely missed on Patriots' Day this year!-Frances Haslett. Native Ohioan BRUCE THOMAS became the librarian of Antioch College on July 1. He received his AB from Hiram College in 1944, his undergrad- uate career having been interrupted by a year abroad and by service in the Air Force; at that time he also received an Ohio teachers certifi- cate. Then in the following year West- ern Reserve Univer- sity awarded him an MA in English lan- Mr. Thomas guage and literature. In a preview of Antioch's work-study program, though he probably didn't realize it at the time, Bruce basically prepared himself for future refer- ence work by laboring at Cleveland's World Publishing Company on Webster's New World Dictionary, 1944-47; there he was assistant editor with specific responsi- bility for the definition of words (except special field terms) in the letters I, 0, S, and part of B. In 1949 Western Reserve University awarded him an MS in library science. His thesis concerned a proposed index for ap- portioning book funds-a scheme which was presently and appropriately adopted by the university library. Later that year he came to Antioch as reference and circulation librarian. Bruce was of major assistance in the years 1953-55 when we were planning the new Kettering library, attending to its construc- tion, and then moving the collections, some of which had been cached in various spots about the campus, into its new quarters. He presently became assistant librarian, then in 1958-60 when I was in Burma he served as acting librarian, and in 1961 he became associate librarian. In 1962-63 he received a sabbatical, and during the year he completed classwork and all examinations for the doctorate at Ohio State University. His field of concentration is higher education, and he is presently at work on a dissertation tentatively entitled "Staff Selection in Academic Libraries." Bruce has always had a major interest not only in administration but in personnel work. He has given much attention to libra- rian status, rank, remuneration, and tenure. Antioch is a lively, restless educational enterprise. This year the college will in- augurate a new first-year program which will require more books for individual study plus tapes, television, films, and other re- sources. Coming up are the possibilities in automation and in the offing is a new library addition. The college will much appreciate not only Bruce Thomas's administrative ex- perience but his energy and resourcefulness in attacking all such developing problems.- Paul Bixler. WAYNE YENAWINE. When President Phil- _ip Davidson and the colleagues at the Uni- versity of Louisville decided to create a research library at this venerable mu- nicipal university, they made sure that their decision could be effectively imple- mented by persuad- ing Wayne Yena- wine to be director of libraries. A dec- ade ago Syracuse University and its libraries were in much the same posi- Dr. Y enawine tion which the Uni- versity of Louisville holds today. At Syra- cuse Mr. Yenawine proved his ability to elevate a university library from the medi- ocre to the superior. In Louisville, one of the two major cultural centers of the Ohio Valley, Mr. Yenawine has an even better opportunity to build a significant research library. The new librarian at the University of Louisville has had an enviable record at several major research libraries. At the Air University in Montgomery, Alabama, he laid the foundations for one of the most Personnel I 437 important technical and military libraries in the· nation. At his next post, the University of Illinois library's circulation department, there were three major achievements, viz., a doctorate won at a mature age when most professional men are settling down to the comforts of a pleasant home; the finish- ing touches on one of the most attractive families ever to grace the home of an American librarian; and, on the job, a singularly high standard of public service. The writer of this note has twice had the privilege of teaching in Syracuse Univer- sity, where Mr. Yenawine has served both as dean of the library school and as di- rector of libraries since 1956. Eight years ago Syracuse's bibliographical resources (catalytic area in which the undersigned has a special interest) were as pathetic as the main library building. Only the Leopold Von Ranke library and the recently estab- lished Arents rare book room lent any dis- tinction to the Syracuse University libraries. Today, in spite of the wholly inadequate building, bibliographical resources are as strong as those of any million-volume re- search library, and the improvement in this area is characteristic of what has happened in other fields at Syracuse. To the Ranke library have been added other noteworthy collections, of which the Novotny and May- field libraries are fair examples. A half- million dollar book fund exclusive of spe- cial grants (e.g., for the Novotny library or for providing facilities for the Mayfield library) indicate the confidence Mr. Y ena- wine has earned from the administration of Syracuse University. The future of library service of the U ni- versity of Louisville will be bright if Mr. Y enawine brings with him the same vigor and imagination he has displayed at the Air University, at Illinois, and at Syracuse. Just as at Syracuse, he will build from relatively little, at least by comparison with the hold- ings of neighboring institutions in Bloom- . ington , Lexington, Cincinnati, and Nash- ville. Again he will have the backing of an administration which recognizes the library as the fons et origo of scholarship and the eager support of a book-starved faculty. As a Kentuckian, the writer of this note feels proud and honored that Wayne Yenawine has seen fit to transfer the base of his aggres- 438 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 sive leadership in the academic library world from Syracuse to Louisville.-Law- rence S. Thompson. APPOINTMENTS JoHN B. ARMSTRONG assumed his duties as librarian of M uskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, on September I. MRs. RoBERTA ARMSTRONG has been named reference librarian at Muskingum College. . JoAN BARDEN is now reference librarian, commerce library, Ohio State University, Columbus. RAY S. BARKER, JR. , has been appointed director of the Everett library, Queens Col- lege, Charlotte, N. C. MRs. ELIZABETH BATES on July 1 joined the staff of the engineering library of Stan- ford University, Stanford, Calif. AuGUSTA BIRCKHEAD is assistant audio- visual coordinator, Southern Illinois Uni- versity, Edwardsville campus library. BARRY BooTH has been named assistant humanities and fine arts librarian in South- ern Illinois University, Edwardsville. JosEPH C. BoRDEN has been appointed head of the serials unit in Purdue U niver- sity libraries, Lafayette, Ind. VELDA BURKHART is a cataloger at Ohio State University libraries. WANDA J. CALHOUN has accepted ap- pointment as visiting specialist in library services with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. During a year's leave from Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, she will visit colleges in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea. MRs. VIRGINIA CALLICOTT is now acqui- sitions librarian in Joint University libraries, Nashville. ELNA CAPEL has been appointed assist- ant librarian of Middle Georgia College, Cochran, as of July 1. C. EDwARD CARROLL assumed new duties as head librarian of Southern Oregon Col- lege, Ashland, on July I. RoDERICK J. CASPER has joined the staff of the California Institute of Technology general library, Pasadena, as chief circula- tion-reference librarian. FRANK CHASE is reference librarian of Eastern Kentucky State College, Richmond. GERALDINE CLAYTON on August 1 be- came head of the loan department of Uni- versity of California general library, Berke- ley. HERMAN H. CLINE is a member of the catalog staff of University of Washington libraries, Seattle. RosEMARY CoNNELLY assumed her new duties as head of the reference unit in the readers services section of National Insti- tutes of Health library, Bethesda, Md. , on June 21. Lms CooPER has accepted the position of reference librarian of Middl~ Georgia College, beginning July I. SusAN ANN CoPONY has joined the library staff of the University of Virginia school of medicine, Charlottesville, as serials librari- an. LYNN CoPPEL has been named serials cataloger in Massachusetts Institute of Technology library, Cambridge. PHILLIP A. CosTELLO, acting librarian at Merrimack College, North Andover, Mass., has been named librarian. KEITH CoTTAM has joined the Edwards- ville campus staff of Southern Illinois Uni- versity as assistant social sciences librarian. MRs. ANYA DERRICK is a new staff mem- ber in acquisitions in the U~iversity of Washington libraries. MARY SuE DILLIARD has accepted a posi- tion as reference librarian at Southern Il1i- nois University, Edwardsville campus. MARILYN DoMAS is the new business li- brarian at Edwardsville campus, Southern Illinois University. HERMAN F. EscHENBACHER became li- brarian of Harvard graduate school of edu- cation on July 1. YATES M. FoRBIS took up the appoint- ment of deputy librarian at Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Pa. , in July. SusAN GESCHWENDER is a cataloger at Southern Illinois University library, Ed- wardsville. MRs. BEVERLY JoYCE GLAD is the newly appointed acquisitions-catalog librarian for Slavic materials at Emory University li- brary, Atlanta, Ga. KENNETH GLAZIER is the new librarian for the western languages collections of Hoover Institution, Stanford University. ANN GooDPASTURE is now periodicals li- brarian in the Peabody College division of Joint University libraries, Nashville. CHESTER R. GouGH accepted the position I I 1 I ~ I ~ --~----~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--------~ of chief librarian of Webster College, Web- ster Groves, Mo. and assumed his duties on June 1. GEORGE C. GRANT is the new librarian of the East St. Louis center of Edwardsville campus, Southern Illinois University. CoNSTANCE GRIER has accepted a posi- tion as circulation librarian, Southern Illi- nois University, Edwardsville. MARIA GROSSMANN is the librarian of Andover-Harvard theological library of Har- vard divinity school. HENRY DALE GRUNDER has assumed the position of assistant curator of rare books in Northwestern University libraries, Evans- ton, Ill. PATRICIA EvANS HAMPTON is now library science librarian in the Peabody College di- vision of Joint University libraries, Nash- ville. HAROLD E. HELMRICH became librarian of Slippery Rock ( Pa.) State College, on September 1. HERBERT HoFFMAN has been appointed head of public services of the new Uni- versity of California Irvine campus library. RALPH W. HoPP assumed on July 1 the new title of university librarian and asso- ciate director of libraries, University of Min- nesota. BARBARA KANE has joined the library staff at Mohawk Valley Community Col- lege, Utica, N. Y., as catalog librarian, be- ginning September 1. MRs. DoRCAS K. KESSLER was appointed on June 28 to the reference staff of Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. MRs. ELIZABETH M. KisLITZIN began her duties as head of the reserve book depart- ment in University of California general li- brary, Berkeley, on July 17. DoNALD W. KoEPP assumed the duties of an assistant university librarian in U niver- sity of California general library, Berkeley, in August. WARREN B. KuHN has been appointed undergraduate librarian and assistant di- rector of Stanford University libraries, effec- tive September 1. ARLENE KuPIS is the. librarian of M.I.T.'s new student center reading room. WILLIAM H. KuRTH joins the staff of Washington University libraries, St. Louis, as an assistant director, with responsibility for developing the book collections. RoY S. LIEBMAN has been appointed Personnel I 439 chief acquisitions librarian of California Institute of Technology. ANA M. LLORENS is the newly appointed librarian of the foreign languages graduate library, Ohio State University. MRs. EuNICE LoVEJOY has been named supervisor of departmental libraries for Ohio State University libraries. FRANCES R. LuBOVITZ last spring was named head of the catalog department in M.I.T. libraries. EDWARD M. MAcCoNOMY was promoted to assistant chief of the general reference and bibliography division of the Library of Congress on June 21. JACQUELYN McCREADY has been appoint- ed to the reference staff of Central Michi- gan University library, Mount Pleasant. KATHLEEN McCuLLOUGH has been ap- pointed reference assistant, Northwestern University libraries. · BEVERLY McDoNALD is a cataloger in Ohio State University libraries. PmLIP T. McLEAN has been named con- sulting librarian for the western languages collections and curator of special collections in Hoover Institution, Stanford University. CoRNELIA E. MAY has assumed the duties of serial cataloger in Ohio State Univ"ersity libraries. LoUis E. MARTIN was promoted in June to associate director of libraries, University of Rochester (N.Y.). MRs. ANNMARIE MITCHELL joined the acquisitions staff at University of California library, Berkeley, on June 16. PETER MoLLEMA is a library intern at Ohio State University. WALTER D. MoRRILL became assistant director of libraries, ~ent (Ohio) State University, on July 1. EDWARD R. MosER is the newly ap- pointed associate director for science li- braries at California Institute of Technolo- gy. ELDO NEUFELD joined the staff of Oberlin College library, Oberlin, Ohio, as conserva- tory of music librarian, on August 15. JAMES NEWBURG has been appointed to the reference staff of Southern Illinois Uni- versity library, Edwardsville. MRS. JEANNE B. NoRTH is the new chief librarian of the government documents divi- sion, Stanford University libraries. NEIL OLSON has accepted the position of head librarian, State College, Salem, Mass. 440 I College & Research Libraries • September 1965 BmuTA Os1s is a cataloger in Ohio State University libraries. MRS. MILLICENT pALMER has joined the staff of Southern Illinois University, Ed- wardsville, as library instruction librarian. MRs. ELIZABETH B. PATTON is now em- ployed by Emory University library, where she has joined the reference staff. ELIZABETH PEELER began new duties as head cataloger in the library of State Uni- versity of New York at Stony Brook on August 2. HELEN R. PoTTER has accepted a posi- tion in the cataloging unit of the techniqtl processes section of National Institutes of Health library. RICHARD P. RASCHE is the new assistant order librarian at Southern Illinois Univer- sity, Carbondale. ARMANDO J. RE has been appointed li- brarian of the Berkshire Community Col- lege, Pittsfield, Mass. MRs. loNE REDFORD on July 1 officially assumed the position of assistant head of the undergraduate library, University of Washington. MARJORIE REEVES is the head of acqui- sitions in the new Irvine campus library, University of California. MRs. DAVY-}o S. RIDGE assumed the duties of head of reference department, Mc- Kissick memorial library, University of South Carolina, on July 1. FRANK RoBERT on September 1 became head reference librarian at Joint University libraries, Nashville. DANA L. RoTH is the new chemistry li- brarian in California Institute of Technolo- gy. ELIZABETH RuMICS is head readers ser- vices librarian at Oberlin College. STEW ART SAUNDERS is now social science bibliographer in Ohio State University li- braries. HuGH E. ScHRAM joined the staff of Muskingum College library on July 15 as assistant catalog librarian. KENT ScHRIEFER became associate li- brarian of University of Colorado medical center library, Denver, in July. JoHN E. SMITH is the university librarian of the new Irvine campus, University of California. }ACK B. STEINKRAUFF has assumed the position of assistant circulation librarian of Southern Illinois University, Morris library. GERTRUDE STOLPER has been named sen- ior reference librarian at Ohio State Uni- versity. RoBERT R. THOMASON is assistant librari- an of University of California's new Irvine campus. EDWIN W. TOMLINSON has been appoint- ed head of cataloging in University of Cali- fornia library, Irvi.pe. JosEPH H. TREYZ has been appointed assistant director of libraries of the Univer- sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. MRs. DEBORAH B. TucKER became li- brarian of the school of library science at Simmons College, Boston, in September. Louis G. V AGIANOS returned to Brown University, Providence, R.I., on September 1, as assistant librarian. GERHARD VAsco is senior cataloger in the library of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. JoHN VIGLE has been promoted to as- sistant director of libraries, University of Dayton (Ohio). RoBERT L. VoLz is the newly appointed special collections librarian of Bowdoin Col- lege, Brunswick, Me. CHARLES C. WADDINGTON has been ap- pointed assistant librarian of Brown Uni- versity. WooDROW W. WAssoN is now curator of special collections in Joint University Li- braries, Nashville. DAVID C. WEBER was promoted from assistant director to associate director of Stanford University libraries in July. ALEXANDER WILLIAMS is a science li- brarian in the Edwardsville campus, South- ern Illinois University. JoHN T. WILLIAMS began work on July 1 as head of reference services, Purdue Uni- versity libraries. BARTON WIMBLE became head librarian of Massachusetts College of Art, Brookline, on August 1. MARGARET WINDSOR was appointed as- sistant chief librarian of the catalog division in Stanford University libraries. RICHARD }AMES WoLFE has been selected to supervise the collection of rare medical and paramedical books at Francis A. Count- way library of medicine, Harvard Univer- sity. DoN WooD is a library intern at Ohio State University. HENSLEY C. WooDBRIDGE is now Latin American bibliographer in Southern Illi- nois University library, Carbondale. HERBERT C . WRIGHT became librarian of the classics library, University of Cincin- nati, on September I. MRs. ELsA Wu is catalog librarian in the Scarritt College division of Joint Universi- ty libraries, Nashville. DouGLAS ZwEIZIG is librarian of the English and speech graduate library of Ohio State University. VALERIE A. ZAPOTA joined the North- western University libraries as assistant sci- ence librarian, and will devote most of her time to the mathematics library. RETIREMENTS IRENE BARQUIST retired on June 23 after nearly twenty years of service to the Stan- ford University libraries, since 1959 as head of the exchange department. CLARA MAE BRowN, head reference li- brarian in Joint University libraries, Nash- ville, since 1946, retired on June I. MRs. EsTHER EuLER retired, after some twenty-nine ·years of service to the UCLA libraries, on July 31. EMMA FRANK, a member of Oberlin Col- lege library staff since 1924, retired as li- brarian of the Oberlin graduate school of theology on August 31. Doms HIGGINS, head of the cataloging department at University of California li- braries, Berkeley, retired in July. RUTH H. HooKER retired last February 12, after thirty-nine years in government service, thirty-five as a librarian, and thirty- two as librarian of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. MRs. DoROTHY VETTER retired on August 6 after eighteen years on the cataloging staff of the general library, University of California, Berkeley. WILMA WAITE, head of the loan depart- ment at University of California's general library, Berkeley, retired in July. NECROLOGY MINNIE ELMER, member of the music li- brary staff of University of California, Berkeley, for about ten years, and Library of Congress music cataloger, died on April 25. RoBERT R. HERTEL, director of libraries at Illinois State University, Normal, since 1959, died June 7. Personnel I 441 LoUis ScHREIBER, director of library ser- vice at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. , since 1948, died in an automobile accident on July 17. HELEN LoUISE SEARS, since 1958 head librarian at Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., died on June 2. LENA L. TucKER, for many years a mem- ber of the University of Washington library staff, died on February 25. • • Microcard Abstracts (Continued from page 410) structed to rate the subtopics as very in- teresting, not interesting, or only slightly in- teresting. Group scores for the topics and subtopics indicated that two of the topics should be divided into two or more sepa- rate topics. Although every effort had been made to word the subtopics objectively, this analysis indicated that the subjectivity of certain subtopics may have affected their rating. In was concluded that the cumbersome- ness of the method and the resultant difficul- ty in keeping such a checklist up to date make it an impractical tool for determining group reading interests. Therefore, the re- vision of the entire checklist was not recom- mended. •• ACRL Membership Total, Aug. 27, 1964 Total, Aug. 27, 1965 8,497 9,209 The Aug. 27 count of section memberships is as follows: Subject Specialists . . . . . . . . 1,818 Junior College Libraries . . . 771 University Libraries ....... 3,489 College Libraries . . . . . . . . . 2,836 Rare Books ............... 1,020 Please note that many members do not select memberships in sec- tions. ACRL Grants Program, 1965 j 66- Eleventh Year THE ACRL GRANTS PROGRAM, which began in 1954, continues this fall with support from the U.S. Steel Foundation, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, the H. W. Wilson Foundation, Pitney Bowes, Inc., Time, Inc., and the Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust. Funds now in hand for this purpose total $34,300. The application forms are being mailed early in September to the li- brarians of all eligible institutions, as listed in the USOE Education Directory, 1964/65, Part 3. These include privately endowed colleges and universities whose curricula constitute four-year programs of undergraduate instruction. The forms must be returned to the ACRL office not later than October 11. In past years the ACRL Grants Pro- gram has emphasized projects which were ( 1 ) principally or wholly for the benefit of undergraduate education as contrasted with research interests of the institution and the graduate program, ( 2) and which were beyond the means of the institution for normal budgeting purposes. Thus, the committee ordinari- ly would reject a request for funds to microfilm a newspaper needed for a pro- fessor's research or to buy files of several scholarly journals in a language which undergraduates would be unlikely to handle. It would view with favor a re- quest to buy books and journals to sup- port a new undergraduate program of importance to the institution. The com- mittee is always interested in applica- tions which promise that a grant will be matched by a special gift or special ap- / 443 propriation for the same purpose. This program will be continued along the same lines in the year ahead. The Remington Rand Division of Sperry Rand Corporation is also continu- ing its substantial contribution for the purchase of furniture and equipment which is available through the Library Bureau. The same form should be used to request furniture and equipment grants as for monetary grants. Requests from individual librarians for grants to support research or biblio- graphical activity are also encouraged. These should be made in a letter stating precisely the purpose of the project, its current state of development, its pro- posed date of completion, a budget for the funds requested, and the reason why the funds from outside the applicant's own institution are sought. The members of the Grants Commit- tee will meet late in November to make final decisions as to the distribution of grant funds. Announcement of decisions will appear in the January 1966 issue of this publication. Letters of notification will be sent to applicants at the same time. Members of the committee are: Hum- phrey G. Bousfield, Helen M. Brown, Johnnie Givens, Mark M. Gormley, Rev. Vincent R. Negherbon, M. D. Sprague, and Arthur T. Hamlin, chairman. George M. Bailey, Executive Secretary of ACRL, is an ex-officio member of the committee .and any inquiries should be addressed to him at ALA headquarters, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago 60611.