College and Research Libraries Readings in Business Administration M ARIAN C. M A N L E Y , business branch librarian, Newark Public Library, con- tributes the following annotated list of articles in the field of business administration which have special application to administrative problems of large libraries. Bigelow, Burton. "Why Salesmen Fail as Field Managers." Printers' Ink Monthly, 40:16-17, June 1940. A practical analysis of aptitudes for each position that can be applied to prob- lems in library placement and promotion. Ferree, C. E. and Rand, G . "Work and Its Illumination." Part I. Personnel Journal, 19:55-64, June 1940. Detailed discussion of lighting prob- lems with special attention to range of light for comfortable reading. Garth, John. "Overworked Executives and the Short Hour Week." Ameri- can Business, 1 0 : 1 1 - 1 3 , 48-49, May 1940. Pertinent notes on methods for admin- istrative organization that are useful in checking for personal efficiency. Lewisohn, S. A. "Human Relations in Industry." Advanced Management, 5:73-76, 92, April-May-June 1940. Thoughtful treatment of a major executive problem stressing the funda- mental necessity for genuine democracy. McMurray, R. N. "Can Aptitude Tests Guide Us in Picking Men for Promo- tion?" Sales Management, 46:48-56 May 15, 1940; 46:58-61, June 1, 1940. A description of the efforts of a large company to determine correct qualifica- tions for a job and to appraise available candidates in these terms. Putnam, C. V . " 'Stop Loss' Plan Con- trols Printed Supplies." American Business, 10:30-32, June 1940. A simple, practical discussion of the handling of forms supply. Gives good routine for cost records, re-ordering routine, etc. One way of keeping minor costs in hand. Roper, Elmo. "Sampling Public Opin- ion." Journal of the American Statis- tical Association, 35:325-34, June 1940. Enlivening discussion of techniques and their application in discovering public opinion. Interesting possibilities in appli- cation to library profession. SEPT EMBER, 1940 357 News from Be sure to .note General "Goucher College Library Plans," by John C. B. Moore of Moore and Hutch- ins, N e w Y o r k , in the Library Buildings Round T a b l e report, A.L.A. Bulletin: 3 4 : 1 4 4 - 5 2 , August 1940 (Proceedings is- sue), if you have the problem of planning a new college library on your hands. T h e outline of specifications is especially worthy of study. T h e recently es- East tablished Bureau of G o v e r n m e n t R e - search Library at the University of N e w Hampshire, Durham, is engaged in com- piling a charter and ordinance digest of the eleven cities in the state. Temple University Library, J . Periam Danton, librarian, has received a grant of $ 7 5 0 from the Rockefeller Foundation for the library's microphotography de- partment. Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pa., Dean P. Lockwood, librarian, has begun the construction of a four-story addition to house 150,000 volumes at a cost of $ 1 2 5 , 0 0 0 . T h e Society for the Libraries at N e w Y o r k University has awarded its first gold medal to Katherine Anne Porter for her book Pale Horse, Pale Rider. A f t e r a season of intensive study, changes are being made in the Wellesley College Library, Blanche P. M c C r u m , librarian. T h i s includes the construction of ten alcoves in the main reading room to insure greater privacy and attention to individual needs; a center for recreational reading near the fireplace at the end of the main reading room; a new lighting sys- tem ; a new floor; and redecoration of the entire reading room. T h e Edwin Markham library of 15,000 volumes has been given to Wagner College, Staten Island, N . Y . T h i s col- lection is to be shelved in a special room in memory of the poet. T h e Westminster College at N e w W i l - mington, Pa., Mildred Ailman, librarian, has received a gift of $ 1 0 0 0 from Judge John F . MacLane, an alumnus, for the purchase of books on English, history, and social institutions and law. Westminster College has also had the benefit of two unusual exhibits: Orrefors (Swedish) glass, and Jensen (Danish) silver. Simmons College Library School held a meeting of school administrators of N e w England and the East on April 1 2 and 1 3 at which changes in modern life which have brought about corresponding changes in educational ideals were discussed. Among the speakers were John Colburn, principal of Garden City High School, Garden City, N e w Y o r k ; the librarian of that school, Winifred Linderman; Alice I. Bryan and Gretchen Westervelt of Co- lumbia University, School of Library Sci- ence; Sigrid A . Edge of the Simmons College faculty; Nora Beust of the L i - brary Science Division of the United States Office of Education; and Mildred Batchelder, chief of the School and Chil- dren's Division of the American Library Association. St. Bonaventure College Library held a celebration of the centennials of printing from March 7 to 10, 1940, with addresses by Doctor R . A . Frommelt, editor of the Catholic Union and Echo of B u f f a l o ; and 358 COLLEGE AND RES E ARC LI L I B R A R I E S the Field Nathan Griswold, managing editor of the Buffalo Evening News. In connection with the various programs, there was a display of notable early printed volumes including a facsimile copy of the manu- script book Kodex Saville, the original of which was discovered in Lima, Peru. T h e writing of the original manuscript was begun about 1440 and completed in I 5 5 7 - Brown University Library, Providence, Henry Van Hoesen, librarian, is enlarging its important collection of material on Abraham Lincoln, the nucleus of which was presented to the university by John D . Rockefeller, J r . , Brown '97. A three- way search for new material includes mak- ing an index of all Lincoln references in old Illinois papers by a special Work Proj- ects Administration group; copying Lin- coln material in other collections by photostat; and a thorough and systematic analysis of all United States government publications and manuscripts with refer- ences to Lincoln in them. A lending library for students, faculty, and staff of the Catholic University of America at Washington, has been in- augurated. T h e collection filled a need for recreational reading and is supported by the moderate charge of ten cents for one week and two cents for each addi- tional day. Y a l e University Library, Bernhard Knollenberg, librarian, has announced that the famous surgeon, D r . Harvey Cush- ing, has bequeathed his large personal li- brary to the Y a l e Medical School Library. It will form a special historical section of the new medical library. Doctor Cush- ing's collection is particularly strong in incunabula and sixteenth century writers, with emphasis on the field of anatomy. Y a l e also announces a gift, from M r s . Wilmarth S. Lewis, of the Annie Burr Jennings collection of 3000 books and manuscripts dealing chiefly with Aaron Burr and members of his family. Bucknell University Library, Lewis- burg, Pa., Harold Hayden, librarian, has received a unique gift of 67 volumes writ- ten by former prisoners in the first World W a r . T h e collection is composed of works in English, French, and German. Allegheny College Library, Meadville, Pa., Edith Rowley, librarian, dedicated a new treasure room in the William E . Reis Library on Friday, J u n e 7. T h e Allegheny College Library has a very un- usual collection of rare books to be shelved in this room. Bates College Library, Lewiston, Me., M r s . Blanche W . Roberts, librarian, has received as a gift an unusual collection of autographed first editions written by cur- rent people of prominence. T h e collection is being established in honor of William Lyon Phelps' seventy-fifth birthday and will be named after him. T h e large union catalog covering li- brary resources of 1 5 0 libraries in the Philadelphia metropolitan area will be cared for by a special staff and housed in the projected University of Pennsyl- vania Library building of which C . Sey- mour Thompson is librarian. On M a y 7 and 8, South 1940, the new Gor- gas Memorial Li- brary at the University of Alabama, T u s - caloosa, was dedicated. T h e dedicatory SEPTEMBER, 1940 34 7 address was delivered by George H . Denny, chancellor of the University of Alabama. Among the new institutions to establish a prize for students' private libraries is the University of Kentucky, Margaret King, librarian, which, through the gener- osity of Judge Samuel Wilson of Lexing- ton, is awarding a $ 3 0 first prize and a $ 2 0 second prize. In connection with its celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the in- vention of printing from movable types, George P. Winship delivered an address at the University of North Carolina March 28 on "Gutenberg and the Inven- tion of Printing." T h e joint building for the University of Chattanooga and Chattanooga city and county libraries was officially opened and dedicated early in April. T h e building is located on the university campus, and each library has its own reading rooms and work rooms with jointly occupied stacks. T h i s is a new experiment in cooperation. T h e University of South Carolina L i - brary, Columbia, has recently accessioned a one-man book, the title of which is Red Shirts Remembered. T h e author, W i l - liam A . Sheppard, a former student at the university, set the type, prepared it for publication, and published the volume. Surveys of the relative strength of the libraries of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, James M c M i l l e n , librarian, and Tulane University Library and How- ard Memorial Library at N e w Orleans, Robert J . Usher, director of libraries, are under way with a view toward making available a union catalog and sharing sub- ject matter fields. Rare southern Americana from the re- sources of Emory University's Keith Read Confederate Collection were recently dis- played at the university library. T h e collection included many economics books, maps and broadsides and autographed let- ters from nearly all the military and political leaders of the Confederacy. T h e exhibit was prepared by Richard B. Har- well, cataloger of the Read Collec- tion, under the direction of Margaret Jemison, librarian of Emory University Library. T h e documents department of the Uni- versity of North Carolina Library has begun the preparation of a monthly check list of official North Carolina publications. Such a state guide is issued in few states at the present time and is greatly needed in all states. Copies are available for other libraries upon application. T h e first annual supplement to the List of College and University Publications Available as Exchanges has been distrib- uted by the Louisiana State University Library. T h e purpose of the list is to serve as a guide to college and university publications currently available as ex- changes. College and university catalogs, administrative reports, and agricultural experiment station and extension service publications are excluded. Coincident with Middle West the five hundredth anniversary of print- ing, the Oberlin College Library, Julian S. Fowler, librarian, announces the re- ceipt of its 400,000th book. T h i s book, as selected from a group of new purchases, is Getting a Living: The Foundations of Economic Society. It is interesting to note that the 200,000th book was cataloged in March 1920. An addition to the Coburn Library at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Louise F . Kampf, librarian, is under con- 360 COLLEGE AND RES E ARC LI L I B R A R I E S struction which will make available addi- tional stack space for 30,OCX) volumes, 40 carrels for individual readers, and a new reserve reading room. T h e University of Illinois Library, P. L . Windsor, director, has begun the accumulation of material relating to the second W o r l d W a r , including pamphlets, letters, books, propaganda, etc., which will be very valuable for future historians. University of Omaha Library, Robert F . Lane, librarian, has organized a W o r k Projects Administration project to index and microfilm copies of the Omaha World Herald from the years 1889 to 1920. Marquette University Medical Library has been consolidated with that of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine to pro- vide one of the outstanding medical school library collections in the country, includ- ing over 34,000 volumes. President Edwin C . Elliott of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., has recom- mended for his students' reading the fol- lowing two groups of T e n Little Books: T h e First T e n Little Books— N e w Testa- ment, The Humanizing of Knowledge by J . H . Robinson, Vital Reserves by W i l - liam James, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Liberty by J . S. M i l l , Paracelsus by Browning, Hamlet by Shakespeare, Tales by Tolstoy, Essays by Emerson, and Leaves of Grass by W a l t Whitman; the Second T e n Little Books—T h e Principle of Population by Malthus, The Signif- icance of the Frontier in American History by Turner, Is Civilization a Disease? by Coit, The Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy by Eliot, Socialism and Superior Brains by Shaw, The Blood of the Nation by Jordan, Jukes-Edwards by Winship, On Educa- tion by Emerson, On University Educa- tion by Newman, De Amicitia by Cicero. T h e gift of the Julius Rosenwald papers to the University of Chicago Library, M . Llewelyn Raney, director, has been an- nounced. These papers include 18 linear feet of correspondence, memoranda, and speeches, 17 scrap books of clippings, 58 loose leaf binders recording his benefac- tions, 28 books, and 128 separate pamph- lets, announcements, and numbers of pe- riodicals. T h e University of Southwest Texas package loan l i b r a r y , L e N o i r Dimmitt, director, recently mailed out a new high monthly record of more than 5000 "information packages." Included among the subjects represented were liter- ature, fine arts, plays, politics, economic, and social topics. T h e requests came from 679 localities seeking topic material rang- ing from the Colorado potato bug to " A third term for Roosevelt?" T h e University of T e x a s Library, Don- ald Coney, librarian, has received a valu- able Washington autograph affixed to a certificate of honorable discharge from the Continental Army, J u n e 14, 1 7 8 3 . Fannie Ratchford, rare books librarian at the University of Texas, is on leave as the holder of a twelve-month Guggenheim fellowship to edit letters from William J . Wise, noted English bibliophile, to John Henry Wrenn, donor of the University of Texas rare book collection. T h i s investi- gation will probably shed more light on the Wise counterfeit editions. T h e reference de- Far West p a r t m e n t of S a n Diego Public L i - brary, Cornelia Plaister, librarian, has de- veloped an index of "western characters" SEPTEMBER, 1940 34 7 into which go references to interesting fig- ures in the west, including outlaws, sher- iffs, scouts, Indian fighters, etc. The Spokane (Wash.) Public Library, Mrs. Gladys S. Puckett, librarian, has received from the estate of M r . O. P. Memhart $6000 for the purchase of tech- nical and scientific books for the reference department. The College and University Library Section of the California Library Asso- ciation held an Institute of Public Rela- tions at Long Beach, April 17 to 20. Discussion was divided into three parts: "Public Relations on the Campus," "Pub- lic Relations off the Campus," and "Rela- tions with Sources of Revenue." The Pacific Northwest Library Asso- ciation has received a grant of $35,000 to set up a bibliographic center at the Uni- versity of Washington Library, Seattle. The librarian of the University of Wash- ington, Charles W . Smith, will act as director of the project. The main pur- pose of the center will be to act as a clearing house for all matters relating to library cooperation in that region. A union catalog of the books in the prin- cipal libraries in the region will be estab- lished. Lucy M . Lewis, director of libraries for the Oregon State System of Higher Education, reports a grant of $1500 for research in the field of microphotography to be conducted on the Oregon State Col- lege campus. Montana School of Mines, Butte, Guinevere Crouch, librarian, has held a dedication and open house for the new $200,000 library-museum building. The new $275,000 library build- ing of the Eastern Washington Col- lege of Education at Cheney, Hugh M . Blair, librarian, was dedicated June 4. President Bruce Baxter of Willamette University was the principal speaker. Northwest College Librarians met for their third meeting and informal discus- sion in Walla Walla, Wash., April 13. Fifteen college librarians were present in- cluding a number from eastern Washing- ton and Idaho. T h e B o a r d of Canada Governors of the University of Tor- onto has accepted a check for $3000 given by the Toronto Public Library Association to endow a scholarship in library science in the University of Toronto to be known as the George H. Locke Memorial Scholarship. Lois Engleman is Personnel on f o u r t o s i x months' leave of ab- sence from Frances Shimer Junior College, Mount Carroll, 111., to be associated with the Commission on Junior College Ter- minal Education of the American As- sociation of Junior Colleges in the compilation of the bibliography on junior college terminal education under a grant from the General Education Board. Phillip O. Keeney resigned as librarian and professor of library economy at the University of Montana, Missoula, effec- tive April 1, to become associated with the Library of Congress, Washington, as head of the accessions division. Morris Kemp, assistant librarian, La- fayette College, Easton, Pa., has been ap- pointed director of libraries at the University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. W . Kaye Lamb, a graduate of the University of British Columbia and li- brarian of the Provincial Library of Brit- 362 COLLEGE AND RES E ARC LI L I B R A R I E S ish Columbia, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Ridington at the university. Jewell Morris of the reference depart- ment of the Tacoma (Wash.) Public Library has resigned and has been suc- ceeded by Ellen L . Walsh from the ref- erence department of the South Dakota State Library. Announcement is made of the retire- ment on August 31, 1940, of John Riding- ton, librarian of the University of British Columbia, after twenty-five years of serv- ice. Dr. Ridington has seen the library of the University of British Columbia grow from 15,500 to over 125,000 vol- umes. Louise Smith, Illinois '38, formerly of Galesburg (111.) Public Library and the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts Library, has been ap- pointed to the position of catalog and docu- ments librarian and assistant in library science at Beloit College Library, Beloit, Wis. Eleanor J . Sturges has been acting head of the reference department of the San Francisco Public Library since the retire- ment of Mary A . Byrne in September 1 9 3 9 - W I L L A R D P . L E W I S NOTE: The editors of College and Research Libraries will be very glad to receive current items relating to college, university, and reference libraries for publication in the journal. Such items should be sent to Willard P. Lewis, secretary, Association of College and Reference Libraries, Pennsylvania State College Library, State College, Pa. SEPT EMBER, 1940 363