College and Research Libraries (_ ACRL Foundation Grants Program THE LILLY GRANTS The American Library Association has re- ceived from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., a grant of $26,000 to promote the more ex- tensive and imaginative use of library re- sources by undergraduate students. This money is to be allocated to public and private institutions offering four-year programs and located in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Mich- igan and Ohio. The Lilly grant is being administered by the Committee on Founda- tion Grants of the Association of College and Reference Libraries. The Committee will mail application forms to all the four-year institutions in the five-state area late in the winter. Institutions which have not received forms by April first, through clerical error or failure of the mails, should request copies from the ACRL office at ALA Headquarters. The Committee expects to make about eight grants averaging slightly over $3,000 each. One half of the money will go to In- diana institutions, according to arrangements with the Lilly Foundation, whose principal support goes to worthy causes within the bor- ders of that state. These grants should make important con- tributions to the educational functions of the institutions involved and at the same time set precedents and estabiish practices which may be adopted by other colleges. Quite possibly a few institutions will receive grants because they have presented very convincing plans· for "promoting the more extensive and imaginative use of library resources" by using programs that have been tried and tested elsewhere. Other institutions may receive grants because of plans which are experimen- tal and novel and therefore merit trial. The Committee will use its best judgment in tak- ing a few considered risks with imaginative and untried programs, and yet must be cer- tain that not all the funds are expended in noble experiments which, for one reason or another, may not live up to expectations. "The more extensive and wider use of li- brary resources" may be stimulated in many different ways. Librarians and teaching fac- ulty can do a great deal if relieved of some MARCH 7 1957 . routine responsibilities so that they have time to devote to special programs. Other grants may be made to strengthen the library staff for one year. Still other grants, or parts of grants, may be made for physical needs. The grants will be made to institutions; the Committee assumes that some will be admin- istered by librarians but that others will be assigned for faculty or other uses which are not under library administration. Grants are for active, working programs which give promise of direct benefit to undergraduate education at a particular institution. Successful applicants will receive grants in June or July of 1957 for use in the next academic year. The Committee has no in- dication that the grants will be continued. If the Lilly funds are allocated to unusually in- telligent and conscientious stewards, the Com- mittee assumes that additional funds will be found somewhere to continue and extend the program another year.-Arthur T. Hamlin, Chairman 7 ACRL Foundation Grants Com- mittee. LIBRARIES BENEFITING FROM THE 1956 PROGRAM Following is a list of the libraries receiving sub-grants from the United States Steel Foun- dation, New Y ark Times7 and Remington Rand grants of 1956. UNITED STATES STEEL FOUNDATION Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y ....... $300 Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark. . . . . . . 500 Assumption College, Worcester, Mass .. 200 Augsburg College and Theological Sem- inary, Minneapolis, Minn. . . . . . . . . . . 300 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. D. . . . 200 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine . . . . . . . 500 Berea College, Berea, Ky. . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Berry College, Mount Berry, Ga. . . . . . . 500 Bethel College, North Newton, Kan ... 400 Blackburn College, Carlinville, Ill. .... 200 Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, Miss. . ........................... 300 Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio . . . . . . 200 Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga. . . . . . . 300 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa ..... 400 153 California Baptist Theological Seminary, Covina, Calif. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif. .................... 375 Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C ... 200 Cooper Union, New York, N.Y ....... 300 Denison University, Granville, Ohio .. 300 Dillard University, New Orleans, La ... 200 Doane College, Crete, Neb ........... 350 Drury College, Springfield, Mo. . . . . . . 200 University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa 300 Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. 300 Gannon College, Erie, Pa. . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. . . . . . 300 Guilford College, Guilford College, N. C ............................. 400 Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y ...... 300 Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. . . . . . . 400 Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Tex. . ........................... 300 Hastings College, Hastings, Neb . ..... 200 High Point College, High Point, N. C. 200 Hollins College, Hollins, Va ...... . ... 600 Hood College, Frederick, Md. . . . . . . . . 400 Hope College, Holland, Mich. . . . . . . . 500 Houghton College, Houghton, N. Y ... 400 Illinois Wesleyan University, Blooming- ton , Ill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Iona College, New Rochelle, N .Y. . . 400 King College, Bristol, Tenn. . . . . . . . . 300 Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. . . . . . . . . 500 LaVerne College, LaVerne, Calif. ... . . 300 Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. 300 Loyola University, New Orleans, La ... 300 Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa ... 100 Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Purchase, N. Y. ............ 300 Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, Ore. . . 200 McPherson College, McPherson, Kan .. 300 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt ... 300 Mills College, Oakland, Calif. . . . . . . . . 300 Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill. .. 300 Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa 375 Morris Harvey College, Charleston, W. Va .. ; ........................ 300 Mt. Saint Mary.'s College, Los Angeles, Calif. . .......................... ; 200 Mt. Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland ........................ 300 Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 400 Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho ............................ 250 Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. . . 200 Olivet College, Olivet, Mich. . . . . . . . . 300 Pace College, New York, N.Y ....... · .. 300 Pacific Lutheran College, Parkland, Wash. . .............. . ........... 300 Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa . . . . . . 250 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N. Y. .......... .......... 300 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y ............................. 200 Rider College, Trenton, N. J ......... 300 Roberts Wesleyan College, North Chili, N. Y ............................. 300 Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind. . ............................ 300 Saint Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa 300 Saint John's University, Brooklyn, N.Y. 300 Saint Joseph's College, Collegeville, Ind. 200 College of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. 200 Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa ..... 200 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y ............................. 300 Springfield College, Springfield, Mass. : 200 Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa. 500 Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex .. 300 Union College, Barbourville, Ky ...... 200 Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. 300 Wagner Lutheran College, Staten Island, N. Y ............ .' . · ......... 500 Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa ... 300 Wayland Baptist College, Plainview, Tex .............................. 300 ''\!estern College for Women, Oxford, Ohio ............................ 200 Wheelock College, Boston, Mass. . . . . 200 Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio 400 Youngstown University, Youngstown, Ohio ... . .. . ....... .. ............ 300 NEw YoRK TIMEs University of Alaska, College, Alaska 600 Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio 600 University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich . . . 400 Earlham College, Richmond, Ind ..... 400 University of Kansas City, Kansas City, l\1o. . ............................ 600 Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. . .................. 550 University of Richmond, Richmond, Va. 400 Tougaloo Southern Christian College, Tougaloo, Miss. . ................. 400 Wilberforce University , Wilberforce, Ohio ............................ 400 College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 400 (Continued on page 159) 154 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ~, News from the Field to-· AcQUISITIONS, GIFTS, CoLLECTIONs The private papers of the late John Ers- kine have been given to Columbia University by his widow, Mrs. Helen Worden Erskine. Associated with Columbia most of his life- time as student and professor of English, John Erskine is generally credited with being the originator, through his great books col- loquium, of the system of general education used today by Columbia College. Capable of many talents, he was poet, scholar, teacher, administrator, musician , composer, novelist, lecturer and librettist. His pseudo-historical novels, including such best-sellers as The Pri- vate Life of Helen of Troy (1926) created a new vogue in popular American literature. J. Walter Lambeth, former United States Congressman from North Carolina, recently presented his official correspondence, papers and documents to the Duke University Li- brary. The collection includes about one thousand books and the texts of many ad- dresses delivered by Lambeth both in and out of Congress. An ardent admirer of Pres- ident Wilson, Mr. Lambeth's interests lie in the fields of international politics and world problems. Accompanying the materials is a substantial fund for the establishment of the "J. Walter Lambeth Collection" of materials in these fields. Special emphasis will be placed on collecting the writings of statesmen and historians of Asian, African and European nations. Eighty-one letters by Charles Dickens have been given to the Free Library of Philadel- phia by Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel. These bring to 483 the number of Dickens letters re- ceived from the collection of her husband. This year's gift includes letters (more than half unpublished) by 32 correspondents. Espe- cially interesting among the unpublished let- ters are one to George Cattermole relating to his illustnl.tions for Th e Old Curiosity Shop , one to Disraeli endorsing an application for a civil service post for Clarkson Stanfield's son (with Stanfield's widow's letter to Dick- ens and a letter from her son to Disraeli), and a letter w · Charles Re ade, ·author of The .MARCH, 1957 Cloister and the Hearth, asserting the need for authors to prevent unauthorized drama- tizations of their works. Two-hundred seventy-two additional edi- tions of Horace complete the gift of the Mon- cure Biddle Collection of Horace at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Mr. Biddle began the transfer in December, 1954, giving por- tions on three occasions before his death. The final group includes notable volumes rep- resenting the whole range of Mr. Biddle's interests: four incunabula, among them the first illustrated edition of Horace (Gurning- er, 1498); a magnificent seventeenth-century binding executed for the great French col- lector de Thou; a series of eighteenth-cen- tury paraphrases and imitations of Horace by Pope; four copies of the edition illustrated by John Pine (London, 1733-1737) including an uncut copy in the original boards. The whole collection comprises 850 volumes, dat- ing from the fifteenth to the twentieth cen- turies. Cubberley Education Library at Stanford University has received a valuable collection of historical books, journals, and pamphlets that belonged to the late Earl Barnes, profes- sor of history and education, who served from the opening of the university in 1891 to 1897. The collection gives an account of educa- tion in California at the turn of the century. The donor was his son, Joseph Barnes, au- thor and editor. Washington University Library at St. Louis, under the guidance of Professor Wil- liam Ringler of WU's English Department, has been collecting microfilms and photostats of English poetry manuscripts . of the Tudor period. Gathered over the last two years, this collection contains films of many items not on the MLA or ACLS British Manuscripts Project lists. Mrs. E. P. Ellwood of DeKalb, Ill., has given the archives and western history de- partment of the University of Wyoming the records of the famous Isaac L. Ellwood Barbed Wire Company: They consist of 125 155 letter file boxes, 75 letter press books, 60 ledg- ers and a large amount of unclassified cor- respondence. The Ellwood Company, man- ufacturing barbed wire invented by Joseph Glidden, was one of the first to sell barbed wire on an extensive basis in the American West. Coupled with the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association files, the Ellwood Col- lection gives the University of Wyoming rich resources in the history of the western range cattle industry. BuiLDINGS The new Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University is a two-story wing of the music building. Its construction was made possible largely through a gift of $225,000 from the Eda Kuhn Loeb estate. Other friends of the music department gave suf- ficient funds to make up the total building cost of more than $500,000. LIBRARY ScHooLs The 22nd annual conference of the Uni- versity of Chicago Graduate Library School will be held from June 19-21, 1957. The sub- ject will be "New Directions in Public Li- brary Developments." Outstanding author- ities in the field of public administration, public finance, urban development and re- lated fields will join distinguished speakers in the field of librarianshi p to discuss emerg- ing problems in public librarianship. The School of Library Science of Western Reserve University, in conjunct:ion with its Center for Documentation and Communica- tion Research, will present on April I 5- I 7, 1957, the nation's first comprehensive dem- onstration of systems presently in use for the organization, storage, and retrieval of record- ed information, together with a symposium on information-handling problems and tech- niques. Further information may be obtained from: Dr. Jesse H. Shera, dean, School of Library Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland 6. PuBLICATIONS Princeton University Library has issued a collectors' edition of a hitherto unrecorded book, The Arte of Angling, first printed in London in 1577. This 40-leaf volume ap- parently suggested the general structure as well as textural material for one of the most famous English books, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. Comparing the anonymous- ly written Arte of Angling with Walton's il- lustrious Angler, the first edition of which appeared in 1653, Princeton scholars point to "startling coincidences." The present edition of The Arte of An- gling is based on the only known copy of the work, given to Princeton by Carl Otto v. Kienbusch, of New York City, distinguished collector of angling literature and a mem- ber of the Princeton Class of I 906. Mr. Kien- busch made possible the publication of the volume under the sponsorship of the Friends of the Princeton Library. ExHIBITIONs During January, the University of Okla- homa Library held an exhibition of "Herbs and Herbals," involving a joint display of botanical specimens from the Bebb Herb- arium and botanical books from the DeGoly- er Collection. Some 3,500 books, published from I 948 to 1956, were included in an exhibition held February 15-28 at the New York Public Li- brary. The theme of the exhibition is "the German Book, 1948-1956," and it was or- ganized by the Association of German Pub- lishers. Of the 1,935 German publishing hous- es, 431 contributed to the exhibition. The collection will be shown in the Chicago Pub- lic Library, March 15-30, and in t~e Boston Public Library, April 15-30. F. W. Faxon Company announces that it has sold the back-number part of its business to J. S. Canner Company, 46 Millmont Street, Boston 19. Faxon will continue to issue the Bulletin of Bibliography, the Useful Refer- ence Series, and its other publications. MISCELLANEOUS The newly-formed Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries seeks "to promote the interests of libraries, schol- ars, and librarians" in the fields of theology and philosophy. It hopes to help member li- braries by interchange of information, espe- cially relating to recognized library tech- niques and sources of knowledge. (Continued on page 1.59) 156 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Personnel C. DoNALD CooK has been appointed as- sistant to the director of Libraries at Colum- bia University, effective February l, 1957. The position, which replaces the former Personnel Officer position, will involve two areas of activity: (l) responsibility for the Personnel Officer function, including all aspects of recruit- ing and developing the staff; and (2) re- search and manage- ment studies, includ- ing a sequence of studies such as con- C. DONALD CooK ducting a review of the libraries' personnel classification, examining the manning table requirements of the various units of the li- brary system, and analyzing various library operations as assigned. Mr. Cook, a graduate of the University of Arizona, and holder of a bachelor's and mas- ter's degree in library service at Columbia University, has completed his course work for the doctoral degree in library science at Columbia. He served on the cataloging staffs of Arizona and Columbia before taking a post an documents librarian at the United Nations Library in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1947 until 1952. Since 1952 he has been as- sociated with the School of Library Service at Columbia as a member of the faculty, and with the Columbia libraries as research as- sistant in the Cataloging Department. Re- cently, he has participated in the study of the libraries being conducted by the Subcommit- tee on the University Libraries of the Pres- ident's Committee on the Educational Fu- ture of the University. He was a contributor to Technical Services in Libraries) issued by the Columbia Univer- sity Press in 1954, and has written articles for College and Research Libraries) of which he has been an assistant to the editor, and Li- brary Trends. He has been active in national and regional library associations.-M.F. T. Appointments FRANCES BREWER is chief of the rare book division, Detroit Public Library. CATHERINE BROSKY is librarian of the Grad- uate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. · CHARLES E. BuTLER, formerly librarian of West Virginia University, is now librarian of Canisius College, Buffalo. HARRY DEWEY, formerly assistant profes- sor in the University of Wisconsin Library School, is librarian of Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. AMBROSE EASTERLY, formerly librarian of Middle Tennessee State College in Murfrees- boro, is associate librarian of the University of Missouri. LoRNA FRASER is head of the catalog de- partment, University of Toronto Library. MARIAN E. GRAY is reference librarian of Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. RoBERT D. HARVEY is chief of reference MARCH) 1957 and special services, Northwestern University Library. ANDREW HoRN, librarian of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be- come librarian of Occidental College, Los Angeles, on September l, 1957. MIRIAM LICHTHEIM is Far East bibliog- rapher, University of California at Los An- geles Library. ELOISE McGUIRE is circulation and refer- ence librarian, College of Business Admin- istration, Boston University. PAULINE MESSENGER became librarian of the ElDorado (Kansas) Junior College when the college moved into a building of its own in September, 1956. ToRBERT H. MILBY is assistant librarian, Evansville (Ind.) College. BEVERLY T. Moss is librarian of Millikin University, Decatur, Ill. 157 GERALD NEWTON is acqms1t10ns librarian, University of Kansas City Libraries. JAMES E. O'NEILL is map librarian and as- sistant reference librarian at the University of Detroit Library. · ALDREA J. RowLAND is catalog librarian, Bradley University. EDWARD L. SHEPPARD is the new librarian at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill. He had been librarian at Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation since 1954. STANLEY A. SHEPARD is order librarian, Col- gate University. MRs. ANASTASIA SMITH is assistant in the reference and bibliography section and the government publications room, University of California at Los Angeles. Appointments in the Stanford University Libraries include: GERARD A. BARKER, catalog department; MRs. VIRGINIA D. BoNNICI, phys- ics librarian; MRs. EDITH H. FALCONER, act- ing chief, acquisitions division; CHARLES R. GoRHAM, senior gift librarian in charge of the gift department; DAviD W. HERON, acting as- sociate director for 1956-57; CATHERINE E. MoRTON, special collections librarian; MRS. ELLEN R. RIEDEL, engineering librarian; TAMIE TsucHIYAMA, catalog librarian. BETTINA SuMMERS-PAGEs, chief of acquisi- tions, National Library, Lima, Peru, is visit- ing librarian in the Vassar College Library. Arrangements for this eleven-month assign- ment were made through the cooperation of the International Relations Board of ALA, the International Relations Committee of SLA, and the Department of State's Interna- tional Educational Exchange Service. JosEPH G. TAYLOR, formerly head of the reference department and supervisor of branch libraries at Alabama Polytechnic In - stitute, has succeeded Frank J. Anderson as librarian of Kansas Wesleya n University, Sa- lina. Necrology RuTH M. JoNES of the University of Utah Library died on December 14, 1956, as the result of an automobile accident. She had been a member of the staff since her gradua- tion from the university in 1931. During Dr. Jones' career, she was circulation librarian, reference librarian, cataloger and associate professor of library science at the University of Utah. During the war years, she was li- brarian in charge of the Hill Air Force Base Library. CARL B. RoDEN, who died last fall at the age of 86, successfully devoted a long career to making the Chicago Public Library a force in the community. Beginning 64 years ago as a page in the library, Mr. Roden advanced through various ranks and in 1918 became chief librarian, a position he held until his retirement in 1950. When Mr. Roden started in the library, it had 220,736 volumes and no branches. When he left, it had 2,207,000 vol- umes and 61 branches, and was the world's largest library in terms of annual circulation of books. LINDA TUM SUDEN , a staff member of the Lane Medical Library of the Stanford Uni- versity Libraries from 1921 to 1946, died in San Francisco last fall. Miss tum Suden was assistant librarian of the medical library at the time of her retirement. MRs. MARIA VoLKOV, senior reference li- brarian and art librarian of the Stanford Uni- versity Libraries, died last fall after a long illness. Born in, Riga, Latvia and a graduate · of its university, Mrs. Volkov came to the United States in 1940. She earned her profes- sional degree at Columbia University School of Library Service in 1943. She served as li- brarian of the Lederle Laboratory and as- sistant museum librarian at the Cooper Union in New York City before coming to Stanford in 1949. Mrs. Volkov won high praise for her organization and development of the library's art collection. 1\tfRS. WINIFRED VAUGHAN WALKER died January 3, 1957 at her home in Van Nuys, Calif. Since September, 195 1 she had been li- brarian of the University Elementary School of the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously she was children's librarian at Pas- adena Public Library. She was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the library school of the University of Mich- igan. 158 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES J I To perpetuate the memory of Mrs. Walker, the Board of the Family-School Alliance of the University Elementary School has estab- lished the Winifred Walker Memorial Fund for scholarships in the field of children's librarianship. Contributions may be sent to the chairman, Mrs. Blanch DeChene, in care of the Family-School Alliance, University Elementary School, University of California, Los Angeles 24. ACRL Foundation Grants Program ( Continued from page 154) REMINGTON RAND Bard College, Annandale-Hudson, N.Y. 200 Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, Ky .................. . ............ 200 Clarkson College of Technology, Pots- dam, N. Y. . .. . ...... . .......... . 400 George Pepperdine College, Los An- geles, Calif. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Ariz. 300 Hiram College, Hiram, Ohto . . . . . . . . 300 Immaculata Coll€ge, Immaculata, Pa .. 250 King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. . ... 500 Marymount College, New York, N. Y . . 200 Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C ...... 400 Nasson College, Springvale, Me ... .. .. 400 Park College, Parkville, Mo. . . . . . . . . . . 300 Roosevelt University, Chicago, Ill. . .. . 400 Salem College, Salem, W. Va .. . . .. . .. 500 News from the Field (Contin ued from page 156) The University of Kansas Library has an- nounced the Taylor Student Book Collection Contest for spring 1957. Through the gen- erosity of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Taylor of Kansas City, Mo. , prizes totaling $ 100 will be awarded for the b est collections entered by any KU student. Mrs. Taylor (herself an enthusiastic collector of H. L. Mencken) and Mr. Taylor hope to promote recognition of the importance of the amateur collector and to encourage the early development of book collecting interests among KU students. Saint Louis University has become the eighteenth mem~er of the Midwest Inter-Li- brary Corporation. Thus the important re- search collections of Saint Louis University, including the notable Vatican manuscripts microfilms, are added to the resources of the present MILC members to form an impres- sive group of library materials for research in the Middle West. James V. Jones, director of libraries of Saint Louis University, will represent his institution of the MILC Ad- visory Committee of Librarians. The Catalog-A Finding List? (Continued from page 111) sible variations which authorship is cap- _able of producing. This revision would also provide the basis for eventual inter- national agreement on rules of entry, in- cluding and even extending beyond the Anglo-American fraternity. This is an eminently worth-while goal. It can be achieved through the cooperate enter- prise of librarianship without creating artificial · distinctions and hurdles for the MARCH~ 1957 reference librarian who is always de- pendent upon the work of the cataloger and the code upon which the cataloger bases his decisions. The achievement of the stated purposes will of and by itself produce improvements and economies, and administrative judgment can further secure these gains in the individual li- brary situation. 159