College and Research Libraries


librarian_ Qf University of Redlands (Calif.) 
library. 

LOUIS I. IBBOTSON, librarian of the Univer-
sity of Maine, Orono, retired on July 1. He 
had been with the university for more than 
thirty years. 

EDITH JoNEs retired on September 1 from 
her position as classics librarian at Univer-
sity of Illinois, Urbana, after thirty-four years 
with the library. 

RICHARD S. MACCARTENEY, chief of the 
reference division of the copyright office at 
Library of Congress since 1947 retired in 
August. 

MARGARET GAYLEY PALMER retired as li-
brarian of the dental school at University of 
Pennsylvania in June. 

WARREN L. PERRY retired on September I 
after serving as librarian of the University 

of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash., for more 
than thirty years. 

ABI RussELL, who has been director of li-
braries at Alabama College, Montevallo, since 
1931, retired this autumn. 

VERONICA J. SEXTON retired in August from 
the position she had held for thirty-three 
years, that of librarian of the California 
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 

MRs. VIOLET SHuE retired on August 31 
from the staff of the Hoover Institution at 
Stanford University. During most of the past 
forty-one years Mrs. Shue has served in var-
ious capacities in the libraries of Stanford, 
the Hoover Institution, and University of 
California, Santa Barbara. 

CHARLES HoLMEs STONE, university librar-
ian of Mercer University, Macon , Ga., retired 
on September 1. · • • 

Junior College Library Handbook Collection 

A COLLECTION of student handbooks gathered 
from over fifty junior college libraries has 
been placed at ALA headquarters in Chi-
cago. This collection is available on interli-
brary loan to interested librarians or librar-
ies. 

The Committee on Instruction and Use, 
of the Junior College Library Section of 
ACRL, has made a study of student hand-
books over the past two years. Initially, ques-
tionnaires concerning library instruction and 
the use of library handbooks were circulated 
to all junior college librarians in the United 
States. Handbooks were requested from the 
responding librarians. 

Committee members then proceeded to 
study the handbooks themselves and to for-
mulate standards for an "ideal" library hand-

'book for junior college students. The stan-
dards dealing with format (size, reproduction 
techniques, etc.) and content (the card cata-
log, circulation regulations, reference ser-
vices) were compiled in June 1963 and made 

NOVEMBER 1963 

available at the ALA conference in Chicago. 
At that time some of the handbooks, which 

were exceptionally well done, were displayed. 
Many librarians who visited the ACRL booth 
examined the handbooks, requested copies 
of the standards, and, in general, evidenced 
a genuine interest in the preparation and use 
of such library guides. 

For those who were not able to see the 
handbooks at ALA, there is now opportunity 
to borrow them for more leisurely examina-
tion. Those that are especially recommended 
for comprehensiveness of coverage and dis-
tinguished format include those from Flint 
Community College, Foothill College, Los 
Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Valley 
College, Pasadena City College, Stephens 
College, and Wright Junior College. 

However, the librarian who is revising a 
handbook, or preparing one for the first time, 
will find all of the handbooks very helpfuL-
Alice B. Griffith, Chairman , Committee on 
In struction and Us e. 

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