College and Research Libraries T h a t libraries are Wartime Activities giving generously of their facilities to the war effort is apparent in the reports that have been received. Accelerated programs are already in operation in many institu- tions making necessary adjustments of per- sonnel and book budgets. Key centers of information and training have been set up in 140 colleges and universities and the libraries of most of these institutions are sponsoring war information libraries. Li- braries in institutions not key centers likewise are establishing offices for the dissemination of war information to faculty and students. Faculty members and their wives are lending their services to these information centers. Booklets and bibliographies describing the new services are being distributed and in many institutions package libraries are provided for state-wide distribution. In at least one urban community a wartime council, which includes all of the libraries of the area, has been formed and a union check- list made of the materials in the co- operating libraries which might be of special value to industry or to civilian groups. Plans for the conservation of materials and the safeguarding of staff have been worked out in inland and coastal institutions and in some instances on a state-wide basis. A regional library East conference which in- cludes the states of N e w Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, W e s t Virginia, and the District of Columbia will be held at the Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, on October 22-24. T h e theme will be " T h e Library in a W a r Economy." Charles W . Mixer, News from librarian of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, is chairman of the Program Committee. Bard College Library, Felix E. Hirsch, librarian, has been completely modernized. T h e building has been redecorated, fluo- rescent lighting and oil heating introduced. T h e basement has been rebuilt; a large study hall, a library office, and the Bardi- ana Room for special collections have been added, and stack space sufficient for a considerable number of years provided. T h e philosophy collection of the late Professor David W . Prall of Harvard University, established as a memorial to him by his sister, Margaret C . Prall, has recently been received at Queens College Library, Flushing, N . Y . , according to Charles F . Gosnell, librarian. T h e col- lection comprises some fifteen hundred volumes, including works of the leading Greek, Roman, French, German, British, and American philosophers. A s its gradu- ation gift to the college, the senior class of February 1942 has given the library a fund of two hundred and fifty dollars for adding current material to the collection. A l l libraries administered by agencies of the Department of Agriculture and all units of the department providing library and bibliographical service were consoli- dated by Executive Order 9069, dated February 23, 1942. T o expedite an institution-wide faculty study of the University of N e w Hamp- shire's program and procedures, a faculty workshop has been organized in the library and two faculty members have been ap- pointed to serve in the capacity of reference librarians. 264 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the Field T h e Philadelphia Bibliographical Cen- ter and Union Library Catalog has announced through its Committee on Microphotography the publication of a Union List of Microfilms, A Basic List of Holdings in the United States and Canada. T h e list, which comprises more than five thousand items, represents holdings of over i o o institutions. Copies of the list may be purchased through the Center, Fine Arts Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Cost $4.00. T h e C o m m i t t e e West on Bibliography of the Pacific North- west Library Association is supervising a survey of library resources in the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washing- ton and the province of British Columbia. T h e librarians of each library are listing and evaluating their resources. John V a n Male, on leave from the Denver Biblio- graphical Center, is to conduct the field work and compile the results. T h i s sur- vey which has been under contemplation for some years as a basis for future regional planning and as a means of co- ordinating library specialization and of avoiding duplication, has been undertaken sooner than was originally intended be- cause of the present war emergency and the need for a complete mobilization of regional library resources. T h e survey is being financed by the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center. A meeting on library cooperation was sponsored at the University of Utah on March 2 by Herbert A . Kellar of the Library of Congress. Practically all of the libraries of that area were represented. T h e Library Association of Portland Library, Nell A . Unger, librarian, is to receive the income from a fund established in memory of the former United States Senator, Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, by his sister, Emily Howland Bourne. T h e income will be used to purchase materials on the Pacific Northwest and related sub- jects. T h e summer session at M i l l s College will feature a casa Pan Americana for the special study of Latin American af- fairs, under the direction of Samuel I. Inman. T h e library is preparing a col- lection of books for the Pan Americana house, in which the students will live along with the Latin American instructors and scholars. A new library for Middle West St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., is near completion, according to A l f Houkom, librarian. T h e college alumni group, of less than five thousand members, contributed practically all of the building cost of $310,000. T h e building is ar- ranged so that for the present it will include also a student recreation room, post office, book store, and a few class- rooms. T h e library may later expand into the quarters now occupied by these nonlibrary activities with a minimum of interior alterations. T h e r e will be seven stack levels with a book capacity of about two hundred thousand volumes. Downing P. O ' H a r r a , librarian of the Municipal University of Wichita, Wichita, Kan., is making a survey of the reading done by students in that institu- tion during the school year 1940-41. His study will attempt to show the average JUNE, 1942 265 number of books drawn per student, the number each student borrowed, and the relationship between course grades and the students' use of the library. Kansas colleges and universities, includ- ing the five state institutions, are offering courses in library science this summer. These courses are designed to meet the new requirements of the state department of education, which stipulate that teacher librarians in class A high schools must have at least eight semester hours of college in- struction in this field. A new building has been erected at Car- roll College, Waukesha, Wis., Hanna E. Kruger, acting librarian. It will have a stack capacity of forty-five thousand vol- umes and will seat 40 per cent of the stu- dent body. It was completed in M a r c h 1942. A joint meeting of Southwest the S o u t h w e s t e r n a n d S o u t h e a s t e r n Library Associations will be held in N e w Orleans in October. Latin American studies will be stressed. Representatives of five of the N e w Mexico colleges and universities are pre- paring plans for a uniform curricula of library science instruction in these institu- tions. By offering the same preparation to teacher librarians they hope to con- tribute to the standardization of high- school libraries in the state. T h e Kentucky Li- South brary Association is one of the most re- cent associations to organize a college and reference library section. T h e organiza- tion was formally completed in October 1941. Margaret I. King, librarian, Uni- versity of Kentucky, was elected chairman, and Virginia Winstanley, University of Louisville, was elected cochairman. T h e University of Louisville will share in a trust fund set up in the will of the late Justice Louis D . Brandeis. Justice Brandeis was for many years a bene- factor of the university and during his lifetime presented to the library all of his personal papers and correspondence. Eve- lyn J. Schneider is librarian. T h e Bryan Collection, which has been on deposit for several years at the Uni- versity of North Carolina Library, Charles E. Rush, librarian, has been given to the university by Colonel Charles S. Bryan. T h e collection comprises about eighteen hundred volumes. It is noted chiefly for its material on the Confederacy, local North Carolina history, and for its long runs of early Newbern, N . C . , newspapers. It is established as a memorial to Colonel Bryan's grandfather, James W e s t Bryan. T h e maintenance of a liberal inter- library loan service at Duke University and the University of North Carolina enables the two institutions to render valuable assistance to research workers at other schools in the region. A s an indi- cation of its interest in this program the Carnegie Corporation has recently granted the two universities for an experimental period a limited fund which will enable them to purchase books of a specialized character not already in the collections but needed for research. T h e Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, G u y R . Lyle, li- brarian, has issued a thirty-page handbook called Using the Library. A Faculty Handbook. It contains a directory of the library staff and faculty library commit- tee, a floor plan of the library, information about circulation, reference, and reserve room practices, the card catalog, inter- library services, and other information use- 266 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ful to the faculty. Copies may be secured on loan from A . L . A . Headquarters Li- brary. T h e University of Florida Library, W a l t e r B. Hill, librarian, is now using the International Business Machines in its or- der and circulation departments. T h e new $70,000 law library of the university was dedicated on November 21 with ap- propriate ceremonies. T h e Florida State College for Women, Louise Richardson, librarian, has recently completed two additional stack floors, which will approximately double the shelving space of the library. Ralph A . Beals, Personnel assistant librarian, Public Library of the District of Columbia, Washington, D . C . , has been appointed director of li- braries of the University of Chicago and professor of library science in the Grad- uate Library School. He will succeed M . Llewelyn Raney, who will retire on Oc- tober 1, after fifteen years of service as director of libraries. Carleton Bruns Joeckel, professor in the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, since 1935, has been appointed dean of that school. He will succeed Louis Round Wilson, who retires October 1. D r . Wilson has been dean of the Graduate Library School since 1932. James M . Kingsley, Jr., assistant librarian at Cooper Union, has been ap- pointed assistant to Harry M i l l e r Lyden- berg in the operation of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin recently opened in Mexico City. T h e library, similar to the American Library in Paris, will provide American books, periodicals, pamphlets, and other educational and informative ma- terials for the use of those interested in the cultural, social, industrial, and govern- mental activities of the United States. Herman H . Henkle was appointed di- rector of the Processing Department of the Library of Congress, effective February 1. He succeeded L . Quincy Mumford, who returned to the N e w Y o r k Public Library after a year's leave of absence spent in organizing the department. Henkle went to the Library of Congress from Simmons College, Boston, where he was professor of library science and director of the School of Library Science. Amelia Kreig, who resigned recently as assistant director of the University of Illi- nois Library School, is now head of the cataloging department of the Seattle Pub- lic Library. Clara Mackauer, formerly librarian of the Institute for Social Research, Uni- versity of Frankfurt, Germany, has been appointed librarian of the Pacific College Library, Newberg, Ore. Zaidee Brown retired in August 1941 as librarian of Rutgers University Library. She was succeeded by Margaret G . Cook, assistant librarian. Fulmer Mood's name was misspelled Wood in the September 1941 instalment of News from the Field, where his appoint- ment to an assistant professorship in the School of Librarianship, University of California, was announced. Edith M . Brainard, president of the Kansas Library Association and librarian of Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan., has resigned her position to become li- brarian of the Itasca Junior College, Col- eraine, Minn. Helen A . Dooley has been appointed to the Southwestern position and Julia M c C a r t y , vice-president of the as- sociation, has succeeded to the presidency. B E N J A M I N E . P O W E L L JUNE, 1942 267 In Anticipation of Reconstruction (Continued from page 206) By the end of 1942 the Association will own a supply of 1939-42 issues of many of the most important research journals. T h e committee assumes that the supply will be adequate to cope with the requests from at least the outstanding foreign research centers and that European and Asiatic scholarship therefore will not be entirely deprived of the product of Ameri- can research during the war years. Augmenting Purchased Supply T h e committee would like to be able to accomplish more than this and has realized from the first the necessity for augmenting the purchased supply of jour- nals with an active campaign for gifts. T h e lack of large-scale storage space has made the postponement of such a campaign seem wise. In the meantime the commit- tee is doing everything it can to insure the success of this future campaign. T h e supply of learned journals is never large and even under normal conditions tends to disappear rapidly. W i t h today's abnormal demand for material for pulp this supply will be rapidly absorbed unless definite steps are taken to protect it. T h e December issue of this journal carried, as did other library periodicals, a brief state- ment of the aims of the committee in the preservation of scholarly journals. M a n y of the journals themselves are currently printing a similar statement in an attempt to notify individual scholars. These state- ments have brought forth offers and prom- ises of gifts and have undoubtedly prevented some destruction of the supply. T h e committee feels that the institutions and individuals represented in the Associa- tion of College and Reference Libraries are the logical source of further assistance. Though a large-scale campaign isn't yet possible small campaigns can be accom- plished and will contribute greatly to the success of the final program. A t least in one instance a local campaign is already in progress. Flora B. Ludington, the librarian of Mount Holyoke College, has reported such a campaign and its success should encourage librarians of other institutions. A brief statement of the problem in faculty meeting, supported by personal appeals to individual faculty members, will bring offers and promises of current journals. A letter to the emeritus members of the teaching staff will make available another supply. T h e library duplicate collection can be combed with the committee's inter- est in mind, setting aside odd numbers or complete volumes of the important Ameri- can journals. T h e committee will be grateful for any activity of this nature, sure that it is at- tracting and protecting a quantity of im- portant research material that would no longer be available for collection in even a year or two. A list of some four hun- dred journals, judged to be those for which the committee will receive the most requests, has been prepared. Requests for this list, questions concerning the project, and reports of cooperative activity should be directed to W a y n e M . Hartwell, Ex- ecutive Assistant to the Committee on Aid to Libraries in W a r Areas, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Roches- ter, N . Y . 268 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES M I N U T E S OF T H E M E E T I N G O F THE B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S O F A.C.R.L., C H I C A G O , DECEMBER 28, 1941 A meeting of the B o a r d of D i r e c t o r s of the A s s o c i a t i o n of C o l l e g e and R e f e r e n c e L i b r a r i e s w a s called to o r d e r at 8:00 P.M., D e c e m b e r 28, 1941, at the D r a k e H o t e l , C h i c a g o . T h e directors present w e r e P r e s i - dent D o n a l d C o n e y , V i c e P r e s i d e n t M a b e l L . C o n a t , S e c r e t a r y B e n j a m i n E . P o w e l l , A . C . R . L . D i r e c t o r s E t h e l d r e d A b b o t and W i n i f r e d V e r N o o y ; Section D i r e c t o r s : F i n a C . O t t of C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s S e c t i o n ; L o i s E . E n g l e m a n , J u n i o r C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s Sec- t i o n ; and M a r y F l o y d , L i b r a r i a n s of T e a c h e r - T r a i n i n g Institutions Section. Sec- tion chairmen present w e r e E u g e n e H . W i l - son, A g r i c u l t u r a l L i b r a r i e s ; A n n a M . T a r r , C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s ; M a y s e l O ' H . B a k e r , J u n i o r C o l l e g e L i b r a r i e s ; C h a r l e s V . P a r k , L i b r a r i e s of T e a c h e r - T r a i n i n g I n s t i t u t i o n s ; F a n n y A . C o l d r e n , R e f e r e n c e L i b r a r i a n s . O t h e r s present by invitation w e r e L o u i s Shores, chairman, A . C . R . L . C o m m i t t e e on B u d g e t , C o m p e n s a t i o n , and Schemes of S e r v - i c e ; R a l p h E . E l l s w o r t h , chairman, A . C . R . L . C o m m i t t e e on C o l l e g e and U n i v e r s i t y L i - b r a r y B u i l d i n g s ; S a m u e l W . M c A l l i s t e r , c h a i r m a n , A . C . R . L . C o m m i t t e e on C o n s t i - tution and B y - L a w s ; T h o m a s P . F l e m i n g , A . L . A . C o m m i t t e e on I m p o r t a t i o n s ; C h a r l e s H . B r o w n , chairman, A . C . R . L . C o m m i t t e e to A p p l y to C e r t a i n Institutions a " S t u d y of the U s e of B o o k s in the D i f f e r e n t C o u r s e s in the C o l l e g e C u r r i c u l a ; " C h a r l e s M . M o h r h a r d t , chairman, A . C . R . L . Special C o m m i t t e e on N a t i o n a l D e f e n s e S e r v i c e s ; C a r l M . W h i t e , editor, College and Re- search Libraries; E . W . M c D i a r m i d , asso- c i a t e e d i t o r , College and Research Libraries. In v i e w of publication in the September 1 9 4 1 i s s u e o f College and Research Libraries, the minutes of the last meeting w e r e approved as published. R a l p h E . E l l s w o r t h presented a brief report on the proposed w o r k of the A . C . R . L . C o m m i t t e e on C o l l e g e and U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y B u i l d i n g s . T h o m a s P . F l e m i n g , of the A . L . A . C o m - mittee on I m p o r t a t i o n s , reported that his committee has been concerned ( 1 ) w i t h the status of 1942 subscriptions to f o r e i g n peri- odicals and especially w i t h e f f o r t s to secure permission f r o m the State D e p a r t m e n t and G r e a t B r i t a i n f o r the acquisition by A m e r i - can research libraries of essential scientific and technical j o u r n a l s ; and ( 2 ) the release of books and j o u r n a l s n o w held in B e r m u d a by the B r i t i s h . T h e activities of the A . C . R . L . Special C o m m i t t e e on N a t i o n a l D e f e n s e Services w e r e s u m m a r i z e d by the chairman, C h a r l e s M . M o h r h a r d t . A n e a r l i e r report of the w o r k of this committee appeared in the D e c e m b e r 1 9 4 1 College and Research Li- braries. T h e report of the C o m m i t t e e on B u d g e t , C o m p e n s a t i o n , and Schemes of Service w a s presented by C h a i r m a n L o u i s Shores. A f t e r considerable discussion, it w a s V O T E D to accept the e v a l u a t i v e section of the r e p o r t and d e f e r acceptance of the score card. T h e importance of re- g a r d i n g the committee's report as a sug- gestion f o r self-evaluation r a t h e r than as a device f o r accrediting libraries w a s stressed. C h a i r m a n B r o w n of the C o m m i t t e e to A p p l y to C e r t a i n Institutions a " S t u d y of the U s e of B o o k s in the D i f f e r e n t C o u r s e s of the C o l l e g e C u r r i c u l a " reported t h a t he ex- pects to resume w o r k a f t e r J u n e . I t w a s V O T E D that the committee be continued but be permitted to remain d o r m a n t until the expiration of the c h a i r m a n ' s t e r m as P r e s i d e n t of the A m e r i c a n L i - b r a r y Association. C a r l M . W h i t e , editor of College and Research Libraries, presented a mimeo- g r a p h e d report w h i c h called f o r board study and advice relative to the f u t u r e policy of the j o u r n a l . T h e questions in point w e r e w h e t h e r the j o u r n a l should be edited as a JUNE, 1942 269 journal of discussion or of review—review here being interpreted as a medium for the publication of lists of serials, documents, reference books, and other review articles. After considerable discussion, it was VOTED that the journal be continued primarily as a journal of discussion. It was also VOTED that within the next year the mittee to Consider with a Joint Committee from the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation the Project for the Publication of an Encyclo- paedia of Sports and Games. It was VOTED to continue the committee and to allocate the funds necessary for the continuation of the project during the next several months. T R E A S U R E R ' S REPORT Income Budget 1941 1941 B a l a n c e J a n . 1 , 1 9 4 1 $ 7 1 1 . 3 7 $ 7 1 1 . 3 7 Allotment from A.L.A. 1500.00 1847.90 Additional section choices 23.90 Totals $2211.37 $2583.17 Expenditures College and Research Libraries $(500.00) $(500.00) Subsidy 250.00 250.00 Contingent 250.00 250.00 Sectional expenses (500.00) (200.25) College section 40.00 Junior College section 33-05 Reference Librarians section 50.00 Teacher Training section 77.20 General promotion 100.00 Committee expenses (200.00) (100.81) Jt. Committee on Ency. of Sports 50.00 25.81 Committee on Budget, etc. 75.00 75.00 Other committee activity 75.00 Officers' expenses (300.00) (249.42) Secretary 100.00 124.24 Special travel 85.58 Treasurer 200.00 39.60 Totals $1600.00 $1050.48 Balance on hand December 1941 $1532.69 editors should send the readers of Col- lege and Research Libraries a question- naire designed to determine the reader interest of the various sections of the journal. The Secretary read the report of the chairman (Wilson M . Ranck) of the Com- The Treasurer was not present but sub- mitted the above report for 1941. Attention was next turned to the 1942 budget. The President called attention to the cash balance of $1532.69 as reported by the Treasurer. After some deliberation, in which votes on major items were called for, 270 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES it was VOTED to approve the budget for 1942 as outlined below: 1942 Income Budget Balance Jan. 1 $1532.69 Allotment from A.L.A 1500.00 Additional section choices 25.00 Total $3057-69 Expenditures College and Research Libraries. .$ 800.00 Sectional expenses 500.00 Committee expense (300.00) Budget, etc 100.00 Encyclopaedia of Sports 50.00 Other committees 150.00 Officers' expense (300.00) President 75-00 Secretary 150.00 Treasurer 75-00 Total $1900.00 Unallocated balance $1157.69 The Secretary was authorized to ask each chairman for an estimate of his section needs for 1942 and to pass this information on to the President. Instead of asking all of the committee chairmen to estimate budget needs for the year, it was VOTED that the President should con- tinue to approve for payment by the Treasurer the usual expenses incurred in committee activities. Chairman Samuel W . McAllister of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws reported on possible methods of establishing connective tissue between the A.C.R.L. Board of Directors and A.C.R.L. Repre- sentatives on the A.L.A. Council. The board recommended, without vote, that this com- mittee consider the possibility of making third and fourth year councilors ex officio members of the A.C.R.L. Board of Direc- tors. If this appears possible, the committee is authorized to recommend the necessary constitutional revisions. On December 28, 1940, the A.C.R.L. Board of Directors voted "to admit to A.C.R.L. American Library Association life members joining prior to 1939 and institu- tional members without charge or allotment in 1941." It was VOTED to continue this decision until such time as further action may be taken by the A.C.R.L. Board of Direc- tors. It was VOTED that the general session program of a subcommittee to the A.L.A. Com- mittee on Library Revenues be ratified. After brief discussion, it was VOTED to discontinue (a) the Special Committee to Cooperate with the Com- mission of Junior College Terminal Education; and (b) the Committee on Departmental Libraries and Library Service to Departments of Colleges and Universities. The President presented to the board the prospect of a petition from the Engineering School Librarians for section status in A.C.R.L. It was VOTED that the Secretary attend the meeting of this group on Tuesday, December 30, and renew the division's earlier invitation to join the A.C.R.L. division. A t the request of# President Coney, it was VOTED that the general session program of the Milwaukee meeting be arranged by the general directors of A.C.R.L.: Etheldred Abbot, Willard Lewis, and Winifred Ver Nooy. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 1 1 1 4 0 P . M . B E N J A M I N E . P O W E L L Secretary, A.C.R.L. JUNE, 1942 271 A . C . R . L . BUDGET, 1 9 4 2 , APPROVED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DECEMBER 2 8 , 1 9 4 1 . Balance Jan. 1 Allotment from A.L.A. Additional section choices Total College and Research Libraries Sectional expenses College Section Junior College Section Reference Librarians Section Teacher-Training Section Committee expense Budget, etc. Encyclopaedia of Sports Other committees Officers' expense President Secretary Treasurer General promotion Total Cash balance Unallocated balance Income 1941 Budget $ 7H-37 1500.00 $2211.37 Expenditures $500.00 500.00 (200.00) 75.OO 50.00 75.OO (300.00) 100.00 200.00 100.00 Dec. 31, 1941 Statement $ 7H.37 1847.90 23.90 $1600.00 $ 611.37 $2583.17 $ 500.00 (200.25) 40.00 33-05 50.00 77.20 (100.81) 75.00 25.81 (249.42) 209.82 39.60 $1050.48 $1532.69 1942 Budget $1532.69 1500.00 25.OO $3057.69 $ 800.00 500.00 (300.00) IOO.OO 50.00 150.00 (300.00) 75-0O 150.00 75.OO >1900.00 >1157.69 A.C.R.L. Nominating Committee 1942-43 (For Nominations for 1943-44) Blanche Prichard M c C r u m , chairman, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, Mass. Mary Floyd, Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College Library, Richmond B. Lamar Johnson, Stephens College Li- brary, Columbia, M o . Charles F. McCombs, Main Reading Room, New Y o r k Public Library, New Y o r k City Robert Alexander Miller, Indiana Uni- versity Library, Bloomington 272 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES