Notes from the ACRL Office T H E A L A A N N U A L CONFERENCE

Miami Beach is a long way off for most of us. T h e best of the hotels a n d the shops look expensive a n d are expensive. However , there are ways to get there at modera t e cost a n d no Amer ican city rivals it in good, rea-sonably-priced hotel accommodat ions and res taurants . W i t h care, the ALA A n n u a l Conference s tar t ing J u n e 17 can be man-aged on a modest budget .

W h e n I h ad to visit Miami Beach recently to make some conference ar rangements , I answered a newspaper ad which wanted drivers fo r cars to be delivered in Miami . My wife an d I drove there in a recent model Cadil lac at no cost to us or to you, a n d very comfor tably too. T h e car allowed me to visit two college l ibraries en route . You may be able to do this or someth ing similar. I n any case, the air coach rates to m a j o r cities are fairly reasonable .

T h e hote l an d motel facilities have been described in the ALA Bulletin. Anyone who mus t economize should be able to secure good accommodat ions for three to fou r dol-lars a day. T h i s won ' t p rovide ocean f ron t a n d an e labora te lobby; it should buy a good clean air-condi t ioned room in e i ther a hote l or motel . Meal prices are somewhat lower than those of o ther large cities.

T h e ques t ion of an A C R L hotel a t Con-ference is a pe renn ia l p rob lem. Many col-lege an d universi ty l ibrar ians unders tandab ly p re fe r to be in hotels where they will see fr iends, b u t it is clearly undes i rab le for us to wi thdraw f r o m the ma in concourse.

N o hote l will be designated officially for A C R L this year. However , members may wish to give special considerat ion to the "Four S" hotels (Saxony, Sea Isle, Seville a n d Sans Souci, a d j o i n i n g hotels u n d e r cen-tralized management ) , where some of the A C R L meet ings will be assigned space. T h e s e are 12 to 14 short blocks f r o m the Fon ta ineb leau . W a l k i n g t ime is 16 minu tes wi th wife, 11 minu tes wi thout , abou t eight minu te s at my double- t ime Conference pace. I t will be a ho t walk at midday in J u n e . T a x i fare is fifty cents, and buses are fre-q u e n t . T h e Seville is, or was one m o n t h ago,

the newest hotel in Miami Beach, a n d very nice. T h e Saxony an d Sans Souci likewise are impressive bu t no t f lamboyant . Many, par t icular ly older people, will p re fe r to be closer to the center of the convent ion at the Fon ta ineb leau . T h e r e are n u m e r o u s good hotels to suit every purse nearer t han the "Four S" hotels. Consul t the ALA Bul-letin for November , page 576. T h e Empress and San Mar ino look very good. Both are expensive. T h e r e are many adequa te smaller hotels wi th reasonable prices across Collins Avenue a n d close to the Fon ta ineb leau . Re-m e m b e r tha t most hotels quo t e the same price for double occupancy as for single. D o u b l i n g u p is economical .

As repor ted in the Bulletin, there will be ALA general sessions on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday a n d Friday, a n d on Tuesday a n d Friday a f te rnoons . Counci l meets on Monday a n d T h u r s d a y a f t e rnoons a n d there is a general A L A member sh ip mee t ing Friday morn ing . Wednesday after-noon is reserved for tours a n d re laxat ion. T h e per iod f r o m four to six is f ree every a f t e rnoon , as are Tuesday a n d T h u r s d a y evenings.

F r o m the above it is clear tha t f ree periods an d large general meet ings take the ent i re a f t e rnoon a n d evening schedule for the week. Divisional meet ings mus t be com-pressed in to the m o r n i n g per iods of 8-9:30 a n d 10-12, Monday to midmorn ing , Friday. A C R L plans to have its Circles of In forma-tion, which were notably successful at Phil-adelphia , on Tuesday a n d Wednesday, 10-12. Association business will be conducted at an A C R L membersh ip lunch fol lowing the Tuesday circle. T h e T h u r s d a y 10 A.M. spot is be ing reserved for the p rogram of the R a r e Book Commit tee , which will be out-s tanding. A C R L Board of Directors meet ings will come Monday at 10 A.M. a n d Friday at 4 P.M. I canno t give at this t ime the p lans of the A C R L sections. Some of these will meet at l unch a n d have only business. T w o or th ree will p robably have programs at 8 A.M. o r 10 A . M .

As you have read elsewhere, there will be no A C R L genera l session. In its place is the Friday a f t e rnoon ALA general session,

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whose p rogram is be ing a r ranged coopera-tively by A C R L , DCC, a n d L E D .

I have been concerned a b o u t the recrea-t ional a n d social leaven which can d o so much to make a conference f r u i t f u l as well as enjoyable . D u r i n g the fal l m o n t h s we considered suggestions fo r barbecues, fish frys, fashion shows (on Minsky gangways!), splash part ies a n d o ther recreat ion too weird to men t ion . I finally r ecommended , a n d your directors have approved , sponsorship of a post-conference two-day t r ip to Cuba . T h i s decision was no t lightly m a d e or accepted a n d the reasons fo r it are impor t an t .

At the Confe rence we h o p e very m u c h to emphasize Car ibbean scholarship a n d to have more contact wi th Spanish speaking colleagues. W e are only an h o u r f r o m Ha-vana by air. T h e new C u b a n Na t iona l Li-brary is comple ted a n d will p robab ly be open by J u n e . T h e r e are several i m p o r t a n t l ibraries in or nea r H a v a n a . I t is qu i t e p robab le tha t we all will learn a good deal f rom visit ing these l ibraries a n d f r o m social contact wi th C u b a n l ibrar ians. T h r o u g h the good offices of Mar ie t t a Danie ls we are p l a n n i n g a fu l l a f t e r n o o n of l ibrary tours a n d a recept ion wi th the C u b a n Library Association.

T h e tour will be conduc ted by the Stevens T rave l Agency, a n d accommodat ions a n d service will be first r a te in every respect. Cost will be $89.60 fo r everything inc lud ing t ips f r o m the m o m e n t of leaving hotels on Saturday m o r n i n g un t i l r e t u r n there, or to ind iv idua l po in ts of d e p a r t u r e f r o m Miami , early Monday a f t e r n o o n (excepted: two breakfasts, one lunch) . T h o s e who wish may deduc t $14 by omi t t i ng the evening at the T r o p i c a n a , b u t I would strongly advise against this.

T h e i t inerary of this A C R L tou r to "gay, foreign H a v a n a " is given in the advertise-m e n t on page 109 a n d needs n o dup l i ca t ion here. T h e op t iona l s teamer t r anspor ta t ion is for those who refuse to fly. T h o s e who use the boa t will miss the i m p o r t a n t Fr iday evening genera l session. T h e flight over the Flor ida keys is beau t i fu l in good wea ther and for this reason a lone it is h o p e d tha t most will choose the air.

All travel in H a v a n a will be by cars dr iven by very responsible and appa ren t ly well-ed-uca ted guides. I was m u c h impressed by the

wide knowledge, competence a n d presence of the several guides wi th whom I h ad con-tact recently. T h e cars will be pre t ty m u c h at our disposal d u r i n g the two days a n d ample o p p o r t u n i t y given for small groups to visit places of personal interest which are no t on the official i t inerary.

I n the or iginal discussion I he ld ou t against inclusion of the T r o p i c a n a or o ther n igh t clubs as a pa r t of the tour . However , a visit on a pass f r o m the Agency dispel led all personal doubts . T h e T r o p i c a n a is a n igh t c lub in the sense tha t there is dancing, d in ing a n d wining, a floor show and , since this is Cuba , a casino. However , the two long shows surpassed the best offerings of Broad-way in costuming, l ight ing a n d ta lent . T h e r e was n o t h i n g gaudy or offensive to the most conservative tastes. T h e food a n d serv-ice were superb . I believe tha t the T r o p i c a n a will represen t the h igh p o i n t of the two-day tour to near ly all w h o par t ic ipa te . I am told, a n d believe, tha t there is n o t h i n g qu i t e as good anywhere else in the world.

T h i s A C R L tour to C u b a is the only post-conference sponsored tour . O u r p lans have been approved by the cha i rman of the ALA T o u r s Commit tee , by Mr . Clif t , a n d have the unofficial blessing of officers of o the r divisions. I t is open to all l ibrar ians a n d there is every ind ica t ion tha t the g r o u p will inc lude m a n y f r o m publ ic , school a n d o ther types of l ibraries. T h e Miami Beach Confer-ence offers a u n i q u e o p p o r t u n i t y for this small bi t of foreign travel a n d it is h o p e d a great m a n y l ibrar ians will go. T h e Stevens T rave l Agency will make special arrange-ment s fo r those who wish to stay longer , or con t inue to o the r islands.

T H E MIDWINTER M E E T I N G

Many of us app roached the ALA Midwin-ter Mee t ing wi th great fears for the f u t u r e of divisions u n d e r the r ecommenda t ions of the Steer ing Commi t t ee on the Implementa -t ion of the M a n a g e m e n t Survey. T h i s clearly shifts m a n y of ou r i m p o r t a n t activities over to Counci ls (type of work divisions) which will be established. Some felt tha t the recom-menda t i ons spelled a slow d e a t h to A C R L because it would be s t r ipped of its respon-sibility fo r act ion.

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Steering Committee's report. I believe we were all convinced that the shift of respon-sibilities to Councils could be turned to the advantage of A C R L because our hands would be freed to tackle problems of great importance. Let the Councils collect our statistics and run the building institutes. We could then do more to build reading in-terests, raise money for college libraries, and similar matters. Above all, ACRL would have better opportuni ty to play an active role in the inner councils of higher education. T h e development of A C R L is uncertain at this time, but so long as it has adequate fi-nancial support through the ALA budget, I do believe the reorganization provides op-portunity for ACRL to develop new and more important channels of service to li-braries and to higher education. All who were present at the Board meeting were impressed by the presentation of fu tu re pos-sibilities by Miss Morsch and Mr. Metcalf, both members of the Steering Committee, who at tended on special invitation. Both did much to raise eyes from small obstacles a few feet ahead to a bright and by no means visionary horizon.

Both in Board discussions and in ALA Council consideration of the Steering Com-mittee report, President Vosper played a remarkable role as statesman by point ing up the important issues and avoiding ju-risdictional argument and sectional jealous-ies. His leadership was a mat ter of wide comment. I t is no accident that his state-ment approving the report was used verba-tim as the ALA Bulletin editorial for March.

T h e A C R L Board declared itself "unalter-ably opposed" to an ALA Executive Board proposal to combine the ALA Bulletin and all divisional journals, including C&RL, into one publication. Feeling ran high on this

point . It is particularly unfor tuna te that the proposal was based on a brief survey of the costs of divisional journals and that no known study has been made of the type of consolidated publication which would evolve from the merger. Surely no one be-lieves that a combination of seven diverse publications can retain the best features and coverage of all.

Finally, the Board approved a resolution on the educational role of the college book-store. Librarians individually can do much to promote bookstores which foster broad reading interests. The re are many campuses in all parts of the country which have no bookstore worthy of the name within many miles. T h e resolution reads:

" T h e Association of College and Refer-ence Libraries recognizes the great educa-tional role of the well equipped college bookstore, whether under private or institu-tional management. T h e Association de-plores the lack of adequate bookstores on or near many college campuses, and the tendency to limit bookstore stock to text-books and non-educational materials. T h e Association endorses the educational con-tr ibution of those bookstores which provide at least modest stock of non-required, worthy books and free access to the stock for exam-ination and reading. T h e Board of Directors hereby instructs the Executive Secretary to communicate to the regional accrediting as-sociations this statement, and to express its wish that the regional accrediting associa-tions request information on bookstore fa-cilities prior to institutional visitation, or otherwise use their influence to promote bookstores which emphasize educational values."

—Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary

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Brief of Minutes ACRL Membership Meeting

T h e ACRL Membership Meeting was held in the Edgewater Beach Hotel on January 31 at 9:30 P.M. T h e meeting was preceded by a brief program. President Vosper report-ed on the Uni ted States Steel Foundat ion grants and the A C R L program for raising funds for college libraries. His talk is pr inted elsewhere in this issue.

Richard Logsdon presented the following statement of A C R L field of interest, which had been requested by the ALA Steering Committee on the Implementat ion of the Management Survey:

" In the organizational pat tern of the American Library Association, the Associa-tion of College and Reference Libraries wishes to represent those libraries which sup-port formal education above the secondary school level or which provide reference and research collections of significance. It de-sires to carry on a program of activities to advance the standards of library services, in the broadest sense, in these libraries, and the continued professional and scholarly growth of those engaged in work therein."

Lucile Morsch, chairman of the Steering Committee, then presented the Committee's report, which is published in the March ALA Bulletin. She emphasized that ACRL has a big program ahead that would not be as-signed to the type of work divisions, and felt the division could better concentrate on the important projects when freed of lesser re-sponsibilities.

Mr. Stallings of the ACRL Nominat ing Committee presented the nominations for office, which are pr inted elsewhere in this issue.

A brief resume of A C R L plans for the 1956 ALA conference in Miami Beach was given by Mr. Hamlin .

Mr. Vosper then turned to the principal item of business, consideration of the Steer-ing Committee report . T h e A C R L Board of Directors had discussed this earlier in the day in the presence of Miss Morsch and Mr. Met-calf, both members of the committee. T h e

board was optimistic that this new under-taking would provide opportuni ty for ACRL to work in the best interests of higher educa-tion. T h e board had endorsed the report unanimously but felt this important ques-tion should also be presented to the mem-bership.

On question, Mr. Vosper reported that the proposed merger into one bulletin of all divisional publications, including C&RL, came from the ALA Executive Board and was not a proposal of the Steering Commit-tee. T h e ACRL Publications Committee was studying the matter.

Informat ion was requested on financial support for A C R L under the new organiza-tion. Miss Morsch stated that there would undoubtedly be no more money than at present. Funds would be budgeted to all divisions according to importance of pro-grams.

Mr. Kuhlman felt that A C R L should be free to select its own executive secretary, who would be responsible to the board of direc-tors. It had taken the college and university librarians many years to get any staff assist-ance at ALA headquarters and a fair measure of support for their programs. A C R L should have considerable lat i tude in developing its program and ample funds to support it.

In answer Mr. Metcalf spoke on behalf of a strong ALA to represent librarians to the outside world. ACRL should not spend its time on functions performed in libraries, however important these might be. There were more important matters, such as de-veloping student use of books and libraries. A C R L should not spend its time worrying about getting its port ion of the spoils. T h e group that has the best program in a demo-cratic organization is going to get its fair share.

T h e representation of the divisions in ALA Council was explained.

On motion of Miss MacPherson, it was voted that the Steering Committee report be accepted.—Arthur T. Hamlin, Executive Secretary.

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A - V Clearing House

Edi ted by the A C R L A U D I O - V I S U A L C O M M I T T E E

, Louis Shores, Chairman; Fleming B e n n e t t ; Jane \ l O A Culler; Budd Gambee; John H a r v e y : Margaret I.

Rufsvold; Walter Stone.

T V BOOK PROGRAMS FROM U R B A N A

Televis ion programs to s t imulate publ ic interest in books a n d l ibraries are be ing pi-oneered by the Universi ty of Il l inois Li-brary School. A weekly fifteen-minute pro-g ram an d a daily two-minute p rogram are be ing p roduced regularly by Professor C. Wa l t e r Stone of the l ibrary school and are current ly presented over the university 's own non-commercial s tat ion, W I L L - T V . Jack Crannel l , wri ter and p roduce r on the university 's television-motion p ic ture u n i t staff, is working wi th Professor Stone on the series.

T h e fifteen-minute programs are filmed a n d will soon be available to publ ic l ibraries in Il l inois th rough the State Library in

C. Walter Stone of the University of Illinois Library School (left) interviews Donald D. Jack-son,, University Press editor and author of a recent book on Black Hawk, on Book Talk, the TV program presented over the university's own station in Urbana.

Springfield. T h e two-minute programs will be available in script fo rm in 1956.

Book-Talk, the f i f teen-minute program, usually features one or more in fo rmed guests discussing new books or issues raised as a result of their publ ica t ion . T w o Minutes on T o m o r r o w , the daily program, is fre-quen t ly p repa red by Professor Stone's stu-dents in the l ibrary school. I t covers timely book subjects for the fol lowing day—for in-stance, anniversaries. Its purpose is to in-crease reader interest .

Besides s t imula t ing publ ic interest in books, the programs can be of service to l ibraries of Il l inois an d the na t ion . T h e y he lp t ra in f u t u r e l ibrar ians in the use an d po ten t ia l of television, a n d they carry out one of the purposes of the university 's T V s ta t ion—exper imenta t ion in new program ideas.

M O R E FILMOGRAPHIES

W r i t i n g f r o m England , Forrest Al ter has added three titles to the "Par t ia l List of Fi lmographies of Highly Techn ica l Fi lms" publ i shed in the J a n u a r y C&RL:

At ten t ion should have been called to Sci-ence and Film, the quar ter ly of the In te rna-t ional Scientific Fi lm Association, in which the Un i t ed States is un fo r tuna t e ly no t rep-resented. T h e Scientific Fi lm Association edi-t ion, an English-language version, is pub-lished by Fi lm Cen t re Ltd. , 24 C o n d u i t Street, L o n d o n , W . l , England . T h e jou rna l conta ins bo th articles an d reviews. Subscrip-t ion is 12s. 6d. a year, payable to Film Cen t re Ltd. , Science a n d Fi lm a /c .

T h e Scientific Fi lm A s s o c i a t i o n , 164 (Continued on page 195)

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A—V Clearing House (Continued, from page 173)

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News From the Field ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS

T h e first Nor thwes te rn Library Even ing on J a n u a r y 14 i naugura t ed a series of gath-erings at which f r i ends of Nor thwes te rn Uni-versity in teres ted in the wor ld of books m e t in the Charles Deer ing Library. T h e first ga ther ing was devoted to the commemora-t ion of Lew Sarett (1888-1954), for 33 years associated wi th Nor thwes te rn as professor of speech, a n d a u t h o r of five books of poems in t e rp re t ing I n d i a n and f ron t i e r l ife as well as four books in the field of speech.

T h e occasion m a r k e d the presenta t ion to Nor thwes te rn Universi ty Library of the Lew Sarett Papers, consisting of manuscr ip ts , notebooks, a n d correspondence, d o n a t e d by Mrs. Lew Sarett as a research collection for the study of Sarett a n d his t ime.

T h e Wi l l i am But le r Yeats collection fo rmed by P. S. O ' H e g a r t y which has just come to the Universi ty of Kansas t h rough the generosity of the K. U. E n d o w m e n t Asso-ciation is ou t s t and ing a m o n g l i terary collec-t ions in the l ibrary's holdings. I t includes no t only the works of Yeats (1865-1939) b u t also those of Lady Gregory a n d J . M. Synge, as well as pe r iphera l mater ia l such as the plays a n d programs of the Abbey T h e a t e r in its i m p o r t a n t fo rmula t ive per iod . A d d to these the publ ica t ions of the D u n Emer a n d Cuala Presses a n d there are ga thered to-ge ther the best mater ia ls of the Irish l i terary renaissance which was sparked by Yeats a n d his fel low patr iots .

W i t h only two exceptions, all the first edi-t ions of Yeats are inc luded in the collection, as well as books a n d periodicals wi th arti-cles, in t roduct ions , or o the r con t r ibu t ions by Yeats, bo th prose a n d poetry. O u t s t a n d i n g is the manusc r ip t mater ia l inc lud ing 60 let-ters f r o m Yeats relat ive to the pub l ica t ion of his Collected Poems, an inva luable aid to u n d e r s t a n d i n g the pub l i sh ing a n d p r i n t i n g prob lems which beset the l i terary giants of any t ime.

T h e fo rma t ion of this collection was a m a j o r interest fo r m a n y years of P. S. O ' H e g a r t y of Dub l in , who knew personally the leading Ir ish writers in their per iod of glory. T h r o u g h his personal contacts wi th

Yeats a n d his circle he was able to add to the basic book collection of over 500 vol-umes an unusua l g r o u p of thea ter programs, cl ippings, a n d o ther ephemera which, con-s t i tu t ing a comple te record of Abbey T h e a -ter performances , should be of great benefi t to l i terary detectives.

I n Oc tober 1954, Peter Mur ray Hi l l deliv-ered the second A n n u a l Publ ic Lec ture on Books a n d Bibl iography at the Universi ty of Kansas, speaking on Two Augustan Book-sellers: John Dunton and Edmund Currl. Par t of the background of Mr . Hi l l ' s lecture was provided by Mr . Hi l l ' s own collection of some 500 pamphle t s an d o the r ephemera p r i n t e d by Cur r l in the course of numerous a n d no tab le l i terary fights a n d of his various p r i n t i n g a n d pub l i sh ing ventures between 1706 a n d 1746. Last summer the Universi ty of Kansas Library acqui red the Curr l collec-t ion. W o r k is now in progress on a biblio-graphica l a p p e n d i x to Mr. Hi l l ' s lecture, which is be ing pub l i shed as n u m b e r two of the K.U. a n n u a l pub l i c lectures.

As an example of p r i n t i n g practices dur-ing the first half of the e igh teen th century the Cur r l collection is most revealing. T h e m a n u f a c t u r e of new edi t ions f r o m old merely by the p r i n t i n g of a new ti t le page, the flagrant p i r a t i ng of p o p u l a r authors , the issuing of books a n d pamphle t s u n d e r names tha t led buyers to th ink they were wr i t ten by famous a n d p o p u l a r au thors—these prac-tices are all well i l lustrated in the Cur r l col-lection for the delecta t ion of s tudents of e ighteenth-century l i terary history.

A special collection of almost 300 books an d manuscr ip t s dea l ing with the Knights of Malta , officially ent i t led the Sovereign Mil i tary O r d e r of St. J o h n of Jerusa lem, has been received as a g i f t f r o m Foster Stearns of Exeter , N.H. , by the l ibrary of the Catho-lic Universi ty of America. A comple te cata-log of the collection has been p repa red by the Reve rend Oliver L. Kapsner , O.S.B., research cataloger at the Cathol ic Universi ty of America Library, on leave f r o m St. J o h n ' s Abbey, Collegeville, M i n n .

T h e Nea r Eastern manusc r ip t collection of the H a r t f o r d Seminary Founda t i on , col-

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lected by the late Mardi ros A n a n i k i a n of the seminary faculty, is be ing cataloged. T h e collection includes abou t 1,200 Arabic, 240 Turk i sh , 90 Persian, a n d smaller n u m b e r s of Armen ian , Syriac a n d Copt ic manuscr ipts . T h e catalog, compiled by Rudol f Mach, will be publ i shed by E. J . Brill la te in 1956.

Dr . Felix R e i c h m a n n , assistant director, Cornel l Universi ty Library, recently m a d e a t r ip to Europe . T h e ma in purpose of the t r ip was to purchase mater ia l in the field of Southeast Asia, especially Indones ia a n d Viet-Nam, to establish personal contacts bo th with dealers and wi th scholarly institu-tions, a n d to exchange in fo rma t ion wi th re-gard to acquisi t ions procedures for South-east Asia mater ia l . Dr . R e i c h m a n n visited almost a h u n d r e d book shops in L o n d o n , Paris, Amsterdam, Le iden a n d T h e H a g u e a n d bough t extensively for the l ibrary col-lections. H e d id no t l imit himself to the purchase of Southeast Asia mater ia l b u t also acqui red several in teres t ing i tems fo r the general collections. O n e i m p o r t a n t aspect of his t r ip was discussions wi th D u t c h scholars which may lead to a m a j o r microf i lming projec t .

T h e collected papers of H i r a m W . John-son, two-term governor of Cal i fornia a n d U n i t e d States senator for 30 years, have been acqui red by the Bancrof t Library on the Berkeley campus, Universi ty of Cali-forn ia .

T h e mater ials were acqui red f r o m his son, H i r a m W . Johnson , Jr . , a San Francisco a t torney. T h e y are the most significant, as well as one of the largest, ob ta ined by the Bancrof t Library in the more than 50 years' existence at Berkeley of the f amed historical a n d l i terary research center, according to its director, Dr . George P. H a m m o n .

Consist ing of three dist inct g roups of manuscr ip t s—guberna tor ia l , senatorial a n d persona l—the H i r a m W . J o h n s o n collection will eventual ly provide qual if ied scholars with previously unrevea led da ta spann ing fou r decades of poli t ical history of bo th Cal i forn ia an d the U n i t e d States.

BUILDINGS

O n October 22, 1955, at a special dedica-t ion day p rogram for new buildings, the li-brary at Southern State College, Magnol ia ,

Ark., was named for James M. Peace, fo rmer l ibrar ian a n d teacher to whom is a t t r i bu t ed largely the l ibrary's organizat ion an d growth d u r i n g 1916-1921 a n d 1925-1949.

Deve lopment of a new centra l l ibrary for the Cornel l Universi ty campus has been en-dorsed by the university's board of trustees. T h e proposal contempla tes r e t a in ing the present universi ty l ibrary as an undergrad-ua te l ibrary a n d l inking it wi th a graduate-research l ibrary to be bui l t on the site of Boa rdman Hal l . T h e trustees an d l ibrary board have given the pro jec t approva l . Pre-l iminary studies by Keyes D. Metcalf , fo rmer director of the H a r v a r d Universi ty Libraries, a n d Freder ic C. Wood , Cornel l '24, consult-ing engineer of Greenwich, Conn. , will be followed u p in detai l by the architects.

T h e two bui ld ings will be jo ined under-g r o u n d an d func t ion as an in tegra ted un i t . T h e y will be p l a n n e d to care for Cornell 's central l ibrary needs of the foreseeable fu-ture . Exter ior of the present universi ty l ibrary will no t be d is turbed, b u t the in-ter ior will be thoroughly remodeled to pro-vide considerably greater r ead ing area. T h e graduate-research bu i ld ing will house a much larger book collection b u t will have com-parat ively modest r ead ing space. Boa rdman Ha l l was f o u n d unsu i ted for conversion.

I n arr iving at their proposal , Metcalf an d W o o d were gu ided by the condi t ions tha t the new central l ibrary should make best use of exist ing structures, make good use of the d iminish ing land areas on the campus, p rov ide for f u t u r e expansion, r equ i re the lowest possible capital investment , an d be acceptable to the campus communi ty . Pro-vision of the new l ibrary has been given pr ior i ty in the university 's deve lopment plans for the immedia te f u tu r e . T h e present universi ty library, long a Cornel l symbol, was bui l t in 1891 a n d e x p a n d e d in 1937. It has become inadequa t e to house the central collections of the universi ty l ibrary system, which now total over-all some 1,750,000 vol-umes.

O n October 20, 1955, g round was broken for the new $3,500,000 l ibrary at the City College of New York. I t is h o p e d tha t the l ibrary will occupy its new quar te rs on or abou t September 1957.

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be a three-floor bui lding of modular con-struction with provision for storage of about 600,000 volumes and seats for 1,500 readers. Instead of a grand stairway, a ramp, which will provide the main entrance and exit to all floors, will be h u n g on the f ron t of the building. All mezzanine floors, whether in reading rooms or the general book-stack storage area, will be supported f rom the floor above. All the book stacks on any of the floors, including the book storage areas, will be free-standing. T h e entire support of the bui lding is by pillars, and the modular uni t is 18 square feet. Th i s type of structure will make it possible to change at will book storage areas to reading rooms and vice versa on any of the floors. T h e walls of the building are glass block from ground to roof on the two sides, most of the back and about one-third of the f ront . T h e bui lding is to be one of utility, and its beauty will lie in its simplicity.

T h e first floor will have two large reserve reading rooms of 350 seats each. One will be mainta ined as a quiet area while in the other smoking, talking, and conferences will be allowed.

T h e second floor has been developed around a central area in which will be the master record of loans, the central charging of books, the dictionary card catalog and the general bibliographical collection. Around this center core will be located (1) the Gen-eral Reference and Bibliography Division, (2) the Social Science Division, (3) the Hu-

manities Division, (4) the Order Division and (5) the Catalog Division.

On the third floor will be the l ibrarian 's office, a library staff and faculty lounge, the School of Education Library, the Special Collection Room including rare books and college archives, the Art Library, and two rooms seating 80 each for audio-visual use.

T h e Science Division will probably be combined with the School of Technology Library in the new Technology Building to be constructed in the near fu tu re on the site abandoned by the present library.

College l ibrarians generally will be in-terested in the following comments made by Albert F. Meder, Jr. , dean of administrat ion at Rutgers University, at the ground-break-ing ceremony for the new library at Bloom-field College and Seminary, Bloomfield, N.J.:

The library—with a capital L if you wish—is absolutely essential. It is essential to the func-tion of the preservation and transmission of knowledge which is one of the important activi-ties of higher education. It is the most obvious college and university activity, the one you think of first, and a highly important one. It is not the fundamental purpose of higher educa-tion, as I shall show presently, but it is the beginning. We start educating students by bringing them in touch with that which has been learned and preserved for us in the past, and I think it needs no argument to support the thesis that the library must play a vital role in accumulating, preserving and making avail-able this store of knowledge which is the heri-tage of the past.

An even more important function of higher education, and one in which the library is at least equally importantly involved, is the de-velopment of new knowledge. The methods of different fields vary. Some use laboratory meth-ods, some field research; some rely on textual criticism; some utilize the creative arts. But none would deny that in all scholarly method-ology, the library is central. Every development of research is related to everything else that is known, closely or tenuously. It is the intellec-tual tragedy of the present age that knowledge has become so fragmented that it often seems that there is no synthesis. Here the library can come to the rescue of the overwhelmed and distraught scholar.

Finally, the library is vital to the true func-tion of higher education in this day and age— the development in the student of the ability to analyze and to solve problems that cannot even be stated because they have not yet arisen. The only thing that we can be sure of with respect to the problems that the students who sit in our classrooms today will have to solve in the years of their maturity is that these prob-lems will be so different from ours that we have no idea of their nature. The freshmen who entered this and all other American colleges this year are members of the class of 1959. They will be mostly about 22 years of age when they graduate. The assumption of an active life of only 40 years—an unreasonable assumption in view of increasing longevity—brings them to the brink of the twenty-first century, the year 1999. Can anyone doubt that the problems of the 1990's will be at least as different from our problems as these are different from those of the 1900's, to go as far back in history as we have gone forward into the future.

It is not the specific facts which were taught and learned in the 1900's, the 1910's, the 1920's, even the 30's and 40's which are being utilized

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to solve the problems of the present day, and it is not the facts that we are now teaching or will teach in the forthcoming decades that will solve the problems of the future. Rather it is in the development of habits of study, of re-flective thinking, of fact-finding as contrasted with the acceptance of propaganda and biased and slanted presentations, of critical judgment and of ethical, moral and religious standards that we must place our reliance.

I am far from saying that it does not matter what is studied, but I am willing to say that it is far more important how it is studied than it is what specific material may be included. So to enter into the intellectual heritage and tradi-tion of Western civilization that it may in turn so take hold of the student that he can find his way through the perplexities of an unknown future is the ultimate purpose of higher edu-cation today. This is true whether we are seek-ing to equip the seminarian rightly to divide the word of truth in circumstances and situa-tions whose nature he cannot now guess, or whether we are educating a prospective business man who has no idea of what services or goods he may in his future career be purveying; whether we are seeking to arm the future legis-lator with sufficient good sense to deal with future problems affecting the general welfare or with the ability to determine how to levy a tax on atomic energy!

Such ability to cope with problems as yet un-foreseen is to be developed by marshalling all the resources of the college—but surely the li-brary plays an important part, both in its use by the faculty as a teaching instrument and in its use by the individual student for his own scholarly explorations. Both are to be encour-aged, for without either, the attainment of the objective of higher education is sure to be frustrated or at least made excessively difficult.

PUBLICATIONS

The Death of Lee, Southern Collegian, October 15, 1870, wi th an in t roduc t ion by R icha rd Barksdale Harwel l , has been issued as series IX, n u m b e r 3 of Emory Sources & Reprints. L imi ted to 350 copies, these edi-t ions r ep roduce rare manuscr ip t a n d p r in t ed mater ia ls in the Emory Universi ty Library a n d are edi ted by members of the universi ty faculty. Ind iv idua l i tems are pr iced at 75 cents an d the subscript ion at $2. T h i s num-

ber has an apprec ia t ion of Lee a n d an ac-companying facsimile in collotype reproduc-t ion of the Southern Collegian ex t ra pub-lished on the day of his bur ia l .

A t the Universi ty of Kansas, Professor Wi l l i am B. T o d d of Ha rva rd ' s H o u g h t o n Library delivered the A n n u a l Publ ic Lecture on Books a n d Bibl iography on December 9. Professor T o d d ' s lecture on some problems in e ighteenth-century bibl iography, ent i t led New Adventures Among Old Books, will be publ i shed later in 1956 as n u m b e r three of the series of lectures.

T h e F u n d for the Republ ic , Inc., has m a d e an add i t iona l g ran t of $500 to the Kansas Universi ty E n d o w m e n t Association for the f u r t h e r p r i n t i n g a n d d is t r ibu t ion of the catalog of b a n n e d books, He who de-stroyes a good Booke . . . publ i shed last spr ing by the Universi ty of Kansas Library. T h i s latest g ran t of $500, added to the ini-tial $1500 grant , is m a k i n g it possible for the l ibrary to e x p a n d its special p r i n t i n g a n d f ree d is t r ibut ion of the catalog to a total of 20,600 copies.

T h e catalog is an anno ta t ed list of b a n n e d books which f r o m the f i f teen th century to the present day "have survived Fire, the Sword an d the Censors." T h e actual books comprised an exhib i t ion on display at the Universi ty of Kansas Library d u r i n g the spr ing of 1955 (see C&RL, Ju ly 1955). Copies of the catalog may still be ob ta ined u p o n appl ica t ion to the director of libraries, Uni-versity of Kansas, Lawrence.

D a n Lacy, manag ing director of the American Book Publishers Counci l , is the a u t h o r of " T r a d i t i o n a n d Change : T h e Role of the College Library T o d a y , " a p p e a r i n g in the Bulletin of Lynchburg College, Lynchburg , Va., fo r July, 1955. T h i s is the dedicat ion n u m b e r of the Bulletin for the Floyd Knight Memor ia l Library. T h e article is a pene t r a t i ng analysis of the place of the l ibrary in ins t ruct ion.

Microfilm Abstracts Author Index, com-pi led by Georgia Chap te r , SLA, is be ing issued in March, price $2 pos tpaid . Address orders now to Miss Pau l ine Nelson, 2080 N. Decatur Rd. , N.E., Apt . 12, A t l an ta 7.

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Personnel J A M E S R A N Z became director of l ibraries

of the Universi ty of W y o m i n g at La ramie on September 1, 1955.

If a poll were be ing taken of the " ten young universi ty li-b ra r ians most likely to succeed," those who have fol lowed his career would doubtless cast a u n a n i m o u s bal lot for the inclusion of J i m Ranz 's name . In a quie t , effective man-ner , he has demon-s t ra ted in a variety of s i tuat ions a genius for adminis t ra t ive re-

sponsibili ty an d abil i ty to work wi th peop le and a capacity for in tense appl ica t ion to a given task.

In going to Wyoming , R a n z is r e t u r n i n g to his nat ive habi ta t , fo r his b i r thp lace (At-lanta , Neb. , Ju ly 21, 1921) is no t fa r re-moved f rom Laramie as western distances go. H e has appa ren t ly had a long-standing desire to r e t u r n to tha t rugged land.

A f t e r comple t ing his u n d e r g r a d u a t e edu-cation at the Nebraska State Teachers Col-lege, Kearney, R a n z was d r awn in to mil i tary service for f o u r years, 1942-46. Free again, he en te red the Universi ty of Michigan, Depar t -m e n t of Library Science, a n d received the A.M. in L.S. degree in 1948. His first profes-sional posi t ion was as m a p l ibrar ian at the Universi ty of Illinois. A f t e r a year, to gain broader experience, he t ransfer red to the Cata log D e p a r t m e n t , where he r ema ined for two years. At once, he began to display an unusua l g i f t for organizat ion a n d abil i ty to th ink th rough a n d to s implify difficult tech-nical p rob lems a n d to develop more efficient me thods for accomplishing desired results. T h e s e same qual i t ies were given f u r t h e r ex-ercise in the Universi ty of Virginia Library at Charlottesvil le, where Ranz served as p repa ra t ions l ib rar ian f r o m 1951-53.

Recal led to the Universi ty of I l l inois in 1953 as l ibrary adminis t ra t ive assistant, Ranz spent the nex t two years assisting in an ex-

tensive reorganizat ion of the technical de-par tments , wi th special a t t en t ion to the es tabl ishment of a central serials d e p a r t m e n t ; he lped to b r ing u n d e r control a 50-year ac-cumula t ion of uncata loged publ ica t ions ; a n d carr ied a substant ia l b u r d e n of general ad-minis t ra t ive responsibili t ies. In addi t ion , he f o u n d t ime to b r ing nea r comple t ion the re-qu i r emen t s fo r a doctoral degree in l ibrary science.—Robert B. Downs.

O n Sep tember 1, 1 9 5 5 , EDWARD M . H E I L I -

GER became l ibrar ian of the Universi ty of Il l inois ' Chicago U n d e r g r a d u a t e Division.

Mr . Hei l iger comes to this posi t ion with a var ied background of exper ience, at home a n d abroad . H e is a nat ive of Rockford , 111. His basic professional t r a in ing was received at the Universi ty of Denver School of Li-brar iansh ip , follow-ing g radua t ion f r o m the College of the Pacific a n d comple t ion of a master 's degree in history at Denver . His professional career began wi th an a p p o i n t m e n t as j u n i o r li-b ra r i an on the Det ro i t Publ ic Library staff, 1935-37, a n d then he moved to nearby W a y n e Universi ty to serve as assistant l ibrar ian for five years, 1938-43.

Seized wi th an i tching foot, Hei l iger spent the nex t decade on a variety of assignments in La t in America, inc lud ing the di rectorship of the Amer ican Library of Nicaragua, 1944-45; organizat ion of a l ibrary school an d teaching courses at the Univers idad de Chile, for the Rockefel ler Founda t i on , 1946-48; service as chief of p rogram m a n a g e m e n t for U n i t e d States overseas l ibraries in the U. S. D e p a r t m e n t of State, 1949; an d the director-ship of the Biblioteca B e n j a m i n Frank l in in Mexico City, 1950-53. T h r o u g h his long as-sociation wi th La t in America, Hei l iger has, of course, acqui red a f luent c o m m a n d of Spanish.

JAMES RANZ

EDWARD HEILIGER

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T h e Undergraduate Library at Chicago, which Heiliger now- heads, has developed rapidly since its establishment in 1946. As this division of the university carries through its program of fu ture expansion, the de-mands on the library will be heavy. T h e preparat ion which Heiliger brings f rom his work in university and public libraries, as well as his internat ional experience, equip him admirably to deal with the complex problems he will encounter in his new situa-t ion.—Robert B. Downs.

T H O M A S R. ADAMS became on August 1 the new director of the Chapin Library at Williams College. Previously, he had been

for several years head of the Rare Book Depar tment of the University of Penn-sylvania Library. Mr. Adams, whose father was the late Ran-dolph G. Adams, was raised in the shadow of the Clements Li-brary with its great collections of Ameri-cana and its exten-sive services to schol-

ars. H e was graduated from the University of Michigan and served dur ing the Second World W a r as a naval officer. After the war he spent a year as research assistant in the Library Company of Philadelphia, prepar ing a bibliographical study of that insti tution's extensive holdings in Western Americana. T h e n he went to the University of Pennsyl-vania library as assistant curator of rare books and two years later succeeded John Alden as curator. H e published studies of the university's collections in certain selected fields, strengthened the library by several notable acquisitions of books and manu-scripts, reorganized the cataloging and serv-ices of his depar tment , gave energetic assist-ance to the Union Library Catalogue and other community activities of Philadelphia libraries. His scholarly researches and arti-cles have been concerned with the life and writings of Will iam Smith, first provost of the University of Pennsylvania; the complex bibliographical problems of the various works

of T o m Paine; and the career of Samuel Jackson Randa l l .—John H. Powell.

RICHARD BARKSDALE H A R W E L L , formerly as-sistant l ibrarian at Emory University, on leave for 1954-55 to serve as executive secre-tary to the Georgia-Florida Committee for Planning Re-search Library Co-operation, moved to the Virginia State Library on February 1, 1956. On July 1 he will become head of the Publications Di-vision.

Mr. Harwell re-ceived the A.B. de- RICHARD HARWELL gree f rom Emory in 1937 and completed the course in library sci-ence there the following year. H e has held regular appointments at both Duke and Em-ory Universities, with terms as bibliograph-ical consultant at the Boston Athenaeum and the University of Virginia, in addit ion to a research fellowship at the Henry E. Hunt -ington Library.

As assistant to the director of the Flowers Collection at Duke he formed a wide ac-quaintance with Southern history and litera-ture. Brought back to Emory to organize the Keith M. Read Confederate Collection, he has since specialized largely in that field. His first publication was Confederate Belles-Let-tres: A Bibliography and a Finding List, 1941; his latest, an edition of General Rich-ard Taylor 's Destruction and Reconstruction, 1955. Harwell 's Confederate Music, 1950, is the authoritat ive study. His writings include shorter monographs, journal and magazine articles, and book reviews in the Southern field. H e has served on the editorial boards of Emory Sources and Reprints and The Emory University Quarterly, to both of which he has made interesting and impor tant con-tributions.

Mr. Harwell is a member of the Civil W a r R o u n d Table , the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, ALA, and the Southeastern Library Association. In World War I I he commanded a minesweeper in the Western Pacific.—Thomas H. English.

THOMAS R . ADAMS

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Appointments

E L L E N F . ADAMS has been appoin ted asso-ciate l ibrarian of Dar tmouth College, Han-over, N .H.

CORNELIUS B. A L L E N is now librarian of New York University's Graduate School of Business Administrat ion. M R S . D O R O T H E A M . SINGER has succeeded him as l ibrarian of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance at the same inst i tut ion.

R O B E R T R . A L T E N H O F is acquisitions and exchange l ibrarian at the Carnegie Inst i tute of Technology, Pit tsburgh.

J O H N B. ARMSTRONG is head cataloger of the University of Akron Library.

JEANNETTE BIRIBAUER is assistant l ibrarian, Fordham University.

GEORGE K . BOYCE is head of the catalog section of the History of Medicine Division, Armed Forces Medical Library, Cleveland.

T h r e e staff changes have been made re-cently at the library of the University of California at Los Angeles: D O R O T H Y J . H A R -MON is gift and exchange l ibrarian; B E T T Y ROSENBERG is bibliographical assistant to the l ibrarian; and CHARLOTTE SPENCE is acting assistant head of the acquisitions depart-ment .

GILBERT J . CLAUSMAN, formerly circulation l ibrarian of the New York Academy of Med-icine, is now librarian of the Bellevue Medi-cal Center of New York University.

RANDALL A. D E T R O is head librarian, Mars Hil l J u n i o r College, Mars Hill , N.C.

RICHARD L . D U C O T E is head of the serials depar tment in the library of the College of Wil l iam and Mary.

M A R Y F . DREESE is l ibrarian, Murray Hil l Branch, Bell Te lephone Laboratories Tech-nical Informat ion Library.

MARGARET E . EGAN has joined the faculty of the Western Reserve University School of Library Science in Cleveland as associate professor and as a research associate at the new W.R.U. Center for Documentat ion and Communicat ion Research.

EDMOND GNOZA is assistant l ibrarian for readers' services at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

A N N E H A R T is head of the circulation de-par tment of the Bates College Library, Lewiston, Me.

H O W E L L JOHNSON H E A N E Y , who has been cataloging the private book collection of Thomas W. Streeter, has recently joined the rare book depar tment of the Free Library of Phildelphia.

K E N T H O R N E R is assistant l ibrarian of the Radfo rd College Library, Radford , Va.

E. J U N I U S JOSEY is l ibrarian and assistant professor of library science at Delaware State College, Dover.

ROSALIE K E M P E is l ibrarian of the Joseph Schaffner Library of Northwestern Univer-sity in Chicago.

B E N J A M I N M. L E W I S , formerly teacher-l ibrarian at Eastern Illinois State College, is now head l ibrarian of Haml ine Univer-sity, St. Paul, Minn .

DONALD N. M A C K E N Z I E is with the read-ers' services division of Northwestern State College, Nachitoches, La.

Recent appoin tments at Michigan State University include: H E N R Y CHARLES KOCH as divisional l ibrarian in the Social Science and Li tera ture Room, and W I L L I A M SAN-FORD STODDARD, JR., as divisional l ibrarian for the College of Business and Public Serv-ice.

T h e following appoin tments have been made in the Ohio State University Librar-ies: RICHARD C. BERNER, l ibrarian, History, Political Science and Map Graduate Librar-ies; RICHARD M. BURFORD, assistant l ibrarian, Education Library; EDITH M. CHURCHILL, l ibrarian, Commerce Library; MILDRED D . DONOHUE, librarian, Hea l th Center Library; FLORENCE H E N D E E , l ibrarian, Geology Li-brary; A T H A L. H E N L E Y , l ibrarian, Pharmacy Library; P A U L J . W . K A N N , l ibrarian, Mod-ern Languages Graduate Library and in-structor in library administrat ion; R U T H G. LAWSON, reference assistant; J E A N M. L E Y -MAN, assistant circulation l ibrarian; SIDNEY E. MATTHEWS, acquisition l ibrarian and assistant professor of library administrat ion; M A R Y B . PINSON, bibliographer; J A N I N A E. TALAT-KIELPSZ, bibl iographer; and A N N E J . WENGER, librarian, Social Administrat ion Library.

R I C H E L I E U O R R is in charge of technical services at Arkansas Polytechnic College, Russellville.

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BELA POTTYONDY is bibliographer specialist at Notre Dame University.

VALERIE B . PUCHINGER has moved to St. John's University (N.Y.) as assistant librarian in charge of reference and circula-tion.

MRS. LOLA QUINLAN is now exchange librarian at Iowa State College.

EUGENE N . SALMON is head circulation librarian in the University of Oregon Li-brary.

W I L L I A M SHANK is acting chief music librarian and audio visual director of the Roosevelt University, Chicago.

ROBERT W. SILLEN is librarian of the An-dover Newton Theological School, Newton Center, Mass.

RICHARD SNYDER is in charge of the Life Science Library at Indiana University.

MARIE T . SULLIVAN is assistant reference librarian at the University of New Hamp-shire.

PHILLIPS T E M P L E , formerly librarian of the Georgetown Institute of Languages and Linguistics, is now librarian of Page Com-munications Engineers, Washington, D.C.

SARAH K . THOMSON is reference librarian of Barnard College, Columbia University.

RUSSELL TRUDELL is head of the serials and order department of Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

JAMES VAN LUIK is chemistry librarian (with the rank of assistant professor) at Pur-due University.

CHARLES W . WARREN is circulation librar-ian at the University of New Mexico.

The Wayne University Libraries report the following appointments: JOAN GILMORE, assistant librarian, catalog department; MRS. JUNE LEATH HUNTLEY, junior assistant li-brarian, Medical Library; MRS. JEANNETTE B. LOWRY, junior assistant librarian, acqui-sitions department; ROBERT G . SCOTT, junior assistant librarian, catalog department.

Retirements EDITH E . H . GRANNIS, librarian, and

M A M I E R. MARTIN, associate librarian, have retired from the library of the St. Cloud (Minn.) State Teachers College.

ETHEL B. KELLAR, who has been with Northwestern University since 1923, has re-tired from the librarianship of the Joseph Schaffner Library of that institution.

H E L E N TREAT, librarian in the Humani-ties Reference Service, University of Califor-nia Library, Berkeley, retired January 1, bringing to a close more than 26 years of service. She became a member of the staff

in October 1929 as a librarian in the refer-ence division. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Miss Treat was head of the reference de-partment at Washington State Normal, and of the circulation department at Oregon State. She served also as reference assistant at the New York Public Library, and held posts at the Youngstown Public Library, Omaha Public Library, and the Department of Agriculture Library, Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and obtained her B.L.S. from the New York State Library School.

Foreign Libraries CURT FLEISCHHACK became director of the

Deutsche Biicherei in Leipzig on October 1, 1955.

HERMANN FUCHS is director of the Univer-sity of Mainz Library, succeeding Walter Menn.

KRISTER GIEROW is head librarian of the University of Lund.

RUDOLF JUCHHOFF is director of the Uni-versitats- und Stadtbibliothek in Cologne as the successor of Hermann Corsten.

Necrology MRS. LILLIAN B. GRIGGS, librarian emerita

of the Woman's College Library of Duke University, died on April 11, 1955, at the age of 79.

ALF HOUKOM, head librarian of St. Olaf

College in Minnesota, died on May 23, 1955. KATHLEEN M. KEATING, assistant librarian

of the University of California at Berkeley from 1930 until 1947, died on April 10, 1955.

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