ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 137 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S Dr. Leon Kolb, clinical associate professor emeritus of pharmacology in the Stanford University school of medicine, now a collector and philanthropist in San Francisco, is giving one of his print collections to the Stanford Uni­ versity libraries. This collection comprises some fifteen hundred historical portraits: woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, dating from the six­ teenth to eighteenth centuries. Dr. Kolb will transfer the collection in installments of about one hundred pieces each. Three examples of early Hawaiian print­ ing have been given to the University of Illi­ nois library by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Frazer of Aurora, former residents of Hawaii. All three volumes, two law books and a magazine, were published in Honolulu more than one hundred years ago. Sixty-five cartons of play manuscripts, pro­ grams, playbills, radio transcriptions, tapes, re­ cordings, screenplays, photographs, correspon­ dence, notes, and other source materials rep­ resenting twenty-five years of collaboration by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, have been presented to the theatre collection of the Li­ brary & Museum of the Performing Arts in New York. A collection of Lord Byron’s letters, first editions, manuscripts and memorabilia has been given to the University of Pennsylvania by Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Davis of New York City. The letters, records and papers of Martin Dies Sr.’s activities as first chairman of the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee will be presented to Texas A&M. The papers will be kept in the special collec­ tions section of A&M’s new $3.6 million library under construction. A W A R D S , G IF T S , G R A N T S A grant has been made to J. Periam Dan­ ton, professor of librarianship at the Univer­ sity of California, Berkeley, to enable him to complete a bio-bibliographical index to Fest­ schriften in the field of librarianship, by the Council on Library Resources. The grant is in the amount of $6,375. Arrangements intended to promote access to the resources for historical research con­ tained in the world’s archives are being actively developed by two committees of the Interna­ tional Council on Archives with the assistance of a grant from the Council on Library Re­ sources. The grant is in the amount of $17,200. The Library of Congress has been given a grant of $2,000 by the Council on Library Resources to support editorial work in prepar­ ing a descriptive report for the library com­ munity about the MARC ( MAchine Readable Catalog) pilot project. This continuing experi­ ment is the operation in which the library’s in­ formation systems office is distributing machine- readable cataloging data for current English- language monographs to sixteen cooperating li­ braries. A grant to the Society of American Archi­ vists, to assist Ernst Posner, to prepare his manuscript on the development of archival practices in the ancient world for publication, has been made by the Council on Library Re­ sources. The grant is in the amount of $3,050. With the $4.1 million gift of Frank C. Engel­ hart, a Chicago industrialist, the accumulated building fund for Northwest University’s new library, made up of gifts and other anticipated resources, will top building costs, estimated at $11.6 million. The Engelhart gift will provide, in addition, a $1.6 million maintenance fund. Invested at four per cent, this endowment fund would make available year after year the sum of $64,000. Lessing J. Rosenwald of Jenkintown, Pa., whose gifts of rare books and works of art have enriched the collections of the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art, on May 5 received the Donald F. Hyde award of Princeton University. Mr. Rosenwald is the first recipient of the Hyde award, established this year by the trustees of Princeton in honor of the late Donald F. Hyde. Alfred J. Coco, law librarian at the Univer­ sity of Houston, has been given a research grant from the Faculty Research Support Pro­ gram to develop a card catalog for Texas Su­ preme Court briefs. His catalog will include the seventeen thousand briefs filed with the court, whether reflected in the opinion of the court or not, as well as the unreported cases. The University of Houston law library has about sixteen thousand briefs and a catalog in its infancy stage. Professor Coco will develop a catalog to enable the researcher to have ac­ cess to much research material not now readily available. Eventually this catalog can be ex­ panded to include all thirteen Texas Courts of Civil Appeals as well as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He will have the coopera­ tion of the Texas Supreme Court library in his research. Washington State University library has received a one year grant of $69,300 from the National Science Foundation, for the analysis and design of an online computer-based tech­ nical services system, book catalog cost study, 138 and for the development of specifications for an online library terminal. The library will utilize the facilities of the university’s IBM 360/67 computer. B U IL D IN G S Dedication of an addition to Drake Univer­ sity’s Cowles library coincided with Founder’s Day which commemorates the founding of the university on May 7. Expansion of the library was made possible through a $1,250,000 gift from the Gardner Cowles Foundation. Architect Victor F. Christ–Janer was pre­ sented with an award of $25,000 for his de­ sign of the James F. Lincoln library of Lake Erie College, by Reynolds Metals Company, sponsor of the award. Construction of a $42 million research library complex for the humanities and social sciences at the University of Toronto begins this year. The three-building complex will have a capacity of 4,627,000 items, and will provide working space for four thousand students and professors at any one time. Special facilities will be provided to extend bibliographic serv­ ices to all Ontario provincial universities. F E L L O W S H IP S A N D S C H O L A R S H IP S Margaret Mann scholarships, established in 1938 by the University of Michigan Library Science Alumni Association, have been awarded to Carol Benton of Des Moines, Iowa, and to Glenn Zimmerman of Sioux City, Iowa. The scholarships are awarded to students at Mich­ igan who have demonstrated ability and promise of professional development. Michele Marie Floersch of Omaha has been selected by the Scholarship Committee of the Catholic Library Association to receive the CLA $1,000 scholarship for 1967. Miss Floersch will graduate from Creighton University in Omaha in June and plans to attend the li­ brary school at either Rosary College or the University of Denver. M E E T IN G S June 11-16: The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held at the Americana in Miami, Fla. June 11-16: Staff members and administra­ tors in nine types of medical libraries are ar­ ranging special luncheon or dinner meetings during the annual meeting of the Medical Li­ brary Association in Miami. Time and place of the meeting in which you are interested may be obtained from the group chairman (listed in May CRL News). June 12-16: Distinguished figures in librar- ianship from three continents will speak at an International Conference on Education for Li- brarianship at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The conference is being conducted by the graduate school of library science through the U. of I. division of university extension. June 13-16: Technical Information Center Administration IV. Drexel Institute of Tech­ nology. Led by Arthur W. Elias, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia. June 14-17: The Fédération Internationale de la Documentation and the International Federation for Information Processing are or­ ganizing a joint conference to bring together information specialists and experts in the de­ velopment and operation of mechanized equip­ ment suitable for storage and retrieval of data. Emphasis of the conference will be laid on practical and economically feasible aspects of systems based on experience gained in opera­ tion in order to permit extrapolation of this experience for the creation of future systems. The conference will have seven sessions. The first one is to introduce into the present state of the art with three invited papers given on Methods and Principles, Computer Lan­ guages, and Hardware. Two sessions are de­ voted to the topic “File Organisation and Search Strategy, Automatic Indexing, Classifica­ tion and Retrieval,” covering the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of this subject. Further sessions deal with “Economics and Comparison of Documentation Systems,” “Com­ puter-aided Production of Publications and In­ dexes,” and “Information Networks and On- Line Systems.” All in all about fifty papers will be given. The final session is to permit a sum­ mary and conclusions. The conference will be held in the Palazzo dei Congressi in Roma-EUR. All papers will be given in English. Simultaneous translation in French, Italian, German and, possibly, Rus­ sian, will permit use of these languages during the discussions. All attendants of the FID /IF IP Conference 1967 will have access to the XIVth Interna­ tional Scientific Congress on Electronics which is displayed in the same building. The “Proceedings of the F ID /IF IP Con­ ference 1967” will be published in early 1968 by the North Holland Publishing Company. The preliminary programme, registration forms and detailed information is available at the Secretariat General of the FID, 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands, and with the Secre­ tary General of IFIP, Mr. Mackarness, c/o British Computer Society, 23 Dorset Square, London NW 1, Great Britain, and at the Conference Committee of the F ID /IF IP Con­ ference, Dr. Evandro Benvenuti, c/o Rassegna Internazionale Elettronica, N e T, Via Cres- cenzio 9, Rome, Italy. June 22-24: 12th Seminar on the acquisition of Latin American library material. Principal 139 topic for discussion will be development of Latin American collections, considered from points of view of libraries of varying sizes for study and research purposes. Institutional mem­ bership is $15, payable to the “University of California at Los Angeles: Twelfth SALALM,” and checks should be sent to William R. Woods, Latin American Bibliographer in the University Research Library, UCLA, Los An­ geles, California 90024. Preprint working pa­ pers are included in the membership fee, and are available only through payment of the institutional membership. The registration fee for additional participants from the member institution is $7.50, and includes preprint work­ ing papers. Additional sets of working papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. June 25-July 1: Annual conference, ALA, San Francisco. July 1-8: Following the ALA conference in San Francisco June 25-July 1, the Hawaii Library Association will sponsor the Mid-Pa­ cific Library Conference in Honolulu. Head­ quarters will be at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel in Waikiki. Plans are underway for trips to the Poly­ nesian Cultural Center, Sea Life Park, the state Centralized Processing Center, the Uni­ versity of Hawaii, the East-West Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange, and var­ ious libraries on Oahu. An optional extension trip to the islands of Kauai, Maui, and Ha­ waii will be offered. Travel arrangements are being handled by Bel-Air Travel, Inc., 600 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles 90049. Further infor­ mation may be obtained from them or from Katherine Knight, Hawaii State Library, 478 South King Street, Honolulu 96813. July 3-28: Archives Institute sponsored by the Georgia Department of Archives and His­ tory and the Emory University Division of Librarianship at the Georgia Archives and Records building, Atlanta. Enrollment is limited to ten persons. July 9-30: Fourth Annual European Library Study Tour. Drexel Institute of Technology. Led by Emerson Greenaway, Free Library of Philadelphia. July 10-28: Edward McLean will direct a workshop on the care, binding and repair of books and the basic principles of preserving historical documents, at the University of Denver graduate school of librarianship. The workshop will be limited to twenty participants, with preference given to those working with special collections. Advance registration is re­ quired. Application forms and further informa­ tion may be obtained from the co-director, H. W. Axford, Director of Libraries, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210. July 17-28: Seventh Annual School Librar­ ianship Workshop. Drexel Institute of Tech­ nology. Led by Beatrice Downin, Abington Township, Pa. July 17-29: Senior administrative personnel of large public, research and academic libraries will participate in a two-week University of Maryland seminar to study library organizations. Sponsored by the university’s school of library and informational services. Brochure and ap­ plication materials are available from the Li­ brary Administrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Mary­ land 20740. Aug. 13-19: International Congress of Orien­ talists meeting, University of Michigan, cospon­ sored by the American Oriental Society. A grant from the Council of Library Resources will make it possible for the Congress to defray traveling expenses of thirteen librarians from overseas, to attend a panel on library re­ sources for Oriental Studies, basically in charge of Yukihisa Suzuki of the University of Michi­ gan Asia library. About two thousand scholars are expected to attend. Sept. 4-9. IATUL seminar on application of international library methods and techniques, at Delft Technological University library. Intended for directors or coworkers from libraries at re­ search level. Official language is English. Num­ ber of participants will be limited to twenty- five. Fee is 400 guilders. Address all correspond­ ence to Miss C. D. Wilson, c/o Library Tech­ nological University, 101 Doelenstraat, Delft, Netherlands. Sept. 12-22: International Federation for Documentation (F ID ), thirty-third conference and International Congress on Documentation, in Tokyo, Japan. Sept. 17-20: Data Processing in University Libraries Conference. Drexel Institute of Tech­ nology. Led by Ralph Parker, director of li­ braries and dean, graduate library school, Uni­ versity of Missouri. M IS C E L L A N Y A cooperative project of several small col­ leges in Florida has resulted in production of a union list of periodicals. The list reflects shared resources in specialized area studies which together cover East Asia, India, Latin America, Russia, and American and African Negro studies. The associated mid-Florida col­ leges include Bethune–Cookman, Stetson, Rol­ lins, Florida Southern, and Florida Presbyte­ rian. Unit record equipment on four of the five campuses was utilized and the first printout programmed on a borrowed IBM 1401. The project has also resulted in classified and al­ phabetic lists of periodicals for faculty distri­ bution, binding lists, and dealer information. Since 1931, the school of divinity of Saint 140 Louis University has been operating as a the­ ology school exclusively for Jesuits at St. Mary’s College, St. Marys, Kans. At the end of June, the school will move back to the Saint Louis University campus. Next fall, it will open as an integrated graduate and professional school of the University. The new address of the school of divinity library will be Room 0616, 3655 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63108. Herbert S. White, vice president of Docu­ mentation Incorporated and director of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility, has been elected national vice presi­ dent and president-elect of the Special Li­ braries Association. First recipient of the Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., literary award, established in the fall of 1966 as a prize for distinguished service to American letters, was Henry Steele Com- mager, historian at Amherst College, in a pro­ gram sponsored by the Associates of the St. Louis University libraries in the Pius XII memorial library on April 30. Dr. Commager received the $1200 prize and citation, and addressed the Associates and their guests on “The University in the Restora­ tion of the Community of Learning.” A joint-use library collection of significant proportions appears to be nearing reality for the Greater Kansas City area. It has been in preparation for several years under the leader­ ship of Harold Smith, chairman of the Librar­ ians Committee, KCRCHE, and his collections subcommittee. To carry out the new program, a new combination, including all accredited institutions in the area, is developing three kinds of collections of library materials, the most significant being a microfilm program, funding for which has been undertaken by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City. Microfilm copies of all commonly indexed journals and other serials published from 1950 to date will be acquired and made available to member institutions through loan or reader- printer services. The Women’s Chamber is also responsible for a collection of thirteen thousand volumes on the shelves of the Kan­ sas City public library, which will serve as a storage and reference depository. The third element of the joint resource will consist of special collections and reference material lo­ cated on particular campuses of area institu­ tions. All materials will be catalogued and available to all participating institutions; pur­ chases will be coordinated by a Collections Committee; and the KCPL will house the cen­ tral microfilm and book collection. Combining the resources of the public library, and other institutions in the area not now members of the Regional Council has resulted in the evolve- ment of a total pattern for the community. This entire combination joined in the effort of sub­ mitting a proposal for the joint central collec­ tion of microfilm and the development of mutual access to holdings on individual cam­ puses. The New York state library is sponsoring a pilot program to strengthen its services to the research community of New York state. This program is the facsimile transmission ex­ periment, known as FACTS. It has as its aim the speedy reproduction of material not avail­ able in local libraries, library systems or even in the state library. A second and allied expe­ rimental program offered to members of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, but not directly related to FACTS, is designed to extend the present resources of the statewide Interlibrary Loan network. This ex­ panded program, known as NYSILL, includes contractual arrangements with a number of major public and special libraries to provide New York state with one of the largest re­ search collections in the nation. Mid-Hudson libraries at 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie 12601, and the Ramapo–Catskill library sys­ tem, P.O. Box 607, 619 North Street, Middle- town 10940, have offered to accept and transmit requests, within the limits of their capability, via teletype to the New York state library. Requests not filled there will be auto­ matically passed along to the large contracting libraries. Leonard Cohan, director of libraries at Poly­ technic Institute of Brooklyn, invites research centers, libraries, laboratories and computer firms to participate in a landmark effort to cen­ tralize science and engineering information and data available in computerized form. The “Directory of Computerized Information in Science & Technology” has been designed to serve as a vitally needed instrument for the announcement, description, indexing, and dis­ semination of computerized information collec­ tions and data banks. Prof. Cohan urges all holders of scientific and technical data and information in computerized form (from large- scale interdisciplinary efforts to small-scale highly-specialized ones) to contact him imme­ diately for specifications and input forms for entries in this unique project. The Directory is the first volume in a new series entitled The International Information Network Series which will include as its second volume a directory of computer programs in science & technology, already in preparation. All inquiries should be addressed to Prof. Leonard Cohan, in care of the publisher of the series, Science Asso- ciates/International, Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. A one-year program in continuing education for medical librarians is being initiated on June 1 at Western Reserve University, Cleve­ land, under the direction of Alan M. Rees and Robert Cheshier with the assistance of Betty 141 Mawardi. This program is supported by a re­ search grant of $20,142 from the U.S. Public Health Service through the Extramural Pro­ gram of the National Library of Medicine. The objective of the research project will be to explore alternate means of upgrading the qual­ ity of existing medical and hospital library practice. Twelve Philadelphia area college librar­ ians conferred on April 22 at LaSalle College to consider the initiation of a college library cooperative for the Southeastern Pennsylvania- Southern New Jersey-Delaware area. Tenta­ tively naming their group the Tri-state College Library Cooperative (TCLC), the attending librarians formulated the outline of a provi­ sional code of operation. Stated objectives of the cooperative include: (1) to begin a coop­ erative, even without financial support beyond regular budgets, by exchanging more informa­ tion and a greater sharing of existing resources; (.2) to strengthen library resources and services of the area by making joint applications for private and government funds; and (3) to in­ crease research potential by a mutually sup­ porting acquisition program. Colleges represented at the meeting were: Alvernia (Reading, Pa.), Blessed Sacrament Junior (Cornwells Heights, Pa.), Cabrini (Rad­ nor, Pa.), Gwynedd-Mercy (Gwynedd Valley, Pa.), Holy Family (Torresdale, Philadelphia), Immaculata ( P a.), LaSalle ( Philadelphia), Our Lady of Angels (Glen Riddle, Pa.), Rose­ mont (Pa.), Sacred Heart Junior (Philadel­ phia), St. Joseph’s College and the St. Joseph’s College Academy of Food Marketing (Phila­ delphia). Members of the cooperative invite inquiries, and plan to extend an invitation to a later meeting to those who express interest. The current series of meetings, culminating with the one on April 22, have been chaired by Mother Mary Dennis, librarian at Rose­ mont College. A scholarly edition of the papers of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) is being prepared under the sponsorship of the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Because many of John Marshall’s papers have been destroyed or scattered it is imperative that meticulous care be exercised in attempting to recover all that remains of the manuscript and printed record. Information concerning documents written by or addressed to John Marshall, or other records bearing directly upon his life will be gratefully received and permission to edit and publish them acknowledged in the printed volumes. The publisher of the Papers of John Marshall will be the University of North Caro­ lina Press, Chapel Hill. The Council of National Library Associa­ tions has taken a first step toward developing better coordination of library work in the United States. For the past year the Program Commit­ tee of the Council has been reviewing the Council’s function and structure and reported its conclusions to CNLA at its meeting in New York on December 9. It recommended that CNLA should establish an Ad Hoc Committee on a Proposed Council of Library and Informa­ tion Services, to be composed of leaders in specific fields of librarianship and related work. The committee would take steps to fund and staff a study looking to the establishment of the proposed Council. CNLA approved the recommendation unanimously, with the proviso that it not be implemented until after expres­ sion of opinion by each of the member asso­ ciations. The National Library W eek Program, which has just concluded its tenth anniversary year, has announced its calendar of annual ob­ servances through 1970. Dates designated for the next three years are: April 21-27, 1968 April 20-26, 1969 April 12-18, 1970 The National University Extension As­ sociation, at an Executive Board session on April 25, passed a resolution endorsing the “Guidelines for Library Services to Extension Students.” P U B L IC A T IO N S Librarians holding files of Arizona newspa­ pers will be interested to learn of the publica­ tion of The Researcher’s Guide to Arizona News in the Arizona Republic. It is an index to the most comprehensive newspaper in Ari­ zona, and therefore serves as a rough index to major Arizona news appearing in all newspa­ pers. The index is a joint venture of the Ari­ zona State University library in Tempe and the Arizona Republic. Volume I, part I cover­ ing the period of January to June 1966 is now available at no cost from the Arizona State University library, Tempe. Address requests to University Librarian, Dr. Alan D. Covey. Louisiana State University libraries has pub­ lished the first volume of its new series of Library Lectures, comprising numbers one through four, March 1965-May 1966. The forty-six page publication contains: “Continu­ ing Education in the Library Profession,” by David Kaser; “Automation—Prospects and Im­ plications for Libraries,” by Joseph Becker; “Libraries Are More than Books,” by Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr.; and “The Trend to LC— Thoughts on Changing Library Classification Schemes,” by Edward G. Holley. Three publications—covering library appli­ cations of data processing, federal legislation for libraries, and a bibliographical essay on 142 understanding the peoples of Southern Asia— have been published by the University of Illinois graduate school of library science. Case studies are provided in Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, edited by Herbert Goldhor. It includes progress reports from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins Univer­ sity, University of California at Los Angeles, Texas A&M, and Chemical Abstracts Service. Donald L. Bitzer, Elisabeth R. Lyman and John A. Easley, Jr. discuss “The Uses of PLATO: A Computer Controlled Teaching System.” James Krikelas, a U of I doctoral student, compiled a bibliography of case reports of library applications of data proc­ essing which was published as part of the proceedings. Federal Legislation for Libraries, edited by Winifred Ladley, consists of papers presented at the thirteenth annual Allerton Park Institute, Nov. 6-9. They cover the impact of federal legislation on school, public, academic, gov­ ernmental and special libraries, and on library education. The publication also includes a paper on “The Federal Government as a Part­ ner” by Dean Orville G. Bentley, U of I Col­ lege of Agriculture. Number 81 in the library school’s Occa­ sional Paper series is Understanding the Peo­ ples of Southern Asia: A Bibliographical Essay by Cecil Hobbs, head of the South Asia sec­ tion of the Library of Congress. It costs $1 and can be ordered from the library school publica­ tions office, 435 Library, Urbana. Both proceedings publications are distrib­ uted by the Illini Union Bookstore, Champaign, for $3 in cloth and $2 in paperback. The Franklin Institute library announces publication of Current Periodicals 1966, a list of 3,148 serial titles in the physical sciences and technology currently received by the library. Two thirds of the publications are for­ eign periodicals, including the principal jour­ nals from Russia, China, and Japan. Current Periodicals 1966, is the result of the library’s Serials Computer Project. The list includes journals, annuals, continuations, and govern­ ment publications received by the library as of January 1967. Current Periodicals 1966, may be obtained through the library’s Photo­ duplication Service at a price of $9 per copy. The full address is: The Franklin Institute Li­ brary, Photoduplication Service, 20th and The Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. A semi-annual journal of experimentation in librarianship, entitled Progressive Librarian, is intended to “provide a medium for analytical discussions of newer ideas and practices in librarianship and related fields,” according to an announcement by its managing editor, Sushil K. Jain, Regina Campus library, Univer­ sity of Saskatchewan. To be published twice a year, in July and December, the new journal “envisages a newer and active role of the librarian in public and academic communities.” The National Library of Nigeria is pleased to announce the National Library Pub­ lication Series. Numbers 1-3 have been issued. (1) Special Libraries in Nigeria; (2) The Arts in Nigeria—a selected bibliography; and (3) 18th ir 19th Century Africana in the National Library. These publications are six-page folded pamphlets; others in the series may be more extensive. They are available from the Na­ tional Library on a prepaid subscription basis of £ 1 10s, or $5.00. It is expected that about six a year will be produced. ■ ■ FOREIGN AREA MATERIALS CENTER Representatives of eleven regional groupings of colleges and universities have announced the formation of a National Council for For­ eign Area Materials. The Council will seek to meet the needs for teaching materials about foreign areas at the undergraduate level. Ini­ tial plans of the Council include support for the production and distribution of bibliogra­ phies, library acquisition guides, course syllabi, audio-visual materials, and reprints of out-of- print materials appropriate for undergraduate programs. The Council hopes to identify pri­ orities and to coordinate the production of ma­ terials to meet these needs on a nation-wide scale. The Council looks forward to working closely with scholarly groups, publishers, and other sources of materials in the United States and abroad and is already in close touch with such groups as the Association for Asian Studies. The Council headquarters will be in New York. Further information may be obtained from the Foreign Area Materials Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York (212- CH 4-8480). ■■ Fred C. Cole, president of Washington and Lee University since 1959, has been elected to the presidency of the Council on Library Re­ sources to succeed Verner W. Clapp in Sep­ tember. Dr. Cole’s resignation from the uni­ versity presidency was accepted by Washington and Lee trustees on May 20. He is chairman of the USOE Advisory Committee on Research. Mr. Clapp, who is retiring, will continue with CLR until he is relieved by the new president.