ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

The University of Arizona has purchased 
a two thousand-volume collection of rare books, 
maps, pamphlets, and journals concerning ag­
riculture in Mexico. The collection had been 
developed by Professor L. Fourton, who taught 
at the National School of Agriculture in Chi- 
pingo near Mexico City for fifty-seven years 
prior to his death in 1964.

The University of Arizona has acquired 
three thousand items concerning all aspects of 
life in Panama—a collection built over a half 
century by the noted Panamanian historian, 
Professor Ernesto J. Castillero.

Northern Arizona University library is 
the depository for a unique collection of more 
than seven hundred photographs of the Grand 
Canyon taken by the Kolb brothers in the sixty- 
five years since 1902. Emery C. Kolb, surviving 
member of the pioneer exploring and photo­
graphic team, recently presented the docu­
mentary collection to the Northern Arizona 
Pioneers’ Historical Society whose manuscript 
and photographic collections have been merged 
with those of the university library.

Major General John Bruce Medaris has pre­
sented to the library of the Florida Institute 
of Technology a collection of his scrapbooks, 
photograph albums, copies of speeches, and 
other papers including the manuscript of his 
book, Countdown for Decision, military deco­
rations, and souvenirs.

Collections of rare medical books were re­
cently presented to the Francis A. Countway 
library of medicine at Harvard by Boston 
heart specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White.

Washington University, St. Louis, has re­
cently added to its special collection of modern 
literature a group of the autograph manuscripts, 
revised typescripts, and editorial matter of 
Samuel Beckett, Irish-born writer now living in 
France. These manuscripts augment a large 
collection of Beckett first editions.

Princeton University library is the recipi­
ent of a gift of approximately one hundred 
seventy volumes by Martin Luther, or relating 
to Luther’s role as the central figure in the 
Protestant Reformation, the gift of Bernhard K. 
Schaefer of New York City.

Princeton University has also received a rare 
copy of William Blake’s illuminated book, 
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, the gift 
of Caroline Newton, of Berwyn, Pa.

The Rutgers University library has an­
nounced the acquisition of the six-hundred-vol­
ume collection on modern Mexican literature of 
Dr. Elias Nandino.

The M. D. Anderson memorial library at 
the University of Houston has added to its 
private collections by the acquisition of the 
Carlos Gonzalez Pena collection from Mexico 
on the literature of the romance languages, 
valued at $25,000.

A collection of 275 volumes of fifteenth and 
sixteenth century books has been purchased by 
Brigham Young University library. The col­
lection was formed by Marco Heidner, who 
attempted to represent in it the work of every 
great printer of the period.

A W A R D S ,  G I F T S ,  G R A N T S

A bequest of $120,000 from the estate of 
the late Thomas Y. Cooper has been willed to 
the Gettysrurg College library. The funds 
from the endowment will be used toward the 
support of the college libraries.

Two grants, totaling $112,875, to the Li­
brary Technology Program of the ALA 
by the Council on Library Resources. A grant of 
$50,125 will support the program of tests of 
currently available audio-visual equipment. 
Three categories of equipment will be evalu­
ated: 16 nun. motion picture projectors in the 
$500 to $900 price range; filmstrip and com­
bination filmstrip-slide projectors in the $30 to 
$150 price range; and, magnetic tape record­
ers and tape players in the $75 to $250 price 
range. The tests will be conducted by the Unit­
ed States Testing Company, Inc., Hoboken, 
New Jersey, under conditions similar to insti­
tutional use.

Fifty plastic and wood chairs will be tested 
in the second investigation, supported by a 
grant in the amount of $62,750. Structural 
strength, durability of finish and other char­
acteristics will be evaluated. A major objective 
of the project is to identify specific data on 
which librarians can base purchasing decisions. 
Another objective is to learn whether perform­
ance standards can be arrived at which might 
later be used to establish manufacturing speci­
fications. There are at present no standards 
for wood and plastic chairs used for general 
seating in libraries. The tests will be conduct­
ed by Buyers Laboratory, Inc., New York City.

Mrs. Dorothy Hill Gersack, archivist, 
records appraisal division, The National Ar­
chives and Records Service, Washington, D.C., 
has been elected a Fellow of the Society of 
American Archivists at the national organiza­
tion’s annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 
The rank of Fellow is conferred by the society 
upon a limited number of individuals who have

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distinguished themselves in the field of archival 
administration and preservation.

B U I L D I N G S

Milne library, one of four new buildings on 
the campus of State University College at 
Geneseo (N.Y.), was dedicated on October 22.

Nearly four years of planning and building 
Bowling Green University’s new ten-story 
library was climaxed with a two-day dedication 
program on Nov. 3-4. The $4.5 million struc­
ture, which currently holds six hundred forty 
thousand volumes, was opened this summer.

The Dietrich graduate library center, 
second unit in a $10 million library complex 
at the University of Pennsylvania, was dedi­
cated on October 13. The six-story, $5 million 
library at 36th and Walnut Streets is adjacent 
to the Charles Patterson Van Pelt library 
which opened in 1962. The two buildings now 
house some one million five hundred thousand 
of the university’s two million volumes, and 
have an over-all capacity of two million five 
hundred thousand volumes.

The new $3.3 million addition to the M. D. 
Anderson memorial library, University of 
Houston was completed in October. It has 
space for one million volumes and two thou­
sand student seats.

Randolph Macon W oman’s College ded­
icated the Charles A. Dana wing of Lipscomb 
library on October 23.

F E L L O W S H I P S ,  
S C H O L A R S H I P S

The biomedical library, University of Cal­
ifornia Center for the Health Sciences, Los 
Angeles, is offering four traineeships in med­
ical librarianship for the year beginning Sept. 
1, 1968. The program provides a year of 
planned work combined with enrollment in a 
limited number of courses selected from the 
following fields: biological sciences, history of 
science, information science (documentation), 
and foreign languages. The program has been 
approved for level II certification by the Med­
ical Library Association, and is supported by a 
grant from the National Library of Medicine.

Applicants must be citizens of the United 
States (or have applied for citizenship), and 
hold master’s degrees from American Library 
Association accredited library schools. Prefer­
ence will be given to recent library school 
graduates who have strong backgrounds in the 
biological sciences. Application forms and fur­
ther information should be requested from 
Miss Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Li­
brary, Center for the Health Sciences, Univer­
sity of California, Los Angeles, California

90024. The deadline for submitting applica­
tions is April 1.

The University of Florida libraries offers 
a number of graduate assistantships for the 
academic year 1968/69, primarily for practic­
ing professional librarians interested in study 
leading to a master’s or doctoral degree in a 
subject field other than library science. Stipends 
of $2,400 are awarded for a nine-month work- 
study period, and require fifteen hours of li­
brary duty each week. Holders of assistant- 
ships are exempt from out-of-state tuition fees 
but pay resident registration fee. Awards are 
conditional on admission to the graduate school 
of the university, and formal applications, in­
cluding graduate record examination scores, 
must be submitted by February 15. Necessary 
forms may be obtained from the Director of 
Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, 
Florida 32601.

A publication listing scholarships and other 
financial assistance available for 1968-69 to 
students entering the profession of librarianship 
has been announced by the Library Education 
Division of the ALA. The guide for parents, 
counselors, and students, Fellowships, Scholar­
ships, Grants-in-Aid, Loan Funds, and Other 
Financial Assistance for Library Education, is 
available through the Office for Recruitment of 
ALA, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, I11. 60611.

The publication provides a list of scholar­
ships and grants administered through state 
library agencies, national and state library as­
sociations and associations of school librarians, 
ALA accredited library schools, and other in­
stitutions offering graduate or undergraduate 
programs in library education. National associ­
ations, foundations and other agencies known 
to grant financial assistance for library educa­
tion are also listed.

The Catholic Library Association announces 
a scholarship in library science to be awarded 
for graduate study toward a master’s degree. 
The scholarship consists of an award of $1,000 
to the person chosen by the Scholarship Com­
mittee of the Catholic Library Association. 
Promise of success based on collegiate record 
and evidence of need for financial help have 
been established as a norm for awarding the 
scholarship. Religious, as well as lay people, 
are eligible for the award. The recipient may 
enter the graduate library school of his choice. 
Applications must be filed at the CLA Head­
quarters by February 15. The award will be 
announced at the annual convention of the 
association in April in St. Paul, Minnesota.

I N T E R N A T I O N A L  S C E N E

Saad M. el-Hagrassy after working several 
years in the Ministry of Higher Education, 
United Arab Republic, is now associate pro­
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University. In addition, he sends word that 
he is working as library consultant to the Amer­
ican Libraries Book Procurement Center in 
Cairo. He has just prepared an annotated Bib­
liographical Guide to Reference Works in the 
Arab World, both in Arabic and English/ 
French editions (Cairo, 1965).

M E E T I N G S

Jan. 7-14: ALA Midwinter Meeting, Bal 
Harbour, Florida.

F eb. 8-10: Third Library History Seminar 
at Florida State University, Tallahassee. It is 
jointly sponsored by Florida State University’s 
library school, history department and Strozier 
library and by the Journal of Library History 
and the American Library History Round Table. 
The registration fee for the seminar is $12, 
including a banquet. Room and other meals 
are extra. For reservations for the seminar, 
applications for student scholarships and fur­
ther information write Third Library History 
Seminar, Library School, Florida State Uni­
versity, Tallahassee, Florida 32306.

Mar. 29-30: Third Annual Conference on 
Junior College Libraries Multi-Media Centers, 
sponsored by the Illinois Library Association, 
Illinois Association of Junior College Presi­
dents, and Northern Illinois University, at 
University Center, NIU, DeKalb, 111.

Aug. 11-23: Second Annual University of 
Maryland Library Administrators Development 
Program. Senior administrative personnel of 
large public, research, academic libraries and 
school library systems will study organization 
and administration under the direction of man­
agement consultants, professors of business and 
public administration and library scholars. The 
program will be held at the University of Mary­
land’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit 
(M d.), and will be directed by John Rizzo of 
the school of government and business admin­
istration, George Washington University.

M I S C E L L A N Y

The U.S. Office of Education has selected 
System Development Corporation to design a 
series of on-the-job training courses to im­
prove the working skills of library personnel. 
The training program will be designed to bet­
ter prepare library personnel, in all types of 
libraries throughout the nation, to effectively 
meet the increasing demands on library serv­
ices. The $184,673 project supported by 
USOE and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
is to be conducted over a twenty-month pe­
riod. The courses will be adaptable to personnel 
in all categories—professional librarians, li­
brary technicians, clerks, subject specialists,

language specialists, and systems specialists.
During the initial phase, researchers will 

study library operational requirements that are 
not being adequately met. This part of the 
study will also explore the new skills neces­
sary for personnel to adjust to a computerized 
systems approach to library operations and to 
be able to communicate effectively with auto­
mation specialists. Later, selection will be 
made of the most effective instructional tech­
niques and tools necessary to develop the 
courses. A major emphasis in preparing the 
library courses will be that instruction is to 
be given on location at the student’s library of 
employment.

Phase two of the contract will start with 
testing the training courses at selected libraries 
throughout the nation. After necessary modifi­
cation and trial documentation, SDC will turn 
over the completed educational system, includ­
ing instructional guidelines, teaching texts, and 
testing documentation, to the USOE and the 
U.S. Army for implementation.

Early in the summer 1967, word got around 
that the academic librarians in the Florida 
System of Higher Education had lost their 
academic standing and had been included in 
the clerical category by the statewide person­
nel survey made by the management consultant 
firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget. This 
would have been true had the CMP plan been 
accepted completely. However, the Board of 
Regents was able, in July of 1967 (the date 
the plan was implemented), to get the uni­
versity librarians exempt from the CMP plan 
and restored to the Board of Regents in their 
Administrative and Professional Faculty cate­
gory.

There are still problems with the classifica­
tion and pay schedules which the Board of 
Regents took over in their entirety from the 
CMP plan, but the Board has shown much 
more flexibility in administration of these 
schedules than has been true of the State 
administration of the rest of the CMP plan.

The Ohio State University libraries cele­
brated the addition of its two-millionth volume 
on November 21. OSU celebrated the addition 
on their one-millionth volume in 1953 with 
the addition of Toynbee’s The World and the 
West and the acceptance on deposit of the 
Talfourd P. Linn collection of the works of 
Cervantes.

The chemistry, petroleum and pharmaceu­
tical divisions of Special Libraries Associa­
tion have formed a committee to attempt to 
obtain scientific journals on 16mm microfilm. 
The committee’s efforts are also being directed 
to the availability of these journals in Re- 
cordak, 3M or Bell and Howell cartridges at 
a reasonable price. The American Chemical 
Society’s division of chemical literature plans

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to join S.L.A. in this project. Further informa­
tion may be obtained from the Committee 
chairman, Miss Dolores Hartman, Dow Chem­
ical Co., Chemical Library, P.O. Box 566, Mid­
land, Michigan 48640.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

A new 181-page Annotated Bibliography of 
Bibliographies on Selected Government Publi­
cations and Supplementary Guide to the Su­
perintendent of Document Classification Sys­
tem has been prepared and published by Alex­
ander C. Body, documents librarian at West­
ern Michigan University. Its three hundred 
annotated bibliographies represent an aggre­
gate in excess of a half million entries issued 
by the U.S. Government between May 1963 
and June 1967. It contains an alphabetical list 
of seven hundred abbreviations and symbols 
used by government agencies, and there is a 
classed list of current government authors, 
departments, and agencies. There are several 
useful indexes.

Last year the United Kingdom published 
28,883 new books and new editions, a figure 
exceeded only by the United States and the 
Soviet Union. To accommodate this marked

increase in British book production (a 9 per 
cent gain over 1965), British Books in Print 
will now be revised annually instead of every 
four years and will be issued each October. 
U.S. distributor is R. R. Bowker Company, 
New York.

Impact of Technology on the Library Build­
ing is available, at no charge, from Educational 
Facilities Laboratories, 477 Madison Ave., New 
York 10022.

In 1968, the Library-College Newsletter will 
be expanded and merged with the Library Col­
lege Journal, a magazine of educational inno­
vation, to be published by the Library-College 
Associates. Subscription to the quarterly jour­
nal is $8 per year.

A grant has been made to ALA to enable 
its recently established Information Science 
and Automation Division to publish a quar­
terly Journal of Information Science and Li­
brary Automation, The grant, in the amount 
of $21,009, was made by the Council on Li­
brary Resources and is expected to assist pub­
lication for the first three years, after which 
it is expected that the journal will be self- 
supporting. Frederick G. Kilgour, formerly as­
sociate librarian of Yale University, has agreed 
to serve as editor of the journal in addition to

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his present duties as director, Ohio College 
Library Center. No date for start of publica­
tion has been set. The journal will be available 
to non-members of the Division on a sub­
scription basis.

Re-Classification: Some Warnings and a Pro­
posal is Number 87 in the Occasional Papers 
series published by the University of Illinois 
graduate school of library science at Urbana. 
The paper was written by Jean M. Perreault, 
lecturer, University of Maryland school of li­
brary and information services.

The SUNY Biomedical Communication Net­
work announces the publication of the second 
edition of the SUNY Union List of Serials. The 
one thousand page volume contains entries for 
more than twenty-five thousand periodical 
titles which are held by the sixty libraries in 
the State University of New York. In addition, 
information about titles held by the libraries 
of the City University of New York, and some 
other state libraries such as Roswell Park 
Memorial Institute in Buffalo and the State 
Medical Library in Albany, is included. Copies 
are available at a cost of $25.00 each and 
orders should be sent to the Upstate Medical 
Center, 766 Irving Avenue, Syracuse, New 
York 13210.

ALA REPRESENTATIVES AT 
INAUGURATIONS,

DEDICATIONS AND OTHER 
ACADEMIC CEREMONIES

On June 18 Kenneth M. Fagerhaugh repre­
sented ALA at the inauguration of Arthur M. 
Blum as president of Point Park College; and 
on September 16 Donald S. Mac Vean at­
tended ceremonies dedicating the new library

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of Quincy College. Sister M. deMontfort rep­
resented ALA at the dedication of Mary- 
mount College’s Gloria Gaines memorial li­
brary on September 23. At the inauguration of 
Burton Crosby Hallowell as president of Tufts 
University on September 24, Helen Brown 
represented ALA; at the dedication of Eureka 
College’s Melick library on September 28 Joe 
W. Kraus represented ALA; and at the dedi­
cation of the Harrisburg Area Community Col­
lege on September 29 Anna M. Carper was 
the ALA representative. On October 1, Wayne 
S. Yenawine attended the dedication of the 
Catherine Spalding College library and Robert 
M. Trent attended the inauguration of J. O. 
Perpener, Jr., as president of Jarvis Christian 
College; on October 4, Mary Constance Mc­
Carthy represented ALA at the inauguration 
of the Rev. Reginald A. Redlon as president 
of St. Bonaventure University.

At a convocation and dinner commemorating 
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of 
Ithaca College on October 6, Dorothy McGin
niss represented ALA. James C. MacCampbell 
attended the inauguration of Thomas Hedley 
Reynolds as president of Bates College on 
October 7; LeMoyne W. Anderson, the in­
auguration of Maurice B. Mitchell as chancel­
lor of the University of Denver on October 20; 
and Mrs. Mary Jane Reed, the inauguration 
of Walton Allen Brown as president of the 
State University of New York Agricultural 
and Technical College at Cobleskill, on Octo­
ber 21.

At the University of Hartford, John P. Mc­
Donald represented ALA at the inauguration 
of Archibald M. Woodruff as chancellor, on 
October 22; Mrs. Ruth M. Christensen at the 
inauguration of Robert C. Kramer as president 
of California State Polytechnic College, on Oc­
tober 24; and William Page, at the dedication 
of new headquarters and the fortieth anniver­
sary of BioSciences Information Services, on 
October 25 and 26.

Stuart Forth represented ALA at the in­
auguration of the president of Berea College 
on October 26; Edwin E. Williams, at the 
inauguration of Richard Chapin as president 
of Emerson College on November 3; also on 
November 3, Sarah D. Jones attended the 
dedication of the new Anne Arundel Commu­
nity College.

Patrick Barkey represented ALA and ACRL 
at the dedication ceremonies of Bowling Green 
State University library on November 4. Hazel 
Baity represented ALA at the inauguration of 
Prezell Russell Robinson as president of St. 
Augustine’s College on November 4. On No­
vember 10, Roscoe Rouse represented ALA at 
the inauguration of Eugene Swearingen as 
president of the University of Tulsa; on No­
vember 15 Mrs. Alice B. Griffith attended the

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