ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C O L L E G E & R E S E A R C H L IB R A R IE S N E W S No. 5, May 1968 ACRL News Issue (A ) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 29, No. 3 Academic Library Buildings Awards Three U.S. academic library buildings have been selected to receive architectural awards in the fourth Library Buildings Award Pro­ gram sponsored jointly by The American In­ stitute of Architects, The American Library Association, and The National Book Commit­ tee. Presentation of the award citations to li­ braries and architects were made at special ceremonies planned to coincide with National Library Week on April 21-27. Project: Saint John’s University Library1 Collegeville, Minnesota Architect: Marcel Breuer, FAIA and Hamil­ ton P. Smith, AIA Architects New York, New York Owner: St. John’s Abbey & University Librarian: Reverend Benjamin Stein, O.S. Reverend Ronald Roloff, O.S. General Contractor: Gunnar I. Johnson & Son, Inc. Jury Comment: “This college library is a simple and direct solution, executed with restraint and good taste. The architect was aware of the need for flexibility. The interiors are quiet and con­ ducive to reading and studying. The use of structural ‘trees’ seems appropriate to the large size of the main reading room.” Project: Hofstra University Library1 Hempstead, Long Island, New York 1 Saint John’s University library was supported by federal funds under Title I of the Higher Education Facilities Act; the Hofstra University library was sup­ ported by federal funds under Title II of that Act. Architects: Warner Burns Toan Lunde, New York, New York Owner: Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Librarian: Dr. Ellsworth G. Mason Engineer: Severud-Perrone-Fischer-Sturm- Conlin-Bandel Landscape Architect: M. Paul Friedberg & Associates General Contractor: Gerace & Castagna, Inc. Jury Comment: “A crowded academic quadrangle and a campus divided by a major expressway created difficult problems in designing the new library for Hofstra University. The architect provided an attractive and efficient solution in a two- story pavilion surmounted by an eight-story central tower. The principal reading and staff areas in the new building, which are contained in the pavilion, service the majority of library users, including undergraduates. The tower contains those portions of the collections and services most used by graduate students and faculty.” Project: Library Institute for Advanced E d ­ ucation Princeton, New Jersey Architects: Harrison & Abramovitz, New York, New York Owner: Institute for Advanced Study Librarian: Dr. Judith Sachs Engineer: Paul Weidlinger Landscape Architect: Clark and Rapuano General Contractor: Matthews Construction Company (Continued on page 135) YOU CAN BANK ON Taylor-Carlisle B O O K S E L L E R S T O T H E A C A D E M IC W O R LD for b e tte r service Speedy delivery … your orders processed without delay E fficient service … alert, experienced personnel H uge in v en to ry … in our own warehouses S e n d f o r O u r C u r r e n t D is c o u n t S c h e d u le Taylor-Carlisle NEW YORK: 115 East 23rd Street New York, N.Y. 10010 FLORIDA: Winter Park Mall Winter Park, Florida 130 131 JU N IO R C O L L E G E LIBRARIES SECTIO N N O M IN EES 1968/69 Information included in the list of nominees for offices 1968/69 as published in the January 1968 CRL News, p. 5 has been made incorrect by the resignation of Lynn Bartlett as Vice Chairman and Chairman- Elect of the Junior College Libraries Sec­ tion. Nominees for JCLS offices for 1968/69 are as follows. Chairman Richard L. Ducote, College of DuPage, G le n E l l y n , I11. Shirley Edsall, Corning Community College, Corning, N.Y. Vice Chairman (Chairman-Elect) S. Ruthe Erickson, St. Louis County Junior College District, St. Louis, Mo. Hal C. Stone, Los Angeles City College. Secretary Mrs. Mayrelee Newman, El Centro College, Dallas, Tex. David L. Reich, Monroe County Commu­ nity College, Monroe, Mich. ORGANIZATION M E E T IN G E & BS SUBSECTION The formation of an Education and Be­ havioral Sciences Subsection of the Subject Specialists Section was approved at the Mid­ winter M eeting of the ACRL Board of D i­ rectors. The goal of the new Subsection will be to bring together librarians interested in work­ ing on the problems of providing library ser­ vice to educators, psychologists, and sociolo­ gists. Barbara S. Marks, education librarian, New York University, will serve as Provisional C hair­ man of the Subsection until organizational ef­ forts are completed and the first elected chair­ man has taken office. She will b e assisted in the coming months by W ayne Gossage, library director, Bank Street College of Education li­ brary, New York, and Howard Dillon, associate librarian, Harvard University, graduate school of education library. An organizational meeting will be held at the annual meeting of ALA in Kansas City. All interested librarians are urged to attend th a t meeting. In the meantime, a brief letter to Mrs. Marks (N ew York University Libraries, W ashington Square, 10003) would p ut you on the mailing list for organizational materials and related information. ACRL Membership March 31, 1968 . 11,464 March 31, 1967 10,690 March 31, 1966 9,313 COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEW S ACRL News Issue of College & Research Libraries Editor, David Kaser, Joint University Li­ braries, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Publications Officer, Mary Falvey, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 60611. ACRL Executive Secretary, George M. Bailey. ACRL Officers, 1967/68: President, James Hum­ phry III; College Libraries Section Chairman, Audrey North; Junior College Libraries Section, Mrs. Alice B. Griffith; Rare Books Section, Lawrence S. Thompson; Subject Specialists Section, Richard L. Snyder; Agri­ culture and Biological Sciences Subsection, Mrs. Pauline W. Jennings; Art Subsection, James K. Dick­ son; Law and Political Science Subsection, Morris Cohen; Slavic and East European Subsection, Jerzy (George) J. Maciuszko; University Libraries Section, Stuart Forth. Editorial Board: John M. Dawson, University of Dela­ ware; Gustave A. Harrer, Boston University; Sam­ uel Rothstein, University of British Columbia; James E. Skipper, Princeton University; Norman E. Tanis, Kansas State College of Pittsburg; Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia University; Eileen Thornton, Oberlin College. News from the Field, Personnel profiles and notes, classified advertising, official matter of ACRL, and other material of a timely nature is published in the News issues of College & Research Libraries. Inclusion of an article or advertisement in CRL does not constitute official endorsement by ACRL or ALA. Production and Advertising and Circulation office: 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, I11. 60611. Change of address and orders for subscriptions should be addressed to College & Research Libraries, for receipt at the above address, at least two monthsi before the publication date of the effective issue. Subscription to CRL is included in membership dues to ACRL of $6 or more; other subscriptions to CRL are $10 per year. Neither subscriptions nor memberships include miscellaneous unscheduled supplements, which are available by purchase only. Retroactive subscrip­ tions are not accepted. Single journal copies are avail­ able at $1.50 each and News issues at $1.00 each from ALA Publishing Department. Indexed in Library Literature. Abstracted in Library Science Abstracts. Book reviews indexed in Book Re­ view Index. College & Research Libraries, is the official journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association; and is published seventeen times per year—bi-monthly as a technical journal with 11 monthly News issues, com­ bining July-August—at 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, Mo. 65251. Second-class postage paid at Fulton, Mo. 135 Third Library History Seminar A dedicated and enthusiastic array of li­ brary historians, antiquaries, and genealogists descended upon Tallahassee on February 8 for the Third Library History Seminar at Florida State University. Supplemented by library school students and faculty, as well as other interested persons from the area, th e group sat dutifully through three days of activities, and all appeared to agree that they profited considerably from hearing some of the excel­ lent papers and discussions, formal and infor­ mal, which were aired. Working sessions began on Thursday with a presentation by two FSU historians of the ways in which they went about the business of historical research. The next session demon­ strated historical criticism. Here two more FSU history professors served as discussants of two surprisingly good library history papers prepared by library school students Ruth Kent and Homer Walton, Jr. Seven varied and interesting papers were presented on Friday. Kent State’s Sidney Jack- son opened the day with a discussion of con­ tradictory views on books and reading among early humanists. Thomas Slavens, University of Michigan, described the circumstances under which the highly treasured Van Ess collection came to rest in the Union Theological Sem­ inary. George S. Bobinski, University of Ken­ tucky, closed the morning with an account of the bibliothecal importance of Andrew Carnegie’s colleagues, James Bertram and Alvin S. Johnson. In the afternoon Robert V. Williams of the Georgia Department of Ar­ chives described the library and its setting in George Whitefield’s Bethesda; William J. Van Beynum of the Middletown ( C onn.) public library spoke on “The Book-Company of D ur­ ham ;” Case W estern Reserve’s Clark A. El­ liott pointed out the importance of the U.S. Bureau of Education to library history in that annus mirabilis 1876; and Nova’s Robert Hav- lik told of the more recent experience of the Library Services Branch of USOE. The best line of the show came on Satur­ day morning in Budd L. Gambee’s (U niver­ sity of North Carolina) paper on “Representa­ tion of American Librarianship at W orld’s Fairs, 1853-1876.” Quoting a journalist’s de­ scription of the persons attending the library conclave of 1876, he reported th at “No one could judge from their appearance th at they were librarians.” The last paper read was Robert C. Miller’s (University of Chicago) his­ tory of the International Publishers’ Associa­ tion, 1896-1962. Two special sessions were also scheduled during the three-day meeting. Lawrence Towner told the delegates on Thursday eve­ ning about his own Newberry library, and at a very fine banquet on Friday night David Kaser (Joint University Libraries) spoke on “Tom Brown’s Library at Rugby.” The seminar concluded before lunch on Sat­ urday with a summary by “the Grand Old Man” of library history in America, the dean emeritus of FSU’s library school, Louis Shores. All in all the conference was a good one which was well worth its designation as the third in a short b ut meaningful series of meet­ ings designed to foster and encourage greater interest in the area of library history.—D.K. ACADEM IC LIBRARY . . . (Continued from page 129) Photo Credit: Ezra Stoller Jury Comment: “This simple, yet elegant, project is very well detailed, well appointed, and well fur­ nished. I t presents an ingenious solution to the overall lighting scheme. The roof is pierced and beam coves allow natural light to beauti­ fully enter the building.” Pictures of award-of-merit academic library buildings are on pages 136 and 137. M O V IN G If you are changing your mailing address, please be sure to let ALA know at least six weeks in advance. Important: Please send ALA both your old and new addresses plus the date you would like the change made. ( A copy of your address label clipped to your notice would help.) 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