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towards those affiliated w ith better-known institu­
tions in thickly populated regions, expecially the 
Midwest and Middle Atlantic. A truly representa­
tive national council might enable us to overcome 
this tendency.

We think it would also respond to expressions of 
concern from a num ber of members who have felt 
left out, or who have charged th a t the programs 
sponsored by the executive committee are not rele­
vant. Participation in the national advisory council 
m ight also provide a means of m aintaining an ac­
tive role for persons who have previously served on 
CLS committees and task forces. All too often in 
the recent past these people have dropped out of 
to u c h , an d  w h a te v e r th ey  le a rn e d  from  th e ir

former participation has been lost to the incum ­
bent leadership.

The purpose of the council and the future of the 
section will be the only items on the agenda for the 
membership meeting in Chicago on July 6. If w hat 
is planned as a three-year experiment proves to 
have the value m any of us think it has, we will 
eventually take the steps necessary to am end our 
by-laws and make it a perm anent body.

Incidentally, we are joining the university li­
brary section in sponsoring a program  on July 7 en­
titled, “Defining the Academic L ib rarian ,” and 
the CLS Executive Com m ittee meets on July 9. 
Kibitzers are cordially welcome. W e hope you’ll 
come. ■  ■

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News from the f ie ld

Acquisitions
• The Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston,

has acquired the im portant m anuscript library of 
the now defunct C hina Trade Museum, formerly 
of Milton, Massachusetts. The gift consists of over 
50 linear feet of manuscripts plus a large collection 
of graphic and photographic m aterial and 42 anno­
tated navigation charts. A large segment of the ac­
quisition, spanning the years 1732-1930, consists of 
the papers of three generations of the Forbes fam ­
ily: Robert Bennet, Francis Blackwell, and Francis 
M urray Forbes, Boston merchants. The collection 
surveys the C hina Trade from various points of 
view. The Samuel Austin papers provide a good in­
sight into the C hina m arket, while those of C aptain 
Eben Linnell record the trade and times from the 
quarterdeck. Samuel Shaw, first American consul 
at C a n to n , presents the view from  C h in a , the 
Lewis W harf papers and Thomas Lewis papers re­
veal the Boston scene, while the papers of Charles 
A. Tomes relate his work as an agent for Russell 
and Company.

• N o rth ern  K entucky U niversity, H ig h lan d
Heights, has received an extensive collection of 
state and national historical literature from news­
paper publisher W arren Shonert. The Presidential 
Signature Series consists of portraits and photos of 
every President from W ashington to Reagan, ac­
com panied by authenticated signatures and p er­
sonal or biographical notes. M em orabilia from 
past Presidential and Congressional cam paigns 
add color and scope. The 1,500-title book collec­
tion contains Civil W ar literature, Kentucky his­
tory, and works on Abraham Lincoln, and is richly 
enhanced by several rare works, including John

Filson’s Discovery, Settlem ent, and Present State 
o f K entucky. The acquisition also includes num er­
ous Civil W ar artifacts, many from the Battle of 
Perryville, Kentucky.

• The University of California, Los Angeles, has
acquired a large num ber of books and documents, 
including much scarce and unique m aterial, from 
the estate of the late H an Yu-shan, the first profes­
sor of Chinese history at UCLA. The collection is 
H an ’s personal library which he had started as a 
student in China sixty years ago. Highlights of the 
collection include: 500 exam ination papers and 
other papers related to C hina’s civil service system 
dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries; m ateri­
als describing individual private academies which 
prepared many candidates for the civil service ex­
aminations; a complete set of printing blocks for 
the D iam ond Sutra (Chin-kang ching), one of the 
most highly regarded of the Buddhist scriptures; 24 
m anuscript patents from a superior conferring a 
prom otion or other m ark of distinction on someone 
for outstanding achievement in a scholarly or h u ­
m an field of endeavor, such as unusual filial piety; 
and a 1775 Japanese reprint of an early Chinese 
herbal, the Cheng-lei pen–ts’ao.

• The University of California, Santa B arbara,
has b een  given a c o lle c tio n  of m aps of th e  
1 6 th -1 8 th  centuries by Peggy A. M axim us, of 
Santa Barbara. Printed from copper plate engrav­
ings, the 310 maps of various regions of Europe 
w ere d ra w n  by 12 m aster m apm akers, am ong 
them  G erhardus M ercator, W illem  Blaeu, and 
A braham  Ortelius. Many of the maps originally 
had been published as p art of bound atlases and 
later removed.

• The University of Michigan Library, Ann Ar­



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bor, has acquired a large collection of works by and 
about W. Somerset M augham. The collection was 
assembled by Roland E. Gunsburg, a Michigan 
alumnus. Many presentation copies, signed limited 
editions, and American and British first editions of 
novels, short story collections, essays, and plays are 
well represented. One of the most unusual items is 
a typescript of The C am el’s Back, an unpublished 
M augham play.

• The University of N orth C arolina, C hapel
Hill, Academic Affairs Library, has received a col­
lection of 8,600 volumes th a t were the file copies of 
books from the publishing firms of John M urray, of 
London, England, and Smith, Elder & Com pany, 
another London publisher th a t was absorbed by 
John M urray in 1917. Two very successful periodi­
cals were associated w ith these firms, the Quar­
terly Review (1809-1967) and the Cornhill Maga­
z in e  (1 8 6 0 -1 9 7 5 ). T h e firs t im p o r ta n t book 
published by John M urray was The Revolutionary 
Plutarch, a tract on French politics published in 
1803. The Smith, Elder firm was responsible for 
the Dictionary of National Biography, begun in 
1882. Both companies have published such im por­
ta n t authors as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Benjamin 
Disraeli, Charles D arw in, C harlotte Bronte, T en­
nyson, M atthew  Arnold, George Meredith, Henry 
James, and A rthur Conan Doyle.

• The University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, has been given a 60,000-volume collection 
of L atin American materials by San Fernando V al­
ley civic leaders Jane and H erbert Boeckmann II. 
The collection contains materials published from 
the 17th to the 20th century, prim arily in Mexico, 
Brazil, C entral A m erica, and the W est Indies. 
Over 80% of the volumes are non-fiction, includ­
ing m any rare political, literary and theological 
treatises.

• The University of Tulsa, Oklahom a, has been
given the Paul Leon collection of James Joyce m a­
terials by an anonymous patron. Leon was one of 
Joyce’s closest friends, who transcribed and cor­
rected his manuscripts and saw to his contracts 
w ith publishers. The collection includes personal 
letters and telegrams to Leon and his wife in addi­
tion to first editions, rare m anuscripts, and signed 
books owned by Joyce. O ther highlights are photo­
graphs and negatives of Joyce and Leon and others, 
and recordings of Ulysses, Finnegan’s W ake, and 
other Joyce works.

•  The University of U tah, Salt Lake City, has re-
ceived a collection of 994 volumes of poetry, fic­
tion, literary criticism, essays, and biographies as 
well as long backruns of noted literary journals in­
cluding Poetry, Paris Review, Partisan Review, 
and Kenyon R e v ie w . Among autographed first edi­
tions are works by W allace Stevens, John C iardi, 
James Dickey, Richard E berhart, and Brewster 
Ghiselin. The gift was presented by the estate of 
May Collins Flint, a Utah alum na.

• V irginia C om m onw ealth University, Rich­

m ond, has acquired an im p o rtan t collection of 
2,400 jazz recordings, plus 100 instantaneous re­
cordings, spanning the years 1925-1955. The col­
lection was given by John L. Clarke, a Richmond 
businessman and form er jazz drum m er. Major jazz 
p e rfo rm e rs, in c lu d in g  P au l W h ite m a n , A rtie 
Shaw, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Louis Arm­
strong, and Duke Ellington, are represented, but 
the focus is on such lesser known ensembles as the 
D utch Swing College Band, the Q uintette of the 
Hot Club of France, and the Jazz Club Mystery Jiv- 
ers. European jazz, relatively rare in U.S. collec­
tions, is also very well represented.

Grants
• I n d ian a U niversity, B loom ington, has re-

ceived a grant of $153,640 from the National E n ­
dow m ent for the Hum anities in support of a proj­
ect to catalog 5,935 books and 1,114 manuscripts 
from the Elisabeth Ball collection of children’s lit­
erature recently acquired by the university’s Lilly 
Library.

• The University of California, Berkeley, has
been aw arded $84,000 by the National E ndow ­
m ent for the Hum anities to establish a Preservation 
Im plem entation Project th a t will serve to train

China mission resources

Materials originating from the Christian mis­
sion to C hina constitute a major portion of p ri­
m ary docum entation on C hina in American li­
braries and archives. The im portance of these 
documents for scholarly research has been in­
creasingly recognized, but scholars have had 
difficulty in locating relevant collections.

W ork has now begun on the New England 
section of a Scholars’ Guide to Chinese Mission 
Resources by the Robert E. Speer L ibrary of 
Princeton Theological Seminary. W hen com­
pleted the guide will indicate in detail w hat 
documents exist and where they are located. 
The kinds of resources described in the guide in­
clude minutes, records, reports, manuscripts 
and p am p h lets, diaries, jou rn als and n o te­
books, clippings and scrapbooks, and maps, as 
well as serials and books. Audiovisual materials 
will also be included.

Publication of a Mid-Atlantic States volume 
is scheduled for this summer, and a Pennsylva­
nia volume is now available. The project is un­
der the direction of Archie R. Crouch, founder 
of the index for Daily Report: People’s Republic 
o f China. Librarians and archivists who would 
like to have their collections of C hina mission 
resources included are asked to contact: China 
Mission Resources Project, Princeton Theologi­
cal Seminary, Speer Library, Box 111, Prince­
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c o n s e rv a tio n  s ta ff on fo u r o th e r c am p u se s — 
Riverside, San Diego, Santa B arb ara, and San 
Francisco. Staff trained by the Project will study

p r a c tic a l a p p ro a c h e s  to p la n n in g , d e c is io n ­
making, and im plem entation of conservation goals 
and policies. ■  ■

. P E O P L E  .
Profiles

Jerry D. Campbell has been nam ed university 
lib ra ria n  and vice provost for lib rary  affairs at 
Duke University, effective July 1. Cam pbell is c u r­
rently director of the Bridwell L ibrary and associ­
ate professor at the Perkins School of Theology at 
Southern Methodist University, a post he has held 
since 1980. Prior to his assuming his present duties, 
he was director of the Ira J. Taylor L ibrary and as­
sistant professor at the Iliff School of Theology in 
Denver.

Cam pbell received his m aster’s of divinity de­
gree from the Divinity School at Duke University in 
1971. He earned an MLS at the G raduate School of 
L ibrary Science at the University of N orth C aro­
lina, C hapel Hill, in 1972 and was aw ard ed  a 
Ph.D . in American history by the University of 
D enver in 1982. Cam pbell served as the president 
of the American Theological L ibrary Association 
in 1981-1982. He has had extensive experience 
w ith the preservation of library m aterials and the 
autom ation of library services.

Lawrence Dowler, associate librarian of H a r­
v a rd  C o lleg e, b ecam e lib r a r ia n  of H a rv a rd 's  
H oughton L ibrary on May 1, succeeding W illiam 
H. Bond who had retired in 1982.

Dowler cam e to H arvard in 1982 from Yale Uni­
versity L ibrary, w here he had been associate li­
b rarian  and acting director of the Beinecke Rare 
Book and M anuscript Library. He had been at Yale 
since 1970 and had also served as supervisor of 
processing in the D epartm ent of M anuscripts, Ster­
ling M em orial L ib ra ry ; assistant h ead , actin g  
head, and head of th a t D epartm ent; and associate 
librarian for m anuscripts and archives.

He holds a doctorate in American history from 
the University of M aryland, and his m any profes­
sional activities have included participation in the 
N ational Inform ation Systems Task Force on Auto­
m ation, the Society of American Archivists, the 
N a tio n a l H isto ric a l P u b lic a tio n s an d  R ecords 
Commission C onnecticut State Advisory Board, 
an d  th e R esearch L ib raries G ro u p /R L IN  Task 
Force on Autom ation of M anuscript Cataloging.

Dowler has also been appointed special assistant 
to the director for special collections, a new posi­
tion in w hich he will advise the director on the co­
ordination of the University L ib rary ’s m any activi­
ties concerning special collections and help bring 
p o tential donors in touch w ith the ap p ro p riate 
H arvard library.

People in the news
Catharine Heinz, director of the Broadcast Pio­

neers L ibrary, W ashington, D .C ., was presented 
w ith a 1985 Broadcast Preceptor A w ard at San 
Francisco State U niversity’s B roadcast In d u stry  
Conference on April 27. The aw ard was given for 
her invaluable contribution to the preservation of 
broadcast history.

Tze–CHUNG Li , dean of the Rosary College G rad ­
uate School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science, 
River Forest, Illinois, has been elected president of 
the American chapters of the Phi T au Phi Scholas­
tic H onor Society, w hich was founded in C hina in 
1921. The purpose of the Society is to encourage 
scholarship, stim ulate research, rew ard academic 
achievement and form a professional network of li­
brarians around the world.

Appointments
(A ppointm ent notices are taken from lib rary  

newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap ­
pointees, and other sources. To ensure th a t your 
appointm ent appears, w rite to the E ditor, ACRL, 
50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Fran Allegri has been appointed director of in ­
form ation m anagem ent education services at the 
H ealth Science L ibrary of the University of North 
C arolina at C hapel Hill.

Duane W. Arenales has been nam ed chief of 
the Technical Services Division at the N ational Li­
brary of Medicine, Bethesda, M aryland.

Helen Berg is now access services librarian at 
K utztown University, Pennsylvania.

Sue Burkholder has been appointed library di-