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2 7 1951

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY 6 March 19 51

AMERICAN LIBRARY RESOURCES

Director Downs has delivered the manuscript of his new hook, American Library Resources; A Bibliographic Guide, to the A.L.A7 office. The Assoc­iation intends to publish this book in the late stammer.

The work will serve as a type of control, or central record, for the thousands of bibliographical finding aids. The coverage of the guide is very broad - being national in scope and inclusive of every field far which bibliographical information is available. A total of 5,578 entries are included*

EVANS TO SPEAK

Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, will be on the campus April 3» That evening, [Rvans will deliver & speech in 100 Gregory Hall on some aspect of work of the Library of Congress. His presence on campus is being sponsored by the Librarians1 Association,

At present there are tentative plans for an informal reception folltrwt-ing the talk. Details of this will be announced later.

DISSERTATIONS

Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1949~50» edited by Arnold H. Trotier and Marian Harman was recently released by the H. !f« Wilson Company. This issue of the annual publication has a record high of 6,510 entries.

WINDSOR CELEBRATION

Director of the Library, emeritus, Phineas L. Windsor celebrated his 80th birthday Wednesday, February 21. The Library staff honored Professor Windsor on this occasion with a birth­day party in the University Y.M.C.A. Friendship Lounge. Over one hundred members of the staff were at the cele­bration.

Dorothy Black, Anne Marinelli, Marie Hostetter, and Ralph McCoy formed the committee in charge of the affair. Presiding at the birthday table were Mrs. Downs and Mrs. Yen&~ wine.

Professor Windsor came to the University in I909 and remained until he retired in I9U0. He- is still active in library groups as well as in his church and in many civic groups.

MICRO-FILM

Once again the micro-film room is usable. Jim Tolman, from the Circula­tion Department, spent the better part of a wesk rearranging the room.

All films of newspapers and one reader have been moved down to the newspaper Room. This now makes all newspaper original or filmed* available in one place.

Films left in the microfilm read­ing room are arranged in the drawers by their Dewey numbers. The Catalog Department provides an author catalog and shelf list in the room for all of the cataloged films.

[Editors: Ruth Rockwood and Dick Chapinj |Reporters: Avis Ball, Mary Lois Bull, j j Beth Kessler, Helen Knights, Lelia

McLaughlin, Fancy Olinger, Rath ! Protzman, Lucy Rqmble '\

MARGARET OLDFATHER GOES TO OHIO STATE

tfevs has Just been received of the confirmation of Miss Margaret 01dfather!s appointment, effective August 1, to the position of Catalog Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Science at the 0hi3 State University Library, Q^lumbus.

Miss Oldfather started her pro­fessional career in the Catalog Depart­ment of the University of Illinois Library as a part-time cataioger in 1929-32* In the stimmer of I9U5, she was a member of the Library School faculty as a visiting lecturer. In February 19^6, she became a regular member of the cataloging staff in the capacity of Serial Beviser. In September of the following year, she was promoted to her present position cf Catalog Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Science.

The news of Miss Oldfather1s decision to accept the Ohio invita­tion will undoubtedly be received with the utmost regret by her many friends in the Library and in the community which was the family home for so many years. But, in going to Ohio State, she will be returning to the Library where for nearly fourteen years she served as a member of the cataloging staff and to the community where now her immediate family interests lie.

According to present plans, Dr. Marian Harman, Assistant Catalog Librarian, is to become Acting Catalog Librarian when Miss Oldfather leaves* Doctor Harman, who took her Ph*D. degree in classics at Illinois, joined our cataloging staff in 193^. She was advanced to her present position of Assistant Catalog Librarian with the rank of Assistant Professor in September I9H8.

LIBEAEY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Lorena Clarke, of the Library of Medical Sciences, University of Illinois is teaching a course entitled,"0rgani2a~ tion of Library Materials for Use11. This course will be the first of the classes on library work for subprr-fessional library assistants sponsored by the Illinois chapter of the Special Libraries Association*

The University of Illinois has received $1,200 from the trust of the late William Allen Bisey to be used by the Library of Medical Scienceft* The University now has received $^,200 from the trust which was established for the purpose of purchasing unique and rare books and periodicals in the field of dermatology.

The Library of Medical Sciences has the distinction of being the first unit of the University Library to install a call system for paging patrons who are wanted on the telephone*

The Teletalk Call System with a master station located at the circula­tion desk and six speakers in strategic positions in the two reading rooms and in both sections of the basement stacks was installed*

The "Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, v.38, no+k9 October, 1950, contains the "Report of the Committee on Task Analysis Study as Applied to Medical Libraries11. This report was presented at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Associa­tion in Boston, Juno, 1990, by Wilma Troxel, Chairman* The Committee, a special one, which existed from 19^7-1950t has as its function a careful study of the "Descriptive List of Professional and Non-professional Duties in Libraries" issued by the American Library Association to test its validity for various types of medical libraries. Results of the Task Analysis Study showed that the list needed only a few additions to make it well adapted for use in all libraries'. Lorena Clarke, Catalog Librarian and Caroline Riechers of the Rush Medical College Library, now affiliated with the University of Illinois, were two of the committee members who worked on the project*

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ACQUISITIONS UOTBS

In the past few months, the Library has added to its collections in many fields* The most outstanding of all its purchases is a second edition of St* Thomas Aquinas1 Summa Theologica, published in Strassburg, not later than IH63. It was owned by the Monastery of St. Magnus in Frissen, Bavaria, and is well preserved in its original binding with clasps* Capital letters in the text have been colored hy hand with red pud green ink, and several elaborate decorations have been drawn in the margins.

Another valuable purchase is a manuscript copy of St. Thomas1

Quodlibeta, written in Gothic cursive script of the fifteenth century "by at least three different scribes. Other recent additions of St. Thomas1 works include: Super Quarto Liber Sontentiarum, Venic, W97.

Catena Aurea. Fsslingen, ca.

Summa Theologica. Venice, lU80. Q,aestiones Deduodecim Quodlibet. Venice 1^76.

Commentari in Omnes Epistolas Sancti Fauli» Venice* 1493.

Catena Aurea super ifrrangelia Dominicalia et Ferialia. Venice, W86. In the field of bibliography, the

pibmry acquired three additional volumes of the Katalog der im Deutschen Buchhandel Erschienen, prepared and published by the firm of J. C. Finrichs in Leipzig; about fifty volumes of the Catalogue General des Manuscrits des Bibliotheques Publioues de France, published in Faris by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts; and, forty-three volumes (188*4-1925) of the French Catalogue des Dissertations et Ecrits Academiques Provenant des Echanges avec les Universites Etrangere et Requs par la Bibliotheque Rationale*

Several volumes were added toward completing the Library1s holdings in the following:

Acta Batholftgica et Microhio^ logica. •. Scandinavica. Supplementum, a collection of theses from the Univ. of Helsinki, written in English, German and French; Revue des Etudes Islamiques; Revista de Medicina Veterinaire; Zeitschrift fur Menschlische Vererbungs und Konstitions-Lehre.

RARE BOOK ROOM

The Rare Book Room now contains an eight volume set of Goethe1s Schriften» published in Leipzig during the poet's lifetime*

Alexander Pcp£fs Dunciad, which first appeared in 1J 28, was a poem written during the period in Popefs career as a moralist and satirist. The Library has purchased two editions; one, was y*]bll&fee£ in Ihxblin in Tf&$%

and the ,®efcon&/ ih Lnndaii* -1729.

Twenty-three volumes in the first edition of the works of Leonard Merrick, an English dramatist and novelist of the nineteenth and twentieth centurlfcs, have also been added.

The Library was particularly fortunate to obtain a two volume set of The Poems of William Butler Yeet s, published in London hy Macmillan. Although the work first appeared in 19^9t several years after the poet*s death, it contains his personal signature. War conditions prevented publication when planned during Yeat*s lifetime, but he had already signed the pages which were preserved and bound with the books.

M important acquisition is the four volume set memorial to Sir Edwin Lutyens, an outstanding contemporary British architect. Published in December lQ50f *he work contains a careful stuey of Lutyens1 life and a display of his contributions to building by means of plates and photographs^

FEWSPAFER MANUAL

Icko Iben has recently revised the Newspaper Manual. This is a remarkably well done manual* It might irell do for anyone the least bit inter­ested in the Newspaper Room to look the manual over. There are four chapters to the manual: 1.Acquisition, including binding and mending; 2,The organization, classification, recording and description of the newspaper collec­tion; 3»Referenoe work and aid to research; H.personnel management.

NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARY

The "termite eradication project'1

is nearing completion at the Fatural History Library. The three basment rooms of the stacks have been remodeled. £11 old wood floors have been replaced with cement, new ceiling lights have been added and the walls painted. %en the old stacks will be painted a lighter shade. This will make a more attractive lighter x>lace for the faculty and graduate students to work. 2he chief disappointment is that it is impossible to improve the s tack lights at the same time. When the project is completed any interested visitors will be welcome.

SUMMER EDUCATION COFFEREHCE

Library School will participate in the third annual summer education conference of the University. General theme for the 1951 conference will be "Education in the Present Emergency".

Speakers of special interest to librarians will be Ralph Ulveling, Director, Detroit Public Library,"How a City Library System is Adjusting to the Emergency11; and Carl H. Milam, former executive secretary of A.L.A. and former U.ST. Librarian, "Problems and Opportunities of Libraries in the Present Emergency".

McAHALLY" GRADUATES

Arthur McAnally went to Chicago March 16 to receive his Ph.D. degree from the Chicago Graduate Library School. McAnally recently finished and defended his dissertation on "Characteristics of Materials Used in Research in U.S. History".

UNION BROWSING ROOM

The character of the Union Brows­ing Room is changing. It is no longer just a pleasant room in which to enjoy one!s favorite author, or to glance over the current periodicals and the new books, but a music center as well. The room is still pleasant, the readers still come, but a whole new group of music enthusiasts is beating a path to the door. This is occasioned by a circulating record collection of over 800 albums; approximately 3°0 of these are long playing, the rest are 7S rpm. While most of these alb-urns contain musical recordings, there are, in addition, some non-musical record­ings of plays, poetry, and historical events. Beethoven, Bach, and Stravinsky are great favorites, and the works of Mozart and Tchaikovsky spend very little time on the Browsing Room shelves.

Last yenr there were 13,168 borrowers who checked out over ?5*000 alhums.

TRAVELER

Paul J. Burnette, Education Librarian, will be in Washington, D.C. March 1^16, to attend a meeting of the International Relations Board of which he is a member

v BIRTHS

Alan Rideout McNeil was the name given to the baby boy born to Mr. & Mrs. Edward McNeil, February 15. Cecily Rideout McNeil, the mother, was formerly on the staff of the Archi­tecture Library. Mr. McNeil is a member of the Physics Department.

COILOQUTUM VISITQRS

March 8 - Felene Rogers, Assistant State Librarian, Illinois State Library. ,fThe Work of the Illinois State Library".

March lU - Margret E. Martignoni, Superintendent of Work with Children, Brooklyn Public Library* "Possibility of Library Work in a Big City System*.

March 29 ~ Irene Strieby, Librarian, Lily "Research Laboratories, Indiana?* polis, Indiana. "Special Librarian-ship11 .

April 5 m J# tfc Edwards, Edwards Brothers Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan. "The Publishing Program of Edwards Brothers".

April 13 - Wilma Troxel, Librarian, University of Illinois Medical Library. "Medical Librarianship".

FACULTY HEWS

Alice Lohrer, Assistant Professor, recently visited the Decatur, Illinois, schools* She is assisting education authorities there in the planning of quarters for their expanded school library program.

With Herbert Goldhor, Associate Professor, she visited the Cli&ton,•• Illinois, schools on march £• On March 10, she was in Charleston for a committee meeting of the Illinois Secondary School Curriculum Committee.

Last week Miss Lohrer gave a talk "How Books Help Us Grow" before the Lincoln School (Champaign) PTA Association.

On March 1 the area census study group of the I*S.S.C.C. held its meeting here in Urbana. This group prepared its first set of principles for school library service ready to be sent to the various schools and individuals participating in this library program. Miss Lohrer is a member of the group*

Charles Stonehill, well-known English book dealer visited the Library February 27.

Professor Richard Dorsan, Michigan State College, was here March 2 and 3 to examine folklore books. Professor Dorsan, a folklorist, is the author of the David Crockett Almanac and Jonathan Draws the Long Bow.

Edmond Gnoza, from the Chicago Graduate Library School, was on the caurous last month. In connection with one of his courses, he is doing a special service study of circulation routines for Jens Hyholm, Librarian at Horthwestern University.

On March 22, 23, 2k9 the Library was visited by eight Japanese educators. While here they visited local school and public libraries in addition to the University Library. The visitors were: Kosai Kobarl, teacher of English and director of the school library, Tochigi Prefecture, Utsunomiya Women's Upper Secondary School, Utsunomiyo; Tsugane Kunei, principal, Hikawa Elementary School, Tokyo; Sukuji Sato, principal, Haoetsu Lower Secondary School, Hiigata Prefecture, Haoetsu; Yoshio Toryu, principal, Kami-Ttabashi First Lower Secondary School, Tokyo; Mas-umi Yuki, teacher of English and the director of the school library, Shiga Prefect-ural Otsu Upper Secondary School,Otsu; Masai Watanabe, Chief Librarian, Hiigata Prefectural Library, Hiigata; Taira Takeda, Chief Librarian, Yokosuka Municipal Library, Yokohama; Mr. Ono, interpreter.

P*E. THESES

Physical Education Department is now buying micro-card copies of all P.E. theses. These cards, prepared by Springfield College, are filed in the Department.

A new micro-card reader has been given to the library by the P.E. Department for use of these cards.

PERSONNEL

Paul Chen and family have gone tf> Berkeley, California, where Mr* Chen has been appointed as cataloger in the Oriental Library* Mrs. Chen resigned from her position in the Catalog Depart­ment here.

Mrs. Lucille Wert, who had a tem­porary appointment in the Physics Library, has resigned. She was replaced by Richard Ehlloway, half-time appointment in charge pf the Library. Holloway will be assisted by Mrs. Elinor Moore, also a half^ime appointment.

Margerite S. Kaufinan, formerly on the staff at Carthage College, has been appointed as assistant in the Architecture Library*

Paul Burnette has returned from a leave of absence granted him %A gather materials for the Japanese Library School*

Christopher Paye has also returned from a leave. He has been working on a supplement to the De Ricci Census of Manuscripts.

Katharine Paton has been appointed full-time professional assistant in Commerce and Sociology Library, after working there the first semester &s a student assistant*

Mrs. Olive Canaday has transferred to the Catalog Department* Juanita Bruner, formerly student assistant in Circulation and the Undergraduate Libraryf has been appointed junior library clerk.

Jean Andrews has recently joined the clerical staff of the Catalog Department.

Mrs. Mary L. Fuelleman, a graduate of the College *f St.Prances at Joliet, Illinois, is a new member of the Card Division staff.

As of April lf Miss Jane St.Clair will be Catalog Librarian at Havy Pier. She will replace Mrs. Mary Ellen Tomlinson. Mrs. Tomlinson is well known at Urbana, having spent five years in the Catalog and Acquisition Departments here before going to

Chicago in September 19^9 • Miss St.Clair has been a cataloger since 19**3t and for the past three years has been in charge of serials catalog­ing at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge*

The soon-to^be opened Midwest Inter-Library Center is shanghaiing Mrs. Helen B. Schmidt, Acquisition Librarian at Uavy Pier since September I9U9* As the first Acquisitions Librarian and Assistant Director of the !fLibrarian!s Library", Mrs* Schmidt will arrange for deposits £rom the participating libraries*

LIBRARY HOUR U:00 to 5:00 Wednesday Afternoons

Room 118 Library

March 7 - Professor Gorman Cazden, "American Folksongs11.

March 21 - Professor Joseph W. Scott, "Technical Direction of Plays".

April U « Professor C. Walter Stone, "Communications in the World cf Tomorrow".

April 11 - Professor Herbert S. Zim, "Wildlife Conservation".

*THE LIBRARY PRESENTS" RADIO PROGRAM for March 1951

Thursdays U:00 p.m.

March 1 - "Hindemith as Composer and Teacher", Professors Eugene Weigel and Claire Richards, Mr. George H* Hunter*

March 8 - "What the Painter Thinks", Professor Allen S. Weller and colleagues.

March 15 - "Sartre1s Contribution to the French Drama", Professor C* P. Viens.

March 22 - "Trends in Contemporary Designs", Professor James R. Shipley.

March 29 - "The Film as an Art Form", Professors Henry L. Mueller and C. Walter Stone, Miss Patricia Mcllrath, Mr. Lewis V. Peterson

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LIBRARY SCHOOL GRADUATES

B,S,~Mrs. Carol Coldren, S05 V* Oregon, Urbana; Fancy Ann McCullough (who will continue with graduate study in library science).

K*S*—Vivian Marie Ballew, catal©ger, University of Alabama, University, Alabama; Henry Buzzard, 907 South Sixth Street, Charleston, Illinois; Anna Elizabeth Cash, Assistant in Reference and Circulation, Alabama College, Montevallo, Alabama; Ray E. Howser, Research Assistant, Library School, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Kathryn L. Luther, Cataloger, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois; Philip McCarthy, Circulation Assistant, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois; Margaret Moran, who is enroute to Les Angeles, California where she will join her family in their newly e stablished home; Anna Kathryn Oiler, Instructor, School of Library Service and Train­ing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; Mary Patricia Peasley, Assistant, Undergraduate Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Ronald Roberts, Assistant, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland; Charles C* Tharp, Reference Assistant, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Marian E. Young, Assistant, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana*

BUBTSHAM HOSPITAL FUKD

Contributions to the Burnham Hospital Fund by staff members in the General Library Building amounted to $6U5. The Catalog Department con­tributed $253 of this amount. The total amount pledged does not represent all staff contributions since a number contributed with their families through other organizations, to the neighborhood solicitor, or solicitors in other campus buildings.

At the same time an appeal was made for the March ,of Dimes* Building contributions came to almost $60w

ATOM BOMBS

Following is an excerpt of a letter received by the library January 30* Who wants to deliver the informa­tion?

fl0ur Science class is having a detail discussion on the Atom Bomb. I would appreciate any possible information you could give me on the Atom Bomb, Construction of the Atom, Splitting of the Atom, or any other information your library may contain on this subject.11

Westville, Illinois January 30, 1951

THANE YOU !

Mr; Windsor has sent a message of appreciation, through the committee in charge fce the friends who helped celebrate his recent birthday, nI cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the party or reception you library folks gave me on the 2lst, my SOth birthday. It made me think that it is really worthwhile to live so many years• It is most cheering to know that I have so many friends. You have been most thoughtful and generousff*

HE¥ CATALOGING POLICY

The Catalog Department has adopted a new policy regarding subject cataloging of books published prior to 1801. There will be no subject cards for these books except those on criticism, bibliography, and biography* The department feels that scholars wanting books before this date will mostly approach the catalog through author entries.