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1 College and Research Libraries THE libraky ot i rtfc Acquisition Policy OCT fm Of Bibliological Mendic^t^* Of ILLINOIS Allocation of Book Funds in College Libraries Columbia's New Charging System Prompt Payment of Bookdealers' Invoices Reading Programs and the Junior College Library Forms in Acquisitions Work i "Socialistica" of 180c 1850 The British National Bibliography New Periodicals of 1953 Libraries of the Oregon State System of Higher Education Classified Catalog in a University Library Public Documents Instruction in Library Schools Vol. XIV, No. 4, October, 1953 Association of College and Reference Libraries

2 ilding a better book world is our business too When space is the pressing problem, let us help with free library planning service, and remarkable stacks to make maximum use of minimum space. The new Hamilton Compo Stack shown here actually doubles book capacity with ingenious sliding shelves. Available too are outstanding Hamilton-Standard and Continuous Upright Stacks. All built of handsome, durable steel with latest features for efficiency, including easily adjustable shelves. Hamilton's experience is unmatched in the design and manufacture of specialized professional installations. So write us today for more about our planning service or a free circular describing our steel stacks. - H j c L m. i t t a n. T T L a j x u j a r t u n i n g C x r m f u a i u j TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN Please mention C & R L when corresponding with its advertisers.

3 IF M M% HP 1IF Another 11 Kb I by library Bureau One of the stack areas of the new 6-story Oklahoma A&M College Library. These unit-type #52 steel bookstacks are the very latest innovation in stack construction. All furniture and stacks were supplied by the Library Bureau. The revolutionary new Type #52 stack design is the very ultimate in unit construction. It permits complete flexibility of expansion or change without dismantling any part of the stack and is adaptable to all installations, large or small. Each section of the unit is an integral component. The new type uprights are 20% stronger on the major axis than square tube construction, or that of any. competitive design. The base construction features one-piece-plate base brackets extending from face to face of double faced sections. Levelling clips which permit adjustment to compensate for irregularities in the floor level. Rubber pad (Isomode) on bottom of stack upright protects floors and prevents skidding. Shelving can be changed from 8" to 10" depth whenever necessary. For additional information on Library Bureau "Type 52" write today for your free copies of two booklets, LBV604 and LBV597. Wt**M9*MWtfjtf*F9_ isfizifl/ Room 1284, 315 Fourth Avenue, New York, Please mention C & R L when corresponding with its advertisers. N.Y.

4 Funk & Wagnalls STANDARD Reference Books STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND LEGEND Edited by Maria Leach These two volumes gather together in one major, overall survey the folklore, mythology, and legend of the world the gods, heroes, tales, motifs, customs, songs, dances, games, guardian spirits, demons of the various cultures. Included are original signed articles by 33 of the world's leading folklorists and anthropologists. $20.00 "The liveliest, most entertaining and authoritative work of reference for anybody anywhere interested in any folklore..." Carl Carmer. FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW COLLEGE STANDARD DICTIONARY Enrpha'type Edition 145,000 full, clear definitions 10,000 more than any dictionary in its field. Modern, streamlined, easy to use, this complete new reference work gives etymologies, derivations, parts of speech, synonyms, and antonyms. Contains dozens of convenient lists, tables, measurements, etc. New terms include latest technical, scientific, and slang expressions. 1,420 pages, $5.50 plain, $6.00 thumb-indexed. FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW DESK STANDARD DICTIONARY Envphq-type Edition The perfect dictionary for home, office or school use and at the lowest price ever for a big, full-size dictionary. Contains 100,000 Funk & Wagnalls tested definitions, a complete 15-page section on secretarial practice. Gives synonyms, antonyms, abbreviations, biographical data. Contains tables, lists, measurements, etc., plus an appendix of more than 12,000 geographical names. 960 pages, 850 illustrations, $3.75 plain, $4.25 thumbindexed. Standard Handbook of PREPOSITIONS, CONJUNCTIONS, RELATIVE PRONOUNS, and ADVERBS An invaluable guide to the correct use of the connectives of English speech, for writers, speakers, teachers, and students. 128 pages, $2.75 THE OPDYCKE LEXICON OF WORD SELECTION Illustrative studies in dictional precision for speakers, writers anyone interested in word study. Gives the origin, history, and evolution of 6,000 English words at work in practical usage. The words selected are those that demand differentiation because of habitual misusage. 525 pages, $5.00 FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY 153 East 24th Street, New York 10, N.Y. imn^iiiir^i r< Hfllll lihjlup

5 College and Research Libraries MAURICE F. TAUBER, Editor MART SABUSAWA, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL STAFF Book Notes CARLYLE J. FRAREY Buildings.. RALPH E. ELLSWORTH Methods JENS NYHOLM News..... WALTER W. WRIGHT Personnel LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON Resources ROBERT B. DOWNS College and Research Libraries is the official organ of the Association of College and Reference Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. It includes general articles, official reports, addresses of conference speakers, reviews of selected books, and news from the field of wide professional interest. It is indexed in Library Literature. Manuscripts of articles and addresses should be addressed to the Office of the Editor, Columbia University Library, New York City 27. Requests for reprints should be addressed to Editor, ALA Bulletin, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 11, at the time the notification is received of the issue in which the article is scheduled to appear. The scope of the journal does not permit inclusion of personal communications or exhaustive coverage by reviews of the literature of librarianship. To editors: Material in College and Research Libraries is not copyrighted. No comment or pronouncement can be cited as official endorsement of the Association of College and Reference Libraries or of the American Library Association. Such action can only be taken through a formal vote of the associations. The assumption of editorial responsibility is not to be construed necessarily as endorsement of opinions expressed by writers. Subscription price: to members of the Association of College and Reference Libraries paying American Library Association dues of $6.00 or more, $2.00 per year, included in the membership dues assigned by ALA to ACRL; to members paying less than $6.00 and to nonmembers, $4.00 a year. Single copies $1.25; orders of five or $1.00 each. Checks for subscriptions or ALA membership should be made out to the American Library Association. Correspondence about subscriptions and notification of change of address (three weeks notice requested) should be sent to the American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. Members of the American Library Association may become members of the Association of College and Reference Libraries by indicating this as the division of their choice when paying ALA dues without the payment of additional dues. ALA members wishing to belong to more than one division must pay to the ALA an additional twenty per cent of their ALA dues (not over $2.00) for each additional division. College and Research Libraries is published quarterly, January, April, July, and October at 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 11, 111., by the American Library Association, and printed at 450 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis. Entered as second-class matter May 8, 1940, at the post office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879, with an additional entry at Menasha, Wis. Printed in U.S.A. Accepted for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925 embodied in paragraph (d) (1), section P.L.&R.

6 Expert Help with Library Planning Problems. without Obligation I YOUR LIBRARY layout problems are given prompt attention by G/W trained library engineers. This service is available to all libraries architects, librarians, and library committees to help develop efficient plans and installations. PLANNED LAYOUTS are prepared to make the best possible use of floor and wall space through effective arrangement of stacks, shelving, seating, and work areas. THIS "ONE SOURCE" service offers a complete line of library equipment G/W Vision Line Wood Library Equipment, including TECHNIPLAN modular office equipment for processing departments and the Snead Bookstack System to meet expanding and changing needs... easily and economically. Get the facts about this G/W Library Planning Service... and the complete line of G/W Library Equipment. Write Contract Division, Globe-Wernicke Company, Cincinnati 12, Ohio. G L O B E - W E R N I C K E VISION LINE SNEAD SYSTEM TECHNIPLAN EQUIPMENT LIBRARY EQUIPMENT Cincinnati 12, Ohio Please mention C i? R L when corresponding with its advertisers.

7 Association of College and Reference Libraries PRESIDENT: Harriet D. MacPherson, Librarian, Drexel Institute of Technology and Dean of School of Library Science, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Officers for VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT: Guy R. Lyle, Director of Libraries, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: Arthur T. Hamlin, ALA Headquarters, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago 11, 111. TREASURER: Joseph C. Shipman, Librarian, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo. PAST PRESIDENT: Robert W. Severance, Deputy Director, Department of the Army Library, Washington, D.C. *DIRECTORS: Julian Fowler, Librarian, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; David Jolly, Assistant Librarian, Deering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.; N. Orwin Rush, Director of Libraries, Universtiy of Wyoming, Laramie. ACRL REPRESENTATIVES ON ALA COUN- CIL: Charles M. Adams, Librarian, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Clifford R. Armstrong, Associate Director, State College Libraries, Pullman, Washington; Mary N. Barton, Head, General Reference Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland; Lewis C. Branscomb, Director of Libraries, Ohio State COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN, Helmer L. Webb, Librarian, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.; VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIR- MAN-ELECT, Ruth K. Porritt, Librarian, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.; SECRETARY^ Benjamin B. Richards, Librarian, Knox College, Galesburg, 111.; DI- RECTOR, Louise F. Kampf, Librarian, Colorado College, Colorado Springs. JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN, Lottie M. Skidmore, Librarian, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, 111.; VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIR- MAN-ELECT, Nellie M. Homes, Librarian, Cottey College, Nevada, Mo.; SECRETARY, John W. Canario, Librarian, Riverside College, Riverside, Calif.; DIRECTOR, Frances L. Meals, Librarian, Colby Junior College, New London, N.H. PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE SECTION CHAIRMAN, Donald E. Thompson, Director, State College Libraries, State College, Miss.; VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT, Jane Ganfield, Serials Librarian, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; SECRETARY, Mrs. Margaret S. Bryant, Chief, Division of Bibliography, U. S. Department of Agriculture Library, Washington, D.C.; DIRECTOR, Francis P. Allen, Librarian, Rhode Island University, Kingston. Section Officers, University, Columbus; Donald Coney, Librarian, University of California, Berkeley; Irene L. Craft, Serials Librarian, Oregon State College, Corvallis; Edward C. Heintz, Librarian, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; Felix E. Hirsch, Librarian and Professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Mrs. Frances Kemp Hurley, 500 Kappock St., New York, N.Y.; Frances B. Jenkins, Associate Professor of Library Science, University of Illinois Library School, Urbana; Margaret L. Johnson, Librarian, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; David Otis Kelley, University Librarian, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Edmon Low, Librarian, Oklahoma A & M College, Stillwater; Arthur M. McAnally, Director of Libraries and of the School of Library Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Robert A. Miller, Director of Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington; Robert W. Orr, Director of Libraries, Iowa State College, Ames; Louis S. Shores, Dean, School of Library Training and Service, Florida State University, Tallahassee; Katharine M. Stokes, Librarian, Western Michigan College of Education, Kalamazoo; Raynard C. Swank, Director of Libraries, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. REFERENCE LIBRARIANS SECTION CHAIRMAN, Everett T. Moore, Head, Reference Department, University of California Library, Los Angeles; VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT, Elizabeth Bond, Head, Reference Department, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minn.; SECRETARY, Margaret E. Knox, Head, Department of Reference and Bibliography, University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville; DIRECTOR, Florence M. Gifford, Head, General Reference Division, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. LIBRARIES OF TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS SECTION CHAIRMAN, James E. Green, Assistant to the President, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti; SECRE- TARY AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT, Marion B. Grady, Librarian, Ball State Teachers College, Muncie^ Ind.; DIRECTOR, Ethel Feagley, Associate Librarian, Teachers College Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION CHAIRMAN, Lawrence C. Powell, Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles; VICE CHAIRMAN AND CHAIRMAN-ELECT, Richard H. Logsdon, Director, Columbia University Libraries, New York, N.Y.; SECRETARY, Archie L. McNeal, Director, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Fla.; DIRECTOR, Lewis C. Branscomb, Director of Libraries, Ohio State University, Columbus. * Also includes the directors listed under Section Officers and ACRL representatives on ALA Council serving their last year (Miss Barton, Mr. Coney, Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Shores).

8 Dual Purpose Book Support for regular size and over-size books. You know that U-Bar Shelving is lighter, stronger, and substantially increases book life by allowing better air circulation, preventing book mold or book rot. But did you know about VMP's Dual Purpose Book Support, a valuable adjunct to U-Bar Shelving? One size book support provides for normal size and for over-size books. Positive T-Lock Book Support inserts in normal position or from shelf above for over-size books. The substantial savings in costs and increased efficiency achieved by U-Bar Shelving justify your prime consideration in new library construction or library modernization. FREE: Big, new, colorful library bookstack equipment catalog. Just write "new library catalog" on your letterhead and mail to Virginia Metal Products, Inc., Department CRL-10, 1112 First National Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. VIRGINIA METAL PRODUCTS, INC. Orange, Virginia also manufacturers of MOBILWALLS, the most complete line of movable steel partitions; steel doors and frames; library stacks and equipment; and conveyors for vertical and horizontal transmission. Please mention C i? R L when corresponding with its advertisers.

9 Outstanding ADAPTABLE Technical Publications PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS, ed. by Professor L. Zechmeister, California Institute of Technology. Contributions in English, German and French, Vienna, Volume PP $16.00 Volume II 366 pp $16.00 Volume III 252 pp $16.00 Volume IV 499 pp $22.00 Volume V 417 pp $12.10 Volume VI 392 pp $13.40 Volume VII 330 pp $12.90 Volume VIII 400 pp $16.92 Volume IX 535 pp $19.80 Volume X In preparation. ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, by Prof. Z. G. Pinsker Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Deals extensively with Russian advances in the subject, particularly in the application of electron diffraction to complete crystal structure analysis. Illus., 443 pp., London, 1953, $9.80 COOLING TOWERS, by J. Jackson, B.Sc. Describes rational methods of design for cooling towers and apparatus of similar character. Illus., 104 pp., London, 1951, $3.50 WELDING PRACTICE, prepared by the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Practical guide and ample explanatory matter on metallurgic factors. Volume 1-3 (set), London, 1952, $8.50 Vol. I, Methods and Tests, $2.75 Vol. 2, Ferrous Metals, $3.50 Vol. 3, Non-Ferrous Metals, $3.50 LANGE, MAXWELL, & SPRINGER, INC. Scientific and Medical Booksellers 420 West 45 Street New York 36 Each library presents individual problems. For use where a changeable floor plan is desired, Ames offers Freestanding Steel Library Shelving. Where the book storage area is to be permanently located, Ames Multi-tier Bookstack construction should be considered. Without obligation, Ames' experienced library equipment engineers will study your problems and recommend the equipment which meets your needs at the lowest possible cost. Your inquiries are invited. iu.r.niiies componv Established 1910 BOOKSTACK DIVISION 150 Hooper St., San Francisco 7, Calif. Representatives in Principal Cities FREESTANDING SHELVING MULTI-TIER CONSTRUCTION BOOKSTACK EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES Please mention C i? R L when corresponding with its advertisers.

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