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19 52/53Senate Committee on the Library

Report for 1952-53

To the Members of the University Senate:

Your Committee on the Library submits the following report forthe year ending June 30, 1953. During this period, noteworthyad-ditions were made to the Library's resources for study and researchthrough purchases, gifts,, and exchanges, with the Illinois Foundationplaying a major role; a new Lincoln Library was established; extensivetransfers of little-used materials were made to the Midwest Inter-Library Center; the Library improved its reference, bibliographical,and research services at a number of points; and the Chicago Divisionsreported "substantial progress. These and other library activities arereviewed in more detail below.

GROWTH OF LIBRARY

At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1953, the Library held2,490,744 volumes in Urbana and 165,309 volumes in the two Chicagodivisions, altogether 2,656,103 volumes, or a net increase of 85,825volumes over the previous year. The total cost of materials purchasedwas $422,037, to which should be added extensive collections of books,journals, pamphlets, maps, and other items received by gift and exchange.Acquisitions for the year included a number of important and valuablegifts received through the University of Illinois Foundation; completionof the Library's collection of Milton first editions; purchase of theMeyer collection of science and literature of the Goethe period inGermany; archival records of nineteenth-century British book publishing;and major series in various subject areas. Following are descriptionsof the principal acquisitions.

University of Illinois Foundation

Since 1948, when the University of Illinois Foundation began itsbenefactions to the Library, subsequently formalized in the "LibraryEnrichment Fund", the Foundation has been responsible for a series ofnotable additions to the Library's resources, e.g., the Ernest IngoldShakespeare collection, the Horner Lincoln Library, the elephant-folioedition of Audubon's Birds of America, the Columbus Letter of 1494,the George Sherburn library of 18th century English literature, a HansChristian Andersen collection, and an 18th century oil portrait ofJohn Milton. In the year just closed, other outstanding gifts werereceived through this source. Of particular note were additions to the

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Ingold and Horner collections, a significant Milton item, a collection

of operatic recordings of major importance, a collection of 18th and

19th century British and American theatrical material, and assistancewith the purchase of the original manuscript of a Stravinsky opera.Details follow:

Ernest. Inold Shakespeare ,Collection

Ernest Ingold of San Francisco, a member of the Class of 1909,continued his interest in developing a great Shakespeare library atthe University of Illinois. At the top of his donations for 1952-53was the 1619 quarto edition of the Merry Wives of Windsor, of specialinterest because it completes the Library's holdings of the nineShakespeare quartos published by William Jaggard. The 1619 quartos,representing the first attempt at collecting Shakespeare's plays, wereprinted only three years after the great dramatist's death. .Because oftheir extreme rarity, the quarto volumes seldom appear in the booktrade, and to assemble a complete set is a long, difficult undertaking.Illinois is now one of eight libraries in the United States possessingthe nine Jaggard quartos.

In addition to the 1619 quarto, Mr. Ingold presented sixty-nineother important volumes of Shakespeareana, including the handsome, six-volume edition on large paper of Shakespeare's Works, published in 1709,edited by Nicholas Rowe, first editor of Shakespeare; the seven-volumeWorks, one of seventy-five sets on large paper, published in 1733, editedby Louis Theobald, most scholarly of the early Shakespeare editors; arare first edition of Samuel Johnson's Miscellaneous Observations on theTragedy of Macbeth, 1745; several late 17th century quartos; and aWilliam Ireland Shakespearean forgery.

Horner Lincoln Library

An official announcement of the receipt of the Abraham Lincolnlibrary from Dr. and Mrs. Harlan H. Horner was made in last year's report.The library was not fully organized and opened for public use, however,until June 20, 1953, during the commencement period, when an open houseand exhibitions were scheduled, and a descriptive account by Dr. LeslieW. Dunlap was published for distribution. Dr. and Mrs. Horner are con-

tinuing their systematic development of the collection, and in the courseof the past year have added numerous titles, old and new, with a viewto acauiring virtually all printed works relating to Lincoln, his con-temporaries, and his times.

Additions to Milton Collection

A highlight of the year was the acquisition of a small pamphlet,entitled Of Education, by John Milton, printed in 1644. The significanceof this apparently insignificant item is that it completes the University

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of Illinois Library's collection of Milton first editions, probably

the sole complete set to be found anywhere in the world. The Illinois

copy of Of Education is one of only eight or nine known to exist today.It crowns twenty-five years of assiduous search by Professor HarrisFletcher, who is primarily responsible for building the 3,000-plusvolume collection of Miltoniana at Illinois.

Another accession of unusual interest to the Milton material,financed by the Illinois Foundation, was the original warrant signedby the President of the Council of State, ordering John Milton to

search the chambers of William Prynne for papers belonging to, or

dangerous to, the Commonwealth. The warrant is dated June 25, 1650,

at which time Milton held the post of Secretary for Foreign Languages,

and is the only existing evidence that Milton was employed by theCouncil to collect damning evidence against Prynne. The value of the

document is made greater by the fact that few state papers involving

Milton exist.

Shirk Record Collection

The Shirk record collection, which was presented to the Library

through the Foundation by Mr. William Allen Shirk, Class of 1912, is

noteworthy for its old operatic recordings. The core of the collection,

which comprises over 3,000 items, centers around the "Golden Age of

Opera", and represents almost every vocal artist of the period. The

Caruso section is extensive, and there are numerous rarities, including

records of the voice of Francesco Tamagno, creator of the role of Otello

in 1887. In addition to musical recordings, the voices of Sarah

Bernhardt, Florence Nightingale, Joseph Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt,

Woodrow Wilson, and other celebrities are represented. Included in the

gift are fifteen volumes of scrapbooks, containing pictures and clip-

pings about artists of the past, all carefully indexed for ready refer-

ence. Altogether, this valuable assemblage is a monument to many years

of discriminating and expert collecting activity by Mr. Shirk, and

constitutes a major addition to the University's resources for researchin music.

Theatre Collection

Primarily for the use of the Speech Department, the Foundationpurchased an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century British andAmerican theatrical lithographs, copper and steel engravings, etchings,prints, and playbills. Formerly owned by Theodore Leavitt, the collectionis reported to be the fourth largest of its kind in the United States.Its scope is the British stage prior to 1850 and the American stage prior

to 1870, and there are items relating to such notables of the theatrical

world as Kemble, Siddons, Kean, Garrick, Nell Gwyn, Edwin Forrest, and

Ada Rehan.

Stravinsky Manuscript

Of special interest to the School of Music was the joint purchaseby the Foundation and the Library of the 129-page manuscript of Igor

Stravinsky's opera Mavra, composed in 1922. This work has a particular

association with Illinois, because of its presentation by the OperaWorkshop, under the direction of Soulima Stravinsky, son of the composer,during the 1952 Festival of Contemporary Arts.

Meyer Collection

Of more than ordinary distinction was a collection of 889 titlesdealing with the literature and science of Goethe's day, purchased fromProfessor Heinrich Meyer of Muhlenberg College, Assembled over a periodof thirty-five years, the collection is rich in early works on medicine,botany, geology, chemistry, and physics--all topics in which Goethe wasinterested, and to which he made contributions. The materials are ofvalue both for students of Goethe and his period and for research in thehistory of science.

iBrtish Publishing Archives

Through Graduate College research funds, substantial additions weremade to manuscript and archival records relating to British book pub-lishing and literature of the 19th century. An important beginning wasmade in this field two years ago with the purchase of the archives ofthe English publishing firm of Richard Bentley. An outstanding purchaseof the past year was the twenty-one volume manuscript diary kept byGeorge Bentley during his publishing career, extending from 1850 to1895, and giving an excellent day-by-day picture of a publisher's deal-ings with the most prominent English authors of the 19th century. Alsosupplementing the Bentley files are several groups of letters, totalingabout 1,500, written to Bentley by various authors, including such namesas Charles Kingsley, Marryat, Merimee, and Maria Edgeworth.

Another leading English publisher of the 19th and early 20thcenturies was Grant Richards, who was in touch with most of the literaryfigures of importance from 1895 to 1930. Two collections of Richardsmaterial were acquired: first, the forty-five quarto volumes in whichhe kept copies of all letters written to authors, artists, printers, etc.,and, second, about 15,000 letters to Richards. The writers representedread like a literary who's who of Britain at the turn of the century.

Victorian Literature

The foregoing archives of English publishing complement in manyuseful ways the Library's activities in collecting the literature ofthe Victorian era. Taking advantage of the presence of Professor Gordon

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Ray in England, in the summer of 1951, and again in the summer of 1953,some thousands of volumes have been acquired direct from bookstores andother owners in Britain. From second-hand book-dealers' catalogs, numer-ous other titles were added. Two major items of the past year, forexample, were a seventy-four volume collection of the writings of SirRichard F. Burton, and a 181-volume collection of novels, mainly firsteditions, by Margaret Oliphant.

Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

Considerable progress was made in developing the Library's holdingsof early and rare books. Of special note were: (a) sixteen incunabula,among them nine additions to the Library's important Thomas Aquinascollection; (b) a manuscript of The Brut. or, Chronicles of England,ca. 1450; (c) five English plays, 1540-1641, by Ben Jonson, Thomas Lodge,Thomas Killigrew, and Guilelmus Gnaphaeus; (d) three additions to ourstrong collection of early atlases, including a 1511 Ptolemaeus, a 1573Ortelius, and Moses Pitt's four-volume English Atlas of 1680-83; (e)two famous Bibles: The Coverdale Bible of 1537, and the first "Breeches"Bible printed in England, London, 1576; (f) Otto von Guericke'sExperimenta Nova, Amsterdam, 1672, "one of the most remarkable booksin the history of physics and electricity;" (g) two sixteenth-centuryworks in music: John Case's Praise of Musicke, Oxenford, 1586, andNicholas Yonge's Musica Transalpina, London, 1597; (h) five earlyeducation and school books, 1508-91, by Alanus de Insulis, Aldo Manizio,Claude de Sainlien, John Stanbridge, and William Stepney; (i) sixteenth-century editions of Bartholomaeus, Cardano, Celsus, William Covell,Richard Day, Robert Estienne, Stephen Gosson, Heliodorus, Hrotsvit,Richard Huloet, and Torquato Tasso; (j) and seventeenth-century editionsof Francis Bacon, Thomas Dekker, and Richard Delamain. Some titles arebelieved to be unique, or are known by only one or two other existingcopies.

Other Notewortkv Additions to Library

Whenever opportunity offered, the Library continued to fill inimportant series in various subject areas. Among these, there might besingled out for mention, the following titles: (a) a set of the MedicalRepository, one of the earliest American scientific periodicals; (b) Forthe Physical Education Library, The Snorting Maaazine (London), 1792-1870;The New Sporting Magazine, 1831-46; Sporting Review (London), 1839-47.(c) For the Architecture Library, complete sets of Camera Work, andBeschreibender Katalog- der Handzeichnungen in der GraDhischen SammlungAlbertina. (d) For the History Library, Sitzungsberichte of thePhilosophisch-historische Klasse of the Heidelberger Akademie derWissenschaften. (e) For the Music Library, Allgemeine MusikalischeZeitung, and the erse. Folge of Denkml!er Deutscher Tonkunst. (f) Forthe Chemistry Library, Annali di Chimica A1plicata (Rome). (g) For

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the Natural History Library, Bulletin of the Soci'te d'Histoire Naturellede Toulouse, Zeitschrift fur Hygienische Zooloies und Schadlingsbekamfung(Dresden), and Annales of the Socitd Linnienne de Lyon. (h) For theVeterinary Medicine Library, Azione Veterinaria (Rome).

Other items of unusual interest procured during the year includeVirgil's Opera, a fine example of the Ashendene Press' work: thebeautifully printed Doves Press Bible in five volumes, 1903-05; VictorCollot's Voyage dans L'Amdrioue SeptentriPnale, Paris, 1826, in threevolumes, the original edition of one of the most famous and rarest ofbooks on the exploration of the Midwest; the eighteen-volume Frenchedition of Shakespeare, translated by Victor Hugo; rare editions ofSamuel Johnson's The Rmbler, and Whitman's Leaves of Grass; and a firstedition of Ibsen's first play, Catalina.

Gifts

As in former years, numerous gifts, large and small, played asignificant part in developing the Library's resources. In addition tocollections mentioned previously, coming through the University ofIllinois Foundation and other sources, the Library gained substantiallyfrom materials presented by numerous individuals and organizations.Among donations worthy of special citation were the following: GeorgeR. Carr, Class of 1901, added to his gifts of 1951 and 1952 a group ofearly-printed records, including 107 railroad reports, 52 railroadpamphlets, 93 pamphlets relating to steamships, 17 items of curiosarelating to political parties, 163 American 18th and 19th centurypamphlets, 122 prints and photographs, 17 Wells-Fargo waybills, stage-coach receipts, 31 maps, and various other items.

Additional gifts received during the year include 202 volumes, 121pamphlets, 381 periodicals, and 114 reprints, from J. M. Mathews,Professor Emeritus of Political Science; 164 volumes, 218 pamphlets, 257periodicals, and 91 reprints, from the estate of Professor James G.Randall, Department of History; 622 volumes, 116 pamphlets, and 190periodicals, from Dr. G. H. Boewe, of the Illinois State Natural HistorySurvey; 522 volumes, 41 pamphlets, and 124 periodicals, from theIllinois State Water Survey; and numerous books, not yet recorded, fromthe library of the late Professor Harley C. Van Cleave, Department ofZoology. A more detailed list of donors is appended to the presentreport.

The Wall Street Journal office in Chicago presented the Librarywith its file of clippings relating to individual corporations andother business subjects. The file consists of all material from theChicago Journal of Commerce for the period 1930 to 1951, filling fortylegal-size vertical-file drawers with about 25,000 envelopes, arrangedalphabetically by topics.

Exchanges

As of June 30, 1953, the Library was carrying on exchange relations

with 3,452 institutions in the United States and foreign countries. A

total of 58,606 copies of University of Illinois publications was sent

to these organizations in exchange for their periodicals and other pub-lications. Examples of the types of material received are some of thenew exchanges arranged during the year: The national Yugoslav biblio-graphy listing current books, pamphlets, music scores, reviews, news-paper articles, and literary contributions; Zeml.iste i Bil.ka, ajournal of the experimental scientific work of pedological institutesand agricultural chemistry in Jugoslavia; the ualletin of the ResearchCouncil of Israel, a quarterly journal of science; the Japan ScienceReview, from the union of Japanese Societies of Literature, Philosophyand History; and the Economic Review, from the Economic Society ofHosei University.

An increasing number of scientific journals and periodicals,formerly received on exchange, are now available only on a subscriptionbasis. Exchange relations with institutions in China are cut off com-pletely, and very little exchange material is coming through from Russia,except that from the Akademiia Nauk USSR in Leningrad. A decision wasmade in November 1952, therefore, to drop from the mailing list allRussian addresses from which no publications had been received since1949; deletions numbered 140.

Periodicals

The Periodical Division of the Library is receiving currently 15,861titles through purchase, exchange, and gift. The situation in regardto periodical prices was mixed. There were some increases in the costof domestic periodicals during the past year, and a trend toward discon-tinuance of free subscriptions. Prices for English periodicals wereslightly lower, but for French journals substantially higher, on the whole.No appreciable changes were noted in other foreign subscriptions.

Farmington Plan

The Library continued its active participation in the "FarmingtonPlan", a cooperative program, sponsored by the Association of ResearchLibraries, for the acquisition by American libraries of all books ofresearch value published abroad. Beginning with only three westernEuropean countries in 1948, the undertaking has expanded until now itis world-wide in scope. Fifty-three libraries in the United States havejoined in the project, which aims to bring to this country at least onecopy of every monographic publication of potential worth currently issuedabroad. Each participating institution has assumed responsibility for a

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specific subject field or fields. By central listing in the NationalUnion Catalog at the Library of Congress, a complete record of locationsof individual titles of all Farmington Plan books is maintained.

Major areas assigned to the University of Illinois Library includeFrench and Spanish literature and languages, several branches of engineer-ing, and library science. In 1952-53, in these and other categories,2,240 volumes were added to the Library. Since the origin of the Farming-ton Plan five years ago, the Library has received 9,406 volumes throughthis cooperative arrangement.

USE OF THE LIBRARY

A common bond-the improvement of service to readers-unites thethirty diverse units of the Public Service Departments. During the pastyear, numerous innovations were introduced in the departmental libraries,to facilitate easier access by students and faculty to materials on theshelves.

The practices at Illinois with reference to the much-debated questionof open versus closed stacks are growing more liberal each year. Seniorsmay now obtain admission to the bookstack in the General Library building,and the open-shelf policy is followed in most of the departmental librarieswhere it is administratively feasible.

Circulation Statistics

Effectiveness in librarianship, as in other kinds of educationalactivity, is freouently difficult to measure statistically. For example,progressive practices in libraries often result in lower recorded use.Books consulted in the bookstacks are not included in circulation figures.In the past year, many of the reserve books in the Education and Under-graduate Libraries were placed on open shelves, and their use no longerrecorded. Also, the new system of fines for overdue books, introduced atthe beginning of the second semester, permitting students to use books forlonger periods without a penalty, depresses circulation figures. It isclear that a better measuring device is needed than statistics of circu-lation for judging successful library service. During the coming year,the Public Service staff proposes to explore possible alternatives.

Library Fines

One of the principal changes made in the Public Service Departmentswas the introduction of a new fine system. Two weeks is the time-favored period for a library book loan, after which, if the book is notreturned, a fine is incurred. The practice is not logical. Studentscannot read several lengthy volumes within two weeks, and there is noneed to have the book returned on a given date unless it is wanted byanother reader. Furthermore, the fines imposed for tardy returns aretoo small to induce students to bring back books promptly. An investi-gation revealed that approximately two-thirds of all library fines wereless than fifteen cents.

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The new fine system is based on a more realistic consideration ofthe factors involved. Books are not recalled simply because they havebeen charged out for two weeks, and fines are not collected without goodreason. If a book is in use and is wanted by another reader, the returnof the volume by a specific date is requested, and the borrower is nowfined at a rate of twenty-five cents a day if he fails to comply withthe Library's reouest. Fine regulations for reserve books and periodicalswere not changed, because the use of these materials is of a differentnature.

A thorough appraisal of the new fine system is premature, but itappears highly successful. The number of fines collected in the firstsemester was 7,461, and in the second, after the new plan was instituted,only 2, 732. Reports from the departmental librarians reveal that thechange was an improvement in every respect.

Abuses

Although the revised fine system appeared to be correcting some ofthe problems long connected with overdue books, the Public Service De-partments found no satisfactory solutions for certain other chronicdifficulties, notably the mutilations and thefts of books, which con-tinued to deprive the Library and its users of valuable periodical files,newspapers, books, and other types of material.

Less serious, but often troublesome are practices which grow outof using the Library as a study hall. Pledges in some fraternities andsoroities are required to go to the Library to "study", and these groupsalmost invariably create disturbances in reading rooms because they haveno interest in studying. The Panhellenic officers in the Dean of Men'sand Dean of Women's offices during the past year have been exceedinglyhelpful in stopping this long-standing custom.

Referende Servi. e

In addition to meeting extensive demands for reference service andresearch assistance on the campus, the Public Service Departments answereda large number of reauests for information from elsewhere, includingqueries from collegiate institutions, members of college faculties, anda wide range of other organizations and individuals.

Extension and Inter-Library Loans

The Extramutal Lending Service supplied 7,586 books for extensioncourses in forty-seven centers throughout the state. The inter-librarylending service lent 4,096 volumes for the year, exclusive of microfilmcopies, which in many cases were substituted for the loan of the originalmaterials. The reverse side of the picture was that 1,304 titles were

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borrowed, from 150 different libraries, for the use of graduate studentsand faculty members in Urbana. The year was typical in this respect, i.e.,the Library loaned to other institutions more than three times thenumber of volumes borrowed, a tribute to the wealth of our resources.

Orientation

The Reference Department and the Undergraduate Library conducted226 tours for students in popular undergraduate classes, introducingthe Library in this manner to about 3,000 students. Much more extensivetraining in library use was received by students who enrolled for thefreshman-sophomore course "Introduction to Library Use", and for thespecialized bibliographical courses offered in law, music, biologicalsciences, chemistry, and cartography. Not now offered, but clearly needed,is a course in the utilization of library resources for graduate studentsin the humanities and social sciences.

A number of publications issued by the Library are designed to in-crease the use of the collections. In September, as a companion to aguide available for some years to undergraduate students, a new Handbook

for Graduate Students and Members of the Faculty was distributed, toanswer questions about how to make most effective use of the Library.Guides to the use of the Journalism, Education, and Map Libraries werealso issued during the year.

General

Members of the Public Service Departments participated in a widerange of other activities. Briefly enumerated, these included arrange-ment of library exhibitions, assisting in the selection, acquisition andprocessing of various types of library materials, complete reorganizingand revitalizing of the moribund Observatory collection, and helping toestablish the Lincoln Room. Also, oonsiderable attention was devoted tothe improvement of present quarters, and to provisions for libraryspace in new buildings, e.g., in the Reference Room, Undergraduate Library,and School of Music, and in the buildings being planned for the nextbiennium for Law and Home Economics. A number of departmental librariestransferred large quantities of books to the General Library stacks,because there is no prospect of obtaining additional space near theirunits.

PREPARATION OF MATERIALS

The technical departments of the Library--Acquisition, Catalog,Binding, and Photographic Reproduction--are responsible for the procure-ment, organization, and preparation for use of all types of librarymaterials. A summary of their activities for the year follows:

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Acquisition Department

Some of the work of the Acquisition Department has been describedabove under GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY. All materials added to the Libraryby purchase, exchange, or gift are received through this division. Bythese various means, 101,413 items (exclusive of periodical issues)were added to the Library resources of the Urbana campus in 1952-53.Of the total, 52,546 items were purchased, and 48,867 obtained by giftor exchange. By categories, there were 77,715 volumes and pamphlets,19,044 maps, 1,699 music scores, 2,601 photographic reproductions, and354 miscellaneous pieces.

Catalog Deoartmernt

The number of new titles cataloged in 1952-53 was 34,217, as comparedwith 31,293 the previous year, an increase of 9.3 per cent. The numberof volumes cataloged in the same period was 104,174, as compared with106,718, or a decrease of 2.3 per cent. New cards added to the generalcatalog totaled 99,243, representing a gain of 4.9 per cent. For de-partmental libraries and reading rooms, 62,814 additional cards wereprovided. The Library's Union Catalog was expanded by 32,345 cardsreceived from eleven other research libraries and the Midwest Inter-Library Center.

By agreement with the Library of Congress, the Catalog Departmentfurnished copy for the printing of catalog cards for the followingclasses of material: publications.of the State of Illinois, non-copyright publications of the University of Illinois, doctoral disser-tations accepted by the University of Illinois, specific titles (chieflyFarmington Plan books from abroad) on special reauest. Entries wereprepared for a total of 2,046 titles for which the Library of Congressprinted cards.

Among other important accomplishments of the Catalog Departmentwere reclassification of the Undergraduate Library collection, in orderto incorporate it into the main library records; beginning the catalog-ing and classification of the Lincoln Room collection; and considerablereorganization of the Department's work to improve efficiency, to makematerials available to readers more promptly, and to eliminate arrearages.

Binding Division

In January, the former Binding Department became the Binding Divisionof the Catalog Department, in order to affect better coordination ofits work with other technical processes.

Except for newspapers and University theses, all commercial bindingfor the Urbana libraries was done by the Monastery Hill Bindery, ErnstHertzberg and Sons, in Chicago, under a contract first awarded in 1941.

Including 24,998 volumes bound by Hertzberg and 1,113 theses and news-papers bound by local firms, a total of 26,111 volumes were prepared for

binding by the Binding Division and returned to the Library's collections.

A large amount of pamphlet binding and book repair was carried on,

as usual, within the Division. Among these activities were page-mending

and repair of bindings, construction of boxes for old and rare books and

music scores, lettering books and pamphlets, treating books for mold and

fungus-growths, mounting plates and maps, and mounting worn and fragile

pages on silk chiffon. Experiments were also carried on with inexpensivetypes of binding for little-used materials. Altogether, 16,152 items

were processed by the Mending and Pamphlet-Binding Section.

Phto clerk Experiment

Three years ago, the Library agreed to cooperate with eleven other

libraries in a practical study to determine the usefulness of a newly-developed copying camera, the "Photoclerk," in substituting photographicfor manual methods of copying in library clerical operations. Fundsfor providing the cameras and automatic processors for the experiment were

granted by the Carnegie Corporation to the American Council of LearnedSocieties, and the project was directed by Dr. Ralph R. Shaw, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, designer of the equipment.

A total of 358 experiments dealing with 130 different kinds oflibrary operations were reported by the cooperating libraries, whichconcluded the study at the end of 1952. At Illinois, twenty-eightdifferent applications were tested during the trial period. In allexcept four of these, the photoclerical procedure demonstrated worthwhileeconomies, increased efficiency, or improved services. Some of thesuccessful operations here were making copies of order cards to accompanybooks forwarded to the Catalog Department; preparation of overdue booknotices; preparation of notices to faculty members of book chargesoutstanding; copying entries from abstract journals for the maintenanceof subject files; copying entries for the Rare Book Room catalog; andduplicating cards for the Midwest Inter-Library Center for transferredmaterials. The routines of a continuing nature have now been incor-porated into the Library's regular operations.

MEDICAL LIBRARY

During the year, the Library of Medical Sciences reached and passedthe 100,000-volume mark in its book collections,placing it in a selectcompany of about eight university medical libraries in the United Stateswhich have attained this rank, three of them, incidentally, being locatedin Chicago. With the addition of 4,488 volumes in 1952-53, the IllinoisMedical Library ended the year with holdings of 103,597 volumes, plus10,143 pamphlets.

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Special funds accounted for the acquisition of valuable researchmaterials in several fields. For example, from the William Allen PuseyFund came subscriptions and back files of such foreign dermatologyperiodicals as the Australian Journal of Dermatology, 6eska Dermatologie,International Journal of Leprosy, Le-rosy Review, Archives BelIes deDermatologie, Archivo Italiano di Dermatolog!ia, Acta Dermatologica(Japanese), and Zeitschrift f~r Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten, and anumber of books on the same subject. Six titles dealing withgastroenterology were purchased from the Singer Memorial Fund; and fromthe Hertzler Fund, early and rare works of historical value for medicine.The Allen Memorial Fund has been transferred to the Medical Library, andis to be used for acquiring material in the field of military medicine.Other donors--faculty members, students, alumni, and friends--, listed inan appendix to this report, gave generously of books and current periodi-cals.

By way of exchanges, also, the Library obtained much worthwhilematerial. From the Medical Library Association Exchange, 1,651 pieces werereceived. Using the Illinois Monographs in the Medical Sciences, eighty-five exchanges have been arranged for the publications of other institu-tions.

Spot checks of the library reading rooms in the course of the yearshowed an average daily attendance of 535, a figure that grows each year.Reading rooms are filled at many hours during the week. The totalcirculation of books in and outside the Library was 65,282 volumes.

A considerable amount of staff time was given to instruction in theuse of the Library. Such groups as new students in Occupational Therapy,new affiliate nurses, new staff members of the Department of MedicalSocial Work, freshmen students in the Professional Colleges, and newinternes and residents in the hospital were given short tours of theLibrary, to acquaint them with the location of library resources andwith the procedure for borrowing material. In addition, there was muchindividual instruction in the use of periodical indexes, the card catalog,reference books, etc.

Studies are in process for future expansion of the Library's physicalfacilities, to provide space for reading rooms, bookstacks, and adminis-trative offices, in order to keep pace with the growth of the ProfessionalColleges and other increasing demands being made on the Library. As animmediate step toward improved conditions, lighting in the reading roomswas greatly improved during the year. The West Reading Room was completelyequipped with fluorescent lighting fixtures, and the existing fixtures inthe Reference Room are being re-designed and equipped with large bulbsof the reflector type, increasing candle power by about 100 per cent andeliminating the present glare.

Members of the Medical Library staff were active in professionallibrary associations, and the Librarian, Miss Troxel, was elected Vice-President (President-elect) of the Medical Library Association at itsannual meeting in June 1953.

CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION

The Chicago Undergraduate Division Library continued to make in-portant contributions to the various programs of the Division, Perhapsthe most distinctive activity was carried on by the Department of LibraryInstruction and Advisement, organized in 1951, which gave classroom and"laboratory" instruction to over 4,000 students, and carried a consider-ably increased load of reference service and student counseling. TheDepartment's primary tool, the U.I.C. Undergraduate Library Handbook,was completely rewritten.

The Library's circulation service reported unusually high readingroom attendance, while general home loans and home use of reserve booksincreased 11.2 and 19.3 per cent, respectively, over the previous year.All circulation, reference, and other library services are concentratedinto a forty-two and one-half hour week, Monday through Friday, since theLibrary is not open evenings, Saturdays and Sundays.

After a three-year delay, the Library opened its first subjectdivisional reading room, with the cooperation of the Department ofArchitecture and Art. Excellent quarters, collections, and staff wereprovided, and a sound service program undertaken in the fine arts field.

Because of reduced book funds, current acauisitions dropped belowthose of 1951-52. There were added 6,645 volumes to bring the totalcollection to 61,712 volumes--all recently acquired and carefully selected--comparing favorably with libraries of four-year colleges throughout theUnited States.

One of the year's accomplishments was the development of a librarystaff specialization plan. This plan, which was placed in operation,provides for close liaison between the faculty and the Library, withselected individual library staff members working with committees ineach of the several colleges and other major academic departments of theChicago Undergraduate Division. For example, one librarian was maderesponsible for liaison with the humanities, another with social sciencedepartments, a third with engineering, and so on through the subject fieldscovered by the Division's instructional program. It is expected that theseassignments will make the Library more useful to the organization andkeep the librarians better informed on the Division's needs.

MIDWEST INTER-LIBRARY CENTER

The creation of the Midwest Inter-Library Center in Chicago, officiallyopened in October 1951, has brought a new factor into the Library's

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acquisition and public service policies. In considering proposals for

purchases of books and periodical titles, for example, the holdingsand possible acquisitions of the Center were taken into account, in

order to eliminate unnecessary duplication and to use library fundsmost effectively,

The transfer of little-used material to the Midwest Center con-

tinued. The major categories transferred were foreign dissertations

(169 boxes), second-hand bookdealers catalogs (73 boxes), college

catalogs (20 boxes), telephone directories (20 boxes), house organs

(42 boxes), U. S. government publications (17 boxes), Chicago railwayterminal plans (89 cartons), Civilian Conservation Corps camp papers

(29 boxes), textbooks (4 boxes), state and foreign government publi-cations (12 boxes), and over one thousand volumes of newspapers.

The house organs sent to MILC were limited to employee, sales, andpromotional magazines. More than a thousand firms which had theUniversity of Illinois on their mailing list for these publicationswere notified to transfer the gift subscriptions to the Center. TheLibrary has retained house organs that are valuable for their subjectcontent, e.g., in science and technology.

The Library is cooperating also in the Center's "fragmentary sets"program, whereby members transfer to the Center incomplete files ofserials, to make available as complete runs as possible in one location.

The Center's decision to collect extensively the official publica-tions of all the states enabled the Library to limit its own activitiesin this area. The Library will continue to acquire all documents ofIllinois and other Midwest states, and the more important documents ofstates in other regions, but no longer feels obligated to procure andpreserve minor publications issued by non-Midwestern states. Accordingly,the Library is discontinuing many less-important serials, reducing thenumber of copies to be received and bound, and transferring to MILCalready-accumulated files of such material.

PERSONNEL

Beginning September 1, several important changes occurred inlibrary administrative positions: Marian Harman became Catalog Librarian,Rebecca Briggs, Assistant Catalog Librarian, Helen Welch, AccuisitionLibrarian, T. E. Ratcliffe, Reference Librarian, and William V. Jackson,Undergraduate Librarian. There were two retirements: Alice S. Johnson,for forty-three years Reference Librarian, Christopher U. Faye, acataloger for twenty-five years.

The staff turnover for 1952-53 was lower than for the precedingyear in the academic group. With 145 positions, there were forty-five

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new appointments (compared to fifty-three in 1951-52), and thirty-eight resignations (compared to forty the year before). Nevertheless,the Library's work was hampered at various points by resignationsoccurring throughout the year, and by the difficulty in finding qualifiedreplacements. Some key positions had to remain unfilled for periodsof several months. It is clear that library schools have not yet beenable to meet the acute skortage of professional librarians.

An analysis of the Library's present staff shows graduates of twelvelibrary schools, with the largest number, naturally, drawn from Illinois,followed by Columbia and Michigan.

The Library maintains a number of half-time professional assistant-ships, to give promising graduate students in library science an oppor-tunity to obtain financial assistance and to get experience in a largeresearch library. During the past year, eighteen such positions wereavailable.

Another group of students are employed on wages. The largest numberof students working at any one time was 220 in March. The average wasabout 200. In the course of the year, a total of 488 different studentswas on the payroll. The Library was thus one of the principal employerson the campus of student workers. It often happens that students becomeinterested in this way in librarianship as a career, and many professionallibrarians have entered the field by that route.

On the nonacademic staff, there were ninety-six positions, and changeswere freauent. Altogether, there were sixty-two resignations and eighty-one new appointments. A majority of these employees are wives of students,and capable workers, but of course less stable than permanent residentsof the community.

In addition to their regular responsibilities, library staff memberswere active in various professional matters, holding offices or importantcommittee assignments in the American Library Association, Special LibrariesAssociation, Medical Library Association, American Association of LawLibraries, Association of College and Reference Libraries, Music LibraryAssociation, Association of Research Libraries, Illinois Library Associa-tion, and other organizations. Published contributions were numerous,in the form of books, periodical articles, and reviews. Several membersparticipated in editing or serving on editorial boards of leading pro-fessional journals.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Two regular programs carried on by the Library had as their objectivescreating interest in books, reading, and libraries, and informing thepublic of the Library's resources. These were the weekly "LibraryPresents" radio program over the University Station WILL, and a series ofexhibitions,

"The Library Presents", now scheduled for fifty-two weeks out ofthe year, was heard each Wednesday morning for approximately a half-hour. Speakers were chosen chiefly from the faculty, with forty-sixpersons representing sixteen different departments. There were alsoeight graduate students, three library assistants, and three personsnot on the University staff. For purposes of continuity, talks weregenerally planned so that one theme or subject ran through a group ofprograms. Each topic selected had a direct connection with books andlibraries* Public response to the series as a whole was excellent.

A rotating series of exhibitions in the first-floor corridors ofthe Library presented materials on diverse topics; Marcel Proust, CarlSandburg, Jos6 Toribio Medina, Early Coinage, The Christmas Celebration,Hopewell Indiana, Authors' First Books, Guide Books, British Coronation,and Abraham Lincoln. Generally, these were to makk an anniversary orother significant occasion. In several instances, library resourceswere supplemented by private collections for the exhibits.

There are appended to this report several tables showing theallocation of book funds, the size, growth, and the recorded use ofthe Library.

A. W. AndersonG. B. EvansR. M. WainwrightE. T, WeilerP. E. YankwichHelmut Rehder, ChairmanReport prepared by R, B. Downs,

Director of the Library

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ENROLLMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY AND

USE OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY,

1948-49 to 1952-53*

Enrollment TotalYear Undergrad. Graduate Total Recorded Use

1948-49 17,750 3,402 21,152 1,153,320

1949-50 17,802 4,210 22,012 1,108,364

1950-51 14,557 4,255 18,812 1,074,785

1951-52 12,937 3,719 16,656 927,074

1952-53 13,648 3,524 17,172 788,090

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*Urbana campus only; summer session excluded.

TABLE IV

RECORDED USE OF THE LIBRARY IN URBANA AND CHICAGO

FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1953

IN URBANA

General Circulation Students

General LibraryCirculation DeskUndergraduate LibraryBrowsing RoomDepartmental Libraries in

General LibraryDepartmental Libraries in

other buildings

Total eneracl .circulation

96,87925,9148,535

46,024

Faculty Others Total

22,6112,6195,585

13,928

4,345729

2,573

123,83529,26216,693

1,491 61,443

98.221 37.060 14,494 149.,77

275,573 81,803 23,632 381,008

Reserve Materials

General LibraryReference RoomUndergraduate LibraryDepartmental Libraries in

General LibraryDepartmental Libraries in

other buildings

Total recorded reserve usee

Interlibrary loans to institutionsChampaign-Urbana

Use in Library

32,59845,947

154,550

10, 491

338,586

outside of

Interlibrary loans from other institutions for use ofgraduate students and faculty on Urbana campus

Photographic reproductions obtained for members offaculty and graduate students in lieu of volumes

Extramural extension circulation

TOTAL RECORDED USE IN URBANA

Overnight

3206,810

29,029

56,814

32,91852,757

183,579

395,400

4,096

(1,304)

(71)

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788,090

TABLE IV (Continued)

CHICAGO CAMPUSES

Undergraduate DivisionGeneral CirculationReserve

Room UseOvernight

Interlibrary loansInterlibrary borrowings

Total

Students Facult Others TotalAen jo, lt~t.a33,780

Students

Medical SciencesGeneral CirculationReserve

Room UseOvernight

Interlibrary loansInterlibrary borrowings

Total

4,369

7.168

Faculty and Others

23,501

TOTAL ALL CAMPUSES

40,948

11,9948,660

18(151)

61,620

Total

27,870

26,46110,951

331(262)

65,613

915,323

TABLE V

THE VOLUMES AND SEATING CAPACITY IN THE

VARIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTM1ENTS AS OF JUNE 30, 1953*

SeatingLibrary Unit Capacity Volumes

URBANAGeneral Library BuildingBibliography Room 16 3,617Browsing Room 19 1,828Classics 30 31,800Commerce and Sociology 213 10,050Education, Philosophy, and Psychology 248 15,892English 100 14,000General Reading and Reference Room 514 16,300Germanic and Romance Languages 56 11,000History and Political Science 75 10,650Library School 92 14,535Map Room 7 3,158Newspaper Library and Archives 17 28,349Physical Education 52 6,319Rare Book Room 10 51,358Undergraduate 384 21,562

Other Libraries on Camnpus**Agriculture 134 35.938Architecture 86 25,138Ceramics 20 3,633Chemistry 104 23,677Engineering 210 70,989Floriculture 14 4,050Geological Survey 10 13,000Illinois Historical Survey 12 2,698Journalism 81 7,175Labor and Industrial Relations 18 1,365Landscape Architecture 31 9,168Law 189 101,056Mathematics 46 16,382Music 23 35,819Natural History 92 69,762Natural History Survey 20 16,057Observatory 6 800Physics 35 6,503Union Sfowsing Roon 33 1,805University High School 52 8,650Veterinary Medicine 80 5,366

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TABLE V (Continued)

SeatingLibrary Unit Capacity Volumes

CHICAGOMedical SciencesUndergraduate Division

240778

103,59761,712

* Excludes extensive holdings of non-book materials, such as the 150,075maps in the Map Library; in the Architecture and Art Library, 29,236cataloged slides, 24,232 photographs, etc.; in the Music Library, 62,3"pieces of choral and orchestral music, 8,933 phonograph discs; in theHistory and Political Science Library, 77,000 U. N. Documents; etc.

* Excludes 20 office collections of 100 to 1,000 volumes each.

TABLE VI

DEPARTMENTAL ALLOCATIONS

For the fiscal year 1952-53, the Board of Trustees made appropria-tions of $370,900 for the increase of the University Library as follows:General Library in Urbana, $296,900; Law, $24,000; Medicine, Dentistry,and Pharmacy, $20,000; Undergraduate Division, Chicago, $30,000. Ad-ditional book purchases totalling $40,535.03 were made during the yearfrom Graduate College, departmental and other funds. Most of thesepurchases were added to the Library, although some were kept in depart-mental offices.

A total of $13,550 was made available by the University of IllinoisFoundation for noteworthy acquisitions. This amount includes paymentfor the Sherburn collection which was added to the Library late in 1951-52 and paid for early in 1952-53.

A schedule of assignments for the purchase of books for the pasttwo years follows. The individual assignments are often approximatelyrepeated from year to year, although the amount for any one purpose ordepartment has frequently been changed by the Committee when makingassignments. The Committee again authorized the Director to makenecessary minor changes or adjustments among these assignments duringthe year.

GEIEiRAL 1921-2 1952m-3

General and border line books $ 5,500 9,375Reference books and bibliographies 3,100 5,000General continuations (chiefly annuals and works

issued in parts over several years) 7,500 10,000Periodical subscriptions (omitting Law) 51,000 51,000Binding (chiefly current volumes of serials;

omitting Law) 50,000 50,000Express, freight, and postage 1,700 2,000Administrative offices not connected with colleges

or schools (President's office, Military, etc.) 150 150Browsing Room (Main Library) 575 .1,000Farmington Plan 3,500 5,000For the general building up of resources for research

(a) Sets and completion of sets 12,500 15,000(b) General research (individual books and

pamphlets; photostats; films, MSS., etc. 40,000 50,000(c) Photographic Reproductions 5,500 5,500

Japanese 200 200Latin America 500 500Maps 1,000 1,000Replacements (lost or worn out books) 3,000 5,000Reserve or contingent fund 9,800 10,700Undergraduate Library 3,200 3,200Illini Union Browsing Room 500 750Credits 350 1 000

Total, GENERAL $199,575 $226,375

TABLE VI (Continued)

AGRICULTURE, COLLEGE O $ 2,700 $ 3,000

COMMERCE, COLLEGE OF 4,500 4,500

EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF 2,100 2,100Curriculum Library 75 75University High School Library 1 200 1 200

Total, EDUCATION 3,375 3,375

AVIAION, INSTITUTE OF 100 100

ENGI3EBEI{NG, COLLEGE OF

General Engineering Sets 1,450 1,650General Engineering Drawing 50 50Aeronautical Engineering 600 600Ceramics 300 300Civil Engineering 900 900Electrical Engineering 1,000 1,000Mechanical Engineering 900 900Mining Engineering 550 550Physics 1,950 2,200Theoretical & Applied Mechanics 600 600

Total, ENGINEERING 8,300 8,750

KI E AND APPLIED ARTS COLLEGE OF

Architecture 3,000 3,000Art 3,000 3,000Landscape Architecture 500 500Music 2,000 2,000Music Records 1-.35 1-350

Total, FINE AND APPLIED ARTS 9,850 9,850

JOURNALISM, SCHOOL OF 2,000 2,000

LAW COLLEGE OF 22,000 24,000

LABOR AND IIDUSTRIAL #ELATIONS, INSTITUTE OF 2,500 2,500

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF

Astronomy 100 500Bacteriology 400 400Botany 1,500 1,500Chemistry 2,700 2,700Classics 1,700 1,700English 1,800 1,800Entomology $ 1,200 $ 1,200

TABLE VI (Continued)

195- 52 19 2-53

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF (Continued)

French $ 800 $ 800Geography 700 700Geology 1,500 1,500German 1,250 1,500History 2,100 2,600Linguistics -- 400Mathematics 1,400 1,400Modern Languages -- 50Natural Sciences -- 50Philosophy 700 1,000Physiology 600 600Political Science 1,500 1,500Portuguese 500 500Psychology 650 650Russian 300 300Social Work 500 500Sociology 1,500 1,500Spanish and Italian 2,100 2,100Speech 700 700Zoology .000o 1.00

Total, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES 27,200 29,150

LI BRARY SCHOOL

Library Science 1,700 1,700Book Selection 700 700Visual Aids . 00 500

Total, LIBRARY SCHOOL 2,900 2,900

NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY 400 500

PHSICAL EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF 1,500 1,500

VETERINARY MEDICINE, COLLEGE OF 2 100 2.400

Total, REGULAR ASSIGNMENTS $289,000 $320,900

APPENDIX

GIFTS

Following is a list of individuals and organizations from whom

the University Library received gifts of books, pamphlets, periodicals,

or other material in 1952-53:

From alumni and students: Benjamin H. Branch, Jr., George R. Carr,

Katherine L. Crathorne, John Foster, Warren F. Goodell, James L. Hanson,

B, M. Harrison, H. S. Hayman, Harlan H. Horner, R. Elizabeth Hudson,

Yoshio Iwata, Harlan G. Koch, Richard F. Locke, William McClure, DorothyJ. Mosher, Marcus W. Orr, Panos Pharmakidis, Lorene Pouncey, Grover C.Poust, Mary E. Ryan, William A. Shirk, Wayne C. Temple, Donald A. Tripp,

Hensley C. Woodbridge, Michel Z. Zawadski.

From faculty and staff: Rober Adams, L. F. Audrieth, H. E. Babbitt,Thomas W. Baldwin, Thomas T. Bannister, Frank G. Banta, Virginia Bartow,Edward E. Bauer, Natalie M. Belting, Kenneth D. Benne, T. E. Benner,Clarence A. Berdahl, Gideon H. Boewe, Ethel Bond, Alfred W. Booth, Cletus

E. Bowman, Duane A. Branigan, Charles K. Brightbill, Pauline N. Brimhall,

John M. Brumm, Leslie A. Bryan, John T, Buchholz Estate, Doris Bullock,William L. Burlison, Robert T. Calef, Paul D. Converse, J. S. Crandell,Thomas K. Cureton, Ellis Danner, Martin Davis, Ernest E. DeTurk, Donald E.Dickason, Robert I. Dickey, Robert B. Downs, J. O. Draffin, Fanny Dunlap,William L. Everitt, Alice Fedder, Olaf Fjelde, John T. Flanagan, F. W.

Foster, K. J. Franklin, R. C. Fuson, Charles J. Gaa, Maxwell R. Garret,.Neil F. Garvey, Roland Gibson, Marcus S. Goldman, Robert Graham, HarryGrace, Horace M. Gray, Coleman R. Griffith, William Habberton, Everett E.Hagen, Albert J. Harno, George W. Harper, Kenneth B. Henderson, AustinC. Herschberger, William G. Hill, Harold W, Holt, Josie Houchens, QuincyHowe, George Hunter, Whitney C. Huntington, Icko Iben, Robert K. Johnson,Robert E. Johnson, Edith Jones, Fred M. Jones, Walter M. Keith, HenryR, Kahane, C. E. Kesler, William S. Kinne, Charles M. Kneier, SeichiKonzo, Alan K. Laing, Harold Lancour, Lyle H. Lanier, Henning Larsen,Frank M. Lescher, Norman D. Levine, Clarissa Lewis, Cleo Lichtenberger,David E. Lindstrom, D. Philip Locklin, Karl B. Lohmann, Chauncey M.Louttit, William G. Madow, Pietro V. Marchetti, Ross Martin, Arthur B.Mays, Leslie W. McClure, Ralph E. McCoy, Helen E. McCullough, Russell H.Miles, Vern G. Milum, Lloyd Morey, Eugene A. Mueller, Richard Murphy,Rexford Newcomb, Arnold T. Nordsieck, Charles W. Odell, Karl Olsoni,Norman A. Parker, Marguerite Pease, James Potter, C. H. Pratt, PoollaT. Raju, James G. Randall Estate, Ernest J, Reece, John Replinger,Tabitha B. Ridge, Carita Robertson, Stanley A. Rudin, Henry P. Rusk,Frank E. Schooley, Harold A. Schultz, Harold W. Scott, Hiram T, Scovill,William H. Severns, F. S. Siebert, Marguerite Simmons Estate, George F.SmithWillard B. Spalding, Allen J. Sprow, Seward C. Staley, Raymond P. Stearns,Charles L. Stewart, Clarence W. Stone, Earl P. Strong, Russell N. Sullivan,Joseph W. Swain, Charles M. Thompson, Willard Thompson, Arnold H. Trotier,

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J. Lloyd Trump, A. Turyn, J. K. Tuthill Estate, Edward E. Tylutki,John Van Home, Harold L. Walker, Letitia Walsh, Mercedes Weed, Allen

S. Weller, Raymond C. Werner, Stanley H. White, Carroll C. Wiley,

Arthur C. Willard, C. A. Williams, Velma K. Wilson, Phineas L. Windsor,Josef F. Wright, J. Nelson Young.

From other individuals and organizations: Maxwell Abbell, Aberdeen,Scotland, City Chamberlain, Allendale (New Jersey) Planning Board,

Gianfranco Alliata di Monteraale, Altoona Council of Social Agencies,Alumni Association, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American

Automobile Association, American Education Fellowship, American Gas

Association, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of

Architects--Illinois Student Chapter, American Jewish Committee, American

Legion, American Peoples Encyclopedia, American Society of Composers,Authors and Publishers, American-Swedish News Exchange, Inc., American

Textbook Publishers Institute, American Zionist Council, Arabian AmericanOil Company, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, Inc., GeorgeS. Armstrong and Co., Inc., Asociacion de Escritores y Artistas Americanos,Associated Music Publishers, Inc., Association of American Geographers,Audubon Artists, Austin, Minnesota, Park and Recreation Department,Austin Map Co., Australia Office of Rural Research, Australia SurveyDepartment, Automobile Club of Southern California, Richard B. Baker,Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, Banco de la Republica, Banco de Urbanizachiony Rehabilitacion, Harland Bartholomew and Associates, Bayindirlik Bakanlik,Katherine H, Beatty, Bell Transportation Co., Belwin, Inc., R. S. Berg,Paul Bergse, Albert C. Bianchini, Birmingham, Michigan, RecreationBoard, Ralph H. Blanchard, John W. Blodgett, Jr., Dean S. Bollman, Booseyand Hawkes, Boston Post, William M. Bower, William B. Brigham, BritishInformation Services, British Iron and Steel Productivity Team, BroadcastMusic, Inc., Buffalo, New York, Depdrtment of Parks, Burma Embassy, BurnhamHospital Nurses Home, Butterworth and Co. (Canada) Ltd., Cadman Estate,California Map Center, California State Automobile Association, Universityof California City and Regional Planning Department, University of CaliforniaDepartment of Engineering, University of California Institute of IndustrialRelations, University of California Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,Canadian Consulate General, Alfredo Canton, Catholic Central Union,Celanese Corporation of America, Centro de PesqUisas Folcl6ricas daE.N. de Mdsica, Ceylon Survey Department, Chicago Art Institute, ChicagoBoard of Education, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Motor Club,Chicago Plan Commission, Chicago Tribune, James B. Childs, ChineseAssociation for the United Nations, Chua Un Sian Co., Church HistoricalSociety, Citizens Conference on International Economic Union, CityClub of Chicago, City Council Committee on Buildings and Zoning ofChicago, Claremont City Manager, F. Howard Clarke, Cleveland City Plan-ning Commission, N. Andrew N. Cleven, Charles H. Coleman, Luis FelipeCollado, John H. Collins, Colorado Springs City Planning Commission,Comision Nacional Orgahizadora de los Actos y Ediciones del Centenarioy del Monumento de Martl, Commerce Clearing House, Commercial Credit

Co., Committee for Economic Development, Commonwealth Scientific andIndustrial Research Organization, Community Chest of Richmond, Virginia,Community Chest of Springfield, Massachusetts, Inc., Community Councilof Waterbury, Inc., Community Studies, Inc., Community Welfare Councilof Milwaukee County, Lisboa, Portugal, Companhia Uniao Fabril, ConcreteReinforcing Steel Institute, Corn Industries Research Foundation, AngeloMoreira da Costa Lima, Council of Social Agencies, Albert C. Crehore,Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., Crucible Steel Company of America, N.W.

Damm and Son, P. Julien-Eymard D'Angers, Daughters of the American

Revolution--Mary Little Deere Chapter, Daughters of Founders and Patroits

of America--Illinois Chapter, John P. Dawson, Mrs. Clarence.H. DeLong

Denver Recreation Department, W. H. Depperman, Des Moines Park and

Recreation Commission, Detroit Civil Service Commission, Detroit Metropo-

litan Area Regional Planning Commission, Emil Dionne, Donley Brothers Co.

R. R. Donnelley and Sons, Co., Reuben H. Donnelley, Dow Chemical Co.,

Duluth Park Department, Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., Dominick Dunn, E. I. Du-Pont de Nemours and Co., East Orange City Planning Board, Eastman Kodak Co.,

Editorial Ori6n S. de R. L. de C.V., Editorial Superaci6n, Edwards

Brothers, Inc., Egypt State Tourist Department, Elkan-Vogel Co., Inc.,

Embajada de El Salvador, Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control,

Alf Fridtjof Ensrud, Charles Erasmus, Esso Touring Service, J. E. Eubanks,

Lillian Everts, A. 0. Fabien, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Federal

Reserve Bank of New York, Maria A. Fernandez, Finnish National Travel

Office, Champaign First Church of Christ Scientist, First National Bank

of Chicago, Florida Power and Light Co., Foundation Nationale des Sciences

Politiques, Anne Fontaine, Foreign Capital Research Society, Formosa

Ministry of Education, Foster and Kleiser Co., Foundation for Foreign

Affairs, Foundation for Social Research, France Office de la Recherche

Scientifique Outre-Mer, Franklin Recreation Department, French Embassy

Press and Information Division, French Equatorial Africa Department of

Mines and Geology, Burton Frye, Dott. Gorgias Gambacarta, General Out-door Advertising Co., Geographical Press, Geological Society of America,

Germany ,Pundesminister fur Vertriebene, Maude Glasgow, T. K. Glennan,Albert Gloden, Otto Goekecke Firm, C. M. Goethe, Herman Goldberg, Herbert

Goldhor, Hubert E. Goodell, Great Britain Directorate of Military Survey,A. P. Greensfelder, Paul G. Gregory, Guatemala National Tourist Bureau,

Allen W. Hagenbach, Hall and McCreary Co., Hamilton Recreation Commission,

Otto Harrassowitz, Hartt College of Music, Haverford College, F. A.

Heacock, Health Information Foundation, Henry Holt and Co., Inc., Rabbi

Richard C. Hertz, Arthur E. Hertzler, Mrs. William Hillebrand, John A.Hofstead, Eugenio Maria de Hostos y Bonilla, Hutchinson City Planning Com-

mission, Illinois Association of English Teachers, Illinois Bell Telephone

Co., Illinois Coal Traffic Bureau, Illinois Highway Division, Illinois

Piano Teachers Conference, Illinois State Geological Survey, University of

Illinois, College of Medicine, Library of Medical Sciences, Indian

Delegation to the United Nations, Government of India Information Services,

Indian# Geographical Society, Indo-China Service Ggographique, IndonesiaMinistry of Information, Institute of Pacific Relations, Institute of

Public Administration, Instituto Geografico Militar, Instituto Geologico

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House, Pioneer Engineering Works, Inc., Bengt Pleijel, Polish Embassy,Port of London Authority, Port of New York Authority, Portland Cement

Association, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Public Health,Print Club of Rochester, Publicaciones Espa'nolas, Publishers Association,Carrol H. Quenzel, Randen Foundation, Rawlings Manufacturing Co., Real

Property Inventory of Metropolitan Cleveland, Reserve Bank of India,Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Joseph Rezits, Estelle H. Ries, Riverside,California, Park and Street Tree Department, Roberts Dairy Co., Rochester

Department of Public Safety, Rockefeller Foundation, Mario Sanchez Roig,Romanian Welfare Inc., Row, Peterson and Co., Willard L. Russell, St.Louis Board of Election Commissioners, St. Paul Department of Parks,Playgrounds and Public Buildings, San Bernardino Board of Supervisors,San Diego Chief Administrative Officer, San Diego County Sewerage Plan-ning Committee, San Francisco Labor Council, Scheffer Press, Ruth Schley,Helsinki, Finland, School of Social Science, Arthur L. Schultz, ScottForesman Co., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, E. E. Seare, Leo E.Sievers, Simon and Schuster Inc, n. Littlefield Smith, Social WelfareAdministration of Urbana, Illinois, Somerville Housing Authority, SouthAfrica Government Information Office, University of South CarolinaBureau of Public Administration, Spanish Embassy Office of CulturalRelations, Spokane City Plan Commission, Gerald M. Spring, Staff MusicPublishing Co., Standard Oil Co. of California, Standard Oil Co. of NewJersey, Stanford University Press, Stanford War Library, H. R, Stevens,Stockholm Kungi Socialstyrelsen, John Strout, Studebaker Corporation,Summy Music Publishers, Survey of the Legal Profession, SusquehannaUniversity Press, Max Suter, Swiss Legation, Tam-Witmark Music Library,Tax Research Association of Houston and Harris County, Inc., Tea Bureau,Teknillisen Korkeakoulum, Terrapin Club, Theosophical University Press,Theta Xi Fraternity, Alpha Beta Chapter, Tin Research Institute, GertrudeTod, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, University of Tokyo, George W.Torrence, Sidney A. Trundle, Turkish Embassy, Turkish Information Office,Turner Construction Co., Twentieth Century Fund, United Nations Educa-tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization, U. S. Aeronautical Chartand Information Service, U. S. Army Air Forces, U. S. Army War College,U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Selective Service System, U.S. SoilConservation Service, U.S. Weather Bureau, United States Chamber ofCommerce, United States Committee for the Care of European Children,Inc., United States Plywood Corporation, Universidad Nacional Mayor deSan Marcos, University of Toronto Press, Urbana Association of Commerce,Vacation Map Co., W. B. Van Cleave Estate, Nathan Van Patten, VenezuelaCartografia Nacional, Venezuela Ministerio de Educacion, W. E. UpjohnInstitute for Community Research, Warner Press, Willis D. P. Warren,Weintraub Music Co., Lewis H. Weld, Welfare Federation of Cleveland,Western Australia Department cf Lands and Surveys, Western Music Library,Westinghouse Electric Corporation, William M. Wherry, C. F. Williams, H. W.Wilson, John C. Winston, University of Wisconsin Industrial RelationsCenter, Maria Wlcek, Workmen's Circle, Yugoslav Embassy, Yugoslav Infor-mation Center.

Gifts to Chicago Medical Sciences Library

From faculty, staff, alumni, and students: Dr. Percival Bailey,Dr. G. A. Bennett, Dr. Carroll Birch, Dr. C. D. Brown, Miss HelenBruck, Miss Emily C. Cardew, Dr. Theodore Cornbleet, Dr. H. F. Dowling,Dr. J. W. Fischer, Dr. M. R. Folk, Dr. M. I. Grossman, Dr. C.. G. Grulee,Dr. P. H. Holinger, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (its Dept. ofOphthalmology), Dr. A. C. Ivy, Dr. Minas Joannides, T. S. Jones, Dr.O. F. Kampmeier, Dr. Disraeli Kobak, Dr. H. A. Levy, Dr. H. I. Meyer,Dr. S. W. Olson, Dept. of Psychiatry, Charles Reach, Dr. C. I. Reed,Dr. Adolph Rostenberg, Dr . J. Ryan, Dr. Max Samter, Dr. Isaac Schour,Dr. F. E. Senear, Dr. Frederick Stenn, Mrs. N. S. Talbot, Dr. PhilipThorek, Dr. E. F. Traut, Dr. K. R. W. Unna, Dr. D. A. Wallace.

From other individuals and organizations: American Academy ofOphthalmology and Otolaryngology, American Cancer Society, AmericanCystoscope Makers, Inc., American Dental Association (also its Councilon Dental Therapeutics), American Heart Association, American IndustrialHygiene Association - Chicago Section, American Medical Association(also its Council on Medical Services and its Council on Pharmacy andChemistry), Army Medical Research Laboratory (Fort Knox, Ky.), AsociacionOdontologica Argentina (Buenos Aires), Baxter Laboratories, Inc., Dr.Tibor Benedek, Dr. S. L. Bonting, Burroughs, Wellcome and Co., Dr. J. J.Byrne, Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, University of Chicago, CulturalService of the French Embassy, Dr. W. C. George, Dr. J. M. Grimes,Harvard University School of Medicine Library, Health InformationFoundation, Health Insurance Council, Dr.A A A. Hellman, Hospital Councilof Greater New York, Illinois State Department of Public Welfare, Insti-tute for the Study of Analgesic and Sedative Drugs, International Polio-myelitis Congress, The John Crerar Library, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation,University of Kansas Library, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Lederle Labora-tories, Leukemia Abstracts (The John Crerar Library), Dr. L. L. Lewis,M and R Laboratories, Major Hospital Atlas, Merck and Co., Inc., Metro-politan Life Insurance Co., Modern Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital of NewYork, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, National MultipleSclerosis Society, National Vitamin Foundation, J. M. Ney Co., PermanenteFoundation Hospital - Staff Education Committee, Chas. Pfizer and Co.,Inc., Henry Regnery Co., Miss Winifred Roome, Dr. William Sharpe,Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County, U. S. Army MedicalService Graduate School, U. S. Veterans Administration, Vaponefrin Co.,Dr. A. A. Werner.

Gifts to Chicago Undergraduate Division Librar

From faculty, staff, alumni, and students: Mrs. Nat C. Bloch,Leon Bloom, Charles C. Caveny, Eugene Dutton, Carl Frommherz, StanleyT. Gabis, Dorothy B. Harford, Joseph S. Kozacka, Rose Lariviere,Harold B, McEldowney, Kenneth M. Madison, Newman Club, Charl/ Bo¾vitz,Paul Simon, Lawrence Terfansky, Frederick W. Trezise, Hazel C. Vardaman,Elizabeth V. Wright.

From other individuals and organizations: American Baseball Congress,American Bowling Congress, American Council of Education, American Insti-tute of Architects, American Shuffleboard League, American Zionist. Council,Automobile Management Association, Edward H. Bennett, Jr., Harry Bieg,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Foundation forAdvancement of Teaching, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry,Chicago Department of Public Works, Chicago Plan Commission, CombustionEngineering-Superheating, Inc., Commercial Credit Company, Corning GlassWorks, Philip Cortney, M. Culberg, Danish Information Office, Du PontCompany, Field Foundation, Inc., Foundation for Economic Freedom,Foundation for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. W. T. Fritts, Grinding Wheel Insti-tute, Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois State Historical Society,Illinois State Library, Indiana State Library, Institute of LifeInsurance, Kingsport Press, Marble Institute of America, Inc., MutualInsurance Co., National Archery Association, National HorseshoePitchers Association, National Shuffleboard Association, Pacific Gas andElectric Co., Paddle Tennis Co., Inc., Smithsonian Institution, Sweet'sCatalog Service, Tax Foundation, U. S. Air Force, U. S. Library ofCongress, U. of I. Library of Medical Sciences, University of Kansas,University of Texas, University of Wisconsin Engineering ExperimentalStation, Updegraff Press, Ltd., William Volker Fund,