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PUBLISHED BY JWiHSO^QVfe^fY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY 9 June 1952

ALICE S* JOHNSON Miss Alice 3* Johnson, Reference

librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Science, will retire September 1, 1952* after serving in cataloging and reference positions in the University of Illinois Library since March, 1909* While a member of the staff at Illinois, she has also been a Lecturer in Library Science*

Miss Johnson received a B*L*S* degree in 19°7 and an A*B* degree in 1913 from the University of Illinois, From 1907-09t she served as a cataloger at the University of Minnesota* She was joint author with Margaret Futchins and Margaret Stuart Williams of Guide to the Use of Libraries*

Members of the Reference Department honored Miss Johnson at a dinner held at the Coach and Cherubs Restaorant, Tuesday, June 3> at which time she was presented with a gift*

She was also an honored guest at a recent tea given by the University of Illinois Women1s Club for retiring faculty members*

OTAW PUBLICATIONS Hospital Topics containing a series

of articles on the hospital medical library and the Medical Library Associa­tion includes an article by Wilma Trorxel entitled "Special Training for Medical Librarianship.n

Thelma Eaton is the author of two recent articles, ,fThe School Librarians-Attributes and Qualifications11 in Educational Administration and Super­vision, and HA Lawyer1s Classification far Law" in Law Library Journal*

DOWS TO VISIT MEXICO At the invitation of the Mexican

Government and the U*S* Department of State, and under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Library Association, Mr* Downs will spend the month of August in Mexico City, advising the National Library, National University and National Archives on problems of organization* The National University of Mexico has under construction a new campus about five miles from the center of Mexico City, and it is planned to move thfc National Library and National Archives to the new site* Mr* Downs will also advise on the establishment of a new library school in the National University*

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Bernita Davies, Ruth Power* and

Bill Woods attended the S*L*A. meeting in New York City, May 25~2g# Mr* Woods spent June 1-5 at the Map Division of the Library of Congress*

Arnold Trotier will go to Princeton University* June 29, for the ARL meeting*

SURVEY OF EES0URC1S During t he summer months work will

be resumed on the Guide to Collections, a survey of resources at the University of Illinois Library, which has been in progress for several years* Mr* Dunlap is in charge of the project, and his assistant for the summer will be Eichard Farley, a candidate for the doctoral degree in the Library School*

[Editors! Madeline Riffey and Kathryn Luther

Reporters: Sam Iden, Helen Knights, Jean Lokke, Myra Lytle, Lelia McLaughlin, Nancy dinger,

I Lucy Rumble, and Robert Slocum

PERS01WEL CHAFGES Thomas E. Ratcliffe, Jr., Under­

graduate Librarian, has been appointed head of Reference Department effective September 1. He will be succeeded in the Undergraduate Library by William V* Jackson who graduated from the Library School in June, 1951* Mr. Jackson has been a Special Recruit at the Library of Congress during the past year and will received a Ph.D. in Spanish Liter­ature from Harvard University in June,

Doreen Yorkston has been appointed Documents Assistant beginning June 16* She is at present a Junior Order Librarian at the University of Michigan and will receive an A.M. degree in History and International Relations from Clark University, Worcester, Massar-chusetts.

Three Library School students who will graduate in June have resigned from half-time assistantships effective May 31. They are Sidney Matthews, Acquisitions Department; Mrs. May Lee Ou, Catalog Department; and TIeva Hudson, Circulation Department.

In departmental libraries changes include; Mrs* Joyce Stewart, Architecture Library? Mrs. Eleanor Hedges and Mrs. Lois Yahr, Commerce Library; Mrs. Patricia McKenzie, Music Library; Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Undergraduate Library; and Mrs. Dorothy Griffith, University High School Library. Each of them held a position as a Library Clerk II* Betty Ann Krahn has been appointed Library Clerk II in the Music Depart­ment beginning June 1.

Other changes in Library clerical positions have been announced as follows: Alice Pushian, Library Clerk II, begins

ning June l6 in the Acquisition Depart­ment to replace Mrs. Margaret Bacon who resigned April 30; Mrs. Carolyn Brother-ton, Library Clerk II, who is resigning from the Acquisition Department June 13; Lois Hannah replacing Mrs* Patricia Melill, Library Clerk II, in the Binding Department, who resigned May 31J Mrs* Florence Bohon was appointed as a Chief Clerk in the Catalog Department May 15 to replace Audrey Sexton who is on dis­ability leave; Mrs. Shirley Perry has been transferred from a half-time posi­tion in the Catalog Depart mm t to re­place Mrs. Bohon; Mrs* Lauramae Smith will replace Mrs. Beverly Carter who resigned May 31 as a Library Clerk II in the Catalog Department*

In the Card Division, three staff members with the rating of Clerk Typist II have resigned—Mrs, Delight Smith and Mrs. Use Gordon on May 31, and Mrs. Patricia Tatum will leave on July 17. Mrs. Chlorine Hardy, Library Clerk II in the Catalog Department, is leaving June 30* P. W* Lindell will replace her. Mrs* Klara Porter, Library Clerk II in Circu­lation Department, resigned May 3l*

MR. BOWS On May 23-2U Mr* Downs flew to

Washington, D.C., to attend a meeting of the State Departments Committee on Books Abroad*

The inauguration of Mr. Downs as the new President of A.L*A* will be held on Friday, July k$ during the convention in New York City* To date his other duties and activities are scheduled as follows:

Priday, June ZJ ~ Attending the A.L.A* Committee on Relations with Publishers.

Saturday, June 28 - Attending a Joint Meeting with the Adult Education Association*

Sunday, June 29 - Attending three meetings of the A*L.A* Executive Board.

Tuesday, July 1 - Presiding at a General Session*

Wednesday, July 2 ~ Presiding at the A.L.A. Council Meeting.

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MAP WORKSHOP Twenty-three persons from the United

States, Canada, and Venezuela who are working with various aspects of map organ­ization and supervision have registered for the Map Workshop to he held June 9~25. The Workshop is sponsored by the Library School as part of its program to train librarians in the field of special librarianship* Assisting Bill M. Woods, Director of the Workshop, are numerous staff members of the University of Illinois*

The Workshop will be opened with a welcome by Mr* Downs, a tour of the library conducted for the Librarians1

Association by Mrs* Nancy Olinger, and a luncheon at the Federal Boom, Illini Union Building* In addition to the extensive Workshop Sessions which irk~ elude laboratories and lectures, parti­cipants will find that several "extra curricular11 events have been planned. These latter events include an informal campus tour, a buffet supper at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Woods, and a tour and picnic at Allerton Park, which has been planned in cooperation with the Librarians1 Association.

ALUMII a O H i The Illinois Library School Alumni

Association dinner will be held during the A*L*A* convention in Hew York this summer. It is scheduled for Thursday, July 3t in a private dining room at The Brass Rail restaurant, Fifth Avenue and U3rd Street* Tickets will be $U*00.

A.S.E.E. MEETING Hilda J, Alseth, Engineering

Librarian, presided at the Engineering Schools Library Committee Meeting at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois-Indiana Section of the American Society for Engineering Education held here on May 17* "The Integration of the Library with Teaching and Research'* was the theme for the Library Committee Meeting.

SFRBTG SPREE On May 10, in the Music Lounge of

the Union Building, the Library Club entertained its members and their guests with a varied program of music and talent*

John Edberg, a student in the Li­brary School, served as Master of Cere­monies for the evening* First on the program was Mary Edmonston of the Catalcg Department who played a number of folk tunes on her Shepherds1 pipes. Rhoda Barry of the Circulation Department and Jantina Hoorman, music student and page in the Circulation Department, sang sev­eral South African folk songs to the accompaniment of Jantina1s guitar* They also included Rhoda*s composition, Lullaby.

Following this came Patricia Tatum, talented pianist of the Card Division, playing Malaguena by Lecuona* Her sec­ond selection was her own composition, Reflections* Myra Lytle of the Circula­tion Department sang four songsi Who111 Buy My Lavendar, 0 Can Ye Sew Cushions, Swing Low, and Spring Moods. She was accompanied by Alice Andrews of t he Acquisition Department.

A group of lively Scottish dances was a fitting climax tot he evening1s program. These were given an authentic and enthusiastic performance led by Pro­fessor John Harrison, Visiting Professor of Geology, and his wife. Bobbie Frank­lin of the Undergraduate Library was a member of this group*

At this point, refreshments were served, and the guests enjoyed a general social hour* Those who stayed a little later were further entertained by some records of Sbuth African tribal music which Rhoda Barry provided.

Jean Lokke of the Binding Department and Beverly Carter of the Catalog Depart­ment served as hostesses at the door. Dorothy Clark of the Catalog Department provided piano music until most of the guests arrived.

The following committee was re­sponsible for planning the party: Myra Lytle, Chairman; Priscilla Tucker, Mend­ing Department? John Webster, Undergrad­uate Library; John Edberg and Bob Carter, Library School.

VISITORS Irving Stone, author of several best

selling fictional biographies, visited the Library recently to examine material on Mrs* Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Stone is writing a fictional biography of Mrs© Lincoln*

Dr. Louis Gottschalk, of the Depart­ment of History at the University of Chicago, visited the Library May 15 and spoke to a Library School Colloquium on tlrFhe Scholar1 s Need for Libraries. *

"You and Your Job as a Librarian11

was the subject of a lecture on May 21 at the Library School Colloquium by Robert Leighf Director of the Russell Sage Foundation, Columbia University. Mr* Leigh spoke about the Public Library Inquiry and its application to library problems. He served as Chairman and Director for the Committee of the Public Library Inquiry* On May 22, he conferred with members of the Institute of Communi­cations*

Another visitor on May 21 was Father Redmond A. Burke, Librarian of De Paul University, and Ralph Ellsworthf Librarian of the State University of Iowa, visited the Library and Library School on May 28.

Foreign visitors during the month included three librarians from Germany, Max Beier, Wilhelm Schmitz-Veltin, and Ericka Kochs, who were here May 26-2J*

EUROPEAN VACATIONS At le?>st two Library staff members

plan to go to Europe this summer. Jean Lokke, Assistant Binding Librarian, plans to sail August 20 far two months in England and France, Traveling with Jean will be Louise Hall, formerly of the U. cf I. Union Browsing Room and now Refer­ence Librarian at the University of ITorth Carolina.

Cerilla Saylor, Architecture Librarian, and her niece have TWA reserve tions for Europe with major stops sched­uled at London, Frankfort, Romet Madrid, and Paris. They also hope for a glimpse of Switzerland and somewhat more than a glimpse of the Mediterranean coastline of Italy and France*

LIBRARY CLUB PICinC Barbara Bitting is general chairman

of the Library Club picnic planned for 6 P.M., Friday, June 20, on the grounds near the Stock Pavilion* The picnic is planned especially as a welcome by members of the Library Club to the Library School summer students and faculty and is traditionally held during the first week of summer school. Chair­men of the various committees sret Jo Ann Wiles, Food; Jean Lokke, Tickets; Bob Slocum, Recreation; Rose Vainstein, Publicity; and Len Coburn, Reservations and Children's Entertainment.

OFFICERS Mary Lois Bull has been elected for

a fifth term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Illinois chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Robert Talmadge has been elected Secretary, and Betty Croft will be Treasurer of the Illinois Phi Kappa Phi chapter for 1952-53.

Newly elected officers of the Librarians1 Association are: T. E. Rat-cliff e, President; Ruth Rockwood, Vice-President and President-Elect; Gene Holtman, Secretary-Treasurer; Cerilla Saylor and Ann Potter, Executive Com­mittee*

Dick Chapin will serve as President of the Library Club during the coming year. Eileen Lyons will be the Vice-President; Winifred Alleman, Secretary? and Bill Woods, Treasurer. Members of the Executive Committee are Donna Finger and Bob Johnson*

Beta Phi Mu has selected the follow­ing persons to serve as officers for 195?-53$ President, Helen Welch; Vice-

s President and President-Elect, Isabelle Grant; Secretary, Ruth Protzman; and Treasurer, Myra Lytle.

Miss Janet Ogrodny, Clerk-Stenographer II, in the Library of Medical Sciences, has recently been elected Treasurer of the Medical Campus Bowling League. She also served on the committee making arrangements for the annual banquet of the League.

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BETA PHI WS CHAPBOOKS Beta Phi Mu, library science honor­

ary, will soon publish the first in a new series of chapbooks* Scheduled for fall publication is Ealph E« Eckerstromls manuscript on modern hook design* Mr* Eckerstrom, Art Editor, University Press, and a consistent winner in the Fifty Books of the Year competition, is advis­ing the fraternity1s Publications Commit­tee and will design the chaphook series, which will he of modern design*

Also to he published so&n are the manuscripts of Leslie W« Dunlap, Associ­ate Director for Public Service Depart­ments, on the Robert Todd Lincoln papers in the Library of Congress, and of Gordon ff« Ray, Head of the English De­partment, on Marie Corelli, the best selling English novelist of the 19th century*

All three publications promise to be interesting, entertaining, and of con­siderable permanent value* All are based on talks given at Beta Phi Mu initiation dinners*

The Beta Phi Mu Publications Com­mittee is composed of D« A. Brown, Harold Lancour, Ralph McCoy, Bob Talmadge, and Bill Woods*

MURAL UOTEILED An unique experience for the

University of Illinois Library occurred at 2:30, Thursday, May 22, as Mr. Downs "unveiled" the only mural in the Library* The mural depicts favorite nursery rimes of its artist, Shirley Langhanu Shirley, a senior in art, painted the mural as a project for an advanced murals course. The mural, which covers the south wall in Room 323 (the office shared by Alice Lohrer and Tiola James)f was painted in flat oil *nd took ten days to complete* Miss Lohrer and Miss James served refreshments to visitors who came to view the painting*

EXHIBITS Prom May 19-June 20 the annual

Photographic Exhibit of the Champaign-Urbana Camera Club may be seen in the first floor corridors*

Along the west wall of t he corri­dor is hung a series of water color paintings symbolic of Mexican life and traditions*

An exhibition of "Memorable Life Photographs" was on display in the Journalism Library from May 5-19* The collection contained 187 photographst all of which have appeared in Life maga­zine during the fifteen years of its existence* It included the work of such well-known photographers as Margaret Bourke-White* Carl Mydans, David Douglas Duncan, Dmitri Kessel, as well as sixty others* Assembled in panels of subject relationships by Edward Steichen, Direc­tor of the Museum of Modern Artfs Department of Photography, they covered a wide range of human activity*

COMMERCE AHD SOCIOLOGY LIBRAE! Lois Smith Yahr, Library Clerk II9

left May 10 to go with her husband to a position in Karachif Pakistan* They will be working on a geography for the Pakistan government, under appoint­ment with Silver Burdett Company of New York*

Commerce and Sociology Library staff had a picnic in Illini Grove Saturday evening, May 10*

OCCASIONAL PAPERS Ho* 28* Riffey* Madeline S*

Annual Reports for Public Libraries* June, 1952*

In this study, designed as a tool for those responsible for producing public library annual reports, Mrs* Riffey summarizes the major ideas expressed in the literature of the period 1930-50 on the production of good annual reports for public libraries and analyzes a sample of fifty reports made by .American public libraries since 19u6*

Copies of this and other Occasional Papers are available in the Library School Office*.

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LIBRARY SCHOOL FACULTY Ethel Bond, Associate Professor

Imerita^ will teach for the third con­secutive summer at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Librarianship*

Rose B# Phelps, Associate Professor, will spend the summer in New York City* continuing work on her manual on British government publications*

Harold Lancour, Associate Director, will serve as consultant on the A*L*A* Public Libraries Division Workshop Tour of Ifew York Public Libraries, July 6, 7, and 8, immediately following the annual A*L*A. conference in Hew York City*

Alice Lohrer, Assistant Professor, will serve as Director of the School Library Workshop to be held by the Department of Library Science, West Virginia University* Morgantown, July 16-30* The Workshop will stress newer trends in school library service and offers two hours graduate credit*

Miss Lohrer spoke before the meeting of the Illinois Association of School Librarians at their meeting at East St* Louis, April 26* Her tipic was "The Planning Guide for High School Libraries? An Introduction*n "A Balanced Diet of Beading" was the topic of her talk given at the Home Economics Extension Conference held on campus in the Veter~ inary Medicine College auditorium, May 5.

FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP Miss Rose Vainstein, Assistant in

Library Science, has received a Fulbright grant for study in England, next year* Miss Vainstein will complete requirements for the Master1s Degree in Library Science in August. She received her first library science degree from Western Reserve University in 19^2* Her experience since then includes county library work and service with Army libraries in this country and in the Pacific area*

COHGRATULATIOHS The Editor1 s preface to the new

edition of American Universities and Colleges states $ "The edit or was most fortunate in finding competent and agree­able persons for the project staff* To Eunice Collins Parker, who directed two large and complex projects concurrent ly~ American Universities and Colleges and American Junior Colleges—we extend our gratitude and our admiration for her organizational ability, her precision and dispatch in handling detail* and her management of two sizeable staffs in a manner that made friends as well as turned our approximately l,500f000 words in less than a yearfs time*"

Eunice Collins Parker organized the Journalism Library on this campus and served as Librarian and Assistant Pro­fessor in Journalism until her resigna?-tion in 1950*

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES Following is a tentative list of

candidates for degrees in June: B.S0~~George Thomas Couston, Mrs*

Mignon F. Esarey, Philip W. Lindell, Mrs* Joanna Liu, Jean Olson, Joan Pantke^ Lois Stewart, and Takeo Urata*

M.S*—-Irene K. Ainsworth, Omar A* Bacon, Mary K* Barber, Gertrude Bingham, Margaret Bower, Benjamin H* Branch, Jr<», Ivah Campbell, Robert L. Carter, Sarah M* Cash, Eleanor Chong, Robert Corkill, James B* Dodd, John E. Dustin, Richard A* Farley, Eugene T* Frosio, Ralph F* Herron, Charles H. Hewitt, Neva Well Hudson, M. M. John, Mrs. Ann T* Johnson, Betty Lou Klein, Rose LomontG, Mrs© Elizabeth Martin, Ruby V. Martz, Mrs* Elizabeth Matthews, Sidney E. Matthews, Jr., DagmaT Michalova, Katharine Monta­gue, Josephine Moore, Thomas E* Parks* Mary Louise Partridge, Mrs. Marion D* Sandifer, Sonia Sandeen, Frances Saupef Marian Speer, Katherine Staack, Sophia Sullivan, Francis J. Thiegs, Maimu Vabasalu, Katy Vanthof» Elizabeth TTogen-thaler, and Mrs. Muriel B. Walker.

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TRANSFERS TO MILC Items transferred from the TJ. of I.

Library to MHO include to date: .American foreign language newspapers—-H,S3S volumes; college catalogs (uncataloged)*— 3l boxes; foreign dissertations (unfiled) •—10 boxes; foreign newspapers—3t5?3 volumes; periodicals (uncataloged)— k boxes; state documents (uncataloged)— US boxes; text book collect!on—213 boxes*

Material to be transferred to MILC in the future includes: Chicago smoke abatement records, foreign dissertation collection, college catalog collection duplicates, hou^e organs (sales and employee), reports of insurance companies to Illinois Department of Insurance, telephone directories (except current), U.S. Central Intelligence Agency mimeo­graphed publications, and War Labor Beard material.

LIBRARY SCHOOL LIBRARY Due to the efforts of Miss Thelma

Eaton1 s L»S. UOS cataloging class, the Library School Library*s collection of slides on the history of books and print­ing has been cataloged* This task was undertaken as a class project with each member of the class cataloging a portion of the slides.

The more than 300 slides in the collection had accumulated over many years, and it was necessary for the students to do a great deal of research to iden­tify the illustrations and locate sources* Miss Eaton worked out the classification scheme and subject headings to be used. Student assistants in the Library School Library assigned Cutter numbers and labeled the slides.

The results of this class project will prove valuable in making the slides readily available for use in the course in History of Books and Printing. In addition, it is now possible to see the gaps in the collection, and new slides are being made to fill in such gaps.

SUMMER SESSION Miss Mabel Conat, formerly Assist­

ant Librarian in charge of Reference Services* Detroit, Michigan, Public Library, will replace Miss Josephine Tharpe on the Summer Session Faculty* Miss Tharpe was unable to be here for the summer. Miss Conat will teach one section of Lib.Sci. 201 and Lib*Sci. U30b

THE LIBRARY PRESENTS July 2 - Political Parties.

Dr. J. A. Ranney, Assistant Pro­fessor of Political Science.

July 9 - Who Are t he Republicans? Dr. R. J. Faletti, Assistant Professor of Law.

July 16 ~ Illinois Politics. Mr. S. K. Grove, Research Associate, Institute of Government and Public Affairs.

July 23 - Who Are the Democrats? Dr. J* V, Peltason, Assistant Professor of Political Science.

July 30 - Politics, Summer 1952* Dr. G. T. Steiner, Research Assist­ant Professor, Institute of Govern­ment and Public Affairs*

August 6 - Are You Going to College? Mr. J. P. Kamman, Psychometrist and Clinical Counselor, Student Counsel­ing Bureau.

August 13 - Digging Up Our Past* Dr. John C. McGregor, Associate Professor of Anthropology.

August 2D - Children1s Records. Mrs. Velma Kitchell Wilson, Assocl** ate Professor of Music Education, Counselor, Council on Teacher Education.

August ?7 » T? and Yotir Child* Dr. J, J. De Beer, Professor of Education, and Dr. Dallas W. Smyths Professor of Economics; Research Professor, Institute of Communicer* tions Research®

Mary Ellen Winchester is replacing Mar-jorie Lee Branch as a member of the Library Presents Committee.

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JOUEFALISM LIBRARY SURVEY nHinety~one percent of the students

using the Jpurnalism Library feel that it is a pleasant place to study* The light-* ing is good? it is relatively quiet, and the staff is courteous, helpful, and well informed* n

These are the recent findings of Marion Robert McCaulley, a member of Mr* Stone* s L*S* UlO, "The Teaching Function of the Library*11 Last month Mr* McCaulley distributed questionnaires to the students and faculty of the School of Journalism and Communications to dis­cover their library needs, how they use the library, and what difficulties they encounter in its use.

Although there is a general high level of satisfaction with facilities, it is also obvious from Mr* McCaulley* s study that the Journalism Library faces the old Bogey, growth. Some of the ser­vices the students said they would like to see added were "msre books," more reserve copies, Sunday afternoon hours, more bound copies of magazines, more typewriters, and "larger library*"

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS Two members of the doctoral program

group in the Library School successfully passed their preliminary examinations in May* Robert ¥. Kidder, Circulation Assistant, completed his prelims May lU and Ernst ¥• Erickson on May 29*

CLOTHES TO FIHLAITD Members of the Library staff recently

sent 100 pounds of clothing to the Univer­sity Library at Helsinki, Finland* To date about 1,000 pounds of clothing and shoes have been sent to Finland by our staff members.

CIRCULATION HEPARTMMT Ruby and Irving Kaufman announce

the arrival of a daughter on May 3rd at Burnham Hospital* The baby has been named Eve Deborah* Ruby formerly served as Clerical Assistant in the Inter-Library Loan Division*

Eleanor Dowling, Wonacademic Assistant in the Circulation Department until February, presented a lecture-recital in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master*s Degree in Voice, on May 21st, in Smith Music Hall. Her program featured songs by Hugo Wolf«

Rabieb Tantrannon Saur, former Assistant in the Circulation Department, is now living in Hew York City where her husband is on the staff of Columbia University. They have a daughter, born this spring*

WAST AD If anyone has a refrigerator he

should like to dispose of, Club 790 could make good use of such a donation©

PHOTO-CLERK Several more projects have been com-

pleted in the photo-clerk experiment in which the University of Illinois Library is participating* It has been used to photograph: notices regarding the status of orders which are sent to faculty members and departmental libraries; can­cellation notices of outstanding orders which are sent to agents* overdue notices sent to borrowers by the Circulation Department? copies of author cards from the Undergraduate Library catalog which represent books that are not duplicated elsewhere in the Library, and a compilar-tion of titles to be advertised in The Library Wants and Antiquarian Bookmaxio