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Personnel

James HumphryIII, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, 1967-1968, will become vice president of The

H. W. Wilson Company on August 1. He will be involved in the general and administrative aspects of the company’s work. Mr. Humphry has been a director of the company since 1965, and is a member of the Refcrence Services Division’s Committee on Wilson Indexes, 1958-59 and Chairman, 1962-65.

Mr. Humphry

Presently, he is chief librarian of The Metropolitan Museum of Art where he has been since 1957. While there, he planned the Thomas J. Watson library, which at its opening in 1965 was described by Sanka Knox of The New York Times as “the latest triumph in a series of projects to modernize The Metropolitan Museum.” The library grew to 165,000 volumes, 250,000 photographs, 250,000 slides, and 1,000 periodical titles during this period and staff increased to forty-five. It is considered the largest and most comprehensive independent art library in the western hemisphere.

Mr. Humphry received his BA from Harvard in 1939 and his BS in LS from Columbia University in 1941. While at Columbia, he worked in the reference department of the New York public library, 1939-41, and again, after military service, in 1946-47, at which time he was chief of the map division. While in the U.S. Army, 1942-46, 1951-54, he rose to the rank of Colonel.

He left the New York public library to be librarian and professor of bibliography, Colby College, 1947-51, 1954-57. Mr. Humphry has taught at the school of library service, Columbia University, 1967-68. He has contributed to professional periodicals and is the compiler of The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Colby College Press: 1950) and editor of Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat (Colby College Press: 1959).

Within ACRL, prior to being president, Mr. Humphry was vice-chairman and chairman,

Art Subsection, Subject Specialists Section,1961-62; ckairman-elect and chairman, Subjeet

Specialists Section, 1964-66; a member of the Planning and Action Committee, 1962-65, and its chairman, 1966.

He was (and is) a member of the ALA Council, 1959-63, 1967-69; member, Bookbinding Committee, 1949-51; Coordinator for Maine, Library Services Act, 1948, 1955-57; member Subscription Books Committee, 1963- 66; member of Library Administration Division’s Buildings Committee for College and University Libraries, Section on Buildings and Equipment, 1959-64.

In the Special Libraries Association, he was vice-chairman and chairman, Museum Group, New York Chapter, 1962-64; member, Copyright Committee, 1960-61; New York Conference chairman, 1967. In the Maine Library Association, he was president, 1955-57 and editor of Maine Library Association Bulletin, 1949-51. He was president of the New York Library Club, 1965-66, and a member of its Council, 1959-67. He served as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Employees’ Association, 1961-63, and was a member of the Board of Governors, 1958-66.

He has also been a consultant to the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges, 1956; Archons of Colophon member 1958-, and Convenor, 1963-64; International Council of Museums corresponding member, 1965-; American Association of Museums Library Group chairman, 1965-; St. John’s University Congress for Librarians advisory councilor, 1963- 67; American Heritage consultant, 1965-; John Wiley & Sons consultant, 1966-, He has been active in the New York Library Association, 1965-; a member of Harvard University Fine Arts Visiting Committee 1967-; Library of Presidential Papers national board member, 1967-; New York Council on the Arts Grantsin-Aid Program administrator, 1967-; New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, Inc. (METRO), trustee, 1967-; Archives of American Art trustee, 1967-, and chairman of its Advisory Committee, 1967-.

Mr. Humphry has conducted numerous library surveys, a number of them with his twin brother, John, who is state librarian and assistant commissioner of libraries of the State of New York. (Library surveys done jointly are starred in the following list; where new buildings were constructed, or planned, as a result of the surveys a dagger is used.) Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. (1957); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. (1957-58); Bay Shore, N.Y. (1963)†; Sayville, N.Y. (1963)†; Boy Scouts of America (1964) studying national headquarters needs and reorganization; Art

Institute of Chicago (1965)†; State of Delaware, all libraries (1965-66)*† and including plans for the new state library building, Dover; Henry Francis DuPont Museum, Winterthur, Del. (1965-66)*†; Rhode Island School of Design (1966)*†; Greenwich, Conn. (1966-68)*†; New London, Conn. (1966)*†; State of Louisiana, ana, all libraries (1966-68)*; Granby, Conn., a study of the town and needs for library service and facilities (1967)*.

For Delaware, with his brother, he is working on a Title III of LSCA project studying all types of libraries and on plans for the Delaware Technical and Community College Library, Georgetown, which is to be a resource center involving cooperative efforts of all kinds of libraries in Sussex County. Also, with his brother, he is acting as a consultant to CONSAD Research Corporation, New York, which is preparing a study for the Baltimore Regional Planning Council for the library systems of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel County. This study is to investigate the provision of library service without regard to geographical or jurisdictional differences. The work contract is with the Division of Library Extension, Maryland State Department of Education.

Leo M. Weins, president of The H. W. Wilson Company says, “Mr. Humphry’s administrative abilities and professional knowledge and experience will be of great importance to The Wilson Company as it continues the development of its services to the library profession. As a member of the executive group, Mr. Humphry will assume responsibilities for over-all policy formulation and execution as the company enlarges its capacities to attain greater inclusivity and timeliness in its many indexing and bibliographical publications.”

Upon losing the services of Mr. Humphry, Thomas Hoving, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art said, “One looks upon the loss of a man of Jim Humphry’s abilities with sincerely mixed feelings—sadness at our loss, but frank delight that such a distinguished firm has chosen one of the staff of this great institution to hold such a high and important post.”—John Fall, New York Public Library

George M. Bailey,one of the most competent and well liked persons in our profession, is leaving his post as executive secretary of ACRL to become professor and college librarian of York College effective September l. A new unit of the City University of New York system‚ York College was opened in the fall of 1967 and George was born in Millers, Maryland, north of Baltimore, not too many years ago. Having a scholarly bent, he left the family farm on graduation from high school and obtained a BA in history from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. in June of 1946. The next year he took an MA in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. He then taught history at Franklin and Marshall College for a year and in 1948 went to the University of Wisconsin where he did additional graduate work in history and also served as an instructor in history. In 1952 he transferred to the University of Wisconsin s library school and graduated with an MA in library science in August of 1953. That same year, with a banjo on his knee, he traveled west to the University of California at Berkeley where he served for a year as an administrative intern to the university librarian, Donald Coney. He also worked for a year as a reference librarian in the social science reference service at the Berkeley library.

Mr, Bailey

In 1955 he came to the University of California library at Davis as a reference librarian and was quickly promoted to head of the reference department, a job which he handled with much skill. During his residence in Davis, George participated actively in civic affairs and was particularly successful in heading a fund drive for the local public library. While in California, Mr. Bailey held several important committee assignments in the California Library Association and did very useful work as chairman of the Documents Committee and the Conference Exhibits Committee. In 1959 he left California and accepted the position of chief of reference and special services at Northwestern University where he worked until 1963. While at Davis and Northwestern he became an active worker in ALA, serving as chairman of the History Section of RSD, chairman of SORT and on various committees. In addition, he has been membership chairman of the Illinois Library Association and president of the Wisconsin Library School Alumni Association.

When Mr. Bailey became executive secretary of ACRL in 1963, "he told me and other friends that he planned to stay with ACRL at least four or five years in order to contribute as much as possible to the organization’s growth and effectiveness. Always a man of his word, George has done just that. Under his direction and with the aid of a series of strong presi Mr,Bailey will have ACRL has,without question, been the task of developing greatly strengthenedFor most of the past five its library system .The years has been the largest division increasing new college, which from 8071 members in 1963 to 13,327 members will have its permain March of 1968, Many important programs view of objectives. The publications program has been extended, with the successful addition of CRL News. Various sections, particularly the Junior College Libraries Section, have been especially active and effective. Of great value has been the establishment of close relations instituted by Mr. Bailey with other organizations, such as the Association of American Colleges, and the American Association of Junior Colleges.

During his career, George has been supported by his charming wife Claire, a research biologist. They have two lively children.

The administration of York College has been most perceptive in appointing George Bailey to the important post of its first chief librarian. All of his colleagues will be watching the growth of his new library with much interest. We know it will be an unusually good one — J. Richard Blanchard, University of California, Da?is.

On July 1, 1968, Richard Quick, a native of New Jersey, will take over the directorship of the library of the State University of New York at Geneseo (for a sketch of his career to September 1965, see CRL, September 1965, pp. 433-434).

In a series of positions at the University of Delaware from 1954 to 1965 which led him to the assistantship to the director of libraries, Mr. Quick’s varied administrative duties gave him wide experience in public relations, systems organization, personnel management, collection building, rare books and manuscripts, building planning, equipment selection, and the little appreciated but major problems of planning and organizing moves from old to new buildings. He pioneered studies in the assessment of resources requirements and costs for new doctoral programs during the decade when the University of Delaware and its library went through a period of major changes in size, pace, and philosophy. This background fitted him well for his work in Arizona where the extension of his experience was necessary.

When Mr. Quick became director of library services at Arizona State College, Flagstaff, in September 1965, the institution was a little less than a year short of becoming Northern Arizona University. The progress made by the institution since that date has been unusual; and without doubt a large share of the credit for Northern Arizona University’s growth, de and reorient the library’s operations and services for an intensified undergraduate instructional program and new graduate programs as the college transformed itself to a university. The staff has been upgraded and expanded; a new library building, under construction when Mr. Quick arrived, was modified and occupied; technical and public services were overhauled and the library’s resources have been almost doubled.

Mr. Quick has continued his professional activities by publishing a survey of community use of academic libraries in CRL (May 1967, Volume 28, No. 3, pp. 185-188), by being a member of the ACRL Committee on Community Use, the ALA Awards Committee and the Grolier Award Jury, as president of the College and University Libraries Division and a member of the Executive Board of the Arizona State Library Association, and as an author of occasional articles for the alumni publication at Northern Arizona University. Some years ago his historical interests led him into the crime reporting field with publication in Delaware Notes, 31st series, 1958, of “Murder at Delaware College: The Death of J. E. Roach, 1858”; more recently his established and recognized archaeological interests and talent have resulted in further research and publication, and he has two reports of excavations of historical sites, one in Delaware and one in Arizona, in preparation.

Arizona and Northern Arizona University can ill afford to lose Mr. Quick. Exact predictions cannot be made, but what the future holds in library services for the State University of New York at Geneseo will obviously be vigorous, varied, well-planned and produced. Good-bye, Dick; and congratulations to SUNY Geneseo.—Robert K. Johnson, University of Arizona.

APPOINTMENTS

Robert E. Balaywill assume the position of head of the reference department in Sterling memorial library of Yale University effective July 1. Mr. Balay will be responsible for the administration and development of reference services in the Sterling library, and for coordination of reference services throughout the university library.

Larry Earl Bone,assistant director, University of Illinois graduate school of library science at Urbana, has been appointed deputy velopment, and acceptance as a universitj goes to Mr. Quick for his capable planning direction of a hard working staff, and for his ability to wheedle funds from a harried administration. librarian of the American Library in Paris. France, while on leave from U.of I. for the 1968-69 academic year.In Paris, he will direct the public services of the main library there and in the four branches in Lyon, Toulouse, Montpelier and Grenoble. The American L ibrary is the largest English language library in continental Europe.

Martha Bovee has been appointed head of the serials department of the University of California, San Diego library.

RobertE. Connell has been appointed librarian at Washington and Jefferson College, effective March 1.

James Donald Craigbecomes assistant to the director for planning, Joint University libraries, Nashville, on June 1.

Mary Catherine Dunniganhas been appointed head of the architectural library of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Mrs. Marcia(McGrew) Findley has joined the staff as assistant librarian and head of technical services, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.

Douglas D. Gordonhas been appointed order librarian at Simon Fraser University library, Burnaby, British Columbia.

(Miss) Clem M. Hall has become assistant director of the Washington Office of ALA.

On June 1 Mrs. Frances Hardie becomes catalog librarian for Slavic materials, Joint University Libraries, Nashville.

Hollace Henkelhas been appointed mechanization librarian at the medical library of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Mrs. Zoia Hornhas been appointed head, reference department at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand library, Bucknell University.

SusanI. Knoke has been appointed bibliographer for African studies at Michigan State University.

Mrs. Carol Laitewill join the Wilson College (Chambersburg, Penna.) library staff as cataloger on June 15.

DavidO. Lane has been appointed to the position of assistant librarian at the University of California, San Diego campus. The appointment is effective June 14.

JessA. Martin, chief, library branch, National Institutes of Health, will assume his new duties at Temple University health sciences library on July 15. He will become director of the health sciences library with the academic rank of associate professor of medical librarianship. Soon after his arrival, the present medical library will be relocated to a new Basic Sciences building. Plans for a health sciences library to accommodate 250,000 volumes will then get underway.

Redmond Kathleen Molz, editor of the Wilson Library Bulletin for the past six years, has been named chief of the Library Planning and Development Branch in the Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities, U.S. Office of Education, and will assume her new post on June 1.

Thomas Mortonhas been appointed head of technical processes in the biomedical library, University of California, San Diego.

George J. Rausch, Jr.,has been named director of the Drake University libraries.

Austin Chi-wei Shu,formerly with the University of Singapore, is now bibliographer for East Asian studies at Michigan State University.

Catherine Virginia von Schonis subject specialist in English and American literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Miss von Schon’s chief responsibility will be systematic development of the collection of English and American Literature.

MaryE. Winnike has been appointed reference librarian with the Rush medical college library of Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago.

NECROLOGY

Jean Kauffman,for twenty-six years on the library staff of Northwestern University, and music librarian since 1945, died on April 20.

Billie Cornett McNeal(Mrs. Archie L.) passed away on Easter Sunday, April 14.

Samray Smith,until recently editor of the ALA Bulletin, died on April 19 in Chicago. Mr. Smith served as ACRL Publications Officer and Acting Executive Secretary in 1956 and 1957.

John Cook Wyllie,director of libraries at the University of Virginia, died on April 18 at the age of sixty. He had been associated with the Alderman library for four decades.