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DIX HONORED

William Dix, librarian of Princeton University, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Florida on April 23. The citation of his service read in part as follows:

Dr. Dix has been chosen repeatedly by his colleagues in the Association of Research Libraries for positions of leadership. Most recently, he served as chairman of the committee which planned and enlisted the cooperation of research libraries in this country and Europe in establishing national centers for world-wide acquisition and cataloging of research materials. As a result of his efforts, the Library of Congress will hence forth serve the libraries of the United States in the acquisition and cataloging not only of American library materials but of materials from the entire world. It would be difficult to over–emphasize the importance of his achievement as an aid to scholarly research and in savings in cost to the cooperating libraries. We owe a debt of gratitude to the librarians of these libraries, and especially of the Library of Congress, for this collaborative effort, but the guiding mind and spirit has been that of William Shepherd Dix.