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HARLOW CITED

An honorary doctors degree was conferred upon Dean Neal Harlow of the Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Service at a library dedication convocation at Moravian College on October 19. The citation read in part as follows:

The distinguished career of Mi. Harlow in the library profession has extended over a third of a century and has included his service to the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the California State Library, and the Library of the University of California at Los Angeles. Before coming to Rutgers in 1961 Mr. Harlow was for a decade, head of the rapidly expanding library of the University of British Columbia at Vancouver where he also laid the foundation for a new graduate library school.

A past president of the Canadian Library Association, and of the Association of College and Research Libraries, his influence has been felt through numerous library professional committees, International in scope as well as Canadian and American.

A scholarly contributer to journals of West Coast history and author of a valued study of the early maps of San Francisco Bay, Mr. Harlow’s numerous articles on Librarianship reflect the rich background of administrative experience, scholarly research, critical thought, keen insight, and human understanding which he has brought to his special concern for the professional education of Librarians.

As librarian, as scholar and man of letters, and as leader in library education, I present Mr. Harlow for the degree of Doctor of Humanities.