THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO $ RECORDAN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF FACULTIES VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2EXTRACTS FROM A REPORT ON THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARYFOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1968-69September 26, 1969IntroductionOn November 15, 1968, the cornerstone for theJoseph Regenstein Library was set in place nearthe main entrance to the building.At the time of this ceremony, it was hoped thatthe structure had reached the half-way mark inconstruction, with completion anticipated late in1969 or very early in 1970. However, as this reportis written, the scheduled date for the completion ofconstruction has slipped to mid- June 1970. If thisrevised, yet still very tight, schedule can be maintained, furniture, equipment, and books will bemoved or installed in July, August, and September,and operations will begin in October of 1970.During the year gross additions to the Librarycame to 152,778 volumes, second only to the recordnumber of 177,715 volumes added in 1967-68. Thetotal holdings of the Library are now recorded as2,853,671 volumes. Total operating expenditurescame to $3,610,322, up very slightly from the preceding year. Other operational statistics are summarized in the following table. It will be noted that,in general, the developmental momentum, reflectingsubstantial increases in the Library's budget beginning in 1963-64, did not continue through 1968-69.Development of the Library's BookCollections (Purchases)*General Reference and Bibliographical WorksThe General Reference Department continuedto strengthen the Library's already substantial bibliographical control over the scholarly resourcesavailable in other centers of learning throughoutthe world. The most significant tool of this typeacquired during the year was the first fifteen volumes (through "Anderson") of the National Union* The summary of this year's acquisitions, preparedby Stanley E. Gwynn, is based upon the separate reports from the Library's bibliographers and departmental librarians. CONTENTS / February 6, 19701 Extracts from A Report on The Universityof Chicago Library for the Fiscal Year1968-699 Correction9 Officers of the University9 Deans11 Department and Committee Chairmen13 Visiting Committees16 CouncilsCatalog, Pre-1956 Imprints. As publication of thisprojected 600-volume set proceeds, it will provideauthor or main entry knowledge of the holdings ofthe leading research libraries of this country. It isexpected to cover around 11 million monographictitles when completed. Together with the other series of the current National Union Catalog, thecatalogs of the British Museum and the Biblio-theque Nationale, and those of other major nationaland private collections, it will give the Universityand other scholarly libraries impressive bibliographical control over the existence and location of themonographic scholarly writings of the westernworld.The SciencesIn the science and science-related fields, the ongoing patterns of acquisition can be quickly described. For Mathematics, the collections continuedto grow most rapidly in algebra, topology, and differential equations, thus reflecting the specialties ofthe faculty and their research interests. The Statistics collection continued its diversified growth, inkeeping with the rapid development of this discipline ; many of the additions dealt with applicationsof statistical techniques to other fields, such as experimental design procedures for the behavioralsciences and statistical communication theory.Computer literature continued to be actively purchased, with emphasis on computer languages, algebra, automata, and the area of simulation.1FIVE-YEAR ANALYSIS OF KEY LIBRARY STATISTICS*1964-65 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 Percent Changein 1968-69 over1964-65 1967-68Book and serial expenditures $ 603,614Binding expenditures ... 89 , 034Subtotal.^ (692,648)Salary expenditures 1 , 230 , 1 73Expenditures for retirement, supplies, and allother purposes 187 , 765Total Library expenditures $2,110,586Volumes in Library 2 ,406 , 142Gross volumes added. . 109,390Current serial titles received 25,209Volumes bound. 35,463Titles cataloged 47 , 91 1Recorded circulation ... 1 , 000 , 950dAverage weekly scheduled hours of publicservice per unit 62 . 5Approximate staff sizein full-time equivalent 264 . 5Ratio of book and binding expense to totalexpenditures 32 . 8%Ratio of book and binding expense to salaryexpenditures 56.3%Gross income of Photo-duplication Department $ 145,028 $ 756,557147,455 $ 872,721172,286(1,045,007)1.558,321 $1,009,619229,493(1,239,112)1,862,755 $1,015,563211,730 + 68.2+137.8+ 56.5+ 61.7 + 0.6- 7.7(904,012)1,377,797 (1,226,293)1,994,793 - 1.0+ 7.1265,615b 330,042b$2,933,3702,607,998°128,080° 445,760b$3,547,6272,730,260c177,715° 389,236$3,610,3222,853,671152,778 +107.3+ 71.1+ 18.6+ 39.7 -12.6$2,547,4272,504,250122,560 + 1.8+ 4.5-14.027,33852,82155,035l,091,771d 29,25765,03956,719947,454e 33,54380,12670,621898,475d 35,70677,05267,686857,316d + 41.6+117.3+ 41.3a + 6.4- 3.8- 4.2- 4.665.2 68.7 68.6 68.4 + 9.4 - 0.3287.2 306.7 346.8 348.6 + 31.8 + 0.535.4% 35.5% 34.9% 34.0% + 3.7 - 2.665.2% 66.7% 66.5% 61.5% + 9.3 - 7.5$ 175,485 $ 225,828 $ 253,362 $ 280,387 + 93.3 +10.76 The figures for expenditures shown include unrestricted, endowed, and restricted expenditures as well as Library expenditures made on non-Library budgets. They are not reduced for expenditures based upon credit adjustments. For these reasons the figures are not in agreement withthe official summary of Library expenditures made by the Comptroller, but are shown as a clearer indication of total Library costs. The Comptroller gives total Library expenditures for 1968-69 as $3,483,993.b Major increase largely associated with automation restricted grant funds.0 Corrected figures.d Owing to changes in methods of counting circulation, length of circulation loan periods and related factors, figures from year to year are notcomparable.e Excludes renewals for the first time.In Physics, once again a number of texts on college physics courses were acquired because of interests in the revision of Physics curricula. Continued interest in laser research and in cryogenicswas illustrated by a major bibliography in eachfield: Tomiyasu's Laser Literature (New York,1968) includes 3,990 annotated references publishedwithin a time span of less than four years (May1963 to December 1966) ; and Codlin's Cryogenicsand Refrigeration, a Bibliographical Guide (NewYork, 1968) lists 3,000 references, even though itis a selective bibliography of the history of the production of low temperatures from 1950 through1966. For Astronomy, the addition of a substantialnumber of titles in plasma and high energy astrophysics was routine, while a small flood of materialson relativity was not. In Geophysics, emphasis wasgiven again to paleontology, crystallography, andmantle and interior-of-the-earth studies, but acqui sitions also continued in meteorology, physicaloceanography, fluid mechanics, and structural andstratigraphic geology. Book funds available forChemistry did not permit the even development ofall aspects of the field, so purchasing stressed materials in physical chemistry and chemical physics,and in the technology furthering research in thosetwo areas — particularly spectroscopy and chromatography. The Bio-Medical Libraries continued theupdating and further development of the referencecollections and the further duplication of the mostheavily used journals, while keeping generallyabreast of current monographic output in the majorfields of University interest. Here, too, our inability to cover the entire biomedical field is becomingmore apparent, and a beginning was made in re-surveying our coverage to establish a clearer set ofpriorities. There appear, for example, to be majorunmet needs in the field of evolutionary biology.2As for rarities in the scientific fields, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries remained centralto the growth of our collections on the history ofscience and medicine. Thanks to the Morris Fish-bein book fund and the history of science fund, 97new titles were added. These included further worksof Fioravanti, Kircher, Stahl, Juncker and Ett-muller, among others. There were the collectedworks of such lesser figures as Frangois Ranchin(1560-1641), Giuseppe del Papa (1649-1736), andRudolph Vogel (1724-74), professors of medicineat Montpellier, Pisa, and Gottingen, respectively.We also added a very interesting collection of 88titles, in 180 volumes, of eighteenth century naturalhistory from the library of the Counts of Riedesel.The Social SciencesDuring 1968-69 there were few changes in bookselection activities for the Social Sciences. Comparative cross-cultural studies and interdisciplinaryapproaches have been in the ascendancy, and therange of area studies undertaken by the Universityhas continued to expand. Ephemeral materials areof increasing importance. In what may be calledinternational studies, the Library acquired a widerange of publications in the form of raw data, ofcase studies, and of comparative studies dealingwith water resources, communication, transportation, economic and social activities, internal andinternational population migration, the maintenanceof peace, natural resources, and the diffusion ofculture.For Africa-South-of-the-Sahara, we acquired alarge body of materials, primarily those issued bygovernment agencies and higher education bodies,including parliamentary debates, general statisticalpublications, production statistics, and reports ofplanning agencies. These have been acquired regardless of the country of imprint and in all languages except the African vernacular languages.The "Library hasbeen working toward completenessin such holdings — with a high degree of success.Acquisitions in History reflected the discipline'sincreased range of interests and methods. Meritingspecial mention are the history of American citiesand the history of the Negro in the United States.For these two areas of research the Library continued to buy U.S. newspapers for the nineteenthcentury and some parts of the unpublished schedules of the U.S. censuses, both on microfilm.For the departmental libraries in the Social Sciences, the recurrent themes, in addition to traditional disciplinary coverage, continued to be race, poverty, student unrest, and violence. In Education, the analysis of social disabilities and economicinequities, and their profound influence on teachersand teaching as well as the taught, continued to bepublished in quantity, but from a more critical andpessimistic viewpoint, e.g., Raymond Mack's OurChildren's Burden: Studies of Desegregation inNine American Communities (1968). The traumaof student rebellion has brought a substantial number of studies and commentaries from both American and European publishers.For Business and Economics, these concerns tookthe form of works on discrimination in employment from the executive level on down, e.g., Robert Quinn's The Chosen Few: A Study of Discrimination in Executive Selection (1968) and JamesJ. Kirkpatrick's Testing and Fair Employment:The Fairness and Validity of Personnel Tests forDifferent Ethnic Groups (1968). In more traditional areas, the Business and Economics Librarybought many books on international business andtrade and investment abroad — the concerns of agreat number of corporations at this time, and theconcerns, too, of the School of Business. In theareas of poverty, urban economics, etc., the collections were strengthened by many additions, including Ralph M. Kramer's Participation of the Poor(1969) and Joseph Becker's Guaranteed Income forthe Unemployed (1968).The Library of the School of Social Service Administration gave continued attention to the acquisition of monographs and reports dealing with minority cultures and with civil disorders. Emphasiswas also placed on community treatment — reachingthe whole family through health clinics and theschools — and major work is being done in acquiringreports and working documents concerning Wood-lawn.All the problems and interests thus far notedfor the other social sciences found the Law Libraryresponding in its special way. Thus, the treatisesection added newly-published works on water law,poverty, selective service, air pollution, criminology, and criminal law. General interest in Africaand India was reflected in the purchase of suchitems as African Law Reports, Malawi Series,which began publication in 1968, and the AllahabadLaw Times in 42 volumes from 1923 to 1964. Inconnection with the development of the foreignlaw section, the areas of economic planning andconstitutional law received particular attention.Acquisition of a new sixteen-volume loose-leaf service on the constitutional law decisions of West3Germany, the Verfassungsrechtsprechung in derBundesrepublik, is noteworthy.Rosenwald Library, in developing the Geographycollections, has continued to deal with the ongoinginterest in the urban environment and its subsystems, but with some shift in emphasis as theapplication of quantitative methods to geographical studies has spread to all areas of the field. Theadditions for the year reflect also the multiplyingnumbers of regional and urban atlases — with agreat many of these new titles reflecting a new concern for the precise definition of the demographic,social, and economic boundaries of an area or neighborhood in addition to the physical and politicallimits.The ordering of books and periodicals for librari-anship proceeded along established lines, with amajor effort to improve our holdings of ephemeraland report literature in information science, libraryautomation, and related fields, and to organize thismaterial in an unconventional way to enhance itsaccessibility.The HumanitiesBook collecting in the Humanities also continuedalong traditional lines, but with reduced resourcesfor retrospective buying and with attention givento ethnic influences in the several fields. Bibliographers acquired the contemporary literary worksof both established and promising writers, recentcritical editions of older authors, current scholarlystudies, and new reference tools. Purchasing wasboth facilitated and complicated by the increasingflow of reprints and reprint series, requiring anevaluation of the condition and completeness ofany existing copies and estimates on the probablefuture usefulness of the reprint as well as the expenditure of a substantial sum of dollars.In Art, most of the budget was spent on currentimprints. We acquired the proceedings of 14 congresses, 11 festschriften, and 116 descriptions andinventories of collections. No less than 443 exhibition catalogs were acquired, compared to the 219received in 1967-68. Probably the key purchase ofthe year was the Columbia University, Avery Architectural Library, Avery Index to ArchitecturalPeriodicals (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1958). Problemscontinue in this area of meeting adequately theneeds for both modern art and art history.The Music Library added modestly to its rarebook materials, picking up some supposed firsteditions, at bargain prices, of Beethoven, manyearly editions of Chopin and, most importantly, a collection of twenty separate folios of medievalmonophonic music dating from the eleventh to thefifteenth centuries. The major collecting effort,however, was directed to the collection of performing editions and of standard works and standardliterature. Two new trends are observed — a resurgence of interest in nineteenth century music anda growing interest in ethnomusicology.The Classics Library devoted about half itsfunds to the purchase of current publications, withspecial emphasis assigned to classical art and tomodern Greek literature. A major new bibliographical tool was the seven-volume Catalogue of theGennadius Library of the American School ofClassical Studies at Athens (New York, G. K. Hall,1968). Approximately one-quarter of the Classicsbudget went for the purchase of rare and antiquarian titles including early editions of classical authors and a fine collection of 86 titles (112volumes) of Renaissance and post-Renaissancecommentary on all aspects of Greek and Romancivilization. The remaining Classics funds werespent for reserve books, for added copies of thebasic Loeb Library editions, and for the purchaseof reprinted volumes — either to replace deteriorated volumes or to add titles new to the collection.Swift Library also was heavily engaged in acquiring reprinted sets, both for Philosophy and Theology. For the former area it was able to acquirefifteen previously lacking years (1886-1901) of thecritically important Archiv fiir Geschichte derPhilosophie. In Theology, it replaced the deteriorated volumes of the Corpus Reformat orum andalso acquired a complete reprinted set of the fifty-volume Sacred Books of the East. Among giftswere a complete run of the Norwegian Baptist Conference of America journal Missionaeren (1911-56)and a set of the printed Minutes of that Conference from 1910 to 1956.Research and curriculum needs in the Islamicfields have greatly accelerated, and the OrientalInstitute increased by 30 per cent over last yearthe number of new titles purchased in that area.In the Ancient Near Eastern field, the Library continued to acquire all new scholarly monographs andseries as they appeared.Notable progress was made in strengthening ourrare book collections in the area of the Humanities.We continued our efforts to match our holdings tothe new interest in Victorian studies and here,once again, the Helen and Ruth Regenstein BookFund was of invaluable assistance. Altogether, 98titles in 115 volumes were added to the RegensteinCollection. These included the first editions in fine4or excellent condition of many English authors —three of Dickens, four of Thackeray, five of Trol-lope, and four of Stevenson — as well as single firsteditions of works by George Eliot, Mrs. Craik,Sarah Ellis and Mrs. Oliphant. In the eighteenthcentury, four minor, quite rare pamphlets by HenryFielding virtually completed our holdings of hisfirst editions, and we also added fine copies ofDefoe and Burke. The rebirth of University coursesin paleography and manuscript illumination, andthe increasing availability of high quality facsimilesof manuscripts, led to the acquisition of such itemsas the thirteenth century Trinity College Apocalypse, the Liber Floridus, and the fifteenth centuryFlemish Codex Vindobonensis. Of original materials, the need to add paleographical fragments stimulated the purchase of three challenging piecesfrom the tenth and eleventh centuries which wereadded to the Wandel Collection.Regional CollectionsThe Library's regional collections once again reported substantial and even dramatic progress. Aswas mentioned earlier, our intake of Islamic materials increased markedly. These additions in largepart represent the activity of the bibliographer forMiddle Eastern Studies who, after an initial periodof surveying our resources, developing necessaryguides and tools, and establishing relationships withdealers in the Middle East, was able to add, in hissecond year, some 1,200 purchased items. Approximately 25 per cent of these were Turkish, 35 percent were Persian, and 40 per cent were Arabicpublications from various Arab countries. The bulkof these items were retrospective in nature, purchased to fill gaps in our holdings of Medievalworks, or of Medieval-related texts published inthe last half-century. The curtailment of the PL480 program following the Arab-Israeli War of1967 made it necessary to buy independently asubstantial number of Arabic publications fromcountries other than Egypt. While growth during1968-69 was impressive, the year's activity alsolaid the groundwork for a substantially greater volume of purchasing in the year to come — a programmade urgent by the fact that the University nowhas over one hundred students and about thirtyfaculty members whose interests are spread overno less than fifteen areas of study related to theMiddle East.For the Far Eastern Library, 1968-69 markedthe tenth year of the plan for the extensive expansion of the Far Eastern collections. During thoseten years some 100,000 volumes, about equally divided between Chinese and Japanese, were addedto the Library, representing a remarkable growthand substantial improvement — especially in theJapanese resources and in the materials relatingto modern and contemporary China. The additionof 10,421 volumes during 1968-69 brings the totalcollection to over 217,000 volumes. Of these mostrecent acquisitions about half were on modern andcontemporary China, including a private collectionin 677 titles of monographs and periodicals onCommunist China owned by the former FreedomPress in Hong Kong and some 1,722 extraordinarilyexpensive copies of Red Guard newspapers. Acquisitions in Japanese emphasized building up basicand reference collections and included completesets or rare and expensive periodicals and learnedjournals, collections of source materials on literature and history, and many major works onJapanese art, religion, local history, and socialsciences.The bibliographer for Slavic Studies reports another highly successful year in the procurement ofSlavic research materials. Accomplishments included comprehensive acquisition of current publications from and about the whole Slavic area;faster procurement of older publications for whichthere was an immediate student or faculty need;the strengthening in depth of the areas of greatestfaculty interest — Russian literature, history, economics, and Soviet politics; and a systematic andmore productive use of the very effective exchangearrangements with Soviet libraries for the acquisition of important and otherwise unavailable Russian nineteenth century publications. Over 2,000volumes — about one-fifth of the volumes added thisyear — were Russian pre-1917 publications. Theseincluded basic sources for Russian history, such asthe 69-volume Zhurnal of the Ministerstvo Narod-nogo Prosveshcheniia, the 52 -volume Zhurnal Min-isterstva Iustitsii of the Ministerstvo Iustitsii, anda complete microfilm of the official journal of theRussian Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1829 to1861. The acquisition of Eastern European andBalkan retrospective materials covered all countriesroughly equally with the exception of Poland,where the emphasis and expenditures were somewhat greater.Development of South Asian holdings continuedat a substantial rate. Of the materials sent underthe PL 480 Program, 7,155 monographic titles and561 serial titles were accepted for addition to thecollections. These figures represent a very satisfactory acceptance rate, testify to the high selection standards of the Program's field representa-5tives, and reflect significant support for the verystrong program of South Asian studies at Chicago.Funds from the Ford Foundation and the U.S.Office of Education were used for retrospective materials as well as for current titles published in theUnited States and other non-South Asian countries.Among the important microform acquisitions werethe three volumes of the papers of George DouglasCampbell, Eighth Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), andthe Journal of the University of Bombay. An outstanding gift was the microfilm edition, in 46 reels,of the pamphlet collection of the entire CareyLibrary at Serampore College in West Bengal. Thiswas the welcome gift of Miss Katharine SmithDiehl, who was a Research Fellow of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies in 1966-67 andwhose just-published catalog of the Seramporepamphlets is an invaluable guide to this collectionof early nineteenth century social and political history materials.Other OperationsDuring the year, the Board of the Library gaveits attention, among other matters, to the plans forcatalogs in the Joseph Regenstein Library, to aproposal for the termination of the Official Catalogafter the move to Regenstein, to detailed plans forthe location of various subject classes of books inRegenstein, to future plans for handling the materials now in storage, to the Library's obligation tocollect archival and other original source materialrelating to the history of social science disciplines,to arrangements for the Far Eastern and SouthAsian Reference Collection in Regenstein, to theplacement of selected journal sets in Regenstein,and to a preliminary discussion of the policies andprocedures for the assignment of faculty studies inRegenstein.The Director of the Library proposed to thePresident and the Provost, early in the AutumnQuarter of 1968, the establishment of a StudentAdvisory Committee on the Library, to be composed of appointed or elected representatives fromthe student-faculty councils for the four Divisions,the College, and the Professional Schools. It wasproposed that the Committee might: (1) advise theLibrary on its policies, procedures, services, andfacilities of primary concern to students; (2) assistthe Library in certain policy questions in Regenstein; and (3) provide a mechanism through whichthe Library and students might more effectivelycommunicate on other problems or issues of mutualconcern. The proposal was immediately approved,but the student-faculty councils were organized so slowly in many Divisions and Schools, and, evenafter organization, were so slow to elect or appointrepresentatives, that the group could not be assembled for its first meeting until very late in theSpring Quarter. It is hoped that such a Committeecan get under way earlier in the coming academicyear and begin to assist the Library in the mattersdescribed. Other student-faculty committees wereestablished in Art, Biology, and Business/Economics to examine special Library problems affecting those areas.The Library's system development staff startedor continued during the fiscal year the computerizedcomposition and printing of all book purchaseorders ; all catalog cards in Roman characters ;daily book fund commitment lists; weekly listingsof new orders, circulation charge cards, and bookpocket labels ; and the production of proof or worksheet copies of bibliographic data. By the end ofthe fiscal year, computer programs were undertest which will permit the Library to use as inputto its selection, purchase order, cataloging, or otherbibliographic processing operations the machinereadable data for current monographic publicationswhich the Library of Congress is beginning to makeavailable. The long-range economies and speed ofthis capability, if the coverage is broadened andthe data are made promptly available, have apotential for extremely important long-term benefits to the University.Major analytical and design efforts were alsogiven during the year to mechanized book circulation systems. It was concluded that the development costs for an automated, on-line circulationsystem that could meet the Regenstein and otherUniversity requirements would be beyond the available resources in the Library's NSF [NationalScience Foundation] grant and that the operatingcosts of the proposed system and any apparentinterim modification of it would probably go wellbeyond the available budgetary support. Existingmechanized book circulation systems in other libraries have been analyzed and do not appear sufficiently responsive or suffer from other criticaldeficiencies. In consequence, planning is under wayfor an interim photocopy and manual book charging system for Regenstein, and further attentionwill be given, possibly based upon small opticalcharacter recognition devices, to an on-line circulation system if adequate funding for its designand development can be found and if on furtheranalysis the projected operating cost/benefit relationships appear to be acceptable. A well-designed,reliable, on-line, computer-based circulation system6could yield very valuable long-term benefits inbook accessibility in ways that are not now possible.It could, for example, ultimately make possible anautomatic system of variable loan periods for materials based upon current rates of demand andpast use; the latter is by far the best predictorof future use. It could automatically alert the Library to the need for duplicate copies ; it couldgenerate notices, recalls, and reserve lists anda wide variety of relevant use data more or lessautomatically. While there are many very difficultproblems to be solved and the costs both of development and operation may be very high, thereis a long-range potential capability for compilinga variety of direct or indirect computer-based catalog and other bibliographical or subject controlmechanisms combined with a circulation-accesssystem that could greatly facilitate for readers theprocesses of identifying relevant materials, locatingthem, ascertaining their availability, and requestingthem.Detailed furniture layouts for the new library arenearing completion. Satisfactory bids for most ofthe major furniture required for the Joseph Regenstein Library have now been received and finalpurchase contracts have been signed or are in thefinal stages of negotiation. The delay in construction has adversely affected construction and equipment costs and is increasing the already acute pressures on existing book space throughout the system.It had been hoped at the end of the last fiscal yearthat further transfers of materials to a storagewarehouse might be avoided; this is now less certain.Some further attention was given during the yearto future Library plans for art, music, the physicalsciences, and the undergraduate library. Excludingthe Joseph Regenstein Library, the largest amountof time was devoted to the urgent need to improvethe physical situation in the Culver Hall Librarywhich houses materials in the biological sciences,except for recent clinical literature. When it became evident that the construction of the plannedscience library was unlikely to be possible in theforeseeable future, the possibilities of some temporary improvement for the extremely unsatisfactorysituation in Culver were explored. Any modest rehabilitation program seemed likely to be quitecostly in relation to the benefits and would, in noinstance, have provided enough space for books,journals, or readers. Under these circumstances,the Library recommended that the library servicesand collections in Culver might better be temporarily relocated in a portion of the planned expan sion space on the "B" level of the Regenstein Library. ^An occupancy not to exceed seven or eightyears is assumed. This proposal was reviewed andapproved by the Library Board, the Dean, severalCommittees of the Biological Sciences Division, andthe Provost and is now in process of detailed planning, budget development, and implementation,unless unforeseen obstacles should arise.Recorded circulation was down some 5.5 per centfrom 1967-68 — though it still came to the healthytotal of 857,316 items, plus an even larger amountof unrecorded use. As nearly as can be determinedthe reasons for the decline include the following:1) There was a visible reduction in the use ofsome parts of the Library during the student sit-inand related disturbances.2) The longer reserve-book loan period and thelonger loan period for most general circulation materials probably reduced the number of charges —certainly for reserve materials.3) The volume of quick photocopies, especiallyin the science libraries, continued to grow veryrapidly, significantly reducing journal circulation.There may be other factors that we have not fullyidentified. One such possibility is that current research activity, particularly in certain of the socialsciences, has shifted significantly to the utilizationof near-print materials and other data bases issuedor existing outside the established book trade. For avariety of reasons much material of this kind ismore likely at present to be found outside ratherthan with a library's collections. Whether or not ourcirculation has declined as a consequence of such ashift, the evidence is growing that the Library mustgive greater attention to the acquisition and organization of an increasing variety of so-called "ephemeral" and other unconventional sources of information.It is of little value to build distinguished teaching and research resources to support the intellectual work of the University unless such materials can be acquired expeditiously — especiallywhen needed for specific purposes — quickly andproperly cataloged or in some other manner organized for effective use, properly housed andbound, and otherwise made available for the shareduse of the students and faculty of the University.During the past year the Library staff has continued its efforts to improve book access and toreduce the frustration for the reader in relation tothis fundamental function of a library. The factorsaffecting book availability cover an exceptionallybroad spectrum, ranging from very broad policy7issues in the allocation of limited resources, collection development, and circulation, to the relativelysimple — but not necessarily inexpensive — mattersof inventory, shelf -reading, book cleaning, andbinding. Experimentation continued with somewhatlonger loan periods for both general circulation andreserve materials where the demand in relation tothe number of copies available seemed to permitsuch extended use. The Library is trying to duplicate more current publications and key journalsthat are in heavy demand. The Library staff andespecially the staff in Harper Circulation and Reserve have given substantial attention during theyear to the improvement of book availabilitythrough such measures as changes in book orderingsources, changes in recall procedures, alteration ofthe search and trace procedures, changes in master-file procedures, altered overdue procedures, andmajor improvements in the shelf -reading and re-shelving routines and schedules. While measurements of success or failure in these matters aremore difficult than for closed reserves where quitespecific measurements were reported in last year'sreport, there are reasons to believe that bookavailability has improved in this major service areaof the Library. It is obvious, however, that thereis room for further improvement subject to thelimitations imposed by the present size of the staffand several other restraints including the cooperation of readers. It is painful to report in this connection that there is evidence of a growing amountof deliberate theft of important books and othermaterials in various parts of the Library. A librarysystem with so many open reading rooms and withsuch free access to all bookstacks requires a widelyshared sense of responsibility on the part of allreaders to maintain the integrity of the collectionsfor the common good. It would, we believe, besingularly unfortunate if the rate of losses — forwhich only a very small number of readers mustbe responsible — increased to such a level as torequire restrictions on stack access and the removalfrom reading room shelves of all important andheavily-used journals and other reference materials.We believe that a complete inventory of the collection should be made after the move to Regenstein even though the cost of such an inventorywill be substantial.The Library's services to students and to facultyalso continue to be impaired — sometimes quitecritically — by the failure of a small minority ofthe faculty to observe promptly the faculty's ownpolicies and regulations with respect to the requirement for the prompt return of a book (1) requested by another reader after a loan period ofnot less than one week or (2) a book listed by another faculty member for reserve, which is to bereturned immediately. These are the only two instances in which materials are recalled by the Library. Harper Circulation and Reserve have carefully worked out a new set of procedures andschedules to expedite the return of such books.With the expenditure of a very substantial amountof staff time and effort the results have improvedbut are still not satisfactory.It is obvious that the acquisitions policies forany institution with complex requirements musttake into account the fact that access to resourcesthat are not locally held is presently uncertain,very slow, expensive, and otherwise unsatisfactory.A much more effective and more equitably fundednational system is required if this situation is to beimproved. If a better national system for inter-institutional access is to be developed, some careful distinctions must be applied to the kinds ofresources that can be made available and used ineffective ways through national resource programsand to the design of efficient mechanisms to insuresuch access. If the recently proposed permanentNational Commission on Libraries and InformationScience is established, it ought to make the exploration of this complex task a matter of high priority.In the meantime, perhaps the most effective national mechanism for the effective sharing of resources continues to be the Center for ResearchLibraries, and even here the problems of insuringthat our students and faculty are fully aware ofits resources continue to present unsolved problems.The Center has during the past year issued a newHandbook that describes in some detail many ofthe Center's major resources. Copies are availableto readers in Reference and all departmental libraries. For such diverse resources as newspapers,foreign official gazettes and documents, foreign dissertations, Africana, college catalogs, the briefs andrecords of U.S. Courts of Appeal, etc., the Centeris a valuable supplement to the University Library.An effective transition to the Joseph RegensteinLibrary and other anticipated changes in the University Library will require a variety of organizational and other staff changes in the Library in theyears ahead if it is to be well-managed and responsive to the University's needs. As a first major stepin this direction, a new position at the level ofAssociate Director of the Library with primaryresponsibility for the coordination of all day-to-dayoperations was established during the fiscal year.James P. Riley, formerly Deputy Associate Di-8rector for Library Operations of the National Library of Medicine, joined the staff in this capacityin September of 1968 and has been extraordinarilyhelpful in moving the Library forward in manydifferent ways. Unfortunately, during the year Mr.Riley has had less time for certain projects thanhad been planned because of J. Donald Thomas'sresignation as Associate Director for Services inthe General Library.Herman H. Fussler,- DirectorUniversity LibraryCORRECTIONThe University of Chicago Record SpecialSupplement on December 1, 1969 published alist of committees of the Department ofMathematics (Steering Committee, TenureMembers of the Department, and AdmissionsCommittee). It was stated that student observers had been invited to participate onthese committees. However, according toRichard K. Lashof, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, student observers arenot to participate on these committees. Rather, the Department approved an alternateproposal, "that the Steering Committee of theDepartment meet jointly with the StudentSteering Committee at least once a quarterand more often when issues of joint concernarise."OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITYPresident of the UniversityEdward H. LeviAssistant to the PresidentKarl J. BemesderferProvostJohn T. WilsonAssistant to the ProvostBen RothblattVice-President for Business and FinanceGilbert L. Lee, Jr.Vice-President for DevelopmentMichael E. Claffey Assistant to the Vice-President for DevelopmentDavid JL. CrabbVice-President for PlanningWalter L. WalkerAssistant to the Vice-President for PlanningPatrick MayersVice-President for Programs and ProjectsWilliam B. CannonVice-President for Public AffairsEddie N. WilliamsAssistant to the Vice-President for Public AffairsPaul GappTreasurerRichard M. BurridgeComptrollerHarold E. BellSecretary of the BoardWalter V. LeenDEANSCOLLEGEDean of the CollegeRoger H. HildebrandAssociate DeanLeonard OlsenMaster and Associate Dean-Physical Sciences Collegiate DivisionRobert ClaytonMaster and Associate Dean-Social Sciences Collegiate DivisionArcadius KahanMaster and Associate Dean-Biology Collegiate DivisionArnold RavinMaster and Associate Dean-New Collegiate DivisionJames RedfieldMaster and Associate Dean-Humanities Collegiate DivisionStuart TaveAssistant DeanMary L. Fisch9DIVISIONSBiological Sciencesand The Pritzker School of MedicineDean of the Biological Sciencesand The Pritzker School of MedicineDr. Leon 0. JacobsonAssociate DeansDr. Robert S. DanielsRobert UretzDr. Cornelius VermeulenHumanitiesDean of the HumanitiesRobert E. StreeterPhysical SciencesDean of the Physical SciencesA. Adrian AlbertAssociate DeansJulian R. GoldsmithMark G. InghramSocial SciencesDean of the Social SciencesD. Gale JohnsonPROFESSIONAL SCHOOLSGraduate School of BusinessDean of the Graduate School of BusinessSidney DavidsonAssociate DeansGary EppenRobert L. FarwellH. Edward WrappAssistant DeansLouise ForsythJoseph LaRueDivinity SchoolDean of the Divinity SchoolJerald C. BrauerAssistant DeansN. Keith CliffordWilliam N. WeaverGraduate School of EducationDean of the Graduate School of EducationRoald F. Campbell Assistant DeanArthur E. WiseLaw SchoolDean of the Law SchoolPhil C. NealAssistant DeansNicholas J. BosenDon SamuelsonGraduate Library SchoolDean of the Graduate Library SchoolDon R. SwansonSchool of Social Service AdministrationDean of the School of Social Service AdministrationHarold A. RichmanAssociate DeanRobert A. WeagantAssistant DeanErnestina AlexanderUNIVERSITY EXTENSIONDean of the University ExtensionC. Ranlet LincolnROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPELDean of the Rockefeller Memorial ChapelRev. E. Spencer ParsonsAssistant DeanBernard 0. BrownDEANS OF STUDENTS*Office of the Dean of StudentsDean of StudentsCharles D. O'ConnellAdm 201Assistant Deans of StudentsMargaret E. Perry5737 University AvenueAnita S. SandkeAdm 204James W. ViceAdm 201C* It has been requested by the Dean of Students Officethat faculty exchange addresses be shown for the following deans.10CollegeDean of Undergraduate StudentsGeorge L. PlayeG-B 117Assistant Dean of Undergraduate StudentsLorna StrausG-B 113Dean of FreshmenJames W. ViceG-B 113DivisionsBiological Sciencesand The Pritzker School of MedicineJoseph CeithamlGMH117Physical SciencesSol KrasnerKent 101HumanitiesPeter DembowskiWieboldt 105Social SciencesRobert RippeySoc Sci 108Professional SchoolsGraduate School of BusinessHarold R. MetcalfBE 102Divinity SchoolWilliam WeaverSwift 102Graduate School of EducationKenneth J. RehageJudd 121Law SchoolNicholas J. BosenLBQ A204Graduate Library SchoolRuth French CarnovskyHarper E66School of Social Service AdministrationCharles ShiremanSSA E15 DEPARTMENT AND COMMITTEECHAIRMENAfrican Studies (Committee)Donald LevinAnalysis of Ideas and Study of Methods (Committee)Theodore SilversteinAnatomyDr. Ronald SingerAnesthesiologyDr. Merel H. HarmelAnthropologyBernard S. CohnArcheological Studies (Committee)Hans G. GuterbockArtRobert L. ScrantonAstronomy and AstrophysicsCharles R. O'DellBiochemistryEarl A. Evans, Jr.BiologyWilliam K. BakerBiophysicsRobert HaselkornBiopsychologyRobert McClearyChemistryNorman H. NachtriebClassical Languages and LiteraturesAnne P. BurnettComparative Studies in Literature (Committee)Edward WasiolekEconomicsH. Gregg LewisEducationRoald F. CampbellEnglishArthur Friedman (acting)Evolutionary Biology (Committee)Richard LewontinFar Eastern Languages and CivilizationsEdwin McClellan11Far Eastern Studies (Committee)David RoyGeneral Studies in the Humanities (CommitteJohn CaweltiGenetics (Committee)Bernard S. StraussGeographyMarvin MikesellGeophysical SciencesJulian R. GoldsmithGermanic Languages and LiteraturesKenneth NorthcottHistoryJohn Hope FranklinHistory of Culture (Committee)Karl J. WelntraubHuman Development (Committee)Bernice NeugartenInformation Sciences (Committee)Robert AshenhurstInternational Relations (Committee)Morton A. KaplanLinguisticsNorman H. ZideMathematical Biology (Committee)Jack D. CowanMathematicsRichard K. LashofMedicineDr. Alvin R. TarlovMedieval StudiesJerome TaylorMicrobiologyBernard S. StraussMusicLeonard B. MeyerNear Eastern Languages and CivilizationsJohn A. BrinkmanNew Nations (Committee)Clifford GeertzNew Testament and Early Christian LiteratureAllen P. Wikgren Obstetrics and GynecologyDr. Frederick P. ZuspanPathologyDr. Robert WisslerPediatricsDr. Albert DorfmanPharmacologyDr. Lloyd J. RothPhilosophyLeonard LinskyPhysicsMark G. InghramPhysiologyDaniel P. Agin (acting)Political ScienceAristide ZolbergPopulation (Committee)Philip M. HauserPsychiatryDr. Daniel X. FreedmanPsychologyM. Brewster SmithRadiologyDr. Robert M. MoseleyRomance Languages and LiteraturesGeorge Haley (acting)Slavic Area Studies (Committee)Jeremy AzraelSlavic Languages and LiteraturesEdward StankiewiczSocial Sciences Divisional M.A.Bert F. HoselitzSocial Thought (Committee)James M. RedfieldSociologyMorris JanowitzSouth Asian Languages and CivilizationsJ. A. B. van BuitenenStatisticsWilliam H. KruskalSurgeryDr. Rene Menguy12VISITING COMMITTEESVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE COLLEGETrustee MembersEmmett Dedmon, ChairmanJames W. ButtonRobert P. Gwinn Charles H. PercyAlbert Pick, Jr. Jay A. PritzkerSydney Stein, jr.Non-Trustee MembersArthur A. BaerJohn F. DilleRobert EbertWilliam S. Gray IIIHoward E. GreenRobert J. GreenebaumJohn T. HortonJohn A. Johnson John H. JohnsonWilliam Rea KeastKeith KindredLaura Bergquist KnebelE. Wilson LyonKeith I. ParsonsSaul S. ShermanDavid B. Truman Robert C. UptonMarshall Wais, Jr.F. Champion WardJames D. WatsonPhilip C. WhiteHubert L. WillHoward L. WillettVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE HUMANITIESTrustee MembersEarle Ludgin, ChairmanCharles Benton Fairfax M. ConeGaylord Donnelley George A. PooleGardner H. SternNon-Trustee MembersJames AlsdorfMrs. Lorenzo AlvaryPaul AngleArthur A. BaerMrs. Laird BellPeter BensingerEdwin BergmanMrs. Tiffany BlakeLeigh B. BlockMrs. George V. BobrinskoyMichael BraudeMiss Gwendolyn BrooksMrs. Eugene DavidsonMrs. Edison DickPaul FrommJames R. Getz Bertrand GoldbergLeo S. GuthmanCharles C. Hoffner IIIDaggett HarveyMrs. Sidney HaskinsJames F. Hoge, Jr.Denison B. HullMrs. Donald F. HydeLawrence A. KimptonSigmund W. KunstadterMrs. George T. LanghorneMrs. Frank D. MayerAnthony L. MichelMrs. D. Phillip MillerWilbur C. MunneckeMrs. William Odell Mrs. Walter P. PaepckeRudy RugglesMrs. Paul S. RussellMrs. Edward L. RyersonCalvin P. SawyierMrs. Richard SelleJoseph R. ShapiroAlfred P. ShawMrs. Farwell SmithMrs. Sydney Stein, Jr.Alfred C. Stepan, Jr.Mrs. John P. WellingMrs. Frank H. WoodsGeorge B. YoungVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE SOCIAL SCIENCESTrustee MembersJ. Harris Ward, ChairmanEdward McCormick BlairRobert E. Brooker Ben W. HeinemanHomer J. Livingston Charles H. PercyHermon D. Smith13Non-Trustee MembersJohn W. BairdCharles A. BaneJames P. BaxterBowen BlairLloyd W. BowersMelvin BrorbyWilliam G. CaplesRobert A. CarrSilas CathcartGordon R. CoreyRobert S. CushmanThe Hon. Walter J. Cummings, Jr.Edison DickWilliam E. Fay, Jr. Herbert A. FriedlichRobert W. GalvinJames P. GorterPaul W. GuenzelRalph L. HelsteinRobert E. HuntC. Bouton McDougalRemick McDowellHenry W. MeersAnthony L. MichelArthur C. Nielson, Jr.Paul W. OliverWilliam RentschlerJoseph E. Rich Norman RossLeo H. SchoenhofenCharles P. SchwartzJohn W. SheldonClyde E. Shorey, Jr.John F. Smith, Jr.Modie J. SpiegelJustin A. StanleyRobert E. StraussClifton M. UtleyCharles R. Walgreen, Jr.Leo WallachMorrison WaudVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE DIVINITY SCHOOLTrustee MembersHoward Goodman, ChairmanRobert E. Brooker Emmett DedmonGaylord Donnelley James C. Downs, Jr,Glen A. LloydNon-Trustee MembersValle 0. AppelRussell M. BairdBland B. Button, Jr.Howard E. Green Joseph 0. HansonWilliam G. KarnesWilliam H. MaxantEdward H. McDermott Keith I. ParsonsHerbert V. ProchnowEdward K. WellesClinton YouleVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONTrustee MembersGeorge H. Watkins, Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV Sydney Stein, Jr.Non-Trustee MembersDr. Lawrence CremenEarl B. Dickerson Dr. L. H. FosterDr. Ernest R. Hilgard Lawrence A. KimptonJames RedmondVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE LAW SCHOOLTrustee MembersJames H. Douglas Glen A. Lloyd14Non-Trustee MembersThe Hon. Walter V. Schaefer,ChairmanCharles AaronWilliam H. AbbottMorris B. AbramRichard F. BabcockRussell BakerPaul CarringtonLawrence A. CartonWarren M. ChristopherRamsey ClarkThe Hon. Tom C. ClarkMilton H. CohenThe Hon. Walter J. CummingsFrank H. DetweilerHerbert C. DeYoungHoward Ellis The Hon. Samuel B. EpsteinOwen FairweatherMorris E. FeiwellThe Hon. Abe FortasThe Hon. Henry J. FriendlyGeorge E. HaleA. Leslie HodsonLawrence HoweGeorge F. JamesNicholas deB. KatzenbachCharles R. KaufmanThe Hon. Frank R. KenisonFrancis R. KirhlamAbe KrashRoss L. MaloneOrison S. MardenThe Hon. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Edward D. McDougal, Jr.The Hon. Carl McGownDonald C. McKinlayWilliam R. Ming, Jr.Kenneth F. MontgomeryBernard NathHarold NormanBernard SangThe Hon. Ulysses S. SchwartzMilton I. ShadurDaniel C. SmithThomas E. SunderlandThe Hon. Roger J. TraynorThe Hon. Sterry R. WatermanJerome S. WeissThe Hon. Hubert L. WillHarry N. WyattVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATIONTrustee MembersStanley G. Harris, Jr., ChairmanCharles BentonPhilip D. Block, Jr. Joseph Regenstein, Jr.Edward L. RyersonHermon D. Smith Sydney Stein, Jr.Frank H. WoodsNon-Trustee MembersJames Brown IVMrs. William M. Collins, Jr.William W. Darrow, Jr.Charles R. FeldsteinMrs. Robert L. FooteMrs. Zollie FrankMrs. Howard GoodmanHarry H. HageyMortimer B. Harris Mrs. Ben W. HeinemanMrs. W. Press HodgkinsMrs. Rose KrinsleyC. Virgil MartinMrs. Robert B. MayerKenneth F. MontgomeryPaul L. MullaneyMrs. George A. RanneyWilliam H. Robinson Lawrence K. SchnadigMrs. Benjamin SchwartzMerrill ShepardMrs. George W. K. SnyderHerbert R. StratfordMrs. John P. Wilson, Jr.Maynard I. WishnerVISITING COMMITTEE ON THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIESTrustee MemberJames H. Douglas, ChairmanNon-Trustee MembersMarver H. BernsteinJohn C. CampbellMarcus CohnNajeeb E. HalabyFowler HamiltonThomas L. Hughes The Hon. Jacob K. JavitsLawrence A. KimptonThe Hon. Robert KomerThe Hon. Carl MarcyKenneth MontgomeryEscott Reid Dr. George A. RobertsHerbert SalzmanThe Hon. Walter V. SchaeferJames W. SpainThe Hon. Stuart Symington15VISITING COMMITTEE ON THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTETrustee MembersSydney Stein, Jr., Chairman Howard Goodman Gardner H. SternNon-Trustee MembersArthur S. BowesHarvey W. Branigar, Jr.Mrs. George G. CameronArthur DixonW. Press HodgkinsWilliam 0. Hunt Mrs. John H. LivingoodMrs. C. Phillip MillerAlbert H. NewmanDr. Froelich RaineyWilliam J. RobertsSanger P. Robinson William M. SpencerMrs. Sydney Stein, Jr.Carroll H. SudlerMr. and Mrs. Theodore D. TiekenMr. and Mrs. Chester D. TrippMr. and Mrs. Roderick S. WebsterCOUNCILSCOUNCIL ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESSTrustee MembersJoseph S. Wright,' ChairmanB. E. BensingerPhilip D. Block, Jr.Robert E. BrookerJames W. Button Fairfax M. ConeRobert C. GunnessRobert P. GwinnRobert S. IngersollEllmore C. Patterson Peter G. PetersonChristopher W. WilsonTheodore 0. YntemaNon-Trustee MembersThomas G. AyersEdmund F. BallNorman BarkerKarl R. BendetsenHarry O. BercherEugene P. BergW. Newton Burdick, Jr.Marvin ChandlerG. Kenneth CrowellJohn P. GallagherRobert W. GalvinPaul W. Goodrich Thomas HancockIrving B. HarrisGeorge F. JamesLawrence A. KimptonPaul LorenzRay W. MacdonaldC. Virgil MartinJohn A. MattmillerOscar G. Mayer, Jr.William C. MushamHart PerryJames M. Phelan Robert W. RenekerJohn G. SevcikGeorge L. ShinnRobert D. Stewart, Jr.L. D. StinebowerT. M. ThompsonSterling TookerJ. W. Van GorkomM. P. VenemaC. Lee Walton, Jr.COUNCIL ON MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCHTrustee MembersPeter G. Peterson, ChairmanRobert E. BrookerDr. Lowell T. CoggeshallFairfax M. Cone William B. GrahamDavid B. McDougalAlbert Pick, Jr.Albert W. Sherer Gardner H. SternFrank L. SulzbergerChristopher W. WilsonJoseph S. Wright16Non-Trustee MembersW. Newton Burdick, Jr.Thomas F. CassPhilip CochranHenry CrownHarry K. DeWittGeorge H. DovenmuehlCharles W. EbersoldMaurice Goldblatt William J. Guy tonIrving B. HarrisSamuel JohnsonJoseph B. LantermanJohn T. Llewellyn IIGraham J. MorganArthur C. Nielson, Jr.Bryan S. Reid, Jr. Burr L. RobbinsJames E. RutherfordFrank C. Schell, Jr.Daniel SearleW. Wallace TudorHans WandersLynn A. WilliamsEdward F. Wilson17THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECORDOFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE FACULTIESHXwawH*!onoowooaoerooONou>n Zm ± c o35 n? >=i O TJ cn no|zPO p > •vOcn o<3si a -i> a3<O n'os22cn m