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Front MatterSource: The Library Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 61-62Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4303627 .
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THE LIBRARY QUARTERLY A Journal of Investigation and Discussion in the Field of Library Science
Established by The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago with the Co-operation of The American Library Association, T he Bibliographical Society of America, and 'lhe American Library Institute.
BOARD OF EDITORS Managing Editor
LEON CARNOVSKY
Editorial Assistant MARY M. SIMPSON
Associate Editors BERNARD R. BERELSON FRANCES E. HENNE
PIERCE BUTLER JESSE H. SHERA
DOUGLAS WAPLES
A4dvisory Editors RALPH A. BEALS, Director, New York Public Library WM. NV. BiSHOP, Librarian Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor LESLIE E. BLISS, Librarian, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino EDWARD J. CARTER, Head, Libraries Section, UNESCO CLARENCE H. FAUST, Director of Libraries, Stanford University F. C. FRANCIS, Secretary, British Museum, London ERNESTO G. GIETZ, Librarian, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Colegio Nacional de
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires CARLETON B. JOECKEL, School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley CARL H. MILAM, Executive Secretary, American Library Association, Chicago RALPH MUNN, Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh WILHELM MUNTHE, Director, University Library, Oslo CHARLES R. SANDERSON, Chief Librarian, Toronto HENRY B. VAN HOESEN, Librarian, Brown University, Providence EDWIN ELIOTT WILLOUGHBY, Chief Bibliographer, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. LOUIS R. WILSON, Dean Emeritus, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago
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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1907-15. FRAGMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM WARNER BisioP i
THE CATALOG DEPARTMENT IN THE LIBRARY ORGANIZATION RAYNARD C. SWANK 24
THE NUMERICAL UNION CATALOG .HARRY DEWEY 33
A STUDY OF WEIGHTED WORK UNITS IN BRANCH LIBRARIES OF THE
NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY . . EDWARD A. WIGHT 45
THE "GREAT BOOKS" DISCUSSION GROUPS . . GEORGE F. BOWERMAN 52
THE COVER DESIGN ..EDWIN ELIOTr WILLOUGHBY 6o
THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THlS ISSUE.. 6i
REVIEW ARTICLE: PHILOSOPHY OF CLASSIFICATION HENRY EVELYN BLISS 63
REVIEWS:
Richard D. Mosier, Making the A merican Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers .EDGAR W. KING 67
Francis Hackett, On Judging Books: In General and in Particular JEANNETTE H. FOSTER 69
Marian C. Manley, Library Service to Business: Its Place in the Small City ROSE L. VORMELKER 71
Four Year Report of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore's Public Library, I942-z945 PAUL HOWARD 72
Ella V. Aldrich, Using Books and Libraries, Rev. ed. . . . THEODORE G. EHRSAM 73 John Dale Russell (comp.), Problems of Faculty Personnel. . ARTHUR M. MCANALLY 74 Edgar W. Knight and Agatha Boyd Adams (eds.), The Graduate School Research and Pub-
lications. ROBERT B. DOWNS 75
BOOKS RECEIVED .77
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WILLIAM WARNER BISHOP is librarian emeri- tus of the University of Michigan. For biograph- ical information see the Library Quarterly, I (I931), 338; IV (I934), 359; XII (I942), 762; XIV (1944), 339-48; XV (1945), 324-38; and the autobiographical article in this issue.
GEORGE F. BOWERMAN was chief librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia from I904 until his retirement, after two exten- sions by President Roosevelt, in October, I940. He was bom in Farmington, N.Y., September 8, i868; graduated from the University of Rochester (A.B., I892) and from the New York State Library School (B.L.S., i895). George Washington University conferred on him the honorary degree of L.H.D. in '913.
After service in the Reynolds Library, Rochester, N.Y.; in the New York State Li- brary; as librarian and member of editorial staff, New York Tribune; and as a member of the edi- torial staff, New International Encyclopedia; he was librarian of the Wilmington (Delaware) In- stitute Free Library, I90I-4, serving also as a member of the Delaware State Library Com- mission. In his thirty-six years of service in Washington, Dr. Bowerman greatly enlarged the library system and intensified its use. Ex- pansion of the library embraced advisory and reference services for children and adults, in- cluding special reading rooms in the fields of art, music, technology, local history, sociology, and education, and consultation services in adult education. Furthermore, he participated in the successful efforts to secure federal retirement and salary classification legislation, from which the library also benefited.
Dr. Bowerman has been a frequent contribu- tor to professional journals, both during his ac- tive service and since retirement, especially on library work for children, personnel administra- tion, and adult education. His publications in book form are: Selected Bibliography of the Re- ligious Denominations of the United States (I896) and Censorship and the Public Library, with Other Papers (193I). Dr. Bowerman is a mem- ber of the library committee of the Washington Cathedral Library. Since his retirement he has chiefly been engaged in personal adult liberal
education, attending Theater Guild and other plays, symphony orchestra and Library of Con- gress chamber music concerts, and in reading, as shown by his present article on "The 'Great Books' Discussion Groups."
HARRY DEWEY, chief cataloger of the John Crerar Library in Chicago, was born in the city of Cebu on the island of Cebu in the Philippines on February 29, 1920. After receiving his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in I941, Mr. Dewey studied library science there and at the University of Washington. He com- pleted the work for the M.S. degree at the School of Library Service, Columbia Univer- sity. He was in charge of the Catalog Depart- ment at the Cooper Union Library, New York, in 1944 and was an assistant reference librarian at the Engineering Societies Library, New York, from I945 through March, I946. He then joined the John Crerar Library. Mr. Dewey is author of an article, "NDRC Publications," appearing in the John Crerar Library Quarterly in Decem- ber, 1946.
RAYNARD C. SWANK: for biographical infor- mation see the Library Quarterly, XIV (i944), 350. In I945-46 Dr. Swank was chief catalog librarian at the University of Minnesota Li- brary. In 1946 he accepted his present appoint- ment as librarian of the University of Oregon Library. His latest publication, A Survey of the Library of Stanford University (with L. R. Wil- son as coauthor), was published by the Ameri- can Library Association in I947.
EDWARD A. WIGHT, assistant director and personnel officer at the Newark Free Public Li- brary, was bom in Cairo, Georgia, August Io, I899. He received his B.S. degree from Emory University in I920, his M.A. degree from Co- lumbia University in 1927, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1936. He has also studied at the University of California and at New York University. Between 192I and I929
Dr. Wight was, successively, a teacher, prin- cipal, and superintendent of schools in Georgia. After serving as research assistant at the Uni- versity of Chicago in I933-34 and as director of
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investigation of the Westchester County Li- brary Survey Committee in I935, he was ap- pointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Dubuque. He held this post until I939. From 1941 until I944, when he ac- cepted his present position, he was professor of library education and acting director at the Peabody Library School. In addition to articles and reviews in professional journals, Dr. Wight is the author of: County Library Service in the South (with L. R. Wilson, I935), Library Service in a Suburban Area (with Leon Carnovsky,
I936), The Library, Volume IV in "The Evalua- tion of Higher Institutions for the North Cen- tral Association" (1936), "Methods and Tech- niques in Library Surveys" in Library Trends (ed. by L. R. Wilson, 1937), "The Library" in Reading in General Education (ed. by W. S. Gray, I940), Public Library Finance and Ac- counting (1943), Evaluation and Revision of the Library School Curriculum (I945), and "A Pub- lic Library Personnel Program" in Personnel Administration in Libraries (ed. by Lowell Mar- tin, I946).
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