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Front MatterSource: The Library Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 206-207Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4304298 .
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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 T he American Library Association, The Bibliographical Society of America, and The American Library Institute.
BOARD OF EDITORS Managing Editor
LEON CARNOVSKY
,Jssociate Editors LESTER E. ASHEIM HERMAN H. FUSSLER MARGARET E. EGAN FRANCEs E. HENNE
HOWARD W. WINGER
Advisory Editors
RALPH A. BEALS, Director, New York Public Library WM. W. 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 F. C. FRANCIS, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum, London CARLETON B. JOECKEL, Berkeley, California CARL H. MILAM, Barrington, Illinois RALPH MUNN, Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh WILHELM MUNTHE, Director, University Library, Oslo CHARLES R. SANDERSON, Chief Librarian, T'oronto JESSE H. SHERA, Dean, School of Library Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland 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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LEON CARNOVSKY: for biographical informa- tion see the Library Quarterly, I (1931), 476; XII (1942), 763; XX (1950), 44; XXI (1951), 299; and XXIII (1953), 297.
LUTHER H. EVANS: for biographical informa- tion see the Library Quarterly, XVII (1947), 307-8. As tenth Librarian of Congress Mr. Evans was successful in extending the scope of the Library's international contacts and ex- changes of publications and personnel. In 1951, on a round-the-world trip, he represented the United States at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Philip- pine educational system, and he also attended the South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Conference of UNESCO National Commis- sions in Bangkok. He was particularly active in the preparation of the draft of a universal copyright convention and was chairman of the United States delegation to the UNESCO Inter-governmental Copyright Conference in Geneva in 1952, which resulted in the signing of the convention. In July, 1953, Mr. Evans resigned from the Library of Congress to assume his present position of director-general of UNESCO.
JOHN FALL, chief of the economics division of the New York Public Library, was born in Chicago in 1907. He received the Ph.B. degree from the Univei7sity of Chicago in 1930 and the B.S. from Columbia University three years later. He also carried on graduate study at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University.
Mr. Fall's professional experience began at Earlham College, where he served as circula- tion assistant in 1934. In 1936 he joined the reference department of the New York Public Library, serving in various capacities before assuming his present position in 1953. In 1940 he assisted Keyes D. Metcalf in a survey of mid- western universities to determine the need of a co-operative library center, and he was later associated with Mr. AMetcalf in a study of the Farmington Plan. In 1950 he served as chair- man of a group which prepared a program for a northeastern regional library. He is a member
of the board of directors of the United States Book Exchange and has long been active in matters pertaining to the acquisition problems of American libraries.
MALCOLM JOHNSON, born in Chelsea, Massa- chusetts, in 1902, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving the B.S. degree in 1923. After four years in China as regional marketer for Standard Oil Company, he entered the field of publishing as managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, later as owner of Youth's Companion. From 1937 to 1943 he was executive vice-president of Doubleday, Doran and Company, then moved to D. Van Nostrand Company, where he became vice-president, the office he now occupies. Mr. Johnson served as president of the Book Publishers Bureau (now the American Book Publishers Council) from 1941 to 1944; during the war he was chairman of the management committee of Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., and a member of the Book Publishing Advisory Committee of the War Production Board. Until recently he was chairman of the Joint Foreign Trade Committee of the American Textbook Publishers Institute and the American Book Publishers Council, from which he resigned to become chairman of the board of Franklin Publications, Inc. He has contributed numerous articles to periodicals.
DAN LACY: for biographical information see the Library Quarterly, XX (1950), 203, and XXIII (1953), 265-66.
FLORA B. LUDINGTON, born in Huron County, Michigan, received the B.L.S. from the New York State Library School and the M.A. and LL.D. degrees from Mills College. She has worked in the University of Washington Library and was for fourteen years on the staff of the Mills College library before becoming the librarian of Mount Holyoke College in 1936. Miss Ludington has taught in summer library schools at the University of Texas, San Jose State College, and Columbia University.
While on wartime leave, June, 1944-July, 1946, Miss Ludington set up and directed the
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United States Information Library in Bombay, India. In 1947 she attended the first postwar meeting of the council of the International Federation of Library Associations in Oslo. She was visiting expert on information libraries, Assigned to SCAP in Japan in the autumn of 1948.
Miss Ludington is serving as the president of the American Library Association in 1953-54.
CARLOS VICrOR PENNA is libraries specialist in the UNESCO Regional Center in the West- ern Hemisphere, Havana. Born in 1911 in Buenos Aires, he received his education at the Museo Social Argentino and at the School of Library Service, Columbia University. He has had wide experience in education for librarian- ship. Following an association with Dr. Ernesto Gietz in the library science institute of the Uni- versity of Buenos Aires, he served as director of curriculum for library courses at the Museo Social Argentino; he gave a course of lectures on cataloging and classification at the Municipal Library Mariscal Andres de Santa Cruz in La Paz, Bolivia; and he was a member of the exam- ining board for the library school in Monte- video, Uruguay. Mr. Penna is a member of the Centro de Estudios Bibliotecol6gicas of the Museo Social Argentino, the Comite Argentino de Bibliotecarios de Instituciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, and a corresponding member of the Bibliotecarios Diplomados del Uruguay. In 1947 he was a delegate to the Assembly of Librarians of the Americas. In addition to many articles in library periodicals, Mr. Penna is the author of Catalogaci6n y clasificacidn de libros, published in 1945.
LAWRENCE S. THOMPSON: for biographical information see the Library Quarterly, XII (1942), 111; XVI (1946), 246; XXII (1952), 305; and XXIII (1953), 266. In October and November, 1953, Mr. Thompson conducted a survey of the Caribbean Commission Library in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
MAURIcE B. VISSCHER, born in Holland, Michigan, on August 25, 1901, received his undergraduate education at Hope College; he subsequently attended the University of Minnesota, which conferred upon him the Ph.D. degree in 1925 and the M.D. in 1931. He also pursued graduate study at University College, London, during 1925-26.
Dr. Visscher has taught at the universities of Tennessee, Southern California, Illinois, and Minnesota and has been professor and head of the department of physiology at the last-named institution since 1936. He holds membership in numerous academic, scientific, and medical organizations and has served as an officer of many of them. During the war he was codirec- tor of the medical nutrition study for UNRRA and is currently chairman of the National Re- search Council committee on UNESCO. He is the author of Experimental Physiology (1935) and Chemistry and Medicine (1939). His con- tributions to scientific and professional journals number almost two hundred.
ROBERT W. WADSWORTH is head of the acquisitions department of the University of Chicago library. He was born in Chicago in 1913 and was educated at the University of Chicago (Ph.B., English, 1934; A.M., Graduate Library School, 1943) and Columbia University (A.M., English, 1935). From 1937 to 1943 he did re- search and editorial work at the University of Chicago as a member of the staff compiling A Dictionary of American English; in 1943 he became a reference assistant in the Library of Congress; and in 1944 he joined the staff of the University of Chicago library, becoming head of the acquisitions department in 1952. He has done free-lance research and writing and has been a contributor to American Speech and the Library Quarterly. He has been active on committees of the A.L.A. Division of Cata- loging and Classification and is a past president of the Chicago Regional Group of Catalogers and Classifiers.
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