Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 42

Unimpressed Pale II I THE ABILENE TEXAS REPORTER-NEWS Sunday Morning August II 1948 (Good Neighbor Policy Applied to Libraries 2 Department ACC to Enlarge Library to Heads Added To HSU Staff Seal 200 at Study Tables Enlargement of the Abilene Christian college library quarters will be completed by Sept 17 to Fliers Map Plans MIDLAND Aug Plans for winter activities of the Midland chapter tf the National Aeronautic association were made at a meeting this week at the Scharbauer Hotel The chapter here will increase its flying activities and will invite fliers here from other cities for breakfuts and other events LOS ANGELES Aug WV-Hauled into court on a charge of driving through a red traffic light inventor Robert Walder displayed a traffic signal device in which a glowing neon tube would indicate seconds remaining wore the light changed "A very good idea" mused the court Five dollars please Next case" ings of each library have excluded duplication where practicable and have entered new subscriptions in supplementary areas They also have made a comparison of reference holdings of the three institutions through the association's list of reference books The librarians have reached a tentative agreement regarding the purchase of files of back periodicals and expensive reference sets Experimental work now is being done in the colleges toward the development of a union catalog by means of which each library may be kept informed on the holdings of the other two At present the three combined libraries have a store of 79000 books 500 periodical titles and 20 newspapers specialization and assume the responsibility for collecting material for study in the particular field This material would be made available to readers of all colleges For use under the loan plan ACC has begun a collection of information on Southwestern literature HSU on Southwestern history and McMurry on American literature It is believed that a larger store of knowledge in the individual fields may be made available to a greater number of students through the system In order that almost every periodical title listed by the Southern Library association will be available to students here the librarians have checked the magazine hold By ERMA HOLT With an eye towards the benefit! afforded by a good neighbor policy Abilene'a college are cooperating to develop a nuclear plan whereby student of each institution may freely utilize the library reading rooms and facilities of all three Still In the embryo stage the idea wai conceived by the three college librarians Mrs Roy Hollar of McMurry College Marguerite Anderson of Abilene Christian college and Thelma Andrews of Hardin-Simmons university It was presented and favorably received before administrators of the college at a luncheon last spring Under provisions of the system eaeh library would select areas of Essential Protection RESIDENCE Liability Insurance for residences is essential to eve homeowner as it provides protection against claims brought by -servants or other persons who may in any way bo injured on your premises Ask Motz Curtis MARGUERITE ANDERSON IN ABILENE COLLEGES Dial 5244 Citixens Bank Bldg accommodate approximately 200 students at study tables and reference desks as compared to a maximum number of 125 that can he accommodated now according to Marguerite Anderson librarian Stacks will be re-arranged to care for the 18000 volumes that the library has indexed as will periodical shelves to take care of the sharply increased subscription list of magazines for the fall and winter semesters At present about 1800 square feet of the library is given to reading and reference tables with reference books periodicals and books of fiction in easy access of these tables the other half of the library space is given over to the slacks which students enter at will to the indexing and cataloguing rooms and to the librarian's quarters At the back of the reference section of the library is a lounging corner for the casual reader Hung upon the south wall of the library are three pastel portraits constituting the beginning of ACCs hall of fame The portraits by' Harold Doak Red are of the late Elizabeth Nclsor former librarian and Dean of Women James Cox twice president of ACC and present professor of Education and Bible and Charles Roberson present head of the Bible department Those portraits were presented to the school by members of the club On the west wall of the library is a venerable bell on a burnt oak frame with this legend by it: Firebell of Class Bell of ACC 1917-24 Bean Bell 1924-34 Disabled Feb 28 1934 Neglected 1934-42 Honorably Retired Nov 16 1942" Occasion of the disabling of the bell wu the night of the Hardin gift to ACC that paid off the bonded indebtedness of the school and the high spirits of the student ringers were too much for the bell It wu at homecoming in 1942 that the bell wu rescued from rust and lichens on the campus and placed in its present niche in the library Among rare books recently received by the ACC library are an Alexander Campbell Hymn Book published by Bosworth Chase and Hall in 1865 at Cincinnati Another unusual volume Is a Bible printed 1535 The copy in the reprinted in 1838 from the library of the Duke Another unusual received is an out of of Exposition Epistle to the Romans in 1864 by Robert York City book budget increased for Miss Anderson librarian Also we are increasing subscription list present engaged in bound volumes of to date To further the students of Abilene college this fall and each week put on exhibit of lists materials etc with the orientation that the school conducts students" An unusual feature Christian college the record library that the regular library of records are in the the present time checked out by any 24-hour period For who do not have the school makes one the parlors of Zellner will add $100 worth the library this fall" said also have the an historical section Business Administration Is Most Popular Gl Study New additions to the Hardin-Sim-mons university staff for the 55th annual session opening Sept 18 will include two heads of departments 16 instructors and a sports publicity director it was annaunced this week by Pres-was announced this week by President RupeiTN Richardson Others will be named to complete the staff before school opens he said Department heads are Dr James Howell English and Dr Rich business administration Dr Howell who will succeed the late Dean Campbell comes to Hardin-Simmons from Tusculom college Greeneville Tenn where he was head of the department of English He received his master and PhD degrees from the University of North Carolina Dr Rich was formerly a member of the H-SU staff He left here in 1937 to take a position at Oklahoma where he taught for two years before going to the Baylor university business administration department where he also taught two years Dr Fred Fisher who is being ad ded as professor of Bible received his Th degree from Southwestern seminary at Fort Worth He has had 12 years experience as a pastor of churches in the Southwest but is coming here from the northern Baptist seminary in Chicago where he has been teaching Other recent additions to the staff are Wesley Bradshaw assistant coach Jack Durham sports publicity director and the following instructors: Osborne sociology Madlan Hunt history Virginia Lucas preparatory piano: Mrs Coalson Spanish Francis Buck physics Truett Sheriff special counselor for veterans Percy Johnson business administration Kenneth Ballenger chorus and other voice department groups McCaw-ley biology Mrs Mary Lee Simons English Kester mathematics Frances Evans and John Hays speech and Mrs Gose accompanist for the piano 71 Talk of the Campus 1 I 4 MRS ROSITA HOLLAR ism speech and foreign languages ACC veterans also favor busi-neM administration as 86 (28 percent) of 312 ex-GI's have taken up that major Other favorites are Bible 55 or 18 percent general education 26 agriculture 24 pre-engineering 24 education and physical education 23 (15 of them plan to be coaches) 10 mathematics 8 pre-med 8 music 7 prelaw 7 science 6 English and 6 history with the other three percent scattered among foreign languages speech aeronautics journalism art and banking Business administration ranks second at McMurry to teacher training Thirty percent of the veterans expect to become teachers and two-thirds of that group plan to coach Business administration majors total 25 percent followed by pre-med students with 15 percent pre-engineering 13 liberal arts 10 and ministerial 7 Business administration Is by far the most popular subject among war veterans who returned to school in Abilene's three colleges during the last school year and this summer a survey showed last week Although nearly one-third of the veterans are studying business administration several other sub- Meets are commonly chosen as ma- fields of study in Hardin-Sim-mons university Abilene Christian and McMurry colleges Other leading subjects are Bible pro-Engineering physical education and coaching Of 344 ex-GI's attending H-SU 125 of them or 36 percent are studying business administration 50 or 35 percent pre-engineering 35 or io percent Bible 31 science and pre-med 25 physical education and coaching 20 history and government 10 each pre-law and music and the other 38 are studying mathematics English journal- Myles Cover-dale originally in library was a copy in of Sussex volume-recently print issue of the published Carter of New has been substantially this stated our periodical We are at bringing out periodicals up our service to Christian winter we will a display in coordination program for new of the Abilene library is is a part of Over 50 albums library at and can be student for a those students record players available in hall of records to Miss Anderson nucleus of in our record library with records of the two radio homecomings that the school held in 1943 and and we also have the recordings of Paul 'Southern's Question Please program a religious question and answer program that ran for nearly two years Among records that we will receive are the reerd-ed textbooks prepared for the United States Armed Forces Institute for the teaching of German French Spanish and Russian These are all that are available now and we plan to get others as they are produced" Plans of the library rail for the production of a colored film entitled How to Use the Library this fall to aid new students in their orientation Miss Anderson heads the library staff assistant librarian is Kathryn Hamrick Secretary to the library administration is Kathryn Dollar student in ACC About 20 desk clerks stack clerks and other assistants all students in the college will be used in the library this year Sweetwater Sets Canteen Opening HSU Library Gets 2000 Books 2 Micro-Film Readers in Year Five West Texans In Sul Ross Class 'Five West Texans including one Abilenian are among the 54 students who will be awarded degrees in graduation exercises at Sul Ross State college at Alpine Thursday Master of arts degrees will be presented Arnold Richards of Abilene Mary Evelyn Lowry of Midland and Earline Bennett of Sweetwater To receive bachelor of arts degrees are Frances Shrader Clifton of Baird and Mrs Grenade Farmer Peters of Midland SWEETWATER Aug 17 Opening date for Sweetwater's Youth Canteen has been set for Saturday night September 7 according to Charley Paxton chairman of the canteen's advisory counciL lack only $700 of reaching the announced goal of $8500 for the canteen's opening and operation for the coming Paxton said a committee is out working now to bring that amount in before the opening date" The furniture and equipment of the Sweetwater USO center have been bought for the Youth Canteen which will use the former USO headquarters A trained director is to be hired Paxton was not sure this week that the director will have been secured by the opening date but a substitute will be used until the right director is found he said Minister Resigns SNYDER Aug Clifton Rogers who moved here from Gilmer in September 1944 haa resigned as minister of the Snyder Church of Christ to take up work with the Humble Road Church of Christ in Houston THELMA ANDREWS Virginia where she will look over a new library building erected by Snead It Company with the new modular type of steel construction which is to be used in the Sandefer Memorial library building The library at Orange is one of the first in the nation in which this advance type of contsruction was used -e- -e 'HP'' ''f w'v v' vT- 500 New Books On McMurrys Library Racks Students who enter McMurry rollege this fall will find more than 500 new volumes in the library there than were on the shelves last May Mrs Rosita Hollar librarian said yesterday More than 16000 books are now available in the library to serve the students in every department The department is especi ally strong in biography and reference materials she said Believed to be the only set of its kind in Abilene and which under the three-college agreement available to students of the other colleges here as well as McMurry students is the 24-volume edition of the Dictionary of National Biography The companion set 20-volume edition the Dictionary of American Biography is also available The library contains many of the standard references necessary to music students speech science history and literature and the other departments Mrs Hollar pointed out Of special interest to premedic students are the Van Nostrand Scientific Encyclopedia and Dorlsnd's Illustrated Medical dictionary Of special interest to students planning teaching careers is the new Encyclopedia of Educa tional Research edited by Monroe To meet the need for the newly-organized department of journalism and public relations an adequate selection of basic hooks in this field has been added This year has seen the addition too of many books in art particularly stressing its history and development The library recently microfilmed the Taylor County Times of 1885-1804 the original of which is in the library One of the special collections of which McMurry is most proud Mrs Hollar pointed out is the Lowry serapbook collection A Lowry editor of the Taylor County Times was an inveterate scrapbook collector Upon his death he had completed more than 180 separate scrapbooks most of them carefully classified as to subject matter In these volumes are illuminating stories of people history and customs of the late 10th century it is considered an invaluable source of poems which seldom had a hearing beyond the original printing in some obscure magazine or paper Odd information on a variety of subjects is available in these volumes which were collected over a period of many years Some of the scrapbooks contain short stories others are devoted to special days Christmas Thanksgiving and other observances Many are about people their fads and peculiarities An integral part of the McMur-ry library is the Hunt Memorial library now numbering approximately 800 volumes This section of the McMurry collection was sponsored by the Class of 1036 to honor James Winford Hunt first president of McMuriy It is for the sole use of the junior and senior students of the college Many hooks have been received from interested donors who have given or who have sent money for their purchase these in memory of some person formerly connected with McMurry Several have been given the library honoring the memory of the late Iris Graham registrar and alumnus Some have been given honoring McMurry Ex-service men in this way the college library has become the beneficiary for shout 80 bonks including an excellent set of the com Jlele works of Sidney Lanier in 0 volumes Uncle Sam receives 500 applications for government jobs daily Tha makori of ihii initrumaot ar'aMt lalhhtd with turn-' iog out a modern coniole thoi hat become fomour from on and af Ihii continent fa another far itjrfe baoirty tone and or lion Thai yoar oil Winlor I Company Mufottoi ar MACTIANO-fOUlWD an tnclutwo loo-turn which makti it pouiblo to reduce tonal ohrmo la a "whitper" whon dtlirtd- thus making practice po-! riodi for plooionltr tor Iho whole foiMy May wo dam-1 entire! tha highly dturoblo foolure? Addition to the Hardin-Simmons university library of more than 2000 volumes including two valuable private collections during the past year and the recent purchase of two micro-film readers has been announced by Miss Thelma Andrews librarian The library now contains approximately 40000 volumes in a general collection with a limited specialization in Southwestern history Miss Andrews said The micro-film readers are the first to be acquired by an Abilene libraiy Other distinctions of the Hardin-Simmons library include official designation as depository for government documents for this the 17th congressional district and depository of the Carnegie endowment for books and manuscripts on international peace Included with the micro-film reader are material from print books and films of periodicals and newspapers which would not otherwise be available to college students There is also a small collection of books and manuscripts on micro-film Included in the more recent acquisitions of the library is approximately 1000 volumes of the late Dean Campbell head of the HSU English department and the Ballard collection of 175 volumes on Spanish and Spanish American literature given by Mrs Ballard The Campbell library is mainly on English literature with a specialization in Shakespearian criticisms The Crane library of approximately 2000 books and manuscripts given several years ago by Judge Crane of Sweetwater who is president of the West Texas Historical association is the nucleus for the library's specialization in Southwestern history New books added the past fiscal year are representative of the book stock published in America relating to the curriculum of a liberal arts school Miss Andrews said The library also maintains a laboratory collection of children's literature for the use of students preparing to teach in primary and elementary grades This collection is used as an instructional laboratory by Miss Ethel Hatchett of the department of education Average monthly circulation of of the Hardin-Simmons library is approximately 5000 titles Miss Andrews said The heaviest reading is done in social science including history and in literature A recent addition to the library staff Is James Dyke who has be-come assistant librarian Dyke is a June graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he received the degree of Bachelor of Library Science Miss Andrews recently attended a convention at the University of Chicago which was devoted to library building problems including architectual and engineering plans where she obtained some new ideas which will be used in the new Sandefer Memorial library She left last week for a vacation trip In the East She will atop enroule at Orange Winter (Kompamj SBcaufifut cjMute'c at Your Fingertips Bliss Blacwyn Bailey of Ahilrnc model ing a auasette Wash Froi-k designed for fit and style shown in Blue Rose and Cold 593 the New NEED RECORDS AND RECORD SUPPLIES? 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