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The biographical sketch of Henry E. Huntington includes a description of the establishment of the Huntington Library and the purpose and scope of its collection. Although this is a free and public library, its use is restricted to qualified scholars having legitimate research needs. Photographic techniques were developed at the Huntington Library in order to make the collection available to scholars who were unable to travel to San Marino. Photography serves to preserve original copies of manuscripts which are in the process of disintegration or from which the writing is slowly disappearing and it saves wear and tear on the documents by reader use. The use of microfilm and microprints is compared and photographic analysis of a document is discussed. (Other papers from this Institute are available as LI 002962-LI 002966 and LI 002968 through LI 002976). (NH)

Revolutionary innovation in the traditional school library has produced "the media center", where--in addition to books--films, television, tapes, and multimedia displays are available to increase student learning. This book represents a collection of eighty-three articles from library journals dealing with library science in its modern form. The philosophy of the instructional materials center, or IMC, discussed in the first section, is that combining the available specialized services will enable the teacher or librarian to maximize the student's educational environment, and thereby maximize his learning. The librarian must become an information retrieval and dissemination expert. Subsequent sections of the book deal with the particular problems of the IMC in the elementary school, the secondary school, and the college and university. Final sections deal with the specifics of operation of an IMC--equipment, personnel, and evaluation of performance. (BB)

M USIC LIBRARIES in the United States in the last thirty years have in many cases made progress that enables them to compare favorably with older libraries abroad, especially in their organization, their physical facilities and equipment, and their collections of printed scores and the literature of music. However, in the field of primary source material, particularly autograph manuscripts, of European music, it has long been a common assumption that the American scholar would find our library shelves bare and would have to travel to the great libraries of Berlin, Paris, London, and other European cities to carry on his studies. No one will dispute the pre-eminence of these libraries, of course, in their manuscript collections, but quite aside from the possibility of their treasures being made available in facsimile in this country, it is becoming apparent that a very respectable number of European autograph scores do exist in the United States, in libraries and in private collections. A census of such material, now approaching completion, reveals many treasures of which most musicians may well be unaware. It will be the writer's purpose here to tell something of the background of the census, of some of his experiences in carrying it on, and to call attention to the extent of the manuscript collections in this country. In the spring of 1937 a small group of music librarians, eager to increase available source material in American libraries, outlined a project to obtain microfilm copies of musical rarities in European libraries for a central archive in this country. Approached for a grant to enable a librarian to visit central Europe and make preliminary contacts for such a project, the Oberlaender Trust, although approving the purpose, suggested a preliminary census of autograph manuscripts and facsimiles of European composers in American libraries and collections, and the writer was asked to make such a survey. Once begun, the census proved to be more complicated than expected, and, unfinished at the time of Pearl

WHEN on Nov. 29, 1898, 154 charter members founded The Chemists' Club to bring together and to serve all members of the profession, the plan visioned a great chemical library. Today, that great collection of chemical literature is available to all chemists. Its existence and maintenance constitute an invaluable asset of the American chemical industry. As such, the library of The Chemists' Club is kept as a repository of the latest information on chemical and allied subjects for the use of all interested. This is now the largest chemical research library in the United States. It is a storehouse of valuable information of vast practical usefulness to the chemists of the country. The initial collection of the library was formed by gifts of members, notably Charles F. Chandler. This was supplemented in January 1899 by the library of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, which was "deposited" with the club upon conditions agreeable to both parties. Books, ...

W < THEN plans for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Goucher College were in progress, the library staff was faced with the problem of preparing a library exhibit in keeping with the theme of the celebration, the educational program of the college. It was necessary that the exhibit not only represent the educational program, but represent it in concrete terms which even the casual visitor could understand. Since the use of verbal symbols, particularly in the form of written and printed materials, is a most important factor in liberal-arts education, and since such materials are the stock in trade of any library, books and other printed materials were adopted as the symbols of the educational program. A display of books used by the students between i888 and I894, and those used by students today was decided on as representing not only the educational program of the college, but also the important part played in that program by the library. The librarian had already begun to collect textbooks used by members of the first classes, as a part of the record of college history. A systematic attempt to add to them was now made. A study of the description of courses in the college catalogues from I888 to I894 added a few more titles to the list, titles which were available either in the library's own collection or in other local libraries. These same descriptions of courses, together with information supplied by alumnae, gave a fair idea of the nature of the collateral reading done in that period. Modern materials for contrast were assembled from the syllabi used currently in courses in the college, and from suggestions made by members of the faculty in the departments concerned. Of course, not all departments could be represented in the exhibit. The fact that the collection of early textbooks was not complete, that not all the departments at present offering courses were represented in the curriculum before I894, and limitations of space, all played a part in the final selection. In the end, seven departments were included: psychology, philosophy, French, economics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It seemed best to limit the exhibit to elementary courses, because, in some cases, only an elementary course was offered in the early days, and because the use of advanced courses might place more emphasis on the advance of knowledge and less on the educational program. For each of these seven departments a textbook, studied in the early years, and other representative books, when others were