Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointing Buck, President Pusey has not removed the conflict between faculty and administration, but he has removed some of the prejudices. The faculty has always expected the librarian to be a scholar, an educator, an historian, for the librarian is in a sense the only man who controls the scholar's work...
Metcalf's greatness as a librarian lies in his willingness to go beyond the academic tradition, placing his knowledge of library techniques at the disposal of the scholars. He is the first to admit that no administrative solution can be permanent, and that Buck will face the same problems he has faced. But if the durability of Winsor's work is a guide, Metcalf has laid the foundations of library administrative development for many years to come...
...result of administrative economics, the library has, to a large degree, kept working collections in those fields which the University emphasizes. But Metcalf explains that this has been done by cutting into other fields of service, and that Buck will still have to decide in what way the library should be inadequate...
...catalogue is another large administrative expense, which occupies more librarians than any other single item. But the catalogue has already been simplified more than in any other large library, too far, the overseers claim. Buck will be under pressure to expand rather than contract this department...
Regardless of whether Buck refines interlibrary cooperation to reduce the number of books needed annually, or finds money with which to swell the current acquisition, he will have to find space in which to store them. Metcalf has cut the rate of growth from a four percent annually to a constant 125,000 volumes each year, but even these fill almost three miles of new shelving...