Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first lap of final exams drew to a close yesterday, Phillips Brooks House's Book Drive had only achieved 25 percent of its quota of 250 used texts, Alfred Pugliese '47, PBH librarian, reported last night...
Samuel R. Campbell, Jr. '47 has been elected president of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, the Pudding announced yesterday. Other new officers include Craig P. Gilbert '47, vice-president: J. Bradley Cummings, 3rd '46, krokodllis; David S. Biddle '49, librarian: Francis H. Cabot, Jr., '50, secretary; and John R. Rand '50, treasurer...
Last week, Luther Evans, the 44-year-old Librarian of Congress, looked up from his books long enough to rehearse a request, in a tone bolder than librarians habitually use. Though the House Appropriations Committee is slashing almost every Government agency in sight, Evans will ask for $11,346,000-nearly twice last year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff...
...every book copyrighted in the U.S., it will continue to swell. The library began (in 1789) with a Congressman's modest proposal that a committee draw up and price a "catalogue of books" for his colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week...
...made the public welcome. Last year 669,740 readers used the library's 20 reading rooms, and 764 scholars researched and wrote books in its cubicles. A "faculty" of 25 fellows and 22 consultants (among them: Poet Karl Shapiro) constantly survey and "interpret" the library collections, tell the Librarian what to get and what to throw away, help visiting scholars. The library's strong suits (after U.S. life & letters): China, Latin America, music, prints and photographs...