Word: librarian
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This geometric bogey was raised last week by Connecticut Wesleyan's Librarian Fremont Rider in The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (Hadham Press, $4.00). But Librarian Rider is not overly alarmed. He thinks the solution is already at hand, in microprint...
...Librarian Rider thinks their scheme is already obsolete. For microfilms must be boxed, catalogued and stored like books. Preservation is also a problem: film wears out far faster than paper...
Microprint, in Librarian Rider's opinion, is a better scientific substitute for oldtime methods of scratching the Lord's Prayer on a pinhead. As employed commercially by Manhattan's Readex Microprint Corp., it reduces the ordinary book page to 1/400th of its original size, prints these pages in blocks of one hundred on a 6 in. by 9 in. card. For reading, the card is inserted in a "reflectoscope" which enlarges each microprinted page to 9 in. by 12 inches. Only one page at a time appears in the reader's vision, and a mechanical finder...
...World and America puts history teaching on a basis quite as informal as that of the fabled Mark Hopkins and the student on the other end of the log. It consists in easy, familiar discussions be tween a fictional businessman, Sam, and his librarian friend, George. As the series opens they are waiting for something tall and cool at the 19th hole...
Archibald MacLeish, poet laureate Librarian of Congress, had words for the nation (see U.S. AT WAR) and four words for four medal-getting word men: "Freedom, liberty, democracy, equality . . . are revolutionary words always. . . ." The American Academy of Arts and Letters' four medal-getting revolutionaries...