Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Law Library has announced the appointment as its administrative head of Arthur C. Pulling, who resigned his position as head librarian of the Minnesota Law School to take up the new job here. He will begin his duties on October...
...Government now began an ambitious educational program. Returning to Washington last week, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish left behind in London a new Office of War Information branch, headed by onetime Banker James Paul Warburg. It has four functions: 1) supplying U.S. information to Britons, a job to be directed by able, young New York Timesman James B. Reston who spent four years in England covering British affairs; 2) conducting political (i.e., propaganda) warfare in enemy countries; 3) rebroadcasting U.S. short-wave programs from Britain; 4) improving relations between U.S. soldiers and Britons...
...Harvard volunteers were organized by Walton and R. L. Work, Librarian of the New England Deposit Library. They are designed to assist the hospital in its loss of trained personnel to the armed services. More than 100 men were scheduled and put to work for the period ending June 5. During the past few weeks, a much smaller staff has carried on until summer plans could be put into operation. "It is for this purpose that the meeting will be held at the hospital next Wednesday." Walton said, "Any one who wished additional information concerning this volunteer service should consult...
Busy Man. In Chicago, after 22 years of purchasing books for the Newberry Library, Librarian George B. Utley announced that he was going to retire and read some of them...
...these highly-skilled, seemingly out-of-the-world departments war has come with shocking brutality. The librarian has had to answer pleas of a soldier in Florida for information on Egyptian archaeology, the maintenance department has had to pack and supervise the departure of innumerable treasures to their secret shelter for the duration, and teachers have had to stress timely notes in Fine Arts to hold their students' interest. Perhaps even the conspicuous sign. "Students are requested not to use this elevator . . . It is intended only for the use of the Faculty, staff, and guests," may disappear, and undergraduates...