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When President Pusey announced the appointment of a new University Librarian last October, the news met with a rash of unsubstantiated rumors about faculty politics and personalities. Yet behind the rumors lay a largely undebated question: What effect will the appointment of Paul H. Buck to succeed Keyes D. Metcalf have on library and educational policy...
...appointment of Buck, the scholar, will serve to reemphasize the educational and scholarly aspects of this triple office, of administrator, educator, and scholar, in a way which was never contemplated by Metcalf, the professional librarian...
...explanations of the reversion to what President Pusey calls the "tradition of scholar-librarians" are apparent. The new President has taken an important step in winning his faculty by returning the library to a professor. More important, the appointment shows the Metcalf has brought library administration to the point where the University is able to dispense with professional direction...
...Metcalf is a different man of a different background. Called from the New York Public Library in 1937, he was the first University librarian without a Harvard degree. Retiring at 66 as one of America's leading professional librarians, he resembles a business executive more than a University official...
...Metcalf said last night that these comparisons were interesting, but that numbers of books published or kept Widener, provide no certain clue to a man's standing in the academic world. "One must be careful not to company appeals with pears he said, pointing not that some authors work for decides on a since book whereas other fields are suitable for more frequent publications...