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...spite of these early bunglings, the library did manage to survive. But it did not achieve its present position as the foremost university library in the U.S. without its share of crises. No man knows this better than 66-year-old Keyes (rhymes with skies) DeWitt Metcalf, who for 18 years has been-Harvard's chief librarian. Last week, as he got set to retire, Metcalf could report with as much authority as any man alive just what it means to run a great empire of books...
...Keyes Metcalf took over in 1937 and soon realized that the Widener building would overflow within three years. What the university needed, he decided, was 1) a special library for undergraduates, 2) a new building for rare books and manuscripts, and 3) some sort of cooperative plan with other campuses for the storage of little-used books and the acquisition of new ones. As he steps out, Metcalf can reflect proudly that every one of these goals has been achieved...
...Houghton Library for rare books was opened, complete with temperature and humidity control. In 1945, in response to a hint that Metcalf had dropped at a dinner some years before, Manhattan Financier Thomas W. Lamont (1892) gave Harvard $1,500,000 for a new open-stack undergraduate library. Meanwhile, Metcalf helped to set up the New England Deposit Library, in which colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area store their little-used books, and the Farmington Plan by which colleges and universities buy foreign publications in common, thus covering the foreign field thoroughly while avoiding wasteful duplications...
...announcing the appointment, which is effective in the fall, Lewis W. Jones, Rutgers president, said yesterday that "In persuading Keyes Metcalf, one of the nations' most distinguished librarians, to join the faculty of our new Graduate School of Library Service, we have practically granted a high standard of academic performance...
...Since Metcalf's appointment as College Librarian in 1937, the Library has added almost two million books. On his retirement, Metcalf will be succeeded as Director of the University Library by Paul H. Buck, former Provost...