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...Keyes D. Metcalf, University librarian and director of Widener Library, had previously stated that only a few volumes of "Americana" were missing from Harvard collections, adding, however, that there was no way of being certain because the library has taken no recent inventory...
...Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University library, who had known the name of the thief for over two months, claimed yesterday that the police were letting the man go unapprehended so that he could return some of the missing volumes...
Library officials had suspected the man for some time, and his stack pass had been revoked. Metcalf had permitted the man to go unapprehended when he promised to aid in the return of the stolen merchandise...
...should have planned for this 40 years age," Metcalf said at its completion. Keen competition between libraries with each trying to build up its own collection has resulted in duplication that was in many cases "just plain silly" he said...
...South and the Pacific Coast need central deposit libraries at this time, Metcalf says, since 80 percent of the research volumes in the country are in the Northeast and Midwest...