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The empty shelves in Lamont will never be filled if future librarians continue to follow the plans of present Librarian Philip J. McNiff. As the demand for certain titles drops off, extra copies of the books are shunted off to the Widener stacks through underground tunnels, and replaced by other...
Because of these limitations on the size and scope of the collection, specialists will find little to interest them beyond the glass doors and the pink marble foyer. Lamont's collections of books on such subjects as law, business, education, agriculture, and the fine arts are purposely small. Although the...
To the undergraduate too, Lamont seems to have proven its worth. Not only has it made for itself a secure and prominent place in his mythology, but it has captured--either through its charm or more likely through its necessity--his statistical approval. Although McNiff belittles the importance of circulation...
U.S. Communist Author Howard (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road) Fast, seven of whose books were taken off U.S. overseas-library shelves last year, was awarded a Stalin Peace Prize (value: about $25,000, taxfree) for "helping to strengthen the cause of peace between the peoples." "Surprised and bewildered," Author Fast...
All over the Union of South Africa last week, housewives and bookworms were combing their dusty shelves for copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Hopalong Cassidy Comics. Reason: the lady and the cowboy, together with a rapidly mounting list of other books considered offensive by the government, were...