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Annual Report

1967-68 HE LIBRARY OF THE1967-68SEP 20 19

SMmlasa uf ILUNUISDear Chancellor Peltason:

Submitted herewith is the annual report of the year ending June 30,1968. Outstanding progress can be recorded again in all important aspects ofthe Library's activities during the period. There was a major expansion incollections for study and research, the use of the Library's resourcesincreased, and significant improvements in physical facilities were under way.The principal phases of the Library's operations are reviewed in more detailbelow.

GROWTH OF LIBRARY

At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1968, the Idbrary held4,086,854 volumes fully cataloged or otherwise prepared for use in Urbanaand 182,$84 volumes in the Library of Medical Sciences, for a total ofh,269,438 volumes, or a net increase of 170,326 for the year. The totalcost of materials purchased on the two campuses was $1,800,541, to whichshould be added extensive collections of books, journals, pamphlets, maps,music scores, manuscripts, and other items received by gift and exchange.Descriptions of some of noteworthy groups of books and other materials ac-quired during the year follow. For 1967-68, for the first time, data for theChicago Circle Campus Library are being reported separately.

NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS

Among the collections added to the Library during the year weredistinguished resources relating to early English literature.

T. W. Baldwin Elizabethan Librar

Early in the year negotiations were completed for the Library to ac-quire the extraordinary private collection assembled by Thomas WhitfieldBaldwin, Emeritus Professor of English. During and after his years on thefaculty, starting in 1925, Professor Baldwin colle cted a variety of booksrelevant to research in the Elizabethan period of English literature. Hispersonal library which came to Illinois at the beginning of the year, consistsof 5,779 volumes of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts ofclassical authors and commentaries on their works, Bibles, prayer books,rhetorics, histories, and schoolbooks in use during the early centuries ofEnglish literature. As Professor Baldwin was the principal architect ofthe Library's rich Shakespearean holdings, he coordinated selections for theUniversity Library with his own collection. Consequently, there is onlylimited duplication.

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Professor Baldwin chose 350 of the most valuable volumes in the col-lection to present to the Library, and the remaining 5,429 volumes wereacquired by purchase. The importance of this collection for its period canscarcely be overestimated, especially when added to the Library's alreadyexceptional holdings in English and classical fields.

Caxton Cicero

The single most distinguished item acquired during the year is avolume from the press of William Caxton, the first English printer and thefirst printer in the English language, whose books were instrumental instandardizing the English language at a time when it was mainly a series ofdialects. The new acquisition is a volume produced in 1481, five years afterCaxton established his press at Westminster, and contains an English transla-tion of Cicero's De Senectute and De Amicitia and Buonaccorso da Montemagno'sDe Nobilitate. THe copy is from tTF Chapter Library of York Cathedral.

Incunabula

In addition to the Caxton Cicero, the Library added fifteen volumespublished before 1501 to its collection of incunabula, bringing its totalholdings to 1,034 volumes.

All of the titles acquired are of textual importance. Classical authorsare represented by Idyl!ia (Venice, 1495), the first edition of the Ecloguesof the Greek pastoral poet Theocritus, printed in the Greek language alongwith a number of other works by the great Italian printer, Aldus Manutius;an early edition of the Satyricon (Venice, 1499) the first Western Europeannovel, attributed to Petronius, the Roman voluptuary, poet, and Nero's"arbiter of elegance"; the only copy in America and the second recordedcopy in the world of a printing of three Cicero titles, De Amicitia, Paradoxa,and De Senectute (Modena, 1491); and a collection of titles printed inVenice in 149, written by Lucian of Samosata, a second-century satirist,including his "True History,tt a fictitious acount of a fantastic voyage,which is credited with influencing the writings of Erasmus, Thomas More,Rabelais, Voltaire, and Swift. Early Christian writings included are thepera of Saint Cyprian (Venice, 1483), a rare early edition of the worksof te third-century martyr, and the Opera of Lactantius (Rome, 1470), thebeauty of whose style earned him the title of the "Christian Cicero."

Medieval texts included are: the third edition of Bernard de Gordon'sPractica, seu Lilium Medicinae (Lyons, 1491), an early medical text; therare seconTdition of Giovanni Tortelli's Orthographia (Venice, 1471), fromthe press of the Italian printer Nicolaus Jenson, with twenty-four initialcapital letters decorated in miniature style by contemporary artists; PaoloAttavanti's Breviarium Totius Juris Canonici (Milan, 1179), the earliestknown book with its author's portrait included; and a rare edition of SacroBosco's famous treatise on spherical astronomy Sphaera Mundi (Paris, 1498-99),the first edition to contain the explanations by Pedro Ciruelo, Spanishmathematician and astrologer, together with the Quaestiones by Pierre d'Ailly,French theologian and chancellor of the University of Paris, and includingreferences to the discovery of America.

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English Literatures Schoolbooks

Supplementing the Library's already rich holdings of early schoolbooksand the Baldwin acquisitions are: a rare incunable Renaissance schoolbook inLatin and Italian, Stefano Fieschi's Synonyma (Rome, ca.1480); a famous geometrytextbook in the third edition, of which only one other copy is known, RobertRecord's The Pathway to Knowledge (London, 1602); Giovanni Francesco Fortuiio'sRegole Gramaticai i della Volgar Lingua (Ancona, 1516), the first edition of

alanguage;Christoph Hegendorff'sthe first printed rules of the Italian language 5 Christoph Hegendorff'sRatio Epistolarum Conscribendarum Compendiaria (Leipzig, 120), a collection

of model Latin letters used in grammar schools; the Enchiridion Arithmeticonof Richard Hodges (London, 1634), a sort of business arithmetic, inthe secondedition of which only one other copy is known, only a single copy of the firstedition being recorded; Juan Luis Vives's Ad Sapientiam Introductio (Aberdeen,1623), a collection of 992 moral sayings which were used in the teaching ofLatin, of which only one other copy is recorded in this country; and a finegrammar to add to our distinguished Robert Whittington collection, GrammaticaeWhitintonianae Liber Secundus de Nominum Declinatione (London, 1525), printedin the establishment of Tfynkyne Worde, Caxton's pupil and successor.

English Literature: Sixteenth Century

Sixteenth-century resources were enriched by such noteworthy volumes asthe following, all of which justify the description, rare: (1) De TerminoPasche, a British yearbook, printed about 1520 by Richard Pynson, an earlyLondon printer who specialized in legal works and was said to have learnedprinting from Caxton; (2) The Table of Cebes (London, ca.1l30), the firstedition in English of the ony surviving work attributed to Cebes, the Thebanphilosopher and friend of Socrates; (3) A Remedy for Sedition (London, 1536),published anonymously on the occasion of the rebellious movements of the RomanCatholics in northern England--the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace--and designedto persuade the people to be contented, its literary interest deriving fromthe idiomatic English in which it is written; (4) a volume of three workspublished during 1533-1548 in London, all by John Frith, the Protestant martyrwho aided Tyndale in his translation of the New Testament; (5) John Bale'sYet a Course at the Romshe Foxe (Zurich, 153), the first edition of thefirst publishe wok of a great English Protestant scholar; (6) StephenGardiner's A Declaration of Suche True Articles as George Joye Hath Gone Aboutto Confute as False (London, 1~i6),3 a significan wor Yin the Reformationcontroversy by an outspoken Catholic churchman; (7) A Briefe and CompendyouseTable (London, 1563), an early Biblical concordance ompiled by HeinrichBullinger and other ministers of the church, the second English edition,translated by Walter Lynne; (8) the first edition in English of The FiveBookes of the Famous, Learned and Eloquent Man, Hieronimus Osorius (Lo-on,t767 tanslated by Wilfliam BTla dy; (9) Conrad Heresbach's Foure Bookesof Husbandry (London, 1577), first English edition of an early agriculturalwork; (10) a first edition of a rare work by Queen Elizabeth's favorite andan important public figure, William Cecil, Baron Burghley's The Execution ofJustice in England (London, 1583); and (11) a scarce edition of a landmarkof Elizabethan literature, John Lyly's Euphues; The Anatomy of Wit (London,

ca.l995).

nglish Literature: Seventeenth Century

The most distinguished single seventeenth-century acquisition was a play,A Looking Glasse for London and England, by Thomas Lodge, would-be playwrightnd lyric poetanRobert Greene. pamphleteer and dramatist, published in a

number of editions, all scarce, this one dated 1617. It is a didactic playon the subject of Jonah and the Ninevites, with comical matter intermixed.'

Two noteworthy collections of government publications were acquired,seventeen proclamations from the reign of Charles I and a group of thirty-five seventeenth-century parliamentary acts. The former deal with suchtopics as the price of food, a public fast, currency, exports to France,Scottish sedition, and archery.

Three titles, all first editions published in the sixteen-forties,were added to the Library's growing collection of wcrks by John Taylor, the*Water-Poet An A pology for Private Preaching, Saint Hillaries Teares, andWestminster Fa, the an refrerence tE America The aeswateman s works are often coarse and brutal, but they serve as an accuratemirror of his age.

Other acquisitions of poetry, all first editions, include: Michaelt~ayton's To the Majestie of Kin James (London, 1603), which Drayton styleda "graiaula•r 1 poem, wriTen to g eadvancement on the accession of James Ito the English throne; the second edition of The Tragedie of Darius (London,160h), the first published poem of Wlliam Alexander, Earl of Tingj poetand statesman Sir George Buck's Daphnis Polstephanos (London, 1605), apoetical work by the historian poetand master of e revels for Jamesttus Posth6s (Oford, 1612), a poetical miscellany published on the death

Tnce Henry an unauthorized first printing of the Poems of KatherinePhilips (London, 1664), known to her contemporaries as the ~ "tchless Orinda";and Charles Goodallls Poems and Translations (London, 1689), published whenthe young author was on eigeen.

Two dramas, both written by prolific English writers and both firsteditions should be mentioned: Thomas Jordan's The walks of Islgton and

gsdond (London, 1657) and The Counterfeit Bridegoo• n (ontnf 10l77Iafr IThIomas Middletons No H Like aWomans, the alterationsvariously ascribed to Apfa n dnand' omas Betterton.

Of interest in public affairs are the following: Lodowick Lloyd'sA Briefe Conference of Divers Lawes (London, 1602) a compilation of different••Fms ancient rule wiFh veiledreferences to contemporary events TheRo4 Entertainement of the Ri ht Honourable the Earle of Nottingha ndon,

6 detailing t ie I to Spain of T, Erl of Nottingham andLord Admiral to iizabeth I, for the purpose of completing the peace negotia-tions between England and Spain; Thomas Mace's Profit, Convenienc, andPleasure, to the Whole Nation (London, 1675), a discourse on the highwaysof England wri~Ten by an accomplished musician; Spinoza's A Treatise PartlyTheological, and Partly Political (London, 1689), the first edition in

English of Spinoza's eloquently reasoned defense of liberty of thought andspeech in speculative matters, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus; and Closelybound to public affairs, one of the rare Catholic attacks on CardinalBellamine's Ultramontanism, Thomas Preston's Apologia Cardinalis Bellarminipro Jure Principum, with the false imprint Cosmopoli, having been printedsecretly in London.

Two items of mathematical interest were added: a book of arithmeticalrecreations, Nicholas Hunt's Newe Recreations, or The Mindes Release andSolacing(London, 1631) in the rare first edition of which only two othercopies are recorded in this country; and the first edition of Henry Bond'simportant work, The Longitude Found (London, 1676), in which Bond offers amethod of determining longitude.

English Literature: Eighteenth Century

Substantial additions were made to the Library's holdings of the worksof two great figures of the eighteenth century: Daniel Defoe and JonathanSwift. Thirty-two Defoe titles, all published during the author's lifetime,were acquired. The most noteworthy are two rare first editions, theanonymously-published A New Family Instructor (London, 1727), which becameone of the most popular moral treatises of the century, and An Essay on theRegulation of the Press (London, 1704), one of the rarest of Defoe's tracts.

Of the 18 titles acquired which were published before Swift's death,the most significant are a group of five broadsides published during 1720-1724, all great rarities. When he was over fifty, Swift shcwed a revivedinterest in public affairs, particularly in relation to English rule, andthese five broadsides are excellent examples of his concern and expressionof it. They include: The Swearers Bank (Dublin, 1720), a satiric pieceproposing a bank supported by a tax on swearing; The Present MiserableState of Ireland (Dublin, 1721), which ascribes Irish poverty to Englishregulations; and three--two poems and a song--attacking the patent soldto the English tradesman William Wood, which gave him the right to providecopper coinage for Ireland, Prometheus, A Serious Poem Upon William Wood, andAn Excellent New Song...Against Wood's H~ef-Pence, all three published nDublin in 172iT-

Foreign Language Areas

Two important works of medieval Spanish literature were acquired:Chronica del famoso cavallero Cid Ry Diez Campeador (Burgos, 1593), a rareedition of•pain's great nationT epic, relating the life and heroic deedsof the Cid; and La demanda del Sancto Grial (Seville, 1535), a Spanish proseversion of the Arthurian romances and o e legend of the Holy Grail inparticular. Early Spanish romances of chivalry are so scarce that theirorigin and their literary tradition have scarcely been investigated as yet.Of this edition, only one other complete copy is recorded, that in the BLbli-oteca National in Madrid. Copies in the British Museum and in the BibliothequeNationale in Paris are composite copies, combined from the 1515 and 1535editions.

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Principally with University Research Board funds, 10 manuscript letterswritten by Marcel Proust and 90 addressed by Robert de Montesquiou to Proustwere added to our already outstanding collection of Proust autograph letters.In addition, two rare and unusual items were acquired, both related to Al'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, the fourth part of A la recherche dute peru, the part which gives an account of the narrator's adolescence.e first item is a publication in an edition limited to five copies of tw6

fragments from A l'ombre, entitled Pages inachevees; Le quintette Lepic;L Orgue du Casiio de Balbec, published in 1927 after PFoust's death. Thesecond item consists of two large sheets of paper on which are attachedpassages in printer's proof from the same novel, which have been given manycorrections and additions in Proust's hand, some long handwritten changesforming whole pages of manuscript. The two sheets thus illuminate thecreative process of one of literature's most careful revisers, whose greatnovel has been called one of the supreme imaginative creations of worldliterature.

Two items of note were added to the Marvin T. Herrick Italian Ren-aissance Drama Collection: Antonio Cammelli's Tragedia de Antonio da Pistoia(Venice, 1516), the oldest tragedy in the Italian language and the ?IrstItalian romantic tragedy; and three rare Renaissance comedies in one volume,Comedia Intitolata Li Soppositi (Venice, 136), and La Lena (Venice, 1538),both by Lodovico Arstos and La Flora (Florence, 153'), - Luigi Alamanni.Ariosto's Soppositi is of specal interest to English theatre, as it wastranslated into English and performed in London in 1566, the first Englishcomedy in prose.

Interesting for its literary value, but of broader use, is BenvenutoCellini's Vita which the Library acquired in the 1728 edition. The imprintis given as Cologne, but it was actually published in Naples. This is thefirst edition of this celebrated work by an Italian artist and adventurer.

Fine and Applied Arts

Substantial works were acquired on various facets of art, such asJj«.L Forain Aguafortiste (Paris, 1912), a two-volume descriptive catalogof 125 etchings and monotypes of Jean Louis Forain, who died in 1931, themost eminent etcher of his generation; Paul Schubring's Cassoni (Leipzig,1923), the second enlarged edition of a monumental work on Italian paintedchests of the fifteenth century, some of them works of noted painters, othersvaluable as early monuments of non-religious art; and Betty Kurth's exhaustivethree-volume work with 344 fine plates, Die deutschen Bildteppiche desMittelalters (Vienna, 1926), a complete corpus of German taapestries up to1600.

Of more general artistic interest in Giulio Cesare Capaccio's IIForastiero; Dialogi (Naples, 1630), first edition of this work on the artand architecture of Naples in connection with its history and famous personages.A quite different description of another Italian city, Florence, is providedby a collection of twenty-seven titles on the Florence flood of November, 1966,acquired from a bookseller in Florence through Professor G. W. White's efforts.

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In the area of the theatre, the University of Illinois Foundation addedto the Library the archives of Fritz Leiber, eminent American Shakespeareanactor and producer. The collection has special relevance to Illinois, asLeiber was born and educated in Chicago, and his activities were based inChicago for over ten years. His Shakespearean repertory company was thelast such effort in this country. The collection includes a wide varietyof materials, correspondence, business and theatre records, play scripts,manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, and programs.

A Shakespearean promptbook, rich in associations, was acquiredt ActsThree to Five of the Merchant of Venice. This is the promptbook used byHenry Irving, with same added notes in Ellen Terry's handwriting made whenshe used it later. The book was preserved first by Miss Terry's last husband,James Carew, and later by Miss Terry's son, Gordon Graig.

History of Science

The year's acquisitions of early scientific works cover a broad rangeof subjects and includer (1) Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae Novae Planetarum(Wittenberg, 1553), the second edition of Peurbach's faous exposition ofthe planetary system with Erasmus Reinhold's commentary, the work includingseveral references to Copernicus; (2) Thomas Blundeville's A Briefe Pescriptionf Universal Mapl and Cardes (Iandon, 1589), the rare first edionf :?actiadise non maps and the principles of cosmography by a greatElizabethan scientist; (3) the first edition of A Treatise Named Lucarsolace(Loondon, 190), a collection of works by various auiors on 'tied gemeirtyand mechanics, the major work of the English mechanician and author, Cypriuc ar (4) Robert Boyle's Oper Omnia (Venice, 1697), the first edition of

the complete Latin works ofte E" gsh natural philosopher, an untrimedcopy of a beautiful three-volume set (5) upf Bibel (Augsburg and Ul,173135), the German edition of Johann Jacob Sce~icer's monumental four-volume work, Phyica Scrya, illustrated with 761 copper plates, the wholedesigned as an smbitios project to explain with modern methods the featuresof the Bible which raise problems of natural history, a storehouse of detaileddescriptions of contemporary scientific knowledge and beliefs ar a fineexample of Baroque artistry and philosophy; and (6) a magnificent color-plate book A Monogra h of the Odontophrinae o, or artriges of America( on, b J o nlh ir olosd n lproduced l1 folio volumes illustrated by 2,999 plates,

Atilases and Gazetteers

A manuscript gasetteer with miscellaneous notes was acquired during theyear, Zibaldone duno Studente Fiorentino. Begun by a Florentine student ofgeography in he nd q ter o he sixteenth century, it was written byseveral hands and contains a great variety of information on many subjects.The work is an alphabetically-arranged gazetteer of the world, with lists ofplace-names, sometimes with comments upon them, Between and at the end ofthe letter-sections are notes on recent geographical discoveries in the NewWorld, Africa and the East Indies and miscellaneous notes on architectural,historical, astronomical and other points.

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Noteworthy atlases and related publications acquired include: threeatlases by John Seller of London, seventeenth-century compiler, publisher,and seller of maps, charts and geographical books, Atlas Minimus (1679),A Pocket Book (1685), and Practical Navigation (16957- i ew eneral Pilotfro--f Egland to New Hollan nd Botan~~y Laondon, 178-"89), a rare ivo~me

of excellent engraved maps of Th-oas Jeferys and others; John Thomson'sA New General Atlas (Edinburgh, 1817), including 84 colored maps coveringthe world; and A General Atlas (London, 1821), published by William Fadenand containing thirteen maps of American interest.

Travel and Americana

Works describing early explorations were acquired, some of them contem-porary accounts, including: George Best's A True Discourse of the LateVoyages of Discoverie, for the Finding of aPassage toatg a ya Tndon, 1578),first edltion of an eye nes account ~T Marin FroBsher's three voyagesin search of a Northwest Passage, one of the earliest English-language bookson America; a complete set of the eight parts of the British Sessional Papersdealing with the North-West American .ater Boundary, complete with the rare"Protocol" and nineteen maps, all printed in London in 1873; and Histoirede navigations aux Terres Australes, by Charles de Brosses (Paris, 1756 2vo1mes), first eftion of the first collection devoted exclusively to Pacificvoyages, a work of great influence, having been carefully studied by Bougainvilleand carried by Cook on his first voyage.

Among items specific to the history of this country these acquisitionsare noteworthy: Cicero's Cato Major, or His Discourse of Old-Ae, printed andsold in Philadelphia by Benjamin ankliFnin !71, the reface"y Franklin andthe translation and annotations by James Logan, the chief justice of Pennsyl-vania, in whose library Franklin educated himself, this publication generallyregarded as the best specimen of printing produced by Franklin's press; aBitish document by the Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for theBritish and French Possessions in America, The Memorials of the English andFrench Comisssaries (London, 1755, 2 volumes-, the first Englfsh edition of asigificant wrk which examines the conflicting claims of France and Englandin the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, including various papers and documentswhich throw light on the situation, the most important contemporary source onthe origins of the French and Indian War; Number II of Lewis Evans's Geo-graphical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays (ondon,1756), hich completes our set f the two numbers published oh tten bythe American geographer who lived and traveled in the areas described and

mapped, this number dealing largely with rival French and English claims toAmerican territory; Thomas Paine's Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776) in thefirst edition to be enlarged by the inclusion of Paine's Large Additions toCommon Sense, published by the first publisher of Paine's i rtant pamphlet,Robert B the first edition, two-volume set of a rare, pioneer work ofAmerican fiction, The Algerine Captive, by Royall Tyler (Walpole, N, H., 1797),an influential playwright, novelist, and jurist, whose novel portrayed nativescenes realistically, satirizing college education and medical quackery inthe North and slavery in the South; and a pre-fire Chicago imprint, EdwardBonney's Banditti of the Prairies, the first edition of 1850 of this classicaccount of the terrfsrFsI who roamed the upper Mississippi Valley during18h3-h8, including material on the Mormons during the Nauvoo period.

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Latin American Resources

Some antiquarian items were added to the Library's Latin Americancollections, including five titles listed in Sabine The more important are:Description eographique des isles Antilles (Paris, 1758), by Jacques NicolasBellin; second and third e3tions of Thomas Gage's A New Survey of the West-Indies (1655 and 1677); Le mercure indien; ou, Le t? sordes ~ ndW (rI 1667),b Pierre de Rosnela and a companion piee to our P aax colZ e 1- on, AnAccount of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America,by Bartolom~~ e la Cas as, Bishop of Chiapa, te firstriest ordaiied in theNew World and the Great Spanish reformer who exposed Spanish exploitation ofthe Indians in America.

Of special interest in the Latin American area is the deposit in theUniversity Archives by Professor Oscar Lewis of the original manuscript and91 recording tapes of interviews conducted by Professor Lewis in the preparationof his book, The Children of Sanchez. The collection will serve in studies oflower-class Spaish by linguists and will be useful for social scientistsinterested in family studies and interview techniques.

Area StudPr ograms

Steady progress continued to be made in the Library's non-Western col-lections, especially in the Slavic and Asian areas.

With the addition of 15,324 volumes for Slavic studies in 1967-8,the Library's fully-cataloged holdings reached 119,897 volumes, representing4,493 serial titles and 5h,629 monographic publications, and now ranks amongthe leading collections in American academic institutions. Russian, tkranian,and other languages of the Soviet Union comprise a large percentage of thetitles cataloged, but the Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Yugoslav sections showincreasing strength. An uncataloged backlog of 31,800 volumes existsa whenprocessed, the arrearage will further strengthen the Library's holdings.As for the past several years, generous support for the purchase of materialscame from the University Research Board, and for the employment of staff fromthe Russian Center's grant and contract funds.

The expanding program of Asian studies at Illinois was supported alsoby growing library collections* The Asian Division cataloged a total of15,783 volumes. Indic, Indonesian, and Arabic materials came to the Libraryprimarily through membership in the Public Law 480 program administered bythe Library of Congress. Under this federally-supported enterprise, allcurrent publications--books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, etc.--ofpossible research value from India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Nepal, Indonesia,nited Arab Republic, Israel, and Yugoslavia are acquired and cataloged co-operatively. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials are received principallythrough purchase and exchange. An uncataloged backlog of 1,OO0 volumes ofChinese and Japanese publications were on hand at the end of the year. TheGraduate Research Board also gave substantial support to the acquisition ofFar Eastern materials.

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The Library has continued to participate in the Latin AmericanCooperative Acquisition Project (LACAP), the purpose of which is to supplyall current publications of research value from Latin American countries.Receipts at Illinois from this source during the year were 2,551 items.

Book and travel funds were made available from the Midwest Uni-versities Consortium for International Activities for the libraries of thefour cooperating universities--Illinois, Indiana, Michigan State, andWisconsin--to send representatives to various areas of the world for thecooperative acquisition of library materials. Members of the Illinoisstaff who went to India and Ceylon, the Far East, and Latin America acquiredmuch important material that could not have been procured through regulartrade channels. With support from other sources, acquisition missions wereundertaken also to the Soviet Union, Rumania, Hungary, and Austria, withhighly gratifying results.

Beyond the advantage of buying library materials not readily availableby order, such trips are valuable in other ways, e.g.: gathering biblio-graphic information; establishing and strengthening exchange arrangementswith foreign institutions; finding new sources of publications and strengthen-ing relations with dealers, publishers, and government agencies; and benefit-ing the individuals sent on the missions by increasing their knowledge ofthe areas in which they specialize.

Farmington Plan

Also in the foreign field, the Library continued its active partici-pation in the "Farmington Plan," a cooperative program sponsored by theAssociation of Research Libraries for the acquisition by libraries in theUnited States of all books of research value published abroad. Though itsoriginal purpose has been superseded to some extent by newer programs, suchas those described above, the Farmington Plan continues to play an importantrole. The year's receipts at Illinois under this program were 3,539 volumes.Total receipts since the inception of the Plan in 1948 number 62,159 volumes,at a total cost of $220,636.

Exchanes

As of June 30, 1968, the Library was maintaining exchange relations with3,165 institutions distributed among the principal countries of the world. Tothese universities, learned societies, academies, observatories, museums,and similar organizations were sent 27,342 copies of University of Illinoispublications, in exchange for their publications. These arrangements led tothe acquisition by the Library of many worthwhile publications, mainlyperiodicals, in various fields of interest. Unfortunately, the amount ofmaterial available for exchange purposes is being continually reduced, as theUniversity Press and other publishing agencies on the campus restrict books,journals, and other publications supplied to the Library to meet exchangeagreements. A consequence was that only about one-half as many items weredistributed in 1967-68 as in 1966-67.

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Periodicals

At the end of the year, the total of different current serial titles,not including newspapers, was 58,677, an increase of 3,751 during the preced-ing twelve months. Including duplicates, the total number of serials currentlybeing recorded was 69,696, an increase of 4,619. Of the total, 19,052 wereperiodicals and 39,625 were continuations issued less than three times annually.Newly placed periodical subscriptions totaled 1,915. The number of newspaperscurrently received, in original format or in microfilm, increased from 822 to843. Of the total, 463 came through paid subscriptions and 380 by gift.Further progress was made toward completion of the Central Serial Record, whichcontained entries for a total of 43,519 titles at the end of the year.

The Library again added retrospective files of a number of valuableserial titles to its collections. Among major titles procured during theyear were these: Beitrage zur Palaontologie und Geologie Osterreich-Unharnsund des Orients, 18 -i 05, a scarce scientific journa Bulletin des s8t2-"8, of inrerest to art collectors and bibliophile s; Jbls7 Mrir des

arts du livre et de 1'estampe, 1921-31, a journal on FrenchgraphTic artstpas, hronic-a mensal d a plolitica das eltras e dos costumes 1871-83, a

rare Portuguese jour-na-l he i--artIstar1-ire some45 numbers of an importan English newspaper; Journal desmissions evaneliques1826-1965, important for Balkan history; The o Protetant, • d rueDomestick Inellence, 1681-82, a rare seventeeth-century newspaperj RoyalAsiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland-Korea Branch, Transactions,1900-h9, and North China Branch Journl, 188-1966; Saint FPaul Magazine1867'- 7 h, general magazine edited by Anthony Trollope ; and •p T2 s, 1891i*922,important French newspaper.

Another area stressed was Latin American periodicals, for which acontinuing program was carried on to acquire full runs of leading titles fromvarious countries. Periodical files classifying in history, literature, anthro-pology, social sciences, political science, folklore, and other fields wereprocured from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.

Gifts

In addition to the notable Baldwin gift mentioned above, the Libraryreceived a number of significant gift collections. Simon Litman, ProfessorEmeritus of Economics, presented his private library of 1,168 volumes ofRussian, French, German, and English publications. Mrs. A. B. McBurney gave asa memorial to her son, William H. McBurney, late Professor of English at Illinois,849 volumes and 165 serial publications, dealing mainly with the English noveland drama. Charles Bragin of Woodbridge, Connecticut, gave a complete set ofthe 2L5 volumes of Fra~k Merriwell novels. John R. Dewson, an Illinois alumnusrecently deceased, presented a collection of documents with autographs of allU.S. Presidents, starting with George Washington. Mrs. Alice Jenson Faye donated32 monographs dealing with the Zulu tribe from the estate of Christopher Faye,long-time member of the Library staff.

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In addition to purchasing the Fritz Leiber collection and aiding in thepurchase of the Baldwin collection, both described above, the University ofIllinois Foundation administered funds endowed in the names of Roy N. Fargo,F. Curtis Swanson, Harlan H. Horner, and Merten J. Mandeville.

Gifts from other alumni, faculty members, and friends of the Universitywere numerous and are gratefully acknowledged. A complete list is appendedto the present report.

PREPARATION OF MATERIALS

The technical departments of the Library--Acquisition, Catalog, Serials,and Special Languages--and their divisions, such as Gift and Exchange, Documents,Binding and Photographic Services, are responsible for the procurement, organiza-tion, and preparation for use of all types of library materials. A summary oftheir acitvities for the year follows.

Acquisition Department

Much of the work of the Acquisition Department has been reported inpreceding sections under GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY.

The Department received, processed and forwarded to be incorporated inthe Library's classified and cataloged collections a total of 94,788 items ofmonographic materials, an increase of 20,765 over the preceding year. TheDepartment also distributed numerous pamphlets and other ephemera directly todepartmental libraries and reading rooms, where they were generally madeavailable in organized vertical file collections.

Of the 94,788 publications and other items selected for standardcataloging, 82,631 were acquired by purchase (34.4 percent above the previousyear's 61,472) and 12,154 by gift or exchange. By categories, the totalcomprised 75,991 books, 6,768 music scores and parts, 6,965 maps, 106 manu-scripts, 969 photographic reproductions, 3,906 sound recordings, and 483 prints,broadsides, filmstrips, slides, etc.

Among other activities of the Department were: (1) purchasing publica-tions for the AID projects for which the University of Illinois has contractedin Sierra Leone, India, and Japan, for which a total of $28,902 was expended;(2) cooperating with the Library of Congress in implementing the NationalProgram for Acquisitions and Cataloging (under which the Library of Congressplans to acquire all currently-published library materials of scholarly valuefrom throughout the world), supplying information on all current titles notrecorded by the Library of Congress; (3) purchase of books for two foreignprograms: a working collection in art and architecture to support a programof study for fourth-year students in architecture at La Napoule, France, and acollection of French-language books for students from the University of Illinoisand the University of Iowa, to be placed in the University of Rouen.

Catalog Department

The large and complex task of classifying and cataloging the publications

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received by the University Library is shared by the Catalog Department,which processes monographic materials in western languages; the Serials De-partment, which classifies and catalogs all serial publications in westernlanguages; and the Special Languages Department, which classifies and catalogsall publications, monographic and serial, printed in languages not using theRoman alphabet, except those issued in Greek and Hebrew characters.

At the end of the report period, these three departments had catalogeda total of 77,237 new titles, an increase of 8,417 over the previous year.The total number of titles processed, including new titles, analytical titles,and titles reclassified or recataloged was 90,258, an increase of 2,5h1. Thetotal of new titles added to the classified collections represented 199,636physical items. By principal categories, these materials consisted of 166,919fully cataloged books and pamphlets, 22,283 microtexts, 223 manuscripts, 1,788music scores and parts, 7,365 maps, and 857 sound recordings.

The Catalog Department's normal flow of work was considerably augmentedby the sudden inundation of books for the new Undergraduate Library, acquiredto stock the new facility when it is occupied during the coming year. Otherspecial projects undertaken by the Department were completion of catalogingof the Oberholzer collection of ornithology; reducing the arrearages ofcataloging for older Farmington Plan books, Slavic materials in non-Slaviclanguages, and music literature and phonorecords; and beginning the catalog-ing of the Baldwin Collection.

Because the information is available in book form, a decision was madeto remove all Library of Congress printed cards from the Library's UnionCatalog. The space occupied by the Union Catalog was thereby considerablyreduced and a large number of catalog cabinets freed for expansion of theLibrary's General Catalog--at an estimated saving of $22,000, which wouldotherwise have had to be expended for new equipment.

New catalog cards added to the General Catalog numbered 253,045,thirty percent above 1966-67, and new cards provided to departmental li-braries and reading rooms rose to 235,001, an increase of more than forty-one percent.

The increasing productivity of the Catalog Department, to meet expandingneeds, and its ability to cope with special problems is a reflection of ef-fective organization and leadership. Nevertheless, the constantly-growingvolume of acquisitions by the Library poses a continual problem for the De-partment to keep abreast of the flood and to prevent arrearages from develop-ing, particularly in the face of staff shortages, vacancies, and turnover,

One solution is the increasing effectiveness of the National Programfor Acquisition and Cataloging, noted above, sponsored by the Library ofCongress. When the Program began in 1965, the Illinois Library was able toprocure printed cards for only forty-three percent of the books being cataloged.A study conducted during the spring of 1968 indicated that the Library ofCongress is able to supply catalog copy for fifty-eight percent. The greatincrease in the amount of Library of Congress cataloging is proving to be ofimmense assistance in processing the growing number of books received by theLibrary.

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By agreement with the Library of Congress, copy for the printing ofcatalog cards was supplied by the Catalog Department for official publicationsof the State of Illinois, non-copyright publications of Illinois state uni-versities, and analytics of certain monographic series.

Serials Department

Some of the important work of the Serials Department was reported aboveunder Periodicals and other headings.

The Serial Cataloging Division cataloged 3,091 titles. Serial itemscataloged numbered 72,673, including 9,924 microtexts. A total of 9,228orders was placed by the Serial Acquisition Division for periodical sub-scriptions, continuations, single issues of periodicals, and current andback volumes of sets and serials.

The Documents Division, responsible for procuring all types of officialdocumentary publications, maintained a total of 8,158 checking records (11,418,including duplicates) for serials currently received; added 4,803 serial volumesto the classified holdings; forwarded 6,204 monographs and 2,342 serial itemsfor cataloging; and routed 748 items to departmental libraries and office col-lections.

The Binding Division processed 51,698 volumes and pamphlets for com-mercial binding, up ten percent from the previous year; the Marking Sectionlabeled 143,124 books, pamphlets, maps, microfilms, etc., a twenty percentincrease; the Mending Section bound 12,345 pamphlets, provided loose-leafor "pad" binding for 2,731 publications, and mended, reinforced, or performedmajor repairs on 21,201 other items.

In December, 220 valuable volumes of serials sustained water damagein a flood which struck the Chemistry Library. Through prompt and efficientaction by the Binding Division staff, all damaged volumes were saved exceptone.

Special Languages Department

The activities of this Department, created four years ago, have beendescribed in part above under Area Stud Programs and other headings. TheDepartment is involved primarily with materials in Cyrillic characters, Arabic,and in the native languages of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, and Japan.Rapid progress, under competent staff and faculty direction, has been made ina short period of years in the development of the Library's collections for theseareas.

The number of new titles cataloged by the Special Languages Departmentrose to 21,897--forty-one percent higher than the previous year--in a totalof 31,107 volumes. The Department's total expenditures for library materialswere $204,067, an all-time high.

Photographic Services

This division's responsibilities include the making of photographic

reproductions of library materials and records, non-photographic copying, theproduction of catalog cards, general duplication work, and the printing ofsigns required by various Library departments.

The statistics of work accomplished by the division during the year areimpressive:

158,331 microfilm exposures (an increase of 33,650)

25,410 feet of positive microfilm (up 9,094)

11,834 enlargement prints (up 2,360)

680,742 Xerox or Bruning copies (up 67,146)

846,168 catalog cards (an increase of 319,286), and 380,434 formcards

346,854 items of general duplication work (a reduction of 59,925)

Automation Division

The Automation Division was almost wholly occupied during the year withpreparation of the Current Serials Holdings List, a revision of the CurrentPeriodical Holdings Lis!t issued in 1966, to which all current serials arebeing added. In the preparatory process, more than 40,000 serial titles wereconverted to machine-readable form. The revised record is expected to beready for publication early in the coming year, 1968-69.

USE OF THE LIBRARY

Total recorded use of library materials in Urbana in 1967-68 increasedfrom 1,543,352 to 1,582,417, to reach a new high. General circulation accountedfor most of the increase, rising from 887,498 to 914,880. Reserve circulationincreased from 640,233 to 647,860. This marks the fourteenth consecutiveyear that recorded use has shown an overall growth and represents an increaseof more than 100 percent since 1953-54. The largest proportionate increase inuse has been in student general circulation, a reliable indication of moreindependent study and research on the part of the student body as a whole.

Increases in recorded use were reported by twenty departments, whiledeclines were registered by eleven. Library units reporting increases of tenpercent or more were: Ceramics (54 percent), Physics (25 percent), NaturalHistory Survey (24 percent), Biology (21 percent), Labor and IndustrialRelations (17 percent), Geology (17 percent), Education (16 percent), Classics(12 percent), and Agriculture (10 percent). In terms of formally recordedcirculation, the ten most heavily used library units were Circulation (286,705),Education (212,449), Undergraduate (131,649), Commerce (94,721), Music (87,410)Biology (71,851), Agriculture (62,416), Engineering (59,346), Reference (50,883),and Journalism (49,459).

Statistics of use, however, measure only a part of the services providedby the Library, since a high percentage of use is through direct consultation of

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open-shelf collections and unrecorded assistance provided in person, by tele-phone, or by correspondence in all units of the Public Service Departments. Asan illustration, total recorded use of the Commerce, Physical Education, Under-graduate, and Education Libraries was 479,292 in 1967-68, while the total numberof persons entering these libraries, as recorded by turnstiles, was 1,334,418,approximately three times the figure for recorded loans.

Hours of Opening

Weekly schedules in the Public Service Departments were increased bytwenty-eight hours during the year. The Education and Social Science Libraryadded fourteen hours of service by extending its closed time from ten P.M. tomidnight, while the History Library added eight hours through noon-hour andSunday afternoon openings. Minor extensions of hours were also made in theEnglish, Classics, and Library Science Libraries. During the last five yearsa total of 193 hours have been added to the public service schedules, notincluding ten hours of full service added to the Circulation Department.

The longest schedules of hours open during the past year were maintainedby the Chemistry Library (107 hours per week) and the Undergraduate Libraryand Education Library (106 hours each). Other libraries maintaining schedulesof eighty hours or more per week were Law (92), Circulation (87), Reference(87), Commerce (86) Illini Union Browsing (84), Biology (82), Library Science(82), and Music (805. The chief factor in determining the length of schedulesis reader demand and the number of readers to be served.

Longer hours are likely to be a continuing trend as enrollment andlibrary use increase-tcontingent upon the availability of staff and funds.

Reference Service

The Public Service Departments are constantly providing assistance of areference nature and although few keep statistical records these services takea large amount of staff time in most units and are helpful and often invaluableto those who receive them.

The chief responsibility for aid to readers fell naturally upon theReference Department, which was open eighty-seven hours per week during theregular year; circulated 50,883 reference books or similar material; maintainedan Information Desk in the General Catalog area which answered 12,945 queries;replied to 477 written requests for information; and supplied informationconcerning 958 requests for locally-published items which other Universityoffices were unable to identify.

A number of libraries regularly prepared special subject bibliographiesor indexes as a service to readers. Examples ares. seven bibliographies compiledby the Labor and Industrial Relations Library for the Committee of UniversityIndustrial Relations Librarians exchange bibliography series, as well as otherbibliographies to serve the faculty's special needs; seven new bibliographiesprepared by the Reference Department staff for its vertical file service; aselective card file of current periodical articles prepared by the Veterinary

Medicine Library; and a list of microfilm holdings prepared by the Newspaper

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Library. The University Archives published the first systematic inventory ofresources and research projects in the behavioral or social sciences at amajor university. Entitled Descritive Inventory of Resources for the Ecologof Mental Health and Work with the Disadvantaged the volume identifies Uni-versity of Ilinoi Tresources in this area. Copies have been widely distributedto other universities and to the Illinois State Department of Mental Health,which supported the project financially.

Among special services rendered during the year, note should be takenof assistance by the Art and Architecture Library to Professor Edward Koeperof the Chicago Circle Campus in the preparation of his book Illinois Architecture,issued as part of the Illinois Sesquicentennial Celebration. The Rare Book Roomstaff examined and described all of the University Library's numerous editionsof Lily's Grammar for inclusion in the publication A Bibliography of the EnglishLanguages 1500-1•0. The Mathematics Library shelf-list was Xeroxed ? o theChicago Circe Campus for selection purposes in developing a mathematics col-lection there and for interlibrary lending.

Interlibrary Loans

Both the Library's borrowing from and lending to other institutionsincreased substantially. A total of 4,015 titles (including 520 photocopies)were obtained on interlibrary loan. Ninety-nine departments took advantageof the borrowing services, chiefly for the use of faculty members and doctoralcandidates. The heaviest demands upon the service came from, in ordermHistory (321 titles), French (106) English (91), Comparative Literature (91),Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (82), Children's Research Center (77),Veterinary Pathology (76), Germanic Languages (69), and Geology (63). Theinstitutions from which loans were most frequently obtained were, in descendingorders Library of Congress, Center for Research Libraries, University ofChicago, John Crerar Library, Harvard, Michigan, Yale, Cornell, and Wisconsin.

The number of volumes loaned to other libraries increased from 8,556to 10,360. Chicago Circle continued to be the heaviest borrower--1,179volumes--twice the number loaned last year. Other principal borrowers amonguniversity libraries were: Illinois State, Southern Illinois, Indiana,Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Western Illinois, Louisiana State, and Purdue.

The greatest number of volumes was loaned to college and universitylibraries (8,805), but borrowing by public libraries increased (980), especial-ly through the new Illinois public library systems, and 941 volumes wereloaned to special libraries. Borrowings by Illinois libraries (3,932),exceeded by a considerable margin those to other states. Next in order wereIndiana (631) Wisconsin (517), Ohio (489), Missouri (439), California (382),New York (370), and Michigan (339)

The foregoing figures do not include photocopies sent in lieu of origi-nals, but practically all library units reported significant increases in thenumber of requests for photocopies, both by other institutions and by individuals.

Extension of Services

Orientation tours, lectures, organized courses, exhibits, new book lists,

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periodical lists, and library guides and handbooks were the chief means usedby the Public Service Departments to inform users about the Library's servicesand resources and to encourage library use.

A majority of library units distributed selected acquisition lists on aregular basis, and all provided orientation tours and lectures as needed. Forexample, the Reference Department conducted eleven tours and presented eightlectures for special groups; the Law Library provided nineteen tours for 217new law students and additional tours for classes in agricultural law, educa-tion law, and library science; the Engineering Library provided illustratedlectures for the NSF Summer Science Training Program for High Ability Students,for the Illinois Junior Engineering Technical Society's summer course forhigh school students, and for the Institute of Aviation's two-year technologicaltraining program.

A number of special Centennial exhibits were presented in the GeneralLibrary and in several departmental libraries. Other noteworthy exhibitionswere the American Institute of Graphic Arts' "Fifty Books of the Year," "NotableAcquisitions of the UI Library," "Baskette Collection on Freedom of Expression,""Henry David Thoreau," "The Rise of Physical Thought: from Aristotle to Galileo,"and "The 1968 Campaign." In February, the Library exhibit cases were loanedto Lincoln Square with an exhibit of Abraham Lincoln documents, in commemorationof the Illinois Sesquicentennial celebration. Twelve wall exhibits were scheduledfor the General Library Corridor during the year, arranged by members of theLibrary staff, but financed by the Art Department.

Library permits to individuals not associated with the University wereissued to 3,574 applicants, an increase of 1,134 over the previous years. Muchof the increase came from use by students from Parkland College, which openedin the fall.

Acquisition and Processing of Materials

The procuring and processing of library materials are the primary re-sponsibility of the technical divisions, but the public service staff is alsoclosely involved in the same procedures. Departmental librarians regularlycheck book-reviewing journals, publishers' announcements, new book lists,second-hand catalogs, and subject bibliographies to supplement the purchaseof material recommended by faculty members, in order to build and maintainhigh quality collections for library users. The Chemistry Librarian, forexample checks the book sections in the Journal of Chemical Education,Chemical and Engineering News, Chemical Abstracts, and the Journal of theAmerican ~~Cfemal Society, as we as announcements from about 175 publishersand dealers.

In some areas, special acquisitions have added significantly to theLibrary's collections. The Law Library arranged for the purchase of the6,000-volume Fulton County Law Library, containing the entire NationalReporter System and other large sets. The Reference Department was able toacquire through reprints dozens of volumes, previously unavailable, includedin the Essay and General Literature Index. The Undergraduate Library selectedapproximately 3-,000 volumes to stock the new Undergraduate Library building.

A collection of 8,788 titles of popular sheet music with American imprints,for the period 1890-1950, was purchased for the Music Library.

A considerable amount of processing of library materials was carriedon by public service units, including the maintenance of serial and catalogrecords, preparation for binding, and in some instances limited classificationand cataloging of such special materials as pamphlets, slides, maps, andmusic. The University High School Library processed some 4,858 volumes,mainly from the High School's departmental collections, together with 548slides, filmstrips, and recordings. The Art and Architecture Libraryprocessed 2,798 new slides, 141 photographs, and art reproduction catalogs.The Map library cataloged 5$9 titles and 7,365 items. The Music Librarycataloged 151 microfilms of manuscripts, 118 titles of choral music, and 36titles of orchestral music, The Rare Book Room prepared a subject catalogfor the wealth of miscellaneous pamphlets in the Baskette Collection. TheUniversity Archives processed 322 cubic feet of archival materials and theArchivist completed a study relating to the evaluation, arrangement, andprocessing of archival records in the field of science and technology.Thousands of current serial titles are checked in by the departmental li-braries.

Protection of Librar Collections

Departmental libraries are expected to take inventories annually,if feasible. Among libraries reporting book losses during the past year, thehighest number of losses, 308 volumes, was reported by the Undergraduate Li-brary. Other divisions noting substantial numbers of missing books wereReference, Journalism, Music, History, Physical Education, Modern Languages,Architecture, City Planning, Engineering, Chemistry, Agriculture, andVeterinary Medicine.

The problem of mutilation is also ever present. To reduce the tempta-tion, a program has begun to place copying machines either easily accessibleto or adjacent to each library division.

Quarters and Equipment

Space for books continued to be a serious problem in the GeneralLibrary bookstacks and in a number of departmental libraries. The projectedFifth Stack Addition will provide much relief when constructed, but thecompletion date is two or three years away. The completion of the UndergraduateLibrary in 1968-69 will bring a major addition to seating space for readersand a limited amount of shelving room. New or additional quarters for theMusic Library, Chemistry Library, Law Library, and Engineering Library arein various stages of planning; all are acutely needed to relieve overcrowdedconditions. Air conditioning of the Mathematics, Engineering, and MusicLibraries is in progress.

The Physics Library expanded into an additional 600 square-foot area,and remodeling and expansion in the Engineering Library, Journalism Library,and University High School Library are at various stages toward completion.Equipment and remodeling costs were approved for moving the Commerce Library

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into the present Undergraduate Library space and for the consolidation ofthe Special Languages Department in the space now occupied by the CommerceLibrary.

Much needed painting was done in the General Library, including theReference Room, which was completely re-done for the first time in abouttwenty years, and the General Library bookstacks, greatly improving theillumination and their appearance.

PERSONNEL

During the 1967-68 budget period, provision was made for 332 positionsin full-time equivalent, divided between 159 academic and 173 nonacademicpositions on the Urbana staff.

Funds for a number of the positions came from the Center for RussianLanguage and Area Studies, the Center for Asian Studies, the Center forLatin American Studies, the Agency for International Development, and theIllinois State Library Research and Reference Services Program.

In addition to staff members on regular appointment, about 350 studentassistants were employed on an hourly basis in various divisions of the li-brary system.

In part because of the importance of foreign languages for new areaprograms, the Library staff represented many racial, ethnic, and nationalgroups. The Library has continued its long-time policy of employing staffwithout regard to race, color, or creed.

A number of changes occurred in administrative personnel. Robert F.Delzell Library Administrative Assistant since 1955, was appointed PersonnelLibrarian. John Heussman, former Librarian of Concordia Theological Seminaryin Springfield, became Library Administrative Assistant. Donald Lanier wasappointed Library Science Librarian.

Four staff members--Dorothy M. Black, Associate Reference Librarian,Louise F. Lodge, Assistant Catalog Librarian, Icko Iben, Newspaper Librarianand Business Archivist, and Cecelia M. McCarthy, Extension Loans Librarian--with periods of service extending up to forty-four years, retire as ofAugust 31, 1968. Helen M. Welch, Acquisition Librarian since 1951, resignedto accept an appointment as Preparations Librarian, Princeton University, andhas been replaced by Marilyn Satterlee as Acting Acquisition Librarian.

In addition to their regular duties, Library staff members are activein various professional organizations, holding numerous offices or committeeassignments in the major library associations of the country, among them theAmerican Library Association, Special Libraries Association, Music LibraryAssociation, American Association of Law Libraries, Society of AmericanArchivists, Illinois Library Association, and Medical Library Association.Under the heading of professional activities in the community, Lucien White

was Chairman of the University's United Fund Drive and Vice Chairman of the

Champaign Public Library Board; Robert Delzell was a member of the University

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Film Council and of the Board of Directors of the Campus Round Table; RobertOram was a member of the Urbana Public Library Board and of the Lincoln TrailsRegional Library Boardj Carl Deal continued as Acting Director of the Centerfor Latin American Studies; Robert C. White was a member of the University'sCommittee on Aerial Photography; and Joan Irwin was a member of the UniversityHigh School Staff Advisory Committee*

The national shortage of professional librarians continued to be amajor problem for academic libraries. On the basis of appointments alreadyprocessed for September 1968, there are indications that the situation maybe less acute at Illinois during the coming year than for some years past.

In concluding my twenty-fifth annual report, I wish to express warmappreciation to you, Vice Chancellor Carter, Dean Alpert, and other keyUniversity officers, to numerous faculty members, to colleagues on the Li-brary staff, and to many friends of the Library who have all contributedin a significant degree to making.1967-68 another year of noteworthy progressin the development of a great university library for Illinois.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert B. DownsDean of Library Administration

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TABLE III

ENROIENT IN THE UNIVERSITY AND

USE OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY,

1958-59 to 1967-68*

EnrollmentYear Undergrad. Graduate Total Recorded Use

1958-59 16,854 4,698 21,552 1,023,621

1959-60 17,416 4,965 22,381 1,107,597

1960-61 19,019 5,262 24,281 1,201,042

1961-62 19,566 5,939 25,105 1,296,939

1962-63 20,221 6,084 26,305 1,422,230

1963-6i 21,236 6,604 27,8h0 1,467,873

1964-65 22,138 7,082 29,220 1,507,304

1965-66 21,707 7,975 29,682 i, 16,148

1966-67** 21,622 7,198 29,120 1,543,352

1967-68** 22,913 7,49k 30,407 1,582,417

TABLE IV

RECORDED USE OF THE LIBRARYFOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1968

(Urbana Only)

General Circulation Students Faculty Others Total

General LibraryCirculation Desk 188,764 39,523 12,723 241,010Circulation Desk (Use Here) 45,695 -. --- 45,695Undergraduate Library 61,613 4,769 3,304 69,686Special Languages 2,308 1,082 698 4,088Departmental Libraries in

General Library 174,560 22,896 13,500 210,956Departmental Libraries in

Other Buildings 259,025 55,054 29,366 343,145

Total General Circulation 731,965 123,324 59,591 914,880

Reserve Materials Totals

General LibraryUndergraduate Library 61,963Reference Room 56,457Departmental Libraries in

General Library 269,755Departmental Libraries in

Other Buildings 259,685

Total Recorded Reserve Use 647,860

Interlibrary loans to institutions outside of Champaign-Urbana 10,360

Interlibrary loans from other institutions for use of graduatestudents and faculty on Urbana campus 3,495

Photographic reproductions obtained for members of faculty andgraduate students in lieu of volume $20

Extramural extension circulation 5,302

TOTAL RECORDED USE IN URBANA 1,582,417

TABLE V

THE VOLUMES AND SEATING CAPACITY IN THE

VARIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENTS AS OF JUNE 30, 1968*

SeatingLibrary Unit Capacity Volumes

URBANAGeneral Library Building

ClassicsCommerceEducation and Social ScienceEnglishGeneral Reading and Reference RoomHistory and PhilosophyIllinois Historical SurveyLibrary ScienceLincoln RoomMap and GeographyModern LanguageNewspaper Library and Business ArchivesPhysical EducationRare Book RoomUndergraduateUniversity Archives

Other Libraries on Campus**AgricultureArchitectureBiologyCeramicsChemistryCity Planning and Landscape ArchitectureEngineeringGeological SurveyGeologyHome EconomicsIllini Union Browsing RoomJournalism and CommunicationsLabor and Industrial RelationsLawMathematicsMusicNatural History SurveyObservatoryPhysicsUniversity High SchoolVeterinary Medicine

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11,9784,079

12,998149,54615,81513,78493,03042,7132,987

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34,29117,620

108,15656,33549,9958,8101,9937,5675,449

196,80631,99397,74924,8113,036

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*Excludes extensive holdings of non-book materials, such as the 330,961 maps and aerialphotographs in the Map Library; 52,159 cataloged slides and 30,354 photographs in theArchitecture and Art Library; and 143,963 pieces of choral and orchestral music and20,226 sound recordings in the Music Library.

**Excludes numerous office collections of 100 to 1,000 volumes each.

APPENDIX

GIFTS

Following is a list of individuals from whom the UniversityLibrary received gifts of books, pamphlets, periodicals, or othermaterial in 1967-68:

(a) Alumni and Students

Sadanand Dinkar Agash6; lan Mackenzie Brookes; John David Bukry;John B. Christensen; Clifford A. Davidson; John R. Dewson; Samuel M.Gillespi~e; Allen Harvey Hall; Harold Dieter; Duane Hill; Orest A.Hrynewych; Ernest Ingold; George Kenneth Lewis; Janet Macomber; GeorgeOlson; Margaret B. Paulus; Leslie Pollock; Marian Pugh; James E. Rice;Ronald Deane Rietveld; Richard K. Smith; Armar A. Strauss; ChesterSwanson.

(b) Faculty and Staff

Joseph H. D. Allen; R. R. Allen; George E. Anner; T. W. Baldwin &Regina Elisabeth Baldwin; Ruben Gerardo Barrera; Virginia Bartow;Fernande Bassan; Mildred Bonnell; Carl A. Brandly; Maynard Brichford;Charles K. Brightbill; Linwood J. Brightbill; Mrs. Max E. Brower;Leslie E. Card; W. Ellison Chalmers; J. O. Crosby; Royden Dangerfield;Elizabeth Dean; John James DeBoer; Robert F. Delzell; Robert I. Dickey;Otto Alvin Dieter; Oscar Henry Dodson; Robert B. Downs; Edgar L. Erickson;Margaret Erlanger; R. L. Finney; R. T. Fisher; John T. Flanagan; HarrisF. Fletcher; Arthur Friedberg; Donald Ginsberg; Frank Gladney; DanielGlaser; Herbert Goldhor; Marcus S. Goldman; William I. Goodman; H. S.Gutowsky; Harold W. Hannah; Sue Hart; Helen Moffet Hay; Joseph M. Heikoff;Donald M. Henderson; Kenneth B. Henderson; Robin E. Herron; Bruce LathanHicks; Nick Holonyak; Icko Iben; Chester 0. Jackson; Miles Vincent Klein;Francis Kruidenier; Winifred Ladley; Alan K. Laing; Glenna HendersonLamkin; Ralph Langenheim; Luis Leal; Clarissa Olivia Lewis; Driver B.Lindsay; David Edgar Lindstrom; Simon Litman; Alice Lohrer; Charles B.Looker; Estelle Mann; Edith Marshall; Van Miller; Reid T. Milner; P, M.Mitchell; Mrs. Lloyd Morey; Wilda W. Morris; William H. McBurney (estate)*King McCristal; William P. McLure; Mark Naoumides; Walter Nunn; R. P. Oliver;D. R. Opperman; Robert Oram; Richards C. Osborn; Thomas Page; H. Paley;John Bishop Parrish; Ralph B. Peck; Ben Edwin Perry; Sheldon Jay Plager;Leslie S. Pollock; Earl W. Porter; Eugene I. Radzimovsky; Joseph JonahRotman; Allen Victor Sapora; Frederick Sargent II; Eugene F. Scoles;Dr. & Mrs. Demitri B. Shimkin; Harry J. Skornia; Daniel Michael Slate;Ralph A. Smith; M. A. Sozen; Raymond P. Stearns; Charles L, Stewart;Robert L. Talmadge; Marianna Trekell; Kenneth J. Trigger; Arnold Trotier;Preston Tuttle; Luitpold Wallach; Howard E. Weaver; Allen S. Weller;Louis B. Wetmore; 0, L. Whalin; George W. White; Allan Wilson; Fred D.Wright; Wilson Miles Zaring; Earle Zeigler.

(c) Individuals and Organizations (Selected List)

American library Association; Advertising Research Foundation,Inc.; The 1ir Force Office of Scientific Research; Algemeen Rijksarchief

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te's Gravenhage, Netherlands; William R. Allen; Aluminum Companyof America; Osvaldo Paredes Alvarez; American-African Affairs Associ-ation; The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education;American Association of School Administrators; American BankersAssociation; American Civil liberties Union; Americans forDemocratic Action; American Institutes for Research; American Ironand Steel Institute; American Insurance Association;American MedicalAssociation; American Trucking Association; Angus & Robertson Ltd.;Republica Argentina Secretaria de Hacenda; Argonne National Laboratory;Association Internationale des Universit6s; Association of IllinoisElectric Cooperatives; Mrs. L. F. Audrieth; Harry L. Ausmus; John P.Bagby; Bahai Assembly (Urbana); Ball State University; Banco Centralde Venezuela; Banco de Mexico Dept. de Investigaciones Industriales;John Barclay; Bay Area Rapid Transit District; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek;B. Warren Beebe; Edward Bernard; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; BibliothiqueRoyale de Belgique; Bobbs-Merrill Comp.; J. de Boer; B~rsenverein derDeutschen Buchh(ndler; Ro R. Bowker Company; Charles Bragin; Dona LydiaCombacau de Miranda; Universidade do Ceara; Universidade Rural Do Sul(Pelotas, Brasil); British Broadcasting Corporation; British InformationServices; Mrs. Gabriele Brixner; Courtney C. Brown; Lawrence Buitendorp;Giorgio M. Bulgarelli; Business and Professional Assn. (Breese, Ill.);CBS Television Network; Joan Campbell; Fernando Hevia Cangas; Mrs. EvaGarnsey Card;The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies; Centro LatinoAmericano de Pesquisas em Ciencias Socials (Rio de Janeiro); D. O.Chambers; Champaign Public Library; The Chase Manhattan Bank; John C.Chato; Chicago Historical Society; University of Chicago; Chauncy D.Harris; The Chicago Zoological Society; China Maritime Institute (Taipei);China Publishing Company; Chinese Materials and Research and ServiceCenter; Ching Chih Yee; Patrick W. Chung; Citizens Tax Council; ClemsonUniversity; Cleveland Medical Library; Armand Colin; Asociacion Colombianade Universidades; Ruth Knupp Clark; Commission on Governmental Efficiencyand Economy, Inc.; Committee for the Advancement of Kurdistan; Committeeon Educational Interchange Policy; Corporacion Venezolana de Fomento;Elwell Crissey; Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidraulicos; GiovanniCultrera; Czechoslovak Academy of Science; Wrik Dal; The Danish NationalInstitute of Building Research; W. Danziger; Dawsons of Pall Mall; FrankN. Decker; Defense Research Board (Ottawa, Canada); Decatur Park District;Deutsche Mozart-Gesellschaft; Deutscher Bibliotheksverband Halle (Salle);Mrs. Charles W. Dixon; R. R. Donnelley & Sons; Douglas Missile & SpaceSystems Division; Dover Publications; Doxiadis Associates; Roger Duhamel;Dorothy Dunn; Oliver Dunn; Economists' National Committee on MonetaryPolicy; L'Etoile; Excelsior; Exposition Press Inc.; FS Services, Inc.;Christopher U. Faye; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; N. V. Filbey;Financial Executives Institute; The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; FirstNational City Bank; Fisk University; Edwin D. Follick; Mrs. Fedora S.Frank; Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc.; Ford Foundation; Foreign Languages Press;Hugh Fox; The Free Society Association, Inc.; Robert S. Fuller; GaramondPridemark Press; Aussenpolitische Korrespondenz; Dr, Hedwig Gollob; MichaelGrant; Harold Greenhill; John Griffith; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda-tion; Hal Hall; G. K. Hall & Co.; E. D. Hammam; Handelshfjskolen (Koben-havn); Geoffrey Handley-Taylor; S. Harland; Harvard University; J, E.

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Havel; Helbing & Lichtenhahn; F. Iilbur Helmbold; Biblioteca Nacionalde Honduras; James R. Hine; Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Hooks, Jr.; AlbertL. Hopkins; Flora Emily Hottes; 141st Infantry Regiment Assoc.; IllinoisJunior College Board; Illinois State Chamber of Commerce; Illinois State-Wide Curriculum Study Center in the Preparation of Secondary SchoolEnglish Teachers; Instituto "Roberto Simonsen" (Sao Paulo); InsuranceCompany of North America; The Iron and Steel Institute; Mrs. J. Ivanyi;Librairie Paul Jammes; Japanese National Commission for UNESCO; JapanInstitute of Labour; Jewish Frontier; Gust Johansson; John Birch Society;Henry Carlton Jones; Paris Library, U.S.A.; Parke-Bernet Galleries;Pattee Library; Penguin Books, Inc.; Peoria Public Schools; Jean St.Pesmazoglu; Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.; F. B. Pooley; The PrivatePlanning Association of Canada;The Proprietary Association; PNM Publish-ing Co.* RCA; Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty; Reader's Digest; ErnestReece; Aegional Plan Association; Republican National Committee; ResearchInstitute for Water Resources; Dr. Robert E. Riecker; The RockefellerFoundation; Rodale Books, Inc.; Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Rohan; Romanian NewsAgency; Alexis Lawrence Romanoff; Robert P. Roselle; Dr. Fritz Rosenfeld;A. L. Rowse; George Ruhle; Saint Paul Art Center School; Samfundet fordansk genealogi og personalhistorie (Copenhagen); Schawnee Press Inc.;Gustav Sherz; Science Engineering Associates; Science Research Associates;Scientific American; Charles Scribner's Sons; Shell Italiana; ShellacExport Promotion Council; Shengold Publishers, Inc.; Angel J. Sierra;Simon and Schuster; Sinclair Oil Corporation; Skipsfarts konomiskInstitutt (Bergen); Alfred P. Sloan; The Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumLibrary; South African Atomic Energy Board,Pelindaba; Mrs. Charles H.Spaulding; Robert J. Spry; Mrs. Morton Stark; Statistiska Centralbyran(Stockholm); Statistisk Sentralbyra (Oslo); Arthur E. Stevens; A. L.Stockwell; Super Market Institute; Sydney University Press; TechnischeHochschule (Stuttgart); Texas Folklore Society; Textile Workers Unionof America; Theatre Press; Ralph Lingo Thomas; Paul W. Thurston; TimeIncorporated; James Chisolm Tison Jr.; Kukhoe Tosokwan; Town andCountry Planning Board (Melbourne5 ; Transportation Association ofAmerica; Charles E. Tuttle Co.; Ukrainian Congress Committee of America;UNIROYAL, Inc.; U.S. Public Health Service; United Community Funds andCouncils of America; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; University of Aix-Marseille; University of Alaska Library; University Art Museum(Berkeley); University of Kentucky; University of Notre Dame Press;University of Wisconsin Press.