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Dear Chancellor Peltason: '

Submitted herewith is the annual report of the University Library forthe year ending June 30, 1970. Outstanding progress can again be recordedin all important aspects of the Library's activities during the period.There was a major expansion in collections for study and research, the useof the Library's resources increased, and significant improvements inphysical facilities were made. The principal phases of the Library'soperations are reviewed in more detail below.

GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY

At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1970, the Library held4,h16,330 volumes fully cataloged or otherwise prepared for use in Urbanaand 194,837 volumes in the Library of Medical Sciences in Chicago, for atotal of 4,611,167, or a net increase of 182,666 volumes for the year. Thetotal cost of materials purchased on the two campuses was $1,754,976, towhich should be added extensive collections of books, journals, pamphlets,maps, music scores, manuscripts, and other items received through gift andexchange. Descriptions of some of the noteworthy groups of books and othermaterials acquired during the year follow.

NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS

Mark Twain Collection

An outstanding collection relating to Mark Twain was acquired fromthe estate of Franklin J. Meine. Included are more than 2,100 volumes orpieces of first and other early editions of books and pamphlets by Twain--American, Canadian, and English--and foreign translations; hundreds ofbooks about Twain; manuscripts; such memorabilia as portraits, photographs,drawings, etchings, and statuettes; and periodicals and newspapers withcontributions by or about Twain. The collection represents many years ofdedicated collecting activity on the part of Mr. Meine, whose famous col-lection of American humor and folklore was added to the University Libraryin 1955. The Twain collection is a fitting complement to the earlier acqui-sition.

Winston Churchill Collection

One of the most extensive collections in existence relating to SirWinston Churchill was acquired from the British collector responsible forassembling it, Harold Mortlake of London. In the total of 1,580 titles areeditions of virtually everything written by Churchill since 1898, including

inscribed presentation copies; a large assortment of biographical works;autographed and typed letters; recordings; gold, silver, and bronzemedallions; caricatures, portraits, busts, figurines, photographs, post-cards, cigarette and trade cards, and postage stamps; and periodicalsand newspapers containing references. The collection will be of firstimportance to any scholar or student concerned with the life and careerof one of the great historical figures of the twentieth century.

Lincoln Collection

From the Horner endowment for the Lincoln Library was acquired acollection of manuscripts of books about Lincoln written by one of hisleading biographers, William E. Barton. Complementing the manuscriptbooks is extensive correspondence between Barton and others relating tothe former's research on Lincoln. Also in the collection is a largefile of correspondence formerly belonging to Alonzo Rothschild, a founderof Lincoln societies in the New England area.

ArCtic Collection

To enrich the Library's already significant holdings on Arctic expe-ditions, there was purchased an important collection of letters, handwrittendocuments, and other material relating to an expedition to discover a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific during the first quarter ofthe 19th century. The collection originated with Charles Palmer, Midship-man and Lieutenant, a member of Arctic expeditions under the command ofSir William Edward Parry and of Sir John Franklin. An item of interestto botanists is an exercise book between the pages of which are pressedspecimens of the leaves of plants, seaweed, ferns and lichens of variouscolors, all beautifully preserved; the material was gathered by CharlesPalmer in the course of one of his expeditions, probably in 1814.

Publishers' Archives

Two collections were added to the Library's extensive holdings ofpublishers' archives. One, supplementing a collection acquired earlier,was a group of.authors' agreements with the British publisher Grant Richards,containing manuscripts dating between 1898 and 1900 and including contractswith some well known authors of the period.

The second collection is a file of letters written by the publisherMartin Secker during the period 1910 to 1931. The letters are in the formof copies of original typed letters--a total of more than 6,500 lettersbound in eight quarto volumes, fully indexed. There is copious corre-spondence with such authors as D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie, LordAlfred Douglas, Edwin Muir, Robert Graves, and many others.

Gifts

The year was notable for the number and value of gifts received. Thefollowing collections were outstanding: (1) From the estate of ProfessorJohn Kerker Quinn, 3,520 monographic volumes, mainly in the field of Englishand American literature and criticism, numerous periodical publications, and

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several thousand phonograph records; (2) From Henning Larsen, about 2,000volumes, including many in the field of Norwegian literature; (3) FromMerton J. Mandeville, about 1,000 volumes, with some emphasis in the fieldof the occult sciences and parapsychology; (h) From the estate of JosephTykociner, about 650 volumes, varied in subject matter, classified byProfessor Tykociner's scheme for the organization of knowlege called zetetics;($) From Stechert-Hafner, Inc., approximately 600 volumes of early Americana,books relating to the humanities, and to the history of science and arts;(6) From Margaret Sandburg, 82 volumes of Carl Sandburg material, includingmany volumes with personal inscriptions from Carl Sandburg.

Among individual titles, a work of extreme rarity presented by RobertLauber, Class of 1937, was The Bishop Collection--Investigations and Studiesin Jade, published in two huge folio volumes in 1906, in an edition of 100copies, a definitive work on the subject of jade in all its aspects. Othernoteworthy items presented during the year were the following: (1) The 1681edition of Theatrum Chronologicum Sacri Cartusiensis Ordinis Lectori Exhibens,by Carolus Josephus Morotius, given by Robert Brethorst; (2) A copy of Humphrey

Repton's Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening(London, 1803), donated by John F. Cramer; (3) From Ernest Ingold, the 6hthGrove Play, Neill C. Wilson's St. John of Bohemia, a rare version of the Bible,

J. A. de Lavalle's Horas de las Seforitas Cristianas, and a breviary in Spanishand Latin published in Paris about 1868 entitled Oficino Divino para Todoslos Dias de Fiesta e de Precepto--the last two volumes bound in mother-of-pearl covers, both carved and decorated with silver scroll work.

A complete list of gifts from alumni, faculty, staff, students, andothers appears in Appendix III.

Other Acquisitions

Because of the number and extent of outstanding individual acquisitionsin various fields, these items have been transferred to Appendix II, wherea comprehensive report is presented under the following headings; incunabula,sixteenth century, English literature: seventeenth century, English literaturesschoolbooks, English literature: eighteenth century, foreign language areassemblem books, history of science, atlases and gazetteers, travel and Americana.

Area Study Programs

The development of the Library's collections for area study programsproceeded at an accelerated pace.

In February, the acquisitions and cataloged sections of the SlavicDivision and the South and West Asia Library were brought together in theformer Commerce Library. The greatly improved physical facilities have helpedto improve the efficiency both of technical operations and of public serviceactivities. The new library has 32 seats for readers, a basic referencecollection, and about h00 current journals and newspapers. The divisionserves as the departmental library for the Department of Slavic Languagesand literatures ,

The Library's holdings of Slavic material increased by 19,$12 volumes

in 1969-70, to bring the total to 160,079 fully-cataloged volumes. About25,000 volumes additional were on hand awaiting cataloging. Approximatelythree-fourths of the collection, nearly 100,000 volumes, is in Russianand Ukranian; the other principal sections are Czech and Slovak (19,524volumes), Polish (15,284 volumes), and Yugoslav (12,601 volumes). The ad-dition of Hungarian, Rumanian, and Baltic languages would bring the totalcollection to about 200,000 volumes.

Current publications from Yugoslavia come under Public Law 480, acooperative program operated by the Library of Congress. Current Sovietimprints were received on blanket orders, and the same procedure was followedfor current scholarly publications from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland,Hungary, Rumania, and Albania, for the social sciences and humanities, there-by saving much time formerly spent in individual selection and ordering.Many Soviet books which were impossible to obtain through commercialchannels were procured on exchange from Soviet libraries, mainly in Moscowand Leningrad.

The Slavic and East European Library shares space with the South andWest Asia Library. The latter's circulation and reference services havebeen greatly improved by the move from its former basement location.Quantities of current material continued to be received through the Li-brary of Congress' Public Law 480 Program from South Asia and the MiddleEast--India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ceylon, Nepal, and United Arab Republic.The South and West Asian language collections totaled 27,792 catalogedvolumes at the end of the year, and there were considerable arrearagesawaiting cataloging.

The Far Eastern Library was also removed to a new home, 227 Library,where better organization for technical and public services could be provided.The faculty and students of the Center for Asian Studies made increasingdemands on the staff of the Library for new acquisitions, bibliographicservices, etc. The Library's main problems continued, however, to be in-sufficient space and staff to cover its large assignment adequately.

During the year, the Far Eastern Library added 8,125 cataloged volumes,to increase its total holdings to 43,517 volumes, divided as follows:Chinese, 27,351; Japanese, 15,616; and Korean, 550. An estimated additional12,000 volumes in East Asian languages remained uncataloged.

The Library continued to participate in the Latin American CooperativeAcquisitions Program (LACAP); 391 continuation titles (serials and periodi-cals) were currently received in association with this project. New stand-ing orders for continuations and periodicals and special orders for backand current volumes were placed with other agents and publishers.

The responsibility for development of library resources in anothermajor area of the world, Africa, was assigned to a newly-appointed bibli-ographer, who reported a considerable increase in orders for African serialpublications. The subject of linguistics was given special attention, bothfor new titles and lacunae in present holdings. There was emphasis, too,on economic development, education, anthropology, and history. Exchangearrangements with African institutions proved a popular and successfulmethod of procurement.

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Afro-American Studies

Somewhat related is the area of Afro-American studies, for which aposition of bibliographer was established in September. The bibliographerwas made responsible, among other functions, for selecting, ordering, andprocessing materials in the Afro-American field, monographic and serial.Purchasing was principally from dealers' and publishers' catalogs, andreprint catalogs. Among important acquisitions were the following: (1)Reprint series from Negro History Press, Rhistoric publications, and Krausj(2) periodicals, original or microform, such as Ebony, Muhammed Speaks,The Black Panther, The New York Amsterdam News, and Los Angeles Sentinel;(3) new subscriptions for Journal of Black Poetry, Soulbook, The Cricket,Black Theatre, Black Politician, and the Black Scholar; () pamphlets andother ephemeral material; (5) books (some rare) from several dealers; (6)and a large amount of slavery source materials and slave narratives inmicrofiche. Purchases in the field were also made for the Law, History,and Music libraries.

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 scme extent by newer programs, suchas those described above, the Farmington Plan continues to have an importantplace. The year's receipts at Illinois under this program were 4,381volumes. Total additions since inception of the program in 1948 have been71,682 volumes, at a total cost of $292,401.

Exchanges

As of June 30, 1970, the Library was maintaining exchange relationswith 3,182 institutions around the world. To these universities, learnedsocieties, academies, observatories, museums, and similar organizationswere sent 29,955 copies of University of Illinois publications in exchangefor their publications. The exchanges resulted in the acquisition of manyworthwhile publications, serial and monographic in form, from foreigncountries and the United States.

The exchange-depository arrangement under which the Library receivesa complete set of current Canadian government publications continued to addstrength to our holdings. During the year, 912 serial titles were kept upto date and monographs and maps selected from the Canadian checklists.

Periodicals

At the end of the year, the Library was receiving 65,625 differentcurrent serial titles, or if copies are included, a total of 78,337 titles,excluding newspapers. Of the total, 21,679 were periodicals--or 25,417including copies. All the figures were significantly higher than for theprevious year. The Newspaper Library, in addition, received 917 newspaperscurrently: 438 by gift, 276 originals by purchase, and 203 microtext

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editions. Further progress was made toward the completion of the CentralSerial Record, which contained entries for 51,785 titles as of June 30.The decision was made to broaden the scope of the Central Serial Record,eventually to encompass all serials, both current and dead titles.

The Library again added retrospective files of a number of valuableserial titles to its collections. Among major titles procured during theyear were the following: Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines Friend (London),1840-1909; Bibliographie Musicale Franaise (Paris), 1875-1920; GothaischesGenealogisches Taschenbuch der Graflichen Hauser (Gotha), l854-1928; Journalde Trevoux; ou Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire des Sciences et des Arts(Paris), 1701-1767; and Recherches de Theologie Ancienne et Medievale(Louvain), 1929-63. Numerous retrospective titles were acquired in micro-form, ranging in date from early in the 18th century to the present.

Newspaper files procured in microform included the New York Herald,1835-1919; Rocky Mountain News, 1870-1900; Springfield Daily Republican,1895-1925; La Presse (Paris), 1836-1922; and National Observer since 1962.

Documents

The year's acquisitions in the documents field included the followingsignificant collections: Atomic Energy Commission research and developmentreports, in microfiche form; papers of the Continental Congress and schedulesof federal population censuses for Illinois, 1820-1890, from the NationalArchives on film; and microfilm copies of United Nations Secretariat docu-ments, starting with 1946.

PREPARATION OF MATERIALS

The technical departments of the Library--Acquisition, Catalog, Serials,and Special Languages--and their divisions, such as Gift and Exchange, Docu-ments, Binding, and Photographic Services, are responsible for the procurement,organization, and preparation for use of all types of library marerials. Asummary of their activities 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 incorporatedin the Library's classified and cataloged collections a total of 102,293publications, an increase of 14 percent over the previous year, despite staffvacancies. The Department also distributed numerous pamphlets and otherephemera directly to departmental libraries and reading rooms, where theywere made available in organized vertical file collections.

Of the 102,697 publications and other items selected for standardcataloging, 89,707 were acquired by purchase and 12,586 by gift or exchange.By categories, the total comprised 84,094 books, 3,580 music scores and parts9,549 maps (91 percent above the previous year's 4,979), 37 manuscripts, 3,124photographic reproductions (71 percent increase), 1,863 sound recordings, anda small group of prints, broadsides, filmstrips, and slides,

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Among other activities in the Department were: (1) purchasing publi-cations for the AID projects for which the University of Illinois hascontracted in Sierra Leone, Tunisia, India, and Japan; the bulk of thepurchases totaling $11,319 in cost, were for Njala University in SierraLeone; (2) cooperating with the Library of Congress in implementing theNational Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging (under which the Libraryof Congress aims to acquire and catalog all currently-published librarymaterials of scholarly value from throughout the world), the IllinoisLibrary supplied information on 5,280 titles, published in 23 countries,not recorded by the Library of Congress; (3) selecting and ordering 17th-century i.hglish books and other needed works to spend the large "credit bank"built up with University Microfilms, Inc., in compensation for making theLibrary's collections available for microfilming; the titles being orderedby the Library are in full-size Xerox reproductions, in bound form, basedon Wing's monumental bibliography, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printedin England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, 1641-1700;:(h) setting up a system of automated accounting for the Library's bookfunds, which is expected to provide important relief for a hard-pressedbookkeeping staff.

Catalog Department

The large and complex task of classifying and cataloging publicationsreceived by the University Library is shared by the Catalog Department,which processes monographic materials in western languages; the SerialsDepartment, 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 96,833 titles, as compared with 94,677 the previous year. Thetotal of new titles added to the classified collections represented 220,193physical items, comprised of 188,454 fully-cataloged books and pamphlets,18~31 microtexts, 1,485 music scores and parts, 10,001 maps, and 2,118 soundrecordings.

Other accomplishments of the Catalog Department included substantialcompletion of the massive added task of cataloging the new UndergraduateLibrary's basic collection, and completion of the systematic program torestore the general catalog and shelf listl5 months after the two fileshad been vandalized,

New catalog cards added to the General Catalog numbered 302,468 (upfrom 184,306 in 1968-69) and 322,796 to departmental library catalogs (upfrom 222,073 the previous year), doing much to clear up a large backlogof work in the Card Division.

Serials Department

Some of the important work of the Serials Department was reportedabove under Periodicals and other headings,

The Serial Cataloging Division cataloged 3,733 titles. A total of78,921 serial items, including 14,246 microtexts, were cataloged. TheSerial Acquisition Division placed 9,716 orders during the year for peri-odical subscriptions, standing orders for continuations, separate issuesof periodicals, and current and retrospective volumes of serials and sets.The Library received currently 1,495 serial titles on standing ordersplaced with 73 American and foreign university presses.

The Documents Division, responsible for procuring all types ofofficial documentary publications, maintained a total of 9,459 recordsfor document serials currently received (13,227 including duplicates),added 4,346 serial volumes to the catalog, forwarded 5,549 monographs and1,751 serial items for cataloging, and routed 1,028 uncataloged items todepartmental libraries and office collections.

The Binding Division processed 60,569 volumes and pamphlets forbinding (compared with 56,849 the previous year), an all-time high; theMarking Section labeled 173,976 books, pamphlets, microforms, etc.; theMending Section bound 14,533 pamphlets; provided inexpensive binding for2,737 publications; mended, reinforced, laminated, or performed otherrepairs on 17,599 items; and mounted 2,323 maps.

Special Languages Department

The activities of this Department, created six years ago, have beendescribed in part under Area Study Programs and other headings. The De-partment is involved primarily with materials in Cyrillic characters,Arabic, and in the native languages of India, Pakistan, China, and Japan.

The Department's expenditures for library materials in the SlavicDivision totaled $115,341 (up from $106,400 in 1968-69) and $64,402 forAsian acquisitions, approximately the same as the previous year.

Because of severe space shortages, the Asian Division's collectionswere scattered in several different locations in the main library and theLaw Library basement, to the considerable detriment of quick service.

Photograpc Services

The varied responsibilities of this Division included the making ofphotographic reproductions of library materials and records, non-photographiccopying, maintenance of coin-operated copying machines provided for publicuse, the production of catalog cards, general duplication work, and theprinting of signs as needed by Library departments.

The principal statistics of work accomplished by the Division showa steady increase in the demands for its services. For 1969-70, the figureswere as follows:.

179,815 microfilm exposures

36,308 feet of positive microfilm

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14,706 reader-printer enlargements

782,709 Xerox, Bruning, or Dennison prints

1,405,632 catalog cards and 693,670 form cards

737,893 items of general duplication work

The huge project of microfilming the general catalog and shelf list,for insurance purposes, was completed under the Division's supervision inAugust. Supplements were filmed regularly for additions to the catalogs.The thesis and congressional hearings shelf lists were also filmed.

USE OF THE LIBRARY

Total recorded use of the Library in Urbana during 1969-70 was 1,694,087,divided between 1,028,539 general circulation and 635,454 reserve book circu-lation, in both categories a substantial increase over the total figure of1,561s751 for 1968-69. It is of interest to note that library circulationhas increased by 53 percent in the last 10 years--considerably faster thanthe increase in student enrollment.

Most of the increased use in 1969-70 was the result of the first fullyear of operation of the new Undergraduate Library, which opened with the1969 Summer Session; the Library reported a rise of 70 percent in generaland reserve circulation.

In addition to the Undergraduate Library, 17 other library unitsexperienced increases in recorded use. Registering an increase of 10percent or more were Labor and Industrial Relations, Home Economics, Uni-versity High, Rare Book Room, General Circulation, Agriculture, and PhysicalEducation. Declines in use were reported by Classics, English, Architecture,Modern Languages, Education, Biology, and Ceramics. In terms of formallyrecorded circulation, the ten most heavily used libraries were Circulation(289,163), Undergraduate (266,737), Education (173,203), Commerce (107,249),Music (88,668), Communications (66,672), Biology (60,223), Engineering(59.h31), Agriculture (56,901), and Architecture (47,919).

Circulation figures, though the chief statistical indicators of use,actually measure only a fraction of the services rendered by the Librarysystem. The greater part is unrecorded and is provided through the directconsultation of open-shelf collections and direct assistance given tousers by library staff members in all units of the public service depart-ments. An increasingly important element of service to users is the locationof copying machines inside departmental library units. The 14 machinespresently installed make possible the convenient and direct acquisition oflibrary materials without withdrawing the books.

Reference Service

In general, no statistical records are maintained of referenceassistance provided, though the services are in constant demand and requirea large amount of staff time. Good reference aid is one of the most valuable

services which the Library can supply and the staff is always seeking newand better ways to meet reference needs and to increase the accessibilityof the Library's resources. The Reference Department, which is assignedthis special responsibility, reported that with the opening of the newUndergraduate Library questions addressed to the Department showed widerknowledge of libraries and of standard reference works.

The Information Desk in the Public Catalog area, which is staffedonly during the busiest hours of the day, answered 10,245 queries--anaverage of 13 per hour for the time scheduled.

The Law Library also engaged in an extensive amount of referenceservice. This year, special attention was devoted to materials on theIllinois Constitutional Convention, including documentation on all previousIllinois Constitutional Conventions, to aid members of the Conventionpreparing study group reports. In addition, the Law Library providedextensive service to lawyers throughout the state by mail, telephone,and in person. Its compilation, Contents of Selected Legal Periodicals.was helpful to many.

The expansion of the reference collection in the Undergraduate Li-brary has raised the level of reference service to undergraduate students,who have responded with increased use of reference books. An effort toprovide a special Afro-American Reference Center in the UndergraduateLibrary was discontinued when few students took advantage of the service.

A number of library divisions prepared special subject bibliographiesand indexes for users. The Undergraduate Library, for example, compileda bibliography on drugs and drug use, in cooperation with the office ofthe Associate Dean of Students. The Law Library prepared a bibliographyon sewage charges in water pollution. The Education Library issuedbibliographies on population problems, the urban environment, socialproblems and the police, education and ecology. The Illini Union BrowsingRoom prepared a bibliography of materials for the Environmental Crisis Week.The Labor and Industrial Relations Library compiled nine bibliographies,copies of which were distributed on an exchange basis to libraries in thesame field elsewhere. The University High School Library developed severalbibliographies on the subject of "Science and Human Values.•

The Reference Department was open 87 hours per week during the regularyear, circulated 47,792 reference books or similar material, replied to 303written requests for information, supplied information on 1,440 locally-published items which other University offices were unable to identify, andissued permits to use the Library to 3,475 (575 renewals) applicants notassociated with the University,

Interlibrary Loans

Both the Library's borrowing from and lending to other institutionsincreased substantially. A total of h,4hh items were obtained on inter-library loan for $99 different users, divided among 282 faculty members;262 doctoral candidates, and $2 candidates for master's degrees. Theheaviest demands upon the service came from, in order: English (761),

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History (461), Germanic Languages and Literature (190), Spanish, Italian,and Portuguese (121), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (70), NaturalHistory Survey (69), Psychology (69), Children's Research Center (67),Anthropology (65), History and Philosophy of Education (65), PhysicalEducation for men (60), Library Science (55), Physiology and Biophysics (55),French (52), and Journalism (50), The institutions from which loans weremost frequently obtained were in descending order: Library of Congress,University of Chicago, Center for Research Libraries, University of Wisconsin,Harvard, University of Michigan, Cornell, Northwestern, and the John CrerarLibrary.

Total volumes loaned to other libraries increased from 12,007 to 20,916,an increase of more than 60 percent, due almost entirely to the expandinguse-of the UI Library's resources by Illinois public library systems, es-pecially the Suburban, North Suburban, Northern Illinois, Lincoln Trail,DuPage, Corn Belt, and Rolling Prairie Systems.

Among academic libraries, the Chicago Circle Library was the heaviestborrower, followed by Illinois State, Northern Illinois, Indiana University,Southern Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Western Illinois, Wisconsin--Milwaukeepand Utah. Special rush services provided to Northern Illinois, IllinoisState, and Southern Illinois, as well as to Chicago Circle and the MedicalCenter were continued, with plans to expand in 1970-71 to Sangamon State,the new state college at Springfield.

The teletype installation which went into use in 1968-69 continued tobe heavily used. A total of 14,6L4 requests by TWX was received during thepast year. Loans to Illinois institutions accounted for nearly two-thirdsof the Library's interlibrary lending activity.

Hours of Opening

The Library's scheduled openings were increased by 63 hours during theyear. A total of 310 hours of service has been added in the last 10 years,in response to heavier use of the Library's facilities, resources, andservices. The Physics Library added 17 hours to its weekend openings, theLaw Library added 14 hours to remain open until midnight and provide longerweekend schedules, the Commerce Library added seven hours to extend itsclosing time to 11 pnm., the Circulation Department remained open from5 to 7 on weekend nights--meeting a long-felt need, and the Biology, LibraryScience, Home Economics, Architecture, and University High Libraries extendedtheir schedules by several hours each. Also, 36 hours were added to the1970 Summer Session schedules to meet needs created by larger enrollmentsand more intensive use.

Extension of Services

To keep users and potential users of the Library's services informedand to encourage wide use of the Library's resources, the public servicedepartments issued lists of new acquisitions, periodical lists, and libraryguides and handbooks; conducted orientation tours and lectures; offeredorganized courses; and prepared timely exhibits,

For example, the Engineering Library provided a number of illustrated

lectures and demonstrations on the use of the Library; the Law Libraryconducted eight tours for Library Science and Education classes as wellas tours for all first-year law students; and the Chemistry Library providedspecial orientation for all new senior staff (the Chemistry Librarian alsotaught a course in chemical literature).

Among handbooks and guides issued for the information of libraryusers, the Commerce Library produced an up-dated guide for its new location,and the general library guide, "Your Library," was revised to include infor-mation about the services of the new Undergraduate Library.

Acquisition lists are another effective method of informing readersabout the Library's resources. A majority of the public service unitsprepared and distributed selected lists of new accessions at regularintervals. In some instances, e.g., Communications, Map and Geography, CityPlanning, and Geology, the lists are distributed to numerous libraries andagencies elsewhere, where they are valued for the bibliographical data theycontain. The Illini Union Browsing Room included the Residence Halls in itsdistribution of acquisition lists, aiming to develop broader reading habitsamong students.

Special exhibits of library materials were scheduled by a number ofdivisions. The University Archives displayed 12 exhibits in the course ofthe year dealing with the history of the University of Illinois. TheEducation Library arranged exhibits on feminism, campus unrest, and environ-mental problems. The Rare Book Room, in addition to exhibits in its ownquarters, prepared three exhibits for display in the main library corridors:"Books of Costume," "Selected Books of the Renaissance," and "Notable Acquisi-tions." Other first-floor corridor displays from July through June wereentitled "Conservation," "Illinois in Maps," American Institute of GraphicArts' "Fifty Books of the Year," "Faculty Publications," "Children's Books,""Christmas," "History of Science," "Banned Books," "Books That ChangedAmerica," "Our National Parks," "Music," and "Nobel Prize Winners."

Acquisition and Cataloging of Materials

Departmental librarians and other public service staff members areconstantly concerned with maintaining the quality of their collections anddeveloping new areas. Publishers' catalogs, dealers' catalogs of second-hand and antiquarian books, book reviews, and subject bibliographies areutilized to build balanced and useful collections. Standard subjectbibliographies were checked, as a device to strengthen their collections,by the Law, Physics, and Undergraduate Libraries,

A considerable amount of processing of library materials was carriedon by public service units, such as maintenance of serial and catalog records,preparation for binding, processing of reserve books, and limited catalogingof special materials, e.g., pamphlets, slides, maps, and music. The CityPlanning Library cataloged more than a thousand vertical file pieces; theMap and Geography Library cataloged 9,33h items; Architecture Librarycataloged 2,729 slides and photographs and mounted 209 architecturalphotographs; the Music Library cataloged 319 reels of microfilm and 376titles of American sheet music; the Classics Library prepared a card file

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of the Dittenberger-Vahlen pamphlet collection; and the Biology Librarysupplied cards for new acquisitions to the Midwest Regional Medical Li-brary Service at the John Crerar Library in Chicago.

Inventories and Book Losses

Departmental libraries are expected to take inventories annually, iffeasible. Among libraries reporting book losses, the highest number wasin the Mathematics Library, which found 450 volumes missing after taking aninventory for the first time in 12 years. Other libraries reporting sub-stantial losses, on the basis of inventories or known losses during the year,were: Commerce, 380; Agriculture, 102; History, 93; Physical Education, 87;Communications, 75; Physics, 70; Illini Union 70; Biology, 53: UniversityHigh, 49; Engineering, 45; and Modern Languages, h5. A considerable numberof mutilations of books was discovered by the Circulation and ReferenceDepartments.

Quarters and Equipment

The new Undergraduate Library building received an enthusiastic receptionby users. One of the most popular features was the 106-station listeningfacility opened in November. A formal dedication of the building was heldon November 15, with Professor Norman Graebner as the featured speaker. Aseparate dedication program was held for the court, which was landscapedthrough the generosity of the Class of 1917.

The Fifth Stack Addition was completed and moving of the bookstackscollection of nearly 3,000,000 volumes was under way at the end of the year,to relieve the critically crowded conditions which have damaged books,hampered service, and increased costs of operation. It is obvious thatunless construction can be started in the near future on the Sixth StackAddition, the Library will again begin experiencing the problems of over-crowding which have been so difficult to cope with in recent years. At thepresent rate, 140,000 volumes per year are added to the main library book-stacks.

Removal of the Undergraduate Library from the general library buildingmade possible several important reassignments of space. The space formerlyoccupied by the Undergraduate collection was remodeled and assigned to theCommerce Library, and the area formerly used by the Commerce Library becamethe new Slavic and East European Library and the South and West Asia Library.

Improvements in facilities were made in several departmental librarieseThe Music Library added 64 sections of shelving in the north corridor ofSmith Hall, to provide limited relief for its acute space problems, whichwill not be fully resolved until completion of the new Music Library. Re-modeling and refurnishing of the Engineering Library, started two years ago,was completed, and a remodeling project for the Communications Library, begunthree years ago, was also finished. Funds for remodeling the Geology Librarywere appropriated and that project is well under way.

Planning funds have been released for the Law Building Addition andthe East Chemistry 2d Addition; the first will add 50 percent more space for

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the Law Library and the latter will provide a Chemistry Library quadruplethe size of the present one. The proposed Engineering Library was givena high priority for planning and construction funds on the Urbana campusoThe Library Science Addition (southwest wing of the main library) is alsoon the Campus Planning Committee's approved list.

General

In January, a full-time librarian was appointed to develop, coordinate,and direct the activities of the Residence Hall Library System. The librarianworks in close touch with the Undergraduate Librarian and the Housing Division.Residence hall library facilities were maintained in the following locations:Allen, Florida Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, Illinois Street, Pennsylvania Avenue,and Peabody Drive. Peabody has the newest and most adequate facility. Thecollections emphasize reference materials, pure science, and literature.A sum of $12,000 was provided by the Housing Division during the year forthe purchase of books for the residence hall collections.

PERSONNEL

In full-time equivalent, during the 1969-70 budget period, the Libraryhad provision for 169.5 academic positions (including 4h half-time graduateassistantships) and 2lh.25 nonacademic positions. The total staff, infull-time equivalent, was 383.75. Special funds for a number of thepositions came from the Center for Russian Language and Area Studies, theCenter for Asian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Agencyfor International Development, the Illinois State Library Research andReference Service Program, the Housing Division, and the Afro-AmericanStudies Commission.

Racial, ethnic, and various national groups continued to be wellrepresented on the staff and the Library maintained its policy of employingits personnel without regard to race, color, or creed. The Library'sPersonnel Director cooperated closely with the University's AffirmativeAction Program, aimed at providing employment opportunities for the dis-advantaged of minority races. The Library's Equal Employment OpportunityCommittee, appointed during the year, centered its attention on increasingthe number of clerical learner positions on the staff.

There were h2 appointments made to the professional staff during theyear, plus 67 graduate students appointed to half-time graduate assistant-ships. Among some of the important appointments made to the academic staffwere Marilyn Satterlee, Acquisition Librarian, Claudia Holt, AssistantAcquisition Librarian; Erling Oelz, Circulation Librarian; Rosemary Singh,Assistant Circulation librarian; Ronald R. Powell, Assistant CirculationLibrarian; and N. Frederick Nash, Rare Book Room Librarian.

Three staff members, all with extended service records, retire asof August 31, 1970: Bernita J. Davies, Law Librarian; Florence M. Harding,Modern Languages Librarian; and Lily C. Gara, Bibliographer in the SerialsDepartment.

In addition to their regular duties, Library staff members were active

in various professional organizations, holding numerous offices or committeeappointments in the major library associations and related organizationsof the country, among them the American Library Association, Society ofAmerican Archivists, Special Libraries Association, Medical Library Associa-tion, Music Library Association, Illinois Library Association, and the Seminaron the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Professional activities

in the community and elsewhere were diverse, e.g., Robert Talmadge was amember of the Board of Directors of Forest Press, publisher of the DeweyClassification; Lucien White was President of the Champaign Public LibraryBoard, a member of the Champaign County United Fund Advisory Committee, andof the Alumni Board of Augustana College; Robert Delzell was Vice Presidentand Program Chairman of the Campus Round Table, a member of the UniversityFilm Council and of the Nonacademic Personnel Advisory Committee to theChancellor; Robert Oram was a member of the board of trustees of the UrbanaFree Library; Martha Friedman is Vice President and John Walker membershipchairman of the UI Chapter of the AAUP, and Mr. Walker served as Presidentof the Leal School PTA; Robert White was a member of the University'sCommittee on Aerial Photography; Marian Estep was on the Executive Committeeof the Council of the Midwest Regional Health Science Library; LawrenceMiller directed the Library Slavic Institute held on campus in the summerof 1970; arid Robert Downs served as Chairman of the University Concert andEntertainment Board.

The rate of turnover of the nonacademic staff remained high. A totalof 152 appointments were made and 114 resignations processed in the courseof the year--placing a heavy strain on the Library Personnel Office. Alsovery time consuming were interview with and appointments of student assistants.To maintain a full staff of O00 to 500 student aides, it was necessary tomake over 700 appointments during the year. These students, who performeda variety of tasks in public and technical service divisions, worked atotal of 204,900 hours, for which $319,034 was spent in wage funds.

Staff Recruitment and Selection

The acute shortage of professional personnel which has handicappedlibraries since the early forties appears to be past. Library school graduateswho received their degrees in 1970 found fewer positions available, and thosethat were open were often in less preferred locations and institutions. Asa result, the number of qualified applicants for positions on the Illinoisstaff was high and there was no difficulty in filling vacancies immediately.

A majority of the academic staff of the Library is composed of graduatesof the Illinois Library School, but practically all of the major Americanlibrary schools are represented on the staff in varying numbers.

In concluding ny twenty-seventh annual report, I wish to expresswarm appreciation to you, Vice Chancellor Carter, Dean Alpert, and otherkey University officers, to numerous faculty members, to colleagues on the

Library staff, and to many friends of the Library who have all contributedin a significant degree to making 1969-70 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

ENROLLMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY AND

USE OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY,

1960-61 to 1969-70*

EnrollmentYear Undergrad. Graduate Total Recorded Use

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

1961-62 19,566 ,5539 25,105 1,296,939

1962-63 20,221 6,084 26,3.0 1,h22,230

1963-64 21,236 6,604 27,840 1,467,873

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

1965-66 21,707 7,975 29,682 1,516,148

1966-67** 21,622 7,498 29,120 1,543,352

1967-68** 22,913 7,494 30,A07 1,582,A17

1968-69** 23,802 8,048 31,850 1,561,751

1969-70** 24,297 8,462 32,759 1,694,087

*Urbana campus only.

**First semester enrollment figures,

TABLE IV

RECORDED USE OF THE LIRARYFOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1970

(Urbana Only)

General Circulation Students Faculty Others Total

General LibraryCirculation Desk 186,185 43,689 15,180 245,0o5Circulation Desk (Use Here) 44,109 -. --. 44,109Undergraduate Library 128,634 9,s39 8,527 146,600Special Languages 5,034 ,1,066 339 6,439Departmental Libraries in

General Library 187,359 23,454 17,379 228,192Departmental Libraries in

Other Buildings 265,654 60,426 32,065 358,145

Total General Circulation 816,975 138,074 73,490 1,028,539

Reserve Materials Totals

General LibraryUndergraduate LibraryReference RoomDepartmental Libraries in

General LibraryDepartmental Libraries in

Other Buildings

Total Recorded Reserve Use

Interlibrary loans to institutions outside of Champaign-Urbana

Interlibrary loans from other institutionsstudents and faculty on Urbana campus

for use of graduate

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

Extramural extension circulation

120,13747,792

218,703

248,822

635,454

20,916

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TABLE V

THE VOLUMES AND SEATING CAPACITY IN THE

VARIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENTS AS OF JUNE 30, 1970*

SeatingLibrary Unit Capacity Volumes

URBANAGeneral Library Building

ClassicsCommerceEducation and Social ScienceEnglishGeneral Reading and Reference RoomHistory and PhilosophyIllinois Historical SurveyLibrary ScienceLincoln RoomMap and GeographyModern LanguageNewspaper LibraryPhysical EducationRare Book RoomUniversity Archives

Other Libraries on Campus**AgricultureArchitectureBiologyCeramicsChemistryCity Planning and Landscape ArchitectureCommunicationsEngineeringGeological SurveyGeologyHome EconomicsIllini Union Browsing RoomLabor and Industrial RelationsLawMathematicsMusicNatural History SurveyObservatoryPhysicsUndergraduateUniversity High SchoolVeterinary Medicine

3422627574

500473376812

5352

15215

15597

132107424

102991073

1186150

38711229251295

18995176

38,18525,87646,51319,25521,60715,5695,693

12,7124,121

13,53214,19714,11914,366

101,0•43,975

58,01631,40584,68555,1458

38,68218,6229,167

118,94965,97358,353

9,4042,2936,256

217,60235,64616,56626,9373,375

18,70384,33518,58116,425

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*Excludes extensive holdings of non-book materials, such as the 381,336 maps andaerial photographs in the Map and Geology Libraries; 60,938 cataloged slides and31,346 photographs in the Architecture and Art Library; and 170,438 pieces of choraland orchestral music and 28,718 sound recordings in the Music Library.

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

APPENDIX II

Notable Acquisitions, 1969-1970

Incunabula

The Library added fourteen volumes published before 1501 to its collectionof incunabula, bringing the total to 1,054. The earliest volume was VergiliusMaro, Opera (Milan, lh75), an example of Zarotus' work as a printer. The secondpart of Appianus' De bellis civilibus (Venice, 1477), was purchased. The acqui-sition of this volume, the first book with woodcut borders, completes the titlefor our Library, the earlier part having been acquired in 1947. Three volumesprinted in Italy between 1480 and 1490 were acquired. Strabo, Geographia(Treviso, 1l80), is believed to be the first known book issued by Rubeus, andderives from the Sweynheym and Pannartz edition of 1469. All editions of thegeographer, Strabo, are now assiduously collected. lesus, epistola pro operiscomendationes (Mantua, 1h81) by Nicolaus de Lyra was printed by Butschbach,the same printer who issued the 172 edition of the Divine comedy The thirdvolume from this decade is Tractatus de Venenis (Padua, 1U87) by Pietro d'Abano.This is one of the earliest of the important treatises on toxicology.

The most notable of the titles published during the last decade of centurywhich were acquired is the editio princeps of Isocrates Orationes (Milan, 1493).This volume is a beautiful example of ancient Greek typography. It is, inthe opinion of Fabricius, more correct than the Aldine impression of 1513.Eight other volumes were acquired from this decade. Joahannes Melber'sVocabularius predicantius (Strassburg, 1490) is a Latin-German dictionaryprinted by the famous Knoblocher. The purchase of a second copy of FrancescoPetrarca's Epistole familiares (Venice, 1l92) added two works, bound withthe Petrarch, by the Italian historian, Marco Antonio Coccio Sabellico.These two titles De vetustate aquileiensis patris (Padua 1481-83) and Desitu urbis (Venice, 149h) contain information about local Venetian history.Fasti (Venice, 1497) by Publius Ovidius Naso is a handsome edition withinteresting wood engravings, a product of the printing firm of JoannesTacuinus. Adding to our collections of Cornelius Tacitus works, his Opera(Venice, '197) was acquired in a scholarly and comely edition. An extremelyrare edition of the Bible, Biblia latina (Lyon, 1497) was acquired toenhance our collection of old Bibles. A first edition of Pro monte pietatis(Venice, 1h98),a volume on civil and church law, completes the list ofincunabula acquired during the year.

Sixteenth Century

Adding to our collections of sixteenth century publications, twovolumes of Erasmus were purchased. In hoc libello continentur querelapacis undique gentius eiectae profligataeque (Basil, 1518) is one of themost attractive editions of Erasmus. The title is within beautiful woodcutborders by Hans Holbein. The other volume by Erasmus, Exomologesis (Basil,1524), is a first edition, first issue. According to P. S. Allen, thistreatise was rushed through the press during February and March of 1524 tobe ready for the Frankfurt Spring Fair, while the rest of theedition was printed in a more leisurely way during the following months and

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and some misprints were corrected.

Other works published during the sixteenth century which were addedto the collections include a Latin Bible (Paris, 1528), the first of aseries of Latin Bibles printed by Robert Estienne. This copy presentsthe earliest genuine attempt at a critical edition of the Vulgate text.Another volume published by Robert Estienne, Sefer Chinuk behire iahby Jean Calvin (Geneva, 1554) is printed in Hebrew. This work is atranslation of Calvin's Catechism into Hebrew by the famous ItalianHebraist Immanuel Tremellius. A volume entitled Thre godly and notablesermons (London, 1546) is by William Peryn, a Dominican priest, whofled England when Henry VIII propounded his declaration of royalsupremacy.

A collection of works which illustrate Charlemagne's interest in thedogmatic controversies of the church of his time, and indicate the strongwill of the emperor to make his position known, and to fight heresies wasadded to the collections. The Opus inlustissimi (Paris, 1549) is the firstedition of the 'Libri Carolini', a manifesto condemning the decisions ofthe second Council of Nicaea in 787. Bound with this Opus is an accountof the synod of Paris of 824 entitled Synodus Parisiensis de imaginibus(Frankfurt, 1596).

Three other titles added to the Library's holdings from the sixteenthcentury include: Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphoseos libri XV (Venice,1540); a rare edition of Italian witty or humorous sayings entitled Sceltadi facezie, tratti buffonerie, motti, e bvrle (Florence, 1579); and a firstAldine edition of Galeazzo Flario Capella's L'Anthropologia (Venice, 1533).

English Literature: Seventeenth Century

During the past year, one volume of Seventeenth Century literaturewas purchased which had somehow strayed from the Ferguson Library purchasedin 1968-69. This volume was Epigrammata Juvenilia (London, 1669), byWilliam Speede. One volume of poetry, Sir l•lliam D'Avenant's Gondibert(London, 1651), is described as another work of which the significancedepends upon what came after. It hardly connects at any point with earlierEnglish poetry, but is an important landmark in neo classic art. A volumeby Sir Thomas Elyot, The image of governance compiled of the actes andsentences notable, of the moste noble rnperour Alexander Severus (London15U4) illustrates the wide culture and erudition of Henry VIII's court.The work consists of translations of and notes on various writers dealingwith the duties of rulers.

Three items of importance to our distinguished Milton collection werepurchased. One volume Urbis Romae topographia (Venice, 1588) by GiovanniBartolommeo contains a manuscript signature Jo Milton on the title page,but this is not a genuine Milton holograph, according to ProfessorHarris Fletcher. We were able to secure a perfect copy of an eighteenthcentury translation of Milton's Paradise Lost, Le Paradise Perdu (Paris,1792) a two-volume edition in English and French. The third Milton item

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acquired was the complete original manuscript with the author's correctionsof Essay on John Milton (about 1900) by John Fiske. This Essay was notpublished until after the author 's death when it appeared in his Essays,historical and literary (New York, 1907).

Treatises expounding on the political and religious questions of thetimes made up the remainder of the volumes acquired. An apologie forreligion (London, 1602) by Edward Bulkeley is an answer to a pamphletpurported to have been printed at Antwerpe in 1600. John Heigham's Via veretuta, or the truly safe way (St. Omers, 1631) is a rare Catholic workprinted abroad and directed against Preston and Lynde. Tractatus deprovidentia dei (London, 1631) by William Pemble is one of the post-humously published works of the famous preacher who was an exponent ofCalvinism. The second, augmented edition of Lawrence Anderton's Mirrourof new reformation (Rouen, 1634) is a violent attack in prose and verseupon the Reformers such as Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, etc. The ungirdingof the Scottish armour (Doublin, 1639) by John Corbet is one of fourvariants of the first edition. All appear to be rare. A relation of astranger apparition in an Ale-house next doore to the White Horse (London,16hl) is an extremely rare piece of Puritan propaganda against the Catholicsin the form of a colorful journalistic account of alleged supernaturalinterference with a Papist meeting and the seizure of one who slanderedthree celebrated Puritans.

Two volumes, one A bloody massacre plotted by the Papists intended againstthe city of London (London, 161), and the other A vindication of the doctrinecontained in Pope Benedict XII, his Bull, and in the General Council ofFlorence (Paris, 1659) by John Sergeant, complete the notable items fromthe century which were added to our Library.

English Literature: Schoolbooks

Building on the Library's collection of schoolbooks used during thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the following items were purchased:Filippo Beroaldo's Oratio proverbiorum (Paris, 1505), contains an interest-ing oration on proverbs and adagia in relation with the study of theclassics; Graecae literature dragmata (Basel, 1521) by Joannes Oecolampadiusis the third edition of this excellent Greek grammar; a well known modelbook for the composition of letters in Italian entitled Formvlario overoepistolario volgare (Venice, 1526) was written by Cristoforo Landino; afirst edition of the Italian humanist Pandolfo Collenuccio entitledEducatione usata da li antichi in alevare li loro figlioli et come artiuano...(Rome, 1535 is an important educational treatise; a grammar, Syntagmatonlinguarum orientalium (Rome, 1670) by Francesco Maria Maggi; and Thescholars vade mecum (London, ca 1675) by Marco Antonio Flaminio translatedand paraphrased by John Norton, a youthful prodigy, born in London, madeat the age of twelve.

Three dictionaries were added to the collection this year,

the most notable being The English dictionarie (London, 1626) by HenryCockeram. This second, revised edition by Cockeram had a range of interestand appeal beyond his predecessors and he introduces more entries, Cockeramsays of his efforts, "what any before me in this kinde have begun, I havenot onely fully finished, but thoroughly perfected." The Dictionarium exoptimis quibusue authoribus studiose collectum (Paris, 1520) was compiledby Ambrogio Calepino, a 15th century Augustinian monk who devoted hisentire life to the compilation of this polyglot dictionary. Basilius Faber'sThesavrvs ervdititionis scholasticae omnivm vsvi et disciplinis omnibvsoccomodatvs post celeberrimorum vivorum bvchneri (Leipzig, 1726) is oneof the great examples of 16th century scholarship. It is both a dictionaryand an encyclopedia of learning.

English Literature: Eighteenth Century

Seven volumes of poetry from the 18th century were added to the Library'scollections this past year. They were: Lord Byron's Hebrew melodies (London,1815), a first edition, first issued; the first octavo edition of Poems onseveral occasions (London, 1736) by Stephen Duck; an apparently unique, firstedition broadside entitled An elegy on the much lamented death of Jenny theFish, which departed this life at RingJ s End the 19th of Jan. 1718 (Dublin,1718); The Bath miscellay (Bath, 1741) is the first edition of a rarepoetical miscellany; a rare first edition of Charlotte Lennox's first book,Poems on several occasions (London, 1747); The college-examination (Dublin,1731) by William Percival; and a first edition of Horace Walpole's Themedalist (Dublin, 1741).

Four notable novels printed during the 18th century were acquired: anextremely rare early novel, Passionate love-letters between a Polish princessand a certain Chevalier (London, 1719); The secret history of Pythagoras:Part I (London, 1721)is a rare piece of philosophical fiction; a very rarecomic novella, a sort of 18th century 'Six Men in the Boat' entitled Avoyage up the Thames (London, 1738) by Thomas Bryan Richards; and a three-volume first edition of The castle of Burktholme (London, 1797).

One of the earliest of the many pirated editions of Richard B. Sheridan'sThe school for scandal (Dublin, 1781), apparently the first of the piratededitions to include the prologue and epilogue, is one of the notable editionsof drama added to the collection this past year.

An extremely rare miscellany of verse and prose entitled A new miscellanyfor the year 1737 (London, 1737); and a rare jest book entitled Democritus:or, the laughing philosopher (Berwick, 1771) are two more literary landmarksadded to our holdings this year.

Four titles were added to our already rich resources of Daniel Defoe'sworks. The first Dublin edition of A view of the Scots rebellion: with someenquiry what we have to fear from them (London printed: and re-printed and

sold by the Booksellers of Dublin, 1716); Rogue's on both sides (London,

1711): An account of the great and generous actions of James Butler (London,1715); and The compleat art of painting, a poem translated from the Frenchof M. DuFresnoy (London, 1720) are the four titles acquired.

A collection of broadsides, folios, and other volumes were added to ourholdings of Swiftiana. One group pertaining to the coinage in Ireland consistsof the following titles: A letter from a friend to the Right Honourable...(Dublin, 1724); The last speech and dying words of William Wood (Dublin, 1724);The last speech and dying words of the Bank of Ireland (Dublin, 1721); Misoxulos,pseud., Another letter to Mr. Harding the printer (Dublin, 1724); Hibernicus,pseud. A letter to William Woods, esq., from his only friend in Ireland(Dublin, 1724); A letter to the K... at arms (Dublin, 1721), probably writtenby Swift; Jonathan Swift's Seasonable advice (Dublin, 1724); A letter toWilliam Wood (Dublin, 1724) by Abraham Woodhater; A second letter from a friendto the right honourable... (Dublin, 1725); David Bindon's Some considerationson the attempts made to pass Mr. Wood's brass-money in Ireland (Dublin, 1724);and To the King's most excellent majesty, the humble petition of the Lord-Mayor,... (Dublin, 1724).

Three poems published in broadsides concerning the Irish coinage questionwere acquired. Their titles are: An express from Parnassus, to the Reverend Dr.Jonathan Swift (Dublin, 1724); A new poem ascrib'd to the Honble the gentlemenof the late grand-Jury (Dublin, 1724); and Jonathan Swift's To his grace thearch-bishop of Dublin (Dublin, 1724). Two other volumes of poetry, JonathanSwift's On poetry; a rapsody (London, Dublin re-printed, 1734); and On wisdom'sdefeat in a learned debate (Dublin, 1725), sometimes attributed to Swift, com-

plete the titles added to the Library's collection of Swiftiana.

Other volumes added to the Library from this century are as follows:Instructions given by King Henry the Seventh, to his embassadors, when heintended to marry the young queen of Naples (London, 1761); and an extremelyrare and interesting volume occasioned by the celebrated case of Capt. RobertJenkins, a merchant captain, who was captured by the Spanish and lost his earin 1731 entitled Spanish insolence corrected by English bravery (London, 1739).

Foreign Language Areas

Five titles in the area of Spanish language and literature were acquiredfor the Library this year. The sixteenth century publications are representedby the following titles: Amadis de Gaula, Splandiano e le sue prodezze, lequali segvono i quattro libri (Venice, 1560), a Spanish romance of chivalrywhich inspired many famous men, and offers a world of escape and an unproble-matical delineation of values; the final work of Luis de Granada, concernedwith explaining the basic dogmas of the Christian creed, entitled Primera,segunda, tercera y cuarta parte la introdvction del symbolo de la fe (Salamanca,1583); and Comparaciones o similes para los vicos y virtudes, muy util ynecessario para predicadores y otras personas curiosas (Alcala de Henares,1586) by Juan Perez de Moya, an author most well known for his writings inmathematics. Seventeenth century publications from Spain are represented byan early Spanish translation of Caio Plinius Secundus Libro nono de la historianatural de los pescados del mar, de lagos, estanques, y rios (Madrid, 1603);

and a history of the rise of the well-known Spanish family of Sarmiento byJose Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar entitled Informe del origen, antiguedad, calidad

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i sucession de la Excelentissima Casa de Sarmiento de Villamayor (Madrid,1663).

The area of French language and literature was represented in thenotable additions to the Library this year. One of the earliest Le theatredu mone (Antwerp, 1570) by Pierre Boaistuau is a moralistic work written inthe rambling form of popular manuals of worldly wisdom. Theodore Beze's DeFrancicae linguae recta pronuntiatione tractatus (Geneva, 1584) was an attemptto establish rules for pronouncing French. An attractive edition of FrancoisRabelais Le Oeuvres (Lyon, 1596) completes the titles published in thesixteenth century which were acquired this year. Two seventeenth centuryeditions, the Memoires (Paris, 1660) by Michel de Castelnau and Jean Bertaut'sLes oeuvres poetiques (Paris, 1633), are two notable examples added this year.One interesting item, a decree authorizing the use of the guillotine entitledLoi relative a la peine de mort et au mode d'execution qui sera suivi a1'avenir (Paris, 1792), was added from the eighteenth century.

Ten autograph letters were added to the Proust collection. These areall unpublished letters, six of them being written to Lucien Daudet, Alsoadded to the Proust collection was a volume by Clement de Maugny entitledAu royaume de Bistouri (Geneva, 1917), which contains a preface by MarcelProust.

An interesting manuscript scroll of the Book of Esther was added thisyear. It is quite rare as when these scrolls were newly transcribed, the oldones were destroyed. Consequently, few old ones have survived. This scrollis in Sephardic writing with extensive ornamentation. It was probably writtenin Germany during the eighteenth century.

Emblem Books

A number of emblem books from the seventeenth century were added to thecollections this year. The earliest of these was Historia insignium illustriumseu operis heraldici pars specialis...in cultiori Europa (Frankfurt, 1600) byPhilipp Jakob Spener. Spener was the first to coordinate the branch sciencesof heraldry, genealogy and numismatics into one comprehensive "science".This work is the first historical work on heraldry. Other titles added were:Const-Thoonende Ivwell by de loflijcke stadt Haerlem (Zwold, 1607-08) collectedand edited by Zachariad Heyns, an engraver and etcher of repute; a fascinatingbook of unusual emblems entitled Emblemata nova (Frankfurt, 1617) by AndreasFriedrich; Scipione Mazzella's Der Neapolitanischen Koenig leben und bildnuss(Augsburg, 1624); a masterpiece of the Italian Baroque period, each of theplates illustrating a famous anchorite with an accompanying essay, Illustriumanachoretarum elogio siue religiosi viri mvsaevm (Venice, 1625) by GiacomoCavacci; a first edition of Francis Quarles' Hieroglyphikes of the life ofman (London, 1638); a Plantin Press edition of Virtutes cardinales ethicoemblemate expressae...ad Franciscum de Kinschot (Antwerp, 1645); JohanHeinrich Ursin's Arboretum biblicum (Nuremberg, 1699), which contains en-graved plates of trees and plants; and the second edition of Jacques Callot'sLux claustri (Augsburg, n. d.) which is dedicated to the religious and solitarylife.

The eighteenth century is represented by three titles of notable emblembooks. The first two, bound in one volume, are Willem Mylius' De veldgezangenvan Thyrsis (Leyden, 1702), and Cupidoos mengelwerken (Amsterdam, 1728) by

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Gerrit Hesman. A volume by Abraham a Sancta Clara entitled Huy' und pfuy!der Welt (Wurzburg, 1707) including beautiful plates showing natural events,aminals, plants and often scenes of daily life completes the list of emblembooks added to the collections this year.

History of Science

Continued progress as made in dding t Opur collections for the studyof the history of science. The follwing titles published in the seventeenthcentury were added: Le parfaict joaillier (Lyon, 16 0) by Anselme Boece deBoot, the first edition in the French language of this celebrated work; arare first edition of Francisco Macedo's Theatrum meteorologicum (Rome, 1660),the second half dealing with subjects which are of particular interest forthe history of geology; a manuscript of 30 leaves concerning hydraulicsentitled Traite du movement naturel et art ific lde l'eau (France, 1670);and a rare, to-page puflicfon Enuries to be propounded to the mostingenious of -Ih - y1it,. trý _ dgEng1kd and Wales, in order totheir history of nature and arts (Oxford'; 17•9) which apparently was sentall over England when the author, Robert Plot, had the idea of making a"philosophical tour" through England and Wales.

Three items from the eighteenth century in this area can be considerednotable additions to our collections. They are: Relation historique d'Abissini(Paris, 1728) by Jeronymo Lobo; a manuscript entitled Recherches sur lescavernes a ossemens de Lunel Vieil , (a pioneer work in archeology; and ascarce sermon of Increase Mather's entitled' A discourse concerning earth-quakes (Boston, 1706), purchased to complement last year's acquisition ofseveral treatises on earthquakes.

Two items from the nineteenth century complete the notable acquisitionsin the field of history of science. They are: Oryctographie du gouvernementde Moscou (Moscou, 1837) by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim; and a nice copy ofthe most famous of geological maps, William Smith's A delineation of thestrata of England and Wales with p fdt of Scotland (London, 1815), includingthe Memoir to the map.

Atlases and Gazetteers

Four seventeenth century publications were purchased for the Librarycollections this year: Epitome of the theater of the worlde (London, 1603)by Abraham Ortelius, the first edition i~n nglish; the first edition of thefirst scientific geography Geographia generalis, in qua affectiones generalestelluris explicantur (Amsterdam, 1650) y erhar aren; a Descriptio regni

Japoniae et iam (Cantabrigiae, 1673) also by B. Varen; and Laurence Echard'sThe gazetteers, or newsman's interpreter (London, 1672).

Three other items from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries complete

the list of materials added for the study of geography. They are: GeorgeTaylor's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland (London,

1776); a Map of North America (London, 1824) by James Wyld, one of the fore-

most geographers in Europe, whose maps are remarkable for their excellence; and

a find copy of Vasilii Petrovich Piadyshev's Geografycheskoy atlas Rossyeskoy

emperey...Atlas geographique de l'empire de Russie (St. Petersburg, 1820-28),with test in Russian and French.

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Travel and Americana

Works describing early explorations, some of them contemporary wereacquired. These works included: a faithful account of Roggevein'sexpedition to Batavia, and the first authentic account of Easter Islandwritten by Karl Friedrich Behrens, entitled Histoire de 1'expedition detrois vaisseaux, envoyes par la compagnie des Indes Occidentales desProvinces-Unies, aux terres Australes en 1721 (The Hague, 1739); the thirdedition of Richard Gardiner's An account of the expedition to the WestIndies, against Martinico, with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other theLeeward Island; subject to the French King, 1759 (Birmingham, 1762); Areview of the reigns of George I and II (Berwick, 1792), which contains abrief account of the Old French War, particularly in America; Basil Hall'sAccount of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the greatLoo-Choo Island, with an appendix (London, 1818); and an early edition ofthe well known and widely reprinted Historia de la conquista de Mexico(Barcelona, 1691) by Antonio de Solis y Rivadeneyra.

Two volumes of Afro-American interest which may be considered notableacquisitions are as follows: Arrest du conseil qui accorde a la Compagniedes Indes le privilege exclusif (Paris, 1720) grants a monopoly on theslave trade to the Indies Company shortly after the Mississippi Bubbledebacle; and two titles by William Wilberforce dealing with the slave-tradeentitled Lettre a l'empereur Al xandre sur la traite des noirs (London,1822) and Adresse aux nations de l'Europe sur le commerce homicide appeletraite des noirs (London, 1822).

APPENDIX III

Gifts

Following is a list of individuals from whom the University Li-brary received gifts of books, pamphlets, periodicals, or other materialin 1969-70:

(a) Alumni and Students

Earl E. Balthazar; Julia M. Barber; Hale C. Bartlett; Harry Butowsky;Robert E. Calvin; Neal Carron; James M. Cleary; George Dannells; Clayton F.Daugherty; R. P. Erwin; William G. Evans; Leon R. Follmer; Robert S. Fuller;Judy Ganson; Albert Griffiths; Robert S. Hale; Ernest Ingold; John GeorgeIngold; William P. Jones; Robert Lauber; James S. McCormack; Maxine E.McDivitt; Carl W. Miller; Wilda W. Morris; Assen Nicoloff; Irma EuniceOlson; Robert G. Osterhoudt; Gordon N. Patric; Marvin J. Pearce, Sr.; HaroldPeters; Eugene Robbins; Mary A. Rolfe; Richard Schlegel; Robert L. Shoemaker;Paul W. Sloniowski; George R. Waggoner; George Wolfram; Winslow M. Wright, Jr.

(b) Faculty and Staff

Roger Adams; Joseph H. D. Allen, Jr.; Robert R, Allen; Walter C.Allen;

John J. B. Anderson; Wendell G. Anderson; Richard Archer; Constance M.Ashmore; John C. Bailar; R. R. Baldwin; Joseph J. Bannon; Virginia Bartow;

Paul A. Beck; Arie Ben-Zvi; Eleanor Blum; P. G. Braunfeld; Roger H. Bray;

Harry S. Broudy; Karl Bunger; Yvette Cameron; John L. Carey; KennethCarlston; Robert E. Chapdu; Edward Cole; Charles W. Conatser; Frank Costin;W. L. Creese; Royden Dangerfield; Robert F. Delzell; Edwin J. DeMaris;

Robert I. Dickey; Otto A. Dieter; Robert B. Ditton; O. H. Dodson; Robert

B. Downs; John W. Drake; Daniel C. Drucker; Edgar L. Erickson; Mark Falcoff;Phillip Fehl; Jerome D. Fellman; W. A. Ferguson; Ralph T. Fisher, Jr.; John

T. Flanagan; Harris Fletcher; Aurelio E. Florio; Phillips L. Garman; MaxwellGarret; Herbert Goldhor; Mrs. Marcus Goldman; William I. Goodman; Ralph E.Grim; Gabriel Guevrekian; H. S. Gutowsky; Gilbert P. Haight; Paul Handler;

Robert W. Harbeson; Peter Harvey; H. S. Hayman; David Dodds Henry; Arno

Hill; Donald R. Hodgman; Franz E. Hohn; Nick Holonyak, Jr.; Josie B.Houchens; Howard Hoyman; Harvey W. Huegy; Warren Huffman; Chester 0.

Jackson; Henry R. Kahane; Mrs. William E. Kappauf; Robert P. Kaufman;

Roy J. Keller; Donald L. Kemmerer; Chin Kim; Claire King; Thomas F. Krizan;

James F. Lahey; Alan K. Laing; Samuel T. Lanford; Henning Larsen; Luis Leal;

Edward R. Levy; Harry Levy; Lucretia Levy; Edward Go Lewis; Oscar Lewis;George Lowrey; Charles Lozar; Mary Annette McKee estate; George C. McVittie;

H. V. Malmstadt; Merton J. Mandeville; Jack McKinney Mochel; Therald Moeller;

Marcos Augusto Morinigo; W. A. Neiswanger; Niels Norby Nielsen; Charles E.

Nowell; Robert W. Oram; Charles E. Osgood; D. J. Paolillo; Carl Parmenter;

Thomas E. Parks; Wayland M. Parrish; Carl V. Patton; Alan Peshkin; Clarence

A. Phillips; Thomas Erwin Phipps; David W. Plath; Kerker Quinn estate;

Jerald F. Robinson; R. W. Rogers; Frank E. Romack; Ana Maria Sagi; Charles

Sanders; Allen V. Sapora; Keith G. Scott; Marcia Strong Scott; William

H. Shoemaker; Leonard D. Singer; John Sirich; Harry Skornia; Irene

Slawinska; Charles P. Slichter; Thomas 0. Sloan; Gloria L. Smith; Ralph

Alexander Smith; Mauricio Solaun; Charles H. Spaulding; Chester Starr;

Henri Stegemeier; E. H. Storey; Gene Summers; Robert M. Sutton; Joseph W.

Swain; Sherlock Swann; George W. Swenson, Jr.; A. Turyn; Joseph Tykociner

estate; Luitpold Wallach; Howard E. Weaver; Allen S. Weller; Cyril White;

George W. White; Lucien W. White; Robert White; Ernst Wolff; Norma Yoss;

Jerrold Ziff.

(c) Individuals

Carl Adler; Wilfrid M. Appleby; Edward Auten, Jr.; Lydio Machado

Bandeira de Mello; Joe Bauxar; Harold von Beck; S. H. Bederman; Margarete

Bieber; Klaus von Bismarck; Solomon G. Blanco; Gerald M. Bolick; Roger G.

Brethorst; Paul M. Bucy; John F. Burns; Mrs. Harold H. Burton; Anthony

Butkovich; Randolph E. Carlson; D. A. Carlton; Primo Castrillo; H. M.

Chieftain; Mrs. G. L. Clark; F. W. Clayton; John P. Coll; Arthur F. Corwin;

John F. Cramer; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crisel; Giovanni Cultrera; Richard L.

Curry; Samuel Davis; J. E. Duckworth; Josemaria Escriva; Edgard de Cerquira

Falcao; Novice G. Fawcett; Guillen Fedro; Lionel E. Flotte; Harold L.

Franklin; Joseph G. Frisch; Lee Gatch; L. T. Gregory; Antony N. Grobovsky;

Julius Gyenes; Armand Hammer; Guillermo Massieu Helguera; John Hill; J. L.

Hult; Alex Jackinson; Aage Jorgensen; Sol Karp; Robert D. Kasmire; Max S.

Kirch; Wolfgang Kloppe; N. L. N. Krauss; Paul Kriesis; E. C. Laird; Adrien

Lalanne; F. W. Lancaster; Martin A. Larson; Morma Laurel; Josefine Lawrence;

Chauncey D. Leake; Robert F. Lee; Remigio Romero Leon; Elliotte R. Little;

Chen Liu; Hsien Lu; John B. McGovern; James Magorian; James F. Maguire;

Alberto Manceaux; Tom L. Martinson; Sachio Matoba; Roscoe R. Miller; John

J. Mitchell; Deidre Moss; Seraphim Nassar; Elden Eugene Neal; Paul Niehans;

Richard R. and Sharon E. Olendorff; Edward Oler; J. E. Rivera Oviedo; Slobian

Pachmuss; Dante Pacini; Nicholas M. Paley; Poul P. M. Pedersen; Mrs. Ben E.

Perry; Armistead Peter; Einar Petersen; Michael Joseph Phillips; Mrs. Guy

Bates Post; V. C. Pusheck; Kip Ran; William Ready; Henrietta Reifler; Irvine

Richardson; Mrs. Lewis C. Ross; A. L. Rowse; David Rudavsky; Walter S.

Rugland; Sheik M. Sadeek; Caroline Saheb-Ettaba; William Salloch; Margaret

Sandburg; M. I. Schnelby; Bruce C. Scott; Mrs. William Shoemaker; Louis

Shores; Carl S. Shoup; Mrs. Claudia Sidener; Frank Skinner estate; Mrs.

Charles H. Spaulding; Ruth S. Stickle; Ryuichi Tateishi; Louise Taylor;

James R. Vaky; Swami Vishadanada; Erik Wahlgren; Herbert Wehman; Dimitri

Weiss; Carl M. White; Marie With-Jensen; Yar Shater; Dean Khein Yimsiri.