University of Virginia Library

6. THE STAFF

938. See footnote 592 for a list of the seven full time members. The student
assistant was Charles Louis Knight, a graduate student in Economics.

939. The figures for the end of June 1950 were from the statistics prepared
at the general office in the Library and supplied to Princeton and
Louisiana State Universities and to the Virginia State Library. Of the
sixty-six full time members of the staff, twenty-six were of professional
status. Of the firty-five student assistants, twenty-four were employed
at the general library, ten at the Engineering Library, eight at the Law
Library, and three at the Medical Library.

940. The heads of divisions at the Alderman Library who had received
appointment during 1925-1950 were Miss Savage, Acquisitions; Miss Land,
Circulation; Mr. Dalton, Reference; Mr. Berkeley, Manuscripts; Mr. Wyllie,
Rare Books.

941. See pages 125, 143, and 144 of Section VI of this history.

942. See page 145 of Section VI of this history.

943. During the peak year, 1940-1941, there were fourteen projects at the
Alderman Library and twelve in other Libraries. A list follows, the
Directors being designated for the projects at the Alderman Library.

Federal Relief Staff Projects at Alderman Library, 1940-1941

                           

Acquisitions Division	Miss Savage
Archival Section	Dr. Cappon
Circulation Division	Miss Land
Document Collection	Miss Smith
Duplicates Collection	Miss Dinwiddie
Extension Service	Miss Copps
General Office	Mr. Clemons
National Catalogues	Miss Digges
Newspaper Collection	Dr. Hoyt
Preparations Division	Miss Deane
Rare Books Division	Mr. Wyllie
Reference Division	Mr. Dalton
Reserved Book Room	Miss Cox
Serials Section	Mrs. Driscoll

Federal Relief Staff Projects in Other University Libraries,
1940-1941.

• Blandy Farm Library

• Chemistry Library

• Engineering Library

• Fine Arts Library

• Geology Library

• Law Library

• Mathematics Library

• Medical Library

• Music Library

• Public Administration Library

• Rural Social Economics Library

• Vocational Guidance Library

944. Records are given in detail in the Annual Library Reports for the
session from 1933 to 1943. The summary by sessions is as follows:

                       

Session	Number of Persons	Hours Worked	Wages
1933-1934	108	17,678	$7,378.19
1934-1935	87	23,555	9,521.00
1935-1936	131	28,949½	11,768.21
1936-1937	87	24,308	9,965.23
1937-1938	116	27,312½	10,801.31
1938-1939	143	36,697	14,406.73
1939-1940	140	37,770	14,862.77
1940-1941	156	50,673½	21,232.10
1941-1942	105	25,747	10,999.68
1942-1943	46	4,390½	1,794.90
Totals	1,119	277,081	$112,730.12

945. The Virginia Certification Law is stated in section 363 of Chapter 84
of the Arts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia in
the session which commenced 8 January 1936. Three "Service and
Explanatory Announcements" were issued by the State Board for the Certification
of Librarians, dated respectively 15 December 1936, 15 October
1937, and 3 January 1939.

946. Mr. Clemons was a member of the Certification Board from 1936 to
1948, Mr. Dalton from 1948 on.

947. The Virginia Personnel Act is stated in chapter 370 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the session
which commenced 14 January 1942.

948. See page 153 of Section VI of this history.

949. There are standardization problems for example when positions like
that of Circulation Librarian are compared for Sweet Briar College, the
State Library, and the University of Virginia.

950. The "widespread impression" concerning the Staff at the University
of Virginia Library is only in part based on documentary evidence, such
as the letters received by the Faculty Library Committee in 1950 from
some twenty or thirty Librarians who were consulted concerning a successor
to Mr. Clemons. It is in part based on conversations with visitors
to the Alderman Library, or with Librarians met by Mr. Dalton in the
latter's 1949 and 1950 visits to leading American libraries.

951. The Reference Division was started in 1929 by the appointment of Mr.
Wyllie as Assistant Reference Librarian. The Rare Book and Manuscript
Division was formally started in 1938, in this case also Mr. Wyllie being
the first head, as Director. The Virginia Collection which had been
organized in 1928 was, however, a predecessor of the Rare Book and Manuscript
Division. Of this Miss Harshbarger was the first head, followed
by Mr. Wyllie.

952. The first meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held on 28 September
1938. Beginning with 6 October 1943 the meetings were held monthly.

953. Biographical data concerning Miss Farmer were obtained from the files
in the office of the Department of Law. Details concerning the others
were found in the files of the general office of the Alderman Library.
Filed under the heading "McGregor Library, Curator Biographies," are somewhat
fuller sketches of Miss Savage, Mr. Berkeley, and Mr. Wyllie. These
were prepared at the request of the McGregor Advisory Committee. There
are data concerning twelve of the fourteen (omitting Miss Farmer and
Miss Koiner) in Who's Who in Library Service, edited by C. C. Williamson
and Alice L. Jewett, Second Edition, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company,
1943.

954. See pages 149 and 150 of Section VI of this history.

955. See page 84 of Section IV and page 149 of Section VI of this history.

956. See page 142 of Section VI of this history. Just prior to the
removal of the Medical Library to the new medical buildings in June 1929,
the Medical Librarian had been Mrs. Ella Watson Johnson. Slightly fuller
data for the nine Medical Librarians who followed are given below:-

• 1929, June to September. Margaret Otto (Mrs. Paul Otto). Her husband
  was an Assistant Professor of Physical Education at the University.

• 1929-1931. Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey (Mrs. George Tayloe Gwathmey, Jr.).
  Her husband was a medical student who left Charlottesville after taking
  his doctor of medicine degree.

• 1931-1934. Caroline Hill Davis. Miss Davis had been a member of the
  Reference Division at the Columbia University Library. In 1934 she
  suffered a stroke and had to resign.

• 1934, March to June. Dora Mitchell Browning (Mrs. Henry Paul Browning).
  Her husband was a medical student who left Charlottesville after taking
  his doctor of medicine degree.

• 1934-1936. Miriam Thomas Buchanan (Mrs. Scott Buchanan). Her husband
  was a Professor of Philosophy at the University who resigned to become
  Dean of St. John's University at Annapolis.

• 1936-1943. Anne Lewis Morris (Mrs. Francis Johnson Duke). Her husband
  is an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University.

• 1943-1944. Mary Elizabeth Mayo (Mrs. Frank Wilson Shaffer). Her husband
  is a clergyman in Pennsylvania.

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• 1944-1947. Mabel Cook Wyllie (Mrs. Douglas Wyllie). Her husband is
  a business man living in Scotland.

• 1947- Elizabeth Frances Adkins.

957. Action was taken by the Faculty Library Committee on 9 February 1928
permitting extension loans as a part of this cooperation, for which Mr.
George Willard Eustler, Associate Director of the Extension Division, was
the active agent. Reports on the progress and extent of this service by
the University of Virginia appears in successive Annual Library Reports.

958. See pages 73, 74 of Section IV of this history.

959. In addition to the data concerning Miss Dinwiddie in Who's who in
Library Service, there are sketches of her career in Alumni News, vol. 38,
no. 9, June 1950, pp. 9, 16, and in College and Research Libraries, vol.
11, no. 4, October 1950, p. 387.

960. See page 153 of Section VI of this history.

961. The expert Cataloguer who was in 1937 retiring from the Staff of the
Library of Congress was Miss Jessie McLeish Watson. Details of the
incident can be found, under her name, in the general office files.

962. The files in the general office and in the Preparations Division contain
a really appalling amount of correspondence with the Library of
Congress over classification details.

963. The first edition of the Union List of Serials was published in 1927.
To it there were added Supplements dated 1931 and 1933. It was for these
that contributions from the University of Virginia Library began. The
great second edition, bringing the record down to 1940, was issued in 1943.
Two supplements, the first coverning the years 1941 to 1943 and the second
the years from 1944 to 1949, have been in progress since then.

964. The General Chairman of the Centennial Committee was Dr. John Lloyd
Newcomb, See page 85 of Section IV of this history.

965. See page 146 of Section VI of this history.

966. See page 177 of Section VI of this history.

967. Miss Lucy Clark was for the years 1948 to 1950 one of the four members
elected to the Council of the University of Virginia Bibliographical
Society.

968. Miss Koiner and Miss Byrd ranked respectively first and second in the
certification examinations for 1947.

969. Miss Land received A's in all her courses at the University of Michigan
and was the sole member of the Library Science group to be elected to the
honorary scholastic society of Phi Kappa Phi.

967A. Miss Bertha Cornelia Deane was Acting Head of the Acquisitions
Division in 1932-1933. In 1950 she was a Cataloguer in the Preparations
Division.

968. Miss Koiner and Miss Byrd ranked respectively first and second in the
state certification examinations for 1947.

968A. Miss Virginia Cloud Jacobs was Assistant for Circulation in 19271928
and was in charge of the Circulation Division for 1928 to 1934.
In 1950 she was living in New York City.

968B. Miss Elizabeth Dillard Waterman was Assistant for Circulation 19381941
and 1943-1947. During the session of 1941-1942 she studied Library
Science at Columbia University, she was acting head of the Circulation
Division during the absence of Miss Land in 1942-1943, in June 1947 she
received an M.A. degree from the University of Virginia, and later that
year she married Mr. Robert Hunt Land, Librarian of the College of William
and Mary.

969. Miss Land received A's in all her courses at the University of Michigan
and was the sole member of the Library Science group to be elected to
the honorary scholastic society of Phi Kappa Phi.

970. Mr. Dalton took his B.S. degree in 1930 and his M.S. degree in 1935.
His graduate work was mainly in English.

971. Mr. Church was Assistant Reference Librarian at the University of
Virginia during 1933-1934, Assistant State Librarian 1934-1936, and State
Librarian from 1947.

971A. Mr. Anthony Vincent Shea, Jr., was Acting Assistant Reference
Librarian during the session of 1935-1936. In 1950 he was Vincent Shea,
University Bursar, Assistant to the President, and Secretary of the
Board of Visitors.

972. In 1930 Dr. Lester J. Cappon was appointed as a member of the Library
Staff, but it was understood that his title was University Archivist.
This title, with the alternate title of University Records Administrator,
was officially recognized by the State in 1949, after Mr. Lloyd S.
Myer, State Records Administrator, had had surveys made of the records
of state institutions by the Washington firm of Records Engineering,
Inc. In 1949, therefore, Mr. Berkeley officially became University
Archivist or University Records Administrator.

973. See page 161 of Section VI of this history.

974. The following is Mr. Berkeley's statement in the McGregor Library
Curator Biographies: "Employed at Okinawa principally in making smoke
screens to protect various battleships. Also shot down one Kamikaze
plane... Sailed without damage, with my Task Unit, through the center of
the Fifth of June Typhoon, adjacent to Admiral Halsey's Task Force, which
on this occasion suffered more damage than in any engagement of the war."
See The Caine Mutiny for a vivid story of a vessel not under Lieutenant
Berkeley's command!

975. The promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander came in 1953.

976. See page 180 of Section VI of this history.

977. The use of the title Assistant Reference Librarian was a bit of salary
strategy. It was hoped that when the title Reference Librarian came to
be used, the salary could be advanced.

978. Alumni News, vol. 22, no. 2, November 1933, p. 37.

979. Alumni News, vol. 30, no. 5, February 1942, p. 106; no. 10, August 1942,
pp. 27, 28; vol. 31, no. 1, October 1942, p. 22; no. 6, March 1943, p. 15;
vol. 33, no. 3, December 1944, pp. 11, 12; no. 5, February 1945, p. 5. Mr.
Wyllie began with the American Field Service under British command in North
Africa. He there rose from private to lieutenant. He next served with
the American forces in Burma. He had again enlisted as a private and had
again been promoted to commissioned rank. He was finally attached to the
Chinese army as an American liaison officer.

980. Alumni News, vol. 37, no. 2, November 1948, p. 5.

981. This citation was read by President Darden at the Class Day Exercises
in 1948.

982. The Staff Association's committee roster for the years from 1942 to
1950 is as follows:

             

1942-1944	Jack Dalton, Chairman Lucy Clark Louise Savage Bertha Deane, Treasurer
1944-1945	Roy Land, Chairman Grigsby Bailey Marjorie Carver Mary Culbertson, Treasurer
1945-1946	Alicia Flynn, Chairman Polly Brooks Virginia Earhart Bess L. Eager, Treasurer
1946-1947	Nora Fraser, Chairman Ruth Byrd Evelyn Dollens Bess L. Eager, Treasurer
1947-1948	Clarice Snead, Chairman Francis Berkeley Katherine Beville Bess L. Eager, Treasurer
1948-1949	Ella Frances Smith, Chairman Mabel Talley, Secretary Helena Koiner Elizabeth Pleasants, Treasurer
1949-1950	Muriel Hill, Chairman Emma Digges, Secretary Charles E. Moran, Jr. Violet Dollens, Treasurer

983. See page 72 of Section IV and page 118 of Section V of this history.

984. Annual Library Report for 1929, pp. 9, 10.

985. Annual Library Report for 1930, p. 10: Faculty Library Committee
Minutes 1 May, 4 November 1930, 21 April 1931; Virginia Libraries (published
by the Virginia State Library), vol. 4, no. 1-2, April-July 1931, p. 35.

986. Annual Library Reports, for 1931, p. 12; for 1932, p. 14; for 1933,
p. 15; for 1942-43, p. 18. These library science courses were credited by
the Southern Association on 20 May 1933.

987. There had been a degree conferring School started at the College of
William and Mary, but that also was a war victim.

988. Records of the summer quarter, extension, and Mary Baldwin College
Courses in Library Science are given in the Annual Library Reports. Of
the extension courses there were in 1935-1936 two in Charlottesville, both
given by Miss Dinwiddie; in 1936-1937 there were two in Charlottesville

and one in Richmond, given by Miss Savage, and one in Lynchburg, given
by Miss Dinwiddie; in 1937-1938 there were one in Charlottesville and
two in Ashland, all given by Miss Savage.