Excerpt from News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 23

I welcomed the suggestion of Mr Sever; ance in his paper read at The American Library Institute: that the junior college library would make a fitting library research problem. Junior college libraries are mentioned so casually in the books on the junior college. A typical statement is that of President Wilbur of Stanford University, who says, ' The facilities required for the junior college, are practi cally those of a good high school, with some extension of libraries and laboratory equipment and with a better trained teaching staff. (introduction to Proctor, W. M., ed. The junior College; its organ ization and administration. Stanford. University press, 1927, p. X). I am not ready to admit that the first two college years demand only a slight expansion of library equipment. In these two years the student learns how to study and how to use the library; he should have a generous book supply, ample reference books and an extensive periodical collee tion to experiment with.

Standards Should be made with great care. They must not be so high that only a few can aspire to reach them, yet clear statements must be made to provide for the college that has reached the stand ard of support but is Still in great need of books. The measuring stick must not be an arbitrary thing but should provide for the ifs: If the library is well estab lished, if the books are plentiful, up-to date, well selected, if the building permits economical supervision, if the catalog is well made and not in need of revision, if the. Student enrollment and faculty mem bers are fairly uniform from year to year, if the curriculum is not subject to radical changes, . If you do not have to provide research material in new fields, then and only then are standards justly applicable and truly measuring sticks. In practical library administration, as in most fields, standards set are guide posts, not paths to be literally followed.

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