Long Island University at Brooklyn - Sound Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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the exhibit on French painting which we have worked out in cooperation with the library.' The Iournalism department may say, 'The library has prepared an exhibit of the work of the 1950 Polk award winners. Your comments are invited.' We have made all other departments in the uni- versity helpless without us-so dependent upon our resourcefulness that the faculty and administration call upon us for aid of every conceivable sort. We make signs, posters, draw blueprints, and take photo- graphs of experiments or events. We build plaster or wood models. design awards, work up publicity cam- paigns, display art, merchandise. and sometimes even books! We all but baby-sit for the faculty. Most of the credit is due to the excellent Library faculty, says the Director of Libraries. ln two years Miss Adelheid Baum revitalized the Periodicals Library. Inside of three years Miss Mabel Bartlett geared the Technical Processes depart- ment to unexampled efficiency. Miss Florence Weintraub turned the Circulation department into an efficient conveyor belt with a Home-Sweet-Home atmosphere. Mrs. Sylvia Spaulding, assistant to the director, mesmerizes problems and people, bringing out their best features. Iohn Storck's ver- saltility has toned up all of the Library's departments. Miss Hildegard Dietz as Reference Librarian provided answers to many perplexing problems. Mrs. Ann lohnson and Miss Phyllis Barbato built the Brookville Library from scratch. Prof. Murray should get most of the credit for the excellent Physics Library we now have. A host of others helped, too, Iames Licitra, Miss Helen Zanes, Ebenezer lwuagwu, Louis Margulies, Robert Bomze, Pilar Barreiro, Florence Brown, Florence Bullock, Ioan Ruben- off, Mary Decker, Robert Leonard, Martin Kroll, Robert Feld- man, Anthony Lewis, Walter Bloomfield, Golda Simmons, Louis Miller, Yolanda Giorlando, Iudith Stagnitti, Cyrus Elias, Bruce lager, Fred Binsker, Paul Glaser, Rayfus Williams, Thelma Baer, Samuel Berkowitz, Grace Brodkin and Martin Macaluso. The Library is on its way to becoming a dynamic center of academic activity. The same things done with the help of the History department, Iournalism department, Psychology de- partment and the Art department, may eventually work out with all departments. The Library may help sponsor research projects for faculty and students, help illustrate and document the results and aid in the publication. Eventually, it hopes to have not only a studio in which models of Peruvian pyramids may be constructed but also model theaters and architectural models for city planning. The studio will plan and execute its own exhibitions. Its micro- film studio will make its own microfilm books. A microcard department is already a reality. We see what they mean when they say that the motto of the University Library is not gathering dust - but MO- MENTUMV' Thirty-three

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ATOMIC fission is not the private secret of nuclear phy- sicists alone. Our Library department started a chain reaction in l95l and l952l First there was a great POOME And atter the plaster dust settled, as if magically born from the air, there was suddenly a newly embellished, highly improved, well-stacked and well- stocked Main Library occupying the entire tenth floor in the Paramount building, a very efficient, beautifully planned Pe- riodicals Library, an elegant Graduate Library, a Reference Room, an Exhibition Gallery-all on the llth floor. A Physics Library grew in the basement. ln Brookville, a new College Library appeared. Telling developments all around the University in the last quarter century are no more eloquently expressed than in this vigorous development of its Libraries. Starting in 1928 with a room half full of tables and chairs, the Library grew to be a good Science and Arts collection by the time Pearl Harbor Day and World War ll struck with full disintegrating force. After a dormant period, which lasted until the close of World War ll, when veterans gave LIU its sudden burst ot expan- sionitis the Library was thrown into a continual fever. fOr, ought we say fervor'? l The Library has never been content to just give out books. Its exhibition boards have carried a cavalcade of fascinating exhibitions, Painters of the Nineteenth Century: Creative Photo- graphy: Land, Water and Life in Ancient Peru: Dime Novels: Contemporary Painting: Housing as a Problem: United Na- tions: Polk Award Winners and Their Work: etc. Students handbooks appeared on the scene, Guide to Periodicals, Li- brary Leaves, Bibliography of Psychology Books in the Li- brary, Psychology Periodicals. Several efforts were results of joint cooperation between the Library and individual depart- ments, Psychology, History, Art, English, Iournalism. This trend in cooperation was explained in the March l95l article in the Wilson I.ibrary Bulletin by Prof. Nathan Resnick. This cooperative spirit apparently seeps down to the student. For the Art department may say to its Stu- dents, 'You are also to go to the library and consult Thirty-two The Libraries l -. ,M-If o J , defwydfi Wk' p W' MJ r Wthgyip will , 4 M522 mt' WSWS 9129 get 152- :dvi yetiilfkaai 25 W ,.,iEg3ST5 Misqlldlf' 9' . ment gl l hm9dNv.. .'a lldllfllhc in Wdgbfmdggiw I 4 K' N! iittwhwfttflw iiwditfwfwm rmiwtifmfu, . liytstmhcbriinm' Ahustdewii tjmzammmm 'r'-imynmumu Wit'-Iiltflftletlinld l1pmiia,vmaa .Mlm-Fmdlh rfwtnhnsu vm. lfmitftiimisu bn llsllftdepmm hz mlmhbig mthqlldepmmh Ewshiniiwdn digg, eremyhm , Evengml. t.tttP-332 tmilmmmfe film mhfis tits- llelluivemh. ltt'vmflew

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THE fantastic array of courses offered in this organ of the University is due to the fact that in reality, it is a combination of what is ordinarily two sepa- rate departments. The union of the History and Government departments, under the chairmanship of Dr. Paul Kosok, has made available a curriculum of courses which range from Contemporary Com- paritive Government to the study of lndian and Pre- Historic cultures. From courses which deal in the relationships of local, state, federal and international governmental categories right down to histories of warfare, politics and even people, goes the all-encompassing depart- ment syllabus. Prof. Kosok has recently opened a course, Pre-Seminar in History, which is now being offered under his own instructorship, which includes an investigation of historical research methods-a necessity for all who intend to teach History. ln the field of government, Mr. Bert McCullough and Mr. Alvin Bahnsen teach classes which study Political Scienceand its evolution through the ages. Messrs. Edwin Hoffman, Fred Abbott and Profs. Horowitz and Perlin round out a department which covers just about everything that has ever happened to mankind. Yes, if the student is interested in know- ing just how this world lives and how it ever got into the awful mess we jocularly know as society, the History and Government department of LIU is the unit to ask. we .Jqonor Sociefg THE History Honor Society was formed when it was found that an organ- ization was needed to further stimulate an interest in History and Govern- ment for those student specializing in these fields of study. The organization affords a further means of scholarly and social association in a congenial atmosphere and closer contact with the faculty. Additional facilities for the development of the pre-professional skills and attitudes relevant to the pursuit of advanced training are made available. The Society is held together solely by a common interest and the voluntary participation of its members, who meet to discuss particular interests held in common. Important speakers are heard and conferences of professional associa- tions prominent in the historical field are held. Symposiums on controversial aspects of historical development offer ideas and information which are of interest to the entire group. The Honor Society proposes to establish liason with organizations of similar format in other colleges and universities, in an effort to promote the transfer of ideas. An attempt is made to encourage mutual participation in functions designed to keep the history student informed of opportunities and developments in his field. The 1951-52 officers were President William A. Almond, Vice-President Ioachim Gange, Secretary Philip Leffel, Treasurer lohn Spanos and Prof. Sydney Horowitz, Faculty Advisor. Thirty-four The Historians TW wats ,nick half! ll Sine! miicrlf mist: cr:-iii arises: crdfsi as 'fi ' l . ...... : llvi-...Q- L..l':.L.j tit: .- - -IJ 1.1 4.53112 1 . 'ti' r,-gf .Q ..,,, ge- -- ... . E-gui... -....4, THQ .,. . Lgzu.. bw- L. 44 -N SL. ' - L: Qt: t 1 -. rl ' -Jifx X 519- Q 0 Rgfzcs 'B-. ., , SME l . GSE: Q of - Demi fmt 13. All Flush ox tw