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COLUMBIA
LIBRARY
COLUMNS

PUBLISHED   BY

THE FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA LIBRARIES

VOLUME I                             FALL 195 I                             NUMBER I

MOST Commencement visitors quickly notice that at Columbia
the academic procession starts from one library and moves
to seats beside Alma Mater on the steps of another. The central
campus is dominated by these two buildings. This is singularly
appropriate, for according to the best information available, the
libraries of no other university in the world are as actively used
as Columbia's are. The circle of scholars, students, and private
citizens who are responsible for this record is not impressed with
it; everything considered, it seems the thing to be expected. But
they are impressed with books and libraries, and to this fact
Columbia Library Columns owes its birth. With the assistance
of Friends of the Libraries, the University is able to launch a new
medium dedicated to a high purpose. That purpose is to further
discussion of the university library and of the problems which
have to be dealt with to insure its healthy development.

The new publication will be issued three times each year. It
will reflect Columbia thought. It will in fact serve as a channel
of communication among those who are especially interested in
the Columbia Libraries. But the problems of these Libraries could
hardly be considered unique, and Columbia Library Columns,
if it succeeds in dealing imaginatively with topics which engage
the attention of persons interested generally in libraries, may
eventually prove of interest to readers beyond the immediate
Columbia orbit. In the meantime, a prayer for a good take-off!

Carl M.White, Director of Libraries,
Dean of the School of Library Service
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