Meet Columbia's Supervising Librarians!
 

RICHARD H. LOGSDON*
 

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\UR purpose here is to presenr an overview of the organi¬
zation and services of the Columbia Libraries. We should
enjoy taking you on a tour of our facilities, meeting
those in charge, much as was done with the Council of the Friends
one day in 1952. Since that seems not practicable at the moment,
we shall offer a "verbal tour," in the course of which we shall talk
of them, their work, their collections, and how everything is sup¬
posed to fit together to meet the total library needs.

Avery (Architecture), Fine Arts, and Music JJbraries

An architect by training, James Van Derpool came to Columbia
in 1946 to be Librarian of the Avery architecture library and to

serve as Professor with seats in
the faculties of Architecture
and Library Service. He served
 

previously at rhe Ui
 

sity
 

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Illinois as a member of the Fine
Arts faculty, and from 1939-46
as Head of rheir Department
of Art. He holds degrees from
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Harvard, and
studied at the American Acad¬
emy at Rome and the Ecole dcs
Beaux Arrs in Paris. A long term
interest in the history and bib¬
liography of architecture led
him to make teaching a second

* An article (with portrait) about Dr. Logsdon, Director of tiic Libraries, was
printed in tlie February, 1955, issue.
 

James G. Van Derpool, Librarian oj
Avery and Supervisor of the Archi¬
tecture, Fine Arts, and Music Libraries