Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGH.MAN

A. I. G. A. gift. In 1953 the American Insritutc of Graphic Arts
selected the Columbia University Libraries as the repository of
the official file of the "Fifty Books of the Year" award winners.
At that time we received the winners of the first thirty competi¬
tions, 1923 through 1952. Since then each year's winners have
been added, and recently we were sent the books comprising "The
Fifty Books of the Year i960".

Bancroft gift. Professor .Margaret Bancroft (A..M., 1913) has
presented a beautiful copy of Manuel des Amphitryons, a culinary
handbook published in 1808 by Alexandre Balthazar Laurent
Grimod de la Reynicre.

Barzun gift. Dean Jacques Barzun (A.B., 1927, Ph.D., 1932) has
added generously to his earlier gifts. To be reported at this time
are a number of desirable items for inclusion in his "Berlioz Col¬
lection", several volumes to be added to the collection on "Modern
Art and Literature" u hich Dean Barzun has established in honor
of his father. If. ,M. Barzun, and books and manuscripts of his
own wTiting to be included in the "Jacques Barzun Papers".

Belmont gift. It has been our recent privilege to meet a great lady,
Mrs. August Belmont, nee Eleanor Robson (Hon. Litt.D.,
1950). Those who have read her autobiography. The Fabric of
Memory (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957), will have some ink¬
ling of the full and fruitful life she has led. It was a fortunate day
for Columbia when she decided to present her correspondence
and association books to Special Collections.

Not everything has yet been received, and what has come we
have barely been able to glimpse. But already the collection of