Activities of the Friends

Amiual Meeti7ig. The Annual Aleeting of the Friends of the
Columbia Libraries was held in WoUman Auditorium of Ferris
Booth Hall at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 23, 1963.

Dr. Richard H. Logsdon, the Director of Libraries, opened the
meeting in the absence of Dr. Fackenthal. He said that the latter's
term as Chairman and Air. Plimpton's as Vice Chairman came to
an end at that meeting and that, whereas members are elected to
the Council by the membership at large, the officers are elected
by the Council. At the last Council meeting. Air. Plimpton was
elected Vice Chairman to succeed himself and Air. Hugh J. Kelly
to serve as Chairman. Both are for the regular two-year terms.
He introduced the new Chairman, who spoke appreciatively of
Dr. Fackenthal's services to our association both as a member of
the Council and as Chairman.

During the short business session with which the meeting
opened. Air. Kelly said that the terms on the Council of Mrs.
Albert AI. Baer, Dr. Fackenthal, iMr. August Heckscher, Airs.
Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Valerien Lada-Mocarski, and himself ex¬
pired at that meeting. He called upon Professor Lewis Leary,
Chairman of the Nominating Committee, who reported that the
Committee wished to nominate the same six membets for re-elec¬
tion to the Council for the regular three-year period. Upon mo¬
tion and second ftom the floor, they were unanimously elected to
serve until January 1966.

Program. Air. Kelly then introduced the speaker of the evening,
Airs. Laura Boulton, Curator of the Laura Boulton Collection of
Traditional and Liturgical iMusic in the Columbia University Li¬
braries. Airs. Boulton described how this collection of music on
records and tapes had been built up during twenty-five expedi-