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The article offers information on the collections of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan related to U.S. military history. A list is provided of archival materials along with brief descriptions of their historical value. Historical documents discussed include official correspondence from New York governor George Clinton, a diary from lieutenant Jehu Hay, a statistical record of the Continental Army under the command of general George Washington, and the papers and correspondence of British general Thomas Gage.

The article provides information on the collection of the resources for labor history in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The resources gathered are the result of the first attempt to document the rise of industrial democracy in the U.S. The plan of labor historian and economist Richard T. Ely to write a comprehensive history of industrial society was thwarted by scattered and inaccessible source materials. Due to that problem, Ely collected documents on the labor movement even after he joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1892.

Presents an abstract of the study "Collecting in the National Interest," by Thomas R. Barcus and Verner W. Clapp published in the April 1955 issue of the "Library Trends" journal.

Two measures of effectiveness for university libraries are constructed. The Primary Measure of Effectiveness, defined over the total population of users, considers the number of material and information items desired by the users, the number of satisfactorily answered inquiries, and the number of users. For the Secondary Measure of Effectiveness, the total population is classified into subsets according to similarity of user needs. A measure is defined for each subset and is a function of the number of individuals in the subset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article states that the Ford Foundation, through a $5,000, 000, grant has established the Council on Library Resources Inc., a non-profit organization to support research and development of techniques and mechanisms that will help solve the acute problems of libraries. The Council is designed to act as the initiator and coordinator of developments to improve the extent and use of library resources and services, rather than as a source of funds for particular libraries or for the acquisition and dissemination of particular collections.