Library Officer

AN IMPORTANT CHANGE in Baker Library's administrative staff was effected July 1 when Gordon H. Gliddon, former member of the research staff of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, assumed the new full-time post of Business Officer, thereby relieving Alexander Laing '25, assistant librarian, of those parts of his duties having to do with finance, general supervision of ordering of books, purchase of equipment and supplies, physical upkeep of the building, and related matters. Professor Gliding will continue his teaching duties with the Physics Department and it is expected that his experience with scientific bibliography will be utilized in the bibliographical and reference departments of the library.

Professor Laing, under the new arrangement, will aid in making Baker's collections more useful under the new curriculum and in overseeing project work and elementary research by undergraduates; will cooperate with the Professor of Belles Lettres, George C. Wood, in the furtherance of teaching in the library; will study special facilities such as a government document service and a public affairs laboratory; and will act as library publicity officer and as director of an enlarged publishing program under the library imprint.

Professor Gliddon first came to Dartmouth in 1923 as Assistant in Physics, and three years later was named Research Fellow in Physiological Optics. He held the rank of Associate Professor from 1937 until his resignation from the Eye Institute a year ago. He has been Precinct Commissioner of Hanover since 1938.