Amateur Out

Things to remember about the Harvard University Library, whose 3,800,000 books and pamphlets make it the largest university collection in the world and the third biggest collection in the U. S.,* are that it is not named the Widener Library as most of its patrons think and that it is not run by a professional librarian. Last week the second of these peculiarities disappeared as Historian Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library and graduated in 1914 from the New York Public Library training school. Broad, boy-faced Amateur Blake, 50, wants more time for Byzantine history.

* First is the Library of Congress, second the New York Public Library.

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