Commonplace Note - October 31, 1978

Dick Couper came here for lunch. No specific
agenda. Lively discussion of the role and sig-
nificance of the New York City Library system and
its history. He had previously taught history at
Hamilton College. He was somewhat preoccupied with
the logo that should be established and I tried to
discourage him from using the lion rather than the
lamp motif. He described the Outreach Program of
the Library and the difficulties that they have in
persuading ethnic communities to regard them as the
kind of resource with which I was so personally
familiar myself. He will be sending me materials on
the organization and functions of the system. He
also referred me to Professor Wade in Urban History
whom he felt knew most about the social history of
the library system. I had met him yesterday for the
first time at the Archive Center. I am sure that
there is some background agenda that was not quite
ready to discuss as yet.

Is he a member of the RU Library Council? Would he
have any useful role on the Board? .He obviously could

be quite helpful to us in our thinking about regional
medical library facility.

This may be redundant but Halsey Royden dropped in and
recommended the name of George not Charles Frankel for
advice on the Vice President for Faculty Affairs.