Book Collections for Overseas Open Today

As part of a nation-wide campaign to send academic books to war-devastated libraries abroad, collecting points have been set up in the University libraries to receive donations in a week-long drive beginning today.

Every kind of subject matter is wanted, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library and chairman of the Massachusetts division of the campaign, said in a letter of Faculty members, although ordinary text-books and books of purely local or popular appeal are less desirable.

An estimated 200,000,000 were destroyed during the war, the announcement said. Poland lost 70 percent or her libraries, China and the Philippines nearby every volume found by the enemy, and Russia 55,000,000 books in the Ukraine alone.