CARROLL F. REYNOLDS, 1910-1975
Dr. Carroll F. Reynolds was born in Granville, Ohio. He received his B.S. from West Virginia University, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and his library degree from Columbia University.
Dr. Reynolds started his library professional career at West Virginia University. His library career took him to the University of Pittsburgh, the Oklahoma State University and then back to Pittsburgh where he worked in the document section for several years. He then became Associate Director of the Extension Division of the University, a position he held for ten years. In 1957, when the Maurice and Laura Falk Library of the Health Professions were established, he was named Director. This position required combining the libraries of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing into the one facility. Dr. Reynolds maintained this position until his death in September, 1975, one month prior to his scheduled retirement.
In 1964, Dr. Reynolds was asked by the Rockefeller Foundation to be the medical library consultant to the University of Ibadan School of Medicine. He spent six months in Nigeria helping to establish the medical library. During his stay in Nigeria he visited several other biomedical libraries in the country and compiled a union list of serials for these libraries.
Again the Rockefeller Foundation called on Dr. Reynolds in 1967 to go to Bangkok, Thailand, as a visiting librarian to the Faculty of Medical Sciences. There he helped to establish two medical libraries and worked with the new librarian who had just finished her training at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences in Pittsburgh. Dr. Reynolds spent thirteen months in Bangkok and made many friends in the international community there.
The Asia Foundation contacted Dr. Reynolds in 1973 and asked him to go to Dacca, Bangladesh, to look over the medical libraries and help select one which would them become the National Medical Library of Bangladesh. He went to Dacca in November, 1973, and spent a month, at which time one library had been chosen and the work started to implement its holdings. When he returned to the United State he was instrumental in spending thousands of journal to this library to fill in gaps in their holdings and to help develop their collection.
Dr. Reynolds was a member of many professional organizations and office or chaired a committee at some time in most of them. He received his class III Grade in the Medical Library Association in 1967. He was a member of the Graduate Faculty of the School of Dental Medicine and on the faculties of the School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, all at the University of Pittsburgh.
Just prior to his death, Dr. Reynolds was notified that he had been made Director Emeritus of the Fail Library and Associate Professor, Emeritus of the Health professions.
In 1938 he was married to Erma Lewis who survives him, as do three daughters, nine grandchildren, a brother and two sisters.
Dr. Reynolds will be missed greatly by all his friends and colleagues. His willingness to use his knowledge and ability to help others were well known to all who knew him. The national and international field of medical librarianship has lost one of its most avid supporters. He was vitally interested in developing standards for medical librarians and left this was most important for the profession.
LAURABELLE EAKIN
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
