T. John Metz by Ames2001

Metz was a building consultant and was invited to evaluate the IWU library at Myers' request based on Metz's work building Carleton's library. He recalls that Myers and Dean Hurwitz had come from institutions with significantly different libraries. He believes faculty were worried about Myers' presidency because he brought in the U-Haul collection. He recalls the visit being different from other experiences because the librarians were acting more as teaching faculty than as "career librarians." Metz speaks of the difficulties librarians in many institutions experience with faculty wanting grad school research-type collections and of the unsuitability of that material in an undergraduate collection. He believes Myers thought more like a collector than from the standpoint of focused collection development needs. Metz knew one Carleton faculty member who served as interim president who was a book lover and who also intervened with donors as Myers did.