Academic Specialization

Bibliography, Book history, Library history, Nineteenth-Century England, Philanthropic history, Polar history.

Education

1. Northwestern University, Ph.D. in English History, June 1978.1968‑78
2. City University of New York.  Started graduate program in English Literature, but withdrew on taking librarianship of Marlboro College, Vermont. 1963‑64
3. Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Service.  M.L.S., June 1962.  Advanced work in cataloging and analytical bibliography. 1959‑62
4. New College (Divinity School), University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 1955-56
5. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, A.B. in English Literature, June 1955.  Editor of Wheaton ­Record.1951‑55
6. Eastern Academy, Prospect Park, New Jersey.  Graduated June 1951. 1947‑51

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

1. Syracuse University University Librarian Emeritus; Senior Scholar, History Dept.­ 1998-
2. Syracuse University University Librarian  (retired August 30, 1998) 1986‑98
3. The New York Public Library Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries 1978‑86
4. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.  Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the principal library of the University. 1973‑78
5. Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. Head of Technical ServicesDepartment (Aug. 1967‑Sept. 1971).  Associate Librarian (June 1969‑Aug. 1973).  1967‑73
6. Marlboro College Library, Marlboro, Vermont. Librarian.  Also taught courses in English literature and research methods, including a course in printing and printing history. 1964‑67
7. The New York Public Library.  Served as clerical assistant  (Technical Services); assistant editor, library publications; reference librarian (Information and Music Divisions); and Manuscript Cataloger (Berg Collection). 1959‑64
8. Active duty, U.S. Navy.  Discharged as Journalist 2nd Class.  Duties included librarianship of U.S.S. Galveston. 1956‑58

Selected and Recent Publications

1. "A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Harry Miller Lydenberg, 1942‑1960."  Bulletin of The New York Public Library LXIV (1960).
2. Turgenev in English:  A Checklist of Works by and About Him.  Compiled by Rissa Yachnin and David H. Stam.  With an introductory essay by Marc Slonin.  New York, New York Public Library, 1962.
3. Wordsworthian Criticism 1964‑74:  An Annotated Bibliography.  Compiled by David H. Stam.  New York, New York Public Library, 1974.
4. "British Studies at the Newberry Library," ­British Studies Monitor IV (Winter 1974).
5. "Leigh Hunt & ­The True Sun," Bulletin of The New York Public Library (Summer 1974).
6. England's Calvin:  A Study of the Publication of John Calvin's Works in Tudor England­.  Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, Inc., 1978.
7. "Scholarly and Research Services of Research Libraries."  ­ALA Encyclopedia, 1986.  Revised from 1980 edition. 
8. "'Prove All Things:  Hold Fast That Which is Good'; Deaccessioning and   Research Libraries," College & Research Libraries (January 1982, pp. 5‑13), from a speech given at the Brown University Conference on  Deaccessioning, June 1981.
9. "Concluding Unscientific Postscript:  Reflections on Selectivity from a Non‑Technical Perspective."  (A paper given at the Rockefeller Foundation Symposium on Scientific Information Systems, October 1982).  In: Selectivity in Information Systems, ed. Kenneth S. Warren (New York, Praeger, 1985).
10. "National Preservation Planning in the United Kingdom:  An American Perspective."  ­British Library R & D Report No. 5759.  London, March 1983.
11. "Think Globally‑‑Act Locally:  Collection Development and Resource Sharing."  Collection Building (Spring 1983).  Reprinted in ­The Best of Library Literature, 1984, and in Collection Building Reader, 1992.
12. "The Doors and Windows of the Library:  Leigh Hunt and Special Collections."  ­The Life & Times of Leigh Hunt, ed. Robert A. McCown.  Iowa City, Friends of University of Iowa Libraries, 1985.  Reprinted in ­The Boo­k Collector, (Sprin­g, 1986).  Reprinted in The Best of Library Literature, 1986.
13. "Finding Funds to Support Preservation," in The Library Preservation Program (Chicago, American Library Association, 1985).
14. "Collaborative Collection Development:  Progress, Problems, and Potential,"  ­IFLA Journal XII, No. 1 (1986).  Reprinted in Collection Building VII, No. 3 (1986).   Translation appeared in ­Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France XXXI, No. 2 (1986). Also reprinted in Collection Building Reader, 1992.
15. "Technology and African Studies:  Preservation; The Research Libraries Group Approach to a National Problem," in ­African Studies (London, The British Library, 1986).  British Library Occasional Papers 6.
16. "Cooperative Collection Development:  The RLG Experience," in ­Research Libraries:  The Past 25 Years, the Next 25 Years­ (Boulder, Colo., Colorado Associated University Press, 1986).
17. "The Bibliography of Modern American Literature:  Ein Beispiel für nicht‑deutsche Literaturerschliessung," in ­Bibliographische Probleme im Zeichen eines erweiterten Literaturbegriffs­ (Weinheim, West Germany, DFG, 1988).
18. "Sharing Resources:  Do We Have Valid Models?" in Collections: Their Development, Management, Preservation, and Sharing; ARL/SCONUL Joint Meeting, University of York, September 19‑22, 1988 (Washington, Association of Research Libraries, 1989).
19. "Plus ca change...: Sixty Years of the Association of Research Libraries.  October 22,1992."  [Printed and distributed by the Association of Research Libraries, 1992, and on its website, www.arl.org]
20. "The Questions of Preservation," in Research Libraries--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. William J. Welsh, editor.  Kanazawa, Japan: Kanazawa Institute of Technology and Greenwood Press, 1993.  Pp.
21. (Presented at Kanazawa, May 1984)
22. "'A Glutton for Books': Leigh Hunt and the London Library, 1844-46," Biblion, New York Public Library, Spring (1998) 149-190
23. "'Can the Research Library Teach?' A North American Perspective on   the Teaching Library," The LIBER Quarterly, VII (1977) 427-436
24. International Dictionary of Library Histories.  Edited by David H. Stam.Chicago/London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.  2 Vols.  1053 p.