# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S42
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42 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

of Control of Concordia Seminary since February, 1933, and as
treasurer of the Seminary since December, 1987. Mr. Oscar P.
Brauer was elected by the Board of Control to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. Emil H. Hartmann; and Mr. Ewald
Schuettner was chosen to succeed Mr. Hartmann as treasurer.
The Board met monthly for its regular meetings and held many
special meetings throughout the triennium to transact the great
amount of business coming before the Board.

Report on Pritzlaff Memorial Library

During the past triennium the following changes have affected
our Seminary library at St. Louis. With the resignation of Dr, Paul
E. Kretzmann from the faculty the position of director of Pritzlaff
Library was also vacated. In the interim his assistant, Miss Kath-
erine Hoffmann, took charge temporarily and served until a full-
time successor was appointed by the Board on November 1, 1945,
in the person of the Rev. E. J. Saleska, S. T. M.

Under the previous director the library staff consisted of
Dr. Kretzmann, Miss Hoffmann, and two clerks. On January 1,
1946, Miss Hoffmann discontinued her duties. The present staff
consists of the full-time director, the two remaining women
helpers, and the usual part-time student help.

Library finances consist of the annual student fee of $5.00
per student, a synodical appropriation of $1,000 per annum, and the
Pritzlaff Endowment of $500 a year. During the past triennium
a special grant of $5,000 was allowed by the Board of Directors of
Synod for the purchase and accession of many necessary volumes,
some in duplicate and triplicate and hitherto unavailable because
of the lack of funds,

At the present time about 38,000 volumes are available for
use on the shelves and some 3,000 volumes are on the unacces-
sioned list. Accessions continue at the rate of about 1,500 volumes
a year.

In addition to serving our students, undergraduate and graduate,
our Mission Department, and our Correspondence School more
efficiently and to a greater degree each year, our Seminary library
is being looked to by more and more pastors out in the field for
assistance in the matter of books for continued study, for research
in connection with the writing of conference papers, synodical
essays, and the like, This is to be encouraged as our facilities and
personnel increase in number and efficiency.

It is our earnest hope that our Seminary library will be enabled
eventually to expand its facilities to a degree necessary to serve
an institution and ministry as large as ours.