 Throughout his career, he was active with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), holding positions that included Chair of the ACRL College Library Section from 1968 to 1969 and President of the ACRL from 1978 to 1979.He was also active with the ACRL College Leadership Committee and the ACRL College Libraries Mentor Program.Farber was born in the Bronx, New York on June 30, 1922 to Meyer Farber and Estelle Helen Shapiro Farber.