 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.He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in 1944 and attended Princeton University for two years before leaving to teach at the Massachusetts State College.