ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 117 P e r s o n n e l Mr. Buckman In the autumn, Tom Buckman will assume his new duties as director of libraries and pro­ fessor of bibliography at Northwestern. Those of us who have known him for years have oc­ casionally amused our­ se lv e s w o n d e r in g where he would go next and what turn his next contribution to th e p r o f e s s io n would take. His friends are gratified with his decision to go to Northwestern as its academic program, li­ brary resources, and reputation are such that it should be a happy association for all concerned. Biographical dictionaries show that Mr. Buck- man is academically respectable, having done his undergraduate work at the University of the Pacific, studied at the University of Stock­ holm for three or four years, and received both his library degree and a Master’s in compara­ tive literature at Minnesota. Much of this work was accomplished with the help of a variety of fellowships including one in Scandanavian Area Studies at Minnesota, an H. W. Wilson scholarship in librarianship also at Minnesota, a King Gustav V fellowship awarded by the American Scandanavian Foundation for study in Sweden, and, while director at Kansas, a Guggenheim fellowship for study in Europe in 1964/65. He was a naval officer in World War II and went the usual route of many academic librar­ ians in beginning his library career as a stu­ dent assistant. He served for one year at Ore­ gon State University as a reference librarian, for another year as assistant librarian at Modesto (California) Junior College, as Bobert Vosper’s acquisitions librarian at the Univer­ sity of Kansas from 1956-60, as associate di­ rector of libraries there for one year, and as director of libraries there since 1961. At Kansas he took an active interest in developing the collections, directed the construction of a major addition to the library and participated in the planning and supervised the beginning of the new Spencer research library scheduled for completion next year. Along with the usual committee assignments we all get on every campus, he served as a lecturer in the department of Germanic languages. He has also taught at Modesto Junior College and in the extension division of the University of Stockholm. Buckman has an impressive bibliography to his credit and has not only done some excellent translations of and critical essays on Par Lagerkvist, but has written on modern drama, has contributed often to various library journals both here and abroad, and has prepared sig­ nificant reports to various learned and pro­ fessional organizations on acquisitions policies, the book trade, and international aspects of ibrarianship. To say that Buckman is an international ramp might be putting it too strongly, but certainly he is a member of the bibliographic et-set and has given real leadership to the nternational aspects of our profession, leader­ ship which grew out of his interest in inter­ national problems of book production and distribution. His studies abroad, his trips to some of the emergent countries in Africa, his recent year’s service as head of ALA’s Inter­ national Relations Office, his work with Jap­ anese librarians which necessitated a couple of trips to that country, and his present ARL, LA, and ACRL committee responsibilities indicate that he will continue to be a major orce in this area. Buckman’s various committee assignments in he Kansas Library Association, the ALA, and he ARL have brought him into close touch ith a variety of problems of concern to us all including customs duties, intellectual free­ om, microfilming of dissertations, relations be­ ween antiquarian booksellers and librarians, pecialized acquisitions, and rare books. He s a member of the board of directors of both he Center for Research Libraries and the As­ ociation of Research Libraries and serves also n ALA’s council. All of this is most impressive indeed, but ittle of it gives the flavor of the man. Not ne of the ersatz Ivy types which seem, alas, o be proliferating in the profession, he is an rbane, articulate man with a good sense of umor, a commanding and impressive presence, eal enthusiasm for books and libraries, and a ecent reticence about his personal life. People ike working with Buckman and his judge­ ent of what is important in the professional, cademic, and social affairs with which li­ rarians must concern themselves can rarely e faulted.—Stuart Forth, University of Ken­ ucky. l t j i A f t t w d t s i t s o l o t u h r d l m a b b t 118 Richard Harwell will become librarian of Smith College on September 1. Mr. Harwell has been librarian of Bowdoin College in Bruns­ wick, Me., since 1961. Prior to coming to Bowdoin, he was for four years executive secretary of ACRL (1957-61) and con­ currently (1958-61) for three years associate executive director of ALA. For fuller bio­ graphical information see CRL, XXII (Sep­ tember 1961), 387- 88. Mr. Harwell Mr. Harwell has written, since publication of the sketch noted above, six works concerning the Civ­ il War, contributed a chapter to another Civil War volume, and has edited five more works. He has published articles in Library Journal and The New England Quarterly, and has served as editor of CRL (1962-63) and as a member of the editorial board of Journal of Civil War History ( 1 9 5 5 - ) . He was a reg­ ular reviewer for the Chicago Tribune Maga­ zine of Books, 1957-63. His condensation of Douglas Freeman’s seven-volume George Wash­ ington will be published in late summer of 1968 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Mr. Harwell was the recipient in 1951 and again in 1967 of grants-in-aid from the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, Cal. In the autumn of 1966 he served as consultant to the library of the University of Jordan and to other libraries in the Middle East. Since 1961 he has conducted surveys of the libraries of Bates and of Franklin and Marshall colleges and of Norwich University, was building consultant for the St. John’s campus of the University of New Brunswick and for Gould Academy in Bethel, Me. He taught seminars in Civil War history at Bowdoin in the spring of 1965 and autumn 1967. In 1966 he received the D Lit degree from New England College. Mr. Harwell has been a member of the Council of ALA since 1962 and a board mem­ ber of the Maine Historical Society and the Maine Library Association. He is a mem­ ber of the Board of Trustees of the John Anson Kittredge Educational Trust (since 1965). At Bowdoin, Mr. Harwell undertook a com­ plete reorganization of the library; during his incumbency the staff of the library increased from seven to twenty-six. He was primarily responsible for the planning of Bowdoin’s new Hawthorne-Longfellow library building—dedi­ cated in February 1966. The collection of the Bowdoin library, which totaled, officially, 259,­ 000 volumes in 1961, is expected to reach just over 400,000 volumes by June 1968. The appointment of James V. Jones to the directorship of the Case Western Reserve Uni­ versity library system should bring to the institution, recently formed from the fed­ eration of Case Insti­ tute of Technology and Western Reserve University, a new era of library growth and d e v e lo p m e n t. Jim brings to his new po­ sition a rich and varied experience in librar- ianship that should enable him to raise the Case Western Re­ Mr. Jones serve library to a po­ sition of real importance among the research libraries of the nation’s great independent universities. In effect, Jim is returning to his professional alma mater. He is a native Ohioan, having been born at Willard. He received the bac­ calaureate degree magna cum laude from John Carroll University in 1949 and a year later took his Master’s degree in library science from Western Reserve. In 1950 he was ap­ pointed to the library staff of St. Louis Uni­ versity and five years later became director of libraries at that institution, a position which he held until 1966, when he returned to Cleve­ land as director of libraries for Cleveland State University. He will assume his new position on July 1. In addition to his formal training in librarianship he has pursued graduate work in law and history, and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in the school of library science at Case Western Reserve. Jim is particularly fortunate in being already thoroughly familiar with the responsibilities and problems that his new position will in­ volve. He has, for the past three years, been a member of the Board of Governors of West­ ern Reserve University and chairman of the Visiting Committee of the school of library science of the same institution. In 1964 he served on a team from the North Central Accrediting Association when its reviewed the accreditation status of Western Reserve, and he has cooperated with Western Reserve dur­ ing his incumbency as director of libraries at Cleveland State. His list of publications is im­ pressive and includes most of the leading pro­ fessional library journals. He is a past presi­ dent of the Missouri Library Association, a member of the board of directors of the Harry 119 S Truman Library Institute and the Center for Research Libraries. He has held committee appointments in a variety of state and national associations and has been employed for a va­ riety of consulting assignments throughout the Midwest. He has participated in fourteen ac­ crediting visits for the North Central Associa­ tion, and has been extremely active in pro­ moting the introduction of new library meth­ ods, especially such approaches as those made possible by automation, systems analysis, and other innovations from the fields of science, technology, and operations research. His knowl­ edge of, an interest in, the work of the school of library science at Case Western Reserve and especially its Center for Documentation and Communication Research should bring the research and instructional programs of the school into closer harmony and coordination with the practical work of the university li­ braries than has been possible in the past. We, therefore, look forward eagerly to Jim’s ar­ rival and the new opportunities for research, education, and service that his assumption of his new duties will surely bring.—Jesse H. Shera, Case Western Reserve University. The appointment of Maurice D. Leach, Jr. as head librarian, with the rank of professor, at Washington and Lee University has been announced. The new librarian will begin his duties on July 1. A graduate of the University of Ken­ tucky, where he re­ ceived a bachelor’s de­ gree in history in 1945, Mr. Leach also attended the Univer­ sity of Chicago, where he obtained his de­ gree in library science Mr. Leach in 1946. He has held library positions with the Texas College of Arts and Industries and the U.S. Department of State. At present he is at American University in Beirut, Lebanon as a special adviser to the Ford Foundation, and is on leave of absence from his post as professor and chairman of the department of library science at the University of Kentucky. Mr. Leach served on the ALA Council from 1963-67. He also is a member of the American Association of Library Schools, serving on its statistical committee, and of the Kentucky Li­ brary Association, of which he is the state library survey committee chairman. The new Washington and Lee librarian has spent considerable time in the Near East as assistant attache with the U.S. Foreign Service and the U.S. Information Agency there. Dur­ ing the past year he was in that area as a specialist in library science for the Ford Foundation, and assisted in developing and building libraries for colleges, universities and governments there. He has contributed to several professional books and journals. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he is married and the father of one daughter. Arthur Monke will become librarian of Bowdoin College in August. As the seven­ teenth librarian in the college’s 166 years of operation he follows such d is tin g u is h e d predecessors as John Abbot, Calvin Stowe, H e n ry W a d s w o r th L o n g f e llo w , a n d George T. Little. He will be a worthy suc­ cessor to them. Art Monke came to the Bowdoin library in 1963 as assistant li­ brarian. Would that Mr. Monke all library staff ap­ pointment might turn out as constructively as has his! He seemed, in 1963, well qualified to handle—after five years of experience in the library of Colgate University—problems in reference, periodicals, and documents that were then particularly pressing areas in the total reorganization the Bowdoin library was undergoing. His effective­ ness not only in these responsibilities, but also in working with an extensive project of re­ cataloging and reclassification, with staff, faculty, and student relations, and with help­ ing to plan and equip a new library building have been a continuous joy. He has placed no limitations on his energies, and his abilities have expanded to meet the demands increasing responsibilities have imposed upon him. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Monke’s appointment as librarian of Bowdoin in 1968 will be as happy a one as his appointment as assistant librarian of the college was in 1963. Mr. Monke is a native of Regent, N.D. He prepared for college in the public schools of Waterville, Minn., and, after serving in World War II as an artillery man, received his BA degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1950. Prior to attending Columbia University’s school of library service he was a school li­ brarian in Winthrop, Minn., and in South Fallsburg, N.Y. He received a MSLS degree from Columbia in 1958. His wife is the former Jytte Petersen, a native of Varde, Denmark. They have three children: Eric, Ingrid, and Kirsten. As assistant librarian at Bowdoin Mr. Monke 120 has been active in regional library affairs as well as in campus life. He is vice president of the Maine Library Association, president of the directors of the Brunswick Public Li­ brary Association, and a member of the Public Relations Committee of the New England Li­ brary Association. He is a member of ALA and of the American Association of University Professors. The bare-bones facts of a who’s-who type sketch note inadequately Art Monke’s qualifi­ cations for his new career. His larger, more important qualifications are his integrity, his energy, his diligence, his loyalty to his co­ workers and to his institution, his attention to the users of the library, and—most of all— his sincere regard for all that makes academic librarianship an encompassing and humane profession.—Richard Harwell, Bowdoin College. A P P O IN T M E N T S J. Robert Adams has been named assistant to the director of libraries at Washington University. Rachel D. Aldrich transferred March 1 from her position as head cataloger at the Col­ lege of William and Mary to chief of catalog­ ing at the new University of Wisconsin (Park- side), Kenosha, Wis. Vicki Anders joined the staff of Texas A&M University library on Feb. 1 as separates acquisition librarian. Mrs. Peggy Young Batten has been ap­ pointed to the position of cataloger in Dawes memorial library, Marietta College as of May 1. Jo Bell is now acquisitions librarian in the Stanislaus State College library, Cal. David F. Bishop was appointed, effective Nov. 20, as head of the newly formed serials department at the McKeldin library, University of Maryland. Louis W. Caccese has been library director at Camden County College in Blackwood, N.J., since July 1. Irene Christopher has joined the staff of G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, as supervisor of library services. W endell Claxton began his duties in Texas A&M library on Feb. 1 as physical prep­ arations librarian. Barbara Louise Collier has been ap­ pointed an assistant librarian in the circulation department, University of Florida libraries. Sally Ann Cravens has joined the Uni­ versity of Florida libraries documents depart­ ment. Stephen Czike became head of the Chicago Bar Association library last autumn. Mrs. Lynn Cullen Deurloo has joined the reference and bibliography department as hu­ manities librarian in the research library, Uni­ versity of Florida libraries. Margaret D onahue has been named head of the technical services division, McKeldin library, University of Maryland. Mrs. Florence Brittain D unlap has taken a leave of absence from Gainesville Public Library, in order to join the reference and bibliography department staff at the Univer­ sity of Florida libraries. Jack D. Ellis has been named director of the Johnson Camden library of Morehead State University (K y.), effective July 1. Mrs. Evelyn Frost has been appointed to the new position of head of technical services, effective May 1, in the Dawes memorial li­ brary, Marietta College. Mrs. Mary H. Harbach is now documents librarian at York Junior College (Pa.). Patricia Henning is head of reference at the Drexel Institute of Technology libraries, effective April 1. Robert R. Kepple has been named librarian of the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University in Howard County, Maryland. William G. Kerr has been named librarian for Eisenhower College at Seneca Falls, N.Y. Chin Kim joined the Valparaiso University school of law library in August. Mrs. Joan (G ilbert) Krengel joined the staff of Columbia University libraries on Sept. 1, and serves as assistant reference librarian in Butler library. W. Robert Lawyer has been appointed to to position of director of Wilson library at Western Washington State College in Belling­ ham, Washington. Samuel Lazerow, chief of the serial record division at the Library of Congress, has been named chairman of the U.S. National Libraries Task Force on Automation and Other Coop­ erative Services. He assumed these additional duties in January. William A. Martin, Jr. has accepted the position of librarian of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha. On Feb. 1 Charles W. Mixer assumed over-all responsibility for Columbia University libraries’ department of special collections with the title of assistant director for special col­ lections. Martha Jane Morgan is now an assistant librarian at the engineering and physical sciences library, University of Florida. Julie A. Nichols has been appointed cata­ log librarian with the Rush Medical College library of Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago. Roy J. M. Nieisen has been promoted to the position of head librarian of the Lawrence 121 Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, California, operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis­ sion, Ivan Orelli has joined the staff of Hofstra University as catalog librarian. Mrs. Lillian Black Pence has been ap­ pointed assistant librarian in the physical sciences division, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Fermin Luis Perez was named an assistant librarian in the catalog department, University of Florida libraries. J. M. Perreault becomes director of librar­ ies at the University of Alabama, Huntsville on June 1. Stephen Peterson, now at the University of Michigan, becomes acquisitions librarian in the Divinity Library of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, on June 1. David Picca has joined the acquisitions de­ partment, University of Florida libraries. Mrs. Joyce R. Russell has become chem­ istry librarian at the University of Florida. J. Thomas Russell, formerly chief of the special collections division, has been promoted to assistant librarian of the U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y. Paul R. Schutz is a newly-appointed as­ sistant cataloger in the State University of New York library at Stony Brook. Mrs. Amelia Schwartz was appointed periodicals librarian with the rank of lecturer at Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York (Manhattan Beach Campus) effective September 1967. Mrs. Suzanne Jane Shaw has joined the catalog department, University of Florida li­ braries. Mrs. Frances Shaver Smith is now a cata­ loger at the University of Florida libraries. Irene Ling Sun has been appointed assistant in the acquisitions department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute library, effective Febru­ ary 16. Angelo Tripicchio, appointed to Kings­ borough Community College of The City Uni­ versity of New York in February 1967 with the rank of Instructor, was recently designat­ ed readers’ services librarian ( Manhattan Beach Campus). Anthony Robert Tusa is now interlibrary loan librarian, in the reference and bibliography department, University of Florida libraries. Carolyn McIver Wade has been appointed an assistant librarian in the circulation depart­ ment, University of Florida libraries. Ronald L. Weiher has been appointed as­ sistant librarian for planning and development, Baker library, Harvard graduate school of business administration. Ruth M. White, ALA headquarters librarian since 1963, became executive secretary of the Adult Services Division and the Reference Serv­ ices Division of ALA on February 16. N E C R O L O G Y Lorena Clarke, catalog librarian in Uni­ versity of Illinois library of medical sciences, Chicago, died on Feb. 5. Mrs. James A. Lyons, for more than eight­ een years librarian of the school of design of North Carolina State University, died on Feb. 4. Monsignor Thomas Shanahan, librarian of St. Paul Seminary and a member of the de­ partment of library science, College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, died on Jan. 24. R E T IR E M E N T S Henry E. Coleman, librarian of Washington and Lee University, retires in July. Howard Harrison Lapham retired on March 1. He has been associate law librarian, Wayne State University, and had been with the university libraries since 1953. Marjorie Thorpe, reference librarian of Mohawk Valley Community College, retires at the end of March after forty years of library work in New York state. M O V I N G If you are changing your mailing address, please be sure to let ALA know at least six weeks in advance. Important: Please send ALA both your old and new addresses plus the date you would like the change made. (A copy of your address label clipped to your notice would help.) Membership Records American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 122 Spring 1968 Publication o f the complete Junior College Library Collection First Edition- - o v e r 19,000 titles In response to an immediate and urgent need of a growing number of junior and community colleges, the Bro-Dart Foundation has scheduled for Spring 1968 publication a selected list of more than 19,000 books for junior and community colleges. Its purpose is to assist in the selection of the large number of titles in all sub­ ject areas required by new institutions and already established schools that are expanding their facilities. In association with the Collection’s general editor, Dr. Frank J. Bertalan, Director of the School of Library Science of the University of Okla­ homa, and ten associate ea itors, 88 junior colleges participated in the selection of titles through the efforts of their librarians, department heads and faculty members, and with the cooperation of the Presidents of such institutions. The scope of the subject matter bears a positive relationship to pres­ ent curricular trends in junior and community colleges. A continuous updating of the Collection is planned to enhance timeliness and adaptabil­ ity to emerging trends. The Collection includes a section of full bibliographic information, ar­ ranged by the Library of Congress Classification. The classified section is indexed by author. O rd e rs fo r th e J u n io r C ollege L ib ra ry C o llec tio n sh ould be d i­ rected to: Dept. CRL-4b. Price: $34.75 The Bro-Dart Foundation 113 Frelinghuysen Avenue Newark, New Jersey 07101