ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


PROFILES

Nobeen S. Alldbedge has been appointed 
director of libraries at Montana State University, 
Bozeman. Since 1976 Alldredge has been assis­
tant director for collection development at Texas 
A&M University. Prior to that she was on the 
staff of the New York Public Library and the Uni­
versity of Nevada, Reno, where she held a series 
of positions culminating as the head of collection 
development.

Alldredge obtained her bachelor’s degree at 
Mount St. Mary’s College and her MLS at Co­
lumbia University. She also has earned a master’s 
degree in history from Texas A&M, and was in 
the first group of Consultant Training Program 
participants sponsored by ARL’s Office of Man­
agement Studies.

She now serves as a member of the ACRL 
Steering Committee and was a chapter councilor 
from Nevada in 1972-74. She also serves as chair 
of the Library Materials Price Index Committee 
and the Chief Collection Development Officers of 
Median-Sized Research Libraries discussion 
group, both units of ALA’s Resources and Tech­
nical Services Division.

Alldredge has authored the section on “Prices 
of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials” in the 
Bowker Annual for both 1978 and 1979, and has

People
also published in the field of geostatistics.

Francis X. Blown, Jb., has been named direc­
tor of the University of Michigan’s Bentley His­
torical Library, Ann Arbor, effective July 1. 
Blouin had been associ­
ate archivist at the li­
brary since 1975, and 
he succeeds Robert M. 
Warner who left last 
year to become U.S.
National Archivist.

Before coming to 
Michigan, Blouin was a 
research assistant at the 
Social Welfare History 
Archives Center at the 
University of Minnesota 
and subsequently a 

Francis X. Blυuin, Jr.teaching assistant in the 
department of history 
there.

One of his major scholarly undertakings at 
Michigan, in collaboration with Warner, was a 
compilation of sources for the study of immigra­
tion under the auspices of the National Endow­
ment for the Humanities and the Michigan His­
torical Collections. He has also co-edited a Guide 
to Temperance and Prohibition Papers (Universi­



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ty of Michigan, 1977), and The Archival Implica­
tions o f Machine Readable Records (Society of 
American Archivists, 1980).

Vartan Gregorian, former provost of the Uni­
versity of Pennsylvania, has been named presi­
dent and chief executive officer of the New York 
Public L ibrary, effec­
ive June 1. He suc­

ceeds Richard W.
Couper who continues 
with the library as pres­
ident emeritus.

A noted historian and 
educator, Gregorian has 
been Tarzian professor 
of history and professor 
of South Asian history 
at th e U niversity of 
Pennsylvania since 
1972. From 1978 to Vartan Gregorian
1980 he was th e  23d 
provost, and was first Bruce Rosenblum
dean of the faculty of arts and sciences from 1974 
to 1979.

In 1969 he received the Danforth Foundation’s 
E.H. Harbison Distinguished Teaching Award. 
He has also won the Silver Cultural Medal of the 
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Golden 
Medal of H onor of Vienna. He was a Gug­
genheim Fellow and a Ford Foundation Foreign 
Area Training Fellow, and received fellowships as 
well from th e American Council of Learned 
Societies, the Social Science Research Council, 
and the American Council of Education.

In 1978 he was chairman of the National Con­
ference of Academic Deans, and in 1971 was 
program chairman of the American Historical 
Association.

Steve Marquardt has been appointed director 
of libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Eau 
Claire, effective June 15. His responsibilities will 
include leadership of all 
technical, public ser­
vice, and administrative 
functions of the William 
D. M cIntyre Library, 
and liaison to o th er 
academic and adminis­
trative units, as well as 
to libraries and data 
bases outside the uni­
versity.

M arquardt has two 
m aster’s degrees, both 
from the University of Steve Marquardt
M innesota, one in 
European history (1970) 
and the o th e r in lib rary  science (1973). His 
doctorate (1978), also from the University of Min­
nesota, is in the history of modern France.

Prior to his appointment, Marquardt was assis­
tant director for resources and technical services 
at the Ohio University Library, Athens. From 
1976 to 1979 he held two positions at the West­
ern Illinois University Library, first as acquisi­
tions librarian, then as head cataloger.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Marie Inez Johnson, College of St. Catherine 
Library, St. Paul, and Rudy Johnson, University 
of Minnesota-Duluth, were recognized through 
motions and vote by acclamation at the meeting 
of the ARL Division of the Minnesota Library 
Association. The division acknowledged their long 
years of service and their contributions in the 
area of interlibrary cooperation.

E.J. Josey, chief of the Bureau .of Specialist Li­
brary Services, New York State Education De­
p artm ent, was selected as the D istinguished 
Alumnus of the Year by the School of Library and 
Information Science, State University of New 
York at Albany, Alumni Association. The award, 
granted for achievement in librarianship and in­
formation resources management and conspicuous 
success in advancing the status of the profession, 
was presented at the annual SLIS Alumni Asso­
ciation Dinner on May 1. Josey was the recipient 
of ALA’s 1980 Joseph W. Lippincott Award.

Mary D ennis Lynch, director of library ser­
vices at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, has 
been elected vice president/president-elect of the 
Catholic Lib Kra. ry Association.Rodney Waldron, library director at Ore­
gon State University, Corvallis, was presented 
the Oregon Library Association’s Outstanding 
Service Award at the association’s annual meeting 
in April. The newly-established award was pre­
sented in recognition of Waldron’s “truly special 
contribution to Oregon libraries” in guiding the 
establishment of a statewide multitype library 
storage center.

A PP O IN TM ENTS

Miriam H. Allman has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian of the Countway Library, Harvard 
University.

H arriet C. Anthes has been appointed 
cataloger in the Harvard College Library.

D oris Apffel joined the staff of the William 
Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, 
Atlanta, as reference librarian.

Nancy E. Baratz is the new reference librarian 
at the Medical Library, Yale University.

Alan Boyd has been appointed senior assistant 
librarian in technical services, Oberlin College, 
Ohio.

Diane Briceland is now assistant reference li­
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Bao-Chu Chang has been appointed cataloger

in the M onographic Cataloging D epartm ent,
D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State Uni­
versity, Raleigh.

Huei-Ju (Polly) Chang has been appointed
catalog librarian for the East Asian Collection,
Yale University Library.

Frank Chapman has been appointed reference
librarian at the Harvard Law School Library.

Rita Costello is now business and administra­
tion librarian at the Drexel University Libraries,
Philadelphia.

Ellen Z. Danforth has been appointed cata­
log librarian, Streeter Collection, at Yale’s Histor­
ical Medical Library.

Delight Dobby has joined the staff of the Con­
cordia University Libraries, Montreal, as refer-
ènce/selection librarian (commerce).

Arlene Taylor Dowell has been appointed
assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s
Graduate Library School.

Paul Eldridge has assumed new responsibili­
ties as assistant to special collections, Cornell
University Libraries, Ithaca, New York.

Nancy Evans has been appointed assistant pro­
fessor in the School of Library and Information
Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Sylvia B. Fatzer has been appointed head of
reference at the University of Delaware Library,
Newark.

Kim Fisher has accepted a position as head of

the Humanities Division, Oklahoma State Uni­
 versity Library, Stillwater.
 Marilyn Fletcher has been named serials ac­

quisitions librarian at the University of New Mex­
ico Library, Albuquerque.

 Thomas Fusciano is now archivist at New York 
 University.

Allison L. Gould has been appointed social 
 science reference librarian at Oberlin College Li­

brary, Ohio.
Joseph Guarracino has been appointed head 

 of the Non-Print Section, Drexel University Li­
braries, Philadelphia.

Shirley Hallblade has been appointed direc­
tor of Vanderbilt University’s Management Li­
brary, Nashville.

William Harroff has been ap pointed 
 architecture librarian at the Oklahoma State Uni­

versity Library, Stillwater.
 John R. Henderson has joined the staff of the 
 Ithaca College Library, Ithaca, New York, as ref­

erence librarian.
Patricia M. Howell is now public services/ 

 reference librarian at Yale’s Beinecke Library.
Catherine A. Hughes has been appointed 

assistant reference librarian for interlibrary loan 
 at the Milne Library, State University of New 

York at Geneseo.
 Mary Huth has been appointed assistant head 
 of the Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts 

and Archives, U niversity of Rochester, New 
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Zoya Jenks has been appointed visiting assis­
tant librarian in the Catalog Department, Ber­
trand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania.

Richard A. J ensen has been appointed sys­
tems analyst/programmer at the Yale University 
Library Systems Office.

Ruth Johnson has been promoted to the head 
of the Circulation Department, Drexel University 
Libraries, Philadelphia.

Edgar A. Jones is now head of the CONSER 
office, Harvard University Library.

Donna Krock has been appointed catalogue 
standards librarian at the McMaster University 
Library, Hamilton, Ontario.

Michael Kryzytski has been appointed assis­
tant librarian in the Reference Department of the 
Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewis­
burg, Pennsylvania.

Mary Charles Lasater has been appointed 
monographs librarian, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville.

Marge Link has been appointed cataloger in 
the Monographic Cataloging Department, D.H. 
Hill Library, North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh.

Joanne S. Lopez is the new collection develop­
ment librarian, Middlebury College Library, Ver­
mont.

Marien McBride has been promoted to head 
of acquisitions, Drexel University Libraries, Phil­
adelphia.

Harry Martin has been appointed librarian of
the Harvard Law School.

K. Leon Montgomery has been named acting 
associate dean of the School of Library and In­
formation Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas P. Moritz has been appointed assis­
tant librarian, Fisheries-Oceanography Library, 
and librarian, Friday Harbor Library, at the Uni­
versity of Washington, Seattle.

F rada Mozenter is the new social sciences 
reference bibliographer at the J. Murrey Atkins 
Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Christopher Murray is now assistant head of
technical services at the Mercy College Libraries, 
Westchester County, New York.

Anne B. Passarelli has been appointed head
of the Business Administration Library, Universi­
ty of Washington, Seattle.

F red Peal has been appointed reference li­
brarian in the Social Science Center, New York
University.

Linda I. Pierce has been appointed assistant
reader services librarian at the McDonald Memo­
rial Library, Xavier University, Cincinnati.

Naomi Ronen is now assistant librarian for ac­
quisitions, Harvard Law School Library.

Mary C. Rucgieri is now reference librarian at
Yale University’s Medical Library.

Jacque-Lynne Amann Schulman has joined
Pergamon International Information Corporation,

McLean, Virginia, as data base marketing special­
ist.

D eborah Lynn Shaw has been named assistant 
acquisitions librarian at the Oklahoma State Uni­
versity Library, Stillwater.

Ruth Shenc is the new Oriental cataloger at 
Harvard University’s Fine Arts Library.

Jeanne Sohn has been appointed assistant dean 
for collection development at the University of 
New Mexico Library, Albuquerque.

Christopher Sugnet has been appointed assis­
tant head of the University of New Mexico’s bib­
liographic control department.

Richard Surles has been named law librarian 
at the University of Illinois Law Library, Cham­
paign.

Ray TURNER is now children’s and reference li­
brarian at Berea College Library, Kentucky.

Audrey Vanderhoof has ben appointed ac­
quisitions librarian at Texas Christian University 
Library, Fort Worth.

Sally Voth will join the Indiana University Li­
braries staff on September 1 as assistant director 
for technical services.

Susan E. Wheeler has been appointed catalog 
librarian, Fry Print Collection, at Yale’s Historical 
Medical Library.

Martha White is now reference/instruction li­
brarian at Berea College Library, Kentucky.

RETIREMENTS

 Phyllis L. Brown, head of the Serials Division 
of the Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library, 
N orthw estern State U niversity of Louisiana, 
Natchitoches, retired May 29 after 16 years of li­
brary service there.

Ann A. Carr, acquisitions librarian in Har­
vard’s Countway Library of Medicine, has retired 
after 14 years of service to Harvard and 29 years 
in the profession.

Carmen Chisholm, circulation and children’s 
librarian at Berea College, Kentucky, has retired 
after 16 years at Berea.

 Donald N. Mackenzie, library director of the 
Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library, Northwest­
ern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, 

 retired June 30 after 26 years of service.
Margaret M. Moody, assistant librarian for 

planning and publications, Harvard Law School 
Library, has retired after 39 years of service at 

 Harvard and 41 in the profession.
Myrtle A. Moody, assistant librarian for tech­

 nical services, Harvard Law School Library, has 
retired after 39 years of service at Harvard and 44 
in the profession.

J ennie A. Spurgeon retired on October 23, 
1980, after 16 years of service with the University 

 of Delaware Library.
Claire Still has retired as catalog/reference li­

 brarian at Stanford University’s Lane Library on 
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Louise Yang, head of technical services at Be­
rea College Library, has retired after 22 years of
service at Berea.

DEATHS

Jack Pooler, chief librarian of Stanford Uni­
versity’s Science Department from 1961 to 1978, 
died in March at his home in Palo Alto.

Wanda S, Schmidt, former research analyst 
and reference librarian in the Aerospace Technol­
ogy Division of the Library of Congress, died 
March 24 in Venice, Florida.

AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Beverly P. Lynch, university librarian at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, has been 
awarded the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian 
of the Year Award for 1981. The Association of
College and Research Libraries and the Baker & 
Taylor Company presented the award to Lynch 
on June 28 at the ACRL reception during the 
American Library Association’s Annual Confer­
ence in San Francisco.

The award cites Lynch for her work in serving 
as ACRL’s Executive Secretary in 1972-1977 (the 
first woman to hold that post), as well as her in­
fluential work over the past decade on the ACRL 
Board of Directors, the College & Research Li­
braries Editorial Board, and numerous ACRL 
committees.

“An experienced teacher and a strong scholar,” 
reads the citation, “she has produced an exten­
sive body of research, noteworthy for its rigor 
and sound methodology, and she has been fre­
quently drafted as lecturer, panelist, and consul­
tant.”

Lynch was also cited for her extensive previous 
experience as an academic librarian, which in­
cludes positions held at Marquette University and 
Yale University libraries. Since 1977 Lynch has 
been university librarian at the University of Illi­
nois at Chicago Circle, where she administers a 
library containing nearly three-quarter of a mil­
lion volumes.

The ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the 
Year Award was established by ACRL and the 
Baker & Taylor Company to recognize individual 
members of the library profession who have made 
outstanding national or international contributions 
to academic and research librarianship and library 
development. The award consists of $2,000 and a 
citation.

Last year’s award was presented to Evan I. 
Farber, librarian at Earlham College, Richmond, 
Indiana.

Roland E. Schoenike, professor of forestry at 
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 
has been selected to receive the 1981 Eunice

 

 

Rockwell Oberly Award for Bibliography in the 
Agricultural Sciences.

Schoenike was chosen for his 5,891-citation 
monograph, Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tuli- 
pifera L.): An Annotated Bibliography to and in­
cluding 1974, published by Clemson’s Depart­
ment of Forestry in the College of Forest and 
Recreation Resources.

Schoenike has been at Clemson University 
since 1963 and has published extensively in the 
field of forestry, including articles in Tree Plant­
ers Notes and Silvae Genetica.

The Oberly Memorial Award, instituted in 
1925, is presented in odd-numbered years to an 
American citizen who compiles the best bibliogra­
phy in agriculture or related sciences in the pre­
ceding two-year period. The award is adminis­
tered by the Science and Technology Section of 
the Association of College and Research Librar­
ies.

Copies of Schoenike’s bibliography are obtain­
able only from the Department of Forestry, Col­
lege of Forest and Recreation Resources, Clem­
son University, Clemson, SC 29631, at a cost of 
$6.00.

ONLINE CATALOGS 
ANALYZED

The Council on Library Resources has 
approved funding for several projects to evaluate 
online public access catalogs. Five different 
groups have agreed to work together in a two- 
phase project to assure coordination of their 
efforts: J. Matthews & Associates, OCLC, Inc., 
the Research Libraries Group, the University of 
California’s Division of Library Automation, and 
the Library of Congress.

The major objectives of the evaluation are to 
produce comparative data on existing systems and 
to provide information for use in guiding the de­
velopment of future online catalogs. Two types of 
data will be collected: 1) information about the 
requirements of those who use online catalogs 
and about the influence of such catalogs on user 
behavior; 2) information about the performance of 
exisiting online public access catalogs relative to 
user expectations and requirements.

Grants totalling nearly $176,000 have been 
approved for the Research Libraries Group and 
hree member institutions. RLG will assess three 
perational online catalogs: one at Stanford, using 
he Research Libraries Information Network 
RLIN); one at Northwestern, using a system de­
eloped at that institution; and one at Dart­
outh, using a system developed in conjunction 
ith Bibliographic Retrieval Services.
The principal pre-test of the RLG’s evaluation 

urvey has been underway at Northwestern be­
ause of the advanced development of LUIS, the

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library’s online catalog. The questionnaire asks 
users to identify problems with features in the 
catalog. Ultimately the survey will generate data 
that will improve the system and increase its use­
fulness, as well as provide demographic informa­
tion about users and identify the barriers that dis­
courage people from using the system.

J. Matthews & Associates, a California consult­
ing firm, has been awarded a $99,500 contract to 
analyze six online public access catalogs in smal­
ler public and academic libraries, including the 
Claremont Colleges, Mankato State University,

Stephen F. Austin State University, and Mission 
Community College.

Up to $22,000 has been approved for an assess­
ment of the University of California, Division of 
Library Automation’s prototype on-line public ac­
cess union catalog, and the Library of Congress 
will receive up to $16,351 to support data collec­
tion on its SCORPIO and MUMS systems.

The funding for these projects is provided as 
part of CLR’s Bibliographic Service Development 
Program which attempts to draw upon technology 
to help solve problems of bibliographic control.

NOTICES

•  A new Directory o f Minnesota Academic Li­
brarians 1980— 81 (48 pages, 1981) has been 
issued by the ARL Division of the Minnesota Li­
brary Association. The directory, edited by Allen 
L. Dollerschell, gives an alphabetical list of the 
addresses of Minnesota academic library staff with 
job titles and telephone numbers. It may be 
ordered for $4.16 from Bob Suderman, Director, 
Learning Resources Center, Bethel College, 3900 
Bethel Drive, St. Paul, MN 55112.

•  An Interim Report on Book Paper (13 pages, 
April 1981) has been issued by the Committee on 
Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the 
Council on Library Resources. The committees 
aim is to encourage the improvement of the 
physical qualities of publications, especially the 
use of acid-free paper. Copies of the report are 
available from the Council of Library Resources, 
Inc., Suite 620, One D upont Circle, N.W ., 
Washington, DC 20036, upon receipt of a request 
and a self-addressed mailing label.

•  A Requirements Statement fo r the Name Au­
thority File Service, published by the Council on 
Library Resources, reports the progress of a nine- 
member task force appointed to assist in the plan­
ning and implementation of a name authority file 
service for the nation’s libraries. The service is 
intended to create an integrated, consistent file 
that can be used by all libraries. The present 
document explains the background and rationale 
for the service, specifies general and technical re­
quirements to be met if the service is to meet 
objectives, and proposes guidelines for ensuring 
that the content and format of authority records 
meet established standards. It may be ordered by 
sending a self-addressed mailing label to the 
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Suite 620, 
One D upont Circle, N.W ., Washington, DC 
20036.

•  Serial Titles in the Academy o f Natural Sci­

Publications
ences and the Franklin Institute Libraries (Phil­
adelphia) is a combined listing of the journal titles 
in two complimentary scientific libraries. Approx­
imately 10,000 distinct titles in the natural and 
physical sciences, ethnology, and engineering 
are included. A copy may be ordered for $20 
from the Franklin Institute Library, 20th and The 
Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

•  The Siege o f Pensacola, 1781: A Bibliogra­
phy, by James A. Servies, has been published as 
Library Publication Number 12 of the John C. 
Pace Library, University of West Florida. Pre­
paid orders of $4 per copy may be sent to the 
John C. Pace Library, University of West Flor­
ida, Pensacola, FL 32504.

RECEIVED

(Selected items will be reviewed in future 
issues of College & Research Libraries.)

•  Scarecrow Press recently published A Uni­
fying Influence: Essays o f Raynard Coe Swank 
(1981, $13.50). The essays, edited by David W. 
Heron, span thirty years of Dr. Swank’s career 
and offer “a vision of library service broad enough 
to encompass both the classical tradition and the 
computer.

•  Keys to Library Research on the Graduate 
Level: A Guide to Guides by Harvey R. Gover 
(University Press of America, 1981, $5.25) is “de­
signed as a library survival kit for graduate stu­
dents, enabling them to fully utilize the library 
resources at their disposal.” Topics include the 
Card Catalog, basic periodical indexes, LC clas­
sification, and computer-prepared indexes and ab­
stracts.

•  Electronic detection systems are emphasized 
in Book Theft and Library Security Systems 1981- 
82 by Alice Harrison Bahr (Knowledge Industry 
Publications, 1981, $24.50). Bahr analyses the 
similarities and differences of the systems avail­
able from Checkprint, Sentronic, LPS Interna-