ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Donald S. Tebbetts is the new assistant 
librarian for technical services at Idaho State 
University, Pocatello, Idaho.

Mrs. E lizabeth Titus has been appointed 
reference librarian, Kresge Library, Oakland 
University, Rochester, Michigan.

Paul D. Toner has been appointed chief, 
acquisitions department of the John Crerar Li­
brary.

Joseph C. T seng has joined the staff of the 
University of Nebraska as assistant librarian 
and instructor, catalog department.

Hugh T. Vrooman has been appointed as­
sociate director of libraries, Rensselaer Poly­
technic Institute.

Mrs. Katherine Warkentin has joined the 
staff of the Wilson College libraries, Chambers­
burg, Pennsylvania, as reference librarian.

Hans Wellisch will join the school of li­
brary and information services, University of 
Maryland, this fall as a visiting lecturer. Mr. 
Wellisch is head of the Documentation Centre 
and library and consultant to the Centre of 
Scientific and Technological Information, Tel 
Aviv, Israel.

Lynn Clara Williams has joined the staff 
of the University of Nebraska as assistant li­
brarian and instructor, acquisitions department.

W. Robert W oener has been appointed 
senior assistant librarian and head of the 
Behrend campus library of the Pennsylvania 
State University.

Milton T. W olf, III has been appointed 
assistant librarian in the acquisitions depart­
ment of the Pennsylvania State University li­
brary.

Mohamed El-Zehery has joined the staff 
of the University of Nebraska as senior assist­
ant librarian and instructor, social studies di­
vision.

N E C R O L O G Y

John Austin Parker, librarian of Storm 
King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 
and formerly audio-visual librarian, USMA li­
brary, West Point, died of a heart attack on 
May 24.

Edgar Weld King, who headed the Miami 
University libraries under various titles from 
1922 to 1956, died May 29 at Christ Hospital, 
Cincinnati, of a heart ailment.

RETIREMENTS

Janet M. Agnew, head librarian at Bryn 
Mawr College, 1947-1969, will retire in Sep­
tember.

Marian M. Allen, head of the University 
of Rochester library’s reference department and 
former librarian of the UR Women’s College,

has retired after forty-two years of service with 
the University. After a month’s vacation, she 
will join the staff of the Colgate Rochester 
Divinity School library on a part-time basis.

Mary Moore Beale, supervising librarian, 
cataloging department, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, has retired after twenty-two 
years of service at Teachers College.

Richard K. Dixon, supervising librarian, re­
serve book room, Teachers College, Columbia 
University, retired from full time service on 
June 30.

Mrs. E va E pstein, supervising librarian, cur­
riculum reading room, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, has retired after thirty-one 
years of service at Teachers College.

Sister Melania Grace resigned on May 15 
after forty years of service as librarian of Seton 
Hill College.

Virginia A. H usted, music librarian at Il­
linois Wesleyan University, has retired after 
serving the University for thirty years as pro­
fessor of violoncello, theory and music history 
before she became a full time member of the 
library staff in 1960.

Mrs. Katherine Kridl, supervising librarian, 
reference department, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, retired on June 30 after 
more than twenty years of service at Teachers 
College.

Marie Scheie retires this year from the El­
len Clarke Bertrand Library at Bucknell Uni­
versity, where she has been head of the cata­
log department since 1948.

Whiton Powell, assistant director of Cor­
nell University libraries since 1961 and librar­
ian of Cornell’s Mann Library since 1952, re­
tired June 30 after 25 years of service.

Mrs. Alleyne B. Vandervoort, humanities 
librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, has 
retired after ten years of service with the 
University. ■ ■

REM INDER TO COLLEGE, 
UNIVERSITY LIRRARIANS

Have you completed your report for the 
U.S. Office of Education’s Fall 1969 survey of 
college and university libraries? Questionnaires 
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appropriate institutional officer. The reporting 

date for this survey is “not later than October 
1.” A prompt response from everyone will in­
sure the publication of a report that will be of 
maximum utility to all college and university 
librarians.



Cataloging U.S.A.

A thorough and critical examination of library cataloging 
theory, principles, and practice as they have developed in the 
United States. A refreshing and stimulating approach to the 
“whys” of cataloging for students, staff members, and 

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administrators.

Paul S. Dunkin 192 pages Cloth 
LC 69-17680 SBN 8389-0071-2(1969) $5.00

a t H is to r ic a l S e ts, C o lle c te d  E d it io n s , a n d  M o n u m e n ts  o f  M u sic
w h a t’s

A Guide to Their Contents, 2d edition

A new edition of the unique, comprehensive bibliography of 
published music. Records and indexes major sets, including 

new
definitive editions of individual composers’ works, and most 
of the major collections. Entries, using Library of Congress 
form, in the main, give composer or compiler, title of the 
collection, place of publication, publisher, date, collation, and 
contents of the collection. More than ten languages are repre­
sented with the Roman alphabet used throughout. More than 
one-third of the entries are new to this edition. Those retained 
from the 1957 edition have been extensively revised, ex­
panded, and updated. Composer-title-form or medium index. 
Indispensable to music libraries and major reference collections 
and important for general libraries serving musicians, musi­
cologists, and music students.

Anna Harriet Heyer, compiler 592 pages Cloth 
LC 68-21021 SBN 8389-0037-2(1969) $25.00

I n t e r n a t io n a l S u b s c r ip tio n  A g e n ts
An Annotated Directory, 2d edition

Over 150 agents are listed alphabetically. Details given for 
each include: full address; names of countries and types of 
materials supplied; description of services; and business data. 
Uniform arrangement of all information and an index by 
country insures easy reference and use.

Joint Committee, Serials and Acquisitions Sections 
Resources and Technical Services Division, A.L.A.

96 pages Paper 
LC 76-82255 SBN 8389-3099-9(1969) $3.50

other 1969 titles
The Bookm obile— A New Look $1.75
The Career o f the Academic Librarian $4.50
Carnegie Libraries $8.00
Junior College Libraries: Development,

Needs, and Perspectives $3.00
MARC Manuals Used by the

Library o f Congress $7.50
AMERICAN LIBRARY Public Library Systems in the United States

ASSOCIATION A Survey o f Multijurisdictional Systems $10.00 
50 East Huron Street Work Simplification in Danish

Chicago 60611 Public Libraries $6.75