ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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P R O F IL E S

Cahlton C. Rochell has been appointed 
dean of libraries at New York University, ac­
cording to an announcement by John C. Saw- 

hill, the university’s 
president. The new 
dean, who assumed 
his duties on August 
1, 1976, comes to
NYU from Atlanta, 
Georgia, where he has 
been director of the 
Atlanta Public Library 
for the past eight 
years, earning a repu­
tation as an innova­
tive librarian, an en­
ergetic administrator, 

Carlton C. Rochell and a dedicated civic 
leader.

As dean of libraries, Dr. Rochell will be re­
sponsible for the NYU library system, includ­
ing the central Elmer Holmes Bobst Library lo­
cated on Washington Square South. Designed 
by architects Philip C. Johnson and Richard 
Foster, the twelve-story red sandstone structure 
was opened in September 1973 and is the only 
major research library to have been built in 
New York City in thirty-five years. Planned for 
a total capacity of 2.5 million volumes, the 
Bobst Library currently houses 1.8 million vol­
umes and provides study space for 4,000 stu­
dents.

A native of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, the 
forty-two-year-old new dean of libraries is an 
alumnus of George Peabody College in Nash­
ville, Tennessee, and earned both M.S. and 
Ph.D. degrees in librarianship and political sci­
ence from Florida State University at Talla­
hassee. He also did postgraduate work in urban 
studies at Georgia State University at Atlanta.

Before becoming director of the Atlanta Pub­
lic Library in 1968, Dr. Rochell, a navy vet­
eran, served as director of the public libraries 
of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Anniston, Alabama; 
and Knoxville, Tennessee. He has also taught 
in two universities in Atlanta—Emory and At­
lanta—and at Florida State University.

A contributor to numerous professional peri­
odicals, Dr. Rochell is the author of several 
books on librarianship, including W ithout 
W alls/W ithout Barriers, written under a fellow­
ship from the Council on Library Resources 
and Information Systems for New Towns, for 
Syracuse University.

Dr. Rochell’s professional activities include 
serving as consultant/panelist for the National 
Endowment for the Humanities’ National Foun­
dation on the Arts and Humanities. He also 
served in a similar capacity for the U.S. Office 
of Education. The librarian vice-president of 
the American Library Trustee Association, he 
is also a member of the Accreditation Visiting 
Team, the Standards Committee, and other 
committees of the American Library Associa­
tion.

Named a Council of Library Resources fel­
low in 1973, Dr. Rochell this year received 
both the John Cotton Dana Public Relations 
award of the American Library Association and 
the American Institute of Architects/American 
Library Association award for the design and 
programming of branch libraries.

As a resident of Atlanta, Dr. Rochell partici­
pated in numerous community and civic proj­
ects, including direction of a campaign to build 
a new $19 million central library and the open­
ing of eight additional branch libraries through­
out the city. He has also served on the board 
of directors of both the Atlanta Council for In ­
ternational Visitors and the Atlanta Arts Festi­
val. A member of the Education Committee of 
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Rochell 
was also library service and educational tech­
nology adviser to the Georgia State University 
media program and to the Clayton Community 
College Library technical assistants’ program.

Nina T. C ohen has been named librarian at 
Wesleyan University. She succeeds Wyman W. 
Parker, who retired as librarian on June 30. Pre­

vious to her appoint­
ment Ms. Cohen was 
Associate Director of 
Libraries for Public 
Services at the Uni­
versity of Washing­
ton. For six years be­
ginning in 1967, she 
was director of the 
W estern New York 
Library Resources 
Council in Buffalo 
and was an adjunct 
faculty member at the 

Nina T. Cohen State University of 
New York (Buffalo)

School of Information and Library Studies. She 
was previously associated with university and 
public libraries in Buffalo and Tonawanda, 
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A graduate of Queens College, Ms. Cohen 
received her M.A. degree in 1953 from Indiana 
University. She is a member of the Washington 
State Library Automation Committee and the
Publications Committee of the Association of
College and Research Libraries. She has also 
authored several articles and a chapter on 
“New Dimensions for Academic Library Ser­
vices,” published in a 1974 Scarecrow Press 
book, The 3R ’s System and the Academic Li­
brary User in N.Y. State, edited by E. J. Josey.

Wyman Parker had been head librarian at the 
university since 1956. During his tenure, the 
facility’s holdings had been increased from ap­
proximately 400,000 volumes to more than 
750,000, and a separate science library had 
been added.

A P P O IN T M E N T S

Kathryn L. Abbott—assistant librarian, 
catalog department—Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park.

Anne Anningeb—rare book cataloger for 
printing and graphic arts, Houghton Library— 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu­
setts.

F red Batt—assistant professor, social and 
behavioral sciences reference librarian—Mans­
field State College, Pennsylvania.

Laura Byers—librarian of the Garden Li­
brary, Dumbarton Oaks— Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Virginia N. Cesario—chief librarian and 
chairperson of the Library Department of the 
City College—City University of New York.

Linda A. Dapson—assistant librarian, ref­
erence department—Pennsylvania State Uni­
versity, University Park.

L aszlo Dienes—rare book cataloger, Hough­
ton Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.

Michael F ling—affiliate librarian, music 
reference services librarian—Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington.

David C. Genaway—associate dean of li­
braries and learning resources—Eastern Ken­
tucky University, Richmond.

D ebra H artley—cataloging librarian, in­
structor, Engelbrecht Library—W artburg 
College, Waverly, Iowa.

Charlotte H ess—visiting affiliate librarian, 
acting philosophy, classics, history-philosophy 
of science, and psychology subject specialist— 
Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr. Edward H ess—assistant university li­
brarian for public services—University of 
Southern California, Los Angeles.

John H. H unter—reference librarian— 
University of Texas Health Science Center 
at San Antonio Library.

Anne M. Johnsen—reference librarian, Ed­

 
 

ucation Library—Harvard University, Cam­
bridge, Massachusetts.

Edward Kasinec—bibliographer and librari­
an, Ukrainian Research Institute— Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

E dmond Menegaux—executive director— 
South Central Research Library Council, 
Ithaca, New York.

W allace C. Olsen—deputy director for li­
brary services—National Agricultural Li­
brary, Beltsville, Maryland.

Masako Orlando—cataloger, Law Library 
—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa­
chusetts.

Gabriele Ouellette—cataloger, college li­
brary—Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas­
sachusetts.

Mary P awlowski—reference librarian—
University of Maryland, College Park.

Marcia J. Peterson—librarian, reference 
department— Boston University.

Arlene C. Port—assistant librarian, acquisi­
tions department— F lorida Atlantic Univer­
sity, Boca Raton.

Janice Powell—head of the reference de­
partment, McKeldin Library—University of 
Maryland, College Park.

Alicia M. Prata—head, serials dept., Eliza­
beth Dafoe Library—University of Manito­
ba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Glenn R. Read, Jr.—librarian, Latin Ameri­
can studies area specialist—Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington.

David G. Remington—chief of the catalog­
ing distribution service of the processing de­
partment—Library of Congress, Washing­
ton, D.C.

Robert D. Rodriguez—assistant librarian, 
cataloging department—F lorida Atlantic 
University, Boca Raton.

Rodney Rolfs—head, Music Library—Uni­
versity of Southern California, Los Ange­
les.

D onavon Schmoll—library director, assist­
ant professor, Engelbrecht Library—Wartburg 
College, Waverly, Iowa.

Martha E. Shaw—curator of the reading 
room, Houghton Library—Harvard Univer­
sity, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rev. W illiam J. Sheehan, CSB—assistant 
librarian, Woodstock Theological Center Li­
brary—Georgetown University, Washington, 
D.C.

Richard J. Simpson—public services librari­
an, Fine Arts Library— Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arlene Sirkin—nonprint media librarian— 
University of Maryland, College Park.

Kathryn Talalay—affiliate librarian, music 
reference services librarian—Indiana Univer­
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James B. Taylor—head, reference depart­
ment—W ichita State University, Kansas.

Minoru T om ijim a—visiting affiliate librari­
an, cataloger—Indiana University, Blooming­
ton.

Judith T ruelson—head, Crocker Business 
Library—University of Southern Califor­
nia, Los Angeles.

Irene Vaslef—administrative librarian, 
Dumbarton Oaks—Harvard University, Cam­
bridge, Massachusetts.

Visvaldis Vidmanis—assistant director for 
library science and media—Bemidji State 
University, Bemidji, Minnesota.

Barbara W urtzel—reference librarian—
University of Maryland, College Park.

RETIREMENTS
Mary Baker, associate librarian, head, inter- 

institutional library services, Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington, retired June 30, 1976.

H arold J. Bloomquist, librarian, Countway 
Library of Medicine, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has retired.

E. Raleigh D ePriest, humanities reference 
librarian at Mansfield State College, Mans­
field, Pennsylvania, retired on December 31, 
1975.

Margaret M. D onahue, assistant director 
of libraries for technical services, the Univer­
sity of Maryland Libraries, College Park, re­
tired June 1, 1976.

Mildred D. D onohue, head, technology and 
science reference room, the University of 
Maryland Libraries, retired July 1, 1976.

Morris A. Gelfand, chairman of the depart­
ment of library science, Queens College, 
Flushing, retired on July 1, 1976.

Mrs. L oren H allenbercer, associate pro­
fessor of library science and head of the library 
science discipline at Eastern New Mexico 
University has announced her retirement ef­
fective July 30, 1976.

E verett T. Moore retired recently as associ­
ate university librarian at the University of 
California at Los Angeles.

Barbara Pratt, associate librarian, head, 
Halls of Residence Libraries, Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington, retired May 31, 1976.

D ella Shore, head of the cataloging depart­
ment at Davidson College News, Davidson, 
North Carolina, retired in July.

E mma Simonson, librarian, Latin American 
studies area specialist, I ndiana University, 
Bloomington, retired June 30, 1976.

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