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PROFILES

M o h a m m e d  M .  A m a n , dean of the Palm er 
Graduate Library School, Long Island University, 
has been appointed dean of the School of Library 
S cien ce, U niversity of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

At Long Islan d,
Aman helped to intro­
duce a six-year degree 
program , an u n d er­
graduate program in in­
form ation stu d ies, a 
specialization in bu si­
ness librarianship, and 
foreign exchange pro­
grams.

B e fo re  jo in in g  the 
faculty at Long Island,
Aman was d ire cto r of M oham m ed M. Aman
the division of Library
and Information Science at St. John s University, 
New York. During his deanship, St. John’s re­
ceived its first national ALA accreditation.

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Aman has also served on the library faculties of 
the Pratt Institute, Duquesne University, and Al­
legheny Community College, and has worked as 
a research assistant at Knowledge Availability 
Systems Center in Pittsburgh and as a reference 
librarian at the Egyptian National Library.

He holds a B.A. from Cairo University, Egypt, 
an M .S.(L .S.) from Columbia University, and a 
Ph.D . from the University of Pittsburgh.

An active member of the American Library As­
sociation, he has served as chair of the Interna­
tional Relations Roundtable, as a member of the 
In te rn a tio n a l R ela tio n s C o m m ittee and the 
Grants Committee of the Library Education Divi­
sion, and as a member of the ACRL Publications 
in Librarianship Editorial Board.

He has served as consultant to U N ESC O  in 
Bahrain, UNIDO in Algeria, U .S. AID in Upper 
Volta, and to the governments of Kuwait, Egypt, 
Libya, and Morocco, and to academic and special 
libraries in the United States.

A l l a n  J .  D y s o n  is the new university librarian 
at the University of California, Santa Cruz cam­
pus. Dyson goes to Santa Cruz from the Univer­
sity o f C aliforn ia, 
Berkeley, where he has 
b e e n  head of the 
Moffitt Undergraduate 
Library since 1971.

At Santa Cruz, Dyson 
will direct a staff of 100 
employees, oversee an 
annual bu dget of 
$2,900,000, and super­
vise the growth and 
management of library 
c o lle ctio n s that now 
nu m ber 5 6 7 ,0 0 0  vol­ Carol A. Foote
umes. Allan J .  Dyson

After graduating from 
Harvard in 1964 with B . a . in governm ent, 
Dyson joined the U .S. Army as a lieutenant and 
served as chief of the Administrative Services 
Offices at Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts 
from 1964 to 1966. He earned his M .S. degree in 
L ibrary S c ie n c e  from the Sim m ons C o lleg e 
School of Library Science in 1968 and joined the 
staff of the Columbia University Libraries as as­
sistant to the director, a position he held until his 
appointment at Berkeley in 1971.

ACRL members know Dyson well for his ser­
vice as editor of C o lleg e & R esea rc h  L ib r a r ie s  
News from January 1973 to December 1974. He 
served on the editorial board of C o lleg e & R e­
sea rch  L ib ra ries during the same period and b e­
came a member of the editorial board of C h o ice 
in 1975. He is currently chair of the C h o ice board 
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selected Jay Martin Poole as the new editor of 
C h o ic e .

G r a h a m  R .  H i l l  has been appointed librarian 
o f M cM aster U niv ersity L ib ra rie s, H am ilton, 
Canada.

Hill began his career 
at M cM aster University 
in 1971 as p u blic s e r ­
v ice s lib r a r ia n , p r o ­
gressed to director, D i­
vision o f Archives and 
Special Collections, and 
in 1974 assu m ed  the 
added responsibilities of 
collections librarian. As 
a ss o cia te  lib ra ria n  for 
collection developm ent 
he has had primary re­
sponsibility for adminis­
tering the lib rary ’s a c­ G r a h a m  
quisitions funds of $1.6 R. Hill
million in 1978- 79.

A native of England, Hill received his B.A. de­
g ree from th e  U niv ersity o f N ew castle-upon- 
Tyne, an M.A. from Lancaster University, and an 
M .L .S . from the University of W estern Ontario. 
In 1 9 7 7 -7 8  he was a C oun cil on L ibrary R e ­
sources A cad em ic M an agem en t In te rn  at the 
Indiana University Libraries.

J o h n  G. L o r e n z  is retiring as executive direc­
tor of the Association of Research Libraries at the 
end of 1979. He began his career as a librarian in 
the Queens (New York) 
Public Library and later 
served in the public li­
braries of Schenectady, 
New York, and Grand 
R ap id s, M ich igan . 
From  1946 to 1957 he 
was a ss is ta n t s ta te  l i ­
brarian in Michigan. In 
1957 he joined the staff 
o f the Library Services 
B ra n c h  o f th e  U .S . 
O ffice o f E d u c a tio n , 
w here he rose to the 
position of d ire cto r of J o h n  G. L o ren z
the Division of Library 
Services and received  a D istinguished Service 
Award from the secretary of Health, Education 
and Welfare.

In 1965 Lorenz becam e Deputy Librarian of 
Congress. During his tenure of office, the library 
developed the National Program for Acquisitions 
and Cataloging, the Machine-Readable Cataloging 
program, and Cataloging in Publication. He was 
responsible for planning and building the Madi­
son Library, and during most o f 1975 he served 
as acting Librarian of Congress.

In 1976 he retired as Deputy Librarian of Con­

gress and becam e executive director o f the As­
so cia tio n  o f R e s e a rc h  L ib r a r ie s . At A R L  he 
helped secure passage of Title II-C  of the Higher 
Education Act for strengthening research library 
reso u rces and o b ta in ed  additional foundation 
su p p ort for th e  A R L  O ffice o f M an ag em en t 
Stu dies and the C e n te r for C h in ese R esearch 
Materials.

A P P O IN T M E N T S

A l t h e a  D .  A s c h m a n n  has b e e n  appointed 
cataloger in the Andover-Harvard Theological L i­
brary.

R i c h a r d  A s h f o r d , a doctoral student in the 
D .L .S . program at Columbia University, will join 
the faculty o f the School of L ib rary  S c ie n c e , 
Simmons College, in January 1980.

J u l i e  B a n k s  has been named loan librarian, 
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.

D a n i e l  W . B a r t h e l l  has been promoted to 
head, Search Section, Acquisitions Department, 
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illi­
nois.

J o h n  H .  B r a n d e a u  is now head  o f the 
Audio-Visual Department, Mercy College Librar­
ies, W estchester County, New York.

M a r i a  B r e c h  is now librarian of the Yorktown 
Heights Branch Campus, Mercy College Librar­
ies, W estchester County, New York.

S a l l y  B u c h a n a n  has been appointed conserva­
tion officer, University Libraries, Stanford Uni­
versity.

S h a r o n  H .  B y r d  is assistant cataloger, Library, 
Davidson College, North Carolina.

K a r e n  L .  C a r l s o n  has been promoted to head 
of the D epartm ent Library Cataloging Section, 
Harvard University.

L a r a i n e  C o r r e l l  has been appointed director 
of special collections, George Mason University, 
Fairfax, Virginia.

E d w i n  M .  C o r t e z  has been appointed assis­
tant professor of library scien ce, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor.

College and University 
Lib raries Fall 1979 Survey

During the summer the National C enter for 
Education Statistics mailed to each college 
and university survey forms for the Higher 
Education G eneral Information Survey and 
L ib ra ry  G e n e r a l In fo rm a tio n  Su rvey 
(H E G IS -L IB G IS ).

Library directors who have not received the 
survey form should contact their campus ad­
ministration for it, or the National C enter for 
E d u c a tio n  S ta tis tic s , 4 0 0  M aryland A v e., 
Washington DC 20202.

Completed forms are due in Washington by 
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L a u r a  D a n k n e r  has been named music librar­
ian at Loyola U niv ersity , New O rlean s, 
Louisiana.

E l l e e n  A . D e r e y  is reference librarian, Dick­
inson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

J a n  D o m m e r  is education librarian at Bowling 
Green State University, Ohio.

E i l e n  D o r s c h n e r  has been appointed assis­
tant science librarian for chemistry and chemical 
engineering (half-time), Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Boston.

K a t h l e e n  A . D o w h a n  is the Andover-Harvard 
Theological Library’s newest cataloger.

R u t h  A n n e  E v a n s  has been named head of 
collection development, Schaffer Library, Union 
College, Schenectady, New York.

T e r r y  F e r l  has been appointed serials 
cataloger, University of California, Santa Cruz.

R u t h  G i b b s  has begun work as associate uni­
versity librarian for research and instructional 
services, University of California, Los Angeles.

P a t r i c i a  G i b n e y  has been appointed serials li­
brarian, Princeton University.

J a c q u e l i n e  G l i c k  is the new interlibrary loan 
librarian, Medical College o f W isconsin, M il­
waukee.

M a r t h a  B e n z e r  G o l d b e r g  has be en  ap­
pointed reference librarian, Norris Medical L i­
brary, University of Southern California Health

Sciences Campus, Los Angeles.
M a r y  Lou G o o d y e a r  is reference librarian, 

Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.
E l l i n  G r e e n e  will jo in  th e faculty of the 

Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 
in January 1980 as associate professor and dean of 
students.

J a n e t  G r e g o r  has been named head of techni­
cal processes, Schaffer Library, Union College, 
Schenectady, New York.

J .  B r ia n  H a l e y  has been appointed catalog li­
brarian and head of technical services, Ursinus 
College Library, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

J e a n  H a m r i c k  has been named assistant direc­
tor for automation and bibliographic control, 
General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.

S h e i l a  K .  H a r t  has been appointed head, 
Public Services D epartm ent, Harvard College 
Library.

N a n c y  R. H e a r s t  is now librarian, John King 
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Har­
vard University.

M a r l e n e  S. H e r o u x  is serials librarian, State 
University of New York, Binghamton.

C a r o l y n  H i l l e s  is monographic cataloger, 
University Libraries, State University of New 
York, Albany.

D o l o r e s  H o e l l e  has been appointed engi­
neering librarian, Princeton University.

M i c h a e l  H o m a n  has joined the staff of the 
Corporate Technical Library, Upjohn Company, 
Kalamazoo, Michigan, as head of information ser­
vices.

G a r y  A . H u n t  has been appointed head, Ar­
chives and Special Collections Department, Ohio 
University Libraries, Athens.

B o n n i e  J e a n  J a c k s o n  has been named person­
nel librarian, University of Georgia Library.

T i m o t h y  V. J o h n s o n  has be en  appointed 
African-American Studies reference librarian, 
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illi­
nois.

D o u g l a s  J o n e s  has been appointed reference 
librarian, Science-Engineering Library, Univer­
sity of Arizona.

S h e r y l e  R . J o n e s  is re fe re n c e  lib rarian , 
Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

J e a n  K a m e r m a n  has been  appointed SO L- 
IN ET coordinator, John C. Pace Library, Univer­
sity of West Florida, Pensacola.

N a n c y  S .  K l a t h  has been appointed assistant 
un iversity lib rarian for tech n ical se rv ice s, 
Princeton University.

J a n e  M .  K r o p a  is now catalo g er, E d en - 
Webster Libraries, a joint library serving W eb­
ster College and Eden Theological Seminary, St. 
Louis, Missouri.

W i l l i a m  J .  K u r m e y  will become dean of the 
University of Alberta’s Faculty of Library Science 
on January 1, 1980.

S u l  H .  L e e  has been appointed dean, Univer­
sity Libraries, University of Oklahoma, Norman.



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He was formerly D irector of University Libraries 
at Oklahoma.

M a r i o n  H o l e n a  L e v i n e  has been named head 
reference librarian, Countway Library, Harvard 
University.

M i l d r e d  L o w e  has been appointed acting di­
rector, Division of Library and Information Sci­
ence, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.

M a r y  A . M c C r e a d i e  h a s  b e e n  n a m e d  t o  t h e  
p o s i t i o n  o f  c a t a l o g e r ,  N o r t h w e s t e r n  U n i v e r s i t y  
L i b r a r y ,  E v a n s t o n ,  I l l i n o i s .

T e r r e n c e  M e c h  is instructional/public se r­
v ice s lib r a r ia n , T u scu lu m  C o lle g e  L ib ra ry , 
G reeneville, Tennessee.

E l a i n e  M o o r e  has joined the staff of the Uni­
versity of Arizona, Tucson, as map reference li­
brarian.

R i c h a r d  E . M o o r e  has been selected chair­
man of the Interinstitutional Library Council of 
the Oregon State System of Higher Education.

E l e a n o r  T .  M u n n  has been appointed princi­
pal cataloger, Case W estern Reserve University 
Libraries, Cleveland, Ohio.

M a r y  L . N i e b a l l  has been named dean of li­
b rary  s e r v ic e s , San J a c in to  C o lle g e  D is tr ic t, 
Pasadena, Texas.

S h e r e l y n  O g d e n  has been named book con­
servator, the New England Document Conserva­
tion C enter, Andover, Massachusetts.

H u g h  M .  O l m s t e d  has accepted the position 
of head o f the Slavic Department in the College 
Library, Harvard University.

M a r k  P a l k o v i c  has b e e n  ap p o in ted  
humanities/music cataloger, Auburn University 
Libraries, Alabama.

P a m e l a  P a l m e r  is head, Engineering Library, 
Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

A l e x a n d r a  P a p a z o g l o u  has b e e n  nam ed 
cataloger, Harvard College Library.

D o r o t h y  A . P e a r s o n  has been appointed as­
sistant university librarian, Administrative S e r­
vices, Princeton University.

L o r e n  P i n k e r m a n  has been named head, Mi­
croforms and G overnm ent D ocum ents D ep art­
ment, Auburn University Libraries, Alabama.

R u s s e l l  O . P o l l a r d  has been appointed head 
of technical services, Andover-Harvard Theologi­
cal Library.

R o n a l d  R .  P o w e l l  has been named assistant 
professor of library science, University of Michi­
gan, Ann Arbor.

R o s a m o n d  P u t z e l  has been appointed litera­
ture bibliographer, Paley Library, Tem ple Uni­
versity, Philadelphia.

J a n e  Q u a l l s  is assistant head, Periodicals D e­
partm ent, Memphis State University Libraries, 
Tennessee.

C a r o l  R a c h e t e r  has started work as the new 
head of the Cataloguing Department, McMaster 
University, Hamilton, Ontario.

R o g e r  R a i n w a t e r  has been appointed to the 
position o f assistant referen ce librarian , Texas

Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.
T a n i a  R i z z o  has be en  named head, Special 

Collections, Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, 
California.

J o h n  M .  R o b s o n  has been appointed head of 
techn ical serv ices, V irginia M ilitary In stitu te, 
Lexington, Virginia.

D a l e  R o y l a n c e  has b e e n  named curator of 
graphic arts, Princeton University.

J o h n  R y l a n d  has been appointed head librar­
ian, Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia.

T e s s e  S a n t o r o  is bibliographic instruction li­
brarian, Brooklyn College of the City University 
of New York.

D e b r a  G .  S c a r b o r o u g h  has been appointed 
head librarian, York Campus, Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park.

C h a r l o t t e  N. S h e m i n  has been appointed to 
th e  u se r s e r v ic e s  p o sitio n  in th e  S c ie n c e - 
E ngineerin g L ibrary, N orthw estern University 
Library, Evanston, Illinois.

E l l i e  S m i t h  has joined the staff of the Georgia 
Southern College Library, Statesboro, as an assis­
tant cataloger.

T a f i l a  S p e n c e  is th e new serials librarian, 
McM aster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario.

K a r e n  L .  S t a n f i e l d  is catalog information li­
brarian, M ilner Library, Illinois State University.

M a r s h a  S t e v e n s o n  is cataloger/reference li­
brarian, H. C. Frick Fine Arts Library, Univer­
sity of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

M a r l e n e  K .  T e b o  has been named assistant 
director for science, technology and medical li­
brary resources, State University of New York at 
Binghamton.

M .  G l e n n  T r i p p l e t t  has been appointed di­
rec to r o f library serv ices, New W orld C e n te r 
Campus, Miami-Dade Community College.

R o y  H .  T r y o n  has assumed the position of li­
brary director o f the Balch Institute for Ethnic 
Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

J o h n  F .  V a n d e r m o l e n  has be en  appointed 
science and technology department head, Auburn 
University Libraries, Alabama.

M a r y  E l l e n  V e r z a r o  has been named head of 
p u b lic s e r v ic e s , L y c o m in g  C o lle g e  L ib ra ry , 
Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

L o r e t t a  W a l k e r  has been appointed head of 
information services, Schaffer Library, Union Col­
lege, Schenectady, New York.

K a r e n  T .  W i l s o n  has been named instructor- 
interlibrary loan librarian, University o f Tennes­
see C e n te r  for th e  H ealth S c ie n c e s  L ib ra ry , 
Memphis.

A n n  W o o d  is social science/IC PSR  bib liog­
rapher, University Libraries, State University of 
New York at Albany.

E l i z a b e t h  W o o d  has become business librar­
ian, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

L a w r e n c e  J .  W o o d s  has b e e n  a p p o in ted  
ad vertising/prom otion/production m anager o f 
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S t e p h e n  Y o u n g  has been appointed head of 
the Rare Book Cataloging Division, Yale Univer­
sity Library, New Haven.

M u r i e l  Z e l d i s  has been appointed science 
and technology cataloger, Auburn University Li­
braries, Alabama.

RETIREMENTS

C a t h e r i n e  L .  B i n d e r u p , assistant librarian for 
reference service in the Francis A. Countway Li­
brary of Medicine, Harvard University, retired at 
the end of June.

R i t a  C .  E n g l i s h , head of reference services 
for the past thirteen years at Cuyahoga Commu­
nity College, Western Campus, Cleveland, Ohio, 
has retired.

M a r g a r e t  B o l s t a d  F a u s t , reference librarian 
at Stephens College for twenty years, retired at 
the end of the 1978-1979 school year.

F r a n c e s  L a u m a n , the Cornell University Li­
braries’ first reference librarian, retired after 
thirty-three years of service on June 30.

M a r g a r e t  L u d i n g t o n , head of the Rare Book 
Cataloging Division, Yale University Library, 
New Haven, Connecticut, has retired after more 
than forty years of service.

W i l l i a m  B .  R e a d y  re tire d  as lib rarian of 
M cM aster U niversity L ib ra rie s, H am ilton, 
Canada, June 30, after twelve years as head of 
the McMaster system.

R u t h  H .  R o c k w o o d  of the Florida State Uni­
versity School of Library Science is retiring after 
twenty-six years on the faculty.

C h a r l e s  S .  W o o d b u r y , circulation librarian in 
the Andover-Harvard Theological Library for the 
past seventeen-years, retired from his position on 
July 31.

DEATHS
W i l h e l m  M o l l  died June 16. He was director 

of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and 
of the former Medical Library at the University 
of Virginia since 1962. Donations may be sent to 
the W ilhelm Moll Memorial Medical History 
Fund, care of the Claude Moore Health Sciences 
Library, Box 234, University of Virginia Medical 
Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908.

T h o m a s  M .  S c h m i d , assistant d irecto r for 
technical services, University of Utah Libraries, 
died May 15 as the result of an automobile acci­
dent.

E m i l y  P h i l i p s  S c o t t , head catalog librarian, 
Georgia Southern College Library, Statesboro, 
Georgia, died on April 25.

P a t r i c k  W r e a t h , chief bibliographer of the 
University of North Carolina Library at Chapel 
Hill, died May 18 after a long illness. Contribu­
tions in his honor may be sent to the Patrick J. 
Wreath Memorial Fund, care of Business Office, 
Wilson Library 024-A, the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27514. ■■

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