ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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People
PROFILES

M u r r a y  S. M a r t i n , formerly associate dean of 
libraries at Pennsylvania State University, has 
been named university librarian at Tufts Univer­
sity in Medford, Massa­
chusetts.

M artin, a native of 
New Zealand, comes to 
Tufts with thirty years 
exp erience in library 
service. He began his 
career with the New 
Zealand National L i­
brary Service and later 
moved on to join  the 
staff of the University of 
Saskatchewan as coor­
dinator of branch librar­
ies. He served in vari­ Murray S . Martin
ous positions in the li­
brary system at Penn State from 1967 to the 
present.

Martin has also been active in professional as­
sociations, holding a variety of committee chairs 
for the American Library Association. He currently

 serves as chair of the membership commit­
tee for the Resources and Technical Services Di­
vision. He has also held several offices in the 
Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, concluding a 
year as its president in June.

As a member of the comparative literature fac­
ulty at Penn State, Martin taught courses and 
delivered papers on New Zealand and Pacific lit­
eratu re. His book, B u d g e ta r y  C o n tr o ls  in 
A cadem ic L ib ra ries, was published by Johnson 
Associates in 1978.

Martin replaces Joseph Komidar, who recently 
retired as Tufts’ university librarian.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

C h a r l e s  H . D a v is , dean and professor of li­
brary and information science at the University of 
Illinois at U rbana-Cham paign, is the new 
president-elect of the American Society for In­
formation Science.

D o n n a  H i l l , head of the Teachers’ Central Li­
brary at Hunter College, City University of New 
York, has received a Scholar Incentive Award to 
conduct research in children’s book illustration. 
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Staff Congress at CUNY and are intended to aid 
scholarly research.

J o h n  L u c h e c h k o , associate director of the Jer­
sey City State College Library, has been awarded 
the first Cenko Prize in Ukrainian Bibliography 
by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for 
his work entitled “The Russo-Ukrainian Problem, 
1917-1921: A Classified and Annotated Guide to 
Soviet Political Reportage in P r a v d a .”

R o b e r t  S i v e r s , assistant head of the 
Sciences-Engineering Library at the University of 
California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded a re­
search grant of $3,200 for a project on selective 
serials collections in academic research libraries. 
The grant is part of a librarians’ research fund es­
tablished in 1980 by the University of California.

M y r o n  S m i t h , J r . ,  director of libraries at 
Salem College, W est Virginia, was presented 
with the Richard Franck Gold Medal in cere­
monies held September 17 at the Bibliothek für 
Z eitg esch ich te in Stu ttgart, W est Germany. 
Smith, the first American to be awarded the 
medal, was chosen by the West German govern­
ment in recognition of his extensive bibliographic 
work on the history of World War II.

E . B . St a n l e y  and the other members of the 
Washington County (Abingdon, Virginia) Library 
Board of Trustees have been selected to receive 
the 1981 Robert B. Downs Award. The award, 
presented by the faculty of the University of Illi­
nois Graduate School of Library and Information

Science, acknowledges outstanding contributions 
to the cause of intellectual freedom in libraries. 
Stanley and other board members were cited for 
their resistance to local attempts to censor library 
materials.

APPOINTMENTS

D e b o r a h  A l l e n  has been appointed reference 
librarian at the Drexel University Libraries, 
Philadelphia.

E l i z a b e t h  B a b e r  has been named principal 
cataloger at Rice University Library, Houston.

L i n d a  B a r n h a r t  has been appointed music 
cataloger at the University of California, San 
Diego.

L o w e l l  T .  B e r e n g u e r  is now reference librar­
ian at the CBN University Library, Virginia 
Beach.

D a v id  B i n k l e y  has been appointed librarian in 
the Arts Reference and Collections Development 
Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

C a r o l  B r ig g s  has been appointed to a one- 
year term as manuscript cataloger at the Clark 
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

D . C l i f t o n  B r o c k  has been appointed associ­
ate university librarian for special collections, 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

T h o m a s E d w a r d  C a m p  has been appointed act­
ing university librarian at the University of the 
South, Sewanee, Tennessee.



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E l i e z e r  C h a m m o u  is now Near East cataloge
at the University of California, Los Angeles.

B o y d  C h i l d r e s s  has been appointed social sci
ences reference librarian at Auburn University
Alabama.

E l i z a b e t h  C l i n e  is the new governmen
documents reference librarian at Auburn Univer
sity, Alabama.

D e a n  C o r w in  has been named assistant musi
librarian at Rice University, Houston.

R i c h a r d  C o u g h l i n  has been appointed gov
ernment documents librarian at Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

R o b e r t  C u n n i n g h a m  has been appointe
member services librarian at NELINET, Newton
Massachusetts.

A n g e l a  P . D a v ig  was appointed science an
technology reference librarian at Auburn Univer
sity, Alabama.

K a t h y  D avis has been promoted to coordinato
of public services at the University of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee.

L in d a  Z. d e  W i t  is now assistant head of th
Reference Library at the Michigan State Univer
sity Libraries, East Lansing.

A l v in  D o n g  has been appointed head of th
Documents Department, University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee.

J a c q u e l i n e  D o y l e  has been appointed refer
ence librarian at the Biomedical Library, Univer
sity of California, San Diego.

M a r l a  E d e l m a n  has been appointed serials li
brarian at the State University of New York,
Binghamton.

St e v e  F a l k  is now director of library service
at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Val
ley, Missouri.

D a v id  F e i n m a r k  has been appointed serials
reference librarian at Washburn University, To
peka, Kansas.

T om F r y  has been appointed head of the Col
lege Library, University of California, Lo
Angeles.

V ir g in ia  G ib b o n s  has been appointed head o
Catalog Management and Marking at Northwest
ern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

R i c h a r d  G io r d a n o  has joined the library staf
at Columbia University, New York.

E l a in e  G r a h a m  is the new head of the Train
ing and Consulting Section of the Pacific South
west Regional Medical Library Service in th
Biomedical Library, University of California, Lo
Angeles.

P e t e r  S. G r a h a m  has been appointed head o
book acquisitions at Columbia University, Ne
York.

R i c h a r d  G r is c o m  has been appointed musi
cataloger/recorded sound services librarian a
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illi
nois.

J a m ie  K . H a r r is o n  is now Western representa
tive for Faxon in San Francisco.

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H o l l e e  H a s w e l l  has been appointed librarian 
of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown, New 
York.

E v e l y n  H a y n e s  has been appointed assistant 
reference librarian at Colorado State University, 
Fort Collins.

J a m e s  L .  H o b s o n  is the new assistant social 
sciences librarian at Oklahoma State University, 
Stillwater.

J a m e s  L .  H o o v e r  has accepted appointment as 
law librarian at Columbia University, New York.

A l i c e  H u d s o n  has been named chief of the 
New York Public Library’s Map Division.

C in d y  H u t c h in s o n  has been appointed mem­
ber services librarian at N E L IN E T , Newton, 
Massachusetts.

R a n d a l l  H u t t o n  is now head of reference at 
the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennes­
see.

J i l l  J e n n in g s  has been appointed reference li­
brarian in the Columbia University Business Li­
brary, New York.

L a u r e l  J iz b a  has been appointed manager of 
the Microprint Catalog Project, Indiana Univer­
sity, Bloomington.

C h a r l o t t e  J o h n s o n  is the new assistant physi­
cal sciences librarian at Oklahoma State Univer­
sity, Stillwater.

L il l ia n  K ah n  has been appointed order librar­
ian at the Harvard Law School Library.

E va L .  K i e w e t t  has been named associate di­
rector of the CBN University Library, Virginia 
Beach.

J a m e s  J .  K o p p  has joined the staff of the His­
tory of Medicine Division of the National Library 
of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

G r e t c h e n  L agana has been appointed special 
collections librarian at the University of Illinois at 
Chicago Circle.

R e b e c c a  T . L e n z i n i  has been appointed man­
ager of LINX Services at the F. W. Faxon Com­
pany, Westwood, Massachusetts.

Y v o n n e  T .  L e v  has been appointed govern­
ment documents librarian at the University of 
Texas at Dallas Library, Richardson.

K a t h l e e n  L e w i s  has been appointed head of 
the Retrospective Conversion Project at Fondren 
Library, Rice University, Houston.

St e p h e n  A . M a r i n e  has been appointed serials 
cataloging librarian at the Earl Gregg Swem Li­
brary, College of William and Mary, 
Williamsburg, Virginia.

J a n e  M a r s h a l l  is now head of technical ser­
vices at the Mercy College Libraries, Westches­
ter County, New York.

C h a r l e s  M a r t e l l  has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at the University of Illinois at 
Chicago Circle.

R u s s e l l  M e r r i t t  has been appointed cataloger 
in Original Monographs Cataloging, Columbia 
University, New York.

P h i l i p  A . M e t z g e r  has been appointed rare



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book librarian at Southern Illinois University 
School of Medicine, Springfield.

S u z a n n e  M e t z g e r  is the new head of the Cir­
culation Department, University of California, 
San Diego.

J a m e s  M e y e r  has been appointed general 
monographic cataloger at Northwestern Univer­
sity Library, Evanston, Illinois.

R o b e r t  L. M ig n e a u l t  has been named assis­
tant dean for technical services at the University 
of New Mexico General Library, Albuquerque.

B r u c e  M i l l e r  has been appointed library sys­
tems analyst at Northwestern University Library, 
Evanston, Illinois.

W i l l i a m  M i l l e r  is now head of the Reference 
Library at Michigan State University, East Lans­
ing.

G r a h a m  M in t z  has been appointed director of 
technical services at Campbellsville College Li­
brary, Kentucky.

P h y l l i s  S. M i r s k y  has been named assistant 
university librarian for sciences at the University 
of California, San Diego.

D a v id  J .  N o r d e n  has been appointed head of 
the Undergraduate Library at the University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor.

M i c h a e l  S. N y e r g e s  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian in the Government Documents 
Division, Texas A&M University, College Sta­
tion.

A l i c e  P ic o n  is the new assistant editor of the 
PAIS Foreign Language Index, Public Affairs In­
formation Service, New York.

J e f f r e y  R . R e h b a c h  has been appointed music 
librarian, Middlebury College, Vermont.

S h a r o n  R i e n e r t h  has been appointed assistant 
cataloger at the Oklahoma State University Li­
brary, Stillwater.

J u l i e  F .  R i n a l d i has been appointed head of 
the Periodical Division, Serials Department, at 
the University of California, Berkeley.

P e r r y  A nn R o b in s o n  is now assistant librarian 
at the Cluster Undergraduate Library, University 
of California, San Diego.

R o b e r t  G. S a b in  has been appointed science 
and technology bibliographer at Auburn Universi­
ty, Alabama.

M a r y  A n n S a u r /S l a t e r  is the new assistant 
documents librarian at Oklahoma State Universi­
ty, Stillwater.

P a t r ic ia  Sa y r e  has been appointed social sci­
ence bibliographer for the Loyola University of 
Chicago Libraries.

T i m o t h y  G. S c h i l l e r  has been appointed 
coordinator of reference services at the Earl 
Gregg Swem Library, College of William and 
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

H a r o l d  B. Sc h l i e f e r  has been named associ­
ate director of the library at California State 
Polytechnic University, Pomona.

M a r t h a  S c h m i d t  h a s b e e n  a p p o in t e d  r e f e r ­
e n c e  an d  b ib lio g ra p h ic in s tru c tio n  lib ra ria n  at th e

Meyer Library, Stanford University, California.
J e r e m y  C. S h e l l h a s e  is now W EBNET pro­

ject manager at the Pittsburgh Regional Library 
Center, Chatham College, Pittsburgh.

M a r k  E. S m it h  has been appointed music li­
brarian at SUNY, College of Purchase, New 
York.

G e o r g e  S o e t e  has been named assistant uni­
versity librarian for social sciences and humanities 
at the University of California, San Diego.

St e v e  So w e l l  has been appointed head of the 
Biology Library at Indiana University, 
Bloomington.

S usan St a r r  has been named head of public 
services at the Scripps Institution of Oceanog­
raphy, University of California, San Diego.

P a t r ic ia  T e g l e r  is now assistant reference li­
brarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago 
Circle.

C a t h e r i n e  T h o m a s is now a serials cataloger at 
the University of California, San Diego.

J a m e s  C . T h o m p s o n  has been named associate 
university librarian at the Fondren Library, Rice 
University, Houston.

S h a r o n a  W a c h s  is now Judaica cataloger at 
Brooklyn College Library, New York.

D a v id  W a r r in g t o n  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian in Rare Books and Special Collec­
tions at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, 
Bloomington.

T om  G . W a t s o n , formerly university librarian, 
has been appointed assistant to the vice- 
chancellor and provost at the University of the 
South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

M a r y  S. W e s t b r o o k  has been appointed as­
sistant catalog librarian at the Earl Gregg Swem 
Library, College of William and Mary, 
Williamsburg, Virginia.

J u d it h  W i l d  is now social sciences cataloger at 
Brooklyn College Library, New York.

M a r g a r e t  A . W il s o n  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian in the Government Publications 
Section, University of Manitoba Libraries, Win­
nipeg.

N il a  W il s o n  has been appointed director of 
reader’s services at Campbellsville College Li­
brary, Kentucky.

RETIREMENTS

A nna C h io n g , head of the Geography Library 
at the University of Washington Libraries, Seat­
tle, retired on January 1 after 16 years with the 
library.

D an W . G r a v e s , director of libraries at Clarion 
State College, Pennsylvania, since 1965, has re­
tired effective January 8. Graves has served 42 
years in libraries in various capacities, including 
22 years in top management and 11 years as de­
partment head or associate director. Prior to his 
term at Clarion, Graves held positions at the 
University of Illinois, the University of Kansas,



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the U niversity of W ichita, the U niversity of 
Michigan, Willamette University, and Franklin 
and M arshall C ollege. He was p resid en t of 
ACRL’s Tri-State Chapter in 1969-70 and served 
on the College Libraries Section s Nominating 
Committee in 1973. Graves contributed a series 
of articles on college and university library statis­
tics to C ollege & R esearch L ibra ries in 1949-55.

R a l p h  H .  H o p p , director of the University of 
Minnesota Libraries from 1971 to 1976, has an­
nounced his retirement effective March 1. Hopp 
had been with the university since 1953 when he 
was appointed assistant director. He has held the 
posts of president of both the Association of Re­
search Libraries (1974-75) and the United States 
Book Exchange, and has chaired ACRL’s Univer­
sity Libraries Section. Hopp has been an active 
library consultant on buildings, public service 
programs, collections, and administrative organi­
zation and has published articles on library stor­
age and fiscal support. At Minnesota Hopp was 
involved in the design of Wilson Library and 
helped to plan such nationally recognized 
coop erative programs as M IN IT E X  and IN ­
FORM.

C a r o l i n e  C .  P e r s o n s , science and technology 
bibliographer at Auburn University, Alabama, re­
tired on June 30.

I o n e  R e d f o r d , librarian at Odegaard Under­
graduate Library, University of W ashington,

Seattle, retired on D ecem ber 1 after 18 years 
with the library.

J o h a n n a  E . T a l l m a n , director of libraries at 
the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 
since 1973, retired on D ecem ber 31. She had 
also served 28 years at the University of Califor­
nia, Los Angeles, as head of the Engineering and 
Mathematical Sciences Library.

DEATHS
E l i z a b e t h  R u t h  B a n t z , former head of the 

Education/Psychology Library at the University of 
California, Berkeley, died in San Jose on Novem­
ber 3.

D e n n i s  A. G i b s o n , refe ren ce  librarian in 
D upre L ib rary , U niversity o f Southw estern 
Louisiana, Lafayette, died as a result of being 
struck by a car on November 8. He had been a 
member of the library faculty since 1966.

H a r o l d  A. L a n c o u r , founding dean of the 
U niversity of P ittsb u rg h ’s G raduate Library 
School (now the School of Library and Informa­
tion Science), died on October 23 at his home in 
Weston, Vermont. Lancour began his career at 
the New York Public Library and later served at 
the Cooper Union in New York City. Before com­
ing to Pittsburgh he had been associate director 
of the Graduate Library School, University of Il­
linois. Lancour was preeminent in international 
studies and was active worldwide as a consultant



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in library development. He was the first editor of 
the Journal o f  Education f o r  Librarianship, and 
also served as managing editor of Library Trends 
and joint editor of the Encyclopedia o f  Library 
and Information Science.

F e l i x  H . P r e t s c h , retired science and technol­
ogy librarian at Auburn University, died on May 
5, 1981.

M in n i e  W a l l , former head of the Cataloging 
Department at Auburn University, died on June 
5. She had served at Auburn for 31 years.

F r e d e r i c k  W e z e m a n , founding director of the 
University of Iowa School of Library Science, 
Iowa City, died on November 2. He had been 
head of the school from 1966 until his retirement: 
in 1980. ■ ■

W A S H I N G T O N  H O T L I N E  by Carol Henderson
Deputy Director 

ALA Washington Office

"We are going to have to adapt and adjust if we don't go the way of the 
dinosaur," said Education Secretary T.H. Bell in expressing his concern "about 
the future of our libraries and …  about the future of information science 
research" to a December 1 colloquium on library and information science 
research. Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement Donald 
Senese also addressed the group of 17 library and related association presidents 
or their representatives gathered to review the draft report of the Education 
Department-funded project, "A Library and Information Science Research Agenda 
for the 1980s." Participants included Joanne Harrar (University of Maryland) 
for ACRL, and myself, substituting for ALA President Elizabeth Stone. The 
research agenda was developed by Cuadra Associates with the assistance of a 
group of 26 researchers and practitioners, including two university librarians, 
Miriam Drake (Purdue University) and Jay Lucker (MIT) ‚ as well as Mary Jo Lynch 
from ALA's Office for Research.

The 26 researchers and practitioners developed a research agenda of 20 
projects, grouped under the headings of 1) information generation and provision 
of library and information services, 2) information users and uses, 3) economics 
of information and of library and information services, 4) education and profes­
sional issues, and 5) intellectual freedom. A sampling of individual project 
titles includes "Exploiting the True Capabilities of Electronic Publication,"
"An Online Network to Support Question Answering in Libraries," "Evaluation of 
the Changing Needs of Online Search System Users as Influenced by Search Systems 
Experience," and "Impact of Information on Industrial Productivity."

The research agenda project was not designed as "the" agenda, nor did col­
loquium participants see it as such, but as "an" agenda reflecting important 
research needs, and as a very useful lobbying and communications tool within 
the library and information science field, with other fields, and with funding 
entities. Individual organizations were urged to publicize and disseminate the 
agenda, discuss it at conferences, act on it if possible, and consider it in 
any other appropriate way. Because it represents an excellent opportunity for 
interorganizational cooperation, it was agreed the National Commission on Librar­
ies and Information Science could play a useful role by convening a meeting of 
representatives of interested organizations to discuss possible cooperative 
steps.

One of the most important points agreed to at the colloquium was that 
interaction between researchers and practitioners begun by the earlier project 
participants should be continued as organizations react to and act upon the 
agenda.