ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


S eptem ber 1988 /  527

ACRL officers for 1 9 8 8 - 8 9

The official A C R L election results.

Jo sep h  A. Boissé W illiam  A. M offett

J o s e p h  A. B o i s s é , university librarian at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa 
Barbara, CA 93106), is the fifty-first president of 
the Association of College and Research Libraries. 
During his one-year term of office, he will preside 
over the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL 
Executive Committee. He will chair the ACRL 
Conference Program Planning Committee for the 
1989 Annual Conference in Dallas and will plan 
ACRL’s major program at the conference.

As president of the division, Boissé will represent 
ACRL on the ALA Dallas Conference Program 
Planning Committee and the ALA Planning and 
Budget Assembly. He will also represent ACRL 
and ALA in their relations with other organiza­
tions. Boissé has been verv active in ACRL and has
served on the Legislation, Continuing Education, 
and Appointments and Nominations Committees. 
He was a member of the ACRL Task Force on L i­
braries in Higher Education in 1982-1984 and the 
LAMA Board of Directors in 1980-1982.

W i l l i a m  A. M o f f e t t , director of libraries at 
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH 44074), has been 
elected vice-president/president-elect of the Asso­
ciation of College and Research Libraries. The

1988 election results showed 1,784 votes for Mof­
fett and 1,009 for David B. Walch, Dean of L i­
brary and Audiovisual Services at Cal Poly, San 
Luis Obispo, CA 93407.

As vice-president/president-elect of A C R L , 
Moffett will serve on the ACRL Board of Directors 
and the ACRL Executive Committee. He will 
chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning 
Committee for the 1990 Annual Conference in 
Chicago. He will represent ACRL on the ALA Ap­
pointments Committee and the ALA Conference 
Program Planning Committee for the 1990 Confer­
ence. At the end of the 1989 Annual Conference he 
will become ACRL’s fifty-second president.

Moffett served as chair of the ACRL College L i­
braries Section in 1984-85 and was instrumental in 
establishing the CLS National Advisory Council in 
1986. He recently served as chair of the RBMS Se­
curity Committee, and has been a member of the 
Publications and Academic/Research Librarian of 
the Year Committees. Moffett was a featured 
speaker at the ACRL National Conference in Seat­
tle in 1984, where he presented his “Reflections of a 
College Librarian: Looking for Life and Redemp­
tion This Side of A R L.”

The results of the ACRL elections follow. For 
each position, the elected candidate is listed first. 
The number of votes earned by each candidate is 
given in parentheses.

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: J a n e t  St e i n s , Head, 
Chemistry Library, State University of New York, 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3425 (58); G. Edward 
Evans, Librarian, Tozzer Library, Harvard Uni­
versity, Cambridge, MA 02138 (54).

M e m b e r - a t - L a r g e :  M a ija  M . L u t z , Head of 
Technical Services, Tozzer Library, Harvard Uni­
versity, Cambridge, MA 02138 (55); David M. 
Hovde, Social Sciences Librarian, University of 
Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072 (53).



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Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: P a u la  M u r p h y , Head 
of Audiovisual Services, Columbia College L i­
brary, Chicago, IL  60602 (78); Alice N. Loranth, 
Head of Fine Arts and Special Collections, Cleve­
land Public Library, Cleveland, OH 44114 (73).

Asian and African Section

V ice-C hair/C hair-Elect: D o n a  S . St r a l e y , 
Middle East Librarian, Ohio State University, Co­
lumbus, OH 43210 (59); R.N. Sharma, Assistant 
Director of Public Services, University of Wiscon­
sin, Oshkosh, W I 54901 (48).

S e c re ta r y : W il l ia m  Sh e h  W o n g , Assistant D i­
rector of General Services for the Asian Library, 
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL  61801 (57); Mar­
garet K. Wang, Coordinator of Original Catalog­
ing, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19717- 
5267 (47).

M em ber-at-L arge: J u l i a n  W .  W i t h e r e l l , 
Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division, L i­
brary of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 (67); 
Donald Clay Johnson, Librarian, Ames Library of 
South Asia, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 
MN 55455 (41).

Bibliographic Instruction Section

V ice-C hair/C h air-E lect: C e r i s e  O b e r m a n , 
Public Services Planning Officer, University of 
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (491); Mignon 
Adams, Director of Library Services, Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, 
PA 19104 (394).

Secretary: K a r en  W il l ia m s , Central Reference 
Librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 
85721 (494); Carolyn B. Fields, Reference Librar­
ian, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 
92182-0511 (321).

Member-at-Large: C a r o l F. A h m a d , Assistant 
Director for Public Services, University of Miami, 
Coral Gables, F L  33124 (482); Melanie Dodson, 
Head, Social Science/Documents Center, New 
York University, New York, NY 10012 (354).

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: J a c q u e l y n  M . M o r ­
r is , Director, Occidental College Library, Los An­
geles, CA 90041 (281); Caroline M. Coughlin, D i­
rector, Drew University Library, Madison, NJ 
07940 (205).

S e c re ta r y : G e o r g e  C. G r a n t , Director of L i­
braries, Rollins College, Winter Park, F L  32789 
(249); Michael D. Kathman, Director of Libraries, 
St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN 56321 
(235).

Member-at-Large: K ari D . A n d e r s o n , Refer­
ence Librarian, Mary Washington College, Fred­
ericksburg, VA 22401 (235); Elizabeth D. Ham­
mond, Associate D irector, M ercer University 
Library, Macon, GA 31207 (208).

M e m b e r - a t-L a r g e  (tw o -y e a r  te r m ): M a ry L e e  
Sw e a t , University Librarian, Loyola University, 
New Orleans, LA 70118 (242); Susan M. Camp­
bell, Library Director, York College of Pennsylva­
nia, York, PA 17403-3426 (222).

Community and Junior College 
Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: W . L e e  H i s l e , Direc­
tor of Learning Resource Services, Austin Commu­
nity College, Austin, TX 78768 (146); Darleen B. 
Abbott, Acquisitions/Serials Librarian, Pensacola 
Junior College, Pensacola, F L  32504 (75).

Secretary: M a r il y n  M . M c D o n a l d , Dean of 
Learning Resources, Foothill College, Los Altos 
Hills, CA 94022 (147); Suzanne Hill, Director of 
Library Services, Catonsville Community College, 
Baltimore, MD 21228 (75).

Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Section

V ice -C h a ir/C h a ir-E le ct: L a u r e n e  E . Z a - 
p o r o z h e t z , Chair of Information Services, Bowl­
ing Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 
43403 (173); Emily Fabiano, Reference Libra­
rian/Education Specialist, Rutgers University, 
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (159).

Law  and Political Science Section
C hair: N a t a l i e  S c h a t z , D irector, Fletcher 

School of Law and Diplomacy Library, Tufts Uni­
versity, Medford, MA 02155 (147); write-in (1).

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: St e p h e n  E . A t k i n s , 
Political Science Subject Specialist, University of 
Illinois, Urbana, IL  61801 (87); Marta Lange, 
Head of Reference, North Carolina State Univer­
sity, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 (70).

Member-at-Large: V iv ia n  L. C a m p b e l l , Assis­
tant Law Librarian for Collection Development, 
Georgetown University Law Library, Washing­
ton, DC 20001 (89); Barbara A. Burg, Reference 
Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA 02138 (69).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

V ice -C h a ir/C h a ir-E le ct: P e t e r  M . V an 
W i n g e n , Head, Reference and Reader Services 
Section, Rare Book and Special Collections, L i­
brary of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 (292); 
Sally Sparks Leach, Assistant to the D irector, 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Uni­
versity of Texas, Austin, TX 78713 (173).

Member-at-Large (three-year term): R o sem a r y 
L . C u l l e n , Curator of the Harris Collection, 
Brown University, Providence, R I 01912 (309); Joe 
A. Springer, Curator, Mennonite Historical L i­
brary, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 46526 (135).



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Science and Technology Section

V ice-Chair/Chair-Elect: M a r t in  K e s s e l m a n , 
Information Services Librarian, Library of Science
and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
08855 (224); Lois M. Pausch, Assistant Mathemat­
ics Librarian, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
61801 (199).

Secretary: B e v e r l e e  F r e n c h , Head, Science
and Engineering Library, University of Califor­
nia, San Diego, L a Jolla, CA 92093 (243); Donald
G. Frank, Head, Science-Engineering Library, 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (172).

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: St e p h e n  D . C o r r s in , 
Deputy Associate Librarian for Technical Services, 
Brooklyn C ollege, Brooklyn, NY 11210 (3 1 ); 
Viveca Seymour, Serials Cataloger, Stanford Uni­
versity, Stanford, CA 94305 (29).

M e m b e r - a t - L a r g e :  M a r ie  B e d n a r , Head of Bib­
liographic Support Services, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 18602 (20); Rich­
ard L. Kort, Slavic Cataloger, Boston Public L i­
brary, Boston, MA 02117 (11); N atalia B. Be-
zugloff, Foreign Literature Departm ent Head, 
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH 44114-
1271 (15); David J. Norden, Library D irector, 
Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA
23943 (13); Cecelia L. Shores, Head, Acquisitions
Department, Center for Research Libraries, Chi­
cago, IL  60637 (3).

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: M a x i n e  H. R e n e k e r , 
Associate University Librarian for Public Services, 
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 (859); 
Jordan M. Scepanski, Director, University Library
and Learning Resources, California State Univer­
sity, Long Beach, CA 90840 (794).

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Secretary: P a u l a  D . W a t s o n , Assistant Director 
of General Services, University of Illinois, Urbana, 
IL  61801 (848); Nancy L. Baker, Associate Direc­
tor for Public Services, University of Washington, 
Seattle, WA 98195 (753).

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: M a r t h a  L . B r o g a n , 
Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Af­
fairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 
55455 (114); David J. Cooper, Humanities Bibliog­
rapher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 
21 2 1 8 (6 8 ).

Secretary: C e r e s  B . B i r k h e a d , Assistant Head, 
Serials Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake 
City, UT 84112 (110); Leona L. Wise, German 
Bibliographer, University of Southern California, 
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (62).

Member-at-Large: Su s a n n e  F .  R o b e r t s , Hu­
manities Bibliographer, Yale University, New Ha­
ven, C T  06520 (110); Robert G. Sewell, Coordina­
tor of Collection Management and Development, 
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 
11794-3300 (70).

Women’s Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Sa r a h  M. P r i t c h a r d , 
General Reading Rooms Division, Library of Con­
gress, Washington, DC 20540 (150); write-in (4).

Recorder: D e b  B i g g s , Reference/Instruction L i­
brarian, Undergraduate Library, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1185 (105); Ju ­
dith Hudson, Head, Cataloging Department, State 
University of New York, Albany, NY 12222 (52).

M e m b e r - a t - L a r g e : M o l l y  M a h o n y , Reference 
Librarian, Keene State College, Keene, NH 03431 
(113); Suzy Margot Slavin, Head, Reference D e­
partment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada H3A1Y1 (39).

The International Association for Social Science Informa­
tion Service and Technology (IASSIST)

B y  D ia n e  G e r a c i

Social Science Bibliographer 
State University of New York at Binghamton

The International Association for Social Science 
Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) is 
an organization which brings together administra­
tors, computer programmers, data archivists, li­
brarians, and researchers interested in quantitative 
analysis. IASSIST members facilitate access to so­

cial science machine-readable data files (MRDFs) 
as well as promote commitment to the preservation 
and administration of these resources.

IASSIST was formed in 1974 following the cessa­
tion of National Science Foundation funding for 
the Council of Social Science Data Archives and