ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


and his MLS from Catholic University in 1984. 
King’s career at UM began in 1985 w hen he 
joined the staff as an associate librarian in ref­
erence. Before that he served as an adjunct lec­
turer at Catholic University while serving there 
as information specialist, library operations 
manager, and then project specialist for the 
National Rehabilitation Information Center from 
1982 to 1985. From 1975 to 1981 King was a 
speech and language clinician for the Baltimore 
City Public Schools. King was a member of ALA 
and its Black Caucus, the DC Library Associa­
tion, and the Association of Specialized and Co­
operative Library Agencies.

Myra Jo M oon, preservation librarian at Colo­
rado State University Libraries, died after a brief 
illness on March 15. Moon joined the libraries 
in 1965 first as assistant
catalog librarian, then as 
h ea d  o f the P repara­
tions Department. She 
took on her most recent 
position in 1982. Moon 
was an active workshop 
presenter and consult­
a n t o n  p r e s e rv a tio n  
problems in Colorado.
A founding member of 
the Colorado Center for 

Myra Jo Moon
the Book, the Colorado 
Preservation Alliance,
and the Colorado Library Association Preserva­
tion Roundtable, she was currently the project 
director of an LSCA grant for a state preserva­

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tion action plan. Nationally, she was a member 
of the ALA PLMS Library Binding Institutes Plan­
ning Committee.

H elen  S. Olney, former librarian at the School 
of Public Health, Harvard University, died Janu­
ary 14. She worked at Harvard from 1935 until 
her retirement in 1970.

D onald Charles Y elton died February 23 in 
Warwick, Rhode Island, at the age of 75. He 
had a long library career serving as head li­
brarian at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, from 
1952-1965; head librarian at New York State 
College at Buffalo (1965-1967); and director of 
libraries at the State University of New York at 
Potsdam (1967-1972). Yelton graduated from 
H am ilton College in 1935 an d  received a 
master’s degree from Georgetown University 
in 1950. He also received an MLS from Colum­
bia University in 1950 and was awarded his 
Ph.D. there in 1962. The author o f B rief Am eri­
can Lives: Four Studies in Collective Biography 
(Scarecrow Press, 1978), Yelton had recently 
been active in the affairs of the Westerly Public 
Library in Westerly, Rhode Island. ■

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