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Personnel
A P P O I N T M E N T S

Mrs. H ilda Bohem has joined the staff of 
the department of special collections, Univer­
sity of California, Los Angeles, as rare map, 
ephemera, and graphic arts librarian.

Mrs. Nancy Boles has been appointed cu­
rator of manuscripts of the Maryland Historical 
Society, Baltimore.

Howard D illon has accepted the position 
of director of university libraries, Sangamon 
State University, Springfield, Illinois.

Hendrik Edelman has received appoint­
ment as assistant director of university libraries 
for the development of the collections, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, New York.

Norms Felland was appointed librarian 
emeritus for the American Geographical So­
ciety library, New York City.

Lon-fen H ou has assumed the duties of 
reference librarian at North Carolina Wesleyan 
College in Rocky Mount.

Mon-Hua Kuo has assumed the position of 
serials cataloger with the Drexel University li­
braries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Leroy L. Langley is the new associate 
director for extramural programs at the Na­
tional Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Mary­
land.

Margaret M. Mattern has been named 
head of the reference department, University 
of Rochester, New York.

Lynn S. Mullins is the newly appointed li­
brarian of the American Geographical Society 
library, New York City.

Carl F. Oldsen has joined the staff of the 
ERIC Clearinghouse for Exceptional Children 
as assistant director responsible for informa­
tion systems.

Carl F. Orgren has accepted the position 
of assistant professor in the school of library 
science, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Margaret Otto has been promoted to as­
sistant director for reader services for the li­
braries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge.

Kenneth W. Paull is now acting as co­
ordinator of library systems for the Evergreen 
State College, Olympia, Washington.

Robert V. Pezdek is now librarian of the 
New York State School of Industrial and La­
bor Relations at Cornell University, Ithaca, 
New York.

Henry Bradford Smith is now assistant 
head of the reference department at the Uni­
versity of Rochester, New York.

Samuel Yee Sung is the newly appointed

assistant professor and cataloger at Mississippi 
State University at State College.

Richard W. Vierich is now head of science 
processing, science libraries. University of 
California, Riverside.

Sukmoon Yoon has been named assistant 
librarian in the serials, microforms, reclassifica­
tion section of the catalog department at Penn­
sylvania State University, University Park.

N E C R O L O G Y

Wharton Miller, formerly Dean of the 
School of Library Science and Director of Li­
braries at Syracuse University, died suddenly 
on March 6, 1970, at the age of 80. Mr. Miller 
retired in 1955 and had been living in De 
Bary, Florida, since 1959.

R E T IR E M E N T S

The retirement of Ralph W. McComb, ef­
fective April 30, 1970, has been announced by 
W. Carl Jackson, director of libraries at Penn­
sylvania State University. Mr. McComb, now 
University Librarian for Resource Development, 
has served the university for twenty-three 
years and the library profession for more than 
forty years. He will retire with the rank of li­
brarian emeritus, the first librarian to receive 
this honor at Penn State.

Long active in library professional organiza­
tions, McComb was president of the Penn­
sylvania Library Association, a member of its 
executive board, and of various committees. 
In October, 1967, PLA honored him with 
their Award of Merit for his “important and 
conspicuous contributions to the development 
and improvement of library service in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” McComb 
has also been an active member of the Ameri­
can Library Association as a member of the 
Council and several of its committees, includ­
ing the Steering Committee of the Association 
of College and Research Libraries, University 
Libraries Section.

E llen Shaffer, head of the rare book de­
partment of The Free Library of Philadelphia, 
is retiring from her post after sixteen years of 
service to become curator of the newly estab­
lished Silverado Museum, in St. Helena, Cali­
fornia.

Announcement of this appointment was 
made Monday, April 20, by Norman H. 
Strouse, chairman of the Vailima Foundation, 
which has sponsored the new museum devoted



to the life and works of Robert Louis Steven­
son. Miss Shaffer will assume her new post on 
August 1.

A native of Leadville, Colorado, where she 
first discovered the fascination of old books 
while working in the public library during her 
high school days, Ellen Shaffer has long been 
a rare book enthusiast. Although she organized 
an elementary school library system in Ana­
heim, California, and worked briefly for the 
Los Angeles County Library, her interest had 
always been in the antiquarian book field. She 
went to work with Dawson’s Book Shop of Los 
Angeles, largest antiquarian book firm west of 
the Mississippi, and for twenty years headed 
their department of manuscripts and first edi­
tions, where her work included buying, sell­
ing, appraising, issuing catalogs, and making 
occasional buying trips to Europe. ■ ■

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POSITIONS W A N TE D

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LIBRARIAN, 32, M.A. in L.S., seeks position 
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Administration

HEAD CATALOGER. Position open July 1970. 
MLS degree and experience with L.C. Classi­
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depending on qualifications. Georgia Retire­
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month vacation. Submit resume, transcripts, 
and letters from three professional references to 
Mrs. Regina M. Yoast, Director, Armstrong