ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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People

PROFILES

Lt. Col. Benjamin C. Glidden, United 
States Air Force, has been appointed as direc­
tor of the U.S. Air Force Academy Library 

System. He succeeds 
Lt. Col. Claude J. 
Johns, Jr., director of 
the library from 1968 
to 1976. Col. Johns is 
now director of librar­
ies at the University 
of Northern Colorado, 
Greeley.

Lt. Col. Glidden is 
a graduate of the 
U.S. Military Acad­
emy (West Point). 
He was commissioned 

Beniamin C. Glidden in the U.S. Air 
Force upon gradua­

tion. From 1962 to 1966 he served as a navi­
gator aboard C-130 aircraft in Panama, Spain, 
Okinawa, Thailand, and Vietnam. In 1966 he 
entered Harvard University in an Air-Force- 
sponsored educational program and departed 
in 1968 with a master’s degree in public ad­
ministration from the John F. Kennedy School 
of Government. He was appointed assistant 
professor of political science at the Academy 
in 1968. In 1969 he became assistant director 
for technical services of the Academy library 
and continued to teach political science courses 
in the area of domestic politics. From 1971 to 
1974 he studied at the University of Pittsburgh 
and completed a Ph.D. in public administra­
tion with a dissertation analyzing Air Force 
graduate education policy. He returned to the 
USAF Academy Library in 1974 as assistant di­
rector of technical services, where he served un­
til his appointment as director in November
1976.

The USAF Academy Library lias holdings 
of more than 428,000 volume equivalents, care­
fully selected to support the academic curricu­
lum which requires a broad education in both 
basic and engineering sciences and social sci­
ences and humanities.

The library also maintains an archive for all 
Academy publications, as well as items of his­
torical aeronautical interest. The library houses 
the Colonel Richard Gimbel Aeronautical Li­
brary, a distinguished research collection of 
20,000 items recording man’s dreams and ex­
periences of flying from the 1400s to the pres­
ent. The library preserves and exhibits 5,000 
prints on the subject of flying and falconry.

Lt. Col. Glidden has been awarded several

Air Force awards and decorations and is a 
member of professional organizations including 
the Colorado Library Association, Special Li­
brary Association, and American Society of 
Public Administration.

John Aubry has accepted the position of di­
rector of the Michigan Library Consortium. He 
began his new responsibilities on March 15.

Since 1973 Mr. Aubry has been coordinator 
of library systems for the Five Associated Uni­
versity Libraries: Cornell, Rochester, SUNY/ 
Binghamton, SUNY/Buffalo, and Syracuse. 
During his association with these institutions, 
the FAUL consortium began implementation 
of on-line bibliographic cataloging services 
through the Ohio College Library Center, par­
ticipated in the Conversion of Serials project 
through Cornell University, obtained access to 
the Northeast Academic Science Information 
Center, became a consortium member of the 
Center for Research Libraries, and shared in 
the founding of the Council for Computerized 
Library Networks. In addition to providing 
leadership in these advances, Mr. Aubry pre­
pared a document on the joint measurement of 
shelflists for the FAUL consortium, organized 
numerous seminars and workshops in support 
of network services, and facilitated the ex­
change of planning, staffing, and work-flow in­
formation among the five campuses.

Prior to his association with the FAUL con­
sortium, Mr. Aubry served as assistant to the 
director of the Center for Research Libraries 
(1972-73). Earlier in his career, he served as 
chairman of the mathematics department 
(1962-68) and as a mathematics teacher 
(1960-62) in private schools in Indianapolis 
and Akron, respectively. Mr. Aubry is a Ph.D. 
candidate in the Graduate Library School of 
the University of Chicago, where he received 
his MA in 1971. He had previously received an 
MS in mathematics (1967) and a BA in social 
studies and mathematics (1960) from the Uni­
versity of Notre Dame. He has written reviews 
for College and Research Libraries and the Li­
brary Quarterly. His publications include 
Guidelines for Evolving a Governance Struc­
ture for a Northern Regional Library System, 
University of California (1975), with Ruth J. 
Patrick. Mr. Aubry is a member of the Amer­
ican Library Association and the American So­
ciety for Information Science.

Mr. Aubry is married to Ruth J. Patrick who 
is well known in library circles for her work in 
both networking and continuing education. 
They have one child, Ryan, who is six months 
old.



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Philip C. Wei has been appointed to the 
position of college librarian at Carleton College 
in Northfield, Minnesota. Mr. Wei began his li­
brary career in 1968 as technical services li­
brarian at Centre College of Kentucky. Two 
years later he moved to the College of Wooster 
Library, where he was assistant librarian for 
technical services. From 1973 to 1976 he was 
director of the library at Mary Baldwin Col­
lege.

Mr. Wei received his Bachelor of Arts degree 
from Macalester College. He has associated his 
recent move to Minnesota as returning “home.” 
While working on a master’s degree in Chinese 
Studies at the University of Michigan, he was 
employed as the area supervisor at the univer­
sity’s Undergraduate Library. In 1968 he was 
awarded the MALS by the University of Mich­
igan.

He sees the Carleton College Library as en­
tering into a period of much excitement, with 
a potential of becoming a truly distinguished 
library. There are possibilities of physical ex­
pansion; experimentation with new develop­
ments in library services; and increasing 
cooperation with St. Olaf College’s Library, a 
near neighbor in Northfield, and other academ­
ic libraries in Minnesota.

He was assistant editor of Bell and Howell’s 
Black Culture Collection and served on OCLC’s 
advisory committees on cataloging, serials, and 
acquisitions subsystems while in Ohio. He was 
secretary of the executive council, Division of 
Research and Planning, Ohio Library Associa­
tion, and Minnesota representative of the Asian 
American Library Caucus of ALA. He attend­
ed the 1974 Library Administrator Develop­
ment Program and 1975 Ethnicity and 
Librarianship Institute.

Presently Mr. Wei holds membership in ALA 
(ACRL) and ASIS and the Minnesota Library 
Association.

APPOINTMENTS

Toni Lee Alello—assistant undergraduate 
services librarian—Northwestern Universi­
ty, Evanston, Illinois.

Wayne Bell—assistant dean of library ser­
vices—Hofstra University, Hempstead, New 
York.

June E. Brown—head librarian—Alfred 
University, Alfred, New York.

Joan Caraher—cataloger, Capitol Campus 
—Pennsylvania State University, Middle- 
town.

Stephen Colston—librarian archivist, San



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Diego History Research Center— San Diego 
State University, California.

Rosemary Cooper—assistant reference li­
brarian, Lincoln Park Campus Library—De 
Paul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Sam D ove—reference librarian-bibliographer 
—Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah.

Kenneth W. Hedman—assistant director of 
libraries—W estern Illinois University, Ma­
comb.

D avid Heisser—assistant reference librarian 
—State University of New York at Stony 
Brook.

C. David Hickey—assistant circulation ser­
vices librarian— Northwestern University, 
Evanston, Illinois.

Paul Hinsenkamp—reference librarian-bib­
liographer—Ramapo College of New Jersey, 
Mahwah.

Eileen R. Holmer—librarian, Quad Cities 
Continuing Education Center, East Moline— 
Western Illinois University, Macomb.

Judith Kaufman—music librarian—State 
University of New York at Stony Brook.

Robert W. Klapthor—physical sciences li­
brarian, University Libraries branch—Western 
Illinois University, Macomb.

D eanna Marcum—training program co­
ordinator—Association of Research Librar­
ies, Washington, D.C.

Madelyn Massey—reference librarian, Cap­
itol Campus—Pennsylvania State Universi­
ty, Middletown.

Margaret E. Michaud—cataloger, School 
of Education Library—Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Constance Suk-Yin Ng—acquisitions librar­
ian—University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 
Canada.

Jean Clarridge Pelletiere—head of pub­
lic services and assistant professor of libraries 
and learning resources—University of W is­
consin, Oshkosh.

Steve Pickett—library director—Dharma 
Realm University, Talmage, California.

Alice E. Roberts—cataloger—Daniel
Payne College, Birmingham, Alabama.

Natalie W. Schatz—chief documents li­
brarian, Harvard College Library, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lynn Siegelman—curatorial associate, 
Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maxine Sitts—SPEC coordinator—Asso­
ciation of Research Libraries, Washington, 
D.C.

Susan Weiss—head reference librarian— 
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Nancy R. Whitman—assistant science li­
brarian for the Department of Transportation 
—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge.

Allie D. Wise—music librarian, University

Libraries branch—W estern Illinois Univer­
sity, Macomb.

Veronica Yuen—assistant reference librar­
ian—State University of New York at 
Stony Brook.

RETIREMENTS

Irene Kanasi, senior assistant librarian in 
the catalog department, retired on April 1 af­
ter seventeen and one-half years of service at 
California State University, Long Beach.

Nicholas G. Stevens, professor and director 
of library science, Kutztown State College, 
Pennsylvania, is retiring effective September 1.

Robert L. Talmadce, director of technical 
services, University of Illinois Library at 
Urbana-Champaign, will retire August 31 af­
ter thirty-one years of library service.

DEATHS

Robert Eugene McGuire, library director 
at College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, 
died on February 18.

Oscar A. Silverman, professor emeritus of 
English and director emeritus of libraries at the 
State University of New York at Buffalo, 
died on March 25. Dr. Silverman was director 
of university libraries from 1960 to 1968. ■■