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Twenty-Six CLR Fellows Will Undertake Varied 
Projects in 1 9 7 5 -7 6  as Members of Council’s

Seventh Class

The Council on Library Resources (C L R ) 
Fellowship Committee has selected twenty-six 
librarians and other professionals working di­
rectly with libraries as members of the seventh 
class of CLR fellows.

Commencing in the fall of 1975, the new 
CLR fellows will launch three- to nine-month, 
self-developed study or research projects in 
areas ranging from computer-based reference 
service in academic libraries to the administra­
tion of rare book and special collections depart­
ments in large public university libraries. Other 
representative project areas include church li­
braries, nineteenth-century American architec­
tural periodicals, academic libraries’ middle 
management, nonsexist subject headings, cen­
sorship of nonbook media in public libraries, 
and external degree programs.

There exists an equally wide range in titles 
and responsibilities among the twenty-six new 
CLR fellows. In addition to librarians of varied 
responsibilities from colleges and universities, 
there are others serving special, public, and 
military libraries and a professional staff mem­
ber of the American Library Association.

In making the twenty-six new awards at an 
estimated cost of $80,000, the council raises to 
165 the number of CLR fellows announced 
since the program was begun six years ago. In­
cluding commitments to the seventh class of 
CLR fellows, the council has authorized in ex­
cess of a half million dollars for the program.

As in previous years, CLR fellows will re­
ceive funds for approved travel, supplies, and 
services from the council and an appropriate 
leave of absence from their employers to carry 
out their projects.

Applications for the fellowships were first re­
viewed by a screening committee of eight emi­
nent librarians— Mary E. Coming, assistant di­
rector, International Programs, the U.S. Depart­
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare; Eliza­
beth Hage, director, Prince George’s ( M d .) 
County Memorial Library System; Roy Land, 
director of circulation services, the University 
of Virginia; John Lorenz, acting Librarian of 
Congress; A. P. Marshall, dean of academic 
services, Eastern Michigan University; Stephen 
McCarthy, retired executive head of the Asso­
ciation of Research Libraries, Annapolis, Md.; 
Carlton Rochell, director, Atlanta Public L i­
brary; and Esther Walls, director of the library, 
State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Final selections were made by the council’s

Fellowship Committee: Louis B. Wright, vice- 
chairman of the C LR  Board of Directors and 
director emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare L i­
brary, chairman; William S. Dix, librarian of 
Princeton University; Robert Vosper, professor 
of library science, University of California at 
Los Angeles; and, ex-officio: Fred C. Cole, 
president; Foster E . Mohrhardt, senior program 
officer; and Edith M. Lesser, secretary and 
treasurer, all of CLR.

The Council on Library Resources, Inc., is 
a private operating foundation which, through 
directly administered programs as well as 
grants to and contracts with other organiza­
tions, seeks to aid in the solution of problems 
of libraries generally and of academic and re­
search libraries in particular. The council was 
established in 1956 with support from the Ford 
Foundation from which it continues to derive 
its funding.

The twenty-six recipients of Council on L i­
brary Resources fellowships for the academic 
year 1975-76 and their projects are as follows:

Ju d ith  Armstrong, director of the library, 
Drury College (M o .). Survey of attitudes, em­
ployment practices, and the progress of affirma­
tive action programs for women in libraries.

Pauline Atherton, professor, School of Infor­
mation Studies, Syracuse University. A survey 
of the real and potential impact of computer- 
based reference service in academic libraries.

M artha J. Bailey, physics librarian, Purdue 
University. A study of the position of the mid­
dle manager in the academic library organiza­
tion.

B oyd M. Bolvin, associate dean of instruc­
tion, Bellevue Community College (W ash.). 
An examination of external degree programs in 
higher education in the U.S.

K eith M. Cottam , assistant director of the 
Undergraduate Library, University of Tennes­
see at Knoxville. A study of the issues involved 
in the utilization of specialists in large academic 
libraries with emphasis on technical specialists.

D oris C. D ale, associate professor, Depart­
ment of Instructional Materials, Southern Illi­
nois University at Carbondale. To gather data 
and information about community college li­
braries for a book on current trends and prac­
tices and to enrich her background for courses 
taught in this area.

Lynn C. Dennison, professional assistant, 
Association of College and Research Libraries, 
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gather information on organizational patterns 
in library and media services in community 
and junior college libraries and to evaluate 
these patterns in terms of their usefulness in 
meeting information needs of users.

B arbara L . F eret, director of the library, Cu­
linary Institute of America, Hyde Park, N.Y. To 
survey, identify, and analyze strengths of im­
portant historically oriented collections on gas­
tronomy and cookery.

T helm a F reides, associate professor, School 
of Library Service, Atlanta University. Prep­
aration of a bibliographic guide to the reports 
which officials of the federal government are 
required to submit to Congress.

W olfgan g M. Freitag, fine arts librarian, Har­
vard College Library, Harvard University. To 
complete work on and prepare for publication 
a manuscript of about 150 printed pages for 
“Sources of Information in the Humanities.”

Ja n e  C. Henning, head, Howe Architecture 
Library, Arizona State University at Tempe. A 
study of libraries associated with schools of 
architecture in the United States.

Ju dith H olliday, librarian, Fine Arts Library, 
Cornell University. To complete a holdings list 
of the nineteenth-century American architectur­
al periodicals.

R ichard G. London , assistant head, Thomas 
Fisher Rare Book Library, University of To­
ronto. A study of the administration of rare 
book and special collections departments in 
large public university libraries.

Alan H. M acD onald, health sciences librari­
an, Dalhousie University (Halifax, N .S.). To 
study the various organizational models which 
universities have adopted to accommodate the 
“special” circumstances of professional school 
libraries.

Ja m es W . M cGregor, head of the library’s 
technical services, Northeastern Illinois Uni­
versity. To study staffing for serials processing 
in large university libraries.

Joan  K. Marshall, chief of the library’s Cata­
log Division, Brooklyn College. The construc­
tion of a thesaurus of nonsexist subject head­
ings.

Ann F. Painter, professor, Graduate School 
of Library Science, Drexel University. To de­
termine the functions of traditional library clas­
sifications in research libraries in the United 
States.

Jam es F . Parks, Jr., head librarian, Millsaps 
College (M iss.). To carry out an internship at 
the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Steph en  L . Peterson, divinity school librari­
an, Yale University. To do basic research for 
a bibliographic guide to Protestant missions.

E u gen e E. Petriwsky, assistant director for 
the libraries’ technical services, University of 
Colorado. To study the effect of proposed 
changes in the eighth edition of the L ibrary o f

C ongress List o f Subject H eadings on medium­
sized academic libraries.

H an nelore B. R ader, orientation librarian, 
Eastern Michigan University. To study ten suc­
cessful library instruction programs in academic 
libraries and summarize findings in the form of 
a guide.

D onald L . R oberts, audiovisual librarian, 
Hennepin County Library, Edina, Minn. To 
examine past and present censorship of non­
book media in public libraries.

E arl R. Schwass, library director, Naval War 
College (Newport, R .I .). To study user educa­
tion programs of senior military and graduate 
school libraries with particular reference to the 
needs of midcareer military officers.

Patricia H. Shoyinka, cataloger, Ibadan Uni­
versity Library, Ibadan, Nigeria. To study the 
use of MARC records for catalog production in 
selected North American libraries in order to 
determine basic criteria for the use of MARC 
records in Nigeria.

M ildred C. Tietjen, director of library ser­
vices, Georgia Southwestern College. To com­
pare and evaluate instructional programs at 
ALA-accredited graduate library schools.

Jo y c e  L . W hite, librarian, Penniman Library 
of Education, University of Pennsylvania. To 
organize available information on church li­
braries in order to produce a reference tool on 
church libraries. ■ ■

Oboler Plans A(nother) New 
Library for Idaho State

A new library building for Idaho State 
University (Pocatello, Idaho), to include
160,000 square feet, and to cost 
$7,200,000 with furnishings and land­
scaping, will be built at the center of the 
campus, beginning in the summer of 
1975. The Idaho legislature added 
$3,300,000 to the $2.5 million appropri­
ated in 1974, and, according to Univer­
sity Librarian E li M. Oboler, the 
$5,800,000 will suffice to build the basic 
building, with the fourth floor left un­
finished— to be funded within the con­
struction period, it is hoped.

Mr. Oboler is in the unusual, if not 
unique, position of having planned two 
complete academic library buildings on 
the same campus, a generation apart. 
The first building, 77,000 square feet, 
was built and furnished for $750,000 in 
1953-54. The new building will also in­
clude the audiovisual facilities for the 
university.