ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 240 Museums for its work in 1981. Specifically cited was the archive s role in supplying compiled tapes of news broadcasts to the U.S. State D e­ partment for the reorientation of the hostages held in Iran from November 1979 to January 1981. The material was viewed by the hostages in West Germany following their release. During the winter and spring of 1982 the news archive has been regularly given screen acknow­ ledgment for its services in the preparation of In­ side Story, a weekly PBS series which critiques news reporting. People PROFILES B r ia n A l l e y has been named university librar­ ian and associate dean of instructional services at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois, effective July 1. Alley has been assistant direc­ tor of libraries at Miami University, Ohio, since 1969. Prior to that he was undergraduate li­ brarian at Miami (1968-1969), reference librarian and then act­ ing director at Elmira C ollege (1 9 6 6 -1 9 6 8 ), and assistant humanities librarian at Portland State U niversity Brian Alley (1963-1965). A native of M aine, Alley received his bachelor’s degree in art from Colby College and his MLS from Florida State University. Throughout his career Alley has been active in professional organizations, p articip atin g in Library/USA at the New York World’s Fair in 1965, serving as chair of the College Center of the Finger Lakes Library Committee in New York, and as a member of several ALA commit­ tees. From 1972 to 1981 he edited and published the I ULC Technical Services N ew sletter, an Ohio quarterly newsletter with a national following. Alley is currently serving as an intern on the ACRL Publications Committee. Alley is co-author of P ractical A pproval Plan M anagement (1979) and Keeping Track o f W hat You Spend (1982). He has had articles published in L ib r a r y A cqu isition s: P ra ctice a n d T h eo ry , Am erican School and University‚ Serials Review, and Technicalities. He is currently co-editor of Technicalities. E . D a l e C l u f f has been appointed director of 241 library services at Texas Tech University, Lub­ bock, effective September 1. Cluff leaves his pos­ ition at Southern Illi­ nois U niversity, C ar­ bondale, where he has been director of library services since 1980. Prior to his coming to Carbondale, Cluff held several positions at the University of Utah L i­ braries, including as­ sistant director of librar­ ies for information and instructional services (1976-1979) and head of E . Dale C lu ff the Library Media Ser­ vices D ep artm ent (1973-1976). He was also administrative editor of Utah’s Solid Rocket Structural Integrity Abstracts in 1968-1970 and head of the Solid Rocket Struc­ tural Integrity Information Center at the same in­ stitution in 1966-1967. Cluff obtained his MLS at the University of Washington in 1968 and a Ph.D. in educational administration at the University of Utah in 1976. At Southern Illinois he has been active in the Il­ linois Serial Union List Project Advisory Board and the Illinois Library Computer System Or­ ganization Policy Council. He is currently serving as chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Ser­ vices Division’s International Relations Committee, Exchange P rogram Two more institutions abroad have shown an interest in participating in the ACRL Ex­ change Librarian Program (see C&RL News, June 1982, p. 205, for further information). Libraries or librarians interested in participat­ ing in an exchange should contact the foreign institutions directly. B.L. Pearce, College Librarian, Richmond upon Thames College, Egerton Road, Twic­ kenham, England TW2 7SJ: A “tertiary” col­ lege serving 16—19-year-olds with both voca­ tional and academic courses. “We cannot offer a salary but we can provide opportunity for experience plus a programme of tutorial ex­ perience.” Monica M. Humphries, Deputy Librarian, King’s College London, Strand, London, En­ gland WC2R 2LS: “I would be glad to wel­ come any foreign non-salaried visitor, indeed anyone who would not require any remunera­ tion, for a temporary period.” and has been active in other RTSD commit­ tees. C lu f f s publications include a text on M i­ croform s, published by Educational Technology Publications in 1979, and several articles in Li­ brary Resources and Technical Services. At Texas Tech Cluff will be responsible for the administration and overall operation of library af­ fairs, including library services, special collec­ tions, and learning resources service. D a v i d A. K e a r l e y has been appointed director of lib ra rie s at the U niversity of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, effective July 1. Kearley has been director of the Vanderbilt University Education Library since 1979. Prior to that he was director of the Pea­ body D ivision of the Joint University Librar­ ies on the campus of G eorge Peabody C ol­ leg e, N ashville, from 1973 to 1979, and head of the Graduate Library of the U niversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in David A . Kearley 1970-1973. Kearley has obtained a master’s degree in history from the University of Alabama (1956), a master’s of divinity from the General Theological Seminary, New York (1958), and an MLS from Peabody College (1969). Since 1973 he has been assisting priest at an Episcopal church in Franklin, Tennessee. He has been second vice-president and pro­ gram chair of the Tennessee Library Association, and a member of the Libraries Committee of the Alabama Consortium for the Development of Higher Education. M a r y D a l e P a l s s o n has been named director of libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, effective July 1. She comes to Nevada from the University of Arizona where she has served as assistant li­ brarian for public ser­ vices since 1975. She also held the positions of documents reference librarian and head documents librarian at Arizona, and in 19 6 6- 1969 she was docu­ ments reference librar­ ian at the University of British Columbia. Mary Dale Palsson Palsson has an MLS from the University of Denver and a master’s in history from the University 242 of Arizona. At Arizona she was active in the Arizona Newspaper Preservation Project and in promoting an Arizona Interlibrary Loan Cen­ ter. During her eleven-year stay at the University of Arizona she served on various committees to plan a new main library, establish a computer- assisted reference service, and plan a media cen­ ter. APPOINTMENTS A n n e A n n i n g e r is the new librarian for special collections at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. P e g e e B a s s e t t joined the Northwestern Uni­ versity Law Library, Chicago, as documents li­ brarian. T e r r y B e c k w i t h is now associate librarian at Washington and Lee University Law Library, Lexington, Virginia. P a u l a B e n s o n has been appointed reference librarian at the University of South Carolina Law Library, Columbia. J u d i t h B i l o d e a u has been appointed college librarian at the Bangor Community College, Uni­ versity of Maine at Orono. S h a r o n R a y B l a c k b u r n is now assistant librar­ ian at Texas Tech University School of Law Li­ brary, Lubbock. P ia C h r i s t e n s e n is now education reference li­ brarian in the Social Sciences Division of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. E v e l y n W a l k e r C i l v e t t i has been promoted to rare books librarian at the U niversity of Rochester, New York. A n n e C l e m e n s is the new public services li­ brarian at Boston College Law School Library. L e n o r e F . C o r a l has been appointed music librarian at Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York. O l Ha d e l l a C ava is the new librarian of the School of Library Service Library, Columbia University, New York. S u s a n B . E n g l i s h was appointed law library director and assistant professor of law at the Uni­ versity of Richmond, Virginia. C h a r l i n g C h a n g F a g a n has been appointed head of access services in the Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries New York. J u d i t h M . F o u s t has been promoted to the position of director of the Library Development Division of the State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. D o r o t h y - E l l e n G r o s s is the new director of North Park College Library, Chicago. P a t r i c i a H a r r i s has been appointed head of public services at Nova Law Library, F o rt Lauderdale. M a d e l i n e H e b e r t is now reference librarian at the University of Chicago Law Library. T o b y H e i d t m a n is now head of conservation and binding at the University of Cincinnati Li­ braries. T h e r e s a I v e r s o n has been appointed govern­ ment publications reference librarian at the Uni­ versity of British Columbia, Vancouver. B a r b a r a M . I v e y has been appointed post li­ brarian of the U.S. Army Library, Carl Schurz Kaserne, Bremerhaven, West Germany. F r a n c e s F . J a c o b s o n has been appointed reference/interlibrary loan librarian at the Savage L ibrary, W estern State C ollege, G unnison, Colorado. J o s e p h A . J e z u k e w i c z is the new assistant di­ rector for administrative services at Stanford Uni­ versity Libraries, California. L i n d a J o e is now reference librarian at the Sedgewick Undergraduate Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. C a r o l i n e M . K e n t has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the Cabot Science Library, Har­ vard University. L a w r e n c e E . L e o n a r d has been named li­ brary director of the U.S. Transportation D e­ partment Library, Washington, D.C. M a r i o n H o l e n a L e v i n e has been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Connecti­ cut Health Center Library, Farmington. L e s l i e A nn M a n n i n g has been named associate dean for technical services and automation at Kansas State University Library, Manhattan. P a t r i c i a M a u g h a n is the new head of the En­ gineerin g L ibrary, U niversity of C alifornia, Berkeley. B e t h M o b l e y has been appointed assistant li­ brarian for technical services at the University of Bridgeport Law School, Connecticut. N i c k O m e l u s i k will assume the position of head of the Catalogue Products Division at the University of British Columbia on September 1. D i a n e N i x o n has been appointed serials librar­ ian at the University of California Library, Santa Barbara. J a m e s E . O ’ D o n n e l l is the new reference/ bibliographer for the sciences at Trinity Univer­ sity, San Antonio. V i r g i n i a H . P a r r has assumed the position of head of reference/bibliographic services in the Central Library of the University of Cincinnati. C h a r l e s P o p o v i c h has been appointed director of the Undergraduate Library at the State Uni­ versity of New York at Buffalo. J a m e s R e a r d o n -A n d e r s o n has been appointed East Asian librarian at Columbia University, ef­ fective January 1, 1983. G r a c e B . R e e d was named executive officer of the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, effective March 22. P h y l l i s R e e v e is the new acquisitions/ prebindery librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. M u r i e l R e g a n , form erly librarian for the 243 Rockefeller Foundation, has joined the library services firm of Gossage Regan Associates, New York. D o r o t h y R u s s e l l has been appointed associate director of PALINET, Philadelphia. A nn C. Sc h a f f n e r has been appointed coor­ dinator of the Boston Library Consortium. L a u r i S e b o has joined the Stanford University Government Documents Department as technical services coordinator and state and local document bibliographer. L e i S e e g e r has been appointed associate librar­ ian at the University of Puget Sound Law Li­ brary, Tacoma, Washington. J a n e t T r a c y is the new head of public services at Columbia University Law School Library. M a r y E. Van W i n k l e has been appointed as­ sistant curator of archives and manuscripts at the Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard. K i r s t e n W a l s h has been appointed music ref­ erence librarian at the University of British Co­ lumbia, Vancouver. J a n e t W e i r has been appointed assistant librar­ ian at the University of Wyoming Law Libraiy, Laramie. L e n o r e W i l k a s has been appointed acquisition/serials librarian at the University of South Carolina Law Library, Columbia. S u e R u s k W i l l i a m s is now interlibrary loan li­ brarian at Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan. RETIREMENTS M i r i a m S u e D u d l e y , reference librarian at the College Library, University of California at Los Angeles, recently announced her retirement from that position which she has held since 1967. Dudley is well known to ACRL members as one of the founders of the Bibliographic In ­ struction Section and the inventor of the self-paced library skill workbook. In 1970 when Dudley developed the first self-guided workbook for the UCLA Chicano Miriam Sue Dudley Library Program, bib­ liographic instruction did not formally exist as a special field of librar­ ianship. Her efforts in creating the workbook and actively and eagerly sharing her innovative ideas and convictions were an inspiration to others. She was primarily instrumental in gaining formal rec­ ognition of bibliographic instruction as a legiti­ mate and vital concern for academic librarians. Dudley was on the ALA/ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Steering Committee in 1977-78 that recommended the formation of the Bibliographic Instruction Section. She continued to serve ACRL as chair of the first BIS Preconference in Dallas in 1979, chair of the BIS Nominating Committee in 1981-82, and as a member of the BIS Clearinghouse Committee in 1980-81. She is also on the 1983 BIS Post-Conference Planning Committee as local arrangements chair. Since 1978 she has served on the board of consultants of the National Endowment for the Humanities .-Shelley Phipps. B e t t y J a n e H i g h f i e l d , director of the North Park College Library, Chicago, since 1944, re­ tired in May. She had been assistant librarian there since 1939. Highfield was on the executive board of ACRL’s College Library Section in 1974-1976. A m ember of Beta Phi Mu (honorary library science fraternity), she has also been an active member of ALA s Ref­ erence and Adult Ser­ vices Division, ALA Council (1 9 6 0 -1 9 6 4 ), the American Theologi­ Betty Jan e Highfieldcal Library Association, the Chicago Library Club, the Illinois Library Association, and the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society. After growing up in Chicago and Evanston, Highfield graduated from Rockford College in 1937, earned her bachelor’s degree in libraiy sci­ ence from the University of Illinois in 1939, and her MLS from Illinois in 1947. L a w r e n c e E . W i k a n d e r , college librarian at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, retired this summer after 14 years of service there. Williams guided the college library through a major de­ velopment and expan­ sion of its collection, the construction of Sawyer Library which opened in 1975. After graduating from Williams in 1937, W i­ kander attended the Columbia University School of Library Ser­ vice, earning a BSLS in Lawrenee W ikand e r 1939. He received a master’s degree with a concentration in medieval history in 1949 from the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II Wikander rose to the rank of captain in the Army and spent three years in Africa, Italy, 244 and Austria in Military Intelligence. From 1946 to 1950 he was assistant librarian at Temple Uni­ versity, and from 1950 to 1968 he was librarian of the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachu­ setts. Wikander recently received a grant from the Earhart Foundation to prepare and publish a de­ scriptive catalog of the research materials on Cal­ vin Coolidge housed in the Forbes Library. His previous monographs have included C a lv in C oolidge: A C h ron olog ical Summary (1957) and D isp o sed to L e a r n : T he F irst 75 Y ears o f th e F o rb es L ibrary (1972). Since 1969 Wikander has been director of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. DEATHS S t e p h e n K . B a i l e y , former vice president of the American Council on Education, died in March at his home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Bailey was the main program speaker for ACRL at the 1977 Annual Conference in Detroit. At the time of his death, Bailey was Francis Keppel Professor of Educational Policy and Administration and di­ rector of programs in administration, planning, and social policy at Harvard University’s Gradu­ ate School of Education. A r c h i b a l d M a c L e i s h , poet, playwright, lawyer, journalist, government official, and Li­ brarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944, died on April 20 in Boston. He had lived for many years in Conway, Mas­ sachusetts. Bom May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, Mac­ Leish was a 1915 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale U niversity. He then en tered Harvard Law School, but joined the U .S . Army in W orld War I and served with the field ar­ A rch ibald M acLeish tille ry in F ra n ce . By the war’s end he had at­ tained the rank of captain and he was awarded a French Legion of Honor decoration. MacLeish graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the H arvard Law Re­ view , in 1919 and joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart in 1920. In 1923 he and his wife and their two children moved to Paris where, for the next 5 years, he read and wrote, publishing several collections of verse. Following his return to the United States, MacLeish went to Mexico to follow the route of Cortez’ army in preparation for writing his narra­ tive poem C on qu istad or, which won a Pulitzer Prize (1932). During the 1930s he continued his own writing while working for nine years for F o r­ tune magazine. M acL eish relu ctan tly a ccep ted P resid en t Roosevelt’s invitation to become the ninth Librar­ ian of Congress in 1939. He was fearful that the job would keep him from his writing, and it did, for he wrote only one poem during his tenure as librarian. Many years later he said, “President Roosevelt’s idea that you could run the Library of Congress while shaving turned out to be not quite true.” Within nine months of his endorsement by the U.S. Senate, MacLeish had created a departmen­ tal organization that had been lacking previously. He was responsible for the creation of the Q uar­ terly J o u r n al o f th e L ib r a r y o f C o n g ress and launched L C ’s first official series of poetry readings. He was also the author of the library’s Canons of Selection, a set of lofty goals designed to give direction to the library’s growth. At the same time he was Librarian of Congress, Mac­ Leish was also director of the U.S. Office of Facts and Figures in 1941-1942 and assistant director of the Office of War Information in 1942-1943. After resigning as librarian in 1944, MacLeish went on to become assistant secretary of state for public and cultural affairs. There he participated in the drafting of the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference of April, 1945. That year he also served as chair of the U.S. del­ egation to the London Conference which estab­ lished UNESCO. MacLeish returned to Harvard in 1949, teach­ ing there as Boylston professor of rhetoric and poetry until 1962. Two more times he received the Pu litzer Prize, in 1953 for his C o lle c t e d Poem s 1 9 1 7 -52 and in 1959 for his play J . B . , which also won a Tony award. His association with LC did not end in 1944. He recorded his poetry for the library’s archives and presented readings in the Coolidge Audito­ rium, most recently in March, 1976. He returned to the library on October 2, 1979, to participate in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of his assumption of the post of Librarian of Con­ gress. E d w i n C a l h o u n O s b u r n , librarian and profes­ sor emeritus of the Southeastern Baptist Theolog­ ical Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, died November 21, 1981, after 15 years of service. H e l e n S h e e h a n , librarian of Trinity College, Washington, D .C ., from 1934 to 1972, died on May 10. She had been associated with the college ever since her graduation in 1924, except for one interval during which she earned her MLS from Simmons College, served as librarian for two li­ braries in her native Manchester, New Hamp­ shire, and entered the religious congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She served as president of the Catholic Libraiy Association in 1 9 6 9 -7 1 and was on the ed itorial board for 245 A C R L’s Choice magazine in 1966-69. She had many articles published in professional literature, in clu d in g L i b r a r y T r e n d s , L e a r n i n g T o d a y , Maryland Libraries, and Catholic Library World. W A S H I N G T O N _____H O T L I N E by Carol C. Henderson Deputy Director ALA Washington Office Eliminate free mailing for the blind? No, of course not, protested many congressional offices in response to incredulous inquiries from constituents. And yet, after voting down nine different budget plans, the budget that the House passed on June 10 did just that. Buried in Budget Function 370, Com­ merce and Housing Credit, was a proposal to eliminate all postal subsidy. This innocuous-sounding proposal would bring all nonprofit and educa­ tional rates to the full commercial level by October 1, with results as follows: 1. The blind and handicapped would no longer be able to send and receive postage-free braille, large print, and recorded materials. A talking book on cassette tape would cost about 71¢ in postage. 2. Second-class postage for classroom publications would increase 137%, from 7.3¢ for a typical piece to 17.3¢, and other second-class nonprofit publications, such as college catalogs and alumni maga­ zines, would receive significant increases as well. 3. The third-class rate for nonprofit organization newsletters and fund-raising solicitations would increase 86%, from the current 5¢ for a typical letter to 9.3¢. 4. The fourth-class library rate would double, from 43¢ for a two-pound package to 86¢. This rate affects schools, colleges, libraries, and museums who use it to send and receive library books, textbooks‚ films‚ and other print and nonprint materials. Most Members of Congress would not have voted directly for such a proposal, but it was only one of a series of budget figures in a Republican budget substitute amendment made available only a day before it was voted on. Many Members were not aware of the effects of the postal provisions‚ and many refused to believe it when alerted by librarians and others. As this was written, it was expected that at least part of the damage would be repaired through conference with the Senate-passed budget resolution, which included a little more than the current level of postal subsidy, already cut in last year’s budget battles. However it may turn out, this episode illustrates the danger of large omnibus budget packages, especially when drafted as floor amendments without explanatory reports and without careful attention to major changes. It also demonstrates the vigilance required by library and educational organizations to make sure that public interest provisions enacted after careful congres­ sional deliberation are not eliminated in a day's hasty vote. It also points up the need to have postal statistics readily at hand so that the impact of a proposed change can be quickly estimated. What does your library spend on fourth-class library rate postage? Estimate the total for the most recent fiscal year and send that information to the ALA Washington Office, 110 Maryland Ave.‚ NE, Box 54, Washington, DC 20002. Let us know if you use other subsidized rates as well. We are always in need of up-to-date examples of postal costs, and we could use more data from academic libraries.