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October 1988 /  619

. P E O P L E  .
Profiles

Carol Fleishauer, chief of the Acquisitions D e­
partm ent at Stanford University since 1986, is now 
the associate director for collection m anagem ent 
and technical services at the Massachusetts Insti­
tute of Technology, Cambridge. She has been a 
member of the Stanford University Libraries staff 
for ten years, beginning her career in the Catalog 
Departm ent as head of copy cataloging and later as 
assistant chief. In March 1985, she was nam ed act­
ing chief of acquisitions.

Robert P. Holley, assistant director for techni­
cal services at the University of Utah, has been 
named associate dean of the W ayne State Univer­
sity Libraries, Detroit.

Holley has also held 
several key positions at 
Yale University, includ­
ing head of th e Social 
Science Section, Subject 
C ataloguing D ivision, 
and assistant to the head 
of Cataloguing at Yale’s 
Sterling M em orial L i­
b ra ry . A su m m a  cum  
lau d e g r a d u a te  of 
Xavier University, Hol­
ley earned his MLS from
C o lu m b ia  U n iv e rsity  Robert P. Holley 
and a d o c to r a te  in 
French literature from Yale University. His articles 
and reviews have appeared in numerous profes­
sional journals and he is active in the American Li­
brary Association, the International Federation of 
Library Associations, and other organizations. He 
has also received the Technical Services Section 
Distinguished Service Award of the Utah Library 
and the Tauber-Begner Award in Technical Ser­
vices at Colum bia University.

Kathleen Kosuda, assistant director of the East 
Pasco County school library since 1987, is the new 
director of the Daniel A. Cannon Memorial Li­
brary at Saint Leo College, Florida. She holds a 
bachelor’s degree and an MLS from the State Uni­
versity of New York at Albany. She previously 
worked as librarian at Pasco-Hernando C om m u­
nity College, New Port Richey, and was director of

the Gloversville Free Library, New York, for six 
years. She worked as reader services librarian at 
the Saint Leo College Library from 1983 to 1987. 
Kosuda is a m ember of the American L ibrary Asso­
ciation, the Florida Library Association and the 
Catholic Library Association, and is past president 
of the West Pasco Branch of the American Associa­
tion of Women.

Ruth J. Person, dean of the College of Library 
Science at Clarion University of Pennsylvania since 
1986, has been nam ed associate vice chancellor for 
curriculum  and person­
nel at the University of
Missouri, St. Louis, ef­
fective O ctober 3. She
had previously held sev­
eral appointments at the
C atholic U niversity of
America during 1979 to
1986, including service
as associate dean of the
School of L ib ra ry  and
I n fo r m a tio n  Science
from 1983 to 1986 and
assistant professor from
1979 to 1983. P rior to R u th J. Person 
1979, Person served as
both a lecturer at the University of M ichigan’s 
School of Library Science and as coordinator of li­
brary science continuing education for the Univer­
sity Extension Service; she also was project director 
of the Public Library Energy Education Project. 
From 1969 to 1971 she was a reference librarian in 
the Burton Historical Collection at the D etriot 
Public Library, and from 1971 to 1974 she served 
as head of reference at Thomas Nelson Com m unity 
College in H am pton, Virginia.

Person has w ritten and published a num ber of 
research articles and reviews for Advances in L i­
brary Adm inistration and Organization, College 
and Research Libraries, Library Trends, C om m u­
nity and Junior College Libraries, the Higher E du­
cation B ibliographic Yearbook, and R eference 
Books Bulletin. She is editor of The M anagement 
Process (ALA, 1983), and has had additional arti­
cles published in the LAMA publications, Staff D e­
velopm ent in Libraries (1984) and Training Issues 
in C hanging T echnology (1986). She has fre ­
quently given talks or presented papers at confer-



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ences and meetings and has served as a workshop 
leader on numerous occasions. She recently com ­
pleted an A RL Occasional Paper, Selection of the 
University Librarian (1988).

Person is active in state and national library and 
educational associations, she has served as chair of 
A LISE Continuing Education Committee and on 
the Manuscript Review Committee of the National 
Association of W omen Deans, Administrators, and 
Counselors. W ithin ALA she serves as chair of the 
A CRL Publications Committee, was chair of the 
A C R L Professional Education Com m ittee from 
1984-1986, and on the Editorial Board of R efer­
ence Books Bulletin from 1981-1985. Person is also 
a current member of the ALA Publishing Com m it­
tee and the L R R T  Board.

She is also a member of numerous societies, in­
cluding Beta Phi Mu, Pi Lam bda Theta, Kappa 
D elta Pi, and Psi Chi. In 1976, she was a Rackham 
Fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 1986 
was named a ’’Washington W oman of the Year” by 
Washington Woman Magazine.

A n n  E .  P r e n t i c e ,  director and professor at the 
Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­
ence since 1978, University of Tennessee, Knox­
v ille, has been named 
associate vice president 
for libraries and infor­
mation resources at the 
U n iv ersity  of South 
Florida, Sarasota. From 
1972 to 1978, Prentice 
was on the faculty of the 
School of In form ation  
S c ie n c e  and P o licy  
SUNY at Albany.

She holds a bachelor s 
degree in p o litical sci­
en ce (1 9 5 4 ) from  th e 

Ann E. PrenticeUniversity of Rochester, 
an M L S  (1 9 6 4 ) from  
SUNY at Albany, and a doctorate (1972) from C o­
lumbia University. She was a participant in the 
W omen in Higher Education Administration Insti­
tute at Bryn Mawr (1986), a Council on Library 
Resources Fellow  (1983), and was awarded an 
honorary D octor of Letters degree from Keuka 
College (1979).

Prentice has also been a consultant on a variety 
of topics in the library and information science 
field, has led several research projects, and has 
published numerous books and articles dealing pri­
marily with library management and long-range 
planning. She is associate editor for the Library 
and Information Science Annual, published by Li= 
braries Unlimited.

Prentice has served as an ALA councilor, and is 
currently a member of the A CRL Planning Com ­
mittee and ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Com m it­
tee. She was president of the Association of Library 
and Inform ation Science Education in 1986, and is

a member of the Board of Directors of the Ameri­
can Society for Inform ation Science for 1985-1988. 
She is an active member of the Tennessee Library 
Association and the Southeastern Library Associa­
tion.

C e r i s e  O b e r m a n , public services planning offi­
cer at the University of Minnesota, Tw in Cities, 
has been named director of libraries at the State 
University of New York at Plattsburgh,effective 
August 1. Oberman received her bachelor’s degree 
from SUNY at New Paltz (1973) and her M LS 
(1976) from Em ory University. In 1974 she served 
as reference librarian and then head of reference at 
the College of Charleston, South Carolina. During 
her years at the College she organized the South­
eastern Conference of Approaches to Bibliographic 
Instruction and edited the proceedings. In 1981, 
Oberman served as head of reference at the Univer­
sity of Minnesota’s W alter Library. In 1985 she was 
appointed to the newly created position of public 
services planning officer for the Tw in Cities L i­
braries. She was responsible for planning and pol­
icy for University Libraries system-wide informa­
tion and access services.

Oberman has published numerous articles on li­
brary instruction and learning theory. She is co­
editor of Theories of Bibliographic Education: D e­
signs fo r Teaching. Oberman has been an A CRL 
workshop leader for continuing education courses 
since 1982 as well as a frequent SĮ›eaker at state and 
regional conferences. She has served as a member 
of the A C R L Bibliographic Instruction Section E x­
ecutive C om m ittee since 1985 and has recently 
been elected vice-chair/chair-elect of ACRL/BIS.

D o n a l d  G .  S w e e t  has been named library di­
rector at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 
effective August 15. Before coming to Little Rock, 
Sweet served as director 
of the university library 
at the University of W is­
con sin  at R iv er F a lls  
and, from 1984 to 1987, 
served as university li­
brarian at Prairie View 
A&M University, a part 
of the Texas A&M sy- 
tem. He was also head 
librarian at the Altoona 
campus of the Pennsyl­
v ania State University 
from 1981 to 1984 and 

Donald G. Sweet
was director of the li­
brary at Milton College 
in 1 9 8 0 -1 9 8 1 .

He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the 
State University of New York at Buffalo (1976) and 
an M LS from the University of Wisconsin at M il­
waukee (1979).

Sweet serves as an international editor for L i­
brary Times International and sits on the LAMA



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Building and Equipment Section’s Standards for 
Physical Space Requirements for Libraries Com­
mittee.

People in the news

L e l a n d  S. D u t t o n ,  former director of libraries 
at Miami University, Ohio, received an honorary 
Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the annual 
commencement program at Miami University last 
May. His efforts in expanding the library’s collec­
tions and in establishing the library at Miami’s E u ­
ropean Center in Luxembourg were mentioned in 
the citation. In 1984 the University had also recog­
nized his contributions to the library system when 
the south wing of King Library was dedicated as 
the Leland S. Dutton Wing.

B a r b a r a  F i s c h e r ,  director of university li­
braries at Indiana University-Purdue University, 
Indianapolis, was recently named Outstanding L i­
brarian for 1988 by the Indiana Library Associa­
tion and the Indiana Library Trustees Association.

I r w i n  H . P i z e r ,  university lib rarian  for the 
health sciences at the University of Illinois at C hi­
cago, has been appointed editor of the Bulletin of 
the Medical Library Association. The first issue un­
der his editorship will be the January 1989 issue.

I s a b e l  S t i r l i n g ,  head science librarian at the 
University of Oregon, Eugene, has been awarded a 
four-month fellowship by the American Library 
Association to teach graduate students in Turkey 
online database searching in Dialog and other sei/ 
tech databases. The fellowship, provided by a re­
newal grant from the U.S. Information Agency, al­
lows ALA to continue its Library/Book Fellows 
program, which places U.S. library and publishing 
professionals in overseas institutions for up to one 
year. Stirling will teach at the D ocum entation 
Center of the Higher Education Council of Turkey 
and the Hacettepe University School of Library 
Science in Ankara.

V i c k i  W a t k i n s ,  manager of the Business Infor­
mation Service at the W alker Management L i­
brary, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, is the re­
cip ien t of the “ 1988 D isclosure A chievem ent 
Award for Excellence in Information and Library 
Management.” The award is presented annually to 
a member of the Business and Finance Division of 
the Special Libraries Association who has made a 
significant contribution to a library or to the li­
brary community in general.

R o b e r t  G. V o s p e r , professor emeritus and li­
brarian emeritus of the UCLA Graduate School of 
Library and Information Science, was awarded 
the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, at 
the 1988 commencement ceremony. The UCLA 
Medal is presented to persons who have achieved 
distinction in the humanities, arts, or sciences. Vos­
per, a past president of ALA, is an internationally 
recognized expert on the development of research 
facilities. He was appointed the first assistant uni­
versity librarian at UCLA in 1948 and, one year

later, the first associate university librarian. He be­
came director of U CLA ’s W illiam Andrews Clark 
M em orial L ib ra ry  in 1966. O thers who w ere 
awarded the UCLA Medal at the same ceremony 
were film director Robert Wise, and the president 
of the National Academy of Sciences, Frank Press.

Appointments

(Appointment notices are taken from library 
newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­
pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your 
appointment appears, write to the Editor, A CRL, 
50 E . Huron St., Chicago, IL  60611-2795.)

S t e p h e n  H . A by has been appointed education 
bibliographer at the University of Akron, Ohio.

J a m e s  C . A k in s  has been appointed assistant li­
brarian at Eastern New Mexico University, Por­
tales.

I v a n  A r g u e l l e s  is now librarian in the Catalog 
Department at the University of California, Berke­
ley.

Ross A t k i n s o n  has been appointed assistant uni­
versity librarian for collection development and 
preservation at Cornell University.

R o g e r  B e c k m a n  has been appointed assistant li­
brarian in the Chemistry Library at Indiana Uni­
versity, Bloomington.

L e s l i e  B e r w i c k  has joined the staff at the Uni­
versity of New Mexico’s Medical Center Library.

M a r y  S. B op p  has been appointed visiting assis­
tant librarian in the Reference Department at Indi­
ana University, Bloomington.

K a y  B r a d t  is now associate librarian at Baker 
University, Baldwin, Kansas.

H e a t h e r  J .  E . B r a i t h w a i t e  has been named as­
sistant director of Neef Law  Library at W ayne 
State University, Detroit, Michigan.

S a n d r a  B r a y  has been appointed acquisitions 
ord er lib r a r ia n  at A rizon a S ta te  U n iv ersity , 
Tempe.

D o n a l d  L .  B r e n e a u  has been named assistant 
director of Purdy/Kresge Library at W ayne State 
University, Detroit, Michigan.

R . M a r i l y n  B r o w n  has been appointed catalog 
librarian at W ingate College, W ingate, North 
Carolina.

D e n n is  B r u n n i n g  has been appointed reference 
librarian/coordinator of computer services for the 
social sciences and humanities at Arizona State 
University, Tempe.

M a r s h a  A n n e  B u t l e r  has been appointed clini­
cal medical librarian at the Universitv of Missouri, 
Kansas City.

B e t s y  C a r t e r  has been appointed librarian at 
the Citadel L ibrary, The C itadel, Charleston, 
South Carolina.

V i r g i n i a  C a s s a d y  has been appointed catalog li­
brarian at Arizona State University, Tempe.

C a t h i e  C h i u  has been appointed Chinese lan­
guage cataloger at the University of Colorado,



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Boulder.
A n i t a  C o h e n  has been appointed reference li­

brarian/subject specialist for anthropology, sociol­
ogy and social work at Arizona State University, 
Tempe.

R o b e r t  C o n g l e t o n  is now the acquisitions/se­
rials librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.

A n n a  L e e  C o o k e  has been appointed head li­
brarian at Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee.

S h e i l a  C u r l  has been appointed science refer­
ence librarian/engineering subject specialist at Ar­
izona State University, Tempe.

M a r y  D e a n e  has been appointed evening refer­
ence librarian for Florida International University, 
North Miami Campus.

A n d r e a  C. D e s  J a r d i n s  is the new assistant cu­
rator of the Visual Collections in the Fine Arts L i­
brary, Harvard University.

P a m  D r a y s o n  has been appointed director at 
Kansas City Community College, Kansas.

G l e n d a  D r i g g s  has been appointed librarian at 
Tarkio College, Tarkio, Missouri.

L a i l a  E l - Z e i n  is now head of the Bibliographic 
Services Department at Temple University, Phila­
delphia, Pennsylvania.

P a t r i c i a  E t t e r  has been appointed assistant ar­
chivist for database services at Arizona State Uni­
versity, Tempe.

D a v i d  F e i n b e r g  has been appointed evening 
reference librarian for Florida International Uni­

Bibliometric papers wanted

The Fall 1989 special issue of Com m unica­
tion Research will focus on “Bibliom etric Meth­
ods for the Study of Scholarly Com m unica­
tion .” Papers on the topic, which encompasses 
the quantification of bibliographic data, might 
address the following questions: W hat contri­
butions have bibliometric methods made to the 
study of scholarly communication in the past, 
and what role should or will they play in the fu­
ture? W hat is the relationship among the differ­
ent methods currently being applied to the 
study of scholarly communication? Can these 
methods be brought together in a single para­
digm?

The deadline for submitting a paper is No­
vember 1, 1988. Authors whose manuscripts 
are accepted for publication will be notified by 
January 15, 1989. All papers and correspon­
dence should be sent to Christine L. Borgman, 
Associate Professor, Graduate School of L i­
brary and Information Science, University of 
California, Los Angeles, CA 90024; (213) 825- 
1379.

Communication Research is an international 
journal that publishes research on scholarly 
com m unication, organizational com m unica­
tion, and new information technologies.

versity, University Park Campus, Miami.
M a r k  F l y n n  is now associate librarian for spe­

cial collections and archives at George Mason Uni­
versity, Fairfax, Virginia.

J e n n i f e r  G e r a n  is now interlibrary loan librar­
ian at Rice University, Houston.

J e f f r e y  G i l d e r s o n - D u w e  is now social sciences 
reference librarian at the University of Missouri, 
Kansas City.

M a r y  Lou G o o d y e a r  has joined the staff at the 
Iowa State University Library, Iowa C ity.

M i c h e l l e  G o t z  has been appointed music/fine 
arts librarian at W ichita State University, Kansas.

C o n n i e  Jo H a r d y  has been appointed public ser­
vices librarian in the Education Library at Vander­
bilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

M a r y  H e a t h  is now the library systems develop­
ment officer at the University of California, Davis.

J u l i e  A n n  H e n d o n  has been appointed indexer 
in the Tozzer Library at Harvard University.

V i c k i  H e n d r i c k s  has been appointed reference 
librarian/business su bject specialist at Arizona 
State University, Tempe.

T h o m a s J .  H i n d e r s  has been appointed cata- 
loger at the University of Akron, Ohio.

C o l l e e n  H y s l o p  is now head of Technical Ser­
vices at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

B e t t y  J a r b o e  is now the acting head of the R ef­
ere n ce  D e p a rtm e n t at In d ia n a  U n iv ersity , 
Bloomington.

M a r g a r e t  A . J o h n s o n  has been appointed li­
brary director at the University of Minnesota, D u­
luth, effective December 1, 1988.

D a n n y  J o n e s  has been appointed assistant li­
brary director for collection development at the 
University of Texas Health Science Center at San 
Antonio.

P h y l l i s  K a l m e r t o n  has been appointed techni­
cal services librarian at Palmer College of Chiro­
practic, Davenport, Iowa.

L y n e t t e  K o r e n i c  is the new head of the Arts L i­
brary at the University of California, Santa B ar­
bara.

L y d i a  L a F a r o  has been appointed reference li­
brarian/business subject specialist at Arizona State 
University, Tempe.

R e n e e  J. L a P e r r i e r e  has been appointed biblio­
graphic instruction librarian at Eastern New Mex­
ico University, Portales.

S u z a n n e  T .  L a r s e n  has been appointed head of 
the E arth Science Library at the University of Col­
orado, Boulder.

M a r y  L a r s g a a r d  has been appointed associate 
librarian of the Map and Imagery Laboratory at 
the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A n n  L a t t a  is the new assistant chief of the Jons- 
son Library of Government Documents, Stanford 
University, California.

J a n n a  L a w r e n c e  has been appointed inform a­
tion services librarian at the University of Texas 
Health Science Center at San Antonio.

W e n d e l l  L o t z  has been appointed marketing



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director for school and academic libraries at Baker 
& Taylor, Bridgewater, New Jersey.

M a r y e l l e n  P o w e r s  M c C a r t h y  is the new head 
of Circulation Services in the Littauer Library at 
Harvard University.

N a n c y  M c C l e m e n t s  is th e  n e w  r e f e r e n c e  l i b r a r ­
ia n  a t  M e m o r ia l L i b r a r y  a t  t h e  U n iv e r s ity  o f W i s ­
c o n s in , M a d is o n .

S c o t t  M a c F a r l a n d  has been named president 
and C E O  of the Faxon Com pany, W estw ood, 
Massachusetts.

N a n c y  S. M a c K e c h n i e  is now curator of Rare 
Books and M an u scrip ts at V assar C o lle g e , 
Poughkeepsie, New York.

Y o l a n d a  C. M a l o n e y  has been appointed assis­
tant business librarian at the University of Colo­
rado, Boulder.

J o h n  M a x y m u k  has been appointed coordinator 
of computerized reference services at Temple Uni­
versity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

M a r g a r e t  V. M e r i n g  has been appointed su­
pervisor of the Serials Department Cataloging Unit 
at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

R o s e m a r y  M e s z a r o s  has been named assistant 
librarian for government publications at the Uni­
versity of California, Santa Barbara.

J a m e s  M i e s s e  is now user services librarian at 
N O TIS, Evanston, Illinois.

L y d i a  M i l l e r  has been appointed clinical medi­
cal librarian at the University of Missouri, Kansas 
City.

R a c h e l  M i l l e r  has been appointed head of the 
Acquisitions Department at the University of Kan­
sas, Lawrence.

H i d e y u k i M o r i m o t o  has been appointed Jap a­
nese language catalog librarian/area specialist at 
Arizona State University, Tempe.

D e n i s e  M o r r i s o n  is now archivist at the Kansas 
City Museum, Missouri.

C h r i s t i n e  M o t e  has been appointed catalog 
management librarian at Arizona State University, 
Tempe.

E r i n  M u r p h y  is the reference and collections de­
velopment librarian at the University of W aterloo, 
Ontario, Canada.

B e r n a  N e a l  is now head of the Architecture and 
Environmental Design Library at Arizona State 
University, Tempe.

D a n i e l  P . O ’M a h o n y  has been appointed gov­
ernment publications librarian at the University of 
Colorado, Boulder.

J e a n  K u d o  P e a r c e  has been appointed readers’ 
services librarian at W heaton College, Norton, 
Massachusetts.

R i c h a r d  P e a r c e - M o s e s  is now assistant archi­
vist for the photographic collections at Arizona 
State University, Tempe.

D e n n is  R . P e t e r s o n  has been appointed direc­
tor of the Health Sciences Library, Palmer College 
of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa.

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and engineering at Arizona State University, 
Tempe.

P a m e l a  B , R a d c l i f f e  has been promoted to sys­
tems librarian at Francis Marion College, Flor­
ence, South Carolina.

B e t s y  R e d m a n  is now acquisitions receipt librar­
ian at Arizona State University, Tempe.

R o b e r t  J .  R i t t e n i i o u s e  has been appointed 
physical sciences and engineering bibliographer at 
the University of Akron, Ohio.

W a n d a  S u e R o i i r b o u g h  has been named health 
sciences reference librarian at Ohio University, 
Athens.

J u d y  S c h a c h t e r  is the new circulation librarian 
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

S h i r l e y  R , S c o t t  is the new head of research 
services at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

T . C. S h ih  has been appointed assistant head of 
social science and humanities reference and data­
base coordinator at Michigan State University, 
East Lansing.

S u z a n n e  S i n g l e t o n  has been appointed assis­
tant reference librarian at the Francis Marion Col­
lege, Florence, South Carolina.

R o b e r t  S p i n d l e r  has been appointed assistant 
archivist for manuscripts/field collector at Arizona 
State University, Tempe.

J a n  S. S q u i r e  has been appointed reference/se­
rials lilbrarian at the University of Northern Colo­
rado, Greeley.

C l a u d e l l  S m ith  S t o c k e r  has been appointed 
head of the Braille Development Section at the Na­
tional Library Service for the Blind and Physically 
Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington.

J e n n i f e r  S t u r g i s  has been appointed science 
reference librarian at Fenwick Library, George 
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

R u t h  K . T a y l o r  has been named assistant direc­
tor of Shiffman Medical Library at Wayne State 
University, Detroit, Michigan.

G e o r g e  T e r r y  has been appointed associate 
vice president for libraries and collections at the 
University of South Carolina, Columbia.

B o b  W a l t e r  is now library director at Pittsburg 
State University, Kansas.

J o h n  W a n s e r s k i  has been appointed science ref­
erence librarian/physical science subject specialist 
at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Ja m e s  M, W e t h e r b e e  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Wingate College, Wingate, North 
Carolina.

A l l a n  W e n z e l  is the new instructional pro­
gram manager at the University of Wisconsin, 
Madison.

S u s a n  W i l l c o x  has been appointed circula­
tion/interlibrary loan librarian at the University of 
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Retirements
S h im e o n  B ris m a n . Jewish studies bibliographer 

at the University of California, Los Angeles, has re­
tired after 26 years of service.

J e n n i e  B r o g d o n ,  head of the Reference Branch 
of the Public Services Division at the National Agri­
cultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland, has retired 
after 18 years of service. She served four years in 
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reorganization for Econom ics and Marketing in 
1984, and for all of reference in 1987. She served in 
a variety of positions at NAL in the lending and 
other public service positions over the years, in­
cluding head of the Utilization Departm ent from 
1976-1984. Before coming to NAL, she worked for 
12 years as a food technologist in USDA’s Human 
Nutrition Research Division, and for the Entom o­
logical Society of America. Brogdon earned her 
bachelor’s degree in home economics and her M LS 
at the University of Maryland in 1970.

A n n a  L e e  C o o k e ,  head librarian at Lane C ol­
lege, Jackson, Tennessee, retired August 1, 1988, 
after 25 years of service. Cooke began as a cataloger 
at Lane and assumed library directorship in 1967. 
Before coming to L an e she served as a secondary 
school lib ra ria n  w ith  th e Jack so n , T ennessee, 
school system for 12 years. During 19 7 2 -7 4 , she 
served on the A C R L  Standards and Accreditation 
Committee. She has been a continuous member of 
ALA since 1960 and A C R L  since 1963. In 1982 she 
was commissioned to write the history of Lane C ol­
lege which was published in 1987.

A r t h u r  N. C r o n i z e s ,  catalog librarian at the 
Daniel L ibrary, the C itadel, Charleston, South 
Carolina, retired this summer.

L e r o y  F o x ,  lib raria n  at the Johnson County 
Public L ibrary, Kansas, has retired.

J u d i t h  L e v y ,  director of the Health Science In ­
formation Service has retired after serving eight 
years at the University of C alifornia, Berkeley. She 
came to UC Berkeley after working in medical re­
search at both Case W estern Reserve and UC Med­
ical Center in San Francisco. She also taught in the 
San Francisco School District. After receiving her 
MLS she was a children’s librarian and then medi­
cal librarian for the Health and W elfare D ep art­
ment of the County of San Mateo. W hile working 
half-time as the HSIS director, she also served as li­
brary consultant to Cowell Hospital, C hair of the 
Staff Development Com m ittee, was a CAPA m em ­
ber, and was actively involved in faculty seminars. 
Levy also was on the board of the UC Berkeley L i­
brary school Alumni Association, and in 1983, she 
also worked half-tim e as a reference librarian in 
the Public Health Library for nine months. She has 
been active in Bay Area professional organizations, 
the Northern California and Nevada Medical L i­
brary Group, chaired the Continuing Education 
Com m ittee, and the Professional D evelopm ent 
Committee.

C l i n t o n  L o c k e r t ,  Michigan State University 
Libraries, East Lansing, retired on June 30, 1988, 
after 34 years of service.

C a r o l y n  M c M i l l e n ,  Michigan State University 
Libraries, East Lansing, retired on June 30, 1988, 
after 23 years of service.

D o n a l d  J .  P e a r c e ,  director of the University of 
M innesota L ib r a ry , D u lu th , w ill be going on 
phased retirem ent while working on the bibliogra­
phy and public relations of the Ramseyer-Northern 
B ible Society Museum C o lle ctio n , held by the

UMD Library.
J e a n  P o s e y , cataloger at the Penn Valley C om ­

m unity C ollege, Kansas C ity, Missouri, has re­
tired.

J o h n  V a n d e r m o l e n ,  library staff at Auburn 
University, A labam a, has retired.

W i l l i a m  J .  W e l s h ,  deputy L ibrarian  of Con­
gress, W ashington, D .C ., since February 1976, re­
tired on O ctober 3 after more than 40 years of ser­
vice. Welsh began his career with the L ibrary of 
Congress in 1947. Among the programs which he 
has initiated were the optical disk pilot project and 
the L ibrary’s development of the diethyl zinc de­
acidification process. He was also was closely asso­
ciated with the automation and film ing of the L i­
brary’s catalogs, the L ibrary’s Intern Program , the 
division chief’s luncheons (forums for managers to 
exchange inform ation on professional concerns), 
and Executive Session.

Welsh has served as the L ibrary’s representative 
in national and intern ation al library circles, as 
chair of the Conference of Directors of National L i­
braries, and as a member of the American Library 
Association, the Commission on Preservation and 
Access, and the Foundations Group Library C om ­
m ittee. He has served as the L ibrary’s representa­
tive to the Association of Research Libraries, on the 
National Commission on Libraries and Inform a­
tion Science, and on the Board of Regents of the 
National Library of Medicine. Welsh has chaired 
ALA’s John Ames Humphry/Forest Press Award 
jury for the past two years. In 1979 he headed the 
first official delegation of American librarians to 
C hina following the resumption of official diplo­
m atic exchanges.

In M arch 1947 Welsh began his career with the 
Library of Congress as a searcher in a postwar proj­
ect for cooperative acquisitions. He has served as 
head of the Order Unit and Order Section, head of 
the East European Accessions Index project, execu­
tive officer of the Processing D epartm ent, associate 
director of the Administrative D epartm ent, and as­
sociate director of the Processing Departm ent. In 
May 1968 he was named director of the Processing 
D epartm ent. His work in that capacity earned him 
the ALA M elvil Dew ey Award in 1971. He re­
ceived many other honors and awards, including in 
1983 the L ib rary ’s Distinguished Service Award, 
an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the 
University of Notre D am e in 1984, and honorary 
membership in the Special Libraries Association 
and the University of M ichigan’s School of Infor­
mation and Library Studies, both in 1988.

W elsh earned his bach elo r’s degree from the 
University of Notre D am e in 1940 and pursued 
studies in law at Notre D am e before he began ser­
vice in the U .S. Air Force from 1941-1947.

B e t t y  W i l l s o n ,  acquisitions librarian for the 
Southeast Kansas L ib ra ry  System, Io la , has re­
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Deaths

D o n a l d  J .  C o o m b s  died July 3, 1988. Prior to 
earning an M LS, Coombs worked as a methods an­
alyst for Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia. 
He then became a public relations account execu­
tive for O .S. Tyson in New York, 1955-1958 and 
1 9 6 0 -1 9 61 , and from 1962 to 1964, he was the 
chief editor for Polaris Publications, Lockheed 
Missiles, in Sunnyvale, California. During that 
time he was also a free-lance editor of textbooks for 
Harcourt, Brace. After earning his MLS from the 
University of C alifornia, Berkeley, in 1965, he 
served as assistant university librarian for technical 
processing at the University of Southern California 
in 1970-1974, an adjunct faculty member at the

School of Library and Information Studies at the 
University of California, Berkeley, in 1973, and ac­
quisitions librarian at the University of San Fran ­
cisco. He joined the staff of Coutts Library Services 
in 1975, calling on academic librarians in the west­
ern states. He had earned two degrees from UCLA 
and completed coursework and examinations for a 
Ph.D . He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and 
was active in ALA, the California Library Associa­
tion, and the Special Libraries Association.

G e o r g e  D a v i s , reference librarian at the San 
Francisco City and County Law  Library, died July 
24, 1988. He previously worked for the University 
of California, Berkeley, as head of the Govern­
ments Documents Department from 1966 to 1975, 
in Documents in 1.963, and in the Acquisition D e­
partment in 1961. In 1975 he became law librarian 
at the firm of Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro in San 
Francisco.

A n n e  M a r i e  F a l s o n e ,  assistant commissioner of 
Education for Libraries and Adult Services for the 
Colorado State Library, died earlier this year.

J e a n n e t t e  H a g a n , former catalog librarian at 
the University of California, Los Angeles, died on 
February 10, 1988. She had served in the Catalog 
Department for 28 years before retiring in 1972. 
Prior to 1943, she was employed in a number of 
governmental and agency libraries in Washington, 
D .C . and San Francisco, California, following her 
graduation from the School of Librarianship at the 
University of California, Berkeley. She had pio­
neered the processing of such new media as micro­
forms, and was a nationally recognized authority 
on the bibliographic treatment of documents, both 
domestic and foreign. She served as the head of sev­
eral sections in the Catalog Department and as as­
sistant head of the Technical Services Department 
following its establishment. Hagan was active in li­
brary and state employee organizations, serving as 
president of the UCLA Library Staff Association, 
on the Descriptive Cataloging Committee, ALA, 
R T SD , and in several capacities in the California 
State Employees Association.

M a r y  R e i d  L a k e ,  reference librarian at Lane 
College, Jackson, Tennessee, died August 5, 1988, 
in Peoria, Illinois.

M i l d r e d  L o w e ,  former director of the Division 
of Library and Information Science at St. John’s 
University, Jam aica, New York, died in an auto­
mobile accident on August 22. Lowe had retired 
from her position in 1987, after serving 17 years as a 
professor of librarianship. She received her bache­
lor’s degree from Brooklyn College, an MLS from 
Pratt Institute, and a doctorate in library science 
from Columbia University. She recently was re­
cruiting new members to librarianship and lobby­
ing for improved funding for New York State li­
braries. She was a Councilor-at-Large for the New 
York Library Association and active in M ETR O . 
She had received the Librarian of the Year award 
in the Spring of 1988 from the Long Island Library 
Conference.