ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


December 1995/787

Catherine M. Tierney is the new assistant 
university librarian for technical services at Stan­
ford University.

Elizabeth M. Vihnanek joined the West­
ern Carolina University Library as educational 
resources librarian.

Darlene W aller has been appointed refer­
ence librarian/selector for social sciences, re­
search, and information services at the Univer­
sity o f Connecticut Storrs campus.

GladysAnn W ells has been named interim 
director o f the N ew  York State Research Library.

Lyn W olz is now a part-time reference li­
brarian at the University o f Kansas’ Regents 
Center Library.

G reg Y ou n gen  is the new physics/as­
tronomy librarian at the University o f Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign.

R e tire m e n ts
Hugh Amory, senior rare book cataloger in 
the Houghton Library at Harvard University, 
retired last summer after 23 years o f service. 
Amory said upon his retirement, “I think the 
main requirement for a senior rare book cata­
loger is being old.”

Janet Ayers, physical sciences/engineering li­
brarian at Northwestern University (NU), retired 
in August after 38 years o f service. Ayers joined 
NU in 1957 as the Tech Library’s first reference 
librarian.

Jerry Drost recently retired as associate librar­
ian from the State University o f N ew  York at 
Buffalo’s Lockwood Library after 31 years of 
service.

Shonnie Finnegan, university archivist at the 
State University o f N ew  York at Buffalo, re­
cently retired after 28 years o f service.

Alar Kruus, associate director and coordina­
tor o f programs and services for METRO, the 
N ew  York Metropolitan Reference and Research 
Library Agency, retired in July after 12 years of 
service. Kruus joined METRO in 1983 after serv­
ing for 22 at the N ew  York Public Library as 
librarian, assistant branch librarian, and branch 
librarian. He served in central offices as adult 
group work specialist and a s supervising adult

specialist for Manhattan branches and was prin­
cipal branch librarian at the Library for the Blind 
and Physically Handicapped. His last NYPL 
position was that o f chief o f the Materials Ac­
quisitions Office.

Ross Stephen, director o f library services at 
Rider University in Lawrenceville New  Jersey, 
retired in September after 15 years o f service. 
Stephen’s 33-year career included positions as 
acquisitions librarian at Harper College and 
associate director o f university libraries at the 
University o f Wisconsin-Oshkosh. A member 
o f ALA’s Library Administration and Manage­
ment Association (LAMA), Stephen edited the 
LAMA Newsletter for four years.

Pat Zadner recently retired as associate librar­
ian from the State University o f New  York at 
Buffalo after 31 years o f service.

D eath s
Martha Teros Boaz died July 24 at the age of 
83. Boaz served as dean and professor o f the 
Graduate School o f Library Science at the Uni­
versity o f Southern California, Los Angeles; pro­
fessor o f library science at the universities o f 
Tennessee and Michigan; and assistant librar­
ian at Madison College. A member o f ALA, the 
Special Libraries Association, and other profes­
sional organizations, Boaz also served as chap­
ter president o f the American Association o f 
University Women.

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Blackwell 777
Haworth Press 814– 15
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SilverPlatter 770
Univ. o f Missouri 790
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