ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


74

People
PROFILES

Joseph F. Boykin, Jr., has been appointed 
director of the library at Clemson University, 
Clemson, South Carolina. Boykin has been direc­
tor of the library and 
associate professor at 
the University of North 
Carolina, Charlotte, 
since 1970.

He earned a bacne- 
lor’s degree in history 
and a master’s degree 
in library science from 
Florida State University 
and has received spe­
cialized training in li­
brary automation.

A former board chair­
man of Southeastern Li­ Joseph F. Boykin
brary Network, Inc., 
and past president of the Users Council of 
OCLC, Inc., Boykin currently serves on the 
OCLC Board of Trustees. He is also secretary of 
the Southeastern Library Association.

Arthur E. Jones, director of Rose Memorial 
Library and Professor of English, Drew Universi­
ty, Madison, New Jersey, has received the 1980 
Distinguished Service 
Award of the New 
Jersey ACRL Chapter. 
This award is intended 
to honor persons who 
have directly enriched 
the librarianship of 
higher education through 
their distinguished ser­
vice or achievement in 
the profession, especial­
ly within the New Jer­
sey academic commun­
ity. Previous recipients 
have included Miriam Arthur E. Jones
Grosh, Felix E. Hirsh, 
William S. Dix, John Beard, James F. McCoy, 
Marian Siegeltuch, Grace Schut and Jay K. Luck­
er.

Jones has worked with determination, energy 
and care to improve the library’s collection and 
services. When he assumed the directorship in 
1956, the library was staffed with three profes­
sional librarans; at the present time there is a 
staff of fifteen professionals, including two subject 
specialists. An addition to the library complex, 
consisting of two inter-connected new buildings 
for archives and a learning center, will soon be 
under construction with occupancy expected in

summer 1982.
Jones has served as president of the American 

Theological Library Association; trustee and pres­
ident of the Madison Public Library; trustee of 
the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; member of 
the Morris Union Federation of Libraries Execu­
tive Board; and on numerous evaluation teams of 
the Middle States Association. He has written 
several articles on the history of American 
methodism and a Ph.D. dissertation on Early 
American Literary Criticism 1741-1820, and has 
contributed reviews to the American literature 
section of Choice, Library Journal, and Religion 
and Life. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Uni­
versity of Rochester, Jones received an M.A. in 
English and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Syracuse 
University, and his MLS from Rutgers Universi­
ty.—Michael B. Binder, Director o f Library, 
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New 
Jersey.

Helen H. Britton has been appointed assis­
tant director for reference and instructional ser­
vices of the University Library at California State



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University, Long Beach, 
effective January 12.

Prior to this assign­
ment, Britton served as 
head of the Processing 
and Cataloging Depart­
ment of the University 
of Houston Libraries, 
and in various capaci­
ties at the libraries of 
Texas A & M Universi­
ty, Ohio State Universi­
ty, and the Louisiana 
State Library. She 
holds an MLS from the Helen H. Britton
University of Michigan 
and a graduate degree in English from the Uni­
versity of Iowa.

Britton is an active m em ber of ALA and 
ACRL. She has published articles on government 
publications, cataloging and classification, and 
personnel management in such journals as Gov­
ernment Publications Review and Texas Libraries.

Ronald L. Fingerson has been named dean of 
library and learning resources at the University of 
Wisconsin-Whitewater, effective June 1. Finger- 
son has been a faculty 
member of the School 
of Library Science at 
Emporia State Uni­
versity, Kansas, since 
1971. Prior to that time 
he served on the pro­
fessional staff of the 
University of Iowa Li­
brary.

Fingerson received a 
Ph.D. in education from 
Kansas State University 
in 1979. He also holds 
master’s degrees in li­ Ronald Fingerson
brary science from the 
University of Minnesota and in English from the 
University of Iowa.

Active in national and regional professional 
associations, Fingerson is a reviewer for grant 
proposals for the National Endowment for the 
Humanities and has served on the Convention 
Intern Selection Committee for the Association of 
Educational Communications and Technology. 
He was also director of the Heart of America 
Chapter of the Special Libraries Association in 
1977-78.

Fingerson has been regional editor for The Li­
brary Binder (1969-71) and The Library Scene 
(1972-78) and has published articles in the Jour­
nal of Education fo r Librarianship and the Li­
brary School Review Newsletter.

Ross Stephen has been named librarian of 
Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Stephen joined the Rider staff as associate librar­
ian in September 1980, 
and he succeeds Theo­
dore Epstein who re­
tired in December.

Before coming to 
Rider, Stephen served 
as associate director of 
the University of Wis­
consin-Oshkosh Library 
for three years. He 
holds a doctorate in li­
brary adm inistration 
from Simmons College, 
an MLS from the Uni­
versity of Illinois, and a Ross Stephen
m aster’s degree in 
theatre/communications from Ohio University.

For the past two years he has served as editor 
of the LAMA Newsletter, the official publication 
of the Library Administration and Management 
Association, a division of ALA.

Among his many activities, Stephen has been 
instructor of dramatic arts and speech at the State 
University of New York at Albany; lecturer in 
speech at Northeastern Illinois University; direc­
tor of college theatre and instructor of speech/ 
theatre at Wright College in Chicago; and ac­
quisitions librarian at W.R. Harper College in 
Palatine, Illinois.

Fay Zipkowitz has been appointed director of 
the Rhode Island Department of State Library 
Services, effective January 5. Prior to her 
appointment Zipkowitz 
served as coordinator of 
library systems for the 
W orcester (Massachu­
setts) Area Cooperating 
Libraries, a consortium 
of fourteen academic, 
special, and public li­
braries.

Zipkowitz served on 
the staff of the library 
of the University of 
Massachusetts/Amherst 
from 1966 to 1977; as 
archivist at the Abba Fay Zipkowitz
Hillel Silver Memorial 
Archives and Library, the Temple, Cleveland, 
from 1964 to 1966; and as librarian at the Cleve­
land Public Library, 1959-1963. She has also 
taught courses at the University of Massachusetts 
extension program for the University of Rhode Is­
land Graduate Library School.

Active in the New England Chapter of ACRL, 
Zipkowitz has served as 1980-81 president of that 
chapter, conference program chair, 1979-80, and 
chair of the Nominating Committee, 1977-78.

She holds a Doctor of Arts degree from the 
School of Library Science at Simmons College, a



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master’s degree in English from the University of 
Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in library 
science from Case Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland. In 1973 she was the recipient of a fel­
lowship from the Council on Library Resources.

Zipkowitz was also active in the Worcester 
Area Cooperating Libraries, the Five College Li­
brary Lecture Series, and the Massachusetts 
Board of Library Commissioners. She currently 
serves as a member of the Board of Directors of 
NELINET, Inc.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

John Yung-hsianc Lai is the new executive 
editor of the Journal o f Library & Information 
Science, a bilingual semiannual published jointly 
by the Chinese-American Librarians Association 
and the Department of Social Education, Nation­
al Taiwan Normal University. He was formerly 
professor of library science at the National Taiwan 
University, Taipei, and is now associate librarian 
of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard Uni­
versity. Lai also serves as vice president of the 
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.

Louis A. Martin has been named the first Carl 
A. Kroch University Librarian of Cornell Uni­
versity. The new endowment, amounting to $1 
million, is one of only a few endowed librarian’s 
chairs in the country. The donor, Carl Kroch, 
graduated from Cornell with a B.A. in 1935 and 
entered his father’s bookstore business, Kroch s 
and Brentano’s, in Chicago.

APPOINTMENTS

Elaine P. Adams has been appointed super­
visor of library services for the Getty Oil Com­
pany Exploration and Production Research Cen­
ter, Houston.

Barbara J. Allen is now technical services li­
brarian at the University of Alaska Library, 
Juneau.

Celia Jill Althage joined the Northeastern 
Illinois University Library faculty on September 
1.

Jane Armstrong has been appointed applied 
life studies librarian at the University of Illinois, 
Urbana.

Bruce Barnes has been appointed instruction 
librarian for collection development. Southeastern 
Massachusetts University Library, North Dart­
mouth.

Shalene Barnes has been appointed instruc­
tion librarian at Southeastern Massachusetts Uni­
versity Library, North Dartmouth.

Kathryn Battillo has been appointed instruc­
tion librarian for audiovisual materials, Southeast­
ern Massachusetts University Library, North 
Dartmouth.

Anne K. Beaubien, formerly reference librarian 
and bibliographic instructor at the University of

Michigan Graduate Library, has been appointed 
manager/coordinator of the university’s Michigan 
Information Transfer Source, Ann Arbor.

Katherine A. Black has been appointed docu­
ments librarian at the Getty Oil Company Ex­
ploration and Production Research Center, Hous­
ton.

John Chalmers has been named librarian of 
the Humanities Research Center, University of 
Texas, Austin.

Jinnie Davis has been appointed assistant se­
rials librarian at the D.H. Hill Library, North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Daniel Elliott has been named assistant li­
brarian of the Department of Special Collections, 
University of California at Davis, effective April 
1.

Monica Engle has joined the staff of the Uni­
versity of Idaho Library, Moscow, as assistant sci­
ence librarian.

Candice Feldt has been appointed music cat- 
aloger at the State University of New York at 
Stony Brook.

Frances Flynn, formerly manager of Harvard’s 
Countway Library Bibliographic Service 
(CLIMBS), has become principal librarian of the 
Health Services Libraries, University of Queens­
land, Brisbane, Australia.

Patricia Gaspari-Bridces is now geology map 
librarian and assistant geology librarian at Prince­
ton University Library.

Linda Gerstein is the new reference librarian 
at the James R. Dickinson Library, University of 
Nevada, Las Vegas.

Barbara Hedges has been appointed assistant 
reference librarian at the D.H. Hill Librarv, 
North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Betsy L. Humphreys has been named chief of 
the Technical Services Division of the National 
Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, after 
serving as deputy chief for one year.

Diane L. Johnson, formerly assistant cataloger, 
is now head of serials at the Milne Library, State 
University of New York College at Geneseo.

Darcy Kirk has been appointed assistant law li­
brarian for technical services at the Boston Col­
lege Law Library, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Charles Kovacs has been appointed librarian 
of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus 
Learning, Harvard University Libraries.

Sally Leach, acting librarian of the Humani­
ties Research Center, University of Texas at Aus­
tin, since 1978, was appointed assistant to the 
director in charge of special projects.

Monique F. Lowd has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Bapst Library, Boston Col­
lege, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Colin McKirdy is the new systems librarian at 
Boston College Libraries, Chestnut Hill, Massa­
chusetts.

Charles McNeil has been appointed instruc­
tion librarian, Southeastern Massachusetts Uni­



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versity Library, North Dartmouth.
Karen Mokrzycki has been appointed head of

acquisitions at the University of California, Santa 
Cruz.

Susan Nutter has been appointed assistant 
director for collection management in the Mas­
sachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, 
Cambridge.

Randal Owen has been appointed reference li­
brarian at St. Mary’s Dominican College, New 
Orleans.

Albert Perdue is now assistant director for 
collection development, State University of New 
York at Binghamton Library.

Marshall Pfiefer has been appointed associ­
ate librarian for original cataloging at the Uni­
versity of Maryland, College Park.

Catherine Pollari has been appointed assis­
tant textiles librarian, North Carolina State Uni­
versity, Raleigh.

Katherine Poole has been appointed learning 
resources librarian in the Frances Loeb Library, 
Harvard University.

Patricia Proscino has been appointed refer- 
ence/acquisitions librarian at the Balch Institute 
for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia.

John A. Richardson has been appointed cata­
loging supervisor at Dowling College Library, 
Oakdale, New York.

JOYCE Rumery is now Eastern regional librarian 
at the Institute for Personal and Career Develop­

 
ment, C entral Michigan University, Mount 
Pleasant.

Mary E. Sauer is the new assistant director for 
processing systems, networks, and automation 
planning in the Processing Services Department, 
Library of Congress.

Eileen Sheahan has been appointed staff de­
velopment librarian at Columbia University, New 
York.

Joseph N. Srednicki has been appointed li­
brary systems analyst at Inforonics, Inc., Little­
ton, Massachusetts.

John C. Stalker is now head of reference at 
the Bapst Library, Boston College, Chestnut 
Hill, Massachusetts.

Patricia Stenstrom is the new library science 
librarian at the University of Illinois Library, 
Urbana.

Frederick J. Stielow. has been appointed 
curator of archives and special collections at the 
University of Southwestern Louisiana Libraries, 
Lafayette.

R. James Tobin has been appointed reference 
librarian at Bapst Library, Boston College, Chest­
nut Hill, Massachusetts.

John Weinreich is now assistant librarian in 
the Systems and Automation Department, Uni­
versity of California at Davis.

Cecilia G. Wetzbarger has joined the Gelman 
Library, George Washington University, Wash­
ington, D.C., as assistant acquisitions librarian.



REMARC 
VOLUME I, N

DA
UMBER I 

TABASE
FEBRUARY, 1981

NEGOTIATIONS 
A D VA N C E  TOW ARD 
N E TW O R K
DISTRIBUTION PACTS
But Individual Libraries that 
Sign-up Now Get the Guaranteed 
Low-Price-per Hit plus a ’’Most 
Favored Nation“ Clause

Proposed online and offline distribution 
agreements between Carrollton Press and 
major library systems, utilities, and 
database vendors are in various stages of 
negotiation.

Meanwhile, individual library systems 
are negotiating directly with Carrollton for 
custom retrospective conversion projects. 
(Details of how these will work are 
described in the “Question & Answer” 
column on page 2 of this issue.) The 
advantages to libraries that sign these four 
or five-year contracts are that the low price 
of 50 cents per hit will remain firm during 
the life of the contract and that, in case the 
records are later made available for less per 
hit by one of the organizations with whom 
Carrollton signs an agreement, Carrollton 
will match that price (this is the “most 
favored nation” clause).

Meanwhile, these libraries would be 
under no restrictions against transferring 
their records to any netw ork or utiTily that 
signs a distribution agreement with 
Carrollton. This means that they can begin 
their retrospective conversion projects 
now and not be concerned that they will 
conflict with future arrangements that 
might be negotiated between Carrollton 
and their networks.

Proposed distribution agreements are 
now in the most advanced stages with 
UTLAS, WLN, and Lockheed. Carrollton 
has also offered to make REMARC 
records available to OCLC and some of its 
brokers under different plans which are 
still under discussion.

On the Inside Pages
Q&A — Answers to Questions

Most Asked by Librarians Page 2
The REMARC Project at a

Glance Page 2
6 Ways to Match Holdings to the

REMARC Database Page 3
Illustration: of REMARC Record

and its LC Card Page 3
Summary of the REMARC

Record Production Cycle Page 4
MARCRONYM Contest

Winners Page 4

THE E E M A R C  RECORD — A N D  H O W  
IT  GREW
Coverage Now Includes All Major MARC Fields Except Dewey 
Numbers and Notes. Collation Data Latest Added.

The REMARC records which are available to libraries online and offline contain 
imporant items which are called for in the Carrollton Press contract to supply copies of 
these records to the Library of Congress.

Longer titles, edition statements, full imprints, and most recently, collation data, have 
been added to the content of the original REMARC records. These enhancements, are 
being supplied to LC at no additional charge.

Addition of the collation data was announced following conversion with a large 
number of libraries attending ALA Midwinter meeting in Washington. These additions 

Data entry at the Carrollton Press office in 
Irvine, Scotland.

THE D O N ’T-BELIEVE- 
EVERYTHING-YOU- 
H EAR D E PA RT M E N T
Six Rejects from the REMARC 
Rumor Factory

Have you heard that 1) the REMARC 
project is being fully funded by the Library 
of Congress, 2) the REMARC records are 
in the public domain and will eventually be 
distributed by the MARC Distribution 
Service, 3) th e  R F M A R C  re c o rd s have 
truncated titles, 4) almost all of the 
REMARC records are already in the 
OCLC Database, 5) REMARC records 
contain a 35% error rate introduced by 
LC’s format recognition programs, or that 
6) Carrollton Press and REMARC have 
been acquired by (a) Chrysler (b) the CIA 
(c) Pravda (d) The Tehran University 
Press?

Continued on page 2

DELIVERIES TO L C  
INCREASE STEADILY 
AFTER EARLY DELAYS

A shallow learning curve plus additions 
to the REMARC entry itself combined 
with delays in equipment deliveries to put 
Carrollton several months behind schedule 
in delivering records to the Library of 
Congress.

In December, however, 51 thousand 
records were delivered to LC and this rate 
increased to 62 thousand during the month 
of January as they approached their full 
production goal of 100,000 records per 
month. In all, some 200,000 records have 
been delivered to LC on magnetic tape 
since the project began.

however, apply only to the estimated 5 
million records that have not yet been 
added to the system at that time (96% of 
the collection).

In the beginning …
…  the original machine language record 

was to be limited to the information 
appearing in the entries of the 132-volume 
Cumulative Title Index to the Classified 
Collections o f  the Library o f  Congress. 
(TLC): namely; title, author, date of 
publication, LC Class Number, LC Card 
Number, and indications as to whether or 
not the record was in MARC and had been 
transliterated.

Gradually, C arrollton accumulated 
suggestions of items that should be added

Continued on page 4

REMARC RECORDS 
ONLINE A T  ALA 
MIDWINTER 
Workshop Set for San Francisco

Librarians attending ALA’s Midwinter 
meeting in Washington were able to 
inspect REM ARC records displayed 
online at a terminal connected to UCLA’s 
Technical Processing Center.

Because of the fact that the REMARC 
project was discussed in various retrospec­
tive-conversion workshops at the meeting, 
a large and steady flow of interested 
librarians visited the Carrollton Press 
booths in the Exhibit Area.

Meanwhile, Carrollton has scheduled a 
REMARC workshop during the ALA 
Annual Meeting in San Francisco. It will 
be held on Monday afternoon, June 29th 
from  4:15 u n til 5:30 and will be 
immediately followed by the semi-annual 
Carrollton/H DI cocktail reception.

Representatives from libraries, net­
works, vendors, and consulting firms are 
expected to appear on the program or in 
panel discussions. Space will be limited, so 
interested librarians should call or write 
Carrollton Press for invitations.

COMPLETE 
RETROSPECTIVE 
CONVERSION 
PACKAGES OFFERED 
TO LIBRARIES
MARC and Non-LC Records 
Can Now Be Acquired Along 
with REMARC

In spite o f the im pression th at 
“everybody and his brother” offers MARC 
records, those libraries which have not yet 
acquired them in machine language can 
buy them along with REMARC records as 
part of the same retrospective conversion 
project for only 20 cents per hit (even less 
for large projects). Carrollton acquired the 
MARC tapes in order to merge them with 
REMARC records to produce its Title 
Index.

Meanwhile, for those non-M A RC 
records which also register as non-hits 
when matched against REMARC, Carrol­
lton on will create new REMARC records

Continued on page 4

UCLA & ENOCH PRATT 
NEGOTIATING CUSTOM 
CONVERSION PROJECTS

Probably the first two major libraries to 
contract for retrospective conversion 
projects using REMARC will be one of the 
n a tio n ’s largest university research 
libraries and one of its major public library 
systems.

The Enoch P ratt Free Library of 
Baltimore, Maryland has signed a letter of 
intent to purchase REMARC records for 
its system-wide retrospective conversion 
program, while UCLA and Carrollton are 
in advance stages of negotiating an 
agreement which would make REMARC

Continued on page 3

Note:

This is a slightly reduced copy of page one of the first issue of our new newsletter. It will appear 
irregularly and will attempt to keep you informed on developments related to the massive REMARC 
Database Project. If you have not received a copy by mail, or would like to make certain that you’re on 
our mailing list for this free publication, please call or write Carrollton Press, Inc., 1911 Ft. Myer Drive, 
Arlington, Virginia 22209, (703) 525-5940.



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Robert White has been appointed assistant 
university librarian for planning and budget at 
the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Clifford Wunderlich has been appointed 
cataloger in the joint library of the Episcopal Di­
vinity School and Western School of Theology, 
Harvard University.

RETIREMENTS

James W. Barry, deputy associate director for 
library operations at the National Library of 
Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, has retired from 
government service. He had held that post since 
July 1977. Barry also worked at the National Li­
brary of Medicine from 1955 to 1963 before be­
coming librarian of science and medicine at Rut­
gers University, a post he held until 1971. In 
1968 he served as a visiting librarian and consul­
tant at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thai­
land. He also served as head librarian at the 
Medical Center of the University of Arizona.

Ruth Berry has retired after 32 years in the 
Reference Department of the University of Cali­
fornia at Los Angeles.

Theodore Epstein, librarian of Rider College, 
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, retired on December 
31 after 29 years in that position. Epstein started 
his career at Rider in 
1951 as assistant librar­
ian but became head li­
brarian a year later. He 
obtained a bachelor’s 
degree in psychology 
from Brooklyn College 
and a m aster’s degree 
in library science from 
Syracuse University.

Epstein is a member 
of Beta Phi Mu, the 
national library science 
honorary fraternity, the 
New Jersey Library Theodore Epstein
Association, and the 
American Library Association. During his tenure 
at Rider he presided over the transition and 
move of the library from downtown Trenton to 
the Lawrenceville campus.

Dorothy Harmon retired from the University 
of California at Los Angeles Library System in 
December after 32 years of service. Her most re­
cent position had been as African studies bibliog­
rapher.

Ulysses Jones, cataloger in the Library Ser­
vices Division of the Library of Congress, retired 
on October 31 after 36 years of Federal service.

Arthur C. Kulp, associate personnel officer 
and coordinator of facilities at Cornell University 
Libraries, Ithaca, New York, retired on February 
1 after 35 years of service.

Sarah Dowlin Jones is retiring as librarian of 
Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, March 15 
after twenty-nine years of service. Before coming 
to Goucher she held 
positions as head of ref­
erence at the Univer­
sity of Pennsylvania and 
librarian of the Mathe­
matics-Physics Library 
there, reference librar­
ian at the American Li­
brary in London, and 
reference assistant at 
Pratt Institute, Brook­
lyn, where she took her 
library degree.

Holding a Ph.D. in 
English from the Uni­ Sarah Jones
versity of Pennsylvania 
where she had also obtained her master’s degree, 
she frequently taught freshman composition and 
Elizabethan and Restoration drama at Goucher.

Jones, a life member of ALA, was a member of 
the ALA Council from 1967-1971. She served on 
the ACRL executive board as representative of 
the College Section, and worked on various 
ACRL regular and ad hoc committees, especially 
the Committee on Standards, the editorial board 
of Choice, and the advisory committee on the 
CORE collection. She was a member of the Con­
stitution and Bylaws Committee of both ALA and 
the Maryland Library Association (MLA).

For MLA she has been chair of the College 
and Reference Libraries Section, second vice 
president, and editor of its journal Maryland Li­
braries. She also has represented private colleges 
on the Library Advisory Committee to the Mary­
land Council on Higher Education and the advi­
sory Library Technical Committee of the Balti­
more Regional Planning Council; and she has 
been chair of the librarians of Maryland Indepen­
dent Colleges.

Jones has been a consultant to half a dozen col­
lege libraries, to the Library Services Branch of 
the U.S. Office of Education and the Maryland 
Department of Education, and has been the li­
brarian member of over twenty evaluation teams 
of the Middle States Association of Colleges and 
Secondary Schools.

For five months after her retirement as librar­
ian, Jones will work on the Goucher College ar­
chives in preparation for the college’s centenary 
in 1985.

Kathryn Renfro Lundy retired on December 
31 after 35 years at the University of Nebraska- 
Lincoln Libraries. She was very active in ACRL, 
her most recent achievement being the publica­
tion in 1980 of Women View Librarianship: Nine 
Perspectives, number 41 in ACRL’s Publications 
in Librarianship series.

Evelyn Noblin retired as assistant cataloging



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librarian at the D. H. Hill Library, North Caro­
lina State University, Raleigh, on December 31. 
She had served as cataloger for 30 years.

Russell M. Smith, manuscript historian and 
specialist in microfilm publications in the Manu­
script Division of the Library of Congress, retired 
in November after more than 24 years of Federal 
service.

DEATHS

Marion Cobb, lecturer and librarian of the 
laboratory collection at the Graduate School of 
Library and Information Science, University of 
California, Los Angeles, died suddenly on De­
cember 25 while visiting his family for the holi­
days. He had served the UCLA library school 
since 1969 and was a noted expert on Afro- 
American bibliography.

Peggy Fackre, librarian of the Engineering, 
Mathematics and Science Library at the Universi­
ty of Waterloo, Ontario, died in December.

Mollie Thomson, deputy librarian of Mac­
quarie U niversity, North Ryde, New South 
Wales, Australia, died October 21 after a long ill­
ness. Thomson was New York Liaison Officer of 
the National Library of Australia in 1960-63 and 
obtained an MLS at Columbia University at that 
time.

P u b lic a tio n s
NOTICES

•  Annual Salary Survey 1979-80, compiled by 
Gordon Fretwell (32 pages, December 1980), has 
been published by the Association of Research 
Libraries. It provides information on median and 
beginning professional salaries for filled or tem­
porarily vacant positions in all ARL libraries at 
the beginning of fiscal year 1980-81. It is avail­
able to ARL members for $3 and to others for $5, 
prepaym ent req u ired , from ARL, 1527 New 
Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

•  ARL Statistics 1979-80, compiled by Carol 
A. Mandel and Mary P. Johnson (66 pages, Janu­
ary 1981), has been issued by the Association of 
Research Libraries as part of its annual statistical 
series analyzing the collections, staffing levels, ex­
penditures, and interlibrary loan volume of its 
member libraries in the United States and Cana­
da. It is available to ARL members for $3 and to 
others for $5, prepayment required, from ARL, 
1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, 
DC 20036.

•  Biblioteca De Re Metallica: The Herbert 
Clark Hoover Collection of Mining and Metallur­
gy, edited and annotated by David Kühner and

Tania Rizzo (239 pages, 1980), has been pub­
lished by the Libraries of the Claremont Col­
leges, Claremont, California. Cyril Stanley Smith, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology metallur­
gist and historian, wrote a scholarly introduction 
for the octavo volume. The work is a catalogue of 
the reference library on mining and metallurgy 
which former President Herbert Hoover and his 
wife, Lou Henry Hoover, assembled in London 
during their early careers. It may be purchased 
for $125 from the Honnold Library, Claremont 
Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711.

•  Earth-Sheltered Housing: An Annotated Bib­
liography and Directory, by Pauline A. Keehn 
(61 pages, January 1981), has been published by 
the Council of Planning Librarians as number 43 
in the CPL Bibliography series. It includes over 
200 titles from both technical and popular litera­
ture. Keehn is associate librarian in the Catalog 
Departm ent at the University of California at 
Davis. It may be obtained for $11 from the Coun­
cil of Planning Librarians, 1313 E. 60th St., Chi­
cago, IL 60637.

•  A Guide to the Nikic Collection fo r the 
Study o f Balkan Peoples, by Alexandra Filip- 
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