ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1986 / 669 the Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, and Mines Libraries of the University of Nevada, Reno. C h e r y l A . P r i c e has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographic instruction coordinator at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. L o i s O l c o t t P r i c e has been appointed senior conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia. J o h n C . P r i t c h e t t has been named director of the library at Columbia College, South Carolina. T i m o t h y P y a t t is now rare books/special collec­ tions librarian at the University of Oregon at Eugene. S h a r o n E. Q u i n n has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department, State Uni­ versity College, Oneonta, New York. A l a n M . R e e s has been appointed visiting pro­ fessor at the School of Information Science and Pol­ icy of the State University of New York at Albany. C y n t h i a R e q u a r d t has been appointed manu­ scripts librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Bal­ timore, Maryland. E l l e n R i c h a r d s o n has been appointed assistant librarian at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kan­ sas. A n n e R i m m e r has been appointed library per­ sonnel director at the University of California, Ir ­ vine. M a r y J u n e R o g g e n b u c k has been named acting associate dean of the School of Library and Infor­ mation Science at the Catholic University of Amer­ ica, Washington, D.C. C a r l e n M . R u s c h o f f has been appointed head of cataloging at Georgetown University, Washing­ ton, D.C . C i n d y E . Sc h a t z is now online search specialist at Harvard University’s Countway Lib ra ry of Medicine, Boston. J a n e t t e H . S c h u e l l e r has been appointed di­ rectory project librarian (half-time) at the Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library Ser­ vice, the University of Washington, Seattle. E l i z a b e t h K a i s e r S c h u l t e has been appointed senior conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia. R o b e r t G. S e w e l l has been appointed coordi­ nator of collection management and development at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. R u t h Sh i p l e y has been appointed clinical medi­ cal librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. L a u r a SIMIC has been appointed coord in ator of library developm ent at the University of O regon, E ugene. C h a r l e s S i m p s o n is now assistant director for technical services at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. A l a n S o l o m o n has been appointed head of the Reference Department at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. D a r w i n H . St a p l e t o n has been named director of the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University, Pocantico Hills, New York. J a n e t St e i n s has been appointed head of the Chemistry Library at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. L isa St e v e n s is now head of acquisitions at the University of California, Riverside. J u l i e S t i e l s t r a has been appointed assistant documents librarian at the University of Ilinois at Chicago. C h a r l e s T e n B r i n k has been appointed head of reference services at the University of Chicago Law Library. D a n i l a T e r p a n j i a n is now cataloger in the Lit- Letters Non-library administrator’s viewpoint To the Editor: One sentence in Rebecca Kellogg’s enlightening article in the September C &R L News on the per­ spective of the non-library administrator is partic­ ularly pertinent: “I really have nothing until they (articles and books) are retrieved and photocopied for me .” Here at Indiana University we have tried to meet this need through an innovation we call the Bloomington Delivery Service. We offer expedited book and photocopy delivery service to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Requests can be sent via campus mail, phone, or electronic mail. Book delivery is free and articles are retrieved and copied for 10¢ per page. Cur­ rently we are working with our Academic Com­ puting Center to create a total information envi­ ronment. Step one of this process involves blurring the lines between the delivery service and tradi­ tional interlibrary loan. The service has proven immensely popular, with patron usage increasing by 52% over the last year. We are extremely pleased with our success and hope to continue to refine our service as new tech­ nologies surface.— Ju d ith A. C opier, H ead, Inter- library L o a n Services, an d Cyd D uncan, IL L /B D S Supervisor, In dian a University. Speech writing To the Editor: Susan Matson’s article in the September C &R L N ews on how to develop a research paper was abso­ lutely marvelous. I look forward to a sequel, in which she may give pointers on how to convert the oral presentation into an article suitable for publi­ cation. She will, I know, reveal the secrets for con­ vincing readers of the importance of the article without, of course, their feeling any need actually to read it.—W illiam J. M yrick, University Associ­ ate D ean f o r L ibraries, T he City University o f New York. November 1986 / 671 tauer Library of Harvard University. L i n d a T h o m p s o n has been appointed acting a sistant director for bibliographic services at t University of Houston-University Park, Texas. D a n i e l T s a n g has been appointed social scienc librarian at the University of California, Irvine. J e r i L . V a r g o has been named head librarian Wells College, Aurora, New York. R o b i n W a g n e r has been appointed reference l brarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lanca ter, Pennsylvania. H s i a o - G u a n g W a n g has been appointed Orie talia catalog librarian at the University of Orego Eugene. L e e W e s t o n has been appointed reference l brarian at the University of Northern Colorad Greelev. P a i g e W e s t o n is now assistant reference libra ian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. J an W i n g e n r o t h has joined the Public Servic staff at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washin ton. St e v e W o o l d r i d g e has been appointed med librarian at the University of California, Irvine. B o n i t a W r i g h t has been appointed social s ences librarian at the University of California, I vine. D e b r a W y n n has been appointed catalog libra ian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washingto Retirements M a r i e b y r n e , assistant head of the Manuscrip Division at the University of California, Berkele retired August 31 after more than 30 years of s vice. Byrne joined the Serials Department in 195 moving to the Manuscripts Division in 1960, whe she assumed principal responsibility for the pro essing and cataloging of foreign-language man scripts, principally those in Spanish, French, Ge man, Italian and Portuguese. The translator of t Beinecke Library Visiting Fellowship Program Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will offer a number of short-term fellowships for the academic year 198 7- 88 to enable scholars engaged in post doctoral research to visit New Haven to make use of the Library’s collections. The grants sup port travel to and from New Haven and provid a living allowance of $800 per month for th term of the fellowship (normally from one t two months). The deadline for applications i February 1, 1987. For further information, write to : The Director, Beinecke Rare Book an Manuscript Library, 1603A Yale Station, Ne Haven, C T 065 20. s­ he es at i­ s­ n­ n, i­ o, r­ es g­ ia ci­ r ­ r­ n. ts y, er­ 5, re c­ u­ r­ wo children’s books into French for the Parnassus Press, Byrne translated into English the letterbook of Jean N. Perlot, a Belgian ’49er, included as an appendix to the biography of Perlot published by the UC Press. She was a charter member of the So­ ciety of California Archivists and a longtime mem­ ber of the Society of American Archivists as well as a member of the Sierra Club and the organizer of its archives at the Bancroft Library. R i c h a r d G. E l l i o t t retired July 1 after 28 years as librarian of The College of Idaho, Caldwell. Af­ ter earning his MLS at Syracuse University, Elliott began his career as social science librarian at the State College of Washington, Pullman. Later he was reference librarian at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, becoming head librarian at Fairmont State College, West Virginia. T h o m a s F. O ’c o n n e l l , university librarian at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since 1975, retired June 1. He had previously been director of libraries at York University in Toronto. R o s c o e R o u s e , university librarian and dean of library services at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, has announced his retirement effective July 1, 1987. Rouse has been at the post since coming to OSU in 1967, serving previously as the first director of libraries at SUNY-Stony Brook, where he established the library from the ground up in a process that took four years. He has been university librarian and chairman of the Depart­ ment of Library Science at Baylor University and R oscoe Rouseactin g l i b r a r i a n at Northeastern Oklahoma State College, now Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Talequah. Rouse has also been visit­ ing professor at North Texas State University and the University of Oklahoma. An expert in library planning and operation, in 1969 Rouse conducted a survey of academic libraries in New Mexico that later served as the basis for a $10 million bond is­ sue. During a term as president of the Oklahoma Library Association, he was successful in pressing for legislation requiring libraries in all Oklahoma schools. He organized a now-regular meeting of state academic librarians to bring important mat­ ters to the attention of the State Regents for Higher Education, and has been active in fund-raising ef­ forts and in the establishment of numerous endow­ ments. Under Rouse’s leadership Oklahoma State is in the first stages of a computerization project scheduled for completion late next year. The Uni­ versity was the first Oklahoma academic library to become a member of O C L C , in 1975. Rouse is a member of numerous professional associations in­ ­ ­ e e o s d w 672 / C & RL News eluding ALA, the International Federation of L i ­ brary Associations, and the Association of Research Libraries. E d w a r d J . Sw e n y retired September 12 after 18 years of service as manager of the New England Deposit Library at Harvard University. P h i l l i p W e s l e y , dean of the library at Califor­ nia State University, Dominguez Hills, retired ef­ fective November 1 after seventeen years of service. Deaths E d w a r d J . B a c h u s , senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach, died Sep­ tember 13. P a u l P a r h a m , university librar ian at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, died August 31 after a lengthy illness. N E W TECHNOLOGY •Geomail is a newly formed commercial asso ciation of 25 private electronic mail system opera tors of the GeoNet Mailbox System, who are work ing toward establishing a fully international elec tronic mail service. Its present membership cover all of Europe and will shortly be expanded to sys tems in the United States, the Middle East, Austra lia, and the Far East. Some 10,000 subscribers ar now supported. Th e continuous integration o telecommunication-based services (telex, facsim ile, teletext, etc.) with electronic mail system makes it important to find the most cost efficien routing of information. Geomail intends to create full spectrum of optimized telecommunicatio packages for their operators and their subscribers. The service will use the X400 international stan dard for message handling services, developed b the Comité Consultatif International pour Tele phone et Télégraphe. For more information, con tact J. Hoffman, Geomail S.A., BP. 262 Luxem bourg. •IBM now offers an ASCII station that can dis play nearly twice as many characters per screen a other displays in the IBM 316X family. The ne IBM 3162 display station is a general purpose ter minal for use with computers using ASCII proto col. The 3162 can attach to the IBM Series/1, IBM Series/88, IBM PCs, and most non-IBM host com puters. The station sells for $645. IBM also announced a new function cartridg and keyboard that allows the IBM 3163 and 316 models to display the ALA character set for termi nal applications in libraries. The cost for the IBM 3163 model 860 is $976 and for the IBM 3164 mode the cost is $1,376. Contact the IBM Systems Group, 900 King St., Rye Brook, NY 10573; (914) 934- 4828. ­ ­ ­ ­ s ­ ­ e f ­ s t a n ­ y ­ ­ ­ ­ s w ­ ­ ­ e 4 ­ l • Lenco Energy Management has modified a portion of the 3d-floor flourescent lighting system at San Diego State University’s Love Library that may save over $42,000 annually in electrical costs. Lenco’s procedure involved removing the existing four flourescent bulbs and two ballasts from each fixture, then equipping the fixture housing with two custom-designed specular optical reflectors, a single solid-state ballast, and only two flourescent bulbs. The actual light output is only 3% less, but the energy savings are at least 50 %. Lenco Energy Management, located in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and serving the entire southern California area, specializes in retrofitting lighting systems. • T h e L i b r a r y C o r p o r a t i o n has announced custom-designed enhancements to BiblioFile, the company’s desktop catalog system. The upgraded system allows a library to maintain an in-house cat­ alog, establish a multi-station local area network, and laser print presorted catalog cards. Special fea­ tures include a bar code reader to augment MARC records with circulation information, additional C D - R O M drives, and up to eight additional work stations. Contact: The Library Corporation, P.O. Box 400 35 , Washington, D C 20016; (800) 624- 0559. •NewsBank now has available a C D - R O M ver­ sion of its database of over 500,000 newspaper cita­ tions that combines five years of N ew sB an k, N am es in the N ews, and R eview o f th e Arts on a single disk. The NewsBank Electronic Index uses an IBM PC with a Hewlett-Packard Thinkjet printer and a Hitachi C D - R O M player. For more information, contact NewsBank, I n c ., 58 Pine St., New C a ­ naan, C T 06840; (800) 243-7694. •Sharp Electronics has introduced a compact,