ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries September 1989 /723 P E O P L E H iram L. Davis G eo rge R. G aum ond Elizabeth A n n L a n g e Em ily R. Mobley Ja m es G. Neal M aureen Pastine William G. Potter R avindra N . Sharma Profiles J o s e p h B a r n e s has jo in e d S h ep h e rd C o lleg e, Shep herd stow n, W e s t V irginia, as its new co lleg e librarian, th e unit d ire cto r for th e R u th S c a rb o r­ ough Library. Previously an assistant librarian at the U niversity o f B u ffa lo , B a rn e s has a P h .D . in history and a m a ste r’s d eg re e in library scie n ce , both from the U niversity o f B u ffalo . H e did his undergraduate work at the University o f R o ch ester in New York. P rior to w orking for th e U niversity o f Bu ffalo Library, Barnes was the city historian o f R ochester, a d ep artm en t head with a rank sim ilar to th a t o f public library associate d ire cto r. T h e r e he co n ­ ducted a program o f research , w riting, and ed u ca­ tion in all asp ects o f local history and ed ited the quarterlyjou rn al, R o chester H istory. His teaching background inclu d es ex p e rie n ce as a history in ­ stru cto r at th e U niversity o f B u ffalo and the R o ch ­ ester Institute o f Technology and as a teach er in the G re e c e (N ew York) C en tral Schoo l D istrict. B a rn e s was p re sid en t o f th e G e n e s e e C ou n try H isto rical F ed eratio n ( 1 9 7 7 - 8 4 ) , a tru ste e o f the Public W orks H istorical Society (1 9 7 7 - 7 8 ) , execu ­ tive se cre ta ry o f th e B ic e n te n n ia l C om m ission o f R o ch e s te r-M o n ro e C ounty ( 1 9 7 4 - 7 6 ) , a m em b er o f th e C ity A rchives C om m ission for R o c h e s te r ( 1 9 7 7 - 7 9 ) , a m e m b e r o f th e N ew C ity H all C o m ­ m itte e in R o c h e s te r ( 1 9 7 8 - 8 3 ) , and has b e e n a tru s te e o f th e F rie n d s o f M t. H o p e C e m e te ry in R o ch este r since 1981 when he assisted in the estab- 7 2 4 / C ^ R L News lishment of this group which has raised substantial funds in grants and private donations. Currently he holds memberships in the Ameri­ can Library Association (Association of College and Research Libraries), in the Society of American Archivists, and in Beta Phi Mu (International Li­ brary Honor Society). S c o t t B e n n e t t , previously assistant university librarian for collection management at Northwest­ ern University, has been named director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. An expert in col­ lection development and a former English profes­ sor, Bennett will manage a collection of more than 2 million books, 13,000 serials, and 1.4 million microforms housed at the Eisenhower Library and the Hutzler Undergraduate Library on the Univer­ sity’s Homewood campus, the George Peabody Library in downtown Baltimore, and the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House in North Bal­ timore. Bennett is the author and editor of more than 20 essays, articles, and books on bibliographic meth­ ods, collection management and development, and Victorian literature. He also has been active in various professional organizations, including the American Association of University Professors, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, and the Library Administration and Management Associa­ tion. He recently chaired a major collaborative research project of the Research Libraries Group, and took part in an effort to preserve library mate­ rials through collaborative action sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Bennett earned a bachelor’s degree from Ober- lin College, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in English from Indiana University, and an MLS degree from the University oflllinois. From 1967 until 1974, he was assistant professor of English at the University oflllinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he subse­ quently became a professor of library administra­ tion. He moved to Northwestern University in 1981. H ir a m L o g a n D a v is , dean of university libraries at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, has been named the new director of libraries at Michi­ gan State University, East Lansing. Davis, who was also appointed professor in the Department of Educational Administration, succeeds Dr. Richard E. Chapin, who directed the MSU libraries for the past 30 years. Since 1891, only three individuals have held the title of director of MSU libraries. Davis is the fourth. Prior to his being named dean of university libraries at New Mexico State in 1987, Davis held a similar position for seven years at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. At both institu­ tions he was instrumental in initiating and imple­ menting new library building and renovation proj - ects and establishing new programs and services that included automation. A native of St. Joseph, Missouri, Davis holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and English from Missouri Valley College in Marshall; an MLSfrom Emporia State University in Kansas; and a Ph. D . in administration and higher education and library science from the University of Michigan. He has also held positions with libraries at the University of California at Los Angeles, the U niversity of Okla­ homa, Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan, Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, and the University of Kansas. While at the University of Michigan from 1972-73, he devel­ oped and directed the Library Science Doctoral Program for the Committee on Institutional Coop­ eration, a project involving six universities with library science doctoral programs: Chicago, Illi­ nois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wiscon­ sin. C h a k l i n g C . F a g a n has been appointed direc­ tor of the Esther Raushenbush Library at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NewYork. She will replace Rose Anne Burstein, library director since 1974, who retired at the end of June. Fagan has been affiliated with the Columbia University library system since 1974. Currently acting director for the Academic Information Serv­ ices Group, she was assistant director for Social Sciences from 1983 to 1987. Prior to that, she was head of the Access Services Department, Humani­ ties and History Division. While working at Colum­ bia, Fagan served on several of the University’s boards and committees, including the board of directors of the Columbia University Association (1982-86), the University Panel on Sexual Harass­ ment (1985 to present), and the President’s Advi­ sory Committee on the Handicapped (1987 to present). Fagan also serves on the China Library Program Subcommittee of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, and was a consultant at Jiao Tung University in Shanghai. F agan received her bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, and her MLS degree from Case Western Reserve University. G e o r g e R. G a u m o n d , formerly college librar­ ian at Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is now director of the library at Valdosta State College, Georgia. Gaumond received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of South Carolinain 1969. Following several tours of duty as an officer in the U.S. Navy (1969-1974), Gaumond earned his MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1975), and recently September 1989 / 725 completed his P h.D . at the University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988). Prior to joining Shepherd College, Gaumond was assistant reader services librarian at the University o f North C aro­ lina at Wilmington. He has been active in both state and regional library associations, as well as serving on several state com m ittees in higher education. E l i z a b e t h A n n L a n g e has been named director of the Winona State University Libraiy, Minnesota. Lange com es to W inona from the University o f South Carolina where she has been assistant direc­ tor o f libraries for technical services since 1979. Prior to that time she served as head o f the catalog division for university libraries at the University o f Minnesota at Minneapolis from 1 9 7 2 -1 9 7 9 , and in the same capacity at Iowa State University from 1968-1972. W hile at U SC , she edited R eflections, the T h o ­ mas Cooper Library new sletter, wrote and m an­ aged several grants, including those which resulted in the design and im plem entation o f the online catalogforthe Fox Movietonews collection, served as guest lecturer for the College o f L ibraiy and Information Science, chaired or served on num er­ ous library-related committees including statewide automation and networking committees, the South Carolina newspaper p ro ject advisory board, and the South Carolina F ed eral Relations Com m ittee for the Second Congressional District. In addition she has been listed in W h o ’s W ho in L ib r a r y and Inform ation Services, D irectory o f L ib ra ry and Inform ation P rofessionals, and in W h o ’s W ho o f American W om en . Lange has a b ach elor’s degree from Northern State College and a master’s in library science from the University o f Minnesota. R o b e r t M a r x , form er director o f the theatre program at the National Endowment for the Arts, has been named ch ie f o f the Perform ing Arts R e ­ search C en ter (PA RC) o f the New York Public Library at Lincoln C enter. As ch ief, Marx will oversee the four research collections o f dance, music, recorded sound, and theatre that constitute PARC, one o f the world’s preem inent performing arts libraries. In addition, he will serve as planning consultant for a major two-year study o f the entire NYPL at Lincoln C enter, directing a plan for the redevelopment o f both PARC and its companion facility, the G eneral Library and Museum o f the Perform ing Arts. T h e study will focus on the L i­ brary’s public programming, audience outreach, administrative organization, and financial struc­ ture. Prior to his join in gthe National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, Marx was director o f the theatre program at the New York State Council on the Arts. Particularly interested in international exchange, he was one o f the producers who developed foreign and U .S. theatre presentations for the 1984 Olym­ pics Arts Festival in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he planned the American engagem ents o f theatre com panies from Eu rop e, Japan, and the Soviet Union. In 1987, he helped found the American- Soviet T h eatre Initiative, which has established a program o f theatrical exchange betw een the two countries. Marx’s work in the theatre has included serving as artistic associate o f the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and as co-producer with the M usic-Theatre Group/Lenox Arts C en ter in New York. He has also been a consultant to such organi­ zations as the Th eatre D evelopm ent Fund, T h e ­ atre Communications Group, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a widely published essayist on contem porary theatre and opera. Among other associations, he is editor o f O pera News. Born and raised in the Bronx, Marx graduated from New York University in 1972, and received his m aster’s and doctorate degrees in dramatic litera­ ture from the Yale School of Drama. He has been a visiting lectu rer in drama at Yale and in music at NYU. E m i l y R . M o b l e y , acting director o f Purdue University Libraries, W est Lafayette, Indiana, has been named the first dean o f libraries at Purdue. M obley was also prom oted to professor o f library science .Sh e was appointed to the Purdue Libraries faculty in 1986 as the associate director o f libraries and associate professor o f library science. Mobley served in that capacity until last February, when she assumed the responsibilities o f acting director after the death o f director Joseph M. D agnese. Prior to coming to Purdue, M obley was library director at G M I E n gineering and M anagem ent Institu te in F lin t, Michigan. H er other positions included supervisor o f reading services at General Motors Research Laboratories in W arren, M ichi­ gan; science librarian at Wayne State University in Detroit; and engineering librarian atChryslerCorp. in Highland Park, Michigan. She has also been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan School o f Inform ation and Library Studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she taught courses in administra­ tion. M obley was appointed by the governor o f Michigan to serve on the Library o f Michigan Board o f T ru stees, and she was vice-chair o f the board when she resigned to take the position at Purdue. Mobley is actively involved in professional activi­ ties and organizations on the state, national, and international levels. She has held many offices and positions in the Special Libraries Association at the state and national levels, culminating in the presi­ dency o f the Special Libraries Association from 1 9 8 7 -8 8 . She was recently appointed as its rep re­ sentative to the International Federation o f Library 7 2 6 1C irRL News Associations. As a member of the American Library Association, she also serves on the Office for Li­ brary Outreach Services Minority Internship Committee, and the Association of College and Research Libraries Task Force on Library School Curriculum. Other professional activities include membership on the Library o f Congress National Advisory Committee. She has been a consultant in the areas of special libraries and sci-tech collection evaluation and development, and she was a mem­ ber of the Directors Selection Committee for the Smithsonian Institution. Pierien Press recently appointed her to its Reference Services Review Editorial Board. Mobley has written extensively on leadership in the library profession and she has given many presentations on libraries and leadership through­ out the United States. Her most recent publication, “Women and Minorities as Leaders,” appears in Leadership in the Library /Information Profession (edited by Alice Gertzog, McFarland, 1989). Mobley received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and is a doctoral candidate there. Her alma mater honored her earlier this year with its Distinguished Alumnus Award in the School o f Information and Library Studies. J a m e s G. N e a l has been appointed dean o f the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. Neal had been assistant dean and head of the Reference and Instructional Services Division at the Pennsyl­ vania State University Libraries since 1983. He succeeds Elaine Sloan, who left Indiana in August 1988 to head the Columbia University Libraries. At Penn State he was responsible for the public service and collection development programs of the main campus libraries, the administration and development of library faculty and staff, the im­ plementation and evaluation of automated services including the Penn State Library Information Access System, and the direction of personnel and facili­ ties operations. Previous to his appointment at Penn State, Neal was assistant director for Memo­ rial Library Public Services at the University of Notre Dame and a Council on Library Resources Academic Library Management intern. Neal received a bachelor o f arts degree in Rus­ sian studies in 1969 from Rutgers University. In 1972 he received a master of arts degree in history from Columbia University and in 1973 he received a master's degree in library science from Columbia. He also holds a Certificate in Advanced Librarian- ship from Columbia. Neal has been very active in professional organi­ zations at the state and national levels. He has served on the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Council on Library Development. Nationally, Neal has been particularly involved in the American Library Association’s Library Administration and Management Association and he is presently on its Board of Directors. Neal is the author of many articles in scholarly and professional publications and has given many conference presentations in the areas of library personnel issues, library automation, and library history. M a u r e e n P a s t i n e has been named director of Central University Libraries at Southern Method­ ist University, Dallas. Pastine has been director of libraries at Washington State University since 1985; prior to that appointment she served as university librarian at San Jose State University for five years. She has numerous publications, with emphasis on integrating library use instruction into the general education curriculum, bibliographic instruction, library automation, and women’s studies. She is active in many units of the American Library Asso­ ciation and has served on committees and task forces in the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Library Administration and Man­ agement Association. She is also an active partici­ pant in state and international professional associa­ tions. Pastine was named the Miriam Dudley Bib­ liographic Instruction Librarian of the Year and re­ ceived the award on June 25,1989, during the ALA Annual Conference in Dallas. W i l l i a m G r a y P o t t e r has been appointed di­ rector of libraries at the University of Georgia, Athens. Potter, formerly associate dean oflibraries for technical services, automation, and systems at Arizona State University, assumed his newposition on August 1,1989. Since 1984, Potter has served as editor of Infor­ mation Technology and Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Library and Information T echnology Association (LITA), a division o f the American Library Association. He was president o f LITA during 1987-88 and is presently chair of the asso­ ciation’s publications committee. Potter has also been contributing editor of a newsletter associated with the Journal of Academic Librarianship and, in 1981, edited the Librartj Trends issue focusing on “Bibliometrics.” He is the author of numerous publications, many of which emphasize the use of advanced technology to improve and expand li­ brary services. Potter earned his doctorate, master’s in library science, and master’s in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has studied statistics, mathematics, systems analysis, data proc­ essing, and computer programming. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English in 1973 at Southern Illinois University. Potter joined Arizona State in August 1985. Prior to his position in Arizona, he held positions in the September 1989 / 72 7 libraries at the University o f Illinois at Urbana- Champaign from 1978 to 1985 and the University ofW isconsin-W hitewater, from 1975 to 1978. H e r b e r t D . S a f f o r d , director o f library serv­ ices at Kutztown University since 1985, has been appointed director o f the Donald O . Rod Library at the University o f Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. Saf­ ford received a bachelor’s degree from the Univer­ sity o f Verm ont, a m aster’s degree in philosophy from Yale University, and m aster’s and doctoral degrees in library science from Colum bia Univer­ sity. Prior to becoming director o f library services at Kutztown, Safford served as associate director at Bowie State C ollege in Maryland and d irector at Muskingum College in Ohio. H e has been active in library and higher education organizations in Ohio and Pennsylvania and has had material published in a num ber o f sources. R a v i n d r a N . S h a r m a has b een named director of libraries at the U niversity o f Evansville, Indiana. Prior to his recent appointment he was an associate professor and assistant director for public services and collection developm ent at th e University o f W isconsin-Oshkosh. F rom 1981 to 1985 Sharm a was head librarian at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity-Beaver Campus, M onaca, where he was re ­ sponsible for the administration, budgeting, plan­ ning, and personnel o f the library. He was a re fe r­ ence librarian at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, from 1971 to 1981, with a leave o f absence for two years beginning in 1978 to work on his P h .D . H e was an assistant professor o f library science and assistant librarian for one year at C ol­ lege o f the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas, and a staff librarian from 1968 to 1970 at North Texas State University, Denton. Among the many fellowships and grants he has received are a U .S . D epartm ent o f Education Title II-B grant in 1988, an NEH/ACRL/ALA grant for humanities programming in 1982, and four Colgate Humanities Facuity Development Grants between 1974and 1981. Sharma has served on many committees through­ out his ca reer including the A C R L R esearch Committee (1 9 8 9 -9 1 ), the Asian Section o f A C R L (1 9 8 5 -8 8 ), the C o n feren ce Planning C om m ittee for the Wisconsin Association o f Academic Librar­ ies (1 9 8 5 - 8 6 ), and the Executive C om m ittee and area chairperson for South Asia o f the International Relations Round T ab le o f the American Library Association ( 1 9 8 3 - ). Honors include the Rider award from the U niversity o f W isconsin-Oshkosh (1988) and m em bership on the D ea n ’s Advisory Council, School o f Library and Inform ation S ci­ ence, University o f Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1 9 8 7 -). Sharma has w ritten many articles, book re­ views, editorials, and books. A sports jou rnalist since 1963, Sharma covered the 1976 Olympics for Indian newspapers. His published articles in the field o f librarianship include: “S.R . Ranganathan: The Crusader” in Libri: International Review; “Uni­ versity Reforms in India: Problems and Solutions” in T h e E d u c a tio n a l R eview ; “L ibraryInstru ction : An Opinion” in The Jou rn al o f A cadem ic L ibrarian ­ sh ip ; and “India, Academ ic Libraries I n ” in En- cylopedia o f Library and Information Science. Books include: In dian L ib r a ria n sh ip : P erspectives an d Prospects and In dian A cadem ic L ib r a r ie s an d Dr. S.R. R anganathan: A C ritical Studij. At th e most recen t co n feren ce o f the Asian-Pacific American Librarians Association at the Dallas Public Library, Ju ne 1989, Sharm a gave a talk entitled “Making It in America: T h e Asian-American E xp erience.” Sharm a received his bach elo r’s degree with honors and am aster’s in history from the University o f D elhi, India, in 1963 and 1966 respectively; an M LS from North Texas State University, D enton, in 1970; and a P h.D . in inform ation and library studies and higher education from State University o f New York at Buffalo in 1982. A r t h u r P r i c e Y o u n g has been appointed dean o f libraries at the University o f South Carolina, Colum bia. W hen he takes on the new jo b in O cto ­ ber, Young will supervise the Thomas C ooper Library and its affiliated collections. He currently serves as dean o f th e University o f Rhode Island Library, where his responsibilities include the audiovisual cen ter, marine science li­ brary, and the College o f Continuing E du cation ’s library. Young worked as assistant dean for public services at the University o f Alabama Library from 1976-81 and as an associate professor in Alabama’s Graduate School ofLibrary Science from 1 978-81. H e also has been an instructor in Syracuse Univer­ sity’s School o f Library S cien ce and was head o f reader services with the State University o f New York’s C ollege at Cortland. W hile com pleting his Ph. D. in library science at the U niversity o f Illinois, Young served as a research associate at the univer­ sity’s Library R esearch C enter. H e holds m aster’s degrees from Syracuse University and the Univer­ sity o f Massachusetts. His undergraduate degree is from T ufts U niversity. Young has published several books and dozens o f articles and bibliographies on topics ranging from th e history o f libraries to scholarship m eth ­ ods. H e is a member o f the Association o f College and R esearch L ibraries, the New England Library Association, and several other organizations. He holds m em bership in Phi Kappa Phi and B e ta Phi Mu. Young is also a reviewer for the National Endow m ent for the Humanities and serves on the executive board o f the Library History Round T able o f the American Library Association. 7 2 8 / CirR L News People in the news R o l a n d M . B a u m a n n , an archivist adjunct pro­ fessor of history at Oberlin College, Ohio, and a leading authority on administering access to confi­ dential government records, is one of only two U.S. archivists invited to examine archives in the U. S. S . R. this fall through the terms of a new protocol with the Soviet Union that also inaugurates cooperation between the two countries in genealogical research. Joining Baumann will be Marie Allen, deputy di­ rector of the N ational Archives’ Intergovernmental Records Project. In the first two weeks of October they will visit archives in Moscow, Leningrad, and Riga to become familiar with techniques of ap­ praisal, selection, and acquisition in the Soviet Union’s government archives. A Soviet archivist and historian are expected to visit the U.S. in October 1990. F ormerly chief of the Division of Archives and Manuscripts at the Pennsylvania Museum Com­ mission, Baumann frequently serves as an archival consultant, and he is the author of numerous pro­ fessional articles, including a 1986 article in the American Archivist urging a model law for admini­ stering access to confidential records in govern­ ment archives. The article grew out ofhis participa­ tion in the Research Fellowship Program for Study of Modern Archives funded in 1985 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Earhart Founda­ tion of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Soviet visit is an activity of the newly created U .S.-U.S.S.R. Commission on Archival Coopera­ tion (CAC) of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Main Archival Administration of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers; CAC is admini­ stered in the U.S. bylREX. United States Archivist Don W. Wilson and F edor M. Baganov, chief of the Main Archival Administration of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers, signed a joint agreement of archival cooperation for 1989-90 at an April 18 ceremony in the U.S.S.R. The CAC is designed to promote professional development and coopera­ tion between the two countries while increasing access for all researchers to all materials held in archives. While in the U.S.S.R., Wilson returned to the Soviet government the first two boxes of the original files of the Imperial Russian consulates in North America. The remainder of the 400 boxes will be returned to the U . S . S. R. in the course of the year. D i a n e G a k n e r , head of the Documents and Maps Section at Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, was named as the fifth recipient of Government Publications Review’s Bernard M. Fry Award. Garner’s prize-winning article, “The Infor­ mation Policy of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,” appeared in University of Nevada Libraries’ Government Pub­ lications Review, vol. 15 (September/October 1988):421-37. The recipient o f the award is se­ lected by an independent review board for the best article appearing in Government Publications Re­ view during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of the founding editor. This year’s winner received a plaque and a check in the amount of $500 presented by Pergamon Press, Inc. E l l e n G i b s o n , director of the Law Library at SUNY-Buffalo, is the 1989 recipient of the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award for her book, New York Legal Research Guide. The Andrews Award is given annually by the American Associa­ tion of Law Libraries to recognize the year’s signifi­ cant printed contributions to legal bibliography. The award, a plaque, was presented at the AALL annual meeting in June. N o r m a n H o r r o c k s , vice-president for editorial of Scarecrow Press, has been elected vice-presi­ dent/president-elect of Beta Phi Mu, the library science honor society. Founded at the University of Illinois in 1948, Beta Phi Mu now has over 25,000 members who are honors graduates of accredited library science programs in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Its headquarters are at the University of Pittsburgh and there are close to 50 chapters in the U.S. and in Europe. Beta Phi Mu provides scholarships and awards in support of library science education and furthers research through an awards and publications program. Horrocks has also received the Association for Library and Information Science Education’s annual Service Award. The formal presentation will be made at its annual meeting in Chicago in January 1990. Horrocks has served as the Association’s president, secretary-treasurer, journal editor, par­ liamentarian, and chair of several of its committees since he joined the Association in 1964. Before joining Scarecrow Press in 1986 Horrocks had worked in libraries in England, Cyprus, and Aus­ tralia. He had taught at schools in Perth, Western Australia, the University of Pittsburgh, University of Hawaii, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, and lectured at the National Taiwan Uni­ versity and the University of the West Indies. Currently he is an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. R o b e r t P . H o l l e y , associate dean of libraries at Wayne State University, has been named editor of Resource Sharing and Information Networks .This journal, published by Haworth Press since 1981, provides a forum for ideas on the basic theoretical and practical problems faced by planners, practi­ tioners, and users o f networks of all types. N e a l K . K a s k e has been appointed as a senior associate with the Library Development Staff in the Office for Educational Research and Improve- September 1989/729 ment. He joined the Departm ent from the U niver­ sity o f Alabama, where he was a m em ber o f the faculty at the Graduate School o f Library Service. In his new position, Kaske will administer the College LibraryTechnology and Cooperation Grant Program which was authorizedin 1987 (Title II-D of the Higher Education Act, as amended). With an annual appropriation o f approximately $3.6 mil­ lion, this program provides support for a variety of activities related to library networking and resource sharing involving institutions o f higher education and non-academic libraries o f all types. The pro­ gram also has a research and demonstration com ­ ponent to enable researchers to study problems and test ideas. J a c k L e i s t e r , head librarian o f the Institute o f Governmental Studies Library, University o f Cali­ fornia, Berkeley, has been selected to receive an Award for Professional Achievem ent by the San Francisco Bay Region C hapter o f the Special L i­ braries Association. The award is given to aChapter member for notable and enduring contributions to the Chapter and the profession. T h e award rep re­ sents a cumulative evaluation o f an individual’s career and emphasizes local activity and leadership of an exemplary nature. L eister has served as Chapter president, treasurer, member o f the Board of Directors, and on numerous committees. At the association level Leister has served as a member o f the Board o f Directors, conference program chair for the Honolulu con feren ce in 1979, and as a member o f several com m ittees. In 1987 L eister was selected one o f the fifteen original Fellows o f the Association. R u t h J . P e r s o n , associate vice-chancellor for academic affairs, University o f Missouri, St. Louis, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Board o f D irectors o f the American Association o f University Administrators. Chartered in Buffalo, New York, in 1970 as a non-profit educational organization, AAUA represents the professional standard in post-secondary administration, open to career administrators in accredited colleges, uni­ versities, and other post-secondary institutions. M ajorpriorities include leadership development, standards, and ethics. Appointm ents (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, AGRL, 5 0 E . Huron St., Chicago, IL 6 0 6 1 1 -2 7 9 5 .) A n t h o n y A d a m has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Prairie View A & M Univer­ sity, Prairie View, Texas. S a t o s h i A k i b a has been appointed assistant curator at Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. K i m b e r l y A l l e n is now the c h ie f librarian for the National Association o f Home Builders in Washington, D.C. S a r a E . A m a t o has been appointed assistant librarian at the M arkO. Hatfield Library, W illam­ ette University, Salem, Oregon. A l t h e a A s c h m a n n has been named head of technical services at Xavier University, New O r­ leans. W e n d y R A iA h a s been appointed cataloger in the Serials Department Cataloging Unit at the Univer­ sity o f Colorado at Boulder. R a n d a l l R a i e r has joined the staff o f the C ata­ loging Departm ent o f Central T echnical Services, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. M a r y a n n B a k e r is the new database searching coordinator at Bueknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. J a n i s M . B a n d e l i n has been appointed re fe r­ en ce librarian at Texas Christian University, F ort Worth. J a c k B e c k e r has been appointed information access librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock. R o b i n P a u l B e n k e has been named director o f library services at John Cook Wyllie Library, Clinch Valley College o f the University ofVirginia, Wise. L e a h C . B e v a n has been appointed head o f the D ocum ent Delivery Library at Michigan State University, East Lansing. M a r y B i g g s has been named director o f the Mercy College Libraries, Dobbs Ferry, New York. M a r y B o p p has been appointed as an assistant librarian in the Undergraduate Library Services D epartm ent o f the Main Library at Indiana U ni­ versity, Bloomington. S h a r o n L . B o s t i c k is now assistant director for referen ce and bibliographic instruction at the University ofToled o, Ohio. L o u A n n B r a d l e y has been appointed assistant director o f libraries for automated services at the University o f North Texas, Denton. A n i t a B r e c k b i l l has join ed the cataloging de­ partment at the University o f Nebraska, Lincoln. B i l l B r o c k m a n is now English librarian at the University o f Illinois Library, Urbana. D i a n e B r o w n has been named head o f the Physics Library at the University o f California, Berkeley. J e a n i n e B r o w n has been appointed manager, C hildren’s Hospital Library, at the Ohio State University, Columbus. M a r y L . B u r g e t t has been appointed director o f processing services at the F ondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas. M i c h a e l y n B u r n e t t e has been appointed 7 3 0 / C irR L News humanities librarian in the Collection Develop­ ment and Reference Services Department at Uni­ versity of California, Berkeley. G e o r g e E . B y n o n is now the director of admin­ istrative services at the General Library, University of California, Davis. N e i l A . C a m p b e l l has been appointed head of the E. K. Williams Law Library at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. B r i d g e t C a n a v a n has been appointed head of catalog management in the Catalog Department at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illi­ nois. T h o m a s J . C a s h o r e has been appointed busi­ ness librarian at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. R a f a e l a G . C a s t r o has been appointed ethnic studies librarian at the General Library, University of California, Davis. A n n C h a n g has been appointed assistant cata- loger at Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, Texas. G a r y C h a r b o n n e a u has been appointed assis­ tant library automation officer at Indiana Univer­ sity, Bloomington. M i c h a e l G . C h io r a z z i has been named deputy director of the Boston College Law Library. C a t h y C h iu is now head of the East Asiatic Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder. J o y C o l l i n s has been appointed head of the Reference Department at W. W. Hagerty Library, Drexel University, Philadelphia. C y n t h i a C o u l t e r has been appointed head of the Acquisition Department at the Donald O. Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. L e e D a l z e l l has been appointed head of the Reference Department at the Williams College Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts. P a u l a D e m a n e t t has been appointed assistant to the dean for systems and planning at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. C h r i s t i n e D e S a i n has been appointed systems librarian at the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. J o s e O . D i a z has been appointed Latin-Ameri­ can cataloger at the Ohio State University, Colum­ bus. N a n c y D o w n is the new cataloger at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. C l e t a D u n a w a y has been appointed serials catalog librarian at the University ofSouth Carolina Library Processing Center, Columbia. S t e p h a n i e E d w a r d s has been appointed assis­ tant archivist/librarian for Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock. D a v i d F a r r e l l is now assistant university li­ brarian for collections at the U niversity of Califor­ nia at Berkeley. K a t h l e e n F l a d l a n d has been appointed cata­ log librarian in bibliographic services for University Library Services of Virginia Commonwealth U ni­ versity, Richmond. R o b e r t F o l l e t has been appointed music li­ brarian for the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas. M a u r i c e F o r t i n has been appointed assistant director of libraries forpublic services at University of North Texas, Denton. C a r o l y n O . F r o s t has been appointed interim associate dean at the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies, Ann Arbor. C l a u d i a F u n k e has been appointed to the Rare Books Section of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division at the New York Public Library, NewYork City. M o n i c a G h o s h has been appointed library in­ struction coordinatorat Michigan State University, East Lansing. C l i f f G l a v i a n o has been appointed head of catalogingat Bowling Green State University, Ohio. J o h n G o o d i n is now head of technical services at the Indiana University Library, Bloomington. B o n n i e G r a t c h has been appointed director of information services at the Bowling Green State University Libraries, Ohio. K r i s t i n H a n s e n is now a cataloger in the HartwickCollege Library, Oneonta, NewYork. L u c y B j o r k l u n d H a r p e r has been appointed Portland Campus librarian, Linfield College, Ore­ gon. E r l a H e y n s has been appointed assistant head of public services at the Indiana University Librar­ ies, Bloomington. R i c h a r d H im m e l has been appointed assistant director of libraries for special collections at the University of North Texas, Denton. D o r i c e L . H o r n e has been appointed com­ puter/media librarian at New York University Medical Library, New YorkCity. D a v i d M . H o v d e has been appointed social sciences bibliographer/reference librarian at Pur­ due University Libraries, West Lafayette, Indiana. C l i n t o n N . H o w a r d has been appointed assis­ tant university librarian for collections at the Uni­ versity of California, Davis. G r a c e J a c k s o n - B r o w n has joined the staff of the Reference Department of the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. D o n n a M . J a c q u e s is now reference librarian and coordinator of bibliographic instruction at the Brandeis University Library, Waltham, Massachu­ setts. C a r o l y n J a m i s o n has been appointed head of the Cataloging Department of the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. L i n d a D . J a y e s has been appointed serials li­ brarian at Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute September 1989 / 731 of Technology, Chicago. L a u r a A . J e n n y has been appointed assistant head o f acquisitions at the University o f Notre Dame, Indiana. C h r i s t i n e J e w e l l is now reference and collec­ tions development librarian for philosophy, clas­ sics, and religious studies at the University of Waterloo Library, Ontario. L i s a J o h n s o n has been appointed bibliographic instruction and branch librarian at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia. K a t y J o h n s t o n is the new instructional services librarian at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, F lo r­ ida. K a r e n J o r d a n has been appointed general ref­ erence librarian in the W. W. Hagerty Library at Drexel University, Philadelphia. R i c h a r d E . K a u f m a n is the new librarian o f the Psychology Research Library and the Social R ela­ tions/Sociology Library at Harvard University. D i a n e K e n d a l l has been appointed assistant librarian at the M arkO. Hatfield Library, W illam­ ette University, Salem, Oregon. C a r o l i n e M . K e n t has been named head o f research services in W idener Library and assistant to the associate librarian o f Harvard College for public services. M a r i l y n L . K e r c h e r has been appointed non­ book/special assignments cataloger at the Ohio State University, Columbus. T h o m a s L a w r e n c e K i n g has been appointed science reference/maps librarian at the State Uni­ versity o f New Yorkat Binghamton. A l l e n J o n K i n n a m a n has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the Cabot Scien ce Library, H ar­ vard University. L o r e t t a K o c h has been appointed assistant humanities librarian at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. D i a n e K o v a c s is now public services librarian for collection development o f government docu­ ments at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsyl­ vania. R o b e r t a L y n n K o v i t z has been appointed curatorial associate for bibliographic services in the Harvard University Archives. B a r b a r a J . K r i i g e l has been named head o f technical services at Mardigian Library at the University o f Michigan, Dearborn. M a r y K u n t s a l has been appointed head o f the Aquisitions Division, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. K a t h l e e n A . L a n c e has been appointed head of public services at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia. J o s e p h J . L a u e r has been appointed Africana bibliographer at Michigan State University, East Lansing. D an R . L e e h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d c a t a l o g e r / r e f e r - CARRELS FOR AUTOMATION . . . . functional, wire managed, design adaptable In n ov a tiv e fu rn itu re fr o m M O H AW K..... M I D L A N D M A N U F A C T U R I N G 7 7 3 3 G R O S S P O IN T RO A D P O B O X 2 2 6 S K O K I E IL L IN O IS 6 0 0 7 0 - 0 2 2 6 8 0 0 -5 3 3 -5 2 1 1 ( I L L I N O I S : 3 1 2 -6 7 7 -0 3 3 3 ) ence librarian at the Jackson Library, Lander C ol­ lege, Greenwood, South Carolina. S u s a n L o w e n b e r g has been appointed head o f the Access Services D epartm ent at the University o f Colorado at Boulder. M i c h a e l A . L u t e s has been appointed re fe r­ en ce librarian at the University o f Notre Dame, Indiana. M a d g e M a c G o w n has been appointed univer­ sity librarian at the University o f Windsor, Ontario. H e l e n K e n i k M a i n e l l i is now library director for the Seminary Library, Bethany and Northern Baptist Theological Seminaries and associate pro­ fessor o f theological bibliography at Northern Baptist Seminary, Oakbrook, Illinois. J u d y M a l a m u d has been named director o f the D. Samuel Gottesm an Library, Albert Einstein College o f M edicine, Bronx, New York. S u e M a r s h has been appointed corporate infor­ mation librarian at the Baker Library, Harvard University. 732 /C&RL News N i c o l e M i c h a u d - O y s t r y k has been appointed head of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. J o h n M i l l e r has been appointed automation librarian at the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. L a u r e l L . M i n o t t has been appointed head of the documents library at Michigan State Univer­ sity, East Lansing. A r l i n e M o o r e is a new serials catalog librarian for Central University Libraries, Southern Meth­ odist University, Dallas, Texas. K a t h r y n N . M o r g a n has been appointed cura­ tor of rare books at the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, Charlottesville. G a i l N e e l y has been appointed cataloger at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations Library at Cornell University, Ithaca. D a v i d J . N u t t y has been appointed head of Lewis Towers Library, Loyola University of Chi­ cago. M o n i c a A . O l l e n d o r f f has been appointed reference librarian and social sciences bibliogra­ pher at Michigan State University, East Lansing. T o n i P . O l s h a n is the new assistant in collection development and reference librarian at Herrick Library, Alfred University, Alfred, NewYork. C h a r l e s O w u s u has been appointed reference librarian at Nassau Community College Library, Garden City, NewYork. J e n n i e P a t o n has been appointed audio-visual services librarian at Armstrong State College, Savan­ nah, Georgia. J e n n i f e r P a u s t e n b a u g h has joined the staff of the Reference Department of the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. S a n d r a P l u m m e r has been appointed assistant curator and special collections cataloger at the Ohio State University, Columbus. K a t i e P o o l e has been appointed visual collec­ tions librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. P a u l a J . P o p m a has been appointed assistant university librarian for access services at Santa Clara University, California. L y n n R a n d a l l has been named library director at Caldwell College, New Jersey. B e t h R e i c h a r d t has been appointed reference librarian at Valdosta State College, Georgia. M a r y R i d e r has been appointed manuscripts general cataloger at the Ohio State University, Columbus. J o n i R o b e r t s has been appointed assistant li­ brarian at the Mark O. Hatfield Library, Willam­ ette University, Salem, Oregon. S h e l l y L . R o g e r s joined the staff as a cataloger at the Music Library and Sound Recordings Ar­ chives at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. W i l l i a m L . R y a n has been named director of library services for Lamar University, Orange, Texas. B r a d l e y S c h a f f n e r has been appointed bibli­ ographer for Russian and Soviet Studies at the UniversityofKansas Libraries, Lawrence. A n g e l a S c h i w y has been appointed heritage archivist at the Northwest Territories Archives in the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife. F o r d S c h m i d t has been appointed associate librarian at the MarkO. Hatfield Library, Willam­ ette University, Salem, Oregon. E d w a r d S c h r e e v e s is now assistant university librarian for collection management atthe Univer­ sity of Iowa, Iowa City. R e b e c c a S c h u l t e has been appointed assistant curator of the Kansas Collection atthe University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. J e s s i c a S e i l e r has been appointed reference/ bibliographic instruction librarian at Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia. M a r y I . S h e a r e r is the new reference/govern­ ment documents librarian at the University of Houston Law Library. R o b e r t S h e r e r has been appointed university archivist at Tulane University, New Orleans. G i n a S i n k has been appointed information serv­ ices librarian atthe Briscoe Library, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. S c o t t A l a n S m i t h has been appointed regional sales manager for the Pacific Northwest and north­ ern tier states at B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., and Black­ well North America, Inc. P a m e l a S p i t z m u e l l e r has been appointed uni­ versity conservator at the University of Iowa Li­ braries, Iowa City. K r i s t i n a I . S t a r k u s has been appointed Slavic and East European studies librarian at the Ohio State University, Columbus. H o n g S u n has joined the serials department at the UniversityofNebraska, Lincoln. M a r t h a T a r l t o n has been appointed head of general reference atthe University of North Texas, Denton. E l e n a T h o m a s - H a l l has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at Nassau Community College Li­ brary, Garden City, NewYork. P a t r i c i a T . T h o m p s o n has been appointed head of the Art Library at Michigan State University, East Lansing. J a m e s V a n F l e e t is the new reference librarian at Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewis- burg, Pennsylvania. C h i h W a n g has been named dean of learning resources atthe University of Guam, Mangilao. L i n d a H . Y . W a n g has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of South Alabama Library, Mobile. J u l i e W a t e r s has been appointed science refer­ ence librarian at the U niversity of Kansas Libraries, September 1989 / 733 Lawrence. E r i c W e t t s t e i n has been appointed reference librarian at Valdosta State College, Georgia. M y r a W h i t e has been appointed acting assis­ tant library director at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. M i n g K a n W o n g has been appointed serial cataloger at the Ohio State University, Columbus. N i c h o l a s Y e a g e r has jo in ed the staff in the Rare Books Section o f the Rare Books and Manu­ scripts Division at the New York Public Library, New York City. C h a r l e n e Y o r k is now acting head o f reference at the Bowling G reen State University Libraries, Ohio. Retirements G e o r g e M . B a i l e y , associate director o f librar­ ies for the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, Cali­ fornia, retired on June 3 0 ,1 9 8 9 . His active profes­ sional career o f 42 years started with his teaching history at Franklin and Marshall College, H ei­ delberg College (Tiffin, Ohio), and the Univer­ sity o f Wisconsin. After receiving his library degree from the Univer­ sity o f Wisconsin-Madi- son in 1953, he filled a series o f progressively more demanding library positions at the Berkeley G eorge M. Bailey and Davis campuses o f the University o f C ali­ fornia, Northwestern University, York College (City University o f New York), and, since 1971, at the Claremont Colleges. Bailey has contributed much to the nation’s library associations including: serv­ ice on numerous ALA com m ittees and divisions and the ALA Council; presidency o f B eta Phi Mu; and active participation in state associations in California, Illinois, and New York. He made major contributions to A C R L through its sections and com m ittees and from 1963 to 1968 he was A C R L executive secretary. As a site visitor for the Western Association o f Schools and Colleges and ALA’s Com m ittee on Accreditation, he has helped to ensure the quality o f our colleges, universities, and library schools. Bailey will continue to pursue his professional responsibilities in ALA, serving on the Committee on Accreditation. H e r b e r t C a h o o n , Robert H . Taylor Curator of Autograph Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, retired on June 30 after 35 years o f service. Cahoon received an AB from Harvard College in 1940 and an S B L S from C o ­ lumbia University School o f Library Service in 1943. He was formerly on the staff o f the Harvard College Library and the Reserve Division o f the N ew York Public Library. In May he was elected an Honorary F ellow o f the Morgan Library. He is the author o f Thanatopsis, 1949, co-author o f A B ib li­ ography o f Jam es Joy ce, 1953, The O verbrook Press B ib lio g ra p h y , 1963, and many exhibition catalogs and articles. E l a i n e F i t z M a u r i c e , head o f the copy catalog­ ing and catalog maintenance area, retired this past spring after 48 years o f service to the Harvard Law School Library. J o h n E . G a l e j s , assistant director for collection development at Iowa State University, Ames, re ­ tired at the end o f June after 31 years o f service. Galejs received his bachelor’s degree and two masters’ degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1958, Galejs came to Iowa State as serials librar­ ian, became head of the serials department in 1962, and served in several assistant director posts, being named assistant director for collection develop­ m ent in 1983. He belongs to several professional organizations including ALA and Iowa Library Association. In ALA he has been particularly active in the Resources and Technical Services Division having served on several committees including the Library Materials Price Index C om m ittee, Plan­ ning Committee, Policy and Research Committee o f the Serials Section, and Acquisitions Section Nominating C om m ittee. E l e a n o r A d a m s G u s t a f s o n retired on June 30 after nine years as librarian o f W ellesley College. A 1946 graduate o f Simmons College, Gustafson received her M LS in 1964 from Colum bia University School o f L i­ brary Service. After two years at Bryn Mawr C ol­ lege Library, Gustafson came to Wellesley where she served as cataloger, senior cataloger, associ­ ate librarian for tech ni­ cal services, and associ­ ate college librarian. A career spanning41 years at Wellesley. . r, E lean or Gustafson She actively partici­ pated in the 1956 and 1975 renovations projects for the Clapp Library, planned and trained personnel for the online cata­ loging system in 1973, supervised planning and in­ stallation o f the Innovative Interfaces Library Sys­ tem. In 1984, serving as co-chair with an alumna, Gustafson helped revive a Friends o f the Library 734 / C& RL News for the College. The Friends is now an active group with nearly 1,000 members. Gustafson was on the Board of Directors of the Boston Consortium, served as chair 1983-84, and was on the Board of Directors ofN ELIN ET 1981-83. During her ear­ lier career she was active in the Resources and Technical Services Division of ALA and the New England Technical Services Librarians. A n n e l i s e K a t z , librarian of the Psychology Research Library and the Social Relations/Sociol­ ogy Library, retired on June 30 after 41 years of service at Harvard. Originally from Germany, Katz had to leave that country in 1934 when she was 12 years old, spend­ ing the next 14 years in Italy and England. She came to Harvard in 1948 as department secretary for the Department of Germanic Languages and Litera­ tures. In 1959, she became the librarian of the Psychology Library, taking on the added responsi­ bilities of librarian of the Social Relations/Sociol­ ogy Library in the summer of 1980. Katz was responsible for directing the administration of these two libraries includingthe acquisition andprocess- ing of books and journals, the training and supervi­ sion ofpart-time student assistants, and the prepa­ ration and administration of the libraries’ budgets and accounts. J u n e R o s s i e r retired in July after serving as the Harvard Law School Library’s selector for foreign and international law for the past 22 years. N a n e t t e S a r g e n t , music cataloger, retired in May from Texas Tech University Libraries, Lub­ bock. B e a S p r i g g s , cataloger at the Bowling Green State University Libraries, Ohio, for 23 years, re­ tired in December 1988. G l a d y s T a y l o r , archivist of Rochester Institute ofTechnologyin Rochester, New York, and mem­ ber of the staff of Wallace Memorial Library, re­ tired June 30, after 30 years of service. T aylor, who previously held positions of acting director and head of reference, established the archives of RIT. Items and records spanning 160 years and three campuses (includingthe now dissolved Eisenhower College) have been carefully preserved and await new quarters in the Wallace Memorial Library facility under construction for expansion and reno­ vation. She has been a member of the American Libraiy Association, the Society of American Archi­ vists, the New York Library Association, the Na­ tional Archives Associates, and the National Asso­ ciation of the Deaf. She has served on the local Rochester Regional Library Council Preservation Committee and Local History Committee. E l i z a b e t h M . T e s t a , librarian of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, has an­ nounced her retirement on August 31. Before join­ ing the Commission, where she established the higher education research libraiy in 1975, she held positions as librarian of the National Film Board of Canada and head librarian of the Leslie Frost Libraiy at York University, Toronto. She also served for two years as a consultant on academic libraries in East Africa. J o h n B a r r y V i g l e retired on June 30 as director of the Library and Learning Resources Center at the Universityof Maine at Presque Isle, aposition he held since August 1982. Vigle began his career in 1956 as a branch assistant in the Brooklyn Public Library. In 1959 he switched to academic librarian- ship by moving to the University of Dayton Library. Vigle was appointed assistant director in 1964 and remained at Dayton until 1972, when he accepted his first directorship at Xavier University in Cincin­ nati . Vigle left Xavier in 1978 to accept a director­ ship at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, from August 1978 to July 1982. Vigle’s most signifi­ cant contributions have been in the area of library consortia. In addition to active memberships in the University of Maine System Library Directors Group and the old Dayton-Miami Valley Consor­ tium he was instrumental in the founding commit­ tee of the greater Cincinnati Library Consortium and was elected to serve as the consortium’s second president in 1974. He was the chief founder of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium and was elected its first president in 1979. M a u r e e n W i l s o n , map librarian at the Univer­ sity of British Columbia Library, Vancouver, has retired after 30 years of service. Wilson obtained her bachelor’s honors and diploma in librarianship at the University o f London. After working at the Surrey County Library in England and the Public Library in North Bay, Ontario, Wilson came to UBC in 1959 as a general reference librarian. In 1965, she was appointed the first head of the newly formed Map Library. Deaths A l a n M . C o h n , humanities librarian and Eng­ lish professor at Southern Illinois University, Car- bondale, died Saturday, July 15, in Jackson County Nursing Home at Murphysboro. He was 62. Cohn organized the humanities division as one of Morris Library’s five divisions in the 1950s and served as its original director. He built the humani­ ties collection, as well as its archives of rare books, into a nationally known research resource. Cohn, an internationally recognized James Joyce scholar, also published scores of articles, reviews, biblio­ graphic checklists and notes on Joyce. His work, described as indispensable to Joyce scholars, will be added to the SIUC library’s special collections of Joyce materials. 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Write for ticated tool gives you our free Q & A booklet: CLSI, In c., 320 freer, faster and Nevada Street, Newtonville, MA 02160, or more definitive call us at 1-800-365-0085. access to your database, CLSI § with more Finding out is what you’re all about. Alex Shekhel Vice President Research & Development 7 3 6 / C ^ R L News ington University (where he was twice a Heermans Fellow). He earnedhis library science degree from the University of Illinois in 1955, coming to SIU as humanities librarian that same year. He was a member of the Bibliographic Society of America, the Charles Dickens Society, the Modern Lan­ guage Association, the Phi Beta Kappa Association and an honorary member of Pi Kappa Delta. In 1966 he was one of the few librarians elected to membership in the Caxton Club, composed of collectors and others interested in book collections, fine printing, and literature. Cohn won an Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award for excellence in 1977. E l i z a b e t h M u n t z D u g o f f , a librarian at Flor­ ida Institute of T echnology, died of a stroke on June 14, at Humana Hospital Sebastian. Dugoff moved to Brevard County 12 years ago from Norfolk, Con­ necticut. Born in New York City, she graduated from Hunter College there. She received her master’s degree in library science from Columbia University and a second master’s degree in English literature from Indiana University. Dugoff worked as a librarian at Hunter College and Western Connecticut State College before comingto Mel­ bourne. E l m e r M . G r i e d e r , former associate director of the Stanford University Libraries, died at his home June 19, of aheart attack. Duringhis 26 years of service to the libraries, from 1949 to 1974, the collections grew from 1 million to 4 million volumes and were finally ranked among the top 10 universi­ ties in total holdings. Grieder was born August 14,1909, in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Dubuque, received a master’s degree in history from Harvard and a degree in library service from Columbia. Before comingto Stanford he worked at the New York and Detroit public libraries, was a Harvard U niversity staff librarian for nine years and univer­ sity librarian at West Virginia University for two years. He served as assistant director of the Stan­ ford Libraries from 1949 to 1951, when he was promoted to associate director. In 1955 he took a leave of absence to travel to Turkey, where he served as director of the Institute of Librarianship at Ankara University on a special assignment from the American Li bran-Association. He was respon­ sible for the establishment of a training program for Turkish librarians. Shortly after his return to Stan­ ford, Grieder was named acting director of the libraries, from 1959 to 1961. For the last 10 years of his Stanford career he concentrated on the devel­ opment of a selection organization for the U niver­ sity Libraries and on collaboration in collection- building with the coordinate libraries at the Hoover Institution and the Law, Medical, Business, Food Research Institute, and Stanford Linear Accelera­ tor Center Libraries. D a v i d L e w a l l e n , business librarian at the Uni­ versity of California, Irvine, died in April. Lewallen received an AB with distinction from Indiana Uni­ versity graduating with departmental honors in 1969. He attended UCLA on a Chancellor’s F e l­ lowship and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship alternate. He received his MLS from Simmons College in Boston in 1974. From 1972 to 1979 he worked in the circulation, reference, and public sendees departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Dewey Library. Before coming to UCI, Lewallen was manager of the Business Li­ brary, Alameda County Libraries, during his ten­ ure there the library received citations from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Cali­ fornia Employment Development Department. A project the Library cosponsored was nominated for a County Supervisor’s Association of California Public-Private Partnership Award in 1983. During the past two years Lewallen was an active volunteer for the AlDS WALK Orange County, which helps raise funds for organizations engaged in direct patient services, education, and research related to AIDS. A n n e M . M u r p h y , director of libraries at Fordham University, died of cancer on May 17. She joined Fordham in 1954 as an assistant librarian and was appointed director in 1970. Previously, she worked for the New York Public Library. Murphy was a trustee of M ETRO at the time of her death. She was elected to the Board in 1983. B a r b a r a R e m m e r d e died on March 15, 1989. She had been a librarian at Eastern Washington University from 1970until herdeath. Sheretiredin 1985, but continued to serve the University as a part-time librarian. She received her MLS in 1970 and was named by Governor Dixy Lee Ray to the Washington State Board of Certification for Li­ brarians, serving two appointments. G r e t c h e n S c h e n k , Washington State librarian from 1941 to 1945, passed away in Alabama on May 16,1989. W . H . O . S c o t t died on April 23,1989. Bill Scott served the libraries at Western Washington State University from 1960 until his retirement in 1987, serving as circulation librarian, specials projects librarian, and government documents librarian. E d n a M a y B r o w n T i t u s , retired from the Li­ brary of Congress in the mid-1960s, died on March 1. Titus was the head of the Serials Section in the Descriptive Cataloging Division from the early 1940s until 1959. 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