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U .S.A . a w a rd  fo r c re a tiv e  p ro g ra m m in g  an d  
m em bership development. Anne Roberts, associ­
ate librarian and liaison to the SUNY Friends, ac­
cepted the aw ard during a ceremony at the ALA 
Conference in Dallas. In the past year the Friends

group has held a series of noontim e talks highlight­
ing faculty explorations in their research, author 
receptions, and overnight outings and bus trips. 
The group has been cited as a model for academic 
Friends organizations. ■ ■

P E O P L E
Profiles

Linda Beaupré has been nam ed associate direc­
tor of General Libraries at the University of Texas 
at Austin. H er appointm ent is a prom otion from as­
sociate director of public services, a position she has 
held since 1980.

Beaupré joined the UT Austin staff as head li­
b rarian  of the Reference Services D epartm ent in 
1978 and served as acting assistant director for p u b ­
lic services from 1979 to 1980. Previously she held 
the positions of associate university librarian for 
public services at the M offitt U ndergraduate L i­
b r a r y , U n iv ersity  of C a lifo rn ia , B erkeley, in 
1977-1978, w here she h ad started as a reference li­
b rarian  in 1972; and supervisor of Microform Col­
lections at the University of Michigan G raduate L i­
b rary  in 1967-1969.

Beaupré served on the College ‹b Research L i­
braries N ew s E ditorial Board from 1980-1984 and 
as chair of the RASD N om inating Com m ittee. She 
has also worked on the ALA Instruction in the Use 
of Libraries Com m ittee, the RASD Publications 
C om m ittee, and on w h at is now the LAMA L i­
b rary  O rganization an d  M anagem ent Section’s 
C om parative L ibrary O rganization Com m ittee. 
C urrently a m em ber of the E ditorial Board for the 
Journal o f Academ ic Librarianship, she holds an 
MLS from the University of Michigan.

Alan Benenfeld, coordinator of physical sci­
ences and technology libraries at UCLA since 1976, 
has been nam ed dean and director of libraries at 
N ortheastern University, Boston, effective Novem­
ber 15.

Benenfeld received his m aster’s degree in m a n ­
agem ent from N ortheastern in 1975. Prior to his 
graduation there he received an engineering degree 
from NYU in 1961 and an MLS from Rutgers in 
1965. He was a research assistant in m etallurgy at

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Cornell University from 1962 to 1964. In 1965 he 
moved to M IT w here he was first assistant engi­
neering librarian, then a research staff m em ber in 
the Electronic Systems L aboratory, and finally as a 
systems analyst and senior inform ation scientist.

Benenfeld was technical program  chairm an for 
th e ASIS A naheim  conference in 1980 and co- 
chairm an of the ASIS conference technical pro ­
gram in 1975. He was president of the Rutgers Stu­
dent C hapter of ASIS and of the New England 
C hapter in 1969.

tie  has served on numerous ALA committees, in­
cluding the ACRL Science and Technology Sec­
tion’s Conference Program  Planning C om m ittee 
for Dallas, the RASD Standards and Guidelines 
C om m ittee and Publications C om m ittee, and the 
LITA E ditorial Board.

Michael K. Buckland has been appointed assis­
ta n t vice-president for library plans and policies for 
the University of California, effective July 1. He 
has been acting assistant vice-president since Au­
gust 1983, w hile concurrently serving as dean of 
the School of L ibrary and Inform ation Studies at 
UC-Berkeley. He resigned as dean in August.

Buckland was head of the L ibrary Research Unit 
of the University of Lancaster, England, before 
moving to the U.S. in 1972 to become assistant di­
rector of libraries for technical services at Purdue 
University, Indiana. He joined UC as dean in 1976.

Buckland holds degrees from Oxford University 
and Sheffield University. His publications include 
two books and several reports and articles on li­
brary problem s, m anagem ent, and education.

David H. Eyman has been nam ed head librarian 
f Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 
ffective July 2. Eym an has been director of li­
raries a t J u n ia ta  C ollege, H u n tin g d o n , since 
978.

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from  Ohio University and an MLS and a P h.D . in 
lib ra ry  a d m in is tra tio n  from  th e  U niv ersity  of 
M ichigan. He has been a p art-tim e history faculty 
m em ber at th e University of M aryland’s F a r East 
Division, and from 1979 to 1984 p art-tim e faculty 
m em ber at Juniata.

From  1970 to 1978 he ta u g h t lib rary  science at 
C en tral M ichigan University, E astern M ichigan 
University, th e University of M ichigan, and N o rth ­
eastern O klahom a State U niversity. His first li­
b rary  adm inistration position was at C entral M ich­
ig a n , w h e re  he s ta r te d  as a ssista n t re fe re n c e  
lib rarian  and then served as assistant to th e director 
of libraries. He served for one year as head lib ra r­
ian at F indlay College, Ohio, then becam e director 
of the L ib rary  and L earning Resources C enter at 
N ortheastern O klahom a State in 1975.

E ym an has served on the board of the In te rli­
b rary  Delivery System of Pennsylvania and chaired 
several com m ittees for the Pennsylvania L ibrary 
Association. He has served on A CRL’s Audiovisual 
C om m ittee and th e CLS N onprint M edia and the 
College L ib rary  C om m ittee.

Shirley Hallblade has been appointed associ­
ate director of the lib rary  at V anderbilt University, 
Nashville, effective July 1. She served most recently 
as d ire c to r of W a lk e r 
M anagem ent L ib rary  at 
V a n d e r b i l t ’s O w e n  
G r a d u a t e  S chool of 
M a n a g e m e n t, m a n a g ­
ing th e move to new  fa ­
cilities and the develop­
m ent of the university’s 
newest library.

P r io r  to  c o m in g  to 
V a n d e r b il t in  1980, 
H a llb la d e  s e rv e d  as 
m a n a g e r of th e  r e f e r ­
ence services branch of 
th e Mississippi Research Shirley Hallblade
and D evelopm ent C en­
ter in Jackson. From  1975 to 1978 she was assistant 
professor of lib rary  science at the University of Mis­
sissippi. She received a Fulbright-H ays grant in 
1977 to study structure and governance in G erm an 
hig h er ed u catio n , an d  was a p a rtic ip a n t in th e 
1982-1983 ARL/OMS C onsultant T raining P ro­
gram .

H a llb la d e  h o ld s a b a c h e l o r ’s d e g re e  fro m  
Roosevelt University, an MLS from N orthern Illi­
nois University, an d  a doctorate in educational a d ­
m inistration from  th e University of Iow a.

Barbara J. Ford has been appointed assistant 
director for public services at T rinity University, 
San Antonio. She has served as head of th e D ocu­
m ents D ep artm en t of the University of Illinois at 
Chicago L ib rary  since 1979, and assistant docu­
m ents lib rarian  from  1975-1979.

F ord has been very active in ACRL, serving as

c h a i r  of th e  A c a d e m ic  S ta tu s  C o m m itte e  in  
1983-1984, and as a m em ber of th e Academ ic and 
Research L ibraries Personnel Study G roup and the 
BIS Research C om m ittee. She was also chair of the 
A LA  S o cial R e s p o n s ib ilitie s  R o u n d  T a b le  in  
1976-1977 and has been the Illinois L ib rary  Associ­
ation representative on ALA Council since 1980.

F ord earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Illi­
nois W esleyan University in 1968, a m aster’s in in ­
tern atio n al relations a t Tufts University in 1969, 
and an MLS at th e University of Illinois-U rbana in 
1973. In  1973-1975 she was director of th e Soybean 
Insect Research Inform ation C enter in U rbana, 
and prior to th a t served as a Peace Corps V olunteer 
in P an am a and N icaragua, w here she organized 
Peace Corps libraries to support volunteer activi­
ties in hom e economics and health.

Jay Ladd has been appointed assistant director 
of libraries for d ep artm en t an d  u n d erg rad u ate li­
braries a t Ohio State University, Colum bus. L add, 
w ho cam e to OSU in 1960, has been head of d e p a rt­
m ent libraries since 1968 and has previously served 
as head of th e C om m erce L ib rary  and adm inistra­
tive assistant to th e director of libraries.

H e is currently editor of th e Ohio Library Associ­
ation B ulletin, having served OLA in m any capaci­
ties, most recently as a m em ber of its Board of D i­
rectors. H e is a life m em b er of ALA an d  has a 
long-standing interest in lib rary  history.

L ad d  received his MLS in 1954 from  the Florida 
State University School of L ib rary  Services and 
T raining. He also attended a L ib rary  M anagem ent 
D evelopm ent Institute at M iam i University in 1969 
and several ARL continuing education program s, 
including a L ib rary  M anagem ent Skills Institute in 
1978 and a W orkshop on M otivation and L eader­
ship in 1982.

Before com ing to Ohio State, L ad d  was an assis­
ta n t reference lib rarian  and assistant acquisitions 
lib rarian  a t the University of New Mexico, and b ib ­
liographer and cataloger for th e Arm y W a r Col­
lege. His articles have appeared in th e O L A  Bulle­
tin, Serials R ev iew , an d  A m erican Book Collector.

Donald A. B. Lindberg has been appointed di­
rector of the N ational L ib rary  of M edicine, Be­
thesda. He comes to NLM from the University of 
Missouri School of M edicine w here he was director 
of the Inform ation Science G roup and professor of 
pathology. He is considered an expert in the field of 
com puters in m edicine and has published widely 
on th a t subject, including tw o books, The C om ­
puter and M edical Care (1968) and The G row th o f 
M edical Inform ation Systems in the United States 
(1979).

L indberg has ta u g h t pathology at the University 
of Missouri since 1962. He has also served as ch air­
m an  of the D ep artm en t of Inform ation Science at 
Missouri’s School of L ib rary  and Inform ation Sci­
ence from  1969 to 1971. He is th e U.S. representa­
tive to the In tern atio n al F ederation for Inform  a-



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tion Processing and a m em ber of th e  Board of 
Directors of the American Association for Medical 
Systems and Informatics.

John M. Meador Jr. has been nam ed dean of li­
brary services at Southwest Missouri State Univer­
sity, Springfield.

He comes to SMSU af­
te r serving as assistant 
d ire c to r of lib raries at 
th e University of U tah 
(1980-1984). His other 
e x p e rie n c e  in c lu d e s a 
position as head of refer­
ence at the University of 
Houston (1973-1978).

M eador holds a b ach ­
elor’s degree in English 
from  th e University of 
Louisville (1968), a mas­
te r ’s in E nglish (1972) 
and an MLS (1973) from John M. Meador, Jr.
the University of Texas 
at Austin. He is currently a Ph.D . candidate in edu­
cational adm inistration at the University of Utah.

M eador is a m em ber of ALA, the Association for 
the Study of Higher E ducation, and the Biblio­
graphical Society of America. He is co-author of 
The Robinson Jeffers Collection at the University 
o f Houston (1975).

Imre Meszaros, director of the Art and Archi­
te ctu re L ib rary  at W ashington University, has 
been nam ed director of the library at W ittenberg 
University, Springfield, Ohio. He replaces Bob Lee 
Mowery, who retired in 1983 after 10 years in th a t 
position. Before going to W ashington University, 
Meszaros was a rt librarian for seven years at the 
University of M aryland, College Park.

Meszaros, a native of Budapest, holds a m aster’s 
in English from the University of M aryland, a m as­
te r’s in d ata processing from W ashington Univer­
sity, and an MLS from Catholic University. His 
principal research interests have been in collection 
developm ent and m anagem ent, rare books and a r­
chives, and library autom ation and d ata process­
ing. He has been a consultant on collection preser­
vation and an appraiser of collections.

P. Rorert Paustian has been appointed director 
of the Eugene Shedden Farley L ibrary at Wilkes 
College, W ilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, effective 
September 10. He has been assistant director for 
collections at the University of Missouri, Kansas 
City, since 1983. From  1979 to 1982 he served as 
collections librarian and then circulation librarian 
and assistant head of public services at UMKC.

Paustian received an MLS from the University of 
Missouri, a m aster’s in linguistics from the Univer­
sity of Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in foreign 
languages from Missouri. He has w ritten articles 
for Library Research, Library Journal, Neophilo- 
logus, Indogermanische Forschungen, and Names.

Larry R. Oberg has been nam ed director of the 
library at Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, 
Idaho, effective in June. He has served as head of 
reference and collection 
developm ent at th a t in­
stitu tio n  since Jan u ary  
1983. O berg also holds 
th e rank of assistant p ro ­
fessor and teaches in the 
school librarian certifi­
cation program .

O b e rg  is a u th o r  of 
H um an Services in Post- 
r e v o lu tio n a r y  C u b a , 
p u b lis h e d  in  Ju ly  by 
G re e n w o o d  Press. An 
a c tiv e  m e m b e r of Larry R . Oberg
ACRL, he recently was 
ap p o in te d  an assistant 
editor of College ó- Research Libraries. He is also 
active in the Idaho L ibrary Association and the Pa­
cific N orthw est L ibrary Association.

A m em ber of Phi Beta K appa and Beta Phi Mu 
honor societies, O berg received his undergraduate 
degree in anthropology and his MLS from the Uni­
versity of C alifornia, Berkeley.

Before coming to Lewis-Clark, O berg served as 
reference lib ra ria n  a t C ubberley E d u catio n  L i­
brary, Stanford, and as head of circulation services 
a t th e  E d u c a tio n -P s y c h o lo g y  L ib r a r y , U C - 
Berkeley.

Judith Sessions has been nam ed university li­
b rarian  at C alifornia State University, Chico, ef­
fective August 1. Most recently she was assistant 
university lib ra ria n  for 
adm inistrative services 
and acting head of tech­
nical services at George 
W ashington University.

P rio r to  t h a t  she 
served as library direc­
to r  a t M o u n t V e rn o n  
College and at the Uni­
versity of South C a ro ­
lina, Salkehatchie C am ­
p u s. She w as also 
assistant college lib ra r­
ian for public services at 
the University of South 
C aro lin a, S p artan b u rg  Judith Sessions
Regional Cam pus.

Sessions now serves as an ALA councilor, and has 
been a m em ber of the College ò- Research Libraries 
E ditorial Board, president of the D istrict of Co­
lum bia L ib rary  Association, chair of th e LITA  
Video and Com m unications Section, and president 
of ALA’s Junior Members Round Table.

She is the author of articles in Cable Libraries, 
the L IT A  N ew sletter, A m erican Libraries, and 
T eleco m m u n ica tio n s Policy. H er MLS is from  
Florida State University (1971).



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Richard T. Sweeney, executive director of the 
Public L ibrary of Colum bus and Franklin County, 
Ohio, since 1979, has been nam ed dean of library 
and inform ation services at the Polytechnic Insti­
tu te of New York, effective August 1. One of Swee­
ney’s first tasks will be to plan for a new 60,000- 
s q u a re  fo o t c e n tr a liz e d  re s e a rc h  li b r a r y  a t 
Polytechnic’s Brooklyn campus.

Sweeney has been a featured speaker at m any 
professional association conferences, especially on 
the topics of the electronic library, videotex, cable 
TV, and m icrocomputers. He holds an MLS from 
Drexel University and a m aster’s in librarianship 
from Glassboro State College. At Colum bus and 
Franklin C ounty he pioneered com m unity cable 
d a ta  com m unications in both catalog access and 
circulation.

Sweeney has also held a teaching post at the 
Glassboro State College G raduate School of L i­
b ra ry  Science and has served as director of the 
Genessee C ounty L ibrary in F lint, Michigan, and 
the Atlantic City Free Public Library.

Claude Walston, director of program m ing ap ­
plied technology for th e IT T  C orporation, has 
been nam ed dean of the College of L ibrary and In ­
form ation Services, University of M aryland, Col­
lege Park.

W alston has an international reputation in the 
field of inform ation systems and m anagem ent. His 
career w ith the IBM C orporation began in 1953 
w ith his selection as one of the original members of 
the SAGE Project involved in the design and devel­
opm ent of com puting systems, and continued until 
1981 w hen he served as m anager of advanced soft­
w are technology, Federal Systems Division H ead­
quarters.

He received his Ph.D . in electrical engineering 
from Ohio State University in 1953, and has taught 
courses at the University of M aryland in d ata proc­
essing, inform ation retrieval, and systems analysis.

Appointments
(A ppointm ent notices are taken from  lib rary  

newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap ­
pointees, and other sources. To ensure th a t your 
appointm ent appears, w rite to the E ditor, ACRL, 
50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Faye Abrams has been appointed coordinator of 
the Industrial and Business Inform ation Service at 
the University of W aterloo, O ntario.

Nancy M. Adams has been nam ed director of the 
Rowley L ibrary at the College of Boca Raton, F lor­
ida.

Mary Allcorn joined the staff of the University 
of M issouri-Columbia as journalism  librarian.

Joan Allen has been appointed head of serials at 
the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.

Gordon Anderson has been appointed Slavic 
cataloger and bibliographer at the University of

Kansas, Law rence.
Sheila K. Arestad has been appointed refer­

ence librarian at Franklin and M arshall College, 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Jack August is now head of field collecting and 
oral history at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Lori Barth is the new central reference lib rar­
ian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Dora Biblarz has been appointed associate u n i­
versity librarian for collection developm ent at Ar­
izona State University, Tempe.

Carol Boast has been appointed agriculture li­
b rarian  at the University of Illinois, U rbana.

Stephen Bosch is now  acquisition librarian at 
the University of Arizona, Tucson.

June Iris Brown joined the staff of T ulane Uni­
versity New Orleans, Louisiana, as assistant h u ­
manities bibliographer.

Charles Brownson has been appointed h u m a n ­
ities collection developm ent co ordinator a t A r­
izona State University, Tempe.

Dennis Brunning is now  reference lib ra ria n / 
subject specialist for com m unication and leisure 
studies at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Sarah J. Buckingham is now reference librarian 
in the G utm an Library-Research C enter, H arvard 
University.

Sylvia Burbach has been appointed cataloger at 
In d ian a University, Bloomington.

Amrita Burdick is now assistant chief medical 
librarian at the University of Missouri H ealth Sci­
ences L ibrary, Kansas City.

Nancy Burkett has been appointed assistant li­
b rarian  of the American A ntiquarian Society in 
W orcester, Massachusetts.

Tuula Canini has been appointed m aterials ac­
quisitions librarian at the University of W aterloo, 
O ntario.

Donis Casey is now head of governm ent docu­
ments at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Sara Castro-Klaren is the new chief of the L i­
b rary  of Congress Hispanic Division.

Elena Gevallos has been appointed acting as­
sistant dean of public services at Hofstra University 
L ibrary, H em pstead, New York.

Li-Wan Chang has been appointed reference li­
b rarian  at the University of Texas at Dallas, Ri­
chardson.

Diane J. CiMBALAhas been appointed assistant 
librarian for circulation at Augusta College, Geor­
gia.

Oakley Herman Coburn has been nam ed head 
librarian at W offord College, Spartanburg, South 
Carolina.

Lois Ann Colaianni has been appointed associ­
ate director for library operations at the N ational 
L ibrary of Medicine, Bethesda, M aryland.

JimE. Cole has been appointed serials cataloger 
at Iow a State University, Ames.

Timothy Edward Connor has been appointed 
head of public services at the H arvard-Yenching 
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Peter Crosby is th e new  science reference li­
b rarian  in the Bio-Agricultural L ibrary, University 
of C alifornia, Riverside.

Joyce Cummings has been appointed p art-tim e 
lib rarian  in th e EMS Reference and Collections 
D evelopm ent D ep artm en t, University of W a te r­
loo, O ntario.

Patricia M. Damiani has been appointed serials 
lib rarian  at W heaton College, N orton, M assachu­
setts.

Mary Wallace Davidson has been appointed 
lib rarian  of the Sibley Music L ibrary, E astm an 
School of Music, U niversity of R ochester, New 
York.

Frieda Davison has been appointed head of c a t­
aloging at the C olum bia University H ealth Sci­
ences L ibrary.

James T. Deffenbaugh is now  collection devel- 
opm ent/acquisitions lib rarian  at the E arl Gregg 
Swem L ibrary, College of W illiam  and M ary, W il­
liam sburg, Virginia.

Connie V. Dowell has been appointed head of 
the C entral Reference D ep artm en t a t N orth Texas 
State University, D enton.

Gary Draper has been appointed coordinator 
for user education at th e University of W aterloo, 
O ntario.

Patricia M. Duck is now retrospective conver­
sion coordinator at th e University of Pittsburgh.

Marcia Duncan has been appointed gifts lib ra r­
ian in the Acquisitions U nit a t the University of 
N orth C arolina at C harlotte.

Diane Dydo has been appointed project m a n ­
ager for C ase W este rn  Reserve U niversity L i­
braries, Cleveland.

Sharon S. Eckert has been appointed m ono­
graphic cataloger at Iow a State University, Ames.

Susan Eilering has been appointed reference/ 
collection developm ent lib rarian  for engineering at 
C olum bia University, New York.

T amsen L. Emerson is now  assistant govern­
m ent docum ents lib rarian  at N orth Texas State 
University, D enton.

Christine N. Erdmann has been appointed p u b ­
lic services lib rarian  at Beloit College Libraries, 
Wisconsin.

Kenneth Fones-Wolf has been appointed a r­
c h iv is t a t th e  U n iv e rs ity  of M a s sa c h u se tts , 
Amherst.

Shirley J. Fosher has been appointed O C L C  
systems specialist and m onographic original c a ta ­
loger a t Iow a State University, Ames.

Dale Foster has been appointed technical ser­
vices lib ra ria n  a t M obile College L ib ra ry , A la­
bam a.

Barbara B. Francis has been appointed refer­
ence lib ra ria n  a t th e State U niversity College, 
O neonta, New York.

Kenneth Garson is now  inform ation studies li­
b ra ria n  at Drexel University Libraries, Philadel­
phia.

Rosario Garza joined the Bibliographic C enter

for Research, D enver, Colorado, as m em ber ser­
vices lib rarian  in Bibliographic Systems and Ser­
vices.

Celia Hales has been appointed reference li­
b ra ria n  and English bibliographer at th e U niver­
sity of N orth C arolina at C harlotte.

Uli Haller has been appointed assistant m a n u ­
scripts lib rarian  for Congressional papers at the 
University of W ashington, Seattle.

Rae M. Haws has been appointed instructor in 
th e L ibrary Instruction D ep artm en t, Iow a State 
University, Ames.

Diane Hill has been appointed head of educa­
tional resources technical services a t Ball State Uni­
versity, M uncie, Indiana.

Janice W . Holladay has been appointed assis­
ta n t director of libraries for reader services at the 
University of Rochester, New York.

Sandra Hopkins has been appointed serials c a ta ­
loger in the L aw  School L ibrary, H arv ard  U niver­
sity.

Donna Hudson has been appointed reference li­
b rarian  and science bibliographer at the University 
of N orth C arolina at C harlotte.

Mary Ellen Huls is now  governm ent publica­
tions lib rarian  at Iow a State University, Ames.

Deborah Husted has been appointed assistant 
lib rarian  in C entral T echnical Services at the State 
University of New York at Buffalo.

Peter B. Ives has been appointed assistant li­
b ra ria n  in the Business L ibrary, University of New 
Mexico, A lbuquerque.

Marty Joachim has been n am ed  h ead  of th e 
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Jeffrey P. Katz has been ap p o in ted  assistant li­
b ra ria n  in th e L ib rary  Systems Office, University 
of C alifornia, Berkeley.

C olleen Kelley has been a p p o in te d  e d u c a ­
tio n al resources cataloger a t Ball State University, 
M uncie, In d ian a .

Barbara L. Kempf has been ap p o in ted  visiting 
docum ents lib ra ria n  a t th e U niversity of O regon, 
E ugene.

Kit Kennedy has been n am ed  assistant director 
of th e Academ ic In fo rm atio n  Services Division at 
th e  Faxon C om pany, W estw ood, M assachusetts.

Janet S. Kinney has been n am ed  lib rary  director 
a t th e  College of St. C ath erin e, St. P aul, M inne­
sota.

James J. Kopp has been ap p o in ted  editor of th e 
Avery Index of A rchitectural Periodicals a t C o lu m ­
b ia University, N ew  York.

Charles C. Kovacs has been n am ed  director of 
external relations for Yale U niversity’s School of 
O rg an izatio n  an d  M anagem ent.

Bernard Kreissman has been ap p o in ted  special 
assistant for lib ra ry  m atters to th e  Vice C hancellor 
for A cadem ic A ffairs, U niversity of C a lifo rn ia , 
Davis.

Ruth Krug has been ap p o in ted  head of th e  Seri­
als C ataloging T eam  at th e  University of New Mex­
ico, A lbuquerque.

Barbara LaBarba has been ap p o in ted  h ead  of 
resources a t th e  C o lu m b ia  U niversity L a w  L i­
b ra ry , N ew  York.

May H. Liu has joined th e staff of th e T hom as 
C ooper L ib rary , University of South C aro lin a, C o­
lu m b ia.

Kenneth Lohrentz has been ap p o in ted  h ead  of 
acquisitions a t th e  U niversity of K ansas, L a w ­
rence.

Manuel D . Lopez has been ap p o in ted  h ead  of 
th e Reference D e p a rtm e n t a t Lockw ood L ib rary , 
State U niversity of N ew  York a t Buffalo.

Holly Lovejoy-Nesvold has been p ro m o ted  to 
technical services lib ra ria n  at Beloit College L i­
braries, W isconsin.

Pat McCandless has taken on ad d itio n al duties 
as assistant director for life sciences libraries at th e 
U niversity of Illinois, U rbana.

Patricia McClung has been p rom oted to asso­
ciate director of p ro g ram  coordination at th e Re­
search L ibraries G roup, S tanford University, w ith  
responsibility for th e  Preservation an d  Music P ro ­
gram s.

Nadia McIntosh joined th e  staff a t W illiam s 
College, W illiam stow n, M assachusetts, as tech n i­
cal services lib rarian .

Eloise McQuown is th e new  assistant lib rary  d i­
rector for adm inistrative services a t San Francisco 
State University.

Bettina J. Manzo is now  reference lib ra ria n  at 
th e College of W illiam  an d  M ary, W illiam sburg, 
V irginia.

Jo-Ann Michalak is now  assistant director for 
au to m a te d  services a t th e University of Pittsburgh.

Francis L. Miksa has been ap p o in ted  professor 
a t th e  U niversity of Texas G ra d u a te  School of L i­
b ra ry  an d  In fo rm atio n  Science, Austin.

Mary Miles has been ap p o in ted  associate direc­
to r of th e  V a n d e rb ilt U niversity L a w  L ib ra ry , 
Nashville.

Marguerite Mitchell has been ap p o in ted  d i­
rector of Stephens College L ib ra ry  in C olum bia, 
Missouri.

Alexander M. Moyer has been ap p o in ted  assis­
ta n t acquisitions lib ra ria n  a t T u lan e University, 
N ew  O rleans, L ouisiana.

Kurt R. Murphy is now  lib ra ry  systems analyst 
a t th e  University of O regon, Eugene.

Beata Panagopoulos has been ap p o in ted  serial 
cataloger in th e H a rv a rd  College L ib rary .

Michael W. Poulin has been ap p o in ted  te ch n i­
cal assistant for GEAC Systems a t th e  U niversity of 
Rochester, N ew  York.

Barbara M. Preschel has been appointed exec­
utive director of th e Public Affairs In fo rm atio n  
Service, New York.

Helene Proteau has been ap p o in ted  extension 
lib ra ria n  for th e M edical L ib rary , U niversity of 
M anitoba, W innipeg.

Joseph M. Pukl Jr. has been ap p o in ted  h ead  of 
th e O rd er D e p a rtm e n t at th e U niversity of South 
C aro lin a, C olum bia.

E va Radvan joined th e staff of th e  C olum bia 
University L aw  School L ib ra ry  as in tern atio n al, 
com parative, and foreign law  lib ra ria n .

Lori Reuter has been appointed public services 
lib ra ria n  at M ount Saint M ary’s College, Los A n­
geles.

Daphne Cross Roloff has been n am ed  head li­
b r a r ia n  a t C a n a d ia n  C e n tre  fo r A rc h ite c tu re , 
M ontreal, Q uebec.

Larry Romans has been ap p o in ted  inform ation 
services lib ra ria n  a t V an d erb ilt U niversity, N ash­
ville.

Mark E. Rorvig has been ap p o in ted  instructor 
a t th e  University of Texas G ra d u a te  School of L i­
b ra ry  an d  In fo rm atio n  Science, Austin.

Warren Rosmarin has been a p p o in te d  re fe r­
ence lib ra ria n  at th e  C olum bia U niversity L aw  L i­
b ra ry , N ew  York.

Susan Roth has been ap p o in ted  lib ra ria n  of the 
L e a rn in g  R esources C e n te r a t P rin c e  G e o rg e ’s 
C o m m u n ity  College, L argo, M aryland.

Lorraine Rutherford is now  preservation in ­
te rn  a t C olum bia University.

Rosemary Saczawa has been appointed h ead  of 
general collections at Ball State U niversity, M un­
cie, In d ian a .

F red Sandner h as b e e n  a p p o in te d  h e a d  of 
audio-visual services a t M ercy College L ibraries, 
D obbs F erry , New York.

Juta G. Savage has been nam ed assistant lib ra r­
ian in th e Public H ealth  L ib rary  at th e University 
of C alifornia, Berkeley.

Nancy J. Schmidt is now  A frican studies area 
specialist at In d ia n a  University, Bloom ington.



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Lorraine Sebo has been appointed head of the 
Public Affairs Service at the University of Califor­
nia, Los Angeles.

Linda Shackle is now science reference librar­
ian and subject specialist for chemistry and geology 
at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Tian-Chu Shih is now the reference/instruc- 
tional librarian at Eastern New Mexico University, 
Portales.

Allen Shinn has been appointed head of cata­
loging at Florida State University Library, T alla­
hassee.

Linda Snow has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Texas at Dallas, Ri­
chardson.

Wilson Stahl has been nam ed associate direc­
tor of the J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of 
North Carolina, Charlotte.

Thomas A. Stave has been appointed acting per­
sonnel lib ra ria n  at th e U niversity of O regon, 
Eugene.

H. David Stern is now science reference librar­
ian and subject specialist for mathematics, physics, 
a n d  astro n o m y  a t A rizo n a S ta te  U n iv ersity , 
Tempe.

Gail M. Stucky has been appointed historical 
and political studies librarian at W ichita State Uni­
versity, Kansas.

Rebecca Stuhr-Rommereim has been a p ­
pointed reference librarian and bibliographer at 
the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Marlene Tebo has been appointed head of the 
Physical Sciences Library at the University of Cali­
fornia, Davis.

Sandor Teszler has been nam ed head librarian 
at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Polly Thistlewaite has been appointed public 
services librarian at Yale University.

David A. Tyckoson joined the staff of the Iowa 
State University Library, Ames, as reference li­
brarian.

Barbara Van Deventer has been appointed cu­
rator of social sciences collections and reference li­
brarian at Stanford University Libraries, Califor­
nia.

C. Paul Vincent has been appointed assistant 
head of the West Cam pus Learning Resources 
Center, Ohio State University, Columbus.

Ruth Watanabe has been named archivist at the 
Eastm an School of Music, University of Rochester, 
New York.

Gisela M. Webb has been appointed assistant 
director for personnel services at Texas Tech Uni­
versity Library, Lubbock.

Karen Ann Weikert has been appointed gov­
ernm ent publications librarian at Ball State Uni­
versity, Muncie, Indiana.

LeAnn Weller has been appointed engineering 
librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Candace White has been nam ed assistant li­
brarian in the Serials Cataloging Division at the 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Bill Wibbing is now acquisitions librarian at 
W ashington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Robert Williams has been appointed reference 
librarian in the Health Sciences Library, Columbia 
University.

Florence Wilson has been appointed assistant 
director for library systems at V anderbilt Univer­
sity, Nashville, Tennessee.

Susan Wood has joined the staff of the Univer­
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as head of the 
Catalog Management Section.

Joan H. Worley is now director of the Lam ar 
Memorial Library at Maryville College, Tennes­
see.

Retirements
Audrey Collins has retired as library science li­

brarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Laura Cummings, chief of the Bibliographic 

Control Division at Columbia University, retired 
on June 30 after 34 years of service.

Elizabeth Delmore retired after 10 years of ser­
vice as lib ra ry  d ire c to r a t th e C ollege of St. 
Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Helena Gierasimowicz retired on June 30 as 
city and regional planning librarian at the Univer­
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hazel M. Johnson, social sciences bibliographer 
at the University of Pittsburgh, retired on June 30, 
after 25 years of library service.

Irma Y. Johnson, science librarian at Massachu­
setts Institute of Technology, Cam bridge, retired 
in June after 37 years of service. She has served both 
as president of ACRL’s New England Chapter and 
as deputy program chair for ACRL’s First National 
Conference, w ith special responsibility for contrib­
uted papers. Her writings include several publica­
tions relating to national information policy.

Stephen J. Kees retired from Niagara College, 
W elland, O ntario, on July 31,1984. He has served 
as chief librarian for the college since its opening in 
1967.

Mary Lou Lacy, chief of the Humanities and 
History Division at Columbia University Libraries, 
retired on July 31.

Alice J. Murray, director of th e M cGeorge 
School of Law Library, University of the Pacific, 
Sacramento, retired on August 31. She has been at 
the School for 20 years and its director since 1970.

Alice M. Ridenour, associate director of li­
braries and head of technical services at M ontana 
State University, Bozeman, retired on June 30th af­
ter 34 years of service at MSU and 44 years in the 
profession.

E. Graham Roberts, director of the Price Gil­
b e rt M em orial L ib rary  at G eorgia In stitu te  of 
Technology, Atlanta, retired on June 30 after 25 
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T h e d u s  S m ith  has retired as government publi­
cations librarian, Ball State University, Muncie, 
Indiana.

E l o y d e  T o v e y  retired on April 30 after fourteen 
years of service to the Bancroft L ibrary ’s Bare Book 
Collection at the University of C alifornia, Berke­
ley.

R o s e m a r y  W i l l i a m s  has retired from her posi­
tion of head of educational resources technical ser­
vices, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Deaths

M a r y  J a n e  N e f f ,  head of the Periodicals D ep art­
ment at Em poria State University, Kansas, died af­
ter a three-year battle with cancer. She had served 
at Em poria for 20 years.

N e l s o n  A. P i p e r , assistant university librarian 
for collections, died July 5. He joined the staff of 
University of California, Davis in 1956 as the assis­

tant head of the Acquisitions Departm ent. He be­
cam e head of the Departm ent in 1958 and was 
named the AUL for collections in 1962. W hen 
Piper arrived in 1956 the L ib rary  had approxi­
mately 100,000 volumes; he leaves behind a collec­
tion in excess of 1,70 0 ,0 0 0  volumes.

H o w a r d  H .  W i l l i a m s ,  re fe re n ce  lib r a r ia n  
emeritus at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 
died on July 6 while vacationing at Cape May. A 
graduate of Lake Forest College, he received his 
master’s degree in English at Columbia University 
and an M LS from Colum bia in 1948. He cam e to 
Swarthmore in 1949 as a reader’s services librarian, 
then from 1967 to his retirement in 1975 he was a 
reference librarian responsible for general refer­
ence, library instruction, and interlibrary loans.

J o s e p h i n e  W i l l i a m s ,  government documents li­
brarian at East Texas State University, Commerce, 
passed away May 25th after 20 years of library ser­
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