ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Profiles

J e n n i f e r  C a r g i l l  has been appointed dean o f 
libraries at Louisiana State University effective July 
1,1991. She has been associate university librarian 
at F o n d re n  Library, 
Rice University (Hous­
ton, Texas) since 1988. 
Prior to that she was as­
sociate director o f  librar­
ies for information ac­
cess and systems, Texas 
Tech University, 1986- 
88; head o f  acquisitions,
M iam i U n iversity o f  
Ohio, 1974-84; science 
librarian, Miami Univer­
sity o f  Ohio, 1972-74; 
and held several posi­ Jennifer Cargill
tions in technical and 
pu blic services at the 
University o f  Houston, 1967-72. Cargill received 
her MLS from Louisiana State University in 1967 
and her M.Ed. (emphasis on higher education ad­
ministration) from Miami in 1975. She is a member 
o f the 1991 UCLA Senior Fellows Program. In 
1990 she received the Outstanding Alumna Award 
from the LSU School o f  Library and Information 
Science. Cargill is an active member o f  ALA, a 
member o f  the Society for Scholarly Publishing, 
and has published numerous articles, book chap­
ters, and several books.

C a r o l  C h a m b e r l a i n  has been appointed chief 
o f  the University Libraries’ acquisitions depart­
ment at Penn State, University Park. As chief o f  ac­
quisitions, Chamberlain is responsible for directing 
the department’s acquisition o f  monographs, seri­
als, and other library resources for the Libraries at 
all Penn State locations. Chamberlain began her 
career at Penn State in 1981 as an acquisitions

librarian and served as 
serials librarian from  
1978 to 1981 at Syra­
cuse University. She is 
actively involved in na­
tional and state library 
associations and has sev­
eral publications in the 
areas o f  acquisitions and 
library autom ation. 
C ham berlain holds a 
B.A. in English and an 
M LS from  the State 
University o f  New York Carol Chamberlain
at Albany.

D a m o n  D .  H i c k e y  has been named director o f  
the library at the College o f  Wooster effective July 
1, 1991. H e leaves his post at Guilford College in 
Greensboro, N.C., as associate library director and 
curator o f  the Friends 
(quaker) Historical C ol­
le c tio n . F o r m e rly  a 
Presbyterian minister, 
Hickey held pastorates 
in Texas and Oklahoma 
before he entered the 
library profession. He 
was acting curator o f  
rare books at Duke Uni­
versity from  1973 to 
1974. H e jo in e d  the 
Guilford staff as ch ief o f 
library public services in

Damon D. Hickey1975. H e also served as 
assistant library direc­
tory for public services and as acting library direc­
tor on two occasions. Hickey received a bachelor’s 
degree in philosophy from Rice University in 1965, 
a master’s o f  divinity from Princeton Theological 
Seminary in 1968, master’s degrees in library sci­
ence from the University o f  North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill in 1975 and in history from the Univer-



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sity o f  North Carolina at Greensboro in 1982, and 
a doctorate in history from the University o f  South 
Carolina in 1989.

J o h n  R .  K a i s e r  has been appointed chief o f  the 
Commonwealth Education System (CES) Librar­
ies at Penn State, University Park, responsible for 
library services at 17 
Penn State locations. 
Kaiser began his career 
at Penn State in 1964 as 
an acquisitions librarian.
Preceding his recent ap­
pointment, he served as 
coordinator for collec­
tion development for 14 
years. He is serving as 
vice-chair/chair-elect o f 
A CRL’s Western Euro­
pean Specialists Section.
H e receiv ed an MLS 

John R. Kaiserfrom Columbia Univer­
sity, New York, and a
masters degree in French-Romance Languages 
and Literature from Penn State.

P e t e k  L y m a n , associate dean for library tech­
nology at the University o f  Southern California’s 
University Library, has been named USC’s univer­
sity librarian and dean o f  the university libraries. 
While serving as associ­
ate dean for library tech­
nology, Lyman was also 
executive d ir e cto r o f  
USC’s Center for Schol­
arly Technology, a re­
search and development 
group jointly sponsored 
by the University Librar­
ies and University C om ­
puting Services. The 
c e n te r co n d u cts r e ­
search on the uses o f  in­
formation technology in 

Peter Lymanhigher education and 
d ev elop s softw are to 
find, manage, and analyze resources for instruction 
and research. Lyman came to USC in 1987 as 
founding director o f  the center and was appointed 
associate dean for library technology in 1989. 
Lyman is a member o f  the technical advisory board 
o f  the Commission on Preservation and Access, a 
national panel on the preservation o f  library mate­
rials. He is also a member o f  the selection panel in 
library and information science for the Fulbright 
Scholars program and leads the committee on 
noncommercial publishing for the Coalition on 
Network Information. Formerly, Lyman was pro­
fessor o f  political science and assistant director o f

academic computing at Michigan State University. 
He has also been a visiting professor in the political 
science department and research associate in the 
Center for Information Technology at Stanford 
University (1982-83) and a visiting professor in the 
sociology department at the University o f  Califor­
nia, Santa Cruz (1976-77). Lyman holds a Ph.D. in 
political science from Stanford University, an M.A. 
from the University o f  California, Berkeley, and a 
B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University.

B r o o k e  E . S h e l d o n  will becom e dean o f  the 
Graduate School o f  Library and Information Sci­
ence at the University o f  Texas at Austin. Sheldon 
has resigned her post as dean o f  the School o f 
Library and Information Studies at Texas W om en’s 
University, where she served from 1977 through 
1990.

H a r v e y  V a r n e t  has been appointed Governors 
State University’s (University Park, 111.) first chief 
information services officer. In addition to main­
taining responsibility for the University Library, 
Varnet will also now  
manage all campus com ­
puting (administrative 
and a ca dem ic), te le ­
com m u nications, and 
institutional research.
Vamet’s appointment as 
CISO was effective May 
1, 1991, and he now re­
ports d irectly  to the 
president. H e has served 
as GSU’s library director 
since August 1985, com ­
ing to GSU from two 

Harvey Varnetyears o f  service at the 
recently opened Sultan 
Qaboos University in the Sultanate o f  Oman. Pre­
viously, Varnet held positions in both Kentucky and 
Massachusetts, as well as a one-year Fulbright- 
Hays Fellowship for teaching in Nigeria. He re­
ceived a B.A. in English from Southeastern Massa­
chusetts University, an M.Ed. from Bridgewater 
State College, Massachusetts, and both a master’s 
and a doctorate from Simmons College, Boston.

J e n n i f e r  A. Y o u n g e r  has accepted the appoint­
ment o f  assistant director for technical services, 
University Libraries, Ohio State University, C o­
lumbus. She was formerly the assistant directory o f  
central technical services, general library system, 
University o f  Wisconsin-Madison. Active in avari- 
ety o f  professional associations, she has chaired the 
Council o f  Regional Groups and acted as a mem­
ber-at-large o f  the Cataloging and Classification 
Section, Executive Committee, the Association o f 
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Younger has also headed the Special Interest 
Group o f  Classification Research o f the American 
Society for Information 
Science, and is currently 
serving as chair-elect o f 
A LA’s Technical Serv­
ices Directors o f  Large 
Research Libraries Dis­
cussion Group. She has 
also served as the Wis­
consin delegate to the 
O C L C  Users C ouncil 
since 1988, and recently 
completed a term as a 
member o f  the Council’s 
Executive Com mittee. 

Jennifer A. YoungerShe received both a mas­
ter’s degree in library 
science and a doctorate in library and information 
studies from the University o f  Wisconsin-Madison.

People in the News

S h a r o n  C r i s w e l l ,  director o f  the Business In­
formation Center at Southern Methodist Univer­
sity’s Edwin L. Cox School o f  Business, recently 
was honored as Librarian o f  the Year for 1991 by 
the Texas Libraiy Association. The award is pre­
sented by the Austin-based TLA to a member who 
has provided outstanding service to the library 
profession. Criswell has been director o f  the BIC at 
the School o f  Business since 1986, and previously 
served as head o f acquisitions at SMU’s Fondren 
Library. She holds an MLS from Rutgers and re­
ceived an MBA from SMU’s Cox School in 1988.

R i c h a r d  D e  G e n n a r o ,  Harvard College librar­
ian and this year’s winner o f  the Academic and Re­
search Librarian o f  the Year Award, and former 
Michigan State University librarian R i c h a r d  E .  
C h a p i n  were awarded honorary degrees from 
Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana) during

Richard E. Chapin, Robert Wedgeworth, 
and Richard De Gennaro at the rededication 

o f  the Lilly Library, Wabash College.

the rededication ceremony o f  the college’s Lilly Li­
brary on April 5, 1991. Wabash College’s library 
has recently undergone renovation and expansion. 
Participating in the ceremony were Wabash C ol­
lege librarian Larry Frye and Robert Wedgeworth, 
dean o f the Library School at Columbia University, 
a Wabash College trustee and member o f  its class 
o f  1959.

W e r n e r  G u n d e r s h e i m e r ,  director o f  the Fol­
ger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., was 
elected to a three-year term as president o f  the 
In d e p e n d e n t R esearch  Library A ssociation  
(IRLA) at a recent meeting o f  the association at the 
Massachusetts Historical Society. A Renaissance 
historian, Gundersheimer has been director o f  the 
Folger Library since 1984. IRLA member libraries 
house collections o f  national or international sig­
nificance that are capable o f  supporting sustained 
research and attracting scholars from all over the 
world. Members include the Folger Shakespeare 
Library; the Huntington Library, San Marino, 
California; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the 
N ew York Public Library; and the Pierpont Morgan 
Library, New York.

M a r g a r e t  F .  M a x w e l l ,  a professor in the 
Graduate Library School at the University o f  Ari­
zona, is the recipient o f  the Association for Library 
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Marga­
ret Mann citation. The award is for achievement by 
a cataloger or classifier through publication, par­
ticipation in professional cataloging associations, 
introduction o f  new  techniques or teaching. 
Maxwell’s winning publications are Handbook fo r 
AACR2 and Handbook fo r AACR2,1988 Revision, 
both published by ALA.

K a t h a r i n e  F. P a n t z e r ,  research bibliographer 
in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, has 
been awarded a 1991-92 Guggenheim Fellowship 
for her research proposal, “Probing some o f  the 
mysteries o f  printing in English 1523-1558.” A c­
cording to Pantzer, “The period in question is one 
o f  crucial importance in the intellectual and cul­
tural history o f  England. William Tyndale trans­
lated the New Testament into English, and he and 
John Frith, George Joy, William Tracy, and many 
others, most o f  whom ultimately suffered martyr­
dom, engaged in writing and publishing works o f 
religious controversy, largely from the comparative 
safety o f  the continent.”

P e g g y  S u l l i v a n ,  director o f  University Librar­
ies and professor in the Department o f Library and 
Information Studies at Northern Illinois University 
is the recipient o f  the Joseph W. Lippincott Award. 
The award o f  $1,000 and a citation donated by 
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Awards Committee, is for distinguished service to 
the library profession. Sullivan’s most recent publi­
cations include Carl H. Milam and ALA (H.W. 
Wilson, 1976) and Bold Planners and Wise Drafts­
men [A centennial history o f library trustees in The 
American Library Association] (1990). Sullivan 
served as ALA president from 1980-81.

A n i t a  T a l a r ,  reference librarian at the 
McLaughlin Library o f  Seton Hall University, 
South Orange, New Jersey, received the 1990 
Distinguished Service Award from the College and 
University Section o f the New Jersey Library Asso­
ciation. The award originated in the late 1970s and 
is presented yearly to an individual who “by his or 
her outstanding contributions has directly en­
riched the librarianship o f higher education in New 
Jersey.” Talar won the award for her tireless leader­
ship role on many CUS committees. She was the 
founder and first chairperson o f  the section’s Re­
search Committee and she edited the Directory o f 
Library Instruction Programs in New Jersey.

R o b e r t a  T i p t o n ,  business librarian at the John 
Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, 
New Jersey, won the 1990 Research Award from 
the College and University Section o f  the New Jer­
sey Library Association. The award is presented 
yearly for the best piece o f published research 
written by a New Jersey Librarian. Tipton won the 
award for “ U.S. Users o f Foreign Company Infor­
mation: Patterns o f Use and Gaps in Knowledge” 
which appeared in National Online Meeting, 11th 
ed. (New York: Learned Information, 1990).

R o b e r t  W e d g e w o r t h ,  dean o f the School o f 
Library Service, Columbia University, has been se­
lected to receive the 1991 Distinguished Alumnus 
Award from the University o f  Illinois Library 
School Association. The award recognizes alumni 
o f the Graduate School o f  Library and Information 
Science who have made an outstanding contribu­
tion to the field, to the University o f Illinois Library 
School Association, or to the school. Wedgeworth 
was chosen for his efforts throughout his career to 
elevate the perceptions o f the profession. His 
broad interests include political, economic, and 
social influences on libraries; international rela­
tions, and foreign book trade. Dean o f  the Colum­
bia University School o f Library Service since 
1985, he guided the school through its centennial, 
including a major symposium held at Columbia in 
1987 looking at the roles o f  libraries, librarians, and 
teaching faculty in library education. He has re­
cently written in Wilson Library Bulletin, “ Some 
thoughts on the perils o f library education: Real 
and perceived” (January 1991). Prior to serving at 
Columbia, he was executive director o f ALA from 
1972 to 1985.

Appointments

(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, C&RL 
News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

J o h n  A b b o t t  was appointed associate head o f 
the Collection Management Department, North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh.

E r i c  A l b r i g h t  has joined the staff o f the Gaiter 
Health Sciences Library, Northwestern Univer­
sity, Chicago, Illinois, as a reference librarian.

T e r r y  L .  A l l i s o n  is now collections librarian at 
the new 20th campus o f  the California State Uni­
versity, San Marcos.

C a r o l y n  A r g e n t a t i  is the new head o f the 
Natural Resources Library at North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh.

N a n c y  B a k e r ,  former assistant director o f pub­
lic services for the University o f Washington Li­
braries, is now university librarian, Washington 
State University, Pullman.

G a y l e  B a l l  is now map cataloger for the A.W. 
Kuchler Vegetation Map Collection at Miami Uni­
versity Libraries, Oxford, Ohio.

P h i l i p  C. B a n t i n  has been appointed head o f 
archives and manuscripts at the John J. Bums 
Library at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massa­
chusetts.

S a n d r a  B e e h l e r  has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at Cornell University Law Library, 
Ithaca, New York.

H e a t h e r  B l e n k i n s o p p  has been appointed as­
sistant head o f technical services for Mercy College 
Libraries, Westchester County and the Bronx, New 
York.

J a n i c e  B r a d l e y ,  previously head o f access serv­
ices at Arizona State University, is now Head o f 
Extended Campus Library Services o f Washington 
State University, Pullman.

L e s l i e  B r e t a l l  has been appointed librarian, 
public and technical services, at the Instructional 
Resource Center, College o f the Canyons, Santa 
Clarita, California.

J a c k  L .  C a l b e r t  has been appointed social sci­
ences bibliographer in the Howard-Tilton Memo­
rial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, 
Louisiana.

D a n i e l  G .  C a n n C a s c i a t o  has been appointed 
catalog librarian at the University o f Oregon Li­
brary, Eugene.

M i n - C h i h  C h o u  is the new head o f the East Asia 
Library at the University o f Washington, Seattle.

A n a  M a r i a  C o b o s  has been appointed humani­
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Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
M o t i l e  B .  C u n h λ ,  formerly director o f  the Uni­

versity o f  Brasilia library system, has been named 
dean o f  the faculty o f  social science studies o f  the 
same university.

M a r k  D i m u n a t i o n  is the new director o f  the 
Rare Books Department, Cornell University Li­
braries, Ithaca, New York.

T h o m a s  D o w l i n g  was named natural sciences 
computer-based services/reference librarian at the 
University o f  Washington, Seattle.

E l e a n o r  S. E l d e r  is the new head o f  the Sci­
ence and Engineering Division in the Howard-Til- 
ton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Or­
leans, Louisiana.

J e n n y  F i e r r o  has been appointed humanities 
collection development librarian, Brown Univer­
sity Library, Providence, Rhode Island.

P e t e r  G i o r d a n o  is now supervising the govern­
ment documents collection at Williams College, 
Williamstown, Massachusetts.

A m y  W . G r a h a m  has recently been appointed 
assistant techn ical/reference librarian o f  the 
Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, Penn­
sylvania.

K a r e n  G r e i g  has been appointed reference 
librarian in the Engineering Library at Stanford 
University.

G i l l i a n  S . G r e m m e l s  has accepted the position 
o f  library director at Monmouth College, M on­
mouth, Illinois.

A l b e r t o  H e r n a n d e z  is now art and music li­
brarian at the University o f Northern Iowa, Cedar 
Falls.

T e r r i - L e i g h  H i n k l e  is now acquisitions librar­
ian in the Technical Services Department at the 
University o f  New Hampshire Library, Durham.

S u s a n  H o c k e r  has been appointed head science 
librarian in the Brill Science Library, Miami Uni­
versity, Oxford, Ohio.

T h o m a s  A .  K a r e l  has been promoted to associ­
ate director for public services at Franklin and 
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

R o b i n  K i b l e r  now serves as a technical services 
librarian at Williams College, Williamstown, Mas­
sachusetts.

B e a t r i c e  K o v a c s  has been promoted to associ­
ate professor with permanent tenure in the Depart­
ment o f  Library and Information Studies, Univer­
sity o f  North Carolina at Greensboro.

S a n d r a  K r o u p a  is the book arts librarian o f  the 
Special Collections and Preservation Division in 
the new Allen Library, University o f  Washington, 
Seattle.

V i c t o r i a  K u l s i c  is now archivist, American 
Mathematical Society Records Management and 
Archives Project, at Brown University Library, 
Providence, Rhode Island.

M a r t i n  K u r t h  has joined the Kennedy Library

faculty at Eastern Washington University in 
Cheeny, Washington, as head serials librarian.

C a r l  L e e  has been appointed assistant director 
for automated systems, Michigan State University 
Library, East Lansing.

Y a n  L i has been appointed reference librarian at 
the University o f  Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

C l a i r e  L o c k e  has been appointed engineering/ 
science reference librarian at the North Carolina 
University Library, Raleigh.

T i m  M c A d a m  is the new head o f  acquisitions at 
the University o f  California, Irvine.

J u d y  M a t t h e w s  is the first physics-astronomy 
librarian at Michigan State University, East 
Lansing.

J o h n  M a x s t a d t  is now public services librarian 
at Lamar University-Orange, Texas.

C . M a r t i n  M i l l e r  has been named head o f  the 
Walter Havighurst Special Collections and Ar­
chives, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

M e l i s s a  M i t c h e l l  is acting reference librarian 
for Humanitites/Social Sciences at Washington 
State University, Pullman.

T o m  M o o t h a r t  has been appointed sciences 
and technology librarian (physical sciences) at 
Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins.

L a u r a  A .  N e a l  has joined the Scarborough 
Library staff as a reference librarian at Sheperd 
College, Sheperdstown, West Virginia.

S y l v i a  N i c h o l a s  is now reference librarian at 
the Northwestern University Gaiter Health Sci­
ences Library, Chicago, Illinois.

V i r g i n i a  N o r d s t r o m  is now head librarian o f 
the Curriculum Resource Center, Bowling Green 
State University, Ohio.

J a n i n e  O r r  has been appointed as a reference 
librarian at the School o f  Medicine, Indiana Uni­
versity, Indianapolis.

N a n c y  P o e h l m a n n  was appointed principal 
cataloger, University o f  Washington, Seattle.

G e o r g e  P o r t e r  has been appointed engineer­
ing reference librarian and coordinator o f  online 
searching at North Carolina University, Raleigh.

F .  O r i o n  P o z o  assumed the position o f  collec­
tion manager for engineering and physical sci­
ences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

M a r g a r e t  R o g e r s  is now manuscript cataloger 
for the NEH-funded Manuscript Cataloging Proj­
ect at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

M a r t y  R o s e n  is the new music cataloger at the 
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, 
Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

D e b b i  S c h a u b m a n  joins the staff at Michigan 
State University Libraries, East Lansing.

P a u l a  S h a c k l e f o r d  joined the North Carolina 
State University Libraries, Raleigh, in the newly 
created position o f  business and finance officer.

G r e t t a  S i e g e l  is a newly appointed librarian at 
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R o b e r t  A .  S i e v e r  has been promoted to associ­
ate director for technical services at Franklin and 
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

K a t h l e e n  M o r e t γ o  S p e n c e r  has been pro­
moted to associate vice president for academic 
resources at Franklin and Marshall College, Lan­
caster, Pennsylvania.

Retirements

E m i l i e  B a b i n - W e i r ,  head o f catalog mainte­
nance, University o f California, Irvine, where she 
has served since August I, 1966.

B o b  C r i t t e n d e n ,  associate librarian in refer­
ence, University o f California, Santa Barbara.

P a t  C r o n s h a w ,  librarian, University o f Califor­
nia, Santa Barbara.

L i e s e l o t t e  F a j a r d o ,  associate librarian, refer­
ence, University o f California, Santa Barbara.

L e o n  G a b r i e l i a n ,  associate librarian, Catalog­
ing Department, University o f California, Los An­
geles, after 29 years.

D a v i d  G u t t m a n ,  associate librarian, reference, 
University o f California, Santa Barbara.

P a t r i c i a  H a l l ,  associate librarian, Cataloging 
Department, University o f California, Los Ange­
les, after 29 years.

H a r r i s  H a u g e ,  library director, Monmouth 
College, after 28 years.

A n n  H i n c k l e y ,  librarian, URL Reference D e­
partment, University o f California, Los Angeles, 
after 27 years.

A l  H o d i n a ,  librarian, SEL, University o f Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara.

C h a r l e s  B .  M a u r e r ,  director o f libraries, Deni­
son University, Granville, Ohio, after 20 years o f 
service. He served as the OHIONET delegate to 
the OCLC Users Council from 1978 to 1983. In 
1988 he was awarded the Academic Library Asso­
ciation o f Ohio’s Distinguished Service Award.

I d a  M u e l l n e r ,  associate librarian, Cataloging 
Department, University o f California, Los Ange­
les, after 22 years.

J o a n  O r m o n d r o y d  retired from the Cornell 
University Library after 19 years, the last 10 as head 
o f reference and bibliographic instruction at the 
Uris (Undergraduate) Library. She pioneered the 
development o f bibliographical instruction pro­
grams and her traveling workshops on teaching 
techniques for librarians have been presented 
throughout the United States. In 1990 she received 
the Miriam Dudley Award for Bibliographic In­
struction in recognition o f  her contributions to this 
discipline.

W a l l y  P e g r a m ,  librarian, Physics Library, Uni­
versity o f California, Los Angeles, after 19 */2 years.

A .  R a y  B o w l a n d ,  librarian o f Reese Libraiy, 
Augusta College, retired June 30, 1991 after 30 
years at Augusta College and 40 years as a librarian. 
He is a past president o f the Georgia Library 
Association.

S t e v e n  S c h u l t h e i s ,  associate librarian, catalog­
ing, University o f California, Santa Barbara.

O s c a r  S im s, social sciences bibliographer, Uni­
versity o f California, Los Angeles, after 20 years.

H e n r y  T a i ,  librarian, Cataloging Department, 
University o f California, Santa Barbara.

B u t h  T r ä g e r ,  librarian, Cataloging Depart­
ment, University o f California, Los Angeles, after 
25 ½years.

V i r g i n i a  W e i s e r ,  librarian, SEL, University o f 
California, Santa Barbara.

Deaths

• M a r y  B a r r e t t ,  flrst director o f the D. Le­
onard Corgan Library, King's College, Wilkes- 
Barre Pennsylvania, 1949—1977 and director emeri­
tus, 1978-1991, died in Wikes-Barre on April 8, 
1991. After her retirement, she was assistant to the 
president o f King’s College, 1977-1987.

Prior to her appointment at King’s, she organ­
ized and administered the U.S. Army Libraries at 
Fort Monmouth and Fort Hancock during World 
War II. She also served as librarian at the College o f 
St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey. Barrett 
was responsible for the growth and development o f 
the Corgan Library from its original quarters on 
one floor o f the Administration Building to the 
present, modem, functional three-story building 
completed in 1969.

An active member o f both ALA and the Pennsyl­
vania Library Association, she received the Penn­
sylvania Library Association Certificate o f Merit, 
the Pope Pius XII Medal for Outstanding Librari­
anship from Marywood College, Scranton, Penn­
sylvania, and the Distinguished Service Citation for 
organization and administration o f army libraries at 
Forts Monmouth and Hancock. Barrett was listed 
in Who’s Who in Library Service.

•  D o r o t h y  C o l i i n g s ,  79, died peacefully at 
her home in Somers, New York, on March 6,1991. 
She had retired from the position o f head, Depart­
ment o f  Library Studies, University o f  the West 
Indies, in 1974. She established the school and was 
its flrst professor. As appointed UNESCO Expert, 
she had the responsibility o f administering the 
UNESCO project which funded the school for its 
first five years. She had previously been chief, Edu-



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cational Liaison Section, Office o f  Public Informa­
tion, United Nations Headquarters, New York, for 
15 years, which followed three years in Egypt with 
UN ESC O ’s Regional Arab States Fundamental 
Education Centre. She held a Ph.D. from the Uni­
versity o f  Chicago and an M ‚A. in Library Service 
from Columbia University. Following her retire­
ment, she developed and helped to fund two an­
nual prizes and a scholarship for the Department o f 
Library Studies, University o f  the West Indies. A 
Dorothy Collings Memorial Fund will be estab­
lished for the UWI Department o f  Library Studies. 
Contributions maybe sent to the Principal, Univer­
sity o f  the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, 
Jamaica. The donations will be published and re­
ported to her attorney and friend Mary Davidson, 
Bank o f  New York, 530 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor, 
N ew York, NY 10036.

• J e n n e t t e  H i t c h c o c k  passed away on O c­
tober 10,1990, at the age o f  80, in Hamden, C on­
necticut, just outside New Haven. She was chief o f 
the Stanford University Libraries Catalog Depart­
ment from 1958 until 1973, when she retired and 
was given the status o f  ch ief librarian emerita. 
Hitchcock was born in Connecticut, graduated 
(pre-med) from Smith College in 1931, earned her 
graduate library degree from the University o f  
Chicago in 1938, and then served Yale as cataloger 
and, for six years, was head o f  subject cataloging 
before coming to Stanford.

She led the Stanford Catalog Department in 
more than doubling size and productivity during 
her tenure. During the mid-1960s, the Meyer M e­
morial Library was built, its collection formed, and 
a computer-produced book catalog was created for 
it, which was ready for use when the library opened 
in 1966. BALLOTS (now RLIN ) was initiated the 
following year. Hitchcock was particularly active in 
RTSD (now ALCTS), chairing the Cataloging and 
Classification Section from 1964-65.

• M i r i a m  H o r n b a c k ,  secretariat to the Ex­
ecutive Board o f  ALA, died Monday, April 1, at age 
64. She had worked nearly 50 years for the associa­
tion, starting as a junior secretary in June 1944.

ALA President Richard M. Dougherty said, 
“Those o f  us who have had the privilege o f  serving 
as president and the privilege o f  working with her 
are acutely aware o f  her many, many contributions. 
There was no one more committed to the associa­
tion than Miriam. She gave us much more than we 
gave her.”

A native o f  Chicago, Hornback graduated from 
Lakeview High School in 1943 and attended the 
Stenotype School o f  Chicago. She said she had 
intended to be a court reporter but was discour­
aged by her father who didn’t want her hearing “all 
the sordid things that happened in court.”

Hornback became secretary to the executive di­
rector o f  ALA in 1952 and was named secretariat to 
the ALA Council, Executive Board, and member­
ship in 1969.

She began working for the association when it 
was located in the M cCormick Mansion (since 
razed) and the staff numbered 66. Today, the 
association occupies five floors o f  two buildings at 
40 and 50 E. Huron St., and the staff totals more 
than 250.

As Executive Board secretariat, H ornback 
worked with 47 presidents and seven executive 
directors. Known for her love o f  her “ALA family,” 
her church— St. Peter’s Episcopal— and her cats, 
she was also known to have averted many an em­
barrassing moment and administrative boondoggle 
through her extensive knowledge o f  ALA opera­
tions.

Hornback had recently announced her intention 
to retire in January 1992. The ALA governing 
council had passed a special resolution honoring 
her for 45 years o f  service in June 1989. Last year 
members o f  the Executive Board made personal 
contributions to send her on a vacation to Alaska 
where she was hosted by board member Ann K. 
Symons o f  Juneau.

ALA Executive Director Linda F. Crismond an­
nounced that a memorial fund is being established. 
Contributions may be sent to: Miriam Lindsay 
Hornback Memorial Fund, ALA, Executive O f­
fice, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL  60611.

•  E s t h e r  J o h n s o n ,  67, died on March 16, 
1991 ‚ after a long struggle with cancer. Johnson was 
head o f  the Forestry Library, University o f  Califor­
nia, Berkeley, from 1958 until 1985, when she 
retired. She served as assistant librarian there from 
1952 until she becam e head. The California 
Alumni Foresters granted her a lifetime member­
ship in 1978, and she was awarded with a special 
Friend o f  Forestry certificate at its annual banquet 
in 1984.

•  D o m i n i c k  M o r m i n o ,  39, assistant cus­
tomer services officer o f  the Library o f  Congress 
Cataloging Distribution Service, died suddenly 
March 12. During the past five years, Mormino 
spearheaded development o f  the three Library o f 
Congress C D -R O M  products: CDMARC Subjects, 
Names, and Bibliographic. He was widely known to 
visitors o f  the LC exhibit booth at conferences and 
conventions. A scholarship fund has been estab­
lished by the Library o f  Congress Professional 
Association.

•  A l e c  R o s s ,  head o f  the Acquisitions D e ­
partment at the University o f  Kansas Libraries in 
Lawrence, from 1953 to 1956, passed away in 
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