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January 1986 /  81

countries, as well as comparative studies on peas­
antry, social change, and empire.

News Note

♦ The Francis Bacon Library, Claremont, C ali­
fornia, will hold the 1986 Bacon Birthday C elebra­
tion on January 22. Sponsored by the library in co­
operation with the Claremont Graduate School,

the Bacon Celebration is now in its thirteenth year. 
Henry Gibbins, Claremont Graduate School, will 
speak on “Some Perspectives on the New Atlantis, ” 
at 4:00 p.m . in the Founders Room, Hannold L i­
brary. After the talk a reception to toast the 425th 
anniversary of Bacon’s birth will be held at The 
Francis Bacon Library, where rare books and man­
uscripts will be displayed. For further informa­
tion, phone (714) 624-6305. ■  ■

P E O P L E
Profiles

D a v id  A. B a l d w i n  has been appointed associate 
director of libraries for public services at the Uni­
versity of Wyoming, effective September 3.

He was formerly cur­
riculum  lib ra ria n  and 
assistant to the univer­
sity lib ra ria n  at Boise 
State University, a post 
he held since 1977. Prior 
to his work at Boise he 
was m edia consu ltant 
for th e G ra n t W ood 
Area Education Agency 
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 
for eight years.

Baldwin received his 
MLS from the School of 

David A. BaldwinL ib ra ry  and In fo rm a ­
tion Science at the Uni­
versity of Iowa in 1974. He has had extensive expe­
rience in the management of educational media 
and curriculum materials and with library micro­
computer applications.

D e n n i s  R e y n o l d s  is now executive director of 
CAPCON, a library network headquartered in 
Washington, D .C ., that provides O C LC  and other 
tehcnology-related services to libraries in the Dis­
trict of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

After receiving his MLS from the University of 
Chicago, Reynolds was appointed reader services 
librarian at Knox College in 1977. He joined the 
staff of the Bibliographical Center for Research in 
1979, where he successively held the positions of 
Systems Specialist in the Resource Sharing Divi­
sion, head of the O C LC  Services Department, and

manager of the Bibliographic Systems and Services 
Program.

Reynolds is the author of Library Automation: 
Issues and Applications, published earlier this year 
by the R .R . Bowker Co. He currently chairs the 
A C RL Continuing Education Courses Advisory 
Committee.

C a t h e r i n e  W . C h e n  has been named director of 
libraries for the Northwood Institute, Midland, 
Michigan. Head librarian for the college’s Midland

Information exchange on 
planning and evaluation

The LAMA/LOMS Planning and Evaluation 
of Library Services (PELS) Com m ittee will 
sponsor an open meeting at the ALA Midwinter 
Conference to provide an opportunity for li­
brarians interested in the planning and evalua­
tion of library services to exchange ideas in an 
informal setting. Members of committees with 
a similar focus in other ALA divisions are par­
ticularly welcome to attend.

The Committee wants to hear from librari­
ans who are interested in and knowledgeable 
about: various types of planning processes; ex­
isting methodologies for evaluation; ways of 
measuring library effectiveness; preparing the 

 library staff for planning and evaluation activi­
ties.

The open meeting is scheduled for Sunday, 
January 19, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. For more 
information, contact Meredith Butler, Univer­
sity Library 108, State University of New York 
at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, 
NY 12222; (518) 442-3565.

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campus since 1974, her 
new responsibilities in­
clude operations of the 
lib ra ries on the other 
campuses in Florida and 
Texas.

Chen holds both a 
master’s and Ph.D. de­
gree from the University 
of M innesota. B efore 
coming to Northwood in 
1971, Chen was an in­
structor at the Univer­
sity of Minnesota and a 

Catherine Chenlecturer for the Univer­
sity of Michigan.

Originally from Taiw an, Chen has designed
courses and edited textbooks at the National T ai­
wan University, and assisted in the compilation of
an English-Chinese dictionary.

M a r g u e r i t e  R e y  F l o r e n t  has been named di­
rector of the Xavier University of Louisiana L i­
brary, New Orleans. She had served as acting di­
rector of the same 
library in 1983-84, and 
started her career as a 
cataloger there in the 
mid-1960s.

Florent’s most recent 
position was with the 
U .S. A gricultural R e­
search Service’s South­
ern Regional Research 
Center in New Orleans.
She has also held various 
positions with the Loy­
ola Law  L ib ra ry  

Marguerite Rey Floren(1 9 7 7 -1 9 8 3 ), the Bell 
A erospace T extron  
Technical Library (1974-1976), the University of
New Orleans (1 9 7 3 -1 9 7 4 ), Tulane University
(1971-1973), the Baltimore County Public Library
(1968-1970), and the New Orleans Public Library
(1965-1968).

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from
Xavier University of Louisiana and an MLS from
Catholic University. She currently serves on the
Louisiana Library Association Literary Award
Committee and the Board of Directors of the

Articles on copyright

Lomond Publications has announced the im­
minent revision of a third edition of the late 
George P. Bush’s Technology and Copyright, 
and is requesting reprints or references to arti­
cles or monographs that should be included in 
this annotated bibliography.

For further information, contact Lowell H. 
Hattery, Publisher, Lomond Publications, 
Inc., P.O. Box 88, Mt. Airy, MD 21771.

 

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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Friends of the Archives of Louisiana.

D o r o t h y  G r e g o r  has been appointed univer­
ity librarian at the University of California, San 
iego, effective August 19. Prior to her arrival at 
C SD , G regor was 

hief of the Shared Cat­
loging Division, Proc­
ssing Services, at the 
ibrary of Congress. Be­

ore holding the LC  
ost, G regor’s library 
areer included many 
ears at the various cam­
uses of the University 
f California. Her posi­
ions with UC have in­
luded associate univer­
ity lib ra ria n  for 

Dorothy Gregorechnical services at the 
n iversity’s Berkeley 

ampus (1980-84), head of the serials department, 
lso at Berkeley (1976-80), and reference librarian 
t the university’s Medical Center Library in San 
rancisco (1968-69).

Gregor’s professional activities have included 
eaching positions in the areas of library technical 
ervices and bibliography of the health sciences, as

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well as numerous publications. In addition, Gre­
gor has been chair of the Panel Subcommittee of 
the Library and Information Technology Associa­
tion (LITA ) Conference Program Committee 
(1983), and chair of the ALA Committee on Repre­
sentation in Machine-Readable Form of Biblio­
graphic Information (1981-82).

Gregor holds an MLS from the University of 
Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree from 
the University of Hawaii. She participated in the 
Senior Fellows Program at the Graduate School of 
Library and Information Studies, University of 
California, Los Angeles, and holds a certificate in 
library management from the School of Library 
and Information Studies at the University of Cali­
fornia, Berkeley.

B a r b a r a  v o n  W a h l d e  has been named director 
of university libraries at the State University of 
New York at Buffalo, effective January 15. Her 
most recent position has 
been as associate direc­
tor for technical services 
at the University of 
Michigan.

Prior to her 1980 ap­
pointment there, von 
Wahlde served as staff 
development coordina­
tor at Yale University. 
She has also held techni­
cal services positions at 
the University of West 
Florida, the University 
of Southern Mississippi, Barbara von Wahlde
and the University of 
Maine.

Von Wahlde obtained both her undergraduate

Appointments

(Appointment notices are taken from library 
newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­
pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your 
appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 
50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

K u r t  A d a m so n has been appointed senior refer­
ence librarian at the Underwood Law Library of 
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

J ea n  P . A l t s c h u l e r  has been appointed manag­
ing librarian for bibliographic services at the 
George Washington University Law Library, 
Washington, D.C.

P a u l  A n d e r s o n  has been promoted to director 
of the Division of Archives and History of Medicine 
at Washington University School of Medicine, St. 
Louis, Missouri.

E v e l y n  A p t e r b a c h  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Queens College, City University 
of New York, Flushing, New York.

degree in education and her MLS at Indiana Uni­
versity. In 1974-75 she interned at the University 
of Tennessee with Richard W. Boss as a Council on 
Library Resources management intern, and in 
1983-84 she took part in the ARL/OMS Consultant 
Training Program.

Currently a member of the ALA Resources and 
Technical Services Division’s Legislative Commit­
tee, she has also served on ACRL’s Continuing Ed­
ucation Committee and the Staff Development Of­
ficers of Large Academic Libraries Discussion 
Group.

J e r o m e  Y a v a r k o v s k y  has been named director 
of the New York State Library, Albany. He comes 
to the State Library from Adelphi University, 
where he has served as 
dean of libraries since 
1983. At Adelphi he 
managed the implemen­
tation of online services 
and coordinated the 
move of major collec­
tions and service compo­
nents into a building ex­
tension.

Yavarkovsky was as­
sistant university librar­
ian for planning at Co­
lumbia University from 

Jerome Yavarkovsky1977 to 1983. Earlier at 
Columbia, he was chief 
of the Library Systems Office and had other sys­
tems analysis responsibility.

He currently is a columnist and member of the 
Editorial Board of Money Management fo r  L i­
braries, and is the author of several papers in the 
field of library management.

N a n c y  A m o u r  has been appointed coordinator 
of online services at California State University, 
Chico.

C a r o l  L e v i t t  A x e l r o d  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at the Pepperdine University Law 
Library, Malibu, California.

P h i l i p  C. B a n t in  has been appointed university 
archivist at the University of California at Los An­
geles.

G e e t a l i  B asu has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Maryland, College 
Park.

K a y  B e a u d r i e  has been named cataloger and 
terminal operator supervisor at Marquette Univer­
sity, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

J a c q u e l i n e  B e l l o w s  has been appointed librar­
ian of the Francis Bacon Foundation, an affiliate of 
Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

R o b e r t  A . B e r k  has been named director of the 
Medical Library at the Southern Illinois University 
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C h r is t ia n  B oisso n n a s has been appointed sys­
tems librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New 
York.

B e t h  B o j a c k  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at De Paul University, Loop Campus, Chi­
cago.

J u d i t h  B o n ig  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Maryland, College 
Park.

D a r y l  A . B o o n e  has been appointed cataloger 
at the Harvard University College Library.

Sa l l y  B o w d o in  is the new social science and ed­
ucation cataloger at Brooklyn College Library, 
New York.

H o p e  E .  B r e e z e  has been promoted to head of 
technical services at the Duke University Law L i­
brary, Durham, North Carolina.

C h a r l o t t e  D . B r o w n  is now director of the 
Professional Resource Center in the School of Busi­
ness Administration at the College of William and 
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

T e r e s a  B r o w n  has joined the staff of the Refer­
ence Department at the University of Maryland, 
College Park.

A n n e  C a i g e r  is the new head of the Manuscript 
Section of the Department of Special Collections at 
the University of California, Los Angeles.

C a r o l i n e  S. C a r l t o n  has been appointed head 
of the Harrye B. Lyons Design Library at North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh.

A nna C h e r r y  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the William Mitchell College of Law Li­
brary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

V ic t o r i a  C l a y t o n  has been appointed educa­
tion librarian at Queens College, City University of 
New York, Flushing.

J .  W e s l e y  C o c h r a n  has been appointed law li­
brarian at the University of Mississippi, University.

J i l l  Y o u n g  C o e l h o  has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at the Harvard University College 
Library.

M e r l e  L .  C o l g l a z i e r  has been appointed tech­
nical services librarian at Virginia Union Univer­
sity, Richmond.

J o h n  W i l l i a m  C o l l i n s  I I I  has been appointed 
librarian at the Monroe C. Gutman Library at 
Harvard University.

J a n i c e  C o n t in i is the new online training and 
services coordinator of the Pacific Southwest Re­
gional Medical Library Service at the University of 
California, Los Angeles.

C o l l e e n  C o s g r o v e  has been appointed LC cat­
aloger at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

J o s e p h  C r o t t s  is now head of access services and 
coordinator of the Maps Collection at California 
State University, Chico.

C l a u d i a  D a n s b y  has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at the University of Missouri, Kan­
sas City.

E l e a n o r  H . D e L a s h m it t  has been appointed 
associate librarian for research at George Washing­
ton University Law Library, Washington.

M a r y  P . D i l l o n  has been appointed associate 
director for database creation and facilities plan­
ning at the University of Miami School of Medi­
cine, Coral Gables, Florida.

N o o r  F .  D in  has been appointed Urdu Lan­
guage Specialist at the Harvard University College 
Library.

G l a d y s  D r a t c h  has been appointed circulation 
and collection development librarian at the Gut­
man Library at Harvard University.

P a u l a  F .  E b b i t  has been appointed head of pub­
lic services in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
Library at Harvard University.

S h i r l e y  E d w a r d s  has been appointed head of 
the Indexing Branch at the National Agricultural 
Library, Beltsville, Maryland.

E l i z a b e t h  E .  E g g l e s t o n  has been appointed 
cataloger at the Harvard University Medical Li­
brary.

G . E d w a r d  E vans has been appointed librarian 
at the Tozzer Library at Harvard University.

J o n q u i l  D . F e l d m a n  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Harvard University Medical 
Library.

D a l e  P . F l e c k e r  has been appointed associate 
director for planning and systems at the Harvard 
University Library.

J a n e t  E .  F l e t c h e r  has been appointed cata­
loger in the Union Catalog Services Office at the 
Harvard University Library.

D o n n a  G ia m pa  has been appointed medical ref­
erence librarian at the George Washington Univer­
sity Medical Center, Washington.

D a v id  S. G in n  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Miami School of Medi­
cine, Coral Gables.

C a r o l  G o d t  has been appointed reference li­
brarian, Division of Inform ation Services, at 
Washington University School of Medicine, St. 
Louis, Missouri.

B e t t y  G l a s s  has been appointed serials cata­
loger at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

A l i c e  G o r m l e y  is now serials librarian at Mar­
quette University, Milwaukee.

E l a i n e  G r a h a m  has been appointed associate di­
rector of the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical 
Library Service at the University of California, Los 
Angeles.

M a r y  B es s H a l f o r d  has been appointed assis­
tant humanities bibliographer at Tulane Univer­
sity, New Orleans, Louisiana.

M a r g a r e t  H a m b r ic k  has been appointed infor­
mation services librarian and bibliographer at 
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

E i l e e n  H a r d y  has been appointed acquisitions 
librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

J o n  H . H a r r is o n  has been appointed coordina­
tor of documents and technical services at Michi­
gan State University, East Lansing.

D ia n e  K . H a r v e y  is now collection development 
librarian for the Hopkins-Nanjing Project at the 
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Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
M i c h a e l  J .  H ig g in s  has been appointed cata­

loger at New York Law School Library, New York.
D o r is M. H in so n  has been appointed cataloger

at the Duke University Law Library, Durham.
H e i d i  L .  H o e r m a n  has been appointed director

of technical services at Montana State University
Libraries, Bozeman.

J o a n S. H o w l a n d  has been appointed assistant
director of the Law Library at the University of
California, Berkeley.

M a r y  C o l in  H y d e r  has been appointed instruc­
tor and online search analyst at the Quillen-
Dishner College of Medicine Library at East Ten­
nessee State University, Johnson City.

E l i z a b e t h  I c e n h o w e r  has been appointed cata­
loger at the Biomedical Library of the University of
California, Los Angeles.

L a u r e l  J iz b a  has been appointed head of origi­
nal cataloging at Michigan State University, East
Lansing.

G o d l i n d  J o h n so n  has been appointed informa­
tion services librarian/bibliographer at the Van­
derbilt University Science Library, Nashville.

F l o r a  J o n e s  has been appointed head of general
reference services at the University of Maryland,
College Park.

W i l l i a m  J o n e s  is now head of special resources
and coordinator of special collections at California
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B e r n i c e  J o n e s - T r e n t  has been appointed head 
f reference at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, 
irginia.
C l a i r e  B . J o s e p h  has been appointed chief med­

cal librarian at the New York College of Osteo­
athic Medicine at the New York Institute of Tech­
ology, Old Westbury.

L a w r e n c e  R . K e a t i n g  I I  has been appointed 
erials Departm ent head at the University of 
ouston-University Park Libraries, Texas.
C y n t h ia  K e p l e y  has been appointed public ser­

ices librarian in the Government Publications De­
artment at Indiana University, Bloomington.

E r ic  A . K i d w e l l  has been appointed periodi­
als/reference librarian at Huntingdon College, 

ontgomery, Alabama.
S u s a n  K i e f e r  has been named director of the 
amline University Law Library, St. Paul, Minne­

ota.
G a y T o l t l  K in m a n  has been named director of 

aw libraries for the University of La Verne, La 
erne, California.
D o n n a  K o e p p  has been appointed head of the 
ap Library at the University of Kansas, Law­

ence.
J a m e s M. K y e d  has been appointed assistant di­

ector for public services at the Georgia Institute of 
echnology Library, Atlanta, Georgia.

L e e  A nn L a n n o m  has been appointed reference 
ibrarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk.

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J o h n  L a w r e n c e  has been appointed reference li­
brarian in the interlibrary loan section of the Refer­
ence Department at the University of California, 
Los Angeles.

R u t h  E .  L e w i s  has been appointed biology li­
brarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Mis­
souri.

L a u r e l  J .  L i g h t  has been appointed manu­
scripts cataloger at the Houghton Rare Books and 
Manuscripts Library at Harvard University.

C l a r a  P r i o l e a u  M c L e o d  has been appointed 
science/engineering librarian at Washington Uni­
versity, St. Louis.

N a n c y M a c o m b e r  has been appointed govern­
ment documents and reference librarian at Queens 
College, City University of New York, Flushing.

E l a in e  R usso M a r t in  has been appointed chief 
of facilities and instructional media systems at the 
George Washington University Medical Center, 
Washington.

D o r ia n  E .  M a r t y n  has been appointed head of 
the Learning Resources Center at the University of 
Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables.

D o u g l a s  C. M o r in g  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the University of Oklahoma Law 
Center Library, Norman.

C a t h e r i n e  M u r r a y - R u s t  has been appointed 
training librarian in the Systems Office at Cornell 
University, Ithaca.

K a t h e r i n e  N a c h o d  has been appointed govern­
ment documents librarian at Tulane University, 
New Orleans.

V ir g in ia  N o r d s t r o m  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Education Library of Queens 
College, City University of New York, Flushing.

N a n c y  N o r r is has been appointed art and the­
ater arts cataloger in the Technical Services De­
partment at the University of California, Los An­
geles.

P a t r ic ia  N u z z a c i has been appointed reference 
librarian at the University of Maryland, College 
Park.

C h a r l o t t e  P a l m e r  has been appointed head of 
technical services at the Rosary College Library, 
River Forest, Illinois.

B a r b a r a  P e a s e  is now head of General Refer­
ence at California State University, Chico.

J e a n  M a r ie  P e e t  has been appointed serials cat­
aloging librarian at the College of William and 
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

M a r k  P la is s has been appointed head of refer­
ence services at Rush University Library, Chicago.

B a r ba r a P r e e c e  has been appointed special col­
lections cataloger at Southern Illinois University, 
Carbondale.

R o y  R ada has been named head of the MeSH 
section at the National Library of Medicine, Be- 
thesda, Maryland.

Sh a r i S. R e g e n  has been appointed special col­
lections librarian at the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology at Harvard University.

A n d ra s R i e d l m a y e r  h a s  b e e n  a p p o in te d  b i b l i ­

ographer in Islamic art and architecture in the Fine 
Arts Library at Harvard University.

W a r r e n  R o sm a r in  has been appointed assistant 
librarian for public services at the University of Mi­
ami Law Library, Coral Gables, Florida.

H a l in a  R usak has been appointed head of the 
Rutgers Art Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

T h e r e s a  R yan has been appointed ORION user 
services librarian at the University of California, 
Los Angeles.

M a r io n  N. Sa b e l l a  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Harvard University Medical 
Library.

M a n u e l  Sa n u d o  has been appointed education 
librarian at Queens College, City University of 
New York, Flushing.

M a r t h a  Sc h e e l  has joined the staff of the cata­
log maintenance department at the University of 
Maryland, College Park.

M a d e l a i n e  Sc h m i t t  has been appointed cata­
loger and science bibliographer at the University of 
Wisconsin, Platteville.

J a n e t  Si n d e r  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the Duke University Law Library, Dur­
ham, North Carolina.

K a r e n  Sm it h  has been appointed head of circu­
lation at the George Washington University Medi­
cal Center, Washington, D.C.

T i m o t h y  S m i t h  has been appointed instruc­
tional librarian at Ohio University, Athens.

H e l e n  H . Sp a l d in g  has been appointed associ­
ate director of libraries at the University of Mis­
souri, Kansas City.

L o u is e  Sp e a r  has been appointed director of the 
Ethnomusicology Archives at the University of 
California, Los Angeles.

C e c i l i a  St a f f o r d  has been appointed reference 
librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

D iana St e p h e n s  has been appointed online spe­
cialist for the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical 
Library Service at the University of Calfornia, Los 
Angeles.

M a r c ia  St e p h e n s  has been appointed director of 
library services at Northwestern College of Chiro­
practic, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

R o g e r  E. St o d d a r d  has been appointed curator 
of rare books at the Harvard University College Li­
brary.

R o b e r t a  St u d w e l l  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the University of Miami Law Li­
brary, Coral Gables.

W i l l i a m  E . S u d d u t h  I I I  has been appointed 
documents librarian and cataloger at Williams 
College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

M a r k  Su l l i v a n  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the Boston College Law School Library, 
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

M i c h a e l  Su l l i v a n  has been appointed head of 
the Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries at 
the University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan T a r a ba  has been appointed catalog librar­
ian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.



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simply from Over the years, Don Tribit and the 
lack o f personal Ganser Library staff have looked to Univer­
experience. So sity Microfilms International (UMI) for assis­
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that includes a hands-on introduction to 
microforms. It calms the students’ initial 
apprehension and encourages them to use 
microforms as a source o f information.” 

Donald K. Tribit, Periodicals Librarian 
at Ganser Library, Millersville University of 
Pennsylvania, is a believer in serials manage­
ment with microforms. The library’s serials 
in microform program, under his direction 
for 23 years, is set up for maximum student 
use. The microform area is self-service, with 
staff assistance available, so students have 
both the access and the support they need 
to become comfortable using microforms.

Don T rib it’s program has paid off. The 
6,000 students at Millersville University, a More than 1,500 o f the library’s current 
multipurpose institution located near Lan­ periodical subscriptions in microform are 
caster in south-central Pennsylvania, see supplied by UMI—and Tribit credits the 
microforms as an integral part o f their quality o f the subscription program with 
research. “Our students use microforms improving the accessibility o f information 
with the same frequency as paper issues of to the library community.
periodicals,” says Tribit. “Once they under­ Serials management with microforms 
stand that with microforms we can offer is a success at Millersville University of 
much better access to information—a com­ Pennsylvania—and at hundreds o f libraries 
plete run o f T h e N ew  York T im es, for in all kinds o f institutions. Let UMI help 
instance—they treat microforms as a real make information more accessible in your 
advantage.” library with a comprehensive serials in 

Serials holdings at Ganser Library microform program. Call or write:
include 1,800 current sub­
scriptions in microform. University 
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88 /  C &R L  News

A n n e  D . T h a c h e r  has been appointed assistant
librarian for studies in landscape architecture at
Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library, Washington.

R o b e r t  E . T h u r s t o n  is now audiovisual sci­
ences librarian at Rosary College, River Forest, Il­
linois.

L in d a  W a t s o n  has been appointed director of
information services at the Houston Academy of
Medicine’s Texas Medical Center Library, Hous­
ton, Texas.

B e r n i c e  O . W e is s  has been appointed cataloger
at the Harvard University Medical Library.

T h o m a s W e i s s i n g e r  has been appointed librar­
ian at the Africana Studies and Research Center L i­
brary at Cornell University, Ithaca.

T h o m a s L .  W i l l i a m s  has been appointed associ­
ate director for education and information services
at the University of Miami School of Medicine L i­
brary, Miami.

C l i f f o r d  S. W u n d e r l i c h  has been appointed
cataloger at the Andover-Harvard Theological L i
brary, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Retirements

M ir ia m  E .  B r i g h t , head of the Serials Unit at
Michigan State University, East Lansing, retired
on November 1 after 22 years of service.

W i n i f r e d  C a m p b e l l , cataloger at the Andover-
Harvard Theological Library, retired last summer.

E r ik a  C h a d b o u r n , curator of manuscripts an

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

 
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archives in the Harvard University Law School Li­
brary, retired in September after 19 years of ser­
vice.

J o s e  D . C o u t i n , librarian and professor of law at 
Antioch School of Law, Washington, D .C ., retired 
August 31.

D a v id  W. H e r o n , head of readers’ services in the 
Western Languages Collections of the Hoover In­
stitution Library at Stanford University, retired in 
December. Heron is university librarian emeritus 
of the University of California at Santa Cruz and 
former director of libraries at the University of 
Kansas and the University of Nevada. His profes­
sional affiliations have included membership on 
the Executive Board of the American Library Asso­
ciation and on the Board of Directors of the Associ­
ation of Research Libraries. He had been at the 
Hoover Institution since 1980.

B a r b a r a  H o s t e t l e r , head of technical services 
at the University of California at Berkeley Library, 
retired June 1.

C e l i a  L e y t e - V i d a l , catalog librarian at the 
Duke University Library, Durham, N .C ., retired 
December 31 after 19 years of service.

J e s u s  L e y t e - V i d a l , manuscript cataloger and li­
brarian for Ibero and Latin American Materials at 
the Duke University Library, retired December 31 
after 19 years of service.

Deaths

H a r o l d  B l o o m q u i s t , former librarian at Har-

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vard University’s Francis A. Countway Library of 
Medicine, died April 20 after a long illness.

E l i  H a r e i d e , former bibliographer at the Na­
tional Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland, 
died recently in Oslo, Norway. She had retired 
from the library in 1970.

M a r g a r e t  K a h n , former head of the Reference 
Department at the University of California, Ir­
vine, died October 7. She had retired in 1979 after 
13 years of service, and had also held positions at 
the University of California, Berkeley, Eastern Illi­
nois University, and Ohio State University.

P h y l l i s  R u b i n t o n , former chief librarian of the 
Payne W hitney C linic at New York Hospital- 
Cornell Medical College, died August 26. She had

headed the library for 10 years before retiring in 
May, and had previously been head librarian at the 
New York Psychoanalytic In stitu te. W hile at 
Payne Whitney she founded a mental health re­
sources library for clinic patients, one of the first of 
its kind in the country, and was co-editor of Core 
Readings in Psychiatry: An Annotated Guide to the 
Literature, published in 1984. She was past chair 
of the Mental Health Section of the Medical L i­
brary Association.

M i l d r e d  E . W a l t e r , medical librarian at the 
Edward G. Miner Library at the University of 
Rochester, New York, died August 29. She had re­
tired, in 1963 after 34 years of service. ■  ■

*  Archives in Appalachia: A Directory provides
descriptions of 181 repositories in south central Ap­
palachia (North and South Carolina, Georgia, 
Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West V ir­
ginia) that hold historical records documenting the 
political, social, cultural, and economic history of 
the region. Each entry has information on the type 
of material held, subject areas covered, geographi­
cal area, and the inclusive dates and size of the 
holdings. Also included are indexes by type of ma­
terial and subject, a map showing the counties cov­
ered by the directory, and a list of agencies which 
do not currently collect manuscript materials but 
which plan to do so in the future. The directory 
was compiled by the Appalachian Consortium as 
part of a project funded by the National Historical 
Publications and Records Commission. Copies are 
available for $2 from the Appalachian Consor­
tium, University Hall, Appalachian State Univer­
sity, Boone, NC 28606.

*  Associations in Action: The Washington, D.C.
Higher Education Community, by Harland G. Bio­
land (116 pages, 1985), has been published as Re­
port Number 2 of the ASH E-ERIC Higher Educa­
tion R ep ort series. T h e rep ort analyzes the 
structure of the higher education associations in 
Washington and focuses primarily on the Ameri­
can Council on Education (ACE), the American 
Association of State Colleges and Universities 
(AASCU), the Association of American Universi­
ties (AAU), the American Association of Commu­
nity and Junior Colleges (AACJC), the Association 
of American Colleges (AAC), and the National As­
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ASHE’s Report Number 1 is Flexibility in Aca­
dem ic Staffing: Effective Policies and Practices, by 
Kenneth P. Mortimer, Marque Bagshaw, and An­
drew T. Masland. The report describes a number 
of strategies that might be used to survive realloca­
tions or reductions in personnel. The cost is the 
same as the report described above. ISBN  0 ­
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*  Cataloging Microcomputer Files: A Manual o f
Interpretation fo r  AACR2, by Sue A. Dodd and 
Ann M. Sandberg-Fox (296 pages, September 
1985), describes elements of cataloging as they ap­
ply to software, identifies problems associated with 
describing software, and discusses the hardware 
and software components of a microcomputer sys­
tem and their relevance to the catalog record. The 
final chapter includes 12 examples illustrating 
problems commonly encountered while cataloging 
software, with step-by-step instructions. A glossary 
included. The cost is $37.50. Contact ALA Pub­
lishing Services, 50 E . Huron S t., Chicago, IL  
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♦ The Directory o f  Financial Aids f o r  Minorities,
by Gail A. Schlachter (345 pages, 1986-87 ed.), is a 
substantial revision of the previous biennial vol­
ume and provides current information for librari­
ans, students, counselors, and researchers on the 
unique resources available to these special needs 
groups. Over 50 % of the original entries have been 
substantively updated and the number of entries