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College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

Mr. Heiliger

Edward M. Heiliger is now chief of library sciences in United Aircraft’s Corporate Systems Division located in Farmington, Conn. He is a senior scientist responsible to the vice president for engineering. Starting date on the new assignment was March 13.

Ed has had a varied and interesting career, in fact, three careers; one as a college librarian for seven years at Wayne State University, one as an international librarian in Nicaragua, Chile, Mexico, and with the Department of State. His third career has been perhaps the most interesting of the three— pioneering in the application of data processing techniques to library operations. This has led to his present assignment with United Aircraft.

His formal education includes an AB in history from the College of the Pacific (1933), a BS in LS from Denver (1935), and an MA in history from Denver (1941).

He was a junior assistant at Detroit public library; assistant librarian at Wayne; director of the American library of Nicaragua at Managua; director-advisor, Universidad de Chile at Santiago; head, program management, overseas libraries, U.S. Department of State, Washington; director, Benjamin Franklin library, Mexico City; associate director, New York state library; director, University of Illinois library at Chicago; and director of library and information retrieval services at Florida Atlantic University.

Ed has always been active in both professional and community affairs. He was recently president of the Boca Raton public library board and of the Boca Raton library association; a Rotarian; chairman of the ALA-RSD Information Retrieval Committee; a board member of the National Educational Associates for Research and Development, Inc.; chairman of SLA’s Committee on Document Reproduction. He has also been active in many ALA and other committees dealing with library and cultural relations between the United States and Latin America. Concurrently with his library work, he has had numerous teaching assignments in history and in library science.

He is the author of many articles in the library literature, the translator into Spanish of “Codigo para Clasificadons,” a co-author of “Catalogacion Clasificacion” and of “Advanced Data Processing in the University Library.”

In beginning his work of applying data processing techniques to library procedures at Illinois, Ed had the advantage of having taught most phases of library work (in Spanish!). This gave him a thorough knowledge and an analytic approach to library problems which assisted greatly in the necessary systems development and in the use of hardware as another tool in achieving the library’s goals. It has been characteristic of his work, both at Illinois and at Florida Atlantic, that the tools have been used to accomplish program objectives rather than to impose new techniques which distort objectives and service. Because of this, his work has been marked by a practicality often missing from computer applications.—Paul Howard.

Mrs. Stephens

Irlene Roemer Stephens is the chief librarian, with the rank of professor, of the new graduate unit of the City University of New

York—Richmond College, to be located on Staten Island. She is now active in recruiting a staff and in developing book, periodical, and audiovisual collections for the library of the college, which will open next September. Richmond College will be the fifth major unit of the City University of New York, the others being the City College of New York, and Hunter, Brooklyn, and Queens colleges. A sixth college is also being planned.

Mrs. Stephens has earned a bachelor’s degree with chemistry and biology majors, a master’s degree in education from Rutgers University, and a master’s degree from the school of library service, Columbia University (1953). She has completed her course work and qualifying examinations for the doctorate at Columbia, and is presently working on her dissertation. She also has taken advanced work in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and statistics.

She comes to her new position immediately from Columbia, where she was a teaching assistant and associate in library service in the fields of technical services and cataloging and classification during 1965-66. Prior to that she was director of the South Orange (N.J.) public library. Earlier positions included directorships of the libraries of Bristol-Myers and the Celanese Corporation of America. She was a biochemist and assistant to the director of research at Schering Corporation. She has taught chemistry at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

She is the author of many articles and parts of books on pharmacology, biochemistry, foreign and domestic patents, nomenclature, special vocabularies in various fields, literature searching, technical writing, indexing and abstracting, and other areas. She has been a consultant to technical, medical, and other scientific agencies, and has been active in library and scientific associations.

During the past two years she has worked with the writer of this sketch on a variety of projects, including surveys of college, university, public, state, and special libraries, as well as co-editing a U.S. Office of Education project, Conference on the Use of Printed and Audio- Visual Materials for Instructional Purposes (issued last fall), and the forthcoming volume, Library Surveys (papers presented at a conference at Columbia in 1965), which will be published by the Columbia University Press in May of this year. This conference was cosponsored by the ACRL Committee on Library Surveys.

Mrs. Stephens assumes her new assignment facing a complete spectrum of problems, but her experience in resources development and evaluation, technical services, readers’ needs and services, building programs, and general trends in information storage and retrieval should stand her in good stead. With her strong background, a cordial personality, scholarly outlook, ability in getting along with and supervising people, a great sense of responsibility, and amazing industry, Richmond College has found a librarian who may very well accomplish an impossible task.—Maurice F. Tauber.

Mr. Wagner

Lloyd F. Wagner assumed the position of director of libraries at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in January. Wagner, after having had preprofessional experience at the Cleveland public library and at the Columbia University medical library, was inducted into the Armed Forces in 1941, where he attained the rank of Sergeant Technician, 4th Grade, 187th Field Artillery Group Headquarters. He participated in the European campaign from Omaha Beach to Czechoslovakia. While still in the Army, he returned to England to attend the Shrivenham American University, where he was able to tour English libraries under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army program. He also served for a time as an observer of library administration at Liverpool University. Returning to the United States in 1946, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in political science at Lafayette College, where he assisted in the college library, receiving first hand awareness of student needs. While in college, he was active in numerous student activities including debating, dramatics, and college publications. In 1950, he received the degree of MSLS from Catholic University. Then began a series of positions of increasing responsibility: acquisitions librarian at Iona College; reference librarian at the Army library in the Pentagon; and extensive documentation, bibliographic, and supervisory experience at the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1958 to 1965, he was supervisor of the Whippany library, Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. Here his experience was enriched through association with imaginative and creative fellow supervisors and was provided with an unusual opportunity for a background in library systems development, machine applications to library problems, and work in depth with scientific and technical literature. In 1966, Wagner became chief of the library services division of the Federal Aviation Agency in Washington. He has always been active on numerous Special Libraries Association committees, served as a director of the New Jersey Chapter in 1965, and is currently serving on the committee to review SLA publications.

Mr. Wagner assumes the direction of an important university library system at a time when automation for library data processing is assuming great importance. His previous experience will enable him to give the library imaginative leadership.—Thos. P. Fleming.

APPOINTMENTS

Christine I. Andrew has been named reference assistant in the documents division of Yale University library.

Kathleen M. Ansell has joined the staff of Hamilton library at Edinboro State College (Pa.) as an assistant cataloger.

Mrs. Marilyn H. Arnold has been named assistant head of the technical department, Newberry library.

Virginia Ashley has been appointed reference librarian in the William R. Perkins library of Duke University.

Mrs. Lois Bebout joined the University of Houston library staff as documents librarian on January 1.

Mrs. Barbara Bell is reference assistant in Yale University library.

Diana Blake joined the library staff of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., as administrative librarian, in February.

Mrs. Estrella Bryant is now cataloging assistant in the South East Asia collection, Yale University.

John P. Burnham has been appointed as librarian of the numismatic collection, Yale University library.

Mrs. Eileen Bush is order librarian in the Yale University divinity library.

Jerry F. Cao has been appointed head of the government documents department at the University of Iowa libraries.

Jennifer Cargill joined the University of Houston library staff as assistant acquisitions librarian on February 10.

Kenneth W. Carroll has been appointed director of the clearinghouse of Harvard’s Center for Research and Development on Educational Differences. He also is assistant librarian of the Harvard graduate school of education.

Phyllis S. Cassler has accepted appointment as a reference librarian in the Oberlin College library as of Feb. 1.

Madeleine C. Chen is a new cataloger in the East Asia collection, Yale University library.

Polly Chiu has been appointed assistant serials cataloger in Texas A&M library effective Feb. 27.

Carol Christensen became head catalog librarian at Colorado College on Jan. 2.

John Cook, director of Air University’s Institute of Technology library, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has been appointed staff officer in charge of the entire Air Force library program with duty station at Randolph Air Force Base, Tex.

Mrs. Marie Copeland has been transferred to the circulation department of University of Kentucky libraries and is now serving as department head.

James L. Craig has been named assistant librarian, administration, Yale University library.

Paul T. Culley joined the staff of the South Dakota school of mines and technology library on Feb. 1, as assistant librarian for cataloging.

Joyce Davis has been named cataloger in the William R. Perkins library of Duke University.

R. Charles Ellsworth joined the staff of Queen’s University library, Kingston, Ont., on March 15, as head of the reference and research division.

Ralph Esterquest, librarian of the medical library at Harvard University, has been engaged as consultant in the planning for a new library at the University of Miami school of medicine.

Marcia Goodman has been named assistant librarian in the State University of New York at Binghamton, cataloging department.

Balfour Halévy has been appointed librarian of the law library of York University, effective March 1.

Alexis A. Hrycuk is a newly appointed staff member for technical processes in Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.

Mary Irvine was recently appointed cataloger in Newberry library.

Mrs. Di Duan Jong is a new cataloger in the East Asia collection of Yale University library.

Daniel S. Kalk has been appointed head cataloger and head, cataloging section of the medical library in Yale University library.

Aletha Kowγγz joined the staff of the Archibald Church medical library, Northwestern University, Chicago, as periodicals librarian and instructor in medical bibliography on March 1.

Robert A. Lamb II has been appointed head of reserve book service, Northwestern University.

On March 6, David O. Lane joined the staff of the ALA Office for Research and Development as director of the acquisitions study.

Mrs. Ann Liivak joined the staff of Drexel Institute of Technology on Feb. 1, as general reference librarian.

Ben-Ami Lipetz has been named head of the research department, Yale University library.

Mrs. Joan Marcia Maier has been appointed data collector and systems analyst for the Colorado Book Processing Project at the University of Colorado library. Her duties begin April 1.

Susan Martin has joined the staff of the Linda Hall library as an assistant in acquisitions and reference.

Gertrude Merritt has been named assistant librarian for technical services in Duke University.

Bonnie L. Meyer has joined the staff of Air University library as a books cataloger.

Arthur Miller has been appointed reference librarian in Newberry library.

Anne Okoniewski is now assistant librarian in the acquisitions department, State University of New York at Binghamton.

James H. Olsen has been promoted to assistant librarian-readers’ service, Lehigh University library.

Virginia Parker became chief medical librarian of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., in January.

Theodore D. Phillips became assistant chief librarian of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., in January.

L. Dolores Ryan has been appointed undergraduate librarian in the Cleveland State University libraries.

Elizabeth See is now reference librarian in the art library, Yale University.

Helen M. Smith has been named serials librarian in Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.

Susan Sonnet is now a cataloger in the music library, Yale University.

Mrs. Susan G. Swartzburg is CTUW project librarian in the circulation department, Yale University library. ■ ■

RETIREMENTS

Madeleine Brown has retired as serials cataloger in the medical library of Yale University.

Leon Nemoy, curator of Hebrew and Arabic literature in Yale University library, retired early his year.

Colton Storm retired on December 1 as head of the department of special collections, Newberry library.

NECROLOGY

Rev. Andrew Bouwhis, S.J., formerly Canisius College librarian, died January 23 in Buffalo. He served the college from 1935-55, when he left to head St. Peter’s College library, Jersey City, N.J. In 1960 he left St. Peter’s to direct the Le Moyne College library in Syracuse, and in 1962 he was appointed rector and president of Bellarmine College in Plattsburg, where he served until 1965. He returned to Canisius College and served as spiritual director until his death.

Mary Louise Fitton, college librarian of Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, from 1928 to 1966, died on January 17. Miss Fitton had retired in August 1966.