ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

Mr. Buckman

In the autumn, Tom Buckman will assume his new duties as director of libraries and professor of bibliography at Northwestern. Those of us who have known him for years have occasionally amused ourselves wondering where he would go next and what turn his next contribution to the profession would take. His friends are gratified with his decision to go to Northwestern as its academic program, library resources, and reputation are such that it should be a happy association for all concerned.

Biographical dictionaries show that Mr. Buckman is academically respectable, having done his undergraduate work at the University of the Pacific, studied at the University of Stockholm for three or four years, and received both his library degree and a Master’s in comparative literature at Minnesota. Much of this work was accomplished with the help of a variety of fellowships including one in Scandanavian Area Studies at Minnesota, an H. W. Wilson scholarship in librarianship also at Minnesota, a King Gustav V fellowship awarded by the American Scandanavian Foundation for study in Sweden, and, while director at Kansas, a Guggenheim fellowship for study in Europe in 1964/65.

He was a naval officer in World War II and went the usual route of many academic librarians in beginning his library career as a student assistant. He served for one year at Oregon State University as a reference librarian, for another year as assistant librarian at Modesto (California) Junior College, as Bobert Vosper’s acquisitions librarian at the University of Kansas from 1956-60, as associate director of libraries there for one year, and as director of libraries there since 1961. At Kansas he took an active interest in developing the collections, directed the construction of a major addition to the library and participated in the planning and supervised the beginning of the new Spencer research library scheduled for completion next year. Along with the usual committee assignments we all get on every campus, he served as a lecturer in the department of Germanic languages. He has also taught at Modesto Junior College and in the extension division of the University of Stockholm.

Buckman has an impressive bibliography to his credit and has not only done some excellent translations of and critical essays on Par Lagerkvist, but has written on modern drama, has contributed often to various library journals both here and abroad, and has prepared significant reports to various learned and professional organizations on acquisitions policies, the book trade, and international aspects of librarianship.

To say that Buckman is an international tramp might be putting it too strongly, but certainly he is a member of the bibliographic jet-set and has given real leadership to the international aspects of our profession, leadership which grew out of his interest in international problems of book production and distribution. His studies abroad, his trips to some of the emergent countries in Africa, his recent year’s service as head of ALA’s International Relations Office, his work with Japanese librarians which necessitated a couple of trips to that country, and his present ARL, ALA, and ACRL committee responsibilities indicate that he will continue to be a major force in this area.

Buckman’s various committee assignments in the Kansas Library Association, the ALA, and the ARL have brought him into close touch with a variety of problems of concern to us all including customs duties, intellectual freedom, microfilming of dissertations, relations between antiquarian booksellers and librarians, specialized acquisitions, and rare books. He is a member of the board of directors of both the Center for Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries and serves also on ALA’s council.

All of this is most impressive indeed, but little of it gives the flavor of the man. Not one of the ersatz Ivy types which seem, alas, to be proliferating in the profession, he is an urbane, articulate man with a good sense of humor, a commanding and impressive presence, real enthusiasm for books and libraries, and a decent reticence about his personal life. People like working with Buckman and his judgement of what is important in the professional, academic, and social affairs with which librarians must concern themselves can rarely be faulted.—Stuart Forth, University of Kentucky.

Mr. Harwell

Richard Harwellwill become librarian of Smith College on September 1. Mr. Harwell has been librarian of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., since 1961. Prior to coming to Bowdoin, he was for four years executive secretary of ACRL (1957-61) and concurrently (1958-61) for three years associate executive director of ALA. For fuller biographical information see CRL, XXII (September 1961), 387- 88.

Mr. Harwell has written, since publication of the sketch noted above, six works concerning the Civil War, contributed a chapter to another Civil War volume, and has edited five more works. He has published articles in Library Journal and The New England Quarterly, and has served as editor of CRL (1962-63) and as a member of the editorial board of Journal of Civil War History (1955-). He was a regular reviewer for the Chicago Tribune Magazine of Books, 1957-63. His condensation of Douglas Freeman’s seven-volume George Washington will be published in late summer of 1968 by Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Mr. Harwell was the recipient in 1951 and again in 1967 of grants-in-aid from the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, Cal. In the autumn of 1966 he served as consultant to the library of the University of Jordan and to other libraries in the Middle East. Since 1961 he has conducted surveys of the libraries of Bates and of Franklin and Marshall colleges and of Norwich University, was building consultant for the St. John’s campus of the University of New Brunswick and for Gould Academy in Bethel, Me.

He taught seminars in Civil War history at Bowdoin in the spring of 1965 and autumn 1967. In 1966 he received the D Lit degree from New England College.

Mr. Harwell has been a member of the Council of ALA since 1962 and a board member of the Maine Historical Society and the Maine Library Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Anson Kittredge Educational Trust (since 1965).

At Bowdoin, Mr. Harwell undertook a complete reorganization of the library; during his incumbency the staff of the library increased from seven to twenty-six. He was primarily responsible for the planning of Bowdoin’s new Hawthorne-Longfellow library building—dedicated in February 1966. The collection of the

Bowdoin library, which totaled, officially, 259,000 volumes in 1961, is expected to reach just over 400,000 volumes by June 1968.

Mr. Jones

The appointment of James V. Jones to the directorship of the Case Western Reserve University library system should bring to the institution, recently formed from the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, a new era of library growth and development. Jim brings to his new position a rich and varied experience in librarianship that should enable him to raise the Case Western Reserve library to a position of real importance among the research libraries of the nation’s great independent universities.

In effect, Jim is returning to his professional alma mater. He is a native Ohioan, having been born at Willard. He received the baccalaureate degree magna cum laude from John Carroll University in 1949 and a year later took his Master’s degree in library science from Western Reserve. In 1950 he was appointed to the library staff of St. Louis University and five years later became director of libraries at that institution, a position which he held until 1966, when he returned to Cleveland as director of libraries for Cleveland State University. He will assume his new position on July 1. In addition to his formal training in librarianship he has pursued graduate work in law and history, and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in the school of library science at Case Western Reserve.

Jim is particularly fortunate in being already thoroughly familiar with the responsibilities and problems that his new position will involve. He has, for the past three years, been a member of the Board of Governors of Western Reserve University and chairman of the Visiting Committee of the school of library science of the same institution. In 1964 he served on a team from the North Central Accrediting Association when its reviewed the accreditation status of Western Reserve, and he has cooperated with Western Reserve during his incumbency as director of libraries at Cleveland State. His list of publications is impressive and includes most of the leading professional library journals. He is a past president of the Missouri Library Association, a member of the board of directors of the Harry

S Truman Library Institute and the Center for Research Libraries. He has held committee appointments in a variety of state and national associations and has been employed for a variety of consulting assignments throughout the Midwest. He has participated in fourteen accrediting visits for the North Central Association, and has been extremely active in promoting the introduction of new library methods, especially such approaches as those made possible by automation, systems analysis, and other innovations from the fields of science, technology, and operations research. His knowledge of, an interest in, the work of the school of library science at Case Western Reserve and especially its Center for Documentation and Communication Research should bring the research and instructional programs of the school into closer harmony and coordination with the practical work of the university libraries than has been possible in the past. We, therefore, look forward eagerly to Jim’s arrival and the new opportunities for research, education, and service that his assumption of his new duties will surely bring.—Jesse H. Shera, Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Leach

The appointment of Maurice D. Leach, Jr. as head librarian, with the rank of professor, at Washington and Lee University has been announced. The new librarian will begin his duties on July 1.

A graduate of the University of Kentucky, where he received a bachelor’s degree in history in 1945, Mr. Leach also attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained his degree in library science in 1946. He has held library positions with the Texas College of Arts and Industries and the U.S. Department of State. At present he is at American University in Beirut, Lebanon as a special adviser to the Ford Foundation, and is on leave of absence from his post as professor and chairman of the department of library science at the University of Kentucky.

Mr. Leach served on the ALA Council from 1963-67. He also is a member of the American Association of Library Schools, serving on its statistical committee, and of the Kentucky Library Association, of which he is the state library survey committee chairman.

The new Washington and Lee librarian has spent considerable time in the Near East as assistant attache with the U.S. Foreign Service and the U.S. Information Agency there. During the past year he was in that area as a specialist in library science for the Ford Foundation, and assisted in developing and building libraries for colleges, universities and governments there.

He has contributed to several professional books and journals. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he is married and the father of one daughter.

Mr. Monke

Arthur Monkewill become librarian of Bowdoin College in August. As the seventeenth librarian in the college’s 166 years of operation he follows such distinguished predecessors as John Abbot, Calvin Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and George T. Little. He will be a worthy successor to them.

Art Monke came to the Bowdoin library in 1963 as assistant librarian. Would that all library staff appointment might turn out as constructively as has his! He seemed, in 1963, well qualified to handle—after five years of experience in the library of Colgate University—problems in reference, periodicals, and documents that were then particularly pressing areas in the total reorganization the Bowdoin library was undergoing. His effectiveness not only in these responsibilities, but also in working with an extensive project of recataloging and reclassification, with staff, faculty, and student relations, and with helping to plan and equip a new library building have been a continuous joy. He has placed no limitations on his energies, and his abilities have expanded to meet the demands increasing responsibilities have imposed upon him. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Monke’s appointment as librarian of Bowdoin in 1968 will be as happy a one as his appointment as assistant librarian of the college was in 1963.

Mr. Monke is a native of Regent, N.D. He prepared for college in the public schools of Waterville, Minn., and, after serving in World War II as an artillery man, received his BA degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1950. Prior to attending Columbia University’s school of library service he was a school librarian in Winthrop, Minn., and in South Fallsburg, N.Y. He received a MSLS degree from Columbia in 1958. His wife is the former Jytte Petersen, a native of Varde, Denmark. They have three children: Eric, Ingrid, and Kirsten.

As assistant librarian at Bowdoin Mr. Monke has been active in regional library affairs as well as in campus life. He is vice president of the Maine Library Association, president of the directors of the Brunswick Public Library Association, and a member of the Public Relations Committee of the New England Library Association. He is a member of ALA and of the American Association of University Professors.

The bare-bones facts of a who’s-who type sketch note inadequately Art Monke’s qualifications for his new career. His larger, more important qualifications are his integrity, his energy, his diligence, his loyalty to his coworkers and to his institution, his attention to the users of the library, and—most of all— his sincere regard for all that makes academic librarianship an encompassing and humane profession.—Richard Harwell, Bowdoin College.

APPOINTMENTS

J. Robert Adams has been named assistant to the director of libraries at Washington University.

RachelD. Aldrich transferred March 1 from her position as head cataloger at the College of William and Mary to chief of cataloging at the new University of Wisconsin (Parkside), Kenosha, Wis.

Vicki Andersjoined the staff of Texas A&M University library on Feb. 1 as separates acquisition librarian.

Mrs. Peggy Young Battenhas been appointed to the position of cataloger in Dawes memorial library, Marietta College as of May 1.

Jo Bell is now acquisitions librarian in the Stanislaus State College library, Cal.

DavidF. Bishop was appointed, effective Nov. 20, as head of the newly formed serials department at the McKeldin library, University of Maryland.

Louis W. Caccese has been library director at Camden County College in Blackwood, N.J., since July 1.

Irene Christopherhas joined the staff of G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, as supervisor of library services.

Wendell Claxtonbegan his duties in Texas A&M library on Feb. 1 as physical preparations librarian.

Barbara Louise Collierhas been appointed an assistant librarian in the circulation department, University of Florida libraries.

Sally Ann Cravenshas joined the University of Florida libraries documents department.

Stephen Czikebecame head of the Chicago Bar Association library last autumn.

Mrs. Lynn Cullen Deurloohas joined the reference and bibliography department as hu-manities librarian in the research library, University of Florida libraries.

Margaret Donahuehas been named head of the technical services division, McKeldin library, University of Maryland.

Mrs. Florence Brittain Dunlaphas taken a leave of absence from Gainesville Public Library, in order to join the reference and bibliography department staff at the University of Florida libraries.

JackD. Ellis has been named director of the Johnson Camden library of Morehead State University (Ky.), effective July 1.

Mrs. Evelyn Frosthas been appointed to the new position of head of technical services, effective May 1, in the Dawes memorial library, Marietta College.

Mrs. MaryH. Harbach is now documents librarian at York Junior College (Pa.).

Patricia Henningis head of reference at the Drexel Institute of Technology libraries, effective April 1.

RobertR. Kepple has been named librarian of the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University in Howard County, Maryland.

WilliamG. Kerr has been named librarian for Eisenhower College at Seneca Falls, N.Y.

Chin Kimjoined the Valparaiso University school of law library in August.

Mrs. Joan (Gilbert) Krengeljoined the staff of Columbia University libraries on Sept. 1, and serves as assistant reference librarian in Butler library.

W. Robert Lawyer has been appointed to to position of director of Wilson library at Western Washington State College in Bellingham, Washington.

Samuel Lazerow,chief of the serial record division at the Library of Congress, has been named chairman of the U.S. National Libraries Task Force on Automation and Other Cooperative Services. He assumed these additional duties in January.

WilliamA. Martin, Jr. has accepted the position of librarian of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha.

On Feb. 1 Charles W. Mixer assumed over-all responsibility for Columbia University libraries’ department of special collections with the title of assistant director for special collections.

Martha Jane Morganis now an assistant librarian at the engineering and physical sciences library, University of Florida.

JulieA. Nichols has been appointed catalog librarian with the Rush Medical College library of Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago.

RoyJ. M. Nieisen has been promoted to the position of head librarian of the Lawrence

Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, California, operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,

Ivan Orellihas joined the staff of Hofstra University as catalog librarian.

Mrs. Lillian Black Pencehas been appointed assistant librarian in the physical sciences division, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Fermin Luis Perezwas named an assistant librarian in the catalog department, University of Florida libraries.

J. M. Perreault becomes director of libraries at the University of Alabama, Huntsville on June 1.

Stephen Peterson,now at the University of Michigan, becomes acquisitions librarian in the Divinity Library of the Joint University Libraries, Nashville, on June 1.

David Piccahas joined the acquisitions department, University of Florida libraries.

Mrs. JoyceR. Russell has become chemistry librarian at the University of Florida.

J. Thomas Russell, formerly chief of the special collections division, has been promoted to assistant librarian of the U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.

PaulR. Schutz is a newly-appointed assistant cataloger in the State University of New York library at Stony Brook.

Mrs. Amelia Schwartzwas appointed periodicals librarian with the rank of lecturer at Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York (Manhattan Beach Campus) effective September 1967.

Mrs. Suzanne Jane Shawhas joined the catalog department, University of Florida libraries.

Mrs. Frances Shaver Smithis now a cataloger at the University of Florida libraries.

Irene Ling Sunhas been appointed assistant in the acquisitions department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute library, effective February 16.

Angelo Tripicchio,appointed to Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York in February 1967 with the rank of Instructor, was recently designated readers’ services librarian (Manhattan Beach Campus).

Anthony Robert Tusais now interlibrary loan librarian, in the reference and bibliography department, University of Florida libraries.

Carolyn McIver Wadehas been appointed an assistant librarian in the circulation department, University of Florida libraries.

RonaldL. Weiher has been appointed assistant librarian for planning and development, Baker library, Harvard graduate school of business administration.

RuthM. White, ALA headquarters librarian since 1963, became executive secretary of the Adult Services Division and the Reference Services Division of ALA on February 16.

NECROLOGY

Lorena Clarke,catalog librarian in University of Illinois library of medical sciences, Chicago, died on Feb. 5.

Mrs. JamesA. Lyons, for more than eighteen years librarian of the school of design of North Carolina State University, died on Feb. 4.

Monsignor Thomas Shanahan,librarian of St. Paul Seminary and a member of the department of library science, College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, died on Jan. 24.

RETIREMENTS

HenryE. Coleman, librarian of Washington and Lee University, retires in July.

Howard Harrison Laphamretired on March 1. He has been associate law librarian, Wayne State University, and had been with the university libraries since 1953.

Marjorie Thorpe,reference librarian of Mohawk Valley Community College, retires at the end of March after forty years of library work in New York state.

MOVING

If you are changing your mailing address, please be sure to let ALA know at least six weeks in advance.

Important:Please send ALA both your old and new addresses plus the date you would like the change made. (A copy of your address label clipped to your notice would help.)

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Spring 1968 Publication of the complete

Junior College Library Collection

First Edition--over 19,000 titles

In response to an immediate and urgent need of a growing number of junior and community colleges, the Bro-Dart Foundation has scheduled for Spring 1968 publication a selected list of more than 19,000 books for junior and community colleges. Its purpose is to assist in the selection of the large number of titles in all subject areas required by new institutions and already established schools that are expanding their facilities.

In association with the Collection’s general editor, Dr. Frank J. Bertalan, Director of the School of Library Science of the University of Oklahoma, and ten associate eaitors, 88 junior colleges participated in the selection of titles through the efforts of their librarians, department heads and faculty members, and with the cooperation of the Presidents of such institutions.

The scope of the subject matter bears a positive relationship to present curricular trends in junior and community colleges. A continuous updating of the Collection is planned to enhance timeliness and adaptability to emerging trends.

The Collection includes a section of full bibliographic information, arranged by the Library of Congress Classification. The classified section is indexed by author.

Orders for the Junior College Library Collection should be directed to: Dept. CRL-4b.

Price: $34.75

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