ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

Mr. Hampton

Aobert L. Hampton is off to a flying start as librarian of the William Allen White memorial library at the Kansas State Teachers

College of Emporia. As acting librarian during the 1966-67 academic year, Hampton began a modernization of the library’s technical services and has developed plans for a four-story, 60,- 000 square foot addition to the library to be constructed next year.

Mr. Hampton’s appointment as librarian was effective July 1. He received his master’s degree at the University of Denver library school and did his undergraduate work at the Teachers College.

He joined the staff of the White library in 1960 as assistant cataloger and a year later became acquisitions librarian, the position he held until last year. He worked in the Mary Reed library in Denver while doing graduate study. He has also worked in Emporia’s Newman memorial hospital medical library.

Pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, he concentrated in the technical services area, and while there served as research assistant for the Center of Continuing Education on the campus.

Bob Hampton didn’t waste any time deciding on a career. He worked in his hometown library in Iola, Kansas (he is a native Kansan) and from that time on he has either worked in libraries or studied librarianship.

The library he now heads was named after the famous Kansas editor of the Emporia Gazette and is the home of the college’s library school. He will teach classes in technical services and college and university libraries during the coming year. He had previously taught cataloging and “use of books and library” courses.

In addition to his administrative duties, Mr. Hampton has been conducting a detailed analysis of the White library collection. In this regard, his bibliographic work has resulted in considerable strengthening of the collection.

Mr. Hampton is a young man on the move. In light of his rapid rise to responsibility, his future is indeed promising—both for his library and for the profession of librarianship.—Irene Hansen, Kansas State Teachers College.

APPOINTMENTS

Effective July 1 Christine I. Andrew becomes librarian of the public documents room, reference department in Sterling memorial library, of Yale University.

Donald H. Axman joined the University of Connecticut library staff on May 1 as assistant director for technical services.

The appointment of John O. Bronson, Jr., as head librarian of Chesapeake College has been announced.

Mrs. Virginia Callicott is acting head acquisitions librarian, Joint University libraries, Nashville.

Youngsook Cho is now a general cataloger at the Trinity College library (Hartford).

Joyce K. Dahl, formerly special collections librarian in the Brooklyn College Library is now chief of the social science-education division.

Mrs. Edith Degani has been appointed cataloger at the Jewish Theological Seminary library.

Siegfried Feller has been appointed chief bibliographer at the University of Massachusetts library, Amherst, effective September 1.

Theodore Grieder will be the head of the division of special collections and of the Fales library at the New York University libraries as of September 1.

Robert J. Gullo has been named director of the library at St. John Fisher College. The appointment becomes effective July 1.

Felice R. Hahn is now head order librarian, Wisconsin University Center System libraries.

Mrs. Archer Jackson has recently been appointed chief of technical services at the Trinity College library (Hartford) effective in September.

Effective August 1 Donald C. Johnson will assume the position of curator, Southeast Asia collection, in Yale University library.

Berl Kagan has been appointed cataloger at the Jewish Theological Seminary library.

Erich Meyerhoff became librarian of the State University of New York at Buffalo on May 8.

Micha Oppenheim has been appointed cataloger at the Jewish Theological Seminary library.

Effective May 1 Billie I. Salter was appointed librarian of the economic growth center library in Yale University. Miss Salter reports to the associate librarian in charge of school and departmental libraries.

The appointment of Zenon Sheparovych as associate college librarian, State University College at Geneseo, has been announced.

Jacob Shumelda, librarian of Methodist College, Fayetteville, N.C., was recently appointed social sciences bibliographer in the university library, of the University of Alberta.

Mrs. Celeste Sproul is now an acqusitions librarian in the Joint University libraries, Nashville.

NECROLOGY

B. Armstrong Claytor died in Washington, D.C., on May 23, after more than forty-one years’ service to the federal government and nearly ten years in retirement. Except for his World War 1 service with the 351st Field Artillery in France, Mr. Claytor had devoted his entire career to the Library of Congress, chiefly as a reference librarian in the Orientalia Division under four Librarians of Congress.

RETIREMENTS

Florence Bethea, associate professor and assistant director of libraries, will retire in August after thirty-nine years at Florida State University and Florida State College for Women.

John Kenneth Cameron, chief of reader services, Air University library, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, retires on June 30, after a career in librarianship spanning almost forty years.