ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

Mr. Clarke

James P. Clause has been appointed the director of the library at Marywood College, Scranton. Mr. Clarke received an AB degree in English from King’s College, Wilkes- Barre, Penna., and a master of science degree in library science from Drexel Institute of Technology, school of library science.

His background includes being assistant librarian of the business reference branch of the Brooklyn public library, assistant director of the Monmouth County library in Freehold, N.J., and acting director of the Mercer County library in Trenton, N.J. He then became reference librarian for the Scranton public library. While there, he organized and directed the installment and operation of the first bookmobile in Scranton, and served as its first librarian. In 1961, he was appointed full time instructor in library science at Marywood College, after which he rose to assistant professor in the department.

Mr. Clarke is a member of the Catholic Library Association and the Pennsylvania Library Association. He is a past president of the Marywood College Lay Faculty Association and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Library Association.

Sister Georgette

The appointment of Sister Georgette Hurter as head librarian for Mount St. Scholastica college has been announced. Sister

Georgette fills a post made vacant on May 25 by the death of Sister Florence Feeney, college librarian since 1933. Sister Georgette comes to the Mount college from Lillis High school, Kansas City, Mo., with a master’s degree in library science from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. At Lillis, Sister Georgette served in the dual role of librarian and registrar from 1962 to 1967, and also headed the mathematics department from 1963-1966.

No stranger to the Mount college Feeney memorial library and its operation, Sister Georgette was a member of the library staff which conducted the first two (1966 and 1967) sessions of a three-summer library science institute designed to fulfill the needs of Kansas elementary and high school librarians. Her master’s thesis explored “Bibliography of the Writings of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, 1863-1963.”

Sister Georgette was graduated with honors from the Mount college in 1950 and named to Kappa Gamma Pi, national honor society for Catholic women. A native of Cranford, N.J., she is the treasurer for the midwest unit of the Catholic Library Association (which Sister Florence co-founded around 1935), a member of Beta Phi Mu, international library fraternity, and the past president of the Mount college chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, national honorary mathematics society.

Mr. McCarthy

On November first Stephen A. McCarthy began his new duties as executive director of the ARL after twentyone years as librarian at Cornell University.

Dr. McCarthy attended the College of St. Thomas, received two degrees in Arts at Gonzaga University, took his library degree at McGill, and received the PhD at the University of Chicago. He began his university library experience at St. John’s, Minn., and moved from there to Northwestern, where he was librarian of university college. He was next appointed assistant director at the University of Nebraska, where he soon became associate director and then director. His next appointment brought him to Columbia University as assistant director. In 1946 he came to Cornell as director of the library and in 1960 he was named director of libraries.

He has lectured at the library school of the University of Illinois, spent a year as Fulbright lecturer in Egypt, served as a member of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, and was an active member of President Johnson’s recent International Conference on Education at Williamsburg. He has been president of the New York State Library Association, and in 1960-62 was executive secretary of the ARL, of which he is now director. He has been much sought as an advisor and has acted as consultant for numerous college and research libraries. He is the author of many published reports, surveys, and articles on library affairs, and of twenty memorable reports to the president of Cornell.

But the finest achievement of his professional career so far is surely the restoration and rehabilitation work he did at Cornell. On coming to Ithaca, Dr. McCarthy took over a library afflicted by depression, wearied by war, and desperate for space, staff, support, and— above all—hope. McCarthy saw right through the clutter, confusion, and haze to the library’s major resource, intact and invaluable, its splendid book collection. To organize, house, develop, and put to use that collection was what brought him to Cornell.

With his two new assistant directors (themselves now notable figures in the library world) he reorganized the place from top to bottom. Instead of waiting for the money to come first, he resolved to deserve it first, to produce something, almost anything, with the little he had. “Let’s first DO something.” He brought in a survey team, whose report, though often dismaying, reminded the university community of its buried wealth. Impressed by the surveyors, administration and faculty raised their eyes again. That, as McCarthy had planned, was the first step upward. Others followed. The budget slowly improved. Book purchases increased. The working staff was strengthened. New departments appeared. Duties and responsibilities were re-assigned. Readers noticed the new reference department and the improved seating and lighting. Professors noticed their wants being anticipated rather than delayed. For the first time in years there was stir and bustle and energy in the library.

The new director was in the middle of everything, genial and affable most of the time, but always moving, inspecting, encouraging, asking why, showing how. The university community, so long hopeless and inert, responded heartily. As his prospects brightened, his proposals for building could begin to form: the old structure to be converted to undergraduate use, a new research library to be erected nearby. He won what he wanted, though as President Malott said at the dedication, “Steve McCarthy fought, bled, and died for this building.” Olin library, one of the few libraries designed by librarians and considered a model of its kind, is still visited constantly by hopeful building committees.

They were good years, and as they passed, the many autonomous libraries at Cornell looked more and more toward the center. In 1960 they welcomed unification into a central library system and applauded the appointment of McCarthy as Cornell’s first director of libraries.

For twenty-one years Cornell’s library has been in excellent hands. Stephen McCarthy’s door has been wide open to everybody. He is a firm administrator but an attentive sympathetic listener. His professional interests seem to be limitless: he is as responsive to a computerized operation as to an illuminated manuscript, as likely to turn up on Faculty Club board as on a Phi Beta Kappa selection committee. He wears his learning lightly, but the learning is there, and the wisdom, and the warmth, and the good humor.

The change of position brings honor to everyone; even though by it, Cornell gives up a matchless librarian, the university faculty an admired colleague, the Ithaca community an attractive and popular family.—George H. Healey, Cornell University.

APPOINTMENTS

Rosanna Allen has joined the Pennsylvania State University libraries staff as chief reference librarian.

R. Neil Barron has recently been appointed to the position of assistant college librarian for technical services at the Sacramento State College.

Virginia Benjamin was appointed assistant humanities librarian in the University of Georgia libraries, effective Sept. 1.

Mrs. Myrtle Bennett has been appointed assistant cataloger at Trevor Arnett library, Atlanta University.

Mrs. Marjorie F. Brister has become acquisitions librarian, Montana State University.

Ted Thaxton Campbell has been appointed associate librarian, Mooney memorial library, University of Tennessee medical units, Memphis, on Sept. 1.

Mrs. Diana Hung Chen joined the staff of the catalog division, University of Georgia libraries on July 1.

Sylvia Clark is now an assistant catalog librarian on the staff of the University of Georgia libraries.

Janice Clinedinst became a member of the circulation division staff of the University of Georgia libraries on Sept. 1.

Robert W. Coover, formerly on the graduate library school faculty of the Drexel Institute of Technology, has been appointed chief catalog librarian at the Pennsylvania State University libraries.

Georgia Damron accepted a position as assistant catalog librarian at the University of Georgia libraries on Sept. 1.

Anthony Dees became first assistant cataloger at the University of Georgia libraries on Sept. 1.

Mrs. Barbara Dillon has been appointed librarian of the Frederic Burk school at San Francisco State College.

John Edens was appointed assistant catalog librarian (serials), University of Georgia libraries on July 1.

Catherine Gartseff received appointment as an assistant catalog librarian in the University o£ Georgia libraries on Sept. 1.

Cynthia Hall is now assistant science and technology librarian at San Francisco State College.

Edward J. Hannan is the new reference librarian of St. John Fisher College.

Julio deJesus Hernandez has been appointed periodicals librarian, Atlanta University.

D. LaValle House, Jr., a 1966/67 candidate from the University of Tennessee Memphis Medical Units Post-Graduate Training Program for Science Librarians, has been appointed to the new position of research bibliographer, Mooney memorial library, as of July 1.

Warren M. Kesselman has been appointed head of the acquisitions department at the Drexel Institute of Technology libraries, effective Sept. 5.

Mrs. Ronald Kistner has been appointed to the post of acquisitions librarian, St. John Fisher College.

Barbara Kornstein has been appointed assistant social science and business librarian at San Francisco State College.

Mrs. Mary Jane Kuhl joined the University of South Florida library staff July 17 as assistant special collections librarian.

Ho Chi Lee joined the staff of the catalog division of the University of Georgia libraries on Aug. 1.

Jenny Ann Lind joined the staff of the circulation division, reserves section, University of Georgia libraries on Aug. 1.

Gerard McCabe rejoined the University of South Florida library staff July 1 as assistant director for planning and development.

Susan McCargar has been appointed cataloger in charge of reclassification at State University College library at Brockport, New York.

Charles H. Ness has been appointed assistant director for administration and planning at the Pennsylvania State University libraries.

Mrs. Delcie H. Parker has recently joined the staff of Sacramento State College library as assistant humanities reference librarian.

George R. Parks, assistant librarian in administration at the University of Rochester libraries, has been appointed assistant director of libraries.

Donna Pinero accepted the position of assistant reference librarian at the University of South Florida library, Sept. 1.

David Pownall became humanities librarian at Simon Fraser University library, Aug. 1.

John E. Roland has joined the Montana State University library staff as a reference librarian.

Ron Rowswell joined the staff of Simon Fraser University library as a cataloger, Sept. 1.

Carolyn Schaefer is now cataloger on the law library staff, University of Georgia libraries.

Dan Shealy was appointed head of the data processing division, University of Georgia libraries on July 1.

Patricia Shuttleworth joined the staff of the social sciences division, University of Georgia libraries, on July 1.

George T. Smisor has become the special Latin American bibliographer, University of California library, Riverside.

Sally J. Tower will be in charge of periodicals at St. John Fisher College.

Roberta J. Ward has become serials librarian, Montana State University.

Donald G. Wilson is now head of the acquisitions department at the University of California library, Riverside. He began his duties Sept. 1.

Mrs. Linda Smith Winters joined the staff of the University of Georgia libraries on Sept. 1, as assistant catalog and special collections librarian.

Ruby O. Woods has joined the staff of Sacramento State College library, as assistant education and psychology reference librarian.

DECISION ON HEADQUARTERS

The result of the ALA membership vote regarding a possible move to Washington, D.C., is reported in “Memo to Members,” ALA Bulletin, November 1967, p. 1148.