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CHARLES B. LOWRY, director of libraries at the University of South Alabama, has been appointed director of libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington, effective July 1.

Charles B. Lowry

Lowry has been at South Alabama since 1980, where he was responsible for the university library and two branches of the Biomedical Library. He was instrumental in the formation of the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, and has served as vice-chair and chair-elect of the Council of Librarians of the

Alabama Commission on Higher Education and on several Advisory Committees of the Alabama Public Library Service. Lowry has served on the Board of Directors of SOLINET since 1983 and was elected vice-chairman of the Board in 1984.

In August 1985 he will be a participant in the Senior Fellows Program at the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He was also a participant in the ARL/OMS Consultant Training Program in 1979.

Lowry currently serves on the ACRL Publications Committee and the LAMA Membership Committee, and he was chair of the ACRL College Libraries Section’s Membership Committee in 1979-81. He has published articles and commentary in College & Research Libraries, Alabama Librarian, Journal of Academic Librarianship, North Carolina Libraries, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, and Florida Historical Quarterly.

His previous positions include head librarian and director of learning resources at Elon College, North Carolina (1978-80), social science reference bibliographer and head of reference at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1974-78), and chairman of the Social Sciences Division at Faulkner State Community College, Bay Minette, Alabama (1965-69).

Lowry received his bachelor’s degree in history from Spring Hill College in 1964. He also has a master’s in history from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (1965), an MLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1974), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida, Gainesville (1979).

JAMES M. MYERS has been appointed director of the Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, effective April 15. He will direct a full-time staff of 159 employees and a library system of some 1.8 million volumes. For the past six years Myers served as associate director of libraries at Stanford University.

Before going to Stanford, Myers was assistant director for technical services at the University of Arizona. He has also served as associate librarian for Eastern Washington University, Cheney; head of the Acquisitions Department at Oakland University Libraries, Rochester, Michigan; and head of acquisitions and circulation for the Canisius College Library in Buffalo.

Myers received a bachelor’s degree in classical languages and literature from Canisius in 1963 and earned an MLS from the University of Illinois in 1968. He has also taken graduate courses in education at Canisius and in classics at Gonzaga.

Last summer Myers taught management of technical services in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also taught at San Jose University, the University of Arizona, and Eastern Washington University. In 1983 he was chair of the ALA Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group.

GAIL ANN SCHLACHTER is now president of Reference Service Press, a library-oriented reference book publishing company located in Los Angeles. Schlachter comes to the position from ABC-Clio Information Services, where she has served since 1981 as vice-president and general manager. Prior to that she worked for over 10 years as a librarian, library administrator, and library faculty member.

Schlachter received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a joint master’s degree in history and education from the University of Wisconsin, an MLS from the University of Wisconsin, an MPA from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in librarianship from the Universitv of Minnesota.

A member of ALA and the California Library Association, Schlachter currently serves on the Councils of both groups. She has been the reference book review editor of RQ for the past seven years. She is a well-known lecturer on statistical/research techniques for libraries, and she recently returned from a six-province lecture tour in Canada sponsored by the Canadian Library Association.

She is the author of a series of directories of financial aid for special needs groups and is the co-author of Reference Sources in Library and Information Services, the winner of the 1985 Knowledge Industry Publications Award for Library Literature.

People in the news

LASZLO L. KOVACS, librarian of the School of Humanities, Social Science and Education at Purdue University, was presented the 1985 John H. Moriarty Award for Excellence in Library Science by the President of the University on April 29 at the annual Awards Convocation.

ROBERT STUEART, professor and dean at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, was honored as Distinguished Alumnus awardee of 1985 at the annual banquet of the Pitt/Carnegie Library and Information Science Alumni Association on March 22.

Appointments

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

PATRICIA ARANDA–CODDOU has been appointed research/reference specialist in the British- American Division of the Library of Congress Law Library.

LARRY ALFORD has been appointed assistant university librarian for planning and finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

KATHLEEN BERGEN has been appointed head of the Map Room at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

ANNE E. BRIDGES is now reference librarian with specialization in social sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

MARIFRAN BUSTION has been appointed serials librarian at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Epp appointed associate editor of Choice

Ronald H. Epp, assistant professor of philosophy at Memphis State University, began duties as associate editor of Choice magazine, Middletown, Connecticut, on July 1. He will have subject responsibilities in philosophy, the classics, and history. Choice is the leading book and nonprint review publication for the academic library and scholarly book markets and is published by ACRL.

Epp received his Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971. He also holds an MLS from Memphis State (1984), a master’s in history from SUNY-Buffalo (1968), and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester (1965). He has been assistant professor at Memphis State since 1971, prior to which he had been assistant professor in philosophy at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis (1969-1971).

He has written extensively for such journals as Metaphilosophy, Philosophia, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy, for which he served as assistant editor. Recently he edited a special number of the latter journal entitled “Recovering the Stoics,” which contains an extensive bibliography on Stoicism.

BEVERLY CARLTON has been appointed reference librarian at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Library.

ANNE CLIFFORD is a new interlibrary loan librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

ELAINE COOK has been appointed regional sales manager for the Americas and the Far East at the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, England.

KARMEN N. T. CROWTHER has been appointed reference librarian with specialization in business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

KARLEEN DARR is now head of cataloging in the Health Sciences Library, University of California, Davis.

NINA DAVIS–MILLIS is now music librarian in the Humanities Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

DONALD H. DEDERICK has been appointed head of the Interlibrary Loan Department at the Medical Research Library of Brooklyn, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

MARY ANNE DENHAM has been named automation project coordinator for the Georgetown University Law Library.

CAROL DICKERSON is now director of the Walker Management Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

GORMAN L. DUFFETT has been appointed head librarian at Hiram College, Ohio.

JUDITH EANNARINO has been appointed reference librarian and subject specialist at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.

SARA FINE has been promoted to professor in the Department of Library Science at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Library and Information Science.

DAVID G. GANTT has been named coordinator of public services at Tennessee Technological University Libraries, Cookeville.

MURRAY GENOE has been named university librarian at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.

DAVID P. GILLIKIN has been appointed reference librarian with specialization in science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

DOROTHY GRANGER has been appointed reference librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

KATHLEEN A. GREEN has been appointed undergraduate reference librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

MARCIA E. GRIMES is a new reference librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

PHYLLIS HARLAND is now architecture librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

MELINDA HAYES has been appointed senior technical services librarian at the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

JACQUELYN HALVERSON has been appointed cata- loger at Texas A&M University, College Station.

DAVID HEDRICK has been appointed special collections librarian for the Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

CHARLES HENRY has been appointed assistant director for humanities and history at the Columbia University Libraries, New York.

STANLEY HODGE has been appointed chief bibliographer at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

WILLIAM B. KELLER has been appointed head of special collections at the Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

RAMUNE KUBILIUS has joined the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago, as senior reference librarian.

BETTY LANDESMAN has been appointed product specialist at CL Systems, Inc., West Newton, Massachusetts.

ELIZABETH LANEY has been appointed library science librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

ELLEN MCGRATH has been promoted to head of cataloging at the New York Law School Library.

JEAN MCGRUER has been appointed humanities reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

HELEN S. PAHIGIAN is now project supervisor of the Roman Jakobson Collection on Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology⁷, Cambridge.

MICHAEL PATE has been named assistant director for public services at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

BIDDANDA P. PONNAPPA has been appointed reference librarian with specialization in microforms and government documents at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

JANETTE G. PRESCOD has been appointed reference librarian with specialization in social sciences and government documents, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

IDA REED has been appointed head music librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

LOIS R. REIBACH is a new cataloger at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.

LORRAINE RUTHERFORD has been appointed preservation librarian at New York University.

LAURA SALAS-TULL has been appointed original monograph cataloger at Texas A&M University, College Station.

JOSE LUIS SANCHEZ has been appointed reference librarian and subject specialist at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

KATHLEEN SARRAINO is now reference and public services librarian at Western State University Law Library, San Diego.

CHARLOTTE SLOCUM has been appointed city and regional planning librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

DENISE SOKOLOWSKI has been appointed librarian of the University of Maryland’s European Division in Heidelberg, West Germany.

KATHLEEN STACEY has been appointed automation project cataloger at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.

DONNA J. THOMAS has assumed duties as director of the Curriculum Materials Laboratory in the Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

JACK TSUKAMOTO has been appointed periodicals librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

BERNICE O. WEISS has been appointed catalog librarian at Harvard’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

CATHERINE C. WILT has been appointed resource center manager at Drexel University’s College of Information Studies, Philadelphia.

MICHAEL WINTER has been appointed behavioral sciences librarian at the University of California, Davis.

WAYNE WOLFE has been appointed audiovisual services coordinator at Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Retirements

PETER W. HART retired as chief bibliographer at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

E. JEAN HOLCOMBE has retired as periodicals librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

ALICE HOOVER has retired as reference librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

MARJORIE JOYNER retired as architecture librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

NANCY SCOTT, special collections librarian at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, retired in June after 25 years of service.

MARY BETH WILBANKS has retired as humanities reference librarian at Auburn University after 25 years of service.

BICHARD ZUMWINKLE, reference librarian at the

Deaths

HAROLD BLOOMQUIST, former librarian of Harvard’s Francis W. Countway Library of Medicine, died on April 20 in Atlanta. He had come to Harvard in 1958 as assistant librarian for resources and acquisitions in the Harvard Medical Library. He helped to plan the Countway Library and was its chief administrative officer from 1969 to 1975. The Medical Library Association awarded him with the Janet Doe Lectureship in 1975 and the Marcia C. Noyes Award in 1983, for his lasting contributions to medical librarianship.

WINSTON BROADFOOT, director of the Flowers Collection of Southern Americana at Duke University from 1957 to 1979, died on January 23. He was also a professional art appraiser and served a term as president of the Manuscript Society.

MIRIAM HAWKINS LIBBEY, librarian at the A.W. Calhoun Medical Library at Emory University, died on December 4, 1984, after a long illness. A graduate of Emory’s Division of Librarianship, Libbey held a variety of positions including chief of public services at Emory; assistant head of the Ref- erence Section at the National Library of Medicine; librarian at the SUNY-Buffalo Health Sciences Library; director of the Southeastern Regional Medical Library Program at Emory; and instructor of medical librarianship at Emory.

GLORIA MOORE, interlibrary loan librarian at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, died in Schenectady on May 19. She had been at Skidmore for 12 years.