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Judith Genesen, former director of information services at the Chicago Transit Authority, has been named executive director of the American Association of Law Libraries. Genesen began her career as science librarian at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools High School, then worked as reference librarian for the Joint Reference Library. She joined the CTA in 1974 as head reference librarian, then became supervisor of forms, records, and procedures.

Sally Sparks Leach, acting assistant to the director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRHRC) at the University of Texas, Austin, has been named assistant director of the Research Center. She has held positions with the university’s rare books collections since 1965, and has also been acting librarian at HRHRC. Leach received both her MLS and bachelor’s degree from UT Austin, and is the author of several HRHRC exhibition catalogs, including Lord Byron and The Finest Adventure: Scholars at Work.

K. Wayne Smith, President and CEO of K. Wayne Smith and Associates, a management consulting and holding company, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC, Dublin, Ohio. Smith received his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He has served as director of program analysis for the National Security Council in Washington; program director at the RAND Corporation; an executive with Dart Industries; group managing partner, operations, for Coopers and Lybrand; and chairman and CEO of World Book, Inc. In the late 1960s he co-authored a book entitled, How Much Is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program 1961-1969. Smith will become the third president in OCLC’s history, succeeding Rowland Brown, who is stepping down after eight years.

People in the news

Carol A. White has been appointed reference librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, after four years as assistant football coach at Georgia Tech. She is the only female member of the American Football Coaches Association. While coaching the football team, she worked part-time as an interlibrary loan specialist at the Georgia Tech Department of Research Information Services and pursued a Ph.D. in organizational behavior. In the summer she runs the Georgia Tech Kicking Clinic, a summer camp for football kickers and punters, and she also owns a company that is developing commercial kicking practice equipment. She was featured in an article in the Fall 1988 issue of Florida State Magazine, “Georgia Tech’s First Lady of College Football.”

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.)

Sandra Allen has been appointed coordinator of cataloging services at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania.

Robert Atkinson has been appointed science cataloger at Auburn University, Alabama.

Elizabeth Baker has been named head of the Reference Department at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Sarojini Balachandran has been named head of the Science and Technology Department at Auburn University Libraries, Alabama.

Mary Balmer has been named director for special projects at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Susan Bengston has been appointed science and technology librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Karen H. Bingham has been appointed assistant to the director at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Barbara Bishop has been appointed humanities reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Diane Bradley has been appointed social sciences reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Kateri Brewer has been appointed technical services librarian at Mobile College, Alabama.

Lori Bronars has been appointed reference librarian in the Kline Science Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Connie Brooks has been appointed chief of the Preservation Department at Stanford University, California.

Annette P. Burr has been appointed art and architecture librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Bridget Canavan has been appointed authorities librarian/monographic cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Jacqueline Cantwell has been appointed reference librarian in the Law Library at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

M. George Carlson has been named government documents and reference librarian at Santa Clara University, California.

Barbara Cervera has been appointed associate director for technical services and systems at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Ling-Li Chang has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department at State University College, Oneonta, New York.

Nicholas Churchill has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department at State University College, Oneonta, New York.

Linda La Rue Coates has been appointed online specialist in the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Johanna Cooper has been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Eugene Cseh has been named head of the Acquisitions Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Kay A. Cutler has been named instructional services librarian, Reference Services, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Kathryn J. Deiss has been appointed head of interlibrary loan at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Peter Devlin has been appointed head of copy cataloging at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Robert T. Dolan is now technical services librarian at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

Eileen Dubin has been appointed assistant director for public services and collection management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Chuck Eckman has been appointed government documents librarian at the University of California at Berkeley.

Jon Erickson has been appointed administrative projects librarian at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Christopher Feider has been appointed assistant director of library services at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.

Lucille Fercho has been appointed head of public services at Oklahoma City University Law Library, Oklahoma.

David Fiste has been appointed head of the Bibliographic Services Department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jain Fletcher has been promoted to assistant librarian cataloger at the University of California Biomedical Library, Los Angeles.

Gail Fruchtman has been appointed public services librarian at Cornell University Law Library, Ithaca, New York.

Katy Ginanni has been appointed serials acquisitions librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Bonnie Gratch has been named director of information services at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Bruce Hanson has been named evening reference librarian at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania.

Charles A. Harbert has been appointed management information systems librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Stephen Hearn has been appointed authority control coordinator in the Database Management Division of Central Technical Services at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Donna W. Howell has been appointed government documents/data services reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

James Huesmann has been appointed serials collection development librarian at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Elisabeth Janakiev has been appointed head of the Catalog Department at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Sue Job has been appointed assistant cataloger for the Missouri Newspaper Project at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

William D. Jones has been named head of user services at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Susan Jurist has been appointed technical services librarian at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

David Kapp has been named associate director for collections and information services at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Linda S. Karch has been appointed information services librarian in the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Judith A. Kaul has been appointed media reference librarian at Case Western Reserve University Law School Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

Timothy Kearley has been named director of the library at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Derek Kerr has been appointed pamphlet project librarian in special collections at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

William Lee Kingery has been appointed head of the Veterinary Medicine Library at Auburn University, Alabama.

Mark Labdon has been appointed government documents/microforms librarian at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Rhonda K. Lawrence has been appointed cataloger in the Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

David Lewis has been appointed head of the Research and Information Services Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Barbara Lilley has been appointed assistant preservation librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Linda Lott has been named librarian in Harvard’s Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

Michael Maben has been appointed cataloging and cataloging projects librarian at Indiana University Law Library, Bloomington.

Deborah McCalpin has been appointed bibliographic database librarian at the University of Maryland Law Library, Baltimore.

Vinson E. McKenzie has been appointed head of the Architecture Library at Auburn University, Alabama.

Stephen Margeton has been appointed library director of the Catholic University Law Library, Washington, D.C.

Linda Martinez has been appointed assistant engineering librarian for electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Marilyn Mercado has been appointed head of the Cataloging Department at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

John Mess has been appointed assistant science librarian for chemistry and chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Shelley Miller has been appointed head of the Department for Spain, Portugal, and Latin America at the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence.

Beth Jo Mullaney has been appointed head of the Circulation Department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Maiken Naylor has been appointed head of the Chemistry-Mathematics Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Nancy J. Nuell has been appointed assistant director for Educational Support Services at the Takoma Park Campus of Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland.

John Fred Olive III has joined the library staff of the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Monica Ollendorff has been appointed reference librarian and social science bibliographer at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Coleen Parmer has been appointed government documents/reference librarian at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Pamela Peters has been appointed assistant librarian in the Reference Department at State University College, Oneonta, New York.

Barbara Phillips has been appointed ORION user services librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Robert E. Pillow has been appointed circulation librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Lance Query has been appointed assistant university librarian for planning and administration at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Louis A. Rachow has been named library director of the International Theatre Institute of the United States, New York.

Lindsey Reber has been appointed research bibliographer for the Southeast Asia collection at Ohio University Libraries, Athens.

John Richardson has been appointed cataloging librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Donnell Ruthenberg has been appointed chief cataloger for the Missouri Newspaper Project at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Jeanne Sarkis has returned to the position of chemical medical librarian at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Nancy A. Schiller has been appointed assistant librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Joan Schuitema has been appointed technical services librarian at the Northwestern University Music Library, Evanston.

Diantha Schull has been appointed interpretive programs officer at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Brenda L. Seago has been appointed reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Andrea Sevetson has been appointed government documents librarian at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ravindra Sharma has been named university librarian at the University of Evansville, Indiana.

Louise Sherby has been named assistant director for public services at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Karen D. Stevens has been appointed manuscript/archives librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Patrick Stevens has been appointed general monographic cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Gary Stottlemyer has been appointed automated services librarian at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

Michele Strange has been appointed head of the Government Publications and Map Collection at Northwestern University Library, Evanston.

Gary Strawn has been appointed library systems analyst at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Thomas E. Swann has been appointed reference and library instruction librarian at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Deborah Tarboton has been appointed assistant science librarian for life sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Jill G. Thomas has been appointed cataloger in the Monograph Cataloging Division in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ruth Tucker has been named chief of the Acquisitions Department at Stanford University, California.

William Uricchio has been appointed head of the Bibliographic Control Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel has been appointed reference librarian in the Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley.

Tyler Walters has been appointed assistant university archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Kathleen Weber has been appointed education reference librarian at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Edward Weilant has been appointed reference librarian in the Science Library at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Carole Wisdom has been appointed manager of the Information Centre at the Asia Pacific Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Theresa J. Wolner has been appointed interim assistant to the university librarian at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Helen L. Yoas has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department at State University College, Oneonta, New York.

JA’ACOVZiso has been appointed cataloger for Hebrew and Jewish studies materials at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Diane Zwemer has been appointed reference librarian in the college library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Retirements

Curt Goldstaub, head catalog librarian at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, retired after 18 years of service.

Elsie Kennet retired after 8 years of service as a reference librarian and ten years of service as an instructor of library science and librarian in the Campus Research and Learning Center.

Jae Hwi Myong, biomedical cataloger at the University of California, Irvine, retired on February 28 after nearly 20 years of service. His previous positions included appointments at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, Columbia University, and the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

Robert W. Oram, director of Central University Libraries at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, will retire on July 1. He came to SMU in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he had been acting director and associate director. Previously he had been at the University of Missouri in various roles, including assistant to the director. Since 1980 he has been executive director of the Friends of SMU Libraries. A life member of ALA, Oram has served on many of its committees and editorial boards, including chair of the Booklist Editorial Board and the Notable Books Committee. He reviewed books for PBS radio station WILL in Urbana for many years.

Jack Slater, associate director of Hagerty Library at Drexel University, Philadelphia, retired in September 1988 after 24 years of service. He first held the title of head of acquisitions in September 1964, was appointed to assistant director in March 1966, and associate director of libraries in July 1971. Slater has been on the library staff at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, prior to coming to Drexel in 1964. He holds a baschelor’s degree from the City College of New York and a MLS from the University of Michigan.

Ellen Thomas, head of the Physical Sciences Library at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, will retire in June after 35 years of service. She became department head in 1969.

Don Williams, classics librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, retired on December 31 after 26 years of service. Williams received his MLS from Berkeley in 1955 and then worked briefly at Los Angeles State College. He returned to Berkeley to work in the Catalog Department from 1957 to 1961, concentrating on cataloging materials in English and Romance languages. In 1961 he moved to Dallas to take a position in the Southern Methodist University Science Library as head of its Periodicals and Government Documents Department. Back in Berkeley again in 1964, he resumed cataloging responsibilities, taking a break in 1967-1969 to earn a French certificate from the Université de Paris and a master’s degree in French literature from Berkeley. In 1969 he returned as a reference librarian and then became head of the Interlibrary Borrowing Service. In 1979 he joined the Collection Development/Reference Services Department, serving with distinction as both classics librarian and librarian for French and Italian Collections.

Deaths

Joseph M. Dagnese, director of libraries at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, died on January 27 of lung cancer. He had been director since 1972.

Dagnese received his bachelor’s degree in English literature from Boston College in 1949. In 1951 he received a master’s degree in English literature and in 1952 an MLS from the Catholic University of America. He studied German literature at Heidelberg University in 1954-1955. He served as assistant head of cataloging at Catholic University from 1955 to 1957; document librarian with Nuclear Metals, Inc., in 1957-1960; and head of acquisitions, science librarian, head of circulation, and assistant director for technical services at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1960 to 1971.

He served as library consultant on a Ford Foundation program at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India in 1967 and Delhi University in 1970. In 1983 he was selected as one of 15 librarians to participate in the Senior Fellows Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dagnese was president of the Special Libraries Association in 1979-1980. He was serving as the SLA representative to the International Federation of Library Associations at the time of his death. He was on the Board of the Center for Research Libraries from 1981 to 1984 and was president of the Universal Serials and Book Exchange in 1985.

Thomas Hezekiah Mott Jr., professor in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, Brunswick, New Jersey, died on January 17 while on vacation in Puerto Rico. He had served as dean of the Rutgers Graduate School of Library and Information Studies from 1969 to 1983. His major accomplishment was leading the library school into a merger with the Department of Communication and the Department of Journalism and Mass Media, resulting in the new School of Communication, Information and Library Studies in 1982.