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Terry Belanger, professor of library science at Columbia University’s School of Library Service, will join the University of Virginia faculty in September 1992 as univer- sity professor and honor- ary curator of special col- lections. Columbia’s board of trustees voted a year ago to phase out the programs of its library school after the 1991-92 academic year. Belanger, who has taught at Co- lumbia for more than 20 years, heads the Book Arts Press, a bibliographi- cal laboratory, and is founding director of the Rare Book School, a wellknown summer institute for rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers that regularly attracts about 300 people. Belanger’s Book Arts Press will be housed in renovated quarters in UV’s Alderman Library, and the summer institute will have its first session in Charlottesville in the summer of 1993. An active member of ACRL’s Rare Books and Manu- scripts Section, Belanger is a frequent lecturer on subjects relating to the history of rare books and printing, focusing his research on the history of the English book trade. His most recent project is a 30- minute videotape called “The Anatomy of a Book: Format in the Hand-Press Period.”

Terry Belanger

Barbara Jones, head of reference at the Minnesota Historical Society since 1988, has been appointed director of Schaffer Library at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Jones’s previous positions include director of library services at the University of Northern Iowa, director of the library at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, head of cataloging at New York University, head of bibliographic control at Columbia Univer- sity, and cataloger at the University of Cincinnati. Jones is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in En- glish from the University of Illinois, an M.A.T. in English from Northwest- em University, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Cincin- nati, an M.A. in history from New York Univer- sity, and an MLS from Columbia University. She is a member of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee andCoalition on Government Information, a former member of the Minnesota Library Association’s board of directors, president of the New York Technical Services Librarians Organiza- tion, and a former member of the Long Range Planning Committee of the State Library of Iowa.

Barbara Jones

David Michael Pilachowski has been named director of Denison University Libraries effective July 1991. Pilachowski has been, for the past five years, associate university librarian at Colgate University, where he spent a total of ten years. Before that he served as reference librarian and coordinator of online search services at the University of Vermont. He received his bachelor’s from the University of Vermont in 1971 and his MLS from the University of Illinois in 1973. He is also an active member of ACRL and the Reference and Adult Services Division of ALA, and served on the Machine Assisted Reference Services Section’s Executive Committee.

Assunta Pisani has been named the first assistant director of I Tatti for the Biblioteca Berenson. I Tatti is Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. Pisani, currently associate librarian of Harvard College for collection development and specialist in book selection for French and Italian, will assume her new duties in July 1992, which include directing the Biblioteca Berenson, the library based on the private collec- tion of legendary art historian and collector Bernard Berenson and including the Fototeca Berenson, the Morrill Music Library, and the new Paul Geier Library. She will also help the director with fellow- ship, lecture, and conference programs. Pisani re- ceived her MLS from Simmons College and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Brown Uni- versity.

Alice Schreyer, assistant director of libraries at the University of Delaware since 1986, has been appointed curator of special collections at the University of Chicago Li- brary, effective October 1991. From 1983 to 1985 Schreyer was a consult- ant at the Center for the Book, Library of Con- gress. She has also held positions at Rutgers and Columbia Universities. She is the author of The History of Books: A Guide to Selected Resources in the Library of Congress (1987) and editor of Rare Books 1983-84: Trends, Collections, Sources (1984). She is past-chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL and is currently chair of the RBMS Planning Committee and a member of the RBMS Ethical Standards Review Committee and the ACRL Publications Committee. Since 1988 Schreyer has served as editor of ACRL’s journal Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship.

Alice Schreyer

Linda Eileen Williamson was named United States studies librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University ‚ effective April 1991. She took up her new position following a six-month assignment at the University College Dublin, where she held a USIA/ALA Library Fellowship to work with the Republic of Ireland’s exchange collection of U.S. government documents. From 1987-90 she was documents librarian and head of the department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before that she was head of the Documents Unit at Vanderbilt University from 1975-87, and reference librarian from 1973—75. Williamson received her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and her MLS from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Going International: Librarians’ Preparation Guide for a Work Experience/Job Exchange Abroad, published by ALA in 1988.

People in the News

Patricia Aughinbaugh, director of the Pasquerilla Library, Saint Francis College, has been elected to a one-year term as president of the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center (PRLC) Board of Trustees. PRLC is a multitype library network serving over 100 members in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and western Maryland.

Joan A. Boocker, a library science student at Wayne State University, received a North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Library Science Grant to attend the 6th Annual NASIG Conference held at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, in June.

Gary B. Cocozzoli, library director at Lawrence Technological University (LTU), has been selected Wayne State University’s (WSU) Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the library and information field. Cocozzoli graduated from WSU with an MLS in 1975, then became serials and interlibrary loan librarian at LTU the same year. He has held his current position since 1981. Very active in WSU’s Library Science Alumni Association, Cocozzoli has also been active in the Michigan Library Association, the Special Libraries Association, and ALA. He has co-authored two books: German-Amerícan History and Life: A Guide to Information Sources (1980) and Japan’s Economic Challenge: A Bibliographic Sourcebook (1988), and written a number of resource reviews for The American Reference Books Annual.

Dottie Eakin, director of the Medical Sciences Library at Texas A&M University, was awarded the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences at the Medical Library Association’s 91st Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Eakin has achieved expert status in the field of collection development, having authored some fundamental works on the subject including “Health Science Library Materials: Collection Development” (in Handbook of Medical Library Practice, 4th ed., vol.3, 1984).

C. William Fraser, who retired in 1991 as library director of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS) of British Columbia's Medical Library Service, was honored by the Medical Library Association (MLA) as a fellow at its 91st Annual Meeting. Fraser held various public library positions in British Columbia before joining CPS in 1962. He was the founder and first president of the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia and was also actively involved in the Canadian Health Libraries Association. He is also a threetime president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA.

Jack G. Goellner, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press; Charles Goldstein, chief of the Information Technology Branch, National Library of Medicine; Richard Lucier, university librarian and assistant vice-chancellor for academic information management, University of Califomia-San Francisco; and Victor A. McKusick, M.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, were jointly awarded the 1991 Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award for outstanding contribution to the application of technology to the delivery of health sciences information by the Medical Library Association at its 91st Annual Meeting. The four men were honored for their immense pioneering effort in the development of Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). Their vision and technological achievement have provided a knowledge management model that places the health sciences library in a pivotal position in a computer- based publication process.

Charles E. Hale, director of the Staley Library at Millildn University, Decatur, Illinois, has been awarded the Illinois Library Association’s (ILA) 1991 Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award in recognition of his outstanding statewide contribution to academic librarianship and to library development. Hale has been the State of Illinois delegate to the ACRL Chapters Council and a member of several nominating committees for ACRL; he has served as ILA’s network strategy manager, as college and research libraries forum manager, and as a board member. He contributed a chapter to the book Academic Librarianship: Past, Present and Future.

Thomas D. Higdon, who retired as director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center Library in 1990, was honored as a Medical Library Association fellow at MLA’s 91st Annual Meeting. Higdon has been instrumental in developing the AHSC Library into one of the most outstanding academic medical library collections in the nation. He recently worked closely with architects and planning committees to design new facilities for the library—a move that will yield an increase in space from 32,000 to more than 80,000 square feet.

Rose Hogan, who retired in 1990 as director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library, was honored by the Medical Library Association as a fellow at its 91st Annual Meeting. During Hogan’s tenure, the university expanded the health science education programs into rural Arkansas through Area Health Education Centers that each have their own library. Hogan was one of the original resource library directors for the South Central Regional Medical Library Program. She served as chair of the Regional Advisory Committee and as presidnet of both the Southern Chapter and the South Central Chapter.

Hwa-Wei Lee, dean of libraries at Ohio University, has been selected by ALA to receive the John Ames Humphry/Forest Press Award for 1991 in recognition of his significant contributions to international librarianship. The award, which consists of a $1,000prize and a certificate, was presented at the ALA Annua] Conference in Atlanta. Lee was also chosen as co-recipient of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s Distinguished Service Award, which was also presented at the conference. For 25 years Lee has been actively involved in library development abroad through consulting assignments with UNESCO, the International Development Research Center (Canada), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, and government agencies and universities in Asia. He pioneered a highly successful library internship program at Ohio University for librarians and library science faculty from developing countries.

Richard Lucier, university librarian and assistant vice-chancellor for academic information management at the University of Califomia-San Francisco, was presented with the Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Librarian of the Year at the Medical Library Association’s 91st Annual Meeting. Lucier has served as director of the Welch Medical Library at the Laboratory for Applied Research in Academic Information, and as associate director of the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Lucier received the award in recognition of his leadership, commitment, and outstanding contributions to broadening the role of academic health sciences libraries and librarians beyond storage and retrieval into information transfer and knowledge management. His work with the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man project and the Genome Database has done much to advance the profession.

Jean K. Miller, director of the library at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was honored by the Medical Library Association as a fellow at the MLA’s 91st Annual Meeting. Miller entered the field of health sciences librarianship in 1967, serving as head of circulation and health sciences librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo, then becoming director of the Cooperative Medical Library Center of New York. She has also served as MLA’s president in 1985-86.

Philip Rosenstein, who retired in 1990 as university librarian at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was honored as a fellow at the Medical Library Association’s 91st Annual Meeting. Rosenstein has excelled in the area of resource sharing since 1967 when he received grant funds from the National Library of Medicine to develop a statewide interlibrary loan program. He was also a key figure in the founding of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Suzanne Sawyer-Burleson, a master’s degree candidate at Wayne State University and part-time reference librarian at Lansing Community College, has been awarded an Educational Improvement and Professional Development Grant from the Lansing Community College Foundation. She will use the grant to do research on the existence of and accessibility to archival collections of two-year colleges in the U.S. The grant will enable Sawyer- Burleson to gather information on policies and procedures of community college archives, about which very little information has been available.

Ronald M. Watterson, retired librarian of the Mulford Library at Medical College of Ohio, was honored as a fellow at the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) 91st Annual Meeting. Fellowship is conferred in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the association. Through Watterson’s leadership the Mulford Library was chosen to participate in the founding of the State University of New York Biomedical Communication Network and Bibliographic Retrieval Services (now BRS Information Technologies). He also started the Medical College of Ohio Book Store, the Audiovisual Department, the Archival Collections, and the Rare Book Room.

Robert Wedgeworth, dean of the School of Library Service, Columbia University, was elected president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) at its meeting in Moscow in August. He becomes the first American president of IFLA in 60 years and only the second in IFLA’s 64-year history.

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Deborah D. Blecic has been named resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Emerita Cuesta is now head of access services at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Miranda H. Cary has been named general services librarian at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Charles Croissant has been named music cata- loger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emerita Cuesta is now head of access services at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Wei-ling Dai has been named head of serials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Shawn E. Durham has been named resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Charles Egleston has been appointed bibliographer with the English Short Title Catalog, Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside.

Karen Feeney has been named head of the Acquisitions Department in the Central University Library, University of California, San Diego.

Deborah Fetch has been appointed head of the Acquisitions Ordering Section at Penn State University, University Park.

Mary Lou Goodyear has been appointed assistant director for collection interpretation at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Cathy Hartman has been appointed public services librarian for documents and bibliographic instruction at Austin College, Sherman, Texas.

Craig Haynes has been appointed access services librarian in the Biomedical Library, University of California, San Diego.

Lisa Hicks has been appointed resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mimi King has been appointed head reference librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Paula Hinton has been appointed social sciences librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Zhonge Huang has been named automation librarian at Saint Louis University, Missouri.

Janice Koyama has been named assistant university librarian for public services at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael J. LaCroix has been appointed director of library services at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Roger Laramee has been named development officer at the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

Frances Lynch has been appointed associate director of the Medical Center Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Sharon Cline McKay has been appointed director of library automation at EBSCO Subscription Services, Birmingham, Alabama.

Juliet McLaren has been named bibliographer with the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalog, Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside.

Lisa Melendez has been appointed assistant librarian for reference at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Rita Moss has been named business/economics reference librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Robert C. Myers has been named assistant professor of librarianship, Reference Department, at Central Washington University, Ellensburg.

Alinda J. Nelson is now temporary math librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine Oka has been appointed assistant librarian for reference at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jenifer A. Oldham has been named resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Jay Martin Poole has been reappointed assistant director for collection and bibliographic services at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Louise M. Richards has been appointed assistant flsheries-oceanography librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Elizabeth Robinson has been appointed cata- loger at the Central University Library, University of California, San Diego.

Cynthia Ross is now coordinator for reference and interlibrary loan services, Biomedical Library, University of California, San Diego.

Nancy Sack has been appointed resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Marje Schuetze-Coburn has been appointed Feuchtwanger librarian at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Schwalke is now campus librarian at the St. Augustine Center Library, St. Johns River Community College, St. Augustine, Florida.

Roxanne Sellberg has been named head of the Cataloging Division at the University of Washington s Suzzallo Library, Seattle.

Harold Shaffer has been named associate librarian and head of the Access Services Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Diana Shenk has been named archivist and head of Historical Collections and Labor Archives at Penn State University, University Park.

Robert Skinner has been named user services librarian, Research Services Department, at the Central University Library, University of California, San Diego.

Andrew Sopko has been named associate librarian at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania.

Christopher Stave has been appointed reference librarian and coordinator of online search services at the Biomedical Library of the University of California, San Diego.

Patricia Sulouff has been named science librarian at Syracuse University, New York.

Joyce King Thornton has been appointed executive assistant to the director of the Evans Library at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Ruben Urbizagastegui is now cataloging librarian at the University of California, Riverside.

Barbara Valentine has been appointed reference librarian at Linfleld College, McMinnville, Oregon.

Dayna Williams-Capone has been named public services librarian for circulation and reference services at Austin College, Sherman, Texas.

Anne E. Zald has been appointed documents reference librarian at the University of Washington’s Suzzallo Library, Seattle.

Youzhao Zhang is now government documents librarian at St. Louis University, Missouri.

Nora Zukas has been named resident librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Stephen J. Zietz is now project coordinator for the “Initiative for the 90s” three-year cataloging project undertaken by the 16 members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.

Retirements

Henriette D. Avram, associate librarian for collection services at the Library of Congress, will retire at the end of 1991 after more than 25 years of service. Avram beganher career working as a pro- grammer and systems analyst at the National Security Agency, the American Research Bu- reau, and Datatrol Corp. before joining LC in 1965 as assistant coordinator of information systems in the Office of the Infor- mation Systems Special- ist. Her early work on the analysis of data ultimately led to the development of a standard vehicle for the communication of bibliographic data, the struc- ture now known as the MARC format. Other than her current position, Avram has held these posts at LC: chief of the MARC Development Office (1970); chief of the Network Development Office (1976); director for processing systems, networks, and au- tomation planning (1980); and assistant librarian for processing services (1983). Avram serves on the board of directors for EDUCOM. the Association for Library Collections andTechnical Services, and the Commission of Preservation and Access, as well as on the Federal Network Council Advisory Committee. In addition to her involvement with ALA and other professional organizations in the U.S., Avram has worked extensively with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), including serving as its vice-president and on its executive board. Avram has also been honored with many professional awards, including ALA’s most distinguished prizes: the 1971 Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification; the Melvil Dewey Award in 1981 for creative professional achievement; the 1988 Joseph W. Lippincott Award for distinguished service to librarianship; and the John Humphry/Forest Press Award of 1990 for contributions to international librarianship. She also received an honorary fellowship from IFLA in 1987; the Special Libraries Association’s 1990 Professional Award; and ACRL’s Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award in 1979.

Henriette D. Avram

Jon Boone has retired after lO years as collection development librarian at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Betty K. Gübert, head of general research and reference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, has retired after 21 years of service. She plans to complete two books on black aviators and astronauts during her retirement.

Owen T. P. McGowan, director of libraries at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, retired after 27 years of service. McGowan was among the founders of Southeastern Massachusetts Cooperating Libraries and the Massachusetts Conference of Chief Librarians of Public Higher Educational Institutions. He was also three times president of the latter organization.

Suzanne Massonneau retired in June as assistant director for technical services at the University of Vermont. Her career, which began in 1952, also included positions at Florida State University, Purdue University, Central Michigan University, and Texas A&M University. In addition, she taught cataloging at the University of Vermont and was designated library professor emerita at the time of her retirement.

Charles Maurer, director of libraries at Denison University since 1971, retired in June. Maurer received his bachelor’s and MLS degrees from the U niversity of Michigan, and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. At Denison, Maurer served not only as director but also as chair of the governance review commission, and as par- liamentarian at the general faculty meetings. He served as the OHIONET delegate to the National Users Council of OCLC from 1978 to 1983. An active member of the Academic Library Associa- tion of Ohio, Maurer was presented with ALAO’s first Distinguished Service Award in 1988 in honor of his promotion of academic libraries within the state of Ohio.

Kenneth G. Peterson retired in August after 15 years as dean of libraiy affairs at Southern Illinois University. Peterson received a bachelor’s in his- tory at Drew University then earned a master’s in divinity at Yale University. He spent 13 years as minister for the Congregational Church (now the United Church of Christ), and served in Ohio and California. Deciding to change to a library career, Peterson earned an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctoral degree in librarianship, then became associate university li- brarian at the University of Virginia. He is the author of two books and many articles and reviews.

James Bothenberg has retired after 21 years as librarian and former head of the Government Pub- lications Department at the University of Califor- nia, Riverside.

Jeff Selth has retired after 18 years as a librar- ian in the Collection Development Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Paul Starr, director of library services at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, retired in June after 26 years in that position. Starr began his career with the diplo- matic service at the American Embassy in Pakistan, then later be- came a faculty member at the U niversity of Colo- rado, Bay City College, and the University of Michigan. His distin- guished career was capped last spring when he was bestowed with emeritus status at Carroll’s commencement cer- emony.

Paul Starr

Tony Shipps, English subject specialist at the Indiana University Libraries, retired in September after 24 years of service. A graduate of Mercer University, Shipps received a Ph.D. in English before receiving an AMLS from the University of Michigan in 1960. He was circulation librarian, humanities librarian, and head of reference at the University of Colorado before joining IU in 1967. Shipps has also been known at IU as the quotation specialist, and he has published quote identifica- tions and notes in Notes and Queries, the New York Times Book Review, and Harvard Magazine. His book, The Quotes Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations, was published in 1990 by the University of Illinois Press.

William Treese, librarian and former head of the Arts Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, retired in June after 25 years of ser- vice. Treese was a major force in planning UCSB’s Arts Library. He also served as editor of the micro- fiche edition of the Art Exhibition Catalog Collec- tion and was active in ARLIS, the Librarians Associa- tion of the University of California, UCSB Art Affil- iates, and other local and national organizations.

David C. Weber, director of the Stanford Uni- versity Libraries for 22 years, retired in June and was named director emeritus of the libraries. A graduate of Colby Col- lege in 1947, Weber earned a B.S. in library science from Columbia University in 1948, and a master’s in history from Harvard University in 1953. He began his pro- fessional career as a cata- log librarian at Harvard, then moved on to become assistant to the director, then assistant director, there. In 1961 he became assistant director of the Stanford Libraries, then became associate director in 1965, and director in 1969. Weber’s professional involvement has been extensive. At ALA he has served as president of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (1967-68), president of ACRL (1981-82), and chairman of several committees. He has served on the Board of Directors at the Association of Research Libraries, the California Library Author- ity for Systems and Services, the Library Coopera- tive of Santa Clara County, and the Research Li- braries Group. He is the author of many articles and books including Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings, 2nd ed. (co-authored with P.D. Leighton), published by ALA in 1986.

David C. Weber

Paul A. Winckler, professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island U niversity, retired in August. Winckler earned his bachelor’s from St. John’s University, his MLS from Pratt University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. He spent his professional career at the Brooklyn Public Library, St. John’s University, the Bryant Library (as director), and at Suffolk County Community College (as the first librarian there). For the past 29 years he has been in graduate library education at Long Island. Winckler is the author and compiler of many books, articles, and bibliographies. His biography of noted library director Charles C. Williamson will be published in the fall.

Deaths

Margaret Oaksford Cirr, a 25-year employee of the Cornell University Libraries, died in July after a brief illness. Cirr began her career in 1961 as a searcher in Cornell’s Catalog Department, then became catalog librarian in the reclassification team that had to recatalog the Cornell collections to the Library of Congress system. In 1970 she became bibliographic and reference center librarian of the School of Hotel Administration. Cirr also held part- time positions at the Tompkins County Public Library and the College Center of the Finger Lakes.

Elizabeth Grace Todd, former head of cataloging at the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library from 1964 until her retirement in 1988, died in May after a long struggle with cancer. Todd’s major accomplishments at Bancroft included the merging of the old catalog of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department with that of the Bancroft Collection. She was particularly devoted to work on the primary bibliography of California imprints known as “Rocq” (California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings), serving for many years on a California State Library committee responsible for augmenting the bibliography.