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James R. Kennedy, head librarian for the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been appointed director of the Giesel Library at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire.

At Lawrence he served as library consultant to the Merrimack Valley Health Planning Council and was responsible for the organization and development of a health planning sciences library to serve both regional health planners and health care provider agencies. Before going to Lawrence,

Kennedy was library director of the Jonathan Bourne Public Library, Bourne, Massachusetts, where he instituted services for the handicapped and organized a cooperative effort among public, academic, and military base libraries.

James R. Kennedy

Kennedy, a graduate of Stonehill College, holds an MLS degree from the University of Rhode Island and has done advanced studies at the Boston University School of Business Administration and the Miami (Ohio) University School of Business Administration. He began his library career as a part-time reference and circulation assistant at the Walpole Public Library in 1964.

George Charles Newman, director of Shafer Library and assistant dean for cultural arts at Findlay College, Ohio, has been named director of the Edward H. Butler Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo effective August 15.

G. Charles Newman

Newman has directed library and media services at Findlay College since 1977 and was director of the L. Dale Dorney Community Arts Series at Findlay College for 1981-82.

Prior to his appointment at Findlay, Newman was director of library and media services and assistant dean at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, from 1975 to 1977.

Newman holds a bachelors degree in history from the University of Cincinnati (1965); a master of arts in teaching degree from Miami University, Ohio (1971); a masters in library science and educational technology from the University of Michigan (1972); and a Ph.D from the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Michigan (1978).

Newman is the author of Leadership and the Politics of Innovative Change: Antioch College under Arthur H. Morgan (1982) and co-author of Limited Growth in Higher Education: Indicators, Impacts and Implications (1976). He has also authored several articles (including the Bibliographic Instruction column in the September 1982 C&RL News), papers and grants in the fields of librarianship, educational technology, history, and higher education.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Evelyn P. Fancher, director of libraries and learning resources at Tennessee State University, Nashville, has been selected to develop an agricultural research library in Swaziland, Africa. The library will be used primarily by the researchers involved in an $11 million, five-year project, sponsored by the Swaziland government and the United States Agency for International Development. Penn State is the primary contractor for this project with Tennessee State University serving as a subcontractor. Fancher began her first service to the project in August.

Evelyn P. Fancher

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).

Victoria J. Adamitis has been appointed readers services librarian (serials) at the E. Lee Trinkle Library, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Patricia Arnott is now coordinator for bibliographic instruction at the University of Delaware Library, Newark.

Jill Ausel has been appointed public services librarian at Robert Morris College Library, Pittsburgh and Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Baker is now management reference librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Lee Bennett is now acquisitions librarian for Loyola University of Chicago Libraries.

Robert C. Berring has been appointed law librarian at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.

Ajaye Bloomstone has been appointed cataloger in the University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Ruth A. Boettcher has joined the University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie, as Health Sciences Information Network technical services librarian.

Victor T. Cardell has been appointed assistant head of the Music Library, Yale University.

Kathleen M. Carney is now a cataloger for Loyola University of Chicago Libraries.

Margaret S. Child has been named assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, where she will serve as manager of the Research Services Division.

Margaret M. Chisholm is now public services librarian at the Yale University Law Library.

John W. Collins, III, has been appointed head of the Educational Resources Library, Boston University.

Lenore Coral has been appointed music librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Paula Covington has been named coordinator of reference services at Vanderbilt s Central Library, Nashville.

Dorothy W. Cox has been appointed acquisitions librarian for the Law School Library of Loyola University of Chicago.

Westwell R. Daniels has been appointed associate librarian at the Yale University Law Library.

Adele Dendy has been appointed head of the Education Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Samuel Dove is now head of the Records Section in the Library of Congress’ Loan Division.

Jim Dwyer is the new cataloging coordinator at Northern Arizona University Library, Flagstaff.

Donald Farren has been appointed associate director for special collections at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Evangelie Flessas has been appointed Modern Greek specialist in the Harvard College Library.

Ronald H. Fritze is now humanities reference librarian at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston.

Edward H. Fuller has been appointed special collections librarian at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

Paula Garrett is a new information specialist at Rice University Library, Houston.

Catherine Hall Gillette has been appointed assistant director for public services at the Cleveland Marshall College of Law Library.

John R. Goddard has been appointed assistant catalog librarian at the Ithaca College Library, New York.

William H. Grady has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Richmond Law Library.

Margaret Green is now a cataloger in the Harvard College Library.

Thomas Hanley has been named director of the University of Dayton School of Law Library.

Majlen Helenius has been appointed reference librarian at Yale University’s Medical Library.

Katherine Henderson has been appointed assistant law librarian at McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento.

Joan Scott Holt is now a reference librarian at the St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Library.

John Hostage, Jr., has been appointed cataloger in the Harvard Law School Library.

A.O. Ike is now university librarian at the Federal University of Technology, Bauchi, Nigeria.

Darrell L. Jenkins has been named director of library services at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Carolyn Kacena has been appointed associate director at California State University Library, Fullerton.

Jim Knox has been named curator of British and U.S. History Collections at Stanford University, California.

W. Patrick Leonard has been appointed associate provost and associate academic vice president at Chicago State University. He was previously dean of library and learning resources.

Ross Ljungquist has been promoted to serials librarian in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

John G. Lorenz, formerly deputy librarian at the Library of Congress and executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, is serving as interim director of libraries at the Catholic University of America, Washington.

John Lubans, Jr., is now assistant university librarian for public services, Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Diane McComas is the new reader services librarian at the University of Alaska, Juneau.

Mary Inez Moch has been appointed head librarian at Felician College, Chicago.

Monty L. Montee has been appointed head of the Cataloging Department, Yale University.

Dale Nelson has been appointed extension librarian at the Medical Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Mary Nicholson is now acquisitions librarian at the University of Alaska, Juneau.

Emily Okada has been appointed reference and instruction librarian at the Undergraduate Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Joan Pelland joined Loyola University Law Library in New Orleans as acquisitions/serials librarian.

Marjorie J. Pinkerton has been named director of Dulany Library, William Woods College, Fulton, Missouri.

Chestalene Pintozzi has been appointed librarian of the University of Texas Geology Library, Austin.

Janet S. Pollens is the new interlibrary loan librarian at the Fondren Library, Rice University. Houston.

Melinda Reagor is now catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Marie Rehmar has been appointed assistant director for technical services at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library.

Ann Ricker is now interlibrary services bibliographer at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Michael Ryan has accepted the position of chief and curator of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University.

Rochelle Sager has been named acting director of library and media services at the University of Alaska, Juneau.

Robert Schirmer is now acting director of Findlay College, Ohio.

Donald S. Share has been appointed special projects cataloger at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston.

Barbara Simmons has been appointed archival/manuscript specialist on a one-year project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge.

Marilyn G. Simpson has been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Michigan’s Taubman Medical Library, Ann Arbor.

Diane Slater is now coordinator of library instructional services at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Gary W. Strong has joined the faculty of Drexel University’s School of Library and Information Science as an assistant professor.

Edward Tallent has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Uris Undergraduate Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Nicholas Triffin is the new director of the law library at Hamline University Law School, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Darcy Van Vuren is now associate director for the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service, University of California at Los Angeles.

Ben Wakashige has been appointed library director at the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Susan E. Whitehead has been appointed head of the Reference Department, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University.

Catherine L. Whitesideis now a programmer in the Library Systems Office, University of California, Berkeley.

Dolores Williams has been named law librarian at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, Houston.

Susan G. Williamson has been appointed social science librarian at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Wineburgh-Freed has been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles.

Michael Boyd Wood, acting university librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, has been named dean of university libraries there.

Linda Zieper has been appointed reference librarian at Bradford College, Haverhill, Massachusetts.

RETIREMENTS

Mildred Elizabeth Dugas, head of cataloging at Yale University Library from 1975, retired on June 30.

Donald B. Engley retired on June 30 after 10 years of service as associate university librarian at Yale University.

Jack Jochim retired as business bibliographer for the Julia Deal Lewis Library of Loyola University of Chicago.

Louis Kiraldi,documents and maps librarian at Western Michigan University’s Waldo Library, retired on June 30 after 22 years of service to the University.

Mae Durham Roger retired on June 30 from the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, after 23 years of service.

Donald A. Sinclair has retired from the Rutgers University Libraries where he had served over 30 years as head of Special Collections.

PlNG Kuen Yu,director of the Center for Chinese Research Materials of the Association of Research Libraries since 1968, retired on July 20.

DEATHS

Homer Bernhardt, head of the Engineering and Mathematics Libraries at the University of Pittsburgh, died on July 13.

Frank S. Hanlin, bibliographer at the University of Iowa Libraries, died on August 9 after 16 years in that position.

Mabel Junkert, the first head of the University of California, Riverside, Library’s Serials Department, died on July 25.

Helen Sheehan, emeritus librarian of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., died of cancer on May 10.

Emma Simonson, Latin American Studies area specialist art Indiana University from 1964 to 1976, died on June 28.

George T. Smisor, acquisitions librarian in the University of California, Riverside, Library from 1952 to 1968, died on July 17 in Medford, Oregon.

Ruth Velten, cataloger of Germanic materials at Indiana University from 1954 to 1975, died in Brunswick, Georgia, in June. ■■