ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

APPOINTMENTS

Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr., is now assistant director for technical services at the Texas A&M University library.

Mrs. Josephine F. Berg has been appointed head of the humanities and social sciences division at the Texas A&M University library.

Edmund Berkeley, Jr., is now curator of manuscripts at the University of Virginia library.

Judith Chien is assistant catalog librarian in the card preparation unit and instructor in library science, Purdue University libraries.

Edward S. Cohen has been appointed assistant librarian and documents librarian at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, effective July 1, 1970.

Mrs. Patricia Earnest has been appointed assistant reference librarian in the general library and instructor in library science, Purdue University libraries.

Sherry Eitel has joined the staff of the catalog department at Northeast Missouri State College, Kirksville.

Patricia C. Farrell has been appointed supervising librarian at the Bio-Agricultural Library, University of California, Riverside.

Laurence M. Feldman has accepted the position of head librarian of the Becton Engineering & Applied Science Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Arthur C. Flandreu has been appointed library director of the new Richard Stockton State College, Galloway Township, New Jersey.

Mrs. Marta G. Franco has been appointed a lecturer in the York College library, City University of New York.

Cornelia Hadley is now assistant catalog librarian in the catalog unit and assistant professor of library science, Purdue University libraries.

T. Mark Hodges is now associate librarian for the Southeastern Regional Medical Library Program, A. W. Calhoun Medical Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Francis A. Langer is now director of libraries at Salem College, Salem, West Virginia.

Hugh C. Larimer is reference librarian in the Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration and instructor in library science, Purdue University libraries.

Frank N. Magill has been elected to his third term as president of Libraria Sodalitas, support group for the University of Southern California’s Graduate School of Library Science, Los Angeles.

Deidre Dexter Malarkey has received an appointment as reference librarian, instructor in library administration, University of Oregon library, Eugene.

Donald E. Oehlerts has been appointed director for public services, with the rank of associate professor, in the M. D. Anderson Memorial Library at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

Leroy Ortopan has been named director of the Library Technology Program of the American Library Association, Chicago.

Ernest Perez is head of acquisitions at the Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas.

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Porsche joined the Department Library as cataloger in the technical processing section, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Library, Washington, D.C.

Edwin L. Posey is the new engineering librarian and assistant professor of library science, Purdue University libraries.

Mrs. Michal DeHaven Steγanacci is the newly appointed cataloger and instructor in library science at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.

Samuel Yee Sung has been appointed assistant professor and cataloger, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.

Daria Tu was appointed assistant serials librarian in the serials unit and instructor in library science, Purdue University libraries.

Thomas G. Tyler has joined the library staff at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, as assistant reference librarian.

Pauline M. Vaillancourt has been named an associate professor, school of library science, State University of New York at Albany.

Richard W. Vierich is now head of the science processing division for all of the science branch libraries, University of California, Riverside.

NECROLOGY

Edna Louise Lucas, head of the Harvard Fine Arts Library until her retirement in 1964, died January 24, 1970, in Rockport, Massachusetts. Following her retirement Miss Lucas continued to be professionally active and completed her Art Books: A Basic Bibliography on the Fine Arts (1968).

RETIREMENTS

Mrs. Margaret B. Andrews, head of the department of rare books, manuscripts, and archives at the University of Rochester library, Rochester, New York, retired March 1, 1970. Mrs. Andrews joined the library as an assistant classifier in 1929 and held a number of positions in the library before her appointment in 1955 as head of the department of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Mrs. Mary M. Gillham, university librarian, professor of library science, and chairman of the department of library science, has retired after forty-eight years of service to the University of Toledo.

Felix Reichmann, considered by many librarians to be one of the world’s greatest bookmen, will retire June 30, 1970, as assistant director of libraries at Cornell University after twenty-three years of service to Cornell. He joined Cornell in 1947 as head of the library’s acquisitions department and was named director in charge of technical services in 1948. Mr. Reichmann was responsible not only for the acquisition of several important collections for the university library, but also began and supervised Cornell’s reclassification project. This project, begun in 1948, should be completed in two more years.

Mrs. Margaret K. Toth retired as head of the department of acquisitions at the University of Rochester on April 1, 1970. Mrs. Toth joined the library staff in 1944 and held a number of positions in the library. She also served as editor of the American College and Research Libraries’ Microcard Series from 1956 to 1967.