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Joseph A. Boissé

Joseph A. BoissÉ has been appointed director of libraries at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boissé has been director of the

Library/Learning Cen- ter, University of Wis- consin-Parkside in Kenosha since 1973.

He began his career in 1967 as regional li- brarian and special ser- vices coordinator at the Vermont Department of Libraries. In 1968 he moved to Lawrence University, Appleton,

Wisconsin, where he served as assistant di- rector of the library until 1971. He returned to the Vermont Department of Libraries in 1971 and held the position of assistant state librarian and director of extension services until 1973 when he was named director at Wisconsin- Parkside.

Boissé earned an A.B. from Stonehill College, an M.A. in French literature from Brown University, and an M.S. in library science from Simmons College.

He has served as chairman of the Executive Board of the Council of Wisconsin Librarians, as director of the New England Library Association, as president of the Midwest Federation of Library Associations, and a member of the Legislation Committee of ACRL.

In 1978 he received the Wisconsin Library Association’s Distinguished Service Award. He is the coauthor of Economics Research: A Manual of Library Sources.

Patricia J. Delks, library director for Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri, has been appointed director of the Rollins College Libraries, replacing George L. Larsen, who retired June 1 after ten years with the college.

A 1947 graduate of Indiana University, Delks received her master of library science degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1954.

Prior to her appointment at Lindenwood in 1974, Delks served as head of reference at Smith College in Massachusetts, 1963-74; head of the Serials and Documents Division at Syracuse University, 1956 to 1963; and director of the University of California at Los Angeles Geology Branch Library, 1954-56.

In 1977 Delks published an original slide/sound instructional program entitled “A Guide to Chemical Abstracts” and has compiled a bibliography on the Fascist period in Italy.

Arthur T. Hamlin

Arthur T. Hamlin has retired as director of libraries, Temple University, Philadelphia. Ham- lin had been director at Temple since 1968 and had served as university librarian at the Univer- sity of Cincinnati from 1956 to 1968.

Hamlin’s career began at the Harvard College Library, where he was an assistant in the Order Department and later curator of poetry. In 1939 he moved to the New ‘York Public Library and in 1940 to the University of Pennsylvania Li- brary, where he served as reference assistant until 1942, when he en- tered the Navy. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1945 as assistant librarian in charge of reader ser- vices. From 1949 to 1956 he was executive secre- tary of the Association of College and Reference Libraries of the American Library Association.

Hamlin, who earned an A.B. degree from Harvard University and a B.S. in library science from Columbia University, did graduate work at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Pavia in Italy in 1962 and a Fulbright research scholar at the University of Birmingham, in England, 1966-67.

Hamlin not only has served as executive secretary of ACRL and as a member of Council of ALA (for two four-year terms) but also has held numerous committee assignments in ALA over nearly thirty years. He was chairman of the ALA committee to aid Florentine libraries after the floods of 1966. The Italian government honored him for his services during commemoration ceremonies held in Florence in November 1967.

He has written on library developments in France, Italy, and England and has completed a history of university libraries in the United States.

W. Carl Jackson, dean of libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington, has announced that he will retire on June 30, 1980, to become professor of library administration and librarian at Indiana.

Jackson, 55, arrived at Indiana in 1973 as the first dean of University Libraries. He has been responsible for the overall administration of fifty main, branch, and departmental libraries within the eight-campus Indiana system.

After six years as dean of libraries at Indiana and eighteen years as a top-line library adminis- trator, Jackson told Indiana’s library staff in April, “I no longer feel that necessary joy of finding so- lutions to seemingly insoluble problems, but rather view as arduous and painful each new problem that arises.”

Given the prospect of more budget cuts and contracting resources for the libraries in the years ahead, Jackson commented that he is delighted to be able to leave his post “while I still have some reputation intact and while I still have friends left in the university.’’

Jackson expressed pride in the progress made by the Indiana libraries since 1973 in tightening up management operations and making technical services and public services more productive and less costly. “How much farther we can go with this belt-tightening before our operations and services begin to deteriorate is, however, a mat- ter about which to be concerned,” he said.

After retiring from his post next year, Jackson plans to teach in Indiana University’s Graduate Library School, edit a new journal on library ad- ministration and an annual library publication se- ries, and write a book about his sixty-one-day solo crossing of the Atlantic in a thirty-foot ketch last summer.

Jackson earned his B.A. and M.A. in library science from Florida State University. He has worked at the libraries of the University of Ten- nessee, Knoxville, and at Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota. He was associ- ate director of libraries at the University of Colorado from 1963 to 1965 and director of librar- ies at Pennsylvania State University from 1965 to 1968 before going to Indiana.

Susan K. Martin

Susan K. Martin of the General Library at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) has been appointed librarian of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University.

Martin, who holds degrees from Tufts University and the Simmons College Graduate School of Li- brary Science, has been head of the Library Sys- tems Office of the Gen- eral Library at Berkeley since 1973. Her special interest is automated li- brary networks.

She succeeds David H. Stam, who resigned in 1978 to become the Andrew W. Mellon director of the Research Li- braries of the New York Public Libraries.

In her work at Berkeley, she coordinated the development of automated systems throughout the library and supervised systems analyses in all areas. She participated in library-wide administration and worked with libraries both within and outside the University of California system. During 1977 she was also coordinator of the UCB/ Stanford Research Library Cooperative Program.

Prior to joining the staff at Berkeley, she worked at the Harvard University Library, serving as systems librarian during 1968-73, as specialist in data processing during 1965-68, and as an intern from 1963 to 1965.

Martin was 1978-79 president of the Library and Information Technology Association of the American Library Association and in November 1976 was one of a three-member ALA delegation to the Soviet Union.

She has written and edited numerous articles and monographs on library automation and from 1973 to 1977 was editor of the Journal of Library Automation. She is a member of the contributing board of editors of Advanced Technology/ Libraries.

APPOINTMENTS

Susan W. Artiglia has been named assistant librarian for public services, Austin Péay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.

Nancy S. Barrelle has been appointed assistant librarian, Cataloging Department, James M. Milne Library, State University College, Oneonta, New York.

Robert J. Bertholf has been named curator of the poetry/rare books collection, State University of New York, Buffalo. He was formerly associate professor at Kent State University.

Nancy Blase is assistant natural sciences librarian, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

Jams Brown, formerly of Documentation Associates Information Services, Inc., Los Angeles, is now information specialist at Upjohn Corporate Technical Library, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Faith Taylor Burton has joined the staff of the Universal Serials & Book Exchange, Inc., as manager of collections and services. From 1975 to 1978, she was technical librarian at the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Annapolis, Maryland.

Mark E. Cain, formerly a reference librarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, has been appointed librarian, Reference Services Department, General Libraries, University of Texas, Austin.

Carol A. Collier has joined the general reference staff, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Robin Crickman has been appointed assistant professor, the Library School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Kay Denfeld is MEDLINE coordinator, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

Joseph Donohue, library and information management scientist, FDA’s Bureau of Foods, has been temporarily assigned to the Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration. He will be assisting the Division of Information Management and Services in the planning of information services.

Kenneth W. Duckett of Southern Illinois University has accepted the position of curator of special collections, University of Oregon Library, Eugene.

Jacqueline Engelberg is cataloger/social science-education, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Library.

Arlene Feiner has been appointed serials librarian, Loyola University Libraries, Chicago. She has been periodicals department coordinator of the Jesuit/Krauss/McCormick Library and head librarian of the Jesuit School of Theology.

Catharine P. Gravel has joined the staff of the Tufts University Library, Boston, Massachusetts, as assistant librarian, cataloging.

Gary P. Handman, assistant librarian, has joined the staff of the Acquisition Department,

General Library, University of California, Berkeley, as assistant to the head of the Acquisition Department.

Jessica L. Harris has joined Research Publications, Inc., of Woodbridge, Connecticut, as manager of its new Indexing Department.

Kenneth W. Hedman is associate director of libraries, University of Texas, El Paso. For the past three years he had served as assistant director, Western Illinois University Library.

John Hickey is assistant librarian, Olin Library Catalog Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Robert E. Hudson, formerly media resources advisor, Hampshire College, is now political science bibliographer and reference librarian, Boston University Libraries.

Melba Jesudason has been appointed team captain, South Asian Languages Cataloging Team, University of Wisconsin, Madison General Library System.

Linda S. Keiter has been appointed circulation librarian/assistant head of the Science and Technology Library, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Kay Kinkead is assistant librarian, forestry library, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

Barbara J. Kline, formerly head of Bibliographic Control, Teachers College Library, Columbia University, has been appointed head, Monographic Records Unit, New York University.

Carole W. Knobil has been named assistant law librarian for public services, University of Miami Law Library, Coral Gables, Florida. She is a member of the Florida bar.

Edward R. Kukla has been appointed rare books librarian in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University, Pullman.

Chang C. Lee has joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty as head librarian, Behrend College Library, at the rank of senior assistant librarian.

Nancy E. Ligrani has been appointed assistant to the engineering librarian at the General Libraries, University of Texas, Austin.

Harry Llull has accepted the position of head librarian and bibliographer, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Sciences Library, Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was assistant to the head of the Undergraduate Library, University of Maryland.

Bettina Manzo has joined the general reference staff, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Anne C. May is assistant librarian for public services, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.

Sarah Michalak is head, science division, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

James N. Myers has been appointed to the position of assistant director for technical services, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.

Patricia A. Peroni has been appointed assistant librarian I (reference), Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Janis Pivarnik, formerly visiting assistant librarian, Indiana University Publication Department, has joined the staff of the University of Kentucky Libraries (Lexington) as head of the Government Documents Department.

Frank J. Pozo has been appointed reference librarian, D. H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was formerly reference librarian, State University of New York, Albany.

Sally B. Roberts, former director of outreach library programs, Vermont Department of Libraries, has been appointed executive director of the New England Library Board, Hartford, Connecticut.

Eleanor Rodini has been appointed half-time reference librarian in Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison General Library System.

Stephen James Rollins has been appointed head of the circulation department and instructor in librarianship, University of New Mexico General Library, Albuquerque. He previously served as head of the circulation department, University of Rhode Island.

Joanne Scanlon is senior assistant librarian, Law Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Thomas M. Schmid, formerly head of the acquisitions department, has been appointed assistant director for technical services, University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City.

Laurel Sercombe is cataloger, music library, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

Diana W. Shelton has joined the government documents reference staff, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Ruth Sheng is Chinese cataloger, Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections, Princeton University Library, New Jersey.

Charlene Sherwood is assistant librarian, Veterinary Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Donald T. Smith has been appointed acting university librarian, University of Oregon Library, Eugene.

Susan Szasz is assistant librarian, Uris Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Mary Tipton has been appointed assistant OCLC coordinator for the Wisconsin Library Consortium, University of Wisconsin, Madison General Library System. She had been cataloger, University of Virginia Libraries, in Charlottesville.

William O. Van Arsdale has been appointed head of public services, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.

Gunta Vittands has been appointed reference librarian, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Mina Jean Waddell is education librarian, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

Ernestine Walker is senior assistant librarian, Olin Library Reference Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Patricia Layzell Ward is the newly appointed director of the Library Management Research Unit, Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

Nancy S. Weyant has been appointed assistant librarian I (reference), Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

RETIREMENTS

Louise Eastland, head of the Public Health Library, University of California, Berkeley, has retired.

Anne G. Evans has retired after twenty-one years of service in the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

Eugene Slon has retired from his position as senior assistant librarian in Olin Library Catalog Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Helen W. Tuttle, assistant university librarian for technical services, has retired from the Princeton University Library after thirty-seven years of service to the library profession.

DEATHS

Martha S. Carroll, OCLC coordinator, MIDLNET, Green Bay, Wisconsin, died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on May 11. Contributions to the ALA scholarship fund in her honor may be sent to the attention of Robert Wedgeworth at ALA headquarters in Chicago. Checks should be made out to ALA.

Sidney L. Jackson, professor of library science at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, died unexpectedly on May 7. Jackson was the senior member of the Kent faculty, having served since 1958.

Betty L. Seifert, deputy librarian and associate professor at the City College of the City University of New York, died January 31. A memorial book fund has been established in her name. Contributions may be sent to Professor V. N. Cesario, City College Library, New York, NY 10031. Checks should be made out to the City College Fund, Betty Seifert Memorial.

Richard Teggart, former head of the Graduate Social Science Library, University of California, Berkeley, died on April 8. ■■