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Charles H. Stevens, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, has been appointed executive director of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), the nonprofit corporation of ninety-nine public and private libraries in ten Southern states.

Charles H. Stevens

The SOLINET Board has also voted to affiliate with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). Both organizations have signed a memorandum of agreement, establishing procedures and conditions for regional cooperative activities to be pursued jointly by both groups. SOLINET has established its headquarters at SREB’s Atlanta offices.

Mr. Stevens served six years as associate director for library development, Project Intrex, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1959 to 1965 he was director of library and publications at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts. At Purdue University he was aeronautical engineering librarian and later director of documentation of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center.

He is the author of approximately forty papers in the field, lectures widely, and consults on library activities for a number of universities. He was a member of the Council of the American Library Association and is a member of the American Society for Information Science, the Special Libraries Association, and other professional organizations.

Mr. Stevens holds a B.A. in English from Principia College (Elsah, Illinois) and graduate degrees in English and in Library Science from the University of North Carolina. He has also done further study in engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York.

APPOINTMENTS

Eileen Adler—loan service librarian, Norris Medical Library—University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Patrick Barkey—director of the libraries— The Claremont Colleges, California.

Roger Berry—head of special collections— University of California, Irvine.

Marion Buzzard—head of acquisitions— University of California, Irvine.

Henry Chang—college librarian and lecturer in Social Sciences—College of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix.

James Cruse—head, interlibrary loan division—University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Thomas J. Galvin—dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

R. Ilene Hammond—cataloging department —University of Maryland Health Sciences Library, Baltimore.

Johanna Hershey—bibliographic searcher —University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Don Hixon—fine arts bibliographer-cata-loger—University of California, Irvine.

James Minton—map reference librarian— University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Camilla A. Motta—cataloger, Engineering Libraries—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Richard L. Press—chief librarian, Jeannette L. and Thomas B. McCabe Library—swarth- More College, Pennsylvania.

Phyllis Rasnick—reference librarian—University of Maryland Health Sciences Library, Baltimore.

Dorothy Riemenschneider—assistant head, bibliographic searching—University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Tatana Sahanek—editor of Index to Legal PeriodicalsùH. W. Wilson Company.

Dorothy M. Schrader—general counsel of the copyright office—Library of Congress.

Janice Sieburth—physical and engineering sciences librarian, Reference Department, instructor—University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Helen H. Spalding—instructor and serials librarian—Iowa State University Library, Ames.

Edwin Sunderland—reference librarian— University of Maryland Health Sciences Library, Baltimore.

Joseph Szeplaki—head of the acquisitions division—University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities.

Lucy Yu—head, public health library—UniVersity of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

DEATH

Rev. Brendan C. Connolly, S.J., director of libraries at Boston College, died recently following a long illness. He was sixty-one years old. The first Jesuit priest in the nation to hold a doctorate in library science, he was a leading authority on early Boston history.