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ACRL officers for 1987-88

The official ACRL election results.

Joanne Euster

Joseph Boissé

Joanne R. Euster, director of libraries at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ 08903), is the fiftieth president of the Association of College and Research Libraries. During her one–year term of office, she will preside over the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee. She will chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1988 Annual Conference in New Orleans and will plan ACRL’s major program at the conference.

As president of the division, Euster will represent ACRL on the ALA New Orleans Conference Program Planning Committee and the ALA Planning and Budget Assembly. She will also represent ACRL and ALA in their relations with other organizations. Euster has been very active in ALA and has served as ehair of ACRL’s Publications Committee from 1982 to 1986 and on the ALA Committee on Standards.

Joseph A. BoissÉ, university librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106), has been elected vice- president/president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The 1987 election results showed 1,204 votes for Boissé and 1,166 for Joan Chambers, director of libraries at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.

As vice-president/president-elect of ACRL, Boissé will serve on the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee. Pie will chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1989 Annual Conference in Dallas. He will represent ACRL on the ALA Appointments Committee and the ALA Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1989 Conference. At the end of the 1988 Annual Conference he will become ACRL’s fifty-first president.

Boissé has served on several ACRL committees, including the Legislation, Continuing Education, and Appointments and Nominations Committees. Pie was a member of the ACRL Task Force on Libraries in Higher Education in 1982-1984 and the LAMA Board of Directors in 1980-1982.

The results of the ACRL elections follow. For each position, the elected candidate is listed first. The number of votes earned by each candidate is given in parentheses.

ACRL Board of Directors

Director-at-Large (four-year term): Peter Ma- lanchuk, Chairman, Department of Reference and Bibliography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (1,212); Charles Fineman, Humanities Bibliographer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201 (982).

Director-at-Large (four-year term): Larry Hardesty, Director of Library Services, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL 33733 (1,296); Norma Yueh, Director of Library Services, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ 07430 (910).

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Cliair-Elect: Stephen E. MacLeod, Social Sciences Bibliographer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (95); write-in (5).

Secretary: Derorah A. Kane, Social Science Reference Librarian, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182 (67); Cheryl C. Kugler, Plead of Monograph Services, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37205 (37).

Member-at-Large: Jo Kirree, Anthropology Subject Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 (58); Virginia F. Moreland, Computer Search Coordinator, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588 (45).

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Cliair-Elect: Charles R. Smith, Humanities Reference Librarian, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (55); Richard E. Friedman, Director, Art and Architecture Librarian, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 (49).

Secretary: Stephen Allan Patrick, Plead, Documents Department, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614 (54); Micheline Nilsen, Creative Arts Librarian, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 (51).

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Basima Q. Bezirgan, Middle East Cataloger, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 (58); Katharine K. Elsässer, Head, Humanities I Section, Subject Cataloging Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 (25).

Member-at-Large: Eleanor Murphy Daniel, Head, Black Studies Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (48); Robert B. Marks Ridinger, Sociology/Anthropology Subject Specialist, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 (36).

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: David N. King, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 (376); Donald J. Kenney, Head, General Reference Department, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (360).

Secretary: Sharon Mader, Information Retrieval Librarian, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152 (442); Katherine Branch, Plead, Access Services, Welch Medical Library, Baltimore, MD 21205 (279).

Member-at-Large: Ellen Broidy, Coordinator of Library Education Services, University of California, Irvine, CA 92713 (441); Ree De Donato, Head, General Reference Center, Bobst Library, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (293).

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Eleanor H. Pinkham, Director of Library and Media Services, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (260); Janice C. Fennell, Director of Libraries, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA 31061 (182).

Secretary: Larry Hardesty, Director of Library Services, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL 33733 (239); Daniel W. Lester, Library Director, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 81301 (204).

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Shirley A. Lowman, Library Technical Services Director, Maricopa Community College, Phoenix, AZ 85006 (137); Billy C. Beal, Acquisitions Librarian, Meridian Junior College, Meridian, MS 39305 (44).

Secretary: Madison Mosley, Director of Learning Resources, South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL 33825 (125); Louise Marsen, Media Specialist, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ 07738 (57).

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Nancy O’Brien, Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 (175); Inge Kauffman, Director of the Library, California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno, CA 93710 (102).

Secretary: Tara Lynn Fulton, Reference Instruction Librarian, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60626 (148); Julie Czisny, Head of Special Collections, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 (133).

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Carole A. Larson, Social Sciences Reference Librarian, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182 (86); Earl Shumaker, Head, Government Publications/Mi- croforms, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 (55).

Secretary: Christine E. Thompson, Head, Original Cataloging Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (79); Susan Shiroma, Documents Librarian, Bobst Library, New York University, New York, NY 10012 (57).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): Sandra S. Coleman, Deputy Librarian, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138 (90); Eric M. We- dig, Government Documents Librarian, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152 (52).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William L. Joyce, Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 (234); Ellen S. Dunlap, Director, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (183).

Secretary: Lisa Browar, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (256); Philip A. Metzger, Curator of Special Collections, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015 (150).

Member-at-Large (three-year term): DlANNE M. Chilmonczyk, Head, Special Collections, Catalog Section, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (228); Cathy Henderson, Research Librarian, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78713 (169).

Science and Technology Section

Vice–Chair/Chair-Elect: Laura M. Osegueda, Agriculture and Life Sciences Librarian, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27685 (205); Susanne Redalje, Head, Chemistry- Pharmacy Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (122).

Secretary: Barbara A. Kautz, Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife Librarian, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 (196); Dorothy McGarry, Head, Catalog Section, Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (136).

Slavic and East European Section

Vice–Chair/Chair–Elect: Barbara A. Galik, Head, Slavic and East European Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98103 (30); G. Koolemans Beynen, Slavic Cataloger, Ohio State University, Columbus, OPI 43210 (10).

Secretary: Allan Urbanic, Librarian for Slavic Collections, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (24); Harold M. Leich, Slavic Acquisitions Librarian, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 (16).

Member-at-Large: Alexandra Filippenko, Slavic Librarian, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (28); Donna A. Canevari de Paredes, Slavic Bibliographer, University of Sasketchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7N 0W0 (13).

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Karen S. Seibert, Associate University Librarian for Public Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (900); Charles B. Osburn, Dean of Libraries, University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 (713).

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: John B. Dillon, European Humanities Bibliographer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (80); Eva Sartori, Humanities/Social Sciences Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588 (75).

Secretary: Ceres B. Birkhead, Foreign Languages Cataloger, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (79); W. David Rozkuszka, Foreign Document Librarian, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (68).

Member-at-Large: John Bell Henneman Jr., History Bibliographer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (79); Louis A. Pitschmann, Associate Director for Collection Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (68).

Exhibition Catalogue Awards now endowed by the Leabs

Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab have provided an endowment for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Awards for Exhibition Catalogues. The amount of the endowment is $8,000, the interest of which will go to maintain and support the Awards program. Henceforth the name of the Awards will be the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Awards.

The Leabs, of Washington, Connecticut, have been involved with RBMS activities for many years through their work as editors and publishers of American Book Prices Current, a reference work for buying, selling and evaluating rare materials. Their expertise has made them frequently called upon speakers and workshop leaders at Section preconferences. In response to the security concerns of special collections librarians they developed BAM- BAM (Bookline Alert! Missing Books And Manuscripts) a database system which alerts librarians and dealers of stolen items.

The Leabs will receive one copy of all the catalogues submitted for the Awards. The Exhibition Catalogue Awards are given on an annual basis with entries for the third year (catalogues published in conjunction with an exhibition containing books or manuscripts between September 1, 1986, and August 31, 1987) due by September 30, 1987. Awards are made in three divisions—expensive, moderate, and inexpensive—based on the unit cost of the catalogues. Institutions in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply. Entry forms may be obtained by calling or writing Sally Leach, Chair, RBMS Committee of Awards for Exhibition Catalogues, HRHRC, P.O. Box 7219, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78713; (512) 471-9115.

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Women’s Studies Section

Chair: Ellen Broidy, Coordinator of Library Education Services, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717 (48); Ruth Dickstein, Reference Librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (41).

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Beth Stafford, Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 (59); Susan G. Williamson, Social Sciences Librarian, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081 (31).

Secretary: Beth Ellen Woodard, Social Scien- ces/Humanities Librarian, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (68); Bernice K. Lacks, Head of Readers Services, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (17).

Member-at-Large: Mary Lou Goodyear, Assistant Director for Instruction and Research Services, Auraria Library, Denver, CO 80204 (48); Jacquelyn Marie, Reference Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (36). ■ ■

Samuel Lazerow Fellowship

The Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for research in acquisitions or technical services in an academic or research library is jointly sponsored by ACRL and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The fellowship honors a senior vice-president of ISI who made outstanding contributions to these fields. Its purpose is to foster advances in acquisitions or technical services by providing practicing librarians in those fields a fellowship for research, travel, or writing. The fellowship consists of an award of $1,000 and an appropriate citation. The winner will be announced in New Orleans at ALA Annual Conference in 1988.

Eligibility.To be eligible, librarians need not be working in acquisitions or technical services in an academic or research library. Nor do they need to be members of ACRL.

Submission procedures.Proposals should be submitted to Mary Ellen K. Davis, Program Officer, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611-2795, by December 1, 1987. The proposal should be brief (five pages or less, double-spaced) and include the following:

1) Description of research, travel or writing project.

2) Schedule for project.

3) Estimate of expenses (e. g., professional travel, computer time, photocopying, typing).

Criteria.The proposals will be judged with an emphasis on the following:

1) Potential significance of the project to acquisitions or technical services work.

2) Originality and creativity.

3) Clarity and completeness of the proposal.

4) Evidence of an interest in scholarship, such as a previous publication record.

Recipients of the fellowship will be asked to submit a brief report of the results of their research.

The winner of the 1987 Lazerow Fellowship was Margaret Ann Johnson, head of technical services at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, to study the different methods of implementing technological changes in libraries and the relative success of each program. ■ ■

Miriam Dudley BI Librarian of the Year Award

The ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section (BIS) invites nominations for the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian of the Year Award, sponsored by Mountainside Publishing on behalf of their publication, Research Strategies.

This award, which carries a cash prize of $900, honors Miriam Dudley whose pioneering efforts in the field of bibliographic instruction led to the formation of ACRL’s Bibliographic Instruction Section.

Individuals nominated should have achieved distinction in such areas as planning and implementation of a bibliographic instruction program that has served as a model for other programs; development of courses on bibliographic instruction in ALA-accredited library schools, or development of continuing education courses on bibliographic instruction that have served as models for other courses; research and publication that has had demonstrable impact on the concepts and methods of teaching bibliography; and/or active participation in organizations devoted to the promotion and enhancement of bibliographic instruction. (Nominees do not have to meet all of the stated criteria.)

Letters of nomination should outline the nominee’s achivements according to the above criteria and, if possible, a curriculum vitae of the nominee should be attached. Nominations should be sent no later than December 1, 1987, to Betsy Baker, Bibliographic Instruction Services Librarian, Northwestern University Library, 1935 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201; (312) 491-7656. ■ ■