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James H. Billington, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1973, was confirmed by Congress on July 24 as the 13th Librarian of Congress. He takes over from Daniel Boorstin and will assume his duties in late September. A native of Pennsylvania, Billington was valedictorian of the undergraduate class at Princeton in 1950 and was designated a Rhodes Scholar, receiving his doctorate from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1953. Following army service he joined the History faculty at Harvard University and moved to Princeton in 1962. In 1964 he was made a full professor. Billington is the author of numerous books and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. He has served on several editorial and advisory boards and has been a Guggenheim fellow, among many other distinctions. He has also participated as host, commentator, or consultant on numerous educational and network television programs and has accompanied several congressional delegations to the U.S.S.R.

Lorena Filosa Boylan, assistant librarian for technical publications at Haverford College, has been named director of the library at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. She is the first woman to hold the post.

A graduate of LaSalle University, Boylan received her MLS from Drexel University and began her professional career in 1977 as assistant librarian at Bryn Mawr College. She became catalog librarian at Swarthmore College in 1981 and joined the staff at Haverford in 1984.

David F. Bishop

David F. Bishop, director of libraries at the Uni- versity of Georgia since 1979, has been named uni- versity librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He succeeds Michael Gorman, acting director since the death of Hugh C. Atkinson. He assumed control of the nation’s largest public university library on August 21.

A native of New York City, Bishop earned a bachelor’s degree in music and did graduate work in music literature at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. He earned his MLS from the Catholic University of America and subsequently studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Maryland, holding several library positions there from 1963 to 1974. Thereafter he was head cataloger and later assistant director of technical services at the University of Chicago.

Bishop serves on the board of directors of both the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries, and is active in many professional organizations, including ALA.

Charles D. Churchwell, until recently dean of library service at Washington University in St. Louis, has joined the faculty of the Library Science Program at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, as visiting professor. Church well has had a long and distinguished career in academic li- brary administration and higher education, serv- ing as university librarian at Brown University be- fore coming to Washington University in 1978. He was previously assistant director of libraries at the University of Houston and, earlier, assistant librar- ian at the University of Illinois. Church well began his career as instructor of library services at Prairie View A&M College and has also served as a refer- ence librarian in the New York Public Library sys- tem.

Born in Florida, Church well received his bache- lor’s degree from Morehouse College, his MLS from Atlanta University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He has published numerous anthologized articles and has conducted seminars at the Universities of Rhode Island, Michigan, and North Carolina. Churchwell has served in numer- ous advisory capacities, including as a member of the boards of the Center for Research Libraries and the Research Libraries group, and as chairman of the Board of Directors of the New England Library Network. He has also been a member of several federal expert review panels and is a member of the NAACP and ALA.

William Hannaford, Jr.

William E. Hannaford Jr., director of the li- brary at Castleton State College in Vermont, has been named professor of philosophy and director of the library at Albright College, Pennsylvania.

A 1966 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Hannaford has a master’s degree (1970) and a Ph.D. (1972) in philosophy from the University of Colorado and an MLS from the University of Illinois. He also served in the Marine Corps for four years. Hannaford was head of collection development at Middlebury College and from 1975 to 1978 was humanities bibliographer and assistant dean for collection development at the University of New Mexico. He has been a philosophy professor at Illinois State University and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.

Hannaford’s published works include two books, several monographs and bibliographies, and numerous articles and papers. He is a regular reviewer for Choice and College & Research Libraries and is presently at work on a book on collection development in college libraries.

Marianne I. Gaunt has been named director of the Archibald Stevens Alexander Library at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Gaunt had served as acting director since February 1986.

Prior to her appointment as acting director, Gaunt was circulation librarian and online refer- ence coordinator in the Alexander Library, the so- cial sciences and humanities research library at Rutgers. She holds a bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Montclair State Col- lege and an MLS from Drexel University.

Gaunt has received several grants in support of developing inventories of machine-readable texts in the humanities and has published several articles and presented numerous papers on machine- readable texts and online service in libraries. She is currently project director for the Electronic Scholars’ Resource Guide, to be published by the Oryx Press. Gaunt was the founding chair of the Online Committee of the New Jersey Library Asso- ciation and is an active member of ALA, the Asso- ciation for Computers and the Humanities, and other professional organizations.

Richard H. Lytle

Richard H. Lytle, director of the Office of Re- source Management at the Smithsonian Institu- tion, has been appointed dean of the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lytle, a specialist in information resource management and archives and records management, joined the Smithsonian in 1969 as director of archives and records management, a position he held until 1982, when he established the institution’s information resource management program and became its director. Lytle subsequently implemented a data administration program, designed institution-wide systems architecture, began a long-term local area network, installed a library automation system, and established and information center.

Holder of a bachelor’s degree in history from Rice University (1959), a master’s degree in history from Washington University (1962), and an MLS (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Maryland, Lytle has also taught European and American history at Washington University, where, as at Rice, he established an archival program. He has worked as an information management consultant for several associations and universities.

Rorert R. Korfhage has been appointed chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he has been visiting professor since 1986.

Korfhage was previously at Southern Methodist University, where since 1970 he had been professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engi- neering, serving as chairman during 1981-82. He received the SMU Outstanding Professor Award four times. During a more than 25-year career Korfhage has held teaching appointments at the University of Michigan, North Carolina State Col- lege, and Purdue University, as well as visiting ap- pointments at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Universities of Western Ontario and Alberta.

Korfhage’s research interests in information re- trieval, data structures, graph theory, language processing, and artificial intelligence have resulted in nine monographs and more than forty published papers.

P. Grady Morein

P. Grady Morein, university librarian at the University of Evansville since 1980, has been named director of libraries at the University of West Florida, Pensacola.

From 1978 to 1980, Morein served as associate with the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of Management Studies. From 1971 to 1978 he was associate professor at North Carolina Central University. In 1976 he took a year’s leave and joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to design the Academic Library Development Program, a planning procedure for mid-sized academic libraries funded by the Council on Library Resources.

Currently a member of the ACRL Publications Committee and editor of the College Libraries Section Newsletter, Morein has also served on the Budget and Finance Committee and chaired the CLS Clip Notes Committee. He is actively involved in research and publishing and has designed a number of training programs, including an ACRL continuing education course entitled “Strategies and Tactics for Enhancing the Role and Position of the Library Within the College or University.”

Morein holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (1961) from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, an MLS (1966) from Louisiana State University, an MBA from Nicholls State University, and a Ph.D. (1975) in management from Louisiana State University.

Lynn S. Mullins, director of the library at Marymount Manhattan College since 1976, has been appointed director of the John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark, New Jersey, campus of Rutgers University, effective September 14.

Prior to her service at Marymount Manhattan, Mullins was chief librarian of the American Geo- graphical Society. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the City University of New York, a master’s degree in industrial and labor rela- tions and an MLS from Columbia University.

Mullins is the author of many publications, in- cluding several guides to various map collections and articles on map librarianship. Most recently she was co-editor of a book, A Guide to Research on Women: Library and Information Sources in the Greater New York City Area, to be published soon. Mullins is an active member of ACRL and the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Agency, and has served on evaluation teams for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Gary M. Pitkin

Gary M. Pitkin, former associate university li- brarian for technical services at Appalachian State University, has been named director of university libraries at the University of Northern Colo- rado, Greeley.

Pitkin joined the staff at Appalachian State in 1981 and was involved in the establishment of the Western North Carolina Library Network.

From 1977 to 1981 he was coordinator for library systems at Sangamon State University and has also served as serials librarian at the University of Akron and at Kearney State College. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and an educational specialist degree in higher education administration from Appalachian State University.

Currently editor of the Haworth Press’s Technical Services Quarterly and news editor of The Serials Librarian, Pitkin recently served as associate contributing editor to Library Hi Tech, published by Pieran Press, and has served as an automation and cost consultant to academic and public libraries, state governments, and private companies. An active member of ALA, Pitkin presently serves as chair of the RTSD Technical Services Costs Committee and was program coordinator for the Technical Services Costs Preconference held in 1986. He also serves on the editorial board of the LAMA journal Library Administration and Management.

Eugene L. Wiemers, collection development planning officer at the University of Minnesota Libraries, has been named head of the Social Sciences and Humanities Libraries at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Wiemers had served at Minnesota since 1980 as Ibero-American bibliographer and later head of the Subject Bibliography Unit in the Wilson Library. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Macalester College, a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago, and an MLS from the University of Illinois. Wiemers is currently a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Chicago.

Wiemers has been active in ALA and SALALM and is the author of a number of articles on both history and librarianship, including “Collection Evaluation: a Practical Guide to the Literature” in Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, and “Agriculture and Credit in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Orizaba and Cordoba” in the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Daniel Zager, music librarian at Pennsylvania State University since 1983, has been named conservatory librarian at Oberlin College, Ohio.

As head of one of the leading music libraries in the nation, Zager will be responsible for planning, developing, managing, and evaluating overall operations and services, and will serve as primary liaison between the library and Conservatory students and faculty.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a bachelor of music in organ performance and an MLS, Zager earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees in musicology at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his appointment at Penn State, Zager was catalog librarian at Marquette University, and has served as a church organist and music director. He has performed frequently in faculty recitals and received an Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies faculty research grant in 1985.

People in the news

Paul N. Banks, director of the Conservation Programs of the School of Library Service at Columbia University, New York City, resigned effective June 30 to devote more time to teaching, research and writing. Banks’ decision to step down as founding director of the programs came following the announcement of a $450,000 grant to the programs from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Banks is a leading authority in conservation matters and came to Columbia from the Newberry Library in Chicago. He will continue as a full-time faculty member of the School of Library Service.

Masaru Harada, associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Kyoto, Japan, will be visiting scholar at the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 1987 through January 1988. From March through August he was visiting scholar in the Department of Library and Information Studies at Loughborough University, England. During his stay at Drexel, Harada will carry out research on bibliometric and other quantitative analyses of scientific and technical communication. His study is supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Harada holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied physics from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, where he served as an instructor (1971-1976) in the Faculty of Education. From 1976 to 1981 he was program specialist in the Division of the General Information Program at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Edward G. Holley, professor and former dean of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, received ALA’s Joseph W. Lippincott Award for 1987 at the Annual Conference in San Francisco on July 1. Given annually since 1937, the Lippincott Award is presented to “a librarian for distinguished service in the profession of librarianship.” Holley, immediate past president of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society, and a member of the Board of Trustees of OCLC, has published five books and serves on five editorial boards. He has been an active member of ACRL.

William Jones and Stephen E. Wiberley Jr. have been named senior fellows of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for the Humanities for the 1987-1988 academic year. Jones, assistant university librarian, and Wiberley, bibliographer for the social sciences, will be addressing issues related to strategic planning for the research university. They will be free of other teaching and administrative responsibilities during this period and join 12 other senior fellows selected earlier.

Andrew Osborn, former librarian of the University of Sydney, Australia, was created a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) during the 1987 Australia Day Honours. Osborn, a former dean of the Library School at the

University of Western Ontario who has held positions at the National Library of Australia, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, was cited “for service to library science.” He is the author of Serial Publications, a major technical work in serials librarianship.

Virginia M. Quiring, associate dean for library development at Kansas State University, Manhattan, was presented with the Emporia State University School of Library and Information Management’s Distinguished Graduate Award at ceremonies held June 17. Quiring has spent her entire professional career at Kansas State, where she has served as cataloger, assistant humanities librarian, serials librarian, assistant director, acting dean, and associate dean. She has been active in professional organizations, including service as president of the Kansas Library Association, and has been a consultant, panel member, workshop organizer, and lecturer.

Appointments

(Appointments 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 60611-2795.)

Amira Aaron is now associate director for systems and planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Gilberto Abella has been appointed chairman of public services at Loma Linda University, California.

Christina Allen has been appointed director of support services at Beloit Public Library, Wisconsin.

Marcia Arado has been appointed associate librarian in the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service of the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ralph D. Arcari has been named assistant vice president for academic resources and services at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington.

Faye C. Backie has been appointed head of the Business Library at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

David Badertscher has been appointed serials conversion coordinator/cataloger at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Steven Baker has been appointed director of the learning center at North Greenville College, Tigerville, South Carolina.

Jennifer Banks is now head of Preservation and Collections at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Kevork B. Bardakjian has been appointed Marie Manoogian Professor of Armenian Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Susan Bekiares has been appointed head of the Documents Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Carole Bell has been appointed gifts and collection maintenance librarian at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Elizabeth Berg has been appointed monographs cataloger at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Virginia M. Berringer is now cataloger at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Gunar Michael Birzenieks has been appointed cataloging librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Cindy L. Boin has been appointed information services librarian in the Walker Management Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Sever Bordeianu has been appointed reference librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Barbara Bradshaw has been appointed catalog/ reference librarian at Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma.

Dereck Brassington is the new social sciences librarian at Idaho State University, Pocatello.

Jerry Breeze has been appointed reference librarian in the Lehman Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Patricia Smith Butcher is now assistant director for readers’ services at Trenton State College, New Jersey.

Suzanne Cascio is now reference and library instruction librarian at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Tina Chrzastowski has been appointed chemistry librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

Diane Cimbala has joined the sales staff of the Academic Information Services Division of the Faxon Company, Westwood, Massachusetts.

Bonnie J. Clemens is now acting director of libraries at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Nina Cohen is now manager of temporary services at Gossage Regan Associates, Inc., New York City.

Edward Collins has been appointed editor of the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index, published by the Loma Linda University Libraries, California.

William F. Coscarelli has been appointed music librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Martin P. Courtois has been appointed science librarian at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Janet Crayne has been appointed Slavic cataloger at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Susan Currie has been appointed assistant access services librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Mollie Della Terza has been appointed chief cataloger in the Houghton Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mitzi Jarrett Derrick has been named librarian of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

Paula De Stefano has been appointed preservation microfilming librarian at Columbia University, New York City.

Sarah W. Dickinson has been appointed collections/online coordinator at the Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Katherine E. S. Donahue has been appointed head of the History and Special Collections Division of the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Nora Donegan has been named librarian at the Yonkers Branch Campus of Mercy College, New York.

Loretto Marie Driscoll has been named director of the library at Regina Mundi, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy.

Joan C. Durrance has been named associate dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Tom Eadie has been named university librarian at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.

Linda Y. Elkins has been appointed newspaper cataloger at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Linda Ellis is the new director of the Museum Studies Program at San Francisco State University, California.

Bonnie J. Falla has been appointed reference and public services librarian at Moravian College and Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Jeffrey L. Ferrier has been appointed science reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Deborah Fetch has been appointed general cataloger at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Dolores Fidishun is now head of audiovisual services at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Chuck Forbes is the new Colbeck/Thesis librarian in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Mitchell Fotenot has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln.

Barbara A. Galik has been appointed head of the Slavic division and coordinator of area programs at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Margaret E. Galloway has been named interim director of libraries at North Texas State University, Denton.

Guy Garrison is now Alice B. Kroger Professor of Library and Information Science at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Steven Gass has been appointed associate engineering librarian at Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Maryruth F. Phelps Glogowski has been appointed associate director of the library at the State University College at Buffalo, New York.

David Grahek is now associate director of the Marshall Law Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Richard W. Griffin has been appointed library automation coordinator at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Clifford H. Haka has been appointed head of access services at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Patricia Harris has been named state librarian of North Dakota.

Elaine M. Harrison has been appointed assistant business librarian at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Carol P. Hawks has been appointed head of the Acquisition Department at Ohio State University, Columbus, effective October 1.

Fred Heinritz remains on the faculty of the School of Library Science and Instructional Technology at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven.

James Hodson has been appointed psychology bibliographer in the Humanities/Social Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Carolyn Beth Holley has been appointed head of the Serials Department at the University of Alabama, University.

Marguerite Horn is now retrospective conversion coordinator at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Martha Hsu is now Northern European bibliographer in the Collection Development Department at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Charles F. Huber has been appointed science reference librarian (chemical sciences) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Neil R. Hughes is the new music cataloger at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Geoff Husic has been appointed cataloging librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Edward J. Hynes has been named director of the library at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts.

Micheline Jedrey has been appointed associate librarian for technical services at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Janita Jobe has been appointed information access librarian for reference and documents at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Linda Joe has been appointed head of the Asian Studies Library at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Lucille R. Jones has been promoted to assistant director of libraries at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Norma Jones has been named acting director of the library at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Paula Kaufman has been appointed acting vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, New York City.

Christina Keslake has been appointed reference/curriculum resource center librarian at the La Sierra Campus of Loma Linda University, Riverside, California.

Eric A. Kidwell has been named director of the library at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama.

Florence E. King is now personnel librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Marjorie Kistemaker has been appointed access services librarian at San Francisco State University, California.

Thomas E. Klingler is now head of reference at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Ted Kuzen has been appointed preservation librarian at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Patty Larsen has been appointed assistant director (technical services) at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

Janet K. Lawrence has been appointed curriculum materials librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

George H. Libbey is the new assistant director for administrative services at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Cynthia Linn is now science cataloger at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Laurie Linsley is now catalog librarian at Seminole Community College, Sanford, Florida.

Greg Lubelski has been appointed head of cataloging at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Nancy Luikart has been appointed information access librarian for bibliographic control and reference at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Janet E. Lute is now cataloger in the Tozzer Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Leslie McCall has been appointed reference/ music librarian at the University of Alabama, University.

Connie McCarthy has been appointed assistant university librarian for collection management at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Carole McCollough is now assistant professor in the Library Science Program at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Charlotte Lane McGloiian has been appointed assistant head of circulation at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Barbara McMillan has been appointed head of the Map Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Marilyn G. McSweeney is the new head of the Acquisitions Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

William Middleton is now reference librarian in the Lehman Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Lou Malcomb has been appointed head of the Undergraduate Library Services Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Mary Markland has been appointed science reference librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

David Martz is now program officer in Humanities Projects in Libraries, General Programs Division, at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.

Patricia Masson has been appointed order librarian at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Daniel Maxwell has been appointed collection development librarian at Loma Linda University, California.

William Middleton is now reference librarian in the Lehman Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Marilyn Miller has been appointed chairperson of the Department of Library Science and Educational Technology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Alice Mongold has been appointed technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Kristine E. Mudrick has been named director of library services at Neumann College, Aston, Pennsylvania.

Steven Murden has been appointed assistant head of acquisitions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Anna M. Nichols is now serials cataloger in the Widener Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jessie Nicol is now head of the Acquisitions Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

F. Thomas Noonan has been appointed European specialist in the Rare Book Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Gail Oltmanns has been appointed personnel librarian at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

William L. Page has been promoted to assistant director of libraries at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dorothy R. Parks has been appointed collections librarian and associate director of the Divinity Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Darlene J. Patrick is the new head of acquisitions at the Jesuit/Krauss/McCormick Library, Chicago.

Karen T. Pederson has joined the staff of Research Information Services at Georgia Institute of Technology, Athens.

Charles E. Perry has been appointed public services director at Idaho State University, Pocatello.

Julie M. Pinnell is the new sciences reference librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Loretta Pitts is the new collection management librarian at the University of Houston Law Library, Texas.

Elizabeth Pollard is now assistant serials and preservation librarian at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jeremiah Post is now print and picture curator at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Karen Powell is now librarian with the firm of Jones Lange Wootton, New York City.

Carolyn A. Pyhtila is now senior administrator of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Louis A. Rachow is now curator of the Hampden-Booth Theatre Library, The Players, New York City.

Jana Stevens Richman has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

John S. Robertson has been appointed fine arts librarian at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Bennie P. Robinson is now reference librarian at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Jonathan H. Rodgers has been appointed head of the Near Eastern Division at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Onnalee Roehsler has joined the staff of the Reference Department at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Tamara Roundy is now serials cataloger at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Margaret Rust has been appointed head of catalog maintenance and retrospective conversion at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Elaine R. Sanchez is now head cataloging librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Pat Schafer has been appointed associate librarian of the Olin Library at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Joseph C. Scorza is now executive director of the Health Sciences Libraries Consortium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Susan Severtson has been appointed president of Chadwyck–Healey, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.

Helene Shippington has been appointed public services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Lynn Smith has been appointed planning and budget officer at Indiana University, Bloomington.

John Straw has been appointed university archivist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Elizabeth P. Sweeney has been appointed monographs cataloger at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Barbara Sykes-Austin has been appointed in- dexer/reference librarian of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals in the Avery Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Kathy Tomajko is now head of Research Information Services at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

H. Tran Ton–nu has been appointed public services librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Bor–SHENG Tsai is now assistant professor in the Library Science Program at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Judy Tsou has been appointed music librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Harold Tuckett has been appointed coordinator of automated services at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mitch Turitz has been appointed serials librarian at San Francisco State University, California.

Colleen Valente has been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Daniel Vann has been named director of the library at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania.

Elinor F. Vaughan has been named director of learning and library resources at Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia.

Robin Wagner is now automated systems project librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Donald J. Waters is the new head of the Library Systems Office at Yale University, New Pla- ven, Connecticut.

Linda Watson has been appointed assistant documents librarian at the University of Alabama, University.

Martha Whitehead has joined the staff of the Sedgewick Library at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Linda E. Williamson has been appointed documents librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Betsy Wilson has been named head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Melanie Lea Wilson is now information specialist in the Norris Medical Center Library at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

N.J. Wolfe has been appointed resource sharing coordinator of the Greater Northeastern Regional Medical Library Program at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York City.

Eunice Woode has been appointed monographic cataloger at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

John R. Yelverton is now assistant director for collection development at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Julia Zimmerman is now assistant director for systems and information services at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Retirements

Mary Dunnigan, fine arts librarian at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, retired earlier this year.

John A. Emerson, librarian in the Music Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and curator of the Salz Instrument Collection, retired July 1 after 25 years of service. At Berkeley, Emerson was involved in many aspects of the administration of the music library and devoted nearly a decade to cataloging some 1,100 music manuscripts. He created detailed inventories of some 75 collections in the library’s archival holdings and has been active in teaching, lecturing, and publishing, in particular in the area of music paleography.

Carol E. Fraser, director of the library at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts, since 1964, retired in June. She was acquisitions librarian prior to becoming director.

W. Richard Fritz has retired after 40 years as librarian of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

Wesley Grabow, head of the Instructional Development Lab in the St. Paul Campus Central Library at the University of Minnesota, retired June 30 after 41 years of service.

Edith G. Henderson, curator of the Treasure Room in the Law School Library at Harvard University since 1960, has retired. Henderson, who earned a bachelor’s degree at Swarthmore College and a master’s degree at Radcliffe College, was one of the first dozen women to formally study law at Harvard. She received her first law degree in 1953 and received an S.J.D. in 1959. Henderson has served as American Secretary of the Selden Society, the preeminent association for the study of English legal history, and is an expert on the medieval courts of chancery.

Jack Jacoby, reference/collection development librarian at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, New York City, retired June 30. Jacoby had been associated with the Chinese Collection since 1974.

J. Elias JONES retired June 1 as professor emeritus of librarianship and foreign languages at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, following 30 years of service. Jones’ years at Drake included service as director of libraries (1957-1968), bibliographer (1968-1973), and head, Special Collections (1973-1987). He also taught courses in Russian language and literature in the College of Arts and Sciences beginning in 1964. Before coming to Drake, Jones was chief of the Cataloging Division at the Cleveland Public Library.

Yun Yu Lee, social sciences cataloger at Cornell University, retired June 30.

Mildred Lowe, director of the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, for the past 8 years, retired June 30. Lowe has been a member of the faculty for 17 years and will continue to be active in professional association affairs in legislation, education, and recruitment.

Mary S. Mike retired June 30 from the staff of the Catalog Department at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Roberta Orcutt, head of the Physical Sciences Library and librarian of the Desert Research Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, retired June 30 after 19 years of service. Orcutt joined the university in 1968 as an assistant reference librarian and transferred to the Stead campus two years later to become librarian of the DRI and the Nevada Technical Institute. She oversaw the dismantling of the NTI library when the Institute was closed in 1971. In 1977 Orcutt began to organize the Water Resources collection which became the nucleus of the DRI–Dandini Park Library.

Edith Sawyer has retired after 30 years as director of the Learning Center at North Greenville College, Tigerville, South Carolina.

Tjeng Sioe The, South East Asia cataloger at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, retired June 30.

Marge Voelker, head of the Mathematics Library in the Institute of Technology Libraries at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, retired June 30 after more than 18 years of service.

Deaths

Ottilia C. Anderson, retired assistant head of the Catalog Department at the University of California, Berkeley, died December 31, 1986.

Elizabeth K. Dunne, chief of the Copyright Office Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., from 1968 until her retirement in 1972, died May 2. A cum laude graduate of New York University with an MLS from Columbia University, Dunne began her career as a cataloger with the New York Public Library in 1938. She was managing editor of the H.W. Wilson Company’s Education Index and a cataloger at Hunter College before joining the Copyright Office in 1946 as a cataloger. Dunne served later as head of both the Book Section and the old Miscellaneous Section, which handled all materials except books and music. In 1966 she became assistant division chief and was named chief two years later.

Janet James, director of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1965 to 1969, died June 10. James was an pioneer in the field of women’s history and was co-author, with her husband Edward, of Notable American Women, 1607-1950, a three volume biographical encyclopedia published by the Harvard University Press in 1971. A 1939 graduate of Smith College, James received a master’s degree in history from Bryn Mawr College and studied at Radcliffe under Arthur M. Schlesinger, receiving her doctorate in 1954. She taught at Mills and Wellesley Colleges before joining the history faculty at Boston College, where she remained until this year.

Wynifred Lemaitre, former cataloger at Wellesley College, the American Library in Paris, and Harvard College, died June 28.

Jeanne C. Magill, retired serials cataloger at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, died March 25.

David T. Ray, assistant professor emeritus of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, died July 20 in Portland, Maine, at the age of 77. Ray came to SIU in 1959 as an assistant cataloger and was later promoted to assistant professor, tie was the librarian for SIU’s project to improve education in the Republic of Mali from 1966 to 1968 and from 1969 to 1973 was librarian for the Center for Vietnamese Studies. Ray held bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (1931) and the Catholic University of America (1947), and earned two master’s degrees while at SIU, in philosophy (1967) and linguistics (1979). He retired in 1978. Before coming to SIU, Ray was a U.S. foreign service officer in several countries and was interned for six months as a prisoner of war at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Thereafter he worked as a librarian at Yale University, the U.S. National War College, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, and was active in several library and environmental organizations.

Felix Reichmann, librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from 1947 to 1970, died earlier this year. Born in 1899, Reichmann was a native of Vienna, where he earned his doctorate in art history and ran a family bookstore. He was imprisoned at Dachau for a year before arriving in the United States in 1939 and later worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. At Cornell Reichmann was responsible for converting the library’s collections from the local Harris classification system to the Library of

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Congress system, and for revising the acquisitions system. He was instrumental in improving the library’s budget and was closely involved in the planning and building of the Olin Library. Following his retirement in 1970, Reichmann continued as professor of bibliography, teaching a joint course with others in the History of the Book and writing books and articles on various topics. ■ ■