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Merrily E. Taylor, currently special assistant to the university librarian, Yale University Librar- ies, has been appointed as director of the Library Services Group at Columbia University. Taylor, who assumed her current position after serving as a Council on Library Resources management intern at Yale in 1976-77, has been involved in the administration and coordination of various services activities at Yale during the past two years, including participation in meetings of the Executive Committee of the Research Libraries Group. Prior to this Taylor held various positions at the University of South Florida, where she ini- tially joined the staff as a reference librarian and subsequently became associate university librar- ian, Circulation and Reserve Department, and university librarian for collection development. Taylor received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of South Florida and an M.L.S. from Florida State University. She was recommended for the position by the Search Committee appointed, last spring.

Judy Hughes Fair

Judy Hughes Fair, a former Stanford Univer- sity librarian, has returned to the university as director of Stanford Business School s J. Hugh Jackson Library of Business, effective Oc- tober 31, 1978.

Fair, director of the Urban Institute library in Washington, D.C., since 1972, was a mem- ber of the Stanford University library’s technical information service and government document department from 1963 to 1971, last serving as head of the government document department and microtext reading and newspaper room. She has also been head of the reference department of the George Washington University library.

She spent the 1974-75 academic year at Princeton University in a Council on Library Resources, Inc., management internship program for librarians with demonstrated managerial potential.

She is author of a series of articles on the microtext reading room and of a forthcoming book on the administration of microforms in special libraries.

Fair holds an A.B. degree in English from Stanford and a master of library science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Fair replaces Marion M. Smith, who served as director of the library from 1957 until she re- signed to take on a special assignment at the Business School in 1977.

Charles Lowry

Charles Bryan Lowry has been appointed head librarian of Elon College, North Carolina. Lowry was previously assistant professor and social sciences reference bibliographer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

His educational background includes a B.S. in history from Spring Hill College, Alabama; an M.A. in American history from the University of Alabama; and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina. Lowry was also a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Florida.

In his previous position, Lowry’s principal duties included general and social sciences reference; collection development in the general and reference collections; and bibliographic instruction. He also served as coordinator of reference and participated in a CLR-funded Academic Library Development Program as a member of the Human Resources Task Force.

Among Lowry’s publications are “Holdings of the North Carolina Collection” in North Carolina Libraries, fall 1976; The ACRL Standards and Library Governance, a Comparison of the Personnel System of Five Major Academic Libraries‚ ERIC publication (ED 108 571): and “ ‘The City on a Hill’ and Kibbutzim, Seventeenth Century Utopias as Ideal Types’’ in the American Jewish Historical Quarterly, June 1974. Lowry is a member of the American Library Association, the American Historical Association, and the American Association for State and Local History.

William H. Webb, formerly university bibliographer of the University of Colorado, has been named collection development librarian of the University of California, San Diego, Library.

Webb’s appointment was announced by university librarian Millicent D. Abell, who explained that the new administrator’s duties will include responsibility for all policy and budgetary issues pertaining to building collections, acquiring materials, and ensuring that the library’s holdings reflect the needs of the campus population.

Webb will oversee all the UC San Diego librar- ies, those at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the School of Medicine and the Department of Political Science, as well as the Department of Special Collections within the Central University Library.

Before his tenure at the University of Colorado (1967-78), Webb was a senior reference librarian with the Aerospace Technology Division of the Library of Congress (1965-67). He received a B.A. in philosophy from San Luis Rey College, master s degrees in history from Arizona State University and Stanford University, and a mas- ters in library science from Indiana University.

He is the author of many monographs and arti- cles in the fields of history and librarianship and has served as associate editor of College & Re- search Libraries and the Journal of Academic Li- brarianship. He was also associate editor of the second edition of Sources of Information in the Social Sciences and has been asked to edit its third edition.

He is a life member of the American Library Association and a member of the American His- torical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Colorado Library Association.

Dwight Burlingame

Dwight F. Burlingame, dean of learning re- sources and an associate professor of education at the University of Evansville, was named director of the Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Library, President Hol- lis A. Moore announced in April 1978.

The new director of the library, which con- tains nearly 600,000 volumes, assumed the post on July 1.

Burlingame, a 1965 honor graduate of Moorhead State Uni- versity, earned a mas- ter’s degree in library science from the University of Illinois in 1967. He did postgraduate work in higher education and audiovisual edu- cation at the University of Minnesota from 1970 to 1972 and earned a doctorate in library science in 1974 from Florida State University.

At Evansville, he directed the School Media Service Program and the University Press, in addition to his duties as dean of learning resources and as a teacher.

A coauthor of the recently released book Organization and Administration of the College Learning Resource Center, published by Libraries Unlimited, Burlingame has also written a number of articles for professional journals and has served as a visiting professor at the Graduate

School of Library Science at Peabody College, the University of Illinois, and Florida State.

Prior to joining Evansville’s staff in 1974, he was an administrator and faculty member at St. Cloud University, and he served as reference and business librarian for the University of Iowa in 1967-68.

Burlingame holds memberships in the American Association of University Professors, the American Library Association, the Indiana Library Association, the American Association for Higher Education, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, the Indiana School Library Association, and Beta Phi Mu library science honor society.

Additionally, while at Evansville, he was a representative to the State Universities Telecommunications Council; a member of the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority and of its executive committee since 1977; a member of the Four Rivers Area Library Services Authorities, and its president since 1976; and a member of the university’s Faculty Senate since 1975, among other organizations.

Burlingame is married and the father of two children.

David H. Eyman is serving as director of libraries at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. According to Frederick M. Binder, Juniata president, the appointee supervises the operations of both the L. A. Beeghly Library and the Myers Science Library.

The two library facilities house some 188,000 volumes (including government documents collections) and 785 current periodical subscriptions, plus numerous microform book and periodical titles and audiovisual materials. In addition, Juniata participates in a library cooperative with sixteen other academic institutions of higher education to make accessible books kept in collections of any of the member libraries.

Eyman, formerly director of the library- learning resources center at Northeastern Oklahoma State University, has been engaged in library work for the past eight years. He has also served as head librarian at Findlay (Ohio) College and as assistant to the director of libraries at Central Michigan University.

The new librarian holds both the A.B. and M.A. degrees from Ohio University and the A.M.L.S. and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. His Ohio University degrees were in history and American history, respectively, and he used this background for his doctoral dissertation.

Eyman is a member of the Pennsylvania Library Association, the American Library Association (ALA), and Beta Phi Mu, a scholastic honorary in library science. With the ALA he is a member of the Audiovisual Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries and serves on the Equipment Committee of the Buildings and Equipment Section of the Library Administration and Management Association. He has also published several articles in various professional journals.

A native of Lancaster, Ohio, he and his wife, Nancy, have two children. They reside on Sunnymeade Road, Huntingdon.

Laurence J. Kipp, who recently retired as librarian of the Baker Library and member of the faculty of business administration of Harvard University, has been recommended for appointment as acting librarian of Harvard College and member of the faculty of arts and sciences, effective February 1, 1979.

Kipp went to Harvard in 1948 from Washington, D.C., where he had been director of the American Book Center for War Devastated Libraries, now the Universal Serials and Book Exchange (USBE). He began at Widener as assistant to the director of the University Library and later was chief of loan services in the College Library. In 1954 he moved across the Charles River to the Baker Library, were he served successively as assistant librarian, associate librarian, and, since 1963, librarian.

Karin A. Trainer is now director of support services for the New York University Libraries. She is responsible for technical processing at New York University, including support services for the Libraries of Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and the Parsons School of Design. In addition, she will participate in systems planning and development in the areas of technical processing and catalog access.

Trainer joined the New York University Libraries from Princeton University, where she had been a librarian since late 1972. At the time she left Princeton she held two titles: catalog maintenance librarian and OCLC operations manager. In addition to a thorough practical knowledge, she has been involved with new technology and policy formulation as they relate to problems of the future. Through committee assignments, she has been active in coordinating catalog policies with the library as a whole.

Trainer was appointed to the CONSER Advisory Board by the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association. She is also a member of the New York Technical Services Librarians and a library consultant for the New Jersey Department of Civil Service.

Trainer received a master s degree in library and information science from Drexel University. She has also attended Bryn Mawr College and Douglass College at Rutgers University.

Jordan Michael Scepanski has been appointed to the position of director, Central Library, of the Joint University Libraries (JUL), Nashville, Tennessee. The Central Library is the largest of the units within the system serving George Peabody College for Teachers, Scarritt College, and Vanderbilt University.

Scepanski was previously with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he held the position of assistant director of the library and assistant professor. During 1977-78 he was a management intern with Frank P. Grisham, the JUL director, under a program sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. He has also held staff positions at the American Library Association and was an adult service librarian at the University (New York) Public Library.

In addition to his library work, Scepanski spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English as a foreign language to high school students and adults in Turkey. Military service included a tour of duty in Korea and an assignment as an instructor and research analyst at the United States Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia.

Scepanski is a graduate of Manhattan College and holds the master of librarianship degree from Emory University. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in business administration.

Active in the American Library Association, he has served on a number of its committees. He is also a member of the Southeastern Library Association, Tennessee Library Association, the Nashville Library Club, the Freedom to Read Foundation, Beta Phi Mu, and the American Association of University Professors.

APPOINTMENTS

Mary Braun—Ibero-American librarian—New York University. New York.

Cesar Caballero—head, Department of Special Collections and Archives—University of Texas at El Paso.

Carolyn Catalon—cataloger of music and nonbook materials—University of Alabama in Birmingham.

John W. Collins III—assistant head of Bibliographical Services Department for Library Instruction—Boston University, Massachusetts.

Mary Alice Fields—instructor/librarian— University of South Florida, Tampa.

Judith E. Gardner—rare book librarian/ cataloger—University of Rochester, New York.

William Garcan—humanities reference librarian/bibliographer—Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Joan Grant—director—New School for Social Research, New York, New York.

MaryKay Hartung—instructor/librarian— University of South Florida. Tampa.

Anne K. Ilacqua—education/psychology bibliographer—Boston University, Massachusetts.

Rajasinghe Jayatilleke—science reference librarian/bibliographer—Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Sue V. McCallum—instructor and serials cataloger—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Kenneth E. Marks—associate professor and associate director for public services—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Barbara Ann Prentice—serials cataloger— Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

David B. Reynolds—reference librarian and sociology bibliographer—University of Rochester, New York.

Anthony Schimizzi—serials and monographs cataloger—University of Alabama in Birmingham

Jill M. Shelby—instructor and head, interlibrary services—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Maryruth Storer—assistant professor and law librarian—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Judith D. Webster—instructor and head, Main Reserve Department—University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ■■