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Jeffrey J. Gardner,associate director of the Association of Research Libraries Office of Management Studies, Washington, D.C., has been named director of the newly renamed Office of Management Services, effective May 1. Gardner has been acting director of the Office since November 1, 1987.

Gardner received an MLS from Simmons College in 1967. Prior to joining the staff of OMS in 1973, he held positions in a variety of libraries, including director of the Project Intrex Model Library Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his tenure at OMS Gardner has participated in a number of programs and projects designed to enhance the management and services of research libraries, including development of the Collection Analysis Project and the North American Collections Inventory Project (NCIP), of which he is the director. He has consulted in more than 100 libraries on management, collection development, public services, and organizational development; conducted workshops on the Conspectus throughout North America and in Europe; and written widely on a number of topics related to management of research libraries.

Stanley Joe McCord,director of the joint library of the University of Houston-Victoria and Victoria College since 1979, has been named director of library services at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, effective August 1. He succeeds Maxine Johnston (see Retirements).

McCord holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, and MLS (1973) and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in German literature and linguistics from Louisiana State University. He taught German at Lamar from 1970 to 1972 and library science at North Texas State University from 1974 to 1977. Prior to his most recent position he was director of the TALON Regional Medical Library Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center (1974-1977).

While at Victoria, McCord successfully integrated the library programs of the two colleges, and was responsible for securing an LSCA grant in 1979 for the first integrated automated system in Texas to be shared by an academic and a public library.

McCord has been active in the Texas Library Association, serving as chair of the Legislative Committee (1983-1985), chair of District IV (1981-1982), and Executive Board member for TLA-PAC, as well as numerous committee assignments. He was named TLA Librarian of the Year for 1988. McCord has been a member of the Library Formula Study Committee for the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System since 1981, and currently serves as chair- elect of the Texas Council of State University Librarians and as a board member on the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council.

A translator for the National Translations Center, McCord has written for the Texas Library Journal, the ALA Yearbook, and was a reviewer for the American Reference Books Annual from 1970 to 1979.

Elaine F. Sloan,dean of university libraries at Indiana University, has been named vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, New York City, effec- tive August 1. Sloan will assume responsibility for the nation’s seventh largest academic re- search library, which has more than 5.6 mil- lion volumes in 26 branches. She succeeds Patricia M. Battin, who left the post last year to become the first presi- dent of the Commission on Preservation and Ac- cess at the Council of Li- brary Resources.

Elaine F. Sloan

Sloan has served as dean of libraries at Indiana University since 1980, and was associate university librarian (public service) at the University of California at Berkeley from 1977 to 1980. Before that she worked in various capacities at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries from 1970 to 1976, and held research assistantships at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the University of Pittsburgh. She received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Chatham College in 1959, a master’s from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962, and MLS (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of Maryland.

Elected to Beta Phi Mu in 1972, Sloan has received its award for Outstanding University of Maryland Graduate, and is currently president of the society. She is also a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary society, and Mortar Board. Sloan is president of the Association of Research Libraries and is a member of the ALA Council. She has published many papers and reviews in scholarly journals and conducted workshops and made presentations on library science throughout the nation.

Thomas F. Staley,provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tulsa, has been named director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, effective Sep- tember 1. He succeeds Decherd Turner, who has retired. In addition to his HRC position, Staley, a leading James Joyce scholar, will teach one course a year in the English Department.

Thomas F. Staley

At Tulsa, Staley is the Trustees Professor of Modern Literature. He has spent almost his en- tire academic life on the Tulsa campus, where he joined the English faculty in 1962. He has also been dean of the college of arts and sciences, chairman of the graduate faculty of modern letters and dean of the graduate school.

Staley is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, which he founded in 1963 and which has become the pre-eminent journal of Joyce studies. His personal Joyce collection, now numbering several thousand items, is considered one of the finest private holdings in the world. Staley has written or edited seven books on Joyce and also several on modern British women authors including Jean Rhys and Dorothy Richardson. He has been chairman or co-chairman of four international James Joyce symposia in Dublin and Trieste and has twice been a Fulbright professor in Trieste. He has been on the board of editors of Twentieth Century Literature for more than 20 years.

A native of Pittsburgh, Staley earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and philosophy from Regis College in Colorado. He has a master’s degree from Tulsa and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in English literature. Staley has held a number of visiting professorships, including a 1980 summer appointment in comparative literature at UT Austin.

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Howard B. Gotlieb,director of special collections at Boston University, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on May 15 at BU’s 115th Commencement Exercises. Gotlieb was appointed archivist and curator of historical manuscripts at Yale University in 1955 and took over his present position at Boston in 1963. He has succeeded in amassing a prestigious collection of archival material from influential 20th-century figures.

Donald D. Hendricks,dean of library services at the University of New Orleans, has announced that he will step down as dean effective December 31, 1988. Hendricks will continue as librarian and plans to devote his time to identifying and seeking grants to support collection development for the Earl K. Long Library.

Rebecca Boone Kellogg,associate dean of the University of Arizona’s College of Arts and Science, will be on leave during 1988-1989 to become a member of the Arizona Board of Regents staff. The Board governs the state’s public universities, and works closely with the legislature and the community college system in support of higher education.

Ilse Moonreplaced Janet C. Phillips as executive secretary of the Association for Library and Information Science Education on July 1. Moon is a freelance writer and former director of professional development studies at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

Appointments

(Appointment notices 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.)

Charlene Abelhas been appointed reference librarian at the Loop Campus of DePaul University, Chicago.

KimberlyG. Allen is the new circulation/ref- erence librarian in the Law Library at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

BrendaP. Blount has been appointed head of circulation services in the Cabot Science Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Axel Borgis the new bio/agricultural librarian at the University of California, Davis.

Maureen Canickis now chief librarian of Central Reference and Loan Services at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Vivian Carlsonhas been appointed engineering, mathematical, physical or earth sciences reference librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Fred Chapmanhas been appointed director of the library at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne.

Stephanie Chasehas been appointed science reference librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Win-Shin Stella Chiangis the new head of the Jonsson Library of Government Documents at Stanford University, California.

Ann Corbettis now specialist in the sciences and nursing at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey.

Cheryl Cutsforthhas been appointed head of technical services at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.

Gail Egbershas been appointed to the Central Reference staff at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Mary Fergusonhas been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Milton Figghas been appointed collection development librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Ken Fisherhas joined the staff at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Lin Fredericksenis now slide librarian in the Department of Art History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Sherrilynne Fullerhas been appointed director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Center Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, and director of the Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library Service.

Robert Galbreatiihas been appointed assistant director for collection management at Loyola University, Chicago.

William Garrisonis the new assistant chief for original monographic cataloging at Stanford University, California.

LindaGelb has been appointed assistant engineering librarian for ocean and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Eileen Agard Glicksteinhas been named director of the library at Barnard College, New York City.

Anne M. Gordonhas been appointed cataloger at Loyola University, Chicago.

Carolyn Gutierrezis now reference librarian at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey.

Maureen Herraghtyhas been appointed cataloger at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Peg Hewitthas been appointed research librarian in the Technology Assessment Group at the School of Public Health of Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mary Hollerichis the new bibliographer in the Illinois Research and Reference Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Susan Israeleviciihas been appointed cataloger at Loyola University, Chicago.

PaulineT. Lesnik has been appointed chief of acquisitions services in the Collections Management Division of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Martha McPhailhas been appointed catalog librarian at San Diego State University, California.

Sandy Maxfieldis the new associate head for information services, engineering and science libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Loren D. Mendelsohnis the new assistant director of the Science and Engineering Library at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Sally Nicholshas been appointed head of cataloging at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Leah Orentis now cataloger in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge. Massachusetts.

Jo Lynne Payne has been appointed principal monograph cataloger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Sally Pettyhas been appointed head of collection access services at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Jay Reais the new head of the Spokane Medical Library of Eastern Washington University.

Diane Richardsis now reference librarian at North Dakota State University, Fargo.

Sheila Rileyhas been appointed chief of catalog records at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

TimothyD. Robson has been appointed assistant director for technical services at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Marlys Rudeenis the new head of the Acquisitions Department at the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago.

Wayne Shimoguchihas been appointed catalog librarian at San Diego State University, California.

David Shontzhas been appointed psychology reference librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Martin Smithis the new chief of the National Air and Space Museum Branch Library of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Merrill Smithis now assistant librarian and collection manager in the Rotch Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Peter Sternhas been appointed Latin American librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Tamra Teasleyhas been appointed head of serials cataloging at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Susan Ulrichhas been appointed assistant university librarian for access services and automation at San Diego State University.

Karen Sitton Vaughanhas been appointed coordinator of automated reference services at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Silvia D. Watsonis the new librarian of the Highsmith Corporate Library and Information Center, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Carolyn L. Whitehas been appointed circulation librarian/assistant audio-visual services coordinator at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Janet Stoeger Wilkeis now reference librarian at Kearney State College, Nebraska.

Edgar Williamsonhas been appointed assistant librarian for business and economics in the Reference Department at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Retirements

RobertW. Burns Jr., assistant director of libraries for research and planning at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, has retired as of this month. Burns began his library career at the Omaha Public Library, later serving as head of circulation at the University of Idaho and as head of Idaho’s Science Library. He has been at Colorado State since 1985. Active in professional and civic groups, Burns has served on the ACRL Planning Committee, the Ad Hoc Committee on Performance Measures, and the ALA Steering Committee of the Library Research Round Table. For the latter he planned the Research Forum Series during the 1976 ALA Centennial Conference in Chicago. He has also served as a member of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, the Publications Committee, and in 1977 received the LRRT Research Competition Award. Burns has been a Cabinet Representative for SIG/CBE of the American Society for Information Science, a Council On Library Resources Fellow, and has served as a trustee for the Fort Collins Public Library and on the State Board of the Colorado Mountain Club. In 1978 he was nominated by the White House to serve on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences, serving until 1981. The author of numerous papers, Burns is also a teacher and consultant, and plans to travel to the People’s Republic of China this fall to discuss computer modelling for estimating shelving needs.

Margaret Carter,branch supervisor of the School of Library and Information Science Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, has retired. Carter worked as a secretary in the library while a student during the 1940s and returned part time in 1968. She had been employed full time since 1975.

James Dyke,university bibliographer and former director of the library at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, is retiring after 43 years of service. Dyke was library director for more than 16 years before becoming university bibliographer 2 1/2 years ago. Prior to coming to New Mexico State he was director of the library at Texas A&M University for three years and library director at Eastern New Mexico University for 15 years. Dyke has also held positions at Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, and on the library school faculty at the University of Oklahoma. Active in professional affairs, Dyke has held all the offices of the New Mexico Library Association, has been chair of the ALA Membership Committee, and was chair of the Board of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council at its incorporation. He was also one of the original members of the OCLC Users’ Council. A member of Beta Phi Mu, Dyke is the ninth graduate of the University of Illinois Library School’s doctoral program. He was a B-24 pilot during World War II and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Retired.

Christopher Hail,head of public services in the Loeb Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, retired June 30 after more than 20 years of service. Hail began his career at Harvard in 1967 as a library assistant in the Map Collection and transferred to the Loeb Library in 1971 as a cataloger. He was promoted to head of public services the following year, and served as acting Loeb librarian during 1982-1983. Hail has been an active member of many professional organizations, including the Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, as president during 1987-1988; the Council of Planning Librarians; the Association of Architectural Librarians; the Association of Architectural School Librarians; and the Art Libraries Society of North America, as well as numerous Harvard Committees. For the past 10 years Hail has spent much of his personal time photographing and compiling a comprehensive inventory of Cambridge buildings, and plans to devote more time to the project.

Marian Holleman,head librarian at the University of San Diego, California, for the past 16 years, retired June 30 as university librarian emeritus. Hollem an came in 1966 to what was then the San Diego College for Women as a cataloger. In 1972, when that institution was merged with the San Diego College for Men, she was named USD librarian and engineered the merger of the two libraries. The following year Holleman was instrumental in establishing the USD Friends of the Library, and in 1984 oversaw the move into the new Copley Library, which she helped design. Holleman served earlier in her career as chief librarian of the Toronto Academy of Medicine, on the staff at the University of Southern California and as visiting lecturer in the USC library school, as a bibliographer at UCLA and as librarian for Bishop’s School in La Jolla. She will continue to teach library science at USD.

Ellen Johnson,librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, since 1982, retired June 17. Johnson came to Kansas in 1973 as head of the Cataloging Department and later became associate music librarian.

Maxine Johnston,director of the library at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, since 1980, will retire at the end of July after 33 years of service. Johnston came to Lamar in 1955 as a reference librarian and became associate director in 1970. She earned her MLS from the University of Texas in 1958. During her tenure the library went through three building programs, recataloged from Dewey to LC classification, grew in size from 30,000 to 850,000 volume equivalents and from a staff of 6 to 46, and initiated numerous computerized services and cooperative agreements. Johnston has also worked for full faculty status for Lamar librarians, and was instrumental in obtaining tenure, academic rank, and staff classification agreements. A life member of ALA and the Texas Library Association, Johnston has served as chair of a TLA District (1961) and as chair of TLA’s Reference Round Table (1968-1969) College and University Division (1985-1986), as well as on numerous committees. She was named Texas Librarian of the Year in 1974. Johnston has also served on the Formula Study Committee of the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System; as a member of the Texas List Committee since 1974; and has written several articles. She has been active in the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and the National Parks and Conservation Association, and has written on the effort to establish the Big Thicket National Preserve.

Gerald Oppenheimerretired January 1, 1988, as director emeritus of the Health Sciences Library and Information Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.

James Pollock,Near East studies area specialist and Near East cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington, has retired after 26 years of service. Pollock has been active in cooperative collection development and preservation, and has taught bibliography in the library school. He will continue editing Arabic Islamic theological texts.

Robert Slocum,principal cataloger in Central Technical Services at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for nearly 34 years, has retired.

Deaths

Patrick Barkey,director of libraries and A. J. McFadden Librarian for the Claremont Colleges, California, died May 17 at the age of 66.

Patrick Barkey

Born in Flint, Michi- gan, Barkey earned a bachelor’s degree at Po- mona College in 1948 and an MLS from the University of Michigan in 1949. Later the same year he began his career in the Flint Public Li- brary, and later worked at the University of No- tre Dame and Eastern Illinois University. He was library director at Texas A&I University and the University of Toledo before joining the Claremont Colleges staff in 1974. A pioneer in library automation, Barkey conceived and developed an online system for the 1.6 million volume collection of the five colleges, which share major library facilities. He also helped develop the Ohio College Library Center, which as OCLC became a national database, and organized and directed the OCLC Pacific Network, which now serves more than 575 West Coast libraries. More recently, Barkey supervised the construction of a $8 million addition to the Honnold Library.

A member of ALA, the California Library Association and the American Society for Information Science, Barkey published a number of professional papers and served as a library building consultant for several academic institutions.

Russell K. Gardiner,retired head of the Bibliographic Services Department at the University of California, Berkeley, died April 25 of AIDS at his home. Gardiner began his career at Berkeley in 1952 as a student assistant in the Reserve Book Room. Following service in the U.S. Army during 1953-1956, he returned to complete his undergraduate degree in Slavic Languages and Literature while working as a post-graduate research linguist on the Machine Translation Project. He left the library in 1959 but rejoined the staff in 1966 after earning his MLS. Gardiner was Head of the Slavic Cataloging Section and Principal Cataloger in the Catalog Department before becoming Head of Bibliographic Services.

MattieU. Russell, retired curator of manuscripts at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, died May 4 at 72. Russell earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Mississippi and was later a schoolteacher in that state. She taught at Mars Hill College from 1943 to 1946, the year she entered Duke University as a doctoral candidate in history. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1956. Initially a student worker in the library, in 1948 Russell was appointed assistant curator of the Manuscript Department and curator in 1952, a position she held until her retirement on May 31, 1985. She also taught on the UNC Library School faculty from 1969 to 1978. As manuscript curator, Russell’s major contribution was the development of a detailed and comprehensive of the collection’s holdings. She was a member of ALA; the Society of American Archivists, of which she was named a Fellow in 1979; the Historical Society of North Carolina; and the Southern Historical Association. From 1977 to 1983 Russell served on the National Archives Advisory Council as the representative from the Southern Historical Association.

BentonF. Scheide, library director emeritus of California State University, Rakersfield, died May 5 after a long illness. He was 70. Scheide came to Bakersfield in 1968 as the founding library director and served 15 years. He worked formerly at San Diego State University, Northeast Missouri State College, Auburn University, and Oregon State College. An active member of the California Library Association and the Black Gold Cooperative Library System, Scheide held bachelor’s (1948) and MLS (1949) degrees from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University (1973).

James K. Webster,manager of the Earthquake Center Information Service and engineering reference and collection development librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo, was killed in an automobile accident May 1. He was 55. Webster was formerly director of the Science and Engineering Library (1978-1982) and later head of reference there (1982-1987). He had assumed his dual role in 1986. An ALA and ACRL member, he was also a member of the Special Libraries Association, the SUNY Librarians’ Association, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Citizen’s Library Council of New York State, and the Engineering Society of Buffalo. Webster also served on the Board of Trustees and as past president of the Western New York Library Resources Council. As a member of the New York Library Association, he had been president of the Academic and Special Libraries Section, a member of the Government Documents and the Library User Education Roundtables, and had served as moderator, organizer or presenter for numerous NYLA workshops, seminars and meetings.