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Jerrold Lee Brooks has been named executive director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library, Missouri. He served 10 years as the executive director for the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in Montreat, North Carolina.

Brooks is a graduate of Davidson College. He holds degrees from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (B.D.), Indiana University (M.A.), and Tulane University, where he received his Ph.D. in American history.

Pauline Cochrane, head of the Catholic University of America (CUA), Library and Information Science School, Washington, D.C., has been named acting dean of the School.

She began at CUA in 1988 as a visiting ordinary professor. She spent most of her academic career at Syracuse University School of Information Studies, where she taught in the master’s and doctoral program from 1966 to 1985.

From 1985 to 1988 she lived in Papua New Guinea with her husband. While there, under a grant from the International Development and Research Center, she studied library education in New Guinea and Fiji in 1986 and 1987.

Cochrane received an MLS from Rosary College and a bachelor’s degree from Illinois College. She was named to Phi Beta Kappa and received the American Society for Information Science’s outstanding information science teacher award in 1981, and the outstanding alumni award from Rosary College in 1988.

Robert A. Foley has been named director of the Fitchburg State College Library. He has served as reference librarian and archivist at Fitchburg State since 1979.

He established and maintained the college archives, the manuscripts collection, the graphics collections, and the rare and historical books collection. In addition, he was in charge of interlibrary loans and collection development for several academic departments.

Foley is a graduate of Stonehill College and earned his MLS from Western Michigan University. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Library Association and the New England Archivists. He received a distinguished service award from Fitchburg in 1982.

Clarence Toomer, library director at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, since 1980, has been appointed director of library services at Greensboro College, North Carolina, effective July 5, 1988.

Toomer holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Livingstone College, an MLS from North Carolina Central University, and is a doctoral candidate at North Carolina State University in adult education.

He is a member of ALA, ACRL, and the Black Caucus of ALA. Currently, he serves on the Historical Commission of ACRL’s College Libraries Section. He has served on the executive board of North Carolina Library Association’s College and University Section and the editorial board of North Carolina Libraries.

Burton M. Wheeler, professor of English and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named interim dean of the Washington University Library Services.

Wheeler, who also chairs the university’s Committee on Religious Studies, was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University from 1966 to 1978. A member of the Washington University faculty since 1956, he served as assistant chairman of the Department of English from 1960 to 1962, He also served as chairman of the search committee for the Gloria M. Goldstein professor of Jewish history at the university. He chaired the Washington University Library Council from 1980 to 1982.

A specialist in 19th- and 20th-century literature with an emphasis on fiction, Wheeler has written numerous articles and book reviews based on literary and religious themes. He is the recipient of several awards, including the distinguished Faculty Award during the 1972 Founders Day ceremonies and the Council of Students of Arts and Sciences (CSAS) Award for Administrative Service to Students (1978). He also received a teaching award form CSAS last year.

He served as director of the university’s “T.S. Eliot: A Centennial Appraisal” (September 30-0c- tober 2). He is a member of the Society for Values in Higher Education and the American Association of University Professors. And also a member of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa committee on qualifications and served on the Association of American Medical Colleges’ National Study of General and Professional Education of the Physician. He has chaired numerous accreditation teams of the North Central Association of Colleges.

Wheeler holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina and a doctorate from Harvard University.

People in the news

Norman Horrocks, Scarecrow Press, presented the Third Annual Whim Creek Lecture to the Wes- tralian Library Federation at the Alexander Library Building in Perth, on August 22. His topic was “Transforming a State Library: Responding to the Information Needs of Business and Industry.” While in Perth he also spoke to the Library Association of Australia (Western Australia Branch) and to the students at the Department of Library and Information Studies, Curtin University of Technology.

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.)

Midhat Arraham has been appointed Middle East librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Kate Adams has been appointed chair of the General Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Aimee Algier-Baxter has been appointed serials cataloger for Latin American materials at the University of Texas, Austin.

Joan Allen has been appointed reference librarian of the Kratter Law Library at the University of San Diego, California.

Greg Amenta is now senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Sue Barker has been appointed reference librarian in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York.

Fred Batt has been appointed associate university librarian for public services at California State University, Sacramento.

Peter I. Berg has been appointed head of special collections at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Nancy Bounds has been appointed government documents librarian at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Jennifer Bowen has been appointed cataloger of the Sibley Music Library at the University of Rochester, New York.

Oliver Bright has been appointed audio-visual and microcomputer services librarian at New York City Technical College, Brooklyn.

Nancy Buchanan is the new reference librarian for humanities at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Mieczyslaw Buczkowski has been appointed rare books cataloger in the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Joan Butler has been appointed database administrator of the Michigan Research Library Network, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Terri Camprell has been appointed reference librarian of the Hester Memorial Library at North Greenville College, South Carolina.

Carol Carlson has been appointed periodicals/ public services librarian at Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison.

Betsy Carter has been named catalog librarian at the Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

Jorge Cervera has been appointed reference librarian in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Austin.

Jeri Charleston has been named director of the Wessels Library, Newberry College, South Carolina.

Amy Ciccone is the new head of the Architecture and Fine Arts Library at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Joyce Clinkscales has been appointed head of the Music Library at SUNY at Stony Brook, New York.

Hilde Colenrrander is the new head of the Data Library at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Harold G. Colson Jr. has been appointed public services/collection development librarian in the Library Department of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of Southern California, San Diego.

Anita Cook has been appointed coordinator of automated systems at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Stephen D. Corrsin is now associate librarian for technical services at Brooklyn College, New York.

Ellen Cunningham has been appointed preservation officer at the University of Texas, Austin.

Margo Curl is now technical services librarian at the College of Wooster, Ohio.

Ganga B. Dakshinamurti has been appointed coordinator of technical services at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Richard Dickey has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the University of North Texas, Denton.

Starla Doescher has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California.

Jeanetta Drueke has been appointed to the Central Reference Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Joyce M. Durant has been named acquisitions librarian at Francis Marion College, Florence, South Carolina.

Dennis East II has been named assistant dean of libraries and learning resources at Rowling Green State University, Ohio.

Elise Fisher has been appointed circulation librarian at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri.

Doriel P. Flannery is now cataloger in the Law Library at the University of San Francisco.

Ronald W. Force has been appointed associate dean for library services at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Frances Forster has been appointed assistant librarian in the Wasserman Public Affairs Library at the University of Texas, Austin.

Jan Marie Fortier has been appointed assistant director of the library at Portland State University, Oregon.

Penelope Frere has been appointed assistant for public services in the Renson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas, Austin.

Marsha V. Frick has been appointed monographic cataloger at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Catherine R. Friedman has been appointed business reference librarian in the General Reference Division at San Diego State University, California.

Gail Fruchtman has been appointed public services librarian in the Law Library at Cornell University, New York.

Ronald A. Gagnon has been appointed network administrator at the North of Roston Library Exchange.

Janet Gertz has been appointed preservation microfilming librarian at Columbia University, New York.

Susanne R. Glass has been appointed director of bibliographic records services at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Denise Green has been appointed public services librarian/coordinator of reference at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.

Stephen W. Green has been appointed head of public services at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Richard Griscom is now head of Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Library at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Michael Haddock is the new reference librarian for science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Jeanne M. Hammer has been appointed budget and development director at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Helen Hanigan has been appointed public services librarian at Merrimack College, North An- dover, Massachusetts.

John Harer is now head of the Circulation Department at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Douglas Haynes is now instructor of library science at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library at the University of Guam, Mangilao.

James Heller has been appointed director of the Marshall-Wythe Law Library at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Jan E. Hester has been appointed assistant physical sciences and engineering librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Christy Hightower has been appointed science reference librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Southern California, San Diego.

Ann Holder is now head of information services at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Banoo Homaee is the new cataloger in the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Dorice Horne is now instructional and technology-assisted services librarian at Rrooklyn College, New York.

David Hunter has been appointed music librarian in the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas, Austin.

Millard Irion has been appointed public services librarian in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.

Judy Ann Jerabek has been appointed reference librarian at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Min Jin is the new cataloger in the Law Library at Columbia University, New York.

Linda Johnson is now head of the Government Publications Department at San Jose State University Library, California.

L. Rebecca Johnson has been appointed archivist/librarian in Special Collections at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Michael Johnson has been appointed assistant to the director for library systems at Rrooklyn Col- lege.

Nancy Johnson has been appointed reference librarian at Uris Library, Cornell University, New York.

Deborah Kegel has been appointed science reference librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Bruce Kennedy is now head of the Reference Department of the Law Library at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Caroline Kent is now special assistant to the associate librarian for public services at Harvard College.

David Kiley has been appointed head librarian at Santa Barbara Community College, California.

Leslie C. Knapp has been appointed field account services manager for the New England region at EBSCO Subscription Services, Red Bank, New Jersey.

Dorothy Koenig has been appointed head of the Library School Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Johanne LaGrange is the new original cata- loger for audiovisual materials at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Mary Larsgaard has been appointed assistant head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gail Latta has been appointed to the Central Reference Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Marjie Lawrence has been appointed music cataloger at the University of Texas, Austin.

Grace Lin has been appointed head of cataloging at Newberry College, South Carolina.

Janet Loebel has been appointed librarian for the Kansas Collection's Wilcox grant project at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Mark McKone has been appointed catalog librarian at Greensboro College, North Carolina.

Birdie MacLennan has been appointed assistant technical services librarian at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts.

Mary G. McMahonhas been appointed library database services coordinator in public services at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Don McNamee is now head of the Library at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California.

Mary Mallory has been appointed social work librarian, effective in January 1989, at Columbia University, New York.

Cheryl Malone has been appointed history, government, American studies bibliographer and reference librarian at the University of Texas, Austin.

Jessica Marshall is the new assistant dean for technical services at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Janice Matthiesen is now special collections cataloger at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gary Meador has been appointed monographs cataloger for Latin American materials at the University of Texas, Austin.

Linda Meiseles has been named deputy associate librarian for technical services at Brooklyn College.

Ella Macleod Melik has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Daviess Menefee has been named market and product analyst for OCLC online reference service, Dublin, Ohio.

Rosemary Meszaros is now assistant librarian in the Government Publications Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Deborah Metzger is the new science reference librarian at California State University, Sacra- mento.

Betty Miller has been named science reference librarian and bibliographer at Brooklyn College, New York.

Holly Mockovak is now head of the Music Library at Boston University, Massachusetts.

Sandra Moline has been appointed mathematics librarian at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

Patrick J. Mullin has been named interim director of the Triangle Research Libraries Network, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Catherine Murray-Rust has been named assistant university librarian at Cornell University, New York.

Susanne Nevin is now head of technical services at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota.

Alison O’balle has been appointed information systems librarian at the University of Texas, Austin.

Charles Owusu has been appointed government documents librarian at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey.

Richard Page has been appointed user services librarian in the Information Processing Unit at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Zelma G. Palestrant has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

Anchalee Panigabutra has been appointed LC cataloger at Cornell University, New York.

Coleen Parmer has been appointed government documents/reference librarian at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Marcia Parsons is now head of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas, Austin.

Jennifer Paustenraugh has been appointed assistant to the dean at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jane E. Penner has been appointed biblio- grapher/cataloger for the RISM Opera Libretto Project at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Daniel Pitti has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rorerta Pitts has been appointed head of personnel operations at Texas A&M University, College Station.

John Price-Wilkin has been appointed database services coordinator of the Graduate Library Reference Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Betty Ragsdale has been appointed catalog/re- ference librarian at Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma.

Honora Raphael has been named music librarian at Brooklyn College, New York.

Cynthia Rich has been appointed LC cataloger at Cornell University, New York.

Gregg M. Richardson has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographer in the St. Paul Campus Central Library at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Amelia Rokicki is the new information services librarian in the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Jaspry Sanford is now head of collection services at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Pamela Scales has joined the staff of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Anatole Scaun has been appointed reference librarian and subject specialist for sciences and health sciences at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania.

Adam L. Schiff has been appointed assistant science librarian for computer-based instruction and reference in the Science Library of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

R. Van Schoolfield has been appointed reference librarian at Greensboro College, North Carolina.

Jim Sharpe is now head of the Sciences Unit at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Barbara Shelton has been appointed document delivery librarian at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Loanne Snavely is the new reference librarian for education at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania.

Howard Spivak is now director for library systems at Brooklyn College, New York.

Jean Stefancic has been named head of technical services in the Law Library at the University of San Francisco, California.

Cynthia Stevenson has been appointed manuscripts librarian at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Douglas Stewart is now reference librarian/ bibliographer in philosophy and history of science at the University of California, San Diego.

Christopher L. Sugnet is the new acquisitions librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

John M. Summer has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Francis Marion College, Florence, South Carolina.

Sharon Swacker has been appointed acquisitions librarian at New York City Technical College, Brooklyn.

Wilba Swearingen has been appointed associate director of the LSU Medical Center’s Division of Libraries, Louisiana State University, New Orleans.

Jacquelyn Swinney is now the reference librarian at Azusa Pacific University, California.

Rie Takashima has been appointed assistant librarian in the Oriental Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

David Thirlwall has been appointed head of the D. S. Woods Education Library at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Elizabeth B. Thomsen has been appointed database manager at the North of Boston Library Exchange.

Terry Tjaden is now catalog librarian at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

Roy H. Tryon has been appointed deputy director for archives and records management with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina.

Hudson Turner has been appointed microcomputer application librarian in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Texas, Austin.

Eric Wade is now assistant librarian in the Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard Wang is now Chinese studies librarian at the University of California, San Diego.

Don Wassnick has been appointed head of the Cataloging Division at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Lucy Wegner has been appointed head of the Information Processing Unit of the Central Library System, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Hugh Wilburn is the new assistant librarian at the Massachusetts Horticulutural Society, Boston.

N. J. Wolfe is now interlibrary loan/reference librarian in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York.

Stephen E. Young is now circulation librarian in the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas, Austin.

Eiji Yutani is now Japanese studies librarian at the University of California, San Diego.

Thomas Zantow has been appointed music cataloger at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Retirements

Frank Brey, associate librarian at Indiana University, Bloomington, retired in July.

Norma Claussen, science librarian, mathematics, mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, retired September 30. She will continue to work part-time as science librarian in the Sciences-Engineering Library.

Eleanor E. Covalesky, former cataloger at the School of Law, University of San Francisco, California, retired on June 30.

Christopher Hail, head of public services at the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, retired on June 30 after 20 years of service. He began his career at Harvard in 1967 as a library assistant in the Map Collection. In 1971 he transferred to a position as a cataloger and was later promoted to the post from which he retired. He was an active member, officer, and speaker in numerous professional organizations, including the Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records (President, 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.

Nina McMaster, librarian at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, retired in June after serving 35 years. She began her career at Harvard in October 1954 in the Office of the Corporation, in 1956 she transferred to the Physics Department as a secretary, and several years later she began to work in the Physics Department Library on a part-time basis. In 1959, she was named departmental librarian before her appointment as librarian.

Virginia Pratt, head of the Library School Library at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in April.

Helen L. Snoke, since July 1988 acting associate dean of the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will retire at the end of the year. Snoke has been a member of the faculty since 1969. She has specialized in the teaching of the school library media curriculum and was director of an experimental project in school library media education funded by the Knapp Foundation and administered by the American Library Association. She holds a BA in drama and English, an MLS, and a Ph.D in education and library science, all from the University of Oklahoma. She has been active in many professional organizations, including serving as president of the American Association of School Librarians in 1974-75, and chair of two major committees of the American Library Association, the Publishing Committee in 1981-82, and the Standards Committee, 1986-present. Currently she is a member of ALA Council and the Board of Directors of the American Association of School Librarians. She has also served on various committees within the University.

Elizabeth Todd, head of the Catalog Department in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in July.

Deaths

Raimund E. Matthis, technical services librarian in Collins Library at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, since 1963 died on September 15. He was an instrumental figure in converting the library collection from the Dewey Classification to Library of Congress by 1970. In 1971 he was the co-author of Adopting the Library of Congress Classification System (Bowker). He was responsible for redesigning the card catalog, and was involved in the library retrospective conversion project with OCLC, and the planning and preparation for a public access catalog as the basis for complete library automation.

William P. Timlake, former president of the Research Libraries Group, Chicago, Illinois, died on September 21. Timlake became RLG’s president in February 1987. During his brief tenure he set in motion a series of initiatives central to the future development of the organization. Timlake had previously spent 22 years with the IBM Corporation.