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PROFILES

Larry X. Besant is the new director of the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri, succeeding Thomas D. Gillies who has been director since 1974. Besant has been assistant director of libraries for public services at Ohio State University since 1972.

His appointment was effective July 1.

Besant has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and an MLS from the University of Illinois. He was employed with Chemical Abstracts Service in 1962-1968 and with the University of Houston Libraries in 1968-1971 as assistant director for technical services.

Larry X. Besant

With some 30 professional publications and presentations to his credit on such topics as copyright law, chemical information, periodicals, and library automation, Besant has undertaken many consultantships in those areas. He served as chair of the ALA Planning Committee (1977- 1979) and currently serves as councillor on the Executive Council of the American National Standards Committee Z39.

Nancy Eaton has been named director of libraries at the University of Vermont, Burlington. She comes to Vermont from the Atlanta Public Library, where she has been head of technical services since 1976.

Prior to that she has served as automation librarian at SUNY/Stony Brook (1974-1976), and assistant to the university librarian (1972- 1974), head of the MARC Unit (1971- 1972), and cataloger (1968-1971) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Eaton holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and an MLS from the University of Texas (1968).

Nancy Eaton

In 1970 she was joint editor of Book Selection Policies in American Libraries.

Barbara FIschler has been appointed director of university libraries at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, where she has been acting director since 1981. She has been at IUPUI since 1970, first as circulation librarian and then as public services librarian.

Fischler has a bachelor’s degree from Wilson College, two master’s degrees from Indiana, and is currently pursuing a specialist degree in the School of Library and Information Science. She holds a part-time appointment as an associate professor at the School.

Philip E. Leinbach, assistant university librarian for personnel at Harvard, has been named university librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans, effective in November. Leinbach has been active in ALA, especially in personnel-related issues. He is currently chair of the ALA task force endeavoring to set up a computer-based national placement service for librarians.

Philip E. Leinbach

After earning master’s degrees in history and library science at Indiana University, Leinbach joined the Harvard Library in 1964 as administrative assistant in the Department of Resources and Acquisitions of the College Library. He became assistant librarian for acquisitions in 1966, followed by an appointment as specialist in book selection in 1967. Leinbach spent 1970-1971 at the University of London as deputy librarian of Queen Mary College in an exchange program. Returning briefly to Harvard as selection specialist, he was appointed personnel librarian in 1972.

Leinbach also served briefly as acting librarian, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, and acting personnel officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1976-1977 he was appointed to chair a committee that audited the salaries of all nonteaching officers in the arts and sciences faculty.

Leinbach also wrote the Handbook for Librarians (rev. ed., 1979). He participated in groups that set up Harvard’s tuition assistance plan and longer-service benefits program. This year he was selected by UCLA’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science to participate as a Senior Fellow in a special program, funded by the Council on Library Resources, on academic research library management.

Mildred Lowe, acting director of the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University, has been appointed director of the Division effective July 1.

Lowe’s undergraduate degree in sociology is from Brooklyn College and her MLS is from Pratt Institute. She received a doctorate in library science from Columbia University under a Title IIB Doctoral Fellowship in 1972. She has been active in the New York Library Association, the American Printing History Association, and the Nassau County Library Association. She served on the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section’s Nominating Committee in 1980-1981.

Lowe served with the New York State Planning Committee for the Governor’s Conference on Libraries and as alternate delegate to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. She was recently appointed to the Task Force on Federal Depository Library Service in New York State.

Margaret Perry, assistant director of libraries for reader services at the University of Rochester, has succeeded Edward Johnson as director of libraries at Valparaiso University, Indiana.

Perry has both a bachelor’s degree (Western Michigan University) and a master’s degree in library science (Catholic University, 1959). She received a Certificate in French Studies from the University of Paris in 1956, and conducted further graduate study at the City College of New York.

She joined the staff at Rochester as head of the Education Library in 1970. In 1975 she was named head of reader services and has twice served as acting director of the University of Rochester Libraries. Perry has also been reference librarian and chief of circulation at the U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, and U.S. Army civilian librarian in Europe.

Perry has a number of publications to her credit, among them The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary (1981), A Bio-Bibliography of Countee P. Cullen, 1903- 1946 (1971), and Silence to the Drums: A Survey of the Literature on the Harlem Renaissance (1976). Her short stories earned her a scholarship to the American Writing and Publishing Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and several prizes.

Nathan M. Smith has been named director of the School of Library and Information Sciences at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, effective September 1 for a three-year term. Smith replaces Maurice P. Marchant who returns to the faculty. Smith has been a member of the library school faculty since 1972, specializing in research methodology, scientific literature, and reference service. He co-authored the book SPSS As a Library Research Tool and has often published articles in professional journals.

Smith currently represents Utah on the ALA Council. He holds a Ph.D. in zoology and an MLS from Brigham Young University.

Elizabeth Snapp has been named director of libraries at the Texas Women’s University, Denton. Snapp was most recently acting director of libraries there from 1979 to 1982. Prior to that she was assistant to the provost of the graduate school (1977-1979), instructor in library science (1977-present), coordinator of readers services (1974-1977), head of acquisitions (1971-1974), and catalog librarian (1969-1971) at TWU.

Elizabeth Snapp

Snapp received an MLS from North Texas State University in 1969 and a master’s in history in 1977. She has done additional work at TWU on women in leadership and women in American literature.

During the past year Snapp has served as a national director of Beta Phi Mu and as project director for an NEH consultancy grant on the development of a curriculum and a center for the study of women. Her articles on aspects of the nature and implications of patronage for the printed word have appeared in the Journal of Library History and the Missouri Historical Review.

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, Chicago, IL 60611.)

Claire Abernathy has been appointed cataloger in the Baker Library, Harvard University.

Alice Allen has been appointed head of the Catalog Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Susan Angstadt is now head of audio-visual services at the Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York.

Orlando Archibeque is a new reference librarian at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Corrie Baker has been appointed resource acquisitions coordinator at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Richard C. Baker has been named paper and book conservator of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Beth A. Barrett is the new cataloger in the Serials Department, Iowa State University, Ames.

Myrtle C. Bennett has joined the faculty of the School of Library Science, North Carolina Central University, Durham, as assistant professor.

Richard Fleming Bennett is the new head of the Circulation Department, University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville.

Roy Vincent Bennett has been appointed reference and instruction librarian at Western Oregon State College, Monmouth.

Debra Bedford Benson has been appointed technical services librarian at the University of Manitoba Law Library, Winnipeg.

F. Keith Bingham has been appointed associate librarian for public services at the College of the Virgin Islands Library, St. Thomas.

Mary Beth Blalock has been appointed acting director of the Education Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

Julie Bobay has been appointed reference librarian at the Business Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

D. Clifton Brock is now associate university librarian for special collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth S. Brooks is now a reference librarian in the Sawyer Library, Suffolk University, Boston.

Terrence Brooks has joined the faculty of the School of Library Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Charlotte Davis Brown has been appointed business reference librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Samuel R. Brown is now bibliographic instruction librarian at Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama.

Sara N. Brownmiller is a new reference librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

James C. Cain has been appointed head of the Circulation and Control Section of the Reference Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Barbara Case is the new manager of cataloging services and coordinator of automation planning at California State University, Los Angeles.

Mary Ellen Clapper has been appointed staff analyst for the F.M. Faxon Company, Westwood, Massachusetts.

James H. Cole has been named curator of the Wason Collection at Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York.

Nelda Coligan is now a technical services librarian at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Julia J. Cooke has been appointed associate dean of the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Rosemary M. Corbin has been appointed assistant librarian in the Government Documents Department, University of California, Berkeley.

Keith Cottam has been appointed acting director of Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville, for 1982-83.

Patricia S. Crehan is the new economics bibliographer at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Peggy E. Daub has been appointed head of the Music Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Karin Donahue has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Ree De Donato is now instruction/reference librarian for the Cluster Undergraduate Library, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla.

Janice Dunham has been appointed reference librarian at the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University Library, Newark Campus.

Diane C. Farnsworth has been appointed librarian of the West Palm Beach Center of Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Boca Raton.

Lois Farrell has been named acting head of the Life Sciences Libraries, University of California, Berkeley.

Mary Finnegan is now a reference librarian for the Library Association of Portland, Oregon.

Barbara Fischler has been appointed director of university libraries at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Library.

Elizabeth Frick has accepted a position as visiting assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s School of Library Service, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for academic year 1982-83.

Dean Gattone has been appointed assistant director of the Library Systems Division, University of Maryland, College Park.

Louise W. Greenfield has been named head orientation librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Ronald J. Grele has been named head of Columbia University’s Oral History Research Office, New York.

Nels Gunderson is a new reference librarian at the Business Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

James W. Hart has assumed the position of reference instruction librarian at the University of Cincinnati Libraries, Ohio.

Carla Heister has been appointed librarian of the Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana.

Nancy Herin is now a technical services librarian at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Ann Hippensteel has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie.

Karen HitcHcock-Mort is now head of collection management and resources development at Old Dominion University Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Jeffrey Jackson has been appointed reference and instruction librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Jim Jacobs is the new documents reference librarian at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Martin Jamison is now instructional services librarian at Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Jeanne L. Jones has accepted the position of science-engineering reference librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Susan R. Jurow has been appointed business reference librarian and coordinator of computerized information and retrieval services at the University of Houston.

William R. Kahles has been appointed assistant documents librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Marilyn Kaye has joined the faculty of the Division of Library and Information Science, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.

Connie A. Kirby has been appointed assistant documents librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Ingrid Karen Kitterman has been appointed head of technical services at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

R. Cecilia Knight is the new assistant cataloger in the Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater.

Michael Kohl has been appointed head of special collections at Clemson University Libraries, South Carolina.

Barbara Korn stein has been appointed head of the Education/Psychology Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Emmett Langley has been appointed head of the reference department at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Lotte N. Larsen is now head of reference and library instruction at Western Oregon State College, Monmouth.

Patricia Larsen has been appointed head of the catalog section at Southern Oregon State College, Ashland.

Sandra Leach has been appointed online reference services librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Michael M. Lee is now the director of Ward Edwards Library, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg.

Tom Leonhardt has been appointed assistant university librarian for technical services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Joseph Lewis is the new reference/social sciences librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk.

Shui-Keung Li has been appointed catalog librarian at Christian Broadcast Network University Library, Virginia Beach.

Thomas K. Lindsay has been appointed science reference librarian at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Susan Lundell has been appointed music cataloger at the University of Cincinnati Libraries, Ohio.

Anne Scott MacLeod has been named acting dean of the College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, effective July 1.

Leslie Ann Manning is now associate dean for technical services and automation at Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan.

Thomas Marshall has been appointed American and Latin American cataloger at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Robert Merikangas has been appointed head of reference at the Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

Loretta Mershon has been appointed assistant serials librarian at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

William Mischo is now engineering librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Laima Mockus has been appointed executive director of NELINET, Newton, Massachusetts, effective July 1.

Vivienne I.F. Monty has been appointed head of the Government Documents/Administrative Studies Library, York University, Downsview, Ontario.

James E. Morgan has been elected chairman of the Oregon State System of Higher Education’s Interinstitutional Library Council.

Pat Nicholls has been named head of the Cataloguing Department, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg.

Julie Nilson has been appointed head of acquisitions at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Judith M. Nixon is a new reference librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

David Nuzzo has been appointed head of acquisitions at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Lynn Ohlhorst is now automation/special projects librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie.

Diane Parker has been named director of the Science and Engineering Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Henry A. Pisciotta has been appointed fine arts librarian at Carnegie-Mellon University’s Hunt Library, Pittsburgh.

Helen Ploss is now head of the Serials Cataloguing Section of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge.

Mary P. Popp is now head of undergraduate library services at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Nancy Ottman Press is the new planning coordinator at the Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library, University of Washington, Seattle.

Susanne J. Redalje has been appointed science-engineering reference librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Charlene E. Renner has been appointed assistant director for technical services at Iowa State University, Ames.

Betty Reynolds has been appointed director of the Martin Speare Memorial Library, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro.

James Rice, Jr., has joined the faculty of the School of Library Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Dana Rooks is the new library personnel coordinator at the University of Houston-Central Campus Libraries.

Patricia Routledge has joined the reference staff of the Engineering Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Jacqueline Cook Sanders is now catalog librarian at the Julia Rogers Libraiy, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland.

Laverna M. Saunders has been appointed technical services librarian at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.

Bill Sciienck is the new collection development librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Laurie Scott has been appointed reference librarian in the Dafoe Collections Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Kit Seay is now serials librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Karen Seibert has been appointed public services librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Marilyn J. Sharrow has been named chief librarian of the University of Toronto, Ontario.

Jack Siggins has been appointed deputy university librarian at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Charles A. Skewis is now assistant acquisitions librarian at Baylor University’s Moody Memorial Library, Waco, Texas.

John M. Sluk is the new social science cataloger at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Margery Sly has accepted the position of archivist for the Senator Strom Thurmond Collection, Clemson University, South Carolina.

Don SpiceHandler has been appointed cataloger at New York University Libraries.

Jana Reed Steidinger is now a reference librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie.

Frederick J. Stielow has been appointed assistant professor in the College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park.

Isabel Stirling has been appointed head of the Science Library at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Dona Straley has been appointed Near Eastern materials cataloger at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Suzanne Sullivan is now head of reference services at California State University, Los Angeles.

Susan Summer has been appointed archivist for the Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York.

Kathleen Tessmer has joined the faculty of the School of Library Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Connor D. Tjarks is now assistant director of libraries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Elisabeth Trumpler is the new head of cataloging at Drexel University Libraries, Philadelphia.

Elaine Trzebiatowski has been named computer-assisted reference librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie.

Daniel L. Wade is now documents librarian at the Vanderbilt University Law Library, Nashville.

Suzanne Ward has been appointed head of the Engineering Libraiy at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Bella Hass Weinberg has joined the faculty of the Division of Library and Information Science, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.

C. Brigid Welch has been appointed coordinator of user education at the University of Houston-Central Campus Libraries.

Gayle Williams is the new Spanish language and serials cataloger at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

William P. Williams has been named interim director of libraries at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Virginia Wise has been appointed librarian of the Boston University Law Library.

Michael E. Wright has been appointed catalog librarian at the Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

RETIREMENTS

William H. Bond, librarian of Harvard’s Houghton Libraiy, retired on June 30 after 36 years of service to the Harvard Library. Bond will continue as professor of bibliography at Harvard.

Bond’s Houghton Library career began in 1946 when he was appointed assistant to the librarian. This was followed two years later by his appointment as curator of manuscripts and in 1965 as Houghton’s director. He was curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in 1969-1970 and was elected to the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University for 1981-1982.

President of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, past president of the Bibliographical Society of America (1974-1976), and member of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, Bond is also the author of several publications, including Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962).

Max Boyko, special languages cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington, retired on July 30.

John Demos retired on June 30 after eleven years of service to the University of Louisville Libraries. He came to Louisville in 1971 where he has served as director and most recently as the only dean in the library’s history. Prior to that he was variously head of the Math and Physics Libraries, head of Department Libraries, and assistant director for technical services at Ohio State University. Demos holds master’s degrees in English and library science from the University of California.

Frank Gillis, director of the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, retired on July 30.

Jack Jochim retired as business bibliographer for the Loyola University of Chicago Libraries.

Esther Laine, librarian of the Entomology Library at the University of California, Berkeley, retired on June 30.

Charles R. Machovec, assistant director for public services at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, retired on May 31.

Ellsworth Mason retired as head of the Special Collections Department at the University of Colorado Library, Boulder, on August 31, ending a career that began in 1935 as student assistant in the Yale University Library.

Ellsworth Mason

Stanley Rosenfeld

Mason holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and an honorary L.H.D. from Hofstra University. He has worked on the library staffs of Yale University, Marlboro College, the University of Wyoming, Montana State University, Colorado College, Hofstra University, and the University of Colorado, serving for 18 years as director of the last three. A voluminous writer, he is the author of seven books and monographs and 90 articles in the fields of librarianship, English and comparative literature, western U.S. history, book collecting, and library building planning.

Mason served as planner and consultant on 128 library buildings, five of which have won architectural awards. His 1980 book Mason on Library Buildings was widely reviewed in architectural and library periodicals.

He taught English literature at Williams College, Marlboro College, and Colorado College, and served as adjunct professor at the Graduate

School of Library Science at the University of Illinois. In 1975 he was awarded the Harry Bailly Speaker’s Award by the Association of Colleges of the Midwest.

Jeanne Osborn retired from the faculty of the School of Library Science, University of Iowa, after 11 years service.

Mae Durham Roger retired on June 30 from the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Irmgard Rutherford, head of the Chemistry-Pharmacy Library at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, retired on June 1 after 25 years with the libraries.

Hal Smith retired June 30 as professor emeritus, East Tennessee State University Library, Johnson City, where he served as microforms librarian.

DEATHS

Harvey F. Baugh, former senior reference specialist in the Congressional Reference Division, Library of Congress, died on May 5. He had retired in 1978 after 35 years of Federal service.

Joseph T. Hart, who served as director of administrative services at New York University Libraries until his retirement in 1980, died on June 18.

Rene Immelman, for many years director of the University of Cape Town Libraries and founder of the library school there, died of cancer on April 30. A notable leader in the promotion of all types of libraries he was honored with a doctorate by the University of Potchefstroom on April 27, 1974. After his retirement from the University of Cape Town he continued his search for original documents for the library and continued to write on the history of libraries, the university, Cape Town, and South Africa.—Winifred B. Linderman.

Charles Percy Powell, who retired from the Library of Congress in 1965, died on May 13. At the time of his retirement he was historian and reader adviser in the Manuscript Division. ■■