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E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., president of The Art Institute of Chicago, has announced the appointment of Daphne C. Roloff as executive director of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute. Roloff will assume her new position on May 1, 1977.

A native of Canada, she received her B.A. degree from the University of Toronto (Trinity College) in 1954 and her B.L.S. from that university’s library school in 1955.

Since 1971 Roloff has been the head librarian of the Cleveland Museum of Art. From 1970 to 1971 she was the art bibliographer at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She was employed by the library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from 1966 until 1970, first as cataloguer and then as assistant librarian and head cataloguer. She also has worked as a librarian for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the Costume Institute of that museum, for the American Heritage Publishing Co., and for the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. In the summer of 1976 she was an assistant professor at the Kent State University School of Library Science.

Roloff is a member of the Special Libraries Association, the Art Research Libraries of Ohio (ARLO), and the Art Library Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). At the present she is vice-chairperson of ARLIS/NA.

Erich Meyerhoff, who has been librarian of the Cornell University Medical College since 1970, was appointed assistant dean for information resources, effective March 1.

In announcing the appointment, acting dean of the medical college Thomas H. Miekle called Meyerhoff “a truly distinguished librarian” and termed his services to the college “invaluable.” The new appointment, Dean Miekle said, represents “a richly deserved recognition of his many contributions.”

Before coming to CUMC, Meyerhoff was librarian at the Health Services Library, State University of New York, Buffalo, for three years. Between 1961 and 1967 he served as the first director of the Medical Library Center of New York, a joint facility of New York City medical schools,. Previous to that he was both a librarian and assistant professor at Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York. He also has been a consultant to various universities and organizations and teaches at the Columbia University School of Library Sci- ence.

Meyerhoff is a member of the board of di- rectors of the Medical Library Association. He is also a director of the New York Library Club and the Council of National Library Associa- tions.

A native of Germany, he came to the United States in 1935. He did his undergraduate work at the College of the City of New York and did graduate work at Columbia University. Meyer- hoff lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan.

Pat Molholt has been named head of the Science Library at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Molholt comes to Wyoming from the University of Wis- consin-Madison Li- brary System, where from 1973 to 1977 she organized and headed the univer- sity’s newly created physics library. Before becoming physics li- brarian, Molholt was employed by the Uni- versity of Wisconsin Astronomy Depart- ment. During her ten- ure there she rebuilt the Woodman Astro- nomical Library which had been damaged in the 1970 political bombings at UW.

Pat Molholt

Prior to her association with the University of Wisconsin, Pat Molholt was an intern in the Milwaukee Public Library and served as an education counselor for the U.S. Army in Germany.

Molholt has studied at the University of Munich and received her B.S. and M.L.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madi- son.

Molholt is a member of the American Library Association and the American Society for Information Science and chairs the Physics- Astronomy-Mathematics Division of the Special Libraries Association. She is active in the International Federation of Library Associations.

Dr. Lorene L. Rogers, president of the University of Texas at Austin, has announced the appointment of Harold Billings as acting director of the UT General Libraries, effective May 1.

Merle Boylan, who has been director of UT libraries since 1973, recently resigned that post to become director of libraries at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Commenting on his appointment, Billings said, “At present, my chief interest is to see that our work gets done, our progress continues, and that we get moved into the new library building. Those concerns are uppermost in my mind now.”

Billings, who has been associate director of General Libraries since 1972, has had general administrative duties as well as library-wide responsibility for collection development efforts and supervision of the undergraduate library and special collections. He has been with the UT Austin libraries since 1954 when he began as a cataloger, progressing through various professional and administrative positions to become assistant university librarian from 1967 to 1972.

The author or editor of numerous publications, Billings most recently wrote A Collection on Texas and the American West: A Prospectus in 1977. He edited and wrote the introduction for Bottom Dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those Who Perish, and Hitherto Unpublished and Uncollected Works by Edward Dahlberg.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Pan American College and a master’s degree in library science from UT-Austin.

APPOINTMENTS

Michael Angel —head, reference services— University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Emily M. Belcher —reference librarian, Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center—Oberlin College, Ohio.

Ann Bristow Beltran —personnel librarian —Indiana University, Bloomington.

Mel Blowers —university librarian and associate professor of bibliography—University of North Carolina, Asheville.

Martha Carroll— OCLC coordinator, Midwest Region Library Network (MIDL- NET)—Library Services Center of Missouri, Jefferson City.

John B. Dillon— humanities bibliographer —State University of New York at Binghamton.

Heidi E. Duda— reference librarian, Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

James J. Dygert— general reference librarian—Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Maury D. Feld— reference librarian, Littauer Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ronald A. Fullerton— social sciences bibliographer—State University of New York at Binghamton.

Deirdre Gunnison-Wiseman— serials cataloger, Harvard College Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Johanna Hershey— head of cataloging— Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Susan Holt— cataloger—-University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Vera Hospodka— head librarian, King of Prussia Graduate Center—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Michael A. Jankowski—assistant reference librarian—University of Texas, Austin.

BettyJo Keppel—serials cataloger, Harvard College Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Barbara Bugg Lanreth —health sciences reference librarian—University of Washington, Seattle.

Jack Levine —assistant reference librarian— University of Delaware, Newark.

Elizabeth Meehan —assistant librarian, Ogontz Campus Library—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Thomas Evans Nisonger —bibliographer— University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Martha B. Padawer— head cataloger, Fine Arts Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pamela A. Sexton—assistant director for technical services—USAF Academy, Colorado.

Susan Shapiro —assistant acquisitions librarian—University of Delaware, Newark.

James Thompson— assistant librarian for technical services—Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Barbara Underwood— circulation librarian —University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Concepcion Wilson— science reference librarian—University of California, Santa Cruz.

Susan Yasar— serials cataloger—University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

NancyP. Zaphiris—cataloger, Harvard College Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Julia Zimmerman —assistant serials librarian—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

RETIREMENTS

Erika Mehrens, subject bibliographer in modern languages at the University of California. Santa Cruz, retired April 1, 1977.

Ed Ricker, subject bibliographer in Slavica, religious studies, and linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retired April 26, 1977.

N. Orwin Rush, director of learning resources, Amarillo College, will retire in Au gust. He was an executive secretary of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Ainsley A. Whitman, librarian of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will retire September 30, 1977.

DEATHS

J. Terry Bender, formerly head of special collections and an associate professor of library services at Hofstra University, died April 3, 1977.

He was a former chairman of the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. A special memorial fund in his name has been established at Hofstra University Library. ■■