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MARY LOU GOODYEAR,assistant director for instruction and research services at the Auraria Library of the University of Colorado, has been appointed assistant director for public services at Iowa State University, Ames.

Mary Lou Goodyear

Goodyear’s accomplishments at the Auraria Library have included the implementation of a cooperative online public access catalog, a continuing program of staff development for supervisors, and an organization development planning project for library faculty. She also initiated a document delivery service for students and faculty.

A graduate of Graceland College (1974), Goodyear received an MLS (1975) and a master’s degree in public administration (1981) from the University of Missouri. She will receive a doctorate in public administration from the University of Colorado this year.

From 1981 to 1983 Goodyear was head of the Reference Department at Wichita State University and was previously a reference librarian (1979-1981) at Stephens College and at the University of Missouri (1976-1979). She has been a library consultant and has authored articles in several professional journals and given presentations.

PAUL H. MOSHER,deputy director of libraries at Stanford University since 1985, has been named vice provost and director of the library system at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. At Penn, Mosher will be responsible for a system encompassing 15 libraries containing more than three million volumes.

Paul H. Mosher

Mosher joined the staff at Stanford in 1975 as assistant director for collection development and later became direc- tor for collection devel- opment and director for research services. He was assistant professor of history at the University of Washington from 1966 to 1975, serving as chairman of its Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group. Mosher has also spent many summers as visiting professor at Trinity College’s Rome, Italy, campus.

A regular lecturer in Stanford’s Religious Studies Program, Mosher has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholarship in Italy (1971), and the Blackwell North America Scholarship for the best article in the area of library resources (1984).

Mosher is a member of the ALA Planning Committee, the Resources and Technical Services Division’s Publications Committee, and the RTSD Nominating Committee, of which he was chairman for 1983-1984.

J. Daniel Vann III,executive director of libraries and learning resources at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, since 1981, has been named director of library services at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

J. Daniel Vann III

An 1957 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Vann has master’s (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) degrees in history from Yale University, an MLS (1971) from Emory University, and has also pursued advanced study at Teachers College, Columbia University, and postdoctoral work at Stanford University.

Vann has led library automation and building efforts as director of the Baptist College at Charleston (1966-1969), Keuka College (1969-1971), and at Staten Island Community College/CUNY (1971-1976), where he later became professor of library science (1976-1979). Vann was appointed head librarian of the Lockwood Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and was appointed assistant director for planning the following year.

Prior to his library career, which began as a bibliographer for European history and literature at the Newberry Library, Vann taught European history at several liberal arts colleges.

Active on professional boards and committees, Vann has been an ACRL Board member (1976-1978) and has served on the Choice Editorial Board (1977-1978) and as a member of the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee (1978), the Conference Program Planning Committee (1977-78), the Membership Committee (chair, 1978-1980), and the Standards and Accreditation Committee (1984-1986). He has also been chair of the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (1977-1978), and held a variety of CJCLS positions from 1973 to 1983.

Vann is also a member of several other ALA Divisions and has served on numerous library and university committees.

WINSTON TABB,chief of the Information and Reference Division of the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., has been appointed chief of the Loan Division, effective March 14. He succeeds Olive James, who is now li- brary director at San Francisco State University (see C&RL News, October 1987, p. 575).

Tabb came to the Library of Congress in 1972 as a participant in the Library’s Intern Program for outstanding library school graduates. Upon completion, he worked as a reference specialist in the Congressional Research Service, becoming congressional research administrator (1974-1975). Tabb was subsequently appointed team leader of the Congressional Reading Room and in 1977 became administrator of CAS’s Inquiry Section. The following year he was appointed assistant chief of the Library’s General Reading Rooms Division, and has served as chief of the Information and Reference Division since 1984.

Appointed vice chair of the Management and Planning Committee in January of this year, Tabb has also served as chairman of the Librarian’s Task Force Subcommittee on Services to Staff (1976). He received Meritorious Service Awards in 1980 and 1987 and has consistently earned outstanding performance ratings since 1978. An ALA member, Tabb is also a member of Beta Phi Mu and the District of Columbia Library Association.

Tabb is a 1963 magna cum laude graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and holds a master’s degree in American literature from Harvard University (1964) and an MLS from Simmons College (1972). He has also been Harvard’s director of summer admissions and served with the U.S. Army during 1966-1968.

People in the News

N. BERNARD BASCH,president of Turner Subscriptions, New York City, has been appointed to the National Council for the Olin Library of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The National Library Council will be chaired by a member of the University’s Board of Trustees and will include people whose expertise and experience will help guide the library system into the next century. The Council plans to review both current and future library programs.

TONI CARBO BEARMAN,dean of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been appointed to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Advisory Committee on Patents and Trademarks. Bearman will join 16 others in advising the Patent and Trademark Office on a broad range of policy matters relating to both domestic and foreign issues.

DAVID A. DAY,music librarian at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, is the third recipient of the Music Library Association’s Walter Gerboth Award, intended to support research by a member in the first five years of his or her career. Day is preparing an annotated catalog of the printed and manuscript opera and ballet collection of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, housed at the Archives de la ville in Brussels.

ELLEN GAY DETLEFSEN,associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ALA executive director THOMAS J. GALVIN, former SLIS dean, have received a 1988 George Eliot Prize for co-authoring an article on health science and biomedical librarianship. The article, “Education for the Health Sciences/Biomedical Librarianship: Past, Present, and Future,” appeared in the April 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. The prize is administered annually by the Login Brothers Book Company for the most outstanding contribution to the field of medical librarianship.

IRENE B. HOADLEY,director of the library at Texas A&M University, College Station, is the first holder of a newly endowed chair for the directorship, funded by Sterling C. Evans, for whom the library is named, and by John and Sara Lindsey of Houston. Hoadley has been director at Texas A&M for the past 14 years. Another chair, also endowed by Evans and the Lindseys, will be held by Frank E. Vandiver, who will relinquish the presidency of the university later this year.

JOHN P. MC GOWAN,university librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, has been installed as the first recipient of the newly endowed Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Chair of Research Librarianship. McGowan was named university librarian in 1971. He had served in the Technological Institute Library at Northwestern from 1956 to 1959 and then as director at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia before returning to Northwestern as associate university librarian. A past president of the ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division, McGowan has also served as chair of the Board of Governors of the Research Libraries Group, and currently chairs the conference of library directors representing the institutions that form the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He was instrumental in the creation of NOTIS, Northwestern’s highly successful automated system, and has authored and presented many papers on library automation and information technology.

SAMUEL ROTHSTEIN,professor in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has received the 1988 Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Library and Information Science Education from the Association for Library and Information Science Education. The award was presented at the annual ALISE conference in San Antonio, Texas.

HAROLD B. SHILL,Evansdale librarian and associate professor of library science at West Virginia University, Morgantown, has received the 17th annual Dora Ruth Parks Award for Outstanding Service to Libraries and Librarianship in West Virginia. The award was given primarily for Shill’s contributions as federal regulations coordinator for the West Virginia Library Association, a post he has held since 1973. Shill is chair of the ACRL Legislation Committee and the ALA Legislation Assembly.

ARLENN SOMERVILLE,head of science and engineering libraries and chemistry librarian at the University of Rochester, New York, is the 1988 chairman of the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society. Somerville is the first academic librarian to be elected an officer in the Division. She participated in the 8th International Conference on Computers in Chemical Research in Education held in Beijing in June, 1987, and was invited to lecture at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry in Beijing on the topic of searching computerized chemical databases.

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.)

DENA ADAMShas been appointed assistant librarian for science and engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

CARL A. ANDERSONis the new assistant director for technical and automated services at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.

TTERRY K. BASFORDis now head of the Humanities Division at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

AIMME ALGIR BAXTERis now Latin American serials cataloger in the Cataloging Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

SUSAN BECKhas been appointed head of cataloging at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

Elizabeth Bedfordis now cataloger in the Law Library at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

NANCY BIERSCHENKis now administrative projects librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

TYRONE H. CANNONhas been appointed head of the Social Sciences Division at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

STEVEN CARTER-LOVEJOYhas been appointed head of circulation and reserves at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

KATHARINE CHIBNIKis now head of access and support services in the Avery Library at Columbia University, New York City.

DORIS H. CHRISTONis now special projects coordinator in the Gutman Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CATHERINE D. COLLINSis now project librarian in the Loeb Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MAUREEN S. CONNORShas been appointed reference librarian/social sciences liaison at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Donna Cromerhas been appointed assistant librarian for science and engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Cary Danielis now cataloger at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edmund P. Edmondsis now law librarian at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Geraldine Eisenrerghas been appointed head, audiovisuals and serials, at Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nancy E. Elkingtonis now assistant to the assistant director for technical services at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Linda Ellisis the new director of the Museum Studies program at San Francisco State University, California.

Daphne Estwickhas been appointed reference librarian in the Business Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Michael E. Finemanis now bibliographer for science and engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Katherine Gibronshas been appointed medical reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Rodney K. Goinshas been appointed associate head of the Acquisitions Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Susan D. Goldnerhas been appointed catalog/ reference librarian at the University of Arkansas/ Pulaski County Law Library, Little Rock.

Mary E. Harringtonis now assistant curator of printed books at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mary E. Hoguehas been appointed reference and government documents management librarian at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Geneva Hollidayis now collection development librarian in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York City.

David Hunterhas been appointed music librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mary Elizabeth Johnsonis now assistant librarian for economics and business at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Carol Joinerhas been appointed assistant librarian for reference at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Scott Koziolhas been appointed newspaper cataloger for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Project at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kerry L. Kresseis the new head of the Physics Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kimrerly Lairdhas been appointed information services librarian in the Health Sciences Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Marjorie Lawrencehas been appointed cataloger in the Cataloging Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

JudyMe Queen has been appointed senior consultant at Information Systems Consultants, Inc., Washington, D.C.

Janice Matthiesenhas been appointed rare book cataloger in the Technical Services Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Diana Northruphas been appointed assistant librarian for science and engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Patti Ogdenis the new head of reference and faculty services in the Law Library at the University of Houston, Texas.

Judith Olsenhas been appointed assistant reference librarian at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

Andrew H. Perryis now assistant director for systems management at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Carlos E. Polithas been appointed Latin American studies librarian at Ohio State University, Columbus.

Sally Roggiahas been appointed instructor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madson.

Amelia Rokikiis now information services librarian in the Countway Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Lucille M. Rosahas been appointed associate head for monograph cataloging and authority control in the Catalogue Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Lee A. Ryanhas been appointed reference librarian in the Law Library at the University of San Francisco, California.

Anne G. Schlosseris the new head of the Cinema-Television Library and Performing Arts Archives at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Angela Secrestis the new head of the Bibliographic Search Department in the Law Library at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Jean Shadyhas been appointed serials project librarian in the Law School Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Regina Sinclairhas been appointed preservation and physical processing librarian at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Carol Sommerin now assistant catalog librarian in the Clark Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Keith Ann Stiversonhas been appointed special assistant to the Law Librarian at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Marcia Suterhas been named director of the Learning Resource Center at the Scott Park Campus of the University of Toledo, Ohio.

Linda K. Tesar is now technical services/systems librarian in the Law Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Angela Marie Thorhas been appointed senior assistant librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Charles Hudson Turneris now microcomputer applications librarian in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

Barbara Van Deventeris the new assistant director for collection development at the University of Chicago, Illinois.

Paul Vassallois the new executive director of the Washington (D.C.) Research Library Consortium.

Susan von Salisis the new manuscript processor at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

William M. Walkerhas been appointed documents/reference librarian in the Law Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

John C. Walshhas been appointed reference librarian/humanities at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Camille Wanathas been appointed head of the Engineering Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Glee Willisis the new head of the Engineering Library at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Marie Wolkoffis now head of resources in the Law Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Sharon Kay Womackhas been appointed head of the Reference Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Lynda Wornom Wrighthas been appointed cataloger of the Chrysler Museum Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Kristine Wyciskhas been appointed assistant librarian for reference at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Retirements

John R. Turner Ettlinger,professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has retired as professor emeritus effective at the end of last year. Ettlinger is the first library school faculty member to be so honored, and is the last remaining member of the school’s original faculty. In 1969, when the library school was founded, he was collections librarian in the university library, a position he assumed in 1966. Prior to then Ettlinger had held several positions in rare books, bibliography, and special collections at Brown, McGill, and Columbia Universities. At Dalhousie, he specialized in teaching collection development and the history of the printed book. Beside writing on early books and prints, Ettlinger’s bibliographical publications include substantial works on young peoples’ literature and on Canadian imprints. The latter form part of the multi-volume Checklist of Canadian Copyright Materials in the British Museum, 1895-1923, being published by the School of Library and Information Studies.

Lois E. Godfrey,assistant head librarian at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, has retired after 34 years of service. Godfrey was involved in every phase of library operations there, including planning of the new library, which opened in 1977, and the planning and implementation of the library’s automated systems. Active in the Special Libraries Association since 1950, she served on many committees and was a charter member of the Rio Grande Chapter, serving twice as its president. Godfrey was also president of the New Mexico Library Association during 1978-1979; was secretary of the New Mexico Library and Audiovisual Education Council (1969-1971); and was a member of the Task Force on a New Mexico Inter-Library Cooperative System (1977-1978). She currently serves as member and vice-chair of the New Mexico Advisory Council on Libraries, and was New Mexico’s librarian of the year in 1983. Co-editor of the first and second editions of SLA’s Dictionary of Report Series Codes, Godfrey has authored and edited a number of other publications and articles.

Yvonne Greear,assistant university librarian for public services at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1971, retired March 1. Greear first came to the library as an administrative secretary to the Librarian in 1950, and completes more than 30 years of service, interrupted during 1955 and 1956 when she studied library service at the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked intermittently in private industry and military libraries around El Paso before returning to the university permanently in 1964. Named librarian of the year by the Border Regional Library Association, Greear was awarded the Distinguished Service to the University Award in 1987 from the UT-El Paso Chapter of Sigma Xi, a national honor society for science and engineering.

Barbara M. Ivey,acquisitions librarian at the U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Colorado Springs, will retire June 3 of this year after 31 years of service as a federal librarian. Ivey has worked in libraries in Japan, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and at various U.S. locations. During a break in federal service from 1967 to 1969, she was director of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library in Washington state.

Mary Anna Krause,selector for Anglo- American Law in the Law Library at Harvard University, retired in September, 1987, after 26 years of service. Krause had held the position since 1981, and was formerly acquisitions librarian. She has been a member of law library professional associations and served on the University Library’s Communications and Orientation Committee.

William Mayles,science, engineering and technology librarian at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, retired April 30.

Deaths

Merle Bartlett,former catalog librarian at the Library of Congress and California State University, Northridge, died March 6.

Charmaine Stander Boyd,retired coordinator of user services at Prince George’s Community College, Largo, Maryland, died February 16. Boyd served at PGCC for 19 years and was an active member of ALA and the Maryland and District of Columbia Library Associations. She served as MLA president during 1978-1979 and also as president of its Academic and Research Libraries Division. In 1981 she received the Maryland Library Association Award, its outstanding honor, and received the MLA Distinguished Service Citation in 1987, the year she retired. Boyd was the founder of the D.C. Citizen Advocates for Libraries.

William Jennings Chalker,former director of the library at Jacksonville University, Florida, died March 6 at age 73. Chalker served at Jacksonville from 1961 until his retirement in 1978. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in 1937 and a bachelor’s in library science (1950) and MLS (1951) from George Peabody College for Teachers. Chalker served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was newspaper librarian for the Nashville Tennessean during 1950-1951 before serving as director of the library at New York State College at Fredonia from 1951 to 1960.

Rorert Estelle,audiovisual curator for university archives at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, died February 14 in St. Paul at the age of 62. Estelle received a bachelor’s degree in education and master’s and doctoral degrees in Spanish from the University of Minnesota, and joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 1963. From 1967 to 1984 he was director of the Learning Resources Center, which under his leadership was incorporated into the University Libraries and expanded its services to include both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Campuses.

Marian Harman,professor of library administration emerita and honorary curator of incunabula at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Chainpaign, died February 27. Harman retired in 1969 from her position as rare book librarian, and had served formerly as head of the Cataloging Department. Her interest in rare books continued and culminated in the publication in 1979 of her Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, distributed by the University of Illinois Press.

Virginia Haviland,the first chief of the Children’s Literature Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., died January 6 at her home in Washington. Haviland came to the Library in 1963 to establish and develop a center for the study of literature for children, having previously served in several capacities at the Boston Public Library. At the Library of Congress she developed a comprehensive collection of books relating to English and foreign-language children’s books; histories; critical studies; works on writing and illustrating children’s books; studies of folklore, storytelling, children’s reading, and book selection; basic catalogs and indexes; and selective and special subject lists. Haviland was the author of Children's Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources (1966), and succeeding supplements.

Rosemary Neiswender,former cataloger in the Technical Services Division at the University of California, Los Angeles, died January 31. Neiswender worked in the library, initially as Slavic bibliographer in the Bibliographers Group, from 1968 until her retirement in 1983.

Felix Pollack,assistant professor emeritus and former curator of rare books at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died November 19, 1987, at the age of 78. A native of Austria, Pollack pursued careers in the law and the theatre, studying under Max Reinhardt, before fleeing the Nazi invasion in 1938. He earned a bachelor’s degree in library science in Buffalo, New York, and later served in the U.S. Army as an interpreter. Pollack earned his MLS from the University of Michigan and in 1948 was appointed curator of special collections at Northwestern University. At Northwestern he supervised the development of the department’s collections to reflect his broad interests as a bookman, writer, translator and poet. Pollack returned to Vienna during the winter of 1955-56 to pass his final examination for his doctorate of law. He came to Wisconsin in 1959 and was instrumental in developing the library’s Sokov collection of little magazines and small press editions. Known as a tireless defender of small presses and magazines, Pollack contributed poetry, essays, aphorisms and translations to more than 100 such publications, including American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. His poems were widely anthologized and were translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Hungarian. Pollack also wrote seven books of poetry between 1963 and 1988.

DavidE. Pownall, chief librarian at the Melbourne CAE Carlton Campus (formerly Melbourne State College), Australia, from 1976 to 1986, died January 2 at the age of 62. A professional cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., before becoming a librarian, Pownall worked in several reader services positions before becoming director of library services at Hofstra University (1973-1976). In Australia he became involved in the development of reciprocal borrowing arrangements. Pownall’s publications included the seven-volume Articles in Twentieth Century Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, and its three-volume supplement, due for publication this year.

Doris Ransom,former senior descriptive cataloger in Processing Services at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., died December 27, 1987, in Colorado. Ransom, who retired in 1981 after 22 years of service, joined the Descriptive Cataloging Division in 1965, first as a cataloger and then as a unit supervisor in the English Language Section. She was made senior descriptive cataloger in 1973. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Ransom received an MLS from the University of Michigan in 1949 and came to the Library of Congress in 1949 as one of the first interns in the Special Recruit Program. She later transferred to the Copyright Office as a cataloger in the former Book Section. From 1953 to 1965, Ransom worked as a documents cataloger at Oregon State University, as chief catalog librarian at Emory University, and as head of the Catalog Department at the University of Cincinnati. At the Library of Congress she received several outstanding performance ratings, and served ALA as chair of the Council of Regional Groups of the Resources and Technical Services Division from 1963 to 1966.