ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News from the field

Acquisitions

•The College of William and Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library, Williamsburg, Virginia, has acquired the Murray and Shirley G. Horowitz Collection on Dogs and Related Subjects, a gift from Shirley G. Horowitz, of North Woodmere, New York. The collection contains some 6,000 volumes and will complement the Peter Chapin Collection of Books about Dogs presented to William and Mary in 1937.

•East Central State University, Ada, Qkla- homa, has acquired 71 volumes of typescripts of proceedings and document books pertaining to Cases One and Eight of the Nazi War Crimes Trials heard by Tribunal One of the United States Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947. The set, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elwood Kemp of Ada, belonged to Johnson Tai Crawford, a local Pontotoc County district judge who was one of the three judges who made up Tribunal One. In some cases the books contain Crawford’s handwritten notes about the evidence and the disposition of a case. Document books for Case One, the case against the doctors, also include photographs of victims of medical experiments.

These volumes join other personal papers of Crawford’s acquired by the University some years ago.

•The National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, has acquired a copy of the book describing the discovery of oxygen in 1773 by the Swedish apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), who isolated the gas prior to and independently of Joseph Priestley, the British scientist credited with the discovery in 1774. Although the manuscript for Scheele’s Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer was ready for the printer by December 1775, publication was delayed for two years and he did not publish his results until 1777. The book is extremely rare and NLM has been fortunate to acquire a copy in fine condition.

•Ohio State University’s Edgar Dale Media Center, Columbus, has acquired a collection of 4,000 children’s books from professor Charlotte Huck, who retired in June 1988. This teaching and research collection, recently appraised at $21,000, traces the development of children’s literature from 1820 to the present. The collection includes works by Caldecott, Crane, Greenaway, Potter, and Baum, along with significant picture books, classics, special reference books, and Mother Goose Collections. Two original woodblocks, valued at $400 each, of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations for John Gilpin's Ride and engraved by Edmund Evans are a part of the art collection, as well as an unsigned Burmingham picture that was a rejected cover for Mr. Gumpy’s Outing, a collage picture by Roger Duvoisin for What is Right for Tulip, and a woodblock by Evaline Ness for Tom Tit Tot.

•Sam Houston State University's Newton Gresham Library, Huntsville, Texas, has acquired several volumes of correspondence relating to Sanford Bates, the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. These volumes will be added to the library’s large collection of Sanford Bates correspondence, professional papers, manuscripts, and his personal book collection housed in the library’s Thomason Room.

•The University of Albany Libraries, New York, have acquired the papers of Carleton Simon (1872-1951), a New York criminologist who gained prominence in 1901 for his psychiatric examination of Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley. Simon served as Special Deputy Commissioner in charge of the New York City Narcotics Bureau (1920-1926); as special adviser to the Will H. Hays Office of Motion Picture Producers of America pertaining to the depiction of crime and criminals in motion pictures (1928-1938); and wrote and spoke extensively throughout his career on crime, drug addiction, street gangs, race, and related subjects. These papers are now part of the University’s growing Archives of Public Affairs and Policy, as are his unpublished manuscript “Spotting the Junkies,” and his written evaluations of forty movies and ten plays for the Hays Office.

•The University of Illinois Archives at Urbana/ Champaign has acquired the only microfilm copy (outside of Mauritania) of one of the most important African manuscript collections in the world. The collection is the Haroun ould Cheikh Sidiyya library, located in Boutilimit, Mauritania, a personal library representing the efforts of four generations of bibliophiles and containing more than 100,000 folios of Arabic works dating as far back as the early 19th century. Among the most significant holdings of this extensive private collection are treatises from all four schools of Islamic law at the end of the 19th century; a large collection of books and letters by Timbuctu scholars Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti and Sidi Muhammid b. Sidi al-Mukhtar; a Koranic commentary by the Nigerian scholar ’Abdullahi b. Futi (d. 1829); and an Arabic grammar by the Mauritanian scholar al-Mukhtar ould Buna.

•The University of Kentucky Library, Lex- ington, has acquired for its broadcasting archives film, video footage and news scripts from Lexington television station WKYT. This is the second major broadcasting acquisition of the year; in January WLKY-TV, a Louisville-based ABC affiliate, gave the library its news footage shot between 1973 and 1979. The curator of the university’s Audio-Visual Archives, Tom House, is developing a computerized index for all the broadcast material.

•The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gen- eral Library has acquired a collection of music memorabilia belonging to Dave E. Dexter Jr., a pioneer in America’s record industry as a journalist, record producer, and author. The collection, assembled over more than 50 years, documents the evolution of the music industry from an insider’s perspective, and includes records, tapes, books, magazines, photographs, manuscripts, and correspondence. The extensive collection of photographs is a resource frequently used by record companies and authors; the record and tape collection contains recordings Dexter produced, as well as his liner notes; and the magazine collection includes bound copies from the early years of Downbeat, Metronome, and Music Notes.

•The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has acquired a collection of rare manuscripts detailing the day-to-day life at California’s historic missions, especially those of Ventura, Santa Ynez, and Santa Cruz. The 25 mission documents range in date from 1791 to 1846 and include inventories, annual reports, account books, a letter outlining the requirements for marriage, and a marriage contract. Among the well-known signers of these documents is Andres Pico, the brother of Pio Pico, after whom Los Angeles’ Pico Boulevard is named.

In addition, the library has acquired one of the earliest Los Angeles documents of the American period, a manuscript that records the November 4, 1850, election returns for the Justice of the Peace. Many Los Angeles namesakes pepper the election tally sheet, including the winner, Juan Sepulveda, after whom Los Angeles’ Sepulveda Boulevard is named.

Grants

•The Committee on Institutional Cooperation has received a grant of over $1.1 million from NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a three-year microfilming project. The ten CIC member libraries participating in the project are Northwestern, Chicago, Illinois (Urbana- Champaign), Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, and Wisconsin (Madison). They will be filming brittle materials in a variety of subject areas based on each library’s collection strengths. A resulting aspect of the project is the use of both RLIN and OCLC to queue decisions to film specific titles so that, between the time of the decision and the actual filming and cataloging, another library will not go to the expense of filming the same title.

•Harvard University’s Visual Collection in Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $50,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., to expand its unique exchange program for photographs of Oriental art. The award, to be expended over a three-year period, will fund the purchase of photographs of Oriental art in the United States and Europe to be exchanged for photographs from East Asian collections, and will help support the work necessary to foster the exchanges. The exchange was initiated in 1983 and for the first four years exchanges were carried out with the Shanghai Museum and the Palace Museum, both in the People’s Republic of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. With the Luce Foundation grant it will be possible to expand the program; probable partners for new exchanges are the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Chengdu Museum in Sichuan Province. The collection now holds more than 1.4 million photographs and slides, among them some 15,000 photographs documenting Chinese works of art—possibly the largest such collection in the United States.

•Ohio University Library, Athens, has received a $104,705 Title II-C grant from the U.S. Department of Education for its Southeast Asia Collection. With the grant the University will complete a project of entering significant microfiche titles produced by the Library of Congress Field Offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, and New Delhi, India. Other major universities owning this collection can obtain the project output on computer tape for loading into their local systems.

In addition, the University has received a twoyear, $60,000 grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation to help fund the hiring of a project archivist to process the personal papers of the late journalistic giant E.W. Scripps. In August, Charles E. Scripps, grandson of E.W. and chairman of the board of the Scripps Howard Corporation, transferred ownership of the papers to Ohio University; the extensive collection is considered one of the most important in American journalism. E.W. Scripps founded the first major newspaper chain in the United States and what later became United Press International. He also established three feature syndicates. He died in 1926 at the age of 71.

•Saint Francis College, Loretto, Pennsylvania, has received a $3 million grant to establish an endowment fund for the library. The gift was made by Frank J. and Sylvia G. Pasquerilla of Johnstown as part of the recently announced $7 million Campaign for Saint Francis College. The money will enable the college to continue to increase book and periodical holdings, to enhance the library’s study and research resources, and to purchase additional computers and electronic resources for more effective library services.

•The State University of New York at Buffalo Libraries have been awarded a $175,746 U.S. Department of Education Title II-D Research and Demonstration grant to investigate the impact of telefacsimile and optical scanning technologies on collection development and resource sharing. The funding will be used to set up controlled tests to evaluate the direct and associated costs, turnaround times, and end-user acceptance of services based on facsimile copies and scanner-generated, machine-readable files in lieu of the actual items or photocopies that are now sent via interlibrary loan. Funds will also be used to purchase telefacsimile and scanning equipment and to hire staff and students.

•Texas Tech University Libraries’ Southwest Collection has received more than $19,000 in grants to fund a traveling exhibit and major symposium on Hispanic settlement in the Southwest. The grants were from the Texas Committee for the Humanities, the Lubbock Cultural Affairs Council, and the Friends of the University Library/Southwest Collection. The exhibit, which will premiere in Lubbock in February 1989, will feature a sixpanel display that will document the progress of Hispanic settlers from Mexico and New Mexico into greater West Texas and the South Plains. The symposium, scheduled for May 5, 1989, will feature several distinguished scholars who will speak on related topics.

•The University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Library and Information Science has been awarded a grant from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) to support a project titled “Research on Knowledge-based Descriptive Cataloging of Cartographic Publications: An Experimental Advice-Giving System, MAPPER.” The objective of this research will be to identify instances of expert judgment in solving specific tasks in the area of descriptive cataloging of maps. The project will also implement these judgments in a semi-automatic advice-giving system and evaluate the performance of the experimental system in a controlled environment.

•The University of Illinois Library, Urbana- Champaign, has received a three-year, $82,000 grant from the Council on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) for preservation of Russian and Ukrainian books in the Slavic and East European Library. The award is part of a grant obtained by the CIC from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More than 2,300 volumes are scheduled to be preserved by the Library’s microfilming laboratory; all are from the end of the 19th century through World War II, and all deal with the humanities and social sciences. Among the books are important works from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1918-1929, and several Ukrainian works published in displaced-persons camps in Germany during World War II.

•The University of Michigan’s Alfred Taubman Medical Library, Ann Arbor, has received a $200,000 planning grant from the National Library of Medicine to integrate the U-M Medical Center’s computerized information systems. The grant will help the U-M Medical Center integrate records on patients, students, research databases, hospital administration, library holdings, and other areas that currently are stored in separate computers. Integration of these records will greatly benefit patient care, research, medical education, and other activities on the Medical Center campus. The grant is part of the Integrated Academic Information Management project developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1982.

In addition, the University’s School of Information and Library Studies has received a $120,000 grant to restore and furnish Room 411 of the West Engineering Building, adjoining the Library School’s new home. The grant, which is the largest single endowment in the School’s history, was given by Virginia Spencer Ehrlicher and Arthur Ehrlicher, both Michigan graduates. Matching funds will come from the University to complete the project.

•The University of New Mexico General Li- brary, Albuquerque, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the federal government to establish the Center for Southwest Research, which will provide research space for students and scholars to foster discussion on issues of importance to the region. Matching funds will be raised by the University to create endowments to provide continuing support for acquisitions, staffing, and programs.

•The University of North Carolina at Greens- boro has received a $5,000 gift from Elizabeth Shamburger in memory of her sister, Anne Shamburger, a health teacher at the University for 45 years. The gift has been designated for restoration of rare book materials.

•The University of Texas at Austin General Li- braries is one of six major U.S. research libraries chosen to receive grants of $200,555 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education to convert card catalogs of their large Latin American library holdings into computer-readable automated records for national online databases. Stanford University is administering the grants; the other participants in the cooperative effort are Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida, and Indiana University at Bloomington. The money will be used at UT Austin to continue converting to an electronic format the card catalog of the internationally esteemed Nettie Benson Latin American Collection, and to tag each entry with a symbol that identifies a holding as being located at UT Austin. Records of the Latin American library holdings of the six institutions will go into OCLC and RLIN. The records will also be made available to the Organization of American States’ Columbus Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., and thereby, to all Latin American countries.

•The Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, has been awarded a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission to enter series descriptions of more than 2,000 of the Library’s most valuable government records on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN). The RLIN Government Records Project is a continuation of the Seven States Project, where seven state archives entered thousands of records descriptions into RLIN during 1986-1987. The NHPRC grant will enable two additional staff members to describe series and to input the descriptions onto RLIN.

•Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washing- ton, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Brunswick Public Charitable Foundation, Inc., to improve the college library’s holdings in Hispanic publications. The grant will be used to purchase some books, but the main emphasis will be on obtaining a good stock of videotapes with a cultural and literary focus for use in the classroom. The grant will also make it possible for the college to strengthen its ties to the Walla Walla Hispanic community.

News notes

•The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, has completed construction of its new library building built on the site of the old building which burned down in July 1983. Only fourteen years old at the time, the college rallied immediately to begin rebuilding. Architect Daniel Scully worked with a committee of college trustees, staff, faculty, and students to design a building in keeping with COA’s ecological perspectives. The completed Kaelber Hall/Thorndike Library learning resource center insures that natural light will be optimized so that energy consumption can be sharply reduced. In addition, the finished appearance of the structure follows coastal Maine’s noted architectural style; its cedar shingles articulate the close relationship between humans and their environment. The 20,000-square foot building will house the 50,000-volume library, as well as a dining hall, computer center, audio-visual room, and student lounge.

•Old Sturbridge Village has launched a re- search project on the experiences of minorities in rural New England during the early 19th century (1790-1850). The minorities to be examined are Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish. The first phase of the project began in fall 1988 and entails a search for primary and secondary source materials dealing with the groups. Printed materials, graphics, and manuscript collections that contain relevant materials will be identified and examined and their contents evaluated. This information will be incorporated into an annotated bibliography of source materials for future research. The second phase begins fall 1989 and will be a focused research effort using some of the collections identified in the phase one. Any information regarding specific collections and their contents that may be relevant to the research is welcome. Send materials to: Myron O. Stachiw, Research Department, Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, MA 01566. ■■

Profiles

RuthM. Katz, director of academic library services at East Carolina University, has been named university librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Katz received her MLS and Ph.D. from Rutgers’ University, and her undergraduate degree from Clark University. She has held the positions of associate director of academic library services at East Carolina, senior research scientist at the Denver Research Institute, and assistant professor at the University of Denver Library School. She has also worked at the Rutgers’ University Libraries, the Library of Congress, System Development Corp., and Documentation Inc. The author of numerous articles and presentations, Katz has been active in RASD, ASCLA, and LRRT, as well as in state associations in Colorado and North Carolina.

DianeE. Murray, technical and automation services librarian at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, has been appointed director of libraries at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. Murray received her MLS from Western Michigan University and her master’s in management from Aquinas College. She held several positions with the Technical Services Division of Michigan State University from 1968 to 1977, and served on the editorial board of Title Varies. She has also served as secretary, vice-chairperson, and chairperson of the Michigan Library Association Board of Trustees from 1980 to 1985, and was editor of the Grand Rapids Area Union List of Serials for several years.

People in the news

Nancy Gwinn,editor of Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists for the Association of Research Libraries and the Northeast Document Conservation Center, has been awarded the Society of American Archivists’ Waldo Gifford Leland Prize for writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice. The award, which was established in 1959 and is conferred annually in the fall, was presented to Gwinn at the SAA conference in Atlanta in September 1988. The book was selected from a pool of seven nominees and was cited as “a comprehensive, easily used, and readable manual for archivists and librarians and an excellent introduction to various aspects of microfilming projects.”

KennethJ. LaBudde, former director of libraries and now professor emeritus of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has received the Thomas Jefferson Award granted annually to one member of the faculty from the four campuses that comprise the University of Missouri. The award recognizes his life-long commitment to the Jeffersonian ideals of freedom of expression and individual liberty as well as his continued commitment to quality in education. LaBudde retired in 1985 after being director of libraries for 35 years, but he continues to contribute to the University by working for the development of the special collections in its libraries and for the completion of its General Library building.

CharlesR. McClure, professor at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York, and Peter Hernon, professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, have been awarded the 1988 American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Book Award for their book Federal Information Policies in the 1980s: Conflicts and Issues (Norwood, N.J.; Ablex Publishing Corporation). The award is given annually to the author and publisher of an outstanding book relevant to the information sciences. Books are judged on their importance to information science and technology, readability, validity, originality, research significance, and scholarship. McClure and Hernon accepted the award at the Annual ASIS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in October.

Charles Mauer,library director of Dennison University, has been awarded the American Library Association of Ohio’s Distinguished Service Award. To be eligible for the award a librarian must be a member of ALAO for at least five years, demonstrate leadership and service within the organization, and promote academic libraries throughout the state of Ohio. Mauer has been active in ALAO as a board of trustees member and as a member of the 1986-1987 ALAO Conference program committee. He currently continues as the ALAO liaison with the Ohio Library Foundation and Ohio Pi. He also assists OCLC in their development of the new online catalog. Director of Dennison University Library since 1971, Mauer has also served as assistant professor of German at the University of Michigan (1965-1971) and instructor of German at Laurence University (1962-1965). Known for his white lab coat and collection of rhinoceroses, Mauer published in 1971 the book Call to Revolution: The Mystical Anarchism of Gustav Landauer (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1971), and has authored an essay “Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds” in Collection Development (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981).

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.)

William Abernathyhas been named librarian at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri.

Nancy Allenhas been appointed assistant director for public services at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins.

Kathleen Doris Andersonhas been appointed head of technical services in the Hilles and Lamont Libraries at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mary Axfordhas joined the Reference Department staff at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Gordon Banholzer Jr.has joined the Reference Department staff at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Domenica Barbutohas been appointed business reference librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Susan Barneshas been appointed head of public services at the Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Douglas Bateshas been appointed head of the Documents Department at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Mark Beattyis the new interlibrary loan librarian in the Wisconsin InterLibrary Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

WilliamE. Benemann has been appointed Romance languages cataloger in the Law School Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stella Bentleyhas been named assistant university librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Rebecca Bernthalhas joined the staff of the Branch Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Marcia Bianchi-Bartelettihas been named head of the Cataloging Section at Santa Clara University, California.

Tracy Bicknellhas joined the staff of the Central Reference Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Mark Bradenhas been named assistant technical services librarian for cataloging at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

Catherine T. Brodyhas been named director of archives at the New York City Technical College of the City University of New York.

Nancy Buchananhas been appointed humanities reference librarian at Texas A & M University, College Station.

Frances Bufalohas been named librarian for Congressional research services of the American Law Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Lorri Burroughshas been named librarian of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Helena Calogeridishas been appointed cataloger in the Cataloguing Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Loretta Carenhas been appointed head of the Information Services Department at Syracuse University, New York.

Jo Chanaudhas been named head of the Reference Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Shelly Clementhas been appointed circulation/reference librarian at the University of Oklahoma Law Library, Norman.

Linda Coateshas been appointed assistant librarian in the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Patricia Denhamhas been named head of preservation and archives at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, Ohio.

Lorie Dockenhas been appointed assistant OCLC coordinator in the Wisconsin Interlibrary Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jeffrey Earnesthas been named head of the Music Cataloging Section at Stanford University, California.

Jay Evatthas been named reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Barbara Farahhas been named technology branch librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

E. Jain Fletcher has been appointed assistant librarian in the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Nancy Flotthas been named librarian at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri.

LeiLani Freundhas been appointed interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

DavidA. Gaarder has joined the Reference Department at the University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor.

Paula Gabbardhas been appointed fine arts bibliographer and reference librarian at the Avery Library, Columbia University, New York.

Gail Garfinklehas been named public services archivist at the University of Georgia, Athens.

NancyV. Gauss has been named head of the Archives and Records Management Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

EdwardF. Gaynor Jr. has been appointed head of the Monographic/Post-Cataloging Unit at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Ray Gesselbachhas been named archivist at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

MarkC. Goniwiecha has been named instructor of library science at the University of Guam, Mangilao.

Suzanne Grefsheimhas been named head of the Alfred Taubman Medical Library and coordinator of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

HenryD. Gründer has been named special collections librarian at the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond.

Michael Haddockhas been appointed science reference librarian at Texas A & M University, College Station.

Harriet Hagenbruchhas been named education librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Paula Hammetthas been appointed college librarian at World College West, Petaluma, California.

JohnB. Harer has been named head of the Circulation Division at Texas A & M University, College Station.

Phillip Heagyhas been appointed reference and online searching librarian for the sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

David Heisserhas been appointed collection management librarian at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Betty Hertelhas been named reference librarian at the Duke University Law Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Gail Hitchcockhas been named assistant technical services librarian for cataloging at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

Daniel Holthas been appointed curator of the Liberty Memorial Museum and Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

Kari Horowiczhas been appointed assistant architecture and fine arts librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Valerie Hortonhas been named systems librarian at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

Godlind Johnsonhas been named engineering librarian at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Patricia Johnstonhas joined the staff of the Reference Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Sally Kelleyhas been appointed assistant librarian in charge of the Agricultural Law Collection at the University of Arkansas Law Library, Fayetteville.

Harriet Kerseyhas joined the staff of the Serials Cataloging Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Barbara Kinghas been appointed library development officer at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Richard Koprowskihas been appointed assistant archivist in the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University, California.

P. J. Koshy has been appointed media services librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Ramune Kubiliushas been appointed head of the Reference Department at the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Mary Lynette Larsgaardis the new assistant department head in the Map and Imagery Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Seth Lerneris the new project archivist in archives and special collections at Ohio University, Athens.

Tang-Hwa Liouhas been appointed assistant librarian in the Oriental Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Charles Lipsighas been appointed science reference librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Margaret Lourieis the new HOLLIS services librarian in the Law School Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Robert McDonaldhas been appointed head of technical services in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York.

Sally McGillhas been named assistant curator of rare books and manuscripts at Vassar College Library, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Nan McMurryhas been named history bibliographer at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Langhorne Malloryhas been appointed reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Rikki Mangrumhas been appointed reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Alena Marekhas been appointed Russian/German cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Wilbur Menerayhas been appointed assistant university librarian for special collections at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Lawrie Merzhas been appointed reference and music librarian at Houghton College, Houghton, New York.

Denise Milleris the new automation help desk consultant in Automation Services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

PatriciaE. Palmer has been named conservation librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

Mary-Frances Panettierehas been appointed head of the Computer Search and Training Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

L. Eileen Parris has been appointed retrospective conversion archivist in the Manuscript Department of the Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Roberta Pessahhas been appointed reference and government documents librarian at the New York Law School Library, New York.

JaniceA. Peters has joined the staff of the Reference Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Roberta Pittshas been appointed head of Personnel Operations at the Texas A & M University Library, College Station.

Phyllis Posthas been named head of cataloging at the Capital University Law School Library, Columbus, Ohio.

Kevin Rayhas been named curator of manuscripts in special collections at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Anne Reberis the new Southeast Asia research bibliographer at Ohio University, Athens.

Martha Richardsonhas been appointed information specialist/systems librarian with the Library Task Force at Kuwait University.

Jacquelene Rileyhas been appointed head of the Catalog Department at University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nancy Rodererhas been named assistant health sciences librarian for resources and reference services at Columbia University, New York.

Susie Rohrboughhas been named health sciences reference librarian at Ohio University, Athens.

Ann Ronchettihas been appointed English bibliographer at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Robert Sabinhas been named reference and collection development librarian for the sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

JoyeD. P. Slife has been named assistant head of acquisitions at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Sheridon Speethhas been appointed physical sciences reference librarian at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Mary Stephensonhas joined the staff of the Technical Services Division at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Jan Swanbeckhas been appointed chair of the Government Documents Department and bibliographer for government documents at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

PatriciaA. Tarin has been named assistant to the deputy director of the University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor.

Yitzhak Teutschhas been appointed serials cataloger in the Law School Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Colleen Thorburnhas been appointed serials cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Terry Tjadenhas been named cataloger at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

Stephanie Tolsonhas been appointed technical services specialist with the St. Louis Community College System, Missouri.

Felix Unaezehas been appointed business reference librarian at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

BarraraH. Vaccaro has joined the Reference Department at the University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor.

Coleen Valentehas been appointed cataloger at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Barrara Valentinehas been appointed reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens.

John Van Hookhas been appointed American/English language and literature selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Denise Wallacehas been appointed reference librarian at Delaware Technical and Community College, Dover.

Tyler Waltershas been appointed assistant university archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Brian Warlinghas been named science librarian at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

Diane Watsonhas been appointed public service librarian at Texas A & M University at Galveston.

Mark Weberhas been appointed personnel officer at the libraries of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

William Wiesehas been appointed agriculture science reference librarian at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Doris Williamshas been appointed assistant director for Science Libraries at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

ChristineR. Wondolowski has been named collection development librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Roger Wyatthas joined the faculty of the Emporia State University School of Library and Informational Management, Emporia, Kansas.

Elaine Yontzhas been appointed special collections and humanities monographs cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Retirements

Larry Earl Bone,director of libraries and professor at Mercy College, Westchester County, New York, and the Westchester campus of Long Island University, will retire at the end of January after a 35-year career in libraries. Before joining the staff at Mercy College in 1977, Bone served as director of the Burrow Library at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He has also served as assistant director for public services at the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center; assistant director of the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana; deputy librarian of the American Library in Paris, France; librarian at George Mason College, Fairfax, Virginia; and assistant head of the Gift Section of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting professor at nine graduate schools of library science, and was the recipient of a Council on Library Resources fellowship in 1974. He served as president of ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division in 1978-1979, and is the editor of three books, two issues of Library Trends, and twenty articles.

MerleN. Boylan, director of libraries at the University of Washington, Seattle, for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1988.

Edward Dauphinais,technology branch librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, has retired after 20 years of service.

Mildred Emmons,assistant director for technical services and collection development at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, retired in August after 31 years of service.

Stephen Ford,director of the library at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, since 1962, retired in December. Ford began his career in 1949 at Lawrence University as an assistant librarian, became chief of the Serials Division at Southern Illinois University in 1953, moved on to the University of Michigan Library as head of the Order Department in 1954, then took a leave in 1961-1962 as special consultant in library development to the University of Baghdad, Iraq. Ford has been a member and chair of the ALA committees on Bookbinding, Statistics, and Publishing from 1956-1974; he served as Second Vice President of the Michigan Library Association from 1965-1966; he was a member of the Executive Council of the Michigan Library Consortium from 1975-1977; and was lecturer in bibliography and book selection at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University from 1963-1980. Ford authored a book on The Acquisition of Library Materials (Chicago: American Library Association, 1973), a revised edition of which was published in 1978. He also served as assistant editor of Library Resources and Technical Services from 1956-1964.

Robert Reed,head of collection development at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, has retired after 28 years of service.

Donald Vincent,university librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, has retired after 26 years of service.

Deaths

EdithG. Henderson, former curator of the Treasure Room in the Harvard University Law School Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, died this fall. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Henderson entered the Harvard Law School in 1950 with the first class to have women members. She received her LL.B. degree in 1953 and her S.J.D. in 1959. Shortly thereafter Henderson began her long association with the Law School Library and with the Treasure Room, which houses the Library’s collection of rare historical legal materials. In 1963 she was appointed curator of the Treasure Room, a post she held until her retirement in 1987. Henderson served as the Selden Society’s Honorary Secretary-Treasurer for the United States from 1965 to 1987, and also as a director of the American Society of Legal History from 1981 to 1983.

Milton HodnetteJr.,retired head of the Cataloging Department at Ohio University, Athens, died September 29 after a long illness. Hodnette had served in his position at Ohio from 1969 to 1984.

Miriam Turner Larson,associate professor emerita at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, died November 20,1988, at the age of 79. Larson earned her bachelor’s degree in biology in 1930 and master’s in microbiology in 1931 from Middlebury College, Vermont, and received her MLS from Wayne State University in 1967. She joined the WSU faculty as assistant professor in 1968. During her tenure she served on numerous committees and as coordinator of the medical libraries concentration for the Library Science Program. She was also a noted author in the medical libraries area and a successful grant writer.