ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

ACRL Officers for 1977/78

Eidred R. Smith, director of libraries at the University of Minnesota (Wilson Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455), is the thirty-ninth president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. During his term of office, Smith will preside over the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee. He will develop the plans for ACRL’s major program meeting at the 1978 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and will chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for that conference. The president serves as a member of all ACRL editorial boards and as an ex-officio member of all other units of the association.

As president of the division, Smith will represent ACRL on other ALA committees, including the Committee on Policy Implementation for the Program of Action for Mediation, Arbitration, and Inquiry and the ALA Divisional Interests Special Committee. Smith also represents ACRL and ALA to other organizations, such as the American Council on Education.

In addition to his tenure as ACRL vice-pres- ident/president-elect during 1976/77, Smith’s service to ACRL and ALA includes chairing the ACRL Committee on Academic Status and the ACRL University Libraries Section. He has served on the ALA Standards Committee, the Resources and Technical Services Division’s Library Materials Price Index Committee, and the Library Research Round Table. He is currently chairing the ACRL/Association of Research Libraries Joint Committee on University Library Standards.

Evan Ira Färber, librarian at Earlham College (Richmond, IN 47374), is the newly elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries. In the recent elections, Farber received 1,082 votes. The other candidates, Herbert Biblo, assistant librarian at the John Crerar Library, and Arthur Monke, librarian at Bowdoin College, received 454 votes and 433 votes respectively.

In the past, Farber has served ACRL as chair of its College Libraries Section. He has served ALA as a member of the Library Administration Division’s Buildings and Equipment Committee and the Non-Western Resources Committee. He was a Councilor for ALA from 1969 to 1971.

As vice-president/president-elect of ACRL, Farber will serve on the ACRL Board of Directors, the ACRL Executive Committee, and the ACRL Planning Committee. He will chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1979 ALA Annual Conference in Dallas; and he will represent ACRL on the ALA Committee on Appointments, the ALA Budget Assembly, and the ALA Conference Program Committee for the 1979 conference. At the close of the 1978 Annual Conference, he will become ACRL’s fortieth president.

William J. Studer, director of libraries at the Ohio State University, and Billy R. Wilkinson, staff relations officer at the New York Public Library, were recently elected to serve four- year terms as directors-at-large on the ACRL board. Studer received 1,196 votes; Wilkinson, 932. The other candidates, Marjorie C. Dennin, director of the learning resources center at the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, and Hal C. Stone, assistant dean for instructional resources at Los Angeles City College, received 913 votes and 459 votes respectively.

The results of the ACRL section elections follow. For each position, the elected candidate is listed first. The number of votes earned by each candidate is listed in parentheses.

Agriculture and Biological Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: David K. Oyler, University Librarian, Humboldt State University, Areata, California (92); Linnea Sodergren, Health Manpower Specialist, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Chicago, Illinois (57).

Secretary: Linda L. Phillips, Reference Librarian, Undergraduate Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (88); Vladimir Micuda, Life Sciences Librarian, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (55).

Anthropology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: David L. Perkins, Head Bibliographer, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California (68); Suzy M. Slavin, Assistant Head, Reference Department, McLennan Library, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (45).

Secretary: Patricia Ann White, Reference Librarian, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (63); Elizabeth J. Airth, Reference Librarian, HRAF Supervisor, Reference Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (46).

Member-at-Large: M. Sangster Parrott, Assistant Professor, Library Science/Educational Technology, School of Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina (58); Patricia W. Silvernail, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island Library, Staten Island, New York (52).

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Betty Jo Irvine, Fine Arts Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (136); Karen Esper, Materials Selector for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University Libraries, Cleveland, Ohio (48).

Secretary: James R. Burch, Assistant Head, Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley, California (91); Karen Muller, Cataloger, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois (88).

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Hans E. Panofsky, Curator of Africana, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois (87); Corinne Ny- quist, Director, World Study Center, Sojourner Truth Library, State University College, New Paltz, New York (52).

Member-at-Large: Hideo Kaneko, Curator, East Asian Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut (70); Elizabeth A. Widenmann, African Bibliographer and Cataloger, Columbia University, New York, New York (65).

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Dale K. Carrison, Director of Libraries, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota (306); Betty Jane High- field, Director, College Library, North Park College, Chicago, Illinois (294).

Secretary: Joel M. Lee, Head of Technical Services, Donnelley Library, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois (372); Bro. Paul J. Ostendorf, Head Librarian, Fitzgerald Library, Saint Mary’s College, Winona, Minnesota (223).

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Imogene I. Book, Director of the Library, Rend Lake College, Ina, Illinois (169); Bob Schremser, Head Librarian, Alexander City State Junior College, Alexander City, Alabama (97).

Secretary: William I. Bunnell, Director of Library Services, County College of Morris, Dover, New Jersey (155); Raymond G. Roney, Director of the Library, Washington Technical Institute, Washington, D.C. (110).

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Jean C. Jones, Director, Library and Archives, American Psychiatric Museum Association, Washington, D.C. (132); Darrell Jenkins, Assistant Serials Librarian, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (121).

Secretary: Leslie Benton Bjorncrantz, Curriculum Librarian and Reference Librarian, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 135); Marjorie Zumstein, Education and Psychology Librarian, Purdue University, West La- Fayette, Indiana (121).

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Susan C. Finsen, \ssistant Executive Officer, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (113); Sandra S. Coleman, Head, Reference Department, General Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (57).

Member-at-Large: Frances Hunt Hall, Law Librarian and Associate Professor, Southern Víethodist University, Dallas, Texas (104); Leslie W. Sheridan, Director of University Libraries, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (62).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Marjorie Gray Wynne, Edwin J. Beinecke Research Librarian, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, fale University, New Haven, Connecticut (221); Evert Volkersz, Head, Department of Special Collections, University Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York (111).

Secretary: Maud D. Cole, Keeper of Rare Books, The New York Public Library, New York, New York (193); Thomas D. Burney, Assistant to the Chief, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (134).

Member-at-Large: Elizabeth A. Swaim, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Connecticut (177); Liana Van Der Bellen, Chief, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (151).

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Stan Humenuk, Head Catalog Librarian, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois (63); Andrew Lubo- mir Makuch, Bibliographer for Collection Development, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, Arizona (35).

Member-at-Large: Marianna Tax Choldin, Slavic Bibliographer and Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois (51); Douglas K. Freeman, Slavic Cataloger/ SOLINET Coordinator, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee (46).

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: James T. Dodson, Director of Libraries, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas (557); James F. Wyatt, Dean of Libraries, The University of Alabama, University, Alabama (509). ■■