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William Carter Pollard,former librarian at the College of William and Mary, has been appointed director of the Martha S. Grafton Library at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia. He succeeds Gertrude C. Davis, who is retiring after twenty years as head librarian.

During her service, Davis witnessed the growth of the library from 33,000 volumes in 1957 to 128,000 volumes in 1977. As librarian, she assisted in the planning of the new Martha S. Grafton Library in 1968 and directed the move from the small library on the second and third floors of the Academic Building to the new structure.

Pollard has served as librarian at Old Dominion University and as social services librarian at the University of Georgia. He attended Davidson College and received his bachelor’s degree in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina and a master of arts degree in library science from Florida State University.

A member of the Executive Board of the Southeastern Library Association, he is also a member of the Virginia Library Association, State Council of Higher Education, State Historical Records Advisory Board, and the State Board for the Certification of Librarians.

Additionally, he is a member of the Williamsburg Public Library Board and is director of the Colonial Capital Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Pollard has also served on several accreditation committees of the Southern Association of Colleges.

Judith B. Jensen,former head librarian at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., has been named librarian of the McCain Library at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.

Jensen took her new post at the women’s liberal arts college on July 1, according to Agnes Scott President Marvin B. Perry, Jr. She succeeds Dale F. Luchsinger, who is leaving the college’s library to pursue graduate studies at the University of Georgia.

Prior to moving to Atlanta in 1976, Jensen was acquisitions librarian for two years and then head librarian for three years at the Brookings Institution, a private, nonprofit center for independent study in the social sciences.

Jensen moved to Atlanta after her marriage to Alton P. Jensen, principal research engineer and faculty member of the School of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

At Agnes Scott, Jensen will administer a collection of 140,000 volumes and direct a staff of seven full-time personnel, including four professional librarians.

A cum laude graduate of Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she earned her master’s degree in library science at the University of California, Berkeley.

WilliamR. Cagle was appointed head of the Indiana University Lilly Library by the I.U. Board of Trustees at their meeting June 17 on the Indianapolis campus.

Cagle has been acting Lilly librarian since the death of the first Lilly librarian, David Randall, in July 1975. Previously, Cagle was librarian for English for I.U. libraries (1962- 67) and assistant Lilly librarian (1967-75). Before coming to I.U., he was assistant to the librarian at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

A native of Hollywood, California, Cagle was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles and Oxford University, England. He has served as consultant to the University of Texas Humanities Research Center and is on the advisory boards of the University of Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography and the Gale Research Authors Bibliography Series. He is also a panel member of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Grants.

The Lilly Library is named for the distinguished family that founded the Indianapolis pharmaceutical firm. It was opened in June 1960 to house both the private library of J. K. Lilly, Jr., which had been presented to Indiana University in 1956, and the books and manuscripts from the university library’s Department of Special Collections, established in the 1940s by Robert A. Miller, then director of I.U. libraries.

The Lilly Library is recognized as the major rare books and manuscripts repository between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. With the support of Indiana University and the Lilly Endowment, it has quadrupled the number of books and doubled the number of manuscripts originally in its collections.

Among its holdings are printed versions of the Bible from the Gutenberg New Testament to the most recent ecumenical text; more than 700 books printed before 1501; 66,000 items in the Latin American collections, formed largely by Bernardo Mendel; United States historical collections relating to the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution, the westward expansion, Lincoln materials, and documents of Indiana history, as well as extensive holdings in United States, British, and French literature, medical science, technology, and music.

While the Lilly Library is primarily a re- search library, its collections and exhibits are open to the public.

Paul Snezek,assistant professor of library science, has been named director of the Wheat- on College Library, Wheaton, Illinois.

He has served as assistant to the director and as librarian of collection development since his appointment to the Wheaton faculty in 1970. During the past year he was acting direc- tor of the library.

Before coming to Wheaton, Snezek was di- rector of the library at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. He also was acquisitions librarian at Dallas Theological Seminary where he received a M.Th. degree.

Snezek is past chairman of the Christian Li- brarians’ Fellowship and currently edits the fellowship’s Christian Librarian. A book review- er for Moody Monthly, he is a member of Friends of Wheaton Public Library and past president of the Central DuPage Librarians Association.

He is a member of the American and Illinois Library Associations, Chicago Area Theological Librarians Association, and Library Automation Research Council.

An alumnus of North Texas University (B.A.), he also has degrees from Philadelphia College of Bible (B.S.), Northern Illinois Uni- versity (M.A.L.S.), and Chicago University (C.A.S.).

Roland Herbert Moodyhas been appointed the first dean of university libraries and learn- ing resources at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Moody has been at Northeastern Univer- sity as director of university libraries for the past twenty-five years. He came to Northeastern from Harvard University Libraries where he was assistant librarian of the Lamont Li- brary, the first un- dergraduate library. While there he assist- ed the then librarian,

Roland Moody

Philip T. McNiff (director of the Boston Pub- lic Library), and Keyes D. Metcalfe in select- ing the collections for the new library and compiling the Lamont Catalogue. While at Harvard in 1946-48, he was keeper of collec- tions during which time he inventoried the collections for the first time in twenty years, a not-too-small task. His service at Harvard was interrupted by World War II, when he served as the Sergeant Major of the Third Battalion, Eighty-sixth Mountain Infantry, Tenth Mountain Division in Italy and was awarded the Bronze Star. Before WW II he was a member of the professional staff at Harvard, Middle- bury College, and Dartmouth College. While a graduate student at Columbia School of Library Science, he was an assistant at Queens College.

When he came to Northeastern in 1953, the collection numbered 24,000 volumes, the budget was $52,000, and the staff consisted of six professional librarians and twenty-five support staff. In June 1977 the collection numbered 855,562 volumes of monographs and microforms, 92,000 documents, 12,125 technical reports, and 15,120 vertical files, and the budget was $1,881,259. The staff numbered thirty-two professionals, fifty-two support staff, and ninety-six part-time staff.

The libraries now include the main collection in the Robert Gray Dodge Library; the Graduate Research Library for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology and Pharmacy (Allied Health-Forensic Science), and Nursing; the Graduate Research Library for Physics and Electrical Engineering; the Graduate Research Library for Mathematics and Psychology; and the Suburban Campus Library at Burlington, Massachusetts. In addition to these facilities, there are the special collections in Marine Science, Management Development, Center for International Higher Education Documentation, and Aviation Technology. Learning Resources was nurtured as early as 1953 and today ranks as one of the most complete audio, video, programmed instruction, television learning centers. It is primarily housed in the Robert Gray Dodge Library and is integrated into the teaching process at the university as an integral part of the library function in higher education today. The Law School Library is a separate facility and supports the programs of the first Cooperative Education Law School. Since 1954 Bibliographic Instruction for the students and faculty has been a major innovation.

Although the long-sought-after new sixteen- story Main Library Building was tabled in 1972, Moody was able to refurbish the existing building, modernizing it with air-conditioning, new lighting, carpeting, stacks, furniture, and equipment.

Northeastern University is the largest Cooperative Education University at the undergraduate and graduate levels. There are 50,297 students registered in the basic colleges, professional schools (M.A., M.S., Ph.D., and doctoral programs), University College (evening), Lincoln College (evening engineering), State of the Art, Adult and Continuing Education. The university has five campuses and ten off campus centers within the circumferential area around Boston.

The university libraries have six internal automated systems; four computer terminals to OCLC for monographs, acquisition searching, and serials; a computer terminal searching Lockheed and SDC data files (thirty-eight); and is a member of the cooperating Boston Consortium and NELINET.

Margot B. McBurneyof Alberta has been named chief librarian of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, for a five-year term beginning September 1977. She succeeds Donald A. Redmond, who has been in charge of the twenty-branch library system for the past eleven years.

A native of Edmonton, McBurney was educated at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where she earned a master’s degree in library science in 1969. Immediately after graduation, she returned to Principia to be reference librarian for one year.

McBurney joined the library staff of the University of Alberta in July 1970 as systems librarian, later to become reference librarian, serials cataloger, and, since 1974, head of acquisitions.

She serves on the council of the American Society for Information Science and is chairman of the Western Canada chapter of the society. She belongs to both the Canadian and the American Library Associations.

McBurney, who is just completing the first year of study for a master of business administration at the University of Alberta, has special interest in organizational studies and the use of automation in libraries.

Redmond plans to take a year’s leave of absence in England and will return next year with new responsibilities within the Queen’s library system.

Blaise J. Opulente, academic vice-president, Queens, St. John’s University, has announced the appointment of Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham as director and professor of the Division of Library and Information Science effective June 23.

Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham

Rodriguez - Buckingham holds a B.A. degree in Romance languages and literature from the University of Washington. He has an M.L.S. in librarianship from the University of Washington and an M.A. in anthropology from Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. degree in library science from the University of Michigan.

He has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, State University of New York at Albany, and Simmons College in Boston. He worked for eleven years in the Harvard Library system, where he most recently was librarian of the Tozzer Library, Peabody Museum. His research interests are on historical, international, and comparative librarianship.

Saktidas Royhas been appointed to a one- year term as director of libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo, effective June 1.

Roy has been serving as acting director of the one-million-volume library system since March. He joined the staff three years ago as an assistant director for technical services.

He has also held positions at university libraries in California and Virginia, Harvard University, and in his native India. Roy received a B.A. degree from Calcutta University and a master of science degree from Simmons College.

APPOINTMENTS

Robert Acker—assistant reference librarian, Lincoln Park Campus—DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Patricia Adorno—reference librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

John Ahouse—university archivist—California State University, Long Beach.

Kee DeBoer—head, Social Science Reference Department, California State University, Long Beach.

Lowell R. Duhrsen—associate director— New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

Elizabeth Anne Edwards—head humanities librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

Mark Wesley Emery—information and instructional services librarian—University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Lawrence R. Ferm—circulation librarian— Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Carrol Gensert—collection development librarian—Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Raymond A. Gerke—assistant librarian, Teaching Materials Center—State University College, Oneonta, New York.

JudithH. Goetzl—curatorial associate, Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

KingsleyW. Greene—cataloging/serials librarian, Richard Gilman Folsom Library— Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Linda A. Grix—associate librarian, Sacramento Medical Center—University of California, Davis.

Janet Swan Hill—head of the Catalog Department—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Linda M. Hoffmann—assistant librarian, Government Documents Department—University of California, Davis.

Willis M. Hubbard—director of the library —Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.

EugeneW. Huguelet—director of library services—University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Deborah Hunt—assistant government publications librarian—University of Nevada, Reno.

AnneT. Jordan—serials cataloger, Benson Latin American Collection—University of Texas at Austin.

Jeffrey Hugh Kaimowitz—curator, Watkin- son Library—Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Ruth Kerns—reference/humanities librarian —George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Thomas Mann—assistant to the director— California State University, Long Beach.

BarbaraN. Moore—coordinator of cataloging—Mankato State University, Minnesota.

Mary Nichols—Middle East cataloger, Middle East Collection—University of Texas at Austin.

Roger H. Parent—staff development librarian—Princeton University, New Jersey.

SarahR. Phillips—cataloger, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

KennethE. Quinn—assistant physical sciences librarian—Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Susan Rainey—special collections cataloger, George Arents Special Collections Research Library—Syracuse University, New York.

PaulA. Roy—science reference librarian— George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Keith Russel—assistant to the staff and fiscal services librarian—University of Texas At Austin.

Samuel R. Sayre—assistant reference librarian—Idaho State University, Pocatello.

Barbara Settel—reference librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

Sharon Ann Shepherd—information and instructional services librarian—University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

BillD. Slack—fiscal services librarian— Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

StephanieA. Smith—art and music cataloger—Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

JohnG. Veenstra—director of libraries— George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Kihm Winship—reference librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

MiltonT. Wolf—collection development librarian—University of Nevada, Reno.

RETIREMENTS

Luther Brown,director and dean of learning resources, St. Cloud State University, retired August 31.

RuthM. Bryan, senior assistant librarian in the Fine Arts/Media Resources Department, California State University, Long Beach, retired May 31.

Marian M.G. Clarke, curator of the Wat- kinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, retired on July 30.

Marion L. Goodwin,college librarian, New Hampshire Vocational Technical College, retired in June.

Mabel McCoy,acting head of readers’ services, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, retired July 1.

DEATHS

James Bennett Childs, Library of Congresshonorary consultant and former specialist in government document bibliography, died on May 14.

JosephC. Shipman, librarian emeritus of the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri, died on June 12. A memorial book fund at the library has been established in his name.

Virginia Hagebush,assistant dean for instructional resources, Meramec Community College, Kirkwood, Missouri, died May 7. She was serving as a member of the ACRL Committee on Standards and Accreditation. ■■