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• Allen B. Veaner, former assistant director of Stanford University Libraries, was appointed university librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, August 1, 1977. Veaner succeeds Donald C. Davidson who retired after thirty years of service.

Allen B. Veaner

Before coming to Stanford, Veaner was specialist for document reproduction at Harvard University Library and prior to that was an employee of the Catalog Department in the Harvard College Library. At Stanford he was successively chief librarian of the Acquisition Department, assistant director for automation, and finally assistant director for technical services.

Veaner, who was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, received the B.A. degree in physics from Gettysburg College in 1949. He then attended the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati where he obtained the B.H.L. degree followed by ordination as a reform rabbi in 1954. He served as an army chaplain from 1954 to 1956 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

After one year of graduate school at Harvard in 1956-57, he left school to work for the university library and enrolled in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library Science the next year, obtaining his M.L.S. in 1960. He was awarded the M.A. degree by the Hebrew Union College in 1969. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Veaner s professional activities range widely, including consulting, writing, and participation in national and international conferences and committee work of professional associations. He has published more than eighty articles on automation, technical services, and library micrographics and has authored and edited several books, the latest of which. Studies in Micropublishing‚ 1853-1976‚ has just been issued by Microform Review.

He is editor-in-chief and founding editor of Microform Review. He is a life member of ALA and also belongs to the National Micrographics Association and the American Society for Information Science. He is a member of the ALA Council and chair of the Inernational Relations Committee’s ad hoc Advisory Committee on Japanese Libraries. He served the Library of Congress as a member of the RECON Working Task Group and is currently a member of the advisory committee to LC’s National Preservation Program. He has been active in the standards work of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z-39 Committee.

He has attended four international conferences in Germany and two in Japan and has also visited major research libraries in England, France, and Israel.

In 1967, Veaner was awarded an NSF overseas travel grant, and in 1972 he was selected as a fellow of the Council on Library Resources. He was instrumental in obtaining grants from the Office of Education to start—and CLR/NEH grants to continue—Stanford’s BALLOTS project, now a successful ongoing computer network.

His major professional goal is to apply modern technology to the library while supporting and enhancing the principles of humane administration and interinstitutional cooperation. He foresees vast near-term changes in the technology of information generation and distribution and seeks to maintain the primacy of the library as the major facility for storing, organizing, and switching information and publications. Long an advocate of careful adherence to strict standards in library micrographics and computer applications, he maintains a deep concern about the permanence of microforms and other media and the continuing integrity of machine-readable data bases.

At Santa Barbara, Veaner will administer a staff of 264 FTE and a collection of 1.2 million volumes and 18,000 serials. The library has just completed a new addition to its central facility, which now encompasses approximately 250,000 square feet of space in connected buildings of two, eight, and four stories. UCSB is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries. The university’s enrollment is 14,000.

• Barbara A. Ivy, has been appointed to the position of director of Pickett Library and Media Center at Alderson-Broaddus College at Philippi, West Virginia.

Ivy, who was assistant librarian for public services at Bethany College, West Virginia, assumed her new position January 9.

Ivy is a native of Chicago, where she received her bachelor of arts degree and did work on her master’s degree in English literature at the Circle campus of the University of Illinois. She received her master of library science degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Formerly head librarian at Laughlin Memorial Free Library at Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and readers’ adviser at Marion Public Library, Marion, Ohio, Ivy is a member of the library honor society, Beta Phi Mu, and hold memberships in the American Library Association and the Tri- State Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. At Bethany College, she served as a member of the Library and Religious Life committees.

Bethany College Head Librarian Larry J. Frye said that Ivy is “a very talented, dynamic person. It compliments Bethany that Alderson-Broaddus would take one of our assistants as their Library and Media Director,” Frye said.

At Alderson-Broaddus College, Ivy will direct the library, which has 77,000 volumes and an active media program. She also will be teaching part-time in the media education department.

• The recently appointed director of Steenbock Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is JAN KENNEDY. She comes to Steenbock Library from the position of director of Alverno College Library Media Center and chairperson of Alverno’s Library Science Department.

Jan Kennedy was born and educated in Australia. In 1968 she came to Michigan State University where she worked in the undergraduate library and subsequently in the graduate library as a reference librarian in business and law.

Jan Kennedy

In 1972 she moved with her family to Milwaukee where she became the librarian for inter-library loan at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

In the fall of 1973 Kennedy was appointed director of Alverno College Library Media Center in Milwaukee.

She has served as chairperson of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, on the Council of Wisconsin Libraries (two years on its executive committee) and on numerous other Wisconsin Library Association committees.

She brings with her to Steenbock Library a strong concern for instruction in the use of the library. She was a founding member of the WAAL Task Force on Library Instruction; team taught a course on library instruction at UW-Milwaukee; and designed and implemented a library instruction program at Alverno College.

Kennedy also brings to the Madison campus a strong interest in competence-based library education. While at Alverno she developed curriculum for school library media personnel with a focus not only on mastery of library science content but also on the simultaneous development of competences identified as essential in such personnel. The curriculum has particular emphasis on techniques of evaluating competence.

The Steenbock Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison plays a vital supporting role in the teaching and research functions of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences. Thus it serves thirty-one departments, 3,600 students, and 444 faculty. The library was dedicated in 1969 and named after Professor Harry Steenbock (1886-1967), a professor of biochemistry whose research and teaching in nutrition and deficiency diseases is admired worldwide.

University of Lowell President John B. Duff has announced the appointment of WILLIAM E. MCGRATH as dean of library services. McGrath will be responsible for the University Alumni/ Lydon and O’Leary Libraries staff, development, and collections.

Former director of libraries at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, McGrath has specialized in library science since 1950. A well-known teacher and consultant for such universities as Alabama, Cornell, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, McGrath also helped plan and design the library for the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He originated the computer output microfiche Numeral Register of Books in Louisiana Libraries, a union catalog of two million volumes in thirty library systems, widely used in the South and Southwest.

McGrath has presented papers at the American Society for Information Science and Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association and has published reports in College and Research Libraries and Library Resources & Technical Services, and RQ.

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he received his master’s degree in library science from the University of Michigan and was awarded a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. McGrath is a member of the American Library Association, American Society for Information Science, and the Louisiana Library Association.

APPOINTMENTS

Michael B. Binder—library director— Fairleich Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey.

OLGA BUTH—head librarian, Music Library—University of Texas at Austin.

Martin Coyne—projects librarian, Sears Library—CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, Cleveland, Ohio.

Sylvia B. Fatzer—reference librarian—University of Texas at Austin.

Bernard Lee Fontana—field representative—University of Arizona, Tucson.

Linda Gabel—catalog librarian—Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant.

SHELAGH Mary Kiley—reference librarian, School of Social Work Library—BOSTON COLLEGE, Massachusetts.

Martha McNamara—reference librarian— Boston College, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Mulligan—assistant librarian—Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina.

DOROTHEA Newport—reference librarian, Undergraduate Library—UNIVERSITY OF Maryland, College Park.

Alexander S. Preminger—collection development librarian—HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, New York.

Edward Rosenfeld—chief acquisitions librarian—BOSTON COLLEGE, Massachusetts.

EVELYN Roy—cataloger, Center for the Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, Memphis.

JOAN Swanekamp—assistant cataloger— State University College, Geneseo, New York.

RETIREMENTS

Frances Munson McAdams, assistant director of administration, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, has retired after twenty-five years of service.

DEATHS

Adelaide B. Lockhart, director of library services, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire, died on January 15, 1978.