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Library/Book Fellows set off for foreign posts

Twelve individuals have been selected to represent ALA and U. S. librarianship as Library Fellows. The jointprogram of the ALA and the United States Information Agency (USIA) places U.S. library and publishing professionals in institutions overseas for up to a year.

The Fellows have appointments of varying length; all will be completed by August 1992. The following people have confirmed their appointments:

Anthony M. Angiletta, chief of general reference at Stanford (Calif.) University, will teach at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Jitka Hurych, head of the Science and Engineering Department at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, will present seminars at the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, USSR.

Ann Montgomery Smith, director of libraries and curator of special collections at Wentworth Institute in Boston, Mass., will teach seminars at the Colegio de Bibliotecologos del Peru in Lima.

Barbara Rush, director of the U.F.S.D. 10 Li- brary-Media Center in Commack, N.Y., will teach courses at Kay Teachers’ College in BeerSheva and for the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture.

Sue Sherif, public services librarian at the Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough Public Library, will work at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Stanley Elman, retired librarian from the Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. in Burbank, Calif., will assess automated applications at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw.

Maria-Solange Macias, programs librarian for the Miami-Dade (Fla.) Public Library System, will conduct in-service training for the library administration at the Banco del Libro in La Paz, Bolivia.

James Moldovan, librarian at the Library of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, will teach courses at the Central University Library in Bucharest, Romania.

Gloria Fulton, associate librarian at Humboldt State University in Areata, Calif., will work at the Belgrade Public Libraiy in Yugoslavia.

Debra McKern, preservation officer at Emoiy University in Atlanta, Ga,, will survey the collection at the National Library of Egypt in Cairo.

Deborah V. H. Abraham, supervisor of the Reference Department at the Public Library of Brookline (Mass.), wall help automate the Indian Institute of Management’s technical services operations, in Calcutta, India.

Marjorie Rosenthal, assistant professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Studies in Brookville, N.Y., will teach at Hebrew University’s Graduate School of Library and Archive Studies in Jerusalem, Israel.