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Nancy H. Burkett, associate librarian of the American Antiquarian Society since 1987, has been appointed that organization’s librarian, succeeding Marcus A. McCorison. Burkett joined the Society in 1973 as assistant curator of manuscripts, then became head of readers’ services. She has served as associate librarian since 1987, and was elected to membership in the Society in 1989. Burkett received a B.A. from American University, an M.A. from Boston University, and an MLS from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has served on the boards of directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries, the Worcester Public Library, Friends of the Worcester Public Library, and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL.

Paul Z. DuBois, director of the Trenton State College Library for 19 years, has been appointed dean of library services at Winthrop College in South Carolina. Dubois’s previous positions have been assistant director of the Kent State University Library (1969-72) and librarian for the New York State Historical Association (1964-69). A graduate of Hiram College in Ohio, DuBois received his MLS from Kent State in 1960. He also holds a master’s and Ph.D. in American studies from Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Paul Leicester Ford, An American Man of Letters and co-editor of Reading and the Art of Librarianship.

Charles E. Kratz, assistant dean of public services at Hofstra University’s Axinn Library until September 1991, was appointed director of the University of Scranton’s Library, which will be housed in a new $13.3 million, five-story building which will open in early 1992. Kratz previously served as associate director of the Rider College Library, and as head of public services for both the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of New Haven, Connecticut. He is an active member of ALA and has served on or chaired several committees of ACRL and the Library Administration and Man- agement Association. He is also vice-president of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of ACRL. Kratz earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame, and an MLS from the University of Maryland.

Gary A. Lewis, director of library and media services at North Adams State College in Massa- chusetts until August 1991, is the new dean of libraries at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. Lewis earned a bachelor’s in sociology from Ohio University, an MLS from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in higher educa- tion administration from Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute and State University. He served for 10 years as assistant director for technical services at Radford University in Virginia. The author of many profes- sional articles, Lewis is the editor of Learning at Risk: A Long-Range Plan for the Improvement of Massachusetts Public Higher Education Libraries, published in 1990 by the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education.

Edwin Joseph Saeger, rare book librarian at the Phoenix Public Library since 1987, has been appointed head of the Rare Book Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia, one of the largest collections of rare books in a public library in the country. Saeger previously worked as an adjunct professor at Ari- zona State University in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renais- sance Studies, and as special collections cata- loger for the Haw- thome-Longfellow Li- brary at Bowdoin Col- lege in Maine. A 1968 graduate of St. Joseph’s University, Saeger re- ceived his master’s in English literature in 1979 from Villanova University, and his MLS in 1979 from Drexel University.

Edwin Joseph Saeger

People in the News

Elfreda A. Chatman, associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Information and Library Science, has been elected the 1991-92 president-elect of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society. Chatman joined the UNC faculty in 1986 after teaching at Louisiana State University. She is also active in ALA, the Association for Library and Information Science Education, and the North Carolina Library Association. She has also been elected chair of ALA's Library Research Round Table for 1992-93.

Sandra Hackett, circulation/reserve assistant at the Scholes Library, part of the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, recently received the Trustees Award from the South Central Research Li- brary Council (SCRLC) for rendering exceptional service to libraries in the south central region of New York state. Hackett initiated the SCRLC Li- brary Assistants Advisory Committee in 1980 and served as its president. In 1988 she started the organization of New York State Library Assistants, served as its president, and received its Ray Murray Award for outstanding service to library assistants.

Sandra Hackett

The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers met recently in Copenhagen and elected the following new committee members: Anton Gerits (Netherlands), president; Godebert M. Reiss (Germany), vice-president; Helen R. Kalin (Canada), secretary; Poul Jan Poulsen (Denmark), treasurer; Raymond Kilgariff (Great Britain), Gerard Oberle (France), and Bernard M. Rosenthal (United States), committee members.

Lisa Pillow has been awarded the Kent State/ Ohio State University Joint Minority Fellowship in Library and Information Science. Pillow graduated from OSU in 1989 with a B.A. in economics and has been the recipient of an OSU Minority Scholars Scholarship and Honorary, a CIC Summer Research Opportunities Program Award, and a Black American Scholar Award.

James H. Sweetland, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science, has been awarded the Special Service Award by the Wisconsin Library Association for his many years of visible leadership in the library profession. Sweetland has been very active in professional associations on a state and national level. He is currently president of the Reference and Adult Services Division of ALA, and has served on the editorial board of RQ. He has also written many articles, reviews, abstracts, book chapters, conference papers, and monographs.

Patricia Yocum, librarian at the University of Michigan, has begun her term as the 1991-92 president of the Michigan Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. Yocum’s previous positions were at Wayne State University and Michigan State University. She has also acted as a consultant to several academic libraries, as well as to the Library of Michigan.

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Lisa T. Abbott has been appointed assistant project manager of the Digitized Document Transmission Project at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

James Eugene Alloway has been appointed undergraduate science librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mark Anderson has been appointed management reference librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Thomas Angelo has been named head of the newly created Academic Development Center in the O’Neill Library at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Christine Angolia has been named government documents librarian at the University of Mis- souri-Kansas City.

Susan Anthes has been named associate director for public services at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Carolyn D. Argentaπ has been appointed head of the Natural Resources Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Philip Arny is now Teaching Learning Center coordinator at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Seattle.

Amrita Burdick has been named science cataloger at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Daria Cable has been appointed science librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Tracy M. Casorso has been named project coordinator of the Digitized Document Transmission Project at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

John Culshaw has been appointed central reference librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Carol Doms has been named science reference librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Karen E. Downing has been appointed coordinator of academic outreach services at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Lori I. Drum has been appointed humanities and social sciences cataloger at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Janet G. Edgerton has been named assistant head of the Cataloging Department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Wanda S. Flanagan-Wing has been named catalog/retrospective conversion librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Kichard D. Geyer has been appointed interim reference librarian at Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan.

Nancï J. Gibbs has been appointed assistant head of the Acquisitions Department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Mary A. Giunta has been named director and editor of FRUS (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1781-1790), a documentary editing project to be administered by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Stephen Green has been appointed coordinator of reference and instruction services at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Pat Hawthorne has been named administrative projects librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center Library, San Antonio.

Phyllis Holzenberg has been named serials cataloger at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Hazel L. Johnson has been appointed social sciences reference/dataresources librarian at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Audrey Kidder has been named coordinator of information services at the Pepperdine University Libraries, Malibu, California.

Roger Laramee has been named development officer at the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

Claire M. Locke has been named engineering/ science reference librarian at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Susan Lowenberg has been named half-time science librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mary McCreadie is now the head of technical services in the Transportation Library at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Renee McHenry is now head of public services in the Transportation Library at N orthwestem University, Evanston, Illinois.

Catherine J. McKinney has been appointed Brady-Green information services librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center Library, San Antonio.

Teresa L. McManus has been appointed acquisitions/collection development librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Pamela J. Mackintosh has been named associate librarian in cooperative access services at the Michigan Information Transfer Source (MITS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Alf MacLochlainn has been named the first Bums Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Bhuce Montgomery has been named curator of the Western Historical Collections/University Archives at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Eric L. Morgan has been appointed systems librarian at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Lori Oling has been named head of reference/ computer assisted research at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Dodie Ownes has been named automation and systems coordinator at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Brenda Pfannenstiel has been named assistant cataloger of the Missouri Newspaper Project at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

George S. Porter has been named engineering reference librarian at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Dorothy Ramm is now head of indexing/analytical operations in the Transportation Library at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Charles G. Ransom has been appointed diversity librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Claudia Rivers has been named librarian and archivist of the Mexican American Archival Project in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Austin.

Katherine Sammakia has been named half- time librarian in the Colorado Technical Reference Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Wendy L. Scott has been appointed librarian for professional development and education at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Scott Seaman has been named head of access services at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Doris M. Sigl has been appointed special projects cataloger at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

John Sluk has been appointed associate head of cataloging at Oberlin College, Ohio.

Monica Smith has been appointed information services librarian at the Pepperdine University Libraries, Malibu, California.

Paul Solomon has been named assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science.

Nina Stephenson has been named reference librarian at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Glenda Thornton has been appointed associate director for library services at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Ruth Tucker is now head of the Acquisitions, Serials, and Bindery Department at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Nenita Valino has been named head of the Catalog Department at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland.

Margaret J. Warner has been named reference/bibliographic instruction librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Lynn Wiley is now head of the Circulation Department in the O’Neil Library at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Liz Willis has been named head of instruction services at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Daisy T. Wu has been named cluster head in the Basic Sciences and Engineering Libraries at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Xiaoyin Zhang is now technical services librarian at the U niversity of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus.

Dora L. Zia has been named head of the Veterinary Medical Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Retirements

Mary Cope, reference librarian and chief of materials processing and conservation at the City University of New York (City), has retired after 18 years of service.

Marlin Demlinger, assistant chief for public services and collection development at the City University of New York (City), retired in September after 16 years of service.

Benedetto DiRusso, head of cataloging and reference librarian at the City University of New York (York), has retired after 24 years of service.

Robert Ford, associate librarian for reader/ information services at the City University of New York (Medgar Evers), has retired after 23 years of service.

Andy Garoogian, social science reference bibliographer, City University of NewYork (Brooklyn), retired in March after 25 years of service.

Lois Hacker, chief technical services librarian at the City University of New York (Grad Center), retired in May after 20 years of service.

Anne-Marie Hartman, head of the Serials Department at the City University of New York (Queens), retired in September after 28 years of service.

Vida Jurkus, deputy chief librarian for technical services at the City University of New York (Queens), retired in September after 28 years of service.

Cecile E. Kramer retired in September after more than 16 years as director of the Northwestern University Gaiter Health Sciences Library. She went to Northwestern in 1975 from Columbia University, where she was assistant director of the Medical Library. Kramers’s major accomplishment at NU was the expansion and strengthening of the book and journal collection, serving as the library’s collection development librarian as well as director.

Josephine Lee retired in September from the Stanford University Libraries after 24 years of service in collection development. She began her work at Stanford in the Libraries’ Resources Development Program, affiliated first with the German studies curator and then as a library specialist in the Romance Languages Section. She was also a mainstay of the acquisitions program ins in French and Italian studies.

Jane Ross Moore, chief librarian at the Graduate Center Library of the City University of New York, retired in January after 13 years of service.

Edith Phillips, associate professor of library science at Wayne State University for 23 years, retired in May and was honored with an endowed scholarship established in her name. Before joining WSU, Phillips was an English teacher and an assistant school librarian. She worked in the circulation, extension, and catalog departments at the University of Michigan and served as a librarian at the Chicago Jewish Academy. In her administrative career, she worked at the Kent County Library in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Education, and the Library of Michigan.

Pauline Richmond, cataloger at the City University of New York (Queens), retired in September after 29 years of service.

Vivian Roswick, cataloger at the City University of New York (Queens), retired in September after 14 years of service.

Vγvian Sessions, chief librarian at the City University of New York (Staten Island), retired in June after 9 years of service.

Catherine Sestay, head of cataloging at the City University of New York (Queensborough), retired in February after 23 years of service.

William Shank, music reference librarian at the City University of New York (Grad Center), retired in January after 21 years of service.

George Simor, chief gifts librarian at the City University of New York (Grad Center), retired in May after 20 years of service.

Harry R. Skallerup, former director of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Libraries (1977-1986), retired in October after 37 years in academic libraries and the antiquarian book trade. His library career includes positions at the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, University of Iowa, and the U.S. Naval Academy. At FAU he was involved in the planning of an addition to the library building, which doubled its size, and in the successful automation of the library as a participant in the Florida Center for Library Automation. After completion of the new building, Skallerup stepped down as director and left administration in 1989 to return to cataloging. A graduate of the U niversity of Minnesota Library School, Skallerup is the author of Books Afloat and Ashore, a history of maritime libraries, as well as several articles in professional, scientific, and scholarly publications.

Sherwood Smith, deputy chief and reference librarian at the City University of New York(BMCC), retired in January after 17 years of service.

Maudine B. Williams, head librarian of the Herron School of Art Library at Indiana-Purdue University of Indianapolis, retired in September.

Sam Wood has retired after 30 years in the Catalog Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. He had been a librarian for 10 years at the Missouri State Historical Society before joining UNR. His major contributions to the library were overseeing the reclassification project, the interfiling of the Dewey and LC card catalogs, the Laser/ Quest project for getting serials quickly into WolfPAC, and the cataloging of serial publications.

Sylvia Wright, chief of the Architecture Library at the City University of New York (City), retired in September after 13 years of service.