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Norman Tanis Elected Vice President

Norman E. Tanis, director of University Libraries at California State University, Northridge, is the newly elected vice-president of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Tanis received a total of 1,849 votes in the elections held late this spring. Richard Ducote, director for Instructural Resources at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, polled 1,081 votes. Both Tanis and Ducote have long been interested in and associated with two- year colleges and their nominations recognized the increasing importance of junior and community college librarians in ACRL.

After obtaining a Master of Arts in Library Science and an M.A. in history from the University of Michigan, Tanis became reference librarian and later head librarian at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan. From 1966 through 1969 he held the position of director of libraries and professor of Library Science at Kansas State College, Pittsburgh, Kansas. He has been at California State University, Northridge, formerly known as San Fernando Valley State College, since 1969.

Tanis received his undergraduate training at Calvin College. In addition to his other degrees from the University of Michigan he was awarded an M.A. in education from that institution in 1961. Tanis has been a member of the ACRL Board of Directors since 1967. He also served in this capacity from 1962 to 1965. He has been chairman of the Junior College Libraries Section, chairman of the Committee on Standards and Accreditation, a member of the Editorial Board of College & Research Libraries, and a member of the ACRL–Association of Research Libraries Joint Committee on University Libraries Standards. He has also held positions on various ALA committees and has been an ALA representative to other educational and professional organizations.

As vice-president Tanis will serve as a member of the New York Conference Planning Committee, a member of the ALA Budget Assembly, and chairman of the ACRL Planning Committee. He will become ACRL’s thirty-fifth president at the close of the Las Vegas Conference in June of 1973.

The results of the section and subsection elections are as follows: (Elected officers are shown in italics.)

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Father Jovian Lang, librarian, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (385); Richard C. Quick, director of libraries, State University of New York, College of Arts and Science, Geneseo, New York (514). Secretary; Carol C. Henderson, reference and circulation librarian, George Mason College of the University of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia (388); Beverly M. Johnson, chairman, Catalog Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, California (487).

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Louise Giles, dean of Learning Resources, Macomb County Community College, Warren, Michigan (279); W. Christian Sizemore, acting academic dean, South Georgia College, Douglas, Georgia (107). Secretary: Jo Ellen Flagg, librarian, Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri (180); Rosemary Henderson, director of Library Services, Coffeyville Community Junior College, Coffeyville, Kansas (190).

RARE BOOKS SECTION

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Ruth Salisbury, rare book librarian, George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (285); Evert Volkersz, special collections librarian, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York (148). Member-at-large: D. W. Krummel, professor of Library Science, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, Urbana, Illinois (214); Richard S. Wormser, rare books dealer, Bethel, Connecticut (223).

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Wayne Gos- sage, director of Library Services, Bank Street College of Education Library, New York, New York (330); Louis A. Jacob, head, Southern Asia Section, Orientalin Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (495).

Agriculture and Biological

Sciences Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Richard A. Farley, director of libraries, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (116); Sharon Wells, assistant librarian, Bibliographic Services Section, Archive Library Department, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois (87). Secretary: Epsy Y. Hendricks, head librarian, Alcorn A&M College, Lorman, Mississippi (59); Ann Kerker, professor of Library Science and Veterinary Medical librarian, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana (139).

Art Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: William R. Johnson, chief, Art and Music, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York (99); Barbara Sevy, librarian, Philadelphia Museum of Art Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (127).

Asian and North African Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Juanita S. Doares, chief of Acquisition Division, New York Public Library, New York, New York (53); Om. P. Sharma, head, South Asia Division, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan (92). Member-at-large: Edward A. Jajko, Near East bibliographer–cataloger, Vale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut (76); Alice N. Loranth, head, John G. White Department of Orientalia, Folklore, and Chess, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio (64).

Education and Behavioral Sciences Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Priscilla Lin- sley, librarian, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey (130); Lorraine Mathies, head, Educational and Psychology Library, special consultant, ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, University of California, Los Angeles, California (205).

Law and Political Science

Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Nancy Rodgers, Hempstead, New York (147); Michael O. Shannon, assistant professor and documents librarian, Herbert Lehman College, Bronx, New York (103). Member-at-large: Jennie Cross, documents librarian, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan (117); Nancy K. Smith, librarian, Fels Center of Government, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (128).

Slavic and East European

Subsection*

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Vasyl Luch- kiw, director of Library Services, Rockland Community College Library, Suffern, New York (55); Ray R. Suput, director of the University Library, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (70). Secretary: Sian Humenuk, head catalog librarian, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois (106). Member-at-large: William Putnam, research associate, Association of Research Libraries, Slavic Bibliographic and Documentation Center, Washington, D.C. (75); Wasyl Sirskyj, Slavic cataloger, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (51).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice Chairman/Chairman-Elect: J. Richard Blanchard, University Librarian, University of California, Davis, California (817); Richard W. Boss, director of libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (688).

* By action of the Board of Directors on June 29, 1972 the Subject Specialist Section of ACRL was eliminated and the subsections were given sectional status. Louis A. Jacob, recently elected vice chairman of the SSS, will therefore not take office. ■ ■

ACRL Membership

June 30, 1972 11,666

June 30, 1971 11,383

June 30, 1970 11,304