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College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

PROFILES

DonaldR. Hunt, former associate director of libraries at Oregon State University, became director of the library at California State Uni- versity, San Jose, April 1, 1972. He followed Dr. Stuart Bailie who is now teaching in the San Jose School of Librarianship.

Preceding his appointment as director at San Jose, Hunt held a wide variety of positions at the Oregon State University library. Each po- sition offered him the opportunity to study the operation of a specific department in a major university library. At various times he served as head of reference, head of public service and associate director.

He was involved with the automation of Oregon State acquisition system and of their financial accounting system. He also played a major role in the planning of an addition to Oregon State University library building.

Hunt has also been extensively involved in state, regional, and national professional or- ganizations. Among other appointments, he has served as a member of the Pacific Northwest Library Association executive board and as a member of the American Library Association Membership Committee for Oregon. While at Oregon, he served in several capacities as a member of the Oregon State University Chap- ter of AUP.

Stanley McElderry,dean of the School of Library Science at the University of Texas, has been appointed director of The University of

Chicago library. Mc-Elderry will head the University’s campuswide library system, which contains more than three million holdings. The system includes the new Joseph Regenstein Library, the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, the libraries of the Law and Divinity School, School of Social Service Administration, the Department of Art, and the science libraries. He succeeds D. Gale Johnson, professor and chairman of the Department of Economics, who has served as acting director since Herman Fussier returned to full-time research and teaching as a professor in the University’s Graduate Library School last July. Fussier had been director since 1948.

Stanley McElderry

McElderry, 53, has been at the University of Texas since 1968. Prior to coming to Texas, he served as coordinator of library services for the California State Colleges, visiting lecturer at the School of Library Science at the University of Southern California, and librarian of the San Fernando Valley State College. He also served as circulation librarian at the University of Minnesota and assistant director of the library of the University of Oklahoma.

McElderry did graduate work at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1950 and again during 1955 and 1956. He received his degrees from the University of Southern California. He is the author of the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Library Development and Coordination of the University of Texas System and co-author of The Implications of Modern Technology for the Small College Library, as well as other publications in the field.

During the time McElderry was at Chicago in the late 1940s he served as assistant to the director of the library, developing under Fuss- ler’s guidance a functional organization for the system. At Texas, he has been a professor in the Graduate School of Library Science and chairman of a committee to coordinate library development for the six campuses of that university.

He also has served in a variety of capacities for the American Library Association, the Texas Library Association, and the California Library Association. He was a member of the Chancellor’s Library Development Committee for the California State Colleges and the Higher Education Library Committee for the Coordinating Council for Higher Education in California, as well as similar other special committees in California and Texas.

APPOINTMENTS

LouiseC. Baroudi is now technical services librarian at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.

Elizabeth Butlerhas accepted an appointment as assistant university librarian at the University of California, San Diego.

Richard Wayne Crucehas been appointed assistant university librarian at the Robert W. Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

ArleneT. Dowell is joining the Iowa State University library, Ames, faculty as assistant professor and assistant head of the catalog department.

DavidR. Dowell has been named instructor and head of the Office of Administrative Services at the Iowa State University library, Ames.

Yasuko Fukumiis now cataloger at the University of Massachusetts library, Amherst.

Dean Gattonehas received appointment as librarian I and head of the circulation department, undergraduate library, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr.R. Ross Hempstead has been named librarian II at the undergraduate library, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, and will be in charge of nonprint media.

James Hinzhas been named to the position of humanities librarian in the Swarthmore College library, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Miriam Hirschhas joined the staff of the Brain Information Service in the Biomedical Library at University of California, Los Angeles.

Linda Jayehas accepted a position in the Map Library at University of California, Los Angeles.

Diane Kennedyhas been appointed head of the serials department of the University Research Library at University of California, Los Angeles.

LeonardE. Klein is now reference librarian at the Harvard Law School library.

Margaret McKinleyis the new head of the continuations cataloging section of the technical services department in the University of California library, Los Angeles.

Barbara Manchakhas been appointed librarian II and assistant head of the undergraduate library, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

Jean Ann Martinsonhas assumed the position of head of the serials department in the Medical Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Nathan Mendeloffhas joined the staff of the McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, as associate librarian II in the' catalog department.

Eric Robert Nitschkehas accepted an appointment as reference librarian for the Robert W. Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

KathrynM. Olschner has joined the Medical Library staff as head of public services at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

PatriciaE. Renfro has been appointed to the reference staff at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Christy Robbinshas accepted an appointment in the systems department of the University of California library, Los Angeles.

Archie Rughis the newly appointed humanities librarian at the Wichita State University library.

MarionD. Sandifer, recently appointed as assistant professor on the staff of the John W. Brister Library of Memphis State University, has been appointed head of the catalog department.

Penelope Schwindhad joined the staff of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as catalog revisor.

Sara Anne Scribnerhas assumed the position of librarian, Asa Griggs Candler Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Margot Stevenshas been appointed by the California State Library to serve as senior librarian for the Technical Information Project at University of California, Los Angeles.

RobertS. Taylor has been named dean of the Syracuse University School of Library Science.

RobertaB. Thornton is now cataloger at the University of Massachusetts library, Amherst.

Athlene Vincentis now at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, as associate librarian.

Rebecca Whitakeris now an education librarian on the staff of Western Michigan University libraries, Kalamazoo.

Patricia Yarnellhas joined the staff of the technical services department of the University of California library, Los Angeles.

RETIREMENTS

Haig Ajamian,assistant professor and chief, social science division, City University of New York has retired after thirty-five years with the library.

Janet Bell,curator of the Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawaii library retired after thirty-seven years of continuous service to the university. She was honored by a Hawaii State House Resolution commending her work. She also received the 1971 Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service to the university. In June, the University of Hawaii Board of Regents conferred upon her the title Emeritus Associate Library Specialist and Hawaiian Curator.

IrmaL. (Swank) Brielmaier, senior assistant librarian, Cataloging Department, Pennsylvania State University, retired on June 1, 1972.

Edmon Low,professor of library science at the University of Michigan, has retired. The Regents of the university conferred upon him the title Professor Emeritus at their June meeting. Professor Low joined the faculty of the School of Library Science at the University of Michigan on a full-time basis in 1967 following his retirement at age sixty-five from the

LucilleH. Pendell, who has served Gal- laudet College, Kendall Green, Washington, D.C., as librarian for twenty-five years, retired from that position at the end of June.

J. Troy Petrie, associate professor and chief, Humanities Division has retired after twenty- nine years at the City College of New York library.

DorothyM. Schullian, the first curator and principal developer of the History of Science Collections in the Cornell University libraries, retired at the end of June, An established authority on the history of medicine when she came to Cornell in 1961, Ms. Schullian has guided Cornell’s efforts in the history of science from a nucleus of books in the history of embryology and anatomy into one of the world’s most comprehensive collections in the history of sciences with more than 25,000 listings. The collections were the first of their kind among university libraries.

J. Ronald Todd retired from the library of the University of Washington on June 30 after a long and distinguished career with the University Libraries. After a long period of service as reference assistant, curator of the Northwest Collection and assistant chief reference librarian, he became chief reference librarian in 1952. He was later made first special assistant to the director for Collection Development and subsequently Collection Development officer. During this latter period, he led in the reorganization of the libraries method of developing its collection and in preparing the basic and supplementary statements on the Libraries Collection Development Policy.

Alfred Trump,director of the library at South Dakota University since 1952, retired June 30 of this year.

RobertH. Whitford, chief, Engineering Library, after forty-seven years with the City College Library of the City University of New York has retired. Dr. Whitford is, in addition, a graduate of the City College and holds the rank of professor in the library department at the time of his retirement. ■ ■