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Judith Gibson Green

Profiles

Judith Gibson Green, head of cataloging and classification at the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), has been named university librarian at Colgate Univer- sity, Hamilton, New York, effective July 1,

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Carleton College in 1962, Green received her MLS de- gree from the University of Western Ontario in 1972. From 1972 to 1974 she was head librarian of the Faculty of Educa- tion Library at the Uni- versity of New Bruns- wick, and for the past eleven years she has held various positions with CISTI, Canada’s national science library in Ottawa, including systems development librarian, head of the Technical Reports Section, and assistant head of the Analytics and Conference Section.

As a consultant in 1975 Green helped design and establish the Precedents Library for the Canadian War Veterans Allowance Board. She also established a library for the community of Cambridge Bay, North-West Territories, in 1964-65, and served as reference librarian for the Nepean Public Librarv in Ottawa.

Charles Jamison

Green has been Canadian representative and secretary for the International Standards Organi- zation (ISO) Subcommittee on Bibliographic Data Elements since 1980.

CharlesA. Jamisonhas been named library di- rector of the Myrin Library, Ursinus College, Col- legeville, Pennsylvania, effective April 1. Jamison had served as acting director of the library since last July, replacing H.E. Broadbent III, who left Ursinus to be- come executive director of the Pittsburgh Re- gional Library Center.

Jamison joined the li- brary staff in 1981 as head of technical ser- vices. He obtained his MLS from Drexel Uni- versity in 1981 and a bachelor’s degree in psy- chology and organizational behavior from Richard Stockton State Col- lege in 1978.

At Ursinus Jamison will be responsible for major renovation and automation projects, tentatively scheduled for completion in 1989.

People in the News

J. M. Edelstein,chief librarian at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for a bibliography of Harry Duncan’s Cummington Press and Abattoir Editions.

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, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

BarbaraS. Aguilarhas been named Learning Resources Center librarian at the Health Sciences Library, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

NancyA. Alzohas been appointed assistant librarian for cataloging at Potsdam College, State University of New York.

Susan Anderes is the new technical services librarian at the Lane Medical Library, Stanford University, California.

Marcia Anderson has been appointed head of acquisitions at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Norma Siviter Assadourian has been appointed director of reference services and special collections at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas.

Freda Baum has joined the staff as assistant catalog librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor.

Daniel Bearss is now assistant head of acquisitions at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mary Ellen Benz-Voelkl has been appointed reference librarian at the New York Law School Library.

DavidJ. Bertucais the new assistant librarian in the Serials Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Mary Brady has been appointed assistant head of acquisitions and head of the Search Section at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Fred Burchsted has been appointed archivist at the Archives of American Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Meredith Butler has been named associate for academic development at the State University of New York at Albany.

AnnD. Carlsonhas been appointed to the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.

Sheila Corman has joined the staff as an acquisitions librarian at the Northwestern University Medical School Library, Chicago.

Laura Dickson has been appointed business reference librarian at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Dorothy Earley is the new online services instructor at the Midcontinental Regional Medical Library Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.

Martha Lynn Ererhart is now reference librarian at the Health Science Library at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Sandi Edwards has been appointed literature and languages librarian at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

MaryB. Faulknerhas been promoted to reference and interlibrary loan librarian at the Health Sciences Library at Wright State University, Day- ton.

RuthE. Fenskehas been appointed to the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.

Valerie Gondek is the new assistant health sciences librarian for reference and computer search services at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

EleanorK. Guentherhas been appointed acquisitions librarian at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi.

Tom Heard has joined the staff as a catalog librarian at the College of Law Library at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights.

Kriza Jennings has been promoted to coordinator of public services at the Health Sciences Library at Wright State University, Dayton.

Douglas Kaylor is the new circulation librarian at the Health Sciences Library at Wright State University, Dayton.

Jay Kirk has been named director of the Law Library at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

SabraM. Kurthhas been appointed Nevada Newspaper Project librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Barbara LaGodna is now head of cataloging at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Louise Langdon has been appointed ORION user services librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Linda Langschied is the new information services librarian at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Jay Lee has joined the staff as an assistant engineering librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

SueW. Lithgohas been appointed cataloger in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Terrence McCormack has been appointed assistant librarian in the College of Law Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

NeilJ. McElroyis now head of readers’ services at the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford University, California.

MarionG. McGuinnhas joined the staff as rare book librarian at the Washington University School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, Missouri.

CharlesB. McNamarahas been appointed curator of rare books at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Holly Melanson is now coordinator of collection development at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Roger Miller has been appointed to the Technical Services staff of the Weter Memorial Library, Seattle Pacific University.

Kathleen Neeley is the new head of the Science Libraries at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

David Pilachowski has been named associate university librarian at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.

Glen Ruzicka is the new head of the Collections Maintenance Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Clifford Scott has been appointed media librarian at the Northwestern University School of Medicine Library, Chicago.

PaulaR. Scottis now Slavic catalog librarian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California.

LeeR. Sorensenhas joined the staff as central reference librarian for art at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

AnnE. Stephensis now head, Serials Department, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Library, Omaha.

Sara Sudenga has been appointed science and engineering librarian at Rice University, Houston.

Will Tress has been promoted to associate law librarian at the University of Baltimore Law Library.

AllanJ. Urbanicis the new librarian for Slavic collections at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sandy Wenner is now music librarian at Rice University, Houston.

JeffreyM. Weymeyerhas been appointed reference librarian at the Health Sciences Library at Wright State University, Dayton.

Lynn Wilcox is now assistant director at the University of New England Library, Biddeford, Maine.

Carol Zoerb has been appointed science reference librarian at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

DaleM. Bentz

Retirements

DaleM. Bentz,university librarian at the Uni- versity of Iowa, will retire on August 31 after more than 33 years of service at Iowa and over 46 as a professional librarian. Bentz came to Iowa in 1953 as associate direc- tor and was named uni- versity librarian in 1970. He was previously em- ployed at the University of Tennessee, Duke Uni- versity, and the Univer- sity of North Carolina, where he began his ca- reer in 1940.

Active in the profes- sion, Bentz served as president of the Iowa Li- brary Association (1959-60); chair of ACRL’s University Libraries Section (1963-64); president of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society (1966-67); and president of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division (1975-76). He was also elected to ALA Council (1978-82) and served as chair of its Resolutions Committee (1980-81), and was the ACRL representative to the American Council on Education (1980).

Louise Deshaies, cataloger at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will retire at the end of August after 14 years of service.

MaryM. Doak,chair of the Humanities/Social Sciences Department at the University of Nebraska Libraries, Lincoln, will retire July 1 after 41 years of service. Doak received her library degree in 1945 from the University of Chicago. She began her career at Nebraska the same year as assistant librarian in the Humanities and Social Studies Division; she was head of circulation services from 1962 to 1975, when she assumed her current position.

Barbara Clason, literature cataloging librarian at the University of Kansas, will retire July 1 after 30 years of service.

Maria Grossman, librarian of the Andover- Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, will retire at the end of June. Grossman joined the staff at Andover-Harvard in 1956 as ac- quistions librarian. She was appointed assistant librarian for cataloging in 1961, and was named librarian in 1965. Grossman left Andover-Harvard in 1974 to serve as librarian for collection development in the Harvard University Library, and in 1979 returned to Andover-Harvard to serve again as librarian. Grossman holds an MLS from Simmons College and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard. Her publications include Humanism in Wittenberg, 1485-1517, (1975), a number of articles and book reviews in the field of 16th-century German scholarship, and several articles on theological librarianship. She is a past president of the American Theological Library Association (1968-69).

MaryA. Hamil.director of library services at Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina, retired May 23 after 13 years of service.

Leona Hosmer Heisey, associate reader services librarian at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania, will retire on August 15 after 38 years of service.

Antje Bultmann Lemke, professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, New York, retired in May after 35 years of service. A scholarship fund has been established in honor of Lemke, who is known for her lectures and writings on Albert Schweitzer and on human rights. The scholarship fund will recognize outstanding master of library science students, who will recieve a cash award and a commemorative bookplate.

Esther Michael, gifts and exchange librarian at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, retired April 30 after 28 years of service. Michael received her library education at the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, and began her career at UW as a periodicals librarian in 1958. She was appointed to the gifts and exchange position in 1966.

LarryG. Mowers,associate librarian of Harvard University’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library and keeper of the university’s Isham Memorial Library, is retiring in June after more than 29 years of service at the two libraries. Mowers began his Harvard career at the newly dedicated Loeb Music Library in 1956. Beginning in 1957, he worked halfdays at Loeb and spent the balance of the day at Isham. Mowers holds a bachelor's degree in music theory from Ithaca College, and master’s degrees in both musicology and library science. He was named assistant librarian at Isham in 1964, and was appointed to his present position in 1981. At ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the Isham Library in 1984, Mowers was honored by the university with the establishment of a permanent book fund in his name.

Deaths

EstherL. Gustafson,retired Harvard University librarian, died March 10. Gustafson, a 1922 graduate of Radcliffe, joined the Harvard Library staff in 1929. She worked in the Robbins Library of Philosophy and in the Catalog Department of the Widener Library and received an appointment as Librarian in 1958. Gustafson retired in 1964.

Mary Louise Marshall, retired librarian of the Tulane University Medical Library, died January 25 in New Orleans. Marshall, a past president of the Medical Library Assocation (1941-46), retired from Tulane in 1959. Her professional service also included work at the Orleans Parish Medical Library.

Grace Wormer, retired University of Iowa librarian, died April 15 at the age of 100. Wormer retired from the University of Iowa in 1954. She was a graduate of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, and received an MLS from the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the staff at Iowa, Wormer was employed for two years at the Waterloo, Iowa, Public Library. She was at one time a member of the ACRL Board of Directors. ■ ■