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Pam Spiegel

Martha Hale, dean of the School of Library and Infor- mation Management at Em- poria State University (ESU),

Kansas, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Her three-year term began in February. Hale joined ESU in 1986 and became dean in 1987; she will step down as dean and return to teaching following the spring semester. Hale said of her election, “It’s an honor to be elected by one’s peers to a national office. I hope the association can take a more active role in encouraging change in programs throughout the country."

Rosie Albritton, assistant professor for Wayne State University’s Library and Information Sci- ence Program, Detroit, recently won the 1994

Rosie Albritton

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Doc- toral Dissertation Award for her research paper entitled “Transforma- tional vs. Transactional Leadership in University Libraries: A Test of the Model and Its Relation- ship to Perceived Li- brary Organizational Effectiveness.” Albritton received the award on February 2 at the 1994 ALISE Conference in Los Angeles. She won the ACRL/ISI Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the same paper in 1992.

Appointments

Carol C. Henderson became executive director of ALA’s Washington Office March 1, 1994. Henderson, who has been deputy director of the office since 1979, succeeds Eileen Cooke, who retired last December. As deputy director, Henderson coordinated the association’s successful effort to ensure par- ticipation of all types of li- braries in the NII and the NREN. She developed col- laborative congressional ef- forts which resulted in con- tinued funding of Depart- ment of Education library programs slated for cutting, and coordinated develop- ment of ALA recommenda- tions to Congress which re- sulted in reauthorization of Higher Education Act library programs. Editor of the ALA Washington Newsletter and Legislative Report of the ALA Washington Office, Henderson serves on the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee.

She graduated from Ohio University and re- ceived her MLS from Catholic University of America. She served as reference and circula- tion librarian and as as- sistant librarian for pub- lic services at George Mason University before becoming assistant director of the Wash- ington Office in 1975.

C. Lee Jones

C. Lee Jones is the new president of the Linda Hall Library, an independent research library in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to this appointment, Jones was presi- dent of MAPS (The Mi- crographic Preservation Service, Inc.) in Bethlehem, Pennsylva- nia from 1986 to 1993.

Before that he was with the Council on Library Resources, Inc., from 1978 to 1984; director of the Columbia University Health Sciences Library from 1973 to 1978; and director of the University of Texas Medical Branch Library, Galveston, from 1967 to 1973. A graduate of Carleton College, Jones has an MLS from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of ALA, the Medical Library Asso- ciation, and the World Future Society.

Carol C. Henderson

Thomas G. Kirk, college librarian at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, and current presi- dent of ACRL, has been appointed librarian at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Kirk will succeed Evan Ira Farber, who is retir- ing June 30. Kirk began his career at Earlham as a science librarian (1965-1979), was acting director of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin Li- brary (1979-1980), then became college librar- ian at Berea in 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree from Earlham and his MLS from Indiana University. Active in ALA, Kirk served on the ALA Council (1986- 1990), was ALA representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1978-1982), and served on two ALA commit- tees. As a member of ACRL Kirk has served on its Board of Directors (1979-1981 and 1986- 1990), as chair of the Science and Technology Section (1980-1981), as chair of the College Libraries Section (1982-1983), and as chair of the Research Committee (1985-1987). He re- ceived ACRL's Miriam Dudley Bibliographic In- struction Librarian Award in 1984, and the Ken- tucky Library Association’s Academic Librarian of the Year Award in 1991.

Thomas G. Kirk

Karen Rae Mehaffey has been appointed library director at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. Mehaffey has worked at the Seminary since 1988 and has been acting director of the Szoka Theology Library since July 1992. She received her MLS from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing an M.A. in theology. The seminary will be consolidating its college collection with its graduate theological collection to create a new library called the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Library. Mehaffey will lead the consolidation effort.

Robert A. Seal, university librarian at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1985, assumed directorship of Texas Christian University’s Mary Couts Burnett Library on March 1, 1994. Seal previously served as director of public services for the University of Oklahoma Libraries from 1981 to 1985; as librarian for science/technology, automation, engineering, and circulation at the University of Virginia Library (UVL); and as director of administrative services at UVL. Holder of a B.S. in astronomy from Northwestern University, Seal earned an MLS from the University of Denver. He has held a number of offices in ALA, and is currently head of its International Relations Committee. He formerly served on the editorial board for ACRL Publications in Librarianship; has been on the board of trustees of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council and is now its chairman; and headed the Texas Council of State University Librarians.

Mabel W. Shaw, head of reference services at Tallahassee Community College (TCC), Florida, has been named director of library services there. Shaw has been with TCC since 1968 and served as interim director of the library during 1992-1993. She holds an MLS and an advanced master’s from Florida State University.

Thomas Bickley has been named librarian of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Anacostia Museum Branch, Washington, D.C.

Nancy Bierschenk has been appointed interim executive director of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

Marie L. Clark joined the Northwestern University Libraries, Evanston, Illinois, as head of government publications.

Joyce Clinkscales has been appointed music librarian at Emory University, Atlanta.

Claire Dekle has joined the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Book Conservation Laboratory, Washington, D.C., as book conservator.

Margaret Dittemore is now librarian of the Anthropology Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Penny Donaldson has been appointed interlibrary services/document delivery librarian at the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence.

Jean Dorrian is now assistant to the director of Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia.

Patrick Flannery has joined the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library as network and systems analyst.

Tara Fulton is now assistant director for library and information services at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Stan Furmanak has been named systems and reference librarian at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania.

Monica Fusich is now the visual arts librarian at the University of North Texas, Denton.

D. Jennifer Haas has been appointed assistant librarian of the Engineering Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jo Anne Hawkins is now associate director for public services at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries.

Steve Hunt has been promoted to reference librarian at the Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, Chicago.

Cynthia Kloss has been appointed reference librarian at Emory University, Atlanta.

Robert Krall is now cataloger/database management librarian at Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Lunt has been named access services librarian for Paley Library’s Current Periodicals, Microforms, and Reserves Collection at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Robin McElheny is now preservation projects librarian at the Harvard University Library, Cambridge.

Holly Maginnis joined Temple University’s Ambler Campus Library, Philadelphia, as access services librarian.

Pixey Mosley is the new information technology librarian at the University of North Texas, Denton.

Ruth A. Pagell has been named director of the Business Information Service at Emory University Libraries, Atlanta.

Cassandra Perkins is now part-time information services librarian at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

Susan K. Phillips is now associate director for technical services at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries.

Cindy Pierard has been appointed library instruction coordinator at the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence.

Lisa Pillow is now reference librarian at Emory University, Atlanta.

Gina Roth has been named systems librarian at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Brenda L. Seago has been appointed outreach services manager for the Tompkins- McCaw Library at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond.

Signe Swanson has been named evening and weekend information access coordinator in the Florida International University Libraries at North Miami Campus.

David Vidor is now computer services librarian at Emory University, Atlanta.

Retirements

Robert L. Carter, rare books and special col- lections librarian at Indiana State University (ISU), Terre Haute, recently retired after more than 28 years of service at ISU.

Betty Bartlett Davis, associate dean for tech- nical services at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, recently retired after 45 years in the field of librarianship.

Evan Ira Farber will retire as Earlham College's librarian on June 30, 1994, after hold- ing the position since 1962. A native New

Yorker, Farber gradu- ated from the University of North Carolina and then its library school.

In 1980 he was award- ed an honorary doctor- ate from St. Lawrence University and in 1987 was awarded the same from Susquehanna Uni- versity. He began his professional career in 1953 as librarian of State

Teachers College in Livingston, Alabama, mov- ing to the Emory University Library in Atlanta in 1955 where his mentor for the next seven years was Guy R. Lyle. A long-time member of ACRL, Farber served as chair of the College Libraries Section (1968-69), president of ACRL (1978-79), co-chair of ACRL’s Fifth National Conference (1989), and as a member of the Board of Directors (1989-1993). In 1980 he was chosen ACRL’s Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and received the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian Award in 1987. Farber will stay active in retirement, working part-time for Earlham, as well as writing, consulting, and speaking.

Evan Ira Farber

His successor will be Tom Kirk, college librarian of Berea College and president of ACRL. “There’s a nice symmetry about this,” Farber said. “When Tom was an undergraduate at Earlham and student assistant in the library, he was the first person from Earlham I recruited into the profession and my first staff addition. How appropriate that he should succeed me!”

M. J. Kreitzburg began early retirement in September 1993, having most recently served as reference librarian and head of instructional services at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, with a secondary appointment in that college’s Division of Social Sciences as assistant professor of history. An apprentice at the Henry M. Seymour Library at Knox College, Kreitzburg served 12 years there as a professional librarian. In her 33 years of academic librarianship, she held positions in all areas as librarian and library administrator.

Arnold Rzepecki, librarian at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, retired in December after 39 years of employment. A member of ALA and the Michigan Library Association, Rzepecki concentrated his professional association activities with the Catholic Library Association, where he served on the Executive Board and as chair of many committees. He has been the special projects editor of the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index and managing editor of The Index to Free Periodicals.

Deaths

Carolyn Hixson Harris, director and senior lecturer of preservation and conservation studies in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA), died January 15,1994. Harris previously had been director of the Preservation and Conservation Education Programs at Columbia University’s School of Library Service, head of the Preservation Department at Columbia (1981-1987), and manuscript cataloger at UTA (1973-1980). She received her B.A. in art history and her MLS from UTA. Professionally active, Harris served as president of the Resources and Technical Services Division (RTSD) of ALA (1988-1989). She won the John Brubaker Award from the Catholic Library Association in 1983 and the Rex Dillow Award in 1990.

Ruth Mortimer, curator of rare books and assistant librarian at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, recently died of breast cancer at the age of 62. Mortimer graduated summa cum laude from Smith and received a certificate at the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, England, as well as an MLS from Columbia University, New York. She spent 18 years at Harvard’s Houghton Library as rare book cataloger for printing and graphic arts before returning to Smith as curator of rare books in 1975. A specialist in rare manuscripts and books, especially illustrated books of the Renaissance, Mortimer compiled detailed catalogs of 16th-century French and Italian books at Harvard that are considered standard reference works in the field. She also lectured in the Art Department and taught a course on the history of books until shortly before her death. The first woman to be elected president of the Bibliographical Society of America (1988-1992), she edited, with her husband John Lancaster, the society’s quarterly journal.

Samuel Augustus Sizer, curator of special collections at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF) from 1967 to 1982, died October 3, 1993, at the age of 68. Sizer began his career as a parish priest then received a master’s of history from UAF. He served as the first archivist for the state of Arkansas (1966-1967) and was a founding member of the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices, individuals, and other sources. To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.