ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

APPOINTMENTS

Peter G. Anderson has accepted the position of curriculum librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Paul Barton has joined the staff of the humanities department, University of Arizona library, as a reference librarian.

Jerome Beck has accepted a position in the law library. University of California, Los Angeles.

Hilda Bohem has joined the staff of the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.

Earl C. Borgeson, librarian of the Harvard Law School, has accepted appointment as associate director of libraries, Stanford University, Stanford, California, effective this September.

Collen Campbell has been appointed a librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, Biomedical library.

Dit Loong Chan has been named to the position of assistant catalog librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Judith Corin is the newly appointed head of the physics library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Constantin Dimitriu received appointment as head of searching, the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

William B. Ernst, Jr., has assumed the position of director of the library, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.

Esther Grassian is now a member of the referenee section of the college library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Janice Hall was appointed to the position of archives librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Mrs. Beth Hamilton has accepted the position of science librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Harvey Hammond has transferred from his position as head of the physics library to new responsibilities as assistant biomedical librarian, University of California, Los Angeles.

Paul Hanson is a new member of the professional staff of the biomedical library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Jean B. Hopson is now librarian, Charles H. Babcock School of Business Administration, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Bozica Ivanovich has been appointed assistant acquisitions librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Miriam Joliat is the new acting head of acquisitions, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Mrs. Martha Lehde has recently joined the library staff at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, as assistant reference librarian.

George W. Keller has transferred from his duties as cataloging and acquisitions librarian for the sciences and engineering at the University of California, Irvine, to a new position as head of the chemistry library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Edith Keto has accepted an appointment with the interlibrary loans section of the reference department, University of California, Los Angeles library.

Mrs. Linda Tzeng Lee has accepted the position of assistant acquisitions librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Mr. Sul H. Lee has accepted the position of associate librarian for public services, Eastern Michigan University library, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Marlene Lehner has joined the staff of the University Elementary School library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Henry L. Lemkau has been appointed medical librarian of the Edward G. Miner Library and assistant professor of medical bibliography at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Stanley Lin is now the assistant circulation librarian, University of Kansas, at Lawrence.

Steven Che-Hwei Lin, formerly in the oriental library, University of California, Los Angeles, has assumed a new position as Asian- American bibliographer.

Mrs. Helen Livingston was appointed as a cataloger, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Ida Muellner is a new member of the staff in the University of California, Los Angeles library’s acquisitions department.

Kirby B. Payne has been appointed as Department of Transportation librarian.

George Piternick has been appointed as professor of the School of Librarianship of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, commencing July 1, 1970.

Shirley Riggs has accepted an appointment as a librarian in the Serials Department of the University of California, Los Angeles library.

James Rothenberger has been appointed Head of the Government Publications Department, University of California, Riverside campus.

Mrs. Betty M. Sell will become librarian of the Catawba College library, Salisbury, North Carolina, as of August 1, 1970.

Paul Simmons is the new head of the Processing Section in the Acquisitions Department of the University of California, Los Angeles library.

Cynthia Steinke has assumed the position of assistant science librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Phyllis Tanaka has joined the staff of the biomedical library, University of California, Los Angeles.

William D. Thrasher has been named to the position of assistant reference librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Eunice Ting is a new member of the staff of the biomedical library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Dellene Tweedale is a new staff member of the oral history program, a unit within the department of special collections, University of California, Los Angeles library.

Arnold S. Wajenberg has become catalog librarian, University of Illinois library, Chicago Circle.

Peter Watson has been appointed to the staff of the Institute for Library Research on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

Miss Ching-Fen Wu is a new member of the staff, University of California, Los Angeles, Oriental library.

Eleanor Yeaglin has been newly appointed to the staff of the biomedical library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Judith Yellin is the new reference librarian of the art library, University of California, Los Angeles.

NECROLOGY

Ethel M. Christoffers, former head of the reference division of the University of Washington libraries, died on April 15, 1970.

Prof. Jane Canfield, assistant director for processing services, Purdue University libraries, died April 18, 1970, after a long illness. She was 58. Active in professional library affairs, she was vice-chairman and chairman of the Pure and Applied Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries in 1953 and 1954, and in 1964 she was elected President of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association.

Gerald D. McDonald, chief of special collections in the research libraries of the New York Public Library, died Wednesday, May 6, in Paris. Dr. McDonald was on a buying trip for the library at the time of his death. He lived at 36 West 10th Street, New York City.

Dr. McDonald joined the library in 1930 as an assistant in the information division. He was later in charge of the rare book division and, after his return from military leave in 1945, was appointed chief of the American history and genealogy division.

In 1969, he was appointed to the newly created post of chief of special collections. He had general responsibility for the library’s Arents Collections, Berg Collection, Manuscript Division, Prints Division, Rare Book Division,