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Carlton C. Rochell

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Cahlton C. Rochell has been appointed dean of libraries at New York University, ac- cording to an announcement by John C. Sawhill, the university’s president. The new dean, who assumed his duties on August 1, 1976, comes to

NYU from Atlanta, Georgia, where he has been director of the Atlanta Public Library for the past eight years, earning a reputation as an innovative librarian, an energetic administrator, and a dedicated civic leader.

As dean of libraries, Dr. Rochell will be responsible for the NYU library system, including the central Elmer Holmes Bobst Library located on Washington Square South. Designed by architects Philip C. Johnson and Richard Foster, the twelve-story red sandstone structure was opened in September 1973 and is the only major research library to have been built in New York City in thirty-five years. Planned for a total capacity of 2.5 million volumes, the Bobst Library currently houses 1.8 million volumes and provides study space for 4,000 students.

A native of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, the forty-two-year-old new dean of libraries is an alumnus of George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and earned both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in librarianship and political science from Florida State University at Tallahassee. He also did postgraduate work in urban studies at Georgia State University at Atlanta.

Before becoming director of the Atlanta Public Library in 1968, Dr. Rochell, a navy veteran, served as director of the public libraries of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Anniston, Alabama; and Knoxville, Tennessee. He has also taught in two universities in Atlanta—Emory and Atlanta—and at Florida State University.

A contributor to numerous professional periodicals, Dr. Rochell is the author of several books on librarianship, including Without Walls/Without Barriers, written under a fellowship from the Council on Library Resources and Information Systems for New Towns, for Syracuse University.

Dr. Rochell’s professional activities include serving as consultant/panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Foun- dation on the Arts and Humanities. He also served in a similar capacity for the U.S. Office of Education. The librarian vice-president of the American Library Trustee Association, he is also a member of the Accreditation Visiting Team, the Standards Committee, and other committees of the American Library Associa- tion.

Named a Council of Library Resources fel- low in 1973, Dr. Rochell this year received both the John Cotton Dana Public Relations award of the American Library Association and the American Institute of Architects/American Library Association award for the design and programming of branch libraries.

As a resident of Atlanta, Dr. Rochell partici- pated in numerous community and civic proj- ects, including direction of a campaign to build a new $19 million central library and the open- ing of eight additional branch libraries through- out the city. He has also served on the board of directors of both the Atlanta Council for In- ternational Visitors and the Atlanta Arts Festi- val. A member of the Education Committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Rochell was also library service and educational tech- nology adviser to the Georgia State University media program and to the Clayton Community College Library technical assistants’ program.

Nina T. Cohen has been named librarian at Wesleyan University. She succeeds Wyman W. Parker, who retired as librarian on June 30. Previous to her appoint- ment Ms. Cohen was Associate Director of Libraries for Public Services at the Uni- versity of Washing- ton. For six years be- ginning in 1967, she was director of the Western New York Library Resources Council in Buffalo and was an adjunct faculty member at the State University of New York (Buffalo) School of Information and Library Studies. She was previously associated with university and public libraries in Buffalo and Tonawanda, New York.

Nina T. Cohen

A graduate of Queens College, Ms. Cohen received her M.A. degree in 1953 from Indiana University. She is a member of the Washington State Library Automation Committee and the Publications Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has also authored several articles and a chapter on “New Dimensions for Academic Library Services,” published in a 1974 Scarecrow Press book, The 3R’s System and the Academic Library User in N.Y. State, edited by E. J. Josey.

Wyman Parker had been head librarian at the university since 1956. During his tenure, the facility’s holdings had been increased from approximately 400,000 volumes to more than 750,000, and a separate science library had been added.

APPOINTMENTS

Kathryn L. Abbott—assistant librarian, catalog department—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Anne Anningeb—rare book cataloger for printing and graphic arts, Houghton Library— Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Fred Batt—assistant professor, social and behavioral sciences reference librarian—Mansfield State College, Pennsylvania.

Laura Byers—librarian of the Garden Library, Dumbarton Oaks—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Virginia N. Cesario—chief librarian and chairperson of the Library Department of the City College—City University of New York.

Linda A. Dapson—assistant librarian, reference department—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Laszlo Dienes—rare book cataloger, Houghton Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Michael Fling—affiliate librarian, music reference services librarian—Indiana University, Bloomington.

David C. Genaway—associate dean of libraries and learning resources—Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond.

Debra Hartley—cataloging librarian, instructor, Engelbrecht Library—Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.

Charlotte Hess—visiting affiliate librarian, acting philosophy, classics, history-philosophy of science, and psychology subject specialist— Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr. Edward Hess—assistant university librarian for public services—University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

John H. Hunter—reference librarian— University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library.

Anne M. Johnsen—reference librarian, Education Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edward Kasinec—bibliographer and librarian, Ukrainian Research Institute—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edmond Menegaux—executive director— South Central Research Library Council, Ithaca, New York.

Wallace C. Olsen—deputy director for library services—National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.

Masako Orlando—cataloger, Law Library —Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gabriele Ouellette—cataloger, college library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mary Pawlowski—reference librarian—University of Maryland, College Park.

Marcia J. Peterson—librarian, reference department—Boston University.

Arlene C. Port—assistant librarian, acquisitions department—Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Janice Powell—head of the reference department, McKeldin Library—University of Maryland, College Park.

Alicia M. Prata—head, serials dept., Elizabeth Dafoe Library—University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Glenn R. Read, Jr.—librarian, Latin American studies area specialist—Indiana University, Bloomington.

David G. Remington—chief of the cataloging distribution service of the processing department—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Robert D. Rodriguez—assistant librarian, cataloging department—Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Rodney Rolfs—head, Music Library—University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Donavon Schmoll—library director, assistant professor, Engelbrecht Library—Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa.

Martha E. Shaw—curator of the reading room, Houghton Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rev. William J. Sheehan, CSB—assistant librarian, Woodstock Theological Center Library—Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Richard J. Simpson—public services librarian, Fine Arts Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arlene Sirkin—nonprint media librarian— University of Maryland, College Park.

Kathryn Talalay—affiliate librarian, music reference services librarian—Indiana University, Bloomington.

James B. Taylor—head, reference department—Wichita State University, Kansas.

Minoru Tomijima—visiting affiliate librarian, cataloger—Indiana University, Bloomington.

Judith Truelson—head, Crocker Business Library—University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Irene Vaslef—administrative librarian, Dumbarton Oaks—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Visvaldis Vidmanis—assistant director for library science and media—Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota.

Barbara Wurtzel—reference librarian—University of Maryland, College Park.

RETIREMENTS

Mary Baker, associate librarian, head, inter- institutional library services, Indiana University, Bloomington, retired June 30, 1976.

Harold J. Bloomquist, librarian, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has retired.

E. Raleigh DePriest, humanities reference librarian at Mansfield State College, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, retired on December 31, 1975.

Margaret M. Donahue, assistant director of libraries for technical services, the University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, retired June 1, 1976.

Mildred D. Donohue, head, technology and science reference room, the University of Maryland Libraries, retired July 1, 1976.

Morris A. Gelfand, chairman of the department of library science, Queens College, Flushing, retired on July 1, 1976.

Mrs. Loren Hallenbercer, associate professor of library science and head of the library science discipline at Eastern New Mexico University has announced her retirement effective July 30, 1976.

Everett T. Moore retired recently as associate university librarian at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Barbara Pratt, associate librarian, head, Halls of Residence Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington, retired May 31, 1976.

Della Shore, head of the cataloging department at Davidson College News, Davidson, North Carolina, retired in July.

Emma Simonson, librarian, Latin American studies area specialist, Indiana University, Bloomington, retired June 30, 1976.

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