ACRL College & Research Libraries News

Association of College & Research Libraries

PEOPLE

Profiles

JOHN W. BERRY, assistant to the university librar- ian at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), has been appointed director of development and special programs at the UIC Library. Berry was executive director of ALA’s Library Adminis- tration and Management Association from 1985- 89. He has held positions at Northern Illinois Uni- versity, Elmira College, Indiana University, and Trident Technical Col- lege. He currently chairs ALA’s Constitution and Bylaws Committee and is completing a book on recent public library buildings to be published by ALA in 1992.

John W. Berry

DOROTHY CHRISTIANSEN, associate for library development at the University at Albany, State U niversity of New York, has been appointed head of special collections and archives at the same institution. Christiansen joined the staff at SUNY Albany in 1973 as bibliographer and head of the Bibliographic Development Department, and has held several administrative positions there since. Before that she served as head librarian at the Center for Urban Education in New York City. She has served on the Capital District Library Council’s Board of Trustees since 1977-78 and chaired the board from 1979-80 to 1984—85. She received her MLS from Pratt Institute in 1966.

WINSTON TARR, acting deputy librarian of Congress, has been appointed associate librarian for collections services, the largest service unit of the Library of Congress. He will succeed Henriette D. Avram, who retired at the end of 1991, and will be responsible for the library’s acquisitions cataloging, processing of materials, and preservation as well as special research activities. Tabb has been with LC since 1972 when he was a participant in the library’s intern program for outstanding library school graduates. After that he joined the staff of the Congres- sional Research Service (CRS), working initially as reference specialist in the Congressional Refer- ence Division. From 1974—75 he was a con- gressional research ad- ministrator in the office of the director of CRS, then was appointed team leader of the Congres- sional Reading Room, and in 1977 became administrator of the Inquiry Unit. In 1978 he was appointed assistant chief of the General Reading Rooms Division, and in 1984 he became chief of the Information and Reference Division of the Copyright Office. In 1988 he was appointed chief of the library’s Loan Division, then was selected that same year to fill a one-year appointment as director for research services. In 1990 he was named director of Public Service and Management I, while continuing to act as deputy librarian. Tabb represents the Librarian of Congress on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, the advisory committee to the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services, and the Association of Research Libraries. A 1963 graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University, Tabb earned a master’s from Harvard University in 1964, and an MLS from Simmons College in 1972.

Winston Tabh

People in the news

BEVERLY E. ALLEN, director of the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Multi-Media Center in Atlanta, was recently appointed by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan to the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. Allen planned, organized, and developed the Multi-Media Center, a health sciences learning resource facility, and has been director since 1976. She graduated from the University of Missouri and received an MLS from Syracuse University.

HENRIETTE DAVIDSON AVRAM, who retired in 1991 from her position as associate librarian for collection services at the Library of Congress, was presented with the Roch- ester Institute of Technology’s Honorary Degree of Letters in No- vember at the dedication of the campus’ newly renovated and expanded Wallace Library. Hon- ored for her contribution to the field of informa- tion science, Avram has been instrumental in promoting automation since the early developmental days of machine-readable records.

Henriette D. Avram

NANCY BOLT, Colorado state librarian, has been named the 1991 Librarian of the Year by the Colorado Library Association. Honored for her energy, enthusiasm, and dedication, Bolthasbeenaleading advocate for the improvement of library service for users.

JOAN MITCHELL, director of academic computing and media at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was elected chairperson of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee (DCEPC) at the committee’s 100th meeting, held at the Libraiy of Congress in October. The DCEPC is a joint committee of ALA and OCLC Forest Press. Mitchell has been actively involved in the formulation of Decimal Classification policy since 1985, when she became a member of the committee. Her paper “Dewey Decimal Classification: An Overview of Edition 20” appeared in Dewey: An International Perspective: Papers from a Workshop on the Dewey Decimal Classification and DDC 20, published in 1991.

FRANK ROGERS, director of libraries at the University of Miami, was elected to the board of directors of the Southeast Florida Libraiy Information Network (SEFLIN) as president for 1991-92. WILLIAM MILLER, director of libraries at Florida Atlantic University, was re-elected secretaiy/treasurer for 1991-92.

JOSEPH A. ROSENTHAL, university librarian emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected chairman of the Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. (PAIS) by the PAIS Board of Trustees. Active in ALA and ACRL, Rosenthal has served on the Board of the Center for Research Libraries and has been on the PAIS Board of Trustees for 20 years.

ROGER K. SUMMIT, founder, former president, and retiring chief executive officer of Dialog Information Services, Inc., was recently presented with a Distinguished Service Award by the Information Industry Association at its 23rd annual convention in Orlando, Florida. A recognized expert in the development of information systems, Summit was the designer and project manager for DIALOG when it was created at Lockheed in 1962.

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

LINDA G. ACKERSON has been named science and engineering reference librarian at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

KAREN ANDERSON has been appointed reference librarian in Penrose Memorial Library, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.

BARBARA BAXTER JENKINS has been appointed head of the Reference Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

JULIA C. BLIXRUD has been appointed program officer at the Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C.

ROB CARLSON has been appointed interim program officer for the Library Information and Technology Association, a division of ALA.

CLARK CENTER has been named technical archivist at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

CATHY CHIU has been named head of the East Asian Studies Unit at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

ELIZABETH CURRY has been named executive director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN) in Fort Lauderdale.

NINA DAVIS-MILLIS has been named associate humanities librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

JEFFREY A. ELLAIR is now serials/interlibrary loan librarian at Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois.

PAUL FEHRMANN is now reference librarian at Kent State University in Ohio.

JOSEPH GABRIEL has been appointed head of technical services at Gutman Library in the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

LYNN GULLICKSON has been appointed music technical services librarian for the Mills Music Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bo C. HARTFORD has been appointed archivist in the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

DARLENE HILDEBRANDT has been named head of the science libraries at Washington State University, Pullman.

GORDON E. HOGG is now Slavic bibliographer and monographs cataloger at the M. I. King Library of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

MICHAEL HOPPER has been appointed Islamic studies librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

KAREN JANUS is now reference librarian/head of public services at Crossett Library, Bennington, College, Bennington, Vermont.

MICHAEL JIMENEZ has been appointed reference librarian and coordinator of electronic information in the Law School Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JAMES KUHLMAN has been appointed associate dean of libraries for collections and information services at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

JUDY LOWMAN has been appointed personnel librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

YAN MA has been named cataloger at the Gaiter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

JUDITH L. MARLEY has been appointed music/ reference librarian at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

ALINDA J. NELSON has been appointed acting head of the Math Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

RICHARD ORAM has joined the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin as public services librarian.

DAVID K. OYLER is now dean of the library at the University of San Francisco.

GRANT PAIR has been named reference librarian at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

ANN PEDERSON has been named education services librarian at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

RANDY PEDERSON has been named computer services librarian at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

CARL D. PHILLIPS has been named reference/ instruction librarian at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington, Seattle.

ELIZABETH PIERCE has been appointed public services librarian at Trevecca Nazarene College’s Mackey Library, Nashville, Tennessee.

ANDREA ROLICH has been named head of book assessment in the Preservation Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

KAREN S. SEIBERT has been named associate university librarian of the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.

ROSS SHANLEY-ROBERTS has been named to a three-year term as preservation cataloger at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

MARY ANN SHEBLE has been named serials catalog librarian at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

CAROL SZAMBELAN has been named business reference specialist atthe University ofNotre Dame, Indiana.

MAJRYL. TIPTON is nowactingheadofthe Humanities Department in the Central Technical Services Division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

PHYLLIS HOMLAN WEISBARD has been appointed acting women’s studies librarian atthe University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HUGH WILBURN has been appointed head of public services at the Frances Loeb (Design) Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ABRAHAM YU has been named librarian in the Catalog Department atthe University of California, Irvine, Library.

Retirements

ELLEN ANDERSSON retired recently from her position as chief serial cataloger and head of the Serial Cataloging Section in Widener Library at Harvard University.

CLAIRE BROWN retired recently from Harvard University where she served as specialist in manpower and industrial relations in the Slichter Industrial Relations Collection at Littauer Library.

CATHERINE CARPENTER recently retired as chief cataloger in technical services at the Littauer Library, Harvard University.

RODNEY DENNIS, curator of the Manuscript Department in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, recently retired from that position.

ALAN ERICKSON has retired from Harvard University where he served as librarian of the Cabot Science Library, associate librarian of Harvard College for the Sciences, and science specialist in the University Library.

SIEGFRIED FELLER, chief bibliographer and associate director for collection development at the University of Massachusetts Library for the past 24 years, retired at the end of 1991. He will remain there on a part-time basis as selector-specialist for American Studies, Germanic Area Studies, Military History, and History of Science. Feller is a longtime member of ALA and the International Relations Round Table; ACRL and its Western European Specialists Section; the Library Resources andTech- nical Services Division of ALA (now ALCTS); and the German Librarians Association (as an honorary member). A collector of maps and map ephemera, Feller has also edited/published since 1986 Cartomania, the official newsletter of the Association of Map Memorabilia Collectors.

DEIRDRE GUNNISON-WISEMAN recently retired from Harvard University where she worked as cataloger in the Serial Cataloging Section in Widener Library.

KATHARINE PANTZER, research bibliographer in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, recently retired from her position. She is also the recent winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

JOSEPH A. ROSENTHAL, university librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in late October. He had served 12 years as university librarian and eight years as associate university librarian for technical services. Before that Rosenthal had received an MLS from Columbia University (1957), been an intern at the Library of Congress (1957-58), and served in several positions at the New York Public Library (1958-70). During his career he published articles, participated actively in many professional associations, served as a consultant, and was principal investigator on numerous grants from the Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He served on the boards of the Association of Research Libraries and the Research Libraries Group. Also active in ALA, Rosenthal served on the board of directors of the Library Resources and Technical Services Division (now ALCTS), president of the Information Science and Automation Division (now LITA), and was elected councilor-at-large in 1985.

JELKA SHEEHAN recently retired as senior cataloger and assistant head of the Slavic Division of Widener Library, Harvard University.

FRANK TROUT, curator in the Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University, recently retired from that position.

VAN VEATCH, library director at Jackson State Community College, Tennessee, for 23 years, retired in late 1991. He began his library career at Martin Methodist Junior College in Pulaski, Tennessee, then served as Scott County Library director in Eldridge, Iowa; elementary school librarian in Bettendorf, Iowa; librarian at LaGrange High School in LaGrange, Iowa; and as a librarian at the State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. Veatch has also been an active member of the Tennessee Library Association.

Deaths

RORERT G. BAILEY, retired librarian of Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, died December 5,1991, at the age of 80. Bailey graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in 1932, received a master’s degree from Wesleyan in 1933, a master’s from Princeton in 1939, and an MLS from Columbia University in 1953. Bailey served as assistant professor of French at Davidson College in North Carolina, instructor of romance languages at Wesleyan University, translator for the U.S. Office of Censorship in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and officer of the U.S. Foreign Service at posts in Panama, Venezuela, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, andWashington, D.C. HejoinedthestaffofWashington College in 1954 as assistant librarian. He was named librarian in 1957 and retired in 1976.

RICHARD T. BARKER, university librarian at Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone, North Carolina, died on December 16,1991, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Barker began his career as circulation librarian at ASU in 1956, then was promoted to assistant librarian in 1963, and to university librarian in 1971. He served in many capacities for a wide range of library, education, and civic organizations including the North Carolina Library Association, the Southeastern Library Association, and Phi Delta Kappa. Barker was also instrumental in the establishment of the Western North Carolina Library Network.

GLADYS HYDE BEAN, retired University of Arizona reference librarian (1964-75), died November 30,1991, after a brief illness. Bom in Cleburne, Texas, Bean graduated from Mary Hardin Baylor College for Women at Belton and received a master s in education from North Texas Teacher s College. She was a school librarian in Texas before moving to New York City where she received an MLS from Columbia University and worked at both the New York Public Library and the New York Academy of Medicine.

R.VIRGINIA SPEIDEN, a technical services librarian at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, who retired in 1980 after 18 years of service, died in November 1991 at the age of 76.