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Murray S. Martin, formerly associate dean of libraries at Pennsylvania State University, has been named university librarian at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Martin, a native of New Zealand, comes to Tufts with thirty years experience in library service. He began his career with the New Zealand National Library Service and later moved on to join the staff of the University of Saskatchewan as coordinator of branch libraries. He served in various positions in the library system at Penn State from 1967 to the present.

Murray S. Martin

Martin has also been active in professional associations, holding a variety of committee chairs for the American Library Association. He currently serves as chair of the membership committee for the Resources and Technical Services Division. He has also held several offices in the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, concluding a year as its president in June.

As a member of the comparative literature faculty at Penn State, Martin taught courses and delivered papers on New Zealand and Pacific literature. His book, Budgetary Controls in Academic Libraries, was published by Johnson Associates in 1978.

Martin replaces Joseph Komidar, who recently retired as Tufts’ university librarian.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Charles H. Davis, dean and professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the new president-elect of the American Society for Information Science.

Donna Hill, head of the Teachers’ Central Library at Hunter College, City University of New York, has received a Scholar Incentive Award to conduct research in children’s book illustration. The awards are presented by the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY and are intended to aid scholarly research.

John Luchechko, associate director of the Jersey City State College Library, has been awarded the first Cenko Prize in Ukrainian Bibliography by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for his work entitled “The Russo-Ukrainian Problem, 1917-1921: A Classified and Annotated Guide to Soviet Political Reportage in Pravda.”

Robert Sivers, assistant head of the Sciences-Engineering Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded a research grant of $3,200 for a project on selective serials collections in academic research libraries. The grant is part of a librarians’ research fund established in 1980 by the University of California.

Myron Smith, Jr., director of libraries at Salem College, West Virginia, was presented with the Richard Franck Gold Medal in ceremonies held September 17 at the Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte in Stuttgart, West Germany. Smith, the first American to be awarded the medal, was chosen by the West German government in recognition of his extensive bibliographic work on the history of World War II.

E. B. Stanley and the other members of the Washington County (Abingdon, Virginia) Library Board of Trustees have been selected to receive the 1981 Robert B. Downs Award. The award, presented by the faculty of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information

Science, acknowledges outstanding contributions to the cause of intellectual freedom in libraries. Stanley and other board members were cited for their resistance to local attempts to censor library materials.

APPOINTMENTS

Deborah Allen has been appointed reference librarian at the Drexel University Libraries, Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Baber has been named principal cataloger at Rice University Library, Houston.

Linda Barnhart has been appointed music cataloger at the University of California, San Diego.

Lowell T. Berenguer is now reference librarian at the CBN University Library, Virginia Beach.

David Binkley has been appointed librarian in the Arts Reference and Collections Development Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Carol Briggs has been appointed to a oneyear term as manuscript cataloger at the Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

D. Clifton Brock has been appointed associate university librarian for special collections, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Thomas Edward Camp has been appointed acting university librarian at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Eliezer Chammou is now Near East cataloger at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Boyd Childress has been appointed social sciences reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Elizabeth Cline is the new government documents reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Dean Corwin has been named assistant music librarian at Rice University, Houston.

Richard Coughlin has been appointed government documents librarian at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Robert Cunningham has been appointed member services librarian at NELINET, Newton, Massachusetts.

Angela P. Davig was appointed science and technology reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Kathy Davis has been promoted to coordinator of public services at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Linda Z. de Wit is now assistant head of the Reference Library at the Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing.

Alvin Dong has been appointed head of the Documents Department, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Jacqueline Doyle has been appointed reference librarian at the Biomedical Library, University of California, San Diego.

Marla Edelman has been appointed serials librarian at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Steve Falk is now director of library services at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, Missouri.

David Feinmark has been appointed serials/ reference librarian at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.

Tom Fry has been appointed head of the College Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Virginia Gibbons has been appointed head of Catalog Management and Marking at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Richard Giordano has joined the library staff at Columbia University, New York.

Elaine Graham is the new head of the Training and Consulting Section of the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service in the Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Peter S. Graham has been appointed head of book acquisitions at Columbia University, New York.

Richard Griscom has been appointed music cataloger/recorded sound services librarian at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Jamie K. Harrison is now Western representative for Faxon in San Francisco.

Hollee Haswell has been appointed librarian of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown, New York.

Evelyn Haynes has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

James L. Hobson is the new assistant social sciences librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

James L. Hoover has accepted appointment as law librarian at Columbia University, New York.

Alice Hudson has been named chief of the New York Public Library’s Map Division.

Cindy Hutchinson has been appointed member services librarian at NELINET, Newton, Massachusetts.

Randall Hutton is now head of reference at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Jill Jennings has been appointed reference librarian in the Columbia University Business Library, New York.

Laurel Jizba has been appointed manager of the Microprint Catalog Project, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Charlotte Johnson is the new assistant physical sciences librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Lillian Kahn has been appointed order librarian at the Harvard Law School Library.

Eva L. Kiewett has been named associate director of the CBN University Library, Virginia Beach.

James J. Kopp has joined the staff of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Gretchen Lagana has been appointed special collections librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Rebecca T. Lenzini has been appointed manager of LINX Services at the F. W. Faxon Company, Westwood, Massachusetts.

Yvonne T. Lev has been appointed government documents librarian at the University of Texas at Dallas Library, Richardson.

Kathleen Lewis has been appointed head of the Retrospective Conversion Project at Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston.

Stephen A. Marine has been appointed serials cataloging librarian at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Jane Marshall is now head of technical services at the Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York.

Charles Martell has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Russell Merritt has been appointed cataloger in Original Monographs Cataloging, Columbia University, New York.

Philip A. Metzger has been appointed rare book librarian at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield.

Suzanne Metzger is the new head of the Circulation Department, University of California, San Diego.

James Meyer has been appointed general monographic cataloger at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Robert L. Migneault has been named assistant dean for technical services at the University of New Mexico General Library, Albuquerque.

Bruce Miller has been appointed library systems analyst at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

William Miller is now head of the Reference Library at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Graham Mintz has been appointed director of technical services at Campbellsville College Library, Kentucky.

Phyllis S. Mirsky has been named assistant university librarian for sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

David J. Norden has been appointed head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Michael S. Nyerges has been appointed reference librarian in the Government Documents Division, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Alice Picon is the new assistant editor of the PAIS Foreign Language Index, Public Affairs Information Service, New York.

Jeffrey R. Rehbach has been appointed music librarian, Middlebury College, Vermont.

Sharon Rienerth has been appointed assistant cataloger at the Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater.

Julie F. Rinaldi has been appointed head of the Periodical Division, Serials Department, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Perry Ann Robinson is now assistant librarian at the Cluster Undergraduate Library, University of California, San Diego.

Robert G. Sabin has been appointed science and technology bibliographer at Auburn University, Alabama.

Mary Ann Saur/Slater is the new assistant documents librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Patricia Sayre has been appointed social science bibliographer for the Loyola University of Chicago Libraries.

Timothy G. Schiller has been appointed coordinator of reference services at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Harold B. Schliefer has been named associate director of the library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

JeremyC. Shellhase is now WEBNET project manager at the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, Chatham College, Pittsburgh.

MarkE. Smith has been appointed music librarian at SUNY, College of Purchase, New York.

George Soetehas been named assistant university librarian for social sciences and humanities at the University of California, San Diego.

Steve Sowellhas been appointed head of the Biology Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Susan Starrhas been named head of public services at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Patricia Tegleris now assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Catherine Thomasis now a serials cataloger at the University of California, San Diego.

James C. Thompsonhas been named associate university librarian at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston.

Sharona Wachsis now Judaica cataloger at Brooklyn College Library, New York.

David Warringtonhas been appointed reference librarian in Rare Books and Special Collections at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Tom G. Watson,formerly university librarian, has been appointed assistant to the vicechancellor and provost at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

MaryS. Westbrook has been appointed assistant catalog librarian at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Judith Wildis now social sciences cataloger at Brooklyn College Library, New York.

Margaret A. Wilsonhas been appointed reference librarian in the Government Publications Section, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg.

Nila Wilsonhas been appointed director of reader’s services at Campbellsville College Library, Kentucky.

RETIREMENTS

Anna Chiong,head of the Geography Library at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, retired on January 1 after 16 years with the library.

Dan W. Graves,director of libraries at Clarion State College, Pennsylvania, since 1965, has retired effective January 8. Graves has served 42 years in libraries in various capacities, including 22 years in top management and 11 years as department head or associate director. Prior to his term at Clarion, Graves held positions at the University of Illinois, the University of Kansas, the University of Wichita, the University of Michigan, Willamette University, and Franklin and Marshall College. He was president of ACRL’s Tri-State Chapter in 1969-70 and served on the College Libraries Section s Nominating Committee in 1973. Graves contributed a series of articles on college and university library statistics to College & Research Libraries in 1949-55.

Ralph H. Hopp,director of the University of Minnesota Libraries from 1971 to 1976, has announced his retirement effective March 1. Hopp had been with the university since 1953 when he was appointed assistant director. He has held the posts of president of both the Association of Research Libraries (1974-75) and the United States Book Exchange, and has chaired ACRL’s University Libraries Section. Hopp has been an active library consultant on buildings, public service programs, collections, and administrative organization and has published articles on library storage and fiscal support. At Minnesota Hopp was involved in the design of Wilson Library and helped to plan such nationally recognized cooperative programs as MINITEX and INFORM.

Caroline C. Persons,science and technology bibliographer at Auburn University, Alabama, retired on June 30.

Ione Redford,librarian at Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington,

Seattle, retired on December 1 after 18 years with the library.

JohannaE. Tallman, director of libraries at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, since 1973, retired on December 31. She had also served 28 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, as head of the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Library.

DEATHS

Elizabeth Ruth Bantz,former head of the Education/Psychology Library at the University of California, Berkeley, died in San Jose on November 3.

DennisA. Gibson, reference librarian in Dupre Library, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, died as a result of being struck by a car on November 8. He had been a member of the library faculty since 1966.

HaroldA. Lancour, founding dean of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate Library School (now the School of Library and Information Science), died on October 23 at his home in Weston, Vermont. Lancour began his career at the New York Public Library and later served at the Cooper Union in New York City. Before coming to Pittsburgh he had been associate director of the Graduate Library School, University of Illinois. Lancour was preeminent in international studies and was active worldwide as a consultant in library development. He was the first editor of the Journal of Education for Librarianship, and also served as managing editor of Library Trends and joint editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.

Felix H. Pretsch,retired science and technology librarian at Auburn University, died on May 5, 1981.

Minnie Wall,former head of the Cataloging Department at Auburn University, died on June 5. She had served at Auburn for 31 years.

Frederick Wezeman,founding director of the University of Iowa School of Library Science, Iowa City, died on November 2. He had been head of the school from 1966 until his retirement: in 1980. ■■