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Gerard B. McCabe has been appointed director of libraries at Clarion State College, Pennsylvania, effective July 1. He had been director of university libraries at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, since 1970. During his 12 years in Richmond, he guided the completion of additions to the Tompkins-McCaw and James Branch Cabell Libraries of the university.

Gerard B. McCabe

McCabe earned his bachelor’s degree at Manhattan College, his MLS at the University of Michigan, and a master’s in English at Michigan State University. In 1967-1970 he was assistant director for planning and development at the University of South Florida and prior to that associate director of libraries at the University of Arkansas (1966-1967), acquisition librarian at the University of South Florida (1959-1966), and he served in the libraries of the University of Nebraska, Michigan State, and the University of Michigan.

Active in ALA’s Library Administration and Management Association, McCabe was most recently chair of the Building and Equipment Section. He is co-editor of Advances in Library Administration and Organization.

Ronald E. Wyllys has been named dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas, Austin.

A specialist in research methods emphasizing statistics, systems analysis, library automation and operations research, Wyllys joined the UT faculty in 1972 as an assistant professor. He received a Ph.D. in information science from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 and holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Arizona State University (1950).

His previous professional experience includes positions as chief systems analyst for the University of Wisconsin Libraries (1966-1969); computer systems specialist for System Development Corporation (1961-1966); associate in information retrieval for Planning Research Corporation in Los

Angeles (1959-1961); and mathematician for the U.S. Defense Department (1954-1959).

Articles by Wyllys have appeared in Collection Management, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, and Library Trends. He has also co-authored a book on national document-handling systems.

Judith A. Sessions

Judith A. Sessions has accepted the position of assistant university librarian for administrative services at the Gelman Library, George Washington University. The holder of an MLS degree from Florida State University (1971), Sessions was previously employed at Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D.C., as director of the Library/Learning Resources Center. Last April she had been appointed director of library services at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey, but sought other employment when Stockton’s Board of Trustees took several months to examine the college’s search procedure after charges that her appointment had been racially biased (three different investigations later found no evidence of bias).

Sessions is currently president of the District of Columbia Library Association and is the immediate past president of ALA’s Junior Members Round Table. She was recently elected for a four-year term as a member of ALA’s Council. She sits as a member of the College & Research Libraries editorial board.

Sessions is the author of several articles in Cable Libraries and the LITA Newsletter and recent articles in American Libraries and Telecoînmunications Policy.

Thomas W. Shaughnessy, assistant director of the University of Houston Libraries, has been appointed director of libraries at the University of

Missouri, Columbia, effective November 1. At Houston Shaughnessy was responsible for the public services program and all collection development.

Thomas Shaughnessy

His previous positions have included associate dean of the School of Library Science at the University of Southern California, 1974-1978; director of the Dana Library at Rutgers University, 1971-1974; and assistant dean of the Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, 1969-1971. A veteran of 20 years as a library professional, Shaughnessy has written articles for LIBRI‚ Library Trends, College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and California Librarian. In 1969 he co-authored a book published by the American Library Association entitled Library Response to Urban Change.

Shaughnessy holds a doctorate in library administration from Rutgers University (1970), an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh (1964), and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Vincent College, Pennsylvania.

He has been active in ALA and currently serves on the editorial board of American Libraries.

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, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.)

Riaz Ahmad, former head of the Oriental Studies Collection at the University of Arizona, has been named director of the Al-Jawf Regional Library and Cultural Center, Saudi Arabia.

Colleen Akey is now assistant serials librarian at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Bob Anderl is the new associate director of technical services and automation at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Kathleen S. Arana has been appointed reference librarian of the D.S. Woods Education Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Richard Aroksaar has been appointed head cataloging librarian at the J. Hugh Jackson Library, Stanford University, California.

Elizabeth Austin joined the staff of the Government Documents Department at the University of California, Davis.

Margaret Axtmann has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the Cornell University Law Library, Ithaca, New York.

Michael Ayres has been appointed assistant catalog librarian at Abilene Christian University Library, Texas.

David S. Azzolina has been appointed reference librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Carolyn Baber is the new reference librarian at Texas Tech University Library, Lubbock.

Timothy A. Balch has been appointed reference librarian for interlibrary loans at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Arlene Balkansky has been appointed performing arts librarian at New York University.

Frances Y. Barbuto has been appointed cataloger in the Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, New York.

Chris Barcus has rejoined the SOLINET staff, Atlanta, as a member services coordinator.

Helen T. Bartlett is now head catalog librarian at the Yale University Music Library.

Mary Ellen Batchelor has been appointed reference librarian in the Science/Engineering Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Judith A. Bateman is the new collection development librarian in the sciences at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Fred Batt has joined the University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, as head of reference.

Patricia F. BEILKE has been appointed administrative assistant in the Department of Library Science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Kathleen Bethel has been appointed African American studies librarian at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

BLair Brainerdhas assumed the position of reference librarian and coordinator of library instruction at Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Betty Brenner has been appointed public service/serials librarian at New York City Technical College, City University of New York.

Judith M. Brugger joined the faculty of the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans, as cataloger.

Learned T. Bulman is now associate director for public and technical services, Sherman H. Masten Learning Resource Center, County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey.

Hans E. Bynagle has been named director of library services at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mark Cain has been named conservation coordinator of the General Libraries at the University of Texas, Austin.

Sue Caldwell is now catalog librarian at Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

Dale E. Casper is now social sciences collection development coordinator at Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing.

Sally Chu is now audio-visual librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Health Sciences Library.

Philip M. Clark has been named associate professor at the Division of Library and Information Science, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.

Monique C. Cleland is the new librarian of the Science and Engineering Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jeanette Clough has joined the Fondren Library reference staff as online search coordinator. Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Thomas C. Deardorff has been appointed assistant librarian in the Circulation Division at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Henry C. Dequin has accepted an appointment as interim chair of the Department of Library Science at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Marion Elaine Dorfler has joined the Carlson Library, Clarion State College, Pennsylvania, as serials librarian.

Lawrence Dowler has been appointed associate librarian of Harvard College Library.

Clarissa Erwin has been appointed Media and Curriculum Center reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

Douglas Ferguson is now systems librarian at Stanford University, California.

Gail Findlay has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library, Memphis.

Janet Flowers has been appointed head of the Acquisitions Department, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill.

Ronald W. Force has been appointed assistant science librarian at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Regina Kenny Fryer has been appointed head of the Reference Section at the Yale University Medical Library.

Lilah Gainey has joined the faculty of Abilene Christian University Library, Texas, as assistant reference/acquisition librarian.

Suzanne Gallup assumed the position of acting head of cooperative services at the University of California at Berkeley Library.

Robert R. Garland has been named head librarian of the Sears Library, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Linda Gelb has been appointed reader services librarian in the Gerstenzang Science Library, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Ann B. Gray has been appointed readers’ services librarian at Kelly Library, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia.

Carolyn M. Gray has been appointed assistant director for technical services and automation at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Karen D. Griffin has been appointed serials catalog librarian at the University of Oregon Eugene.

Sally Grucan has been appointed head of technical services at the Joseph W. England Library, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Lilita Gusts joined the staff of the Columbia University Business Library as reference librarian.

Ibrahim Hanif is now assistant biological sciences librarian in the Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater.

Dianne Harding has been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development Department of the Engineering, Mathematics and Science Library at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Mary Harris is the new science reference librarian at San Diego University Library, California.

Elizabeth W. Harter is now reference librarian at the Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Jamie A. Hastreiter will be reference and serials librarian at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, for a one-year appointment.

Catherine D. Hayes has been promoted to associate director of libraries for development at the University of Rochester, New York.

Virginia A. Higgins has been appointed cataloger at Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, New York.

James B. Hobbs is the new science reference librarian at the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

Carson Holloway has been appointed microforms reference librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Diane K. Hunter has been appointed reference librarian at the Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Jeanetta Ireland has been appointed original cataloger at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Janice E.S. Johnson has been appointed assistant head of reference at the University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.

Lillian Fleischman Kahn is now head of acquisitions/serials at the Columbia University Health Sciences Library, New York.

Mary O. Kandiuk has been appointed general librarian in the Reference Department of the Scott Library, York University, Downsview, Ontario.

Paula Kaufman has been named director of the Library Services Group at Columbia University, New York.

Rebecca C. Knight has been appointed government documents librarian at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Joan Kuklinsky has been appointed original cataloger at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Sylvia Lavery has been appointed original cataloger of the Southworth Collection on the Spanish Civil War Cataloging Project at the University of California, San Diego.

Judith A. Leavitt has been named supervisor of the Information Center at Rockwell-Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Paul Lomio has accepted appointment as reference librarian in the Stanford University Law Library, California.

Jean L. Loup has been appointed head of the Documents Center of the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Regina V. Lowe has assumed the position of social sciences bibliographer, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.

Connie Kearns McCarthy is the new collection management coordinator at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Kent McKeever has been appointed international, comparative and foreign law librarian at Columbia University Law Library, New York.

Joanna H. Mankowski is now paper conservator at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

William F. Marovitz has been named president of Bibliographic Retrieval Services, New York.

Katherine M. Martin has been appointed order and bibliographic control librarian at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

Katherine F. Mawdsley has been named assistant university librarian for public services at the University of California, Davis.

Deborah Metzger has been appointed assistant librarian in the Biological and Agricultural Sciences Department, University of California, Davis.

Jo-Ann Michalak has been appointed library automation coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Danielle Mihram is now reference librarian for Western European languages and literatures at New York University.

Dorothy R. Montgomery has been appointed catalog librarian for reviewing the status of the retrospective conversion project at Western Illinois University, Macomb.

Jacquelyn M. Morris has been named associate director of university libraries at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Stephanie Mutty has been appointed reference librarian at the Science/Engineering Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

William N. Nelson has been appointed director of library services at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee.

Joan Neumann has been named executive director of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.

Mary E. Ortiz has been appointed assistant librarian in the State University of New York at Buffalo Law Library.

Mary Faith Pusey Pankin is now special collections cataloger at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Gretchen Pearson has been appointed reference and bibliographic instruction librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Earle R. Perkins, Jr., has been appointed science/engineering librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Michael Perkins has been appointed reference librarian at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Gwen Pershing has been appointed head of the Medical Sciences Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Gail Persky has been appointed head of automated services at New York University Library.

Muriel Regan has been named project coordinator of Intershare, Brooklyn, New York.

Norma Reger is the new gifts and exchange librarian at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Lora Robbins has been appointed educational services librarian at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library, Memphis.

Samuel V. Rodgers joined the Columbia University staff as assistant documents librarian.

Robert Rose is a new reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

Eugenie St. Thomas has been appointed coordinator of collection management and planning at the County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey.

Roberta B. Schwartz has been appointed catalog librarian at Northeastern University, Boston.

Marilyn Shaver has been appointed literature cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Joan A. Shear has been appointed reference librarian in the Harvard Law School Library.

Louise Sherby is now reference librarian at Columbia University, New York.

Dorothy D. Siles has been appointed head of technical services in Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.

Martin A. Smith has been appointed bibliographer for science and engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Lise Snyder has been appointed reference/instruction librarian at the College Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Virginia W. Sojdehei has been appointed audiovisual librarian at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Cecilia D. Stafford has been appointed evening reference librarian at the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

Mary Stout is the new serials catalog librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Ray R. Suput has been named acting chairman of the Department of Library Science at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Timothy Sutherland is a new reference librarian at Indiana University Northwest, Gary.

Jim Sweetland has joined the library staff of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.

Masaya Takayama has been appointed research associate at the School of Library and Information

Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Rodes Trautman has been appointed associate professor of library science at the Graduate Library School, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Roberto Trujillo has been appointed curator of Chicano Collections, Stanford University, California.

Anne Turiiollow is now science reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

Peter Utz is now associate director of instructional media, County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey.

Sharon Van DerLaan is a new reference librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Rubin Vineberg has been appointed adjunct librarian in the Cataloging Department of Scott Library, York University, Downsview, Ontario.

Barbara L. Wagner has been appointed reference librarian at the Science/Technology Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Edward M. Waller is now reference/catalog librarian at Greensboro College, North Carolina.

James M. Walsh has joined the University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie, as maps/documents librarian.

Sophia Wang has been appointed serials cataloger, Baker Library, Harvard University.

Claire Ward has been appointed head of science and technology cataloging at Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Jennifer Ware is now assistant public service librarian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Patricia Wathen is a new reference librarian at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Beth Weil has been appointed head of Falconer Biology Library, Stanford University, California.

Walter C. West, III, has been appointed technical services archivist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Martha A. Whittaker has been appointed retrospective conversion project coordinator at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Sukmoon Yoon is the new head of nonbook cataloging for the University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.

JlN-FENGYu is now research associate at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Ellen Zyroffis a new Media and Curriculum Center reference librarian at San Diego State University, California. j ,

RETIREMENTS

Margarita Anderson Imbert, specialist in book selection in the Harvard College Library, retired on September 30 after 17 years in that department.

Frank M. Blackburn, library director at West Texas State University, Canyon, retired on August 31 after thirty-one years of library service. He had been director for 24 years. Before coming to WTSU in 1958 he had served at Arizona State University (1951-1953), Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls (1953-1956), and the University of Missouri (1956-1958).

Bartol Brinkler, classification specialist in the Harvard College Library, retired at the end of June after 35 years of service.

Carolyn Brown retired as head of English Language Section 1, Descriptive Cataloging Division, Library of Congress, on July 16. She had served LC for 30 years.

Elsa S. Freeman retired as director of the library, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., on September 17.

Lois Greist retired August 25 from her position as head of interlibrary loan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Jeanne White, associate librarian of the Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, retired on August 2 after 22 years at Cornell.

DEATHS

Linda Buescher, assistant cataloging librarian at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, died suddenly on August 1.

Frank S. Hanlin, bibliographer for the University of Iowa Libraries since 1966, died in Iowa City on August 9. Prior to that he had also served as head of acquisitions at Iowa and for two years at the University of North Carolina. Hanlin earned his MLS at the University of Michigan in 1955 and a master’s in English from the University of Iowa in 1950. He compiled two editions of The Heirs of Hipocrates, a catalog of historic books in the University of Iowa Health Sciences Library, and for 18 years he served as assistant editor of Books at Iowa, the periodical published by the Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries.

Henry Miller Madden, for 30 years university librarian of California State University, Fresno, died at his home in Fresno on August 27. In 1946, having completed his service as secretary to the Tripartite Naval Commission in Berlin,

Henry Madden

Madden returned to the United States and finished his doctoral dissertation at Columbia. After receiving his library degree from the University of California,

Berkeley, he was appointed librarian at Fresno State in 1949.

Madden was elected president of the California Library Association, and it was during his tenure as its editor that the California Librarian won the H. W. Wilson award for the best library journal in North America. His historical scholarship was voluminous. He was the author of four books and innumerable other contributions, and another book was in preparation at the time of his death. After he retired in 1979, the newly expanded and remodeled library building at California State University, Fresno, was named the Henry Madden Library.

Geoffrey P. Mawn, Arizona Collections librarian at Arizona State University, died on August 28 after a long illness.

Lawrence Quincy Mumford, librarian of Congress from 1954 to 1974, died on August 15 at his home in Washington at the age of 78. Mumford had been the first of eleven administrators of the library to have been a library school graduate.

During Mumford’s administration the Library of Congress opened its first acquisition centers abroad in New Delhi and Cairo; acquired the Rosenwald Collection of rare books; renovated the Main Reading Room; began the Cataloging in Publications Program and the Presidential Papers microfilming program; and planned for the new James Madison Memorial Building.

L. Quincy Mumford

Mumford received a bachelor’s (1926) and a master’s degree (1928) from Duke University. By 1928 he had become Duke’s acting chief of reference and circulation. At Columbia University (1928-1929), where he obtained a bachelor’s in library science, Mumford served as an assistant in the library. From 1929-1945 he served on the staff of the New York Public Library, his last position being coordinator of the General Service Divisions. In 1945 he was appointed assistant director of the Cleveland Public Library and in 1950 became its director.

He served as president of ALA in 1954-1955.